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Crowley is an acquired taste, his writings deep, genuinely inspired, and sometimes absolutely impenetrable. Many find Crowley's personal life abrasive, and so too his narrator sometimes comes off as an egotistical, oppositional-defiant teenager. But this does not apply to all of Crowley's life or writings; neither does it detract from his obvious level of attainment, nor does it taint the hard-earned wisdom of experience he seeks to pass on to others.
Magick in Theory and Practice is published in two books: "Book 4" and "Liber ABA." I'd recommend ABA, (which is confusingly also called BOOK 4, Parts 1-4) as it includes the whole of Book 4, plus a copy and explanation of Liber Al, The Book of the Law, considered Crowley's "life work." In addition, ABA gives you the best parts of 777 and a number of Crowley's essential ceremonies in the appendices.
Crowley wrote (somewhere) that the only books you "really" needed were Book 4, 777, and the Book of Thoth.
The bad news: Liber ABA, runs around $100.
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"It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.” --- Aleister Crowley
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
--- Stephen Hawking
Therefore, God is a monkey.
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aquarius A Crowley Mar 23 2008, 04:10 PM
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