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1913 · PDF PAGE 10

The Book of Lies

…eneration. GOD is concealed in the whirling energy of Nature. GOD is manifest in gathering: harmony : con- sideration: the Mirror of the Sun and of the Heart. THE THIRD TRIAD THE TENTH EMANATION The world.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 272

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX These seventeen squares represent the Sun, the Four Elements, and the Twelve Signs In this grade the lamps on the Pillars are unshaded, showing that you have quitted Altar and the entrance to the Holy Place stood the Laver of Brass, as a symbol of the Waters of Creation.” The Hegemon then explains the sym- bolic drawing of the Zodiac, which is most complicated, but consists mainly of twelve circles and a lamp in the centre to repre- sent the sun, “The whole figure repre- sents the Rose of Creation, and is a synthesis of the Visible …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 272

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX These seventeen squares represent the Sun, the Four Elements, and the Twelve Signs In this grade the lamps on the Pillars are unshaded, showing that you have quitted Altar and the entrance to the Holy Place stood the Laver of Brass, as a symbol of the Waters of Creation.” The Hegemon then explains the sym- bolic drawing of the Zodiac, which is most complicated, but consists mainly of twelve circles and a lamp in the centre to repre- sent the sun, “The whole figure repre- sents the Rose of Creation, and is a synthesis of the Visible …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 94

Magick Without Tears

…presented the Yang by an unbroken ( ), the Yin by a broken (- -) line. (The first manifestation in Nature of these two is Thai Yang, the Sun, and Thai Yin, the Moon.) This being a little large and loose, they doubled these lines, and obtained the four Hsiang. They then took them three at a time, and got the eight Kwa. These represent the development from the original I to the Natural Order of the Elements. I shall call the male principle M, the Female F. M 1 Khien: "Heaven-Father" F 1 = = Khwgn: "Earth-Mother" M 2 __ li: The Sun F 2 - - Khan: T…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 14

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… trained observation, has always been a massof error. Spiritual Experience, interpreted in the terms of Intellect, is distorted; just as sunrise shows the grass green and the sea blue. Both were invisible until sunrise; yet the diversity of colour is not in the sun, but in the objects on which its light falls, and their contradiction does not prove the sun to be an illusion. 4. We shall correct Mysticism (or Illuminism) by Science, and expiain Science by Illuminism. Vv 1. We have one method, that of Science. 2. We have one aim, that of Religion…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 14

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… trained observation, has always been a massof error. Spiritual Experience, interpreted in the terms of Intellect, is distorted; just as sunrise shows the grass green and the sea blue. Both were invisible until sunrise; yet the diversity of colour is not in the sun, but in the objects on which its light falls, and their contradiction does not prove the sun to be an illusion. 4. We shall correct Mysticism (or Illuminism) by Science, and expiain Science by Illuminism. Vv 1. We have one method, that of Science. 2. We have one aim, that of Religion…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 86

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…, the Eye, and the Devil our Lord, and the Goat of Mendes. He is the Lord of the Sabbath of the Adepts, and is Satan, therefore also the Sun, whose number of Magick is 666, the seal of His servant the BEAST. But again SA is 61, AIN, the Naught of Nuith; BA means go, for HADIT ; and F is their Son the Sun who is Ra — Hoor — Khuit. So then let the Adept set his sigil upon ail the words he hath writ in the Book of the Works of his WilL i. There is an alternative spelling TzBA — F where the Root, “an Host,>, has the value of 93. The Practicus shoul…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 123

Oracles

…ent forth : none stayed, none dare Proffer a pavid prayer. There was a pavement bright with emerald Glittering on malachite Clear to the Sun : low battlements enwalled With gold the ground enthralled, Sheer to the sight Of sun and city : thither in his trance The king’s slow steps advance. There stood he, and with eyes unfolded far (Clouds shadowing a star

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1910 · PDF PAGE 71

The World’s Tragedy

I8 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. Beyond speech, beyond song, beyond evidence. There is wonder intense, a miraculous sun, As the many are molten and mixed into one With the heat of its passion ; the one hath invaded The heights of its soul, and its laughter is braided With comets whose plumes are the galaxies Like winds on the night’s inaccessible seas. Oh master ! my master ! nay, bid me not ride To the heaven beyond heaven ; for I may not abide. I faint : I am frail : not a mortal may bear The invisible light, the abundance of air. I fail : I am sinkin…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 31

The Book of Thoth

…th (in any ordinary sense of the word) as possible; it aims at maximum convenience. 2. To return to the picture of the Solar System. The Sun is the Hub of the Wheel; the outermost Planet is on its rim; and beyond, but laterally within that rim, are the Twelve Con‐ stellations of the Zodiac. Why twelve? The first rough division of the circle is into four, accord‐ ing to the observed seasons. This choice may also have been influenced by the division of the Elements into Four—Fire, Air, Water, Earth. (These do not mean the objects now understood b…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 30

