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Works Cited Principal Editions of Liber Legis and its Commentaries The editions cited here are not an exhaustive listing, but high light the publication history of Liber Legis and its com mentaries. Parenthetical numbers refer to works in the refer ence lists in which the papers appear. Liber CCXX first appeared in (29), later appearing in (9.j), with principal editions prepared by Crowley issued as (10), (5), and (6). Many other editions appeared after Crowley’s death; (30) and (3) include Liber CCXX and are of particular impor tance. Libe…
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Works Cited 291 35 The Bible. Crowley notes that “The Hebrew and Greek Originals are of Qabalistic value. It contains also many magical apologues, and recounts many tales of folk-lore and magical rites.” 36 Blake, William. The Marriage of Heaven & Hell. London, c. 1790- 93; facs. ed., London and New York: Oxford up, 1975. In Blake’s Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (London and New York: Oxford up, 1974). Crowley noted that “the Writings of William O’Neill (Blake) [are] invaluable to all students.” 37 Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland. A…
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Contents Works Cited Foreword 7 Introduction 13 Commentary on Title 21 The First Chapter 23 The Second Chapter 87 The Third Chapter 155 The Stèle of Revealing 191 Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX 195 Chapter I 197 Chapter II 203 Chapter III 210 AL (Liber Legis) sub figura XXXI The Comment 284 285 General Index 293 Index of Liber AL Citations 302 5
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…nt (London: Duck worth and Montréal: Next Step/93 Publishing, 1972).] 3 [Crowley, Liber CXI vel Aleph, The Book of Wisdom or Folly. See Works Cited.] 4 [Crowley, “The Soldier and the Hunchback.” See Works Cited.] 5 [Amalantrah is a discarnate adept with whom Crowley was in astral contact. Samuel Aiwaz Jacobs (c. 1891-1971) was a distinguished typographer and publisher. See Magick (Book 4, Parts I-IV), rev. ed. (York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1994), Appendix III and notes.] 23
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…pace.1 2 1 [Antoine Fabre-d’Olivet, Hermeneutic Interpretation of the Origin of the Social State of Man, tr. Redfield (1921), ch. 1; see Works Cited.] 2 In Berashith all qualities soever are considered as so many dimensions. I see no reason, 19 years later, for receding from this view. [Crowley, Berashith (1903); see Works Cited.]
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…ld know it was good, A dance to a lyrical measure!1 1 [Crowley, paraphrase of his Orpheus, A Lyrical Legend (1905), bk. 4; see Collected Works, vol. Ill, p. 217.] 2 [“The Temple of Solomon the King,” The Equinox 1(7) (1912); this account was republished as Chapter 6 of “Genesis Libri AL” in The Equinox of the Gods (Book 4, Part ZV).] 3 [Apemantus is the gloomy prophet in Timon of Athens.] The nature of events must be “pure joy”; for, obviously, whatever occurs is the fulfilment of the will of its master. Sorrow thus appears as the result of any…
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…ent to words meaning “The Gate of the Kingdom” and “The Book of Wisdom.”1 1 [Heb. X"IX?n. Cf. “Sepher Sephiroth sub figura D,” §671. See Works Cited.] 2 See “The Rites of Eleusis,” “Energized Enthusiasm,” Book 4, Part III, etc. [See Works Cited.] 34. But she said: the ordeals I write not: the rituals shall be half known and half concealed: the Law is for all. Commentary: The Ordeals are at present carried out unknown to the Candidate by the secret Magick Power of The Beast. Those who are accepted by Him for initiation testify that these Ordeals…
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… Equinox 1(7) (1912), p. 372; The Equinox of the Gods (1936), p. 88; or Book 4, Parts I-IV, (rev. ed., 1994), Appendix VIII, p. 666. See Works Cited.] 2 [“Noxious” or “poisonous,” referring to the sorceress Canidia; see Horace, Epodes.] 3 [Liber 888. Jesus: The Gospel According to St. Bernard Shaw. See Works Cited.] Isa is the legendary “Jesus,” for which Canidian1 2 3 concoction the prescription is to be found in my book bearing that title, Liber 888} 50. There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in on…
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… of the Latv]. Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX. New York: Magickal Childe Publishing and o.T.o., 1990. 7 ------------ . The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley. Foyers, UK: Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, 3 vol., 1905-7.; rpt. Des Plaines, IL: Yogi Publication Society, [c. 1974]. “These works contain many mystical and magical secrets, both stated clearly in prose, and woven into the Robe of sublimest poesy.” 8 ------------ . The Commentaries of AL, ed. Marcelo Motta. New York: Weiser, 1976. 9 ------------ . (series editor, 19…
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…; cast out from the Sanctuary, he becomes a vulgar drunkard. 1 [Edward Bulwer-Lytton, first Lord Lytton, Zanoni: A Rosicrucian Tale. See Works Cited.] 2 Varieties of Religious Experience [(1902), lecture 8; see Works Cited. See also Crowley, Book 4, Part III, ch. 5 (rev. ed., p. 161).] “this folly against self”; altruism is a direct assertion of dual ity, which is division, restriction, sin, in its vilest form. I love my neighbour because love makes him part of me; not because hate divides him from me. Our law is so simple that it constantly a…
