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Page 92 of 1191911 · PDF PAGE 132
THE EQUINOX does mean I cannot tell at all. He slightly emphasized the word “there.” And now all is suddenly blotted out, and instead appears the Angel of the Aethyr. He is all in black, burnished black scales, just edged with gold. He has vast wings, with terrible claws on the ends, and he has a fierce face, like a dragon’s, and dreadful eyes that pierce one through and through. And he says: O thou that art so dull of understanding, when wilt thou begin to annihilate thyself in the mysteries of the Aethyrs? For all that thou thinkest is but th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 172
THE EQUINOX have hidden all things in the cave of my heart. I have slain all things because I am Innocence. I have lain with all things because I am Untouched Virginity. I have given birth to all things because I am Death. Stainless are my lips, for they are redder than the purple of the vine, and of the blood wherewith I am intoxicated. Stainless is my forehead, for it is whiter than the wind and the dew that cooleth it. Tam light, and I am night, and I am that which is beyond them. I am speech, and I am silence, and I am that which is beyond …
1913 · PDF PAGE 304
THE EQUINOX destroy itself. Science will then never be able to perform the work of faith, any more than faith can decide in a matter of science. An affirmation of faith with which science is rash enough to meddle can then be nothing but an absurdity for it, just as a scientific statement, if given us as an article of faith, would be an absurdity on the religious plane. To know and to believe are two terms which can never be confounded. It would be equally impossible to oppose the one to the other. It is impossible, in fact, to believe the contr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 304
THE EQUINOX destroy itself. Science will then never be able to perform the work of faith, any more than faith can decide in a matter of science. An affirmation of faith with which science is rash enough to meddle can then be nothing but an absurdity for it, just as a scientific statement, if given us as an article of faith, would be an absurdity on the religious plane. To know and to believe are two terms which can never be confounded. It would be equally impossible to oppose the one to the other. It is impossible, in fact, to believe the contr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 376
…ime sacrament of death. As it is written in The Book of the Law, "-death is the crown of all." The supplement to the first number of The Equinox is a plain reprint of my Magical Record in Paris, mentioned above. I have omitted no detail of my doings. My dinners, my dalliance and my other diversions are described as minutely as my Magick, my mantras and my meditations. Nothing of the sort had ever been published before. It is a complete demonstration of the possibility of achieving the most colossal results in conditions which had hitherto been …
1909 · PDF PAGE 245
…eaps around him. Knorr von Rosenroth’s immense storehouse of Qabalistic learning seems to have kept P. fully employed until the autumnal equinox, when B——, the alchemist of note, in- troduced him to a Mr. C (afterwards, as we shall see, Frater V.:. N.°. of the Order of the Golden Dawn). This meeting proved all-important, as will be set forth in the follow- ing chapter. Through C , P. had for the time being laid aside von Rosenroth, and was now deep in “‘ The Book of the * At this time P. was leading an hermit’s life on a Swiss glacier with one …
1909 · PDF PAGE 245
…eaps around him. Knorr von Rosenroth’s immense storehouse of Qabalistic learning seems to have kept P. fully employed until the autumnal equinox, when B——, the alchemist of note, in- troduced him to a Mr. C (afterwards, as we shall see, Frater V.:. N.°. of the Order of the Golden Dawn). This meeting proved all-important, as will be set forth in the follow- ing chapter. Through C , P. had for the time being laid aside von Rosenroth, and was now deep in “‘ The Book of the * At this time P. was leading an hermit’s life on a Swiss glacier with one …
1910 · PDF PAGE 138
THE EQUINOX One hundred indrawn breaths in reclining position with belt on. 7 minutes 50 seconds. (4.7 secs. per breath.) Ten indrawn breaths as slow as possible 7 m. 26 sec. (44.6 secs. per breath.) July 31st, Went to sleep doing Buddha. Buddha. 32m, It seemed much more. Pendulum 1,000 23}m. The pendulum kept in its plane.* At single strokes. end of 940 strokes pendulum wanted to swing right over several times. Calvary Cross. Too tired to settle at all. August Ist. Position 1. 1om. Not bad. 2nd. Buddha, 8m. It seems very difficult nowadays to …
1910 · PDF PAGE 138
THE EQUINOX One hundred indrawn breaths in reclining position with belt on. 7 minutes 50 seconds. (4.7 secs. per breath.) Ten indrawn breaths as slow as possible 7 m. 26 sec. (44.6 secs. per breath.) July 31st, Went to sleep doing Buddha. Buddha. 32m, It seemed much more. Pendulum 1,000 23}m. The pendulum kept in its plane.* At single strokes. end of 940 strokes pendulum wanted to swing right over several times. Calvary Cross. Too tired to settle at all. August Ist. Position 1. 1om. Not bad. 2nd. Buddha, 8m. It seems very difficult nowadays to …
1911 · PDF PAGE 40
THE EQUINOX coffee, then a burning taste, then a sour taste that I don’t know. All these tastes issue from his eyes; he signua/s them. I can see his eyes now. They are very round, with perfectly black pupils, perfectly white iris, and the cornea pale blue. The sense of desolation is so acute that I keep on trying to get away from the vision. I told him that I could not understand his taste-language, so instead he set up a humming very much like a big electric plant with dynamos going. Now the atmosphere is deep night-blue; and by the power of t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 252
