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…34 The Law is for All 61. There is a light before thine eyes, o prophet, a light undesired, most desirable. 62. I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body. Commentary: “uplifted in thine heart”:—compare “The Book of the Heart Girt with a Serpent.”1 1 [“Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente sub figura LXV.”] See Equinox III(l) [(1919), and The Holy Books ofThelema (Equinox 111(9)) (1983).] 63. Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughte…
1996 · PDF PAGE 209
208 The Law is for All & rapture! Come in our passionate peace, & write sweet words for the Kings! 65. I am the Master: thou art the Holy Chosen One. 66. Write, & find ecstasy in writing! Work, & be our bed in working! Thrill with the joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our agelong love. Come! lift up thine heart & rejoice! We are one; we are none. 67. Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses! 68. Harder! Hold up thys…
1996 · PDF PAGE 175
…all the ages, and she hath tamed them thus. Her silence was the token of her triumph. But now the Word of Me the Beast is this; not only art thou Woman, sworn to a purpose not thine own; thou art thyself a star, and in thyself a purpose to thyself. Not only mother of men art thou, or whore to men; serf to their need of Life and Love, not sharing in their Light and Liberty; nay, thou art Mother and Whore for thine own pleasure; the Word I say to Man I say to thee no less: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”! Ay, priest, ay, lawyer,…
1996 · PDF PAGE 208
Liber AL vel Legis subfigura CCXX — Chapter II 207 will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but I lift thee up. 54. Nor shall they who cry aloud their folly that thou meanest nought avail; thou shall reveal it: thou availest: they are the slaves of because: They are not of me. The stops as thou wilt; the letters? change them not in style or value! 55. Thou shalt obtain the order & value of the English Alphabet; thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto. 56. Begone! ye mockers; even though ye la…
1996 · PDF PAGE 140
… swan flew and dived and soared, yet no whither we went. 20. A little crazy boy that rode with me spake unto the swan, and said: 21. Who art thou that dost float and fly and dive and soar in the inane? Behold, these many aeons have passed; whence earnest thou? Whither wilt thou go? 22. And laughing I chid him, saying: No whence! No whither! 23. The swan being silent, he answered: Then, if with no goal, why this eternal journey? 24. And I laid my head against the Head of the Swan, and laughed, saying: Is there not joy ineffable in this aimless w…
1996 · PDF PAGE 207
…of the Gods. 41. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! 42. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! 43. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! 44. Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu. 45. There is death for the dogs. 46. Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart? 47. Where I am these are not. 48. Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I c…
1996 · PDF PAGE 137
…elley, and Catullus. Liber Aleph has detailed instruction on numerous points involved in these questions. Why “eight and ninety rules of art”? I am totally unable to suggest a reason satisfactory to myself; but 90 is tzaddi, “The Emperor,” and 8, cheth, “The Charioteer” or Cup-Bearer; the phrase might then conceivably mean “with majesty.” Alterna tively, 98 = 2 x 49; now Two is the number of the Will, and Seven of the passive senses. 98 might then mean the full expansion of the senses (7 x 7) balanced against each other, and controlled firmly …
1996 · PDF PAGE 38
…wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach. Commentary: Each star is unique, and each orbit apart; indeed, that is the cornerstone of my teaching, to have no stan dard goals or standard ways, no orthodoxies and no codes. The stars are not herded and penned and shorn and made into mutton like so many voters! I decline to be bellwether, who am born a Lion! I will not be collie, who am quicker to bite than to bark. I refuse the office of shepherd, who bear not a crook but a club. Wise in your generation,…
1996 · PDF PAGE 128
Chapter II A Verses 51-58 129 53. Fear not, o prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be sorry. Thou art emphatically my chosen; and blessed are the eyes that thou shalt look upon with gladness. But I will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but I lift thee up. 54. Nor shall they who cry aloud their folly that thou meanest nought avail; thou shall reveal it: thou availest: they are the slaves of because: They are not of me. The stops as thou wilt; the letters? change them not in style or valu…
1996 · PDF PAGE 136
…says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein! Commentary: It is absurd to suppose that “to indulge the passions” is necessarily a reversion or degeneration. On the con trary, all human progress has depended on such indulgence. Every art and science is intended to gratify some fundamental need of nature. What is the ultimate use of the telephone and all the …
1996 · PDF PAGE 58
