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1917 · PDF PAGE 3

The Law of Liberty

…I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. Tome! Tome !” And with these words “ The Manifestation 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…

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1917 · PDF PAGE 1

The Law of Liberty

…d our Sacred Book, Il the Book of the Law, or for those who, reading it, have somehow failed to understand its perfection. For there are many matters in this Book, and the Glad Tidings are now here, now there, scattered throughout the Book as the Stars are scattered through the field at Night. Rejoice with me, all ye people! At the very head of the Book stands the great charter of our godhead: “Every man and every woman is a star.” We are all free, all independent, all shining gloriously, each one a radiant world. Is not that good tidings? Then…

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The Law of Liberty

…aw, 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 says again: ‘‘ Where I am, these are not.” There is much more of the same kind ; enough has been quoted already to make all clear. But there is a further injunction. “Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be no…

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