The International

The International was a literary and arts journal founded by George Sylvester Viereck, published in New York between WWI and WWII. For a number of years during the period of silence between The Equinox Volume I and Volume III, Aleister Crowley was a contributing editor for this journal and many essays, poems and plays appeared under various names (including Baphomet and The Master Therion) authored by him. For example, the first publication of the Gnostic Mass, which became Liber XV, appeared in this journal. Also, several of Crowley’s Simon Iff stories appeared in the pages of The International, under the pseudonym Edward Kelly.

• The International, Vol IX Iss 6, Jun '15
• The International, Vol IX Iss 7, Jul '15
• The International, Vol IX Iss 8, Aug '15
• The International, Vol IX Iss 9, Sep '15
• The International, Vol IX Iss 10, Oct '15
• The International, Vol IX Iss 11, Nov '15
• The International, Vol IX Iss 12, Dec '15
• The International, Vol X Iss 1, Jan '16
• The International, Vol X Iss 4, Apr '16
• The International, Vol X Iss 7, Jul '16
• The International, Vol X Iss 8, Aug '16
• The International, Vol X Iss 12, Dec '16
• The International, Vol XI Iss 2, Feb '17
• The International, Vol XI Iss 5, May '17
• The International, Vol XI Iss 6, Jun '17
• The International, Vol XI Iss 7, Jul '17
• The International, Vol XI Iss 8, Aug '17
• The International, Vol XI Iss 9, Sept '17
• The International, Vol XI Iss 10, Oct '17
• The International, Vol XI Iss 11, Nov '17
• The International, Vol XI Iss 12, Dec '17
• The International, Vol XII Iss 1, Jan '18
• The International, Vol XII Iss 2, Feb '18
• The International, Vol XII Iss 3, Mar '18
• The International, Vol XII Iss 4, Apr '18
• The International, Vol XII Iss 5, May '18

Karl Germer’s list of Aleister Crowley’s contributions, under various names, to The International is online as Primary Sources at Thelema Lodge Calendar for October 1997 e.v. Below is a list of transcriptions from the pages of The International that appear from this list in the archives of the Thelema Lodge Calendar:

• The Crimes of Edith Cavell, Jan 1916
• Songs of Armageddon and Other Poems Review by A.C., July 1916
• Frank Harris reveals Oscar Wilde, Aug. 1916
• A Noisy Noise Annoys an Oyster, Dec. 1916
• Percy Mackaye, Feb. 1917
• Sir Rabinadranath Tagore, May 1917
• A Death Bed Repentance, July 1917
• The New School of Literature, July 1917
• Felo de Se, Aug. 1917
• Listen to the Bird Man!, Aug 1917
• Balzac: A Note, Aug 1917
• 1066, Sept. 1917
• Cocaine, A.C., Oct. 1917
• The Discovery of Gneugh-Loughrck Oct. 1917
• Groans from the Padded Cell, Oct. 1917
• The Argument that Took the Wrong Turning, Oct. 1917
• The Spoils (To) the Strong, Oct. 1917
• The Ouija Board, The Master Therion, Oct. 1917
• Humanity First, A.C., Nov. 1917
• We Stand Above, Dec. 1917
• Concerning Death, Baphomet, Dec. 1917
• Pax Hominibus Bonae Voluntatis, A.C., Dec 1917
• Auguste Rodin, Dec. 1917
• England Speaks, A.C., Jan. 1918
• The Heart of Holy Russia, A.C., Jan 1918
• Wanted -- Modern//{sic}// Men, A.C., Feb. 1918
• Ansinthe. the Green Goddess, A.C., Feb. 1918
• At the Feet of Our Lady of Darkness. Izeh Kranil., Translated by A.C., Feb. 1918
• Good Hunting (An Essay on the Nature of Comedy & Tragedy), March 1918
• The Saviour, a Dream, A.C., March 1918
• The Bonds of Marriage, a romantic farce, March 1918
• Robbing Miss Horniman, A.C., April 1918
• The Old Man of the Peepul-Tree, James Grahame, April 1918
• The Ideal Idol, Cyril Custance, April 1918
• Drama Be Damned, April 1918

Several of the works by Aleister Crowley from the pages of The International have subsequently been included in compilations, such as