“The globèd priest” and “another sacrifice”: Anton Szandor LaVey [who shaved his head to signify his
office as High Priest of the Church of Satan], and the destruction of the Church of Satan as precondition for
the manifestation of the Æon of Set.
“Another king”: Ra-en-Set suten net.
35. The half of the word of Heru-ra-ha, called Hoor-pa-kraat and Ra-Hoor-Khuit.
The first half of “Heru-ra-ha” reveals the name of Her-Ur (HarWer), the Great Horus, of whom both
Harpokrates (the Osirian Horus “the Younger”) and Ra-Harakte [see #III-1] are corruptions.
36. Then said the prophet unto the God:
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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!
The sacred bull Mentu was the patron neter of the city of Ani, capital of the IV Uast (Thebes) Nome of
Upper Egypt [see #II-49]. Ankh-f-n-Khonsu is the priest on by the Stele of Revealing. His name means: “[He
whose] Life [is] in Khonsu (the Moon-neter of Thebes and son of Amon and Mut)”. Crowley saw himself a
reincarnation of this priest.
38. So that thy light is in me & its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. There is
a secret door that I shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (these are the
adorations, as thou hast written), as it is said,
The light is mine; its rays consume
Me: I have made a secret door
Into the House of Ra and Tum,
Of Khephra and of Ahathoor.
I am thy Theban, O Mentu,
The prophet Ankh-af-na-Khonsu!
By Bes-na-Maut my breast I beat;
By wise T’a-Nech I weave my spell.
Show thy star-splendour, O Nuit!
Bid me within thine House to dwell,
O wingèd snake of light, Hadit!
Abide with me, Ra-Hoor-Khuit.
#III-37 and #III-38 contain extracts of poems Crowley had written prior to the Cairo Working [of the
Book of the Law]. These poems (titled paraphrases of the inscriptions on the front and back of the Stele of
Revealing) are contained in the 1936 edition of Crowley’s Equinox of the Gods. [Therein the final line of the
extract in #III-37 reads: “Aum! let it kill me!”]
39. All this and a book to say how thou didst come hither and a reproduction of this ink and
paper for ever - for in it is the word secret & not only in the English - and thy comment upon
this the Book of the Law shall be printed beautifully in red ink and black upon beautiful
paper made by hand; and to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine
or 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!
The secrets of the Book of the Law are to be found through both the English and the Egyptian hieroglyphic
languages.
40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and Hadit burning in thy heart shall make swift
and secure thy pen.
In both his 1912 and 1920 Comments Crowley indicated dissatisfaction with the results of his
commentaries. He might have fared better had he reconsidered #II-55, though some of the contents of the
Book of the Law would remain enigmatic until the advent of the Æon of Set.
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41. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house; all must be done well and with business way.
42. The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou shalt
know & destroy the traitors. I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to protect my servant.
Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not overmuch. Them that seek to entrap
thee, to overthrow thee, them attack without pity or quarter & destroy them utterly. Swift as
a trodden serpent turn and strike! Be thou yet deadlier than he! Drag down their souls to
awful torment: laugh at their fear: spit upon them!
See #I-32/38. Many who thought to exploit Crowley got the worst of the encounter, and he shed few tears
over them. In fact his contempt to those whom he had discarded is at least partly responsible for the often-
vicious criticism he received - and continues to receive - at their hands.
43. Let the Scarlet Woman beware! If pity and compassion and tenderness visit her heart; if
she leave my work to toy with old sweetnesses then shall my vengeance be known. I will slay
me her child: I will alienate her heart: I will cast her out from men; as a shrinking and
despised harlot she shall crawl through dusk wet streets, and die cold and an-hungered.
The fate of Crowley’s Scarlet Women was not a pleasant one. After Rose Crowley’s daughter died, she
became an alcoholic and was eventually committed to a sanitarium. Crowley’s daughter by Leah Hirsig, the
most famous Scarlet Woman, died at the Abbey of Thelema as an infant, and the shock caused Leah to
miscarry a second child. Eventually she too was abandoned by Crowley under the bitterest of
circumstances.
