Liber AL vel Legis, also known as The Book of the Law, is the central sacred text of Thelema, a spiritual philosophy founded by Aleister Crowley.
It outlines the fundamental principles of Thelema, particularly the central tenet: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."
The name Thelema comes from the book itself, which says that the word of the Law is the Greek thelema, meaning will.
Babalon is a divine feminine figure in Thelema, the spiritual system that Aleister Crowley founded with The Book of the Law in 1904.
Thelema and Western esotericism take the imagery of Babylon and give it a new meaning.
Taking back the imagery of BabylonCrowley's Thelema reads the biblical Babylon through a mystical lens and turns it into Babalon, the Scarlet Woman.
In Thelema the Beast stands for raw energy and divine will.
Thelema sees these qualities as gateways to transcendence, not as moral failures.