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1912 · PDF PAGE 77

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… ask the reader to remark how extraordinarily full is this passage of P.'s life. The scene opens on the slopes of Kangchenjanga with the death of five men. It continues with a jungle inhabited by savages, naked, armed with bows and arrows, ignorant even of any language containing so many as three C2 35

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1954 · PDF PAGE 103

Magick Without Tears

…an accomplisheth the greatest tasks without undertaking anything important . LXXVI: 2: So then rigidity and hardness are the stigmata of death; elasticity and adaptability of life. LXXVI: 3: He then who putteth forth strength is not victorious; even as a strong tree filleth the embrace.

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1899 · PDF PAGE 18

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ave, harlot, coward, that make human feast Before the desecrated god, in hells Of darkness, where the mitred vampire dwells, Where still death reigns, and God and priests are fed, Man’s blood for wine, man’s flesh for meat and bread, The lands of murder, of the obscene things That snarl at freedom, broken by her wings, That prop the abomination, cringe and smile, Caressing the dead fetich, that defile With hideous sacraments the happy land. Destruction claims its own ; the hero’s hand Grips the snake’s throat ; yea, on its head is set The heel …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 137

John St. John

…, still wearing the Ring of the Masters, and bearing my wand in my hand. For to me now sleep is the same as waking, and life the same as death. In Thy L.V.X. are not light and darkness but twin children that chase each other in their play? Awoke from long sweet dreamless sleep, like a young eagle that soars to greet the dawn. After breakfast, have strolled, on my way to the studio, through the garden of the Luxembourgto my favourite fountain. It is useless to attempt to write of the dew and the flowers in the clear October sunlight. Yet the ligh…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 208

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…th of man, The twin of Time, the heir of the gods’ debauch ; The shedder of the raiment of the loom Whereon are woven birth and life and death. Yea! Is revealed the Sword, the eye of light! Hail to the fivefold star! The secret awe Of the world unborn ; and thou, that hast the key, Let the lyre sound before thee! Let thy breath 170

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1913 · PDF PAGE 365

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… only a deception, for it fails to be the absolute, and its ideal is a lie. Without God, being is a nothingness affirming itself, life a death in disguise, and light a night for ever deceived by the mirage of dreams. The first and most essential act of faith is then this. Being exists ; and the Being of beings, the Truth of being, is God. Being is alive with intelligence, and the living intelligence of absolute being is God. Light is real andlife-giving; now, the reality and life of all light is God. The word of universal reason is an affirmati…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 208

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…th of man, The twin of Time, the heir of the gods’ debauch ; The shedder of the raiment of the loom Whereon are woven birth and life and death. Yea! Is revealed the Sword, the eye of light! Hail to the fivefold star! The secret awe Of the world unborn ; and thou, that hast the key, Let the lyre sound before thee! Let thy breath 170

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1913 · PDF PAGE 365

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… only a deception, for it fails to be the absolute, and its ideal is a lie. Without God, being is a nothingness affirming itself, life a death in disguise, and light a night for ever deceived by the mirage of dreams. The first and most essential act of faith is then this. Being exists ; and the Being of beings, the Truth of being, is God. Being is alive with intelligence, and the living intelligence of absolute being is God. Light is real andlife-giving; now, the reality and life of all light is God. The word of universal reason is an affirmati…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 158

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…must neglect no means to our end, neither despising our common sense, nor doubting our secret wisdom. When Frater I. A. was in danger of death in 1899 e.v. Frater V. N. and Frater Perdurabo did indeed invoke the spirit Buer to visible manifestation that he might heal their brother; but also one of them furnished the money to send him to a climate less cruel than England’s. He is alive to day1 } who cares whether spirits or shekels wrought that which these Magicians willed ? Let the Magical Link be made strong! It is “love under will”; it affirm…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 54

Mortadello

… teeth ! ALESSANDRO. The hour draws near. The tigress springs ; I feel her breath Black hour of fear, whose leaden wings beat, beat like death. MONICA. Ah ! is my breath so hot and quick and fierce and sharp ? Nay ! “ shuddereth the angelic prick-song on her harp. No tigress roams the forest, preys upon mankind : No ocean foams with fury, slays, frenzied and blind

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1912 · PDF PAGE 158

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ng Dragon, and like unto the harvest 01 3 Widow, How many are there which remain in the Glory 01 the Earth, which are, and shall not see Death until the House 1311 and the Dragon sink? Come awayl 101 the Thunders )01 increase) have spoken. Come awayl for the Crowns of the Temple and the Robe of Him that is, was, and shall be, crowned, are dividedl Come forth! Appear! to the terror of the Earth, and to our comfort, and to the comfort 01 such as are prepared. The Angle of v of A in the tablet 01 A. The Princess of the Rushing Winds, the Lotus 01 …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 333

