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Page 32 of 921909 · PDF PAGE 124
9.10. 953- 10.14. 10.27. 122 THE EQUINOX bered at all. I have gone to bed, and shall take things in hand seriously, ifit kills me. Since 9.17 have done Pranayama, though allowing myself some irregularities in the way of occasional omission 01 a Kambhakham. ’Tis very hard to stick to it. I find myself, at the end of above sentence, automatically crawling into bed. No, John! Have been trying to extract some sense from that extraordinary treatise on mysticism, “ Konx Om Pax." Another failure, but an excusable one. I will now beseech Adonai as best …
1913 · PDF PAGE 8
…rked that no written protest against the present Convocation had been received from any Prince Patriarch, and that it might therefore be taken that no question could hereafter be raised as to the legality of the Convocation. Brother Crowley proposed, and Bro. Theodor Reuss seconded, that Bro. Henry Meyer take the chair. This was unanimously agreed. to. Brother Meyer having done so, Brother Quilliam moved that a letter of condolence should be sent to the widow of the late Sovereign Grand Master General. This was agreed to. Brother Meyer then cal…
1919 · PDF PAGE 236
… science, leading its mem- bers step by step to knowledge and power hardly even dreamed of by the profane. 66. Brethren of the Order who take long journeys over- seas are received in places where they sojourn at the Pro- fess-Houses of the Order for the period of one month. TENTH HOUSE 67. Women of the Order who are about to become mothers receive all care, attention, and honour from all Brethren. 222
1929 · PDF PAGE 162
… women in any way that is possibly avoidable: not to interfere in any way whatever with native prejudices and beliefs. This clause shall take effect from the accomplishment of (3). 6. Any dispute arising under this agreement shall be subjected to arbitration in the usual way and shall not be subject to appeal at law or otherwise. 7. Should a third, fourth or fifth man join the party, he shall sign this agreement before he is definitely accepted. Witness our hands. At Kandy, Oct. 12th, 1901. The expedition was composed of six members. Thanks to …
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
…e universal Fluid. The whole formulating the Ankh—the Key of Life! Igave moreover the signs ofthe grades from 0° =o°to7": 4°. Then did I take upon myself the Great Obligation as follows : I. I, O.M. &c., a member of the Body of God, hereby bind myself on behalf of the whole Universe, even as we are now physically bound unto the cross of suffering: II. that I will lead a pure life, as a devoted servant of the Order: III. that I will understand all things : IVA that I will love all things: ᾽ V. that I will perform all things and endure all things…
1909 · PDF PAGE 25
…r four times in the night I had been awakened by this loyal body, urging me to rise and meditate—and my weak will bade it be at ease and take its rest—oh, wretched man! slave of the hour and of the worm 1 Fifteen cycles of Prana Yama put me right mentally and physically: otherwise they had little apparent success. Have breakfasted—a pear and two Garibaldis. (These by the way are the small size, half the big squares) Have smoked a pipe to show that I'm not in a hurry. Hanged Man with mantra in Visuddhi. Thought I had been much longer. At one poi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 19
…ttered by the disease and torture — for both continued — that I remember practically nothing of the next two years. But at least I shall take care that this book comes into the hands of the Very Reverend Armitage Robinson Esq., M. A., D. D., Dean of Westminster ; for though I suppose
1913 · PDF PAGE 55
…ent to express his will by taking Magical Oaths. Since such an oath is irrevocable it should be well considered; and it is better not to take any oath permanently; because with increase of understanding may come a perception of the incompatibility of the lesser oath with the greater. This is indeed almost certain to occur, and it must be remembered that as the whole essence of the will is its one-pointedness,^ a dilemma of this sort is the worst in which the Magus can find himself. Another great point in this consideration of Magick Vows is to …
1909 · PDF PAGE 46
…mehow or other I have got off the track; have been fooling about with too many odd things, necessary as they may have been. I had better take a solid hour willing the Tryst with Adonai. Have done all this, and a Work of Kindness. I will again revise the new ritual, dine, return and copy it fair for use. Let Adonai the Lord oversee the Work, that it be per- fect, a sure link with Him, a certain and infallible Conjuration, and Spell, and Working of true Magick Art, that I may invoke Him with success whenever seemeth good unto Him. Unto Him; not u…
1910 · PDF PAGE 134
…, Fleet far across the woods ; and gleaming bright The evening star looks from the orient way. Shadow and silence deepen : all the woods Take on a tenderer phrase of musical Breezes : the stream-sought homes and solitudes Murmur a little where the maiden moods Are sadder as the evenings kisses fall. Like silver scales of serpenthood they fall Across the blind air of the evening ; Shadowy ghosts arise funereal And seek unspeakable things ; and dryads call The Satyr-company to the satyr-king. And all the light is over ; but the sky Shudders with…
