Cara Soror, 
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Epistola Penultima 
The Two Ways to Reality 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
How very sensible of you, though I admit somewhat 
exacting! 
You write-Will you tell me exactly why I should devote 
so 
of my valuable time to subjects like Magick and 
Yoga. 
That is all very well. But you ask me to put it in syllogistic 
form. I have no doubt this can be done, though the task 
seems somewhat complicated. I think I will leave it to you to 
construct 
your series of syllogisms yourself from the 
arguments of this letter. 
In your main question the operative word is "valuable." 
Why, I ask, in my turn, should you consider your time 
valuable? It certainly is not valuable unless the universe has a 
meaning, and what is more, unless you know what that 
meaning is-at least roughly-it is millions to one that you 
will find yourself barking up the wrong tree. 
First of all let us consider this question of the meaning of 
the universe. It is its own evidence to design, and that design 
intelligent design. There is no question of any moral 
significance- "one man's meat is another man's poison" and 
so on. But there can be no possible doubt about the existence 
of some kind of intelligence, and that kind is far superior to 
anything of which we know as human. 
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