Chapter I i Verses 26—32
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Each individual must be left free to follow his own path! America 
is peculiarly insane on these points; her people are desperately 
anxious to make the Sinhalese wear furs, and the Tibetans vote, 
and the whole world chew gum, utterly dense to the fact that 
most other nations, especially the French and British, regard 
“American institutions” as the lowest savagery, and forgetful or 
ignorant of the circumstances that the original brand of American 
freedom—which really was Freedom—contained the precept to 
leave other people severely alone, and thus assured the possibility 
of expansion on his own lines to every man.
32. Obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! 
seek me only! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from 
all pain. This is so: I swear it by the vault of my body; by my 
sacred heart and tongue; by all I can give, by all I desire of ye 
all.
Commentary: It is proper to obey The Beast, because His 
Law is pure Freedom, and He will give no command which is 
other than a Right Interpretation of this Freedom. But it is neces­
sary for the development of Freedom itself to have an organiza­
tion; and every organization must have a highly-centralized 
control. This is especially necessary in time of war, as even the so- 
called “democratic” nations have been taught by Experience, 
since they would not learn from Germany. Now this age is pre­
eminently a “time of war,” most of all now, when it is our Work 
to overthrow the slave-gods.
The injunction “seek me only” is emphasized with an oath, 
and a special promise is made in connection with it. By seeking 
lesser ideals one makes distinctions, thereby affirming implicitly 
the very duality from which one is seeking to escape. Note also 
that “me” may imply the Greek MH, “not.” The word “only” 
might be taken as 
with the number of 156, that of the
Secret Name Babalon of Nuit.1 2 There are presumably further 
hidden meanings in the key-word “all.”
1 [I.e. onlv, in Hebrew letters, reading from left to right.]
2 [See 1:22.]