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1913 · PDF PAGE 480

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…re, the body of God. The Qabalah, or transcendental magic, is the science of light. Light corresponds to life. The kingdom of shadows is death. All the dogmas of true religion are written in the Qabalah in characters of light upon a page of shadow. The page of shadows consists of blind beliefs. Light is the great plastic medium. The alliance of the soul and the body is a marriage of light and shadow. Light is the instrument of the Word, it is the white writing of God upon the great book of night. Light is the source of thought, and it is in it …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 233

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ccepted the Law, to have become free and independent, to have destroyed all fear, whether of custom, or of faith, or of other men, or of death itself. In other papers the joy and glory of those who have accepted the Book of the Law as the sole rule of life is largely, though never fully, explained; and we will not here recapitulate the same. SECOND HOUSE 45. All Brethren who may fall into indigence have a right to the direct assistance of the Order up to the full amount of fees and subscriptions paid by them up to the time of appli- cation. Thi…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 207

Magick Without Tears

…l possible experiences) will redeem ye from all pain. V.58: I give unimaginable joys on earth; certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace) unutterable, rest ecstasy. Cap. II, v. 9: Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains. (The continuation is amusing! Vv. 10 and 11 read:) o prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing. I see thee hate the hand and the pen; but I am stronger. At that time I was a hard-shell Buddhist, sent out a New…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 205

Liber Aleph

… Body which bindeth it to the Astral, as did the Gross to he Material World so then it accomplisheth willingly the Sacrament of a second Death and leaveth the Body of Light. But the Mind, cleaveth closely, by Right of its Harmony, and Might of its Love, to its Star, resisteth the Ministers of Disruption, for a Season, according to its Strength. Now, if his Star be of those that are bound by the Great Oath, incarnating without Remission because of Delight in the Cosmic Sacrament, it seeketh a new Vehicle in the appointed Way, and indwelleth the …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 141

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…W hose |bowers of“flame shall tell the sky of God How we despised his feet) with thunder shod, And conquered, clasping, all the host) of death. Turn to me, touch me, mix thy very breath With mine to mingle floods of fiery dew With flames of purple, the sea shot through With golden glances of a fiercer star. Turn to me, bend above me, you may char These olive shoulders with an old-time kiss, And fix thy mouth upon me for such bliss Of sudden rage rekindled, Turn again, And make delight the minister of pain, And pain the father ofa new delight, A…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 144

The Star in the West

…scorn , her cruel blows , Fill my whole life , consume my breath ; Her red - fanged hatred in me glows , I lust for her , and hell , and death . I see that ghastly look , and yearn Toward the brands of her that burn .? Sleep shuns him , and his parched throat thirsts for the blood of her veins , “ Aching with all the pangs of night ”; his vision grows more monstrous , a horrible 1 Jezebel : and other Tragic Poems , vol . i, p . 133 . 2 lbid . vol . I, pp . 130-131 .

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1909 · PDF PAGE 16

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

…r pathological; never mind now!) state which I call Samadhi; and that state is as real— in relation to man—as sleep, or intoxication, or death. Philosophically, we may doubt the existence of all of these ; but we have no grounds for discriminating between them— 124

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1912 · PDF PAGE 61

Mortadello

…in from flesh, alike my drouth in gore, those bowels rip From that false belly. God ! I gasp ! Loosen my throat ! Some one calls. Hell ! Death ! O sharp asp !

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1905 · PDF PAGE 115

Collected Works (Vol. I)

108 MYSTERIES: LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC THE DREAMING. DEATH! My beauty in thy deep pure love Anchors its homage far above All lights of heaven. The stars awake ; The very stars bend down to take From its fresh fragrance for the sake Of their own cloud-compelling peace. On earth there lies a silver fleece Of new-fallen snow, secure from sun, In alleys, leafy every one This year already with the spring, The breeze blows freshly, thrushes sing, And all the woods are burgeoning With quick new buds ; across the snow The scent of violets to and fro Wafts…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 98

John St. John

…e body and mind no worse, apparently ; but they hurt the Self, and later that is reflected into the lower parts of the man as insanity or death. I must attain, or . . . an end of John St. John. An end of him, one way or the other, then l Good-bye, John ! Ten minutes wasted in sheer mooning! I’m getting worse every minute. Fooled away ten minutes more! Humiliation enough! For though I made the cross with Blood and Flame, I cannot even remain concen- trated in humiliation, which yet I feel so acutely. What a wormy worm I am! I tried the new strict…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 213

