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	==The Thelemic Canon==		==The Thelemic Canon==

	*'''Liber CCXX, [[Liber AL vel Legis]]''', The Book of the Law—Within the canon of Thelemic Holy Scripture, the chief is ''The Book of the Law''. Thelemites are expected to interpret the book for themselves, based on [[Aleister Crowley]]'s commentaries and other writings; but are enjoined from promoting their personal interpretations to others.		*'''Liber CCXX, [[The Book of the Law\|Liber AL vel Legis]]''', The Book of the Law—Within the canon of Thelemic Holy Scripture, the chief is ''The Book of the Law''. Thelemites are expected to interpret the book for themselves, based on [[Aleister Crowley]]'s commentaries and other writings; but are enjoined from promoting their personal interpretations to others.

	*'''[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib1.html Liber I]: Liber B vel Magi'''—An account of the [[Grade]] of [[Magus]], the highest grade which it is even possible to manifest in any way whatsoever upon this plane.		*'''[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib1.html Liber I]: Liber B vel Magi'''—An account of the [[Grade]] of [[Magus]], the highest grade which it is even possible to manifest in any way whatsoever upon this plane.

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The '''Holy Books of Thelema''' are those works that [[Aleister Crowley]] penned, but that he claimed were written ''through'' him—not ''by'' him. They therefore are to be considered 'inspired' works. The chief of these books, [[The Book of the Law|Liber AL vel Legis]], is the only one that involved a voice dictating the text to him. Of all the others, Crowley writes in ''Confessions'':
<P><blockquote> "The spirit came upon me and I wrote a number of books in a way which I hardly know how to describe. They were not taken from dictation like ''The Book of the Law'' nor were they my own composition. I cannot even call them automatic writing. I can only say that I was not wholly conscious at the time of what I was writing...I cannot doubt that these books are the work of an intelligence independent of my own." </blockquote>

==The Thelemic Canon==

*'''Liber CCXX, [[Liber AL vel Legis]]''', The Book of the Law—Within the canon of Thelemic Holy Scripture, the chief is ''The Book of the Law''. Thelemites are expected to interpret the book for themselves, based on [[Aleister Crowley]]'s commentaries and other writings; but are enjoined from promoting their personal interpretations to others.

*'''[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib1.html Liber I]: Liber B vel Magi'''—An account of the [[Grade]] of [[Magus]], the highest grade which it is even possible to manifest in any way whatsoever upon this plane.

*'''[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib7.html Liber VII]: Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli]'''—These are the Birth Words of a Master of the Temple. It's 7 Chapters are referred to the 7 Planets in the following order: Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Sol, Mercury, Luna, Venus.

*'''[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib10.html Liber X]: Liber Porta Lucis'''—An account of the sending forth of the [[Master Therion]] by the [[A.'.A.'.]] and an explanation of his mission.

*'''[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib27.html Liber XXVII]: Liber Trigrammaton'''—Being a book of [[Trigrams]] of the Mutations of the [[Tao]] with the Yin and Yang. An account of the Cosmic process.

*'''[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib65.html Liber LXV]: Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente'''—An account of the relations of the aspirant and his Holy Guardian Angel.

*'''[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib66.html Liber LXVI]: Liber Stellae Rubeae'''—[[Sex Magick|Sexual Magick]] veiled in symbolism.

*'''[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib90.html Liber XC]: Liber Tzaddi vel Hamus Hermeticus'''—An account of Initiation, and an indication as to those who are suitable for the same.

*'''[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib156.html Liber CLVI]: Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni'''—[[Sex Magick|Sexual Magick]] veiled in symbolism.

*'''[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib231.html Liber CCXXXI]: Liber Arcanorum'''—An account of the cosmic process so far as it is indicated by the [[Tarot]] Trumps. The sequence of the 22 [[Trumps]] is explained as a formula of Initiation.

*'''[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib370.html Liber CCCLXX]: Liber A'ash vel Capricorni Pneumatici'''—Analyzes the nature of the creative magical force in man, explains how to awaken it, how to use it and indicates the general as well as the particular objects to be gained thereby. [[Sex Magick|Sexual Magick]] veiled in symbolism.

*'''[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib400.html Liber CD]: Liber Tau vel Kabbalae Trium Literarum'''—A graphic interpretation of the Tarot on the plane of Initiation.

*'''[http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib813.html Liber DCCCXIII]: Ararita'''—An account of the Hexagram and the method of reducing it to the Unity and Beyond. This book describes in magical language a very secret process of Initiation.

==References==

Crowley, Aleister. (1988). ''[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=scarletwomanl-20&path=tg/detail/-/0877286868/qid%3D1086975292/sr%3D1-1 The Holy Books of Thelema].'' Samuel Weiser:York Beach, Maine

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