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1909 · PDF PAGE 334

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX THE LADDER “J will arise and go unto my Father.” MaLkuTH Dark, dark, all dark! I cower, I cringe. Only above me is a citron tinge As if some echo of red, gold, and blue Chimed on the night and let its shadow through. Yet I who am thus prisoned and exiled Am the right heir of glory, the crowned child. I match my might against my Fate’s, I gird myself to reach the ultimate shores, I arm myself the war to win :— Lift up your heads, O mighty gates | Be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors ! The King of Glory shall come in. Tau I pass from t…

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX THE LADDER “J will arise and go unto my Father.” MaLkuTH Dark, dark, all dark! I cower, I cringe. Only above me is a citron tinge As if some echo of red, gold, and blue Chimed on the night and let its shadow through. Yet I who am thus prisoned and exiled Am the right heir of glory, the crowned child. I match my might against my Fate’s, I gird myself to reach the ultimate shores, I arm myself the war to win :— Lift up your heads, O mighty gates | Be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors ! The King of Glory shall come in. Tau I pass from t…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 68

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

28 THE EQUINOX offering under these terrible circumstances all that yet remains. Fortunately I am quite unable to think of the thing in detail or as a reality. (He adds a note to this on December 31. " Not ‘ fortunately’ at all. One never gets able to do so. Stupor and pangs get to the limit, and that limit is easy reached by very partial conceptions of one’s 1055.") . . . . I have lived through the day. A . '. a sad mechanic exercise. A no good. Practically broke down playing billiards. Have drugged myself. (He was playing with a surgical frie…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 244

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE EQUINOX success, good luck and fortune; love, gladness, kindness, liberality. Binah of( ?הPlenty, hospitality, eating and drinking, pleasure, dancing, new clothes, merriment). Therein the Angels?לאהארand m::- are lords. LVI THE LORD OF BLENDED PLEASURE Four of Chalice: FOUR cups: the two upper overflowing into the two lower, which do not overflow. An Angelic Hand grasps a branch of lotus, from which ascends a stem bearing one flower at the top of the card, from which the white water flows into the two upper cups. From the centre two leaves pass…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 68

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

28 THE EQUINOX offering under these terrible circumstances all that yet remains. Fortunately I am quite unable to think of the thing in detail or as a reality. (He adds a note to this on December 31. " Not ‘ fortunately’ at all. One never gets able to do so. Stupor and pangs get to the limit, and that limit is easy reached by very partial conceptions of one’s 1055.") . . . . I have lived through the day. A . '. a sad mechanic exercise. A no good. Practically broke down playing billiards. Have drugged myself. (He was playing with a surgical frie…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 244

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE EQUINOX success, good luck and fortune; love, gladness, kindness, liberality. Binah of( ?הPlenty, hospitality, eating and drinking, pleasure, dancing, new clothes, merriment). Therein the Angels?לאהארand m::- are lords. LVI THE LORD OF BLENDED PLEASURE Four of Chalice: FOUR cups: the two upper overflowing into the two lower, which do not overflow. An Angelic Hand grasps a branch of lotus, from which ascends a stem bearing one flower at the top of the card, from which the white water flows into the two upper cups. From the centre two leaves pass…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 24

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EQUINOX I o. The Unicorn is speech. Man, rule thy Speech! How else shalt thou master the Son, and answer the Magician at the Right Hand Gateway of the Crown? 1. Here are practices. Each may last for a week or more. a. Avoid using some common word, such as “and” or “the” or “but”; use a paraphrase. &. Avoid using some letter of the alphabet, such as “t” or ” or “m”; use a paraphrase. y. Avoid using the pronouns and adjectives of the first person; use a paraphrase. Of thine own ingenium devise others. 2. On each occasion that thou art betraye…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 344

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EQUINOX Of the burning and pitiless day, and the pitiless light,— Thee only beside me, above me the mystical night, No dream so created in darkness was ever more fair. For then was thy touch as the light of a life-giving fire, Which kindles, and scorches, and burns, with unsated desire, Thy breath the warm essence of myrtle, the fragrance of pine, The languorous smoke of a temple obscene yet divine, Which gladdens the soul of a god in his passionate ire. So silent those nights, I could fancy the uttermost deep Engulfed us for ever,—for ever…

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EQUINOX I o. The Unicorn is speech. Man, rule thy Speech! How else shalt thou master the Son, and answer the Magician at the Right Hand Gateway of the Crown? 1. Here are practices. Each may last for a week or more. a. Avoid using some common word, such as “and” or “the” or “but”; use a paraphrase. &. Avoid using some letter of the alphabet, such as “t” or ” or “m”; use a paraphrase. y. Avoid using the pronouns and adjectives of the first person; use a paraphrase. Of thine own ingenium devise others. 2. On each occasion that thou art betraye…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 344

