1913 · PDF PAGE 62
Book 4 (Part II)
…he flowering of the Magical Understanding. The Wand must be made to grow in length as well as in strength ; it need not do so of its own nature.
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The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)
…c forces is then to destroy or create forms; to produce to all appearance, or to destroy bodies; it is to exercise the almighty power of Nature. Our plastic medium is a magnet which attracts or repels the astral light under the pressure of the will. It is a luminous body which reproduces with the greatest ease forms corresponding to ideas. It is the mirror of the imagination. This body is nourished by astral light just as the organic body is nourished by the products of the earth. During slumber, it absorbs the astral light by immersion, and du…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 410
The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)
…c forces is then to destroy or create forms; to produce to all appearance, or to destroy bodies; it is to exercise the almighty power of Nature. Our plastic medium is a magnet which attracts or repels the astral light under the pressure of the will. It is a luminous body which reproduces with the greatest ease forms corresponding to ideas. It is the mirror of the imagination. This body is nourished by astral light just as the organic body is nourished by the products of the earth. During slumber, it absorbs the astral light by immersion, and du…
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1910 · PDF PAGE 37
The World’s Tragedy
…me, my dear friend ? Beer ? Well, perhaps a little beer — for he has sha- res in a brewery. You have already seen how this awful fear of nature and of God is twisted into an engine of oppression and tor- ture against any one who declines to grovel and cringe before their filthy fetish. It is obvious that cowardice is the cause of cruelty : the brave man strikes a strenuous blow, and all is over ; the coward brought to bay snarls and strikes in desperation, and if by chance the blow goes home, he jumps on and muti- lates and insults his victim. …
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1909 · PDF PAGE 129
John St. John
…d ! This is my real bed-rock objection to the Eastern systems. They decry all manly virtue as dangerous , and wicked; and they look upon Nature as evil. True enough, everything is evil relatively to Adonai ; for all stain is impurity. A bee’s swarm is evil—inside one’s clothes. “Dirt is matter in the wrong place." It is dirt to connect sex with statuary, morals with art. Only Adonai, who is in a sense the True Meaning of everything, cannot defile any idea. This is a hard saying, though true, for nothing of course is dirtier than to try and use A…
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1919 · PDF PAGE 416
The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)
…s? “Hast thou attuned thy heart and mind to the great mind and heart of all mankind? For as the sacred River’s roaring voice whereby all Nature-sounds are echoed back, so must the heart of him “who in the stream would enter,” thrill in response to every sigh and thought of all that lives and breathes.” Here is another absurdity. What is the sense of asking a man at his initial step if he has complied with all the rules? If the disciple were in the condition mentioned, he would be already very far advanced. But of course if we were to take the w…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 54
The Stratagem and Other Stories
… the lucubration of a very peculiar, perhaps unique, type of insanity. V. ENGLISH, M.D. NOTES: 1. It is one of the greatest cruelties of nature that all painful or depressing emotions seem to lengthen time; pleasant thoughts and exalted moods make time fly. Thus, in summing up a life from an outside standpoint, it would seem that, supposing pleasure and pain to have occupied equal periods, the impression would be that pain was enormously greater than pleasure. This may be controverted. Virgil writes: Fortisan haec olim memi- nisse juvabit, an…
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1944 · PDF PAGE 69
The Book of Thoth
…gure of the picture. The card is referred to Taurus; therefore the Throne of the Hierophant is surrounded by elephants, which are of the nature of Taurus; and he is actually seated upon a bull. Around him are the four beasts or Kerubs, one in each corner of the card; for these are the guardians of every shrine. But the main reference is to the particular arcanum which is the principal business, the essential, of all magical work; the uniting of the microcosm with the macrocosm. Accordingly, the oriel is diaphanous; before the Manifestor of the …
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1909 · PDF PAGE 102
John St. John
…ohn was too exhausted on resuming his pose, which, by the way, happens to be the Sign of the Grade 7°=4°, to strive consciously. But his nature itself, forced through these days into the one channel of Will towards Adonai, went on struggling on its own account. Later, the conscious man took heart and strove, though not so fiercely as before. He passed through the Lightnings of Ajna, whose two petals now spread out like wings above his head, and the awful Corona of the Interior Sun with its flashing fires appeared, and declared itself to be his Sel…
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1909 · PDF PAGE 61
The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)
…common sense, reason works ; in the world of philosophy, it doesn’t. The metaphysical deadlock is a real and not a verbal one. The inner nature of things is not rational, at least so long as we are asked to define “rational” as “rationalistic.” Why should it be? Why should the rules of golf govern the mechanics of the flight of a golf-ball ? It is this fact that has made it possible for the faith- mongers to make head against the stream of philosophy. Fichte is really and truly just as right and as wrong as Schelling; Hume is quite as impregnab…
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1909 · PDF PAGE 61
