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1911 · PDF PAGE 102

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…La Allah illa Allah, rings aut iii a ὄψ᾽: clear voice, a mice weary yet suþrerhely haþþy. [Almost beside herself] Sliman! to me! to your mother! [Slimah mien, in his right hand his sword 51111 driþ— ping Haud. SLIMAN. Splendid fun, mother! We should have had the whole city, but those cursed Knights of Malta threatened our flank. And father told me I was a betterleader for withdraw- ing than ifI had gone on and taken the city. There! Aha! little one! you are caged safely, canary. Thanks, mother! Don’t kiss me. I’m all blood. [She smothers him wit…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 208

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

PART III TYPHON. I desire to begin the banquet. HERMANUBIS. Brother Typhon, I will inquire of the Oracle Mother of Mystery, I beseech thee to begin the Banquet; for it is certainly necessary that this should be done. [SPHINX turns, bows, and stretehes her hands in mute appeal to om.-r.] C.I.C.T. 1. Ι heed not the passion, or the reason, or the soul of man. Mother of Mystery, declare my will. [SPHINX þlays the most exalted (passim/ess because öeytma' fusion) piece that she mrg/.*] HERMANUBIS. This means nothing to me. TYPHON. I feel nothing. C.I…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 189

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE RITE OF SATURN Silence—it is in vain I Brethren, let us invoke the assistance of the Mother of Heavenl [He goes to veil and reaches through with his hands. MATER CCELI. [Passes through Throne of MAGISTER?ו”ט/}ץע and enters the Tenet/e.] Children, what is your will with me? CAPRICORNUS. Mother of Heaven, we beseech thee to awaken the Master. MATER C(ELI. What is the hour? CAPRICORNUS. Mother of Heaven, it lacks a quarter of midnight. MATER CCELL Be it unto your desirel [She flat;/5? A5 she end: shekneels: the veil slowly þarts, and MAGISTER …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 192

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… the Frontier of the Abyss, MAGISTER TEMPLI. 1. Brothers Aquarius and Capricornus, is the Beloved with us? AQUARIUS (md CAPRICORNUS. The Mother of Heaven is enthroned. MAGISTER TEMPLI. Mother of Heaven, let us lament together! [Remi/es Swinéume’s “ [licel ".* [MATER cam flay: a:carding/;1/.T MAGISTER TEMPLI. r. Brother Aquarius, to what end are we assembled? AQUARIUS [Rises and??עמששמin his mr.] Shabbathai. ALL [aloud]. Shabbathai. MAGISTER TEMPLI. I. Are the brethren fed? 11 The figures represent knocks. l. a single knock; 22. a battery of two …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 214

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE RITES OF ELEUSIS HERMANUBIS. 1. Mother of Mystery, hast thou the secret of Jupiter? [SPHINX plays a triumphant mehai/.* TYPHON. Brother Hermanubis, what is the place? HERMANUBIS. The Summit of Mount Kithairon. TYPHON. Procul, ο Procul este viril [All mate pmbatz‘ohers retire to bath ofstage. TYPHON Sisters, let us invoke the Father to manifest in the Son. SPHINX. Per Spiritum Sanctum. Amen. [She also retire: to hart/ate on wheel. MAENADS. Evoe ! Evoe Ηο! Iacche! Iacchel TYPHON. Hail, Ο Dionysus! Hail! Winged Son of Semelé! Hail, Ο Hail! The…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 198

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… nadir.” So in the foolish alleys they conferred, And only midnight overheard. AQUARIUS. Master, it is not to be borne. MAGISTER TEMPLI. Mother of Heaven, let us lament together ! [Recita Swinburne: “ 7he Garden ofProserfz'ne." [MATER CCELI þ/ays according-b? CAPRICORNUS. Master, it is not to be borne! MAGISTER TEMPLI. Mother of Heaven, let us work to— gether I MATER C(ELI. Behold thine handmaidenl [MAGISTER TEMFLI mul MATER CCELI go together hand z'n hami, within the wil. CAPRICORNUS turus light πῄ] [MATER COELI ;5111315 a Pæah of despaz‘n‘r […

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1911 · PDF PAGE 93

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…t-born. FATMA. Ay, he is not like his brothers. He is square and solid-set. He is more like the cedar than the palm. LAYLAH. Sidi Omar's mother was a princess from Lebanon. FATMA. He is silent and stem. LAYLAH. Sidi Omar’s father was the holiest man of Syria. He lived alone forty years in the mountain. FATMA. He is relentless in anger, and obeys not. One would say there was Christian blood in him. LAYLAH. On the night of his begetting there was Christian blood on Sidi Omar’s hands. FATMA. He is as fair as a Christian. LAYLAH. The men of Sidi Om…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 298

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… what worth is the gold in the mine? CANCER. Brother Pan, be silent. NYMPH. Bear the Cup οί Libation! CANCER- 333'333-333- PAN, [Rea/es. Mother of Light, and the Gods ! Mother of Music, awake! Silence and Speech are at odds ; Heaven and Hell are at stake. By the Rose and the Cross I conjure; I constrain by the Snake and the Sword ; I am he that is sworn to endure—Bring us the word of the Lord ! By the brood of the Bysses of Brightening, whose God was my sire ; By the Lord of the Flame and the Lightning, the King of the Spirits of Fire ; 120

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1911 · PDF PAGE 101

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… not understand you. LAYLAH. Oh, you shall understand. Yourfather will make you understand! [changing again to roughness]. What was your mother like? Had she your golden hair, and the com- plexion like a shaved sow? And the simper, and the grey eyes? I have grey eyes too; but mine are steel—grey, true as steel; and yours are chill and watery. But you have your father’s temper, and his silence, and his will. THE CHILD. What do you know of my father? LAYLAH. Nothing. I only jested ; Ι wanted to try you, to hear what you would say. Tell me about y…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 98