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EQUINOX Of the burning and pitiless day, and the pitiless light,— Thee only beside me, above me the mystical night, No dream so created in darkness was ever more fair. For then was thy touch as the light of a life-giving fire, Which kindles, and scorches, and burns, with unsated desire, Thy breath the warm essence of myrtle, the fragrance of pine, The languorous smoke of a temple obscene yet divine, Which gladdens the soul of a god in his passionate ire. So silent those nights, I could fancy the uttermost deep Engulfed us for ever,—for ever…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 154

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE EQUINOX THE FIFTH KEY THE mighty sounds have entered into the third angle, and are become as olives in the Olive Mount; looking with glad— ness upon the earth, and dwelling in the brightness of the Heavens as continual Comforters. Unto whom I fastened 19 Pillars of Gladness, and gave them vessels to water the earth with her creatures; and they are the brothers of the First and Second, and the beginning of their own seats, which are garnished with 69,636 ever—burning lamps: whose numbers are as the First, the Ends, and the Contents of Time. …

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE EQUINOX THE FIFTH KEY THE mighty sounds have entered into the third angle, and are become as olives in the Olive Mount; looking with glad— ness upon the earth, and dwelling in the brightness of the Heavens as continual Comforters. Unto whom I fastened 19 Pillars of Gladness, and gave them vessels to water the earth with her creatures; and they are the brothers of the First and Second, and the beginning of their own seats, which are garnished with 69,636 ever—burning lamps: whose numbers are as the First, the Ends, and the Contents of Time. …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 3

Hymn to Pan

…flock, I am gold, I am god, Flesh to thy bone; flower to thy rod. a With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks Through solstice stubborn to equinox. Z And I rave; and I rape and I rip and I rend : Everlasting, world without end, 2 In the might of Pan. :

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE EQUINOX represented in profile. Her attire is similar to that of the Queen of Wands: but she bears a winged goat's head as a crest. A goat is by her side. In one hand she bears a sceptre surmounted by a cube, and in the other an orb of gold. She is impetuous, kind; timid, rather charming; great- hearted; intelligent, melancholy; truthful, yet of many moods. If ill dignified she is undecided, capricious, changeable, foolish. She rules from zoa 1 to 20° "y. V of V The Queen of Gnomes. XIX THE PRINCE OF THE CHARIOT OF EARTH King of Pen/mks A WIN…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 240

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE EQUINOX Pentaclesi Above and below are the Decan symbols,?'ןand 8 respectively. Promises of success unfulfilled. (Shewn, as it were, by the fact that the rosebuds do not come to anything.) Loss of apparently promising fortune. Hopes deceived and crushed. Disappointment, misery, slavery, necessity and baseness. A cultivator of land, and yet a loser thereby. Sometimes it denotes slight and isolated gains with no fruits resulting therefrom, and of no further account, though seeming to promise well. Netzach of( ?הUnprofitable speculations and emp…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 212

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE EQUINOX represented in profile. Her attire is similar to that of the Queen of Wands: but she bears a winged goat's head as a crest. A goat is by her side. In one hand she bears a sceptre surmounted by a cube, and in the other an orb of gold. She is impetuous, kind; timid, rather charming; great- hearted; intelligent, melancholy; truthful, yet of many moods. If ill dignified she is undecided, capricious, changeable, foolish. She rules from zoa 1 to 20° "y. V of V The Queen of Gnomes. XIX THE PRINCE OF THE CHARIOT OF EARTH King of Pen/mks A WIN…

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE EQUINOX Pentaclesi Above and below are the Decan symbols,?'ןand 8 respectively. Promises of success unfulfilled. (Shewn, as it were, by the fact that the rosebuds do not come to anything.) Loss of apparently promising fortune. Hopes deceived and crushed. Disappointment, misery, slavery, necessity and baseness. A cultivator of land, and yet a loser thereby. Sometimes it denotes slight and isolated gains with no fruits resulting therefrom, and of no further account, though seeming to promise well. Netzach of( ?הUnprofitable speculations and emp…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 534

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX Axiom II To will evil, is to will death. A perverse will is a begin- ning of suicide. Axiom III To will good with violence, is to will evil, for violence produces disorder, and disorder produces evil. Axiom IV One can, and one should, accept evil as the means of good; but one must never will it or do it, otherwise one would destroy with one hand what one builds with the other. Good faith never justifies bad means; it corrects them when one undergoes them, and condemns them when one takes them. Axiom V To have the right to possess al…

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The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX Axiom II To will evil, is to will death. A perverse will is a begin- ning of suicide. Axiom III To will good with violence, is to will evil, for violence produces disorder, and disorder produces evil. Axiom IV One can, and one should, accept evil as the means of good; but one must never will it or do it, otherwise one would destroy with one hand what one builds with the other. Good faith never justifies bad means; it corrects them when one undergoes them, and condemns them when one takes them. Axiom V To have the right to possess al…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 9

The Holy Books

…d none by the Book? 49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods; and let Asar be with Isa, who also are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant, 8

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