他声称在埃及开罗与一个名叫Aiwass的超自然实体联系过,Aiwass)向他提供了The Book of the Law,这是一部作为Thelema基础的神圣文本。宣布the Æon of Horus的开始,这本书宣称它的追随者应该“做你想做的事”,并通过魔法练习寻求与他们的真实意志保持一致。Crowley在他的一生中获得了广泛的恶名,他是一名娱乐性吸...
Crowley pursued the idea, reportedly making contact in 1904 with a spirit named Aiwass who served as Horus’ messenger.During this contact, Aiwass is said to have dictated the text of what would later becomeThe Book of the Law, or the sacred text of Thelema, to him. Crowley continued to ...
believing that he was being contacted by his Holy Guardian Angel, an entity known as Aiwass, while staying in Egypt in 1904, he "received" a text known as The Book of the Law from what he believed was a divine source, and around which he would come to develop his new philosophy of ...
Nuit and Isis are thus identified in The Book of the Law. Isis is terrestrial space, illumined by the stars; Nuit is outer, or infinite space, the undying darkness that is the hidden source of Light. She is also, in a mystical sense, Inner Space and the Great Within. Crowley first ...
includingThe Confessions of Aleister Crowley, Magick without TearsandThe Book of the Law.The latter work was 'received' by Crowley from a an entity named Aiwass in Cairo, Egypt in 1904, and represents the fundamental sacred text of his philosophical / religious / occult system known as Thelema...
In 1907, Crowley formed theArgenteum Astrum,the Order of the Silver Star, a magical organization centeredaround his re-discoveredBook of the Lawmanuscript. In 1909 he began publishing the Equinox, a biannual publication arriving on the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, the official organ of the A...
At their Cairo apartment, Crowley sat in the temple he had built, and over a period of three days he claimed to hear the voice of Aiwass, his Holy Guardian Angel, who dictated what was to become the "Book of the Law," or Liber Legis. From this book, Crowley took his famous dictum...
The Book of the Law was accepted as scripture by the Ordo Templi Orientis, a mystical group of German origin. In about 1907 Crowley founded his own order, A∴A∴, using initials that stood for the Latin words for “silver star.” Starting in 1909 he disseminated his teachings in the ...
he received a text known as The Book of the Law from what he believed was a divine source, and around which he would come to develop his new religion of Thelema. He would go on to found his own occult society, and eventually rose to become a leader of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O...
The Commentaries, Old, New, and derivative, on the Book of the Law, Liber Al vel Legis, featuring a holograph comparison, notes from numerous editors through time, and the consolidation of the Qabalistic Appendix which had been intended from the first