The Law is for All

126 The Law is for All the Mind be attached constantly to the Body, Death hath not Power to decompose it wholly, but a decaying Shell of the Dead Man, his Mind holding together for a little his Body of Light, haunteth the Earth, seeking (in its Error, that feareth Change) a new Tabernacle in some other Body. These Shells are broken away utterly from the Star that did enlighten them, and they are Vampires, obsessing them that adventure themselves into the Astral World without Magical Protection, or invoke them, as do the Spiritists. For by Death is Man released only from the Gross Body, at the first, and is complete otherwise upon the Astral Plane, as he was in his Life. But this Wholeness suffereth Stress, and its Girders are loosened, the weaker first, and after that the stronger. Zk—DE ADEPTIS R.C. ESCHATOLOGIA [193—An Eschatology of the R.C. Adepts] Consider now in this Light what shall come to the Adept, to him that hath aspired constantly and firmly to his Star, attun­ ing the Mind unto the Musick of its Will. In him, if his Mind be knit perfectly together in itself, and conjoined with the Star, is so strong a Confection that it breaketh away easily not only from the Gross Body, but the Fine. It is this Fine Body which bindeth it to the Astral, as did the Gross to the Material, World; so then it accomplisheth willingly the Sacra­ ment of a Second Death, and leaveth the Body of Light. But the Mind, cleaving closely by Right of its Harmony, and Might of its Love, to its Star, resisteth the Ministers of Dis­ ruption, for a Season, according to its Strength. Now, if this Star be of those that are bound by the Great Oath, incarnat­ ing without Remission because of Delight in the Cosmic Sacrament, it seeketh a new Vehicle in the Appointed Way, and indwelleth the Foetus of a Child, and quickeneth it. And if at this Time the Mind of its Former Tabernacle yet cling to it, then is there Continuity of Character, and it may be Mem­ ory, between the two Vehicles. This, briefly and without Elab­ oration, is the Way of Asar in Amennti, according to mine Opinion, of which I say not: This is the Truth. Zk—DE NUPTIIS SUMMIS [194—On the Supreme Marriage] Now then to this Doctrine, o my Son, add thou that which thou hast learned in The Book of the Law, that Death is the Dissolution in the Kiss of Our Lady Nuit. This is a true