THE EQUINOX However, the honour of British Professional Men was (once again) vindicated, chiefly because nobody to speak of saw either attack or defence, and the future saint (for so, strangely enough, had Fate decreed !) had his reward, and was initiated in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The future saint (far indeed from saintship at this time— but the ways of Providence are indeed wondrous!) knew that there was an inner order, but had no idea of its name; he only noticed that he was not invited to enter it. So, to pass the time, he wr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 514
THE EQUINOX to study the elements of that physical Qabalah which we call magic. According to the qabalistic principles formulated by the school of Paracelsus, death is nothing but a slumber, ever growing deeper and more definite, a slumber which it would not be impossible to stop in its early stages by exercising a powerful action of will on the astral body as it breaks loose, and by recalling it to life through some powerful interest or some dominating affection. Jesus expressed the same thought when he said to the daughter of Jairus: “ The ma…
1913 · PDF PAGE 252
THE EQUINOX However, the honour of British Professional Men was (once again) vindicated, chiefly because nobody to speak of saw either attack or defence, and the future saint (for so, strangely enough, had Fate decreed !) had his reward, and was initiated in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The future saint (far indeed from saintship at this time— but the ways of Providence are indeed wondrous!) knew that there was an inner order, but had no idea of its name; he only noticed that he was not invited to enter it. So, to pass the time, he wr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 514
THE EQUINOX to study the elements of that physical Qabalah which we call magic. According to the qabalistic principles formulated by the school of Paracelsus, death is nothing but a slumber, ever growing deeper and more definite, a slumber which it would not be impossible to stop in its early stages by exercising a powerful action of will on the astral body as it breaks loose, and by recalling it to life through some powerful interest or some dominating affection. Jesus expressed the same thought when he said to the daughter of Jairus: “ The ma…
1919 · PDF PAGE 54
THE EQUINOX us men and women: “Come forth, O children, under the stars, and take your fill of love! Iam above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.” Later She explains the mystery of sorrow: “For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union.” “This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all.” It is shown later how this can be, how death itself is an ecstasy like love, but more intense, the reunion of the soul with its true self. And what are the con…
1919 · PDF PAGE 56
THE EQUINOX Tome!” And with these words “The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.” III. In the next chapter of our book is given the word of Hadit, who is the complement of Nuit. He is eternal energy, the Infinite Motion of Things, the central core of all being. The manifested Universe comes from the marriage of Nuit and Hadit; without this could no thing be. This eternal, this perpetual marriage-feast is then the nature of things themselves; and therefore everything that iis, is a crystalli- zation of divine ecstasy. Hadit tells us of Himself: …
1919 · PDF PAGE 443
…s able. He should on the contrary take up the burden of a Magus. This whole passage will be found in much clearer language in Liber One, Equinox VII. 78. Nay, O thou candidate for Nature’s hidden lore! If one would follow in the steps of holy Tathagata, those gifts and powers are not for Self. 121
1930 · PDF PAGE 33
…he head is then bowed and pushed out, as if to symbolize the butting of an horned beast (attitude of Pan, Bacchus, etc.). (Frontispiece, Equinox I, III). 15. Proceeding as before, let him make in the West the Averse Pentagram whereby Water is invoked. 16. Pointing the wand to the centre of the Pentagram, let him call upon BABALON! ! 17. Let him give the sign Mulier. The feet are widely separated, and the arms raised so as to suggest a crescent. The head is thrown back (attitude of Baphomet, Isis in Welcome, the Microcosm of Vitruvius). (See Boo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 388
THE EQUINOX “Oh, you have been very ill for many days with brain- fever. You must not speak too much.” “What? Where is the coffin?” “The negroes have it; they have carried it away into the interior. But I suppose you are cured now?” he added in an anxious tone. I shall not repeat the conversation that ensued. Enough to mention that I discovered the old sailor to be absolutely mad. And being unable to persuade him that I was still firmly convinced of being the cover of the lost coffin, I found it better to agree with him. And soon he fell into t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 388
THE EQUINOX “Oh, you have been very ill for many days with brain- fever. You must not speak too much.” “What? Where is the coffin?” “The negroes have it; they have carried it away into the interior. But I suppose you are cured now?” he added in an anxious tone. I shall not repeat the conversation that ensued. Enough to mention that I discovered the old sailor to be absolutely mad. And being unable to persuade him that I was still firmly convinced of being the cover of the lost coffin, I found it better to agree with him. And soon he fell into t…