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Page 99 of 1191909 · PDF PAGE 272
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 …
1909 · PDF PAGE 350
THE EQUINOX THE SELKIE THAT DEUD NO’ FORGET A long time ago, one Mansie Meur was gathering limpets at the ebb tide, off Hackness, when he heard a strange sound coming from the rocks some distance off. Sometimes it would be like the sob of a woman, and sometimes louder, like the cry of a dying cow, but it was always a most pitiful sound. For a while Mansie could see nothing except a big seal close in to the rocks, who was craning his neck above the surface, and peering at acreek some distance off. And Mansie noticed that the seal was not frighte…
1919 · PDF PAGE 418
THE EQUINOX White Magician. If he suspects him of causing illness and the like, he is Black. To the Master of the Temple either proceeding appears blind and stupid. In the lower stages there is only one way right, and all the rest wrong. You are to aspire to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, and of course to do any other things which may subserve that one purpose; but nothing else. And of course it is a mistake, unless under very special circum- stances, to perform any miracles, on the ground that they diminish the supr…
1944 · PDF PAGE 11
… idea had been to execute a pack after the tradition of the Mediaeval Edi‐ tors, corrected in the light of the descriptions given in The Equinox I, vii and viii. But she found technical difficulties, such as introducing “10rayed Angelic hands” all over the place, producing a grotesque effect; and she also observed that his teaching, in the course of his ex‐ planations went far higher and deeper than any‐thing in any accessible models. She accord‐ ingly forced him—the laziest man in three continents!—to undertake what is to all intent an origina…
1954 · PDF PAGE 526
…e slides into sloppiness, which luckily is not often. To study Magick: Book 4. Parts II, III (Magick in Theory and Practice) and IV (The Equinox of the Gods). Add The Book of Thoth and there you are: Being furnished with complete armour and armed. he is similar to the Goddess. Of other writers, you have The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, and any of the works of Eliphaz Levi. But that's all. But-I suppose you knew all this long ago. It may help if I try to expound the essence of these two Methods in very simple language, and ver…
1909 · PDF PAGE 284
THE EQUINOX “The Priest with the mask of Osiris spake and said: ‘I am the water, stagnant, and silent, and still; reflecting all, concealing am the inundation. name. Hail unto ye! unto ye! for the rending of the darkness is nigh!’” The Hiereus says: “The Priest with the mask of Horus spake and said: «I am the Water, turbid, and troubled, and deep. Iam the Banisher of Peace in the vast abode of Waters! None is so strong that can withstand the Strength of the great Waters : the Vastness of their Terror: the Magnitude of their Fear: the Roar of th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 284
THE EQUINOX “The Priest with the mask of Osiris spake and said: ‘I am the water, stagnant, and silent, and still; reflecting all, concealing am the inundation. name. Hail unto ye! unto ye! for the rending of the darkness is nigh!’” The Hiereus says: “The Priest with the mask of Horus spake and said: «I am the Water, turbid, and troubled, and deep. Iam the Banisher of Peace in the vast abode of Waters! None is so strong that can withstand the Strength of the great Waters : the Vastness of their Terror: the Magnitude of their Fear: the Roar of th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 168
THE EQUINOX It was on this day I got a broken-bell-sound * in my head when not doing anything particular. August 12th, A’sana and Breathing 10 minutes. One fears to do Rechaka, so tremendous and terrible is the Voice of the Universe. But with Puraka is a still small Voice. Concerning which Maitrananda said to me: “Listen not to that Great and terrible Voice: but penetrate and hear the subtle soul thereof.” 13th, Pranayama: Five cycles § minutes 15 seconds. Mantra (N.S.N.A.) t Half an hour. Ears begin to sing at about the twentieth minute. Towar…
1910 · PDF PAGE 200
THE EQUINOX 6. Perhaps as a result of the intense control, a nervous storm breaks. This we call Dhyana. Its character is probably not determined by the antecedents in consciousness. Its essential characteristic being the unity of Subject and Object, a new world is revealed. Samadhi is but an expansion of this, so far as I can see. The slaying of any of these thoughts often leaves their echoes gradually dying away. Now that we have come to the end of this long chapter, let us turn back on the upward slope and survey the road which winds beneath …
1910 · PDF PAGE 168
THE EQUINOX It was on this day I got a broken-bell-sound * in my head when not doing anything particular. August 12th, A’sana and Breathing 10 minutes. One fears to do Rechaka, so tremendous and terrible is the Voice of the Universe. But with Puraka is a still small Voice. Concerning which Maitrananda said to me: “Listen not to that Great and terrible Voice: but penetrate and hear the subtle soul thereof.” 13th, Pranayama: Five cycles § minutes 15 seconds. Mantra (N.S.N.A.) t Half an hour. Ears begin to sing at about the twentieth minute. Towar…
1910 · PDF PAGE 200
