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Originally published
  
1909

Author
  
Aleister Crowley

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Works by Aleister Crowley, Occult science books

The Equinox (subtitle: "The Review of Scientific Illuminism") is a series of publications in book form that serves as the official organ of the A∴A∴, a magical order founded by Aleister Crowley (although material is often of import to its sister organization, Ordo Templi Orientis). Begun in 1909, it mainly features articles about occultism and magick, while several issues also contain poetry, fiction, plays, artwork, and biographies. The last issue was published in 1998.

Contents

Publication history

The Equinox appeared semianually from the years 1909 through 1913. Volume II was never published, and vol. III:1 was the last in the regular serialized publications. After that, editions of the Equinox were published irregularly by various organizations and are best known for their book title. All issues after III:5 were edited and released after Crowley's death in 1947.

  • Vol. I, #1: Spring 1909. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd.
  • Vol. I, #2: Autumn 1909. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd.
  • Vol. I, #3: Spring 1910. Privately published, London.
  • Vol. I, #4: Autumn 1910. Privately published, London.
  • Vol. I, #5: Spring 1911. Privately published, London.
  • Vol. I, #6: Autumn 1911. Wieland & Co.
  • Vol. I, #7: Spring 1912. Wieland & Co.
  • Vol. I, #8: Autumn 1912. Wieland & Co.
  • Vol. I, #9: Spring 1913. Wieland & Co.
  • Vol. I, #10: Autumn 1913. Wieland & Co.
  • Vol. II: not issued
  • Vol. III, #1: Spring 1919. Universal Publishing Co, Detroit MI
  • Vol. III, #2: Jesus, Liber 888, and Other Papers—not issued
  • Vol. III, #3: The Equinox of the Gods. 1936. London, O.T.O.
  • Vol. III, #4: Eight Lectures on Yoga. 1939. London, O.T.O.
  • Vol. III, #5: The Book of Thoth. 1944. London, O.T.O.
  • Vol. III, #6: Liber Aleph. 1961. Thelema Publishing Co.
  • Vol. III, #7: Shih Yi. 1971. Thelema Publishing Co.
  • Vol. III, #8: The Tao Teh King. 1975. Weiser.
  • Vol. III, #9: The Holy Books of Thelema. 1983. Weiser.
  • Vol. III, #10: 1986. Weiser.
  • Vol. IV, #1: Commentaries on the Holy Books and Other Papers. 1996. Weiser.
  • Vol. IV, #2: The Vision and the Voice with Commentary and Other Papers. 1998. Weiser.
  • Number 1

    1. Editorial
    2. An Account of A∴ A∴
    3. Liber Librae [The Book of the Balance]
    4. Liber Exercitiorum
    5. The Wizard Way. By Aleister Crowley
    6. The Magic Glasses. By Frank Harris
    7. The Chymical Jousting of Brother Perardua
    8. The Lonely Bride. By Victor B. Neuburg
    9. At the Fork of the Roads
    10. The Magician
    11. The Soldier and the Hunchback: ! And ? By Aleister Crowley
    12. The Hermit
    13. The Temple of Solomon the King (Book I)
    14. The Herb Dangerous (Part I) : A Pharmaceutical Study. By E. Whineray, M.P.S.
    15. Endpages
  • Special Supplement: John St. John: the Record of the Magical Retirement of G. H. by Frater O∴ M∴
  • Number 2

    1. Frontpages
    2. Editorial
    3. Liber O [vel Manus et Sagittae sub Figura VI]
    4. The Herb Dangerous (Part II) : The Psychology of Hashish. By Oliver Haddo
    5. Reviews
    6. The Garden of Janus. By Aleister Crowley
    7. The Dream Circean. By Marital Nay
    8. The Lost Shepherd. By Victor B. Neuburg
    9. A Handbook of Geomancy
    10. The Organ in King's Chapel, Cambridge, By G. H. S. Pinsent
    11. A Note on Genesis
    12. The Five Adorations. By Dost Achiha Khan
    13. Illusion D'amoureux. By Francis Bendick
    14. The Opium-Smoker
    15. Postcards to Probationers. By Aleister Crowley
    16. The Wild Ass. By Alys Cusack
    17. The Sphinx at Gizeh. By Lord Dunsany
    18. The Priestess of Panormita. By Elaine Carr
    19. The Temple of Solomon the King (Book II)
    20. Amongst the Mermaids. By Norman Roe
    21. Ave Adonai. By Aleister Crowley
    22. The Man-Cover. By George Raffalovich
    23. Stewed Prunes and Prism: The Tennyson Centenary. By A. Quiller, Jr.
    24. Stop Press Reviews

