The Law is for All

170 The Law is for All superstitious and false as Christianity, a faith of slaves, liars and dastards. The same remarks apply roughly to Buddhism. “Mongol”: presumably the reference is to Confucianism, whose metaphysical and ethical flawlessness has not saved its adherents from losing those ruder virtues which are proper to a Fighting Animal, and thus yielding at last a civilization coeval with history itself to the barbarous tribes of Europe. “Din” — “severity” or “judgment”—may refer to the Jewish Law, rather than to the Faith (al-din)1 of Islam. Assuming this, the six1 2 religions whose flesh must be torn out cover the whole globe outside Islam and Christianity. 1 [Din means religion in Arabic, in the sense of the obligation “reason­ ing” creatures have to God, with a sense of a debt to be discharged.] 2 [Four, not six, in the context of Crowley’s present discussion.] 3 [Crowley’s usual authority for etymology was Walter Skeat, who gives *mer (not *mr) as the “Indogermanic” (Indoeuropean) root underly­ ing death-words, giving as an example the Sanskrit mr-ta. Skeat was actually skeptical of a connection between death and sea, deriving the latter from the Teutonic root *mari (in “modern” Indoeuropean, *mori). Cf. Skeat, Etymological Dictionary; see Works Cited.] 4 [“Soror Achitha’s Vision” (c. 1918 E.v.), probably not extant; much of a related paper, “Liber 729, The Amalantrah Working,” survives.] Why assault their flesh rather than their eyes, as in the other cases? Because the metaphysics, or point of view, is correct — I take Judaism as Qabalistic — but the practice imperfect. 54. Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your crapulous creeds. Commentary: By sound Bahlasti suggests “hurling” or “blasting”; Ompehda is not too fantastically onomatopoetic for “an explosion.” 55. Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you! Commentary: The name Mary is connected with Mara, mors, etc., from the Sanskrit *mr, “to slay”; and with mare, “the Sea,” whose water opposes the Fire of Horus.3 I here quote a passage from “Liber XCVH”4 which deals with this fully.