The Blue Equinox: The Equinox, Volume III No. 1 (Mandrake & Holmes 1992)

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Aleister Crowley

Mandrake Press & Holmes, London, 1992. Hardcover edition, limited to 50 copies. First Facsimile Edition. Beautiful edition featuring a number of colour plates, would also be ideal compliment to the Mandrake & Holmes Equinox Vol I set. Issued as part of of very limited edition of just 50 copies. Hardbound in black cloth with gilt titles. 132 pages plus adverts. First published in 1919, it details the principles and aims of the secret society O.T.O. and its ally the A∴A∴, both of which were under Crowley’s control at the time. It includes such topics as The Law of Liberty, The Gnostic Mass, and Crowley’s Hymn to Pan. Impression on cover no doubt caused by being in a pile of heavy books, some mild bumping and moderate shelf-ware/soiling, Very Good.

First published in Detroit in 1919, the legendary Blue Equinox was Crowley’s first attempt to publicize the principles and aims of the magical secret society Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) and its allied order the A.A. In it, Crowley laid out the esoteric, social, ethical, and philosophical ideas that he believed provided the framework for a new ethics and the liberated morality of the future. Upon publication, the book was threatened with suppression by the authorities of the day. Many of the papers in the Blue Equinox anticipated social liberties we tend to take for granted today.

The Blue Equinox opens with Crowley’s poem “Hymn to Pan”, a devotional work devoted to the ancient Greek deity Pan. This is followed by an editorial, in which Crowley discusses Thelema, the A∴A∴ and the O.T.O., and the important role which he believed that they had to play in the Aeon of Horus.

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

• Special Supplement: Liber LXXI [The Voice of the Silence: The Two Paths, The Seven Portals]