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School intact, it will transcend them and raise their Theory 
and Practice almost to the level of the Yellow. As to the 
White School, it will remove from them all taint of poison of 
the Black, and restore vigour to their central formula of 
spiritual alchemy by giving each man an independent ideal. It 
will put an end to the moral castration involved in the 
assumption that each man, whatever his nature, should deny 
himself to follow out a fantastic and impracticable ideal of 
goodness. Incidentally, this formula will save Physical Science 
itself by making negligible the despair of futility, the vital 
scepticism which has emasculated it in the past. I t shows that 
the joy of existence is not in a goal, for that indeed is clearly 
unattainable, but in the going itself. 
This law is called the Law of Thelema. It is summarised in 
the four words, Do what thou wilt. 
I t should not be necessary to explain that a full 
appreciation of this message is not to be obtained by a hasty 
examination. It is essential to study it from every point of 
view, to analyse it with the keenest philosophical acumen, 
and finally to apply it as a key for every problem, internal 
and external, that exists. This key, applied with skill, will 
open every lock. 
From the deepest point of view, the greatest value of this 
formula is that it affords, for the first time in history, a basis 
of reconciliation between the three great Schools of Magick. 
It will tend to appease the eternal conflict by understanding 
that each type of thought shall go on its own way, develop its 
own proper qualities without seeking to interfere with other 
formulae, however (superficially) opposed to its own. 
What is true for every School is equally true for every 
individual. Success in life, on the basis of the Law of 
Thelema, implies severe self-discipline. Each being must 
progress, as biology teaches, by strict adaptation to the 
conditions 
of the organism. If, as the Black School 
continually asserts, the cause of sorrow is desire, we can still 
escape the conclusion by the Law of Thelema. What is 
necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly