Liber Legis — The Book of the Law

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The complete text and manuscript of Liber AL vel Legis, The Book of the Law, including the commentaries by Aleister Crowley, information about the Stele of Revealing, and Crowley elaborations of the book

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

“Get the stele of revealing itself; set it in thy secret temple—and that temple is already aright disposed—& it shall be your Kiblah for ever.”

— Liber CCXX, Chapter III, Verse 10

Front

Read about the finding of
The Stèle of Revealing
and more, including
Translations
Crowley's Poetic Rendition

Back

“This book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the Beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine.”

— Liber CCXX, Chapter III, Verse 47

Liber L vel Legis sub figurâ XXXI
Facsimile images in several sizes and transcription of the handwritten manuscript of The Book of the Law, received April 8, 9 & 10, 1904 by Aleister Crowley and Rose Kelly.

See also the text and MS pages as published in Equinox I x.

See also, without the transcription: AL (Liber Legis) The Book of the Law sub figurâ XXXI in the Libri of Aleister Crowley

“This that thou writest is the threefold book of Law.”

— Liber CCXX, Chapter I, Verse 35

Liber AL vel Legis, sub figurâ CCXX, as delivered by XCIII=418 to DCLXVI (1921)
The text of The Book of the Law, first published in 1909.

See transcription of MS in Equinox I vii; the text and MS pages as published in Equinox I x.

Commentaries

“All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself.”

— The Comment

The Old Comment (1912)

See also The Temple of Solomon the King in Equinox I vii.

The New Comment (c. 1921)

Liber CCXX with both the Old and New Comments inline for easy reference.

An appendix with Qabalistic elucidation of The Book of the Law was mentioned in Crowley's New Comment, but appears to now be missing.

The Djeridensis Comment (c.1923)

The Comment called D

The Comment K

The Comment K, a partial comment only on Chapter I, v 1–20, in a diary entry for August 30, 1923 (published in The Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley).

The Tunis Comment (1925)

The Tunis Comment, also called The Short Comment or, simply, The Comment.

The Magical and Philosophical Commentaries

An alternate version of Old and New Comments inline with Liber CCXX, eds Symonds & Grant

The Magical and Philosophical Commentaries (Single page)
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III

Read about the reception of the Book of the Law

Genesis Libri AL in The Equinox of the Gods
The Master Therion, a biographical note
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley beginning in Chapter 49
The Temple of Solomon the King Part VI

Read further elaboration on the Book of the Law

Liber II - The Message of Master Therion
Liber CL - De Lege Libellum
Liber DCCCXXXVII - The Law of Liberty
Liber LXXVII - Liber OZ

And, Liber Aleph is an extended and elaborate commentary on “The Book of the Law”, in the form of a letter from the Master Therion to the son of mankind. Contains some of the deepest secrets of Initiation, with a clear solution of many cosmic and ethical problems.

Read the surprising story about the recovery of the missing original manuscript pages of Liber AL in Raiders of the Lost Basement

And there is much more available at the Libri of Aleister Crowley

Information about the Book of the Law appears in many books, including