Liber AL vel Legis + Magick in Theory and Practice
Contents — 24 chapters
Read the full text in your browser. Click any chapter to open the reader there, or “Read online” to start at the beginning. The chapter index below is baked into the page (visible to search engines); the reader itself loads on demand.
About this book
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) is the modern endpoint of the ceremonial-magic lineage (Lévi to Mathers to Crowley). Two works are hosted here: (a) Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law, 1904) - its three chapters (Nuit, Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit) and the Thelema current; (b) Magick in Theory and Practice (1929), the complete systematic exposition of his system.
Relevance to this project
The modern close of the mage-lineage: the Thelema current and the ceremonial framework that inherits the Sefer Yetzirah / Golden Dawn letter-astronomy; a cross-cultural witness to the persistence of the letter-as-power theology into the 20th century (mages: Crowley).