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28.07.2009: After a brief panic yesterday, turned out Scribd was only offline for an update.  CP now apparently has 33 “followers,” tho' most of these are possibly just people whose friend requests I turned down or ignored before the update.  I have begun the task of migrating the homepage, check out celephaispress.blogspot.com; this will mean the end of direct downloads, but scribd and megaupload links will remain.

29.06.2009: Thomas Inman’s Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism Exposed and Explained has been restored to scribd.

23.06.2009: Okay, I don’t know what the hell scribd is playing at, but it seems Inman’s Symbolism, a work published in 1874 by an author who died two years later, has been flagged as a copyright violation and removed.  Hopefully when their management is appraised of the facts in the case it will be reinstated, in the meantime it can still be downloaded from the Megaupload link.&nnbsp; Recently uploaded a slight fix to the “Sha Rocco” Masculine Cross (restored a passage omitted at sacred-texts).  In respect of the imminent closure of Geocities, I have no definite plans yet; details will be posted as and when I know what I'm doing about it.

04.04.2009: Uploaded slight improvement of Introduction to Tantra S′âstra to scribd and this site; fixed a few typos and restored the frontispiece photo of the author.

03.04.2009: Not a proper CP or UP(L) release, but just put on Scribd an edition of Rome: Pagan and Papal by Mourant Brock (19th-century Anglican clergyman of extreme Evangelical tendencies), which I am 93% certain is the work of this title referenced by Aleister Crowley in The Gospel According to St. Bernard Shaw and Liber CCXXVIII.  This is just page images, based on the copy at the Internet Archive.  This book is of course a lunatic ultra-Protestant polemic against the Roman Church; while I personally have no brief for Joe Ratstrangler, his predecessors or their firm, I regard the presence of “pagan” elements in the doctrine and ritual of the Roman Church as the least of the objections to that institution, indeed not as an objection at all; and it is always amusing when ultra-Protesants engaged in such critiques either get carried away and start cutting away the ground from under their own feet, or at least leave lying around a set of tools which someone else can use for that purpose.

17.02.2009: S′akti and S′âkta can now be downloaded from Megaupload.  Finally put the remaining appendices from Rivers of Life on Scribd; Plate II (map of the ancient world); Plate III (map of India); Synoptical Table of Gods and God-Ideas.

09.02.2009: Apologies to anyone who wanted to download the PDF of S′akti and S′âkta from Scribd; in the process of editing the description of the work it seems I managed to disable the download option.  This should now be fixed (remember you need to be logged in to Scribd to download anything).  This work will be placed on Megaupload shortly.  Actually, I just realised it needs fixing as I forgot to include the full-page diagram.  This has now been done.

06.02.2009: S′akti and S′âkta by John Woodroffe can now be read online at Scribd.  This copy could still do with a little polishing and the obligatory editorial note at the end; it also currently omits the 25 pages of press notices of the works of “Arthur Avalon” (2 of which were missing in my copy-text); it does however include all the other material from the 1929 third edition, some of which is absent in the posthumous editions such as that on which the Sacred-Texts copy (from which most other Internet editions of this work derive) was based.

22.01.2009: Still grinding through S'akti and S'âkta, now done about 85% of the main page count, however the last 37 pages are in French and I have forgotten most of what little I ever learnt of that language.

29.12.2008: Re-started work on Woodroffe, S′akti and S′âkta recently, currently about a third of the way through the main text.  More minor tweaks to Sellon’ Annotations.

18.12.2008: Ah, the old game of whack-a-mole again.  Seems someone on Scribd noticed that a copy of 777 Revised had been pulled following a request from our illustrious Frater Superior and CEO and promptly uploaded another one, and it’s still the same four year old version with all the Arabic missing.  If you want the completed copy, go to the Nu Isis Working Group documents page.  I hereby dissociate myself from the actions of the person styling him or her self “Ravenmother” who I belive obtained all those four year old PDFs directly or indirectly from 93beast.fea.st (which is a whole other story).  Still, I suppose it’s preferable to having all those Frater NoneSuch productions from 2001 or so being reanimated to haunt me . . . oh crap, one of them is on Scribd as well.  This is getting somewhat embarrassing.

16.12.2008: Okay, this is an example of what I meant by that note about CP editions of works by Aleister Crowley.  I observe that several other Crowley texts uploaded by ThanatEros to Scribd have not been removed, those still there were all first published prior to 1923 so this may be an issue of the quirks of US copyright law.  What I said before stands: mirror those works at your own risk.

10.12.2008: Re-set of Phallic Worship (imaginative title, eh?) by Robert A. Campbell is now on Scribd.  Basically this is another digest cribbed from earlier writers; at least the author doesn’t come across as being quite as sex-negative as Dr. Inman, who had seen too many cases of the clap picked up through ill-advised encounters in the rougher parts of town to entertain romantic fantasies about the joys of state-unsanctioned love.  Most of the pictures are cribbed from Inman and Forlong, too.

05.12.2008: Released a new edition of Sellon’s Annotations; besides a few more minor fixes, this includes the full text of his 1865 paper “On the Phallic Worship of India“ (a.k.a. “Linga Puja”).  Direct download; read online at scribd.

30.11.2008: Scientific Romances, second series can now be read online at Scribd.  Megaupload link will follow but it’s gone midnight and I could really do with some food and sleep right now.

28.11.2008: The complete lack of updates on this site for nigh on three months can be attributed mostly to (a) Guild Wars and (b) my chronic intermittent mild depression having gotten worse of late.  I also became so annoyed at Dr. Inman that progress on Ancient Faiths has completely ground to a halt.  On the plus side I recently turned up copy-texts of the works comprising the second series of C.H. Hinton’s Scientific Romances which has been on the wish list for some years and will be issued along with a slight improvement of the first sesries; also another one of the minor Phallicist works on History of Religion, Robert A. Campbell’s imaginatively titled Phallic Worship (1887) is in preparation.

