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1909 · PDF PAGE 309

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…but these are from Kether, and the highest climber on the mystic mountain is he who will obtain the finest view, and from its summit all things will be shown unto him. A child learning to play on the violin will not at the outset be mistaken for Sarasate or Paganini; for there will be discord and confusion of sound. So now, as we start upon the first visions of P. we find chaos piled on chaos, much struggling and noise, a roaring of wild waters in the night, and then finally, melody, silence and the communication of the mystic books of V.V.V.V.…

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1996 · PDF PAGE 138

The Law is for All

…or of La physiologie du gout (1825).] 2 [See Psalms 137:5.] 3 “Liber LXV,” 1:45-46. 45. Go thou unto the outermost places and subdue all things. 46. Subdue thy fear and thy disgust. Then— yield!3 * 7. Moreover I beheld a vision of a river. There was a little boat thereon; and in it under pur­ ple sails was a golden woman, an image of Asi wrought in finest gold. Also the river was of blood, and the boat of shining steel. Then I loved her; and, loosing my girdle, cast myself into the stream. 8. I gathered myself into the little boat, and for many…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 99

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…oncave of the sky? ARGUS. All this shall happen when the work is done. JASON. How many moons, friend fool, before that day? ARGUS. These things are known not even to the Gods, Except the Father only.? HERACLES. Fools must talk. ARGUS. I talk, divulging nothing. HERACLES. I strike thee, Yet act not. ARGUS. Hero, stay that heavy hand! The ship shall sail ere spring. THESEUS. But now you talk More as befits a.workman to a king. 1 The satire is on Matthew xxiv. 36. JASON. Be gentle now, my friends! builders, Reared in the rugged borders of the Nort…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 92

Konx Om Pax

…o the swinish multitude, steady purpose ever equili brating each thought with its opposite, had brought him at the end to the mastery of things. So earnestly would he gaze on God, and die, that God had given him of His own life, and sent him among men. But men knew him not. Only the babes could understand his strange grave smile. The fifth man was a classical scholar; much learning had made him mad. Yet, well as he knew Greek and Latin, he had not yet read enough to see therein the luminous image of the Creator. Last was a doctor who, gazing eve…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 81

Clouds Without Water

…m. — The Hindu God(') — the male organ of generation. Yoni — Its feminine equivalent. That the poor Hindus should worship these shameful things! And we? Qh how poor and inade- quate is all our missionary effort! Let us send out more, and yet more, to our perishing brothers! Pheedra was repulsed by her son Hippolytus; Semiramis receved the willing embraces of her son Ninus. XI. 1. Io, AIT. 6, XV, Io. L 8, V. 1-6, LX, 3. Only Nothing is. — Thereis much metaphy- sical nonsense culled from German Atheistic philosophy, in these poems. A wicked philo…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 302

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX naked Gods; his Ruach by the phantom of dead words—by the duality of the shell and of the fruit of things; and his Neschamah by Tetragrammaton, 2.e., he aspired chiefly to magic powers, not so that they might light him like the flame of a lamp along his road, but that they might consume, like the fire on the altar, his propitiations and sacrifices to a personal God. Thus we find him, as it were, figuring before him a Pentagram and saying: “It is not complete without its top point.” This is undoubtedly correct, but at this time he st…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 302

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX naked Gods; his Ruach by the phantom of dead words—by the duality of the shell and of the fruit of things; and his Neschamah by Tetragrammaton, 2.e., he aspired chiefly to magic powers, not so that they might light him like the flame of a lamp along his road, but that they might consume, like the fire on the altar, his propitiations and sacrifices to a personal God. Thus we find him, as it were, figuring before him a Pentagram and saying: “It is not complete without its top point.” This is undoubtedly correct, but at this time he st…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 54

The Vision and the Voice

…but the Crucified One is an enormous bat, and for the two thieves are two little children. It is night, and the night is full of hideous things and howlings. And an angel cometh forth, and saith: Be wary, for if thou change so much as the style of a letter, the holy word is blasphemed. But enter into the mountain of the Caverns, for that this (how much more then that Calvary which mocks it, as his ape mocks Thoth?) is but the empty shell of the mystery of ZEN. Verily, I say unto thee, many are the adepts that have looked upon the back parts of …

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1922 · PDF PAGE 229

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…aid nothing about it to Peter ; but the old man was there walking about as large as life. You have to be specially prepared to see these things. Cockie was never spiritually minded. September 18 An alarm of burglars last night. We roused the house—but no traces could be found, The servants here are frightfully stupid. They irritate me all the time. One can’t sleep in this house. It’s too old. The wood cracks all the time. Just as one is on the verge of sleep some noise makes one more wide-awake than ever. I can’t bear the idea of being touched.…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 25

