A transcription of Liber Legis

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		<p><b>A transcription of  Liber L vel Legis</b> <br/>

<b>Sub figura XXXI</b><br/> <b>given from the mouth of Aiwass to the ear of The Beast.</b> </p><p><i>A personal exploration of the manuscript for personal study. </i> </p> <hr/> <p>This document is an attempt to transcribe the manuscript of Liber Legis, also known as <i><a href=“The-Book-of-the-Law” title=“The Book of the Law”>The Book of the Law</a></i>, as written down by Aleister Crowley in 1904. It includes original punctuation, sentence breaks, additional notes, and script revisions made on the actual document. </p><p>I have had to make some judgment calls that I fully admit might be in error. I would be very open to different suggestions and especially evidence or commentary regarding Crowley’s changes. This transcription is for research purposes only, and claims no authority as to expertise or special knowledge beyond simple observation and logic. </p><p>This transcription is especially useful when looking at a copy of the manuscript. The MS. is reprinted in <i>Magick, 2nd Ed.</i> and in the centennial edition of <i>Liber Legis</i> (Thelema Media, 2004). An <a href=“https://oto-usa.org/l31.html” class=“external text” title=“http://oto-usa.org/l31.html” rel=“nofollow”>online version</a> can be found on the O.T.O. website. </p> <hr/> <p><b>Editorial Guide:</b> </p> <ul><li>Sentences are broken as in the original manuscript in all possible cases. In a few places, additional text was added to the side or between previous lines. In such cases, I have placed the original lines first, followed by any changes. </li></ul> <ul><li>The title numbers refer to the total number of pages in the entire manuscript. </li></ul> <ul><li>Black text refers to the main flow of dictation. </li></ul> <ul><li>Text with lines above refer to text that was literally crossed out or marked over. There are cases when a word was written over or partially corrected. In these cases, it is written with the original crossed out text first, immediately followed by the correction (e.g. <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>old</cite>new). </li></ul> <ul><li><cite style=“color:#669966”>{Addition}</cite>—Text in green brackets refers to text that was included or corrected at the time of the writing, but outside of the main flow of dictation. </li></ul> <ul><li>Text in <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>orange</cite> refers to text that was added at a later time. This includes the page numbers at the top right and also the verse numbers in Chapters 2 and 3. </li></ul> <ul><li>Text with underlines are instances where the author literally underlined text. </li></ul>

<hr/> <a name=“Title_Page”></a><h2> Title Page</h2> <p><i>The original title page is not a formal part of Liber Legis, since it was written out by Crowley after its reception. The actual title was probably written on the Third Day or soon after. A short paragraph was added in 1907, which was later amended with a brief note in October of 1909.</i> </p> <hr/> <p>Liber<br/> L.<br/> vel<br/> Legis.<br/> given from the mouth of Aiwass to the ear of<br/> The Beast<br/> on April 8, 9, & 10, 1904<br/> </p><p><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>This MS (which came into my possession in July 1906)</cite> <cite style=“color:#669966”>{i.e. I meant I would be its master from that date. a.c. Oct '09}</cite> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>is a highly interesting example of genuine automatic writing. Though I am in no way responsible for any of these documents, except the verse translations of the stele inscription, I publish them among my works, because I believe that their intelligent study may be interesting and helpful. A.C.</cite> </p> <a name=“Incidentals”></a><h3> Incidentals</h3> <p><i>The title page also has a set of added numbers and several sketches, shown below.</i> </p><p>40+400+10+60+80+400+3+9+4+20=1026 </p><p><img alt=“Image:Al titlepage sketches.gif” src=“https://hermetic.com/_media/eidolons/al_titlepage_sketches.gif” width=“348” height=“193” border=“0”/> </p><p><br/> </p> <hr/> <a name=“Chapter_I”></a><h2> Chapter I</h2> <p><i>Written on April 8, 1904</i> </p> <hr/> <a name=“1”></a><h2> 1</h2> <ol><li>Had! The manifestation of Nuit<br/> </li><li>The unveiling of the company of heaven<br/> </li><li>Every man and every woman is a star<br/> </li><li>Every number is infinite: there is no difference<br/> </li><li>Help me, o warrior lord of Thebes, in my<br/> </li><li>unveiling before the Children of men<br/> </li><li>Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my <br/> </li><li>heart & my tongue.<br/> </li><li>Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the <br/> </li><li>minister of Hoor-paar-kraat<br/> </li><li>The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in <br/> </li><li>the Khabs<br/> </li><li>Worship then the Khabs, and behold my<br/> </li><li>light shed over you. </li></ol> <a name=“2”></a><h2> 2</h2>

<p>Line 9 was replaced with: </p> <pre> Above, the gemmed azure is

    The naked splendour of Nuit;
 She bends in ecstasy to kiss
    The secret ardours of Hadit.
 The winged globe,the starry blue,
    Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu!

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<pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>2</cite> </pre> <ol><li>Let my servants be few & secret: they shall <br/> </li><li>rule the many & the known.<br/> </li><li>These are fools that men adore; both their <br/> </li><li>Gods & their men are fools.<br/> </li><li>Come forth, o children, under the stars<br/> </li><li>& take your fill of love. I am above you <br/> </li><li>and in you. My ecstasy is in yours My <br/> </li><li>joy is to see your joy<br/> </li><li>V. 1. of Spell called the Joy.<br/> </li><li>Now ye<cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>t</cite> shall know that the chosen <br/> </li><li>priest & apostle of infinite space is <br/> </li><li>the prince-priest-the Beast and in </li></ol> <a name=“3”></a><h2> 3</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>3</cite> </pre> <ol><li>his woman, called the Scarlet Woman, is<br/> </li><li>all power given. They shall gather my<br/> </li><li>children into their fold: they shall bring the<br/> </li><li>glory of the stars into the hearts of men.<br/> </li><li>For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But<br/> </li><li>to him is the winged secret flame and to <br/> </li><li>her the stooping starlight.<br/> </li><li>But ye are not so chosen<br/> </li><li>Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent!<br/> </li><li>O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them!<br/> </li><li>The key of the rituals is in the secret word <br/> </li><li>which I have given unto him </li></ol> <a name=“4”></a><h2> 4</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>4</cite> </pre>

Based on other writing examples, the word “Nuit” in line 6 began as an “M”—see sheet 18 line 11. Crowley does the same thing on the next sheet.

