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1919 · PDF PAGE 454

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… In signs of praise both heaven and earth unite. And from the four-fold manifested Powers a chant of love ariseth, both from the flaming Fire and flowing Water, and from sweet-smelling Earth and rushing Wind. Hark! ... from the deep unfathomable vortex of that golden light in which the Victor bathes, ALL NATURE’S wordless voice in thousand tones ariseth to proclaim! JOY UNTO YE, O MEN OF MYALBA. A PILGRIM HATH RETURNED BACK “FROM THE OTHER SHORE.” A NEW ARHAN IS BORN. Peace to all Beings. Here, however, we get something like real poetry. This, …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 207

Magick Without Tears

… 19,20: Is a God to live in a dog? No; but the highest are of us. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. This chapter returns over and over again to this theme in one form or another. 1. "Peace": the glow of satisfaction at achievement. It is not "eternal," rather, it whets the appetite for another adventure. (Peace, = 180 = 7 x 9 x 13 = the Venusian plus Lunar form of Unity.)

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1906 · PDF PAGE 46

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…sun’s gold, And blue eyes where stars lurked for happi- ness, And lithe with all a young fawn's loveliness. Such are the dwellers of the fire that fold Fine wings in wanton ecstasy, and sleep Where the thin tongues of glory leap Up from the brazen hold And far majestic keep Of Djinn, the Lord of elemental light. But he beheld some sight Beyond that city’s joy: his gentle word The old king gently heard. (This king was Zohra’s father) ‘‘ Lord and king Of love’s own city, give me leave to wing A fervid flight to yonder hills of night. Not that my …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 144

The Star in the West

…sion to feed upon your shoulders bare , And pass the dewy twilight of our sin In the intolerable flames of hair . Give thee my body as a fire to hold O love, no words , no songs—your breast my bower ! In “ Jezebel ” we find the same desire , but unfanned by restraint , in whose place stands a woman's disdain . He , the prophet , goes to curse her—but loves her instead : For lo ! she saw me , and beheld My trembling lips curled back to curse, Laughed with strong scorn , whose music knelled The empire of God's universe. And on my haggard face upt…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 181

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

A NOTE ON GENESIS we cast the triple fire of the Holy letter y = 300, we get the name of the Godhead Incarnate upon Earth, mwm. But I +2+43 = 6, which is the number of }, the third letter of the Venerable Name: Microprosopus and the Son of God. We are now, therefore, arrived at the Great Mystery of the Tetractys, and to go further we must resort to the Twin Sister of the Science of Number—which, indeed, is but Number made Flesh: Geometry, or Absolute Symbolism. Even as it was spoken by the holy Pythagoras: ‘‘ God geometrises.” Let us behold the…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 181

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

A NOTE ON GENESIS we cast the triple fire of the Holy letter y = 300, we get the name of the Godhead Incarnate upon Earth, mwm. But I +2+43 = 6, which is the number of }, the third letter of the Venerable Name: Microprosopus and the Son of God. We are now, therefore, arrived at the Great Mystery of the Tetractys, and to go further we must resort to the Twin Sister of the Science of Number—which, indeed, is but Number made Flesh: Geometry, or Absolute Symbolism. Even as it was spoken by the holy Pythagoras: ‘‘ God geometrises.” Let us behold the…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 400

Magick Without Tears

…m just the worst person in the habitable globe that you could have asked about this matter , as my rising sign and my planets are all in fire, air; or water, except Neptune , which as Astrology 367

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1961 · PDF PAGE 169

Liber Aleph

…, and Scorpion. And of these the Scorpion is he that, having no Lion of Light and of Courage within him, seemeth to himself encircled by Fire, and, driving his Sting into himself, he dieth. Such are the Black Brothers, that cry: I am I, they that deny Love, restricting it to their own Nature. But the Serpent is the secret Nature of Man, that is Life and Death, and maketh his Way through the Generations in Silence. And the Eagle is that Might of Live which is the Key of Magick, uplifting the Body and its Appurtenance unto high Ekstacy upon his W…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 185

Liber Aleph

…ath, so that thy Wand is dissolved and corroded in the Waters of the Cup, and must be renewed by Virtue of thy Nature in its Course. For Fire is extinguished by Water; but upon Earth it burneth freely, and is inflamed by the Wind. Understand also that which is written concerning the Vesica, that it is the Mother, giving Ease, Sleep, and Death, which Consolations are eschewed by the True Man or Hero. i

