The New Equinox: The British Journal of Magick

The worrying fact of a genuine Qaballa in English was first put to the occult reading public in 1979, in the Editorial of the final issue of Ray Sherwin’s periodical The New Equinox. The “order & value of the English Alphabet,” predicted in Liber AL vel Legis, had been obtained in the English Midlands by a magickian named James Lees in November 1976, and with the members of his occult group he had researched, experimented, and proved the new system to the point where the first conclusions and propositions could be shared. 

Lees took over the publication of The New Equinox with the subtitle “British Journal of Magick” and published several articles about the English Qaballa in 1980-81, in five issues.

In the 1980’s occultism was a basis for an undercover kind of lifestyle without fashionable accessories, a far cry from the present climate of academic indulgence and establishment-led tolerance, and only just emerging from the shadow cast by the Golden Dawn and the “Great Revival” to formulate new answers to the old questions. English Qaballa has not only withstood the tests of Time, but expanded from the first hypotheses into a complete coherent and harmonious initiatory system of alpha-numeric symbol correspondences, a viable alternative to the non-English systems which have dominated occult publication for decades.

The reproduction of its advent and early development should therefore be of interest to a new generation of enquiring minds as well as to those who may be renewing an old familiarity. 

Included in this reprint:

Introduction
by Cath Thompson

Volume 4. No. 3. 1979: Editorial
by Ray Sherwin

Volume 5 Part 1. 1980: Editorial
by Jim Lees

The Qaballa of AL
by Carol A. Smith

Volume 5 Part 2. 1980: Editorial
by Jim Lees & Carol A. Smith

The Abyss
by John Deacon

The War-Engine of Thelema
by Stefan Dajnowicz

Volume 5 Part 3. 1981: Editorial
by Jim Lees & Carol A. Smith

The Key to the English Qaballa
by Carol A. Smith

Volume 5 Part 4. 1981: Editorial
by Jim Lees & Carol A. Smith

93 The Spell of Nature
by Brother Leo

Volume 6 Part 1. 1981: Editorial
by Jim Lees & Carol A. Smith

A Commentary on the 418/II:76 Monograph
by Brother Leo

The Minor Adept Formula of the A.*.A.*.
by Carol A. Smith

The New Equinox: The British Journal of Magick
James Lees,
Edited by Carol A. Smith
Compiled by Cath Thompson
ISBN 978-1-907881-77-0 (B&W Paperback)
297mm x 210mm
88 pages.
Originally published 1980-1981, reprint 2018.