The Book of the Law
The Book of the Law
Liber AL vel Legis
sub figura CCXX
as delivered by XCIII = 418 to DCLXVI
1. Had! The manifestation of Nuit.
2. The unveiling of the company of heaven.
Every man and every woman is a star.
4. Ever there is no difference.
5. Help me, o warrior lord of Thebes, in my unveiling before the Children
6. Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue!
7. Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat.
8. The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs.
9. Worship then the Khabs, and behold my light shed over you!
10. Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & the
11. These are
both their Gods & their men are fools.
12. Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love!
13. I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your
14. Above, the gemmed azure is
The naked splendour of N
She bends in ecstasy to kiss
The secret ardours of Hadit.
The winged globe, the starry blue,
Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu!
15. Now ye shall know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space
is the prince-priest the B and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman is
all power given. They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring
the glory of the stars into the hearts of men.
16. For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret
flame, and to her the stooping starlight.
17. But ye are not so chosen.
18. Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent!
19. O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them!
20. The key of the rituals is in the secret word which I have given unto him.
21. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are
I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord
22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret
name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space,
and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be
no difference made among you between any one thing & for
thereby there cometh hurt.
23. But whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of all!
24. I am Nuit, and my word is six and fifty.
25. Divide, add, multiply, and understand.
26. Then saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: Who am I, and what
shall be the sign? So she answered him, bendingdown, a lambent flame of blue,
all-touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth, & her
lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers:
Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity
of existence, the omnipresence of my body.
27. Then the priest answered & said unto the Queen of Space, kissing her
lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling
perfume of sweat: O Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, that
men speak not of Thee as One but as N and let them speak not of thee at
all, since thou art continuous!
28. None, breathed the light, faint & faery, of the stars, and two.
29. For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.
30. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing,
and the joy of dissolution all.
31. For these fools of men and their woes care not thou at all! They feel
what is, is b but ye are my chosen ones.
32. Obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only!
Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. This is so: I swear it
by my sac by all I can give, by
all I desire of ye all.
33. Then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon, & said unto the
Queen of H Write write write
unto us the law!
34. But she said: the ordeals I write not: the rituals shall be half known
and half concealed: the Law is for all.
35. This that thou writest is the threefold book of Law.
36. My scribe Ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not in one
let but lest there be folly, he shall comment thereupon
by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khuit.
Also th the
the work of the wand and t these he shall learn and teach.
38. H but he may make severe the ordeals.
The word of the Law is THELEMA.
Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look
but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and
the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the
41. The word of Sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will!
O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but
love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell.
Let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing.
S thou hast no right but to do thy will.
43. Do that, and no other shall say nay.
44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result,
is every way perfect.
45. The Perfect and the Perfect are one P nay, are none!
46. Nothing is a secret key of this law. Sixty-one the J I call
it eight, eighty, four hundred & eighteen.
47. But they have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear.
48. My prophet is a fool with his one, one, are not they the Ox, and
none by the Book?
49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit
hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the G and let Asar be
with Isa, who also are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant,
I Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating.
50. There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are
three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. The gross must pass
let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones
in the highest. Thus ye have star & star, system & let not one
know well the other!
There are four the floor of that
palace i lapis lazuli & and all rare
jasmine & rose, and the emblems of death. Let him enter in turn
or at let him stand on the floor of the palace. Will he
not sink? Amn. Ho! warrior, if thy servant sink? But there are means and means.
Be goodly therefore: dress ye eat rich foods and drink
sweet wines and wines that foam! Also, take your fill and will of love as ye
will, when, where and with whom ye will! But always unto me.
52. I if ye confound the space-marks, saying: They are
or saying, T if the ritual be not ever unto me: then expect
the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit!
53. This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart
& my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss. Also, o scribe and prophet, though
thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. But ecstasy
be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me!
54. Change not as much as t for behold! thou, o prophet,
shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein.
