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28 THEOREMS
by Aleister Crowley
- Every
intentional act is a Magical Act.
- Every
successful act has conformed to the postulate.
- Every
failure proves that one or more requirements of the postulate have not been
fulfilled.
- The
first requisite for causing any change is thorough qualitative and
quantitative understanding of the conditions.
- The
second requisite of causing any change is the practical ability to set in
right motion the necessary forces.
- Every
man and every woman is a star". That is to say, every human being is
intrinsically an independent individual with his own proper character and
proper motion.
- Every
man and every woman has a course, depending partly on the self, and partly
on the environment which is natural and necessary for each. Anyone who is
forced from his own course, either through not understanding himself, or
through external opposition, comes into conflict with the order of the
Universe, and suffers accordingly.
- A
Man whose conscious will is at odds with his True Will is wasting his
strength. He cannot hope to influence his environment efficiently.
- A
man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist
him.
- Nature
is a continuous phenomenon, through we do not know in all cases how things
are connected.
- Science
enables us to take advantage of the continuity of Nature by the empirical
application of certain principles whose interplay involves different orders
of idea connected with each other in a way beyond our present comprehension.
- Man
is ignorant of the nature of his own being and powers. Even his idea of his
limitations is based on experience of the past, and every step in his
progress extends his empire. There is therefore no reason to assign
theoretical limits to what he may be, or to what he may do.
- Every
man is more or less aware that his individuality comprises several orders of
existence, even when he maintains that his subtler principles are merely
symptomatic of the changes in his gross vehicle. A similar order may be
assumed to extend throughout nature.
- Man
is capable of being, and using, anything which he perceives, for everything
that he perceives is in a certain sense a part of his being. He may thus
subjugate the whole Universe of which he is conscious to his individual
Will.
- Every
force in the Universe is capable of being transformed into any other kind of
force by using suitable means. There is thus an inexhaustible supply of any
particular kind of force that we may need.
- The
application of any given force affects all the orders of being
which exist in the object to which it is applied, whichever of those
orders is directly affected.
- A
man may learn to use any force so as to serve any purpose, by taking
advantage of the above theorems.
- He
may attract to himself any force of the Universe by making himself a fit
receptacle for it, establishing a connection with it, and arranging
conditions so that its nature compels it to flow toward him.
- Man's
sense of himself as separate from, and opposed to, the Universe is a bar to
his conducting its currents. It insulates him.
- Man
can only attract and employ the forces for which he is really fitted.
- There
is no limit to the extent of the relations of any man with the Universe in
essence; for as soon as man makes himself one with any idea the means of
measurement cease to exist. But his power to utilize that force is limited
by his mental power and capacity, and by the circumstances of his human
environment.
- Every
individual is essentially sufficient to himself. But he is unsatisfactory to
himself until he has established himself in his right relation with the
Universe.
- Magick
is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art
of applying that understanding in action.
- Every
man has an indefeasible right to be what he is.
- Every
man must do Magick each time that he acts or even thinks, since a thought is
an internal act whose influence ultimately affects action, though it may not
do so at the time.
- Every
man has a right, the right of self-preservation, to fulfill himself to the
utmost.
- Every
man should make Magick the keynote of his life. He should learn its laws and
live by them.
- Every
man has a right to fulfill his own will without being afraid that it may
interfere with that of others; for if he is in his proper place, it is the
fault of others if they interfere with him.
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