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…th to sunder every knot at a touch. As the practical ethics of the Law, I have formulated in words of one syllable my declaration of the RIGHTS OF MAN Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. There is no god but Man. Man has the right to live by his own law. Man has the right to live in the way that he wills to do. Man has the right to dress as he wills to do. Man has the right to dwell where he wills to dwell. Man has the right to move as he will on the face of the Earth. Man has the right to eat what he will. Man has the right to drin…
1996 · PDF PAGE 188
…e Wand,” in the other “naught.” This seems to refer to the “none and two” ontology outlined in previous notes. 73. Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold! 74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. 75. The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra. The Book of the Law is Written and Concealed. Aum. Ha.
1996 · PDF PAGE 44
Chapter I * Verses 41-42 45 42. Let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing. So with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will. Commentary: “manyhood bound and loathing.” An orga nized state is a free association for the common weal. My personal will to cross the Atlantic, for example, is made effective by cooperation with others on agreed terms. But the forced asso ciation of slaves is another thing. A man who is not doing his will is like a man with cancer, an independent growth in him, yet one from which he cannot get free. Th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 49
… the Stars. “as ye will”. It should be abundantly clear from the foregoing remarks that each individual has an absolute and indefeasible right to use his sexual vehicle in accordance with its own proper character, and that he is responsible only to himself. But he should not injure himself and his right aforesaid; acts invasive of another individual’s equal rights are implicitly self-aggressions. A thief can hardly complain on theoretical grounds if he is himself robbed.
1996 · PDF PAGE 36
…f ye all. Commentary: It is proper to obey The Beast, because His Law is pure Freedom, and He will give no command which is other than a Right Interpretation of this Freedom. But it is neces sary for the development of Freedom itself to have an organiza tion; and every organization must have a highly-centralized control. This is especially necessary in time of war, as even the so- called “democratic” nations have been taught by Experience, since they would not learn from Germany. Now this age is pre eminently a “time of war,” most of all now…
1996 · PDF PAGE 132
…that we should make proper contact with all, for love means union; and the proper condition of union is determined by will. Consider the right attitude to adopt in the matter of cholera. One should love it, that is, study it intimately; not otherwise can one be sure of maintaining the right relation with it, which is, not to allow it to interfere with one’s will to live. (And almost everything that is true of Cholera is true of Christians.)1 1 [See Crowley’s discussion of verses 59-60 in his commentary to ch. II, v. 24, p. 114.] 2 [Possibly the…
1996 · PDF PAGE 116
…is mind. 28. Now a curse upon Because and his kin! Commentary: This is against these Intellectuals aforesaid. There are no “standards of Right.” Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its orbit. To hell with “moral principle”; there is no such thing; that is a herd-delusion, and makes men cattle. Do not listen to the rational explanation of How Right It All Is, in the newspapers. We may moreover consider “Because” as involving the idea of causality, and therefore of duality. If cause and effect are really inseparable, as they must be by def…
1996 · PDF PAGE 42
Chapter I A Verse 41 43 reason why she should not be the ideal hausfrau, if that chance to be her will. But society has no right to insist upon that standard. It was, for practical reasons, almost necessary to set up such tabus in small communities, savage tribes, where the wife was nothing but a general servant, where the safety of the people depended upon a high birth-rate. But today woman is economically inde pendent, becomes more so every year. The result is that she instantly asserts her right to have as many or as few men or babies as sh…
1996 · PDF PAGE 68
…be driven beyond range of malice. These points are obvious enough, if applied to the ordinary affair of breeding children. One needs the right woman, and the right conditions for her. It applies even more closely to other acts, for woman is pro tected by generations of biological adaptation, whereas spiritual children are more easily diseased and deformed, being of subtler and more sensitive matter. So infinitely varied are the possibilities of creation that each adept must work out each problem for him self as best he can. There are magical …
1996 · PDF PAGE 56
… When I knew him he had 18 children living, and two more were born during that period. It was evidently his view that he had an absolute Right to impregnate his wife, and that it was her business whether she lived or died. During all these years she was no sooner well enough to leave her bed than she was again “in the family way.” Thus in 25 years, she was never permitted so much as a month’s good health. This Mr. W. was a most kindly and genial man, devoted to her and his family, genuinely pious and tender hearted. But it never occurred to hi…
1996 · PDF PAGE 172
… absolute, original, inde pendent, free, self-justified, exactly as a man is. We dare not thwart Her Going, Goddess she! We arrogate no right upon Her will; we claim not to deflect Her development, to dispose of Her desires, or to determine Her destiny. She is Her own sole arbiter; we ask no more than to supply our strength to Her, whose natural weakness else were prey to the world’s pres sure. Nay more, it were too zealous even to guard Her in Her Going; for She were best by Her own self-reliance to win Her own way forth! We do not want Her …
1996 · PDF PAGE 217
…the wand of the Force of Coph Nia—but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe; & nought remains. 73. Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold! 74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. 75. The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra. The Book of the Law is Written and Concealed. Aum. Ha.
