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Page 97 of 1191913 · PDF PAGE 578
THE EQUINOX by placing the feet on his feet, the hands on his hands, the mouth on his mouth. Then concentrate the whole will for a long time, call to itself the escaped soul, using all the loving thoughts and mental caresses of which one is capable. If the operator inspires in that soul much affection or great respect, ifin the thought which he communicates magnetically to it the thaumaturgist can persuade it that life is still necessary to it, and that happy days are still in store for it below, it will certainly return, and for the man of eve…
1913 · PDF PAGE 344
THE EQUINOX Here is a translation in alexandrines of the unrestricted magical and Catholic creed :— I do believe in God, almighty sire of man, One God, who did create the universe, his plan. I do believe in Him, the Son, the chief of men, Word and magnificence of the supreme Amen. He is the living thought of Love's eternal might, God manifest in flesh, the Action of the Light, Desired in every place and every period, But not a God that one may separate from God. Descended among men to free the earth from fate, He in His mother did the woman con…
1913 · PDF PAGE 578
THE EQUINOX by placing the feet on his feet, the hands on his hands, the mouth on his mouth. Then concentrate the whole will for a long time, call to itself the escaped soul, using all the loving thoughts and mental caresses of which one is capable. If the operator inspires in that soul much affection or great respect, ifin the thought which he communicates magnetically to it the thaumaturgist can persuade it that life is still necessary to it, and that happy days are still in store for it below, it will certainly return, and for the man of eve…
1919 · PDF PAGE 352
THE EQUINOX then, the goal; beyond which lie, bathed in the sunlight of the Spirit, glories untold, unseen by any save the eye of Soul. These gates are described in the third treatise. The words “spirit” and “soul” are highly ambiguous, and had better be regarded as poetic figures, without a technical meaning being sought. 60. There is but one road to the Path: at its very end alone the voice of Silence can be heard. The ladder by which the candidate ascends is formed of rungs of suffering and pain: these can be silenced only by the voice of vi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 507
…ndamental facts that directed the course of my research, whose results you may read in The Psychology of Hashish, by Oliver Haddo in The Equinox Vol. I, No.2 . The general basis of this Essay is Sankhara; it shows how very striking are the analogies between (I) the
1910 · PDF PAGE 274
THE EQUINOX place upon the bier. In the same attitude which he had kept I lay motionless, conscious, although in darkness, that I wore upon my face the counterpart of his look of agony. Theroom had grown into a gigantic hall, whose roof was framed of iron arches ; the pavement, the walls, the cornice were all of iron. The spiritual essence of the metal seemed to be a combination of cruelty and despair. Its massive hardness spoke a language which it is impossible to embody in words, but any one who has watched the relentless sweep of some great …
1910 · PDF PAGE 274
THE EQUINOX place upon the bier. In the same attitude which he had kept I lay motionless, conscious, although in darkness, that I wore upon my face the counterpart of his look of agony. Theroom had grown into a gigantic hall, whose roof was framed of iron arches ; the pavement, the walls, the cornice were all of iron. The spiritual essence of the metal seemed to be a combination of cruelty and despair. Its massive hardness spoke a language which it is impossible to embody in words, but any one who has watched the relentless sweep of some great …
1913 · PDF PAGE 540
THE EQUINOX one must pronounce them with a complete intelligence, with a will that nothing checks, an activity that nothing daunts. In magic, to have said is to have done; the word begins with letters, it ends with acts. One does not really will a thing unless one wills it with all one’s heart, to the point of breaking for it one’s dearest affections ; and with all one’s forces, to the point of risking one’s health, one’s fortune, and one’s life. It is by absolute devotion that faith proves itself and constitutes itself. But the man armed with …
1913 · PDF PAGE 540
THE EQUINOX one must pronounce them with a complete intelligence, with a will that nothing checks, an activity that nothing daunts. In magic, to have said is to have done; the word begins with letters, it ends with acts. One does not really will a thing unless one wills it with all one’s heart, to the point of breaking for it one’s dearest affections ; and with all one’s forces, to the point of risking one’s health, one’s fortune, and one’s life. It is by absolute devotion that faith proves itself and constitutes itself. But the man armed with …
1919 · PDF PAGE 380
THE EQUINOX some way of subtracting one from one which would leave a higher, superior kind of a nothing, or as if there were some way of blowing out a candle which would leave Moses in a much more Egyptian darkness than we ever supposed when we were children. This is not science. This is not business. This is Ameri- can Sunday journalism. The Hindu and the American are very much alike in this innocence, this naiveté which de- mands fairy stories with ever bigger giants. They cannot bear the idea of anything being complete and done with. So, the…
1961 · PDF PAGE 12
