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1913 · PDF PAGE 7

The Writing On the Ground

…d of Christ— Betrothed !—What word is that? Curled flame of Hell ! Thou art betrothed? Giovanni! thou, my friend ! O! five red wounds of God, and Mary’s mouth! How hast thou dared it?” A mock-terrible scene follows, in which Giovanni tries to persuade his friend that it will make no real difference to their relations. Francisco pre- tends to be convinced, but determines to poison himself and his friend. So Francisco proposes to drink the health of Death as a kind of joke, saying= Giovanni; ‘'1 will drink to’our love and Death and thee.’ Francis…

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1916 · PDF PAGE 14

A Prophet In His Own Country

centuries. His words would be hurled forth, thunderbolts new forged from the smithy of Almighty God. And they would smite the hearer with such suddenness and vehemence that his inertia would not even find time to begin to operate. The present is such a moment. But people are not aware of it; they are still listening to the false prophets who prophesy smooth things. The critical situation of the world at present lies not in Europe. Europe’s fate is known. It lies in America and China. The attention of every man of even the smallest degree of for…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 28

The Sword of Song

… Ascension Day.) He’s gone—his belly filled enough ! This Robert-Browning-manqué stuff ! ’Twill serve—Mercutio’s scratch !—to show Where God and I are disagreed. There ! I have let my feelings go This once. Again ? I deem not so. Once for my fellow-creature’s need ! The rest of life, for self-control,81 For liberation of the soul !82 This once, the truth ! In future, best Dismissing Jesus with a jest. Ah ! Christ ascends ?83 Ascension day ? Old wonders bear the bell84 away ? Santos-Dumont, though ! Who can say ? 745 750 755 760 765 770 775 780 …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 221

The Star in the West

…to the black depths of that ocean of ignorance from which he had been drawn , a bottled “ succedaneum ." Thus Berkeley, by postulating a God , himself showed that reason was wanting ; so the scepticism of Pyrrho was once again applied to the defective mental ma chinery , which burst like a faulty boiler on due pres sure being brought to bear upon it by David Hume . The final judgement of the senses was doubted , but only partially , men sought the link which connected cause and effect --the excluded middle - consciousness , and what may be call…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 242

The Star in the West

…ance , a new vista is opening to us , and once again we gaze on the delusive mirage of the Reason , the mere Zill U'llah - The Shadow of God .] " ... Seeing it is quite impossible to get free of this conflict of the Reason with itself , so long as the objects of the sense - world are taken for things in themselves , and not for what they are in reality ,

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1909 · PDF PAGE 66

John St. John

…tars, and so the angles puzzle one. The power, too, suits ill with civilised life; it fades as I live in towns, revives as I get back to God’s good earth. A seven-foot tent and the starlight—who wants more ? Well, I’ve woke myself writing this. The point that really struck me was this: what would happen if by severe training I forced my “astral body "—damn it! isn’t there a term for it free from L. . . . -pro- stitution? (One speaks of “les deux prostitutions”; so it’s all right.) My Sein—Laeca, then—what would happen if I forced my Scin—Laecat…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 160

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… of the Second Noble Truth of the Eightfold Path shatter the step of Right Views which the Aspirant is standing upon just as the fire of God consumed the Elemental Pyramid—the Tower of the Taro. Having attained to mastery over Right Comprehension the aspirant begins to see things not as they are but in their right proportions. His views become balanced, he enters Tiphareth, the Solar Plexus, ‘‘ He sees naked facts behind the garments of hypotheses in which men have clothed them, and by which they have become obscured; and he perceives that behi…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 160

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… of the Second Noble Truth of the Eightfold Path shatter the step of Right Views which the Aspirant is standing upon just as the fire of God consumed the Elemental Pyramid—the Tower of the Taro. Having attained to mastery over Right Comprehension the aspirant begins to see things not as they are but in their right proportions. His views become balanced, he enters Tiphareth, the Solar Plexus, ‘‘ He sees naked facts behind the garments of hypotheses in which men have clothed them, and by which they have become obscured; and he perceives that behi…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 114

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…/e.] W. S. I say, dec., it's all up. Dr. F. Nonsense. Cheer up, old son. It's never as bad as Dr. Bob makes out. W. S. Yes; I'm finished. God! but this will break up the mother. Dr. F. Then you mustn’t tell her. W. S. I’m not going to. But she’ll guess. Mothers seem to feel things. Look here, dec., I'm on for a night with the Indians. I‘ll have forgotten about it myself by to-morrow That’s the best way. Dr. F. I’m with you. And in the meantime, remember we doctors know very little. Mrs. Β. (coming forward) I wouldn't believe the whole lot of the…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 114

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…/e.] W. S. I say, dec., it's all up. Dr. F. Nonsense. Cheer up, old son. It's never as bad as Dr. Bob makes out. W. S. Yes; I'm finished. God! but this will break up the mother. Dr. F. Then you mustn’t tell her. W. S. I’m not going to. But she’ll guess. Mothers seem to feel things. Look here, dec., I'm on for a night with the Indians. I‘ll have forgotten about it myself by to-morrow That’s the best way. Dr. F. I’m with you. And in the meantime, remember we doctors know very little. Mrs. Β. (coming forward) I wouldn't believe the whole lot of the…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 242

