The Equinox


The Equinox was a periodical that served as the official organ of the A∴A∴, a magical order founded by Aleister Crowley. Begun in 1909, it mainly featured articles about occultism and magick, while several issues also contained poetry, fiction, plays, artwork, and biographies. The last issue was published in 1998.

Publication history

The Equinox appeared semiannually from the years 1909 through 1913. Volume II was never published, and vol. III:1 was the last in the regular serialized publications. After that, editions of the Equinox were published irregularly by various organizations and are best known by their book titles. All issues after III:5 were edited and released after Crowley's death in 1947.

Volume I

Number 1

  1. Editorial
  2. An Account of A∴ A∴
  3. Liber Librae
  4. Liber Exercitiorum
  5. The Wizard Way. By Aleister Crowley
  6. The Magic Glasses. By Frank Harris
  7. The Chymical Jousting of Brother Perardua
  8. The Lonely Bride. By Victor B. Neuburg
  9. At the Fork of the Roads
  10. The Magician
  11. The Soldier and the Hunchback: ! And ? By Aleister Crowley
  12. The Hermit
  13. The Temple of Solomon the King
  14. The Herb Dangerous : A Pharmaceutical Study. By E. Whineray, M.P.S.
  15. Endpages
  1. Frontpages
  2. Editorial
  3. Liber O
  4. The Herb Dangerous : The Psychology of Hashish. By Oliver Haddo
  5. Reviews
  6. The Garden of Janus. By Aleister Crowley
  7. The Dream Circean. By Marital Nay
  8. The Lost Shepherd. By Victor B. Neuburg
  9. A Handbook of Geomancy
  10. The Organ in King's Chapel, Cambridge, By G. H. S. Pinsent
  11. A Note on Genesis
  12. The Five Adorations. By Dost Achiha Khan
  13. Illusion D'amoureux. By Francis Bendick
  14. The Opium-Smoker
  15. Postcards to Probationers. By Aleister Crowley
  16. The Wild Ass. By Alys Cusack
  17. The Sphinx at Gizeh. By Lord Dunsany
  18. The Priestess of Panormita. By Elaine Carr
  19. The Temple of Solomon the King
  20. Amongst the Mermaids. By Norman Roe
  21. Ave Adonai. By Aleister Crowley
  22. The Man-Cover. By George Raffalovich
  23. Stewed Prunes and Prism: The Tennyson Centenary. By A. Quiller, Jr.
  24. Stop Press Reviews