<ol><li>With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they <br/> </li><li>do not see me. They are as upon the earth<br/> </li><li>I am Heaven, and <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>their</cite>there is no other God <br/> </li><li>than me, and my lord Hadit.<br/> </li><li>Now therefore I am known to ye by my <br/> </li><li>name <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>M</cite>Nuit, and to him by a secret name <br/> </li><li>which I will give him when at last he <br/> </li><li>knoweth me<br/> </li><li>Since I am Infinite Space and the Infinite <br/> </li><li>Stars there<cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>fore</cite>of, do ye also thus. Bind <br/> </li><li>nothing! Let there be no difference made <br/> </li><li>among you between any one thing & any </li></ol> <a name=“5”></a><h2> 5</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>5</cite> </pre> <ol><li>other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt.<br/> </li><li>But whoso availeth in this, let him be <br/> </li><li>the chief of all!<br/> </li><li>I am <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>M</cite>Nuit, and my word is six and fifty<br/> </li><li>Divide, add, multiply and understand.<br/> </li><li>Then saith the prophet and slave of the <br/> </li><li>beauteous one: Who am I, and what shall <br/> </li><li>be the sign. So she answered him, bending <br/> </li><li>down, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching<br/> </li><li>all penetrant, <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>here</cite>her lovely hands upon the <br/> </li><li>black earth & her lithe body arched for love<br/> </li><li>and her soft feet not hurting the </li></ol> <a name=“6”></a><h2> 6</h2>

In <i>Commentaries</i>, Crowley writes: <br/> <p>This phrase was totally beyond the comprehension of the scribe, and he said mentally—with characteristic self-conceit—“People will never be able to understand this.” <br/> </p><p>Aiwass then replied, “Write this in whiter words. But go forth on.” <br/> </p><p>He was willing that the phrase should be replaced by an equivalent, but did not wish the dictation to be interrupted by a discussion at the moment. It was therefore altered (a little later) to “the omnipresence of my body.” <br/> </p> <p>It is extremely interesting to note that in the light of the cosmic theory explained in the notes to verse 3 and 4, the original phrase of Aiwass was exquisitely and exactly appropriate to his meaning.

<ol><li>little flowers Thou knowest! And the sign <br/> </li><li>shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of <br/> </li><li>the continuity of existence, <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>the unfragmentary</cite><br/> </li><li><cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>non-atomic fact of my universality.</cite> <br/> </li><li><cite style=“color:#669966;text-decoration: overline;”>{Write this in whiter words}</cite> <br/> </li><li><cite style=“color:#669966;text-decoration: overline;”>{But go forth on}</cite> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>the</cite> <cite style=“text-decoration: overline;color:#CC9900”>non-atomic</cite> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>omnipresence of my body.| Done later as above.</cite> </li><li>Then the priest answered & said unto <br/> </li><li>the Queen of Space, kissing her lovely brows<br/> </li><li>and the dew of her light bathing his whole <br/> </li><li>body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat<br/> </li><li>O Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let it </li></ol>

<a name=“7”></a><h2> 7</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>7</cite> </pre> <ol><li>be ever thus that men speak not of <br/> </li><li>Thee as One but as None and let <br/> </li><li>them speak not of thee at all since <br/> </li><li>thou art continuous.<br/> </li><li>None, breathed the light, faint & faery, of <br/> </li><li>the stars, and two. For I am divided <br/> </li><li>for love's sake, for the chance of union.<br/> </li><li>This is the creation of the world that <br/> </li><li>the pain of <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>disunion</cite>division is as nothing and<br/> </li><li>the joy of dissolution all.<br/> </li><li>For these fools of men and their </li></ol> <a name=“8”></a><h2> 8</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>8</cite> </pre> <ol><li>woes care not thou at all! They feel<br/> </li><li>little; what is, is balanced by weak <br/> </li><li>joys; but ye are my chosen ones.<br/> </li><li>Obey my prophet! follow out the <br/> </li><li>ordeals of my knowledge! seek me <br/> </li><li>only! Then the joys of my love will <br/> </li><li>redeem ye from all pain. This is <br/> </li><li>so: I swear it by the vault of my <br/> </li><li>body; by my sacred heart and tongue; <br/> </li><li>by all I can give, by all I desire of <br/> </li><li>ye all.<br/> </li><li>Then the priest fell into a deep trance or </li></ol> <a name=“9”></a><h2> 9</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>9</cite> </pre> <ol><li>swoon & said unto the Queen of Heaven<br/> </li><li>Write <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>us</cite>unto us the ordeals write unto <br/> </li><li>us the rituals write unto us the law.<br/> </li><li>But she said the ordeals I write not<br/> </li><li>the rituals shall be half known and <br/> </li><li>half concealed: the Law is for all<br/> </li><li>This that thou writest is the threefold <br/> </li><li>book of Law<br/> </li><li>My scribe Ankh-af-na-khonsu the <br/> </li><li>priest of the princes shall not in one <br/> </li><li>letter change this book; but lest there <br/> </li><li>be folly, he shall comment thereupon <br/> </li><li>by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khuit. </li></ol> <a name=“10”></a><h2> 10</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>10</cite> </pre> <ol><li>Also the mantras and spells; the <br/> </li><li>obeah and the wanga; the work of <br/> </li><li>the wand and the work of the <br/> </li><li>sword: these he shall learn and teach.<br/> </li><li>He must teach; but he may make severe <br/> </li><li>the ordeals.<br/> </li><li>The word of the Law is Θελημα.<br/> </li><li>Who calls us Thelemites will do no <br/> </li><li>wrong, if he look but close into the <br/> </li><li>word. For there are <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>three</cite>therein Three <br/> </li><li>Grades. the Hermit and the Lover and <br/> </li><li>the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt </li></ol> <a name=“11”></a><h2> 11</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>11</cite> </pre> <ol><li>shall be the whole of the Law.<br/> </li><li>The word of Sin is Restriction. O man! <br/> </li><li>refuse not thy wife, if she will. O <br/> </li><li>lover, if thou wilt, depart. There is <br/> </li><li>no bond that can unite the divided but <br/> </li><li>love: all else is a curse. Accurséd! <br/> </li><li>Accurséd! be it to the aeons. Hell.<br/> </li><li>Let it be that state of manyhood <br/> </li><li>bound and loathing. So with thy all<br/> </li><li>thou hast no right but to do thy will<br/> </li><li>Do that and no other shall say nay.<br/> </li><li>For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, </li></ol> <a name=“12”></a><h2> 12</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>12</cite> </pre> <ol><li>delivered from the lust of result, is <br/> </li><li>every way perfect<br/> </li><li>The Perfect and the Perfect are one <br/> </li><li>Perfect and not two; nay, are none!<br/> </li><li>Nothing is a secret key of this law<br/> </li><li>Sixty-one the Jews call it; I call it <br/> </li><li>eight, eighty, four hundred & eighteen.<br/> </li><li>But they <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>half</cite>have the half: unite by thine <br/> </li><li>art so that all disappear.<br/> </li><li>My prophet is a fool with his one one<br/> </li><li>one; are not they the Ox and none <br/> </li><li>by the Book. </li></ol> <a name=“13”></a><h2> 13</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>13</cite> </pre> <ol><li>Abrogate <cite style=“color:#669966”>{are}</cite> all rituals, all ordeals, all <br/> </li><li>words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit hath <br/> </li><li>taken his seat in the East at the Equinox <br/> </li><li>of the Gods and let Asar be with Isa<br/> </li><li>who also are one. But they are not of <br/> </li><li>me Let Asar be the adorant, Isa the <br/> </li><li>sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and <br/> </li><li>splendour is the Lord initiating.<br/> </li><li>There is a word to say about the Hierophantic <br/> </li><li>task. Behold! there are three ordeals in <br/> </li><li>one, and it may be given in three ways. <br/> </li><li>The gross must pass through fire; let the </li></ol> <a name=“14”></a><h2> 14</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>14</cite> </pre> <ol><li>fine be tried in intellect, and the <br/> </li><li>lofty chosen ones in the highest. Thus <br/> </li><li>ye have star & star system & system<br/> </li><li>let not one know well the other.<br/> </li><li>There are four gates to one palace; <br/> </li><li>the floor of that palace is of silver and <br/> </li><li>gold, lapis lazuli & jasper are there, and <br/> </li><li>all rare scents jasmine & rose, and the <br/> </li><li>emblems of death. Let him enter in turn <br/> </li><li>or at once the four gates; let him stand <br/> </li><li>on the floor of the palace. Will he <br/> </li><li>not sink? <u>Amn</u>. Ho! warrior, if thy <br/> </li><li>servant sink? But there are means </li></ol> <a name=“15”></a><h2> 15</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>15</cite> </pre> <ol><li>and means. Be goodly therefore: dress ye <br/> </li><li>all in fine apparel eat rich foods and <br/> </li><li>drink sweet wines and wines that foam. <br/> </li><li><cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>but</cite> Also, take your fill and will of <br/> </li><li>love as ye <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>whe</cite>will, when, where and with <br/> </li><li>whom ye will. But always unto me.<br/> </li><li>If this be not aright; if ye confound <br/> </li><li>the space-marks, saying: They are one<br/> </li><li>or saying, They are many; if the ritual <br/> </li><li>be not ever unto me: then expect <br/> </li><li>the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit.<br/> </li><li>This shall regenerate the world, the little </li></ol> <a name=“16”></a><h2> 16</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>16</cite> </pre>

