Dear friends, beautiful and happy people,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I was just asked to explain the L.V.X. signs, which reminded me of some quite edifying anecdot:
There was a time — in the days of our blessed Abbey of Thelema —when Frater Y, although he could recite in five languages — hell, in gang signs if necessary — everything the Prophet (blessing & worship to him) had ever written about L.V.X., still did not understand this Formula in the deep, Binah sense of the word.
As a result, his Dawn Resh had a distinctly stiff and awkward quality.
So I told him:
“Look:
L — the Sign of Isis Mourning: Imagine the barely thirty-year-old widow of a recently deceased filthy-rich old codger. One of those widows that only Marc Dorcel really knows how to stage — the type played by Anissa Kate (of course you know who Anissa Kate is…). She wears the black veil and, more generally, the full mourning outfit à la Madeleine Scopello.
V — the Sign of Apophis: Suddenly appears a young employee of the deceased, toward whom the old man had been particularly kind and benevolent during his lifetime. He is a very handsome boy, but sneaky, vicious, utterly unscrupulous — a little monster of ingratitude. The mere sight of the sexy widow ignites in him an irresistible Oedipal rut. Since he is clever, since he is rock-hard, since she has been sexually starved for years, and since the proximity of death makes people both lubricious and expeditious, she yields to his arguments. That very night, during the funeral vigil, he vigorously bangs the grieving widow.
X — the Sign of Osiris Risen: The little scoundrel has a very big cock and an excellent hip thrust, so the (now thoroughly consoled) widow places him at the head of the deceased’s financial empire. The usurper has just saved himself twenty years of psychoanalysis and can now simply enjoy the power and Anissa Kate while wallowing in luxury. Hence the name of the Formula.”
“Vigorously tumbling the young widow” became Frater Y’s personal mnemonic, and his morning Resh has been much more fluid ever since.
