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THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES The man of right is Cain who kills Abel from envy; the man of duty is Abel who dies for Cain for love. And such has been the mission of Christ, the great Abel of humanity. It is not for right that we should dare all, it is for duty. Duty is the expansion and the enjoyment of liberty; isolated right is the father of slavery. Duty is devotion ; right is selfishness. Duty is sacrifice; right is theft and rapine. Duty is love, and right is hate. Duty is infinite life; right is eternal death. If one must fight to conquer rig…
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… galvanize Israel, slain by the Pharisees, into life, he will resurrect the world given over to the dead worship of idols. Christ is the right to do one’s duty. Man has the right to do his duty, and he has no other right. O Man! thou hast the right to resist even unto death any who prevents thee from doing thy duty. Mother! Thy child is drowning; a man prevents thee from helping him; thou strikest this man, thou dost run to save thy son! . . . Who, then, will dare to condemn thee? Christ came to oppose the right of duty to the duty of right. ‘R…
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THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES The basis of society is the exchange of right, duty and good faith. Right is property, exchange is necessity, good faith is duty. He who wants to receive more than he gives, or who wants to receive without giving, is a thief. Property is the right to dispose of a portion of the com- mon wealth; it is not the right to destroy, nor the right to sequestrate. To destroy or sequestrate the common wealth is not to possess; it is to steal. I say common wealth, because the true proprietor of all things is God, who wishes all th…
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…s. Every man who dies of starvation is a martyr, for he is like a soldier struck down in the battle of life. Those who die in defence of right are as holy in their sacrifice as the victims of duty, and in the great struggles and revolutions against power, martyrs fell equally on both sides. Right being the root of duty, our duty is to defend our rights. What is a crime? The exaggeration of a right. Murder 1 A mistranslation by monotheists. The Greek is veda 6 Oedg: “Spirit is God.”—TRANS, 43
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…hunders, and affronted every abyss! Intelligence, O Thou, whom we poor sinners have loved to madness, to scandal, to reprobation! Divine right of man, essence and soul of liberty, hail unto thee! For they have pursued thee, in trampling beneath their feet for thee the dearest dreams of their imagination, the best beloved phantoms of their heart ! For thee, they have been repulsed and proscribed, for thee they have suffered prison, nakedness, hunger, thirst, the desertion of those whom they loved, and the dark temptations of despair! Thou wast t…
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… religious dogma? A. Yes; it is a rigorous consequence of a principle. Q. What is this principle? A. Liberty. Q. What is liberty? A. The right to do one’s duty, with the possibility of not doing it. Q. What is failing in one’s duty? A. It involves the loss of one’s right. Now, right being eternal, to lose it is to suffer an eternal loss. Q. Can one repair a fault? a. Yes; by expiation. Q. What is expiation ? A. Working overtime. Thus, because I was lazy yester- day, I had to do a double task to-day. Q. What are we to think of those who impose o…
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THE EQUINOX The loser has again the right to challenge by putting up the amount of the increased pool, a third card being drawn and the hands finally decided on the above principle. (Example: Deuce of Hearts, Deuce of Spades and Three of Spades beat Deuce of Diamonds, Deuce of Clubs and Ace of Hearts.] The banker's advantage is in getting the first card free, but if he challenge he must put up the amount of the pool. If the player with the lowest card fail to challenge, his right passes to the player with the next lowest card, and so on, till e…
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…ndicible and incommunicable letters of the occult tetragram, that eternal formula of the Great Arcanum, G.°. A.’. “The two points on the right represent force, as those on the left symbolize love, and the four letters should be read from right to left, beginning by the right-hand upper corner, and going thence to the left-hand lower corner, and so for the others, making the cross of St. Andrew. “The suppression of the two left-hand points expresses the negation of the cross, the negation of mercy and of love. “The affirmation of the absolute re…
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…at the price of infamy, he will make use of it to submit himself to eternal order, inaugurating thus the glories of voluntary obedience. Right is only the root of duty; one must possess in order to give. This is how a lofty and profound poetry explains the fall of the angels. God hath given to His spirits light and life; then He said to them: “Love!” “What is—to love?” replied the spirits. “To love is to give oneself to others,” replied God. “Those who love will suffer, but they will be loved.” “We have the right to give nothing, and we wish to…
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…pelled witnesses of the eternal impotence of doubt. It is, then, against faith itself that the Reformation pro- tested! Protestants were right only in their protest against the inconsiderate and persecuting zeal which wished to force consciences. They claimed the right to doubt, the right to have less religion than others, or even to have none at all; they have shed their blood for that sad privilege; they conquered it, they possess it; but they will not take away from us that of pitying them, and loving them. When the need to believe again tak…
