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INTRODUCTION#6

We are entering a critical period in the evolution of mankind. The principles that have guided us and the institutions that have guarded us for the last 2,000 years can be seen crumbling everywhere. Since Crowley received the book Al in 1904 whole countries have changed their ways of existence. Russia and China aware that the old ways could not survive returned to the primitive fundamentalism of the communist state. The banding together of the masses against a real or imaginary enemy and living out and existing in a siege situation. The death of religion is occurring throughout the world; for make no mistake, Hinduism and Islam are losing their grip upon the peoples they have ruled, even as the Christian era is crumbling. It is only a siege mentality of a people that would return it to Christianity, Islam or Hinduism. The fear of praeternational influences threatening a nation causes its people to band together under what should be a non power based institution - their religion, but they only find themselves being manipulated by a Godless state. The theoretical end to such a situation i.e. where a nation’s religion fails to sustain its people through a national identity crisis, war is needed with another country to re-affirm its national identity.

These are the ways of the old aeon and they are defunct, the new Aeon is with us and its principles as written in the Book of the Law and illustrated by nature are irrefutable. We are on the Threshold of a new beginning when mankind will be truly emancipated into the Cosmos, no longer a mere curiosity to travellers in the body of our Lady of the Stars, but civilised members of her life. The principles of Thelema are being integrated into humanity’s thought stream. Changes are occurring on the astral plane, devastating because mankind THINKS IT CAN RESIST the changes required by the Gods. One of these changes is indicated by the loss of identity caused by unemployment in the Western World of an ever increasing number of workers - the anthill no longer needs them. The powers of Al, of the aeon, are making people look inside themselves for an identity. Instead of being labelled by what one does, it is what one is that will matter and those that fail to find themselves will fid that not only are they redundant as workers but as souls as well. The Book of the Law is implacable on this matter.

In Thelema is a philosophy that will guide us for the next 2,000 years. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law, and with its Qaballa an affirmation of the direct nature of the message from the Gods that Liber Al is. A message that can stand up to all the modern methods of computer analysis affirming the transcendental nature of its transmitters. Magick is based on AL and AL is based on number, the number 11 to be precise, which gives, as explained in our previous article, the following English Qaballistic values:-A=1; L=2; W=3; H=4; S=5; D=6; O=7; Z=8; K=9; V=10; G=11; R=12; C=13; N=14; Y=15; J=16; U=17; F=18; Q=19; B=20; M=21; X=22; I=23; T=24; E=25; P=26. No man could have written Liber Al: its Qaballa proves this beyond any doubt. For a human being to have contrived Al he would have had to live for several thousand years, a being all powerful, capable of directing a language completely, he must do this and more. Finally he must communicate in some unimaginable way a book - a cipher functioning on all qaballistic levels - a perfect Qaballa concealing and revealing the nature of man and the universe with the magick of the Aeon that controls them. He must write in ‘‘whiter words’’ the truth that is neither word nor number but the truth that exists between them, that is the truth that exists within the Thelemite.

It is my understanding that Thelema is the laws of nature and that man has always been obedient to those laws, even though it appears he disobeys at every opportunity. NATURE = 93. E.Q. Man has always been ruled by expediency and in whose hands but the Gods is the cause of man’s dilemma? Everything in the universe is as it should be. The whole of mankind is under the impression that there is something wrong with the world - a world directed by the same power that controlled man to the extent of directing totally the form of several languages, culminating in the English language and perpetuating their message aeon after aeon, eternally bridging the gap between planes.- and man has the audacity to think that he rings the changes in the world. ’’Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law’’, but just find your true will and when you do you will find that your true will is divine. The important point is that man has always obeyed his true unconscious will, the conflict has only been caused by man’s inability to bridge the planes of consciousness and live in harmony with his true will. Make no mistake his actions would not change, but he would be enlightened and at least know the reasons for his actions.

The fact the man’s future can be predicted by astrology and other divinatory systems proves that the will of man is the will of God. The statement that the will of man is the will of God does not in one iota change man’s experience, the break between planes causes the illusion of ‘‘Free Will’’. the reason that the Gods gave man his illusion is simply part of the divine dance of creation, a cosmic belly laugh at man’s expense. For a spiritual inter incarnating being that man is, all things in spiritual experience are just plain fun. Seen from the standpoint of the eternal spirit all human joys and woes are just the spices of existence. What would you do if you lived forever and could do anything? You would create the universe and populate it. You would create the world and man so that you could experience all the combinations of existence and this is what the Gods did.

All mystics from the beginning have said that mankind is one and we are just that, different aspects of the one being created for love’s sake with the illusion of individual will - for love’s sake or if you like - for fun - can you hear Pan’s laughter yet? If you can’t I’ll explain the cosmic joke a little more. The English language is the 93 current and its use has the effect of a mantra, the mantra of the 93 current - The law of Thelema - Whatever state or country accepts the English language as its first language will inevitably become Thelemic. The whole language from its structure onwards is the supreme Thelemic Spell. The whole Thelemic ethos is built into the structure of our language, and, MARK CAREFULLY, the whole world will share our language in Time because the language is of the nature of TIME for is not TIME = 93.The language born out of the bosom of Nuit the Heiratic language of the new aeon is the English language - your heritage from the Gods.

In future articles I am going to discuss the practical aspects of The Qaballa, the rituals of The rituals of the Stars, as it is said ‘‘He shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men.’’ These rites have remained secret for centuries, and yet references are made to them everywhere from the Bible to Shakespeare. The symbols of their power are blazoned forth in Every Great House of England and hidden in the Secrets of Freemasonry. These mysteries are not of a God but of a Goddess. The rituals of Nuit Queen of The Stars. There is no God but Man! All the secrets of Magick and Alchemy are held and explained by her.

