Month: April 2015

The central message of The Book of the Law is the Law of Thelema: “Do what thou wilt shall the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will.” Thelema is the Greek word for Will. It – like Agape, the Greek word for Love – has the numerical value of 93.

In the Qabalah there is a numerological system called Gematria, which informs us that words with the same numerical value are descriptions of each other or they are indications of a single phenomenon.
The Law of Thelema is the Law of Will and Love. Every act of Love must be under Will, that is, in accordance with one’s True Will. Such is the Law of Liberty by which we perfect ourselves in Nature to realize and accomplish our True Will.

The magical doctrine of The Book of the Law asserts that every man and every woman has a proper course in life – a True Will – just as every star has its own orbit, and that the duty of every individual is to pursue his or her own course, just as every star must move on its own orbit.

The Book of the Law proclaims: “Every man and every woman is a star.” We are all individual Centers of the Universe, each with our own unique Path to pursue in the Cosmic Order. As such, we are to be free of all standard ways and codes of conduct, and we are to exist by our own inward light and truth in this Way of Liberty. If we all did our True Will there would be no conflict and no interference with one another.

The Book of the Law further states that we have no right but to do our Will, and that any deviation from this path is a direct violation of the Law of Thelema. We must know our True Will and do it with one-pointedness, and without lust of result. Also every act is to be a sacrament, a ritual of Love under Will. It may all be summed up in one simple injunction: There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.