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 ".

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 wrote that ".

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:

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Through the reception of this book, Crowley proclaimed the arrival of a new stage in the spiritual evolution of humanity, to be known as the ' Æon of Horus '.

Occultist and former student of Crowley, Israel Regardie argued that Aiwass was an unconscious expression of Crowley's personality and that the book reflected Crowley's moral and religious values.

Although his own book had been put together with the help of Doreen Valiente and included material from a variety of modern sources, ( notably from Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches and the writings of Aleister Crowley ) it also included sections written in an antique ( or mock-antique ) style, including advice for witches brought to trial and tortured.

Many scholars, and the new ODNB, assert that Piers Plowman was a banned book, that it was published as " propaganda " for reformist interests backed by Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset or other high-placed aristocrats, and that Crowley added interpretive glosses and substantially altered the text of the poem for propaganda purposes.

Liber 777 is included in the book The Qabalah of Aleister Crowley and its later edition 777 and other Qabalistic writings of Aleister Crowley.

The book contains first-hand observations of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Valery Larbaud, Thornton Wilder, André Gide, Leon-Paul Fargue, George Antheil, Robert McAlmon, Gertrude Stein, Stephen Benet, Aleister Crowley, Harry Crosby, Caresse Crosby, John Quinn, Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, and many others.

This book, printed by Robert Crowley, was in Welsh and English ; as the title indicates, it was an attempt to justify Protestant doctrine in favour of a clerical marriage to the Welsh and English by establishing precedent for it in the " auncient law " of a Welsh king.

Crowley numbered the book as 84 since that number is the Qabalistic numeration for Chanokh.

Crowley renamed several of the trumps, and also re-arranged the astrological and Hebrew alphabet correspondences of some cards, in accordance with his earlier book, Liber AL vel Legis ( The Book of the Law ):

The book claims that there was a conspiracy to kill John F. Kennedy, and uses material purportedly obtained from Crowley to claim that the CIA had a central role in the assassination under the code name Operation Zipper.

Bennett had high regard for Golden Dawn leader S. L. Mathers, and with him began working on a book of Hermetic Qabalah correspondences that Crowley would later expand upon as Liber 777.

Peter Crowley, who had been booking the same, early punk bands that played at CBGB, and Mothers, a gay bar on West 23rd Street ( Manhattan ), was hired to book bands at Max's.

Crowley Lake Fish Camp, run in cooperation with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, is the only way to access the lake and visitors can rent boats, book camping sites, and buy supplies at the Fish Camp.

Neuburg's response in this book contradicts both the words attributed to him in Liber 418 and the statement of Crowley biographer Lawrence Sutin.

In 1991, John Symonds, one of Crowley's literary executors published a book: The Medusa's Head or Conversations between Aleister Crowley and Adolf Hitler, which has " definitely " to be understood as a literary fiction.

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 ).

In the universe of the book " Good Omens ", two primary characters, the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley, often frequent The Ritz.

The occultist Aleister Crowley found The Hasheesh Eater to be “ tainted by admiration of de Quincey and the sentimentalists ” but admired Ludlow ’ s “ wonderful introspection ” and printed significant excerpts from the book in his journal The Equinox.

The Equinox ( subtitle: " The Review of Scientific Illuminism ") is a series of publications in book form that serves as the official organ of the A ∴ A ∴, a magical order founded by Aleister Crowley ( although material is often of import to its sister organization, Ordo Templi Orientis ).

777 is also found in the title of the book 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley pertaining to the law of thelema.

Their business relationship eventually turned into an acrimonious one, which brought copyright issues of ' who really wrote what ', with regards to Crowley's General Principles of Astrology ( now settled with the book being attributed to Crowley but with a recognised contribution by Adams ).

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