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… my blood throbbing with poison. But the shambles is now dimly to be seen. What? Can the Voice have spoken Truth after all? Is then that Star a Sun, whose light is at last piercing the foul mists of massacre, whose heat is forcing the congealed miasma to steam skyward in those murky banks of dim grey cloud? Hark! Yes, the few that are still alive have seen what rouses them to lift their crippled arms, to star with blear bloodshot eyes, to jabber with broken jaw-bones and torn tongues. For Christ's sake, screams an emasculate rag of flesh, do…
1938 · PDF PAGE 6
Vox. The captain cries: Behold, the Star in the West! Instant on that comes silence. But among us the sudden stirring warns me that not all were sleeping; that there were watchers like myself, men more intent than I. I hear a murmur on my left. I catch three words: The Zero Hour. They call me back to myself: I know now that I am one of a great armyan 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 ini…
1938 · PDF PAGE 18
And: blessing and worship to the prophet of the lovely Star! The shadows suddenly faded as the clouds vanished from the sky; and there is no more writing on the Heavens, for that which was written was graven upon mine Heart. The Four Virtues of the Heart of the Master. LIGHT is throned in the Heart of the Master, so that he thinks no evil. For in that Light all is Truth. Falsehood is but a function of the conditions of Time and Space, and the idea of evil comes only from perceiving the oppositions which are transcended by Truth. So each thing t…
1938 · PDF PAGE 8
…so this: all these poor dead men that lay about me had been slain by their own fear, their fault of faith in deeming that the Sunor any Starcould die. And now I, who had only felt the fear of that figure, feel the fascination. I understand that Hewhoever, whatever He may beis He for whom we all so long had waited. As I fix my eyes upon it, I become aware that its blackness against the light of the Star is only relative; and as I gain confidence in my sight, that darkness goes. The figure is a prism of pure crystalit is the distortion and i…
1938 · PDF PAGE 22
…e, with curling locks and ruddy, and her breasts were of bright ivory, and her gait the gait of a young lioness. Upon her brows flamed a Star Sapphire, and on her cheek was a stark scar, a circle deep and splendid. In whose hands was a writing; and smiling she put it into mine. Now I knew not by what name to thank her for this courtesy: which understanding, she told me: My name is The Star of the North.
1938 · PDF PAGE 19
…ll. 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.
1938 · PDF PAGE 15
…apture and thy nourishment thereof! IV. Pour water on thyself: thus shalt thou be a Fountain to the Universe. Find thou thyself in every Star! Achieve thou every possibility! V. Offer thyself Virgin to the Knowledge and Conversation of thine Holy Guardian Angel! All else is a snare. Be thou athlete with the eight limbs of Yoga; for without these thou are not disciplined for any fight. VI. The Oracle of the Gods is the Child-Voice of Love in thine own Soul! hear thou it! Heed not the Siren-Voice of Sense, or the Phantom-Voice of Reason: rest in …
1938 · PDF PAGE 10
…n of Will of the Master, begetter, destroyer! The Voice of the Pelican. I A O : all that liveth is blood of the Heart of the Master: all stars are at Feast on that Pasture, abiding in Light. The Voice of the Dove. H R I L I U : there is nothing too small, or too great, or too low, or too high; but all things are joined into Joy by the Love of the Master. The Voice of the Ibis. A B R A H A D A B R A : all ways are alike, being endless, eternally coiling in curves of ineffable wonder; each Star has its course, by the manifold musings that move in…
1938 · PDF PAGE 24
…t our boundless range of possibilities) there is no need that any one should push his fellow aside. As there is room in Heaven for every Star to pass upon its Way unchallenged, so also with those Stars 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 nee…
1938 · PDF PAGE 25
… also thine, do thou add thy little strength to His great might. As it is written: And blessing and worship to the Prophet of the lovely Star! Thou, thereforego on, go on in my strength, saith the Lord of the Aeon, and ye shall turn not back for any. While he thus spoke, I felt constantly in myself a cleansing of heart; and my stature was increased, because of the straightening of my nature. And as I thought thus, mine instructor, perceiving it, smiled upon me saying: In truth, O Khaled Khan, O child of the dawn of the Aeon, thou hast divined …