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1909 · PDF PAGE 47

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…it with light leads only to a darkness more terrible than death, a despair and disgust which only too often lead to abandonment, when in truth they should encourage, for that—as the oracles affirm— it is darkest before the dawn. Meditation therefore annoyed me, as tightening and con- stricting the soul. I began to ask myself if the “dryness’ was an essential part of the process. If by some means I could shake its catafalque of Mind, might not the Infinite Divine Spirit leap unfettered to the Light? Who shall roll away the stone? Let it not be i…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 47

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…it with light leads only to a darkness more terrible than death, a despair and disgust which only too often lead to abandonment, when in truth they should encourage, for that—as the oracles affirm— it is darkest before the dawn. Meditation therefore annoyed me, as tightening and con- stricting the soul. I began to ask myself if the “dryness’ was an essential part of the process. If by some means I could shake its catafalque of Mind, might not the Infinite Divine Spirit leap unfettered to the Light? Who shall roll away the stone? Let it not be i…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 500

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…se it is more traditional in occultism, and expresses in a more complete and perfect manner the nature of the secret agent. There is, in truth, the liquid and drinkable gold of the masters in alchemy; the word ‘‘or” (the French word for “gold”) comes from the Hebrew “aour” which signifies “light.” “What do you wish?” they asked the candidate in every initiation: ‘To see the light,” should be their answer. The name of illuminati which one ordinarily gives to adepts, has then been generally very badly interpreted by giving to it a mystical sense,…

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…se it is more traditional in occultism, and expresses in a more complete and perfect manner the nature of the secret agent. There is, in truth, the liquid and drinkable gold of the masters in alchemy; the word ‘‘or” (the French word for “gold”) comes from the Hebrew “aour” which signifies “light.” “What do you wish?” they asked the candidate in every initiation: ‘To see the light,” should be their answer. The name of illuminati which one ordinarily gives to adepts, has then been generally very badly interpreted by giving to it a mystical sense,…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 138

Moonchild

…need to give the original. "Utter the Word of Majesty and Terror! True without lie, and certain without error, And of the essence of The Truth. I know The things above are as the things below, The things below are as the things above, To wield the One Thing's Thaumaturgy — Love. As all from one sprang, by one contemplation, So all from one were born, by permutation. Sun sired, Moon bore, this unique Universe; Air was its chariot, and Earth its nurse. Here is the root of every talisman Of the whole world, since the whole world began. Here is the…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 91

The Star in the West

…ss me , between the music of our sighing , Lightning and rain ! 1 A curious conflict this ’twixt love and fear , “ honour and lust , and truth and trust beguiled ; " they wan dered in the scented garden of man's heart , and all their restraint was as ephemeral as the fleeting hour . “ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food , and that it was pleasant to the eyes , and a tree to be desired to make one wise , she took of the fruit thereof , and did eat , and gave also unto her husband with her ; and he did eat .” ( N.B. — Husband :…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 339

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…trail her white limbs for my pleasure through the windy bagnios of the sky. “T sit in judgment and condemn, for often I was a sword when Truth was a: little child, and the breasts of my beauty I gave to Worthlessness in the stinking lupanars of Treachery and Deceit. “Brothers, like the afterlight of day, I the light of her life consort with the shadows of evening, and I say it softly, 321

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1910 · PDF PAGE 339

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…trail her white limbs for my pleasure through the windy bagnios of the sky. “T sit in judgment and condemn, for often I was a sword when Truth was a: little child, and the breasts of my beauty I gave to Worthlessness in the stinking lupanars of Treachery and Deceit. “Brothers, like the afterlight of day, I the light of her life consort with the shadows of evening, and I say it softly, 321

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1913 · PDF PAGE 373

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… even in the name of that religion which they have succeeded in calumniating, but which they will never cause to lie. Men pass away, but truth is eternal. Daughter of Charity, and creator of Charity in her own turn, true religion is essentially that which realizes; she believes in the miracles of faith, because she herself accom- plishes them every day when she practises charity. Now, a religion which practises charity may flatter herself that she realizes all the dreams of divine love. Moreover, the faith of the hierarchical church transforms …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 557

