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1919 · PDF PAGE 337

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… light which no wind can extinguish, that light which burns without a wick or fuel. “Twilight” here may again refer to Atmadarshana. The last phrase is borrowed from Eliphas Levi, who was not (I believe) a Tibetan of antiquity. [Madame Blavatsky hu- 15

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1906 · PDF PAGE 237

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… in the net of Circumstance, bogged in the mire of Tanha! and Avigga? and all things base and vile. False Vichi-Kichi® had caught him at last ! XIII. ‘*Aye! The hour was at hand. Perdu’ R Abu was reincarnated as a child of Western parents, ignorant of all his wonder- ful past. But a strange fate has brought him to this village.” The Buddha paused, pro- bably for effect. A young man there, sole among all them not yet an Arahat, turned pale. He alone was of Western birth in all that multitude. ‘* Brother Abhavananda,? little friend,” said the Bud…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 151

The Star in the West

…into the ocean of Eternity the pure waters of inexhaustible chastity mingled with the never -dying flames of inextinguish able love . At last she has been disclosed to us , she concerning whom it was prophesied in the beginning of Time ; and as the hollow sobs of the dying years have rolled back sonorous , rumbling , and echoing , into the sound less depths of æonial infinity , she who was promised has at length been revealed ; she who will crush the head of that old serpent , who has so long bruised the heel of the children of men who were bor…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 65

The Scented Garden

…nd a cure for impo- tence. Thus the goat, deposed from his Satanic glory, and proved (like a young virgin) useless in gonorrhoea, has at last found his causa finalis in

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1910 · PDF PAGE 17

The World’s Tragedy

… pro- viding a witness — like the witnesses against Naboth ! Then the witness and his story, as smooth as a policeman’s. Next, sentence. Last, execution, with intervals of prayer ! Champney’s physique being impaired, one may suppose by his excessive devotion of Jesus, he arranged to give 60 strokes one day, and 60 the next. My memory fails — perhaps Barton will one day oblige with his reminiscences — but I fancy the first day came so near killing him that he escaped the second. I remember one licking I got — on the legs, because flog- ging the …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 67

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…onthly: then the fresh blood of a child, or dropping from the host of heaven: then of enemies; then of the priest or of the worshippers: last of some beast, no matter what. 25. This burn: of this make cakes & eat unto me. This hath also another use; let it be laid before me, and kept thick with perfumes of your orison: it shall become full of beetles as it were and creeping things sacred unto me. 26. These slay, naming your enemies; & they shall fall before you. 27. Also these shall breed lust & power of lust in you at the eating thereof. 28. A…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 67

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…onthly: then the fresh blood of a child, or dropping from the host of heaven: then of enemies; then of the priest or of the worshippers: last of some beast, no matter what. 25. This burn: of this make cakes & eat unto me. This hath also another use; let it be laid before me, and kept thick with perfumes of your orison: it shall become full of beetles as it were and creeping things sacred unto me. 26. These slay, naming your enemies; & they shall fall before you. 27. Also these shall breed lust & power of lust in you at the eating thereof. 28. A…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 78

Konx Om Pax

…he had reduced the Universe to the Yang and the Yin and their permutations in the trigrams of Fo-hi and the hexagrams of King Wu. In the last year be abolished the Yang and the Yin, and became united with the great Tao. All this was very satisfactory to Kwaw. But even his iron frame had become somewhat impaired by the unvarying diet of tinned pro visions; and it was perhaps only by virtue of this talisman

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1907 · PDF PAGE 221

The Star in the West

… forward they will , under the atheistic theurgy of Crowleyanity , know things per se . The Ultima Thule of our rigorous journey will at last be discernible on the horizon of our minds , and the mixed drinks of the stumbling Scoto -German Bacchantes will give way to the pure amrita of Iacchus . The above may be symbolized as follows : | The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii , p. 176 .

