Aleister Crowley

Name: The Law of Liberty
Author: Aleister Crowley

The Law of Liberty (1917)

Summary

“The Law of Liberty”, published in 1917, is a work by Aleister Crowley. It explores elements such as rituals, feast and pure ecstasy.

Quotes from The Law of Liberty (Aleister Crowley)

Aleister Crowley, The Law of Liberty (1917)

“ He is eternal energy, the Infinite Motion of Things, the central core of all being. The manifested Universe comes from the marriage of Nuit and Hadit; without this could no thing be. This eternal, this perpetual marriage-feast is then the nature of things themselves; and therefore everything that is, is a crystallization of divine ecstasy.
Hadit tells us of Himself: "I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star." He is then your own inmost divine self; it is you, and not another, who are lost in the constant rapture of the embraces of Infinite Beauty. ”

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Aleister Crowley, The Law of Liberty (1917)

“ A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! Aye! Feast! Rejoice! There is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu." It all depends on your own acceptance of this New Law, and you are not asked to believe anything, to accept a string of foolish fables beneath the intellectual level of a negro or a clergyman and the moral level of a drug-fiend or a lawyer. All you have to do is to be yourself, to do your will, and to rejoice. ”

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Aleister Crowley, The Law of Liberty (1917)

“ Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy and beauty!" Remember that all acts of love and pleasure are rituals, must be rituals. "There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride! A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. A feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet—secret, O Prophet! A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! ”

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Aleister Crowley, The Law of Liberty (1917)

“ When you drink and dance and take delight, you are not being "immoral," you are not "risking your immortal soul"; you are fulfilling the precepts of our holy religion—provided only that you remember to regard your actions in this light. Do not lower yourself and destroy and cheapen your pleasure by leaving out the supreme joy, the consciousness of "The Peace that passeth understanding." Do not embrace mere Marian or Melusine; she is Nuit Herself, specially concentrated and incarnated in a human form to give you infinite love, to bid you taste even on earth the Elixir of Immortality. ”

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Aleister Crowley, The Law of Liberty (1917)

“ Keep pure your highest ideal; strive ever toward it without allowing aught to stop you or turn you aside, even as a star sweeps upon its incalculable and infinite course of glory, and all is Love. The Law of your being becomes Light, Life, Love and Liberty. All is peace, all is harmony and beauty, all is joy. ”

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Aleister Crowley, The Law of Liberty (1917)

“ A little further on He speaks of us:
"We are not for the poor and the sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk."
"Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us."
"Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us." Later, concerning death, He says: "Think not, O king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be understood: If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever." ”

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Aleister Crowley, The Law of Liberty (1917)

“ for "There is no law beyond Do What Thou Wilt." ”

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Aleister Crowley, The Law of Liberty (1917)

“ "Love is the Law, Love under Will." ”

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Aleister Crowley, The Law of Liberty (1917)

“ This is the only point to bear in mind, that every act must be a ritual, an act of worship, a sacrament. Live as the kings and princes, crowned and uncrowned, of this world, have always lived, as masters always live ”

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Aleister Crowley, The Law of Liberty (1917)