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Thelema 17
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received 8–10 April 1904; first printed 1909
The Book of the Law
The short scripture of Thelema, centred on the maxim 'Do what thou wilt'. Crowley said the text was dictated by a non-human intelligence called Aiwass.
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issued intermittently from 1909
The Equinox
A serial publication carrying Crowley's essays, rituals, received texts, fiction, poetry and instructions for the A∴A∴.
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1909
Liber 777
Tables aligning Qabalistic, astrological, elemental, mythological and magical systems. This is one of the principal mechanisms by which Golden Dawn correspondences became portable.
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1909
Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae
A short instruction in ceremonial practice: the vibration of divine names, the assumption of god-forms, and the rituals of the pentagram and hexagram, printed in The Equinox in...
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1909
An Account of A∴A∴
The A∴A∴'s description of itself, printed in the first number of The Equinox. Its own headnote states that it is Karl von Eckartshausen's Die Wolke über dem Heiligtum of 1802,...
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1909–13
The Temple of Solomon the King
A serial account of Crowley's magical career in The Equinox, which printed the Golden Dawn's rituals and instructions without the order's consent.
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parts published 1912–1936
Book 4
His principal instructional work on yoga, ceremonial equipment, magical theory and the method he called magick.
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1919
Liber CXCIV
The O.T.O.'s constitution as Crowley published it in the third volume of The Equinox: eleven degrees arranged in three triads, and an account of what a grade is for.
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written at the Abbey of Thelema; printed 1929
Liber Samekh
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...
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1944
The Book of Thoth
Crowley's account of the Tarot system embodied in the deck painted by Frieda Harris.
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received/written February–March 1946
Liber 49
Parsons regarded it as a divinely received continuation or complement to Crowley's Book of the Law.
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1949
The Book of Antichrist
A short manifesto announcing his magical identity and rejection of oppressive moral structures.
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essays, collected later
Freedom Is a Two-Edged Sword
Essays on liberty, magic and society, gathered after his death.
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1972
The Magical Revival
The first of the Typhonian Trilogies, rereading Crowley and modern occultism through Tantra, dream and hidden correspondences.
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1977
Nightside of Eden
Develops a shadow-side reading of the Qabalistic Tree and the tunnels associated with it.
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1994
Outer Gateways
A late synthesis of Typhonian magic, dream, fiction and extra-human intelligence.
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2016
The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism
Asprem's chapter 'The Golden Dawn and the O.T.O.' (pp. 272–283) is this study's scholarly anchor for both orders: what they were, when they ran, and what was new about treating...