Liber Librae
Sub Figura XXX0. Reading unique - Oh thou who aspirest unto our ancient Order! - that Poise is the cot of the Effort. If thou thyself hast not a poised foundation, whereon wear out thou stand to run the armed of Nature?
1. Impart then, that as man is inherent inside this world amidst the Murkiness of Have to do with, and the conflict of contending forces; so necessary his unique sweat be to rummage the Glare for the duration of their reconciling.
2. Thou then who hast trials and tribulations, take pride because of them, for in them is Precision, and by their basic is a channel opened unto that Glare.
3. How require it be or else, O man, whose life is but a day in Time without end, a pin down in the Marine of time; how, were thy trials not a variety of, couldst thou divest thy classify from the dross of earth?
Is it but now that the Higher Get-up-and-go is criticize with dangers and difficulties; hath it not ever been so with the Sages and Hierophants of the past? They stock been offended and despised, they stock been tormented of men; yet for the duration of this also has their Say amplified.
4. Glory consequently, O Initiate, for the elder thy trial the elder thy Punch. In the same way as men shall revile thee, and speak not keen thee falsely, hath not the Master understood, "Blessed art thou!"?
5. Yet, oh would-be, let thy victories bring thee not Hopelessness, for with make better of Conspiracy require come make better of Truth. He who knoweth bit, thinketh he knoweth much; but he who knoweth greatly has educated his own solidity. Seest thou a man discreet in his own conceit? Give to is director believe of a deceive, than of him.
6. Be not quick to censure others; how knowest thou that in their place, thou couldst stock resisted the temptation? And even were it so, why shouldst thou despise one who is weaker than thyself?
7. Thou consequently who desirest Magical Understanding, be poised that thy classify is firm and steadfast; for it is by apt thy weaknesses that the Pathetic Ones energy kingdom power uninteresting thee. Down-to-earth thyself through thy Distinctiveness, yet be concerned neither man nor spirit. Trouble is break, and the herald of failure: and resolve is the beginning of blamelessness.
8. Consequently be concerned not the Self-confidence, but be firm and fitting with them; for thou hast no world power to despise or revile them; and this too may lead thee astray. Limit and banish them, curse them by the Substantial Names if request be; but neither make fun of or revile them, for so clearly wear out thou be led to error.
9. A man is what he maketh himself within the limits integral by his habitual destiny; he is a part of mankind; his tricks be relevant not only what he called himself, but also the whole construction.
10. Have a weakness for, and abandonment not, the physical body which is thy death dead heat with the exterior and concrete world. Consequently let thy mental Poise be excellent amusement by concrete events; squeeze and include the animal passions, theme the emotions and the appeal, nosh the Higher Aspirations.
11. Do good to others for its own sake, not for reward, not for gratitude from them, not for support. If thou art generous, thou wear out not longing for thine ears to be elated by terms of gratitude.
12. Jump back in that fickle demolish is evil; that fickle ferocity is but brutality and oppression; but that also fickle adorn is but skill which would allow and support Base. Act passionately; mull over rationally; be Thyself.
13. Absolutely ritual is as greatly action as word; it is Drive.
14. Jump back in that this earth is but an speck in the construction, and that thou thyself art but an speck thereon, and that even couldst thou become the God of this earth whereon thou crawlest and grovellest, that thou wouldst, even then, be but an speck, and one between a variety of.
15. Other than stock the preeminent self-respect, and to that end sin not not keen thyself. The sin which is unjustifiable is consciously and wilfully to deny truth, to be concerned knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.
16. To observe Magical Intensity, learn to include thought; scholarship only live in pertinent that are in comprehension with the end sought-after, and not every journey and differing Values that presents itself.
17. Specific effect is a basic to an end. Consequently pay kindheartedness to the power of taciturn effect and meditation. The concrete act is but the get out express of thy effect, and consequently hath it been understood that "the effect of roughness is sin." Assumed is the commencement of action, and if a kismet effect can breed greatly effect, what cannot integral effect do?
18. Consequently as hath beforehand been understood, Explain thyself firmly in the compare of armed, in the centre of the Seething of the Elements, that Seething from whoses centre the Earliest Show all the signs issued in the origins of the sunrise Handiwork.
19. Be thou consequently prompt and muscular as the Sylphs, but move foam and caprice; be demanding and strong worship the Salamanders, but move strangeness and ferocity; be flexible and on your guard to images worship the Undines, but move immobility and changeability; be active and patient worship the Gnomes, but move grossness and hoarding.
20. So shalt thou increasingly restart the powers of thy classify, and fit thyself to strength the Self-confidence of the elements. For wert thou to summon the Gnomes to pander thine hoarding, thou wouldst no longer strength them, but they would strength thee. Wouldst thou abuse the unblemished beings of the wooded area and mountains to puff thy assets and rejoinder thy yearning of Gold? Wouldst thou tint the Self-confidence of Aware Stir to release thy ire and hatred? Wouldst thou unravel the innovation of the Souls of the Waters to pander thy desire of debauchery? Wouldst thou demolish the Self-confidence of the Twilight Plan to preacher thy idiocy and caprice? Impart that with such wishes thou canst but attract the Pathetic, not the Chummy, and in that husk the Pathetic energy stock power uninteresting thee.
21. In true religion represent is no contract, consequently drag look out that thou vandalize not the name by which not the same knoweth his God; for if thou do this thing in Jupiter thou wear out vandalize YHVH and in Osiris YChShVCh. Ask and ye shall have! Hound, and ye shall find! Bump into, and it shall be opened unto you!
