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Page 68 of 1191919 · PDF PAGE 72
THE EQUINOX 4. Therefore thou writest that which is of mother of emerald, and of lapis-lazuli, and of turquoise, and of alex- andrite. 5. Another writeth the words of topaz, and of deep amethyst, and of gray sapphire, and of deep sapphire with a tinge as of blood. 6. Therefore do ye fret yourselves because of this. 7. Be not contented with the image. 8. I who am the Image of an Image say this. 9. Debate not of the image, saying Beyond! Beyond! One mounteth unto the Crown by the moon and by the Sun, and by the arrow, and by the Foundation, and b…
1909 · PDF PAGE 40
38 THE EQUINOX 9.o. a corpse that hears the voice of Israfel—the Hegemon that chants a solemn hymn of praise to that glory which is at the Apex, and who invisibly rules and governs the whole Pyramid. Now then that darkling Wight is lifted by the officers and brought to the altar in the centre; and there the Hiereus accuses him of the two and twenty Basenesses, while the Hegemon lifting up his chained arms cries again and again against his enemy that he is under the Shadow of the Eternal Wings of the Holy One. Yet at the end, at the supreme accus…
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
7.50. 8.45. 8.53. 84 THE EQUINOX And the Visconti may turn up! . . . Eli, Eli, lama. sabacthani l Ι went out to the Dome to drink my final citron pressé and to avoid the Visconti. Am returned, and in bed. I shall try and sleep now, waking in time for midnight and the quiet hours. I have endured the supreme temptation and assault of the Enemy. In this wise. First, I found that I did not want sleep—I couldn’t stop “Waiting." Next, I said ”Since last night that Black Ritual (see entry 10.55) did at least serve to turn all my thoughts to the One Tho…
1909 · PDF PAGE 44
THE EQUINOX intoxication (spoken of often in the “ Nights”) shows that he regards it as no more than a vice, and seems not to suspect that, vice or no, it had strange fruits; if not of the Tree of Life, at least of that other Tree, double and sinister and deadly... . Nay! forI am of the Serpent’s party; Knowledge is good, be the price what it may. Such little fruit, then, as I may have culled from her autumnal breast (mere unripe berries, I confess!) I hasten to offer to my friends. And lest the austerity of such a goddess be profaned by the le…
1909 · PDF PAGE 54
THE EQUINOX Further, there arises an exceedingly remarkable state of mind, described in the Bhagavad-Gita (I quote Arnold): “T, who am all, and made it all, abide its separate Lord.” The experience could not be better phrased. Zoroaster, too: “Who first sprang from Mind, clothing the one Fire with the other Fire, binding them together, that he might mingle the fountainous craters, while preserving unsullied the brilliance of His own Fire.” “Containing all things in the one summit of his Hyparxis, He Himself subsists wholly beyond.” It is almost…
1909 · PDF PAGE 44
THE EQUINOX intoxication (spoken of often in the “ Nights”) shows that he regards it as no more than a vice, and seems not to suspect that, vice or no, it had strange fruits; if not of the Tree of Life, at least of that other Tree, double and sinister and deadly... . Nay! forI am of the Serpent’s party; Knowledge is good, be the price what it may. Such little fruit, then, as I may have culled from her autumnal breast (mere unripe berries, I confess!) I hasten to offer to my friends. And lest the austerity of such a goddess be profaned by the le…
1909 · PDF PAGE 54
THE EQUINOX Further, there arises an exceedingly remarkable state of mind, described in the Bhagavad-Gita (I quote Arnold): “T, who am all, and made it all, abide its separate Lord.” The experience could not be better phrased. Zoroaster, too: “Who first sprang from Mind, clothing the one Fire with the other Fire, binding them together, that he might mingle the fountainous craters, while preserving unsullied the brilliance of His own Fire.” “Containing all things in the one summit of his Hyparxis, He Himself subsists wholly beyond.” It is almost…
1909 · PDF PAGE 6
THE EQUINOX tration, vigilance—all these I include in the connotation of “sceptic.” Such questioning as has been called “vital scepticism” is but a device to avoid true questioning, and therefore its very antithesis, the devil disguised as an angel of light. [Or vice versd, friend, if you are a Satanist; ’tis a matter of words—words—words. You may write x for y in your equations, so long as you consistently write y for x. They remain unchanged—and unsolved. Is not all our “knowledge” an example of this fallacy of writing one unknown for another…
1910 · PDF PAGE 308
THE EQUINOX his three head bell-wethers who were sitting at a separate table he sneered: “X——’ (my friend present at the previous revelation of his divinity) “send this pig-one.. . eh?” “T don’t know why .. .” I began. “Grutch, butch!” he roared, “you speak to me, you cow- eater! . . . get intellect,” he yelled, “ get English,” he bellowed, and up he sprang from the table. As I did not wish to be murdered, for he had now become a dangerous maniac, I rose, keeping my eyes on him, and taking up my hat and stick, which I had purposely placed just …
1910 · PDF PAGE 308
THE EQUINOX his three head bell-wethers who were sitting at a separate table he sneered: “X——’ (my friend present at the previous revelation of his divinity) “send this pig-one.. . eh?” “T don’t know why .. .” I began. “Grutch, butch!” he roared, “you speak to me, you cow- eater! . . . get intellect,” he yelled, “ get English,” he bellowed, and up he sprang from the table. As I did not wish to be murdered, for he had now become a dangerous maniac, I rose, keeping my eyes on him, and taking up my hat and stick, which I had purposely placed just …
1911 · PDF PAGE 98
