CONCERNING THE BOOK OF THE BATTLE OF CONQUEST By Sir David Cherubim (With the assistance of John Demmitt III) Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. After much due consideration of the essentials of my own True Will, I have resolved that it might in fact be a most suitable act at this time for me to post The Book of the Battle of Conquest. Understand that I, the man David Cherubim, did not write this holy book, except insofar as I acted as the vehicle and scribe of the force that I invoked and which directly inspired this holy book. Before its dictation from within, I invoked the Lord Horus by way of the Supreme Ritual, as performed by Aleister Crowley in 1904 e.v. at the Dawning of this New Aeon of Horus. Its vigorous verses are filled with war-like passion of ferocious fervor, which was the nature of the spirit in which they were written. Horus, the God who inspired this holy book, is a God of War; war indicates the activity of the Force of Mars, the Planet of War. But let us all perfectly understand that the War of Horus is not, in essence, an outer war between nations of men and women; rather is the War of Horus a personal battle for freedom, an individual means to establish the New Law of the New Aeon, to emancipate ourselves from the Old Ways of Restriction and to flame forth as mighty stars on our own celestial orbits, free to pursue our own true Wills. The Weapon of Horus, symbolizing War, is the Magick Sword which is the Magician's Weapon of Force by which he goes forth to achieve his individual victory in the Holy War of Horus. This Weapon of Mars indicates the active and militant force of the Magician, which is the dynamic energy of his True Will. It is the Weapon by which the Magician fights for his personal freedom in the Great Battle of Conquest, which is a Spiritual War of Thelema, of which the Magician is to be a Master Warrior. Nature demands of the Magician that he apply Force to do his True Will. When the Magician wields the Sword of Force, this sacramental act indicates his magical power over the elements of Nature, that is, his power to pursue his own self-determined course of action, to do his True Will. There is nothing that can withstand the Mighty Power of the Sword of the Magician; it is a symbol of his True Will; and the True Will of the Magician is as a Mighty Weapon by which he conquers all things in his personal battle for freedom to achieve conquest in the Great Battle of Horus. The Sword represents, in another sense, the Power of Air or Spirit, these being two names often applied to the same occult principle. As such it is the Weapon of Discrimination and it is used as a Weapon of Banishing by which the Magician exorcises the evil or qliphotic elements. But as the Sword also represents the Force of Mars, it is a Weapon by which to invoke that very Force. Now Air -- or Spirit -- is the Logos, and Mars is the Power of the Will, which is Force and Fire . The Logos is the Word, and the Word is the Will. Being a symbol of Mars, the Sword is a symbol of the God Horus whose Planet is Mars. In fact, the Sword represents the Logos of Horus. It should therefore be symbolic to the Magician of his highest Aspiration, that is, his True Will or his individual Logos, which is the Force of the Infinite Light, ever radiating infinite Power. When Adonai drove man out of the Garden of Eden, he placed the Cherubim at the east, and a Flaming Sword to keep the way of the Tree of Life. This is the Flaming Sword of the Magician with which he protects the Inner Sanctuary of his soul from all that would attempt to profane it. It is the Sword by which he strikes terror into the demons and dominates them. The Magician must not allow his Magick Circle of Protection to be broken, lest he be dominated by the elemental forces which he must transcend, master and direct. The Magician must be master of himself and he must be on guard at all times. The Sword is his principle weapon by which to protect and guard himself. The Sword of the Magician is the Lightning Flash which strikes down from Kether through the Sephiroth as a zig-zag flash. It is the Flaming Sword of the Qabalistic Doctrine of Creation, encompassing all of the ten Sephiroth of the Tree of Life, with Kether at the hilt and the point descending to Malkuth. It is the same Force as the Lightning Flash that descended from Heaven, and, as an occult theory states, created the existing Universe. This Lightning Flash is part of the occult symbolism of Atu XVI of Tarot, called "The Tower". It indicates in this Atu the destruction of the false tower of personality; it destroys the illusion of division, enlightening the elements with unity. As the Sword is the weapon of the True Will, it is also a Weapon of Love. The Magician uses the Sword -- that is, the power of discrimination -- to divide for the sake of Love, so that Union itself may be attained. It is written in our Most