AUSTIN OSMAN

SPARE

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DEDICATED TO HE THAT W1LLS AND TO HIM THAT ASKS

NY philosop hy, thesis, or sty le degenerates pro rata to the number who embrace it. Thou art the way. I would ask of thee thy suppressed self, is it not the new thing desired? The search is to be known only to the seeker, it is not to be taught but only to be learned. No man shall follow me. 1 am not thy preservation. " TIle deepest secret is always hidden even though it be displayed openly
to

the public or cried from rooftops. deals more or less in the common form, this common

• All poetry

coin, this circulating fluid of ide-aand image and phrase, and mat it is the very ethos, nay, the very essence, of the poet to make the common as if it were not common. • Leaving aside all unreal dreams, consider this world as insincere disbelief enmeshed in an elaborate network of religious, metaphysical or philosophical ideas and which attracts not so much admirers as devotees. Whosoever follows me becomes his own enemy; for in that day my exigency shall be his ruin. Go labour! Fulfil the disgust of becoming yourself, of discovering your beliefs, and thus acquire virtue.

A,:\V P;\RT OF A WHOLE DERIVES CS EHOS FROM THE WHOLE, t\l\'D WI-IE", 50 PO~ITED WILL AJNCTION AS A WHOLE. THE ETHOS OF L~NGUAGE SHOULD BE l;l\tQUIVOCAL'MEANING'
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(IN A~Y RlmON.~L SEMAt\ TIC'\l T POs:'lBLI AMBIGUOUS :\', . '. \, OIJR VASTU!QT10NA,L COivIPLe:

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TRUTH 15 THE

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REARED ON THE STRUQURE OF mE IDS. OUR THOL:GHT ~ mITERNS RESULT FROM QU.{j\JTmmVE AGGR[GATIONS, GRADAllONS, VAR1ATlON, JL1XTA-POSiTJON1NC5 AND FROU OUR INHERENT ETHOS.

PROPORTIO\L.'1GS DDuvrn

BY

AUSTIN OSMAN SPi\RE

MICROLOGUS THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

(SELF;LOVE) THE WITCHES SABBATH MIND TO MIND & HOW

CONTENTS
Micrologus Book of Pleasure (Self- Love)
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The Witches' Sabbath Mind to Mind and How

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Patho-psychology has birthed another Frankenstein by idiocrasies become hvprocrisies with their own environmental facades -~ to ornament the suppression -. and what they suppress) to excuse, shift blame from the old arch-vices ... Insatiable Greed and Furtive Ferocity. Believe it or not, there is such a thing as wickedness. There is a Third eye! To paraphrase" -~ let not thy right eye seeth what the left seem" would be a 'distinction wi thout much difference', except for our wilful blindness to all committed self-deceptions; they are seen and recorded by the inner eye. You may delude your foreconsciousness but not what is far beneath. The main premise of Religion is the demanding of complete acceptance by faith of some dogmatic thesis and conclusion. That las if' explains the abstracts and mysteries of life, and, as proof, the assertion that their God or cause -.- as being so miraculous in his workings to be beyond human comprehension -~ to over-ride your bafflement of all contradictions and incongruities. I admit Nature accomplishes the impossible -~ has she not created man? If you can so delude yourselfand stomach this stuff - it partially 'works'; which means that the poorest 'as

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3.

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if! connation
something~·

is better

than

non-bel

ief and gives

if only a shadowy postulation in death, or a palliative by psycho~paralysis in life.

'He', speaks truthfully and sayeth, I know NOT and I Hear assertions, "Heaven in "The speak truthfully -.- I know not my omniscience. now, the tsaviours' with their incredulous platitudinous,
jittery and frenetic asseverations:

4.

and Eternal

Life" in exchange

for belief

(vicarious) atonement

of the blood" . ; . or be damned! has never worked yet, or any

Such a 'wishful belly-fuIr

other absurdities of iniquitous credulity ... stinks! Therefore pray not direct to God, but to your own

damned seLf-·- by sacrifice and service to man, it is the only correct manner of prayer; and none so poor that they cannot so ,give. All other forms of prayer appreciation. are

abortive, merely a ritualistic

The only

answering forces of good that 1know originate from man, and the only force of evil that I know radiates from man

also .. If the evil thoughts of mart were able to break

through our protective auras, .. human life would end.

All prayer dissipates without an intermediary or carrier. Gods, soul) and the psvcho-substantive, seem to respond only through the mind by in-direction, and heterosuggestion: this is the secret way through marry barriers.

The mind is potent, still the deadliest weapon, Or the reverse, I ask: what greater gift could any God give us? Only ourselves, as free individuals .. .not so much to hate and love as to excel ourselves,

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"Psychology" is now the equal of any other dogma,

inasmuch conclusions as it demands from undefined the full acceptance of rigid qualities and premises. thesis or definiton
n ",

Psychology has no dominant

f uncd amenta 1s as "thought",

II.'.

. conSClOusness,

" mte II'tgence,

of such

"purpose", etc, We are aware that there are

no exact or final definitions or conclusions of anything, but we are also aware that certain correct hypothesesone, such as regarding The "Ether certain thesis. have rendered us other facts .. , and thus indirectly prove their

The offer of such very shaky nominalism -.-. which begins

nowhere and ends in an excusing pathology a worse gamble than that of any religion. has no standard of morality, behaviourism, common mean at that. "the average" presents Psycho- ism or normality,

with which it mainly deals, so must be based on the an inelastic average

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Thus anything 'abnormal or subnormal' could, or might be 'patho'. Shit! And when the common denominators are realised from the Id of Greed, then, where are we? The Zombie our level? Genius a madness? No, for civilization there must be a more arbitrary ethical-intelligent standard above the 'normalities'; an Ideal that is tactual, that is directly related to reality - with its integral precisions detemined by social motivation. Conventions whether of morals or behaviour may he as wise as anything man has invented.
6. Man ever aberrates -.- even his normalities! Mainly to

compensate for his deficiencies, and often finds there a shadow world that accepts and reflects the assured survival of his weaknesses. 7. WCJrcls; ords, words, however used -. whatever they w symbolise, request, or tell - say morel --- showing inbetween, the antics of all motives! Yes, word rendering offers the quickest of deaths to flabby ideas, and also the most poignant, suggestive, contagious, substitutive, and lasting means known to convey anything. Most deadly virus! most potent abcreation, and magic subtlety! .. , even your erasure has you believing .. ,

We are over-stuffed with words~· - now a veritable systole and diastole of mind: whether or not we correctly torpor. completing, or ~ articulate) we suffer post-prandial 8. Neither universe

nor man is complete, to function

dissolving,

but only resurging

and re-indulging

existing forms reshaping flesh impacting fat women. 9.

new pleasures of

flesh. At least, so I imagine, who loves

Only man inveighs; as a build-up, for excuse, for courage, for some enactment or the exacting ...

10.

We are a great company! None walk alone, but with a formidable host of familiars -.- however we may clothe, shut out, or prohibit. There is a veritable funeral procession of dead selves and loves always in attendance.

1L The ugly ecstasies:

adolescents,

the

mass of mankind

sex-obsessed,

are fixed and making of the thing a

a mephitic bathos from is a

messy or obscene commonplace,

ill-used passions and emotions. Yet procreation

both are life, initial and fundamental

mystery but holds no greater mystery than breathing; .... Yes! The mystic union is now a mere (dirty) copulation. 1Z. "Wi'lat stupidities benight the assertion that anything was created unrelated to all else;

if

things were entirely

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separate, exhaust.

complete,

they would be static and quickly possible; aU things serve each other, Yet we live by every means a as permanent as

Life, growth, change, into and out of things to

all transmutations partitiveness possible. -

willingly or otherwise.

make our ignorance

,.. and nothing seems more lasting than a lie.

13. Life is a potency, becoming selected indulgences; a .path through the chaos we make - how soon fearing .-. ~ shocked! cry out for salvation,
old mothering or protectiveness. and back-slide NQ escape!
to

some

For to breathe the human smell, touch the hirsute flesh

_.- shall again adventure

14. Compensating mechanism

... 'must transgress. often demand an antithesis and temperament

to balance or fulfil, as with character effeminate man,

an ideal union being the masculine woman and the

IS.

Words have lost their pristine power, now impressing as on a queachy surface. They become an ambiguous
way

of Knowing
anothers',

and fourth-hand

experiencing, because one's

reactions to events can never be formed or apprized from

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Queerly, most people believe what they read or hear-·

if written or spoken rigorously or as authoritatively.

Yet

human credulity has more of virtue than of absurdity. 16. We are millions of yesterdays, and what appears autogenic

is the work of unknown mediators who permit, or not, ou:r acts by the mysterious chemistry of our believing. 17. Beauty alone reaches simplicity, because it is basic "economy". Envy over .... adorns , paints, ostentatiously clothes and transfers to mode. The naked figure is a more
fluid and truthful beauty; hence to marry a 'face' is often to marry a fiction ..OUI work and behaviour portrait, the 'value' we live and give by. 18, When thought disassociates from the correspondences is the Truer

things, these will reform abundantly with new correlatives as emotional

and gradations between contrasting content in our resultant process of rearrangements; final

representation is an asymetrical balance. This "seeing strangely is the level of our genius.
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19.

Reasoning and its inferences are a screever's logic. and useless to put us in contact with reality _. all reality being mote abstract than actual as a para-Ideal of, but cannot grasp. we know

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The nearest we attain to it is-by a unison of all the senses, that appreciates emotional

by personal sentiment,
and 'abstracts' ... an unplanned

can, by suitable which cannot be

channelling,

be affective and associate and latent portraying

express any nuances defined in thought --- as in Nature. 20. All religion separation; 21.

is suffering/sufferance.

Prayer

is a false

immanence

is always here, a filtrated quasiof mind, is and as

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Only the refrangible seemingly phenomenal partitive,

'comes through',

reality, not the "thing" itself; the nournenon susceptible

only by partitiveness

form. Thus all our awareness is reflected,

and with a linear 'T' as consciousness,

motivates our faculties into actuations.

But over and above this we have that "queer' feeling

which extends and attempts to get behind and rationali.se

the unclarifiable.

But we never do - being dimensionally

to our Mrs. God or misused

chained, and bed-companion rd.