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…of St. Michael. Physical love is the most perverse of all fatal passions. It is the anarchist of anarchists; it knows neither law, duty, truth nor justice. It would make the maiden walk over the corpses of her parents. It is an irrepressible intoxication; a furious madness. It is the vertigo of fatality seeking new victims; the cannibal drunkenness of Saturn who wishes to 1 Not the sculptor.—TRANS. s2 259

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1913 · PDF PAGE 373

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… even in the name of that religion which they have succeeded in calumniating, but which they will never cause to lie. Men pass away, but truth is eternal. Daughter of Charity, and creator of Charity in her own turn, true religion is essentially that which realizes; she believes in the miracles of faith, because she herself accom- plishes them every day when she practises charity. Now, a religion which practises charity may flatter herself that she realizes all the dreams of divine love. Moreover, the faith of the hierarchical church transforms …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 557

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…of St. Michael. Physical love is the most perverse of all fatal passions. It is the anarchist of anarchists; it knows neither law, duty, truth nor justice. It would make the maiden walk over the corpses of her parents. It is an irrepressible intoxication; a furious madness. It is the vertigo of fatality seeking new victims; the cannibal drunkenness of Saturn who wishes to 1 Not the sculptor.—TRANS. s2 259

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1929 · PDF PAGE 137

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…e even a single spirit within the circle, the effect of the conjuration will be entirely absorbed by it. 2 1. See, however, the Essay on Truth in “Konx oin Pax”. The Circle (in one aspect) asserts Duality, and emphasizes Division. 2. While one remains exposed to the action of ail sorts of forces, they more or less counterbalance each other, so that the general equilib- rium, produced by évolution, is on the whole maintained. But if we suppress ail but one, its action becomes irrésistible. Thus, the pressure of IOI

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1904 · PDF PAGE 27

The Sword of Song

…bbi Schimeon !) But never a duellist—no Son, No Father, and (to please us most) Decency pleads—no Holy Ghost! All vanish at the touch of truth, A cobweb trio—like, in sooth, 705 710 715 720 725 730 735 740 Mystical mean-ing o f “Ascen-sion Day.” Futility of whole discus- sion, in view o f facts.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 511

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…rets with regard to which silence is necessary, and which it is sufficient to indicate to those who know, leaving always a veil upon the truth for the ignorant. Now here is what Paracelsus reserved for initiates alone, 213

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1913 · PDF PAGE 511

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…rets with regard to which silence is necessary, and which it is sufficient to indicate to those who know, leaving always a veil upon the truth for the ignorant. Now here is what Paracelsus reserved for initiates alone, 213

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1904 · PDF PAGE 20

The Sword of Song

… of a central soul, Time’s sons, judged by Eternity. Nature is gone—our joys, our pains, Our little lives—and God remains. Were this the truth—why ! worship then Were not so imbecile for men! But that’s no Christian faith ! For where Enters the dogma of despair ? Despite his logic’s silver flow I must count Caird62 a mystic ! No ! You Christians shall not mask me so The plain words of your sacred books Behind friend Swedenborg his spooks ! Says Huxley63 in his works (q. v.) “The microcosmic lives change daily In state or body”—yet you gaily Arm…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 143

The Star in the West

… , overcome by the violence of his desires , a second Amnon , a second de Sade . His ideal once at least partially pure , broke , as the truth burst on his ear , into a wild and fearful nightmare ; and in his brutal fury we find that perhaps the Sadism of to-day is but an Avatar of those past days , when our progenitors , like some still ex isting savages , carried on their courtship with club and spear, and solemnized their marriage with rape and ravishment . Still one more phase of perverse love remains for us to study ; the curious lust of m…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 365

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… for the most precious existence on this planet. But I am well rewarded. You have come. My globe of transparent crystal had shown me the truth. You have come, escaping my enemies, and you are for the time to come at my disposition.” I thought at first that the man was under the influence of drink and that it was useless to argue with him. Besides, I am not very daring with strangers, especially when they speak 357

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1909 · PDF PAGE 365

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… for the most precious existence on this planet. But I am well rewarded. You have come. My globe of transparent crystal had shown me the truth. You have come, escaping my enemies, and you are for the time to come at my disposition.” I thought at first that the man was under the influence of drink and that it was useless to argue with him. Besides, I am not very daring with strangers, especially when they speak 357

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