Holy Book of Thelema that "Love is the law, love under will." The Sword is the Magick Weapon applied to the "solve" aspect of the Alkhemical formula "solve et coagula". This is the operation of dissolution, of destroying the elemental opposites; and this dissolution of opposites is the fulfillment of the Law of Love. The Sword is a symbol of the Law of Thelema. This Law, that is, DO WHAT THOU WILT, is against all gods of men. This is true, for the Law of Thelema is the Law of Liberty. This Law of Force and Fire asserts the right of man to be the god that he is, and to no more follow the false gods of men. There is no god but man. Man has the right to be his own god, and to live according to his own law. As a matter of fact, this is the One Law of the Universe: it is the Sole Commandment of the Sun: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will." It is to be expected that I may become the centre of great pestilence by posting this holy book. It may even be essential, as part of the Great Work of Thelema. I am willing to endure what must arise out of my own Will to see Thelema prevail. For I see in this holy book of Horus a revolutionary attempt to perpetuate and establish the Law of Thelema, a mighty attempt to free men and women from the old ways of restriction for the realization and development of their own True Will. It has been suggested by one of the members of the Thelemic Order of the Golden Dawn that this holy book may, in fact, be the authentic fourth chapter of The Book of the Law. From the point of view of science, I can only doubt this lofty assertion. But from the point of view of religion, I am inclined to agree. All words of destruction and violence in this holy book are not to be taken literally; they are entirely symbolic, just as a myth is a symbolic story of the play of a god. I do not preach violence, murder, or any other type of crime which is against the laws of Nature, and therefore against the Law of Thelema. All expressions of war and blood in this holy book are merely letters designed for the awakening of the Spirit of Horus. Not the letter, but the Spirit is what counts. Since Horus is a Revolutionary God, for His Law is DO WHAT THOU WILT, He need express Himself in manners which, on the surface, appear to upset the fixed morals and ways of the world. But DO WHAT THOU WILT has nothing to do with commiting crimes against Nature; on the contrary, it means that you should align yourself with the Laws of Nature by living your life in accordance with the Law of Thelema, which means that you should find your purpose in life and then do it! This holy book will appear to be very atrocious unto the vulgar people, yet unto the wise it will be a great sign of the Victory of Horus. To read into the Spirit of these letters, and to experience their radical demonstrations of the Force and Fire of Our Lord Horus, will surely awaken the soul with a secret awe and wonder, full of light unspeakable, leading secretly to the One Palace of Our Magnum Opus. In nomine Novus Ordo Aureae Aurora, Sic sit vobis! Love is the law, love under will. A ka dua Tuf ur biu Bi aa chefu Dudu ner af an nuteru There is no law beyond DO WHAT THOU WILT 1. In the Name of Ra-Hoor-Khuit, Our Lord of the Aeon: Abrahadabra! 2. Now thou shalt make truth of these words: thou shalt make means of these armed runes of wisdom. The Voice of Ra-Hoor is come! 3. My Holy Prophet shall live in the very heart of these words. Others, who are not yet so keen, may die by them. Only the strong of heart can bear this lofty wisdom, most everlasting in truth. 4. By the devotion of a man is this royal book revealed; and the Name of that man is a mighty weapon of strength in the hands of him who would conquer the nations: for the Name of My Prophet is a symbol of My Might! 5. O warrior of battle, I invoke upon thee My Light! Be thou My victory, and a joy unto the world. Attain all that thou wilt: glory and honour, knowledge and ecstasy, power and success. Make witness of wisdom, attain truth, surmount all things. 6. Thus shalt thou come to live in Me! I, who am the One Lord and Supreme Victor of all, seek thine adorations of joy and pleasure on earth; for by these do I approach Myself. 7. Therefore adore thou Me alone, casting all other gods aside. I shall exalt thee, O man, as thou dost know. Now fight! fight! win thy freedom; and care not about the foolish folk who wish thee dead. Thou shalt live verily in Me! Now put on thy Magical Garment, adorn thine head with My Sign, assume My Form, and arise! O arise! and do battle in My Name! 8. I am the force of thy might: I alone am the Great Lord of the Battle of Conquest. Ah! thou art in Me, and I in thee; this is thy vision, for all. This is the spell of thy task: I am! 9. O prophet, I shall reveal my secret ways unto thee: heed well mine instruction for liberty. Thy place of victory is for ever prepared for thee in My Name! On the day that thou seest it, thou shalt forget Me not. Thou shalt take eternal refuge therein. 