description: Aleister Crowley | The Book of the Law | Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX as delivered by XCIII = 418 to DCLXVI | True to original copy of the edition dictated in 1904 | The Liber AL vel Legis is a revelatory writing of the British occultist Aleister Crowley. It was the first volume of Crowleys book series "The Equinox" and is the basis of the new religious movement Thelema. The Liber Al vel Legis is considered the most influential occult writing of the 20th century, central text of the new religious movement Thelema and is also recognised as an important text in other esoteric movements. Central statements of the book 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' (AL | 'Love is the law, love under will.' (AL | 'Every man and every woman is a star.' (AL | 'Death, O man, is forbidden unto thee.' (AL According to Crowley, the text was dictated to him by a spirit being named Aiwaz in 1904. This is said to have taken place from April 8th to 10th, from 12.00 to 13.00 in a Cairo hotel near the Egyptian Museum. According to his confessions, his wife Rose Kelly led him there to the stele of Ankh-af-na-Khonsu, which is later described in the Liber AL vel Legis as the "stele of revelation" (AL 
title: The Book of the Law: Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX as delivered by XCIII = 418 to DCLXVI