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The Equinox Vol. I No I Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:35:18 GMT THE EQUINOX "The Editor will be glad to consider" "contributions and to return such as" "are unacceptable if stamps are enclosed" " for the purpose" THE EQUINOX THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE A ∴ A ∴ THE REVIEW O...
EDITORIAL Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:35:18 GMT EDITORIAL WITH the publication of this REVIEW begins a completely new adventure in the history of mankind. Whatever knowledge may previously have been imputed to men, it has always been fenced in with conditions and restrictions. The time has come to spe...
AN ACCOUNT OF A ∴ A ∴ Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:35:19 GMT AN ACCOUNT OF A ∴ A ∴ FIRST WRITTEN IN THE LANGUAGE OF HIS PERIOD by THE COUNCILLOR VON ECKARTSHAUSEN AND NOW REVISED AND REWRITTEN IN THE UNIVERSAL CIPHER {5} A ∴ A ∴ Official publication in Class C. Issued by Order: D.D.S. 7ų = 4ų O.S.V. ...
LIBER LIBRAE Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:35:19 GMT LIBER LIBRAE SVB FIGVRA XXX {15} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class B. Issued by order: D.D.S. 7ų = 4ų Premonstrator O.S.V. 6ų = 5ų Imperator N.S.F. 5ų = 6ų Cancellarius {16} LIBER LIBRAE SVB FIGVRA XXX O. Learn first --- Oh thou who aspirest unt...
LIBER E. VEL EXERCITIORVM Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:35:20 GMT LIBER E. VEL EXERCITIORVM SVB FIGVRA IX {23} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class B. Issued by order: D.D.S. 7ų = 4ų Premonstrator O.S.V. 6ų = 5ų Imperator N.S.F. 5ų = 6ų Cancellarius {24} LIBER E. VEL EXERCITIORVM SVB FIGVRA IX I It is absolute...
THE WIZARD WAY Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:35:20 GMT THE WIZARD WAY {35} THE WIZARD WAY VELVET soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew Where its ray fell light as dew Lighting up the shimmering veil Maiden pure and aery frail That the spiders wove to hide ...
THE MAGIC GLASSES Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:35:22 GMT THE MAGIC GLASSES * {47} * WEH note: This Frank Harris story reads like a metaphor of Crowley's subsequent career. Biographers, consider the possible impact of this theme on Crowley's attitude to public life. THE MAGIC GLASSES ONE raw November morning,...
THE CHYMICAL JOUSTING OF BROTHER PERARDUA Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:35:22 GMT THE CHYMICAL JOUSTING OF BROTHER PERARDUA WITH THE SEVEN LANCES THAT HE BRAKE {87} {Illustration facing next page: Multi-color lithograph or metal plate resist work, effect like flat watercolors with heavy flat black and metalic overprinting. Colors ...
THE LONELY BRIDE Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:35:22 GMT THE LONELY BRIDE "BLEST among women," they say: I stand Here in the market-place, And the crowd throngs by in this lonely land, Nor stays to heed my face. My head is bowed down with the shame of my thought; Mine eyes grow hot with disgrace...
AT THE FORK OF THE ROADS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:35:23 GMT AT THE FORK OF THE ROADS {99} AT THE FORK OF THE ROADS HYPATIA GAY knocked timidly at the door of Count Swanoff's flat. Hers was a curious mission, to serve the envy of the long lank melancholy unwashed poet whom she loved. Will Bute was not only a poe...
THE MAGICIAN Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:35:23 GMT THE MAGICIAN [TRANSLATED FROM ELIPHAZ LEVI'S VERSION OF THE FAMOUS HYMN] O Lord, deliver me from hell's great fear and gloom! Loose thou my spirit from the larvae of the tomb! I seek them in their dread abodes without affright: On them will I impose my ...
THE SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:35:23 GMT THE SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK: ! AND ? {111} THE SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK: ! AND ? "Expect seven misfortunes from the cripple, and forty-two from the one-eyed man; but when the hunchback comes, say 'Allah our aid.'" ARAB PROVERB I IN...
THE HERMIT Wed, 18 Feb 1998 05:39:10 GMT THE HERMIT AN ATTACK ON BARBERCRAFT AT last an end of all I hoped and feared! Muttered the hermit through his elfin beard. Then what art thou? the evil whisper whirred. I doubt me sorely if the hermit heard. To all God's questions never a word ...
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:35:25 GMT THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING {139} To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some...
THE HERB DANGEROUS Wed, 18 Feb 1998 05:39:02 GMT THE HERB DANGEROUS I. The Pharmacy of Hashish. By E. WHINERAY, M. P. S. II. The Psychology of Hashish. With an attempt at a new classification of the mystic states of mind known to me, with a plea for Scientific Illuminism. By OLIVER HADDO. III. The Po...
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT - JOHN ST. JOHN Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:35:28 GMT SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT JOHN ST. JOHN THE RECORD OF THE MAGICAL RETIREMENT OF G. H. FRATER, O.'. M.'. {1 --- WEH note: The supplement has its own pagination.} {Illustration: BW halftone: In a black border, this is a photograph of a person, presumably Crowley, ...
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The Equinox Vol. I No. II Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:38 GMT THE EQUINOX "The Editor will be glad to consider contributions and to return such as are unacceptable if stamps are enclosed for the purpose" THE EQUINOX THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE A ∴ A ∴ THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC ILLUMINISM An. V VOL. I. NO. I...
EDITORIAL Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:38 GMT EDITORIAL IT is four hundred and seventy-seven years since the trouble in the Monastery. There were assembled many holy men from every part of the civilized world, learned doctors, princes of the Church, bishops, abbots, deans, all the wisdom of the world...
LIBER LIBRAE Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:39 GMT LIBER O VEL MANVS ET SAGITTAE SVB FIGVRA VI A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class B. Imprimatur: D.D.S.Praemonstrator O.S.V.Imperator N.S.F.Cancellarius {Illustration facing page 12: THE SIGNS OF THE GRADES. These are arranged as ten panels: * * * * * * * ...
THE HERB DANGEROUS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:41 GMT THE HERB DANGEROUS PART II THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH BY OLIVER HADDO THE HERB DANGEROUS I "The girders of the soul, which give her breathing, are easy to be unloosed." "Nature teaches us, and the oracles also affirm, that even the evil germ...
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THE GARDEN OF JANUS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:42 GMT THE GARDEN OF JANUS BY ALEISTER CROWLEY THE GARDEN OF JANUS I THE cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above the West, brave hippodrome Whose gladiators shock and shun As the blue night devours them, crest...
REVIEWS (2) Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:42 GMT MODERN ASTROLOGY. Edited by ALAN LEO. Monthly, 6d. 42 Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, E.C. Foremost in the attempt to rehabilitate astrology on modern lines is this well-known monthly magazine. The method indicated is the sound one of accurate observa...
THE DREAM CIRCEAN Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:43 GMT THE DREAM CIRCEAN THE DREAM CIRCEAN I AU "LAPIN AGILE" PERCHED at the junction of two of the steepest little streets in Montmartre shines the "Lapin Agile," a tiny window filled with gleaming bottles, thrilled through by the light behi...
THE LOST SHEPHERD Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:44 GMT THE LOST SHEPHERD I SHE walks among the starry ways, A crimson full-blown rose; Her heart bears all the yesterdays That love from love-dawn knows; Her sunny feet are shod in gold, She swings a censer rare and old --- Her heart the censer that she sways, O...
A HANDBOOK OF GEOMANCY Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:44 GMT A HANDBOOK OF GEOMANCY [THIS MS. is now first printed from the private copies of certain adepts, after careful examination and collation. It is printed for the information of scholars and the instruction of seekers. By the order of the A ∴ A ∴ certain f...
THE ORGAN IN KING'S CHAPEL Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:45 GMT THE ORGAN IN KING'S CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE THEN silence,and the veil of light is raised And darkness seen behind. Now softly sound The Angels' herald-trumpets, calling round Thunders and mighty winds and powers amazed. Now laden with the spirit of man's hand ...
A NOTE ON GENESIS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:45 GMT A NOTE ON GENESIS FROM THE PAPER WRITTEN BY THE V.H. FRA. I.A. 5 Degree = 6 Square {163} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class C. Issued by Order: D.D.S. 7 Degree = 4 Square Praemonstrator O.S.V. 6 Degree = 5 Square Imperator N.S.F. 5 Degree = 6 Square Chancella...
THE FIVE ADORATIONS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:45 GMT THE FIVE ADORATIONS I PRAISE Thee, God, whose rays upstart beneath the Bright and Morning Star: Nowit asali fardh salat assobhi allahu akbar. I praise Thee, God, the fierce and swart; at noon Thou ridest forth to war! Nowit asali fardh salat assohri allah...
