Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law ALEISTER CROWLEY October 18h, 1875 December It 1947 THE LAST RITUAL Read from his own works, according to hit inh on December 5th, 1947, t Brightin, Love is the law, love under willHYMN TO PAN “Thrill with some lant ofthe ligt Oman! My man! Come carering out of the night Of Pan! To Pan To Pan! To Pant Come aver the sen From Sicily and from Arcady! Roaming as Bacchus, with faune and pards ‘And nymphs and sotyey for thy dua, (Ona mikwite ass, come over the sea To me, tome, Come with Apolo in bridal dese (Shepherdess and pythoness) Come with Artemis silken shod, And wash thy white thigh, beautiful Go {In the moon of the woods, onthe marble mount, ‘The dimpled dawn ofthe amber fount! Dip the purple of passionate prayer Inthe crimson shtne, the scalt snare, The sul tha tates in eyes of blue ‘Towatch thy wantonness weeping trough ‘he tangled grove. the gnared bole (OF the living tee that i pit and soul ‘And body abd rain-come over the sea WoPan!” To Pan) Devil or god, 0 ie, to me, My maa! my man Come with trumpets sounding shi (ver the bill!” Come with érums tow mutering From the spring? Come with Bute and come wth pipe! ‘Am Ino ripe? 1. who wait and weithe aod wrestle With at that hath no boughs to neste My body, weary of empty ees, Strong ab on, nd sharp as an asp— Come, 0 come! Tam bomb ‘With the lonely lst of devitdom, ‘Tart the aword though the galing fetter, All devoure all begeter‘Give me the sign of the Open Eve ‘And the token erect of thorny thigh ‘And the word of madness and mystery OPunt to Pant ToPan! To Pan Pan! Pan Pan! Pao, am a man. as thou wilt a Oban! To Pant To Pant To Pan Pan! Tam awake In the rip ofthe snake The eagle slashes with besk and claw ‘The dads withdraw ‘The great beasts come, fo Pan! Tam borne ‘Todeath on the born reat god ean, Of the Vater Tom Pan! To Pan! Jo Pan Pan! Pan! Lam thy mate, Tam thy man. Goat of thy ock, am gold. am god, Flesh to thy bone, ower to thy Tod. With hoot of steel Trace on the rocks ‘Through solstice stubborn to equinox. And Irave: and I rape and I ip and [rend Everlasting, world without ead Mansiki, maiden, maenad, man In the might of Pan, ToPan! To Pan Poa! Pao! Yo Pant FROM THE BOOK OF THE LAW Every man and woman i 8 star Every number i nite: there ‘This inthe creation ofthe world thatthe pai of division is nothing, and the jy of dissolution all (bey my prophet! fallow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me ooiy! ‘Then the joys of my love wil redeem ye from all pein. This isso: Tswear bythe vault af my body by my secred tongue and hear by all Teen ive, by all este of ye ‘The word ofthe Law is Thelema. Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong if he look but ote into the word. For there are therein Thee Grades, the Hermit andthe Lover, and the man of Earth, Do what thou wilt sal be the whale ofthe Law ‘The word of Sin is restriction, ‘Thou hast no right but do thy wil. Do that and no othe shall ay ney. For pure wil, unassuged of purpose, delivered fom the lust. of result is every way perfect, ‘There are four gates to one palace: the oor ofthat palace is of sliver and old; lap lal and Jaspar re there; ad all rare scets; jasmine and rose, and the emblems of death. ‘im enter in tara or at once the four gates: let im stand on the Noor of the palace. Will he aot ink Hot if thy servant sink? But there are mens snd Be godly therefor. ‘This alo is eeret: my prophet shal reveal it to the wise 1 give unimagiaable joys on earth: certainty, nt faith, while ‘in life upon death; peace unutterable, rest, cestacy: not do [demand ought in sacrifice My incense is of resinous woods and gums: and there ‘ood therein: because of my hai the tres of Eternity. My colour is black to the blind, but the blue and gold are 0 diferece,teen ofthe seeing. Also I have w secret sory fr ther that love me But to love me in better than all things: if under the night stars inthe desert thow presently burmest rine incense before me, invoking me with @ pure hear. and the Serpent flume threo, thou salt come a lite toe io my bow, For one hss wilt thou then be willing to give all: But whoso fives one particle of dust shall lowe all a that hour, Behold! the rituals of the ol time are back, Let the exit ones be east away: let the good ones be purged by the Dropbet! Then shall his knowledge go aright, 1am the fame that buts in every heat of an, and in the ‘ate of every sta. 1 am Life. andthe ver of Life, yet Uerefre i the knowledge of me the knowlege of death Tam the Magician and the Exorcist Iam the axle of the wee, andthe cue in the elle Remember all ye that existence is pure joy: that all the fortune are but as shadows: they pess and are done: but ‘here Is that which remain Beauty and strength leaping laughter and delicious