Cara Soror , 
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The Three Schools of Magick 
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
Here is the ftrst section of M. Gerard Aumont's promised 
essay;! it was originally called The Three Schools of Magick. 
(Don't be cross, please, because it is not in the form of a 
personal letter!) 
There is to-day much misunderstanding of the meaning of 
the term 'Magick'. Many attempts have been made to deftne 
it, but perhaps the best for our present purpose of 
historical-ideological exposition will be this-Magick is the 
Science of the Incommensurables. 
This is one of the many restricted uses of the word; one 
suited to the present purpose. 
It is particularly to be noted that Magick, so often mixed 
up in the popular idea of religion, has nothing to do with it. 
It is, in fact, the exact opposite of religion; it is, even more 
than Physical Science, its irreconcilable enemy. 
Let us define this difference clearly. 
Magick investigates the laws of Nature with the idea of 
making use of them. It only differs from 'profane' science by 
always keeping ahead of it. As Fraser has shown, Magick is 
science in the tentative stage; but it may be, and often is, 
more than this. It is science which, for one reason or another, 
cannot be declared to the profane. 
Religion, on the contrary, seeks to ignore the laws of 
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