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1913 · PDF PAGE 500

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…te currents, receives and transmits the imprints of the force of imagination which is in men the image and the semblance of the creative word, and thus produces presenti- ments and determines dreams. The science of miracles is then the knowledge of this marvellous force, and the art of doing miracles is simply the art of magnetizing or ¢duminat- ing beings, according to the invariable laws of magnetism or astral light. We prefer the word “light” to the word ‘ magnetism,” because it is more traditional in occultism, and expresses in a more compl…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 500

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…te currents, receives and transmits the imprints of the force of imagination which is in men the image and the semblance of the creative word, and thus produces presenti- ments and determines dreams. The science of miracles is then the knowledge of this marvellous force, and the art of doing miracles is simply the art of magnetizing or ¢duminat- ing beings, according to the invariable laws of magnetism or astral light. We prefer the word “light” to the word ‘ magnetism,” because it is more traditional in occultism, and expresses in a more compl…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 99

Gargoyles

…If he were dying, they were dead! The first was agéd; in his beard He muttered never a weird. The next was beautiful and gay : He had no word to say. The third was wroth and rusty red, Yet not a word he said. gI

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1909 · PDF PAGE 62

The Holy Books

…the Twelve Rays of the Crown, I3. That returned unto One, and beyond One, even unto the vision of the Fool in his folly that chanted the word Ararita,and beyond the Word and the Fool; yea, beyond the Word and the Fool.

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1916 · PDF PAGE 11

A Prophet In His Own Country

…ideas as to what my ideas may be. Unless the context makes it clear, doubt is certain to remain. Nor need one suppose that there are any words free from this ambiguity. Everything at one time or another has been the subject of violent praise and violent blame. If any one asks me for the meaning of the word God, I must first know whether the word is being used by the Pope or Mr. G. W. Foote or Herbert Spencer or Billy Sunday. If you ask me for the meaning of the word “soul,” I am equally at a loss. To the Buddhist it is a figment of the imaginat…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 31

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…n and useless to its further development. (Thus “Suckling” is the formula of an infant : when teeth appear it marks a new “Aeon”, whose “Word” is “Eating”). A Magus can therefore only appear as such to the world at inter- vais of some centuries ; accounts of historical Magi, and their Words, are given in Liber Aleph. This does not mean that only one man can attain this Grade in any one Aeon, so far as the Order is concerned. A man can make Personal progress équivalent to that of a “Word of an Aeon”; but he will identify himself with the current…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 189

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…E ON GENESIS of the Universe (or Magical Mirror in Man). As it were the Egg of the Black Swan of Time, the Kala Hams, the Triune a"y, or word of Power or of Seb, the Bird of Life, whose will was heard in the Night of Time. The total numeric value of the verse is u1n3= 4459, of which the Key is 22, the number of the Paths from 8 ton; and the Key of 22 is 4, the Tetractys and the Threshold of the Universe. Now to proceed to what I have termed the Time Process, the first Word of the Law then is mwxo3a. Now in the Hebrew Scriptures the first word o…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 189

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…E ON GENESIS of the Universe (or Magical Mirror in Man). As it were the Egg of the Black Swan of Time, the Kala Hams, the Triune a"y, or word of Power or of Seb, the Bird of Life, whose will was heard in the Night of Time. The total numeric value of the verse is u1n3= 4459, of which the Key is 22, the number of the Paths from 8 ton; and the Key of 22 is 4, the Tetractys and the Threshold of the Universe. Now to proceed to what I have termed the Time Process, the first Word of the Law then is mwxo3a. Now in the Hebrew Scriptures the first word o…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 236

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX Even as flutters a bird, I fluttered : before and behind ‘Thundered the secret Word Into mine ears. I have pined Because the Word was unkind ; But now the spirit hath stirred. I sought not, yet did I find, For the wonderful thing occurred. Though I be blind, shall I gird Because I see not? The gods bind Mine eyes. But I heard! I heard! Shall it avail, O wind? ExpLicir OpuscuLum NONDUM FINIS

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1913 · PDF PAGE 236

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX Even as flutters a bird, I fluttered : before and behind ‘Thundered the secret Word Into mine ears. I have pined Because the Word was unkind ; But now the spirit hath stirred. I sought not, yet did I find, For the wonderful thing occurred. Though I be blind, shall I gird Because I see not? The gods bind Mine eyes. But I heard! I heard! Shall it avail, O wind? ExpLicir OpuscuLum NONDUM FINIS

