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1919 · PDF PAGE 260

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…nd of good report, has an inde- feasible right to these degrees. Beyond this, admission is only granted by invitation from the governing body concerned. Knight of the East and of the West 5.0 . wee TIO V° Sovereign Prince of Rose Croix. (Knight of the PelicanandEagle) 15.0. 260... 330. 5 50 Member of the Senate of Knight Hermetic Philosophers, Knights of the Red Eagle ..... ....... 10.0 . wee 220. VI° Illustrious Knight (Templar) of the Order of Kadosch, and Compan- ion of the Holy Graal ......... 26.0. 310... 550. 6 60 Grand Inquisitor Command…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 119

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…nt girl that she was, had somehow been sucked into a stupendous maelstrom of truth. The normal actions and reactions of the mind and the body are simply so many stupid veils upon the face of Isis. What happened to them didn’ t matter. The stunt was to find some trick to make them shut up. I understood the value of words. It depended, not on their rational meaning, but upon their hieratic suggestion. “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-house decree.” The names mean nothing definite, but they determine the atmosphere of the poem. Sublimi…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 134

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…very considerable uproar before the Professor and his butler could master her rage. She was a big muscular woman from Australia with the body of a tiger and the temper of a snake. She would have made a winning fight of it but for Zircon’s adroit sortie to the laboratory and timely return with a bottle of chloroform. The Professor dined alone that night; at the very outset of the battle Muriel had fled in tears to the little room in VValham Green where she lived under the alleged guardian- ship of a most paunchy ex—dresser. No other incident distu…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 134

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…very considerable uproar before the Professor and his butler could master her rage. She was a big muscular woman from Australia with the body of a tiger and the temper of a snake. She would have made a winning fight of it but for Zircon’s adroit sortie to the laboratory and timely return with a bottle of chloroform. The Professor dined alone that night; at the very outset of the battle Muriel had fled in tears to the little room in VValham Green where she lived under the alleged guardian- ship of a most paunchy ex—dresser. No other incident distu…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 25

The Sword of Song

… ; I wish I had my mother’s nursing, Find precious little use in cursing, 620 625 630 635 640 645 650 655 Death-bed o f poet. Effec t of body on mind.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 114

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ing of Pranayama. It is a well-known physiological fact that the respiratory system, more so than any other, controls the motions of the body. Without food or drink we can subsist many days, but stop a man’s breathing but for a few minutes and life becomes extinct.* The air oxydises the blood, and it is the clean red blood which supports in health the tissues, nerves, and brain. When we are agitated our breath comes and goes in gasps, when we are at rest it becomes regular and rhythmical. In the “ Hatha Yoga Pradipika” we read: He who suspends …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 114

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ing of Pranayama. It is a well-known physiological fact that the respiratory system, more so than any other, controls the motions of the body. Without food or drink we can subsist many days, but stop a man’s breathing but for a few minutes and life becomes extinct.* The air oxydises the blood, and it is the clean red blood which supports in health the tissues, nerves, and brain. When we are agitated our breath comes and goes in gasps, when we are at rest it becomes regular and rhythmical. In the “ Hatha Yoga Pradipika” we read: He who suspends …

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1922 · PDF PAGE 293

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…ly kindle and slay ; You hate truth as the lies She rejected! I love you because you are gallant and proud, (Your soul is a sun and your body a cloud) And you leap from my arms when I woo you ; Because you love earth and its worms, you caress The stars and the seas, and you mock my distress While the sorrows of others thrill through you |! I love you because my life’s lost in your being ; You burn for me all the night long, and on seeing Me, jest at your tears—and allot mine! Because you elude me, a wave of the lake, Because you are danger and …

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1922 · PDF PAGE 6

Poetica Erotica

…supreme Passion to feed upon your shoulders bare, And pass the dewy twilight of our sin In the intolerable flames of hair That clothe my body from your head; you win The devil’s bargain; I am yours to kill, Yours, for one kiss; my spirit for your skin! O bitter love, consuming all my will! O love destroying, that hast drained my life Of all those fountains of dear blood that fill My heartt O woman, would I call you wife? Would I content you with one touch divine To flood your spirit with the clinging strife Of perfect passionate joy, the joy of…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 577

