The International

An archive of The International, a literary magazine which included essays, poetry, plays and libri by Aleister Crowley and works by other authors.

The International was a literary and arts journal founded by George Sylvester Viereck, published in New York between WWI and WWII. For a number of years during the period of silence between The Equinox Volume I and Volume III, Aleister Crowley was a contributing editor for this journal and many essays, poems and plays appeared under various names (including Baphomet and The Master Therion) authored by him. For example, the first publication of the Gnostic Mass, which became Liber XV, appeared in this journal. Also, several of Crowley’s Simon Iff stories appeared in the pages of The International, under the pseudonym Edward Kelly.

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Date

October, 1917

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Contents	Author	Page
Glints of an October Opal		289
(edition and copyright statement)		289
A Word to Our Friends		290
Cocaine	Aleister Crowley	291
In the Red Room of Rose Croix		294
The Scrutines of Simon Iff. No. 2. The Artistic Temperament	Edward Kelly	295
A Perfect Pianissimo	Aleister Crowley	301
The Revival of Magick	The Master Therion	302
An African Love Song	Charles Beadle	304
The Discovery of Gneugh-Ioughrck		305
Absinthe	Jeanne la Goulue	306
Last Night	Faith Baldwin	306
Groans From the Padded Cell		307
Love is One		309
The Argument That Took the Wrong Turning		309
The Burning of Melcarth	Mark Wells	310
Confessions of a Barbarian	George Sylvester Viereck	313
The Spirit of the Strong	Aleister Crowley	315
Two Prose Poems	Helen Woljieska	316
Quelque Chose (Some Shows)		317
The Gate of Knowledge		318
The Ouija Board	The Master Therion	319
War Poetry	Enid Parsons	319
The International Forum		320

November, 1917

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Contents	Author	Page
The Editor Boosts the Next Number		321
(edition and copyright statement)		321
Humanity First	Aleister Crowley	322
The Scrutinies of Simon Iff. No. 3. Outside the Bank’s Routine	Edward Kelly	323
Sekhet	Adam D'as	331
The Revival of Magick	The Master Therion	332
Flowers	Ernest MCGaffey	333
Hymn	Charles Baudelaire	333
The Hearth	Mark Wells	334
Pan	Vincent Starrett	338
Ireland	Faith Baldwin	338
The Rake's Progress	(A.C.)	339
The Philosophy of Militarism	George Sylvester Viereck	340
Shakespeare: Rebel, Aristocrat and Pessimist	Louis U. Wilkinson	343
How Horoscopes Are Faked	Cor Scorpionis	345
An Altered Circumstance	Alexander Harvey	346
The Professor and the Plutocrat	S. J. Mill	348
A Comedy of Disillusion	Joseph B. Rethy	349
Drama		350
Music		350
The Gate of Knowledge		351
Songs of Manhattan	Morris A. Beer	351

December, 1917

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Contents	Author	Page
Forecast for the Month of January		353
We Stand Above	Aleister Crowley	354
The Scrutinies of Simon Iff. No. 4. The Conduct of John Briggs	Edward Kelly	355
NQO	Charles Beadle	361
Concerning Death	Baphomet	365
Pax Hominibus Bonae Voluntatis	A. C.	366
The Box of Counters	Hans Heinz Ewers	368
A Septennial	Aleister Crowley	376
Inspired Bureaucracy	George Sylvester Viereck	377
Art and Clairvoyance	J. Turner	379
Barnard's Lincoln Unvisited		379
A Riddle	Aleister Crowley	379
The Plaint of Eve	George Sylvester Viereck	380
Auguste Rodin		381
Music for the Month	“Haute Boy”	381
Drama As She Is Played		382
The Gate of Knowledge		383-384
The International Forum		383-384
War Poetry		384
Portrait of a Jackal	George Sylvester Viereck	384

XII

January, 1918

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Contents	Author	Page
February Fill-dykes		1
England Speaks	Aleister Crowley	2
The Scrutines of Simon Iff. No. 5. Not Good Enough	Edward Kelly	2
Dawn		9
A Poetry Society in Madagascar		9
The Heart of Holy Russia	Aleister Crowley	10
Love Lies Bleeding		14
The Morals of Europe	George Sylvester Viereck	15
The Conversion of Austin Harrison — Editorial		17
The Bath	Clytie Hazel Kearney	18
The God of Ibreez	Mark Wells	19
Finalism	George Raffalovich	24
The Message of the Master Therion		26
The Law of Liberty		27
Geomancy		29
Troth	Heinrich Heine	29
A Glimpse Into the Theatres		30
Music of the Month		31
The Gate of Knowledge		32
A Worn Rose	Lola Ridge	32

XII

February, 1918

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Contents	Author	Page
Judging the March Hare		33
Wanted — Moderate Men	Aleister Crowley	34
The Scrutinies of Simon Iff. No. 6. Ineligible	Edward Kelly	35
Costly Pillows	Kondrad Bercovici	40
De Thaumaturgia. Concerning the Working of Wonders	The Master Therion	41
The Mass of Saint Secaire. Translated by Mark Wells	Barbey de Rochechouart	42
Poem	Aleister Crowley	46
To-day	David Rosenthal	46
Absinthe — The Green Goddess	Aleister Crowley	47
At the Feet of Our Lady of Darkness. Translated by Aleister Crowley	Izeh Kranil	51
The Priestess of the Graal		52
The Third Libery Loan		53
Love and Laughter		55
Withe the Armies in Mittel-Europa. Translated by Helen Woljeska	By Various Authors	56
Colors of the Japanese Houses of Sleep	Yone Noguchi	58
Adam and Eve	George Sylvester Viereck	60
Four Poems	Aleister Crowley	62
A Glimpse Into the Theatres		63
To a Sparrow	Sasaki Shigetz	63
Emptry Nests	Sasaki Shigetz	63
Music of the Month		64
Book Reviews		64

