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Aleister Crowley, the founder of Thelema, designated his works as belonging to one of several classes. Not all of his work was placed in a class by him. :Class A consists of works that are not to be changed, even to the letter. The Holy Books fall in this category. :Class B consists of works of scholarship and enlightenment. :Class C consists of material that suggests things other than the obvious. :Class D consists of official rituals and instructions. :Class E consists of manifestos, broadsides, epistles and other public statements. == The Books == Liber AL vel Legis, also known as The Book of the Law, is the foundational text for Thelema. It is the only Holy Book that Aleister Crowley claimed to have had no part in the authorship of. Its primacy is indicated in chapter III, verse 47: ''This book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the Beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine.'' The remaining texts were written between the years 1907 and 1911. According to Crowley, they were not so much written ''by'' him as ''through'' him, and are therefore referred to as inspired works. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Holy Books of Thelema」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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