Enjoy Life:

 

Enjoy Life:

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

AL I.13: "I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy."

THE NEW COMMENT

“Note that Space is omnipresent.<> The cause of 'sorrow' is the 'imaginary' solutions of continuity in this substance. Ecstasy is produced by the resolution of these illusions. Observe well that to beings in a state of strain or sorrow the "Great Work" is bound to appear in the guise of a relief or joy. But this is not to assert Samadhi, that unity with the universe which brings relief and joy by "love", as an "absolute good". It is only good relatively to our present condition as beings divided by Illusion from Nuit. When one returns to the 'simple' state, one soon begins to think out a new route through the Universe, and devise new combinations in the Great Game called Seeing Life. In Nature few elements are lone wolves. Most of them are being thrown in and out of combination constantly; on suns this occurs with lordly vehemence. Note that Nuith, although She is Infinite Space, speaks as an individual might do, often enough. This is not that She is 'talking down to our level'; it is a fact. In the Cosmos almost any aggregation can think and act as an Ego. For instance, the cells of our bodies are each units, diverse in composition and character, living each a life of its own. Yet we think and act for them, and say "I". The stars are the cells of Her Body. Each one of us is such a cell; not less itself but more because of its secret function in Her. It should be evident that Nuith obtains the satisfaction of Her Nature when the parts of Her Body fulfill their own Nature. The sacrament of life is not only so from the point of view of the celebrants, but from that of the divinity invoked. It is said that for every step one takes towards one's Holy Guardian Angel, He takes two towards his client. What do I mean by "beings divided by Illusion from Nuith", in the first paragraph? This, that we are limited mentally, that we realize only an infinitesimal fraction of the possible forms of expression. We can hardly even imagine ourselves as living on another planet, or in the Sun; much less as apprehending the Universe by means of a totally different set of senses. Yet most of us who are not mere placental amnoites possess an instinct which persistently regrets our incapacities. It is bad enough to be dependent on scientific instruments for our knowledge of all but the grossest of the wonders and splendours of the Universe; but worse that we are aware of an infinite variety of order of phenomena, such as electricity, magnetism, chemical action, and a host of others, which we can explore only by indirect means, interpret only by obviously inadequate symbols, and understand only in terms of arbitrary relations with our animal-sense-perceptions. We know theoretically that every object must react to every other object; and it is evident that each type of reaction may be as overwhelmingly interesting as those which happen to affect us. What unimaginable rapture to be able to observe magnetic fields or molecular movements as directly as we do the Ocean and the Ant-heap! It is the task of the Initiate to adapt himself to the Totality of Existence, and to develop in himself the means of apprehending it wholly and fully.”

Crowley first asserts that the Great Work is the way any individual may find relief from the sorrow of life, a state which is brought about by being unable to see our connection with the infinite. Thus, by committing oneself to the Great work, he is establishing this congruence with his higher faculties and is able to evade Mara. However, this toil doesn’t result in the escape of suffering which can only occur through union with the Goddess, or the dissolution of Hadit into the body of Nuit. Once this union is attained one is born anew to continue the work, whereby the joy of existence becomes an expression of the life an adept leads. He is hence devising new combinations in the “Great Game called Seeing Life”, he is generating gnosis.

It is also well exemplified in the above, that there is only one healthy course for any human being to take and that is to do his or her will. This is explained by the examples of everything being able to generate an ego, and if the cells in the body start doing something that is against their nature, the body will suffer for it. Ergo, every person has the responsibility to find the nature of their wills and to do it, if this is not the case, one is merely moving against the inertia of natural law, and thus effecting the whole, such as a cancer might do. It may be, that this very obvious Law is so foreign to humanity, as a result of our true natures having been suppressed for so long, that we have lost our way. This has led to us having forgotten how to express ourselves naturally and organized western religion has indeed acted as a cancer upon the body of the Goddess.

When a child is born, it is immediately confronted by the Goddess, everything, from the doctor, the bed, the nurses, its parents, later the neighborhood and the school it is raised in, influences its becoming. We are the children of the Goddess, each unique and divine and this world is wherein we express each our individual divinity, by the lot allocated to each through incarnation. Thus, every act is a sacrament, a celebration of the Goddess and an expression of one’s unique relationship with her. This acknowledgement can only lead to greater harmony with the divine forces that we partake in and the rapturous celebration of Life.

“Love is the law, love under will.”