The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)
…hich to reassume An empire o’er the disentangled doom. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite ; Το forgive wrongs darker than death or night;
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…hich to reassume An empire o’er the disentangled doom. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite ; Το forgive wrongs darker than death or night;
…hich to reassume An empire o’er the disentangled doom. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite ; Το forgive wrongs darker than death or night;
91 remarked that even among the CathoUcs the wafer has always been marked with a phallus or cross. (Note by Soror Virakam.) (Nearly midnight. At this moment we stopped dictating, and began to converse. Then Fra. P. said: "Oh, if I could only dictate a book like the Tao Teh King!" Then he closed his eyes as if meditating. Just before I had noticed a change in his face, most extraordinary, as if he were no longer the same person; in fact in the ten minutes we were talking he seemed to be any number of different people. I especially noticed the pu…
…l the lights of heaven to window it. [EsMi’s eyes oper.) Esme ! you must wake up and kiss father ! Esmt [ha/f awake]. Iie sang to me all night, not his voice only, but a deeper veice that I understood so well as I never understood, a voice like his poem, only more beautiful even than that, and T can’t remember one word, only that he kissed me all the night; and there was as it were a vapour, an incense-cloud, about me, and I could not see--and I am so happy.
…of breath were not absolutely easy; yet I did them. After a big dinner!!! The sweating was quite suppressed, in spite of the heat of the night and the exercise ; and the first symptoms of the Bhuchari-Siddhi—the “jumping about like a frog" ——were well marked. I am encouraged to spend a few minutes (still in Asana) reading the Shiva Sanhita. Asana very painful again. True, I was doing it very strictly. I notice they give a second stage—trembling of the body—as preliminary to the jumping about like a frog —1 had omitted this, as one is so obviousl…
…y a young mild devil, though of the same bad brood. It said: "Is there any Path or Attainment? Have you been fooled all along ? " But to-night‘s thought struck at my own integrity, at the inmost truth of the soul and of Adonai. As I said, there is no answer to it; and as these seven days have left me fairly master of the fortress, I caught him young, and assigned him promptly to the oubliette. I put down this—not as a “ pose "—but because the business is so gigantic. It encourages me immensely; for if my Dweller on the Threshold be that most fo…
…d"; Part X, “The Bier”; Part XI, “ The Bier” (cmlz'nued); Part XII, “The Bier" (mniz'nued); Part XIII, “Blue Robes”; Part XIV, “The Dark Night”; Part XV, “Before the Accusers"; Part XVI, “The Assessor "; Part XVII, “Forte bobor tendas"; Part XVIII, “Aum sweet Aum!” Part XIX, “Welcome! The Allocution of Maria.” xxv
…d"; Part X, “The Bier”; Part XI, “ The Bier” (cmlz'nued); Part XII, “The Bier" (mniz'nued); Part XIII, “Blue Robes”; Part XIV, “The Dark Night”; Part XV, “Before the Accusers"; Part XVI, “The Assessor "; Part XVII, “Forte bobor tendas"; Part XVIII, “Aum sweet Aum!” Part XIX, “Welcome! The Allocution of Maria.” xxv
…ife and lust, it leads him through the fields of Being unto the peace and bliss known only in the land of Silence and Non-Being. The “midnight blossom” is a phrase connected with the doctrine of the Night of Pan, familiar to Masters of the Temple. “The Poppy that flowers in the dusk” is another name for it. A most secret Formula of Magick is connected with this “Heart of the Circle.” 54. Kill out desire; but if thou killest it, take heed lest from the dead it should again rise. By “desire” in all mystic treatises of any merit is meant tendency.…
…hese words... . The impact of light itself is a bodily pain. “When the sun is a living devil Vomiting vats of evil, And the moon and the night but mock The wretch on his barren rock, And the dome of heaven high-arched Like his mouth is arid and parched, And the caves of his heart high-spanned Are choked with alkali sand!” We are living on water. It seems for the moment to quench the thirst, at least part of it. Peter’s nervous state is very alarming. I feel sure he has delusions. He got up and staggered to the mantelpiece and leant against it w…
…y fight , Wild beasts , for food , The orphan's gold , the widow's right , The virgin's snood . All in their maws are crammed within the night That hides their chosen wood , Where through the blackness sounds the sickening noise Of cannibals that gloat on monstrous joys.? Feeding perhaps first on man's body , the priest soon found , after investing his victim with an immortal soul , that the soul would form an excellent basis for blackmail , enabling man to buy off the terrors of hell through the medium of the priest who held the keys of heaven…
