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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
The reader is most strongly urged not to permit 
himself to indulge in fantastic flights of thought, which 
are the poison of the mind, because they represent an 
attempt to run away from reality, a dispersion of energy 
and a corruption of moral strength. His business is, 
firstly, to know himself; secondly, to order and control 
himself; thirdly, to develop himself on sound organic 
lines little by little. The rest is only leather and prunella. 
There is, however, a sense in which the service of 
humanity is necessary to the completeness of the Adept . 
He is not to flyaway too far. 
Some remarks on this course are given in the note to 
the nex t verse. 
The student is also advised to take note of the 
conditions of membership of the A :. A : . . 
(The Equinox, Vol. III, Supplement p. 57-59.) 
We come down to the average popular "teacher," the mere 
humbug. Read this: 
One day quite soon an entirely different kind of 
electricity will be discovered which will bring as many 
profound changes into human living as the first type 
did. This new electricity wlll move in a finer ether than 
does our familiar kind, and thus will be nearer in 
vibration to the fifth dimension, to the innermost 
source of things, that realm of "withinness " wherein all 
is held poised by a colossal force, that same force which 
is packed within the atom. Electricity number two will 
be unthinkably 
more powerful than our present 
electricity number one. 
(V.S. Alder, The Fifth Dimension, p. 132.) 
Exhausted; I must restring my bow. 
Love is the law, love under will. 
Fraternally, 
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