The Law is for All An Extended Commentary on The Book of the Law

In 1904, Aleister Crowley, having temporarily suspended his active work in magick, visited Egypt. There, without prior preparation and at times against his will, he penned The Book of the Law as dictated to him by a preternatural intelligence named Aiwass. He then laid aside the manuscript, losing it and giving it no further thought for five years.<br/><br/>But the Book haunted him. Finally he was compelled to publish it in The Equinox and he spent the rest of his life preaching it and unravelling its mysteries. As the Book stated, he was the prophet of that Law and the herald of the New Aeon.<br/><br/>The Law Is For All contains The Book of the Law intact, plus two commentaries, the first written in 1909 and the second in 1921. Each comment is prefaced by the relevant passage. The book also contains the Stele of Revealing, special keys for decoding numerological symbolism (gematria), the full text of Liber Trigrammaton, subtitled "The Book of the Trigrams of the Mutations of the Tao with the Yin and the Yang," and a three-page foldout of the holograph manuscript arranged and dictated by Crowley.<br/><br/>Prefacing the book is a lengthy introduction by Israel Regardie, the foremost Crowley scholar, whose work is characterized by its balance and accuracy. That Preface emphasizes Crowley's revolutionary ideas on religion, sex and drugs—ideas revolutionary when Crowley wrote his commentaries, but now rapidly becoming part of the "new consciousness," as Regardie dramatically demonstrates. It also contains a brilliant analysis of the complex interplay between Crowley's unconscious psyche and his formulation of the Law.<br/><br/>Other editions of the Law and Crowley's commentaries have appeared and others will appear. But this is the only one edited by Israel Regardie, the only one within relatively easy reach of everybody's pocketbook, the only one showing just how the Law relates to contemporary shifts in mores and consciousness, just how it is adapted to the New Aeon we all find ourselves on the threshold of. It is the only edition with treats the Law as truly for all.