Post from June with a period review of Crowley’s Rites of Eleusis

Post from June with a period review of Crowley’s Rites of Eleusis at The Rites of Eleusis « occultdetective.com

Consider also:

  1. “I then went to Egypt, and–to my intense surprise–was summoned by the secret chiefs of the Order. I was commanded to return to England, there to reconstruct the system of organisation, as the outer form of the Order had broken up through the fall of its chief ambassador to the world ‘without the Veil,’ and to put the secrets in writing.”
  2. Sundogs part 1
  3. “I accordingly condensed and published knowledge in a periodical called The Equinox. Headquarters at this time was a studio in Victoria Street. There in our spare time we began to celebrate the rites of Eleusis.”
  4. “Every nursery rime contains profound magical secrets which are open to every one who has made a study of the correspondences of the Holy Qabalah. To puzzle out an imaginary meaning for this ‘nonsense’ sets one thinking of the Mysteries; one enters into deep contemplation of holy things and God Himself leads the soul to a real illumination.”
  5. Sexual Ambivalence