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…ll She hath been trampled thus through all the ages, and she hath tamed them thus. Her silence was the token of her triumph. But now the Word of Me the Beast is this; not only art thou Woman, sworn to a purpose not thine own; thou art thyself a star, and in thyself a purpose to thyself. Not only mother of men art thou, or whore to men; serf to their need of Life and Love, not sharing in their Light and Liberty; nay, thou art Mother and Whore for thine own pleasure; the Word I say to Man I say to thee no less: “Do what thou wilt shall be the who…
1996 · PDF PAGE 38
…u-it. [See The Comment on page 284.] 37. Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach. Commentary: Each star is unique, and each orbit apart; indeed, that is the cornerstone of my teaching, to have no stan dard goals or standard ways, no orthodoxies and no codes. The stars are not herded and penned and shorn and made into mutton like so many voters! I decline to be bellwether, who am born a Lion! I will not be collie, who am quicker to bite than to bark. I …
1996 · PDF PAGE 167
…can he fall from it. 48. Now this mystery of the letters is done, and I want to go on to the holier place. 49. I am in a secret fourfold word, the blasphemy against all gods of men. Commentary: The evident interpretation of this is to take the word to be “Do what thou wilt,” which is a secret word, because its meaning for every man is his own inmost secret. And it is the most profound blasphemy possible against all “gods of men”, because it makes every man his own God. We may then take it that this Solar-Phallic Heru-ra-ha1 is Each Man Himself.…
1996 · PDF PAGE 40
…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 the Law is OeXrjpia. 40. Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 41. The word of Sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all el…
1996 · PDF PAGE 132
…eloved.1 2 Indeed, one cannot say that one has per fectly attained to love or hate until the object of that passion is assimilated. The word “hell” is significant in this connection. One must never be so careless as to let oneself think that even “the style of a letter” (how much less a phrase!) in this Book is casual. The expression “to hell with them” is not merely an outburst of colloquial enthusiasm. The word “hell”, that and no other, serves the purpose of the speaker. This would naturally be suggested to us, in any case, by the reflectio…
1996 · PDF PAGE 173
… Her are those who shrink from the flash of our falchions1 as we strike from Her limbs their foul fetters. 1 [A broad, curved mediaeval sword.] Do we call Woman Whore? Ay, Verily and Amen, She is that; the air shudders and burns as we shout it, exulting and eager. O ye! Was not this your sneer, your vile Whisper that scorned Her and shamed Her? Was not “Whore” the truth of Her, the title of terror that you gave Her in your fear of Her, coward comfort ing coward with furtive glance and gesture? But we fear Her not; we cry Whore, as Her armies a…
1996 · PDF PAGE 157
…ecome acquainted with the nature of the reasoning which attests the præterhuman character of the Author of this Book. It follows, in the words in which it was originally written, An. xvn, 0 in I, (£ in ®, June 8, 1921 E.v., with no preliminaries, in my Magical Diary, at the Abbey of Thelema in Cephalœdium of Trinacria. These verses are very subtly worded. How should I under stand this allusion to the Stèle; how “count well its name” without knowing it? I tried to count “Abomination of Desolation”, but that is what “they shall call” it, not its…
1996 · PDF PAGE 217
216 The Law is for All 60. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. 61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra’s seat, lightening the girders of the soul. 62. To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss. 63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its comment; & he understandeth it not. 64. Let him come through the first ordeal, & it will be to him as silver. 65. Through the second, gold. 66. Through the third, stones of precious water. 67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the int…
1996 · PDF PAGE 163
…our enemies; & they shall fall before you. 27. Also these shall breed lust & power of lust in you at the eating thereof. Commentary: The word “lust” is not necessarily to be taken in the sense familiar to Puritans. It means robustness, “merri ment” as of old understood: the Germans have retained the proper force of the term in lustig. But even the English retain “lusty.” The Puritan is undoubtedly a marvel. He has even succeeded in attaching a foul connotation to a colourless word like “certain”—“In a section of the city with a certain reputat…
1996 · PDF PAGE 34
…. 18. Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! 19. O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! 20. The key of the rituals is in the secret word which I have given unto him. 21. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth; I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit. 22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing…
1996 · PDF PAGE 209
208 The Law is for All & rapture! Come in our passionate peace, & write sweet words for the Kings! 65. I am the 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 thys…
1996 · PDF PAGE 188
…tom: then behold! 74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. 75. The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra. The Book of the Law is Written and Concealed. Aum. Ha.
1996 · PDF PAGE 199
…. 18. Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! 19. O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! 20. The key of the rituals is in the secret word which I have given unto him. 21. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth; I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit. 22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing…
1996 · PDF PAGE 37
…ueen of Heaven; Write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law! Commentary: Law, in the common sense of the word, should be a formulation of the customs of a people, as Euclid’s proposi tions are the formulation of geometrical facts. But modern knav ery conceived the idea of artificial law, as if one should try to square the circle by tyranny. Legislators try to force the people to change their customs, so that the “business men” whose greed they are bribed to serve may increase their profits. “Law,” in Greek, is …
1996 · PDF PAGE 36
…hereby affirming implicitly the very duality from which one is seeking to escape. Note also that “me” may imply the Greek MH, “not.” The word “only” might be taken as with the number of 156, that of the Secret Name Babalon of Nuit.1 2 There are presumably further hidden meanings in the key-word “all.” 1 [I.e. onlv, in Hebrew letters, reading from left to right.] 2 [See 1:22.]
1996 · PDF PAGE 102
…o multiply 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 the…
1996 · PDF PAGE 200
…pon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khu-it. 37. Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach. 38. He must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals. 39. The word of the Law is OeXrjfia. 40. Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
1996 · PDF PAGE 76
… So I could not properly understand this Book; how then could I effectively promulgate it? I comprehended but dimly that it contained my Word; for the Grade of Magus then seemed to me unthinkably high above me. Also, let me say that the True Secrets of this Grade are unfathomable and awful beyond all expression;1 the process of initiation thereto was continuous over years, and contained the most sublime mystic experiences—beyond any yet recorded by man—as mere incidents in its terrific Pageant. 1 [This is treated of in “Liber I vel Magi”; see W…
1996 · PDF PAGE 201
200 The Law is for All 41. The word of Sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell. 42. Let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing. So with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will. 43. Do that, and no other shall say nay. 44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. 45. The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfec…
1996 · PDF PAGE 39
…rt. The “ninety and nine that safely lay in the shelter of the fold”1 have no organized will at all; and their character, built of their words and deeds, is only a garbage-heap. 1 [Matthew 18:13, paraphrase.] 2 [Luke 17:21, paraphrase.] Remember, also, that, unless you know what your true Will is, you may be devoting the most laudable energies to destroying yourself. Remember that every word and deed is a witness to thought, that therefore your mind must be perfectly organized, its sole duty to interpret circumstances in terms of the Will so th…