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1944 · PDF PAGE 155

The Book of Thoth

… He feels no responsibility to others, and although his abilities are so immense, he cannot be relied upon to work in harness. In the Yî King, the airy part of Water is represented by the 61st hexagram, Kung Fû. This is one of the most important figures in the Yî: it “moves even pigs and fish, and leads to great good fortune”. Its dignities and correspondences are manifold and great; for it is also a “big Li”, the trigram of Sol formed by doubling the lines. By shape it suggests a boat, but also the geomantic figure of Carcer, Saturn in Caprico…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 66

The Star in the West

… Love , of the breeze that is born , Love , with the breeze that takes wing . Love that is lighter than scorn , Love that is strong as a king , Love , through the gate that is horn , Sing ! The anger of Zeus is aroused . Aphrodite bids Charicles flee , but his passion is too great , he defies the powers . ( They are only gods ; would he have succeeded had they been Grundy ?) The curse of Zeus is reversed : His form did change , and , writhing from her clasp , Fled hissing outward , a more hateful asp Than India breeds to - day . till day Droppe…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 77

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING (The change of air cured his neuralgia in- stantly, Henceforth he may be considered well again. He speaks of himself on the 20th as “ an absurd but athletic ass,” after a night spent wandering about London talking to policemen and night watchmen.) Sept. 21. Did a little Invocation. Inquiring how to invoke A got the instant reply “ Oflml”—and only saw later that this was the same old order as before. Which confirms it: discard methods, rituals, etc. (and their contradictions), but do it Often! 22. D. D. S. visits me…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 151

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE FORTY-EIGHT CALLS OR KEYS [Elevate cup.] In the Name of RAAGIOSEL, great King of the West, Spirits of Water, adore your Creatori In the name of Elohim Tzabaoth, I declare that the Spirits of Water have been duly invoked, The Knock. 1—333—1—333. THE FOURTH KEY OTAHIL elasadi babaje, 00 dorepaha gohol: gi-cahisaje auauago coremepe þeda, dasonuf vi-vau-di-vau? Casaremi oeli(/שמש₪?? sobame agi coremepo carep—el : casaremeji caro— o-dazodi cahisa od vaugeji; dasata ca—pi—mali cahisa ca-pi- ma-on: od elonusahinu cahisa ta el—o [tt/aa. Torezodu no…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 162

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… the same your God, the true worshipper 01 the Highest The Angle 01 Δ of V, in the tablet 01 V The Lord 01 the Waves and the Waters, the King of the Hosts of the Sea, THE THIRTEENTH KEY ΝΑΡΕΑΙ Babajehe das berinu (?שע0030113 larinuji vonupehe doalime: conisa olalogi oresaha das cahisa 316131 Micama isaro Mada od Lonu-sahi-toxa, das ivaumeda aai Jirosabe, Zodacare od Zodameranu. Odo cicale Qaal Zodoreje, lape zodiredo Noco Mada, hoathahe IAIDA. THE THIRTEENTH KEY O YE Swords of the South, which have 42 eyes to stir up the wrath 01 Sin: making me…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 77

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING (The change of air cured his neuralgia in- stantly, Henceforth he may be considered well again. He speaks of himself on the 20th as “ an absurd but athletic ass,” after a night spent wandering about London talking to policemen and night watchmen.) Sept. 21. Did a little Invocation. Inquiring how to invoke A got the instant reply “ Oflml”—and only saw later that this was the same old order as before. Which confirms it: discard methods, rituals, etc. (and their contradictions), but do it Often! 22. D. D. S. visits me…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 151

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE FORTY-EIGHT CALLS OR KEYS [Elevate cup.] In the Name of RAAGIOSEL, great King of the West, Spirits of Water, adore your Creatori In the name of Elohim Tzabaoth, I declare that the Spirits of Water have been duly invoked, The Knock. 1—333—1—333. THE FOURTH KEY OTAHIL elasadi babaje, 00 dorepaha gohol: gi-cahisaje auauago coremepe þeda, dasonuf vi-vau-di-vau? Casaremi oeli(/שמש₪?? sobame agi coremepo carep—el : casaremeji caro— o-dazodi cahisa od vaugeji; dasata ca—pi—mali cahisa ca-pi- ma-on: od elonusahinu cahisa ta el—o [tt/aa. Torezodu no…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 162

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… the same your God, the true worshipper 01 the Highest The Angle 01 Δ of V, in the tablet 01 V The Lord 01 the Waves and the Waters, the King of the Hosts of the Sea, THE THIRTEENTH KEY ΝΑΡΕΑΙ Babajehe das berinu (?שע0030113 larinuji vonupehe doalime: conisa olalogi oresaha das cahisa 316131 Micama isaro Mada od Lonu-sahi-toxa, das ivaumeda aai Jirosabe, Zodacare od Zodameranu. Odo cicale Qaal Zodoreje, lape zodiredo Noco Mada, hoathahe IAIDA. THE THIRTEENTH KEY O YE Swords of the South, which have 42 eyes to stir up the wrath 01 Sin: making me…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 264

Magick Without Tears

…what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You are only one of a number of people who are interested in my translation of The Tao Teh King. Naturally, I want to publish it; but so many other things come first. So I am sending you the Introduction, in the hope that it will stimulate that interest to the point of getting some other publisher to give it sea-room. I bound myself to devote my life to Magick at Easter, 1898, (era vulgari) and received my first initiation on November 18 of that year. My friend and climbing companion, Oscar Eckenste…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 18

