Magick Without Tears

Cara Soror, 71 Morality (2) Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The contents of your letter appalled me. I had hoped that you had left behind for ever all that quality of thinking . It is unclean. It is stuffy and flabby. You write of a matter about which you cannot possibly have information, and what you say is not even a good guess: it is simply contrary to fact. It shows also that you have failed to grasp the nature of the O.T.O. Its main raison d'etre, apart from social and political plans, is the teaching and use of a secret method of achieving certain results. This secret is a scientific secret ; it is guarded against betrayal or abuse by a very simple automatic arrangement . Its guardians cannot be "dying" any more than electricians as a class can be. lt is really difficult to answer your letters . You have got things so higgledy-piggledy. You write of the constitutions of two orders, the A:. A:. and the O.T.O.; yet you ignore the printed information about them which you are supposed to have read. I have to answer each sentence of your letter separately, so incoherent have you become! You are a "student" of A:. A:. , and become a Probationer as soon as you take and pass the examination. (This is intended mostly to make sure that you have some general idea of the principal branches of the subject, and know the more important correspondences.) The rest: please 425