Vol. I Number VII (London, 1912) as a near-illegible photo-reduced facsimile of the original handwritten (scrawled) version along with a commentary, in Vol. I Number X (London, 1913) in a printed transcript, and again in Vol. III Number 3 (The Equinox of the Gods, London, 1936) in a printed transcript with a lengthy commentary. It was also privately printed as a booklet by the Church of Thelema in Pasadena, California in 1938 and also by the O.T.O. in London, 1938. Crowley was in the habit of using extracts from The Book of the Law (which he regarded as the foundation stone and Holy Book of his philosophy-religion “Thelema”, and claimed had been dictated to him by a “praeterhuman intelligence”) in many of his later writings. Here is thePriestess’s speech from the Gnostic Mass. Crowley wrote the Gnostic Mass in 1913, and published it in the American magazine The International in March 1918 (as discussed above, this would have been very hard to obtain in England), in his periodical The Equinox Volume III Number 1 (The Blue Equinox, Detroit, Michigan, 1919), and in Magick in Theory and Practice (Paris, 1929): Appendix VI. The version in The Blue Equinox, though it has been re-typeset, is almost identical to the one in The International, but the version in Magick in Theory and Practice has a number of minor differences (mostly correcting minor errors in the quotations from The Book of the Law), some of which are in this passage. The differences are shown below in [square brackets], with