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Title:

The Rites of Eleusis.

Upper Cover

Lower Cover

Cover Interior

Title Page

Guardian of the Flame

The Goddess

Performance Schedule

Original Ticket

Print

Variations:

Printed on laid paper.¹

Bound in thick brown paper wrappers.¹

Upper cover lettered in black ‘THE RITES OF ELEUSIS’ with a swastika figured centered above.²

10 1/8” x 6 1/4”.³

Publisher:

Privately published.

Printer:

Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London.³

Published At:

London.¹

Date:

1910.¹

Edition:

1st Edition.

Pages:

ii + 10 + 2 plates.²

Price:

Remarks:

Contains two photogravures (Aleister Crowley and Leila Waddell) by Hertschel tipped in, facing pages [ii] and 4.

This was printed to serve as an advertisement and programme for Crowley’s performances of ‘The Rites of Eleusis’ which took place between 19 October and 30 November 1910.

Pagination:²

Page(s)
[ i]	Half-title
[ ii]	Blank
[1-10]	Text

Contents:

Author’s

Working

Versions:

Other

Known

Editions:

1.	Gerald Yorke, A Bibliography of the Works of Aleister Crowley (Expanded and Corrected by Clive Harper from Aleister Crowley, the Golden Dawn and Buddhism: Reminiscences and Writings of Gerald Yorke, Keith Richmond, editor, The Teitan Press, York Beach, ME, 2011, p. 59.
2.	Dianne Frances Rivers, A Bibliographic List with Special Reference To the Collection at the University of Texas, Master of Arts Thesis, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1967, p. 95.
3.	Personal observation of object.

Comments by

Aleister

Crowley:

I throw myself no bouquets about these Rites of Eleusis. I should have given more weeks to their preparation than I did minutes. I diminished the importance of the dramatic elements; the dialogue and action were little more than a setting for the soloists.

— The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. New York, NY. Hill and Wang, 1969. Page 636.

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I saw no objection to stating my position for the sake of sincere and worthy people who might, through ignorance of the facts, be turned away from truth. I accordingly availed myself of the editor of a high-class illustrated weekly, the Bystander, and wrote two articles explaining what the Rites of Eleusis were; how people might cultivate their highest faculties by studying them. I also published the text of the rites as a supplement to number six of The Equinox.

— The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. New York, NY. Hill and Wang, 1969. Pages 451-452.

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Even this did not exhaust my creative energy. As in Cairo in 1902 I had started the “Lover’s Alphabet”, on the ground that the most primitive kind of lyrics or odes was in some way the most appealing and immortal, so I decided to write a series of hymns to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the simplest possible style. I must not be thought exactly insincere, though I had certainly no shadow of belief in any of the Christian dogmas, least of all in this adaptation and conglomeration of Isis, Semele, Astarte, Cybele, Freya, and so many others; I simply tried to see the world through the eyes of a devout Catholic, very much as I had done with the decadent poet of White Stains, the Persian mystic of the Bagh-i-Muattar, and so on. I was, in fact, adopting another alias—in the widest sense of the word.

— The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. New York, NY. Hill and Wang, 1969. Page 639.

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