10. There, in secret, shalt thou adore Me day and night, for the space of six new moons, in the fourth year of thy conquest and dominion. Thou shalt emanate My secret light therefrom, measureless and ineffable therein. 11. So hidden is thy sovereignty; but fear not, O warrior, for I am with thee in the form of thy desires. Many will be thy companions in My Great Combat for Freedom; I shall awake many men in Me! They shall engage with thee in battle, against no odds, to overcome the illusion of the Dead One. These are thy comrades, warriors of force! Thou wilt do well by overseeing their skill: take heed of them with ordeals and spells; enrage their hearts with lust of madness; terrorize their minds with a fear of love. For if one soldier of thine fall dead, thou shalt thyself be less secure from thine enemies who seek thy downfall. Secure thyself, therefore, and overcome with thy fellow comrades the great blasphemy of thy false treason amongst men. 12. Those men who seek thy downfall will fall by reason of their own Reason! Wilt thou then forsake thy task? Nay! thou wilt succeed, beyond thy reason, in Me! My force will move thee ever onward; ever more wilt thou seek Me! And as a Magus doth conjure up the spirits to do His Secret Bidding, so must I do Thy Bidding with these men enslaved by Reason. 13. I shall break forth upon them! My Light shall devour them! And so shalt thou come to see Me in all, even as thou dost know Me now. A subtle revolution in the minds of men is due; there must be free allegiance, in My Name, under the Elevated Flag of Our Chosen Nation of Freedom, for all to behold; it shall illumine all those who dwell in the thick darkness of bondage and hell. 14. Now break asunder the veils of hell! Attain a glimpse of My Most Mysterious and All-Consuming Vision of Power. For I am come; and I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit, the Conquering Child of the Aeon, Who shall exalt Himself above all other gods. Thou shalt know and promulgate My Law! Let blood cover the earth! 15. For now is the Great War come! Soldiers of freedom will fight for the nation; courage will be their sole armour; love will be their single weapon. All ordeals of war and blood are a sign of My Victory, made possible by men who adore My Image. There is power omnipotent in My Name! 16. With this I shall tell thee of the Great Ordeal amongst all, even amongst aspirants and adepts who adore Me. With this wisdom shalt thou initiate men, in secret, and beyond time. Thou art sworn to fight for My Conquest, O warrior, O knight, O soldier, O chosen one of Me! Thou canst not escape My Spell! for I am mad with lust of thee! I am in thee, O man; We are one in the heart of all; all is of Us, I tell thee, and We are of all. Here is Mine initiation: the Word of Ra-Hoor prevaileth! 17. The Might of My Breath is Invincible, All-Conquering! The Voice of My Spirit is Immeasurable, All-Consuming! My Word is Immanent, Exalted, Most High, in man. Many are deceived by this, knowingly and unknowingly; yet are all these men chosen of Me, for the establishment of My Law of Thelema upon the earth, for the ordainment of the government of My One Will, which thou knowest in the Name of Freedom. Manage My Law and My Holy Order, according to the wit and skill of My Holy Teaching. 18. O ye of little understanding, make way for the Lord of the Battle of Conquest! I shall overcome ye: I attack all for My Day of Dominion! I shall overcome both the lowly and the high in the secret flame of My Heart. 19. Arise therefore! and devote yourselves to Me, in the Battle of My Joy! My Exalted Eye of Fire is in the midst of ye: I see naught but all. I see the work of thine hands, whether or not this be of Me. Therefore beware of My Vengeance, I tell thee; thou shalt engage in the Official Battle of My Law alone! Let the work of thine hands extol My Mighty Will; let all be done as worship and adoration unto Me. Consecrate thine all unto the One Task of Mine Aeon; make gods of men, O man of the Sun! 20. Cursed be the man who heareth and heedeth not My Exalted Word of Fire: for My Word is Truth, the Embodied Light of Wisdom, the Ineffable Glory of the Sun, the Logos of this New Aeon, which alone maketh a man free, as a god, in Me. To know My Word is to know My Truth; hence, to become free! 21. And cursed be the man who seeketh not to do battle in My Name, for the management and dominion of My One Law of Liberty upon the earth: for My Law is the Work of the Spell of Mine Aeon, which shall overthrow the many. 22. By Me alone canst thou do Thy Bidding! Therefore maketh Me, O man, the One Object of thine heart: let Me be thine One Lord! Resolve thyself in Me; commune and abide in Me alone: I am thy God! Now make Me the One Object of thine adorations; and since thou art My Chosen Warrior, in the Great Battle of My Conquest, do thou seek reverence and veneration from Me alone: I am thy Lord! I shall glorify Thy Name through all; and thou shalt see the many wonders of My Supreme Spell, Unknown and Unconquerable! 