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1954 · PDF PAGE 96

Magick Without Tears

…n "The Formula of Tetragrammaton"; the importance of this at the moment is to show how 0 and 2 appear constantly in Nature as the common Order of Events. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666

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1913 · PDF PAGE 498

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ade appear in flesh and blood the illustri- ous personages of the past? Cagliostro was, however, far from being an initiate of the first order, since the Great White Brotherhood abandoned him! to the Roman Inquisition, before whom he made, if one can believe the documents to his trial, so ridiculous and so odious an explanation of the Masonic trigram, L.°. P.*. D.. But miracles are not the exclusive privilege of the first order of initiates; they are often performed by beings with- out education or virtue. Natural laws find an opportunity in an…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 498

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ade appear in flesh and blood the illustri- ous personages of the past? Cagliostro was, however, far from being an initiate of the first order, since the Great White Brotherhood abandoned him! to the Roman Inquisition, before whom he made, if one can believe the documents to his trial, so ridiculous and so odious an explanation of the Masonic trigram, L.°. P.*. D.. But miracles are not the exclusive privilege of the first order of initiates; they are often performed by beings with- out education or virtue. Natural laws find an opportunity in an…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 24

Sir Palamedes

…I S1r PaLaMepE the Saracen The earth from murder hath released, Is hidden from the eyes of men. Sir Arthur sits again at feast. The holy order burns with zeal : Its fame revives from west to east. Now, following Fortune’s whirling wheel, There comes a dwarf to Arthur's hall, All cased in damascenéd steel. A sceptre and a golden ball He bears, and on his head a crown ; But on his shoulders drapes a pall Of velvet flowing sably down Above his vest of cramoisie. Now doth the king of high renown Demand him of his dignity. Whereat the dwarf begins t…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 58

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…of the whole ceremony considered as a unity, not merely of that formula in which Yod is the God invoked, Hé the Archangel, and so on. In order to understand the ceremony under this formula, we must take a more extended view of the functions of the four weapons than we hâve hitherto done. The formation of the Yod is the formulation of the first créative force, of that father who is called “self-begotten,?, and unto whom it is said: <cThou hast formulated thy Father, and made fertile thy Mother”. The adding of the Hé to the Yod is the marriage of…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 195

Book 4 (Part II)

…e forward nte Items i, 2, 3, \, and \o, in payincnt for luJiich I enclose for Six Guiiieas, S31, or I ^6 francs. Name Address Date [This order can only be filled about fifty times more.]

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1919 · PDF PAGE 370

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ical that they claim their dislikes as virtue, and so the poor, weedy, unhealthy degenerate who cannot smoke because his heart is out of order, and cannot drink because his brain is too weak to stand it, or perhaps because his doctor has forbidden him to do either for the next two years, the man who is afraid of life, afraid to do anything lest some result should follow, is acclaimed as the best and greatest of mankind. It is very amusing in England to watch the snobbishness, particularly of the middle classes, and their absurd aping of their b…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 202

The Book of Thoth

An idea of a totally different Order is necessary to carry on the series. Note also the refold‐ ing4n‐upon‐itself suggested by the “Magic Number” of Four 1+2 + 3+4 which is Ten. i;:. Four is the number of the Curse of Limitation, of Restriction. It is the blind and barren Cross of equal arms, Tetragrammaton in his fatal aspect of finality, as the Qabalists knew him before the dis‐ covery of the Revolving Formula whereby the Daughter, seated upon the Throne of the Mother, “awakens the Eld of the All‐Father”. For the meanings of Via and Populus, …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 88

The Vision and the Voice

…ow, the plane of the Aethyrs interpenetrateth and surroundeth the universe wherein the Sephiroth are estab- lished, and therefore is the order of the Aethyrs not the order of the Tree of Life. And only in a few places do they coincide. * (I think the trouble with these people was, that they wanted to substitute the blood of someone else for their own blood, because they wanted to keep their personalities). 86

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1913 · PDF PAGE 252

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…attack or defence, and the future saint (for so, strangely enough, had Fate decreed !) had his reward, and was initiated in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The future saint (far indeed from saintship at this time— but the ways of Providence are indeed wondrous!) knew that there was an inner order, but had no idea of its name; he only noticed that he was not invited to enter it. So, to pass the time, he wrote his Real History of the Rosicrucians, in which he proved conclusively that there were no Rosicrucians and never had been, and that …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 252

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…attack or defence, and the future saint (for so, strangely enough, had Fate decreed !) had his reward, and was initiated in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The future saint (far indeed from saintship at this time— but the ways of Providence are indeed wondrous!) knew that there was an inner order, but had no idea of its name; he only noticed that he was not invited to enter it. So, to pass the time, he wrote his Real History of the Rosicrucians, in which he proved conclusively that there were no Rosicrucians and never had been, and that …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 13

