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1. Had! The manifestation of Nuit.

2.
The unveiling of the company of heaven.

3.
Every man and every woman is a star.

4.
Every number is infinite; there is no difference.

5.
Help me, o warrior lord of Thebes, in my unveiling before the Children
of men!

6.
Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue!

7.
Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat.

8.
The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs.

9.
Worship then the Khabs, and behold my light shed over you!

10.
Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many both their Gods & their men are fools.

12.
Come forth, o children, under the stars,

She bends in ecstasy to kiss

The secret ardours of Hadit.

The winged globe, the starry blue,

Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu!

15.
Now ye shall know that the chosen priest and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman is
all power given. They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring
the glory of the stars into the hearts of men.

16.
For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret
flame, and to her the stooping starlight.

17.
But ye are not so chosen.

18.
Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent!

19. O
azure-lidded woman, bend upon them!

20.
The key of the rituals is in the secret word which I have given unto him.

21.
With the God I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord
Hadit.

22.
Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret
name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space,
and the Infinite Stars ther, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be
no difference made among you between any one thing for
thereby there cometh hurt.

23.
But whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of all!

24. I
am Nuit, and my word is six and fifty.

25.
Divide, add, multiply, and understand.

26.
Then saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: Who am I, and what
shall be the sign? So she answered him, bendingdown, a lambent flame of blue,
all-touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth, & her
lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers:
Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity
of existence, the omnipresence of my body.

27.
Then the priest answered that
men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at
all, since thou art continuous!

28.
None, breathed the light, faint what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones.

32.
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.

33.
Then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon, Write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write
unto us the law!

34.
But she said: the ordeals I write not: the rituals shall be half known
and half concealed: the Law is for all.

35.
This that thou writest is the threefold book of Law.

36.
My scribe Ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not in one
letter change this book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment thereupon
by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khuit.

37.
Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga;
the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach.

38.
He must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals.

39.
The word of the Law is Thelema.

40.
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.

41.
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. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell.

42.
Let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing.
So with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will.

43.
Do that, and no other shall say nay.

44.
For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result,
is every way perfect.

45.
The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfect and not two; nay, are none!

46.
Nothing is a secret key of this law. Sixty-one the Jews call it; I call
it eight, eighty, four hundred are not they the Ox, and
none by the Book?

49.
Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit
hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods; and let Asar be
with Isa, who also are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant,
Isa the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating.

50.
There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are
three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. The gross must pass
through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones
in the highest. Thus ye have star & star, system let not one
know well the other!

51.
There are four gates to one palace; the floor of that
palace is of silver and gold; lapis lazuli and all rare
scents; jasmine let him stand on the floor of the palace. Will he
not sink? Amn. Ho! warrior, if thy servant sink? But there are means and means.
Be goodly therefore: dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and drink
sweet wines and wines that foam! Also, take your fill and will of love as ye
will, when, where and with whom ye will! But always unto me.

52.
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!

53.
This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart
for behold! thou, o prophet,
shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein.

55.
The child of thy bowels, he shall behold them.

56.
Expect him not from the East, nor from the West; for from no expected
house cometh that child. Aum! All words are sacred and all prophets true; save
only that they understand a little; solve the first half of the equation, leave
the second unattacked. But thou hast all in the clear light, and some, though
not all, in the dark.

57.
Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under
will. Nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. There is
the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath chosen,
knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God.

All these old letters of my Book are aright; but [Tzaddi] is not the Star.
This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise.

58. I
give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life,
upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice.

59.
My incense is of resinous woods and there is no blood therein:
because of my hair the trees of Eternity.

60.
My number is 11, as all their numbers who are of us. The Five Pointed
Star, with a Circle in the Middle, & the circle is Red. My colour is black
to the blind, but the blue 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 spendour 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!

62.
At all my meetings with you shall the priestess say -- and her eyes shall
burn with desire as she stands bare and rejoicing in my secret temple -- To
me! To me! calling forth the flame of the hearts of all in her love-chant.

