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…w insist on a continuous chain of ideas as proof of their validity, and equally so with such as we may deal with later on, we at present find, above all else, that simplicity is our most certain guide; for we are as yet solely dealing with the visions of a student, who, as such, like a school-boy, is expected to work out all his visions in full as if they were mathematical problems. The master may use algebraical and logarithmic short cuts, if he likes, in the solu- tion of his intricate problems, and we shall also find many of these masterly r…
1909 · PDF PAGE 342
THE EQUINOX October of this year we find him settled in a remote and desolate district, a tumbled chaos of lake and mountain, in an ancient manor-house, making all necessary arrangements for this great operation in Ceremonial Magic. [The continuation of Book II. will appear in Nos. III. and IV. of THE Eguinox.] 334
1909 · PDF PAGE 67
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH producing a standard drug, upon isolating the substance responsible for effect (), and so on, we might find a reliable and harmless adjuvant to the process which I have optimis- tically named Scientific Iluminism. But at least for the present we have not arrived so far. In my own case I should know fairly well what to do, well enough to get my little “loosening of the girders of the soul” at a guess twice in five times, perhaps more. Not surely enough to guarantee results to other people without a lengthy series of exp…
1909 · PDF PAGE 25
…the table will become clear. Let us suppose that you wish to obtain knowledge of some obscure science. In column xlv., line 12, you will find “ Knowledge of Sciences.” By now looking up line 12 in the other columns, you will find that the Planet corresponding is Mercury, its number eight, its lineal figures the octagon and octagram, the God who rules that planet Thoth, or in Hebrew symbolism Tetragram- maton Adonai and Elohim Tzabaoth, its Archangel Raphael, its Choir of Angels Beni Elohim, its Intelligence Tiriel, its Spirit Taphtatharath, its…
1909 · PDF PAGE 26
…es as your experience may suggest. 4. And soon. We cannot here enter at length into all the necessary preparations; and the student will find them fully set forth in the proper books, of which the “ Goetia” is perhaps the best example. These rituals need not be slavishly imitated; on the con- trary the student should do nothing the object of which he does not understand; also, if he have any capacity whatever, he will find his own crude rituals more effective than the highly polished ones of other people. The general purpose of all this prepara…
1909 · PDF PAGE 244
… them with the cross of Hidden Mystery, and cried: “ Fiat Lux!” Youth strides on with hasty step, and by the summer of this year—1898—we find P. deep in consultation with the mystics, and drinking from the white chalice of mystery with St. John, Boehme, Tauler, Eckart, Molinos, Levi, and Blake: “Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden’d air, Hungry clouds swag on the deep.” Insatiable, he still pressed on, hungering for the knowledge of things outside; and in his struggle for the million he misses the unit, and heaps up chaos in the ou…
1909 · PDF PAGE 132
…citement I took the wrong turning, or whether—but you will hear !—in short, I do not clearly under- stand even now why I did not at once find the road. But at least I did fail to find it, discovered, as I supposed, my error, corrected it, failed once more. . . . In theend I got flustered— so much hung on my speedy return !—I fluttered hither and thither like a wild pigeon whose mate has been shot. I stopped short, pulled myself together. Let me think it out! Where am I now? I was under the shadow (the dawn just lit its edge) of the mighty shoul…
1909 · PDF PAGE 176
…o be published as soon as the MS. can be prepared. The reader who is at all familiar with the sublime compu- tations of the Qabalah will find no difficulty in appreciating this Essay to the full; but all will gain benefit from the study of the ratiocinative methods employed. These methods, indeed, are so fine and subtile that they readily sublime into the Intuitive. This study is truly a Royal Magistry, an easy and sure means of exalting the consciousness from Ruach to Neschamah. 166
1909 · PDF PAGE 332
…ighest Attainment. This Rising on the Planes is a definite mystical process, and two initiates setting out to attain the same goal would find the journey, in its essentials, as similar as two ordinary individuals would find a journey from London to Paris. Karma and environment have in these Risings on the Planes to be reckoned with, just as they would have to be taken into account in the case of the two men journeying to Paris. The one might be travelling third class, and the other first; the one might be travelling by a slow train, the other b…
1909 · PDF PAGE 99
…with the sane, and not with the crazy! True, you will get hallucinations more easily with the unsound ; but you will never, never, never find a woman or a degenerate who is capable of any trance of type higher than Vedana. Take my word for it! No! take my word for nothing: try all things ; hold fast that which is good ! MaprIp, August 1908, 0.8. 89
