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Aleister Crowley was highly prolific and wrote on the subject of Thelema for over 35 years, and many of his books remain in print. During his time, there were several others who wrote on the subject, including U.S. O.T.O. Grand Master Charles Stansfeld Jones, whose works on Qabalah are still in print, and Major-General J. F. C. Fuller ...
However, Crowley suggested that the succession of the aeons is not bound to the precession of the equinoxes in his 'Old Comment' to Liber AL chapter III, verse 34, where he states, "Following him [Horus] will arise the Equinox of Ma, the Goddess of Justice, it may be a hundred or ten thousand years from now; for the Computation of Time is not ...
Crowley and Hirsig went to Tunis, where, dogged by continuing poor health, he unsuccessfully tried again to give up heroin, [153] and began writing what he termed his "autohagiography", The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. [154] They were joined in Tunis by the Thelemite Norman Mudd, who became Crowley's public relations consultant. [155]
The word "Therion" is mentioned in several Thelemic rituals, such as The Star Ruby.In total, there are five mentions of The Beast in Liber AL vel Legis, the first being in 1:15, and the remaining four are all in the third chapter—verses 14, 22, 34, and 47, respectively—although the word “beast” can be found elsewhere therein.
The Stele of Revealing (Bulaq 666): Nuit, Hadit as the winged solar disk, Ra-Hoor-Khuit seated on his throne, and the stele's owner, Ankh-af-na-khonsu. According to Crowley, [5] the story began on 16 March 1904, when he tried to "shew the Sylphs" by use of the Bornless Ritual to his wife, Rose Edith Kelly, while spending the night in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Aleister Crowley's reception of The Book of the Law marked the beginning of this aeon, [3] with the central tenet being "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." [ 9 ] Israel Regardie viewed Crowley's revelation of the aeon as a monumental shift towards new spiritual and psychological paradigms, emphasizing individual spiritual ...
According to Crowley, there is a single definition of the purpose for ritual magick: to achieve Union with God through "the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm". [6] Since this process is so arduous, it is also acceptable to use magick to develop the self (i.e. one's body of light) or to create ideal circumstances for the Work (e.g ...
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography is a partial autobiography by the poet and occultist Aleister Crowley. It covers the early years of his life up until the mid-late 1920s but does not include the latter part of Crowley's life and career between then and his death in 1947.