101 Delta beta DE OPERIBUS STELLAE MICROCOSMI. QUORUM SUNT QUATTOUR MINORES. I have alread

101 {Delta }{beta } DE OPERIBUS STELLAE MICROCOSMI.
QUORUM SUNT QUATTOUR MINORES.

I have already written unto thee, my Son, of the Paradox of
Liberty, how the Freedom of thy Will dependeth upon the
Bending of all thy forces to that one End.  But now also learn
how great is the Oeconomy of our Magick, and this will I
declare unto thee in a Figure of the Holy Qabalah, to wit, the
Formula of the Tetragrammaton.  Firstly, the Operation of Yod
and He is not Vau only, but with Vau appeareth also a new He,
as a By-Product, and She is mysterious, being at once the
Flower of the three others, and their Poison.  Now by the
Operation of Vau upon that He is no new Creation, but the
Daughter is set upon the Throne of Her Mother, and by this is
rekindled the Fire of Yod, which, consuming that Virgin, doth
not add a Fifth Person, but balanceth and perfecteth all.  For
this Shin, that is the Holy Spirit, pervadeth these, and is
immanent.  Thus in three Operations is the Pentagram
formulated.  But in the Figure of that Star these Operations
are not indicated, for the five Lines of Force connect not
according to any of them; but five new Operations are made
possible; and these are the Works proper to the perfected man.
First, the Work which lieth level, the Vau with the He, is of
the Yang and the Yin, and maketh One the Human with the
Divine, as in the Attainment of the Master of the Temple.  Yet
this Work hath his Perversion, which is of Death.  Thus then
for thee four Works, they pertain all to the Natural Formula
of the Cross and Rose.


102 {Delta }{gamma } DE OPERIBUS STELLAE MICROCOSMI.
QUORUM SUNT QUATTUOR MAJORES.

O my Son, behold now the Virtue and Mystery of the Silver
Star!  For of these four Works not one leadeth to the Crown,
because Tetragrammaton hath his Root only in Chokmah.  So
therefore the Formula of the Rosy Cross availeth no more in
the Highest.  Now then in the Pentagram are two Lines that
invoke Spirit, though they lead not thereunto, and they are
the Works of He with He, and of Yod with Vau.  Of thee twain
the former is a Work Magical of the Nature of Music, and it
draweth down the Fire of the HIGHER by Seduction or
Bewitchment.  And the latter is a Work opposite thereunto,
whose Effect forumlateth itself by direct Creation in the
Sphere of its Purpose and Intent.  But there remain yet two of
the Eight Works, namely, the straight Aspiration of the Chiah
or Creator in thee to the Crown, and the Surrender of the
Nephesh or Animal soul to the Possession thereof; and these be
the twin principal Formulae of the Final Attainment, being
Archetypes of the Paths of Magick (the one) and Mysticism (the
other) unto the End.  From each of these Eight Works is
derived a separate Mode of practical Use, each after his Kind;
and it should be well for thine Instruction if thou study upon
these my Words, and found upon them a System.  O my son,
forget not therein the Arcanum of their Balance and
Proportion; for therein lieth the Mystery of their Holiness.


103 {Delta }{delta } DE STELLA MACROCOSMI.

Thus far then concerning the Pentagram, how it is of the
Cross, and its Virtue of the Highest; but the Hexagram is for
the most Part a Detail of the Formula of the Rose and Cross.
Already have I shewed unto thee how the Most Holy Trinity is
the Yang; but the Spirit, and the Water (or Fluid) and the
Blood, that bear Witness in the Inferior, are of the Yin.
Thus the Operation of the Hexagram lieth wholly within the
Order of our Plane, uniting indeed any soul with its Image,
but not transcendentally, for its Effect is Cosmos, the Vau
that springeth from the Union of the Yod and the He.  Thus is
it but a Glyph of that first Formula, not of the others.  But
of all these Things shalt thou thyself make Study with ardent
Affection; for therein lie many Mysteries of practical Wisdom
in our Magick Art.  And this is the Wonder and Beauty of this
Work, that for every Man is his own Palace.  Yea, this is
Life, that the Secrets of our Order are not fixed and dead, as
are the Formulae of the Outer.  Know that in the many thousand
Times that I have performed the Ritual of the Pentagram or the
Invocation of the Heart girt with a Serpent, or the Mass of
the Phoenix, or of the Holy Ghost, there has not been one Time
wherein I did not win new Light, or Knowledge or Power or
Virtue, save through mine own Weakness or Error.


