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1912 · PDF PAGE 21

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

ORDER OF ORIENTAL TEMPLARS and never forget the ties which bind you to honour and/to justice. “View not with indifference the extensive connections you have formed, but let universal benevolence regulate your conduct. Exert your abilities in the service of your king and your country, and deem the knowledge you have this day attained the happiest acquisition of your life. " Recall to memory the ceremony of your initiation; learn to bridle your tongue and to govern your passions: and ere long you will have occasion to say: ‘In becoming a M,Y I tr…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 238

Moonchild

…f the Mysteries of Egyptian Magick. It was as invigorating as a cold plunge. He strode away towards Montmartre. The Profess-House of the Order had been converted into a hospital. But who should come to greet him if not Sister Cybele? Beside her stood the severe figure of Simon Iff. There were two others in the background. Cyril was not surprised to see his old master, the Mahathera Phang; but the other? It was Abdul Bey. "Come forward and shake hands," cried Simon Iff. "I have not been inactive, Cyril," added the old man. "I have had my eye on …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 30

The Holy Books

…ugh To stir me or to still me! Aum! let it fill me! 38. So that thy light is in me; and its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. There is a secret door that I shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (there are the adorations, as thou hast written) as it is said: The Light is mine ; its rays consume Me: I have made a secret door 29

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1899 · PDF PAGE 34

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

… back covetous to try For our palaces, to rule Where the far blue Syrian sky Stretches, where the clouds as wool Mark the white Arabian border, To become a tyrant king Where his sword came conquering. Out of chaos rises order On her wide unwearying wing, But the desolate marauder Never over us shall swing Such a sceptre as should bring Sorrow to one home of ours. Better bear the heavy hours Under God’s avenging breath, Better brave the horrid powers, Nor avoid the foreign death, Humbling all our pride before God’s most holy throne, abasing Ever…

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1926 · PDF PAGE 29

Liber Al vel Legis

…ugh To stir me or to still me! Aum! let it fill me! 38. So that thy light is in me; and its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. There is a secret door that I shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (there are the adorations, as thou hast written) as it is said: The Light is mine ; its rays consume Me: I have made a secret door 29

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1909 · PDF PAGE 11

777

…, the “Art” of Raymond Lully, some of the very artificial effusions of the esoteric Theosophists, and of late years the knowledge of the Order Rosae Rubeae et Aureae Crucis and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Unluckily, the leading spirit in these latter societies found that his prayer, “Give us this day our daily whisky, and just a wee drappie mair for luck !” was sternly answered, ‘‘ When you have given us this day our daily Knowledge-lecture.” Under these circumstances Daath got mixed with Dewar, and Beelzebub with Buchanan. But even …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 34

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…ablishes a new incarnation of deity ; as in the legends of Leda, Semele, Miriam, Pasiphae, and others. He must set up this idéal for the orders which he rules, so that they may possess a not too abstract rallying-point suited to their unde- veloped States. 10. The Grade of Adeptus Minor is the main thème of the instructions of the A.'. A.*. It is characterised by the Attain- ment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. (See the Equinox, The Temple of Solomon the King:\ The Vision and the Voice 8th Aethyrj also Liber Samekh…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 13

The Book of Thoth

… Initiated Tradition of the Tarot; I. Eliphaz Levi and the Tarot; 2. The Tarot in the Cipher Manuscripts; 3. The Tarot and the “Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn”; 4. The Nature of the Evidence; Summary of the Questions Hitherto Discussed. II. The Tarot and the Holy Qabalah; The Naples Arrangement; The Tarot and the Formula of Tetragrammaton; The Tarot and the Elements; The Twenty­two Keys, Atu, or Trumps of the Tarot. III. The Tarot and the Universe; Theories of the Ancients; The Tree of Life; The Naples Arrangement; The Tarot and the Tree of …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 39

The Goetia

…e the Love of Women, and to tell Things Past, Present, and to Come. He also procureth Friendship between Friends and Foes. He was of the Order of Potestates or Powers. He governeth 37 Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, to be made and worn before thee, etc. (48.) Haacenti.—The Forty-eighth Spirit is Haagenti. He is a Presi- dent, appearing in the Form of a Mighty Bull with Gryphon’s Wings. This is at first, but after, at the Command of the Exorcist he putteth on Human Shape. His Office is to make Men wise, and to instruct them in divers t…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 297

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…sight into the true meaning of Masonry,Iand a real understanding of the symbolism. He appears a suitable candidate for some more serious order, such as the M M M or even the O.T.O. H. Κ. Τ. TENTERHOOKS. By ADA LEVERSON. δε. MRS, LEVERSON is easily the daintiest and wittiest or our younger feminine writers; but she does well to call her latest masterpiece Tznlerlwa/ir. Mrs. Leverson offers us a picture of an aged, wrinkled and bedizened Jewess with false hair and teeth, painted and whitewashed with kohl, rouge and chalk until there seems hardly …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 297

