The Book of the Law

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The Book of the Law is the foundational occult text of Aleister Crowley’s Thelema, presenting its core spiritual and philosophical doctrines.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Thelemic scripture
occult text
religious text
alternativeTitle Liber AL NERFINISHED
Liber AL vel Legis NERFINISHED
Liber CCXX NERFINISHED
associatedDeity Hadit NERFINISHED
Nuit NERFINISHED
Ra-Hoor-Khuit NERFINISHED
author Aleister Crowley NERFINISHED
canonicalStatusInThelema primary scripture
centralDoctrine Thelema NERFINISHED
chapterOneSpeaker Nuit NERFINISHED
chapterThreeSpeaker Ra-Hoor-Khuit NERFINISHED
chapterTwoSpeaker Hadit NERFINISHED
claimedSource praeterhuman intelligence Aiwass NERFINISHED
containsProphecyOf Aeon of Horus NERFINISHED
countryWritten Egypt NERFINISHED
dateOfDictation 1904-04-08
1904-04-09
1904-04-10
dateWritten 1904
famousLine Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Love is the law, love under will.
firstPublicationDate 1909
fullPublicationDate 1912
genre esoteric literature
religious philosophy
hasCommentaryBy Aleister Crowley NERFINISHED
influenceOn Western esotericism
ceremonial magick
modern occultism
keyConcept Aeon of Horus NERFINISHED
Law of Thelema NERFINISHED
True Will NERFINISHED
magick
spiritual liberation
language English
numberOfChapters 3
placeWritten Cairo NERFINISHED
publisher A∴A∴ NERFINISHED
Ordo Templi Orientis NERFINISHED
religion Thelema NERFINISHED
scribe Aleister Crowley NERFINISHED
scripturalStatus central holy book of Thelema
structure three chapters dictated on three successive days
subject ethics of will
mysticism
religious law

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Aleister Crowley authored The Book of the Law
Ordo Templi Orientis centralText The Book of the Law
Aleister Crowley notableWork The Book of the Law