Thus then do I learn how best to make myself fit to fulfil my Life, in the Life of the Master, and offer my blood to His Heart.
0.
Know Naught!
All ways are lawful to Innocence.
Pure folly is the Key to Initiation.
Silence breaks into Rapture.
Be neither man nor woman, but both in one.
Be silent, Babe in the Egg of Blue, that thou mayest grow to bear the Lance and Graal!
Wander alone, and sing! In the King's Palace his daughter awaits thee.
I.
The True Self is the meaning of the True Wilclass="underline" know Thyself through Thy Way!
Calculate well the Formula of Thy Way!
Create freely; absorb joyously; divide intently; consolidate completely.
Work thou, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, in and for Eternity.
II.
Purity is to live only to the Highest; and the Highest is Alclass="underline" be thou as Artemis to Pan!
Read thou in the "Book of the Law", and break through the veil of the Virgin!
III.
This is the Harmony of the Universe, that Love unites the
Will to create with the Understanding of that Creation: understand thou thine own Will!
Love and let love! Rejoice in every shape of love, and get thy rapture and thy nourishment thereof!
IV.
Pour water on thyself: thus shalt thou be a Fountain to the Universe.
Find thou thyself in every Star!
Achieve thou every possibility!
V.
Offer thyself Virgin to the Knowledge and Conversation of thine Holy Guardian Angel!
All else is a snare.
Be thou athlete with the eight limbs of Yoga; for without these thou are not disciplined for any fight.
VI.
The Oracle of the Gods is the Child-Voice of Love in thine own Soul! hear thou it!
Heed not the Siren-Voice of Sense, or the Phantom-Voice of Reason: rest in Simplicity, and listen to the Silence!
VII.
The issue of the Vulture, Two-in-One, conveyed; this is the chariot of Power.
TRINC: The last oracle!
VIII.
Balance against each thought its exact opposite!
For the Marriage of these is the Annihilation of Illusion.
IX.
Wander alone; bearing the Light and thy Staff!
And be the Light so bright that no man seeth thee!
Be not moved by aught without or within: keep Silence in all ways!
X.
Follow thy Fortune, careless where it lead thee!
The axle moveth not: attain thou that!
XI.
Mitigate Energy with Love; but let Love devour all things.
Worship the name _______*, foursquare, mystic, wonderful,
and the name of His House 418. (This Name to be communicated to those worthy of that Initiation.)
XII.
Let not the waters wheron thou journeyest wet thee! And, being come to shore, plant thou the Vine and rejoice without shame.
XIII.
The Universe is Change: every Change is the effect of an Act of Love; all Acts of Love contain Pure Joy. Die daily!
Death is the apex of one curve of the snake Life: behold all opposites as necessary complements, and rejoice!
XIV
Pour thine all freely from the Vase in thy right hand, and lose no drop! Hath not thy left hand a vase?
Transmute all wholly into the Image of thy Will, bringing each to its true token of Perfection!
Dissolve the Pearl in the Wine-cup: drink, and make manifest the Virtue of that Pearl!
XV
With thy right Eye create all for thyself, and with the left accept all that be created otherwise!
XVI
Break down the fortress of thine Individual Self, that thy Truth may spring free from the ruins!
XVII
Use all thine energy to rule thy thought: burn up thy thought as the Phoenix!
XVIII
Let the Illusion of the World pass over thee, unheeded, as thou goest from the Midnight to the Morning!
XIX
Give forth thy light to all without doubt: the clouds and shadows are no matter for thee.
Make Speech and Silence, Energy and Stillness, twin forms of thy play!
XX
Be every Act an Act of Love and Worship!
Be every Act the Fiat of a God!
Be every Act a Source of radiant Glory!
XXI
Treat time and all conditions of Event as Servants of thy
Will, appointed to present the Universe to thee in the form of thy Plan.
And: blessing and worship to the prophet of the lovely Star!
The shadows suddenly faded as the clouds vanished from the sky; and there is no more writing on the Heavens, for that which was written was graven upon mine Heart.
THE FOUR VIRTUES OF THE HEART OF THE MASTER.
LIGHT is throned in the Heart of the Master, so that he thinks no evil. For in that Light all is Truth.
Falsehood is but a function of the conditions of Time and Space, and the idea of evil comes only from perceiving the oppositions which are transcended by Truth. So each thing that is hath its root in Necessity; were the least of these lost, the whole Work should be marred.
LIFE wells in the Heart of the Master; Death is but the Systole of that marvelous pulse.
Faint are the phantoms of Illusion; these, seized on by that vivid stream, thrill and throb with the glow of his reality; he leaves no possible form inane or inert; in him do all partake the sacrament of birth to Truth.
LIBERTY leaps in the Heart of the Master; for every man and every woman is a star. Each follows, free and joyful, its own Will; for every Will alike has its essential function in the rhythm of the Heart of the Master. No star can stray from its self-chosen course: for in the infinite soul of space all ways are endless, all-embracing: perfect.
LOVE burns in the Heart of the Master: he, seeing only God in every thing, with the white flame of worship purges it of all its fancied imperfection. His boundless adoration kindles space itself, leaving no void that is not compassed by his passion.
By virtue of his LAW he floods each thought with love, and marries it in turn to every other thought; and of each bridal night the fruits are twin, the Rapture of Silence, and some new World unguessed of Phantasy; of these behold one grim and one grotesque, this lyric and that lordly, the grievous and the gracious equal in His sight, for they know neither limit nor let in the infinite variety of their Beauty, making new Harmonies with every hour, beyond belief for Joy.
SYRINX AND PAN
Now comes the sound as of the fall of snow-flakes and rosepetals: it is the twinkling of the feet of a young maiden dancing.
And the music is the whisper of the Wind among the pines upon the Hill; and that is the breath of the Pan-pipe in the mouth of the Master.
And, all in one, it is the Universe in manifestation.
Also; I hear the Seven-fold Song thereof.
CARMEN.
By Wisdom forms He matter and space and time, Experience to sublime.
By Virtue spends He His own life through all; Mercy majestical.
By Energy revolves He all in stress Of Change, the limitless.
By Order gathers He the worlds of Light In Beauty infinite.
By Love destroys He all to recreate Fresh Phantasies to Fate.
By Reason reckons He His governance, The Wonder of His Chance.
By Purity absolves He all His Will From every image of Ill.
In Silence He resumes each perfect part To rapture of His Heart,
His, in whose Truth of Nature all things are, The Still and Shining Star.
III.
THE TEMPLE OF TRUTH
THE INITIATION.
I, Khaled Khan, beheld that Vision and received this Voice upon the Holy Hill of Sidi Bou Said, in the country now called Tunisia, but from of old sacred with many sanctities.