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sucked up by her slyness and smiles, so art thou wholly and no more in
part
before the symbol of the beloved, though it be but a Pisacha or a Yantra
or a
Deva.
35. And in all shalt thou create the Infinite Bliss and the next link
of
the Infinite Chain.
36. This chain reaches from Eternity to Eternity, ever in triangles -
-- is
not my symbol a triangle? --- ever in circles --- is not the symbol of
the
Beloved a circle? Therein is all progress base illusion, for every
circle is
alike and every triangle alike!
37. But the progress is progress, and progress is rapture, constant,
dazzling, showers of light, waves of dew, flames of the hair of the
Great
Goddess, flowers of the roses that are about her neck, Amen!
38. Therefore lift up thyself as I am lifted up.
Hold thyself in as I am master to accomplish. At the end, be the end
far
distant as the stars that lie in the navel of Nuit, do thou slay thyself
as I
at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is
mother
of war, in the darkness that holds light in his hand, as an harlot that
plucks a jewel from her nostrils.
39. So therefore the beginning is delight, and the end is delight,
and
delight is in the midst, even as the Indus is water in the cavern of the
glacier, and water among the greater hills and the lesser hills and
through
the ramparts of the hills and through the plains, and water at the mouth
thereof when it leaps forth into the mighty sea, yea, into the mighty
sea.
(The Interpretation of this Book will be given to members of the
Grade of
Dominus Liminis on application, each to his Adeptus.)
LIBER A
vel
ARMORUM
SUB FIGURA CCCXII.
" ... the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of
the
sword; these he shall learn and teach." Liber AL, I, 37.
The Pantacle.
Take pure wax, or a plate of gold, silver-gilt or Electrum Magicum.
The
diameter shall be eight inches, and the thickness half an inch.
Let the Neophyte by his understanding and ingenium devise a symbol to
represent the Universe.
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