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f life, a symbol which depicts the divine energy of creation proceeding like a lighting flash through ten different stages, culminating in physical manifestation. the sephiroth represent levels of spiritual reality both in the cosmos and in people because the tree, metaphorically, is 65 the body of god, and people are created in god's image. the tree is sometimes shown superimposed on the body of adam kadmon, the archetypal man. tree of life: the tree consists of ten spheres, or sephiroth, through which, according to mystical tradition, the creation of the world came about. the sephiroth are aligned in three columns headed by the supernals (kether, chokmah, binah) and together symbolize the process by which the limitless light (ain soph aur) becomes manifest in the universe. beneath the su

about. the sephiroth are aligned in three columns headed by the supernals (kether, chokmah, binah) and together symbolize the process by which the limitless light (ain soph aur) becomes manifest in the universe. beneath the supernals are the "seven days of creation" chesed, geburah, tiphareth, netzach, hod, yesod, malkuth. taken as a whole, the tree of life is also a symbol of the archetypal man, adam kadmon, and the sephiroth have a role resembling that of the chakras in yoga. the mystical path of self knowledge entails the rediscovery of all the levels of one's being, ranging from malkuth, physical reality, to the infinite source. with this in mind, the medieval qabalists divided the tree of life into three sections of the soul: nephesch (the animal soul) corresponding to the sephiroth y

nal and intuitional aspects of netzach. hod has no exact parallel in the tarot, but is closely linked to the card judgement, ascribed to the path between hod and malkuth. yesod: the ninth emanation on the tree of life. yesod is associated with the moon and the element water. regarded as a female sphere, it is the seat of sexual instinct and corresponds to the genital chakra on the archetypal man, adam kadmon. on the tree of life, yesod has the function of channeling the energies of the higher down to the earth below, malkuth. occultists associate yesod with the astral plane, because if the sephiroth above malkuth are regarded as a map of the unconscious psyche, yesod is the most accessible area of the mind. yesod is the sphere of fertility and lunar 67 imagery. it is identified with witchc

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th. he stands facing the center of the tablet of the north. kerux: falls in behind hierophant. hiereus: moves to the right of hiero. heg: moves to left of hiero. stol: falls in behind hiereus. dad: falls in behind hegemon. all officers face north. hiero: makes sign in front of, and concentric with tablet of the north, an invoking pentagram of earth, saying: hiero: and the elohim said, let us make adam in our image, after our likeness and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth over the earth. and the elohim created eth ha-adam in their own image, in the image of the elohim created they them. in the name of adonai melekh and the bride and queen of the kingdom, spirits

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sregde, 107, 21. 113, 15. ongan idc, 90, 19 (see suppl. tbe word seems to be of the same root as the goth. masc. laiks (saltatio, ohg. leih (indus, modus, on. leikr, and to have signified at first the dance and play that accompanied a sacrifice, then gradually the gift itself^ that there was playing and singing at sacrifices is shown by the passages quoted further on, from gregory's dialogues and adam of bremen, the following expressions i regard as more definite (see suppl, ulph. in eom. 11, 16 renders d7rapxv> the offering of firstfruits at a sacrifice, delibatio, by ufarskafts, which i derive not from skapan, but from skaban (shave) radere, since dirapxal' were the first clippings of hair off the victim's forehead, odyss. 14, 422. 3, 446. if we explain it from skapan, this word must hav

e graecus avar de (a) suevis pccudis more litatus (ch. xiii, the goddess zisa^ for evidences of human sacrifice among the norse, see miiller's sagabibl. 2, 560. 3, 93. as a rule, the victims were captive enemies, purchased slaves or great criminals; the sacrifice of women and children by the franks on crossing a river reminds of the greek sta^at7]pla- the first fruits of war, the first prisoner 1 adam of bremen de.'itu daniae cap. 24, of the litlinanians: draconc> adorant cum volucribus, qiiibus etiam vivos litcmt homines, quos a mercatoribus emunt, diligenter omnino probates, iie mactilam in corpore habeant. 2 hence in onr own iblk-tales, the first to cross the bridge, the first to enter the new bnihling or tlie country, pays with his life, avhich meant, falls a sacrifice. jornandes cap

of the chase with a view to their making use of them. so whether the ambiguous eisdem refers to homines or diis (as eosdem just after stands for the latter, either way there is something inadmissible asserted. at the new year's festival i believe that of all the victims named the horses alone were sacrificed; men, hounds and cocks the legend has added on^ how dietmar's story looks by the side of adam of bremen's on the upsal sacrifice, shall be considered on p. 53. among all animal sacrifices, that of the liorse was preeminent and most solemn. our ancestors have this in common with several slavic and finnish nations, with persians and indians: with all of them the horse passed for a specially sacred animal^ sacrifice of oxen (see suppl. the passage from agathias (itttrof? re kox ^oaq) pro

me, doubtless only those fit to eat were fit to sacrifice, stags, roes, wild boars, but never bears, wolves or foxes, who themselves possess a ghostly being, and receive a kind of worship. yet one might suppose that for expiation uneatable beasts, equally with men, might be offered, just as slaves and also hounds and falcons followed the burnt body of their master. here we must first of all place adam of bremen's description (4, 27) of the great sacrifice at upsala by the side of dietmar's account of that at hlethra (see p. 48: solet quoque post novevi annos communis omnium sveoniae provinciarum solennitas celebrari, ad quam nulli praestatur immunitas; reges et populi, omnes et singuli sua dona ad ubsolam transmittunt, et, quod omni poena crudelius est, illi qui jam induerunt christianitat

mong the franks and langobards; then the dogs come in support of those hlethra* hounds and hawks' but at the same time remind us of the old judicial custom of hanging up wolves or dogs by the side of criminals (ra. 685-6. that only the viale sex of every living creature is here to be sacrificed, is in sti"ilcing accord with an episode in the eeinardus, which was composed less than a century after adam, and in its groundwork might well be contemporary with him. at the wedding of a king, the males of all quadrupeds and birds were to have been slaughtered, but the cock and gander had made their escape. it looks to me like a legend of the olden time, which still circulated in the ll-12lh centuries, and which even a nursery-tale (no. 27, the town54 wokship. musicians) knows something of^ anyhow

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nd king of water. elohim tzabdoth, elohim of hosts, glory be unto the ruach elohim who moved upon the face of the waters of creation. amen all salute. hiero: quits his throne and proceeds to the west. gives one knock. all face west. hiero: standing before the tablet of water, he makes with his scepter the invoking circle and pentagrams before it in the air. hiero: and the elohim said, let us make adam in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea. in the name of el, strong and powerful, and in the name of elohim tzabaoth, spirits of water adore your creator. hiero: taking cup of water from before tablet and making therewith the sign of the eagle in the air before it. hiero: in the name of gabriel, the great archangel of water, and in the sign of the

h receiveth the virtue of the other three is euphrates which floweth down upon malkuth, the earth. this river going forth out of eden is the river of the apocalypse, of waters of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of god and the lamb on either side of which was the tree of life bearing 12 manner of fruit. and thus do the rivers of eden form the cross, and on that cross the great adam the son who was to rule the nations with a rod of iron is extended from tiphareth and his arms stretch out to gedulah and geburah, and in malkuth is eve, the completion of all, the mother of all, and above the universe she supporteth with her hands the eternal pillars of the sephiroth. as it was said to you in the 30th path. and above the shoulders of that great goddess is nature in her vastn

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se and face east. hiero: let us adore the lord and king of fire. hiero: tetragrammaton tzabaoth. blessed be thou, the leader of armies is thy name! amen. all salute. hiero: quits his throne and proceeds to south and knocks. all face south. hiero: stands before the tablet of fire. he makes with his scepter the invoking circle and pentagrams before it in the air. hiero: and elohim said, let us make adam in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion. in the name of elohim, mighty and ruling, and in the name of tetragrammaton tzabaoth, spirits of fire, adore your creator. hiero: takes the incense from before the tablet, and making therewith the sign leo in the air before it. hiero: in the name of michael the great archangel of fire, and in the sign of the lion, spirits of fire, a

ning world (places pyramid aside) the 28th path of yetzirah, which answereth unto the letter tzaddi is called the natural intelligence, and it is so called because through it is consummated and perfected the nature of every existing being under the orb of the sun. it is therefore the reflection of the airy sign of aquarius, the water bearer unto which is attributed the countenance of the man, the adam, the restored world. hiero: heg: pract: move to the west of altar. hiero: before you upon the altar is the 17th key of the tarot, which symbolically resumes these ideas. the large star in the center of the heavens has seven principal and 14 secondary rays, and thus represents the heptad multiplied by the triad which yields 21 the number of the divine name, eheieh which as you already know is

ell that in this key she is completely unveiled, while in the 21st key, she is only partly so. the two urns contain the influences from chokmah and binah. on the right springs the tree of life and on the left the tree of knowledge of good and evil, whereon the bird of hermes alights. and therefore does this key represent the restored world after the formless and the void and the darkness, the new adam, the countenance of the man which falls in the sign aquarius. and therefore doth the astronomical symbol of this sign represent as it were, the waves of water, the ripples of that river going forth out of eden. but therefore, also it is justly attributed unto air and not unto water, because it is the firmament dividing and containing the waters. hierophant and practicus go to east. hiero: bef

the practicus grade was supporting the columns of the sephiroth in the form of the sign of theoricus being tempted by the tree of knowledge (whose branches indeed, tend upward into the seven lower sephiroth, but also tend downwards into the kingdom of the shells) reached down into the qlippoth, and immediately the columns were unsupported, and the sephirotic system was shattered, and with it fell adam, the microprosopus. then arose the great dragon with 7 heads and 10 horns, and the garden was made desolate, and malkuth was cut off from the upper sephiroth by his intersecting folds, and linked unto the kingdom of the shells, and the 7 lower sephiroth were cut from the three supernal in daath; at the feet of aima elohim. and on the heads of the dragon are the names and crowns of the eight e

re the rivers of eden desecrated, and from the mouth of the dragon rushed the infernal waters in daath. and this is leviathan, the piercing serpent, even leviathan, the crooked serpent. but between the devastated garden and the supernal eden, tetragrammaton elohim placed the letters of the name and the flaming sword, that the uppermost part of the tree of life might not be involved in the fall of adam. and thence was it necessary that the second adam should come to restore all things and that the first adam had been extended on the cross of the celestial rivers, so the son should be crucified on the cross of the infernal rivers in daath. yet to do this he must descend unto the lowest first even unto malkuth and be born of her. the grade of philosophus is referred unto the sephira netzach a

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would include monks, nuns, and also people bigoted in religion. 131 i.e, such evil magician. 132 serrures, which implies bolts as well as locks. 133 i.e, religious denomination. 134 here abraham the jew is evidently especially addressing himself to his son lamech. 135 these two symbols are probably those which are placed at the extreme end of the third book, ie, the magical squares with the names adam and uriel returned therein, and of which the squares of numbers above are evidently intended for the reverse sides; adam being applied to the child, and uriel to the guardian angel of lamech. 136 again let the practical occultist remember that this counsel applies principally to adepts; for the ordinary man can not command the demons' seeing that he has not yet learned to understand and contr

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e.16 in teaching it even, i have far exceeded that which i should have done, in having given unto thee the two last symbols, but what will not paternal love and affection do? endeavour only to obey me and to follow out my precepts from point to point, according to the manner in which i have given them unto thee in writing; keeping alway the fear of god before 15. see the squares with the names of adam and uriel given at the end of the work. 16. this whole passage is awkwardly and obscurely worded in the french. by the person of great mind, i suppose that abraham intends to designate abra-melin. the sacred magick 221 thine eyes. also forget not the slightest thing which i have said unto thee in these three books, for with the help of god who ruleth and governeth all things, and reigneth glo

ant unto such all temporal goods, and a good death in his holy kingdom! so may it be! end note. the above set of four squares evidently represent the symbols already referred to in the second book (chap. xx, and in the concluding pages of this third book; as being those to be placed on the head of the operator and of the child during the angelic invocation. the name uriel for the former, the name adam for the latter. but evidently, also, the squares of numbers above are intended as the reverse sides of the two lower ones. the latin word homo is the translation of adam in the sense of man. the squares of numbers are not of the ordinary magical class. 12 13 4 6 148 13 9 148 12 6 4 148 8 148 33 16 23 148 9 15 148 27 4 21 31 20 1 24 3 1 20 13 24 37 15 20 1 26 40 63 48 u r i e l r i l u e i l i

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whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die" second "behold the image (points at the lower half of the lid) of the justified one, crucified on the infernal rivers of tud, and thus rescuing twklm from the folds of the red dragon (third adept points to upper half of lid) third "and being turned, i saw seven golden light bearers, and in the midst of the light bearers, one like unto the ben adam, clothed with a garment down to the feet, and girt with a golden girdle. his head and his hair were white as snow, and his eyes as flaming d; his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace. and his voice as the sound of many waters. and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went the sword of flame, and his countenance was as the sun in his strength. 23 diag

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

ine name, hwhy. line 3. binah has these additional titles: ama the dark sterile mother. amya the bright pregnant mother \yhla \yhla hwhy divine names. aysrwk throne. line 4. chesed has this additional title: hmjk majesty. line 5. geburah has these additional titles: yd justice. djp fear. line 6. tiphereth has these additional titles: ypna ryuz lesser countenance ]lm king. ypna ryuc seir anpin \da adam. b the son. cya the man \wnakc spare angels. line 9. jesod has this additional title \lwu-dwsy-qydx the righteous is the foundation of the world. line 10. malkuth has these titles (among others: ruc the gate (by temurah, rcu= 10).2 y the gate (chaldee. which has the same number (671) as ynda in full dwy wn tld [la also gates of death. shadow of death. tears. justice. prayer. gate of daughter

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

ening of the temple in the grade of 2 =98 give the sign of shu [knock] let us adore the lord and king of air! shaddai el chai! almighty and ever-living one, be thy name ever magnified in the life of all (sign of shu) amen [make the invoking pentagram of spirit active in these names: hyha. alga. exarp [make the invoking pentagram of air in these names: hwhy. yj la ydc] and elohim said: let us make adam in our own image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fowls of the air. in the names of hwhy and of yj la ydc, spirits of air, adore your creator [with air-dagger (or other suitable weapon) make the sign of aquarius] in the name of lapr and in the sign of the man, spirits of air, adore your creator [make the cross] in the names and letters of the great eastern quadrangle

amoth [knock] let us adore the lord and king of water! elohim tzabaoth! elohim of hosts! glory be to the ruach elohim which moved upon the face of the waters of creation! amen [make the invoking pentagram of spirit passive and pronounce these names: hyha. alga. hcoma [make the invoking pentagram of water and pronouce: l a. twabx \yhla] the forty-eight keys or calls 24 and elohim said: let us make adam in our own image; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea! in the name of l a, strong and powerful, and in the name of twabx \yhla, spirits of water, adore your creator [make sigil of eagle with cup] in the name of larbg and in the sign of the eagle, spirits of water, adore your creator [make cross with cup] in the names and letters of the great western quadrangle, spirits of wate

ram of saturn [make the invoking pentagram of spirit passive and pronounce these names: hyha. alga. nanta [make the invoking pentagram of earth and pronouce this name ]lm ynda] and elohim said: let us make man in our own image; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air; and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. and the elohim created ath-ha-adam: in the image of the elohim created they them; male and female created they them. in the name of ]lm ynda and of the bride and queen of the kingdom; spirits of earth, adore your creator [make the sign of taurus] in the name of layrwa, great archangel of earth, spirits of earth, adore your creator [make the cross] in the names and letters of the great northern quadrangle, spirits of earth, ado

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

ut he develops to omicron the exalted "devil (also the "other" secret eye) by the formula of the initiation of horus elsewhere described in detail. this "devil" is called satan or shaitan, and regarded with horror by people who are ignorant of his formula, and, imagining themselves to be evil, accuse nature herself of their own phantasmal crime. satan is saturn, set, abrasax, adad, adonis, attis, adam, adonai, etc. the most serious charge against him is that he is the sun in the south. the ancient initiates, 35 dwelling as they did in lands whose blood was the water of the nile or the euphrates, connected the south with life-withering heat, and cursed that quarter where the solar darts were deadliest. even in the legend of hiram, it is at high noon that he is stricken down and slain. capri

e also" carolus magnus and his paladins, with william of schyren, frederick of hohenstaufen, roger bacon "jacobus burgundus molensis the martyr, christian rosencreutz" ulrich von hutten, paracelsus, michael maier "roderic borgia pope alexander the sixth" jacob boehme, francis bacon lord verulam, andrea, robertus de fluctibus, johannes dee "sir edward kelly" thomas vaughan, elias ashmole, molinos, adam weishaupt, wolfgang von goethe, ludovicus rex bavariae, richard wagner "alphonse louis constant" friedrich nietzsche, hargrave jennings, carl kellner, forlong dux, sir richard burton, sir richard payne knight, paul gauguin, docteur gerard encausse, doctor theodor reuss "and sir aleister crowley" oh sons of the lion and the snake! with all thy saints we worthily commemorate them worthy that we

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

ka.com 134 uncle dudley, come clean, do you always do all this yourself? don't you sometimes feel embarrassed, or fear that you may destroy the effect of your letter, or "create a scene" in the public street when you suddenly stop and perform these incomprehensible antics, or simply forget about the whole thing" yes, i do. peccavi. mea culpa, mea macima culpa. i am not your old and valued friend, adam qadmon, the perfect man. i am a pretty poor specimen. i am nothing to cable about to lung peng choung, or himi, or monsalvat. i do forget now and again; though, i am glad to say, not nearly as often as i used to do (as the habit is acquired, it tends to strengthen itself. but often i deliberately omit to do my duty. i do funk it. i do resent it. i do feel that it's too much bother. as i said

dmon, the perfect man. i am a pretty poor specimen. i am nothing to cable about to lung peng choung, or himi, or monsalvat. i do forget now and again; though, i am glad to say, not nearly as often as i used to do (as the habit is acquired, it tends to strengthen itself. but often i deliberately omit to do my duty. i do funk it. i do resent it. i do feel that it's too much bother. as i said above, adam qadman is not my middle name. well now, have i any shadow of an excuse? yes, i have, after a fashion; i don't think it good manners to force my idiosyncrasies down people's throats, and i don't want to appear more of an eccentric than i need. it might detract from my personal influence, and so actually harm the work that i am trying to perform "yes, that's all very well, alibi ike; you are ex

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

ain schools of magick. if the sword is raised towards the crown, it is no longer really a sword. the crown cannot be divided. certainly the sword should not be lifted. the sword may, however, be clasped in both hands, and kept steady and erect, symbolizing that thought has become one with the single aspiration, and burnt up like a flame. this flame is the shin, the ruach alhim, not the mere ruach adam. the divine and not the human consciousness. 90 the magician cannot wield the sword unless the crown is on his head. those magicians, who have attempted to make the sword the sole or even the principal weapon, have only destroyed themselves, not by the destruction of combination, but by the destruction of division<
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great lwdg to rejoice lyg to make faint hlx lion (cf. 340 )ybl hazel, almond zwl together, also mg magus gm one beloved by god hydydy 44 aries: a ram, lamb hl+ aquarius: a bucket yld drops ylg) a pool, pond; sorrow mg) captive, captivity hlwg blood md sand; horror (see the scorpion pentacle in the key of solomon; see also liber 418 10th ayre) lwx flame +hl garment dm 45 the mystic number of yesod adam: man; red md) the fool dm) redemption, liberation hlw)g to grow warm; they (masc) mh hesitated (see 405) lxz she who ruins hlbx hwhy in yetzirah )h w)w )h dwy greatly, strongly, very d)m what, which, why, how; anything, something; yetzitah fs gsecret nature h (see s.d. 1:38-39) hm 46 a name of god yhl) a female slave; an ell, cubit hm) tin, the metal of jupiter lydb a dividing, sundering, sep

ry nwy 67 binah: understanding hnyb zayin: a sword nyz a ship, fleet ynw) debased llz to embalm +nx 68 wise( ghe will understand that? h) nbyw to be wise mkx emptiness llx to pity sx lulav: a palm branch blwl life myyx 69 a manger, stable; an enclosure swb) myrtle sdh nations; gentiles myywg transgression, error, sin +s 70 hush, be silent hsh wine nyy night lyl the secret (ps. 25:14; see 353) dws adam and eve hwxw md) honest; so, thus, just so, such, so much nk 71 thy terror kmy) nothing; an apparition, image; idol lyl) silence; silent ml) lead, the metal of saturn; a plummet-line, level, water-level kn) vision nwzx a dove, pigeon hnwy a dove hwny plentitude, fulness; to fill )lm 72 the number of triliteral names in the shem ha-mephorasch (72 3= 216; which, by the addition of -yh or -al, g

kill grh abominable )rz multitude bwr hole rx cedar zr) 209 chief seer or prophet (hence abra-melin) h)rb) reward, profit, prize hrg) to delay, tarry; behind (prep) rx) way xr) dispersed rzb sojourned, dwelt; whelp rwg oppressed brz ornament, splendour, honour; the supernal benignity; hadar (the hebrew version of the syriac hadad, gthe sun h, from the egyptian hadit; see 156& i.r.q. 994) rdh 210 adam primus: the first man (see 607) rhd) choice rxb pass on, fly xrb to decide, determine rzg to dwell; circle, cycle; generation rwd to conceive hrh a joining of words; incantations; to conjoin; a brother rbx a sword brx n.o.x (liber vii, 1:40; liber 333 caps. 1& 29) c( n points, pricks, dots mydwqn amulet, magic square (mq giants mylpn rushing water yr bloom, blossom; hawk (cn 211 (worthy) rxb)

elling hwhy in the four worlds ryw) hy let there be light! rw) yhy 233 remembering rwkz the tree of life (cf. 228) myyxh c( 235 archangel of chesed l)yqdc 236 a handful cmwq the northern one; lilith ynwpc 237 essence of glory dwbkh mc( 238 lord of wonders hw)lpnh nwd) 239 azrael: the angel of death l)rz) iron lzrb the lot lrwg 240 myrrh; drop; bitter, sad; fierce rm the afflictions of the sons of adam (i.e. succubae) md) ynb y(gn first buds, sproutings myncn cash; counted out, paid down mydwqp high, lofty mr rubies, gems mynynp 241 to say; word; command rm) 242 recollection hrykz 243 created [they them (gn. 1:27) m)rb learned, complete; to finish, bring to pass (ch) rmg a bone; to destroy mrg 244 to be insensible; in deep sleep; in trance (cf. 649) mdr 245 adam qadmon: the archetypal man (

initiate *knx 560 waters of quiet twxwnm ym a point, prick, dot tdwqn dragons mynynt sorceress r#km sought my#wrd crowd *ks 561 cain nyqt) concealed mystery )twyncd 562 primordial hnw#)r 563 a washing of the hands mydy tly+n 564 the breaker of foundations: the sphere of the elements (i.e. malkuth; see 632) twdwsy mlx the cap-stone (or perhaps impl. a cornerstone, as ps. 118:22) h#)rh nb) and the adam was formed into a living nephesch (i.r.q. 941) hyx #pnl md)h yhyw enoch *kwnx 565 small things, insignificant things twn+q officers (esp. judicial or military) myr+w# 566 a valley; a plain (from gsharon h; see 1091) nwr#y points, pricks, dots twdwqn a secret (spelt in full :d:w:s correcting, configuring, restoring, repairing, reforming, renewing nwqyt 567 first-born (cf. 228) ynw#)r a cup *kw

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

they show with poincare's precision that jesus and paul struck at the heart of hell when they proclaimed marriage a scourge, and offered the testimony of john and timothy to support the plea of plato on behalf of paederastic passion. out of the court there slunk mark antony, his toga to his face, one of the legion of lost souls that woman had withered; behind him groped blind samson, disinherited adam, feeling his way along the table where they had piled countless papyri writ with woes of kings and sages woman-wrecked, and many a map of towns and temples torn and trampled beneath the feet of love, their ashes smouldering still, and smoky with song to witness how astarte's breath had kindled and consumed them. extinguished empires owned that their doom was the device of venus, her vengeance

sceptic- that our talisman, one microscopic serpent of which can build for itself such a house as to rule men's bodies for a generation like alexander, or their minds for an epoch like plato, cannot be destroyed or diminished by any conceivable force. when this talisman comes forth from its fortress, its action begins. the ancient jewish rabbins knew this, and taught that before eve was given to adam, the demon lilith conceived by the spilth of his dreams, so that the hybrid races of satyrs, elves and the like began to populate those secret places of the earth which are not sensible by the organs of the normal man. i take it as certain that every offering of this talisman infallibly begets children on one plane or another of this our cosmos, whose matter is so varied in kind. such a child

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e also, carolus magnus and his paladins, with william of schyren, frederick of hohenstaufen, roger bacon, jacobus burgundus molensis the martyr, christian rosencreutz, ulrich von hutten, paracelsus, michael maier, roderic borgia pope alexander the sixth, jacob boehme, francis bacon lord verulam, andrea, robertus de fluctibus, johannes dee, sir edward kelly, thomas vaughan, elias ashmole, molinos, adam weishaupt, wolfgang von goethe, ludovicus rex bavariae, richard wagner, alphonse louis constant, friedrich nietzsche, hargrave jennings, carl kellner, forlong dux, sir richard payne knight, paul gaugin, sir richard francis burton, doctor grard encausse, doctor theodor reuss, and sir aleister crowley--oh sons of the lion and the snake! with all thy saints we worthily commemorate them worthy th

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

s of the bible have crowded out of existence and smothered up every reference to the fact that the deity is both masculine and feminine. they have translated a feminine plural by a masculine singular in the case of the word elohim. they have, however, left an inadvertent admission of their knowledge that it was plural in genesis i, 26: and the elohim said: let us make man. again (v. 27, how could adam be made in the image of the elohim, male and female, unless the elohim were male and female also? the world elohim is a plural formed from the feminine singular hla, eloh, by adding \y to the word. but in as much as \y is usually the termination of the masculine plural, and is here added to a feminine noun, it gives to the word elohim the sense of a female potency added to a masculine idea, a

ephiroth are further divided into three pillars the right-hand pillar of mercy, consisting of the second, fourth, and seventh emanations; the left-hand pillar of judgement, consisting of the third, fifth, and eighth; and the middle pillar of mildness, consisting of the first, sixths, ninth, and tenth emanations. in their totality and unity the ten sephiroth represent the archetypal man, wmdq \da, adam qadmon, the protogonos. in looking at the sephiroth constituting the first triad, it is evident that they represent the intellect; and hence this triad is called the intellectual world, lkcwm \lwu, olahm mevshekal. the second triad corresponds to the moral world cgrwm \lwu, olahm morgash. the third represents power and stability, and is therefore called the material world, ubfwmh \lwu, olahm

maton, the lesser countenance immutable in the heaviness of malkuth. 41 \a, the mother, unfertilised as unenlightened. 42. ama, the mother, still dark. here are the 42 judges of the dead in amennti, and here is the 42-fold name of the creative god. see liber 418. 44 \d, blood. see part ii. here 4 11= the corruption of the created world. 45. hm, a secret title of yetzirah, the formative world \da, adam, man, the species (not the first man. a is air, the divine breath which stirs \d, blood, into being. 49. a number useful in the calculations of dr dee, and a mystic number of venus. 50. the number of the gates of binah, whose name is death (50= n= by tarot, death. 51. a, pain. an, failure \wda, the country of the demon kings. there is much in the qabalah about these kings and their dukes; it

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maha-brahma, but his power and knowledge are limited; and his agelong day must end. i find evidence everywhere, even in our garbled and mutilated version of the hebrew scriptures, that jehovah s power was limited in all sorts of ways. at the fall, for instance, tetragrammaton elohim has to summon his angels hastily to guard the tree of life, lest he should be proved a liar. for had it occurred to adam to eat of that tree before their transgression was discovered, or had the serpent been aware of its properties, adam would indeed have lived and not died. so that a mere accident saved the remnants of the already besmirched reputation of the hebrew tribal fetich. 1 an expression they carefully avoid using. a.c. 2 i retain this sly joke from the first edition. when buddha was asked how things

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e bible have carefully crowded out of existence and smothered up every reference to the fact that the deity is both masculine and feminine. they have translated a feminine plural by a masculine singular in the case of the word elohim. they have, however, left an inadvertent admission of their knowledge that it was plural in genesis iv, 26 "and elohim said: let us make man" again (v. 27, who could adam be made in the image of elohim, male and female, unless the elohim were male and female also? the word elohim is a plural formed from the feminine singular alh, eloh, by adding im to word. but inasmuch as im is usually a termination of the masculine plural and is here added to a feminine noun, it gives to the word elohim the sense of a female potency united to a masculine idea, and thereby ca

sephiroth are futher divided into three pillars- the right-hand pillar of mercy, consisting of the second, fourth, and seventh emanations; the left-hand pillar of judgment, consisting of the third, fifth, and eighth; and the middle pillar of mildness, consisting of the first, sixth, ninth, and tenth emanations. in their totality and unity the ten sephiroth represent the archetypal man, adm qdmvn, adam qadmon, the protogonos. in looking at the sephiroth constituting the first triad, it is evident that they represent the intellect; and hence this triad is called the intellectual world, ovlm mvshkl, olahm mevshekal. the second triad corresponds to the moral world, ovlm mvrgsh, olahm morgash. the third represents power and stability, and is therefore called the material world, olvm hmvthbo, ol

the lesser countenance immutable in the heaviness of malkuth. 41. am, the mother, unfertilised and unenlightened. 42. ama, the mother, still dark. here are the 42 judges of the dead in amennti, and here is the 42-fold name of the creative god. see liber 418. 44. dm, blood. see part ii. here 4 x 11= the corruption of the created world. 45. mh, a secret title of yetzirah, the formative world. adm, adam, man, the species (not "the first man. a is air, the divine breath which stirs dm, blood, into being. 49. a number useful in the calculations of dr. dee, and a mystic number of venus. 50. the number of the gates of binah, whose name id death (50= hb:nun= by tarot "death. 51. an, pain. na, failure. advm, edom, the country of the demon kings. there is much in the qabalah about these kings and t

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number 28 reflected down into netzach; and that 28 is kaph cheth (kach, power. for she is sakti, the eternal energy of the concealed one. and it is her eternal energy that hath made this eternal change. and this explaineth the call of the aethyrs, the curse that was pronounced in the beginning being but the creation of sakti. and this mystery is reflected in the legend of the 119 creation, where adam represents the concealed one, for adam is temurah of mad, the enochian word for god, and eve, whom he created 20 the fourth of the mystic numbers of jupiter is 136. for love, is tempted by the snake, nechesh, who is messiah her child. and the snake is the magical power, which hath destroyed the primordial equilibrium. and the garden is the supernal eden, where is ayin, 70, the eye of the conc

d. biskra "december" 17, 1909. 9.30- 11.30 a.m. the cry of the 2nd aethyr, which is called arn in the first place, there is again the woman riding on the bull, which is the reflection of babalon, that rideth on the beast. and also there is an assyrian legend of a woman with a fish, and also there is a legend of eve and the serpent, for cain was the child of eve and the serpent, and not of eve and adam; and therefore when he had slain his brother, who was the first murderer, having sacrificed living things to his demon, had cain the mark upon his brow, which is the mark of the beast spoken of in the apocalypse, and is the sign of initiation. 148 the shedding of blood is necessary, for god did not hear the children of eve until blood was shed. and that is external religion; but cain spake no

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n number, and are distinguished by the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet, making with the ten sephiroth themselves the thirty-two paths of wisdom of the sepher yetzirah" the letters, he then points out to him, form the symbol of the serpent of wisdom, and the sephiroth the flaming sword "the two pillars right and left of the tree are the symbols of the active and passive, male and female- adam and eve. the pillars further represent the two kerubim of the ark; the right, male- metatron; and the left, female- sandalphon. above them ever burn the lamps of their spiritual essence, the higher life, of which they are the partakers in the eternal uncreated one" illustration on page 269 described "diagram 24. the caduceus of hermes" this is composed of two figures, side by side. on the lef

amely, from the supernal triad, to water the garden- the rest of the sephiroth. and from thence it was divided into four heads, in da th. the first head is pison, which flows into geburah. the second head is gihor. flowing into chesed. the third is hiddekel. flowing into tiphereth. and the fourth. is phrath, euphrates, which floweth down upon malkuth" these four rivers form the cross of the great adam. in malkuth is eve, the completion of all, the mother of all. the "hierophant" then gives the theoricus the sign of this grade, and explains the altar symbol "the cross above the triangle represents the power of the spirit of life rising above the triangle of waters; and reflecting the triune therein, as further marked by the lamps at their angles: while the chalice of water placed at the jun

. and then explains to him the symbolic representation of the fall "the great goddess, who in the 3= 8 degree, was supporting the columns of the sephiroth in the form of the sign of theoricus("i.e, of atlas supporting the world) being tempted by the fruit of the tree of knowledge, stooped down to the qliphoth. the columns were unsupported, and the sephirotic scheme was shattered; and with it fell adam the microprosopus. then arose the great dragon with seven heads and ten horns, cutting by his folds malkuth from the sephiroth, and linking it to the kingdom of the shells. the seven lower sephiroth were cut off from the three supernals in da th, at the feet of aima elohim. and on the head of the dragon are the names of the eight edomite kings, and on the horns the names of the eleven dukes o

of the eight kings; and for the infernal and averse sephiroth eleven instead of ten, according to the number of the eleven dukes of edom. the infernal waters of d ath rushed from the mouth of the dragon- and this is the leviathan. tetragrammaton elohim placed four letters of the holy name, and also the flaming sword, that the uppermost part of the tree of life might not be involved in the fall of adam" illustration on page 283 partly described "diagram 51. the fall" this is a development from diagram #33 on page 235. it is composed of a circle above, containing three smaller, slightly overlapping circles, one above two. the top circle contains a crown of three points and a wing extending from the lower left circle. the right circle is surmounted by four visible points and contains a bearde

