The Equinox: The Official Organ of the A. A. The Review of Scientific Illuminism / Vol. I, no. vi, September, MCMXI [WITH] Special Supplement: The Rites of Eleusis
- New York: Samuel Weiser, 1972
New York: Samuel Weiser, 1972. Good +. New York: Samuel Weiser, 1972. Reprint. Large, thick octavo; publisher's white pictorial cloth; [vi],170,vi,124,[10](ads)pp; illus. Cloth and textblock margins soiled, ink staining to covers, with minor water staining at corners, else a Good or better, internally clean and sound copy.
Facsimile of the September, 1911, issue of Aleister Crowley's occult periodical. Includes a special supplement of The Rites of Eleusis, a series of invocations centered around the seven classical planets. Crowley performed these in the fall of 1910 with Leila Waddell and claimed they were designed to inspire "religious ecstasy" in the audience when spoken aloud. The press felt differently, considering the performance to be immoral and "riddled with blasphemy.
Facsimile of the September, 1911, issue of Aleister Crowley's occult periodical. Includes a special supplement of The Rites of Eleusis, a series of invocations centered around the seven classical planets. Crowley performed these in the fall of 1910 with Leila Waddell and claimed they were designed to inspire "religious ecstasy" in the audience when spoken aloud. The press felt differently, considering the performance to be immoral and "riddled with blasphemy.