The Law is for All

Chapter I a Verse 52 63 clear enough that the sexual peculiarities of people are hiero­ glyphs, obscure yet not unintelligible, revealing their histories in the first place, in the second, their relations with environment in the present, and, in the third, their possibilities with regard to the modification of the future. In these supremely important verses of The Book of the Law, it becomes clear that Nuit is aware of all these facts, and that she regards them as no less than the combination of the lock of the strong-room of the future. “This” (doctrine) “shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister”. The misunderstanding of sex, the ignorant fear like a fog, the ignorant lust like a miasma, these things have done more to keep back humanity from realization of itself, and from intelligent cooperation with its destiny, than any other dozen things put together. The vileness and falseness of reli­ gion itself have been the monsters aborted from the dark womb of its infernal mystery. There is nothing unclean or degrading in any manifestation soever of the sexual instinct, because, without exception, every act is an impulsively projected image of the Will of the individual who, whether man or woman, is a star; the Pennsylvanian with his pig no less than the Spirit with Mary; Sappho with Atthis and Apollo with Hyacinth as perfect as Daphnis with Chloe or as Galahad vowed to the Graal. The one thing needful, the all­ perfect means of purification, consecration, and sanctification — independent of the physical and moral accidents circumstantial of the particular incident—is the realization of love as a sacrament. The use of the physical means as a Magical Operation — whose formula is that by uniting two opposites,by dissolving both, anni­ hilating both (to create a third thing which transcends that oppo­ sition), the phase of duality which constitutes the consciousness of imperfection is perceived as the absolute negative whose appre­ hension is identical with that duality—is the accomplishment of the Great Work. The anacephalepsis1 of these considerations is this: 1 [Recapitulation.] 1:53