This is a true story. It has been changed exactly as much as the secret of names requires. This is a terrible story; but it is also a story of hope and beauty. It reveals with frightening clarity the abyss on the edge of which our civilization trembles. But the same Light illuminates the path of humanity: and we will be to blame if we step over the edge. This story speaks the truth about more than just one from human weaknesses, but (by analogy) about all others; and from all of them there is only one way of deliverance. As Glanville said: “Man cannot be completely overcome by either the angels or death itself, except through the weakness of his own insignificant will.” Do what you wish, let it be the Law.

Aleister Crowley