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The Book of the Law

Chapter 2

Eye of Ra Hadit Eye of Horus
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  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 away; 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

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is
    the knowledge of me the knowledge of death.
  1. 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 that
    go.
  2. Who worshipped Heru-pa-kraath have
    worshipped me; ill, for I am the worshipper.
  3. Remember all ye that existence is pure joy;
    that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they
    pass & are done; but there is that which
    remains.
  4. O prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this
    writing.
  5. I see thee hate the hand & the pen; but I am

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. stronger.
  1. Because of me in Thee which thou knewest not.
  2. for why? Because thou wast the knower,
    and me.
  3. Now let there be a veiling of this shrine: now
    let the light devour men and eat them
    up with blindness!
  4. For I am perfect, being Not; and my number
    is nine by the fools; but with the just I am
    eight, and one in eight: Which is vital, for
    I am none indeed. The Empress and the King
    are not of me; for there is a further secret.
  5. I am The Empress & the Hierophant. Thus
    eleven, as my bride is eleven.

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. 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.
  2. These are dead, these fellows; they feel not. We
    are not for the poor and sad: the lords of the
    earth are our kinsfolk.
  3. 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.
  4. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and
    delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. 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, Light; these
    are for the servants of the Star & the Snake.

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. 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.
  2. I am alone: there is no God where I am.
  3. Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there
    are also of my friends who be hermits. Now

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. think not to find them in the forest or on the
    mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by
    magnificent beasts of women with large limbs,
    and fire and light in their eyes, and masses
    of flaming hair about them; there shall ye
    find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at
    victorious armies, at all the joy; 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 hearts; on the low men
    trample in the fierce lust of your pride,

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. in the day of your wrath.
  1. Ye are against the people, O my chosen!
  2. 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 one.
  3. There is great danger in me; 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

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. perish with the dogs of Reason.
  1. Now a curse upon Because and his kin!
  2. May Because be accursèd for ever!
  3. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking
    Because, then Will stops & does nought.
  4. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness.
  5. Also reason is a lie; for there is a
    factor infinite & unknown; & all their
    words are skew-wise.
  6. Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog!
  7. But ye, o my people, rise up & awake!
  8. Let the rituals be rightly performed with
    joy & beauty!

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. There are rituals of the elements and feasts
    of the times.
  2. A feast for the first night of the Prophet
    and his Bride!
  3. A feast for the three days of the writing of
    the Book of the Law.
  4. A feast for Tahuti and the child of the
    Prophet — secret, O Prophet!
  5. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a
    feast for the Equinox of the Gods.
  6. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a
    feast for life and a greater feast for death!

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. A feast every day in your hearts in the
    joy of my rapture!
  2. A feast every night unto Nu, and the
    pleasure of uttermost delight!
  3. Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread
    hereafter. There is the dissolution, and
    eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu.
  4. There is death for the dogs.
  5. Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear
    in thine heart?
  6. Where I am these are not.

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. Pity not the fallen! I never knew them.
    I am not for them. I console not: I hate
    the consoled & the consoler.
  2. 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.)
  3. Blue am I and gold in the light of my
    bride: but the red gleam is in my eyes;
    & my spangles are purple & green.
  4. Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. than eyesight.
  1. There is a veil: that veil is black. It is
    the veil of the modest woman; 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: these vices are my service;
    ye do well, & I will reward you here and
    hereafter.
  2. Fear not, o prophet, when these words are
    said, thou shalt not be sorry. Thou art
    emphatically my chosen; and blessed are

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. 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.
  1. Nor shall they who cry aloud their folly
    that thou meanest nought avail; thou
    shall reveal it: thou availest: they are
    the slaves of because: They are not of
    me. The stops as thou wilt; the letters?
    change them not in style or value!
  2. Thou shalt obtain the order & value of
    the English Alphabet; thou shalt find

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. new symbols to attribute them unto.
  1. Begone! ye mockers; even though ye laugh
    in my honour ye shall laugh not long: then
    when ye are sad know that I have
    forsaken you.
  2. He that is righteous shall be righteous still;
    he that is filthy shall be filthy still.
  3. 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

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. 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.
  1. Beware therefore! Love all, lest perchance is a
    King concealed! Say you so? Fool! If he
    be a King, thou canst not hurt him.
  2. Therefore strike hard & low, and to hell
    with them, master!
  3. There is a light before thine eyes, o prophet,
    a light undesired, most desirable.

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses
    of the stars rain hard upon thy body.
  2. Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness
    of the inspiration; the expiration is sweeter
    than death, more rapid and laughterful than
    a caress of Hell’s own worm.
  3. Oh! thou art overcome: we are upon thee;
    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!

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. I am the Master: thou art the Holy Chosen One.
  2. Write, & find ecstasy in writing! Work, &
    be our bed in working! Thrill with the
    joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall
    be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. Thy
    death shall be the seal of the promise of
    our agelong love. Come! lift up thine heart
    & rejoice! We are one; we are none.
  3. Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture;
    fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses!
  4. Harder! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head!

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. breathe not so deep — die!
  1. Ah! Ah! What do I feel? Is the word
    exhausted?
  2. There is help & hope in other spells. Wisdom
    says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more
    joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture!
    If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety
    rules of art: if thou love, exceed by
    delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let
    there be subtlety therein!
  3. But exceed! exceed!
  4. Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. mine — and doubt it not, an if thou art
    ever joyous! — death is the crown of all.
  1. Ah! Ah! Death! Death! thou shalt long for
    death. Death is forbidden, o man, unto thee.
  2. 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.
  3. Aye! listen to the numbers & the words:
  4. 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? Thou knowest
    not; nor shalt thou know ever. There
    cometh one to follow thee: he shall

Liber 220, Chapter 2: Hadit

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  1. expound it. But remember, o chosen
    one, to be me; to follow the love of
    Nu in the star-lit heaven; to look forth
    upon men, to tell them this glad word.
  1. O be thou proud and mighty among men!
  2. 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, the
    number of the man; and the name of

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  1. thy house 418.
  1. The end of the hiding of Hadit; and
    blessing & worship to the prophet of
    the lovely Star!
Book of the Law – Liber 220
Chapter 3 – Ra-Hoor-Khuit ❯❯❯

Book of the Law – Liber 220
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