Magick Without Tears

100 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, 666