The Book of the Law
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The Book of the Law or Liber AL vel Legis is the central sacred text of Thelema, written down from dictation mostly by Aleister Crowley. Crowley claimed it was dictated to him by a discarnate entity named Aiwass. However, the three chapters are largely written in the first person by the Thelemic deities Nuit, Hadit and Ra-Hoor-Khuit.
The book contains three chapters, each of which was alleged to be written down in one hour in 1904, Cairo, Egypt.
Crowley believed that in order to discover the True Will, one had to free the desires of the subconscious mind from the control of the conscious mind, especially the restrictions placed on sexual expression, which he associated with the power of divine creation. He identified the True Will of each individual with the Holy Guardian Angel, a daimon unique to each individual. The spiritual quest to find what you are meant to do and do it is also known in Thelema as the Great Work.
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley wurde am 12. Oktober 1875 in England geboren. Seine Eltern gehörten den christlich-fundamentalistischen Plymouth Brethren an. Er studierte am Trinity College in Cambridge Chemie, schloss jedoch sein Studium nie ab, da er das Geld der Brauerei seines Vaters erbte und seine Zeit mit Poesie und Okkultismus verbrachte. 1898 wurde er Mitglied des Golden Dawn, einem Geheimbund, in dem auch u.a. William Butler Yeats, Oscar Wildes Ehefrau, Arthur Edward Waite, Florence Farr, Bram Stoker und Sir Arthur Conan Doyle waren. Von nun an widmete sich Crowley ganz dem Okkultismus. 1900 begann der Golden Dawn auseinanderzufallen, Crowley wurde via Yeats aufgrund moralischer Bedenken ausgestossen. Zu dieser Zeit schrieb Crowley Pornographie, die von der englischen Zollbehörde beschlagnahmt und zerstört wurde. Er reiste nach Asien und Afrika, wo er angeblich den Yoga studierte, den er mit westlicher Magie und orientalischem Mystizismus ausschmückte. In Londen und Paris verbrachte er seine Zeit in den Kreisen der Bohemia, wo sogar August Rodin einen seiner Gedichtbände illustrierte. In Paris, am Picalle, gab es damals ein Cabaret namens Abbaye de Thélème, wo später viele berühmte Jazzmusiker auftraten. 'Abbaye de Thélème' ist ein Begriff aus Rabelais' Roman "Gargantua et Pantagruel". Crowley heiratete 1903 die Schwester von Gerald Kelly, Rose. Der Charakter Oliver Haddo in William Somerset Maughams Roman "The Magician" basiert auf Crowley. 1904 verbrachte er mit seiner Frau in Ägypten, wo er ein dreiteiliges Gedicht verfasste, welches von einer ausserirdischen Intelligenz diktiert worden sein soll. Manche meinen, es könnte auch seine Frau Rose gewesen sein (im Originalmanuskript stammen einige Passagen aus Roses Hand). In seinen Schriften nennt Crowley auch "Thee, Satan, my saviour" als Quelle. Dieses dreiteilige Gedicht basiert auf Crowleys früheren Gedichten, Ideen von Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Augustinus und Rabelais, der Offenbarung aus der Bibel und vielen anderen Quellen. Als "Buch des Gesetzes" ist es die Bibel seiner Neureligion/Philosophie "Thelema". Den Rest seines Lebens verbrachte Crowley damit, Thelema "als Gesetz des Neuen Aeons" in vielen weiteren Texten, Gedichten und Ritualen auszuarbeiten. 1910 kam er in Kontakt mit dem deutschen Ordensgebilde Ordo Templi Orientis und übernahm 1912 den englischen Zweig des Ordens. Von 1915-1919 lebte er in den Vereinigten Staaten, wo er anti-Britische Propaganda publizierte.
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The Book of the Law - Aleister Crowley
The Book of the Law
Aleister Crowley
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ISBN: 978-1-365-28836-4
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AL
(Liber Legis) THE BOOK OF THE LAW
SUB FIGURA XXXI
AS DELIVERED BY
93 - AIWASS - 418
TO
ANKY0F0N-KHONSU
THE PRIEST OF THE PRINCES
WHO IS
666
The Comment
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading.
Whosoever disregards this does so at his own risk and peril. These are most dire.
Those who discuss the contents of this Book are to be shunned by all, as centres of pestilence.
All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself.
There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
Love is the law, love under will.
The priest of the princes,
ANKH-F-N-KHONSU
Chapter I
I,1: Had! The manifestation of Nuit.
I,2: The unveiling of the company of heaven.
I,3: Every man and every woman is a star.
I,4: Every number is infinite; there is no difference.
I,5: Help me, o warrior lord of Thebes, in my unveiling before the Children of men!
I,6: Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue!
I,7: Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat.
I,8: The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs.
I,9: Worship then the Khabs, and behold my light shed over you!
10: Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & the known.
I,11: These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools.
I,12: Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of