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Page 45 of 841929 · PDF PAGE 18
…arry my banner into the thick of the press of human life. I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a définition of MAGICK and setting forth its main principles in such a way that ALL may understand instantly that their soûls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, dépend upon MAGICK and the right compréhension and right application thereof. I. DEFINITION. MAGICK is the Science and Art o…
1961 · PDF PAGE 145
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 133 Eg De Veritate quem Feminæ non dicere licet (Of Truth, which it is not Lawful tell to a Woman) Y Son, I charge thee, however thou beest provoked thereunto, tell not the Truth to any Woman. For this is that which is written, Cast not thy Pearls before Swine, lest they turn again and rend thee. Behold, in the Nature of Woman is no Truth, nor Apprehension of Truth, nor Possibility of Truth, only, if thou entrust this Jewel unto them, they forthwith use it to thy Loss and Destruction. But they are ware of thine own L…
1905 · PDF PAGE 3
…art of the main current of my thought ; yet curious, not altogether bad, in a sense worth saving. Maybe I had done better to entitle the book “ Resurrec- tion Pie ” ; but all’s one.3 They are not completed, and never will be, till they fall under the eyes of the literary heir of the Chicago Professor who rewrote Keats. I cannot complete them, for the men are verily dead who wrote them ;4 yet respect for their memory forbids me to destroy them.5 But they cumber the case of stout leather and royal vellum wherein they have long6 reposed, if writin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 373
…ncipal object is the body of our Lady Nuith. It is reproduced in colours in The Equinox, Vol. I, No. VII. Jane Chéron has a copy of this book. On Friday afternoon, then, I was in her apartment. I had attained none of my objectives in calling on her and was about to depart. She detained me to show me this "something". She went and took a folded cloth from a drawer. "Shut your eyes," she said. When I opened them, they saw a cloth four feet or more in length, on which was a magnificent copy, mostly in appliqu silk, of the stele. She then told me …
1944 · PDF PAGE 89
…t in sacrifice.” “Every man and every woman is a star.” The whole idea of sacrifice is a misconception of nature, and these texts of the Book of the Law are the answer to it. But water is the element of Illusion; one may regard this symbol n evil legacy from the old Aeon; to use an anatomical analogy, it spiritual vermiform appendix. It was the water, and the Dwellers of the Water that slew Osiris; it is the crocodiles that threaten Hoor‐Pa‐Kraat. This card is beautiful in a strange, immemorial, moribund manner. It is the card of the Dying God;…
1913 · PDF PAGE 72
…e girders of the soul. 62. To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss. 63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its com- ment; & he understandeth it not. 64. Let him come through the first ordeal, & it will be to him as silver. 65. Through the second, gold. 66. Through the third, stones of precious water. 67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire. 68. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who say not so, are mere liars. 32
1913 · PDF PAGE 72
…e girders of the soul. 62. To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss. 63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its com- ment; & he understandeth it not. 64. Let him come through the first ordeal, & it will be to him as silver. 65. Through the second, gold. 66. Through the third, stones of precious water. 67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire. 68. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who say not so, are mere liars. 32
1961 · PDF PAGE 206
… CXI 194 Zl De Nuptiis Summis (Of the Supreme Marriage) OW then to this Doctrine, o my Son, add thou that which thou hast learned in The Book of the Law, that Death is the Dissolution in the Kiss of Our Lady Nuith. This is a true Consonance as of Bass with Treble for here is the Impulse that setteth us to Magick, the Pain of the Conscious Mind. Having then Wit to find the Cause of this Pain in the Sense of Separation, and its Cessation by the Union of Love, it is the Summit of our Holy Art to present the whole Being of our Star to Our Lady in t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 45
…e and a wolf . 24 Fo] Lori. Lign-aloes . A man leading another by his hair and slaying him 25 Colophonum . Assafoetida . A man holding a book, which he opens and shuts . 26 Stammonia Euphorbium A small-headed man dressed like a woman, and with | 28 Coxium . Thyme . A an of een thoughtful face, with a bird in his | 29 hand, before him a woman and an ass
1909 · PDF PAGE 80
THE EQUINOX Methods of obtaining these states are to be found in any book on Bhakta Yoga—Swami Vivekananda’s is the best I know of—and in Loyola’s “ Exercitios Espirituales,’ whose discipline and method is, in my opinion, unsurpassed. These phenomena are nearly always tainted with sexuality, and are excessively dangerous from this cause. “Dirt is matter in the wrong place,” and to mix, consciously or unconsciously, either morality or immorality with religion is dirty; and dirt makes disease. The victim becomes a fanatic at the best, at the wors…
