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INTRODUCTION#17

It must be understood that there is no grace or guilt in Al. The idea of Sin for instance is anything that disturbs the silence of infinity. From the divine standpoint the whole of manifestation is an abomination as far as the purity of Zero is concerned and yet it must be since the Goddess divided for love's sake. A curse in Al is simply to be and to go. Anything that disturbs the stillness of perfection is a curse in the terms of the Book of the Law. The idea of the question Why provoking because being accursed. "May because be accursed for ever" simply means that because will live for ever and provoke why's and because's until hell freezes over. This is the reason for Karma and the law of cause and effect. "I hit you because you hit me, what are you going to do about it" sums up most of human activity another great chunk of human activity is motivated by divine inspiration viewed through a glass darkly. The desire for great wealth and power is only the desire to imitate the wealth and power of God. Humanity is dimly aware of the vastness of the divine and express this awareness by trtying to imitate it by amassing wealth to create a power base and then trying to live for ever these activities it is sad to say originate in a desire to imitate the Gods. The formula of Christ is saying "forget it we all live for ever and we all will experience every experience we will be the poor man the man of wealth all in good time so be happy with what you are in this incarnation and don't try and be what you have been or will be in another one". Christianity seen in the isolation of one life time is ludicrous, but with the vision of Eternal life with endless incarnations it makes sense to calm down a bit and take eternity as it comes, envy no one as you will be him some day. Turn the other cheek if someone strikes you because it is his destiny to cause you pain as it yours to receive it. To strike back is to provoke the why and because state of affairs that gives rise to the whole Karmic joke. It's much better to receive the blow and not prolong the thing by hitting back. If you don't hit back then your assailant has a real problem, don't make his problem your problem by giving him an excuse. If you are not of the grade where you can understand this then by all means have a free for all, beat the living daylights out of each other, carry on until the stronger man wins, this among real men is the best way of making a long and lasting friendship, this is the reason for the "as brothers fight ye" in the Book of the Law. Contrary to received opinion fighting does not make enemies of brave men it makes friends but the battle must follow all the rules of chivalry all real men know this, only weaklings cheat and become figures of lasting contempt to all. The idea that there is any other enemy than yourself is erroneous. You can only see the faults in another that you have yourself. If you hadn't got them you would not recognise them as being important. The greater a fault is in the self the more one finds it an irritant in another. To ritualise the eradication of it in another by violence serves only to magnify it in the self. There is no reason to envy anyone because you'll be him in another life. The more you desire to be like him the nearer you are to becoming him in your next life because this desire means you haven't had his experience for a long time and so according to the requirements of eternity you are going to be him pretty soon because you created everything in the first place. It is silly to think in terms of one lifetime that hit or miss affair that can lead to heaven or hell puts an intolerable strain on humanity. The truth is we live for ever and will experience the whole gamut of lives that this earth is capable of sustaining.