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THE EQUINOX its horizons. To know all is an impossible dream; but woe unto him who dares not to learn all, and who does not know that, in order to know anything, one must learn eternally! They say that in order to learn anything well, one must forget it several times. The world has followed this method. Everything which is to-day debateable had been solved by theancients. Before our annals began, their solutions, written in hieroglyphs, had already no longer any meaning for us. A man has rediscovered their key ; he has opened the cemeteries of …
1913 · PDF PAGE 430
THE EQUINOX science and reason broader horizons than those of a bourgeois criticism, which denies everything which it does not yet know how to explain to itself. Facts are inexorable, and genuine good faith should never fear to examine them. The explanation of these facts, which all traditions obsti- nately affirm, and which are reproduced before our eyes with tiresome publicity, this explanation, ancient as the facts themselves, rigorous as mathematics, but drawn for the first time from the shadows in which the hierophants of all ages have hid…
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THE EQUINOX Certain ridiculous circumstances and a prosecution for swindling soon caused this thaumaturgist to fall into oblivion, and even into contempt; he had, moreover, been attacked with violence in pamphlets whose authors had at one time been admirers of his doctrine, for the medium Vintras took it upon himself to dogmatize. One thing, however, is re- markable in the invectives of which he is the object: his adversaries, though straining every effort in order to scourge him, recognize the truth of his miracles, and content them- selves wi…
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THE EQUINOX this visitor, nor of what he might have lost. He accordingly replied: ‘You think me much more of a sorcerer than I am; I do not know who you are, nor what you seek; con- sequently, if you think that I can be useful to you in any way, you must explain yourself and make your request more precise.” “Oh, well, since you are determined not to understand me, you will at least recognize this,” said the stranger, taking from his pocket a little, much-used black book. It was the grimotve of Pope Honorius. One word upon this little book so mu…
1913 · PDF PAGE 456
THE EQUINOX of the gvimoive, when they spoke of the ‘virgin he-goat,’ meant a little child.” “Well,” said he to his consultant; “give me some details about your visions. What you tell me interests me in the highest degree.” The sorcerer—for one must call him so—the sorcerer then told him of a series of strange facts, of which two families had been witness, and these facts were precisely identical with the phenomena of Mr. Home: hands coming out of walls, movements of furniture, phosphorescent apparitions. One day, the rash apprentice-magician h…
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THE EQUINOX for example, who live in isolation, deprived of all communica- tion with humanity, and who are daily in fluidic sympathy with animals gathered together in great number, as is ordin- arily the case with shepherds, are possessed of the demon whose name is /egion,; in their turn they reign despotically over the fluid souls of the flocks that are confided to their care: consequently their good-will or ill-will makes their cattle prosper or die; and this influence of animal sympathy can be exercised by them upon human plastic mediums whi…
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THE EQUINOX become a father in order that he may have more children to devour. To conquer love is to triumph over the whole of Nature. To submit it to justice is to rehabilitate life by devoting it to immortality; thus the greatest works of the Christian revelation are the creation of voluntary virginity and the sanctification of marriage. While love is nothing but a desire and an enjoyment, it is mortal. In order to make itself eternal it must become a sacrifice, for then it becomes a power and a virtue. It is the struggle of Eros and Anteros …
1910 · PDF PAGE 280
THE EQUINOX I sought to turn the current of his thoughts into another channel, but he had arrived at that place in his experience where suggestion is powerless. His world of the Real could not be changed by any inflow from ours of the Shadowy. I reached the same place in after days, and it was then as impossible for any human being to alter the condition which enwrapped me as it would have been for a brother on earth to stretch out his hands and rescue a brother writhing in the pangs of immortality. There are men in Oriental countries who make …
1910 · PDF PAGE 322
THE EQUINOX young and beautiful in the precision of its mechanical actions. She let her eye fall upon him and wondered... . Presently he had done digging and set to cut her some flowers, looking at her all the while, already feeling strange and new sensa- tions, sweating in an uncontrolled Sukshma-Pranayama. Alack-a-day, fellows! That was a fine lady for a poor ignorant moujick to behold. She stood, to the end of his days, for a divine apparition. Had he known of OUR LADY HECATE, (blessed be he who murmurs her name with awe! may she gleefully l…
1910 · PDF PAGE 280
THE EQUINOX I sought to turn the current of his thoughts into another channel, but he had arrived at that place in his experience where suggestion is powerless. His world of the Real could not be changed by any inflow from ours of the Shadowy. I reached the same place in after days, and it was then as impossible for any human being to alter the condition which enwrapped me as it would have been for a brother on earth to stretch out his hands and rescue a brother writhing in the pangs of immortality. There are men in Oriental countries who make …