The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)
…common sense, reason works ; in the world of philosophy, it doesn’t. The metaphysical deadlock is a real and not a verbal one. The inner nature of things is not rational, at least so long as we are asked to define “rational” as “rationalistic.” Why should it be? Why should the rules of golf govern the mechanics of the flight of a golf-ball ? It is this fact that has made it possible for the faith- mongers to make head against the stream of philosophy. Fichte is really and truly just as right and as wrong as Schelling; Hume is quite as impregnab…
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1910 · PDF PAGE 64
Ambergris
…eless Name, Held in their grip the child, Eternity. Silence and Darkness in their womb withheld That spiritual fire, and brooded still : Nature and Time, their soleness undispelled, Ever awaiting the eternal Will. And Law was unbegotten : uttermost Night Dwelt, inaccessible to sound and sight Shielded from Voice, impervious to Light. Then grew within the barren womb of this The Breath of the Eternal and the Vast, Softer than dawn, and closer than a kiss And lo ! the chaos and the darkness passed ! At the creative sigh the Light became. Chaos r…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 24
Book 4 (Part II)
… in a hundred other ways. Whatever the form chosen, it is the symbol of the Great Work. This place of his working therefore declares the nature and object of the "Work. Those persons who have supposed that the use of these symbols implied worship of the generative organs, merely attributed to the sages of every time and country minds of a calibre equal to their own. The Tau is composed often squares for the ten Sephiroth/ About this Tau is escribed a triangle, which is inscribed in the great Circle; but of the triangle nothing is actually marke…
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1919 · PDF PAGE 234
The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)
… Order. The perfect freedom and security afforded by the Law allows the characters of all Brethren to expand to the very limits of their nature, and the great joy and gladness with which they are constantly overflowing make them the best of companions. “They shall rejoice, our chosen; who 220
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1944 · PDF PAGE 67
The Book of Thoth
…m, since Aries means a Ram. At his feet, couchant, is the Lamb and Flag, to confirm this attribution on the lower plane; for the ram, by nature, is a wild and courageous animal, lonely in lonely places, whereas when tamed and made to lie down in green pastures, nothing is left but the docile, cowardly, gregarious and succulent beast. This is the theory of government. The Emperor is also one of the more important alchemical cards; with Atu II and III, he makes up the triad: Sulphur, Mercury, Salt. His arms and head form an upright triangle; belo…
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1954 · PDF PAGE 295
Magick Without Tears
…m, who seemed rather puzzled by the whole business. Book contains message dictated to Crowley at Cairo in 1904 "by Aiwass, a Being whose nature he does not fully understand but who described Himself as "The Minister of Hoor-Paar-Kraat' (the Lord of Silence). " Prospectus of book says it's been published three times before; adds, sinisterly, that first publication was nine months before outbreak of Balkan war, second, nine months before outbreak of world war, third, nine months before outbreak of Sino-Japanese war. No coincidence, it says: "the …
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1903 · PDF PAGE 20
Berashith
…ure for yourself the realization of the nothingness of yourself by keeping the fourth dimension ever present to your mind.) The illusory nature of this idea of an infinite Atman is well shown by the very proof which that most distin- guished Vedantist, the late Swami Vivekananda (no connection with the firm of a similar name across the
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1912 · PDF PAGE 324
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)
…D. L.C,K. p, 134]?אנא A mare ; brute animal, beast?המהב Day Demon of 2"d Dec. ἳ D': From all, among all?לכב The Son: Assiah’s “Secret [3 Nature " Meditation, imagination, sin?,רמז A desirable one ; to desire?רמה A husband's brother '?םנ Angel ofKether of Binah,?לאוהי and of Jesod Of Binal'l Tet. in Assiah rm ”די הה ?װ A dog?בלכ Angel of4 c., and or?!סP.?היראל The Number of Abra»Melin Servitors?וז5 3 of Astarot and Asmodee The stone that slew Goliath;?ינא a stone, rock Elihul (Vide 52)?אוהילא The garden 1: Angel of g P.?לאיזה To defend, hide, a …
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1912 · PDF PAGE 324
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)
…D. L.C,K. p, 134]?אנא A mare ; brute animal, beast?המהב Day Demon of 2"d Dec. ἳ D': From all, among all?לכב The Son: Assiah’s “Secret [3 Nature " Meditation, imagination, sin?,רמז A desirable one ; to desire?רמה A husband's brother '?םנ Angel ofKether of Binah,?לאוהי and of Jesod Of Binal'l Tet. in Assiah rm ”די הה ?װ A dog?בלכ Angel of4 c., and or?!סP.?היראל The Number of Abra»Melin Servitors?וז5 3 of Astarot and Asmodee The stone that slew Goliath;?ינא a stone, rock Elihul (Vide 52)?אוהילא The garden 1: Angel of g P.?לאיזה To defend, hide, a …
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1919 · PDF PAGE 64
The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)
…ligence, and no more their slave. He perceived the inadequacy of science, philosophy, and religion; and ex- posed the self-contradictory nature of the thinking fac- ulty. 19. Returning to England, he laid his achievements humbly at the feet of a certain adept D.D.S., who wel- comed him brotherly and admitted his title to the grade which he had so hardly won. 20. Thereupon these two adepts conferred together, saying: May it not be written that the tribulations shall be shortened? Wherefore they resolved to establish a new Order which should be f…
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