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Page 72 of 1191910 · PDF PAGE 88
THE EQUINOX diet is defined to mean taking pleasant and sweet food, leaving one fourth of the stomach free, and offering up the act to Shiva.”* Things that have been once cooked and have since grown cold should be avoided, also foods containing an excess of salt and sourness. Wheat, rice, barley, butter, sugar, honey and beans may be eaten, and pure water and milk drunk. The Yogi should partake of one meal a day, usually a little after noon. ‘Yoga should not be practised immediately after a meal, nor when one is very hungry; before beginning th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 118
THE EQUINOX and therefore over the Universe as z¢ affears, though not as yet as zt as. The first lesson in Pratyahara is to sit still and let the mind run on, until it is realized what the mind is doing, when it will be understood how to control it. Then it will find that the thoughts which at first bubbled up, one over the other, become less and less numerous; but in their place will spring up the thoughts which are normally sub-conscious. As these arise the Will of the aspirant should strangle them; thus, if a picture is seen, the aspirant by…
1910 · PDF PAGE 88
THE EQUINOX diet is defined to mean taking pleasant and sweet food, leaving one fourth of the stomach free, and offering up the act to Shiva.”* Things that have been once cooked and have since grown cold should be avoided, also foods containing an excess of salt and sourness. Wheat, rice, barley, butter, sugar, honey and beans may be eaten, and pure water and milk drunk. The Yogi should partake of one meal a day, usually a little after noon. ‘Yoga should not be practised immediately after a meal, nor when one is very hungry; before beginning th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 118
THE EQUINOX and therefore over the Universe as z¢ affears, though not as yet as zt as. The first lesson in Pratyahara is to sit still and let the mind run on, until it is realized what the mind is doing, when it will be understood how to control it. Then it will find that the thoughts which at first bubbled up, one over the other, become less and less numerous; but in their place will spring up the thoughts which are normally sub-conscious. As these arise the Will of the aspirant should strangle them; thus, if a picture is seen, the aspirant by…
1911 · PDF PAGE 9
EDITORIAL SLOWLY but surely the Equinox climbs from crest to crest of prosperity. Such has been the response to the appeal in our last number that we have been able to put in hand the task of translating the Official In— structions of Α:.A into French, and, if it continues, we shall be able to publish them in every important language of the world within the next two years. Your overworked Editor, too, has been able to take the longest and happiest holiday of his life. River and forest have given him all that nature can ; and this was the least p…
1911 · PDF PAGE 9
EDITORIAL SLOWLY but surely the Equinox climbs from crest to crest of prosperity. Such has been the response to the appeal in our last number that we have been able to put in hand the task of translating the Official In— structions of Α:.A into French, and, if it continues, we shall be able to publish them in every important language of the world within the next two years. Your overworked Editor, too, has been able to take the longest and happiest holiday of his life. River and forest have given him all that nature can ; and this was the least p…
1912 · PDF PAGE 94
THE EQUINOX heard the Sirens He was fortunately tied to the mast of his ignorance of French and his fear of asking anybody such a very peculiar question, or he would certainly have discovered and visited the Moulin Rouge. As it was, Joan of Arc was very much more than was good for him. He stared, fascinated as bya basilisk, his eyes starting further and further from his head as his moral sense dragged his body backwards along the Rue de Rivoli. By this means he cannoned into a worthy Frenchman (who refused to take him seriously) and so was shoc…
1912 · PDF PAGE 94
THE EQUINOX heard the Sirens He was fortunately tied to the mast of his ignorance of French and his fear of asking anybody such a very peculiar question, or he would certainly have discovered and visited the Moulin Rouge. As it was, Joan of Arc was very much more than was good for him. He stared, fascinated as bya basilisk, his eyes starting further and further from his head as his moral sense dragged his body backwards along the Rue de Rivoli. By this means he cannoned into a worthy Frenchman (who refused to take him seriously) and so was shoc…
1913 · PDF PAGE 492
THE EQUINOX have made the same observation on a book of St. Martin entitled 4 Natural Picture of the Relations which exist between God, Man and the Universe. The tradition of this secret has, then, never been interrupted from the first ages of the Qabalah to our own times. The table-turners, and those who make the spirits speak with alphabetical charts, are, then, a good many centuries behind the times; they do not know that there exists an oracular instrument whose words are always clear and always accurate, by means of which one can communica…
1913 · PDF PAGE 492
THE EQUINOX have made the same observation on a book of St. Martin entitled 4 Natural Picture of the Relations which exist between God, Man and the Universe. The tradition of this secret has, then, never been interrupted from the first ages of the Qabalah to our own times. The table-turners, and those who make the spirits speak with alphabetical charts, are, then, a good many centuries behind the times; they do not know that there exists an oracular instrument whose words are always clear and always accurate, by means of which one can communica…