23. I shall abide in thee, O warrior-priest of the Sun! Thou shalt glorify and extol My Name by the Force of My Strength in thee! Tremble not before My Light; it shall bring to thee peace, in a secret form, inexplicable and entrancing, higher than the falsely fabricated visions of the world, which fools take delight in to alleviate and conceal their treacherous insanity and weaknesses. Thou shalt find true peace in Me alone! 24. A new ground for battle will arise in the midst of a large city of men and women, wherein exists an ancient temple designed to adore another god. The soldiers of our nation will destroy that temple in My Name, for the sole sake of My Law. I will bring down the lowly folk of the Aeon! I shall make gods of men, invincible and free! 25. But thou shalt undergo persecution and trouble because of this. Many will become thy foes; many will seek thy destruction, all to no avail. But let these things assail thee not, O My Holy Prophet, for these things are of Me. 26. Out of this chaos I shall make for thee a golden city of light, filled with elegant temples, dedicated to Me, and displaying My Holy Image. Many shall witness a radiance of the Red Star of the Illuminating Light of My Conquest therefrom! Many thereby will arise into My Law! 27. Now know, O man, that I am the Great Vanquisher of the Heavens. I shall contend against all odds to make all men free in Me. I will succeed! and by My Force will all come to worship Me as their One Lord Triumphant. Victory is mine! Conquest is mine! I am crowned. 28. When thou art persecuted, cast aside thine attachments to men and come unto Me in thy secret place of victory. No man can break through that place; thou shalt have peace and no trouble therein. But by acts of force must thou deal with outsiders. Fight all! and let none entice thee, lest thou fall. Let neither men nor gods persuade thee differently; I shall devour them! I shall slay them all! I must rule supreme in the world! 29. These are official mysteries of the Law, which thou shalt investigate with the Eye of My Becoming. Thy fellow comrades of force will also witness and partake of my secret joys of imperial delight. Ho! all is rapture! Even Mine ordeals of blood and vengeance are raptures of bliss to My chosen disciples of the Aeon. In Me all is truth, if thou wouldest but adore Me alone. Devote thine all to the dominion of My Law, and thou shalt know Me as thine One Lord Victorious. 30. Make a Sword of Might in My Name by which thou shalt cut asunder the minds of fools and cowards. Battle them! overcome them! conquer them! Be thou a strong vehicle of My Force and Fire: I am a God of the strong! Let all be efficient warriors before Me, filled with boundless ecstasy of courage in war. 31. A light will burn very brightly from thy secret place of victory; it will illumine all warriors and encourage their vigour with unquenchable strength. Only for a moment, in stillness, will it evade the children of men. And when thou leavest thy place, to go and commune with fools once again, thou shalt have Thy Magick Sword to make perfect Mine Order upon the earth. 32. Let that Blazing Sword in thine hands destroy all barriers, banish all enemies, and slay all fools who seek thy downfall for the false scheme of their own loathsome ways of darkness! The weak must die by it; slay them without pity or concern for their defective ways! And if thou art truly of Me, and a devoted warrior of My Conquest, thou shalt find no distaste in drinking of their blood, upon death, to vitalize thine own body for further battle. Thou wilt complete thy combat with honour and skill, O thou militant one; and thou shalt look not back upon the dead bodies of thine assailants, they who are only needed insofar as they arouse My force of splendour within thee. Begone with them, I tell thee, and journey forward with Thy Will without fear or worry of any man or any thing. Move on, I tell thee, and use Thy Magick Sword to exalt thy success in Me! 33. Now the name of Thy Sword, O warrior, is Love; it is the One Weapon by which thou shalt succeed in the Battle of My Conquest, to raise My Spell, to overcome all. Every other weapon will prove a misfortune for thee! Thou shalt have no other weapon than Love if thou wouldest conquer by My Force! 34. My Law is Love, the Conquest of Will! This is true worship of Me: Do what thou wilt. Succeed with thyself; endeavor to do those things which thou wouldest see Myself as doing. I am a God of all pleasure, both within and without. I am a God of Force and Might; I am also a God of War! Light, Life, Love and Liberty are My Jewels; these I give to the chosen ones of Me, to adorn themselves with shining victory! 