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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