from “The Supreme Ritual”, in Two Fragments of Ritual supposedly translated from the German originals of Weishaupt by “Fra. Κ Φ” (likely one of Crowley’s many pseudonyms) and published in The Equinox Volume I Number X (London, 1913): I. Art thou armed?



O. With a knife.



[O. draws the dagger from her hair. ii) Pages 225–227 of the BAM contain a piece of ritual (possibly intended at a continuation of the piece on pp. 191–193). First the High Priest says a piece which (while it includes a couple of quotes from diferent parts of The Book of the Law) is clearly derived from the Gnostic Mass (1918, 1919, 1929). In the Gnostic Mass it is spoken by the Priest, and runs: O secret of secrets that art hidden in thedirectly, or via Khabs am Pehkt or An Evocation of Bartzabel the Spirit of Mars. (There is a Secret Door that I have made to establish the way)… The sentence continues into the next section, which makes up most of Leviter Veslis. This follows the second part of Chapter II and the first part of Chapter III of The Law of Liberty quite closely, both in content and in the order in which this content appears, and is very likely taken in full from that text. The parts in (round brackets) could only have come from The Law of Liberty, while those in [square brackets] are also found in The Book of the Law as well as The Law of Liberty (and in some cases in other places