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1909 · PDF PAGE 91

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…orld, that which so transcends and excels all other experience that I am all on fire to proclaim it. Yet I fail utterly. I have given my life to the study of the English language; I am supposed by my flatterers to have some little facility of expression, especially, one may agree, in conveying the extremes of thought of all kinds. II F 81

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1909 · PDF PAGE 91

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…orld, that which so transcends and excels all other experience that I am all on fire to proclaim it. Yet I fail utterly. I have given my life to the study of the English language; I am supposed by my flatterers to have some little facility of expression, especially, one may agree, in conveying the extremes of thought of all kinds. II F 81

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1911 · PDF PAGE 162

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…find Gerson sacrificing Huss to his " God " ; we find a modern journalist who has done more than dabble in mysticism writing, “ This mystic life at its highest is undeniably selfish ”; we find another writing like the old lady who ended her criticism of the Universe, " There‘s only Jock an’ me'll be saved; an’ I’m no that sure ο᾿Jock“; we find another who at the age of ninety—nine foams at the mouth over an alleged breach of her 154

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1911 · PDF PAGE 162

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…find Gerson sacrificing Huss to his " God " ; we find a modern journalist who has done more than dabble in mysticism writing, “ This mystic life at its highest is undeniably selfish ”; we find another writing like the old lady who ended her criticism of the Universe, " There‘s only Jock an’ me'll be saved; an’ I’m no that sure ο᾿Jock“; we find another who at the age of ninety—nine foams at the mouth over an alleged breach of her 154

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1913 · PDF PAGE 254

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…this. He would take an intelligible living English word and meta- grabolize it deliberately that he might appear pontifical. 1 In actual life he sold Horlick’s Malted Milk, but was for all practical purposes a T—totaller. 216

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1913 · PDF PAGE 499

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…rcing them to do what they do not will; 4°—by exciting apparitions and dreams; 5°—by curing a large number of illnesses; 6°—by restoring life to subjects who display all the symptoms of death ; 7°—lastly, by demonstrating (if need be, by examples) the reality of the philosophical stone, and the transmutation of metals, according to the secrets of Abraham the Jew, of Flamel, and of Raymond Lully. All these prodigies are accomplished by means of a single agent which the Hebrew calls op, as did the Chevalier de Reichenbach, which we, with the Scho…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 254

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…this. He would take an intelligible living English word and meta- grabolize it deliberately that he might appear pontifical. 1 In actual life he sold Horlick’s Malted Milk, but was for all practical purposes a T—totaller. 216

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1913 · PDF PAGE 499

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…rcing them to do what they do not will; 4°—by exciting apparitions and dreams; 5°—by curing a large number of illnesses; 6°—by restoring life to subjects who display all the symptoms of death ; 7°—lastly, by demonstrating (if need be, by examples) the reality of the philosophical stone, and the transmutation of metals, according to the secrets of Abraham the Jew, of Flamel, and of Raymond Lully. All these prodigies are accomplished by means of a single agent which the Hebrew calls op, as did the Chevalier de Reichenbach, which we, with the Scho…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 446

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…o what a Bodhisattva was and is. But it is quite true that you have to shed light in the manner indi- cated if you are going to live the life of a Magus. 82. Know that the stream of superhuman knowledge and the Deva-Wisdom thou hast won, must, from thyself, the channel of Alaya, be poured forth into another bed. Still further develops the same doctrine. You have ac- quired the supreme creative force. You are the Word, and it must be spoken (verse 83). There is a good deal of anti- climax in verse 83, and a peculiarly unnecessary split infin- it…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 5

The Banned Lecture

…ord “ know- ledge ” of which we hear so much and see so little. I don’t propose to inflict upon you the M.C.H., and demonstrate that the life and opinions of Gilles de Rais were inevitably determined by the price of onions in Hyderabad. But I do think that in ap- proaching a historic question, we should be very careful to define what we mean—in our particular

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1907 · PDF PAGE 324

The Star in the West

…a still small voice , and joining myself to God I become one spirit with him . As : O night ! Fade , love ! Fade , light ! I pass beyond Life's law . I melt as snow ; as ice 1 thaw ; As mist I dissipate : I am borne , I draw Through chasms on the mountains : stormy gusts Of ancient sorrows and forgotten lusts Bear me along : they touch me not : I waste. The memory of long lives interlaced Fades in my tading . I disintegrate Fall into black oblivion of Fate . My being divides . I have forgot my name . I am blown out as a thin subtle flame, I am …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 21

