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    LIGHT, LIFE, LOVE AND LIBERTY

    THE GREAT BEAST

    666

    IN HOC SIGNO VINCES

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    THEGREAT BEAST

    666 I. THE MASTER THERION, A

    BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

    II. TO MAN III. LIBER B VEL MAGI

    IV. THE MESSAGE OF THEMASTER THERION

    V. LIBER OZ

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    AT AT Publication in Class A, EImprimatur

    V.V. 6=5 Imperator

    The Kaaba Series:a group of booklets intended to be shared freely

    and accompanied by regular readings & discussionsin the work of promulgating and establishingthe Law of Thelema

    Booklet 1: The Great Beast 666 Booklet 2: The Law of Liberty Booklet 3: The Word of the Law is Thelema Booklet 4: Soldiers of Liberty

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    Sir Saint Aleister Crowley (1875-1947 )Creator of Sir Winston Churchills V Sign

    TO MEGA THERION 666LOGOS AIONOS THELEMA

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    That shall end never that began. All things endure because they are.Do what thou wilt, for every man And every woman is a star.Pan is not dead; he liveth, Pan! Break down the bar!

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    To man I come, the number of A man my number, Lion of Light;I am The Beast whose Law is Love. Love under will, his royal rightBehold within, and not above, One star in sight!

    -Excerpted from One Star In Sight by Aleister Crowley

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    The Master Therion, A Biographical Note

    SOME SIX MONTHS after the death of Eliphas Levi Zahed, in the Year 1 of thefoundation of the Theosophical Society, was born a male child. The sign Leo being in the ascendant at his nativity, he is here called by that name.

    The family of Leo was both distinguished and prosperous; he received the besteducation available in the land of his birth.

    In the beginning of the third year 2 of his studies at the University, he underwentwhat may be called the Trance of Sorrow. That is, he perceived the vanity of allearthly ambition.

    This conviction so took hold of him that he renounced, then and there, his career,

    despite the brilliant promise which it would otherwise have a orded, and resolvedrmly to devote himself without reserve to the Great Work. By this he meant, tond a medium in which e ort might secure success immune to the assaults of

    Time and other conditions of human existence. For his mind was yet young anduntaught.

    His rst reading of the literature of Alchemy and kindred subjects, to which he nowresorted, convinced him of the existence of a Secret Body of Initiates competent toaid him in his research.

    He sent forth instinctively an intense current of Will, calling upon the Masters insuch a Sanctuary to come to his assistance.

    The call was immediately heard. Indeed, at the moment of its u erance 3 he wasin the closest possible association with one of them, albeit this man so concealedhis true nature that Leo did not discover the truth until three years later, when hisneed evoked the aid of this Master.

    In the summer of 1898 , Leo travelling in the mountains of Europe, fell in with aman who proved to be an eager student of Alchemy. He pursued this acquaintance,and exacted from him a promise to introduce him to a more advanced adept. Thela er introduced him into that organization, so that he obtained his rst initiationon November 18, 1898 .

    In this Society Leo made rapid progress and a ained early in 1899 the highestgrade which its Chief was permi ed to give. Within one or two months ofthat event that Chief, who was but the visible representative of Secret Chiefs,commi ed so grave a blunder, as a culmination of a series of blunders, that he lostTheir con dence. The Outer Order which depended on him dissolved at once inconfusion.

    Unfamiliar with the Inner workings of the Order, and realizing his own inabilityto judge a ma er beyond his knowledge, Leo remained openly loyal to the fallenHead; but as he felt instinctively that he could not learn any more from this source,

    1. 18752. 18973. Easter 1898

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    he undertook a journey of three years to the remotest parts of the earth, searchingincessantly for further enlightenment.

    The Masters, who were watching him, sent out messengers from time to time, inorder to teach him in many secret paths of enlightenment. In all these he a ainedthe greatest success; it can be said that at his return to the country of his birth in1903 he was the most advanced adept (as distinguished from a Master) in theworld. And yet he was so far from accepting his progress with satisfaction, that heformally and nally gave up the Great Work as insigni cant.

    And this too was the Plan of the Masters.