1996 · PDF PAGE 77
78 The Law is for All Pageant of Triumph as each Star, free from Confusion, sweepeth free in its right Orbit; all Heaven acclaimeth thee as thou goest, transcendental in Joy and in Splendour; and thy Light is as a Beacon to them that Wander afar, strayed in the Night. Amount The “old comment” covers the rest of this verse sufficiently for the present purpose.2 I see no harm in revealing the mystery of tzaddi to “the wise”; others will hardly understand my explanations. Tzaddi [H] is the letter of “The Emperor,” the Trump IV, and he [H] is “The …
1996 · PDF PAGE 138
…to oneself that the skill is there. One might even find it advisable to practice it occasionally, to retain one’s confidence that one’s “right hand hath not lost its cunning.”1 2 On this point hear furthermore our Holy Books: 1 [Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), author of La physiologie du gout (1825).] 2 [See Psalms 137:5.] 3 “Liber LXV,” 1:45-46. 45. Go thou unto the outermost places and subdue all things. 46. Subdue thy fear and thy disgust. Then— yield!3 * 7. Moreover I beheld a vision of a river. There was a little boat thereon; and in…
1996 · PDF PAGE 187
…st 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, characteristic of a god.
1996 · PDF PAGE 45
… 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 the true expression …
1996 · PDF PAGE 75
…ragraph is perhaps in answer to some unspoken thought of my own that my work was accomplished. No: though I be “of the princes” with the right to enter into my reward, it is my destiny to continue my Work.1 1 “assuage thee”: satisfy thine aspiration to attainment, “absolve thee”: relieve thee from further duty. 54. Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein. Commentary: The subject changes most abruptly, perhaps answering some unspoken comment of the scribe on th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 50
…, homosexual practices between boys may in certain cases actually rob them of their virility, psychically or even physically. Trying to frighten adolescents about sex by the bogeys of Hell, Disease, and Insanity, may warp the moral nature permanently, and produce hypochondria or other mental maladies, with per versions of the enervated and thwarted instinct. Repression of the natural satisfaction may result in addiction to secret and dangerous vices which destroy their victim because they are artificial and unnatural aberrations. Such moral cr…
1996 · PDF PAGE 122
…o wheedle us away from seeking reality—unless we follow it up by action. Only then do we become fully aware of ourselves, and enter into right reaction with the world in which we live. 35. Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy & beauty! Commentary: A ritual is not a melancholy formality; it is a Sacrament, a Dance, a Commemoration of the Universe. The Uni verse is endless rapture, wild and unconfined, a mad passion of speed. Astronomers tell us this of the Great Republic of the Stars; physicists say the same of the Little Republic of M…
1996 · PDF PAGE 180
…nd won! 57. Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers who dare not fight, but play; all fools despise! Commentary: To fight is the right and duty of every male, as of every woman to rejoice in his strength and to honour and per petuate it by her love. My primary objection to Christianity is “gentle Jesus, meek and mild,” the pacifist, the conscientious objector, the Tolstoyan, the “passive resister.” When the Kaiser fled, and the Germans surrendered their fleet, they abandoned Nietzsche for Jesus. Rozhdestvenskii and Cervera took their f…