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193 A Paraphrase of the Hieroglyphs of the 11 Lines upon the Reverse of the Stele Saith of Mentu the truth-telling brother Who was master of Thebes from his birth: O heart of me, heart of my mother! O heart which I had upon earth! Stand not thou up against me a witness! Oppose me not, judge, in my quest! Accuse me not now of unfitness Before the Great God, the dread Lord of the West! For I fastened the one to the other With a spell for their mystical girth, The earth and the wonderful West, When I flourished, o earth, on the breast! The dead ma…
1996 · PDF PAGE 111
112 The Law is for All truthfully from lack of imagination and analysis. Idealist painters like Bouguereau, awake to the divergence between Nature and their academic standards of Beauty, falsify the facts in order to delude themselves. The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with 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 w…
1996 · PDF PAGE 105
106 The Law is for All than any other Truth. The Equation Five plus Six is Eleven is of the same order of perfection as Ten Million times Ten times Ten Thousand Million is One Billion.1 In the Universe formulated by the Absolute, every point is equally the Centre; every point is equally the focus of the forces of the whole. (In any system of three points, any two may be considered solely with reference to the third, so that even in a finite universe the sum of the properties of all points is the same, though no two properties may be com mon to…
1996 · PDF PAGE 32
…Nuit and Hadit. We are not to worship the Khu, to fall in love with our Magi cal Image. To do this—we have all done it—is to forget our Truth. If we adore Form, it becomes opaque to Being, and may soon prove false to itself. The Khu in each of us includes the Cos mos as he knows it. To me, even another Khabs is only part of my Khu. Our own Khabs is our one sole Truth. 10. Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & the known. Commentary: The nature of magical power is quite incom prehensible to the vulgar. The prophet Ezekiel…
1996 · PDF PAGE 88
…ing as throwing light on the thesis: “Every man and every woman is a star.” There is no place soever that is not a Centre of Light. This Truth is to be realized by direct perception, not merely by intellection. It is axiomatic; it cannot be demonstrated. It is to be assimilated by experience of the Vision of the “Star-Sponge.” 4. Yet she shall be known & I never. Commentary: See later, verse 13, “thou” (i.e. the Beast, who is here the Mask, or “persona,” of Hadit) “wast the knower”. Hadit possesses the power to know, Nuit that of being known. N…
1996 · PDF PAGE 95
…ntary: As related in Equinox 1(7),1 2 I was, at the time of this revelation, a rationalistic Buddhist, very convinced of the First Noble Truth: “Everything is Sorrow.” I supposed this point of view to be an absolute and final truth—as if Apemantus were the only character in Shakespeare!3
1996 · PDF PAGE 120
…de of measurement. It is the mark of a mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth. Our two eyes see an object in two aspects, and present to our consciousness a third which agrees with neither, is indeed, strictly speaking, not sensible to sight, but to touch! Our senses declare some things at rest and others in motion; our rea son corrects the error, firstly by denying that anything can exist unless it is in motion, secondly by denying that absolute motion possesses any meaning at a…
1996 · PDF PAGE 26
…more “petty” than the King, nor the Earth than the Sun. Each simple elemental Self is supreme, Very God of Very God. Ay, in this Book is Truth almost insufferably splendid, for Man has veiled himself too long from his own glory: he fears the abyss, the ageless Absolute. But Truth shall make him free!4
1996 · PDF PAGE 61
…yond Do what thou wilt.” But this may and shall be said, that a significance which indicates igno rance or forgetfulness of the central truth of the Universe, is an acquiescence in that opacity caused by the confusion of the veils which conceal the soul from the consciousness, and thus create the illusion which the aspirant calls Sorrow, and the uninitiate, Evil. The sexual act, even to the grossest of mankind, is the agent which dissipates the fog of self for one ecstatic moment. It is the instinctive feeling that the physical spasm is symbol…
1996 · PDF PAGE 119
…ment proves nothing; it is surely obvious that we are obliged to correlate all observations with the physical and mental structure whose truth we are trying to test. Indeed, we can assume an “unreasonable” axiom, and translate the whole of our knowledge into its terms, without fear of stum bling over any obstacle. Reason is no more than a set of rules developed by the race; it takes no account of anything beyond sensory impressions and their reactions to various parts of our being. There is no possible escape from the vicious circle that we ca…
1996 · PDF PAGE 158
…t.” But I did not feel inwardly that thrill of ecstasy that springs in the heart or that dawn of amaze ment that kindles the mind, when Truth’s sheer simplicity takes form. There is a definite psychological phenomenon which accompanies any important discovery. It is like First Love, at First Sight, to the one; like the recognition of a Law of Nature, to the other. It inflames one with Love for the Uni verse, and it explains all its puzzles, in a flash; and it gives an interior conviction which nothing can shake, a living cer tainty quite bey…
1996 · PDF PAGE 191
…rd of Thebes, and I The inspired forth-speaker of Mentu; For me unveils the veilèd sky, The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu Whose words are truth. I invoke, I greet Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit! Unity uttermost showed! I adore the might of Thy breath, Supreme and terrible God, Who makest the gods and death To tremble before Thee:— I, I adore thee! Appear on the throne of Ra! Open the ways of the Khu! Lighten the ways of the Ka! The ways of the Khabs run through To stir me or still me! Aum! let it fill me! The Light is mine; its rays consume Me: I…
1996 · PDF PAGE 164
…rd of Thebes, and I The inspired forth-speaker of Mentu; For me unveils the veiled sky, The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu Whose words are truth. I invoke, I greet Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit! Unity uttermost showed! I adore the might of Thy breath, Supreme and terrible God, Who makest the gods and death To tremble before Thee: — I, I adore thee! Appear on the throne of Ra! Open the ways of the Khu!
