On the Imperfection of the Perfect:

 On the Imperfection of the Perfect:

31. DE LEGE MOTUS. (On the Law of Motion)

Consider, o my Son, that Word in the Call or Key of the Thirty Aethyrs: Behold the Face of your God, the Beginning of comfort, whose Eyes are the Brightness of the heavens, which provided you for the Government of the Earth, and her unspeakable Variety! And again: Let there be no Creature upon her or within her the same. All her Members let them differ in their Qualities, and let there be no Creature equal with another. Here also is the Voice of true Science, crying aloud: Variation is the Key of Evolution. Thereunto Art cometh the third, perceiving Beauty in the Harmony of the Diverse. Know then, o my Son, that all Laws, all Systems, all Customs, all Ideals and Standards which tend to produce Uniformity, being in direct Opposition to Nature's Will to change and to develop through Variety, are accursed. Do thou with all thy Might of Manhood strive against these Forces, for they resist Change, which is Life: and thus they are of Death.

Liber Aleph: Aleister Crowley-

How many people in this world would have us all be the same: to behave the same, to dress the same, to walk and talk the same, to find unity in sameness. Of course, to negate the beauty in the uniqueness of all beings upon the earth, is an accursed view of diversity. To deem oneself an authority in the field of morality and human behavior, to decide and promote what is expected from a gentleman or a lady in order to be called just that, and thereby only, to find acceptance among our peers as equals. Although, we are not equals, just as the lion is not equal to the dog, the huntsman is not an equal of the cripple: we are deferent and unique and some are better or stronger, more beautiful or more intelligent, than others.

Synthesis only works by union of opposites and evolution is the consequence of such union. How are we as beings upon this planet going to reach such a transcendent point if we are all the same, having the same ideas both morally and intellectually? Genius is not born from resignation, it is forged in hardships, when life becomes a theme-park of chaos, of the unexpected, when confronted by the most foreign landscape from which the will to power forces us to adapt and change. It is a position from where the people we meet and come in contact with are so alien that we inquire into the nature of ourselves in awe of our differences. We seek union with such people and circumstances, not for the comfort of similitude, but for the excitement of the experience. These are the things that have always attracted the strong, setting them apart from the herd as leaders among men and women, who insisting on change have moved humanity forward by creating the same inquiry in the hearts of those who encountered them. Not governing by force but by example, such are the people who have shown us what it means to be human.

To love the diversity within humanity is a perfectly natural stance for those who accept themselves, their flaws as well as their strengths have fitted them with the capacity to cherish the uniqueness of the people they meet and know. The weak are those unable to accept themselves for whom another’s pride is an insult, something that must be confronted for the person to be put in line and follow suit. These people find the uniqueness in others threatening, as it shines a light upon their complexes, their insecurities, their weaknesses, that without them around would remain hidden and unnoticed. This is true cowardice; it is an inability to accept themselves and take the first step to becoming human for the security of their own ignorance. The way they attack the individual is always a coward’s attack, never an exhibition of their own strengths but an attack on the individual’s character is their first assault: they attempt to control the mind of the herd: they have created an enemy and have united with the people justifying their ideal of sameness. It is exactly the same psychology used in fascism to unite a nation: they first establish enmity against a foreign adversary, and their propaganda is in most cases dishonest, such as the Jewish conspiracy propagated by the Nazis that caused six million innocent people to die in the most grotesque way imaginable. In the same way the weakling and the coward use slander when attacking the strong. They use a very specific kind of rhetoric to unite the herd in enmity against their chosen victim: they use rumor mongering and false allegations to keep the attention fixed on their victims and away from themselves. These people’s actions and motivations are born of their impotence to actively live unapologetically as themselves at peace with authenticity. This happened to Crowley during his life-time: the yellow press called him the wickedest man in the world and made up an entire article of lies about him that negatively impacted his reputation. However, since this article was influential but false, it served to keep his name floating around long enough after he died for him to eventually become the most impactful occultist who has ever lived. His authenticity, and his refusal to succumb to their attacks immortalized him, along with their own incapacity to see how much their attention meant and that truth is eternal.

We could even think of what happened with Crowley and the yellow press as evolution, the survival of the fittest from which only the strong survive. It is certain that Crowley’s influence has resurrected our school of magick, which today is fostering adepts that will fuel this fire started by the Great Beast to mitigate the severity of the opposition’s attacks. We are evolving and the rest are exactly where they have always been, (they are still stuck in their pigsty). These people are dead; their ideologies are stagnant and unimpactful as death. They have no lasting influence thus they comfort themselves for their ineptitude by isolating those who threaten their worldview. But we are alive, our veneration for each other’s differences and the excitement of being alive keeps it that way. Our acceptance of each other is a celebration of our places as stars or gods upon the earth. As gods and goddesses, we unite in ecstasy creating children of light that will carry our influence for generations, we evolve. We are not resentful of one another, we are curious: we yearn to love one another, to know one another — that we may inspire change as we are inspired by the same. We champion each-other’s differences and strengths, and we muse with delight at each-other’s imperfections, our love for the experience grounds us in the knowing that this is the way things are.

Nowadays there are many self-appointed prophets as public pundits who tell us how to live: they tell us what a man is and what a woman is, while at the same time humanity is evolving at such a pace that the inner development of humankind is palpable. So much so, that the rate of evolution renders their words and ideas incoherent. These people tell us how to raise our sons and our daughters: I say, we shall teach them how to love and raise them as humans, and “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” They say that we must raise them as Christians or as Muslims, turning them into Christians or Muslims promoting what they call traditional values and tearing the very humanity from their little souls by forming such a distinction. Unless children be what is good according to this barbaric worldview, they are doing something contrary to their own interests and become in many ways less than human. It is a mindset that in no way shares in the championing of our differences, but an insistence for conformity to an ideal more important than humanness and the negation of the individual. Their love and peace are based on the same ideal as mentioned earlier in this essay, an ideal of enmity, from where there is always love and peace but only for those safely tucked away within the fold: the other Christians or Muslims, but never a Muslim for a Christian or a Christian for a Muslim. What else could be expected from a patriarchal institution which at its very beginning plucked the goddess from her throne and replaced her with prejudice. But she is all around us: she is in nature: we see her in the play of creation, even the photosynthesis of plants and flowers demands her love to ignite the very spark of life. The denial of division as necessary and good, as the very source of creation is the denial of life itself. The futurists who inspired fascism were also against all feminine traits regarding them as weaknesses, traits such as love, compassion, maternity and empathy, that they should build a war machine geared towards progress at all costs was the aim, going as far as to say that the sound of an engine running was the most beautiful thing on earth, as it signaled the height of human achievement. In their minds it was a masculine sound and that women represented only the most useless and unnecessary characteristics of our species. Where does it leave us; the soul of humankind torn in two is an unbearable thought, but it is the very thing to which some aspire, or that they wish to maintain, for, as we have lived under this delusion of male grandeur for over two millennia, they are merely seeking to preserve the status quo. Hence, let us teach our children how to love, to celebrate humanity and humanness, and to never shy away from themselves; for it is within their very beingness, wherein they shall find God.