ILLUSION D'AMOUREUX Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:46 GMT ILLUSION D'AMOUREUX SHE lay, the gilded lily with geranium lips, in the midst of the flower of night. Kindlier than the moon, her body glowed with more than harvest gold. Fierier than the portent of a double Venus, her green eyes shot forth utmost flames....
THE OPIUM-SMOKER Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:46 GMT THE OPIUM-SMOKER (IN EIGHT FUGUES) I CROWN me with poppy-leaves: sere are the bays. Fling down the myrtle: the myrtle decays. Still be the strife of the strenuous days! Still be thy stridency, Player Pandean! Soothe me the lute; but oh hush to the paean! ...
POSTCARDS TO PROBATIONERS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:47 GMT POSTCARDS TO PROBATIONERS THEOREMS I. The world progresses by virtue of the appearance of Christs (geniuses). II. Christs (geniuses) are men with super-consciousness of the highest order. III. Super-consciousnes of the highest order is obtainable by kno...
THE WILD ASS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:47 GMT THE WILD ASS I THE secret of the House of Set Is hidden in my sevenfold veil; For I am he that doth beget The Rood, and bear the Holy Graal. Yet is my manhood woman-frail, Barren my motherhood. They now Shall men my mystic mountain scale? These ram's-hor...
THE SPHINX AT GIZEH Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:47 GMT THE SPHINX AT GIZEH {205} THE SPHINX AT GIZEH I SAW the other day the Sphinx's painted face. She had painted her face in order to ogle Time. And he has spared no other painted face in all the world but hers. Delilah was younger than she, and Delilah is du...
THE PRIESTESS OF PANORMITA Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:48 GMT THE PRIESTESS OF PANORMITA HEAR me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, joyful endeavour. Hear me, O lily-white goat! O crisp as a thicket of thorns, With a collar of gold for Thy throat, A sc...
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING (CONTENTS) Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:48 GMT THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING BOOK II The Scaffolding of the Temple of SOLOMON THE KING and The ten mighty Supports which are set between the Pillars of Death and Life. That which is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that...
AMONGST THE MERMAIDS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:54 GMT AMONGST THE MERMAIDS AMONGST THE MERMAIDS "WALK up!" he shouted from the tent door. "Walk up! Walk up! and see the marvellous mermaid! Only four sous!" It was at the Gingerbread Fair of Neuilly, and the showman was a squat little fello...
AVE ADONAI Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:54 GMT AVE ADONAI AVE ADONAI PALE as the night that pales In the dawn's pearl-pure pavilion, I wait for thee, with my dove's breast Shuddering, a god its bitter guest --- Have I not gilded my nails And painted my lips with vermilion? Am I not wholly stript Of th...
THE MAN-COVER Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:55 GMT THE MAN-COVER THE MAN-COVER * * We believe the author of this story to be as mad as his characters. --- ED. I THE flesh of the neck was much swollen, the little legs somewhat stiff; the eyes wore a sad and tired expression. ... I am referring to a pigeon...
REVIEWS (3) Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:56 GMT A MODERN READING OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI. BY KATHERINE COLLINS. C.W.Daniel, 1"s". Not bad; might start somebody inquiring how to acquire the Cosmic Consciousness. ARCANA OF NATURE. BY HUDSON TUTTLE. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 6"s"...
STEWED PRUNES AND PRISM Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:56 GMT STEWED PRUNES AND PRISM THE TENNYSON CENTENARY THE judicious may possibly wonder why one should dig so deep into the tumulus of oblivion to rescue (though but for execration) the bones of so very dead a dog as Alfred Tennyson. But the truth is not so near...
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front pages Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:57 GMT THE EQUINOX No. IV. will contain in its 400 pages: VARIOUS OFFICIAL INSTRUCTION of the A ∴ A ∴ THE ELEMENTAL CALLS OF KEYS, WITH THE GREAT WATCH TOWERS OF THE UNIVERSE and their explanation. A complete treatise, fully illustrated, upon the Spirits of th...
The Equinox Vol. I No. III Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:58 GMT THE EQUINOX "The Editor will be glad to consider" "contributions and to return such as" "are unacceptable if stamps are enclosed" " for the purpose" THE EQUINOX THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE A ∴ A ∴ THE REVIEW OF SCIE...
LIBER XIII VEL GRADUUM MONTIS ABIEGNI A SYLLABUS OF THE STEPS UPON THE PATH Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:59 GMT LIBER XIII VEL GRADUUM MONTIS ABIEGNI A SYLLABUS OF THE STEPS UPON THE PATH A.'. A.'. Publication in Class D. Issued by Order: D.D.S. 7ų = 4ų Praemonstrator O.S.V. 6ų = 5ų Imperator N.S.F. 5ų = 6ų Cancellarius 51. Let not the failure and the pain turn a...
AHA! Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:00 GMT AHA AHA! THE SEVENFOLD MYSTERY OF THE INEFFABLE LOVE; THE COMING OF THE LORD IN THE AIR AS KING AND JUDGE OF THIS CORRUPTED WORLD; WHEREIN UNDER THE FORM OF A DISCOURSE BETWEEN MARSYAS AN ADEPT AND OLYMPAS HIS PUPIL THE WHOLE SECRET OF THE WAY OF I...
THE HERB DANGEROUS PART III Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:01 GMT THE HERB DANGEROUS PART III THE POEM OF HASHISH THE POEM OF HASHISH CHAPTER I THE LONGING FOR INFINITY THOSE who know how to observe themselves, and who preserve the memory of their impressions, those who, like Hoffmann, have known how to construct their ...
REVIEWS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:02 GMT REVIEW A BOOK OF MYSTERY AND VISION. By A. E. WAITE. William Rider and Son. 7 s . 6 d . The Introduction. Mr. Waite speaks of a "kind of secret school, or united but incorporate fraternity, which independently of all conventional means of recognition...
AN ORIGIN Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:02 GMT AN ORIGIN I N fire of gold they set them out, The garlanded of old, who comb The Mount of Evil, strong and stout To wrest from Venus' brow the comb. The fiery wind, the web unspun, The nine stars and the circling ...
THE SOUL-HUNTER Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:02 GMT THE SOUL-HUNTER THE SOUL-HUNTER * * Unpublished pages from the diary of Dr. Arthur Lee --- "the Montrouge Vampire." I BOUGHT his body for ten francs. Months before I had bought his soul, bought it for the first glass of the poison ___ the first ...
MADELEINE Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:03 GMT MADELEINE OH, the cool white neck of her: The ivory column: oh, the velvet skin. Little I reck of her Save the curve from breast to chin. Oh, the rising rounded throat, Pain's subtle antidote. To sit and wa...
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING (Part II CONTENTS) Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:03 GMT THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class B. Issued by Order: D.D.S. 7ų = 4ų Praemonstrator O.S.V. 6ų = 5ų Imperator N.S.F. 5ų = 6ų Cancellarius Book II. continued THE SORCERER BOOK I PRACTICAL EVOCATION BOOK II CONSECRATION O...
THE COMING OF APOLLO Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:32 GMT THE COMING OF APOLLO RED roses, O red Roses, Roses afire, aflame, O burgeon that discloses The glory of desire ___ Hush! all the heart of fire Is mingled in Thy name, O roses, roses, roses, Red roses of desire. The golden-shafted sunlight Beats down upon ...
REVIEWS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:32 GMT REVIEWS THE OCCULT REVIEW. Monthly. 7"d."net. Still, as before, the best and brightest of the periodicals dealing with transcendental subjects. It hears all sides and has no axe to grind. C. SELECTED POEMS OF FRANCIS THOMPSON. Fifth thousa...
THE BRIGHTON MYSTERY Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:33 GMT THE BRIGHTON MYSTERY THE mind of the Wise easily shunts to strange speculations before taking again to the main line of severely controlled thoughts. Associations of ideas ___ your name is Harpy. How you do catch unheralded the mortal uncautious! The W...
REVIEWS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:34 GMT REVIEWS THE CLOUD ON THE SANCTUARY. BY COUNCILLOR VON ECKARTSHAUSEN. William Rider and Son. We shall be very sorry if any of our readers misses this little book, a translation from the French translation of the German original into the pretty broken Engl...
THE SHADOWY DILL-WATERS OR MR. SMUDGE THE MEDIUM Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:35 GMT THE SHADOWY DILL-WATERS OR MR. SMUDGE THE MEDIUM "'Tis like the howling of Irish wolves against the moon." "As You Like it." IN our investigation of the trumpery tin Pantheon of Aunt Sallies which our courtesy calls "literary gent...
THE TREASURE HOUSE OF IMAGES Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:36 GMT LIBER DCCCCLXIII "SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT" A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class B Issued by Order of D.D.S. 7ų = 4ų Praemonstrator O.S.V. 6ų = 5ų Imperator N.S.F. 5ų = 6ų Cancellarius LIBER Theta Epsilon Sigma Alpha Upsilon Rho Omicron Upsilon 'Epsilon Io...