06.09.2008: After some web-trawling I turned up outline biographical data on the probable author of The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship.  See this page on ancestry.com.  This information has been incorporated into the copy of this work on Scribd.  I note that the Internet Archive has recently posted a copy of Illustrations of Phallicism, but that it lacks four of the ten plates.  While I have used page images posted on that site as the basis for many CP / UPL releases, this was not one of them.

28.08.2008: Phallicism, Celestial and Terrestrial by Hargrave Jennings (bound up with the illustrations) can now be read online at Scribd.  This copy is a rather large download (4.5 megs) as the illustrations have not been downsampled.

Older update items have been moved to the bottom of the page.

Direct downloads

• Phallism: a Description of the Worship of Lingam-Yoni in various Parts of the World, and in different Ages: with an account of Ancient and Modern Crosses, particularly of the Crux Ansata (or Handled Cross) and other Symbols connected with the Mysteries of Sex Worship (Nature Worship and Mystical Series, no. 1; second edition).  Anonyomous (sometimes thought to be by Hargrave Jennings).  First published 1889, this represents the “carefully revised” (I have my doubts) 1892 reprint.  If you’ve read Sellon’s Annotations, much of the content may seem familiar.  About 600K.  Read it at Scribd.
• Ophiolatreia: an account of the rites and mysteries connected with the origin, rise, and development of Serpent Worship in various parts of the world, enriched with interesting traditions and a full description of the celebrated Serpent Mounds and Temples, the whole forming an exposition of one of the phases of Phallic, or Sex Worship (Nature Worship and Mystical Series, no. 2).  Anonymous (sometimes attributed to Hargrave Jennings), but in any case much of the contents are cribbed, sometimes with acknowledgement, from earlier works.  A bit under 600K.  Can also be read online at Scribd.
• Archaic Rock Inscriptions (Nature Worship and Mystical Series, no. 6).  Anonymous (like the rest of this series, sometimes ascribed to Hargrave Jennings); but in any case much of the contents are cribbed, usually with acknowledgement, from earlier works.  A brief account of cup and ring markings and other petroglyphs in Northumbria, Yorkshire (with a guarded allusion to the sinister duck-cult of Ilkley Moor), Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, the Americas, Australia and India, finally and unsurprisingly concluding that like everything else they are phallic symbols (TM).  About 700K.  Read it at Scribed.
• Mysteries of the Rosie Cross (Nature Worship and Mystical Series, no. 8).  Anonymous (questionably attributed to Hargrave Jennings, although it has nothing in common with the work ostensibly devoted to this subject which he signed, and even implicitly criticises it).  A brief survey of the “Rosicrucian” phenomenon, mostly taken up with extracts from earlier literature, and scores over The Real History of the Rosicrucians by A. E. Waite in that (a) it’s shorter and (b) it’s not written by A. E. Waite.  Still gives far too much space (i.e., more than a sentence) to John Heydon, though.  About 650K.  Read it at Scribd.
• Phallic Worship (The Masculine Cross) (1880).  Full title Phallic Worship: A Description of the Mysteries of the Sex Worship of the Ancients, with the history of the Masculine Cross: an account of primitive symbolism, Hebrew Phallicism, Bacchic Festival, sexual rites and the mysteries of ancient faiths.  Anonymous.  A rare work (not reprinted since 1886), it is not, however, original; it might be charitably described as a digest, uncharitably as a monument of plagiarism, since most of the contents are taken verbatim and in many cases without acknowledgement from the works of Richard Payne Knight, Higgins’ Anacalypsis, Thomas Wright’s On the Worship of the Generative Powers and The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship by “Sha Rocco,” (itself heavily cribbed from Thomas Inman’s Ancient Faiths embodied in Ancient Names), published in New York in 1874; indeed, the titling and cover were likely designed to cause confusion with, pass the book off as, or cash in on the reputation of, the last work.  This is not part of the “Nature Worship and Mysticism Series” and was probably put out by a different publisher / printer; however it may have been part of the inspiration for that series.  320K.
• Manual of Freemasonry by Richard Carlile.  An account of the rituals of English Freemasonry (Craft, Royal Arch and various minor side degrees) as worked in the early nineteenth century.  Valuable for the study of the craft and its symbolism, even if the rituals are no longer worked in these exact forms.  Can also be read online at Scribd.
• Golden Verses of Pythagoras by A. Fabre d’Olivet (English trans. by N.L. Redfield).  If this site has busted its traffic limit you can download it from Megaupload or read it online at scribd.
• Sex Worship: an exposition of the Phallic Origin of Religion by Clifford Howard (whose other published works appear to include two historical novels around the life of Jesus of Nazareth).  A short work from 1898 conveniently summarising the “phallicist” school of interpretation of religion, unencumbered by such useless things as referencess, arguments or evidence for the author’s assertions; but at least this means it’s quicker to read than Rivers of Life, Ancient Faiths embodied in Ancient Names, etc.,etc.  About 500K.
• Gerald Massey’s Lectures.  Intended as popular exposition of Massey’s ideas on history of religions and the Egyptian origins of Christianity and everything else, as well as being frankly polemical in a few places.  Useful as a general overview before diving into the morass of A Book of the Beginnings and The Natural Genesis, where what is here merely asserted is argued for, whether convincingly or not I will leave to the reader to judge.
• The Kabbalah Unveiled ed. and trans. by S.L. “MacGregor” Mathers.  Three minor tracts from the Zohar, Englished from the Latin of von Rosenroth’s Kabbala Denudata with a lengthy introduction and some notes.  This edition includes (somewhat clunky and literal, it must be admitted) translations of the bits Mathers left in Latin.  [UPDATE 29.03.2007; a few errors fixed, stylistic changes made.]
• Pistis Sophia, translated by G. R. S. Mead (second edition).  The first of the authentic records of early Gnostic Christianity to be published in English.  Can also be read online at Scribd.
• Annotations on the Sacred Writings of the Hindus, with some remarks on the Linga Pûja and Sacti Pûja, by Edward Sellon.  Famous pamphlet on Indian religions by ex-army officer turned hack pornographer.  Should not be treated as a completely reliable source of information on its ostensible subjects, but important in the history of the reception of Indian Tantrism in the West.  The current release adds to the original work, Sellon’s 1865 and 1866 papers as published in the Memoirs of the Anthropological Society of London; the former in many respects an earlier and shorter version of Annotations, the latter going into much more detail on Tantrik ritual (I have not yet gotten round to translating the passages rendered into Latin, though).  One day I might atone for this by doing editions of some more Arthur Avalon texts.
• Comte de Gabalis by N. Monfauçon de Villars.  This is the 1913 “Brothers” translation but without their rambling and frequently redundant commentary, instead leaving it to the reader to judge what, if anything, was the serious purpose behind the satire (if you really want the commentary, sacred-texts have it as HTML).  This copy has been set in an archaic-style Roman face (Jeff Lee’s JSL Ancient) with narrow ‘s’s, etc.; a perhaps more readable copy is available on another site.  About 300 K.
• Real History of the Rosicrucians by A.E. Waite.  Fairly dull and frequently inaccurate, but useful as containing reasonably complete English translations of the manifestoes and other relevant documents.  Best read, as it was intended, as an antidote to the ravings of Hargrave Jennings.  About 1.1 meg.  You can also download it from Megaupload or read it online at Scribd if this site has exceeded its bandwidth.
• Introduction to Tantra S′âstra by Sir John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon).  Originally the extended introduction to the author’s translation of the Mahânirvâna Tantra, this provides a general if somewhat brief overview of Tântrik doctrine and ritual, probably the first serious and sympathetic attempt in the English language to do so.  About 730K.  Can also be read online at Scribd.
• The Garland of Letters (Varnamâlâ): Studies in the Mantra S′âstra by Sir John Woodroffe.  Of somewhat more general interest that the title might indicate; since in order to explain why the construction and use of mantra is not senseless superstition, the author has to more or less explain the creation of the Universe and the evolution of consciousness (not that these are considered as two different things) as conceived by the S′âkta Advaitin (non-dualist) schools; this does however mean it’s rather heavy going in places; further it is not, nor was it written as, a practical guide to Mantra-Yoga.  Can also be read online at Scribd.
• Lectures of the Antient and Primitive Rite ed. and trans. by John Yarker (comprises Masonic Charges and Lectures and Lectures of a Chapter, Senate and Council).  You can also read it online at Scribd.

