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1911 · PDF PAGE 57

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

VI THREE POEMS FOR JANE CHERON Oh, your love was a marvellous thing, [63111161 It was dawn, it was fire, it was birth, it was spring, Jeanne! But this is the curse, that it quickens its rate, Lest man by love should escape from fate And win from the dust to the Uncreate, Jeanne ! Nay, we are lovers, you and I— And we must die, and our love must die! How have we striven, each of us, Jeanne! To break the bars of the prison-house, Jeanne! We have raged like cats in a ring of fire, Driven by desire that was true Desire, The hate οί the lower, the lov…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 110

Book 4 (Part I)

94 Study of these books will give a thorough grounding in the intel- lectual side of Their system. After three months the Student is examined in these books, and if his knowledge of them is found satisfactory, he may become a Pro- bationer, receiving Liber LXI and the secret holy book, Liber LXV. The principal point of this grade is that the Probationer has a master appointed, whose experience can guide him in his work. He may select any practices that he prefers, but in any case must keep an exact record, so that he may discover the relation o…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 255

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…e water reflected from Chesed. The Cancellarius is third, because in Yesod is the air reflected from Tiphereth, But in each Temple these three chiefs are coeternal and coequal, thus figuring the Triad in Unity, yet are their functions different: The Imperator to command. The Pramonstrator to instruct. The Cancellarius to record. ‘« Even as the Flaming Fire doth overcome, and the still Waters reflect all images, and the all-wandering Air receiveth sound.” The synthesis of the Three Chiefs may be said to be in the form of Thoth who cometh from be…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 255

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…e water reflected from Chesed. The Cancellarius is third, because in Yesod is the air reflected from Tiphereth, But in each Temple these three chiefs are coeternal and coequal, thus figuring the Triad in Unity, yet are their functions different: The Imperator to command. The Pramonstrator to instruct. The Cancellarius to record. ‘« Even as the Flaming Fire doth overcome, and the still Waters reflect all images, and the all-wandering Air receiveth sound.” The synthesis of the Three Chiefs may be said to be in the form of Thoth who cometh from be…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 392

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ot stir. The child complains—how feebly now! His eyes are blank ; he looks at her; The cold sweat gathers on his brow. To save the world—three days away|! His life in knighthood’s life is furled, And knighthood’s life in his—to-day |— His darling staked against the world | Will he die there, his task undone? Or dare he live, at such a cost? He cries against the impassive sun : The world is dim, is all but lost. Then, with the bitterness of death Cutting his soul, his fingers clench The piteous passage of her breath. The dews of horror rise and …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 396

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… to four strong stallion steers, To tear asunder, as they thought, The paladin of Arthur's peers. But he, a-bending, breaks the spine Of three, and on the fourth he rears His bulk, and rides away. Divine The wonder when the giant fails To stir the fatuous dwarf, malign Who smiles! But Bors on Arthur rails That never a knight is worth but one. “ By Goddes death ” (quod he), “ what ails

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1910 · PDF PAGE 392

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ot stir. The child complains—how feebly now! His eyes are blank ; he looks at her; The cold sweat gathers on his brow. To save the world—three days away|! His life in knighthood’s life is furled, And knighthood’s life in his—to-day |— His darling staked against the world | Will he die there, his task undone? Or dare he live, at such a cost? He cries against the impassive sun : The world is dim, is all but lost. Then, with the bitterness of death Cutting his soul, his fingers clench The piteous passage of her breath. The dews of horror rise and …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 396

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… to four strong stallion steers, To tear asunder, as they thought, The paladin of Arthur's peers. But he, a-bending, breaks the spine Of three, and on the fourth he rears His bulk, and rides away. Divine The wonder when the giant fails To stir the fatuous dwarf, malign Who smiles! But Bors on Arthur rails That never a knight is worth but one. “ By Goddes death ” (quod he), “ what ails

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1904 · PDF PAGE 57

The Goetia

…course; and by the name AtpHa and Omeca, which Daniel named, and destroyed Bel, and slew the Dragon; and in the name EMMANUEL, which the three children, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, sang in the midst of the fiery furnace, and were delivered; and by the name Hacios; and by the Srat® or Aponal; and by Iscuyros, ATHANATOS, PARACLETOS; and by O THEos, Ictros, ATHANATOS; and by these three secret names, AGLA, On, TETRA- GRAMMATON, do I adjure and constrain thee. And by these names, and by all the other names of the Livinc and True Gop, the Lorp …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 122