    Number 3

    1. Frontpages
    2. Editorial
    3. Liber XIII [vel Graduum Montis Abiegni: A Syllabus of the Steps Upon the Path]
    4. AHA! By Aleister Crowley
    5. The Herb Dangerous (Part III) : The Poem of Hashish. By Charles Baudelaire (Translated By Aleister Crowley)
    6. An Origin. By Victor B. Neuburg
    7. The Soul-Hunter
    8. Madeleine. By Arthur F. Grimble
    9. The Temple of Solomon the King (Book II "Continued")
    10. The Coming of Apollo. By Victor B. Neuburg
    11. The Brighton Mystery. By George Raffalovich
    12. Reviews
    13. The Shadowy Dill-Waters. By A. Quiller, Jr.
    14. Stop Press Reviews and Endpages
  • Special Supplement: Liber DCCCCLXIII. the Treasure-House of Images
  • Number 4

    1. Frontpages
    2. Editorial
    3. Liber III [vel Jugorum]
    4. Liber A [vel Armorum sub Figura CCCCXII]
    5. I.NST N.ATTURAE R.EGINA I.SIS. By Omnia Vincam
    6. Reviews
    7. My Lady of the Breeches. By George Raffalovich
    8. Reviews
    9. At Bordj-An-Nus. By Hilda Norfolk
    10. ΑΙΝΟΖΙΔΟΖ. By Aleister Crowley
    11. The Temple of Solomon the King. IV
    12. Pan to Artemis. By Aleister Crowley
    13. The Interpreter. By Perdurabo
    14. The Daughter of the Horseleech. By Ethel Ramsay
    15. The Dreamer
    16. Mr. Todd. A Morality. By the Author of "Rosa Mundi" (William Butler Yeats)
    17. The Gnome. By Victor B. Neuburg
    18. Review
    19. The Herb Dangerous. Part IV: the Hasheesh Eater
    20. The Agnostic
    21. The Mantra-Yogi
    22. The Buddhist
    23. The Violinist. By Francis Bendick
    24. EHE! By George Raffalovich
    25. Half-Hours with Famous Mahatmas. No. I. By Sam Hardy
    26. The Thief-Taker. By Aleister Crowley
    27. Review
    28. The Eyes of St. Ljubov. By J. F. C. Fuller And George Raffalovich
    29. Midsummer Eve. By Ethel Archer
    30. The Poetical Memory
    31. Adela
    32. The Three Worms. By Edward Storer
    33. The Felon Flower. By Ethel Archer
    34. The Big Stick
    35. Glaziers' Houses
    36. In the Temple. By Victor B. Neuburg
    37. Endpages
  • Special Supplement: the High History of Sir Palamedes the Saracen Knight and of his Following the Questing Beast
  • Number 5

    1. Frontpages
    2. Editorial
    3. Liber HHH [sub figura CCCXLI]
    4. The Blind Prophet. By Aleister Crowley
    5. The Training of the Mind. By Ananda Metteya
    6. The Sabbath. By Ethel Ramsay
    7. The Temple of Solomon the King
    8. A Nocturne. By Victor B. Neuburg
    9. The Vixen. By Francis Bendick
    10. The Pilgrim. By Aleister Crowley
    11. My Crapulous Contemporaries, No. IV.—Wisdom While You Waite. By Aleister Crowley
    12. X-Rays on Ex-Probationers. By Perdurabo
    13. The Vampire. By Ethel Archer
    14. The Big Stick
    15. Correspondence
    16. Stop Press Reviews
  • Special Supplement: Liber CCCCXVIII (XXX Aerum) [vel Saecvli sub figura CCCCXVIII, Being of the Angels of the 30 Aethyrs, the Vision and the Voice]
  • Number 6

    1. Frontpages
    2. Editorial
    3. Liber X [Liber Porta Lucis]
    4. Liber XVI [Liber Turris vel Domus Dei]
    5. Liber XC [Liber Tzaddi vel Hamus Hermeticus]
    6. Liber CLVI [Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni]
    7. Liber CC [Liber Resh vel Helios]
    8. Liber CCCLXX [Liber A'Ash vel Capricorni Pneumatici]
    9. Three Poems For Jane Cheron. By Aleister Crowley
    10. Circe. By Ethel Archer
    11. The Electric Silence
    12. Song
    13. The Scorpion. By Aleister Crowley
    14. The Earth. By Francis Bendick
    15. Sleep. By Ethel Archer
    16. The Ordeal of Ida Pendragon. By Martial Nay
    17. The Autumn Woods. By Victor Neuburg
    18. The Dangers of Mysticism
    19. The Big Stick. By John Yarker, E. Whineray, Aleister Crowley, Etc.
    20. Endpages
  • Special Supplement: The Rites of Eleusis
  • Number 7