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1939 · PDF PAGE 8

Eight Lectures on Yoga

…abit produced by generations of systematic sectarian training. (3) We must then begin the study of Yoga by looking at the meaning of the word. It means Union, from the same Sanskrit root as the Greek word Zeugma, the Latin word Jugum, and the English word yoke. (Yeug— to join.) When a dancing girl is dedicated to the service of a temple there is a Yoga of her relations to celebrate. Yoga, in short, may be translated 'tea fight,' which doubtless accounts for the fact that all the students of Yoga in England do nothing but gossip over endless lib…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 11

Moonchild

…sistence with a stifled yawn! Her soul failed her. "When you will," she murmured. The receiver dropped from her hand; but she caught one word - the word "taxi." In the morning, she awoke, almost a corpse. He had come, and he had gone — he had not spoken a single word, not even given a token that he would come again. She told her maid to pack for Paris: but she could not go. Instead, she fell ill. Hysteria became neurasthenia; yet she knew that a single word would cure her. But no word came. Incidentally she heard that Cyril Grey was playing gol…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 86

Liber Aleph

…he Magus of the Arabs, Mohammed) EHOLD! In these Chapters have I, thy Father, restricted myself, not speaking of any immediate Echo of a Word in the World, because, there Men being long since withdrawn into their Silence, it is their One Word, and that Alone, that resoundeth undiminished through Time. How Mohammed, who followeth, is darkened and confused by His Nearness to our own Time, so that I say not save with Diffidence that His Word ALLH may mean this or that. But I am bold concerning His Doctrine of the Unity of God, for God is Man, and …

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1961 · PDF PAGE 85

Liber Aleph

…ost; but the Jews called Him Mosheh, or Moses, and their Fabulists made Him the Leader of their Legendary Exodus. Yet they preserved His Word, and it is IHVH, which thou must understand also as that Secret Word which thou hast seen and heard in Thunders and Lightnings in thine Initiation to the Degree thou wottest of. But this Word is itself a Plan of the Fabrick of the Universe, and upon it hath been elaborated the Holy Qabalah, whereby we have Knowledge of the Nature of all Things soever upon every Plane of By-coming, and of their Forces and …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 106

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…o be the most generally useful. While on the subject of barbarous names of évocation we should not omit the utterance of certain suprême words which enshrine (a) the complété formula of the God invoked, or (3 the whole ceremony. Examples of the former kind are Tetragrammaton, I.A.O., and Abrahadabra. An example of the latter kind is the great Word StiBeTTChe- PhMeFSHiSS, which is a line drawn on the Tree of Life (Coptic attributions) in a certain manner.1 2 With ail such words it is of the utmost importance that they should never be spoken unti…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 96

Book 4 (Part I)

80 with.” Ari/22' means “Lord,” and a reasonable translation of the whole word would be “Union with God,” the exact term used by Christian mystics to describe their attainment. Now there is great confusion, because the Buddhists use the word Samadhi to mean something entirely different, the mere faculty of attention. Thus, with them, to think of a cat is to “ make Samadhi ” on that cat. They use the word Jhana to describe mystic states. This is excessively misleading, for as we saw in the last section, Dhyana is a preliminary to Samadhi, and of…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 39

John St. John

JOHN ST. JOHN 9.0. the forces necessary to the Operation. The Word takes its station in the East and the officers salute it both by speech and silence in their signs; and they pronounce the secret Word of power that riseth from the Silence and returneth thereunto. All this they affirm; and in affirming the triangular base of the Pyramid, find that they have mysteriously affirmed the Apex thereof Whose name is Ecstasy. This also is sealed by that secret Word ; for that Word containeth All. Into this prepared Pyramid of divine Light there cometh a cer…

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1938 · PDF PAGE 21

The Heart of the Master

… is as One Day. Then my Instructor showed me that the Brotherhood send forth one of their fellows every two thousand years, bringing one Word to serve Mankind as a new Formula of Magick, that it may take one further step on the long road that leadeth to Perfection. Also, twice in that period, that is, at intervals of a little more than three, and a little less than seven, centuries, they send a lesser prophet to prepare the Way of the next Word, and to maintain or to restore the virtue of the Word then current. And on the unfurled portion of th…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 13

The Star and the Garter

…d all in one rash deed. Learnt I not in discretion’s school The little care that lovers need? For see—I bite my lip to blood ; A stifled word of anguish hisses :— O the black word that dams thought’s flood! O the bad lip that looked for kisses! O the poor fool that prates of love! Is it a garter, or a glove? II

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1913 · PDF PAGE 191

Book 4 (Part II)

…mpressions." Yesod. " Foundation," the ninth "emanation'" of the .\b50lute. K^'^r?*.One who seeks to attain "Union" (with (iod). A Hindu word corre- sponding to the Mohammedan word Fakir. Yoni. The Dyad, or Female Principle. 6*6^Lingam. Zohar. Splenilour, a collection of books on the Qabalah. See "The Temple of Solomon the Kin.£(," Equinox V.

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