44. But let her raise herself in pride. Let her follow me in my way. Let he 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.
None of the Scarlet Women was able to sustain #III-44 and thus attain #III-45.
46. I am the warrior Lord of the Forties: the Eighties cower before me, & are abased. I will
bring you to victory & joy: I will be at your arms in battle & ye shall delight to slay. Success
is your proof; courage is your armour; go on, go on, in my strength & ye shall turn not
back for any.
This is popularly [by Crowleyphiles] considered to be a validation of the Book of the Law’s prophetic
power [as a prediction of World War II] and a further prediction of war in the 1980s. Since there are local
or regional wars ongoing constantly on some part of the planet, whether or not the “eighties” prediction
is considered to be validated is simply a question of how extensive a war must be for Ra-Harakte to take
note of it. Alternately the 1980s were in fact a decade of international paranoia concerning and social
persecution of occultism generally.
47. This book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing
of the Beast; 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;
t
hen this circle squared in its failure is a key also. And Abrahadabra. It shall be his child &
that strangely. Let him not seek after this; for thereby alone can he fall from it.
See #I-54, #II-75/76, #III-22, and the Book of Coming Forth by Night.
Although #I-56, #II-76, and #III-47 explicitly state that Crowley himself would never know the
mysteries of the manuscript, the one who would expound them, or the initiatory system from which he would
come, Crowley nonetheless took it upon himself to recognize Charles Stansfeld Jones of Vancouver as the
“one”. Jones could not interpret the #II-76 passage, but he did announce that “AL/LA” constituted the
“master key” to the Book of the Law. Since Crowley was already well aware of the reversible qualities of this
term in the Hebrew tongue [see comment to #II-15], his enthusiasm for Jones’ announcement seems
unjustified - nor did Jones’ “master key” unlock anything at all concerning the Book of the Law.
What neither Crowley nor Jones realized was that “AL” in Hebrew is merely a corruption of an elder
Egyptian hieroglyphic term which may be pronounced in three ways: “Al”, “Ar”, or “Har”. This term
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translates to “divine son” and specifically identifies Har or Hor, the Great Horus. [-ur or Wer is a suffix
meaning “great”.] In Egyptian mythology both Set and Horus (HarWer) were identified as children of
Nuit, but the actual derivation of the two neteru from Nuit is explained more precisely in the Book of
Coming Forth by Night. So, ironically enough, “AL” is a sort of master key to the Book of the Law,
identifying it as a creation of Horus. A full translation of its name ( Liber AL vel Legis) would be: The Book of
the Law of Horus.
As for Jones, he suffered the fate predicted in #II-56. In 1926-27 he converted briefly to Catholicism,
then disavowed the Book of the Law and proceeded to announce the new æon to be that of Maat. Crowley
expelled him from the A.'.A.'..
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.
Crowley felt this “word” to be the four words “Do what thou wilt”, on the presumption that it would make
each person his own god.
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 Mohamed and blind him.
53. With my claws I tear out the flesh of the Indian and the Buddhist, Mongol and Din.
54. Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your crapulous creeds.
55. Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised
among you.
56. Also for beauty’s sake and love’s.
57. Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers who dare not fight, but play: all fools despise.
58. But the keen and the proud, the royal and the lofty; ye are brothers!
59. As brothers fight ye.
60. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
61. There is an end of the word of the God 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.
Moreover the fool readeth this 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.
The initiatory history of mankind since the destruction of the ancient priesthoods of Egypt has passed
through an era of silver (early secret societies and medieval witchcraft), gold (the G.'.D.'. and A.'.A.'.), stones of
precious water (the Order of the Trapezoid and Church of Satan), and ultimate sparks of the intimate fire
(the Temple of Set).
