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…Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX 195 Chapter I 197 Chapter II 203 Chapter III 210 AL (Liber Legis) sub figura XXXI The Comment 284 285 General Index 293 Index of Liber AL Citations 302 5
…last, his Will. Now then the one by natural, and the other by voluntary, Restriction have come each to a greater Liberty. This is also a general Law of Biology, for all Development is Structuraliza- tion; that is, a Limitation and Specialization of an originally indeterminate Protoplasm, which latter may therefore be called free, in the Definition of a Pedant. AX—DE ORDINE RERUM [38—On the Ordering of Things] In the Body every Cell is subordinated to the general physio logical Control, and we who will that Control do not ask whether each indiv…
…t can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell. Commentary: The first paragraph is a general statement or definition of Sin or Error. Anything soever that binds the will, hinders it, or diverts it, is Sin. That is, Sin is the appearance of the Dyad. Sin is impurity.1 1 One cannot say that it was “Sin” for Naught to restrict itself within the form of Two; on the contrary. But Sin is to resist the operation of the reversion to Naught. “The wages of Sin is Death” [Romans 6:23]; for Life is a cont…
…ulty in a detached way (just as one inspects one’s pistols and fires a few rounds) without expecting ever to need them again, but on the general principle that if they were wanted, one might as well feel confident of the issue. This theory of initiation is so important to every aspirant that I shall illustrate how my own ignorance bred error, and error injury. My Will was, I now know, to be The Beast, 666, a Magus, the Word of the .¿Eon, Thelema; to proclaim this new Law to mankind. My passion for personal freedom, my superiority to sexual impu…
…his verse is connected with the second only by the word “therefore.” It appears to describe an initiation, or perhaps the initiation, in general terms. I would suggest that the palace is the “Holy House” or Universe of the Initiate of the New Law. The four gates are perhaps Light, Life, Love, Liberty—see “De Lege Libellum.”1 Lapis Lazuli is a symbol of Nuit, Jasper of Hadit. The rare scents are possibly various ecstasies or samadhis. Jasmine and Rose are hieroglyphs of the two main Sacraments, while the emblems of death may refer to certain sec…
…n: Cecil Woolf, 1994). 2 Although many of the more obscure name references have been anno tated by the present editor, and translations generally given of foreign language phrases, a reader’s guide and a small classical dictionary will be useful references for some readers. By Wilkinson’s own account, he and Crowley rarely discussed Magick, but they shared a deep-seated impatience with sexual hypocrisy, and a willingness to openly defy society’s strictures. Wilkinson’s own views are lucidly set out in his introduction to this edition, and they…
…, that I have made this attempt to abridge the Commentary upon it by removing passages likely to present obstructive difficulties to the general reader, to the layman like myself. I have aimed at making an abridgement that the general reader of intelligence and good will can assimilate, and by which he will powerfully gain. But I do not pretend that he will understand this Book and make it his own without any difficulty at all; it is only charlatan works that can be so quickly and easily grasped as that. It is impossible to write rewardingly on…
General Index 301 and “love under will” 77 and necessity 54.96 and sex 42.54.56.61,128.130.133, 137 and sexual magick 67-70 harmony with will of the partner 70 conscious 41,67 doing one’s 101,102,119.124,131, 149 errors in determining the 148 expressed Qabalistically 119 free 51,185 and fate 77 of woman 173,176,177,181 hindrances to, as sin 41,92 in psychology 163 lack of, in the average man 183 magical 70 non-identity of any two wills 70 of the father, effect on child 67 of the soul 74 program for realization of 40 -41 pure 46 subconscious 66,…
…ley Cited These books and papers are cited or quoted by Crowley in the text of the abridged Commentaries to The Book of the Law; see the General Index for page references. They are listed here alphabetically or by their number in the A.’.A.’. and O.T.O. canon. Except where noted, all were written (or received) by Crowley. Parenthetical numbers refer to books in the reference lists below in which the papers appear. The descriptions in quo tations are Crowley’s, from the A.'. A.-. Curricula. “Amath, an Essay on Truth.” In (14). “Berashith.” As (…
…e text of this and the next verse were actual indications as to how to behave, so as to get the full effect of the Trance. This too is a general Magical Formula, convenient even in the Work of the physical image of the Godhead. It is of the utmost importance to resist the temptation to let oneself be carried away into trance. One should summon one’s reserve forces to react against the tendency to lose normal con sciousness. More and more of one’s being is gradually drawn into the struggle, and one only yields at the last moment. (It needs prac…
…ed an Universe; Sc nought remains. Commentary: “the Double Wand of Power” is a curious variant of the common “Wand of Double Power”; the general meaning is “I control alike the Forces of Active and Passive.” “Coph Nia”: the original ms. has “—”; left incomplete as not having been properly heard. The present text was filled in later in her own hand by the first Scarlet Woman. The Egyptian Gods are usually represented as bearing an ankh, or sandal-strap, in the left hand, the wand being in the right. This ankh signifies the power to go, character…
…n evolution, and sets forth the spiritual principles of a New Aeon. He worked for decades to interpret its meaning for initiates and the general public, but rejected commentary after commentary as inadequate. He eventually concluded that he was too close to his subject to judge the value of his own commentaries, and entrusted the task to his best friend, Louis Wilkinson. Wilkinson (who wrote under the pen-name Louis Marlow) possessed impressive literary qualifications and had the advantages of knowing Crowley well and being a layman in esoteric…
…ce. See (9.e), (9.v) and (16). 32 -------- ----. The World’s Tragedy. Paris: privately printed, 1910; 2nd ed. Phoenix: New Falcon, 1992. General 33 Arnold, Matthew. Literature and Dogma: An Essay Towards a Bet ter Apprehension of the Bible. 2nd ed., London: Macmillan, 1873. 34 Besant, Walter, and Rice, James. Ready-Money Mortiboy: A Matter- of-fact Story. London: Tinsley, 1872.
