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1930 · PDF PAGE 50

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

… and makes five crosses as bejore. The chïldren replace their weapons on their respective altars. The PRIEST hisses the hook of the JLaw three ti/mes. He kneels for a space in adoration y with joined handsy knuckles closedy thumb in position as aforesaid. He rises and draws the veil over the whole alta-r. Ail rise and stand to order. The PRIEST takes the lance from the DEACON and holds it as beforey as Osiris or Ththah. He circumambulates the Temple three timeSy f ollowed by the DEACON and the children as before. (Thesey when not using their ha…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 99

The Soul of Osiris

…y : my hope is drawn From wells profounder than the very sea. Yea, I am come, where least I guessed it so, Into the very Presence of the Three That Are beyond all Gods. And now I know What spiritual Light is drawing me Up to its stooping splendour. In my soul I feel the Spring, the all-devouring Dawn, Rush with my Rising. There, beyond the goal, The Veil is rent ! Yes : let the veil be drawn.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 3

John Yarker – In Memoriam

…was a Past Master, an ardent devotee, and on which he was a voluminous writer. We had the honour of Brother Yarker’s acquaintance nearly three decades ago, he having been a contributor to the Scottzlsk Free- mason when we edited that. journal. The following leading events in Brother Yarker’s Masonic career we quote from the Co-Mason, of London, England: It was in Manchester that Brother Yarker entered on his Masonic career and took up those studies which were to make him famous throughout the world in his after-life. He was initiated at the age…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 10

The Stratagem and Other Stories

… to think highly of my intelligence. ‘By a stratagem,’ he repeated with emphasis. “ ‘I have a plan,’ he continued. ‘It will take twenty- three days to communicate, if we are not interrupted; between three and four months to prepare; two hours and eight minutes to execute. It is theoretically possible to escape by air, by water, or by earth. But as we are watched day and night, it would be useless to try to drive a tunnel to the mainland; we have no aeroplanes or balloons, or means of making them. But if we could once reach the water’s edge, whi…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 143

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…een filled with an unusual number of incidents, some painful, some joyful and some of a purely spiritual nature. I regret nothing. Again three days have passed since I made entry in this book. I cannot talk of what has happened during those three days, it seems useless to try and do so, in fact it seems useless to make this entry at all except that J know not what is before me, and I feel that had I (or if I) lived longer upon this planet it would have been my life work, indeed it must have been, to help others to the Path. Therefore to those w…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 19

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…was a Past Master, an ardent devotee, and on which he was a voluminous writer. We had the honour of Brother Yarker’s acquaintance nearly three decades ago, he having been a contributor to the Scottish Free- mason when we edited that journal. The following leading events in Brother Yarker’s Masonic career we quote from the Co-Mason, of London, England : It was in Manchester that Brother Yarker entered on his Masonic career and took up those studies which were to make him famous throughout the world in his after-life. He was initiated at the age …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 19

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…was a Past Master, an ardent devotee, and on which he was a voluminous writer. We had the honour of Brother Yarker’s acquaintance nearly three decades ago, he having been a contributor to the Scottish Free- mason when we edited that journal. The following leading events in Brother Yarker’s Masonic career we quote from the Co-Mason, of London, England : It was in Manchester that Brother Yarker entered on his Masonic career and took up those studies which were to make him famous throughout the world in his after-life. He was initiated at the age …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 78

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

ACT I SCENE: The desert. In the feregroana’, a walled well with 70 a lever. Three [fa/ms Tall grasses. The ground is uneven In the haehgronnd other palms, among which are several military chargers, held by esqnires. Around the well are Knights Templar; armed, ;!!!/?051715 Also JOCELYN, a troahaa’onri JOCELYN [sings to his !!!/”?[ : Noon slumbers softly in the palms ; The desert breezes whisper psalms ; And we who rest must rise and ride Beneath the banner cruciform That braves the Saracen and the storm, This blessed Christmastide. For we are ha…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 78

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

ACT I SCENE: The desert. In the feregroana’, a walled well with 70 a lever. Three [fa/ms Tall grasses. The ground is uneven In the haehgronnd other palms, among which are several military chargers, held by esqnires. Around the well are Knights Templar; armed, ;!!!/?051715 Also JOCELYN, a troahaa’onri JOCELYN [sings to his !!!/”?[ : Noon slumbers softly in the palms ; The desert breezes whisper psalms ; And we who rest must rise and ride Beneath the banner cruciform That braves the Saracen and the storm, This blessed Christmastide. For we are ha…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 201

The Law is for All

… Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating. 50. There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. The gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest. Thus ye have star & star, system & system; let not one know well the other! 51. There are four gates to one palace; the floor of that palace is of silver and gold; lapis lazuli & jasper are there; and all rare scents; jasmine & rose, and the em…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 86

