CURRICULUM OF A∴A∴

COURSE I.

GENERAL READING

SECTION 1.—Books for Serious Study:
The Equinox. The standard Work of Reference in all occult matters. The Encyclopædia of Initiation.
Collected Works of A. Crowley. These works contain many mystical and magical secrets, both stated clearly in prose, and woven into the Robe of sublimest poesy.
The Yi King. 1 (S.B.E. Series, Oxford University Press.) The “Classic of Changes”; gives the initiated Chinese system of Magick.
The Tao Teh King. 1 (S.B.E. Series.) Gives the initiated Chinese system of Mysticism.
Tannhäuser, by A. Crowley. An allegorical drama concerning the Progress of the Soul; the Tannhäuser story slightly remodelled.
The Upanishads. (S.B.E. Series.) The Classical Basis of Vedantism, the best-known form of Hindu Mysticism.
“S.B.E.” stands for “Sacred Books of the East”, under the general editorship of Max Müller. This outstanding series is now available in Dover Press editions as quality paperbacks for a moderate price. They are the best translations extant bar ours, which cover only a few volumes as indicated here. The Dover Press editors are to be congratulated on making those priceless books available to contemporary readers.

1. These two books are published by us in Equinox Vol. V, No. 3. The Chinese Texts of Magick and Mysticism. The Equinox Vol. V forms part of this digital corpus. —TDC Editors.

     The Bhagavad-Gita. A dialogue in which Krishna, the Hindu “Christ”, expounds a system of Attainment.
     The Voice of the Silence, by H.P. Blavatsky, with an elaborate commentary by Frater O.M. Equinox III 1.
The Goetia. The most intelligible of the mediaeval rituals of Evocation. Contains also the favorite Invocation of the Master Therion.
See Appendix IV of this book.
The Shiva Sanhita. A famous Hindu treatise on certain physical practices.
The Hathayoga Pradipika. Similar to The Shiva Sanhita.
Erdmann’s “History of Philosophy”. A compendious account of philosophy from the earliest times. Most valuable as a general education of the mind.
This book is now rare, expensive and outdated. It can be profitably replaced by Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy. The Spiritual Guide of Molinos. A simple manual of Christian mysticism.
Close to Christist, but not enough for the Vatican: Molinos was suspected of heresy and his followers were closely watched, threatened and persecuted.
The Star of the West. (Captain Fuller.) An introduction to the study of the Works of Aleister Crowley.
The Dhammapada. (S.B.E. Series, Oxford University Press.) The best of the Buddhist classics.
The Questions of King Milinda. (S.B.E. Series.) Technical points of Buddhist dogma, illustrated by dialogues.
Varieties of Religious Experience. (James.) Valuable as showing the uniformity of mystical attainment.
This book is available in a Modern Library edition.
Kabbala Denudata, von Rosenroth: also the Kabbalah Unveiled, by S. L. Mathers.

The text of the Kabalah, with commentary. A good elementary introduction to the subject.
This, however, is the Orthodox Hebrew Kabalah, most of it as egregiously nonsensical as Christist theological tracts.
Konx om Pax. Four invaluable treatises and a preface on Mysticism and Magick.
One of the treatises, The Wake World, is to be found in The Equinox Vol. V, No. 4, “Sex and Religion”.
The entire book, Konx om Pax forms part of the digital edition —TDC Editors
The Pistis Sophia. An admirable introduction to the study of Gnosticism.
The best translations of this book have the Greek original side by side with the translation.
The Oracles of Zoroaster. An invaluable collection of precepts mystical and magical.
Not, however, by the Magus of the same name, nor Parsee from a religious point of view.
The Dream of Scipio, by Cicero. Excellent for its Vision and its Philosophy.
The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, by Fabre d’Olivet. An interesting study of the exoteric doctrines of this Master.
A new edition by Crowley and Motta is being prepared. D’Olivet’s translation is basically Judeo-Christist.
The Divine Pymander, by Hermes Trismegistus. Invaluable as bearing on the Gnostic ] Philosophy.
Again, the best translations come side by side with the Greek text.
The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians, reprint of Franz Hartmann. An invaluable compendium.
This book was done under the inspiration of Blavatsky, the Master, after whom good Franz abandoned the Wine of Iacchus for bourgeois beer. It has been shamelessly pirated by many thieves. It is true the artwork was all in the public domain; but Hartmann’s sweat wasn’t.

Scrutinium Chymicum, by Michael Maier. One of the best treatises on alchemy.
Written by a Jew, as was the next one on the list. This book is not easily available; some of its most suggestive illustrations can be found in Jung’s “Psychology and Alchemy”.
Science and the Infinite, by Sidney Klein. One of the best essays written in recent years.
Now, however, outdated. Any of Isaac Asimov’s or Arthur C. Clarkes’s’ collections of essays on science will replace it with profit.
Two Essays on the Worship of Priapus, by Richard Payne Knight. Invaluable to all students.
Several editions of this book are now available. The best American one was done by Lyle Stuart. For once, no edition is piracy. The book has been in the public domain for almost a century.
The Golden Bough, by J. G. Frazer. The Text-Book of Folk Lore. Invaluable to all students.
Still, incredibly, the best book on the subject. Several “annotated editions” (read expurgated) have been done; the only purpose was to disguise or minimize the fact that Frazer’s book is a relentless exposure of the insane theology of Christism. The serious student should try to acquire the full edition in several volumes; next the only edition in one volume authorized by the author himself. This is one of the most important books of this or any other century.
The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine. Excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition.
It should be remarked that Paine experienced as many difficulties in his time as did Crowley and Germer in theirs, and we in ours.
Rivers of Life, by General Forlong. An invaluable text-book of old systems of initiation.
Hard to find as of this date, but worth looking for.

