AL I:58
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"I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice."
A divinely inspiring verse.
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In a different tone:
"And there is no Vision more critical in the career of the Adept of Horus than the Universal Joke."In this Trance he accepts fully the Formula of Osiris, and in the act transcends it; the spear of the Centurion passes harmlessly through his heart, and the sword of the Executioner strikes idly on his neck. He discovers that the Tragedy of which so many centuries have made such a case is but a farce for children's pleasure. Punch is knocked down only to get up grinning with his gay "Root-too-too-tit! Here we are again!" Judy, the Beadle, the Hangman and the Devil are merely the companions of his playtime."
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I'm a business man and am visiting SF to raise capital for my business. Yesterday, after 12 hours of meetings with various potential partners and collecting numerous business cards and contacts, I put them in my camera bag and drove to Whole foods for some quick food. Gone 10 minutes and came back to a car with my back windows bashed in and a missing camera bag. My camera, lenses, iPad, computer screen, and various other expensive items were untouched. They stole a camera bag with irreplaceable business cards from investors and contacts I had accrued from a long day of meetings.
So what was my response? I started laughing. I had to control it from becoming maniacal. And it had a strange effect on my psyche that I'm still mulling today.
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That's great, thanks!
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"Only if ye are sorrowful, or weary, or angry, or discomforted; then ye may know that ye have lost the golden thread, the thread wherewith I guide you to the heart of the groves of Eleusis."
Name that book.
[Jim, Ed M., Alrah, let the kids google it.]
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Too Easy... my friend I read the Holy Books everyday
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Well, get this one:
"000. May be.
"00. It has not been possible to construct this book on a basis of pure Scepticism. This matters less, as the practice leads to Scepticism, and it may be through it.]
"0. This book is not intended to lead to the supreme attainment. On the contrary, its results define the separate being of the Exempt Adept from the rest of the Universe, and discover his relation to that Universe.
" 1. It is of such importance to the Exempt Adept that We cannot overrate it. Let him in no wise adventure the plunge into the Abyss until he have accomplished this to his most perfectest satisfaction.
2. For in the Abyss no effort is anywise possible. The Abyss is passed by virtue of the mass of the Adept and his Karma. Two forces impel him: (1) the attraction of Binah, (2) the impulse of his Karma; and the ease and even the safety of his passage depend on the strength and direction of the latter.
3. Should one rashly dare the passage, and take the irrevocable Oath of the Abyss, he might be lost therein through AEons of incalculable agony; he might even be thrown back upon Chesed, with the terrible Karma of failure added to his original imperfection.
4. It is even said that in certain circumstances it is possible to fall altogether from the Tree of Life, and to attain the Towers of the Black Brothers. But We hold that this is not possible for any adept who has truly attained his grade, or even for any man who has really sought to help humanity even for a single second,<<Those in possession of Liber CLXXXV [see]. will note that in every grade but one the aspirant is pledged to serve his inferiors in the Order.>> and that although his aspiration have been impure through vanity or any similar imperfection." -
"For these fools of men and their woes care not thou at all! They feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones."
- AL I:31