In line 1, “world” is a correction over an initial word that is illegible.

<ol><li><cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>?</cite>world my sister, my heart & my tongue,<br/> </li><li>unto whom I send this kiss. Also, o <br/> </li><li>scribe and prophet though thou be of the <br/> </li><li>princes it shall not assuage thee nor <br/> </li><li>absolve thee. But ecstasy be thine and <br/> </li><li>joy of earth: ever To me To me.<br/> </li><li>Change not as much as the style <br/> </li><li>of a letter; for behold thou o prophet <br/> </li><li>shalt not behold all these mysteries <br/> </li><li>hidden therein.<br/> </li><li>The child of thy bowels, <u>h</u>e shall behold <br/> </li><li>them.<br/> </li><li>Expect him not from the East nor from </li></ol> <a name=“17”></a><h2> 17</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>17</cite> </pre> <ol><li>the West, for from no expected house <br/> </li><li>cometh that child. Aum! All words are <br/> </li><li>sacred and all prophets true; save only that <br/> </li><li>they understand a little; solve the first <br/> </li><li>half of the equation, leave the second <br/> </li><li>unattacked. But thou hast all in the <br/> </li><li>clear light, and some though not all in the <br/> </li><li>dark.<br/> </li><li>Invoke me under my stars. Love is the <br/> </li><li>law, love under will. Nor let the fools <br/> </li><li>mistake love; for there are love and love. <br/> </li><li>There is the dove and there is the serpent. <br/> </li><li>Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath </li></ol> <a name=“18”></a><h2> 18</h2>

<table border=“0” style=“style=” color:#666666;float:right;width:185px;font-size:9px;line-height:13px;font-family:verdana, sans-serif;“”><tr><td valign=“top”><p style=“color:#666666;float:right;width:185px;font-size:9px;line-height:13px;font-family:verdana, sans-serif;”>The mark (top graphic) in line 4 is clearly an overwrite, but the original mark is inconclusive. Crowley later claimed it was the Hebrew letter Tzaddi (bottom graphic). Based on an examination of the original strokes (middle graphic) there is a clear “o” shape that does not follow his regular O's, and is not a part of the Tzaddi letterform. There may be minor strokes obscured by the added lines. </td><td valign=“top” style=“text-align:center”> <p><img alt=“Image:Tzaddi 1.gif” src=“https://hermetic.com/_media/eidolons/tzaddi_1.gif” width=“73” height=“55” border=“0”/><br/> <img alt=“Image:Tzaddi 2.gif” src=“https://hermetic.com/_media/eidolons/tzaddi_2.gif” width=“73” height=“55” border=“0”/><br/> <img alt=“Image:Tzaddi 3.gif” src=“https://hermetic.com/_media/eidolons/tzaddi_3.gif” width=“50” height=“61” border=“0”/> </td></tr></table>

<pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>18</cite> </pre> <ol><li>chosen, knowing the law of the fortress </li><li>and the great mystery of the House of God </li><li>All these old letters of my Book are </li><li>aright; but [graphic] is not the Star. This </li><li>also is secret: my prophet shall reveal </li><li>it to the wise. </li><li>I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, </li><li>not faith, while in life, upon death; peace </li><li>unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand </li><li>aught in sacrifice. </li><li>My incense is of resinous woods & gums </li><li>and there is no blood therein: because of </li><li>my hair the trees of Eternity. </li></ol> <a name=“19”></a><h2> 19</h2>

In <i>Commentaries</i>, Crowley writes:<p> In the original MSS. the second paragraph begins “The shape of my star is”—and then breaks off—the Scribe was unable to hear what was being said. This was presumably because his mind was so full of preconceived ideas about the different kinds of stars appropriate to various ideas. An alternate phrase was subsequently dictated to the Scarlet Woman, and inserted in the manuscript by her own hand.</p>

