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1913 · PDF PAGE 423

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…eep-waker become terrible to behold ; her hair stands on end; her wide-opened eyes show only the white; her breast heaves, and a sort of death-rattle escapes from her throat. “Go there. It is my will,” repeats the magnetizer. “Tam there!” says the unhappy girl between her teeth, falling back exhausted. Then she no longer answers; her head hangs heavy on her shoulder; her arms fall idly by her side. They approach her. They touch her. They try to 125

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1930 · PDF PAGE 24

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

… of Truth; The Ruler of the Balance. 23 The Spirit of the Mighty Waters. 24 The Child of the Great Transformers. The Lord of the Gâte of Death. 25 The Daughter of the Reconcilers, the Bringer-forth of Life. 26 The Lord of the Gates of Matter. The Child of the forces of Time. 27 The Lord of the Hosts of the Mighty. 28 The Daughter of the Firmament; the Dweller between the Waters. 29 The Ruler of Flux & Reflux. The Child of the Sons of the Mighty. 30 The Lord of the Fire of the World, 31 The Spirit of the Primai Fire. 32 The Great One of the Nigh…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 238

The Book of Thoth

…lways, represents the final issue of the Energy. Here is great and final solidification. The force is completely expended and results in death. Mercury rules this card in Virgo; and this may imply that the acquired wealth, being inert, will be dissi‐ pated unless put to further use by devoting its power to objects other than mere accumula‐ tion. The disks, or (as they have now become) coins, are arranged on the Tree of Life, but the Tenth coin is much larger than the rest; the image indicates the futility of material gain. These disks are inscr…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 97

Liber Aleph

…Holy Ghost. For Horus that is Lord of the Æon is the Child crowned and conquering. The formula of Osiris was, as thou knowest, a Word of Death, that is, the Force lay long in Darkness, and by Putrefaction came to Resurrection. But we take living Things, and pour in Life and Nature of our own Will, so that instantly and without Corruption the Child (as it were the Word of that Will) is generated; and again immediately taketh up his Habitation among us to manifest in Force and Fire. This Mass of the Holy Ghost is then the true Formula of the Magi…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 49

The Mother’s Tragedy

…nd said: “The child that shall be born of thee is called Fear. He shall save a people from their sin; For the old gods indeed go down to death, But the new gods arise from rottenness.” Then said the goddess: “I indeed am pure In my impurity ; immaculate In misconception; maiden in my whoredom ; Chaste in my incest, being made a god Through my own strength.” The leper with smooth words Turned, and went laughingly towards the west, And took of his own leprosy and threw Its foul flakes in the censer. So he passed, Laughing, and on the altar the fl…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 37

Oracles

…t raise no head ! I know thee, breast and thigh, Lips, hair, and eyes, and mouth : I will not die But thou come with me o’er the gate of death. So, bloody and body furious with breath That pants through foaming kisses, let us stay Gripped hard together to kiss life away, Mouths drowned in murder, never satiate, Kissing away the hard decrees of Fate, Kissing insatiable in mad desire, Kisses whose agony may never tire, Kissing the gates of hell, the sword of God, Each unto each a serpent or a rod, A well of wine and fire, each unto each, Whose li…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 229

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…not to awaken, Knowing the utter glory of the dead. Oh! I am back, wet-eyed, with panting breath: I have seen the nuptials of Desire and Death! (1x) There are no mortal songs that shall avail To bring the Mystery into the mind 191

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1913 · PDF PAGE 229

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…not to awaken, Knowing the utter glory of the dead. Oh! I am back, wet-eyed, with panting breath: I have seen the nuptials of Desire and Death! (1x) There are no mortal songs that shall avail To bring the Mystery into the mind 191

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1909 · PDF PAGE 25

Clouds Without Water

…ine for sweet with Lola’s kiss. VII AMfine. ’Tis impossible, but so it is. My mouth is Lola’s and my Lola’s mine When in the trance, the death we call a kiss, Earth is done down, and the immanent divine Exists! Impossible! no mortal yet Suffered such bliss from the all-envious gods ; Whence we may guess we are immortal, set From the beginning over the periods Of ages, set on thrones of jasper and pearl, Wreathed with the lilies of Eternity, While on our brows the starry clusters curl Like flashes from the sunkissed jewelry, Dew on the flowers o…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 144

Ambergris

AMBERGRIS 135 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 ! Ye that the bier of God beheld ! That bore it onwards, ministers Of peace within the House of Wrath, Servants of him that cometh forth At dawn with many coloured lights Mounting from underneath the North, The shrine of the celestial Heights ! He is in me, and I in Him ! Mine is the crystal radiance That filleth æthyr to the brim Wherein all stars and suns m…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 52

