The publications of the A∴A∴ divide themselves into five classes.
Class “A” consists of books of which may be changed not so much as the style of a letter: that is, they represent the utterance of an Adept entirely beyond the criticism of even the Visible Head of the Organization.
The Class “A” books are considered to be the Holy Books of Thelema.
Those books are:
- Liber I: Liber B Vel Magi Sub Figurâ 1
- Liber VII: Liber Liberi Vel Lapidis Lazuli, Adumbratio Kabbalæ Ægyptiorum Sub Figurâ VII
- Liber X: Liber Porta Lucis Sub Figureâ X
- Liber XXVII: Liber Trigrammaton Sub Figurâ XXVII
- Liber LXV: Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente Sub Figurâ LXV
- Liber LXVI: Liber Stellæ Rubeæ Sub Figurâ LXVI
- Liber XC: Liber Tzaddi Vel Hamus Hermeticus Sub Figurâ XC
- Liber CLVI: Liber Cheth Vel Vallum Abiegni Sub Figurâ CLVI
- Liber CCXX: Liber AL Vel Legis Sub Figurâ CCXX (The Book of the Law)
- Liber XXXI: Liber AL Vel Legis (manuscript of The Book of the Law)
- Liber CCXXXI: Liber Arcanorum ιων ATU ν TAHUTI Quas Vidit Asar in Amenti Sub Figurâ CCXXXI Liber Carcerorum ιων Qliphoth cum suis Geniis
- Liber CCCLXX: Liber A’ash Vel Capricoroni Pneumatici Sub Figuræ CCCLXX
- Liber CD: Liber Tau Vel Kabbalæ Trium Literarum Sub Figuræ CD
- Liber DCCCXIII: Vel Ararita Sub Figuræ DLXX
The Holy Books of Thelema are those works that Aleister Crowley penned, but that he claimed were written through him—not by him. They therefore are to be considered ‘inspired’ works. The chief of these books, Liber AL vel Legis, is the only one that involved a voice dictating the text to him.
Of all the others, Crowley writes in Confessions:
“The spirit came upon me and I wrote a number of books in a way which I hardly know how to describe. They were not taken from dictation like The Book of the Law nor were they my own composition. I cannot even call them automatic writing. I can only say that I was not wholly conscious at the time of what I was writing…
I cannot doubt that these books are the work of an intelligence independent of my own.”
Holy Books of Thelema – Vol. I consists two A∴A∴ publications in Class “A”:
- Liber LXI vel Causæ — Еxplains the actual history and origin of the present movement. This text, being in Class D, is not technically a Holy Book, but was included in “ΘΕΛΗΜΑ” as an Introduction, and is thus listed here.
- Liber LXV: Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente — An account of the relations of the aspirant and his Holy Guardian Angel.
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