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1919 · PDF PAGE 50

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…mp The congealed Spirit of Man into the pit, Save that, unquenchable because unlit, The Love of God burns steady, like a Lamp. It burns! beyond the sands, beyond the stars. It burns! beyond the bands, beyond the bars, And so the Expanse of Mystery veil by veil Burns inward, plume on plume still folding over The dissolved heart of the amazéd lover— The angel wings over the Holy Grail!

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…es. HAGIOS HAGIOS HAGIOS IAO. He replaces the Host and the Cup, and adores. VII OF THE OFFICE OF THE ANTHEM. Tue PRIEST. Thou who art I, beyond all I am, Who hast no nature and no name, Who art, when all but thou are gone, Thou, centre and secret of the Sun, Thou, hidden spring of all things known And unknown, Thou aloof, alone, Thou, the true fire within the seed Brooding and breeding, source and seed Of life, love, liberty, and light, Thou beyond speech and beyond sight, Thee I invoke, my faint fresh fire Kindling as mine intents aspire. Thee…

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ver be In Time or Eternity. Drawn, drawn, inevitably spanned, Tirelessly drawn by some strange hand, Drawn inward in some sense unkenned Beyond all to an appointed end, No end foreseen or hoped, drawn still Beyond word or will Into Itself, drawn subtly, deep Through the dreamless deaths whose shadow is sleep, Drawn, as dawn shows, to the inmost divine, To the temple, the nave, the choir, the shrine, To the altar where in the most holy cup The wine of its blood may be offered up. Nor is it given to any son of man To hymn that Sacrament, the One …

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… previous to the ‘REAL’ referred to above. SAT itself is an illusion. Some schools of philosophy have a higher ASAT, Not-Being, which is beyond SAT, and consequently is to Shivadarshana as SAT isto Atmadarshana. Nirvana is beyond both these. 9. Before the Soul can see, the Harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion. By the “Harmony within” is meant that state in which neither objects of sense, nor physiological sensations, nor emotions, can disturb the concentration of thought. II

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE 27. If I say Come up upon the mountains! the celestial waters flow at my word. But thou art the Water beyond the waters. 28. The red three-angled heart hath been set up in Thy shrine; for the priests despised equally the shrine and the god. 29. Yet all the while Thou wast hidden therein, as the Lord of Silence is hidden in the buds of the lotus. 30. Thou art Sebek the crocodile against Asar; thou art Mati, the Slayer in the Deep. Thou art Typhon, the Wrath of the Elements, O Thou who transcendest the Forces in their…

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… wait for the brilliance of the hour ineffable, when the universe shall be like a girdle for the midst of the ray of our love, extending beyond the permitted end of the endless One. 65. Then, O thou heart, will I the serpent eat thee wholly up; yea, I will eat thee wholly up. 89

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… feet. 36. Even as their rapture shore asunder the visible Hope, so also the Fear Invisible fled away and was no more. 37. O ye that are beyond Aormuzdi and Ahrimanes! blesséd are ye unto the ages. 38. They shaped Doubt as a sickle, and reaped the flowers of Faith for their garlands. 39. They shaped Ecstasy as a spear, and pierced the an- cient dragon that sat upon the stagnant water. 40. Then the fresh springs were unloosed, that the folk athirst might be at ease. 41. And again I was caught up into the presence of my Lord Adonai, and the knowl…

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…that encloseth the Universe. 18. O Snake of Emerald, Thou hast no time Past, no time ToCome. Verily Thou art not. 19. Thou art delicious beyond all taste and touch, Thou art not-to-be-beheld for glory, Thy voice is beyond the Speech and the Silence and the Speech therein, and Thy per- fume is of pure ambergris, that is not weighed against the finest gold of the fine gold. 20. Also Thy coils are of infinite range; the Heart that Thou dost encircle is an Universal Heart. 21. I, and Me, and Mine were sitting with lutes in the market-place of the g…

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…Lord Adonai, O thou Abyss of Sapphire! 56. I follow Thee, and the waters of Death fight strenu- ously against me. I pass unto the Waters beyond Death and beyond Life. 57. How shall I answer the foolish man? Inno way shall he come to the Identity of Thee! 58. But I am the Fool that heedeth not the Play of the Magician. Me doth the Woman of the Mysteries instruct in vain; I have burst the bonds of Love and of Power and of Worship. 59. Therefore is the Eagle made one with the Man, and the gallows of infamy dance with the fruit of the just. 60. I h…

