THE SEVEN PORTALS
is to hunger-strike, and wear the blue ribbon, and give up
smoking. The first paragraph of this verse rather means
that filling of the cup of Babalon with every drop of blood,
which is explained in Liber 418.
The higher Ego—“Holy Isle’”—is not the thinking self;
it is the ‘“Dwarf-Self,” the self which is beyond thinking.
The aspirant is now in fact beyond all thought, and this talk
of building high the wall or dam is too much like poetry to
be good sense. What it means is, “Beware lest the re-
awakened Ego, the Chiah, should become self-conscious, as
it is liable to do owing to its wedding with Neshamah.”
Or, shall we say, with Nephesh? For the organism has
now been brought to perfect harmony in all its parts. The
Adept has a strong, healthy, vigorous body, and a mind no
less perfect; he is a very different person from the feeble
emasculate cabbage-chewing victim of anzemia, with its
mind which has gained what it calls emancipation by for-
getting how to think. Little as it ever knew! Not in such
may one find the true Adept. Read Liber Legis, Chap. II.,
verse 24, and learn where to look for hermits.
55. A sense of pride would mar the work. Aye, build it
strong, lest the fierce rush of battling waves, that mount and
beat its shore from out the great World Maya’s Ocean,
swallow up the pilgrim and the isle—yea, even when the
victory’s achieved.
We now perceive more clearly the meaning of this pas-
sage. Just as the man, in order to conquer the woman, used
restraint, so also must this true Soul restrain itself, even at
this high stage, although it gives itself completely up. Al-
though it creates without thought and without desire, let it
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