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1913 · PDF PAGE 45

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ind the following passage : “After the banquet they keep the holy all-night festival. And this is how it is kept. They all stand up in a body, and about the middle of the entertainment they first of all separate into two bands, men in one and women in the other. And a leader is chosen for each, the conductor whose reputation is greatest and the one most suitable for the post. They then chant hymns made in God's honour in many metres and melodies, sometimes singing in chorus, sometimes one band beating time to the answering chant of the other, (…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 45

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ind the following passage : “After the banquet they keep the holy all-night festival. And this is how it is kept. They all stand up in a body, and about the middle of the entertainment they first of all separate into two bands, men in one and women in the other. And a leader is chosen for each, the conductor whose reputation is greatest and the one most suitable for the post. They then chant hymns made in God's honour in many metres and melodies, sometimes singing in chorus, sometimes one band beating time to the answering chant of the other, (…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 486

Magick Without Tears

…ctivity in lower grades undesirable. Or do they still work as Individuals. yet. because they are initiates, appear to act as a corporate body? You have often expressed yourself as if this were so. "Of course. They had to pick on me to do the dirty work" is a typical growl of the old Big Lion! But again there is that Magical Memory of yours when you came down from that Hermitage in the little wood overhanging the nullah below the Great Peak "somewhere in Asia" and sat in some sort of Consistory in the valley where the great Lamaserai-or whatever…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 18

The Poem

…e a shudder in my blood; I must goto Him. Esmé! Esmé! Esmé! I amsohappy! y,,,, set/- [ Dees. [Bsmé fings keérsetf passionately on to the body, weeping and kissing the dead face, while all the others kneel in prayer. Curtain.

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1919 · PDF PAGE 35

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…f testing physical clairvoyance. Gives instruction in Asana, Pranayama and Dharana, and advises the application of tests to the physical body, in order that the student may thoroughly understand his own limitations. Liper XXX. Lriser Lisre. An elementary course of morality suitable for the average man. Lizer LXI. Liper Caus#. The Preliminary Lection, including the History Lection. Explains the actual history of the origin of the present movement. Its, statements are accurate in the ordinary sense of the word. The object of the book is to discou…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 217

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… To carry up the prayer, as incense teems Skyward, to those immeasurable streams ! Breathe the creative Sigh upon my mouth That even the body may become the soul: Cry, as the chainéd Eagle of the South, ‘* A house of death,” ! and make my spirit whole! Touch with pure balm the five mysterious wounds ! Come! come away! but not your mighty sounds !2 O wind of all the world! O silent river ! O sea of seas! O flower of all the flowers O fire! O spirit! Beam thou on for ever Through zons of illimitable hours ! Kiss thou my forehead, let thy tender b…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 106

The Book of Thoth

…ir normal position, Aries rising in the East, and so on. Free‐ dom brings sanity. The Zodiac is a kind of childish representation of the body of Nuith, a dif‐ ferentiation and classification, a chosen belt, one girdle of Our Lady of infinite space. Conven‐ ience of description excuses the device. The green mound represents the fertile earth, its shape, so to speak, aspiring to the heavens. But around the top of the mound is a wall, which indicates that the aspiration of the new Aeon does not mean the absence of control. Yet outside this wall ar…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 61

Eight Lectures on Yoga

… mind has gone so deeply into itself that it is unconscious of itself and its surroundings, one of the most ordinary results is that the body becomes invisible to other people. I do not think that it would make any difference for a photograph, though I have no evidence for saying this; but it has happened to me on innumerable occasions. It was an almost daily occurrence when I was in Sicily. 13. A party of us used to go down to a very beautiful bay of sand, whence jutted fantastically-shaped islets of rock; it is rimmed by cliffs encrusted with…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 137

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…e a shudder in my blood; I must goto Him. Esmé! Esmé! Esmé! I amsohappy! y,,,, set/- [ Dees. [Bsmé fings keérsetf passionately on to the body, weeping and kissing the dead face, while all the others kneel in prayer. Curtain.