Three Dialogues, by Bishop Berkeley. The Classic of subjective idealism.
Essays of David Hume. The Classic of Academic Scepticism.
First Principles, by Herbert Spencer. The Classic of Agnosticism.
Prolegomena, by Emanuel Kant. The best introduction to Metaphysics.
With regard to the preceding four works, the serious student should consult Liber Os vel Abysmi, The Equinox Vol. I, No. 7, p. 77.
The Canon. The best text-book of Applied Qabalah.
This book is now available in—naturally—a pirated edition. It was originally published anonymously.
The Fourth Dimension, by H. Hinton. The text-book on this subject.
It still is.
The Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley. Masterpieces of philosophy, as of prose.
Still very actual as philosophy, and monumental as style. The following books have been added by this editor: they were not extant when Crowley provided the Curriculum; in fact, many of them were directly or indirectly inspired by Therion’s Magick.
The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir. Although this book is now in many respects outdated, it was the first statement of feminism to become intenationally famous, and still gives the basic point of view of intelligent modern women very clearly. The serious reader should study it and The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan, before perusing the following books on this list; for the revolutionary implications of Darwin’s and Wilson’s work are even more important to women than to men at the present stage of human social evolution.
Nature and Man’s Fate, by Garrett Hardin.

     The only valid critique of Marxism ever written: it goes to the heart of the Socialist fallacy without kowtowing to what bleats all over the world under the label of “democracy”. The serious reader should not be surprised to discover that the book is apparently about Darwin and the Law of Evolution.
Sociobiology, by Edward O. Wilson. Probably the most important book since Darwin’s The Origin of Species, and as revolutionary in its implications as Darwin’s. Professor Wilson has, naturally, been the target of slaves and slave-drivers ever since the book first came to light in 1975 e.v. It is as difficult to read this book as it is to read The Origin of the Species—both are strikingly original works written for scientific minds of the highest caliber by scientific minds of the highest caliber, expressing a totally new approach to cherished half-facts and entrenched delusions. The serious reader may find it profitable to read first Sociobiology and Behaviour, by David P. Barash. At present, Professor Wilson’s book is available from the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Professor Barash’s from Elsevier, New York, New York.
     The object of this course of reading is to familiarize the student with all that has been said by the Great Masters in every time and country. …
Please notice that “Masters” does not exclude scientists or artists. Anyone who has done strikingly original work on behalf of our species is a Master in one school or another; sometimes in several at once.
     …He or she should make a critical examination of them; not so much with the idea of discovering where truth lies, for he or she cannot do this except by virtue of his or her own spiritual experience, but rather to discover the essential harmony in those varied works. He or she should be on his or her guard against partisanship with a favourite author. He or she should familiarize himself or herself thoroughly with the method of mental equilibrium, endeavouring to contradict any statement soever, although it may be apparently axiomatic.

     The general object of this course, besides that already stated, is to assure sound education in occult matters, so that when spiritual illumination comes it may find a well-built temple. Where the mind is strongly biased towards any special theory, the result of an illumination is often to inflame that portion of the mind which is thus overdeveloped, with the result that the aspirant, instead of becoming an Adept, becomes a bigot and fanatic.
     The A∴A∴ does not offer examination in this course, but recommends these books as the foundation of a library.

SECTION 2.—Other books, principally fiction, of a generally suggestive and helpful kind:

Zanoni, by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. Valuable for its facts and suggestions about Mysticism.
Lytton was Eliphas Levi’s favourite English pupil, and a past incarnation of Marcelo Motta. Zanoni should be read in connection with The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, on which it was inspired as much as by Levi’s teaching. As ethical philosophy Zanoni is primary, but as occult fiction it still works.
A Strange Story, by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. Valuable for its facts and suggestions about Magick.
This is actually a better book than Zanoni; perhaps for this reason it has not enjoyed as popular a career.
The Blossom and the Fruit, by Mabel Collins. Valuable for its account of the Path.
Petronius Arbiter. Valuable for those who have wit to understand it.
By this he means especially The Satyricon.
The Golden Ass, by Apuleius. Valuable for those who have wit to understand it.

Le Comte de Gabalis. Valuable for its hints of those things which it mocks.
This book purported to be a satyre against the legendary “Rosicrucians”, who were as fashionable at the time as Scientology and “Transcendental Meditation” in their day.
The Rape of the Lock, by Alexander Pope. Valuable for its account of elementals.
Undine, by de la Motte Fouqué. Valuable as an account of elementals.
Black Magic, by Marjorie Bowen. An intensely interesting story of sorcery.
Albeit blatantly Christist in its moralisms, this book is interesting as being perhaps the first feminist occult novel in history.
La Peau de Chagrin, by Honore de Balzac. A magnificent magical allegory.
Most useful to those who have read their Sterne. It teaches Prudence in the sense of the introduction to Tristam Shandy, which is the sense of Liber Aleph, Ch 53, and of Atu IX.
Number Nineteen, by Edgar Jepson. An excellent tale of modern magic.
Dracula, by Bram Stoker. Valuable for its account of legends concerning vampires.
Scientific Romances, by H. Hinton. Valuable as an introduction to the study of the Fourth Dimension.
Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. Valuable to those who understand the Qabalah.
Alice Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll. Valuable to those who understand the Qabalah.
The Hunting of the Snark, by Lewis Carroll. Valuable to those who understand the Qabalah.
The Arabian Nights, translated by either Sir Richard Burton or John Payne. Valuable as a storehouse of oriental magick-lore.

