Chapter I A- Verses 1—3
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Further, this verse is to be taken with the next. The “company 
of heaven” is Mankind, and its “unveiling” is the assertion of the 
independent godhead of every man and every woman!
Further, as Khabs1 (see verse 8) is “Star,” there is a further 
meaning; this Book is to reveal the Secret Self of a man, i.e. to 
initiate him.
1 [Usually khaib in modern Egyptian transliteration.]
2 [A Crowley diary from 1919 e.v.; the relevant passage is quoted on 
p. 26.]
3. Every man and every woman is a star.
Commentary: This thesis is fully treated in The Book of 
Wisdom or Folly. Its main statement is that each human being is 
an Element of the Cosmos, self-determined and supreme, co-equal 
with all other Gods.
From this the Law “Do what thou wilt” follows logically. One 
star influences another by attraction, of course; but these are inci­
dents of self-predestined orbits. There is however a mystery of the 
planets, revolving about a star of whom they are parts; but I shall 
not discuss it fully in this place.
Man is the Middle Kingdom. The Great Kingdom is Heaven, 
with each star as an unit; the Little Kingdom is the Molecule, 
with each Electron as an unit. (The Ratio of these three is regu­
larly geometrical, each being 1022 times greater in size than its 
neighbour.)
See “The Book of the Great Auk”1 2 for the demonstration that 
each “star” is the Centre of the Universe to itself, and that a 
“star,” simple, original, absolute, can add to its omnipotence, 
omniscience and omnipresence without ceasing to be itself; that 
its one way to do this is to gain experience, and that therefore it 
enters into combinations in which its true Nature is for awhile 
disguised, even from itself. Analogously, an atom of carbon may 
pass through myriad Proteus-phases, appearing in Chalk, Chloro­
form, Sugar, Sap, Brain and Blood, not recognizable as “itself” 
the black amorphous solid, but recoverable as such, unchanged 
by its adventures.