1954 · CLOSE READING
Magick Without Tears
Magick Without Tears (1954), PDF p. 161
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Cara Soror,
15
Sex Morality
Including Artemis Iota
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Thank you! I am to cover the whole question of sex in a
few well-chosen words? Am I to suppose that you want to
borrow money? Such fulsome flattery suggests the indirect
approach.
As a matter of fact, your proposal is not so outrageous as
it sounds at first; for as far as the English language goes, there
is really hardly anything worth reading. 98.138 percent of it
is what Frances Ridley Ravergal used to call "fiddlesticks,
blah, boloney, Bull-shit, and the bunk."
However, quite recently I issued an Encyclical to the
Faithful with the attractive title of Artemis Iota, and I
propose that we read this into the record, to save trouble,
and because it gives a list of practically all the classics that
you ought to read. Also, it condenses information and advice
to "beginners,"
with due reference to the positive
injunctions given in The Book of the Law.
Still, for the purpose of these letters, I should like to put
the whole matter in a nutshell . The Tree of Life, as usual,
affords a convenient means of classification.
1. To the physical side of it physiological laws apply.
"Don't monkey with the buzz-saw!" as John Wesley
might have put it, though I doubt whether he did.
2. The 'moral' side. As in the case of the voltage of a
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