CONCERNING THE LAW OF THELEMA
(I say) feel themselves immediately to be kings and queens.
“Every man and every woman is a star” is the first state-
ment in the Book of the Law. In the pamphlet, “The Law
of Liberty,” this theme is embroidered with considerable
care, and I will not trouble you with further quotation.
You will say swiftly that the heavenly state of mind thus
induced will be hard put to it to endure hunger and cold. The
thought occurred also to our founder, and I will endeavour
to put before you the skeleton of his plan to avert such mis-
fortune (or at least such ordeal) from his adherents.
In the first place he availed himself of a certain organiza-
tion of which he was offered the control, namely, the O.T.O.
This great Order accepted the Law immediately, and was
justified by the sudden and great revival of its activities.
The Law was given to our founder twelve years ago; the
O.T.O. came into his hands eight years later, in the vulgar
year 1912. It must not be supposed that he was idle during
the former period; but he was very young, and had no idea
of taking practical measures to extend the Dominion of the
Law: he pursued his studies.
However, with the sudden growth of the O.T.O. from
1912 E.V. onward, he began to perceive a method of putting
the Law into general practice, of making it possible for men
and women to live in accordance with the precepts laid down
in the Book of the Law, and to accomplish their wills; I do
not say to gratify their passing fancies, but to do that for
which they were intended by their own high destiny. For in
this universe, since it is in equilibrium and the sum total of
its energies is therefore zero, every force therein is equal and
opposite to the resultant of all the other forces combined.
The Ego is therefore always exactly equal to the Non-Ego,
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