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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.
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 AL vel Legis, also known as The Book of the Law, is the foundational text for Thelema.
** 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 ).

Liber and vel
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.

Liber and 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.

Liber and is
An English example is William Hazlitt's Liber Amoris ( 1823 ), a painful examination of the writer's love-life.
The Catholic Encyclopedia ( 1909 ) called this confusion a " distortion of the true facts " and suggested that it arose because the " Liber Pontificalis ", which at this point may be registering a reliable tradition, says that this Felix built a church on the Via Aurelia, which is where the Roman martyr of an earlier date was buried.
The Liber Vitae of Durham Cathedral includes a list of priests ; two are named Bede, and one of these is presumably Bede himself.
Some manuscripts of the Life of Cuthbert, one of Bede's own works, mention that Cuthbert's own priest was named Bede ; it is possible that this priest is the other name listed in the Liber Vitae.
Pope Gregory IX is credited with promulgating the first official collection of canons called the Decretalia Gregorii Noni or Liber Extra ( 1234 ).
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.
In 1542 he published a prose satire to which Luther wrote the preface, Der Barfusser Monche Eulenspiegel und Alkoran, a parodic adaptation of the Liber conformitatum of the Franciscan Bartolommeo Rinonico of Pisa, in which the Franciscan order is held up to ridicule.
The Liber Abaci began the sequence with F < sub > 1 </ sub > = 1, omitting the initial 0, and the sequence is still written this way by some.
The Liber Ignium, or Book of Fires, attributed to Marcus Graecus, is a collection of incendiary recipes, including some gunpowder recipes.
The first known written recipe for a dish of the name ( as ' hagese '), made with offal and herbs, is in the verse cookbook Liber Cure Cocorum dating from around 1430 in Lancashire, North West England.
The Liber Memorialis is an ancient book in Latin featuring an extremely concise summary — a kind of index — of universal history from earliest times to the reign of Trajan.
The Liber Pontificalis ( Latin for Book of the Popes ) is a book of biographies of popes from Saint Peter until the 15th century.
In the earliest extant manuscripts it is referred to as Liber episcopalis in quo continentur acta beatorum pontificum Urbis Romae, and later the Gesta or Chronica pontificum.
The modern interpretation, following that of Louis Duchesne, who compiled the major scholarly edition, is that the Liber Pontificalis was gradually and unsystematically compiled, and that the authorship is impossible to determine, with a few exceptions ( e. g. the biography of Pope Stephen II ( 752 – 757 ) to papal " Primicerius " Christopher ; the biographies of Pope Nicholas I and Pope Adrian II ( 867 – 872 ) to Anastasius ).
Duchesne and others have viewed the beginning of the Liber Pontificalis up until the biographies of Pope Felix III ( 483 – 492 ) as the work of a single author, who was a contemporary of Pope Anastasius II ( 496-498 ), relying on Catalogus Liberianus, which in turn draws from the papal catalogue of Hippolytus of Rome, and the Leonine Catalogue, which is no longer extant.
Pope Adrian II ( 867 – 872 ) is the last pope for which there are extant manuscripts of the original Liber Pontificalis: the biographies of Pope John VIII, Pope Marinus I, and Pope Adrian III are missing and the biography of Pope Stephen V ( 885 – 891 ) is incomplete.
Guillermi's version is mostly copied from other works with small additions or excisions from the papal biographies of Pandulf, nephew of Hugo of Alatri, which in turn was copied almost verbatim from the original Liber Pontificalis ( with the notable exception of the biography of Pope Leo IX ), then from other sources until Pope Honorius II ( 1124 – 1130 ), and with contemporary information from Pope Paschal II ( 1099 – 1118 to Pope Urban II ( 1088 – 1099 ).
As he writes in Liber E, " It is absolutely necessary that all experiments should be recorded in detail during, or immediately after, their performance (...) The more scientific the record is, the better.

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