Morte d’Arthur, by Sir Thomas Mallory. Valuable as a storehouse of occidental magick-lore.
The Works of François Rabelais. Invaluable for Wisdom.
The best English translation is Samuel Putnam’s.
The Kasidah, by Sir Richard Burton. Valuable as a summary of philosophy.
The Song Celestial, by Sir Edwin Arnold. “The Bhagavad-Gita” in verse.
The Light of Asia, by Sir Edwin Arnold. An account of the attainment of Gotama Buddha.
The Rosicrucians, by Hargrave Jennings. Valuable to those who can read between the lines.
The Real History of the Rosicrucians, by A. E. Waite. A good vulgar piece of journalism on the subject.
The Works of Arthur Machen. Most of these stories are of great magical interest.
Basically Christist in morality, albeit a liberal old-fashioned no-Papism-please Anglican kind of morality. Machen was a superb stylist and one of the few serious members of the old “Golden Dawn”.
The Writings of William O’Neill (Blake). Invaluable to all students.
We demur. Most of the “prophetic writings” are of interest to Englishpersons (real Englishpersons, the kind who think the Hanover infestation should go back where it came from) only. The occult student from other shores should concentrate on the shorter poems, to which the “Songs of Innocence and Experience” form a good introduction, and on “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, which is one of the most remarkable pieces of original thought ever produced, and—as he says—invaluable to all who would understand and practice Thelemic ethics.
The Shaving of Shagpat, by George Meredith. An excellent allegory.

Lilith, by George MacDonald. A good introduction to the Astral.
Basically Christist in morality, however.
Là Bas, by J. K. Huysmans. An account of the extravagances caused by the Sin-complex.
The Lore of Proserpine, by Maurice Hewlett. A suggestive enquiry into the Hermetic Arcanum.
En Route, by J. K. Huysmans. An account of the follies of Christist mysticism.
Sidonia the Sorceress, by Wilhelm Meinhold.
The Amber Witch, by Wilhelm Meinhold. These two tales are highly informative.
Mostly, however, about the “Christian love and tolerance” practiced in Europe just before the Renaissance. Meinhold’s concept of magic and black magic is straight out of the grimoires and the pulpit. Lutheren pulpit, but pulpit nevertheless.
Macbeth; Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Tempest, by W. Shakespeare. Interesting for traditions treated.
According to Crowley, the invocations in verse can be profitably used.
Redgauntlet, by Sir Walter Scott. Also one or two other novels. Interesting for traditions treated.
Rob Roy, by James Grant. Interesting for traditions treated.
The Magician, by W. Somerset Maugham. An amusing hotch-pot of stolen goods.
Maugham’s later introduction to this book, however, shows him to have become a mean and petty faggot as he aged. Inferior wines turn to vinegar.
The Bible, by various authors unknown. The Hebrew and Greek Originals are of Qabalistic value. …
Originals? Maybe so, in the case of the Hebrew texts.

The Greek texts are adulterated piracies of Gnostic authors, and their Qabalistic value depends on where the text is accurate and where it is not. As a rule, only an Initiate of the true Christian current will be able to discriminate between chaff and wheat.
     …It contains also many magical apologues, and recounts many tales of folk-lore and magical rites.
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling. An admirable study of Eastern thought and life. …
As it was when the book was written. India has become independent since; the result seems to prove that slaves should serve.
     … Many other stories by this author are highly suggestive and informative.
He means the short-story form, of which Kipling was a master. Much of his verse, also, is extremely useful to Thelemites.
We append a few works of contemporary writers:
The Magic Island, by William Seabrook. Inspired and oriented by Crowley, it remains the single valid treatment of Haitian Voodoo by an outsider. It has, of course, been heatedly criticized by Christist missionaries, and at least one Jesuit priest has called it utter nonsense—especially in what concerns the mystical meaning behind the Goat Sacrifice.
Rosemary’s Baby, by Ira Levin. Utter nonsense, of course; but amusing nonsense, and useful as a slap in the face of conventional Christist morality.
The White Goddess, by Robert Graves. A useful preliminary study of Matriarchy as it was practiced in the Aeon of Isis.
Woman’s Mysteries, by Dr. M. Esther Harding. Another study, from a Jungian point of view.
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype, by Erich Neumann. Another Jungian approach. This book is chiefly valuable for its profusion of marvellous illustrations. They may even, to an extent, initiate those sensitive enough to react to images and who have genetic memory of the Aeon of Isis.