22. There is nothing self-potential our creator. Thefrouzy

in creation ... including are unsurviving, becomes

hermaphrodites

improvised transients ..TI1.e division ofself from self was a diversity for variety, and soon all animation

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'presence' -

neotic and numerous. Therefore

it is better

to speak of 'the Gods' than of a singular. 23. Belief is a sustenance, desire acquisitive, and ((will" energizes and maintains; their close unison gives ability and the measure of our sincerity ... creative when
spontaneous. 24. First the suppressions to create the tension then the dramatic release.

One damned thing after another. Life and death is an

entering and leaving of different dream worlds, and reality is,where we find or make it. Our fictualism and factualism are equally false or true. We believe what we desire to believe, usually a disguised motivation of
egotism ..- . or to dream compensations, our poor panacea

for the irreducible Id plus I,

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The frequency of time we relate is our measure of space, and works inversely: gestation are slow. apperception , digestion, and

26. To believe and accept everything even unto the most incredulous,

all contradictions,
to believe the

immaculate conception with cheap salvation, and the whole shoot of such religions is an impossible Ideal,

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Belief must be limited -.

to. have depth and meaning.

No, there is rumination, regurgitation, final vomiting

. , . not yet the limitless stomach. 27. The only quick-change artistry we perform is the taking deceit,

off and putting on again of some protectiveness,

or disguise. Refusing reality we must make one, and {show

off.
28. Over-exuberance is a satisfaction, and the beginning of rococo and decay, Too much freedom overruns flops, and turns to vicious disease or trivia. itself,

29. All

teaching should

be confined

to

ways ofleaming

and

Techniques .. We live inside churches long. ]0. Our efforts are mainly to re-experience, and permanent those things we

and schools too

to make probable and desire most.

like

Whereas mind and body reshapes, for other powers to

serve their purpose first.

31. A life

at pleasure

is impossible; all promiscuity unhealthy conscience possible.

is now forces

filthy. 50' few understand pleasuring by innocent

unchastities. forgetfulness,

me essential

The

smothering

of your anti-

sociability to appear conventionally

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Our next incamation is: always a revivalenvelope.something,

to

extend, to to re-

and a greater shutting out, survival (crediting and re-paving

by
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differential

revival

borrow). Pledged we are. The anxiety of the ulrra-niodemis forgotten 34. one -. as something new. of being' outmoded

by the next idiom, usually a revival or variation of a

Praise or blame deceives and would make us inferior when, as confirming our false and true values, we should only be influenced from a personal and innermost reeling of appurtenance over and above such things -. to make our great simplicity to equal all.

To walk the safest way of least resistance, we cheaply

familiarise ourselves and become insensitive, to the unfamiliar sterile: so and all jungles! To follow the "bell-

wether') is still the most universal and successful gospel. 35. It is the empirical, ~,- that art portrays, 36. To become oblique is one answer: but our minds have heaped up cliches, self-coined, borrowed or inheritedmostly spurious'. So stultified -, = not by limits oflanguage nor so tongue-tied we fail through falsities and halfsometimes accidental meaning and obvious

beauty of Nature _. .as well as the overlooked

believing, uninspired

fears bred of cramped growth, obedience patterning, and lose our impassioned

to

creativeness by accepting easy conventions,

idioms, and

shoddy imitations. 37. Those of real ability count their consummations as still lacking, hence they are always learning;

38. We hate and love ourselves only through others. Heaven help us .. '. looking only for our likenesses.
39. We exhibit congratulate

and pretension when we ourselves as lacking the. defects 0 f others.

inferiority

40. So tightly or wrongly, 1 think this.

What was once free, casual, and formless seeks arbitrary laws! precipitated into Time and dimensional form with
definite functional purpose and direction, about which within we can only guess to realise all probabilities

definite limits, that so far are unlimited.

desire through necessity; to realise by ex-creative means. How much ot how little is bound up in '3 'mystic' belief of ourselves,
These extend we only know as possible potency;

and allow formative

In our relation

to

Cosmos) if significance is measured by

our increarive ability~- - then we are of no greater worth

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than the amoeba. Nature permits no interrogation;

our

techniques merely imitate, and only when so allowed. The function acceptance and purpose of life almost seems an
OUf

experiment in genius, a chosen few at one time.

early

of things as they are, as dominant

reality,

later becomes overshadowed by doubt, and we conclude that evil is real, potent and contra to ALmighryness. But, lest we forget thereby explanation

there was no evil until man's advent, and

madness is seeking a 'rational'

a certain

of life. Things totally without knowledge perfectly, and are alone beyond good

seem to function

and evil.
Knowledge precludes the acceptance ignorance, but the acceptance of all things: the beginning of knowledge is not the discovery of our own

of all -

an equation

always equal -

becomes its own good and evil. And and learn what explanation they

those born of great abili ty also have a profound ignorance of how they accomplish, can give. How do they know what they know? Ability is an endowcment from our past selves. The infinite Cosmos, the Milky Way, and all therein, manifest as from organism without truth and so all things continue, so that we did not There ate no alternatives or different derivatives: are such assertions,

originate ourselves of our own free will (or otherwise). Our amnesia covers so much _.- all our early history and potentials; now latent, unknown yet, what were unities, Truth, Freedom, etc. are now separate, untrue, powerless, or appear diversely -- all vice-versas! 'But the eternal ever-varying flux of our media relatabiluv is as the ebb and flow of our capacity towards greater affinity to all possibilities within the ever omnipresent mind as manifest

flesh.
Where there is life there is a degree of consciousness, however shadowy, with all its inter-relating pretences. When the uniform homogeneity of matter breaks or divides, activity manifests as multiples, and individual modifications begin. Concurrently a subtle superfetation occurs which forms our media for ubiquitary minds, and becomes our egothen soul We are always a functional throwback, the articulation of past latencies. The complex development of body becomes a more elastic medium for ego, mind, and soul to work through. The purpose of life appears as the can versa tion of matter from the collective uniform (stinking lump) into a specialised separateness, e.g. a diversity of individuals.

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Hence there is no universal brotherhood based on equality; just the reverse. Whatever our claims concerning inter-relatedness, this is governed not only by heritage -. but by aptitude. Ability indeed has to be deserved the hard way ... the way of Techniques and effort. The body is the puppet of the mind. We begin as automatic, becoming as autonomous ... a transference. The puppet becomes the showman. All our integrations stem from our intro/extrovertive ability: a mental breathing -~ _.give, take and remake.

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~~(OZ.H~1. ~nOOK OFPLEASURE(SELF,LOVE)

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6&\ Et % lID

AUSTIN OSMAN PARE

DTHE Pc;YCHOLOGY OF ECSTASY

INTRODUCTION
HE
WORK OF ART WE LOVE IS THAT

which, like the sentence of Meredith's Mrs. Mountstuart, has an outline in vagueness, and is flung out to be apprehended, not dissected. Explanations, labels, we rightly distrust, but after our first delight it is interesting to examine the aims and methods of the artist, and to appreciate the thoughts behind them.
ith his first book of drawings the chaotic and

wonderful

"Earth Inferno"

(1905 )., Austin

Osman Spare gave us explanations which, if they did not mareri any add to our delight in the vitality of the designs, could hardly be dissociated from them, and did increase our interest in their creator's personality. His second book, "A Book of Satyrs" ( 1907 ).,relied on pictorial statement, and, though an advance in technique was apparent and the conception more mature, this work was not so wholly satisfactory as the first. Since the publication of these books Spare's work has progressed, the best qualities of each have been merged and added to, with the result that such drawings

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as "The Death Posture" (frontispiece)

have been produced.

In
"'Tn The 'n
,";:ll'l,

this connection

it may not be out of place to quore from

November

*my notes on one of the more important of his later exhibitions

I)", 1911,

that at the Baillie Gallery, Bruton Street" London, at the

"The man who would give form to our vague thoughts, and who would suggest and symbolize abstract ideas for us pictorially, must come to his task wIth a very complete technical equipment or invite disaster at the outset, and if, on looking at some of these pencil drawings, we are inclined to resent so reckless a prodigality of invention in what seems at first so incoherent.a statement, we should look at the pen-and-ink drawing, 'The Psychology oj Ecstasy," and there see a work completed, a work Irotn which, the superflueus e.liminated,there emerges a vitality so controlled and concentrated that satisfies us at once, even though we maybe baffled by the meaning, which, on more intimate acquaintance, will give up some of its secrets. Return now to the majority of the drawings, and should we Dot be glad that we are thus permitted to watch the bi nh of pictoria Iideas? Should we not revel in these forms springing from forms, these Lines leaping like

end of 1911;-

'l" Fl'o!1li"!lit>e",

"The Dc 11th
POsture," I~

flames upon the paper?"

We may reproach

Spare' with one thing -

he has given us

too much, and we have been unable to digest it. Now he comes to our aid with this magic book, the drawings in which may be taken as explanations of the text his creed -. and

while some may be chiefly interested in this revelation of the

workings of the artist's mind, others by rills very revelation may see themselves be tempted more clearly as they are, and indeed may to follow his path to a more joyous life, to that as the Ecstasy of Complete Self,

Pleasure (Self~Love) which gives the title to the book, and which may be interpreted Rea Iization .
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I will add a word of thanks to the author-artist in giving me the opportunity of appreciation

for his kindness

of writing this short note, and

with the hope that the book may bring an increased measure to his works, I will make way for my friend.

September, 1913.

