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1917 · PDF PAGE 3

The Law of Liberty

…anifestation of Nuit is at an end.” In the next chapter of our Book is given the word of TI] Hadit, who is the complement of Nuit. He is eternal energy, the Infinite Motion of Things, the central core of all being. The manifested Universe comes from the marriage of Nuit and Hadit; without this could no thing be. This eternal, this perpetual marriage-feast is then the nature of things themselves; and therefore everything that is, is a crystallisation of divine ecstasy. Hadit tells us of Himself: “I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, …

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1917 · PDF PAGE 2

The Law of Liberty

…s of this joy, and peace, and glory ? Is_ ours the gloomy asceticism of the Christian, and the Buddhist and the Hindu? Are we walking in eternal fear lest some “sin” should cut us off from “ grace” ? By no means. “Be ye goodly therefore: dress ye all in fine apparel t ri foods and drink sweet wines, and wines that foam ! Pat ae ane fill and will of love as ye will, when, where, and with whom ye will! But always unto me.” a : This is the only point to bear in mind, that every act must be a ‘ritual, an act of worship, a sacrament. Live as the kin…

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The Law of Liberty

…ry 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 your will, and to rejoice. “Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart?” He s…

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