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1913 · PDF PAGE 537

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES CHAPTER II THE POWER OF THE WORD It is the word which creates forms; and forms in their turn react upon the word, in order to modify it and com- plete it. Every word of truth is a beginning of an act of justice. One asks if man may sometimes be necessarily driven to evil. Yes, when his judgment is false, and consequently his word unjust. But one is responsible for a false judgment as for a bad action. What falsifies the judgment is selfishness and its unjust vanities. The unjust word, unable to realize itself by creatio…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 537

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES CHAPTER II THE POWER OF THE WORD It is the word which creates forms; and forms in their turn react upon the word, in order to modify it and com- plete it. Every word of truth is a beginning of an act of justice. One asks if man may sometimes be necessarily driven to evil. Yes, when his judgment is false, and consequently his word unjust. But one is responsible for a false judgment as for a bad action. What falsifies the judgment is selfishness and its unjust vanities. The unjust word, unable to realize itself by creatio…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 9

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH H OYK ETI KE@AAH O!+ THE FIRST TRIAD WHICH IS GOD I AM. I utter The Word. I hear The Word. THE ABYSS The Word is broken up. There is Knowledge. Knowledge is Relation. These fragments are Creation. The broken manifests Light.? 7

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1961 · PDF PAGE 83

Liber Aleph

…ionysus) RISHNA has Names and Forms innumerable, and I know not His true Human Birth, for His Formula is of the Major Antiquity. But His Word hath spread into many Lands, and we know it to-day as INRI with the secret IAO concealed therein. And the Meaning of this Word is the Working of Nature in Her Changes; that is, it is the Formula of Magick whereby all Things reproduce and recreate themselves. Yet this Extension and Specialisation was rather the Word of Dionysus; for the true Word of Krishna was AUM, importing rather a Statement of the Trut…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 472

Magick Without Tears

EDUCATION 439 chosen for reference. (Nuttall's is fairly good, though some very well-known words are omitted. The Oxford Pocket Dictionary is useless; it is for morons, illiterates, wallowers in "Basic English" -and [I suppose I Oxonians. No proper names, however well-known, unless used as common: e.g. Bobby, a flatfoot, a beetlecrusher , a harness bull; or Xantippe, a shrew, a lady. X-rays is given in the plural only: ditto "Roentgen-rays," and they give "Roentgenogram." "You never can tell!" Participles, plurals and the like are not "words" u…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 80

Liber Aleph

LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 68 Bo De Magis Ordinis A∴A∴ quibus Caro fit Verbum (Of the Magi of the Order A∴A∴, by whom the Word is made Flesh) OW, o my Son, the Incarnation of a Poet is parti- cular and not Universal; he sayeth indeed true Things but not the Things of All-Truth. And that these may be said it is necessary that One take human Flesh, and become a Magus in our Holy Order. He then is called the Logos, or Logos Aionos, that is to say, the Word of the Æon or Age, because he is verily that Word. And thus may be be known, because He hath it giv…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 23

The Scented Garden

Introduction 15 translated literally into Sanskrit, word by word, reads like a mutilated but unmistakable passage from some lost Upanishad. Such follies as Sri Parananda’s lunatic commen- taries on Matthew and John could never have been perpetrated but for the fact that after all his fun- damental theory — that Christ was a Yogi — is cor- rect. And our hymn : “ For ever with the Lord ! Amen ! so let it be ! Life from the dead is in that word : ’Tis immortality.” may be rendered by paraphrase : For ever Timeless : an epithet only used of the Atm…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 67

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…rlier formula whose investigation will occupy Chapter VI. The Master Therion, in the Seventeenth year of the Aeon, has reconstructed the Word I A O to satisfy the new conditions of Magick imposed by progress. The Word of the Law being Thelema, whose number is 93, this number should be the canon of a corresponding Mass. Accordingly, he Has expanded I A O by treating the O as an Ayin, and then adding Vau as prefix and affix. The full Word is then wn whose number is 93. We may analyse this new Word in detail and demonstrate that it is a proper hie…

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1935 · PDF PAGE 8

One Star in Sight

… will in any direction, and no Consciousness of any kind involving duality, for in Him all is accomplished; as it is written “beyond the Word and the Fool, yea, beyond the Word and the Fool”. 5. The Grade of Magus is described in Liber I vel Magi, and there are accounts of its character in Liber 418 in the Higher Aethyrs. There is also a full and precise description of the attainment of this Grade in the Magical Record of the Beast 666. The essential characteristic of the Grade is that its possessor utters a Creative Magical Word, which transfo…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 73

The Book of Lies

…ow-craftsmen out of work! Three Master Masons out of work! All these sat on their haunches waiting The Report of the Sojourners; for THE WORD was lost. This is the Report of the Sojourners: THE WORD was LOVE;?? and its number is An Hundred and Eleven. Then said each AMO; for its number is An Hundred and Eleven. Each took the Trowel from his LAP,” whose number is An Hundred and Eleven. Each called moreover on the Goddess NINA 37° for Her number is An Hundred and Eleven. Yet with all this went The Work awry; for THE WORD OF THE LAW IS QOEAHMA.

