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1929 · PDF PAGE 198

Moonchild

…iangle, out of uncounted thousands; and each triangle was at a knot upon the web of an enormous spider. At each knot was such a group of three, and every one was different. There must have been millions of such gods, each with its pair of worshippers; every race and clime and period was represented. There were the gods of Mexico and of Peru, of Syria and Babylon, of Greece and Rome, of obscure swamps of Ethiopia, of deserts and mountains. And upon each thread of the web, from knot to knot, danced incredible insects, and strange animals, and hid…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 217

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…. this orb of eyeless Fate, | Phantom, elusive, permanent. In all, In spirit and in matter immanent, He also is the all, and all is ill. Three forms and functions hath the soul; the sea Murmurs their names repeating: Marts call The soul as it engendereth things below ; Neptune the soul that contemplateth things Above ; and Ocean as itself retracts Itself into itself: choose ye of these !? But I hymn Pan. Awake, O lyre, awake ! As if it were for the last time, awake ! [He sings. In the spring, in the loud last: places, In the groves of Arcadian …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 63

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

… be referred to Harpocrates, with allusion to the well-known poem of Catullus. Lamed may imply the exaltation of Saturn, and suggest the Three of Swords in a particular manner. Yod will then recall Hermes, and Mem the Hanged Man. We hâve thus a Tetragrammaton which contains no féminine component. The initial Force is here the Holy Spirit and its vehicle or weapon the “Sword and Balances . Justice is then done upon the Mercurial “Virgin”, with the resuit that the Man is “Hanged” or extended, and is slain in this manner. Such an operation makes c…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 80

Moonchild

…," said Cyril. "I have had a delightful morning — I have felt like Plato with the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in contemplating you three — but we have work before us. I propose in this emergency to copy the tactics of Washington at Valley Forge. We will make a direct and vehement attack on the Black Lodge: they will expect me to be in my usual position in the van — I will slip away with Lisa while the fires blaze brightest." "A sound plan," said Simon. "Let us break up this conference, and put it immediately into execution. You had better…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 258

The Book of Thoth

…ue is related to Jupiter, Venus and the Moon, thus to the numbers sacred to those planets 4, 7, and 9, because blue is the colour of all three planets in one scale or another. All words are thus in some way connotations of every other word or number; it is merely a question of finding the right category to assert the relations between them. These correspondences, such as HVD, Splendour, Elohim, Gibor, Kokab, Mercury, Samael, Violet Purple, Anubis, Tahuti, Thoth, Orange, Russet‐red, yellowish‐brown‐flecked‐ white, Odin, Loki, Hermes, Hanuman, He…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 58

Moonchild

…e arrival of the lawyer and his wife, and was so kind as to oblige with a full recital — Scherzo in A flat, or more accurately A house — three days later. I never really valued the Sevres vase which was offered on this occasion to the infernal gods. The mediumistic powers of the lady began to develop at the same time. The spirit had devised an ingenious method of communication, known to science as Planchette. This instrument is probably familiar to you all; it is am inconvenient way of writing, but otherwise exhibits no marked peculiarity. Now …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 134

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…e room, And friendship ventured in to sit Beside their blaze, to listen in the gloom To wisdom and to wit; ! When Dr. John Hopkinson and three of his children perished on the Petite Dent de Veisivi. 2 A mountain at d’Hérens. the head of the Val When we discussed our hopes, and told the stories Of happy climbing days gone by ; The stubborn battle with the cliffs, the glories Of the blue Alpine sky. The keen delight of paths untrodden yet, And new steep ice and rocky ways Too dangerous and splendid to forget. Those dear strong happy days! And now…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 32

Konx Om Pax

…anguage of the wake-world is silence. So never mind! let me get on. We came by and by to the Sixth House. I forgot to say that all those three paths were really one, be cause they all meant that things were difi‘erent inside to outside, and so people couldn’t judge. It was fearfully interesting; but mind you don’t go in those passages without the Fairy Prince. And of course there’s the Veil. I don’t think I’d better tell you about the Veil. I’ll only put your mouth to my head, and your hand—there, that’ll tell any body who knows that I’ve really…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 274

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…her Christian Rosen Creutz, to be discovered by the Brethren with the Postulant as said in the Book called Fama Fraternitatis. There are three Officers, and they repeat the Analysis of the Word as follows :— Chief. Let us analyse the Key Word—I. 2nd. N. 3rd. R. All. I. Chief. Yod. ° 2nd. Nun. 3 3rd. Resh. 4 All. Yod. ° Chief. Virgo (TM) Isis, Mighty Mother. 2nd. Scorpio ("l) Apophis, Destroyer. 3rd. Sol (©) Osiris, slain and risen. All, Isis, Apophis, Osiris, LAO. All spread Arms as if on a Cross, and say :— The Sign of Osiris slain ! Chief bow…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 238

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…n :—Demy 8vo, cut edges, pp. 8, pagi- nation from 119-126,! consisting of Title 1 The pagination is accounted for by the fact that these three pamphlets were printed off from the paged type of Jephthah and Other Mysteries, then in the press, and issued separately. * For the bulk of these notes we are indebted to the late Mr. L. C. R. Duncumbe-Jc well. 233

