Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

In invocation the divine force must be made as manifest and unmistakeable as the efifects of chloroform; in évocation, the spirit called forth must be at least as visible and tangible as the heaviest vapoursj in divination, the answer must be as précisé as a scientific thesis, and as accurate as an audit ; in méditation, the results must read like a spécialistes report of a classical case. By such methods, the A .'. A intends to make occult science as systematic and scientific as chemistry; to rescue it from the ill repute which, thanks both to the ignorant and dishonest quacks that hâve prostituted its name, and to the fanatical and narrow-minded enthusiasts that hâve turned it into a fetish, has made it an object of aversion to those very minds whose enthusiasm and integrity make them most in need of its benefits, and most fit to obtain them. It is the one really important science, for it transcends the condi¬ tions of material existence and so is not liable to perish with the planet, and it must be studied as a science, sceptically, with the utmost energy and patience. The A A possesses the secrets of successj it makes no secret of its knowledge, and if its secrets are not everywhere known and practised, it is because the abuses connected with the name of occult science disincline official investigators to examine the evidence at their disposai. This paper has been written not only with the object of attracting individual seekers into the way of Truth, but of affirming the propriety of the methods of the A.'. A.*, as the basis for the next great step in the advance of human knowledge. Love is the Law, love under will. O. M. 7 = 4D A.\À.\ Praemonstrator of the Order of the R... C.... Given from the Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum, Cefalù, Sicily, in the Seventeenth Year of the Aeon of Horus, the Sun being in 23° np and the Moon in I4°)f . 244 —