The text, like Jung’s own “Psychology and Alchemy”, is to be taken with serious reservations, especially by women. Were the author not a male and a Jew!
The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology, by Professor Rossell Hope Robbins. The only civilized modern study of the two subjects. Invaluable to all students.
La Sorciere, by Jules Michelet. Invaluable to students of the witch craft as it was practiced by women in the Middle Ages in Europe, and the psychological pressures that led those women to brave the terrible dangers of the craft. The book is particularly valuable in that Michelet, writing soon after and an intellectual son of the French Revolution, believed in neither the Christist god or the Christist devil.
The God of the Witches and The Witch Cult in Western Europe, by Dr. Margaret A. Murray. Two highly original anthropological studies of the Wycca religion. Many of her conclusions are intuitional leaps rather than deductions from facts, which has led many scholars to view her work with reservations. They are, nevertheless, valuable. Especially so to women who are also occult students.
The Sea Priestess and Moon Magic, by Dion Fortune (Violet M. Firth). The first feminine (but not feminist) approach to occult fiction writing since Marjorie Bowen. Primary from the Initiatic point of view, but readable.
The Secrets of Dr. Taverner, by Dion Fortune (Violet M. Firth). The tales of the occult collected under this title are allegedly fictional accounts of Ms. Firth’s own paranormal experiences. They are all readable; some are interesting. “The Goat-Footed God”, however, a novel that purports to do for occultism what Ulysses did for modern literature, is more heavy-footed than a bull, and just as full of shit.
Psychic Self-Defense, by Dion Fortune (Violet M. Firth). This would have gone down better as fiction, especially Ms. Firth’s “skrying of Akasic records” to explain other people’s present behaviour from their behaviour in supposed past incarnations.

     But not everybody can be a Blavatsky. Ms. Firth once wrote a letter to Aleister Crowley telling him that she would follow him secretly but disavow him in public. This led to a comfortable existence and an undeserved reputation for wisdom. It is not on record that Ms. Firth ever extended any financial help to the man whose work she copied and profited from, not even when, in his later years, he was often close to starvation. Francis “Israel” Regardie, while living in England, became Ms. Firth’s paramour for a time. Like attracts like.
Moonchild and Diary of a Drug Fiend, by Aleister Crowley. These two novels are more highly informative than anything Ms. Firth ever wrote. The first is in a light, satirical vein; the second has a more serious approach. They are both of the greatest value to a Thelemic student.
Flim-Flam, by James Randi. This book should be read by all serious occultists. It debunks and exposes charlatanism in all its forms, conscious and unconscious. If it won’t make you a more responsible occultist, at least it may make you a less gullible one.
For Mythology, as teaching Correspondences:
        Books of Fairy Tales generally.
        Oriental Classics generally.
        Sufi Poetry generally.
        Scandinavian and Teutonic Sagas generally.
        Celtic Folk-Lore generally.

     With respect to future mythologies, and mythologies that are springing from the rapid changes taking place on the planet due to the impact of the New Aeon, the serious student should read science fiction, especially writers like Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Vance, John Varley, the early Robert Heinlein, the early Andre Norton, Isaac Asimov, John Wyndham, Larry Niven, Frederick Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth, Theodore Sturgeon, Katherine MacLean, Anne McCaffrey’s novels, Vonda McIntyre’s novels, Ray Bradbury’s short stories, Damon Knight, C. J. Cherryh, and many other talents past and present.
     We would add Stephen Baxter to this list.—TDC Editors

     This course is of general value to the beginner. While it is not to be taken, in all cases, too seriously, it will give him or her a general familiarity with the mystical and magical tradition, create a deep interest in the subject, and suggest many helpful lines of thought.
     It has been impossible to do more, in this list, than to suggest a fairly comprehensive course of reading.

SECTION 3.—Official publications of the A∴A∴

All these instructions will soon be published as a special Equinox VII Number, fully annotated and cross-referenced.¹ In order to complete this we are producing the Thelemic Digital Corpus, which allows for complete cross-referencing as soon as all the Equinox and Oriflamme Volumes and numbers have been added.—TDC Editors

Liber I. Liber B vel Magi.

An account of the Grade of Magus, the highest grade which it is ever possible to manifest in any way whatever upon this plane. Or so it is said by the Masters of the Temple.
Equinox Vol. I, No. VII, p. 5.
Oriflamme Vol. VI, No. 6. Appendix VII.

Liber II.
The Message of the Master Therion.

Explains the Essence of the new law in a very simple manner.
Equinox Vol. III, No. 1, p. 39.

Liber III.
Liber Jugorum.

An instruction for the control of speech, action and thought.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 4, p. 9
Oriflamme Vol. VI, No. 6, Appendix VII

1. Readers are referred to the Editorial to this Book with respect to this planned publication.

   Liber Locate is a digital adaptation of this section of this Appendix that provides hyperlinks to the Libri available in this digital edition of The Oriflamme VI—The TDC Editors.

Liber IV.
ABA.

A general account in elementary terms of magical and mystical powers.
Part 1. Mysticism.–Oriflamme VI, No.1, Yoga and Magick
Part 2. Magick and Mysticism. (Elementary Theory)—Oriflamme VI, No.2, Magick and Mysticism.
Part 3. Magick in Theory and Practice.–Oriflamme VI, No.5 & 6, Thelemic Magick Unexpurgated Comment Parts I & II
Part 4. The Law.– Oriflamme VII, No.7, The Equinox of the Gods – to be republished.

Liber VI.
Liber O Vel Manus et Sagittae.

Instructions given for elementary study of the Qabalah, …
Actually, it would be better to say practical study of the Qabalah. There is nothing elementary about it after the student has been practicing the book for two or three decades, as he or she should.
…Assumption of God forms, Vibration of Divine Names, the Rituals of Pentagram and Hexagram, and their uses in protection and invocation, a method of attaining astral visions so-called, and an instruction in the practice called Rising on the Planes.
Equinox Vol. I, No.2, p. 11
Oriflamme Vol. VI, No.6, Appendix VI

Liber VII.
Liber Liberi vel Lapis Lazuli, Adumbratio Kabbalae Aegyptiorum. sub Figura VII.

