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The Law is for All
false. The Ethics of Liber Legis are those of Evolution itself. We 
are only fools if we interfere. Do what thou wilt shall be the 
whole of the Law, biologically as well as in every other way.
Let us take an example. I am an antivaccinationist in a sense 
which every other antivaccinationist would repudiate. I admit 
that vaccination protects from smallpox. But I should like every­
body to have smallpox. The weak would die; the strong might 
have pitted faces; but the race would become immune to the 
disease in a few generations.
On somewhat similar lines, I would advocate, with Samuel 
Butler, the destruction of all machinery.1 (I admit the practical dif­
ficulties of defining the limits of legitimate devices. The issue is 
this: how are we to develop human skill? The printing press is 
admirable in the hands of an Aldus, a Charles T. Jacobi, or even a 
William Morris.1 2 But the cheap mechanical printing of luetic rub­
bish on rotten pulp with worn types in inferior ink has destroyed 
the eyesight, putrefied the mind, and deluded the passions, of the 
multitude.) For machines are dodges for avoiding Hard Work; 
and Hard Work is the salvation of the race. In The Time Machine, 
H.G. Wells draws an admirable picture of a dichotomized 
humanity, one branch etiolated and inane, the other brutalized 
and automatic. Machines have already nearly completed the 
destruction of individual craftsmanship. A man is no longer a 
worker, but a machine-feeder. The product is standardized; the 
result mediocrity. Nobody can obtain What He Will; he must be 
content with what knavery puts on the market. Instead of every 
man and every woman being a star, we have an amorphous pullu- 
lation of Vermin.
1 [Samuel Butler (the younger, 1835-1902), Erewhon: or, Over the 
Range (1872)., ch. 23-25.]
2 [Aldus Manutius (1450-1515) founded the Aldine press in Venice; 
Charles T. Jacobi was with the Chiswick Press in London, Crowley’s 
favorite printer; William Morris (1834-1896) founded the Kelmscott 
Press.]
21. Set up my image in the East: thou shalt buy thee an image 
which I will show thee, especial, not unlike the one thou 
knowest. And it shall be suddenly easy for thee to do this.