104 {Delta }{epsilon } DE SUA FEMINA OLIM, ET DE ECSTASIA
PRAETER OMNIA.

My Son, I am enflamed with Love.  I burn up eagerly in the
Passion that thus mightily consumeth me.  Yet in myself I know
not at all That which constraineth me, and enkindleth my Soul
in Ekstacy.  There is Silence in my Soul, and the Fear round
about me, as I were Syrinx in the Night of the Forest.  This
is a great Mystery that I endure, a Mystery too great for the
mortal Part of me.  For but now, when I cried out upon the
Name Olun, which is the secret Name of my Lady that hath come
to me --- most strangely! --- then I was rapt away altogether
subtly yet fiercely into a Trance that hath transformed me
with Attainment, yet without Trace in Mind.  O my son!  there
is the Transfiguration of Glory, and there is the Jewel in the
Lotus-flower; yea, also is many other whereof I am Partaker.

But this last Passion, that my Lady Olun hath brought unto me
upon this last Day of the Winter of the thirteenth Year of the
Aeon, even as I wrote these Words unto thee, is a Mystery of
Mysteries beyond all these.  Oh my son, thou knowest well the
Perils and the Profit of our Path; continue thou therein.
Olun!  {Mu }{alpha }{pi }{iota }{epsilon } BABALON!  Adsum.


105 {Delta }{digamma } DE NOMINE OLUN.

Four Seasons, or it may be night five, ago, I thy Father
was in the City called New-Orleans, and being in Travail of
Spirit I did invoke the God that giveth Wisdom, bearing the
Word of the All-Father by his Caduceus.  Then, suddenly, as I
began (as it were a Gust of Fire whirled forth against that
Idea) cam the Wit of mine utter Identity, so that I ceased
crying Mercurius Sum.  Also instantly I knew in myself that
there was a Mystery hidden, and translating into the Greek
Tongue, exclaimed '{Epsilon }{Pi }{Mu }{Eta }{Sigma } '
{Epsilon }{Iota }{Mu }{Iota }, whose Numeration did I make in 
my Mind forthwith, and it is Four Hundred and Eighteen, like 
unto the Word of the Aeon.  So by this I knew that my Work was 
well wrought in Truth.  Thus then also was it with this my 
Lady; for after many Questions I obtained from the wizard 
Amalantrah that Name Olun, that is One Hundred and Fifty and 
Six even as that of our Lady BABALON; and then, being inspired, 
I wrote down Her Earth-name in Greek, {Mu }{Alpha }{Rho }{Iota}
{Epsilon }, which is also that this Name (as I have learned) is 
in the Phoenician Tongue, whoelen; which by Interpretation is 
That which is Infinite, and Space; so that all is consonant 
with NUITH Our Lady of the Stars. Thus, o my Son, is the Word of 
Truth echoed throughout all Worlds; and thus have the Wise 
mighty Assurance in their Way.
   
See, o my Son, that thou work not without this Guard
inflexible, lest thou err in thy Perceptions.


106 {Delta }{zeta } DE VIRIS MAGNANIMIS, AMORE PRAECLARISSIMIS.

