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Page 60 of 741930 · PDF PAGE 36
…it were two equal weights in opposite scales. The indicator still points to zéro. ShT is equally 31 with LA and AL, but it expresses the secret nature which opérâtes the Magick or the transmutations. ShT is the formula of this particular aeon; another aeon might hâve another way of saying 31. S h is Fire as T is Force; conjoined they express Ra-Hoor-Khuit. “The Angel” represents the Stélé 666, showing the Gods of the Aeon, while “Strength” is a picture of Babalon and The Beast, the earthly emissaries of those Gods. ShT is the dynamic équivalent…
1930 · PDF PAGE 30
…Grade of Ipsissimus is not to be described îully; but its opening is indicated in Liber I vel MagL There is also an account in a certain secret document to be published when propriety permits. Here it is only said this : The Ipsissimus is wholly free from ail limitations soever, existing in the nature of ail things without discriminations of quantity or quality between them. He has identified Being and not-Being and Becoming, action and non-action and tendency to action, with ail other such triplicities, not distinguishing between them in respe…
1954 · PDF PAGE 136
WOOLLY POMPOSITIES 103 secret-peddlers, the U.B., the O.H.M., the A.M.O.R.C., and all the other gangs of self-styled Rosicrucians; they should be hissed off the stage. Now that we are agreed upon the conditions to be satisfied if we are to allow that a given proposition contains a Thought at all, it is proper to tum our attention to the relative value of different kinds of thought. This question is of the very first importance : the whole theory of Education depends upon a correct standard. There are facts and facts: one would not necessarily b…
1954 · PDF PAGE 358
…her trunk a blue abbai so like Ouarda's that the only difference were minute details of the gold embroidery! The suggestion was that the Secret Chiefs, having chosen Ouarda as Their messenger, could not use anyone else until she had become irrevocably disqualified by insanity . Not till now could her place be taken by another ; and that Virakam should possess a duplicate of her Magical Robe seemed a strong argument that she had been consecrated by Them to take the place of her unhappy predecessor . She was very unsatisfactory as a clairvoyant; …
1919 · PDF PAGE 382
…elp to others—then, thou of timid heart, be warned in time: re- main content with the “Eye Doctrine” of the Law. Hope still. For if the “Secret Path” is unattainable this “day,” it is within thy reach “To-morrow.” Learn that no efforts, not the smallest—whether in right or wrong direction—can vanish from the world of causes. E’en wasted smoke re- mains not traceless. “A harsh word uttered in past lives is not destroyed, but ever comes again.” The pepper plant will not give birth to roses, nor the sweet jessamine’s silver star to thorn or thistl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 417
…ernal witness. I described how the silence stripped me of myself; how I came once more into the Abyss and was drawn thence into the most secret Temple of the Most High, and there received the seven-fold sacrament. Nor is it given to any son of man To hymn that sacrament, the One in Seven, Where God and priest and worshipper, Deacon, asperger, thurifer, chorister, {666}
1996 · PDF PAGE 175
… Man I say to thee no less: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”! Ay, priest, ay, lawyer, ay, censor! Will ye not gather in secret once again, if in your hoard of juggler’s tricks there be not one untried, or in your cunning and counsel one device new-false to save your pirate ship from sinking? It has always been so easy up to now! What is the blasting Magick in that Word, first thesis of The Book of the Law, that “every woman is a star.” Alas! it is I the Beast that roared that Word so loud, and wakened Beauty. Your tricks, your …
1910 · PDF PAGE 353
…ODORUS: “From the abode of . . . Brotherhood you are expelled [sods], to the British Museum you must go [svuffes], and read [pause] ‘The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians’!” THE DEVIL: “Tut, tut, . . . Dear Sisters, the train has stopped, we are at Streatham Hill—let us get out.” ALICIA DE GRUYS. ON THE Loose. By GEORGE RAFFALOVICH. Publishing Office of THE EQUINOX, 124 Victoria Street, S.W. Is. net. The author of the Man-Cover is well-known to the readers of THE EQUINOX. His charm lays principally in the independence of his thought, the delic…
1910 · PDF PAGE 353
…ODORUS: “From the abode of . . . Brotherhood you are expelled [sods], to the British Museum you must go [svuffes], and read [pause] ‘The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians’!” THE DEVIL: “Tut, tut, . . . Dear Sisters, the train has stopped, we are at Streatham Hill—let us get out.” ALICIA DE GRUYS. ON THE Loose. By GEORGE RAFFALOVICH. Publishing Office of THE EQUINOX, 124 Victoria Street, S.W. Is. net. The author of the Man-Cover is well-known to the readers of THE EQUINOX. His charm lays principally in the independence of his thought, the delic…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
…any other people by allowing love to influence their political actions. The Magician, however well he succeed in making contact with the secret sources of energy in nature, can only use them to the extent permitted by his intellectual and moral qualities. Mohammed’s intercourse with Gabriel was only effective because of his statesmanship, soldiership, and the sublimity of his command of Arabie. Hertz’s discovery of the rays which we now use for wireless telegraphy was stérile until reflected through the minds and wills of the people who could t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
