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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

      I ask an Oracle of {ENO:h} �KGLA 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 {ENO:s} O _L_ECA
_H_EQIOM 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 X_�_ O.T.O., Avatar
of Bacchus Diphues in the Place of the XI_�_ 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
{ENO:c} EMERHAI, 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 {ENO:c} EMERHAI 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 {ENO:o} UIOM 700, for {ENO:c} EMERHAI 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 {Moon}  of {Moon}  [57], that is, these present writings and
considerations of the Whole Matter.