Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

I also am a Star in Space, unique and self-existent, an individual essence incorruptible; I also am 011e Soûl; I am identical with Ail and None. I am in Ail and ail in Me; I am, apart from ail and lord of ail, and one with ail. I am a God, î very God of very God; I go upon my way to work my will; I hâve made matter and motion for my mirror; I hâve decreed for my delight that Nothingness should figure itself as twain, that I might dream a dance of names and natures, and enjoy the substance of simplicity by watching the wanderings of my shadows. I am not that which is not; I know not that which knows not; I love not that which loves not. For I am Love, whereby division dies in delight; I am Knowledge, whereby ail parts, plunged in the whole, perish and pass into perfection; and I am that I am, the being wherein Being is lost in Nothing, nor deigns to be but by its Will to unfold its nature, its need to express its perfection in ail possibilités, each phase a partial phantasm, and yet inévitable and absolute. I am Omniscient, for naught exists for me unless I know it. I am Omnipotent, for naught occurs save by Necessity my soûl s expression through my will to be, to do, to suffer the symbols of itself. I am Omniprésent, for naught exists where I am not, who fashioned space as a condition of my consciousness of myself, who am the centre of ail, and my circumference the frame of mine own fancy. I am the Ail, for ail that exists for me is a necessary expression in thought of some tendency of my nature, and ail my thoughts are only the letters of my Name. I am the One, for ail that I am is not the absolute Ail, and ail my ail is mine and not another’s; mine, who conceive of others like myself in essence and truth, yet unlike in expression and illusion. I am the None, for ail that I am is the imperfect image of the perfect; each partial phantom must perish in the clasp of its coun- terpart; each form fulfil itself by finding its equated opposite, and satisfying its need to be the Absolute by the attainment of annihila¬ tion. The word, LAShTAL includes ail this. LA — Naught. ~ 335 ~