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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
by the exaltation (? = intoxication? Yes, of a sublime sort) of 
the consciousness to identify oneself with those 'celestial' 
Beings. 
In Yoga, various practices prevent the body and its 
functions from interrupting the mental process. Then, one 
inhibits that process itself; the stilling of "thoughts" allows 
one to become aware of mental functions beyond the 
intellectual; 
these functions have their own peculiar 
properties and powers. Each sheath, as one goes deeper, is 
discarded as 'unreal'; finally one apprehends that Nothing 
which is the only true and real form of existence. (But then it 
does not exist : in these regions of thought words always 
become nightmares of self-contradiction. This is as it should 
be.) 
In Magick, on the contrary, one passes through the veil of 
the exterior world (which, as in Yoga, but in another sense, 
becomes 'unreal' by comparison as one passes beyond,) one 
creates a subtle body (instrument is a better term) called the 
Body of Light; this one develops and controls; it gains new 
powers as one progresses, usually by means of what is called 
'initiation'; finally, one carries on almost one's whole life in 
this Body of Light, and achieves in its own way the mastery 
of the Universe. 
The first step in Yoga is "Keep still." 
The first step in Magick is "Travel beyond the world of the 
senses." 
There, that is the whole business in a nutshell, and 
expressed so that anyone, however ignorant of the subject, 
may grasp the essentials (I hope). 
Love is the law, love under will. 
Yours fraternally, 
666