{"collection":"Ordo Templi Orientis","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_oto_lib64_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_oto_lib64_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_oto_lib64_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/oto/lib64.htm","summary":"Liber Israfel (sub figura LXIV) is a Thelemic ritual text \u2014 a ceremonial script for a speaker performing a magical working before an assembled audience. It belongs to the A\u2234A\u2234 publication system of Aleister Crowley's Thelema tradition, drawing on Hermetic, Egyptian, and Qabalistic currents. The work's core content is an extended invocation of Tahuti (Thoth/Hermes/Mercury/Odin), the Egyptian god of wisdom and language, beginning with a banishing rite and building through escalating declarations of divine identification, in which the speaker progressively claims to embody cosmic forces (\"I am Ra incarnate,\" \"I am Eternal\"). Its distinctive feature is the structural logic of theurgic self-deification: the speaker does not merely petition Tahuti but asserts identity with him, culminating in a command that all spirits become obedient. The ritual closes with a silent \"Lection\" (a teaching whose content is left unspecified by the script itself) followed by a formal dispersal \u2014 suggesting it is a template for a recurring liturgical ceremony rather than a standalone text. It is notably syncretic, equating Egyptian, Greek, Norse, and Hermetic divine names as aspects of a single nameless intelligence, which is characteristic of late 19th/early 20th-century Western esotericism.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Lib64","tradition":"Ordo Templi Orientis","translated_text":null,"word_count":856}