Liber AL
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I am trying to determine where Liber AL is located. Is Liber AL referring to Liber Aleph CXI or to The Book of the Law? If not, which Equinox was it located in? I appreciate the reference.
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Liber Aleph is essentially a commentary on Thelema and Liber AL.
The Book of the Law can be found almost anywhere online, it has a standalone book in bookstores, and is found in Equinox Vol.1 No.10 under 'Liber L. vel Legis'
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@Aum418 said
"...Liber Aleph is essentially a commentary on Thelema and Liber AL."
I like Liber Aleph very much. along with the Beast's comment on the Tarot, his Thoth Deck painted by Lady Frieda Harris, i thought it was one of the more substantive batches of his prose.@Aum418 said
"The Book of the Law can be found almost anywhere online, it has a standalone book in bookstores, and is found in Equinox Vol.1 No.10 under 'Liber L. vel Legis'"
it is valuable to examine the various literal commentaries to The Book of the Law, including the New Comment, the Old Comment, The Djeridensis Working, and The Equinox of the Gods. there have been several editions whose editors have also rendered notes or commentary including Marcelo Motta, Israel Regardie, and Kenneth Grant with John Symonds. -
Now days you have to wonder what Liber AL are you getting, the kill me or fill me version.
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@Shadow Self said
"Now days you have to wonder what Liber AL are you getting, the kill me or fill me version."
it's far more complex than that, because the 'kill' correction is just one in a long string of them Crowley didn't get right initially. if you think there's only 2 types of Liber Al vel Legises out there, then you're not paying very close attention to their differences. see Hymenaeus Beta's excellent analysis of the history of publishing the works at the OTO site. very helpful in commencing a taxonomy of their differences. is the kill/fill Paraphrase the only thing that bugs you about their content?? seems an extreme reaction.