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1917 · PDF PAGE 1

The Law of Liberty

… always I begin with these eleven words. Why, how else should I begin? What other greeting could be so glad? Look, brother, we are free! Rejoice with me, sister, there is no Law beyond Do What Thou Wilt! I write this for those who have not read 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…

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1917 · PDF PAGE 4

The Law of Liberty

…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 your will, and to rej…

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1917 · PDF PAGE 3

The Law of Liberty

…or the poor and the sad; the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk.” “Ts a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: 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 deligh…

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