The challenge
Books alone do not initiate.
There are many claimant groups that are really cults of personality, or that cut corners to make the Path easy. Most seekers spend years circling the Work: reading about it in forums, buying another shelf of commentary, joining orders that sell ceremony without attainment or water the system down to keep members comfortable. A decade passes and the diary is still empty. The A∴A∴ was founded in 1907 to end exactly that. A graded scientific method leading to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, and beyond.
The Link
A living connection to ΤΟ ΜΕΓΑ ΘΗΡΙΟΝ 666.
The line of the A∴A∴ continues. The descent stands charted and documented, from the instruments in Crowley’s hand to the imprimaturs in print.
The Power of Attorney of 1941 · the imprimaturs of 1996 and 2023.
The school
We hold the original discipline.
The system, unaltered
The curriculum of One Star in Sight, grade by grade: each advancement earned by examined attainment and proved in the aspirant’s own magical record. Nothing added, nothing softened.
Probationer · Dominus Liminis · Magister Templi.
Liber AL vel Legis
In the hand of the Beast.
The Book of the Law entire, each leaf of the holograph facing its verses, with the commentaries of Crowley, Motta, and Frater L.R.H. beside every one. Free, as the Law is for all.
The holograph: leaves 1, 23, 45, and 60 of Liber XXXI.
The path
The classical admission, in three steps.
The Order is not presently soliciting aspirants, and it never advertises for them. But admission, when it is granted, has followed the same sequence since 1909, and the aspirant may as well know the road:
Study
The aspirant reads Liber AL vel Legis straight through, then the prescribed books of the Student curriculum. The Order has required this of every entrant since 1909: general knowledge before oaths, always.
The Student examination
After not less than three months of study, the Student sits a written examination proving his grounding in the system. Inquiries may be addressed to secretary@thebookofthelaw.com; plain answers are the house style.
Admission as Probationer
The oath, the motto, and the year of practices with the magical diary, the first instrument of the Work and the only one that cannot lie. Advancement thereafter is by examined attainment, grade by grade.
So the first year has always run, and at its end the aspirant holds what no one can issue him: a record of attainment in his own hand.
The Link has been formed. Who would look closer into the word may write.
Inquire