1909 · PDF PAGE 302
…amp along his road, but that they might consume, like the fire on the altar, his propitiations and sacrifices to a personal God. Thus we find him, as it were, figuring before him a Pentagram and saying: “It is not complete without its top point.” This is undoubtedly correct, but at this time he still failed to realise that when once the Supernal Triad has descended and is resting on the topmost point of the Penta- gram, this being now the point of juncture becomes the most important of all points, and that the lower four are little better than …
1909 · PDF PAGE 236
…e outset comes to us and like the old witch in “ Cinderella” strews innumerable lentils before us to count—but begin ! and soon you will find that you have left the kitchen of the world behind you and have entered the enchanted Palace “‘ Beyond.” It is all very difficult and complex at first; it is rather like a man who, setting out by a strange road to visit the capital of his country, comes to a great mountain and gazes up its all but endless slopes. “It is too high for me to climb,” the little man will say; “it is indeed very beautiful; but …
1909 · PDF PAGE 246
… Abra-Melin the Mage.” A time of transition was at hand, a spiritual renaissance was about to take place, so little wonder is it that we find P. much like St. Augustine lamenting his outward search, and crying with him: “I, Lord, went wandering like a strayed sheep, seeking Thee with anxious Reasoning without, whilst Thou wast within me. I wearied myself much in looking for Thee without, and yet Thou hast Thy habitation within me, if only I desire Thee and pant after Thee. I went round the Streets and Squares of the City of this World seeking T…
1909 · PDF PAGE 327
…ength. But if uncontrolled by the Lower Will and the Reason they will be unbalanced and inharmonious—that is, of uneven length.” This we find explained in a G.*. D.-. manuscript entitled: ‘The Secret Wisdom of the Lesser World, or Microcosm which is Man.” Further we learn from this manuscript that : In the case of the drunkard, the equilibrium of the Sphere of Sensations, and con- sequently of the Nephesch, is disturbed, and the Thought Rays in consequence are shaken at each vibration; so that the sphere of the sensation of the Nephesch is caus…
1909 · PDF PAGE 154
…hese last three are merely aids to general judgment. If the judge be good the figure is good, and vice-versa. The Reconciler= I + XV. To find the part of Fortune @ (ready money or cash belonging to Querent), add points of the figures I-XII, divide by 12, and remainder shows figure. Here 1+II+...+ XII = 74 points =6 x 12+2, .. @ falls with ;:; (IJ). CHAPTER III OF THE FIGURE OF THE TWELVE HOUSES OF HEAVEN THE meaning of the twelve Houses is to be found, primarily, in any text-book of Astrology. Knowledge is to be enlarged and corrected by consta…
1909 · PDF PAGE 23
…n of the mind. (8) An improvement of the control of the mind. 4. The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things (ideas or 13
1909 · PDF PAGE 107
… In vain we labour at the loathsome task Not knowing if we wake or sleep; But in the end we lift the pluméd casque Of the dead warrior ; Find no chaste corpse therein, but a soft-smiling whore. XIV Then I returned into myself, and took All in my arms, God’s universe: Crushed its black juice out, while His anger shook His dumbness pregnant with a curse. I made me ink, and in a little book I wrote one word That God himself, the adder of Thought, had never heard. XV It detonated. Nature, God, mankind Like sulphur, nitre, charcoal, once G 97
1909 · PDF PAGE 110
100 THE EQUINOX As who should sweat his soul out through the skin And find (sad fool !) he had begot All that without him that he had left in, And in himself All he had taken out thereof, a mocking elf ! XXII But now that all was gone, great Pan appeared. Him then I strove to woo, to win, Kissing his curled lips, playing with his beard, Setting his brain a-shake, a-spin, By that strong wand, and muttering of the weird That only I Knew of all souls alive or dead beneath the sky. XXIII So still I conquered, and the vision passed. Yet still was be…
1909 · PDF PAGE 183
… 4 . 7. Fic. I1I.—THIRD SYMBOL. By producing the Paths whereby the Forces of the Three (see Second Symbol) were concentred into four, we find they * As above, so below; wherefore saith the Holy Qabalah that alone amongst the Shells is Nogah, the Sphere of Venus, exalted unto Holiness. (Venus is the Goddess of Love.) 173
1909 · PDF PAGE 414
…imaginings concerning death, as ‘The Dream’ and ‘The Recall,’ and any reader with a liking for verse of an unconventional character will find several pieces after his taste.” The Daily Telegraph, May 29, 1908. “ Here is a poet of promise.”— Zhe Daily Chronicle, May 13, 1908. “It is not often that energy and poetic feeling are united so happily as in this little book.”— Zhe Morning Leader, July 10, 1908. “ There is promise and some fine lines in these verses.” The Times, July 11, 1908. To be obtained of “THE YOUNG CAMBRIDGE PRESS” 4 MILL STREET,…