Magick Without Tears -- Contents

Magick Without Tears

By Aleister Crowley

With thanks to Fr. T.S.

Foreword.
Introduction.
CHAPTER I	What is Magick?
CHAPTER II	The Necessity of Magick for All
CHAPTER III	Hieroglypics: Life and Language Necessarily Symbolic
CHAPTER IV	The Qabalah: The Best Training for Memory
CHAPTER V	The Universe: The 0 = 2 Equation
CHAPTER VI	The Three Schools of Magick (1)
CHAPTER VII	The Three Schools of Magick (2)
CHAPTER VIII	The Three Schools of Magick (3)
CHAPTER IX	The Secret Chiefs
CHAPTER X	The Scolex School
CHAPTER XI	Woolly Pomposities of the Pious "Teacher"
CHAPTER XII	The Left-Hand Path—"The Black Brothers"
CHAPTER XIII	System of the O.T.O.
CHAPTER XIV	Noise
CHAPTER XV	Sex Morality
CHAPTER XVI	On Concentration
CHAPTER XVII	Astral Journey: Example, How to do it, How to Verify your Experience
CHAPTER XVIII	The Importance of our Conventional Greetings, etc.
CHAPTER XIX	The Act of Truth
CHAPTER XX	Talismans: The Lamen: The Pantacle
CHAPTER XXI	My Theory of Astrology
CHAPTER XXII	How to Learn the Practice of Astrology
CHAPTER XXIII	Improvising a Temple
CHAPTER XXIV	Necromancy and Spiritism
CHAPTER XXV	Fascinations, Invisibility, Levitation, Transmutations, "Kinks in Time"
CHAPTER XXVI	Mental Processes—Two Only are Possible
CHAPTER XXVII	Structure of Mind Based on that of Body (Haeckel and Bertrand Russell)
CHAPTER XXVIII	Need to Define "God", "Self", etc.
CHAPTER XXIX	What is Certainty?
CHAPTER XXX	Do you Believe in God?
CHAPTER XXXI	Religion–Is Thelema a "New Religion"?
CHAPTER XXXII	How can a Yogi ever be Worried?
CHAPTER XXXIII	The Golden Mean
CHAPTER XXXIV	The Tao I
CHAPTER XXXV	The Tao II
CHAPTER XXXVI	Quo Stet Olympus: Where the Gods, Angels, etc. Live
CHAPTER XXXVII	Death—Fear—"Magical Memory"
CHAPTER XXXVIII	Woman—Her Magical Formula
CHAPTER XXXIX	Prophecy
CHAPTER XL	Coincidence
CHAPTER XLI	"Are we Reincarnations of the Ancient Egyptians?"
CHAPTER XLII	This "Self" Introversion
CHAPTER XLIII	The Holy Guardian Angel is not the "Higher Self" but an Objective Individual
CHAPTER XLIV	"Serious" Style of A.C., or the Apparent Frivolity of Some of my Remarks
CHAPTER XLV	"Unserious" Conduct of a Pupil
CHAPTER XLVI	Selfishness
CHAPTER XLVII	Reincarnation
CHAPTER XLVIII	Morals of AL—Hard to Accept, and Why nevertheless we Must Concur
CHAPTER XLIX	Thelemic Morality
CHAPTER L	A.C. and the "Masters"; Why they Chose him, etc.
CHAPTER LI	How to Recognise Masters, Angels, etc., and how they Work
CHAPTER LII	Family: Public Enemy No. 1
CHAPTER LIII	"Mother-Love"
CHAPTER LIV	"On Meanness"
CHAPTER LV	Money
CHAPTER LVI	Marriage—Property—War Politics
CHAPTER LVII	Beings I have Seen with my Physical Eye
CHAPTER LVIII	"Do Angels Ever Cut Themselves Shaving?"
CHAPTER LIX	Geomancy
CHAPTER LX	Knack
CHAPTER LXI	Power and Authority
CHAPTER LXII	The Elastic Mind
CHAPTER LXIII	Fear, a Bad Astral Vision
CHAPTER LXIV	Magical Power
CHAPTER LXV	Man
CHAPTER LXVI	Vampires
CHAPTER LXVII	Faith
CHAPTER LXVIII	The God-Letters
CHAPTER LXIX	Original Sin
CHAPTER LXX	Morality (1)
CHAPTER LXXI	Morality (2)
CHAPTER LXXII	Education
CHAPTER LXXIII	"Monsters", Niggers, Jews, etc.
CHAPTER LXXIV	Obstacles on the Path
CHAPTER LXXV	The A.'.A.'. and the Planet
CHAPTER LXXVI	The Gods: How and Why they Overlap
CHAPTER LXXVII	Work Worthwhile: Why?
CHAPTER LXXVIII	Sore Spots
CHAPTER LXXIX	Progress
CHAPTER LXXX	Life a Gamble
CHAPTER LXXXI	Method of Training
CHAPTER LXXXII	Epistola Penultima: The Two Ways to Reality
CHAPTER LXXXIII	Epistola Ultima
Thelemic Books Referred to in this Volume.
Index.

Note: This hypertext edition of Magick Without Tears is based on a plaintext edition entered in 1988 by Bill Heidrick from the 1954 first edition, with a foreword by the original editor Karl J. Germer. The current (New Falcon) paper edition of this work was substantially abridged by editor F.I. Regardie. Omissions by Germer from the original letters have not been restored. Further proof reading may be needed.

Footnotes indicated by *, †, ‡, etc. by either Crowley or Germer. Notes indicated by numbers are by one of the subsequent editors, transcribers, etc.

In the interests of readability, when converting the plaintext to HTML I made no attempt to retain the line breaks and pagination from the paper edition. This had the unfortunate side-effect of rendering the index less than useful. I ultimately intend to replace page references in the index with hyperlinks to the chapters in question.

Magic without Tears November 13, 1988 e.v.
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