<ol><li>My number is 11, as all their numbers </li><li>who are of us. <cite style=“color:#669966”>{(Lost 1 phrase)} {The shape of my star is—}</cite> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>The Five Pointed Star, with a Circle in the Middle, & the circle is Red</cite> My colour is black to the </li><li>blind, but the blue & gold are seen of the </li><li>seeing. Also I have a secret glory for </li><li>them that love me. </li><li>But to love me is better than all things: if </li><li>under the night-stars in the desert thou </li><li>presently burnest mine incense before me </li><li>invoking me with a pure heart and the </li><li>Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come </li><li>a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss </li><li>wilt thou then be willing to give all; </li></ol>

<a name=“20”></a><h2> 20</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>20</cite> </pre> <ol><li>but whoso gives one particle of dust <br/> </li><li>shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall <br/> </li><li>gather goods and store of women and <br/> </li><li>spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye <br/> </li><li>shall exceed the nations of the earth <br/> </li><li>in spendour & pride; but always in the <br/> </li><li>love of me, and so shall ye come to <br/> </li><li>my joy. I charge you earnestly to come <br/> </li><li>before me in a single robe and covered <br/> </li><li>with a rich headdress. I love you I yearn to <br/> </li><li>you. Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous I <br/> </li><li>who am all pleasure and purple </li></ol> <a name=“21”></a><h2> 21</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>21</cite> </pre> <ol><li>and drunkenness of the innermost sense<br/> </li><li>desire you. Put on the wings and arouse <br/> </li><li>the coiled splendour within you: come unto me<br/> </li><li>At all my meetings with you shall the <br/> </li><li>priestess say—and her eyes shall burn <br/> </li><li>with desire as she stands bare and rejoicing <br/> </li><li>in my secret temple—To me! To me! <br/> </li><li>calling forth the <cite style=“color:#669966”>{flame of the}</cite> hearts of all in her <br/> </li><li>love-chant.<br/> </li><li>Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! <br/> </li><li>Burn to me perfumes! Wear to me jewels! <br/> </li><li>Drink to me, for I love you! I love you! </li></ol> <a name=“22”></a><h2> 22</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>22</cite> </pre>

In line 1, “lidded” has been changed from “lide”—I believe this is a simple spelling error that was immediately corrected. Also, The N in “Nuit” (line 5) overwrites the letter “M” (as in sheets 4 and 5)—however, it also looks like there is an “i”.

<ol><li>I am the blue-lid<cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>e</cite>ded daughter of Sunset; I am <br/> </li><li>the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-<br/> </li><li>sky.<br/> </li><li>To me! To me!<br/> </li><li>The Manifestation of <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>Mi</cite>Nuit is at an <br/> </li><li>end. </li></ol> <p><br/> </p> <hr/> <a name=“Chapter_II”></a><h2> Chapter II</h2> <p><i>Written on April 9, 1904</i> </p> <hr/> <a name=“23”></a><h2> 23</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>1</cite> </pre> <ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>1</cite> Nu! the hiding of Hadit. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>2</cite> Come! all ye, and learn the secret that </li><li>hath not yet been revealed. I Hadit am </li><li>the complement of Nu my bride. I am not </li><li>extended, and Khabs is the name of my House. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>3</cite> In the sphere I am everywhere, the centre, as </li><li>she, the circumference, is nowhere found. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>4</cite> Yet she shall be known & I never. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>5</cite> Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. </li><li>Let the evil ones be cast away; let the </li><li>good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall </li><li>this Knowledge go aright. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>6.</cite> I am the flame that burns in every heart of </li><li>man, and in the core of every star. I am </li></ol> <a name=“24”></a><h2> 24</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>2</cite> </pre> <ol><li>Life, and the giver of Life; yet therefore is </li><li>The knowledge of me the knowledge of death. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>7.</cite> I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the </li><li>axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. </li><li>“Come unto me” is a foolish word; for it is I that </li><li>go. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>8</cite> Who worshipped Heru-pa-kraath have </li><li>worshipped me; ill, for I am the worshipper. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>9</cite> Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; </li><li>that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they </li><li>pass & are done; but there is that which </li><li>remains. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>10.</cite> O prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>11.</cite> I see thee hate the hand & the pen; but I am </li></ol> <a name=“25”></a><h2> 25</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>3</cite> </pre> <ol><li>stronger. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>12</cite> Because of me in Thee which thou knewest not. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>13.</cite> for why? Because thou wast the knower, </li><li>and me. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>14.</cite> Now let there be a veiling of this shrine: now </li><li>let the light devour men and eat them </li><li>up with blindness! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>15.</cite> For I am perfect, being Not; and my number </li><li>is nine by the fools; but with the just I am </li><li>eight, and one in eight: Which is vital, for </li><li>I am none indeed. The Empress and the King </li><li>are not of me; for there is a further secret. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>16</cite> I am The Empress & the Hierophant. Thus </li><li>eleven, as my bride is eleven. </li></ol> <a name=“26”></a><h2> 26</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>4</cite> </pre> <ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>17.</cite> Hear me, ye people of sighing! </li><li>The sorrows of pain and regret </li><li>Are left to the dead and the dying, </li><li>The folk that not know me as yet. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>18</cite> These are dead, these fellows; they feel not. We </li><li>are not for the poor and sad: the lords of the </li><li>earth are our kinsfolk. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>19</cite> Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the </li><li>highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: </li><li>who sorroweth is not of us. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>20</cite> Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and </li><li>delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. </li></ol> <a name=“27”></a><h2> 27</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>5</cite> </pre> <ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>21</cite> We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: </li><li>let them die in their misery. For they feel </li><li>not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp </li><li>down the wretched & the weak: this is the </li><li>law of the strong: this is our law and the </li><li>joy of the world. Think not, o king, upon that </li><li>lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt </li><li>not die, but live! Now let it be understood: </li><li>If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain </li><li>in pure ecstasy for ever Nuit Hadit Ra-Hoor- </li><li>Khuit. The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light these </li><li>are for the servants of the Star & the Snake </li></ol> <a name=“28”></a><h2> 28</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>6</cite> </pre> <ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>22</cite> I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight </li><li>and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men </li><li>with drunkenness. To worship me take wine </li><li>and strange drugs whereof I will tell my </li><li>prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not </li><li>harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly </li><li>against self. The exposure of innocence </li><li>is a lie. Be strong, o man, lust, enjoy </li><li>all things of sense and rapture: fear not </li><li>that any God shall deny thee for this. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>23</cite> I am alone: there is no God where I am. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>24</cite> Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there </li><li>are also of my friends who be hermits. Now </li></ol> <a name=“29”></a><h2> 29</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>7.</cite> </pre> <ol><li>think not to find them in the forest or on the </li><li>mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by </li><li>magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, </li><li>and fire and light in their eyes, and masses </li><li>of flaming hair about them; there shall ye </li><li>find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at </li><li>victorious armies, at all the joy; and there </li><li>shall be in them a joy a million times </li><li>greater than this. Beware lest any </li><li>force another, King against King! Love one </li><li>another with burning hearts; on the low men </li><li>trample in the fierce lust of your pride </li></ol> <a name=“30”></a><h2> 30</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>8</cite> </pre> <ol><li>in the day of your wrath. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>25.</cite> Ye are against the people, O my chosen! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>26.</cite> I am the secret Serpent coiled about to </li><li>spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I </li><li>lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. </li><li>If I droop down mine head, and shoot </li><li>forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, </li><li>and I and the earth are one. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>27.</cite> There is great danger in me; for who doth </li><li>not understand these runes shall make </li><li>a great miss. He shall fall down into </li><li>the pit called Because, and there he shall </li></ol> <a name=“31”></a><h2> 31</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>9</cite> </pre> <ol><li>perish with the dogs of Reason. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>28</cite> Now a curse upon Because and his kin! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>29</cite> May Because be accursÃ©d for ever! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>30</cite> If Will stops and cries Why, invoking </li><li>Because, then Will stops & does nought. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>31</cite> If Power asks why, then is Power weakness. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>32</cite> Also reason is a lie; for there is a </li><li>factor infinite & unknown; & all their </li><li>words are skew-wise. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>33</cite> Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>34.</cite> But ye, o my people, rise up & awake! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>35.</cite> Let the rituals be rightly performed with </li><li>joy & beauty! </li></ol> <a name=“32”></a><h2> 32</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>10</cite> </pre> <ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>36</cite> There are rituals of the elements and feasts </li><li>of the times. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>37</cite> A feast for the first night of the Prophet </li><li>and his Bride! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>38</cite> A feast for the three days of the writing of </li><li>the Book of the Law. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>39</cite> A feast for Tahuti and the child of the </li><li>Prophet—secret, O Prophet! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>40</cite> A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a </li><li>feast for the Equinox of the Gods. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>41</cite> A feast for fire and a feast for water; a </li><li>feast for life and a greater feast for death. </li></ol> <a name=“33”></a><h2> 33</h2>