This selection may occasionally be changed on whim as there is a limit to how much can be stored on a Geocities site at once.

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Other available titles

Copies of some of these can be found scattered across the Web, most not on sites under my control.

• “Nature Worship and Mystical Series.”  Anonymous series of ten digests (read, collections of extracts from earlier works, frequently without proper or any acknowledgement of source) on “Phallic Worship” and related themes; download link (Megaupload, zip archive with all ten).  Links to read online are given with the entries for individual volumes.
• Phallic Objects, Monuments and Remains; Illustrations of the Rise and Development of the Phallic Idea (Sex Worship) and its Embodiment in Works of Nature and Art (Nature Worship and Mystical Series, no. 3).  Anonymous (widely attributed to Hargrave Jennings).  Treats of the round towers of Ireland and elsehwere, pillar stones and holed stones, unsurprisingly concluding that these too are phallic symbols (TM).  Read online at Scribd.
• Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship with illustrative Legends, Superstitions, Useages, &c., exhibiting its Origin and Development amongst the Eastern and Western Nations of the World from the earliest to modern times; with a bibliography of works upon and referring to the phallic cultus (Nature Worship and Mystical Series, no. 4).  Anonymous (widely attributed to Hargrave Jennings).  Another one of these little miscellanies, this time treating of tree-worship, and despite the title not actually torturing logic to connect it with the Phallic-Cult to anything like the extent that Forlong and Inman do.  The bibliography is of course now somewhat dated (this work was first published in 1890), but gives some indicatation of the extent of the literature of the Phallicist school of History of Religion, at least in English, up to the start of the last decade of the nineteenth century.  Read online at Scribd.
Fishes, Flowers, & Fire as elements and deities in the Phallic Faiths & Worship of the ancient religions of Greece, Babylon, Rome, India &c. With illustrative myths and legends (Nature Worship and Mystical Series, no. 5).  Anonymous (probably not by Hargrave Jennings as it contains no references or obvious allusions to the ideas around “Fire-Philosophy” as connected with the Phallic-Cult developed in the books he signed).  Explains the mystical signification of a slap round the face with a large wet fish.  Read online at Scribd or download from Megaupload.
• Nature Worship, or an Account of Phallic Faiths and Practices ancient and Modern, including the adoration of the male and female powers and the Sacta Puja of Indian Gnosticism (Nature Worship and Mystical Series, no. 7).  Ascribed on the title page to “The Author of Phallicism“ which is slightly problematic since the preface to this volume suggests that this actually refers to the first volume of the series and not to Hargrave Jennings’ Phallicism Celestial and Terrestrial.  The account of the S′akti Pûja is plagiarised from Edward Sellon and mixed up with irrelevant material, likely with malicious intent.  Read online at Scribd.
• Phallic Miscellanies; Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as illustrated chiefly in the Religions of India, an appendix of additional and explanatory matter to the volumes Phallism and Nature Worship (Nature Worship and Mystical Series, no. 9). Ascribed on the title page to “The Author of Phallicism,“ (see above).  IMO the absolute nadir of this series, a collection of miscellaneous extracts, with much repetition, on Indian “phallic worship,” possibly driven by political motives of justifying British colonial policies, and certainly frequently reading more like gutter journalism or bigoted and hate-filled sectarian polemic than serious scholarship of Religions.  With these caveats, you can read it online at Scribd.
• The Masculine Cross or a History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and their connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship, also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices (Nature Worship and Mystical Series, no. 10).  Anonymous.  The final volume in Arthur Reader’s (if that really was his name) “Phallic Series,” the cover title of which was likely chosen to cause confusion with The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship by “Sha Rocco” (see below) although it plagiarises a much wider range of authors, in a discussion of the cross symbol, sacred triad, the Golden Calf of the Jewish legend, the practicises of circumcision and female genital mutilation, etc.  Read online at Scribd.
• The Song Celestial (Bhagavad-Gita) by Edwin Arnold.  Read at Scribd.
• The Voice of the Silence by H.P. Blavatsky.  Read at Scribd.
• The Kasidah by Richard Francis Burton.  Read at Scribd.
• Rivers of Life by J.G.R. Forlong.  Monumental study of the History of Religions, purporting to trace the “Evolution of Faiths” from roots in tree, phallic, serpent, phallic, fire, phallic, solar, phallic, ancestor and phallic worship.  Completely barking, but influential in some quarters.  Download link (Megaupload, 18 meg zip archive with both volumes, the big chart, table of correspondences and maps).  Read online at Scribd: Vol 1 — Vol 2 — Synchronological Chart of the Religions of the World — Plate II (map of the ancient world) — Plate III (map of India) — Synoptical Table of Gods and God-Ideas.  The big chart does not render properly in Scribd’s reader owing to the large amount of text and graphics on what is treated as a single page; if you download the PDF it should be fine.
• Short Studies in the Science of Comparative Religion by Major-General J.G.R. Forlong.  A lot saner than Rivers of Life, and much less diffuse; ten detailed and reasonably focussed essays on various aspects of Asian religion from Palestine to China, rounded up by a 93-page medley of rather insipid free-verse renderings of religious, philosophical and ethical teachings from various times and lands.  Download link (Megaupload, about 2 meg; Scribd doesn't seem to like this one).
• Faiths of Man: A Cyclopædia of Religions by Major-General J.G.R. Forlong.  The final fruit of the studies in History of Religion which occupied much of the General’s spare time for the latter part of his military career, and most of his retirement.  Download zip archive with all 3 volumes (Megaupload, 6.7 meg), or read online at scribd.com: Vol. 1 — Vol. 2 — Vol. 3.
• Cosmology or Universal Science (Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians) by Franz Hartmann.  The only thing I have to say in mitigation for preparing an e-text of this travesty of the Geheime Figuren is that the complete English translation is in copyright and I have no real desire to pick a fight with AMORC.  Download link (Megaupload, a bit over 4 meg).  Read online at Scribd.
• The Fourth Dimension by Charles H. Hinton.  Classic work on geometry of four-dimensional space; also includes the supplement “A Language of Space.”  Download link (Megaupload).  Full instructions in making Hinton cubes are also available, so with a colour printer or set of paints, and some card, glue and kiddy blocks or D6s you can summon Daoloth in the comfort of your own home.
