The Law

<p>The Law is regarded as an Abstract Principle of Power</p>

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The Law is not Being-but the Cause of Being. It cannot be said to "Be," in the ordinary sense-it causes the verb "To Be: to have meaning.</p>

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The Law is above beings, and even above Being. To hold otherwise is to degrade it, and to deny its Absoluteness.</p>

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Law is the First, and Last Cause-the Beginning and the Ending-the Efficient Reason of All-Thngs. Law is not a Being-not a Mind-not a Spirit-not a Thing-it is Law, and naught else.&nbsp;</p>

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The Law is never attracted or affected in any way by the Cosmos, or Infinity. It is Absolute and beyond mutual Relationship. &nbsp;Were the Cosmos and Infinity not to exist, The Law would not vary a particle in any way whatsoever.&nbsp;Its Absoluteness raises it above Relations.</p>

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The Arcane Teaching is based upon the fundamental principle of the existence of an Absolute Supreme Power, which is the Cause and Reason of the Cosmos and All the Manifestations contained therein--all that men call "the universe." &nbsp;This Absolute Supreme Power is known in the Arcan Teaching as "THE LAW," and is represented in the symbols by the world "LEX."</p>

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The Law is regarded as an Abstract Principle of Power, impossible of being represented by words or even by symbols. It is not a Pantheistic Deity, or Being--It is an Absolute <i>Principle</i>, beyond definition or description. &nbsp;It does not manifest Itself in a universe of shapes and forms, by separating Itself into the Many as the Pantheistic Being is held to do in certain philosophies. &nbsp;</p>

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Instead of this It <i>causes</i> Universal Being to proceed from Infinite Not-Being--<i>causes</i> the Cosmos to arise from Chaos--<i>causes</i> Manifestation to arise from the Unimanifest--<i>causes</i> Everything to arise from Infinte Nothing. &nbsp;The Law is not Being--but the Cause of Being, It cannot be said to "Be," in the ordinary sense--It <i>causes</i> the verb "To Be" to have a meaning.&nbsp;</p>

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&nbsp;other than The Law there is Not. &nbsp;with the exception of the Infinity of Nothingness which exists in latency. &nbsp;Other than The Law, there is Not in the absolute sense.</p>

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“From Nothing, Everything comes,” or “Ex Nihilo, Omnis fit.”

But, it must be remembered, that this Nothing contains within

itself the possibility, latency, and promise of Everything. It is a

No‑Thing, instead of a “Not.”<br />

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The Law, although not by any means to be considered as being

“qualities” or “phases” of The Law. The Law has no “qualities”

or “phases”—it is over and above these things, which are but

the aspects of Infinity, or the Cosmos.&nbsp;<br />

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