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Page 62 of 1191913 · PDF PAGE 482
THE EQUINOX works, and we confine ourselves to the special study of the Qabalah among the Hebrews. The Logos, or the Word, being according to the initiates of that science the complete revelation, the principles of the holy Qabalah ought to be found reunited in the signs them- selves of which the primitive alphabet is composed. Now, this is what we find in all Hebrew grammars.* There is a fundamental and universal letter which generates all the others. It is the 1op. There are two other mother letters, opposed and analogous among themselves; th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 256
THE EQUINOX to follow. It is no use “looking wise” when there is an Abramelin demon gnawing you below the belt, or burbling about the Sanctuary when the Goat of Mendes is threatening you with a 70 h.p. six cylinder, four-speed, gnarled clyster. All night Waite stayed, and begged; it was in vain. The Master was not to be moved from a resolution both wise and kind. He, however, promised to acknowledge Waite openly as his disciple on condition of good behaviour for the future. It is with pleasure indeed that we record that Waite’s lapses have been…
1913 · PDF PAGE 482
THE EQUINOX works, and we confine ourselves to the special study of the Qabalah among the Hebrews. The Logos, or the Word, being according to the initiates of that science the complete revelation, the principles of the holy Qabalah ought to be found reunited in the signs them- selves of which the primitive alphabet is composed. Now, this is what we find in all Hebrew grammars.* There is a fundamental and universal letter which generates all the others. It is the 1op. There are two other mother letters, opposed and analogous among themselves; th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 62
THE EQUINOX Listen, we pray you, with attention: for once only does the Great Order knock at any one door. Whosoever knows any member of that Order as such, can never know another, until he too has attained to mas- tery. Here, therefore, we pause, that you may thoroughly search yourself, and consider if you are yet fitted to take an irrevocable step. For the reading of that which follows is Recorded. THE HISTORY LECTION 7. Some years ago a number of cipher MSS. were dis- covered and deciphered by certain students. They at- tracted much attentio…
1919 · PDF PAGE 436
THE EQUINOX power to stay thy course. Thou wilt be master of the seven- fold Path; but not till then, O Candidate for trials passing speech. That we have correctly interpreted these obscure passages now becomes clear. No further personal effort is required. The gates open of themselves to the Master of the Temple. 61. Till then, a task far harder still awaits thee: thou hast to feel thyself ALL-THOUGHT, and yet exile all thoughts from out thy SOUL. The discourse again reverts to another phase of this task of Vairaga. It is just as in the ‘Earth…
1909 · PDF PAGE 30
3.15. 3.30. 345. 28 THE EQUINOX Yet now—ah now 1—1 am but a dead man. Within me and without still stirs that life of sense that is not life, but is as the worms that {east upon my corpse. . . . Adonail Adonai! my Lord Adonai! indeed, Thou hast forsaken me. Nay! thou liest, O weak soul! Abide in the meditation; unite all thy symbols into the form of a Lion, and be lord of thy jungle, travelling through the servile Universe even as Man the Lion very lordly, the Sun in His strength that travelleth over the heaven of Nu in His bark in the mid-caree…
1909 · PDF PAGE 126
THE EQUINOX 12.33. awakes a monstrous horde of egoistic devils, vain, 124, strutting peacocks, preening and screaming! This is simply damnable. Egoism is the spur of all energy, in a way; and in this particular case it is the one thing that is not Adonai (whatever else may be) and so the antithesis of the Work. Bricks without straw, indeed] That’s nothing to it. This job is like being asked to judge a Band contest and being told that one may do anything but listen. Only worse! One could form some idea of how they were playing through other sens…
1909 · PDF PAGE 66
THE EQUINOX of the savage for an unfamiliar shape of bottle, worthless at the worst as the temperance crank’s account of the fatal effects of alcohol, the vegetarian’s account of the dangers of meat- eating, or the missionary’s account of the religion of the people he lives among. The alleged sensuality of hashish—even Baudelaire admits it—simply does not exist for me, perhaps because there is no germ of lasciviousness in my mind. Of course if you excite, by whatever stimulus, a foul imagination, you will get pestilent effects. When Queen Mab t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 76
THE EQUINOX Peacock, its oneness is the truer of these two contradictory truths. So for the matter of time and space. All time is filled; all space is filled; the phenomenon is infinite and eternal. This is true even though its singleness makes the duration of the phenomenon but one minimum cogitabile. In short, it is experienced in some other kind of time, some other kind of space. There is nothing irrational about this. Non-Euclidean geometries, for example, are possible, and may be true. It is only necessary to a theory of the universe that …
1909 · PDF PAGE 404
THE EQUINOX utterly breaks the first (and last) rule: ‘Rules are the devil.” He writes like a schoolboy for whom a false quantity means a basting. He counts his syllables on his fingers; he never writes by ear, as one whose ears are open to the heavenly melody of the Muses. So we have all the artifice—and perhaps the worst artifice ever invented—but no art, no humanity. As a mountaineer (I have seen very many of the greatest mountains of the earth) I must admit that “ : . . phantom fair Was Monte Rosa, hanging there, A thousand shadowy-pencille…