… contains some of the deepest secrets of initiation, with a clear solution of many cosmic and ethical problems. Præmonstrance of A∴A∴, Equinox III (1) Liber Aleph, The Book of Wisdom or Folly was intended to express the heart of my doctrine in the most deep and delicate dimensions [it] is the most tense and intense book that I have ever composed. The thought is so concentrated and, if I may use the word, nervous, that both to write then, and to read now, involved and involves an almost intolerable strain. I remember how I used to sit at my de…
1911 · PDF PAGE 24
THE EQUINOX him, like an alexandrite stone. He bears a pitcher or amphora. And now there comes another Angel upon a white horse, and yet again another Angel upon a black bull. And now there comes a lion and swallows the two latter angels up. The first angel goes to the lion and closes his mouth. And behind them are arrayed a great company of Angels with silver spears, like a forest. And the Angel says: Blow, all ye trumpets, for I will loose my hands from the mouth of the lion, and his roar- ing shall enkindle the worlds. Then the trumpets blow…
1911 · PDF PAGE 138
THE EQUINOX its own opposite. And this is the great Mystery of the Super- nals that are beyond the Abyss. For below the Abyss, con- tradiction is division; but above the Abyss, contradiction is Unity. And there could be nothing true except by virtue of the contradiction that is contained in itself. Thou canst not believe how marvellous is this vision of the Arrow. And it could never be shut out, except the Lords of Vision troubled the waters of the pool, the mind of the Seer. But they send forth a wind that is a cloud of Angels, and they beat t…
1919 · PDF PAGE 250
THE EQUINOX of the O.T.O. to whom you will. Will your children be orphan? No; for they will be adopted if you wish by the Master of your Lodge, or by the Grand Master of the O.T.O. In short, there is no circumstance of life in which the O.T.O. is not both sword and shield. You wonder? You reply that this can only be by gener- osity, by divine charity of the high toward the low, of the rich toward the poor, of the great toward the small? You are a thousand times right; you have understood the secret of the O.T.O. That such qualities can flourish…
1930 · PDF PAGE 74
…rce naturally radiating from that point1 and projects it in the direction of the path of the Magician. The sigils are those given in the Equinox Vol. I, No. 7, Plate X outside the square 5 the signs those shewn in Vol. I, No. 2, Plate “The Signs of the Grades”. In these invocations he should expand his girth and his stature to the utmost2, assuming the form and the consciousness of the Elemental God of the quarter. After this, he begins to vibrate the “Barbarous Names” of the Ri tuai. Now let him not only fill his whole being to the uttermost w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 440
THE EQUINOX I am blind when I have eyes. ... Here, see what John Huss says in his letter, the forty-third letter, towards the end: “A doctor of theology said to me: “In everything I should submit myself to the Council ; everything would then be good and lawful for me.” He added: “If the Council said that you had only one eye, although you have two, it would be still necessary to admit that the Council was not wrong.” “Were the whole world,” I replied, ‘to affirm such a thing, so long as I had the use of my reason, I should not be able to agree …
1913 · PDF PAGE 444
THE EQUINOX Here is one of his stories : One day Vintras, in an access of enthusiasm, was preaching before his heterodox altar; twenty-five persons were present. An empty chalice was upon the altar, a chalice well known to the Abbé Charvoz ; he brought it himself from his church of Mont-Louis, and he was perfectly certain that the sacred vase had neither secret ducts nor double bottom. “*Tn order to prove to you,’ said Vintras, ‘that it is God Himself who inspires me, He acquaints me that this chalice will fill itself with drops of His blood, u…
1913 · PDF PAGE 440
THE EQUINOX I am blind when I have eyes. ... Here, see what John Huss says in his letter, the forty-third letter, towards the end: “A doctor of theology said to me: “In everything I should submit myself to the Council ; everything would then be good and lawful for me.” He added: “If the Council said that you had only one eye, although you have two, it would be still necessary to admit that the Council was not wrong.” “Were the whole world,” I replied, ‘to affirm such a thing, so long as I had the use of my reason, I should not be able to agree …
1913 · PDF PAGE 444
THE EQUINOX Here is one of his stories : One day Vintras, in an access of enthusiasm, was preaching before his heterodox altar; twenty-five persons were present. An empty chalice was upon the altar, a chalice well known to the Abbé Charvoz ; he brought it himself from his church of Mont-Louis, and he was perfectly certain that the sacred vase had neither secret ducts nor double bottom. “*Tn order to prove to you,’ said Vintras, ‘that it is God Himself who inspires me, He acquaints me that this chalice will fill itself with drops of His blood, u…
1909 · PDF PAGE 236
THE EQUINOX and myriads of little spheres, which he feels are in Reality one Great Ocean if he could only make them unite. Each stage above him is his Ultimate goal for the time being. Possessing one little sphere, his one and only object is to unite it to another, or another to it; not two others, not to the whole, but only to that Ove Other. For the time being (let it appear as if it were for all time to the initiate), that Oxe Other is God and Very God—the Omega of his quest, and that a// others are Devils that would tempt and seduce him. Th…