Members of the A-. A.. of whatever grade are not bound or
expected or even encouraged to work on any stated lines, or with
any special object, save as has been above set forth. There is how-
ever an absolute prohibition to accept money or other material
reward, directly or indirectly, in respect of any service connected
with the Order, for personal profit or advantage. The penalty is
immediate expulsion, with no possibility of reinstatement on any
terms soever.
But all members must of necessity work in accordance with the
facts of Nature, just as an architect must allow of the Law of
Gravitation, or a sailor reckon with currents.
So must all Members of the A. A-. work by the Magical
Formula of the Aeon.
They must accept the Book of the Law as the Word and the
Letter of Truth, and the sole Rule of Life." They must acknow-
ledge the Authority of the Beast 666 and of the Scarlet Woman as
in the book it is defined, and accept Their Will* as concentratin,
the Will of our Whole Order. They must accept the Crowne
and Conquering Child as the Lord of the Aeon, and exert them-
selves to establish His reign upon Earth. They must acknowled;
that “The word of the Law is @EAHMA” and that “Love is the
law, love under will.”
Each member must make it his main work to discover for him-
self his own true will, and to do it, and do nothing else.
He must accept those orders in the Book of the Law that apply
to himself as being necessarily in accordance with his own true
will, and execute the same to the letter with all the energy, courage,
and ability that he can command. This applies especially to the
work of extending the Law in the world, wherein is proof is his
being able to write a single line of good poetry, although the greatest poet
in soul is unable to express himself without the aid of those three elements of
literary composition.
1. This is not in contradiction with the absolute right of every person
to do his own true Will. But any True Will is of necessity in harmony with the
facts of Existence; and to refuse to accept the Book of the Law is to create a
conflict within Nature, as if a physicist insisted on using an incorrect formula
of mechanics as the basis of an experiment.
2. “Their Will”—not, of course, their wishes as individual human
beings, but their will as officers of the New Aeon.
3. It is not considered “essential to right conduct” to be an active propa-
gandist of the Law, and so on; it may, or may not, be the True Will of any
particular person to do so. But since the fundamental purpose of the Order
is to further the Attainment of humanity, membership implies, by definition,
the Will to help mankind by the means best adapted thereto.