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…f ο. P. AA Σ }146 x 6((+6, o Red. [Vide Gen. xxv. 25]?אנומרא A name of GODדחא אוה ?םיהלא A thousand; Aleph?ףלא Ruin, destruction, sudden death?;םא AUM?םעא Thick darkness?לפא ?”בראmn'?רוי ללוהמ לאיכנ הלועCommon holocaust; an ascent? הילעA Duke of Edom? Passwords of ...... Mad Angel of Θ no 17 Title of Kam. (Mirum?אלפ occultum) Ι I 2 Angel of 2 C.?לאשא A structure; mode of building?וינב Was angry DJ] Sharpness?קרח Iabok, [Gen. xxxii. 22.]?קני Note qu4x 28 The Lord conהוהי ?םיהלא ΕΜ?לביע π : r 3 Likewise ; the same (Fem.?הקה gender.) cr. 108 A giv…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 158

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ng Dragon, and like unto the harvest 01 3 Widow, How many are there which remain in the Glory 01 the Earth, which are, and shall not see Death until the House 1311 and the Dragon sink? Come awayl 101 the Thunders )01 increase) have spoken. Come awayl for the Crowns of the Temple and the Robe of Him that is, was, and shall be, crowned, are dividedl Come forth! Appear! to the terror of the Earth, and to our comfort, and to the comfort 01 such as are prepared. The Angle of v of A in the tablet 01 A. The Princess of the Rushing Winds, the Lotus 01 …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 333

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…f ο. P. AA Σ }146 x 6((+6, o Red. [Vide Gen. xxv. 25]?אנומרא A name of GODדחא אוה ?םיהלא A thousand; Aleph?ףלא Ruin, destruction, sudden death?;םא AUM?םעא Thick darkness?לפא ?”בראmn'?רוי ללוהמ לאיכנ הלועCommon holocaust; an ascent? הילעA Duke of Edom? Passwords of ...... Mad Angel of Θ no 17 Title of Kam. (Mirum?אלפ occultum) Ι I 2 Angel of 2 C.?לאשא A structure; mode of building?וינב Was angry DJ] Sharpness?קרח Iabok, [Gen. xxxii. 22.]?קני Note qu4x 28 The Lord conהוהי ?םיהלא ΕΜ?לביע π : r 3 Likewise ; the same (Fem.?הקה gender.) cr. 108 A giv…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 34

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…e sun, the Universe. I was in Heaven, lost, alone. Alone! A new curse gathered as a sombre breath: ‘“Power without Wisdom is the Name of Death !” And therefore from my devastating hand (For I was then unwilling to be dead) I loosed the lightning, and in hate and dread Despairing, did I break the royal wand. Mortal, a plaything for a thousand fears, I found the earth; I found a lonely place To gaze for ever on the ocean’s face, Lamenting through the lamentable years ; Without a god, deprived of life and death, Sensible only to that sombre breath…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 68

Clouds Without Water

… [.eap into green, so I whose epitaph Your passion writes, awake to live — to laugh! — 10 — Al Even to the end of all must I resist. New deaths, new births, each minute bolling oyer. I can go on for ever, an you list — Now, now! O no! I will not. O my lover! Spare me! Enough! Take pity! Mutely moans Your mouth in little sobs and calls and cries And catches of the breath, whose bliss atones In once for all the long-drawn agonies. Now that the pain swings over into pleasure, Now that the union which is death is done, The wine of bliss roils out i…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 19

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

…he central shrine; yet that coffin contains Christian Rosencreutz who is dead and is alive for evermore and hath the keys of Hell and of Death. Ay! your Tiphereth man, child of Mercy and Justice, looks deeper than the skin! But he seems a ridiculous object enough both to the Malkuth man and to the Kether man. Still, he’s the most interesting man there is; and we all must pass through that stage before we get our heads really clear, the Kether-vision above the Clouds that encircle the mountain Abiegnus. Ix Running and returning, like the Cherubi…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 81

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ey sweat with blood and dew? MARSYAS. Blind horror catches at my breath The path of the abyss runs through Things darker, dismaller than death! Courage and will! What boots their force? The mind rears like a frightened horse. There is no memory possible Of that unfathomable hell, Even the shadows that arise Are things too dreadful to recount l 39

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1912 · PDF PAGE 81

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ey sweat with blood and dew? MARSYAS. Blind horror catches at my breath The path of the abyss runs through Things darker, dismaller than death! Courage and will! What boots their force? The mind rears like a frightened horse. There is no memory possible Of that unfathomable hell, Even the shadows that arise Are things too dreadful to recount l 39

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1919 · PDF PAGE 276

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… under will let fall success; may strength and skill unite to bring forth ecstasy, and beauty answer beauty. Tue Peopte. So mote it be. (DEATH) Tue Deacon. Term of all that liveth, whose name is in- scrutable, be favourable unto us in thine hour. Tue Propte. So mote it be. 262

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