…he ordinary sense, but even to advocate it in a sense which is calculated to shock the most abandoned lib ertine, can do no less than startle and alarm the magician, and that only the more so as he is familiar with the theory and prac tice of his art. “What is this, in the name of Adonai?” I hear him exclaim: “is it not the immemorial and unchallenged tradition that the exorcist who would apply himself to the most elementary operations of our Art is bound to prepare himself by a course of chastity? Is it not notorious that virginity is by its…
1996 · PDF PAGE 126
…then Wit to find the Cause of this Pain in the Sense of Separation, and its Cessation by the Union of Love, it is the Summit of our Holy Art to present the whole Being of our Star to Our Lady in the Nuptial of our Bodily Death. We are then to make our whole Engine the true and real Appurte nance of our Force, without Leak, or Friction, or any other Waste or Hindrance to its Action. Thou knowest well how an Horse, or even a Machine propelled by a Man’s Feet, becometh as it were an Extension of the Rider, through his Skill and Custom. Thus let t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 142
…med by my doctors to die in my teens, into a robust ruffian who throve on every kind of hardship and exposure. On the contrary, every department of life in which, from dis taste or laziness, I did not “exceed”, is constantly crippling me in one way or another—and I recognize with savage remorse that the weakness which I could have corrected so easily in my twen ties is in my forties an incurably chronic complaint. 72. Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly mine—and doubt it not, an if thou art ever joyous!—death is the crown of all. Comme…
1996 · PDF PAGE 71
…nt, accept the fact, acquiesce in the foulness, till Love is degraded to guilty grov elling. They are dragged in the dirt of the night-cart which ought to have been their “chariot of fire and the horses thereof.”1 1 [II Kings 2:11, paraphrase.] This whole trouble comes from humanity’s horror of Love. For the last hundred years, every first-rate writer on morals has sent forth his lightnings and thunders, hailstones and coals of fire, to burn up Gomorrah and Sodom where Love is either shameful and secret, or daubed with dung of sentiment in ord…
1996 · PDF PAGE 45
…ned. It is unnatural to aim at any goal. The student is referred to “Liber LXV,” Cap. II, v. 24, and to the Tao Te Ching.1 This becomes particularly important in high grades. One is not to do Yoga, etc., in order to get samadhi, like a schoolboy or a shopkeeper; but for its own sake, like an artist. 1 [For “Liber LXV” with Crowley’s commentary, and his translation of the Tao Te Ching, see Works Cited.] 2 [These are definitions of “assuaged,” not “unassuaged.”] “unassuaged” means “its edge taken off by” or “dulled by.”1 2 The pure student does n…
1996 · PDF PAGE 294
… the dying god 89 Aphrodite 84, 85 Apollo 52,63,84,85 oracle of 92 Aquarius 78 Archimedes 82 Ares 181 Armida 171 Arnold, Matthew 112,113 art 53.65,70,72,74,104,111-112.137, 141,179,180,184 artists 107-109,111 112 Asar 46,126 Astarte 53 astral plane 67,126 astral vision T7 astronomers 123 Atthis 63 Attis 30,47 Atum (Turn) 166,192 Augceides 163 Australia 43 Babaion 37,172 Bacchus 151 Bacchus Diphues 30 Bach, Johann Sebastian 66 Baphomet 30 baptism 30 Baudelaire, Charles 65 Beardsley, Aubrey 66 293
1996 · PDF PAGE 183
…ll “the royal”: these are the men whose nature is kingly, the men who “can.” They know themselves born rulers, whether their halidom1 be Art, or Science, or aught else soever. 1 [A holy place or sanctuary.] “the lofty”: these are the men who, being themselves high hearted, endure not any baseness. 59. As brothers fight ye! Commentary: Fight! Fight like gentlemen, without malice, because fighting is the best game in the world, and love the second best! Don’t slander your enemy, as the newspapers would have you do; just kill him, and then bury h…
1996 · PDF PAGE 176
…o many unfortunate people; proper precaution against actual dangers will replace unnecessary and absurd precautions against imaginary or artificial dangers; and the quacks who trade on fear will be put out of business. All this must follow as the Light the night as soon as Woman, true to Herself, finds that She can no longer be false to any man. She must hold Herself and Her Will in honour; and She must compel the world to accord it. The modern woman is not going to be dupe, slave, and victim any more; the woman who gives herself up freely to h…
1996 · PDF PAGE 35
36 The Law is for All bending down, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth, & her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body. 27. Then the priest answered & said unto the Queen of Space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: O Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let…
1996 · PDF PAGE 177
…e, which originally forced her to blaspheme against herself, and so degraded her in her own eyes, and in his. Let him attend to his own particular business, to redeem himself—he has surely his hands full! Woman will save herself if she be but left alone to do it. I see it! I, the Beast, who have seen—who see—Space splendid with stars; who have seen—who see—the Body of our Lady Nuit, all-pervading; and therein swallowed up, to have found—to find—no soul that is not wholly of Her. Woman! thou drawest us upward and onward for ever; and every woman…