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…III. CMLXIII. MMDCDXI. 56 THE EQUINOX Vide Sepher Sephiroth. Used for this book because the final revelation is the Lord of the Aon. The number of oxvSw Siloam. The number of Daath. The number of 6 dpifus the Greek word for Number. The number of mcs the sphere of the Fixed Stars. Had fully expanded; thus 7m, "ox, n>; compare 11 where Nu is fully con- tracted. From mvnn, the Gate, and the spelling in full of the name Adonai. See Sepher Sephiroth. The number of the name ynem, The number of I A O in Greek. See Sepher Sephiroth. Parris. The number …
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…XV. LXVI. LXVII. LXXVIII. LXXXIV. XC. XCV. 54 THE EQUINOX 30 is the letter Lamed, which is Justice in the Tarot, referred to Libra. This number was given on Masonic grounds. The square of 6, this book being the ritual of the Hexagram. From TM blood, because blood is sacrificed, also because the God Adored is Horus, who gave 44 as his special number. See Eguinox V//, 376. The mystic number of Malkuth and of TM orna- ment; a number generally suitable to the subject of the book. wm Grace, a secret title of the Qabalah. See Sepher Sephiroth. See Se…
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… Cc. CXX. CXLVIII. CLVI. CLXXV. CLKXXV. CXCVII. cc. CCVI. CCXX. CCXXXI. CCXLII. CCCXXXIII. CCCXXXV. CCCXLI. CCCLXX. CD. CDXII. The total number of points in the 16 figures, Enumeration of the letter Kappa spelt in full. Kand are the initials of magical instru- ments referred to in the text. See Rosicrucian Symbolism. ome The Balances. Babalon, to whom the book refers. See Sepher Sephiroth. The number of Venus or Astarte. Number of Z O ON, “ Beast.” The number of 7 the Sun. The number of R V, referred to in the text. The number of the Verses in …
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OFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS OF A... A. A NOTE EXPLAINING WHY EACH NUMBER HAS BEEN GIVEN TO EACH BOOK LIBER I. Tis the number of the Magus in the Tarot. III. Refers to the threefold method given, and to the Triangle as a binding force. VII. Refers to the 7 chapters, and to the fact that the number 7 is peculiarly suitable to the subject of the Book. VIII. The Tarot card numbered 8, the Charioteer, the bearer of the Holy Graal, represents the Holy Guardian Angel. IX. Refers to Yesod. The foundation, because the elementary practices recommended in the b…
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…ny precision upon his mind, let him adopt this practice A. A. Let the Practicus be seated before a bare square table, and let an unknown number of small similar objects be thrown by his chela from time to time upon the table, and by that chela be hastily gathered up. Let the Practicus declare at the glance, and the chela confirm by his count, the number of such objects. The practice should be for a quarter of an hour thrice daily. The maximum number of objects should at first be seven. This maximum should increase by one at each practice, provi…
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…rusalem, or on this moun- tain; for God is a spirit,’ and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” x THE ABSOLUTE NUMBER OF THE QABALAH Tue key of the Sephiroth. (Vide Dogme et rituel de la haute magie.) XI THE NUMBER ELEVEN ELEVEN is the number of force; it is that of strife and martyrdom. Every man who dies for an idea is a martyr, for in him the aspirations of the spirit have triumphed over the fears of the animal. Every man who falls in war is a martyr, for he dies for others. Every man who dies of starvation is a mar…
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…ity wills it. With the débris of the worlds, God makes stars ; with the débris of souls He makes angels. VI THE SENARY Tue Senary is the number of initiation by ordeal ; it is the number of equilibrium, it is the hieroglyph of the knowledge of Good and Evil. 30
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…ll honour to your scattered ashes! Peace and venera- tion to your memories! You are the heroes of progress, martyrs of humanity! XII THE NUMBER TWELVE TWELVE is the cyclic number; it is that of the universal Creed. 2 Monasteries in Paris which were used as prisons in the Reign of Terror—TRANS. 45
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THE EQUINOX XVII THE NUMBER SEVENTEEN SEVENTEEN is the number of the star; it is that of in- telligence and love. Warrior and bold intelligence, accomplice of divine Prometheus, eldest daughter of Lucifer, hail unto thee in thine audacity! Thou didst wish to know, and in order to possess, thou didst brave all the thunders, and affronted every abyss! Intelligence, O Thou, whom we poor sinners have loved to madness, to scandal, to reprobation! Divine right of man, essence and soul of liberty, hail unto thee! For they have pursued thee, in trampli…
