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Charles R. Cammell, in his book Aleister Crowley: The Man, the Mage, the Poet, [37] also believed that The Book of the Law was an expression of Crowley's personality. Cammell described the book's maxims as cold, cruel, and relentless, reflecting Crowley's own Daemonic personality. He noted that the manner of the book's reception made it a ...
The Law is for All is a collection of Aleister Crowley's commentary on The Book of the Law, the central sacred text of Thelema. [1] It was edited to be a primer of sorts into Crowley's general interpretations about the sometimes opaque text of Liber Legis.
[264] Crowley described democracy as an "imbecile and nauseating cult of weakness", [265] and commented that The Book of the Law proclaimed that "there is the master and there is the slave; the noble and the serf; the 'lone wolf' and the herd". [229]
This path, crafted by Aleister Crowley, draws inspiration from Hermetic alchemy and the Hermetic Qabalah. The cornerstone of Thelema is the Book of the Law, received by Crowley in 1904 through a communication with the entity Aiwass. This text became the central scripture, heralding a new Aeon for humanity and outlining the principles of Thelema.
Aleister Crowley wrote in The Antecedents of Thelema (1926), an incomplete work not published in his day, that Rabelais not only set forth the law of Thelema in a way similar to how Crowley understood it, but predicted and described in code Crowley's life and the holy text that he received, The Book of the Law. Crowley said the work he had ...
Aleister Crowley (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English writer, not only on the topic of Thelema and magick, but also on philosophy, politics, and culture.He was a published poet and playwright and left behind many personal letters and daily journal entries.