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1910 · PDF PAGE 335

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…al chamber. All around the vault are hung great blue-black carpets of shadow, and the floor is damp, and wriggling with the spawn of low life. Let us look into the coffin of the beautiful dead woman, look into it as we would have strangers look into our own with the child eyes of fancy and imagination, rather than with the cold and scaly eyes of knowledge. Only to vulgar and brutish eyes is there any horror, for 317

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1912 · PDF PAGE 56

Mortadello

…s done ; My mission is achieved, my latest course is run. I have striven to save the State ; the State is saved to-day : Now I devote my life to what it craved—to pray ! Good Mother Abbess, lend your arm, my past is furled.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 318

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… fisher?גור Firebrand, volcanic fire : the?רואThunder; w meditate; he 18-?הנה special ‘fire’ or ‘light’ of the moved Sacred Magic of Light, Life, A City of Edom 11,1 and Love ; hence “Odic Here; this?וז Force” &c. Cf. 9 and 207 A locust?בגה Where?יאHe shall come?אבי When?אובב Το 'e"! cut, mac“ Tu Rhamnus; a thorn, spine?ךמאGold (Οι)?בהרRising ground; Earth of?איג Proud, haughty?דוGeburah. (See 777) To conceal?אנחSacrifice v. & s. (Ch.). (?)?חבך A circularity of form or motion ;?גהLove, beloved; David?ךח 2‘ fem Give, give! [Videבה ?בה . "πα I7. 1`?ב…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 318

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… fisher?גור Firebrand, volcanic fire : the?רואThunder; w meditate; he 18-?הנה special ‘fire’ or ‘light’ of the moved Sacred Magic of Light, Life, A City of Edom 11,1 and Love ; hence “Odic Here; this?וז Force” &c. Cf. 9 and 207 A locust?בגה Where?יאHe shall come?אבי When?אובב Το 'e"! cut, mac“ Tu Rhamnus; a thorn, spine?ךמאGold (Οι)?בהרRising ground; Earth of?איג Proud, haughty?דוGeburah. (See 777) To conceal?אנחSacrifice v. & s. (Ch.). (?)?חבך A circularity of form or motion ;?גהLove, beloved; David?ךח 2‘ fem Give, give! [Videבה ?בה . "πα I7. 1`?ב…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 15

Manifesto of the M.M.M.

…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.0., and the Light of that august fraternity insen- sibly illuminates them ever more and more as they approach its central Sun, 3° They mect those persons most complemental to their own natures, and find unexpected help and brotherhood in the whole world wherever they may travel. ‘They obtain the right to sojourn in the secret h…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 85

Ambergris

…t, is beaming Through me and burns me : all my flesh is teeming With the live kisses of the sea, my mate, My mistress, till the fires of life abate And leave me languid, man-forgotten, deeming I see in sleep, in many-coloured night, More hope than in the flame-waves of the light.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 86

Book 4 (Part I)

… is proved by the fact that many people who claim to have had this experience repeatedly continue to exercise the ordinary avocations of life without diminished activity. We may dismiss, then, the physiologicalquestion. It throws no light on the main problem, which is the value of the testimony of the experience. Now this is a very difficult question, and raises the much larger question as to the value of any testimony. Every possible thought has been doubted at some time or another, except the thought which can

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1912 · PDF PAGE 53

Mortadello

OR, THE ANGEL OF VENICE 35 Be ruled, I pray you, pen these passions for your life ! Or you do violence to your own natures, soil The fiery quintessence, God’s spirit, in turmoil. Why do you rage, a sea of angry gentlemen, When you should bend the knee to Mortadello ? ALESSANDRO. Wen ! Blotch ! Bubo ! Spider ! Leech ! Crab-apple ! Wart ! Poor- john ! Carbuncle ! MONICA. Chasten speech ! [To MORTADELLO.] What grief’s his grievance on ? ALESSANDRO. Oh ! I’ve no special grudge against the filthy fellow, But if I were a judge, I’d shorten Mortadello…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 107

Liber Aleph

…nosis, which is of the Spirit, is there naught hurtful, for its Elements are not only Food, but a true Incarnation and Quint- essence of Life, Love, and Liberty, and at its Manifestation thy Lion is consecrated by pure Light of Ekstacy. Also, as this is the strongest so also it is the most sensitive of all Things soever, and both proper and ready to take Impress of Will, not as a Seal passively but with true Recreation in a Microcosm thereof. And this is a God alive and puissant to create, and He is a Word of Magick wherein thou mayst read Thys…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 14

Tannhäuser

…th in Hebrew and Egypto-Christian symbology is that by this means I may familiarise my readers with the one thing of any importance that life, travel, and study have taught me, to wit : the Origin of Religions. I take it that there have always, or nearly always, been on the earth those whom Councillor von Eckartshausen, the Svdmi Vivekdnanda and their like, call " great spiritual giants" (can there be any etymological link between "yogi" and " ogre " ?) and that such persons, themselves per- ceiving Truth, have tried to " diminish the message t…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 93