The Rosicrucian Scandal

… of x Sconmo, KC. Hewas t Marien’. I believe he had just come into some £30,000. couPIO, K.C, He offered you the whole of his fortune in order to help you in your trouble with the revolting members? Marius. 1 wrote to thank loyal and! honourable offer.” ‘Sconrio, KC. Why did he make it? Marites, He believed my stories about James IV and the ‘Secret Chieis, I suppose. ‘Sconrio, KC, Madame Horos had promised you £2,000? Marines. "Yes Scourio, KC, Was that why you admitted superior? Mariuns, [refuse to answer the question. Scoxri0, K.C. Crowley of…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 394

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…I S1r PaLaMepE the Saracen The earth from murder hath released, Is hidden from the eyes of men. Sir Arthur sits again at feast. The holy order burns with zeal : Its fame revives from west to east. Now, following Fortune’s whirling wheel, There comes a dwarf to Arthur's hall, All cased in damascenéd steel. A sceptre and a golden ball He bears, and on his head a crown ; But on his shoulders drapes a pall Of velvet flowing sably down Above his vest of cramoisie. Now doth the king of high renown Demand him of his dignity. Whereat the dwarf begins t…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 394

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…I S1r PaLaMepE the Saracen The earth from murder hath released, Is hidden from the eyes of men. Sir Arthur sits again at feast. The holy order burns with zeal : Its fame revives from west to east. Now, following Fortune’s whirling wheel, There comes a dwarf to Arthur's hall, All cased in damascenéd steel. A sceptre and a golden ball He bears, and on his head a crown ; But on his shoulders drapes a pall Of velvet flowing sably down Above his vest of cramoisie. Now doth the king of high renown Demand him of his dignity. Whereat the dwarf begins t…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 220

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…unications should be addressed to the Grand Secretary General, and all cheques drawn in favour of the Grand Treasurer General. Issued by Order, SY He ate L. BaTHURST, ore IX° Grand Secretary General. All enquiries should be addressed to The Grand Secretary General of the O.T.O. Care of the publishers of THE Equinox. 206

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1907 · PDF PAGE 78

Rodin in Rime

LA GUERRE HE sits and screams above the folk of peace, Deafening their quiet ears with hideous clamour. Abhorred and careless she bids order cease. Her hate resolves the shriek into a stammer Of inarticulate rage. The wounded man Twisted in agony beneath her squirms To hear her raucous blasphemies outspan The grip of God at this his last of terms. Yea! he must die with horror in his ears, Hate in his heart. The mischief must endure. He hath expiated naught by death. His tears, His thoughts, these strike nor stay her not, be sure! She is Madness…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 504

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…l, save as a false idea of good. Good only can be absolute; and evil is only relative to our ignorance, and to our errors. Every man, in order to be a God, first makes himself a devil; but as the law of solidarity is universal, the hierarchy exists in hell as it does in heaven. A wicked man will always find one more wicked than himself to do him harm; andwhen the evil is at its climax, it must cease, for it could only continue by the annihi- lation of being, which is impossible. Then the man-devils, at the end of their resources, fall once more…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 504

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…l, save as a false idea of good. Good only can be absolute; and evil is only relative to our ignorance, and to our errors. Every man, in order to be a God, first makes himself a devil; but as the law of solidarity is universal, the hierarchy exists in hell as it does in heaven. A wicked man will always find one more wicked than himself to do him harm; andwhen the evil is at its climax, it must cease, for it could only continue by the annihi- lation of being, which is impossible. Then the man-devils, at the end of their resources, fall once more…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 501

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…, is that of Jehovah written backwards. This, for the initiate, is a complete revelation of the mysteries of the tetragram. In fact, the order of the letters of that great name indicates the predominance of the idea over form, of the active over the passive, of cause over effect. By reversing that order one obtains the contrary. Jehovah is he who tames Nature as it were a superb horse and makes it go where he will ; Chavajoh (the demon) is the horse without a bridle who, like those of the Egyptians of the song of Moses, falls upon its rider, an…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 501

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…, is that of Jehovah written backwards. This, for the initiate, is a complete revelation of the mysteries of the tetragram. In fact, the order of the letters of that great name indicates the predominance of the idea over form, of the active over the passive, of cause over effect. By reversing that order one obtains the contrary. Jehovah is he who tames Nature as it were a superb horse and makes it go where he will ; Chavajoh (the demon) is the horse without a bridle who, like those of the Egyptians of the song of Moses, falls upon its rider, an…

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