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Works Cited 289 9.m The Equinox ni(3), fall 1936. The Equinox of the Gods. See (10). 9.n The Equinox ni(4), spring 1939. Eight Lectures on Yoga.. 9.o The Equinox ni(5), spring 1944. The Book ofThoth. 9.p The Equinox in(6), 1961. Liber Aleph. See (18). 9.q The Equinox iii(7), 1971. Shih Yi [Shih /]. 9.r The Equinox ni(8), 1975. The Tao Teh King [Tao Te Ching]. See (28). 9.s The Equinox ni(9), 1983.0EAHMA [Thelema]: The Holy Books of Thelema. See (30). 9.t The Equinox ni(10), 1986. New York; rpt. 1990, Weiser. 9.u The Equinox iv(l), spring 1996. …
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…y.” 8 ------------ . The Commentaries of AL, ed. Marcelo Motta. New York: Weiser, 1976. 9 ------------ . (series editor, 1909-1944). The Equinox. “The stan dard Work of Reference in all occult matters. The Encyclopaedia of Initiation.” This series appeared semianually from spring 1909 to fall 1913. Volume n was intentionally not published. Volume hi appeared between 1919 and 1986. Volume iv is in press as of 1996. 9.a The Equinox i(l), spring 1909, London; rpt. 1992, Weiser. 9.b The Equinox i(2), fall 1909, London; rpt. 1992, Weiser. 9.c The E…
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…aphrase of his Orpheus, A Lyrical Legend (1905), bk. 4; see Collected Works, vol. Ill, p. 217.] 2 [“The Temple of Solomon the King,” The Equinox 1(7) (1912); this account was republished as Chapter 6 of “Genesis Libri AL” in The Equinox of the Gods (Book 4, Part ZV).] 3 [Apemantus is the gloomy prophet in Timon of Athens.] The nature of events must be “pure joy”; for, obviously, whatever occurs is the fulfilment of the will of its master. Sorrow thus appears as the result of any unsuccessful—therefore, ill- judged—struggle. Acquiescence in the …
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…e by self-sacrifice, but wait in confidence for the dawn, and enjoy the pleasures of the night meanwhile. The general allusion is to the Equinox Ritual of the G.'.D.-. where the officer of the previous six months, representing Horus, took the place of the retiring Hierophant, who had represented Osiris.1 1 [See “The Temple of Solomon the King,” The Equinox 1(7) (1912), p. 372; The Equinox of the Gods (1936), p. 88; or Book 4, Parts I-IV, (rev. ed., 1994), Appendix VIII, p. 666. See Works Cited.] 2 [“Noxious” or “poisonous,” referring to the sor…
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… “uplifted in thine heart”:—compare “The Book of the Heart Girt with a Serpent.”1 1 [“Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente sub figura LXV.”] See Equinox III(l) [(1919), and The Holy Books ofThelema (Equinox 111(9)) (1983).] 63. Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of Hell’s own worm. Commentary: This verse conceals a certain Magical Formula of the loftiest initiation. It refers to a method of using the breath, in connection with the appropriate ser…
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…sis. Thame, UK: Mandrake Press, 1990. 28 ------------ . [Tao Te Ching.] The Tao Te Ching. Liber CLVII, rev. ed., ed. Hymenaeus Beta. The Equinox iii(8), York Beach, me: Weiser, 1995. 29 ------------ (received by). &EAHMA [Thelema], 3 vols. London: pri vately printed for members of A.-. A.-., 1909. 30 ------------ (received by). [Thelema] &EAHMA: The Holy Books of Thelema, ed. Hymenaeus Alpha and Hymenaeus Beta. York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1983. The Equinox in(9). Corrected 2nd printing, York Beach, ME: Weiser, and New York: 93 Publishing, 1990. 31…
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…e Golden Dawn System of Magic (Phoenix: Falcon, 1984), vol. 7, p. 52. This passage is omitted in Crowley’s account of this ritual in The Equinox 1(3) (1910). The formula does however occur in Liber 418, 9th Aithyr, and in “John St. John,” The Equinox 1(1) (1909).] 38. So that thy light is in me; & its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. There is a secret door that I shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters, (these are the adorations, as thou hast written), as it is said: The light is mine; its rays consume Me: I hav…
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…ived a certain continuity or identity of myself with Ankh-f-n- khonsu, whose Stele is the Link with Antiquity of this Revela tion.1 See Equinox 1(7), pp. 363-400, for the account of this event.1 2 1 [Ankh-f-n-khonsu (Ankhefenkhons i) was an Egyptian priest of Month (Mentu) who flourished in Thebes c. 725 b.c.e.J 2 [This account was republished in as Chapter 6 of “Genesis Libri AL” in The Equinox of the Gods (Book 4, Part /V).] 3 [Ouarda the Seer was Rose Edith Crowley (1874-1932), Crowley’s first wife and the first of a series of Scarlet Women…
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…teries. 1 [“Liber L vel Legis sub figura CCXX,” in OEAHMA [London: pri vately printed for initiates of A.'.A.'., 1909], vol. 3, and The Equinox 1(10) (1913), p. 9.] 2 [Crowley, Liber XXX /Erum ... The Vision and the Voice, 15th /Ethyr. See Works Cited.] 3 [Atu VIII, retitled “Adjustment” in Crowley’s The Book of Thoth (1944).] 21
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…e Works Cited under “Liber 150.”] 2 [A phrase from the Great Obligation of the A.•.A/, (the Oath of the Abyss); see “John St. John,” The Equinox 1(1) (1909), p. 11, or The Equinox 111(10) (1986), p. 18.] The question then arises as to whether the initiate is able to stand firmly in this Place of Exaltation. It seems to me as if this refers to the ascetic life, commonly considered as an essential con dition of participation in these mysteries. The answer is that “there are means and means”, implying that no one rule is essen tial. This is in h…
