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The Law is for All
The second paragraph is perhaps in answer to some unspoken 
thought of my own that my work was accomplished. No: though 
I be “of the princes” with the right to enter into my reward, it is 
my destiny to continue my Work.1
1 “assuage thee”: satisfy thine aspiration to attainment, “absolve thee”: 
relieve thee from further duty.
54. Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, 
o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden 
therein.
Commentary: The subject changes most abruptly, perhaps 
answering some unspoken comment of the scribe on the capital 
1:53 T’s in “To me”.
This injunction was most necessary, for had I been left to 
myself, I should have wanted to edit the Book ruthlessly. I find in 
it what I consider faults of style, and even of grammar; much of 
the matter was at the time of writing most antipathetic. But the 
Book proved itself greater than the scribe; again and again have 
the “mistakes” proved themselves to be devices for transmitting a 
Wisdom beyond the scope of ordinary language.
55. The child of thy bowels, he shall behold them.
56. Expect him not from the East, nor from the West; for from 
no expected house cometh that child. Aum! All words are 
sacred and all prophets true; save only that they understand 
a little; solve the first half of the equation, leave the second 
unattacked. But thou hast all in the clear light, and some, 
though not all, in the dark.
Commentary: All previous systems have been sectarian, 
based on a traditional cosmography both gross and incorrect. 
Our system is based on absolute science and philosophy. We have 
“all in the clear light,” that of Reason, because our Mysticism is 
based on an absolute Scepticism. But at the time of this writing I 
had very little mystic experience indeed, as my record shows. The 
fact is that I was far, far from the Grade even of Master of the