But neither by the natural use of His abilities, though they hâve 
made Him famous through the whole world, nor by the utmost 
rnight of his Magick, is He able to acquire material wealth beyond 
the minimum necessary to keep Him alive and at work. It is in 
vain that He protests that not He but the Work is in need of 
money ; He is barred by the strict Jetter of His Oath to give ail 
that He hath for His magical Attainment. 
Yet more awful is the doom that He hath invoked upon Himself 
in renouncing His right as a man to enjoy the Love of those whom 
He loves with passion so selfless, so pure, and so intense in return 
for the power so to love Mankind that He be chosen to utter the 
Word of the Aeon for their sake, His reward universal abhorrence, 
bodily torment, mental despair, and moral paralysis. 
Yet He, who hath power over Death, with a breath to call back 
health, with a touch to beckon life, He must watch His own child 
waste awav month by month, aware that His Art may not anywise 
avail, who hath sold the signet ring of his personal profit to buy 
him a plain gold band for the félon finger of his bride, that worn 
widow, the World! 
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