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"Unserious" Conduct of a Pupil 
Cara Soror, 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
Here pops up Zola again-this 
time he says J'Accuse! 
To-day's Hexagram for me is No. X. Li, the Tiger: and the 
Duke of Chau comments on the last line as follows: "The 
sixth line, undivided, tells us to look at the whole course that 
is trodden, and examine the presage which that gives. If it be 
complete and without failure, there will be great good 
fortune." O.K.; Let's! 
I t is now well over a year since you came to me howling 
like a damned soul in torment-and so you should be!- and 
persuaded me to take you as my pupil. What have you done 
with that year? 
First, suppose we put down what you agreed to do: The 
essential preliminaries of the work of the A :. A :. -you are 
to be heartily congratulated upon your swift perception that 
the principles of that august body were absolute. 
I. Prepare and submit your Magical Record. (Without this 
you are in the position of a navigator with neither chart nor 
log.) It would have been quite easy to get this ready in a 
week. Have you done so in a year? No. 
2. Learn to construct and perfect the Body of Light. This 
might have required anything up to a dozen personal lessons. 
You were urged to claim priority upon my time. What did 
you do? 
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