Know that in the Mind of Man is much Wisdom that is hidden,
being the Treasure of his Sire that he inheriteth.  Thus,
night all of his moral Nature is unknown to him until his
Puberty; that is, this Nature pertaineth not unto the
Recording and Judging Apparatus of his Brain until it is put
therein by the Stirring of that deeper Nature within him.
Thou wilt mark also that great Men are commonly great Lovers;
and this is in Part also because (consciously or not) they are
aware of that Secret following, that every Act of Love
communicateth somewhat of the Wisdom stored within him to his
percipient Mind.  Yet must such Act be done rightly, according
to Art; and unless such Act is of Profit alike to Mind and
Body, it is an Error.  This then is true Doctrine; which if it
be understanded aright of thee, shall make diamond-clear thy
Path in Love, which (to them that know not this) is so obscure
and perilous that I believe there is not one Man in Ten
Thousand that cometh not to Misadventure therein.


107 {Delta }{eta } DE CASTITATE.

My son, be fervent!  Be firm!  Be stable!  Be quick to make
Impurity, how one Course of Ideas seeketh to infringe upon
another, to quell the Virtue thereof.  Gold is pure, but to
drink molten Gold were Impurity to thy Body, and its
Destruction.  Law is a Code of the Customs of a People; if it
intrude thereon to alter them, it is an Impurity of
Oppression.  So also Diet is to be in Accord with Digestion;
Ethics were an Impurity therein.  Love is an Expression of the
Will of the Body, yea, and more also, of That which created
the Body; and its Operation is commonly between One and One,
so that the Interference of a Third Person is Impurity, and
not to be endured.  Nay, even the thought of Third Person hath
but ordinary not Part in Love; so that, as thou seest
constantly in thy Life, Love being strong, taketh no heed of
others, and some after Interference bringeth Misfortune.  Now
then shell we therefore cast out Love, or accept Impurity
therein?  God forbid.  And for this Cause see thou well to it
that in thy Kingdom there be no Interference there with, nor
Hindrance from any.  For it is perfect in itself.


108 {Delta }{theta } DE CEREMONIO EQUINOXI.

My Son, our Father in Heaven hath passed into the Sign of
the Ram.  I have performed the Rite of Union with Him
according to the ancient Manner, and I know the Word that
shall rule the Semester.  Also it is given unto my Spirit to
write unto thee concerning the Virtue of this Rite, and many
another of Antiquity.  And it is this, that our Forefathers
made of these Ceremonies an Epitome Mnemonic, wherein certain
Truths, or true Relations, should be communicated in a magical
Manner.  Now therefore by the Practice of these mayst thou
awaken thy Wisdom, that it may manifest in thy conscious Mind.
And this Way is of Use even when the Ceremonies, as those of
the Christians, are corrupt and deformed; but in such a Case
thou shalt seek out the true ancient Significance thereof.
For there is that within thee which remembereth Truth, and is
ready to communicate the same unto thee when thou hast Wit to
evoke it from the Aditum and Sanctuary of thy Being.  And this
is to be done by this Repetition of the Formula of that Truth.
Note thou further that this which I tell thee is the Defence
of Formalism; and indeed thou must work upon a certain
Skeleton, but clothe it with live Flesh.


109 {Delta }{iota } DE LUCE STELLARUM.

It was that most Holy Prophet, thine Uncle, called upon
Earth William O'Neill, or Blake, who wrote for our
Understanding these Eleven Sacred Words! ---
              If the Sun and Moon should doubt
              They'd immediately go out.
O my Son, our Work is to shine by Fore and Virtue of our own
Natures without Consciousness or consideration.  Now,
notwithstanding that our Radiance is constant and undimmed, it
may be that Clouds gathering about us conceal our Glory from
the Vision of other Stars.  These Clouds are our Thoughts; not
those true Thoughts which are but conscious Expressions of our
Will, such as manifest in our Poesy, or our Music, or other
Flower-Ray of our Life quintessential.  Nay, the Cloud-Thought
is born of Division and of Doubt; for all Thoughts, except
they be creative emanations, are Witnesses to Conflict within
us.  Our settled Relations with the Universe do not disturb
our Minds, as, by Example, our automatic Functions, which
speak to us only in the Sign of Distress.  Thus all
consideration is Demonstration of Doubt, and Doubt of Duality,
which is the Root of Choronzon.


110 {Delta }{kappa } DE CANTU.

