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Page 1 of 21996 · PDF PAGE 176
Chapter III * Verse 55 177 who is economically harried on sexual grounds; let social organi zations honour in public what their members practice in private. Most domestic unhappiness will disappear automatically, for its chief cause is the sexual dissatisfaction of wives, or the anxiety (or other mental strain) engendered should they take the remedy in their own hands. The crime of abortion will lose its motive in all but the most exceptional cases. Blackmail will be confined to commercial and political offences, thus diminishing its frequency…
1996 · PDF PAGE 55
…ight, buffeted from one police-bullied hotel to another. Perhaps this permission is intended to indicate the propriety of performing the sexual act without shame or fear, not waiting for darkness or seeking secrecy, but by daylight in public places, as serenely as if it were a natural incident in a morning stroll. Custom would soon surfeit curiosity, and copulation attract less attention than a new fashion in frocks. For the existing inter est in sexual matters is chiefly because, common as the act is, it is closely concealed. Nobody is excite…
1996 · PDF PAGE 127
…ill.”1 He only struck half the blow. I say: go in unto them as ye will and they will. Two-thirds of modern mis ery springs from Woman’s sexual dissatisfaction. A dissatisfied woman is a curse to herself and to everybody in her neighbour hood. Women must learn to let themselves enjoy without fear or shame, and both men and women must be trained in the tech nique of sex. Sex-repression leads to neurosis, and is the cause of social unrest. Ignorance of sexual technique leads to disappoint ment, even where passion is free and unrestrained. Sex …
1996 · PDF PAGE 63
…the norm of nature. To bring down this doctrine to a practical rule for every man or woman by which they may enjoy, in perfection, their sexual life and make it what it rightly is—the holiest part of the religious life (I say “holiest” because it redeems even physical grossness to par take with spiritual saintship)—the intention of The Book of the Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the Law of Thelema, to be the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing. It is not indicated here in this text, t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 50
… avoid doing another injury by deforming his nature; for instance, to flog children at or near puberty may distort the sensitive nascent sexual character, and impress it with the stamp of masochism. Again, homosexual practices between boys may in certain cases actually rob them of their virility, psychically or even physically. Trying to frighten adolescents about sex by the bogeys of Hell, Disease, and Insanity, may warp the moral nature permanently, and produce hypochondria or other mental maladies, with per versions of the enervated and thw…
1996 · PDF PAGE 62
Chapter I a Verse 52 63 clear enough that the sexual peculiarities of people are hiero glyphs, obscure yet not unintelligible, revealing their histories in the first place, in the second, their relations with environment in the present, and, in the third, their possibilities with regard to the modification of the future. In these supremely important verses of The Book of the Law, it becomes clear that Nuit is aware of all these facts, and that she regards them as no less than the combination of the lock of the strong-room of the future. “This”…
1996 · PDF PAGE 53
54 The Law is for All It is better for a person of heterosexual nature to suffer every possible calamity as the indirect environment-evoked result of his doing his true will in that respect than to enjoy health, wealth and happiness by means either of suppressing sex altogether, or debauching it to the service of Sodom or Gomorrah. Equally it is better for the androgyne, the urning,1 or their feminine counterparts to endure blackmailers private and public, the terrors of police persecution, the disgust, contempt and loath ing of the vulgar, an…
1996 · PDF PAGE 58
…e Ra-Hoor-Khuit is a “god of War and of Vengeance”; see Cap. III. The doctrine of the previous verses, which appears not merely to allow sexual liberty in the 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 …
1996 · PDF PAGE 7
…nces for some readers. By Wilkinson’s own account, he and Crowley rarely discussed Magick, but they shared a deep-seated impatience with sexual hypocrisy, and a willingness to openly defy society’s strictures. Wilkinson’s own views are lucidly set out in his introduction to this edition, and they help explain why Crowley made him a member of the ix° of Ordo Templi Orientis, the degree synony mous with sexual magick; honorary or not, it was fully deserved. Wilkinson was a fair and perceptive critic of his friend’s work. The following assessment…
1996 · PDF PAGE 297
