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1910 · PDF PAGE 59

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…at I accomplish in this work: And may the Peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep my heart and mind through Christ Jesus our Lord. Let my mind be open unto the Higher: Let my heart be the Centre of Light: Let my body be the Temple of the ROSY CROSS. Ex Deo Nascimur In Jesu Morimur Per Spiritum Sanctum Reviviscimus. We must now digress in order to give some account of the Eastern theories of the Universe and the mind. Their study will clarify our view of Frater P’s progress. The reader is advised to study Chapter VII of Captain J. F.…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 31

The Soul of Osiris

… ; In wells of heaven to quench my thirst, And take God’s hand among the first. I conquered self, I grew at last A prophet chosen of the Lord ; I blew the trumpet’s iron blast That called on Zimri Omri’s sword ; My voice inflamed the fiery steel That was to smite upon Jezreel. And now, I haste from yonder sands, With fervour filled, to say God’s doom To Ahab of the bloody hands, The spoiler of his father’s tomb, The slayer of the vineyard king. God’s judgment, and his fate, I bring. The city gleams afar, I see Samarina’s white walls on high ;

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1902 · PDF PAGE 111

Tannhäuser

… Lying at his feet as dead, I saw The leaping-forth of Law : Division of the North wind and the South, The Hghtning of the armies of the Lord ; East rolled asunder from the rended West ; Height clove the depth : the Voice begotten said : " Divided be thy ways and limited ! " Answered the reflux and the indrawn breath : " Let there be Life, and Death !" " The Earth, she shall be governed by her parts : Division be upon her ! Let her glory From crown to valley, source and spring to mouth, North unto South, Smooth gulf and sea to rugged promontory…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 79

Oracles

THE HERMIT’S HYMN TO SOLITUDE Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammasambuddhasa. Venerable Lord and Best of Friends. We, seeing the cycle in which Maha Brahma is perhaps more a drifting buoy than ourselves, knowing that it is called the walking in delusion, the puppet show of delusion, the writing of delusion, the fetter of delusion, are aware that the way out of the desert is found by going into the desert. Will you, in your lonely lama-serai, accept this hymn from me, who, in the centre of civilization, am perhaps more isolated than you in your c…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 220

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…h card. It will be seen that this is how the meanings have been done; but the advanced student can go beyond this rude working] XXII THE LORD OF VICTORY Six (2/ Wamis Two hands in grip as the last, holding six wands crossed three and three. Flames issue from the point of junction. Above and below are short wands with flames issuing, surmounted respectively by the symbols of LL and 8, representing the Decan. Victory after strife: Love: pleasure gained by labour: carefulness, sociability and avoiding of strife, yet victory therein: also insolence,…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 220

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…h card. It will be seen that this is how the meanings have been done; but the advanced student can go beyond this rude working] XXII THE LORD OF VICTORY Six (2/ Wamis Two hands in grip as the last, holding six wands crossed three and three. Flames issue from the point of junction. Above and below are short wands with flames issuing, surmounted respectively by the symbols of LL and 8, representing the Decan. Victory after strife: Love: pleasure gained by labour: carefulness, sociability and avoiding of strife, yet victory therein: also insolence,…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 77

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ant eyes Starting, and hard-drawn breath! Him lead away Tenderly, as beseems the mercy shown To his repentance by this maiden queen. The Lord is merciful to them that show Mercy, and all such as are pure of heart ; Thy crown, Adulah, wears a double flower Of these fair blossoms wreathed in one device Of perfect love in perfect maidenhood. JARED [recovering himself \. Nay, but my voice must fill the song of joy With gratitude, and meet thanksgiving. Me More than these others it beseems, who love Less dearly for their innocence than I, Pardoned o…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 14

Rosa Mundi

…ts, Excel their utterance vain With one convincing rapture, beat them hollow As an ass’s skin ; wert thou, Apollo, Mere slave to me, not Lord — thy fieriest flight And stateliest shaft of light Thyself thyself surpassing : all were dull, And thou, O rose, sole, sacred, wonderful, Informing all, in all most beautiful, Circle and sphere, perfect in every part, High above hope of Art : Though, be it said ! thou art nowhere now, Save in the secret chamber of my heart. Behind the brass of my anonymous brow. Ay ! let the coward and slave who writes w…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 225

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… repetitions; the whole according to dignity. Binah of( ?וUnhappiness, sorrow, and tears). Herein rule the Great Angels?לא"והand?הימוהas Lords of the Decan. XXIX THE LORD OF REST FROM STRIFE Four of Swords Two White Radiating Angelic Hands, each holding two swords; which four cross in the centre. The rose of five petals with white radiations is reinstated on the point of their intersection Above and below, on the points of two small daggers, are and Δ, representing the Decanate. Rest from sorrow ; yet after and through it. Peace from and after w…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 225

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… repetitions; the whole according to dignity. Binah of( ?וUnhappiness, sorrow, and tears). Herein rule the Great Angels?לא"והand?הימוהas Lords of the Decan. XXIX THE LORD OF REST FROM STRIFE Four of Swords Two White Radiating Angelic Hands, each holding two swords; which four cross in the centre. The rose of five petals with white radiations is reinstated on the point of their intersection Above and below, on the points of two small daggers, are and Δ, representing the Decanate. Rest from sorrow ; yet after and through it. Peace from and after w…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 23

