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* ''[[The Book of the Law]]'' | * ''[[The Book of the Law]]'' | ||
* ''[[The Book of Lies]]'' | * ''[[The Book of Lies]]'' | ||
===Boleskine House=== | |||
Crowley purchased [[Boleskine House]], a manor on the south-east side of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands, in 1899. Crowley believed the location was ideal to sequester himself to perform a series of operations known as the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, taken from a [[grimoire]] called ''The Book of Abramelin''. | |||
Crowley became infamous for stories of conducting [[black magic]] and various other rituals while residing at the house; one of his pseudonyms was "Lord Boleskine." His lodge keeper, Hugh Gillies, suffered a number of personal tragedies, including the loss of two children. Crowley later claimed that his experiments with black magic had simply got out of hand. | |||
==Abbey of Thelema== | ==Abbey of Thelema== | ||
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After two years, the Abbey had descended into a squalid drug den where residents spent their days either having sex or consuming [[recreational drug]]s. Conditions were so unsanitary that one of Crowley's followers died and they were asked to leave Italy in 1922 by the Italian government. | After two years, the Abbey had descended into a squalid drug den where residents spent their days either having sex or consuming [[recreational drug]]s. Conditions were so unsanitary that one of Crowley's followers died and they were asked to leave Italy in 1922 by the Italian government. | ||
==Major deities== | |||
* [[Nut|Nuit]] | |||
* [[Aiwass]] | |||
* [[Babalon]] | |||
* [[Baphomet]] | |||
* Hadit | |||
* Heru-ra-ha | |||
* Therion | |||
* Chaos | |||
* Ma'at | |||
==Non-Crowley influences in Thelema== | |||
Aleister Crowley was highly prolific and wrote on the subject of Thelema for over 35 years, but a number of other figures have made significant contributions to Thelema. Each has their own following within the broader Thelemic community. | |||
===Jack Parsons=== | |||
[[Jack Parsons]] developed rituals based upon [[sex magic]] described by Crowley. Crowley was in correspondence with Parsons during the course of the [[Babalon Working]], and warned Parsons of his potential overreactions to the magic he was performing, while simultaneously deriding Parsons' work to others. A brief text entitled ''Liber 49'', self-referenced within the text as ''The Book of Babalon'', was written by Jack Parsons as a transmission from the goddess or force called [[Babalon]] received by him during the Babalon Working. | |||
===Kenneth Grant=== | |||
Kenneth Grant was an English ceremonial [[magician]] and advocate of the Thelemic religion. Grant's views on sex magic drew heavily on the importance of sexual dimorphism among humans and the subsequent differentiation of gender roles. Grant taught that the true secret of sex magic were bodily secretions, the most important of which was a woman's menstrual blood. In this he differed from Crowley, who viewed semen as the most important genital secretion. | |||
==Legacy== | ==Legacy== | ||