Book of the Law Spec Ed HC

Liber AL vel Legis, or more commonly known as The Book of the Law, is the central sacred text of Thelema. Dictated by Aiwass and written by Aleister Crowley, as well his wife Rose Edith Kelly was proclaimed as the arrival of a new stage in the spiritual evolution of humanity, to be known as the "Üon of Horus".The primary precept of this new aeon is the charge to "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" a central theme in Thelema.

The book itself contains three chapters, which was believed to have been written down in one hour, beginning at noon, on 8 April, 9 April, and 10 April, 1904 in Cairo, Egypt. Crowley asserts that the author was an entity named Aiwass, whom he later referred to as his personal Holy Guardian Angel.

When discussing the book, Crowley wrote: "Certain very serious questions have arisen with regard to the method by which this Book was obtained. I do not refer to those doubts - real or pretended - which hostility engenders, for all such are dispelled by study of the text; no forger could have prepared so complex a set of numerical and literal puzzles[...]"