The Law is for All

188 The Law is for All 68. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who say not so, are mere Bars. 69. There is success. Commentary: My memory tells me that the word “there” was not emphasized. Read, then, “there is” as the French il y a-, it is a simple and apparently detached statement. It was spoken casually, carelessly, as if a quite unimportant point had been forgotten, and now mentioned as a concession to my weakness. 70. I am the Hawk-Headed Lord of Silence & of Strength; my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. 71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand. Commentary: This seemed a clear statement as to the War which was to come, and did come, in 1914 E.v. Later I thought that “the pillars of the world” meant “the Pillars of Hercules”—about the Straits of Gibraltar—and that the really big war would start there. P.s. I now ask if “twin warriors” imply a civil war? The Spanish troubles started in S. Spain and Morocco.1 1 [I.e., the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s E.v.] 72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the Force of Coph Nia—but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe; Sc nought remains. Commentary: “the Double Wand of Power” is a curious variant of the common “Wand of Double Power”; the general meaning is “I control alike the Forces of Active and Passive.” “Coph Nia”: the original ms. has “—”; left incomplete as not having been properly heard. The present text was filled in later in her own hand by the first Scarlet Woman. The Egyptian Gods are usually represented as bearing an ankh, or sandal-strap, in the left hand, the wand being in the right. This ankh signifies the power to go, characteristic of a god.