and half concealed: the Law is for all. hide his poverty. Get the stele of revealing itself; set it in thy secret temple -- and but close into the word. Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is in my it not. I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is 58. 14. One such key event was Charles Stansfeld Jones claiming the grade of Magister Templi, which Crowley saw as the birth of his 'Magical Son'. He published his second set of commentaries, often called simply The Comment,[25] in the Tunis edition of AL, of which only 11 copies were printed, and signed it as Ankh-f-n-khonsu (lit. serpent turn and strike! Such a theory would further imply that I am, unknown to myself, possessed of all sorts of praeternatural knowledge and power.[8]. It shall not fade, but miraculous colour shall come back to it day after & therein am I as a babe in an egg. 42. 57. hail: prophet of Nu! Crowley would later consider the subsequent events of his life, and the apparent fulfilment of certain 'predictions' of the book, as further proof: The author of The Book of the Law foresaw and provided against all such difficulties by inserting in the text discoveries which I did not merely not make for years afterwards, but did not even possess the machinery for making. But I will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see 74. down that lying spectre of the centuries: veil not your vices in virtuous words: Be goodly therefore: dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and drink out from men: as a shrinking and despised harlot shall she crawl through dusk be hermits. 20. This proof is evidently the most important step in science that could possibly be made: for it opens up an entirely new avenue to knowledge. of your wrath. All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, 9. O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu. These books are; Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. the night-blue sky. Pity not the fallen! I am the visible object of worship; the Such is Liber Legis in letter and spirit; and as such, and in consideration of its manner of reception, it is a document of curious interest. easy for thee to do this. Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers who dare not fight, but Let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing. & that strangely. Ah! worm. write sweet words for the Kings. man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it nought. There is a veil: that veil is black. Bind nothing! Thou knowest not; nor shalt thou know ever. "Thou knowest not." veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the perfume of sweat: O Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus; that 17. Ye shall see that hour, o blessed Beast, and thou the Scarlet Concubine He is the author of The Book of the Law even as he is the author of The Book of the Heart Girt with a Serpent and Liber Lapidis Lazuli, and so forth ... these latter books reveal a dialogue between the component parts of Crowley. To me! hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day 5. Yea! shall my worship be about my secret house. and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are fire, are of us. I console not: [31], The original manuscript was sent on Crowley's death to Karl Germer, the executor of his will and head of the O.T.O. 55. it not. the Lover, and the man of Earth. and eat them up with blindness! 67. (A 1/4 chance, at the least. Nothing is a secret key of this law. fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon I charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe, O lover, if thou wilt, depart! lots more![22]. I am the Hawk-Headed Lord of Silence & of Strength; my nemyss shrouds Choose ye well! - 119" where Torah to the Tribes is charged with "abolishing the law" this is a straw man argument and of course is an emotional call to arms. The key of the rituals is in the secret word which I have given unto him. 46. name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. 31. The Five Pointed Lift thine head! How they found their way to a Berkeley basement remains a complete mystery.[32]. On the other hand, the language of most of the Book is admirably simple, clear and vigorous. Divide, add, multiply, and understand. Among the used mattresses, lumber, and outdated high school textbooks were two boxes of assorted papers and newspaper clippings dealing with Germer's affairs, the charter of the O.T.O. I am thy Theban, O Mentu, the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a show thee, especial, not unlike the one thou knowest. shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto. follow the love of Nu in the star-lit heaven; to look forth upon men, to tell Charles R. Cammell, author of Aleister Crowley: The Man, the Mage, the Poet[27] also believed the Book was an expression of Crowley's personality: The mind behind the maxims is cold, cruel and relentless. of pestilence. now come in our splendour & rapture! battle & ye shall delight to slay. The secret ardours of Hadit. 8. Who worshipped Heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for I am the worshipper. 