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Page 1 of 41996 · PDF PAGE 94
…o worshipped Heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for I am the worshipper. Commentary: Harpocrates is also the Dwarf-Soul, the Secret Self of every man, the Serpent with the Lion’s Head. Now Hadit knows Nuit by virtue of his “Going” or “Love.” It is therefore wrong to worship Hadit; one is to be Hadit, and worship Her. This is clear even from His instruction “To worship me” in verse 22 of this chapter. Confer Cap. I, v. 9. We are exhorted to offer ourselves unto Nuit, pilgrims to all her temples. It is bad Magick to admit that one is other t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 172
…o this has man’s Chris tian Endeavour dragged her when he should rather have made her his comrade, frank, trusty, and gay, the tenderer self of himself, his consubstantial complement even as Earth is to the Sun. We of Thelema say that “Every man and every woman is a 1:3 star.” We do not fool and flatter women; we do not despise and abuse them. To us a woman is Herself, absolute, original, inde pendent, free, self-justified, exactly as a man is. We dare not thwart Her Going, Goddess she! We arrogate no right upon Her will; we claim not to defl…
1996 · PDF PAGE 151
152 The Law is for All self-restoring Serpent, and the self-immolating Scorpion. In alchemy it is the principle of Putrefaction, the “Black Dragon,” whose state of apparent corruption is but a prelude to the Rainbow-coloured Spring-tide of the Man in Motley. The nymph of Spring, Syrinx, the trembling hollow reed which needs but Breath to fill the world with Music, attracts Pan, the Goat-God of Ecstatic Lust, by whose Work the glory of Summer is established anew. It is obvious that “The length of thy longing” varies with the number of potentiali…
1996 · PDF PAGE 24
… of every man and every woman! Further, as Khabs1 (see verse 8) is “Star,” there is a further meaning; this Book is to reveal the Secret Self of a man, i.e. to initiate him. 1 [Usually khaib in modern Egyptian transliteration.] 2 [A Crowley diary from 1919 e.v.; the relevant passage is quoted on p. 26.] 3. Every man and every woman is a star. Commentary: This thesis is fully treated in The Book of Wisdom or Folly. Its main statement is that each human being is an Element of the Cosmos, self-determined and supreme, co-equal with all other Gods. …
1996 · PDF PAGE 300
…35,156,163,167,174 scepticism 67,76,122 science 23,33.59.60.62.65, 72,74,76, 91,118,121,137,149,150,163,184 Scorpio 144,151-152 Scots 84 self 27.54.75.92,95.110.111.118,119 analysis of 110,149 and not-self 74 complexes veiling the 25.27,32,33. 34.56.62.87,114,129-130,163,184 conscious 98,184 consciousness of 32,81 as Hadit 113 higher 29,135 realization of 142 secret 25,95.98 silent 31.41,67,68,69.70,163,184 true 95,112,135 self-realization as Hadit 101 self-sacrifice 45,47,92,169 Semelé 30 semen 60 Semiramis 44 Set 24.30,184 sex 42-44,50-75,84,…
1996 · PDF PAGE 30
… “Small Person” of Hindu mysticism, the Dwarf insane yet crafty of many legends in many lands, is also this same “Holy Ghost,” or Silent Self of a man, or his Holy Guardian Angel. He is almost the “Unconscious” of Freud, unknown, unac countable, the silent Spirit, blowing “whither it listeth, but thou canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth.”1 It com mands with absolute authority when it appears at all, despite con scious reason and judgment. 1 [John 3:8.] 2 Six being the number of the Sun, the God-Man, etc. 3 See Liber 418. [Cro…
1996 · PDF PAGE 134
Chapter II * Verses 61 — 67 135 “Higher Self”; True Self is more the idea. For each Star is the husk of Hadit, unique and conqueror, sublime in His own virtue, independent of hierarchy. There is an external hierarchy, of course, but 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;…
1996 · PDF PAGE 183
…which we find hints in the legend of Cain and Abel, Esau and Jacob, Set and Osiris, et cetera. The “Elder Brother” within us, the Silent Self, must slay the younger brother, the conscious self, and he must be raised again incorruptible. 60. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Commentary: There are of course lesser laws than this, details, particular cases, of the Law. But the whole of the Law is Do what thou wilt, and there is no law beyond it. This subject is treated fully in Liber CXI Aleph, and the student should refer thereto. Far bet…
1996 · PDF PAGE 53
…o endure blackmailers private and public, the terrors of police persecution, the disgust, contempt and loath ing of the vulgar, and the self-torture of suspecting the peculiarity to be a symptom of a degenerate nature, than to wrong the soul by damning it to the hell of abstinence, or by defiling it with the abhorred embraces of antipathetic arms. 1 [An obsolete word for a gay male.] Every star must calculate its own orbit. All is Will, and yet all is Necessity. To swerve is ultimately impossible; to seek to swerve is to suffer. The Beast 666 …
1996 · PDF PAGE 168
… it is the eyes of “Jesus” — his point of view—that must be destroyed; and this point of view is wrong because of his Magical Gesture of self-sacrifice. One must not for a moment suppose that this verse supports the historicity of “Jesus.” “Jesus” is not, and never was, a man; but he was a “god,” just as a bundle of old rags and a kerosene tin on a bush may be a “god.” There is a man-made idea, built of ignorance, fear, and meanness, for the most part, which we call “Jesus,” and which has been tricked out from time to time with various gauds fr…