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1909 · PDF PAGE 110

John St. John

8.20. 8.35. 9.0. 9-35- THE EQUINOX The thought too, is wanderingall over the world. Since the last entry, very likely, the beast has not thought even once of Adonai. The Reading of the Ritual has done much service, though things are still far from calm. Yet the mighty flood of the Chittam is again rolling its tremendous tide toward the sea—the Sea of annihilation. Amen. Returning home, with his eyes fixed on the supreme glory of the Moon, in his heart and brain invoking Adonai, he hath now entered into his little chamber, and will prepare all thi…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 386

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…I felt the most intense impulse to murder them. We talked for a long time without being able to gather much of each other’s thoughts. At last I turned to the books in the coffin, and in the book containing “ Advice to Mankind for a better use of their faculties” I saw, traced by an invisible hand, the following advice : “ Be careful of womanly traps.” “Let the roses be planted; they are meant for that purpose.” “ A cover cannot fall in love except with boards and planks. Beware of the fallacies of sense.” As any one may understand, my mind was …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 386

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…I felt the most intense impulse to murder them. We talked for a long time without being able to gather much of each other’s thoughts. At last I turned to the books in the coffin, and in the book containing “ Advice to Mankind for a better use of their faculties” I saw, traced by an invisible hand, the following advice : “ Be careful of womanly traps.” “Let the roses be planted; they are meant for that purpose.” “ A cover cannot fall in love except with boards and planks. Beware of the fallacies of sense.” As any one may understand, my mind was …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 305

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

EDITORIAL NOTE HIS dictionary was begun by Allan Bennett (Fra Iehi Aour, now Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya) in the last decade of the nineteenth century since ],ס-?ןוזIt was bequeathed to the present Editor, with many other magical MSS,, on I.A.’s departure for Ceylon inי899!? Frater Perdurabo used it, and largely added to it, in the course of his Qabalistic workings. With George Cecil Jones (Fra Volo Noscere) he further added to it by making it a complete cross-correspondenceto the Book DCCLXXVII, It was further revised and checked, re-copied by a Je…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 305

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

EDITORIAL NOTE HIS dictionary was begun by Allan Bennett (Fra Iehi Aour, now Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya) in the last decade of the nineteenth century since ],ס-?ןוזIt was bequeathed to the present Editor, with many other magical MSS,, on I.A.’s departure for Ceylon inי899!? Frater Perdurabo used it, and largely added to it, in the course of his Qabalistic workings. With George Cecil Jones (Fra Volo Noscere) he further added to it by making it a complete cross-correspondenceto the Book DCCLXXVII, It was further revised and checked, re-copied by a Je…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 187

The Star in the West

…ic the body of ex clusive Esoterism lies dead , the soul has sloughed the skin of caste , has riven the fetters of law , has smitten the last head from the hydra of religion ; and rises as an eagle - winged serpent , sublime , neither good nor evil , pristine , Adamic , immaculate :

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1909 · PDF PAGE 404

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX utterly breaks the first (and last) rule: ‘Rules are the devil.” He writes like a schoolboy for whom a false quantity means a basting. He counts his syllables on his fingers; he never writes by ear, as one whose ears are open to the heavenly melody of the Muses. So we have all the artifice—and perhaps the worst artifice ever invented—but no art, no humanity. As a mountaineer (I have seen very many of the greatest mountains of the earth) I must admit that “ : . . phantom fair Was Monte Rosa, hanging there, A thousand shadowy-pencille…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 404

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX utterly breaks the first (and last) rule: ‘Rules are the devil.” He writes like a schoolboy for whom a false quantity means a basting. He counts his syllables on his fingers; he never writes by ear, as one whose ears are open to the heavenly melody of the Muses. So we have all the artifice—and perhaps the worst artifice ever invented—but no art, no humanity. As a mountaineer (I have seen very many of the greatest mountains of the earth) I must admit that “ : . . phantom fair Was Monte Rosa, hanging there, A thousand shadowy-pencille…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 279

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE HASHEESH EATER of the eyelid, followed at last by a comatose state, lasting for hours, out of which it was almost impossible fully to arouse the energies. These symptoms, together with a peculiar rigidity of the muscular system, and inability to measure the precise compass and volume of the voice when speaking, brought the case nearer in resemblance to those recorded by Dr. O'Shaughnessy, of Calcutta, as occurring under his immediate inspection among the natives of India, than any I have ever witnessed. At half-past seven in the evening, an…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 279

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE HASHEESH EATER of the eyelid, followed at last by a comatose state, lasting for hours, out of which it was almost impossible fully to arouse the energies. These symptoms, together with a peculiar rigidity of the muscular system, and inability to measure the precise compass and volume of the voice when speaking, brought the case nearer in resemblance to those recorded by Dr. O'Shaughnessy, of Calcutta, as occurring under his immediate inspection among the natives of India, than any I have ever witnessed. At half-past seven in the evening, an…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 407

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…miliar with any passage in which the metaphor is that of a place at the other end of a journey. The meta- phor moreover is mixed. In the last verse he was climbing a ladder; now he is going across the waters, and neither on ladders nor in journeys by water does one usually pass through Portals. 85

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