Magick Without Tears

SEX MORALITY 137 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)