I first read The Book of the Law over ten years ago. I must confess, at the time it didn’t really mean much to me.

Around this time I began experimenting with magical technique – what works and what doesn’t, and what might work better. I eventually came to know, through experience, what state of mind engendered the greatest magical result (which is usually typified in sigilisation). It was in an attempt at finding the adequate words for this state that a quote from The Book of the Law floated into my noggin:

I. 44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

I didn’t think that I could top that, although I still couldn’t bring myself to quote from The Book of Law.

Several years later, and I’m strolling through St James’ Park (in London) when I suddenly enter a magical state of mind: although reality looked, smelt, sounded and felt the way it always did, there was no difference between any one thing and any other. This is very hard to explain. Although various things were of different dimensions, it was as though they were all the same size (and similarly with other differences, such as colours, sounds, etc).

No difference between any one thing and any other. Know where have I heard that before?

I. 22. Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt.

Well I never. And here’s me thinking that was just some kind of cheesy moral instruction.

The startling thing is that these occurrences have increased in proportion to my magical development. Every state of consciousness, every magical effect, every revelation gained from the practice of magick itself, I have found, plainly stated (and usually in the most beautiful prose), in The Book of Law.

Yet I very rarely come across a magician who has actually read it.

If you’re serious about magick, and you’ve never read The Book of Law, go and buy a copy NOW. It doesn’t make you a Thelemite, or a religious nut, to study what I have come to consider, through experience, the greatest magical text in existence.