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1910 · PDF PAGE 35

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

I.NSIT N.ATURAE R.EGINA I.SIS And still there was silence, and the voice of the world swept by me, Making in mine ears the noise of tumbling waters; But two voices I heard, and they spake one to the other: “Who stands with downcast eyes in the temple of our Lady?” And the answer: “ A wanderer from the world who hath sought the halls of silence; Yet knoweth he not the Bride of the Darkness, Her of the sable wings, and eyes of terrible blindness That see through the worlds and find nothing and nothing, Who would smite the worlds to peace, save th…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 215

The Star in the West

…-Idealism , they have . Yet none to the individual brain , until they have been brought into reciprocal relationship to it. If the outer world is an illusion , then the inner world of self is but a delusion , a mere mirrored reflection of shadows cast by some blinding sun ; so hope some of us , as Orpheus did when he sang : This world is shadow -shapen of The bitterness of pain . Vain are the little lamps of love ! The light of life is vain ! Life , death , joy , sorrow, age and youth Are phantoms of a further truth . This is but the chant of t…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 242

The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 235 2 Everything in the world con There is nothing simple , but sists of simple (parts ). everything is composite . 3 There are in the world causes There is no freedom , but all through freedom . is Nature . 4 In the series of the world There is nothing necessary causes there exists a necessary but in this series all is con being tingent . “ The above is the most remarkable phenomenon of the human Reason , of which no instance can be shown in any other sphere . If, as generally happens , we regard the phenomena of the world of sens…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 355

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES but the immortal writings which the century of Augustus brought forth. Thus, perhaps, Rome only shook the world with the convulsions of war, in order to bring forth Vergil. Christianity is the fruit of the meditations of all the sages of the East, who live again in Jesus Christ. Thus the light of the spirits has risen where the sun of the world rises; Christ conquered the West, and the soft rays of the sun of Asia have touched the icicles of the North. Stirred by this unknown heat, ant-heaps of new men have spread over …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 355

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES but the immortal writings which the century of Augustus brought forth. Thus, perhaps, Rome only shook the world with the convulsions of war, in order to bring forth Vergil. Christianity is the fruit of the meditations of all the sages of the East, who live again in Jesus Christ. Thus the light of the spirits has risen where the sun of the world rises; Christ conquered the West, and the soft rays of the sun of Asia have touched the icicles of the North. Stirred by this unknown heat, ant-heaps of new men have spread over …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 26

The World’s Tragedy

…Nature, is perfectly “ sane ” and “ wholesome ”. In a perfect society I should regard even my “ Alice ” as perverted art : for in a sane world one is insane to proclaim sanity. But art (which is the Word of the Masters to the World) must move with that world and follow it into its corruption, redeeming the same. The simple humanity, the great guffawing indecency, of Shakespeare is well enough for the pagan society of Eliza- beth. The splendid savage Jehovah is sane enough and grand enough for nomadic Israel. But since then the World is Christia…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 183

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

ROSA IGNOTA Vv OF THE ROSE “Tuat love and the lover Are mingled in me Night shall discover: Dreams shall not be The veil of the world that my heart doth disclose : The long night is over, And I am the Rose. “Night, like a cancer, Spread over my breast; There was no answer, No truce to this rest, That, holding the world in a shower of white snows, Chilled the mad dancer Who bore me, the Rose. “ Day, like a vision, Before me is fled; Hate and derision Have fouled my soft bed. In the heart of the water the quenched vision glows ; Unborne, in divis…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 183

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

ROSA IGNOTA Vv OF THE ROSE “Tuat love and the lover Are mingled in me Night shall discover: Dreams shall not be The veil of the world that my heart doth disclose : The long night is over, And I am the Rose. “Night, like a cancer, Spread over my breast; There was no answer, No truce to this rest, That, holding the world in a shower of white snows, Chilled the mad dancer Who bore me, the Rose. “ Day, like a vision, Before me is fled; Hate and derision Have fouled my soft bed. In the heart of the water the quenched vision glows ; Unborne, in divis…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 74

Jephthah

…. The first also contains the idea of existence, the Divine Name connected with this Sephira being j}°;T&, Eheieh, Existence. Below this world of Atziluth or of God is that of Briah or Thrones ; to this world belong the Archangels; still lower that of Yetzirah or Formation; to this world ten orders of angels are attributed; . and lastly, the world of Assiah, or of action (the material world). The further development of these facts, their connection with the numerical system, the parts of the soul, and many other interesting details may be studi…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 6

John St. John

…e mind of a man: the setting is but Illusion even to the thinker. Humanity is progressing; formerly men dwelt habitually in the exterior world; nothing less than giants and Paynim and men—at—arms and distressed ladies, vampires and succubi, could amuse them. Their magicians brought demons from the smoke of blood, and made gold from baser metals. In this they succeeded; the intelligent perceived that the gold and the lead were but shadows of thought. It became probable that the elements were but isomers of one element ; matter was seen to be but…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 92

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…. The first also contains the idea of existence, the Divine Name connected with this Sephira being j}°;T&, Eheieh, Existence. Below this world of Atziluth or of God is that of Briah or Thrones ; to this world belong the Archangels; still lower that of Yetzirah or Formation; to this world ten orders of angels are attributed; . and lastly, the world of Assiah, or of action (the material world). The further development of these facts, their connection with the numerical system, the parts of the soul, and many other interesting details may be studi…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 225

