THE EQUINOX
34. But she said: the ordeals I write not: the rituals
shall be half known and half concealed: 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 this book; but lest there be
folly, he shall comment thereupon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-
Khu-it.
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 $eAypo,
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. O man! refuse not
thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is
no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a
curse. Accurséd! Accurséd be it to the aeons! Hell.
42. Let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing.
So with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will.
43. Do that, and no other shall say nay.
44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from
the lust of result, is every way perfect.
45. The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfect and not
two; nay, are none!
46. Nothing is a secret key of this law. Sixty-one the
Jews call it; I call it eight, eighty, four hundred & eighteen.
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