The Equinox (subtitle: The Review of Scientific Illuminism) is a periodical that serves as the official organ of the A∴A∴, a magical order founded by Aleister Crowley (although material is often of import to its sister organization, Ordo Templi Orientis). Begun in 1909, it mainly features articles about occultism and magick, while several issues also contained poetry, fiction, plays, artwork, and biographies. The most recent 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.
Vol. I, #1: Spring 1909. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. Vol. I, #2: Autumn 1909. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. Vol. I, #3: Spring 1910. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. Vol. I, #4: Autumn 1910. Privately published, London. Vol. I, #5: Spring 1911. Privately published, London. Vol. I, #6: Autumn 1911. Wieland & Co. Vol. I, #7: Spring 1912. Wieland & Co. Vol. I, #8: Autumn 1912. Wieland & Co. Vol. I, #9: Spring 1913. Wieland & Co. Vol. I, #10: Autumn 1913. Wieland & Co. Vol. II: not issued Vol. III, #1: Spring 1919. Universal Publishing Co, Detroit MI Vol. III, #2: Jesus, Liber 888, and Other Papers—not issued Vol. III, #3: The Equinox of the Gods. 1936. London, O.T.O. Vol. III, #4: Eight Lectures on Yoga. 1939. London, O.T.O. Vol. III, #5: The Book of Thoth. 1944. London, O.T.O. Vol. III, #6: Liber Aleph. 1961. West Point, California, Thelema Publishing Company Vol. III, #7: Shih Yi. 1971. Kings Beach, California, Thelema Publications Vol. III, #8: The Tao Teh King. 1975. Kings Beach, California, Thelema Publications Vol. III, #9: The Holy Books of Thelema. 1983. Weiser. Vol. III, #10: 1986. Weiser. Vol. IV, #1: Commentaries on the Holy Books and Other Papers. 1996. Weiser. Vol. IV, #2: The Vision and the Voice with Commentary and Other Papers. 1998. Weiser.
Contents of The Equinox
Volume I
Number 1 Editorial An Account of A∴ A∴ Liber Librae [The Book of the Balance] Liber Exercitiorum The Wizard Way. By Aleister Crowley The Magic Glasses. By Frank Harris The Chymical Jousting of Brother Perardua The Lonely Bride. By Victor B. Neuburg At the Fork of the Roads The Magician The Soldier and the Hunchback: ! And ? By Aleister Crowley The Hermit The Temple of Solomon the King (Book I) The Herb Dangerous (Part I) : A Pharmaceutical Study. By E. Whineray, M.P.S. Endpages Special Supplement: John St. John: the Record of the Magical Retirement of G. H. by Frater O∴ M∴
Number 2 Frontpages Editorial Liber O [vel Manus et Sagittae sub Figura VI] The Herb Dangerous (Part II) : The Psychology of Hashish. By Oliver Haddo Reviews The Garden of Janus. By Aleister Crowley The Dream Circean. By Marital Nay The Lost Shepherd. By Victor B. Neuburg A Handbook of Geomancy The Organ in King's Chapel, Cambridge, By G. H. S. Pinsent A Note on Genesis The Five Adorations. By Dost Achiha Khan Illusion D'amoureux. By Francis Bendick The Opium-Smoker Postcards to Probationers. By Aleister Crowley The Wild Ass. By Alys Cusack The Sphinx at Gizeh. By Lord Dunsany The Priestess of Panormita. By Elaine Carr The Temple of Solomon the King (Book II) Amongst the Mermaids. By Norman Roe Ave Adonai. By Aleister Crowley The Man-Cover. By George Raffalovich Stewed Prunes and Prism: The Tennyson Centenary. By A. Quiller, Jr. Stop Press Reviews
Number 3 Frontpages Editorial Liber XIII [vel Graduum Montis Abiegni: A Syllabus of the Steps Upon the Path] AHA! By Aleister Crowley The Herb Dangerous (Part III) : The Poem of Hashish. By Charles Baudelaire (Translated By Aleister Crowley) An Origin. By Victor B. Neuburg The Soul-Hunter Madeleine. By Arthur F. Grimble The Temple of Solomon the King (Book II "Continued") The Coming of Apollo. By Victor B. Neuburg The Brighton Mystery. By George Raffalovich Reviews The Shadowy Dill-Waters. By A. Quiller, Jr. Stop Press Reviews and Endpages Special Supplement: Liber DCCCCLXIII. the Treasure-House of Images
