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־11.15 11.37. 88 THE EQUINOX that it is so lucid and spiritual and yet so practical. When I say weakness, I mean that it appeals to my weakness ; I am easily content with thesmaller results, so that they seduce me from going on to the really big ones. I am quite happy as a result of my little ceremony—— whereas I ought to be taking new and terrible oaths! Yet why should Tahuti be so kind to me, and Asar Un-nefer so unkind ? The answer comes direct from Tahuti himself : Because you have learned to write perfectly, but have not yet taught yoursel…
1909 · PDF PAGE 26
THE EQUINOX Agrippa and other books) you would draw in the four colours with such other devices as your experience may suggest. 4. And soon. We cannot here enter at length into all the necessary preparations; and the student will find them fully set forth in the proper books, of which the “ Goetia” is perhaps the best example. These rituals need not be slavishly imitated; on the con- trary the student should do nothing the object of which he does not understand; also, if he have any capacity whatever, he will find his own crude rituals more eff…
1909 · PDF PAGE 28
THE EQUINOX (@) The moment that it appears to touch the feet, quickly advance the left foot about twelve inches, throw forward the body, and let the hands (drawn back to the side of the eyes) shoot out, so that you are standing in the typical position of the God Horus,* and at the same time imagine the Name as rushing up and through the body, while you breathe it out through the nostrils with the air which has been till then retained in the lungs. Allthis must be done with all the force of which you are capable. (e) Then withdraw the left foot,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 26
THE EQUINOX Agrippa and other books) you would draw in the four colours with such other devices as your experience may suggest. 4. And soon. We cannot here enter at length into all the necessary preparations; and the student will find them fully set forth in the proper books, of which the “ Goetia” is perhaps the best example. These rituals need not be slavishly imitated; on the con- trary the student should do nothing the object of which he does not understand; also, if he have any capacity whatever, he will find his own crude rituals more eff…
1909 · PDF PAGE 28
THE EQUINOX (@) The moment that it appears to touch the feet, quickly advance the left foot about twelve inches, throw forward the body, and let the hands (drawn back to the side of the eyes) shoot out, so that you are standing in the typical position of the God Horus,* and at the same time imagine the Name as rushing up and through the body, while you breathe it out through the nostrils with the air which has been till then retained in the lungs. Allthis must be done with all the force of which you are capable. (e) Then withdraw the left foot,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 24
THE EQUINOX “There are purse-proud, penniless ones who stand at the door of the tavern, and revile the guests.” Weattach little importance to the Reverend Out-at-Elbows, thundering in Bareboards Chapel that the rich man gets no enjoyment from his wealth. Good, then. Let us obtain the volume entitled “The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage”; or the magical writings of that holy illuminated Man of God, Captain Fuller, and carry out fully their instructions. And only when we have succeeded, when we have put a colossal ! against our vit…
1911 · PDF PAGE 144
THE EQUINOX “Then let me pay! I want to pay for your lunch." “You shall have a great treat, Joe! I have a friend and his girl coming, too. You shall pay for all of us.” The negro beamed. " Ida Pendragonl " he spluttered. “ I love you, Ida Pendragon." “ And Ida Pendragon loves her leopard. Now leave me.” She glanced round. They were alone in the gallery. “ You may kiss the back of my neck, if you like." The negro buried his head between her shoulders. She shivered ; her hair hissed under his kiss. She writhed round, and gave her mouth to his for…
1911 · PDF PAGE 144
THE EQUINOX “Then let me pay! I want to pay for your lunch." “You shall have a great treat, Joe! I have a friend and his girl coming, too. You shall pay for all of us.” The negro beamed. " Ida Pendragonl " he spluttered. “ I love you, Ida Pendragon." “ And Ida Pendragon loves her leopard. Now leave me.” She glanced round. They were alone in the gallery. “ You may kiss the back of my neck, if you like." The negro buried his head between her shoulders. She shivered ; her hair hissed under his kiss. She writhed round, and gave her mouth to his for…
1913 · PDF PAGE 322
THE EQUINOX evil, will be truly the angel of light when, having conquered liberty at the price of infamy, he will make use of it to submit himself to eternal order, inaugurating thus the glories of voluntary obedience. Right is only the root of duty; one must possess in order to give. This is how a lofty and profound poetry explains the fall of the angels. God hath given to His spirits light and life; then He said to them: “Love!” “What is—to love?” replied the spirits. “To love is to give oneself to others,” replied God. “Those who love will s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 322
THE EQUINOX evil, will be truly the angel of light when, having conquered liberty at the price of infamy, he will make use of it to submit himself to eternal order, inaugurating thus the glories of voluntary obedience. Right is only the root of duty; one must possess in order to give. This is how a lofty and profound poetry explains the fall of the angels. God hath given to His spirits light and life; then He said to them: “Love!” “What is—to love?” replied the spirits. “To love is to give oneself to others,” replied God. “Those who love will s…
