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1944 · PDF PAGE 225

The Book of Thoth

…eon III; but of the complete spiritual upheaval which ac‐ companies the Proclamation of a new Magical Formula he had no glimpse; no, not though he had Maistre Alcofribas Nasier to guide him!1 Dr. Gérard Encausse, “Papus”, who followed Eliphaz Levi, felt himself even more closely bound by his Oath of Secrecy, so that his dealings with the Tarot are worthless; and that al‐

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1906 · PDF PAGE 277

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ve it tobe innocuous? With the reported murder of Jesus of Naza- rethI am not concerned; but Vespasian’s ‘*Ut puto Deus fio” is commonly thought to have been meant as a jest. Our Romanticist’s unique and magnificent dramatisation of the war between the sceptic or lover of truth, and the religious man or lover of life, may be well quoted against me. Though Vespasian did jest, though Christ’s ‘‘It is finished” were subjectively but the cry of his physical weakness, like Burton's ‘‘ I am a dead man,” it is no less true that millions have regarded …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 191

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…escription of the “Caduceus” (see p. 269) the Air Symbol vibrating between them. [Also », ny, is a Mercurial sign, and Thoth is Mercury, though on a Higher Plane. The Hermit, with his Lamp and Wand, is Hermes, who guides the souls of the dead, in the Greek Ritual of o = o.—P.] + The Name Dw, the Spirit of God, second Deity-Name in the Law, the Trigrammaton, or Threefold Name, by which the Universe came forth. 181

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1909 · PDF PAGE 191

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…escription of the “Caduceus” (see p. 269) the Air Symbol vibrating between them. [Also », ny, is a Mercurial sign, and Thoth is Mercury, though on a Higher Plane. The Hermit, with his Lamp and Wand, is Hermes, who guides the souls of the dead, in the Greek Ritual of o = o.—P.] + The Name Dw, the Spirit of God, second Deity-Name in the Law, the Trigrammaton, or Threefold Name, by which the Universe came forth. 181

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1910 · PDF PAGE 110

The Scented Garden

…er these rules the game is excel- lent. With a boy it would however be incomparably more difficult, if not impossible. The text suggests though that the boy is fixed, while the man swings. This should be easier of execution.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 76

Book 4 (Part I)

…here is a real sequence in these classes of breaks. As control improves, the percentage of primaries and secondaries will diminish, even though the total number of breaks in a meditation remain stationary. By the time that you are meditating two or three hours-a day, and filling up most of the rest of the day with other practices de- signed to assist, when nearly every time something or other happens,and there is constantly a feeling of being “ on the brink of something pretty big,” one may expect to proceed to the next state—Dhyana.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 37

Mortadello

…ELE. I weigh His words : I comprehend more than I care to say. [To ORLANDO.] Be of good cheer, in sooth ; there’s much in what they say. Though love runs rarely smooth, yet love will find a way. [To MONICA.] And so farewell. MONICA. Farewell ! . . . One word. Would it accord

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1912 · PDF PAGE 46

Mortadello

… there no risk of storm before the night whose fall Is certain as the death that must envelop all ? GABRIELE. My lord, be of good cheer. Though dusk devour us soon. Remember we have made alliance with the moon THE DOGE. I am satisfied. We float, a serviceable bark. For you remains reward, the Lion of St. Mark. [He throws the chain and symbols over the shoulders of GABRIELE, who kneels and kisses his hand Now, are the ten waiting ? GABRIELE. So I believe, my Lord. THE DOGE. Call them ! [GABRIELE goes to the throne, and, pressing a spring, admits…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 47

In Residence

BALLADE OF LAWN TENNIS 35 (If I do bore him, I’m not in a disgusting music hall set!) Though he chatter and chortle and chuckle, at last to the point he will get, Which as I have previously observed is to make it perfectly plain to the initiated, whether by force of language or mere loudness of call, That this truth is a type of true triumph beyond the bad odds of a bet, In fact I won’t take your money (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 …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 25

Ambergris

…? Through the dimmed glory of my clouded eye She catches one sharp glint of love for her ; She will not leave me ever till I die :— Nay, though I die ! Beyond the distant gloom Heaven springs, a fountain, out of Change’s womb ! Time would all men within the grave inter :— For Time himself shall no god find a tomb ?

