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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)
The Equinox (Volume III, Number I) (1919), PDF p. 131
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DE LEGE LIBELLVM
Here the Book of the Law, by the Voice of Hadit, informeth
us: “In the sphere Iam everywhere the centre.” And again:
“I am Life and the giver of Life . . . ‘come unto me’ is a
foolish word: for it is I that go.” “For I am perfect, being
Not.” For this Life is in every place and time at once, so
that in It these limitations no longer exist. And you will
have seen this for yourself, that in every act of Love time
and space disappear with the creation of the Life by its
virtue, as also doth personality itself. For the third time,
then, in even subtler sense, “The word of Sin is Restriction.”
Lastly, in the Way of Light this same versicle is the key
to the conception of Evil. But here Restriction is in the
failure to solve the Great Equation, and, later, to prefer one
expression or phase of the Universe to the other. Against
this we are warned in the Book of the Law by the Word of
Nuit, saying: “None .. . and two. For I am divided for
love’s sake, for the chance of union,” and therefore, “If this
be not aright: if ye confound the space marks, saying: They
are one: or saying, They are many . . . then expect the
direful judgments. . . .”
Now therefore by the favour of Thoth am I come to the
end of this my book: and do you arm yourselves accordingly
with the Four Weapons: the Wand for Liberty, the Cup for
Love, the Sword for Life, the Disk for Light: and with these
work all wonders by the Art of High Magick under the Law
of the New AZon, whose Word is @EAHMA.
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