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numerous authors, mostly French, German, Austrian or 
Italian. Energized Enthusiasm, (The Equinox, Vol. I, No.9) 
is of palmary virtue. (Liber LXVI, Liber CCCLXX, Liber 
DCCCXXXI, Liber CLXXV , Liber CL VI and others, also in 
The Equinox are official publications of the A :. A: .. ) There 
are also various classics of the subject, helpful to assimilate 
the romantic and enthusiastic atmosphere proper to the 
practice of the Art; one may instance Catullus, luvenal, 
(especially the Sixth Satire) Martial, Petronius Arbiter, 
Apuleius, Boccaccio, Masucci, Francois Rabelais, de Balzac 
(Contes Drolatiques), de Sade (Justine, Juliette, et al.) Andre 
de Nerciat, Alfred de Musset et Georges Sand (Gamiani: ou 
Deux nuits d'exces) Sacher Masoch (Venus in Furs), with 
English and American too numerous to list, but notably the 
poets in Holy Orders: Swift, Sterne, Herrick, Donne, and 
Herbert. 
There is also a complete literature of mysticism which 
approaches or implies this matter; but this type of work is, 
for the younger student, as dangerous as it is superficially 
attractive. It encourages the sense of guilt, teaches the 
venomous art of self-exculpation, and extols that very 
hypocrisy which Freedom notably condemns. "Tear down 
that lying spectre of the centuries." (AL, II: 52) 
B. Practice: No one teacher , however gifted, can possibly 
cover one hundredth part of the groundwork of this Art. The 
best tuition is that of trained and consecrated experts ; next , 
that of men and women of natural genius. 
C. Original Research: This should be based upon the 
broadest possible knowledge, and the deepest understanding 
of the same; and upon the results of the scope and intensity 
of one's practice. 
But exceed! exceed! 
(AL , II : 71) 
But always unto Me. 
(AL,I:5l)