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Crow, like an owl, swivelled its head.
Where is the Black Beast?
Crow hid in its bed, to ambush it.
Where is the Black Beast?
Crow sat in its chair, telling loud lies against the Black Beast.
Where is it?
...Crow split his enemy's skull to the pineal gland.
Where is the Black Beast?
Crow crucified a frog under a microscope, he peered into the brains of a dogfish.
Where is the Black Beast?
Crow killed his brother and turned him inside out to stare at his colour.
...Where is it? Where is the Black Beast?
[Ted Hughes, The Black Beast, from Crow]
From The Book of the Law [Liber AL vel Legis ], by Aleister Crowley:
Chapter I
3. Every man and every woman is a star.
11. These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools.
39. The word of the Law is THELEMA.
41. The word of Sin is Restriction.
42. Thou hast no right but to do thy will.
43. Do that, and no other shall say nay.
44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.
49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs.
57. Love is the law, love under will. Nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love.
Chapter II
3. In the sphere I am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found.
18. We are not for the poor and sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk.
20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.
21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched & the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world.
23. I am alone: there is no God where I am.
25. Ye are against the people, O my chosen!
28. Now a curse upon Because and his kin!
29. May Because be accursed for ever!
30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought.
31. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness.
32. Also reason is a lie; for there is a factor infinite & unknown; & all their words are skew-wise.
33. Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog!
48. Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I console not: I hate the consoled & the consoler.
55. Thou shalt obtain the order & value of the English Alphabet; thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto.
58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was.
66. Write, & find ecstasy in writing!
70. Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein!
71. But exceed! exceed!
72. Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly mine -- and doubt it not, an if thou art ever joyous! -- death is the crown of all.
77. O be thou proud and mighty among men!
78. Lift up thyself! for there is none like unto thee among men or among Gods!
Chapter III
3. Now let it be first understood that I am a god of War and of Vengeance. I shall deal hardly with them.
11. Conquer! That is enough.
17. Fear not at all; fear neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth.
18. Damn them who pity! Kill and torture; spare not; be upon them!
32. From gold forge steel!
60. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
Liber LXXVII [77]
"the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world." - AL II:2 "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." - AL I:40
"thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay." - AL I:42-3
"Every man and every woman is a star." - AL I:3
1. Man has the right to live by his own law-to live in the way that he wills to do:
to work as he will:
to play as he will:
to rest as he will:
to die when and how he will.2. Man has the right to eat what he will:to drink what he will:
to dwell where he will:
to move as he will on the face of the earth.3. Man has the right to think what he will:to speak what he will:
to write what he will:
to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will:
to dress as he will.4. Man has the right to love as he will:-"take your fill and will of love as ye will,
when, where, and with whom ye will." - AL I:515. Man has the right to kill those who would thwart these rights."the slaves shall serve." - AL II:58
"The revival of true Aristocracy has been my deepest idea all my life ..."
[Aleister Crowley, letter of September 11th, 1944]
[Aleister Crowley, letter of September 11th, 1944]
"One of my colleagues informed me a couple of months ago that the Führer was looking for a philosophical basis for principles [...]
Some of my adherents in Germany are apparently trying to approach the Führer with a view to putting the 'Book of the Law' in its proper position as the Bible of the New Aeon.
I expect you will be in close touch with the Chancellor and his immediate officers, and I should be very grateful if you would put the matter very tentatively before them [...]
Hitler himself says emphatically in 'Mein Kampf' that the world needs a new religion, that he himself is not a religious teacher, but that when the proper man appears he will be welcome".
[Crowley letter to Viereck, July 31, 1936]
Some of my adherents in Germany are apparently trying to approach the Führer with a view to putting the 'Book of the Law' in its proper position as the Bible of the New Aeon.
I expect you will be in close touch with the Chancellor and his immediate officers, and I should be very grateful if you would put the matter very tentatively before them [...]
Hitler himself says emphatically in 'Mein Kampf' that the world needs a new religion, that he himself is not a religious teacher, but that when the proper man appears he will be welcome".
[Crowley letter to Viereck, July 31, 1936]
