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1937 · PDF PAGE 3

Scientific Solution of the Problem of Government

THEOREM. The scientific solution of the problem of Government is given in A L (Liber Legis). This Law supersedes all the empirical theories hitherto current. QUOTATION. CHAPTER I. 2. Every man and every woman is a star. 10. Let my servants be few and secret: they shall rule the many and the known. 40. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 41. The word of Sin is Restriction. 42. 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, i…

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1937 · PDF PAGE 5

Scientific Solution of the Problem of Government

…g. In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying. 3. This desperate resort to archaic weapons is the heritage of hypocrisy. The theories of Divine Right, aristocratic superiority, the moral order of Nature, are all to-day exploded bluffs. Even those of us who believe in supernatural sanctions for our privileges to browbeat and rob the people no longer delude ourselves with the thought that our victims share our superstitions. 4. Even dictators understand this. Mussolini has tried to induce the ghost of Ancient Rome to strut the stage i…

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