46 The Law is for All 43. Do that, and no other shall say nay. Commentary: The general meaning of this verse is that so great is the power of asserting one’s right that it will not long be disputed. For by doing so one appeals to the Law. In practice it is found that people who are ready to fight for their rights are respected, and let alone. The slave-spirit invites oppression. 44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. Commentary: This verse is best interpreted by defining “pure will” as…
…e questions, and remain in the simplicity of this Her own Book. 2. The unveiling of the company of heaven. Commentary: This explains the general theme of this revela tion: gives the Dramatis Personae, so to speak. It is, cosmographically, the conception of the two Ultimate Ideas: Space, and That which occupies Space. It will however appear later that these two ideas may be resolved into one, that of Matter; with Space, its “Condition” or “form,” included therein. This leaves the idea of “Motion” for Hadit, whose interplay with Nuit makes the U…
General Index 0=2 formula 23,30.34,41,63.88,94, 105,189 A.-.A.-, 159 grades of Adeptus Minor, 5°=6° 31,79 Exemptus Adeptus 7°=4° 100 Magister Templi 8°=3” 76.79,96 Magus 9°=2° 77,113,149,169 Abbey of Thelema 158,181 Abel 184 Abelard 116 abortion 52,177 magical 70 Abrahadabra 31,155,168,189 Abraham 180 Abramelin, oil of 164 Abrasax 24,30 Absolute 26,27,104,105,106,108 Abyss, the 89,90,95 annihilation of ego in 95 crossing of 92 Achilles 52,142 Adad 24,30 Adam 53,67 addiction 51 adepts, ancient 142 Adjustment (Atu VIII) 21,78 Adonai 30,134 Adonis…
… hysterical “crimes of passion,” sex obses sions, and puritan persecution-mania; perversion is practically unknown, and monogamy is the general custom. Even the civilized psychopaths of cities, forced into every kind of excess by the omnipresence of erotic suggestions and the contact of crazed crowds seething with suppressed sexuality, are not wholly past physic. They are no sooner released from the persistent pressure by escaping to some place where the inhab itants treat the reproductive and the respiratory organs as equally innocent than t…
…and lost, at the Battle of Santiago during the Spanish- American War.] 2 [In the Easter Rising, Irish revolutionaries briefly seized the General Post Office in Dublin. Its anniversary, April 24, is the date most revered by the Irish Republican Army.] 3 [Isaiah 50:7, paraphrase.] “Jesus” himself, in the legend, “set his face as a flint to go to Jerusalem,”3 with foreknowledge of his fate. But Christians have not emphasized that heroism since the Crusades. The sloppy sen timental Jesus of the Sunday-school is the only survivor; and the War kille…
…King’s Fifth a good or bad move in chess without study of the position, we may see more clearly what this verse implies. There is here a general instruction to refine Pleasure, not by excluding its gross elements, but by emphasizing all elements in equilibrated development. Thus one is to combine the joys of Messalina with those of Saint Teresa and Isolde in one single act. One’s rapture is to include those of Blake, Petrarch, Shelley, and Catullus. Liber Aleph has detailed instruction on numerous points involved in these questions. Why “eight …
…not try to make the sun rise by self-sacrifice, but wait in confidence for the dawn, and enjoy the pleasures of the night meanwhile. The general allusion is to the Equinox Ritual of the G.'.D.-. where the officer of the previous six months, representing Horus, took the place of the retiring Hierophant, who had represented Osiris.1 1 [See “The Temple of Solomon the King,” The Equinox 1(7) (1912), p. 372; The Equinox of the Gods (1936), p. 88; or Book 4, Parts I-IV, (rev. ed., 1994), Appendix VIII, p. 666. See Works Cited.] 2 [“Noxious” or “poiso…