#book of the law

[maeviuslynn]

Beautiful illuminated pages of the Book of the Law by Steffi Grant. These pages are found in the Ninth Arch by Kenneth Grant.

[paravatis]

Pages from Liber AL illuminated by Steffi Grant

[unholy-cvlt]

LOVE IS THE LAW, LOVE UNDER WILL

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."

Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law

[pretentious-art-love]

Book Reviews #8 - The Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley

Apparently dictated to Crowly by the entity Aiwass and published in 1909. It consists of semi-poetical lines or sayings that form the religion of Thelema. Now, religion has always been weird, right? It can be a mix of poetry, mythology, and philosophy, presented as non-fiction. Sure, it’s a bit much at times, but I can't help but think that if more philosophy were presented like poetry, maybe it would be prettier.

What is this book? A lot of it feels like repurposed Nietzschean philosophy with a strong focus on esotericism—at least when read at face value. I think L. Ron Hubbard tried to do something similar with Freud's psychoanalysis to create Dianetics, but that turned out to be more of a mess, and we all know how that went. The difference here is that Crowley's result is a lot more compelling. People into Thelema have told me that you shouldn’t just take it at face value—the book is meant to mean something personal to you, whether or not you believe in it. I thought they were kinda stiff, but one thing these folks get right is how mysticism and symbolism can really work and help with the subconscious.

If Nietzsche says, "Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual," it sounds a bit academic, maybe even boring. But if I say, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law," it just sounds cooler, almost like a mantra. It’s a neat idea, even though the book often comes off as goofy. For instance: “The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs.” It’s a bit of a silly book, but that's part of its charm at the end of the day. Unreliable narrators will always leave something to talk about.

6/10

[gorgongrrlfriend]

The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake. - AL II:21

[hijodelagua]

¡Recién publicado! ¡Lee gratis en español los comentarios de Aleister Crowley al Libro de la Ley en Openmagick, en una edición especial llena de notas al pie y con un buscador integrado!

500 páginas de magia(k) cuidadosamente editadas y anotadas también disponibles en edición de bolsillo.

[soror-o-n-s]

I wanted to see if anyone on this platform knows anything about the original typescripts of Liber AL? I posted something forever ago about how I think the mistakes in the transcription could actually be really fascinating to study, "for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine."

I know that when the original manuscript was written Crowley sent it off to have a typescript made, but they had trouble reading his handwriting, and the result was a mess of errors. Of course, there could be nothing there, but the book itself emphasizes that the shapes and positions of the letters themselves hold mysteries, and I wonder if there's anything interesting that could be found by looking at the errors that the shapes of those letters lead to.

So, I guess, in order to find out, the first step would be to find out what the fate of those typescripts might have been. If they survive, it would be amazing to have some scans made so that they'd be available to the wider Thelemic community

[boooklover]

“Moons might rise and fall, empires wax and wane, even the stars come and go, but there are constants too, and though the story of our kind is ever-changing it is also always the same"

Mark Lawrence, Holy Sister

[dwuerch-blog]

I was Bribed

I remember memorizing many scripture verses as a child. We were “bribed” by our Sunday School teachers to learn and quote them by heart. If we did, we’d receive prizes and rewards. Right or wrong, it worked for me, because I know those scriptures from memory, and I live by them still today. For any crisis, concern, or fear, one will pop to my mind, and I will be comforted. Joshua 1:8 says “This…

[maeviuslynn]

I felt like I needed to make this video. It's an exploration of what the "Scarlet Woman" means in Thelema. It gets into what it is by definition, how Crowley viewed it, and issues with modern interpretations. I also get into an exploration of what the "Book of the Law" says about the Scarlet Woman and what it means for Thelemite women today.

[tom4jc]

July 30, 2024 Verse Of The Day

[alchemy-arts-bookstore]

Coming soon - check it out if you're in the Chicago area!

Alchemy Arts - 1203 W Bryn Mawr Ave, Chicago IL 60660

Saturday, April 6, 2024 4 pm – 8 pm Holy Days Incense Workshop

Come celebrate the First Day of the Writing of the Book of the Law, with our traditional incense workshop! We will be learning the basics on how to create our Temple incense blend while reading the first chapter of Liber AL vel Legis.

