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Periodical: Equinox

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Equinox, The.
Official organ of the A.A. The Review of Scientific Illuminism.
1909-1919 Semiannual
London, England; Detroit, MI. Language: English.
Publisher: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company; Universal Publishing Co. (Detroit). Editor: Aleister Crowley. Succeeded by: Equinox (Nashville, 1979); Equinox (New York, 1986); Äequinox (Zurich, 1954); etc.
1/1, March 1909-1/10 fall 1913; suspended 1914-1918, and begun again with 3/1, March 1919, which was published in Detroit, MI and is known within O.T.O. circles as the "Blue Equinox." Volumes 2 and 3/2 were never published. 3/3 was published in September 1936 (though some copies have the date December 1937 pasted on the title page), 3/4 in 1939 (and reissued in Dallas, Texas, in 1969 by Sangreal Foundation), and 3/5 in 1944. The journal was revived under the same name in New York in 1986, beginning with 3/10, counting several Crowley pamphlets as 3/6-3/9 in the volume numbering. There have been other attempts to continue the journal. This was Crowley's attempt to spread the word of his magical activities and prowess in ritual, sexual magic and Enochian evocations. The journal was largely written by Crowley (1875-1947) himself, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms, and contains his disquisitions on the revelations he had received together with his crabby comments on his fellows and followers. Crowley was aided in editing the journal by John Frederick Charles Fuller (1878-1966), later Major-General. Contributions by Leila Waddell, Victor B. Neuburg, Lord Dunsany, Frank Harris, W.B. Yeats, et al. NYPL; LOC; Northwestern University; University of London, Warburg, microfilm; ZDB: Freiburg Inst Grenzgeb Psychol; Gottingen SuUB.

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Issues::Equinox V1 N1 1909 Mar
Equinox V1 N2 1909 Sep
Equinox V1 N3 1910 Mar
Equinox V1 N4 1910 Sep
Equinox V1 N5 1911 Mar
Equinox V1 N6 1911 Sep
Equinox V1 N7 1912 Mar
Equinox V1 N8 1912 Sep
Equinox V1 N9 1913 Mar
Equinox V1 N10 1913 Sep
Equinox V3 N1 1919 Mar
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Equinox is Aleister Crowley's landmark periodical, the official organ of his magical order the A∴A∴ and the vehicle for his 'scientific illuminism' — the method of science applied to the aim of religion. Its pages carry the core apparatus of Thelemic ceremonial magic: invocatory rituals, grade instructions, tarot expositions, and the theatrical mythic voice of its 'Holy Books' (the Priestess of the Silver Star, Asi, and Osiris). Alongside the magic runs a rigorous curriculum of Eastern practice — pranayama and concentration drawn from yoga — presented as disciplined training rather than devotion. Rooted in the wider Western esoteric tradition and shading, in its later volumes, toward the sexual magic of the O.T.O., The Equinox stands as one of the foundational documents of twentieth-century ceremonial magic and Thelema.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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