The 8 & 90 Rules of Art

The 8 & 90 Rules of Art

Frater Zephyros

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

These rules were gleaned from the verses of Liber AL vel Legis. They are presented in a corresponding order with those verses as they appear in the Holy Book that they correspond with. It seems this is the only authority from which such 'rules' should be derived. Note also how they call one to action with proactive suggestions for conduct. In contrast, the 'Ten Commandments' of the old aeon are restrictive.

Take your fill of love.

Love is the fulfillment of the extent of your nature.

Know that the ecstasy of Nuit is within you.

This is Hadit.

Know that the joy of Nuit is to see your Joy.

In this way, your divinity is activated.

Let the Serpent burn upon your brow.

The Ajna Chakkra is the astral link to the lowest manifestation of Nuit. She bends down in ecstasy.

Bind nothing.

A sympathetic magick to connect to Nuit.

Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing and any other thing.

Another sympathetic magick to connect with the energy of Nuit.

Seek out the ordeals of the knowledge of Nuit.

Lose oneself unto her by breaking down those psychic components which bind and differentiate.

Seek Nuit only.

Seek Nuit as Hadit.

Know that the joys of Nuit's love will redeem you from all pain.

She is the ecstasy of Hadit.

Know that pure will, unassuaged of purpose, and delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

Spontaneous combustion with impeccable discretion is a way of describing the formula of 'Love under Will'.

Know that the gross must pass through fire.

This is practical instruction for approaching a specific ordeal of Nuit.

Let the fine be tried in intellect.

And this is another pragmatic approach to another ordeal.

Let the ritual be ever unto Nuit.

Thus, a Bhakti Yoga.

Let ecstasy be yours and the joy of earth ever unto Nuit.

And a Bacchanalia.

Love is the law, love under will.

All such action is holy.

Know that to love Nuit is better than all things.

To get outside oneself is to approach the apprehension of the all.

Arouse the coiled splendour within you.

A Kundalini Yoga.

Let the flame in your heart hear the call of Nuit's love chant.

Let Hadit hear the yearning of Nuit and thus respond accordingly.

Sing rapturous love songs unto Nuit.

Spontaneously unite with all that you encounter and experience; making it a part of who and what you are.

Burn perfumes unto Nuit.

Scent the air with her presence.

Wear jewels unto Nuit.

Connect with tohers in creative culture.

Drink unto Nuit.

Celebrate with all around you.

Know that Nuit loves you.

We are inter-connected with each other.

Know that Nuit yearns to you.

We dance in relation to each other.

Remember that existence is pure joy.

Feel Hadit burning within you.

Know that your sorrows are but as shadows; they pass and are done.

Focus on joy.

Know that beauty is of the art.

Focus on beauty.

Know that strength is of the art.

Live with great heartiness.

Know that leaping laughter is of the art.

Act spontaneously.

Know that delicious languor is of the art.

Live with opulence.

Know that force and fire is of the art.

Act impeccably and deliberately.

Have nothing to do with the outcast and the unfit.

Avoid that which interferes with one's clarity of vision.

Let Compassion be your vice.

Empathy is a spontaneous connection with another.

Stamp down the wretched and the weak.

Walk above one's self-destructive tendencies.

Worship Nuit by taking wine and strange drugs drunk thereof.

En-trance.

Know that they shall not harm you at all.

There is an higher life beyond the veil.

Lust

Aspire.

Enjoy all things of sense and rapture

Indulge.

Fear not that any God shall deny thee.

Act with confidence.

Love one another with burning hearts.

Celebrate the connection with everything around you.

On the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath.

Move forward and not backwards in life.

Know that if Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops and does nought.

Power is a-rational.

Know that if Power asks why, then is Power weakness.

Act with spontaneity.

Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy and beauty.

Act with dignity.

Celebrate the rituals of the elements and feasts of the times.

Observe the cycles of nature.

Celebrate the feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride.

Commemorate all unions with reverence.

Celebrate the feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law.

Celebrate the revelation of joy.

Celebrate the feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet.

Honor knowledge and wisdom.

Celebrate the feast for the Supreme Ritual

Cherish the 'One'.

Celebrate the feast for the Equinox of the Gods.

Cherish the 'All'.

Celebrate the feast for fire

Live with passion.

Celebrate the feast for water.

Live with love.

Celebrate the feast for life.

Live with gusto.

Celebrate the greater feast for death.

Die with honor.

Celebrate a feast every day in your heart in the joy of Hadit's rapture.

Focus on the pulse of your life.

Celebrate a feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight.

Contemplate your success.

Pity not the fallen.

Know that success is your birthright.

Console not.

Do not indulge in your weakness.

Veil not your vices in virtuous words.

Do not make excuses for your behavior.

Deem not of change.

Take the world as it is.

Be as you are, and not other.

Respond to life in proper relation to it.

Master all that comes your way.

Conduct yourself in a libertine manner.

Bear up in your rapture.

Adore the 'One' and the 'All'.

Stand strong in the swoon of the excellent kisses of the stars.

Feel the 'One' and the 'All' within and without you.

Be strong and able to bear yet more joy.

Invoke often.

65.

Be not animal.

Blend instinct with experience.

Refine your rapture.

Blend experience with knowledge.

If you drink, drink by these eight and ninety rules of art.

Blend knowledge with action.

If you love, exceed by delicacy.

Blend action with finesse.

Let there be subtlety and joy in all you do.

Blend finesse with devotion.

Exceed.

Succeed!

Strive ever to more.

Success is but a veil to what is beyond.

Be thou proud and mighty among men.

Offer your success to the world.

Choose an island to fortify and dung about with enginery of war.

Be the light in the darkness.

Lurk.

Observe the movement in the darkness.

Withdraw.

Coil.

Be upon them.

Spring forth.

Know that Ra-Hoor-Khu is with you.

Act with impeccable confidence.

Worship Ra-Hoor-Khu with fire & blood.

Act with fierce determination.

Worship Ra-Hoor-Khu with swords and with spears.

Act with discretion.

Trample down the Heathen.

Defy failure.

Sacrifice cattle, little and big: after a child.

Celebrate success.

Fear not at all.

Fear is the mind killer.

Fear neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything.

Fear is the little death.

Money fear not.

Fear brings total obliteration.

Fear not the laughter of the folk folly.

Turn to face fear.

Fear not any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth.

Allow fear to pass over and through you.

Be strong in war.

See the path of fear as a great void.

Adore Ra-Hoor-Khuit in song.

Identify yourself as separate and distinct from fear.

Let success be your proof.

Results speak for themselves.

Argue not; Convert not; Talk not overmuch.

Do not apologize for acting.

Them that seek to entrap thee, to overthrow thee, them attack without pity or quarter; and destroy them utterly.

Curse inaction.

Be loud and adulterous.

Act with passion.

Let courage be your armour

Act in spite of fear.

Go on in the strength of Ra-Hoor-Khuit.

Use your fear as a fulcrum.

Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers who dare not fight, but play.

Mock the pretenders.

Despise all fools.

Mock the sycophants of those pretenders.

Fight as brothers.

Growth comes through pain.

Love is the law, love under will.

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