1904 · PDF PAGE 44
Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden
…ieked and fainted, suspecting magic. Re- covering herself by a great effort, she caught hold of the traitors bollocks, and went on. For three
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The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)
…lts external to the mind of the seer (objective, in the ordinary common-sense acceptation of the term) we are here silent.] 6. There are three important practices connected with all forms of ceremonial (and the two Methods which later we shall describe). These are: 16
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1909 · PDF PAGE 26
The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)
…lts external to the mind of the seer (objective, in the ordinary common-sense acceptation of the term) we are here silent.] 6. There are three important practices connected with all forms of ceremonial (and the two Methods which later we shall describe). These are: 16
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1911 · PDF PAGE 143
The Vision and the Voice
…he centre. And all this is the sigil of the Aethyr, gold and azure and green. Yet also these are the Severities. It is only in the first three Aethyrs that we find the pure 141
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1944 · PDF PAGE 32
The Book of Thoth
…ute copy of the big Universe. This argument was, of course, worked backwards; so the characteristics above given of the qualities of the Three Decans in the sign were probably due to an analogy with the course of a man’s life. 4. The above remarks constitute a fairly complete idea of the arbitrary, or mostly arbi‐ trary, presentation of the Cosmos by the Ancients. First of all, the division into Four Elements. These Elements pervade everything. They would argue something like this about the Sun. They would say that he was principally Fire, for …
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1907 · PDF PAGE 81
Konx Om Pax
…ATAN 61 (to) Expect leprous dragon with beri beri at your high mightiness’s magnificent heavenly palace to-morrow (Thursday) afternoon at three sharp. Thus met Kwaw, the poet-philosopher of China; and Juju, the godfather of his country. Sublime moment in eternity! To the names of Joshua and Hezekiah add that of Kwaw! For though he was a quarter of an hour late for the appointment, the hands went back on the dial of Juju’s chronometer, so that no shadow of distrust or annoyance clouded the rapture of that supreme event. III. E E (“THE Mamrasrmc o…
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1912 · PDF PAGE 80
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)
… Shivadarshana itself, as we know from other sources. The “vision,” to use still the name become totally inadequate, appears to have had three main points in its Atmadarshana stage— I. The Universal Peacock. 2, The Universe as Ego. “I who am all and made it all abide its separate Lord," i.e. the Universe becomes a single and simple being, without quantity, quality, or conditions. In this the "I " is immanent, yet the “ I " made it, and the “ I ᾽᾽ is entirely apart from it, (This is the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, or something very like i…
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1912 · PDF PAGE 80
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)
… Shivadarshana itself, as we know from other sources. The “vision,” to use still the name become totally inadequate, appears to have had three main points in its Atmadarshana stage— I. The Universal Peacock. 2, The Universe as Ego. “I who am all and made it all abide its separate Lord," i.e. the Universe becomes a single and simple being, without quantity, quality, or conditions. In this the "I " is immanent, yet the “ I " made it, and the “ I ᾽᾽ is entirely apart from it, (This is the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, or something very like i…
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1919 · PDF PAGE 419
The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)
…ence, it was this Vision of Sorrow which caused him to take the First Great Oath. He had suddenly presented to him the perception of the Three Characteristics. This is fully narrated in Book 4, Part IV. It is also evident that aspiration implies dissatisfaction of some sort. But at the same time I do not think that in all cases it is necessary that this dissatisfaction should be so conscious and so universal as appears to be implied in the text. : 26. Armed with the key of Charity, of love and tender mercy, thou art secure before the gate of Da…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 484
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…ceed systematically by asking oneself, first of all, to what element the examinee belongs. It is then simple to discriminate between the three possible signs. One might mistake Taurus and Scorpio, Gemini and Sagittarius, but the three signs of any given element are always distinguishable as easily as a child, an adult and an old man. Some signs are almost unmistakable from the first. But others are so weak in character that their influence is rarely found unmodified by planetary considerations. One must further remark that each sign governs two…
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1909 · PDF PAGE 115
John St. John
…nant at the eternal illusions that he may be excused. Excused! To whom? Thou must succeed or fail! Ο Batsman, with thy frail fortress of Three—in—One, the Umpirecries “ Out ”; and thou explainest to thy friends 2 A I I3
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1922 · PDF PAGE 36
Diary of a Drug Fiend