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…, there is the Providence of God, and the sacrifice of man. Q. What is this sacrifice? A. It is the willing and spontaneous surrender of right. Q.. Is this sacrifice reasonable? A. No; it is a kind of folly greater than reason, for reason is forced to admire it. Q. How does one call a man who acts according to truth, reality, reason and justice? A. A moral man. g. And if he sacrifices his interests to justice? a. A man of honour. g. Andif in order to imitate the grandeur and goodness of Providence he does more than his duty, and sacrifices his …
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…renascent, the lovely star of dawn. Liberty is not licence, for licence is tyranny. Liberty is the guardian of duty, because it reclaims right. Lucifer, of whom the dark ages have made the genius of 1 Right—‘droit —a word much in evidence at the time, with no true English equivalent, save in such phrases as ‘the right to work. By itself it is only used in the plural, which will not do here, and throughout this treatise —TRANs. 23
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…T. In the family circle: JOHN [to his brother]. Now, Albert, I should like you to take some flowers to Mother for a present. ALBERT. All right. [Zhey enter shop.) JOHN. Here’s the money. ALBERT. All right. [They reach home.] JOHN. Now you go in all by yourself and say, “Here are some flowers for you, Mother.” I will wait outside. ALBERT. All right. [Wizthin.] Here are some flowers for you, Mother ! MOTHER. Oh, thank you, Albert, how beautiful! FATHER. Very kindly thought of, my son!
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THE EQUINOX Christ is the soul of protest. But the protest of what? Of the flesh against the intelligence? Nol Of right against duty? No! Of the physical against the moral? No! No! Of imagination against universal reason? Of folly against wisdom? No,a thousand times No, and once more No! Christ is the reality, duty, which protests eternally against the ideality, right. He is the emancipation of the spirit which breaks the slavery of the flesh. He is devotion in revolt against egoism. He is the sublime modesty which replies to pride: “I will not…
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…thus deuce of clubs beats ace of spades, deuce of diamonds ace of clubs, and so on). The cards are shuffled by any player who claims the right to do so, and cut to the banker by the player on his right. Every player except the banker stakesa sovereign (or other unit agreed upon). The banker deals a card? in rotation to each player, face upwards. The pool goes to the player with the highest card. The player with the lowest card has the privilege of “challenging,” by putting up the amount of the pool. He and the winner then each draw a card. High…
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…creator an idolater; he is obliged to believe in it, and worship it. Our spirit should be silent before Him, and our heart alone has the right to give Him a name: Our Father!
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THE EQUINOX right to regard as your enemies those who speak to your flock | Flocks who know yet only your shepherds, and who wish to remain ignorant of their dealings with the butchers, it is excusable that you should stone them who humiliate you and disturb you, in speaking to you of your rights. O Christ! The authorities condemn Thee, Thy disciples deny Thee, the people curses Thee, and demands Thy murder ; only Thy mother weeps for Thee, even God abandons Thee! “Eli! Eli! lama sabachthani!” VII THE SEPTENARY Tue Septenary is the great biblic…
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THE EQUINOX The brethren present having proved their right to sit, speak and vote, Brother Quilliam called the Convocation to order, and called upon Brother Crowley to read the summons, a copy of which is here appended. This was done. Brother Crowley remarked that no written protest against the present Convocation had been received from any Prince Patriarch, and that it might therefore be taken that no question could hereafter be raised as to the legality of the Convocation. Brother Crowley proposed, and Bro. Theodor Reuss seconded, that Bro. H…
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…ichrist.” The Antichrist isno more the Pope than Luther; the Antichrist is the spirit opposed to that of Christ. It is the usurpation of right for the sake of right; it is the pride of domination and the despotism of thought. It is the selfishness, self-styled religious, of Protestants, as well as the credulous and imperious ignorance of bad Catholics. The Antichrist is what divides men instead of uniting them; it is a spirit of dispute, the obstinacy of theologians and sectarians, the impious desire of appropriating the truth to oneself, and e…
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…f of obedience, joy of sorrow, life of death, hail! Salutation and glory to thee! If intelligence is a lamp, thou art its flame; ifit is right, thou art duty; if it is nobility, thou art happiness. Love, full of pride and modesty in thy mysteries, divine love, hidden love, love insensate and sublime, Titan who takest Heaven in both hands, and forcest it to earth, final and ineffable secret of Christian widowhood, love eternal, love infinite, ideal which would suffice to create worlds ; love! love! blessing and glory to thee! Glory to the intell…