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Page 60 of 731996 · PDF PAGE 51
52 The Law is for All Everyone should discover, by experience of every kind, the extent and intention of his own sexual Universe. He must be taught that all roads are equally royal, and that the only question for him is “Which road is mine?” All details are equally likely to be of the essence of his personal plan, all equally “right” in them selves, his own choice of the one as correct as, and independent of, his neighbour’s preference for the other. He must not be ashamed or afraid of being homosexual if he happens to be so at heart; he must …
1996 · PDF PAGE 109
110 The Law is for All speed.”1 Any one who is doing his true Will is drunk with the delight of Life. 1 [A paraphrase of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound ii, 4.] 2 [William Ashley (Billy) Sunday (1862-1935), baseball player turned Revivalist preacher, noted for his flamboyant style and crusading zeal.] Wine and strange drugs do not harm people who are doing their will; they only poison people who are cancerous with Origi nal Sin. In Latin countries, where Sin is not taken seriously, and sex-expression is simple, wholesome, and free, d…
1904 · PDF PAGE 126
…The rest lies with Research. Aum ! I take my refuge holy in the Light and Peace of Buddh. Aum ! I take my refuge, slowly working out His Law of Good. Aum ! I take my refuge lowly in His Pitying Brotherhood.
1922 · PDF PAGE 208
… the hospital to get them to give him some H., but they hadn’t dared to do it.. They were suffering from a sense of insult about the new law, the Diabolical Dope Act. They had undergone a long and expensive training and had diplomas which made them responsible for the héalth of the community ; and now they weren’t allowed to prescribe for their own patients. It was natural enough that they should be indignant.
1930 · PDF PAGE 36
…re of Babalon and The Beast, the earthly emissaries of those Gods. ShT is the dynamic équivalent of LA and AL. S h shows the Word of the Law, being triple, as 93 is thrice 31. T shows the formula of Magick declared in that Word; the Lion, the Serpent, the Sun, Courage and Sexual Love are ail indicated by the card. In LA note that Saturn or Satan is exalted in the House of Venus or Astarte, and it is an airy sign. Thus L is Father-Mother, Two and Naught, and the Spirit (Holy Ghost) of their Love is also Naught. Love is AHBH, 13, which is AChD, U…
1996 · PDF PAGE 110
…, restriction, sin, in its vilest form. I love my neighbour because love makes him part of me; not because hate divides him from me. Our law is so simple that it constantly approximates to truism. “The exposure of innocence”. Exposure means “putting out,” as in a shop-window. The pretense of altruism and so-called vir tue “is a lie”; it is the hypocrisy of the Puritan, which is hideously corrupting both to the hypocrite and to his victim. To “lust” is to grasp continually at fresh aspects of Nuit. It is the mistake of the vulgar to expect to f…
1996 · PDF PAGE 121
122 The Law is for All cease to rave. What is so unreasonable as man? The only Because in the lover’s litany is Because I love you. We want no skeleton syllogisms at our symposium of souls. Philosophically, “Because” is absurd. There is no answer to the question “Why.” The greatest thinkers have been sceptics or agnostics: omnia exeunt in mysterium, and summa scientia nihil scire are old commonplaces.1 In my essays “Truth” (in Konx Om Pax), “The Soldier and the Hunchback,” “Eleusis” and others, I have offered a detailed demonstration of the sel…
1930 · PDF PAGE 30
…nternai or external necessity. His work is to destroy ail tendencies to construct or to cancel such necessities. He is the Master of the Law of Unsubstan- tiality (Anatta). The Ipsissimus has no relation as such with any Being : He has no will in any direction, and no Consciousness of any kind involving duality, for in Him ail is accomplished; as it is written “beyond the Word and the Fool, yea, beyond the Word and the Fool”. 5. The Grade of Magus is described in Liber I vel Magi, and there are accounts of its character in Liber 418 in the High…
1954 · PDF PAGE 203
… Unicursal Hexagram. So much for the Weapons! Now, as to your personal accoutrements, Robe, Lamen, Sandals and the like, The Book of the Law has most thoughtfully simplified matters for us. "I charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe , and covered with a rich head-dress." (AL , I: 61.) The Robe may well be in the form of the Tau Cross; i.e., expanding from axilla to ankle, and from shoulder to-whatever you call the place where your hands come out. (Shape well shown in the illustration Magick , face p. 380.) You being a Probatione…
1996 · PDF PAGE 31
32 The Law is for All side by the letter of Air, and followed by the letter of Fire twice over. 8. The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs. Commentary: We are not to regard ourselves as base beings, without whose sphere is Light or “God.” Our minds and bodies are veils of the Light within. The uninitiate is a “Dark Star,” and the Great Work for him is to make his veils transparent by “puri fying” them. This “purification” is really “simplification”; it is not that the veil is dirty, but that the complexity of its folds makes it opaqu…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…ich seems so “inscrutably infinité” and “absurd” and “immoral”, etc. — because we hâve not studied it long enough to appreciate that its laws are identical with our own, though extended to new conceptions. The discovery of radioactivi'ty created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interprétation of the old ideas. It dispersed many difficultés, harmonized many discords, and — yea, more! It shewed the substance of the Universe as a simplicity of Light and Life, possessed of limitless liberty to enjoy Love by co…
1996 · PDF PAGE 18
…e fulfilment of individual life. Until the old twilight tabus have been killed, there is no certain hope for the future. The Book of the Law deals them and their issue a mortal blow. It sets in their place a gospel which, it is true, makes high demands, but which is valid for the achievement of the heart’s desire; for the satisfaction of our dolorous and aching needs; for the building of a true and enduring City of God. Louis Umfraville Wilkinson London, 1946 E.v.