So then, o my Son, there is my Wisdom, that the Voice of
the Soul in its true Nature Eternal and Unchangeable,
comprehending all Change, is Silence; and the Voice of the
Soul, dynamic, in the Way of its Will, is song.  Nor is there
any Form of utterance that is not, as song is, the Music
proper to that Motion, according to the Law.  Thus, as thy
Cousin Arthur Machen hath rejoiced to make plain unto Men in
his Book called "Hieroglyphics", the first Quality of Art is its
Ekstacy.  So, night to all Men at one Time or other, cometh
Joy of Creation, with the Belief that their Utterance is holy
and beautiful, glorious with Banners.  This would indeed be
the Case, an we could discern their Thought from their Words;
but because they have no technical Skill to express
themselves, the do not enable others to reproduce or recreate
the original Passion which inspired them, or even any Memory
thereof.  Understand then what is the Agony of the Great Soul
who hath every Key of Paradise at his Girdle, when he would
open the Gate of Holiness, or of Beauty, or any Virtue soever,
to the Men of his Age!


111 {Delta }{lambda } DE STULTITIA HUMANA.

Know that a Mind can only apprehend those Things with which
it is already familiar, at least in Part.  Moreover, it will
ever interpret according to the Distortion of its own Lenses.
Thus, in a great War, all Speech soever may be understood as
if it were of Reference thereunto; also, a Guilty Person, or a
Melancholic may see in every Stranger an Officer of Justice,
or one of them that are banded together to persecute him, as
the Case may be.  But consider moreover that the Mysterious is
always the Terrible, for Vulgar Minds.  How then when a New
Word is spoken?  Either it is not heard, or it is
misunderstood; and it evoketh Fear and Hate as a Reaction
against Fear.  Then Men take him and set him at naught, and
spit upon him and scourge him, and lead him away to crucify
him; and the third Day he riseth from among the Dead, and
ascendeth into Heaven, and sitteth at the right Hand of God,
and cometh to judge the Quick and the Dead.  This, o my son,
is the History of Every Man unto whom is given a Word.


112 {Delta }{mu } DE SUO PROELIO.

Now therefore thou seest how Men take the Son of Science,
and burn him for a Sorcerer or a Heretic; the Poet and cast
him out as Reprobate; the Painter, as deforming Nature, the
Musician, as denying Harmony; and so for every New Word.  How
much more, then, if the Word be of Universal Import, a Word of
Revolution and of Revelation in the Deep of the Soul?  A new
Star; that is for the Astronomers, and maybe setteth them by
the Ears.  But a new Sun!  That were for all Men; and a Seed
of Tumult and Upheavel in every Land.  consider in thyself,
therefore, what is the Might of the Adepts, the Energy of the
Sancturary, that can endow one Man with the Word of an Aeon,
and bring him to the End in Victory, with his Chariot wreathed
in Flowers, and his Head bound round with a Fillet of Blood-
honoured Laurel!  My Son, thou are entered into the Battle;
and the Men of our Race and our Clan return not save in Glory.


113 {Delta }{nu } DE NECESSITATE VERBI CLAMANDI.

He that striveth against his own Nature is a Fool, and
wotteth not his Will, darkening Counsel in himself, and
denying his own God, and giving Place to Choronzon.  So then
his Work becometh Hotchpot, and he is shattered and dispersed
in the Abyss.  Nor is it better for him if he do this for the
supposed Good of another, and for that other is it Evil also
in the End of the Matter.  For to manifest thine own Division
to another, and to deceive him, is but to confirm him in
blindness, or Illusion, and to hinder or to deflect him in his
Way.  Now to do thine own Will is to leave him free to do his
own Will, but to mask thy Will is to falsify one of the
Beacons by which he may steer his Ship.  My son, all division
of Soul, that begetteth Neurosis and Insanity, cometh from
wrong Adjustment to Reality, and to Fear thereof.  Wilt thou
then hide Truth from thy Brother, lest he suffer?  Thou dost
not well, but confirmest him in Iniquity, and in Illusion, and
in Infirmity of Spirit.