    1. Frontpages
    2. Editorial
    3. Liber I [vel Magi]
    4. Liber XI [Liber Nu]
    5. Liber LXIV [Liber Israfel]
    6. Liber LXVI [Liber Stellae Rubeae]
    7. Liber CLXXV [Astarte vel Liber Berylli]
    8. Liber CCVI [Liber Ru vel Spiritus]
    9. Liber CCXXXI
    10. Liber CD [Liber Tau vel Kabbalae Trium Literarum]
    11. Liber CDLXXIV [Liber os Asbysmi vel Daath]
    12. Liber DLV [Liber Had]
    13. Liber DCCCXXXI [Liber Tau]
    14. Liber CMXIII [Liber ThIShARB viae Memoriae]
    15. Adonis. By Aleister Crowley
    16. The Ghouls. By Aleister Crowley
    17. The Four Winds. By Aleister Crowley
    18. Independence. By Aleister Crowley
    19. Showstorm. By Aleister Crowley
    20. A Brief Abstract of the Symbolic Representation of the Universe Derived by Doctor John Dee through the Skrying of Sir Edward Kelley. By Aleister Crowley
    21. Apollo Bestows the Violin. By Aleister Crowley
    22. Diana of the Inlet. By Katharine Susannah Prichard
    23. Silence. By Ethel Archer
    24. Memory of Love. By Meredith Starr
    25. Across the Gulf. By Aleister Crowley
    26. The Temple of Solomon the King ("Continued")
    27. My Crapulous Contemporaries. No. V., the Bismarck of Battersea. By A. Quiller, Jun. (Aleister Crowley)
    28. Arthur in the Area Again. By Aleister Crowley
    29. The Big Stick. Reviews By Aleister Crowley and John Yarker
    30. A Birthday. By Aleister Crowley

    Number 8

    1. Frontpages
    2. Editorial
    3. θέλημα : a Tone-Testament By Leila Waddell
    4. Three Poems. By Victor B. Neuburg
    5. The Temple of Solomon the King (continued)
    6. His Secret Sin
    7. Long Odds
    8. Doctor Bob. A Sketch By Mary D'este and Aleister Crowley
    9. The Woodcutter
    10. La Foire. By Barbey De Rochechouart
    11. Professor Zircon
    12. A Brief Abstract of the Symbolic Representation of the Universe, Derived by Doctor John Dee through the Skrying of Sir Edward Kelly. Part II. The Forty-Eight Calls
    13. Stepney
    14. The Tell-Tale Heart. Adapted from the Story of E. A. Poe. By Aleister Crowley
    15. Sorites
    16. A Description of the Cards of the Tarot, with their Attributions; Including a Method of Divination by their Use
    17. On-On-"Poet"
    18. Elder Eel
    19. The Spadger
    20. To Persis
    21. Waite's Wet or the Backslider's Return
    22. My Crapulous Contemporaries. No. VI. An Obituary
    23. The New Evelyn Hope
    24. Reviews
  • Special Supplement: Sepher Sephiroth
  • Number 9

    1. Frontpages
    2. Editorial
    3. The Temple of Solomon the King ("Continued")
    4. Lines to a Young Lady Violinist on Her Playing in a Green Dress Designed By the Author
    5. Energized Enthusiasm
    6. The "Titanic"
    7. A Literatooralooral Treasure-Trove
    8. Threnody
    9. Dischmatal by Night. By Arthur Grimble
    10. A Quack Painter
    11. At Sea
    12. Cancer?
    13. Dumb!
    14. The Vitriol-Thrower
    15. The Fairy Fiddler. By Ethel Archer
    16. An Evocation of Bartzabel the Spirit of Mars
    17. The Testament of Magdalen Blair
    18. Ercildoune. By Aleister Crowley
    19. Athanasius Contra Decanum
    20. My Crapulous Contemporaries. No. VII. A Galahad in Gomorrah
    21. 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.
    22. The Tango: A Sketch. By Mary D'este and Aleister Crowley
    23. The Big Stick
    24. Reviews

