Magick Without Tears

106 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS When, in one of those curious fits of indisposition of which you periodically complain, and of which the cause appears to you so obscure , you see pink leopards on the staircase, "Ah! the colour of the King Scale of Tiphareth-Oh! the form of Leo, probably in the Queen Scale" and thereby increase your vocabulary by these two items. Then, perhaps, someone suggests that indiscretion in the worship of Dionysus is responsible for the observed phenomena-well, there's Tiphareth again at once; the Priest, moreover, wears a leopard-skin, and the spots suggest the Sun. Also, Sol is Lord of Leo: so there you are! pink leopards are exactly what you have a right to expect! Until you have practiced this method, all day and every day, for quite a long while, you cannot tell how amazingly your mnemonic power increases by virtue thereof . But be careful always to range the new ideas as they come along in their right order of importance. It is not unlike the system of keys used in big establishments, such as hotels. First, a set of keys, each of which opens one door, and one door only. Then, a set which opens all the doors on one floor only . And so on, until the one responsible who has one unique key which opens every lock in the building. There is another point about this whole System of the Qabalah. It does more than merely increase the mnemonic faculty by 10,000 percent or so; the habit of throwing your thoughts about, manipulating them, giving them a wash and brush-up, packing them away into their proper places in your "Crystal Cabinet," gives you immensely increased power over them. In particular, it helps you to rid them of the emotional dirt which normally clogs them? you become perfectly indifferent to any implication but their value in respect of the whole system; and this is of incalculable help in the 2. I hope there is no need to repeat that whether any given thought is pleasant, or undesirable, or otherwise soiled by Vedana, is totally irrelevant.