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front pages Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:37 GMT THE EQUINOX No. V THE great pressure on our space has made it necessary to hold over much promised matter. It is hoped to include in No. V: VARIOUS OFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS of the A ∴ A ∴ THE ELEMENTAL CALLS OR KEYS, WITH THE GREAT WATCH TOWERS OF THE UNI...
The Equinox Vol. I No IV Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:37 GMT THE EQUINOX "The Editor will be glad to consider" "contributions and to return such as" "are unacceptable if stamps are enclosed" " for the purpose" THE EQUINOX THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE A ∴ A ∴ THE REVIEW OF SCIE...
EDITORIAL Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:38 GMT EDITORIAL WE shall be glad if all subscribers to, and readers of, THE EQUINOX will make themselves personally known to the staff at the offices at 124, Victoria Street. Various meetings are held, lecture given, and experiments carried out, from time to ti...
LIBER III VEL JUGORUM Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:38 GMT LIBER III VEL JVGORVM A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class D. Imprimatur: D.D.S. 7ų = 4ų Praemonstrator O.S.V. 6ų = 5ų Imperator N.S.F. 5ų = 6ų Cancellarius {Illustration facing page 11. "ARATRUM SECURUM" "(Fra ---- after one week avoiding the fi...
LIBER A VEL ARMORUM Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:38 GMT LIBER A VEL ARMORVM SVB FIGVRA CCCCXII A.'. A.'. Publication in Class D. Imprimatur: D.D.S. 7ų = 4ų Praemonstrator O.S.V. 6ų = 5ų Imperator N.S.F. 5ų = 6ų Cancellarius LIBER A VEL ARMORVM SVB FIGVRA CCCCXII " ... the obeah and the wanga; the work of ...
I.NSIT N.ATURAE R.EGINA I.SIS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:39 GMT I.NSIT N.ATURAE R.EGINA I.SIS " (Obtained in invocation, June 9-10, 1910 O.S.) ALL the hot summer I lay in the darkness, Calling on the winds to pass by me and slay me, Slay me with light in the heat of the summer; But the winds had...
REVIEWS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:39 GMT HOW TO KEEP FIT, By C.T.SCHOFIELD, M.D. W. Rider and Sons. 1"s." net. There is a deal of sound sense in this little manual. The author castigates faddists, though to my mind not severely enough. However, I suppose that in this mealy-mouthed ...
MY LADY OF THE BREECHES Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:39 GMT MY LADY OF THE BREECHES A HISTORY --- WITH A VENGEANCE BY GEORGE RAFFALOVICH MY LADY OF THE BREECHES 0 THE FOOL "WOULD you marry me, then?" the widow said. "Yes, of course!" the man replied. "You are a greater fool than I took you...
REVIEWS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:39 GMT CAPTAIN MARGARET. By JOHN MASEFIELD. I bought this book thinking to find a jolly pirate yarn. Instead, in a style recalling now Bart Kennedy now Hall Caine, the meanderings and maunderings of a crew of ill-assorted sexual degenerates. And I wasted seven...
AT BORDJ-AN-NUS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:48:40 GMT AT BORDJ-AN-NUS EL ARABI! El Arabi! Burn in thy brilliance, mine own! O Beautiful! O Barbarous! Seductive as a serpent is That poises head and hood, and makes his body tremble to the drone Of tom-tom and of cymbal wooed by love's assassin sorceries! E...
The Equinox Vol. I No. IV - Lambda Iota Nu Omicron Sigma Iota Sigma Iota Thu, 12 Feb 1998 07:00:28 GMT Delta Omicron Sigma Lambda Iota Nu Omicron Sigma Iota Sigma Iota Delta Omicron Sigma Lo! I lament. Fallen is the sixfold Star: Slain is Asar. O twinned with me in the womb of Night! O son of my bowels to the Lord of Light! O man of mine that hast cove...
The Temple of Solomon the King Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:09:00 GMT THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING IV. THE HERMIT WITH the seventh stage in the Mystical Progress of Frater P. we arrive at a sudden and definite turning-poinjt. During the last two years he had grown strong in the Magic of the West. After having studied a ho...
PAN TO ARTEMIS Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:28 GMT PAN TO ARTEMIS UNCHARMABLE charmer Of Bacchus and Mars In the sounding rebounding Abyss of the stars! O virgin in armour, Thine arrows unsling In the brilliant resilient First rays of the spring! By the force of the fashion Of love, when I broke Through t...
THE INTERPRETER Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:28 GMT {Illustration opposite page 199 described: "The Interpreter." (script lettering at base, credited at lower right "Carl Hentschel Ph. Lc.") This is a monochrome color tinted photo of a female violinist. She stands on a white draped blo...
THE DAUGHTER OF THE HORSELEECH Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:28 GMT THE DAUGHTER OF THE HORSELEECH A FABLE Tria sunt insaturabilia, et quartum, quod nunquam dicit: Sufficit. Infernus, et os vulvae. ... --- Prov. xxx. 16. THE Great White Spirit stretched Himself and yawned. He had done an honest six day's work if ever a m...
THE DREAMER Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:28 GMT THE DREAMER IN the grey dim Dawn where the Souls Unborn May look on the Things to Be; A tremulous Shade, a Thing Unmade, Stood Lost by the silent Sea; And shuddering fought the o'erwhelming thought Of Its own Identity. Is the frenzied form that derides th...
MR. TODD Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:28 GMT MR. TODD A MORALITY BY THE AUTHOR OF "ROSA MUNDI" " ""In Memoriam" LILITH " "Obiit Kal. Mai." 1906 MR. TODD PERSONS OF THE PLAY GRANDFATHER OSSORY (&q...
THE GNOME Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:26 GMT THE GNOME LANTERN-LIGHT is over the fells When the sun has sunken low; Lantern-light and the moorland smells, The rain on the good brown soil. Over the moorland we go, we go, Through the wet earth we toil. ... Sunken, sunken was the sun Ere ever the moon ...
REVIEWS Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:26 GMT REVIEWS DARE TO BE WISE. By JOHN McTAGGART ELLIS McTAGGART Doctor in Letters Fellow and Lecturer of Trinity College in Cambridge, Fellow of the British Academy. Watts and Co., 17 Johnson's Court, Fleet Street, E. C. Price 3"d". Only the Price ...
THE HERB DANGEROUS - PART IV Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:26 GMT THE HERB DANGEROUS PART IV A FEW EXTRACTS FROM H. G. LUDLOW, THE HASHEESH EATER WHICH BEAR UPON THE PECULIAR CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DRUG'S ACTION THE HASHEESH EATER FOR a place, New York for instance, a stranger accounts, not by saying that any one of the...
THE BUDDHIST Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:26 GMT THE BUDDHIST THERE never was a face as fair as yours, A heart as true, a love as pure and keen. These things endure, if anything endures. But, in this jungle, what high heaven immures Us in its silence, the supreme serene Crowning the dagoba, what destine...
THE AGNOSTIC Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:26 GMT THE ANGOSTIC AN Agnostic is one who thinks that he knows everything. VICTOR B. NEUBURG....
THE MANTRA-YOGA Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:26 GMT THE MANTRA-YOGA I How should I seek to make a song for thee When all my music is to moan thy name? That long sad monotone --- the same --- the same --- Matching the mute insatiable sea That throbs with life's bewitching agony, Too long to measure and too ...
THE VIOLINIST Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:26 GMT THE VIOLINIST THE room was cloudy with a poisonous incense: saffron, opoponax, galbanum, musk, and myrrh, the purity of the last ingredient a curse of blasphemy, the final sneer; as a degenerate might insult a Raphael by putting it in a room devoted to ...
EHE! Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:26 GMT EHE! A DROP FROM THE SPONGE OF KNOWLEDGE. a "Characters." SIMPLEX. SIMPLICIOR. SIMPLICISSIMUS. THE MOB OF THE PHILISTINES. SIMPLEX. Behold, O men: a Tree deep-rooted --- A hundred branches from the mighty Trunk, And on each branch a ...
HALF-HOURS WITH FAMOUS MAHATMAS. No. 1 Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:26 GMT HALF-HOURS WITH FAMOUS MAHATMAS. No. 1 YOGI MAHATMA SRI AGAMYA PARAMAHAMSA GURU SWAMIJI is a certain Punjabi lala, who, on account of his tremendous voice and ferocious temper, has well earned for himself the name of The Tiger Mahatma. My first acquainta...
THE THIEF-TAKER Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:26 GMT THE THIEF-TAKER SA‹D JAELLAL UD DIN BEN MESSAOUD Trusted to Allah for his daily food; And so with favour was the Saint anointed That never yet had he been disappointed. One day this pious person wished to shave His head; a sly and sacrilegious knave ...
REVIEWS Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:26 GMT SHELLEY. By FRANCIS THOMPSON. With an Introduction by the Rt. Hon. GEORGE WYNDHAM. Burns and Oates. We would rather not refer to the Rt. Hon. George Wyndham in a paper of this character. Let us deal with Francis Thompson. Had he no friend to burn thi...
THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:26 GMT THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV: DE LA RATIBOISIERE'S ACCOUNT OF THE TYPHLOSOPHISTS OF SOUTH RUSSIA BY J. F. C. FULLER AND GEORGE RAFFALOVICH THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV I "TELL it us! O tell us it!" Elph‚nor Pistouillat de la RatiboisiŠre, the Mas...
MIDSUMMER EVE Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:26 GMT MIDSUMMER EVE FAINT shadows cross the shifting spears of light, Pale gold and amethyst, or warmly white, Till velvet shod, unseen, the wizard hours Hold thus their elfin court amid the flowers, That wake to wingŠd music of the night. And silken signs...
THE POETICAL MEMORY Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:26 GMT THE POETICAL MEMORY AN ESSAY I AM one of those silly people (there are a lot of them --- quite enough to make it pay) who are so irritated at the arrival of a bill that I nearly always throw it on the fire. For all that, I had been humbly proud of my mem...
ADELA Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:24 GMT ADELA Jupiter Mars P Moon VENEZIA, "May" 19"th", 1910. JUPITER'S foursquare blaze of gold and blue Rides on the moon, a lilac conch of pearl, As if the dread god, charioted anew Came conquering, his amazing disk awhirl To war down all ...
THE THREE WORMS Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:24 GMT THE THREE WORMS IN the great vault is a coffin. In the coffin is the corpse of a very beautiful woman. The vault is deep under the ground and very still. Above its bricks is a layer of earth, and if any sound at all percolates into this chamber of deat...
THE FELON FLOWER Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:24 GMT THE FELON FLOWER AS the sighing of souls that are waiting the close of the light, As the passionate kissings of Love in the Forest of Night, As the swish of the wavelets that beat on a cavernless shore, Or the cry of the sea-mew that echoes a moment or mo...
THE BIG STICK Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:24 GMT THE BIG STICK COUNTERPARTS. Vol. XVI of THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE NEW LIFE. An Epitome of the Work and Teaching of Thomas Lake Harris. By RESPIRO. 2"s". 6"d". net. A New Edition. C. W. Pearce and Co., 139, West Regent Street, Glasgow...
GALZIER'S HOUSES Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:24 GMT GLAZIERS' HOUSES: or, THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT I will write him a very taunting letter. --- "As You Like It." IN these latter days, when (too often) a newspaper proprietor is like a Buddhist monk, afraid to scratch his head lest he should incommod...
IN THE TEMPLE Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:24 GMT IN THE TEMPLE THE subtle-souled dim radiant queen Burns like a bale-fire through the mist; The slender earth is bright and green, Emerald, gray and amethyst; The wavering breeze has slowly kissed The way between Her zone and wrist. Pale guardian of the al...
THE HIGH HISTORY OF GOOD SIR PALAMEDES Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:24 GMT "SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT" THE HIGH HISTORY OF GOOD SIR PALAMEDES THE SARACEN KNIGHT AND OF HIS FOLLOWING OF THE QUESTING BEAST 1 BY ALEISTER CROWLEY RIGHTLY SET FORTH IN RIME TO ALLAN BENNETT "Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya" my good knight comrade...
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The Equinox Vol. I No V Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:04 GMT THE EQUINOX "The Editor will be glad to consider" "contributions and to return such as" "are unacceptable if stamps are enclosed" " for the purpose" THE EQUINOX THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE A ∴ A ∴ THE REVIEW OF SCIE...
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LIBER HHH Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:22 GMT LIBER HHH SVB FIGVRA CCCXLI A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class D. Imprimatur: N. Fra A ∴ A ∴ LIBER HHH "Sunt duo modi per quos homo fit Deus: Tohu et Bohu. "Mens quasi flamma surgat, aut quasi puteus aquae quiescat. "Alteri modi sunt tres exe...
THE BLIND PROPHET Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:22 GMT THE BLIND PROPHET A BALLET BY ALEISTER CROWLEY THE BLIND PROPHET A BALLET " "The scene is an ancient Egyptian temple, supported by two mighty pillars. Two" "rows of marble seats form a semi-circle, cut by a gap covered by a veil"...
THE TRAINING OF THE MIND Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:20 GMT THE TRAINING OF THE MIND THE Religion of the Buddhas is, in the most eminent sense of the word, a Practical Philosophy. It is not a collection of dogmas which are to be accepted and believed with an unquestioning and unintelligent faith: but a series of ...
THE SABBATH Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:20 GMT THE SABBATH " ""To A. E. W." OCCULT, forbidden lights Move in the royal rites. Diaphanous, they dance Above the souls in trance That have attained to their untold inheritance. Above the mystic masque, Li...
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:20 GMT THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING A.'. a.'. Publication in Class B. Imprimatur: N. Fra A ∴ A ∴ {Chart approximated} Ś____Ā___________________Ā_______________Ā_________________Ā___________Ā_____æ ³ VI.³ ³ ³ ³ ...
A NOCTURNE Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:18 GMT A NOCTURNE IN the little cleft of the rocks whence life first sprang To birth, by the secret shadowy molten sea, Where Aphrodite sprang to greet the sun, Low voices murmur: shadowy under-world In the void of time; light song of Erebus On the lips of a cou...
THE VIXEN Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:18 GMT THE VIXEN "To and from N. I. L. B. W." PATRICIA FLEMING threw the reins to a groom, and ran up the steps into the great house, her thin lips white with rage. Lord Eyre followed her heavily. "I'll be down in half an hour," she laughed ...
THE PILGRIM Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:18 GMT THE PILGRIM AT the dawn of the bout Of my life I set out For the Palace of Light. At the end of the road I have found an abode In the Tavern of Night. Ever on! ever on! Said the day-star, and shone! Ever on! and above! Said the even-star: rest In the nigh...
MY CRAPULOUS CONTEMPORARIES NO. IV Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:18 GMT MY CRAPULOUS CONTEMPORARIES NO. IV WISDOM WHILE YOU WAITE [The hibernation of A. Quiller, senior, and the approaching marriage of A. Quiller, junior, have prevented either of them from contributing their columns as usual. --- ED.] WISDOM WHILE YOU WAITE T...
X-RAYS ON EX-PROBATIONERS Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:18 GMT X-RAYS ON EX-PROBATIONERS RATS leave sinking ships; but you cannot be sure that a ship will sink because you see a rat running away from it. The captain may have given orders about it. ____________________________ Persecution is like Keating's Powder. I...
THE VAMPIRE Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:18 GMT THE VAMPIRE I DREAM in strange laughterless Mazes; I wake at the set of the sun; All poppied the paean of praise is That lives on the lives it has won. And crimson grow cheeks that are ashen, And gold gleam the locks that are grey, For I live --- and brig...
THE BIG STICK Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:18 GMT THE BIG STICK A DREAMER'S TALES. By LORD DUNSANY. Lord Dunsany's prose is like Baudelaire's. I can only criticise five of these tales; for the others I have not yet read forty times! "Poltarnees" is the best tale ever written of the lure of th...
CORRESPONDENCE Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:16 GMT CORRESPONDENCE "THE PERFECT SHOPKEEPER" 25 OLD BOND STREET, LONDON, W., 11"th Feb. 1911." DEAR SIR, --- I have heard from our Lawyers (to whom you compelled us to go to obtain payment from you) that you have paid "?"6 into co...
LIBER XXX AERUM THE VISION AND THE VOICE Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:16 GMT SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT LIBER XXX AERUM VEL SAECVLI SVB FIGVRA CCCCXVIII BEING OF THE ANGELS OF THE 30 AETHYRS THE VISION AND THE VOICE A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class A B. D.D.S. 7ų = 4 ų Praemonstrator O.S.V. 6ų = 5 ų Imperator N.S.F. 5ų = 6 ų Cancellarius TH...
STOP PRESS REVIEWS Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:07:14 GMT STOP PRESS REVIEWS THE NEW GOD AND OTHER ESSAYS. By RALPH SHIRLEY. These remarkable essays have much of the depth and lucidity of Huxley, with a greater power of sustaining the interest of the casual reader. Mr. Shirley has the gift of bringing life int...

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LIBER TVRRIS VEL DOMVS DEI Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:15 GMT LIBER TVRRIS VEL DOMVS DEI SUB FIGVRA XVI A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class B. Imprimatur: N. Fra A ∴ A ∴ LIBER TVRRIS VEL DOMVS DEI SUB FIGVRA XVI 0. This practice is very difficult. The student cannot hope for much success unless he have thoroughly mas...
LIBER TZADDI VEL HAMVS HERMETICVS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:15 GMT LIBER TZADDI vel HAMVS HERMETICVS SVB FIGVRA XC {17} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class A. Imprimatur: N. Fra A ∴ A ∴ LIBER TZADDI vel HAMVS HERMETICVS SVB FIGVRA XC 0. In the name of the Lord of Initiation, Amen. 1. I fly and I alight as an hawk: of moth...
