Thelema, Original printing scan
The Book of the Law · 1913 printing
The three chapters in their 1913 printed witness: 66, 79 and 75 verses. The source-linked reader preserves this edition’s wording and keeps the daily selection method separate.
Library
The original books, with a place to begin.
58 texts
Hermetic Qabalah, Facsimile
Liber 777
The correspondence tables behind the paths, planets, colours, and tarot attributions. Read across a row to follow one symbol through different systems.
Golden Dawn, Facsimile
A Description of the Cards of the Tarot
Published as Liber LXXVIII. The elemental courts, thirty-six decans, symbolic titles, and a method of reading cards together.
Thelema, Facsimile
Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae
A working vocabulary of ceremonial practice: the Qabalistic Cross, pentagram and hexagram rituals, gestures, and visualisation.
Thelema, Facsimile
Liber E vel Exercitiorum
Experiments in attention and an unusually explicit case for keeping a record. Its opening section asks for conditions, observations, and possible sources of error.
Thelema, Facsimile
Liber Resh vel Helios
Four solar adorations marking dawn, noon, sunset, and midnight. A short source for understanding the day as a repeated practice.
Thelema, Transcription
Liber Librae
A short text on balance, discipline, and the practitioner’s relation to other people. Useful to read beside technical ritual instructions.
Thelema, Transcription
The Book of the Law
The central text of Thelema, arranged in three chapters. Verse numbers let a reading stay attached to the actual passage being discussed.
Thelema, Transcription
Liber Trigrammaton
Twenty-seven three-line figures with accompanying text. A compact starting point for studying symbolic systems and their later numerical interpretations.
Thelema, Facsimile
Liber CCXXXI
A short text accompanied by two series of sigils. The page images matter: a text-only extraction cannot preserve the material being studied.
Astrology, Translation
Tetrabiblos
An early systematic account of astrology. Book I lays out the qualities of the planets, signs, and configurations used by later astrologers.
Renaissance magic, Transcription
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Natural, celestial, and religious magic in a three-book structure. A reference for following the connections among elements, planets, numbers, and ritual.
Hermetica, Transcription
The Divine Pymander
An early English witness to the Hermetic dialogues. Read its account of mind, cosmos, and knowledge as a text with its own historical vocabulary.
Thelema, Transcription
The Book of Thoth
Crowley’s explanation of the Thoth deck: twenty-two trumps, sixteen court cards and forty small cards, with discussions of the Qabalah and elemental relationships.
Astronomy, Reference chapter
Calendars
A technical account of calendar systems, their history and conversion algorithms. This chapter distinguishes astronomical cycles from arithmetic and religious calendars.
Hermetic Qabalah, Facsimile
Sepher Sephiroth
A numerical dictionary of Hebrew words and short phrases, preceded by an alphabet table. Entries can be compared by their sum while retaining their distinct meanings.
Arabic philology, Facsimile
A Grammar of the Arabic Language
A historical grammar with an Arabic alphabet table that includes numerical values. It provides the letter values used by the Eastern abjad calculator.
English Qabalah, Author’s method
About Alphanumeric Qabbala
The AQ convention used here: digits keep their individual values and A through Z run from 10 to 35. Add the character values to obtain a word or phrase total.
Modern numerology, Author’s method
Life Path calculation
The calculation convention used by the familiar and the number study: reduce month, day and year separately, retain 11, 22 and 33, then add and reduce again.
Modern numerology, Author’s method
Expression calculation
A repeating A–Z mapping to 1–9. Reduce each name unit separately, retaining 11, 22 and 33, then combine the reduced units.
Thelema, Facsimile collection
Book 4 · Meditation
The first part of Book 4 follows a progression from posture and attention to the author’s account of meditation. Its short chapters give a vocabulary to read alongside Liber E.
Thelema, Facsimile collection
Book 4 · The instruments
Temple, circle, wand, cup, sword and book become a vocabulary of intention and attention. Read the explanations beside the objects rather than treating the list as a shopping requirement.
