Sacred texts Thelema
Lingam of Lingam
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- KHIEN Originating from the term, piercing advantageous, right and firm. The dragon lurks: it is no time to act. The dragon's in the field: now make thy pact. Be active, watchful, using care and tact. The dragon leaps; a bursting cataract. The dragon ploughs the sky with pace exact. Exceed not, dragon; Lest thy force react. (If all this heavenly hosts of dragons lacked their heads, good fortune would become a fact.)
Yoni of Yoni
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- KHWAN: Great, originating, right and fair, piercing and helpful, firm as in the mare. If the true man should move, his feet will stray; for him to follow is his proper way. Hoar-frost! The strong one cometh by and by. Straight, square and great, advantage springs to aye. Maintain, but boast not virtue's majesty. Here is a sack made safe by skillful tie. Behold the yellow skirt; ill fortune fly. Dragons at war: Gold, blood and porphyry. (Correct and firm the conduct, thou shalt spy good fortune from the sky.)
Moon of Fire
---- ---- ---------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---------- CHUN; Firm, correct; great progress this evinces and vantage from appointing feudal princes. Hard mere advance, maintain thy place correct. Distress, retreat; fear not, a friend is nigh. Lost in the wood, seek not a deer to espy. Retreating, seek thy mate; with him, aim high. Dispense rich favors as thy friends expect. Thine house bolt; bleed tears of agony!
Earth of Moon
---------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---------- ---- ---- MANG: Inexperience; let them see the sage. One gains his smile; twice will excite his rage. Correct him once to free; twice? Let him go! Treat fools and women kindly, they've their uses. Wed not loose women, only that they know. Chains bind the ignorant, and sorrows flow. Yet - the great fool! Simplicity's good glow! Protect the ignorant from all abuses!
Moon of Lingam
---- ---- ---------- ---- ---- ---------- ---------- ---------- HSU: Patience; be sincere; success will gleam Firmness brings fortune, thou mayest cross the stream. Wait, constant, in the border of the land. Wait, slandered, by the mountain torrents sand. Ah! Shun its mud, or mischief is at hand. Still wait, midst blood. Forth from cavern hie! Still wait, at festival - Oh firmly stand. Three guests come helping; greet them courteously.
Lingam of Moon
---------- ---------- ---------- ---- ---- ---------- ---- ---- SUNG: Strife: be cautious; seek not the extreme. Seek help from friends, and do not cross the stream. Perpetuate not strife, though slandered thou. O'ermatched, retire, concealment be thy friend! Maintain thy place, but claim no glory now. O'ermatched, the study of heaven's law perpend. Now with great fortune on thy side contend! Victorious, the fruit's bitter in the end.
Yoni of Moon
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---------- ---- ---- SZE: Armies; all depends upon the sage, His ripe experience, and his wisdom's age. Mark well the rules of martial strategy. Chief of the host, thy king confers the post. Divided counsel - inefficiency! Retreat is not an error if need be. Seek and destroy bad faith and mutiny! But find good men for posts of dignity.
Moon of Yoni
---- ---- ---------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- PI: Union. First examine, art thou right? Then the restless join thee; woe the laggard's plight. Sincerity of union is the key; From inward mind comes forth true unity. Unite not with unworth's iniquity! There's one beyond thyself that yearns for thee. Base well thy tower upon the people's power. Thy first step missed? Disaster shalt thou see.
Air of Lingam
---------- ---------- ---- ---- ---------- ---------- ---------- HSIAO CHU: Shows small restraint. Hence quick success. But clouds indeed, we ask rain's happiness. Strayed - Come thou back and follow thy own plan! By true attraction mete thy starry span! Anger in wedlock or a car en panne! Bloodshed and woe sincerity bids go. Sincerity: Here's help from all the clan. Who wins too much may lose! Repose, O man!
Lingam of Water
---------- ---------- ---------- ---- ---- ---------- ---------- LI: Is the treading of the path that's right! Step on the tiger's tail; he will not bite. Follow the path of thine accustomed right; Level and easy walks the anchorite. Learn vanity, the brave's bluff, to flee! Tread on the tiger's tail; he will not bite. Firm, resolute - yet perilous thy plight; Examine well, the augury of the flight.
Yoni of Lingam
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---------- ---------- ---------- THAI: The due order of things; we see, in sum, good fortune, small things gone, and great things come. Pull up one stalk; and others follow it. Seek patience, self reliance, love and wit. Though all things change, rejoice; for that is writ. Call friends to help thee, they may bring thee through. Remember what Ti Yi thought right and true. The city's fallen; there's little thou canst do.
Lingam of Yoni
---------- ---------- ---------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- PHI: All's disorder in the organum. We see the great gone, and the little come. Again one stalk pulled brings the others too. Patience, obedience, fitness, build anew. Shame hide thy purpose from thy own right view! Act rightly; comrades come to love thee and wonder. Restoring all things, murmur, We may blunder. The darkness passes; light breaks forth from under.
Lingam of Sun
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---- ---- ---------- THUNG ZAN: Men's union! Everywhere the clan! Cross then the stream, thou firm, superior man! Here first the master rises from his gate. Well should he flee the cares of family! Concealed, but watchful, the right born await! Be ready to attack, but tempt not fate. Through tears to laughter, victory crowns thy state. Even in the suburbs men proclaim thee great.
Sun of Lingam
---------- ---- ---- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- TA YU: Great havings; wealth's a sorceress, within whose cauldron bubbles up succes. Steer clear of wrong, envision clear thy road. Lo! The great wagon with its golden load! Great prince to heaven's son his duty hath showed. But guard resources as his jewel a toad. Sincerity is matched bu majesty. In all ways heaven's blessing hath overflowed!
Yoni of Earth
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---------- ---- ---- ---- ---- CHIEN: Humility; this yeast's to baking. A man may win in every undertaking. Increase humilities; so clears the way! Once recognized, who is there to gainsay? Acknowledged merit will success inherit. Grow thou more truly humble every day. Thus all thy neighbors in thy cause array. Use force - but only on the proper prey!
Fire of Yoni
---- ---- ---- ---- ---------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- YU: Satisfaction spreads through all thy coasts. Appoint thy princes, and send forth thy hosts! Boast not of pleasure! There lurks overthrow. Be firm, with foresight all thy soul aglow. Presume not; understand - what came may go! Shed happiness, call friends to share success! Make not a habit; joy's as dull as woe. Oh! Think more deeply; change is wisdom's throw!