According to this interpretation, which appears to be Crowley's as well, the purpose of the Comment is allow others to interpret Liber Al vel Legis for themselves ; in other words, no one is to preach its contents or tell you their understanding of it is the one true understanding.

According to Aleister Crowley's instructions for the A ∴ A ∴, the pentacle is a disc of wax, gold, silver-gilt or Electrum Magicum, eight inches diameter and half an inch thick ; the Neophyte should " by his understanding and ingenium devise a symbol to represent the Universe ", and engrave this on the disc.

According to Joshua Gunn, these are adapted from books of ritual magic such as Crowley's Magick: Elementary Theory.

According to A Briefe Discourse of the Troubles begun at Frankeford in Germany ( 1575 ), which covers events from 1554 onward, in 1557 Crowley's signature appeared with those endorsing " the new discipline " at Frankfurt ( i. e., the Genevan church order ), which limited the pastoral authority of Robert Horne over the congregation.

According to Crowley's account, Reuss approached him and accused him of having revealed the innermost ( sexual ) secret of O. T. O.

According to Crowley's friend Gavin Lambert, actress Natalie Wood, who sympathized with Hollywood's gay scene, financially supported Crowley, who is himself gay, so he would be free to write his play.

According to Crowley's unpublished Society of Hidden Masters, on 11 May 1938, Lady Harris became his " disciple " and also became a member of Ordo Templi Orientis, entering directly to the IV ° ( Fourth Degree ) of that Order due to her previous initiation into Co-Masonry.

According to Tacitus, Agrippina ’ s eldest daughter Agrippina the Younger had written memoirs for posterity.

According to her later memoirs, Fátimih fell in love with ` Abdu ' l-Bahá on seeing him.

According to the memoirs of Chen Jieru, Chiang's second wife, she contracted gonorrhea from Chiang soon after their marriage.

According to his memoirs, before arriving in California he dined in Washington with President Millard Fillmore and his family, but Eric Cline says that he didn't attend but simply read about it in the papers.

According to the < i > New York Times </ i > and his memoirs, he was relying on cards provided by the school, which Quayle claims included the misspelling.

According to a new edition of Severn's letters and memoirs, Severn fathered an illegitimate child named Henry ( b. 31 Aug 1819 ) about a year before leaving England for Italy.

According to Nancy Reagan in her memoirs published in 1989, Reagan disclosed to his parents in 1987 a very painful incident in his boyhood that he had kept secret for many years.

According to the memoirs of Juliet Thompson, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá also compared Mary to Juliet, one of his most devoted followers, claiming that she even physically resembled her and that Mary Magdalene was Juliet Thompson's " correspondence in heaven.

According to his memoirs written after the war, the German Chief of Staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, believed that although a major breakthrough might no longer be achieved, the French army could still be defeated if it suffered a sufficient number of casualties.

According to his memoirs, Haussmann's use of the title baron was based on his elevation to the Senate and to an 1857 decree of the emperor's that gave Senate members the title of baron ; his memoirs further stated that he joked that he might consider the title aqueduc, ( a pun on the French words for ' duke ' and ' aqueduct ') but that no such title existed.

According to Renoir's memoirs, von Stroheim, despite being born in Vienna, Austria ( then the Austro-Hungarian Empire ) did not speak much German, and struggled with learning the language along with his lines in between filming scenes.

According to Errol Flynn's memoirs, film director Raoul Walsh " borrowed " Barrymore's body before burial, and left his corpse propped in a chair for a drunken Flynn to discover when he returned home from The Cock and Bull Bar.

According to the memoirs of Trần Văn Trà, the Viet Cong's top commander and PRG defense minister, he followed orders issued by the " Military Commission of the Party Central Committee " in Hanoi, which in turn implemented resolutions of the Politburo.

According to Jack Benny's memoirs, his own father walked out of the theater early in the film, disgusted that his son was in a Nazi uniform, and vowed not to set foot in the theater again.

According to his memoirs, it was " shown to me in an unplayable condition, without bridge, strings or fingerboard .... No case was available -- it was such a large instrument 17 1 / 8 inches -- so my wife came to the rescue by wrapping it in her waterproof coat, and that is how it was taken across the English Channel.

According to the memoirs of his private secretary Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Bonaparte " was, above all, delighted with the admiration the exhibition excited among the numerous foreigners who resorted to Paris during the peace.

According to Albright's memoirs, she once argued with Colin Powell for the use of military force by asking, " What ’ s the point of you saving this superb military for, Colin, if we can't use it?

