The Law is for All

Introduction In this Commentary on the Book of the Law it is told how the Book came to be written; or, rather, communicated to the man who wrote it down. There is a Being called Aiwaz, an intelligence discarnate, who wrote this Book of the Law, using my ears and hand. His mind is certainly superior to my own in knowledge and in power, for He has dominated me and taught me ever since.1 1 [Crowley, Commentary to AL 111:19, p. 161 below.] 2 [Quotations from Liber Legis are cited by chapter and verse in the margins throughout this edition, except when occurring in that section of the Commentary where the verse quoted is the subject.] But the writer from this dictation was not, at the time, in sympathy with this “intelligence.” Aiwaz, in fact, was dictating to a hostile scribe; to one who was forced to write against his will. “I see thee hate the hand & the pen; but I am stronger.”1 2 To the scribe this experience is the surest and the most significant reality in his life. I am myself persuaded that there are intelligences and powers not normally accessible to any of the senses, and that in the last hundred years such forms of energy have been discovered, or re­ discovered. Study of the text of this Book has confirmed my belief that in certain rare circumstances communication between such intelligences and human beings is possible. The same study may well lead others to the same conclusion. I would direct the 11:11 13