III;1. Abrahadabra; the reward of Ra Hoor Khut.
III;2. There is division hither homeward; there is a word not known.
Spelling is defunct; all is not aught. Beware! Hold! Raise the spell
of Ra-Hoor-Khuit!
III;3. Now let it be first understood that I am a god of War and of
Vengeance. I shall deal hardly with them.
III;4. Choose ye an island!
III;5. Fortify it!
III;6. Dung it about with enginery of war!
III;7. I will give you a war-engine.
III;8. With it ye shall smite the peoples; and none shall stand before you.
III;9. Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! this is the Law of the Battle of
Conquest: thus shall my worship be about my secret house.
III;10. Get the stele of revealing itself; set it in thy secret temple --
and that temple is already aright disposed -- & it shall be your Kiblah
for ever. It shall not fade, but miraculous colour shall come back to it
day after day. Close it in locked glass for a proof to the world.
III;11. This shall be your only proof. I forbid argument. Conquer! That is
enough. I will make easy to you the abstruction from the ill-ordered
house in the Victorious City. Thou shalt thyself convey it with worship,
o prophet, though thou likest it not.
Thou shalt have danger & trouble. Ra-Hoor-Khu is with thee. Worship me
with fire & blood; worship me with swords & with spears. Let the woman
be girt with a sword before me: let blood flow to my name. Trample down
the Heathen; be upon them, o warrior, I will give you of their
flesh to eat!
III;12. Sacrifice cattle, little and big: after a child.
III;13. But not now.
III;14. Ye shall see that hour, o blessed Beast, and thou the Scarlet
Concubine of his desire!
III;15. Ye shall be sad thereof.
III;16. Deem not too eagerly to catch the promises; fear not to undergo
the curses. Ye, even ye, know not this meaning all.
III;17. Fear not at all; fear neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor
anything. Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other
power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth. Nu is your refuge
as Hadit your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms.
III;18. Mercy let be off; damn them who pity! Kill and torture; spare not;
be upon them!
III;19. That stele they shall call the Abomination of Desolation; count
well its name, & it shall be to you as 718.
III;20. Why? Because of the fall of Because, that he is not there again.
III;21. Set up my image in the East: thou shalt buy thee an image which I
will show thee, especial, not unlike the one thou knowest. And it shall
be suddenly easy for thee to do this.
III;22. The other images group around me to support me: let all be
worshipped, for they shall cluster to exalt me. I am the visible object
of worship; the others are secret; for the Beast & his Bride are they:
and for the winners of the Ordeal x. What is this? Thou shalt know.
III;23. For perfume mix meal & honey & thick leavings of red wine: then
oil of Abramelin and olive oil, and afterward soften & smooth down with
rich fresh blood.
III;24. The best blood is of the moon, monthly: then the fresh blood of
a child, or dropping from the host of heaven: then of enemies; then of
the priest or of the worshippers: last of some beast, no matter what.
III;25. This burn: of this make cakes & eat unto me. This hath also
another use; let it be laid before me, and kept thick with perfumes of
your orison: it shall become full of beetles as it were and creeping
things sacred unto me.
III;26. These slay, naming your enemies; & they shall fall before you.
III;27. Also these shall breed lust & power of lust in you at the eating
thereof.
III;28. Also ye shall be strong in war.
III;29. Moreover, be they long kept, it is better; for they swell with my
force. All before me.
III;30. My altar is of open brass work: burn thereon in silver or gold!
III;31. There cometh a rich man from the West who shall pour his gold upon
thee.
III;32. From gold forge steel!
III;33. Be ready to fly or to smite!
III;34. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries:
though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an
invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall
of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double-wanded
one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring
fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awakethe lust &
worship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall mingle in the
globed priest; another sacrifice shall stain the tomb; another king
shall reign; and blessing no longer be poured To the Hawk-headed
mystical Lord!
III;35. The half of the word of Heru-ra-ha, called Hoor-pa-kraat and
Ra-Hoor-Khut.
III;36. Then said the prophet unto the God:
III;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!
III;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 Ta-Nech I weave my spell.
Show thy star-splendour, O Nuit!
Bid me within thine House to dwell,
O winged snake of light, Hadit!
Abide with me, Ra-Hoor-Khuit!
III;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 to 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!
III;40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and Hadit burning in
thy heart shall make swift and secure thy pen.
III;41. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house: all must be done well and
with business way.
III;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 over much! 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!
III;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 shall she crawl through dusk wet
streets, and die cold and an-hungered.
III;44. But let her raise herself in pride! Let her follow me in my way!
Let her 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!
III;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.
III;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!
III;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: then 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.
III;48. Now this mystery of the letters is done, and I want to go on to
the holier place.
III;49. I am in a secret fourfold word, the blasphemy against all gods of
men.
III;50. Curse them! Curse them! Curse them!
III;51. With my Hawk's head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon
the cross.
III;52. I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed & blind him.
III;53. With my claws I tear out the flesh of the Indian and the Buddhist,
Mongol and Din.
III;54. Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your crapulous creeds.
III;55. Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste
women be utterly despised among you!
III;56. Also for beauty's sake and love's!
III;57. Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers who dare not fight,
but play; all fools despise!
III;58. But the keen and the proud, the royal and the lofty; ye are brothers!
III;59. As brothers fight ye!
III;60. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
III;61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra's seat,
lightening the girders of the soul.
III;62. To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal,
which is bliss.
III;63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its comment; & he
understandeth it not.
III;64. Let him come through the first ordeal, & it will be to him as
silver.
III;65. Through the second, gold.
III;66. Through the third, stones of precious water.
III;67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire.
III;68. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who say not so,
are mere liars.
III;69. There is success.
III;70. I am the Hawk-Headed Lord of Silence & of Strength; my nemyss
shrouds the night-blue sky.
III;71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your
time is nigh at hand.
III;72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the Force
of Coph Nia-- but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe;
& nought remains.
III;73. Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then
behold!
III;74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of
midnight is ever the son.
III;75. The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra.
The Book of the Law is Written
and Concealed.
Aum. Ha.