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1910 · PDF PAGE 181

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Normal amount of sleep. Speech only when necessary. Pranayama, A’sana with eyes turned up. October Walking as exercise. 2nd. 8.30 a.m. Mantra “Aum Tat Sat Aum.” 9.10-10.50 A’sana with Mantra and eyes turned to Ajna Chakkra. am. am. Chittam distinctly slowing towards end. 10.50-12.5 Continued lying down, [Did I sleep ?] am. p.m, 12.35-1.45 For a walk muttering Mantra. p.m. p.m. 2.20-2.45 A’sana. Always forgetting to repeat the Mantra, Maitra- p-m.p.m, nandra Swami says this is right. Ajna is now more steely in appe…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 181

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Normal amount of sleep. Speech only when necessary. Pranayama, A’sana with eyes turned up. October Walking as exercise. 2nd. 8.30 a.m. Mantra “Aum Tat Sat Aum.” 9.10-10.50 A’sana with Mantra and eyes turned to Ajna Chakkra. am. am. Chittam distinctly slowing towards end. 10.50-12.5 Continued lying down, [Did I sleep ?] am. p.m, 12.35-1.45 For a walk muttering Mantra. p.m. p.m. 2.20-2.45 A’sana. Always forgetting to repeat the Mantra, Maitra- p-m.p.m, nandra Swami says this is right. Ajna is now more steely in appe…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 62

The Goetia

phurous stinking substances, and burned in this material fire; so in the name IEHovAH and by the power and dignity of these three names, TETRA- GRAMMATON, ANAPHAXETON, and PrimEuMATON, I do cast thee, O thou wicked and disobedient Spirit N., into the Lake of Fire which is prepared for the damnéd and accurséd spirits, and there to remain unto the day of doom, and never more to be remembered before the face of Gop, who shall come to judge the quick, and the dead, and the world, by fire. TueEn the exorcist must put the box into the fire, and by-an…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 146

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…God; but, if I give them the slightest cause to expect any reward outside cessation of Sorrow, it would set them all * “The Questions of King Milinda,” iii, 4, 6. + Ibid, iii, 5, 10. t It is curious how, inversely according to the amount of morality preached is morality practised in America; in fact there are almost as many moral writers there as there are immoral readers. Paul Carus is as completely ignorant of Buddhism as he is about the art of nursing babies—he has written on both these subjects and many more, all flatulently. § Chandogya, 3…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 146

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…God; but, if I give them the slightest cause to expect any reward outside cessation of Sorrow, it would set them all * “The Questions of King Milinda,” iii, 4, 6. + Ibid, iii, 5, 10. t It is curious how, inversely according to the amount of morality preached is morality practised in America; in fact there are almost as many moral writers there as there are immoral readers. Paul Carus is as completely ignorant of Buddhism as he is about the art of nursing babies—he has written on both these subjects and many more, all flatulently. § Chandogya, 3…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 95

The Law is for All

…rowley, paraphrase of his Orpheus, A Lyrical Legend (1905), bk. 4; see Collected Works, vol. Ill, p. 217.] 2 [“The Temple of Solomon the King,” The Equinox 1(7) (1912); this account was republished as Chapter 6 of “Genesis Libri AL” in The Equinox of the Gods (Book 4, Part ZV).] 3 [Apemantus is the gloomy prophet in Timon of Athens.] The nature of events must be “pure joy”; for, obviously, whatever occurs is the fulfilment of the will of its master. Sorrow thus appears as the result of any unsuccessful—therefore, ill- judged—struggle. Acquiesce…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 97

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

… be reborn within the womb of BABALON, then came he unto me abiding in my virgin heart, its Lord and Lover! Also He made me a Magus, speaking through His Law, the Word of the new Aeon, the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child. 2 Thus he fulfilled my will to bring full freedom to the race of Men. Yea, he wrought also in me a Work of Wonder beyond this, but in this matter I am sworn to hold my peace. 1. See the maps “Minutum Mundum” in the Equinex i, 2 & 3 and the general relations detailed in Liber 777, of which the most important columns ar…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 139

Magick Without Tears

…periodically complain, and of which the cause appears to you so obscure , you see pink leopards on the staircase, "Ah! the colour of the King Scale of Tiphareth-Oh! the form of Leo, probably in the Queen Scale" and thereby increase your vocabulary by these two items. Then, perhaps, someone suggests that indiscretion in the worship of Dionysus is responsible for the observed phenomena-well, there's Tiphareth again at once; the Priest, moreover, wears a leopard-skin, and the spots suggest the Sun. Also, Sol is Lord of Leo: so there you are! pink …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 124

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING OBJECT MEDITATED UPON. TIME, REMARKS. Black egg and white ray 10 , Five breaks. between pillars* (E). Golden Dawn Symbol t(E). ry Very bad. Bad cold, dust, shaking, etc., prevented concentration.{ Golden Dawn Symbol (E). 10 4 Four breaks. R. Reet A.C. 23 Nine breaks. Against this particular practice P. wrote: “I think breaks are longer in themselves than of old; forI find myself con- centrating on them and forgetting the primary altogether. But I have no means of telling how long it is before the error is discover…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 124

