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Liber AL vel Legis subfigura CCXX — Chapter II 209 77. O be thou proud and mighty among men! 78. Lift up thyself! for there is none like unto thee among men or among Gods! Lift up thyself, o my prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars. They shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the number of the man; and the name of thy house 418. 79. The end of the hiding of Hadit; and blessing & worship to the prophet of the lovely Star!
1996 · PDF PAGE 198
… star. 4. Every number is infinite; there is no difference. 5. Help me, o warrior lord of Thebes, in my unveiling before the Children of men! 6. Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue! 7. Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar- kraat. 8. The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs. 9. Worship then the Khabs, and behold my light shed over you! 10. Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & the known. 11. These are fools that men adore; both their Gods 8c their men are fools. 12. Come fort…
1996 · PDF PAGE 175
… only art thou Woman, sworn to a purpose not thine own; thou art thyself a star, and in thyself a purpose to thyself. Not only mother of men art thou, or whore to men; serf to their need of Life and Love, not sharing in their Light and Liberty; nay, thou art Mother and Whore for thine own pleasure; the Word I say to Man I say to thee no less: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”! Ay, priest, ay, lawyer, ay, censor! Will ye not gather in secret once again, if in your hoard of juggler’s tricks there be not one untried, or in your cun…
1996 · PDF PAGE 156
Chapter III a Verses 4-19 157 17. Fear not at all; fear 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 t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 183
184 The Law is for All “the royal”: these are the men whose nature is kingly, the men who “can.” They know themselves born rulers, whether their halidom1 be Art, or Science, or aught else soever. 1 [A holy place or sanctuary.] “the lofty”: these are the men who, being themselves high hearted, endure not any baseness. 59. As brothers fight ye! Commentary: Fight! Fight like gentlemen, without malice, because fighting is the best game in the world, and love the second best! Don’t slander your enemy, as the newspapers would have you do; just kill …
1996 · PDF PAGE 33
…e in this verse. We are to organize our minds thoroughly, appointing few and secret chiefs, serving Nuit, to discipline the varied departments of the conscious thought. 11. These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools. 12. Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love! Commentary: The whole doctrine of “love” is discussed in the Book Aleph (Wisdom or Folly) and should be studied therein. But note further how this verse agrees with the comment above, how every Star is to come forth from its veils, tha…
1996 · PDF PAGE 42
… is economically inde pendent, becomes more so every year. The result is that she instantly asserts her right to have as many or as few men or babies as she wants or can get; and she defies the world to interfere with her. More power to her—elbow! The War has seen this emancipation flower in four years. Primitive people, the Australian troops for example, are saying that they will not marry English girls, because English girls like a dozen men a week. Well, who wants them to marry? Russia has already formally abrogated marriage. Germany and Fr…
1996 · PDF PAGE 182
…, as it is poison to animal, life. We have here a picture of the average man, of a fool. He has no will of his own, is all things to all men, is void, a repeater of words of whose sense he knows nought, a drifter, both idle and violent, compact partly of fierce passions that burn up both him self and the other, but mostly of inert and characterless nonentity, with a little heaviness, dullness, and stupefaction for his only positive qualities. Such are the “fools” whom we despise. The man of Thelema is vertebrate, organized, purposeful, steady,…
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… of initiation; but the above should suffice the average intelligence.) 9. Worship then the Khabs, and behold my light shed over you! Commentary: We are to pay attention to this Inmost Light; then comes the answering Light of Infinite Space. Note that the Light of Space is what men call Darkness; its nature is utterly incomprehensible to our uninitiated minds. It is the “veils” men tioned previously in this comment that obstruct the relation between Nuit and Hadit. We are not to worship the Khu, to fall in love with our Magi cal Image. To do …
1996 · PDF PAGE 151
…low thee: he shall expound it. But remember, o chosen one, to be me; to follow the love of Nu in the star-lit heaven; to look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word. 77. O be thou proud and mighty among men! Commentary: Pride is the quality of Sol, Tiphareth; Might of Mars, Geburah. Now Leo — my rising sign—combines these ideas, as does Ra-Hoor-Khuit. The Christian ideas of humility and weakness as “virtues” are natural to slaves, cowards, and defectives. The type of tailless simian who finds himself a mere forked radish in a universe of g…