LIBER CHETH VEL VALLVM ABIEGNI Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:15 GMT LIBER CHETH VEL VALLVM ABIEGNI SVB FIGVRA CLVI {23} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class A. Imprimatur: N. Fra A ∴ A ∴ LIBER CHETH VEL VALLUM ABIEGNI SVB FIGVRA CLVI 1. This is the secret of the Holy Graal, that is the sacred vessel of our Lady the Scarlet W...
LIBER RESH VEL HELIOS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:16 GMT LIBER RESH VEL HELIOS SVB FIGVRA CC {29} A.'. A.'. Publication in Class D. Imprimatur: N. Fra A ∴ A ∴ LIBER RESH VEL HELIOS. SVB FIGVRA CC 0. These are the adorations to be performed by all aspirants to the A ∴ A ∴ 1. Let him greet the Sun at dawn, f...
LIBER A'ASH VEL CAPRICORNI PNEVMATICI Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:16 GMT LIBER A'ASH VEL CAPRICORNI PNEVMATICI SVB FIGVRA CCCLXX {33} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class A. Imprimatur: N. Fra A ∴ A ∴ LIBER A'ASH VEL CAPRICORNI PNEVMATICI SVB FIGVRA CCCLXX 0. Gnarled Oak of God! In thy branches is the lightning nested! Above thee ...
THREE POEMS FOR JANE CHERON Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:16 GMT THREE POEMS FOR JANE CHERON {41} THREE POEMS FOR JANE CHERON I THE WAIF OF OCEANUS "TO FRANK HARRIS" SHE is like a flower washed up On the shore of life by the sea of luck; A strange and venomous flower, intent To prove an unguessed continent. ...
CIRCE Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:16 GMT CIRCE HER mouth a rosebud of delight, Low-laughing 'mid the languid curls, Whose kissing cadence seems to cite The rhythmic melody of Night. Her hair a saraband where whirls A wanton witch, whose perfumes smite The shuddering air; a summer night Wh...
THE ELECTRIC SILENCE Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:17 GMT THE ELECTRIC SILENCE {53} THE ELECTRIC SILENCE [This parable is a synopsis of The Temple of Solomon the King, with which it may be collated. --- ED.]. I WAITED for news that my heart beat. The severing night was between me and my love. There was no god ...
SONG Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:17 GMT SONG COME, Love awaken! O'er the wild salt sea, Shadows strange-shapen whirl themselves and flee As eddying mist, by storm winds overtaken, And sunbeams kissed --- the shafts all curled and shaken In shuddering ecstasy! Come, Love, nor list to tired dream...
THE SCORPION Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:18 GMT THE SCORPION A TRAGEDY IN THREE ACTS BY ALEISTER CROWLEY "God is Love." --- Epistles of St John. {67} To GR:Alpha-Gamma-Alpha-Theta-Alpha in memory of the Hour of Initiation, and to Lampada Tradam and Mohammed ibn Rahman in memory of our wanderi...
THE EARTH Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:19 GMT THE EARTH THE child of miracle to the world, greeting. I reach my hands to the leaves and dabble in the dew: I sprinkle dew on you for kisses. I kneel down and hold the grass of the black earth to my bosom; I crush the earth to my lips as if it were a gra...
SLEEP Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:19 GMT SLEEP Along the silver pathways of the moon, (With lilies strewn to mark her passing hours) A mighty goddess strays. Her rapt eyes gaze in calm undying swoon, Like stars in June that guard earth's sleeping flowers, The guests of summer days. Moving she pl...
THE ORDEAL OF IDA PENDRAGON Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:21 GMT THE ORDEAL OF IDA PENDRAGON {113} THE ORDEAL OF IDA PENDRAGON "TO I, J, AND K" I THE RED HOUR THERE was myrrh in the honey of the smile with which Edgar Rolles turned from the fasade of the Pantheon. "Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaiss...
THE AUTUMN WOODS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:21 GMT THE AUTUMN WOODS. The eye of Fate is closed; the olden doom Lies in the wrack of things. There is no sigh; Only the wind cries through the lonely woods, And the barren motherhood of the world is manifest Shamelessly; in the dank, pale Autumn woods The fal...
THE DANGERS OF MYSTICISM Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:22 GMT THE DANGERS OF MYSTICISM "AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE" A CURIOUS idea is being sedulously disseminated, and appears to be gaining ground, that mysticism is the "Safe" Path to the Highest, and magic the dangerous Pa...
REVIEWS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:23 GMT REVIEWS THE BIG STICK THE DWELLER ON THE THRESHOLD. ROBERT HICHENS. Methuen. 6"s." Mr Hichens once wrote "Flames." This was a pretty powerful book. To-day (tempted, as I suppose, by a heavy bribe, for he is an artist in his way) he giv...
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:26 GMT "SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT" NOTE The Rites were written and produced by ALEISTER CROWLEY except parts of the Rites of Mars and of Mercury which were written by an adept who wishes to remain anonymous. --------- The solos were chosen from her repertoire...
back pages Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:27 GMT KONX OM PAX THE MOST REMARKABLE TREATISE ON THE MYSTIC PATH EVER WRITTEN Contains an Introduction and Four Essays; the first an account of the progress of the soul to perfect illumination, under the guise of a charming fairy tale; The second, an Essay on ...

front pages Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:28 GMT READY SHORTLY ALEISTER CROWLEY'S New Masterpiece MORTADELLO or, The Angel of Venice A PLAY IN FIVE ACTS Write for Particulars to the Office of this Magazine {Illustrations described on two folio sheets preceding commencement of all text other than insid...
The Equinox Vol. I No. VII Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:28 GMT THE EQUINOX "The Editor will be glad to consider" "contributions and to return such as" "are unacceptable if stamps are enclosed" " for the purpose" THE EQUINOX THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE A ∴ A ∴ THE REVIEW OF SCIE...
EDITORIAL Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:29 GMT EDITORIAL It is with no light heart that I take the reins of the government of this magazine from the hand of our beloved Editor, Aleister Crowley, a reproduction of whose portrait by Augustus John faces this page. For this Seventh Number of the EQUINOX ...
LIBER B VEL MAGI Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:30 GMT LIBER B VEL MAGI SVB FIGVRA I {5} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class B. Imprimatur: N. Fra A ∴ A ∴ LIBER B VEL MAGI SVB FIGVRA I 00. One is the Magus: twain His forces; four His weapons. These are the Seven Spirits of Unrighteousness; seven vultures ...
LIBER NV Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:30 GMT LIBER NV SVB FIGVRA XI {11} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class D (for Winners of the Ordeal X.) Imprimatur: {three flags/axes meaning "Neteru"}... V.V.V.V.V. ... N. Fra A ∴ A ∴ O.M. 7 Degree = 4Square LIBER NV SVB FIGVRA XI 000. This is the Book...
LIBER ISRAFEL Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:30 GMT LIBER ISRAFEL SVB FIGVRA LXIV {21} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class B. Imprimatur: N. Fra A ∴ A ∴ LIBER ISRAFEL SVB FIGVRA LXIV [This book was formerly called "Anubis," and is referred to the 20th key, "The Angel."] 0. The Temple be...
LIBER STELLAE RUBEAE Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:31 GMT LIBER STELLAE RUBEAE A secret ritual of Apep, the Heart of IAO-OAI, delivered unto V.V.V.V.V. for his use in a certain matter of Liber Legis, and written down under the figure LXVI {29} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class A. Imprimatur: N. Fra A ∴ A ∴ LIBER...
LIBER ASTARTE VEL BERYLLI Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:32 GMT ASTARTE VEL LIBER BERYLLI SVB FIGVRA CLXXV {37} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class B. Imprimatur: N. Fra A ∴ A ∴ LIBER ASTARTE VEL BERYLLI SVB FIGVRA CLXXV 0. This is the Book of Uniting Himself to a particular Deity by devotion. Considerations before the...
LIBER RV VEL SPIRITVS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:32 GMT LIBER RV VEL SPIRITVS SVB FIGVRA CCVI {59} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class B. Imprimatur: N. Fra A ∴ A ∴ LIBER RV VEL SPIRITVS SVB FIGVRA CCVI {Note no item 1 is shown} Let the Zelator observe the current of his breath. Let him investigate the follow...
LIBER ARCANORVM ATV QUAS VIDIT ASAR IN AMENNTI Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:33 GMT LIBER LIBER ARCANORVM tau-omega-nu CARCERORVM tau-omega-nu ATV tau-omega-nu TAHVTI QLIPHOTH QUAS VIDIT CVM SVIS ASAR IN GENIIS AMENNTI SVB FIGVRA ADDVNTVR SIGILLA ET C...
