hâve been hitherto inaccessible to profane research, and available 
only to that unscientific and empirical 
MAGICK 
(of tradition) which I came to destroy in order that I might fulfil. 
I send this book into the world that every man and woman may 
take hold of life in the proper manner. It does not matter if 
one’s présent house of flesh be the hut of a shepherd; by virtue 
of my 
MAGICK 
he shall be such a shepherd as David was. If it be the studio of a 
sculptor, he shall so chisel from himself the marble that masks his 
idea that he shall be no less a master than Rodin. 
Witness mine hand : 
TO META 0HPION (nnn) • The Beast 666; MAGUS 9°=2° 
A.*. A.*, who is The Word of the Aeon THELEMA; 
whose name is called V.V.V.V.V. 8° = 30 A.*. A.-, in the City of 
the Pyramids; OU MH 70 = 40; OL SONUF VAORESAGI 
6° = 50, and . 50 = 6° A.\ A.*, in the Mountain of 
Abiegnus: but FRATER PERDURABO in the Outer Order or 
the A.'. A.*, and in the World of men upon the Earth, Aleister 
Crowley of Trinity College, Cambridge. 
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