The object is to possess a Body wkicli is capable of doing 
easily any particular task tbat may lie before it. There 
musî be no sélection of spécial expérience which appeals 
to one’s immédiate desire. One must go steadily through 
ail the possible pylons. 
Frater Perdurabo was very unfortunate in not having magical 
teachers to explain these things to Him. He was rather encouraged 
in unsystematic working. Very fortunate, on the other hand, was 
He to hâve found a Guru who instructed Him in the proper 
principles of the technique of Yoga, and He, having suffirent 
sense to recognize the universal application of those principles, was 
able to some extent to repair His original defects. But even to 
this day, despite the fact this His original inclination is much 
stronger towards Magick than towards mysticism, he is much 
less competent in Magick.1 A trace of this can be seen even in 
His method of combining the two divisions of our science, for in 
that method He makes concentration bear the Cross of the Work. 
This is possibly an error, probably a defect, certainly an impurity 
of thought, and the root of it is to be found in His original bad 
discipline with regard to Magick. 
If the reader will turn to the account of his astral journeys in 
the Second Number of the First Volume of the Equinox, he will 
find that these experiments were quite capricious. Even when, 
in Mexico, He got the idea of exploring the 30 Aethyrs systemat- 
ically, He abandoned the vision after only 2 Aethyrs had been 
investigated. 
1. Reconsideration of these remarks, at the request of a loyal colleague, 
compels Him to admit that this may not be the case. It is true that He has 
been granted ail Mystical Attainment that is theoretically possible, while 
His powers in Magick seem to be uneven and imperfect. Despite this, it 
may yet be that He has compassed the Possible. For Mystical Attainments 
are never mutually exclusive; the trance of Sorrow (for example) is not 
incompatible with the Béatifie Vision, or the “Universal Joke”. But in 
Magick any one Operation debars its performer from accomplishing some 
other. The reason of this is that the Oath of any Work bonds the Magi- 
cian once and for ail to be the principles implied therein. See Chapter XVI 
Part I. Further, it is obviously possible to reach the essence of anything 
without interfering with other things which obstruct each other. Cross- 
country journeys are often scarcely practicable. 
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