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1912 · PDF PAGE 166

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ahe I A I D A. THE EIGHTEENTH KEY Ο ΤΗου mighty Light and burning Flame of Comfort! that unveilest the Glory of God to the centre of the Earth, in whom the 6332 secrets 01 Truth have their abiding, that is called in thy kingdom “Joy" and not to be measured, Be thou 3 window 01 comfort unto me! Move and Appearl Unveil the mysteries of your Creation, be friendly unto me, for I am the servant 01 the same your God, the true worshipper 01 1116 highest, The Angle of V 01 A, in the tablet of Δ. The Princess of the Shining Flame, the Rose 01 1116 Palac…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 151

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…trong, which also successively are the Numbers of Time: and their powers are as the first 456. Arise! you sons of Pleasurel and visit the earth: for I am the Lord your God; which is and liveth (for ever)[ In the name of the Creator, move! and shew yourselves as 109

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1912 · PDF PAGE 162

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…e servant of the same your God, the true worshipper of the Highest The Angle 01 A 01 v, in the tablet 01 V. The Prince 01 the Chariot 01 Earth. 120

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1912 · PDF PAGE 166

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ahe I A I D A. THE EIGHTEENTH KEY Ο ΤΗου mighty Light and burning Flame of Comfort! that unveilest the Glory of God to the centre of the Earth, in whom the 6332 secrets 01 Truth have their abiding, that is called in thy kingdom “Joy" and not to be measured, Be thou 3 window 01 comfort unto me! Move and Appearl Unveil the mysteries of your Creation, be friendly unto me, for I am the servant 01 the same your God, the true worshipper 01 1116 highest, The Angle of V 01 A, in the tablet of Δ. The Princess of the Shining Flame, the Rose 01 1116 Palac…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 293

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… the eternal shadows. Science, that Babel Tower of the spirit, may twist and coil its spirals ever ascending as it will; it may make the earth tremble, it will never touch the sky. God is He whom we shall eternally learn to know better, and, consequently, He whom we shall never know entirely. The realm of mystery is, then, a field open to the conquests of the intelligence. March there as boldly as you will, never will you diminish its extent; you will only alter xi

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1913 · PDF PAGE 293

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… the eternal shadows. Science, that Babel Tower of the spirit, may twist and coil its spirals ever ascending as it will; it may make the earth tremble, it will never touch the sky. God is He whom we shall eternally learn to know better, and, consequently, He whom we shall never know entirely. The realm of mystery is, then, a field open to the conquests of the intelligence. March there as boldly as you will, never will you diminish its extent; you will only alter xi

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1899 · PDF PAGE 18

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…tomb! Manhood reluctant from religion’s womb Leaps, and sweet laughters flash for freedom’s birth That thrills the old bosom of maternal earth. The dawn has broken; yet the impure fierce fire Kindles the grievous furnace of desire Still for the harpy brood of king and priest, Slave, harlot, coward, that make human feast Before the desecrated god, in hells Of darkness, where the mitred vampire dwells, Where still death reigns, and God and priests are fed, Man’s blood for wine, man’s flesh for meat and bread, The lands of murder, of the obscene t…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 137

John St. John

…ning Duant, the star-abodes ; Their keys receiving. The dead man Ankh-af-na-khonsu Hath made his passage into night, His pleasure on the earth to do Among the living. Amen Amen without lie Amen, and Amen of Amen. I shall lie down to sleep in my robes, still wearing the Ring of the Masters, and bearing my wand in my hand. For to me now sleep is the same as waking, and life the same as death. In Thy L.V.X. are not light and darkness but twin children that chase each other in their play? Awoke from long sweet dreamless sleep, like a young eagle th…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 91

Mortadello

OR, THE ANGEL OF VENICE 75 MONICA. All my prayer is for the poor of the earth, Poor outcast things of little excellence or worth. ALESSANDRO. Say, shall we rescue you ? MONICA. Father, Thy Kingdom come ! But—dare I ask ?—not yet—I would earn martyrdom. O men, if I must speak to men who thought no more To speak except to God, by the Lord Christ who bore Our sins upon the cross, I pray you pardon me So weakling as I am, a thing of vanity. I am jealous of my crowns ; my virgin lilies mix With thorns of martyrdom upon my crucifix ! A CITIZEN. What …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 365

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES revolution, it is the inauguration of the reign of the Holy Ghost upon the earth. XIX THE NUMBER NINETEEN Ir is the numberof light. It is the existence of God proved by the very idea of God. Either one must say that Being is the universal tomb where, by an automatic movement, stirs a form for ever dead and corpse-like, or one must admit the absolute principle of intelligence and of life. Is the universal light dead or alive? Is it vowed fatally to the work of destruction, or providentially directed to an immortal birth …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 425

