By his account, a possibly non-corporeal or " praeterhuman " being that called itself Aiwass contacted him and dictated a text known as The Book of the Law or Liber AL vel Legis, which outlined the principles of Thelema.

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 full title of the book is Liber AL vel Legis, sub figura CCXX, as delivered by XCIII = 418 to DCLXVI, and it is commonly referred to as The Book of the Law.

Crowley retitled it Liber AL vel Legis in 1921, when he also gave the handwritten manuscript its own title, Liber XXXI.

( the full technical title of the manuscript is: " AL ( Liber Legis ), The Book of the Law, sub figura XXXI, as delivered by 93-עויז-ΑιϜασς-418 to תריון-ΤΟ ΜΕΓΑ ΘΗΡΙΟΝ 666 ".

The book is often referred to simply as Liber AL, Liber Legis or just AL, though technically the latter two refer only to the manuscript.

** Liber CCXX: Liber AL vel Legis sub Figura CCXX: The Book of the Law — Among the Holy Books of Thelema, the chief is The Book of the Law.

* Liber AL, the central sacred text of Thelema

Parsons claimed that Liber 49 constituted a fourth chapter of Crowley's Liber AL Vel Legis ( The Book of the Law ), the holy text of Thelema.

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 holy book of the order is Liber AL vel Legis ( in English, The Book of the Law ).

In a more contemporary area, the idea of dialectical monism is expressed in the central book of Thelema, Liber AL vel Legis:

— Liber AL vel Legis, ch.

— Liber AL vel Legis, ch.

V, No. 1: The Commentaries to Liber AL vel Legis ( 1975 )

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 ).

The central philosophy of Thelema is in two phrases from Liber AL: " Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law " and " Love is the law, love under will.

for his use in a certain matter of The Book of the Law ( Liber AL vel Legis ).

The original title of the book was Liber L vel Legis.

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

** Liber LXI vel Causæ — Explains the actual history and origin of the present movement.

** Liber VII: Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli — These are the Birth Words of a Master of the Temple.

** Liber DCCCXIII vel Ararita — An account of the Hexagram and the method of reducing it to the Unity and Beyond.

* Liber I: Liber B vel Magi — An account of the Grade of Magus, the highest grade which it is even possible to manifest in any way whatsoever upon this plane.

* Liber XC: Liber Tzaddi vel Hamus Hermeticus — An account of Initiation, and an indication as to those who are suitable for the same.

* Liber CLVI: Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni — Sexual Magick veiled in symbolism.

* Liber CCCLXX: Liber A ' ash vel Capricorni Pneumatici — Analyzes the nature of the creative magical force in man, explains how to awaken it, how to use it and indicates the general as well as the particular objects to be gained thereby.

* Liber CD: Liber Tau vel Kabbalae Trium Literarum — A graphic interpretation of the Tarot on the plane of Initiation.

The Comment of Ankh F N Khonsu is sometimes considered to be part of Liber Al vel Legis.

However, Western occult practice mostly includes the use of astrology ( calculating the influence of heavenly bodies ), bibliomancy ( reading random passages from a book, such as Liber Legis or the I Ching ), tarot ( a deck of 78 cards, each with symbolic meaning, usually laid out in a meaningful pattern ), and geomancy ( a method of making random marks on paper or in earth that results in a combination of sixteen patterns ).

* Liber CCXX: Liber Al Vel Legis Sub Figurâ CCXX

* Liber XXXI: Liber Al ( Liber Legis ), The Book of the Law

According to this interpretation, which appears to be Crowley's as well, the purpose of the Comment is allow others to interpret Liber Al vel Legis for themselves ; in other words, no one is to preach its contents or tell you their understanding of it is the one true understanding.

He also drew on Josephus's Antiquities, and the works of Cassiodorus, and there was a copy of the Liber Pontificalis in Bede's monastery.

Special cases of the Chinese remainder theorem were also known to Brahmagupta ( 7th century ), and appear in Fibonacci's Liber Abaci ( 1202 ).

Hildegard also wrote nearly 400 letters to correspondents ranging from Popes to Emperors to abbots and abbesses ; two volumes of material on natural medicine and cures ; an invented language called the Lingua ignota ; various minor works, including a gospel commentary and two works of hagiography ; and three great volumes of visionary theology: Scivias, Liber vitae meritorum (" Book of Life's Merits " or " Book of the Rewards of Life "), and Liber divinorum operum (" Book of Divine Works ").

Liber vitae meritorum (" Book of Life's Merits " or " Book of the Rewards of Life ") and Liber divinorum operum (" Book of Divine Works ", also known as De operatione Dei, " On God's Activity ") followed.

The Liber Pontificalis also presents a list that makes Linus the second in the line of bishops of Rome, after Peter ; but at the same time it states that Peter ordained two bishops, Linus and Cletus, for the priestly service of the community, devoting himself instead to prayer and preaching, and that it was to Clement that he entrusted the Church as a whole, appointing him as his successor.

The Liber Pontificalis also says that he issued a decree that women should cover their heads in church, created the first fifteen bishops, and that he died a martyr and was buried on the Vatican Hill next to Peter.

The most important of his writings is the Liber censuum Romanae ecclesiae, which is the most valuable source for the medieval position of the Church in regard to property and also serves in part as a continuation of the Liber Pontificalis.

His father was called " Rufinus ", who was also said to be of Aquileia according to the Liber Pontificalis.

He also ordained Saint Willibrord as bishop of the Frisians, and the Liber Pontificalis states he also ordained Berhtwald as Archbishop of Canterbury.

His recounting of the period was remarkable for the rise of what 19th century papal historians saw as a " pornocracy ", or " rule of the harlots ", a reversal of the natural order as they saw it, according to Liber pontificalis and a later chronicler who was also biased against Sergius III.

The Liber Pontificalis attributes to Zosimus a decree on the wearing of the maniple by deacons and on the dedication of Easter candles in the country parishes ; also a decree forbidding clerics to visit taverns.

According to the notice in the Liber Pontificalis, Felix erected a basilica on the Via Aurelia ; the same source also adds that he was buried there.

Proserpina was subsumed by the cult of Libera, an ancient fertility goddess, wife of Liber and is also considered a life – death – rebirth deity.

* Italy: Emperor Frederick II promulgates the Constitutions of Melfi ( also known as Liber Augustalis ), a collection of laws for Sicily.

Possibly he did issue such an edict against the Gnostics and Montanists ; it is also possible that on his own responsibility the writer of the Liber Pontificalis attributed to this pope a similar decree current about the year 500.

Gregory's education was the standard Latin one of Late Antiquity, focusing on Vergil's Aeneid and Martianus Capella's Liber de Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae, but also other key texts such as Orosius ' Chronicles, which his Historia is a continuation of, and Sallust, all of which works he refers to in his own.

The Liber Pontificalis also relates that this pope organized the hierarchy and established the order of ecclesiastical precedence ().

His initiative in this direction was visible as early as the Assizes of Capua ( 1220, issued soon after his coronation in Rome ) but came to fruition in his promulgation of the Constitutions of Melfi ( 1231, also known as Liber Augustalis ), a collection of laws for his realm that was remarkable for its time and was a source of inspiration for a long time after.

It has also been suggested that the poem is dependent on Liber historiae Francorum ( 727 ), because it mentions the Attoarii, which in Beowulf become Hetware.