Being the Voluntary Emancipation of a certain exempt Adept from his Adeptship. These are the Birth Words of a Master of the Temple.
Its 7 chapters are referred to the 7 planets in the following order:Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Sol, Mercury, Luna, Venus.

Liber VIII.

See CCCCXVIII.

Liber IX.
Liber E vel Exercitiorum.

Instructs the aspirant in the necessity of keeping a record. Suggests methods of testing physical clairvoyance. Gives instruction in Asana, Pranayama and Dharana, and advises the application of tests to the physical body, in order that the student may thoroughly understand his own limitations.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 1, p. 25 & Appendix VII of this Book.

Liber X.
Liber Porta Lucis.

An account of the sending forth of the Master Therion by the A∴A∴ and an explanation of His mission.

Equinox Vol. I, No. 6, p. 3.

Liber XI.
Liber NV.

An Instruction for attaining Nuit.

Equinox Vol. I, No. 7, p. 11. and Vol. V, No. 1. p. 269.
Equinox Vol. V, No. 1. p 261

Liber XIII.
Graduum Montis Abiegni.

An account of the task of the Aspirant from Probationer to Adept.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 3, p. 3.

Liber XV.
Ecclesiæ Gnosticæ Catholicæ Canon Missæ.

Represents the original and true pre-Christist Christianity.
Equinox Vol. III, No. 1, p. 247 and Appendix VI of this book.

Liber XVI.
Liber Turris vel Domus Dei.

An Instruction for attainment by the direct destruction of thoughts as they arise in the mind.
A very difficult and most important Instruction. It gives independence from telepathic influence of any sort and at any level of the Ruach.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 6, p. 9.

Liber XVII.
Liber I.A.O.

Gives three methods of attainment through a willed series of thoughts.
Unpublished. It is the active form of Liber CCCLXI.

Liber XXI.
The Classic of Purity,

by Ko Hsuen.
A new translation from the Chinese by the Master Therion.
Equinox Vol. V, No. 3, p. 5.

Liber XXV.
The Ritual of the Star Ruby.

An improved form of the lesser ritual of the Pentagram.
Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies, pp. 34 & 35. Also Appendix VI of this book.

Liber XXVII.
Liber Trigrammaton,

Being a book of Trigrams of the Mutations of the Tao with the Yin and the Yang.
An account of the cosmic process: corresponding to the stanzas of Dzyan in another system.
It will be published in Equinox VII along with the Shih Yi Jien, which is organically interwoven with it.¹
Equinox Vol. V, No. 1, p. 155 (2nd edition).

Liber XXX.
Liber Libræ.

An elementary course of morality suitable for the average man.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 1, p. 17.

Liber XXXIII.

An account of A∴A∴ first written in the Language of his period by the Councillor Von Eckartshausen and now revised and rewritten in the Universal Cipher.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 1, p. 4.

Liber XXXVI.
The Star Sapphire.

An improved ritual of the Hexagram.
Liber CCCXXXIII (The Book of Lies), pp. 46 & 7, and Appendix VI of this book.

Liber XLI.
Thien Tao.

An Essay on Attainment by the Way of Equilibrium.
Konx Om Pax, p. 52. Equinox Vol. V, No. 3, p 235.

Liber XLIV.
The Mass of the Phoenix.

A Ritual of the Law.
Equinox Vol. V, No. 1, p .275 and Liber CCCXXXIII (Book of Lies), pp. 55-7, and Appendix VI in this book.

Liber XLVI.
The Key of the Mysteries.

A Translation of La Clef des Grands Mystères, by Eliphas Levi. Specially adapted to the task of the Attainment of Bhakta-Yoga.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 10, Supplement.

Liber XLIX.
Shi Yi Chien.

An account of the divine perfection illustrated by the seven-fold permutation of the Dyad.
It will be published as part of Volume VII of the Equinox. 1 Unpublished.

Liber LI.
The Lost Continent.

An account of the continent of Atlantis: the manners and customs, magical rites and opinions of its people, together with a true account of the catastrophe, so called, which ended in its disappearance.
This entire description is misleading. Actually, under the guise of speaking of Atlantis, Liber LI provides a series of hints on possible benefits and problems of O.T.O. training.
Unpublished.

Liber LV.
The Chymical Jousting of Brother Perardua with the seven Lances that he brake.

An account of the Magical and Mystic Path in the language of Alchemy.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 1, p. 88.

Liber LVIII.

An article on the Qabalah in Equinox Vol. I, No. 5, p. 65.

1. This Text, painstakingly assembled by Mr. Motta during his lifetime from A.C.’s manuscripts, was stolen with his archives after his death. If the reader of this book has access to an mss. or tss. of the Shih Yi Jien please send us a copy along with a history of it’s origins. We will publish it once its authenticity is established. —TDC Editors.

Liber LIX.
Across the Gulf.

A fantastic account of a previous Incarnation. Its principal interest lies in the fact that its story of the overthrowing of Isis by Osiris may help the reader to understand the meaning of the overthrowing of Osiris by Horus in the present Aeon.
The average reader is strongly warned that the adjective fantastic is earnestly meant.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 7, p. 293.

Liber LXI.
Liber Causæ.

Explains the actual history and origin of the present movement. …
Of the White School of Magick, he means. “Mythopeia” is roughly the equivalent of “mystification” in the active sense in this context.
… Its statements are accurate in the ordinary sense of the word. The object of the book is to discount Mythopeia.
Equinox Vol. III, No. 1, p. 55.

