The Law is for All

92 The Law is for All 1:3 1:41 who “bowed humbly to the Authority of” the Pope, or the Bible, or the Sanhedrin, or the Oracle of Apollo, or the tribal Medicine-Man, nonetheless expressed truly his own Wish to abdicate responsibility. In the light of this Book, we now know that the centre is everywhere, the circumference nowhere; that “Every man and every woman is a star”, a “Khabs,” the name of the house of Hadit; that “The word of Sin is Restriction.” To us, then, “evil” is a relative term; it is “that which hinders one from fulfilling his true Will.” (E.g., rain is “good” or “bad” for the farmer accord­ ing to the requirements of his crops.) The Osirian Rituals inculcating self-sacrifice to an abstract ideal, mutilation to appease an ex cathedra' morality, fidelity to a priori formulas, etc., teach false and futile methods of acquiring false Knowledge; they must be “cast away” or “purged”. The Schools of Initiation must be reformed. 6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. Commentary: It follows that, as Hadit can never be known, there is no death. The death of the individual is his awakening to the impersonal immortality of Hadit. This applies less to physical death than to the Crossing of the Abyss; for which see Liber 418, Fourteenth /Ethyr. One may attain to be aware that one is but a particular “child” of the Play of Hadit and Nuit; one’s personality is then perceived as being a disguise. It is not only not a living thing, as one had thought; but a mere symbol without substance, incapable of life. It is the conventional form of a certain cluster of thoughts, themselves the partial and hieroglyphic symbols of an “ego.” The conscious and sensible “man” is to his Self just what the printed letters on this page are to me who have caused them to manifest in colour and form. They are arbitrary devices for conveying my thought; I could use French or Greek just as well. 1 [Lat., “from the chair,” i.e., authoritarian.]