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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.

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.

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.

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 number 93 is of great significance in Thelema, a religious philosophy founded by English author and occultist Aleister Crowley in 1904 with the writing of The Book of the Law ( also known as Liber AL vel Legis ).

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 ".

* 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:

Access to the Mauve Zone has been facilitated in more recent times by the use of magical systems developed by occultists such as Austin Osman Spare and Aleister Crowley, both of whom established contact with inter-dimensional entities possessed of transhuman knowledge and power.

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.

Ronald Hutton, a scholar of neopaganism, argues that the concept of the triple moon goddess as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, each facet corresponding to a phase of the moon, is a modern creation of Robert Graves, drawing on the work of 19th and 20th century scholars such as especially Jane Harrison ; and also Margaret Murray, James Frazer, the other members of the " myth and ritual " school or Cambridge Ritualists, and the occultist and writer Aleister Crowley.

The term was considered by occultist Aleister Crowley to represent a unity of beginning and ending by tying together the first and last letters of the alphabets of antiquity ; A / Alpha / Alef ( first character of Latin, Greek & Hebrew ), Z ( final character in Latin ), O as Omega ( final character in Greek ) and Th as Tau ( final character in Hebrew ).

He was involved in the publishing of Aleister Crowley's Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law ( edited by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant ; 93 Publishing, 1974 ) and was a student of Marcelo Ramos Motta, who described him as " an ex-Probationer who failed to keep his Oath and perform his Task and was cut contact with as a result.

One of the likely models for Le Chiffre was the influential English occultist, astrologer, mystic and ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley, whose physical features are similar to Le Chiffre's ; his tastes, especially in sado-masochism, were also akin to those of Le Chiffre and, as Fleming biographer Henry Chancellor notes, " when Le Chiffre goes to work on Bond's testicles with a carpet-beater and a carving knife, the sinister figure of Aleister Crowley is there lurking in the background.

Frieda Harris ( born 1877 London, England ; died 11 May 1962 Srinagar, India ) was an artist, an occult magician, and, after she met him at age 60, an associate and friend of the author and occultist Aleister Crowley.

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

He may be termed the ' God of Silence ' and said to represent the Higher Self and be the ' Holy Guardian Angel ' and more in similar vein, adapted from Aleister Crowley's often-reprinted Magick.

Harrington is said to have introduced Anger to the work of Aleister Crowley.

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

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

Within the system of the A ∴ A ∴ magical Order the Great Work of the Probationer Grade is considered to be the pursuit of self-knowledge to, as Crowley said in The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, " obtain the knowledge of the nature and powers of my own being.