XII

March, 1918

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Contents	Author	Page
April Showers of Amusement		65
(edition and copyright statement)		65
A Hymn for the American People	Aleister Crowley	66
Good Hunting (An Essay on the Nature of Comedy and Tragedy)	Baphomet	67
Ecclesiae Gnosticae Canon Missae	The Master Therion	70
The Saviour, a drama	Aleister Crowley	75
The Stirrup Cup, a paean	S. J. Alexander	82
Elder Eel, a sketch	Lord Bolsekine	83
Rococo, a dramatic vignette	Helen Woljeska	85
Francisku, a dramatic maasque	Helen Woljeska	85
Kinght-Errant, a dramatic miniature	Aleister Crowley	85
The Gods, a mystery, from the Coptic of Iao Sabao		86
Love and Time, a lyric	John Roberts	87
The Bonds of Marriage, a romantic farce	Aleister Crowley	88
Windflowers of Asklepiades, epigrams, translated from the Greek	Ed. Storer	91
Lady Godiva, a comedy	Joseph Bernard Rethy	92
The Hippodrome Horror, a nightmare drama	Leila Waddell	94
The Rialto and the Drama	Joseph Bernard Rethy	95
Sappho on the Cliff, a tragic monologue	Faith Baldwin	96

XII

April, 1918

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Contents	Author	Page
To Our Readers		97
Atthis at Leukatas	Faith Baldwin	98
The King of the Wood	Mark Wells	99
Le Sacrament	Jeanne La Goulue	102
Robbing Miss Horniman	Aleister Crowley	103
The Suburbanite; and The Riddle	Helen Woljeska	106
The Old Man of the Peepul-tree	James Grahame	107
The Ideal Idol	Cyril Custance	110
The Call of the Sea	S. J. Alexander	111
Irritability	Dorothy Willis	112
Four Sonnets	Vincent Starrett	113
A Pard-like Spirit	Alexander Harvey	114
A Sonnet	A. Newman	117
Visions	Aleister Crowley	117
The Sage of Copenhagen	George Sylvester Viereck	118
A Doctor of Men	Charles Beadle	121
The Bath	David Rosenthal	121
Balance	David Rosenthal	121
Shinto	Shigetsu Sasaki	122
The Other Woman	Ida Alexander	124
The Scarabee	Aleister Crowley	125
The Tuscan Glory	M. B. Levick	126
You Are a Rose	David Rosenthal	126
The Drama — Eva Tanguay	Aleister Crowley	127
Music	Leila Waddell	128

XII

May, 1918

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Contents	Author	Page
Announcement [Our Policy]		129
Slaves of the Drug	Edwin Markham	130
Editorial		131
The Ragged Edge	Hamilton Craigie	132
In the Dusk of the Day	Maurice Relonde	136
Conventional Complacency	Lindley M. Keasbey	139
Jack Biddle from Nowhere	Ford Tarpley	141
Five Japanese Essays	Yone Noguchi	144
Alastair	Arcott	147
Illumuniation	Dorothy Willis	148
Foreigners	Tom Ransford	150
The Characteristic Gesture	Alexander Harvey	152
Intellectual Drama	George Sylvester Viereck	154
An Interview with Auer	Leila Bathurst	156
Some of the Latest and Best Books		158

Readings on other sites

Karl Germer’s list of Aleister Crowley’s contributions, under various names, to The International is online as Primary Sources at Thelema Lodge Calendar for October 1997 e.v. Below is a list of transcriptions from the pages of The International that appear from this list in the archives of the Thelema Lodge Calendar:

The Crimes of Edith Cavell, Jan 1916
Songs of Armageddon and Other Poems Review by A.C., July 1916
Frank Harris reveals Oscar Wilde, Aug. 1916
A Noisy Noise Annoys an Oyster, Dec. 1916
Percy Mackaye, Feb. 1917
Sir Rabinadranath Tagore, May 1917
A Death Bed Repentance, July 1917
The New School of Literature, July 1917
Felo de Se, Aug. 1917
Listen to the Bird Man!, Aug 1917
Balzac: A Note, Aug 1917
1066, Sept. 1917
Cocaine, A.C., Oct. 1917
The Discovery of Gneugh-Loughrck Oct. 1917
Groans from the Padded Cell, Oct. 1917
The Argument that Took the Wrong Turning, Oct. 1917
The Spoils (To) the Strong, Oct. 1917
The Ouija Board, The Master Therion, Oct. 1917
Humanity First, A.C., Nov. 1917
We Stand Above, Dec. 1917
Concerning Death, Baphomet, Dec. 1917
Pax Hominibus Bonae Voluntatis, A.C., Dec 1917
Auguste Rodin, Dec. 1917
England Speaks, A.C., Jan. 1918
The Heart of Holy Russia, A.C., Jan 1918
Wanted -- Modern{sic} Men, A.C., Feb. 1918
Ansinthe. the Green Goddess, A.C., Feb. 1918
At the Feet of Our Lady of Darkness. Izeh Kranil., Translated by A.C., Feb. 1918
Good Hunting (An Essay on the Nature of Comedy & Tragedy), March 1918
The Saviour, a Dream, A.C., March 1918
The Bonds of Marriage, a romantic farce, March 1918
Robbing Miss Horniman, A.C., April 1918
The Old Man of the Peepul-Tree, James Grahame, April 1918
The Ideal Idol, Cyril Custance, April 1918
Drama Be Damned, April 1918

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The International

An archive of The International, a literary magazine which included essays, poetry, plays and libri by Aleister Crowley and works by other authors.

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