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Page 91 of 1191913 · PDF PAGE 30
THE EQUINOX of S.G.M.G. without due notice, to drag our holy Rite into the mire, to chain it to the chariot wheels of a Krishnamurti, to make us pandars to the antique and impotent uncleanness of a senile sodomite. Shall we allow the Antient and P. Rite to be dragged at the heels of this filthy and ridiculous movement? Shall we be beslavered by these blasphemous bestialities; we, the Conservators of a Rite hallowed alike by its own nature and by the glory with which antiquity surrounds it; we, generation after generation of whose ancestors, eve…
1913 · PDF PAGE 55
…d none by the Book? 49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods ; and let Asar be with Isa, who also are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant, Isa, the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating. 50. There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. The gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty ch…
1913 · PDF PAGE 418
THE EQUINOX succumbs to sleep, he holds in horror everything which might wake him. It is the same with the hallucinated, with statical somnambulists, maniacs, epileptics, and all those who abandon themselves to the delirium of a passion. They have heard the fatal music, they have entered into the dance of death; and they feel themselves dragged away into the whirl of vertigo. You speak to them, they no more hear you; you warn them, they no longer understand you, but your voice annoys them; they are asleep with the sleep of death. Death is a cur…
1919 · PDF PAGE 186
THE EQUINOX not further in this place indicated. From this seed armed men sprung to life; but instead of attacking Him, “mutual madness strikes The warriors witless, and fierce wrath in- vades Their hearts of fury, and with arms engaged, They fell upon each other silently, And slew, and slew.” Now then, the Dragon being asleep, we may step quietly past him, and “rending the branches of that wizard Oak, With a strong grasp tear down the Fleece of Gold.” Let us only remember not to repeat the error of Jason, and defy Ares, who is Horus in his war…
1919 · PDF PAGE 412
THE EQUINOX ations of metaphysics, and it was about these that the battle raged. I fancy that their critics imagine the Schoolmen dis- puting whether the number was 25 or 26, which argues their own shallowness by the readiness with which they attribute the same quality to others. However, a great deal of mis- chief has been done by the pedant, and the distinctions be- tween the various Jhanas will convey little to the Western mind, even of a man who has some experience of them. The question of mistranslation alone renders the majority of Buddhi…
1919 · PDF PAGE 430
THE EQUINOX If it means Nephesh, of course this ought to have been mastered long ago. It probably means Neshamah. If we take this to be so, the whole passage will become intelligible. In the beginning of progress we have the automatic Ego, the animal creator or generator of Nephesh in Yesod, the lowest point of the Ruach, and the marriage between these is the first regeneration. Nephesh is Syrinx, and Yesod is Pan. Nephesh is the elemental Soul which seeks redemption and immortality. In order to obtain it, it must acquire a Soul such as is poss…
1954 · PDF PAGE 363
…r appurtenances of the artist's dismal trade. I took occasion to call upon an old mistress of mine, Jane Cheron, concerning whom see The Equinox, Vol. I, "Three Poems." She has never had the slightest interest in occult
1954 · PDF PAGE 548
…ifies the means), 309, 312 Endor, Witch of, 180 Energized Enthusiasm, 137 England, General Election, 461 Enochian Tablets, see Elemental Equinox, The, general, why begun, 457 -of the Gods, reporter's story quoted, 315 Erdmann, 181 Ethics of Thelema, 292, 294, 305,317,422 Ethyl Oxide, 365 Euclid,315 Euripides, 123 Evangelical (cults), 76 Everest (mystery), 267 Evolution and Ethics, 73 Exaltation, 19 Excalibur,87 Exempt Adept, see Adept Fabre, 87 Fabre d'Olivet, 408 Fama Fraternitatis, 111 Family system, 344 Farrerre, Claude, 402 Fascism, 441 Fat…
1909 · PDF PAGE 372
THE EQUINOX of this incoherent anticipation of the rest of my story. I should raise no sympathy in your heart by whimpering over myself. It is true that I am inclined to run riot in self-lamen- tations ; but great men always are. And I shall try henceforth not to give way to that unwholesome tendency. I have much already to be forgiven. In my cage, then, to resume, I was just passing from a state of dreadful mental agony to a more settled and hopeful disposition. For the second time the man-who-had-lost-his- cover left me alone; and I felt more…
1909 · PDF PAGE 372
THE EQUINOX of this incoherent anticipation of the rest of my story. I should raise no sympathy in your heart by whimpering over myself. It is true that I am inclined to run riot in self-lamen- tations ; but great men always are. And I shall try henceforth not to give way to that unwholesome tendency. I have much already to be forgiven. In my cage, then, to resume, I was just passing from a state of dreadful mental agony to a more settled and hopeful disposition. For the second time the man-who-had-lost-his- cover left me alone; and I felt more…
1911 · PDF PAGE 146
