The Law is for All

The Third Chapter 1. Abrahadabra; the reward of Ra Hoor Khut. 2. There is division hither homeward; there is a word not known. Spelling is defunct; all is not aught. Beware! Hold! Raise the spell of Ra-Hoor-Khuit! 3. Now let it be first understood that I am a god of War and of Vengeance. I shall deal hardly with them. Commentary: The God of Vengeance is in Greek O AAAZTQP, Aleister. For some reason which I have not been able to trace, this God became Alastor, the Desert Daemon of the Rabbins, then later the “Spirit of Solitude” of Shelley.1 The attri­ bution is appropriate enough, the root being apparently AAAO- MAI, “I wander.” The idea of “Going” is dreadful to the bourgeois, so that a wanderer is “accursed.” But, me judice,1 2 to settle down in life is to abandon the heroic attitude; it is to acqui­ esce in the stagnation of the brain. I do not want to be comfort­ able, or even to prolong life; I prefer to move constantly from galaxy to galaxy, from one incarnation to another. Such is my inti­ mate individual Will. It seems as thou this “god of War and of Vengeance” is then merely one who shall cause men to do their own Wills by Going as Gods do, instead of trying to check the irresistible course of Nature. 1 [See Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude (1816).] 2 [Lat., “in my opinion.”] 155