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Page 1 of 11938 · PDF PAGE 20
… that Vision and received this Voice upon the Holy Hill of Sidi Bou Said, in the country now called Tunisia, but from of old sacred with many sanctities. Thus far it is permitted me to speak freely of that which came to me in my long search for the True Wisdom; but to me in my long search for the True Wisdom; but to declare the Mode of mine Initiation, whereby I gained ingress to the Place called the Temple of Truth (but by some Dar-el-Jalal) it is forbidden. Nor may I disclose in what land that House is to be found, more openly than to say: It…
1938 · PDF PAGE 16
IX. Wander alone; bearing the Light and thy Staff! And be the Light so bright that no man seeth thee! Be not moved by aught without or within: keep Silence in all ways! X. Follow thy Fortune, careless where it lead thee! The axle moveth not: attain thou that! XI. Mitigate Energy with Love; but let Love devour all things. Worship the name _______*, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, and the name of His House 418. (*This Name to be communicated to those worthy of that Initiation.) XII. Let not the waters whereon thou journeyest wet thee! And, being c…
1938 · PDF PAGE 14
…, He sendeth forth His Will, that, casting shadows on the clouds of Life, may be half read by him whose eyes are lightened enough by the manhood of his love. Thus then do I learn how best to make myself fit to fulfil my Life, in the Life of the Master, and offer my blood to His Heart. 0. Know Naught! All ways are lawful to Innocence. Pure folly is the Key to Initiation. Silence breaks into Rapture. Be neither man nor woman, but both in one. Be silent, Babe in the Egg of Blue, that thou mayest grow to bear the Lance and Graal! Wander alone, and …
1938 · PDF PAGE 23
And this was the Proclamation: TO MAN Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. My Term of Office upon the Earth being come in the year of the foundation of the Theosophical Society, I took upon myself, in my turn, the sin of the whole World, that the Prophecies might be fulfilled, so that Mankind may take the Next Step from the Magical Formula of Osiris to that of Horus. And mine Hour being now upon me, I proclaim my Law. The Word of the Law is ¸ µ»· ¼±. Given in the midst of the Mediterranean Sea An XX Sol in 3° Libra die Jovis by me ¤…
1938 · PDF PAGE 18
…possible form inane or inert; in him do all partake the sacrament of birth to Truth. LIBERTY leaps in the Heart of the Master; for every man and every woman is a star. Each follows, free and joyful, its own Will; for every Will alike has its essential function in the rhythm of the Heart of the Master. No star can stray from its self-chosen course: for in the infinite soul of space all ways are endless, all-embracing: perfect. LOVE burns in the Heart of the Master: he, seeing only God in every thing, with the white flame of worship purges it of …
1938 · PDF PAGE 7
… sake, screams an emasculate rag of flesh, don't look at that damned Star! We're lost, another squeals. The Beast! yells a third: maniac. I too am appalled not a little. For on the moving fumes crawl monstrous and hideous shapesfrightful forms, detestable gestures. All past belief for loathsomeness: filling my mortal spirit with delirious fear. Beholding them, the wounded writhe in deadly anguish. Some crazily catch up the filth in which they are already half sunk to throw it at the spectre, thereby only to smear themselves more thickly…
1938 · PDF PAGE 6
…an army baffled and broken, but yet in being. Sharp comes a whisper of swift absolute authority: Zero is Two. Somehow I am awarelike a man stricken of lightning, in the same moment slain and initiatedthat the strange phrase declares a final Mystery of Truth, the word of the Plan of Battle, the Key of the Campaign. But in my mind its meaning is most utter darkness. Again the solemn stillness. Few were they who had heard the voice of the young captain: for the sleep of all but the youngest and strongest was the sleep of death. Even of these th…
1938 · PDF PAGE 22
…hidden from me. Then was I shewn the Mystery of the Words: how in the first period of recorded history men thought that life came from Woman alone, and worked by the Formula of Isis, worshipping Nature chaste and kindly, not understanding Death, or the Arcanum of Love. So, when the time was ripe, appeared the Brethren of the Formula of Osiris, whose word is I A O; so that men worshipped Man, thinking him subject to Death, and his victory dependent upon Resurrection. Even so conceived they of the Sun as slain and reborn with every day, and every…
1938 · PDF PAGE 24
…s of Earth, which go masked as men and women. Know therefore that this Law of Thelema Do what thou wilt is the first Law ever given to man which is a true Law for all men in every place and time. All earlier Laws have been partial, according to the faith of the hearer, or the customs of a people, or the philosophy of their sages. Nor is there need, with this Law of Thelema, of threats or promises: for the Law fulfilleth itself, so that the one reward is
1938 · PDF PAGE 25
…reth himself who hindereth others from their Path, or who constraineth them to some motion improper to their Nature. Note also this that many men, feeling themselves the bitterness of Restriction, seek to relieve their own pain by imposing a like burden upon their fellows: as it were a cripple who should seek ease by mutilating the bearers of his carriage. Also, to deny the Law of Thelema is a restriction in oneself, affirming conflict in the Universe as necessary. It is a blasphemy against the Self, assuming that its Will is not a necessary (a…