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1911 · PDF PAGE 222

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ld, we are one! [The light: go out and the rampant)! join in universa! dama] HERMANUBIS. Silence. TYPHON. Silence. C.I.C.’l‘. 1-333. The Secret of the Father is in the Secret of the Son. SPHINX. 22-22. And the Secret of the Son is in the Secret of the Holy Ghost. GANYMEDE. 4444. Gloria Patri. 42

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1911 · PDF PAGE 188

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…eath be plain I So depart, and so be wise, Lest your perishable eyes Look upon the {armless fire, see the maiden sacrifice! So depart, and secret flame Burn upon the stone of shame, That the holy ones may hear music of the sleepless Name! Holy, holy, holy spouse Of the sun-engirdled house, With the secret symbol burning on thy multiscient brows l . . , Even as the traitor’s breath Goeth forth, he perisheth By the secret sibilant word that is spoken unto death. CAPRICORNUS. Brethren, let us awaken the Master of the Temple. [THE LEADER OF THE CHORUS…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 208

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…er of Mystery, declare my mind. [SPHINX flay: a mid, passion/e55, z'nz‘elleez‘aa/fz'eeeJ‘ HERMANUBIS. Ahl Ah! This is music; this is the secret of Jupiter. TYPHON. I feel nothing. C.I.C.‘l‘. 1. Mother of Mystery, declare my heart. [SPHINXflay: an intensely sensualpassiona/epiece.1 TYFHON. Ahl Ah! This is music; this is the secret of Jupiter. " Samadhilied: Waddell. T Adagio: Brahms. : Preislied: Wagner. 28

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1911 · PDF PAGE 160

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…mament. There shall be no more roses, no more roses, Until the spring of the stars shall fall on the world, Then shall be light again, Ο secret Rose, And thou shalt be born anew, with radiant star-light For dew, and all thy petals shall be dreams Crystallised of the gods who swing the chains Of the worlds in space ; and at the heart of thee Shall be the secret knowledge, the sacred word, The logos of the throbbing universe. And the years shall pass in myriads over the tree Whereon thou bloomest, O my Rose of the worlds 1 And one shall pluck the…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 205

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE RITE OF JUPITER HERMANUBIS. Hail unto Thee, that hast the secret of Jupiter! Declare unto us, we beseech Thee, the mystery whereby we may approach the centre of the wheel. [SPHINX þlays a fiddling5076015166 musie.* [TYPHON goes to his [Slate in terror. [HERMANUBIS goes to hisplace m wonderment. SPHINX. Neither by sloth nor by activity may even my secret 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 ? SP…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 295

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE RITE OF LUNA But—God ! I was not content With the blasphemous secret ofyears ; The veil is hardly rent While the eyes rain stones for tears So I clung to the lips and laughed As the storms of death abated, The storms of the grievous graft By the swing of her soul unsatedi Wherefore reborn as I am By a stream profane and foul, In the reign of a Tortured Lamb, In the realm ofa sexless Owl, I am set apart from the rest By meed ofthe mystic rune That reads in peril and pest The ambrosial moon—the moon ! For under the tawny star That shines in t…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 159

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…em that gave thee birth. Shall I love thee? O darling, wilt thou come to me in the silence, Saying : I hear the mystery 01 Time, And the secret of Fate? I know not yet, but surely Thou shalt know of the Rose, the Rose, the Rose of the world ; With thee shall I bear the chalice of blood-tipped lilies, The chalice of red, sweet lilies under the moon ? But now there is no moon, nor any sun; The world's gray noon only is for thee and me; There is no sound in the nerveless silences Of the fading world; there is a quiver of light On the river of life…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 126

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…uch abandonment to mirth implies a standard of seriousness unshakable." ”You are a witch,” said he. “It is sorcery to know that I have a secret, But to discover it you must be an adept." “I know this," she answered, making a secret sign. “ This," he retorted, with the mano in fica. “ If you can laugh at me," she said, “ you must indeed be a great man ! " “Know,” said he pompously, “that you speak to an Absolute Grand Patriarch of the Rite of Mizraim. “A button!" she laughed back. “I was born to undo them. So Ι always wear laced boots." “True eno…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 302

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE RITES OF ELEUSIS By the mystical union Of (airy and faun, Unspoken, unbroken— The dusk to the dawn !— A secret communion, Unmeasured, unsung, The listless, resistless, Tumultuous tongue !— O virgin in armour Thine arrows unsling, In the brilliant resilient First rays of the spring! No Godhead could charm her, But manhood awoke— Ο fiery Valkyrie, I invoke, I invoke! [He tears down the wil. [LUNAþlays “θάψω [A long silente. CANCER- 333'333'333- TAURUS. 1. Brother Warden of the Graal, our task is ended. CANCER. Let us depart, it is accomplished…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 125

