LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI
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De Motu Vitæ
(Of the Motion of Life)
EARN then, o my Son, that all Phenomena are the
effect of Conflict, even as the Universe itself is a
Nothing expressed as the Difference of two Equal-
ities, or, an thou wilt, as the Divorce of Nuit and Hadit. So
therefore every Marriage dissolveth a more material, and
createth a less material Complex; and this is our Way of Life,
rising ever from Ecstasy to Ecstasy. So then all high Violence,
that is to say, all Consciousness, is the spiritual Orgasm of a
Passion between two lower and grosser Opposites.
Thus
Light and Heat result from the Marriage of Hydrogen and
Oxygen; Love from that of Man and Woman, Dhyana or
Ecstasy from that of the Ego and the non-Ego.
But be thou well grounded in this Thesis corollary, that one
or two such Marriages do but destroy for a Time the
Exacerbation of any Complex; to deracinate such is a Work
of long Habit and deep Search in Darkness for the Germ
thereof. But this once accomplished, that particular Complex
is destroyed, or sublimated for ever.
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