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The Law is for All
Cover of the 1996 edition
Author	Aleister Crowley
Language	English
Subject	Thelema
Published	1975
Publisher	Llewellyn Publications
Publication place	United States
ISBN	978-0-87542-114-8

The Law is for All is a collection of Aleister Crowley's commentary on The Book of the Law, the central sacred text of Thelema.^[1] It was edited to be a primer of sorts into Crowley's general interpretations about the sometimes opaque text of Liber Legis. For this reason, the book omits many of the more complex qabalistic explanations that lean heavily on an understanding of gematria and The Tree of Life. As the original editor, Louis Wilkinson, wrote in his introduction:

The aim of the Commentary on the Book of the Law is to guide the reader along the path of the discovery of his own true will, in accordance with which, and only in accordance with which, he can rightly think and act. This is why "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Only by doing so will you be shown your own true thought and life.^[2]

Crowley's long expository was written prior to the final Comment that now is appended to The Book of the Law.

Provenance

Most of Crowley's commentaries were written between 1919 and 1922. He wrote about his reception of Liber AL vel Legis and the composing of the commentaries in Chapter 66 of his Confessions, further elaborating on the symbolic and practical aspects of the different commentaries and their significance in the broader context of his work in the following two chapters.^[3] Prior to publication, the commentaries were privately distributed, and Crowley wrote several letters to students which refer to the commentaries. These letters were posthumously published in the collection Magick Without Tears by Karl Germer in 1954.^[4]

Crowley turned to publishing the commentaries late in his life. They were edited by Louis Wilkinson, a trusted friend, at Crowley's request. A first draft was completed in 1946, and it is believed that Crowley reviewed it, since a copy was found among his final possessions; however, his death in 1947 put a hold on its publication. The original manuscript was eventually published under the name Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on the Book of the Law, edited by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant. The next year, Israel Regardie published a competing edition based on a 1926 manuscript. Both editions were cumbersome and neglected to address numerous inconsistencies within the complex collection of notes. The 1996 edition of The Law is for All was edited by Hymenaeus Beta based upon the final Wilkinson manuscript.

Editions

Grant, Kenneth; Symonds, John, eds. (1974). Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law. Canada: 93 Publishing. ISBN 978-0-919690-01-1.
Regardie, Israel, ed. (1975). The Law is for All: An Extended Commentary on The Book of the Law. Llewellyn Publications. ISBN 978-0-87542-114-8.
Regardie, Israel, ed. (1985). The Law is for All: An Extended Commentary on The Book of the Law. Falcon Press. ISBN 0-941404-25-0.
Regardie, Israel, ed. (1991). The Law is for All: An Extended Commentary on The Book of the Law. Phoenix: New Falcon Press. ISBN 978-1-56184-005-2.
Wilkinson, Louis U.; Beta, Hymenaeus, eds. (1996). The Law Is for All: The Authorized Popular Commentary to The Book of the Law. Thelema Media. ISBN 978-0-9726583-8-6.

References

^ "Crowley, Aleister. Edited with an Introduction by Israel Regardie. The Law is For All. An Extended Commentary on "The Book of the Law"". Weiser Antiquarian Books. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
^ Wilkinson in his introduction to Wilkinson & Beta (1996), p. 17.
^ Crowley, Aleister (1969). Symonds, John; Grant, Kenneth (eds.). The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0224613347. Chapters 66–68.
^ Crowley, Aleister (1954). Germer, Karl (ed.). Magick Without Tears (1st ed.). Thelema Publishing Company. See esp. Letters 22, 31, & 47.

v t e Thelema
Organizations	A∴A∴ Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica Fraternitas Saturni O∴A∴A∴ Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn Ordo Templi Orientis Society Ordo Templi Orientis Thelemic Order of the Golden Dawn Typhonian Order
Personalities	List of Thelemites Ankh-af-na-khonsu Aleister Crowley Kenneth Anger Allan Bennett William Breeze Mary Butts Marjorie Cameron Lon Milo DuQuette Jeanne Robert Foster J. F. C. Fuller Karl Germer Kenneth Grant Lady Frieda Harris Leah Hirsig Christopher Hyatt Charles Stansfeld Jones George Cecil Jones Richard Kaczynski Rose Edith Kelly James Lees Grady Louis McMurtry Mogg Morgan Marcelo Ramos Motta Nema Andahadna Victor Neuburg Sara Northrup Jack Parsons Helen Parsons Smith Theodor Reuss C. F. Russell Phyllis Seckler Wilfred Talbot Smith Leila Waddell James Wasserman Sam Webster Jane Wolfe
Thelemic texts	Aleister Crowley bibliography The Book of Lies The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis) The Book of Thoth Clouds without Water Collected Works Confessions The Diary of a Drug Fiend Eight Lectures on Yoga The Equinox The Blue Equinox The Equinox of the Gods The Holy Books of Thelema Konx Om Pax The Law is for All Liber 777 Liber Aleph Liber OZ Liber Resh Liber Trigrammaton Little Essays Toward Truth Magick (Book 4) Magick Without Tears Moonchild One Star in Sight The Stratagem and other Stories Thoth Tarot The Vision and the Voice White Stains
Concepts and ideas	93 Abyss Aeon Agape Astral projection Body of light English Qaballa Great Work Hermetic Qabalah Holy Guardian Angel Magical formula Night of Pan Stele of Revealing Stellar wisdom True Will
Magick	Abrahadabra Ceremonial magic Enochian magic Eroto-comatose lucidity Goetia Obeah and wanga Sex magic
Ceremony and ritual	Liber Resh Pentagram Ritual Bornless Ritual Gnostic Mass Rites of Eleusis
Godforms	Nuit Hadit Heru-ra-ha Aiwass Therion Babalon Chaos Ma'at Harpocrates
Symbolism	Number of the beast Pentagram Rose Cross Tree of Life Unicursal hexagram
Related topics	Abbey of Thelema Abramelin oil Agape Lodge Boleskine House Book of Abramelin Cake of Light Choronzon Dianism Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn IPSOS Magical alphabet Magical organization Solar deity Solar Lodge The Beast Whore of Babylon

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