LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI
112
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De Castitate
(Of Chastity)
Y Son, be fervent! Be firm! Be stable! Be quick to
mark Impurity, how one Course of Ideas seeketh to
infringe upon another, to quell the Virtue thereof.
Gold is pure, but to drink molten Gold were Impurity to thy
Body, and its Destruction. Law is a Code of the Customs of a
People; if it intrude thereon to alter them, it is an Impurity of
Oppression. So also Diet is to be in Accord with Digestion;
Ethics were an Impurity therein. Love is an Expression of the
Will of the Body, yea, and more also, of That which created
he Body; and its Operation is commonly between One and
One, so that the Interference of a Third Person is Impurity,
and not to be endured.
Nay, even the thought of Third
Person hath but ordinary not Part in Love; so that, as thou
seest constantly in thy Life, Love being strong, taketh no
heed of others, and some after Interference bringeth
Misfortune. Now then shell we therefore cast out Love, or
accept Impurity herein? God forbid. And for this Cause see
thou well to it hat in thy Kingdom there be no Interference
there with, nor Hindrance from any. For it is perfect in itself.
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