Inventing a Modern Ritual Magic Text: Assembling and Dis(a)ssembling Liber Israfel
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft September 1, 2022 M. Fletcher
Abstract:Liber Israfel, an invocation of the Egyptian god Tahuti or Thoth, is arguably a key text in Aleister Crowley's literary corpus. Not only does it form the basis of a complete theory of magical invocation in his seminal Magick in Theory and Practice, but Crowley made extensive use of it in his personal magical work. That a precursor of Liber Israfel played a role in the events leading up...