Chapter III a Verses 4-19
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17. Fear not at all; fear neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor 
anything. Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor 
any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the 
earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am the 
strength, force, vigour, of your arms.
18. Mercy let be off: damn them who pity! Kill and torture; 
spare not; be upon them!
Commentary: An end to the humanitarian mawkishness 
which is destroying the human race by the deliberate artificial 
protection of the unfit.
What has been the net result of our fine “Christian” phrases? 
In the good old days there was some sort of natural selection; 
brains and stamina were necessary to survival. The race, as such, 
consequently improved. But we thought we knew oh! so much 
better, and we had “Christ’s law” and other slush. So the unfit 
crowded and contaminated the fit, until Earth herself grew nause­
ated with the mess. We had not only a war which killed some 
eight million men, in the flower of their age, picked men at that, 
in four years, but a pestilence which killed six million in six 
months.
Are we going to repeat the insanity? Should we not rather 
breed humanity for quality by killing off any tainted stock, as we 
do with other cattle, and exterminating the vermin which infect 
it?
19. That stele they shall call the Abomination of Desolation; 
count well its name, & it shall be to you as 718.
Commentary: The reference appears to be to the old prophe­
cies of Daniel and John.1 The first Qabalistic allusion is yet (An. 
xiv, O in VS [Dec.-Jan., 1918-19 e.v.]) undiscovered.
1 [Crowley probably meant Matthew 24:15 or Mark 13:14, as this ref­
erence does not occur in John; see also Daniel 8:13, 11:31 and 12:11.]
An. xvii, O in [Sept.-Oct., 1921 E.v.]. I think it proper 
to insert here the account of the true meaning of this verse.