Magick Without Tears

350 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Money being the fourth great power, "what are the other three?" Come, come, you can surely do that in your head. Four's Tetragrammaton, isn't it? Very well, then! The First Great Power is Yod, the Father , Fire, the Wand, the Flame of Creative Genius. The Second is He, the Mother , Water, the Cup, the Sea to which all things tend ; it is the gift of pleasing, of absorbing , of drawing all things to oneself. The Third is Vau, the Son, the Sword , the moving, penetrating element , double in nature. For it is intellect , but also the result of Genius absorbed , interpreted , transmuted and applied through the virtue of the Cup to expand , to explain , to bring into conscious existence. And the Fourth is the He final, the Daughter , Earth , the Disk, Pantacle, or Coin-the Coin on which is stamped the effigy of the Word that begat it with the aid of the other forms of Energy. It is the Princess of the Tarot of whom it is written: "Great indeed is her power when thus firmly established . " It is a trite, and not quite true , saying that money can buy nothing worth having. But it can command service, the real measure of power, and leisure ; without these two advantages the most brilliant genius is practically paralysed . It can do much to secure health, or to restore it. The truth is that money is only troublesome when one begins to count it. Then there is travel , by which I do not mean globe-trotting; and privacy, less attainable every year as the Meddlesome Matties invade every corner of life. But this is by the way; the text , tenor and thesis of the illuminated and illuminating discourse is the above Epigram, which is not merely one of the extravagant absurdities for which I am justly infamous. It is the Pearl of Great Price. Observe that , formally it is a generalization of the principle of the old injunction "to buy the egg of a perfectly black hen without haggling." I want you to realize the supreme importance of this. For one thing, it goes hand-in-hand with