The Book of the Law

1. Abrahadabra; the reward of Ra Hoor Khut.
2. There is division hither homeward; there is a
   word not known. Spelling is defunct; 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 shall smite the peoples; and

1. 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 stélé of revealing itself; 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

1. 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 & blood; 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 Heathen; 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 blessèd Beast, and
    thou the Scarlet Concubine of his desire!
15. Ye shall be sad thereof.
16. Deem not too eagerly to catch the promises; fear
    not to undergo the curses. Ye, even ye, know not
    this meaning all.
17. Fear not at all; 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 Hadit your

1. light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of
   your arms.

18. Mercy let be off: damn them who pity!
    Kill and torture; spare not; be upon them!
19. That stélé they shall call the Abomination
    of Desolation; 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 visible object
    of worship; the others are secret; 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

1. host of heaven: then of enemies; 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 use; 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, naming your enemies; & 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, it is better; 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

1. Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and
   the double-wanded one assume my throne and
   place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring
   fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall
   awake the lust & worship of the Snake; another
   soul of God and beast shall mingle in the
   globèd priest; another sacrifice shall stain
   the tomb; another king shall reign; 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 —
    

1. I am the Lord of Thebes, and I
        The inspired forth-speaker of Mentu;
   For me unveils the veilèd sky,
        The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu
   Whose words are truth. I invoke, I greet
        Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit!
2. 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!
3. 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 that thy light is in me; & 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:

1. The light is mine; 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!
2. By Bes-na-Maut my breast I beat;
        By wise Ta-Nech I weave my spell.
   Show thy star-splendour, O Nuit!
        Bid me within thine House to dwell,
   O wingèd 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 beautiful paper made by hand;
    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 in this bliss or no;
    it is no odds. Do this quickly!
40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and

1. 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
    way.
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-Khuit; and I am powerful to protect
    my servant. Success is thy proof: argue not;
    convert not; talk not overmuch! Them
    that seek to entrap thee, to overthrow thee, them
    attack without pity or quarter; & destroy them
    utterly. Swift as a trodden serpent turn

1. 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 her heart;
    if she leave my work to toy with old
    sweetnesses; 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 Hadit.

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. Success is your proof;
    courage is your armour; go on, go on, in
    my strength; & 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 Beast; for in the

1. 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 not
   seek after this; 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 place.
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 and
    Din.
54. Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your

1. 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. Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers
    who dare not fight, but play; all fools despise!
58. But the keen and the proud, the royal and
    the lofty; 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

1. 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 is
    bliss.
63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and
    its comment; & he understandeth it not.
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 liars.
69. There is success.
70. I am the Hawk-Headed Lord of Silence
    & of Strength; 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 Power;
    the wand of the Force of Coph Nia — but my
    left hand is empty, for I have crushed

“Force of Coph Nia —”
      is in the handwriting
      of Rose Kelly Crowley.

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.