The Heart of the Master
…bsolves He all His Will From every image of Ill. In Silence He resumes each perfect part To rapture of His Heart, His, in whose Truth of Nature all things are, The Still and Shining Star.
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…bsolves He all His Will From every image of Ill. In Silence He resumes each perfect part To rapture of His Heart, His, in whose Truth of Nature all things are, The Still and Shining Star.
…l to them. And he most hindereth 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 it…
…g only exists, and is all things. After a pause of deeply-rooted Silence: 00. There is no limit. Silence again, as if the very bowels of Nature were thrilled with stillness: 0. The Sum of All is Boundless Light. Now there is suddenly a gathering together of the essence of Silence; it is as if focussed at a Point: 1. Thou art that which thou choosest to think thyself, immune to all, for it is nothing but a Point of View. Now there bursts forth a Wave of Light and there falls forth in majesty of Thunder: 2. Thy Name, which is thy Word, is the sub…
…afloat in the Aethyr. The Voice of the Phoenix. A L : not to be burned, not to be quenched, the Soul of the Master bathes in the Fire of Nature, and is refreshed.
… 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 year. Now, this great Formula being fulfilled, and turned…
… sin. Now did I understand that all men live in sin, being baulked of their True Will, that is, of the free function of their essential nature. This restriction cometh much from their ignorance of what their True Will is, and much from external hindrance, but most of all from the interference of ill-controlled parts of their own instruments, the body and mind. For Freedom is not found in looseness and lack of governance, but in the right ruling of each individual of the common weal so as to assure his own well-being no less than that of the wh…