The Blue Equinox first published in 1919, is a book by English mystic and occultist Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley , born Edward Alexander Crowley, and also known as both Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast, was an influential English occultist, astrologer, mystic and ceremonial magician, responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema. He was also successful in various other...

, the founder of Thelema

Thelema

Thelema is a religious philosophy that was established, defined and developed by the early 20th century British writer and ceremonial magician, Aleister Crowley. He believed himself to be the prophet of a new age, the Æon of Horus, based upon a religious experience that he had in Egypt in 1904...

, detailing the principles and aims of the secret society O.T.O.

Ordo Templi Orientis

Ordo Templi Orientis is an international fraternal and religious organization founded at the beginning of the 20th century...

 and its ally the A∴A∴. It includes such topics as The Law of Liberty, The Gnostic Mass, and Crowley's Hymn to Pan (which rocket pioneer and occultist Jack Parsons

Jack Parsons

John Whiteside Parsons , better known as Jack Parsons, was an American rocket propulsion researcher at the California Institute of Technology. He was one of the principal founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Aerojet Corp...

 would recite before every rocket launch).

Chapter listing

1. Hymn to Pan
2. Editorial
3. Præmonstrance of A∴A∴
4. Curriculum of A∴A∴
5. Liber II [The Message of the Master Therion]
6. The Tent
7. Liber DCCCXXXVII [The Law of Liberty]
8. Liber LXI [vel Causae A∴A∴]
9. A Psalm
10. Liber LXV [Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente]
11. Liber CL [De Lege Libellum]
12. A Psalm
13. Liber CLXV [A Master of the Temple]
14. Liber CCC [Khabs am Pekht]
15. Stepping Out of the Old Aeon into the New
16. The Seven Fold Sacrament
17. Liber LII [Manifesto of the O.T.O.]
18. Liber CI [An Open Letter to Those Who May Wish to Join the Order]
19. Liber CLXI [Concerning the Law of Thelema]
20. Liber CXCIV [An Intimation with Reference to the Constitution of the Order]
21. Liber XV (The Gnostic Mass)
22. Nekam Adonai!
23. A La Loge
24. The Tank
    • Special Supplement: Liber LXXI [The Voice of the Silence: The Two Paths, The Seven Portals]

External links

• The Blue Equinox full text of the book
• Full text of The Law of Liberty