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Liber Samekh

Aleister Crowley · written at the Abbey of Thelema; printed 1929

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Thelema The Golden Dawn
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A long recension of the invocation Crowley had printed at the front of the 1904 Goetia, divided into lettered sections with a commentary that gives each of the barbarous names an etymological or Qabalistic meaning. It is issued as an A∴A∴ instruction of Class D for the grade of Adeptus Minor.

The form in which the Headless Rite reached twentieth-century practice. Where the 1904 text reprinted a Victorian translation, this one rebuilds it as a working with a doctrine attached — and it is the version most later practitioners of the rite have actually used.

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