Works of Aleister Crowley (Libers)

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Many of the important works of Aleister Crowley are in the form of Libers (lit. "books"), which are usually short documents consisting of core teachings, methodologies, practices, or Thelemic scripture. All the libers are given a number in the Greek numbering system, and those that are part of the A.'.A.'. curriculum are assigned a "class" as follows:

Class [A] consists of books of which may be changed not so much as the style of a letter: that is, they represent the utterance of an Adept entirely beyond the criticism of even the Visible Head of the Organization.
Class [B] consists of books or essays which are the result of ordinary scholarship, enlightened and earnest.
Class [C] consists of matter which is to be regarded rather as suggestive than anything else.
Class [D] consists of the Official Rituals and Instructions.
Class [E] consists of manifestos, broadsides, epistles and other public statements. Some publications are composite, and pertain to more than one class.

The catalog of libers

Listed with liber number, roman number, class, full title, and a short description.

Liber	No.	Class	Title
I	1	A	Liber B vel Magi—An account of the Grade of Magus
II	2	E	Message of The Master Therion, The—Thelemic epistle
III	3	D	Liber III vel Jugorum—An instruction for the control of speech, action, and thought.
IV	4		Liber ABA—titled Magick, Book 4, Crowley's opus on magick and mysticism
V	5	D	Liber V vel Reguli—The Ritual of the Mark of the Beast
VI	6	B	Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae—Instruction in magical techniques
VII	7	A	Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli —The birth words of a Master of the Temple
VIII	8	D	8th Aether—On the Holy Guardian Angel from The Vision and the Voice
IX	9	B	Liber E—Instruction
X	10	A	Liber Porta Lucis—A "Holy Book" regarding the Master Therion.
XI	11	D	Liber NU—A mystical instruction for attaining Nuit.
XIII	13	D	Liber Graduum Montis Abiegni—Tasks of the aspirant from Probationer to Adept.
XV	15		Ecclesiæ Gnosticæ Catholicae Canon Missae—The Gnostic Mass
XVI	16	B	Liber Turris vel Domus Dei—An instruction for attainment
XVII	17	D	Liber IAO—Three methods of sexual magick.
XXI	21		Khing Kang King—The Classic of Purity—Taoist classic put into rhyme.
XXIV	24	B	De Nuptis Secretis Deorum Cum Hominibus—Sexual magick.
XXV	25	D	The Star Ruby—An improved form of the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram.
XXVII	27	A	Liber Trigrammaton—Trigrams
XXVIII	28	D	Septem Regum Sanctorum—The Ceremony of the Seven Holy Kings—Initiation Ritual for select probationers to A.·.A.·.
XXX	30	B	Liber Librae—The Book of the Balance—Thelemic morality
XXXIII	33	C	An Account of A.'.A.'.—An epistle regarding that Order
XXXVI	36	D	The Star Sapphire—Improved Ritual of the Hexagram.
XLI	41	C	Thien Tao—An essay on Attainment by way of Equilibrium.
XLIV	44	D	The Mass of the Phoenix—A solar ritual.
LI	51		Lost Continent, The— An account of Atlantis
LII	52		Manifesto of the O.T.O.—From 1919.
LV	55	C	Chymical Jousting of Brother Perardua, The —Treatise on alchemy.
LVIII	58	B	The Qabalah—Method and uses of the Qabalah.
LIX	59	C	Across the Gulf—An account of a past life in Egypt.
LXI	61	D	Liber Causae—Origins of the A.'.A.'.
LXIV	64	B	Liber Israfel—Invocation of Thoth, as a prelude to preaching.
LXV	65	A	Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente—On the Holy Guardian Angel.
LXVI	66	A	Liber Stellae Rubeae—A secret ritual of Apep; sex magick veiled in symbolism.
LXVII	67	C	The Sword of Song—A critical study of various philosophies
LXX	70	C	The Cross of a Frog—A ritual with a frog.
LXXIII	73		The Urn—The Diary of a Magus.
LXXVII	77		Liber OZ—The Thelemic declaration of rights of Man.
LXXVIII	78	B	On the Tarot—A complete treatise on the Tarot.
LXXXI	81		Moonchild (The Butterfly Net)—Magical adventure story.
LXXXIV	84	B	Liber Chanokh—Symbolic representation of the Universe.
XC	90	A	Liber Tzaddi vel Hamus Hermeticus—An account of Initiation.
XCIII	93		Fountain of Hyacinth, The—A diary of drug use.
XCV	95	C	The Wake World—Poetical allegory of the relations of the soul and the Holy Guardian Angel.
XCVI	96	B	A Handbook of Geomancy—A guide but with some intentional inaccuracies.
XCVII	97		Soror Achitha's Vision—The Amalantrah Working
C	100	D	Agape, Azoth—The Book of the Unveiling of the Sangraal wherein it is spoken of the Wine of the Sabbath of the Adepts. Secrets instructions of the IX° O.T.O.
CI	101	B	An Open Letter to those who may wish to join the Order—Enumerating the Duties and Privileges.
CVI	106		Concerning Death—A treatise on the nature of death.