The Vision and the Voice

…et in him is the woman that devoureth with her water all the fire of God. Alas! my lord, thou art joined with him that knoweth not these things. When shall the day come that men shall flock to this my gate, and fall into my furious throat, a whirlpool of fire? This is hell unquenchable, and all they shall be utterly consumed therein. Therefore is that asbestos unconsumable made pure. Each of my teeth is a letter of the reverberating name. My tongue is a pillar of fire, and from the glands of my mouth arise four pillars of water. TAOTZEM is the …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 177

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE TELL—TALE HEART people would bow down to me. The richest man in the world ! Think of it! I'll do wonderful things. I’ll buy the Tower of London for poor old Martin, dear old boy. On my soul, I love him like a father. [A þama] What was it now? I’ve forgotten—I knew a minute ago. However did the idea strike me? Such a beautiful idea. Aha! Aha! [Manner again change: to intense/y furtive hate inspired by horror] It is his eye—that pale blue filmy eye. It is like the eye of a vulture. My blood runs cold. I will cut it out; the blood will run warm…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 177

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE TELL—TALE HEART people would bow down to me. The richest man in the world ! Think of it! I'll do wonderful things. I’ll buy the Tower of London for poor old Martin, dear old boy. On my soul, I love him like a father. [A þama] What was it now? I’ve forgotten—I knew a minute ago. However did the idea strike me? Such a beautiful idea. Aha! Aha! [Manner again change: to intense/y furtive hate inspired by horror] It is his eye—that pale blue filmy eye. It is like the eye of a vulture. My blood runs cold. I will cut it out; the blood will run warm…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 50

The Stratagem and Other Stories

… losing or fusing the con- ception of either. He was God, but a God irretrievably damned: a being infinite, yet limited by the nature of things, and that nature solely compact of loathliness. IX I have little doubt that the cremation of my hus- band's body cut short a process which in the normally buried man continues until no trace of organic substance remains. The first kiss of the furnace awoke an activity so vio- lent and so vivid that all the past paled in its lurid light. The quenchless agony of the pang is not to be de- scribed; if allev…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 63

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…has very justly remarked, that you are not all raving mad. For you consider not only one thing, which you insult by calling God, but all things, to be real; and anything which has the slightest odour of reality about it you pronounce an illusion, But, as my brother the Magician has told you, “he 51

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1910 · PDF PAGE 155

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…g to do with true progress.” He then divided life into two compart- ments; into the first he threw science, learning, philosophy and all things built.of words—the toys of life; and into 139

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1910 · PDF PAGE 63

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…has very justly remarked, that you are not all raving mad. For you consider not only one thing, which you insult by calling God, but all things, to be real; and anything which has the slightest odour of reality about it you pronounce an illusion, But, as my brother the Magician has told you, “he 51

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1910 · PDF PAGE 155

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…g to do with true progress.” He then divided life into two compart- ments; into the first he threw science, learning, philosophy and all things built.of words—the toys of life; and into 139

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1904 · PDF PAGE 78

The Goetia

…s and allthat isin cabisa Do-no poamala, Das larasada Do-ananael tofajtlo Do-oresa their palaces ; who disposeth in secret wisdom of all things in darkness sa-Do-lubkiftiasa: Amema itlasa oD adarepanu-ilasa, od gquasabé and in light : Curse thee and cast thee down and destroy otabila, mo3z00, od elonusa, od ol commemabe pi-adapabe Abaddon, thy seat, joy and power, and I bind thee in the depths of Abaddon, pa-aotza kakareji basajinu 30Di-300arasa soba iu tpamisa, gobus, to remain until the day of judgment whose end cannot be, I say, pujo-3o0umeb…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 239

The Star in the West

…to rescue Hume from , he himself falls , by asserting that : “ it is only by means of the form of sensuous intuition that we can intuite things à priori, but in this way we intuite the objects only as they appear to our senses , not as they may be in themselves (p . 29 ). [ Thus Kant himself proves the noumenon , the sole refuge from scepticism , itself to be sceptical .] Kant must have in some way felt the weakness of his argument , since in the following page, he , in true Berkeleyan fashion , in order to upset the sceptic , argues in a circl…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 73

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…wo Per¬ sonal appeals to the Angel, as if to claim privilège to partake of this Eucharist which createth, sus- taineth and redeemeth ail things. He now asserts that he is himself the “Angel” or messenger of his Angel 5 that is, that he is a mind and body whose office is to receive and transmit the Word of his Angel. He hails his Angel not only as “un-nefer” the Perfection of “Asar” himself as a man, but as Ptah-Apophrasz- Ra, the identity (Hadit) wrapped in the Dragon (Nuith) and thereby manifested as a Sun (Ra- Hoor-Khuit). The “Egg” (or Heart…

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