Post #27. The Great Beast in Egypt: Aleister Crowley and the Revelation of The Book of the Law
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Buy Now (Click Link) After the collapse of the Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley, disillusioned and seeking a new source of magical authority, embarked on a series of travels that would take him across the world. He climbed mountains in Mexico and the Himalayas, he studied yoga and Buddhism in the East, and he continued his experiments in ceremonial magic. However, it was in Cairo, in 1904, that he received the revelation that would change the course of his life and the history of Western occultism: a short, cryptic, and terrifyingly powerful text known as Liber AL vel Legis , or The Book of the Law . The Cairo Working: A Honeymoon and a Magical Operation Crowley was in Cairo on his honeymoon with his new wife, Rose. Rose, who had no previous experience with magic, began to enter into a series of strange trances. She told Crowley that a messenger of the Egyptian god Horus was trying to contact him. Crowley, initially sceptical, tested her by taking her to the Boulak Museum and asking...