ERNEST H. R. COLLINGS.

lNOTE.In preparing this book for publication a few alterations have been found necessary at the last moment In consequence, Daniel Phaers introduction and portrait are omitted, together with the following chapters and corresponding illustrations, and the emblematic portraits of Ernest H.R. Collings: "The Feast of the Supersensualists," "Modus Operandi at the Joy of the Round Feast," "Prophecy, Omens, etc.," "The Book of Revelation," "Definitions," "Dreams," "Mental States in Relation to Suggest ion," "Desert priori of Sensa tions and Emotions, ""Controlling the Elements," "Black Magic with Protection," "'The Black Mass," "Vampirism," "Sorcery;" "Oracles, etc.," "Superstitions," "Excitement to Love, etc.," "Use of SpelJs and incantations all. Men, Animals, etc.," "Invoking Elementals, Nature Spirits for Glamour and Power, etc." These may subsequently appear in a fuller edition. I have to express my thanks to Ernest H. R. Collings for correcting proofs for this edition. A few copies of the previous books "Earth Inferno" (1905) and "A Book of Satyrs" (l90n are still obtainable. - ADS, September, 1913.1

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DEFINITIONS
The words God, religions, Iauh, morals, woman, etc. (they being forms of belief), are used as expressing different "means'tas controlling and expressing desire: an idea of unity by fear in some form or another which must spell bondage ~ the imagined limits; extended by science which adds a dearly paid inch LO our height: no more. Kia: The absolute freedom which being free is mighty enough to be "reality" and free at any time: therefore is not potential or manifest (except as its instant possibility) by ideas of freedom or "means," but by the Ego being free to receive it, by being free or ideas about it and by not believing. The less said of it (Kia) the less obscure is it. Remember evolution teaches by terrible punishments - that conception is ultimate reality but not ultimate freedom from evolution. Virtue: Pure Arl. Vice: Fear, belief, faith, control, science, and the like. Self-Love: A menta! state, mood or condition caused by the emotion of laughter becoming the principle that allows the Ego appreciation or universal association in permitting inclusion before conception. Exhaustion: That state of vacuity brought by exhausting a desire by some means of dissipation when the moed corresponds to the nature of the desire, i.e., when the mind is wonted because 0 f the non-fulfilment of such desire and seeks relief, By seizing this mood and living, (he resultant vacuity is sensitive to the subtle suggestion olthe Sigil,

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THE DEATH POSTURE

DIFFERENT RELIGIONS AND DOTRIN AS MEANS TO PLEASURE, FREEDOM AND POWER

HAT
IS THERE TO BELIEVE, BUT IN SELF? AND

Self is the negation of completeness as reality. No man has seen self at any time. We are what we believe and what it implies by a process of time in the conception; creation is caused by this bondage to formula. ctions are the expressions of ideas bound up in the belief; they being inherent are obscure, their operation indirect, easily they deceive introspection. Fruits of action are two-fold, Heaven or Hell, their Unity or Nothingness (Purgatory or Indifference). In Heaven there is desire for Women, Hell the desire intense. Purgatory is expectation delayed, Indifference but disappointment till recovery. Then verily they are one and the same. The wise pleasure seeker, having realised they are "different degrees of desire" and never desirable, gives up both

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Virtue and Vice and becomes a Kiaisr. himself in self- love.

Riding the Shark of

his desire he crosses the ocean of the dual principle and engages

*
God is Heaven or rhar h Almighty Inconceivable erna na rot; iT'8 conception 01
'" TI10l! 1,\ ~ In 111,[11

Religions are the projection

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of incapacity, the imaginations of imbecility.

of fear the veneer of superstition, that paradox is truth,

ofttimes the ornamentation them -. is but ceremonial, governing prospect fear. religiousness,

* while

As a virtue in the

Idea to maximize pleasure cheapl y, remi t your sins and excuse the expression of puppetry to the you have ordained in your Yes I What

commits Rlicld..:, etc.

is your very rack, imagined though it be! The

is not pleasant; you have taught yourself!

It has

become inborn and your body is sensitive.

*
Gods (or anything incapacity Therefore

*
proving since

Some praise the idea of Faith.

To believe that they are Better is it to admit

else) would make them such than reinforce it

by all they do, to be full of its non-belief or insignificance, "protects" the superficial

by faith;

but does not change

the vital.

reject the former for the latter. Their formula is

deception and they are deceived, the negation of their purpose.

Faith is denial, or the metaphor

of ldiotcv, hence it always

force

fails. To make their bondage more secure, Governments

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religion succeeds; honour

down the throats is the greater.

of their

slaves,

and it always their

those who escape it are but few, therefore

When faith perishes, the "Self' shall of themselves, and as much subject

come into its own. Others less foolish, obscure the memory that God is a conception to law. Then, this ambition of faith, is it so very desirable?

Myself, I have not yet Seen a man who is not God already. Others again, and those who have much knowledge, cannot tell you exactly what "belief" is, or how to believe in what defies natural laws and existing belief. Surely it is not by directly they power and excludes saying "I believe", that art has long been lost. They are even more subject to bewilderment open their they mouths and distraction without that full of argument; dogma

unhappy unless spreading their own confusion, to gain cogency must adopt and mannerism possibility .... deteriorate believe - By the illumination of their knowledge they

in accomplishment.

Have we not watched them

decay in ratio to their expoundings?

Verily, man cannot

wherefore

by faith

or gain, neither can he explain his knowledge

unless born of a new law. We being everything, the necessity of imagining we are not?

Be ye
Others believe in prayer ....
ye who are living

mystic. have not all yet learnt, that Oh, is lives! Unless desire

to ask is to be denied? Let it be the root of your Gospel. other people's subconscious,

it is not fulfilled, no, not in this life ,.Then verily 37

sleep is better than prayer. Quiescence is hidden desire, a form of "not asking"; by it the female obtains much from man. Utilize prayer (if you must pray) as a means of exhaustion, and by that you will obtain your desire. Some do much to show the similarity of different religions; certainly by it I prove the possibility of a fundamental illusion, but that they never realise ~ of this Ukase they are the mockery, for how much they regret! They suffer more conflict than the unenlightened. With what they can identify their own delusion or fear they call truth. They never see this similarity and die quintessence of religions, their own poverty of imagination and religion's palliation. Better is it to show the essential difference of religions. It is as well to know the various means; is not their object to deceive and govern? Surely, then, for the attainment of the transcendental, God and religion should have no place. Some praise truth so-called, but give it many containers; forgetting its dependence they prove its relationship and paradox, the song of experience and illusion. Paradox is not "truth," but the truth that anything can be true for a time. What supersedes paradox and its implicit «(Inotnecessary"), I will make the foundation of my teaching. Let us determine the deliberative, "the truth" cannot be divided. Self-love only cannot be denied and is Self love as such when paradoxical, under any condition, hence it alone is truth, without accessories complete.
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Others praise ceremonial

Magic, and are supposed to suffer Were I

much Ecstasy! Our asylums are crowded, the stage is overrun! Is it by symbolizing we become the symbolized? to crown myself King, should I be King? Rather should I be an obj ect of disgust or pity. These Magicians, whose insincerity is their safety, are but the unemployed ceremony what is unaffected, dandies of the Brothels. without asking; the negation of Magic is but one's natural ability to attract its doctrine

theirs.

I know them well and their creed of learning that teaches the fear oftheir OWn light. Vampires, they are as the
to

very Iice in attrac tion. Their practices prove their incapacity, they have no magic intensify the normal, the joy of a child

or healthy person; none to evoke their pleasure or wisdom from themselves. Their methods depending on a morass of
the imagination and a chaos of conditions, obtained with less decency their knowledge of the than the hyena his food, 1 say in their disgusting

they are less free and do not obtain the satisfaction meanest among animals. Self condemned

fatness, their emptiness of power, without even the magic of personal charm or beauty, they are offensive in their bad taste and mongering not obtained for advertisement. The freedom of energy is

by itsbondage,

great power not by disintegration.

Is it not because our energy (or mind. stuff) is already over bound and divided, that we are not capable, let alone magical?

Some believe any and every thing is symbolic, and can be

transcribed, and explain the occult, but of what they do not

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know.

(Great spiritual

truthsr)

So argument

a metaphor,

cautiously confusing the obvious which develops the hidden virtue. This unnecessary it nor disgusting? extremely the contempt corpulency, however impressive, is is exceeding large but (11le Elephant

powerful, the swine though odious does not breed of our good taste.) If a man is no hero to his

servant, much less can he remain a mystic in the eyes of the curious; similarity educates mimicry. Decorate your meaning,
t

Il ro'~~"I..• rnachrnerv,

however objectionable

(as fact), after you have shown your

governments. u . lU '. nand everything

honesty. Truth, though simple, never needs the argument of

confusion for obscurity; its own pure symbolism embraces all possibilities as mystic design. Take your stand. in commonsense and you include the truth which cannot lie; no argument has
yet prevailed.

essein iall y modern, IS vital ~ymbl)lism of the work inns of our

mlnd,
NC.

Perfect proportion

suggests no alteration,
*1

and

"" The ~ymbol of

)ustice known til the Romans is not svmbollc of :JivLlle. 0\' our justice, at least not necessan Iy or usually. The vitality Is not exac lly Iike ",' t T - nor are we trees; more like ourselves, which rntght incidcn(aJiy

what is useless decays.

They reject all the modern symbolism

and reach an absurd and (at times) the of a preserved

limit very early. Nor counting on change folly, by their adoption of the traditional

~2

arbitrary nature of symbolism or the chance

without a Science,

as having reading to the present, their symbolism is chaotic and meaningless, Not knowing the early rendering, they succeed in projecting their own meagreness by this confusion, as explaining the ancient symbols. Children are more wise. This conglomeration disease of greed of antiquity decayed, collected with the is surely the chance for chart

Include

(Tees

somewhere

unlearm - ITIu(h rnore obvious In

our workings at

tv?

Forgetting

present.

trumpery ideas, learn the best tradition 40

by

seeing your own

functions and the modern unbiassed. in a moral continually doctrinal code, which

Some praise the belief they naturally and

transgress, and never obtain their purpose. Given It may be tolerable

the right nature, they succeed fairly in their own governing, and are those most healthy, sane and self-pleased. called the negation satisfaction, of my doctrine, they obtain whereas mine is complete.

Let him tarry here,

who is not strong for the great work. In freedom he might be lost. So fledge your wings fearlessly, ye humble ones! Others know. say knowledge only is eternal, it is the eternal illusion of learning -~ the Ukase of learning what we already Directly we ask ourselves "how" we induce stupidity; what is there we could not know and it will not free you, Arrived at that, you from all ideas but or the Others for concentration, the law is bondage. Dissociation without this conception accomplish? the mind conceiving

will want deconcentration. creation. Divine

one is not release but imaginative Spirit,

fulfilment,

fury

of

Others again, that all things are emanations as rays from the Sun, hence Then let us destroy Verily, things are of necessity through and belief. and empty the belief. of sin and illusion.

of the their

the need of or change

emancipation? conception conception, perpetuators

These and many other doctrines, are declared by me as the Each and all depending on a In fear they would muddled implication, of the consciousness obscuring, yet evolved from the duality for their enjoyment.