55. The child of thy bowels, he shall behold them.
56. Expect him not from the East, nor from the W for from no expected
house cometh that child. Aum! All words are sacred a save
only that they solve the first half of the equation, leave
the second unattacked. But thou hast all in the clear light, and some, though
not all, in the dark.
Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under
will. Nor let th for there are love and love. There is
the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath chosen,
knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God.
All these old letters of my B but [Tzaddi] is not the Star.
This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise.
58. I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life,
peace unutterable, rest, nor do I demand aught in sacrifice.
59. My incense is of resinous woods & and there is no blood therein:
because of my hair the trees of Eternity.
60. My number is 11, as all their numbers who are of us. The Five Pointed
Star, with a Circle in the Middle, & the circle is Red. My colour is black
to the blind, but the blue & gold are seen of the seeing. Also I have asecret
glory for them that love me.
61. But to love me is better than all things: if under the night stars in
the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a
pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in
my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be but whoso gives
one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and
store ye sh ye shall exceed the nations
of the earth in spendour & but always in the love of me, and so shall
ye come to my joy. I charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe,
and covered with a rich headdress. I love you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple,
veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the
innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour
within you: come unto me!
62. At all my meetings with you shall the priestess say -- and her eyes shall
burn with desire as she stands bare and rejoicing in my secret temple -- To
me! To me! calling forth the flame of the hearts of all in her love-chant.
63. Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me perfumes! Wear to me
jewels! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you!
64. I am the blue-lidded daughter of S I am the naked brilliance of
the voluptuous night-sky.
65. To me! To me!
66. The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.
1. Nu! the hiding of Hadit.
2. Come! all ye, and learn the secret that hath not yet been revealed. I,
Hadit, am the complement of Nu, my bride. I am not extended, and Khabs is the
name of my House.
3. In the sphere I am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is
nowhere found.
4. Yet she shall be known & I never.
5. Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast
let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this Knowledge
go aright.
6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every
star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is theknowledge of me
the knowledge of death.
7. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the
cube in the circle. &Come unto me& is a foolish word: for it is I
8. Who worshipped Heru-pa-kraat ill, for I am the worshipper.
9. Remember all ye that e that all the sorrows are but
they pass & but there is that which remains.
10. O prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing.
11. I see thee hate the hand & but I am stronger.
12. Because of me in Thee which thou knewest not.
13. for why? Because thou wast the knower, and me.
14. Now let there be a veiling of this shrine: now let the light devour men
and eat them up with blindness!
15. For I am perfect, being N and my number
the just I am eight, and one in eight: Which is vital, for I am none indeed.
The Empress and the K for there is a further secret.
16. I am The Empress & the Hierophant. Thus eleven, as my bride is eleven.
17. Hear me, ye people of sighing!
The sorrows of pain and regret
Are left to the dead and the dying,
The folk that not know me as yet.
18. These are dead, they feel not. We are not for the poor
and sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk.
19. Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice,
our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us.
20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and
fire, are of us.
21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their
misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched
& the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of
the world. Think not, o king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou
shalt not die, but live. Now let it be understood: If the body of the King dissolve,
he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun,
Strength & Sight, L these are for the servants of the Star & the
22. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and
stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange
drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not
harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence
is a lie. Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear
not that any God shall deny thee for this.
23. I am alone: there is no God where I am.
24. Behold! thes for there are also of my friends who
be hermits. Now think not to find them in the fores but
in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs,
and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of fla there
shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all
and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this.
Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning
on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day
of your wrath.
25. Ye are against the people, O my chosen!
26. I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is
joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head,
and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are
27. There i for who doth not understand these runes shall
make a great miss. He shall fall down into the pit called Because, and there
he shall perish with the dogs of Reason.
28. Now a curse upon Because and his kin!
29. May Because be accursed for ever!
30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does
31. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness.
32. A for there is a factor infinite & &
all their words are skew-wise.
33. Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog!
34. But ye, o my people, rise up & awake!
35. Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy & beauty!
36. There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times.
37. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride!
38. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law.