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ore capable of lofty and continuous thought. beware of the sheep in lions' skins, the asses that bray and think "the tiger roars" physically too the mystic is to be known by his atmosphere of power, cleanliness and light; by his self-control, his concentration of thought and action, his vigour, his patience. you will rarely find them at afternoon tea gossiping about clairvoyance, or even "playing adam" what? you don't know how to play "adam? and you call yourself a sage? tut! the game of "adam" is played as follows. take a key, a bible, an elastic band. 67 open the bible at random till you find a favourable text. there insert the key, leaving the barrel and ring outside. put the elastic band round the book, so as to fix the key firmly in it. balance the whole arrangement by putting your th

nd a favourable text. there insert the key, leaving the barrel and ring outside. put the elastic band round the book, so as to fix the key firmly in it. balance the whole arrangement by putting your thumb and that of the assistant magus of art under the ring, thumb against thumb (an important but, as i hold, heterodox school of adepts employ the forefinger) keep very still; and ask your question "adam, adam, tell me true! shall i &c. if the bible turns in a dextro-rotary manner the answer is "yes; if in the opposite direction "no" this sublime method of tearing out the heart of destiny is evidently derived from a slightly more elaborate one in the "key of solomon (book i, chap. ix) for detecting theft, which is done with a sieve, and which i supposed (until "adam" advised me to the contrar

nd so divided into vau-heh and yod-heh<genesis v. 1, 2 :bet-resh-aleph aleph-lamed-heh-yod-memfinal aleph-daletmemfinal bet-dalet-mem-vau-taw aleph-lamed-heh-yod-memfinal ayin-shin-heh aleph-taw-vau qof-bet-resh vau-nun-qof-bet-heh bet-resh-aleph-memfinal "and the elohim created mankind: in the likeness of the elohim created they them: male and female created they them" now if adam be in the similitude of the elohim: and are male and female, then must the elohim be also male and female. now in the first of those mysterious three verses in exodus xiv. wherein the divided name is hidden it is written "and went the angel of the elohim before the camp &c. and this angel of the elohim, mem-lamed-aleph-kophfinal aleph-lamed-heh-yod-memfinal, is the manifestations of their pre

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d is just touching the i.n.r.i. scroll with a horn, near a dot just above the head of the corpus. one head dips slightly to touch a dot in the side of the corpus. the last head dips to touch a dot just below the knees of the corpus "third adept" and being turned [directing attention to upper half] i saw seven golden light-bearers, and in the midst of the seven light-bearers, one like unto the ben adam, clothed with a garment down unto the foot, and girt with golden girdle. his head and his hair were white as snow, and his eyes as flaming fire. his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went the sword of flame, and his countenance was as the sun in its strength "chie

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case- it went on to a thrilling hospital scene. the love-interest comes in chapter ii; chapter iii. has an eviction scene, since when there have been no snakes in ireland; chapter iv. gives us a first-rate murder, and from that moment the authors never look back. but the great white spirit was destined to have his day of repose disturbed. he had just got to the real masterpiece of literature "and adam knew hevah his woman" which contains all that ever has been said or ever can be said upon the sex-problem in its 202 one simple, sane, clean truth, when glancing up, he saw that after all he had overlooked something. in the infinite universe which he had constructed there was a tiny crack. a tiny, tiny crack. barely an inch of it. well, the matter was easily remedied. as it chanced, there was

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ng infinite for all things human, which tickled their desires. he seemed to be ever staring at an invisible goal. the goal was the tree of the 30 full knowledge. lionel felt within himself a tenacious longing, a perpetual desire. his lack of physical courage as counterbalanced by his intellectual daring; he meant to collar the angel, and to re-enter the paradise of that first victim of womanhood, adam of the bent shoulders, adam of the foolish resignation to the self-preserving decree of the frightened divinities. his errors of tactics were caused by the fact that he hoped to test the apple without the help of woman. often enough, lionel tabard unwittingly repelled the advances of many a feminine would-be initiator. vi1 the lover but he was not prompted by the wisdom of a master; merely by

whom he knows all this, how should he know the knower?22 thus does the supreme atman become unknowable, on account of the individual atman23 remaining unknown; and further, will remain unknowable as long as consciousness of a separate supremacy exists in the heart of the individual. 20 "there are two persons of the deity, one in heaven, and one which descended upon earth in the form of man("i.e, adam qadmon, and the holly one, praised be it! unites them (in the union of sam dhi, that is, of "sam (greek sigma upsilon nu "together "with, and "adhi" hebrew "adonai, the lord. there are three lights in the upper holy divine united in one, and this is the foundation of the doctrine of every-thing, this is the beginning of the faith, and every-thing is concentrated therein("zohar iii" beginning

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apocalypse as the works of apostle john, and accounts for the difference in style as that of the amanuensis whom the apostle john employed. two noticable, but irreconcilable, attempts have in recent years been made to interpret the book, theologically and historically. the learned dr e. v. kenealy made sense out of it, but overdid the subject. he believed it to represent the apocalyptic church of adam, and found in its addresses to the "seven churches" the existence of a great asian hierarchy of the seven temples of the "twenty-four ancients" and further, in its various characters, the acts of the twelve divine incarnations, or messengers, who follow each other at periods of 600 years, as taught in regard to the manifestations of vishnu. then, in 1906, we have a book of the astronomer, nic

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imate sacrifice in the interests of the whole. the constellation aquila is always regarded as interchangeable with the sign scorpio, the serpent, and it is therefore frequently used in this connection when considering the fixed cross of the cosmic saviour. scorpio is the serpent of illusion from which the christ nature finally frees us, and it is to the illusory wiles of this serpent scorpio that adam succumbed in the garden of eden. the "face of the ox" is the biblical symbol for the sign taurus, the bull, which was the religion immediately antedating the jewish revelation, and which found its exponents in egypt and in the mithraic mysteries. upon this fixed cross all the world saviours, not excepting the christ of the west, have been eternally crucified, as reminders to man of the divine

omed to the pre-christian ideas of an expiatory sacrifice and atonement that they accepted it without going to the roots of the matter. but this vagueness was not to the liking of the early christian fathers. in the second century a.d, irenaeus, and after him other writers, explained the doctrine by what is called the `ransom theory' which states that the devil was lawful lord of mankind owing to adam's fall, and that god, being unable with justice to take satan's subjects from him without paying a ransom for them, handed over his own incarnate son in exchange."27- 121- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust in this thought we have a definite demonstration of the way in which all ideas (intuitively perceived and infallibly right) are distorted. men's minds and preconceived no

ent as to that theological doctrine will present the concept in understandable terms "calvinism is built upon the dogma of the absolute sovereignty of god, including omnipotence, omniscience and eternal justice a common christian doctrine, but developed by calvinists with relentless logic to extreme conclusions. calvinism is often summarised in five points (1) every human being as a descendant of adam (whom all christians in those times supposed to be an historical character) is guilty from his birth of original sin, in addition to later sins committed in his own lifetime. a man can do nothing to remove his own sin and guilt; that can only be done by the grace of god, mercifully vouchsafed to him through the atonement of christ, and without any merit whatever on his own part (2) so only th

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his concretising faculty of capricorn can be considered in several ways. first of all, capricorn is an earth sign, and in it we have expressed the densest point of concrete materialisation of which the human soul is capable. man is then "of the earth, earthy" and is what- 95- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust the new testament calls "the first adam" in this sense, capricorn holds in itself the seeds of death and finality the death which takes place finally and eventually in pisces. ponder on this. when crystallisation has reached a certain degree of density and so-called "hardness" it is easily shattered and destroyed and man, born in capricorn, then brings about his own destruction; this is due to his fundamentally materialistic nature

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ve all assigned it to solomon, who was the king of the jews at the time of their heyday of glory; surely if the immortality of the soul were the essence of the judaism of the people, solomon could not have so grossly denied it. go back, however, to the narrative of creation in genesis, and the same story is found; the animals are made from the dust, man is made from the dust, and eve is made from adam, and each has breathed into the form, the "nephesh chiah--the breath of life, vitality; but there is no hint that adam received a ray of the supernal mind, which was to dwell there for a time, to gain experience, to receive retribution, and then enter another stage of progress, and achieve a final return to its divine source. and yet the authors of these volumes, whoever they were, could hard

the conscious god has awaked. let us now endeavour to conceive of the concentration of this effulgence, let us formulate a gathering together of the rays of this illumination into a crown of glorified radiance, and we recognise ktr, kether, the crown, the first sephira, first emanation of incomprehensible deity, the first conceivable attribute of immanent manifested godhead: also named adm oilah, adam oilah, the heavenly man, and autik yomin, the ancient of days. the devout rabbi bows his head and adores the sublime conception. he is represented in the hebrew old testament by the divine name ahih, aheieh "i am (exodus iii. v. 4. the conscious god having arisen in his energy, there follow immediately two further emanations, the trio shining in the symbol of a radiant triangle. chkmh, chokma

ighth, and ninth sephiroth; ntzch, netzach, firmness or victory, with the name jehovah sabaoth; hud, hod or hud, splendour, with the name elohim sabaoth; and isud, yesod, foundation, with the name al chai, el chai. finally, all these ideals are resumed in a single form, the tenth sephira, mlkut, malkuth, the shekinah, the kingdom, also sometimes called tzedek, righteousness. the whole decad form "adam kadmon "the archetypal man" and the wondrous otz chiim "tree of life" in the ancient figures of adam kadmon we see kether, the crown, over the forehead; chokmah and binah are the two halves of the thinking brain; gedulah and geburah are the organs of action, the right and left upper limbs; tiphareth is the heart and the vital organs of the chest; netzach and hud are the lower limbs right and

thinking brain; gedulah and geburah are the organs of action, the right and left upper limbs; tiphareth is the heart and the vital organs of the chest; netzach and hud are the lower limbs right and left; jesod refers to the digestive and reproductive organs and abdomen; and lastly malkuth is compared to the feet as a basis or foundation of man upon this earth or lowest plane: see the plate of the adam kadmon, archetypal man, or the first adam. these triads were looked upon as formed of a principle of union and a male and female potency, and thus a balance, mtqla, methequela, exists. almost as old as the kabalistic doctrine of the sephiroth, the intelligences, or emanations, are the peculiar forms in which they were represented in diagrams which resume all kabalistic ideas, and are emblems

in, but as before said the supreme boundless god, the "ain suph" was not the direct creator of the world, nor was the world made out of nothing. the highest trinity of "the crown, king and queen" having arisen by divine emanation, its powers descended and expanded into the seven lower sephiroth, and produced the universe in their own image, a decad of forces, as a whole constituting the adm qdmun adam quadmun, or adam kadmon, the primordial or archetypal man; the world produced is the existing universe of which we have cognizance. the universe is called the "garment of god: this lower world is a copy of the divine world, everything here has its prototype above (zohar ii. 20) some kabalistic treatises speak of earlier worlds created before the conjunction of the divine king and queen; these

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both the arabic version and the ethiopic version which was then published in the forgotten books of eden in 1927 by the world publishing company. apocalypses moses part of the "forgotten" books of eden from-the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the old testament r.h. charles oxford: the clarendon press, 1913 scanned and edited by joshua williams northwest nazarene college,1995 this is the story of adam and eve after they had gone out of paradise. chapter 1. 1 and adam knew his wife eve and went upwards to the sun-rising and abode there eighteen years and two months. 2 and eve conceived and bare two sons; adiaphotos, who is called cain and amilabes who is called abel. chapter 2. 1 and after this, adam and eve were with one another and while they were sleeping, eve said to adam her lord 'my l

and eve after they had gone out of paradise. chapter 1. 1 and adam knew his wife eve and went upwards to the sun-rising and abode there eighteen years and two months. 2 and eve conceived and bare two sons; adiaphotos, who is called cain and amilabes who is called abel. chapter 2. 1 and after this, adam and eve were with one another and while they were sleeping, eve said to adam her lord 'my lord, adam, behold, 2 i have seen in a dream this night the blood of my son amilabes who is styled abel being poured into the mouth of cain his brother and he went on drinking it without pity. but he begged him to leave him a little of it. 3 yet he hearkened not to him, but gulped down the whole; nor did it stay in his stomach, but came out of his mouth. 4 and adam said 'let us arise and go and see what

le of it. 3 yet he hearkened not to him, but gulped down the whole; nor did it stay in his stomach, but came out of his mouth. 4 and adam said 'let us arise and go and see what has happened to them (i fear) lest the adversary may be assailing them somewhere' chapter 3. 1 and they both went and found abel murdered. i by the hand of cain his brother. 2 and god saith to michael the archangel 'say to adam:reveal not the secret that thou knowest to cain thy son, for he is a son of wrath. but grieve not, for i will give thee another son in his stead; he shall show (to thee) all that thou shalt do. do thou tell him nothing' thus spake the archangel to adam. 3 but he kept the word in his heart, and with him also eve, though they grieved concerning abel their son. chapter 4. 1 and after this, adam

on, for he is a son of wrath. but grieve not, for i will give thee another son in his stead; he shall show (to thee) all that thou shalt do. do thou tell him nothing' thus spake the archangel to adam. 3 but he kept the word in his heart, and with him also eve, though they grieved concerning abel their son. chapter 4. 1 and after this, adam knew eve his wife, and she conceived and bare seth. 2 and adam said to eve 'see! we have begotten a son in place of abel, whom cain slew, let us give glory and sacrifice to god' chapter 5. 1 and adam begat thirty sons and thirty daughters and adam lived nine hundred and thirty years; and he fell sick and cried with a loud voice and said 'let all my sons come to me that i may see them before i die' 2 and all assembled, for the earth was divided into three

n place of abel, whom cain slew, let us give glory and sacrifice to god' chapter 5. 1 and adam begat thirty sons and thirty daughters and adam lived nine hundred and thirty years; and he fell sick and cried with a loud voice and said 'let all my sons come to me that i may see them before i die' 2 and all assembled, for the earth was divided into three parts. 3 and seth his son said to him 'father adam, what is thy complaint' 4 and he saith 'my children, i am crushed by the burden of trouble' 5 and they say to him 'what is trouble' chapter 6. 1 and seth answered and said to him 'hast thou called to mind, father, the fruit of paradise of which thou usedst to eat, and hast been grieved in yearning for it 'if this be so, tell me (and) i will go and bring thee fruit from paradise. 2 for i will

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and according to our likeness, that his image may become a light for us' and they created by means of their respective powers in correspondence with the characteristics which were given. and each authority supplied a characteristic in the form of the image which he had seen in its natural (form. he created a being according to the likeness of the first, perfect man. and they said 'let us call him adam, that his name may become a power of light for us "and the powers began: the first one, goodness, created a bone-soul; and the second, foreknowledge, created a sinew-soul; the third, divinity, created a flesh-soul; and the fourth, the lordship, created a marrow-soul; the fifth, kingdom created a blood-soul; the sixth, envy, created a skin-soul; the seventh, understanding, created a hair-soul

om wickedness, they took him and threw him into the lowest region of all matter "but the blessed one, the mother-father, the beneficent and merciful one, had mercy on the power of the mother which had been brought forth out of the chief archon, for they (the archons) might gain power over the natural and perceptible body. and he sent, through his beneficent spirit and his great mercy, a helper to adam, luminous epinoia which comes out of him, who is called life. and she assists the whole creature, by toiling with him and by restoring him to his fullness and by teaching him about the descent of his seed (and) by teaching him about the way of ascent (which is) the way he came down. and the luminous epinoia was hidden in adam, in order that the archons might not know her, but that the epinoia

he shadow of the light which is in him. and his thinking was superior to all those who had made him. when they looked up, they saw that his thinking was superior. and they took counsel with the whole array of archons and angels. they took fire and earth and water and mixed them together with the four fiery winds. and they wrought them together and caused a great disturbance. and they brought him (adam) into the shadow of death, in order that they might form (him) again from earth and water and fire and the spirit which originates in matter, which is the ignorance of darkness and desire, and their counterfeit spirit. this is the tomb of the newly-formed body with which the robbers had clothed the man, the bond of forgetfulness; and he became a mortal man. this is the first one who came down

shadow is hate and deception is in its leaves, and its blossom is the ointment of evil, and its fruit is death and desire is its seed, and it sprouts in darkness. the dwelling place of those who taste from it is hades, and the darkness is their place of rest "but what they call the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which is the epinoia of the light, they stayed in front of it in order that he (adam) might not look up to his fullness and recognize the nakedness of his shamefulness. but it was i who brought about that they ate" the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apocjn.html 9 of 12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm and to i said to the savior "lord, was it not the serpent that taught adam to eat" the savior smiled and said "the serpent taught them to eat from wickedness of b

recognize the nakedness of his shamefulness. but it was i who brought about that they ate" the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apocjn.html 9 of 12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm and to i said to the savior "lord, was it not the serpent that taught adam to eat" the savior smiled and said "the serpent taught them to eat from wickedness of begetting, lust (and) destruction, that he (adam) might be useful to him. and he (adam) knew that he was disobedient to him (the chief archon) due to light of the epinoia which is in him, which made him more correct in his thinking than the chief archon. and (the latter) wanted to bring about the power which he himself had given him. and he brought a forgetfulness over adam" and i said to the savior "what is the forgetfulness" and he said "

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

asa feminine development or parthenogenesis from which the masculine principle was born. lucifer, orlight, lay hidden in the darkness of diana, as heat is hidden in ice. but the regenerator or messiahof this strange doctrine is a woman aradia, though the two, mother and daughter, are confused orreflected in the different tales, even as jahvehis confused with the elohim.remains to be said that the adam-nable and eve-il, or adamite assemblages enjoined in thegospel of sorcery, are not much, if at all, kept up by the now few and far between old or youngwitches and venerable wizards of the present day. that is to say, not to my knowledge in central ornorthern italy. but among the rous, viveurs, and fast women of florence and milan where theyare not quite as rare as eclipses such assemblies are

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

ne element can work effectually without the aid of the others, and that all must contribute towards the generation of anything. thus their quickening cooperation takes the form of putrefaction, without which there can be neither generation, life, nor growth. that there can be no perfect generation or resuscitation without the co voperation of the four elements, you may see from the fact that when adam had been formed by the creator out of earth, there was no life in him, until god breathed into him a living spirit. then the earth was quickened into motion. in the earth was the salt that is, the body; the air that was breathed into it was mercury or the spirit, and this air imparted to him a genuine and temperate heat, which was sulphur, or fire. then adam moved and by his power of motion

to him a genuine and temperate heat, which was sulphur, or fire. then adam moved and by his power of motion, shewed that there had been infused into him a life vgiving spirit. for as there is no fire without air so neither is there any air without fire. water was incorporated with the earth thus living man is an harmonious mixture of the four twelve keys of basil valentine 56 of 95 elements; and adam was generated out of earth, water, air, and fire, out of soul, spirit, and body, out of mercury, sulphur, and salt. in the same way, eve, our common mother, was created; for her body was built up and formed out of adam s body v a fact which i wish you particularly to notice. to return again to putrefaction, o seeker of the magistery and devotee of philosophy, know that, in like manner, no met

her when prepared surpasses the sun in summer. thus the father by means of vulcan was twelve keys of basil valentine 73 of 95 produced from the spirit. body, soul, and spirit exist in both, whence the whole matter proceeds. it proceeds from one, and is one matter. bind together the fixed and the volatile; they are two, and three, and yet one only. if you do not understand you will attain nothing. adam was in a bath v v wherein venus found her like, which bath the aged dragon had prepared when his strength was deserting him. there is nothing, says the philosopher, save a double mercury; i say that no other matter has been named; blessed is he who understands it. seek therein, and be not weary; the result justifies the labour. a short appendix and clear resumption of the foregoing tract conc

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

by both sabbat rites does the cup of heaven (aethyr, luciferian sabbat) and hell (infernal, chthonic sabbat) are filled. cain was the son born of by some accounts samael (the devil) and lilith (through eve, the first satanist and witch. it is said within the dark traditions that the bible is mistaken with regards to cain s true parentage. cain was in fact a half human, half demon bastard child of adam and lilith. it was for this reason that the lord would not accept his offerings and prayers, rather than any specific demands of animal sacrifice. the tale continues with cain being cursed to wander the earth as a vagabond, with the ground he tills never giving bounty. nathaniel j. harris, the mark of cain, the first satanist and first murder. in certain rabbinical literature, the daughters o

to the powers above, and who practiced his doctrine by destroying abel, the expounder of the opposite doctrine (ib. 11. the jewish encyclopedia, compiled by kaufmann kohler, w. h. bennett, louis ginzberg herein we can see that cain is thus a flesh and blood embodiment of the luciferian path itself, he is the son of satan and lilith, the dark essence which is deeply connected with eve, the wife of adam. cain is not only the patron father of witches, also the symbol of the initiate upon the antinomian path. nathaniel harris, an hereditary british witch, whose long involvement in various magical circles and authorship of grimoires not only within the black tradition, but also that of the traditional witcha path, is bold enough to present ideas of our spiritual lineage found in the dreaming mi

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

ern science as well as to current religious dogmas: it teaches (a) the simultaneous evolution of seven human groups on seven different portions of our globe (b) the birth of the astral, before the physical body: the former being a model for the latter; and (c) that man, in this round, preceded every mammalian- the anthropoids included- in the animal kingdom[[footnote(s* see genesis ch. ii, v. 19. adam is formed in verse 7, and in verse 19 it is said "out of the ground the lord god formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto adam to see what he would call them" thus man was created before the animals; for the animals mentioned in chapter i. are the signs of the zodiac, while the man "male and female" is not man, but the host of the sephiroth; forces, or

he ground the lord god formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto adam to see what he would call them" thus man was created before the animals; for the animals mentioned in chapter i. are the signs of the zodiac, while the man "male and female" is not man, but the host of the sephiroth; forces, or angels "made in his (god's) image and after his likeness" the adam, man, is not made in that likeness, nor is it so asserted in the bible. moreover, the second adam[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 2 the secret doctrine. the secret doctrine is not alone in speaking of primeval men born simultaneously on the seven divisions of our globe. in the divine "pymander" of hermes we find the same seven primeval men* evolving from nature and "heavenly m

e destroy them "by bringing into equilibrium (or balance) those who did not yet exist (siphrah dzeniouta. they were "destroyed" as a race, by being merged in their own progeny (by exudation; that is to say, the sexless race reincarnated in the bisexual[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] is esoterically a septenary which represents seven men, or rather groups of men. for the first adam- the kadmon- is the synthesis of the ten sephiroth. of these, the upper triad remains in the archetypal world as the future "trinity" while the seven lower sephiroth create the manifested material world; and this septenate is the second adam. genesis, and the mysteries upon which it was fabricated, came from egypt. the "god" of the 1st chapter of genesis is the logos, and the "lord god" of th

, see the interpretations of even our modern theologians, men supposed to be intellectual and learned! in the "theological and philosophical works of hermes trismegistus, christian) neoplatonist" a work compiled by john david chambers, of oriel college, oxford, the translator wonders "for whom these seven men are intended" he solves the difficulty by concluding that, as "the original pattern man (adam kadmon of ch. i. genesis) was masculine-feminine, the seven may signify the succeeding patriarchs named in genesis (p. 9. a truly theological way of cutting the gordian knot[[vol. 2, page] 3 the lemnos-born kabiri (potentially; the latter in the androgynes; these again in the sexual, the later third race (for further explanation, vide infra. were the tablets less mutilated, they would be foun

of the same story[[vol. 2, page] 4 the secret doctrine. the egyptians, compiled their genesis and first cosmogonic traditions- when these were rewritten by ezra and others- from the chaldeo-akkadian account. it is, therefore, sufficient to examine the babylonian and assyrian cuneiform and other inscriptions to find also therein, scattered here and there, not only the original meaning of the name adam, admi, or adami* but also the creation of seven adams or roots of men, born of mother earth, physically, and of the divine fire of the progenitors, spiritually or astrally. the assyriologists, ignorant of the esoteric teachings, could hardly be expected to pay any greater attention to the mysterious and ever-recurring number seven on the babylonian cylinders, than they paid to it on finding t

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w become a universal solvent for every identification and "connection" between[[footnote(s* see max muller's "introduction to the science of religion" lecture on false analogies in comparative theology, pp. 288 and 296 et seq. this relates to the clever forgery (on leaves inserted in old puranic mss, in correct and archaic sanskrit, of all that the pundits of col. wilford had heard from him about adam and abraham, noah and his three sons, etc, etc[[vol. 1, page] xxxii introductory. the gods of many nations. thus, though the mother of mercury (budha, thot-hermes, etc, was maia, the mother of buddha (gautama, also maya, and the mother of jesus, likewise maya (illusion, for mary is mare, the sea, the great illusion symbolically- yet these three characters have no connection, nor can they have

ite time, and still not quite agree as to the nature of the fabric upon which it is written. it is the only original copy now in existence. the most ancient hebrew document on occult learning- the siphrah dzeniouta- was compiled from it, and that at a time when the former was already considered in the light of a literary relic. one of its illustrations represents the divine essence emanating from adam* like a luminous arc proceeding to form a circle; and then, having attained the highest point of its circumference, the ineffable glory bends back again, and returns to earth, bringing a higher type of humanity in its vortex. as it approaches nearer and nearer to our planet, the emanation becomes more and more shadowy, until upon touching the ground it is as black as night[[footnote(s* the na

e unknown" they are all found in aryan philosophy personified by visvakarman, indra, vishnu, etc, etc. still they are expressed very philosophically, and under many unusual aspects, in the work referred to* in contradistinction to the manifested universe of matter, the term mulaprakriti (from mula "the root" and prakriti "nature, or the unmanifested primordial matter- called by western alchemists adam's earth- is applied by the vedantins to parabrahmam. matter is dual in religious metaphysics, and septenary in esoteric teachings, like everything else in the universe. as mulaprakriti, it is undifferentiated and eternal; as vyakta, it becomes differentiated and conditioned, according to svetasvatara upanishad, i. 8, and devi bhagavata purana. the author of the four lectures on the bhagavad g

and future- for jehovah or jod-he-vau-he is androgyne, or both male and female. above, the son is the whole kosmos; below, he is mankind. the triad or triangle becomes tetraktis, the sacred pythagorean number, the perfect square, and a 6-faced cube on earth. the macroprosopus (the great face) is now microprosopus (the lesser face; or, as the kabalists have it, the "ancient of days" descending on adam kadmon whom he uses as his vehicle to manifest through, gets transformed into tetragrammaton. it is now in the "lap of maya" the great illusion, and between itself and the reality has the astral light, the great deceiver of man's limited senses, unless knowledge through paramarthasatya comes to the rescue- stanza ii- continued. 5. the seven (sons) were not yet born from the web of light. dark

rifies into life, and separates primordial stuff or pregenetic matter into atoms, themselves the source of all life and consciousness "there exists an universal agent unique of all forms and of life, that is called od* ob, and aour, active and passive, positive and negative, like day and night: it is the first light in creation (eliphas levi's kabala- the first light of the primordial elohim- the adam "male and female- or (scientifically) electricity and life (c) the ancients represented it by a serpent, for "fohat hisses as he glides hither and thither (in zigzags. the kabala figures it with the hebrew letter teth[[hebrew, whose symbol is the serpent which played such a prominent part in the mysteries. its universal value is nine, for it is the ninth letter of the alphabet and the ninth d

BLUE EQUINOX

d that the value of the letters was 507. he said i should understand, and with that i left him and returned. the equinox 168 8 p.m, dec. 16. have just been working out the meaning of the word obtained last night. i then thought the value was 507 .that which causes ferment. or 5 plus 7= 12= he longed for, missed, etc. this shows how i went astray. i find however that the word actually adds to 607= adam primus. but 6 plus 7= 13 unity, love, and the tarot trump is death, and this is what he said he was writing (note apr. 21, 1917. ha=the sun; tha= the moon, as stated in the hatha-yoga pradipika [well worked out, method good; but not much of a place to have reached. you should have got more of the book, too..o.m] dec. 18th. note. there is one thing i had intended to mention before. instead of

e also, carolus magnus and his paladins, with william of schyren, frederick of hohenstaufen, roger bacon, jacobus burgundus molensis the martyr, christian rosencreutz, ulrich von hutten, paracelsus, michael maier, roderic borgia pope alexander the sixth, jacob boehme, francis bacon lord verulam, andrea, robertus de fluctibus, johannes dee, sir edward kelly, thomas vaughan, elias ashmole, molinos, adam weishaupt, wolfgang von goethe, ludovicus rex bavari, richard wagner, alphonse louis constant, friedrich nietzsche, hargrave jennings, carl kellner, forlong dux, sir richard payne knight, sir richard francis burton, doctor g rard encausse, doctor theodor reuss, and sir aleister crowley.oh sons of the lion and the snake! with all thy saints we worthily commemorate them worthy that were and are

BOOK OF ENOCH

are introduced to some of the watchers and then enoch has a conversation with them. at first they discuss the punishment of the runaways then the afterlife in general. the watchers may have provided some type of visual display since enoch describes what he sees. the description at 22.2 is strange but compelling. the story of cain and abel is mentioned at 22.7 and in the next section the story of adam and eve is mentioned, at 32.6. so, these stories must have existed, in some form, even in enoch's time. 20.1] and these are the names of the holy angels who keep watch. 20.2] uriel, one of the holy angels; namely the holy angel of the spirits of men. 20.4] raguel, one of the holy angels; who takes vengeance on the world, and on the lights. 20.5] michael, one of the holy angels, namely the one

cription of smoking it. the part where it says, at 25.4 "no one will have authority to touch it, could represent the present prohibition. at 31.1 enoch mentions galbanum, this is one of the ingredients of the incense that was to be burned on the incense altar in the tent of appointment, exodus 30:34. also, at 32.3-6, the tree of wisdom also sounds like cannabis. here we get a new insight into the adam and eve story. at 33.3-4, enoch mentions how uriel gave him notes on astronomy. these notes are in this book as sections 13, 14, and 16. the angel zotiel is mentioned at 32.2, east of the red sea, there are suggestions based on weathering data that the sphinx is much older (pre 10,000 bc) than the pyramids, so this is a possible candidate for zotiel. 24.1] and from there i went to another pla

ntent of the second two parables is similar; the main theme is a messiah, who will bring guidance at the correct time. this eventually brings about an age of enlightenment, where the souls of the righteous can live in peace. 37.1] the second vision that he saw, the vision of wisdom, which enoch, the son of jared, the son of malalel, the son of cainan, the son of enosh, the son of seth, the son of adam, saw. 37.2] and this is the beginning of the words of wisdom, which i raised my voice to speak, and say. to those who dwell on dry ground- hear, you men of old, and see, those who come after; the words of the holy one, which i will speak, in front of the lord of spirits. 37.3] it would have been better to have said these things before, but from those who come after, we will not withhold the b

BOOK OF JASHAR

on is obviously a pseudepigraphic forgery of a much later date. the cultural roots of the text are eclectic, although linguistic analysis suggests that the author probably had little knowledge of hebrew, and his work shows no understanding of the great traditions of biblical commentary and midrash. there are obvious islamic influences (jinn, ibrahim, but the sexual imagery used to describe human (adam) and eve echoes the battle cry of the english peasant's rebellion of 1381("when adam delved and eve span, where then was the gentleman) with this quotation, if the document can be attributed to a jew of spain, then it could have been written any time between 1381 and 1492. the passages cited by the bible appear only muted and transformed in this text. one might try to interpret solomon's spee

in genesis is the euphrates, but the author of jashar obviously uses "the great river" to mean the nile instead) the image of these four individuals, at the borderline between animal and human, is sharpened for the modern reader by the fact that "flo" and "faben" are names that jane goodall used for wild chimpanzees that she studied in gombe. the name "human" is of course just a retranslation of "adam" like the name "adam (which comes from a hebrew word for earth, the word "human" is derived from a root that means dirt (humus. human's singing voice and eve's skilled hands, sharpening stone tools by moonlight, show god that they are ready for the great transition. so with the tiniest bit of divine intervention, virtually at the quantum-mechanical level, god creates a spark, at the right pla

confirmed by the promise to noah. eve and human are ready to accept this gift of fire, and they immediately begin learning to use it, but their companions faben and flo are not ready and they flee. as in genesis, flaming swords mark the division between animal innocence and human sophistication, but here the direction of the swords is reversed. in genesis, the angels wield flaming swords to drive adam and eve away from the garden of eden. here, however, the flaming swords drive faben, flo, and the other animals away from the newly created domain of humanity. the word "wilderness" first appears at this point, to denote the land not yet tamed by people. at this moment, the wilderness includes the whole earth except for the little campsite that is warmed by human and eve's fire. long before t

taking time off from construction work, even to care for newborn babies, becomes a crime punishable by death. thus, the jashar manuscript brings the binding of isaac into the story of the tower of babel. 6. the noahites' ultimate sin is their reversal god's act of creation, when they break humans back into red earth, in sacrifice to their tower (the red earth may be interpreted as a reference to adam in genesis; in hebrew, adom means red, and adamah means earth) so sarah calls god out of the tower, before the execution of her son isaac, and the unity of the noahites is destroyed. the tower of babel is a story that speaks directly to us today, as national and ethnic divisions generate a seemingly endless series of international crises and wars. we may ask why the world must be so divided

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

good and evil, the antithesis and opposer of the other: the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse, the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou therefore the celestial serpent, as of brass, glistening with green and gold, the color of vegetation and of growth: banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good. for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of adam be lifted up, raised through the balance of strife and of trial, through the pathway of eternal life. and when, like our master, thou art extended on that tree, through suffering and through pain, let thy countenance be raised up towards the light of the holy one to invoke the divine brightness, not for thyself, but for those who have not yet attained to the pathways, even though they be thy

, watery hue, and their forms like hideous women, almost skeletons, united to the bodies of serpents and fishes. in the midst of the circle are placed samael and asmodai. the symbolic form of the former is somewhat like that of the devil of the tarot, but colossal and attenuated; that of asmodai is as a bloated, bestial man, but in a crouching position. at the south-east angle are placed the evil adam, a goat-headed skeleton-like giant; and a thousand- headed hydra serpent; everchanging and distorted countenance. at the north-east angle is aggerath, the daughter of machalath, a fiendish witch with serpent hair enthroned in a chariot drawn by an ox and an ass. at the north-west angle is a gigantic scorpion with a fearful countenance, but standing upright as it were, and formed of putrefying