languor. force and Bie, ste of us Beware let any force another, King agsinst King! Love one ‘nother with burning hearts. on the low men (ample i the Sere lst of your pride inthe day of your wrath ‘A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox ofthe Gods ‘A feat for Bre and feast for water: feeter feast for death! ‘A feast every day in your hearts inthe joy of my rapture! {east fo ite and a Write, and find ecatny in writing) Work, ad be our bed in ‘working! Thrill withthe Joy of life and death! ABI thy death shall be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. ‘Thy death shall be the veal of the promise of our age log love. (Come! it up thine heart and rejoice! We are one: we are There Is help and hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be rong!” Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal fefine thy rapcre! If thou drink, dink by the eight and inety rule of art if thou love, exceed by delicacy and if ‘thou do ought joyous, let there be subety therein! ‘But exceed! exceed? Swve ever to more! and if thou ar uly mioe—and dovbt it aot, anf thou art ever joyous !—death isthe crown of al ‘Ah! Abt Death! Death! thou shalt long for death. Death {is forbidden, 0 man, unto tee ‘The length of thy longing shall be the strength ofits glory He tht lives log and desies deeth much is ever the King among the Kings Fear not at all fest neither men nor Fates. nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not no laughter of the fle fly, nor ‘by other power in heaven of upoo the earth ot under the arth But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the ‘ceatries: though with fie aod sword i be burnt down and shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall ‘tad unt the fall of the Great Equinox Now this mystery of the letera is dae, and I want 0 go on toa holier place Als for beautys sake and love's! espe aio al coward: all ols despise! ‘But the keen and che proud, the royal and the lofty; ye are brothers! ‘As brothers fight ye! There is no law beyond Do what chou wil, Love 1s the law, love under willCOLLECTS OF THE GNOSTIC MASS Lord visible and sensible of whom this earth is but a frozen ‘pork turning about thee with annual and divral motion, source af light, source of ie, let thy perpetual radiance hearten'us to continua labour and eojoymeat; 30 that te are constant portakers of thy bounty we may in ott particular orbit give out light and Iie, ustenance and Joy to them that revolve about us without- diminution of substance or efulgence for ever. Lord seeret and most holy, source of light, source of Ue tource of love, source of liberty, be though ever constant fad mighty within us, force of energy, fre of motion; with “iigence let un ever labour with thee. that we may remain {in thine abundant jo, Lady of night thot turoing ever about us art now vale tnd’ ow invisible in thy season, be thou favourable to hunters and lovers. and to all men that tll upon the earth, and toll mariners upon the sea. Lord of Life and Joy, that atthe might of man, thet ar the seence of every true god that i upon the surface of the Earth continuing knowledge from generation to generation, {hou adored of us upon eat and in woods, on mountains tnd in caves, openly in the market ploce and acrely ia the chambers of our houses, in temples of gold and Ivory ‘and marble es in the temples of our bedien, we worthily ‘commemorate them worthy tht dil of old adore thee and tmanifest thy tory nto men. Oh Sooe of the Lion andthe ‘Soakel with all thy sents we worthily commemorate them worthy that were and are and are to come. May thelr ence be here present, poteot,paisant, and paternal to perfect this feast GNOSTIC ANTHEM ‘Thou who at I beyond all am. Who has no ature and no name, Who are when all but thou are gone ‘Thou. centre ad secret ofthe Sun ‘Thou. iddeo spring of al thivas koowsn And unknown, Thou alot alone ‘Tao the tre fie within the ted Brooding and breeding source aad set Of ie lve. tery and Tight. ‘Thou beyond speech and Peyond sight. ‘Thee Finvoke, my aint fresh re Kisdling es mine intents aspire Thee Invoke, abiding one ‘Thee, cente and sere of the Sun And chat most holy mystery Df whieh the vice atm "Appear snst anf and most il ‘Avi lel thy hl" For ofthe Father and the Son The Holy Spirits the norm Matesfemale. quintessential. oe, Man-being veiled ia woman form, Glory and worship inthe highest. Thou Dove, mankind that dees Being that face, most royally run To sping sine thro winter Glory and worship be eo Thee, Sap of the worit-ash. wonder eee! Glory to thee from Gide Tor Glory tothe fom Waiting Womb, Glory to thee from Earth snpluthed Glory to thee trom virgin vowed ‘Glory to thee. tre Unity (Of the Eternal Trinity! Glory to thee thou sie and dam ‘And Self of arm that fam Love ie the law love under wil