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1905 · PDF PAGE 115

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…eyelids. Light Clothes me and circles with the might Of warmer rosier suns. Thy kiss Dwells on my bosom, and it is A glittering mount of fire, that burns Incense unnamed to heaven, and yearns In smoke toward thy home. Desire Bellies the sails of molten fire Upon the ship of Youth with wind Urgently panting out behind, Impatient till the strand appear a zAnd the blue sea have ceased to rear Fountains of foam against the prow. Hail! I can vision even now That golden shore.. A lake of light Burns to the sky ; above, the night Hovers, her wings gro…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 135

The Star in the West

…t Of amber - scented hair hissing about His head , and in the darkness two great eyes Flaming above him , and the whole face filled With fire and shapen as kisses . And those arms | The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 170 . 2 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 91 . ---

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1944 · PDF PAGE 144

The Book of Thoth

QUEEN OF WANDS The Queen of Wands represents the watery part of Fire, its fluidity and colour. Also, she rules in the Zodiac from the 21st degree of Pisces to the 20th degree of Aries. Her crown is topped with the winged globe and rayed with flame. Her long red golden hair flows down upon her armour of scaled mail. She is seated upon a throne of flame, ordered into geometri‐ cal light by her material power. Beneath the throne the surging flames are steady. She bears a wand in her left hand; but it is topped with a cone suggestive of the mysteri…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 223

The Star in the West

… Berkeley himself , though an Adept of a very high order , starting up wards through the clear atmosphere of the sky , clutched the very fire from the altar of God , and then in his descent to the dusty plains of Earth , caused such a whirlwind to arise , that his immediate successors , and even we who live two hundred years after that 1 Eleusis , vol . iii, p . 225 . 2 P. 6.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 298

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…y the brood of the Bysses of Brightening, whose God was my sire ; By the Lord of the Flame and the Lightning, the King of the Spirits of Fire ; 120

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1911 · PDF PAGE 298

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…y the brood of the Bysses of Brightening, whose God was my sire ; By the Lord of the Flame and the Lightning, the King of the Spirits of Fire ; 120

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1996 · PDF PAGE 217

The Law is for All

…. 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. 69. There is success. 70. I am the Hawk-Headed Lord of Silence & of Strength; my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. 71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand. 72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the Force of Coph Nia—but my left hand is empty, for I hav…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 32

Collected Works (Vol. III)

26 WHY JESUS WEPT I the bright Deva! of the golden sphere ; I the swift spirit of the primal fire :— All theseI am, not will be. O blind ape! All these are shapeless ; thou art but a shape, A blind, bad-blooded bat! Ugh! Ugh! The snake Wriggling to death amid his burning brake Is wiser, holier, lordlier. Open, page Of the old Rabbi | * tell me of the mage; Of him who would; of him who dared and did ; Of him who feared and failed; of him who. fell ; One peéring .lightwards through a coffin-lid, One aching heavenwards—and achieving hell! O let me…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 28

The Book of Thoth

…ed in the fable of a Female Pope. More important still, “The Angel”, or “The Last Judgment”, represented the destruction of the world by fire. Its hieroglyph is, in a way, prophetic, for when the world was destroyed by fire on 21st March, 1904,1 one’s attention was inevitably called to the similarity of this card to the Stele of Revealing. This being the beginning of the New Aeon, it has seemed 1See The Equinox of the Gods, loc. cit. more fitting to show the beginning of the Aeon; for all that is known about the next Aeon, due in 2,000 years’ t…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 201

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS Ol? THE TAROT V THE LORD OF THE FLAME AND THE LIGHT- NING; THE KING OF THE SPIRITS OF FIRE ng/ztl of Wands A WINGED Warrior riding upon a black horse with flaming mane and tail: the horse itself is not winged. The rider wears a winged helmet (like the old Scandinavian and Gaulish helmet) with a Rayed Crown, a corslet of scale- mail and buskins of the same, and a flowing scarlet mantle. Above his helmet, upon his cuirass, and on the shoulder- pieces and buskins, he wears as a crest a winged black horse's head. He grasps a …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 201

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS Ol? THE TAROT V THE LORD OF THE FLAME AND THE LIGHT- NING; THE KING OF THE SPIRITS OF FIRE ng/ztl of Wands A WINGED Warrior riding upon a black horse with flaming mane and tail: the horse itself is not winged. The rider wears a winged helmet (like the old Scandinavian and Gaulish helmet) with a Rayed Crown, a corslet of scale- mail and buskins of the same, and a flowing scarlet mantle. Above his helmet, upon his cuirass, and on the shoulder- pieces and buskins, he wears as a crest a winged black horse's head. He grasps a …

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