Magick Without Tears

WOMAN 249 ... the Law is for all. (34) I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy, nor do I demand aught in sacrifice. My incense is of resinous woods & gums; & there is no blood therein: because of my hair the trees of Rternity. My number is 11 as all their numbers who are of us. The Five Pointed Star, with a Circle in the Middle, & the circle is Red. My color is black to the blind, but the blue & gold are seen of the seeing. Also I have a secret glory for them that love me. But to love me is better than all things: if under the night-stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom . ... I love you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you . Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you : come unto me! (58-61) B. Hadit. Nu! the hiding of Hadit. Come! all ye, and learn the secret that hath not yet been revealed. I, Hadit, am the complement of Nu, my bride. I am not extended , and Khabs is the name of my House. In the sphere I am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found . Yet she shall be known & I never. (1-4) I am · the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in