Liber LXIV.
Liber Israfel,

formerly called Anubis. An instruction in a suitable method of preaching.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 7, p. 21.

Liber LXV.
Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente.

An account of the relations of the Aspirant with his Holy Guardian Angel.
Reprinted with an extensive Commentary by Crowley and clarifying annotations by Motta in The Equinox Vol. V, No. 2.
Equinox Vol. III, No. 1 p. 65. Equinox Vol. V, No. 2 p. 37. (Commented).

Liber LXVI.
Liber Stellæ Rubæ.

A secret ritual, the Heart of IAO-OAI, delivered unto V.V.V.V.V. for his use in a certain matter of Liber Legis.
See Liber CCCXXXIII (Book of Lies), pp. 34-5. Equinox Vol. I, No. 7 p. 29. Also Appendix VII of this book.

Liber LXVII.
The Sword of Song.

A critical study of various philosophies. An account of Buddhism.
A. Crowley, Collected Works, Vol. ii, pp. 140-203.

Liber LXXI.
The Voice of the Silence, the Two Paths, the Seven Portals.

by H. P. Blavatsky, with an elaborate commentary by Frater O.M.
Equinox Vol. III, No. 1. Supplement.

Liber LXXIII.
The Urn.

1. We have been informed that The Urn was included as Part Five of The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. Unfortunately, the typescript was stolen from the Germer archives and we cannot establish the authenticity or guarantee the completeness of the pirated “Confesssions” version of this A∴A∴ Liber. However, the original texts of both Moonchild and The Diary of a Drug Fiend are published as part of this Digital Archive of the Thelemic Corpus.—The TDC Editors.

This is the sequel to The Temple of Solomon the King and is the Diary of a Magus. This book contains a detailed account of all the experiences passed through by the Master Therion in his attainment of this grade of Initiation, the highest possible to any manifested Man.
Unpublished.¹

Liber LXXVIII.

A complete treatise on the Tarot giving the correct designs of the cards with their attributions and symbolic meanings on all the planes.
Part-published in Equinox Vol. I, No. 8, p. 143.

Liber LXXXI.
The Butterfly Net.

An account of a magical operation, particularly concerning the planet Luna, written in the form of a novel.
Published under the title “Moonchild” by the Mandrake Press, 41 Museum St., London, W.C.I.
The Mandrake Press was forced out of business for publishing Crowley soon after issuing his second long fiction work, The Diary of a Drug Fiend. Both books are, however, available in several pirate editions.
Versions of both these form part of this corpus, they have been typeset from 1st editions.

Liber LXXXIV.

Vel Chanokh.

A brief abstraction of the Symbolic representation of the Universe derived by Dr. John Dee through the Scrying of Sir Edward Kelly.
Part-published in Equinox Vol. I, No. 7, p. 229 & No. 8, p. 99.

Liber XC.
Tzaddi vel Hamus Hermeticus.

An account of Initiation, and an indication as to those who are suitable for the same.
Equinox Vol I, No. 6, p. 17.

Liber XCV.
The Wake-World.

A poetical allegory of the relations of the soul and the Holy Guardian Angel.
Konx Om Pax, p. 1. Equinox Vol. V, No. 4, p. 417.

Liber XCVI.
Liber Gaias.

A Handbook of Geomancy.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 2, p. 137.

Liber CVI.
A Treatise on the Nature of Death, and the proper attitude to be taken towards it.

Published in “The International”, New York, 1917 e.v. and in the Journal of Thelemic Scholarship. Volume 1, Number 2, Cancer Solstice Anno XC (1993 e.v.) Parzival XI° O.T.O. Foundation.

Liber CXI (Aleph).
The Book of Wisdom or Folly.

An extended and elaborate commentary on the Book of the Law, in the form of a letter from the Master Therion to his magical son. Contains some of the deepest secrets of initiation, with a clear solution of many cosmic and ethical problems.
Equinox Volume III, Number 6. See this digital Corpus —TDC Editors
Published Thelema Publishing Company, 1962 e.v.

Liber CL.
De Lege Libellum.

A further explanation of the Book of the Law, with special reference to the Powers and Privileges conferred by its acceptance.
Equinox Vol. III, No. 1, p. 99.

Liber CLVI.
Liber Cheth, vel Vallum Abiegni.

A perfect account of the task of the Exempt Adept considered under the symbols of a particular plane, not the intellectual.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 6, p. 23. Appendix VII of this book.

Liber CLVII.
The Tao Teh King. (Dao De Jing)

A new translation, with a commentary, by the Master Therion and another.
Equinox Vol. V, No. 3, p. 47.

Liber CLXV.
A Master of the Temple,

being an account of the attainment of Frater Unus In Omnibus. The record of a man who actually attained by the system taught by the A∴A∴
One of the many motives why The Equinox Vol. III, No. 2 was never published was Crowley’s intention to publish the second part of this record. By the time the issue would have been printed it had become clear that “Frater Unus in Omnibus” had failed to cross the Abyss.
Part-published in Equinox Vol. III, No. 1, p. 127.

Liber CLXXV.
Astarte vel Liber Berylli.

An instruction in attainment by the method of devotion, or Bhakta-Yogi.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 7, p. 37. Appendix VII of this book.

Liber CLXXXV.
Liber Collegii Sancti

Being the tasks of the Grades and their Oaths proper to Liber XIII. This is the official paper of the various grades. It includes the Task and Oath of a Probationer.
This Book is given to every Probationer who successfully concludes Probation and becomes a Neophyte.
Unpublished.

