THE LAW OF LIBERTY
mere Marian or Melusine; she is Nuit Herself, specially
concentrated and incarnated in a human form to give you
infinite love, to bid you taste even on earth the Elixir of Im-
mortality. “But ecstasy be mine and joy on earth; ever To
me! To me!”
Again She speaks: “Love is the law, love under will.”
Keep pure your highest ideal; strive ever toward it without
allowing aught to stop you or turn you aside, even as a star
sweeps upon its incalculable and infinite course of glory, and
all is Love. The Law of your being becomes Light, Life,
Love and Liberty. All is peace, all is harmony and beauty,
allis joy.
For hear, how gracious is the Goddess: “I give unimagi-
nable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon
death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand
aught in sacrifice.”
Is not this better than the death-in-life of the slaves of the
Slave-Gods, as they go oppressed by consciousness of “sin,”
wearily seeking or simulating wearisome and tedious
“virtues”?
With such, we who have accepted the Law of Thelema
have nothing to do. We have heard the Voice of the Star-
Goddess: “I love you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled
or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple, and drunk-
enness of the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings,
and arouse the coiled splendour within you; come unto me!”
And thus She ends:
“Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me per-
fumes! Wear to me jewels! Drink to me, for I love you!
I love you! I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am
the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. To me!
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