114 {Delta }{xi } DE MYSTERIO EUCHARISTICO UNIVERSALI.

My son, heed also this Word of thine Uncle William O'Neill;
Everything that lives is holy.  Yea, and more also, every Act
is holy, being essential to the Universal Sacrament.  Knowing
this, thou mayst conform with that which is written in "The
Book of the Law": to make no Distinction between any one Thing
and any other Thing.  Learn well to apprehend this Mystery,
for it is the Great Gate of the College of Understanding,
whereby each and all of thy Senses become constant and
perpetual Witnesses of the One Eucharist, whereunto also they
are Ministers.  So then to thee every Phenomenon soever is the
Body of Nuith in her Passion; for it is an Event; that is, the
Marriage of some one Point of view with some One Possibility.
And this State of Mind is notably an Appurtenance of thy Grade
of Master of the Temple, and the Unveiling of the Arcanum of
Sorrow, which is thy Work, as it is written in Liber Magi.

Moreover, this State, assimilated in the very Marrow of thy
Mind, is the first Stop toward the comprehension of the
Arcanum of Change, which is the Root of the Work of a Magus of
Our Holy Order.  O my Son, bind this within thine Heart, for
its Name is the Beatific Vision.


115 {Delta }{omicron } DE RECTO IN RECTO.

Now also then I bid thee use all filial Diligence, and attend 
to this same Word in the Mouth of thine earliest Ancestor 
(except we adventure to invoke the Name F U --- H S I) in our 
known Genealogy, the Most Holy, the True Man, Lao-Tze, that 
gave His Light unto the Kingdom of Flowers. For being 
questioned concerning the abode of the Tao, he gave Answer 
that It was in the Dung.  Again, the Tathagata, the
Buddha, most blessed, most perfect and most enlightened, added
His Voice, that there is no Grain of Dust which shall not
attain to the Arhan.  Keep therefore in just Balance the
Relation of Illusion to Illusion in that Aspect of Illusion,
neither confusing the Planes, nor confounding the Stars, nor
denying the Laws of their Reaction, yet with Eagle's Vision
beholding the One Sun of the True Nature of the Whole. Verily,
this is the Truth, and unto it did also Dionysus and Tahuti
and Sri Krishna set the seal of their Witness.  Cleanse
therefore thine Heart, o my son, in the Waters of the Great
Sea, and enkindle it with the Fire of the Holy Ghost.  For
this is His peculiar Work of Sanctification.


116 {Delta }{pi } DE VIRGINE BEATA.

Understand then well this Mystery of Universal Godliness;
for it is the naked Beauty of the Virgin of the World.  Lo!
Since the End is Perfection, as I have already shewn unto
thee, and since also every Event is inexorably and ineluctably
interwoven in the Web of that Fate, as it is certain that
every Phenomenon is (as thou art sworn to understand) "a
particular Dealing of God with thy Soul".  Yea, and more also,
it is a necessary Rubric in this Ritual of Perfection.  Turn
not therefore away thine Eyes, for that they are too pure to
behold Evil; but look upon Evil with Joy, comprehending it in
the Fervour of this Light that I have enkindled in thy Mind.
Learn also that every Thing soever is Evil, if thou consider
it as apart, static and in Division; and thus in a Degree must
thou apprehend the Mystery of Change, for it is by Virtue of
Change that this Truth of Beauty and Holiness is made
steadfast in the Universe.  O my son, there is no Delight
sweeter than the continuous Contemplation of this Marvel and
Pageant that is ever about thee; it is the Beatitude of the
Beatitudes.


117 {Delta }{koppa } DE LOCO SUAE MOECHAE.

