The Third Chapter
1. Abrahadabra; the reward of Ra Hoor Khut.
2. There is division hither homeward; there is a word not 
known. Spelling is defunct; all is not aught. Beware! Hold! 
Raise the spell of Ra-Hoor-Khuit!
3. Now let it be first understood that I am a god of War and of 
Vengeance. I shall deal hardly with them.
Commentary: 
The God of Vengeance is in Greek O
AAAZTQP, Aleister. For some reason which I have not been able to 
trace, this God became Alastor, the Desert Daemon of the 
Rabbins, then later the “Spirit of Solitude” of Shelley.1 The attri­
bution is appropriate enough, the root being apparently AAAO- 
MAI, “I wander.” The idea of “Going” is dreadful to the 
bourgeois, so that a wanderer is “accursed.” But, me judice,1 2 to 
settle down in life is to abandon the heroic attitude; it is to acqui­
esce in the stagnation of the brain. I do not want to be comfort­
able, or even to prolong life; I prefer to move constantly from 
galaxy to galaxy, from one incarnation to another. Such is my inti­
mate individual Will. It seems as thou this “god of War and of 
Vengeance” is then merely one who shall cause men to do their 
own Wills by Going as Gods do, instead of trying to check the 
irresistible course of Nature.
1 [See Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude (1816).]
2 [Lat., “in my opinion.”]
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