39. A feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet--secret, O Prophet!
40. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods.
41. A feast for fire a a feast for life and a greater
feast for death!
42. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture!
43. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight!
44. Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution,
and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu.
45. There is death for the dogs.
46. Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart?
47. Where I am these are not.
48. Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I console not:
I hate the consoled & the consoler.
49. I am unique & conqueror. I am not of the slaves that perish. Be they
damned & dead! Amen. (This is of the 4: there is a fifth who is invisible,
& therein am I as a babe in an egg. )
50. Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is in my
& my spangles are purple & green.
51. Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight.
52. There is a veil: that veil is black. It is the veil
it is the veil of sorrow, & the pall of death: this is none of me. Tear
down that lying spectre of the centuries: veil not your vices in virtuous words:
ye do well, & I will reward you here and hereafter.
53. Fear not, o prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be sorry.
Thou art em and blessed are the eyes that thou shalt look
upon with gladness. But I will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see
thee shall fear thou art fallen: but I lift thee up.
54. Nor shall they who cry aloud their folly that thou
thou shall reveal it: thou availest: they are the slaves of because: They are
not of me. Th the letters? change them not in style or
55. Thou shalt obtain the order & value of the English A thou
shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto.
56. Begone! even though ye laugh in my honour ye shall laugh not
long: then when ye are sad know that I have forsaken you.
57. He that is righteous shal he that is filthy shall
be filthy still.
58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore
the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There
is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there
are masked ones my servants: it may be that yonder beggar is a King. A King
may choose his garment as he will: there is no certain test: but a beggar cannot
hide his poverty.
59. Beware therefore! Love all, lest perchance is a King concealed! Say you
so? Fool! If he be a King, thou canst not hurt him.
60. Therefore strike hard & low, and to hell with them, master!
61. There is a light before thine eyes, o prophet, a light undesired, most
desirable.
62. I am upl and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon
63. Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullnes the expiration
is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of Hell's own
64. Oh! thou art overcome: our delight is all over thee:
hail! hail: prophet of Nu! prophet of Had! prophet of Ra-Hoor-Khu! Now rejoice!
now come in our splendour & rapture! Come in our passionate peace, &
write sweet words for the Kings.
65. I am the Master: thou art the Holy Chosen One.
66. Write, & find ecstasy in writing! Work, & be our bed in working!
Thrill with the joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall be lovely: whososeeth
it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our age long
love. Come! lift up thine heart & rejoice! W we are none.
67. Hold! Hold! Be fall not in swoon of the excellent
68. Harder! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep -- die!
69. Ah! Ah! What do I feel? Is the word exhausted?
70. There is help & hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be strong! Then
canst thou bear more joy. B refine thy rapture! If thou drink,
drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love,
and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein!
71. But exceed! exceed!
72. Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly mine -- and doubt it not, an
if thou art ever joyous! -- death is the crown of all.
73. Ah! Ah! Death! Death! thou shalt long for death. Death is forbidden, o
man, unto thee.
74. The length of thy longing shall be the strength of its glory. He that
lives long & desires death much is ever the King among the Kings.
75. Aye! listen to the numbers & the words:
76. 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L. What meaneth
this, o prophet? T nor shalt thou know ever. There cometh one
to follow thee: he shall expound it. But remember, o chose none, to
follow the love of Nu in the star- to look forth upon men, to tell
them this glad word.
77. O be thou proud and mighty among men!
78. Lift up thyself! for there is none like unto thee among men or among Gods!
Lift up thyself, o my prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars. They shall
worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, t and
the name of thy house 418.
79. The end of the hiding of H and blessing & worship to the prophet
of the lovely Star!
1. A the reward of Ra Hoor Khut.
2. There is divi there is a word not known. Spelling
all is not aught. Beware! Hold! Raise the spell of Ra-Hoor-Khuit!
3. Now let it be first understood that I am a god of War and of Vengeance.
I shall deal hardly with them.