1909 · PDF PAGE 80
THE EQUINOX Methods of obtaining these states are to be found in any book on Bhakta Yoga—Swami Vivekananda’s is the best I know of—and in Loyola’s “ Exercitios Espirituales,’ whose discipline and method is, in my opinion, unsurpassed. These phenomena are nearly always tainted with sexuality, and are excessively dangerous from this cause. “Dirt is matter in the wrong place,” and to mix, consciously or unconsciously, either morality or immorality with religion is dirty; and dirt makes disease. The victim becomes a fanatic at the best, at the wors…
1910 · PDF PAGE 30
…o consciousness of guilt. (So even with Keats’ Gadfly and Sharing Eve’s Apple ; Browning’s bawdy jests in Pippa Passes, the Ring and the Book, One Word More, La Saisiaz and elsewhere ; cleaner, truly, than the furtive eroticism in Prometheus Unbound. Shelley was more consciously under the curse of Jesus.) It is this consciousness of sin which is to my mind the essen- tially Christian attitude. It is this which inspires the out- cry against art and simple pleasures ; these swine nose eve- rywhere for filth, and grunt with shocked glee when they …
1912 · PDF PAGE 318
…, give! [Videבה ?בה . "πα I7. 1`?בהHe longed for, missed?הואTo grind, direct, stretch out?הרהHe departed, went forth?רזאGold?בהזA little book, pamphlet, letter;?טנHand ." tools To multiply?הנרΣ (1—5)- 1:41;“ Ἐξ»; 3h ἷξε ' M stic um ero e ura . e A city Of lidom?הנהNiimher of Abra-MelinServitors ΗΕ“?[הls referred to Mater,?אוהof Asmodee and Magni, and of 1 to Pater,?אto Corona] Paimon Van ; hook, nail, pin?װ Angel of yd Dec. :?אהונא '“5‘ that m The month of Exodus and?ביבאTo penetrate, be sharp; (Ch.) one?דהPassover ?וויI3 Steam, vapour?ד'א A sm…
1912 · PDF PAGE 318
…, give! [Videבה ?בה . "πα I7. 1`?בהHe longed for, missed?הואTo grind, direct, stretch out?הרהHe departed, went forth?רזאGold?בהזA little book, pamphlet, letter;?טנHand ." tools To multiply?הנרΣ (1—5)- 1:41;“ Ἐξ»; 3h ἷξε ' M stic um ero e ura . e A city Of lidom?הנהNiimher of Abra-MelinServitors ΗΕ“?[הls referred to Mater,?אוהof Asmodee and Magni, and of 1 to Pater,?אto Corona] Paimon Van ; hook, nail, pin?װ Angel of yd Dec. :?אהונא '“5‘ that m The month of Exodus and?ביבאTo penetrate, be sharp; (Ch.) one?דהPassover ?וויI3 Steam, vapour?ד'א A sm…
1913 · PDF PAGE 89
…in which arrows are dipped (Greek ro^or, " a bow "). Think of the Vision of the Arrow in Liber 418, and look at the passages in the Holy Books which speak of the action of the spirit under the figure of a deadly poison. For to each individual thing attainment means first and foremost the destruction of the individuality. Each of our ideas must be made to give up the Self to the Beloved, so that we may eventually give up the Self to the Beloved in our turn. It will be remembered in the History Lection ^how the Adepts "who had with smiling faces …
1954 · PDF PAGE 188
…t is a Minutum Mundum, "the Universe in Little" ; it is a map of all that exists, arranged in the Order of Nature. There is a chapter in Book 4, Part II, devoted to it (pp. 117-129); I cannot make up my mind whether I like it. 155
1961 · PDF PAGE 147
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 135 Ee De Duobus Præmiis Viæ (Of the Two Rewards of the Path) ET it be a Treasure in thine Heart, o my Son, this Mystery that I shall next unveil before thine Eyes, O Eagle that art undazzled by the brilliance of Light, that soarest continually with virile Flight to thine august Inheritance. Behold the Beatific Vision is of two Orders, and in the Formula of the Rosy Cross it is of the Heart and is called Beauty; but in the Formula of the Silver Star (id est, of the Eye within the Triangle) it is of the mind, and is c…
1906 · PDF PAGE 64
… to aid the illusion of this in- troduction. 2 A dissipated but gifted European who be- came unified with the Indian native, and wrote a book about him. 3 Disinclination to marry is congénital in the elect: the Pauline alternative is discounten- anced by my doctor.—ED. 4 The Bluff, or European quarter. which we arrived, after a journey no less dubious than winding, I will say that, despite its outward seeming, it was, in reality, a most respectable place; the main occupation of its inhabitants seemed to be the sale of as much ‘‘champagne” as po…
1909 · PDF PAGE 14
10.45. I 2.0. 12.5. 12.12. 12 THE EQUINOX and went out to the Cafe’ du Dome where I took coffee and a brioche, after buying an exercise book in which to write this record. This was about 8.45; and now (10.10) I have written thus far. [Including the Prologue, but not the Preface—En] I have driven over to the Hammam through the beautiful sunshine, meditating upon the discipline of the Operation. It seems only necessary to cut off definitely dispersive things, aimless chatter and such; for the Operation itself will guide one, leading to disgust for…
1913 · PDF PAGE 352
… of God, when he causes us to believe in God. The Old Testament, the Qur'an, and the Gospel are three different translations of the same book. As God is one, so also is the law. O ideal woman! O reward of the elect! Art thou more beautiful than Mary? O Mary, daughter of the East! chaste as pure love, great as the desire of motherhood, come and teach the children of Islam the mysteries of Paradise, and the secrets of beauty! Invite them to the festival of the new alliance! There, upon three thrones glittering with precious stones, three prophets…