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…sight into the true meaning of Masonry,Iand a real understanding of the symbolism. He appears a suitable candidate for some more serious order, such as the M M M or even the O.T.O. H. Κ. Τ. TENTERHOOKS. By ADA LEVERSON. δε. MRS, LEVERSON is easily the daintiest and wittiest or our younger feminine writers; but she does well to call her latest masterpiece Tznlerlwa/ir. Mrs. Leverson offers us a picture of an aged, wrinkled and bedizened Jewess with false hair and teeth, painted and whitewashed with kohl, rouge and chalk until there seems hardly …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 48

Jephthah

…s; stragglers few Call to the rocks and woods, whose dens refuse Shelter and refuge to the fugitives, But, in revolt against the natural order, Gape like the ravening jaws of any beast To let. the furious invaders down

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1913 · PDF PAGE 15

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

ORDER OF ORIENTAL TEMPLARS world, by your new allegiance, you are deserving our favours, and never forget the ties which bind you to honour and to justice. “View not with indifference the extensive connections you have formed, but let universal benevolence regulate your conduct. Exert your abilities in the service of your king and your country, and deem the knowledge you have this day attained the happiest acquisition of your life. “Recall to memory the ceremony of your initiation; learn to bridle your tongue and to govern your passions: and er…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 15

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

ORDER OF ORIENTAL TEMPLARS world, by your new allegiance, you are deserving our favours, and never forget the ties which bind you to honour and to justice. “View not with indifference the extensive connections you have formed, but let universal benevolence regulate your conduct. Exert your abilities in the service of your king and your country, and deem the knowledge you have this day attained the happiest acquisition of your life. “Recall to memory the ceremony of your initiation; learn to bridle your tongue and to govern your passions: and er…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 66

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…s; stragglers few Call to the rocks and woods, whose dens refuse Shelter and refuge to the fugitives, But, in revolt against the natural order, Gape like the ravening jaws of any beast To let. the furious invaders down

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1904 · PDF PAGE 40

The Argonauts

12 ARGONAUTAE JASON. Arise, All heroes, circling round the sacred stone In beautiful order and procession grave, While our chief priest, our mightiest in song, The dowered of Phoebus, great Oeager’s heir, Invokes that glory on the sacrifice That kindles all its slumber into life And vivid flame descending on the wheel And chariot of lightning, licking up The water of the loud-resounding sea Lustral, poured seven times upon the earth And in one flash consuming wood and stone And the sweet savour of the sacrifice. ORPHEUS. But when the flame hath…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 2

Gargoyles

WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR Prices net to the trade. 30 per cent. off orders exceeding £5. Cash with order. ACELDAMA. 425. THE TALE OF ARCHAIS, 55. SONGS OF THE SPIRIT. New Edition. 35. 6d. JEZEBEL, ETC. 425. APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. Is. EPHTHAH, ETC. 75. 6d. E MOTHER'S TRAGEDY, ETC. New Edition. 75. 6d. THE SOUL oF OsiRIs. 55. CARMEN SAECULARE. 25. 6d. TANNHAUSER. New Edition. 153. BERASHITH. 55. AHAB, ETC. 55. ALICE. 55. THE GOD-EATER. 25. 6d. THE SworD OF SonG. Fifth Impression. 20s. THE STAR AND THE GARTER. Popular Edition. 15. THE ARGON…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 36

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

working together and so blurring each other’s individuality; also to prevent work developing into social intercourse. The Grades of the Order of the G. D. are fully descrihed in Liber 185 1, and there is no need to amplify what is there stated. It must however, be carefuliy remarked that in each of these preliminary Grades there are appointed certain tasks appropriate, and that the ample accomplishment of each and every one of these is insisted upon with the most rigorous rigidity. 2 3 * * * * Members of the A A of whatever grade are not bound …

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1935 · PDF PAGE 9

One Star in Sight

…itiating and governing His proposed new Universe and the identification of himself with the impersonal idea of Love. Any neophyte of the Order (or, as some say, any person soever) possesses the right to claim the Grade of Master of the Temple by taking the Oath of the Grade. It is hardly necessary to observe that to do so is the most sublime and awful responsibility which it is possible to assume, and an unworthy person who does so incurs the most terrific penalties by his presumption. 7. The Order of the R. C. The Grade of the Babe of the Abys…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 28

Why Jesus Wept

14 WHY JESUS WEPT. His dreams are made of ! Aye ! I shall endure ! I am destined Lord of many magic wills. Another Rosencreutz another order Founds — to a better end than his, be sure ! Away ! away, my lad ! and o’er the border I shall get myself a buxom bride, And ride — ride — ride ! He rises. Ride to the blacksmith at Gretna Green, Kiss a fair lady and find her a queen ! O a Queen, for certain ! It is I that ride, Ride in my youth and pride. With a long sword girt to my waist, And a strawberry mare sweet-paced, And a long night with no moon,…

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