The Coincidence of Contraries:

 

The Coincidence of Contraries:

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

Anything only exists in relation to its opposite. It is no coincidence that some think about L.V.X. or Ether as the light of creation, that light is the necessary compliment of darkness that establishes our relationship with the formative world. Everything is perfect there is no good or evil, death and decay are the necessary compliments of life and birth, although most view these darker aspects of our reality as perhaps evil or an unwanted result. This is only true when viewing existence from the finite point of view, or from attachment to temporality, which may bring about the paralyzing fear of death. A paralyzing fear which results in limiting one’s experience of life and so some come to the Great Work, courage in the face of truth is a very valiant idea and means that without accepting the above there is no way to accomplish greatness, so that from this, one learns to live life more fully. A magician joyfully partakes in the "world of contending forces” and lives life today in the knowledge that tomorrow may never come, a fact that he is perfectly at ease with. Who can know the full beauty of life without having explored death, and who can know the value of darkness, if such a person has not yet been born into the light?

" He who would know the greatest secrets of nature, let him regard and contemplate the minima and maxima of contraries and opposites. Profound magic it is to know how to extract the contrary after having found the point of union."

Giordano Bruno:

True magick comes from this contemplation, Samadhi has its own result and is not a result in itself. The ultimate Samadhi is to lose oneself in the beloved, from whence an entirely new condition is created and it could be said that with every union new contraries are established and a new universe is created. These new opposites didn’t just appear, they had always been there, although union was necessary to attain insight as they were obscured, these new opposites again will necessitate the need for union, and so the magician evolves not by chance but through an act of will he is affecting his own becoming. The effect it has, is to have one’s perspective shifted from that of a contender, to that of a god or creator, who through union has positioned himself in control of two opposing principles, and this is the magick of Agape and Thelema.

This idea of life being pure joy is unique to Thelema, that the Christians can have their Devil and the Buddhists can have their suffering, and that it is the work of each and every individual to find the beauty locked away in the grotesque and the joy in the melancholia, and even God in Satan. The world religions with their monastic traditions have missed the point and have limited their insights into the nature of god by limiting their experience of life and nature through objective moral bias. It is also very interesting when considering Buddha’s attainment, that he went directly against what was expected and became an ascetic, even leaving a wife, child and a fortune behind, to become a hero and a Saint. It indicates a character not only of immovable aspiration and courage, but of an unshakable individualism also needed for such an exploration. And to me it seems, that all great prophets went against the grain and followed their inner calling, these prophets were noteworthy as individuals. A monastic life is certainly limiting to the Spirit and as life is pure joy, there is nothing that may impoverish one’s experience and stunt a person's development besides restriction, all things experienced may only expand consciousness and widen one’s circumference to include a greater understanding of what god is.

“Love is the law, love under will.”