From: Tagi@cup.portal.com (Thyagi Morgoth NagaSiva)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: _Book Four_ Part 4
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 14:46:17 PST
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9212.21 e.v. [Happy Dark Dayz!]


Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The word of Sin is Restriction.


Scooch writes:

...All forms of reality
are integrated in our magickal context. What you may personally
believe, (which appears to be that there exists another 'reality inside 
the program') however, is irrevelant, except within the
discussion...it does not bear on the usefulness of the thread. 
Especially so, since you have at least a couple of people who
disagree.


Response:

Agreed. I'm taking quite a lot of heat from dogmatists regarding my ideas,
so I wasn't about to go posting the reply you did above.  I'm trying to
spend time with those who understand the relevance of the ideas.  It is nice
to see others come in and describe base-level theory connections.  Thanks.


Scooch:

Crowley's third book? One might expect you to mean the fourth part
of 'Book Four'. To my knowledge, it never made it beyond
the notes/partial draft stage. Even these don't exist in the
(admittedly incomplete) OTO docs catalog I have. Tagi? Maybe
you can poke your OTO persons, and see if you can dig up these notes. 


Response:

Ok, I broke down and looked in my library here.  This is what I found:

Entries from _A Crowley Cross-Index: A Comprehensive Survey_,
 by W. Parfitt and A. Drylie, 1976, self-published.

"BOOK FOUR part 1. Elementary Yoga instruction
 BOOK FOUR part 2. Elementary Magick instruction
 BOOK FOUR part 3. See [MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE].
 BOOK FOUR part 4. A prolonged commentary on Liber AL, never published
                   as such.  But see [COMMENTS].

...

"COMMENTS (to Liber Al)
 a) The short comment of Ankh-af-na-Khonsu. [Grant/Symonds, Motta].
 b) The Comment (called the Old Comment when superceded) [Grant/S, Regardie]
 c) The New Comment [Grant/S., Regardie]
 d) The Equinox of the Gods [below]
 e) The Djeridensis Working. (not completed) [Grant/Symonds]


The Grant/Symonds book is:

"_Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law_,
93 Publishing, Montreal. 1974.... Introduction by Kenneth Grant.
Notes by Symonds and Grant."


The Motta book is:

"_The Commentaries of Al_, by Crowley and Marcelo Ramos Motta,
Weiser, New York. 1975.... (30% deletions)...+ other material by Motta."


The Regardie book is of course:

"_The Law is For All_, Llewellyn, St. Paul. 1975.... Introduction
and editing by Regardie...."


The Equinox of the Gods I have is:

_The Equinox of the Gods (Vol. III, No. III)_, by Aleister Crowley,
New Falcon Publications, 1991, Intro. by Hymenaeus Beta.


I suggest that Crowley never completed an _extensive evaluation of
Liber Al_ to which he considered worthy of applying the name 'Part IV'
and there may be some controversy about this.

I DO know that a new publication called _Book Four_ is now being published
with Part IV listed as _The Book of the Law_, but as far as I can tell
this is not what Crowley intended it to be (i.e. he apparently wished
to have had a completed commentary to his satisfaction, and perhaps
to some criteria of which I am unware).  I'll ask around for
additional information but this ought to do for the non.



Invoke me under my stars.   Love is the law, love under will.


I am I!


Frater (I) Nigris (666)