    Number 10

    1. Frontpages
    2. Editorial
    3. Liber L. Vel Legis The Book of the Law
    4. Liber ΒΑΤΡΑΧΟΦΕΝΟΒΟΟΚΟΣΜΟΜΑΧΙΑ Svb Figvra DXXXVI
    5. A Syllabus of the Οfficial Ιnstructions of A∴ A∴
    6. The Ship
    7. As in a Glass, Darkly. By Arthur Grimble.
    8. Two Fragments of Ritual
    9. The Disciples
    10. The Temple of Solomon the King ("Concluded)"
    11. Rosa Ignota. By Victor B. Neuburg
    12. The Game of Crowley
    13. Boo to Buddha
    14. Crowley Pool
    15. Hymn to Satan
    16. A Ballad of Bedlam. By Ethel Archer.
    17. Dead Weight
    18. The Big Stick
    19. Colophon—To Laylah Eight-And-Twenty
    20. Index to Volume I
    21. Endpages
  • Special Supplement: The Key of the Mysteries
  • Volume II

    Nos. 1-10 are a Period of Silence—no copies.

    Number 1, also called the Blue Equinox

    1. Hymn to Pan
    2. Editorial
    3. Præmonstrance of A∴A∴
    4. Curriculum of A∴A∴
    5. Liber II [The Message of the Master Therion]
    6. The Tent
    7. Liber DCCCXXXVII [The Law of Liberty]
    8. Liber LXI [vel Causae A∴A∴]
    9. A Psalm
    10. Liber LXV [Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente]
    11. Liber CL [De Lege Libellum]
    12. A Psalm
    13. Liber CLXV [A Master of the Temple]
    14. Liber CCC [Khabs am Pekht]
    15. Stepping Out of the Old Aeon into the New
    16. The Seven Fold Sacrament
    17. Liber LII [Manifesto of the O.T.O.]
    18. Liber CI [An Open Letter to Those Who May Wish to Join the Order]
    19. Liber CLXI [Concerning the Law of Thelema]
    20. Liber CXCIV [An Intimation with Reference to the Constitution of the Order]
    21. Liber XV The Gnostic Mass
    22. Nekam Adonai!
    23. A La Loge
    24. The Tank
  • Special Supplement: Liber LXXI [The Voice of the Silence: The Two Paths, The Seven Portals]
  • Numbers 2–10

  • #2: The Gospel According to St. Bernard Shaw (allegedly, never published)
  • #3: The Equinox of the Gods
  • #4: Eight Lectures on Yoga
  • #5: The Book of Thoth
  • #6: Liber Aleph
  • #7: Shih Yi (I Ching)
  • #8: Tao Teh Ching
  • #9: The Holy Books of Thelema
  • #10 The Review of Scientific Illuminism, the official Organ of the O.T.O.
  • Number 1, Commentaries on the Holy Books and Other Papers

    1. Occultism
    2. One Star in Sight
    3. Liber XXXIII. An Account of A∴A∴
    4. Liber Collegii Sancti sub figura CLXXXV (Being the Tasks of the Grades and Their Oaths)
    5. Liber Vesta vel פרכת sub figura DCC (Book of the Robes of the Order)
    6. Four Paintings by J.F.C. Fuller
    7. Liber VIII (The Ritual Proper for the Invocation of Augoeides)
    8. Liber LXV with Commentary (Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente)
    9. Liber LXXI, the Voice of the Silence with Commentary
    10. Shorter Commentaries to the Holy Books

    Number 2, The Vision and the Voice : With Commentary and Other Papers

    1. Liber CDXVIII. The Vision and the Voice with Commentary
    2. Liber CCCXXV. The Bartzabel Working
    3. Liber LX. The Ab-ul-Diz Working
    4. Liber CDXV. Opus Lutetianum, The Paris Working
    5. Appendix I: ALgerian Diary, 1909
    6. Appendix II: Diary Fragment, 1910

    Motta Equinox

    Published long after Crowley's death, a series entitled The Equinox, Volume V was released by Marcelo Motta and his organization, Thelema Publishing Co.

  • Vol. V, No. 1: The Commentaries to Liber AL vel Legis (1975)
  • Vol. V, No. 2: Liber LXV and comments and writings by Marcelos Motta (1979)
  • Vol. V, No. 3: The Chinese Texts of Magick and Mysticism (1980)
  • Vol. V, No. 4: Sex and Religion (1981)
  • Vol. VII, No. 1: The Red Equinox (1992)
  • References

    The Equinox Wikipedia