1910 · PDF PAGE 322
THE EQUINOX young and beautiful in the precision of its mechanical actions. She let her eye fall upon him and wondered... . Presently he had done digging and set to cut her some flowers, looking at her all the while, already feeling strange and new sensa- tions, sweating in an uncontrolled Sukshma-Pranayama. Alack-a-day, fellows! That was a fine lady for a poor ignorant moujick to behold. She stood, to the end of his days, for a divine apparition. Had he known of OUR LADY HECATE, (blessed be he who murmurs her name with awe! may she gleefully l…
1911 · PDF PAGE 64
THE EQUINOX the river. And these lamps were above the river, children of a nobler element. And in the river is the great Leviathan that devours men. But before I had come within the sphere of attraction of either of these, suddenly mine eyes were gladdened with a marvellous vision. Infinitely far off, as it seemed, a ray of sunlight shot through the Saturnine gloom of the skies, and lit the surface of the water. And then I perceived that upon the river there floated, within that small circle of light, an ark, or as it might be, a coffin. Then look…
1911 · PDF PAGE 64
THE EQUINOX the river. And these lamps were above the river, children of a nobler element. And in the river is the great Leviathan that devours men. But before I had come within the sphere of attraction of either of these, suddenly mine eyes were gladdened with a marvellous vision. Infinitely far off, as it seemed, a ray of sunlight shot through the Saturnine gloom of the skies, and lit the surface of the water. And then I perceived that upon the river there floated, within that small circle of light, an ark, or as it might be, a coffin. Then look…
1911 · PDF PAGE 80
THE EQUINOX been prepared from the desert by NEMO, watered with the waters that were called death. And I say unto him: To what end is the garden prepared? And he saith: First for the beauty and delight thereof; and next because it is written, ‘“‘ And Tetragrammaton Elohim planted a garden eastward in Eden.” And lastly, because though every flower bringeth forth a maiden, yet is there one flower that shall bring forth a man-child. And his name shall be called NEMO, when he beholdeth the face of my Father. And he that tendeth the garden seeketh n…
1912 · PDF PAGE 126
THE EQUINOX these the only good? No; for these benefits absorb only part of the time and energy of man. Is it good to chop wood? Yes, undoubtedly; but it is also good to render woodcutting in art. Then why should not the woodcutter be an artist? Why should he not chop miracles of carving? The Michael Angelo of Fontainebleau? Why not? What does Browning say? “I want to know the butcher paints, the baker rhymes for his pursuit," and so on. Very well ; then what do you do that is truly good? That is, unnecessarily, supererogatively, and therefore s…
1912 · PDF PAGE 126
THE EQUINOX these the only good? No; for these benefits absorb only part of the time and energy of man. Is it good to chop wood? Yes, undoubtedly; but it is also good to render woodcutting in art. Then why should not the woodcutter be an artist? Why should he not chop miracles of carving? The Michael Angelo of Fontainebleau? Why not? What does Browning say? “I want to know the butcher paints, the baker rhymes for his pursuit," and so on. Very well ; then what do you do that is truly good? That is, unnecessarily, supererogatively, and therefore s…
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THE EQUINOX 53. This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart & my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss. Also, o scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me! 54. Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein. 55. The child of thy bowels, Ze shall behold them. 56. Expect him not from the East, nor from the West; for from no expected house …
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THE EQUINOX who have broken down dogma, and are trying always to fill the void with reasonings, like the sieve of the Danaides; these weavers of religious fantasy, all of whose innovations are negative, who have formulated for their own use an unknown calling itself better known, mysteries better explained, a more defined infinite, a more restrained immen- sity, a more doubting faith, those who have quintessentialized the absurd, divided charity, and taken acts of anarchy for the principles of an entirely impossible hierarchy; those men who wis…
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THE EQUINOX and become almost lovable. An honest woman will experience nothing but disgust in the society of a prostitute, but she has everything to fear from the seductions of a coquette. One knows that madness is contagious, but the mad are more particularly dangerous when they are amiable and sympathetic. One enters little by little into their circle of ideas, one ends by understanding their exaggerations, while partaking their enthusiasms, one grows accustomed to their logic that has lost its way, one ends by finding that they are not as ma…
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THE EQUINOX 53. This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart & my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss. Also, o scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me! 54. Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein. 55. The child of thy bowels, Ze shall behold them. 56. Expect him not from the East, nor from the West; for from no expected house …