Book by Aleister Crowley
The Blue Equinox, officially known as The Equinox: Volume III, Number I, is a book written by the English occultist Aleister Crowley, the founder of Thelema. First published in 1919,[1] 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".
Background
In 1904, Crowley was staying in Cairo, Egypt with his wife Rose when he claimed to undergo a spiritual experience.
Synopsis
The Blue Equinox opens with Crowley's poem "Hymn to Pan", a devotional work devoted to the ancient Greek deity Pan.[2] 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.[3]
- Hymn to Pan
- Editorial
- Præmonstrance of A∴A∴
- Curriculum of A∴A∴
- Liber II [The Message of the Master Therion]
- The Tent
- Liber DCCCXXXVII [The Law of Liberty]
- Liber LXI [vel Causae A∴A∴]
- A Psalm
- Liber LXV [Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente]
- Liber CL [De Lege Libellum]
- A Psalm
- Liber CLXV [A Master of the Temple]
- Liber CCC [Khabs am Pekht]
- Stepping Out of the Old Aeon into the New
- The Seven Fold Sacrament
- Liber LII [Manifesto of the O.T.O.]
- Liber CI [An Open Letter to Those Who May Wish to Join the Order]
- Liber CLXI [Concerning the Law of Thelema]
- Liber CXCIV [An Intimation with Reference to the Constitution of the Order]
- Liber XV (The Gnostic Mass)
- Nekam Adonai!
- A La Loge
- The Tank
- Special Supplement: Liber LXXI [The Voice of the Silence: The Two Paths, The Seven Portals]
