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…. Wi, Ni, Bi. Translation of Song. I Silence! the moon ceaseth (her motion), That also was sweet In the air, in the air, in the air! Who Will shall attain! Who Will shall attain By the Moon, and by Myself, and by the Angel of the Lord! Il Now Silence ceaseth And the moon waxeth sweet; (It is the hour of) Initiation, Initiation, Initiation. The kiss of Isis is honeyed; My own Will is ended, For Will hath attained. 162
1911 · PDF PAGE 95
…erse. And when the sand hath sucked up the blood of the victims, let him recite the Call of the Aethyr apart secretly as aforesaid. Then will the Vision be revealed, and the Voice heard. The Oath I, Omnia Vincam, a Probationer of A.-.A.°., hereby solemnly promise upon my magical honour, and swear by Adonai the angel that guardeth me, that I will defend this magic circle of Art with thoughts and words and deeds. I promise to threaten with the Dagger and command back into the triangle the spirit incontinent, if he should strive to escape from it;…
1911 · PDF PAGE 165
…E VOICE Hil Behold the lion-child swimmeth (in the heaven) And the moon reeleth:— (It is) Thou! (It is) Thou! (It is) Thou! Triumph; the Will stealeth away (like a thief), The Strong Will that staggered Before Ra Hoor Khuit!—Hadit!—Nuit! IV To the God OAI Be praise In the end and the beginning! And may none fall Who Will attain The Sword, the Balances, the Crown! And that which thou hearest is but the dropping of the dew from my limbs, for I dance in the night, naked upon the grass, in shadowy places, by running streams. Many are they who have …
1911 · PDF PAGE 105
… him, doth he gain the victory. For Choronzon feareth of all things concentration and silence: he therefore who would command him should will in silence: thus is he brought to obey. This the Scribe knoweth; for that since the obtaining of the Accurstd Tenth Aethyr, he hath held converse with Choronzon. And unexpectedly did he obtain the information that he sought after having long refused to answer the demon’s speeches. Choronzon is dispersion; and such is his fear of concentra- tion that he will obey rather than be subjected to it, or even beh…
1911 · PDF PAGE 38
THE EQUINOX not suffer death. Bind up your girdles of gold! Wreathe yourselves with garlands of my unfading flowers! In the nights we will dance together, and in the morning we will go forth to war; for, as my Father liveth that was dead, so do I live and shall never die. And now the table comes rushing back. It covers the whole stone, but this time it pushes me before it, and a terrible voice cries: Begone! Thou hast profaned the mystery; thou hast eaten of the shew-bread; thou hast spilt the consecrated wine! Begone! For the Voice is accompli…
1911 · PDF PAGE 152
…he picture by Michael Angelo in Venice. And that legend too is the legend of BABALON. But all this is before the veil of the Aethyr. Now will I go and make certain preparations, and I will return and repeat the call of the Aethyr yet again. BISKRA. December 18, 1909. 9.20-10.5 a.m. 150
1911 · PDF PAGE 123
…m to be looking for one another or for something, all the time, constantly hurrying about. But they knock up against one another and yet will not see one another, or cannot see one another, because they are so shut up in their cloaks. And a voice sounds: It is most terrible for the one that hath shut himself up and made himself fast against the universe. For they that sit encamped upon the sea in the city of the Pyramids are indeed shut up. But they have given their blood, even to the last drop, to fill the cup of BABALON. These that thou seest…
1911 · PDF PAGE 170
… forcing my head down in sleep. (It’s very difficult to talk at all, because an impression takes such an immense time to travel from the will to the muscles. Naturally, I’ve no idea of time.) I have gone up again to the child, led by two Angels, abasing my head. This child seems to be the child that one attempted to describe in ‘The Garden of Janus.” Every volition is inhibited. I have tried to say a lot, and it has always got lost on the way. Holy art thou, O more beautiful than all the stars of the Night! There has never been such peace, such…
1911 · PDF PAGE 96
…nd mock at him, even while he plagueth me. From me come leprosy and pox and plague and cancer and cholera and the falling sickness. Ah! Iwill reach up to the knees of the Most High, and tear his phallus with my teeth, and I will bray his testicles in a mortar, and make poison thereof, to slay the sons of men. (Here the Spirit simulated the voice of Frater P., which also appeared to come from his station and not from the triangle.) I don’t think Ican get any more; I think that’s all there is. (The Frater was seated in a secret place covered comp…
1911 · PDF PAGE 64
…om- ination! Of a single ruby shall that throne be built, and it shall be set upon an high mountain, and men shall see it afar off. Then will I gather together my chariots and my horsemen and my ships of war. By sea and land shall my armies and my navies encompass it, and I will encamp round about it, and besiege it, and by the flame thereof shall I be utterly devoured. Many lying spirits have I sent into the world that my Aeon might be established, and they shall all be overthrown. Great is the Beast that cometh forth like a lion, the servant …
1911 · PDF PAGE 117
