The Equinox Volume III,I (Blue Equinox)

463 Pages·2005·14.862 MB·English

by  Aleister Crowley

THE EQUINOX
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE A.’.A.·.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Love is the law, love under will.
The word of the law is
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THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE O.T.O.
THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC ILLUMINISM
The method of Science; the aim of Religion.
An XV Vol. III. No. I. © in r
MARCH MCMXIX E.V.
THE UNIVERSAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
Copyright, 1919, by
Aleister Crowley
CONTENTS
PAGE
HYMN TO PAN 5
EDITORIAL 9
PRÆMONSTRANCE OF A.-.A.·. II
CURRICULUM OF A.-.A.·. 18
LIBER II 39
THE TENT 44
LIBER DCCCXXXVII 45
LIBER LXI 53
A PSALM 62
LIBER LXV 63
LIBER CL 99
A PSALM 126
LIBER CLXV 127
LIBER CCC 171
STEPPING OUT OF THE OLD /EON INTO THE NEW 183
THE SEVENFOLD SACRAMENT 187
LIBER LII 195
LIBER CI 207
LIBER CLXI 225
LIBER CXCIV 239
LIBER XV 247
NEKAM, ADONAI! 271
A LA LOGE 274
THE TANK 275
SUPPLEMENT
LIBER LXXI 1
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE MASTER THERION.—Portrait by Leon Engers Kennedy Frontispiece
FACING
PAGE
MAY MORN, by Aleister Crowley 5
FRATER V.I.O. (also called Achad, Parzival, Arctaeon and O.I.V. V.I.O.).—
Portrait by Henry B. Camp 129
THE LAMEN OF FRATER V.I.O. 169
THE PANTACLE OF FRATER V.I.O. 170
BAPHOMET.—Portrait by Arnold Genthe 197
THE WAY, by Aleister Crowley Supplement 3
THE MASTER THERION
FROM THE OIL PAINTING BY FRATER T. A. T. K. T. A. (Leon Kennedy)
The Master is represented in His holy meditation.
About Him flames the Aura corresponding to that
particular Trance as directly observed by the artist,
who possesses the Power of True Vision.

MAY MORN
The artist represents the dawn of the day following the Witches’ rout. The
witch is hanged, and the satyr joyfully looks out from behind the tree; in the
background all is Spring, and the nymph dances joyfully to the piping of
the shepherd.
The picture is symbolical of the New Ason. From the blasted stump of
dogma, the poison oak of ‘original sin’, is hanged the hag with dyed and
bloody hair, Christianity, the glyph thus commemorating ‘sa vie horizontale
et sa mort verticale.’ The satyr, a portrait of Frater D. D. S., one of the
Teachers of The Master Therion, represents the Soul of the New 2Eon, whose
Word is Do what thou wilt; for the satyr is the True Nature of every man and
every woman; and every man and every woman is a star.
The Shepherd and the Nymph in the background represent the spon­
taneous outburst of the music of sound and motion caused by the release of
the Children of the New Ason from the curse of the dogma of Original Sin,
and other priestly bogies. Love is the law, love under will.

HYMN TO PAN
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Trtrpaiat airo 8«pa8os <f>dvi)G’, a>
GeHiv Xopairoi ava£ Soph. Aj.
Thrill with lissome lust of the light,
O man! My man!
Come careering out of the night
Of Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the sea
From Sicily and from Arcady!
Roaming as Bacchus, with fawns and pards
And nymphs and satyrs for thy guards,
On a milk-white ass, come over the sea
To me, to me,
Come with Apollo in bridal dress
(Shepherdess and pythoness)
Come with Artemis, silken shod,
And wash thy white thigh, beautiful God,
In the moon of the woods, on the marble mount,
The dimpled dawn of the amber fount!
Dip the purple of passionate prayer
In the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare,
The soul that startles in eyes of blue
To watch thy wantonness weeping through
The tangled grove, the gnarled bole
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