The God-Eater

…is hell that is my heart ; And I the icy and intangible That beholds all, and is not. RupuHa. Three in one ! One in three ! Death to the sun ! Glory to thee ! Thou wast there ! Enough ! It will grow. Ho! Ho! Criospa. In English, I was mad. But no new portents Confound the course of the sun, I left my home To seek thee out. When skill availed me not, I put to sea to try the Luck of Maurya. Rupua. Thou shouldst have tried that first of all. CriosDA. Why then The Luck may avail if that wried tongue can speak Straight ! Hast thou aught to bid me do…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 71

Book 4 (Part I)

… its support, and even resists attempts to distract it; when it stops it falls from that position. If the earth ceased to spin round the sun, it would at once fall into the sun. The moment then that the student takes a simple subject—or rather a simple object—and imagines it or visualizes it, he will find that it is not so much his creature as he supposed. Other thoughts will invade 55

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1912 · PDF PAGE 27

Sir Palamedes

Us marsh-lights to forget the sun? There is one man of mortal men Worthy to win this benison, Sir Palamede the Saracen.” Then went the applauding murmur round : Sir Lancelot girt him there and then To ride to that enchanted ground Where amid timeless snows the den Of Palamedes might be found. 21

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1905 · PDF PAGE 73

Orpheus

The morning shakes its ocean-bathéd tresses, The bright sun broadens over all the earth. The green leaves fall, fall into his caresses, And all the world’s heart leaps, again addresses Its life, and girds it in the golden girth. Then noon full-fashioned lies upon the steep. The large sun sighs and turns his bridle-rein, Thinks of the ocean, turns his heart to sleep, Laughing no longer, not yet prone to weep, Feeling the prelude of the coming pain. The hills and dales are dumb beneath the heat, And all the world lies tranced or mutely dreaming, …

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1944 · PDF PAGE 227

The Book of Thoth

…ix Wings; the entire symbol is not only a glyph of Earth as understood in this New Aeon of Horus, but of the number 6, the number of the Sun. This card is thus an affirmation of the identity of Sol and Terra‐and that will be best understood by those who have punctually practised Liber Resh for the necessary number of years, preferably in such Hermitages as those of the Sahara Desert, where the Sun and the Earth can soon be instinctively recognized as living Beings, one’s constant companions in a Universe of Pure Joy.

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1902 · PDF PAGE 140

Tannhäuser

…al time. And lo ! the light Shed from Her shoulders whom I dimly saw ; Crowned with twelve stars and horned as the moon ; Clothed with a sun to which the sun of earth Were tinsel ; and the moon was at Her feet — A moon whose brilliance breaks the sword of song Into a million fragments ; so transcends Music, that starlight-sandalled majesty ! Then—shall I contemplate the face of Her ? O Nature ! Self-begotten ! Spouse of God, 138

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1913 · PDF PAGE 108

The Book of Lies

…n should He devote Him- self to AIWASS for the understanding of the Holy Books of P9EAHMA? Yet must he labour underground eternally. The sun is not for him, nor the flowers, nor

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1901 · PDF PAGE 72

The Soul of Osiris

… Of God’s revenge—none knoweth them : they rest Unburied, unremembered, unconfessed. What names of strength, of majesty, had they ? What suns are these gone down into the West ? “ Even I myself—my youth within me said : Go, seek this folly ; fear not for the dead, And God is with thine arm. I reached the ridge, And saw the river and the ghastly bridge I told you of. Even then, even there, I fled. Nor knight, nor king—a miserable midge ! “ Yet from my shame I dare not turn and run. My oath grows urgent as my days are done. Almost mine hour is on…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 149

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ast. Admitted, O thou astute and subtle-witted | Yet one—loose, jagged, clad in mist! Another—firm, smooth, loved and kissed By the soft sun! Our order hath This secret of the solar path, Even as our Lord the Beast hath won The mystic Number of the Sun. These secrets are too high for me. Nay, little brother! Come and see! Neither by faith nor fear nor awe Approach the doctrine of the Law! Truth, Courage, Love, shall win the bout, And those three others be cast out. Lead me, Master, by the hand Gently to this gracious land! Let me drink the doct…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 149

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ast. Admitted, O thou astute and subtle-witted | Yet one—loose, jagged, clad in mist! Another—firm, smooth, loved and kissed By the soft sun! Our order hath This secret of the solar path, Even as our Lord the Beast hath won The mystic Number of the Sun. These secrets are too high for me. Nay, little brother! Come and see! Neither by faith nor fear nor awe Approach the doctrine of the Law! Truth, Courage, Love, shall win the bout, And those three others be cast out. Lead me, Master, by the hand Gently to this gracious land! Let me drink the doct…

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