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Page 1 of 31996 · PDF PAGE 65
… the soul and make one lifelong spinthria1 unassuaged in the imagination like Aubrey Beardsley, the means matter no whit. Bach takes one way, Keats one, Goya one. The end is everything: that by the act, what ever it is, one worships, loves, possesses, and becomes Nuit. 1 [“Seeing stars,” or spintherism, from omi^rip, “sparks.”] 2 [Shakespeare, Macbeth i, 7.] The act of love can no more “trammel up the consequence”1 2 than any other act. As long as you possess the talisman, it must be used from time to time, whether you will or no. If you injur…
1996 · PDF PAGE 85
…urplus Energy in enjoyment, he finds life easy, and submits. Deprive him of Pleasure, of Ecstasy, and his mind begins to worry about the way in which he is exploited and oppressed. Very soon he begins furtively to throw bombs; and, gathering strength, to send his tyrants to the gallows. 64. I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. 65. To me! To me! 66. The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.
1996 · PDF PAGE 166
…ning in thy heart shall make swift and secure thy pen. 41. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house: all must be done well and with business way. 42. The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou shalt know & destroy the traitors. I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to protect my servant. Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not overmuch! Them that seek to entrap thee, to overthrow thee, them attack without pity or quarter; & destroy them utterly. Swift as a trodden serpent turn and strike! …
1996 · PDF PAGE 63
…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, though it is elsewhere implied, that only one symptom warns that you have mistaken your true Will, and that is, if you should imag ine that in pursuing your way you interfere with that of another star. It may, therefore, be considered improper, as a general rule, for your sexual gratification to destroy, deform, or displease any other star. Mutual consent …
1996 · PDF PAGE 105
…th.) 1 [Actually a million billion (British) or a million trillion (American).] 2 [A Buddhist concept, Pali sammasati.] There is another Way that we may take, if we will; I say “another,” though it seems perhaps to some no more than a development of the other which happens to be proper to some people. Even in the first Way, it is of all things necessary to begin by exploring one’s own Nature, so as to discover what its pecul iarities are; this is accomplished partly by introspection, but prin cipally by Right Recollection1 2 of the whole phan…
1996 · PDF PAGE 14
…t only for mathematicians and mystics. In some one phrase or other of the Book there is a direct message for every human being. The best way for the layman to approach this Book is to regard it as a letter written directly to himself. Even though he may not be able to understand some parts of the letter, he is sure to find other parts that are unmistakably addressed, in an intimately personal sense, to him. It is because the thought expressed in this Book of the Law was sometimes not easily intelligible to the transmitter that he wrote a Commen…
1996 · PDF PAGE 215
… ing in thy heart shall make swift and secure thy pen. 41. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house: all must be done well and with business way. 42. The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou shalt know & destroy the trai tors. I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to protect my servant. Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not overmuch! Them that seek to entrap thee, to overthrow thee, them attack without pity or quarter; de destroy them utterly. Swift as a trodden serpent turn and strik…
1996 · PDF PAGE 101
…the evolutionary and natural view. Of what use is it to perpetuate the misery of tuberculosis, and such diseases, as we now do? Nature’s way is to weed out the weak. This is the most merciful way, too. At present all the strong are being damaged, and their progress hindered by the dead weight of the weak limbs and the missing limbs, the diseased limbs and the atrophied limbs. The Christians to the 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 m…
1996 · PDF PAGE 130
…ng to train sheep to hunt foxes or lecture on history; we look after their physical well being, and enjoy their wool and mutton. In this way we shall have a con tented class of slaves who will accept the conditions of existence as they really are, and enjoy life with the quiet wisdom of cattle. It is our duty to see to it that this class of people lack for nothing. The patriarchal system is better for all classes than any other; the objections to it come from the abuses of it. But bad masters have been artificially created by exactly the same …
1996 · PDF PAGE 125
