Beholding The World Of Aiwass by Noah Cutter – Non-Fiction

“There is no law beyond do what thou wilt. There is an end to the word of the God enthroned in Ra’s seat, lightening the girders of the soul.” — Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law), chapter III, v60-61 — Transcribed over three consecutive days in 1904, the, “God Aiwass,” allegedly delivered sacred knowledge to Aleister Crowley in Egypt, inspiring, “The Book of the Law.” This environment conjures the portrait of, “Aiwass,” amongst the ruins of aging gods. An original typeface was developed to fit the essence of the word.

Liber AL vel Legis commonly known as, “The Book of the Law,” is the central sacred text of Thelema. Aleister Crowley said that it was dictated to him by a beyond-human being who called himself, “Aiwass.” Rose Edith Kelly, Crowley’s wife, wrote two phrases in the manuscript. The three chapters of the book are spoken by the deities Nuit, Hadit, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit. Through the reception of the Book, Crowley proclaimed the arrival of a new stage in the spiritual evolution of humanity, to be known as the, “Æon of Horus.” The primary precept of this new aeon is the charge, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”

The book contains three chapters, each of which was alleged to be written down in one hour, beginning at noon, on 8 April, 9 April, and 10 April in Cairo, Egypt, in the year 1904. Crowley says that the author was an entity named, “Aiwass,” whom he later referred to as his personal, “Holy Guardian Angel.” Biographer Lawrence Sutin quotes private diaries that fit this story and writes that, “If ever Crowley uttered the truth of his relation to the book,” his public account accurately describes what he remembered on this point.

Crowley himself wrote, “Certain very serious questions have arisen with regard to the method by which this Book was obtained. I do not refer to those doubts — real or pretended — which hostility engenders, for all such are dispelled by study of the text; no forger could have prepared so complex a set of numerical and literal puzzles …” The book is often referred to simply as Liber AL, Liber Legis or just AL, though technically the latter two refer only to the manuscript.