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(The exact period between these two initiations was predicted during the former; of course, in 
symbolic language, whose meaning appeared only on fulfilment.) 
By thus accepting the Grade of Magus I had incurred certain responsibilities. Previously, I had taken 
the attitude that, while The Book of the Law had been given to the world through me, and though I 
was ineluctably bound thereby, I could stand aloof to some extent. I could consider myself as a 
Magician pledged to the Law, accepting it and working by its formula: but not identified with its 
promulgation to the exclusion of all other aims. 
My formal attainment of the Grade involved my identifying myself with the word Thelema. My 
personality must be completely merged in it. On realizing this I realized also how carefully I had 
avoided compromising myself in this respect. I had never openly proclaimed the Law in the first 
person, as one might say, either in speech or writing. 
Accordingly, when (on arrival at San Francisco) I found myself invited to address a semi-public 
gathering, I began my speech with the words, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law", 
and proceeded as best I could to explain their import. 
Again, on the last day of the year, whose midnight I habitually devote to a meditation on the past, 
culminating in a formulation of my future career, I was moved to write what was shortly afterwards 
published first as a pamphlet in England, secondly as an article in the International, New York, 
thirdly in The Equinox, vol. III, no. i, and fourthly as a pamphlet in Australia by Frater Ahah.1 In this 
I summarized shortly the events which had led to my attainment of the Grade, and explained that I 
was thereby committed to an irrevocable and absolute identification of myself with my office as the 
Logos of the Aeon of Horus. For the future my whole essence must be 
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1. G.H. Frater AHAH 6° = 5 ř R.R. et A. C. is the humblest and simplest of 
the Brethren of the Order. He has worked with his hands since he was 
nine years old and he understands and loves the Law and its Logos as a 
child does its mother and father. He has my respect and affection as no 
other of my Brethren: for he represents to me mankind incarnate at its 
weakest (and therefore strongest) and noblest (and therefore most 
"common"). He is, in a word, that "Man" of whom I am, being 666 )the 
number of a man) and whom I love and serve. An illuminating incident: 
he cannot spell, but under inspiration writes as none has ever done save 
one --- John Bunyan!  
conterminous with that of the word, and my dynamical formula with that of its utterance. 
I continued by setting forth the import and purport of that word. I announced that since "Every man 
and every woman is a star.", each of us is defined and determined by a set of co-ordinates, has a 
true will proper and necessary, the dynamic expression of that nature. The conclusion from these 
premises is that the sole and whole duty of each of us is, having discovered the purpose for which 
he or she is fitted, to devote every energy to its accomplishment. 
It need hardly be said that the theory of ethics thus outlined involves the consideration of many 
difficult and important problems. I did not understand at that time the extent of the implication 
and have devoted immense labour in recent years to the solution of the theorems which are 
corollary to the fundamental proposition. It must suffice for the present to record the writing of this 
message. The act was the ceremonial gesture significant of my attainment: as one may say, the 
King's speech at the opening of the Parliament of the New Aeon. 
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