The Sin Which Is Unpardonable Is Knowingly

This Complaining Rambling Rubbish Is The Substitute Which Has Taken The Place Of Love.

I Was Not Content To Believe In A Personal Devil And Serve Him, In The Ordinary Sense Of The Word. I Wanted To Get Hold Of Him Personally And Become His Chief Of Staff.

To Knot A Sentence Up Properly, It Has To Be Thought Out Carefully, And Revised. New Phrases Have To Be Put In; Sudden Changes Of Subject Must Be Introducted; Verbs Must Be Shifted To Unsuspected Localities; Short Words Must Be Excised With Ruthless Hand; Archaisms Must Be Sprinkled Like Sugar-plums Upon The Concoction; The Fatal Human Tendency To Say Things Straightforwardly Must Be Detected And Defeated By Adroit Reversals; And, If A Glimmer Of Meaning Yet Remain Under Close Scrutiny, It Must Be Removed By Replacing All The Principal Verbs By Paraphrases In Some Dead Language.

It Will Be Seen That The Formula - 'do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law' Has Nothing To Do With 'do As You Please.' It Is Much More Difficult To Comply With The Law Of Thelema Than To Follow Out Slavishly A Set Of Dead Regulations.

I Did Not Hate God Or Christ, But Merely The God And Christ Of The People Whom I Hated.