The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)
… you think,” says the Scientific Illuminist, “that instead of dreaming all your lives it would be a good thing to wake up and doa little work? Thereare four of you, and the 299
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… you think,” says the Scientific Illuminist, “that instead of dreaming all your lives it would be a good thing to wake up and doa little work? Thereare four of you, and the 299
… you think,” says the Scientific Illuminist, “that instead of dreaming all your lives it would be a good thing to wake up and doa little work? Thereare four of you, and the 299
…st it becomes regular and rhythmical. In the “ Hatha Yoga Pradipika” we read: He who suspends (restrains) the breath, restrains also the working of the mind. He who has controlled the mind, has also controlled the breath. If one is suspended, the other also iis suspended. If one acts, the other also does the same. If they are not stopped, all the Indriyas (the senses) keep actively engaged in their respective work. If the mind and Prana are stopped, the state of emancipation is attained.t There are three kinds of Pranayama: Rechaka Pranayama (e…
…st it becomes regular and rhythmical. In the “ Hatha Yoga Pradipika” we read: He who suspends (restrains) the breath, restrains also the working of the mind. He who has controlled the mind, has also controlled the breath. If one is suspended, the other also iis suspended. If one acts, the other also does the same. If they are not stopped, all the Indriyas (the senses) keep actively engaged in their respective work. If the mind and Prana are stopped, the state of emancipation is attained.t There are three kinds of Pranayama: Rechaka Pranayama (e…
…e complaints the employment of the orchitic substance gives good results by stimu- lating the nervous system, by increasing the power of work, and also the secretions, the proportion of haemoglobin and the vital resistance, etc. Such results are partially explained by the chemical composition of the orchitic extracts, which are ex- tremely rich in organic phosphorus. The results are similar to those obtained by the use of the Gly- cero-phosphates and Lecithins. Preparations. — Orchitic Desiccated powder (Armour). One part is equal to 10 parts o…
… this amiable despot, he went off alone into the jungle, and his thoughts immediately reverted to magic, to the performance of the Great Work, though not as yet to the Egyptian revelations. His antipathy to these, with their irrational instructions, grew and grew. It was only with the shattering of his reason that he could possibly accept them, and act on them. Yet even in this month’s wandering in the jungle we find little in the diary but the record of exercise of strange magic powers. We read three or four times that a certain adept 8
… this amiable despot, he went off alone into the jungle, and his thoughts immediately reverted to magic, to the performance of the Great Work, though not as yet to the Egyptian revelations. His antipathy to these, with their irrational instructions, grew and grew. It was only with the shattering of his reason that he could possibly accept them, and act on them. Yet even in this month’s wandering in the jungle we find little in the diary but the record of exercise of strange magic powers. We read three or four times that a certain adept 8
…nd disdainfully thou didst detach thyself from the heaven where the sun drowned thee in his splendour, to plow with thine own rays the unworked fields of night! Thou shinest when the sun sets, and thy sparkling gaze precedes the daybreak! Thou fallest to rise again; thou tastest of death to under- stand life better! For the ancient glories of the world, thou art the evening star; for truth renascent, the lovely star of dawn. Liberty is not licence, for licence is tyranny. Liberty is the guardian of duty, because it reclaims right. Lucifer, of w…
…nd disdainfully thou didst detach thyself from the heaven where the sun drowned thee in his splendour, to plow with thine own rays the unworked fields of night! Thou shinest when the sun sets, and thy sparkling gaze precedes the daybreak! Thou fallest to rise again; thou tastest of death to under- stand life better! For the ancient glories of the world, thou art the evening star; for truth renascent, the lovely star of dawn. Liberty is not licence, for licence is tyranny. Liberty is the guardian of duty, because it reclaims right. Lucifer, of w…
…tist chapel the only chapel worthy of worship (szc). But Mr. Crowley is a strong and genuine poet, and we have little doubt that he will work up from his appreciation of the Temple of Osiris to that loftier and wider work of the human imagination, the appreciation of the Brixton chapel. G. K. CHESTERTON. 778, 797. The rest of life, for self-control, lor liberation of the soul.8 Who said Rats? Thanks for your advice, Tony Veller, but it came in vain. As the ex-monk* (that shook the bookstall) wrote in confidence to the publisher : ‘* Existence i…
