translate English to German: ) 1902 saw him writing the essay Berashith (the first word of Genesis ), in which he gave meditation (or restraint of the mind to a single object) as the means of attaining his goal. The essay describes ceremonial magic as a means of training the will, and of constantly directing one's thoughts to a given object through the trappings of the ritual.
Er begründete die Lebensphilosophie von Thelema, die auf dem Buch Liber Al vel Legis (Buch des Gesetzes) basiert, welches ihm nach eigener Aussage während seines Aufenthaltes in Kairo im Jahr 1904 von einem Geistwesen namens Aiwaz diktiert wurde.