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1910 · PDF PAGE 245

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…od ! [ropp wheels him out of the room, the old man laugh- ing and chuckling. Enter OSSORY and EUPHEMIA, talking. ossory. I want to say a word, girlie, about young Del- 227

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1910 · PDF PAGE 245

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…od ! [ropp wheels him out of the room, the old man laugh- ing and chuckling. Enter OSSORY and EUPHEMIA, talking. ossory. I want to say a word, girlie, about young Del- 227

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1913 · PDF PAGE 209

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…joy, And the branches of all the trees in all the world Are shaken, and the twilight pools are stirred From slumber by the softly spoken word. And Iam thine! Sunk in the heart of Time Is the memory of thee! Ah! deep! deep! deep In the core of the world! And I am set, a flame, On the altar of song; the old, forgotten ways Are set in me! Iam the risen Pan, Risen from the rainy earth to bear the spring Within me! Oh, thou little soft, shy god, Half girl, half beauteous youth, oh, hail to thee Hail! For the morning is a misty birth, And the sun a s…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 209

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…joy, And the branches of all the trees in all the world Are shaken, and the twilight pools are stirred From slumber by the softly spoken word. And Iam thine! Sunk in the heart of Time Is the memory of thee! Ah! deep! deep! deep In the core of the world! And I am set, a flame, On the altar of song; the old, forgotten ways Are set in me! Iam the risen Pan, Risen from the rainy earth to bear the spring Within me! Oh, thou little soft, shy god, Half girl, half beauteous youth, oh, hail to thee Hail! For the morning is a misty birth, And the sun a s…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 6

The Banned Lecture

universe of discourse—by the word “ knowledge.” May I ask a question ? Does anyone here know the date of the battle of Waterloo ? Pause. (Someone—I bet—tells me “ 1815.”) Thank you very much. To be frank with you, I knew it myself. I did not require information on that particular point. What I asked was, whether anyone know the date. I felt that, if so, it would have created a sympathetic atmosphere. But since we are talking about Waterloo, we may ask ourselves what, roughly speaking, is the extent of our knowledge ? I have heard plenty of theo…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 121

The Book of Thoth

…description of the nature of Mercury in several aspects, particu‐ larly his relation with Jupiter and the Sun: “In the Beginning was the Word, the Logos, who is Mercury; and is therefore to be identified with Christ. Both are messengers; their birth mysteries are similar; the pranks of their childhood are similar. In the Vision of the Universal Mercury, Hermes is seen descending upon the sea, which refers to Mary.2 The Crucifixion represents the Caduceus; the two thieves, the two serpents; the cliff in the vision of the Universal Mercury is Gol…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 189

Liber Aleph

… became King in his Psalms) upon the Lion and the Dragon; that is, he is in Unity with his own secret Nature, as I have shewn thee in my Word concerning the Sphinx. O my Son, yester Eve came the Spirit upon me that I also should eat the Grass of the Arabs, and by Virtue of the Bewitchment thereof behold that which might be appointed for the Enlightenment of mine Eyes. Now then of this may I not speak, seeing that it involveth the Mystery of the Transcending of Time, so that in One Hour of our terrestrial Measure did I gather the Harvest of an Æ…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 316

The Star in the West

…n.2 Expressing himself with regard to the free - being , Kant says : “ In him no act would be born , and no act would perish .” In other words the “ free - being " is a " yogi " pure and simple . Kant's à priori takes the place of Hume's “ Ignor ance ,” which we have seen none other than Berkeley's “ God .” It is absolutely true of Huxley , who was as astute a thinker as Hume : The succession of mental states in ideation is not for tuitous . Thus the idea of the word horse presented itself to my 3 ور was 1 Critique of Pure Reason , i, p . 304 .…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 93

The Book of Thoth

…e bow, and the occult signifi‐ cance of Sagittarius is the arrow piercing the rainbow; the last three paths of the Tree of Life make the word Qesheth, a rainbow, and Sagittarius bears the arrow which pierces the rain‐ bow, for his path leads from the Moon of Yesod to the Sun of Tiphareth. (This explanation is highly technical; but this is necessary because the card represents an important scientific formula, which cannot be expressed in language suited to common comprehension.) This card represents the Consummation of the Royal Marriage which t…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 25

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…solemn powers Of sex and soul, of brain and breath. For you I lift the veil: discover The actual, for I was your lover. What should such word imply? I showed Late, in the earlier dithyramb. But—in yon stone there lurks a toad !— The Quarter bleats no palinode ; Goat it may be, no woolly lamb. Arithmetic assuage your wrath Should Cambridge wit write quarter ‘‘ fourth” ! What said the unctuous slime of art, Scrapings of beauty’s palette, pimps Of serious studios, stews or mart . Of filth, not vice? Those painter shrimps! What did they gloat upon,…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 213