    Number 3

  25. Frontpages
  26. Editorial
  27. Liber XIII
  28. AHA! By Aleister Crowley
  29. The Herb Dangerous : The Poem of Hashish. By Charles Baudelaire
  30. An Origin. By Victor B. Neuburg
  31. The Soul-Hunter
  32. Madeleine. By Arthur F. Grimble
  33. The Temple of Solomon the King
  34. The Coming of Apollo. By Victor B. Neuburg
  35. The Brighton Mystery. By George Raffalovich
  36. Reviews
  37. The Shadowy Dill-Waters. By A. Quiller, Jr.
  38. Stop Press Reviews and Endpages
  1. Frontpages
  2. Editorial
  3. Liber III
  4. Liber A
  5. I.NST N.ATTURAE R.EGINA I.SIS. By Omnia Vincam
  6. Reviews
  7. My Lady of the Breeches. By George Raffalovich
  8. Reviews
  9. At Bordj-An-Nus. By Hilda Norfolk
  10. ΑΙΝΟΖΙΔΟΖ. By Aleister Crowley
  11. The Temple of Solomon the King. IV
  12. Pan to Artemis. By Aleister Crowley
  13. The Interpreter. By Perdurabo
  14. The Daughter of the Horseleech. By Ethel Ramsay
  15. The Dreamer
  16. Mr. Todd. A Morality. By the Author of "Rosa Mundi"
  17. The Gnome. By Victor B. Neuburg
  18. Review
  19. The Herb Dangerous. Part IV: the Hasheesh Eater
  20. The Agnostic
  21. The Mantra-Yogi
  22. The Buddhist
  23. The Violinist. By Francis Bendick
  24. EHE! By George Raffalovich
  25. Half-Hours with Famous Mahatmas. No. I. By Sam Hardy
  26. The Thief-Taker. By Aleister Crowley
  27. Review
  28. The Eyes of St. Ljubov. By J. F. C. Fuller And George Raffalovich
  29. Midsummer Eve. By Ethel Archer
  30. The Poetical Memory
  31. Adela
  32. The Three Worms. By Edward Storer
  33. The Felon Flower. By Ethel Archer
  34. The Big Stick
  35. Glaziers' Houses
  36. In the Temple. By Victor B. Neuburg
  37. Endpages
  1. Frontpages
  2. Editorial
  3. Liber HHH
  4. The Blind Prophet. By Aleister Crowley
  5. The Training of the Mind. By Ananda Metteya
  6. The Sabbath. By Ethel Ramsay
  7. The Temple of Solomon the King
  8. A Nocturne. By Victor B. Neuburg
  9. The Vixen. By Francis Bendick
  10. The Pilgrim. By Aleister Crowley
  11. My Crapulous Contemporaries, No. IV.—Wisdom While You Waite. By Aleister Crowley
  12. X-Rays on Ex-Probationers. By Perdurabo
  13. The Vampire. By Ethel Archer
  14. The Big Stick
  15. Correspondence
  16. Stop Press Reviews
  1. Frontpages
  2. Editorial
  3. Liber X
  4. Liber XVI
  5. Liber XC
  6. Liber CLVI
  7. Liber CC
  8. Liber CCCLXX
  9. Three Poems For Jane Cheron. By Aleister Crowley
  10. Circe. By Ethel Archer
  11. The Electric Silence
  12. Song
  13. The Scorpion. By Aleister Crowley
  14. The Earth. By Francis Bendick
  15. Sleep. By Ethel Archer
  16. The Ordeal of Ida Pendragon. By Martial Nay
  17. The Autumn Woods. By Victor Neuburg
  18. The Dangers of Mysticism
  19. The Big Stick. By John Yarker, E. Whineray, Aleister Crowley, Etc.
  20. Endpages
  1. Frontpages
  2. Editorial
  3. Liber I
  4. Liber XI
  5. Liber LXIV
  6. Liber LXVI
  7. Liber CLXXV
  8. Liber CCVI
  9. Liber CCXXXI
  10. Liber CD
  11. Liber CDLXXIV
  12. Liber DLV
  13. Liber DCCCXXXI
  14. Liber CMXIII
  15. Adonis. By Aleister Crowley
  16. The Ghouls. By Aleister Crowley
  17. The Four Winds. By Aleister Crowley
  18. Independence. By Aleister Crowley
  19. Showstorm. By Aleister Crowley
  20. A Brief Abstract of the Symbolic Representation of the Universe Derived by Doctor John Dee through the Skrying of Sir Edward Kelley. By Aleister Crowley
  21. Apollo Bestows the Violin. By Aleister Crowley
  22. Diana of the Inlet. By Katharine Susannah Prichard
  23. Silence. By Ethel Archer
  24. Memory of Love. By Meredith Starr
  25. Across the Gulf. By Aleister Crowley
  26. The Temple of Solomon the King
  27. My Crapulous Contemporaries. No. V., the Bismarck of Battersea. By A. Quiller, Jun.
  28. Arthur in the Area Again. By Aleister Crowley
  29. The Big Stick. Reviews By Aleister Crowley and John Yarker
  30. A Birthday. By Aleister Crowley

