"Liber OZ" (or "Book 77") is a single page by English author and occultist
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley (; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the pr ...
purporting to declare mankind's basic and intrinsic rights according to Crowley's philosophy of
Thelema
Thelema () is a Western esoteric and occult social or spiritual philosophy and new religious movement founded in the early 1900s by Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), an English writer, mystic, occultist, and ceremonial magician. The word ' ...
. Written in 1941
(though based on a much earlier
O.T.O. initiation lecture), the work consists of five succinct and concise paragraphs, being one of the last and shortest of Crowley's many "libri," or books.
Crowley wrote the piece for
Louis Wilkinson in order to convey as simply as possible the "O.T.O. plan in words of one syllable" broken down into "five sections: moral, bodily, mental, sexual, and the safeguard tyrannicide...".
See also
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Libri of Aleister Crowley
The Libri of Aleister Crowley is a list of texts mostly written or adapted by Aleister Crowley. Some are attributed to other authors. The list was intended for students of Crowley's magical order, the A∴A∴.
Classes
The publications of ...
References
External links
Full text of Liber OZ (Book 77)
{{Thelema series
Ordo Templi Orientis
Thelemite texts
Works by Aleister Crowley