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<MI>Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.<D>

      I ask an Oracle of <F128M>HEdKGLA<F255D> for this Working.      `Liber 
Lapidis Lazuli'--the Solar chapter: ``white cat, the sparks fly from 
thy fur! Thou dost crackle with splitting the worlds.'' I ask a Yi 
King symbol for the whole Working:--XX `Big Earth'. It means

Manifestation: i.e. the bringing forth to birth of the forces hitherto 
developed by us in secret.      I ask a Tarot Trump to represent the 
Prime

Pantacle of the Operation:--XVI The House of God.      Now the Oath 
of the Working is to establish The Book of the Law; in particular 
to finish the Comment and to publish the book as therein commanded. 
First therefore in this Work is Hermes to be invoked and next the 
Sun. I am therefore to restore the Card `The House of God' as I did 
when I abode in the body of Alphonse Louis Constant with the Card 
`The Devil'. I will therefore obtain a Vision of this Card, and paint 
it upon a panel of mahogany wood, with the proper colours and forms.      Now 
on the day of the Sun, in this the Sixteenth Year of the Aeon, when 
He stood in the 6th Degree of the Sign i, whose letter hath the value 
of 60, the Moon being in the 16th Degree of the Sign d whose letter 
hath the value 8, did the Beast 666 SO LECA HEQIOM a Magus of A:A: 
Baphomet 729 the Supreme Holy King of Ireland, Iona and all the Britains 
that are in the Sanctuary of the Gnosis Xo O.T.O., Avatar of Bacchus 
Diphues in the Place of the XIo O.T.O., Logos of the Aeon of Ra Hoor 
Khuit, Grand Master of the Knights of the Holy Ghost, Grand Master 
of the Knights of the Temple, Eidolon of the Rosy Cross, Alastor the 
Destroyer Spirit of Solitude, Wanderer of the Waste, of the Blood 
of Kerval Arch-Druids Heredi

tary to the Oak, whose Holy Angel his Guardian is Aiwaz 93, the God 
first dawning upon Man in the Land of Sumer, whose breast beareth 
the token

adventure upon Mountains beyond any man of his fellows, whose body 
and blood bear witness of the wounds of Astarte, and the shames of 
Priapus, even I in the Abbey of Thelema at Cephaloedium that am hidden, 
did convene therein to counsel Alostrael,

31-666-31, the Scarlet Woman Lea my concubine, in whom is all power 
given, sworn unto Aiwaz, prosti tuted in every part of her body to 
Pan and to the Beast, mother of Bastards, aborter, whore to herself, 
to man, woman, child and brute, partaker of the Eucha rist of the 
Excrements in the Mass of the Devil, Sorceress of the Rite of Esau 
and Jacob, and also CEMERHAI, 143, a Neophyte of A:A:, a Master

Magician of O.T.O. and a Passed Postulant to the Secret Chamber of 
the Knights of the Temple, High Priest unto the Beast before the Altar 
of Purple and Gold.      First then this Brother CEMERHAI made of 
Invoca tion of Tahuti Lord of Wisdom in the Great Magical Circle of 
the Abbey, that He might come upon us in power.      Thus was Tahuti 
manifest in the mind of The Beast, like Light therein, clear, icy, 
wit without heart. And I beheld the Working afar off, full utterly 
of desire towards it; and I was aware of certain things concerning 
it; as here now to be writ down.      Firstly:    the Working shall 
establish the Aeon of Ra Hoor Khuit by obeying the instructions given 
in The Book of the Law.      Secondly:    it is a Working of w and 
u, combined even as they are in the Beast; so that the Word of the 
Working is hskt, 36, the square of 6 and the sum of the first eight 
numbers, etc., etc. Now t is the letter of Hadith as v of Nuith, and 
k is their balanced union.      Thirdly:    Alostrael resumeth Nuit 
and The Beast Hadith; Their Copulation is therefore by this word 36 
well signified.      Fourthly:    it is written, `Liber Lapidis Lazuli', 
Cap. III, vv. 16-18 that all is vain unless there be ``a man's life 
spilt for thy love upon Mine Altars.'' Thus then let His High Priest 
do sacrifice to The Beast, thereby to consecrate Him to the Rite.      Fifthly:    that 
`The Paris Working', the first model for our present Orgia, is not 
to be followed pedantically.