…nto his teens. She was married to a lawyer in the States and had come to Hawaii to escape hay fever. I went on with my magical and other work; in particular, I invented a practice which has proved very useful. Its object is to prevent mosquitoes from biting one. The method is: to love them. One reminds oneself that the mosquito has as much right to his dinner as a man has. It is difficult to get the exact shade of feeling and more so to feel it. One begins by lying defenceless against the enemy and sternly repressing the impulse to wave, to sla…
387 Besides this, I became subtly aware that this Work was more than the impersonal exploration which I had meant to make, I felt that a hand was holding my heart, that a breath was whispering words in a strange tongue whose accents were yet both awful in themselves and like enchantments encompassing my essence with an energy mighty to work on my will in some inscrutable way. I began to feel --- well, not exactly frightened; it was the subtle trembling of a maiden before the bridegroom. My ardour increased with every vision and every vision bec…
…e. Fourth, in each noble act of life he taught crystalline vigour of thought, so in each deed he was aright ; well-wrought all the man’s work ; and fifth, this hero strife grew one with his whole life, so harmonized to the one after-end his every conscious and unconscious strain, his peace and pleasure and pain, his reflex life, his deepest-seated
It is at least certainly not a posthumous work of Walter Pater or John Addington Symonds : only a crapulous mountebank would credit W.B. Yeats or Robert Bridges with it. The only question is : did not perhaps the late Lord Tennyson foresee events, and leave it to be published when the right time came ? But in this case, how account for Eu- phemias possession of the dainty thing ? Anyway, its not Tennyson : dont worry : I was only teas- ing. She had originally picked up the unfinished M.S. to use as curl-papers. It was indeed written, as will…
…t came up last night with Dr. R d was that of writing rubbish for magazines. He thought that one could do it in the intervals of serious work ; but I do not think that one should take the risk. I have spent these many years training my mind to think cleanly and express beautifully. Am I to prosti- tute myself for a handful of bread? I swear by Thyself, 0 Thou who art myself, that I will not write save to glorify Thee, that I will write only in beauty and melody, that I will give unto the world as Thou givest unto me, whether it be a consuming fi…
…ed the science of psychology; chiro- mancy is still occult, and one scarcely finds traces of it in the quite recent and very interesting work of d’Arpentigny. In order to have sufficient notions of it, one must remount to the qabalistic sources themselves from which the learned Cornelius Agrippa drew water. It is, then, convenient to say a few words 210
…ed the science of psychology; chiro- mancy is still occult, and one scarcely finds traces of it in the quite recent and very interesting work of d’Arpentigny. In order to have sufficient notions of it, one must remount to the qabalistic sources themselves from which the learned Cornelius Agrippa drew water. It is, then, convenient to say a few words 210
…tting cream in the tea his only amusement, poor fellow, I sucked him dry years ago ! and then we will sit down to a real morn- ings work over my reminiscences. These, dear girl, are for you. They form this pleasant book. Now strip yourself and get a can- dle ; lunge in front of a looking-glass and read and frig alternately. If you are grown up, a dog or a man to suck you saves labour of any sort and time. But I want you to swim in a perfect ocean of fuck as you read and please God if we ever meet what ho ! Ive a belly-full of boi…
…ies of what one calls spiritualism, or spevdtism. It is already a long time since this doctrine, or, rather, this antidoctrine, began to work upon the world, to plunge it into universal anarchy. But the law of equilibrium will save us, and already the great movement of reaction has begun. We continue the recital of the phenomena. One day a workman paid a visit to Eliphas Levi. He was a tall man of some fifty years old, of frank appearance, and speaking in a very reasonable manner. Questioned as to the motive of his visit, he replied: “You ought…
…ies of what one calls spiritualism, or spevdtism. It is already a long time since this doctrine, or, rather, this antidoctrine, began to work upon the world, to plunge it into universal anarchy. But the law of equilibrium will save us, and already the great movement of reaction has begun. We continue the recital of the phenomena. One day a workman paid a visit to Eliphas Levi. He was a tall man of some fifty years old, of frank appearance, and speaking in a very reasonable manner. Questioned as to the motive of his visit, he replied: “You ought…