63.
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!

64. I
am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of
the voluptuous night-sky.

65.
To me! To me!

66.
The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.

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 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 Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is theknowledge of me
the knowledge of death.

7. 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.

8.
Who worshipped Heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for I am the worshipper.

9.
Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but
as shadows; they pass but there is that which remains.

10. O
prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing.

11. I
see thee hate the hand but I am stronger.

12.
Because of me in Thee which thou knewest not.

13.
for why? Because thou wast the knower, and me.

14.
Now let there be a veiling of this shrine: now let the light devour men
and eat them up with blindness!

15.
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.

16. I
am The Empress they feel not. We are not for the poor
and sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk.

19.
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.

20.
Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and
fire, are of us.

21.
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 these are for the servants of the Star & the
Snake.

22. 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 wher I will tell my prophet, for there are also of my friends who
be hermits. Now 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, in the day
of your wrath.

25.
Ye are against the people, O my chosen!

26. 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.

27.
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 perish with the dogs of Reason.

28.
Now a curse upon Because and his kin!

29.
May Because be accursed for ever!

30.
If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops for there is a factor infinite &
all their words are skew-wise.

33.
Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog!

34.
But ye, o my people, rise up & awake!

35.
Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy a feast for life and a greater
feast for death!

42. A
feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture!

43. A
feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight!

44.
Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution,
and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu.

45.
There is death for the dogs.

46.
Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart?

47.
Where I am these are not.

48.
Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I console not:
I hate the consoled & the consoler.

49. 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,
& my spangles are purple
it is the veil of sorrow, ye do well, and blessed are 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.

54.
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!

55.
Thou shalt obtain the order thou
shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto.

56.
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.

57.
He that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is filthy shall
be filthy still.

58.
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.

59.
Beware therefore! Love all, lest perchance is a King concealed! Say you
so? Fool! If he be a King, thou canst not hurt him.

60.
Therefore strike hard and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon
thy body.

63.
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.

64.
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.

65. I
am the Master: thou art the Holy Chosen One.

66.
Write, & find ecstasy in writing! Work, & be our bed in working!
Thrill with the joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall be lovely: whososeeth
it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our age long
love. Come! lift up thine heart we are none.

67.
Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent
kisses!

68.
Harder! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep -- die!

69.
Ah! Ah! What do I feel? Is the word exhausted?

70.
There is help 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!

71.
But exceed! exceed!

72.
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.

73.
Ah! Ah! Death! Death! thou shalt long for death. Death is forbidden, o
man, unto thee.

74.
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.

75.
Aye! listen to the numbers nor shalt thou know ever. There cometh one
to follow thee: he shall expound it. But remember, o chose none, 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.

77. O
be thou proud and mighty among men!

78.
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.

79.
The end of the hiding of Hadit; and blessing 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 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 stele 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 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 worship me with swords 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 blessed Beast, and thou the Scarlet Concubine
of his desire!

15.
Ye shall be sad ther.

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 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 stele they shall call the Abomination of Desolation; count well its
name, 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 then of the priest or
of the worshippers: last of some beast, no matter what.

25.
This burn: of this make cakes 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 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 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 awakethe
lust another soul of God and beast shall mingle
in the globed 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 --

I am the Lord of Thebes, and I

The inspired forth-speaker of Mentu;

For me unveils the veiled sky,

The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu

Whose words are truth. I invoke, I greet

Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit!

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!

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 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!

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 winged 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 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 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 and
I am powerful to protect my servant. Success is thy proof: argue not; convert
not; talk not over much! Them that seek to entrap thee, to overthrow thee, them
attack without pity or quarter; 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 courage is your
armour; go on, go on, in my strength; for in the 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
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 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 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 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 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 study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after
the first reading.

Whosoever disregards this does so at his own risk and peril. These are most
dire.

Those who discuss the contents of this Book are to be shunned by all, as centres
of pestilence.

All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings,
each for himself.

There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
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