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… soul," she answered solemnly; her eyes sank into his, like a dagger into the belly of a faithless Kabyle woman. “ But beyond that, your secret! You know life, yet you can laugh from a mad heart ! ” " It is easily said. I am going to London to—morrow. There they will make me bankrupt, because I love my neigh- bour better than myself, and prosecute me for blasphemy and indecency, because I uttered a few simple truths that every— body knows." "Why, my friend, you will be famous I " she cried. " Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante 1 ” “Prob…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 261

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ltar, LIBRA aria’ TAURUS at if: sides. VENUS. 7777777 -?טעמ77777771 TAURUS- 7777777- VENUS. Brother Libra, I command thee to declare the Secret of Venus. LIBRA rentes Swinburne: " Hertha.” [A/lþresemf reelihe and sleep] VENUS. Having ears they hear not. Brothers Taurus and Libra, let the veil be drawn. [They de m PART I [Twihghl. VENUS is em‘hroaed (m high, :walhed in masses qf red hair and roses. The altar is covered with 70565 ; [here is a smallflame thereah.] TAURUS ane! LIBRA draw the imter veil aflarl. LIBRA 761717775 and hneels. LIBRA. Daug…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 203

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…s dame. Light‘s daze/7L] HERMANUBIS. Welcome to the banquet of the Father of the Godsl Bear the bowls of Libation ! (dam). Be silent and secret I For it is by stealth that we are here assembled. Know that Saturn hath been deceived, having swallowed a black stone, thinking it to be his son, the child Jupiter. But Jupiter is here enthroned, and shall overthrow his father. Beware then lest ye break silence—until Jupiter be ready to make war! TYPHON. Him that speaketh will I slay forthright! [A longþause. 23

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1911 · PDF PAGE 74

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…huddering ecstasy! Come, Love, nor list to tired dreams that twist Thy lithe long limbs in fierce abandonment, Awake, and learn of me the secret of the sea, Whose meaning is the sum of all things blent In fiercest harmony. Soft winds are calling on the cloudy deep, (Like foam-flowers falling from the breasts of Sleep Their Lotus-kiss is), such a world forestalling Of wanton blisses, that the fear of palling Makes e’en the Sirens weep. Ah me! What serpent hisses from out those purple bysses, Far in the womb of the long-lying sea? She wakes I Nor da…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 187

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…hing Ritual of the Pentagram. He next light: the hell-broth and recites :] Even as the traitor’s breath Goeth forth, he perisheth By the secret sibilant word that is spoken unto death. Even as the profane hand Reacheth to the sacred sand, Fire consumes him that his name be forgotten in the land.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 297

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…the dance, Leaping with wonderful whips, Life on the stroke of a glance, Death in the stroke of the lips ! I am hidden beyond, Shed in a secret sinew, Smitten through by the fond Folly of wisdom in you! Come, while the moon (the moon 1) Sheds her ambrosia! splendour, Reels in the redeless rune InetTably, utterly, tender! Hark! the appealing cry Ofdeadly hurt in the hollow :— Hyacinth! Hyacinth! Ay! Smitten to death by Apollo Swift, O maiden moon, Send thy ray-dews after; Turn the dolorous tune Το soft ambiguous laughter! Mourn, Ο Maenads, mourn…

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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 312

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ted form a. comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of the world ; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published; also the complete secret magical correspondences of the G.-. D .*. and R.R. et A. C.__ It forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary ; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. For the first time Western and Qabalistic symbols have been harmonised with those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Taoism, et…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 157

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ore and aching eye in a face of gray—— Droops down to slumber. All the world is dead. Rose! Rose! Where art thou? O my Rose, my Rose! My secret Rose, art lost among the gray? There is no voice in the silence ; in the woods The brownness glistens under the weeping rain, I49

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1911 · PDF PAGE 292

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… of spring are on winter’s traces . . . The wolf that follows, the fawn that flies. TAURUS. The goddess stirs not. CANCER. Silence is the secret of our Lady Artemis. PAN. Hath no man lifted her veil? CANCER No man hath lifted her veil. TAURUS. Bear the Cup of Libation! CANCER. 333-333—333. It is the hour ofsealing up the shrine. TAURUS. Let us banish the spirits of the elements. [Per/farms Με Lesser Banishing Riinal af Με Pentagram ana’ nim/m.] Bear the Cup of Libation! CANCER. 333-333-333. Let us banish the spirits of the planets. [Performs Με …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 33

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

LIBER CHETH VEL VALLUM 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 t…

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