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Magick Without Tears
Magick Without Tears (1954), PDF p. 40
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INTRODUCTION
7
Letter C
April 30, 1943
Cara Soror,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Thank you for your long letter of no date, but received
two days ago. I am very sorry you are still feeling exhausted.
I am not too good myself, for I find this weather very trying.
I will answer your various points as best I can.
I am arranging to send you the official papers connected
with the O.T.O. but the idea that you should meet other
members first is quite impossible. Even after affiliation, you
would not meet anyone unless it were necessary for you to
work in co-operation with them. I am afraid you have still
got the idea that the Great Work is a tea-party. Contact with
other students only means that you criticize their hats, and
then their morals; and I am not going to encourage this. Your
work is not anybody else's; and undirected chatter is the
worst poisonous element in human society.
When you talk of the "actual record" of the "Being called
Jesus Christ," I don't know what you mean. I am not aware
of the existence of any such record. I know a great many
legends, mostly borrowed from previous legends of a similar
character .
It would be better for you to get a copy of The Equinox
of the Gods and study it. The Great Work is the uniting of
opposites. It may mean the uniting of the soul with God, of
the microcosm with the macrocosm, of the female with the
male, of the ego with the non-ego-or what not .
By "love under will" one refers to the fact that the
method in every case is love, by which is meant the uniting of
opposites as above stated, such as hydrogen and chlorine,
sodium and oxygen, and so on. Any reaction whatever, any
phenomenon, is a phenomenon
of "love," as you will
understand when I come to explain to you the meaning of
the word "point-event." But love has to be "under will" if it
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