    Number 8

  31. Frontpages
  32. Editorial
  33. θέλημα : a Tone-Testament By Leila Waddell
  34. Three Poems. By Victor B. Neuburg
  35. The Temple of Solomon the King
  36. His Secret Sin
  37. Long Odds
  38. Doctor Bob. A Sketch By Mary D'este and Aleister Crowley
  39. The Woodcutter
  40. La Foire. By Barbey De Rochechouart
  41. Professor Zircon
  42. A Brief Abstract of the Symbolic Representation of the Universe, Derived by Doctor John Dee through the Skrying of Sir Edward Kelly. Part II. The Forty-Eight Calls
  43. Stepney
  44. The Tell-Tale Heart. Adapted from the Story of E. A. Poe. By Aleister Crowley
  45. Sorites
  46. A Description of the Cards of the Tarot, with their Attributions; Including a Method of Divination by their Use
  47. On-On-"Poet"
  48. Elder Eel
  49. The Spadger
  50. To Persis
  51. Waite's Wet or the Backslider's Return
  52. My Crapulous Contemporaries. No. VI. An Obituary
  53. The New Evelyn Hope
  54. Reviews
  1. Frontpages
  2. Editorial
  3. The Temple of Solomon the King
  4. Lines to a Young Lady Violinist on Her Playing in a Green Dress Designed By the Author
  5. Energized Enthusiasm
  6. The "Titanic"
  7. A Literatooralooral Treasure-Trove
  8. Threnody
  9. Dischmatal by Night. By Arthur Grimble
  10. A Quack Painter
  11. At Sea
  12. Cancer?
  13. Dumb!
  14. The Vitriol-Thrower
  15. The Fairy Fiddler. By Ethel Archer
  16. An Evocation of Bartzabel the Spirit of Mars
  17. The Testament of Magdalen Blair
  18. Ercildoune. By Aleister Crowley
  19. Athanasius Contra Decanum
  20. My Crapulous Contemporaries. No. VII. A Galahad in Gomorrah
  21. How I Became a Famous Mountaineer. By Percy W. Newlands, P.R.A.S., P.R.B.S., P.R.C.S., P.R.Y.S., P.R.Z.S., Etc., Etc.
  22. The Tango: A Sketch. By Mary D'este and Aleister Crowley
  23. The Big Stick
  24. Reviews

    Number 10

  25. Frontpages
  26. Editorial
  27. Liber L. Vel Legis The Book of the Law
  28. Liber ΒΑΤΡΑΧΟΦΕΝΟΒΟΟΚΟΣΜΟΜΑΧΙΑ Svb Figvra DXXXVI
  29. A Syllabus of the Οfficial Ιnstructions of A∴ A∴
  30. The Ship
  31. As in a Glass, Darkly. By Arthur Grimble.
  32. Two Fragments of Ritual
  33. The Disciples
  34. The Temple of Solomon the King "
  35. Rosa Ignota. By Victor B. Neuburg
  36. The Game of Crowley
  37. Boo to Buddha
  38. Crowley Pool
  39. Hymn to Satan
  40. A Ballad of Bedlam. By Ethel Archer.
  41. Dead Weight
  42. The Big Stick
  43. Colophon—To Laylah Eight-And-Twenty
  44. Index to Volume I
  45. Endpages
Volume II was never published. A common misconception is that the reason is because of the A.'.A.'. period of Silence. However this is not the case as Aleister Crowley later published Volume III No.3 in 1936 - during an A.'A.'. period of Silence. It is not known why Volume II was not published.

Volume III

Number 1, also called the Blue Equinox

  1. Hymn to Pan
  2. Editorial
  3. Præmonstrance of A∴A∴
  4. Curriculum of A∴A∴
  5. Liber II
  6. The Tent
  7. Liber DCCCXXXVII
  8. Liber LXI
  9. A Psalm
  10. Liber LXV
  11. Liber CL
  12. A Psalm
  13. Liber CLXV
  14. Liber CCC
  15. Stepping Out of the Old Aeon into the New
  16. The Seven Fold Sacrament
  17. Liber LII
  18. Liber CI
  19. Liber CLXI
  20. Liber CXCIV
  21. Liber XV The Gnostic Mass
  22. Nekam Adonai!
  23. A La Loge
  24. The Tank

Number 1, Commentaries on the Holy Books and Other Papers

  1. Occultism
  2. One Star in Sight
  3. Liber XXXIII. An Account of A∴A∴
  4. Liber Collegii Sancti sub figura CLXXXV
  5. Liber Vesta vel פרכת sub figura DCC
  6. Liber DCLXXI vel Pyramidos: A Ritual of Self-Initiation Based Upon the Formula of the Neophyte
  7. Four Paintings by J.F.C. Fuller
  8. Liber VIII
  9. Liber LXV with Commentary
  10. Liber LXXI, the Voice of the Silence with Commentary
  11. Shorter Commentaries to the Holy Books

    Number 2, ''The Vision and the Voice'' : With Commentary and Other Papers

  12. Liber CDXVIII. The Vision and the Voice with Commentary
  13. Liber CCCXXV. The Bartzabel Working
  14. Liber LX. The Ab-ul-Diz Working
  15. Liber CDXV. Opus Lutetianum, The Paris Working
  16. Appendix I: Algerian Diary, 1909
  17. Appendix II: Diary Fragment, 1910

    Motta Equinox

Published long after Crowley's death, a series entitled The Equinox, Volume V was released by Marcelo Motta and his organization, Thelema Publishing Co.