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The Dove or the Serpent
If there is more to man than is appreciable in ordinary human cattle, i.e. if man is God -- and I think I can muster considerrable evidence of a sort to that effect -- then it is everyone's own responsibility to listen to no one else (no not even me, for I speak for myself alone) but oneself, to best achieve the fullness of divine self-realization.
In Part II of my thesis I'll anaylse Liber L vel Legis, the original (pre-copyright law) manuscript of The Book of the Law. First though I want to point out that my evaluation of the complex matter of this extraordinary little book brought me to the conclusion that its scribe, Crowley, was utilized by his own greater intelligence, not any "holy angel" but as he said, Shaitan-Aiwass, a Demon (an Entity of Energy) of ancient Sumer, that was humanity's Prometheus, and was later reviled as Satan. This was none other than Therion, The Beast, and Hadit, the Winged Globe of ancient Egypt. Whatever it was, I have experienced it as some others have, on several occasions, and it is in my opinion a greater portion of my own mind, and most likely constituted of realization in the form of energy independent of the brain. I consider The Book of the Law to be something considerably more than a collection of "lifted" stuff. I think that Shaitan has directed the original sources of these ideas in the first place. My analysis of The Book of Revelation , as well as that of The Book of the Law , will serve nicely to explain why I am so confident in my conclusion.
This is however what got me into trouble with the Thelemic community. They mostly got up in arms over my apparent audacity; but in reality, my ideas are purely my own, leading to my own little corner of Hell. Do not venture further if you would take me seriously or follow in my footsteps. I am here to propound my own theory for myself, and to erect therefrom my own shrine. I don't want followers, I look for intelligent friends of similar persuasion, but by no means would I want slavish followers -- unless you're filthy rich and would like nothing better than to share! Slavish followers are useless otherwise, because you'd have to be stupid to be slavish.
Nevertheless, I foresee this Black Ideology going somewhere with time, as the masses sink deeper and deeper into corruption, and the old Slave God religions melt away gradually, killing themselves off, and as war and disaster increasingly lessen their numbers, making way for the Souls of Black Brothers who stand for themselves, not for any God, against all gods, opposing every dogmatic ideology with the liberating principle of these four simple words: Do What Thou Wilt. 
You see it began to dawn upon me, that life is very short and there is no need for me to associate the verses of this magical book with Aleister Crowley, because he himself asserted that he dared not lay claim to any part of that book not even with his littlest fingertip. And besides that, I have reached the level of awareness to appreciate that this seemingly objective Mind that is at the root of all of us, that is inclusive of all points in time, that I find best expressed by the gematric alphanumeric formula of Shaitan-Aiwass (359/93/418), is really simply Myself (or as you see it, Yourself), at once countless years in the future and countless ages into the past, in the moment of present (and constantly moving) personal perception.
In other words, why do you or I have to listen to or heed the rules of Aleister Crowley, the piss-poor addict whom Satan tells us in the book itself had "ill-will to learn this knowledge"? Why can't we each write on our books on the matter, to each his or her own? I shall conceive my own interpretation of this Law, and share it and let howl the dogs for naught, for there will be success therewith. The Black Path seems to me better than that of the so-called "Great White Brotherhood". And anyway, Aiwaz was described as a black entity! So I shall build at the center of the Abyss my own grand Tower of Self, and go unto my beloved Babalon (the female part of Shaitan, Nuit the counter to Hadit, and the infinite consciousness or bliss of unlimited matter breaking up constantly in motion) with wrathful passion, and never die.
The dogma of the White Brothers is that they should invoke a "Guardian Angel", only to have to lose him in the Abyss, relying only on the momentum of your magical works to effectively propel one through and into a heavenly state of supernal glory -- blah blah blah. I believed all that nonsense too, until I came to appreciate the real glory the Abyss of unlimited Knowledge has to offer me here and now. To Hell with the "angels"! It is far better to rule in Hell than to serve humanity in a so-called heavenly state! I shall feast and lust and work magic in these, and when I die I'll go out in the biggest bang of bliss ever, and then be no more.
It is from this point-of-view that I proceed to consider as I do The Book of the Law. I must wipe the slate clean and consider it in a certain new light, and share my views and see where it goes.
"There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt."
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