5. His next act was to remember that crysipelas was a Each man instinctively feels that he is the Centre of the Cosmos, and philosophers have jeered at his presumption. Confessions, p. 489-490. May thy Mind be open unto the Higher! We should indeed love all -- is not the Law "love under will"? It is quite unphilosophical to say that 50 degrees Centigrade is hotter than 40 degrees. On the other hand, the constitution of Nuit is 'atomic' (verse 26) or discontinuous. He or she must go through the sordid farce of divorce if the chance of free choice is to be recovered; and even at that the fetters always leave an incurable ulcer; it is no good playing the game of respectability after one is divorced. The crime of abortion will lose its motive in all but the most exceptional cases. It is obvious that "the length of thy longing" varies with the number of potentialities to be satisfied. Philosophically, 'Because is absurd.' The anacephalepsis of these considerations is this: 1. [C16]. But love magically directed and used as a spiritual formula. My Will was, I now know, to be The Beast, 666, a Magus, the Word of the Aeon, Thelema; to proclaim this new Law to mankind. Machines have already nearly completed the destruction of individual craftmanship. That is, we are not to oppose resistance to the perfect fluidity of the "Becoming" of Nature. then obtaining, several There is, however, a mystery of the planets, revolving about a star of whom they are parts; but I shall not discuss it fully in this place. One cannot say that any significance of that gesture is forbidden, for "There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt." {Thelema is in Greek letters in the MS These conditions have been so rare in the past, especially with regard to love, that their occurrence has usually marked something like an epoch. For I, The Beast, am come; an end to the evils of old, to the duping and clubbing of abject and ailing animals, degraded to that shameful state to serve that shameful pleasure. The difference between the scholar and the schoolboy is that the former glows and exults when he is reminded of some word like Thalassa. An XVI, Sun in Capricornus. 'Mongol:" presumably the reference is to Confucianism, whose metaphysical and ethical flawlessness has not saved its adherents from losing those ruder virtues which are proper to a Fighting Animal, and thus yielding at last a civilization coeval with history itself to the barbarous tribes of Europe. We find that no reason for believing him. For example, the average man dreads tuberculosis. A charred stake is driven through the heart of a vampire, and his victim is protected with garlic. He is the First Letter of the Alphabet, Aleph, whose number is One, and his card in the Tarot is The Fool, numbered Zero. And "Heaven" is of course "a place wherein one may fulfil oneself", conformably to the definition of Nuit as Space previously offered. cleanse the nipple of the feeding bottle, and thereby It is cosmographically, the conception of the two Ultimate Ideas; Space, and That which occupies Space. (Fulfilled An. As to the work of the sword, I have fought, I have shorn shams asunder, I have anatomized my mind as no man has done since Gautama. This expression is in its present form meaningless. This facilitates the discovery A,R,C leading to A, is A(index2); and so on. The second kind is also a form of BAPHOMET, but differs from the 'child' in that it is the Lion-Serpent in its original form. This Soul being a monistic consciousness, it is unable to appreciate itself and its qualities, as explained in a previous entry; so it realizes itself by the device of duality, with the limitations of time, space and causality. Today, Sept. 3, I find Ho Alastor = 1008. We refuse to accept it as the surrender of the divine to the animal; to us it is the means by which the animal may be made the Winged Sphinx which shall bear man aloft to the House of the Gods. Still worse, even so far as the conclusions of reason express the relations of an animal with itself, they disclose not the consistency which is the test of the fulfilment of this limited function, but an inherent self-contradiction which shatters the validity of the entire process. To keep them docile as long as possible by drawing out the debauching of their innocence. Realizing that these two courses (the materialist's and the mystic's) are equally fatuous, we may engage in either or both of two other plans of action, based on assent to actuality. Thus the vast bulk of humanity is obsessed by an abject fear of freedom; the principal objections hitherto urged against my Law have been those of people who cannot bear to imagine the horrors which would result if they were free to do their own wills. to initiate him. The ancient Jewish Rabbins knew this, and taught that before Eve was given to Adam, the demon Lilith conceived by the spilth of his dreams, so that the hybrid races of satyrs, elves and the like began to populate those secret places of the earth which are not sensible by the organs of the normal man. The doctrine of the dual character of the God is very important to a proper understanding of Him. I am inclined to see some deeper significance in this passage. It is the mark of a mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth. But I know now that I should not have forced my growth, and deformed my destiny. When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law: The hearing It stands plain, even to sceptical reason -- indeed, most of all to the sceptic -- that our talisman, one microscopic serpent of which can build for itself such a house as to rule men's bodies for a generation like Alexander, or their minds for an epoch like Plato, cannot be destroyed or diminished by any conceivable force. of the Aeon. If we inquire, "What is the length of the thread of quicksilver in a thermometer? Each person is responsible to himself, being a star, to travel in his own orbit, composed of his own elements, to shine with his own