OBSTACLES ON THE PATH 
451 
Greetings and Adorations and all such mnemonics, you are 
not likely to go very far wrong. 
Wands: this is obviously a pure question of Will. You will 
find as you go on that obstacles of varying degrees of 
difficulty confront you ; and the way in which you deal with 
them is most carefully watched. The best advice that I 
can give is to remember that there is little need of the 
Bull-at-a-Gate method , though that must always be ready in 
reserve; no, the best analogy is rapier-play. Elastic strength . 
Warfare shows us. 
That seems to cover your question more or less; but don't 
forget that it depends on yourself how much of the dramatic 
quality colours your Path. I suppose I have been lucky to 
have had the use of all the traditional trappings ; but it is 
always possible to make a "coat of many colours" out of a 
heap of rags. To show you that you have had Chaucer and 
John Runyan - yes, and Laurence Sterne : to bring up the rear, 
James Thomson (B.V.) to say nothing of Conrad and Hardy. 
Nor let me forget The Cream of the Jest and The Rivet in 
Grandfather's Neck of my friend, James Branch Cabell. 
So now, fair damozel , bestride thy palfrey , and away to 
the Mountains of Magick! 
Love is the law. love under will. 
Fraternally , 
666 
P. S. One danger I had purposely passed over, as it is not 
likely to come your way. But, since others may read these 
letters-
Some, and these the men of highest promise, often of great 
achievement , are tempted 
by Treason. They acquire a 
"Judas-complex," 
think how splendid it would be if they 
were to destroy the Order-or, at the very least, unhorse the 
Master. 
This is, of course , absurd in itself, because if they had 
crossed . the Abyss, they would understand 
why it is 
impossible. It would be like "destroying Electricity ," or