In line 3, Crowley wrote “Nuit” and hastily scribbled out the “it”

<pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>11</cite> </pre> <ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>42</cite> A feast every day in your hearts in the </li><li>joy of my rapture. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>43</cite> A feast every night unto Nu<cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>it</cite>, and the </li><li>pleasure of uttermost delight. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>44</cite> Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread </li><li>hereafter. There is the dissolution, and </li><li>eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>45</cite> There is death for the dogs. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>46</cite> Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear </li><li>in thine heart? </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>47</cite> Where I am these are not. </li></ol> <a name=“34”></a><h2> 34</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>12</cite> </pre> <ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>48</cite> Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. </li><li>I am not for them. I console not: I hate </li><li>the consoled & the consoler. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>49</cite> I am unique & conqueror. I am not of the </li><li>slaves that perish. Be they damned & </li><li>dead! Amen. [This is of the 4: there is </li><li>a fifth who is invisible & therein am I </li><li>as a babe in an egg.] </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>50</cite> Blue am I and gold in the light of my </li><li>bride: but the red gleam is in my eyes </li><li>& my spangles are purple & green. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>51.</cite> Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher </li></ol> <a name=“35”></a><h2> 35</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>13</cite> </pre> <ol><li>than eyesight. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>52</cite> There is a veil: that veil is black. It is </li><li>the veil of the modest woman; it is the veil </li><li>of sorrow, & the pall of death: this is none </li><li>of me. Tear down that lying spectre of </li><li>the centuries: veil not your vices in </li><li>virtuous words: these vices are my service; </li><li>ye do well, & I will reward you here and </li><li>hereafter. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>53</cite> Fear not, o prophet, when these words are </li><li>said, thou shalt not be sorry. Thou art </li><li>emphatically my chosen; and blessed are </li></ol> <a name=“36”></a><h2> 36</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>14</cite> </pre> <ol><li>the eyes that thou shalt look upon with </li><li>gladness. But I will hide thee in a </li><li>mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall </li><li>fear thou art fallen: but I lift thee up. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>54</cite> Nor shall they who cry aloud their folly </li><li>that thou meanest nought avail; thou </li><li>shall reveal it: thou availest: they are </li><li>the slaves of because: They are not of </li><li>me. The stops as thou wilt; the letters </li><li>change them not in style or value! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>55</cite> Thou shalt obtain the order & value of </li><li>the English Alphabet; thou shalt find </li></ol> <a name=“37”></a><h2> 37</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>15</cite> </pre> <ol><li>new symbols to attribute them unto. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>56</cite> Begone! ye mockers; even though ye laugh </li><li>in my honour ye shall laugh not long: then </li><li>when ye are sad know that I have </li><li>forsaken you. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>57.</cite> He that is righteous shall be righteous still; </li><li>he that is filthy shall be filthy still. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>58</cite> Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye </li><li>are, & not other. Therefore the kings of </li><li>the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves </li><li>shall serve. There is none that shall </li><li>be cast down or lifted up: all is ever </li></ol> <a name=“38”></a><h2> 38</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>16</cite> </pre> <ol><li>as it was. Yet there are masked ones my </li><li>servants: it may be that yonder beggar is </li><li>a King. A King may choose his garment as </li><li>he will: there is no certain test: but a </li><li>beggar cannot hide his poverty. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>59</cite> Beware therefore! Love all, lest perchance is a </li><li>King concealed! Say you so? Fool! If he </li><li>be a King, thou canst not hurt him. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>60</cite> Therefore strike hard & low, and to hell </li><li>with them, master! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>61</cite> There is a light before thine eyes, o prophet, </li><li>a light undesired, most desirable. </li></ol> <a name=“39”></a><h2> 39</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>17</cite> </pre> <ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>62</cite> I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses </li><li>of the stars rain hard upon thy body. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>63</cite> Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness </li><li>of the inspiration: the expiration is sweeter </li><li>than death, more rapid and laughterful than </li><li>a caress of Hellâ€™s own worm. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>64</cite> Oh! thou art overcome: we are upon thee; </li><li>our delight is all over thee: hail! hail! </li><li>prophet of Nu! prophet of Had! prophet of </li><li>Ra-Hoor-Khu! Now rejoice! now come in </li><li>our splendour & rapture! Come in our passionate </li><li>peace, & write sweet words for the Kings! </li></ol> <a name=“40”></a><h2> 40</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>18</cite> </pre> <ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>65</cite> I am the Master: thou art the Holy Chosen One. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>66</cite> Write, & find ecstasy in writing! Work, & </li><li>be our bed in working! Thrill with the </li><li>joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall </li><li>be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. Thy </li><li>death shall be the seal of the promise of </li><li>our agelong love. Come! lift up thine heart </li><li>& rejoice! We are one; we are none. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>67</cite> Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture; </li><li>fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>68</cite> Harder! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! </li></ol> <a name=“41”></a><h2> 41</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>19</cite> </pre> <ol><li>breathe not so deep—die! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>69</cite> Ah! Ah! What do I feel? Is the word </li><li>exhausted? </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>70</cite> There is help & hope in other spells. Wisdom </li><li>says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more </li><li>joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! </li><li>If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety </li><li>rules of art: if thou love, exceed by </li><li>delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let </li><li>there be subtlety therein! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>71</cite> But exceed! exceed! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>72</cite> Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly </li></ol> <a name=“42”></a><h2> 42</h2>

