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Horizontally to left and right are two wings, very stylized, with primaries, secondaries and coverlet feathers depicted.} THE WINGED BEETLE By ALEISTER CROWLEY PRIVATELY PRINTED: TO BE HAD THROUGH "THE EQUINOX" 300 copies, 10"s." net 50 copies on handmade paper, specially bound, "�"1 1"s." net __�__ CONTENTS ROSA Coeli --- Abjad-i-al'ain --- The Hermit --- The Wizard Way --- The Wings --- The Garden of Janus --- The Two Secrets --- The Priestess of Panormita --- The Hawk and the Babe --- The Duellists --- Athor and Asar --- After Judgment --- The Five Adorations -- Telepathy --- The Swimmer --- The Muse --- The God and the Girl --- Rosemary --- Au Bal --- Disappointment --- The Octopus --- The Eyes of Dorothy --- Bathyllus --- The Mantra-Yogi --- The Poet and his Muse --- Lilith --- Sport and Marriage --- The Twins --- The Convert --- The Sorceress --- The Child --- Clytie --- A Slim Gilt Soul --- The Silence of Columbine --- The Archaeologist --- The Ladder --- Belladonna --- The Poet at Bay --- Ut --- Rosa Decidua --- The Circle and the Point --- In Memoriam --- Ad Fidelem Infidelem --- The Sphinx --- The Jew of Fez --- The Pentagram --- Song --- An Hymn --- Prologue to Rodin in Rime --- The Camp Fire --- Ave Adonai --- The Wild Ass --- The Opium-Smoker --- In Manu Dominae. Mr. Todd: a Morality. TRANSLATIONS: L'Amour et le Cr�ne --- L'Alchimie de Douleur --- Le Vampire --- Le Balcon --- Le Gout de L'Infini --- L'H�autontimoroumenos --- Le vin de L'Assassin --- Woman --- Tout Enti�re --- Le vin des Amants --- Le Revenant --- Lola de Valence --- Le Beau Navire --- L'Invitation au Voyage --- Epilogue to "Petits Po�ms en Prose" --- Colloque Sentimental --- En Sourdine --- The Magician MR. NEUBURG'S NEW VOLUME OF POEMS. " "Imperial" 16mo, pp. 200 ________________ " "Now ready. Order through" The Equinox, "or of" ""any Bookseller." THE TRIUMPH OF PAN. POEMS By VICTOR B. NEUBURG. This volume, containing many poems, --- nearly all of them hitherto unpublished --- besides THE TRIUMPH OF PAN, includes THE ROMANCE OF OLIBA VANE. The First Edition is limited to Two Hundred and Fifty copies: Two Hundred and Twenty on ordinary paper, whereof less than Two Hundred are for sale; and thirty on Japanese vellum, of which Twenty-five are for sale. 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"This [book] contains the answer to a very well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, 'What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?' Well, Mr. Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if he was not hidden in the reeds. ..." --- "Robert Ross in "The Bystander." "There is no question about the poetic quality of much of Mr. Neuburg's verse. ... We are given visions of love which open new amorous possibilities." --- "Daily Chronicle." Demy 8vo. Cloth gilt. 4s. 6d. net __________________ ALCHEMY: Ancient and Modern. Being a brief account of the Alchemistic Doctrines, and their relations to Mysticism on the one hand, and to recent discoveries in Physical Science on the other hand; together with some particulars regarding the lives and teachings of the most noted Alchemists. BY H. STANLEY REDGROVE. B.Sc. (Lond.), F.C.S AUTHOR OF "ON THE CALCULATION OF THERMO-CHEMICAL CONSTANTS," "MATTER, SPIRIT, AND THE COSMOS," ETC. " "WITH SIXTEEN FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS" " "(including Portraits of the most celebrated Alchemists)." __________________ CONTENTS: THE MEANING OF ALCHEMY --- THE THEORY OF PHYSICAL ALCHEMY --- THE ALCHEMISTS --- THE OUTCOME OF ALCHEMY --- THE AGE OF MODERN CHEMISTRY --- MODERN ALCHEMY. " ""Some Opinions of the Press." "A thoroughly well-informed study of the subject, which has the merit of being more sympathetic than such studies often are, and not less learned." --- "The Scotsman." "This book is worth reading as a study in parallelism, and it has the merit of being written by one who is thoroughly well acquainted with both sides of his subject." --- "The Observer." 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Author of "Vitality, Fasting, and Nutrition," "The Coming Science," "The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism," etc. etc. AND JOHN R. MEADER ("GRAHAM HOOD") Member of the American Statistical Society and of the Society for Psychical Research, Author of "The Laws of Success," etc. ______________ CONTENTS. PREFACE. PART I. "Physiological." --- I. The Scientific Aspect of Life and Death. II. The Signs of Death. III. Trance, Catalepsy, Suspended Animation, etc. IV. Premature Burial. V. Burial, Cremation, Mummification. VI. The Causes of Death. VII. Old Age; its Scientific Study. By Hereward Carrington. VIII. My Own Theory of Death. By Hereward Carrington. IX. My Own Theory of Death. By John R. Meader. X. On the Possible Unification of our Theories. XI. The "Questionnaire" on Death. Answers. XII. General Conclusions. PART II. "Historic Speculations on Death." --- I. Man's Theories about Immortality. II. The Philosophical Aspect of Death and Immortality. III. The Theological Aspect of Death and Immortality. IV. The Common Arguments for Immortality. PART III. "Scientific Attempts to Solve the Problem." --- Introductory. I. The Moment of Death. II. Visions of the Dying. III. Death Described from Beyond the Veil. IV. Experiments in Photographing and Weighting the Soul. V. Death Coincidences. VI. The Testimony of Science --- Psychical Research. VII. On the Intra-Cosmic Difficulties of Communication. VIII. Conclusions. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. _____________________________ The Star in the West BY CAPTAIN J. F. C. FULLER "FOURTH LARGE EDITION NOW IN PREPARATION" THROUGH THE EQUINOX AND ALL BOOKSELLERS SIX SHILLINGS NET ------------------------------------- A highly original study of morals and religion by a new writer, who is as entertaining as the average novelist is dull. 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