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1910 · PDF PAGE 180

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ssed, Lucifer, Star of the Dawn, Satan- Jeheshua, Light of the World! Blessed be Thou, Buddha, Osiris, by whatever Name I call Thee Thou art nameless to Eternity. Blessed be Thou, O Day, that Thou hast risen in the Night of Time; First Dawn in the Chaos of poor P.’s poor mind! Accursed be Thou, Jehovah, Brahma, unto the Aeons of Aeons: thou who didst create Darkness and not Light! Mara, vile Mask of Matter! Arise, O Shiva, and destroy! That in destruction these at last be blest. Pranayama. Mantra seventeen minutes. Noise of glass being rubbed p…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 180

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ssed, Lucifer, Star of the Dawn, Satan- Jeheshua, Light of the World! Blessed be Thou, Buddha, Osiris, by whatever Name I call Thee Thou art nameless to Eternity. Blessed be Thou, O Day, that Thou hast risen in the Night of Time; First Dawn in the Chaos of poor P.’s poor mind! Accursed be Thou, Jehovah, Brahma, unto the Aeons of Aeons: thou who didst create Darkness and not Light! Mara, vile Mask of Matter! Arise, O Shiva, and destroy! That in destruction these at last be blest. Pranayama. Mantra seventeen minutes. Noise of glass being rubbed p…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 321

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…, who tore the veil of the temple, and whose cross, overweighing the crown of the Czsars, broke the forehead of the Czesars against the earth! Glory to the Holy Ghost, who shall sweep from the earth by His terrible breath all the thieves and all the executioners, to make room for the banquet of the children of God! Glory to the Holy Ghost, who has promised victory over earth and over heaven to the angel of liberty! The angel of liberty was born before the dawn of the first day, before even the awakening of intelligence, and God called him the m…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 321

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…, who tore the veil of the temple, and whose cross, overweighing the crown of the Czsars, broke the forehead of the Czesars against the earth! Glory to the Holy Ghost, who shall sweep from the earth by His terrible breath all the thieves and all the executioners, to make room for the banquet of the children of God! Glory to the Holy Ghost, who has promised victory over earth and over heaven to the angel of liberty! The angel of liberty was born before the dawn of the first day, before even the awakening of intelligence, and God called him the m…

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1938 · PDF PAGE 12

The Heart of the Master

…ICE. It is not given to flesh and blood, till they be seven times purged, purged through and through, to dwell in the sanctuary of the Heart of the Master. My fervour is exhausted; my faith fails; I fall from the rapture of passion that pours through the abyss of space. All things feel It; all things live by It; yet nothing that knows itself knows It as It is. So now I, burning up, yet not burnt through, in the glory of that Light, vibrating to, yet not vibrating altogether with, the vigour of that Pulse, am just so far attuned to the Heart of …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 97

John St. John

…ere- on the Adept of Man hangeth; and Daleth is Love Supernal, that if it be inserted in the word ANI, “ I,” giveth ADNI, Adonai. Subtle art thou and deadly, O Dweller of the Thres- hold (P.S.-—~This name is a bad one. Dweller beside [he Pylon is a better term ; for he is not in the straight path, which is simple and easy and open. He is never “ overcome ” ; to meet him is the proof of having strayed. The Key fits the Door perfectly ; but he who is drunken on the bad wine of Sense and Thought fumbles thereat. And of course there is a great deal …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 427

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ally wants you to do. 44. Thou hast to saturate thyself with pure Alaya, be- come as one with Nature’s Soul-Thought. At one with it thou art invincible; in separation, thou becomest the play- ground of Samvritti, origin of all the world’s delusions. This means, acquire sympathy with the universal Soul of Nature. This Soul of Nature here spoken of is of course imagined as something entirely contrary to anything we really know of Nature. In fact, it would be difficult to dis- tinguish it from a pious fiction. The only reason that can be given for…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 123

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

… is the Magus : twain His forces 3 four His weapons. These are the seven Spirits of Unrighteousness; seven vultures of evil. Thus is the art and craft of the Magus but glamour. How shall He destroy Himself ? o. Y et the Magus hath power upon the Mother both directly and through love. And the Magus is Love, and bindeth together That and This in His Conjuration. 1. In the beginning doth the Magus speak Truth, and send forth Illusion and Falsehood to enslave the soûl. Yet therein is the Mystery of Rédemption. 2. By his Wisdom made He the Worlds: t…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 295

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…d everyone knows perfectly well how this remarkable result has been achieved. But at the first hint that anyone proposes to take a step farther on this road, he is universally set down as a lunatic of the most dangerous type. However, the most savage Lolos are content with that diagnosis, whereas the most enlightened English add that the pioneer is not only a lunatic but a pervert, degenerate, anarchist an the rest of it --- whatever terms of abuse chance to be in fashion. The abolition of slavery, humane treatment of the insane, the restrictio…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 90

