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1913 · PDF PAGE 10

The Rosicrucian Scandal

…ods of magic work y- Thirdly, because they were tired of my incessant demands, Fourthly, becauseI refused to expel Dr. Berridge from the Order. Scounio, KC, WI Dr, Berridge? Martens. That girls who came to him for examination in the Knowledge Lectures were subjected to insult Sconvi0, KC. te this charge? Maries. Sconrio, KC. W any other charge? complaints were made aga 0, K.C. What was it? Maritexs, ‘That he was disseminating objectionable literature, Scorrio, KC. What? Marien’, ‘The works of ‘Thomas Lake Harris, SconPI0, K.C. What is objected …

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1961 · PDF PAGE 194

Liber Aleph

…by Virtue of the Contradiction that is contained in itself. Behold, therefore, in this method thou shalt come presently to Ideas of this Order, that include in themselves their own Contradiction, and have no Antithesis. Here then is thy Lever of Antinomy broken in thine Hand; yet, being in true Balance, thou mayst soar, passionate and eager, from Heaven to Heaven, by the Expansion of thine Idea, and its Exaltation, of Concentration as thou understandest by thy Studies in The Book of the Law, the Word thereof concerning Our Lady Nuith and Hadith…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 281

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…l as the cutting of a willow wand, all fled by his sense in arrow-flight; yet he remembered them as real incidents, and recognised their order in his existence. This phenomenon is one of the most striking exhibitions of the state in which the higher hasheesh exaltation really exists. It is a partial sundering, for the time, of those ties which unite soul and body. That spirit should ever lose the traces of a single impression is impossible. In the morning he awoke at the usual time; but, his temperament being perhaps more sensitive than mine, t…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 281

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…l as the cutting of a willow wand, all fled by his sense in arrow-flight; yet he remembered them as real incidents, and recognised their order in his existence. This phenomenon is one of the most striking exhibitions of the state in which the higher hasheesh exaltation really exists. It is a partial sundering, for the time, of those ties which unite soul and body. That spirit should ever lose the traces of a single impression is impossible. In the morning he awoke at the usual time; but, his temperament being perhaps more sensitive than mine, t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 331

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…nce and love. Thus, to Nimrod, the man of savage ‘right,’ the Bible opposed Abraham, the man of duty, who goes voluntarily into exile in order to seek liberty and strife in a strange country, which he seizes by virtue of his Zdea. He has a sterile wife, his thought, and a fertile slave, his force ; but when force has produced its fruit, thought becomes fertile; and the son of intelligence drives into exile the child of force. The man of intelligence is submitted to rude tests; he must confirm his conquests by sacrifices. God orders him to immol…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 331

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…nce and love. Thus, to Nimrod, the man of savage ‘right,’ the Bible opposed Abraham, the man of duty, who goes voluntarily into exile in order to seek liberty and strife in a strange country, which he seizes by virtue of his Zdea. He has a sterile wife, his thought, and a fertile slave, his force ; but when force has produced its fruit, thought becomes fertile; and the son of intelligence drives into exile the child of force. The man of intelligence is submitted to rude tests; he must confirm his conquests by sacrifices. God orders him to immol…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 205

The Star in the West

…nswer the question “ What can I know ? " unless in the first place there is a clear understanding of what is meant by knowledge , and in order to an swer this question , “ we must have recourse to that investigation of mental phenomena , the results of which are embodied in the science of psychology ." But the true crux of all philosophic arguments lies , as we hope shortly to show , in a still deeper problem than this , namely : “ What is the 'I' which causes us to know ? ” For surely it is but common - sense to first inquire of the engineer h…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 352

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…an made thongs, which he used for the harness of his primitive plough. Seal oil was also thought to possess medicinal virtues of no mean order, and, until quite recently, a course of oal-roin was a favourite, if not a never-failing, specific for all chest diseases. Furthermore, it is asserted by Martin (circa 1695) that seal liver, pulverised and taken with aqua vita, or red wine, is a good prescription for diarrhcetic disorders. Seal oil was used for lighting purposes in the monasteries, as the skins were for clothing, and from the pages of Ad…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 352

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…an made thongs, which he used for the harness of his primitive plough. Seal oil was also thought to possess medicinal virtues of no mean order, and, until quite recently, a course of oal-roin was a favourite, if not a never-failing, specific for all chest diseases. Furthermore, it is asserted by Martin (circa 1695) that seal liver, pulverised and taken with aqua vita, or red wine, is a good prescription for diarrhcetic disorders. Seal oil was used for lighting purposes in the monasteries, as the skins were for clothing, and from the pages of Ad…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 16

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… uprightness and integrity. But I warn him in public, as I have (vainly) warned him in private, that by retaining the cipher MSS. of the Order, and preserving silence on the subject, he makes himself an accomplice in, or at least an accessory to, the frauds of his colleague. And Task him in public, as I have (vainly) asked him in private, to deposit the MSS. with the Trustees of the British Museum with an account of how they came into his possession; or if they are no longer in his possession, to state publicly how he first obtained them, and w…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 16