Thelema, Facsimile collection
Magick in Theory and Practice
An introduction and sequence of chapters on ritual theory, followed by a substantial curriculum and ritual appendices. The archive’s separate files preserve the original sectional publication.
Thelema, Facsimile
John St. John
A published account of a magical retirement, arranged as a record of days. Read it beside the recording instructions in Liber E to compare a stated method with a worked literary example.
Thelema, Facsimile
The Vision and the Voice
A sequence of visionary accounts associated with the thirty Aethyrs. This early printed witness lets a reader examine the sequence before comparing later commentaries.
Thelema, Transcription
The Book of Lies
Short numbered pieces that use paradox, wordplay and Qabalistic associations. The later commentary offers a second layer of reading, sometimes reopening a sentence that seemed straightforward.
Renaissance magic, Facsimile
Three Books of Occult Philosophy · 1651 scan
A scan of the early English edition containing all three books: natural, mathematical and religious magic. It provides page images where the companion Wikisource transcription has gaps.
Hermetica, Transcription collection
The Divine Pymander · Everard reading text
A reading witness of the seventeen books in Everard’s early English translation, with separate links for each dialogue. It complements the incomplete Wikisource transcription.
Ceremonial magic, Transcription collection
The Book of Ceremonial Magic
Waite compares and assembles material from grimoires, including the Arbatel, the Key of Solomon and the Heptameron. Read his classifications alongside the texts he names, rather than treating his compilation as a single ancient system.
Rider–Waite–Smith, Facsimile
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
Waite’s account of the tarot beside Smith’s illustrations. Part II explains the trumps; Part III treats divinatory meanings and methods. Compare the images and the prose rather than assuming they say precisely the same thing.
Advaita Vedanta, Publisher PDF
Who Am I? (Nan Yar)
A short question-and-answer account of self-inquiry. The opening distinguishes awareness from body, senses and thought; later answers turn to the activity of inquiry itself.
Upanishads, Translation
Katha Upanishad
Nachiketa’s dialogue with Yama, including the question of death, the distinction between the good and the pleasant, and the chariot image of the self and its faculties.
Thelema, Transcription
Christ and the Message of the Master Therion
An argument about Christianity and Thelema through will, love and religious revelation. Its comparisons show a particular writer interpreting traditions through one another.
Astrology, Transcription chapter
The General Principles of Judging a Figure
A chapter about moving from separate chart factors to an interpretation of the whole. It presents synthesis as creative work that still requires familiarity with the particulars.
Neoplatonism, Translation and commentary
The Chaldaean Oracles · Volume I
Mead introduces the transmission of the Oracles and arranges translated fragments with his own explanations of mind, fire, soul and the cosmos. This is the first of two volumes, not a surviving complete ancient poem.
Neoplatonism, Translation and commentary
The Chaldaean Oracles · Volume II
The second volume continues the fragments and comments through the soul, purification, divine manifestations and theurgic art. Mead’s source notes make the difference between a quotation and an attributed tradition part of the reading.
Neoplatonism, Translation
On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians
A sustained argument about divine beings, ritual, divination and theurgy, preceded here by Porphyry’s questions. Taylor’s introduction and notes are additional authored layers around his English translation.
Human Design, Introductory guide
Discover Your Design: The 3 Steps to Transformation
An institutional introduction to Human Design’s types, strategy and authority, with a worked chart illustration.
Personality frameworks, Self-report guide
Understanding My MBTI Results
The Foundation explains what its reported preference codes mean and how a respondent considers which type fits.
Personality frameworks, System introduction
How the Enneagram System Works
An account of the nine numbered types, connecting figure, centers and adjacent wings, including disagreements about wing emphasis.
Renaissance magic, Facsimile
De occulta philosophia · 1550 Latin printing
A Latin printed witness to Agrippa’s three books. Book II, chapter 22 connects seven numerical squares with planets and prints numeral tables beside Hebrew-letter tables and seals.
