a rule) by a fascination. These Works are too easy 3 and rarely 
useful. They hâve a nasty trick of recoiling on the magician. 
6. Works of destruction, which may be done in many different 
ways. One may fascinate and bend to one’s will a person who has 
of his own right the power to destroy. One may employ spirits 
or talismans. The more powerful magicians of the last few 
centuries hâve employed books. 
In private matters these Works are very easy, if they be neces- 
sary. An adept known to The Master Therion once found it 
necessary to slay a Circe who was bewitching brethren. He merely 
walked to the door of her room, and drew an Astral T (“tradi- 
tore”, and the symbol of Saturn) with an astral dagger. Within 
48 h ours she shot herself. 1 
7. Works of création and dissolution, and the higher invoca¬ 
tions. 
There are also hundreds of other operations 3 2 to bring wanted 
objects — gold, books, women and the like; to open locked doors, 
to discover treasure; to swim under water3 to hâve armed nen at 
command — etc., etc. Ail these are really matters of detail 3 the 
Adeptus Major will easily understand how to perform them if 
necessary. 3 
1. As explained above, in another connexion, he who' “destroys” any 
being must accept it, with ail the responsibilities attached, as part of 
himself. The Adept here in question was therefore obliged to incorporate 
the elemental spirit of the girl — she was not human, the sheath of a Star, 
but an advanced planetary daemon, whose rash ambition had captured a body 
beyond its capacity -to conduct — in his own magical vehicîe. He thereby 
pledged himself to subordinate ail the sudden accession of qualities — pas- 
sionate, capricious, impulsive, irrational, selfish, short-sightedness, sensual, 
fickle, crazy, and desperate, to his True Will; to discipline, co-ordinate, 
and employ them in the Great Work, under the penalty of being torn 
asunder by the wild horses which he had bound fast to his own body by the 
act of “destroying” their independent consciousness and control of their 
chosen vehicle. See His Magical Record An XX, Q in bb and 
onward. 
2. Examples of Rituals for several such purposes are given in the 
Equinox. 
3. Moral : become an Adeptus Major ! 
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