Konx Om Pax

…olbein House, as Sigiri springs from the flat table of the central province of Ceylon, came upon them, that their influence woke them into life. I will cause them to converse, said the Man (who was the Devil), as it were to take you upon an high mountain and show you all the king doms of the earth. I have seen them, said the Socialist. But, said the Man, things look very different from that height. Poverty and vice are the same from any point of view, began the Socialist. Listen 1 said the other. Arthur Gray stretched his legs as well as the room…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 21

John St. John

…again I find myself wishing for Kandy (not sugar candy, but the place where I did my first Hindu practices and got my first Results) and a life devoted entirely to meditation. But not for mel I’m no Pratyeka—Buddha; a Dhamma—Buddha every inch of me! [A Pratyeka-Buddha attains the Supreme Reward for himself alone; a Dhamma—Buddha renounces it and returns to hell (earth) to teach others the Way—Eu] I now take a few minutes “off" to make ”considera- tions." I firmly believe that the minutest dose of the Elixir would operate as a “ detonator.” I seem …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 31

John St. John

… I was: yet now I am again energised; may it be to the point of Enthusiasml People will most assuredly smile at this exalted mystic; his life seems made up of sleep and love-making. Indeed, to-day I have been shockingly under the power of Tamas, the dark sphere. But that is clearly a fatigue-effect from having worked so hard. Oh Lord, how long? The Mantra still ripples on. I am so far from the Path that I have a real good mind to get Maryt to let me perform the Black Mass on her 31 midnight. I would 29

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1909 · PDF PAGE 345

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…er. She must be a wonderful person, this mermaid: she could swim, she could eat, and, at times, she could even talk. She was as large as life, and, by all accounts, she was more than twice as natural. So, at length, I paid my twopence, and I saw—a seal! There it lay, at the bottom of a miniature bear-pit, and with its wistful face and its great pathetic eyes it really did look quite as human as the majority of its audience. The thing was a I ¥ 337

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1909 · PDF PAGE 345

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…er. She must be a wonderful person, this mermaid: she could swim, she could eat, and, at times, she could even talk. She was as large as life, and, by all accounts, she was more than twice as natural. So, at length, I paid my twopence, and I saw—a seal! There it lay, at the bottom of a miniature bear-pit, and with its wistful face and its great pathetic eyes it really did look quite as human as the majority of its audience. The thing was a I ¥ 337

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1912 · PDF PAGE 42

Book 4 (Part I)

…n is suddenly forgotten, the fact of the presence of the body is forgotten, and one will realize that during the whole of one’s previous life the body was always on the borderland of con-

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1912 · PDF PAGE 344

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…?רכז Phallus—Vide S.D. ii p. 467) Damna, [Vide K.D. L.C4K.?ץקמ p- 569] 228 First-born?ךובנ Blessed!?ךורב Ruler of Earth?בורב The Tree of Lifeץע ?םייח 229וז 230 Astonishment?הרכה [Vide K.D. L.C.K, p, 153]?ףיקמ Fasciata?םירוקע Angel of 2"d Dec. mg?ה\ךואך Hod, 42-fold Name in?קןפלגו Yetzirah. [Vide Liber 777, Col. xc, p. 18] Σ (ι-π). Right-handed Svastika, 231 drawn on Sq. of a Prolonged?,יgrew long?ךירא Male?ארוכר Sum of the Four Ways of spelling 232 TETRAGRAMMATON in the Four Worlds Geomantic Intelligence?לא”ציבמא of )( Ruler of Fire?לארא Equiva…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 344

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…?רכז Phallus—Vide S.D. ii p. 467) Damna, [Vide K.D. L.C4K.?ץקמ p- 569] 228 First-born?ךובנ Blessed!?ךורב Ruler of Earth?בורב The Tree of Lifeץע ?םייח 229וז 230 Astonishment?הרכה [Vide K.D. L.C.K, p, 153]?ףיקמ Fasciata?םירוקע Angel of 2"d Dec. mg?ה\ךואך Hod, 42-fold Name in?קןפלגו Yetzirah. [Vide Liber 777, Col. xc, p. 18] Σ (ι-π). Right-handed Svastika, 231 drawn on Sq. of a Prolonged?,יgrew long?ךירא Male?ארוכר Sum of the Four Ways of spelling 232 TETRAGRAMMATON in the Four Worlds Geomantic Intelligence?לא”ציבמא of )( Ruler of Fire?לארא Equiva…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 480

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…finite light is for us, as it were, the body of God. The Qabalah, or transcendental magic, is the science of light. Light corresponds to life. The kingdom of shadows is death. All the dogmas of true religion are written in the Qabalah in characters of light upon a page of shadow. The page of shadows consists of blind beliefs. Light is the great plastic medium. The alliance of the soul and the body is a marriage of light and shadow. Light is the instrument of the Word, it is the white writing of God upon the great book of night. Light is the sou…

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…finite light is for us, as it were, the body of God. The Qabalah, or transcendental magic, is the science of light. Light corresponds to life. The kingdom of shadows is death. All the dogmas of true religion are written in the Qabalah in characters of light upon a page of shadow. The page of shadows consists of blind beliefs. Light is the great plastic medium. The alliance of the soul and the body is a marriage of light and shadow. Light is the instrument of the Word, it is the white writing of God upon the great book of night. Light is the sou…

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