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Page 46 of 1071913 · PDF PAGE 68
THE EQUINOX 29. Moreover, be they long kept, it is better; for they swell with my force. All before me. 30. My altar is of open brass work : burn thereon in silver or gold! 31. There cometh a rich man from the West who shall pour his gold upon thee. 32. From gold forge steel! 33. Be ready to fly or to smite! 34. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 68
THE EQUINOX 29. Moreover, be they long kept, it is better; for they swell with my force. All before me. 30. My altar is of open brass work : burn thereon in silver or gold! 31. There cometh a rich man from the West who shall pour his gold upon thee. 32. From gold forge steel! 33. Be ready to fly or to smite! 34. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 191
NOTES TO ASCENSION DAY AND PENTECOST ‘‘ Blind Chesterton is sure to err, And scan my work in vain; I am my own interpreter, And I will make it plain.” NOTE TO INTRODUCTION 1 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. AN APPRECIATION. BY ALEISTER CROWLEY.* Ir isa lamentable circumstance that so many colossal brains (W. H. Mallock, &c.) have been hitherto thrown away in attacking what is after alla problem of mere academic interest, the authorship of the plays our fathers accepted as those of Shakespeare. Ta me it seems of immediate and vital importance to do for Shak…
1909 · PDF PAGE 89
…oth. 6. (No: I will not use the New Ritual, not will I discuss the matter.) An impromptu invoca- tion of Adonai. 7. Closing formulae. Το work, then ! The ceremony went well enough; the forces invoked came readily and visibly; Thoth in particularas friendly as ever—I fancy He takes this record as a compliment to Him—He’s welcome to it, poor God! The L.V.X. came, too; but not enough to pierce the awful shroud of darkness that by my folly I have woven for myself. So at the end I found myself on the floor, so like Rodin’s Cruche Cassée Danaide girl …
1910 · PDF PAGE 221
…one pace forward, march ! “ Prepare to stop leak! “ Stop leak !” But the matter was not thus easily settled. After five hours’ strenuous work, the little spirit was exhausted, and the hole apparently no nearer being filled than before. He returned to the Great White Spirit. “ Beg pardon, sir!” he said; ‘but I can’t fill that there ‘ole nohow.” “No matter,” answered the Great White Spirit, with a metaphysical double entendre. ‘‘ You may go!” If anything, the crack was bigger than before, it seemed to Him. “This,” He said, “is clearly the job for…
1910 · PDF PAGE 221
…one pace forward, march ! “ Prepare to stop leak! “ Stop leak !” But the matter was not thus easily settled. After five hours’ strenuous work, the little spirit was exhausted, and the hole apparently no nearer being filled than before. He returned to the Great White Spirit. “ Beg pardon, sir!” he said; ‘but I can’t fill that there ‘ole nohow.” “No matter,” answered the Great White Spirit, with a metaphysical double entendre. ‘‘ You may go!” If anything, the crack was bigger than before, it seemed to Him. “This,” He said, “is clearly the job for…
1912 · PDF PAGE 326
…p-339] δ᾽"הלל ?ש A door post?החומ A beating, striking?הכמ [Vide κυ. Lex. p. 563]?ןהב The Mystic Number of the Qliphoth, and of the Great Work‘ Σ (ι- 1 !( Food, victuals?הלכא The Lord thycop (is a con-?ןיהלא suming Fire). [Deut. iv. 24] A ship A trial, an experiment ה`גא ]והב Awheel. [Called "Cognomen?לגלג Schechinae"] A City of Edom?הנהת ΒΖ 65 66
1912 · PDF PAGE 326
…p-339] δ᾽"הלל ?ש A door post?החומ A beating, striking?הכמ [Vide κυ. Lex. p. 563]?ןהב The Mystic Number of the Qliphoth, and of the Great Work‘ Σ (ι- 1 !( Food, victuals?הלכא The Lord thycop (is a con-?ןיהלא suming Fire). [Deut. iv. 24] A ship A trial, an experiment ה`גא ]והב Awheel. [Called "Cognomen?לגלג Schechinae"] A City of Edom?הנהת ΒΖ 65 66
1929 · PDF PAGE 373
…om see The Equinox, vol. I, No. VI, "Three Poems". She has never had the slightest interest in occult matters and she has never done any work in her life, even of the needlework order. I had seen her once before since my escape from America, and she said she had something to show me, but I took no particular notice and she did not insist. My object in calling on this second occasion was multiple. I wanted to see the man with whom she was living, who had not yet {599} returned from Russia; I wanted to make love to her, and I wanted to smoke a fe…
1909 · PDF PAGE 101
…thou learn that the least stirring of thy smug content is the great Fall from the Plath ?[ It will be best to get up and do some kind of work; for the beast would sleep. John St John has arisen, after doing 20 breath- cycles, reciting internally the ritual, 70 per cent. of which he now knows by heart. To the Dome—a cafe-croissant. Some proofs to cor- rect during the meal. Having walked over to the studio reciting the Ritual (925—9.55 approximately), John St. John got into his pose, and began going for the gloves. The Interior Trembling began, a…
1912 · PDF PAGE 250
