There are many ethical injunctions of a revolutionary character in the Book [of the Law], but they are all particular cases of the general precept to realize one’s own absolute God-head and to act with the nobility which springs from that knowledge. Practically all vices springs from failure to do this.
Aleister Crowley, Confessions
But remember, o chosen one, to be me…
Liber AL vel Legis, II.76
Chapter One
Every man and every woman is a star. I.3
Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue! I.6
The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs. Worship then the Khabs, and behold my light shed over you! I.8-9
Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love! I.12
Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. I.22
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. I.32
Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I.40
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. I.41
Let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing. So with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay. I.42-43
For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. I.44
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. 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! This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart & my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss. I.51-53
Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under will. I.57
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; 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, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me! I.61
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! I.63
To me! To me! I.65
Chapter Two
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. II.9
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. II.17
These are dead, these fellows; they feel not. We are not for the poor and sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk. II.18
Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. II.20
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. II.21
Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. II.22
If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness. II.30-31
But ye, o my people, rise up & awake! Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy & beauty! II.34-35
Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu. II.44
Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart? Where I am these are not. II.46-47
Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I console not: I hate the consoled & the consoler. II.48
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. II.52
Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there are masked ones my servants: it may be that yonder beggar is a King. A King may choose his garment as he will: there is no certain test: but a beggar cannot hide his poverty. II.58
Beware therefore! Love all, lest perchance is a King concealed! Say you so? Fool! If he be a King, thou canst not hurt him. Therefore strike hard & low, and to hell with them, master! II.59-60
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! II.70
But exceed! exceed! Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly mine—and doubt it not, an if thou art ever joyous!—death is the crown of all. II.71-72
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. II.76
O be thou proud and mighty among men! 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 thy house 418. II.77-78
Chapter Three
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 light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms. III.17
Mercy let be off: damn them who pity! Kill and torture; spare not; be upon them! III.18
Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers who dare not fight, but play; all fools despise! But the keen and the proud, the royal and the lofty; ye are brothers! As brothers fight ye! III.57-59
There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. III.60