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… uprightness and integrity. But I warn him in public, as I have (vainly) warned him in private, that by retaining the cipher MSS. of the Order, and preserving silence on the subject, he makes himself an accomplice in, or at least an accessory to, the frauds of his colleague. And Task him in public, as I have (vainly) asked him in private, to deposit the MSS. with the Trustees of the British Museum with an account of how they came into his possession; or if they are no longer in his possession, to state publicly how he first obtained them, and w…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 50

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…into the Abyss, to emerge naked, a babe—the Babe of the Abyss “Explore the River of the Soul," said Ananda Metteya, “ whence and in what order you have come” For three days—the longest period allowed by the Buddhist law—he remained in the Choung, meditating on this matter; but nothing seems to have come of it. He set his teeth and settled down doggedly to this consideration of the eternal why. Here is a being in Rangoon Why? Because he wanted to see Bhikku A. Μ. Why? Because . . . and so on to the half-forgotten past, dark seas that phosphoresc…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 50

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…into the Abyss, to emerge naked, a babe—the Babe of the Abyss “Explore the River of the Soul," said Ananda Metteya, “ whence and in what order you have come” For three days—the longest period allowed by the Buddhist law—he remained in the Choung, meditating on this matter; but nothing seems to have come of it. He set his teeth and settled down doggedly to this consideration of the eternal why. Here is a being in Rangoon Why? Because he wanted to see Bhikku A. Μ. Why? Because . . . and so on to the half-forgotten past, dark seas that phosphoresc…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 527

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…nd it is not permitted to them to make head against the empire of God, and by stupid and useless mani- festations to disturb the eternal order of Nature. The diabolical signatures and characters, which are produced without the knowledge of the medium, are evidently not proofs of a tacit or formal pact between these degenerates and intelligences of the abyss. These signs have served from the beginning to express astral vertigo, and remain in a state of mirage in the reflections of the divulged light. Nature also has its recollections, and sends …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 557

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…Freemasons; Wronski dreams of his bands of mystics, and there is nothing true and serious beneath all that but the necessary struggle of order and disorder, of the instincts and of thought; the result of that struggle is balance in progress, and the devil always con- tributes, despite himself, to the glory of St. Michael. Physical love is the most perverse of all fatal passions. It is the anarchist of anarchists; it knows neither law, duty, truth nor justice. It would make the maiden walk over the corpses of her parents. It is an irrepressible …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 527

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…nd it is not permitted to them to make head against the empire of God, and by stupid and useless mani- festations to disturb the eternal order of Nature. The diabolical signatures and characters, which are produced without the knowledge of the medium, are evidently not proofs of a tacit or formal pact between these degenerates and intelligences of the abyss. These signs have served from the beginning to express astral vertigo, and remain in a state of mirage in the reflections of the divulged light. Nature also has its recollections, and sends …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 557

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…Freemasons; Wronski dreams of his bands of mystics, and there is nothing true and serious beneath all that but the necessary struggle of order and disorder, of the instincts and of thought; the result of that struggle is balance in progress, and the devil always con- tributes, despite himself, to the glory of St. Michael. Physical love is the most perverse of all fatal passions. It is the anarchist of anarchists; it knows neither law, duty, truth nor justice. It would make the maiden walk over the corpses of her parents. It is an irrepressible …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 371

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… had taken of me. “ Too long,” said he, when it was completed. ‘“ You have grown out of shape. We shall have to cut out and plane you in order that you should exactly fit my mighty box. However, as you pretend to have seen in it things which a cover cannot possibly see, I must give myself a day to think it over.” I felt instantly relieved, and began to hope again. “Perhaps I shall not be cut out and planed after all,” thought I; and smiled humorously upon the man. Fool! I felt almost certain that a crueller punishment could not be conceived by …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 371

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… had taken of me. “ Too long,” said he, when it was completed. ‘“ You have grown out of shape. We shall have to cut out and plane you in order that you should exactly fit my mighty box. However, as you pretend to have seen in it things which a cover cannot possibly see, I must give myself a day to think it over.” I felt instantly relieved, and began to hope again. “Perhaps I shall not be cut out and planed after all,” thought I; and smiled humorously upon the man. Fool! I felt almost certain that a crueller punishment could not be conceived by …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 222

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…d golden were his wide-flashing wings! Terrible in his might, he bowed low before the Great White Spirit, and proceeded to carry out the order. For five and twenty years he toiled at the so easy task; then, flinging down his weapons in a rage, he returned before the face of his Master and, trembling with passion, cast him- self down in wrath and despair. “Pah!” said the Great White Spirit with a smile; “I might have known better than to employ a low material creature like yourself. Send Graphiel to Me!” The angry Bartzabel, foaming with horrid …

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