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An Account of A∴A∴

Karl von Eckartshausen, revised by Aleister Crowley and George Cecil Jones · 1909

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Thelema
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The A∴A∴'s description of itself, printed in the first number of The Equinox. Its own headnote states that it is Karl von Eckartshausen's Die Wolke über dem Heiligtum of 1802, in Isabelle de Steiger's translation, rewritten.

An order describing itself in a book published a century before it existed, and saying so above the text. The borrowing needed no uncovering.

Cited for 1 sourced claim here, among them correspondences of .