CEREMONIAL MAGICK,¹ original: MAGICK; the author uses this archaic spelling to distinguish his spiritual system from stage magic or sleight of hand.

THE TRAINING FOR MEDITATION

PRELIMINARY REMARKS

Until now, we have spoken only of the mystic path, and we have kept particularly to its practical, outer original: exoteric side. Any difficulties we have mentioned have been purely natural obstacles. For example, the great question of the surrender of the self—which is so prominent in most mystical writings original: treatises—has not been referred to at all. We have only said what a person must do; we have not considered at all what that doing may involve. The rebellion of the will against the terrible discipline of meditation has not been discussed; we may now devote a few words to it.

There is no limit to what theologians call “wickedness.” Only by experience can the student discover the ingenuity of the mind in trying to escape from control. He is perfectly safe so long as he sticks to meditation, doing no more and no less than that.

¹ The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.