Liber VII (Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli, The Book of the Freed, or of the Lapis Lazuli) is a Class A Thelemic holy book of seven chapters written by Aleister Crowley in 1907, presented as the ecstatic utterance of the aspirant's soul addressing the god Hadit, and grouped by Crowley's own arrangement with Liber LXV and several other short verse works as the Holy Books of Thelema.
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Era of CompositionThe majority of these texts were written between the years 1907 and 1911 1 This is the collection-wide range the article states for The Holy Books of Thelema as a whole (which names Liber VII, this entity, among its contents); the article gives no separate composition date specific to this individual book within that collection. Attributed Author / Compiler Structure
StructureSeven chapters presented as the ecstatic utterance of the aspirant's soul addressing the god Hadit; grouped by Crowley's own arrangement with Liber LXV and other short verse works as the Holy Books of Thelema. 2 Status
Canonical StatusIts own record groups it with Liber LXV and Liber AL vel Legis as one of the Holy Books of Thelema. Text
Literary Form Liber VII (Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli)
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Source Aleister Crowley and Western EsotericismHenrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr (eds.)
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Source Aleister Crowley and Western EsotericismHenrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr (eds.)
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Source Aleister Crowley and Western EsotericismHenrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr (eds.)
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1. The Holy Books of Thelema (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: The Holy Books of Thelema, lead sectionQuote, Wikipedia: The Holy Books of Thelema, lead section
The majority of these texts were written between the years 1907 and 1911.
2. Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism
Henrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2012- on the Holy Books of Thelema and their composition in 1907
- Originates in Language: English, Stored language property on this entity, cited to this source: english
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