light, with the colour proper to his own nature, to revolve and to rush with his own inherent motion, and to maintain his own relation with his own galaxy in its own place in the Universe. But what of those who, physically fitted to live, are tainted with rottenness of soul, cancerous with the sin-complex? As to reason itself, what is more certain than that its laws are only the conscious expression of the limits imposed upon us by our animal nature, and that to attribute universal validity, or even significance, to them is a logical folly, the raving of our megalomania? Let weak and wry productions go back into the melting-pot, as is done with flawed steel castings. These "girders" imply the skeletal structure on which the soul is supported, the conditions of its incarnation. It is, indeed for him, an act ridiculous, obscene, gross, beastly; a wallowing unworthy either of the dignity of man or of the majesty of the God within him. Its initiative and elan are limited by the requirements of his strategy. The word "Set" is curious -- is there here a reference to Set the God? One most important point, in conclusion. to be rushed up for our protection; if by disease, to take The Beast and the Scarlet Woman are avatars of Tao and Teh, Shiva and Sakti. They forget that the instruments which we use for our measurements are themselves conceived of as in conformity with the principles of Euclidian Geometry. to do in camp. We must then study the art of Bodily Love. "Death" is, to the initiate, as inn by the wayside; its marks a stage accomplished; it offers refreshment, repose, and advice as to his plans for the morrow. Our humanitarianism, which is the syphilis of the mind, acts on the basis of the lie that the King must die. Yet the insane man may be unable to think that he is not the victim of mysterious persecution. The fact of its so doing is a most convincing proof of the superhuman Wisdom of the author of this Book to those who have laboured for years, in vain, to elucidate the problems of the Tarot. Therefore we hold Love holy, our heart's religion, our mind's science. We decided the Rose should return to England In the inspired Books, such as Liber LXV, VII, DCCXIII and others, written by The Beast 666 directly, not from dictation, no such awkward expressions are to be found. [M9]. He must master the technique, theory and practice, of music, til the general principles are absorbed, and he has command of the language, to use it to express his Will. As is well known, there is a limit to the power of the hypnotist; he cannot overcome the resistance of the Unconscious of his patient. The "Christian Scientist" flees this fear by pretending that the disease is an illusion in "mortal mind." (I write this in AN XVII.). - Confessions, p. 410. [H10] [17]. Such acts can only be judged by their results. It seems to me as if this refers to the ascetic life, commonly considered as an essential condition of participation in these mysteries. "Direful:" because Ra-Hoor-Khuit is a "God of war and vengeance;" See Cap. Modern Science has at last grown out of the very-young-man cocksureness of the 19th century. he was doing, and consequently inclined to overplay the It is the serf of brute passions, the ape of atavism, the dupe of sense, and the automaton of accident. One does not want even a comparatively brief extension of these "actual" states; Wedded Love though licensed for a lifetime, is usually intolerable after a month; and Marrons Glaces pall after the first five or six kilogrammes have been consumed. Thus it connotes the Great Work. But it is vital to consider this as a strictly temporary device; and to "cut out the idea of Eternal Rest". I take it as certain that every offering of this talisman infallibly begets children on one plane or another of this our cosmos, whose matter is so varied in kind. Nuith selects three centres of Her Body to become "Two" with Hadit; for she asks me to declare Her in these three. Of some such formulae we are conscious, but not of all. The pentagram is 12, HVA, Macroprosopos. [(John 3:8)] It commands with absolute authority when it appears at all, despite conscious reason and judgment. The essence of my Word is to declare woman to be Herself, of, to, and for Herself; and I give this one irresistible Weapon, the expression of Herself and Her will through sex, to Her on precisely the same terms as to man. If it does not dissolve a metal, it may carbonize a sugar, generate a gas, give off heat, or in one way or another fulfill absolutely every possibility which it inherited from the forces that went to make it. Exposure means "putting out" as in a shop-window. The error in the interpretation of this doctrine has been that it has not been taken as it stands. If one's true Will, the reason of one's incarnation, be to bring peace on earth, one must not perform an act of love with motives of jealousy or emulation. I have myself practiced constantly to prove the Law by many and divers modes in many and divers spheres of thought, until it has become absolutely fixed in me, so much so that it appears an "identical equation," axiomatic indeed, and yet not a platitude, but a very sword of Truth to sunder every knot at a touch. Why is the name of Him spelt Khut? He is then ready to analyse them, to organize them, to drill them, and so to take advantage of the properties peculiar to each one by employing its energies in the service of his imperial purpose. We are then particularly careful to deny that the object of love is the gross physiological object which happens to be Nature's excuse for it. We do not deny the existence of the body, or despise it; but we refuse to regard it in any other light than this: it is the organ of the Self. But see also the Comment on verse 4, above. The Beast is here definitely identified with the priest of the 26th Dynasty whose Stele forms the Pantacle (so to speak) of the new Magick. Each such electron is indistinguishable from any other; yet each is determined diversely by