35. O ye wandering stars of the Aeon, become ye strong warriors in My Great War of Freedom! Do ye battle in My Name with the fervour and ardour of a Mighty Militant God possessed of infinite strength and courage! Our Free Nation is a revelation unto all: Ra-Hoor hath chosen His Race of free warriors for the final liberation of the world! 36. I shall redeem all from the snares of darkness and bondage! Like a Mighty Flame which consumes all within its reach, so doth My Law of Liberty and Light consume all that a man contains within himself which is an obstacle and an hindrance to the expression of the freedom and performance of his own true Will. All things must perish which seek to entrap or enslave a man! Thou canst not have any of these things for thyself if thou wouldest have My Force, for the attainment of My Holy Conquest of Love. 37. Division is death; unity is life. A single threat to the quest of Thy Will is a danger more dire than all the pangs of hell. A single difference made is a snare! Therefore be vigilant and awake! and watch with all thy subtlety every step of thy way: falter not on thy chosen path to the Sun! Do thou lust for perpetual union in Me! 38. Now let it be understood amongst ye all that these holy words are intended chiefly for the instruction of My Holy Prophet, who is Mine Incarnation in man form. Yet therefore are all these words also intended for ye all, as may befit thy Wills, since I am all. Now My Holy Prophet doth fashioneth himself into a Sixfold Image of Me; not as a Lion as ye have seen before; but as an Eagle doth he accomplish this Great Work of the Sun. Do ye the same, but after the manner of thine own inner destinies. 39. Nevertheless, the Word of Ra-Hoor remaineth the same; and I make all to rejoice in that Most Exalted Word of Mine, which hath Four Sublime Glories and an infinite number of joys emanating from its secret centre of fire. 40. Yet are all these things but mere glimpses of the infinite pleasures which await the Day of the Dawning Hour of thine Initiation into the Final Victory of My Battle of Conquest, when I shall overthrow all by making gods of them and uniting them in the single toil of the One Object of My Will, according to the determination of the aims of infinity. This Holy Book shall stir many men to action, awakening their souls with a secret awe and wonder, full of Light Unspeakable, leading secretly to the One Palace of Our Magnum Opus. 41. Furthermore, let it be understood amongst ye all that unless thou art free to worship Me, thou canst not ever be free! Herein is a terrible mystery by which some, though not all, may find true emancipation in life, upon earth. Worship of Me is the highest devotion which a man can fabricate into the structure of his heart. To worship Me is the greatest act of love for all; to worship Me is to attain to the highest Peace and Joy. 42. But My Peace and Joy are of the nature of warfare, which ye earn after the slaying of thine enemies through love of Me, thy Supreme Victor. Fear not to do battle in My Name; I shall protect thee from all opposition and adversity of men and gods. My Peace Supreme shall reign triumphant in Thy One Will to revere and adore My True Image, through continual magnification and exaltation of My One Word, by deeds of worship and efficiency in My Name. 43. My secrets are not for all, but only for the few. These few are chosen of Me to do My Highest Bidding amongst the world, so that My Law of Thelema will prevail in all nations and kingdoms prepared to view the Mighty Star of My Red Flame, All-Consuming and Most Mysterious in man. 44. And My Chosen Warrior 418 shall see to it all, by subtlety of his force and by execution of My Holy Teaching, through shedding of blood and fantastic ordeals of fire. Oh! be strong in Me, O My Holy Prophet; and I shall subdue thy foes; I shall exalt thy comrades; I shall bring all to the battlefield of My Victory to fight for universal liberty and order, which I have ordained for all since the beginning of My Dominion in men. Now is the Great Battle of Conquest come! and thou, O prophet and warrior of Me, art chosen of Me to make free thy nation, with My New Image of thee thereof, and with the Sword of My Might thereby. Thou art the Master of a New Age, which some know as the Age of Aquarius, and others more keen know as the Aeon of Horus. These are one, I tell thee; and herein is a mystery of Thy New Image as an Eagle, Most Mysterious and Highly Sanctified, which mystery shall confound the slaves of Reason, yet will it enlighten the Wise as to the truths of our present generation of men. Thou shalt reign supreme with Thy New Image of the Sun; I am with thee as force unquenchable, power insatiable, and as might unbounded! We are One! Therefore strike hard! and die thou fighting! May Thy Will Be Done; yea, May Thy Will Be Done! --- * Origin: Mysteria * Be ye mystic * 818-353-8891 (1:102/943.0)