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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.

Fire is one of the five elements that appear in most Wiccan traditions influenced by the Golden Dawn system of magic, and Aleister Crowley's mysticism, which was in turn inspired by the Golden Dawn.

Wicca in particular was influenced by the Golden Dawn system of magic, and Aleister Crowley's mysticism, which was in turn inspired by the Golden Dawn.

Wicca in particular was influenced by the Golden Dawn system of magic and Aleister Crowley's mysticism, which was in turn inspired by the Golden Dawn.

Wicca in particular was influenced by the Golden Dawn system of magic, and Aleister Crowley's mysticism which was in turn inspired by the Golden Dawn.

Later, this title was adopted for the first initiation of Aleister Crowley's OTO rituals.

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

In 1904 the vernal equinox was on a 21st and it was the day after Aleister Crowley ended his Horus Invocation that brought on the new Æon and Thelemic New Year.

She was a sculptor, socialite and cosmopolitan who had studied under Auguste Rodin and whose circle included Isadora Duncan, Pablo Picasso and Aleister Crowley.

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.

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 ".

The club motto was Fais ce que tu voudras ( Do what thou wilt ), a philosophy of life associated with François Rabelais ' fictional abbey at Thélème and later used by Aleister Crowley.

He was involved in the Order's power struggles, both with Farr and Macgregor Mathers, but was most notably involved when Mathers sent Aleister Crowley to repossess Golden Dawn paraphernalia during the " Battle of Blythe Road ".

Fuller was an early disciple of English poet and magician Aleister Crowley and was very familiar with his, and other forms of, magick and mysticism.

After the Jones vs The Looking Glass case, in which a great deal was made of Aleister Crowley's bisexuality ( although Crowley himself was not a party to the case ), Fuller became worried that his association with Crowley might be a hindrance to his career.

She noticed how much of the material in his Book of Shadows was taken not from ancient sources as Gardner had initially claimed, but from the works of the occultist Aleister Crowley, from Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, from the Key of Solomon and also from the rituals of Freemasonry.

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.

It was in 1942, the same year Parsons was appointed as head of the Agapé Lodge by Aleister Crowley ( who himself had studied chemistry ), that Parsons made the crucial breakthrough in the development of rocket solid fuel.