• Scientific Romances by Charles H. Hinton.  A collection of essays and novellas, mostly relates to Hinton’s speculations on the fourth dimension.  First series, Second series (links to read online at Scribd.com).
• Hume, with helps to the Study of Berkeley (Collected Essays VI) by T.H. Huxley.  This is “Huxley’s Essays on Hume and Berkeley” mentioned by Crowley in Liber Os Abysmi vel Daäth.  You can now read it online at Scribd.
• Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism exposed and explained by Thomas Inman.  This basically consists of the pictures (plates and inline illustrations) and their purported explanations from Dr. Inman’s monsterpiece Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names, interspersed with various polemics against the religious establishments of his time.  Download link (Megaupload, about 2.5 meg).  Read online at Scribd.
• Ancient Faiths and Modern by Thomas Inman.  The last and frankly the weakest of the Doctor’s works on History of Religion; much of the content may simply bemuse modern readers as relating to long forgotten controversies.  Not as many pretty pictures as Symbolism either.  Still, anyone who want it can download it from Megaupload (about 1.5 meg) or read it online at scribd. (slight improvements made 02.06.2008).
• The Indian Religions, or Results of the Mysterious Buddhism, concerning that also which is to be understood in the divinitiy of Fire, by Hargrave Jennings (from the 1890 second edition).  Going on the author credit you may doubt how much of this book relates to its ostensible subject.  On the face of it the answer seems to be “not much”; Jennings is using Buddhism as a cover for developing his own ideas, particularly the “Fire-Philosophy” theme which recurs throughout his major works.  Mainly I posted this to help readers judge the credibility of Jennings’ claim in the introduction to Phallicism that Thomas Inman, Gerald Massey, General Forlong, C. S. Wake, Hodder M. Westropp and in short the entire British “Phallicist” school of the late nineteenth century were simply cribbing the ideas put forward by Jennings in the 1858 first edition.  Download from Megaupload (just under 1 meg) or read online at Scribd.
• The Rosicrucians, Their Rites and Mysteries (fourth edition) by Hargrave Jennings.  This book of course contains no information about its ostensible subject, indeed repeatedly affirms that it can contain no information about its ostensible subject, but in the process of avoiding telling us anything about the Rosicrucians, St. Hargrave takes us on an interesting if bizarre grand tour of heraldry, the legends of chivalric romance, religious architecture and the theory of a universal pyro-phallic cult.  Download link (Megaupload, 2.5 meg or so); Read online at Scribd.
• Phallicism, Celestial and Terrestrial, Heathen and Christian &c. &c. &.c. by Hargrave Jennings.  Jennings’ individual take on the “Phallicist” theory of Religions.  Includes the illustrations (originally printed and distributed separately as a dodge to avoid prosecution).  Read online at Scribd.
• Illustrations of Phallicism.  This pamphlet basically consists of ten plates and text descriptions which, were it not for the absurd obscenity laws prevailing in England—well, prior to 1959, really—should have been bound up with Phallicism, Celestial and Terrestrial, but was instead privately printed by George Redway and sent for no extra charge to purchasers of the book who wrote care of the publisher.  It is not entirely clear that the preface and text sections of this work are actually by Jennings.  Download link (Megaupload, about 3 meg; comparatively large filesize due to images being presented at higher resolution than normal); read online at Scribd.
• The Gnostics and their Remains (second edition) by C. W. King.  Interesting study, though somewhat flawed and dated; concentrates on the so-called Gnostic gems whose connection with gnostic sects is debateable; suffers also from treating propagandist writers like Epiphanius of Salamis as reliable sources of information.  Download link (Megaupload, about 3 megs); read online at Scribd.com (it was for a time the most popular CP title on that site).
• Science and the Infinite by Sydney T. Klein.
• Discourse on the Worship of Priapus &c. &c. &c. by Richard Payne Knight, Thomas Wright, et al.  Download link (Megaupload, about 4 meg); read online at Scribd.
• The Natural Genesis by Gerald Massey.  Download links: Vol. 1; Vol. 2.  (Megaupload, about 2.7 megs each).  Can also be read online at Scribd: Vol. 1 — Vol. 2.
• Ancient Egypt, the Light of the World by Gerald Massey.  The final installment in Massey’s monumental opus.  This copy is founded on a key-entry which has been doing the rounds for some years, but has been re-proofed against page images of the original work and many eyeskip errors fixed.  Download links (Megaupload) Vol. 1 (2.75 meg); Vol. 2 (2 meg); Scribd links: Vol. 1 — Vol. 2.
• Well, I now have a copy of Book of the Beginnings, just have to scan it without completely destroying the binding.
• Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.  The extended lectures of the Scottish Rite degrees 1° to 32° under the U.S. Southern Masonic Jurisdiction, as prepared by Albert Pike.  Rather diffuse and a monument of plagiarism, but some interesting insights in respect of Masonic symbolism can be found amongst the sludge and political rants.  This copy includes all illustrations, figures, texts in non-Roman scripts and the 200+ page “Digest-Index” originally issued as a separate volume in 1909 but bound up with later printings.  Download link (Megaupload, a bit under 6 megs); read online at Scribd..
• The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship by “Sha Rocco” (Dr Abisha S. Hudson).  Short Phallicist work from 1874, mostly cribbed from Thomas Inman’s Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names.  Distinguish from the two anonymous works with similar titles mentioned above.  Read online at Scribd.
• First Principles by Herbert Spencer.  The first volume of Spencer’s massive “System of Synthetic Philosophy.”  Download link (Megaupload, 1.35 meg), or read it on Scribd.
• The Canon by William Stirling.  Classic work of sacred geometry and horribly tortured Kabbalistic numerology.  Read online at Scribd (Note: This is a very old CP release, from before I adopted the current logo, and could probably use a once-over; but right now I can’t face it).
• The Lost Key: An Interpretation of Masonic Symbols by Prentiss Tucker.  Sufficiently explained by the sub-title, really. I don’t rate this one all that much, but some might find it useful, and it was on a list of recommended reading in connection with the symbolism of Craft Masonry I found somewhere a few years back.  It does seem to be based on a particular American working of the Craft degrees, it should be noted, and many statements may simply confuse those familiar with English versions of the ritual.  Download link (megaupload, about 500K).  Read online at Scribd.
• Raja-Yoga and Bhakti-Yoga by Swami Vivekananda (links lead to copies on Scribd).  Classic popular expositions of Yoga doctrine and practice.
• S′akti and S′âkta: Essays and Addresses on the S′âkta Tantras′âstra by Sir John Woodroffe.  Classic collection of essays on S′âkta Tantra doctrine and ritual; this copy is based on the 1929 third edition, the last revised by the author.  Read online at Scribd or download from Megaupload.

