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Let all men obey me, The Beast, the Prophet of Nuit! For my number is 666, the Number of the Sun. That is, I am the Light and Centre of their system of Stars; and my Word is as a ray to them who are of Earth. Let them obey the light, and Impulse of that which I am in Truth, although I lie deep hidden in a body of flesh. Seek ye to know Nuit! Seek to enjoy all that may be, although ye loathe it in your souls. This is your ordeal, which ye must pass in order to be free and whole; to know all things alike, to try, to do, to love and to rejoice in all.

Aleister Crowley, The Djeridensis Comment on Liber Legis, I, 32

The radical magi encountered a world wherein one world-image was locked in place—not just the geocentric cosmos but the whole Christian orthodox value system that went with it. Their subversive purpose revolved around the project of a free circulation of imagery, a breaking-up of the stasis and the creation of a more responsive model. The single world-view of orthodoxy was seen as stifling, tyrannical, oppressive. Inasmuch as the self interiorized this view it reproduced the oppression on the level of the subjective. The hermeticists opposed the very singleness of this worldview with a contradictory multiplicity, a critical form of “paganism” based on difference.

Hakim Bey, The Obelisk

The cure for the whole misery of poverty is the development of the appreciation of those things that are really worth while.

Aleister Crowley, Liber 888 or The Gospel According to Saint Bernard Shaw

“The whole Rebellion was a highly illegal action bordering on treason, sweetheart,” he reminded her. “When the rules don’t work, you break ’em.”

Timothy Zahn, The Last Command [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher]

In groping for so-called absolute truths, the mind is trying to encompass or embrace the whole. If there is only becoming, then truth must always be relative.

Ralph M Lewis, The Conscious Interlude [Amazon, Abebooks, Publisher]

The supreme spirit which pervades, embraces, and penetrates everything, being the very essence, soul, and life of all things in the universe, from the atom up to the whole solar system, is beyond all mental conception.

Franz Hartmann, With The Adepts [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]

That’s the whole problem of life. Is it a circle or a spiral?

Florence Farr, The Dancing Faun [also]

The Deeper Symbolism of Freemasonry from The Meaning of Masonry by Walter Leslie Wilmshurst.

“Anyone, of course, can understand the simpler meaning of our symbols, especially with the help of the explanatory lectures; but he may still miss the meaning of the scheme as a vital whole.” [via]

The Nameless Quest in The Gate of the Sanctuary from The Temple of the Holy Ghost (Collected Works, Vol I) by Aleister Crowley.

“Smitten by Beauty down I fell as dead—
So strikes the sunlight on a miner’s head.
Blind, stricken, crushed! That vast effulgence stole,
Flooded the caverns of my secret soul,
And gushed in waves of weeping. I was wed
Unto a part, and could not grasp the whole.” [via]

The Nameless Quest in The Gate of the Sanctuary from The Temple of the Holy Ghost (Collected Works, Vol I) by Aleister Crowley.

“Beauty, the sacred lotus: let me say
The word, and make my purity complete.
The whole is mine, and shall I keep a part?
O Beauty, I must see thee as thou art!” [via]

The Hermetic Library Blog

Faint gibbering heard from somewhere near the restricted stacks

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