There are 23 different essays in this book. One of the essays is a hundred and twenty-one pages long, over a third of the book. It is titled ON FRATER ACHAD, Being the story on the rise and fall of a Magister Templi – this being the first in-depth biography yet written on Charles Stansfeld Jones. In The Equinox, Vol.III…
by J. Edward Cornelius For those of you who don’t have a copy and who have begged us over the years to republish it, we are proud to announce that we have done just that. The first printing of Thelemic Essays No. 1 was released on January 15th, 2015. This second printing is released seven years later in April of 2022!…
New Cornelius Publications Release: Essays No. 10, at long last! We released our first volume of ESSAYS in 2015, and now we are releasing our 10th and final volume in the series. It’s been a long journey. It concludes the Tarot series with details of Aleister Crowley’s final secrets on sex magick in its relationship to the three lesser lotuses along with the…
This volume includes only eight essays from No.81 to No.88 in our private archive. They detail years of study by Frater AO583, including everything Aleister Crowley wrote on the Tarot paths underlying Minerval and First Degrees OTO, in addition to a wealth of other research. Frater AO583 was an upper degree initiate of OTO and the personal A.’.A.’. student of…
The previous edition of Essays contained eight papers on the first eight paths of the Thoth on the Tree of Life which correspond to the Minerval and First Degree of Ordo Templi Orientis. In Chapter XIII of Magick Without Tears titled “System of the O.T.O.” it states that in Minerval – “The Ego is attracted to the Solar System.” In First Degree the candidate…
This volume of Essays features J. Edward Cornelius' insights on the Qabalistic Paths corresponding to the Ordo Templi Orientis Degree of Death, as well as Part I of his ground-breaking, lengthy essay on the Scarlet Woman. This issue of Essays also contains an eclectic mix of other Thelemic essays, including two that also explore the Death Rites: ON LOVE AND…
Who were the women in Aleister Crowley’s life? For so long, with the details of their lives scattered in passing through Crowley biographies or hidden away in private sources, Crowley’s women have presented an enigma to Thelemites. What motivated them? What were they like? Where did they come from? And what ever happened to them when they were no longer…
J. Edward Cornelius explores the four paths of The Tower, Death, The Wheel of Fortune and The Hierophant (Revisited). These paths are ruled by the Hebrew letters of Peh (80-פ), Nun (50-נ), Kaph (20-כ) and Vau (6-ו), which work off the Right-Hand Pillar, add to 156 and Balance the Left-Hand Pillar, which adds to 418. He also discusses how the…
This is one of the most important volumes we have released so far. The ancient Alchemists expressed the secret behind magick in their formula ‘Solve et Coagula.’ Arguably the ‘et’ refers to the Magickal Link, which is symbolized by one of the most important Qabalistic Paths of Wisdom on the entire Tree or Samekh (֑֑ס). In his substantial essay “On…
This is the second-to-last planned volume of Thelemic ESSAYS. … J. Edward Cornelius continues his comprehensive Tarot series in this volume which cover the two foundational man of Earth paths energizing Kundalini—The Emperor and the Sun. In these two articles, he details the principles according to Aleister Crowley and others to be worked by a practitioner before building the Rainbow Bridge between the…
