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Page 1 of 11938 · PDF PAGE 17
… Break down the fortress of thine Individual Self, that thy Truth may spring free from the ruins! XVII. Use all thine energy to rule thy thought: burn up thy thought as the Phoenix! XVIII. Let the Illusion of the World pass over thee, unheeded, as thou goest from the Midnight to the Morning! XIX. Give forth thy light to all without doubt: the clouds and shadows are no matter for thee. Make Speech and Silence, Energy and Stillness, twin forms of thy play! XX. Be every Act an Act of Love and Worship! Be every Act the Fiat of a God! Be every Act a…
1938 · PDF PAGE 18
… His boundless adoration kindles space itself, leaving no void that is not compassed by his passion. By virtue of his LAW he floods each thought with love, and marries it in turn to every other thought; and of each bridal night the fruits are twin, the Rapture of Silence, and some new World unguessed of Phantasy; of these behold one grim and one grotesque, this lyric and that lordly, the grievous and the gracious equal in His sight, for they know neither limit nor let in the infinite variety of their Beauty, making new Harmonies with every hour…
1938 · PDF PAGE 15
…I. The issue of the Vulture, Two-in-One, conveyed; this is the chariot of Power. T R I N C : The last oracle! VIII. Balance against each thought its exact opposite! For the Marriage of these is the Annihilation of Illusion.
1938 · PDF PAGE 9
…im to understand one part of the Spirit of the Master. The Voice of the Swan. A U M G N : through the Bornless, through the Eternal, the Thought of the Master goeth, afloat in the Aethyr. The Voice of the Phoenix. A L : not to be burned, not to be quenched, the Soul of the Master bathes in the Fire of Nature, and is refreshed.
1938 · PDF PAGE 22
… the Name of that Brother was hidden from me. Then was I shewn the Mystery of the Words: how in the first period of recorded history men thought that life came from Woman alone, and worked by the Formula of Isis, worshipping Nature chaste and kindly, not understanding Death, or the Arcanum of Love. So, when the time was ripe, appeared the Brethren of the Formula of Osiris, whose word is I A O; so that men worshipped Man, thinking him subject to Death, and his victory dependent upon Resurrection. Even so conceived they of the Sun as slain and re…
1938 · PDF PAGE 24
…mory two other writings from a compilation of certain Jews of old: All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; and this: The thought of foolishness is sin. Now did I understand that all men live in sin, being baulked of their True Will, that is, of the free function of their essential nature. This restriction cometh much from their ignorance of what their True Will is, and much from external hindrance, but most of all from the interference of ill-controlled parts of their own instruments, the body and mind. For Freedom is not found…
1938 · PDF PAGE 25
…oke, I felt constantly in myself a cleansing of heart; and my stature was increased, because of the straightening of my nature. And as I thought thus, mine instructor, perceiving it, smiled upon me saying: In truth, O Khaled Khan, O child of the dawn of the Aeon, thou hast divined aright and profited in thy being by the Law of Thelema. For the Law is a just Law; it demandeth not the crooked knee of slavery, and the bowed head of shame. Nay, shouldst thou speak even to the God of gods, stand thou erect, that thou mayest be one with Him by Love, …