amber_lux's Journal: Thelemic Salutations

Cloud cover: 80%

Whee, did not realize is that low. Weather must be getting better.

I've been reading emails in various threads on Thelema. Did not realize that so few Thelemits knew the correct salutatation.

It is not as if it were something that was hard to find, like De Cultu. Liber Al vel Legis has been distributed on the internet since at least 1985, if not earlier. Dead tree versions ahve been in print since 1925, albeit sometimes, but not always, in pirated form.

XXXI:I:40 and XXXi:I:56 are fairly straightforward verse.

The Thelemic Salutation is: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
and Love is the law, love under will.

Anybody can read it at Liber Al Vel Legis

I:40: Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

and in

I,57: Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under will. Nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God.
All these old letters of my Book are aright; but Tzaddi is not the Star. This also is my secret, my prophet shall reveal it to the wise.

Simple. Really simple.

So we get things like:

• Do what Thou Wilt shall be the whole of the Law,
• Do what thy Wilt
• Do what thou wilt
• Ninety-Three
• Love under Law
• 93/93
• 93

The last two are found in email. But the others are either used in email, or said verbally.

Why are these practioners of magick unable to say their own salutation correctly? Sloppiness, or are the Poesers?

The one thing they can not claim is that they are using a textual variation. This is not one of those passages where Crowley's handwriting is semi-illegible.

Likewise, they have obviously forgotten the Four powers of the Sphinx --- assuming that they knew them in the first place.

Wind under Thy Wings

Amber