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altogether, Delilah; for I shall keep my hair on. I shall go 
forth to war! From 1920 to 1923 my abode for a season was 
the house called the Horsel of the Abbey of Thelema that 
lieth 
upon 
Santa 
Barbara, overlooking 
the town of 
Telepylus-see 
Homer and Samuel Butler II, but called later 
by the Romans Cephaloedium, and now Cefalu . There did I 
toil to expand my little Part III of Book 4 to the portentous 
volume now more generally known as Magick in Theory and 
Practice. After numerous misadventures, it was published in 
1928. 
I refer you to that book, page 96. 
One last word on this subject. There is a Magical 
Operation of maximum importance: the Initiation of a 
New Aeon. When it becomes necessary to utter a Word, 
the whole Planet must be bathed in blood. Before man 
is ready to accept the Law of Thelema, the Great War 
must be fought . This Bloody Sacrifice is the critical 
paint of the World-Ceremony of the Proclamation of 
Horus, the Crowned and Conquering Child, as Lord of 
the Aeon. 2 
The whole matter is prophesied in The Book of the 
Law itself; let the student take note, and enter the ranks 
of the Host of the Sun. 
(It is a pity that I cannot prove my footnote, but this 
Chapter XII was part of the original MS, advertised as to be 
published in 1912. You may take my word for it, for once. 
And in any case we have the prophecy of Bartzabel, the 
Spirit of Mars, in the early summer of 1910 that wars 
involving the disaster of (a) Turkey and (b) Germany would 
be fought 
within 
5 years. See the New York World, 
December, 1914.) 
We now proceed to Magick, page 112. 
2. Note: This paragraph was written in the summer 1911, e.v., just three years 
before its fulfilment. Second innings '38 e.v., sqq.