Some of these may be found here.  For the others, and for descriptions of these works, watch this space.

Some of you (I occasionally like to delude myself that there are a few fans of CP out there) may have noticed a glaring omission in the above listings.  Celephaïs Press editions of works by Aleister Crowley are not listed here.  Several (including Equinox vol. I and vol. III no 1, Konx Om Pax, The Sword of Song, The Book of Lies, Book Four, Magick Without Tears, Liber Aleph, Tannhäuser, 777 Revised, Little Essays Toward Truth, The Heart of the Master and about 75% of the extant numbered libri) were prepared in the mistaken belief that the general policy of the holders to the copyrights in these texts was — with the exception of some works which were not written for publication in the first place — to tolerate non-commercial webpostings as long as their copyright was acknowledged; experience has shown that this is not the case, in fact it is within my knowledge that various other website administrators have been requested to remove CP editions of Crowley’s works from their sites, and so the online distribution of these has been put on hold; texts posted on sites under my control will be updated and corrected when errors come to my attention, and only removed if I am specifically requested to do so.

[A clarification (23.12.2008): “Put on hold” was, on reflection, not the best way of describing the situation since copies are clearly still flying around the web, popping up on Scribd and being included in torrents of occult e-books.  I was referring to publications (online or otherwise) either directly under my control (for example on the nu_isis and tanzendstern93 Geocities sites, or uploads to the file sections of public or semi-public Yahoo! groups), or done with my active co-operation (e.g. by emailing texts to other people either asking for them to be posted / hosted, or with the expectation that they would be).  Basically the only things I’ve put up since mid-2005 or so have been revised, corrected or improved editions of texts which I had web-published prior to that date and not been reprimanded for or told to take down again.]

Apart from that, I have absolutely no problem with people mirroring CP texts (though it does strike me as somewhat redundant to mirror them on the same website as many people on Scribd seem to have done).  Actually, I personally have absolutely no problem with people mirroring CP texts, period, but accept no responsibility for the actions of anyone else who uses them in the course of picking a fight with the O.T.O.

Old site news

13.08.2008: On hiatus again, I‘m afraid.  After the obsessive burst of activity of May to July I got somewhat fed up with most of the projects.  Inman’s Ancient Faiths is stuck at about a quarter done, nothing of consequence on any of the other titles.  Basically CP was destroying what excuse for a social life I had.

13.07.2008 (later): The whole “Nature Worship and Mystical Series” can now be downloaded from Megaupload as a single ZIP archive (6.7 megs).  Several of the volumes have had minor improvements and fixes from earlier releases.

