Magick Without Tears

46 Selfishness Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Selfishness? I am glad to find you worrying that bone, for it has plenty of meat on it ; fine juicy meat, none of your Chilled Argentine or Canterbury lamb. It is a pelvis, what's more; for in a way the whole structure of the ethics of Thelema is founded upon it. There is some danger here; for the question is a booby trap for the noble , the generous, the high-minded . 'Selflessness', the great characteristic of the Master of the Temple, the very quintessence of his attainment, is not its contradictory , or even its contrary ; it is perfectly compatible (nay, shall we say friendly?) with it. The Book of the Law has plenty to say on this subject, and it does not mince its words. AL,II: 18, 19, 20, 21 : These are dead, these fellows; they feel not. We are not for the poor and the sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk . Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen; who sorroweth is not of us. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languour, force and fire, are of us. 292