Liber Al vel Legis

swoon and said unto the Queen of Heaven: Write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law! 34. But she said: The ordeals I write not: the rituals shall be half known and half con- cealed: the Law is for all. 35. This that thou writest is the threefold book of Law. 36. My scribe Ankh-af—na-khonsu,the priest of the princes, shall not in one letter change his book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment thereupon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khuit. 37. Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword: these he shall learn and teach. 38. He must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals. 39. The word of the law is Θελημα. 40. Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein three grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 41. The word of Sin is. Restriction. Ο man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! 0 lover, if thou 7