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…d make us take it back; but when death is premature, the soul regrets life, and a clever thaumaturgist would be able to recall it to the body. The sacred books indicate to us the proceeding which must be employed in such a case. The Prophet Elisha and the Apostle St. Paul em- ployed it with success. The deceased must be magnetized 279

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1913 · PDF PAGE 577

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…d make us take it back; but when death is premature, the soul regrets life, and a clever thaumaturgist would be able to recall it to the body. The sacred books indicate to us the proceeding which must be employed in such a case. The Prophet Elisha and the Apostle St. Paul em- ployed it with success. The deceased must be magnetized 279

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1910 · PDF PAGE 115

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…do so slowly increase the number. 2. Assume the Padmdsana posture; draw in the Prana through the Ida (left nostril), retain it until the body begins to perspire and shake, and then exhale it through Pingala (right nostril) slowly and never fast. * The Voice of the Nada. + “Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” p. 43. Iol

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1910 · PDF PAGE 115

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…do so slowly increase the number. 2. Assume the Padmdsana posture; draw in the Prana through the Ida (left nostril), retain it until the body begins to perspire and shake, and then exhale it through Pingala (right nostril) slowly and never fast. * The Voice of the Nada. + “Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” p. 43. Iol

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1904 · PDF PAGE 7

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…ter in St. James : “ Husbands ! Love your wives and be not bitter against them ! ” with “ Husbands ! F . . . them often, or surely some- body else will ! ” A few examples of his quaint, often recondite, wit will delight all who hear. [3]

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1912 · PDF PAGE 266

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…he 0/06/07 laughs. DOSE. At it again, Eel? Ha! Hal Ha I EEL. Ay, sir, d'ye ken this is a muckle serious affair] There‘s a French actress body in the village I In the Village o' Houghmagandie! DOSE, Ha! Ha! Ha! Iwasjust going to tellyou about it, Meek, It’s a dear little Russian girl, a friend of my wife's. She’s had a tremendous season in Paris—they went mad over her—so we suggested her coming up here for a rest. She wouldn't stay with uswpoor child, she has to practise eight hours a day I—so we got her the room over Awl’s, and she comes to the…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 266

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…he 0/06/07 laughs. DOSE. At it again, Eel? Ha! Hal Ha I EEL. Ay, sir, d'ye ken this is a muckle serious affair] There‘s a French actress body in the village I In the Village o' Houghmagandie! DOSE, Ha! Ha! Ha! Iwasjust going to tellyou about it, Meek, It’s a dear little Russian girl, a friend of my wife's. She’s had a tremendous season in Paris—they went mad over her—so we suggested her coming up here for a rest. She wouldn't stay with uswpoor child, she has to practise eight hours a day I—so we got her the room over Awl’s, and she comes to the…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 85

Konx Om Pax

…pside down. Millions of yen have been expended monthly; he has even mortgaged this very palace in which your lordship has been asleep; a body of madmen has seized the reins of government—” “The Synagogue of Satan ! " gasped the outraged Daimio. “ --And you are everywhere hailed as the Godfather of your country l ” “ Do not tell me that the British war has ended disastrously for us!” and he called for the elaborate apparatus of hari-kari. “On the contrary, my lord, the ridiculous Sa Mon, who would never go to sea because he was afraid of being s…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 73

The Vision and the Voice

… 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 such darkness before the Aethyr that it seems impossible to pierce it. But there is a voice saying: Behold, the Great One of the Night of Time stirreth, and with his tail he churneth up …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 559

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ntagonism so distinct that the qabalists hypothesized the super-foetation of souls: that is to say, they believed in the presence in one body of several souls who dispute it with each other and often seek to destroy it. Very much as the shipwrecked sailors of the Medusa, when they were disputing the possession of the too small raft, sought to sink it. It is certain that, in making one’s self the servant of any current whatever, of instincts or even of ideas, one gives up one’s personality, and becomes the slave of that multitudinous spirit whom…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 559

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ntagonism so distinct that the qabalists hypothesized the super-foetation of souls: that is to say, they believed in the presence in one body of several souls who dispute it with each other and often seek to destroy it. Very much as the shipwrecked sailors of the Medusa, when they were disputing the possession of the too small raft, sought to sink it. It is certain that, in making one’s self the servant of any current whatever, of instincts or even of ideas, one gives up one’s personality, and becomes the slave of that multitudinous spirit whom…

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