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TABLE I (contenued) 2! XII.* XI.* X. IX.* . : Mystic . Elements (with their The Sword and the The Tree of Life. Numbers of Planetary Rulers). the Sephiroth. Serpent. e) o rst Plane, Middle Pillar Root of A : p22 1 ee o8 & ond Plane, Right Pillar. Root of AA 3 3 g3 2 G and Plane, Left Pillar . Root of V 6 a g te 3 oe 3rd Plane, Right Pillar. V 10. faze 4 ° 3rd Plane, Left Pillar A - 15. Rag i) 5 th Pl A S249 4 ane, Middle Pillar . 2m. sa os 6 Ny, sth Plane, Right Pillar . A . 2. woes 7 sth Plane, Left Pillar V . 36. & Bs 8 oo q 6th Plane, Middle…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 250

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…nd havea good cry. [S¢ts, crying and laughing with the joy of tt.) Oh, loving Father of all, what a world Thou hast made! What a gift is life! How much it holds of love and laughter! Is there anything more, anything better? I cannot believe it. Is there anything, anybody that could make me happier? tHomas. Mr. Todd. [Enter Topp. EUPHEMIA. Good afternoon, Mr. Todd! So glad to see you! Why, how strange you look! What have you to say to me? [ropp whispers in her ear. 232

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1910 · PDF PAGE 281

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…examined and located as an actual memory. I saw it in an instant, preceded and followed by the successions of a distinctly recalled past life. What is the philosophy of this fact? If we find no ground for believing that we have ever lived self-consciously in any other state, and cannot thus explain it, may not this be the solu- tion of the enigma? At the moment of the soul’s reception ofa new impression, she first accepts it as a thing entirely of the sense ; she tells us how large it is, and of what quality. To this definition of its boundarie…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 250

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…nd havea good cry. [S¢ts, crying and laughing with the joy of tt.) Oh, loving Father of all, what a world Thou hast made! What a gift is life! How much it holds of love and laughter! Is there anything more, anything better? I cannot believe it. Is there anything, anybody that could make me happier? tHomas. Mr. Todd. [Enter Topp. EUPHEMIA. Good afternoon, Mr. Todd! So glad to see you! Why, how strange you look! What have you to say to me? [ropp whispers in her ear. 232

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1910 · PDF PAGE 281

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…examined and located as an actual memory. I saw it in an instant, preceded and followed by the successions of a distinctly recalled past life. What is the philosophy of this fact? If we find no ground for believing that we have ever lived self-consciously in any other state, and cannot thus explain it, may not this be the solu- tion of the enigma? At the moment of the soul’s reception ofa new impression, she first accepts it as a thing entirely of the sense ; she tells us how large it is, and of what quality. To this definition of its boundarie…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 257

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…hear the caressing austerity of the tones of the Master when he had occasion to address him. So, calm and even, passed the autumn of his life. It is now a painful duty to record the passing. Subject from youth to chronic capititis,! its attacks had diminished both in frequency and severity under the wise and patient treatment of the Master; but they still occasion- ally recurred. The shocking accident which resulted in the death of the 1 He had also chronic diffuse meningo-encephalitis, but only on the astral plane. 219

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1913 · PDF PAGE 500

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…intelligence. Abandonedto itself, it, like Moloch, devours rapidly all that to which it gives birth, and changes the super- abundance of life into immense destruction. It is, then, the infernal serpent of the ancient myths, the Typhon of the Egyptians, and the Moloch of Phcenicia; but if Wisdom, mother of the Elohim, puts her foot upon his head, she outwears 202

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1913 · PDF PAGE 506

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…and they happened. When Cephas Barjona was nothing but a Jew proscribed by Nero, retailing to the wives of slaves a specific for eternal life, Cephas Barjona, for all educated people of Rome, was only a charlatan; but public opinion made an apostle of the 208

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1913 · PDF PAGE 257

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…hear the caressing austerity of the tones of the Master when he had occasion to address him. So, calm and even, passed the autumn of his life. It is now a painful duty to record the passing. Subject from youth to chronic capititis,! its attacks had diminished both in frequency and severity under the wise and patient treatment of the Master; but they still occasion- ally recurred. The shocking accident which resulted in the death of the 1 He had also chronic diffuse meningo-encephalitis, but only on the astral plane. 219

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