… and free will 77 feasts 124 Fool 29,30 AtuO 29,30,183 formula: 38,59.92,186 0=2 23,30,34,41.63,88.94.105.189 Dying God 47 l.v.x. 134 of sexual magick 116,124.134,135 of the ?Eon of Horus 31,47,91 France 37,43,117 Frazer, J.G., Sir, The Golden Bough 30 freedom 37.39.85.115,130,132,149, 182,185 of women 174-177 sexual 42-44,58-61,68 Freemasonry 48 Freud, Sigmund 19,31,55.147,163 Galahad 63 Geburah 152 genius 56,70,142,149.179 geometry 25,38.106 non-Euclidean 187 Germany 37,43 Gilbert and Sullivan 57 Gnostic Mass 84 God 26.32.72,73.74,91,112.113,…
1996 · PDF PAGE 298
…y 26.79,125,126 magical protection 126 magick 40,59,60,64.68,69.70,71.75, 85,89,95,100,123,127,138,147-148, 150,163,184 definition of 39 sexual 116,124.134,135 two main types 116 magnetism, sexual 70 Malkuth 163 Malory, Thomas, Morte d’Arthur 171 Manichseanism 33,91 Mara 170,171 marriage 42-43,53.57-58,71.103,104, 177 Mars 152 Marsyas 47 Mary 31,63.170,172,178 masochism 51,130 mass 65,72,125 miracle of the 62,138 masturbation, male 60 materialism 66,105,160 mathematics 34,80,94,112,187
1996 · PDF PAGE 300
…0,184 sex 42-44,50-75,84,110,114,128,130, 141,149,151,164,172-173,176-181 training of the body in 74-75 sexes, difference between the 27 sexual freedom 42 44,58-61,68 sexual harrassment 176-177 Shakespeare, William 44.95,96 Midsummer Night’s Dream 95 Shelley, Percy Bysshe 102,109,138,155 Shu 30
1996 · PDF PAGE 302
General Index 301 and “love under will” 77 and necessity 54.96 and sex 42.54.56.61,128.130.133, 137 and sexual magick 67-70 harmony with will of the partner 70 conscious 41,67 doing one’s 101,102,119.124,131, 149 errors in determining the 148 expressed Qabalistically 119 free 51,185 and fate 77 of woman 173,176,177,181 hindrances to, as sin 41,92 in psychology 163 lack of, in the average man 183 magical 70 non-identity of any two wills 70 of the father, effect on child 67 of the soul 74 program for realization of 40 -41 pure 46 subconscious 66,…
1996 · PDF PAGE 140
…sublime them. The result is that we of Thelema are capable of enormously more achievement than others, even in terrestrial matters, from sexual orgia to creative Art. Even if we had only this one earth life to consider, we exceed our fellows some thirtyfold, some sixtyfold, some an hundredfold.
1996 · PDF PAGE 54
…ke shame, slyness, cowardice and hypocrisy the conditions of success in life. It is also the fact that the tendency of any individual to sexual irregularity is emphasized by the preoccupation with the subject which follows its factitious importance in modern society. It is to be observed that Politeness has forbidden any direct reference to the subject of sex to secure no happier result than to allow Sigmund Freud and others to prove that our every thought, speech, and gesture, conscious or unconscious, is an indirect reference! Unless one want…
1996 · PDF PAGE 49
…e will”. It should be abundantly clear from the foregoing remarks that each individual has an absolute and indefeasible right to use his sexual vehicle in accordance with its own proper character, and that he is responsible only to himself. But he should not injure himself and his right aforesaid; acts invasive of another individual’s equal rights are implicitly self-aggressions. A thief can hardly complain on theoretical grounds if he is himself robbed.
1996 · PDF PAGE 150
… not unnatural for us to ask: Can “Death” have some deeper significance than appears? Scorpio, the Zodiacal Sign of Death, is really the Sexual or Repro ductive function of Nature. It is the Earth-transcending Eagle, the
1996 · PDF PAGE 43
…he interests of the slave-gods. But, even on that showing, the sex life was intense, for the writings of such women are overloaded with sexual expression passionate and perverted, even to morbid ity and to actual hallucination.6 Sex is the main expression of the Nature of a person; great Natures are sexually strong; and the health of any person will depend upon the freedom of that function.7
1996 · PDF PAGE 51
52 The Law is for All Everyone should discover, by experience of every kind, the extent and intention of his own sexual Universe. He must be taught that all roads are equally royal, and that the only question for him is “Which road is mine?” All details are equally likely to be of the essence of his personal plan, all equally “right” in them selves, his own choice of the one as correct as, and independent of, his neighbour’s preference for the other. He must not be ashamed or afraid of being homosexual if he happens to be so at heart; he must …
1996 · PDF PAGE 18
…al. The true will of humanity is against them and against their offspring. That will is not for wars, it is not for the “moral” filth of sexual frustration or for the frustration of anything that is needed for the creative fulfilment of individual life. Until the old twilight tabus have been killed, there is no certain hope for the future. The Book of the Law deals them and their issue a mortal blow. It sets in their place a gospel which, it is true, makes high demands, but which is valid for the achievement of the heart’s desire; for the satis…