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1930 · PDF PAGE 82

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

… itual is to be performed after the “Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram”. (I) . Stand upright, feet together, left arm at side, right across body, holding Wand or other weapon upright in the médian line. Then face East and say : (II) I.N.R.I. Yod, Nun, Resh, Yod. Virgo, Isis, Mighty Mother. Scorpio, Apophis, Destroyer. Sol, Osiris, Slain and Risen. Isis, Apophis, Osiris, IAQ. < (ÎH)- Extend the arms in the form of a cross, and say “The Sign of Osiris Slain.” (See illustration). Râise the right arm to point upwards, keeping the elbow square, and low…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 156

Liber Aleph

…machs, as has a Cow, to chew the Cud of a digested Love? Yet, o my Son, this Constancy is not of Necessity a Stagnation. Nay, behold the Body of our Lady Nuith, therein are found twin Suns, that revolve constantly about each other. So also it may be in Love, that two Souls, meeting, discover each in the other such Wealth and Richness of Light and Love, and in one Phase of Life (or Incarnation) or even in many, they exhaust not that Treasure. Or will I say that such are not in their degree and quality thrice fortunate. But to persist in Dulness,…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 172

The Book of Thoth

…e stands within a grove of sacred trees before an altar suggesting a wheatsheaf, for she is a priestess of Demeter. She bears within her body the secret of the future. Her sublimity is further emphasized by the disk which she bears; for in the centre thereof is the Chinese ideogram denoting the twin spiral force of Creation in perfect equilibrium; from this is born the rose of Isis, the great fertile Mother. The characteristics of an individual signified by this card are too various to enumerate; one must summarize by saying that she is Womanho…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 25

777

…Krishna-Rama . 6 The Gods .R. oe ee ee 7 Analysis into 4 Elements _ A. Hanuman . 8 Dhamma . R... . | Ganesha, Vishnu (Kurm Avatar) 9 The Body /R. } Lakshmi, &c. [Kundalini] . 10 Wind . . _K. The Maruts [Vayu] . 11 Yellow . K . . | Hanuman, Vishnu (as Parasa-Rama) . 12 Loathsomeness of Food . .P. Chandra (as ww). 13 Dark Blue . ....+.. -« ._K. Lalita (sexual aspect of Sakti) 14 Bloody Corpse. . . .t.. Shiva. 15 Beaten and Scattered Corpse . I. Shiva (Sacred Bull) . 16 White ..... . _«K. Various twin and hybrid Deities. 17 Worm-eaten Corpse . I. …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 320

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…r of the ‘Elders’ 24 in the Apocalypse He whom I love "mm: He who loves me?`בהךא A Mercurial GOD, His?הגמוא essence is m, 8 Substance; a body?ה`װ A pauper?ךר Angel of a C.?הטבח Abundance W A water—pot, a large earthen-?רב ware vessel 5“ $25 To break?אבר The Beast NW'I ]ehewid, GOD of Geburah?דוהי of Binah Let there be ᾽Π᾿ Will be separated m' Thus?הב The Numbers of the Sephiroth of 26 the Middle Pillar; r +6 + 9 +?ןס [Vide K.Dr L.C.K. p. 273] mn Seeing, looking at?הװה Sight, vision?,רוזח TETRAGRAMMATON,?הוהי “Jehovah," the Unutterable Name, the…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 320

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…r of the ‘Elders’ 24 in the Apocalypse He whom I love "mm: He who loves me?`בהךא A Mercurial GOD, His?הגמוא essence is m, 8 Substance; a body?ה`װ A pauper?ךר Angel of a C.?הטבח Abundance W A water—pot, a large earthen-?רב ware vessel 5“ $25 To break?אבר The Beast NW'I ]ehewid, GOD of Geburah?דוהי of Binah Let there be ᾽Π᾿ Will be separated m' Thus?הב The Numbers of the Sephiroth of 26 the Middle Pillar; r +6 + 9 +?ןס [Vide K.Dr L.C.K. p. 273] mn Seeing, looking at?הװה Sight, vision?,רוזח TETRAGRAMMATON,?הוהי “Jehovah," the Unutterable Name, the…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 51

The Stratagem and Other Stories

The shell was consumed; the gases of the body, combined and recombined, flamed off, free from organic form. Where was Arthur? His brain, his individuality, his life, were utterly de- stroyed. As separate things, yes: Arthur had entered the universal consciousness. And I heard this utterance: or rather this is my translation into English of a single thought whose syn- thesis is “Woe.” Substance is called spirit or matter. Spirit and matter are one, indivisible, eternal, inde- structible. Infinite and eternal change! Infinite and eternal pain! No…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 7

Berashith

…ich we can very well do without, but for the most essential and continuous acts of life? Why should an. infinite Ego fill a non-existent body with imaginary food cooked in thought only over an illusionary fire by a cook who is not there? Why should infinite power use such finite means, and very often fail even then?” * Encyclopedia Britannica. Art. Metaphysics. + The Principles of Mevaphysics, Macmillan.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 16

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX The Water Inspector rose jubilant, when from the body of the Court came a still small voice. “Might I respectfully suggest, your Worship, that the water in question be examined through my Microscope?” “What in thunder is a Microscope?” cried the three in chorus. “An instrument, your Worship, that I have constructed on the admitted principles of optics, to demonstrate by experience what these gentlemen are arguing about @ priori and on hearsay.” Then they both rose up against him, and cursed him. “ Unscientific balderdash!” said the …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 16