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…m of maternal earth. The dawn has broken; yet the impure fierce fire Kindles the grievous furnace of desire Still for the harpy brood of king and priest, Slave, harlot, coward, that make human feast Before the desecrated god, in hells Of darkness, where the mitred vampire dwells, Where still death reigns, and God and priests are fed, Man’s blood for wine, man’s flesh for meat and bread, The lands of murder, of the obscene things That snarl at freedom, broken by her wings, That prop the abomination, cringe and smile, Caressing the dead fetich, t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 100

Book 4 (Part II)

…lah. His resolution of what we take to be the bond of slavery into very love, the embroidered neckband of honour bestowed upon us by the King himself, is one of the most sublime passages in this class of literature. Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, Had a wife and couldn't keep her. He put her in a peanut shell; Then he kept her very well. This early authentic text of the Hinayana school of Buddhism is much esteemed even to-day by the more cultured and devoted followers of that school. The pumpkin is of course the symbol of resurrection, as is famil…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 208

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…d destiny, Is not for thee, nor ever shall be thine ! The lust of joy incarnate! Incarnate youth Of the world! Alack! No longer art thou King Of the Underworld; no more thy road is peace, For not by longing nor by wonderment Shalt thou gain the drooping west, the starless place, The sun-shot centre of the folden stars, The palace of the cloudy Underworld. Oh! in the key of blue my lyre is tuned To the threefold mystery. O wandering stars! O lonely lights! The mysteries of time Fade and grow pale before the eternal cry! Light! Light! The doom of…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 208

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…d destiny, Is not for thee, nor ever shall be thine ! The lust of joy incarnate! Incarnate youth Of the world! Alack! No longer art thou King Of the Underworld; no more thy road is peace, For not by longing nor by wonderment Shalt thou gain the drooping west, the starless place, The sun-shot centre of the folden stars, The palace of the cloudy Underworld. Oh! in the key of blue my lyre is tuned To the threefold mystery. O wandering stars! O lonely lights! The mysteries of time Fade and grow pale before the eternal cry! Light! Light! The doom of…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 115

Liber Aleph

THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 103 Gy De aliquibus Modis Oraculi Petendi (Of some Modes of Seeking an Oracle) Y Son, in all Judgment and Decision is great Deli- cacy, but most in these Matters of the Will. For thou art Advocate as well as Judge, and unless thou have well organized thy Mind thou art Bondslave of Prejudice. For this Cause it is adjuvant to thy Wisdom to call Witnesses that are not of thine own Nature, and to ask Oracles whose Interpretation is bound by fixed rule. This is the Use of the Book TAROT, of the Divination by Earth, or by …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 112

Book 4 (Part II)

… to replace them by ideals which are only saved from destruction, at the very moment of their birth, by their vagueness. The Will of the King was at least ascertainable at any moment; nobody has yet devised a means for ascertaining the will of the people. All conscious willed action is impeded; the march of events is now nothing but inertia. Let the Magician consider these matters before he takes the Sword in his hand. Let him understand that the Ruach, this loose combina- tion of 6 Sephiroth, only bound together by their attachment to the huma…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 164

The Book of Thoth

… becomes incoherent, and all her gifts tend to combine to form a species of low cunning whose object is unworthy of the means. In the Yî King, the earthy part of Air is represented by the i8th hexagram, Ku. This means “troubles”; it is, for all practical and material matters. the most unhappy symbol in the book. All the fine qualities of Air are weighed down, suppressed, suffocated.

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1944 · PDF PAGE 235

The Book of Thoth

…ic figure Popu‐ lus. These disks may be represented as the flowers or fruits of a great tree, its solid roots in fertile land. In the Yî King, Sol in Virgo is represented by the 33rd Hexagram, Thun, “Big Air”. It means “retiring”; and the commentary indicates how best to make use of that manoeuvre. This is congruous enough with the essence of Virgo, the secret withdrawing of Energy into the

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1912 · PDF PAGE 81

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Liber VII, and Liber CCXX. It must be clearly under- stood that the Bhagavad-Gita, Anna Kingsford, St, John, and all other writers with the possible exception of Lao Tze, describe nothing higher than Atmadarshanai For the first time in the known history of the world there had arisen the combination of the utmost attainmentwith the intelligence and literary ability to make it comparatively articulate. It is no wonder, then, that we hail Fra. P. as the greatest of all Teachers, This entire experience from the Passing…

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…f Moses; the 'F\ Law on Sinai. Cf. Tarot W617 “Mighty acts.” (Plur. of YN «Strength.”) [Ps. cvi. 2] Columnae Nubis pon YAN TY et Ignis A King of Edom man 618 na Contentiones 55 7619 Dns 620 Chokmah, Binah, AY) 73°3 APIN Daath; the first descending triad Novissimum The Crown: Kether sn Angel of 3" Dec. my “yD [Vide Ps. xxxi. 20] niby The Doors psy [Temurah of bas] aww 621 Mucro gladii an nnlax By-paths. [Vide no. 1357] MINN [Vide I.R.Q. 234] 622 Blessings rn Profunda Maris. [Samael DY MOD et Uxor Eius] Latitudines ; Rechoboth nar 623 Barietha ; …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 81

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Liber VII, and Liber CCXX. It must be clearly under- stood that the Bhagavad-Gita, Anna Kingsford, St, John, and all other writers with the possible exception of Lao Tze, describe nothing higher than Atmadarshanai For the first time in the known history of the world there had arisen the combination of the utmost attainmentwith the intelligence and literary ability to make it comparatively articulate. It is no wonder, then, that we hail Fra. P. as the greatest of all Teachers, This entire experience from the Passing…

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