Matches from Liber Al:

1. the known. These are fools that men adore; both their Gods their men are
2. fools. Come forth, o children, under the stars take your fill of love. I am above
3. Come forth, o children, under the stars take your fill of love. I am above you
4. Above, the gemmed azure is The naked splendour of Nuit; She bends in
5. globe, the starry blue, Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu! Now ye shall know that the chosen
6. For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is The winged secret flame
7. to him is The winged secret flame and to her the stooping starlight.
8. not so chosen Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! O azure-lidded
9. serpent! O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! The key of the rituals
10. and to him by a secret name which I will him give when at last he knoweth me
11. not of thee at all since thou art continuous. None, breathed the light,
12. the chance of union. This is the creation of the world that the pain of
13. division is as nothing and the joy of dissolution all. For these fools of men and
14. me only! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. This is so: I
15. only! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. This is so: I swear
16. I can give, by all I desire of ye all. Then the priest fell into a deep
17. the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword: these he shall learn and teach. He
18. learn and teach. He must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals. The word
19. must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals. The word of the Law is Who calls us
20. look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades. The
21. unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way
22. and not two: nay, are none! Nothing is a secret key of this law Sixty-one the
23. it; I call it Eight, Eighty, fourhundred eighteen. But they have
24. one: are not they the Ox and none by the Book. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals,
25. of me Let Asar be the adorant, Isa the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name
26. are four gates to one palace; the floor of that palace is of silver and gold, lapis
27. servant sink? But there are means and means. Be goodly therefore: dress
28. and wines that foam. Also, take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom
29. child. Aum! All words are sacred and all prophets true; save only that they understand
30. first half of the equation, leave the second unattacked But thou hast
31. the law of the fortress and the great mystery of the House of God All these
32. all their numbers who are of us. The five pointed star, with a circle in
33. rejoicing in my Secret Temple To me! To me! calling forth the
34. me! To me! The Manifestation of Nuit is at an End. Nu! the hiding of
35. Nuit is at an End. Nu! the hiding of Hadit. Come! all ye, and learn the secret
36. an End. Nu! the hiding of Hadit. Come! all ye, and learn the secret that hath not
37. the center, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found. Yet she shall
38. worshipper. Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all
39. remains. O prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing. I see thee
40. thou wast the knower, and me. Now let there be a veiling of this shrine: now
41. light devour men and eat them up with blindness. For I am perfect,
42. blindness. For I am perfect, being Not; and my number is nine by
43. for there is a further secret. I am The Empress the Hierophant.
44. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us. Beauty and strength,
45. strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.
46. the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever Nuit Hadit
47. and stir the hearts of men with drunkeness. To worship me take wine and
48. They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure
49. against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man, lust,
50. rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. I am alone: there is
51. about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I
52. Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. A feast for fire and a feast
53. death A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture. A feast
54. thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but I
55. deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, not other. Therefore the kings
56. in thine heart and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body. Thou are
57. our agelong love. Come! lift up thine heart rejoice! We are one; we are
58. hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy.
59. thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be
60. exceed! Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly mine and doubt
61. for death. Death is forbidden, o man, unto thee. The length of thy longing
62. among the Kings. Aye! listen to the numbers the words: A B K A L G M O R Y X R P S T O
63. o chosen one, to be me; to follow the love of Nu in the star-lit heaven; to look
64. the star-lit heaven; to look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word. O be
65. worship to the prophet of the lovely Star. Abrahadabra! the reward of Ra-Hoor-Khut.
66. Choose ye an island! Fortify it! Dung it about with enginery of war! I will
67. secret house Get the stele of revealing itself; set it in thy
68. house Get the stele of revealing itself; set it in thy secret
69. thy secret temple and that temple is already aright disposed it
70. already aright disposed it shall be your Kiblah for ever. It shall not fade, but
71. to the world. This shall be your only proof. I forbid argument. Conquer! That
72. them, o warrior, I will give you of their flesh to eat! Sacrifice cattle
73. the Scarlet Concubine of his desire! Ye shall be sad thereof. Deem not
74. folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth.
75. not unlike the one thou knowest. And it shall be suddenly easy for thee to
76. to do this. The other images group around me to support me: let all be
77. winners of the Ordeal x. What is this? Thou shalt know. For perfume mix meal
78. For perfume mix meal honey thick leavings of red wine; then oil of
79. me, and kept thick with perfumes of your orison: it shall become full
80. thick with perfumes of your orison: it shall become full of beetles
81. soul of God and beast shall mingle in the globed priest; another sacrifice
82. half of the word of Heru-ra-ha, called Hoor-pa-kraat and Ra-Hoor-Khut. Then said the prophet
83. me unveils the veiled sky, The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu Whoso words are truth. I
84. I adore the might of Thy breath, Supreme and terrible God, Who makest
85. Who makest the gods and death To tremble before Thee:- I, I adore thee!
86. the ways of the Ka! The ways of the Khabs run through To stir me or still me! Aum!
87. in all the quarters [these are the adorations, as thou hast written] as it is
89. light is mine; its rays consume Me: I have made a secret door Into the
90. O Mentu, The prophet Ankh-af-na-khonsu! By Bes-na-Maut my breast I beat;
92. business way. The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones.
93. harlot shall she crawl through dusk wet streets, and die cold and an-hungered. But let
94. an-hungered. But let her raise herself in pride. Let her follow me in
95. jewels, and rich garments, and let her be shameless before all men! Then will
96. the original in the writing of the Beast; for in the chance shape of
97. original in the writing of the Beast; for in the chance shape of the
98. no Beast shall divine. Let him not seek to try: but one cometh after
99. whence I say not, who shall discover the key of it all. Then this line drawn is a key:
100. then this circle squared in its failure is a key also. And Abrahadabra. It shall be
101. to the holier place. I am in a secret fourfold word the blasphemy against all
102. as he hangs upon the cross I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed blind him
103. the Indian and the Buddhist, Mongol and Din. Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your
104. be utterly despised among you. Also for beauty's sake and love's. Despise also all
105. fire. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who say not so, are