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ith diamond points Of infinite far fire, save where the sea Is ebony with sleep, and though the wind Pierces the marrow, since it is the word Of the Almighty, and cuts through the air That may not stay its fury, with a cold Nipping and chill, it is not in the wind ; Nor though the thunder broke, or flashed the fire From all the circle of eternity, Were that the reason ; for thou shudderest To hear the Voice of Love; it is no voice That men may hear, but an intensest rich Silence, that silence when man waits to hear The faintest vibrance in the …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 5

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…hat we must expect character — which is but the statement of the sum of deep-seated habits of thought — to show similar instability. The word habit may seem to invalidate such a conclu- [1]

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1910 · PDF PAGE 251

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ometimes to me as if all the world’s wisdom were summed up in that one Epicurus phrase. For if Todd has solved all their problems with a word, at least he supplies no hint of the answer to mine. For I—it seems I hardly know what question to ask ! Oh, Charley boy, the future is with you, and with your children—or, can humanity ever solve the great secret? Is progress a delusion? Are men mad? Is the great secret truly transcendental? We are like madmen, beating out our poor brains upon the walls of the Universe. Is there no Power that might revea…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 251

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ometimes to me as if all the world’s wisdom were summed up in that one Epicurus phrase. For if Todd has solved all their problems with a word, at least he supplies no hint of the answer to mine. For I—it seems I hardly know what question to ask ! Oh, Charley boy, the future is with you, and with your children—or, can humanity ever solve the great secret? Is progress a delusion? Are men mad? Is the great secret truly transcendental? We are like madmen, beating out our poor brains upon the walls of the Universe. Is there no Power that might revea…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 298

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…e! Silence and Speech are at odds ; Heaven and Hell are at stake. By the Rose and the Cross I conjure; I constrain by the Snake and the Sword ; I am he that is sworn to endure—Bring us the word of the Lord ! By the brood of the Bysses of Brightening, whose God was my sire ; By the Lord of the Flame and the Lightning, the King of the Spirits of Fire ; 120

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1911 · PDF PAGE 298

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…e! Silence and Speech are at odds ; Heaven and Hell are at stake. By the Rose and the Cross I conjure; I constrain by the Snake and the Sword ; I am he that is sworn to endure—Bring us the word of the Lord ! By the brood of the Bysses of Brightening, whose God was my sire ; By the Lord of the Flame and the Lightning, the King of the Spirits of Fire ; 120

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1944 · PDF PAGE 78

The Book of Thoth

… intimate satisfaction in her domination of every element of dis‐equilibrium in the Universe. This condition is symbolized by the Magic Sword which she holds in both hands, and the balances or spheres in which she weighs the Universe, Alpha the First balanced ex‐ actly against Omega the Last. These are the Judex and Testes of Final Judgment; the Testes, in particular, are symbolic of the secret course of judgment whereby all current experience is absorbed, transmuted, and ultimately passed on, by virtue of the operation of the Sword, to further…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 195

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

A NOTE ON GENESIS And finally the word yoxn, Ha Aretz, the Earth, hath four Letters showing its Elemental Constitution, and its Key is 17—also Hope—Hope in the Earth as there is Hope in Heaven. And the last letter of the verse is ¥ (the letter of Hope), by Qabalah of Nine Chambers that number which con- tains in itself all the properties of Protean Matters: howsoever you may multiply it the Key of its Numbers is ever 9. Fitting Symbol of ever-changing matter which ever in its essence is One—one and alone! Thus with the first appearance of the n…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 195

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

A NOTE ON GENESIS And finally the word yoxn, Ha Aretz, the Earth, hath four Letters showing its Elemental Constitution, and its Key is 17—also Hope—Hope in the Earth as there is Hope in Heaven. And the last letter of the verse is ¥ (the letter of Hope), by Qabalah of Nine Chambers that number which con- tains in itself all the properties of Protean Matters: howsoever you may multiply it the Key of its Numbers is ever 9. Fitting Symbol of ever-changing matter which ever in its essence is One—one and alone! Thus with the first appearance of the n…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 65

Book 4 (Part II)

53 the Temple asks, on seeing a slug: "What is the purpose of this message from the Unseen? How shall I interpret this Word of God Most High?" The Magus thinks: "How shall I use this slug?" And in this course he must persist. Though many things useless, so far as he can see, are sent to him, one day he will find the one thing he needs, while his Understanding will appreciate the fact that none of those other things were useless. So with these early practices of renunciation it will now be clearly understood that they were but of temporary use. …

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