THE EQUINOX LAYLAH. Silence, thou blotchy spider! Thou baboon of ugliness ! Mother of curses! [Four eunuch: bring in the corpse of the 6051 MOHAMMED. Ah God ! my youngest, my own delicate darling! Lay him by his sire ! [She goes down and bends 01187 hint] Was not this arm too tender to bear a sword ? Why would he go to the battle? He was made for luting and the zephyr. His eyes were larger and lovelier than the gazelle’s ! His eyebrows were blacker than the kohl upon mine eyelids. Alas, my baby | My young one, my tender one! . . . Is there tidi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 140
THE EQUINOX " And I am gleeful because Iam reason. . . . " All reason ends in two. I have cut the Master in two.” “ Can she pass through?" wondered Edgar. " Is it a fault to be identified so well with that which she beholds?” “There are devils," she cried. “ Black, naked, screaming devils. They touch, and at a touch each oozes back to his slirne. This slime is Chaos." “ Ararita! ” he breathed the word upon her brow. " Don‘t touch me! don’t touch mel " she screamed. “I am holy! I am God! I am I!” Her face was black and distorted with sudden passi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 98
THE EQUINOX LAYLAH. Silence, thou blotchy spider! Thou baboon of ugliness ! Mother of curses! [Four eunuch: bring in the corpse of the 6051 MOHAMMED. Ah God ! my youngest, my own delicate darling! Lay him by his sire ! [She goes down and bends 01187 hint] Was not this arm too tender to bear a sword ? Why would he go to the battle? He was made for luting and the zephyr. His eyes were larger and lovelier than the gazelle’s ! His eyebrows were blacker than the kohl upon mine eyelids. Alas, my baby | My young one, my tender one! . . . Is there tidi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 140
THE EQUINOX " And I am gleeful because Iam reason. . . . " All reason ends in two. I have cut the Master in two.” “ Can she pass through?" wondered Edgar. " Is it a fault to be identified so well with that which she beholds?” “There are devils," she cried. “ Black, naked, screaming devils. They touch, and at a touch each oozes back to his slirne. This slime is Chaos." “ Ararita! ” he breathed the word upon her brow. " Don‘t touch me! don’t touch mel " she screamed. “I am holy! I am God! I am I!” Her face was black and distorted with sudden passi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 46
THE EQUINOX (now) inspiring it, at one time in processional hymns, at another in standing songs, turning and re-turning in the dance. “Then when each band has feasted (that is, has sung and danced) apart by itself, drinking of God-pleasing (nectar), just as in the Bacchic rites men drink the wine unmixed, then they join together, and one chorus is formed of the two bands, in imitation of the joined chorus on the banks of the Red Sea, because of the wonderful works that had been there wrought. For the sea at God’s command became for one party a …
1913 · PDF PAGE 52
THE EQUINOX 14. Above, the gemméd azure is The naked splendour of Nuit; She bends in ecstasy to kiss The secret ardours of Hadit. The wingéd globe, the starry blue, Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu! 15. Now ye shall know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the Beast; and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman is all power given. They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. 16. For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret fl…
1913 · PDF PAGE 158
THE EQUINOX universe. Veiled are their faces, that have beheld the glory Ineffable. These adepts seem like Pyramids—their hoods and robes are like Pyramids. And the Angel sayeth: Verily is the pyramid a Temple of Initiation. Verily also is it a tomb. Thinkest thou that there is life within the Masters of the Temple, that sit hooded, encamped upon the sea? Verily, there is no life in them. Their sandals were the pure light, and they have taken them from their feet and cast them down through the abyss, for this AEthyr is holy ground. Herein no fo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 258
THE EQUINOX aged saint was due directly to an access of this malady, whose peculiar danger is that the patient tends to seek relief in the very things which have caused the trouble. Poor Waite was reaching up to a bookshelf in the library of his seat at South Ealing for a copy of his Strange Houses of Sleep when his aged but saintly legs gave way. The aged saint clutched at the bookshelf for support, and a copy of Azoth fell, and narrowly missing the inflamed organ, struck the nobler portions of his body, bruising both great toes severely. So c…
1913 · PDF PAGE 448
THE EQUINOX God is the strife of fatal forces, which always create through destruction. The things of religion are passive and transitory. Boldness makes use of them, war profits by them, and it is by them that discord is perpetuated. 3°.—Finally, the qabalistic monogram of Jehovah, the JOD and the HE, but upside down. This is, according to the doctors of occult science, the most frightful of all blasphemies, and signifies, however one may read it, “Fatality alone exists: God and the Spirit are not. Matter is all, and spirit is only a fiction o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 46
THE EQUINOX (now) inspiring it, at one time in processional hymns, at another in standing songs, turning and re-turning in the dance. “Then when each band has feasted (that is, has sung and danced) apart by itself, drinking of God-pleasing (nectar), just as in the Bacchic rites men drink the wine unmixed, then they join together, and one chorus is formed of the two bands, in imitation of the joined chorus on the banks of the Red Sea, because of the wonderful works that had been there wrought. For the sea at God’s command became for one party a …