    Having surrendered his True Will so far that he had married 4 and se led downto the life of an ordinary man, having built up a fortress of resentment againstall spiritual assault, Leo had become a t instrument to carry out the inscrutabledesigns of the Masters.

    At the end of a sporting expedition in Asia he stayed in Cairo for the Season withhis young wife, a woman of neither instinct for, nor interest in, any but the mostfrivolous of worldly amusements.

    Now the Masters, the Secret Chiefs of the Order to which he owed his rstinitiation, are the directors of the spiritual destinies of this planet. These men chosethis woman (of all women) to carry Their Will to the Aspirant who had renouncedhis aspiration.

    Leo received their message with quiet mockery: he agreed to carry out theinstructions conveyed by his wife in a spirit of irony, resolved to demonstrateto her the absurdity of her claim to be in communication with a praeter-humanIntelligence.

    The principal of these instructions was to shut himself up in a certain room of hishouse for one hour daily for three days 5 that he might write what should then begiven to him.

    He was astonished beyond measure when, on the stroke of the appointed hour, heheard the accents of a human voice, speaking in English (a language he understoodsu ciently for the purpose) and continuing until the sixty minutes had exactlypassed.

    This occurred on the two succeeding days: the result is the Manuscript known asLiber AL vel Legis; or The Book of the Law.

    Other communications were made at about this period by the Secret Chiefs.They proved beyond all possibility of doubt to Leo, a rm sceptic accustomed tomathematical and scienti c methods of criticism, their own existence, and theirpossession of power and knowledge far exceeding anything hereto conceived ashuman.

    This proof, at least the major part of it, a portion ample to establish the above thesis,is extant; it is contained implicitly in the MS. of Liber AL itself, and is accessible atany time to any Aspirant to the Secret Wisdom.

    4. August 19035. April 8-10, 1904

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    As wary as he was courageous, as skilful and subtle as he was full of resource,he gave Them no shadow of cause to reproach him; yet They destroyed his love,his hope, and his peace of mind. They alienated him from every single friend andsupporter; he was betrayed again and again even by those who sought to be mostloyal to him, and would have died a thousand deaths to serve him.

    They masked him so grotesquely, hideously, obscenely, that it became scarcepossible for any man to penetrate the secret of his true personality.

    Yet also during this whole time, They led him in divers ways through ordeals moreand more exalted, until They had xed him at the summit of the Order, in thatdegree of enlightenment which (or so it is said) is a ained by any man in the bodynot oftener than once in Two Thousand years.

    The climax of their dealings with him came in the weeks immediately precedingand following the Spring Equinox of 1924 . At this time he lay sick unto death.

    He was entirely alone; for They would not even permit the presence of those fewwhom They had themselves appointed to aid him in this nal initiation. In thislast ordeal the earthly part of him was dissolved in water; the water was vaporizedinto air; the air was rari ed u erly, until he was free to make the last e ort, andto pass into the vast caverns of the Threshold which guards the Realm of Fire.Now naught human may come through those immensities. So in that Fire he wasconsumed wholly, and as pure Spirit alone did he return, li le by li le, duringthe months that followed, into the body and mind that had perished in that greatordeal of which he can say no more than: I died.

    But these six months being accomplished, a certain Virgin came forth at the biddingof the Secret Chiefs, at whose touch he resumed contact with his human life.

    Her he conveyed swiftly to the Desert of the Sahara, that in silent communionwith her Soul he might become aware of the intimate nature of his Work for theMasters; for she was verily a symbol of the Virgin Bride, whose redemption is themystery of the Perpetuation of the Godhead.

    Now when they had taken ship and sailed even to the midst of the MediterraneanSea, there came to him once again an impulse from the Secret Chiefs: to writedown in the most succinct form possible a statement of his nature and purpose.