This incense blend will then be used throughout the year as our temple incense. We will be lead by Frater Heru, the Owner of The Empress & the Hierophant. He has been making incense since 2017. Frater Heru's recipe is a synthesis of Hank Anderson’s old recipe and his own, both based on the verse in the book of the law. “My incense is of resinous woods and gums…” Everyone will get a bag to take home.

Fee is $11 for members of the public, $5 for dues current O.T.O members. A small sachet of the incense is included in the event, with larger bags available for sale. All money goes to keeping our doors open.

For more information please email chaliceofheaven.secretary@oto-usa.org

[lordgodjehovahsway]

Joshua 8: God Delivers The City Of Ai Into The Hands Of Israel's Army

1 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. For I have delivered into your hands the king of Ai, his people, his city and his land. 

2 You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city.”

3 So Joshua and the whole army moved out to attack Ai. He chose thirty thousand of his best fighting men and sent them out at night 

4 with these orders: “Listen carefully. You are to set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from it. All of you be on the alert. 

5 I and all those with me will advance on the city, and when the men come out against us, as they did before, we will flee from them. 

6 They will pursue us until we have lured them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are running away from us as they did before.’ So when we flee from them, 

7 you are to rise up from ambush and take the city. The Lord your God will give it into your hand. 

8 When you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do what the Lord has commanded. See to it; you have my orders.”

9 Then Joshua sent them off, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai—but Joshua spent that night with the people.

10 Early the next morning Joshua mustered his army, and he and the leaders of Israel marched before them to Ai. 

11 The entire force that was with him marched up and approached the city and arrived in front of it. They set up camp north of Ai, with the valley between them and the city. 

12 Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city. 

13 So the soldiers took up their positions—with the main camp to the north of the city and the ambush to the west of it. That night Joshua went into the valley.

14 When the king of Ai saw this, he and all the men of the city hurried out early in the morning to meet Israel in battle at a certain place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set against him behind the city. 

15 Joshua and all Israel let themselves be driven back before them, and they fled toward the wilderness. 

16 All the men of Ai were called to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were lured away from the city. 

17 Not a man remained in Ai or Bethel who did not go after Israel. They left the city open and went in pursuit of Israel.

18 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Hold out toward Ai the javelin that is in your hand, for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out toward the city the javelin that was in his hand. 

19 As soon as he did this, the men in the ambush rose quickly from their position and rushed forward. They entered the city and captured it and quickly set it on fire.

20 The men of Ai looked back and saw the smoke of the city rising up into the sky, but they had no chance to escape in any direction; the Israelites who had been fleeing toward the wilderness had turned back against their pursuers. 

21 For when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that smoke was going up from it, they turned around and attacked the men of Ai. 

22 Those in the ambush also came out of the city against them, so that they were caught in the middle, with Israelites on both sides. Israel cut them down, leaving them neither survivors nor fugitives. 

23 But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

24 When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai in the fields and in the wilderness where they had chased them, and when every one of them had been put to the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and killed those who were in it. 

25 Twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai. 

26 For Joshua did not draw back the hand that held out his javelin until he had destroyed all who lived in Ai. 

27 But Israel did carry off for themselves the livestock and plunder of this city, as the Lord had instructed Joshua.

28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolate place to this day. 

29 He impaled the body of the king of Ai on a pole and left it there until evening. At sunset, Joshua ordered them to take the body from the pole and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.

The Covenant Renewed at Mount Ebal

30 Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, 

31 as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses—an altar of uncut stones, on which no iron tool had been used. On it they offered to the Lord burnt offerings and sacrificed fellowship offerings. 

32 There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua wrote on stones a copy of the law of Moses. 

33 All the Israelites, with their elders, officials and judges, were standing on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the Lord, facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Both the foreigners living among them and the native-born were there. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had formerly commanded when he gave instructions to bless the people of Israel.

34 Afterward, Joshua read all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—just as it is written in the Book of the Law. 

35 There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read to the whole assembly of Israel, including the women and children, and the foreigners who lived among them.

[batcavescolony]

I never understand people who are like "I love this character but I hate this other one" and the two characters are best friends. Your favorite character loves them, that's THEIR blorbo, their little shit, their sun and stars, and you want to hate them?

[bat-luun]

dude do you KNOW how long curly hair takes to grow out?????

[bumbleboa]

@calysto1395 dropped a Howl's Moving Castle AU in our chat and I could not stop thinking about it, so here are some Howl!Law sketches