1909 · PDF PAGE 66
THE EQUINOX of the savage for an unfamiliar shape of bottle, worthless at the worst as the temperance crank’s account of the fatal effects of alcohol, the vegetarian’s account of the dangers of meat- eating, or the missionary’s account of the religion of the people he lives among. The alleged sensuality of hashish—even Baudelaire admits it—simply does not exist for me, perhaps because there is no germ of lasciviousness in my mind. Of course if you excite, by whatever stimulus, a foul imagination, you will get pestilent effects. When Queen Mab t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 76
THE EQUINOX Peacock, its oneness is the truer of these two contradictory truths. So for the matter of time and space. All time is filled; all space is filled; the phenomenon is infinite and eternal. This is true even though its singleness makes the duration of the phenomenon but one minimum cogitabile. In short, it is experienced in some other kind of time, some other kind of space. There is nothing irrational about this. Non-Euclidean geometries, for example, are possible, and may be true. It is only necessary to a theory of the universe that …
1909 · PDF PAGE 404
THE EQUINOX utterly breaks the first (and last) rule: ‘Rules are the devil.” He writes like a schoolboy for whom a false quantity means a basting. He counts his syllables on his fingers; he never writes by ear, as one whose ears are open to the heavenly melody of the Muses. So we have all the artifice—and perhaps the worst artifice ever invented—but no art, no humanity. As a mountaineer (I have seen very many of the greatest mountains of the earth) I must admit that “ : . . phantom fair Was Monte Rosa, hanging there, A thousand shadowy-pencille…
1910 · PDF PAGE 184
THE EQUINOX itself a suicidal Will called Buddha or Christ:” This perhaps is most easily explained by imagining “ May” to be a circle of particles moving from right to left which after a time through its own intrinsic motion sets up within itself a counter motion, a kind of back-water current which moves in the opposite direction, from left to right, and little by little destroys the Maya circle, marked “B”; and then becoming its Maya, in its turn sets up a counter circle which in time will likewise be destroyed. The outer circle ‘“B” is the wo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 184
THE EQUINOX itself a suicidal Will called Buddha or Christ:” This perhaps is most easily explained by imagining “ May” to be a circle of particles moving from right to left which after a time through its own intrinsic motion sets up within itself a counter motion, a kind of back-water current which moves in the opposite direction, from left to right, and little by little destroys the Maya circle, marked “B”; and then becoming its Maya, in its turn sets up a counter circle which in time will likewise be destroyed. The outer circle ‘“B” is the wo…
1912 · PDF PAGE 180
THE EQUINOX u dummy. JACK will eut out the eyes of this dummy with his razor; they will 61664 hoi/moly. HE 70111 make appropriate remarks—outin Englandhe simply looks round, then]— ͵τΑοκ. Now to conceal the body; aha! I have it. [þI/ith u 0111561 HE lifts up the three planks 11114 puts the body under the floor, replacing the planks. HE smoothes 01/67 the place, looks for 0114 collects dust, ond sprinkles it evenly over; re-makes bed, etc.] Safe ! safe for ever from that vulture eye of blue. Safe! [A distant 011117111 clock strikes eleven] To bed…
1912 · PDF PAGE 180
THE EQUINOX u dummy. JACK will eut out the eyes of this dummy with his razor; they will 61664 hoi/moly. HE 70111 make appropriate remarks—outin Englandhe simply looks round, then]— ͵τΑοκ. Now to conceal the body; aha! I have it. [þI/ith u 0111561 HE lifts up the three planks 11114 puts the body under the floor, replacing the planks. HE smoothes 01/67 the place, looks for 0114 collects dust, ond sprinkles it evenly over; re-makes bed, etc.] Safe ! safe for ever from that vulture eye of blue. Safe! [A distant 011117111 clock strikes eleven] To bed…
1913 · PDF PAGE 546
THE EQUINOX an eighth who costs more than the seven others. The seven are the seven deadly sins; the eighth is gambling.” Another dialogue :— “Give me five francs, sir, I am dying of hunger.” “TImbecile! you are dying of hunger, and you want me to encourage you in so evil a course? You are dying of hunger, and you have the impudence to admit it. You wish to make me the accomplice of your incapacity, the abetter of your suicide. You want to put a premium on wretchedness. For whom do you take me? Do you think I am a rascal like yourself? .. .” An…
1913 · PDF PAGE 546
THE EQUINOX an eighth who costs more than the seven others. The seven are the seven deadly sins; the eighth is gambling.” Another dialogue :— “Give me five francs, sir, I am dying of hunger.” “TImbecile! you are dying of hunger, and you want me to encourage you in so evil a course? You are dying of hunger, and you have the impudence to admit it. You wish to make me the accomplice of your incapacity, the abetter of your suicide. You want to put a premium on wretchedness. For whom do you take me? Do you think I am a rascal like yourself? .. .” An…
1910 · PDF PAGE 278
THE EQUINOX delicious dreams, I had not yet returned to the perfectly natural state. I now began to experience a law of hasheesh which developed its effects more and more through all future months of its use. With the progress of the hasheesh life, the effect of every successive indulgence grows more per- during until the hitherto isolated experiences become tangent to each other; then the links of the delirium intersect, and at last so blend that the chain has become a continuous band, now resting with joyous lightness as a chaplet, and now mi…