Magick Without Tears

426 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS read One Star in Sight again, and do for God's sake try to assimilate the information there very clearly and very fully given! You say that you must tread the Path alone: quite true, if only because anything that exists for you is necessarily part of yourself. Yet you have to "go to others," and you become a veritable busybody. You quote odd opinions at random without the means of estimating their value. Cannot I ever get you to understand the difference between an honest and dishonest teacher? I have always made it a rule never to put forward any statement of which I cannot produce proof; when I venture a personal opinion it is always Marked in Plain Figures to that effect. (I refer you to Magick p. 368; p. 375, paragraphs 1 and 2; and p. 415, paragraphs 000 and 00. We insist from the beginning on the individual character of the work , and upon the necessity of maintaining the objective and sceptical standpoint. You are explicitly warned against reliance upon "authority," even that of the Order itself.) Consider my own assets, personal , social, educational, experiential and the rest; don't you see that all I had to do was to put out some brightly-coloured and mellifluous lie, and avoid treading on too many toes, to have had hundreds of thousands of idiots worshipping me? Please get a Konx Om Pax somehow , and read p. XII: and so on. It's only too easy to form a cult, To cry a crusade with "Deus Vult" A pinch of Bible, a gal/on of gas, And I, or any otherguess ass, Could bring to our mystical moonlight mass Those empty-headed Athenians. But I never forget that I am working on the 2,000 year basis; my work will stand when all the pompous platitudes and pleasant pieties have withered for the iridescent soft-soap bubbles that they are.