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vomit hot blood were they to see the fruits of their actions and pleasures, Thus believing in widely different doctrines,

they are of that dual principle, necessary parasites on each

other. like drugs and the surgeon's knife, they only annul or

at best remove an effect. They do not change or remove the

fundamental environment." existence cause (the Jaw). "Oh, God, thou art the stagnant All is quackery; these religions whose very

depend on their failure, are so full of misery and being so _.-

confusion, have only multiplied arguments, as full of argument as they are evil, so crowded with non-essentials, uphold their doctrines. Their criterion barren of any free pleasure in this hfe or another, I cannot for enjoyment death! Better it were a man renounce them all, and embrace

his own invincible purpose. He cannot go further, and this is his only release. By it he may put his pleasure where he will, and find satisfaction.

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THE DEATH POSTURE: SECOND POSITION

THE ASCENSION

OF THE EGO FROt-vl ECSTASY TO ECSTASY

THE CONSUMER

OF RELIGION
KIA,
IN lTS TRANSCENDENTAL AND CONCE1VABLE MANtFESTATION

F NAME

IT HAS NO NEED, TO DESIGNATE, I

call it Kia -. . by conceivable the archetype •mortality, "it," I write what may be volant

I dare not claim it as ideas, is not the eternal but is of "self," the slavery of to describe called the a that *' About this "Self."

myself. The Kia which can be expressed

Kia, which bums up all beliefEndeavouring

but not usually -

"book of lies" ~-. *1 The unorthodox truth is somewhere.

of the originable -

"sight," that conveys somehow by the incidental, the unmodified

The Kia which can be vaguely expressed "I" in the the illumination symbolically but not

\Q7
AU conception is
the dual principle, the law which is its cond ition.

in words is the "Neither-Neither," sensation of omnipresence, transcribed to write. Its emanation in the sacred alphabet,

and of which I am about

is its own intensity,

necessariness,

it has and ever will exist, the virgin quantum

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by its exuberance

we have gained existence .. Who dare

say where) why and how it is related? all things, it eludes conception, conception Heaven as permeating

By

the labour of time of

to

the doubter inhabits his limit. Not related tOI but permitting yet is the quintessence Anterior these
I

pleasure in meaning.

and Earth, in its aspect that transcends

but

not intelligence"

it may be regarded as the primordial

sexual

principle, the idea of pleasure in self-love. attained the death posture can apprehend

Only he who has this new sexuality!

and its almighty love satisfied. He that is ever servile to belief, clogged by desire, is identified with such and can see but its
"~ The unme rJ i• (led S~ x principle refracted through the dual principle emanates the in h ute \ 'Iell of emutrons .:JI sexual hies, whIch
[]1lI\,

infinite ramifications

in dissarisfacrion.SThe

progenitor

of

itself and all things, but resembling nothing, its early simplicity, embodies the everlasting.

this sexuality in Time has not

changed it, hence I call it new. This ancestral sex principle, and the idea of self, are one and the same, this sameness its exaction and infinite possibilities, the early duality, the mystery of mysteries, rhe Sphinx at the gates of al Ispiritual itv. All conceivable ideas begin and end as light in its emotion, of the idea of self induces. the ecstasy which the creation continuity,

be

called Itsrarnih-

cations. Symbolised Kl,'\ Nei mer- Nei ther or tJu unmodified

Sexuality,

The idea is unity by the formula of self, its necessary reality as the question of all things, all this universe visible duality, Duality being unity, being trinity of duali ties, and invisible has come out of it. As unity conceived it begot trinity, begot tetragrammaton. is time, the complex of conception; to the primeval reali ty in freedom -

I
LJU:l

I Principle.

the eternal reflucruation

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is the six senses, the five facets of sex environment

projecting

as

for self-assimilation in denial, as a complete sexuality, Being tetragrarnmaton of dualities is twelvefold by arrangement, the human complex, and may be called the twelve commandments of the believer. It imagines the eternal decimal, its multiplicity embracing eternity, from which spring the manifold forms, which constitute. existence. Vitalized by the breath efself-Iove, life is conscious of one. Self being its opposing force, is alternately conflict, harmony, life and death. These four principles are one and the same -- the conception considered as the complete "self" or consciousness -_ hence they may be blended into unity and Symbolized CQ7. One form made by two, that is three-fold and having four directions.

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TIlE TRl\NSCENDENTAL

LAW, THE LAW

AND
The law of Kia is its own arbiter, beyond necessitation, can grasp the nameless without form, its design superabundance, our knowledge our faith Kia? Obvious most excellent, who

but unintelligible, Its wish is its

who can assert its mysterious purpose? attribute,

By

it becomes more obscure, more remote, and

opacity. Without

I know DQt its name.

who dare claim

How free it is, it has no need of sovereignty! (Kingdoms are their own despoilers.) Without lineage,

relationship? Without

virtue, how pleasing in its moral selfserves its own does it

love! How mighty is it, in its assertion of "Need not be·-Does not matter"! Self-love in complete perspective, invincible opposition labour. purpose of ecstasy. Supreme is its balance. bliss simulating Assuredly

It suffers no hurt, neither and independent?

Is

it not self-attracting

we cannot call it balance. in pleasure and harmony. unchanging illumination simplicity! and

Could we but imitate its law; all Kia transcending there conception, is no need is of

creation without command would unite and serve our purpose inexhaustible,

to see i.t. If we open our mouths to speak of it) it Kia without conceiving, Without smallness produces its rendezvous assertion the mightiest

is not of it but of our duality, mighty though it be in its early as the fulness of creation. energy, without

it may appear the least among

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things.

Its possession ours without asking, its being free, the that is free. Without its moral, distinction,
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only thing -

it has no perishes
*' By scores of lncarna [ions, au r eventual "se If" ls derived. from the attributes with which we endow OUl God, the abstract Ego or conceptive prtoclple, All conception :8 a denial of the ... hence we are its opposition, Our own evil, The offspri ng 0 f oursel ves, we are the conflict of what we deny and assert of the Kta, h would seem as though we cannot be too careful in our choice, fa, it determines the body we inhabit.

favourites, but nourishes itself. In fear all creation pays homage but does not extol everything unbeautifully. We endow ourselves with the power we

conceive of it, and it acts as master -.- ", never the cause of emancipation. Thus forever from "self" do I fashion the Kia, without likeness, but which may be regarded as the truth.
From this consultation is the bondage made, not

by

intelligence shall we be free. The law of Kia is its ever original purpose) undetermined, without change the emanations, through our conception they materialize and are of that duality, man takes his law from this refraction, his ideas -reality. With what does he. balance his ecstasy? Measure for
measure by intense pain, sorrow, and miseries. With what his rebellion? Of necessity slav-ery 1 Duality is the law, realization by suffering, relates and opposes by units of time. Ecstasy for any length of time is difficult to obtain, and laboured heavily for. Various degrees of misery alternating and emotions is consciousness entity, etc. ~ quintessence less anxious, consciousness and existence. with gusts of pleasure of would seem the condition

Duality in some form or another

as existence. It is the illusion of time, size,

the world's limit. The dual principle is the of all experience, no ramification has enlarged
modification or It cannot go

its early simplicity, but is only its repetition,

complexity) never is its evolution complete.

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further than the experience of self - so returns and unites again and again, ever an anti-climax. For ever retrogressing to its original simplicity by infinite complication is its evolution. No man shall understand "Whyl1by its workings. Know it as the illusion that embraces the learning of all existence. The most aged one who grows no wiser, it may be regarded as the mother of all things. Therefore believe aU experience to be illusion, and the law of duality. As space pervades an object both in and out, similarly within and beyond this ever-changing cosmos, there is this secondless principle.

