Ch I:8 in Liber Al vel Legis, Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley (via ba-pho-met)

See also the New and Old Comment on I:8 by Aleister Crowley, here in part:

“Khabs is the secret Light or L.V.X.; the Khu is the magical entity of a man.”

“We are not to regard ourselves as base beings, without whose sphere is Light or ‘God’. Our minds and bodies are veils of the Light within. The uninitiate is a ‘Dark Star’, and the Great Work for him is to make his veils transparent by ‘purifying’ them. This ‘purification’ is really ‘simplification’; it is not that the veil is dirty, but that the complexity of its folds makes it opaque.”

“This ‘star’ or ‘Inmost Light’ is the original, individual, eternal essence. The Khu is the magical garment which it weaves for itself, a ‘form’ for its Being Beyond Form, by use of which it can gain experience through self-consciousness…”

“The idea of incarnations ‘perfecting’ a thing originally perfect by definition is imbecile. The only sane solution is as given previously, to suppose that the Perfect enjoys experience of (apparent) Imperfection. (There are deeper resolutions of this problem appropriate to the highest grades of initiation; but the above should suffice the average intelligence.)”

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Ch 45, 10 from ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΕ Chinese Music in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley (via meggitthemaggot)

See also: Chapter XXIX: What is Certainty? in Magick without Tears by Aleister Crowley

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