Aire Vaiolent

De Natura Deorum

it is easier for ourselves to distinguish the Jewel from its setting, and possibly in the event of the Rite

and its Tradition being lost in some universal Cataclysm for worthy successors inspired by Our Lord ‘to

retrieve our loss, and recover the Word’.

Now then let Us once again recall to you, Very Illustrious Sir Knights of the Order of the Temple of the

East, the history of our Religious and Military Monks and Knights, how, issuing from the West as

crusaders, they met with initiates in the armies of Salah ‘ud Din, and from them obtained the secret

called Baphomet, being the Mystery of the Measure of Heaven and Earth that lieth behind this secret of

the VII° concerning the Unity of God. And ye have verily reason from the crowns of your heads to the

soles of your feet to remember how this is the origin of all our tragedy. Thus therefore, Sir Knights

valorous and noble, war constantly on all tyranny and superstition, and mostly against bigotries such as

‘orthodox’ Christianity as interpreted in its material sense, old wives’ tales and foolish fables, the

immoral doctrines of original sin and vicarious atonement, and the most hideous eschatology in the

history of false religion. Nor can much less be averred against all other orthodoxies, with their fables

equally absurd, their postulates equally immoral.

But also let there be war upon those who seek to refine upon these bigotries in any other way than that

of eclectic and syncretistic harmonizations; beware moreover of those who seek to ‘spiritualize’ their

false gods, for their heads are even as vain pigs’ bladders of poisonous miasma.

But in your warfare honour brave antagonists; spare them, and bring them to initiation; while the hag

and the eunuch — and such are well nigh all who support orthodoxies — must be shown the only

mercy possible, that of swift destruction.

For those calling themselves orthodox who are yet men, and women, have in truth no faith in these

follies, but only profess them as convenient means of dominating the vulgar. Such are already of us,

although they know it not; such, albeit unconsciously, understand and live according to our Law of

THELEMA — DO WHAT THOU WILT. They are ripe for conversion; they are of the Blood, and with

little pains may be brought to fight in our ranks. So mote it be.

Here declare We a certain secret method of worship of the One True God if haply ye may find Him.

Let every Knight appoint a privy Chapel in his castle, and so far as may be let it resemble this order and

disposition of Our Supreme Grand Council, having an ever-burning lamp as an image of the Sun to

give light to a Phallus carved or moulded in gold, silver, platinum or bronze by the fine art of the

sculptor. And let the Knight keep oft times vigil before it, devotedly with his whole heart uttering hymns

and invocations, as may be fitting, and exalting himself in due commemoration of this Lord of Life, in

such wise that the Image becomes consecrated by his will. Thus shall it be a storehouse of strength, and

a focus or magnet, drawing to itself all subtle forces, and radiating benediction.

Let then the Knight keep secret this devotion, and enjoy its fruits in quiet.

Here also is a deeper worship and an inner, that lieth nigher to the heart of God.

Let the good Knight devout appoint a secret shrine in his own body, in the brain, or in the throat, or in

the heart, or in the solar plexus, or in that place called groin, or in some other centre of force, and there

let him establish firmly a mental image of the Phallus or of the Sun; and, closing all avenues of sense, as

it were tyling the lodge, let him worship and cherish that image with unwearying care. Let him rehearse

before the Lord thus exalted his own deed of knightly devoir unto that Lord, so that Memory and

Imagination dance about him as maids about the Maypole. And to these let him add Will, consecrating

himself with oaths to the service of the Lord, and vowing to make himself a worthy priest unto Him.

Thus, then, the whole thought being closely knit together and ranged about the Image, as soldiers that

rally to a Standard, let him turn devoutly and intensely his mind to the sole contemplation of that

Image, figuring to himself that all other thoughts are but as cowans and eavesdroppers. Now then, for a

season shall it be difficult rightly to tyle that Lodge, and the mind shall turn ever from the Image. So