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1 HE EYE OF Ec..'=;TASY

EMANATIONS

OF THE EGO

SOLILOQUY ON GOD,HEAD
\XlHO EVER THOUGHT THUS?

~~~1iI1

OMETHING

IS CAUSING

PAIN

AND

expectation, of ornament lria;_~!!~~~on decay, this this amassing thought _.- is ever-abiding coincidental with the vanity preceding death? 0, squalid though t from the most morbid spleen-s-how can Idevour thee and save my Soul? Ever did it answer back -_ "Pay homage where due; the Physician is the Lord of existence!" This superstition of rnedicine-c- is it not the essence of cowardice, the agent of Death?

something energizes the Agony: may it ·.;dl not be caused through the latent Idea of Supreme Bliss? And this eternal

*'

Strange no one remembers being dead? Have you ever seen the Sun? - If you have then you have seen nothing dead·in spite of your different belief! Which is the more dead "you"

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or this corpse? Which of you has the greater degree of consciousness? Judging by expression alone - which of you appears enjoying Life most? May not this "belief" in death be the "will" that attempts "death" for your satisfaction, but can give you no more than sleep, decay, change -- hell? This constant somnambulism is "the unsatisfactory." *

..

You disbelieve in Ghosts and God -.-. because you have not seen them? What! You have never seen the mocking ghosts of your beliefs? -. the Laughing Bedlam of your humility or Mammon - your grotesque Ideas of "Self"? Yea, your very faculties and your most courageous Lies are Gods! 'W1to is the slayer of your Gods -. but a God! There is no proof that you existed before? Whatanexcuse! No one has returned to tell us? What a damning advocate! You are but what you were-· -somehow changed? You are the case Prima Fade that you are reincarnated to perhaps anything? "Perhapses" are possible! Can you do differently to what you do? N ever shall I tire of asserting that you constantly do differently!
*

What is the "ugliness" that offends?

Is it the vague

knowledge [hat you will have to change your mind -.. that

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you are germinating remembering reckoning -

what

you contain?

You are always

what you forgot:

to-day may be the day of

of believing by force what you disbelieved? Now

if to-dav is yesterday in all but appearances - then to-morrow also is to-day -.-. the day of decay! Daily is this universe
destroyed, that is why you are conscious! There is no Life

and Death?

Such ideas should be less than comic.

There is no Duality!
You are conscious of the gay Butterfly you observe and are conscious of being "You"; the Butterfly is conscious of being "itself," and as such, it is a consciousness as good as and the same as yours, i.e., of your being "you." Therefore this consciousness of "you') that you roth feel is the same "you"? Ergo, you are one and the same the mystery of mysteries How and the most simple thing ill. the world to understand! believe differently? you from hurt miserably hun! inconsistency. So,

could you be conscious of what you are not? But you might

if

you hurr the Butterfly

you hurt

yourself, but your belief that you don't hurt yourself protects for a time! Belief gets tired and you are everything, hence you must Do what you will -.-. belief is ever its own Desire contains

believe in everything ~ if you believe at all! Belief seems to exclude commonsense.

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There is no doubt about it and "Me" is the unwelcome

this conscio usness of "Thee"

but eyer ready torturer -_ -_yet it

"need not be so" in any sense! Is it not a matter of Fear? You are fearsome of entering a den of Tigers? (And 1 assure you it is a matter of righteousness --- (inborn or cultured) --- whether you enter voluntarily or are chucked in, and whether you come out alive or not!) Yet daily you fearlessly enter dens inhabited

by more terrible creatures

unharmed -- why?

than Tigers and you come out

'"

* The Allegory

'"
properties

Great scientists are finding out the death-dealing

of the microbes they discover we breathe, and which according to their canons should destroy; we should be already deadl Have faith! The canons of science are quite correct, they do not disappoint death the doubt!
OUI

greater familiarity -

"this their to

impulse to knowledge'! will certainly bring us the disease and they give.! And also give us in compensation For the destruction powers of destruction! win be squared! selection! scientists of whom? Things

Is

this the value of the will?

This "will

power" - ho.w life preserving! How pleasing! go on discovering

How furthering of discriminate Most noble explorers] the Bottomless Pit!

0", you
When

you are sodden with science -._. the lightning

will thunder

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out the murder? New hope will be born? New creatures for the circus? (The conception of) God-head must ever evolve its inertia for transmutation to its very opposite _ because it ... contains it! The master must be the painful learner of his stupidity? The idea of God ever means the forgetfulness of supremacy and Godliness. So must be supplanted by fear, eh? There is no Atheist, no one is free from auto-biography, there is no fearless pleasurist? The conception is the absence of its indisputable reality or reality within! When the conception is memorial to forgetfulness - it may be the chance of its reality for you? When the prayer - (you are always praying) has transrnutated to its Blasphemy _ you are attractive enough to be heardyour desire is gratified! What a somersault of humilltyl

Whether God is projected as master by fear or as the dweller within by love Gods we are all the time, that is why divinity is always potential, Its constant generation, the eternal delay - is life. This envy of the Master or Creator -- the ultimate hope to follow in manner is also existence and the forfeiture

of 'Life"]

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There is no scientific

fact) it ever implies its opposite

as

equal fact, this is the "fact."

Then why trouble to prove

anything as fact? This vain hope to prove finality is death itself, so why humbug the "Desire"? You have proved (by mathernaticsl ) the sun to be so many millions of miles away from you -. you will now improve its efficiency! Nature that impulse to the antitheses of your truths, will early prove (by mathematics and whenever you likel) that the Sun does
nor exist at all! Or if you wish --. it

will

prove conclusively

that the Sun is millions of millions of miles further away or millions of [niles nearer than you once thought! Most extraordinary thinker] These facts and many others are already known to the butterfly, the lice, the insects - and perhaps yourself? Whose senses are the more true -yours Or thehouse-fly's? You will eventually adopt their vision- their thoughts and wisdom -.-. you were such once? You are such now but have not awakened them-you will be such again in
power! Wondrous progress: Most meritorious

accomplishments! Most merciless! Progress should be closely examined and what you have gained by the convenience of
science.

A thought for perspective - you are always what you most wish - the prospective! Your desire is to live according to your desire, and this you are always realizing! Most noble 'I . f r: sentiment: -. you are "it' a' 1 d y - "t h e sattsne d" - " th e r reac
desireless' -

"the real thing"!

You are drunk with it!

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There is no illusion but consciousness! This consciousness is ever the smiling monument commemorating "Whether you ever really enjoyed Life")!

The God of the "Will'! is the command to obey, its Justice everyone fears _, it is a Sword _- your desert for obedience! "Will" is the command to believe" your will is what you have believed actively willing belief for you! You think when "it" wishes! "Will" is complication, the means of a means. Call this will free or not _- beyond will and belief is Self- love _ 1 know no better name. It is free to believe what it desires. You are free to believe in nothing related to belief. The "Truth" is not difficult to understand! The truth has no will ~ will has no truth! Truth is "will" never believed _ it has no truth! "Could be" _- is the immediate certainty! This haunting Sphinx teaches us the value of the "Will to anything"? Then there is no graver risk than Absolute Knowledge _ if Iittle is dangerous _- what about Omniscience? The Almighty power has no accessories!

Science is the accursed doubt of the possible, yea, of what

does exist! You cannot conceive an lmpossibiliry, nothing is impossible, you are the impossible! Doubt is delay ._ time _._

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but how it punishes! Nothing is more true man anything else! What are you not - you ever answered truthfully?

You tyrannise over yourself, so constantly forget what you remember; you resist sense objects and show resistance to the faculties by believing or not. These faculties are as numerous as the atoms you have not yet seen, and they are as endless as the number one _.. they come into life at will. You adopt a few at a time -. knowledge you speak through them - did you but understand your grammar those you disown speak louder than your words! I would not believe the wisdom of the Almighty. Belief is ever its own tempter to believe differently; you cannot believe freedom but you may be freed from belief? Neither can you believe the "Truth" but you need not compromise yourself. The way of Life is not by "means" these doctrines - my doctrines even though they allow the self-appointed devotee to emulate my realization-may I ever blush! The man of sorrows is the Teacher! I have taughtwould I teach myselfor thee again? Not for a gift from Heaven! Mastership equals learning _._ equals constant unlearning! Almighty is he who has not learnt and mighty is the babeit has only the power of assimilating! The most solecistical of fools now asks -. "how can we escape the inevitable evolutions of conception -.. as all is
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ever conceiving"?

all conditions. When the mind is nonplussed

impossible becomes known;

My answer shall permit all means, all men, Listen, 0, God that art, yet would be God,
capability
to

attempt

the

by that most simple state

of

the Ego becomes the Silent Watcher and knows about it all! The "Why" and I'How)1 of desire is "Neither-Neither"
contained within the mystic state of "Neirher-Neither" and common-sense proves it is the milk state, most nutritious! Clownish that I am yet all my ideas have come out of it (and, my friend, all yours), but ever have I been a sluggard->an old sinner who would see others almighty before himself,

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,;t
'~~

THE DEATH POSTURE

THE DEATH POSTURE

DEAS
OF SELF IN CONFLICT CANNOT BE

slain, by resistance they are a reality __ . . no Death them energy. or cunning has overcome of but is their reinforcement

The dead are born again and

again lie in the womb of conscience. ~ when by non-resistance is retrogression

By

: allowing maturity is to predicate decay to early simplicity the idea. and the passage to the original and unity without

From that idea is the formula of non-resistance germinating

"Does not matter . he conception the conception recognition

please yourself." of "I am not" must of necessity follow of "1 am, " because of its grammar,

as surely in this world of sorrow night follows day. The of pain as. such, implies the idea of pleasure, and so with all ideas.

By this duality,

let him remember to laugh at as such.

all times, recognize all things, resist nothing; then there is no conflict, incompatibility or compulsion

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TRANSGRESSING

BY A LUCID S)1v1BOLlSM

Sc . '"

*; They
analogy
to

bci(]~ dual, have

certain

early sex princ tpies in nature. Th~, are carried

furrher in the

~ , 1:.1 alphabet.
be i. rrg too abo rru se

to explain by art hodo x: w ell do lind grarrunar,

Man implies Woman, I transcend these by the Hermaphrodite! this again implies a Eunuch *1; aU these conditions I transcend by a "Neither" principle yet although a "Neither" is vague, the fact of conceiving it prove its palpability, and again implies a different ('N either. ""2 But the "Neither-Neither" principle of those two, is the state where the mind has passed beyond conception, it cannot be balanced, since it implies only itself The ''1'' principle has reached the "Does not matter ~ need not be" state, and is not related to form. Save and beyond it, there is no other, therefore it alone is complete and eternal. Indestructible, it has power to destroy - therefore it alone is true freedom and existence. Through it comes immunity from all sorrow, therefore the spirit of ecstasy. Renouncing everything by the means shown, take shelter in it. Surely it is the abode of the Kia? This having once been (even Symbolically) reached, is our unconditional release from duality and ti.me - believe this to be true. The belieffree from all ideas but pleasure, the Karma through law (displeasure) speedily exhausts itself .. In that moment beyond time, a new law can become incarnate, without the payment of sorrow, every wish gratified, he? having become the gratifier by his Law.The new law shall be the arcana of the mystic unbalanced "Does not matter-· -need not be," there is no necessitation, "please yourself" is its creed. *4