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ence, that silence when man waits to hear The faintest vibrance in the smitten air, And, if he hear not, die; but we who love Are beyond death, and therefore may commune In that still tongue; it is the holy speech And song of stars and sun; nor is it marred By one dissentient tremor of the air That girds the earth, but in lone zther spreads ' Its song; but now I turn to thee, whose eyes Blaze on me with such look as flesh and blood May never see and live ; for so it burns

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1907 · PDF PAGE 69

The Star in the West

…rtal love , the garland of the spheres , Than those sweet tears That yield no bitterness To the luxurious cries That love shrills out in death , that murmur when love dies .4 The hour of noon approaches , it falls , and the curse resumes its sway ; a fiery snake winds its coils round the sleeping god , and hisses in his ear , “ awake ! ” 1 The Tale of Archais , vol . i, p . 22 . 2 Eros ( w .) descending upon God ( 778,7 .), transforms God into ( 171017. ) Christ . 3 The Tale of Archais , vol . i, p . 22 . + Ibid . vol .i, p . 23 .

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1996 · PDF PAGE 164

The Law is for All

…hy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit! Unity uttermost showed! I adore the might of Thy breath, Supreme and terrible God, Who makest the gods and death To tremble before Thee: — I, I adore thee! Appear on the throne of Ra! Open the ways of the Khu!

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1909 · PDF PAGE 25

777

…tars), Akasa (as 2 matter), Lingam Compassion . .S. Bhavani (all forms of Sakti), Prana (as Force), 3 Friendliness .S. Indra, Brahma . 4 Death . _R. Vishnu, Varruna-Avatar 5 Buddha . .R. Vishnu-Hari-Krishna-Rama . 6 The Gods .R. oe ee ee 7 Analysis into 4 Elements _ A. Hanuman . 8 Dhamma . R... . | Ganesha, Vishnu (Kurm Avatar) 9 The Body /R. } Lakshmi, &c. [Kundalini] . 10 Wind . . _K. The Maruts [Vayu] . 11 Yellow . K . . | Hanuman, Vishnu (as Parasa-Rama) . 12 Loathsomeness of Food . .P. Chandra (as ww). 13 Dark Blue . ....+.. -« ._K. Lalita…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 90

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…oeides, Higher Self or Adonai fills the Space which was once occupied solely by the body and mind of the aspirant. Therefore through the death of the body as it were is the resurrection of the Higher Self accomplished, and the pinnacles of that Temple, whose foundations are laid deep in the black earth, are lost among the starry Palaces of God. In the “ Hatha-~Yoga Pradipika” we read that “there can be no Raja Yoga without Hatha Yoga, and vice versa, that to those who wander in the darkness of the conflicting Sects unable to obtain Raja Yoga, t…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 90

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…oeides, Higher Self or Adonai fills the Space which was once occupied solely by the body and mind of the aspirant. Therefore through the death of the body as it were is the resurrection of the Higher Self accomplished, and the pinnacles of that Temple, whose foundations are laid deep in the black earth, are lost among the starry Palaces of God. In the “ Hatha-~Yoga Pradipika” we read that “there can be no Raja Yoga without Hatha Yoga, and vice versa, that to those who wander in the darkness of the conflicting Sects unable to obtain Raja Yoga, t…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 86

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… I have seen lions. LAYLAH. You are a savage. RINALDO. Natureis savage. Passion is savage. The God alike of Jews and Moslems delights in death. Or why are men and beasts slain in His honour? Brutal force is at the heart of things. Man is dragged crying from his mother's womb in dire agony; man fights his surroundings ——the nearer they are the more bitterly must he fight them 78

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1911 · PDF PAGE 86

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… I have seen lions. LAYLAH. You are a savage. RINALDO. Natureis savage. Passion is savage. The God alike of Jews and Moslems delights in death. Or why are men and beasts slain in His honour? Brutal force is at the heart of things. Man is dragged crying from his mother's womb in dire agony; man fights his surroundings ——the nearer they are the more bitterly must he fight them 78

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1909 · PDF PAGE 105

John St. John

… dangerous stream a heap of wreckage. . . . He, himself in danger, thought ofhis magical career. Alcoholism, insanity, disease, faddism, death, knavery, prison—every earthly hell, reflection of some spiritual blunder, had seized his companions. By dozens had that band been swept away, dashed to pieces on one rock or another. He, alone almost upon that angry stream, still held on, his life each moment the play- thing of giant forces, so enormous as to be (once they were loose) quite out of proportion to all human wit or courage or address—and he …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 369

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…f Apuleius, not (as hitherto) the plaintive bray of the proverbial ass who hesitated so long between the two thistles that he starved to death. I warn thee, ass! We who are gods have laughed with thee these many years; beware lest in the end we laugh at thee with the laughter of a mandrake torn up, whereat thou shouldst fall dead. A. QUILLER, JR. 351

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