… 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 is Man released only from the Gross Body, at the first, and is complete otherwise upon the Astral Plane, as he was in his Life. But this Wholeness suffereth Stress, and its Girders are loosened, th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 214
…, 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 red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. There is a secret door that I shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters, (these are the adorations, as thou hast written), as it is said: The light is mine; its rays consume Me: I have m…
1996 · PDF PAGE 6
…to The Book of the Law, on too many levels, to be able to easily write about it, let alone judge what other people might find helpful by way of commentary. He made numerous attempts over the years, only the first of which was published in his lifetime.1 The rest, including the “new” or “long” commentary that comprises the present book — remained unedited in typescript. He produced the first draft of the “new commentary” in 1919 E.v. and more than doubled its length dur ing 1921-22; he later added the occasional note. 1 A historical survey of t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 186
… these. The “girders” which determine the “form” of our souls are therefore limitations to our thought, as well as supports. In the same way, rails help a train to run easily, but confine it to a definite direction. The “laws” of Nature and Thought, Mathematics, Logic, and so on, are “girders” of this sort. Our race-inherited conceptions of space prevented men, until quite 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 …
1996 · PDF PAGE 44
…r in exactly this sense. Similarly, one may say that not to do one’s will is evidence of mental or moral insanity. When “duty points one way, and inclination the other,” it is proof that you are not one, but two. You have not centralized your control. This dichotomy is the beginning of conflict, which may result in a Jekyll-Hyde effect. Stevenson suggests that man may be discovered to be a “mere polity” of many individuals. The sages knew it long since. But the name of this polity is Choronzon,1 mob rule, unless every individ ual is absolutely…
1996 · PDF PAGE 45
…nd let alone. The slave-spirit invites oppression. 44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. Commentary: This verse is best interpreted by defining “pure will” as the true expression of the Nature, the proper or inherent motion of the matter, concerned. 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 schoolbo…
1996 · PDF PAGE 184
… 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 wills to dwell. Man has the right to move as he will on the face of the Earth. Man has the right to eat what he will. Man has the right to drink what he will. Man has the right to think as he will. Man has the right to speak as he will Man has the right to write as he will. Man has the right to mould as h…
1996 · PDF PAGE 165
166 The Law is for All Lighten the ways of the Ka! The ways of the Khabs run through To stir me or still me! Aum! let it fill me! Commentary: Stanza 3 suggests the Rosicrucian Benediction: May thy Mind be open unto the Higher! May thy Heart be the Centre of Light! May thy Body be the Temple of the Rosy Cross!1 1 [These are the words of Reception in the Adeptus Minor 5°=6° ritual of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. See Israel Regardie, The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic (Phoenix: Falcon, 1984), vol. 7, p. 52. This passage is omitted …
1996 · PDF PAGE 24
… “star,” simple, original, absolute, can add to its omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence without ceasing to be itself; that its one way to do this is to gain experience, and that therefore it enters into combinations in which its true Nature is for awhile disguised, even from itself. Analogously, an atom of carbon may pass through myriad Proteus-phases, appearing in Chalk, Chloro form, Sugar, Sap, Brain and Blood, not recognizable as “itself” the black amorphous solid, but recoverable as such, unchanged by its adventures.
1996 · PDF PAGE 180
Chapter III A Verses 56-57 181 She has had no chance to Love unless she first renounced the respect of society, and found a way to drive the wolf of hunger from her door. Her chance is come! In any Abbey of Thelema any woman is welcome; there she is free to do her will, and held in honour for the doing. The child of love is a star, even as all are stars; but such an one we specially cherish; it is a trophy of battle fought and won! 57. Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers who dare not fight, but play; all fools despise! Commentary: T…
1996 · PDF PAGE 27
… and “good” for coffee. The indivisible essences of things, their “Souls,” are indifferent to all conditions soever, for none can in any way affect them. 6. Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue! 7. Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar- kraat. Commentary: Aiwass is the name given by Ouarda the Seer3 as that of the Intelligence Communicating.