THE EQUINOX “Art,” said he, " and do not imagine that Art or anything else is other than High Magic I—is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to under- stand; some few obtain the truth. The technical ability of the artist is the lucidity of his language ; it has nothing to do with the degree of his illumination. Bougereau is better technically than Manet; he explains more clearly what he sees. But what does he see? He is the priest oia fa…
1911 · PDF PAGE 146
THE EQUINOX “Art,” said he, " and do not imagine that Art or anything else is other than High Magic I—is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to under- stand; some few obtain the truth. The technical ability of the artist is the lucidity of his language ; it has nothing to do with the degree of his illumination. Bougereau is better technically than Manet; he explains more clearly what he sees. But what does he see? He is the priest oia fa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 562
THE EQUINOX the thirst of destruction, and its final aim is suicide. The murderer Eligabide, on his own confession, not only felt the savage need of killing his relations and friends, but he even wished, had it been possible—he said it in so many words at his trial—to burst the globe like a cooked chestnut, Lacenaire, who spent his days in plotting murders, in order to have the means of passing his nights in ignoble orgies or in the excite- ment of gambling, boasted aloud that he had lived. Hecalled that living, and he sang a hymn to the guillo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 580
THE EQUINOX with so much care children who must die? Such is the question of human ignorance in its most frequent and its saddest doubts. This, too, is what the human embryo may vaguely ask itself at the approach of that birth which is about to throw it into an unknown world by stripping it of its protective envelope. Let us study the mystery of birth, and we shall have the key of the great arcanum of death ! Thrown by the laws of Nature into the womb of a woman, the incarnated spirit very slowly wakes, and creates for itself with effort organs…
1913 · PDF PAGE 562
THE EQUINOX the thirst of destruction, and its final aim is suicide. The murderer Eligabide, on his own confession, not only felt the savage need of killing his relations and friends, but he even wished, had it been possible—he said it in so many words at his trial—to burst the globe like a cooked chestnut, Lacenaire, who spent his days in plotting murders, in order to have the means of passing his nights in ignoble orgies or in the excite- ment of gambling, boasted aloud that he had lived. Hecalled that living, and he sang a hymn to the guillo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 580
THE EQUINOX with so much care children who must die? Such is the question of human ignorance in its most frequent and its saddest doubts. This, too, is what the human embryo may vaguely ask itself at the approach of that birth which is about to throw it into an unknown world by stripping it of its protective envelope. Let us study the mystery of birth, and we shall have the key of the great arcanum of death ! Thrown by the laws of Nature into the womb of a woman, the incarnated spirit very slowly wakes, and creates for itself with effort organs…
1919 · PDF PAGE 370
THE EQUINOX fools call pleasure, people expect him to refuse things both natural and necessary. Some people are so hypocritical that they claim their dislikes as virtue, and so the poor, weedy, unhealthy degenerate who cannot smoke because his heart is out of order, and cannot drink because his brain is too weak to stand it, or perhaps because his doctor has forbidden him to do either for the next two years, the man who is afraid of life, afraid to do anything lest some result should follow, is acclaimed as the best and greatest of mankind. It …
1911 · PDF PAGE 36
THE EQUINOX . . . Let me speak, O God; let me declare it... all. It is useless; my heart faints, my breath stops. There is no link between me and P.... I withdraw myself. I see the table again. (He was behind the table for a very long time. O.V.) And all the table burns with intolerable light; there has been no such light in any of the Aethyrs until now. And now the table draws me back into itself; I am no more. My arms were out in the form of a cross, and that Cross was extended, blazing with light into infinity. I myself am the minutest point…
1911 · PDF PAGE 88
THE EQUINOX false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell. Yet of their own poison do they perish, and in their lonely fortresses shall they be eaten up by Time that hath cheated them to serve him, and by the mighty devil Choronzon, their master, whose name is the Second Death, for the blood that they have sprinkled on their Pylon, that is a bar against the Angel Death, is the key by which he entereth in.* The Angel sayeth: And this is the word of double power in the voice of the Master, wherein the Five inter…
1911 · PDF PAGE 128
THE EQUINOX nigh unto the City of the Seven Hills, and this is the Mystery of the great prophets that have come unto mankind, Moses, and Buddha, and Lao Tan, and Krishna, and Jesus, and Osiris, and Mohammed; for all these attained unto the grade of Magus, and therefore were they bound with the curse of Thoth. But, being guardians of the truth, they have taught nothing but falsehood, except unto such as understood; for the truth may not pass the Gate of the Abyss. But the reflection of the truth hath been shown in the lower Sephiroth. And its ba…