Magick Without Tears

80 Life A Gamble Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. In one or two-no, I think more like three or four-letters of yours to hand in the last couple of months , you have put forward various excuses for slackness, the necessities of your economic situation . You say you must have "regular work," and a "steady income ," and all that sort of thing. My innocent child, that species of Magick is quite simple. Take the horns of a hare ... That's enough for the present: I'll tell you what to do with them when you've got them. In Macbeth we read- ... Security Is mortals' chiefest enemy. but this is another kind of security ; it is the Hybris which "tempts Providence," the insolence of thinking that nothing can go wrong. Anyhow, there's no such thing as safety . Life is a gamble. From the moment of incarnation a million accidents are possible. Miscarriage, still-birth, abortion; throughout life, until your heart beats for the last time, "you never can tell-and then you start all over again with your next incarnation! " (I wish I had a copy of a short story of mine called "Every Precaution".) The gallant young Uplift Expert, the one 487