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we do perceive
that one is bigger
than
the
other.
That
is the
fact of
practical
importance.
We do
know
that
persons
can
be trained
to
do things
which
they
could
not do without
training —and
anyone
who
remarks
that you can-
not train a person unless it is his destiny to be trained
is quite unpractical.
Equally it is the destiny of the trainer
to train.
There is a fallacy
in the
determinist
argument
similar
to
the
fallacy
which
is
the
root
of all
" systems " of gambling
at Roulette.
The
odds
are just
over
three
to
one against
red coming
up twice running;
but
after
red
has come
up
once the conditions are changed.
It would be useless to insist
on
such
a point were it not for the fact
that many people
confuse Philosophy with
Magick.
Philosophy is the
enemy of Magick.
Philosophy assures us that after all nothing
matters,
and that che sara sara.
In practical
life, and Magick is the most practical
of the Arts of life,
this difficulty
does not
occur.
It is useless to argue with
a man who is
running
to catch
a train
that
he
may be destined
not
to catch it;
he
just runs, and if he could
spare breath would
say " Blow destiny!
"
It
has been
said earlier
that
the
real Magical Will
must
be toward
the highest
attainment,
and this can never be until the flowering
of the
Magical Understanding.
The Wand must be made to grow in length
as
well
as in strength ; it need not do so of its own nature.