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…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 thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep—die! 69. Ah! Ah! What do I feel? Is the word exhausted? 70. There is h…
1996 · PDF PAGE 146
… and against the individuals in question to hinder the gambler, the drunkard, the voluptuary, the congenital defective, from drifting to death, unless they prove by their own dogged determination to master their circumstances, that they are fit to pull their weight in the Noah’s Ark of mankind. 73. Ah! Ah! Death! Death! thou shalt long for death. Death is forbidden, o man, unto thee. Commentary: There is a connection between Death, Sleep and Our Lady Nuit. (This is worked out, on profane lines, by Dr. Sigmund Freud, and his school, especially b…
1996 · PDF PAGE 123
124 The Law is for All bounded by death; and his spy-glass is smeared with the idea of sin. The New /Eon proclaims Man as Immortal God, eternally active to do His Will. All’s Joy, all’s Beauty; this Will we celebrate. In this verse we see how the awakening leads to ordered and purposeful action. Joy and Beauty are the evidence that our func tions are free and fit; when we take no pleasure, and find nothing to admire, in our work, we are doing it wrong. 36. There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. 37. A feast for the first nig…
1996 · PDF PAGE 17
…uch means, that will be compassed by the adoption of the religion of The Book of the Law. Further, this Book gives a new illumination of death, of the meaning of death. With death all religions have of course been much concerned; but the extent to which the various Christian sects have succeeded in dispelling the fear of death can be judged by the prevailing attitude towards death of the great majority of professing Christian persons. When they are not refusing to think about it, they are terrified of it. They speak of one who has died as “poor…
1996 · PDF PAGE 134
…that is only a matter of convenience. 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. Commentary: The first part of this text appears to be a digression in the nature of a prophecy. The word “Come!” is a summons to reenter the full Trance. Its essence is declared in the last six words. Notice that the tr…
1996 · PDF PAGE 150
…ey, Collected Works, Vol. II, pp. 267-82. 74. The length of thy longing shall be the strength of its glory. He that lives long & desires death much is ever the King among the Kings. Commentary: One'does not need to be constantly popping in and out of Trance. One ought to do both actions with ever- increasing length and strength of swing. Hence one’s life-periods, where time counts, become gradually larger and more vivid, and one’s death-periods, though very short, perhaps, may be unfath- omably intense. The whole question of Time has been thoro…
1996 · PDF PAGE 124
… usually they die early; and even if they lived forever, what’s the use? The body is itself a restriction as well as an instrument. When death is as complete as it should be, the individual expands and fulfils himself in all directions; it is an omniform samadhi. This is of course “eternal ecstasy” in the sense already explained. But in the time-world karma reconcentrates the elements, and a new incarnation occurs. 45. There is death for the dogs. Commentary: The prigs, the prudes, the Christians, die in a real sense of the word; for although e…
1996 · PDF PAGE 143
…nction, it will grow; the test is its willingness to “Strive ever to more”; it justifies itself by being “ever joyous”. It follows that “death is the crown of all.” For a life which has fulfilled all its possibilities ceases to have a purpose; death is its diploma, so to speak; it is ready to apply itself to the new conditions of a larger life. Just so a schoolboy who has mastered his work, dies to school, reincar nates in cap and gown, triumphs in the Tripos, dies to the clois ters, and is reborn to the world. Note that the Atu “Death” in th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 147
148 The Law is for All 1:44 is also possible on the larger scale, all Life being Magick, all Death Mysticism. Then why is Death “forbidden”? All things are surely lawful. But we must work without “lust of result,” taking everything as it comes without desire indeed, but with all manner of delight! Let thy Love-Madrigal to Death, thy Mother-Mistress, ripple and swell throughout the years, with all the Starry Heaven for thine Orchestra; but do not imagine that to attain Her is the sole satis faction. It is the yearning itself that is Beatitude. …
1996 · PDF PAGE 91
…ery heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. Commentary: It follows that, as Hadit can never be known, there is no death. The death of the individual is his awakening to the impersonal immortality of Hadit. This applies less to physical death than to the Crossing of the Abyss; for which see Liber 418, Fourteenth /Ethyr. One may attain to be aware that one is but a particular “child” of the Play of Hadit and Nuit; one’s personality is then perceive…
