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    The Best of the Equinox, Dramatic Ritual: Volume II
    The Best of the Equinox, Dramatic Ritual: Volume II
    The Best of the Equinox, Dramatic Ritual: Volume II
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    The Best of the Equinox, Dramatic Ritual: Volume II

    By Aleister Crowley and Lon Milo DuQuette

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    Volume II of The Best of the Equinox by Aleister Crowley, offers a treasure chest of dramatic rituals.

    The Equinox became the standard for English language esotericism in the early 20th century, aptly termed the "Encyclopedia of Initiation" by its principal editor and contributor, Aleister Crowley. This ten-volume collection had remarkable variety, depth, and the utility of its contents encompass Qabalah, tarot, yoga, and the essential papers of Crowley's teaching order, A. A. Unfortunately, much of this material is currently out of print.

    The Best of the Equinox, Volume II, curated by scholar and U.S. Deputy Grandmaster General of the O.T.O., Lon Milo DuQuette, collects the best of Crowley’s material from both in-print and out-of-print editions of The Equinox. For Crowley collectors and the curious alike, this is an accessible, affordable volume packed with high magick and secrets.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateFeb 1, 2013
    ISBN9781609258627
    The Best of the Equinox, Dramatic Ritual: Volume II
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    Aleister Crowley

    Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was an English poet, painter, occultist, magician, and mountaineer. Born into wealth, he rejected his family’s Christian beliefs and developed a passion for Western esotericism. At Trinity College, Cambridge, Crowley gained a reputation as a poet whose work appeared in such publications as The Granta and Cambridge Magazine. An avid mountaineer, he made the first unguided ascent of the Mönch in the Swiss Alps. Around this time, he first began identifying as bisexual and carried on relationships with prostitutes, which led to his contracting syphilis. In 1897, he briefly dated fellow student Herbert Charles Pollitt, whose unease with Crowley’s esotericism would lead to their breakup. The following year, Crowley joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a secret occult society to which many of the era’s leading artists belonged, including Bram Stoker, W. B. Yeats, Arthur Machen, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Between 1900 and 1903, he traveled to Mexico, India, Japan, and Paris. In these formative years, Crowley studied Hinduism, wrote the poems that would form The Sword of Song (1904), attempted to climb K2, and became acquainted with such artists as Auguste Rodin and W. Somerset Maugham. A 1904 trip to Egypt inspired him to develop Thelema, a philosophical and religious group he would lead for the remainder of his life. He would claim that The Book of the Law (1909), his most important literary work and the central sacred text of Thelema, was delivered to him personally in Cairo by the entity Aiwass. During the First World War, Crowley allegedly worked as a double agent for the British intelligence services while pretending to support the pro-German movement in the United States. The last decades of his life were spent largely in exile due to persecution in the press and by the states of Britain and Italy for his bohemian lifestyle and open bisexuality.

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    The Best of the Equinox, Dramatic Ritual - Aleister Crowley

    THE RITE OF SATURN

    THE OFFICERS OF THE TEMPLE

    MAGISTER TEMPLI, the representative of Binah, Saturn.

    MATER CŒLI, Venus in Libra, the house of Saturn's exaltation.

    BROTHER AQUARIUS, the house of Saturn; in Chesed, because Pisces is water: Hope.

    BROTHER CAPRICORNUS, in the throne of Capricornus, the house of Saturn ; in Geburah, because Mars is exalted therein. He is Mars in Capricornus.

    BROTHER CAPRICORNUS EMISSARIUS.

    THE LEADER OF THE CHORUS, or CHORAGOGE.

    SCENE. —In the East is a veiled shrine, containing an altar. To its Chokmah, Binahy Chesed, and Geburah are M. T., M. C., Bro. A., and Bro. C. respectively. Bro. C. E. is disguised as an ordinary member of the garrison.

    PART I

    BROTHER CAPRICORNUS enters and turns off Blue light. Red lamps are brought in by BROTHER CAPRICORNUS and the LEADER OF THE CHORUS.

    First the Temple is lighted by two red lamps. PROBATIONERS chant the Capricornus and Aquarius sections from 963 while others wait without in darkness. Red lights are then hidden within veil, BROTHER CAPRICORNUS turns on the Blue light.

    The Temple being in darkness, and the assistants seated, let BROTHER CAPRICORNUS arise from his throne, and knock thrice with his spear-butt upon the floor. MAGISTER TEMPLI in the shrine, with MATER CŒLI.

    CAPRICORNUS. Procul, O procul este profani !

    [He performs the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram. He next lights the hell-broth and recites:]

    Even as the traitor's breath

    Goeth forth, he perisheth

    By the secret sibilant word that is spoken unto death.

    Even as the profane hand

    Reacheth to the sacred sand,

    Fire consumes him that his name be forgotten in the land.

    Even as the wicked eye

    Seeks the mysteries to spy,

    So the blindness of the gods takes his spirit: he shall die.

    Even as the evil priest,

    Poisoned by the sacred feast,

    Changes by its seven powers to the misbegotten beast:

    Even as the powers of ill,

    Broken by the wanded will,

    Shriek about the holy place, vain and vague and terrible:

    Even as the lords of hell,

    Chained in fires before the spell,

    Strain upon the sightless steel, break not fetters nor compel:

    So be distant, O profane !

    Children of the hurricane !

    Lest the sword of fire destroy, lest the ways of death be plain !

    So depart, and so be wise,

    Lest your perishable eyes

    Look upon the formless fire, see the maiden sacrifice!

    So depart, and secret flame

    Burn upon the stone of shame,

    That the holy ones may hear music of the sleepless Name!

    Holy, holy, holy spouse

    Of the sun-engirdled house,

    With the secret symbol burning on thy multiscient brows !. . .

    Even as the traitor's breath

    Goeth forth, he perisheth

    By the secret sibilant word that is spoken unto death.

    CAPRICORNUS. Brethren, let us awaken the Master of the Temple.

    [THE LEADER OF THE CHORUS beats the tom-tom, and the other brethren clap and stamp their feet. No result.]

    Silence—it is in vain ! Brethren, let us invoke the assistance of the Mother of Heaven

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