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[CROWLEY, Aleister] The Law is for All. The Authorized Popular Commentary to The Book of the Law
[CROWLEY, Aleister] The Law is for All. The Authorized Popular Commentary to The Book of the Law
Edited by Louis Wilkinson and Hymenaeus Beta
Tempe: New Falcon Publications, 1998. Second Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 301pp. With b&w facsimile of the manuscript of Liber AL, plus Stele of Revealing in full color. Some wrinkling to the laminate at edges. A few pencil marks inside, mostly brackets along side paragraphs (these are easily erasable if desired). A very good copy.
This volume contains the complete Book of the Law, plus two commentaries - the first written in 1909 and the second in 1921. Each comment is prefaced by the relevant passage. The book also contains the Stele of Revealing, special keys for decoding numerological symbolism (gematria), the full text of Liber Trigrammaton (subtitled “The Book of the Trigrams of the Mutations of the Tao with the Yin and the Yang”), and a three-page foldout of the holograph manuscript arranged as dictated to Crowley. Prefacing the book is a lengthy introduction by Israel Regardie. the preface emphasizes Crowley’s revolutionary ideas (for the time) on religion, sex and drugs.