CEREMONIAL
MAGICK/
THE TRAINING
FOR
MEDITATION
Preliminary
Remarks
HITHERTO
we
have
spoken
only
of the
mystic
path;
and
we
have kept particularly
to the practical
exoteric
side of it.
Such
difficulties
as
we
have
mentioned
have
been
purely
natural
obstacles.
For
example,
the great
question
of the
surrender
of the
self,
which
bulks
so largely
in most
mystical
treatises, has
not
been referred
to
at
ll.
We have said only what a man must do ; we have not considered
at
ill what
that
doing
may involve.
The rebellion
of the will against
the
terrible discipline
of meditation
has not been discussed;
one may now
devote a few words to it.
There
is
no limit
to what theologians
call
" wickedness."
Only
by
experience can the
student
discover
the ingenuity
of the mind
in trying
o
escape
from
control.
He
is
perfectly
safe
so
long
as he
sticks to meditation, doing no more
and
no less than that
' The old spelling MAGIC K has been adopted
throughout
in order to distinguish
he Science of the Magi
from all its counterfeits.