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1911 · PDF PAGE 235

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…breath, Supreme and terrible God Who makest the Gods and death Το tremble before thee :— I, Ι adore thee! [He kneels O Hawk of gold with power enwalled, Whose face is like an emerald ; Whose crown is indigo as night ; Smaragdine snakes about thy brow * Romance from 2nd Concerto: Wieniawski. 57

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1912 · PDF PAGE 87

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…eal meaning of Zoroaster’s injunction: “Change not barbarous names of evocation; for they are names divine, having in the sacred rites a power ineffable.”) ”I shall go," continues Fra. P., “and recite ` From Greenland's Icy Mountains’ (the most ridiculous thing that occurred to his mind)—if with faith, Samadhil » . . "No faith, I suppose. Time after time I feel the sickening pangs of dissolution; physi- cally I nearly faint; but I don‘t get over the bar. . . . I am sick, sick] ”I retire in disorder pursued by dog-faced demons of all kinds. “Onc…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 87

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…eal meaning of Zoroaster’s injunction: “Change not barbarous names of evocation; for they are names divine, having in the sacred rites a power ineffable.”) ”I shall go," continues Fra. P., “and recite ` From Greenland's Icy Mountains’ (the most ridiculous thing that occurred to his mind)—if with faith, Samadhil » . . "No faith, I suppose. Time after time I feel the sickening pangs of dissolution; physi- cally I nearly faint; but I don‘t get over the bar. . . . I am sick, sick] ”I retire in disorder pursued by dog-faced demons of all kinds. “Onc…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 75

Mortadello

…ame, and swells our tide. Really, their hold upon the State slips every hour. Keep but the hounds at bay—— MONICA. Wait, wait—the key to power. Are we safe now ? ORLANDO. I hope so. MONICA. Then come hither and take Your right, most masterful of men. ORLANDO. I thirst to slake My being’s torment at your breast. MONICA. If earth be all, I have all heaven in the rest to be your thrall. If earth be naught, what heaven may give who knows or cares ? I only ask an hour to live—in these blue airs ! ORLANDO. Ah, give me all ! MONICA. I am your slave. T…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 14

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE EQUINOX the profane, for it gives immense power 101 either good or evil to its possessors, It is recorded in symbol, parable and allegory, requiring a Key for its interpretation The symbols of Freemasonry were originally derived from the more ancient mysteries, as all who have travelled the burning sands know. The ritual and ceremonies, signs and passwords have been preserved with great fidelity; but the Real Key has been long lost to the crowds who have been initiated, advanced and raised in Masonry. The KEY to this knowledge can, however, …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 14

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE EQUINOX the profane, for it gives immense power 101 either good or evil to its possessors, It is recorded in symbol, parable and allegory, requiring a Key for its interpretation The symbols of Freemasonry were originally derived from the more ancient mysteries, as all who have travelled the burning sands know. The ritual and ceremonies, signs and passwords have been preserved with great fidelity; but the Real Key has been long lost to the crowds who have been initiated, advanced and raised in Masonry. The KEY to this knowledge can, however, …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 8

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX the profane, for it gives immense power for either good or evil to its possessors. It is recorded in symbol, parable and allegory, requiring a Key for its interpretation. The symbols of Freemasonry were originally derived from the more ancient mysteries, as all who have travelled the burning sands know. The ritual and ceremonies, signs and passwords have been preserved with great fidelity; but the Real Key has been long lost to the crowds who have been initiated, advanced and raised in Masonry. The KEY to this knowledge can, however…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 8

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX the profane, for it gives immense power for either good or evil to its possessors. It is recorded in symbol, parable and allegory, requiring a Key for its interpretation. The symbols of Freemasonry were originally derived from the more ancient mysteries, as all who have travelled the burning sands know. The ritual and ceremonies, signs and passwords have been preserved with great fidelity; but the Real Key has been long lost to the crowds who have been initiated, advanced and raised in Masonry. The KEY to this knowledge can, however…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 204

The Book of Thoth

… by that of the Sun, who also represents the Six. The whole image is that of the influence of the Sun on Water. His fierce, but balanced power operates that type of putre‐ faction‐he is in the Sign of Scorpio‐which is the basis of all fertility, all life. The lotus stems are grouped in an elaborate dancing movement. From their blossoms water gushes into the Cups, but they are not yet full to overflowing, as they are in the corre‐ sponding card below; the Nine. Pleasure, in the title of this card, must be understood in its highest sense: it impl…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 51