CXI	111	B	Liber Aleph—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.
CXX	120	D	Ritual of passing through the Tuat, The—A Ritual of Initiation for certain Select Zelators of A.'.A.'.
CXXIV	124		Of Eden and the Sacred Oak—On hospitlity in O.T.O.
CXXXII	132		Apotheosis—Treatise on the Incarnation of a God.
CXLVIII	148		The Soldier and The hunchback—A general discussion on philosophy.
CL	150	E	De Lege Libellum—Thelemic epistle on Light, Life, Love, and Liberty.
CLVI	156	A	Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni—Account of the task of the Exempt Adept (sex magick veiled in symbolism).
CLVII	157		Tao Teh Ching—A translation and commentary by Crowley.
CLXI	161		Law of Thelema, The—Thelemic epistle.
CLXV	165	B	A Master of the Temple—Frater Achad's magical diary with comments by Crowley.
CLXXV	175	D	Liber Astarte vel Liber Berylli—On uniting oneself to a Deity.
CLXXXV	185	D	Liber Colegii Sancti—Tasks and Oaths of the Grades of A.'.A.'.
CXCIV	194		An Intimation with Reference to the Constitution of the Order—the structure of O.T.O.
CXCVII	197	C	Sir Palamedes the saracen knight—A poetic account of the Great Work.
CC	200	D	Liber Resh vel Helios—An instruction for the adoration of the Sun four times daily.
CCVI	206	D	Liber RU vel Spiritus—Full instructions in Pranayama.
CCVII	207		A syllabus of the official instructions of the A.'..A.'.
CCXVI	216		The I Ching—A translation with commentary by Crowley.
CCXX	220	A	Liber AL vel Legis, The Book of the Law
CCXXVIII	228	B	De Natura Deorum
CCXXXI	231	A	Liber Arcanorum—treatise on the Trumps of the Tarot.
CCXXLII	242	C	AHA!—An exposition in poetic language of several of the ways of attainment and the results obtained.
CCLXV	265		The Structure of the Mind—A treatise of physology from the mystic and magical standpoint.
CCC	300	E	Khaps am Pekht—A special instruction for the Promulgation of the Law.
CCCXXXIII	333	C	Book of Lies, The—A book of 93 brief chapters on many subjects.
CCCXXXV	335	C	Adonis an Allegory—A short play.
CCCXLI	341		Liber H.H.H.—Three methods of attainment.
CCCXLIII	343		AMRITA
CCCLXV	365		The Preliminary Invocation of the Goetia—Similar to Liber Samekh, but with some differences.
CCCLXVII	367	B	De Homunculo
CCCLXX	370	A	Liber A'ash vel Capricorni Pneumatici—Analyzes the nature of the creative magical force in man (veiled sex magick).
CD	400	A	Liber Tau vel Kabbalae Trium Literarum—A graphic interpretation of the Tarot on the plane of Initiation.
CDXII	412	D	Liber A vel Armorum—An instruction for the preparation of the Elemental Instruments.
CDXIV	414		De Arte Magica
CDXV	415	AB	Paris Working, The—A record of homosexual magick operations.
CDXVIII	418	AB	Vision and the Voice, The—The classic account of Crowley's travels through the Thirty Aethyrs.
CDLI	451	B	Eroto-Comatose Lucidity—Treatise on sex magick
CDLXXIV	474	C	Liber Os Abysmi vel Daath—A method for entering the Abyss.
D	500	B	Sepher Sephiroth—A Qabalistic dictionary of Hebrew words arranged according to their value numerically.
DXXXVI	536	B	Liber Batrachophrenoboocosmomachia—Instruction in the expansion of the field of the mind.
DLV	555	D	Liber HAD—An instruction for attaining Hadit.
DLXX	570		Liber DCCCXIII vel Ararita—An account of the Hexagram and the method of reducing it to the Unity, and Beyond.
DCXXXIII	633		De Thaumaturgia—A treatice on magical ethics.
DCLXXI	671	D	Liber DCLXXI vel Pyramidos—A ritual of self Initiation based on the Neophyte ritual.
DCCXXIX	729	C	The Amalantrah Working—Interviews with a discarnate entity.
DCCLXXVII	777	B	777 vel Prolegomena Symbolica Ad Systemam Sceptico Mysticae—The Holy Qabalah and its correspondences.
DCCC	800	D	Liber Samekh—Ritual for the Attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.
DCCCVIII	808		Serpentis Nehushtan
DCCCXI	811	C	Energised Enthusiasm—Treatise on sex magick and the creative impulse.
DCCCXIII	813	A	Ararita—An account of the Hexagram and the method of reducing it to the Unity and Beyond.
DCCCXXXI	831	D	Liber Yod—Three methods of reducing the manifold consciousness to the Unity.
DCCCXXXVII	837	C	Law of Liberty, The—Thelemic epistle.
DCCCLX	860	C	John St. John—Record of Crowley's magical retirement.
DCCCLXVIII	868	B	Liber Viarum Viae— A graphic account of Magical powers classified under Tarot Trumps.
DCCCLXXXVIII	888		The Gospel According to Saint Bernard Shaw—A complete study of the origins of Christianity.
CMXIII	913	B	Liber ThIShARB—Methods for attaining the magical memory
CMXXXIV	934		The Cactus—A record of experiments with the Mescal buttons.
CMLXIII	963	AB	Treasurehouse of Images, The —Collection of Litanies appropriate to the Signs of the Zodiac.

Works of Aleister Crowley (Libers)

The catalog of libers

See also