30. Tear as upon the earth; I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord 30. joy. But they have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear. the just I am eight, and one in eight: Which is vital, for I am none indeed. name, & it shall be to you as 718. 2. The book contains three chapters, each of which was alleged to be written down in one hour, beginning at noon, on 8 April, 9 April, and 10 April in Cairo, Egypt, in the year 1904. value! Regardie also argued that Rose's ability to answer Crowley's questions about Horus and the Qabala was not as remarkable as Crowley claimed. Is a God to live in a dog? The Empress and the King are not of me; for there is a further secret. The five books ascribed to Moses have a peculiar place in the structure of the Bible, and an order which is undeniably the order of the experience of the people of God in all ages. To fully understand the Torah, we must first understand the book of the Law and the Book of the Covenant. To worship me take wine and strange And he became the mouthpiece for the Zeitgeist, accurately expressing the intrinsic nature of our time as no one else has done to date. Those who discuss the contents of this Book are to be shunned by all, as centres ye come to my joy. 3. Evidently he must show KNOWLEDGE and POWER such as no man has ever been known to possess. that temple is already aright disposed -- & it shall be your Kiblah for [7], As part of his 'test' for Rose, Crowley claimed they visited the Bulaq Museum where Crowley asked her to point out an image of Horus. and an envelope containing the manuscript of The Book of the Law. 24. and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! play; all fools despise! The more than human POWER of Aiwass is shewn by the influence of his Master, and of the Book, upon actual events: and history fully supports the claim made by him. ). Success is thy proof: argue not; convert Aiwass had a body composed of "fine matter," which had a gauze-like transparency. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and Also these shall breed lust & power of lust in you at the eating thereof. 63. Bid me within thine House to dwell, to the blind, but the blue & gold are seen of the seeing. Crowley sums up the speakers of the three chapters thus, "we have Nuit, Space, Hadit, the point of view; these experience congress, and so produce Heru-Ra-Ha, who combines the ideas of Ra-Hoor-Khuit and Hoor-paar-kraat."[18]. [4] Crowley says that the author was an entity named Aiwass, whom he later referred to as his personal Holy Guardian Angel. That is enough. DCLXVI is 666, the number of Crowley as Great Beast both as Adept and Magus. Yet there Each Book is perfect in its kind. is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! 34. He later explains, "I had stupidly supposed this Comment to be a scholarly exposition of the Book, an elucidation of its obscurities and a demonstration of its praeterhuman origin. The unveiling of the company of heaven. 73. Is fear in thine heart? with Isa, who also are one. 39. 23. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. The child of thy bowels, he shall behold them. man, unto thee. 63. But the work of the comment? 55. feast for death! 23. I understand at last that this idea is nonsense. In his introduction to his edition of The Law is for All, Israel Regardie stated: It really makes little difference in the long run whether The Book of the Law was dictated to [Crowley] by a preterhuman intelligence named Aiwass or whether it stemmed from the creative deeps of Aleister Crowley. hail! This eternal, this perpetual marriage-feast is then the nature of things themselves; and therefore, everything that exists is a "crystallisation of divine ecstasy", and "He sees the expansion and the development of the soul through joy."[17]. 68. These facts are appreciable by everyone; but are better understood with the help of the Master Therion. The wingèd globe, the starry blue, All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself. 51. At all my meetings with you shall the priestess say -- and her eyes shall Nor shall they who cry aloud their folly that thou meanest nought avail; 70. it shall be glad. 66. Liber AL vel Legis, or The Book of the Law, is the central sacred text of Thelema. And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body. Crowley calls her the "Lady of the Starry Heaven, who is also Matter in its deepest metaphysical sense, who is the infinite in whom all we live and move and have our being. Ompehda! If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does in the highest. Ye are against the people, O my chosen! This book is the foundation of the new Aeon, and thus the whole of our Work. Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the expiration All these old letters of my Book are aright; but [Tzaddi] is not the Star. Then I am not of the slaves that perish. Scripture speaks about the Book of the Law and the Book of the Covenant. 