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Page 113 of 1971913 · PDF PAGE 402
THE EQUINOX Q. What are the consequences of each ? A. Moral life and moral death. Q. Has then hell, with all its horrors, its justification in religious dogma? A. Yes; it is a rigorous consequence of a principle. Q. What is this principle? A. Liberty. Q. What is liberty? A. The right to do one’s duty, with the possibility of not doing it. Q. What is failing in one’s duty? A. It involves the loss of one’s right. Now, right being eternal, to lose it is to suffer an eternal loss. Q. Can one repair a fault? a. Yes; by expiation. Q. What is expiatio…
1913 · PDF PAGE 402
THE EQUINOX Q. What are the consequences of each ? A. Moral life and moral death. Q. Has then hell, with all its horrors, its justification in religious dogma? A. Yes; it is a rigorous consequence of a principle. Q. What is this principle? A. Liberty. Q. What is liberty? A. The right to do one’s duty, with the possibility of not doing it. Q. What is failing in one’s duty? A. It involves the loss of one’s right. Now, right being eternal, to lose it is to suffer an eternal loss. Q. Can one repair a fault? a. Yes; by expiation. Q. What is expiatio…
1954 · PDF PAGE 84
…ect relation of number and word, omitting any reference to Notariqon, the accursed art of making words out of initials, like (in profane life) Wren and Gestapo and their horrid brood, or to Temurah, the art of altering the position of the letters in a word, a sort of cipher; for these are almost always frivolous. To base any serious calculations on them would be absurd. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666 P.S. You should study The Equinox. Vol. I, No.5, The Temple of Solomon the King for a more elaborate exposition of the Qabalah…
1906 · PDF PAGE 277
…. this about the earth? Goodness gracious bless my How few among us can reach the supreme sanity of Dr. Henry Maudsley in such a book ‘¢ Life in Mind and Conduct ”! ” Hence I regard Agnosticism as little more than a basis of new research into spiritual facts, to be conducted by the methods won for us by men of science. I would define myself as an agnostic with a future. But to the enthymeme itself. enough to expose it. Other things have been hated before and since Christ lived —if he lived. Slavery was hated. A million men* died about it, and i…
1905 · PDF PAGE 25
…though as dark as death Her soul had been for weary days no few ; Now, lightened by the spirit thrust anew As into a dead body breath of life, She gave sweet thanks with gentle lips that ope, Like buds of roses on the sunny slope Of lily gardens falling toward a stream That flashes back the intolerable beam Of sunlight with light heart. They fled away At Cypris’ word, beyond the bounds of day Into the awful caverns of the night, Eerie with ghosts imagined, and the might Of strange spells cast upon them by the dead. So, ere the dying autumn-tide…
1929 · PDF PAGE 63
…counter while traveling on the Quest. But all these ideals, seriously as I entertained them, were in the nature of reverie. In practical life I was still passionately engaged in cleansing myself from the mire of Christianity by deliberate acts of sin and worldliness. I was so happy to be free from the past tyranny that I found continual joy in affirming my emancipation. There were thus several divers strands in the loom of my soul which had not yet been woven into a harmonious pattern. I dealt with life empirically, taking things as they came, …
1909 · PDF PAGE 112
…i! Let Thy Light illumine the Path of that darkling wight John St. John, that being who, separate from Thee, is separate from all Light, Life, Love. Adonai! Adonai! let it be written of 0. M. that " the Lord Adonai is about him like a thunderbolt and like a Pylon and like a Serpent and like a Phallus—and in the midst thereof like the Woman that jetteth the Milk
1912 · PDF PAGE 119
…rs. B. I must tell him—I must tell him! He's suffering too much. (Rims in.) Bob ! ...... What is it? Dr. B. Ihave about seven minutes of life left, Nan. Ι could not bear to let you see me suffer for a month. Mrs. B. What do you mean? Oh, don’t you see it was all a joke? We wanted you to understand how the people felt when you condemned them. There’s nothing the matter with you. Dr. B. More of your lies. You've killed me with your lies now. I’ve injected cobra venom, and nothing can save me. Good-bye, Nan ! [She is dazed, staggers, aridfalls int…
1912 · PDF PAGE 119
…rs. B. I must tell him—I must tell him! He's suffering too much. (Rims in.) Bob ! ...... What is it? Dr. B. Ihave about seven minutes of life left, Nan. Ι could not bear to let you see me suffer for a month. Mrs. B. What do you mean? Oh, don’t you see it was all a joke? We wanted you to understand how the people felt when you condemned them. There’s nothing the matter with you. Dr. B. More of your lies. You've killed me with your lies now. I’ve injected cobra venom, and nothing can save me. Good-bye, Nan ! [She is dazed, staggers, aridfalls int…
1913 · PDF PAGE 524
…ere fluidic coagulations which one could destroy by dividing them. They were a sort of animated mirages, imperfect emana- tions of human life. The traditions of Black Magic say that they were born owing to the celibacy of Adam. Paracelsus says that the vapours of the blood of hysterical women people the air with phantoms; and these ideas are so ancient, that 226
