Rites of Eleusis

Leila Waddell (Laylah), assistant and muse to Aleister Crowley in writing and performing the Rites

The Rites of Eleusis were a series of seven public invocations or rites written by British occultist Aleister Crowley, each centered on one of the seven classical planets of antiquity. They were dramatically performed by Aleister Crowley, Leila Waddell (Laylah), and Victor Benjamin Neuburg in October and November 1910, at Caxton Hall, London. This act brought Crowley's occult organization the A∴A∴ into the public eye.[1]

  1. ^ King, p.115