Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not over much! The Book of the Law Chapter 3, Verse 42 One of the most common questions I receive is "How do you know a ritual worked?" Crowley's The Book of the Law has what to me is the most obvious answer. If you get the results you intended, the ritual worked. If you don't get the results you wanted, the rituals failed. That's all well and good in the long run, but it doesn't do you much good right now. Let's say you do a ritual to get $50 by the end of the week and sure enough, you get the money. But isn't it possible that you would have received the money if you had done nothing? The ritual and the supposed result may just be

As I write this, Apple Inc. (formerly Apple Computer) is about to announce new products. Today they are a focal point of the technology world. But it has not always been so. About 15 years ago I had left my job. The new job I was promised before I moved across the country fell through. I spent time living off the kindness of friends and eventually had to move back in with my parents. I was out of money. At that time the price of Apple stock had fallen, as I recall, to about $12 per share. I was urging everyone I knew (and who had money) to buy Apple stock. The reason for my urging was that I believed only two things could happen. First, the stock would go up in value, in which