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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
only of Knowledge but of Life? For there is that in Man 
which is God, and there is that also which is Dust; and 
by our Magick we shall make these twain one Flesh, to 
the Obtaining of the Empery of the Universe. 
I suppose I might have put it more concisely: Classics is 
itself 
Initiation, 
being the key of the Unconscious; 
Mathematics is the Art of manipulating the Ruach, and of 
raising it to Neschamah; and Science is co-terminous with 
Magick. 
These are the three branches of study which I regard as 
fundamental. No others are in the same class. For instance, 
Geography is almost meaningless until one makes it real by 
dint of honest 
travel, which does not mean either 
"commuting" or "luxury cruises," still less "globe-trotting." 
Law is a specialized study, with a view to a career; History is 
too unsystematic and uncertain to be of much use as mental 
training; Art is to be studied for and by one's solitary self; 
any teaching soever is rank poison. 
The final wisdom on this subject is perhaps the old 
"Something of everything, and everything of something." 
Love is the law, love under will. 
Yours ever, 
666 
P.S. Better mention, perhaps, that literacy is no test of 
education. For ignorance of life, the don class leaves all 
others at the post; and it is these monkish and monkeyish 
recluses, with their hideous clatter and cackle, "The tittering, 
thin-bearded, epicene," "Dwarf, 
fringed with fear," the 
obscene vole, dweller by and in backwaters that has foisted 
upon us the grotesque and poisonous superstition that 
wisdom abides only in dogs-eared, worm-eaten, mule-inspired 
long-forgotten as misbegotten folios. 
I like the story-it is a true tale-of the old Jew millionaire 
who bought up the annual waste of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad-a matter of Three Million Dollars. He called with