Dear friends, beautiful and happy people,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Last night I dreamed that Dua Lipa was being held prisoner by a repulsive, affection-starved bunny-boiler witch. She managed to send me a message via dragonfly (!) saying that the secret plan to rescue her was hidden in Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente, Chapter 2, verses 52 to 55 — It seems the quality of the weed circulating in that prison has improved dramatically…
Anyway, I’m not abandoning Dua in her hour of need!
So I read:
52. All night they danced and sang; but Thou art the morning, O my darling, my serpent that twinest Thee about this heart.53. I am the heart, and Thou the serpent. Wind Thy coils closer about me, so that no light nor bliss may penetrate.54. Crush out the blood of me, as a grape upon the tongue of a white Doric girl that languishes with her lover in the moonlight.55. Then let the End awake. Long hast thou slept, O great God Terminus! Long ages hast thou waited at the end of the city and the roads thereof.Awake Thou! wait no more!
I. Rave All Night, Annihilate at Dawn: The Literal Vow
To sum up: After a wild night of raving, the Prophet (blessing & worship to him) finds himself at dawn fixated on this thought: “Hadit is the morning.”
According to the First Commandment of the Law — which is not to worship Hadit, but to BE Hadit (AL I, 6) — he then laments that, in his own case, this identification is still quite incomplete.
He therefore makes the vow that it should become so total, so final, that nothing — neither spiritual light, nor psycho-affective gratification, nor even ethnic determinism — can ever divert him from it again.
In short, he clearly aspires to a complete, beautiful, cruel and voluptuous annihilation of his being, and for what he calls “the End” to come: that Hadit, the Ancient Serpent, who is the very goal of his quest — and who seems to have fallen asleep from waiting so long — should awaken…
On the other hand, the Prophet (blessing & worship to him) understands that Hadit is already within him, not at the end of some geographical journey to be reached.
Hadit has been secretly coiled inside him since the very day he set out.
There is no need to seek Him in distant lands or by complicated routes — in fact, there is no need to wait at all… It is enough for the “old god” — “the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight” (AL II, 22) — to awaken within him.
This forcefully reminds me of my Good Resolutions for the year 2026 e.v.:
“I already see existence as a training stay in Hadit’s House — exactly as Beatrix Kiddo sees her training stay in Pai Mei’s house. But it is not enough.
This year, I want to achieve a total psychological transference onto Hadit, to achieve the total annihilation of my personality, so as to see the world only through the eyes of the Old Serpent.”
II. The Most Oedipal Religion on Earth
Cathy, my terrifyingly inflexible psychoanalyst friend, the very archetype of frigid beauty, sees Thelema (I quote) as “the most Oedipal of all religions.”
It’s true that Cathy is an orthodox Freudian of the strictest observance, and that stories involving serpents tend to make her raise an eyebrow…
“This idea of becoming the father (Hadit) and constantly seeking union with the mother (Nuit) is even staggeringly frank: it is not a regressive Oedipal religion (like Buddhism, for example), but aggressive Oedipus turned into a religion!”
Of course, reducing Thelema to the notion of “fucking the Old Man’s MILF while he sleeps” is tempting… but it runs counter to the idea of the Awakening of Hadit, which seems very much to be the project here — and would put us, in this case, exactly in the position of Bilbo caught red-handed by Smaug…
III. The Gematria That Kills God’s Enemies
Moreover, the verb “To Awake,” being applied both to “Thou” (which designates Hadit) and to “the End,” teaches us that the Awakening of Hadit is simultaneously the seminal impulse and the terminal phase — as it is written: “I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death” (AL II, 6).
Now, “End” has a gematria of 59, which is the same as GVIM (Heathen), and that is the whole point: the Awakening of Hadit puts an end to the Heathen.
There is no more “Terminus” than there is a Beginning, since the Awakening of Hadit is both the End and the Beginning, and Hadit is “Not” (AL II, 15).
Therefore The End is not “at the end of the city and the roads thereof.”
The End — the true objective — is the end of the Heathen, because The End is the Awakening of Hadit, and the Awakening of Hadit puts an end to the Heathen.
IV. How to Exterminate a Million Bunny-Boilers Like a Passionate Dilettante
Now the End, like Hadit, is perfect when it is Not — i.e., in order to accomplish one’s True Will, one must have absolutely no consideration for the End, no “lust of result,” as it is written (AL I, 44).
If one worries about the outcome of the enterprise, one misses the synchronicity, one hesitates, one temporizes, one looks at the matter from a shopkeeper’s point of view, and one ends up, of course, turning back and returning to the “old sweetnesses” (AL III, 43).
Yet the whole trick — in love, in war, and in the initiatic process — is never to turn back for anyone (AL III, 46): even if one were faced with a million enemies, rational objections, or extremely ugly and determined bunny-boilers, one must decide to exterminate them all, one after the other, like Parzival the Pure with the giants.
That is how one “avails” — that is how one may perhaps arrive where “There is success” (AL III, 69).
Always act, on all planes, as a passionate dilettante.
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 2° ♉︎ : ☽︎ in 17° ♋︎ : ☿︎ : Ⅴⅹⅰⅰ.
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