Liber CXCVII.
The High History of Good Sir Palamedes the Saracen Knight and of his following of the Questing Beast.

A poetic account of the Great Work and enumeration of many obstacles.
This is a remarkable piece of work, one of Crowley’s many masterpieces of Initiatic poetry. However, one must be already fairly advanced in the Path to profit from its references to the obstacles.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 4, Special Supplement.

Liber CC.
Resh vel Helios.

An instruction for the adoration of the Sun four times daily, with the object of composing the mind to meditation, and of regularising the practices.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 6, p. 29. Appendix VII of this book.

Liber CCVI.
Liber RU vel Spiritus.

Full instruction in Pranayama.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 7, p. 59. Appendix VII of this book.

Liber CCVII.
Syllabus.

An enumeration of the Official publications of the A\ A\ with a brief description of the contents of each book. Equinox Vol. III, No. 1, p. 11. This appendix is extracted therefrom.

Liber CCXX (AL vel Legis).
The Book of the Law,

which is the foundation of the whole work.
Text in Equinox Vol. I, No. 10, p. 9.
Short commentary in Equinox Vol. I, No. 7, p. 378.
Full commentary by the Master Therion through whom it was given to the world, will be published shortly.
“Shortly” took over fifty years. See Equinox Vol. V, No. 1. The Commentaries of AL. (Includes commentaries by another).

Liber CCXVI.
The Yi King. (Yi Jing)

A new translation, with a commentary by the Master Therion and another.
Equinox Vol. V, No. 3, p. 273.

Liber CCXXXI.
Liber Arcanorum

twn ATU tou TAHUTI quas vidit ASAR in AMENNTI sub figura CCXXXI. Liber Carcerorum twn QLIPHOTH cum suis Geniis. Adduntur Sigilla et Nomina Eorum.
An account of the cosmic process so far as it is indicated by the Tarot Trumps.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 7, p. 69. and Vol. V, No. 2, p. 273.

Liber CCXLII.
AHA!

An exposition in poetic language of several of the ways of attainment and the results obtained.
This Book differs from Liber CXCVII chiefly in that the latter describes obstacles along the Path, rather than the Path itself
Equinox Vol. I, No. 3, p. 9. Oriflamme Vol. VI, No. 7.

Liber CCLXV.
The Structure of the Mind.

A Treatise on psychology from the mystic and magical standpoint. Its study will help the aspirant to make a detailed scientific analysis of his mind, and so learn to control it.
Unpublished.

Liber CCC. Khabs am Pekht.

A special instruction for the Promulgation of the Law. This is the first and most important duty of every Aspirant of whatever grade. It builds up in him the character and Karma which forms the Spine of Attainment.
Equinox Vol. III, No. 1, p. 171.

Liber CCCXXXIII.
The Book of Lies falsely so-called.

Deals with many matters on all planes of the very highest importance. It is an official publication for Babes of the Abyss, but is recommended even to beginners as highly suggestive.
A new edition commented by Crowley and annotated by Marcelo Motta is in preparation.¹
Published in 1913 e.v. And Again with A.C.’s Commentaries in 1962 e.v. by Mr. Germer, Haydn Press

Liber CCCXXXV.
Adonis.

An account in poetic language of the struggle of the human and divine elements in the consciousness of man, giving their harmony following on the victory of the latter.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 7, p. 117.

1. It is presently impossible to determine the state of preparation attained by Mr. Motta before his death. The original text, published by Frater Saturnus X° will be re-published by the O.T.O. in due course and will form part of this digital Corpus.—TDC Editors.

Liber CCCXLI.
Liber H.H.H.

Gives three methods of attainment through a willed series of thoughts.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 5, p. 5, and Appendix VII of this book.

Liber CCCLXV, vel CXX.
The Preliminary Invocation of the Goetia

so-called, with a complete explanation of the barbarous names of evocation used therein, and the secret rubric of the ritual, by the Master Therion. This is the most potent invocation extant, and was used by the Master Himself in his attainment.
See Appendix IV of this book, p. 245.

Liber CD.
Liber TAU vel Kabbalæ Trium Literarum sub figura CD.

A graphic interpretation of the Tarot on the plane of initiation.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 7, p. 75.

Liber CCCCXII.
A vel Armorum.

An instruction for the preparation of the Elemental Instruments.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 4, p. 15, and Appendix VII of this book.

Liber CCCCXVIII.

Liber XXX AERUM vel Saeculi.

Being of the Angels of the Thirty Aethyrs, the Vision and the Voice.
Besides being the classical account of the thirty Aethyrs and a model of all visions, the cries of the Angels should be regarded as accurate, and the doctrine of the function of the Great White Brotherhood understood as the foundation of the Aspiration of the Adept. The account of the Master of the Temple should in particular be taken as authentic.
This was re-printed as “The Vision and the Voice”, with extensive notes by the Seer, by Frater SATURNUS X°, Mr. Karl Johannes Germer, as Oriflamme Vol. II, No. 1 in the Summer Solstice (L. N.) of 1952 e.v. It was subsequently pirated by an ex-secretary of Crowley and failed Probationer called Francis (a.k.a. “Israel”) Regardie, who mangled the author’s notes and mixed them with his own asinine comments. A new authorized edition, with the original text intact and notes by Marcelo Motta, is being prepared by the O.T.O.¹
Equinox Vol. I, No. 5, Special Supplement.
Oriflamme Vol. II, No. 1, with Commentary by The Master Therion, Thelema Publishing Company, 12 October 1952 e.v., Barstow, California, U.S.A.

