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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
the Yellow School stands aloof from the other two by the 
nature of its postulates. But the Black School and the White 
are always more or less in active conflict; and it is because 
just at this moment that conflict is approaching a climax that 
it is necessary to write this essay. The adepts of the White 
School consider the present danger to mankind so great that 
they are prepared to abandon their traditional policy of 
silence, in order to enlist in their ranks the profane of every 
nation . 
We are in possession of a certain mystical document 2 
which we may describe briefly, for convenience sake, as an 
Apocalypse of which we hold the keys, thanks to the 
intervention of the Master who has appeared at this grave 
conjuncture of Fate. This document consists of a series of 
visions , in which we hear the voice of the various 
Intelligences whose nature it would be hard to define, but 
who are at the very least endowed with knowledge and power 
far beyond anything that we are accustomed to regard as 
proper to the human race. 
We must quote a passage from one of the most important 
of these documents. The doctrine is conveyed, as is 
customary among Initiates , in the form of a parable. Those 
who have attained even a mediocre degree of enlightenment 
are aware that the crude belief of the faithful , and the crude 
infidelity of the scoffer, with regard to matters of fact, are 
merely childish. Every incident in Nature , true or false, 
possesses a spiritual significance. It is this significance, and 
only this significance, that possesses any philosophical value 
to the Initiate. 
The orthodox need not be shocked, and the enlightened 
need not be contemptuous , to learn that the passage which 
we are about to quote, is a parable based on the least 
2. Liber CDXVlII, The Vision and the Voice, new edition with Introduction and 
Commentary by 666. (Theiema Publishing Co., Barstow, California.) [Note: this 
is now out of print. Another revised edition is in preparation by the Sangreal 
Foundation, DaRas.-Ed.)