THE-BOOK-OF-LIES-Aliester-Crowley

Death is as beautiful and necessary as the malebody.The soul is beyond male and female as it is beyondLife and Death.Even as the Lingam and the Yoni are but diversedevelopments of One Organ, so also are Life andDeath but two phases of One State. So also theAbsolute and the Conditioned are but forms ofTHAT.What do I love? There is no from, no being, to whichI do not give myself wholly up.Take me, who will![80]COMMENTARY ({Lambda-Epsilon})This chapter must be read in connection withChapters 1, 3, 4, 8, 15, 16, 18, 24, 28, 29.The last sentence of paragraph 4 also connects withthe first paragraph of Chapter 26.The title "Venus of Milo" is an argument in supportof paragraphs 1 and 2, it being evident from thisstatement that the female body becomes beautiful in sofar as it approximates to the male.The female is to be regarded as having been separatedfrom the male, in order to reproduce the male in asuperior form, the absolute, and the conditions formingthe one absolute.In the last two paragraphs there is a justification ofa practice which might be called sacred prostitution.In the common practice of meditation the idea is toreject all impressions, but here is an opposite practice,very much more difficult, in which all are accepted.This cannot be done at all unless one is capable ofmaking Dhyana at least on any conceivable thing, ata second's notice; otherwise, the practice would onlybe ordinary mind-wandering.[81]36ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Lambda-Sigma}