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.., The Ego, "'~The b~.lief eve r

striving (or deni~1

-ftlln~S5by
mL!lti pi lcarion, ls ..~ 1,!Tee hi' rcrent iou in r II

can be deliberation. Without subjection, what you wish to believe can be true. "He""'5 is pleased by this imitation, the truth revealed to me by all systems of government but is himself ungoverned; Kia, the supreme bliss. This the glorious Science of pleasing one's self by a new agreement, the art of Self love by recognitten, the Psychology of ecstasy by non-resistance.

r n tha t daythere

*> "He," the EgCl, now becomes the

"Absolute."

Tut

RITUAL AND DOCl'RINE

lying on your back lazily, the body expressing the emotion of yawning, suspiring while conceiving by smiling, that is the idea of the posture. Forgetting time with those things which were essential reflecting their meaninglessness, the moment is beyond time and its virtue has happened. Standing on tip-toe, with the arms rigid, bound behind by the hands, clasped and straining the utmost, the neck stretched - breathing deeply and spasmodically, till giddy and sensation comes in gusts, gives exhaustion and capacity for the former. Gazing at your reflection till it is blurred and you know not the gazer)close your eyes (this usually happens involuntarily) and visualize. The light (always an X in curious evolutions) that is seen should be held on to, never letting go, till the effort is forgotten, this gives a feeling of immensity (which sees a small form Qp») whose limit you cannot reach. This

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should be practised before experiencing the foregoing. The emotion that is felt is the knowledge which tells you why. The death posture is its inevitability accelerated, through it we escape our unending delay - by its attachment, the Ego is swept up as a leaf in a fierce gale -.- in the fleetness of the indeterminable, that which is always about to happen becomes its truth, Things that are self-evident are no longer obscure, as by his own will he pleases, know this as the negation of all faith by living it, the end of the duality of the consciousness. Of belief, a positive death state) all else as sleep, a negative state. It is the dead body of all we believe, and shall awake a dead corpse. The Ego.in subjection to law, seeks inertion in sleep and death. Know the death posture and its reality in annihilation of law - the ascension from duality. In that day of tearless lamentation the universe shall be reduced to ashes ... , but he escapes the judgment! And what of "I," most unfortunate man! In that freedom there is no necessitation, what dare I say more? Rather would I commit much sin than compromise myself. There ar~ many preliminary exercises, as innumerable as sins, futile of themselves bu t designative of the ultimate means. The death posture in the reduction of all conception (sin) to the "Neither-Neither" till the desire is contentment by pleasing yourself. By this and by no other are the inertia of belief; the restoration of the new sexuality and the ever original self; love in freedom are attained. The primordial vacuity {or
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belief) is not by the exercise of focussing negation of all conceivable not eventually.

the mind on a

things, the identity of unity and

duality, chaos, and uniformity, etc." etc., but by doing it now) Perceive, and feel without the necessity' of through evoking the emotion The law of reaction is an opposite, but by its relati ve. Perceive light without shadow

by

its own colour as contrast,

of laughter at the time of ecstasy in union, and by practice till

that emotion is untiring and subtle. Werehe place. defeated by inclusion. great increase takes to enjoy an hundred pleasures Let him practise it dailv,

at a time; howeverIDuch accordingly,

his ecstasy, he does not lose, but

till he arrives at the centre of desire. He has imitated the great purpose. Like this, emotions should

an

findequipoise become

at the time of emanation, till they become one. belief and semen from conception, they and cosmic.

Thus by hindering simple

By

its illumination

there

is

nothing that cannot be explained .. Certainly I find satisfaction

ineesrasv, Ihave now told you a secret of great import, it was known to me in childhood. Even by sedulously striving for a vacuity of belief, one is cosmic enough to dwell in the
innermost of others and enjoy them. Among men few know what they really believe or desire, let him begin, who would know, by locating his belief till he 'sees his

will.

Existing as

dual, they are identical in desire, by their duality there is no control, for will and belief are ever at variance, and each would shape the other to its ends, in the issue neither wins as the

joy is a covert of sorrow. Let him unite them.

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THE SELF'S VJSION OF ENLIGHTENMENT

THE CLOUDY ENE.MIES BORN OF STAGNANT

SELF~HYPNOTISM
ATIJRAL BELIEF IS THE IN1U1TfON 11iAT COMPELS belief through that which is experienced reacting, and dominating in turns; everything has to associate itself through its definite emotion, stimulated by those in harmony; ~~iS!iI .. those discordant, lose cogency and inhibit. So by its own workings belief is limited and determined for you. The majority of our actions can be traced to a subconscious desire (for freedom) in conflict with habit, an obedience to inherent fatalism which hangs on "good and bad" actions already committed (in past existence) against a preserved morality" and whose reaction gives expression as spontaneity, involuntariness, autonomy, the deliberate, etc., as the chance arises. The rest is due to a conflicting traditional moral

"'The elemental morality or fear of displeasing.

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doctrine

that has become constitutional conveniently

(partly adopted

to To

govern and time this reaction). was then considered and performance of its divine punishment

In its origin) an idea of what good and bad .... Assimilated are reward of abstention by the deceit for obedience,

maximize pleasure by an arbitrary compromise of desire feared. its tenets origin)

for transgression,

both holding good for all time faculty, but is never so perfect or

(this world and another). burlesque of the conceptive

This moral code is a dramatised

simple in that it allows latitude for change in any sense, so becomes dissociated from evolution, etc.; and this divorce loses any utility and of necessity for its own preservation sympathy desired, evolves contradictions to give relationship. dishonesty distortion (Usually unwritten rationalism simultaneously Transgressing shows us its iniquity, and the or a complication its commandments, or

for our justification:

we create an excuse or reason for the sin by a a few unforgiveable This negative sins and an

of the moral code, that allows some incongruity. retaining law.) confession excuses .... is a feigned a process of

that allows adventitious

self-deception righteousness.

to satisfy and summarily persuade yourself of What one among us has any excuse but self-

love? We do not create or confess a morality that is convenient, that lends itself to growth, and remains simple, that allows transgression without excuse or punishment. and commonsense 74 to do so, whatever

It would be wise

the state of affairs in

your mind. Through

Nature eventually

denies that which it affirms:

permanent association with the same moral code we help desire to transgress. Desire of those things is denied, the mote you restrict the more you sin, but desire equally desires preservation of moral instinct, so desire is 'its own conflict (and weakly enough). Have DO fear, the Bull of earth has long had nothing to do with your unclean conscience, your stagnant ideas of morality. The microbe alone would seem without fear! The C mplexir::yof the Belief (Kn w ThyselO. The nature of belief equals all possibilities ultimately true by identification through culture to an idea of time, so what is not timely is not true, and what is not true, prognostication. Thought of one thing, implies the possibility of another idea as contradicting but not dissociated, belief is to make "one!' more convincing. The condition of belief is the denial or limit imposed on the capability of the vitality. To believe at aU as such is a concentration and schooling to exclude the implied by adopting a hypothesis or faith that reflects non-worryingly or deceitfully rationalizes the rejected. Truth is not the truth of
fonnula.

The centre
environment

of belief is love for one's fOT fulfilment but allowing

self, projecting
its distortion

to 81 mulate den ial, an ambition to becomeulterior to self-desire, but you cannot get further than the centre, so one multiplies (believes) in order to be more unaware of the fundamental.
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Now this refusal to believe what one believes and exactly as one believes, is the first condition becomes a liar, self-hypnotised for all those who are in desire in any sense whatsoever; the man who is in love perforce

by his morbid ornamentation.

You know the results .... You can only "trul y believe" one thing, yet its irnplexion is
'\nd does kill II' he 11 flO ared.

essential (as the truth seems to kill"), so the. imagined on for ever. The compulsion. imagination

goes

leams that the idea is its By entire consciousness As we imitate this law of it is not so simple as

To explain the "whl' of belief (or of anything its schism.

else), we must transcend

in how the self loves is the means. it seems. the

duality in all our processes of believing,

WhD has transgressed the law of conception? Who

Gracefully at compelling
Or

has no fearrYet by this Sin) is the sciential of what determines Schetic. expecting disappointment its deceit, inquiry.

me

time of desire is the means arbitrary,

of locating

a consciousness

that alone gives the chance of

the pauser, the the

Beyond it is something

ordainer of law, imitating it by "reason" is but damning consequences.

Reason is belief, belief is fear of one's capability,

the faith that you are not even all the wonders of creation, let alone the possibility not freedom.

or being

the creator.

Ir is delay .... Belief is progress is

Belief wen earns the terrible hatred of the vitality. Belief creates. its necessary experience,

germinates

in retrogression.

Consider

the reality

somewhere: and your belief may be too small for its habitation.

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Oh, ye of much faith in God.merge death approaches

into it by the worship of

self! .Ah! foolish man, worship the glorious in freedom. When the faith in God and desire of woman

will

not save you, what are their use when withering and decay sets in and the body is an object of disgust? And what is the

use of knowledge and charity when reality is known? Unsheathe the sword of self; ideas of the Almighty should be constantly slain and righteousness should be inquired into.
Whosoever shall study his true nature a little, him does the

'(self" investigate

with his extraordinary conduct.

He can

compel anything without offending.

As the tendency of the

most lustful ceases before publicity and death, so do morals and faith before the perfect bliss. A glimpse of the truth is born of purity in love: when the desire is without fear, when

is fulfilled by vision. The fire that is all pleasure is loosed at his wilt he is attraction, the cynosure of women. When the believing principle is devoid of faith, as sterile of possessing ideas of God - he is indestructible. Only when there is no fear in any form is there realisation of identity with reality (freedom).
it does not desire possession. When For them there is no danger in negligence, there being no

me thought

For him who is conscious of the slightest differentiation there is fear. So long as there is perception of self-reproach or conscience) there is pain germinating; there is no freedom. He who believes anything he perceives or imagines, falls into sin. By believing without feeling
discrimination.
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perturbation, forgetting ideas of external and internal, he regards everything as self, and is the consciousness of non .. resistance, has no horizon: he is free. On seeing the star ..lit eyes and rosebud mouths, the breasts and loins of beautiful women, you become lovingly attached, but ifyou fear, consider constantly that they are merely the charred flesh and bones of yourself after the torture. The space between the eternal and "self," is it not a moral doctrine? By unbelieving all one believes and sedulously without anxiety not believing (by the "N either ~ either" process), the principle becom es simp le and N cosmic enough to include what you are always desiring, and you are free to believe what was impossible. The desire is so mighty, it asks no permission, and suffers no-consequences, but the ecstasy of its possession. Against it nothing can prevail, it burns up, as celluloid cast into the furnace - the old folly of promising things on behalf of an imagined "another." At hand is the freedom of Heaven, the Way, the Truth, and the Light, and none dare say this of himself but by me, in Truth I alone am "Self," my will unconditioned, is magical. Those who have lived much in their nature will in some degree be familiar with such a sensation, poor though it be.

