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The Law is for All
The Law is for All (1996), PDF p. 202
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Liber AL vel Legis subfigura CCXX — Chapter I
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drink sweet wines and wines that foam! Also, take your fill
and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom ye
will! But always unto me.
52. If this be not aright; if ye confound the space-marks, saying:
They are one; or saying, They are many; if the ritual be not
ever unto me: then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor
Khuit!
53. This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my
heart & my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss. Also, o
scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall
not assuage thee nor absolve thee. But ecstasy be thine and
joy of earth: ever To me! To me!
54. Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou,
o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden
therein.
55. The child of thy bowels, he shall behold them.
56. Expect him not from the East, nor from the West; for from
no expected house cometh that child. Aum! All words are
sacred and all prophets true; save only that they understand
a little; solve the first half of the equation, leave the second
unattacked. But thou hast all in the clear light, and some,
though not all, in the dark.
57. Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under will. '
Nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love.
There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well!
He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the for
tress, and the great mystery of the House of God.
All these old letters of my Book are aright; but is not
the Star. This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the
wise.
58. I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while
in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I
demand aught in sacrifice.
59. My incense is of resinous woods & gums; and there is no
blood therein: because of my hair the trees of Eternity.
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