1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 251
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III
This is the Harmony of the Universe, that Love
unites the Will to create with the Understanding of
that Creation: understand thou thine own Will.
Love and let love. Rejoice in every shape of love,
and get thy rapture and thy nourishment thereof
Love, beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, completion, good fortune, graciousness,
elegance, luxury, idleness, dissipation debauchery, friendship, gentleness, delight.
IV
Pour water on thyself thus shalt thou be a Fountain
to the Universe.
Find thou thyself in every Star. Achieve thou every
possibility.
War, conquest, victory, strife, ambition, originality, overweening confidence and mega‐
lomania, quarrelsomeness, energy, vigour, stubbornness, impracticability, rashness, ill‐temper.
V
Offer thyself Virgin to the Knowledge and Conver
sation of thine Holy Guardian Angel. All else is a
snare.
Be thou athlete with the eight limbs of Yoga: for
without these thou are not disciplined for any fight.
Stubborn strength, toil, endurance, placidity, manifestation, explanation, teaching,
goodness of heart, help from superiors, patience, organization, peace.
VI
The Oracle of the Gods is the Child Voice of Love in
Thine own Soul; hear thou it.
Heed not the SirenVoice of Sense, or the Phantom
Voice of Reason: rest in Simplicity, and listen to the
Silence.
Openness to inspiration, intuition, intelligence, second sight, childishness, frivolity,
thoughtfulness divorced from practical consideration, indecision, self‐contradiction, union in
a shallow degree with others, instability, contradiction, triviality, the “high‐brow”.
VII
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