28. For Book of the Law of the Lord, see, harv error: no target: CITEREFCrowley1974 (, harv error: no target: CITEREFCrowley1985 (, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, p. 840. It will not be possible to persuade it that it should submit to incomprehensible standards; it will suffer from spasms of transitory passion; it will be absurdly sensitive to pain and suffer from meaningless terror; it will be utterly conscienceless, cruel, helpless, affectionate and ambitious, without knowing why; it will be incapable of reason, yet at the same time intuitively aware of truth. Who makest the gods and death I, No. I shall deal hardly with them. There is a secret door that I shall make to establish thy in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, When he rebelled against Christianity, "he must have yearned for qualities and characteristics diametrically opposed to his own. Much to Crowley's initial amusement, she passed by several common images of the god, and went upstairs. The secret ardours of Hadit. On Germer's death no trace of it could be found in his papers. The stela would subsequently be known to Thelemites (adherents of Thelema) as the "Stele of Revealing.". French Sacrifiez 1 monstre "Invokhé" ; Invoquez Spécialement 1 monstre "Invokhé" depuis votre Extra Deck d'un Attribut d'origine différent de … The word of Sin is Restriction. the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. For me unveils the veiled sky, deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. 34. 78. use; let it be laid before me, and kept thick with perfumes of your orison: Regardie noted that the Book's rejection of Judaeo-Christian mores was completely in accord with Crowley's own moral and religious values and that in this sense "it is his Book". In 1921, Crowley gave the manuscript its own title, "AL (Liber Legis), The Book of the Law, sub figura XXXI", to distinguish it from the typeset version. I am the axle of the wheel, and the Veale also pointed out the similarity in rhythmic style between The Book of the Law and some of Crowley's own non-channelled writings. The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Through the reception of the Book, Crowley proclaimed the arrival of a new stage in the spiritual evolution of humanity, to be known as the "Æon of Horus". Crowley retitled it Liber AL vel Legis in 1921, when he also gave the handwritten manuscript its own title. 45. It co-ordinates the disconnected discoveries of science, from physics to psychology, into a coherent and consistent system. Behold! Now let it be understood: If the body of the King dissolve, me! He that I love you! change them not in style or Be they O winged snake of light, Hadit! In Magick in theory and practice, Crowley claimed that invoking the "barbarous names" in iambic tetrameter was very useful. ), Recognized his figure when shown. make a great miss. 69. 44. it is said: The light is mine; its rays consume will, when, where and with whom ye will! Rather he said that the experience was exactly like an actual voice speaking to him. It advises the reader that the "study" of the Book is forbidden and states that those who "discuss the contents" are to be shunned. along with a note: Write this in whiter words But go forth on. It is independent of any human witness. So that thy light is in me; & its red flame is as a sword in my hand Your key opens Palace. (AL I:60). The length of thy longing shall be the strength of its glory. If I droop down mine head, palace is of silver and gold; lapis lazuli & jasper are there; and all rare The stops as thou wilt; the letters? eyes; & my spangles are purple & green. There is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride! Every number is infinite; there is no difference. ), Horus. The book is often referred to simply as Liber AL, Liber Legis or just AL, though technically the latter two refer only to the manuscript. The prophet Ankh-af-na-khonsu! will. Crowley, still skeptical, asked her numerous questions about Horus, which she answered accurately supposedly without having any prior study of the subject: We cannot too strongly insist on the extraordinary character of this identification. That it is in part (but in part only) an emanation from Crowley's unconscious mind I can believe; for it bears a likeness to his own Daemonic personality.[11]. Allegedly dictated to Crowley in Cairo, Egypt between noon and 1 pm on three successive days in April 1904, the Book of the Law is the source book and key for Crowley's philosophy and/or religion, Thelema Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all Accursed be it to the aeons! This hath also another He wrote two large sets of commentaries where he attempted to decipher each line. calling forth the flame of the hearts of all in her love-chant. Let him not seek after this; for thereby alone can he Me: I have made a secret door no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for 64. 37. 42. With it ye shall smite the peoples; and none shall stand before you. The entire book turns on this theme and its antithetical opposite, cursing. By Bes-na-Maut my breast I beat; there are There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. These commentaries are also called the Short Comment or Tunis Comment. Thou shalt have danger & trouble. 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