{"id":1270,"date":"2022-05-13T15:06:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysteriumacademy.com\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2023-05-27T19:42:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T19:42:15","slug":"what-is-the-book-of-the-law-by-aleister-crowley-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysteriumacademy.com\/what-is-the-book-of-the-law-by-aleister-crowley-about\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"
A small book written in prose poem, the Book of the Law is one of those books that people read repeatedly throughout their lives. But it can be very confusing, and in this article, we are going to take a look at the contents of the book and offer some explanations.<\/p>\n
The Book of the Law contains the core ideas of Aleister Crowley\u2019s religion called Thelema. He received the book when he channeled a higher being name Awaiss, and it discuss the beginning of the Aeon of Horus, the nature of your True Will, the Scarlet woman, and the magical word Abrahadabra.<\/strong><\/p>\n During the channeling session, Crowley received messages from three beings named Nuit, Hadit, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit. A chapter is dedicated to each of their messages, which are full of Hermetic and Kabbalistic references.<\/p>\n While Crowley is the author of the book, the story goes that he received the book in a channeling, from a higher consciousness named Aiwass. This occurred in 1904 in Cairo, Egypt, while Crowley and his wife, Rose Edith Kelly were on their honeymoon. For three days, April 8, 9, 10, Crowley heard a voice speaking to him from noon to 1pm each day. Later in life he described the experience as a voice coming over his shoulder from the corner of the room, with a neutral accent and deep timbre. The voice dictated the Book of the Law to Crowley, who at first was not sure what to make of it, not even publishing it until five years later in 1909. \u00a0Eventually though, he made it the central book in his religion, which he called Thelema.<\/p>\n Crowley believed that the channeling of the Book of the Law marked the beginning of the New Aeon of Horus, or the time of Thelema. According to Thelema, history is divided in aeons, which are like periods of times or chapters, that each have their own characteristics. The first was the Aeon of Isis, which occurred in prehistorical times and focused on goddess worship. Next came the Aeon of Osiris, the time of patriarchy during the the classical and medieval times, when people worshipped a monotheistic, or singular, male god.<\/p>\n When Crowley received the Book of the Law, he declared it to be the beginning of the new aeon, the Aeon of Horus, the child god. Symbolized by Horus the falcon-headed Egyptian god, the Aeon of Horus is the time of human self-realization.<\/p>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Aiwass, and the Channeling of the Book<\/strong><\/h2>\n
The New Aeon of Horus<\/strong><\/h2>\n