1912 · PDF PAGE 97
…se instead—in all probability something just beyond his means. Such is the splendid history of all spiritual advance! One never stops to take the reward. We shall therefore not trouble at all about what any Samadhi may or may not bring as far as its results in our lives are concerned. We began this book, it will be remembered, with considerations of death. Death has now lost all meaning. The idea of death depends on those of the ego, and of time; these ideas have been destroyed; and so “ Death is swallowed up in victory.” We shall now only be i…
1913 · PDF PAGE 32
…laws through which he works. He should endeavour to make geometrical constructions to symbolize cosmic measurements. For example, he may take the two diagonals as (say) the diameter of the sun. Then the side of the altar will be found to have a length equal to some other cosmic measure, a vesica drawn on the side some other, a "rood cross" within the vesica yet another. Each Magician should work out his own system of symbolism —and he need not confine himself to cosmic measurements. He might, for example, find some relation to express the law o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 73
…te indeed is he who cannot thus endure. It is useless for him to say, " I don't like the Atlantic; I will go back to the fireside." Once take one step on the path, and there is no return. You will re- member in Browning's " Childe Roland to the dark Tower came": For mark ! no sooner was I fairly found Pledged to the plain, after a pace or two. Than, pausing to throw backwards a last view O'er the safe road, 'twas gone: grey plain all round. Nothing but plain to the horizon's bound. I might go on ; naught else remained to do. And this is univers…
1913 · PDF PAGE 382
…s. They believe blindly in their blind prophet, the fatalist Mohammed, the enemy of progress and of liberty. Nevertheless, do not let us take away from Mohammed the 84
1913 · PDF PAGE 382
…s. They believe blindly in their blind prophet, the fatalist Mohammed, the enemy of progress and of liberty. Nevertheless, do not let us take away from Mohammed the 84
1904 · PDF PAGE 75
PRINCIPALLY REMIGIAL IT is the duty of a righteous editor, when May Term comes, to take his pen and spread it o’er the surface of his paper in inditing what we consider the best kind of writing, a leader to congratulate our crews or comment on their conduct should they lose, to mention how we won (or lost) the sports, and how we battled in the Racquet- Courts. Another column will refer to Fletcher, and technicalities of thwart and stretcher, and how the wind— I almost might have written this article within the groves of Ditton before the race w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 282
…sen from the rod , A goodlier godhead than the broken God ." It was in the winter of 1619 that Descartes made the famous resolution to “ take nothing for truth with out the clear knowledge that it is such ." Thus Jove like he discrowned the authority of a thousand years , and though the symbolization of his ideas was often at variance with the logic of his facts , it is to him alone that present - day agnosticism must look back on as its founder . Berkeley , as we have seen , carried the Cartesian principle to its logical result ; Hume , 1 The …
1944 · PDF PAGE 148
…refore shewn with the plumes of justice streaming like flames from her brow; and she is unclothed, shewing that chemical action can only take place when the element is perfectly free to combine with its partner. She bears a wand crowned with the disk of the Sun; and she is leaping in a surging flame which re‐calls by its shape the letter Yodh. This card may be said to represent the dance of the virgin priestess of the Lords of Fire, for she is in attendance upon the golden altar ornamented with rams’ heads) symbolizing the fires of Spring. The …
1905 · PDF PAGE 3
…they have long6 reposed, if writings can repose which evoke but disgust each time the master’s eye7 falls saturnine upon them. The devil take them !8 so, lest I should be thought to swear—never9 a habit of mine !—to the “ devil ” they shall go.10 ALEISTER CROWLEY. 1 Admitted on all hands to be worthless. 2 I can’t bother. 3 Cf. Spinoza, Haeckel, and others. 4 Sakkya-ditthi, Anatta. 5 First Precept. 6 More classically, good-bye. 7 My eye—all mine. 8 Excusez, madame ! 9 Well, hardly ever ! 10 Joke. v
1909 · PDF PAGE 104
…t tremendous Threshold; wherefore he fell from meditation into sleep, and there his Lord gave him sweet rest thereof. He will arise, and take a drink—a citron presse—at the Dome ; for the day is yet exceeding hot, and he has had little One ought to remark that all this sleep is full of extravagant dreams ; rarely irrational and never (of course) unpleasant, or one would be up and working with a circle every night. But O.M. thinks that they show an excited and unbalanced condition of John St. John‘s brain, though he is almost too cowed to expres…