( December 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this section by introducing more precise citations. This section includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. The book is often referred to simply as Liber AL, Liber Legis or just AL, though technically the latter two refer only to the manuscript. I do not refer to those doubts-real or pretended-which hostility engenders, for all such are dispelled by study of the text no forger could have prepared so complex a set of numerical and literal puzzles" Ĭrowley himself wrote "Certain very serious questions have arisen with regard to the method by which this Book was obtained. Biographer Lawrence Sutin quotes private diaries that fit this story and writes that "if ever Crowley uttered the truth of his relation to the Book," his public account accurately describes what he remembered on this point. Crowley says that the author was an entity named Aiwass, whom he later referred to as his personal Holy Guardian Angel. The book contains three chapters, each of which was alleged to be written down in one hour, beginning at noon, on 8 April, 9 April, and 10 April in Cairo, Egypt, in the year 1904. The primary precept of this new aeon is the charge, " Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Through the reception of the Book, Crowley proclaimed the arrival of a new stage in the spiritual evolution of humanity, to be known as the " Æon of Horus". The three chapters of the book are spoken by the deities Nuit, Hadit, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit. Rose Edith Kelly, Crowley's wife, wrote two phrases in the manuscript. Aleister Crowley said that it was dictated to him by a beyond-human being who called himself ' Aiwass'.
Liber AL vel Legis ( Classical Latin: ), commonly known as The Book of the Law, is the central sacred text of Thelema.
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