Magick Without Tears

SEX MORALITY 135 A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride! A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. A feast for Tahuti and the child of the prophet-secret. 0 Prophet! A feast for the Supreme Ritual. and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! A feast every night unto Nu. and the pleasure of uttermost delight! Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution. and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu. These verses refer once more to the concomitants of the act; they indicate the adjutants to the technique; and they indicate the spirit in which it should be approached. The detached scientific attitude of enquiry and preparation is preliminary; the object is to foresee hindrances, to facilitate and to direct the current: but the impulse itself is Enthusiasm. There is a veil; that veil is black. It is the veil of the modest woman; it is the veil of sorrow & the pall of death: this is none of me. Tear down that lying spectre of the centuries: veil not your vices in virtuous words: these vices are my service; ye do well. and I will reward you here and hereafter. Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you! Also for beauty 's sake and love 's! The student should assimilate the doctrine of the "Black