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1944 · PDF PAGE 118

The Book of Thoth

… O my Son, the Fable of the Hebrews, which they brought from the City Babylon, how Nebuchadnezzar the Great King, being afflicted in his Spirit, did depart from among Men for Seven Years’ space, eating Grass as doth an Ox. Now this Ox is the letter Aleph, and is that Atu of Thoth whose number is Zero, and whose Name is Maat, Truth; or Maut, the Vulture, the All‐Mother, being an Image of Our Lady Nuith, but also it is called the Fool, which is Parsifal, “der reine Thor”, and so referreth to him that walketh in the Way of the Tao. Also he is Harp…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 47

The Sword of Song

…gift implying, as I guess This very super-consciousness.59 Miracles follow as a dower ; But ah ! they used that fatal power And lost the Spirit in the act. This may be fancy or a fact ; At least it squares with super-sense Or “spiritual experience.” You do not well to swell the list Of horrid things to me imputed By calling me “materialist.” At least this thought is better suited To Western minds than is embalmed Among the doctrines of Mohammed, The dogma parthenogenetic * As told me by a fat ascetic. He said : “Your worthy friends may lack you…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 207

The Star in the West

…y mental exist ence ; for he asserts again and again that the only substantial existence is the hypothetical substratum of mind , i.e. , spirit .' And this , as Huxley himself | All these philosophers end in the same quandary as the old gentleman who with only one tooth in his mouth tried to spike a pickled onion .

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1909 · PDF PAGE 33

777

…Sxesip | Ohooohatan . . |. (S) DYN wp | A Fire, Sight 7). 9/7] 81 Sy | Thahaaotahe ©. . (N) MBY nu | W Earth, Tough |... 1." | 82 bis @® spirit, Hearing) . .w. . | 31 bis LXVIII. LXVII LXVI. LXV. The Demon The Parts of Spelling of Tetragrammaton Secret Num- Kings. the in the Four Worlds. spondi vA ponding. Oriens . Quack NTIV NA TW. . 45. 11 Ariton . - N'A oN . 63. 23 Paimon mnow ms Fy! . 72. $1 Amaimon . -mnyranr ww... . 52. $2 bis $1 bis LXXIII. LXXII. The Court Cards of the Tarot, with the Spheres | The Court Cards of the Tarot, with the Sph…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 158

The Star in the West

…e they drop their eyes their bowls are full of atta and dhal . Hence priests and kings , those truly greedy anthropophagi : Songs of the Spirit , vol . i, p . 43 .

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1907 · PDF PAGE 324

The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 317 bush—or a flaming chariot-or a still small voice , and joining myself to God I become one spirit with him . As : O night ! Fade , love ! Fade , light ! I pass beyond Life's law . I melt as snow ; as ice 1 thaw ; As mist I dissipate : I am borne , I draw Through chasms on the mountains : stormy gusts Of ancient sorrows and forgotten lusts Bear me along : they touch me not : I waste. The memory of long lives interlaced Fades in my tading . I disintegrate Fall into black oblivion of Fate . My being divides . I have forgot my name …

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1909 · PDF PAGE 47

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…the “dryness’ was an essential part of the process. If by some means I could shake its catafalque of Mind, might not the Infinite Divine Spirit leap unfettered to the Light? Who shall roll away the stone? Let it not be imagined that I devised these thoughts from pure sloth or weariness. But with the mystical means then at my disposal, I required a period of days or of weeks to obtain any Result, such as Samadhi in one of its greater or lesser forms; and in England the difficulties were hardly to be overcome. I found it impossible to meditate in…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 47

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…the “dryness’ was an essential part of the process. If by some means I could shake its catafalque of Mind, might not the Infinite Divine Spirit leap unfettered to the Light? Who shall roll away the stone? Let it not be imagined that I devised these thoughts from pure sloth or weariness. But with the mystical means then at my disposal, I required a period of days or of weeks to obtain any Result, such as Samadhi in one of its greater or lesser forms; and in England the difficulties were hardly to be overcome. I found it impossible to meditate in…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 156

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…zing, moralizing and rationalizing. The more rational he became, the less he reasoned outwardly; and the more he became endowed with the Spirit of the Buddha in place of the vapour- ings of Buddhism, the more he saw that personal endeavour was the key; not the Scriptures, which at best could but indi- cate the way. It (the Dharma) is to be attained to by the wise, each one for himself. Salvation rests on Work and not on Faith, not in reforming the so-called fallen, but in conquering one- self. “If one man conquer in battle a thousand times a th…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 281

