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1912 · PDF PAGE 294

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…eler Wilcox’ style—— Think what it cost me, I that was old. So hush ! I give you this leaf to keep— Seel I shut it inside the sweet cold hand ; 'Tis a tract on The Simple Life and Sleep ; You will wake, and remember, and understand. VICTOR B. NEUBURG‘

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1912 · PDF PAGE 294

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…eler Wilcox’ style—— Think what it cost me, I that was old. So hush ! I give you this leaf to keep— Seel I shut it inside the sweet cold hand ; 'Tis a tract on The Simple Life and Sleep ; You will wake, and remember, and understand. VICTOR B. NEUBURG‘

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1913 · PDF PAGE 119

Book 4 (Part II)

… of pleasure and pain, lead the observer infallibly to err. This though they be not sufficiently excited to disturb his mind. Plunge one hand into a basin of hot water, the other into a basin of cold water, then both together into a basin of tepid water; the one hand will say hot, the other cold. Even in instruments themselves, their physical qualities, such as ex- pansion and contraction (which may be called, in a way, the roots of pleasure and pain), cause error. Make a thermometer, and the glass is so excited by the necessary fusion that yea…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 52

The Goetia

the other symbols there is either a hand or a foot, for it is almost impossible to distinguish which, at the head of the stele, followed by an egg-and- tongue moulding. The figure of the person with the arms raised is treated as a pure hieroglyphic and is placed between two rude caducei. The Lunar or Solar symbol follows. Figure 167, also from Constantine, shows the last-mentioned symbol above. The figure with the arms raised is simply a hieroglyph, and is placed between an arm and hand on the one side, and a rude caduceus on the other. Figure …

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1903 · PDF PAGE 6

Berashith

…it is infinitely small—in effect, Nothing. The unmathematical illusion that it does exist is what the Hindus call Maya. If, on the other hand, the matter-universe is infinite, Brahm and God are crowded out, and the possibility of religion is equally excluded. We may now shift our objective. The Hindus cannot account intelligibly, though they try hard, for Maya, the cause of all suffering. Their position is radically weak, but at least we may say for them that they have tried to square their religion with their common sense. The Christians, on t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 56

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…elves ; My soul, remember Time. The tones like smoke into the stillness curl, The slippered hours their placid business ply , And in thy hand there lies occasion 's pearl ; But thou art playing with it absently , And dreaming , like a girl.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 120

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

erform the Great Work by the formula of Régénération. To trike with the hand on the dagger déclarés that one demands he use of the dagger as a tocl to extena one’s executive power. The reader will recall how Siegfried smote Nothung, the sword of Need, upon the lance of Wotan. By the action Wagner, who was instructed how to apply magical formulæ by one of the heads of our Order, intended his hearers to understand that the reign of authority and paternal power had corne to an end 5 that the new master of the world was intellect. The general objec…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 20

Moonchild

…again Lisa had the impression of a duellist. No: it was a sentinel that stood there. Her vivid power of visualization put a spear in his hand. It was his own studio, but he announced his visitors as if he had been a butler. "Akbar Pasha and Countess Helena Mottich." Simon Iff sprang to the door. It was not his studio, but he welcomed the visitors with both hands outstretched. "Since you have crossed our threshold," he cried, "I am sure you will stay to dejeuner." The visitors murmured a polite acceptance. Cyril Grey was frowning formidably. It …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 38

Book 4 (Part I)

…sition without moving, except in the case of absolute neces— 1 Here are four: 1. Sit in a chair; head up, back straight, knees together, hands on knees, eyes closed. (“The God.”) 2. Kneel; buttocks resting on the heels, toes turned back, back and head straight, hands on thighs. (“ The Dragon.’ ’) _ 3. Stand; hold left ankle with right hand (and alternately practise right ankle in left hand, etc.), free forefinger on lips. (“ The Ibis”) 4. Sit; left heel pressing up anus, right foot poised on its toes, the heel covering the phallus; arms stretche…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 70

Moonchild

…ex of the vault, made its thorny bloom of the very fire and colour of day. Simon Iff stood behind the altar; Cyril Grey was on her right hand, Sister Cybele on her left. They joined their hands about her. "I will now complete the formality of your reception," said the old man. "Say after me: 'I (your name).'" "I, Lisa la Giuffria —" "Solemnly promise to devote myself" She repeated the phrase. To the discovery of my true purpose in this life." She echoed in a lower tone. All three concluded "So mote it be." "I receive you into this Order," which…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 45

