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This Essay has examined certain psychological foundations relative to

Liber AL vel Legis, The Book of the Law
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Summarium Est
This is The Summary - in plain down-to-earth Language

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Aleister Crowley wrote down The Book of the Law (Liber AL) as it was dictated to him by the entity Aiwass, his Holy Guardian Angel, in Cairo 1904.

This Book contains descriptions of many high-mystical states as well as many savage visionary scenarios.

Liber AL is the central, sacred text of the philosophy known as Thelema, the metaphysical basis of several esoteric Orders.

Crowley died in 1947 after a lifetime of writing books that were, for the most part derived from, and extensions of, Liber AL.

The essence of Crowley's writings is that the central task for each person is to "Attain to the knowlege and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel," also known as the Solar Angel.

In other words, we must establish communication with the essence of our own Soul.

In other words (again), we must write our own Book.

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Stanislav Grof, M.D. received a free sample of LSD in the mail from Dr. Albert Hoffman (>) in 1956. Being a hero, he tried it out. He said:

"I couldn't believe how much I learned about my psyche in those few hours. I experienced a fantastic display of colorful visions, some abstract and geometrical, others figurative and filled with symbolic import. The sheer intensity of the array of emotions I felt simply amazed me. I was hit by a radiance that seemed comparable to the epicenter of a nuclear explosion, or perhaps the light of supernatural brilliance said in oriental scriptures to appear to us at the moment of death. This thunderbolt catapulted me out of my body. First I lost my awareness of my immediate surroundings, then the psychiatric clinic, then Prague [Czechoslovakia], and finally the planet. At an inconceivable speed my consciousness expanded to cosmic dimensions. I experienced the Big Bang, passed through black holes and white holes in the universe, identified with exploding supernovas, and witnessed many other strange phenomena that seemed to be pulsars, quasars, and other cosmic events."

During this session Grof instantaneously grasped that the experience he was having resembled those described in the great mystical scriptures of the world. "I was able to see the irony and paradox of the situation. The divine manifested itself and took me over in a modern scientific laboratory in the middle of a scientific experiment conducted in a communist country with a substance produced in the test tube of a 20th-century chemist."

Then Dr. Grof tried it out on patients, many of whom were suffering from (or who had repressed) severe psychological disorders.

As a result he discovered that the root of many (most, all) of these disorders was to be found in tramas and discomforts related to the birth experience, and called them BPMs.

Eventually, he moved to America, abandoned the (now illegal) use of LSD, and found that he could reproduce the same experiences with certain breathing exercises.

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Dr. Drystone (Frater Shiva) examined the works of Dr. Grof and compared them to the lofty and terrifying visions of Liber AL.

The resulting correlation is what you have just read.

Have a nice day.

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