…, though every year finds more of her sons impatient of Naaman’s prudence. The Privy Council of the Kingdom of Mansoul sits in permanent secret session j it dares not déclaré what must follow its deed in shattering the monarch morality into scraps of crumbling conglomerate of climatic, tribal, and personal préjudices, corrupted yet more by the action of crafty ambition, insane impulse, ignorant arrogance, superstitious hysteria, fear fashioning falsehoods on the stone that it sets on the grave of Truth whom it has murdered and buried in the bla…
1930 · PDF PAGE 31
…officers to présidé over its initiation. This can take place only at an “Equinox of the Gods” at the end of an “Aeon”; that is, when the secret formula which expresses the Law of its action becomes outworn and useless to its further development. (Thus “Suckling” is the formula of an infant : when teeth appear it marks a new “Aeon”, whose “Word” is “Eating”). A Magus can therefore only appear as such to the world at inter- vais of some centuries ; accounts of historical Magi, and their Words, are given in Liber Aleph. This does not mean that onl…
1996 · PDF PAGE 205
… just I am eight, and one in eight: Which is vital, for I am none indeed. The Empress and the King are not of me; for there is a further secret. 16. I am The Empress & the Hierophant. Thus eleven, as my bride is eleven. 17. Hear me, ye people of sighing! The sorrows of pain and regret Are left to the dead and the dying, The folk that not know me as yet. 18. These are dead, these fellows; they feel not. We are not for the poor and sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk. 19. Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They sha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 315
…n is the power , of which we pre tend to be conscious ? Is there not here , either in a spiritual or material substance , or both , some secret mechanism or structure of parts , upon which the effect depends , and which , being entirely unknown to us , renders the power or energy of the will equally unknown and incomprehensible ? We are ignorant , it is true , of the manner in which bodies operate on each other : Their force or energy is entirely incomprehensible : But are we not equally ignorant of the manner or force by which a mind , even th…
1912 · PDF PAGE 298
… Crowe! The intelligence of Freemasons may be guessed by the level at which they rate that of cowans and eavesdroppers, They print their secret rituals for any one to buy; so (ar, so good, why shouldn’t they? But they print initials and finals of “missing words" which no single reader of??שושחלWar/Ely could mlSS. “Advance 3 short step with your l—~—t {—t," would not have baffled Edgar Allan Poe! They are even such b— f——s—(will they decipher this?—it stands for " bright fellows ")—that when by accident they do baffle you—— “Gives him the P——e, C—w…
1912 · PDF PAGE 298
… Crowe! The intelligence of Freemasons may be guessed by the level at which they rate that of cowans and eavesdroppers, They print their secret rituals for any one to buy; so (ar, so good, why shouldn’t they? But they print initials and finals of “missing words" which no single reader of??שושחלWar/Ely could mlSS. “Advance 3 short step with your l—~—t {—t," would not have baffled Edgar Allan Poe! They are even such b— f——s—(will they decipher this?—it stands for " bright fellows ")—that when by accident they do baffle you—— “Gives him the P——e, C—w…
1996 · PDF PAGE 162
…p around me to support me: let all be worshipped, for they shall cluster to exalt me. I am the visible object of worship; the others are secret; for the Beast & his Bride are they: and for the winners of the Ordeal x. What is this? Thou shalt know. Commentary: There are to be no regular temples of Nuit and Hadit, for They are incommensurables and absolutes. Our reli gion therefore, for the People, is the Cult of the Sun, who is our particular star of the Body of Nuit, from whom, in the strictest scientific sense, come this earth, a chilled spa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 215
…l in their course! O thou self-formulated sire! Self-master of thy dam’s desire ! Thine eyes blaze forth with fiery light; Thine heart a secret sun of flame ! I adore the insuperable might : I bow before the unspoken Name. For I am Yesterday, and I To-day, and I to-morrow, born Now and again, on high, on high Travelling on Dian’s naked horn | I am the Soul that doth create The Gods, and all the Kin of Breath. I come from the sequestered state; My birth is from the House of Death. Hail! ye twin hawks high pinnacled That watch upon the universe !…
1929 · PDF PAGE 98
…Individual Self, the Indivisible Point determined by reference to the Four Quarters. This is the formula which enables it to express its Secret Self; its dew falling upon the Rose is developed into an Eidolon of Itself, in due season. 2. See Liber LXV and Liber VIL 3. See The Qabalah for the use of this Word, and study the doctrine concerning the Kings of Edom. 4. See Poincaré for the mathematical proof of this thesis. But Spiritual Expérience goes yet deeper, and destroys the Canon of the Law of Contradiction. There is an immense amount of wor…
1954 · PDF PAGE 35
…filiate, go with you through the script of the Rituals and explain the meaning of the whole thing; communicating, in addition , the real secret and significant knowledge of which ordinary Masonry is not possessed. 4. The horoscope; I do not like doing these at all, but it is part of the agreement with the Grand Treasurer of the O.T.O. that I should undertake them in worthy cases, if pressed. But I prefer to keep the figure to myself for future reference, in case any significant event makes consultation desirable. Now there is one really importa…