THE RELIGION OF THELEMA . Aleister Crowley

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СКАЧАТЬ I hate the consoled & the consoler.

      49. I am unique & conqueror. I am not of the slaves that perish. Be they damned & dead! Amen. (This is of the 4: there is a fifth who is invisible, & therein am I as a babe in an egg.)

      50. Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is in my eyes; & my spangles are purple & green.

      51. Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight.

      52. There is a veil: that veil is black. It is the veil of the modest woman; it is the veil of sorrow, & the pall of death: this is none of me. Tear down that lying spectre of the centuries: veil not your vices in virtuous words: these vices are my service; ye do well, & I will reward you here and hereafter.

      53. Fear not, o prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be sorry. Thou art emphatically my chosen; and blessed are the eyes that thou shalt look upon with gladness. But I will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but I lift thee up.

      54. Nor shall they who cry aloud their folly that thou meanest nought avail; thou shall reveal it: thou availest: they are the slaves of because: They are not of me. The stops as thou wilt; the letters? change them not in style or value!

      55. Thou shalt obtain the order & value of the English Alphabet; thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto.

      56. Begone! ye mockers; even though ye laugh in my honour ye shall laugh not long: then when ye are sad know that I have forsaken you.

      57. He that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is filthy shall be filthy still.

      58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there are masked ones my servants: it may be that yonder beggar is a King. A King may choose his garment as he will: there is no certain test: but a beggar cannot hide his poverty.

      59. Beware therefore! Love all, lest perchance is a King concealed! Say you so? Fool! If he be a King, thou canst not hurt him.

      60. Therefore strike hard & low, and to hell with them, master!

      61. There is a light before thine eyes, o prophet, a light undesired, most desirable.

      62. I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body.

      63. Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of Hell's own worm.

      64. Oh! thou art overcome: we are upon thee; our delight is all over thee: hail! hail: prophet of Nu! prophet of Had! prophet of Ra-Hoor-Khu! Now rejoice! now come in our splendour & rapture! Come in our passionate peace, & write sweet words for the Kings.

      65. I am the Master: thou art the Holy Chosen One.

      66. Write, & find ecstasy in writing! Work, & be our bed in working! Thrill with the joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our age long love. Come! lift up thine heart & rejoice! We are one; we are none.

      67. Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses!

      68. Harder! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep -- die!

      69. Ah! Ah! What do I feel? Is the word exhausted?

      70. There is help & hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein!

      71. But exceed! exceed!

      72. Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly mine -- and doubt it not, an if thou art ever joyous! -- death is the crown of all.

      73. Ah! Ah! Death! Death! thou shalt long for death. Death is forbidden, o man, unto thee.

      74. The length of thy longing shall be the strength of its glory. He that lives long & desires death much is ever the King among the Kings.

      75. Aye! listen to the numbers & the words:

      76. 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L. What meaneth this, o prophet? Thou knowest not; nor shalt thou know ever. There cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound it. But remember, o chosen one, to be me; to follow the love of Nu in the star-lit heaven; to look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word.

      77. O be thou proud and mighty among men!

      78. Lift up thyself! for there is none like unto thee among men or among Gods! Lift up thyself, o my prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars. They shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the number of the man; and the name of thy house 418.

      79. The end of the hiding of Hadit; and blessing & worship to the prophet of the lovely Star!

      Chapter III

       Table of Contents

      1. Abrahadabra; the reward of Ra Hoor Khut.

      2. There is division hither homeward; there is a word not known. Spelling is defunct; all is not aught. Beware! Hold! Raise the spell of Ra-Hoor-Khuit!

      3. Now let it be first understood that I am a god of War and of Vengeance. I shall deal hardly with them.

      4. Choose ye an island!

      5. Fortify it!

      6. Dung it about with enginery of war!

      7. I will give you a war-engine.

      8. With it ye shall smite the peoples; and none shall stand before you.

      9. Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! this is the Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus shall my worship be about my secret house.

      10. Get the stele of revealing itself; set it in thy secret temple -- and that temple is already aright disposed -- & it shall be your Kiblah for ever. It shall not fade, but miraculous colour shall come back to it day after day. Close it in locked glass for a proof to the world.

      11. This shall be your only proof. I forbid argument. Conquer! That is enough. I will make easy to you the abstruction from the ill-ordered house in the Victorious City. Thou shalt thyself convey it with worship, o prophet, though thou likest it not. Thou shalt have danger & trouble. Ra-Hoor-Khu is with thee. Worship me with fire & blood; worship me with swords & with spears. Let the woman be girt with a sword before me: let blood flow to my name. Trample down the Heathen; be upon them, o warrior, I will give you of their flesh to eat!

      12. Sacrifice cattle, little and big: after a child.

      13. But not now.

      14. Ye shall see that hour, o blessed Beast, and thou the Scarlet Concubine СКАЧАТЬ