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1910 · PDF PAGE 492

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

To be obtained of THE EQUINOX, 124, Victoria Street, S.W. And through all Booksellers Crown 8vo, Scarlet Buckram, pp. 64. This Edition strictly limited to 500 copies PRICE 10s. PUBLICATION IN CLASS B. religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published also the complete secret magical correspondences of-the G .*. D .*. and R.R. et A. C._ It forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult wo…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 492

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

To be obtained of THE EQUINOX, 124, Victoria Street, S.W. And through all Booksellers Crown 8vo, Scarlet Buckram, pp. 64. This Edition strictly limited to 500 copies PRICE 10s. PUBLICATION IN CLASS B. religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published also the complete secret magical correspondences of-the G .*. D .*. and R.R. et A. C._ It forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult wo…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 502

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…t intrigues of the people in Detroit who had sent emissaries to approach me in the winter. I was persuaded to put the publication of The Equinox, vol. III, No. 1 into the hands of those latter, and they immediately began to try to evade fulfilling the terms of the contract. I spent the summer in a tent beyond Montauk at the extremity of Long Island. {793} The Magical Retirement made it clear that the current was exhausted. I had finished my work in America and began to prepare my escape. In the autumn I accepted an invitation to visit my friend…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 424

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ion of children so as not to force them into unnatural developments. These nineteen books were published in numbers six and seven of The Equinox. During this summer, I also prepared the extremely important account of the circumstances in which the stele was discovered and The Book of the Law written, for number seven. In this manner I published a facsimile of the manuscript of that Book and my Comment thereon. This latter is shamefully meagre and incomplete. The truth is, that despite everything, I still felt an indescribable repugnance. I knew…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 114

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…w how it turned out. I devoted practically my whole time to this and other magical work. I devised a Ritual of Self- Initiation (see The Equinox, vol. I, no. III, p.269), the essential feature of which is the working up of spiritual enthusiasm by means of a magical dance. This dance contained the secret gestures of my grade, combined with the corresponding words. I used to set my will against the tendency to giddiness and thus postpone as long as possible the final physical intoxication. In this way I lost consciousness at a moment when I was w…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 90

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…l on W. B. Yeats. I had never though much of his work; it seemed to me to lack virility. I have given an extended criticism of it in The Equinox (vol. I No. II, page 307). However, at that time I should have been glad to have a {165} kindly word from an elder man. I showed him the proofs accordingly and he glanced through them. He forced himself to utter a few polite conventionalities, but I could see what the truth of the matter was. I had by this time become fairly expert in clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience. But it would have be…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 400

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…le might cultivate their highest faculties by studying them. I also published the text of the rites as a supplement to number six of The Equinox. I could not condescend to reply to personal abuse. God ignored Bradlaugh's challenge to strike him dead within the next five minutes, and the king does not imprison every street-corner socialist who attacks him. Only when such rumours as that of his secret marriage to Miss. Beauchamp circulate among people sufficiently important to make it matter, does he deign to prosecute. The Headmaster of Eton had…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 562

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…-known philosophical magazine of the highest character. Again they sent round a man to Frank Hollings to frighten him out of selling The Equinox, though no complaint had ever been made about it. Even my personal friends were haunted by sinister spies who made mysterious inquiries and uttered oracular hints about the frightful things that might happen if they happened. They wrote to my lawyers, and called on them to inquire my address which they knew perfectly well, and on my complaining to them about the theft of some of my property, not only r…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 584

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…ise by giving actual example of ritual. Fourthly, I propose to reprint the more important books of instruction of the A.'. A.'. from The Equinox; and finally, I crown the work by Liber Samekh, the operation of the Sacred Magick of the Attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, as proved effective in my own experience, and confirmed by that of Frater Progradior for whose benefit I set it forth in writing. More important still, I applied the formula of The Book of the Law to the solution of the classical antinomies o…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 312

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

To be obtained of THE EQUINOX, 3 Great James St., W.C. Crown 8v0, Scarlet Buckram, pp. 64 PRICE 10s. net Less than 100 copies remain. The price will shortly be raised to one guinea net A.*.A.*. PUBLICATION IN CLASS B 777 “THUS book contains in concise tabulated form a. comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of the world ; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published; also the complete secret magical correspondences of the G.-. D .*. and R.R. et A. C.__ It…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 312