THE EQUINOX 6. Perhaps as a result of the intense control, a nervous storm breaks. This we call Dhyana. Its character is probably not determined by the antecedents in consciousness. Its essential characteristic being the unity of Subject and Object, a new world is revealed. Samadhi is but an expansion of this, so far as I can see. The slaying of any of these thoughts often leaves their echoes gradually dying away. Now that we have come to the end of this long chapter, let us turn back on the upward slope and survey the road which winds beneath …
1911 · PDF PAGE 30
THE EQUINOX TARO; but the light is so dreadful that I cannot read the words. Iam going totry again. All these serpents are collected together very thickly at the edges of the wheel, because there are an innumerable number of sentences. One is: fves annos regimen ovracult, And another is: terribilis ardet rex why. And another is: Ter amb (amp?) (can’t see it) vosam oleo (?). And another is: 7vibus annulis vegna olisbon. And the mar- vel is that with those four letters you can get a complete set of rules for doing everything, both for white magic…
1911 · PDF PAGE 136
THE EQUINOX Then came understanding to me, and I took forth the Arrows. The white arrow had no barb, but the black arrow was barbed like a forest of fish-hooks; it was bound round with brass, and it had been dipped in deadly poison. Then I fitted the white arrow to the string, and I shot it against the heart of Eros, and though I shot with all my force, it fell harmlessly from his side. But at that moment the black arrow was thrust through mine own heart. I am filled with fearful agony. And the child smiles, and says: Although thy shaft hath pi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 184
THE EQUINOX read i +4=5,2+4=6,3+4=7. And thus is revealed the Second Triangle of the Hexagram of Creation.* Further, this Reflected Triangle showeth forth the evolu- tion of the Four Worlds and their Consolidation : for I+24+3+4=10="= Atzibuth T+24+34445=15=mM= Briah =21=)11= Yetzirah T+24+34+445+6 6 T+2+34+44+5+6+7}¢= 28=24+8=10 Assiah The Number 28, the total numeration, therefore represents Malkuth, the Tenth Sephira: Assiah made manifest—the Work of Creation accomplished: wherefore God rested on the Seventh Day. And 28 is 7 x 4, the seven s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 298
THE EQUINOX place of giving the infant adept a simple magic rag doll to play with, intrust to his care, with dire prognostication and portent of disaster, a gargoyle torn from the very roof of that temple on the floor of which he, as a little child, is as yet but learning to crawl. The result being, as it proved in most cases, as disastrous as it was lamentable. There is a time and a place for everything, and there is a right use for the affectation of knowledge just as there is a wrong one. When a child has learnt the simple rules of addition,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 184
THE EQUINOX read i +4=5,2+4=6,3+4=7. And thus is revealed the Second Triangle of the Hexagram of Creation.* Further, this Reflected Triangle showeth forth the evolu- tion of the Four Worlds and their Consolidation : for I+24+3+4=10="= Atzibuth T+24+34445=15=mM= Briah =21=)11= Yetzirah T+24+34+445+6 6 T+2+34+44+5+6+7}¢= 28=24+8=10 Assiah The Number 28, the total numeration, therefore represents Malkuth, the Tenth Sephira: Assiah made manifest—the Work of Creation accomplished: wherefore God rested on the Seventh Day. And 28 is 7 x 4, the seven s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 298
THE EQUINOX place of giving the infant adept a simple magic rag doll to play with, intrust to his care, with dire prognostication and portent of disaster, a gargoyle torn from the very roof of that temple on the floor of which he, as a little child, is as yet but learning to crawl. The result being, as it proved in most cases, as disastrous as it was lamentable. There is a time and a place for everything, and there is a right use for the affectation of knowledge just as there is a wrong one. When a child has learnt the simple rules of addition,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 92
THE EQUINOX coming straight from the Sham Bazaar, retail their wretched bak bak to their sheep-headed followers as the eternal word of Brahman—“ The shower from the Highest!” And, not in- frequently, end in silent meditation within the illusive walls of Wormwood Scrubbs. The East, like the West, has for long lain under the spell of that potent but Middle-class Magician—St. Shame- faced sex; and the whole of its literature swings between the two extremes of Paederasty and Brahmacharya. Even the great science of Yoga has not remained unpolluted b…
1910 · PDF PAGE 92
THE EQUINOX coming straight from the Sham Bazaar, retail their wretched bak bak to their sheep-headed followers as the eternal word of Brahman—“ The shower from the Highest!” And, not in- frequently, end in silent meditation within the illusive walls of Wormwood Scrubbs. The East, like the West, has for long lain under the spell of that potent but Middle-class Magician—St. Shame- faced sex; and the whole of its literature swings between the two extremes of Paederasty and Brahmacharya. Even the great science of Yoga has not remained unpolluted b…
1911 · PDF PAGE 66
THE EQUINOX For the latchet of his sandal is more than the helmet of the Most High. Who shall reach up to him in supplication, save those that he shall set upon his shoulders? Would God that my tongue were torn out by the roots, and my throat cut across, and my heart torn out and given to the vultures, before I say this that I must say: Blessing and Worship to the Prophet of the Lovely Star! And now he is fallen quite to the ground, in a heap, and dust is upon his head; and the throne upon which he sat is shattered into many pieces. And dimly d…