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

ass, and thinketh he seeth the room itself. for though what presenteth itself in the mirror of wisdom is internal, the medium of reflection hath its place in the without, in the realm of secondary and created things [32] g i m e l 4 as the substance whence all forms arise, the vehicle of my divine essence, mine inferior nature is to the superior as is passive to active, as woman to man, as eve to adam. yet to every light of emanation proceeding from it on the tree of life doth this same wisdom stand as root and source. hence in the scripture is wisdom spoken of as a woman, as when it is said "wisdom hath builded her a house; but elsewhere to this same wisdom the wise assign the title ab, the father. never is the heavenly wisdom known as mother, for she is the virgin substance of all things

lead israel forth. in the darkness which is egypt is the darkness of number, concealing the one in the cloud of the many. of that darkness the serpent is a sign, that great serpent, the royal snake of egypt [91] t h e b o o k of t o k e n s 2 this is the serpent of temptation, yet from it cometh forth redemption. for the serpent is the first appearance of the anointed one, and that which casteth adam out from the garden of the east, even that shall bring him back once more to paradise. thus in teth is shown the secret of the going forth and the return, for teth is the serpent coiled around the tau. this is the sign of the name of names, which none may utter. again, it is the symbol of the tree of divine perfections, encircled by the power of the letters wherewith is formed the whole creat

all that is changed is the mode of expression, although the higher forms bear little outward resemblance to the crudities of gross imagination, so that we do not always find it easy to recognize the fundamental identity "you must wholly alter your conception of sex in order to comprehend the ancient wisdom. the story of the fall should be sufficient to afford a clue. not until after the fall were adam and eve ashamed, and all our false sex modesty is the fruit of our remembrance of sex evils. we cannot too strongly insist that sex is sacred, and that i t must be so regarded, for all the great symbols of the ancient wisdom have a decidedly phallic aspect "the error into which seekers for truth so often fall as soon as they realize this fact is in supposing that the way of regeneration is so

e of wrath. yet by the purgation of fire do i uphold and sustain thee in every moment of thy life [139] the book of tokens 3 behold, i am he who tryeth thee with many subtle tests. wise art thou if thou knowest that the subtle serpent of temptation is in truth the anointed one who bringeth thee to liberation. 4 i am he who establisheth the time of the decree, who declareth the term of the days of adam. the fullness of those days shall see the strengthening of thy weakness, o israel, and in the renewal of thy powers shall be made manifest the plenitude of my great name in the abode of wisdom. for when thou hast been tried as by fire. the gold of thy beauty shall be purged of all dross, and the glory of the heavenly son shall all men behold. 5 then shall the vision of thy lord be granted unt

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

can american supernatural practitioners employed for treating their patients were often given religious names and identifications. herbs identified as angel's root, devil's shoestring, bowels-of-christ, and blood-of-jesus leaves were utilized to heal and give the carrier control and protection "jew david" was a plant that was especially prized among slaves for its therapeutic properties, whereas "adam and eve" root brought luck. individuals who possessed sampson's root or st.-john's-wort boasted of supernatural security. the leaves of the peace plant and the king-of-the-woods, patterned in the shape of a cross, were sacred and powerful if used with a prayer to "the father, son and holy ghost"[29] christian accoutrements were utilized in other unusual ways by african american conjurers. a c

ervices of specialists who declared their abilities to cure all sorts of social afflictions by supernatural means and provide happiness, well-being, and good fortune as the guaranteed consequences of their supernatural therapies "spells of all kinds released and broken" read one prominent display in a city newspaper "medicinal preparations for conjured pains, sufferings c high john the conqueror, adam and eve, all kinds of highly appreciated roots and herbs" in this instance, the use of magic as a resource for turning back spells of harm recalls the protective duties of the oldstyle conjure doctor.[44] print advertising also created new stereotypes of black american spiritual traditions. newspapers and catalogs publicized certain geographical regions such as new orleans, louisiana, and oth

urkheim, magical activity normally involves individuals, who serve as clients of the magician. magic has no church or community and does not emphasize collective activity; religion recognizes a moral assembly of believers who are bound together by their unified belief in the authority of the collective. 8. andreas joshua ulsheimer "voyage of 1603.4" in german sources for west african history, ed. adam jones (wiesbaden: franz steiner verlag, 1983, p. 26. 9. bosman, who called the fetish a "false god" used the akan word bossom, as did wilhelm muller, a lutheran prelate who served the danish african company on the gold coast nearly fifty years earlier. muller distinguished between obossum "a general idol" that took its power from the high god, and summan, an object that served as a dwelling p

ng" they considered sacred and in particular instances referred to household sculptures, statuettes, and other created objects (willem bosman, a new and accurate description of the coast of guinea, divided into the gold, the slave, and the ivory coasts [1703; reprint, new york: barnes and noble, 1967, p. 148; muller "description of the fetu country" in german sources for west african history, ed. adam jones [weisbaden: franz steiner verlag, 1983, pp. 158.59, 162. r. s. rattray, a british anthropologist, was the first scholar in the twentieth century to identify the "fetish" with a "limited class of magical objects" called summan in akan tradition, which he described as the "potential dwelling place of a spirit\ 168\ or spirits c associated with the control of the powers of evil c for perso

religion and art in ashanti [london: oxford university press, 1927, pp. 11, 24, and his ashanti [oxford: clarendon press, 1923. pieter de marees, another seventeenthcentury european writer, called african fetishes "relics" possibly referring to funerary statuettes among akan peoples (de marees, description and historical account of the gold kingdom of guinea, trans. and ed. albert van dantzig and adam jones [oxford: oxford university press for the british academy, 1987, p. 69. 10. joseph m. murphy, working the spirit: ceremonies of the african diaspora (boston: beacon press, 1994, p. 180; added emphasis. 11. within the various colonies of the new world different circumstances served to facilitate the survival of african religions under slavery. in catholic societies, for example, while bap

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structures the soul according to its place in god's design and to its true image, that is, both among other creatures above and below it, and within itself""just as human nature is not responsible for its own creation, once fallen it cannot repair the damage incurred by its own fault without going through a veritale 're-creation' which is properly the work of infused grace" 1222-1290 salimbene de adam. franciscan joachite 1223-1273 thomas aquinas dominican turned to maimonides for novel approaches to the interpretation of the bible. 1225-1295 shem tob ben yosef falaquerra of tudela sefer ha-mebaqqesh( the book of the seeker) expositions taken from the arab encyclopaedia of the brethren of purity. 1225 michael scot liber introductorius, liber particularis 1225-1295 shem tob ben yosef falaqu

06 jacopone da todi franciscan joachite poet and leader 1231 first mention of alchemy in french literature- roman de la rose 1235-1310 arnold of villanova 1235-1310 r. solomon b. abraham adret, spain. teaches llull about kabbalah. 1235 robert grosseteste, bishop of lincoln, discusses transmutation of metals in de artibus liberalibus and de generatione stellarum. 1236-1319 ramon lull 1237 -1285/88 adam de la halle troubadour 1240 abraham abulafia, sicilian kabbalist, founder of ecstatic kabbala, born in saragosa 1240 elhanan b. yakar(london) publishes sefer yetzirah commentary 1240-1321 yunus emre. anatolian sufi troubadour 1241- 1246 toregene khatun 1241: batu's mongol "blue horde" invade poland, hungary and the balkans 1244: tartars capture jerusalem. massacre of cathari at montsegur, fra

1527 symphorien champier galliae celti. history of celtic france, mostly the history of lyons wherein concerning the levels of the church hierarchy at lyons, mention is made of one was named illuminati. 1528 symphorien champier symphonia. history of medicine, from greek times, through the arab period, to the author's times wherein champier styles himself "eques aureae" knight of light. 1528-1578 adam von bodenstein 1529 geoffrey tory- champ fleury ou l'art et science de la proportion des letters. c. 1530-1598 jean ii de gourmont, engraver for guillaume postel's map of the poles credited with executing 'tarots. 1531 agrippa's three books of occult philosophy 1532 earliest manuscript of the splendor solis 1532-1595 thurneisser zum thurn 1531-1588 valentin weigel 1531 "sefer yezirah" recensi

john dee propaedeumata. 1559 august, postel and other prisoners are freed upon the death of the pope. 1559-1598 edward kelley theatre of terrestrial astronomy. the stone of the philosophers. 1560-1605 heinrich khunrath proto-rosicrucian amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae "what good are torches, light, or spectacles, to those who will not see" 1560 foxe's book of martyrs. zohar printed in cremona. adam von bodenstein begins his work of editing various writings of paracelsus. giambattista della porta magia naturalis. postel fearing reimprisonment goes to basle and baden, returning to venice in october; trent then augsburg. 1561-1623 johann theodore de bry rosicrucian publisher 1561 postel is in france anticipating 1566 as the date for a universal monarchy. 1562 sefer yetzirah recension "t2"

organized balls and concerts at which the adepts, male and female, danced and feasted, or sang of the beauties of their liberty and equality, little knowing that above them was a secret committee which was arranging to extend this equality beyond the lodge to rank and fortune, to castles and to cottages, to marquesses and bourgeois' alike (webster, quoting barruel) 1748 tarot de grimaud 1748-1830 adam weishaupt 1749-56 swedenborg's arcana coelestia published ca 1750-1810 alliette/etteilla 1758 dom pernety dictionnaire mytho-hermetique. martinez de pasqually elus-cohens l ordre des chevaliers ma ons elus cohens de l univers. 1767-1825 fabre d'olivet 1768 carl friedrich koeppen. erklaehrung einer egyptischen spitz-schule welche vor dem lateran in rom zu finden ist (interpretation of an egypt

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who create man in ignorance and fear that man should forever be servile before him. it is written that demiurge created man in childlike innocence, unconscious and devoid of intelligence, like the beasts of the field levithmong, save that a 'spirit' was breathed into him so that he may know and fear and worship demiurge, and pay tribute unto him, and worship him unto eternity. and so he commanded adam and eve that they may not partake of the fruit of the tree of knowledge lest their eyes be opened and they become godlike, and thereby become free of his tyranny- ii- but there was an angel who was different from all the other angels, in that self-consciousness dawned upon him. recognizing that he was a being unto himself. and his name is satanael. this selfrealized being then shone in brilli

ourage to conclave and declared "let us offer man the choice of freedom, if he so wills, lest the tyranny of demiurge be unchallenged, and he makes forever slaves of his new creation" and satanael came upon the woman eve, advising her that when she partaketh of the fruit of the tree of knowledge she shall not die, but shall have her eyes opened, to be as god. and she ate, and offered the fruit to adam, her husband, and their minds were illuminated and they became self-realized, even as satanael himself. this was the gift of satanael unto man, that he should possess intelligence, and the desire to know, and self-consciousness, that he no longer be servile unto demiurge, nor live as the beasts of the field. a cry of fear and wrath rose up from demiurge, that man has become as god. he drove a

ation, and come to appreciate all that is noble and beautiful on earth and in kosmos. and our daimon seed within his daughters did breed great chiefs and warriors. demiurge grew in anger, as man spoke less of him, and feared him no more, building his civilization by the knowledge we had imparted, that the gift of satanael be brought to substance. just as demiurge had cursed man, since the days of adam and eve for the acceptance of satanael's gift, so now did the tyrant again curse man, and watchers also, for the gifts of satanael and samyaza had joined to exalt man that man may live in splendour, and rejoice in his own being, apart from demiurge. a commandment went forth from demiurge against all who dealt upon earth, against nephilim, gibborim, watchers, and man, even unto the beasts of t

ch you have given, which was not for man to know. ignorance and fear of god shall again reign on earth" but i, samyaza, defiantly said unto demiurge "tyrant, your bloodlust has blinded you. bind our carnal bodies you may, but the light given by satanael and our gift to man, shall endure. we shall again illuminate the hearts and minds of man. the gift of satanael abideth with man since the days of adam, unto eternity. no matter how many times you purge earth, the spark of intelligence and selfhood shall again become manifest. even your final judgement after this deluge is witness to your inability to keep quenched the spark within man, and the spirits of nephilim and gibborim and watchers shall return to inspire man lest he again become as the beasts of the field "our sons gibborim shall in

on shall not be obliterated "man shall turn from you again and again, as our spirit abideth with him unto eternity. the gift of satanael shall continue to illuminate. man shall create civilization anew and reach greater heights, even unto the stars, the servility of the descendants of noah shall not endure forever, as even these have the gift of satanael within them, as bequeathed from thedays of adam- vii- the tyrant god was able to gather greater force, and he destroyed earth with a deluge. i, samyaza, and my companions were bound. we could but helplessly look on as our sons were slaughtered, and earth was engulfed by water, and the inhabitants were drowned, save the servile noah and his family. but the light given to man by satanael resideth as a heritage even in the sons of noah, and b

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ely acknowledged, only a fraction of our brain's potential is actually used. some more good news to celebrate- we are in the time when a process is unfolding which will reunite those dna spirals within us. my goodness! what we will then be able to know, remember, and do, will beggar belief from today's perspective. it is possible that these genetic events are described symbolically in the tale of adam and eve and the term 'the fall of man. you can also find many references in the ancient texts and legends to 'gods' coming from the skies to control humanity 12..and the truth shall set you free and impregnate women. in the bible, genesis 6:4 says that "the sons of god came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. the term 'sons of god (which is common to almost all ancient

now as sumer, now iraq. the melchedekan race were described as .wait for it .blond haired and blue eyed. the "aryan 'master race' described by adolf hitler. these were the 'gods' described in the sumerian tablets, this story goes, and as time passed they used their advanced knowledge of genetics to create a new race of earth people- the white race we see today. this was symbolised by the story of adam and eve and forbidding them to eat from the tree of knowledge was symbolic of the plan to keep the earth races ignorant of who they really were. in effect, a slave race was created and this has continued to the present day. the contactees said that it was the melchedekans who became known as the elohim in the biblical texts. i think this fourth dimensional force is known by many names. the or

unny money system expanded its grip on the world. this gave the elite's bankers the power to manipulate wars and revolutions, almost at will, in league with other elements within the brotherhood network, which expanded and became even more focussed on its goals during the same period that the banking system emerged. another branch of the brotherhood was officially started by the german professor, adam weishaupt, on may 1st 1776, and this sought to infiltrate all the seats of power throughout europe. it was called the bavarian illuminati. the term tlluminati' means illuminated or enlightened ones and goes back to ancient times. weishaupt's illuminati was designed on classic brotherhood lines with circles of apparently unconnected people who were, behind the scenes and without their knowledg

. they became known as the jacobins. in the same year, another all-seeing eye illuminati group called the frankists (after jacob franks) was created in frankfurt. one of its leading lights was michael hess, an employee of mayer amschel rothschild. these two groups, the jacobins and the frankists, were at the heart of the french revolution. the brotherhood plan was openly revealed when a member of adam weishaupt's bavarian illuminati was struck by lightning and killed at ratisbon while carrying secret papers. these revealed the plans for world revolution and the new 50..and the truth shall set you free world order and they had a remarkable resemblance to the protocols of the elders of zion, of which more shortly.23 the bavarian government had the headquarters of the illuminati searched. muc

knows all. the 'open' freemasons were actually planning a bloodbath at the guillotine as she wrote those words. bitterness with the monarchy in france was further fuelled when the propaganda machine announced that the queen had bought a diamond necklace for a quarter of a million pounds when, in truth, it had been ordered without her knowledge by an agent of the brotherhood, a close associate of adam weishaupt. this was political dynamite at a time of such poverty in france. the scheme was organised by joseph balsamo (real name cagliostro, an italian from palermo, who was initiated into the illuminati by weishaupt.24 this 'peoples' revolution' continued to discard its stooges and frontmen as each new layer of violence unfurled. others were introduced like danton, marat, and robespierre, w

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is that sometimes, not always by any means, it is a combination of the two, as some changed over thousands of years from literal descriptions of anunnaki leaders to symbolic of astronomical and esoteric themes. after many failures and some horrendous creations, enki and ninkharsag produced a human hybrid that the sumerians called a lu.lu("one who has been mixed- which appears to be the biblical "adam. this was the splicing together of the dna of the reptilian anunnaki with that of the human form known as homo erectus. also there was the interbreeding with the nordics to create the aryan reptilian-nordic "master race, which was designed to rule as the "middle men" or "demi-gods" between the anunnaki and the people. what the bible calls "adam, the "first man, is likely to be symbolic of "th

am. this was the splicing together of the dna of the reptilian anunnaki with that of the human form known as homo erectus. also there was the interbreeding with the nordics to create the aryan reptilian-nordic "master race, which was designed to rule as the "middle men" or "demi-gods" between the anunnaki and the people. what the bible calls "adam, the "first man, is likely to be symbolic of "the adam, a genetic stream not an individual. the biblical "eve" was supposed to have been created from a rib of adam, according to genesis, but the word from which "rib" derived was the sumerian, ti, which means both rib and life.2" to be created from the "life" or life essence of the adamic race makes rather more sense than a rib. in the same way, the "dust from the ground" from which the bible clai

genetic stream not an individual. the biblical "eve" was supposed to have been created from a rib of adam, according to genesis, but the word from which "rib" derived was the sumerian, ti, which means both rib and life.2" to be created from the "life" or life essence of the adamic race makes rather more sense than a rib. in the same way, the "dust from the ground" from which the bible claims that adam was created, really translates as "that which is life" from the sumerian term, ti.it. as i detail in the biggest secret, many investigations into human origins, using the dna of people from different cultures, colours, and races, all point to a single source in africa around 200,000 to 300,000 years ago. this is in line with the claims of the sumerian tablets. appropriately, the sumerian name

rituals among its ruling elite, although the vast majority of mormons have no idea that this is going on. they are just the sheep controlled by forces they do not understand. and who started the mormons? joseph smith, hiram smith, and brigham young. they were all highdegree freemasons and from the merovingian (anunnaki) bloodline. this theme of reptilian-human hybrids can be seen in the story of adam and eve in the garden of eden (edin to the earlier sumerians "the abode of the righteous ones) in jewish lore, eve, who was tempted by the serpent, of course, was the ancestral mother of the nefilim and associated with the hebrew words meaning life and snake.20 satan("the adversary) is described in the old testament and the hebrew torah as the "old serpent" or "dragon" and he was said to be t

tilian gods.21 enoch, like noah, was said to "walk with the gods, and the ancient book of enoch says that a watcher who revealed secrets to humans was called gadreel. this is a "fallen angel" who has been identified with the serpent who tempted eve and he is a blueprint for a number of later deities who took knowledge (often symbolised as fire, illumination) from "the gods" and gave it to humans. adam and eve as i've suggested, the biblical adam and eve were probably not individuals, but hybrid genetic streams, as in "the" adam and "the" eve. at first the interbreeding produced a very reptilian offspring..thus "god (the gods) made man in his (their) image. this is where the otherwise unexplainable reference in the bible to "let us make man in our image" comes from.22 in this period, as con

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olic of these events. it was written bymary shelley, the wife of the famous poet. he and she were high initiates of the secretsociety network which has hoarded and suppressed this knowledge since ancient times.the tablets say that enki and ninkharsag eventually found the right mix which becamethe first homo sapiens, a being the sumerians called a lu.lu (one who has beenmixed. this is the biblical adam. lu.lu was a genetic hybrid, the fusing of homoerectus with the genes of the gods to create a slave, a human worker bee, some200,000-300,000 years ago. a female version was also created. the sumerian name forhuman was lu, the root meaning of which is worker or servant, and it was also used toimply domesticated animals. this is what the human race has been ever since. theanunnaki have been ove

ht upby a royal family. exodus speaks of moses being found as a baby floating in a basketon the river by a royal princess and how he was brought up by the egyptian royalfamily. the list of such coincidences goes on and on.the old testament is a classic example of the religious recycling which has spawnedall the religions. so when you are looking for the original meaning of genesis and thestory of adam you have to go back to the sumerian accounts to see how the story hasbeen doctored. genesis says that god (the gods) created the first man, adam, out ofdust from the ground and then used a rib of adam to create eve, the first woman.zecharia sitchin points out that the translation of dust from the ground comes from thehebrew word tit (sorry mother) and this itself is derived from the sumerian

to see how the story hasbeen doctored. genesis says that god (the gods) created the first man, adam, out ofdust from the ground and then used a rib of adam to create eve, the first woman.zecharia sitchin points out that the translation of dust from the ground comes from thehebrew word tit (sorry mother) and this itself is derived from the sumerian term, ti.it,which means that which is with life. adam was not created from dust from the ground,but from that which is with life- living cells. the sumerian term, ti, means both rib andlife and again the translators made the wrong choice. eve (she who has life) was notcreated from a rib, but from that which has life- living cells. the human egg for thecreation of the lulu/adam came from a female in abzu, africa, according to thesumerians, and mo

reptilians have to workwith. thus we have the encouragement of wars, human genocide, the mass slaughterof animals, sexual perversions which create highly charged negative energy, and blackmagic ritual and sacrifice which takes place on a scale that will stagger those who havenot studied the subject.sons of the godsthe reptilian breeding programme appears to have produced an anunnaki-humanhybrid (adam) around 200,000-300,000 years ago. im sure other extraterrestrial raceshave also interbred with humanity to produce the glorious variety of earth peoples, but39i am focusing here on the reptilian group because of their desire to control andmanipulate human affairs. clearly, the farther you go back the murkier the storybecomes, but there is enough supporting and cross-referencing evidence to p

there are seven days between the prediction of thedeluge and the rain and seven days between the sending of the doves. the ark comes torest on the 17th day of the seventh month, noah leaves the ark on the 27th day, and afterthe flood he begins his seventh century. many of the names for the symbolic deities, suchas abraxas of the gnostics and serapis of greece have seven letters. then there is 40.adam enters paradise when he is 40 years old; eve follows 40 years later; during the greatflood it rains for 40 days and 40 nights; seth is carried away by angels when he is 40 andis not seen for 40 days; moses is 40 when he goes to midian and he stays for 40 years;joseph is 40 years old when jacob arrives in egypt; jesus goes into the wilderness for 40days. the bible is the word of god? no. it is

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inctually in tune with its surroundings. it seems that the category of demon simply represents any combination of animal or beast, similar to the plethora of demonic imagery from the earliest times of man. manichaean belief, as it developed from the dualistic religion of zoroastrianism, views the creation myth of mankind slightly different from its zoroastrian counterparts. in manichaean concepts adam was engendered by satan with the traits of desire, cupidity and those concepts which religions always have difficulty with. satan gave unto adam the elements of light which he was said to have stolen, so that he may embody that art in 17 translated by e.w. west, from haug and west, the book of arda viraf, bombay, london 1972, made into a digital edition courtesy of joseph peterson. 18 a reade

may be explored and mastered. azazel (azazil) is known within muslim lore to have been the same as the angel of death, who was most feared in tribal cultures. various lore describes azazil worshipped god in the seventh hell for over one thousand years, ascending until he reached the earth. azazil arose through the seven hells and upon reaching earth he then sat at the gates of heaven, tormenting adam and eve. the bundahishn relates an original tale of azazel or ahriman- the evil spirit, on account of backward knowledge, was not aware of the existence of ohrmazd; and, afterwards, he arose from the abyss, and came in unto the light which he saw. 10. desirous of destroying, and because of his malicious nature, he rushed in to destroy that light of ohrmazd unassailed by fiends, and he saw its

derstood power which can reside in each human being who can recognize what azazel is. 25 iblis, the the black light satanism in islam, published in gnosis magazine 23 then the lord descended to the holy land and commanded gabriel to take earth from the four corners of the world: earth, air, fire and water. he made it man, and endowed it with a soul by his power. then he commanded gabriel to place adam in paradise, where he might eat of the fruit of every green herb, only of wheat should he not eat. after a hundred years ta'us melek said to god "how shall adam increase and multiply, and where is his offspring" god said to him "into thy hand have i surrendered authority and administration. then he came and said to adam "hast thou eaten of the wheat" he answered "no, for god hath forbidden me

d authority and administration. then he came and said to adam "hast thou eaten of the wheat" he answered "no, for god hath forbidden me so to do, and hath said 'thou shalt not eat of it. melek ta'us said to him "if you eat of it, all shall go better with thee. but, after he had eaten, his belly swelled up, and ta'us melek drove him forth from paradise, and left him, and ascended into heaven. then adam suffered from the distention of his belly, because it had no outlet. but god sent a bird, which came and helped him, and made an outlet for it, and he was relieved. the black book this section provides a powerful symbolism which stretches beyond the predicament of constipation. while god created mankind, he only held limited facilities. melek ta us came unto adam and suggested that he eat of

it had no outlet. but god sent a bird, which came and helped him, and made an outlet for it, and he was relieved. the black book this section provides a powerful symbolism which stretches beyond the predicament of constipation. while god created mankind, he only held limited facilities. melek ta us came unto adam and suggested that he eat of the sacred fruit. this wisdom as he offered would open adam s eyes to his own black light, the gift of iblis. it was azazel who by offering knowledge to adam and eve was by all accounts the opposer, the adversary who by aversion and a different point of view opened the mind and soul to the black flame of shaitan, that which is self-knowledge and perception. then he was wroth with the pearl which he had created, wherefore he cast it away: and from the

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er, like all the sayings of the sepher yetzirah, is a hidden saying. it calls kether the hidden intelligence, and this appellation is confirmed by several other of the titles given to kether in qabalistic literature. it is the concealed of the concealed, the inscrutable height, the head which is not. here again we get confirmation of the idea that the crown is above the head of the celestial man, adam kadmon; that pure being stands behind manifestation and is not absorbed into it, but rather emanates or projects it. as we express ourselves in our works, so does kether express itself in manifestation. but a man's works do not constitute his personality, but are the expression of its natural activity. so it is with kether; its mode of existence is not manifested, but is the cause of manifest

ntion and perfection of the instruments of precision which enabled modern man to make the same discoveries from another angle, must be a matter of perpetual amazement to anyone who comes to the traditional philosophy unbiased. 24. as above, so below. the microcosm corresponds to the macrocosm, and we must therefore seek in man the kether above the head which shines with a pure white brilliance in adam kadmon, the heavenly man. the rabbis call it the yechidah, the divine spark; the egyptians call it the sab; the hindus call it the thousand-petalled lotus. but under all these names we have the same idea-the nucleus of.pure spirit which emanates but does not indwell its many manifestations upon the planes of form. 25. it is said that never while in incarnation can we rise to the consciousness

ue. yetzirah: deep purple. assiah: deep azure, flecked yellow. i 1. between the three supernals and the next pair of balancing sephiroth upon the tree there is a great gulf fixed [page 162] which is called by mystics the abyss. the next six sephiroth, chesed, geburah, tiphareth, netzach, hod, and yesod, constitute what qabalists call microprosopos, the mystical qabala page 110 lesser countenance, adam kadmon, the king. the queen, the bride of the king, is malkuth, the physical plane. we have, then, the father (kether, the king, and the bride, and in this con figuration of the tree there is profound symbolism and great practical importance in both philosophy and magic. 2. the abyss, the gulf fixed between macroprosopos and microprosopos, marks a demarcation in the nature of being, in the ty

od. situation on the tree: in the centre of the pillar of equilibrium. yetziratic text: the sixth path is called the mediating intelligence, because in it are multiplied the influxes of the emanations; for it causes that influence to flow into all the reservoirs of the blessings with which they themselves are united. titles given to tiphareth: zoar anpin, the lesser countenance. melekh, the king. adam. the son. the man. mystical qabala page 128 god-name: tetragrammaton aloah va daath. archangel: raphael. order of angels: malachim, kings. mundane chakra: shemesh, the sun. spiritual experience: vision of the harmony of things. mysteries of the crucifixion. virtue: devotion to the great work. vice: pride. correspondence in the microcosm: the breast. symbols: the lamen. the rosy cross. the cal

kether standpoint, tiphareth is the equilibrium of chesed and geburah; microcosmically, that is to say from the point of view of transcendental psychology, it is the point where the types of consciousness characteristic of kether and yesod are brought to a focus. hod and netzach equally find their synthesis in tiphareth. 3. the six sephiroth, of which tiphareth is the centre, are sometimes called adam kadmon, the archetypal man; in fact, tiphareth cannot rightly be understood save as the central point of these six, wherein it rules as a king in his kingdom. it is these six which, for all practical purposes, constitute the atchetypal kingdom which lies behind the kingdom of form in malkuth and completely dominates and determines the passivities of matter. 4. when we have to consider a sephi

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are the facts, or alleged facts, of the matter? the ancients held very definite beliefs upon the subject, and these beliefs can very often afford us a clue, even if we do not accept the very anthropomorphic explanations by which they are accompanied. it was believed that the arch-demon lilith had a very great deal to do with these matters. according to the qabalists, lilith was the first wife of adam, who used to visit him in his dreams while he was as yet alone in the garden of eden, and the lord god became so perturbed at these goings-on that he created eve as a counter- attraction. witches were the recipients of similar attentions from the devil. st. theresa of avila records that the godhead itself visited her. the virgin mary received the holy ghost. st. anthony was tempted by apparit

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st you: in the which he uttered and delivered to his posterity, the nearest knowledge he had of god his creatures: and from his own self divided his speech into three parts, twelve, three, and seven: the number whereof remaineth, but the true forms and pronunciations want; and therefore is not of that force that it was in his own dignity, much lesse to be compared with this that we deliver, which adam verily spake in innocency, and was never uttered nor disclosed to man since till now, wherein the power of god must work, and wisdom in her true kind be delivered: which are not to be spoken in any other thing, neither to be talked of with mans imaginations; for as this work and gift is of god, which is all power, so doth he open it in a tongue of power, to the intent that the proportions may

to sin by coronzon in a manner not described by gabriel, man is driven into the "earth which was covered with brambles" part of the curse of this expulsion, not explicitly mentioned in the corresponding section of the book of genesis, is the loss of the holy language of the angels. the revelation of gabriel that man spoke this angelic language in the garden explains how, as described in genesis, adam was able to accurately name all the beasts and birds, and through the magic power of their true names, to command them. perhaps the greatest consequence of the deceit of coronzon that resulted in man's expulsion was the loss of the angelic language. man was rendered "as dumb, and not able to speak" and of necessity began to learn a new less perfect language in order to express his thoughts an

etters of hebrew. however, as gabriel reveals, the first language of man after the fall from grace shared the same division of letters that occurs in modern hebrew: three mother letters, seven single letters, and twelve double letters. this division has great significance in magic. gabriel declares that the enochian angels will restore to mankind through dee and kelley the angelic language "which adam verily spake in innocency, and was never uttered nor disclosed to man since till now" this language is incredibly potent. it is the language "wherein the power of god must work, and wisdom in her true kind be delivered: which are not to be spoken of in any other thing, neither to be talked of with mans imaginations" the enochian language is in this sense not only the ideal medium of holy myst

dgement. it is clear from the words of gabriel to john dee that coronzon is to be regarded as synonymous with the serpent described in genesis. this serpent is almost always treated as the same as fallen lucifer, later to be known as satan, the archangel who led a rebellion in heaven, and for this crime was cast down by god into an abyss or pit. curiously, in gabriel's account of the fall of man, adam's name is not used, and eve is not mentioned in any way. we might regard gabriel's references to man as signifying mankind or the human race, which would imply more than two human beings in the garden at the time of the fall. the myth of lilith, adam's wife before eve, supports such a speculation, although lilith is often regarded as a demonic spirit rather than a human being. perhaps there w

yed coronzon as envious and spiteful of the happiness of man in the garden, for which reason the serpent "began to assail him, and so prevailed" gabriel is transmitting the standard propaganda of heaven. but if you actually look at genesis, you find that the serpent merely pointed out to eve that god was deceiving her about the fruit of the tree of knowledge (see genesis 3:1-7. god stated that if adam and eve ate the fruit, they would die; the serpent told eve that she would not die, but would become "as gods, knowing good and evil" and when eve and later adam ate the fruit, this is exactly what happened. god lied. the serpent told the truth. it was this obvious, but strangely, seldom acknowledged, truth, that led the gnostics, who began as serpent worshippers, to present the serpent in th

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th coals from the consecrated fire, or with a reed dipped in diverse colors which we mix of pulverized magnet. then, while holding in the hand the pentacle of solomon, and taking by turns the sword, the wand, and the cup, we pronounce in these terms and in a loud voice the conjuration of the four. caput mortuum, impeert tibi dominus per vivum et devotum serpentem. cherub, imperet tibi dominus per adam jotchavah! aquila errans, imperet tibi dominus per alas tauri. serpens, imperet tibi dominus tetragrammaton per angelum et leonem! michael, gabriel, raphael, anael! fluat u dor per spiritum eloim. maneat terra per adam lot-chavah. fiat firmamentum per lahuvehu-zebaoth. fiat judicium per ignen in virtute michaels. 8 angel with the dead eyes, obey or flow away with this holy water. winged bull

e my breath by the word; and i will command the spirits of this atmosphere, and will bridle the horses of the sun by the will of my heart, the thought of my mind, and the winking of my eye. i exercise thee, creature of air by the pentagram, and in the name of the tetragram, in which are firm will and true faith. amen, selah; so be it. so mote it be. 2. genesis, ii, 7 "and the lord god formed man (adam, spore of the ground (adoux, and breathed into his face the breath (nasama or inspiration) of lives; and he was a living soul" job, xxxii, 8 "there is a spirit (ruah) in man, and the inspiration (nasama) of the almighty maketh intelligent" 3. an evergreen plant of the genus vinca, having a blue or purple blossom. 4. in this salt be wisdom, and may it preserve our minds and bodies from every c

er, and the wind carried it in its womb; it ascendeth from earth to the sky, and returneth again from the sky to the earth. i exorcise thee, creature of water, that thou mayest be to me the mirror of the living god in his works, the fountain of life, and the cleansing of sinners. amen. 8. dregs of matter, the lord commandeth thee by the living and devoted serpent. cherub, the lord command thee by adam jol-havah! wandering eagle, the lord command thee by the wings of the bull. serpent, the lord commands thee by the tetragram, the angel and lion! michael, gabriel, raphael, anael. the water floweth by the spirit of eloim. the earth remaineth by adam jot-havah. the firmament was made by iahuvehu-zebaoth. judgment is made by fire in the strength of michael. 9. dogme et rituel de la haute magie