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…ugh with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double-wanded one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust Sc worship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall mingle in the globed priest; another sacrifice shall stain the tomb; another king shall reign; and blessing no longer be poured To the Hawk-headed mystical Lord…
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… The Book of Wisdom or Folly, p. 142. See Works Cited.] 2 [The “Old Comment” was omitted in this abridgement. The relevant passage, from Equinox 1(7) (1912), p. 393, is “The fools (not here implying X fools, for 111:57 says ‘all fools despise’) may mistake. This love, then, should be the serpent love, the awakening of the kundalini. The further mystery is of S and unsuited to the grade in which this comment is written.”] 3 [See Crowley, The Book ofThoth (1944), pp. 8-11. This is illustrated in his diagram “The Double Loop in the Zodiac” (Hebrew…
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…ugh with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double-wanded one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust & wor ship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall min gle in the globed priest; another sacrifice shall stain the tomb; another king shall reign; and blessing no longer be poured To the Hawk-headed mystical L…
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… none by the Book? 49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra- Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods; and let Asar be with Isa, who also are one. But
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… the Law. 39. A feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet—secret, O Prophet! 40. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. 41. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! 42. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! 43. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! 44. Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu. 45. There is death for the dogs. 46. Dost th…
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… the Law. 39. A feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet—secret, O Prophet! 40. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. 41. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! Commentary: The feasts of fire and water indicate rejoicings to be made at the puberty of boys and girls respectively. The feast for life is at a birth; and the feast for death at a death. It is of the utmost importance to make funerals merry, so as to train people to take the proper view of death. …
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…uthern California, founded by Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885-1957) in 1935 E.v. “Liber XV” is now celebrated weekly around the world.] 2 The Equinox 1(9). [See “Liber 811,” Works Cited.] 63. Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me perfumes! Wear to me jewels! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you! Commentary: All those acts which excite the divine in man are proper to the Rite of Invocation. Religion, as understood by the vile Puritan, is the very oppo site of all this. He—it—seems to wish to kill his—its—soul by forbidding every expres…
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… as the Bread of Nourishment. “Nor is he for priest designed Who partakes only in one kind.”1 1 [Crowley, “The Sevenfold Sacrament,” The Equinox III(l) (1919), p. 193.] 2 [Phyrne was a 4th century b.c.e. Greek courtesan who was the model for several famous images of Aphrodite.] We therefore heartily cherish those forms of Love in which no question of generation arises; we use the stimulating effects of physical enthusiasm to inspire us morally and spiritually. Experi ence teaches that passions thus employed do serve to refine and to exalt the …
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… York: Dover, c. 1990. ------------ . The Tao Te Ching, trans. Aleister Crowley, ed. Hyme- naeus Beta. York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1995. The Equinox iii(8). ------------ . [Tao Te Ching.] Michael LaFargue. The Tao of the Tao Te Ching: A Translation and Commentary. Albany, ny: suny Press, 1992. Lytton, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron. Zanoni: A Rosicrucian Tale. London, 1842; rpt. Blauvelt, NY: Spiritual Science Library, 1990. Described by Crowley as “valuable for its facts and sug gestions about Mysticism.” Malory, Thomas. Le Morte d’Arthur, ed. J…
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…al Women’s Visionary Litera ture (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).] 7 See “Liber CL, De Lege Libellum,” Cap. IV, in Equinox 111(1). [See Works Cited.] It is to be well noted that the Great Women of History have exercised unbounded freedom in Love. Sappho, Semiramis, Mes salina, Cleopatra, Ta Chi,1 2 Pasiphae, Clytaemnaestra, Helen of Troy, and in more recent times Joan of Arc (by Shakespeare’s account), Catherine II of Russia, Queen Elizabeth of England,3 George Sand,4 “George Eliot.”5 Against these we can put only Emily B…