• Book 718
  • The English Qabbala
  • Matthew B. Joiner
  • Scorpio 11, IVXI
  • House 418
  • Santa Rosa, CA.
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  • On April 8th, 9th and 10th, 1904 c.e., [the Book of the Law] was dictated to 666 (Aleister Crowley) by Aiwass, a Being whose nature he [did] not fully understand, but who described Himself as “the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat” (the Lord of Silence).
  • The contents of the book prove to strict scientific demonstration that He possesses knowledge and power quite beyond anything that has been hitherto associated with human faculties.
  • The circumstances of the dictation are described in [“The Priest”]; but a fuller account, with an outline of the proof of the character of the book is now here to be issued.
  • The book announces a New Law for mankind.
  • It replaces the moral and religious sanctions of the past, which have everywhere broken down, by a principle valid for each man and woman in the world, and self-evidently indefeasible.
  • The spiritual Revolution announced by the book has already taken place: hardly a country where it is not openly manifest.
  • Ignorance of the true meaning of this new Law has led to gross anarchy. Its conscious adoption in its proper sense is the sole cure for the political, social and racial unrest which have brought about the World War[s], the catastrophe of Europe and America, and the threatening attitude of China, India and Islam.
  • Its solution of the fundamental problems of mathematics and philosophy will establish a new epoch in history.
  • But it must not be supposed that so potent an instrument of energy can be used without danger.
  • I summon, therefore, by the power and authority entrusted to me, every great spirit and mind now on this planet incarnate to take effective hold of this transcendent force, and apply it to the advancement of the welfare of the human race.
  • For as the experience of these [one hundred] years has shown too terribly, the book cannot be ignored. It has leavened Mankind unaware: and Man must make thereof the Bread of Life. Its ferment has begun to work on the grape of thought: Man must obtain therefrom the Wine of Ecstasy.
  • Come then, all ye, in the Name of the Lord of the Æon, the Crowned and Conquering Child, Heru-Ra-Ha: I call ye to partake this sacrament.
  • Know—will—dare—and be silent!
    • The crowns of Gods and mortals wither;
    • Moons fade where constellations shone;
    • Numberless æons brought us hither;
    • Numberless æons beckon us on.
    • The world is old, and I am strong—
    • Awake, awake, O Sword of Song!
    • Here, in the Dusk of Gods, I linger;
    • The world awaits a Word of Truth.
    • Kindle, O lyre, beneath my finger!
    • Evoke the age’s awful youth!
    • To arms against the inveterate wrong!
    • Awake, awake, O Sword of Song!
    • Sand-founded reels the House of Faith;
    • Up screams the howl of ruining sect;
    • Out from the shrine flits the lost Wraith;
    • “God hath forsaken His elect!”
    • Confusion sweeps upon the throng—
    • Awake, awake, O Sword of Song!
    • Awake to wound, awake to heal
    • By wounding, thou resistless sword!
    • Raise the prone priestcrafts that appeal
    • In agony to their prostrate Lord!
    • Raise the duped herd—they have suffered long!
    • Awake, awake, O Sword of Song!
    • My strength this agony of the age
    • Win through; my music charm the old
    • Sorrow of years: my warfare wage
    • By iron to an age of gold:—
    • The world is old, and I am strong—
    • Awake, awake, O Sword of Song!
  • —Aleister Crowley, The Sword of Song
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