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…he reason for every incident in his past, and found a purpose for every item of his présent equipment, he cannot truly answer even those Three Questions that were first put to him, even the Three Questions of the Ritual of the Pyramid ; he is not ready to swear the Oath of the Abyss. 38. But being thus enlightened, let him swear the Oath of the Abyss; yea, let him swear the Oath of the Abyss. I. A brother known to me was repeatedly baffled in this méditation. But one day being thrown with his horse over a sheer cliff of forty feet, and escaping…

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1935 · PDF PAGE 8

One Star in Sight

…iverse in accordance with His Will. He is the Master of the Law of Change (Anicca). To attain the Grade of Ipsissimus he must accomplish three tasks, destroying the Three Guardians mentioned in Liber 418, the 3rd Aethyr; Madness, and Falsehood, and Glamour, that is, Duality in Act, Word and Thought. 6. The Grade of Master of the Temple is described in Liber 418 as above indicated. There are full accounts in the Magical Diaries of the Beast 666, who was cast forth into the Heaven of

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1929 · PDF PAGE 188

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…et. If you do this for fifteen generations or so, your descendants will acquire a thorax like a beer barrel and a heart capable of doing three times the work that it can at present. If you then get incarnated in your clan, you can lay siege to Chogo Ri with a reasonable prospect of success. As the hymn says, Patience and perseverance Made a Bishop of His Reverence. This programme is however hardly acceptable to Western minds, so little penetrated with Einstein's ideas that everything has to be done in a hurry. We may therefore leave "acclimatiz…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 59

Songs of the Spirit

… the ground ; I drop to drink, and hear the horrid strain Of chuckling devils, that grimace around, And think I catch the note of Hell’s three-headed Hound. 49

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1909 · PDF PAGE 109

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…f doubt ; And that which inward did for ever tend Came at the last to have come out; And I who had the World and God to friend Found all three foes! Drowned in that sea of changes, vacancies, and woes! XXI Yet all that Sea was swallowed up therein ; So they were not, and it was not, 99

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1909 · PDF PAGE 109

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…f doubt ; And that which inward did for ever tend Came at the last to have come out; And I who had the World and God to friend Found all three foes! Drowned in that sea of changes, vacancies, and woes! XXI Yet all that Sea was swallowed up therein ; So they were not, and it was not, 99

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1912 · PDF PAGE 233

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…ed by the Great Angels?לאעההand?לאו"י XLI THE LORD OF UNSTABLE EFFORT Sewn af Swords Two Angelic Radiating Hands as before, each holding three swords. A third hand holds up a single sword in the centre. The points of all the swordsjust tom/L each other, the central sword not altogether dividing them. The Rose of the previous symbols of this suit is held up by the same hand which holds the central sword: as if the victory were at its disposal. Symbols οί v and :. Partial success, Yielding when victory is within grasp, as [91

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1912 · PDF PAGE 233

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…ed by the Great Angels?לאעההand?לאו"י XLI THE LORD OF UNSTABLE EFFORT Sewn af Swords Two Angelic Radiating Hands as before, each holding three swords. A third hand holds up a single sword in the centre. The points of all the swordsjust tom/L each other, the central sword not altogether dividing them. The Rose of the previous symbols of this suit is held up by the same hand which holds the central sword: as if the victory were at its disposal. Symbols οί v and :. Partial success, Yielding when victory is within grasp, as [91

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1905 · PDF PAGE 11

Rosa Mundi

…order Their iron gates to unclose. The gross, inhospitable warder Of Love’s green garden of spice is well awake. Hell hath enough of Her three-headed hound ; But Love’s severer bound Knows for His watcher a more fearful shape, A formidable ape Skilled by black art to mock the Gods profound In their abyss of under ground. Beware ! Who hath entered hath no boast to make, And conscious Eden surelier breeds the snake. Be silent ! O ! for silence’ sake ! That asks the impossible. Smite ! Smite ! Profaned adytum of pure light, Smite ! but I must sing…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 189

The Book of Thoth

…ire. Being below the Abyss, it is the Lord of all manifested active Power. The original Will of the Two has been transmitted through the Three, and is now built up into a solid system:—Order, Law, Government. It is also referred to Venus in Aries, which indicates that one cannot establish one’s work without tact and gentle‐ ness. The wands are headed by the Ram, sacred to Chesed, the Father‐god Amoun‐Ra, as also to Aries; but at the other end of the wands are the Doves of Venus. In the symbol, the ends of the wands touch a circle, showing the c…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 52

Tale of Archais

… arms wide open to the sky, Cried loud, and wept, and girt herself to die. It was a pinnacle of ivory Whereon she stood, the loftiest of three fangs

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