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ich the higher hasheesh exaltation really exists. It is a partial sundering, for the time, of those ties which unite soul and body. That spirit should ever lose the traces of a single impression is impossible. In the morning he awoke at the usual time; but, his temperament being perhaps more sensitive than mine, the hasheesh delight, without its hallucination, continued for several days. And now a new fact flashed before me. This agony was not new; I had felt it ages ago, in the same room, among the same people, and hearing the same conversatio…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 156

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…zing, moralizing and rationalizing. The more rational he became, the less he reasoned outwardly; and the more he became endowed with the Spirit of the Buddha in place of the vapour- ings of Buddhism, the more he saw that personal endeavour was the key; not the Scriptures, which at best could but indi- cate the way. It (the Dharma) is to be attained to by the wise, each one for himself. Salvation rests on Work and not on Faith, not in reforming the so-called fallen, but in conquering one- self. “If one man conquer in battle a thousand times a th…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 281

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ich the higher hasheesh exaltation really exists. It is a partial sundering, for the time, of those ties which unite soul and body. That spirit should ever lose the traces of a single impression is impossible. In the morning he awoke at the usual time; but, his temperament being perhaps more sensitive than mine, the hasheesh delight, without its hallucination, continued for several days. And now a new fact flashed before me. This agony was not new; I had felt it ages ago, in the same room, among the same people, and hearing the same conversatio…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 457

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…RIES put together ; it only lacks one thing—it will not work : there is a hidden defect in the machinery. What was that defect? The evil spirit alone could tell him. It is then absolutely necessary to evoke him! .. . “Take care you do not!” said Eliphas. ‘You had much better say for nine days this qabalistic evocation.” He gave him a leaf covered with manuscript. ‘‘ Begin this evening, and return to-morrow to tell me what you have seen, for to night you will have a manifestation.” The next day, our good man did not miss the appointment. “J woke…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 457

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…RIES put together ; it only lacks one thing—it will not work : there is a hidden defect in the machinery. What was that defect? The evil spirit alone could tell him. It is then absolutely necessary to evoke him! .. . “Take care you do not!” said Eliphas. ‘You had much better say for nine days this qabalistic evocation.” He gave him a leaf covered with manuscript. ‘‘ Begin this evening, and return to-morrow to tell me what you have seen, for to night you will have a manifestation.” The next day, our good man did not miss the appointment. “J woke…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 220

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…n no snakes in Ireland ; chapter iv. gives us a first-rate murder, and from that moment the authors never look back. But the Great White Spirit was destined to have his day of repose disturbed. He had just got to the real masterpiece of literature “ And Adam knew Hevah his woman,” which contains all that ever has been said or ever can be said upon the sex-problem in its 202

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1910 · PDF PAGE 220

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…n no snakes in Ireland ; chapter iv. gives us a first-rate murder, and from that moment the authors never look back. But the Great White Spirit was destined to have his day of repose disturbed. He had just got to the real masterpiece of literature “ And Adam knew Hevah his woman,” which contains all that ever has been said or ever can be said upon the sex-problem in its 202

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1911 · PDF PAGE 44

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…se; and thy vow is but the rustling of the wind on Mount Meru. 17. Now shalt thou adore me who am the Eye and the Tooth, the Coat of the Spirit, the Lord of Creation. I am the Eye in the Triangle, the Silver Star that ye adore. 18. I am Baphomet, that is the Eightfold Word that shall be equilibrated with the Three. 36

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1911 · PDF PAGE 44

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…se; and thy vow is but the rustling of the wind on Mount Meru. 17. Now shalt thou adore me who am the Eye and the Tooth, the Coat of the Spirit, the Lord of Creation. I am the Eye in the Triangle, the Silver Star that ye adore. 18. I am Baphomet, that is the Eightfold Word that shall be equilibrated with the Three. 36

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1912 · PDF PAGE 139

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…e for, darling?” “ You’re a darling sweet boy." “ Run away and wash your handsl I've warmed up your own element for you, you dear little Spirit of Salt!” She ran gleefully into the laboratory. On the bench stood the basin she had used so often, with the soap and towels neatly at its side. She seized the soap, and plunged both hands into the nearly boiling hydrochloric acid. Then she turned her head to him, her mouth a tragic square, incapable even of uttering even a shriek. “ How will you play the fiddle, screamed Zircon, “with no fingers? How wi…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 139

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…e for, darling?” “ You’re a darling sweet boy." “ Run away and wash your handsl I've warmed up your own element for you, you dear little Spirit of Salt!” She ran gleefully into the laboratory. On the bench stood the basin she had used so often, with the soap and towels neatly at its side. She seized the soap, and plunged both hands into the nearly boiling hydrochloric acid. Then she turned her head to him, her mouth a tragic square, incapable even of uttering even a shriek. “ How will you play the fiddle, screamed Zircon, “with no fingers? How wi…

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