Overthrowing the Old Gods

Overthrowing the Old Gods
Author: Don Webb
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2013-11-02
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 162055190X

New commentaries on Aleister Crowley’s Book of the Law reveal how it is connected to both Right- and Left-Hand Paths • Examines each line of the Book of the Law in the light of modern psychology, Egyptology, Gurdjieff’s teachings, and contemporary Left-Hand Path thought • Explores Crowley’s identification with the First Beast of Revelations as well as his adoption of the Loki archetype for becoming a vessel of love for all humanity • Recasts the Cairo Working as a text of personal sovereignty and a relevant tool for personal transformation • Includes commentary on the Book of the Law by Dr. Michael A. Aquino, who served as High Priest of the Temple of Set from 1975 to 1996 Received by Aleister Crowley in April 1904 in Cairo, Egypt, the Book of the Law is the most provocative record of magical working in several hundred years, affecting not only organizations directly associated with Crowley such as the Ordo Templi Orientis but also modern Wicca, Chaos Magic, and the Temple of Set. Boldly defying Crowley’s warning not to comment on the Book of the Law, Ipsissimus Don Webb provides in-depth interpretation from both Black and White Magical perspectives, including commentary from Dr. Michael A. Aquino, who served as High Priest of the Temple of Set from 1975 to 1996. Webb examines each line of the Book in the light of modern psychology, Egyptology, existentialism, and competing occult systems such as the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff and contemporary Left-Hand Path thought. Discarding the common image of Crowley formulated in a spiritually unsophisticated time when the devotee of the Left-Hand Path was dismissed as a selfish evil doer, Webb unveils a new side of Crowley based on his adoption of the Loki archetype and his aim to become a vessel of love for all humanity. In so doing, he shows how the Book of the Law is connected to both Right- and Left-Hand Paths and reveals how Crowley’s magical path of mastery over the self and Cosmos overthrew the gods of old religion, which had kept humanity asleep to dream the nightmare of history. Providing in-depth analysis of Crowley’s sources and his self-identification with the First Beast of Revelation from a profound esoteric perspective, Webb takes his views out of the Golden Dawn matrix within which he received the Book of the Law and radically recasts the Cairo Working as a text of personal sovereignty and a relevant tool for personal transformation.

The Law is for All

The Law is for All
Author: Aleister Crowley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: Spirit writings
ISBN: 9781561840908

Crowley discovered that the Book of the Law held the keys to the next step in human evolution but he felt he was too near to the subject matter to judge the value of his own commentaries. This authorized version of the commentaries was produced by editor Louis Wilkinson and completed posthumously.

Magick Without Tears

Magick Without Tears
Author: Aleister Crowley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1991
Genre: Magic
ISBN: 9781561840182

Crowley at his absolute best. An annotated and very personal encyclopedia of magical instruction covering the Qabalah, the major schools and symbols of magick, meditation and astral projection, the tarot, astrology, pentacles, lamens, talismans, and much, much more.

Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley

Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley
Author: Aleister Crowley
Publisher: Weiser Books
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780877288565

Written after his expulsion by Mussolini from the abbey of Thelema in Cefalu, Sicily, these records consolidate the work that Crowley began in Cefalu and explore more deeply the various techniques of cabalistic and sexual magic, as well as his contact with the Arab magic of North Africa.

Selected Commentaries to The Book of the Law

Selected Commentaries to The Book of the Law
Author: Aleister Crowley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2020-03-21
Genre:
ISBN:

"Love is the law, love under will."Aleister Crowley was a noted and controversial occultist, ceremonial magician and poet. He has been called "the wickedest man in the world" or "The Great Beast 666 " or "The Master Therion" but he remained a highly influential figure over Western esotericism and the counterculture. He founded the religion of Thelema, which became adopted by the Ordo Templis Orientis (O.T.O.) as well as the magical order Argenteum Astrum, the Order of the Silver Star. He wrote the sacred document of Thelema, The Book of the Law - Liber AL vel Legis. This book has been described by The Master Therion as an extended and elaborate commentary on The Book of the Law. This is a valuable work to anyone interested in occult studies.

Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism

Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism
Author: Henrik Bogdan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2012-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199863091

Henrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr offer the first comprehensive examination of one of the twentieth century's most distinctive occult iconoclasts, Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary western esotericism.

Aleister Crowley's Four Books of Magick

Aleister Crowley's Four Books of Magick
Author:
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 821
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1786786095

This is the masterpiece of occultist, magician and philosopher Aleister Crowley, introduced for the first time by one of the world's leading experts on Western esoteric traditions, Stephen Skinner. "Do what thou wilt." Written in the early twentieth century, the four books contained within this collection make up one of the most complete and groundbreaking works on the practice of magick ever written. They are considered to be the masterpiece of occultist, magician and philosopher Aleister Crowley and the core texts for the religion of Thelema. Their influence on alternative western thought and philosophy cannot be exaggerated. Also known as Book Four, or Liber ABA, the four parts bring together many rituals, received texts, theorems and unequalled insights into the practice of magick, culminating in The Book of the Law, the central, sacred text dictated to Crowley by a preternatural entity. Anyone interested in yoga, ceremonial magic, esoteric thought, invocation, divination and beyond, or those looking to delve into the fascinating, playful and illuminating writings of a unique man, will find inspiration. For the first time, one of the world's leading experts on Western esoteric traditions and magic, Dr. Stephen Skinner, introduces the text, sharing his insights into Crowley's take on yoga, ceremonial magick and Thelema. His long involvement with magick, both as an academic and as a practitioner, enabled Dr. Skinner to highlight the differences between the psychological and the spirit-orientated approaches to magick, and to show how that dilemma shaped Crowley's practice and his founding of Thelema, enlightening the reader to many previously unknown connections.

The Law of Thelema

The Law of Thelema
Author: Antti P. Balk
Publisher: Thelema Publications
Total Pages: 646
Release: 2018-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9789525700664

Principles of Crowley's philosophy, carefully extracted from his own writings, compared and contrasted with those of other thinkers, ancient and modern, Oriental and Occidental.

Liber Aleph Vel CXI

Liber Aleph Vel CXI
Author: Aleister Crowley
Publisher: Weiser Books
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780877287292

Written in New York City at the end of the First World War, this has been described by Crowley as an extended and elaborate commentary on The Book of the law, in the form of a letter from the Master Therion to his magical son.