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1906 · PDF PAGE 158

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ic spells, With the quick truth and nothing else. So not one word derogatory To your own version of the story ! I take your Christ, your God’s creation, Just at their own sweet valuation. For by this culminating scene, Close of that wondrous life of woe Before and after death, we know How to esteem the Nazarene. Where’s the wet towel? Let us first Destroy the argument of fools, From Paul right downward to the Schools, That the Ascension’s self rehearsed Christ’s Godhead by its miracle. Grand !—but the power is mine as well ! In India levitation…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 302

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX naked Gods; his Ruach by the phantom of dead words—by the duality of the shell and of the fruit of things; and his Neschamah by Tetragrammaton, 2.e., he aspired chiefly to magic powers, not so that they might light him like the flame of a lamp along his road, but that they might consume, like the fire on the altar, his propitiations and sacrifices to a personal God. Thus we find him, as it were, figuring before him a Pentagram and saying: “It is not complete without its top point.” This is undoubtedly correct, but at this time he st…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 368

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…ed my impulse, and by a triumph of my logical faculties I cut my own right arm. Having no arm, I could no more kill my wife with an axe. God rewarded me by giving me the power of reading thought, which constitutes an extra sense for me; and to my nose He gave a voice of its own. I was a dentist. Indeed, I have found a new way of extracting teeth without gas. You merely press the neck of your patient, who faints in consequence, and you can then safely operate. How did you come to this? What caused you to take the attire of a man in place of the …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 302

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX naked Gods; his Ruach by the phantom of dead words—by the duality of the shell and of the fruit of things; and his Neschamah by Tetragrammaton, 2.e., he aspired chiefly to magic powers, not so that they might light him like the flame of a lamp along his road, but that they might consume, like the fire on the altar, his propitiations and sacrifices to a personal God. Thus we find him, as it were, figuring before him a Pentagram and saying: “It is not complete without its top point.” This is undoubtedly correct, but at this time he st…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 368

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…ed my impulse, and by a triumph of my logical faculties I cut my own right arm. Having no arm, I could no more kill my wife with an axe. God rewarded me by giving me the power of reading thought, which constitutes an extra sense for me; and to my nose He gave a voice of its own. I was a dentist. Indeed, I have found a new way of extracting teeth without gas. You merely press the neck of your patient, who faints in consequence, and you can then safely operate. How did you come to this? What caused you to take the attire of a man in place of the …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 77

The Vision and the Voice

…ICE them from their feet and cast them down through the abyss, for this Aethyr is holy ground. Herein no forms appear, and the vision of God face to face, that is transmuted in the Athanor called dissolution, or hammered into one in the forge of meditation, is in this place but a blasphemy and a mockery. And the Beatific Vision is no more, and the glory of the Most High is no more. There is no more knowledge. There is no more bliss. There is no more power. There is no more beauty. For this is the Palace of Understanding: for thou art one with t…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 16

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…piritual aspect 01 this secret order, one of the Brothers says—« “Our community has existed ever since the first day of creation when the gods spoke the divine command: ‘Let there be lightl’ and it will continue to exist till the end of time. It is the Society of the Children 01 Light, who live in the light and have attained immortality therein. In our school we are instructed directly by Divine Wisdom, the Celestial Bride, whose will is free and who selects as her disciples those who are devoted to her. The mysteries which we are taught embrace…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 16

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…piritual aspect 01 this secret order, one of the Brothers says—« “Our community has existed ever since the first day of creation when the gods spoke the divine command: ‘Let there be lightl’ and it will continue to exist till the end of time. It is the Society of the Children 01 Light, who live in the light and have attained immortality therein. In our school we are instructed directly by Divine Wisdom, the Celestial Bride, whose will is free and who selects as her disciples those who are devoted to her. The mysteries which we are taught embrace…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 10

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…piritual aspect of this secret order, one of the Brothers says— “Our community has existed ever since the first day of creation when the gods spoke the divine command: ‘Let there be light!’ and it will continue to exist till the end of time. It is the Society of the Children of Light, who live in the light and have attained immortality therein. In our school we are instructed directly by Divine Wisdom, the Celestial Bride, whose will is free and who selects as her disciples those who are devoted to her. The mysteries which we are taught embrace…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 10

