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light shed over you. Let my servants be few secret: they
are fools. Come forth, o children, under the stars take your fill
winged globe, the starry blue, Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu! Now ye
space is the prince-priest the Beast and in his woman;
me Since I am Infinite Space and the Infinite
difference made among you between any one thing any
saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one. Who am I, and
her lovely brows and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a
One but as None and let them speak not of thee at all since
pain of division is as nothing and the joy of dissolution all. For
as nothing and the joy of dissolution all. For these fools of men and
are my chosen ones. Obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of
the ordeals write unto us the rituals write unto us the
learn and teach. He must teach; but he may make severe the
severe the ordeals. The word of the Law is Who calls us Thelemites
the Law is Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close
close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades.
therein Three Grades. The Hermit and the Lover and the
Three Grades. The Hermit and the Lover and the man of Earth.
Lover and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed!
divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed! be it
aeons. Hell. Let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing. So
not aright; if ye confound the space-marks, saying: They are
the ritual be not ever unto me: the expect the
much as the style of a letter; for behold thou o prophet shalt
style of a letter; for behold thou o prophet shalt not behold all
no expected house cometh that child. Aum! All words are sacred and all
that child. Aum! All words are sacred and all prophets true; save only that
There is the dove and there is the serpent. Choose ye
gums and there is no blood therein: because of my hair the
hair the trees of Eternity. My number is as all their
all: but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour. Ye
gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels;
pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy.
to my joy. I charge you earnestly to come before me in
with a rich headdress. I love you I yearn to you. Pale or purple,
she stands bare and rejoicing in my Secret Temple To
night sky To me! To me! The Manifestation of Nuit is
of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away; let
of death. I am the Magician and the Exorcist I am the axle
death. I am the Magician and the Exorcist I am the axle of
hate the hand the pen; but I am stronger. Because of me
which thou knewest not for why? Because thou wast the knower, and
blindness. For I am perfect, being Not; and my number
the Hierophant. Thus eleven as my bride is eleven. Hear
sighing! The sorrows of pain and regret Are left to the dead
force and fire, are of us. We have nothing with the outcast and
Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live! Now let
Light these are for the servants of the Star the Snake. I am
They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The
their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall
there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than
Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom,
shall make a great miss. He shall fall down into the pit called Because,
of Reason. Now a curse upon Because and his kin! May Because be
Will stops does nought. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness. Also
times. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and
of the slaves that perish. Be they damned dead! Amen. [This is
the slaves that perish. Be they damned dead! Amen. [This is of
slaves that perish. Be they damned dead! Amen. [This is of the
of the there is a fifth who is invisible therein am I
woman; it is the veil of sorrow, the pall of death: this is none of
it is the veil of sorrow, the pall of death: this is none of me.
shalt look upon with gladness. But I will hide thee in a mask of sorrow:
mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but
thou wilt; the letters change them not in style or value!
wilt; the letters change them not in style or value! Thou
not long: then when ye are sad know that I have forsaken you. He that
not of change: ye shall be as ye are, not other. Therefore the
up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep die! Ah! Ah!
do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein! But
know ever. There cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound
shall expound it. But remember, o chosen one, to be me;
colour shall come back to it day after day. Close it in locked glass for a
little and big: after a child. But not now. Ye shall see that hour, o
be off; damn them who pity. Kill and torture; spare not; be
I will show thee, especial, not unlike the one thou knowest.
the visible object of worship; the others are secret;
enemies; then of the priest or of the worshippers:
the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt
shall awake the lust worship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall
beat; By wise Ta-Nech I weave my spell. Show thy star-splendour,
and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to
easy; and Hadit burning in thy heart shall make swift and secure
cast her out from men: as a shrinking and despised harlot shall she crawl
I breed from her a child mightier than all the kings of the
mightier than all the kings of the earth I will fill her with
of the earth I will fill her with joy: with my force shall she see
This book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the
original in the writing of the Beast; for in the chance
I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed blind him With my
beauty's sake and love's. Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers who
play: all fools despise But the keen and the proud, the royal and
do ye reverence; to me come ye through tribulation
the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom:
name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the
the sun of midnight is ever the son The ending of the
midnight is ever the son The ending of the words is the
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