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… Majesty. But within the blare of the tempest sounds a Voice steady and stern, yet full of peace and kindliness: 4. The Necessity of the Universe is the Measure of thy Righteousness. Now follows martial music, wild and full of the rushing of Fire: 5. The Movement of the Universe is the Fulfilment of thine Energy. And this is blended with the echo of all former voices and their music, so that the whole Abyss is filled with their orchestration to one Symphony. 6. The Order of the Universe is the Expression of thy Rapture of Beauty. This fades awa…
1938 · PDF PAGE 15
III. This is the Harmony of the Universe, that Love unites the Will to create with the Understanding of that Creation: understand thou thine own Will! Love and let love! Rejoice in every shape of love, and get thy rapture 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 w…
1938 · PDF PAGE 17
…d! Be every Act a Source of radiant Glory! XXI. Treat time and all conditions of Event as Servants of thy Will, appointed to present the Universe to thee in the form of thy Plan.
1938 · PDF PAGE 19
…of the Wind among the pines upon the Hill; and that is the breath of the Pan-pipe in the mouth of the Master. And, all in one, it is the Universe in manifestation. Also: I hear the Seven-fold Song thereof. Carmen. By Wisdom forms He matter and space and time, Experience to sublime. By Virtue spends He His own life through all; Mercy majestical. By Energy revolves He all in stress Of Change, the limitless. By Order gathers He the worlds of Light In Beauty infinite. By Love destroys He all to recreate Fresh Phantasies to Fate. By Reason reckons H…
1938 · PDF PAGE 16
… Let not the waters whereon thou journeyest wet thee! And, being come to shore, plant thou the Vine and rejoice without shame. XIII. The Universe is Change: every Change is the effect of an Act of Love; all Acts of Love contain Pure Joy. Die daily! Death is the apex of one curve of the snake Life: behold all opposites as necessary complements, and rejoice! XIV. Pour thine all freely from the Vase in thy right hand, and lose no drop! Hath not thy left hand a vase? Transmute all wholly into the Image of thy Will, bringing each to its true token o…
1938 · PDF PAGE 24
…sh the first. Then said my guide: It is well. Learn this also, a great Mystery and wonderful, that all conflict between the parts of the Universe springs from this error, and none other. For in our infinite Space (which is nothing but 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 firs…
1938 · PDF PAGE 25
… 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 (and therefore a noble) part of the Whole. In a word he who accepts not the Law of Thelema is divided against himself: that is, he is insane, and the upshot shall be the ruin of the Unity of his Godhead. Yet hearken again; the opposition of two movements is not always evidence of conflict or error. For two oppo…