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unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of 
those needs, to fulfil them, and rejoice therein. 
This process is what is really meant by initiation; that is to 
say, the going into oneself, and making one's peace, so to 
speak, with all the forces that one finds there. 
It is forbidden here to discuss the nature of The Book of 
the Law, the Sacred Scripture of Thelema. Even after forty 
years of close expert examination, it remains to a great 
extent mysterious; but the little we know of it is enough to 
show that it is a sublime synthesis of all Science and all 
ethics. It is by virtue of this Book that man may attain a 
degree of freedom hitherto never suspected to be possible, a 
spiritual development altogether beyond anything hitherto 
known; and, what is really more to the point, a control of 
external nature which will make the boasted achievements of 
the last century appear no more than childish preliminaries to 
an incomparably mighty manhood. 
It has been said by some that the Law of Thelema appeals 
only to the elite of humanity. No doubt there is this much in 
that assertion, that only the highest can take full advantage 
of the extraordinary opportunities which it offers. At the 
same time, "the Law is for all." Each in his degree, every man 
may learn to realise the nature of his own being, and to 
develop it in freedom. It is by this means that the White 
School of Magick can justify its past, redeem its present, and 
assure its future, by guaranteeing to every human being a life 
of Liberty and of Love. 
Such, then, are the words of Gerard Aumont. I should not 
like to endorse every phrase; but the whole exposition is so 
masterly in its terse, tense vigour, and so unrivalled by any 
other document at my disposal, that I thought it best to let 
you have it in its own original form, with only those few 
alterations which lapse of time has made necessary. 
Love is the law, love under will. 
Fraternally, 
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