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…admixture of the pheno- mena of sleep with those of waking. Our plastic medium breathes in and out the astral light or vital soul of the earth, as our body breathes in and out the terrestrial atmosphere. Now, just as in certain places the air is impure and not fit for breathing, in the same way, certain unusual circumstances may make the astral light unwholesome, and not assimilable. The air of some places may be too bracing for some people, and suit others perfectly; it is exactly the same with the magnetic light. The plastic medium is like a …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 365

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES revolution, it is the inauguration of the reign of the Holy Ghost upon the earth. XIX THE NUMBER NINETEEN Ir is the numberof light. It is the existence of God proved by the very idea of God. Either one must say that Being is the universal tomb where, by an automatic movement, stirs a form for ever dead and corpse-like, or one must admit the absolute principle of intelligence and of life. Is the universal light dead or alive? Is it vowed fatally to the work of destruction, or providentially directed to an immortal birth …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 425

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…admixture of the pheno- mena of sleep with those of waking. Our plastic medium breathes in and out the astral light or vital soul of the earth, as our body breathes in and out the terrestrial atmosphere. Now, just as in certain places the air is impure and not fit for breathing, in the same way, certain unusual circumstances may make the astral light unwholesome, and not assimilable. The air of some places may be too bracing for some people, and suit others perfectly; it is exactly the same with the magnetic light. The plastic medium is like a …

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1961 · PDF PAGE 115

Liber Aleph

…hine own Nature, and to ask Oracles whose Interpretation is bound by fixed rule. This is the Use of the Book TAROT, of the Divination by Earth, or by the other Elements, or by the Book Yi-King, and many another Mode of Truth. Thou knowest by thine Experience that these Arts deceive thee not, save insofar as hou deceivest thyself. So then to thee that art NEMO is no Siege Perilous at this Table, but to them that are yet below he Abyss is very notable Danger of Error. Yet must they train themselves constantly in these Modes, for Experience itself…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 330

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ty. Cain and Abel represent the flesh and the spirit, force and intelligence, violence and harmony. The giants are those who usurped the earth in ancient times; the flood was a great revolution. The ark is tradition preserved in a family: religion at this period becomes a mystery and the property of the race. Ham was cursed for having revealed it. 32

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1913 · PDF PAGE 330

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ty. Cain and Abel represent the flesh and the spirit, force and intelligence, violence and harmony. The giants are those who usurped the earth in ancient times; the flood was a great revolution. The ark is tradition preserved in a family: religion at this period becomes a mystery and the property of the race. Ham was cursed for having revealed it. 32

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1928 · PDF PAGE 118

Little Poems in Prose

…e steeple. Ah, I cannot see Him any more.” And the child remained for long turned in the same direction, fixing upon the line which cuts earth from heaven a pair of eyes which shone with an inexpressive expression of ecstasy and of regret. “Silly baby, with His God that nobody but he can see,” then said the third, all of whose little personality was marked by a strange vivacity

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1944 · PDF PAGE 164

The Book of Thoth

PRINCESS OF SWORDS The Princess of Swords represents the earthy part of Air, the fixation of the volatile. She brings about the materialization of Idea. She represents the influence of Heaven upon Earth. She partakes of the characteristics of Minerva and Artemis, and there is some sugges‐ tion of the Valkyrie. She represents to some extent the anger of the Gods, and she appears helmed, with serpent‐haired Medusa for her crest. She stands in front of a barren altar as if to avenge its profanation, and she stabs downward with her sword. The heave…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 235

The Book of Thoth

…rds seem to prepare the explosion which will renew the whole Cycle. Note that Virgo is Yod, the secret seed of Life, and also the Virgin Earth awaiting the Phallic Plough. The interest of this card is the interest of the common people. The rulership of the Sun in Virgo suggests also birth. The disks are arranged in the form of the geomantic figure Popu‐ lus. These disks may be represented as the flowers or fruits of a great tree, its solid roots in fertile land. In the Yî King, Sol in Virgo is represented by the 33rd Hexagram, Thun, “Big Air”. …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 29

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…all fair Ida, thou hast sealed my bliss Then with one long intense unpitying kiss Pressed on her bosom, he arose and swore By heaven and earth and all the seas that roar And stars that sing, by rivers and fresh flood, By his own essence, by his body and blood, To lay his godhead down, till night drew nigh, To be a mortal Ul the vesper cry Of dying breezes. So the morning past And found them linked inexorably fast Each in the other’s arms, Their lips are wed To drink head Of lovers’ breath. Now Zeus half rises up, Sips once again from that moon-…

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