- Author
- Aleister Crowley et al., compiled by Frater Zephyros
- Published
- Compiled 1998; page last updated 02-02-2026
- Kind
- Online compilation of religious commentary, very long
- Original
- www.tarrdaniel.com/documents/Thelemagick/essay/english/Commentaries_to_Liber_AL_vel_Legis.html
- Subject
- Fiction and literature
What it is
Frater Zephyros bound the collection in 1998 for serious students of Thelemic thought. The Thelemagick Library hosts it. It combines Crowley's comments with notes by Marcelo Motta and Bill Heidrick.
What it says
- The page gathers commentaries on Liber AL vel Legis by Crowley and others.
- Many verses carry layered comments, including Crowley's Djeridensis, Tunisia Diaries, Old and New Comments.
- On verse I.3, Crowley's New Comment says every person is a self-determined, supreme star.
- On verse I.4, a long comment claims the book anticipates and exceeds modern mathematicians.
- The short Tunis Comment forbids studying the book and urges destroying a copy.
- The page labels the Tunis Comment Class A and Crowley's other commentaries Class B.
- Later bracketed and parenthetical notes sometimes dispute or soften Crowley's remarks.
What evidence it gives
The page offers commentary and doctrine, not outside evidence. Crowley's maths essay is argument by analogy and example. Footnotes record sources, original typist changes and cross references.
Interests and limits
The Tunisia Diaries comments cover only verses I.1 to I.20. The text is devotional and partisan. It argues from within Thelema, and its claims about the book's authority are not tested. Only the opening, a few verses of each chapter, and the closing pages were read. The conversion to text lost italics, so some notes cannot be told apart by author.