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The Book of the Law

Chapter 1

Eye of Ra Nuit Eye of Horus
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  1. Had! The manifestation of Nuit.
  2. The unveiling of the company of heaven.
  3. Every man and every woman is a star.
  4. Every number is infinite; there is no difference.
  5. Help me, o warrior lord of Thebes, in my
    unveiling before the Children of men!
  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!

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  1. Let my servants be few & secret: they shall
    rule the many & the known.
  2. These are fools that men adore; both their
    Gods & their men are fools.
  3. 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 joy.
  1. Above, the gemmèd azure is
         The naked splendour of Nuit;
    She bends in ecstasy to kiss
         The secret ardours of Hadit.
    The wingèd globe, the starry blue,
         Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu!
  2. Now ye shall know that the chosen
    priest & apostle of infinite space is
    the prince-priest the Beast; and in

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  1. 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.
  1. For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But
    to him is the winged secret flame, and to
    her the stooping starlight.
  2. But ye are not so chosen.
  3. Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent!
  4. O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them!
  5. The key of the rituals is in the secret word
    which I have given unto him.

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  1. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they
    do not see me. They are as upon the earth;
    I am Heaven, and there is no other God
    than me, and my lord Hadit.
  2. 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 & any

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  1. other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt.
  1. But whoso availeth in this, let him be
    the chief of all!
  2. I am Nuit, and my word is six and fifty.
  3. Divide, add, multiply, and understand.
  4. Then saith the prophet and slave of the
    beauteous one: Who am I, and what shall
    be the sign? So she answered him, bending
    down, 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

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  1. little flowers: Thou knowest! And the sign
    shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of
    the continuity of existence, the
    omnipresence of my body.starcircle
  1. 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, let it

starcirclethe unfragmentary
    non-atomic fact of my universality.
    (Write this in whiter words)         Done later as
    (But go forth on       )                    above.

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  1. be ever thus; that men speak not of
    Thee as One but as None; and let
    them speak not of thee at all, since
    thou art continuous!
  1. None, breathed the light, faint & faery, of
    he stars, and two.  29. For I am divided
    for love’s sake, for the chance of union.
  1. This is the creation of the world, that
    the pain of division is as nothing, and
    the joy of dissolution all.
  2. For these fools of men and their

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  1. woes care not thou at all! They feel
    little; what is, is balanced by weak
    joys; but ye are my chosen ones.
  1. 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 the vault of my
    body; by my sacred heart and tongue;
    by all I can give, by all I desire of
    ye all.
  2. Then the priest fell into a deep trance or

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  1. swoon, & said unto the Queen of Heaven;
    Write unto us the ordeals; write unto
    us the rituals; write unto us the law!
  1. But she said: the ordeals I write not:
    the rituals shall be half known and
    half concealed: the Law is for all.
  2. This that thou writest is the threefold
    book of Law.
  3. My scribe Ankh-af-na-khonsu, the
    priest of the princes, shall not in one
    letter change this book; but lest there
    be folly, he shall comment thereupon
    by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khu-it.

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  1. Also the mantras and spells; the
    obeah and the wanga; the work of
    the wand and the work of the
    sword; these he shall learn and teach.
  2. He must teach; but he may make severe
    the ordeals.
  3. The word of the Law is Θελημα.
  4. 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

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  1. shall be the whole of the Law.
  1. 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. Accurséd!
    Accurséd be it to the aeons! Hell.
  2. Let it be that state of manyhood
    bound and loathing. So with thy all;
    thou hast no right but to do thy will.
  3. Do that, and no other shall say nay.
  4. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose,

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  1. delivered from the lust of result, is
    every way perfect.
  1. The Perfect and the Perfect are one
    Perfect and not two; nay, are none!
  2. Nothing is a secret key of this law.
    Sixty-one the Jews call it; I call it
    eight, eighty, four hundred & eighteen.
  3. But they have the half: unite by thine
    art so that all disappear.
  4. My prophet is a fool with his one, one,
    one; are not they the Ox, and none
    by the Book?

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  1. 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 Gods; and let Asar be with Isa,
    who also are one. But they are not of
    me. Let Asar be the adorant, Isa the
    sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and
    splendour is the Lord initiating.
  2. 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 through fire; let the

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  1. fine be tried in intellect, and the
    lofty chosen ones in the highest; Thus
    ye have star & star, system & system;
    let not one know well the other!
  1. There are four gates to one palace;
    the floor of that palace is of silver and
    gold; lapis lazuli & jasper are there; and
    all rare scents; jasmine & rose, and the
    emblems of death. Let him enter in turn
    or at once the four gates; let him stand
    on the floor of the palace. Will he
    not sink? Amn. Ho! warrior, if thy
    servant sink? But there are means

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  1. and means. Be goodly therefore: dress ye
    all in fine apparel; 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.
  1. If this be not aright; if ye confound
    the space-marks, saying: They are one;
    or saying, They are many; if the ritual
    be not ever unto me: then expect
    the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit!
  2. This shall regenerate the world, the little

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  1. 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!
  1. Change not as much as the style
    of a letter; for behold! thou, o prophet,
    shalt not behold all these mysteries
    hidden therein.
  2. The child of thy bowels, he shall behold
    them.
  3. Expect him not from the East, nor from

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  1. the West; for from no expected house
    cometh that child. Aum! All words are
    sacred and all prophets true; save only that
    they understand a little; 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.
  1. Invoke me under my stars! Love is the
    law, love under will. Nor let the fools
    mistake love; for there are love and love.
    There is the dove, and there is the serpent.
    Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath

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  1. chosen, knowing the law of the fortress,
    and the great mystery of the House of God.
    All these old letters of my Book are
    aright; but צ is not the Star. This
    also is secret: my prophet shall reveal
    it to the wise.
  1. I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty,
    not faith, while in life, upon death; peace
    unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand
    aught in sacrifice.
  2. My incense is of resinous woods & gums;
    and there is no blood therein: because of
    my hair the trees of Eternity.

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  1. My number is 11, as all their numbers
    who are of us.starcircle
    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 a secret glory for
    them that love me.
  2. 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 willing to give all;

starcircle (lost                         “The Five Pointed Star … circle is Red”
     1 phrase)                  is in the handwriting of Rose Kelly Crowley.
          
     The shape of my star is —

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  1. but whoso gives one particle of dust
    shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall
    gather goods and store of women and
    spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye
    shall exceed the nations of the earth
    in splendour & pride; 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,

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  1. and drunkenness of the innermost sense,
    desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse
    the coiled splendour within you: come unto me!
  1. 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.
  2. 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!

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  1. I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am
    the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-
    sky.
  2. To me! To me!
  3. The Manifestation of Nuit is at an
    end.
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