we’ll freely love!



And thus shall it be done: all shall sit down to the supper all naked, men and women, and, the feast over, they shall dance, sing, make music, and then love in the darkness, with all the lights extinguished; for it is the spirit of Diana who extinguishes them, and so they will dance and make music in her praise. While it is clear the Aradia is the source this part of Leviter Veslis was drawing upon, it is interesting to note that a similar sentence also occurs in Crowley’s works, in the Editorial of The Equinox Volume III Number 1 (The Blue Equinox, Detroit, Michigan, 1919) pp. 9–10: Celebrations must conform to the custom and nature of the people.



Christianity has destroyed the joyful celebrations, characterizedby music, dancing, feasting, and making love; and has kept only the melancholy.



The Law of Thelema offers a religion which fulfils all necessary conditions. Most of the rest of Leviter Veslis is ultimately (but, as I have indicated, not necessarily directly) derived Crowley’s channeled work The Book of the Law, which (as mentioned above) was published in The Equinox in Volume I Number VII (London, 1912), in Vol. I Number X (London, 1913), and in Vol. III Number 3 (The Equinox of the Gods, London, 1936), and also in Thelema (The Holy Books, London, 1909) Volume 3, and as a booklet in Pasadena, California in 1938, and also in London in 1938. Here are the relevant sections from The Book of the Law. Again, I have altered the