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1961 · PDF PAGE 99

Liber Aleph

… Holy Ghost, whose Name is HRILIU. These are then the Sun, Mercury, and Venus, whose sacred letters are R (r), B (b), and D (d). But the last of the Diverse Letters is H (h), which in the Tarot is the Star whose Eidolon is D (d); and herein is that Arcanum concerning the Tao of which I have already written. Of this will I not write more plainly. But mark this, that our Trinity is our Path inwards in the Solar System, and that H being of our Lady Nuith starry, is an Anchor to this Magick which else were apt to deny our wholeness of Relation to t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 152

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…in accordance with the Will of the Masters, and this Temple of Solomon the King was now intended to lead up to the point which it has at last attained. 112

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1913 · PDF PAGE 152

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…in accordance with the Will of the Masters, and this Temple of Solomon the King was now intended to lead up to the point which it has at last attained. 112

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1909 · PDF PAGE 34

John St. John

…ll. For nowadays my blackest despair is tempered by the certainty of coming through it sooner or later, and that with flying colours. The last??םסשI wasted talking to Dr. R——, that most interesting man. I don’t mean talking; I mean listening. You are a bad, idle good-formothingfellow, 0. M.! Why not stick to that mantra? Have drunk two citrons presses and gone to my room to work a mighty spell of magick Art. Having got rid of Maryt (who, by the way, is Quite mad), and thereby (one might hope) of Apophis and Typhon, I perform the Great Ritual DCL…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 87

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…f Kamma is answered, and one is able to enter the realm of pure consciousness. The Universe, mastered long ere now in its effects, is at last mastered in its causes; and it is indeed a Magister of the Temple who can say: Vi Veri Vniversum Vives Vict. XVII “All things subsist together in the Intelligible World.” ZOROASTER. I must insert a short note on the word Samadhi, source of infinite misunderstanding. Etymologically it is composed of Sam (Greek ow), together with, and Adhi (Heb. Adonai), the Lord, especially the Per- sonal Lord, or Holy Gua…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 87

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…f Kamma is answered, and one is able to enter the realm of pure consciousness. The Universe, mastered long ere now in its effects, is at last mastered in its causes; and it is indeed a Magister of the Temple who can say: Vi Veri Vniversum Vives Vict. XVII “All things subsist together in the Intelligible World.” ZOROASTER. I must insert a short note on the word Samadhi, source of infinite misunderstanding. Etymologically it is composed of Sam (Greek ow), together with, and Adhi (Heb. Adonai), the Lord, especially the Per- sonal Lord, or Holy Gua…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 279

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… Series, Sovereign Grand Prince of the 89th degree, Grand Master Constituent of the Order for the Third Series, and of the NINETIETH AND LAST DEGREE SUPREME GRAND CONSERVATOR AND ABSOLUTE GRAND SOVEREIGN AND PATRIARCH OF THE ANCIENT ORIENTAL RITE OF MIZRAIM: Pastophoris, Neo— coris, and Melanophoris; Christophoris, Perfect Master Balahate, Sublime Master Just and Perfect, Sublime Epopt, and Knight of the Iris; Sublime Minerva], Knight of the Golden Fleece, Grand Elect Mysophilote, Knight of the Triangle, Knight 0} Με Sacred Arch, Knight of the …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 279

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… Series, Sovereign Grand Prince of the 89th degree, Grand Master Constituent of the Order for the Third Series, and of the NINETIETH AND LAST DEGREE SUPREME GRAND CONSERVATOR AND ABSOLUTE GRAND SOVEREIGN AND PATRIARCH OF THE ANCIENT ORIENTAL RITE OF MIZRAIM: Pastophoris, Neo— coris, and Melanophoris; Christophoris, Perfect Master Balahate, Sublime Master Just and Perfect, Sublime Epopt, and Knight of the Iris; Sublime Minerva], Knight of the Golden Fleece, Grand Elect Mysophilote, Knight of the Triangle, Knight 0} Με Sacred Arch, Knight of the …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 259

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…ely that the sacred lotus was in reality a corset, and the Weapon of Men Thu a button-hook. Neuburg was improvising (for soothing of the last moments of the dying saint) a crooning lay to the tune (and the words, mutato mutando) of “Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly,” the bass accompaniment being an obbligato by Wilfred Merton. Mr. E. S. P. Haynes (to the horror of Ada Lake- man and Col. Gormley) was reading Morrison’s Red Triangle to conceal his emotion. Mr. Austin Harrison, Veli Bey, Madame Strindberg, the Editor of the Zyuinox…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 259

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…ely that the sacred lotus was in reality a corset, and the Weapon of Men Thu a button-hook. Neuburg was improvising (for soothing of the last moments of the dying saint) a crooning lay to the tune (and the words, mutato mutando) of “Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly,” the bass accompaniment being an obbligato by Wilfred Merton. Mr. E. S. P. Haynes (to the horror of Ada Lake- man and Col. Gormley) was reading Morrison’s Red Triangle to conceal his emotion. Mr. Austin Harrison, Veli Bey, Madame Strindberg, the Editor of the Zyuinox…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 497