… the pomegranate in Hell. But thou, that art new-born to understanding, this mystery is too great for thee; and of the further mystery I will not speak one word. Yet for this cause am I come unto thee as the Angel of the Aethyr, striking with my hammer upon thy bell, so that thou mightest understand the mysteries of the Aethyr, and of the vision and the voice thereof. For behold! he that understandeth seeth not and heareth not in truth, because of his understanding that letteth him. But this shall be unto thee for a sign, that I will surely com…
1911 · PDF PAGE 173
…my daughter. Blessed, blessed blessed; yea, blessed; thrice and four times blessed is he that hath attained to look upon thy face. For I will hurl thee forth from my presence as a whirling thunderbolt to guard the ways, and whom thou smitest shall be smitten indeed. And whom thou lovest shall be loved indeed. And whether by smiting or by love thou workest, each one shall see my face, a glimmer through a thousand veils. And they shall rise up from love’s sleep or death’s, and gird themselves with a girdle of snake-skin for wisdom, and they shall…
1911 · PDF PAGE 157
… I am yet alive. A voice, neither in myself nor out of myself, is saying: Remember Prometheus; remember Ixion. Iam tearing at nothing. I will not heed. For even this dust must be consumed with fire. And now, although there is no image, at last there is a sense of obstacle, as if one were at length drawing near to the frontier of the Aethyr. But I am dying. Ican neither strive nor wait. There is agony in my ears, and in my throat, and mine eyes have been so long blind that I cannot remember that there ever was such a thing as sight. And it comet…
1911 · PDF PAGE 158
THE EQUINOX coming of the veil of the Aethyr; not here. I think I will go to the Hot Springs. So I put away the Stone upon my breast. BISKRA. 10,15-11.52 a.m. Flashes of lightning are playing in the Stone, at the top; and at the bottom of the Stone there is a black pyramid, and at the top thereof is a vesica piscis. The vesica piscis is of colourless brilliance. The two curves of Pisces are thus: )¢ They are the same curves as the curves of vesica piscis, but turned round. And a voice comes: How can that which is buried in the pyramids behold t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 163
…thereof; thou, therefore, who art all spirit and fire, and hast no duller elements in thy star; thou art come to sight at the end of thy will. And if thou wilt hear the voice of the Aethyr, do thou invoke it in the night, having no other light but the light of the half moon. Then mayest thou hear the voice, though it may be that thou understandeth it not. Yet shall it be a potent spell, whereby thou mayest lay bare the womb of thine understanding to the violence of CHAOS. Now, therefore, for the last time, let the veil of the Aethyr be torn. Ah…
1911 · PDF PAGE 102
…in the circle; thou art a goodly warrior! (Then did the demon laugh loudly. The Scribe said: Thou canst not harm one hair of my head.) I will pull out every hair of thy head, every hair of thy body, every hair of thy soul, one by one. (Then said the Scribe: Thou hast no power.) Yea, verily I have power over thee, for thou hast taken the Oath, and art bound unto the White Brothers, and therefore have I the power to torture thee so long as thou shalt be. (Then said the Scribe unto him: Thou liest.) Ask of thy brother P. .. ., and he shall tell th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 168
…h revealed unto us the ineffable mysteries, that they might be disclosed before men. And we humbly beseech His infinite goodness that he will be pleased to manifest unto us even the Mystery of the First Aethyr. (Here followeth the Call of the Aethyr.) The veil of the Aethyr is like the veil of night, dark azure, full of countless stars. And because the veil is infinite, at first one seeth not the winged globe of the sun that burneth in the centre thereof. Profound peace filleth me,—beyond ecstasy, beyond thought, beyond being itself, IAIDA. (Th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 9
…n as wounded and perplexed. He cried: I have conquered! Let the Sons of Earth keep silence; for my Name is become as That of Death! When will men learn the Mysteries of Creation? How much more those of the Dissolution (and the Pang of Fire)? I turned me to the West and there was a great Bull; White with horns of White and Black and Gold. His mouth was scarlet and his eyes as Sapphire stones. With a great sword he shore the skies asunder, and amid the silver flashes of the steel grew lightnings and deep clouds of Indigo. 7
1911 · PDF PAGE 15
…ve the mystery of the word of the abyss. Now the angel putteth back the sapphire stone into his breast; and I spake unto him and said, I will fight with thee and overcome thee, except thou expound unto me the word of the abyss. Now he makes as if to fight with me. (It is very horrible, all the tentacles moving and the flail flashing, and the fierce * In the light of the cry of LOE, this passage seems to mean precisely the opposite of its apparent meaning. 13
1911 · PDF PAGE 118
…who lack me, lack all. And I swear unto thee by Him that sitteth upon the Holy Throne, and liveth and reigneth for ever and ever, that I will be faithful unto this my promise, as thou art faithful unto this thine obligation. Now another voice sounds in the Aethyr, saying: And there was darkness over all the earth unto the ninth hour. And with that the Angel is withdrawn, and the pyramid of light seems very far off. And now I am fallen unto the earth, exceeding weary. Yet my skin trembles with the impact of the light, and all my body shakes. And…