Overthrowing the Old Gods: Aleister Crowley and the Book of the Law
A Philosophy, Magick, Thelema book. Crowleys self submitting not to a god but to his Self, the Left-Hand Path was remanifested in the West....
New commentaries on Aleister Crowley’s Book of the Law reveal how it is connected to both Right- and Left-Hand Paths • Examines each line of the Book of the Law in the light of modern psychology, Egyptology, Gurdjieff’s teachings, and contemporary Left-Hand Path thought • Explores Crowley’s identification with the First Beast of Revelation as well as his adoption of the Loki archetype for becoming a vessel...
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The nature and purpose of Xeper is hidden in the myth of the contendings of Set and Horus. In the Temple there are two views of Xeper. One is the Nietzschian view that Xeper is the process of becoming who you are. That is to say, becoming reflects being. The second view is that Xeper is free willed; you can become anything you want to. Neither of these ideas is actually exclusive. Lets see why. Don Webb, Overthrowing the Old Gods: Aleister Crowley and the Book of the Law // Crowleys self submitting not to a god but to his Self, the Left-Hand Path was remanifested in the West. The roots of this had been developing in the words of Friedrich Nietzsche and the magick of Paschal Beverly Randolph and the yoga-tantra blend that Pierre Bernard had brought to the American West Coast, Don Webb, Overthrowing the Old Gods: Aleister Crowley and the Book of the Law //
Don Webb is a magus of the Left Hand Path, an official in the Temple of Set. I have read some of his earlier works and was quite impressed with his erudition. The meat of this current work is the examination of Crowleys great revelation "THE Book of Law" . Now many Thelemites have told me that Crowley would not discuss the book of law... Clearly written and immensely useful. I would second the opinion that the book could have been otherwise structured, instead of starting with the commentaries to the Book of the Law, but that is a minor complaint. Webb has an unique vantage point to the practice of magic; his style of writing is concise and sometimes very funny, with... There's no way I can give this book less than 5 stars. It isn't entirely niggle free, but niggles are all they are.A few years ago, Don Webb published a little book called 'Aleister Crowley: The Fire and the Force' through Runa-Raven Press. It was the best analysis and practical appraisal of Crowley and his Thelemic philosophy that...
