Led Zeppelin released Led Zeppelin III on October 8th, 1970. The original edition was a vinyl, it was very impressive and was designed by Zacron, a multimedia artist, who Jimmy Page met in 1963, when he was a student at the Kingston College Of Art.
The first editions of the album had some inscriptions on each side...
Side one: “So Mote Be It”
Side Two: “Do What Thou Wilt”
Jimmy Page and the engineer, Terry Manning, inscripted those messages coming from the occultist and black magic wizard, Aleister Crowley, during the last edit of the record.
“So Mote Be It” is an expression linked to black magic, paganism and all the stuff that Page had “gotten himself into” at the time...
It means “Let it be like this” or “It Should Be like this” and it is referred to be said in the end of a certain prayer...
“Do What thou Wilt” is fascimile to message used on the main principle of a certain Crowley philosophy.
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, love under will. There is no law beyond do what thou wilt.”
Jimmy Page was a scholar of Crowley's work and he had many manuscripts and pieces of art of Crowley, in his personal collection... In 1971, he even bought an old house that used to belong to Crowley, on the shore of Loch Ness in Scotland, because he thought it created a good atmosphere to write songs... .
Jimmy Page rarely stayed in that house, which he eventually sold in 1992. The inscripted words on the vinyls disappeared from the next releases of the album and these particular records with the inscriptions are considered very rare...
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