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…e have got rid of motion, but matter remains. (Again must I apologise for taking so elementary a view of physics.) And while there is a particle of matter, it must fill the Universe—there is no place for Spirit. His thought is controlled and smooth; his thought (even!) is stopped: but there the thought is. Immutable it abides, stronger than ever in its silence and vastness; and—O unhappy one! that which can be thought is not true. Thou hast taken thee the lies, those little foxes that spoil the grapes. Lie after lie thou hast suppressed; and wh…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 90

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…e have got rid of motion, but matter remains. (Again must I apologise for taking so elementary a view of physics.) And while there is a particle of matter, it must fill the Universe—there is no place for Spirit. His thought is controlled and smooth; his thought (even!) is stopped: but there the thought is. Immutable it abides, stronger than ever in its silence and vastness; and—O unhappy one! that which can be thought is not true. Thou hast taken thee the lies, those little foxes that spoil the grapes. Lie after lie thou hast suppressed; and wh…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 103

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…travelling through eternity, and in Thy sight the landmarks are of fair white marble untouched by the tool of the graver. Therefore Thou art mine, even now and for ever and for everlasting. Amen. 58. Moreover, I heard the voice of Adonai: Seal up the book of the Heart and the Serpent; in the number five and sixty seal thou the holy book. As fine gold that is beaten into a diadem for the fair queen of Pharaoh, as great stones that are cemented together into the Pyramid of the ceremony of the Death of Asar, so do thou bind together the words and …

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1944 · PDF PAGE 137

The Book of Thoth

…ames of God that are not known even of the Angels, or of the Arch‐ angels, or of the Leader of the armies of the Lord. “Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, and blessed be thy name for ever, unto whom the Aeons are but the pulsings of thy blood.”

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1907 · PDF PAGE 330

The Star in the West

…e at least evidence of some cause . Now , this fact is our base . What is the cause of my illusion of seeing a spirit in the triangle of Art ? Every smatterer , every expert in psychology , will answer “ That cause lies in your brain .” English children are taught ( pace the Education Act ) that the Universe lies in infinite Space ; Hindu children , in the Akása , which is the same thing . Those Europeans who go a little deeper learn from Fichte , that the phenomenal Universe is the creation of the Ego ; Hindus , or Europeans studying under Hin…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 93

The Vision and the Voice

…t with the fire of His Angel, and the blush of His loveliness informeth it, and with delight and with wit hath He made it merry at the heart, and the core thereof is the Secret of His being, and therein is His name Generation. And this His stability hath the number 80, for that the price thereof is War.+ Beware, therefore, O thou who art appointed to understand the secret of the Outermost Abyss, for in every Abyss thou must assume the mask and form of the Angel thereof. Hadst thou a name, thou wert irrevocably lost. Search, therefore, if there …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 170

The Vision and the Voice

…o describe in ‘The Garden of Janus.” Every volition is inhibited. I have tried to say a lot, and it has always got lost on the way. Holy art thou, O more beautiful than all the stars of the Night! There has never been such peace, such silence. But these are positive things. Singing praises of things eternal amid the flames of first glory, and every note of every song is a fresh flower in the garland of peace. This child danceth not, but it is because he is the soul of the two dances,—the right hand and the left hand, and in him they are one dan…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 177

Magick Without Tears

… the higher intelligences, you will understand how imperfect are your faculties. It is true that you can project these intelligences as parts of yourself , or you can suppose that certain human vehicles may be temporally employed by them for various purposes ; but these speculations tend to be idle. The important thing is to make contact with beings, whatever their nature, who are superior to yourself , not merely in degree but in kind. That is to say, not merely different as a Great Dane differs from a Chihuahua , but as a buffalo differs from…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 383

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ture had certainly not been helped in the forming of that beautiful corner of the world; nevertheless a Japanese gardener, master of his art, could not have done better. Two gaps at the foot of the coffin were apparently waiting for posts to be planted. Wild flowers of all colours, some of a shade quite unknown to me, perfumed the air. It was no more the sunny afternoon, but a morning splendid and enchanting. The dew covered the prairie, and it seemed as if the grass were weeping lukewarm tears. At intervals a gentle breeze came, softly caressi…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 383

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ture had certainly not been helped in the forming of that beautiful corner of the world; nevertheless a Japanese gardener, master of his art, could not have done better. Two gaps at the foot of the coffin were apparently waiting for posts to be planted. Wild flowers of all colours, some of a shade quite unknown to me, perfumed the air. It was no more the sunny afternoon, but a morning splendid and enchanting. The dew covered the prairie, and it seemed as if the grass were weeping lukewarm tears. At intervals a gentle breeze came, softly caressi…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 73

The Vision and the Voice

…id their queen. Gather up thy garments about thee, I say, for the voice of the Aethyr, that is the voice of the Aeon, is ended, and thou art absorbed into the lesser night, and caught in the web of the light of thy mother in the word ARBADAHARBA. And now the five and the six are divorced, and I am come again within my body. Bou-SAapa. December 3, 1909. 9.15 to 11.10 a.m. THE CRY OF THE 14TH AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED UTI There come into the stone a white goat, a green dragon, and a tawny bull. But they pass away immediately. There is a veil of suc…

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