This is more commonly just called
The Comment. Although it distinctly applies to
Liber AL vel Legis some have understood it to apply to
The Holy Books of Thelema.
The Text
- Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
- The study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading.
- Whosever 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 petilence.
- 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.
- Love is the law, love under will.
- The priest of the princes,
- Ank-F-N-Khonsu
This prohibition is usually understood to prohibit public discussion of what one finds in the The Holy Books of Thelema. The theory is that private study of these books is the only way to answer All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself. The stumbling block is line one: The study of this Book is forbidden..
Liber AL vel Legis
The Holy Books of Thelema
Aleister Crowley
Thelema
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