LIBER TAV VEL KABBALAE TRIVUM LITERARUM Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:34 GMT LIBER TAV VEL KABBALAE TRIVM LITERARUM SVB FIGVRA CD {75} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class A. Imprimatur: N. Fra A ∴ A ∴ {Illustration on the facing page partly represented and partly described: "LIBER [KABBALAE TRIUM LITERARUM.] Taw SVB FIGVRA CD&...
LIBER OS ABYSMI Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:34 GMT LIBER OS ABYSMI VEL DAATH SVB FIGVRA CDLXXIV {77} A.'. A.'. Publication in Class B. Imprimatur: N. Fra A ∴ A ∴ LIBER OS ABYSMI VEL DAATH SVB FIGVRA CDLXXIV This book is the Gate of the Secret of the Universe. Let the Exempt Adept procure the Prolegom...
LIBER HAD Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:35 GMT LIBER H A D SVB FIGVRA DLV {83} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class D (for Winners of the Ordeal X.) Imprimatur: {three flags/axes meaning "Neteru"}... V.V.V.V.V. ... N. Fra A ∴ A ∴ O.M. 7 Degree = 4Square. LIBER H A D SVB FIGVRA DLV 000. This is ...
LIBER TAV Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:35 GMT LIBER TAV SVB FIGVRA DCCCXXXI {93} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class B. Imprimatur: N. Fra A ∴ A ∴ LIBER TAV SVB FIGVRA DCCCXXXI (This book was formerly called Vesta. It is referred to the path of Virgo and the letter Yod.) I. This is the Book of drawing...
LIBER VIARVM VIAE Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:35 GMT LIBER VIARVM VIAE SVB FIGVRA DCCCLXVIII {101} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class B. Imprimatur: N. Fra A ∴ A ∴ LIBER VIARVM VIAE SVB FIGVRA DCCCLXVIII {WEH NOTE: In the following, some text is vertical. These sections of text will be presented by curly br...
LIBER ThIShARB Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:36 GMT LIBER Taw-Yod-Shin-Aleph-Resh-Bet (ThIShARB) VIAE MEMORIAE SVB FIGVRA CMXIII {105} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class B. Imprimatur: N. Fra A.'. A.'. LIBER Taw-Yod-Shin-Aleph-Resh-Bet VIAE MEMORIAE SVB FIGVRA CMXIII 000. May be. [00. It has not been possib...
ADONIS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:38 GMT ADONIS AN ALLEGORY BY ALEISTER CROWLEY Inscribed to Adonis. {117} {Robin note: perhaps someone would like to do a better job of formatting this for HTML. For now it is presented preformatted.} PERSONS OF THE ALLEGORY THE KING OF BABYLON, "tributary...
THE GHOULS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:38 GMT THE GHOULS CROQUIS DE CROQUE-MITAINE PAR ALEISTER CROWLEY To Gwendolen Otter {159} {Robin note: perhaps someone would like to do a better job of formatting this for HTML. For now it is presented preformatted.} PERSONS OF THE PLAY STANISLAS WASKA, "...
THE FOUR WINDS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:39 GMT THE FOUR WINDS THE South wind said to the palms: My lovers sing me psalms; But are they as warm as those That Laylah's lover knows? The North wind said to the firs: I have my worshippers; But are they as keen as hers? The East wind said to the ceda...
INDEPENDENCE Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:39 GMT INDEPENDENCE COME to my arms --- is it eve? is it morn? Is Apollo awake? Is Diana reborn? Are the streams in full song? Do the woods whisper hush Is it the nightingale? Is it the thrush? Is it the smile of the autumn, the blush Of the spring? Is the ...
SNOWSTORM Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:40 GMT SNOWSTORM A TRAGEDY BY ALEISTER CROWLEY. {183} {Robin note: perhaps someone would like to do a better job of formatting this for HTML. For now it is presented preformatted.} PERSONS REPRESENTED IN THE PROLOGUE HERMANN, "an Old Woodcutter" GRIZE...
A BRIEF ABSTRACT OF THE SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF THE UNIVERSE Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:42 GMT A BRIEF ABSTRACT OF THE SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF THE UNIVERSE DERIVED BY DOCTOR JOHN DEE THROUGH THE SKRYING OF SIR EDWARD KELLY {229} {Robin note: perhaps someone would like to do a better job of formatting this for HTML. For now it is presented most...
APOLLO BESTOWS THE VIOLIN Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:42 GMT APOLLO BESTOWS THE VIOLIN A STORY FOR THE STAGE I THE pastureland reached from the border of the olives and figs that garlanded the village to the upper slopes of the mountain, whose tumbled rocks, fire-scarred, frowned the menace of eternal sterility, th...
DIANA OF THE INLET Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:43 GMT DIANA OF THE INLET BY KATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARD Far already thy wild eyes Unlock my heart-strings as some crystal shaft Reveals by some chance blaze its parent fount After long time, so thou reveal'st my soul. BROWNING. {249} DIANA OF THE INLET {WEH N...
SILENCE Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:43 GMT SILENCE AMID the thunder of the rolling spheres, Herself unchanged despite the changing years, She stands supreme, alone. With trembling hands tight pressed to rigid ears, Deaf to all prayers, and hopes, and human tears, One voiceless Horror -- louder tha...
MEMORY OF LOVE Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:43 GMT MEMORY OF LOVE O DREAD Desire of Love! O lips and eyes! O image of the love that never dies, But, fed by furtive fire, rages most When Hope and Faith have been for ever lost! O oft-kissed lips and soul-remembered eyes, O stricken heart -- the old love nev...
ACROSS THE GULF Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:50:45 GMT ACROSS THE GULF {293} CHAPTER I AT last the matter comes back into my mind. It is now five years since I discovered my "stele" at Bulak, but not until I obtained certain initiation in the city of Benares last year did the memory of my life in ...
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING (Continued) Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:12:57 GMT THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING (Continued) [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING ("Continued") {355} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class B. Imprimatur: N. FrA ∴ A ∴ A.'. THE...
MY CRAPULOUS CONTEMPORARIES NO. V Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:12:57 GMT MY CRAPULOUS CONTEMPORARIES NO. V [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] MY CRAPULOUS CONTEMPORARIES NO. V THE BISMARCK OF BATTERSEA {401} THE BISMARCK OF BATTERSEA DANTE perhaps thought when he descended the fif...
ARTHUR IN THE AREA AGAIN! Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:12:57 GMT ARTHUR IN THE AREA AGAIN! [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] ARTHUR IN THE AREA AGAIN! Oh, Allah be obeyed! How infernally they played! I remember that they called themselves the Waites. "W. S. Gilbert.&...
THE BIG STICK Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:12:58 GMT THE BIG STICK [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] THE BIG STICK {411} REVIEWS THE SECRET TRADITION IN FREEMASONRY. By A. E. WAITE. London. 2 vols, 4to. 1911. 42"s." This is a work of over 900 pag...
A BIRTHDAY Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:12:58 GMT A BIRTHDAY [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] A BIRTHDAY "Aug." 10, 1911. FULL moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! A year of infinite love unwe...
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The Equinox Vol. I No. VIII Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:00 GMT The Equinox Vol. I No. VIII [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] THE EQUINOX THE EQUINOX THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE A ∴ A ∴ THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC ILLUMINISM EDITED BY SOROR VIRAKAM SUB-EDITOR: FRA. LAMPADA ...
EDITORIAL Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:00 GMT EDITORIAL [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] EDITORIAL LOVE! Dear Readers, have you ever thought what a wonderful thing love is? What would life be without love? A desert! There would be no true happiness wi...
A TONE-TESTAMENT Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:01 GMT A TONE-TESTAMENT [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] A TONE-TESTAMENT BY LEILA WADDELL {xxvii} HOMAGE PRELIMINARY LIFE that is lost in dullard Dreams of the senses, go! Life, by the soul fair-coloured, Thy v...
THREE POEMS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:01 GMT THREE POEMS [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] THREE POEMS THREE POEMS {xxxvii} THE WAY PALE yellow moon, and pale green grass, Oh, have ye seen Diana pass? And are ye pale for longing or love, Palest green ...
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:03 GMT THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING {5} THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING THE BABE It was about a fortnight after the writing of "Liber Legis&quo...
HIS SECRET SIN Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:03 GMT HIS SECRET SIN [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] HIS SECRET SIN INSCRIBED ADMIRINGLY TO ALEXANDER COOTE HIS SECRET SIN "Inscribed admiringly to Alexander Coote." THEODORE BUGG had made England what...
LONG ODDS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:03 GMT LONG ODDS [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] LONG ODDS How many million galaxies there are Who knows? and each has countless stars in it, And each rolls through eternities afar Beneath the threshold of the In...
DOCTOR BOB Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:04 GMT DOCTOR BOB [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] DOCTOR BOB A SKETCH BY MARY D'ESTE and ALEISTER CROWLEY PERSONS OF THE SKETCH DOCTOR ROBERTS ("Doctor Bob") MRS. ROBERTS, "His wife" DOCTOR ...
