The first edition of this volume (first issued in 1975) introduced a new series of The Equinox as Volume 5 Number 1, released under the auspices of Marcelo Motta, the then Praemonstrator of the A.’. A.’. It is the first book to bear the Imprimatur of the Order since the publication of Liber Aleph in 1962. This is the expanded second edition published in Australia in 1990 by a small group of A.'. A.'. Neophytes and O.T.O. Members under the authority of William Robert Barden, sole surviving Director of the Society O.T.O. at the time of Marcelo Motta’s death. This expanded edition includes more than 170 pages of additional material than that of the first edition. The main focus of this work is LIBER AL VEL LEGIS - THE BOOK OF THE LAW, Aleister Crowley's Initiated text whose doctrine is propounded in 220 verses that are to be the guiding principles of mankind for the next 2000 years. It was communicated in 1904 through Crowley, who continually sought to elucidate the mystery of this Book in all his subsequent works. His major effort, the New Comment, was written in the 1920s. Crowley’s supremely modern point of view in the New Comment has been heightened by Marcelo Motta’s editing, magical value, and other material from the published writings of the A.’. A.’. Motta has himself written an extensive commentary (carefully distinguished by typestyle) that weaves in and through Crowley’s writing with a artistry both provoking and illuminating. This edition is now quite sought after.