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Liber CCC

{Book 300}

Khabs am Pekht

This Epistle is important in that it helps place the work of the
O.T.O. as a temporal organization in perspective. Addressed by The
Master Therion to his magical Son Frater V.I.O. 8°=3 (Parzival X°
O.T.O.), it has a special relevance to modern times. It first appeared
in The Equinox I(3) (Detroit: Universal, 1919). Most of the quotations
are from Liber Legis--The Book of the Law.--H.B.


AN EPISTLE OF THERION 9°=2, A MAGUS OF A...A... TO HIS SON, BEING AN
INSTRUCTION IN A MATTER OF ALL IMPORTANCE, TO WIT, THE MEANS
TO BE TAKEN TO EXTEND THE DOMINION OF THE LAW OF THELEMA THROUGHOUT
THE WHOLE WORLD.

Son,

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


FIRSTLY, let thine attention be directed to this planet, how the Aeon
of Horus is made manifest by the Universal War. This is the first
great and direct result of the Equinox of the Gods, and is the
preparation of the hearts of men for the reception of the Law.

Let Us remind you that this is a magical formula of cosmic scope, and
that it is given in exact detail in the legend of the Golden Fleece.

Jason, who in this story represents the Beast, first fits out a ship
guided by Wisdom or Athena, and this is his aspiration to the Great
Work. Accompanied by many heroes, he comes to the place of the Fleece,
but they can do nothing until Medea, the Scarlet Woman, puts into his
hands a posset ``drugged with somnolence, Sleepy with poppy and white
hellebore'' for the dragon. Then Jason is able to subdue the bulls,
sacred to Osiris, and symbolical of his Aeon and of the Magical
Formula of Self-Sacrifice. With these he plows the field of the world,
and sows therein ``the dreadful teeth of woe, Cadmean Stock of Thebes'
old misery,'' which refers to a certain magical formula announced by
The Beast that is familiar unto thee, but unsuited to the profane, and
therefore not further in this place indicated. From this seed armed
men sprung to life; but instead of attacking Him, ``mutual madness
strikes The warriors witless, and fierce wrath invades Their hearts of
fury, and with arms engaged, They fell upon each other silently, And
slew, and slew.'' Now then, the Dragon being asleep, we may step
quietly past him, and ``rending the branches of that wizard Oak, With
a strong grasp tear down the Fleece of Gold.''

Let us only remember not to repeat the error of Jason, and defy Ares,
who is Horus in his warrior mood, that guardeth it, lest He strike us







also with madness. Nay! but to the glory of Ra-Hoor-Khuit and the
establishment of His perfect kingdom let all be done!

Now, O my son, thou knowest that it is Our will to establish this
Work, accomplishing fully that which We are commanded in The Book of
the Law, ``Help me, O warrior lord of Thebes, in my unveiling before
the children of men!''--and it is Thy will, manifesting as thou hast
done in the Sphere of Malkuth the material world, to do this same
thing in an even more immediate and practical way than would naturally
appeal to one whose manifestation is in the Heaven of Jupiter. So
therefore We now answer Thy filial petition that asketh good counsel
of Us as to the means to be taken to extend the Law of Thelema
throughout the whole world.

Direct therefore now most closely thine attention to The Book of the
Law itself. In It we find an absolute rule of life, and clear
instruction in every emergency that may befall. What then are Its own
directions for the fructification of That Ineffable Seed? Note, pray
thee, the confidence with which we may proceed. ``They shall gather my
children into their fold; they shall bring the glory of the stars into
the hearts of men.'' They `shall'; there is no doubt. Therefore doubt
not, but strike with all thy strength. Note also, pray thee, this
word: ``The Law is for all.'' Do not therefore `select suitable
persons' in thy worldly wisdom; preach openly the Law to all men. In
Our experience We have found that the most unlikely means have
produced the best results; and indeed it is almost the definition of a
true Magical Formula that the means should be unsuited, rationally
speaking, to the end proposed. Note, pray thee, that We are bound to
teach. ``He must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals.'' This
refers, however, as is evident from the context, to the technique of
the new Magick, ``the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the
work of the wand and the work of the sword.''

Note, pray thee, the instruction in CCXX I:41-n-44, 51, 61, 63 k.t.l.
on which We have enlarged in Our tract The Law of Liberty, and in
private letters to thee and to others. The open preaching of this Law,
and the practice of these precepts, will arouse discussion and
animosity, and thus place thee upon a rostrum whence thou mayst speak
unto the people.

Note, pray thee, this mentor: ``Remember ye that existence is pure
joy; that all the sorrows are but shadows; they pass and are done; but
there is that which remains.'' For this doctrine shall comfort many.
Also there is this word: ``They shall rejoice, our chosen; who
sorroweth is not of us. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and
delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.'' Indeed in all ways
thou mayest expound the joy of our Law; nay, for thou shalt overflow
with the joy thereof, and have no need of words. It would moreover be
impertinent and tedious to call again thine attention to all those
passages that thou knowest so well. Note, pray thee, that in the
matter of direct instruction there is enough. Consider the passage
``Choose ye an island! Fortify it! Dung it about with enginery of war!
I will give you a war-engine. With it ye shall smite the peoples; and
none shall stand before you. Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! This is the
Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus shall my worship be about my
secret house.'' The last phrase suggests that the island may be Great
Britain, with its Mines and Tanks; and it is notable that a certain
brother obligated to A...A... is in the most secret of England's War








Councils at this hour. But it is possible that all this instruction
refers to some later time when our Law, administered by some such
Order as the O.T.O. which concerns itself with temporal affairs, is of
weight in the councils of the world, and is challenged by the heathen,
and by the followers of the fallen gods and demigods.

Note, pray thee, the practical method of overcoming opposition given
in CCXX III:23-n-26. But this is not to Our immediate purpose in this
epistle. Note, pray thee, the instruction in the 38th and 39th verses
of the Third Chapter of The Book of the Law. It must be quoted in
full.

``So that thy light is in me; and its red flame is as a sword in my
hand to push thy order.''

That is, the God himself is aflame with the Light of The Beast, and
will himself push the order, through the fire (perhaps meaning the
genius) of The Beast.

``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-f-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!''

In the comment in Equinox I(7) this passage is virtually ignored. It
is possible that this ``secret door'' refers to the four men and four
women spoken of later in The Paris Working, or it may mean the child
elsewhere predicted, or some secret preparation of the hearts of men.
It is difficult to decide on such a point, but we may be sure that the
Event will show that the exact wording was so shaded as to prove to us
absolute foreknowledge on the part of That Most Holy Angel who uttered
the Book.

Note, pray thee, further, in verse 39, how the matter proceeds:

``All this''--i.e. The Book of the Law it