1919 · PDF PAGE 194
THE EQUINOX middle size, and when that blazeth brightly, at the last the great logs, though they be utterly green, are nevertheless enkindled. Now, son, hearken unto this Our reproof, and lend the ear of thine understanding unto the parable of this Magick. We have for the whole Beginning of Our Work, praise be eternally unto His Holy Name, the Fire of our Father the Sun. The inspiration is ours, and ours is the Law of The- lema that shall set the world ablaze. And We have many small dry sticks, that kindle quickly and burn through quickly, leav…
1919 · PDF PAGE 366
THE EQUINOX is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all,” so it is better to be a madman than an idiot. There is always a chance of putting wrong right. As, however, the disease of the age is intellectualism, this lesson is well to teach. Numerous sermons on this point will be found in many of the writings of Frater Perdurabo. 11. The seeds of Wisdom cannot sprout and grow in air- less space. To live and reap experience, the mind needs breadth and depth and points to draw it towards the Dia- mond Soul. Seek not those points…
1919 · PDF PAGE 376
THE EQUINOX “Now is the Pillar established in the Void; now is Asi ful- filled of Asar; now is Hoor-let down into the Animal Soul of Things like a fiery star that falleth upon the darkness of the earth. “Through the midnight thou art dropt, O my child, my conqueror, my sword-girt captain, O Hoor! and they shall find thee as a black gnarl’d glittering stone, and they shall worship thee.” 37. Step out from sunlight into shade, to make more room for others. The tears that water the parched soil of pain and sorrow bring forth the blossoms and the f…
1919 · PDF PAGE 398
THE EQUINOX for your sake,” and there are times when a Dhamma- Buddha reflects on the fact that he is no more and no less than any other thing, and wishes he were dead. That is to say, that kind of a Dhnamma-Buddha in whom such thoughts necessarily arise, thinks so; but this of course does not hap- pen, because it is not in the nature of a Dhamma-Buddha to think anything of the sort, and he even knows too much to think that it would be rather natural if there were some kinds of Dhamma-Buddha who did think something of the kind. But he is assure…
1919 · PDF PAGE 434
THE EQUINOX do that without losing anything. And because the sur- render must be complete, it must beware of that expansion which is called pride; for it is destroying duality, and pride implies duality. 56. Thine “isle” is the deer, thy thoughts the hounds that weary and pursue his progress to the stream of Life. Woe to the deer that is o’ertaken by the barking fiends before he reach the Vale of Refuge—Dhyana-Marga, “path of pure knowledge” named. Once more the passage harks back to the Abyss where thoughts prevail. It is another poetic image,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 134
THE EQUINOX the stiletto. Silver-gilt; blades of exquisite fineness; the cipher of a princely house of France shone in tiny diamonds upon the pommels. “The thought sent new courage and determination thrill- ing through me. I had saved a princess from shame and torture; I loved her! She loved me, for I had saved her— ah! but I had not yet saved her. That was to do. “But how to act? I had plenty of time. Jean would not return to the house, in all probability. But the markets were stirring; the weapons and my blood would arouse curiosity. Well, ho…
1909 · PDF PAGE 244
THE EQUINOX PHUR and MERCURY with the alchemical powers of the seven planets; precipitating the SALT from the four ele- ments—Subtilis, Aqua, Lux, Terra; and mingling Flatus, Ignis, Aqua, and Terra, smote them with the cross of Hidden Mystery, and cried: “ Fiat Lux!” Youth strides on with hasty step, and by the summer of this year—1898—we find P. deep in consultation with the mystics, and drinking from the white chalice of mystery with St. John, Boehme, Tauler, Eckart, Molinos, Levi, and Blake: “Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden’…
1909 · PDF PAGE 134
THE EQUINOX the stiletto. Silver-gilt; blades of exquisite fineness; the cipher of a princely house of France shone in tiny diamonds upon the pommels. “The thought sent new courage and determination thrill- ing through me. I had saved a princess from shame and torture; I loved her! She loved me, for I had saved her— ah! but I had not yet saved her. That was to do. “But how to act? I had plenty of time. Jean would not return to the house, in all probability. But the markets were stirring; the weapons and my blood would arouse curiosity. Well, ho…
1909 · PDF PAGE 244
THE EQUINOX PHUR and MERCURY with the alchemical powers of the seven planets; precipitating the SALT from the four ele- ments—Subtilis, Aqua, Lux, Terra; and mingling Flatus, Ignis, Aqua, and Terra, smote them with the cross of Hidden Mystery, and cried: “ Fiat Lux!” Youth strides on with hasty step, and by the summer of this year—1898—we find P. deep in consultation with the mystics, and drinking from the white chalice of mystery with St. John, Boehme, Tauler, Eckart, Molinos, Levi, and Blake: “Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden’…
1910 · PDF PAGE 272
THE EQUINOX of hasheesh delirum, another dose, however small—yes, though it be no larger than half a pea—be employed to prolong the condition, such agony will inevitably ensue as will make the soul shudder at its own possibility of endurance without annihilation. By repeated experiments, which now occupy the most horrible place upon my catalogue of horrible remem- brances, have I proved that, among all the variable phenomena of hasheesh, this alone stands unvarying. The use of it directly after any other stimulus will produce consequences as ap…