Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law)

Liber AL vel Legis, The Book of the Law, is Aleister Crowley's own founding scripture of Thelema, received by him at Cairo in 1904 and stating the tradition's central formula, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law, along with the word of the aeon, Abrahadabra. This record holds it exactly as what it is: a movement's own foundational document, cited here as Thelema's own account of its origin and teaching rather than as independent evidence that anything described in its reception actually occurred. Its authority is that of primary scripture within the tradition it founded, checkable directly against the text itself for what Thelema teaches and claims about its own beginning. Use it to establish what Thelema's own founding text states; a claim about the book's historical reception, its influence on later occultism, or an outside assessment of the events surrounding its writing needs a dedicated scholarly history addressing that question, since this primary text speaks only for itself.