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Do As Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law
Thou has
no right but to do thy will.
Do that, and no other
shall say nay.
Every
man and every woman is a star.
There is no god but man.
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.
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.
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.
do dress as he will.
Man has the right to love as he will.
Man has the right to destroy that which would thwart these rights.
Love Is The Law, Love Under Will.
Why? Because of the fall of because, cursed are because and his kin...
The Criminal Law according to Thelema.
from
page 820 of Confessions: "My predecessors have invariably
said, 'My belief is right and yours is wrong; my customs are
worthy, yours are ignoble; my dress is decent, yours is not;
think as I think, talk as I talk, do as I do, or you will be
wretched, poor, sick, disgraced and dammed; besides which, I
shall cut your head off, burn you alive, starve you, imprison
you, ostracize you and otherwise make you sorry you did not agree
to be a good boy.' The essence of every missionary message has
been to assimilate the taught to the teacher; and it has always
been accompanied by bribes and threats. My message is exactly
opposed to any of this. I say to each man and woman, 'You are
unique and sovereign, the centre of an universe.
All offenses are reduced to one; to deprive another of his right.
(E.g. to live, to own goods, to sleep-as by making undue noise-and so on.)
Therefore, the 'offender' denies his own right to similar protection; and he is treated accordingly. He can be reinstated on his purging the offense.
-Diary Entry
However right I may be in thinking as I do, you may be equally
right in thinking otherwise. You can only accomplish your object
in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.
You must not even take the outward signs of success as
indications that the course of action which has produced them
would serve your turn. For one thing, my coronet might not suit
your complexion but give you a headache; for another, the
measures which I took to obtain that coronet might not succeed in
your case.'
My mission is, in short, to bring everyone to the realization and enjoyment of his own kingship, and my apparent interference with him amounts to no more than advice to him not to suffer interference."
"Above
us today hangs a danger never yet paralleled in history. We
suppress the individual in more and more ways. We think in terms
of the herd. War no longer kills soldiers; it kills all
indiscriminately. Every new measure of the most democratic and
autocratic governments is Communistic in essence."
It is always restriction."
"We are all treated as imbecile children.
Dora, the Shops Act, the Motoring Laws, Sunday Suffocation, the
Censorship-they won't trust us to cross the streets at
will."
-Aleister
Crowley, Book Of The Law, 1904
(It still rings true a hundred years later, only we're hemmed in
even more.)
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.
-Carl Sagan
"I
consider the positions of kings and of rulers as that of dust
motes...I look upong judegements of right and wrong as the
serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as
but traces left by the four seasons."
-Buddha
