Art:

 

Art:

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

This is the 25^th path on the Tree of Life and is represented by the letter Samekh and the Art Atu, which used to be called Temperance in the old Tarot decks. This path is associated with alchemy and transformation, it connects Tiphareth to Yesod. The figure on the card is Artemis who is the goddess of fertility and the twin sister of Apollo. Tiphareth being associated with awakening and Yesod with the unconscious puts the symbolism into perspective. Another symbol of this path is a seeded womb and it is along this path that the Magickal Childe experiences birth. The dichotomies of The Tower, The Devil, Art and Death Atus are all indicative of the attainment of K&C and the Formula of ON. All these paths should thus be interpreted within the above-mentioned context. All opposites are united along this path, the individual is made perfect and raised to Knowledge and Conversation. The Soul is congealed and transmuted by the radiation emanating from the light of the Sun. The Magickal Childe having been conceived in Malkuth via the initiate's initial awakening by the Shekinah is here completely realized and born in Tiphareth as perfect union between the Unconscious and the Ego is achieved and the microcosm is united with the macrocosm, thus the Royal Wedding is so to speak consummated.

A violent process is experienced along this path and may be likened to a mother in labor, all opposites below Tiphareth are brought into congruence and transmuted, until perfect union is attained. Therefore, the Alchemical symbols of Salt, Sulfur and Mercury are represented here, as Crowley said it is raising the individual in a vertical line to Knowledge and Conversation. The beauty of union is expressed in the symbolism of this card, an orgasmic union that lays bare to perception the final union, which is the dissolution of Hadit into the All, whom we call Nuit.

 "37. I shoot up vertically like an arrow, and become that Above."

"38. But it is death, and the flame of the pyre."

"39. Ascend in the flame of the pyre, O my soul! Thy God is like the cold emptiness of the utmost  heaven, into which thou radiatest thy little light."

Liber VII, Chapter 1:

This path is symbolized by an arrow as the one that pierced Chiron and is associated with Artemis as the Huntress and Yesod. Chiron was a Centaur, he was very wise and an advisor to many Greek heroes, one day Heracles accidentally shot Chiron and pierced him with an arrow, it was so painful that Chiron wanted to die. Prometheus took pity on Chiron and made him mortal to end his suffering, in death Chiron was again immortalized as he became the constellation of Sagittarius. Thus, an adept is without guidance and works under the auspices of Knowledge and Conversation with his Holy Guardian Angel, which is experienced as an inbreathing of divine inspiration. Artemis is the goddess of the Moon, fertility, motherhood and the hunt, the sphere of Yesod symbolizes the lower astral and the unconscious, this is expressed in the characteristics of the goddess. Apollo is the sun god, he is a god of poetry and music, being associated with Tiphareth, he represents the Great Work having been accomplished. The Veil of Paroketh is pierced along this path, thus the path is symbolized by an arrow piercing the veil which separates the Ethical and Astral Triads, as being shot into the air and piercing a rainbow called Qesheth, certainly an allusion to the Soul of Asar-Un-Nefer and the Luminous Body. Sagittarius is thus symbolized by an arrow to illustrate this point, as the arrow belongs to Artemis, twin sister of Apollo as the Moon reflects the light of the Sun at night. The union of love and will is then an expression of the attainment and “Love under Will” is therefore its formula.

I,41: There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell. 

Liber AL:

“Love is the law, love under will.”