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| Nuit Hadit, by Marjan Šetar |
Dear friends, beautiful and happy people,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
“So,” asks my cousin Abigaïl (who lives on Summit Drive, at the BOTTOM of the hill), “if I’ve understood you correctly, God, for a Thelemite, is conjugal harmony…?”
Exactly! — Nuit says: “there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit” (AL I:21) — That is why the Prophet (blessing & worship to him) would uncover himself every time he caught sight of lovers kissing.
In fact, Hadit calls the state of Ultimate Attainment “passionate peace” (AL II:64) — a disconcerting oxymoron that amounts to saying “frenzied Nirvana” or “zen Valhalla”…
And indeed, since God is a couple that never argues and is constantly making love furiously, “passionate peace” is truly the optimal Formula.
And indeed, since God is a couple that never argues and is constantly making love furiously, “passionate peace” is truly the optimal Formula.
In Liber Tzaddi, the High Lord Ra-Hoor-Khuit deigns augustly to enumerate what prevents us from attaining “passionate peace” — or, to paraphrase his august words: what makes us lose the golden thread wherewith he guides us to the heart of the groves of Eleusis (Tzaddi, 23).
I have always deplored that Anger (sworn enemy of conjugal harmony) figures in this enumeration — mainly because Irascibility was, formerly, my principal fault.
Oh, the blunders that irascibility made me commit in this world!...
Have I told you about the evening when, finding the Saint-Germain soup too salty, and trying to take as witness the very beautiful young woman dining with me, I became irritated at receiving from her only soothing comments of the kind “Oh, you know, darling, I always find everything very good that is served in your château, etc.”?
In rage, I poured the entire boiling contents of the tureen over her head!
Well! Just after the SAMU had evacuated her to the nearest Major Burns Treatment Centre, I realised, while finishing my plate, that once slightly cooled, the soup was, in fact, quite edible…
Meditate upon this, dear friends, and go your gorgeous ways under the protection of that spiritual sphere whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere, and which we call GOD.
Warm kisses from the Bahamas.
Love is the law, love under will.
— ☉︎ in 27° ♑︎ : ☽︎ in 7° ♑︎ : ♀︎ : Ⅴⅹⅰ..
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