777

…phantine, | 16 Cinnamon . Mastick . A “nan ine ee ae aed with bow ole cad 17 Succum . Camphor A owift-footed person, with a viper in his hand, lead- | 18 Lyn Balsami . Olibanum Agee hairy man, with a drawn sword and shield | 19 Srorus . Santal Flav. An old man leaning on a staff and wrapped inamantle | 20 Bofor [?] Galbanum . A man riding on an ass, preceded by a wolf . 22 As for Asc. . Opoponax . A horse and a wolf . 24 Fo] Lori. Lign-aloes . A man leading another by his hair and slaying him 25 Colophonum . Assafoetida . A man holding a book, …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 279

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…Fire pouring forth its beams upon the lower world: Life-giving, Life-producing.” Then Axiokersos, the second Kabir, says: “I am the left-hand basal angle of the Triangle of Flame: I am Fire, Volcanic and Terrestrial, flashing and flaming through the deep abysses of Earth: Fire rending, fire penetrating, tearing asunder the curtains of Matter ; fire constrained ; fire tormenting ; raging and whirling in lurid storm!” And lastly, Axiokersa, the third Kabir, says: ft fri ft «I am the right-hand basal angle of the Triangle of Flame. I am Fire, Astr…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 279

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…Fire pouring forth its beams upon the lower world: Life-giving, Life-producing.” Then Axiokersos, the second Kabir, says: “I am the left-hand basal angle of the Triangle of Flame: I am Fire, Volcanic and Terrestrial, flashing and flaming through the deep abysses of Earth: Fire rending, fire penetrating, tearing asunder the curtains of Matter ; fire constrained ; fire tormenting ; raging and whirling in lurid storm!” And lastly, Axiokersa, the third Kabir, says: ft fri ft «I am the right-hand basal angle of the Triangle of Flame. I am Fire, Astr…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 115

Ambergris

…he folded cups of passion’s nenuphars. You were my own ; sorrowless, without sin, That night this night. Sinks the red eye of Mars ; The hand of Hermes guides us as we spin Under the stars.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 406

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…arm and prolonged insufflation upon the spinal column at the base of the cerebellum may occasion erotic phenomena. If one puts the right hand upon the head and the left hand under the feet of a person completely enveloped with wool or silk, one causes the magnetic spark to pass completely through the body, and one may thus occasion a nervous revolution in his organism with the rapidity of lightning. Magnetic passes only serve to direct the will of the mag- netizer in confirming it by acts. They are signs and nothing more. The act of the will is…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 406

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…arm and prolonged insufflation upon the spinal column at the base of the cerebellum may occasion erotic phenomena. If one puts the right hand upon the head and the left hand under the feet of a person completely enveloped with wool or silk, one causes the magnetic spark to pass completely through the body, and one may thus occasion a nervous revolution in his organism with the rapidity of lightning. Magnetic passes only serve to direct the will of the mag- netizer in confirming it by acts. They are signs and nothing more. The act of the will is…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 119

Songs of the Spirit

There steals through my coldness a fire, Between my slow words is a sword, One lit by the heart of desire, One sharp in the hand of the lord ; To these that sink, sleep, and expire, your welcome accord. With winds and white seas for your raiment Your stature immutably stands : My love, with no claim, as a claimant Came seeking out truth in the sands, Found truth, and must place in poor payment this book in your hands. 109

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1910 · PDF PAGE 33

The Winged Beetle

…d revealed Himself to mortal prayer He gave a fatal opening to Voltaire. Our hermit had dispensed with Sinai’s thunder, But on the other hand he made no blunder ; He knew (no doubt) that any axiom Would furnish bricks to build some Donkeydom. But !—all who urged that hermit to confess Caught the infection of his happiness. I would it were my fate to dree his weird ; I think that I will grow an elfin beard.

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1944 · PDF PAGE 144

The Book of Thoth

…, ordered into geometri‐ cal light by her material power. Beneath the throne the surging flames are steady. She bears a wand in her left hand; but it is topped with a cone suggestive of the mysteries of Bacchus. She is attended by a couchant leopard upon whose head she lays her hand. Her face expresses the ecstasy of one whose mind is well in‐drawn to the mystery borne beneath her bosom. The characteristics of the Queen are adaptability, persistent energy, calm authority which she knows how to use to enhance her attractiveness. She is kindly an…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 82

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

The Pentagrams of Earth Name: A D N I (Adonai). The Sign of 1°— 10n. Advance the right foot, stretch out the liglit hand upwards and forwards, the left hand downwards and backwards, the palms open. (The Gi a de of 1 °= 10^ îs particularly attributed to the element of Earth, See "777” lines 10 and 32 bis). The Tesser Rituel of the H exegratfi. This 1 itual is to be performed after the “Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram”. (I) . Stand upright, feet together, left arm at side, right across body, holding Wand or other weapon upright in the médian line.…

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