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The Law is for All
The Law is for All (1996), PDF p. 133
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The Law is for All
61. There is a light before thine eyes, o prophet, a light
undesired, most desirable.
62. I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain
hard upon thy body.
Commentary: “uplifted in thine heart”:—compare “The
Book of the Heart Girt with a Serpent.”1
1 [“Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente sub figura LXV.”] See Equinox III(l)
[(1919), and The Holy Books ofThelema (Equinox 111(9)) (1983).]
63. Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the
inspiration; the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid
and laughterful than a caress of Hell’s own worm.
Commentary: This verse conceals a certain Magical Formula
of the loftiest initiation. It refers to a method of using the breath,
in connection with the appropriate series of ideas, which is
perhaps not to be taught directly. But it may be learnt by those
who have attained the necessary degree of magical technique,
suggested automatically to them by Nature herself, just as newly-
hatched chickens pick up corn without instruction.
64. Oh! thou art overcome: we are upon thee; our delight is all
over thee: hail! hail: prophet of Nu! prophet of Had! prophet
of Ra-Hoor-Khu! Now rejoice! now come in our splendour
& rapture! Come in our passionate peace, & write sweet
words for the Kings!
Commentary: “the Kings” are evidently those men who are
capable of understanding Themselves. This is a consecration of
The Beast to the task of putting forth The Law.
“thou art overcome”. The conscious resisted desperately, and
died in the last ditch.
65. I am the Master: thou art the Holy Chosen One.
Commentary: It is curious that this verse should be num
bered 65, suggesting l.v.x. and Adonai, the Holy Guardian
Angel. It seems then that He is Hadit. I have never liked the term
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