1996 · PDF PAGE 214
…rd of Thebes, and I The inspired forth-speaker of Mentu; For me unveils the veiled sky, The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu Whose words are truth. I invoke, I greet Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit! Unity uttermost showed! I adore the might of Thy breath, Supreme and terrible God, Who makest the gods and death To tremble before Thee:— I, I adore thee! Appear on the throne of Ra! Open the ways of the Khu! Lighten the ways of the Ka! The ways of the Khabs run through To stir me or still me! Aum! let it fill me! 38. So that thy light is in me; 8c its re…
1996 · PDF PAGE 22
…ull physical sense.1 They are the tao and te of Chinese Philosophy; or, to put it very simply, the Noun and Verb in grammar. Our central Truth—beyond other philosophies—is that these two infinities cannot exist apart. This extensive subject must be studied in our other writings, nota bly Berashith, my own Magical Diaries, especially those of 1919, 1920 and 1921,1 2 and The Book of Wisdom or Folly.3 See also “The Soldier and the Hunchback.”4 Further information concern ing Nuit and Hadit is given in the course of this Book; but I must here men…
1996 · PDF PAGE 286
…ists below in which the papers appear. The descriptions in quo tations are Crowley’s, from the A.'. A.-. Curricula. “Amath, an Essay on Truth.” In (14). “Berashith.” As (1) and in (7). “The Book of the Great Auk.” Surviving fragment in (9.v). “Eleusis.” In (7). 285
1996 · PDF PAGE 186
…recent years, from conceiving a non-Euclidean geometry, or the existence of a fourth Dimension. The initiate soon becomes aware of the untruth of many of these limiting laws of his mind; he has to identify Being with not- Being, to perceive Matter as continuous and homogeneous, and so for many another Truth, apprehended directly by pure percep tion, and consequently not to be refuted by syllogistic methods. The Laws of Logic are thus discovered to be superficial, and their scope only partial. 62. To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tr…
1996 · PDF PAGE 151
…niverse of giants clamouring for hors d'oeuvres must take refuge from Reality in Freudian phantasies of “God.” He winces at the touch of Truth; and shivers at his nakedness in Nature. He therefore invents a cult of fear and shame, and makes it presumption and blasphemy to possess courage and self-respect. He burrows in the slime of “Reverence and godly fear,” and makes himself houses of his own excrement, like the earthworm
1996 · PDF PAGE 184
…solutely fixed in me, so much so that it appears an “identical equation,” axiomatic indeed, and yet not a platitude, but a very sword of Truth to sunder every knot at a touch. As the practical ethics of the Law, I have formulated in words of one syllable my declaration of the RIGHTS OF MAN Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. There is no god but Man. Man has the right to live by his own law. Man has the right to live in the way that he wills to do. Man has the right to dress as he wills to do. Man has the right to dwell where he wil…
1996 · PDF PAGE 23
…On, Noah, Oannes, Jonah, John, Dianus, Diana, and so on. But these identifications are all partial only, different facets of the Diamond Truth. We may neglect all these questions, and remain in the simplicity of this Her own Book. 2. The unveiling of the company of heaven. Commentary: This explains the general theme of this revela tion: gives the Dramatis Personae, so to speak. It is, cosmographically, the conception of the two Ultimate Ideas: Space, and That which occupies Space. It will however appear later that these two ideas may be resolv…