The Word Of Sin Is

It Will Be Seen That The Formula - 'do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law' Has Nothing To Do With 'do As You Please.' It Is Much More Difficult To Comply With The Law Of Thelema Than To Follow Out Slavishly A Set Of Dead Regulations.

The Conscience Of The World Is So Guilty That It Always Assumes That People Who Investigate Heresies Must Be Heretics; Just As If A Doctor Who Studies Leprosy Must Be A Leper. Indeed, It Is Only Recently That Science Has Been Allowed To Study Anything Without Reproach.

To Knot A Sentence Up Properly, It Has To Be Thought Out Carefully, And Revised. New Phrases Have To Be Put In; Sudden Changes Of Subject Must Be Introducted; Verbs Must Be Shifted To Unsuspected Localities; Short Words Must Be Excised With Ruthless Hand; Archaisms Must Be Sprinkled Like Sugar-plums Upon The Concoction; The Fatal Human Tendency To Say Things Straightforwardly Must Be Detected And Defeated By Adroit Reversals; And, If A Glimmer Of Meaning Yet Remain Under Close Scrutiny, It Must Be Removed By Replacing All The Principal Verbs By Paraphrases In Some Dead Language.

Intolerance Is Evidence Of Impotence.

Part Of The Public Horror Of Sexual Irregularity So-called Is Due To The Fact That Everyone Knows Himself Essentially Guilty.