The Law is for All

50 The Law is for All also Love is a sacrament of transubstantiation whereby we initiate our own souls; it is the Wine of Intoxication as well as the Bread of Nourishment. “Nor is he for priest designed Who partakes only in one kind.”1 1 [Crowley, “The Sevenfold Sacrament,” The Equinox III(l) (1919), p. 193.] 2 [Phyrne was a 4th century b.c.e. Greek courtesan who was the model for several famous images of Aphrodite.] We therefore heartily cherish those forms of Love in which no question of generation arises; we use the stimulating effects of physical enthusiasm to inspire us morally and spiritually. Experi­ ence teaches that passions thus employed do serve to refine and to exalt the whole being of man or woman. Nuit indicates the sole condition: “But always unto me.” The epicure is not a monster of gluttony, nor the amateur of Beethoven a “degenerate” from the “normal” man whose only music is the tom-tom. So also the poisons which shock the bourgeois are not indulgences, but purifications; the brute whose furtive lust demands that he be drunk and in darkness that he may surrender to his shame, and that he lie about it with idiot mumblings ever after, is hardly the best judge even of Phryne.1 2 How much less should he venture to criticize such men and women whose imaginations are so free from grossness that the element of attraction which serves to electrify their magnetic coil is independent of physical form? To us the essence of Love is that it is a sacrament unto Nuit, a gate of grace and a road of righ­ teousness to Her High Palace, the abode of peerless purity whose lamps are the Stars. “as ye will”. It should be abundantly clear from the foregoing remarks that each individual has an absolute and indefeasible right to use his sexual vehicle in accordance with its own proper character, and that he is responsible only to himself. But he should not injure himself and his right aforesaid; acts invasive of another individual’s equal rights are implicitly self-aggressions. A thief can hardly complain on theoretical grounds if he is himself robbed.