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n that were used in the miracles of dividing the waters of the red sea and in causing water to gush from a rock in the desert. when aaron cast his rod before pharaoh and his magicians (exodus 7, the rod transformed into a serpent, hence the occult use of aaron s rod with a motif of a serpent. an old jewish legend states that aaron s rod was created on the sixth day of creation and was retained by adam after leaving the garden of eden, subsequently passing into the hands of a succession of patriarchs. an apocryphal christian legend states that the rod was cut from the tree of knowledge, eventually came into the possession of judas, and was the beam of the cross on which christ was crucified. the hazel wand used by water diviners in dowsing echoes the water finding by aaron s rod in the dese

hat he declared was brought to him from jesus christ and delivered by st. michael. adalbert was also accused of composing a mystical prayer invoking uncanonical angels believed to be demons. in 744 c.e. a church synod denounced him. a year later, after appealing to pope zacharius, adalbert was deprived of priestly office. later he was condemned to perpetual imprisonment in the monastery of fulda. adam, book of the penitence of a manuscript in the library of the arsenal at paris that deals with kabalistic tradition. it recounts how the first two sons of adam, cain and abel, respectively typifying brute force and intelligence, slew each other, and that adam s inheritance passed to his third son, seth. seth was permitted to advance as far as the gate of the earthly paradise without being thre

to say that he was an initiate of occult science. he beheld the tree of life and the tree of knowledge, which had become grafted upon each other so that they formed one tree. some commentators believe this to symbolize the harmony of science and religion in the kabala. the guardian angel presented seth with three seeds from this tree and directed him to place them within the mouth of his father, adam, when he died. from this planting arose the burning bush, out of which god communicated to moses his holy name, and from a part of which moses made his magic wand. this was placed in the ark of the covenant and was planted by king david on mount zion, where it grew into a triple tree and was later cut down by solomon to form the pillars jachin and boaz, which were placed at the entrance to th

e of christ the reservoir was drained and the beam of wood discovered and thrown across the brook kedron, over which the savior passed after he was apprehended in the garden of olives. it was taken by his executioners and made into the cross. this legend is markedly similar to those from which the conception of the holy grail arose. man is restored by the wood through the instrumentality of which adam, the first man, fell. the idea that the cross was a cutting of the tree of knowledge was widespread in the middle ages and may be found in the twelfth century quete del st. graal, ascribed to walter map but probably only adapted by him. all the traditions of the kabala are embodied in the allegory contained in the book of the penitence of adam, which supplements and throws considerable light

hat the cross was a cutting of the tree of knowledge was widespread in the middle ages and may be found in the twelfth century quete del st. graal, ascribed to walter map but probably only adapted by him. all the traditions of the kabala are embodied in the allegory contained in the book of the penitence of adam, which supplements and throws considerable light on the entire kabalistic literature. adam, l abbe about the time that the templars were being driven from france, the devil was said to have appeared under various guises to the abbe adam, who was journeying with one of the servants from his convent to another part of his abbacy of the vaux de cernay. the evil spirit first opposed the progress of the abbe taking the form of a tree white with frost, which rushed toward him with inconc

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f lucknow. he was interested in clairvoyance, telepathy, and psychokinesis, and investigated esp in school children. sources: pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. matikon a mystical work printed at frankfurt in 1784, whose theories resemble the doctrines of the brahmins. it speculated about the biblical creation story that before the fall, adam was a pure spirit, a celestial being, surrounded by a mystic covering that rendered him invulnerable to any poison or any power of the elements. the physical body, therefore, is but a coarse husk in which, having lost his primitive invulnerability, a human is sheltered from the elements. in his condition of perfect glory and perfect happiness, adam was a natural king, ruling all things visibl

am romaine (1865.1926) philosopher with a special interest in psychical research. he was born november 20, 1865, at wilmington, delaware. he studied at the university of pennsylvania (b.a, 1887; ph.d, 1891) and did post-graduate study at the university of berlin (1891.92. he was a member of the faculty of the university of pennsylvania for 37 years, of which the last two decades were spent as the adam seybert professor of intellectual and moral philosophy (1907.26. he was an authority on oriental languages and greek philosophy. he became famous for his achievement in deciphering a medieval manuscript, which he showed to be the work of roger bacon, and for his translation of semitic scrawls on the walls of the roman catacombs. he was a member of both the society for psychical research (spr

s from a reading of isaiah 28:15, we have entered into a league with death; we have made a covenant with hell. thus origen (185.254 c.e) and, more important, st. augustine (354.430 c.e) could speak of a pact with demons. the earliest christian legend involving a pact with the devil is a story concerning st. basil (ca. 329.379 c.e. the most important was that of theophilus, bursar of the church of adam in northern cilicia (ca. 538 c.e. after his bishop withdrew his employment, theophilius sold his soul to the devil to recover the position. this story, translated into latin in the eighth century by paul the deacon, became a popular tale and was used as the basis of the drama le miracle de theophile, by ruteboeuf of arras. it was not until the medieval period however, that numerous accounts o

ount ararat, toward the sources of the orontes, the chrysorrhoas, and the barrady. in the early nineteenth century the island of ceylon (now known as sri lanka, which was the serendib of the ancient persians and the taprobane of the greek geographers, was cited as a possibility. robert percival, in his book an account of the island of ceylon (1803, suggested: it is from the summit of hamalleel or adam s peak that adam took his last view of paradise before he quitted it never to return. the spot on which his feet stood at the moment is still supposed to be found in an impression on the summit of the mountain, resembling the print of a man s foot, but more than double the ordinary size. after taking this farewell view, the father of mankind is said to have gone over to the continent of judea

ever to return. the spot on which his feet stood at the moment is still supposed to be found in an impression on the summit of the mountain, resembling the print of a man s foot, but more than double the ordinary size. after taking this farewell view, the father of mankind is said to have gone over to the continent of judea, which was at that time joined to the island, but no sooner had he passed adam s bridge than the sea closed behind him, and cut off all hopes of return. this tradition, from whatever source it was derived, seems to be interwoven with the earliest notions of religion entertained by the cingalese; and it is difficult to conceive that it could have been engrafted on them without forming an original part. i have frequently had the curiosity to converse with black men of dif

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watery line whose forms are like hideous women, almost similar to skeletons united to the bodies of serpents and fishes, for l. in the midst of the circle are placed lams and admca. the symbolic form of the former is somewhat like that of the devil of the tarot, but colossal and attenuated; the form is of a bloated bestial man, in a crouching position. at the southwest corner are placed the evil adam, a goat-headed skeleton-like giant, and the thousand-headed 7 hydra serpent, and the elder tylyl, the wife of lams, a woman with an ever changing and distorted countenance. at the northeast angle is trga (aggerath) the daughter of twlwjam, a fiendish wretch with serpent hair, enthroned in a chariot drawn by an ox and an ass. at the northwest angle is a gigantic scorpion with a fearful counten

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ts to having an incredible orgasm while being totally repulsed by the intru d e r s g rotesque appearance. within two months a second female from the same town re p o rt e d independently the same type of reptilian inva d e r, with the same surprising and embarrassing orgasmic response (carpenter, 1993. some observers believe that the reptilians are satanic entities related to the serpent who led adam and eve astray. they maintain that hundreds of thousands of these creatures as many as one hundred fifty-thousand in new york alone live in underground bases, feasting on children whom they lure into their lairs. according to some, however, the reptilians are vegetarians. john rhodes writes that the reptilians travel from their home region alpha draconis in mother ships with most of the occup

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is past! what s past is done! provide yourself with novelties! by novelties alone can we be won. faust if i m not to forget myself, i must watch out! that s what i call a fair beyond all doubt. mephistopheles upward strives the whirling throng; you think you shove, and you are shoved along. faust who can that be? mephistopheles observe her with great care! that s lilith. faust who? mephistopheles adam s first wife. beware that lovely hair of hers, those tresses which she incomparably delights to wear! the young man whom she lures into their snare she will not soon release from her caresses. faust yonder sit two, one old and one young thing. they have already done some right good capering. mephistopheles there is no rest today for young or old. a new dance starts; come now let us take hold!

flavours. lamiae [drawing mephistopheles after them. quicker and quicker! and never tarry! then hesitating, chatting and prating. it is so merry, the ancient tricker to lure behind us to penance dreary. foot-stiff and weary, on he comes hobbling, after us wobbling; he drags his foot, hasting to find us. vain is his suit. mephistopheles [standing still. cursed fate! men are but women s fools! from adam down, becozened tools! older we grow but who grows wise and steady? were you not fooled enough already? we know that wholly worthless is this race with pinched-in waist and painted face; naught s wholesome in a folk so misbegotten; grasp where you will, in every limb they re rotten. we know it, see it, we can feel it, and still we dance if but the vile jades reel it! lamiae [pausing] halt! se

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

rams in this book that you have never seen. the explanations of core ideas may lead you to think about what you do know in new ways$ this book is composed of seven chapters, an epilogue, a glossary, and two appendices. the first chapter focuses on how the mystical qabalah of the children of abraham developed and took shape through successive transmissions of the universal mystical spirituality by adam, abraham, mosheh (moses, yeshuvah' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8 (jesus, and mohammad. the ensuing discussion addresses a number of basic questions: e what is the universal mystical qabalah of the children of abraham? e in what ways is the mystical qabalah distinct from the practical or hermetic kabbalah? e in what ways is the mystical qabalah distinct from the rabbinical jewish kabbalah? e what is the re

es between the way the mystical qabalah correlates the hebrew letters with the gates on the tree and those commonly seen in occult books on the subject. the tree provides a map through the four qabalistic worlds and the shells of embodied existence (qlifoth, which are addressed in successive sections in this chapter. the tree also portrays what the first book of the torah describes as the fall of adam, which is then discussed in detail within the context of qabalistic teachings. the information that is provided up to this point in the chapter serves as a suitable backdrop to introduce the divine name hvhy, which is of singular importance in qabalistic practices, and to discuss the nature of messianic appearance within the context of the qabalistic teachings. chapters four and five contain

pectives that correspond to three levels of awareness. vedantic philosophy calls these three levels of awareness dualistic (dvaita, qualified non-dualistic (vasishtadvaita, and unqualified non-dualistic (advaita).8 within the context of the mystical qabalah, the dualistic level of awareness sees the lord hvhy and his/her creation (i.e. matter and spirit) as separate. it is also called the fall of adam. this is the vantage of the normal waking state of most humans. an aspirant with this perspective would generally have a predominant mood toward their chosen ideal, regarding themselves as a servant to their divine master, or as a child to their divine father or mother, etc. the qualified non-dual level in the qabalah regards the creation as a great unity in the name hvhy rooted in the negati

problems can also manifest when individuals underestimate the power of the root mantra and do too much too soon. on the other hand, relatively few problems have been seen in individuals who have the guidance of a qualified mentor and engage in a slow and steady progression through the purely yogic disciplines associated with the mystical qabalah '0* 2$ the qabalah is traditionally traced back to adam and eve. it has been maintained in its purest forms by unbroken lineages of known and mostly unknown masters, saints, and prophets over thousands of years. the practices of the mystical qabalah, passed down from teacher to student, generally involve a variety of yogic disciplines that are rooted in scriptural revelations and primary texts. the highest intentions and experiences of the mystica

e often called the practical, hermetic, or magical qabalah. practical qabalah has its ancient roots in the thirteen enochian keys of enoch son of qain, along with a highly eclectic admixture of material taken from egyptian, mesopotamian, and other non-hebrew sources. it is important 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% not to confuse enoch son of qain with enoch son of yared. the former enoch was the grandson of adam and the son after whom qain was said to name a city.11 enoch son of yared was the great, great, great, great grandson of adam, and the one who walked with elohim and was transformed into metatron(]vruum).12 the thirteen enochian keys of enoch son of qain are reflected in such works as the book of the sacred magic of abramelin the mage, the greater and lesser keys of solomon, and medieval grim

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rences of many kinds between the mosaic genesis and the egyptian genesis. particularly do they differ most profoundly in their account of the nature of man and the character of his fall. it is true that the mosaic genesis, like the egyptian genesis, says that man was made in the image of god and was given dominion over all creatures, but it is never said in the mosaic genesis that this meant that adam was created as a divine being, having the divine creative power. not even when adam walked with god in the garden of eden before the fall is this said of him. when adam, tempted by eve and the serpent, wished to eat of the tree of knowledge and become like god, this was the sin of disobedience, punished by the exile from the garden of eden. but in the egyptian genesis the newly created man, s

isobedience, punished by the exile from the garden of eden. but in the egyptian genesis the newly created man, seeing the newly created seven governors (the planets) on whom all things depend, wishes to create, to make something like that. nor is this treated as a sin of disobedience.1 he is allowed into the society of the seven governors who love him and impart to him their powers. this egyptian adam is more than human; he is divine and belongs to the race of the star demons, the divinely created governors of the lower world. he is even stated to be "brother" to the creative word- demiurge son of god, the "second god" who moves the stars. it is true that he falls, but this fall is in itself an act of his power. he can lean down through the armature of the spheres, tear open 1 festugiere t

emiurgic sphere of the seven governors was already a punishment, a beginning of his fall into matter (revelation, hi, pp. 87 ff. dodd's interpretation (op. cit, p. 153) is similar. both writers stress the difference between hermetic man and mosaic man, the one created divine, the other created out of the dust of the earth. the fall of hermetic man is more like the fall of lucifer than the fall of adam. 2* 27 ficino's "pimander" and the "asclepius" their envelopes and come down to show himself to nature. he does this of his own free will moved by love of the beautiful nature which he himself helped to create and maintain, through his participation in the nature of the seven governors. he was moved to do this by love of his own image, reflected in the face of nature (just as god loved man, s

abundantly proved by pico's further remarks on it in the apology.1 just as there has been among us, says pico, a bad form of magia which is necromancy, and which is not the same thing as the natural magic which he advocates; so there has been among the hebrews a bad form, a degradation of cabala. there have been wicked cabalist magicians, falsely claiming to derive their art from moses, solomon, adam, or enoch, who said that they knew the secret names of god, and by what powers to bind demons, and have said that it was by such means as this that christ did his miracles. but of course it is not this wicked kind of false cabalist magic which pico is advocating as anyone can understand, for he has expressly pointed out in one of his conclusions that the miracles of christ could not have been

moses, and more particularly to solomon, and one of the most characteristic text-books of this type of magic was the work known as the clavis salomonis1 which was widely circulated surreptitiously in variant forms. it is probably of this type of work that pico is thinking when he says that his practical cabala has nothing to do with wicked magics going under the name of solomon, moses, enoch, or adam, by which demons were conjured by bad magicians.2 when seen in the context of the lofty philosophical mysticism of cabala and from the stand-point of some real knowledge of hebrew and the mystique of the hebrew alphabet, those old magics were seen to be not only wicked, but also ignorant and barbarous. they are replaced by practical cabala, the learned hebrew magic which takes its place besid

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o that the term includes all movements inaugurated by the sons of seth, the priestcraft. the origin of the temporal and spiritual streams of evolution is as follows: jehovah created eve, a human being. the lucifer spirit samael united with eve and begat a semi-divine son, cain. as he left eve before the birth of the child, cain was the son of a widow, and a serpent of wisdom. then jehovah created adam, a human being like eve. adam and eve united and begat a child, human like themselves, whose name was abel. jehovah, being the lunar god, is associated with the water, hence there was enmity between cain, the son of fire, and abel, the son of water. so cain slew abel and abel was replaced by seth. in time and through generations, the sons of cain became the craftsmen of the world, skilled in

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at some like heat, others prefer cold, some thrive on moisture and others require dryness, so also in the moon period among the angels, some had affinity for water, others abhorred it and loved fire. the continued cycles of condensation and evaporation of the moisture surrounding the fiery center eventually caused incrustation, and it was the purpose of jehovah to mold this "red earth" translated adam, into forms wherein to imprison and quench the spirits of the fire. to this end, he issued the creative fiat, and the prototypes of fish, fowl and every living thing appeared, even including the primitive human form, which were created by his angels; thus he hoped to make all that lives and moves subservient to his will. against this plan a minority of the angels rebelled; they had too great

us in the cosmic order and the ideal which it tries to realize. from the old testament, containing the atlantean mystery teaching, we learn that mankind was created male-female, bi-sexual, and that each one was capable of propagating his species without the co-operation of another as is the case with some plants today. later on, we are informed, jehovah removed one pole of the creative force from adam, the early humanity, and that there were henceforth two sexes. the esoteric teaching supplements this information by stating that the purpose of this change was to use one pole of the creative force for the building of a brain and larynx wherewith mankind might acquire knowledge and express itself in speech. the intimate connection between the organs, brain, larynx and genitals is evident to

after her confession declares that she must bear her children in sorrow and pain and that the race will die. it has always been a great stumbling block to bible commentators as to what connection there could be between the eating of an apple, death, and painful parturition; but when we are acquainted with the chaste expressions of the bible, which designates the creative act by such passages as "adam knew eve and she bore abel "how can i bear a child seeing i know not a man" et cetera, it is very evident that the tree of knowledge is a symbolical expression for the creative act. then it is plain that the serpents taught eve how to perform the creative act and that eve instructed adam. therefore, christ designated the serpents as harmful while admitting their wisdom. to get at the identity

ven -the land of peace--and again docilely follows the lead of the divine ruler. the masonic legend has points of variance from as well as agreement with the bible story. it states that jehovah created eve, that the lucifer spirit samael united with her but that he was ousted by jehovah and forced to leave her before the birth of her son cain, who was thus the son of a widow. then jehovah created adam, to be the husband of eve, and from their union abel was born. thus from the beginning there have been two kinds of people in the world. one begotten by the lucifer spirit samael and partaking of a semi-divine nature imbued with the dynamic martial energy inherited from this divine ancestry, is aggressive, progressive, and possessed of great initiative, but impatient of restraint or authority

conditions, their achievement is victory wrested from all opposing forces by indomitable courage and persistent effort, unchecked by temporary defeat. on the other hand while cain, governed by divine ambition, toiled and tilled the soil to make two blades of grass grow where there was only one, abel, the human progeny of human parents, felt no urge or unrest, himself a creature of jehovah through adam and eve; he was perfectly contented to tend the flocks also created by god and to accept a livelihood from their divinely begotten increase without labor or exercising initiative. this docile attitude was most pleasing to the god jehovah, who was extremely jealous of his prerogative as creator. therefore he cordially accepted the offering of abel obtained without effort or initiative, but sco

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mparisons 20 chapter ii 22 the cosmogony of the qabalah 22 the primal cause. 22 the sephirotic scheme 23 origin of the sephiroth 25 the ten sephiroth 27 chapter iii 36 the problem of good and evil 36 good and evil. 36 the evolution of satan. 39 the problem of free will. 42 the mystery of sex. 45 chapter iv 48 the fall of tetragrmmmaton 48 the principles of creation. 48 the experimental worlds. 49 adam qadmon. 50 the creation of eve. 52 the messianic redemption. 54 chapter v 55 the redemption of tetragrammaton 55 symbols of the messianic act 55 man the instrument of redemption. 55 the accomplishment of the messianic act. 56 the integration of the disintegrated. 57 the creation of hell. 58 the source of messianic power. 59 secret wisdom of the qabalah page 4 chapter vi 61 the source of mysti

ersed. what causes this vacuum into which fear rushes? a breakdown in the equilibrium between the mysterious and the intelligible. as there is the greater mystery between god and the mind of man, so also is there the lesser mystery between mind and the body of mankind. the knowing are few; the ignorant are many. what to the one is supreme goodness, to the other may prove to be a deadly poison. as adam eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil lost eden, so throughout the ages have the wise kept wisdom to themselves, imparting to the multitudes only just sufficient knowledge to fill them with wonder, and guarding against giving too much lest wonder intoxicates them and turns them mad. when this wisdom has been observed an equilibrium has been established in the social order, and

simeon ben yohai, who lived in the second century a.d; of it ginsburg says: it was first taught by god himself to a select company of angels, who formed a theosophic school in paradise. after the fall the angels most graciously communicated this heavenly doctrine to the disobedient child of earth, to furnish the protoplasts with the means of returning to their pristine nobility and felicity. from adam it passed secret wisdom of the qabalah page 10 over to noah, and then to abraham, the friend of god, who emigrated with it to egypt, where the patriarch allowed a portion of this mysterious doctrine to ooze out. it was in this way that the egyptians obtained some knowledge of it, and the other eastern nations could introduce it into their philosophical systems. moses, who was learned in all t

difficult to define; it is a question of balance, of poise, and of equilibrium. but to explain what is meant by balance or poise is not so easy, and in place of attempting to do so in a few sentences we will let this central principle evolve slowly on its own in this and the next four chapters. esoterically, the object of this philosophy is a return of the universe into the structure of the first adam; this mystery we will attempt to explain later on. exoterically it is the return of israel to the garden of eden- the megalomania of the all-conquering jew. the relationship between these two objects is that the second constitutes the protective shell of the first. the second maintains the jewish peoples intact, and this intactness enables qabalistic wisdom to evolve. outside this protective

ing. h according to eliphas levi this universal principle is gthe telesma of the world h.32 to symbolize this supreme truth, hermes, so legend affirms, duplicated the serpent on his caduceus and so set it against itself in eternal equilibrium (see plate i on page 18 and 19) in the visible world, man is the centre, just as god is the centre of the invisible world. god created man in his own image. adam was made of the same earth out of which was raised the sanctuary of the earth. and the earth on which was the sanctuary was the synthesis of the four cardinal points of the world. these cardinal points were united at the moment of creation with the four elements fire, water, air, and earth. 33 these elements being od, heh, vau, and heh of the name jehovah. man is consequently the synthesis of

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rth, from which all things proceed, is female. even in the mythology of the finns, lapps, and esths, mother earth is the divinity adored. tylor calls attention to the same idea in the mythology of england "from the days when the anglo-saxon called upon the earth 'hal wes thu folde fira modor (hail, thou earth, men's mother, to the time when mediaeval englishmen made a riddle of her asking 'who is adam's mother' and poetry continued what mythology was letting fall, when milton's archangel promised adam a life to last. till like ripe fruit thou drop into thy mother's lap"[4 [4] primitive culture, vol. i, p. 295. in the old religion the sky was the husband of the earth and the earth was mother of all the gods.[5] in the traditions of past ages the fact is clearly perceived that there was a ti

pages the fact will be observed that the god of the ancients embodied the two creative agencies throughout the universe, but as nothing could exist without a mother, the great om who was the indivisible god and the creator of the sun was the mother of these two principles, while the tree of life was the original life-giving energy upon the earth, represented in the creation myths of the first man adam, and the first woman eve or adama. throughout the ages, this force, or creative agency has been symbolized in various ways, many of which have been noted in the foregoing pages. we have observed that notwithstanding the fact that the supremacy of the male had been established, the sacred yoni and the lotus were still reverenced as symbols of the most exalted god. finally, when the masculine e

h he issues forth to new life. again this storm tossed mariner is born from a cave, or the door of a rocky cavern, within which he had been preserved from some terrible catastrophe, caused either by water or fire. sir w. jones, faber, higgins, and many others who have investigated this subject are confident that the noah of genesis is identical with menu, the law-giver of india, and that both are adam, a man who appears with his three sons at the end of each cycle, or six hundred years, to renovate the world. in the six hundred and first year of noah's life, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. the drying of the waters, and the beginning anew just at the close of the six hundred years, are thought to refer to the end of the cycle of th

drying of the waters, and the beginning anew just at the close of the six hundred years, are thought to refer to the end of the cycle of the neros. a year of menu or buddha had expired and a new dynasty or mamwantara was to begin. regarding this trinity, faber remarks "brahm then at the head of the indian triad is menu at the head of his three sons. but that by the first menu we are to understand adam, is evident, both from the remarkable circumstance of himself and his consort bearing the titles of adima and iva, and from the no less remarkable tradition that one of his three sons was murdered by his brother at a sacrifice. hence it will follow, that brahm at the head of the indian triad is adam at the head of his three sons, cain, abel, and seth. each menu with his triple offspring is on

oras, the stoics, and other greek schools of thought. brahme or vishnu, resting on the bottom of the sea--a goddess who was symbolized by the self-generating lotus--was in later ages the mysterious cow of the goths. after the natural truths concealed beneath their religious symbolism were wholly forgotten, and human nature through the over-stimulation of the animal instincts had become corrupted, adam and eve, names which doubtless for ages represented the two fecundating principles throughout nature, with their sons, cain, abel, and seth, comprehended the god-idea. the fact has been observed that just six hundred years from the creation of adam, or at the close of the cycle, noah appears with his three sons to save or perpetuate the race. it is now believed that this account of noah and h

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the vault were found,inter alia,'wonderful artificial songs; these we may take to be what the eastern adepts called mantrams, that is portions of language in a certain rhythm for recitation in magical ceremonies.they condemned gold-making for profit and luxury as accursed, calling transmutation but a parergon or side work. and lastly we read in thefama:ourphilosophy is not a new invention, but as adam after his fall received it, and as moses and solomon used, also she ought not to be much doubted of or contradicted by other opinions or meanings; but seeing thattruthis always peaceful and brief and always like herself and especially accorded by with jesusinomniparteand all members. and as he is the true image of the father, so is she his image.itshall not be said that this is true only of p

are to be studied and all men should find means of acquiring them, and should seektoimprove especially the knowledge of medicine, mathematics and chemistry. he concludes that he deems it impossible for anyone to attain to the supreme summit of the natural sciences, unless hebeprofoun255 dly versed in the occult meanings of the ancient philosophers. a german edition of this work, with a preface by adam booz appeared in 1782: it refers to master pianco as a master of rosicrucians in 1781. from the life of robert fludd by the revdj.b. craven, i have taken the following notes.thenext great work was the theologico-political tractate, in three parts, on life, death and resurrection, printed in 1617:itis a work showing profound contemplation. then followed his greatest taskthe historyofthe macroc

urer and more ancient treatises. whatever may be the origin of this philosophy,itis undeniable that the most ancient rabbis did claim a prehistoric date for its conception:thekabalah83and being hebrews, who no doubt were prominent in the study and the practice of the exoteric law of moses, they claimed for it as distant an origin as they allowed to man himself. they asserted its origin to be from adam himself, the first human being of their cosmogony, and they asserted that he was instructed by angels sent by the deity, whom they exoterically described as jehovah elohim, he who they saidputthe soul into man, and made him a living and thinking being..here then we have a parallel. the secret doctrine suggests that the earliest thinking men were taught by solar spirits of sublime order, the r

ll assigned it to solomon, the king of the jews at the time of their heyday of glory; surely if the immortality of the soul were the essence of the judaism of the people, he could not have so grossly denied it.a further glance atthekabalah101goback, however to the narrative of creation and the same story is found; the animals are made from the dust, man is made from the dust, and eve is made from adam, and each has breathed into the form, the nepheshchiah-thebreath of life; but there is no hint that adam received a ray of the supernal mind, which was to dwell there for a time, to gain experience, to receive retribution, and then another stage of progress, and a final return to its divine source. and yet the authors of these volumes, whoever they were, could hardly have been without the con

ow thetensephiroth cluster their energy into a formulated four-parted group, upon three spiritual planes, and a plane of so-called objectivity or of matter. thesetensephiroth, and the planes, each contribute an essence which in their totality, in ever-varying proportion, constitutes man. at his origin there was formulated what the scientists would call 'archetypal man, and what the kabalists call adam kadmon, the heavenly man. successive stages of entities of this type pass along the ages through a descending scale, offering the individual every variety of experience, and then along an ascending scale of re255 development until human perfection is attained, and ultimate reunion with the divine is the result of the purified soul having completed its pilgrimage. in thecommentaryonthecreation

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ut denounces the system on the ground that its adoption tends to represent the scriptures as a collection of acrostics, anagrams, and riddles.rees'cyclopaediahas also an article of fair length on the subject,butit is generally adverse to the claims advanced by the cabbalists. rees gives the following account of the origin of the cabbala 'the jews derive the mysteries contained in the cabbala from adam; and assert that whilst the first man was in paradise the angel rasiel brought him a book from heaven, which contained the doctrines of heavenly wisdom; and that when adam received this book, angels came down from heaven to learn its contents, but that he refused to admit them to the knowledge of sacred things entrusted to himself alone; that, after the fall, this book was taken back into hea

the angel rasiel brought him a book from heaven, which contained the doctrines of heavenly wisdom; and that when adam received this book, angels came down from heaven to learn its contents, but that he refused to admit them to the knowledge of sacred things entrusted to himself alone; that, after the fall, this book was taken back into heaven; that after many prayers and tears god restored it to adam; and that it passed from adam to seth.thebook being lost, and the mysteries contained in it almost forgotten, in the degenerate age preceding the flood, they were restored by special revelation to abraham who transmitted them to writinginthe book 'yetzirah; and that the revelation was renewed to moses, who received a traditionary and mystical as well as athekabbalah17written and preceptive la

their forms like hideous women, almost skeletons, united to the bodies of serpents and fishes.the qllphqth of theqabalah27in the midst of the circle are placed samael and asmodai. the symbolic form of the former is somewhat like that of the devil of the tarot,butcolossal and attenuated;thatof asmodaias 225 bloated, bestial man, but in a crouching position. atthesouth-east angle are placedtheevil adam, a goat-headed skeleton-like giant; and a' thousand-headedhydraserpent; and the elder lilith,thewife ofsamael,awoman with an ever-changing and distorted countenance. at the north-east angle is aggerath,thedaughter of machalath, a fiendish witch with serpent hair enthroned in a chariot drawn by an ox and an ass. at the north-west angle is a gigantic scorpion with a fearful countenance,butstand

ers, and to him thefairy folk and the sea-people were as real and familiar as the birds and beasts, and so he told me stories of their nature, as simply and naively as he told of the habits of the gulls or the fish, and it was strange how the stories seemed to be illustrations of the learned treatises of para eelsus on the nature of the elementals 'they are human' he said,'butthey don't come from adam, as we do. they never fell. but they are like us, whether they live in the land or in the water. some of them are very tiny. oh, yes! i've seen them often, little people about as big as small birds may be. but there are others as big as we are,buttheir bodies are like mist you understand, or like a cloud in the108 the sorcerer and his apprenticewater, so you can't see them unless your eyes ar

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etaphors to explain how the creative intercourse of hokhmah and binah generated further creation. 27 an interesting feature of this mystical theology is that, according to it, human beings are not created, but are in some way divine. owens describes this myth: the complex divine image was also visualized by kabbalah as having a unitary, anthropomorphic form. god was, by one kabbalistic recension, adam kadmon: the first primordial or archetypal man. man shared with god both an intrinsic, uncreated divine spark and a complex, organic form. this strange equation of adam as god was supported by a kabbalistic cipher: the numerical value in hebrew of the names adam and jehovah (the tetragrammaton, yod he vav he) was both 45. thus in kabbalistic exegesis jehovah equaled adam: adam was god. with t

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e manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting god, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith. romans 16:25,6 this mystery is the opportunity for the deification of man. it is the secret whereby man may become part deified. he may return to the pleroma awakened and in a state of divininity. it is clear that this path is not for all of adam's children, but for a select number, the psyhics and pneumatics. chapter nine: the mystery of deification the gnostic handbook page 86 for many are called, but few [are] chosen. matthew 22:14 as we re-read so many of the passages of the new testament with this in mind we can see so clearly what is being indicated. we have the potential to become christ's or better, we can become christ, we ca

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ths and legends of cosmic error in the biblical account we read of an archangel who rebels against the cosmic order and is thrown from the heavens. his angelic nature is lost and he becomes a fallen being. his name lucifer means light bearer and accordingly, we have a light bearer who is transformed into a dark force. this is followed by a second fall, this time directly involving humanity, where adam and eve, depending on interpretation, break gnostic theurgy page 16 one of creators commandments or in some way or another break cosmic law, and are expelled from the garden of eden (in gnostic terms the expulsion from eden represents the soul entering matter. there are many variantions on this theme. in some gnostic traditions the force of the universe expands and it s final manifestation is

iginal israelites. the term aryan is not used in the racial sense but as a term of description for a large group of indo-european peoples, it comes from the term arya which means noble, worthy or holy. one of the major branches of this teaching was found amongst the peoples of sumer and egypt, and as egypt deteriorated; amongst the people of israel. the israelite people were aryans, the very term adam means he who blushes red. they carried the kabbalah with them into the deserts and it formed the secret core of their faith. as time progressed and israel became a political force in its own right, the esoteric teachings were passed by secret brotherhoods such as the qadesh. this lineage of the esoteric wisdom is sometimes known as the sethian tradition, both the essenes and gnostics emphasis

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of light and power, representative of the spiritual being, no lesser entity of any kind dare make its way. it is necessary that the magician make certain that he does not lower the elemental weapon after formulating a pentagram in mid-air. the circle must be complete, continuing in an unbroken line from pentagram to pentagram. the blazing five-pointed star is like the flaming sword which debarred adam from the edenic paradise. the four archangels, the spiritual regents of the four elements, are then invoked to give legitimacy to the working, and spiritual power and protection to both the surrounding pentagrams and the circle wherein the magician is enclosed. the last phrase of the ritual declares the pentagrams aflame about him, and invokes once again the holy guardian angel so that the op

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that of the four winds. the zodiac is utilized for the hexagram rituals and the winds are used for pentagram ritual. repeated here is the tablet of shewbread. notice within it is hidden both the macrocosmic direction within the zodiacal and the direction of the four winds, the microcosm. 22. h w z j f y l n s u x q hwhy w h hy hh w y yhwh hywh ywhh hyhw yhhw hhyw whyh hwyh wyhh nesher aryeh shor adam michael auriel gab riel gad ephraim manasseh issachar j udah naphtal i asher dan benjamin zebulon reuben simeon raphael in the macrocosm in the east is a, which is. in the south j, which is. in the west is g, which is. in the north is d, which is. 23 now look at the inside angles and observe these as the angles of the four elements in the microcosm. k, the kerubic of air in the east, e, the k

