Magick Without Tears

48 Morals of Liber AL Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. No man alive can appreciate better than myself the difficulties connected with The Book of the Law. You ask me, if I have rightly analysed your somewhat complicated series of questions, to advise you as to your attitude towards that Book. To begin: the Author is quite certainly both more than human , and other than human. His main aim seems to me to announce the Magical Formula of the Aeon of Horus, and to lay down the fundamental principles of conduct that are consistent with it. I put this first, because your troubles belong to this part of the Book. But let me sort out the principal parts of it. I. There is a system of the most su blime philosophy which stands altogether apart from any Aeon, or from any other limited condition . 2. There is a considerable proportion of the contents which appears to refer to "The Beast" and "The Scarlet Woman" personally ; but these titles may be assumed to refer to anyone who happens to hold either of those offices during the whole period of the Aeon- approximately 2000 years. 3. The sex morality of the Book is not very different from that maintained secretly by aristocrats since the world began. 302