…eft. 3. These four stacks represent I H V H, from right to left, 4. Find the Significator. If it be in the ‘ pack, the question refers to work, business, etc; if in the?הpack, to love, marriage, or pleasure; if in the?וpack, to trouble, loss, scandal, quarrelling, etc.; if in the 1.?.־pack, to money, goods, and such purely material matters. 5. Tell the 911616111 what he has come for: if wrong, abandon the divination 6. If right, spread out the pack containing the Significator, face upwards. Count the cards from him, in the direction in which he f…
1912 · PDF PAGE 250
…eft. 3. These four stacks represent I H V H, from right to left, 4. Find the Significator. If it be in the ‘ pack, the question refers to work, business, etc; if in the?הpack, to love, marriage, or pleasure; if in the?וpack, to trouble, loss, scandal, quarrelling, etc.; if in the 1.?.־pack, to money, goods, and such purely material matters. 5. Tell the 911616111 what he has come for: if wrong, abandon the divination 6. If right, spread out the pack containing the Significator, face upwards. Count the cards from him, in the direction in which he f…
1913 · PDF PAGE 533
…e is no liberty for man but in the order which results from the true and the good, one may say that the conquest of liberty is the great work of the human soul. Man, by freeing himself from his evil passions and their slavery, creates himself, as it were, a second time. Nature made him living and suffering; he makes himself happy and immortal; he thus becomes the representative of divinity upon earth, and (relatively) exercises its almighty power. Axiom I Nothing resists the will of man, when he knows the truth, and wills the good. 235
1913 · PDF PAGE 533
…e is no liberty for man but in the order which results from the true and the good, one may say that the conquest of liberty is the great work of the human soul. Man, by freeing himself from his evil passions and their slavery, creates himself, as it were, a second time. Nature made him living and suffering; he makes himself happy and immortal; he thus becomes the representative of divinity upon earth, and (relatively) exercises its almighty power. Axiom I Nothing resists the will of man, when he knows the truth, and wills the good. 235
1902 · PDF PAGE 13
…irtue or vice (as understood of old) will cause the irreparable catastrophe which is the one element of drama which we may still (in the work of a modern dramatist) await with any degree of confidence. I trust that I may be forgiven for adopting the idea that Tannhauser was one of those mysterious Germans whose reputed existence so perturbed the Middle Ages ; in short, a Rosicrucian. Some people may be surprised that a Member of that illustrious but unhappy fraternity should take cogniz- ance of what my friend Bhikku Ananda Mitriya calls "hog- …
1913 · PDF PAGE 89
… "who had with smiling faces abandoned their homes and their possessions — could with steady calm and firm correctness abandon the Great Work itself; for this is the last and greatest projection of the Alchemist." The Master of the Temple has crossed the Abyss, has entered the Palace of the King's Daughter; he has only to utter one word, and all ' Liber LXI, the book given to those who wish to become Probationers of A.-. A...
1954 · PDF PAGE 319
…you as my pupil. What have you done with that year? First, suppose we put down what you agreed to do: The essential preliminaries of the work of the A :. A :. -you are to be heartily congratulated upon your swift perception that the principles of that august body were absolute. I. Prepare and submit your Magical Record. (Without this you are in the position of a navigator with neither chart nor log.) It would have been quite easy to get this ready in a week. Have you done so in a year? No. 2. Learn to construct and perfect the Body of Light. Th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 302
…dence of 43 freedom of 174-177 oppression of, by men 42,53,172- 178,180-181 political power of 128 souls of 172.180 wonder, vision of 79 work, value of 162 World War I 188 yoga 46,116 yoni 29 Zeus 30 Zeus Arrhenothelus 30 zodiac 93 double loop in the 78
1944 · PDF PAGE 140
…ent of Water, to Rain and Springs; in that of Air, to Wind; in that of Earth, to Mountains. It is very important as a mental exercise to work out for oneself these correspondences between the Symbol and the Natural Forces which they represent; and it is essential to practical Magi‐ cal work to have assimilated this knowledge. The Queens represent the letter Hé of the Name. They are the complements of the Knights. They receive, ferment, and transmit the original Energy of their Knight. Quick to re‐ ceive that Energy, they are also fitted to endu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 34
THE LOOKING -GLASS 27 son's most famous work , yet differing in cadence , is “ The Blood Lotus .” Quaint carven vampire bats , unseen in curious hollows of the trees , Or deadlier serpents coiled at ease round carcases of birds unclean ; All wandering changeful spectre shapes that dance in slow sweet measure round And merge themselves in the profound , nude women and dis torted apes 1 Grotesque and hairy , in their rage more rampant than the stallion steed ; There is no help : their horrid need on these pale women they assuage .? Another poem t…