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release the imprisoned “ I. ” When
once these powers
are released
from
the earthy grasp of the understand
ing , and the Ego sloughs
its
outward empirical skin
,
we then become
mystics
;
nevertheless
,
“
If
any man
say
,
I
love God
,
and
hateth
his brother
,
he
is
a
liar
.
For
he
that
loveth
not his brother whom
he
seeth
,
how can
he love
God whom
he seeth
not
.”
So
the
mystic's work
lies
here
in
life
,
and
the
greatest
and
most divine mystics
have probably been
those
whose
naïveté
of
soul was such
,
that they knew not that they
were mystics
,
and
whose
illumination
has
become
so
brilliant
,
that they cannot
even find expression
in
the
most
divine
of
symbols
.
Such
adepts who arrive
at
so
exalted
a
plane
,
keep
silence
,
as
Crowley
says
:
“
the first and last
ordeals
and
rewards
of
the Adept
are comprised
in
the maxim
'
Keep Silence
'!”
1
Call
“
homo
sapiens
”
him who thinks
;
Talkers and doers
-
missing links
!?
In
his essay
“
Eleusis
,"
Crowley suggests that the
world's history
may
roughly
be
divided into
a
con
tinuous
succession
of
periods
,
each embracing three
distinct
cycles
—
of
Renaissance
,
Decadence
,
and
Slime
.
In
the first the Adepts
rise
as
artists
,
philo
1
Eleusis
,
vol
.
iii,
p
.
221
.
“
TO KNOW
,
TO DARE
,
TO WILL
,
TO
KEEP
SILENT
,
are
the four words
of
the magus
,
inscribed
upon
the four symbolic
forms
of
the Sphinx
.
“
To
command
the elements
,
we must
have
overcome
their
hurricanes
,
their lightnings
,
their abysses
,
their tempests
.
“
In
order
to
DARE we must KNOW
;
in
order
to
WILL we must
DARE
;
we must WILL
to
possess
empire
,
and
to
reign
we must
BE
SILENT
.”
—
E.
LÉVI
,
The Ritual
of
Transcendent
Magic
,
pp
.
30
,
190
.
Gargoyles
,
vol
.
iii,
p
.
94
.
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