THE WOODCUTTER Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:04 GMT THE WOODCUTTER [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] {79} THE WOODCUTTER PLACIDE GERVEZ was a woodcutter, like his father and grandfather before him. It is to be supposed that Nature was weary of the procession...
LA FOIRE I Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:04 GMT LA FOIRE I [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] LA FOIRE. I. La Geante. Ah! je suis fou d'amour pour la grasse geante, Du rire sardonique et des regards hautains, Demangeaisons de l'ame et cancere des reins! ...
PROFESSOR ZIRCON Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:05 GMT PROFESSOR ZIRCON [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] PROFESSOR ZIRCON MURIEL MADDOX was a blonde frail piquant thing, a fluffy baby of nineteen easy summers. But she was a hard-working orphan, too, with no rel...
A BRIEF ABSTRACT OF THE SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF THE UNIVERSE Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:06 GMT A BRIEF ABSTRACT OF THE SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF THE UNIVERSE [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] A BRIEF ABSTRACT OF THE SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF THE UNIVERSE DERIVED BY DOCTOR JOHN DEE THROUGH THE SKRYIN...
STEPNEY Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:06 GMT STEPNEY [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] STEPNEY "(Audi alteram partem)" LEONIDAS had hundreds to hold Thermopylae; So had good Sir Richard Grenville, the tiger of the sea Horatius had two comrade...
THE TELL TALE HEART Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:06 GMT THE TELL TALE HEART [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] THE TELL-TALE HEART ADAPTED FROM THE STORY OF E. A. POE BY ALEISTER CROWLEY {131} PERSONS OF THE PLAY JACK ADAMS, a youth (of some 30 years) MARTIN M...
SORITES Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:07 GMT SORITES [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] SORITES MY finger-nails grow on my fingers, and My fingers are fixed firmly to my hand. It is my hand that terminates my arm, And that sticks to my shoulder like a c...
A DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:09 GMT A DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] A DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT WITH THEIR ATTRIBUTIONS; INCLUDING A METHOD OF DIVINATION BY THEIR USE "All divination ...
ON-ON-POET Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:09 GMT ON-ON-POET [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] ON--ON--"POET" I to the open road, You to the hunchbacked street -- Which of us two Shall the earlier rue That day we chanced to meet? I with a heart th...
ELDER EEL Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:10 GMT ELDER EEL [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] ELDER EEL A SKETCH BY ALEISTER CROWLEY "To" "Tom Bond Bishop" PERSONS OF THE SKETCH MR. MEEK, "the Minister" MR. DOSE, "the Doct...
THE SPADGER Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:10 GMT THE SPADGER [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] THE SPADGER BY JOHN MASEFIELD, JUNIOR (No relation to the immortal poet of that name) DEDICATED GRATEFULLY TO MR. AUSTIN HARRISON There was a ...
TO PERSIS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:10 GMT TO PERSIS [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] TO PERSIS I CHILD --- forgive me if I call thee child --- The weight of my mortality in years, I reckon not, but tribulations wild, With stormy battle, stress of l...
WAITE'S WET Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:11 GMT WAITE'S WET [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] WAITE'S WET OR THE BACKSLIDER'S RETURN "All things come to him who Waites." "I waited patiently on the Lord; and He inclined unto me, and heard my...
MY CRAPULOUS CONTEMPORARIES NO. VI Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:11 GMT MY CRAPULOUS CONTEMPORARIES NO. VI [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] MY CRAPULOUS CONTEMPORARIES NO. VI AN OBITUARY {243} AN OBITUARY PHILOSOPHERS have always erred by generalizing from too few facts. Into ...
THE NEW EVELYN HOPE Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:11 GMT THE NEW EVELYN HOPE [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] THE NEW EVELYN HOPE I BEAUTIFUL Evelyn Hope is dead! Sit and watch by her side an hour This is her bookshelf by her bed; Nietzsche, Weininger, Schopenhau...
SEPHER SEPHIROTH Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:20 GMT SEPHER SEPHIROTH [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] SEPHER SEPHIROTH SVB FIGVRA D (GR:omicron-alpha-rho-iota-theta-nu-omicron-sigma) A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class B Imprimatur: N. Fra. A ∴ A ∴ PREFACE CAN ...
The Equinox Vol. I No. VIII - REVIEWS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:21 GMT REVIEWS [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] REVIEWS MY PSYCHIC RECOLLECTIONS. By MARY DAVIES. 2"s." 6"d." net. Nveleigh Nash, 36 King Street, Covent Garden, W.C. JUST when I had given up hope, Mary Davies co...

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The Equinox Vol. I No. IX Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:22 GMT The Equinox Vol. I No IX [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] THE EQUINOX THE EQUINOX THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE A ∴ A ∴ THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC ILLUMINISM EDITED BY SOROR VIRAKAM SUB-EDITOR: FRA. LAMPADA TRA...
EDITORIAL Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:22 GMT EDITORIAL [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] EDITORIAL WITH the issue of the next Number in September, the present series of the "Equinox" will close until March 1918, O.S., and no further open pron...
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:23 GMT THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING {1} THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING THE POET WE left Frater P. at the end of 1906, acknowledged and admitted a M...
LINES TO A YOUNG LADY VIOLINIST Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:23 GMT LINES TO A YOUNG LADY VIOLINIST [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] LINES TO A YOUNG LADY VIOLINIST ON HER PLAYING IN A GREEN DRESS DESIGNED BY THE AUTHOR HER dress clings like a snake of emerald And gold and ...
ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:24 GMT ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM {17} ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM A NOTE ON THEURGY I I A O the supreme One of the Gnostics, the true God, is the Lord of this work. Let u...
THE "TITANIC" Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:24 GMT THE "TITANIC" [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] THE "TITANIC" FORTH flashed the serpent streak of steel, Consummate crown of man's device; Down crashed upon an immobile And brainless barr...
A LITERATOORALOORAL TREASURE-TROVE Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:25 GMT A LITERATOORALOORAL TREASURE-TROVE [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] A LITERATOORALOORAL TREASURE-TROVE A LITERATOORALOORAL TREASURE-TROVE THE happiest of literary discoveries would presumably be the complet...
THRENODY Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:25 GMT THRENODY [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] THRENODY POETS die because they find Words too petty to express All the things they have in mind. Rime and rhythm only dress All their naked loveliness. Poets die b...
DISCHMATAL BY NIGHT Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:25 GMT DISCHMATAL BY NIGHT [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] DISCHMATAL BY NIGHT THERE is a dirge of cataracts that fall Far far away up in the shadowed glen. A faint wind moans among the pines, and then Shudders a...
A QUACK PAINTER Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:26 GMT A QUACK PAINTER [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] A QUACK PAINTER A QUACK PAINTER ALGERNON AGRIPPA DOOLEY was the Only-begotten Son of the Reverend Archibald Agrippa Dooley. The unusual capitals are intende...
AT SEA Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:26 GMT AT SEA [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] AT SEA AS night hath stars, more rare than ships In ocean, faint from pole to pole, So all the wonder of her lips Hints her innavigable soul. Such lights she gives as...
CANCER? Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:27 GMT CANCER? [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] CANCER? CANCER? A STUDY IN NERVES > BERTIE BERNARD, Societaire of the Salon des Beaux Arts, and officer of the Legion d'Honneur, looked at the world from the wind...
DUMB! Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:27 GMT DUMB! [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] DUMB! GABRIEL whispered in mine ear His archangelic poesie. How can I write? I only hear The sobbing murmur of the sea. Raphael breathed and bade me pass His rapt eva...
THE VITRIOL-THROWER Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:27 GMT THE VITRIOL-THROWER [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] THE VITRIOL-THROWER "To" "Kathleen Scott." THE VITRIOL-THROWER THE Boulevard Edgar Quinet is convenient for life and death. There is...
THE FAIRY FIDDLER Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:28 GMT THE FAIRY FIDDLER [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] THE FAIRY FIDDLER AWAY in the misty moorland glen Where the Elf-Folk dance with the Wee Brown Men, And the rowan-berry burns haughtily As she tells of the ...
AN EVOCATION OF BARTZABEL Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:28 GMT AN EVOCATION OF BARTZABEL [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] AN EVOCATION OF BARTZABEL THE SPIRIT OF MARS AN EVOCATION OF BARTZABEL THE SPIRIT OF MARS THE FORMULAE OF THE MAGICK OF LIGHT, let them be puissant...
THE TESTAMENT OF MAGDALEN BLAIR Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:29 GMT THE TESTAMENT OF MAGDALEN BLAIR [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] THE TESTAMENT OF MAGDALEN BLAIR "To" "My Mother" THE TESTAMENT OF MAGDALEN BLAIR Part I I IN my third term at Newnham I w...
