8 
MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
is to be properly directed . You must find your True Will, and 
make all your actions subservient to the one great purpose. 
Ra Hoor is the Sun God ; Tahuti is the Egyptian Mercury; 
Khephra is the Sun at midnight. 
About your problems : what I have to do is to try to teach 
you to think clearly. You will be immensely stimulated by 
having all the useless trimmings stripped from your thinking 
apparatus. For instance, I don't think you know the first 
principles of logic. You apparently take up a more or less 
Christian attitude, but at the same time you like very much 
the idea of Karma. You cannot have both. 
The question about money does not arise. This old and 
very good rule (which I have always kept) was really 
pertinent to the time when there were actual secrets. But I 
have published openly all the secrets. All I can do is to train 
you in a perfectly exoteric way. My suggestion about the 
weekly letter was intended to exclude this question, as you 
would be getting full commercial value for anything paid. 
Your questions about the Spirit of the Sun, and so on, are 
to be answered by experience. Intellectual satisfaction is 
worthless. I have to bring you to a state of mind completely 
superior to the mechanism of the normal mind. 
A good deal of your letter is rather difficult to answer. 
You always seem to want to put the cart before the horse. 
Don't you see that , if I were trying to get you to do 
something or other , I should simply return to you the kind of 
answer which I thought would satisfy you , and make you 
happy? And this would be very easy to do because you have 
got no clear ideas about anything . For one thing, you keep 
on using terms about whose significance we are not yet in 
agreement. When you talk about the "Christian path ," do 
you believe in vicarious atonement and eternal damnation-or 
don't you? A great deal of the confusion that arises in all 
these 
questions, 
and grows 
constantly 
worse as 
fellow-students talk them over-the blind leading the blind-is 
because they have no idea of the necessity of defining their 
terms.