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Mr. Aleister Crowley at Home.

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Single sheet folded once to give a four page leaflet.¹

Printed on the first face only.² 'Mr. Aleister Crowley At Home, An Experiment Will Be Made In the Effect Of . . .'¹

It gives six rules for those attending a series of rituals and has space for writing information pertinent to the particular ritual.¹

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Circa 1910.^{1,
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1st Edition.

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4 pages.¹

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Apparently printed to announce a series of experimental ceremonies probably held as preliminaries for the Rites of Eleusis held later the same year.¹

The Caduceus catalog entry detailing a copy of this item for sale in 2004 is shown below in its entirety:

"Aleister Crowley, Mr. Aleister Crowley At Home, An Experiment Will Be Made In the Effect Of..., not dated (1910) Single sheet folded once to give 4pp leaflet with one page printed text. Clearly printed to announce a series of experimental ceremonies. It gives six rules for those attending a series of rituals and has spaces for writing information pertinent to the particular ritual. The appropriate annotations are handwritten (possibly by Crowley) and note that the meeting will be held at "8.30 p.m. Tuesday Aug. 2nd"; the experiment will be "a ceremony to invoke Saturn"; there is little expectation of a result before "midnight"...It is exceedingly inadvisable to leave before this hour; the deity chosen for this evening is "Saturn". Following the rule that everyone who is a Probationer of the A.'.A.'. should wear the robe is added the annotation that "others are asked to wear black morning dress." The points of conduct clearly indicate that the meeting is for probationers of the A.'.A.'. and others, that the ceremony was quite free form but involved drumming and chanting and went on for quite a long time. There are instructions concerning the use of drugs. By implication it was expected that drugs might be used but specifically counsels caution and suggests best results are obtained through A.'.A.'. Practices instead. This item is a very rare artifact of the ritual invocations which might be regarded as preliminaries for the Rites of Eleusis which were held later that same year. The methods will be recognised far beyond specifically Thelemic circles but also in wider neo-Pagan culture. Whilst some details change (nowadays people rarely attend drumming events in black morning dress) methods and issues remain demonstrating Crowley to be an historically important innovator. This item of ephemera has been folded twice, the reverse is quite discoloured as is the front edge G+"

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1.	Caduceus Books Catalog, circa August 2004, Internet resource last accessed on 23 June 2016, http://www.occultforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=21815.
2.	J. Edward Cornelius, The Aleister Crowley Desk Reference, The Teitan Press, York Beach, Maine, 2013, p. 263.

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