ERCILDOUNE Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:32 GMT ERCILDOUNE [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] ERCILDOUNE A NOVEL > BY ALEISTER CROWLEY "A Red Star and a Waning Moon Rede me this true rune; A Gray Sun and a bastard loon Ding doun Ercildoune." {...
ATHANASIUS CONTRA DECANUM Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:32 GMT ATHANASIUS CONTRA DECANUM [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] ATHANASIUS CONTRA DECANUM {259} ATHANASIUS CONTRA DECANUM [To comfort him with the thought that a Dean may be damned without being a liar and sland...
MY CRAPULOUS CONTEMPORARIES NO. VII Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:32 GMT MY CRAPULOUS CONTEMPORARIES NO. VII [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] MY CRAPULOUS CONTEMPORARIES NO. VII A GALAHAD IN GOMORRAH {269} A GALAHAD IN GOMORRAH IT is very fortunate that even in times when the gr...
HOW I BECAME A FAMOUS MOUNTAINEER Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:33 GMT HOW I BECAME A FAMOUS MOUNTAINEER [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] HOW I BECAME A FAMOUS MOUNTAINEER BY PERCY W. NEWLANDS, P.R.A.S, P.R.B.S., P.R.C.S., . . . . . . . . . . . . P.R.Y.S., P.R.Z.S., ETC., ETC....
THE TANGO Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:34 GMT THE TANGO [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] THE TANGO A SKETCH BY MARY D'ESTE AND ALEISTER CROWLEY {295} PERSONS OF THE PLAY FISCHER, "proprietor of a night cafe in Paris" PAUL, "a young man a...
THE BIG STICK Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:35 GMT THE BIG STICK [ Back ] [ Home ] [ Up ] THE BIG STICK {307} REVIEWS SCIENCE AND THE INFINITE. By SYDNEY E. KLEIN. William Rider & Son. WILLIAM RIDER and SON have moved from Aldersgate Street to Paternoster Row, but...

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The Equinox Vol. I No X Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:35:30 GMT THE EQUINOX {Illustration facing title page (Frontispiece) described: This is a photograph, full frontal head and part shoulders to upper chest of Crowley. He is bald, stares firmly forward and his mouth is a closed straight line. He wears a loose bow-tie...
EDITORIAL Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:35:30 GMT EDITORIAL THE Organ of the O.T.O. --- the ORIFLAMME, will now pass under the Editorship of Brother Crowley. In future it will appear regularly on the 1st of every month, beginning in January 1914. It will also be the official organ of the Antient and Pr...
LIBER L. VEL LEGIS Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:35:31 GMT {Description of decorative title page --- on page 9: This is vertical and rectangular, thick black border on the outside, white within that, then narrow black and within a white separator for the sub- elements of the design. Innermost is a white vertical...
LIBER BATRACHOPHRENOBOOCOSMOMACHIA Thu, 19 Feb 1998 03:35:31 GMT LIBER BATRACHOPHRENO- BOOCOSMOMACHIA SUB FIGURA DXXXVI {35} A ∴ A ∴ Publication in Class B Imprimatur: N. Fra. A ∴ A ∴ LIBER BATRACHOPHRENO- BOOCOSMOMACHIA SUB FIGURA DXXXVI Within His skull exists daily thirteen thousand myriads of Worlds, which draw...
A SYLLABUS OF THE OFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS OF A.'.A.'. Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:19 GMT A SYLLABUS OF THE OFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS OF A ∴ A ∴ HITHERTO PUBLISHED {41} A SYLLABUS OF THE OFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS OF A ∴ A ∴ HITHERTO PUBLISHED THE publications of the A ∴ A ∴ divide themselves into four classes. Class "A" consists of boo...
THE SHIP Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:20 GMT THE SHIP A MYSTERY PLAY BY SAINT EDWARD ALEISTER CROWLEY, 33 Degree, 90 Degree, 96 Degree, X Degree P.G.M., U.S.A., etc. etc. etc. "To" "Theodor Reuss" {57} PERSONS OF THE MYSTERY JULIA, "a priestess" JOANNA, "a virgin&q...
AS IN A GLASS, DARKLY Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:20 GMT AS IN A GLASS, DARKLY THERE is a silent wood, where swart flowers lift Insolent heads in purple savagery, Sullenly brooding by a soundless sea. There the drugged winds for ever change and shift, Charged with barbaric incenses that sift Languid with sleep ...
TWO FRAGMENTS OF RITUAL Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:21 GMT TWO FRAGMENTS OF RITUAL [Translated by Fra. GR:Kappa. GR:Phi. IX Degree. from a German MS. said to have been found among the papers of Weishaupt. It by no means appears that the fragments pertain to the Illuminati; Weishaupt's MS. was probably a mere t...
THE DISCIPLES Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:21 GMT THE DISCIPLES "To Lionel Engers-Kennedy: to the memory of Hargrave Jennings: and" "to A. C. W. G. and H. E. H." BENEATH the vine tree and the fig Where mortal cares may not intrude, On melon and on sucking pig Although their brains are...
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:22 GMT THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING {Illustrated page described: This page facing page 95 is quartered and bordered by solid black lines into four British-style astrological charts. These are represented below in the sequence top left, top right, bottom left ...
ROSA IGNOTA Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:24 GMT ROSA IGNOTA A POEM FOR PILGRIMS BY VICTOR B. NEUBURG GR:Beta-alpha-iota-alpha mu-epsilon-nu, alpha-lambda-lambda-alpha rho-omicron-delta-alpha. "There is no Samadhi without Sila." --- BUDDHA. ROSAE VERAE SEMPER QUAE VIVIT ET DILIGET {129} I SEAR...
THE GAME OF CROWLEY Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:24 GMT THE GAME OF CROWLEY [IT is claimed for this game that it is simpler and more exciting than baccarat, and the author conceives that by its invention he confers a boon on humanity not less than that of the steam-engine.] The game of Crowley is played by any...
BOO TO BUDDHA! Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:25 GMT BOO TO BUDDHA! SO it is eighteen years, Helena, since we met! A season so endears, Nor you nor I forget The fresh young faces that once clove In that most fiery dawn of love. We wandered to and fro, Who knew not how to woo, Those eighteen years ago, Sweet...
CROWLEY POOL Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:25 GMT CROWLEY POOL [THIS pool will be found superior to the "Calcutta Sweep" usually held on steamers.] 1. A pack of cards is shuffled, cut, and sealed up by the purser, or other disinterested party. 2. Tickets are bought, and numbers drawn as usual. ...
HYMN TO SATAN Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:25 GMT HYMN TO SATAN I ADORE Thee, King of Evil, By the body Thou hast fashioned In the likeness of a devil. By its purity impassioned I adore Thee, King of Evil! I adore Thee, Lord of Malice, By the soul that Thou hast moulded Lovely as a lily-chalice To the so...
A BALLAD OF BEDLAM Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:25 GMT A BALLAD OF BEDLAM OUT from the windswept hollows of the Tomb Into the Night, --- Impenetrable gloom Folding me in from sound and sense and sight; No Light, Save from that leprous orb men call the Moon, Whose rune Spells Death and Madness: Like to a blind...
DEAD WEIGHT Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:26 GMT DEAD WEIGHT IT is with the deepest feeling that we record the passing over of our less disciple than colleague, less colleague than bosom friend, the aged saint known on earth as Arthur Edward Waite. > "The disciple whom Crowley loved," they...
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:34 GMT THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES > (LA CLEF DES GRANDS MYSTERES) BY ELIPHAS LEVI THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES ACCORDING TO ENOCH, ABRAHAM, HERMES TRISMEGISTES AND SOLOMON BY ELIPHAS LEVI TRANSLATED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEISTER CROWLEY {Illustration on this pa...
THE BIG STICK Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:35 GMT THE BIG STICK {225} REVIEWS THE SECRET OF EFFICIENCY. By GRACE DAWSON. William Rider & Son. 1"s." net. GRACE DAWSON is a spiritual Grace Darling. Oh the wonderful gospel that she brings to perishing humanity! She has discovered the secre...
COLOPHON Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:35 GMT COLOPHON TO LAYLAH EIGHT-AND-TWENTY LAMP of living loveliness, Maid miraculously male, Rapture of thine own excess Blushing through the velvet veil Where the olive cheeks aglow Shadow-soften into snow, Breasts like Bacchanals afloat Under the proudly phal...
INDEX OF VOLUME I Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:36 GMT INDEX OF VOLUME I ["The names in italics are the real names of the authors"] {WEH NOTE: The index is originally in two columns. It is here rendered as one column with page ###a and page ###b at bottom to signify the original format.} A ∴ A ∴,...
The Equinox Vol. I No. X - [back pages] Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:47:37 GMT NOW READY SIR PALAMEDE THE SARACEN By ALEISTER CROWLEY REPRINTED FROM EQUINOX IV PRICE 5/- "Much vigorous imagination." --- Times . "...his genius, be its origin celestial or infernal, is considera...