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And what are the conditions 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 …
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…n and women: “Come forth, O children, under the stars, and take your fill of love! I am aboye you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.” Later she explains the mystery of sorrow: ‘For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union.” “This is the 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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… 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 performed with joy and beauty!” (Remember that all acts of love and pleasure are rituals, must be rituals.) “There …
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…he 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 level of a negro or a clergyman, and the moral l…