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1961 · PDF PAGE 129

Liber Aleph

…eretic; the Poet and cast him out as Reprobate; the Painter, as deforming Nature, the Musician, as denying Harmony; and so for every New Word. How much more, then, if the Word be of Universal Import, a Word of Revolution and of Revelation in the Deep of the Soul? A new Star; that is for the Astronomers, and maybe setteth them by he Ears. But a new Sun! That were for all Men; and a Seed of Tumult and Upheavel in every Land. consider in thyself, herefore, what is the Might of the Adepts, the Energy of the Sancturary, that can endow one Man with t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 102

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

ARAB. JULIAN. THE EQUINOX The sign is strict, averred. Hast thou the holy word? [Whispered] The word is rightly spoken. Hast thou the secret token? [Given, each extend- ing the forefinger and striking tt against that of the other.| The token is in order. Pass to my brother warder ! [They pass over to JULIAN. I am the camel brother of your priest, And we are come from north and south and east To build your God a new and nobler shrine. Give me the sign. [Done, each striking his breast Jive times with clenched hand] The sign is strict, averred. Ha…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 102

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

ARAB. JULIAN. THE EQUINOX The sign is strict, averred. Hast thou the holy word? [Whispered] The word is rightly spoken. Hast thou the secret token? [Given, each extend- ing the forefinger and striking tt against that of the other.| The token is in order. Pass to my brother warder ! [They pass over to JULIAN. I am the camel brother of your priest, And we are come from north and south and east To build your God a new and nobler shrine. Give me the sign. [Done, each striking his breast Jive times with clenched hand] The sign is strict, averred. Ha…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 162

Book 4 (Part II)

…is hard to read the conjurations. While you peer dimly through the smoke, the demon will vanish, and you will have to write the terrible word "failure." And yet there is no page of this Book on which this word is not written; but so long as it is immediately followed by a new affirmation, all is not lost; and as in this Book the word "failure"' is thus made of little account, so also must the word "success " never be employed, for it is the last word that may be wTitten therein, and it is followed by a full stop. This full stop may never be wri…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 194

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

1.6 xs te o The next word is nx, which we have seen to be the Central word: and its signification is the Alpha and Omega—From Beginning unto End: Essence: and its Key is 5. Five again are the letters of the word o»nwn,* which next follows; and in this word ony, the Heavens, we perceive w,t the Ruach Elohim, brooding upon the Face of the Waters, co» (Maim), even as it is afterwards set forth in Verse 2. In the next word, nx, we find that the Conjunctive 1 makes of the Key number of the Essence of the Earth 11 instead of 5: symbolising how the Wo…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 194

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

1.6 xs te o The next word is nx, which we have seen to be the Central word: and its signification is the Alpha and Omega—From Beginning unto End: Essence: and its Key is 5. Five again are the letters of the word o»nwn,* which next follows; and in this word ony, the Heavens, we perceive w,t the Ruach Elohim, brooding upon the Face of the Waters, co» (Maim), even as it is afterwards set forth in Verse 2. In the next word, nx, we find that the Conjunctive 1 makes of the Key number of the Essence of the Earth 11 instead of 5: symbolising how the Wo…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 247

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… will fearless? All I have built, shall I not build again? Some other Universe where All is One. Where onze is ALL I am, and I am—None! “Words! ‘ Tis ever words, and I am stranded With words, and tangled skeins of Things to Be. Each word denies a word, and all are branded Within my brain, and I must strive to see The subtly sneering forms, the leering faces Of words each word calls up. For me, No GRACE is.” ETHEL ARCHER. x ° 209

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1913 · PDF PAGE 247

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… will fearless? All I have built, shall I not build again? Some other Universe where All is One. Where onze is ALL I am, and I am—None! “Words! ‘ Tis ever words, and I am stranded With words, and tangled skeins of Things to Be. Each word denies a word, and all are branded Within my brain, and I must strive to see The subtly sneering forms, the leering faces Of words each word calls up. For me, No GRACE is.” ETHEL ARCHER. x ° 209

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1903 · PDF PAGE 24

The God-Eater

…. CriosDA. Ay! Ay! Maurya. I feel no early prompting thither. CRIOSDA. No. It is sudden. Maurya. What then lacks? CriosDA. A draught : a word. Maurya. Where is the draught ? CriospDa. This incense in my hand. Maurya. What is the word? [Crrospa is silent.| Criosda, answer me. Criospa. To invoke death it were to answer this. Maurya. Ah, then, forbear ! [Crrospa és silent] How shall I know the word? Criospa. Good luck may bring it to the light. Maurya. Il luck ? Criospa. A year’s delay. Maurya. Ah, let me gain one gift Whose sweet reversion hangs …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 15

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH E THE BATTLE OF THE ANTS That is not which is. The only Word is Silence. The only Meaning of that Word is not. Thoughts are false. Fatherhood is unity disguised as duality. Peace implies war. Harmony implies war. Victory implies war. Glory implies war. Foundation implies war. Alas! for the Kingdom wherein all these are at war.

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