Magick Without Tears

66 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.)