1919 · PDF PAGE 34
THE EQUINOX Liper CCCCXVIII. Lirser XXX AERUM VEL S2- cull. Being of the Angels of the thirty Ethyrs the Vision and the Voice. Besides being the classical account of the thirty 7Ethyrs and a model of all visions, the cries of the Angels should be regarded as accurate, and the doctrine of the function of the Great White Brotherhood understood as the foundation of the Aspiration of the Adept. The account of the Master of the Temple should in particular be taken as authentic. The instruction in the 8th A‘thyr pertains to Class D, i.e. it is an Off…
1919 · PDF PAGE 232
THE EQUINOX 40. Every Brother is expected to use all his influence with persons in a superior station of life (so called) to induce them to join the Order. Royal personages, ministers of State, high officials in the Diplomatic, Naval, Military, and Civil Services are particularly to be sought after, for it is intended ultimately that the temporal power of the State be brought into the Law, and led into freedom and prosperity by the application of its principles. 41. Colleges of the Order will presently be established where the children of its m…
1919 · PDF PAGE 442
THE EQUINOX There is a further terrible confusion between the personal progress of the man, and his progress in relation to his in- carnations. It cannot be too clearly understood that these things are altogether different. Blavatsky’s attempt to mix up Hin- duism and Buddhism is productive of constant friction. The first Path in Dhyana has nothing whatever to do with being a Srotapatti. It is perfectly clear that you could be Master of all the eight Jhanas with no more hope of be- coming a Srotapatti than a Pwe-dancer. However, this is an extr…
1996 · PDF PAGE 77
… The Book of Wisdom or Folly, p. 142. See Works Cited.] 2 [The “Old Comment” was omitted in this abridgement. The relevant passage, from Equinox 1(7) (1912), p. 393, is “The fools (not here implying X fools, for 111:57 says ‘all fools despise’) may mistake. This love, then, should be the serpent love, the awakening of the kundalini. The further mystery is of S and unsuited to the grade in which this comment is written.”] 3 [See Crowley, The Book ofThoth (1944), pp. 8-11. This is illustrated in his diagram “The Double Loop in the Zodiac” (Hebrew…
1909 · PDF PAGE 6
THE EQUINOX The Universe of Magic is in the mind of a man: the setting is but Illusion even to the thinker. Humanity is progressing; formerly men dwelt habitually in the exterior world; nothing less than giants and Paynim and men—at—arms and distressed ladies, vampires and succubi, could amuse them. Their magicians brought demons from the smoke of blood, and made gold from baser metals. In this they succeeded; the intelligent perceived that the gold and the lead were but shadows of thought. It became probable that the elements were but isomers …
1911 · PDF PAGE 26
THE EQUINOX And I answered and said: I am a creature of earth, and ye would have me swim. And the voice said: Thy fear is known; thine ignorance is known; thy weakness is known; but thou art nothing in this matter. Shall the grain which is cast into the earth by the hand of the sower debate within itself, saying, am I oats or barley? Bond-slave of the curse, we give nothing, we take all. Be thou content. That which thou art, thou art. Be content. And now the lion passeth over through the Aethyr with the crowned beast upon his back, and the tail…
1911 · PDF PAGE 34
THE EQUINOX Therefore do I cry aloud, and my scream is the treble as the bellowing of the bull is the bass. Peace in the highest and peace in the lowest and peace in the midst thereof! Peace in the eight quarters, peace in the ten points of the Penta- gram! Peace in the twelve rays of the seal of Solomon, and peace in the four and thirty whirlings of the hammer of Thor! Behold! I blaze upon thee. (The eagle is gone; it is only a flaming Rosy Cross of white brilliance.) I catch thee up into rapture. FALUTLI, FALUTLI! . . . O it dies, it dies. Bo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 62
THE EQUINOX 47. Where I am these are not. 48. Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I console not: I hate the consoled & the consoler. 49. I am unique & conqueror. I am not of the slaves that perish. Be they damned & dead! Amen. (This is of the 4: there is a fifth who is invisible, & therein am I as a babe in an egg.) 50. Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is in my eyes; & my spangles are purple & green. 51. Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight. 52. There is a veil: that vei…
1913 · PDF PAGE 254
THE EQUINOX out warrant or charter of any kind he extracted guineas from would-be “ Rosicrucians” of the servant-girl type of intellect. True to the same policy, he next declared himself possessed of numberless degrees of Masonry, and accordingly issued two portentous volumes on the subject, volumes which betray prejudice and ignorance so nicely balanced that it is next to impossible to determine which is the inspiration in any particular passage, especially as the sentences are themselves couched in the sham medizval jargon with which his name…
1913 · PDF PAGE 432
THE EQUINOX vigour the mysterious hands. ‘‘ They are,” says he, “ perfect shapes of human hands, warm and living, only one feels no bones.” Pressed by an unavoidable constraint, those hands did not struggle to escape, but grew smaller, and in some way melted, so that the Count ended by no longer holding anything. Other persons who have seen them, and touched them, say that the fingers are puffed out and stiff, and compare them to gloves of india-rubber, swollen with a warm and phosphorescent air. Sometimes, instead of hands, it is feet which pr…