Number 4 Frontpages Editorial Liber III [vel Jugorum] Liber A [vel Armorum sub Figura CCCCXII] I.NST N.ATTURAE R.EGINA I.SIS. By Omnia Vincam Reviews My Lady of the Breeches. By George Raffalovich Reviews At Bordj-An-Nus. By Hilda Norfolk ΑΙΝΟΖΙΔΟΖ. By Aleister Crowley The Temple of Solomon the King. IV Pan to Artemis. By Aleister Crowley The Interpreter. By Perdurabo The Daughter of the Horseleech. By Ethel Ramsay The Dreamer Mr. Todd. A Morality. By the Author of "Rosa Mundi" (William Butler Yeats) The Gnome. By Victor B. Neuburg Review The Herb Dangerous. Part IV: the Hasheesh Eater The Agnostic The Mantra-Yogi The Buddhist The Violinist. By Francis Bendick EHE! By George Raffalovich Half-Hours with Famous Mahatmas. No. I. By Sam Hardy The Thief-Taker. By Aleister Crowley Review The Eyes of St. Ljubov. By J. F. C. Fuller And George Raffalovich Midsummer Eve. By Ethel Archer The Poetical Memory Adela The Three Worms. By Edward Storer The Felon Flower. By Ethel Archer The Big Stick Glaziers' Houses In the Temple. By Victor B. Neuburg Endpages Special Supplement: the High History of Sir Palamedes the Saracen Knight and of his Following the Questing Beast
Number 5 Frontpages Editorial Liber HHH [sub figura CCCXLI] The Blind Prophet. By Aleister Crowley The Training of the Mind. By Ananda Metteya The Sabbath. By Ethel Ramsay The Temple of Solomon the King A Nocturne. By Victor B. Neuburg The Vixen. By Francis Bendick The Pilgrim. By Aleister Crowley My Crapulous Contemporaries, No. IV.—Wisdom While You Waite. By Aleister Crowley X-Rays on Ex-Probationers. By Perdurabo The Vampire. By Ethel Archer The Big Stick Correspondence Stop Press Reviews Special Supplement: Liber CCCCXVIII (XXX Aerum) [vel Saecvli sub figura CCCCXVIII, Being of the Angels of the 30 Aethyrs, the Vision and the Voice]
Number 6 Frontpagesf Editorial Liber X [Liber Porta Lucis] Liber XVI [Liber Turris vel Domus Dei] Liber XC [Liber Tzaddi vel Hamus Hermeticus] Liber CLVI [Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni] Liber CC [Liber Resh vel Helios] Liber CCCLXX [Liber A'Ash vel Capricorni Pneumatici] Three Poems For Jane Cheron. By Aleister Crowley Circe. By Ethel Archer The Electric Silence Song The Scorpion. By Aleister Crowley The Earth. By Francis Bendick Sleep. By Ethel Archer The Ordeal of Ida Pendragon. By Martial Nay The Autumn Woods. By Victor Neuburg The Dangers of Mysticism The Big Stick. By John Yarker, E. Whineray, Aleister Crowley, Etc. Endpages Special Supplement: The Rites of Eleusis
Number 7 Frontpages Editorial Liber I [vel Magi] Liber XI [Liber Nu] Liber LXIV [Liber Israfel] Liber LXVI [Liber Stellae Rubeae] Liber CLXXV [Astarte vel Liber Berylli] Liber CCVI [Liber Ru vel Spiritus] Liber CCXXXI Liber CD [Liber Tau vel Kabbalae Trium Literarum] Liber CDLXXIV [Liber os Asbysmi vel Daath] Liber DLV [Liber Had] Liber DCCCXXXI [Liber Tau] Liber CMXIII [Liber ThIShARB viae Memoriae] Adonis. By Aleister Crowley The Ghouls. By Aleister Crowley The Four Winds. By Aleister Crowley Independence. By Aleister Crowley Showstorm. By Aleister Crowley 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 Apollo Bestows the Violin. By Aleister Crowley Diana of the Inlet. By Katharine Susannah Prichard Silence. By Ethel Archer Memory of Love. By Meredith Starr Across the Gulf. By Aleister Crowley The Temple of Solomon the King ("Continued") My Crapulous Contemporaries. No. V., the Bismarck of Battersea. By A. Quiller, Jun. (Aleister Crowley) Arthur in the Area Again. By Aleister Crowley The Big Stick. Reviews By Aleister Crowley and John Yarker A Birthday. By Aleister Crowley