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…h together them that are separate—Glory to Nuit and to Hadit, and to Him that hath given us the Symbol of the Rosy Cross! Glory unto the Lord of the Word Abrahadabra, and Glory unto Him that hath given us the Symbol of the Ankh, and of the Cross within the Circle! 1. Three are the Beasts wherewith thou must plough the Field; the Unicorn, the Horse, and the Ox. And these shalt thou yoke in a triple yoke that is governed by One Whip. 2. Now these Beasts run wildly upon the earth and are not easily obedient to the Man. 3. Nothing shall be said her…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 23

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…h together them that are separate—Glory to Nuit and to Hadit, and to Him that hath given us the Symbol of the Rosy Cross! Glory unto the Lord of the Word Abrahadabra, and Glory unto Him that hath given us the Symbol of the Ankh, and of the Cross within the Circle! 1. Three are the Beasts wherewith thou must plough the Field; the Unicorn, the Horse, and the Ox. And these shalt thou yoke in a triple yoke that is governed by One Whip. 2. Now these Beasts run wildly upon the earth and are not easily obedient to the Man. 3. Nothing shall be said her…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 158

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… laughter, Agatn stlence, S’AFIL. I am done with godhead: let me be a man. CHORUS, Hail, S’afi, king of Egypt and the Nile! Hail, S’afi, Lord of the two lands,? all hail! S’AFI. King of himself and lord of life and death, No lesser throne! [have borne meas a god, Avenging on my nearest blood the sin That brought me shameful to the shameless light. I have not faltered nor turned back at all, Nor moved my purpose for a moment’s thought. Nor will Tnow. The god is gone from me, And as a man I feel the living shame Of my existence, and the biting br…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 173

Moonchild

The same evening witnessed a very different interview. Lord Antony Bowling was being eentertained at dinner by Simon Iff, and their conversation turned upon the favourite subject of the old mystic — the Way of the Tao. "In view of what you have been saying about the necessity of dealing with mediums on their own ground," remarked the host, "let me tell you of a paradox in magick. Do you remember a certain chapter in the Bible which tells one, almost in consecutive verses, firstly to answer a fool according to his folly, and secondly, not so to …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 72

Why Jesus Wept

… I never see your pale pasty face again ! [She spits at him and goes.) SIR PERCY, half rises and falls back. Oh ! oh ! It is impossible. Lord Marquis, you are a good man. Tell me, it is a hideous dream. GLENSTRAE. No dream, my boy. You are the hundredth she has treated after this fashion. But cheer up now. There ! There ! Women are all the same. Eh, Maud ? LADY GLENSTRAE. Who calls ? What do you want ? Leave me alone ! GLENSTRAE. Ah, nothing ! Nothing, my dear.

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1904 · PDF PAGE 87

Why Jesus Wept

… dear, of the wonderful workings of the Holy Ghost, don’t you think so, my dear ? and I hear they’re to be received into fellowship next Lord’s Day. II AGÉD SISTER, do. The young people are interested in one anotherI, are they not ? I AGÉD SISTER, do. Yes ! it’s all very dear and blesséd. But hush ! how beauti- fully Mr. Worcester is expounding about Barabbas ! MR. G. K. CHESTERTON, do. This scene is all description and no drama, and ought to satisfy Mr. Bernard Shaw’s idea of a dramatic scene. (The beau- tiful woman gets up and goes. The poet …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 27

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

LI BER TZADDI VEL HAMVS HERMETICVS SVB FIGVRA XC ο. In the name οἷthe Lord of Initiation, Amen. x. I fly and I alight as an hawk : of mother-of-emerald are my mighty-sweeping wings. 2. I swoop down upon the black earth ; and it gladdens into green at my coming. 3. Children of Earth ! rejoice l rejoice exceedingly ; for your salvation is at hand. 4. The end of sorrow is come; I will ravish you away into mine unutterablejoy. 5. I will kiss you, and bring you to the bridal: I will spread a feast before you in the house of happiness. 6. I am not com…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 27

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

LI BER TZADDI VEL HAMVS HERMETICVS SVB FIGVRA XC ο. In the name οἷthe Lord of Initiation, Amen. x. I fly and I alight as an hawk : of mother-of-emerald are my mighty-sweeping wings. 2. I swoop down upon the black earth ; and it gladdens into green at my coming. 3. Children of Earth ! rejoice l rejoice exceedingly ; for your salvation is at hand. 4. The end of sorrow is come; I will ravish you away into mine unutterablejoy. 5. I will kiss you, and bring you to the bridal: I will spread a feast before you in the house of happiness. 6. I am not com…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 207

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… rules a quadrant of the heavens around Kether. v of v Princess and Empress of the Nymphs or Undines Throne of the Ace of Cups. XIII THE LORD OF THE WINDS AND THE BREEZES: THE KING OF THE SPIRITS OF AIR Knight qfSwords A WINGED Warrior with crowned Winged Helmet, mounted upon a brown steed. His general equipment is 165

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1912 · PDF PAGE 207

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… rules a quadrant of the heavens around Kether. v of v Princess and Empress of the Nymphs or Undines Throne of the Ace of Cups. XIII THE LORD OF THE WINDS AND THE BREEZES: THE KING OF THE SPIRITS OF AIR Knight qfSwords A WINGED Warrior with crowned Winged Helmet, mounted upon a brown steed. His general equipment is 165

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