December 18 (Hadit) Liber L., Cap. II, v. 19-21
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**19. Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us.
20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.
21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched & the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. Think not, o king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be understood: If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake.
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@GabrielO said
"19. Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us."
Certainly the consciousness that realizes "God" has risen beyond the nature of a dog whose focus is almost only nepheshic. The perspective of the "highest" is akin to royalty of the spirit. Sorrow it seems is a property of solely focusing on our lower nepheshic natures. Something important to me within this is my own thought pattern that avoids attributing morality to any of the "lower" or "higher" terms. There is reality and existence and "good and bad" or "higher and lower" are just convenient labels.
@GabrielO said
"20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.
- We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched & the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. Think not, o king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be understood: If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake."
Movement is emphasized in the attributes that are "...of us" in contrast to the sorrow. The outgrown parts of ourselves are left for the sorrow, death, and misery. That which is outgrown must be left aside. If we are immersed in the outdated parts of ourselves we are not able to recognize the present and thus not truly feel. Continually growing, continuing evolution, and moving drives our perspective beyond death and into transformation.