13.07.2008: The Indian Religions, or Results of the Mysterious Buddhism by Hargrave Jennings (second edition) can now be read on Scribd as can The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship (1874) by “Sha Rocco,” the first by publication order of those similarly-titled short Phallicist digests.  Currently plodding through Inman’s Ancient Faiths though the massive amount of pointed Hebrew to re-set along with the constant SAN hits means it’ somewhat slow going.

05.07.2008: The Nature Worship and Mystical Series is now done, if not quite dusted: the remaining three volumes can now all be read online at Scribd; Nature Worship (no. 7), Phallic Miscellanies (no. 9) and the 1891 Masculine Cross (no. 10).  A zip archive of the whole series will shortly be made available on Megaupload, I just need to tidy up some of the earlier releases a bit.

27.06.2008: No. 5 in the Nature Worship and Mystical Series, Fishes, Flowers and Fire can now be read online at Scribd or dowloaded from Megaupload.  Also uploaded a corrected version of Archaic Rock Inscriptions to this site and Scribd.  Golden Verses of Pythagoras and Lectures of the Antient and Primitive Rite will shortly be removed from this site to make room for these recent releases.

25.06.2008: Finished re-sets of nos. 3 and 4 in the Nature Worship and Mystical Series, Phallic Objects, Monuments and Remains and Cultus Arborum.  Currently only available on Scribd, I’ll be putting them on Megaupload sometime, possibly.  Now busy scanning Fishes, Flowers & Fire.

22.06.2008: Ophiolatreia (Nature Worship and Mystical Series, no. 2) now available for direct download or can be read online at Scribd.  Which still leaves six of those little miscellanies to re-set, but at least I now have copy-texts.  I’ve made what might be laughably called a start on re-setting Ancinet Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names tho’ putting 2008 on the title page is perhaps a bit optimistic.  Anyway, after much messing (using the Internet archive scans, low-res photos from sale advertisements and page images of Inman’s Symbolism and three different graphics programs) I’ve rebuilt the decorative front boards: for a limited time you can see them here: Vol. 1 — Vol. 2.

16.06.2008: Complete re-set of Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry can now be downloaded from Megaupload (a bit under 6 megs) or read online at scribd.com.  Yes, I know there are copies of this all over the web already; however this one includes all decorations, symbols, text in non-Roman scripts and the Index (prepared by T.W. Hugo in 1909 and bound up with some later printings); and unlike the Project Gutenberg plaintext (downloadable from archive.org), it retains original pagination thus making the index useable.

15.06.2008: Slight improvement to Worship of Priapus released using the ornaments and plates from the archive.org copy; could still use some improvement, but this will involve me getting my hands on a print copy.  The current release can be downloaded from Megaupload or read online at Scribd.  (the ultra-wide left and right margins are an artefact of how Scribd’s online reader software renders things, the PDF is fine).

09.06.2008: Anyone sick of waiting for me to re-set Book of the Beginnings might wsnt to check out Masseiana.org which has complete HTML e-texts of Massey’s three major works plus the lectures, various critical essays and e-texts of several of the volumes Massey used as sources.  An incredible labour of love.  Meanwhile, Unspeakable Press is producing an e-text of Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite by Albert Pike, currently being released by installments on scribd (as of this update I’ve posted the lectures up to the 18°, which only amounts to about a third of the main page count).  When done this will include all illustrations, symbols, text and exotic scripts and also the “Digest-Index” which was appended to the 1919 and later printings, but is missing in most of the copies online, the exception being the Gutenburg plaintext which of course does not reproduce page breaks thus rendering the index less than useful.

02.06.2008: Made a start on putting links to individual titles at Scribd.com; uploaded a slightly improved version of Inman, Ancient Faiths and Modern.

30.05.2008: If anyone is sick of waiting for me to re-set any more of the Nature Worship and Mystical Series, it seems a few days ago the entire series was posted at archive.org as page images and unproofed OCR, courtesy of the Princeton Theological Seminary, along with other Phallicist works on History of Religions from the library of that institution.  This link will get most of them, although Thomas Inman’s Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names has not been tagged with “Phallicism” and needs to be looked for separately.  This at least will save me from spending a few months’ wages on the rare books market.  First up from these will be an improvement of Knight and Wright (i.e., replacing all the images).  P.S.: except this copy appears to lack plate 24, possibly some lowlife tore it out, grr.

22.05.2008: Further to the last: use this link to get the full list of Celephaïs Press and Unspeakable Press (Leng) texts on Scribd.  To download the PDFs you need to register and login, but anyone with a sufficiently fast connection can read them online.  Some of the catalogue has not been put on Scribd yet, most notably Massey’s lectures and Forlong’s Short Studies which the site seems to have some problem with.

18.05.2008: For those of you sick of Megaupload, the CP catalogue is now being uploaded to Scribd which service I discovered earlier today, during one of my periodic checks of who was mirroring CP ebooks.  Actually, some of it was there already including mulitple copies of a few titles; “official” uploads are under the handle wombat23.  I should stress (in case the OTO web enforcer is reading this) that none of the CP Crowley texts on that site were uploaded or caused to be uploaded by me.  Individual links will be added to this page later.

14.05.2008: Yeah, well, been slack again I guess; and even if I can drag myself off Command & Conquer etc. for long enough, I have other projects to be getting on with, not for general publication.  In the meantime I have finally re-set the text sections of Illustrations of Phallicism (the plates for Hargrave Jennings’ Phallicism, Celestial and Terrestrial) and the whole thing can now be found on Megaupload.  This is a comparatively large file—3 meg for a 28-page PDF—because the images are presented at the highest resolution which my print copy warranted.

13.04.2008: Introduction to Tantra S′âstra now finished and uploaded.  As threatened, First Principles has been moved to Megaupload to make room for it.  Yet more tweaks and fixes to Sellon, Annotations &c.

01.04.2008: Too tired for any witty hoax announcements . . . but put a gratuitous background graphic on the webpage to reduce readability.  Now have copy-texts of two more of the “Nature Worship and Mystical Series” volumes, so plenty to be getting on with.  Unfortunately the Command & Conquer 3 expansion came out recently as well, so yet more evenings spent in the hopes of finding an RTS with a decent strategic campaign mode (Empire at War had one, but the tactical phase suffered).

30.03.2008: Turned this up while checking out some references in other texts I was working on; miscatalogued in the Digital Library of India is a copy of John Davenport’s Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs, one of those works that gets labelled “curious,” intended by John Camden Hotten as a follow up to Knight et al. on the Worship of Priapus.  Most of the page count is taken up by two rather dated works on sexology and I have no intention of issuing a re-set; but I have fixed some problems with some of the images and bound them up into a PDF which can be downloaded from Megaupload (about 12 megs); I was debating putting it on Megaerotic instead, but that would just get people’s hopes up.  As for other projects, everything is on go-slow as I recently acquired a copy of the new Dawn of War expanion (still no Tyranids, grr), which will be eating my evenings for a while.

26.03.2008: Well, found even more OCR errors in Sellon’s Annotations, but more importantly I’ve found a copy of his rare paper “Remarks on Indian Gnosticismm, or Sacti Puja” (posted as page images by a New York State university library), re-set it, appended it to the Annotations and uploaded the combined work for direct download.  On the other hand, I’m still no more than about ten pages into Introduction to Tantra S′âstra and it’s getting late.

22.03.2008 (a few hours later): Fixed a problem with a graphic in the front matter of Archaic Rock Inscriptions and Mysteries of the Rosie Cross refusing to display, and (in earlier Acrobat versions) preventing the entire page it appeared on from displaying.  For some reason this problem only occurred when the PDF had been downloaded, the supposedly same file on my hard drive rendered fine.  Have found page images of Cultus Arborum (Nature Worship and Mystical Series, no. 4), so if I get bored with Arthur Avalon before the two volumes of the “Nature Worship” series I recenrly ordered show up (assuming they hadn”t already been sold) that will be the next UP release; unfortunately the said scans are missing the front board, so I’ve had to mock one up.  Also in the pipeline is something I’ve long intended to do but only recently found the page images for — a complete re-set of G.R.S. Mead’s translations of the Hermetica (the one that’s been doing the rounds for years omits CH XIV, XVI to XVIII, the Asclepius and the Stobæus excerpts).

22.03.2008: Uploaded Archaic Rock Inscriptions (Nature Worship and Mystical Series, no. 6).  Minor improvements to Cliff Howard’s Sex Worship and Sellon’s Annotations, and fixed a whole load of previously unnoticed OCR errors in Phallism (I do seem to recall warning people about my somewhat slack attitude to proofreading).  I will soon be moving First Principles to Megaupload as there is currently hardly any room left on this site.

19.03.2008: Uploaded The Garland of Letters by John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon) to the site.  Next up is the same author’s Introduction to Tantra S′âstra and Archaic Rock Inscriptions in the “Nature Worship and Mystical Series.”

16.03.2008: Uploaded Mysteries of the Rosie Cross (Nature Worship and Mysticism Series, no. 8) and Phallic Worship / The Masculine Cross (1880) to the site; the latter seems to be a kind of precursor of the “Nature Worship” series and is not identical with The Masculine Cross (1874) by “Sha Rocco” which may be found on the Sacred-Texts site.  The Gnostics and their Remains has been moved to Megaupload to make room for the above and possibly more.  For purposes of comparison, I will note that the first edition of this work (1864) can be found as page images on Google Books; this, while shorter and lacking the material derived from Hippolytus and the Askew Codex, contains much that was left out in the 1887 edition.  Now about two thirds of the way through Garland of Letters and started scanning Introduction to Tantra S′âstra.

09.03.2008: Well, while making a start on Mysteries of the Rosie Cross I got sidetracked and decided to give a makeover to the old UP edition of Comte de Gabalis.  A version with a more readable typeface and some pedantic footnotes (largely for the purpose of questioning some of the translators’ readings) is on the site of the Nu Isis working group.  Now about halfway through Garland of Letters and intending to follow it with the same author’s Introduction to Tantra S′âstra (essentially the introduction from his translation of the Mahânirvâna Tantra).  No progress at all on Book of the Beginnings to report, though.

04.03.2008: Phallism: a Description of the Worship of Lingam-Yoni in various Parts of the World, and in different Ages: with an account of Ancient and Modern Crosses, particularly of the Crux Ansata (or Handled Cross) and other Symbols connected with the Mysteries of Sex Worship (dontcha just love those nineteenth-century full titles?) is now available for direct download.  I would try and proof another chapter of Garland of Letters tonight but it’s getting late and if I keep falling asleep at work then such things as obtaining copy-texts, keeping my internet connection live, etc., might become problematic.

02.03.2008: As a prelude to a projected Unspeakable Press release of the “Nature Worship and Mystical Series’ of 1889-91 (widely attributed to Hargrave Jennings), which will probably take most of the rest of 2008 to complete depending on availablity of copy-texts and so forth, page images of Phallism: A Description of the Worship of Lingam-Yoni (a.k.a. Crux Ansata) can now be downloaded from megaupload.  This is an 8-meg PDF of high-resultion page images scanned directly from the 1892 second edition complete with the decorated front board design (well, rather a photoshopped rebuild thereof, as unretouched scans of decorated boards, especially of 100+ year old volumes, don’t really work in ebooks).  This book is thought to have been influential on O.T.O. founder Theodor Reuss, who in the same year he launched that order, published a German translation as Lingam-Yoni oder die Mysterien des Geschlechts-Kultus &c. &c. &c.  A re-set (hence searchable and smaller filesize) edition of this will be issued soon (I hope), followed in the first instance by Archaic Rock Inscriptions and Mysteries of the Rosie Cross in the same series, (currently available as page images or unproofed plain text from the Internet Archive).  This series comprises a total of ten volumes averaging about 100 octavo pages, and treats of subjects as diverse as the symbolism of various kinds of crosses, tree, fire and serpent worship, cup and ring and analogous markings on rocks across the world (Ilkley Moor gets particular mention), and of course the Phallic-Cult (understood, as among many nineteenth-century writers on the subject to include both male and female emblems and not necessarily indicating a preference for the former).  Other volumes will follow as time and funds permit.