Magick Without Tears

76 The Gods How and Why They Overlap Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Your last letter. I am glad: it shows you have been putting in some genuine original work. Result! You make a very shrewd observation; you have noticed the curious fashion in which Gods seem to overlap. It is not the same (you point out) with Angels. In no other system do we find a parallel for the Living Creatures. Wheels, Wings, Fiery Serpents, with such quasi-human cohorts as the Beni Elohim who beget children on women , to whom the Qabalah has …

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1901 · PDF PAGE 8

Carmen Saeculare

…n in heaven, written on earth, written in the deep, Written by God’s own finger-birth ; the stars may weep, The sun rejoice, that see at last His vengeance strike ; The fury of destruction’s blast ; the fiery spike As of an arrow of adamant, comet or meteor : “ The dog returneth to his vomit : the ancient whore That sitteth upon many waters, even she That called together all her daughters upon the sea ; That clad herself in crimson silk and robes of black And gave men blood instead of milk ; and made a track Of lives and gold and dust and death…

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1917 · PDF PAGE 4

The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse

…e ome oo rom ye that fearful ihe Was not the Sun: my life has been the death, ‘This death may be the life: my spirit sight Knows that at last, at least. My doubtful breath Is breathing in a nobler air; I know, Tinowit in my soul, despite of thi ‘The clinging darkness of the Long Ago, Cruel as death, and closer than a kis, ‘This horror of great darkness. Iam come Into this darkness to attain the light: ‘To gain my voice I make myself as dumb: ‘That I may see I close my outer sight: So, Lam here. My brows are bent in prayer: Vineel already in the…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 185

The Star in the West

…is That sweats out venom ; thy clenched hands , thy feet Ooze blood , thine eyes weep blood ; thine anguish is More keen than death . At last — there is no deeper vault of hell beneath ! Then comes the great reward . We have travelled knee deep through the mire of life , yet if our souls be spotless our abasement , “ ... bringeth back the sheaves ” XV . Of golden corn of exaltation , With strange intoxications mad and manifold . It is this curious phase , yearning towards Perfection , which forms the great stumbling - block to all progress in t…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 188

The Star in the West

…s , caressed by every purple lip . XXIX . Choked with their reek and fume and bitter sweat His body perishes ; his life is drained ; The last sweet drop of nectar has not stained Another life ; his lips and limbs are wet With death - dews ! Ha ! The painter has attaine As high a meed As his who first begot sweet music on a reed .

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1907 · PDF PAGE 244

The Star in the West

…leyan conflagration , so hoping that , by piling up the blazing mass , they might illumine the entire universe . And how they failed the last five decades have only too directly shown , by their stag nation in the realms of a certain and unknowable Absolute ; and in the parasitic growths of Scientific Agnosticism , Scientific Positivism , Scientific Monism , and the general overwhelming materialization of pre sent - day thought . Yet the self per se remains just as unknowable in a positive degree , as it would have , had all the ages forever he…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 16

The World’s Tragedy

PREFACE. XI accusations against me, though, as you shall hear, almost equally silly. I learnt at last, through the intervention of my uncle, in a lucid interval, what I was supposed to have done. I was said to have tried “ to corrupt Chamberlain ” — not our great patriotic statesman, shifty Joe — but a boy. (I was 12 years old, and quite ignorant of all sexual matters till long after). Also I had “ held a mock prayer mee- ting ”. This I remembered. I had strolled up to a group of boys in the playground, who were indeed holding one. As they saw …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 16

Book 4 (Part II)

… his work. The book of spells or conjurations is his magical record, his Karma. In the East is the Magick Fire, in which all burns up at last.^ We will now^ consider each of these matters in detail. ^ He needs nothing else but the apparatus here described for invocation, by which he calls down that which is above him and within him ; but for evocations, by which he calls forth that which is below him and without him, he may place a triangle with- out the circle.

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1919 · PDF PAGE 66

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…children, in order to perform the Great Work, could with steady calm and firm correctness abandon the Great Work itself: for this is the last and greatest projection of the al- chemist. 29. Also one V.V.V.V.V. arose, an exalted adept of the rank of Master of the Temple (or this much He disclosed to the Exempt Adepts) and His utterance is enshrined in the Sacred Writings. ‘ 30. Such are Liber Legis, Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente, 60

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1919 · PDF PAGE 80

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…er also laid down his Pan-pipe, and with the human voice sang his infinite tunes. 43. Then the faun was enraptured, and followed far; at last the harper was silent, and the faun became Pan in the midst of the primal forest of Eternity. 44. Thou canst not charm the dolphin with silence, O my prophet! 45. Then the adept was rapt away in bliss, and the beyond of bliss, and exceeded the excess of excess. 46. Also his body shook and staggered with the burden of that bliss and that excess and that ultimate nameless. 74

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