For I Am Divided For Love's Sake,

The More Necessary Anything Appears To My Mind, The Most Certain It Is That I Only Assert A Limitation.

In Every Magical, Or Similar System, It Is Invariably The First Condition Which The Aspirant Must Fulfill: He Must Once And For All And For Ever Put His Family Outside His Magical Circle.even The Gospels Insist Clearly And Weightily On This.christ Himself (i.e. Whoever Is Meant By This Name In This Passage) Callously Disowns His Mother And His Brethren (luke Viii, 19). And He Repeatedly Makes Discipleship Contingent On The Total Renunciation Of All Family Ties. He Would Not Even Allow A Man To Attend His Father's Funeral!is The Magical Tradition Less Rigid?not On Your Life!

The Greatest, Like Rembrandt, Paint A Gallant, A Hag, And A Carcass With Equal Passion And Rapture; They Love The Truth As It Is. They Do Not Admit That Anything Can Be Ugly Or Evil; Its Existence Justifies Itself. This Is Because They Know Themselves To Be Part Of An Harmonious Unity; To Disdain Any Item Of It Would Be To Blaspheme The Whole. The Thelemite Is Able To Revel In Any Experience Soever; In Each He Recognizes The Tokens Of Ultimate Truth. It Is Surely Obvious, Even Intellectually, That All Phenomena Are Interdependent, And Therefore Involve Each Other.

I'm A Poet, And I Like My Lies The Way My Mother Used To Make Them.

The Sot Drinks, And Is Drunken: The Coward Drinks Not, And Shivers: The Wise Man, Brave And Free, Drinks, And Gives Glory To The Most High God.