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX The Water Inspector rose jubilant, when from the body of the Court came a still small voice. “Might I respectfully suggest, your Worship, that the water in question be examined through my Microscope?” “What in thunder is a Microscope?” cried the three in chorus. “An instrument, your Worship, that I have constructed on the admitted principles of optics, to demonstrate by experience what these gentlemen are arguing about @ priori and on hearsay.” Then they both rose up against him, and cursed him. “ Unscientific balderdash!” said the …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 83

Book 4 (Part I)

…you have a right to pass unchallenged. This power, by the way, is what has been described by magicians as the power of invisibility. Somebody or other has an excellent story of four quite reliable men who were on the look-out for a murderer, and had instructions to let no one pass, and who all swore subsequently in presence of the dead body that no one had passed. None of them had seen the postman. The thieves who stole the “ Gioconda ” from the Louvre were ] This lack of restraint is not to be confused with that observed in intoxication and ma…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 57

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…nant of Résurrection. (The PRIEST offers the Tance to the PRIESTESS, who hisses it; he then touches her hetween the breasts and upon the body. He then flings out his arms upward as comprehending the whole shrine. ) Let this offering be borne upon the waves of Aethyr to our Lord and Father the Sun that travelleth over the Heavens in his name ON. (He closes his hands, hisses the PRIESTESS between the breasts and makes three great crosses over the Paten, the Cup and Himself. He strikes his breast. AU repeat this action.) Hear ye ail, saints of the…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 211

Liber Aleph

…pt thine own Sorrow, or rather that of thy Vehicle, as Lackey to the Joy hat thou hast in thy True Self, the Star among the Stars of Her Body. The Adept of our Art is not compassionate concerning Sin, in his own Vehicle or another's, unless the Healing thereof were proper to his Will, for he is aware of he whole Truth of the Matter. So goeth he upon his Way, and ighteneth not a Rein upon the Horses of the Universe, but is content, beholding the Speed of their Course. Verily, o my Son, it is well written in the Book of the Magus that it is he Cu…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 351

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

… any useful practice soever must necessarily be to get rid of some limitation. Thus the real object of Asana is evidently to release the body from the pain which is its normal characteristic; that of Mantra Yoga to smooth the choppy sea of thought by inducing its movement to take the form of rhythmical billows. In this way I set forth the initiated teaching of all ages and all arts in a uniform and consistent body of writing, being careful nowhere to imply any theory soever. {567} 1. The Soldier and the Hunchback, ! and ? states it most clearly…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 122

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…UTS The sense is riven, and the soul Goes glimmering to the abode, Where aeons in one moment roll, And one thought shapes to its control Body’s forgotten load. Our lady sleeps! Our lady smiles In far Elysian isles ! FIRST WOMAN. Thrice have I crept towards the bed, and thrice An unseen hand has caught the uplifted knife, A grinning face lurked out from the blank air Between me and that filthy sorceress. SECOND WOMAN. Daily I poison the she-devil’s drink, And nothing harms her ! THIRD WOMAN. I have a toad whose breath Destroys all life CHORUS. T…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 111

The Star in the West

…te hatred , what infernal pains , Mixed with thy being in the womb of Death ? Blistering fire runs , Scorching , terrific suns , Through body and soul in this abominable Marriage of demon power Subtle and strong and sour , 2 Ibid . vol .I, p . 236 . 1 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 234 . 3 Ibid . vol . I, p . 237 .

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1944 · PDF PAGE 132

The Book of Thoth

…re is he blessed that is born under the sign of the Arrow, and blessed is he that hath the sigil of the head of the crowned lion and the body of the Snake and the Arrow therewith.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 13

John St. John

…d I swear and seal with a stroke upon the Bell. Then I steadily sat down in my Asana (or sacred Posture), having my left heel beneath my body pressing into the anus, my right sole closely covering the phallus, the right leg vertical; my head, neck, and spine in one straight vertical line; my arms stretched out resting on their respective knees; my thumbs joined each to the fourth finger of the proper hand. All my muscles were tightly held; my breath came steady, slow and even through both nostrils; my eyes were turned back, in, up to the Third E…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 458

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… of which the workman had spoken to him. The monster pursued him, and struggled with him. When he woke up, it was already day, and some- body was knocking at his door. Eliphas rose, threw on a dressing-gown, and opened ; it was the workman. “Master,” said he, entering hastily, and with an alarmed air; “how are you?” “Very well,” replied Eliphas. “But last night, at two o'clock in the morning, did you not run a great danger ?” Eliphas did not grasp the allusion; he already no longer remembered the indisposition of the night. 160

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1913 · PDF PAGE 458

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… of which the workman had spoken to him. The monster pursued him, and struggled with him. When he woke up, it was already day, and some- body was knocking at his door. Eliphas rose, threw on a dressing-gown, and opened ; it was the workman. “Master,” said he, entering hastily, and with an alarmed air; “how are you?” “Very well,” replied Eliphas. “But last night, at two o'clock in the morning, did you not run a great danger ?” Eliphas did not grasp the allusion; he already no longer remembered the indisposition of the night. 160

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