    And this he did do in the manifesto following:

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    TO MANDo what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

    My Term of O ce upon the Earth being come in the year of the foundation of theTheosophical Society, I took upon myself, in my turn, the sin of the whole World, thatthe Prophecies might be ful lled, so that Mankind may take the Next Step from theMagical Formula of Osiris to that of Horus.And mine Hour being now upon me, I proclaim my Law.The word of the Law is . Given in the midst of the Mediterranean Sea An XX, Sol in 3 Libra die Jovis by me DCLXVI Whoso understandeth may seek.Now of this which is here wri en; I took upon myself, in my turn, the sin of thewhole World that the Prophecies might be ful lled, it is to be understood that notonly the de nite spiritual experiences which determine the fact, but also the wholeof his life, his joys, his su erings, his travels in so many lands, his achievements in somany paths, his mingling with so many types of men and women of so many climesand climates, is, in sum, an universal experience which has enabled him to ful l to theu ermost the great Oath taken by him on his initiation to the grade of Master of theTemple; as here follows: I. I, O.M.,etc. , a member of the Body of God, hereby bind myself on behalf of

    the Whole Universe, even as we are now physically bound unto the cross ofsu ering:

    II. that I will lead a pure life, as a devoted servant of the Order: III. that I will understand all things: IV. that I will love all things: V. that I will perform all things and endure all things: VI. that I will continue in the Knowledge and Conversation of my Holy Guardian

    Angel: VII. that I will work without a achment: VIII. that I will work in truth: IX. that I will rely only upon myself: X. that I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with

    my Soul. And if I fail herein, may my pyramid be profaned, and the Eye closed to me.

    Now therefore this proclamation of this word is the ful llment of his Oath on hisinitiation to the grade of Magus. 9 For the function of the Magus is to proclaim a newLaw by virtue of one Word in which resides a Formula of Wisdom.Here followeth the book called the Book of the Magus, and declareth unto him thatshall understand it, the conditions of that o ce.

    9. Even as Gautama Buddha u ered the Word ANATTA, Lao e the Word TAO, Dionysus the WordIAO, Mohammed the Word ALLAH, and so for the rest, at the due interval each in his place.

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    The Master Therion:an idealized self-portrait

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    III

    Liber B vel Magi

    00. One is the Magus: twain His forces: four His weapons.These are the seven Spirits of Unrighteousness; sevenvultures of evil. Thus is the art and craft of the Magus

    but glamour. How shall He destroy Himself?

    0. Yet the Magus hath power upon the Mother both directlyand through Love. And the Magus is Love, and bindethtogether That and This in His Conjuration.

    1. In the beginning doth the Magus speak Truth, and sendforth Illusion and Falsehood to enslave the soul. Yettherein is the Mystery of Redemption.

    2. By his Wisdom made He the Worlds: the Word that isGod is none other than He.

    3. How then shall He end His Speech with Silence? For Heis Speech.

    4. He is the First and the Last. How shall He cease to numberHimself?

    5. By a Magus is this writing made known through themind of a Magister. The one u ereth clearly, and theother understandeth; yet the Word is falsehood, andthe Understanding darkness. And this saying is Of AllTruth.

    6. Nevertheless it is wri en; for there be times of darkness,and this as a lamp therein.

    7. With the Wand createth He.

    8. With the Cup preserveth He.

    9. With the Dagger destroyeth He.

    10. With the Coin redeemeth He.

    11. His weapons ful l the wheel; and on What Axle thatturneth is not known unto Him.

    12. From all these actions must He cease before the curse ofHis Grade is uplifted from Him. Before He a ain to thatwhich existeth without Form.

    13. And if at this time He be manifested upon earth as aMan, and therefore is this present writing, let this be Hismethod, that the curse of His grade, and the burden ofHis a ainment, be uplifted from Him.

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    14. Let Him beware of abstinence from action. For the curse ofHis grade is that he must speak Truth, that the Falsehoodthereof may enslave the souls of men. Let Him then u erthat without Fear, that the Law may be ful lled. Andaccording to His Original Nature will that law be shapen,so that one may declare gentleness and quietness, beingan Hindu; and another erceness and servility, beinga Jew; and yet another ardour and manliness, being anArab. Yet this ma er toucheth the mystery of Incarnation,and is not here to be declared.

    15. Now the grade of a Magister teacheth the Mystery ofSorrow, and the grade of a Magus the Mystery of Change,and the grade of Ipsissimus the Mystery of Sel essness,which is called also the Mystery of Pan.

    16. Let the Magus then contemplate each in turn, raisingit to the ultimate power of In nity. Wherein Sorrow is

    Joy, and Change is Stability, and Sel essness is Self. Forthe interplay of the parts hath no action upon the whole.

