Aleister Crowley

The Book of the Law, the holy text that forms the basis of Thelema, was transmitted to Crowley by the entity known as Aiwass in Cairo, on three successive days during April 1904. Acting as a medium, Crowley recorded the communications on hotel notepads and later organized his automatic writing into a short, coherent document. Aiwass/Crowley presents The Book of the Law as an expression of three god-forms in three chapters: Nuit, Hadit, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit. Also...

En este breve texto, Aleister Crowley, la autoproclamada Gran Bestia, vuelve a sorprendernos por su lucidez y concisión a la hora de sintetizar conceptos espirituales de una enorme complejidad. Se trata de una serie de conferencias pronunciadas ante un público inteligente pero lego en la materia, en las que el autor aquilata la esencia del yoga con una sabia dosis de humor y un afán claramente desmitificador. Es ésta una obra que invita a recorrer...

Enochian magick is a powerful system of ceremonial magic based on the 16th-century writings of John Dee and Edward Kelly, who claimed that their information was presented to them directly from angels. It is named after the biblical prophet Enoch and is perhaps the most powerful and elegant of all magical systems. Dee and Kelley's work has formed the basis for countless magical systems, such as the Golden Dawn, and has inspired magicians from all the...

"Faze o que tu queres, há de ser o todo da Lei". Esta frase, que é a base da Mágicka de Aleister Crowley, está n'O Livro da Lei. Escrito no Cairo, em abril de 1904, O Livro da Lei é a fonte e a chave para o pensamento do mais famoso mago do século XX. Sua influência se espalha por todo o ocultismo ocidental, do neopaganismo wicca à popularização de práticas espirituais como a yoga. Mas, além disso, espalha-se com muita força por toda...

The Writings of Aleister Crowley 2 presents three essential texts by the black magick master: White Stains, The Psychology of Hashish and The Blue Equinox. Each work has been updated for the digital age with new formatting and punctuation, along with original footnotes and illustrations.

"The Complete Works of Aleister Crowley. Illustrated. Vol. 1" is an immersive literary journey into the profound and controversial writings of Aleister Crowley, the iconic occultist and magician of the 20th century. This meticulously crafted volume serves as a gateway into Crowley's multifaceted mind, presenting readers with a comprehensive selection of his most influential works and personal reflections. This first volume of the series begins with...

Dubbed "The Wickedest Man in the World", Aleister Crowley is best known for his occult writings and interests, but in a seemingly contradictory and bewildering list he also dabbled as a poet, mountaineer, chess player, painter, astrologist, spy, yogi, hedonist, bisexual, drug-taker and critic of society.

This new edition of Magick includes annotations shedding light on Aleister Crowley's challenging text. First published in Liber ABA (Part II), Aleister Crowley's dark masterpiece Magick is essential reading for students of Thelema and the occult. This guide to the principle tenets of black magic is a concise version of the more dense four-book magnum opus Liber ABA or 'Book 4' and is recommended to initiates.

The essays in this collection represent Aleister Crowley's ideas and meditations on drugs. Part One explores Crowley's experiences with hashish and its uses in mystical rituals. Part Two examines cocaine and looks at whether it should be regulated by law. Finally, Part Three delves into the sensuality of absinthe and its role in society. The essays are fascinating, both for what they reveal about Crowley's views on drugs, and for the way they tap...

First published in 1939, public domain. In "Eight Lectures on Yoga," Aleister Crowley was among the first Europeans to study, practice and teach Yoga. These lectures set forth some of Crowley's conclusions after a lifelong philosophical investigation. The first series of lectures is entitled 'Yoga for Yahoos.' The elements of Yoga are introduced, examined and demystified with a view to extracting the practical essence of Yoga doctrine. Yoga is also...