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1913 · PDF PAGE 332

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ple, must often have wept in reading over again that scene, where the Governor of Egypt throws himself on the neck of Benjamin, with the great cry of “I am Joseph!” Israel becomes the people of God, that is to say, the con- servator of the idea, and the depositaries of the word. This idea is that of human independence, and of royalty, by means of work; but one hides it with care, like a precious seed. A painful and indelible sign is imprinted on the initiates; every image of the truth is forbidden, and the children of Jacob watch, sword in hand…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 97

The Star in the West

…ous assuaged thy sire ; And fuller blood of his is tingling thus Now in thy veins indignant at our sin . ' Thus we find free love is the great , pure , and only true love . Its name has been soiled and fouled by the feculencies of Holywell Street , its celebration mis understood and prostituted by the Church , and its life threatened and blackguardized by the Law . But wherever two hearts beat in unison , there is its abode , North or South , East or West , it knows no locality , no time , no space ; for it is love sublime , eternal , inscrutab…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 262

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…eesh is. In northern latitudes the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa) grows almost entirely to fibre, becoming, in virtue of this quality, the great resource for mats and cordage. Under a southern sun this same plant loses its fibrous texture, but secretes, in quantities equal to one-third of its bulk, an opaque and greenish resin. Between the northern and the southern hemp there is no difference, except the effect of diversity of climate upon the same vegetable essence; yet naturalists, misled by the much greater extent of gummy secretion in the lat…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 262

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…eesh is. In northern latitudes the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa) grows almost entirely to fibre, becoming, in virtue of this quality, the great resource for mats and cordage. Under a southern sun this same plant loses its fibrous texture, but secretes, in quantities equal to one-third of its bulk, an opaque and greenish resin. Between the northern and the southern hemp there is no difference, except the effect of diversity of climate upon the same vegetable essence; yet naturalists, misled by the much greater extent of gummy secretion in the lat…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 149

The Vision and the Voice

…ou art made one with CHAOS canst thou begin that last, that most terrible projection, the three-fold Regimen which alone constitutes the Great Work. For Choronzon is as it were the shell or excrement of these three paths, and therefore is his head raised unto Daath, and therefore have the Black Brotherhood declared him to be the child of Wisdom and Understanding, who is but the bastard of the Svastika. And this is that which is written in 147

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1913 · PDF PAGE 10

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…tch cannon than did Boccaccio to oppose his merry tales against a back ground of plague - swept Florence : for Boccaccio and Dryden , as greatmen , saw and trusted that man 's con cern in what literature can do for him is actually more vital and assuredly more permanent than his agitation , sharper for the moment , over any national crisis or public calamity . It takes (I say ) a great and a brave man to perceive this ; a very brave man indeed to maintain it when every neighbour he meets will accuse him for a fool and worse . Dryden chooses to …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 450

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…acred hieroglyphic language, to the exclusive affirmation of passion and diplomacy. It is the perverted and material translation of that great word of St. Augustine: ‘Love, and do what you will!” Compare now this sign with the doctrine of Mr. Madrolle: Ze most imperfect and the most apparently guilty act of love is worth more than the best of prayers. And you will ask yourself what is that force which, independently of the will, and of the greater or less knowledge of man (for Vintras is a man of no education), formulates its dogmas with signs …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 450

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…acred hieroglyphic language, to the exclusive affirmation of passion and diplomacy. It is the perverted and material translation of that great word of St. Augustine: ‘Love, and do what you will!” Compare now this sign with the doctrine of Mr. Madrolle: Ze most imperfect and the most apparently guilty act of love is worth more than the best of prayers. And you will ask yourself what is that force which, independently of the will, and of the greater or less knowledge of man (for Vintras is a man of no education), formulates its dogmas with signs …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 409

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ou will gomad. He will also prove to you that it is most neces- sary for your spiritual progress to repose. He will explain that, by the great law of action and re-action, you should 87

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1930 · PDF PAGE 46

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

… is clothed at first in a plain white robe. The PRIESTESS. Should be actually Virgo Intacta or specially dedicated to the service of the Great Order. She is clothed in white, blue and gold. She bears the sword from a red girdle, and the Paten and Hosts, or Cakes of Light. Ihe DEACON. He is clothed in white and yellow. He bears the Book of the Law. Two Children. They are clothed in white and black. One bears a pitcher of water and a cellar of sait, the other a censer of lire and a casket of perfume. IIP Of the ceremony of the Introit. The DEACON…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 102