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…s the circle opening out into the line.” The Christian dogma is really identical, for both conceive of a previous and eternally existing God, though the Qabalists hedge by describing this latent Deity as ‘‘ Not.” Later com- mentators, notably the illustrious? Mac- Gregor-Mathers, have explained this Not as ‘‘negatively-existing.”’ Profound as is my respect for the intellectual and spiritual attainments of him whom I am proud to have been permitted to call my master, Iam bound to express my view that when the Qabalists said Not, they meant Not, …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 187

The Star in the West

…of “ little common sins . ” Sins nurtured by trust in man's forgiveness ; then struck with the horror of the still small voice , he bids God break his unrepentant will , and let the kiss of life : XXI . Melt on my lips to flame , fling back the gates of Dis ! This is the true conquest of life , the salvation of a soul wandering through the mazy depths of existence . At length filled with the experience of worldly things seeking the Sublime , he finds it. The kingdom of Dis , the terrors of Death are vanquished , “ and , like this in substantial…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 212

The Star in the West

…hild cries for the moon , so do we cry for our ideal , ultimate , absolute , call it what you will ; the First Cause in Philosophy , the God of Religion . In the end our finite understand ings burst like bubbles . The rampant positivism of to - day is so drunk on I Sword of Song , Ascension Day , vol . ii, p . 155 .

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1909 · PDF PAGE 83

John St. John

…ome the Harmony of the Forces; the word Tetragrammation is spoken and ended ; the holy letter Shin is descended into it. For the roaring God of Sinai we have the sleeping Babe of Bethlehem. A fulfilment, not a destroying, of the Law. Am at home again. I will lie down in the Position of the Hanged Man, and await the coming of my Lord. Arisen again to go out to dinner. Iwas half-asleep some of the time. Dinner—Hers d’GEuvre—Tripes a la Mode de Caen— Filet de Porc—Glace—g Graves. Oh, how the world Y 81

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1909 · PDF PAGE 13

The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and ?

… Egypt, but into a darkness deeper and more tangible than any darkness of the double Empire of Asar. Hume put his little ? to Berkeley's God-!; Buddha his ? to the Vedic Atman-!—and neither Hume nor Buddha was baulked of his reward. Ourselves may put? to our own? since we have found no ! to put it to; and wouldn't it be jolly if our own second ? suddenly straightened its back and threw its chest out and marched off as ! ? Suppose then we accept our scepticism as having destroyed our knowledge root and branch—is there no limit to its action? Doe…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 109

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…he difficulty seems to be solved by standing on one’s head.* 10. Shakti Chalana Mudra. Let the wise Yogi forcibly and firmly draw up the goddess Kundalini sleeping in the Adhar lotus, by means of the Apana-Vayu. This is Shakti- Chalan Mudra. . . .t The “Hatha Yoga Pradipika” is very obscure on this Mudra, it says: As one forces open a door with a key, so the Yogi should force open the door of Moksha (Deliverance) by the Kundalini. Between the Ganges and the Jamuna there sits the young widow inspiring pity. He should despoil her forcibly, for it…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 225

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…of asankhayas of maha- kalpas did he work with his divine power—and yet that little crack was in nowise filled, but rather widened ! The god returned. ‘‘O Great White Spirit!” he whispered —and the Universe shook with fear at the voice of him— “Thou, and Thou alone, art worthy to fill this little crack that Thou hast left.” Then the Great White Spirit arose and formulated Himself as the Pillar of Infinitude, even as the Mahalingam of Great Shiva the Destroyer, who openeth his eye, and All is Not. And behold! He was balanced in the crack, and th…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 109

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…he difficulty seems to be solved by standing on one’s head.* 10. Shakti Chalana Mudra. Let the wise Yogi forcibly and firmly draw up the goddess Kundalini sleeping in the Adhar lotus, by means of the Apana-Vayu. This is Shakti- Chalan Mudra. . . .t The “Hatha Yoga Pradipika” is very obscure on this Mudra, it says: As one forces open a door with a key, so the Yogi should force open the door of Moksha (Deliverance) by the Kundalini. Between the Ganges and the Jamuna there sits the young widow inspiring pity. He should despoil her forcibly, for it…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 225

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…of asankhayas of maha- kalpas did he work with his divine power—and yet that little crack was in nowise filled, but rather widened ! The god returned. ‘‘O Great White Spirit!” he whispered —and the Universe shook with fear at the voice of him— “Thou, and Thou alone, art worthy to fill this little crack that Thou hast left.” Then the Great White Spirit arose and formulated Himself as the Pillar of Infinitude, even as the Mahalingam of Great Shiva the Destroyer, who openeth his eye, and All is Not. And behold! He was balanced in the crack, and th…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 328

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ucifer, the Herald Sun?לליה [Vide K. of S,, fig. 53] ”?לשוכ A lamenting, wailing?הלל The Pleiades?המיכ Night; by night?הליל NUIT,THE STAR GODDESS?םיוב Secret, put away ; a hiding-?ןויבה place Rest, peace nl'l‘J Slave, servant?ךנע Frayed ny: The river Gihon. [Gem ii. 13]?ןוחיג Ονἁτῆσννἰπς. [Ps. :»(₪. 5] [WI Towers, citadels?לדגמ The Influence from Kether?לזמ Strength; 3 he-goat?יע There are 78 cards in the Tarot. 2(I—r2)r The Mystic Number of Kether as Huar The sum 01 the Key-Numbers 01 the Super- nal Beard Angel of?וסW.?לאשא Angel of Ra Ηοοκ Khui…

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