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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.

Aleister Crowley wrote a play called Tannhauser which follows the character Tannhauser and the infamous Venus.

For instance Alphonse Louis Constant wrote under the name Eliphas Levi, William Wynn Westcott wrote under Frater Sapere Aude, and Aleister Crowley wrote under the name Frater Perdurabo.

Aleister Crowley, who worked with, and wrote about, Enochian magic extensively, has contributed much to its comparatively widespread use today.

Maugham wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in Paris, where he met Aleister Crowley.

In the 1908 edition of the magazine Vanity Fair Aleister Crowley ( under the pen name Oliver Haddo ) wrote a critique of The Magician, accusing Maugham of plagiarism.

About the Gnostic Mass, Crowley wrote in The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, "... the Ritual of the Gnostic Catholic Church ...

Aleister Crowley wrote The Gnostic Mass — technically called Liber XV or " Book 15 " — in 1913 while travelling in Moscow, Russia.

The older Cammell wrote a biography of Aleister Crowley focusing principally on the occultist's poetry.

In 2004 Count Gore wrote the introduction to the graphic novel Aleister Arcane, which is about a horror host.

Aleister Crowley wrote a short story about the Mass, entitled " The Mass of Saint-Sécaire ", in his Golden Bough-inspired series Golden Twigs.

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 ".

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 ".

Aleister Crowley said " the magician of the future will use mathematical formulas ".

" Bangs dismissed Black Sabbath as " a shuck — despite the murky songtitles and some inane lyrics that sound like Vanilla Fudge paying doggerel tribute to Aleister Crowley, the album has nothing to do with spiritualism, the occult, or anything much except stiff recitations of Cream clichés ".

Crowley wrote that " it is theoretically possible to cause in any object any change of which that object is capable by nature ".

Crowley wrote of two keys to success in this arena: to " inflame thyself in praying " and to " invoke often ".

As Crowley developed the religion he wrote widely on the topic, producing what are collectively termed the Holy Books of Thelema.

Robinson of the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, Crowley adopted this line from François Rabelais, who in 1534 wrote, " DO AS THOU WILT because men that are free, of gentle birth, well bred and at home in civilizor ".

Crowley wrote that Theodore Reuss suffered a stroke in the spring of 1920.

Crowley wrote in his Confessions:

Of the entire system of O. T. O., Crowley wrote in Confessions:

Crowley referred to this deck as The Book of Thoth, and also wrote a book of that title intended for use with the deck.

Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism.

In March 1946, Crowley wrote in his diary: " Value of Grant: if I die or go to U. S. A., there must be a trained man to take care of the English O. T. O.

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

The name " Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica " was not applied to the church until Crowley wrote the Gnostic Mass in 1913, which Reuss proclaimed to be the church's official rite.

Crowley explains why he wrote the Gnostic Mass in his Confessions:

Using the pseudonym Oliver Haddo, Crowley also wrote at length about his own cannabis experiences, comparing and contrasting them to those of Ludlow.