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1912 · PDF PAGE 171

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…mopylas; So had good Sir Richard Grenville, the tiger of the sea. Horatius had two comrades, and Rome and all its gods. We are worth the three together, if you come to talk of odds! For a day we held up London, and the cursed robber crew, Though they were fifteen hundred, and we were only two. All day we fought the cowards, that dared not break the door. They had soldiers and policemen, all the tools of modern war, With their field—gun and their Maxim and the rifle and the shell ; But they skulked with Winston Churchill, or we'd sent a few to hell…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 171

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…mopylas; So had good Sir Richard Grenville, the tiger of the sea. Horatius had two comrades, and Rome and all its gods. We are worth the three together, if you come to talk of odds! For a day we held up London, and the cursed robber crew, Though they were fifteen hundred, and we were only two. All day we fought the cowards, that dared not break the door. They had soldiers and policemen, all the tools of modern war, With their field—gun and their Maxim and the rifle and the shell ; But they skulked with Winston Churchill, or we'd sent a few to hell…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 224

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… arrow in twain; after that he was silent, for they grew again in sixfold order, so that this latter work was double: but unto the first three he laid not his hand, neither for the first time, nor for the second time, nor for the third time. So to them he added that spiritual flame (for they were one, and ten, and fifty, thrice, and again) and that was the Beast, the Living One that is Lifan. Let us be silent, therefore, my brethren, worshipping the holy sixfold Ox?4 that was our Father in his peace that he had won into, and that so hardly. For…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 155

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…[Make the Cross] In the Names and Letters of the Great Southern Quadrangle, Spirits of Fire, adore your Creator! [Elevate censen] In the three Secret names of God, OIP TEAA PDOCE, that are borne upon the banners of the South, Spirits of Fire, adore your Creator! [Lower and lift censer.] In the Name of EDELPERNA, great King of the South, Spirits of Fire, adore your Creator! In the Name of IHVH TzBAVTh, I declare that the Spirits of Fire have been duly invoked. The Knock. 333—1—333- THE SIXTH KEY GAHE sa-div 6311153 em, micalazoda Pil—zodinu, sob…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 155

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…[Make the Cross] In the Names and Letters of the Great Southern Quadrangle, Spirits of Fire, adore your Creator! [Elevate censen] In the three Secret names of God, OIP TEAA PDOCE, that are borne upon the banners of the South, Spirits of Fire, adore your Creator! [Lower and lift censer.] In the Name of EDELPERNA, great King of the South, Spirits of Fire, adore your Creator! In the Name of IHVH TzBAVTh, I declare that the Spirits of Fire have been duly invoked. The Knock. 333—1—333- THE SIXTH KEY GAHE sa-div 6311153 em, micalazoda Pil—zodinu, sob…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 200

The Book of Thoth

ABUNDANCE THREE OF CUPS This card refers to Binah in the suit of Water. This is the card of Demeter or Perseph‐ one. The Cups are pomegranates: they are filled bountifully to overflowing from a single lotus, arising from the dark calm sea characteristic of Binah. There is here the fulifilment of the Will of Love in abounding joy. It is the spiritual basis of fertility. The card is referred to the influence of Mercury in Cancer; this carries further the above thesis. Mercury is the Will or Word of the All‐Father; here its influence descends upon…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 113

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…rs, the guard clearing away thesefolh. All take their seats, chatting. The Bishop is enthronea’, in full canonicals. He is sugfiported by three acolytes, bearing bel/, book and candle. LAYLAH brought in and [Sound to stake. The Bishop rises at a signalfrom the King, andoegins a long declamation in Latin. The general confusiongradually subsides. URCHIN. Uncle Isaac, take me on thy stout shoulders I want to see the witch burnt. ISAAC. All in good time. The holy Bishop is still cursing, I think. BISHOP [concluding raises his voice to drown the gene…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 113

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…rs, the guard clearing away thesefolh. All take their seats, chatting. The Bishop is enthronea’, in full canonicals. He is sugfiported by three acolytes, bearing bel/, book and candle. LAYLAH brought in and [Sound to stake. The Bishop rises at a signalfrom the King, andoegins a long declamation in Latin. The general confusiongradually subsides. URCHIN. Uncle Isaac, take me on thy stout shoulders I want to see the witch burnt. ISAAC. All in good time. The holy Bishop is still cursing, I think. BISHOP [concluding raises his voice to drown the gene…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 263

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…table emblem. On each side of it should be a pillar or Obelisk, with coun- tercharges in black and white. Below it should be the dais of three steps, in black and white squares. Above it is the super-altar, at whose top is the Stélé of Revealing in reproduction, with four candles on each side of it. Below the stélé is a place for the Book of the Law, with six candles on each side of it. Below this again is The Holy Graal, with roses on each side of it. There is room in front of the Cup for the Paten. On each side be- yond the roses, are two gre…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 18

