Product Description

The Equinox, also called The Review of Scientific Illuminism, has become the standard for English language esotericism, aptly termed the "Encyclopedia of Initiation" by its principal editor and contributor, Aleister Crowley. The remarkable variety, depth, and utility of its contents encompass Qabalah, tarot, yoga, and the essential papers of Crowley's teaching order, A. A. The new edition is supplemented by Crowley's serialized biography along with excerpts from his many diaries, an overview of the Golden Dawn System, a book-length special section of the Qabalistic dictionary Sepher Sephiroth, fiction, poetry, book reviews, and extracts from The Vision and the Voice and The Rites of Eleusis as well as important works by other noted authors such as The Key of the Mysteries by Eliphas Levi. Crowley's extensive annotations from his personal copies have been collected at the end of the set, along with biographies of the contributors.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1681867 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09
• Format: Box set
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 376 pages

About the Author
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) combined scholarly rigor with a sense of humor and great literary ability to become the most widely read author in 20th-century occultism. He single-handedly redefined magick as a field of inquiry and endeavor through his books and the orders that he led--the A.A. and the O.T.O. In the 2002 BBC Great Britons poll in which over one million people voted, Crowley ranked 73 among the hundred most influential Britons of all time. He is author of such classic works at 777 & Other Qabalistic Writings, The Holy Books of Thelema, Book of Thoth, and The Thoth Tarot with artist Lady Freida Harris.

Customer Reviews

The Equinox Vol. VII No. 1
The Equinox Vol. VII, No. 1: Not very interesting, nor worthy to follow in the series of the Equinox Vol. I, Vol. III. Vol. IV, or even Motta's Vol. V. Contains nothing new by Crowley, and is of little use, or interest to anyone. Completely spurious and unauthorized. Avoid. Avoid. A waste of your time and money.

Couple of things...
The review titled "This May Not Be the 'Equinox' You are Thinking Of.." does not apply to this edition. That review seems to refer to one of the later Motta Equinox editions. I believe this is a reprint of earlier volumes edited by AC during his lifetime.

That being said, as of 27 March 2006 e.v. Weiser has "no publish date" for either this set or the Blue Equinox.

This May Not Be the "Equinox" You are Thinking Of...
Please do not (as I did) confuse this single volume (Vol VII) compiled in 1992 with the 10-volume set Aleister Crowley published from 1909 to 1913 as have the other reviews on this page. Some of the descriptions can be misleading if not carefully read.

Also do not confuse it with the original "Red Equinox" published in 1992 which is Vol 1 (No.s 1-10) and Vol III (the "Blue Equinox", Vol. III, No. 1) eleven books published in seven volumes and bound in red leather. This is a different book all together.

This "Red Equinox" ("Volume VII, No. 1") was edited by Ray Eales & Vance Borland and published by Silver Star in Tampa, FL, in 1992. It contains the following chapters:

Editorial
Praemonstrance
Liber VII (Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli)
Liber DCL vel DE FONS AQUAE VITAE
Map of the Coins of the Ge Yuan (by Marcelo Motta)
Liber CCXXXI Visions by S.T.S. (circa 1978-1980)
Liber Cheth vel VALLVM ABIEGNI (from Equinox Vol 1, No. VI)
Liber Tzaddi (from Equinox Vol 1, No. VI)
Liber LXI
Postcards To Probationers (from Equinox Vol 1, No. II)
Yaweh is Egyption for Moon (David Bersson, 1990)
Liber Thisharb (from Equinox Vol 1, No. VII)
Magick and Film (by Ray Eales)
Antecedents of Thelema ("found in a rough typescript with annotations in AC's hand")
The Journey and the Waiting (by Ray Eales)

If this is what you are interested in, you might appreciate this book. I had all of the material published before 1992 (i.e., the AC material) in other books and compilations.

This is "an Equinox" but not "THE Equinox". See www.the-equinox.org for the complete listing of the content of Equinox Volumes I and III.

Caveat emptor!