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; Aleister Crowley, " The Gnostic Mass "

* 1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.

is derived from The Master Therion, known by his civil name as Aleister Crowley and considered by Thelemites to be the Prophet of the Aeon.

* 1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of The Law.

But Aleister Crowley regarded it as possessing great power ; he said its true form is abrahadabra.

The most well known version is that written by Gerald Gardner, and includes material paraphrased works by Aleister Crowley, primarily from Liber ALThe Book of the Law ( particularly from Ch 1, spoken by Nuit, the Star Goddess ), and from his Liber XV: the Gnostic Mass as well as Liber LXV ( Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente, or the Book of the Heart Girt with the Serpent ), thus linking modern Wicca irrevocably to the cosmology and revelations of Thelema.

The third paragraph is largely written by Doreen Valiente, with some phrases adapted from The Book of the Law and The Gnostic Mass by Aleister Crowley.

This has been identified by the historian Ronald Hutton, cited in an article by Roger Dearnsley " The Influence of Aleister Crowley on Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical, as a piece of medieval ecclesiastical Latin used to mean " lifting the veil.

This version draws extensively from Charles Godfrey Leland's Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches and other modern sources, particularly from the works of Aleister Crowley.

* 1947 – Aleister Crowley, English occultist ( b. 1875 )

The writer Aleister Crowley distinguished between two main types of egolessness, for which he used the Sanskrit terms Dhyana ( which means " meditation ") and Samadhi ( which he associated with the Nothing, or in Hebrew Ain ).

He knew and worked with many famous occultists, including Aleister Crowley.

Dr. Leo Ruickbie, in his Witchcraft Out of the Shadows, analysed the documented evidence and concluded that Aleister Crowley played a crucial role in inspiring Gardner to establish a new pagan religion.

Erroneously believing the coven to be a survival of the pre-Christian Witch-Cult discussed in the works of Margaret Murray, he decided to revive the faith, supplementing the coven's rituals with ideas borrowed from Freemasonry, ceremonial magic and the writings of Aleister Crowley to form the Gardnerian tradition of Wicca.

In 1901 Gardner and the Elkingtons lived briefly in a bungalow in Kandy, where a neighbouring bungalow had just been vacated by the occultists Aleister Crowley and Charles Henry Allan Bennett.

In its heyday, many celebrities belonged to the Golden Dawn, such as actress Florence Farr, Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne, Irish writer William Butler Yeats, Welsh author Arthur Machen, English author Evelyn Underhill, and English author Aleister Crowley.

* Aleister Crowley ( 1875 – 1947 ), occultist, writer and mountaineer

Gardner states that he had reconstructed elements of the religion from fragments, incorporating elements from Freemasonry, the Occult, and Theosophy, which came together in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, where Gardner met Aleister Crowley, whose influence became the basis for Wiccan magical practices.

by Aleister Crowley and subsequently went on to found the Neopagan religion of Wicca.

The British occultist Aleister Crowley chose the spelling to differentiate the occult from stage magic and defined it as " the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will ", including both " mundane " acts of will as well as ritual magic.

There can be many purposes for such a record, such as recording evidence to verify the effectiveness of specific procedures ( per the scientific method that Aleister Crowley claimed should be applied to the practice of magick ) or to ensure that data may propagate beyond the lifetime of the magician.

* Hermetic. com: The Libri of Aleister Crowley

* Journal of Thelemic Studies-the first non-partisan, academic journal investigating the occult tradition of Thelema, founded by Aleister Crowley

The Order was reworked by Aleister Crowley after he took control of the Order in the early 1920s.

Among those who do believe in it, there are a variety of different views as to what magic is, but many Pagans adhere to the definition of magic provided by the founder of Thelema, Aleister Crowley, who defined it as " the Science and Art of causing change to occur in conformity with Will.

He was also an occultist and one of the first Americans to take a keen interest in the writings of English author and Thelema's founder Aleister Crowley.

Its founder, author and occultist Aleister Crowley, said of it in his book Magick Without Tears:

Under the name Hymenaeus Beta he is a leading editor of the occult works of English author Aleister Crowley, the founder of the philosophy and religion of Thelema.

Symonds met the infamous occultist and founder of the Thelemite religion, Aleister Crowley in 1946, the year before Crowley's death.

