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Feasts and memorials

The sites of Parisian Thelemic commemorations, through the year.

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   Jacques de MolaySquare du Vert-Galant, 75001 Paris · Metro Pont Neuf (7)Free accessFeast18 March

   The last Grand Master of the Temple is burned here, on the former Île aux Juifs, on 18 March 1314; a plaque on the Pont-Neuf commemorates it. Every 18 March: reading of the eleventh Collect of Liber XV and laying of flowers.

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2. 29

   Éliphas Lévi155, rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris · Metro Vaneau (10)Other useFeast31 May

   Alphonse-Louis Constant, known as Éliphas Lévi, whose reincarnation Crowley claimed to be, lived and died here on 31 May 1875. The building was demolished: today it is one of the entrances of the Necker-Enfants malades hospital. He is buried at Ivry. Every 31 May: gathering, eleventh Collect, flowers.

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   The Temple enclosureSquare du Temple – Elie-Wiesel, 75003 Paris · Metro Temple (3)Free accessFeast13 October

   Here stood the commandery of the Templars. On Friday 13 October 1307, the knights are arrested throughout France. Every 13 October: gathering, reading and flowers.

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   Tomb of PapusCimetière du Père-Lachaise, division 93, 75020 Paris · Metro Père-Lachaise (2, 3)Free accessFeast25 October

   Doctor Gérard Encausse, known as Papus, a great figure of Parisian occultism, dies on 25 October 1916. Every 25 October: gathering at his tomb, eleventh Collect of Liber XV, flowers.

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   Oscar Wilde's tombCimetière du Père-Lachaise, division 89, 75020 Paris · Metro Père-Lachaise (2, 3)Free accessMemorial1913-1914

   Jacob Epstein's monument, covered with a tarpaulin on the prefect's orders, was forcibly unveiled: according to some biographers on 4 November 1913, with students from the Latin Quarter, according to others in early August 1914. Crowley took away the bronze butterfly that hid the sphinx's genitals and later handed it to Epstein at the Café Royal in London. Every 5 November, Thelemites gather here to read Liber OZ together.

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