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The Law is for All
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reader’s attention to one of the most striking indications of the 
validity of these communications: the Commentary on verse nine­
teen of the third Chapter.1
1 [See pp. 157-161 below.]
2 [Crowley considered the number 31 to yield three keys to Liber Legis: 
the word al (a =1, l = 30; Heb. bx, “god”), la (Heb. xb, “not”), and 
a third key involving the formula shT = ©. 93 is the numeration of 
thelema (Grk. deXrjgia, “will”) and agape (Grk. ayairr], “love”), as well 
as the name Aiwaz in Hebrew (FTP). See Crowley, Book 4, Parts I-IV, 
rev. ed., passim.]
One of the first and most important points to be noted is that 
the whole Book of the Law rests upon a mathematical basis. It 
makes no partial appeal; it does not depend upon religious theory 
or racial tradition. One who knows far more than I do both of 
mathematics and of mysticism has thrown a clearer light than I 
could upon the evidence of the preternatural character of this 
Book. He writes:
The Qabalists conceal the value of it in the name of alhim, 
which is God considered as the cooperative forces of Nature, 
and by taking the significant figure in the conventional value 
of these letters you obtain the number 3.1415. But this is 
incorrect. In The Book of the Law (ch. 3, v. 47) “this circle 
squared in its failure is a key also.” By “in its failure” is 
implied, as Aiwaz knew, that the figures were not fully cor­
rect. But in the concealed collocation of letters on that page is 
found the figure 3.141593, which is the correct value of tt to 
six places of decimals. (This figure is obtained by taking the 
Hebrew values of the letters crossed by a line slashed diago­
nally across the page in the original manuscript.)
It will be noted that this figure begins with 31—the secret 
“Key of it all”—and ends with 93, the esoteric key of the 
whole Book.2 The squaring of the circle is an age-long tradi­
tional symbol of the accomplishment of the Great Work.
It may be added that from this starting-point many other 
Qabalistic mysteries are to be found—so numerous and so 
significant that no human mind such as we know could pos­
sibly have woven the whole series into this Book, which was 
dictated and scribbled at lightning speed.