Oil of Abramelin was seen as highly important by Aleister Crowley, the founder of Thelema, and he used his version of it throughout his life.

Thelema is a spiritual philosophy ( referred to by some as a religion ) that was developed by the early 20th century British writer and ceremonial magician, Aleister Crowley.

Parsons adhered to the religion of Thelema, which had been founded in 1904 by the English occultist Aleister Crowley following a spiritual revelation that he had in the city of Cairo, Egypt, when — according to Crowley's own accounts — a spirit being known as Aiwass dictated to him a prophetic text known as The Book of the Law.

Lyrically, the band incorporated magical themes, referencing the Cthulhu Mythos, the Sumerian religion, Chaos magic and the works of Aleister Crowley.

His works often make reference Aleister Crowley, although he is not publicly a follower of Crowley's Thelema religion.

One of those attracted to Spare's work was Aleister Crowley ( 1875 – 1947 ), an occultist who had founded the religion of Thelema in 1904, taking as its basis a new holy text known as The Book of the Law.

He has also focused upon occult themes in many of his films, being fascinated by the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley, and is a follower of Crowley's religion, Thelema.

True Will is a term found within the mystical system of Thelema, a religion founded in 1904 with Aleister Crowley's writing of The Book of the Law.

Aleister Crowley was an English Occultist and mountaineer who had links to many cults, setting up the Thelemite religion.

The A ∴ A ∴ was created in 1907 by Aleister Crowley and also teaches magick and Thelema.

The religious philosophy of Thelema, founded in 1904 by the English ceremonial magician and occultist Aleister Crowley, instead advocated the law of " Do What Thou Wilt ", arguing that Thelemites should attune themselves to follow their own True Will, and therefore the Cosmic Will of the universe.

Liber AL vel Legis is the central sacred text of Thelema, written by Aleister Crowley, who claimed it was dictated to him by a discarnate entity named " Aiwass ".

** Aleister Crowley begins writing Liber Al vel Legis, better known as The Book of the Law, a text central to Thelema.

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley's Thelema and their subsequent offshoots, influenced by Eliphas Levi, are most commonly associated with the resurgence of magical tradition in the English speaking world of the 20th century.

* Wolf's bane is used as an analogy for the power of divine communion in Liber 65 1: 13-16, one of Aleister Crowley's Holy Books of Thelema:

Perhaps most notably, the concept takes on an essential role as the philosophical-spiritual basis of Thelema ( and its various delineations ), an occultic system of thought developed by the writer-mystic Aleister Crowley: Crowley argued that Will provides for a certain ground of being, as well as the possibility that rituals such as ceremonial magic, yoga, and meditation allow for conscious beings to have direct influence over reality and both the spiritual and metaphysical world.

The Baphomet of Lévi was to become an important figure within the cosmology of Thelema, the mystical system established by Aleister Crowley in the early twentieth century.

* Journal of Thelemic Studies-the first non-partisan, academic journal investigating the occult tradition of Thelema, founded by the author and occultist Aleister Crowley

The symbol of the rosy cross played a substantial role within the system of Thelema as developed by Aleister Crowley.

* The Great Mother, epithet of Babalon, a goddess in Aleister Crowley's mystical system of Thelema

Tibet's lyrics have been fairly consistent, regardless of delivery: The earlier recordings reflect his preoccupation with death, Christ, mysticism, Aleister Crowley ( Tibet borrowed the term " 93 Current " from Crowley-the 93 Current being the current of Thelema or Agape ), Tibetan Buddhism, Gnosticism, runes, swastikas, Noddy, The Wicker Man, and a variety of occult notions.

This category comprises articles pertaining to Thelema, a philosophical / religious system established in the early twentieth century by Aleister Crowley.

In the 20th century he became an important element within the mystical system of Thelema, founded by Aleister Crowley, where he is the Dweller in the Abyss, believed to be the last great obstacle between the adept and enlightenment.

* The extremely rare and sought after original first edition of Liber Al ( among other original Crowley First Editions ), also known as the Vellum books but more popularly known as the Holy Book of Thelema by Aleister Crowley

The system of magic from this book regained popularity in the 19th and 20th centuries due to the efforts of Mathers ' translation, The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, its import within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and later within the mystical system of Thelema ( created in 1904 by Aleister Crowley ).