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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
and they confer upon him, gradually , the Magical Secrets 
which make him Master of Life. 
To return for a moment to that question of Secrecy: there 
is no rule to prevent you from quoting against me such of my 
brighter remarks as "Mystery is the enemy of Truth" ; but , 
for one thing, I am, and always have been, the leader of the 
Extreme Left in the Council-Chamber of the City of the 
Pyramids, so that if I acquiesce at all in the system of the 
O.T.O. so far as the "secret of secrets" of the IXo is 
concerned, it is really on a point of personal honour. My 
pledge given to the late Frater Superior and O.H.O., Dr. 
Theodor Reuss. For all that, in this particular instance it is 
beyond question a point of common prudence , both because 
the abuse of the Secret is, at least on the surface, so easy and 
so tempting, and because, if it became a matter of general 
knowledge the Order itself might be in danger of calumny 
and pe:-secution ; for the secret is even easier to misinterpret 
than to profane. 
Lege! ludica! Tace! 
Love is the law, love under will. 
Fraternally, 
666