   Sixthly and lastly:    that special names are to be used by us; 
for The Beast OUIOM 700, for CEMERHAI 143 Iacchaion, and for Alostrael 
a new name not yet given. Also that the vapour of the Oxide of Ethyl 
may be used in the Workings.      After this the Yi King gave us our 
First Working as # of # [57], that is, these present writings and 
considerations of the Whole Matter.       

<N> I now make Qabalistic investigation of the letter p.   1.   It 
is `A Mouth' and therefore is the Word therein.   2.   Its value 80 
is Jesod, the Foundation.   3.   It is the Third Letter to t and k 
in CCXX, and the final of lkt. Cf. also ``eight, eighty, four hundred 
and eighteen'' ``knowing the law of the fortress, & the great mystery 
of the House of God.''   4.   It is the third equilibrating Path on 
the Tree. As Stability is only perfect as infinite Change (see XIth 
Aethyr) so Construc tion is only solid if based on War.   5.   ``I 
am a God of War'' etc. is Ra Hoor Khuit.   6.   The Word in the Mouth 
is 93: Aiwaz is the Lord of the Fortress or House of God, which is 
the Abbey of Thelema.   7.   Aiwaz is spelt g, the Eye, i.e. that 
of Shiva or Horus, the Meatus Penis and the Anus; h, the Phallus, 
Spermatozoon; and Hand, u, the Fertility of the Testes and Uterus 
as well as the Nail of the mentula, being b the Cow Isis and the Bull 
Apis or Shiva, the Son in Tetragrammaton, the Redeemer by

Reproduction, the Mithraic Bull of Resurrection and Initiation in 
the strength of the Body. And lastly z is the Sword of the Phallus, 
and c the double sexual nature, the murder-lust between the incestuous 
twins Cain and Abel, Horus and Set or Harpocrates, Osiris and Typhon, 
etc. And c is the airy pulse that gives a basis for the Voice of the 
Messenger, the menstruum

of the Holy Ghost, the swing of the motion of Love, the house of the 
Sun in May, when he impregnates Maia with Mercurius whose mouth uttereth 
His Father. And z spelt fully is 67, the number of Binah the All-Mother. 
g is moreover the Devil of Lust, the Goat of Mendes, Pan, Baphomet; 
and spelt fully g is the Erection and Leaping and Extension of the 
Phallus; h is the Spermatoon, the Solitary Boy Hermes, the Virgin; 
while b is the Eagle of sexual Ecstasy, the Serpent of Life through 
Death, the Scorpion or Scarab of Kephra, the Womb which transmutes

through corruption, the Semen or fluid vehicle of the Spirit, the 
Elixir of Magick, the Blood, Wine, and Poison in the Chalice. And 
h repeating that God, and prophesying the u that follows it, ends 
with s the letter of x, the Door of the Palace of Love. Then u reproduceth 
itself in its spelling, as it is written ``all is ever as it was'' 
in The Book of the Law, and in Aiwaz are found the Three Star-Clusters 
of Earth-Nature, the Goat under the God Set or p for Hadith, the Begetter, 
and n exalted therein for Force and Fire, the Virgin under Thoth or 
w, His Word creating in her the Eidolon of His Nature, and the Bull 
under Isis or h, the mighty redemption and nourish ment of Love, for 
Nuith the Womb of Space wherein Her Lord worketh His Work.      By 
this cometh forth the Sign of the Child, the Star-Cluster of the Twins, 
under Hermes the Word, airy, elastic, bisexual, eternally young, the 
lovers born of one Womb, made Two that by Love they may make themselves 
One.      So then in this Name Aiwaz is every rite of the Magick of 
the Aeon of Horus declared in detail, and in His number 93 is shewn 
forth not only the Word of the Law, but the Ways of the Word and the 
Mysteries of Truth.      This Name then and this Number shall be the 
Glyph Hieratic to unlock the Fortress of the Aeon; Captain is He of 
all the hosts of n, and Ra Hoor Khuit crowned King in that Palace 
of Force and Fire. Set, The Beast, for g; Thoth, Alastor the Logos, 
for h; Apis, Perdurabo, for u; and Hoor--Hoorpakraat, Baphomet, for 
z; foursquare, mystic, wonderful, as cherubs shall I that am One through 
these Four be the builder and warder thereof.