Book of the Law, The

Aleister Crowley’s Liber AL vel Legis, dictated to him over three successive days in Cairo in April 1904 by an entity he named Aiwass. Crowley described himself as the scribe rather than the author. The text consists of three short chapters, each in the voice of a different deity (Nuit, Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit). Its central doctrines — Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law, the True Will, the Aeon of Horus — are the founding doctrinal core of Thelema. The historicity of the reception is internal to the religious tradition and is not externally verifiable.