According to his memoirs, the labour nearly cost him and his mother their lives, as Guibert turned around in the womb.

According to his biographer Richard S. Lambert, the first volume of Barrington's memoirs about Australia, " A Voyage to Botany Bay ," is the work of Barrington's that is least changed, or wholly invented, by editors and publishers.

According to The Guardian newspaper, former Fairfax chief executive Fred Hilmer wrote in his memoirs that " he struggled to cope with a left-leaning editorial culture at papers such as The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and was surprised that journalists saw themselves as advocates rather than simply reporters.

According to his memoirs, twenty-one members of parliament then issued a public statement endorsing the Maharishi's goals and meditation technique.

According to Edgar and Schmidt, the added section potentially removes the " intent " to harm or aid requirement and may make " mere retention " of information a crime no matter what the intent, covering even former government officials writing their memoirs.

According to the memoirs of a friend, Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, Prince George's brother ( the Duke of Windsor ) believed that the son was Michael Temple Canfield ( 1926 – 1969 ), the adopted son of American publisher Cass Canfield – and the first husband of Lee Radziwill, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

According to President Nixon's memoirs, he had asked Justice Burger in the spring of 1970 to be prepared to run for President in 1972 if the political repercussions of the Cambodia invasion were too negative for him to endure.

According to his Confessions, before she moved in with him, Thérèse bore him a son and as many as four other children ( there is no independent verification for this number ).

Saint Augustine says the only one who can love you truly and fully is God, because love with a human only allows for flaws such as “ jealousy, suspicion, fear, anger, and contention .” According to Saint Augustine, to love God is “ to attain the peace which is yours .” ( Saint Augustine's Confessions )

According to his Confessions, after nine or ten years of adhering to the Manichaean faith as a member of the group of " hearers ", Augustine became a Christian and a potent adversary of Manichaeism ( which he expressed in writing against his Manichaean opponent Faustus of Mileve ), seeing their beliefs that knowledge was the key to salvation as too passive and not able to effect any change in one's life.

According to John Baxter in A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict, Hornberger " was so furious at having sold the film rights for only a few hundred dollars that he never again signed a copy of the book " ( 203 ).

According to Perkins, he began writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man in the 1980s, but " threats or bribes always convinced to stop.

According to Aleister Crowley, the three evil forms ( before Samael ), are said to be Qemetial, Belial, and Othiel.

According to Crowley in " Liber O ", success in this technique is signaled by physical exhaustion and " though only by the student himself is it perceived, when he hears the name of the God vehemently roared forth, as if by the concourse of ten thousand thunders ; and it should appear to him as if that Great Voice proceeded from the Universe, and not from himself.

According to Crowley, 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.

According to Don Frew, Valiente composed the couplet, following Gardner's statement that witches " are inclined to the morality of the legendary Good King Pausol, ' Do what you like so long as you harm none '"; he claims the common assumption that the Rede was copied from Crowley is misinformed, and has resulted in the words often being misquoted as " an it harm none, do what thou wilt " instead of " do what you will ".

According to Crowley, they were not so much written by him as through him, and are therefore referred to as inspired works.

According to Ritchie ( page 23 ), D ' Arcy did not board the Neptune until mid-December 1789 when he met for the first time Catherin Crowley who was already on board.

According to an April 14, 2011 letter from Nevada Mining Association President Tim Crowley, and statements made by Republican Assembly Minority Floor Leader Pete Goicoechea, it appears plausible that "... Nevada mines have routinely claimed illegal tax deductions ..." The letter was directed to Chris Nielsen, and briefly summarized those deductions that the mining industry had been taking, despite not being expressly allowed to do so under the laws of Nevada.

According to Crowley, it was one of the team ’ s linemen, Noble Kizer ( a Presbyterian ), who suggested praying before the first touchdown, which occurred on a fourth and goal play at the Tech 6-yard line during the second quarter.

According to William Bernard Crow, Crowley wrote the Gnostic Mass " under the influence of the Liturgy of St.

According to articles in Ireland's Own and the Times Educational Supplement Website, the atoll is identified by Tony Crowley as being the site of buried treasure stolen during the 19th century by four adventurers from a church in Pisco, Peru.

According to Crowley and Zajas, branding power measurement is an important way that companies can keep track of their position in the software market.

According to John Stow's Memoranda, Crowley stopped the funeral party at the door.

According to Crowley: