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1898 · PDF PAGE 87

Songs of the Spirit

…’s eye Catches its brilliancy Strange lights and hues are born : I have seen twelve colours hover on a single spray of thorn. There is a great grey tower Cut clear against the deep ; In the sun’s wakening hour I think it has the power To touch the soul of sleep With its tender thought, and bid me to awake for joy—and weep. This night I am earlier, No drowsy thought drew nigh 77

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1911 · PDF PAGE 243

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…Rmo-APOPHIS. Green 70454 BESZ. Black mee. FOUR PROBATIONERS. 501 is !!!7071111 in the Exul; &:hind him is a Hae/ä wil ulla':/t canem/: a great πανί” emm. (?!/072 him i: a 1669714 wil. He [: 071211/]& ?:”ץAries on llt: right, and Lea on the left. The other aliter: are wit/tout the temple, in waiting. In presentation in public, a third weil divide: llle temple fram the mngregatiam 65

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1911 · PDF PAGE 243

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…Rmo-APOPHIS. Green 70454 BESZ. Black mee. FOUR PROBATIONERS. 501 is !!!7071111 in the Exul; &:hind him is a Hae/ä wil ulla':/t canem/: a great πανί” emm. (?!/072 him i: a 1669714 wil. He [: 071211/]& ?:”ץAries on llt: right, and Lea on the left. The other aliter: are wit/tout the temple, in waiting. In presentation in public, a third weil divide: llle temple fram the mngregatiam 65

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1913 · PDF PAGE 69

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH N THE VIGIL OF ST. HUBERT In the forest God met the Stag-beetle. ‘‘ Hold! Worship me!” quoth God. ‘‘For I am All- Great, All-Good, All-Wise The stars are but sparks from the forges of My smiths ‘Yea, verily and Amen,” said the Stag-beetle, ‘“all this do I believe, and that devoutly.” ‘*Then why do you not worship Me?” ‘Because lam realand you are only imaginary.” But the leaves of the forest rustled with the laughter of the wind. Said Wind and Wood: ‘They neither of them know anything!”

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1944 · PDF PAGE 239

The Book of Thoth

… Sun finds his rebirth. It is the holy Hexagram, the symbol of the uniting of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm, the accomplishment of the Great Work, the Summum Bonum, True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness. Sic sit vobis!

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1904 · PDF PAGE 44

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

…and the wild Be- dawi. Leila, the juicy-cunted nigger nockstress who took my first spunkings as I told you in Chapter III, used to see a great deal of the business when she was first brought up from her home by the Nyanza to serve the vices of George G....n at Khartoum. She had seen Mesrur, the famous eunuch of the Mahdi, violate the hairless cunnies of sixty virgins without losing erection. She had been present when Zuleika, the Queen of the Sudan, as they called her, undertook (to suck off, and swallow the spend of) fifty-seven men in the fir…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 144

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE EQUINOX “Then let me pay! I want to pay for your lunch." “You shall have a great treat, Joe! I have a friend and his girl coming, too. You shall pay for all of us.” The negro beamed. " Ida Pendragonl " he spluttered. “ I love you, Ida Pendragon." “ And Ida Pendragon loves her leopard. Now leave me.” She glanced round. They were alone in the gallery. “ You may kiss the back of my neck, if you like." The negro buried his head between her shoulders. She shivered ; her hair hissed under his kiss. She writhed round, and gave her mouth to his for…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 149

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…aid a bull in the arena. She disengaged herself. “ You see, he wants to marry me. I love him I I want to be with him for ever. But—" the great fighter was limp in his chair. " It is difficult,” she went on. “ There are complica- tions. My mother . . ." Edgar Rolles detected the false note in her voice. He understood. He was angry, angry at his implication in such an affair. His teeth snapped. " Yes ? " he said, though he wanted to shout, to break the furniture. ”We cannot marry," she went on, and this time the mordant malice almost tore her silky…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 144

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE EQUINOX “Then let me pay! I want to pay for your lunch." “You shall have a great treat, Joe! I have a friend and his girl coming, too. You shall pay for all of us.” The negro beamed. " Ida Pendragonl " he spluttered. “ I love you, Ida Pendragon." “ And Ida Pendragon loves her leopard. Now leave me.” She glanced round. They were alone in the gallery. “ You may kiss the back of my neck, if you like." The negro buried his head between her shoulders. She shivered ; her hair hissed under his kiss. She writhed round, and gave her mouth to his for…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 149

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…aid a bull in the arena. She disengaged herself. “ You see, he wants to marry me. I love him I I want to be with him for ever. But—" the great fighter was limp in his chair. " It is difficult,” she went on. “ There are complica- tions. My mother . . ." Edgar Rolles detected the false note in her voice. He understood. He was angry, angry at his implication in such an affair. His teeth snapped. " Yes ? " he said, though he wanted to shout, to break the furniture. ”We cannot marry," she went on, and this time the mordant malice almost tore her silky…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 143

The Vision and the Voice

…il the appointed time come when the Holy One shall declare unto thee the Mystery of the Third Aethyr. Yet be thou wake and ware, for the great Angel Hua is about thee, and overshadoweth thee, and at any moment he may come upon thee unawares. The voice of PAZ is ended. BISKRA, ALGERIA. December 16, 1909. 9-10.30 a.m. THE CrY OF THE 3RD AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED ZON There is an angry light in the stone; now it is become clear. In the centre is that minute point of light which is the true Sun, and in the circumference is the Emerald Snake. And joini…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 32

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX at Adyar and do the work of Assistant Correspondence Secretary of the Esoteric Section. The plaintiff had at the time very great respect and veneration for the defendant, whom he regarded as his spiritual preceptress and whom he credited with more than human attributes, and he agreed to serve her as the Assistant Correspondence Secretary with- out receiving from her any remuneration whatever. The plaintiff accordingly took up his abode at Adyar along with his second and third sons, J. Krishnamurti and J. Nityananda, who are respecti…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 32

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX at Adyar and do the work of Assistant Correspondence Secretary of the Esoteric Section. The plaintiff had at the time very great respect and veneration for the defendant, whom he regarded as his spiritual preceptress and whom he credited with more than human attributes, and he agreed to serve her as the Assistant Correspondence Secretary with- out receiving from her any remuneration whatever. The plaintiff accordingly took up his abode at Adyar along with his second and third sons, J. Krishnamurti and J. Nityananda, who are respecti…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 419

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…S jection to any one claiming to be one of Themselves. If he does so, let him abide by it. 25. Hast thou attuned thy being to Humanity’s great pain, O candidate for light? Thou hast? . . . Thou mayest enter. Vet, ere thou settest foot upon the dreary Path of Sorrow, *tis well thou should’ st first learn the pitfalls on thy way. It appears as if the condition of entering the Path was the Vision of Sorrow, and of course the present Commentator might be inclined to support this theory, since, in his own ex- perience, it was this Vision of Sorrow w…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 42

The Star in the West

…the “ Hudibras ” of Butler and the “ Endy mion ” of Keats . Though Crowley , as can be clearly seen throughout his works , is not only a great admirer but also a dis ciple of Browning's , he nevertheless vigorously attacks that great master's cacophony and wilful obscurity of meaning , in that eccentric curiosity of diction “ The Sword of Song ,” in which our ears are assailed by the most monstrous diversity of ‘ noises , following in a Rather than Sophocles or Aeschylus .

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1911 · PDF PAGE 89

The Vision and the Voice

…t things to the unconscious mind of the seer, of a personal nature.) Now a voice comes from without: And lo! I saw you to the end. And a great bell begins to toll. And there come six little children out of the floor of the chariot, and in their hands is a veil so fine and transparent that it is hardly visible. Yet, when they put it over the Cup, the Angel bowing his head reverently, the light of the Cup goes out entirely. And as the light of the Cup vanishes, it is like a swift sunset in the whole Aire, for it was from the light of that Cup alo…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 125

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…eed of joy: for you are certain beyond all proof that you can never die; that, though you change, change is part of your own nature: the Great Enemy is become the Great Ally. And now, rooted in this perfection, your Self become the very Tree of Life, you have a fulcrum for your lever: you are ready to understand that this pulsation of Unity is itself Duality, and therefore, in the highest and most sacred sense, still Sorrow and Illusion; which having comprehended, aspire yet again, even unto the Fourth of the Gifts of the Law, unto the End of t…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 28

777

12 TABLE OF CORRESPONDENCES XLVI.* System of Taoism. The Tao or Great Extreme of the Yi King Shang Ti (also the Tao) The Yang and Khien Kwan-se-on, The Yin and Khwan e's Khan Sun Sun Khan and Khwan Tui «. Li Tui Li and Khien . Kan . Khan Kan . Genius XLV. XLIV.* Magical Powers [Western Mysticism]. Mineral Drugs. The Supreme Attainment. . . . . . . | Carbon o Union with God . Aur. Pot. 1 The Vision of God face to face Phosphorus 2 The Vision of Sorrow Silver 3 The Vision of Love . 4 The Vision of Power. Iron, Sulphur . 5 The Vision of the Harmon…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 319

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…am to seize him, and re-entering the cave they sank, uttering most heart-rending yells of agony. “As I once again approached the lake, a great albatross rose from the water, and as she did so, the star fell away from me, and a multitude of birds surrounded me and took me back to the garret which I first visited. “For this I was very grateful, and on seeing that I had returned, the Adept came forward and took my hand, saying: ‘Go on,’ at which words I felt that a great strength had been imparted to me. “T then asked him about ‘ Abramelin,’ of wh…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 319

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…am to seize him, and re-entering the cave they sank, uttering most heart-rending yells of agony. “As I once again approached the lake, a great albatross rose from the water, and as she did so, the star fell away from me, and a multitude of birds surrounded me and took me back to the garret which I first visited. “For this I was very grateful, and on seeing that I had returned, the Adept came forward and took my hand, saying: ‘Go on,’ at which words I felt that a great strength had been imparted to me. “T then asked him about ‘ Abramelin,’ of wh…

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