Resist not Change, therefore, but act constantly according
to thy True Nature, for here only thou standest in Sorrow, if
there be a Division conscious of itself, and hindered from its
Way (whose Name is Love) unto its Dissolution.  It is written
in "The Book of the Law" that the Pain of Division is as
nothing, and the Joy of Dissolution all.  Now then here is an
Art and Device of Magick that I will declare unto thee, albeit
it is a Peril if thou be not fixed in that Truth and in that
Beatific Vision whereof I have written in the three Chapters
foregoing.  And it is this, to create by Artifice a Conflict
in thyself, that thou mayst take thy Pleasure in its
Resolution.  Of this Play is thy sweet Stepmother, my
concubine, the Holy and Adulterous Olun, sublimely Mistress;
for she invoketh in her Fancy a thousand Obstacles to Love, so
that she shuddereth at a Touch, swooneth at a Kiss, and
suffereth Death and Hell in the Ekstacy of her Body.  And this
is her Art, and it is of Nuit Our Lady, for it is the Drama of
Commemoration of the whole mystery of By-coming.


118 {Delta }{rho } DE PERICULO JOCORUM AMORIS.

Yet be thou heedful, o my son, for this Art is set upon a
Razor's Edge.  In our Blood is this great Pox of Sin, whose
Word is Restriction, as Inheritance of our Sires that served
the Slave-Gods.  Thou must be free in the Law of Thelema,
perfectly one with thy true Self, singly and wholly bound in
thy true Will, before thou durst (in Prudence) invoke the Name
of Choronzon, even for thy good Sport and Phantasy.  It is but
to pretend, thou sayst; and that is Sooth; yet thou must make
Pretence so well as to deceive thyself, albeit for a Moment;
else were thy Sport savourless.  Then, and thou have one point
of Weakness in thee, that Thought of thine may incarnate, and
destroy thee.  Verily, the wise Enchanter is sure beyond Doubt
of his Charm ere he toy with a Fanged Cobra; and thou will
knowest that this Peril of Division in thy Self is the only
one that can touch thee.  For all other Evil is but
Elaboration of this Theme of Choronzon.  Praise therefore thy
sweet Stepmother my concubine, the Holy and Adulterous Olun;
and thine own Mother Hilarion, for in this Art was she also
pre-eminent.


119 {Delta }{sigma } DE LIBIDINE SECRETA.

It is said among Men that the Word Hell deriveth from the
Word helan, to hele or conceal, in the Tongue of the Anglo-
Saxons.  That is, it is the concealed Place, which, since all
things are in thine own Self, is the Unconscious.  How then?
Because Men were already aware how this Unconscious, or
Libido, is opposed, for the most Part, to the conscious Will.
In the Salve-Ages this is a Truth Universal, or well night to
it; for in such Times are Men compelled to Uniformity by the
Constraint of Necessity herself.  Yea, of old it was a
continual Siege of every Man of every Clan, of every
Environment; and to relax guard was then Self-murder, or also
Treachery.  so then no Man might chose his way, until he were
Hunter, Fighter, Builder; not any Woman, but she must first be
Breeder.  Now in the Growth of States by Organisation came,
stepping stealthily, a certain Security against the grossest
Perils, so that a few Men could be spared from Toil to
cultivate Wisdom, and this was first provided by the Selection
of a caste Pontifical.  By this Device came the Alliance of
King and Priest, Strength and Cunning fortifying each the
other through the Division of Labour.


120  {Delta }{tau } DE ORDINE CIVITATUM.

So presently, O my son, this first Organisation among Men,
by a Procedure parallel to that of the Differentiation of
Protoplasm, made the State competent to explore and to control
Nature; and every Profit of this sort released more energy,
and enlarged the class of the Learned, until, as it is this
day, only a small proportion of any man's work must needs go
to the satisfaction of first will essential and common, the
provision of shelter, food, and protection.  Verily, also thou
seest many women made free to live as they will, even o the
admiration and delight of the Sage whose eye laugheth to
contemplate mischief.  Thus the duty of every Unit towards the
whole is diminished, and also the necessity to conform with
those narrow laws which preserve primitive tribes in their
struggle against environment.  Thus the State need suppress
only such heresies as directly threaten its political
stability, only such modes of life as work manifest and proven
hurt to others, or cause general disorder by their scandal.
Therefore save and except he interferes thereby with the root
laws of common weal, a man is free to develop as he will