Introduction
In this Commentary on the Book of the Law it is told how the 
Book came to be written; or, rather, communicated to the man 
who wrote it down.
There is a Being called Aiwaz, an intelligence discarnate, who 
wrote this Book of the Law, using my ears and hand. His 
mind is certainly superior to my own in knowledge and in 
power, for He has dominated me and taught me ever since.1
1 [Crowley, Commentary to AL 111:19, p. 161 below.]
2 [Quotations from Liber Legis are cited by chapter and verse in the 
margins throughout this edition, except when occurring in that section 
of the Commentary where the verse quoted is the subject.]
But the writer from this dictation was not, at the time, in 
sympathy with this “intelligence.” Aiwaz, in fact, was dictating to 
a hostile scribe; to one who was forced to write against his will. 
“I see thee hate the hand & the pen; but I am stronger.”1 2 To the 
scribe this experience is the surest and the most significant reality 
in his life.
I am myself persuaded that there are intelligences and powers 
not normally accessible to any of the senses, and that in the last 
hundred years such forms of energy have been discovered, or re­
discovered. Study of the text of this Book has confirmed my belief 
that in certain rare circumstances communication between such 
intelligences and human beings is possible. The same study may 
well lead others to the same conclusion. I would direct the
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