Liber CDLXXIV.
Os Abysmi vel Da’ath.

An instruction in a purely intellectual method of entering the Abyss.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 7, p. 77.

1. See previous footnote. These difficulties are consequences of Stone’s theft of Mr. Motta’s Estate. Several treatises relating to these matters can be found in our current and future publications.—The Editors.

Liber D.
Sepher Sephiroth.

A dictionary of Hebrew words arranged according to their numerical value. This is an Encyclopædia of the Holy Qabalah, which is a Map of the Universe, and enables man to attain Perfect Understanding.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 8, Special Supplement.

Liber DXXXVI.
A complete Treatise on Astrology.

This is the only text book on astrology composed on scientific lines by classifying observed facts instead of deducting from a priori theories.
Part of this work has been pirated in several countries. The complete text has been recovered, and will be published by the O.T.O.¹
Unpublished.

Liber DXXXVI.
BATRACOFRENOBOOKOSMOMACIA.

An instruction in expansion of the field of the mind.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 10, p. 35.

Liber DLV.
Liber HAD.

An instruction for attaining Hadit.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 7, p. 83. Equinox Vol. V, No. 1, p. 263.
Equinox Vol. V, No. 1. p 263

1. Also stolen from the O.T.O. by Stone. See earlier footnotes.—TDC Editors.

Liber DCXXXIII.
De Thaumaturgia.

A statement of certain ethical considerations concerning Magick.
Unpublished.

Liber DCL
Vel de Fonte Aquae Vitae.

A doctrinal exhortation to members and clergy of the Holy Gnostic Catholic Church.
The Equinox Vol. V, No. 4.

Liber DCLXVI.
The Beast.

An account of the Magical Personality who is the Logos of the present Aeon.
Unpublished.

Liber DCCLXXVII. (777).
Vel Prolegomena Symbolica Ad Systemam Sceptico-Mysticæ Viæ Explicandæ, Fundamentum Hieroglyphicorum Sanctissimorum Scientiæ Summæ.

A complete Dictionary of the Correspondences of all magical elements, reprinted with extensive additions, making it the only standard comprehensive book of reference ever published. It is to the language of Occultism what Webster or Murray is to the English Language. The reprint with additions will shortly be published.
It was published by Frater SATURNUS X°, Mr. Karl Johannes Germer, and since pirated by several unscrupulous fringe publishers. A new, greatly augmented edition, is being prepared by the O.T.O.
777 Revised. Neptune Press, 1955 e.v.

Liber DCCCXI.
Energised Enthusiasm.

Specially adapted to the task of Attainment of Control of the Body of Light, development of Intuition and Hathayoga.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 9, p. 17.

Liber DCCCXIII.
vel ARARITA.

An account of the Hexagram and the method of reducing it to the Unity, and Beyond.
Unpublished.

Liber DCCCXXXI.
Liber IOD,

formerly called VESTA.
An instruction giving three methods of reducing the manifold consciousness to the Unity. Adapted to facilitate the task of the Attainment of Raja-Yoga and of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 7, p. 93. Appendix VII of this book.

Liber DCCCXXXVII.
The Law of Liberty.

This is a further explanation of the Book of the Law in reference to certain Ethical problems.
Equinox Vol. III, No. 1, p. 45.

Liber DCCCLX.
John St. John.

The Record of the Magical Retirement of G. H. Frater O∴M∴
A model of what a magical record should be, so far as accurate analysis and fullness of description are concerned.

An annotated edition of this Book is being prepared by the O.T.O.¹
Equinox Vol. I, No. 1, Supplement.

Liber DCCCLXVIII.
Liber Viarum Viæ.

A graphical account of magical powers classified under the Tarot Trumps.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 7, p. 101.

Liber DCCCLXXXVIII.

A complete study of the origins of Christianity.
Published as The Oriflamme Vol. II, No. 2, by Frater SATURNUS X°, Mr. Karl Johannes Germer in 1953 e.v.

Liber CMXIII.
Liber Viae Memoriæ.

Gives methods for attaining the magical memory, or memory of past lives, and an insight into the function of the Aspirant in this present life.
Equinox Vol. I, No. 7, p. 105. Appendix VII of this book.

1. Again, it is immpossible to know the extent of this preperation by Mr. Motta before his death. All evidence was stolen from the O.T.O. immediately after his death. In his piracy of Thelemic Magick II, Stone claims to have no knowledge of this work, or any of the others listed here by Mr. Motta as intended for future publication. The serious reader is referred to the Editorial to this Book, to the History of The O.T.O. and the O.T.O. News published in the later numbers of Volume VI of The Oriflamme for further analysis of Stone, his actions and his motives.—TDC Editors.

Liber CMXXXIV.
The Cactus.

An elaborate study of the psychological effects produced by Anhalonium Lewinii (Mescal Buttons), compiled from the actual records of some hundreds of experiments.
Unpublished.

Liber DCCCCLXIII.
The Treasure House of Images.

A superb collection of Litanies appropriate to the Signs of the Zodiac.
Equinox Vol I, No. 3, Supplement.

Liber MCCLXIV.
The Greek Qabalah.

A Complete dictionary of all sacred and important words and phrases given in the Books of the Gnosis and other important writings both in the Greek and the Coptic.
Unpublished.

Liber MMCCMXI.
A Note on Genesis.

A model of Qabalistic ratiocination. Specially adapted to Gnana Yoga. The Equinox Vol I, No. 3, p. 163