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1928 · PDF PAGE 118

Little Poems in Prose

… tle fire-coloured cloud that moves so softly, and He too—one would say that He was look- ing at us.” “But who then?” asked the others. “God,” he replied, with an accent of perfect conviction. “Ah, He is already very far away—in a moment you will not be able to see Him any more; I think He must be travelling, to visit every country.—There, there! He is going to pass behind that row of trees that is almost on the horizon; and now He is going down behind the steeple. Ah, I cannot see Him any more.” And the child remained for long turned in the sa…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 38

Oracles

THE CANNIBALS 33 Our father and our love and our god ! Yea, though he lift his adamantine rod And pierce us through, how shall his anger tame Fire that glows fiercer for the brand of shame Thrust in it ; so, we who are all fire, One dull red flare of devilish desire, The God of Israel shall not quench with tears, Nor blood of martyrs drawn from myriad spheres, Nor watery blood of Christ ; that blood shall boil With all the fury of our hellish toil ; His veins shall dry with heat ; his bones shall bleach Cold and detested, picked of dogs, on eac…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 352

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH Out of the way, remote pm Shaddai: “The Almighty”; "Iw a name of GOD 315 Ice; crystal wea Gullet 12) A) Formation ny Visio Splendoris AIA ANN Gomorrah mpy The Number of Servitors of Abra- 316 Melin Sub-Princes Day Demon of 3% Dec. Y INW) Ligatus win Green Pay JESU w A bundle, handful “py Visitans iniquitatem py TPB Aporrhea sp [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 54] RY To worship, bow down nnw 7317 Day Demon of 3*4 Dec. & spb) [Vide Ps. xcvii. 11] oy Arida mwa Iron (Ch.) binp Hoariness nw 318 Labrum lavacri, et basio 43) “VD eius A copse, bus…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 352

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH Out of the way, remote pm Shaddai: “The Almighty”; "Iw a name of GOD 315 Ice; crystal wea Gullet 12) A) Formation ny Visio Splendoris AIA ANN Gomorrah mpy The Number of Servitors of Abra- 316 Melin Sub-Princes Day Demon of 3% Dec. Y INW) Ligatus win Green Pay JESU w A bundle, handful “py Visitans iniquitatem py TPB Aporrhea sp [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 54] RY To worship, bow down nnw 7317 Day Demon of 3*4 Dec. & spb) [Vide Ps. xcvii. 11] oy Arida mwa Iron (Ch.) binp Hoariness nw 318 Labrum lavacri, et basio 43) “VD eius A copse, bus…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 587

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ity only brought light and heat into the universal temple by causing to descend therein the spirit of charity, which is the Very Life of God Himself. EPILOGUE Thanks be unto thee, O my God, that thou hast called me to this admirable light!__ Thou, the Supreme Intelligence and the Absolute Life of those numbers and those forces which obey thee in order to people the infinite with inexhaustible creation! Mathematics proves thee, the harmonies of Nature proclaim thee, all forms as they pass by salute thee and adore thee! Abraham knew thee, Hermes …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 587

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ity only brought light and heat into the universal temple by causing to descend therein the spirit of charity, which is the Very Life of God Himself. EPILOGUE Thanks be unto thee, O my God, that thou hast called me to this admirable light!__ Thou, the Supreme Intelligence and the Absolute Life of those numbers and those forces which obey thee in order to people the infinite with inexhaustible creation! Mathematics proves thee, the harmonies of Nature proclaim thee, all forms as they pass by salute thee and adore thee! Abraham knew thee, Hermes …

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1919 · PDF PAGE 299

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…that seems a little pecu- liar is that it is the result of sin. He claims, however, that sin was caused by the devil, who was created by God, and that God foreknew and permitted all this, in order to inflict torture upon nearly everybody except Mr. Bishop. He would however deny furiously that the God who willingly and knowingly created the devil, was in any way responsible for him. This Kaiserlich-Chautauquameri- canisch-Bishopisch God is therefore an illogical impossibility and absurdity. But this doesn’t detract from the unmetaphysical concep…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 6

Berashith

…mathematical illusion that it does exist is what the Hindus call Maya. If, on the other hand, the matter-universe is infinite, Brahm and God are crowded out, and the possibility of religion is equally excluded. We may now shift our objective. The Hindus cannot account intelligibly, though they try hard, for Maya, the cause of all suffering. Their position is radically weak, but at least we may say for them that they have tried to square their religion with their common sense. The Christians, on the other hand, though they saw whither the Manich…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 114

Mortadello

… bound to shut my mouth—but may I think ? 1ST MASK. What do you mean ? MORTADELLO. I mean—I will not tell you what. Pass round the wine. God’s teen ! Am I the Doge or not ? Here’s to the Pope ; I fear all is not right at Rome. We have a legate here that he might need at home. ALESSANDRO. I take your thought. A need at Rome for more divines ! The legate—well, God speed him through the Apennines ! 1ST MASK. But here the girls at last come swaying up the stair. And how their tresses cast faint fragrance on the air !

