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…d, as masters always live; but let it not be self-indulgence; make your self-indulgence your religion. When you drink and dance and take delight, you are not being “immoral,” you are not “risking your immortal soul”; you are fulfilling the precepts of our holy religion—provided only that you remember to regard your actions in this light. Do not lower yourself and destroy and cheapen your pleasure by leaving out the supreme joy, the consciousness of “The Peace that passeth under- standing.” Do not embrace mere Marian or Melusine; she is Nuit Her…
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…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 God shall deny thee for this.” Again and again, in words like these, He sees the expansion and the development of the soul through joy. ; Here is the Calendar of our Church: “But ye, O my people, rise up and awake! Let the rituals be rightly perform…
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…r 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 level of a negro or a clergyman, and the moral level of a drug-fiend or a lawyer. All you have to do is to be yourself, to do …