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Tza 1:44 (not Tza 44)

Tza 1:0

Magi 1:00 (not Magi 1:0, for the verse numbered 00)

LLL P:3 (not LLL Prologue 3 or LLL 0:3, for the third verse of the Prologue)

AL 3:75 (through “Aum. Ha.”)

Tri 1:0 (not Tri 1:1, for the verse beneath three points)

(Tau) (not Tau 1:2, for the second line of the plate)

AL 1:61c; AL 1:61a–d

AL 1:3, 40; 2:9; 3:60

AL 1:3, 40; 2:9 (not AL 1:3, 40, 2:9)

AL 1:40; LLL 1:5

(AL 1:40, 44) (not AL 1:40–44, where verses 41–43 are omitted)

NC on AL 2:9

OC on AL 1:40; DjC on AL 1:40

(Tun)

not the Comment on AL 2:9

Liber AL; Liber Legis; Liber CCXX; the Book of the Law

Liber CCXX declares (not CCXX declares)

“they pass & are done” (AL 2:9)

not

“they pass and are done” (AL 2:9)

The verse reads, “Every man and every woman is a star” (AL 1:3).

not

The verse holds that “every man and every woman is a star” (AL 1:3).

3. At AL 3:37 the text quoted here (TRV) reads “Aum! let it fill me!”; the emended text (OTOV) reads “Aum! let it kill me!”

1. Liber AL vel Legis sub figurâ CCXX is cited in the text by chapter and verse, as AL, from Thelema: The Holy Books of Thelema (Conjoined Creation, 2015).

AL Liber AL vel Legis sub figurâ CCXX, cited from Thelema: The Holy Books of Thelema (2015)

B: Liber AL vel Legis sub figurâ CCXX. Received by Aleister Crowley, Cairo, 8–10 April 1904. In Thelema: The Holy Books of Thelema. Conjoined Creation, 2015.

R: Liber AL vel Legis sub figurâ CCXX. 2015. Received by Aleister Crowley, Cairo, 8–10 April 1904. In Thelema: The Holy Books of Thelema. Conjoined Creation.

S: Crowley, Liber ABA, pt. 3, ch. 4, p. 155.

The Equinox, vol. 1, no. 10

Eq 1.10

N: Liber E vel Exercitiorum sub figurâ IX, in The Equinox, vol. 1, no. 1 (1909): 25.

777 col. 14, row 6 (Tiphareth), p. 4

The Book of Lies, ch. 25 (“The Star Ruby”), p. 60

N: Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA, Book Four, Parts I–IV, ed. Hymenaeus Beta, 2nd rev. ed. (Samuel Weiser, 1997), pt. 3, ch. 4, p. 155.

S: Crowley, Liber ABA, pt. 3, ch. 4, p. 155.

B: Crowley, Aleister. Magick: Liber ABA, Book Four, Parts I–IV. Edited by Hymenaeus Beta. 2nd rev. ed. Samuel Weiser, 1997.

N: Antoine Faivre, Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition: Studies in Western Esotericism, trans. Christine Rhone (State University of New York Press, 2000), 31.

S: Faivre, Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition, 31.

B: Faivre, Antoine. Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition: Studies in Western Esotericism. Translated by Christine Rhone. State University of New York Press, 2000.

N: Marco Pasi, “Varieties of Magical Experience: Aleister Crowley’s Views on Occult Practice,” in Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism, ed. Henrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr (Oxford University Press, 2012), 60.

S: Pasi, “Varieties of Magical Experience,” 60.

B: Pasi, Marco. “Varieties of Magical Experience: Aleister Crowley’s Views on Occult Practice.” In Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism, edited by Henrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr, 53–87. Oxford University Press, 2012.

N: Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth: A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians, The Equinox, vol. 3, no. 5 (London: O.T.O., 1944), 42.

N: Erik Davis, “Technopagans,” Wired, July 1995, https://www.wired.com/1995/07/technopagans/.

S: Davis, “Technopagans.”

B: Davis, Erik. “Technopagans.” Wired, July 1995. https://www.wired.com/1995/07/technopagans/.

N: Martin P. Starr, review of Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics, by Marco Pasi, Aries 16, no. 2 (2016): 259, https://doi.org/10.1163/15700593-01501014.

S: Starr, review of Temptation of Politics, 259.

B: Starr, Martin P. Review of Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics, by Marco Pasi. Aries 16, no. 2 (2016): 258–261. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700593-01501014.

N: “The Top 100 Great Britons,” BBC, archived 4 December 2002, https://web.archive.org/web/20021204214727/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/greatbritons/list.shtml.

N: Earl Fontainelle, host, The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast, episode 1, “A Secret History of Secret History, Part I,” 5 September 2017, at 12:40, https://shwep.net/podcast/a-secret-history-of-secret-history-part-i/.

S: Fontainelle, “Secret History, Part I,” at 12:40.

B: Fontainelle, Earl, host. The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast. Episode 1, “A Secret History of Secret History, Part I.” 5 September 2017. https://shwep.net/podcast/a-secret-history-of-secret-history-part-i/.

B: Yorke Collection. Warburg Institute, University of London.

N: Lodge instruction, given at a meeting of a lodge in London, 14 March 2021; the speaker is not named, and the reader cannot check the source.

N: Text generated by ChatGPT (GPT-4o), OpenAI, 14 March 2025, in response to the prompt “Explain the term True Will as Aleister Crowley uses it.”

R: Asprem, Egil. 2008. “Magic Naturalized? Negotiating Science and Occult Experience in Aleister Crowley’s Scientific Illuminism.” Aries 8, no. 2: 139–165. https://doi.org/10.1163/156798908X327311.

T: (AL 1:40)