1919 · PDF PAGE 402
… at last arisen; it is the Master Therion—The Beast—666—the Logos of the A2on—whose Word is “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” 80
1929 · PDF PAGE 134
…rue, and find himself magically pledged to a gang of rascals, so much the worse for him! 1. This results from the full acceptance of the Law of THELEMA, persistently put into practice. 2. P. S. With the happiest results. P. 3. Yet one might devise methods of execution appropriate to the Weapons : Stabbing or clubbing for the Lance or Wand, Drowning or poîsoning for the Cup, Beheading for the Sword, Crushing for the Disk, Burning for the Lamp, and so forth. 4. The Serpent is not realîy killed; it is seethed in an appropriate 98
1954 · PDF PAGE 348
…e. More, it did not correlate Yoga with general philosophy. Eight Lectures have, I believe, remedied this. As to Part IV The Book of the Law section, the idea was that the volume should comply with the instructions given in AL, III: 39. "All this and a book to say how thou didst come hither and a reproduction of this ink and paper for ever-for
1996 · PDF PAGE 93
94 The Law is for All “Matter in Motion,” although absolute motion through space is a meaningless expression.1 Nonetheless, every point in the cube— there are 2K° of them—has an unique relation with every point in the circle exactly balanced against an equal and opposite relation. We have thus Matter that both is and is not, Motion that both moves and moves not, interacting in a variety of ways which is infinite to manifest individuals, each of which is unlike any other, yet is symmetrically supported by its counterpart. Note that even at the c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
…lah, which corresponds to mathematics and geometry. The method of operation in Magick is based on this, in very much the same way as the laws of mechanics are based on mathematics. So far, therefore as we can be be said to possess a magical theory of the universe, it must be a matter solely of fundamental law, with a J* Knowledge is, moreover, an impossible conception. Ali propositions corne ultimately back to “A is A”. 9 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 121
…as the school- men of old believed, making ail things for man’s benefit or convenience, but the essential mechanical concord whose final law is inertie. And in these méditations let him avoid as if it were the plague any spéculations sentimental or fantastic. 32. Second Method. The Practice Proper. — Having then perfected in his mind these conceptions, let him apply them to his own career, forging the links of memory into the chain of necessity. And let this be his final question: To what purpose am I fitted ? Of what service can my being prove…
1996 · PDF PAGE 98
…ng out with joyful crescendo. The alternative is that the verse contains some Qabalistic proof of the authority of Aiwaz to lay down the law in so auto cratic a manner. Just so, one might add weight to one’s quotation from Sappho, in the English, by following it up with the original Greek. The absence of all capital letters favours this theory. Simply enough, the solution begins with the idea that the small initial of “because” would be explained by a colon preceding it instead of a note of interrogation, which may have been due to my haste, i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 98
…Edom. 4. See Poincaré for the mathematical proof of this thesis. But Spiritual Expérience goes yet deeper, and destroys the Canon of the Law of Contradiction. There is an immense amount of work by the Master Therion on this subject; it pertains especially to His grade of 90 = 2°. Such profundities are unsuited to the Student, and may unsettle him seriously. It will be best for him to consider (provisionally) Truth in the sense in which it is taken by Physical Sicence. 62