Arabic mathematics, Manuscript · selected leaves
Dīwān al-‘adad al-wafq · Arabic magic squares
An Arabic mathematical treatise on squares and triangles, organized in eight books. Its preface gives a composition date of 517 AH / 1123–4 CE, earlier than this surviving copy.
Arabic occult literature, Publisher guide
Shams al-Maʿārif · selected English translation
The publisher’s guide and contents for The Sun of Knowledge: An Arabic Grimoire, a selected translation. Topics include letters, celestial timing, lunar mansions and divine names.
Thelema, Modern typesetting
Little Essays Toward Truth
Sixteen essays and a glossary, moving from Crowley’s Qabalistic account of the person through memory, understanding, silence, love and truth. The opening essay treats the Tree of Life as a way of organizing experience.
Thelema, Modern typesetting and manuscript images
The Equinox of the Gods
Crowley presents Liber AL alongside his account of its reception and arguments for its authority. Genesis Libri AL combines biographical narrative, the Cairo story and an extended discussion of the text. The PDF also includes manuscript images and The Comment.
Christian Hermeticism, Publisher guide
Meditations on the Tarot
The publisher introduces A Journey into Christian Hermeticism: twenty-two major arcana used as occasions for Christian esoteric reflection. This edition credits its translator and afterword separately and includes an index.
Numerology, Book preview
Numerology and the Divine Triangle
A modern numerology system connecting date and name calculations with tarot. The available preview includes the authors’ forewords, introduction, number meanings and the opening calculation material of chapter 2.
Thelema, Doctrinal essay
Liber II: The Message of the Master Therion
A short account of will, freedom and love. Crowley distinguishes will from immediate preference, develops the image of individual orbits, and offers two readings of purpose.
Thelema, Historical ritual instruction
Liber Nu, sub figura XI
An instruction organized around Nuit and the first chapter of the Book of the Law. It distinguishes meditation, interpretation, ethics, ritual and claimed results, then gathers them into a summary.
Thelema, Invocation and address
Liber Israfel, sub figura LXIV
A ceremonial text for a speaker and listeners. Invocation gives way to identification with the invoked figure, a lection and a return to silence. The opening records its earlier title, Anubis, and association with the twentieth key.
Thelema, Historical discipline text
Liber III vel Jugorum
A historical account of constraints on speech, action and thought, represented by three animals. The text connects vigilance with a written record; its final section includes a ring as a cue for contrasting roles.
Astronomy, Institutional reference
The Astronomical Almanac glossary
Definitions of astronomical coordinates, reference planes and time. Ecliptic longitude and the equinox provide the coordinate vocabulary for the tropical-sign demonstration.
Astronomy, Institutional reference
The constellations
The IAU explains modern constellations as bounded areas of sky, distinguished from star-pattern drawings. This gives a precise astronomical comparison for the twelve astrological signs.
Chinese calendar, Institutional reference
Heavenly stems and earthly branches
The ten stems and twelve branches form a sixty-pair cycle. HKO lists every pair and distinguishes the year, month, day and hour uses.
Chinese calendar, Institutional explanation
Which day begins the Chinese calendar year?
The Observatory explains why its Gan-Zhi year begins on the first day of the first lunar month and distinguishes the Spring Commences convention used in divination.
Chinese calendar, Institutional reference
The twelve-year animal cycle
Twelve animals follow the twelve earthly branches. The same branch keeps its animal as the associated stem changes across the full sixty-pair cycle.
Chinese cosmology, Chinese transcription
Huainanzi · Tianwen xun
The chapter on celestial patterns connects directions, seasons, five phases and stem pairs. It supplies the historical stem–phase facts in the Chinese calendar study.
Chinese calendar, Calendar tables
Gregorian–lunar calendar conversion · 1901–2100
Daily Gregorian–Chinese calendar tables covering 1901 through 2100, including month boundaries, repeated leap months and year names. The explorer derives compact date facts from these witnesses.