1913 · PDF PAGE 524
…ere fluidic coagulations which one could destroy by dividing them. They were a sort of animated mirages, imperfect emana- tions of human life. The traditions of Black Magic say that they were born owing to the celibacy of Adam. Paracelsus says that the vapours of the blood of hysterical women people the air with phantoms; and these ideas are so ancient, that 226
1899 · PDF PAGE 17
…bruised us once ; the snake is dead. Who of mankind that honours man discerns That man of all men, whose high spirit burns, Crowned over life, and conqueror of death, The godhood that was Christ of Nazareth— Who of all men, that will not gird his brand And purge from priestcraft the uxorious land? Christ, who lived, died, and lived, that man might be Tameless and tranquil as the summer sea, That laughs with love of the broad skies of noon, And dreams of lazy kissings of the moon, But listens for the summons of the wind, Shakes its white mane, a…
1899 · PDF PAGE 109
…ND DRAMATIC. 87 And see myself no longer in her eyes So perfectly as here, where passion lies Buried and re-arisen and complete. O happy life too sweet, too perfect sweet, O happy love too perfectly made one Not to arouse the envy of the sun Who sulks six months for spite of it! O love, Too pure and fond for those pale gods above, Too perfect for their iron rods to break, Arise, awake, and die for death’s own sake That one forgetfulness may take us three, Still three, still one, to the Lethean sea, That all its waters may be sweet as those We w…
1904 · PDF PAGE 47
… (the first law of betting is that you mayn’t bet on a certainty) so perfectly convinced by this time are all wise men that the score of life is at Love-all. So we twain will sing together ;— Spring regilds her coronet; Summer comes and don’t go neither, [This line is neither grammar nor rhyme, I'm afraid ; it’s my mistake entirely, I took a perfectly absurd word to begin with, and after getting as far as this it would be a pity to turn back; the rhymes’ll get worse for certain, so don’t be surprised if they do, but I haven’t lost hope of stick…
1910 · PDF PAGE 58
AMBERGRIS 49 Vainly : the lotus burns above the tomb Yea, but in thoughts unfathomable womb ! For spiritual life and love and light Climb the swayed ladder of our various fate ; The steep rude stair that mocks the heros might, Casts off the wise, and crumbles with the great. Yet from the highest crown no blossom fell, Save one, to bring salvation unto Hell. O angel of my spiritual desire ! O luminous master of the silver feet ! O passionate rose of infinite white fire ! O cross of sacrifice made bitter-sweet ! O wide-wing, star-brow, veritab…
1913 · PDF PAGE 133
…ree objects of study were successively Nature, God, and Man. The duality of consciousness is also sometimes represented; and the Tree of Life itself may be figured therein, or the categories. An emblem of the Great Work should be added. But the Pantacle will be im- perfect unless each idea is contrasted in a balanced manner with its opposite, and unless there is a necessary connection between each pair of ideas and every other pair. The Neophyte will perhaps do well to make the first sketches for his Pantacle very large and complex, subsequentl…
1919 · PDF PAGE 21
… Liser CCXVI. Tue Yi Kine. (Classic of Changes.) A new translation, with a commentary, by the Master Therion. Confucius said that if his life were to be prolonged by a few years, he would give fifty of them to the study of this book. Liser CLVII. THe Tao Tew Kine. A new translation, with a commentary, by the Master Therion. This is the most exalted and yet practical of the Chinese classics. Liser CLXV. The account of the attainment of a Master of the Temple: given in full detail by Frater O.1.V.V.LO. This is the Record of a man who actually att…
1919 · PDF PAGE 218
…may be selected for invitation to the higher, where all things are declared openly. 2° They become partakers of the current of Universal Life in Liberty, Beauty, Harmony, and Love which flames within the heart of the O.T.O., and the Light of that august fraternity insensibly illuminates them ever more and more as they approach its cen- tral Sun. 3° They meet those persons most complemental to their own natures, and find unexpected help and brother- hood in the whole world wherever they may travel. 4° They obtain the right to sojourn in the secr…
1928 · PDF PAGE 164
…do not know, I do not remember. What bizarre things does not one find in a great city when one knows how to walk about and how to look! Life swarms with innocent monsters. Oh Lord my God, Thou Creator, Thou Master, Thou who hast made law and lib-
1954 · PDF PAGE 112
…e stream. 13. Then at the end appointed her body was whiter than the milk of the stars, and her lips red and warm as the sunset, and her life of a white heat like the heat of the midmost sun. 14. Then rose she up from abyss of Ages of Sleep, and her body embraced me. Altogether I melted in her beauty and was glad. 15. The river also became the river of Amrit, and the little boat was the chariot of the fles,h, and the sails thereof the blood of the heart that beareth me, that beareth me. (Liber LXV, Cap. II) We find even in profane literature th…