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1912 · PDF PAGE 354

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…mentum; NDI diaphragma, The Name (Ch.) NpY 342 Coctio bya Perfume ows Night Demon of 2" Dec. 8 “NOD15 A blaze, flame nanby ta 1343 “ And GOD said.” ombs aN") [Gen. i. 3] A sweet smell mS 344 A plantation, garden. isin) (Cant. iv. 13] 345 Di Alieni pens pbs GOD Almighty sw bx “In that also”—referred to DAW Daath The NAME own Lioness. [Vide K.D. L.C.K. yy p. 501] shy fala) Moses. [See 543, numerical AW Temurah of 345] Dominator whi Shiloh my 38 He was appeased. (Esther, ADDY vii. 10) 346 po wy Good pleasure ; the Will-power }}¥4 A spring ; spring…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 354

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…mentum; NDI diaphragma, The Name (Ch.) NpY 342 Coctio bya Perfume ows Night Demon of 2" Dec. 8 “NOD15 A blaze, flame nanby ta 1343 “ And GOD said.” ombs aN") [Gen. i. 3] A sweet smell mS 344 A plantation, garden. isin) (Cant. iv. 13] 345 Di Alieni pens pbs GOD Almighty sw bx “In that also”—referred to DAW Daath The NAME own Lioness. [Vide K.D. L.C.K. yy p. 501] shy fala) Moses. [See 543, numerical AW Temurah of 345] Dominator whi Shiloh my 38 He was appeased. (Esther, ADDY vii. 10) 346 po wy Good pleasure ; the Will-power }}¥4 A spring ; spring…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 25

Ambergris

16 AMBERGRIS What boots the weariness of olden time Now, when old age, a tempest-fury, lowers ? Up to high God beyond the weary land The days drift mournfully ; His hoary hand Gathers them. Is it so ? My Foolish rime Dreams they are links upon an endless band. The planets draw in endless orbits round The sun ; itself revolves in the profound Black wells of space ; the comet’s mystic track By the strong rule of a closed curve is bound. Why not with time ? To-morrow we may see The circle ended—if to-morrow be— And gaze on chaos, and a week bring …

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1911 · PDF PAGE 94

The Vision and the Voice

…ibe. First let the scribe be seated in the centre of the circle in the desert sand, and let the circle be fortified by the Holy Names of God—Tetragrammaton and Shaddai El Chai and Ararita. And let the Demon be invoked within a triangle, wherein is inscribed the name of Choronzon, and about it let him write ANAPHAXETON - ANAPHANETON - PRIMEU- MATON, and in the angles MI-CA-EL: and at each angle the Seer shall slay a pigeon, and having done this, let him retire to a secret place, where is neither sight nor hearing, and sit within his black robe, …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 312

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX We shall now sketch out an explanation of the Bible by the aid of numbers, for the Bible is the book of the images of God. We shall ask numbers to give us the reason of the dogmas of eternal religion; numbers will always reply by reuniting themselves in the synthesis of unity. The following pages are simply outlines of qabalistic hypotheses; they stand apart from faith, and we indicate them only as curiosities of research. It is no part of our task to make innovations in dogma, and what we assert in our character as an initiate is e…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 312

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX We shall now sketch out an explanation of the Bible by the aid of numbers, for the Bible is the book of the images of God. We shall ask numbers to give us the reason of the dogmas of eternal religion; numbers will always reply by reuniting themselves in the synthesis of unity. The following pages are simply outlines of qabalistic hypotheses; they stand apart from faith, and we indicate them only as curiosities of research. It is no part of our task to make innovations in dogma, and what we assert in our character as an initiate is e…

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1908 · PDF PAGE 10

Amphora

…is born. Rejoice, O children of the earth, At your salvation brought to birth ! This is the perfect period. Mary is born that shall bear GOD. Amen. T 3

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1910 · PDF PAGE 45

Ambergris

…er to roses and cream, And they cried, Let the queen live for ever ! They took her, with all of the flowers They had girded her with for God’s daughter ; They cast her from amorous bowers To the river, the horrible powers Of the Beast that lurks down by the Water ! My way was more swift than a bow That flings out its barb to the night : My sword struck the infinite blow That smote him, and blackened the flow Of the amorous river of light. I plunged in the stream, and I drew My queen from the clasp of the water ; I crowned her with roses and blu…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 33

Book 4 (Part I)

…ife, and it must require an extremely careful bal- ance to prevent the one absorbing the other. As it will be seen later, the “vision of God,” or “ Union with God,” or “ Samadhi,” or whateverwe may agree to call it, has many kinds and many degrees, although there is an impassable abyss between the least of them and the greatest of all the phenomena of normal consciousness. To sum ”!?, we assert a secret source of energy which ex- plains the phenomenon of Genius.1 We do not believe in any supernatural explanations, but insist that this source ma…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 51

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…ion, the macrocosm floods the consciousness. In évocation, the magician, having become the macrocosm, créâtes a microcosm. You i/zvoke a God into the Circle. You evokt a Spirit into the Triangle. In the first method identity with the God is attained by J ove and by surrender, by giving up or suppressing ail irrelevant (and illusionary) parts of yourself. It is the weeding of a garden. In the second method identity is attained by paying spécial attention to the desired part of yourself: positive, as the first method is négative. It is the pottin…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 35

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…m 011e Soûl; I am identical with Ail and None. I am in Ail and ail in Me; I am, apart from ail and lord of ail, and one with ail. I am a God, î very God of very God; I go upon my way to work my will; I hâve made matter and motion for my mirror; I hâve decreed for my delight that Nothingness should figure itself as twain, that I might dream a dance of names and natures, and enjoy the substance of simplicity by watching the wanderings of my shadows. I am not that which is not; I know not that which knows not; I love not that which loves not. For …

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