23 December (Hadit) Liber CCXX, 2:34-35
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(v. 100) 34. But ye, o my people, rise up & awake!
(v. 101) 35. Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy & beauty! -
These are easy. In this season of the Return of the Light, the call is to come awake! So, especially, throughout the day my commitment is to rise up and wake up, even from the most automatic functions!
@CCXX said
"(v. 100) 34. But ye, o my people, rise up & awake!"
Notice how this second chapter of the Book has some substantial differences from Chapter 1, as an evolution, perhaps, from April 8 to April 9. In Chapter 1, it was so easy to read every verse as the words of the HGA. And, although Chapter 2’s verses can be read that way as well, they do not leap off the page in the same way.
Additionally, all of Chapter 1 can be read as though its message is intimately and personally for AC; but, by Chapter 2, the instructions are branching out, specifically to embrace vast numbers of others, to carry the word to others; and, by Chapter 3, we will see this trend well established in a practical way.
Here, in the hundredth verse of the Book (the Malkuth verse of the current Yod decanate), Hadit calls to all of "my people" to "rise up and awake," to pull their heads out of the abyss of Because and come awake to the higher life.
"rise up": Samekh, the Path unto the K&C of the HGA, literally means, "that which raises up." Also, there is the doctrine of Kundalini. (And, of course, the doctrine of the hard-on.)
@CCXX said
"(v. 101) 35. Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy & beauty!"
Verse 35 is an instruction on how to approach life. In addition, it is an important instruction in how the entire religious and magical life is to be approached by those who have responded to the call to "rise up & awake." In the decades since the dictation of this Book, v. 35 has become a worthy standard, even a little commonplace - for which I am personally pleased. This verse is a basic standard of the work of the Temple of Thelema.