White Stains

… appeared, the arrest was effected. He was committed to an asylum, for there could be no longer any doubt of his complete insanity ; for three weeks he had been raving with absinthe, and satyriasis. He survived his confinement no long time ; the burning of the asylum with its inmates was one of the most terrible events of the war of 1870. So died one of the most talented Englishmen of his century, a man who for wide knowledge of men and things was truly to be envied, yet one who sold his birthright for a mess of beastlier pottage than ever Esau…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 134

Liber Aleph

…ill declare unto thee, albeit it is a Peril if thou be not fixed in that Truth and in that Beatific Vision whereof I have written in the three Chapters foregoing. And it is this, to create by Artifice a Conflict in thyself, that thou mayst take thy Pleasure in its Resolution. Of this Play is thy sweet Step-mother, my concubine, the Holy and Adulterous Olun, sublimely Mistress; for she invoketh in her Fancy a thousand Obstacles to Love, so that she shuddereth at a Touch, swooneth at a Kiss, and suffereth Death and Hell in the Ekstacy of her Body…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 91

The Sword of Song

…arrow in twain ; after that he was silent, for they grew again in sixfold order, so that this latter work was double: but unto the first three he laid not his hand, neither for the first time, nor for the second time, nor for the third time. So to them he added3 that spiritual flame (for they were one, and ten, and fifty , thrice, and again) and that was the Beas t, the Living One that is Lifan. Let us be silent, therefore, my brethren, worshipping the holy sixfold Ox 4 that was our F ather in his peace that he had won into, and that s o hardly…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 150

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…en; but I arose and said : ‘Queen and our lord, we worship! Let the smoke Of this divinest incense be a smell Sweet to thy nostrils! For three times I cast Its faint dust in the tripod, and three times The smoke of adoration has gone up To greet our gods; for the old gods are dead.” Then there came forth a leper in the hall, In the most holy temple. So amazed All shrank. And he made prophecy and said: ‘The child that shall be born of thee is called Fear.) He shall save a people from their sin 5 For the old gods indeed go down to death, But the …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 53

Book 4 (Part I)

… spiritual results are equally common is a doubtful point. Persons wishing to study them may re- member that the Sahara desert is within three days of London; and no doubt the Sidi Aissawa would be glad to accept pupils. This discussion of the parallel science of mantra-yoga has led us far indeed from the subject of Pranayama. Pranayama is notably useful in quieting the emotions and appetites; and, whether by reason of the mechanical pressure which it asserts, or by the thorough combustion Which it assures in the lungs, it seems to be admirable…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 26

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

… qualities here enumerated. They exist in their own Truth, which is both universal and unique. i. The Name of The Order and those of its three divisions are not disclosed to the profane. Certain swindlers hâve recently stolen the initiais A A.-, in order to profit by its réputation. 230 -

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1919 · PDF PAGE 154

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX Sat., April 8th. During the last three days have gradually been nearing another ‘climax’ which reached, shall I say, its height on Saturday, when I arrived at a state of Illumination which was, as it were ‘added to my previous state.’ I seized a scrap of paper and wrote “Amid all the complications and perplexity there remains, back of all, the Will. The Will to Be. The Will to Be Nothing, which is the only state inconceivable to the mind. The old God willed to be some- thing, and the Universe appeared, The New God wills to be Nothin…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 63

Book 4 (Part II)

…who have desired the unattainable. All possessions, the material and the spiritual alike, are but dust. Love, sorrow, and compassion are three sisters who, if they seem freed from this curse, are only so because of their relation to The Unsatisfied. Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true mystic, can never rest. To him the Magician is but a servant. His wand is of infinite length; it is the creative Mahalingam. The difficulty with such an one is naturally that his wand being very

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1913 · PDF PAGE 70

Book 4 (Part II)

58 The Tendencies are, however, much harder to combat than the three lower Skandhasput together —for the simple reason that they are for the most part below conscious- ness, and must be, as it were, awakened in order to be destroyed, so that the will of the Magician is in a sense trying to do two opposite things at the same time. Consciousness itself is only destroyed by Samadhi. One can now see the logical process which begins in refusing to think of a foot, and ends by destroying the sense of individuality. Of the methods of destroying variou…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 194

Book 4 (Part II)

…egeton of Solomon the King, ^i is. Study of these books will give a thorough grounding in the intel- lectual side of Their system. After three months the Student is examined in these books, and if his knowledge of them is found satisfactory, he may become a Pro- bationer, receiving Liber LXI and the secret holy book. Liber LXV. The principal point of this grade is that the Probationer has a master appointed, whose experience can guide him in his work. He may select any practices that he prefers, but in any case must keep an exact record, so tha…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 110

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… BISHOP. Articulate? TORTURER. I dare hardly say, my lord. BISHOP. The needles. TORTURER. They are white-hot. How many, my lord? BISHOP. Three behind each eyeball should suffice. TORTURER. It is done. There is a sound like “ wa." PHYSICIAN [in trium;/L]. “Aiwa,” my lord Bishop, ”aiwa” without a doubt. It is ”yes" in their heathen tongue. BISHOP. I heard it. We all heard it. Glory to God! Release the prisoner. [LAYLAH is released, Site 2'5 unconscious and/ails [imp.] Sir Clerk, write down that the prisoner made full con- fession and repented of h…

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