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1913 · PDF PAGE 133

Book 4 (Part II)

…s not some coherence with the general plan of the mind. All Pantacles will contain the ultimate conceptions of the circle and the cross, though some will prefer to replace the cross by a point, or by a Tau, or by a triangle. The Vesica Piscis is sometimes used instead of the circle, or the circle may be glyphed as a serpent. Time and space and the idea of causality are sometimes represented; so also are the three stages in the history of philosophy, in which the three objects of study were successively Nature, God, and Man. The duality of consc…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 164

Little Poems in Prose

are poor people who are able to send him nothing. That gave me confidence; after all, I am a beautiful woman, though not too young. I said to him, ‘Come and see me; come and see me often, and do not worry yourself on my ac- count, I have no need of money.’ But you must understand that I made clear to him in a hun- dred different ways. I did not say it to him crudely; I was so afraid of shaming him; I should like him to come and see me with his case of instruments and his apron; even with a little blood on them.” She said that frankly and sensib…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 124

John St. John

…22 THE EQUINOX bered at all. I have gone to bed, and shall take things in hand seriously, ifit kills me. Since 9.17 have done Pranayama, though allowing myself some irregularities in the way of occasional omission 01 a Kambhakham. ’Tis very hard to stick to it. I find myself, at the end of above sentence, automatically crawling into bed. No, John! Have been trying to extract some sense from that extraordinary treatise on mysticism, “ Konx Om Pax." Another failure, but an excusable one. I will now beseech Adonai as best I may to give me back my l…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 68

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…e Crossways. [: It is enough. Let me fix mine eye upon the door. He. It is well. Then I obeyed him, and in that obedience forgot him. For though mine eye wandered often, and although once the planks beneath me threatened to give way and plunge me once more into the stream, yet I strove as a man may. Then, mine eye being accustomed to the gloom, I beheld by my side, yet a little above me, the dark man my brother. 60

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1911 · PDF PAGE 68

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…e Crossways. [: It is enough. Let me fix mine eye upon the door. He. It is well. Then I obeyed him, and in that obedience forgot him. For though mine eye wandered often, and although once the planks beneath me threatened to give way and plunge me once more into the stream, yet I strove as a man may. Then, mine eye being accustomed to the gloom, I beheld by my side, yet a little above me, the dark man my brother. 60

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1912 · PDF PAGE 61

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…r place. P. was entirely sceptical of these results at the time.) A with Soror F. Left Shanghai. Ill. No regular A but much concentrated thought. Decided to reject results of 20th and zrst, and go on as if they had never happened. Fair to good. Asked A for sufficient health on voyage to perform invocations properly. (PS. This was granted.) . At Kobe. A fair only; though I invoked all these powers of mine. Yet after, by a strong effort of will, I banished my sore throat and my surroundings, and went up in my Body of Light. Reached a room in which…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 61

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…r place. P. was entirely sceptical of these results at the time.) A with Soror F. Left Shanghai. Ill. No regular A but much concentrated thought. Decided to reject results of 20th and zrst, and go on as if they had never happened. Fair to good. Asked A for sufficient health on voyage to perform invocations properly. (PS. This was granted.) . At Kobe. A fair only; though I invoked all these powers of mine. Yet after, by a strong effort of will, I banished my sore throat and my surroundings, and went up in my Body of Light. Reached a room in which…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 131

Book 4 (Part II)

…ls of whom that chalk is the remains? This then is a very great difficulty for the Magician. He cannot possibly have all experience, and though he may console himself philo- sophically with the reflection that the Universe is conterminous with such experience as he has, he will find it grow at such a pace during the'early years of his life that he may almost be tempted to believe in the possibility of experiences beyond his own, and from a practical standpoint he will seem to be confronted with so many avenues of knowledge that he will be bewil…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 140

The Scented Garden

…h : O fools ! ye miss love’s podex-joy, and missing love all good ye miss. Come, O Habib, thy podex close on El Qahar’s enamoured tool ! Though we mistake the world and God, at least is no mistake in this. 1. After this ode the “ secret key-number ” breaks down. It is said that there are five odes missing. But no doubt need therefore be cast upon the genuineness of the following odes. Some weight is to be given to the contention that there can be only 42 odes, neither more nor less, for mystical reasons. Their Persian dress I cannot learn ; but…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 65

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…and blessing & worship to the prophet of the lovely Star! [VER. 68.—Harden, not Harder, as the MS. indicates. The memory of DCLXV1 says, though with diffidence, that the former ts correct.) 1. Abrahadabra; the reward of Ra Hoor Khut. 2. There is division hither homeward; there is a word not known. Spelling is defunct; all is not aught. Beware! Hold! Raise the spell of Ra-Hoor-Khuit! 3. Now let it be first understood that Iam a god of War and of Vengeance. I shall deal hardly with them. . Choose ye an island! Fortify it! Dung it about with engin…

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