1996 · PDF PAGE 125
126 The Law is for All the Mind be attached constantly to the Body, Death hath not Power to decompose it wholly, but a decaying Shell of the Dead Man, his Mind holding together for a little his Body of Light, haunteth the Earth, seeking (in its Error, that feareth Change) a new Tabernacle in some other Body. These Shells are broken away utterly from the Star that did enlighten them, and they are Vampires, obsessing them that adventure themselves into the Astral World without Magical Protection, or invoke them, as do the Spiritists. For by Death…
1996 · PDF PAGE 207
…me Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox 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 …
1996 · PDF PAGE 170
…he mother, /mr is the Sanskrit root = “Kill,” hence Mara, mors,1 Maria, and I suppose meer, mere, mer1 2—in short, lots of words meaning death or sea. Note Mordred as the traitor villain in Morte d’Arthur.3 In Liber Legis we have “Mary” who is to be “torn upon wheels” apparently because she is “inviolate”. Liber 418 has some explanation of this: “because she hath shut herself up,” I seem to remember is the phrase.4 1 [In Buddhism Mara is a devaputta or superhuman entity, usually char acterized as evil; he has other technical synonyms, includin…
1996 · PDF PAGE 296
…nd Conquering Child 31,47, 163 Crusades 181 cup 30,65 Cythna 54 Daath 89 Daniel, Book of 157 Daphnis 63 Darwin, Charles 52.109 David 180 death 41,48.65.67,69,73,79.92,97. 102,103,124,125-127,135,143-145, 147-148,151,171,172 feast for 124 of the ego 93 Death (Atu XIII) 144 Debussy, Claude 75 de Lamballe 84 democracy 37,129 Desdemona 68 destiny 25,63,76,131,146,150,173 Devil Atu XV, “The Devil” 30 Diana 24 Dianus 24 Dilke, Charles, Sir 55 dimensions 24,88,93,94,187 Dionysus 47,84,85 disease 51,60,68,70.72.73,102,103, 111,133,162 disk 30 Disraeli,…
1996 · PDF PAGE 169
…rowley’s usual authority for etymology was Walter Skeat, who gives *mer (not *mr) as the “Indogermanic” (Indoeuropean) root underly ing death-words, giving as an example the Sanskrit mr-ta. Skeat was actually skeptical of a connection between death and sea, deriving the latter from the Teutonic root *mari (in “modern” Indoeuropean, *mori). Cf. Skeat, Etymological Dictionary; see Works Cited.] 4 [“Soror Achitha’s Vision” (c. 1918 E.v.), probably not extant; much of a related paper, “Liber 729, The Amalantrah Working,” survives.] Why assault the…
1996 · PDF PAGE 78
Chapter I a Verses 57-59 79 58. I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice. Commentary: These joys are principally (1) the Beatific Vision, in which Beauty is constantly present to the recipient of Her grace, together with a calm and unutterable joy; (2) the Vision of Wonder, in which the whole Mystery of the Universe is constantly understood and admired for its Ingenium and Wisdom. (1) is referred to Tiphareth, the Grade of Adept; (2) …
1996 · PDF PAGE 102
…iply and to perpetuate that particular Nature, though without necessary consciousness of what is happening. In a deeper sense, the word “Death” is meaningless apart from the presentation of the Universe as conditioned by “Time.” But what is the meaning of Time? There is great confusion of thought in the use of the word “eternal,” and the phrase “for ever.” People who want “eternal happiness” mean by that a cycle of varying events all effective in stimulating pleasant sensations; i.e., they want time to continue exactly as it does with themselve…
1996 · PDF PAGE 126
…n 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 thy Star have profit of thy Vehicle, assimilating it, and sustaining it, so that it b…
1996 · PDF PAGE 142
…orties 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. Commentary: This striving is to be strenuous. We are not to set our lives at a pin’s fee. “Unhand me, gentlemen.... I’ll make a ghost of him that lets me!”1 Death is the End that crowns the Work. 1 [Hamlet i, 4.] Evolution works by variation. When an animal develops one part of itself beyond the others, it infringes the norm of its type. At first this effort is made at the expense of…
1996 · PDF PAGE 101
…e Lions! Our humanitarianism, which is the syphilis of the mind, acts on the basis of the lie that the King must die. The King is beyond death; it is merely a pool where he dips for refreshment. We must therefore go back to Spartan ideas of education; and the worst enemies of humanity are those who wish, under the pretext of compassion, to continue its ills through the generations. The Christians to the Lions! Let the weak and wry productions go back into the melting- pot, as is done with flawed steel castings. Death will purge, reincarnation m…