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In Every Magical, Or Similar System, It Is Invariably The First Condition Which The Aspirant Must Fulfill: He Must Once And For All And For Ever Put His Family Outside His Magical Circle.even The Gospels Insist Clearly And Weightily On This.christ Himself (i.e. Whoever Is Meant By This Name In This Passage) Callously Disowns His Mother And His Brethren (luke Viii, 19). And He Repeatedly Makes Discipleship Contingent On The Total Renunciation Of All Family Ties. He Would Not Even Allow A Man To Attend His Father's Funeral!is The Magical Tradition Less Rigid?not On Your Life!

To Read A Newspaper Is To Refrain From Reading Something Worth While. The First Discipline Of Education Must Therefore Be To Refuse Resolutely To Feed The Mind With Canned Chatter.

The Greatest Horrors In The History Of Mankind Are Not Due To The Ambition Of The Napoleons Or The Vengeance Of The Agamemnons, But To The Doctrinaire Philosophers. The Theories Of The Sentimentalist Rousseau Inspired The Integrity Of The Passionless Robespierre. The Cold-blooded Calculations Of Karl Marx Led To The Judicial And Business-like Operations Of The Cheka.

The Two Seem, At First Glance, To Be Opposed, But When You Have Advanced A Little In Both, You Find That Concentration Learned In Yoga Is Of Immense Use In Attaining The Mental Powers Necessary In Magick; On The Other Hand, The Discipline Of Magick Is Of The Greatest Service In Yoga.

Falsehood Is Invariably The Child Of Fear In One Form Or Another.