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1961 · PDF PAGE 131

Liber Aleph

…constant and perpetual Witnesses of the One Eucharist, whereunto also they are Ministers. So then to thee every Phenomenon soever is the Body of Nuith in her Passion; for it is an Event; that is, the Marriage of some one Point of view with some One Possibility. And this State of Mind is notably an Appurtenance of thy Grade of Master of the Temple, and the Unveiling of the Arcanum of Sorrow, which is thy Work, as it is written in Liber Magi. Moreover, this State, assimilated in the very Marrow of thy Mind, is the first Stop toward the comprehens…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 88

Book 4 (Part II)

…s spoken in the Holy Books, for NUIT the Lady of the Stars is called "the Continuous One of Heaven," and it is that Dew which bathes the body of the Adept " in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat."' ^ In this cup, therefore, though all things are placed, by virtue of this ^ See Liber Legis. Equinox VIT.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 100

Book 4 (Part II)

…to the symbolizing of Arahats as stones in the great wall of the guardians of mankind. His wife is of course (by the usual symboHsm) his body, which he could not keep until he put her in a peanut shell, the yellow robe of a Bhikkhu.

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1961 · PDF PAGE 109

Liber Aleph

…ward in Will heedeth little the Affairs of this Fellows. O my Son, if every Man doth his own Will, there is no more to Say! But the Busy-body nor mindeth his own Business, nor leaveth others to mind theirs. Be thou instant therefore with such an one, to cure him by enlightening his Will, and speeding him therein. Remember also that if one speak ill of another, the Fault is first of all in himself, for we know naught but that which is within us. Did not the great Witch-Finder end by confessing hat he also was a Sorcerer? We become that which obs…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 46

The Star in the West

…e over us as we are borne down their unfathomable depths . Similarly in the following : Aching with all the pangs of night My shuddering body swoons ; my eyes Absorb her eyelids ' lazy light , And read her bosom 2 The extra half - step in “ shuddering ” in place of dis cordantly jarring on the metre produces a keener sense of agony in the reader's mind than a word which scanned correctly would do . In the next passage , taken from “ Tannhäuser , ” we find the introduction of a spondee carrying with it a curious sensation of slowness : Chaos , a…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 108

Liber Aleph

… thine own Business. This is of Application equally to all, and the most dangerous Man (or Woman, as has occurred, or I err) is the Busy-body. Oh how ashamed are we, and moved to Indignation, seeing the Sins and Follies of our Neighbours! Of all the Occasions of this Grievance the most common is the Desire of Sex unsatisfied; and thou knowest already, even in thy young Experience, how in that Delirium the Weal of the Whole Universe appeareth of no Account. Do thou wean thy Babes from that Simplicity, and instil the Sense of true Proportion. For…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 59

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…of the machinery of the Order. In the General of the Society is concentrated the power of all those separate wills, just as in the human body every cell should be completely devoted in its particular quality to the concentrated will of the organism. 5. In other words, the Society of Jesus has created a perfect imitation of the skeleton of the original creation, living man. It has complied with the divinely instituted order of things, and that is why we see that the body, which was never numerically important, has yet been one of the greatest in…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 34

Jephthah

…that meet and know the spirit dwells Beyond their profound depth in sympathy. Nay, my delight must find some dearest foe, And cleave his body with a lusty stroke That sets the blood sharp tingling in my arm. Yet tell me if perchance I lay aside One day the harness of cold iron, bind on The lighter reins of roses deftly twined

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1912 · PDF PAGE 72

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…planation and illustration. Fra. Ρ. was cruCified by Fra. D. D. S., and on that cross made to repeat this oath: " I, P——, a member of the Body of Christ, do hereby solemnly obligate myself, etc., to lead a pure and unselfish life, and will entirely devote myself so to raise, etc., myself to the Knowledge of my higher and Divine Genius that I shall be He. “ In witness of which I invoke the great Angel Hua to give me a proof of his existence." P. transcribes this, and continues: “Complete and perfect visualization of . . here are hiero— glyphics wh…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 72

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…planation and illustration. Fra. Ρ. was cruCified by Fra. D. D. S., and on that cross made to repeat this oath: " I, P——, a member of the Body of Christ, do hereby solemnly obligate myself, etc., to lead a pure and unselfish life, and will entirely devote myself so to raise, etc., myself to the Knowledge of my higher and Divine Genius that I shall be He. “ In witness of which I invoke the great Angel Hua to give me a proof of his existence." P. transcribes this, and continues: “Complete and perfect visualization of . . here are hiero— glyphics wh…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 246

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…inable. The man that wrote that poem has left out nothing. Everything that comes into my mind is no more than an echo of his groans. *““ Body and soul alike Traitors turned black-hearted, Seeking a place to strike In a victim already attuned To one vast chord of wound.” The rhythm of the poem, apart from the words, suggests this moto perpetuo vibration. Yet the nervous irritability tends to exhaust itself as such. It is so unendurable ; the only escape seems to be if one could transform it into action. The poison filters through into the blood.…

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