Magick Without Tears

WOMAN 251 Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I console not; I hate the consoled & the consoler. I am unique & conqueror. I am not of the slaves that perish. (46-49) Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is in my eyes; and my spangles are purple & green. Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight. (50-51) Lest it should all prove too difficult, I have not quoted several passages which are completely beyond my comprehension; even in those here set down, there is quite a little that I should not care to boast that I had altogether clear in my own mind. Leaving out nearly everything, the only way to simplify it is to call Hadit the "Point-of-View," and "Anywhere" to be the radix of all possible "Point-Events," or "experiences," or "phenomena"; Nuit is the complement, the total possibilities of any such radix. You can only get this properly into that part of your mind which is "above the Abyss," i.e., Neschamah; even so, Neschamah must be very thoroughly fertilized by Chiah, and illuminated by Jechidah, to make any sort of a job of it. But to come down from the contemplation of Abstract Reality (which, being static and "infinite," is ultimately immeasurable) to these Ideas in their interaction (and thus directly observable), it is easy enough to understand the Magical Formula of their interaction. Of course, whatever I say can be no more than a rough approximation, even a suggestion rather than a statement; but I cannot help the nature of the case. Nuit is the centripetal energy, infinitely elastic because it must fit over the hard thrust directed