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The Law is for All
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who “bowed humbly to the Authority of” the Pope, or 
the Bible, or the Sanhedrin, or the Oracle of Apollo, or 
the tribal Medicine-Man, nonetheless expressed truly 
his own Wish to abdicate responsibility.
In the light of this Book, we now know that the centre is 
everywhere, the circumference nowhere; that “Every man and 
every woman is a star”, a “Khabs,” the name of the house of 
Hadit; that “The word of Sin is Restriction.” To us, then, “evil” is 
a relative term; it is “that which hinders one from fulfilling his 
true Will.” (E.g., rain is “good” or “bad” for the farmer accord­
ing to the requirements of his crops.)
The Osirian Rituals inculcating self-sacrifice to an abstract 
ideal, mutilation to appease an ex cathedra' morality, fidelity to a 
priori formulas, etc., teach false and futile methods of acquiring 
false Knowledge; they must be “cast away” or “purged”. The 
Schools of Initiation must be reformed.
6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the 
core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet 
therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death.
Commentary: It follows that, as Hadit can never be known, 
there is no death. The death of the individual is his awakening to 
the impersonal immortality of Hadit. This applies less to physical 
death than to the Crossing of the Abyss; for which see Liber 418, 
Fourteenth /Ethyr. One may attain to be aware that one is but a 
particular “child” of the Play of Hadit and Nuit; one’s personality 
is then perceived as being a disguise. It is not only not a living 
thing, as one had thought; but a mere symbol without substance, 
incapable of life. It is the conventional form of a certain cluster of 
thoughts, themselves the partial and hieroglyphic symbols of an 
“ego.” The conscious and sensible “man” is to his Self just what 
the printed letters on this page are to me who have caused them to 
manifest in colour and form. They are arbitrary devices for 
conveying my thought; I could use French or Greek just as well.
1 [Lat., “from the chair,” i.e., authoritarian.]