4. Choose ye an island!
5. Fortify it!
6. Dung it about with enginery of war!
7. I will give you a war-engine.
8. With it ye sha and none shall stand before you.
9. Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! this is the Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus
shall my worship be about my secret house.
10. Get the stele set it in thy secret temple -- and
that temple is already aright disposed -- & it shall be your Kiblah for
ever. It shall not fade, but miraculous colour shall come back to it day after
day. Close it in locked glass for a proof to the world.
11. This shall be your only proof. I forbid argument. Conquer! That is enough.
I will make easy to you the abstruction from the ill-ordered house in the Victorious
City. Thou shalt thyself convey it with worship, o prophet, though thou likest
it not. Thou shalt have danger & trouble. Ra-Hoor-Khu is with thee. Worship
me with fire & worship me with swords & with spears. Let the
woman be girt with a sword before me: let blood flow to my name. Trample down
the H be upon them, o warrior, I will give you of their flesh to eat!
12. Sacrifice cattle, little and big: after a child.
13. But not now.
14. Ye shall see that hour, o blessed Beast, and thou the Scarlet Concubine
of his desire!
15. Ye shall be sad thereof.
16. Deem not too eagerly t fear not to undergo the curses.
Ye, even ye, know not this meaning all.
17. F fear neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money
fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon
the earth or under the earth. Nu is your refuge as H and I am
the strength, force, vigour, of your arms.
18. M damn them who pity! K be
upon them!
19. That stele they shall call the Abomination of D count well its
name, & it shall be to you as 718.
20. Why? Because of the fall of Because, that he is not there again.
21. Set up my image in the East: thou shalt buy thee an image which I will
show thee, especial, not unlike the one thou knowest. And it shall be suddenly
easy for thee to do this.
22. The other images group around me to support me: let all be worshipped,
for they shall cluster to exalt me. I am the visib the
for the Beast & his Bride are they: and for the winners
of the Ordeal x. What is this? Thou shalt know.
23. For perfume mix meal & honey & thick leavings of red wine: then
oil of Abramelin and olive oil, and afterward soften & smooth down with
rich fresh blood.
24. The best blood is of the moon, monthly: then the fresh blood of a child,
or dropping from the host of heaven: then of the priest or
of the worshippers: last of some beast, no matter what.
25. This burn: of this make cakes & eat unto me. This hath also another
let it be laid before me, and kept thick with perfumes of your orison:
it shall become full of beetles as it were and creeping things sacred unto me.
26. These slay, & they shall fall before you.
27. Also these shall breed lust & power of lust in you at the eating thereof.
28. Also ye shall be strong in war.
29. Moreover, be they long kept, for they swell with my force.
All before me.
30. My altar is of open brass work: burn thereon in silver or gold!
31. There cometh a rich man from the West who shall pour his gold upon thee.
32. From gold forge steel!
33. Be ready to fly or to smite!
34. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though
with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house
there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great E when Hrumachis
shall arise and the double-wanded one assume my throne and place. Another prophet
shall arise, and bring fresh
another woman shall awakethe
lust & worship of the S another soul of God and beast shall mingle
another sacrifice
another king shall
and blessing no longer be poured To the Hawk-headed mystical Lord!
35. The half of the word of Heru-ra-ha, called Hoor-pa-kraat and Ra-Hoor-Khut.
36. Then said the prophet unto the God:
37. I adore thee in the song --
I am the Lord of Thebes, and I
The inspired forth-speaker of M
For me unveils the veiled sky,
The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu
Whose words are truth. I invoke, I greet
Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit!
Unity uttermost showed!
I adore the might of Thy breath,
Supreme and terrible God,
Who makest the gods and death
To tremble before Thee: --
I, I adore thee!
Appear on the throne of Ra!
Open the ways of the Khu!
Lighten the ways of the Ka!
The ways of the Khabs run through
To stir me or still me!
Aum! let it fill me!
38. So tha & its red flame is as a sword in my hand
to push thy order. There is a secret door that I shall make to establish thy
way in all the quarters, (these are the adorations, as thou hast written), as
it is said:
T its rays consume
Me: I have made a secret door
Into the House of Ra and Tum,
Of Khephra and of Ahathoor.
