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1913 · PDF PAGE 300

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX fact; man is a religious animal. The word “religion” has then a necessary and absolute sense. Nature herself sanctifies the idea which this word represents, and exalts it to the height of a principle. The need of believing is closely linked with the need of loving; for that reason our souls need communion in the same hopes and in the same love. Isolated beliefs are only doubts: it is the bond of mutual confidence which, by creating faith, composes religion. Faith does not invent itself, does not impose itself, does not establish its…

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1908 · PDF PAGE 82

Amphora

… And granteth them success. Not by our passion or our will The eager suppliant is heard, But by the white ecstatic thrill Of Thy serener word. Accept our prayer, accept our praise, O Thou all praise and prayer above ! O fix our weak and wavering will On Thee, the Queen of Love ! Amen. O 75

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1929 · PDF PAGE 445

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

445 The word Jeheshua, spelt in Hebrew in the 18° of the Scottish Rite, was habitually spelt with a Resh instead of a Vau. So brutal a blunder is conclusive proof that the modern Sovereign Princes of Rose Croix attach no meaning whatever to the name of Jesus --- which they profess to adore more intelligently than the mob because it represents the descent of the Holy Spirit into the midst of that tremendous name of God which only occurs in {704} their ritual because of its power to annihilate the universe if pronounced correctly1. The intelligen…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 44

The Sword of Song

…surely I my find it queer That you should talk of self-hypnosis, When your own faith so very close is To similar experience ; Lies, in a word, beneath suspicion To ordinary common sense And logic’s emery attrition. I take, however, as before Your own opinion, and demand Some test by which to understand Huxley’s piano-talk,* and find If my hypnosis may not score A point against the normal mind. (As you are please to term it, though ! I gather that you do not know ; Merely infer it.) Here’s a test ! What in your whole life is the best Of all your…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 140

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…k, naked, screaming devils. They touch, and at a touch each oozes back to his slirne. This slime is Chaos." “ Ararita! ” he breathed the word upon her brow. " Don‘t touch me! don’t touch mel " she screamed. “I am holy! I am God! I am I!” Her face was black and distorted with sudden passion. “ It‘s quite different to my own experience in many ways,” thought the watcher. ”Yet—is it not the essence of all ordeal, all initiation, that it should be unexpected? Other- wise, the candidate would have passed through the gate before he approached it. Whi…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 140

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…k, naked, screaming devils. They touch, and at a touch each oozes back to his slirne. This slime is Chaos." “ Ararita! ” he breathed the word upon her brow. " Don‘t touch me! don’t touch mel " she screamed. “I am holy! I am God! I am I!” Her face was black and distorted with sudden passion. “ It‘s quite different to my own experience in many ways,” thought the watcher. ”Yet—is it not the essence of all ordeal, all initiation, that it should be unexpected? Other- wise, the candidate would have passed through the gate before he approached it. Whi…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 52

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…. 18, Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! 19. O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! 20. The key of the rituals is in the secret word which I have given unto him. 21. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth; I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit. 22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 161

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…date asks, “Is there not the Holy Guardian Angel?” And the answer is given, “ My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” It is the last word of the A2thyr. And of all the horror of the Abyss, that is the one word that yet chills his blood as he remembers it. Now then, in the roth AEthyr, is given the Abyss. The Candidate is identified with the horror of that Abyss. Had not the Master already passed the Abyss, as it were, un- officially, he could not have endured this crystallization of it into name and form. In the gth AAthyr comes a further r…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 52

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…. 18, Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! 19. O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! 20. The key of the rituals is in the secret word which I have given unto him. 21. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth; I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit. 22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 161

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…date asks, “Is there not the Holy Guardian Angel?” And the answer is given, “ My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” It is the last word of the A2thyr. And of all the horror of the Abyss, that is the one word that yet chills his blood as he remembers it. Now then, in the roth AEthyr, is given the Abyss. The Candidate is identified with the horror of that Abyss. Had not the Master already passed the Abyss, as it were, un- officially, he could not have endured this crystallization of it into name and form. In the gth AAthyr comes a further r…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 94

