Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Aiwass composed The Book of Perfection, Liber 440, and made it real in the world via two of his incarnations: Edward Alexander (Aleister) Crowley (1875 – 1947) and James Charles Beck (Jimmi Rocket) (1954 – 2004).
Liber 440 comprises three books: Liber 220, Liber 718, and Liber 77.
The core of Liber 440 is Liber 220, the Book of the Law. It was dictated to Aleister Crowley in April, 1904, by Aiwass.
Liber 718, the Book of Codes, is Aiwass’s own comment on the Book of the Law. It was dictated to James Beck in January, 1976.
Liber 77, the Book of Oz is a sequel to the Book of the Law. It was dictated to James Beck in January and February, 1977, by Aiwass.
77,3:26. Book of Oz,
chapter 3: verse 26
These three, 220, 718, and, lastly, 77, shall form the trinity of scripture at the heart of the Thelemic Vedas. I shall grant thee no more.
Aiwass followed Liber 440 with Liber 75 vel Luciferi, a “conversation” dictated to James Beck, circa 1979.
So who or what is Aiwass? Aiwass is an archetype of what Aleister Crowley labelled “Holy Guardian Angel” and “Silent Self.”
The third verse of the Book of the Law says, “Every man and every woman is a star.” The Book of Codes, chapter 3: verse 8 says, “The stars are thine angels.” So, every man and every woman is their own Holy Guardian Angel. They are their Angel’s mind and body in the world.
The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage prescribes, in the second of three books, a strict regime of study, prayer, and ritual to be carried out in social isolation and sensory deprivation, whose goal is the “Knowledge and Conversation” of your own “Holy Guardian Angel.”
For Aleister Crowley, Aiwass was that Angel, and the writing of Book of the Law was his K&C of HGA.
The “patently absurd” theory of the universe from which the label Holy Guardian Angel comes is Christian.
I call it “Eternal Self” after Aldous Huxley’s Introduction to the 1944 Prabhavananda-Isherwood translation Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God.
At the core of the Perennial Philosophy we find four fundamental doctrines.
[…]
Third: man possesses a double nature, a phenomenal ego and an eternal Self, which is the inner man, the spirit, the spark of divinity within the soul. It is possible for a man, if he so desires, to identify himself with the spirit and therefore with the Divine Ground, which is of the same or like nature with the spirit.
Fourth: man’s life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.
– The Perennial Philosophy, Aldous Huxley, 1944.
Note that “self,” as separate from not-self, is external to the unity that we only point towards with notions such as Holy Guadian Angel, Silent-Self, or Eternal Self. We have to call it something, yet it is so different from regular waking awareness that it is ineffable.
The “thou” in “Do what thou wilt” is your own Holy Guardian Angel, the star that incarnated as you.
When I first read the Book of the Law, it rang bells deep in my unconscious mind, for it spoke in the voice of my own Eternal Self, which had been touring me around the astral planes.
The purpose of Aiwass.com is to make Liber 440 available to reincarnating ΘελημιτεςTelhmites, the Kings and Queens of Thelema.
Love is the law, love under will.
Nemo Pandragon, 2025
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Aiwass, like all Holy Guardian Angels, is androgynous, i.e., non-binary, but is referred to by male pronouns in Liber 440.
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