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE EQUINOX LAYLAH. Silence, thou blotchy spider! Thou baboon of ugliness ! Mother of curses! [Four eunuch: bring in the corpse of the 6051 MOHAMMED. Ah God ! my youngest, my own delicate darling! Lay him by his sire ! [She goes down and bends 01187 hint] Was not this arm too tender to bear a sword ? Why would he go to the battle? He was made for luting and the zephyr. His eyes were larger and lovelier than the gazelle’s ! His eyebrows were blacker than the kohl upon mine eyelids. Alas, my baby | My young one, my tender one! . . . Is there tidi…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 118

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…heus overthrew them. It was when Canute failed to drive back the sea that his dynasty was lost to that Norman William who caught hold of Mother Earth with both hands. When I was a child I fell; and the scars of the earth are on my forehead at this hour. When I was a boy I was hurt by the explosion of a buried jar of gunpowder; and the scars of the earth are on my face at this hour. Since then I have been the lover of the earth, that wooed rne thus roughly. Many a night have I slept upon her naked breast, in forest and on glacier, upon great pla…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 78

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…at braves the Saracen and the storm, This blessed Christmastide. For we are hardy, and worn with blows And battles, And languish for our mother snows. What is the gladness of the well To us who pine for citadel, And joyous burg, and Christian feast? But we are vowed to Christ to fight For God, our honour, and our right Against the recreant East.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 27

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

LI BER TZADDI VEL HAMVS HERMETICVS SVB FIGVRA XC ο. In the name οἷthe Lord of Initiation, Amen. x. I fly and I alight as an hawk : of mother-of-emerald are my mighty-sweeping wings. 2. I swoop down upon the black earth ; and it gladdens into green at my coming. 3. Children of Earth ! rejoice l rejoice exceedingly ; for your salvation is at hand. 4. The end of sorrow is come; I will ravish you away into mine unutterablejoy. 5. I will kiss you, and bring you to the bridal: I will spread a feast before you in the house of happiness. 6. I am not com…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 43

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…done and a third thing is begun. Isis and Osiris are given over to incest and adultery. Horus leaps up thrice armed from the womb of his mother. Harpo- crates his twin is hidden within him. Set is his holy covenant, that he shall display in the great day of Μ. Α. Α. T., that is being interpreted the Master of the Temple ofA c., A ,.?.־whose name is Truth. 35

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1911 · PDF PAGE 262

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

84 THE RITES OF ELEUSIS Spouse, daughter, mother of God, Queen of the blest abode In Cyprus’ splendour singly glittering. Sweet sister unto me, I cry aloud to thee! I laugh upon thee laughing, Ο dew caught up from sea! Drawn by sharp sparrow and dove, And swan’s wide plumes of love, And all the swallow’s swifter vehemence, And, subtler than the Sphinx, The ineffable iynx Heralds thy splendour swooning into sense, When (rom the bluest bowers And greenest—hearted hours Of Heaven thou smil'st toward earth, a miracle of flowers! Down to the loveless…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 205

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… be attained. Neither by emotion nor by reason may even I be understood. How then should ye come to the centre of the wheel? HERMANUBIS. Mother of mystery, what is thy position on Olympus ? SPHINX. Upon the rim of the wheel. C.I.C.‘l‘. Feeling, and thought, and ecstasy Are but the cerements of Me. Thrown off like planets from the Sun Ye are but satellites of the One. But should your revolution stop Ye would inevitably drop Headlong within the central Soul, And all the parts become the Whole. Sloth and activity and peace, When will ye learn that…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 250

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…hou say? SATAN-TYPHON. Ο Sun, my brother, is it thy will that 1 have speech with thee? For I lay with thee nine moons in the womb of our mother; for we have loved as none have loved; for 1 am closer knit with thee than light and darkness, or than life and death! SOL, 22-1-1-22. [LEO gives way and returns to his throne, very sad. [SATAN—TYPHON advances to SOL and ARIES closes the vei! on them.] [BEszjumþs up and runs ofleronehz'ngly. [The h'ghts go ant. [SCORPIO-APOPHIS play: her serpent me!ody.* [LEO recites. Mortals never learn from stories How…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 33

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…UM ABIEGNI SVB FIGVRA CLVI I. This is the secret of the Holy Graal, that is the sacred vessel of our Lady the Scarlet Woman, Babalon the Mother of Abominations, the bride of Chaos, that rideth upon our Lord the Beast. 2. Thou shalt drain out thy blood that is thy life into the golden cup of her fornication. 3. Thou shalt mingle thy life with the universal life. Thou shalt keep not back one drop. 4. Then shall thy brain be dumb, and thy heart beat no more, and all thy life shall go from thee; and thou shalt be cast out upon the midden, and the b…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 213

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…114 gold nemmes. HERMANUBIS, TYPHON, and others re- turn to their flame HERMANUBIS ₪14 TYPHON comeforward and salute SPHINX.] TYPHON. ι. Mother of Mystery, hast thou the secret of Jupiter ? 33

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1911 · PDF PAGE 252

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… art thou that hast assumed His Throne? LEO. Our Lord is slain. And who art thou that hast assumed His Throne? SCORPIO-APOPHIS. I am the Mother of the Gods and the Sister of Time and the Daughter of Space. I am Nature that holdeth sway when the effort of man is exhausted. . . . . , . Brother Leo, I am the goddess that cometh forth riding upon the Lion. Behold ! I strike thee with my wand, and inspire thee. I command thee to declare me unto the multitude. LEO. Lo ! in the interstellar space of night Clothed with deep darkness, the majestic space…

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