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…piritual aspect of this secret order, one of the Brothers says— “Our community has existed ever since the first day of creation when the gods spoke the divine command: ‘Let there be light!’ and it will continue to exist till the end of time. It is the Society of the Children of Light, who live in the light and have attained immortality therein. In our school we are instructed directly by Divine Wisdom, the Celestial Bride, whose will is free and who selects as her disciples those who are devoted to her. The mysteries which we are taught embrace…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 57

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ii, 52-54. + Lamp of Invisible Light. L.I.L. The title of the first AZthyr derived from the initial letters of the Three Mighty Names of God. In all there are thirty of 45

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1910 · PDF PAGE 57

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ii, 52-54. + Lamp of Invisible Light. L.I.L. The title of the first AZthyr derived from the initial letters of the Three Mighty Names of God. In all there are thirty of 45

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1911 · PDF PAGE 146

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…ion. Bougereau is better technically than Manet; he explains more clearly what he sees. But what does he see? He is the priest oia false God. Form has no importance except in this sense; we must not be revolted by the extravagance of new symbolic systems. Gauguin and Matisse may live to be understood. We acquiesce in the eccentricities of Raphael.” Ida gave a little laugh of pleased scorn of him. “ My good girl, perspective is an eccentricity, a symbol; no more. How can one ever represent a three—dimensional world in two dimensions? Only by sym…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 146

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…ion. Bougereau is better technically than Manet; he explains more clearly what he sees. But what does he see? He is the priest oia false God. Form has no importance except in this sense; we must not be revolted by the extravagance of new symbolic systems. Gauguin and Matisse may live to be understood. We acquiesce in the eccentricities of Raphael.” Ida gave a little laugh of pleased scorn of him. “ My good girl, perspective is an eccentricity, a symbol; no more. How can one ever represent a three—dimensional world in two dimensions? Only by sym…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 25

The Vision and the Voice

…, and thus shall he be worshipped, as the warrior lord of the sun. Yet in him is the woman that devoureth with her water all the fire of God. Alas! my lord, thou art joined with him that knoweth not these things. When shall the day come that men shall flock to this my gate, and fall into my furious throat, a whirlpool of fire? This is hell unquenchable, and all they shall be utterly consumed therein. Therefore is that asbestos unconsumable made pure. Each of my teeth is a letter of the reverberating name. My tongue is a pillar of fire, and from…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 41

The Vision and the Voice

…and the avenue of pillars!) And I said to him: O thou that art the first countenance before time; thou of whom it is written that ‘‘ He, God, is one; He is the eternal one, without equal, son or companion. Nothing shall stand before His face”; all we have heard of thine infinite glory and holiness, of thy beauty and majesty, and behold! there is nothing but this abomination of desolation. He speaks; I cannot hear a word; something about the Book of the Law. The answer is written in the Book of the Law, or something of that sort. This is a long …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 125

The Vision and the Voice

…star, and the paths of hé and vau are the separations which this Star unites. And in the heart of the star is an exceeding splendour, —a god standing upon the moon, brilliant beyond imagining. 123

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1912 · PDF PAGE 177

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… MARTIN. Is it all right, lad? Are you gone to bed? JACKi [Of] Ay, ay, Father, all's well. Call if you need me. MARTIN. Good-night, lad; God bless ye, Jack! JACK. [Of] Good-night, Father! and pleasant dreams. [MARTIN goes and tests all the fastening: ofthe shutters, bars and so ah. Then goes to safe and (Brings out Ι35

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1912 · PDF PAGE 177

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… MARTIN. Is it all right, lad? Are you gone to bed? JACKi [Of] Ay, ay, Father, all's well. Call if you need me. MARTIN. Good-night, lad; God bless ye, Jack! JACK. [Of] Good-night, Father! and pleasant dreams. [MARTIN goes and tests all the fastening: ofthe shutters, bars and so ah. Then goes to safe and (Brings out Ι35

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1929 · PDF PAGE 25

The Stratagem and Other Stories

… I have the heart of a child and the consciousness of Satan, the lethargy of I know not what disease; and yet, thank—oh! there can be no God!—the resolution to warn mankind to follow my example, and then to explode a dynamite cartridge in my mouth. II In my third year at Newnham I spend four hours of every day at Professor Blair’s house. All other work was neglected, gone through mechanically, if at all. This came about gradually, as the result of an accident. The chemical laboratory has two rooms, one small and capable of being darkened. On th…

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