Magick Without Tears

…11° as soon as you are fairly familiar with them. The plan of the grades is this: 0° Attraction to the Solar System 1° Birth W Life IIIo Death IVo "Exaltation" P.1. "Annihilation" yo -IXo Progressive comment on 11° with very special reference to the central secret of practical Magick. There is thus no connection with the A :. A:. system and the Tree of Life. Of course, there are certain analogies. Your suggested method of study: you have got my idea quite well. But nobody can "take you through" the Grades of A:. A : . . The Grades confirm your …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 41

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…us eyes, Nor smote us with the fury of His hand, Nor clouded over His mysterious skies, And storm and wind had no more might at all, And death and pestilence forgotten were, And angels came to holy men that call, And gracious spirits thronged the happy air; When God was very gracious to all folk, And lifted from us the Philistian yoke, And all the iron power of Edom broke, And all the Earth was fair! Now, seeing that we are sinners, wilt not thou Relent thy hateful brow, And bend on us a forehead full of peace, And bid thine anger cease, And sp…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 342

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…n his turn a sceptic, since faith cannot live without doubt, and truth is only co-existent with untruth, as day with night, as life with death, as, O beloved! my heart with thine, as vain and coloured chatterings like this with noble and inviolate silence. Epwarb STORER. 324

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1910 · PDF PAGE 342

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…n his turn a sceptic, since faith cannot live without doubt, and truth is only co-existent with untruth, as day with night, as life with death, as, O beloved! my heart with thine, as vain and coloured chatterings like this with noble and inviolate silence. Epwarb STORER. 324

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1911 · PDF PAGE 6

The Vision and the Voice

… End! the End! For the Eye of Shiva He hath opened: the Universe is naked before Him: for the Aeon of Saturn leaneth toward the Bosom of Death. The Angel of the East hath a book of red written in letters of Blue A.B.F.M.A. in Enochian. The Book grows before my eyes and filleth the Whole Heaven. Within: “It is Written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord Thy God.” I see above the Book a multitude of white-robed Ones from whom droppeth a great rain of Blood: but above them is a Golden Sun, having an eye, whence a great Light. I turned me to the South: …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 65

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…, and expect thy coming with a lamp of oil of holiness and beautyl Hail, beautiful and strong one! I desire thy kisses more than life or death. May 5. A medium. 6. Α tired and excited, yet with great resolution. Vision good. Aimed at passive attitude. 7. A good; starry effect concentrating into a brilliant moonlight in my body. 8. A same effect as yesterday. 9. A poor. (This begins the railway journey from Vancouver.) 10. A poor. Am really worn out. n. A better—much reverie ; vision not acute. 12. A not bad. 13. A purposely done more rapidly th…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 65

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…, and expect thy coming with a lamp of oil of holiness and beautyl Hail, beautiful and strong one! I desire thy kisses more than life or death. May 5. A medium. 6. Α tired and excited, yet with great resolution. Vision good. Aimed at passive attitude. 7. A good; starry effect concentrating into a brilliant moonlight in my body. 8. A same effect as yesterday. 9. A poor. (This begins the railway journey from Vancouver.) 10. A poor. Am really worn out. n. A better—much reverie ; vision not acute. 12. A not bad. 13. A purposely done more rapidly th…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 343

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… sacrificed in your turn, soldiers of our great armies who have sown the world with your bones, all you who have suffered the penalty of death, workers, strivers, darers of every kind, brave children of Prometheus, who have feared neither the lightning nor the vulture, all honour to your scattered ashes! Peace and venera- tion to your memories! You are the heroes of progress, martyrs of humanity! XII THE NUMBER TWELVE TWELVE is the cyclic number; it is that of the universal Creed. 2 Monasteries in Paris which were used as prisons in the Reign o…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 343

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… sacrificed in your turn, soldiers of our great armies who have sown the world with your bones, all you who have suffered the penalty of death, workers, strivers, darers of every kind, brave children of Prometheus, who have feared neither the lightning nor the vulture, all honour to your scattered ashes! Peace and venera- tion to your memories! You are the heroes of progress, martyrs of humanity! XII THE NUMBER TWELVE TWELVE is the cyclic number; it is that of the universal Creed. 2 Monasteries in Paris which were used as prisons in the Reign o…

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1928 · PDF PAGE 167

Little Poems in Prose

… point of ener- vation that you take pleasure only in your un- happiness? If so, let us away to those coun- tries that are the emblem of death. I have it, poor soul, we will pack for Tornéo. Let us go farther still, to the far end of the Baltic, still farther from life, if it is possible. Let us set up our camp at the Pole! There the sun strikes the earth obliquely, and the slow alternation of light and night suppresses variety and in- creases monotony—that better half of nothing. There we may take prolonged baths of shadow, while, to amuse us,…

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