I am thy Theban, O Mentu,
The prophet Ankh-af-na-khonsu!
By Bes-na-Maut my breast I
By wise Ta-Nech I weave my spell.
Show thy star-splendour, O Nuit!
Bid me within thine House to dwell,
O winged snake of light, Hadit!
Abide with me, Ra-Hoor-Khuit!
39. All this and a book to say how thou didst come hither and a reproduction
of this ink and paper for ever -- for in it is the word secret & not only
in the English -- and thy comment upon this the Book of the Law shall be printed
beautifully in red ink and black upon beautifu and to each
man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it
is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide it
is no odds. Do this quickly!
40. But the work of the comment? T and Hadit burning in thy heart
shall make swift and secure thy pen.
41. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house: all must be done well and with business
42. The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse
none, but thou shalt know & destroy the traitors. I am Ra-Hoor-K and
I am powerful to protect my servant. Success is thy proof: convert
talk not over much! Them that seek to entrap thee, to overthrow thee, them
attack wit & destroy them utterly. Swift as a trodden
serpent turn and strike! Be thou yet deadlier than he! Drag down their souls
to awful torment: laugh at their fear: spit upon them!
43. Let the Scarlet Woman beware! If pity and compassion and tenderness visit
if she leave my work to toy
then shall my vengeance
be known. I will slay me her child: I will alienate her heart: I will cast her
out from men: as a shrinking and despised harlot shall she crawl through dusk
wet streets, and die cold and an-hungered.
44. But let her raise herself in pride! Let her follow me in my way! Let her
work the work of wickedness! Let her kill her heart! Let her be loud and adulterous!
Let her be covered with jewels, and rich garments, and let her be shameless
before all men!
45. Then will I lift her to pinnacles of power: then will I breed from her
a child mightier than all the kings of the earth. I will fill her with joy:
with my force shall she see & strike at the worship of Nu: she shall achieve
46. I am the warrior Lord of the Forties: the Eighties cower before me, &
are abased. I will bring you to victory & joy: I will be at your arms in
battle & ye shall delight to slay. S courage is your
go on, go on, & ye shall turn not back for any!
47. This book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original
in the writing of the B for in the chance shape of the letters and their
position to one another: in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine.
Let him not seek to try: but one cometh after him, whence I say not, who shall
discover the Key of it all. Then this line drawn is a key: then this circle
squared in its failure is a key also. And Abrahadabra. It shall be his child
& that strangely. Let him for thereby alone can he
fall from it.
48. Now this mystery of the letters is done, and I want to go on to the holier
49. I am in a secret fourfold word, the blasphemy against all gods of men.
50. Curse them! Curse them! Curse them!
51. With my Hawk's head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon the cross.
52. I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed & blind him.
53. With my claws I tear out the flesh of the Indian and the Buddhist, Mongol
54. Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your crapulous creeds.
55. Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women
be utterly despised among you!
56. Also for beauty's sake and love's!
57. Desp professional soldiers who dare not fight, but
all fools despise!
58. But the keen and the proud, the ye are brothers!
59. As brothers fight ye!
60. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra's seat, lightening
the girders of the soul.
62. To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which
63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, & he understandeth
64. Let him come through the first ordeal, & it will be to him as silver.
65. Through the second, gold.
66. Through the third, stones of precious water.
67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire.
68. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who say not so, are mere
69. There is success.
70. I am the Hawk-Headed Lord of Silence & of S my nemyss shrouds
the night-blue sky.
71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is
nigh at hand.
72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of P the wand of the Force of Coph
Nia--but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an U & nought
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.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after
the first reading.
Whosoever disregards this does so at his own risk and peril. These are most
Those who discuss the contents of this Book are to be shunned by all, as centres
of pestilence.
All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings,
each for himself.
There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
Love is the law, love under will.
The priest of the princes,
Ankh-f-n-khonsu