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    Liber AL vel Legis - The Book of the Law
    Liber AL vel Legis - The Book of the Law
    Liber AL vel Legis - The Book of the Law
    Audiobook45 minutes

    Liber AL vel Legis - The Book of the Law

    Written by Aleister Crowley

    Narrated by Dennis Logan

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    About this audiobook

    Liber AL vel Legis, also known as "The Book of the Law", is the central sacred text of Thelema.

    Channeled by Aleister Crowley and transcribed by his wife Rose Edith Crowley, The Book of the Law has become a cornerstone of New Age thought.

    An Author's Republic audio production.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthor's Republic
    Release dateMay 1, 2017
    ISBN9781518947872
    Liber AL vel Legis - The Book of the Law
    Author

    Aleister Crowley

    Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was an English poet, painter, occultist, magician, and mountaineer. Born into wealth, he rejected his family’s Christian beliefs and developed a passion for Western esotericism. At Trinity College, Cambridge, Crowley gained a reputation as a poet whose work appeared in such publications as The Granta and Cambridge Magazine. An avid mountaineer, he made the first unguided ascent of the Mönch in the Swiss Alps. Around this time, he first began identifying as bisexual and carried on relationships with prostitutes, which led to his contracting syphilis. In 1897, he briefly dated fellow student Herbert Charles Pollitt, whose unease with Crowley’s esotericism would lead to their breakup. The following year, Crowley joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a secret occult society to which many of the era’s leading artists belonged, including Bram Stoker, W. B. Yeats, Arthur Machen, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Between 1900 and 1903, he traveled to Mexico, India, Japan, and Paris. In these formative years, Crowley studied Hinduism, wrote the poems that would form The Sword of Song (1904), attempted to climb K2, and became acquainted with such artists as Auguste Rodin and W. Somerset Maugham. A 1904 trip to Egypt inspired him to develop Thelema, a philosophical and religious group he would lead for the remainder of his life. He would claim that The Book of the Law (1909), his most important literary work and the central sacred text of Thelema, was delivered to him personally in Cairo by the entity Aiwass. During the First World War, Crowley allegedly worked as a double agent for the British intelligence services while pretending to support the pro-German movement in the United States. The last decades of his life were spent largely in exile due to persecution in the press and by the states of Britain and Italy for his bohemian lifestyle and open bisexuality.

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    • 1/5
      The narrator is completely cringe. Fire him. Fire him right now.

      4 people found this helpful

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      Narrator is cringey and creepy. They ruin the experience. I’ll have to read the text.

      3 people found this helpful

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      I could not take the edgelord reading of this book. It sounded like somebody trying out for the role of Kylo Ren.

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      What a terrible narration! I would have liked to listen to this but couldn't take his voice at all!

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    • 1/5
      Narrators voice makes this unlistenable. Sounds like he’s trying too hard to sound edgy.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Delusional and ridiculous. Do what thow wilt is quite possibly the biggest reason modern society is faltering. The number one way to a fulfilling life is a life of self control. This tries to teach the opposite and it's just asinine.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Fire the narrator he made me want to drive off a cliff lol! Terrible creepy and strange.