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Renunciation and sacrifice
are necessary,
but
they are comparatively
easy.
There
are
a hundred
ways of missing,
and
only one of hitting.
To
avoid
eating
beef
is
easy;
to
eat
nothing
but
pork
is very
diffi-
cult.
Levi recommends
that at times the Magical Will
itself
should
be cut
off,
on the same principle as one can always work
better
after
a " com-
plete change."
Levi is doubtless
right,
but
he
must
be understood
as
saying
this " for
the
hardness
of men's
hearts."
The
turbine
is more
efficient
than
a reciprocating
engine ; and
his
counsel
is only good
for
the beginner.
Ultimately the Magical Will so identifies
itself with the
man's whole
being that it becomes unconscious,
and is as
constant
a force
as gravitation.
One
may even
be
surprised
at
one's own acts, and have to reason out
their
connection.
But let
it
be
understood
that when the Will has thus really
raised itself to the height
of Destiny,
the man is no more hkely to do wrong
than he is to float off
into the air.
One
may
be
asked
whether
there
is
not
a
conflict
between
this
development
of the Will and Ethics.
The answer is Yes.
In the Grand
Grimoire we are told " to buy an egg without
haggling ";
and attainment,
and the next step in the path of attainment,
is that pearl