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The Law is for All
68. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who say not so, 
are mere Bars.
69. There is success.
Commentary: My memory tells me that the word “there” 
was not emphasized. Read, then, “there is” as the French il y a-, 
it is a simple and apparently detached statement. It was spoken 
casually, carelessly, as if a quite unimportant point had been 
forgotten, and now mentioned as a concession to my weakness.
70. I am the Hawk-Headed Lord of Silence & of Strength; my 
nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky.
71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for 
your time is nigh at hand.
Commentary: This seemed a clear statement as to the War 
which was to come, and did come, in 1914 E.v.
Later I thought that “the pillars of the world” meant “the 
Pillars of Hercules”—about the Straits of Gibraltar—and that 
the really big war would start there.
P.s. I now ask if “twin warriors” imply a civil war? The 
Spanish troubles started in S. Spain and Morocco.1
1 [I.e., the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s E.v.]
72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the 
Force of Coph Nia—but my left hand is empty, for I have 
crushed an Universe; Sc nought remains.
Commentary: “the Double Wand of Power” is a curious 
variant of the common “Wand of Double Power”; the general 
meaning is “I control alike the Forces of Active and Passive.”
“Coph Nia”: the original ms. has “—”; left incomplete as not 
having been properly heard. The present text was filled in later in 
her own hand by the first Scarlet Woman.
The Egyptian Gods are usually represented as bearing an 
ankh, or sandal-strap, in the left hand, the wand being in the 
right. This ankh signifies the power to go, characteristic of a god.