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Page 79 of 1191912 · PDF PAGE 134
THE EQUINOX always ending up with kisses in the old armchair, and a dainty dinner. This had continued for nearly three years with no inter- ruption but once when the Professor’s wife, from whom he had long been separated, succeeded in getting into the house on some pretence, and creating a very considerable uproar before the Professor and his butler could master her rage. She was a big muscular woman from Australia with the body of a tiger and the temper of a snake. She would have made a winning fight of it but for Zircon’s adroit sortie to the …
1912 · PDF PAGE 134
THE EQUINOX always ending up with kisses in the old armchair, and a dainty dinner. This had continued for nearly three years with no inter- ruption but once when the Professor’s wife, from whom he had long been separated, succeeded in getting into the house on some pretence, and creating a very considerable uproar before the Professor and his butler could master her rage. She was a big muscular woman from Australia with the body of a tiger and the temper of a snake. She would have made a winning fight of it but for Zircon’s adroit sortie to the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 566
THE EQUINOX To CREATE GOD, TO CREATE ONE'S SELF, TO MAKE ONE’S SELF INDEPENDENT, IMMORTAL AND WITHOUT SUFFER- ING: there certainly is a programme more daring than the dream of Prometheus. Its expression is bold to the point of impiety, its thought ambitious to the point of madness. Well, this programme is only paradoxical in its form, which lends itself to a false and sacrilegious interpretation. In one sense it is perfectly reasonable, and the science of the adepts promises to realize it, and to accomplish it in perfection. Man, in effect, cre…
1913 · PDF PAGE 574
THE EQUINOX been seen old and broken, he reappeared with a bright com- plexion, without wrinkles, his beard and hair black, his body agile and vigorous. His enemies pretended that he rouged, and dyed his hair; for scoffers and false savants must find some sort of explanation for the phenomena which they do not understand. The great magical means of preserving the youth of the body is to prevent the soul from growing old by preserving preciously that original freshness of sentiments and thoughts which the corrupt world calls illusions, and which…
1913 · PDF PAGE 566
THE EQUINOX To CREATE GOD, TO CREATE ONE'S SELF, TO MAKE ONE’S SELF INDEPENDENT, IMMORTAL AND WITHOUT SUFFER- ING: there certainly is a programme more daring than the dream of Prometheus. Its expression is bold to the point of impiety, its thought ambitious to the point of madness. Well, this programme is only paradoxical in its form, which lends itself to a false and sacrilegious interpretation. In one sense it is perfectly reasonable, and the science of the adepts promises to realize it, and to accomplish it in perfection. Man, in effect, cre…
1913 · PDF PAGE 574
THE EQUINOX been seen old and broken, he reappeared with a bright com- plexion, without wrinkles, his beard and hair black, his body agile and vigorous. His enemies pretended that he rouged, and dyed his hair; for scoffers and false savants must find some sort of explanation for the phenomena which they do not understand. The great magical means of preserving the youth of the body is to prevent the soul from growing old by preserving preciously that original freshness of sentiments and thoughts which the corrupt world calls illusions, and which…
1929 · PDF PAGE 60
…oun, but its nature is principally féminine.2 It is a perfect hieroglyph of the number 5. This should be studied in “A Note on Genesis” (Equinox LU). The Eléments are ail represented, as in Tetragrammaton, but there is no development from one into the others. They are, as it were, thrown together — untamed, only sympathising by virtue of their wild and stormy but elastically resistless energy. The Central letter is Hé — the letter of breath — and represents Spirit. The first letter Àleph is the natural letter of Air, and the Final Mem is the na…
1909 · PDF PAGE 188
THE EQUINOX Sephiroth, as if to declare that this verse from beginning to end thereof reflected the Voices from Kether even unto Malkuth: and 6 — 4=2 again, the Central Will, 2, Thoth, in the Heart of the Universe (as in the centre of the verse). Note, then, this perfect equilibrium of the verse, and remember that Mystery—that equilibrium is strength. Let us now look at the letters themselves. Counting them, we find that the two central ones are x», the Supernal Mother ; even as the number of letters had the dual symbol in their midst. Now thei…
1909 · PDF PAGE 188
THE EQUINOX Sephiroth, as if to declare that this verse from beginning to end thereof reflected the Voices from Kether even unto Malkuth: and 6 — 4=2 again, the Central Will, 2, Thoth, in the Heart of the Universe (as in the centre of the verse). Note, then, this perfect equilibrium of the verse, and remember that Mystery—that equilibrium is strength. Let us now look at the letters themselves. Counting them, we find that the two central ones are x», the Supernal Mother ; even as the number of letters had the dual symbol in their midst. Now thei…
1910 · PDF PAGE 86
THE EQUINOX The Gnana Yoga P., as the student, had already long practised in his study of the Holy Qabalah; so also had he Karma Yoga by his acts of service whilst a Neophyte in the Order of the Golden Dawn; but now at the suggestion of D. A. he betook himself to the practice of Hatha and Raja Yoga. Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga are so intimately connected, that instead of forming two separate methods, they rather form the first half and second half of one and the same. Before discussing either the Hatha or Raja Yogas, it will be necessary to explai…
