"The Law is For All" was recommended to me, by an On-Line Friend. I had read "Then Book of The Law," Online, several times & was not quite sure what to make of it. I could not quite understand what the fuss was all about. However, "The Law is For All" explained-away all those little things that had confused me or led me to believe that "The Book of The Law" was just Crowley's personal writings. When I started looking into all this, I was a firm believer that Crowley was the man I had read about from Colin Wilson's perspective and Nevill Drury's perspective, etc. In other words, my opinions were formed by the Research of others.... Yet, when I actually took the time to sit-down and read Crowley's works--well, I was amazed at his Genius and his Anthropological views of Humanity. I never expected to gain Anthropology lessons from his works--but, he was truly an Observer of the Human Condition....all of which adds to this "Commentary" on the "Book of The Law."

What amazed me, until I realized that this book was written in the same way as all other "Holy Books," was the fact that it is, in fact, a "Holy Book." This book was written in the same fashion as "The Book of Mormon" or any other "Holy Book."

Aliester Crowley served as The Prophet, and the book was written Through him (even if he was not exactly happy to be the Writer of the Work).

"The Law is For All" has awakened me to the validity of certain religions that I had never really considered as such, previously. I think this book is a good example of why we should ALL be respectful of each-other's religions and "Holy Books," because they are ALL written in the exact same fashion. Regardless of whether or not you agree with "The Book of The Law," one cannot deny it is a "Holy Book" to many people.

A commentary and exegesis which goes very far toward a thorough understanding of Liber Al. Crowley was troubled by the book, and tried more than once to write an effective commentary. Perfect? No, for in essence much of the work must be done by the reader of the Book of the Law if it is to have personal meaning. But this book is enormously helpful.

_The Law is for All_ offers a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the mind of Aleister Crowley, revealing "the Great Beast" at his best -- and worst. To date it is the only "authorized" commentary upon Liber AL vel Legis (the Book of the Law), the core "sacred text" of Thelema reputed to have been communicated to Crowley in 1904 in Cairo, Egypt by an entity called Aiwass. Here we see Crowley, man and magickian, offering a quasi-ecclesiastical (and often disarmingly personal) commentary upon the very "sacred text" he was "chosen" to "deliver."

_The Law is for All_ displays an amazing juxtaposition of the divine, human, and beastly trains of thought all contending for the title of the definition of Aleister Crowley. Glimpses of his reputed "misogynistic" tendencies turn up side-by-side with his ardent appreciation for, and devotion to, the divine glory of the feminine. His triple cry of "the Christians to the lions!" parades beside his obvious respect for the figure of Christ Himself. His social solutions for illiteracy and demotivation, "a contented slave class," seem shocking at first until the reader delves into the fuller explanation of the careful responsibilities of his envisioned "elite" toward their less-fortunate fellows.

All in all, some of the best and worst of Crowley's mind is inscribed upon these pages for the world to see. At times his commentary takes a decidedly personal, almost solipsistic slant, as he himself endeavors to make sense of confounding passages in the very text which was delivered through the vehicle of his own being. These moments offer fascinating insights into the man who would later turn his back upon and denounce such adept students of his as Frater Achad and Jack Parsons for far less supposed folly of thought or course than he, Crowley, exhibited himself. In his "autohagiography" _Confessions_, Crowley attempted to be candid to some degree, yet it is obvious therein that he had given more conscious forethought to his self-representation. That level of conscious deliberation is absent in the scattered vulnerable insights within _The Law is for All_, making this an even more candid look into the mind of one of the Twentieth Century's most infamous enigmas, Aleister Crowley.

--Shedona Chevalier--