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Page 42 of 1191909 · PDF PAGE 12
THE EQUINOX them. Let us call this supernormal consciousness, or, for want of a better name, “ Spiritual Experience.” 4. Faith has been proposed as a remedy. But we perceive many incompatible forms of Faith founded on Authority— The Vedas, The Quran, The Bible; Buddha, Christ, Joseph Smith. To choose between them we must resort to reason, already shown to be a fallacious guide. 5. There is only one Rock which Scepticism cannot shake ; the Rock of Experience. 6. We have therefore endeavoured to eliminate from the conditions of acquiring Spiritua…
1909 · PDF PAGE 384
THE EQUINOX at my forwardness. AsI was going to address them an awful feeling passed over me. My old fancy took possession of my brains again, and I imagined myself made of flesh and bones. I began to suffer as if my body had in reality become stiff and benumbed. Happily it was enough for me to turn and see the coffin, and my delusion fled. Moreover, I noticed that I had forgotten one of the most important things. The very colour of the coffin ought to have told the truth to me long ago. Of course I was now of a dark brown complexion, almost bl…
1912 · PDF PAGE 138
THE EQUINOX she forgot the obvious corollary of removing the flower from her dress. She was nestled in the arm-chair when the old analyst tiptoed into the room and clapped his hands over her eyes. “ Who is it?” said he gaily. "Why, you're Jack from Alaska, of course," she answered, laughing. “ Guess again ?" And the child guessed the German Emperor, and Lewis Waller, and everyone else she could think of. “Wrong.” “Wrong.” “Wrong.” "Why,“ she cried, jumping up and facing him, “ it's Professor Zircon! The last person in the world I should have exp…
1912 · PDF PAGE 218
THE EQUINOX the others. This is the Planet Mars, to which are allotted the last Decan of ?}, and the first of τ, because the long cold of the winter requires a great energy to overcome it, and initiate spring. And the beginning of the Decanates is from the royal Star of Leo, the great Star Cor Leonis: and therefore is the first Decan that of E in 25. Here follow the general meanings of the small cards of the suits, as classified under the nine Sephiroth below Kether. The Four Twos symbolize the Powers of the King?המבה and Queen just uniting and in…
1912 · PDF PAGE 138
THE EQUINOX she forgot the obvious corollary of removing the flower from her dress. She was nestled in the arm-chair when the old analyst tiptoed into the room and clapped his hands over her eyes. “ Who is it?” said he gaily. "Why, you're Jack from Alaska, of course," she answered, laughing. “ Guess again ?" And the child guessed the German Emperor, and Lewis Waller, and everyone else she could think of. “Wrong.” “Wrong.” “Wrong.” "Why,“ she cried, jumping up and facing him, “ it's Professor Zircon! The last person in the world I should have exp…
1912 · PDF PAGE 218
THE EQUINOX the others. This is the Planet Mars, to which are allotted the last Decan of ?}, and the first of τ, because the long cold of the winter requires a great energy to overcome it, and initiate spring. And the beginning of the Decanates is from the royal Star of Leo, the great Star Cor Leonis: and therefore is the first Decan that of E in 25. Here follow the general meanings of the small cards of the suits, as classified under the nine Sephiroth below Kether. The Four Twos symbolize the Powers of the King?המבה and Queen just uniting and in…
1913 · PDF PAGE 524
THE EQUINOX spreading like an intellectual plague. Young America raves, she has fever; she is, perhaps, cutting her teeth. But France! France to accept such things! No, it is not pos- sible, and it isnot so. But while they refuse the doctrines, serious men should observe the phenomena, remain calm in the midst of the agitations of all the fanaticisms (for in- credulity also has its own), and judge after having examined. To preserve one’s reason in the midst of madmen, one’s faith in the midst of superstitions, one’s dignity in the midst of buff…
1913 · PDF PAGE 524
THE EQUINOX spreading like an intellectual plague. Young America raves, she has fever; she is, perhaps, cutting her teeth. But France! France to accept such things! No, it is not pos- sible, and it isnot so. But while they refuse the doctrines, serious men should observe the phenomena, remain calm in the midst of the agitations of all the fanaticisms (for in- credulity also has its own), and judge after having examined. To preserve one’s reason in the midst of madmen, one’s faith in the midst of superstitions, one’s dignity in the midst of buff…
1930 · PDF PAGE 9
…, olive, russet and black d) 31 bis Ail 22 trumps White merging into grey (1) The Pure Earth known to the Ancient Egyptians, during that Equinox ot the Gods over which Isis presided (i. e. The Pagan Era) was taken as Green. 309
1909 · PDF PAGE 38
THE EQUINOX 9.0. Arrived at Pantheon, to breakfast on coffeeand brioche 36 and a peach. I shall try and describe Ritual DCLXXI ; since its nature is important to this great ceremony of initiation. Those who understand a little about the Path of the Wise may receive some hint of the method of operation of the L.V.X. And I think that a description will help me to collect myself for the proper adaptation of this Ritual to the purpose of Self-initiation. Oh, how soft is the air, and how serene the sky, to one who has passed through the black rule o…
1909 · PDF PAGE 42