… The band struck up a madder jazz. The dancers raved with more tumultuous and breath- less fury. Lou had advanced again to our table. We three were detached from the world. Around us rang the shrieking laughter of the crazy crowd. Lou seemed to listen. She broke out once more. “O Thou mad whirlwind of laughter, that art meshed in the wild locks of folly! I adore Thee, Evoe! I adore Thee, I A O!” I realised with nauseating clarity that Mrs. Webster was pouring into my ears an account of the character and career of King Lamus. “I don’t know how h…
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1911 · PDF PAGE 118
The Vision and the Voice
…WHICH IS CALLED DEO The stone is divided, the left half dark, the right half light, and at the bottom thereof is a certain blackness, of three divergent columns. And it seems as if the black and white halves were the halves of a door, and in the door is a little key-hole, in the shape of the Astrological symbol of Venus. And from the key-hole issue flames, blue and green and 116
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1919 · PDF PAGE 363
The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)
…olden Pre- cepts’ must be studied without ever losing sight of this fact. 3. Quoth the Teacher: The Paths are two; the great Perfections three; six are the Virtues that transform the body into the Tree of Know- ledge. The “Tree of Knowledge” is of course another euphe- mism, the “Dragon Tree” representing the uniting of the straight and the curved. A further description of the Tree under which Gautama sat and attained emancipation is unfit for this elementary comment. Aum Mani Padmen Hum. 41
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1954 · PDF PAGE 45
Magick Without Tears
…2 Jupiter (Jehovah) the Wheel of Fortune in the Tarot - the Atu X is a picture of the Universe built up and revolving by virtue of those Three Principles , Sulphur , Mercury , Salt, or Gunas , Sattvas , Rajas, Tamas - has the value 20. So also has the letter Yod2 spelt in full. One Gnostic secret way of spelling and pronouncing Jehovah is lAO' and this has the value 811. So has "Let there be," Fiat, transliterating into Greek . Resuming all these ideas, it seems that you can express your aspiration very neatly, very fully , by choosing for your…
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1907 · PDF PAGE 228
The Star in the West
…ble to solve the question of relationship between the things which are perceived , and the things which are not perceived ; and in the “ Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous ” he further elaborates this proposition . Hume by a slightly different road arrives at an exactly similar conclusion , namely : how is it possible to judge the relationship between cause and effect , or in other words the per ceived and not perceived ? “ The first time a man saw the communication of motion by impulse . . . (billiard balls ) . . . what alteration has…
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1909 · PDF PAGE 77
The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)
… similar reproach against the alge- braist or the chemist. A paper at the Chemical Society is often completely intelligible only to some three or four of the odd hundred distinguished chemists in the room. What is gained to “ popular science” is lost to exactitude ; and in a paper of this sort I fear rather the reproach of my mystical masters than that of the bewildered crowd. More important and certain than the mere characteristics of mystic trances in themselves is the great and vital diagnostic that the result of a true trance is to inspire …
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1909 · PDF PAGE 77
The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)
… similar reproach against the alge- braist or the chemist. A paper at the Chemical Society is often completely intelligible only to some three or four of the odd hundred distinguished chemists in the room. What is gained to “ popular science” is lost to exactitude ; and in a paper of this sort I fear rather the reproach of my mystical masters than that of the bewildered crowd. More important and certain than the mere characteristics of mystic trances in themselves is the great and vital diagnostic that the result of a true trance is to inspire …
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1904 · PDF PAGE 103
In Residence
… New Method, therefore, let us continue our interesting studies of the system of Doctor Goudron and Professor Plume. Laure, the first of three curtain (and hair) raisers, is a charming little drama. An ingénue comes by accident into possession of a letter compromis- ing her mother. Discovered by her father, she saves her mother by accusing herself. The mother, secure once more, bullies and ill-treats the heroic child, so that the curtain falls on her despairing shriek of “ Misérable!” Here then is truth! Notin a well, as lewd fellows have impot…
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1909 · PDF PAGE 54
The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)
…o vivid, so intense, so certain, that logic is condemned unflinchingly as puerile. The best escape for the logician is to argue that the three assertions are closely consecutive, so closely that mind thinks them one ; just as the two points of a pair of compasses pressed upon certain parts of the body are felt as one point only. While the mystic will mutter some esoteric darkness about the true interpretation of the doctrine of the Trinity. I think one should add that these results of my introspec- tion are almost certainly due to my own traini…
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