1996 · PDF PAGE 122
…enable us to dispense with initiative on the one hand and actual transactions on the other. 34. But ye, o my people, rise up & awake! Commentary: We are not to calculate, to argue, to criticize; these things lead to division of will and to stagnation. They are shackles of our Going. They hamstring our Pegasus. We are to rise up—to Go—to Love—we are to be awake, alert — Joyous and eager Our tresses adorning, O let us beleaguer The City of Morning!1 1 Crowley, The World’s Tragedy (1910), p. 31, paraphrase; the original poem has “O let us away to …
1996 · PDF PAGE 35
…ew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: O Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous! 28. None, breathed the light, faint & faery, of the stars, and two. 29. For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union. 30. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. 31. For these fools of men and their woes care not thou at all…
1996 · PDF PAGE 127
128 The Law is for All 51. Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight. Commentary: There is a certain suggestion in this “purple” as connected with “eyesight”, which should reveal a certain iden tity of Hadit with the Dwarf-Soul to those who possess— eyesight! 52. 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, & …
1996 · PDF PAGE 166
…dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do this quickly! Commentary: “at them” may mean “at their house,” that is, one must “give” when one recognizes anyone as a potential king by accepting his hospitality. An alternative meaning is “in their honour.” 40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and Hadit burning in thy heart shall make swift and secure thy pen. 41. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house: all must be done well and with business way. 42. The ordeals th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 84
…icism moonshine and Magick delusion. It is manless old cats, geldings, and psychopaths, who pretend to detest Love, and persecute Free Women and Free Men. Verbotenism has gone so far in certain slave-communities that the use of wine is actually prohibited by law!! I wish here to emphasize that the Law of Thelema definitely enjoins us, as a necessary act of religion, to “drink sweet wines and wines that foam.” Any free man or woman who resides in any community where this is verboten has a choice between two duties: insurrection and emigration. T…
1996 · PDF PAGE 167
…y of the letters is done, and I want to go on to the holier place. 49. I am in a secret fourfold word, the blasphemy against all gods of men. Commentary: The evident interpretation of this is to take the word to be “Do what thou wilt,” which is a secret word, because its meaning for every man is his own inmost secret. And it is the most profound blasphemy possible against all “gods of men”, because it makes every man his own God. We may then take it that this Solar-Phallic Heru-ra-ha1 is Each Man Himself. As each independent cell in our bodies …
1996 · PDF PAGE 116
… it, stored automatically in our subconscious minds. The Intellectuals are worse than the bourgeoisie themselves; a la lanterned Give us Men! We are so caked with dirt that the germs of disease cannot reach us. If we decide to wash, we must do it well; or we may have awakened some sleeping dogs, and set them on defenseless areas. Initiation stirs up the mud. It creates unstable equilibrium. It exposes our elements to unfamiliar conditions. The France of Louis XVI had to pass through the Terror before Napoleon could teach it to find itself. Simi…
1996 · PDF PAGE 200
…figura CCXX — Chapter 1 199 whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: O Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous! 28. None, breathed the light, faint & faery, of the stars, and two. 29. For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union. 30. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. 31. For these fools of men and their woes care not thou at all…
1996 · PDF PAGE 205
204 The Law is for All 14. Now let there be a veiling of this shrine: now let the light devour men and eat them up with blindness! 15. For I am perfect, being Not; and my number is nine by the fools; but with the just I am eight, and one in eight: Which is vital, for I am none indeed. The Empress and the King are not of me; for there is a further secret. 16. I am The Empress & the Hierophant. Thus eleven, as my bride is eleven. 17. Hear me, ye people of sighing! The sorrows of pain and regret Are left to the dead and the dying, The folk that no…
1996 · PDF PAGE 178
…so rare in the past, especially with regard to love, that their occur rence has usually marked something like an epoch. Practically all men work with fear of result or lust of result, and the “child” is a dwarf or still-born. It is within the experience of most people that pleasure-parties and the like, if organized on the spur of the moment, are always a success, while the most elaborate entertainments, prepared with all possible care, often fall flat. Now one cannot exactly give rules for producing a “genius” to order, a genius in this sense…