10.0. ro.50. 40 THE EQUINOX R———d, my distaste for food was so intense that the smell of it caused real nausea. To-day, I am perfectly balanced, neither hungry nor nauseated. This is indeed more important than it seems ; it is a sure sign when one sees a person take up fads that he is under the black rule of Apophis. In the Kingdom of Osiris there is freedom and light. To-day I shall eat neither with the frank gluttony of Isis nor with the severe asceticism of Apophis. I shall eat as much and as little as I fancy; these violent means are no lon…
1909 · PDF PAGE 108
6.31. 6.52. 6,57. 7.25. 7-35- 106 ΤΗΕ EQUINOX Yet one can get the right stuff out of the Tarot (or other inconvenient method) by spiritualising away all the meaning, until the intuition pierces that blank wall of ignorance. Let O.M. meditate upon this Oracle on his way to feed John St. John‘s body—and thus feed his ownl Out, out, to feed! Trimming his beard in preparation for going out, he reflects that the deplorable tone (as one’s Dean would say) of the last entry is not the cry of the famished beast, but that of the over-driven slave "Adonai,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 84
THE EQUINOX total blank, the only relief (strange as it sounds) being the all but intolerable mental agony of the consciousness. This agony, belonging to the lower stage of Vedana, is the drag, ever pulling back the mystic as he endeavours to break down the blackness of his insanity. Yet the unity of its anguish is the proof of its Selfhood, and the earnest of its resurrection from the abyss. Such a mystic state may last through several days, perhaps through weeks. I should not care to assert limitations. The slightest error in the process woul…
1909 · PDF PAGE 84
THE EQUINOX total blank, the only relief (strange as it sounds) being the all but intolerable mental agony of the consciousness. This agony, belonging to the lower stage of Vedana, is the drag, ever pulling back the mystic as he endeavours to break down the blackness of his insanity. Yet the unity of its anguish is the proof of its Selfhood, and the earnest of its resurrection from the abyss. Such a mystic state may last through several days, perhaps through weeks. I should not care to assert limitations. The slightest error in the process woul…
1911 · PDF PAGE 94
THE EQUINOX In nomine BABALON Amen. Restriction unto Choronzon. THE TENTH AETHYR IS CALLED ZAX. This Aethyr being accursed, and the seer forewarned, he taketh these precautions for the scribe. First let the scribe be seated in the centre of the circle in the desert sand, and let the circle be fortified by the Holy Names of God—Tetragrammaton and Shaddai El Chai and Ararita. And let the Demon be invoked within a triangle, wherein is inscribed the name of Choronzon, and about it let him write ANAPHAXETON - ANAPHANETON - PRIMEU- MATON, and in the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 312
THE EQUINOX We shall now sketch out an explanation of the Bible by the aid of numbers, for the Bible is the book of the images of God. We shall ask numbers to give us the reason of the dogmas of eternal religion; numbers will always reply by reuniting themselves in the synthesis of unity. The following pages are simply outlines of qabalistic hypotheses; they stand apart from faith, and we indicate them only as curiosities of research. It is no part of our task to make innovations in dogma, and what we assert in our character as an initiate is e…
1913 · PDF PAGE 312
THE EQUINOX We shall now sketch out an explanation of the Bible by the aid of numbers, for the Bible is the book of the images of God. We shall ask numbers to give us the reason of the dogmas of eternal religion; numbers will always reply by reuniting themselves in the synthesis of unity. The following pages are simply outlines of qabalistic hypotheses; they stand apart from faith, and we indicate them only as curiosities of research. It is no part of our task to make innovations in dogma, and what we assert in our character as an initiate is e…
1919 · PDF PAGE 218
THE EQUINOX form price of Ten Dollars. Special diplomas of the IX°, Twenty-five Dollars. 13. The privileges of members of the O.T.O. are very numerous. These are the principal: 1° They have not only access to, but instruction in, the whole body of hidden knowledge preserved in the Sanctuary from the beginning of its manifestation. In the lower grades the final secrets are hinted, and conveyed in symbol, beneath veil, and through sacrament. In this way the intelligence of the initiate is called into play, so that he who well uses the knowledge o…
1909 · PDF PAGE 124
9.10. 953- 10.14. 10.27. 122 THE EQUINOX bered at all. I have gone to bed, and shall take things in hand seriously, ifit kills me. Since 9.17 have done Pranayama, though allowing myself some irregularities in the way of occasional omission 01 a Kambhakham. ’Tis very hard to stick to it. I find myself, at the end of above sentence, automatically crawling into bed. No, John! Have been trying to extract some sense from that extraordinary treatise on mysticism, “ Konx Om Pax." Another failure, but an excusable one. I will now beseech Adonai as best …
1909 · PDF PAGE 140
1.32 THE EQUINOX . I read through this volume of the Record; and I dissolve my being into quintessential laughter. The entries are some of them so funny] . . . Pre- viously, this had escaped me. . And now the Rapture of it takes me! 1.25. The exquisite beauty of the women in the Restaurant 1127 1.30 3.17 11.15 138 . what John St. John would have called old hagsl . My soul is singing. . . my soul is singing! . It matters nothing what I do . . . everything goes infinitely, incredibly right ! “The Lord Adonai is about me as a Thunderbolt and as a P…