There are two sets of curved lines, above and below, to connect the numbers “24” and “89”

<pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>20</cite> </pre> <ol><li>mine—and doubt it not, an if thou art </li><li>ever joyous!—death is the crown of all. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>73</cite> Ah! Ah! Death! Death! thou shalt long for </li><li>death. Death is forbidden, o man, unto thee. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>74</cite> The length of thy longing shall be the strength </li><li>of its glory. He that lives long & desires </li><li>death much is ever the King among the Kings. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>75</cite> Aye! listen to the numbers & the words: </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>76</cite> 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y </li><li>X 24 89 R P S T O V A L. What </li><li>meaneth this, o prophet? Thou knowest </li><li>not; nor shalt thou know ever. There </li><li>cometh one to follow thee: he shall </li></ol> <a name=“43”></a><h2> 43</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>21</cite> </pre> <ol><li>expound it. But remember, o chosen </li><li>one, to be me; to follow the love of </li><li>Nu in the star-lit heaven; to look forth </li><li>upon men, to tell them this glad word. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>77</cite> O be thou proud and mighty among men! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>78</cite> Lift up thyself! for there is none like unto </li><li>thee among men or among Gods! Lift up </li><li>thyself, o my prophet, thy stature shall </li><li>surpass the stars. They shall worship thy </li><li>name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the </li><li>number of the man; and the name of </li></ol> <a name=“44”></a><h2> 44</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>22</cite> </pre> <ol><li>thy house 418. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>79.</cite> The end of the hiding of Hadit; and </li><li>blessing & worship to the prophet of </li><li>the lovely Star! </li></ol> <p><br/> </p> <hr/> <a name=“Chapter_III”></a><h2> Chapter III</h2> <p><i>Written on April 10, 1904</i> </p> <hr/> <a name=“45”></a><h2> 45</h2>

The word “black” in the note at the top could be another word, but not that I can tell. The handwriting identifies the author as Crowley. This comment refers to a large liquid stain in the middle of the sheet. Below is a tracing of the stain.<br/><img alt=“Image:Stain.gif” src=“https://hermetic.com/_media/eidolons/stain.gif” width=“83” height=“125” border=“0”/>

<pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>1</cite> </pre> <p>         <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>leave stain on paper—not <u>in black</u></cite> </p> <ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>1</cite> Abrahadabra! the reward of Ra Hoor Khut. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>2</cite> There is division hither homeward; there is a </li><li>word not known. Spelling is defunct; all is not </li><li>aught. Beware! Hold! Raise the spell of </li><li>Ra-Hoor-Khuit. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>3</cite> Now let it be first understood that I am </li><li>a god of War and of Vengeance. I shall </li><li>deal hardly with them. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>4</cite> Choose ye an island! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>5</cite> Fortify it! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>6</cite> Dung it about with enginery of war! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>7</cite> I will give you a war-engine. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>8</cite> With it ye shall smite the peoples and </li></ol> <a name=“46”></a><h2> 46</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>2</cite> </pre> <ol><li>none shall stand before you. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>9</cite> Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! this </li><li>is the Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus </li><li>shall my worship be about my secret house. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>10</cite> Get the stÃ©lÃ© of revealing itself; set it </li><li>in thy secret temple—and that temple </li><li>is already aright disposed—& it shall be your </li><li>Kiblah for ever. It shall not fade, but </li><li>miraculous colour shall come back to it </li><li>day after day. Close it in locked glass for a </li><li>proof to the world. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>11</cite> This shall be your only proof. I forbid argument. </li><li>Conquer! That is enough. I will make easy </li></ol> <a name=“47”></a><h2> 47</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>3</cite> </pre>

The “a” and “u” in “abstruction” (line 1) each have double underlines. Also, in line 9, the upper-case “H” in “Heathen” clearly overwrites an original lower-case “h”.

<ol><li>to you the <u>a</u>bstr<u>u</u>ction from the ill-ordered <br/> </li><li>house in the Victorious City. Thou shalt <br/> </li><li>thyself convey it with worship, o prophet, <br/> </li><li>though thou likest it not. Thou shalt have <br/> </li><li>danger & trouble. Ra-Hoor-Khu is with <br/> </li><li>thee. Worship me with fire & blood; worship <br/> </li><li>me with swords & with spears. Let the woman <br/> </li><li>be girt with a sword before me: let blood <br/> </li><li>flow to my name. Trample down the <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>h</cite>Heathen; be <br/> </li><li>upon them, o warrior, I will give you of their <br/> </li><li>flesh to eat!<br/> </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>12</cite>  Sacrifice cattle, little and big: after a child. </li></ol> <a name=“48”></a><h2> 48</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>4</cite> </pre>

In line 4, “thereof” was likely changed from the word “therefore” since the “o” clearly overwrites the letter “f”. Also, the “folk” correction in line 11 overwrites what I believe was initially to be the word “fools”.

<ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>13</cite>  But not now. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>14</cite>  Ye shall see that hour, o blesséd Beast, and </li><li>thou the Scarlet Concubine of his desire! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>15</cite>  Ye shall be sad there<cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>f</cite>of. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>16</cite>  Deem not too eagerly to catch the promises; fear </li><li>not to undergo the curses. Ye, even ye, know not </li><li>this meaning all. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>17</cite>  Fear not at all; fear neither men nor Fates, </li><li>nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor </li><li>laughter of the <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>foo</cite>folk folly, nor any other power </li><li>in heaven or upon the earth or under the </li><li>earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your </li></ol> <a name=“49”></a><h2> 49</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>5</cite> </pre> <ol><li>light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of </li><li>your arms. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>18</cite> Mercy let be off: damn them who pity. </li><li>Kill and torture; spare not; be upon them. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>19</cite> That stÃ©lÃ© they shall call the Abomination </li><li>of Desolation; count well its name, & it shall </li><li>be to you as 718. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>20</cite> Why? Because of the fall of Because, that </li><li>he is not there again. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>21</cite> Set up my image in the East: thou shalt buy </li><li>thee an image which I will show thee, especial, </li><li>not unlike the one thou knowest. And it shall </li><li>be suddenly easy for thee to do this. </li></ol> <a name=“50”></a><h2> 50</h2>

The ominous “x” in line 6 follows Crowley's pattern for the lowercase form (image on the left). An example of an upper case X (on the right, from sheet 42) shows a marked difference. You may draw your own conclusions as to any related meaning.<br/><br/><img alt=“Image:X(letter).gif” src=“https://hermetic.com/_media/eidolons/x_letter_.gif” width=“57” height=“49” border=“0”/>  <img alt=“Image:X(uppercase).png” src=“https://hermetic.com/_media/eidolons/x_uppercase_.png” width=“60” height=“56” border=“0”/>

<pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>6</cite> </pre> <ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>22.</cite> The other images group around me to support </li><li>me: let all be worshipped, for they shall </li><li>cluster to exalt me. I am the visible object </li><li>of worship; the others are secret; for the Beast </li><li>& his Bride are they: and for the winners of </li><li>the Ordeal x. What is this? Thou shalt know. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>23</cite> For perfume mix meal & honey & thick leavings </li><li>of red wine: then oil of Abramelin and </li><li>olive oil, and afterward soften & smooth </li><li>down with rich fresh blood! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>24</cite> The best blood is of the moon, monthly: then </li><li>the fresh blood of a child, or dropping from the </li></ol> <a name=“51”></a><h2> 51</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>7</cite> </pre> <ol><li>host of heaven: then of enemies; then </li><li>of the priest <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>of</cite>or <cite style=“color:#669966”>{of}</cite> the worshippers: last of </li><li>some beast, no matter what.<br/> </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>25</cite>  This burn: of this make cakes & eat <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>with</cite>unto </li><li>me. This hath also another use; let it be </li><li>laid before me, and kept thick with perfumes </li><li>of your orison: it shall become full of beetles </li><li>as it were and creeping things sacred unto me. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>26</cite>  These slay, naming your enemies & they shall </li><li>fall before you. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>27</cite>  Also these shall breed lust & power of lust in </li><li>you at the eating thereof. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>28</cite>  Also ye shall be strong in war. </li></ol> <a name=“52”></a><h2> 52</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>8</cite> </pre> <ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>29</cite> Moreover, be they long kept, it is better; for </li><li>they swell with my force. All before me. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>30</cite> My altar is of open brass work: burn thereon </li><li>in silver or gold. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>31</cite> There cometh a rich man from the West who </li><li>shall pour his gold upon thee. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>32</cite> From gold forge steel: </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>33</cite> Be ready to fly or to smite. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>34</cite> But your holy place shall be untouched </li><li>throughout the centuries: though with fire and </li><li>sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet </li><li>an invisible house there standeth and </li><li>shall stand until the fall of the Great </li></ol> <a name=“53”></a><h2> 53</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>9</cite> </pre> <ol><li>Equinox, when Hrumachis shall arise and </li><li>the double-wanded one assume my throne and </li><li>place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring </li><li>fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall </li><li>awake the lust & worship of the Snake; another </li><li>soul of God and beast shall mingle in the </li><li>globÃ©d priest; another sacrifice shall stain </li><li>the tomb; another king shall reign; and blessing </li><li>no longer be poured To the Hawk-headed </li><li>mystical Lord! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>35.</cite> The half of the word of Heru-ra-ha, called </li><li>Hoor-pa-kraat and Ra-Hoor-Khut. </li></ol> <a name=“54”></a><h2> 54</h2>

The two comments, written later in pencil, refer to the eventual addition of Crowley's poetic interpretation of the text from the Stele of Revealing. In <i>Comments</i>, he writes: <br/><br/><i>This passage now following appears to be a dramatic presentation of the scene shown in the Stele. The interpretation is to be that Ankh-f-n-Khonsu recorded for my benefit the details of the Magical Formula of Ra Hoor Khuit. To link together the centuries in this manner is nothing strange to the accomplished Magician; but in view of the true character of Time as it appears to the Adept in Mysticism, the riddle vanishes altogether.</i>

<pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>10</cite> </pre> <ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>36</cite>  Then said the prophet unto the God. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>37.</cite>  I adore thee in the song<br/><cite style=“color:#669966”>{“I am the Lord of Thebes” etc from vellum book}</cite> </li><li>Unity — <br/><cite style=“color:#669966”>{———“fill me”}</cite> </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>38.</cite> So that thy light is in me; & its red flame </li><li>is as a sword in my hand to push thy </li><li>order. There is a secret door that I shall </li><li>make to establish thy way in all the quarters </li><li>(these are the adorations, as thou hast written) </li><li>as it is said: </li><li>“The light is mine” etc<br/><cite style=“color:#669966”>{from vellum book to “Ra-Hoor-Khuit”}</cite> </li></ol> <a name=“55”></a><h2> 55</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>11</cite> </pre> <ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>39</cite> All this and a book to say how thou </li><li>didst come hither and a reproduction of </li><li>this ink and paper for ever—for in it is </li><li>the word secret & not only in the English— </li><li>and thy comment upon this the Book of the Law </li><li>shall be printed beautifully in red ink and </li><li>black upon beautiful paper made by hand; </li><li>and to each man and woman that thou </li><li>meetest, were it but to dine or to drink </li><li>at them, it is the Law to give. Then they </li><li>shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; </li><li>it is no odds. Do this quickly! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>40</cite> But the work of the comment? That is easy; and </li></ol> <a name=“56”></a><h2> 56</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>12</cite> </pre> <ol><li>Hadit burning in thy heart shall make swift </li><li>and secure thy pen. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>41.</cite>  Establish at thy Kaaba <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>cl</cite> a clerk<cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>ship</cite>-house: </li><li>all must be done well and with business </li><li>way. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>42.</cite>  The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only </li><li>the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou </li><li>shalt know & destroy the traitors. I am </li><li>Ra-Hoor-Khuit and I am powerful to protect </li><li>my servant. Success is thy proof: argue not; </li><li>convert not: talk not over much! Them </li><li>that seek to entrap thee, to overthrow thee, them </li><li>attack without pity or quarter & destroy them </li><li>utterly. Swift as a trodden serpent turn </li></ol> <a name=“57”></a><h2> 57</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>13</cite> </pre>

In line 10, it seems that “harlot” was initially to be “whore”.