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68. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who say not so, are mere liars.
The Book of the Law exudes an aura of both beauty and authenticity that is not simply a function of its
included statements. It too is a Form which cannot be defined by purely logical methods. it must be
apprehended through nœsis.
69. There is success.
And thus is the Book of the Law Understood and Revealed.
70. I am the Hawk-headed Lord of Silence & of Strength; my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky.
71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand.
See the Book of Coming Forth by Night concerning the primal bond of samtaui between Set and the
Great Horus.
72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power: the wand of the force of Coph - but my left hand
is empty, for I have crushed an Universe & nought remains.
Again the Crowley manuscript’s value is demonstrated. Crowley originally wrote “Coph”. Rose later
scratched it out and penned “Coph Nia” in its place; this corruption appears in printed texts. “Coph”, which
Crowley recalled hearing only approximately, would make sense as one of the hieroglyphic variants of Xeper
(pronounced “kheffer” with the vowels assumed). Perhaps it is significant that the Magus of the Æon of
Horus could not “hear” the Word of the Æon of Set.
73. Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold!
Crowley experimented with “chain”-pasting but noticed nothing remarkable. [I read this as a simple
instruction to bind the manuscript of the Book of the Law as a book.]
74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.
The “sun of midnight”: Xepera. The “splendour in my name hidden and glorious”: Set, True Origin of
Liber AL, who would remain hidden until the North Solstice of X.
75. The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra.
The Book of the Law is Written
and Concealed.
Aum. Ha.
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A6: Temple of Set Articles of Incorporation
Temple of Set
Articles of Incorporation
July 29, X ÆS/1975 CE
[Filed Superior Court October 28, 1975/Howard C. Menzel, County Clerk by Laura Eaton,
Deputy Clerk. Great Seal of the State of California affixed October 21, 1975 by March Fong
Eu, Secretary of State. #756672 Endorsed/Filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the
State of California October 20, 1975/March Fong Eu, Secretary of State/by James E. Harris,
Deputy.]
I.
Name of this corporation shall be Temple of Set.
II.
The purposes for which this corporation is formed are:
(a)
The specific and primary purposes are to operate an organization for religious purposes.
(b)
The general purposes and powers are to have and to exercise all rights and powers conferred on
nonprofit corporations on the laws of California, including the power to contract, rent, buy or sell
personal or real property; provided, however, this corporation shall not, except to an insubstantial
degree, engage in any activities or exercise any power that are not in furtherance of the primary
purposes of this corporation.
(c)
No substantial part of the activities of this corpor
ation shall consist of carrying on propaganda, or
otherwise attempting to influence legislation, and the corporation shall not participate or intervene in
any political campaign (including the publishing or distribution of statements) on behalf of any
candidate for public office.
III.
This corporation is organized pursuant to the General Non-Profit Corporation Law of the State of California
and does not contemplate the gain or profit to the members thereof and is organized for nonprofit purposes.
IV.
The principal office for the transaction of this business of this corporation is located in the County of Santa
Barbara, State of California.
V.
The names and addresses of the persons who are to act in the capacity of Directors until the election of their
successors are:
Michael A. Aquino
Post Office Box 243
Santa Barbara, California 93102
William F. Murray
45 West Sixth Street
Winnemucca, Nevada 89445
L. Dale Seago
1440 Twenty-Third Street #107
Santa Monica, California 90404
VI.
The authorized number and qualifications of members of the corporation, the different classes of
membership, if any, the property, voting, and other rights and privileges of members and their liability for
dues and assessments and the method of collection thereof, shall be as set forth in the By-Laws.
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VII.
The property of this corporation is irrevocably dedicated to religious purposes, and no part of the net
income or assets of this organization shall ever inure to the benefit of any private persons. Upon the
dissolution or winding up of the corporation, its assets, remaining after payment or provision for payment,
of all debts and liabilities of this corporation shall be distributed to a nonprofit fund, foundation, or
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