The Law is for All

172 The Law is for All again, having flowered, and still bearing in him that Seed of Going. (The birth of a girl is a misfortune everywhere, because the true Going-Principle is the Lion-Serpent, or Dragon; the Egg is only the Cavern where he takes refuge on occasion.) Liber 418 explains this succinctly; 3rd /Ethyr: Moreover, there is Mary, a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut herself up; and therefore is she the Queen of all those wicked devils that walk upon the earth, those that thou sawest even as little black specks that stained the Heaven of Urania. And all these are the excrement of Choronzon. It is this “shutting up” that is hideous, the image of death. It is the opposite of Going, which is God. Women under Christianity are kept virgin for the market as Strasbourg geese are nailed to boards till their livers putrefy. The nature of woman has been corrupted, her hope of a soul thwarted, her proper pleasure balked, and her mind poisoned, to titillate the jaded palates of senile bankers and ambassadors. Why do men insist on “innocence” in women? 1. To flatter their vanity. 2. To give themselves the best chance of (a) escaping vene­ real disease, (b) propagating their noble selves. 3. To maintain power over their slaves by their possession of Knowledge. 4. To keep them docile as long as possible by drawing out the debauching of their innocence. A sexually pleased woman is the best of willing helpers; one who is disap­ pointed or disillusioned a very psychical eczema. 5. In primitive communities, to serve as a guard against surprise and treachery. 6. To cover their secret shame in the matter of sex. Hence the pretence that a woman is “pure,” modest, delicate, aesthetically beautiful and morally exalted, ethereal and unfleshly, though in fact they know her to be lascivious, shameless, coarse, ill-shapen, unscrupulous, nauseat- ingly bestial both physically and mentally. The adver­ tisements of “dress shields,” perfumes, cosmetics, anti­ sweat preparations, and “Beauty Treatments” reveal