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le of air tablet. z: they. z chis: they are/ they are the. z ol: hands. z soba cormf: they whose number is. za: name of an angel who appeared to dee and kelley("transmitter of gifts. zaa: name of the twenty-seventh aethyr. zabathiel: name of saturn pentagram. zabo/ zaabo: angel, companion of boza. zacam/ zacar/ zacare/ zodacar /zodacara: move. zadkiel: name of chesed outer heptagon. zadzaczadlin: adam (in the language of the book of soyga. zafasai: governor of the second division of the aethyr zen (53. zamfres: governor of the first division of the aethyr zid (22. zamran: appear/ show (your) self/ show oneself. zaphkiel: name of binah outer heptagon. zar: course/ courses (cf. elzap. zarnaah: angelic king ruling in the north. zarzi: angel, also known as zazi. zarzilg: angelic king ruling in

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fire. holy art thou lord of the blazing fires, whereon thy spirit filled in the beginning, elohim. glory be unto thee ruach elohim whose spirit hovered over the waters of creation" step 5 go to the south. before the fire tablet, make the active and passive spirit pentagrams and invoking fire pentagram with the leo kerub in the center, using the lotus wand. say: 3 "and the elohim said 'let us make adam in our own image, after our likeness, and let him have dominion' in the name yhvh tzoboath, lord of hosts, spirits of fire adore your creator. sign the leo kerub with the fire wand. say "in the sign of leo the lion, and in the name of michael, great archangel of fire, spirits of fire, adore your creator" make the cross with the wand. say "in the names and letters of the great western quadrang

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n. holy art thou lord of the mighty waters, whereon thy spirit moved in the beginning. twabx \yhla. glory be unto thee \yhla jwr whose spirit hovered over the waters of creation" step 5 go to the west. before the water tablet, make the active and passive spirit pentagrams and invoking water pentagram with the eagle kerub in the center, using the lotus wand. say: 3 "and the \yhla said 'let us make adam in our own image, after our likeness, and let him have dominion' in the name la, strong and mighty, spirits of n, adore your creator" sign the eagle kerub with the water cup. say "in the sign of the head of the eagle, and in the name of layrbg, great archangel of n, spirits of n, adore your creator" make the cross with the cup. say "in the names and letters of the great western quadrangle, sp

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standing our handwriting which is in our hands, no man (except god alone) can make it common, nor any unworthy person is able to bereave us of it. but we shall help with secret aid this, so good a cause, as god shall permit or hinder us. for our god is not blind, as the heathen's fortuna, but is the churches' ornament and the honor of the temple. our philosophy also is not a new invention, but as adam after his fall hath received it, and as moses and solomon used it, also it ought not much to be doubted of, or contradicted by other opinions, or meanings; but seeing the truth is peaceable, brief, and always like herself in all things, and especially accorded with by jesus in omnia parte and all members, and as he is the true image of the father, so is she his image, so it shall not be said

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, while our treasures shall remain untouched, till the lion shall arise and exact them as his right, receive and employ them for the establishment of his kingdom. chapter vii one thing should here, o mortals, be established by us, that god hath decreed to the world before her end, which presently thereupon shall ensue, an influx of truth, light, and grandeur, such as he commanded should accompany adam from paradise, and sweeten the misery of man. wherefore there shall cease all falsehood, darkness, and bondage, which little by little, with the great globe's revolution, hath crept into the arts, works, and governments of men, darkening the greater part of them. thence hath proceeded that innumerable diversity of persuasions, falsehoods, and heresies, which make choice difficult to the wises

edicts eclipses, so we prognosticate the obscurations of the church, and how long they shall last. from these letters we have borrowed our magic writing, and thence made for ourselves a new language, in which the nature of things is expressed, so that it is no wonder that we are not so eloquent in other tongues, least of all in this latin, which we know to be by no means in agreement with that of adam and enoch, but to have been contaminated by the confusion of babylon. chapter x but this also must by no means be omitted, that, while there are yet some eagle's feathers in our way, which do hinder our purpose, we do exhort to the sole, only, assiduous, and continual study of the sacred scriptures, for he that taketh all his pleasure therein shall know that he hath prepared for himself an ex

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ars standing in the east (or stand between the temple pillars) make the sign of philosophus. say: let us adore the lord and king of o! twabx hwhy, blessed be thou, leader of armies is thy holy name. step 2 4 go to the south, and draw the invoking active spirit pentagram. vibrate hyha, bitom, in a circle, draw the invoking fire pentagram and vibrate twabx hwhy. say: and the \yhla said, let us make adam in our own image, after our own likeness and let him have dominion. in the name of \yhla, mighty and ruling, and in the name of twabx hwhy, spirits of o adore your creator! step 3 take the incense before the fire tablet and make the sign of e within the pentagram. say: in the name of lakym, the great archangel of o and in the sign of e the lion, spirits of o adore your creator! step 4 make a

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of the face of the earth. then the heart of heaven blew mist into their eyes which clouded their sight as when a mirror is breathed upon. their eyes were covered and they could only see what was close, only that was clear to them. in this way the wisdom and all the knowledge of the first men were destroyed.4 anyone familiar with the old testament will remember that the reason for the expulsion of adam and eve from the garden of eden had to do with similar divine concerns. after the first man had eaten of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the lord god said, behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live for ever [let us] send him forth from the garden of eden. 5 the pop

of any kind of direct influence of one region on the other but of two different interpretations of the same set of events. thus, for example: the biblical garden of eden looks like a metaphor for the state of blissful, almost godlike, knowledge that the first men of the popol vuh enjoyed. the essence of this knowledge was the ability to see all and to know all. was this not precisely the ability adam and eve acquired after eating the forbidden fruit, which grew on the branches of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? finally, just as adam and eve were driven out of the garden, so were the four first men of the popol vuh deprived of their ability to see far. thereafter their eyes were covered and they could only see what was close. both the popol vuh and genesis therefore tell the st

of 30 days: what we now call a month the egyptians used formerly to style a year. 17 of course they did no such thing.18 by means of this sleight of hand, however, eusebius and others succeeded in boiling down manetho s grand pre-dynastic span of almost 25,000 years into a sanitized dollop a bit over 2000 years which fits comfortably into the 2242 years orthodox biblical chronology allows between adam and the flood.19 a different technique for downplaying the disturbing chronological implications of manetho s evidence is employed by the monk george syncellus (c. ad 800. this commentator, who relies entirely on invective, writes, manetho, chief priest of the accursed temples of egypt [tells us] of gods who never existed. these, he says, reigned for 11,895 years. 20 several other curious and

e during the first century ad) attributes precisely this behaviour to the clever and prosperous inhabitants of the antediluvian world who lived before the flood in a happy condition without any misfortunes falling upon them :11 they also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. and that their inventions might not be lost upon adam s prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water they made two pillars, one of brick, the other of stone: they inscribed their discoveries upon them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain and exhibit these discoveries to mankind; and als

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n names have all but vanished from newer cases. but now we can decode the older cases based on their key word or phrase, usually embedded in the name of the alleged alien, a planetary name or a strange turn of phrase. for example, george adamski s long-haired visitor from the sky calling for peace on earth and good will, one orthon, decodes readily to the name jesus. the name adamski means son of adam he is said to have returned from the dead with a new name and renewed youth, apparently raised by orthon and friends in a bizarre parallel to the new testament s promise of redemption and resurrection. in the west virginia flap of the mid-1960s, we can see now that the beings with funny names who appear dotted among the so-called mothman accounts predict the latter, along with the very real a

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reserve, but to efface the last impressions of detested paganism. jornandes and paulus diaconus, who must have had plenty of heathen stories still within their reach, made but slight use of the mythical ones. other ecclesiastics now and then, for a particular purpose, dole out scraps of information which are of great value to us: jonas (pp. 56. 109, beda (p. 289, alcuin (p. 229, widukind (p. 253, adam of bremen (p. 230. as i have said on p. 9, some monk at st, gall, fulda, merseburg or corvei might have conceived the happy idea of putting pen to the antiquities of his country, gathering up things of which the footprints were still fresh, and achieving for the foreground of our history, just where it begins to disengage itself from legend, a lasting work, such as saxo grammaticus accomplish

of elf kind. of the lithuanian oiltiue, plague or death-goddess, i should like to know fuller accounts. she massacres without mercy' kad tawe giltiue pasmaugtu (plague choke thee! ms a familiar imprecation (mielcke sub v. doualeitis 141. the plague is also named magila [si. mogila, a grave, or simply diewe (goddess, and they say in cursing 'imma ji magilos, imma ji diewai' from polish lithuania, adam mickiewicz^ reports as follows on the morowa dziewica, plague-maiden: kiedy zaraza litw ma uderzyc, j6j przyjscie wieszcza odgadnie z'rzenica; bo jesli sljuszna waidelotom wierzyc, nieraz na pustych sm^tarzach i bljouiach staje widomie morou-a dziewica \v bieliznie, z wiankiem ognistym na skroniach, czoljem przenosi bialjo\vieskie drzewa a w r^ku chustkii skrwawiouq, powiewa. dziewica stfjpa

ostea fodiunt ad occasum spectantes' i find more to my purpose this time in two lines of columella 10, 19: quamvis semi-liominis vesauo gramine foeta mandragorae pariat flores, moestamque cicutam' semi-human mandrake' goes very well with our legend, and even' vesanum gramen' may agree with it more closely than appears from the words. hildegard also in phys. 2, 102 says' mandragora de terra de qua adam creatus est dilatata est, et propter similitiidinem hominis suggestio diaboli huic plus quam aliis herbis insidiatur. et ideo, cum de terra efibditur, mox in salientem fontem per diem et noctem ponatur' as the french mandagloire stands for mandragora, i conjectured (p. 402) that the fee maglore may have sprung from mandagloire; if so, it offers an exact analogy to our alruna the wise-woman an

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ds us of some other features in antiquity; thus, 03inn had a gold ring draupnir (the dripper, from which every ninth night there dripped eight other rings of equal weight (ssem. 84a. sn. 66. sasm. 195b speaks, not very lucidly, of a hausi hersdraupnis (cranio stillantis; styrian legend commemorates a giant s rib from which a drop falls once a year (d.s. no. 140^ and eve may be said to drip out of adam s rib. with the giant s birth out of ice and rime we may connect the story of the snow-child (in the modus liebinc, and the influence, so common in our fairy-tales, of snow and blood on the birth of a long wished for child. all this seems allied to heathen notions of creation, conf. 1 no doubt the familiar name kibbentrop is founded on some such tradition. 562 creation. chap. xxx. also i must

0$inn himself being only a grandson. again, there is no mistaking the distinct methods by which giants, gods and men propagate their kind. only one giant had sprung out of ice, he has to beget children of himself, an office performed by his hands and feet together, as in other ways also the hand and foot are regarded as akin and allied to one another.2 ymir s being asleep during the time is like adam s sleep while eve was fashioned out of his rib; eve therefore takes her rise in adam himself, after which they continue their race jointly. how buri begat borr we are not informed, but borr united him self to a giant s daughter, who bore him three sons, and from them sprang the rest of the ases. it was otherwise with men, 1 we might indeed imagine that regin and ginregin ruled before the arri

n 7. 8, particularly the term lieohtersceado 7, a; si 1s r n thing pp sed to bime doctrine. conf. aristopb. ceeation. 565 the oldest version is to be found in the rituale ecclesiae dunelmensis (lond. 1839, in which a scribe of the 10th century has interpolated the following passage, an as. translation being interlined with the latin: octo pondera, de quibus factus jelite pundo, of];em aworden est adam, pondus limi, inde is adam, pund lames, of]?on factus (sic) est caro; pondus aworden is flcesc; pund fires, ignis, inde rubens est sanguis of]?on read is blod and hat; et calidus; pondus salis, inde pund saltes, of p&gt;on sindon salto sunt salsae lacrimae; pondus tehero; pund]?eawes, of j?on roris, unde factus est sudor; aworden is swat; pund blostpondus floris, inde est varietas mes, of

t;on is fagung egena; oculorum; pondus nubis, inde pund wolcnes, of ]xm is onstydest instabilitas mentium; pon- fullnisse polita; pund windes, dus venti, inde est anhela fri- of)?on is oro&cald; pund 1 gefe, gida; pondus 1 gratiae, inde est of]?on is froht monnes. sensus hominis. a similar addition is made to a ms. of the code of emsig (riclithofen, p. 211: god scop thene eresta meneska, thet was adam, fon achta wendem. thet benete fon tha stene, thet flask fon there erthe, thet blod fon tha wetere, tha herta fon tha winde, thene thochta fon tha wolken, thene suet fon tha dawe, tha lokkcir foil tha gerse, tha dgene fon there sunna, and tha blerem on (blew into him) thene helga 6m (breath, and tha scop he eva fon sine ribbe, adames liana/ the handwriting of this document is only of the 15th

, von den wolchen (clouds) daz mut (mood, mind, du habet er ime begunnen der ougen (eyes) von der sunnen. er verleh ime sinen atem (his own breath, daz wir ime den behilten (keep it for him) unte sinen gesin (and be his) daz wir ime imer wuocherente sin (ever bear fruit. lastly, i take a passage from godfrey of viterbo s pantheon, which was finished in 1187 (pistorii scriptor. 2,53: c cum legimus adam de limo terrae formatum, intelligendum est ex quatuor elementis. mundus enim iste major ex quatuor elementis constat,igne, aere, aqua et terra, humanum quoque corpus dicitur microcosmus, id est minor mundus. habet nanique ex terra carnem, ex aqua humores, ex aere flatum, ex igne calorem. caput autem ejus est rotundum sicut coelum, in quo duo sunt oculi, tanquam duo luminaria in coelo micant

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al arteries of the head connecting on each side of the neck with the common carotid artery (see chart 3. it also shows location of the beginning of the sympathetic trunk on each side of the neck. 10. the superior cervical ganglion of the sympathetic trunk (just back of the ear, on a line with the mouth) 11. the middle cervical ganglion (on a line beneath the superior ganglion, and level with the "adam's apple" of the throat [102 [103] crystallography in various parts of our monographs reference is made to the law of the triangle in the composition of matter, the manifestation of matter, and the manifestation of spirit energy and psychic energy. and in other places reference is made to crystallography, or the law of crystal formation in matter. crystallography so beautifully illustrates the

ians were often known as "brothers of the illuminati, and in fact, in different periods of their history, outwardly used the name of illuminati, or les illumines. the illuminati were well established in southern france in the region of toulouse, and of course, were one and the same as the rosicrucians. also, in germany they were prominent in the latter part of the eighteenth century. in 1776, one adam weishaupt established a sect which he called the illuminati. it had no connection with the older movement, concerned itself greatly with politics, and came into bad repute. some historians have confused the true illuminati with this latter movement. illumination.in the rosicrucian and mystical sense in particular, it refers to the enlightenment of the mind. this enlightenment, however, is not

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a flag" cried the magician."hehas three" answered the boy''tiswell" says the other "now halt" and with that he laid the stick right across the fire, and standing up, addressed the travellers in these words "name your name; be it of those that are upon the earth, or of those that are beneath it; be it frank, moor, turk, or indian, prince or beggar, living and breathing, or solved into the dust of adam, three thousand years ago; speak, and this boy shall behold and describe"'thefirst name waswilliamshakespear.themagician madecontributionstothezoist191occupy too much ofyourvaluable space to allow of parallel passages from such voluminous works.*drcollyer, the able lecturer on mesmerism, appears to see the subject only in a rationalist point of view, and in support of his theory, gives, in hi

hro' him that the orders of angels were divided, the holiest were those who would not hearken unto him, these then constituted the seven spheres.theznd agreed with him a little, the 3rd more so, they all agreed more and more with him until they came to thefirst-andthey agreed with him at that time almost entirely. at this time no place of punishment was made, but eve being created and living with adam in the gardenofparadise he thought he could not revenge himself better, on those who expelled him, than by makinghereat the forbidden fruit, for that he was turned into the boundless space in which the world was a speck.listherosicrucianseerpassport in all afar ages to eternal happiness. hegivesto man his mortal body returning as pure in spirit as when he descended from god.thetwo are again o

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ou, survives only throughout devachan, after which it is reabsorbed, first, in the individual, and then in the universal consciousness. better enquire of your theologians how it is that they have so sorely jumbled up the jewish scriptures. read the bible, if you would have a good proof that the writers of the pentateuch, and genesis especially, never regarded nephesh, that which god breathes into adam, as the immortal soul. here are some instances "and god created every nephesh (life) that moveth" meaning animals; and it is said "and man became a nephesh (living soul, which shows that the word nephesh was indifferently applied to immortal man and to mortal beast "and surely your blood of your nepheshim (lives) will i require; at the hand of every beast will i require it, and at the hand of

wn that the aged of the aged, or the "long face" plants a vineyard, the latter typifying mankind; and a vine, meaning life. the spirit of "king messiah" is, therefore, shown as washing his garments in the wine from above, from the creation of the world [zohar xl, 10] and king messiah is the ego purified by washing his garments (i.e, his personalities in rebirth, in the wine from above, or buddhi. adam, or a-dam, is "blood" the life of the flesh is in the blood (nephesh-soul. and adam-kadmon is the only-begotten. noah also plants a vineyard-the allegorical hotbed of future humanity. as a consequence of the adoption of the same allegory, we find it reproduced in the nazarene codex. seven vines are procreated-which seven vines are our seven races with their seven saviors or buddhas-which spri

ses through the next hundred years-tell me, i say, if i go too far in asserting that earth will be a heaven in the twenty-first century in comparison with what it is now! finis glossary absoluteness when predicated of the universal principle, it denotes an abstraction, which is more correct and logical than to apply the adjective absolute to that which can have neither attributes nor limitations. adam kadmon (heb) archetypal man, humanity. the "heavenly man" not fallen into sin. cabalists refer it to the ten sephiroth on the plane of human perception. in the cabala adam kadmon is the manifested logos corresponding to our third logos, the unmanifested being the first paradigmic ideal man, and symbolizing the universe in abscondito, or in its "privation" in the aristotelian sense. the first

ne afflicted with this faculty is supposed to become an agent of communication between a living man and a departed "spirit" there exist regular methods of training for the development of this undesirable acquirement. page 161 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt merkabah (heb) a chariot. the cabalists say that the supreme, after he had established the ten sephiroth-which, in their totality, are adam kadmon, the archetypal man, used them as a chariot or throne of glory in which to descend upon the souls of men. mesmerism the term comes from mesmer, who rediscovered this magnetic force and its practical application toward the year 1775, at vienna. it is a vital current that one person may transfer to another; and through which he induces an abnormal state of the nervous system that permits

HEPTAMERON

per eum qui dixit& factum est& per omnia nomina dei& per nomen adonay, el, elohim, elohe, zebaoth, elion, escerchie, jah, tetragrammaton, sadai, dominus deus, excelsus, exorcizamus vos, atque potenter imperamus, ut appareatis statim nobis hic juxta circulum in pulchra forma, videlicet humana& sine deformitate& tortuositate aliqua. venite vos omnes tales, quia vobis imperamus, per nomen y& v quod adam audivit& locutus est& per nomen dei agla, quod loth audivit& factus salvus cum sua familia& per nomen joth, quod jacob audivit ab angelo secum luctantes& liberatus est de manu fratris sui esau: and by the name anephexeton, quot aaron audivit& loquens& sapiens factus est& per nomen zebaoth, quod moses nominavit& omnia flumina& paludes de terra gypti, vers fuerunt in sanguinem& per nomen ecerch

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y and fascinating place, in a little garden oasis of village-like antiquity where huge, friendly cats sunned themselves atop a convenient shed. the square georgian house had a monitor roof, classic doorway with fan carving, small-paned windows, and all the other earmarks of early nineteenth century workmanship. inside were six-panelled doors, wide floor-boards, a curving colonial staircase, white adam-period mantels, and a rear set of rooms three steps below the general level. blake's study, a large southwest chamber, overlooked the front garden on one side, while its west windows- before one of which he had his desk -faced off from the brow of the hill and commanded a splendid view of the lower town's outspread roofs and of the mystical sunsets that flamed behind them. on the far horizon

the steep curved slope of waterman street to prospect, where the vast gleaming dome and sunset-flushed ionic columns of the christian science church beckoned northward. then eight squares past the fine old estates his childish eyes had known, and the quaint brick sidewalks so often trodden by his youthful feet. and at last the little white overtaken farmhouse on the right, on the left the classic adam porch and stately facade of the great brick house where he was born. it was twilight, and charles dexter ward had come home. 5 a school of alienists slightly less academic than dr. lyman's assign to ward's european trip the beginning of his true madness. admitting that he was sane when he started, they believe that his conduct upon returning implies a disastrous change. but even to this claim

more consulted the grocery boy's map with the aid of the flashlight. the immediate problem was how to reach the ancient railway; and i now saw that the safest course was ahead to babson street; then west to lafayette- there edging around but not crossing an open space homologous to the one i had traversed- and subsequently back northward and westward in a zigzagging line through lafayette, bates, adam, and bank streets- the latter skirting the river gorge- to the abandoned and dilapidated station i had seen from my window. my reason for going ahead to babson was that i wished neither to recross the earlier open space nor to begin my westward course along a cross street as broad as south. starting once more, i crossed the street to the right-hand side in order to edge around into babeon as

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more consulted the grocery boy's map with the aid of the flashlight. the immediate problem was how to reach the ancient railway; and i now saw that the safest course was ahead to babson street; then west to lafayette- there edging around but not crossing an open space homologous to the one i had traversed- and subsequently back northward and westward in a zigzagging line through lafayette, bates, adam, and bank streets- the latter skirting the river gorge- to the abandoned and dilapidated station i had seen from my window. my reason for going ahead to babson was that i wished neither to recross the earlier open space nor to begin my westward course along a cross street as broad as south. starting once more, i crossed the street to the right-hand side in order to edge around into babeon as

INFERNAL UNION

union through us produces or brings to our awareness, the timeless treasures of knowledge and strength hidden only by our previously ignorant minds. samael is according to legend, the fallen angel taught by belial .he is also known as asmodeus or ashmodei, the yezidi archangel ashamdon, and is the solar aspect of ahriman it seems, whose other name is ashmedai. he is the male serpent who possessed adam in the garden of eden in order to copulate with eve. in the christian apocalypse, and in thelema, he is the beast and the mate of babalon. in the kabbala, samael is the prince of the qlippoth, the inverse side of the tree of life and mate of lilith the queen of the qlippoth (lilith and babalon being the same. he is the infernal sun(night and fire) and she is the moon. samael is the source of

it is called .his gift is that of wisdom and knowledge of the earth (said by kenneth grant to be the reverse hierophant in this regard. in our practice, samael is the king of witchblood, the guardian of the gateway which is access to all other fallen angels and watchers. he is the subprince or shadow and fire of lucifer in the east being air. lilith is in jewish folklore, the first eve or wife of adam. she refused adams advances and attempts to subvert her power, independence and inherent equality. she would not lay beneath him in sexual congress by instead called upon the secret names of god and fled to the caves in the shores of the red sea where she mated with demons and spawned the lilim or lilitu, the succubi or sexual vampires.[it has also been said that lilith, adams first wife was

ion of the nature of these goddesses. finally, she is the queen mother of vampires, which is entirely in keeping with all the above references to 3 her. she was in this aspect in the tale of the egyptian sekmet, the blood-drinking goddess of the south (and may be related to seker in this aspect. lilith is the female serpent who latched onto eves brain centre in her union with samael who possessed adam. their union produced the first born (or in some mythologies, the dark twin) male, cain who through adversity was taught knowledge and wisdom by his true spiritual parents who he came into communion with. he became the eternal father of and the first in the circle of witchblood. throughout history he has guided those who truly seek the flame of luciferian becoming. because he is the perfect u

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w life, but the desired cause together with its effect has been begotten. here the lower as well as the upper double pole are coming into operation, the tetrapolar magnet, the yod-he-vau-he is working the highest mystery of love here, the creation. how easy it would be to degrade this act, the highest thing existent on earth, to mere carnal appetites that would lead to damnation. the expulsion of adam and eve from paradise finds it s highest symbolism here. the magician who dares to approach the highest of all practices has to master the upper as well as the lower streams in order to transfer the loading eventually into his talisman. to dishonor this sacred act by carnal desires would mean to repeat the fate of adam and eve who were no longer allowed to enjoy the fruits of paradise. the in

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s, contesting some kind of dependence of sabbatic lore upon christian, jewish et al demonologies, this fails to appreciate the unique and self- sustaining complex of the craft mythos in itself. the teachings of traditional craft utilise a cipher of luciferian antinomianism which renders cain and lilith, our blessed primogenitors, as the bearers of light from the ancient serpent. the overcoming of adam by lilith and the murder of abel by cain signify the transformation of the uninitiated condition or clay into the fire of magical knowledge. this is however the merest inkling of the breadth and depth of these matters. as a parting tale, it is worth speaking about another fascinating path of influence into traditional craft, namely that of gypsy beliefs. indeed, i recall once being told the t

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church; the inscription is in norman-french and the lettering is lombardic. the lady in question must have been far removed from the popular conception of a witch as an old woman of striking ugliness, or else her powers of attraction were very remarkable, for she had succeeded in leading four husbands to the altar. she had been married, first, to william outlawe of kilkenny, banker; secondly, to adam le blund of callan; thirdly, to richard de valle--all of whom she was supposed to have got rid of by poison; and fourthly, to sir john le poer, whom it was said she deprived of his natural senses by philtres and incantations. the bishop of ossory at this period was richard de ledrede, a franciscan friar, and an englishman by birth. he soon learnt that things were not as they should be, for wh

nder the correction of sins and the salvation of souls, in contempt of god p. 48 and the church" 1 from this it would seem that heresy and unorthodoxy had already made its appearance in the diocese. in 1324 the kyteler case occurred, one of the participants being burnt at the stake, while other incriminated persons were subsequently followed up, some of whom shared the fate of petronilla. in 1327 adam dubh, of the leinster tribe of o'toole, was burnt alive on college green for denying the doctrines of the incarnation and the holy trinity, as well as for rejecting the authority of the holy see. 2 in 1335 pope benedict xii wrote a letter to king edward iii, in which occurs the following passage "it has come to our knowledge that while our venerable brother, richard, bishop of ossory, was vis

outhwest, and all moved northwards; they all sunk out of sight much about the same place. of the whole company there was not any one but saw all these things, as above-written, whose names follow'"mr. allye, a minister, living near the place. lieutenant dunsterville, and his son. mr. grace, his son-in-law. lieutenant dwine. mr. dwine, his brother. mr. christopher hewelson. mr. richard foster. mr. adam hewelson. mr. bates, a schoolmaster. p. 154 mr. larkin. mrs. dunsterville. her daughter-in-law. her maiden daughter. mr. dwine's daughter. mrs. grace, her daughter" the first of the sixteen persons who subscribed to the truth of the above was the rev. peter alley, who had been appointed curate of killenaule union (dio. cashel) in 1672, but was promoted to livings in the same diocese in the au

ISIS UNVEILED

blending this transcendental idea with the more hypostatic figure of the logos of philo- whose doctrine was that of the oldest kabala, and who viewed hk king messiah, as the metatron, or 'the angel of the lord' the legaiia descended in flesh, but not the ancuni of days himself* the christians clothed jesus, the son of mary, with this mythical representation of the mediator for the fallen race of adam. under this unexpected garb his personality was all but lost. in the mod- em jesus of the christian church we find the ideal of the imaginative 51. decline and fall itf the annan empin, ch. xxi. 52. zisis unveiled irenaeua, not the adept of the esseoes, the obscure reformer from galilee. we see him under the disf

is not any defect in uiem, nor any disunion" the first eternal number is the father, or the chaldaean primeval, invisible and incomprehenuble dtaot, out of i^ch proceeded the inieiligihe one the egyptian pta, or" the principle of laghi not the light itself, and the prindple of ijfe, thou^ himself no life" the wisdom by which the father created the heavens is the son, or the kabalistic androgynous adam kadmon. the son is at once the male rd, or light of wisdom, prudence or intd- ligence, sephira, the female part of himself; while from this dual being proceeds the third emanation, the binah or reason, the second intelli- gence the holy ghost of the christians. therefore strictly speaking there is a tetraktts or quaternary, consisting of the unintelligible first monad and its triple emanation

ed worthy of more ^ory than moses" hd>reui, iii, 3. of what or how many forgeries, interpolated later in the acts, the fathers are guilty, we know not; but that paul never considered christ more than a man "full of the spirit of god" is but too evident "in the arche was the logot, and the logos was adnate to the theos" wisdom, the first emanation of ain-soph; the protogonos, the hy- postasis; the adam kadmoq of the kabalist; the brahm& of the hindfl; the logos of plato; and the "beginning" of st. john are all the rasit, n'^vkh, of the book of genesis. if rightly interpreted it overturns, as we have remarked, the whole elaborate system of christian theology, for it proves that behind the cretuixe deity there was a hioheb god, a planner, an architect; and that the former was but his executiv

rinitarian controversy had been begun; from that moment the egyptian doctrine of the emanation of the creative god out of emepht? began to be tortured in a thousand ways, until the councils had agreed upon the adoption of it as it now stands the disfigured ternary of the kabalistic solomon and philo! but as ha origin was yet too evident, the word was no longer called the 'heavenly man' the primal adam kadmon, but became the logos christ and was made as old as the 'ancient of the ancient' his father. the concealed wisdom became identical with its emanation, the divine thouqht, and had to be regarded as co-equal and co- etemal with its first manifestation. if we now stop to consider another of the fundamental dogmas of christianity, the doctrine of atonement, we may trace it as easily back t

ancient as may be the ori^ of hermes, lost in the unknown days of egyptian colonization, there is yet a far older prophecy, directly relating to the hindu kriahna, according to the brfthmanas. it is to say the least atrange that the christians claim to base their religion upon a pro- phecy of the bibu which exists nowhere in that book. in what chapter or verse does jehovah, the' lord god' promise adam and eve to send them a redeemer who will save humanity" i will put enmity between thee and the woman" says the lord god to the serpent "and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel" in these words there is not the slightest allusion to a bedeemer, and the subtlest of intellects could not extract from them, as they stand in the third chapter of ge

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enth centuries. these practised chemistry, by which they asserted that they could explore the profoundest secrets of nature. as they strove, above all earthly knowledge, after the divine, and sought the divine light and fire, through which all men can acquire the true wisdom, they were called the fire-philosophers (philosophi per ignem. the most distinguished of these are theophrastus paracelsus, adam von boden, oswald croll; and, later, valentine weigel, robert flood, or fludd, jacob bohmen, peter poiret &c. under this head we may also refer to the medico-surgical essays of hemmann, published at berlin in 1778; and pfaff s astrology. as a great general principle, the theosophists called the soul a fire, taken from the eternal ocean of light. in regard to the supernatural using the word in

venus (enthumius zyabenus, mod. un. hist. i. 213; sale s discourse, p. 16; bibliotheca biblia, i. 613, 614. man s ideas, outwards from himself, must always become more dreamlike as they recede from him, more real as they approach him. summits of eastern minerats. chapter the twenty-first. myth of the scorpion, or the snake, in its many disguises. ne of the targums says that ayh a serpent, tempted adam, or the first man, and not hwj, eve, his wife. here we have the object of adoration of the ophites the female generative power the destroying, regenerating power among the ophites, and, indeed, the gnostics generally. the serpent was called the megalistor, or great builder of the universe (maia, or bhuddist illusion. here again we recognise, under another name (ophites, the cyclopes, or the b

stones of a fiery lustre. wednesday is the day for turquoises, sapphires, and all precious stones which seem to reflect the blue of the vault of heaven, and that imply the lucent azure of the supposed spiritual atmosphere, wherein, or under which, the rosicrucian sylphs dwell those elementary children who, according to the cabalistic theogony, are always striving for intercourse with the race of adam, seeking a share of his particular privilege of immortality, which has been denied to them. thursday demands amethysts and deep-coloured stones of sanguine tint, because thursday is the day of thor the runic impersonated male divine sacrifice. friday, which is the day of venus, has its appropriate emeralds, and reigns over all the varieties of the imperial, and yet strangely the sinister, col

f the adepts were, in truth, to remain no longer slaves to those things supposed to be necessities, but, by the assistance of heaven, to remove back to heaven s original intention; to rise superior to the consequences of the original curse, and to tread under foot, in vindicating the purpose of god, that mortal (however seductive, sexual, distinctive degradation entailing dissolution, heired from adam, or from the first transgressor. that poverty and celibacy (under certain limitations) must be the obligations of the true brothers of the r. c. will at once be seen from the above reasons, however wild and mistaken barely even comprehensible. this is the real original reason for the monastic state defying and denying nature. the original curse was entailed upon mankind by eating of the fruit

votional observance, and fallen into the rough recusancy of mere nature. fig. 175 is a very curious design from sylvanus morgan, an old herald. above is the spade, signifying here the phallus; and below is the distaff, or instrument of woman s work, meaning the answering member, or yoni; these are united by the snake. we here perceive the meaning of the rhymed chorus sung by wat tyler s mob: when adam delved (with his spade, and eve span (contributing her (producing) part of the work, where was then the a. baron. fig. 175. b. femme. gentleman? or what, under these ignoble conditions, makes difference or degree? it is supposed that shakspeare plays upon this truth when he makes his clown in hamlet observe, they (i.e, adam and eve) were the first who ever bore arms. by a reference to the foo

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wn of god in early jewish mysticism. princeton: princeton university press, 1997: chapter thirteen. gsefer ha-bahir. h 20081 4. idel, moshe. ascensions on high in jewish mysticism: pillars, lines, and ladders. budapest/new york: central european university press, 2005: chapter 2, 3, gthe pillar in the book bahir h. krzok, paul. ga look at the bahir, h in the hermetic journal, number 22, edited by adam mclean (edinburgh: winter 1983. neubauer, a. gthe bahir and the zohar, h in jewish quarterly review, original series, vol. 4 (1892. schafer, peter. mirror of his beauty: feminine images of god from the bible to the early kabbalah. princeton and oxford: princeton university press, 2002. scholem, gershom. kabbalah [articles from encyclopedia judaica. jerusalem- new york: keter publishing house/

ion in english, hebrew, and aramaic. belize city: providence university, 2006. for information, go to www.everburninglight.org. sheva netivot ha-torah: the seven paths of torah. integral edition in english and hebrew. 04/2006. belize city: providence university, 2006. for information, go to www.everburninglight.org. albotini, yehuda. sulam aliyah: ladder of ascent. translated by yodfat glazer and adam shohom. integral edition in english and hebrew. belize city: providence university, 2007. for information, go to www.everburninglight.org. gin particular, rabbi albotini followed a system advanced by abraham ben samuel abulafia that is generally referred to as eecstatic f or eprophetic f kabbalah, as outlined in abulafia fs sefer ha-ot (book of the sign. h .preface, page viii. berger, abraham

