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MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 
How then are we to explore, and finally to interpret this 
intelligence? 
It seems to me that there are two ways and only two. 
Imagine for a moment that you are an orphan in the charge 
of a guardian, inconceivably learned from your point of view. 
Suppose therefore that you are puzzled by some problem 
suitable to your childish nature , your obvious and most 
simple way is to approach your guardian and ask him to 
enlighten you . It is clearly part of his function as guardian to 
do his best to help you. Very good, that is the first method, 
and a close parallel with what we understand by the word 
Magick. We are bothered by some difficulty about one of the 
elements-say 
Fire-it 
is therefore 
natural 
to evoke a 
Salamander to instruct you on the difficult point. But you 
must remember that your Holy Guardian Angel is not only 
far more fully instructed than yourself on every point that 
you can conceive, but you may go so far as to say that it is 
definitely his work, or part of his work; remembering always 
that he inhabits a sphere or plane which is entirely different 
from anything of which you are normally aware. 
To attain to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy 
Guardian Angel is consequently without doubt by far the 
simplest way by which you can yourself approach that higher 
order of being. 
That, then, is a clearly intelligible method of procedure. 
We call it Magick. 
It is of course possible to strengthen the link between him 
and yourself so that in course of time you become capable of 
moving and, generally speaking, operating on that plane which 
is his natural habitat. 
There is however one other way, and one only, as far as I 
can see, of reaching this state. It is at least theoretically 
possible to exalt the whole of your own consciousness until it 
becomes as free to move on that exalted plane as it is for 
him. You should note , by the way, that in this case the