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The Law is for All
The Law is for All (1996), PDF p. 45
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The Law is for All
43. Do that, and no other shall say nay.
Commentary: The general meaning of this verse is that so
great is the power of asserting one’s right that it will not long be
disputed. For by doing so one appeals to the Law. In practice it is
found that people who are ready to fight for their rights are
respected, and let alone. The slave-spirit invites oppression.
44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust
of result, is every way perfect.
Commentary: This verse is best interpreted by defining “pure
will” as the true expression of the Nature, the proper or inherent
motion of the matter, concerned. It is unnatural to aim at any
goal. The student is referred to “Liber LXV,” Cap. II, v. 24, and
to the Tao Te Ching.1 This becomes particularly important in high
grades. One is not to do Yoga, etc., in order to get samadhi, like a
schoolboy or a shopkeeper; but for its own sake, like an artist.
1 [For “Liber LXV” with Crowley’s commentary, and his translation of
the Tao Te Ching, see Works Cited.]
2 [These are definitions of “assuaged,” not “unassuaged.”]
“unassuaged” means “its edge taken off by” or “dulled by.”1 2
The pure student does not think of the result of the examination.
45. The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfect and not two; nay,
are none!
46. Nothing is a secret key of this law. Sixty-one the Jews call it;
I call it eight, eighty, four hundred & eighteen.
47. But they have the half: unite by thine art so that all
disappear.
48. My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the
Ox, and none by the Book?
49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra-
Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of
the Gods; and let Asar be with Isa, who also are one. But
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