Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente (Liber LXV, The Heart Girt with a Serpent), written by Aleister Crowley in 1907 and 1911, is one of the Class A Thelemic holy books, a five chapter mystical poem in dialogue between the aspirant and the god Hadit, treated within Thelema alongside Liber AL vel Legis as inspired, unalterable scripture rather than as Crowley's own ordinary literary or instructional writing.
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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 LXV, this entity, among its contents); the article gives no separate composition date specific to this individual book within that collection. Attributed Author / Compiler Status
Canonical StatusIts own record groups it with Liber AL vel Legis, already canonical, as a Class A Thelemic holy book, "inspired, unalterable scripture." Text
Literary Form Structure
StructureFive chapters, a mystical poem in dialogue between the aspirant and the god Hadit; one of the Class A Thelemic holy books treated as inspired, unalterable scripture. 2 Connections
Authored By
Source Aleister Crowley and Western EsotericismHenrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr (eds.)
Belongs to Tradition
Source Aleister Crowley and Western EsotericismHenrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr (eds.)
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Originates in Language
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 Class A holy books of Thelema
- Originates in Language: English, Stored language property on this entity, cited to this source: english
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