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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
possible in Nature: addition and subtraction. Let us apply 
this to magical progress. 
What happens when the Aspirant invokes Diana, or calls up 
Lilith? He increases the sum of his experiences in these 
particular ways. Sometimes he has a 'liaison-experience', 
which links two main lines of thought, and so is worth 
dozens of isolated gains. 
Now, if there is any difference at all between the White 
and the Black Adept in similar case, it is that the one, 
working by "love under will" achieves a marriage with the 
new idea, while the other, merely grabbing, adds a concubine 
to his harem of slaves. 
The about-to-be-Black Brother constantly restricts himself; 
he is satisfied with a very limited ideal; he is afraid of losing 
his individuality-reminds 
one of that "Nordic" 
twaddle 
about "race-pollution." 
"Now, Master!" (What reproach in the tone of your 
voice!) All right, all right! Keep your hair on!-I know that is 
the precise term used in The Vision and the Voice, to 
describe the Great White Brother or the Babe of the Abyss, 
but to him it means victory; to the Left-Hander it would 
mean defeat, ruin devastating, irremediable, final. It is 
exactly that which he most dreads; and it is that to which he 
must in the end come, because there is no compensating 
element in his idea of structure. 
But then (you ask) how can a man go so far wrong after he 
has, as an Adeptus Minor, attained the "Knowledge and 
Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel"? 
Recall the passage in the 14th Aethyr, "See where thine 
Angel hath led Thee," and so on. Perhaps the Black Brother 
deserts his Angel when he realises the Programme. 
Perhaps his error was so deeply rooted, from the very 
beginning, that it was his Evil Genius that he evoked. 
In such cases the man's policy is of course to break off all 
relations with the Supernal Triad, and to replace it by 
inventing a false crown, Daath. To them Knowledge will be