α Apologia from the Book of Wisdom or Folly in The Libri of Aleister Crowley

“There are very many for whom in their present Incarnations this Great Work may be impossible; since their appointed Work may be in Satisfaction of some Magical Debt, or in Adjustment of some Balance, or in Fulfilment of some Defect.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “It is not every Man who is called to the sublime Task of the AA”
  2. “thou must first comprehend thine original Nature in every Point, before thou wast forced to bow before the Gods of Wood and Stone that Men have made, not comprehending the Law of Change, and of Evolution Through Variation, and the independent Value of every living Soul.”
  3. “Thus the Loves of Abelard and of Heloise were destroyed by the System of Repression in which they chanced to move. Thus Beatrice was robbed of Dante by social Artificialities; and Paolo slain on account of Things external to his Love of Francesca.”
  4. “for each Man is a Path: there is a Constant, and there is a Variable”
  5. “Seek ever therefore in thy Work of the Promulgation of the Law to discover in each Man his own true Nature.”