The World’s Tragedy

…SATYR Beside those rose-fair feet Dimpled with fairy kisses There’s no bright-tinted bird In all the blue abysses Worth even a plumeless word. THE CHILD I do not like this place.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 82

Hail Mary

… And granteth them success. Not by our passion or our will The eager suppliant is heard, But by the white ecstatic thrill Of Thy serener word. Accept our prayer, accept our praise, O Thou all praise and prayer above ! O fix our weak and wavering will On Thee, the Queen of Love ! Amen. O 75

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1913 · PDF PAGE 462

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…taircase he turned and said slowly : “Before long, you will hear something. . .. You will hear me spoken of,” he added, emphasizing each word. Then he saluted with head and hand, turned without adding a single word, and descended the staircase. The two friends returned to Mme. A——’s room. “There is a singular personage,” said Eliphas; “I think I have seen Pierrot of the Funambules playing the part of a traitor. What he said to us on his departure seemed to me very much like a threat.” 164

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1913 · PDF PAGE 462

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…taircase he turned and said slowly : “Before long, you will hear something. . .. You will hear me spoken of,” he added, emphasizing each word. Then he saluted with head and hand, turned without adding a single word, and descended the staircase. The two friends returned to Mme. A——’s room. “There is a singular personage,” said Eliphas; “I think I have seen Pierrot of the Funambules playing the part of a traitor. What he said to us on his departure seemed to me very much like a threat.” 164

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1913 · PDF PAGE 113

Book 4 (Part II)

… mind come more slowly than before, so that the mind has time to perceive their falsity and to destroy them. On the blade of the Magick Sword is etched the name AGLA, a Notariqon formed from the initials of the sentence Ateh Gibor Leolahm Adonai, " To Thee be the Power unto the Ages, O my Lord." And the acid which eats into the steel should be oil of vitriol. Vitriol is a Notariqon of " Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Oc- cultum Lapidem." That is to say: By investigating everything and Sword, the letter H symbolises breath, and H …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 57

Gargoyles

…Thus spins out life its splendid charm :— Live, love, enjoy, yet do no harm. No rose of thought may bear or breed The poisonous thorn of word and deed. Call ** homo sapiens ” him who thinks ; Talkers and doers—missing links! Such songs are twilight’s, when I stretch My limbs, and wander down to fetch My water from the cool cascade, My wood from the enchanted glade, 49

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1944 · PDF PAGE 241

The Book of Thoth

…to capture and atone the Soul of Water! Fill thou my mind with gleaming Thought intense and rare To One refined, outflung to Naught, the Word of Air! Most, bridal bound, my quintessential Form thus freeing From self, be found one Selfhood blent in Spirit‐Being.

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1961 · PDF PAGE 194

Liber Aleph

…ve to Hate, or false to true; but the more violent is the Antagonism, the more is it bound in Illusion, determined by Relation. Thus the Word “Long” hath no Meaning save it be referred to a Standard; but Love is not thus obscure, because Hate is its Twin, partaking bountifully of a Common Nature therewith. Now, hear this; it was given unto me in my Visions of the Æthyrs, when I was in he Wilderness of Sahara, by Tolga, that above the Abyss, contradiction is Unity, and that Nothing could be true save by Virtue of the Contradiction that is contai…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 93

The Mother’s Tragedy

… happiness are heard. _ Here sound no hatreds and no ecstasies; Here no polluted sacrament of Vice Unveiled! I chose the first without a word!

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1910 · PDF PAGE 288

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…when I chanced to be called to take care of some one making the experiment for the first time (and I always was called), by the faintest word, often by a mere look, I could tell exactly the place that my patient had reached, and treat him accordingly. Many a time, by some expression which other bystanders thought ineffably puerile, have I recognised the landmark of a field of wonders wherein I have travelled in perfect ravishment. I understood the symbolisation, which they did not. Though as perfectly conscious as in his natural state, and capa…

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