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…lves because of this. 7. Be not contented with the image. 8. I who am the Image of an Image say this. 9. Debate not of the image, saying Beyond! Beyond! One mounteth unto the Crown by the moon and by the Sun, and by the arrow, and by the Foundation, and by the dark home of the stars from the black earth. 10. Not otherwise may ye reach unto the Smooth Point. 11. Nor is it fitting for the cobbler to prate of the Royal matter. O cobbler! mend me this shoe, that I may walk. O king! if I be thy son, let us speak of the Embassy to the King thy Brothe…

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ning to the conditions of Nirvana. Partly it is the fault of language, partly it is due to the fact that the condition of Arhat is quite beyond thought. He is beyond the Abyss, and there a thing is only true in so far as it is self-contradictory. The Arhat has no self to be blissful. It is much simpler to consider it on the lines given in my commentary to the last verse. 41. To live to benefit mankind is the first step. To prac- tise the six glorious virtues is the second. 42. To don Nirmanakéya’s humble robe is to forego eter- nal bliss for Se…

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…blood, which is explained in Liber 418. The higher Ego—“Holy Isle’”—is not the thinking self; it is the ‘“Dwarf-Self,” the self which is beyond thinking. The aspirant is now in fact beyond all thought, and this talk of building high the wall or dam is too much like poetry to be good sense. What it means is, “Beware lest the re- awakened Ego, the Chiah, should become self-conscious, as it is liable to do owing to its wedding with Neshamah.” Or, shall we say, with Nephesh? For the organism has now been brought to perfect harmony in all its parts.…

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ave delegated it unto others, and they yet again, so that the Body of Initiates may be perfect, even from the Crown unto the Kingdom and beyond. 32. For Perfection abideth not in the Pinnacles, or in the Foundations, but in the ordered Harmony of one with all. 61

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…, that none shall understand,—save only the pure and voluptuous, the chaste and obscene, the androgyne and the gynander that have passed beyond the bars of the prison that the old Slime of Khem set up in the Gates of Amennti. 45. O my adorable, my delicious one, all night will I pour out the libation on Thine altars; all night will I burn the sac- rifice of blood; all night will I swing the thurible of my de- light before Thee, and the fervour of the orisons shall in- toxicate Thy nostrils. 46. O Thou who camest from the land of the Elephant, g…

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…s, all qualms, all hesitancies! Lift yourselves up! Come forth, free and joyous, by night and day, to do your will; for “There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.” Lift yourselves up! Walk forth with us in Light and Life and Love and Liberty, taking our pleasure as Kings and Queens in Heaven and on Earth. The sun is arisen; the spectre of the ages has been put to flight. “The word of Sin is Restriction,” or as it has been otherwise said on this text: That is Sin, to hold thine holy spirit in! Go on, go on in thy might; and let no man make thee …

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…n By our rifled sepulchre. Death to superstition, swear! Death to tyranny, respond! By the martyred Master, dare Death, and what may lie beyond! Heel on crucifix, deny! Mouth to dagger-blade, affirm! Point to throat, we stab the spy; Hand on knee, we crush the worm.

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…Supreme and Most Holy King). g. Every man or woman that is of full age, free, and of good report, has an indefeasible right to the III’. Beyond this, admission is only granted by invitation from the governing body concerned. The O.T.O., although an Academia Masonica, is not a Masonic Body so far as the ‘secrets’ are concerned in the 202

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ts ears more deaf than adders, Its windows blind, its music stopped, From its place in Heaven dropped, From its starry throne was hurled Beyond the pillars of the world— Borne from the byss of light To the Dark Night! The moon had sunk behind the tower When, for a moment, by the power Of nature, as even the eagle’s eye Turns wearied from the sun, did I Fall from the conning-crag, that springs Above the Universe of Things, Into the dark impertinence Of the mirrored lies of sense. Yet, when I sought the stars to espy And ree the runes of destiny,…

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…onsequently take especial pains to discount the obligation, and I may be relied upon to say the worst of Patience Worth. It is, I think, beyond all question the most interesting of the records ‘purporting to be the utterance of the stiff. There is an unquestionable personality in Patience Worth with perhaps no one beyond the scope of “subliminal Mrs. Curran” and the hypothesis is reasonable since Mrs. Curran is always at the board when Patience manifests. To me it seems a much simpler hypothesis to suppose that Patience is Mrs. Curran’s sub-con…

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The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… Glory to Thee, true Unity Of the eternal Trinity! Women. Glory to Thee, thou sire and dam And self of Iam that Iam! MEN. Glory to Thee, beyond all term, Thy spring of sperm, thy seed and germ! Women. Glory to Thee, eternal Sun, Thou One in Three, Thou Three in One! Cuorus. Glory and worship unto Thee, Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! (These words are to form the substance of the an- them; but the whole or any part thereof shall be set to music, which may be as elaborate as art can devise. But even should other anthems be au- 266

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