its relations with various positive complementary electrons. The mad elephant Wantobemagus pulled over the team of oxen? "Knowledge" is therefore not a "thing-in-itself;" it is rightly denied a place upon the Tree of Life; it pertains to the Abyss. One can only exist by being Nuit, as explained in discussing the general magical theory. Beyond this, once love is taken for granted, the morbid fascination of its mystery will vanish. It is explained in Energized Enthusiasm The Equinox I (9) that there are three Gods whose function is to bring the Soul to the Realization of its own glory: Dionysus, Aphrodite, Apollo; Wine, Woman, and Song. In terms of what Crowley described as "an account of the character of this cipher, called He lacks virility, like the ox which is the meaning of the letter Aleph which describes the Trump, and his value is Zero, its number. The Union of AIWAZ and The Beast in Aleister Crowley. It remains true that 'infinite space is a contradiction in terms', and so on; but this is no argument against the Cosmogeny of this Book. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law, biologically as well as in every other way. "What should I do without my labourers? There is no such word as AXPICTA, "unchristlike things"; only blind bigotry could be satisfied with so crude an invention. Let us investigate the nature of existing ideas a little more closely. I abandoned my ambitions to be a diplomatist. "The tomb" -- the coffin or grave. 2, the Coptic H, whose shape closely resembles the Arabic figure 2, the breath of Life, inspired and expired. Could Paganini have expressed himself on the "fiddle for eighteen pence" that some one once bought when he was "young and had no sense"? -- hammer away like Hercules at the spiritual, social, moral, and intellectual advantages of cultivating the caresses of a comrade who combines Apollo with Achilles and Antinous at the expense of escaping from a Chimaera with Circe's head, Cleopatra's body, and Cressida's character. This definition includes raising the dead, bewitching cattle, making rain, acquiring goods, fascinating judges, and all the rest of the programme. It is bad enough to be dependent on scientific instruments for our knowledge of all but the grossest of the wonders and splendours of the Universe; but worse that we are aware of an infinite variety of order of phenomena, such as electricity, magnetism, chemical action, and a host of others, which we can explore only by indirect means, interpret only by obviously inadequate symbols, and understand only in terms of arbitrary relations with our animal-sense-perceptions. This wand and sword may not be the wand and sword, or rather dagger, of the elemental weapons. Any free man or woman who resides in any community where this is verboten has a choice between two duties: insurrection and emigration. At bottom left of the graphic is a pentagram A, A, B, R, A.]. With regard to the Old Comment, I did indeed find an image of the kind implied. It should not transgress its limits. They lack purpose, foresight, and intelligence. Reflect that I was being compelled to make an abject recantation of practically every article of my creed, and I had not even Cranmer's excuse. By this I mean that we should make proper contact with all, for love means union; and the proper condition of union is determined by will. Each thought is inevitably itself, although it is related to all other possible thoughts. We have thus Matter that both is and is not, Motion that both moves and moves not, interacting in a variety of ways which is infinite to manifest individuals, each of which is unlike any other, yet is symmetrically supported by its counterpart. Time is necessarily created by us in order to make room for the apparent existence of the duality which we devise for the presentation of unity, or nihility. is not so much a ciphering as an assignment, within some system, of value to letters used Infinite freedom, all-embracing, for physical Love; boundless continuity for Life; and the silent rhythm of the Stars for Language. He represents the Higher Self, the Holy Guardian Angel. The Easterns know better; all the restrictions of the harem, of public opinion, and so on, are based upon the recognition of the fact that woman is only chaste when there is nobody around. Thus it is the eyes of 'Jesus' -- his point of view -- that must be destroyed; and this point of view is wrong because of his Magical Gesture of self-sacrifice. It disdains the arts of the orator. For a life which has fulfilled all its possibilities ceases to have a purpose; death is its diploma, so to speak; it is ready to apply itself to the new conditions of a larger life. In any event, it is surely a most overwhelming proof that AIWAZ is not myself, but my master, that He could force me to write verse 9, at a time when I was both intellectually and spiritually disgusted with, and despairing of, the Universe, as well as physically alarmed about my health. It may be said that I strengthened my moral character by these sacrifices, and that I was indeed compelled to act as I did. Now the multiplying of the infinitely great by the infinitely small results in SOME UNKNOWN FINITE NUMBER EXTENDED IN AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF CATEGORIES. I recommend serious study of the word unassuaged which appears not very intelligible. soever which had impinged on my normal direction. This last sentence of this paragraph is in a sense the sum of this whole Book; for it is the threefold Book of Law. It is our first duty to ourselves to preserve the treasure entrusted to us: "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?". Scorpio, the Zodiacal Sign of Death, is really the Sexual or Reproductive function of Nature. back was turned Rose had broken out, had neglected to Some of the most passionate and permanent attachments have begun with rape. The psychology of the one should be intelligible to the other. 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