Tannhäuser

…ee himself! Wind, wind the mort ! What call will answer me When I step forward ? Am I dead, I wonder, Or merely on my hare-brain quest ? Three years Since I was seen in Germany ! \^He descends the hill and enters the company. Hail, friends ! Good cousin Landgrave, merry be the meet ! Landgrave. Hands off me, fellow ! Who are you .'' Tannhauser. My lord, Your cousin. Is my face so changed with care, My body shrunken with my suffering (That was not ever of the body) so ."* Wolfram. I know you, my old friend ! Our chiefest bird ! Sweetest of singe…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 124

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…nce of Love. . There are sacraments? Nine. There are music and wine And the delicate dance— . To accomplish? The trance. . And are these three enough? They are servants of Love. . And the sacrifice? I. . And the priestess ? Is thou. I am willing to die At thy hands—even now. . Worship me first! [1. seats 0. upon the Altar. Mistress, I thirst. [o. gives wine. They drink.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 124

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…nce of Love. . There are sacraments? Nine. There are music and wine And the delicate dance— . To accomplish? The trance. . And are these three enough? They are servants of Love. . And the sacrifice? I. . And the priestess ? Is thou. I am willing to die At thy hands—even now. . Worship me first! [1. seats 0. upon the Altar. Mistress, I thirst. [o. gives wine. They drink.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 128

The World’s Tragedy

III THE BLUE DWARF SCENE, a stable containing three stalls. In the first, an ox ; in the second, the girl Miriam ; in the third, the ass Zakariah. The first is chewing the cud peaceable ; the second, stretched naked on the straw, holds her sides and groans ; the third lifts up his voice ever and anon in a formidable bray. The stable is lighted by two torches held respectively by an old and withered hag, her two remai- ning teeth — long yellow fangs — exposed in a grin ; and by a blue faced baboon, who revels in his corner in the filth. THE HAG,…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 79

The Sword of Song

…than ever to im agine there was one. So the tusker was usually to be found, still as a rock, in s ome secluded place, m editating on the Three Characteris tics. And when Ganesha appeared in all his glory , he found him to his disgust quite free from e lephanto- morphism. In fact, he quietly asked the God to leave him alone. “Now he was still quite a y oung elephant when there came into the jungle, tripping merrily along, with a light-hearted song in its nucleolus, no less than a Bacillus. “And the elephant died. He was only seventeen years old.…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 115

White Stains

…is weapon in my mouth ; Her lust bestrides me, and is fain To quench in his sweet sweat her drouth Her finger probes my bowel again. All three enjoy once more, and I Am ready ever to renew These bestial orgie-nights, whereby Loose woman’s love is spiced, as dew On tender spray of spring doth lie. Like the cold moon to earth and sun My mistress lingers in eclipse,

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1944 · PDF PAGE 215

The Book of Thoth

SORROW THREE OF SWORDS Binah, the Great Mother, here rules the realm of Air. This fact involves an extremely dif‐ ficult doctrine which must be studied at length in The Vision and the Voice: Aethyr 14. Binah is here not the beneficent Mother completing the Trinity with Kether and Chok‐ mah. She represents the darkness of the Great Sea. This is accentuated by the Celestial Lordship of Saturn in Libra. This card is dark and heavy; it is, so to speak, the womb of Chaos. There is an intense lurking passion to create, but its children are monsters. …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 180

Magick Without Tears

…isible by the Saturnian 3, and the result is 93; in other words, he has been precisely right. On the plane of Saturn one may multiply by three and therefore he has given you the correct word "Thelema" in a form unfamiliar to you . You may now consider yourself satisfied of his good faith , and may proceed to inspect him more closely. The stars above his head suggest the influence of Binah, whose number also is three , while the most striking thing about him is the core of his being: the letter Yod. (One does not count the termination A H: being…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 93

The Law is for All

…m to all Being, and offering every possibility of fulfil­ ment to every several point that it envelops. But Nuit cannot be symbolized as three-dimensional, in our system; each unit has position by three spatial, and one temporal, coordinates. It cannot exist, in our consciousness, with less, as a reality. Each “individ­ ual” must be a “point-interval”; he must be the product of some part of the Matter of Nuit (with special possibilities) and of the Motion of Hadit (with special energies) determined in space by his relations with his neighbours,…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 31

The Book of Thoth

…objects now understood by these words, as explained above.) Perhaps because they thought it necessary to introduce so sacred a number as Three into everything heavenly, or else because the observed constellations happened to be natu‐ rally divided into twelve groups, they divided the Zodiac into twelve signs, three to each Sea‐ son. The Influence of the Sun upon the Earth was observed to change as He passed through the Signs. So did quite simple things like the measure of time between Sunrise and Sunset. When one says that the Sun enters the Si…

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