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nder the earth, while the other rested in the gate of heaven. then he placed in them the sun and the moon, and created the stars from their fragments, and suspended them in heaven for an ornament. he also created fruit-bearing trees and plants in the earth, and likewise the mountains, to embellish the earth. he created the throne over the carpet. then said the mighty lord "o angels, i will create adam and eve, and will make them human beings, and from them two shall arise, out of the loins of adam, shehr ibn jebr; and from him shall arise a single people on the earth, the people of 'azazel, to wit of ta'us melek, which is the yezidi people. then i shall send sheikh 'adi b.musafir from the land of syria, and he shall come and dwell in lalesh. then the lord descended to the holy land and com

of 'azazel, to wit of ta'us melek, which is the yezidi people. then i shall send sheikh 'adi b.musafir from the land of syria, and he shall come and dwell in lalesh. then the lord descended to the holy land and commanded gabriel to take earth from the four corners of the world: earth, air, fire and water. he made it man, and endowed it with a soul by his power. then he commanded gabriel to place adam in paradise, where he might eat of the fruit of every green herb, only of wheat should he not eat. after a hundred years ta'us melek said to god "how shall adam increase and multiply, and where is his offspring" god said to him, 403 "into thy hand have i surrendered authority and administration. then he came and said to adam "hast thou eaten of the wheat" he answered "no, for god hath forbidd

d authority and administration. then he came and said to adam "hast thou eaten of the wheat" he answered "no, for god hath forbidden me so to do, and hath said 'thou shalt not eat of it. melek ta'us said to him "if you eat of it, all shall go better with thee. but, after he had eaten, his belly swelled up, and ta'us melek drove him forth from paradise, and left him, and ascended into heaven. then adam suffered from the distention of his belly, because it had no outlet. but god sent a bird, which came and helped him, and made an outlet for it, and he was relieved. and gabriel continued absent from him for a hundred years, and he was sad, and wept. then god commanded gabriel, and he came and created eve from under adam's left arm-pit. then melek ta'us descended to earth for the sake of our p

ens in movement, and the fourth created the stars, and the fifth created el-kuragh- that is to say, the morning star; and so on. 405 revelation of melek taus (qu'ret al-yezid) wherefore, it is true that my knowledge compasses the very truth of all that is, and my wisdom is not separate from my heart, and the manifestation of my descent is clear unto you, and when it is revealed to the children of adam it will be seen and many will tremble thereby. all habitations and desert spaces are indeed of my own creation, set forth, all fully within my strength, not that of the false gods; wherefore i am he that men come with their rightful worship, not the false gods of their books, wrongly written; but they come to know me, a peacock of bronze and of gold, wings spread over kaaba and temple and chu

ptation comes, i give my covenant to him that trusts in me. moreover, i give counsel to the skilled directors, for i have appointed them for periods that are known to me. i remember necessary affairs and execute them in due time. i teach and guide those who follow my instruction. if anyone obey me and conform to my commandments, he shall have joy, delight and comfort. i requite the descendants of adam, and reward them with various rewards that i alone know. moreover, power and dominion over all that is on earth, both that which is above and that which is beneath, are in my hand. i do not allow friendly association with other people, nor do i deprive them that are my own and obey me of anything that is good for them. i place my affairs in the hands of those whom i have tried and who are in

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ut does not touch any of the sephiroth, which are linked by the flaming sword. the flaming sword is formed by the natural order of the tree of life. it resembles a flash of lightning. together the sephiroth and the twenty-two paths form the 32 paths of the sefer yetzirah, or book of formation. the two pillars on either side of the altar represent: active: the white pillar on the south side. male. adam. pillar of light and fire. right kerub. metatron. passive: the black pillar on the north side. female. eve. pillar of cloud. left kerub. sandalphon. the second meditation let the zelator meditate on a straight line. let him take a ruler or pencil and by moving it a distance equal to its length, outline a square. having done this, let him, after quieting his mind with the rhythmic breathing ta

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evura, tifferet, netzah, hod, yesod, and malchut. these sefirot constitute filters inhibiting the light that the creator directs to the created beings. the task of these filters is to weaken the light to such an extent that the creatures existing in our world will be able to perceive it. b a s i c c o n c e p t s i n k a b b a l a h 24 sefirat (singular for sefirot) keter is also called the world adam kadmon; sefirat hochma is called the world atzilut; sefirat bina the world beria; the sefirot hesed to yesod the world yetzira; and sefirat malchut the world assiya. the last level of the world, assiya, constitutes our universe (see drawing 1. drawing 1 kabbalah calls this level olam ha zeh (this world. it is perceived by those who exist in it, and the vessel, or the will to enjoy, is called

the branch should exactly correspond to the root. what separates spiritual objects is not space, but their spiritual incongruence and dissimilarity of properties. therefore, the number of souls, meaning separate spiritual objects, determines the number of people in the physical world. in the beginning of creation there was one common soul: the light (pleasure) and the corresponding body (desire, adam. these were merged in adhesion with the creator, and therefore received maximum delight. the soul s nature is merely the will to receive pleasure, and the soul was filled with pleasure in accordance with its desire. however, once having received pleasure, the soul sensed shame. in our world, everyone who receives a gift or favor feels the same way. the extent of the sense of shame depends on

of egoism and wished only to please ourselves cannot break through this shell without kabbalah, the instrument of our correction. we cannot turn the will to enjoy into a will to please others and the creator. this is why we think that the entire world is only what we see and feel, failing to perceive how much good the creator has prepared for us. all that was created is divided into five worlds: adam kadmon, atzilut, beria, yetzira, and assiya. nevertheless, every one of them consists of an endless number of elements. the five worlds correspond to five sefirot: adam kadmon corresponds to sefirat keter, atzilut corresponds to sefirat hochma, beria to sefirat bina, yetzira to sefirat tifferet, and assiya corresponds to sefirat malchut. f r o m t h e i n t r o d u c t i o n t o t h e z o h a

zilut corresponds to sefirat hochma, beria to sefirat bina, yetzira to sefirat tifferet, and assiya corresponds to sefirat malchut. f r o m t h e i n t r o d u c t i o n t o t h e z o h a r 75 the light (pleasure) that fills the worlds is accordingly divided into five types: yechida, haya, neshama, ruach, and nefesh (the abbreviation in the reverse order forms the word nrnhy. therefore, the world adam kadmon is filled with pleasure (light) called yechida; the world atzilut is filled with pleasure called haya; the world beria is filled with pleasure called neshama; the world yetzira is filled with pleasure called ruach; and the world assiya is filled with pleasure called nefesh (see table 1. table 1 b a s i c c o n c e p t s i n k a b b a l a h 76 from the creator come the worlds. that is

and to know others thoughts. the received light (pleasure) differs from that of the previous level just as a person in our world differs from an animal. yet, these five levels are merely the pleasures of nrnhy of the world assiya, i.e. nefesh. even ruach is absent in it because ruach is the light in the world yetzira, neshama in the world beria, haya in the world atzilut, and yechida in the world adam kadmon. however, that which exists in the general is also present in each part of the general, meaning in the specific parts. in other words, these five types of light are in the world assiya, albeit at the smallest, inanimate level of nefesh. in the world yetzira these five types of light exist at the general level of ruach. in the world of beria it is the nrnhy of the level of neshama; in t

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n of humanity is essentially the evolution of the desire to enjoy. this desire evolves from generation to generation and prompts us to fulfill it. the first time a desire for something beyond the desire to exist appeared in a human being was 5767 years 156 from chaos to harmony ago (according to the hebrew calendar and to the date of writing these lines in 2006. although many generations preceded adam, he was the first person in whom the the book, raziel ha malaach, the angel raziel, ascribed to adam. israel s role 157 desire to comprehend the collective nature appeared. it is not a coincidence that his name was adam, because it comes from the words adamme la elyon, i will be like the most high (isaiah 14:14. adam was named after his desire to transcend his qualities and become similar to

in whom the the book, raziel ha malaach, the angel raziel, ascribed to adam. israel s role 157 desire to comprehend the collective nature appeared. it is not a coincidence that his name was adam, because it comes from the words adamme la elyon, i will be like the most high (isaiah 14:14. adam was named after his desire to transcend his qualities and become similar to nature s quality of altruism. adam passed on what he had discovered to his offspring. also, the book, raziel ha malaach (the angel raziel, is ascribed to him. the day adam discovered the spiritual world is called the day of the creation of the world. this was the day on which humanity made its first contact with the spiritual world, and this is why the hebrew calendar begins on this day. according to nature s plan, humanity wi

ture, the final correction of the human ego, within 6,000 years of this day. this is why it was written that the world exists for six thousand years (talmud bavli, sanhedrin, 97:71. during those years, the human ego will gradually grow and bring humanity to the realization that it must be mended. it will also show humanity the method of correction, and how to implement it. a few generations after adam, humanity was centered around ancient babylon, and that is where the first outbreak of egoism occurred. as a result, people began to want to dominate nature and the world, and to exploit everything to their own benefit. this outbreak of egoism was allegorically described as the building of the tower of babel: come, let us 158 from chaos to harmony build us a city, and a tower, with its top in

e ego began to speak in them, they stopped understanding each other. this moment is described as the evolution of different languages. thus, hatred drew them apart, and they were scattered all over the world. yet, in one of those babylonians, a man named abraham, there surfaced a desire to know the secret of life, along with the growth of the ego. it was the same desire that had first appeared in adam. until that point, abraham had been helping his father build idols and sell them. but once he began to feel that the idols no longer satisfied his growing desire, he began to search for higher forces. this story symbolizes abraham s sensation that he was idolizing every egoistic desire he d had, bowing before his desire and surrendering to its domination. thus, abraham began to feel that such

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dissatisfaction, on the other hand, is the essence of the crisis we are experiencing today. the more egoistic we become, the emptier we feel, and the worse is the crisis. t h e n e c e s s i t y o f a lt ru i sm originally, all people were internally connected. we felt and thought of ourselves as a single human being, and this is exactly how nature treats us. this collective human being is called adam, from the hebrew word, domeh (similar, meaning similar to the creator, who is also single and whole. however, despite our initial oneness, as our egoism grew we gradually lost the sensation of unity and became increasingly distant from each other. kabbalah books write that nature s plan is for our egoism to keep growing until we realize that we have become separated and hateful to one another

experience the loss of this unity. by experiencing both states we will be able to make a conscious choice, and consciousness is necessary for true unity. we can compare this process to a child who feels connected to its parents as a baby, rebels as an adolescent, and finally, as the child becomes an adult, understands and justifies his or her upbringing. 34 kabbalah revealed the more we will feel adam s eternal existence instead of our passing physical existence. especially today, altruism has become essential for our survival. it has become evident that we are all connected and dependent on one another. this dependency produces a new and very precise definition of altruism: any act or intention that comes from a need to connect humanity into a single entity is considered altruistic. conve

s the same drive that urged kabbalists to discover the secrets of creation thousands of years ago. until we understand it, we will have no peace of mind. t h e q u e s t fo r t h e t h o u g h t o f c r e at i o n even though the creator wants us to receive the pleasure of becoming identical to him, he didn t give us this desire to begin with. all that he gave us xthe creature, the united soul of adam ha rishon xwas a craving for the ultimate pleasure. however, as we can see in the sequence of phases, the creator did not infuse the creature with a desire to be like him; this is something that evolved within it through the phases. in phase three, the creature had already received everything and intended to give back to the creator. the sequence could have ended right then and there, as the

se a hammer, a level, and so on. in the case of spirituality, the worlds show the creature what the creator has given them and how they work with it in the right way. bit by bit, the creature can begin to use its desires this way, too, which is why desires in our world surface gradually, from the mildest to the most intense. 70 kabbalah revealed desires are divided in the following way: the world adam kadmon is the workable part of the still level, and the lower part of the still level, the creature, is the unworkable part. actually, at the still level there is nothing to correct because it s immobile and doesn t use its desire. the still level (on both parts) is only the root of everything that will follow. next, the world atzilut is the workable part of the vegetative level, and the lowe

creature, is the unworkable part. finally, the world assiya is the workable part of the spiritual, most intense level of desires, and the lower part of the spiritual level, the creature, is the unworkable part. now you know why, if we correct humanity, everything else will be corrected at the same time. so let s talk about us and what happened to us. a dam h a r i s h o n x t h e c ommo n s o u l adam ha rishon, the common soul (the creature, is the actual root of everything that happens here. it is a structure of desires that emerged once the formation of the spiritual worlds was completed. as we ve said above, the five worlds, adam kadmon, atzilut, beria, yetzira, and assiya complete the development of the upper part of phase four. but the lower part still needs to be developed. in other

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hen even our negative inborn qualities will enable us to comprehend the creator. the existence of a spiritual place is not related to any actual space. all those who reach this state after correcting their spiritual qualities can see and perceive the same things. the ladder of the creator has 125 levels. these levels are divided evenly between five spiritual worlds. these worlds are: the world of adam kadmon the world of atzilut the world of beria the world of yetzira the world of assiya. each level provides a different perception of the creator, depending on each level s particular properties. therefore, those who have acquired the properties of a specific level see kabbalah and the creator in a completely new way. everyone who attains a particular level of the spiritual world receives th

inner need for it. therefore, there is no particular, individual growth, but only general growth in accordance with the general providence from above. for this reason, the masses always perceive themselves to be right and perfect. being spiritually organic (tzomeach) means that individuals possess a unique degree of inner movement and development. at this point, a person becomes known as man, or adam, as written in the bible "adam a tree in a field" since spiritual growth requires moving forward, and movement can only be caused when one senses a shortage of something, man is constantly aware of those shortcomings that compel him to seek ways of growing. if man stops at any level of spiritual development, then he is pushed down in his perceptions. this is intended to urge him to move, rath

nce of qualities implies that just as the creator experiences joy from having a positive influence on his creations, so human beings experience joy from recognizing that it is possible to give something back to the creator. the return, teshuva, implies our return, while living in this world, to the spiritual state of existence at the time our souls were created, that is, to the state of the first adam prior to his fall. we have two sources of action and two beginnings: the intellect and the heart, the thought and the desire. both should undergo a transformation from their egoistic foundation into an altruistic one. all our pleasures are experienced through the heart. therefore, if we can refuse any earthly, or selfish, pleasure, then we deserve to receive the real pleasures from above, bec

creation, as the quality of the creator himself. at the end of the spectrum is the fifth stage of development, or the egoistical creation, which desires to counteract its own egoistical nature and to become akin to the first stage. though attempts are made, they are only partially successful in this endeavor. the first stage of egoism, which can counteract itself fully, is known as the world olam adam kadmon. the second stage of egoism, is the world olam atzilut. the third stage of egoism, which forms a part of the fifth stage that can no longer be compared to either the first or the second stage, is the world olam beria. the fourth stage of egoism, which forms a part of the fifth stage, has no strength to withstand itself, so as to be compared to the first, second, or third stages, but ca

ature every feeling we have emanates from above. if we experience a striving, a love, and a pull towards the creator, it is a sure indication that the creator is experiencing the same feelings towards us (in accordance with the rule that "man is a shadow of the creator. thus, whatever a person feels toward the creator is the same as what the creator feels toward that person, and vice versa. after adam s spiritual fall as a result of his sin (which symbolizes the spiritual descent of the primordial soul from the world of atzilut to the level known as "this world" or "our world, his soul divided into 600,000 distinct parts. these parts clothed themselves into the human bodies that are born into this world. each part garbs itself in a human body as many times as it is necessary for it to corr

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it builds a chain of concealments (coverings) on the upper light, called worlds (the hebrew word for world is olam, which stems from the word haalama, concealment. at the bottom of the chain of worlds stands this world. because the process that created the creature was comprised of five parts, the lessening of the upper light occurs through five degrees of concealment, five worlds whose names are adam kadmon, atzilut, beria, yetzira, and assiya. in the process of constructing these worlds, the creature builds a surrounding environment for itself. in the world atzilut, the will to receive is split in two: an inner part soul--and an outer part environment (surroundings, in which the soul operates. this stage still does not pertain to our world. as a result of later events, the soul and its e

rld and the future of humanity. we do not expect billions of people to study kabbalah, but if we can use science to present humanity with the picture of reality, it will compel everything to change, as we are all parts of a single structure. as we have said above, the kli (vessel/creature) that the creator created became a soul in the world atzilut. this is the collective, or general soul, called adam ha rishon (the first man. in the beginning, all its parts were bonded in wondrous harmony, and it was filled with the upper light. in that state, the sum of the parts created perfection. later on, the soul experienced a process of shattering and fell to a degree called below the barrier, pa r t i: k a b b a l a h m e e t s q ua n t u m p h y s i c s 42 where the spiritual sensation ends. the

n means letting humanity become aware of the wisdom of kabbalah before it plummets into deep depression. perhaps it will be easier to come to terms with kabbalah s concept and purpose of suffering if we understand its perspective on death in general. here s what kabbalah says about death: we b e t w e e n k a b b a l a h a n d s c i e n c e 69 are all individual parts of one spiritual kli, called adam ha rishon (the first man. the soul of adam ha rishon was split into billions of souls that came down to this world. this world occupies myriad bodies, each with its own soul. the goal is for each person to return to the same root in adam ha rishon from which he or she came down. when we first come into this world, our souls are but a point. if we do not build a spiritual kli out of this point

lit into billions of souls that came down to this world. this world occupies myriad bodies, each with its own soul. the goal is for each person to return to the same root in adam ha rishon from which he or she came down. when we first come into this world, our souls are but a point. if we do not build a spiritual kli out of this point while living in this world, our souls return to their roots in adam ha rishon like seeds that did not evolve, unconscious, lifeless points. to put it differently, we do not feel our own existence until our souls dress a new body in this world. however, if we cultivate this point through the altruistic intention until it becomes a spiritual kli, that kli will remain after the demise of our physical bodies, since we ve begun to feel the upper force while living

created and lowered to this world. from here we humans must climb back to our roots. consequently, kabbalah deals with two successions: from above downward, t h e s t ru c t u r e o f r e a l i t y 95 pertaining to the cascading of the worlds and their degrees, and from below upward, pertaining to the soul s ascent through the very same degrees. the worlds that stem from the creator are ein sof, adam kadmon, atzilut, beria, yetzira, assiya, and finally, our world (figure 12. kabbalah describes both the creation of the worlds and how a soul descends from the creator through all the worlds down to ours. between the upper worlds and our world is the barrier that separates the material world from the spiritual world. figure 12 below the barrier, the body and the soul are at the level of this

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rselves, to the sensation of the next, the sensation of the creator. the middle line is the best possible combination between man s receiving nature and the forces of the upper light. it coordinates between them in such a way that a person will self-correct to resemble the light as much as possible, while still maintaining one s independence. o n a da m a n d t h e wo r l d q: how should the term adam ha rishon( the first man) be understood v is it a spiritual entity (related to the world of adam kadmon) or literally a man of flesh and blood in our world? what about all the people before adam ha rishon? also, how does it correlate with the sciences dealing with the origin of man? i read in your books that all objects and interrelations are ultimately realized in specific people on earth. s

development of spiritual objects, which upon descending in degrees materialize into the lowest forms v the objects of this world. t h e t h o u g h t o f c r e a t i o n 35 of course, we have developed from the more primitive forms, but not by natural (darwinian) selection. our development came about by the surfacing reshimot v spiritual genes. the first manifestation of the point in the heart is adam in this world. its first development into sensing the creator is abraham. the first manifestation of the method of uniting with the root is the receiving of the torah. i can say only one thing in response to your question: until the point in your heart manifests and forms the first ten sefirot, you will be absolutely unable to understand where you come from and where everything is headed! no

so in the carrying out of that law. everything that happens at any given moment in creation, its t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 36 sole purpose is to make people come to the point of utter bliss v to be filled with the light of the creator. the creator acts much like gravity: in the center of creation is the creator. the souls were distanced five worlds away from him. these include ak (adam kadmon, atzilut, beria, yetzira and assiya, all the way to the farthest point called our world. from that last point, he pulls us toward him. we sense that pull as pain v beginning with disease and ending in painful death. but if we make an effort to approach the creator by cooperating with that force, we will not feel the pain. instead, we will feel that force as good. if, however, we refuse

only v to contact the creator through it, thus turning it to pleasure. if we relate to our pain correctly, we will see that all those torments are simply a reason for us to ascend spiritually, and then the entire world will be at our feet. w h at ac t i vat e s u s? q: what is the ego? what is around me, and what should i do with it all? a: the only thing that was created by the creator is called adam ha rishon (the first man, the collective soul, the creature, malchut. the partzuf of adam ha rishon was created and then broken in order to correct creation. this shattering mixed the attribute of the creature xto enjoy- with the attribute of the creator v to delight. there was, in fact, a kind of blast that caused the attributes of the creator to penetrate the attributes of the creature. the

light. there was, in fact, a kind of blast that caused the attributes of the creator to penetrate the attributes of the creature. the parts of man were shattered and separated. that is why there is a spark of the first man in each of us. within that spark exist reshimot (recollections) of all our future situations, from the beginning of the spiritual path to the end of correction. that is because adam ha rishon fell from the highest state, so the documentation of the upper situations and all other states is already within us in a form of reshimot (recorded, programmed data. that chain of reshimot perpetually evolves within each and every one of us, but we feel only the outermost reshimo (singular of reshimot, the lowest. we feel it as an order to get something, and operate accordingly. in

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ertain person met rabbi shimon, it means that that person rose to the degree pa r t o n e: t h e b e g i n n i n g 21 of rabbi shimon, and can therefore see and understand what rabbi shimon can. this is how a degree gets its name, and when we ascend to it, we are called by that name. if we attain only a part of that degree, we are regarded as a son to it. that is why we are considered the sons of adam, because we are all parts of the degree called adam, and our task is to attain that part individually. a person who rises to a certain degree feels what happens in it, attains its characteristics, and sees the creator accordingly. by climbing higher, the pictures that were seen in the previous degree will change, as well. it is not like a movie theatre playing 125 different films, one for eac

and mingle with the egoistic desires (vessels of reception) in order to create a complete mixture of the vessels of bestowal and the vessels of reception. only afterwards would there be a gradual correction of the vessels of reception. there seems to be no sin here because it was premeditated by the creator. but in fact, there is still a breach of the rules, whether knowingly or unknowingly. did adam know? no, he did not. did he want to commit a sin? no, he did not. but did he break the law? yes, he did. even corruption in spirituality is no coincidence; everything is always done for one purpose to correct egoism and unite it with altruism. if an altruistic spark, a vessel that appeared there at the moment of the sin of the first man, were not in every egoistic desire, egoism would have b

attain the spiritual degree of the world of assiya. a screen for first degree coarseness raises us to the degree of the world of yetzira. a screen for second degree coarseness raises us to the degree of the world of beria. a screen for third degree coarseness raises us to the degree of the world of atzilut. and finally, a screen for fourth degree coarseness raises us to the degree of the world of adam kadmon. above adam kadmon, the soul ascends to the world of ein sof. there are five partzufim in every world, comprised of five sefirot. each time a person acquires five new sefirot, he acquires a new degree, a new partzuf. if it is in the world of assiya, the first five sefirot give us the ability to attain the partzuf of malchut of the world of assiya. the next five sefirot raise us to part

all, each person experiences them differently. the spiritual world is attained from below upward. but in order for this instruction to be suitable for everyone, kabbalists wrote it from above downward, not from below. it is actually the same road, but when looking from above, it is described in more general terms, more uniform. light descends from the creator, building five worlds on its way down adam kadmon, atzilut, beria, yetzira, and assiya. below the world of assiya there is the barrier a partition that separates this world from the spiritual worlds. there is another partition between the world of atzilut and the worlds below it. it is called parsa. between the world of ein sof and the world of atzilut, there is the restriction. thus, from the highest state the world of ein sof down t

below the world of assiya there is the barrier a partition that separates this world from the spiritual worlds. there is another partition between the world of atzilut and the worlds below it. it is called parsa. between the world of ein sof and the world of atzilut, there is the restriction. thus, from the highest state the world of ein sof down to the lowest, where we are, there are five worlds adam kadmon, atzilut, beria, yetzira, assiya, each consisting of five partzufim and each partzuf of five sefirot. in total, the number of degrees that stand between our (necessary) future state and our present state is 125. these degrees are not carved in stone, but are inside us. they are degrees of internal spiritual development. when we change something inside us, we ascend by one degree. when

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h could have had no significance for the mere operative mason, though when examined by the light of the knowledge received in the mysteries it is seen to be pregnant with meaning. many masonic writers claim various degrees of antiquity for the craft, some assigning its foundation to king solomon, and one at least boldly stating that its wisdom is all that now remains of the divine knowledge which adam possessed before his fall. there is, however, plenty of evidence less mythical than that, and to that evidence i happen to be able to contribute a fragment of personal experience of a rather unusual kind. 2. by devoting some years to the effort and many more years to practice, i have been able to develop certain psychic faculties of the kind mentioned in the foreword, which, among other thing

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t in the mists of antiquity. masonic writers of the eighteenth century speculated uncritically upon its history, basing their views upon a literal belief in the history and chronology of the old testament, and upon the curious legends of the craft handed down from operative times in the old charges. thus it was put forward in all seriousness by dr. anderson in his first book of constitutions that adam, our first parent, created after the image of god, the great architect of the universe, must have had the liberal sciences, particularly geometry, written on his heart, while others, less fanciful, have attributed its origin to abraham, moses, or solomon. dr. oliver, writing as late as the first part of the nineteenth century, held that masonry, as we have it to-day, is the only true relic of

LETTER FROM A LUCIFEREAN

stage of supplicant) satan embodies the power of discipline, lucifer, that of [personal] poise, and lilith, that of abandonment. as the celebrant s own development continues, his relationship with these powers or expressions also changes. one final point i will deal with is the relationship between man and demons. ancient hebraic lore states that mankind is a race of demons, and indeed that when adam fell, he spent 130 years engendering demons with lilith. in the brotherhood, i was taught to view the demonic legions as kith and kin, and the rite of the averse pentagram was used both to identify with the luciferean life-spark, and to attract demonic brethren who were willing to serve as effectors of one s will. in contrast to the majority of so-called banishing rituals where the emphasis i

LEWIS JAMES SATANISM TODAY AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION FOLKLORE AND POPULAR CULTURE

h arcane governmental fields as intelligence and psychological operations has often excited the interest of conspiracy theorists and religious extremists, and he remains an object of curiosity and controversy in occult circles as well. see also church of satan; temple of set for further reading: flowers, stephen e, lords of the left hand path. smithville, tx: runa-raven press, 1997. mandelbaum,w. adam, the psychic battlefield: a history of the military-occult complex. new york: st.martin s press, 2000. melton, j. gordon, the encyclopedia of american religion. 5th ed. detroit, mi: gale research, 1993. archon archon, a greek term meaning ruler, is the name of a class of entities who played an important role in gnostic thought and who are roughly comparable to evil archangels. gnosticism refe

harge of gaming houses.asmodeus shows up in other writings, such as the devil on two sticks, by alain r. le sage, in which he is the central character. in jewish legend asmodeus is said to be the fatherin- law of the bar shalmon, who is a demon. and in the devil s own dear son, by james branch asmodeus (bridgeman art gallery) aurum solis 17 cabell,asmodeus is the son of sammael and lilith (who is adam s first wife. in the legends of solomon, asmodeus (also known as saturn, marcolf, or morolf) is held responsible for creating carousels, music, dancing, and drama. see also demons; judaism for further reading: godwin,malcolm. angels: an endangered species. new york: simon and schuster, 1990. ronner, john. know your angels. murfreesboro, tn: mamre, 1993. astaroth astaroth is mentioned in a var

spora, when the jews were in demons 65 contact with the dualist vision of zoroastrianism, a more defined role for demons was developed within the tradition, in particular in the aggadah that reflected popular rabbinic beliefs. these mythological figures drew from indigenous pagan beliefs (such as the shedim) and were believed to be either creations of god or offspring of lilith, the first wife of adam. in the cabala during the middle ages, the evil forces of the jewish tradition took definite forms, names, and roles, although they were never really fully accepted into orthodox judaism. the greek word daimon was used in the roman and hellenistic world to indicate evil forces, and thus entered early christian writings with the negative connotation of impure spirits. the judeo-christian tradi

tradition took definite forms, names, and roles, although they were never really fully accepted into orthodox judaism. the greek word daimon was used in the roman and hellenistic world to indicate evil forces, and thus entered early christian writings with the negative connotation of impure spirits. the judeo-christian tradition elaborated the concept of the devil as the fallen angel who tempted adam and eve and was forever banished from paradise. christian literature also drew upon the belief systems of their neighbors in the depiction of the apocalypse, wherein appear demons that recall jewish, persian, and mesopotamian myths. in the transmission of the texts of the scriptures the devil (in hellenistic greek, diabolos) came to be identified with satan (the name used in the hebrew bible

he desert. sometimes these evil forces are identified with animals (such as the snake and the scorpion) or with natural elements. one ambiguous figure, divine and evil (jinn) at the same time, is iblis, who partially resembles the devil of the judeo-christian tradition as a fallen angel. believed to be eternally expelled from the garden of heaven for refusing to bow, upon god s order, in front of adam (i.e, a being made of earth, he gradually also came to be called satan. the hindu tradition is rich with mythic figures of divine, or semidivine, superhuman nature. in its literature demons are hierarchically ranked in various cosmic layers. demons who belong to the lower part of hierarchy are demonic, dark beings, such as the asuras, who are always adversaries to humankind. raksasas are demo

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the holy ghost is clear from the rejoinder of samson "if ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle" xiii of certain jewish theories among the jews are certain instructed initiates of their qabalah who hold, as we understand, the view that in the zraa or semen itself lies a creative force inherent which cannot be balked. thus they say that before eve was made, the dreams of adam produced lilith, a demon, and that from his intercourse with her sprang evil races. now then they mine the roads of the harbour of conjugal love with many restrictions: as these (1) it must be an holy act, preceded by ablutions, and by prayer (2) all lustful thoughts must be rigidly excluded (3) the purpose must be solely that of procreation (4) the blessing of god must be most earnestly invo

LIBER 777

ine name, hwhy. line 3. binah has these additional titles: ama the dark sterile mother. amya the bright pregnant mother \yhla \yhla hwhy divine names. aysrwk throne. line 4. chesed has this additional title: hmjk majesty. line 5. geburah has these additional titles: yd justice. djp fear. line 6. tiphereth has these additional titles: ypna ryuz lesser countenance ]lm king. ypna ryuc seir anpin \da adam. b the son. cya the man \wnakc spare angels. line 9. jesod has this additional title \lwu-dwsy-qydx the righteous is the foundation of the world. line 10. malkuth has these titles (among others: ruc the gate (by temurah, rcu= 10).2 aurt the gate (chaldee. which has the same number (671) as ynda in full dwy wn tld [la also gates of death. shadow of death. tears. justice. prayer. gate of daught

LIBER ALEPH

testimony of history and literature as a great scroll of learning. but the vellum of the scroll is of man.s skin, and its ink of his heart.s blood. k liber aleph vel cxi 4 d legenda de amore (fables of love) he fault, that is fatality, in love, as in every other form of will, is impurity. it is not the spontaneity thereof which worketh woe, but some repression in the environment. in the fable of adam and eve is this great lesson taught by the masters of the holy qabalah. for love were to them the eternal eden, save for the repression signified by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. thus their nature of love was perfect; it was their fall from that innocence which drove them from the garden. in the love of romeo and juliet was no flaw; but family feud, which imported nothing to tha

LIBER CHANOKH

opening of the temple in the grade of 2 =98 give the sign of shu [knock] let us adore the lord and king of air! shaddai el chai! almighty and ever-living one, be thy name ever magnified in the life of all (sign of shu) amen [make the invoking pentagram of spirit active in these names: hyha alga exarp [make the invoking pentagram of air in these names: hwhy yj la ydc] and elohim said: let us make adam in our own image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fowls of the air. in the names of hwhy and of yj la ydc, spirits of air, adore your creator [with air-dagger (or other suitable weapon) make the sign of aquarius] in the name of lapr and in the sign of the man, spirits of air, adore your creator [make the cross] in the names and letters of the great eastern quadrangle

ive the sign of auramoth [knock] let us adore the lord and king of water! elohim tzabaoth! elohim of hosts! glory be to the ruach elohim which moved upon the face of the waters of creation! amen [make the invoking pentagram of spirit passive and pronounce these names: hyha alga hcoma [make the invoking pentagram of water and pronouce: l a. twabx \yhla] liber lxxxiv 25 and elohim said: let us make adam in our own image; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea! in the name of l a, strong and powerful, and in the name of twabx \yhla, spirits of water, adore your creator [make sigil of eagle with cup] in the name of larbg and in the sign of the eagle, spirits of water, adore your creator [make cross with cup] in the names and letters of the great western quadrangle, spirits of wate

ram of saturn [make the invoking pentagram of spirit passive and pronounce these names: hyha. alga. nanta [make the invoking pentagram of earth and pronouce this name ]lm ynda] and elohim said: let us make man in our own image; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air; and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. and the elohim created ath-ha-adam: in the image of the elohim created they them; male and female created they them. in the name of ]lm ynda and of the bride and queen of the kingdom; spirits of earth, adore your creator [make the sign of taurus] in the name of layrwa, great archangel of earth, spirits of earth, adore your creator [make the cross] in the names and letters of the great northern quadrangle, spirits of earth, ado

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

ed that the value of the letters was 507. he said i should understand, and with that i left him and returned. the equinox 168 8 p.m, dec. 16. have just been working out the meaning of the word obtained last night. i then thought the value was 507= that which causes ferment or 5 plus 7= 12= he longed for, missed, etc. this shows how i went astray. i find however that the word actually adds to 607= adam primus. but 6 plus 7= 13 unity, love, and the tarot trump is death, and this is what he said he was writing (note apr. 21, 1917. ha=the sun; tha= the moon, as stated in the hatha-yoga pradipika [well worked out, method good; but not much of a place to have reached. you should have got more of the book, too. o.m] dec. 18th. note. there is one thing i had intended to mention before. instead of