    And this contemplation shall be performed not by simplemeditationhow much less then by reason?but by themethod which shall have been given unto Him in Hisinitiation to the Grade.

    17. Following which method, it shall be easy for Him tocombine that trinity from its elements, and further tocombine Sat-Chit-Ananda, and Light, Love, Life, three bythree into nine that are one, in which meditation successshall be That which was rst adumbrated to Him in thegrade of Practicus (which re ecteth Mercury into thelowest world) in Liber XXVII , Here is Nothing under itsthree Forms.

    18. And this is the Opening of the Grade of Ipsissimus, and bythe Buddhists it is called the trance Nerodha-Samapa i.

    19. And woe, woe, woe, yea woe, and again woe, woe, woe,unto seven times be His that preacheth not His law tomen!

    20. And woe also be unto Him that refuseth the curse ofthe grade of a Magus, and the burden of the A ainmentthereof.

    21. And in the word CHAOS let the book be sealed, yea, letthe Book be sealed.

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    IV

    The Message of the Master Therion

    Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

    There is no Law beyond Do what thou wilt.

    The word of the Law is .

    Thelemameans Will.

    The Key to this Message is this wordWill. The rst obviousmeaning of this Law is con rmed by antithesis; The word ofSin is Restriction.

    Again: Thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that andno other shall say nay. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose,delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

    Take this carefully; it seems to imply a theory that if every manand every woman did his and her willthe true willtherewould be no clashing. Every man and every woman is a star,and each star moves in an appointed path without interference.There is plenty of room for all; it is only disorder that createsconfusion.

    From these considerations it should be clear that Do what thouwilt does not mean Do what you like. It is the apotheosis ofFreedom; but it is also the strictest possible bond.

    Do what thou wiltthen do nothing else. Let nothing de ectthee from that austere and holy task. Liberty is absolute to dothy will; but seek to do any other thing whatever, and instantlyobstacles must arise. Every act that is not in de nite course ofthat one orbit is erratic, an hindrance. Will must not be two, butone.

    Note further that this will is not only to be pure, that is, single,as explained above, but also unassuaged of purpose. Thisstrange phrase must give us pause. It may mean that anypurpose in the will would damp it; clearly the lust of result isa thing from which it must be delivered.

    But the phrase may also be interpreted as if it read withpurpose unassuaged i.e. , with tireless energy. The conceptionis, therefore, of an eternal motion, in nite and unalterable. It isNirvana, only dynamic instead of staticand this comes to thesame thing in the end.

    The obvious practical task of the magician is then to discoverwhat his will really is, so that he may do it in this manner, andhe can best accomplish this by the practices of Liber Thisarb (seeEquinox I(7), p. 105) or such others as may from one time toanother be appointed.

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    Thou must (1) Find out what is thy Will. (2) Do that Will with ( a)one-pointedness, ( b) detachment, ( c) peace.Then, and then only, art thou in harmony with the Movement ofThings, thy will part of, and therefore equal to, the Will of God.And since the will is but the dynamic aspect of the self, and sincetwo di erent selves could not possess identical wills; then, if thywill be Gods will, Thou art That .

    There is but one other word to explain. Elsewhere it is wri ensurely for our great comfort Love is the law, love underwill.This is to be taken as meaning that while Will is the Law, thenature of that Will is Love. But this Love is as it were a by-product of that Will; it does not contradict or supersede thatWill; and if apparent contradiction should arise in any crisis, itis the Will that will guide us aright. Lo, while in The Book of theLaw is much of Love, there is no word of Sentimentality. Hateitself is almost like Love! As brothers ght ye! All the manlyraces of the world understand this. The Love of Liber Legis isalways bold, virile, even orgiastic. There is delicacy, but it is thedelicacy of strength. Mighty and terrible and glorious as it is,however, it is but the pennon upon the sacred lance of Will, thedamascened inscription upon the swords of the Knight-monksof Thelema.

    Love is the law, love under will.

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    AL II:21

    The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light;these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake.

    ... blessing & worship to the prophetof the lovely Star!

    AL II:79


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