THE JOURNAL OF THELEMIC SCHOLARSHIP

This issue (Volume One, Number Three) of the Journal contains three articles and one poem by Aleister Crowley which are quite rare. “Felo De Se” is a short story produced by him for The International, the American magazine for which Crowley worked as editor during 1917-18 e.v. It is an amusing yet profound piece about a young disciple who contemplates suicide and is treated to an evening of dissertation on the subject by a Master of the Law of Thelema. We are also proud to present “His Brother’s Keeper” by Marcelo Ramos Motta (written under the pen-name Mark Hellington), a previously unpublished television screenplay. “The Burning of Melcarth” was also published in The International, under the pseudonym of Mark Wells. This was one of a series of stories inspired by Frazer’s The Golden Bough, and provides an excellent example of A.C.’s facility with the short-story form. Additional items include “The Purple Mandarin,” poetry from The International, and “The Crisis in Freemasonry,” which appeared in The English Review. This latter item is an important article which describes in plain language the central secret of Freemasonry from the perspective of an Initiate who researched the matter thoroughly.