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The Law is for All
casual, our minds would still insist that casuality itself was the 
effect of some cause. Our daily experience hammers home this 
conviction; and a man’s mental excellence seems to be measurable 
almost entirely in terms of the strength and depth of his apprecia­
tion thereof as the soul of the structure of the Universe. It is the 
spine of Science which has vertebrated human Knowledge above 
the slimy mollusc whose principle was Faith.
We must not suppose for an instant that The Book of the Law 
is opposed to reason. On the contrary, its own claim to authority 
rests upon reason, and nothing else. It disdains the arts of the ora­
tor. It makes reason the autocrat of the mind. But that very fact 
emphasizes that the mind should attend to its own business. It 
should not transgress its limits. It should be a perfect machine, an 
apparatus for representing the universe accurately and impartially 
to its master. The Self, its Will, and its Apprehension, should be 
utterly beyond it. Its individual peculiarities are its imperfections. 
If we identify ourselves with our thoughts or our bodily instincts, 
we are evidently pledged to partake of their partiality. We make 
ourselves items of the interaction of our own illusions.
In the following verses we shall find the practical application 
of this theorem.
29. May Because be accursed for ever!
Commentary: Distrust any explanation whatever. Disraeli 
said: Never ask anyone to dinner who has to be explained. All 
explanations are intended to cover up lies, injustices, or shames. 
The Truth is radiantly simple.
30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will 
stops & does nought.
Commentary: There is no “reason” why a Star should con­
tinue in its orbit. Let her rip! Every time the conscious acts, it 
interferes with the Subconscious, which is Hadit. It is the voice of 
man, and not of a God. Any man who “listens to reason” ceases 
to be revolutionary. The newspapers are Past Masters in the 
Lodge of Sophistry Number 333. They can always prove to you 
that it is necessary, and patriotic, and all the rest of it, that you 
should suffer intolerable wrongs.