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…upreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! Aye! Feast! Rejoice! There is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu.” It all depends on your own acceptance of this New Law, and you are not asked to believe anything, to accept a string of foolish fables beneath the intellectual l…
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…d beauty, all is joy. ae For hear, how gracious is the Goddess: “T give unimaginable on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy ; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice, Tech
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… creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all.” It is shown later how this can be, how death itself is an ecstasy like love, but more intense, the reunion of the soul with its true self.
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…who sorroweth is not of us.” “Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious langour, force and fire, are of us.” Later, concerning death, He says: “Think not, O king, upon that lie: That Thou must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be understood : if the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever.” When you know that, what is left but delight? And how are we to live meanwhile ? “It is a lie, this folly against itself_Be strong, man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture : fear not that any …