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INTRODUCTION#10

The Book of the Law is a book like no other. It is wrong to assume that one must read it like any ordinary book because it is not an ordinary book. It is more in the nature of a computer programme and the reader is the computer. If one makes a serious study of Liber Al and its Qaballa it goes to work on its student. It interacts with every part of his being and if persisted in reveals through its ordeals a different kind of universe, a universe built on reason. One by one the Gods myths and archetypes are paraded before the reader not as dead letter ideas but as living entities with a function and purpose that is more alive today than at any other time in Earth’s history. In studying the book the individual is tested at every stage and with the successful passing of each test comes a realisation as surprised secret and a readjustment to the real nature of the universe and the Self.

Reading the Book of the Law is an initiatory process. There is always something in Al to offend and outrage everybody, if taken at face value many of the expressions in Al are totally unacceptable in a civilised society, and yet the outraged victim of our Holy Book will find a truth that is as equally true of him as another aspect of the Book outrages his sensibilities. Many will discard the Book at the first reading appalled by this statement or that, shocked an untenable concept or whatever, but reject it he will most certainly do. The student of the Qaballa although outraged by some of the Book’s sentiments will be held to it by its obvious Qaballistic form. The Qaballist knows not to take anything at face value, his training in Hebrew Qaballa will have taught him that. The Qaballist is who the Book is written for, he who looks below the surface. To study Al one must always have an open mind, and if you haven’t got one persistent study of this book will most assuredly give you one. To begin with one is appalled yet fascinated, persistent study reveals secrets about the self and the universe that can be acquired in no other way. As each ordeal is overcome the miracle of the Book becomes more and more perceptible to the individual until at last he realises that what he has been studying is no more dead letter text but the living word of God.

This is The Book text of texts, mystery of mysteries, the Book in which all life on Earth is recorded. The history of the Universe and the secret of mankind. This is the Revelation. This is the Armageddon. The One Book that is father and mother of all other Books. Only once in 26,000 years does this Book appear. It is the blueprint of all Creation and yet it lives. The mystery of mysteries truth of truths Liber Al - The Book of The Law.

Unless you are a serious student of the Mysteries this Book is not for you, it is for the seeker after truth. Many and terrible are the ordeals that must be undergone if one is to be made fit to understand the mysteries of creation, it is all here. The Holy Grail, Alchemical Gold, the Secrets of all religion magick and mysticism but you must be prepared to understand these mysteries and the Book of the Law prepares you for the secret knowledge and when you are ready it reveals its secrets in the most sublime succint and incisive way possible, it interrupts the working of the Soul and changes it sometimes subtly at other times with a savagery that one can barely withstand and yet all the time it is guiding you testing you preparing you and initiating you. And to each in accordance with his ability will the mysteries be revealed until the final mystery, ‘‘The Life that Abideth in Light - Yea, the Life that Abideth in Light.’’