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING OBJECT MEDITATED UPON. TIME, REMARKS. Black egg and white ray 10 , Five breaks. between pillars* (E). Golden Dawn Symbol t(E). ry Very bad. Bad cold, dust, shaking, etc., prevented concentration.{ Golden Dawn Symbol (E). 10 4 Four breaks. R. Reet A.C. 23 Nine breaks. Against this particular practice P. wrote: “I think breaks are longer in themselves than of old; forI find myself con- centrating on them and forgetting the primary altogether. But I have no means of telling how long it is before the error is discover…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 349

Diary of a Drug Fiend

… take it. Now that I was getting down to two or three doses a day, at the most, it seemed as though there were no particular object in taking it, even as dulling the craving for it. I found it in- creasingly difficult to fill column two. King Lamus descended on me one morning, just after I had taken a dose, and was raking my brain for a reason for my action. I was alternately chewing the end of my pencil and making meaningless marks on the paper. I told him my difficulty. “ Always glad to help,” he said airily; went to a filing cabinet and prod…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 69

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING viduality, a self-consciousness—I am! This is explained in Brihadaranyaka, 1. 4. 1. as follows: “In the beginning the Atman alone in the form ofa man * was this universe. He gazed around; he saw nothing there but himself. Thereupon he cried out at the beginning: ‘It is I? Thence originated the name I. Therefore to-day, when anyone is summoned, he answers first ‘It is 1’; and then only he names the other name which he bears.”+ This Consciousness of “I” is the second veil which man meets on his upward journey, and, …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 95

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING which is described at length by Swatm4ran Swami. But the two most important exercises which all must undergo, should success be desired, are those of A’sana and Pranayama. The first consists of physical exercises which will gain for him who practises them control over the muscles of the body, and the second over the breath. The A’sanas, or Positions. According to the “ Pradipika ” and the ‘“ Shiva Sanhita,” there are 84 A’sanas; but Goraksha says there are as many A’sanas as there are varieties of beings, and that…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 69

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING viduality, a self-consciousness—I am! This is explained in Brihadaranyaka, 1. 4. 1. as follows: “In the beginning the Atman alone in the form ofa man * was this universe. He gazed around; he saw nothing there but himself. Thereupon he cried out at the beginning: ‘It is I? Thence originated the name I. Therefore to-day, when anyone is summoned, he answers first ‘It is 1’; and then only he names the other name which he bears.”+ This Consciousness of “I” is the second veil which man meets on his upward journey, and, …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 95

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING which is described at length by Swatm4ran Swami. But the two most important exercises which all must undergo, should success be desired, are those of A’sana and Pranayama. The first consists of physical exercises which will gain for him who practises them control over the muscles of the body, and the second over the breath. The A’sanas, or Positions. According to the “ Pradipika ” and the ‘“ Shiva Sanhita,” there are 84 A’sanas; but Goraksha says there are as many A’sanas as there are varieties of beings, and that…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 352

Diary of a Drug Fiend

338 The Diary of a Drug Fiend Basil saw my perplexity. “The fact is,” he said, ‘that you're taking this stuff as the majority of people go to church. It’s a meaningless habit.” I hated to put that down on my paper. It was confessing that I was an automaton. But something in his eye compelled me. I wrote the word, and broke out as I did so into a spasm of internal fury. I re- collected a story from my hospital days, of a man who had committed suicide when it was proved to him that he couldn't move his upper jaw. Meanwhile Lamus was looking at my…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 220

Magick Without Tears

…ght. At this moment we stopped dictating, and began to converse. Then Fra. P. said: "Oh, if I could only dictate a book like The Tao Teh King!" Then he closed his eyes as if meditating. Just before I had noticed a change in his face, most extraordinary, as if he were no longer the same person; in fact, in the ten minutes we were talking he seemed to be any number of different people. I especially noticed the pupils of his eyes were so enlarged that the entire eye seemed black. (I tremble so and have such a quaking feeling inside, simply in thin…

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1922 · PDF PAGE 54

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…an instant later came an unmistakable indication of the trouble. I was out of gas. My mind shot back with a vivid flash of hatred toward King Lamus. ‘A case of indiscretion!’’ He'd as good as called me a fool to my face. I thought of him as the sea, shaking with derisive laughter. All the time I had been chuckling over my dear old squad commander. Not a great flyer, am I? This will show him! And that was true enough. I was incomparably better than I had ever been before. And yet I had omitted just one obvious precaution. I suddenly realised tha…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 85

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Of Bhakta Yoga the “ Narada Stra” says: 58. Love (Bhakti) is easier than other methods. 59. Being self-evident it does not depend on other truths. 60. And from being of the nature of peace and supreme bliss.* This exquisite little S@tra commences: 1. We will now explain Love. 2. Its nature is extreme devotion to some one. 3. Love is immortal. 4. Obtaining it man becomes perfect, becomes immortal, becomes satisfied. 5. And obtaining it he desires nothing, grieves not, hates not, does not delight, makes no effort. 6…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 177

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING me. The one dominant thought in my brain was: “That is it,” 2e, Dhyana. The characteristic perspiration which marks the first stage of success in Pranayama possesses the odour, September taste, colour, and almost the consistency of semen. 11th. 6.25-6.45 Pranayama. Fifteen minutes. 10. 20. 30. No perspira- am.am. tion. 10.30-10.45 Pranayama. Twelve minutes: 10. 20, 30. am. am. Pranayama. Eight minutes: 10, 20. 30. 6.0-6.30 With great effort. p.m. p.m. Cannot do Pranayama 30. 60. 15. more than once through, I tried…

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