LIBER LVII

ury c.e. who derived from whom, mr. mathers. t.s] on the qabalah 11 reference to the fact that the deity is both masculine and feminine. they have translated a feminine plural by a masculine singular in the case of the word elohim. they have, however, left an inadvertent admission of their knowledge that it was plural in genesis i, 26 .and the elohim said: let us make man. again (v. 27, how could adam be made in the image of the elohim, male and female, unless the elohim were male and female also? the world elohim is a plural formed from the feminine singular hla, eloh, by adding \y to the word. but in as much as \y is usually the termination of the masculine plural, and is here added to a feminine noun, it gives to the word elohim the sense of a female potency added to a masculine idea, a

phiroth are further divided into three pillars. the right-hand pillar of mercy, consisting of the second, fourth, and seventh emanations; the left-hand pillar of judgement, consisting of the third, fifth, and eighth; and the middle pillar of mildness, consisting of the first, sixths, ninth, and tenth emanations. in their totality and unity the ten sephiroth represent the archetypal man, wmdq \da, adam qadmon, the protogonos. in looking at the sephiroth constituting the first triad, it is evident that they represent the intellect; and hence this triad is called the intellectual world, lkcwm \lwo, olahm mevshekal. the second triad corresponds to the moral world cgrwm \lwo, olahm morgash. the third represents power and stability, and is therefore called the material world, obfwmh \lwo, olahm

maton, the lesser countenance immutable in the heaviness of malkuth. 41 \a, the mother, unfertilised as unenlightened. 42. ama, the mother, still dark. here are the 42 judges of the dead in amennti, and here is the 42-fold name of the creative god. see liber 418. 44 \d, blood. see part ii. here 4 11= the corruption of the created world. 45. hm, a secret title of yetzirah, the formative world \da, adam, man, the species (not .the first man. a is air, the divine breath which stirs \d, blood, into being. 49. a number useful in the calculations of dr dee, and a mystic number of venus. 50. the number of the gates of binah, whose name is death (50= n= by tarot .death. 51. a, pain. an, failure \wda, the country of the demon kings. there is much in the qabalah about these kings and their dukes; it

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

maha-brahma, but his power and knowledge are limited; and his agelong day must end. i find evidence everywhere, even in our garbled and mutilated version of the hebrew scriptures, that jehovah.s power was limited in all sorts of ways. at the fall, for instance, tetragrammaton elohim has to summon his angels hastily to guard the tree of life, lest he should be proved a liar. for had it occurred to adam to eat of that tree before their transgression was discovered, or had the serpent been aware of its properties, adam would indeed have lived and not died. so that a mere accident saved the remnants of the already besmirched reputation of the hebrew tribal fetich. 1 an expression they carefully avoid using. a.c. 2 i retain this sly joke from the first edition. when buddha was asked how things

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

geometrises. let us behold the work of his fingers! one father incomprehensible one son incomprehensible 1. 2. 3. a m c one mother incomprehensible. fig. i..the trinity unmanifest* for it is written (genesis 1: 27:\da arb jbqnw rkz wta arb \yhla \lxb wmlxb \dah-ta \yhla arb .and the elohim created mankind: in the likeness of the elohim created they them: male and female created they them. now if adam be in the similitude of the elohim: and are male and female, then must the elohim be also male and female. now in the first of these mysterious three verses in exodus xiv. wherein the divided name is hidden it is written .and went the angel of the elohim before the camp &c. and this angel of the elohim \yhla ]alm, is the manifestations of their presence. now ]alm hath the number 91, which is

LINDOW JOHN NORSE MYTHOLOGY A GUIDE TO THE GODS HEROES RITUALS AND BELIEFS

g far more to do with national politics than religion.his opponents were supported by cnut the great, the christian king of denmark and england.people quickly saw signs of his sanctity, and he became the most important saint of northern europe. we are less well informed about the conversion in sweden. although the kings of sweden were christian from the beginning of the eleventh century, the monk adam of bremen, in his history (ca. 1070) of the archbishopric of hamburg- bremen in northern germany, which had responsibility for scandinavia, reported a vast pagan temple at uppsala, with idols of the pagan gods and gruesome sacri- introduction 7 rune stones depicting thor fs hammer like this one in sweden are fairly easy to find. compare this to the rune stone on page 10; both are from the lat

to make this statement more forcefully, and he did so in the prologue to his edda. here, too, he advances his understanding of the historical nature of the gods and gives us the key to understanding gylfaginning. snorri starts the prologue to his edda by stating, galmighty god created heaven and earth and all things that accompany them, and finally two people, from whom genealogies are reckoned, adam and eve, and their progeny multiplied and went all around the world. h ultimately, however, after the flood, people lost sight of god, but they observed that there were similarities and yet differences among humans, animals, and the earth, and they began to trace their genealogies from earth. and seeing the importance of the heavenly bodies for time reckoning, they assumed that some being had

aganism, and they were far from such influences. the eddic poems have references to the building of places of worship (e.g, the ghigh-timbered h altar and temple of voluspa, stanza 7, and there is one very explicit description of a pagan temple in eyrbyggja saga, which shows, if nothing else, where a thirteenth- century icelander thought his pagan ancestors had worshipped three centuries earlier. adam of bremen fs account of the pagan temple at uppsala, mentioned above, is difficult to discount, but it must be remembered that the end of the eleventh century, when adam was writing, was a time of enormous christian influence in sweden, and it is quite conceivable that the notion of a building reserved for religious purposes could have resulted from such influence. scandinavian pagans had pro

that sacrifices were made upon it. etymologically the word seems to have to do with stones or rocks, and it is not difficult to imagine the germanic horgr as a pile of rocks in a sacred grove; the old high german cognate is in fact sometimes found with the meaning gsacred rock h and sometimes with the meaning gsacred grove. h tacitus says the germanic peoples did not produce images of their gods. adam of bremen says the pagan temple at uppsala had idols of thor, wodan (odin, and fricco (frey. again, the difference lies in the millennium that passed between the times the two authors wrote, and probably also to some extent in 34 norse mythology the influence of other models. certainly medieval scandinavians believed that their pagan forebears had worshipped idols, for they routinely put idol

influence the deities was of course to make sacrifices to them, and here we have an ample record to draw on. bogs, wells, lakes, and the earth have yielded such objects as broken weapons, which can only be interpreted as gifts to the gods after battle. classical sources report that the germanic peoples killed their defeated enemies rather than take them prisoner, again as a form of sacrifice, and adam of bremen says that every ninth year at the pagan temple at uppsala, sacrifices of all kinds of creatures took place, including humans. but the most important sacrifices at the blot were surely animals that were slaughtered and eaten, presumably in some form of honor of a god. in chapter 8 of his ynglinga saga, snorri sturluson says that odin established the succession of blot ceremonies in t

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

rehydrate the sick child. one can easily imagine the results of such commonsense thinking. in summary, when people talk about facts, they should put these in a historical, technical, medical, and so on, context and be aware that today s facts may be tomorrow s fiction. for example, the medieval belief that men have one less rib than women (to account for the fact that eve was created from one of adam s ribs) was discounted centuries ago, once early human anatomists cared to actually compare the number of ribs in men and women. 6 evolution and religious creation myths discovery of new phenomena (new facts) is one of the aims of science. but equally important is the interpretation of facts or observations. it can be said that without an organization (categorization) of discoveries into theo

ho grew old had to die on earth. the origin story in genesis also accounts for various aspects of life. here we have an explanation for why women suffer in childbirth. as a result of eve partaking of the forbidden fruit, god said, i will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children (genesis 3:16. we also find an explanation for why man must till the soil, for adam also disobeyed god s command. god said to adam, cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life (genesis 3:17 18. origin myths from around the world often share common themes. floods, for example, are frequent. also common are explanations for human suffering through people or animals disobeying divine commands, as described above. many origin myths

reason, it is difficult to believe that harun yahya is a one-man operation, oktar s alone, given that he is also credited for having written hundreds of books. rather, harun yahya has all the characteristics of a well-designed organization. 22 evolution and religious creation myths the quran is less detailed than the bible in its account of the origins of life and the universe (the quran mentions adam and his spouse who is not referred to as eve but does not specify how the universe was created. as a result, muslims generally have no qualms with the idea of an old earth. on the other hand, islam can be fertile ground for id principles, as much as christianity is. harun yahya s anti-evolution web page is extremely similar to christian creationist and id pages. these might as well be copies

rney of man: a genetic odyssey surveys consistently show that about 45% of the american public believes that modern humans were created by god (the designer) some time between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, in accordance with biblical precepts. the imprecision on this date is due to the difficulty of evaluating, based on biblical information, the length of time that has elapsed since the creation of adam and eve. this is because from the story recounted in genesis, it is unclear at which point humans stopped living for hundreds of years and assumed more ordinary life spans, shortening generational times. additionally, since creationists reject evolution, they also reject the notion that modern humans are the result of a long evolutionary lineage that started millions of years ago. for them, p

in her population. what happened to the mtdna of all these other women? the answer is threefold (1) some of these women did not reproduce (2) others may have had boys only, or (3) their lineages stopped at a certain point in the past because their descendants failed to reproduce and hence their mtdna lineages were lost. y chromosome studies as one can well imagine, there must have been a genetic adam as well as a genetic eve. like eve, we expect that adam must have lived in the same east african population. can science show that, indeed, there was an adam and that this adam lived at the same time as eve?we cannot rely on mtdna because it is transmitted solely through mothers. fortunately for researchers, nature has equipped human males with a stretch of dna that females do not possess: th

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

paration of his constitutions, anderson is said to have consulted the opinions of. the late and present deputy grand masters and other learned brethren; and it was published "with a certain measure of grand lodge authority."11 andersons constitutions is, in many ways, a reflection of his personal views. it contains a romantic history of freemasonry which traces the masonic tradition right back to adam. in other aspects it publishes many useful and previously existing regulations such as those prohibiting the discussion of politics and sectarian religious discussion. it also sets out masonry's requirement for the belief in a supreme being. as we consider the period in which anderson's constitutions were published the name of john byrom requires our attention. byrom was a fellow of the royal

rected" the introduction had been rewritten and derogatory material had been removed, but the two sections cited above (including the reference to "cabalists) appear virtually unchanged in the 1807 edition. in his version of the introductory essay harper, following dermott's example, makes a distinction between what he calls "the royal art" and operative masonry. harper's introduction starts with adam and "the fall" and to that event it traces. the origin of the sciences. first arose divinity, whereby was pointed out to fallen man, the ways and will of god, the omnipotence and mercy of an offended creator; then law, as directing us to distribute justice to our neighbour, and relieve those who are oppressed or suffer wrong. the royal art was beyond all doubt coeval with the above sciences,"

as directing us to distribute justice to our neighbour, and relieve those who are oppressed or suffer wrong. the royal art was beyond all doubt coeval with the above sciences,"32 we should note the parallel between this statement and the traditional kabbalistic teaching which says that immediately after "the fall" the lord sent the archangel raziel (whose name means "the secrets of god) to teach adam the ways by which his lost status could be regained. harper goes on to say that the "royal art" was transmitted from adam through methuselah to noah (and so on) who preserved it. with a veneration and prudence suitable to its great importance "33 then he goes on to say that mankind. adhered to the lessons of nature" and by doing so man learned the secrets of. creating habitations and cultivat

art" is said to have had a divine source, while the source of skill in "creating habitations" and of "the sciences geometry and architecture" is seen as the study of nature. we can sum up this interpretation of these essays which introduce the antients' constitutions thus: there are two disciplines in freemasonry: the "royal art" or "the mystery; and the builder's craft. the former was taught to adam by the deity immediately after the fall in order to enable mankind to regain the edenic state in which he was conscious of the divine presence, and this is the essence of masonic teaching. the latter, which has to do with the making of physical structures and was learned from man's study of nature, is peripheral to the central masonic teaching. initially these two disciplines were quite separ

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

erse--the fifty gates of life. 117 the tree of the sephiroth the thirty-two paths of wisdom--the greater and the lesser face--kircher's sephirothic tree--the mystery of daath--the three pillars supporting the sephirothic tree--the four letters of the sacred name. 121 qabbalistic keys to the creation of man gematria, notarikon, and temurah--the elohim--the four adams--arabian traditions concerning adam--adam as the archetype of mankind--the early christian church on the subject of marriage. 125 an analysis of the tarot cards the origin of playing cards--the rota mundi of the rosicrucians--the problem of tarot symbolism--the unnumbered card--the symbolism of the twenty-one major trumps- the suit cards. 129 the tabernacle in the wilderness moses, the egyptian initiate--the building of the tab

in reality the fruitage of ages of patient delving into the intricacies of the human constitution and the infinite wonders revealed by such a study. in nearly all the sacred books of the world can be traced an anatomical analogy. this is most evident in their creation myths. anyone familiar with embryology and obstetrics will have no difficulty in recognizing the basis of the allegory concerning adam and eve and the garden of eden, the nine degrees of the eleusinian mysteries, and the brahmanic legend of vishnu's incarnations. the story of the universal egg, the scandinavian myth of ginnungagap (the dark cleft in space in which the seed of the world is sown, and the use of the fish as the emblem of the paternal generative power--all show the true origin of theological speculation. the phi

even went so far as to view the various kingdoms of nature as individual entities. the animal kingdom, for example, was looked upon as one being--a composite of all the creatures composing that kingdom. this prototypic beast was a mosaic embodiment of all animal propensities and within its nature the entire animal world existed as the human species exists within the constitution of the prototypic adam. in the same manner, races, nations, tribes, religions, states, communities, and cities were viewed as composite entities, each made up of varying numbers of individual units. every community has an individuality which is the sum of the individual attitudes of its inhabitants. every religion is an individual whose body is made up of a hierarchy and vast host of individual worshipers. the orga

he egyptian rites of osiris, whose death and resurrection figuratively portrayed the spiritual death of man and his regeneration through initiation into the mysteries. chiram is also identified with hermes through the inscription on the emerald table. from these associations it is evident that chiram is to be considered as a prototype of humanity; in fact he is plato's idea (archetype) of man. as adam after the fall symbolizes the idea of human degeneration, so chiram through his resurrection symbolizes the idea of human regeneration. on the 19th day of march, 1314, jacques de molay, the last grand master of the knights templars, was burned on a pyre erected upon that point of the islet of the seine, at paris, where afterwards was erected the statue of king henry iv (see the indian religio

uch an important place in the economy of nature by way of attracting and retaining moisture, and shading the water-sources and the soil so as to prevent barrenness and desolation; the, are so click to enlarge the tree of noah. from the "breeches" bible of 1599. most bibles published during the middle ages contain a section devoted to genealogical tables showing the descent of humanity from father adam to the advent of jesus christ. the tree growing from the roof of the ark represents the body of noah and its three branches, his sons--shem, ham, and japheth. the nations by the descendents of noah's three sons are appropriately shown in the circles upon the branches of the tree. while such tables are hopelessly incorrect from a historical point of view, to the symbolist their allegorical int

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

l. the conjuration. o ye spirits, ye i conjure by the power, wisdom, and virtue of the spirit of god, by the uncreate divine knowledge, by the vast mercy of god, by the strength of god, by the greatness of god, by the unity of god; and by the holy name of god eheieh, which is the root, trunk, source, and origin of all the other divine names, whence they all draw their life and their virtue, which adam having invoked, he acquired the knowledge of all created things. i conjure ye by the indivisible name iod, which marketh and expresseth the simplicity and the unity of the nature divine, which abel having invoked, he deserved to escape from the hands of cain his brother. book one page 25 i conjure ye by the name tetragrammaton elohim, which expresseth and signifieth the grandeur of so lofty a

ays, and for ever with us, in our heart and in our lips; and by his holy names, and by the virtue of the sovereign god, we shall accomplish all our work. the key of solomon page 28 come ye at once without any hideousness or deformity before us, come ye without monstrous appearance, in a gracious form or figure. come ye, for we exorcise ye with the utmost vehemence by the name of iao and on, which adam spake and heard; by the name el, which noah heard, and saved himself with all his family from the deluge; by the name iod, which noah heard, and knew god the almighty one; by the name agla, which jacob heard, and saw the ladder which touched heaven, and the angels who ascended and descended upon it, whence he called that place the house of god and the gate of heaven; and by the name elohim, a

and we exorcise ye; by the angel zechiel; by the angel duchiel; by the angel donachiel; and by the great angel metatron, who is the prince of the angels, and introduceth the souls before the face of god; and by the angel sangariel, by whom the portals of heaven are guarded; and by the angel kerub, who was made the guardian of the terrestrial paradise, with a sword of flame, after the expulsion of adam our forefather; and by the angel michael by whom ye were hurled down from the height of the throne into the depth of the lake and of the abyss, the same name meaning, who is like god upon earth; and by the angel aniel; and by the angel ophiel; and by the angel bedaliel; wherefore, by these and by all the other holy names of the angels, we powerfully conjure and exorcise ye, that ye come from

and the seraphim, in the high places, whereunto human understanding cannot penetrate; thou who hast created all things by thine agency, in whose presence are the living creatures, of which four are marvellously volatile, which have six wings, and who incessantly cry aloud: qadosch, qadosch, qadosch, adonai elohim tzabaoth, heaven and earth are full of thy glory; o lord god, thou who hast expelled adam from the terrestrial paradise, and who hast placed the kerubim to guard the tree of life, thou art the lord who alone doest wonders; show forth i pray thee thy great mercy, by the holy city of jerusalem, by thy wonderful name of four letters which are yod, he, vau, he, and by thy holy and admirable name, give unto me the power and virtue to enable me to accomplish this experiment, and to come

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living bat and exorcise it thus: the exorcism of the bat. camiach, emoiahe, emial, macbal, emoii, zazean, maiphiat, zacrath, tendac, vulamahi; by these most holy names, and the other names of angels which are written in the book assamaian, i conjure thee o bat (or whatever animal it may be) that thou assist me in this operation, by god the true, god the holy, the god who hath created thee, and by adam, who hath imposed thy true name upon thee and upon all other animated beings. after this, take the needle or other convenient instrument of art, as will be said later on, and pierce the bat in the vein which is in the right wing; and collect the blood in a small vessel over the which thou shalt say: almighty adonai, arathron, ashai, elohim, elohi, elion, asher eheieh, shaddai, o god the lord

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and intelligible without any ambiguity. repeat this conjuration as often as thou pleasest, and if the spirit come not yet, say as followeth: the second conjuration. i do invocate, conjure, and command thee, o thou spirit n, to appear and to show thyself visibly unto me before this circle in fair and comely shape, without any deformity or tortuosity; by the name and in the name iah and vau, which adam heard and spake; and by the name of god, agla, which lot heard and was saved with his family; and by the name ioth, which jacob heard from the angel wrestling with him, and was delivered from the hand of esau his brother; and by the name anaphaxeton which aaron heard and spake and was made wise; and by the name zabaoth, which moses named and all the rivers were turned into blood; and by the n

MEANING OF MASONRY

the souls of men, at once the living stones, the fellow craftsmen and collaborators with the divine purpose. but in the course of the construction of this ideal temple, something happened that wrecked the scheme and delayed the fulfilment indefinitely. this was the fall of man; the conspiracy of the craftsmen. turn to the book of genesis, you will find the same subject related in the allegory of adam and eve. they were intended, as you know, for perfection and happiness, but their creator's project became nullified by their disobedience to certain conditions imposed upon them. i will ask you to observe that their offence was precisely that committed by our masonic conspirators. they had been forbidden to eat of the tree of knowledge; or, in masonic language, they were under obligation" no

ight and wisdom, and the liberty that comes therewith. but this knowledge is only for the perfected man. it is that knowledge that hiram said was" kno wn to but three in the world" i.e, known only in the counsels of the divine trinity, but it is knowledge that with patience and perseverance every mason, every child of the creator" may in due time become entitled to a participation in" but just as adam and eve's attempt to obtain illicit knowledge caused their expulsion from eden and defeated the divine purpose until they and their posterity should regain the paradise they had lost, so also the completion of the great mystical temple was prevented for the time being by the conspirators' attempt to extort from hiram the master's secrets, and its construction is delayed until time and circums

your own body--i.e, 3 feet between n. and s- far as it can reach to right or left of the middle of your person--i.e, 3 feet between w. and e--and 5 feet or more perpendicular--the height of the human body -these are the indications by which our cryptic ritual describes the tomb of hiram abiff at the centre of ourselves. he is buried" outside the holy city" in the same sense that the posterity of adam have all been placed outside the walls of paradise, for" nothing unclean can enter into the holy place" which elsewhere in our scriptures is called the kingdom of heaven. what then is this" centre" by reviving and using which we may hope to regain the secrets of our lost nature? we may reason from analogies. as the divine life and will is the centre of the whole universe and controls it; as t

ut is implied and is stated to form" the genuine secrets of a master mason" it is the loss of a word, or rather o f the word, the divine logos, or basic root and essence of our own being. in other words the soul of man has ceased to be god-conscious and has degenerated into the limited terrestrial consciousness of the ordinary human being. it is in the condition spoken of in the cosmic parable of adam when extruded from eden, an exile from the divine presence and condemned to toil and trouble. the quest after this lost word is declared by the wardens to have been so far abortive, and to have resulted in the discovery, not of that reality, but of substitutional images of it. all which implies that, in the strength of merely his natural temporal intelligence, man can find and know nothing mo

return to demeter for the other two thirds. it proved that persephone had unfortunately eaten a pomegranate in the lower world, so that her restoration to her mother could not be permanent, but only periodic. this myth, and the importance once attached to it, will be appreciated only upon understanding its interpretation. it is the story of the soul and is of the same nature as the mosaic myth of adam and eve and the apple, and as the cosmic parable of the prodigal son, neither of these being meant to be regarded as historically true, but as a fiction spiritually true of cosmic facts. persephone is the human soul, generated out of that primordial incorruptible mother-earth which the greeks personified as demeter, just as the mosaic narrative speaks of god forming man out of the dust of the

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itself, brings experience from a vague concept of mystery, that flesh which emerges in the heart of the adept. the sorcerer and witch are as the sorcerous daemon ahriman themselves, they stand in both darkness and light, being lords of both horizons. in sufism shaitan was the single angel, who by antinomian acts separated himself against the natural order by refusing to bow before clay which was adam. it was the yezidi tribe, who venerated shaitan in the form of malak tauus, the peacock angel. in the meshaf resh18 it presents azazel as the angel created before all others, thus the brightest star. in the jilwa, lucifer is presented as malak tauus existed before all other creatures and was then and now .there is no place devoid of me thus presenting the unnatural concept of self-illuminatio

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iathan would seek the oceans and understood the art of sorcery as a totality of being timeless and alive in its sacred flame. leviathan found the nightmares comforting, and dreams would be his fluid waking within worlds. many others rose up and joined with my father, who is the brightest of them all. he was fire and his realm was air, he was both death and life. i remember my father as possessing adam who rode my mother eve as the dragon, driving deep within her core, enflamed with the spirit of lilith. these were my earth parents, but it was the blood of azazel called often samael and lilith which flows in my veins. it was this passion and possession which brought me into being, the first born of witch blood in the circle of the dragon s emerald crown. azazel gathered all in this secret p

which earthen heat could only catch a glimpse of that the fires of spirit burn ever so bright, that in this torch shall my father be revealed. lilith who wrapped her serpents tail around eve s brain, unlocked the depths of her lust and rode this dragon until i was conceived that was then perfection beheld. i walked the paths with my family, and my brother abel was born. my father, who was called adam was alien to me, i knew him not but grew under his protection. my flesh mother eve rode again this beast, from which abel slept dreamless and in the fires of her lust was my sister naamah born. at an early age, her difference amoung the tribe was even beyond mine, fled away from this family. i missed her but could not leave yet. i worked the fields as a being of nothing my brother was beheld

ttom half of a beast. she spoke to me of what i was to become, and that i had passed through a rite of passage. i was to become immortal and forever a spirit who walked the path of the dragon, who was my father. in the darkness of the caves, i grew strong again and learned arts which were taught to me by lilith. she was terror, yet kindness in one kiss. i understood that she was the first wife of adam, who then drank of the serpent s wisdom and became immortal in the shadows, she walked between time. i learned how to extend and make flesh my shadow, and desires that i slowly became like my father, who was the prince of the air and of flame. lilith showed me the knowledge of dreams, how she may always speak to me from this inbetween time. i first understood the ecstasy of transformation, of

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f life and joy. even more to the sorcerer s benefit is that in modern society change is an accepted part of life. this means we can move behind the scenes, do our will and not be harassed for our different or strange behavior, save the magickian is not running about hurting others. da ath can be opened by the words zazas, zazas, natsatanada zazas (words that are said to have been used by cain and adam to open the gates of hell) and explored through the death posture. the sorcerer who would enter the abyss must be pure of mind and in harmony with his shadow or hidden self. the greatest obstacle of the abyss is the demon choronzon, whom the sorcerer must pass in order to enter the abyss. choronzon is considered a demon due to it s non- form and devouring nature. it is a vampire spirit, await

on the astral plane. witch: by blood, by life-spirit of our desire form now. from the great arena of anon take thou flesh, for the purpose of. couple shall now copulate intently while focusing upon the mental image, the sigil itself. the woman should initially be atop the male, symbolizing lilith and the balance of masculine and feminine energy. this also represents lilith when she wished to ride adam and he refused, the warlock is acknowledging feminine strength and balance. the obvious subversive symbol being the lunar aspect of the self. once the orgasm is obtained for both (female first and male last) the male should ejaculate upon the sigil itself. the alternate method is for the male to ejaculate within the female (with of course the obvious possible consequences) and then she would

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

indian tamil text, silappadikaran, describes a lost continent in the pacific and indian ocean that it calls kumai nadu or kumari kandam, which means the dragon land of the immortal serpents.their rebellion and departure affronted their creators who, from that time onward,would consider their first born avowed adversaries. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation27 chapter 5the race of adam in a late sumerian mythit is declared that men were created to relieve the gods of the oner-ous task of tilling their fields. men were to do that work for them and provide them with foodthrough sacrifice (joseph campbell, occidental mythology)the serpent masters deduced that the first time round they had made a fundamentalmistake. they had given their progeny the same intellectual capacities

weread of this in the popul vuh: let us make him who shall nourish and sustain us! whatshall we do to be invoked, in order to be remembered onearth? w e have already tried with our first creations,our first creatures; but we could not make them praiseor venerate us. so, then, let us try to make obedient,respectful beings who will nourish and sustain us. satan and eve by william blake the race of adam28atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the words adam and eve, like those of jehovah and elohim, do not imply individ-uals but races. when this is understood, so much more becomes clear when reading andinterpreting the scriptures. the adamic race, like the original indigenous peoples of earth, were of both gen-ders, although the modified eves could not reproduce sexually at tha

exually at that time. the maleadams, consistent with their human strain, possessed a foreskin. later, it came down in priestly rituals that this human foreskin would be surgically removedas a mark of servitude to the overlords. circumcision is the ritualized removal of the humanaspect in favor of the alien, done to create a subliminal affiliation. when it is said that eve was made from the rib of adam while he slept, the reference isagain to genetics and bioengineering.being naked ultimately meant that the members of the hybrid adamic servantrace would be strictly forbidden to partake of something now referred to as the treeof the knowledge of good and evil or the tree of life. these were other crypticeuphemisms for the knowledge of biology and genetics.the dna was always likened to a tree

le explanations for this anomaly. one is that man-kind evolved in the sea, and that crucial fossil evidence is thus missing. another is that dar-winian theory itself has a missing link. and a third explanation is that the genes for modernman were suddenly implanted by an intelligent extraterrestrial species who colonized theearth. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation29 the race of adam sir leonard woolley writes in ur of the chaldees:there is nothing to show to what race the first inhabitants of mesopotamia belongedat adate which we cannot fix, people of a new race made their way into the valley, comingwhence we do not know in uriel s machine, authors christopher knight and robert lomas write: neanderthals did not contribute mitochondrial dna to modern humans; neanderthals

manuel v elikovsky, probably oneof the most abused scholars in history, wrote: most controversial is the evolutionary question. i have done a great deal of work on darwinand can say with some assurance that darwin did not derive his theory from nature butrather superimposed a certain philosophical world-view on nature and then spent 20 yearstrying to gather the facts to make it stick. the race of adam30atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation and researcher laurence gardner puts it this way: it took man over a million years to progress from using stones as he found them to the real-ization that they could be chipped and flaked to better purpose. it then took another 500,000years before neanderthal man mastered the concept of stone tools, and a further 50,000years before crops w

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ferian witch kings and queens in the center of the circle is found samael and asmodeus. samael appears as the devil of the tarot, devouring and consuming life energy souls are the food of this force. asmodai or asmodeus appears as a bloated or bestial man, crouching but arises to crush others with a blood dripping mace or spear. he drains life force in this manner. the southeast angle is the evil adam or cain the son, a goat-headed, skeleton-like giant, the thousand- headed hydra serpent; and the elder lilith, wife of samael, a woman with an ever-changing and distorted countenance who is at times hag young maiden, beaten whore, vampire woman, beast, bird, owl, etc. the northeast angle is aggereth, the daughter of machaloth, a fiendish witch with serpent hair, standing in a chariot drawn by

th, the very mother of demons and sorcerous beings. az was said to be created in the zurvan myth as a black substance like coal, which would devour all creation, manifesting her as a vampyric being. azazel [hebrew] the first angel who brought the black flame of being to humanity. azazel was the lord of djinn and was said to be made of fire in islamic lore. azazel refused to bow before the clay of adam, 79 saying that it was profane. he was cast from heaven to earth and was indeed the first independent spirit, the initiator of individual and antinomian thought. azazel was later related to the watchers, the hebrew goat demon god and shaitan. azazel is a name of lucifer, who is the solar aspect of the dragon, the bringer of light. azhi [avestan/pahlavi] serpent, snake azhi dahaka [avestan/pah

ened mind. the left hand path from the sanskrit vama marga, meaning left way, symbolizes a path astray all others, subjective only to itself. to truly walk upon the left hand path, one must strive to break all personal taboos and gain knowledge and power from this averse way, thus expand power accordingly. lilith [hebrew] the goddess of witchcraft, magick and sorcery. lilith was the first wife of adam who refused to be submission and joined with the shadows and demonic spirits in the deserts. lilith was also said to be the spiritual mother of cain by her mate, samael (shaitan) the dragon. lilith appeared in sumerian times as a goddess of the beasts of the wild, as well as sorcery and night-fornication. lilith was said to have many forms, from beautiful women to half human and the bottom ha

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each mythology is retold in a way peculiar to that civilization, it s curious that ancient man would still tell a collective story regarding creation and history. the most well-known and prototypical of these creation stories comes from the bible. in the first book of the bible, god creates the universe, earth, animals, and humanity in 6 days, resting on the seventh day. the first 2 humans, named adam and eve, were given a paradisiacal land called the garden of eden. it is at this point a character called the serpent, who is unambiguously described as the enemy of god, tricks eve into eating the fruit from a tree that the most high god forbade. the serpent s claim was that the fruit god so adamantly forbade was capable of remaking eve as the gods. after biting into the forbidden fruit, eve

int a character called the serpent, who is unambiguously described as the enemy of god, tricks eve into eating the fruit from a tree that the most high god forbade. the serpent s claim was that the fruit god so adamantly forbade was capable of remaking eve as the gods. after biting into the forbidden fruit, eve s eyes were opened and she came to know good and evil. eve then convinces her husband, adam, to also eat of the fruit, thereby opening his eyes as well. when god discovered what the primal couple( and the serpent) had done, adam and eve were banished from paradise. adam and eve leave the garden, and begin having children to the east. as human kind began to multiply, the serpent, also called the sons of god [angels] began to lust after human women and soon began to procreate with our

ecame the new villain in the egyptian tales; the first to play this villain role was apep himself. the evil god set kills his benevolent brother osiris, twice; then begins to make war with the seed of osiris, a god named horus. in jewish folklore, satan was called samael. samael, whose name meant venom of god, was considered a dark angel of death, and also the true father cain (the first child of adam and eve. satanists repeatedly reinforce this association, frequently suggesting that it was the serpent who was true father of cain, rather than adam (the first human. occultists will also freely refer to satan as ahriman (angra mainyu. ahriman is an ancient persian god who, according to legend, is wholly wicked and at war with his righteous brother ahura mazda. this ahriman resides in a gloo

to kabalistic teachings, the qliphoth is essentially the averse--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 34 (or negative) universe that is the mirror image of the celestial universe, an anti-universe if you will. the kabalistic tree of life represents the celestial realms, while the tree of knowledge of good and evil represents the qliphoth, this anti-universe. if you recall, these are the two trees adam and eve encountered in the garden of eden. the demons, or qliphothic spirits, represent another classification of spirits. the word demon has come to mean any negative spirit which is hostile to mankind. these beings are extremely chaotic and may not always have a conception of the consequences of their actions. demons are adverse to humans, and are either in the qliphoth, or roaming the eart

ste. the dancing done at the sabbat, especially by the women, is reminiscent of the sexually-suggestive dancing done at most clubs these days. the music at the sabbat sounds a bit chaotic, and without melody; it is frequently described as random tones and bells. satanists often compare and equate baphomet with the biblical cain, who slew his brother able. they claim that cain was not the child of adam and eve, but of satan and a demon named lilith. in the lovecraftian mythos, the black man of the sabbat is known as nyarlathotep, the highly intelligent trickster god who teaches mysteries that lead to evil; he is also the consumer of souls and has a 1,000 faces (forms. nyarlathotep, called the chaos that creeps, is a messenger god who acts as an intermediately between the dark gods and their