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

To be obtained of THE EQUINOX, 3 Great James St., W.C. Crown 8v0, Scarlet Buckram, pp. 64 PRICE 10s. net Less than 100 copies remain. The price will shortly be raised to one guinea net A.*.A.*. PUBLICATION IN CLASS B 777 “THUS book contains in concise tabulated form a. comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of the world ; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published; also the complete secret magical correspondences of the G.-. D .*. and R.R. et A. C.__ It…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 98

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…rch of the Holy Grail. This state of my soul served me well. My initiation was in fact a sacrament. The rituals have been printed in The Equinox, vol. I, Nos. II and III. There is no question that those of neophyte and adept are the genuine rituals of initiation, for they contain the true formulae. The proof is that they can be {176} 1 WEH Note: At least that's what Mathers said. According to G.Sholem in his "Kabbalah", English and Hebrew versions have been found in British collections known to have been consulted by Mathers. It is conjectured …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 604

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

To be obtained of THE EQUINOX, 33 Avenue Studios, 76 Fulham Road, South Kensington, S.W. TELEPHONE: 2632 KENSINGTON. Crown 8vo, Scarlet Buckram, pp. 64 PRICE 10s. net Less than 100 copies remain. The price will shortly be raised to one guinea net A.*‘.A.*. PUBLICATION IN CLASS B ° BOOK ~ (10 HIS book contains in concise tabulated form a comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published ; also the complete se…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 604

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

To be obtained of THE EQUINOX, 33 Avenue Studios, 76 Fulham Road, South Kensington, S.W. TELEPHONE: 2632 KENSINGTON. Crown 8vo, Scarlet Buckram, pp. 64 PRICE 10s. net Less than 100 copies remain. The price will shortly be raised to one guinea net A.*‘.A.*. PUBLICATION IN CLASS B ° BOOK ~ (10 HIS book contains in concise tabulated form a comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published ; also the complete se…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 551

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…oral qualities such as the Great Work, or indeed any work worth the name, requires. Out of his scanty savings he had bought a set of The Equinox for a hundred dollars and several other expensive items. He grudged his time as little as his cash. He learnt by heart an astounding number of our sacred books, and when later on I asked him to compile a dictionary of Sanskrit roots for my use on a certain research, he went at it

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1929 · PDF PAGE 370

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

370 It was part of my plan for The Equinox to prepare a final edition of the work of Dr. Dee an Sir Edward Kelly. I had a good many of the data and promised myself to complete them by studying the manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford --- which, incidentally, I did in the autumn --- but it struck me that it would be useful to get my large paintings of the four Elemental Watch Towers which I had made in Mexico. I thought these were probably in Boleskine. I decided to go up there for a fortnight or so. Incidentally, I had the conveniences…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 120

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…se lines continually, adding to Allan's nucleus, and ultimately making a systematic compilation. The resulting book was published in The Equinox, vol. I., no. VIII. It is the only dictionary of the Cabbala in existence that can claim any degree of completeness. Since its publication, of course, new knowledge has come to light and I hope to issue a revised edition in course of time. As it stands, however, it is the essential book of reference for the student. It can never be complete; for one thing, every student must create his own Cabbala. My …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 392

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… chemical reactions between his character and his circumstances. In the spring, a few days before the publication of number three of The Equinox, which contained the Ritual of the 5° = 6ř degree of the old Order, Mathers served him with an injunction restraining publication. It did not interest him particularly. He instructed his lawyers and did not even trouble to go to court. Mr. Justice Bucknill, who heard the argument, happened to be an eminent freemason and though he had no idea what the fuss was about, it seemed to him, on general

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1929 · PDF PAGE 449

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…council. I showed that Wedgwood was not a freemason at all. I exposed the whole intrigue. At the conclusion of my speech (printed in The Equinox, vol. I, No. X) the meeting was adjourned sine die. A council was then legally convened; and a man designated by Yarker himself as his successor in one of his last letters to me was elected Grand Master for Britain, with myself as his principal officer. Yarker's office as Grand Hierophant was filled by Dr. Encausse (Papus), the Grand Master of France. Having accomplished these duties, I was free to acc…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 533

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…bathing house at Marsa Plage near Tunis, writing these words. Tahuti being the Lord of Speech, I published number 1 of volume III of The Equinox on March 21st, 1919. I arranged for it to contain something like a complete programme of my proposed Operation to initiate, emancipate and relieve mankind. The first item is a "Hymn to Pan", which I believe to be the most powerful enchantment ever written. Next, after explaining the general idea of my work, I issued a curriculum, classifying the books whose study should give a complete intellectual kno…

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