1910 · PDF PAGE 114
THE EQUINOX How to awake the Kundalini is therefore our next task. We have seen how this can partially be done by the various Mudra exercises, but it will be remembered that the Shakti Chalana mentioned the practice of Kumbhaka or the retention of breath. Such an exercise therefore partially falls under the heading of Pranayama. It is a well-known physiological fact that the respiratory system, more so than any other, controls the motions of the body. Without food or drink we can subsist many days, but stop a man’s breathing but for a few minut…
1910 · PDF PAGE 86
THE EQUINOX The Gnana Yoga P., as the student, had already long practised in his study of the Holy Qabalah; so also had he Karma Yoga by his acts of service whilst a Neophyte in the Order of the Golden Dawn; but now at the suggestion of D. A. he betook himself to the practice of Hatha and Raja Yoga. Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga are so intimately connected, that instead of forming two separate methods, they rather form the first half and second half of one and the same. Before discussing either the Hatha or Raja Yogas, it will be necessary to explai…
1910 · PDF PAGE 114
THE EQUINOX How to awake the Kundalini is therefore our next task. We have seen how this can partially be done by the various Mudra exercises, but it will be remembered that the Shakti Chalana mentioned the practice of Kumbhaka or the retention of breath. Such an exercise therefore partially falls under the heading of Pranayama. It is a well-known physiological fact that the respiratory system, more so than any other, controls the motions of the body. Without food or drink we can subsist many days, but stop a man’s breathing but for a few minut…
1912 · PDF PAGE 176
THE EQUINOX tales o‘ robbers; ’twere not so when I were young, lad. The world gets worse as we get older, Jack. JACK. Nonsense, Father, they won't attack us. Don’t the village know how I half—choked the life [HE mahesa murderous gesture, so violent that the OLD MAN shrinks] out of Bagstock, that was torturing the stray dog? MARTIN. Ay, lad, and well it served the brute. I'm off now, Jack, you’re a strong lad and a brave, but these nasty robbers have weapons, we must be careful, main careful JACK. Only one night-cap, Father! MARTIN. Ay, lad—I’m …
1912 · PDF PAGE 176
THE EQUINOX tales o‘ robbers; ’twere not so when I were young, lad. The world gets worse as we get older, Jack. JACK. Nonsense, Father, they won't attack us. Don’t the village know how I half—choked the life [HE mahesa murderous gesture, so violent that the OLD MAN shrinks] out of Bagstock, that was torturing the stray dog? MARTIN. Ay, lad, and well it served the brute. I'm off now, Jack, you’re a strong lad and a brave, but these nasty robbers have weapons, we must be careful, main careful JACK. Only one night-cap, Father! MARTIN. Ay, lad—I’m …
1913 · PDF PAGE 54
THE EQUINOX 34. But she said: the ordeals I write not: the rituals shall be half known and half concealed: the Law is for all. 35. This that thou writest is the threefold book of Law. 36. My scribe Ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not in one letter change this book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment thereupon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor- Khu-it. 37. Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach. 38. He must teach ; but he may make seve…
1913 · PDF PAGE 570
THE EQUINOX are, a mouse, while you are a rat. Make yourself a cat, and you will capture it. In one of the admirable stories which, though he did not invent it, he has told better than anybody, Perrault puts upon the stage a cat, which cunningly induces an ogre to change himself into a mouse, and the thing is no sooner done, than the mouse is crunched by the cat. The Zales of Mother Goose, like the Golden Ass of Apuleius, are perhaps true magical legends, and hide beneath the cloak of childish fairy tales the formidable secrets of science. It i…
1913 · PDF PAGE 54
THE EQUINOX 34. But she said: the ordeals I write not: the rituals shall be half known and half concealed: the Law is for all. 35. This that thou writest is the threefold book of Law. 36. My scribe Ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not in one letter change this book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment thereupon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor- Khu-it. 37. Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach. 38. He must teach ; but he may make seve…
1913 · PDF PAGE 570
THE EQUINOX are, a mouse, while you are a rat. Make yourself a cat, and you will capture it. In one of the admirable stories which, though he did not invent it, he has told better than anybody, Perrault puts upon the stage a cat, which cunningly induces an ogre to change himself into a mouse, and the thing is no sooner done, than the mouse is crunched by the cat. The Zales of Mother Goose, like the Golden Ass of Apuleius, are perhaps true magical legends, and hide beneath the cloak of childish fairy tales the formidable secrets of science. It i…
1947 · PDF PAGE 9
…h with fire and sword it be burnt down and shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox. Now this mystery of the letters is done, and I want to go on to a holier place. Also for beautys sake and loves ! Despise also all cowards ; all fools despise ! But the keen and the proud, the royal and the lofty ; ye are brothers ! As brothers fight ye ! There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Love is the law, love under will.