Chapter I a Verses 54—57
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Temple. So I could not properly understand this Book; how then 
could I effectively promulgate it? I comprehended but dimly that 
it contained my Word; for the Grade of Magus then seemed to me 
unthinkably high above me. Also, let me say that the True Secrets 
of this Grade are unfathomable and awful beyond all expression;1 
the process of initiation thereto was continuous over years, and 
contained the most sublime mystic experiences—beyond any yet 
recorded by man—as mere incidents in its terrific Pageant.
1 [This is treated of in “Liber I vel Magi”; see Works Cited.]
The “equation” is the representation of Truth by Word.
57. Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under will. 
Nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. 
There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! 
He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the 
fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God.
All these old letters of my Book are aright; but li is not 
the Star. This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the 
wise.
Commentary: “Love is the law, love under will” is an inter­
pretation of the general law of Will. It is dealt with fully in the 
Book Aleph.
I here insert a pertinent passage from that Book.
[EX — De Harmonia Voluntatis et Parcarum 
142—On the Harmony of Will and Fate]
This is the evident and final Solvent of the Knot Philosophical 
concerning Fate and Freewill, that it is thine own Self, omni­
scient and omnipotent, sublime in Eternity, that first didst 
order the Course of thine own Orbit, so that that which 
befalleth thee by Fate is indeed the necessary Effect of thine 
own Will. These two, then, that like Gladiators have made 
War in Philosophy through these many Centuries, art made 
One by the Love under Will which is the Law of Thelema. O 
my Son, there is no Doubt that resolveth not in Certainty and 
Rapture at the Touch of the Wand of our Law, an thou apply 
it with Wit. Do thou grow constantly in the Assimilation of 
the Law, and thou shalt be made perfect. Behold, there is a