Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law

"Whole"? Or should it be the hole of the law ... as in loop-hole. Is this an attempt by the "Me-generation" to sanctify selfishness? That's the first thing I thought of when I stumbled onto this phrase.

"Do what thou wilt" is from The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis), also called Liber CCXX (Book 220). It was written by (or revealed to) Aleister Crowley in 1904.

The first clue I got on what the phrase means is at the end of the book. It says the following--

The study of this Book is forbidden....
Those who discuss the contents of this Book are to be shunned by all.....
There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.

Okay, so if there is no law beyond Do what thou wilt, is it a given that I do not Will discussion of the Book? Either Crowley knows more about my Will than I do, or we have a problem. Are there really three laws?

1. Do what thou Wilt.
2. Don't study the Book.
3. Don't discuss the Book.

It gets interesting when I realize that I'm not sure I know what all the words are supposed to mean.

• Does "thou" mean this bag of human skin living on Malkuth?
• Does "thou" mean the amalgam of my alchemical selves, including my holy guardian angel?
• Does "thou" mean the universal I AM?

If it is number two or three, then the Game Of Life could be the challenge discovery of what I Will. I AM the dance of planes, higher and lower. There is no thing to find or achieve: only to dance.

And magick is erasing the veils between my selves. Ritual, meditation, and prayer is the sunlight behind the cloud of unknowing.

Or not...

But that would be discussing the Law which I don't Will to do (apparently).