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… of Mentu the truth-telling brother Who was master of Thebes from his birth: O heart of me, heart of my mother! O heart which I had upon earth! Stand not thou up against me a witness! Oppose me not, judge, in my quest! Accuse me not now of unfitness Before the Great God, the dread Lord of the West! For I fastened the one to the other With a spell for their mystical girth, The earth and the wonderful West, When I flourished, o earth, on the breast! The dead man Ankh-f-n-Khonsu Saith with his voice of truth and calm: O thou that hast a single arm…
1996 · PDF PAGE 156
…neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms. 18. Mercy let be off: damn them who pity! Kill and torture; spare not; be upon them! Commentary: An end to the humanitarian mawkishness which is destroying the human race by the deliberate artificial protection of the unfit. What has been the net result of our fine “Christian” phrases? In the go…
1996 · PDF PAGE 185
…w, without knowing what it is about. For instance: “God’s wind from nowhere which is called the Will; and is man’s only excuse upon this earth,” was written by so triv ial a Fat Man as Gilbert Keith Chesterton in The Flying Inn.1 1 [G. K. Chesterton, The Flying Inn (1914), ch. 17.] 61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra’s seat, lightening the girders of the soul. Commentary: Note that Heru-ra-ha is not merely a particu lar form of Ra, but the God enthroned in Ra’s seat. That is, His Kingdom on earth is temporary, as explai…
1996 · PDF PAGE 115
…ling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one. Commentary: The Magical power is universal. The Free Man directs it as He Will. Leave Him alone, or He will make you sorry you tried to interfere! There is here a reference to the two main types of the orgia1 2 of Magick; I have already dealt with this matter in the Comment.3 Observe that in the “mystic” work, the union takes place sponta neously; in the other, venom is sho…
1996 · PDF PAGE 89
…tant of its creation. For no sooner do we assent to arb than arb is absorbed in our conception of A. After the nine days’ wonder of “The Earth revolves round the Sun,” we modify our former idea of Earth. “Earth” is intuitively classed with other solar satellites. The proposition vanishes auto matically as it is assimilated. Knowledge, while it exists as such, is consequently sub judice,x at the best. What then may we understand by this verse, with its capital K for “Knowledge”? What is it, and how shall it “go aright”? The key is in the word “…
1996 · PDF PAGE 212
…neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms. 18. Mercy let be off: damn them who pity! Kill and torture; spare not; be upon them! 19. That stele they shall call the Abomination of Desolation; count well its name, & it shall be to you as 718. 20. Why? Because of the fall of Because, that he is not there again. 21. Set up my image in the Eas…
1996 · PDF PAGE 206
…ling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one. 27. There is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. He shall fall down into the pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of Reason. 28. Now a curse upon Because and his kin! 29. May Because be accursed for ever! 30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought. 31. If Power asks …
1996 · PDF PAGE 202
…. Also, o scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me! 54. Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein. 55. The child of thy bowels, he shall behold them. 56. Expect him not from the East, nor from the West; for from no expected house cometh that child. Aum! All words are sacred and all prophets true; save only that they understand a little; solve the first …
1996 · PDF PAGE 199
… is in the secret word which I have given unto him. 21. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth; I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit. 22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no differ ence made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. 2…
1996 · PDF PAGE 150
…scorn of men? Than Joseph Smith1 had any man less learning? Yet each of these attained to do his Will; each cried his Word, that all the Earth yet echoes it! And each was able to accomplish this by virtue of that very cir cumstance which seems so cruel. Shall I, who am armed with all their weapons at once, complain that I must go into the fight unfurnished? 1 [Joseph Smith (1805-1844), Mormon prophet who produced The Book of Mormon (1830); Crowley admired his accomplishments.] 2 In previous notes. See also the essay “Time”: Crowley, Collected …
1996 · PDF PAGE 100
…(The Equinox 111(9)) (1983), p. 45.] 18. These are dead, these fellows; they feel not. We are not for the poor and sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk. Commentary: This idea is confirmed. Those who sorrow are not real people at all, not “stars”—for the time being. The fact of their being “poor and sad” proves them to be “shadows,” who “pass & are done.” The “lords of the earth” are those who are doing their Will. It does not necessarily mean people with coro nets and automobiles; there are plenty of such people who are the most sorrow…
1996 · PDF PAGE 74
…. Also, o scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me! Commentary: It is clear that this “kiss” (i.e. this Book) will regenerate Earth by establishing the Law of Liberty, “my heart 8c my tongue” seems a mere phrase of endearment; but has possibly some deep significance which at present escapes me.
1996 · PDF PAGE 34
… is in the secret word which I have given unto him. 21. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth; I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit. 22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. 23.…
1996 · PDF PAGE 140
…of enormously more achievement than others, even in terrestrial matters, from sexual orgia to creative Art. Even if we had only this one earth life to consider, we exceed our fellows some thirtyfold, some sixtyfold, some an hundredfold.
1996 · PDF PAGE 203
…e all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jew els; ye shall exceed the nations of the earth in splendour & pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. I charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich headdress. 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! 6…
1996 · PDF PAGE 171
… a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut herself up; and therefore is she the Queen of all those wicked devils that walk upon the earth, those that thou sawest even as little black specks that stained the Heaven of Urania. And all these are the excrement of Choronzon. It is this “shutting up” that is hideous, the image of death. It is the opposite of Going, which is God. Women under Christianity are kept virgin for the market as Strasbourg geese are nailed to boards till their livers putrefy. The nature of woman has been corrupted, her h…
1996 · PDF PAGE 184
… to dress as he wills to do. Man has the right to dwell where he wills to dwell. Man has the right to move as he will on the face of the Earth. Man has the right to eat what he will. Man has the right to drink what he will. Man has the right to think as he will. Man has the right to speak as he will Man has the right to write as he will. Man has the right to mould as he will. Man has the right to paint as he will. Man has the right to carve as he will. Man has the right to work as he will. Man has the right to rest as he will. Man has the right…
1996 · PDF PAGE 35
36 The Law is for All bending down, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth, & her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body. 27. Then the priest answered & said unto the Queen of Space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: O Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let…
1996 · PDF PAGE 78
Chapter I a Verses 57-59 79 58. 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. Commentary: These joys are principally (1) the Beatific Vision, in which Beauty is constantly present to the recipient of Her grace, together with a calm and unutterable joy; (2) the Vision of Wonder, in which the whole Mystery of the Universe is constantly understood and admired for its Ingenium and Wisdom. (1) is referred to Tiphareth, the Grade of Adept; (2) …
1996 · PDF PAGE 208
…ll; he that is filthy shall be filthy still. 58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there are masked ones my servants: it may be that yonder beggar is a King. A King may t choose his garment as he will: there is no certain test: but a beggar cannot hide his poverty. 59. Beware therefore! Love all, lest perchance is a King con cealed! Say you so? Fool! If he be…