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…ve addressed these by provided annotations to the text for the more obscure references, indicating crossreferences, and adding a list of works cited and two indexes. In order to sidestep interpretive issues, in the text of The Book of the Law itself only proper names have been indexed. Stray cross- references to material omitted by Wilkinson have been removed; a few parenthetical references to published works were dropped to footnotes; a few numbered sections were reformatted; and pas sages introducing quotations from Liber Aleph required edit…
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…A.'.A.'., 1909], vol. 3, and The Equinox 1(10) (1913), p. 9.] 2 [Crowley, Liber XXX /Erum ... The Vision and the Voice, 15th /Ethyr. See Works Cited.] 3 [Atu VIII, retitled “Adjustment” in Crowley’s The Book of Thoth (1944).] 21
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…peculiar to each one by employing its energies in the service of his imperial purpose. 1 [“Thien Tao” appears in Konx Om Pax (1907); see Works Cited.] 2 [Lat., “secret rites”; Crowley’s usual definition was “works.”] 3 [Possibly the commentary to ch. II, v. 21, beginning on p. 105.] 26. I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one. Commentary: The Magical power is…
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… commentaries to The Book of the Law may be found in the Editor’s Introduction to Crow ley’s Magick (Book 4, Parts I-IV), rev. ed.; see Works Cited. Crowley entrusted the task of editing the commentaries to his closest friend (and later literary executor) Louis Umfraville Wilkinson (1881-1966). Wilkinson wrote under the pen-name Louis Marlow, and like Crowley, was a member of the small English expatriate community in New York during the First World War. Wilkinson was an English man of letters in the best sense; he not only wrote, and wrote wel…
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…ve laboured for years, in vain, to elucidate the problems of the Tarot. 1 [Liber CXI vel Aleph, The Book of Wisdom or Folly, p. 142. See Works Cited.] 2 [The “Old Comment” was omitted in this abridgement. The relevant passage, from Equinox 1(7) (1912), p. 393, is “The fools (not here implying X fools, for 111:57 says ‘all fools despise’) may mistake. This love, then, should be the serpent love, the awakening of the kundalini. The further mystery is of S and unsuited to the grade in which this comment is written.”] 3 [See Crowley, The Book ofTho…
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…keeper; but for its own sake, like an artist. 1 [For “Liber LXV” with Crowley’s commentary, and his translation of the Tao Te Ching, see Works Cited.] 2 [These are definitions of “assuaged,” not “unassuaged.”] “unassuaged” means “its edge taken off by” or “dulled by.”1 2 The pure student does not think of the result of the examination. 45. The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfect and not two; nay, are none! 46. Nothing is a secret key of this law. Sixty-one the Jews call it; I call it eight, eighty, four hundred & eighteen. 47. But they have…
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…ath and sea, deriving the latter from the Teutonic root *mari (in “modern” Indoeuropean, *mori). Cf. Skeat, Etymological Dictionary; see Works Cited.] 4 [“Soror Achitha’s Vision” (c. 1918 E.v.), probably not extant; much of a related paper, “Liber 729, The Amalantrah Working,” survives.] Why assault their flesh rather than their eyes, as in the other cases? Because the metaphysics, or point of view, is correct — I take Judaism as Qabalistic — but the practice imperfect. 54. Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your crapulous creeds. Commentary: By soun…
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…terials soever by Virtue of our Royal and Pontifical Art of Magick.1 1 [The quotations are from “Liber XV,” the O.T.O. Gnostic Mass. See Works Cited.]
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…lfred Talbot Smith (1885-1957) in 1935 E.v. “Liber XV” is now celebrated weekly around the world.] 2 The Equinox 1(9). [See “Liber 811,” Works Cited.] 63. Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me perfumes! Wear to me jewels! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you! Commentary: All those acts which excite the divine in man are proper to the Rite of Invocation. Religion, as understood by the vile Puritan, is the very oppo site of all this. He—it—seems to wish to kill his—its—soul by forbidding every expression of it, and every practice w…
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…he most primitive savagery, as among the Buriats and the Papuans, were well aware of this, and made their reli gious ceremonies orgia, “works.” Puritan foulness, failing to understand what was happening, degraded the word “orgies” to mean debauches. It is the old story of the Fox who lost his tail. If you cannot do anything, call it impossible; or, if that be evidently absurd, call it wicked! It is critics who deny poetry, people without capacity for Ecstasy and Will who call Mysticism moonshine and Magick delusion. It is manless old cats, gel…