<ol><li>and strike! Be thou yet deadlier than he! </li><li>Drag down their souls to awful torment: laugh </li><li>at their fear: spit upon them! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>43</cite> Let the Scarlet Woman beware! If pity and </li><li>compassion and tenderness visit her heart </li><li>if she leave my work to toy with old </li><li>sweetnesses then shall my vengeance be </li><li>known. I will slay me her child: I will </li><li>alienate her heart: I will cast her out </li><li>from men: as a shrinking and despised <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>w</cite>harlot </li><li>shall she crawl through dusk wet streets, and </li><li>die cold and an-hungered. </li></ol> <a name=“58”></a><h2> 58</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>14</cite> </pre> <ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>44.</cite> But let her raise herself in pride. Let </li><li>her follow me in my way. Let her </li><li>work the work of wickedness! Let her kill </li><li>her heart! Let her be loud and adulterous; </li><li>let her be covered with jewels, and rich </li><li>garments, and let her be shameless before </li><li>all men! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>45</cite> Then will I lift her to pinnacles of power: </li><li>then will I breed from her a child mightier </li><li>than all the kings of the earth I will fill </li><li>her with joy: with my force shall she see </li><li>& strike at the worship of Nu she shall </li><li>achieve Hadit. </li></ol> <a name=“59”></a><h2> 59</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>15</cite> </pre> <ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>46.</cite> I am the warrior Lord of the Forties: the </li><li>Eighties cower before me, & are abased </li><li>I will bring you to victory & joy: I will be </li><li>at your arms in battle & ye shall </li><li>delight to slay. Success is your proof; </li><li>courage is your armour; go on, go on, in </li><li>my strength; & ye shall turn not back for </li><li>any. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>47</cite> This book shall be translated into all </li><li>tongues: but always with the original in </li><li>the writing of the Beast; for in the </li></ol> <a name=“60”></a><h2> 60</h2>

A grid is drawn covering the entire page. Seven lines (eight squares) across marked a—h and nine lines (ten squares) down, marked 1—10. There is a line drawn diagonally across the page, intersecting squares 1c, 2c, 3c, 4d, 5d, 5e, 6e, and 7e. The intersected letters are: s t B e t I s a y f a. The “circle squared” graphic is to the right.<br/><br/> <img alt=“Image:Circlesquared.gif” src=“https://hermetic.com/_media/eidolons/circlesquared.gif” width=“70” height=“57” border=“0”/>

<pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>16</cite> </pre> <ol><li>chance shape of the letters and their </li><li>position to one another: in these are mysteries </li><li>that no Beast shall divine. Let him </li><li>not seek to try: but one cometh after </li><li>him, whence I say not, who shall </li><li>discover the Key of it all. Then </li><li>this line drawn is a key: then this </li><li>circle squared [graphic] in its failure is a </li><li>key also. And Abrahadabra. It shall </li><li>be his child & that strangely. Let him not </li><li>seek after this; for thereby alone can he </li><li>fall from it. </li></ol> <a name=“61”></a><h2> 61</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>17</cite> </pre> <ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>48</cite> Now this mystery of the letters is done, and </li><li>I want to go on to the holier place. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>49</cite> I am in a secret fourfold word, the blasphemy against </li><li>all gods of men. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>50</cite> Curse them! Curse them! Curse them!a </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>51</cite> With my Hawkâ€™s head I peck at the eyes of </li><li>Jesus as he hangs upon the cross </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>52</cite> I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed & </li><li>blind him </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>53</cite> With my claws I tear out the flesh of the </li><li>Indian and the Buddhist, Mongol and </li><li>Din. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>54</cite> Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your </li></ol> <a name=“62”></a><h2> 62</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>18</cite> </pre> <ol><li>crapulous creeds. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>55</cite> Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: </li><li>for her sake let all chaste women be </li><li>utterly despised among you. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>56</cite> Also for beautyâ€™s sake and loveâ€™s. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>57</cite> Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers </li><li>who dare not fight, but play: all fools despise. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>58.</cite> But the keen and the proud, the royal and </li><li>the lofty; ye are brothers! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>59</cite> As brothers fight ye. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>60</cite> There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>61</cite> There is an end of the word of the God </li></ol> <a name=“63”></a><h2> 63</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>19</cite> </pre> <ol><li>enthroned in Raâ€™s seat, lightening the girders </li><li>of the soul. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>62</cite> To Me do ye reverence; to me come ye </li><li>through tribulation of ordeal, which is </li><li>bliss. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>63</cite> The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and </li><li>its comment & he understandeth it not. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>64</cite> Let him come through the first ordeal & </li><li>it will be to him as silver </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>65</cite> Through the second gold </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>66</cite> Through the third, stones of precious water. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>67</cite> Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the </li><li>intimate fire. </li></ol> <a name=“64”></a><h2> 64</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>20</cite> </pre>

In <i>Commentaries,</i> Crowley writes:<br/><br/><i>“Coph Nia”: the original MS. has “—”; left incomplete as not having been properly heard. The present text was filled in later in her own hand by the first Scarlet Woman.</i>

<ol><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>68</cite> Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its </li><li>enemies who say not so, are mere liars. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>69</cite> There is success </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>70</cite> I am the Hawk-Headed Lord of Silence </li><li>& of Strength; my nemyss shrouds the </li><li>night-blue sky. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>71</cite> Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of </li><li>the world! for your time is nigh at hand </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>72</cite> I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power </li><li>the wand of the <cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>Copha?</cite> <cite style=“color:#669966”>{Force of Coph</cite><cite style=“text-decoration: overline; color:red”>a</cite> <cite style=“color:#669966”>Nia—}</cite> but my </li><li>left hand is empty, for I have crushed </li></ol> <a name=“65”></a><h2> 65</h2> <pre> <cite style=“color:#CC9900”>21</cite> </pre> <ol><li>an Universe; & nought remains. </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>73</cite> Paste the sheets from right to left and </li><li>from top to bottom: then behold! </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>74</cite> There is a splendour in my name hidden </li><li>and glorious, as the sun of midnight is </li><li>ever the son </li><li><cite style=“color:#CC9900”>75</cite> The ending of the words is the Word </li><li>Abrahadabra. </li><li>The Book of the Law is Written </li><li>and Concealed </li><li>Aum. Ha. </li></ol>

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