… the radiant Triangle. (Refrain.) (v. V.) Blessed is not I, not thou, not he, Blessed without name or number who hath taken the azure of night, and 104
…ieii. [Vide JN KD. LC. p. 117] Qy. Sruti “scripture” wD 275 32 3% (1-23) 276 Angel L.T.N. of =. PSII [Vide Liber 777, p. 29] A Cithara 5 Night Demon of 15 Dec. bono The Moon xD 277 To sow, propagate ; seed, yr semen [For multiplying] [or pnd written, Vide K.D, L.C.K. pp. 157 and 837] Angel of 3" Dec. boa) Gratia, benevolentia ayo 278 Angels of Jesod, and of pan Binah of Briah—Cherubim Passing over way The Material World ysuysn Doi 279 Leprosy. [Vide K.D. yD L.C.K. p. 495] [7 40, the Squares on the walls of 280 the Vault. See Equinox I. 3. p. 22…
…ieii. [Vide JN KD. LC. p. 117] Qy. Sruti “scripture” wD 275 32 3% (1-23) 276 Angel L.T.N. of =. PSII [Vide Liber 777, p. 29] A Cithara 5 Night Demon of 15 Dec. bono The Moon xD 277 To sow, propagate ; seed, yr semen [For multiplying] [or pnd written, Vide K.D, L.C.K. pp. 157 and 837] Angel of 3" Dec. boa) Gratia, benevolentia ayo 278 Angels of Jesod, and of pan Binah of Briah—Cherubim Passing over way The Material World ysuysn Doi 279 Leprosy. [Vide K.D. yD L.C.K. p. 495] [7 40, the Squares on the walls of 280 the Vault. See Equinox I. 3. p. 22…
ALEISTER CROWLEY The Neophyte SIGHT I tread the unsubstantial way ‘That looms before me, as the thundering night Falls on the ocean : I must stop, and pray One little prayer, and then—what bitter fight Flames at the end beyond the darkling goal ? “These are my passions that my feet must tread; ‘This is my sword, the fervour of my soul ; ‘This is my Will, the crown upon my head. For see! the darkness beckons : I have gone, Before this terrible hour, towards the gloom, Braved the wild dragon, called the tiger on With whirling cries of pride, soug…
…n this Book, and the Glad Tidings are now here, now there, scattered throughout the Book as the Stars are scattered through the field of Night. Rejoice with me, all ye people! At the very head of the Book stands the great charter of our godhead: “Every man and every woman is a star.” We are all free, all independent, all shining glori- ously, each one a radiant world. Is not that good tidings? Then comes the first call of the Great Goddess Nuit, Lady of the Starry Heaven, who is also Matter in its deepest metaphysical sense, who is the infinite…
…d of the Masters of the Temple when They bade me welcome o their Order, appointing a Siege for me in the City of the Pyramids, under the Night of Pan; but for three Years I was not willing to avail myself thereof. Now mark well this, o my Son, that this Path was peculiar to the law of my Star, and none other should follow me herein, or seek to follow me, for he hath his own proper Orbit. O my Son, err not by Generalisation and Conformity, for this is the very Idleness, and breedeth Ideals and Standards that are Death. t
…e mediators between us and the Father.) Note Christ as the Healer, and also his own expression, "The son of Man cometh as a thief in the night"; and also this scripture (Matt. XXIV, 27), "For as the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be." Note also Christ's relations with the money changers, his frequent parables, and the fact that his first disciple was a publican. Note also Mercury as the deliverer of Prometheus. One half of the fish symbol is also common to Christ as Me…
…ire, and brooded still : Nature and Time, their soleness undispelled, Ever awaiting the eternal Will. And Law was unbegotten : uttermost Night Dwelt, inaccessible to sound and sight Shielded from Voice, impervious to Light. Then grew within the barren womb of this The Breath of the Eternal and the Vast, Softer than dawn, and closer than a kiss And lo ! the chaos and the darkness passed ! At the creative sigh the Light became. Chaos rolled back in the abundant flame. The vast and mystic Soul, The firmament, a living coal, Flamed twixt the glory…
…layed. 51. In their play I came even unto the land of Fairy Sleep. All my thoughts were clad in green; most beautiful were they. 52. All night they danced and sang; but Thou art the morning, O my darling, my serpent that twinest Thee about this heart. 53. I am the heart, and Thou the serpent. Wind Thy coils closer about me, so that no light nor bliss may pene- trate. 54. Crush out the blood of me, as a grape upon the tongue of a white Doric girl that languishes with her lover in the moonlight. 55. Then let the End awake. Long hast thou slept, O…