The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

LIBER CLXI O.T.O. CONCERNING THE LAW OF THELEMA An Epistle written to Professor L—— B—— K—— who also himself waited for the New Zon, concerning the O.T.O. and its solution of divers problems of Human So- ciety, particularly those concerning Property, and now reprinted for General Circulation. My Dear Sir,— Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I was glad to receive your letter of inquiry with regard to the Mes- sage of the Master Therion. It struck you naturally enough that on the surface there is little distinction between the New Law and the canon of Anarchy; and you ask, “How is the Law to be fulfilled in the case of two boys who want to eat the same orange?” But since only one boy (at most) can eat the orange, it is evident that one of them is mistaken in supposing that it is essential to his Will to eat it. The question is to be decided in the good old way by fighting for it. All that we ask is that the fighting should be done chivalrously, with respect to the courage of the vanquished. “As brothers fight ye!” In other words, there is only this difference from our present state of society, that manners are improved. There are many persons who are naturally slaves, who have no stom- ach to fight, who tamely yield all to any one strong enough to 227