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Liber Aleph
Liber Aleph (1961), PDF p. 89
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THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY
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Quare Filium creavit: ut fiat Libertas
(Why he Created his Son: that there might be Liberty)
O what thou wilt! be this our Slogan of Battle in
every Act; for every Act is Conflict. There Victory
leapeth shining before us; for who may thwart true
Will, which is the Order of Nature Herself? . . . thou hast
no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say
nay. For if that Will be true, its Fulfilment is of a Surety as
Daylight following Sunrise. It is as certain as the Operation
of any other Law of Nature; it is Destiny. Then, if that Will
be obscured, if thou turn from it to Wills diseased or
perverse, how canst thou hope? Fool! Even thy Turns and
Twists are in the Path to thine appointed End. But thou art
not sprung of a Slaves Loins; thou standest firm and straight;
thou dost thy Will; and thou are Chosen, nay, for this Work
wast thou begotten in a Magick Bed, that thou shouldst
make Man free.
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