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AN OFFICIAL NOTE of the Ordeals and Examinations to be passed by the Aspirant to the A\ A\ from Probationer to Adept. [A\ A\ publication in Class D.] With a Comment by G. H. Fra. O.S.V. LIBER 963. A collection of litanies whose use will enable the student to acquire the direct consciousness of God. [A\ A\ Publication in Class B.] : THE ELEMENTAL CALLS OR KEYS, WITH THE GREAT WATCH-TOWERS OF THE UNIVERSE and their explanation. A complete treatise, fully illustrated, upon the Spirits of the Elements, their names and offices, with the method of calling them forth and controlling them. From the MSS. of Dr. DEE and SIR EDWARD KELLY. THE CONTINUATION OF THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING. A full account of the reception of Fra. P. into the Rosicrucian Order, with illustrations; and of his operations in , &c. [His Studies of Eastern Magic and Meditation, &c., to follow in Nos. IV. and V.] THE CONTINUATION OF THE HERB DANGEROUS “The Poem of Hashish,” translated from the French of CHARLES BAUDELAIRE by . THE SOUL-HUNTER, unpublished pages from the Diary of Dr. ARTHUR LEE, “The Montrouge Vampire.”

AN ORIGIN, by VICTOR B. NEUBURG. MR. TODD: A Morality, by the author of “Rosa Mundi.” IN MANU DOMINAE: A Black Mass. THE DAUGHTER OF THE HORSELEECH, by ETHEL RAMSAY. &c. &c. &c

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PAGE EDITORIAL 1 LIBER O 11 THE HERB DANGEROUS—(PART II) THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH. BY OLIVER HADDO 31 REVIEWS 90, 104, 385 THE GARDEN OF JANUS. BY ALEISTER CROWLEY 91 THE DREAM CIRCEAN. BY MARTIAL NAY 105 THE LOST SHEPHERD. BY VICTOR B. NEUBURG 131 A HANDBOOK OF GEOMANCY 137 THE ORGAN IN KING’S CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE. BY G. H. S. PINSENT. 162 A NOTE ON GENESIS 163 THE FIVE ADORATIONS. BY DOST ACHIHA KHAN 186 ILLUSION D’AMOUREUX. BY FRANCIS BENDICK 187 THE OPIUM-SMOKER 191 POSTCARDS TO PROBATIONERS. BY ALEISTER CROWLEY 196 THE WILD ASS. BY ALYS CUSACK 201 THE SPHINX AT GIZA. BY LORD DUNSANAY 205 THE PRIESTESS OF PANORMITA. BY ELAINE CARR 209 THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING (BOOK II) 217 AMONGST THE MERMAIDS. BY NORMAN ROE 335 AVE ADONAI. BY ALEISTER CROWLEY 351 THE MAN-COVER. BY GEORGE RAFFALOVICH 353 STEWED PRUNES AND PRISM: THE TENNYSON CENTENARY. BY A. QUILLER, JR. 393

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IT is four hundred and seventy-seven years since the trouble in the Monastery. There were assembled many holy men from every part of the civilised world, learned doctors, princes of the Church, bishops, abbots, deans, all the wisdom of the world; for the Question was important—how many teeth were there in a horse’s mouth. For many days the debate swung this way and that, as Father was quoted against Father, Gospel against Epistle, Psalm against Proverb; and the summer being hot, and the shade of the monastery gardens pleasant, a young monk wearied of the discu