Rodin in Rime

LA MAIN DE DIEU HE Hand. From mystery that is cloud control The mystery that is emptiness of air Purpose and power. What blossom do they bear? Stability and strength inform—what soul? Turn to me, love! the banks of air are soft. We are so safe; so happy we: Turn to me, love! the skies are blue, Our love can never falter; fate can never close Fleeced with the clouds that hang aloft, Hard on the flower of land and sea. Buds that may blossom into dew. Lift, O rose petals of my rose, Toward me, rest, dream on, we are here, we love. Turn to me, love…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 128

John St. John

… EQUINOX 11.15. Made also considerations concerning the Nature of the 1.5. 126 Path. The upshot is that it does not matter. Acquire full power of Concentration; the rest is only leather and prunella. Don’t worry; work! I shall now make a pantacle to aid the said faculty of concentration. The Voice 01 the Nadi (by the way) is resoundingwell, and the Chittam is a little better under control. Have worked well on the Pantacle, thinking of Adonai. Of course we are now reduced to a “low anthropo- morphic conception ”—but what odds ? Once the Right Th…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 61

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…air was apparently empty. Incidentally, this faculty, which I think is exercised, as a rule, unconsciously, may become an actual magical power. 14. It happened to me on one occasion that a very large number of excited people were looking for me with no friendly intentions; but I had a feeling of lightness, of ghostliness, as if I were a shadow moving soundlessly about the street; and in actual fact none of the people who were looking for me gave the slightest indication that they were aware of my presence. There is a curious parallel to this in…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 19

White Stains

…e found “ shelter for songs that recede.” Still, even here, one is, on the whole, more attracted than repelled ; the author has enormous power, and he never scruples to use it, to drive us half mad with horror, or, as in his earlier most exquisite works, to move us to the noblest thoughts and deeds. True, his debt to contemporary writers is a little obvious

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1912 · PDF PAGE 162

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…rds of the South, which have 42 eyes to stir up the wrath 01 Sin: making men drunken which are empty: Behold the Promise of God, and His Power, which is called amongst ye a bitter sting] Move and Appear! unveil the mysteries of your Creation, for I am the servant of the same your God, the true worshipper of the Highest The Angle 01 A 01 v, in the tablet 01 V. The Prince 01 the Chariot 01 Earth. 120

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1912 · PDF PAGE 162

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…rds of the South, which have 42 eyes to stir up the wrath 01 Sin: making men drunken which are empty: Behold the Promise of God, and His Power, which is called amongst ye a bitter sting] Move and Appear! unveil the mysteries of your Creation, for I am the servant of the same your God, the true worshipper of the Highest The Angle 01 A 01 v, in the tablet 01 V. The Prince 01 the Chariot 01 Earth. 120

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1919 · PDF PAGE 61

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…y be defined as the process by which a man comes to learn that unknown Crown. 3. Though none can communicate either the knowledge or the power to achieve this, which we may call the Great Work, it is yet possible for initiates to guide others. 4. Every man must overcome his own obstacles, expose his own illusions. Yet others may assist him to do both, and they may enable him altogether to avoid many of the false paths, leading no whither, which tempt the weary feet of the uninitiated pilgrim. They can further insure that he is duly tried and te…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 83

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ystal of the Future, and I saw the horror of the End of thee. 11. Further, I destroyed the time Past, and the time to Come—had I not the Power of the Sand-glass? 77

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1928 · PDF PAGE 84

Little Poems in Prose

rounded with all these strange and shining trees whose names I have forgotten; an intoxi- cating, indefinable perfume in the air; a power- ful scent of rose and of musk in the house, and further, behind our little estate, tall masts swinging on the swell; around us, at the end of the room lighted by a rosy light filtered by blinds, decorated with fresh mats and heady flowers, with seats here and there in Portu- guese rococo style of a heavy dark wood, where she would rest herself, so calm, so well at ease, smoking tobacco slightly flavoured wit…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 25

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ands. Six are the mighty seats of living breath, The rest sharp sickles, or the horns of death, Which are, and are not, save in mine own power. Sleep they? hour. I made ye stewards in the primal day, And set your thrones in my celestial way. I gave ye power above the moving time That all your vessels to my crown might climb. From all the corners of your fortress caves Ye might invoke me, and your wise conclaves Should pour the fires of increase, life and birth, Continual dewfall to the thirsty earth. Thus are ye made of Justice and of Truth, Th…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 25

Book 4 (Part I)

…from any state possible to an individual. It is by freeing the mind from external influences,whether casual or emotional, that it obtains power to see somewhat of the truth of things. Let us, however, continue our practice. Let us determine to be masters of our minds. We shall then soon find what conditions are favourable. There will be no need to persuade ourselves at great length that all

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