Gems from the Equinox

TO SYNTHESIZE THE AIM OF RELIGION AND THE METHOD OF SCIENCE

This was the mission of the original Equinox - a massive work printed during the early twentieth century in ten large volumes and several subsequent books. It has long been out of print, and even when republished it is beyond the economic reach of most students. This one-volume condensation contains all the important magical writings from the original, edited and arranged by Israel Regardie so that the student can "find his way throught the maze more easily.

Crowley said of the Equinox: "My special job was to preserve the Sacred Tradition, so that a new Renassance might in due season rekindle the hidden light. I was accordingly to make a Quintessence of the Ancient Wisdom, and publish it in as permanent form possible."

That Renaissance is now. Here we have a "masterpiece of instruction" - systematizing in masterful prose the subject matter of the occult, stripping it of the "superstition, dross and fantasy" encrusted on it over the ages.

One section deals with the history, grades and official program of the Magical Order, the A.'.A.'., founded by Crowley; another with the Law in this New Aeon. A third is one of the most lucid texts on yoga avaible. A fourth delineates magical rituals, which, like yoga, serve to unite the mind to single idea: an essential to the Great Work. Here are included basic rituals, methods of consecution, of invocation of elements and elementals, the Mass of the Phoenix and the Gnostic Mass, and sublime Vision and the Voice. Also included is a section on sex magick. Crowley's own comentary on Blavatsky's The voice of Silence, and his invaluable comments on the program of exercises of one who became a Master of the Temple.

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