Liber Aleph

Notes by the creator of this electronic edition Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Liber Aleph was written over the winter 1917-18 and first advertised for publication in the “Præmonstrance of A∴A∴” in Equinox III (1). It is addressed to Charles Stansfeld Jones, Frater Achad (O.I.V., Parzival, O.I.V.V.I.O., Arctæon, &c.), who had not long previously taken the Oath of the Abyss and declared himself 8°=38 (without bothering to go through the grades Zelator to Adeptus Exemptus inclusive first), and whom at the time Crowley believed to be his “Magical Son.” An abortive edition was advertised around 1938 as Equinox III (4); it was finally published post- humously as Equinox III (6) in 1962, edited by Karl Germer and his Brazilian disciple Marcelo Motta. A corrected edition edited by “Hymenæus Beta” was published by Samuel Weiser in 1991. This e-text of Liber Aleph was based on one in Internet circulation, key-entered in 1988 e.v. by W. E. Heidrick for O.T.O. It has been conformed to the 1991 edition; in the Internet version a paragraph of chapter a was omitted, the chapters from Zk to the end were mis-numbered, the last two run together, and the final paragraph of the last chapter omitted; this may perpetuate errors in the first edition, I am not sure. These and a large number of minor typographical errors (I suspect it was originally typed on a keyboard with a dodgy ‘t’ key) have been fixed in the present edition, although further proof-reading might still be useful. The original editor’s introduction and the “Prolegomena” and indices from the 1991 edition are here omitted. Translations of Latin chapter titles, where they differ significantly from those in the 1991 edition, are by the present editor. Love is the law, love under will. ~