The Sword of Song

…ematical process! 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 = = ⎡ ⎣⎢ ⎤ ⎦⎥ − Multiply by1 = n n Then 0 0 0 1 1 n n × = × ∞. Now the multiplying of the infinitely great by the infinitely sm all results in SOME UNKNOWN FINITE NUMBER EX- TENDED IN AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF CATEGORIES. It happened, when this our Great Inversion took place, from the essence of all nothingness to finity ex- tended in innumerable categories, that an incalculably vas t s ystem was produced. Merely by chance, chance in the trues t sense of the term, we are found with gods, men, stars, planets , devi…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 124

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX “Such a one is ripe for adventure, and since, as your great poet has said, ‘Circumstance bows before those who never miss a chance,’ it was perhaps only a matter of time before I met with one. “Indeed (I will tell you, for it will help you to under- stand my story), I once found myself in an extremely absurd position through my fantastic trust in the impeccability of woman, “Tt was rather late one night, and I was walking home through a deserted street, when two brutal-looking ruffians came towards me, between them a young and beaut…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 124

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX “Such a one is ripe for adventure, and since, as your great poet has said, ‘Circumstance bows before those who never miss a chance,’ it was perhaps only a matter of time before I met with one. “Indeed (I will tell you, for it will help you to under- stand my story), I once found myself in an extremely absurd position through my fantastic trust in the impeccability of woman, “Tt was rather late one night, and I was walking home through a deserted street, when two brutal-looking ruffians came towards me, between them a young and beaut…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 197

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…nvenient number of breaks, and the large number will aid determinations of rate progress. If it be true, as I suppose, that fatigue to a great extent determines frequency, it will then be perhaps possible to predict a Geometrical Pro- gression (or Mixed Progression.)] BEGIN, END. OBJECT. TIME, NO. OF BREAKS. 10.58 am, II. am. White tri- 3m. 5 breaks. angle [I am in very bad state—nearly a// breaks!—do a little Pranayama to steady me.] Ilioam. .1.15$a.m. White tri- 5m. 30s. 4 breaks. angle [Sneezed: totally forgot what I was doing. When I reflec…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 197

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…nvenient number of breaks, and the large number will aid determinations of rate progress. If it be true, as I suppose, that fatigue to a great extent determines frequency, it will then be perhaps possible to predict a Geometrical Pro- gression (or Mixed Progression.)] BEGIN, END. OBJECT. TIME, NO. OF BREAKS. 10.58 am, II. am. White tri- 3m. 5 breaks. angle [I am in very bad state—nearly a// breaks!—do a little Pranayama to steady me.] Ilioam. .1.15$a.m. White tri- 5m. 30s. 4 breaks. angle [Sneezed: totally forgot what I was doing. When I reflec…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 87

The Vision and the Voice

…y Mother Babylon, and in their lonely fortresses they pray to the false moon. And they bind themselves together with an oath, and with a great curse. And of their malice they conspire together, and they have power, and mastery, and in their cauldrons do they brew the harsh wine of delusion, mingled with the poison of their selfishness. Thus they make war upon the Holy One, sending forth their delusion upon men, and upon everything that liveth. So that their false compassion is called compassion, and their 85

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1911 · PDF PAGE 139

The Vision and the Voice

… feet are set upon him that pardoneth transgression. Behold the six-fold Star that flameth in the Vault, the seal of the marriage of the great White King and his black slave. So I looked into the Stone, and beheld the six-fold Star: the whole Aethyr is as tawny clouds, like the flame of a furnace. And there is a mighty host of Angels, blue and golden, that throng it, and they cry: Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, that art not shaken in the earthquakes, and in the thunders! The end of things is come upon us; the day of be- with-us is at hand! For he h…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 167

The Vision and the Voice

…f Thoth, that is the Holy Spirit in the Trinity, that is three hundred in the tale of the years, hath the tomb been opened, so that this great wisdom might be revealed. Come away! For the Second Triad is completed, and there remaineth only the Lord of the Aeon, the Avenger, the Child 165

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1913 · PDF PAGE 159

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…eech, the figure of the angel has dwindled and flickered, and now it is gone out. And I come back in the body, rushing like a flame in a great wind. And the shew-stone has become warm, and in it is its own light. Bou-saada, December 3, 1909. 9.50-11.15 pr. Comment on this cry can but profane it, yet it is necessary to emphasize the very peculiar nature of the attain- 119

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1913 · PDF PAGE 505

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ke them- selves followed, and when they say, “This is thus,” Nature changes (in a sense) to the eyes of the vulgar, and becomes what the great man wished. “This is my flesh and this is my blood,” said a Man who had made himself God by his virtues; and eighteen centuries, in the presence of a piece of bread and a little wine, have seen, touched, tasted and adored flesh and blood made divine by martyrdom! Say now, that the human will accomplishes no miracles ! 207

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