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The Law is for All
Everyone should discover, by experience of every kind, the 
extent and intention of his own sexual Universe. He must be 
taught that all roads are equally royal, and that the only question 
for him is “Which road is mine?” All details are equally likely to 
be of the essence of his personal plan, all equally “right” in them­
selves, his own choice of the one as correct as, and independent 
of, his neighbour’s preference for the other.
He must not be ashamed or afraid of being homosexual if he 
happens to be so at heart; he must not attempt to violate his own 
true nature because public opinion, or mediaeval morality, or reli­
gious prejudice would wish he were otherwise. The oyster stays 
shut in his shell for all Darwin may say about his “low stage of 
evolution,” or Puritans about his priapistic character, or idealists 
about his unfitness for civic government.
The advocates of homosexuality—primus inter pares,1 John 
Addington Symonds!1 2—hammer away like Hercules at the spir­
itual, social, moral, and intellectual advantages of cultivating the 
caresses of a comrade who combines Apollo with Achilles and 
Antinoiis at the expense of escaping from a Chimaera with Circe’s 
head, Cleopatra’s body, and Cressida’s character.
1 [Lat., “first among equals.”]
2 [John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) was an English translator, 
poet and historian.]
3 [Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), Swiss geometer.]
4 [Charles Howard Hinton (1853-1907) was a popular science writer in 
Crowley’s day; see Speculations on the Fourth Dimension: Selected 
Writings, ed. Rudolf Rucker (New York: Dover, 1980).]
Why can’t they let one alone? I agree to agree; I only stipulate 
to be allowed to be inconsistent. I will confess their creed, so long 
as I may play the part of Peter until the cock crow thrice.
They urge more strenuously still the claims of homosexuality 
to heal the hurts and horrors of humanity, almost the “complete 
cohort.” On this point I concur that they argue indisputably, with 
sober sense to support and stress of suffering to spur them. They 
prove with Euler’s3 exactness and Hinton’s4 passion that hetero­
sexuality entrains an infinity of ills: jealousies, abortions, diseases, 
infanticides, frauds, intrigues, quarrels, poverty, prostitution,