1996 · PDF PAGE 40
Chapter I i Verses 37—41 41 4. Explore the course of that Will till you reach its source, your Silent Self. 5. Unite the conscious will with the true Will, and the conscious Ego with the Silent Self. You must be utterly ruthless in discarding any atom of consciousness which is hostile or neutral. 6. Let this work freely from within, but heed not your environment, lest you make difference between one thing and another. Whatever it be, it is to be made one with you by Love. 38. He must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals. 39. The word of th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 108
…ntion away from Nature, whose immensity bewilders us so that she seems incoherent, and unintel ligible, to his own interpretation of himself and his relations with various phenomena of nature expressed in a language more or less common to us all. The smaller the Artist, the narrower his view, the more vulgar his vocabulary, the more familiar his figures, the more readily is he recognized as a guide. To be accepted and admired, he must say what we all know, but have not told each other till it is tedious, and say it in simple and clear language…
1996 · PDF PAGE 91
…true Will.” (E.g., rain is “good” or “bad” for the farmer accord ing to the requirements of his crops.) The Osirian Rituals inculcating self-sacrifice to an abstract ideal, mutilation to appease an ex cathedra' morality, fidelity to a priori formulas, etc., teach false and futile methods of acquiring false Knowledge; they must be “cast away” or “purged”. The Schools of Initiation must be reformed. 6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge …
1996 · PDF PAGE 109
…ken seriously, and sex-expression is simple, wholesome, and free, drunkenness is a rare accident. It is only in Puritan countries, where self-analysis, under the whip of a coarse bully like Billy Sunday,1 2 brings the hearer to “conviction of sin,” that he hits first the “trail” and then the “booze.” Can you imagine an evangelist in Taormina? It is to laugh. This is why missionaries, in all these centuries, have produced no conversions whatever, save among the lowest types of negro, who resemble the Anglo-Saxon in this possession of the “fear-o…
1996 · PDF PAGE 31
…the complexity of its folds makes it opaque. The Great Work therefore consists principally in the solution of complexes. Everything in itself is perfect, but when things are muddled, they become “evil.” (This will be understood better in the Light of “The Hermit of AEsopus Island,” q.v.)1 The Doctrine is evidently of supreme importance, from its position as the first “revelation” of Aiwass. 1 [Only fragments survive of this document; see The Equinox IV(2) (1996), and his Confessions, abridged ed., p. 840.] 2 [Usually akh or yekh in modern Egypt…
1996 · PDF PAGE 162
…ildren, said “Christ,” ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of God.1 The Kingdom of Malkuth, the Virgin Bride, and the Child is the Dwarf-Self, the Phallic consciousness, which is the true life of Man, beyond his “veils” of incarnation. We have to thank Freud—and especially Jung—for stating this part of the Magical Doctrine so plainly, as also for their develop ment of the connection of the Will of this “child” with the True or Unconscious Will, and so for clarifying our doctrine of the “Silent Self” or “Holy Guardian Angel.” They are of course…
1996 · PDF PAGE 111
… equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself. This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole. The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth. It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other. Suppose a + b + c = d, a = d - b - c, just as much …
1996 · PDF PAGE 97
… resistance of the Unconscious of his patient. My own Unconscious was thus in alliance with Aiwaz; taken between two fires, my conscious self was paralyzed so long as the pressure lasted. It will be seen later—verses 61 to 69—that my conscious ness was ultimately invaded by the Secret Self, and surrendered unconditionally, so that, it proclaimed, loudly and gladly, from its citadel, the victory of its rightful Lord. The mystery is indeed this, that in so prosperous and joyous a city, there should still be groups of malcontents whose grumblings…
1996 · PDF PAGE 182
…ater of words of whose sense he knows nought, a drifter, both idle and violent, compact partly of fierce passions that burn up both him self and the other, but mostly of inert and characterless nonentity, with a little heaviness, dullness, and stupefaction for his only positive qualities. Such are the “fools” whom we despise. The man of Thelema is vertebrate, organized, purposeful, steady, self-controlled, virile; he uses the air as the food of his blood; so also, were he deprived of fools he could not live. We need our atmosphere, after all; …
1996 · PDF PAGE 67
…hasizes the importance of these con siderations. The act of love must be spontaneous, in absolute free dom. The man must be true to himself. Romeo must not be thrust on Rosaline for family, social, or financial reasons. Desdemona must not be barred from Othello for reasons of race or religion. The homosexual must not blaspheme his nature and commit spir itual suicide by suppressing love or attempting to pervert it, as ignorance and fear, shame and weakness, so often induce him to do. Whatever the act which expresses the soul, that act and no…