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The Law is for All
self-restoring Serpent, and the self-immolating Scorpion. In 
alchemy it is the principle of Putrefaction, the “Black Dragon,” 
whose state of apparent corruption is but a prelude to the 
Rainbow-coloured Spring-tide of the Man in Motley. The nymph 
of Spring, Syrinx, the trembling hollow reed which needs but 
Breath to fill the world with Music, attracts Pan, the Goat-God of 
Ecstatic Lust, by whose Work the glory of Summer is established 
anew.
It is obvious that “The length of thy longing” varies with the 
number of potentialities to be satisfied. In other words, the more 
complex the Khu of the Star, the greater the man, and the keener 
his sense of his own imperfections of the scope of his work, and of 
his need to achieve it.
75. Aye! listen to the numbers & the words:
76. 4638ABK24ALGMOR3YX24 89RPSTOV 
A L. What meaneth this, o prophet? Thou knowest not; nor 
shalt thou know ever. There cometh one to follow thee: he 
shall expound it. But remember, o chosen one, to be me; to 
follow the love of Nu in the star-lit heaven; to look forth 
upon men, to tell them this glad word.
77. O be thou proud and mighty among men!
Commentary: Pride is the quality of Sol, Tiphareth; Might of 
Mars, Geburah. Now Leo — my rising sign—combines these 
ideas, as does Ra-Hoor-Khuit. The Christian ideas of humility 
and weakness as “virtues” are natural to slaves, cowards, and 
defectives.
The type of tailless simian who finds himself a mere forked 
radish in a universe of giants clamouring for hors d'oeuvres must 
take refuge from Reality in Freudian phantasies of “God.” He 
winces at the touch of Truth; and shivers at his nakedness in 
Nature.
He therefore invents a cult of fear and shame, and makes it 
presumption and blasphemy to possess courage and self-respect. 
He burrows in the slime of “Reverence and godly fear,” and 
makes himself houses of his own excrement, like the earthworm