About this Edition

The Text

This edition presents Liber AL vel Legis sub figurâ CCXX complete: three chapters, 220 verses (66, 79, 75). The text follows the public-domain publications of the Book — ΘΕΛΗΜΑ (1909) and The Equinox I(10) (1913) — as transcribed by the Hermetic Library from the O.T.O. electronic text project. Every verse of this edition was checked against its source by count and by checksum at the time of preparation. Nothing has been changed, save the single emended reading noted below.

Textual Note: III:37

At III:37 this edition reads “Aum! let it kill me!” where printings from 1909 through 2012 read “fill.” The verse belongs to the paraphrase of the Stèle of Revealing, which the manuscript of Liber XXXI does not write out but directs to be inserted from a separate vellum notebook. In 2013 the marked master copy of the 1909 Holy Books from the James Thomas Windram accession — Crowley's own copy, carrying his earliest corrections — was found to correct fill to kill in this line, and the corrected reading was adopted in the O.T.O. editions thereafter. This edition accepts the correction. The emended word is marked kill in the text.

The Old Comment

The commentary opened beneath the verses is Crowley's Old Comment, first published in “The Temple of Solomon the King,” The Equinox I(7), 1912, and public domain in the United States. Its editorial headnote reads: “«dates in brackets, giving solar position (An 0. Sun in Aries being March 21, 1904, ΨΧ), refer to the time of writing particular parts of this comment.»”

Two normalizations were made for this edition: the transcriber's ASCII tokens for Hebrew letters have been restored to Hebrew script, and the Equinox page markers have been removed. The commentary text is otherwise as transcribed.

The Comment

The short Comment which the Book commands to accompany it — written at Tunis in 1925 and printed with every authorized edition since — is given its own page, entire.

Further Commentary

Crowley's New Comment, and the commentaries of Marcelo Ramos Motta and J. Daniel Gunther, remain in copyright. Where this edition's forthcoming commentary engages them, it does so by brief quotation with attribution. The commentary of Frater L.R.H. is original to this edition.

Rights

Liber AL vel Legis (1909, 1913), the Old Comment (1912), and the Comment (1926) are in the public domain in the United States. The design of this edition and the commentary of Frater L.R.H. are © 2026 e.v., all rights reserved.

Set in Cinzel and EB Garamond upon the night. An CXXII.