The Book of the Law

The title translated of the automatic writing and subsequent scripture of Aleister Crowley, who first called it "Liber L," and "Liber Al (vel Legis)." He maintained his Holy Guardian Angel, Lucifer, a.k.a. Aiwaz, dictated it to him in three successive nights in April of 1904.

Its three portions are identified as from Egyptian gods or authorities (Nuit, Hadit, and Ra Hoor Khuit) and are interspersed with conversation to Crowley during the experience.

Crowley established a religion surrounding the book and his person as a prophet ("Thelema" or "Gnostic Catholicism"), and orders of mystics and magicians he promoted attest to "accepting" both his ideological principles of will and 'the letter and style' of his transmission.

As with many proto-Satanic and Satanic constructs, the selection of the title of this book derives from Jewish, Christian, and earlier religious traditions, depicting a tome of religious authority and rulership, an esoteric set of principles derivable from its abstruse and outrageous contents, meshing contenteous extremes of expression in a fairly irreconcilable weave of sacerdotal fabric.