The Winged Beetle

215 WOMAN THE whole wide world is meat-of-murderess For thee, foul woman, cruel from idleness. To whet thy teeth at this ferocious play Thy rat-trap needs a man’s heart every day. Thine eyes, lit up like shops or booths that flare When all the world keeps holiday, still glare, Using a borrowed power with insolence, Ignoring beauty’s law that lent them sense. Blind wheel and deaf, of Hell in travail curled ! Brave tool that drinks the blood of all the world ! Hast thou no shame ? and hast thou no alarm Whose mirror shows thee thy decaying charm …

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1903 · PDF PAGE 10

The God-Eater

…rya, startled, looks up and half rises. Then sits again, with a strange sweet smile of innocence and tenderness.]| Criospa [ Lower.] The world is borne upon thy breast Even as the rose. Wilt thou not lull it into rest, Some strong repose More satisfying than pale sleep ; Than death more long, more deep? Hail! at the twilight as at dawn ! The sunset close Even on the lake as on the lawn ! The red ray glows Across the woven stardrift’s ways In mystery of Maurya’s praise. Hear me, thy priest, at eventide ! These subtler throes Than love’s or life’…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 19

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

TABLE II LIV THE LETTERS OF THE NAME LV THE ELEMENTS AND SENSES LXIII THE FOUR WORLDS LXIV SECRET NAMES OF THE FOUR WORLBS 11 1 A Air, Smell. Yetzirah, Formative rra Mah World. 23 n V Water, Taste. Briah, Creative 30 Seg World. 31 A Fire, Sight. Atziluth, Archétypal 22T Ob World. 32 bis n V Earth, Touch. Assiah, Material *1)2 Ben World. J 31 bis © Spirit, Hearing. i LXVII LXIX LXX LXXV LXXVI THE PART THE ATTRIRUTTON OF ALCHEMICAL OF THE FIVE ELEMENTS THE FIVE THE SOUL ELEMENTS PENTAGRAM (tatwas) SKANDHAS 11 rm $ Left Upper Vayu - The Blue Sankh…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 114

Ambergris

AMBERGRIS 105 OTHER LOVE SONGS Rose Rose on the breast of the world of spring, I press my breast against thy bloom, My subtle life drawn out to thee : to thee its moods and meanings cling. I pass from change and thought to peace, woven on love’s incredible loom, Rose on the breast of the world of spring ! How shall the heart dissolved in joy take form and harmony and sing ? How shall the ecstasy of light fall back to music’s magic gloom ? O China rose without a thorn, O honey-bee with- out a sting ! The scent of all thy beauty burns upon the wi…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 229

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

ROSA IGNOTA Over the brink of the world to cull fresh roses; Roses, still roses, myriad roses bloom In the silence. Oh! the world’s great Rose uncloses Her petals still, to the Nothingness of doom. Last Rose! Last love! Last night thou camest to me, A silver dream under a sapphire sky; The winds of the world ran ever and ever through me, Until, at last, the end: then did I lie In dream, and dream that made mine eyes unclose, And so I lost thee, O immortal Rose. (vim) I swing a censer in a temple of fire; I chant slow mantrams to a holy Name; I …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 229

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

ROSA IGNOTA Over the brink of the world to cull fresh roses; Roses, still roses, myriad roses bloom In the silence. Oh! the world’s great Rose uncloses Her petals still, to the Nothingness of doom. Last Rose! Last love! Last night thou camest to me, A silver dream under a sapphire sky; The winds of the world ran ever and ever through me, Until, at last, the end: then did I lie In dream, and dream that made mine eyes unclose, And so I lost thee, O immortal Rose. (vim) I swing a censer in a temple of fire; I chant slow mantrams to a holy Name; I …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 342

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EQUINOX ‘You are nearer the world than I, and its weak vanity has stained you. The eye looks at the world, and the world looks at the eye, and though each learns from the other, it is not often an even bargain and exchange. . . .” Then, as the heart-worm ceased to speak, the other two, the eye-worm and the mouth-worm, drew closer to where during all his talking they had been magnetically moved. And all those years which they had passed unconsciously as the lips or the eyes of a woman became suddenly revealed, most vividly different to them.…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 342

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EQUINOX ‘You are nearer the world than I, and its weak vanity has stained you. The eye looks at the world, and the world looks at the eye, and though each learns from the other, it is not often an even bargain and exchange. . . .” Then, as the heart-worm ceased to speak, the other two, the eye-worm and the mouth-worm, drew closer to where during all his talking they had been magnetically moved. And all those years which they had passed unconsciously as the lips or the eyes of a woman became suddenly revealed, most vividly different to them.…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 195

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

ROSA IGNOTA As food for thy body—thy body !—how shall I come to thee Who am at last awakened? Oh, my Rose, My Rose of my lost World, O Rose! Rose! Rose ! Pity me for that now I may not love thee, Pity me for the unquenchable desire, Never to be gratified, I bear toward thee! Pity me for my youth, the scattered dreams That are fallen from the shattered casket of my soul. Yet will I ravish thee even now, my queen ; I will fasten my fangs in thy breast, and drink thy blood, Thy leprous blood, to make me mad with hate, And frenzied with unsatisfied…

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