HistoryAleister CrowleyThe author and religious figure associated with Thelema, The Book of the Law, and a large body of magical instruction.→
Organizations & TraditionsFraternitas SaturniA German magical fraternity whose teaching gives Saturn a central symbolic and initiatory role.→
Devotional PracticeGnostic MassThe central public liturgy of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, written by Aleister Crowley as Liber XV.→
HistoryGnosticismA modern umbrella term for several ancient religious movements and texts concerned with saving knowledge and divine origins.→
Organizations & TraditionsHermetic Order of the Golden DawnA late nineteenth-century British initiatory order that shaped modern ceremonial magic, Tarot, and Hermetic Qabalah.→
Theology & CosmologyHermeticismHermeticism names several related traditions associated with Hermes Trismegistus. Philosophical dialogues, alchemical texts, and later occult systems require separate historical treatment.→
HistoryKenneth GrantA British occult writer associated with the Typhonian current, Thelema, and the work of Austin Osman Spare.→
Organizations & TraditionsOrdo Templi OrientisAn initiatory organization associated with Thelema and the public celebration of the Gnostic Mass.→
Texts & SourcesThe Book of the LawThe three-chapter revelatory text at the center of Thelema, also titled Liber AL vel Legis.→