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V1Si 2\' THROUG!l THE SE. 18E OF TOUCH

PREFACE 1-'0 SELF~LOVE

liiiiiiiii;;ii;;iiiiii .. • ET us BE HONEST!
THOU AR1' uTHA

II

SUPR'EME

in freedom, mosl: desirable, b _yond desire,

untouched by the six stupifiers, The sexuality labours, so Death may harvest by desire. The elusive fancies of the senses are dangerous, because of the righteousness you have learned to obey and control them by. Hell-fire bums because you "conceived"; and will cease to hurt when you identify the Ego with all the possibilities of its qualities by believing as the "Neither-Neither" process. You are fire -~ yet you are scorched! Because you have "willed" belief (differently or riot-> - makes no difference); the cycle of belief

~~!!!!~~~

goes on and always obliges, so one day you must believe differently and the fire will no longer hurt _. you are saved? There are other means of hurting you?

n that state which is not, there is no consciousness in any sense that thou art "that" (Kia), which is superb, beyond the range of definition: there is no temptation of

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freedom, "it" was not the cause of evolution .. Hence "it" is beyond time, consciousness or nothingness, Neither" continual or unconsciousness, everything etc.: this I know through the "Neither ..

which is automatically afterthought

beyond every conception,

ever free in every sense. Perhaps "it" may not be obscure by and vaguely felt through the hand of being the imperceptible ever present Ecstasy of by of or innocence-cbut whoever understands such simple meanings? th er" but hidden The certainty of the perceived

"It" is never perceived,

the "Ne ither-Nei exhaustion consciousness experienced spelling, evolution,

through the cycle of Unity.

is always the uncertainty

in whatever state it may be, the constant decay, and the like the eternal incompletion.

doubt

fear, pain,

the cause of

'"

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towards a "supreme" is a

0., desire, listen! In point of virulence spiritual desire is as

fatal as the sensuous. Aspiration some unsatisfied network of deadly desires because of cowardice within, ergo,

wisdom awaiting exploitation to suffer its evolutions. There is no final wisdom-· there is no final desire. How can anything end? Has to-day ever ended? These things
are endlessness 1 A person de-sites things of this world but where is the difference of desiring the "Supreme Bliss"? Which is the more

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selfish?

Which

is hearer you? Which

pleases the Creator

more? Are you certain of the Creator's will and are you sure of your own desire? Ate you the Creator or just yourself, as you fondly imagine your contents? All these incarnate
_c -

desires,

however

mighty,

you will one day

yea, photograph. These things already exist _. very soon you will have spiritual photographs (unfaked) but not

by the

camera you use at present. _. the microbes.

The pioneer is ever

the old fool. An afterthought:

photographed

some spirits

are already

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Are you ever free of desideratum? Belief is eternal desire! Desire is its .own cruelty, the fettering of th e hand to labour
in some world -.-unknown; alternate; nothing is always dead and no the position is The scorn this, it is in the flesh of thought dies, the master becomes the slave you have long believed your generations

with the most merciless Judge!

of all your reforms or the inversion of your values!

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'"

..
taskmaster?

This constant curse and blasphemy ~ is not the relief more in the knowledge of the nascent unrelenting Are not our bodies all smeared with its blood? Has not the

world ever been bloody? Are not our pleasures but rest to

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drink the blood of slaughter?

0, determined

Liars, ye know

not yet the lie, it may be Truth!

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undesirable, dissatisfaction millennium

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desired and The

The Ego is desire, so everything hidden

is ultimately

desire is ever a preliminary by its ever-present -

forecast of terrible vainglory.

will come and quickly go. Men will be greater there will be greater but you may You are ever what you were -

than the Gods they ever conceived dissatisfaction. be so in a different form!

*
A person immediately

* however

*
vain or content, falls

or a nation,

into unknown and inevitable desire, consuming any condition! but (or even for a

him little by little through those conditionswhen realized is it then eternally period of a million years). foot! Therefore Neither." impure, or has completion Even whether desire by the "Neither-Neither" desirable?

The mind becomes firm in desire by desire as devotion,

In

Heaven

shall be fettered thy that desire is pure, or it by the "Neitherof in a wife _._

remove the conception _. remove

the desire is for the exhaustion or for realization

it is desire=-; its unending evolution. in any form by the "Neither-Neither." that there is Spirit and Not-Spirit
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Therefore remove desire Remove the illusion (this idea has never given

beneficial

results).

Remove

all conceptions

by the same

means. So long as the notion remains that there is "compulsory bondage)! in this World or even in dreams there is such bondage. Remove the conception of Freedom. and Bondage in any World at State by meditation on Freedom in Freedom by the HNeither-Neither,!l For this we know - Vampirism is quite well proven enough - even by the strong presumption that whenever bloodsucking is done, it is done by Vampire ~ bats apart from the probability of it being done by a divine or human agency! Therefore Kiaize desire by the "Neither-Neither," the most ez cellent formula far beyond contentment - the a11embracing vacuum which reduces "all" to commonsense and upon which this Universe rests. Therefore believe nothing in this Book by the "NeitherNeither," and dispel the conception of the "Neither-Neither" N' h r reve Lt bY rne "N errh er-rveitner, ancd b e I' ".," IS not-necessary at h . '. the conclusion of pleasing yourself, because it 'Need-not-be1) 11

Does-nat-rna tter, 11 One believes this "all the time" as the Truth of "The Will,"

not the thing believed, since the means to an end mean evolution to endless means. In that most remarkable simplicity there is no beginning or end of wisdom or of anything, so how can it be related to
conception and intelligence?

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dS

@ffi1~~m)J~~
~~(W~mJ2~~.
THE THU!v1B POSTURE OF THE HAND

SELF~LOVEAS A MORAL DOCTRINE AND VIRTUE

HE CRITERION
OF ACTION, LSFREEDOM OF

movement, timeliness of expression, pleasuring. The value of a moral doctrine is in its freedom for transgression. Simplicity I hold most precious. Are not the most simple things in the world the most perfect, pure, innocent, and their properties the most wonderful? Hence it is the source of wisdom. Wisdom is exactly happiness. In love pleasuring myself -. necessarily without excuse. Is this not perfection? Actions would appear unfathomable and incomprehensible, did they exhibit conformity to the great purpose. There are few who can attain to this! 'Who has no shame? Ecstasy in satisfaction is the great purpose. Freedom from the necessity of law, realisation by the very wish, is the ultimate goal. Law depends on two, two is uberty, millions ..... Law is complicated. The second did not agitate, the first did

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not determine,

nor was it compelled or proffered. Chance by it we have gained proficiency, Prepare for the Eternal, revert to man can give without ....

in sport is not prophecy; sufficient to determine simplicity

and you are free. What

impulse? Only he who has a complete sexuality. The highest goodness is self-nourishment. What are we going to include as self? Perfect charity acquires, hence it benefits all things by not giving. What man can have faith without fear? Only he who has no duty to perform. for ever in all-devouring certainty? When faith perishes then duty sin and endure What man can know with to moral doctrines perishes, we are without love.

Only he who has effaced the necessity of learning. and have no dogma to expound babe in feeding. It is because of

When teachers fall out, what is the use of learning from them? The wise are not contentious , ... rather are they silent as a new-born

What teacher can show the source of wisdom? lessons without teaching. experience: implants experience no knowledge

I know without learning; I know the source and can convey Knowledge is but the excrement its own repetition. but shows him his The true teacher own

superabundance.

Keeping his vision clear he directs or leads Having shown him the source or sentiment sets in, Is not this the way of

him as a child to the essential.

of wisdom, he retires before gratitude leaving him to fertilize as he wishes. Heaven?

He who trusts to his natural fund of genius, has no

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of its extent and accomplishes with ease) but directly he doubts, ignorance obsesses him, Doubt fertilizes in the virgin soil. He is no longer fearless but a coward
knowledge to difficulties, his very learning is fear. The difference between genius and ignorance

is a degree of fear. 'The beginning of wisdom is fear of forethought - the reception of knowledge in learning. Children doubt, and abhor learning. wrhy, even
the affection of courage results in cleverness! between nearer YOUl self-love and its immorality Not conscious constant to the of desert happiness incapacity
Ot

The difference
Which is
and love and morals? of Heaven,

good and evil is a matter of profundity. the cotupeer

in wisdom is the capacity of direction. from self-exaltation fear: in repentance. we rise superior the ridiculer to of disquieting

Ftom self-glorlficarion, destruction of humility

This "self-love" that

does not gi ve but is glad to receive is the genuine opportunity

for freedom from covetousness, from the militant amusement

of Heaven. He who subordinates animal instincts to reason, quickly loses control.

Are not the animals we see in circuses

trained by torture? And do not the animals reared in love, slay their masters? The wise embraces and nourishes all things, but does not act as master: foreign environment we become identified

Only when passions are ruled by

Control is by leaving directly we interfere

are they dangers.

things to workout their own salvanon-c-

with and subject to their desire. When

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the Ego sees self ~love therefore we never

there is peace -

it becomes the seer. and there is

Directly we desire, we have lost all; "we are" what we desire, obtain. Desire nothing, nothing that you shall not realise. Desire is for completion, the inherent emotion that it is "all happiness," all wisdom, in constant harmony. But directly we believe, we are liars'with pain, yet pain and pleasure are and you will and become identified

one and the same. Therefore believe nothing,

have reverted to a simplicity which childhood has not yet attained. The fool asks howl-as we must believe in pleasure
and pain. Now if we could suffer them simultaneously and pleasure) and hold fast to a principle allows the Ego vibration (pain that ascends, that

above them; should we not have belief is the "Ego, 11 yet separates

reached the ecstasy? ..

Now the

it from Heaven as your body separates you from another's ...

the belief in the "not necessity" (when conceiving) the Ego is free. The emoti on of laughter is exhaustion, the early suffering - hence. by making this
I '!

Therefore by retaining

1.11 Sex, indeed

f.lf o:vcrythLng.

emotion a "mental state'! ·at the time of unirv' he unites pain and pleasure, suffers them simultaneously and

by

the "nor

necessity" of his belief, his conception pain or death can enter.

transcends

this world

and teaches the absolute ec-stasy. There

is no place where

The idea of God is the primordial sin, all religions are evil.

Self-love is its own law, which may be broken with impunity,

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being the only energy that is not servile, serving its ever-ready purpose. Surely it is all mat is left us that has no sin and is free? Verily) it LS the only thing' we dare be conscious of. He that truly pleases himself is without virtue, and shall satisfy all men. Hate, jealousy, murder, etc., are conditions of love, even as virtue, greed, selfishness, suicide, etc., are conditions

of not pleasing one's self. There is no sin more sickening

