Thelema and ceremonial magic

Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law)

The central sacred text of Thelema, dictated to Aleister Crowley in Cairo, Egypt, over three days in April 1904 by a higher intelligence calling itself Aiwass. The book outlines a new moral and philosophical law for the 'Aeon of Horus': 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.' It is divided into three chapters, each corresponding to a specific Egyptian deity—Nuit, Hadit, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit—representing the cosmic feminine, the cosmic point-of-view (masculine), and the active, reigning god of the current era. The text is highly poetic, cryptic, and uncompromising, and it remains the foundation of all Crowley's later magical and philosophical work.