Number 8 Frontpages Editorial θέλημα : a Tone-Testament By Leila Waddell Three Poems. By Victor B. Neuburg The Temple of Solomon the King (continued) His Secret Sin Long Odds Doctor Bob. A Sketch By Mary D'este and Aleister Crowley The Woodcutter La Foire. By Barbey De Rochechouart Professor Zircon 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 Stepney The Tell-Tale Heart. Adapted from the Story of E. A. Poe. By Aleister Crowley Sorites A Description of the Cards of the Tarot, with their Attributions; Including a Method of Divination by their Use On-On-"Poet" Elder Eel The Spadger To Persis Waite's Wet or the Backslider's Return My Crapulous Contemporaries. No. VI. An Obituary The New Evelyn Hope Reviews Special Supplement: Sepher Sephiroth
Number 9 Frontpages Editorial The Temple of Solomon the King ("Continued") Lines to a Young Lady Violinist on Her Playing in a Green Dress Designed By the Author Energized Enthusiasm The "Titanic" A Literatooralooral Treasure-Trove Threnody Dischmatal by Night. By Arthur Grimble A Quack Painter At Sea Cancer? Dumb! The Vitriol-Thrower The Fairy Fiddler. By Ethel Archer An Evocation of Bartzabel the Spirit of Mars The Testament of Magdalen Blair Ercildoune. By Aleister Crowley Athanasius Contra Decanum My Crapulous Contemporaries. No. VII. A Galahad in Gomorrah 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. The Tango: A Sketch. By Mary D'este and Aleister Crowley The Big Stick Reviews
Number 10 Frontpages Editorial Liber L. Vel Legis The Book of the Law Liber ΒΑΤΡΑΧΟΦΕΝΟΒΟΟΚΟΣΜΟΜΑΧΙΑ Svb Figvra DXXXVI A Syllabus of the Οfficial Ιnstructions of A∴ A∴ The Ship As in a Glass, Darkly. By Arthur Grimble. Two Fragments of Ritual The Disciples The Temple of Solomon the King ("Concluded)" Rosa Ignota. By Victor B. Neuburg The Game of Crowley Boo to Buddha Crowley Pool Hymn to Satan A Ballad of Bedlam. By Ethel Archer. Dead Weight The Big Stick Colophon—To Laylah Eight-And-Twenty Index to Volume I Endpages Special Supplement: The Key of the Mysteries
Volume II Volume II was never published. A common misconception is that the reason is 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: The Blue Equinox Number 2: The Gospel According to St. Bernard Shaw Number 3: The Equinox of the Gods Number 4: Eight Lectures on Yoga Number 5: The Book of Thoth Number 6: Liber Aleph Number 7: Shih Yi Number 8: Tao Teh Ching Number 9: The Holy Books of Thelema Nunber 10: The Review of Scientific Illuminism
Volume IV
Number 1, Commentaries on the Holy Books and Other Papers Occultism One Star in Sight Liber XXXIII. An Account of A∴A∴ Liber Collegii Sancti sub figura CLXXXV (Being the Tasks of the Grades and Their Oaths) Liber Vesta vel פרכת sub figura DCC (Book of the Robes of the Order) Liber DCLXXI vel Pyramidos: A Ritual of Self-Initiation Based Upon the Formula of the Neophyte Four Paintings by J.F.C. Fuller Liber VIII (The Ritual Proper for the Invocation of Augoeides) Liber LXV with Commentary (Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente) Liber LXXI, the Voice of the Silence with Commentary Shorter Commentaries to the Holy Books
Number 2, The Vision and the Voice : With Commentary and Other Papers Liber CDXVIII. The Vision and the Voice with Commentary Liber CCCXXV. The Bartzabel Working Liber LX. The Ab-ul-Diz Working Liber CDXV. Opus Lutetianum, The Paris Working Appendix I: Algerian Diary, 1909 Appendix II: Diary Fragment, 1910
Motta Equinox Published after Crowley's death, a series entitled The Equinox, Volume V was released by Marcelo Motta and his organization, Thelema Publishing Co.
Vol. V, No. 1: The Commentaries to Liber AL vel Legis (1975)