The Gnostics and Their Remains will shortly be moved to Megaupload to make room for more things on this site, since a single download will nigh-on exhaust the Geocities bandwidth limit for an hour.

01.03.2008: Issued a slightly improved version of Real History of the Rosicrucians which is now available for direct download.

27.02.2008: Uploaded another short 19th-century Phallicist work on History of Religions, Sex Worship by Clifford Howard.  The main value of this work is as a brief summary of the school’s position, unencumbered by things like references, arguments or evidence for the author’s assertions; but it might save you the time and sanity loss involved in wading through Rivers of Life, Inman’s Ancient Faiths, &c.

21.02.2008: Fixed some problems in Sellon’s Annotations.  In case there was any doubt, ‘Unspeakable Press, Leng’ is not the same as Unspeakable Press in Texas, a small press specialising in horror fiction.  It seems likely that we came up with the name independently of each other; hopefully nobody has gotten us mixed up.

20.02.2008: My copy of Book of the Beginnings has arrived, now to try and scan it (a little under 1200 pages) without destroying the binding.  Sort of started work on John Woodroffe’s Garland of Letters.  The same author’s Shakti and Shakta is also on the to do list, though further down since there is a near complete copy on sacred-texts already.

16.02.2008: Good news for phallic serpent fans everywhere! (or at least those with decent internet connections) — the latest update of General Forlong’s monsterpiece Rivers of Life can now be downloaded from Megaupload.  As a result of massive improvements to the quality of the inline images, vol. i is now over 2 meg bigger than it was and the total archive size has gone up to 17.5 meg, but it’s still smaller and displays far more quickly than the PDF or DJVU of page images from Internet Archive.  Uploaded a re-set pf Edward Sellon’s Annotations on the Sacred Writings of the Hindus, a significant work in the history of the (mis)understanding of Indian Tantrism in the English-speaking world — see for example cap. ii of Francis X. King’s Sexuality, Magic and Perversion — available as direct download (about 400K).  A slight improvement of Jennings’ Rosicrucians is now on Megaupload. 

09.02.2008: Unless you’re in a real hurry to read about solar phallic fiery flying tree serpents, you may want to hold off downloading that recent upload of Rivers of Life as, since it was added, not only have a few more OCR errors been found and fixed but many of the figures have been improved after a few days downloading copies of various of Forlong’s source texts from Google Books, the Internet Archive, Digital Library of India, etc.  The PDFs will be regenned and put on Megaupload once I’ve recovered from the SAN hit and got over my irrational desire to slap four long ducks round the face with a large wet fish.

03.02.2008: Both volumes of Massey’s Ancient Egpyt now available on megaupload links.  Minor improvements to Lectures of the Antient and Primitive Rite.

31.01.2008: Made some slight improvements to Rivers of Life, mostly just stylistic tweaks; total filesize remains about the same.

29.01.2008: As promised, the front matter and books I and II of vol. I of Anacalypsis by Godfrey Higgins, have been PDF'd and uploaded.  This could probably have been fitted on the Geocities site, but Geocities doesn’t keep a hit count on non HTML files, hence you can download it from Megaupload (about 700K).  This represents less than 10% of the total page count of this monsterpiece, so even if I do press on with it, it’s going to be some months before it’s all done.

28.01.2008: Power of wrong, I guess . . . following the announcement of two weeks ago I finally finished vol. 1 of Massey’s Ancient Egypt and made some progress on vol. 2.  The former is now available through megaupload; a slightly improved version of Natural Genesis (headers tidied up and new covers added) has also been uploaded.  I am not going to be so rash as to announce an ETA for the remaining three volumes of Massey’s monsterpiece, though I am in the process of attempting to procure a useable copy-text of Book of the Beginnings.

16.01.2008: It would probably be fair to say that all CP projects, which have been announced here or elsewhere as in preparation or projected, are on indefinite hiatus.  The intrusion into my universe of harsh economic realities over the last couple of years has drastically curtailed the supply of the main resource, namely time.

Since Anacalypsis, which I earlier announced as dropped, has generated some interest in terms of email feedback (not much, but more than I get from most extant or projected CP titles) I will be posting those portions of this work which I have re-set through this page shortly; if enough people show interest by downloading them, I may feel it is actually worth continuing with this work (I now at least have an OCR-able copy of the second volume, well, most of it).

02.09.2007: Forlong, Faiths of Man and Short Studies now on Megauploads (see below for links).

31.08.2007: Jennings and Waite on the Rosicrucians now available on Megaupload.  The remaining Forlong volumes will follow shortly, but I need to re-gen the PDFs having fixed some typos since the versions last posted here.

28.08.2007: Apologies to anyone who wanted to download vol. 1 of Natural Genesis from megaupload.  Owing to sheer carelessness on my part, a set of ropy page images of vol. 2 of Book of the Beginnings got upped and linked to instead.  This has now been fixed.

[Date not noted]: For those of you who can face the horror that is Megaupload, I will be making various texts that can’t fit on the Geocities sites available.  First up is Rivers of Life by Forlong; this is a single 15 meg zip archive containing both volumes, the big chart and the tables that formed the appendix as separate PDFs, and the colour maps as hi-res JPEG images.  Also Thomas Inman’s Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism Exposed and Explained (this work essentially consists of the pictures and their purported “explanations” from Inman’s Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names with various rants and digressions interspersed.  It was on one of the O.T.O. reading lists, although whether you consider that a recommendation or not is another matter entirely).  Last for today is Knight and Wright, Two Essays on the Worship of Priapus.  More to follow when I can be bothered.

HTML coding &c. by Frater T.S. (Kevin Park) for Celephaïs Press.  Last updated 2009.08.06.