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ALL.
I have written this book to help the Banker, the Pugilist, the Biologist, th
e Poet, the Navvy, the Grocer, the Factory Girl, the Mathematician, the Stenogr
apher, the Golfer, the Wife, the Consul --- and all the rest --- to fulfil them
selves perfectly, each in his or her own proper function.
Let me explain in a few words how it came about that I blazoned the word
MAGICK
upon the Banner that I have borne before me all my life.
Before I touched my teens, I was already aware that I was THE BEAST whose nu
mber is 666. I did not understand in the least {XI} what that implied; it was
a passionately ecstatic sense of identity.
In my third year at Cambridge, I devoted myself consciously to the Great Wor
k, understanding thereby the Work of becoming a Spiritual Being, free from the
constraints, accidents, and deceptions of material existence.
I found myself at a loss for a name to designate my work, just as H. P. Blav
atsky some years earlier. "Theosophy", "Spiritualism", "Occultism", "Mysticism"
, all involved undesirable connotations.
I chose therefore the name.
"MAGICK"
as essentially the most sublime, and actually the most discredited, of all the
available terms.
I swore to rehabilitate
MAGICK
to identify it with my own career; and to compel mankind to respect, love, and
trust that which they scorned, hated and feared. I have kept my Word.
But the time is now come for me to carry my banner into the thick of the pre
ss of human life.
I must make
MAGICK
the essential factor in the life of
ALL.
In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my pos
ition by formulating a definition of
MAGICK
and setting forth its main principles in such a way that
ALL
may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with
every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon
MAGICK
and the right comprehension and right application thereof.

I. "DEFINITION."

MAGICK
is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.

{XII}

(Illustration: It is my Will to inform the World of certain facts within my
knowledge. I therefore take "magical weapons", pen, ink, and paper; I write "i