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1929 · PDF PAGE 99

Moonchild

…hat, as he suspected, Balloch and Douglas were the forces behind the attack; further, that Grey's presence in Naples was known, and that three members of the Black Lodge had left Paris for Italy. He thought it undesirable to communicate the news to Lisa. But he renewed his general warnings to her. "Child!" he said, "you are now ready for our great experiment. On Monday, the day of the New Moon, you take the oath of dedication; and we shall be able to resume those relations which we temporarily renounced. Now let me say to you that you are absol…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 58

777

…e Sea. mpare the classical four rivers of Hell. Cot. CVIII.—Incomplete and redundant owing to unconcentrated nature of Qliphoth. LinE 3.—Three Evil Forms before Samael are :-— Ssepnp byiba Syony The Thaumiel, also called Kerethiel. Cor. CIX.—© = King. @ = Duke. King Yb of WyY3, Dukes MIDy, y9DN, and nn, are all referred to Daath. Edomite Kings and Dukes are taken e libro Maggid. and Gen. 36. Cot. CXIV., Live 1.—J.e. simple breathing without articulation. Cot. CXV.—The furniture, &c., is attributed as told in the ritual, here duly 4-d, c-d, and …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 42

Konx Om Pax

…“ Hail to the Fairy Prince! ” meaning the new one that you have had for your baby; and at that moment you find you are living in the first Three Houses all at once, for you feel the delight of your own dear Prince and his love; and the old King stirs in his Silence in the First House, and thousands of millions of blessings shoot out like rays of light, and everything is all harmony and beauty below, and crowned above with the crown of twelve stars, which is the only way you can put it into dream talk. Now you see you don’t need to struggle to go …

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1929 · PDF PAGE 206

Moonchild

… Amulet of Rabbi Solomon, conferring health, wealth and happiness, with bag complete; also lucky moles and love-charms, price two eleven three to regular subscribers to The Occult Review." But with June a great and happy change came over Iliel. She became enthralled by the prospect of the miracle that was so soon to blossom on her breast. Her sulkiness vanished; she was blithe and joyous from the day's beginning to its end. She bore fatigue and discomfort without a murmur. She made friends with Sister Clara, and talked to her for hours while sh…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 184

Moonchild

…and sure enough the newt and the narwhal, attracted by the music swam up and were duly caught. As for the net, the Old Lady bartered her three treasures for Iliel's hair-net. "I'm afraid it isn't very strong to catch things with," she said. "I only need an orange, and an oboe, and an octopus; and they are easy enough to catch — in this country." Little by little the Old Lady beguiled Iliel, and one day, while they were setting a trap to catch a viper, and a vineyard, and a violin with their unicorn, and their umbrella, and their ukulele, she su…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 52

Moonchild

…. In fact, he was Bowling's expert witness on the question of the limits of possible fraud. Until Simon Iff and his party entered, these three men had been entertained by a woman. She was dressed in a plain purple robe, made in a single piece. It fell to her feet. The sleeves were long and widening towards the wrist. A red rose, upon a cross of gold, was embroidered on the breast. Her rich brown hair was coiled over her ears. The face of this woman was of extreme beauty, in a certain esoteric fancy. Like her whole body, it was sturdy and vigoro…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 246

Collected Works (Vol. I)

… unredeeming wings Over the world, and flaps for lust of Death —and Love! VENUS. This man was drained of music! Five new songs Chase the three ancient to oblivion! Oh! Love is grown fury! TANNHAUSER. Kall me! VENUS. In the kiss. [TANNHAUSER Sleeps, ACT III. For Love is lord of truth and loyalty, Lifting himself out of the lowly dust On golden piumes up to the purest sky, Above the reach of loathly sinful lust, Whose base affect through cowardly distrust Of his weak wings dare not to heaven fly, But like a moldwarp in the earth doth lie. His’ du…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 69

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…d with love Shines ecstasy thereof. Words pass and are not heard. The ear, awake Only for its master’s individual sake, Strains only for three whispered songs, Hears naught beside, interprets silence so, Till liquid melodies of music flow “T love you.” We afford to wait; who longs That knows ? is full. And we know; for the moon Steals in the ambient aura of delight That quivering ray intense and cool Self centred. Woven ofa million lines There is a curve of licht, | A pure, ideal curve, single, that shines Amid the manifold night Of all the flo…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 92

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…here all delights are ’stinguished at the last, And all good things forgotten, wallahy ! He died—aha now !—no—yes—let me see! Ten years, three months, four days, as I’m a sinner, Since Hassan let the—shame dinner.” at Ali’s AL MALIK. A GHAZAL OF AL QAHAR. AL MALIK the magnificent Was sitting in his silken tent. But when he saw the boy Habib 1 wis his colour came and went.

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1929 · PDF PAGE 39

Moonchild

…ould hold good. "I know it's hard to grasp the idea; let me put it to you this way. Take this cube. Here is a point, a corner, where the three bounding lines join. The point is nothing, yet it is part of the lines. To imagine it at all as a reality, we must say that it has a minute extension in these lines. "Now take a line. It has a similar minute uniform extension in the two surfaces which it bounds. Take the surface; it is similarly part of the one cube. "Go one step further; imagine that the cube is related to some unknown

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