AL I, 8 is the first verse of many we come to in the Book of the Law that frankly looks odd. “Every man and every woman is a star” we can grasp. “Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue!” is obscure, but parses without much difficulty. But “The Khabs is […]

“The Comment” to the Book of the Law contains the following sentences: 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 […]

Thelema is, at the end of all analysis, an individual rather than a social philosophy, and the concept of “ethics”, as commonly understood, is wholly absent from it; as Crowley says in his “new comment” to AL II, 28: There are no “standards of Right”. Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own […]