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Bill Sykes desires to possess Nancy, he does in fact evoke a spirit of the nature of Venus, constraining him by
his Oath of Love (and by his magical power as a man) to bring him the girl. So also, when he wants to kill her,
he evokes a Martial or Saturnian spirit, with an Oath of hate. But these are not pure planetary spirits, moving
in well-defined spheres by rigidly righteous laws. They are gross concretions of confused impulses,  incapable
of understanding the nature of an oath . They are also such that the idea of murder is nowise offensive to the
Spirit of Love.
It is indeed the criterion of spiritual  caste that conflicting elements should not coexist in the same
consciousness. The psalm-singing Puritan who persecutes publicans, and secretly soaks himself in fire-water;
the bewhiskered philanthropist in broadcloth who swindles his customers and sweats his employees: these
men must not be regarded as single-minded scoundrels, whose use of religion and respectability to cloke their
villainies is a deliberate disguise dictated by their criminal cunning. Far from it, they are only too sincere in
their  virtues ; their terror of death and of supernatural vengeance is genuine; it proceeds from a section of
themselves which is in irreconcilable conflict with their rascality. Neither side can conciliate, suppress, or
ignore the other; yet each is so craven as to endure its enemy s presence. Such men are therefore without pure
principles; they excuse themselves for every dirty trick that turns to their apparent advantage.
The first step of the Aspirant toward the Gate of Initiation tells him that purity  unity of purpose  is
essential above all else.  Do what thou Wilt strikes on him, a ray of fierce white flame consuming all that is
not utterly God. Very soon he is aware that he cannot consciously contradict himself. He develops a subtle
sense which warns him that two trains of thought which he had never conceived as connected are incompatible.
Yet deeper drives  Do what thou wilt ; subconscious oppositions are evoked to visible appearance. The
secret sanctuaries of the soul are cleansed.  Do What thou Wilt purges his every part. He has become One,
one only. His Will is consequently released from the interference of internal opposition, and he is a Master of
Magick. But for that very reason he is now utterly impotent to achieve anything that is not in absolute
accordance with his Original Oath, with his True Will, by virtue whereof he incarnated as a man. With Bill
Sykes love and murder are not mutually exclusive, as they are with King Arthur. The higher the type of man,
the more sensitive he becomes; so that the noblest love divines intuitively when a careless word or gesture
may wound, and, vigilant, shuns them as being of the family of murder. In Magick, likewise, the Adept who
is sworn to attain to the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel may in his grosser days
have been expert as a Healer, to find that he is now incapable of any such work. He will probably be puzzled,
and wonder whether he has lost all his power. Yet the cause may be no more than that the Wisdom of his
Angel depreciates the interference of ignorant kindliness with diseases which may have been sent to the
sufferer for a purpose profoundly important to his welfare.
In the case of THE MASTER THERION, he had originally the capacity for all classes of Orgia. In the
beginning, He cured the sick, bewitched the obstinate, allured the seductive, routed the aggressive, made
himself invisible, and generally behaved like a Young-Man-About-town on every possible plane. He would
afflict one vampire with a Sending of Cats, and appoint another his private Enchantress, neither aware of any
moral oxymoron, nor hampered by the implicit incongruity of his oaths.
But as He advanced in Adeptship, this coltishness found its mouth bitted; as soon as He took serious Oaths and
was admitted to the Order which we name not, those Oaths prevented him using His powers as playthings.
Trifling operations, such as He once could do with a turn of the wrist, became impossible to the most persistent
endeavour. It was many years before He understood the cause of this. But little by little He became so
absorbed in the Work of His true Will that it no longer occurred to Him to indulge in capricious amusements.
Yet even at this hour, though He be verily a Magus of A. . A. ., though His Word be the Word of the Aeon,
though He be the Beast 666, the Lord of the Scarlet Woman  in whom is all power given , there are still
certain Orgia beyond Him to perform, because to do so would be to affirm what He hath denied in those
Oaths by whose virtue He is That He is. This is the case, even when the spirit of such Orgia is fully consonant
with His Will. The literal sense of His original Oath insists that it shall be respected.
The case offers two instances of this principle. FRATER PERDURABO specifically swore that he would
renounce His personal possessions to the last penny; also that He would allow no human affection to hinder
Him. These terms were accepted; He was granted infinitely more than He had imagined possible to an
incarnated Man. On the other hand, the price offered by Him was exacted as strictly as if it had been stipulated
by Shylock. Every treasure that he had on earth was taken away, and that, usually, in so brutal or cruel a
manner as to make the loss itself the least part of the pang. Every human affection that He had in His heart 
and that heart aches for Love as few hearts can ever conceive  was torn out and trampled with such infernal
ingenuity in intensifying torture that His endurance is beyond belief. Inexplicable are the atrocities which
accompanied every step in His Initiation! Death dragged away His children with slow savagery; the women
He loved drank themselves into delirium and dementia before His eyes, or repaid His passionate devotion
with toad-cold treachery at the moment when long years of loyalty had tempted Him to trust them. His
friend, that bore the bag, stole that which was put therein, and betrayed his Master as thoroughly as he was
able. At the first distant rumour that the Pharisees were out, his disciples  all forsook Him and fled . His
mother nailed Him with her own hands to the cross, and reviled Him as nine years He hung thereupon.
Now, having endured to the end, being Master of Magick, He is mighty to Work His true Will; which Will
is, to establish on Earth His Word, the Law of Thelema. He hath none other Will than this; so all that He doth
is unto this end. All His Orgia bear fruit; what was the work of a month when He was a full Major Adept is to [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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