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The Comment Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading. Whosoever disregards this does so at his own risk and peril. These are most dire. Those who discuss the contents of this Book are to be shunned by all, as centres of pestilence. All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Love is the law, love under will. The priest of the princes, 284
1996 · PDF PAGE 2
Aleister LCrowley The LAW is for ALL The Authorized Popular Commentary on Liber AL vel Legis subfigura CCXX The Hook of the Law edited by Louis Wilkinson and Hymenaeus Beta NEW FALCON PUBLICATIONS
1996 · PDF PAGE 183
184 The Law is for All “the royal”: these are the men whose nature is kingly, the men who “can.” They know themselves born rulers, whether their halidom1 be Art, or Science, or aught else soever. 1 [A holy place or sanctuary.] “the lofty”: these are the men who, being themselves high hearted, endure not any baseness. 59. As brothers fight ye! Commentary: Fight! Fight like gentlemen, without malice, because fighting is the best game in the world, and love the second best! Don’t slander your enemy, as the newspapers would have you do; just kill …
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38 The Law is for All 33. Then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon, & said unto the Queen of Heaven; Write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law! Commentary: Law, in the common sense of the word, should be a formulation of the customs of a people, as Euclid’s proposi tions are the formulation of geometrical facts. But modern knav ery conceived the idea of artificial law, as if one should try to square the circle by tyranny. Legislators try to force the people to change their customs, so that the “busine…
1996 · PDF PAGE 76
…n “Liber I vel Magi”; see Works Cited.] The “equation” is the representation of Truth by Word. 57. Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under will. Nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God. All these old letters of my Book are aright; but li is not the Star. This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. Commentary: “Love is the law, love…
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…egardie produced a competing edition the fol lowing year that relied on a 1926 typescript entitled “An Extenu ation to the Book of the Law”; he was quietly assisted by Gerald Yorke in his work.1 Each edition had its merits, but neither addressed the many editorial inconsistencies that had accumu lated in such a complex and technical work, written over many years, especially one that had been shunned by its author. 1 The Law is for All (St. Paul: Llewellyn Publications, 1975); reprinted by New Falcon Publications. Regardie’s title The Law is …
1996 · PDF PAGE 305
$16.95 LIS• Esoteric Philosophy / Religion Aleister Crowley The Law is for All The Authorized Popular Commentary to The Book of the Law Edited by Louis Wilkinson and Hymenaeus Beta Aleister Crowley’s life and thought are inexorably linked with The Book of the Law (Liber AL velLegis sub figura CCXX). He was not the author of this short, prophetic text. He received this visionary work by direct-voice dictation from a preterhuman, possibly discarnate intelligence in Cairo in 1904. Crowley was an intelligent sceptic, and at first found this improba…
1996 · PDF PAGE 217
216 The Law is for All 60. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. 61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra’s seat, lightening the girders of the soul. 62. To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss. 63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its comment; & he understandeth it not. 64. Let him come through the first ordeal, & it will be to him as silver. 65. Through the second, gold. 66. Through the third, stones of precious water. 67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the int…
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…l growths of the present century have been phenomenally swift and operative in their force of destruction. We today need The Book of the Law for our guidance, for our strength, for our happiness and fulfilment. It is because I am con vinced that we need it, and need it very badly, that I have made this attempt to abridge the Commentary upon it by removing passages likely to present obstructive difficulties to the general reader, to the layman like myself. I have aimed at making an abridgement that the general reader of intelligence and good wi…
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Foreword Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The Book of the Law was the foundation of Aleister Crowley’s life’s work, and its commentaries a problem that vexed him for most of his adult life, almost since the book’s reception in 1904 E.v. His basic difficulty with producing a commentary was a lack of objectivity. He was too close to The Book of the Law, on too many levels, to be able to easily write about it, let alone judge what other people might find helpful by way of commentary. He made numerous attempts over the years, only t…
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…ll into a deep trance or swoon, & 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 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 th…
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… “Old Commentary”; published in The Equinox 1(7) (1912), pp. 387^00a.] 3 [Described by Crowley as the “New Commentary.”] The Book of the Law, however, is not only for mathematicians and mystics. In some one phrase or other of the Book there is a direct message for every human being. The best way for the layman to approach this Book is to regard it as a letter written directly to himself. Even though he may not be able to understand some parts of the letter, he is sure to find other parts that are unmistakably addressed, in an intimately persona…
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Chapter III & Verses 58-60 185 I have myself practiced constantly to prove the Law by many and divers modes in many and divers spheres of thought, until it has become absolutely fixed in me, so much so that it appears an “identical equation,” axiomatic indeed, and yet not a platitude, but a very sword of Truth to sunder every knot at a touch. As the practical ethics of the Law, I have formulated in words of one syllable my declaration of the RIGHTS OF MAN Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. There is no god but Man. Man has the righ…
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16 The Law is for All any omission might falsify or weaken the whole, however little aware the editor might be of the effect of his editing. In this vol ume I have allowed certain passages from The Book of the Law to stand by themselves without any comment; for it has some times seemed better to leave the reader to make what interpreta tion he can of his own than to risk confusing and delaying his apprehension of the message of the Book as a whole. The Book of the Law has already been published without a Commentary;1 but, if it is to reach a…
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144 The Law is for All Obviously, the whole idea of exercise, mental or bodily, is to develop the involved organs in a manner physiologically and psychologically proper. It is deleterious to force any faculty to live by an alien law. When parents insist on a boy adopting a profession which he loathes, because they themselves fancy it; when Florence Nightin gale fought to open hospital windows in India at night; then the Ideal mutilates and murders. iii:60 Every organ has “no law beyond Do what thou wilt.” Its law is determined by the history o…
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46 The Law is for All 43. Do that, and no other shall say nay. Commentary: The general meaning of this verse is that so great is the power of asserting one’s right that it will not long be disputed. For by doing so one appeals to the Law. In practice it is found that people who are ready to fight for their rights are respected, and let alone. The slave-spirit invites oppression. 44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. Commentary: This verse is best interpreted by defining “pure will” as…
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12 The Law is for All one-page “Class A” inspired Comment, received by Crowley in 1925, has been added. I wish to thank my friend Oliver Marlow Wilkinson, Louis Wilkinson’s son, for his encouragement and support in seeing his father’s work completed. Thanks are also due to Jack Parsons’ widow, the late Cameron, and Scott Hobbs, executor for Cam eron and the Parsons estate, for the generous gift of the Wilkinson typescript. Thanks are due to Richard W. Gernon ix° o.T.o., who bequeathed a typescript of the commentaries to the Order on his death.…
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…rsecute Free Women and Free Men. Verbotenism has gone so far in certain slave-communities that the use of wine is actually prohibited by law!! I wish here to emphasize that the Law of Thelema definitely enjoins us, as a necessary act of religion, to “drink sweet wines and wines that foam.” Any free man or woman who resides in any community where this is verboten has a choice between two duties: insurrection and emigration. The furtive disregard of Restriction is not Freedom. It tends to make men slaves and hypocrites, and to destroy respect for…
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…s so pat, so natural, so self-justified, so evidently the unique value of the “x” of the equation, that it is impossible to quibble. The law of probabilities excludes all theories but one. The simple Truth is what I have always asserted. There is a Being called Aiwaz, an intelligence discarnate, who wrote this Book of the Law, using my ears and hand. His mind is certainly superior to my own in knowledge and in power, for He has dominated me and taught me ever since. But that apart, the proof of any discarnate intelligence, even of the lowest or…
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…other. Whatever it be, it is to be made one with you by Love. 38. He must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals. 39. The word of the Law is OeXrjpia. 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 curs…