swoon and 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 con-
cealed: 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 his
book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment
thereupon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khuit.
37. Also the mantras and spells; the obeah
and the wanga; the work of the wand and the
work of the sword: these he shall learn and
teach.
38. He must teach; but he may make severe
the ordeals.
39. The word of the law is Θελημα.
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.
Ο man!
refuse not thy wife, if she will! 0 lover, if thou
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