Magick Without Tears

MORALS OF LIBER AL 303 It is the system natural to anyone who has psycho-analysed away all his complexes, repressions, fixations, and phobias. 4. As matriarchy reflected the Formula of the Aeon of Isis, and patriarchy that of Osiris, so does the rule of the "Crowned and Conquering Child" express that of Horus. The family, the clan, the state count for nothing; the Individual is the Autarch. 5. The Book announces a new dichotomy in human society; there is the master and there is the slave; the noble and the serf; the "lone wolf' and the herd. 1 (Nietzsche may be regarded as one of our prophets; to a much less extent, de Gobineau.) Hitler's 'Herrenvolk' is a not too dissimilar idea; but there is no volk about it; and if there were, it would certainly not be the routine-loving, uniform-obsessed, law-abiding, refuge-seeking German; the Briton, especially the Celt, a natural anarchist, is much nearer the mark. Britons will never get together about anything unless and until each one of them feels himself directly threatened. Now here I must tell you a story which may throw a good deal of light on much that is obscure in the political situation of '25 to date. The venerable lady (S.H. Soror I.W.E. go = 3°) who, on the death of S.H. Frater go = 3°, Otto Gebhardi, succeeded him as my representative in Germany (note that all this pertains to the A:. A:. ; the O.T.O. is not directly concerned) attained the Grade of Hermit (AL, I: 40). Watching the situation in Europe, she became constantly more convinced that Adolf Hitler was her "Magical Child"; and she conceived it to be her duty to devote her life (for the Hermit "gives only of his Light unto men") to his Magical Education. Knowing that the hegemony of the world would fall to the nation that first accepted the Law of Thelema, she made haste to put The Book of the Law in the hands of her "child." Upon him it most undoubtedly made the deepest 1. The 'Master' roughly denotes the able, the adventurous, welcoming responsibility. The 'slave': his motto is "Safety fust," with all that this implies. Race, birth, breeding, etc. are important but not absolutely essential factors.