It is stated in AL, ‘‘Solve the first half of The Equation leave the second unattacked’’. We intend to reveal the second half of The Equation, that of TIME, so that any magickian may be a member of the body of The Silver Star if he so wishes. It is your function as the chosen ones of AL to wield the power of Thelema instead of being bystanders and saying to your brothers ‘‘I told you so’’ every time something Thelemic happens to the world. It is the duty of every magickian to help humanity in its first tentative steps towards civilisation. There are many wizards and sorcerers in Thelema who justify their existence by examining the cesspool of creation, the shells and ‘‘atavistic resurgences’’, - I did it myself in my younger days. Pouring minutely through the dunghill of creation is quite entertaining. You can invent bogey men and literally frighten yourself out of incarnation with them. All the demons and monsters of the deeps can be yours. You can convince yourself that down is up and give credence to these shells as valid entities. They will conspire with your vanity and claim to teach you great secrets, but the suspicious thing about them is that they never seem quite able to come up with a complete story, and the wisdom they impart is always incomplete, because they are in the process of disintegration. How then can one expect to get a complete truth from them? They represent old computer programs, they are old and outworn, but would gladly fasten on any occultist who would give them credence and thus a little more life. I would conjure you to treat them in the way another great master treated them - love them utterly, consume their devils, demons, monsters, call them what you will - love them with the divine love that is over law and help them release the energy they are holding locked up, so that his energy can be used for other forms that are more amusing to the magickian.

The Thelemic movement has been a house divided against itself. Its leaders picking over the grave of Aleister Crowley for would be relics and bits of paper to prove their various rights of succession, but who cares? In the class A publications we have a magick and philosophy of life to use and live by for the next 2,000 years. I suggest that all the various factions forget their differences and get rid of their petty old Aeon attitudes so that we may get on with the work that the Cosmic Secret of the A.’.A.’. may be wedded to the terrestrial secret that has been revealed by the O.T.O. and the magick of Thelema may at last start ruling the world consciously. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law and Love is the law, love under will. In 1904 Aleister Crowley was in Egypt. On April 8th 9th and 10th he was visited by a supernatural entity who dictated the Armageddon to him. The one Book the Revelation - The Book of the LAw. This has produced a different order to the English alphabet and what’s more the English alphabet had numerical values as the Hebrew Greek Arabic etc. When these values are applied to the text of the Book it reveals the nature of the whole of manifestation its laws and destiny.

A Book like this only appears once every 26,000 years. The Book of the Law conceals a cycle that exists throughout nature derived from a symbol that operates throughout nature. This symbol has for its simplest form a tree. The Jews had half the tree in their Qaballa and this tree has given rise to all philosophy and religion but their symbol was incomplete. Now at Armageddon comes the completed tree that will give the completed philosophy. The Book of the Law delineates a continuous creation in which we incarnate and disincarnate only to reincarnate again and again but there is no grace or guilt involved in the process. It is simply an expression of the will to be. We live forever. It is not possible to divide the supreme entity from her creation. To say that in the beginning there was a deity and something that was not the supreme deity is absurd because that supreme deity could not be supreme if there was something else to challenge that supremacy. No! in the beginning was God or Goddess and that deity had the potential to be everything and the universe is that everything.

It is NOT possible to separate the Goddess from what she created. The creator and the created must be one. That means that the supreme deity is at once the creation and everything contained within it. Any antagonistic forces within creation must be subject to that original will. The law of Thelema is the green shoot of spring opening up amongst the death and decay of a defunct Aeon. It is hardly visible, yet it will grow to produce an as yet unknown species of Mankind. A Mankind who will look back on these centuries as the truly dark ages of instinctual man; when men killed each other for illusory gain based upon the idea that it is possible to gain anything in a world in which we have no permanent home. It is as impossible to imagine Thelemic man as it would be impossible for an ape to imagine he could become us. The promises given in The Book of the Law are no vain promises based upon faith, they are factual statements of our destiny. The third chapter of Al is a statement upon the nature of man. It is often forgotten that Nuit is the goddess who taught discrimination and this virtue is the one most needed in dealing with the Class A material - neglect nothing but remove the husk from the kernel to taste the truth. The husk has been placed there to mislead the unworthy.

The Law of Thelema first integrates and then supersedes all former magical systems. It supersedes them and prepares the way for New Aeon man. This is the way of the future. We are paving the way to the civilisation of the future. There are no choices. The nuclear mad power men of today are in the death throes of their credibility; the future belongs to our successors, the Priests and Priestesses of Thelema. There is no need for dramatic revolution, and violence is for those who would seek to turn back the tide. The Thelemic revolution will happen - is happening naturally. Everyone who would aspire to Magick will ultimately have to enter the house of Baphomet, through the secret door made for us by our body of the Stars. It is or them that these words are written - the slaves shall serve. The occultist lives in a truly holistic world, there are no coincidences, there are no accidents everything has meaning and purpose and everything must be respected. By his interaction with the world and its unseen forces he partakes more and more with the Gods a life which is beyond most mortals. The magician is a child of eternity, not for him the one short life of the Christian Moslem and Jew. The magician knows he lives forever and adjusts his life accordingly. He knows there is only one law only one prohibition and that is cause no pain to others: and if he does cause pain then he knows that Karma will demand the same suffering from him.