than love, for it is the very essence of covetousness mother of all sin, hence it has the most devotees. only is pure and without a congregation. He that entirely loves himself induces self-love only. In and the Self-love

this he is inexorable, but does not offend like other men. He is akin to the great purpose, his actions explained for him,
good seen of his evil, withourknowing, everyone satisfied with

his will. Do not Heaven and Earth unite daily in spontaneous homage to this will of self-love? No man can show greater self-love, than by giving up all he believes. \Vhy do I value this self-love before all else? Is it not because I may be free to
believe in evil, but have no thought that anything can do me injury? All is self-love, the people of the world, if they only knew, are its devotees.

My new

law is the great clue to life. If

the world could understand this, the rotten fabric discarded, they would diligently follow the way in their own hearts, there would be no further desire for unity .... Try and imagine what that implies.

May the idea of God perish and with it women; have they not both made me appear clownish? Let there be no mistake, purity and innocence is simplicity, happiness is wisdom. What is simple has no duality.

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THE SELF IN ECSTASY

THE DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL SELF~,LOVE

OW
SELF-LOVE IS EXPLAINED.

IT
"self"

IS THE

completion "Neithcr indissoluble, dissociation

of belief. .... Neither,)) beyond

The nothing

is the

omitted, by its own

prepossession;

of conception

~n ~<9~
~ ~

invincible love is the only true, safe, and free. The desire) will, and belief ceasing Attraction, to exist as separate. repulsion, and control self contained, they become

the original unity, inert in pleasure. There is no duality. There is no desire for unity. rests in its unmodified conception identified subj ection Heaven. meditation times, it'" creates
to

At that time, it (the dual principle)

state. The belief no longer subject to "self" as such becomes

'* I it, the "NeIrher-Netther, " emanates a

terragrarn maroa

by conceiving
with its

by loving.
its

At other created,

of rela ti yes, rhe sexes of which are evolved lhrough

their cruciform

a centre,

environment,

ramifications,

conception

law and the insatiab le desire for unity, inasmuch

as the duality is unity Self-love

W.

Servitude

to law is the hatred of all pleasing,

only is the eternal

by
in

on this effulgent self which is mystic joyousness. to his imagination, beyond sin,

At that time of bliss, he is punctual

reflection, and are elusive in idenrtrv, In their fusion they produce unity (duality) acquire conception, Progeneraung by sub-division the I' embrace eternity, in [heir manifold ramifications IS

that day what happiness is his! A lusty innocent,

law.

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without

hurt!

Balanced by an emotion,

a refraction

of his

ecstasy is all that he is conscious ofas external.? the Ego.

"<
i.e., hi~ rainbow.

His vacuity,

causes double refraction, "He)" the self-effulgent lightens in

Beyond law and the guest at the "Feast of the

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Chapter on self. ~Htrae.tion omlued.

Supersensualists."? He has power over life and dearh." Save by this, he is not beyond self-reproach, verily he has loosed all the trouble of the world, the murder from the lightning,
Self-love preventing the mind from concentration, is identity

;,4 TIllS IS the lest.

The one who

without

form,

is no thought

as such: law and external

dou bts
nncuraily

WOIl

[d

influences contained, innocence

do not affect. When that giving up all

submit

himself

belief, reflects only its meaning, then is there purity of vision, of touch, ergo, self-love. Verily, verily men are is death. and life. born, suffer and die through their belief. Ejaculation Self-love is preservation

Man to invoke pleasure in his choice, subtracts from desire,

his desire is partial desire, becomes sub-duple (conflict), never

is his energy

full. Having no true

focus, he is deceived in his Pleasure becomes the

to

strength and attains a pure measure of pleasure from his body.

In

success how heavy is his sentence! Through

illusion. sentiment. obscures.

dire necessity, "his means," he LS bound

its cause and effect, and becomes a holocaust wrapping of dissatisfaction, the hypothesis

on the pyre of of desires which

This self-love is the only full energy, all else a

Man in the misery of his illusions and unsatisfied desires, wings his flight to different religions, and doctrines, seeks

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THE THUMB CONCENTRATION

redeception, a hypnotic, a palliative from which he suffers

fresh miseries in exhaustion. The terms of the cure are new illusions, greater entanglement, more stagnant environment. Having studied all ways and means to pleasure and pondered over them well again and again, this self-love has been found by me to be the only free, true and full one, nothing more sane, pure, and complete. There is no deceit; when by this all experience certainly is known, everything sublimely beautiful and exceedingly amiable: where the necessity of other means? Like the drink to the drunkard everything should be sacrificed for it. This Self-love is now declared by me the means of evolving millions of ideas for pleasure without love, or its synonyms - self-reproach, sickness, old-age, and death. The Symposium of self and love, O! Wise Man, Please Thyself.

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STEALING THE FIRE FROM HEAVEN

THE COMPLETE RITUAL AND DOCTRINE OF MAGIC

ECSTASY -N SELF~LOVE THE OBSESSION

DEAREST,

WILL NOW EXPLAIN THE ONLY SAFE

There is no qualification, -t no ritual or ceremony. His very existence symbolising all that is necessary to perfection. Most emphatically, there is no need of repetition or feeble imitation. You are alive! Magic, the reduction of properties to simplicity, making them transmutable to utilise them afresh by direction, without capitalization, bearir.ig fruit many times. Know deliberation,

IIII conception.

and true formula, the destroyer of the darkness of the World, the most secret among all secrets. Let it be secret to him who would attain. Let it cover any period of time, depending on his

The means being slmpl icity, he is comparatively free to make his own qualifications and difficul ties, i.e., magical retirements are absurd and at once prove his incapaclrv: the non-existence of what he sets about to prove. He at once sets his limit and servility.
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over consciousness sycophancy,

and concentration

to be its resistance and of idiotcv, %ether of desire is his

the ultimate acquirement

for his own pleasure or power, the fulfilment purpose, he would terminate
,I<, JUIit
IL natural

this by magic, Let him wait for a

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desire analogous in intensity, (or its fulfilment) organic! the quantum.

he then sacrifices this desire freedom from that

des 111:

to the initial desire, by this it becomes He has not attained

.. l

Flus I a shan m I.. for those

law,"'3Hence let him wait for a belief to be subtracted, period when disillusionment is his chance, disappointment

wl]{l~t·behef is full m ·11... [1IW, are househ old ers fuJlowing their desires, The (,,,rlT,ll 13 h old ~

has taken place." Verily "This free entity ofbehef" and

into one part, By the (at

his desire are united sensation abstention

to his purpose by the use of Sigils or the consciousness

sacred letters. By projecting

IN"d

fOf

any

purpose.

not being manifold, becomes intensified,

time this determines (involuntary itself).

,l<, 11 [u~tr~ lion: the

loss of ftllth m H frienJ, or '111 union II. ;.lld
11m

of desire, except in the object, this is attained

the psychological and apprehension permanent

By non-resistance

thought and action), worry find no Anxiety defeats the

fulrLl

ex peers . rlous

of .non-fulfilment, being transient,

abode: he des ires everything.

purpose, it retains and exposes the desire. Conscious desire is non -attracti ve. The mind quiet and focussed, und isturbed by external images does not distort the sense impressions (there

is no hallucination;
secret.

it would end in imaginative

to

fulfilment), the object in

but magnifies the existing desire, and joins it

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C."\STING THE SHADOW

The

Ego not being totally oblivious, let him retain only

and visualise the Sigil form, it is his chalice, the means of vacuity and incarnation. emotion Miraculous (attained). at that
LS he, balance

By the

deliberation

of an analogous

time, he deputises

the law (reaction).

nor known in this world imitated

All other consciousness annulled with safety, the

vehicle strong enough for the ecstasy, he is beyond hurt. Now let him imagine an union takes place between himself (the mystic union emitted, nothing astonishing whypeople of the Ego and Absolute). The nectar After this there is let him drink slowly, again and again." experience his passion is incomparable,

*, If 'it becomes
phvsica I, lee It im imagine another's body -he has
that sigil IQr Its

in the world he will desire: unless he wills. That is do not understand me. The ecstasy in its emotion the Know it as the nectar of life, the Syllubub of Verily he steals the fire from Heaven: Deliberation
"2

is ornnigenous. Sun and Moon.

emergency. This, although not lns

crig inal purpose, he (II ill Ii ml

e;.;ceedin~ly
arnia ble, ,;' Laughter
this
L!J.SC. In

greatest act of bravery in the world. except in the refraction becoming

to a prior experience

egotized,

of the ecstasy, is exposure and death, having been given law; thus

a presiding obsession, control finding freedom

and is over ... conscious of that through it from its native (Insanity).

momentarily generating

double personality

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By these means there is no desire beyond fulfilment, no

accomplishment
,'J
Jt

too wonderful, depending on the amount of oblivious of your

rna V be don e by loca] iz ing

desire
'to

free belief.

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one

ivIen of small pleasure and enterprise,

sense, hence

by

(his formula using the ear as 'the ~h one hears the most rran.<;.C endenra I l1'lU'<;;C ever conceived, being the voices and harmoriv of everv conceivable animal and human existence' and so with each
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purpose, fault-finding, avaricious, sinful, who cannot live without women or enjoy without pain, fearsome" inconstant,
diseased, and withered, dependent, cruel, deceived, and liars,

the worst of men! Know, Oh, Lord, Oh beloved Self, I have now told you of that most secret tavern where passion goes when youth has gone) where any man may drink of the nectar of all- beneficent
nourishment

and gratuitous. ecstasy. The most pleasurable

sense.

that harms no one.

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OBESESSIOI S INCAKNATING

N'OTEONTHE DIFFERENCE OF MAGICAL

OBSESSION (GENIUS) AND INSANITY
AGICAL voluntarily
OBSESSION IS THAT STATE WHEN THE MIND """~.r""~I_"'" s illuminated i

by sub ..conscious It is the condition

activity of Genius.

evoked

.tiimtila inspiration.

by formula at our own time, etc., for

ther o.bs~ssion is the "blind .lea~ing the blin~,,, caused by quietism, known as mediurnisrn, an opening out of energy. A transmutated to "true" sub ..conscious consciousness activity, that is a

the Ego to (what is called) any external influence, elernentals, or disembodied it being

a resistance voluntary

insanity, a somnambulation

of the Ego with "no

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form" or control to guide it: hence its emanations ate stupid in suggestion, Or memories of childhood. Obsession known as or related to insanity is an experience that is dissociated from the personality (Ego) through some sort of rejection. It is suh-crvstalline, and cannot become permanently attached to the sub..consciousness, not having exhausted or completed itself by realisation. Depending on its degree of intensity and resistance shown at some time or another, the Ego has or has not knowledge of the obsession; always is its expression autonomous, divorced from personal control, power of direction and timing. Concentration determines dissociation. Enthusiasm for one object seeking completion by identification, sacrifices aU else, or deliberately forgets. Its separation 'from the Ego (it becoming equal, or more in bulk that then rest of the consciousness, causes sub.. d iv ision or doub le personali ty") iscaused by irs own in tens ity or by shock of resistance determined by some incompatibility of the desired or desire,
Ii 1

Concen rration is dissatisfied desire, a conflict that can never

be satisfied" because of its means. When the Ego, net appearing to have 01" not knowing the means of fulfilment, seeks its repudiation, repression, imaginative fulfilment, or transmutation to escape its worry. None of these is the desire's or obsession's annihilation, but it separation or concealment from the rest of the Ego, its premature sub-conscious existence.

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