From: Tagi@cup.portal.com (Tagi Mordred Nagashiva)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Re: Perfect Love and Perfect Trust (Simon Iff strikes again)
Date: Wed,  9 Sep 92 17:14:09 PDT
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  <BuBAv2.J52@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Sep9.220309.3072@samba.oit.unc.edu>

9209.09 e.v. [Quite a symbolic date for a quote from THIS book]


Another quote from _Moonchild_, by Aleister Crowley, illustrating,
perhaps, what Bunny is talking about here. :>

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"This is what 'Simple Simon' had done.  Since all simple motion is
one-pointed, and its enemy is inertia, the swordsmith brings his
sword to a single sharp edge; the fletcher grinds his arrow-barb
to a fine point.  Your Dum-Dum bullet will not penetrate as does
your nickel tip; and you cannot afford to use the former unless the
power of penetration is so great as to reach the soft spots before
the bullet expands and stops.  This mechanical principle is perfectly
applicable in magick.  Therefore, when there is need to resist a 
magical attack, your best method will be to divide your antagonist's
forces.

Douglas [the antagonist] had already lost a pawn in the game, Akbar
Pasha having gone to his destruction through setting up an idea of
his own, apart from, and inconsistent with, the plan of his superior.
The defect is inherent in all Black Magic, because that art is itself
a thing set up against the Universal Will.  If it were not negligibly
small, it would destroy the Universe, just as the bomb-throwing Anarchist
would succeed in destroying society if he amounted to, say, a third of
the population.

Now Simple Simon, at this time, did not know Douglas for the enemy
General; but he was in the closest possible magical touch with him.
For he had absorbed the Thing in the garden into himself, and that
Thing had been a part of Douglas.

So he set himself to the complete assimilation of that Thing; he made
certain that it should be part of himself for ever.  His method of doing
this was as simple as usual.  He went over the Universe in his mind, and
set himself to reconcile all contradictions in a higher Unity.  Beginning
with such gross things as the colours of the spectrum, which are only
partialities of white light, he resolved everything that came into his
mind until he reached such abstractions as matter and motion, being and
form; and by this process worked himself up into a state of mind which
was capable of grasping those sublime ideas which unite even these
ultimate antinomies.  That was all.

Douglas, still in magical touch with that 'watcher,' could feel it being
slowly digested, so to say, by some other magician.  This (incidentally)
is the final fate of all black magicians, to be torn piecemeal, for
lack of the love which grows by giving itself to the beloved, again and
again, until its 'I' is continuous with existence itself.  'Whoso loveth
his life shall lose it' is the corresponding scriptural phrase.

So Douglas, who might at that moment have saved himself by resignation,
was too blind to see the way - an acquired blindness resulting from
repeated acts whose essence was the denial of the unity of himself
with the rest of the universe.  And so he fought desperately against
the assimilation of his 'watcher.'  'It's mine, not yours!' he raged.
To the steady and continuous affirmation of true unity in all diversity
which Simon Iff was making he opposed the affirmation of duality.  The
result was that his whole mind was aflame with the passion of contrasting
things, of playing forces off against each other.  When it came to practical
decisions, he divided his forces, and deliberately created jealousy and 
hatred where co-operation and loyalty should have been the first and last
consideration.

Yet Simon Iff had used no spell but Love.


pgs. 154-6, _Moonchild_, Aleister Crowley, Samuel Weiser, 1974 ed.

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Indeed, Love does conquer All, but not in any way we might associate
with petty 'conquering'.   Cheers.


Thyagi
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