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Title: Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley ISBN: 0-87728-334-6 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: October, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.39 (61 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic imagery and prose.
Comment: While I find this work to be great reading due to it's fantastic imagery, I find it to be just that and nothing more.
As a former Thelemite, I realize that Liber Al(Book of the Law) is considered to be a holy book in the same way that Christians regard the Bible. I don't mean to step on toes, but the story that Liber Al was dictated to Crowley by his holy guardian angel 'Aiwass' over a 3 day period is completely unbelieveable, and makes for an interesting story at best. No, for me, Liber Al is merely good reading for those who enjoy their entertainment real horrorshow in both theme and humor.
Rating: 5
Summary: Destroy This Book...
Comment: ... Well not really :) Liber Al vel Legis can be viewed as an essay on the relationship of Man and "god". This book, "received" by Aleister Crowley on his honeymoon in 1904 is a powerfull work that can break through people's preconceptions (misconceptions?) of reality, religion and Man's place in the cosmos.
I have read this book more times than I can count, and always come away with new insights... not so much insights into the text, but insights into my own self. Reading this book is an agent of change, one cannot help being changed by reading this...be it for the better or the worse.
(Such is the reason for Crowley's famous Comment appended to the end of the text, and the joke in the title of this review.)
A previous reviewer blasts this book and paradigm for "borrowing" from other religions and beliefs, but to me this is the sublime beauty of it. Crowley or Aiwass (whomever you choose to think the author is), did steal and borrow from all religions, finding the common threads, and weaving a wonderfull web out of the best, and disposing of the rest.
Overall, even if one is not interested in Thelema, magick, or anything out of the "ordinary", I would recommend this short book just to challenge what you believe and what you hold to be true
Rating: 5
Summary: Hmmm...
Comment: THIS is the book.
Is "Aiwaz" talking about a Crowley, a coming prophet, prophets, or describing the universe itself? OR BOTH? That my friend is up to you to decide. This book is for most part a synthesis of the most important aspects of the spiritual systems and religions of the world... regardless of what else it is. This will keep you busy for a while.
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Title: Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley ISBN: 0877285160 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: June, 1986 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: 777 And Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley by Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley ISBN: 0877286701 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Book of Thoth by Aleister Crowley, Frieda Harris ISBN: 0877282684 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: August, 1986 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Holy Books of Thelema by Aleister Crowley ISBN: 0877286868 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Enochian World of Aleister Crowley: Enochian Sex Magick by Aleister Crowley, Lon Milo Duquette, Christopher S. Hyatt ISBN: 1561840297 Publisher: New Falcon Publications Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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