270 
MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
gambling! And a good riddance, at that! Well, there is one 
advantage in the system; it does help the intelligent man to 
steal a march on his neighbours! 
In all this the important point for my present purpose is to 
show you how entirely this question of probability and 
coincidence is dependent on your attention . 
The sequence BBBBBBB at roulette is most unlikely to 
occur; but so, in exactly the same degree, is the sequence B R 
B R R B R or any other sequence. The one passes unnoticed, 
the other causes surprise, only because you have in your 
mind the idea of "a run on black." 
Extend this line of thought a little, and link it up with 
what I was saying about the Magical Diary; you realize that 
every 
phenomenon 
soever is equally improbable, and 
"infinitely" 
so. The Universe is therefore nothing but 
Coincidence! 
How then can any event be more improbable than any 
other? Why, very simply. Go back to Monte; proclaim that at 
Table No.3 Black will turn up 7 times running, after this 
next spin. (Or, of course, any other series of 7.) Now you see 
how Coincidence links up with Prophecy! 
Love is the law, love under will. 
Yours fraternally, 
666