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…se gods of selfishness and fear! Shame to the slaves, the misers of love! God loves prodigal children! Vv THE QUINARY Tue Quinary is the number of religion, for it is the number of God united to that of woman.! 2 Almost too visibie a sucer of the Atheist and woman-despiser.—O. M. 25
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…he universal family. At that day, according to the promise of the Gospel, there will be no more than one flock and one shepherd. XVI THE NUMBER SIXTEEN SIXTEEN is the number of the temple. Let us say what the temple of the future will be! When the spirit of intelligence and love shall have revealed itself, the whole trinity will manifest itself in its truth and in its glory. Humanity, become a queen, and, as it were, risen from the dead, will have the grace of childhood in its poesy, the vigour of youth in its reason, and the wisdom of ripe age…
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… drink the blood of the Christ, it will burn your entrails; it is quite sufficient that it should have flowed uselessly for youl VII THE NUMBER EIGHT Tue Ogdoad is the number of reaction and of equilibrating justice. 37
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… ‘So long as I am in good health, let me serve others; and whenI must fall and die, perhaps others will take my place and serve.” IX THE NUMBER NINE Tuis is the hermit of the Tarot; the number which refers to initiates and to prophets. The prophets are solitaries, for it is their fate that none should ever hear them. They see differently from others ; they forefeel misfortunes. So, people imprison them and kill them, or mock them, repulse them as if they were lepers, and leave them to die of hunger. Then, when the predictions come true, they sa…
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…of the divine tree, became the delicious sap of the grape, which is destined to intoxicate with love the children of the future. XIV THE NUMBER FOURTEEN FourTEEN is the number of fusion, of association, and of universal unity, and it isin the name of what it represents that we shall here make an appeal to the nations, beginning with the most ancient and the most holy. Children of Israel, why, in the midst of the movement of 52
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…-clothes which our childhood itself tore in shreds, towards the imbecility and ignorance of the earliest ages . . . never! never! XV THE NUMBER FIFTEEN FIFTEEN is the number of antagonism, and of catholicity. Christianity is at present divided into two churches: the 58
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…d all to know thee and to understand thee, and who is ready to suffer all once more, in order to serve thee and to love thee ! XVIII THE NUMBER EIGHTEEN Tus number is that of religious dogma, which is all poetry and all mystery. F 65
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…series of ten hiero- glyphs each, referring to the four letters of the name of Jehovah. The diverse combinations of those signs, and the numbers which correspond to them, form so many qabalistic oracles, so that the whole science is contained in this mysterious book. This perfectly simple philosophical machine astonishes by the depth of its results. The Abbé Trithemius, one of our greatest masters in magic, composed a very ingenious work, which he calls Polygraphy, upon the qabalistic alphabet. It is a combined series of progressive alphabets w…
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…cking disaster resulted: almost all that multitude was drowned, and the hallucination was only extinguished with the life of the greater number of those unhappy visionaries. Human thought creates what it imagines ; the phantoms of superstition project their deformities on the astral light, and live upon the same terrors which give them birth. That black giant which reaches its wings from east to west to hide the light from the world, that monster who devours souls, that frightful divinity of ignorance and fear—in a word, the devil, —is still, f…
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…e first boy, who is named Alcyone, is, or is going to be, the Lord Christ, and sometimes that he is Lord Maitreya, and she has induced a number of persons to believe in this theory, with the result that the boy is deified, and that a number of respectable persons prostrate before him and show other signs of worship. It is also given out that the elder boy wrote a book called 4¢ the Feet of the Master, which the plaintiff has reasons to believe to be a compilation made by Leadbeater. In any case, the boy who is not able to write a decent English…
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…f one God, in one intent unite. I do believe that death by changing us renews, And that in man as God life sheds immortal dews. XIII THE NUMBER THIRTEEN THIRTEEN is the number of death and of birth; it is that of property and of inheritance, of society and of family, of war and of treaties. 46