REQUIRED READING LIST:
Liber LV, The Chymical Jousting of Brother Perardua with
the seven Lances that he brake
An account of initiation in the language of Alchemy,
providing one model of the movements through the lower
grades. Contains elements intended to aid the
Philosophus in the task assigned to Liber CCXX. {Read).
Liber LIX, Across the Gulf
The history of the vision of a past life containing
elements intended to aid the Philosophus in the task
assigned to Liber CCXX. {Read}.
Liber CCXX, Liber AL Vel Legis, The Book of the Law
Having come to an understanding of the Law of
Thelema, building the four-fold method of Will, delving
into the basic structure of the book, and applying
understanding – the Philosophus comes to know more of
the nature of the Great Work. {Study}.
Liber CCXLII, Aha!
The conversation between student and teacher of the
several ways of attainment and the results obtained.
{Read}.
Liber CXCVII, The High History of Good Sir Palamedes the
Saracen Knight and of his following of the Questing
Beast
A poetic account
of the Great Work and contains elements intended to aid
the Philosophus in the task assigned to Liber CCXX.
{Read}.
Liber CCCXXXV, Adonis
A dramatic play of the struggle of the human and divine
elements in the consciousness of man. {Read}.
Liber DCCCXIII, Vel Ararita
The true nature of the Hexagram. {Study, memorize
one chapter}.
Science and Buddhism (from
the Collected Works of Aleister Crowley)
The virtues and flaws inherent to Buddhism (included in
a comparative to the scientific methods), with
substantial detail provided in the extraction of the
useful components of the religion. {Read}.
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