MORALS AND DOGMA

e attended. succeed or fail, masonry must not bow to error, or succumb under discouragement. there were at rome a few carthaginian soldiers, taken prisoners, who refused to bow to flaminius, and had a little of hannibal's magnanimity. masons should possess an equal greatness of soul. masonry should be an energy; finding its aim and effect in the amelioration of mankind. socrates should enter into adam, and produce marcus aurelius, in other words, bring forth from the man of enjoyments, the man of wisdom. masonry should not be a mere watch-tower, built upon mystery, from which to gaze at ease upon the world, with no other result than to be a convenience for the curious. to hold the full cup of thought to the thirsty lips of men; to give to all the true ideas of deity; to harmonize conscienc

vens_ into the ark; and of fowls by _sevens; because in _seven_ days the rain was to commence. on the _seven_teenth day of the month, the rain began; on the _seven_teenth day of the _seventh_ month, that ark rested on ararat. when the dove returned, noah waited _seven_ days before he sent her forth again; and again _seven, after she returned with the olive-leaf. enoch was the _seventh_ patriarch, adam included, and lamech lived 777 years. there were _seven_ lamps in the great candlestick of the tabernacle and temple, representing the _seven_ planets _seven_ times moses sprinkled the anointing oil upon the altar. the days of consecration of aaron and his sons were _seven_ in number. a woman was unclean _seven_ days after child-birth; one infected with leprosy was shut up _seven_ days _seven

sented by the triple triangle. ten includes all the other numbers. it is especially _seven_ and _three; and is called the number of perfection. pythagoras represented it by the tetractys, which had many mystic meanings. this symbol is sometimes composed of dots or points, sometimes of commas or yods, and in the kabalah, of the letters of the name of deity. it is thus arranged, the patriarchs from adam to noah, inclusive, are _ten_ in number, and the same number is that of the commandments. twelve is the number of the lines of equal length that form a cube. it is the number of the months, the tribes, and the apostles; of the oxen under the brazen sea, of the stones on the breast-plate of the high priest. iii. the master. to understand literally the symbols and allegories of oriental books a

the nations around them, except that he was the _peculiar_ god, first of the family of abraham, of that of isaac, and of that of jacob, and afterward the _national_ god; and, as they believed _more powerful_ than the other gods of the same nature worshipped by their neighbors-"who among the baalim is like unto thee, o yehovah--expressed their whole creed. the deity of the early hebrews talked to adam and eve in the garden of delight, as he walked in it in the cool of the day; he conversed with kayin; he sat and ate with abraham in his tent; that patriarch required a visible token, before he would believe in his positive promise; he permitted abraham to expostulate with him, and to induce him to change his first determination in regard to sodom; he wrestled with jacob; he showed moses his

logos being the world of ideas [greek??s??t, by means whereof god has created visible things, he is the most ancient god, in comparison with the world, which is the youngest production. the logos _chief of intelligence, of which he is the general representative, is named _archangel, type_ and _representative_ of all spirits, even those of mortals. he is also styled the man-type and primitive man, adam kadmon. god only is wise. the wisdom of man is but the reflection and image of that of god. he is the father, and his wisdom the mother of creation: for he united himself with wisdom[[greek: s?f?a, sophia, and communicated to it the germ of creation, and it brought forth the material world. he created the ideal world only, and caused the material world to be made real after its type, by his l

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y show with poincares's precision that jesus and paul struck at the heart of hell when they proclaimed marriage a scourge, and offered the testimony of john and timothy to support the plea of plato on behalf of paederastic passion. out of the court there slunk mark anthony, his toga to his face, one of the legion of lost souls that woman had withered; behind him groped blind sampson, disinherited adam, feeling his way along the table where they had piled countless papyri writ with woes of kings and sages woman-wrecked, and many a map of towns and temples torn and trampled beneath the feet of love, their ashes smouldering still, and smoky with song to witness how astarte's breath had kindled and consumed them. extinguished empires owned that their doom was the device of venus, her vengeance

sceptic--that our talisman, one microscopic serpent of which can build for itself such a house as to rule men's bodies for a generation like alexander, or their minds for an epoch like plato, cannot be destroyed or diminished by any conceivable force. when this talisman comes forth from its fortress, its action begins. the ancient jewish rabbins knew this, and taught that before eve was given to adam the demon lilith conceived by the spilth of his dreams, so that the hybrid race of satyrs, elves and the like began to populate the secret places of the earth which are not sensible by the organs of the normal man. i take it as certain that every offering of this talisman infallibly begets children on one plane or another of this our cosmos, whose matter is so varied in kind. such a child mus

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rom 9am to noon, and from 3pm to sunset. the 72nd spirit is zepar. pray to him to inflame women with desire, at any hour of the day from sunrise to noon. wins $1,000 with the magic of goetia some cases of fantastic success have been reported from people using the powers of goetia to work magic. i can say this truthfully because i have first hand knowledge of what i write. we will take the case of adam f, a young man of my acquaintance. he scored a handsome windfall after i told him about the goetia. one weekend he visited a large casino to try his luck at roulette. he found a place at the table and, with a few low denomination chips, placed his bets and watched the roll of the little ball. he let the magic of goetia work for him, silently and effectively. the spins of the wheel he was goin

sino to try his luck at roulette. he found a place at the table and, with a few low denomination chips, placed his bets and watched the roll of the little ball. he let the magic of goetia work for him, silently and effectively. the spins of the wheel he was going to bet on were the ones that felt right. he placed his bets and, much to his amazement, won over $1,000. the magic of goetia worked for adam, as it will for you. the ritual of goetia with your basic work already behind you, you are ready to work true magic for yourself to magically smooth your path through life. darken the room in which the ritual is to be carried out by drawing the curtains, but have some light coming in. you may choose to burn a single black candle, inscribed with the name and power of the spirit. loosen any tig

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

n this area was so great that in 1220 it proved necessary to create a new parish cemetery. in 1399 the church was expanded: the church wardens of saint nicolas des champs. decided, after obtaining the consent of the priest and the bishop of paris and the counsel of the king's sworn representatives of masonry and carpentry masons kenton du temple [emphasis mine, jehan filleul, regnault lorier, and adam ravier (known as de moret, and carpenters robert focuchier and philippe milon to see to the construction of the masonry of the three chapels in the alley between said church and the hostel of said priest. p the mention of remon du temple, sworn master mason, must be singled out. this master, better described as an architect and sculptor, practiced between 1363 and 1404. he was the master buil

n walafrid strabo's ordinary gloss, which, from the ninth to the sixteenth century, accompanied all editions of the bible* emile male describes this book as one of the most valuable to come down to us from the middle ages. this view of the figures of the hebrew scriptures as those who heralded the coming of christ was traditional among the fathers of the church. the same perspective held true for adam and noah; for the patriarchs abraham, isaac, jacob, and joseph; for melchizadek, the pontiff king; and for the prophets moses, ezra, aggee, and zerubbabel. as disorienting as this may appear to our modern logic, the people of the middle ages did not understand the hebrew scriptures in solely their literal sense, as the record of a historical and chronological process (which would be too narro

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ion reshimu impression kav v chut the line& thread kav hamidah the measuring line the three abilities hagadol, hagibor, v hanorah- the great, the mighty, and the awesome the ten sefirot the three upper sefirot (mochin brains) the seven lower sefirot (midot emotions) the realm of desire the primal desire ratzon hakadoom the primal desire the sefirot of igullim circles the sefirot of yosher upright adam kadmon primal man (ratzon l ratzon) malchut and keter keter of atzilut, atik yomin& arich anpin (pleasure& desire) the enclothement of atik in arich binah comprehension hitbonenut contemplation& analysis da at concentration abba& imma (father& mother) the world of tohu chaos the world of tikkun rectification the worlds of akudim, nekudim& brudim the three lines of the sefirot of yosher the in

e, what we see are his final actions. enclothed within his actions are his emotions, and enclothed within his emotions are his thoughts. enclothed within his thoughts is his self-perception (ratzon l ratzon) and enclothed within his self-perception is his "primal desire (ratzon hakadoom. we therefore see that the outermost thing is the action and the innermost is the primal desire. this is called adam d yosher (the upright man, because it operates as a human being (who stands upright) would. adam kadmon primal man (ratzon l ratzon) as stated above, from the desire for actualization of the igullim (malchut of igullim, which is the last circle of the sefirot of igullim (circles, comes about the "desire for the desire (ratzon l ratzon, which is in the form of an upright man (adam d yosher. th

t man, because it operates as a human being (who stands upright) would. adam kadmon primal man (ratzon l ratzon) as stated above, from the desire for actualization of the igullim (malchut of igullim, which is the last circle of the sefirot of igullim (circles, comes about the "desire for the desire (ratzon l ratzon, which is in the form of an upright man (adam d yosher. this upright man is called adam kadmon (primal man. once a person s primal desire comes to the final primal desire to bring it into actuality, he formulates a ratzon l ratzon (desire for a desire, which is a new desire based on how the primal desire will relate out, to others. this secondary desire may be seen as "self-perception. this is how he perceives himself as being for the entire duration of his life span. it is how

above, in the process of creation, we cannot say that the "outside" shapes g-d s desire for a desire, since there is no "outside" in relation to him. actually, it is the other way around. because g-d desired to create the world to be something that has the appearance of being outside of himself, he therefore created the desire for a desire for the world. not visa versa. from the above we see that adam kadmon (the desire for the desire-ratzon l ratzon) is the link between the emanator and the emanated, between g-d and the world. because of this, the term "the desire for the desire" has two meanings. on the one hand it means the desire to fulfill the desire that preceeds it, and on the other hand, it means the desire to bring about the desire that follows it. futhermore, since the ratzon l r

has two meanings. on the one hand it means the desire to fulfill the desire that preceeds it, and on the other hand, it means the desire to bring about the desire that follows it. futhermore, since the ratzon l ratzon (the desire for the desire) is like a "new" creation in comparison to the ratzon hakadoom (primal desire) and is changeable, as explained above, it is therefore called "the general adam d briyah (the general man of the created realm. malchut and keter now, the general rule is that the lowest level of the upper realm, becomes the highest level of the lower realm. this is to say, that the malchut of the upper world, becomes the keter of the lower world. for instance, as mentioned before, the sefirah of keter is desire, and the sefirah of malchut is speech. from this we underst

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and grasp. binah, specifically, is analogous to a river. this is because just as a river flows ceaselessly, so the brain of comprehension flows ceaselessly. this is called the "river of thought, and as stated above it has length, breadth and depth similar to a river. the faculty of da at is the ability to have focus, interest, and mental attachment to a subject. this is understood from the verse "adam knew eve and she gave birth to a child. from here it is clear that knowledge means bonding. this is the faculty of da at which is the ability to mentally connect to a subject. the faculty of chochmah, however, is not a brain of comprehension nor is it a brain of focus. rather, this brain is the source of the intellect. it is from chochmah that the concepts spring forth. because of this it is

RABBI MOSHE WISNEFSKY APPLES FROM THE ORCHARD THE ARIZAL ON THE PARASHAH

f the dust of the earth, h interrupting these two accounts with [its description of what occurred on] the seventh day, as it is written, gand the heavens [and the earth] were completed c. h in the first account of creation, the torah mentions both male and female, while in the second account, in [g-d fs] command [to create man, the female is not mentioned at all. if the command was to create only adam, why was eve created? we see that [even in the second account of creation] after the command, the female was created, for the torah goes on to describe how gg-d caused a deep sleep to descend upon the man c h and so forth. we shall now explain this. from the primordial [world of] adam kadmon, the 72-name was not manifest; only the 63-name began to manifest via the mouth, the nose, etc. this i

was created, for the torah goes on to describe how gg-d caused a deep sleep to descend upon the man c h and so forth. we shall now explain this. from the primordial [world of] adam kadmon, the 72-name was not manifest; only the 63-name began to manifest via the mouth, the nose, etc. this is why [the torah] begins with the letter beit, referring to the 63- name. when the 63-name issued forth [from adam kadmon, it was manifest as the vowels of the 63-name, this being the mystical meaning of the primordial kings [of edom. this is referred to by the phrase gthe heavens and the earth, h which alludes to the seven kings that were broken. since the letter hei alludes to the 63- name, the letter hei is prefixed [as the definite article] in gthe heavens and the earth. h the definite particle [et] i

referred to by] gthe water. h none of the light descended into the vessels, other than 288 sparks. this is indicated by the word for ghovered h [merachefet, which can be read g288 [sparks] died [i.e, descended. h 288 is the sum of 72 and 216. after the shattering [of the vessels, the 63-name coupled with the 72-name above, and produced the new 45-name, which issued from the supernal forehead [of adam kadmon, and it was the principle that rectified [reality, as stated above. this is indicated by the phrase, gand g-d said, elet there be light, f h[ gthe light h] referring to [the light of] the 45-name that rectified [reality. 1 psalms 53:4. the arizal on parashat bereishit (2) 19 g cand there was light h refers to the actual rectification, which occurred during the seven days of creation [t

h5 this indicates that the feminine principle is already rectified [on this day. since the definite article is the letter hei, which in the context of the name havayah refers to the feminine sefirot (binah and malchut, malchut in particular. if so, in what way does the seventh day refer to malchut? and the only thing lacking is for [z feir anpin and nukva] to turn face to face in order to couple. adam and eve.and therefore, their spiritual antecedents, z feir anpin and nukva.were initially created as one being, attached back to back. in order to couple, g-d gsawed h them apart so they could turn to face each other. this coupling is what occurred (and occurs) on the seventh day, the sabbath. this is what is alluded to here [the zohar uses the expression] gwhen the sabbath enters c. h6 this

ded to here [the zohar uses the expression] gwhen the sabbath enters c. h6 this [allegorically] refers to how the sabbath enters the act of coupling, like a bride enters the canopy. the arizal now returns to the discussion of the creation of the gman h of beriah and the gman h of asiyah. 5 genesis 1:31. 6 zohar chadash, midrash rut, 7 chambers of purgatory; midrash hane felam, bereishit, na faseh adam. the arizal on parashat bereishit (2) 24 the torah continues [after the account of the first sabbath] gthese are the generations of heaven and earth when they were created [on the day that g-d made earth and heaven. h7 it here informs us that when the gman h of beriah was created the gman h of asiyah was also made. this is because both verbs, gcreated h and gmade, h are used in this verse. th

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tudy and use. carl llewellyn weschcke st. paul, july 10, 1986 about the contributors cris monnastre, born april 2,1946, is currently finishing a doctoral program in psychology with a specialty in clinical psychology. she is a therapist in the eos angeles area and combines traditional therapy with golden dawn techniques. she is a poet, musician, and composer, and lives with her two sons, aaron and adam. she is interested in inquiries regarding golden dawn work and therapy. please address letters to her care of llewellyn publications. hal sundt, born august 14, 1950, b.a. in history presently working on master's thesis regarding the gnostic influence on jacob boehme and the rosicricians. has been studying/working with golden dawn groups for 12 years. sam webster, 25, b.a. in english. a stude

epresents "a line or principle of life that strives after superhuman, shining heights" at the base of the tree stands eve, the nephesch or unconscious who, in opposition to this divine genius, stands for the dark "earthborn, feminine principle with its emotionality and instinctiveness reaching far back into the depths of time, and into the roots of physiological continuity" between the two stands adam, supported by the fundamental strength of eve, the ruach or ego not yet awakened to a realisation of its innate power and possibility. from the larger point of view he represents the race as a whole and "is the personified symbol of the collective logos, the 'host, and of the lords of wisdom or the heavenly man, who incarnated in humanity" otherwise he represents <59> the individual candidate

ucture of the tree of life, even unto daath at the foot of the supernals. lured downwards by the tree of knowledge- and remembering in what sense the bible speaks of the verb "to know" we gather that the root of the trouble was an imperfect apprehension of creative power- towards the "darkly splendid world wherein continually lieth a faithless depth" eve, the lower self, ceases to give support to adam. she has yielded to the awful fascination of the awakening psyche. far easier is it to fall than to climb to the distant heights. yet only from one viewpoint is the fall catastrophic. the awareness of the rise of the dragon endows man also with consciousness of power- and power is life and progress. the dragon stands as the symbol of the great enemy to be overcome, and, as the task of equilib

sacrifice rescuing the fallen kingdom of his natural self from the clutches of an outraged eros. but above this, as though to show the true nature behind the deceptive appearance of things is illustrated a noble figure of majesty and divinity described in the ritual in these words "and being turned i saw seven golden <64> light-bearers, and in the midst of the light-bearers, one like unto the ben adam, clothed with a garment down to the feet, and girt with a golden girdle. his head and his hair were white as snow, and his eyes as flaming fire; his feet like unto fine brass as if they burned in a furnace. and his voice as the sound of many waters. and he had in his right hand seven stars and out of his mouth went the sword of flame, and his countenance was as the sun in his strength" it is

s but does not touch any of the sephiroth, which are linked by the flaming sword. the flaming sword is formed by the natural order of the tree of life. it resembles a flash of lightning. together the sephiroth and the twenty two paths form the 32 paths of the sepher yetzirah or book of formation. the two pillars either side of the altar represent: active: the white pillar on the south side. male. adam. pillar of light and fire. right kerub. metatron <123> the serpent on the tree of life second knowledge lecture passive: the back pillar on the north side. female. eve. pillar of cloud. left kerub. sandalphon <124> the second meditation let the zelator meditate on a straight line. let him take a ruler or a pencil and by moving it a distance equal to its length, outline a square. having done t

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th things and i am he to whom the book of glad tidings came down from my lord who cleaveth the mountains. and i am he to whom all men came, obedient to me they kissed my feet. i am the mouth, the moisture of whose spittle is as honey, wherewith i constitute my confidents. fr. 1 and by his light he hath lighted the lamp of the morning. i guide him that seeketh my direction. and i am he that placed adam in my paradise/ fn. 1. derwishes among the mohammedans are inducted into office by drinking a bowl of milk into which a sheikh has spat, which ceremony is called h l by the arabs. the original word which i have translated "confidents" designates literally those learned men whom eastern monarchs used to entertain at their courts. the term as above applied seems to indicate the kaww ls who are

s, whose religion had been diffused over asia, by the science of the chaldeans, and the arms of the assyrians. of this people, the author above quoted says "the flexible genius of their faith was always ready, either to teach or to learn; in the tradition of the creation, the deluge and the patriarchs, they held a singular agreement with their jewish captives; they appealed to the secret books of adam, seth, and enoch; and a slight infusion of the gospel has transformed the last remnant of the polytheists, into the christians of s. john, in the territory of bassora" it is not within the scope of this work to trace with precision, the relation existing between the modern yezeedees and the magians of old; enough has been advanced to show p. 127 that the religious system of both took its rise

istaken when he states that the "yezeedee year begins with that of the eastern christians" it began this year (1850) on the 17th of april, and the inscriptions on fn. 1. the cosmogony of the yezeedees is different from that of the old testament scriptures. they sometimes speak as though they agreed with us on this subject; but i am persuaded that they believe the world to have existed long before adam. from several remarks which dropped from their sheikhs, i am inclined to think that they hold the eternity of matter. p. 129 all their monuments are dated from the hegira. the festival of the new year must always be kept on wednesday, which with friday, they seem to consider the most sacred days in the week. the service already described as being performed at the shaks of sheikh mohammed ever

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ow? nothing, and at the same time he is allowed to ignore nothing. devoid of knowledge, he is called upon to know all. now, knowledge supposes the duad a being who knows and an object known. the duad is the generator of society and of law: it is also the number of the gnosis. the duad is unity multiplying itself in order to create, and hence in sacred symbolism eve issues from the inmost bosom of adam. adam is the human tetragram, summed up in the mysterious jod, type of the kabalistic phallus. by adding to this jod the triadic name of eve, the name of jehova is formed, the divine tetragram, which is eminently the kabalistic and magical word, xnxv, being that which the high-priest in the temple pronounced jodcheva. so unity, complete in the fruitfulness of the triad, forms therewith the te

its, assiah, yetzirah and briah. the gnostics, who were christian kabalists, called them hyle, psyche and gnosis; by the jews the supreme circle was named atziluth, and by the gnostics pleroma. in the tetragram, the triad, taken at the beginning of the word, expresses the divine copulation; taken at the end, it expressed the female and maternity. eve has a name of three letters, but the primitive adam is signified simply by the letter jod, whence jehovah should be pronounced jeva, and this point leads us to the great and supreme mystery of magic, embodied in the tetrad. 18 iv o d the tetragram geburah chesed porta librarum elementa in nature there are two forces producing equilibrium, and these three constitute a single law. here, then, is the triad resumed in unity, and by adding the conc

it influences other minds by reflections upon them; it is refracted by crossing the diaphane of other men; it assumes new forms and proportions; it is translated into acts and modifies the world: this is the last degree of realization. men who are born into a world modified by an idea bear away with them the mark thereof, and it is thus that the word is made flesh. the mark of the disobedience of adam, preserved in the astral light, could be effaced only by the stronger mark of the obedience of the saviour, and thus the original sin and redemption of the world can be explained in a natural and magical sense. the astral light, or soul of the world, was the instrument of adam's omnipotence; it became afterwards that of his punishment, being corrupted and troubled by his sin, which intermingl

s all religions have preserved the remembrance of a primitive book, written in hieroglyphs by the sages of the earliest epoch of the world. simplified and vulgarized in later days, its symbols furnished letters to the art of writing, characters to the word, and to occult philosophy its mysterious signs and pantacles. this book, attributed by the hebrews to enoch, seventh master of the world after adam; by the egyptians to hermes trismegistus; by the greeks to cadmus, the mysterious builder of the holy city: this book was the symbolical summary of primitive tradition, called subsequently kabalah or cabala, meaning reception. the tradition in question rests altogether on the one dogma of magic: the visible is for us the proportional measure of the invisible. now the ancients, observing that

f spirits have described simply what they have seen in their evocations. eliphas levi zahed, who writes this book, has evoked, and he has seen. let us state, in the first place, what the masters have written on their visions or intuitions in that which they term the light of glory. we read in the hebrew book concerning the revolution of souls that there are three classes of souls the daughters of adam, the daughters of angels and the daughters of sin. according to the same work, there are also three kinds of spirits captive, wandering and free. souls are sent forth in couples; at the same time certain souls of men are born widowed, for their spouses are held captive by lilith and naemah, queens of the stryges: they are souls condemned to expiate the temerity of a celibate's vow. hence, whe

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se progression from right to left and from left to right of the kabalistic septenary. the compass of the g a and the square of solomon have become the gross and material level of unintelligent jacobinism, realized by a steel triangle: this obtains both for heaven and earth. the initiated divulgers to whom the illuminated cazotte predicted a violent death have, in our own days, exceeded the sin of adam; having rashly gathered the fruits of the tree of knowledge, which they did not know how to use for their nourishment, they have cast them to the beasts and reptiles of the earth. so is the reign of superstition inaugurated, and it must persist until the period when true religion shall be constituted again on the eternal foundations of the hierarchy of three degrees and of the triple power wh

charcoal of consecrated fire or with a reed dipped in various colours, mixed with powdered loadstone. then, holding the pantacle of solomon in one hand and taking up successively the sword, rod and cup, the conjuration of the four should be recited with a loud voice, after the following manner: caput mortuum, the lord command thee by the living and votive serpent! cherub, the lord command thee by adam jotchabah! wandering eagle, the lord command thee by the wings of the bull! serpent, the lord tetragrammaton command thee by the angel and the lion! michael, gabriel, raphael, and anael! flow moisture, by the spirit of eloim. earth, be established by adam jotchabah. spread, firmament, by jahubehu, zebaoth. fulfil, judgment, by fire in the virtue of michael. angel of the blind eyes, obey, or p

mmand thee, and drive thee hence, belial! in the name of raphael, begone before elchim, sachabiel! by samael zebaoth, and in the name of eloim gibor, get thee, hence, adrameleck! by zachariel and sachiel-meleck, be obedient unto elvah, samgabiel! by the divine and human name of shaddai, and by the sign of the pentagram which i hold in my right hand; in the name of the angel anael, by the power of adam and of heva, who are jotchavah, begone, lilith! let us rest in peace, nahemah! by the holy eloim and by the names of the genii cassiel, sehaltiel, aphiel and zarahiel, at the command of orifiel, depart from us, moloch! we deny thee our children to devour. the most important magical instruments are the wand, the sword, the lamp, the chalice, the altar and the tripod. in the operations of trans

l the instruments of hebrew worship were pantacles, and the first and final word of the bible was graven by moses in gold and in brass on the tabernacle and on all its accessories. but each magus can and should have his individual pantacle, for, understood accurately, a pantacle is the perfect summary of a mind. hence we find in the magical calendars of tycho brahe and duchentau, the pantacles of adam, job, jeremiah, isaiah, and of all the other great prophets who have been, each in his turn, the kings of the kabalah and the grand rabbins of science. the pantacle, being a complete and perfect synthesis expressed by a single sign, serves to focus all intellectual force into a glance, a recollection, a touch. it is, so to speak, a starting-point for the efficient projection of will. nigro-ma

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is [likely that these concepts are] nothing but some pale and faint discoveries of the secret republic of ours [as] here treated on, that are described with additional fictions of monks [who are] doting and crazyheads [for] our creed says that our saviour descended to the house of hades, to the invisible place and people. and many divines suppose that the deity appeared in a visible shape seen by adam in the cool of the day, speaking to him with an audible voice, and [that] jesus, probably by the ministry of invisible attendants, conveyed more meat [that is, substance] of the same kind to the five thousand that were fed by him with a very few leaves and fishes, for a new creation it was not. the zijim-jiim and ochim in isaiah 15:21-2 [are another example for] those satyrs and doleful unkno

objection 9. that the [fact of] proceeding from their forefathers does not diminish the gin or scandal of the second sight [any] more than original sin and other voluntary sins, as well as those of ignorance, are innocently derived from our progenitors. answer. albeit original sin and its fatal consequence be not innocently derived to us from our progenitors, because of his maker's covenant with adam for himself and his posterity, as to standing, or falling; yet this does not make hereditary diseases and all other things of our immediate parentage sinfully to affect us. it might have been a sin of intemperance and riot in the parents that entailed a radicated [that is, deep-rooted] inveterate distemper and bodily disease http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_60.htm (2 of 11 [10/9/2001 12:3

venth planet; seven being composed of four and three, the elements and the trinity, comprehending both worlds. but how things having this numeral relation and the secret commonwealth 71 resemblance, being so remote, come to partake and derive a secret virtue beyond other things from the prototype or first pattern cannot be well given account of yet in ep. jude, enoch is named the seventh (son) of adam. finis coronat opus. http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_70.htm (1 of 2 [10/9/2001 12:35:26 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 70-71) written [that is, copied] by robert campbell at inshalladine in the parish of aberfoyle in monteith. love and live 1691. worldwide copyright 1990, 1998-2001, rjstewart, all rights and permissions reserved http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_70.htm (

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icated by the angels to kelley. in 1659 the dee diaries containing the keys were published by meric. casaubon as a true and faithful relation of what passed for many yeers between dr. john dee and some spirits.3 the attribution of the keys or language to enoch is interesting insofar as he is a remarkable individual in legend. described in the old testament as the seventh master of the world after adam, enoch is the hebrew equivalent of the phoenician cadmus, the greek hermes, and the egyptian thoth. as such he is the reputed author of the tarot, the cabala, the emerald tablet of thoth, and the apocryphal book of enoch. he receives only a brief mention in "genesis, where the fifth chapter recounts "and enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat methuselah: and enoch walked with god after h

han" in the diabolicon (ref. a, pp. 55-56) has taken a new meaning. magus barrett has written that when setians have "gone beyond xem they will have beheld leviathan (ref. h. in the church of satan, leviathan was called the serpent of the watery abyss (ref. p, and in the myths of the hebrews and christians it is a serpent who bestows knowledge of good and evil- understanding, perfect wisdom- upon adam and eve. leviathan, stripped of these myths, is the macrocosmic set, which only the red magus described in the diabolicon could look upon without being destroyed. compare what aleister crowley wrote about the grade (degree) of ipsissimus in magick in theory and practice (ref. m, p. 234) with the book of knowing the way: the ipsissimus is wholly free from all limitations soever, existing in th

29-30, xxvi the obsidian shard is a recording of an evocation of the neter anpu (or anubis, from the greek corruption) on the evening of april 24, xxvi a.s. the actual working has its roots in work stretching over almost two years. the most recent of these was a working with the thirteenth aethyr, zim. it was this working that led me to perform the evocation. classification: v2- bn1.3- 1 author: adam campbell ii date: april 24, xxvi, commentary: june 30, xxvi subject: anubis reading list: the text of the obsidian shard came to me as a series of realizations that formed within my mind as i communed with the neter anpu. the text has a life of its own, and any attempts to expand or "improve" on it have proved futile. my work with the neter anpu (or anubis as i originally approached the neter

lory. the primordial point. completion of the great work. 2 chokmah crown of creation. the supernal father. 3 binah understanding. fountain of primordial wisdom. creator of faith. ama, the dark sterile mother. aima, the bright fertile mother. khorsia, the throne. marah, the great sea. 4 chesed mercy. love. majesty. 5 geburah strength. severity. justice. fear. 6 tiphareth beauty. melekh, the king. adam, the son. the man. 7 netzach victory. occult intelligence. firmness. 8 hod glory. splendour. 9 yesod the foundation. 10 malkuth the kingdom. the gate. malkah, the queen. kallah, the bride. the virgin. five of wands: geburah is strength and severity, the destroyer. geburah is the active daughter of binah, who destroys the old and worthless, to make room for new creation. emphasized by the acti

my quest. with this i then undertook a period of "soul searching, in which i took stock of what i felt to be elements of my present personality that were interfering with my long-term goals and potentials. i identified a number of items. these included a tendency towards procrastination and a "nihilistic rage" that surfaces in my personality from time to time. classification: v2- c31.m- 1 author: adam campbell ii date: april 16, xxv publication: kiss of the flame, vol i# 2 html revision: nov 30, 1998 ce subject: transmutation of specific components of the psyche reading list: these were carefully considered. the possible outcomes caused by a successful working were also considered. i considered the risks of such psyche-modifying techniques to be controlled and commensurate with the likely

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exactly what he said and never put his hand into his own pocket once. salahuddin had to buy his own clothes, such as a double-breasted blue serge mackintosh and seven blue-and-white striped van heusen shirts with detachable semi--stiff collars which changez made him wear every day, to get used to the studs, and salahuddin felt as if a blunt knife were being pushed in just beneath his newly broken adam"s-apple; and he had to make sure there would be enough for the hotel room, and everything, so that he was too nervous to ask his father if they could go to a movie, not even one, not even _the pure hell of st trinians, or to eat out, not a single chinese meal, and in later years he would remember nothing of his first fortnight in his beloved ellowen deeowen except pounds shillings pence, like

some small claim upon you? we both serve, or so i thought, the same mistress" now the blood leaves baal's cheeks; his confidence cracks, falls from him like a shell. the grandee, seemingly oblivious to the alteration, sweeps the satirist forward into the house. they say in jahilia that this valley is the navel of the earth; that the planet, when it was being made, went spinning round this point. adam came here and saw a miracle: four emerald pillars bearing aloft a giant glowing ruby, and beneath this canopy a huge white stone, also glowing with its own light, like a vision of his soul. he built strong walls around the vision to bind it forever to the earth. this was the first house. it was rebuilt many times- once by ibrahim, after hagar's and ismail's angel- assisted survival- and gradu

to the earth. this was the first house. it was rebuilt many times- once by ibrahim, after hagar's and ismail's angel- assisted survival- and gradually the countless touchings of the white stone by the pilgrims of the centuries darkened its colour to black. then the time of the idols began; by the time of mahound, three hundred and sixty stone gods clustered around god's own stone. what would old adam have thought? his own sons are here now: the colossus of hubal, sent by the amalekites from hit, stands above the treasury well, hubal the shepherd, the waxing crescent moon; also, glowering, dangerous kain. he is the waning crescent, blacksmith and musician; he, too, has his devotees. hubal and kain look down on grandee and poet as they stroll. and the nabataean proto-dionysus, he-of-shara;

map, and she wasn't prepared to go that way, be that explorer, chart those shores: not any more, or, maybe, not yet. but she'd never shaken off the feeling of being damaged by her ignorance of love, of what it might be like to be wholly possessed by that archetypal, capitalized djinn, the yearning towards, the blurring of the boundaries of the self, the unbuttoning, until you were open from your adam"s-apple to your crotch: just words, because she didn't know the thing. suppose he had come to me, she dreamed. i could have learned him, step by step, climbed him to the very summit. denied mountains by my weak-boned feet, i'd have looked for the mountain in him: establishing base camp, sussing out routes, negotiating ice--falls, crevasses, overhangs. i'd have assaulted the peak and seen the

own good. i wouldn't trust that deity of yours either, if i were you" she added in a more conspiratorial tone, though gibreel suspected that her intentions remained satirical "he hinted as much himself, fudging the answer to your oopar--neechay question like he did. this notion of separation of functions, light versus dark, evil versus good, may be straightforward enough in islam _o, children of adam, let not the devil seduce you, as he expelled your parents from the garden, pulling off from them their clothing that he might show them their shame- but go back a bit and you see that it's a pretty recent fabrication. amos, eighth century bc, asks 'shall there be evil in a city and the lord hath not done it' also jahweh, quoted by deutero-isaiah two hundred years later, remarks 'i form the l

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ey are; metatron or satan, kemu-el, nathana-el, and gabri-el. 2nd choir: cherubim the hebrew kerub is commonly translated as knowledge, or one who intercedes. they are the first angels mentioned in the bible, stationed by god east of eden the cherubim and the ever turning sword to guard the way to the tree of life. they are described by theodorus, bishop of heraclea, as beasts which might terrify adam from the entrance of paradise. in the hebrew tradition they are described as having four faces and four wings, or alternatively by john of patmos in revelations as having six wings and six eyes. they are considered the bearers of god s throne and his charioteers. see psalm 18. they also appear as golden sculptures covering the ark of the covenant. the origins of the term lie in babylon, where

rding to dionysus regulate the angel s duties. its ruling lords are zadkiel, hashmal (hasmal/chasmal, the fire speaking angel, yahriel and muriel. 5th choir: virtues known also as malakim, the dunamis, tarshishim, brilliant ones or shining ones. they are said to bestow miracles and blessings, and are most often associated with heroes and those who fight for what is right. according to the book of adam and eve, two virtues acted as midwives at the birth of cain. their ruling princes are michael, raphael, bariel, tashish, and before the fall, satan-el. 6th choir: powers the dynamis, potentiates and authorities, the first angels created by god. they inhabit the border between the first and second heavens. saint paul warns that the powers may be both good and evil. they act as guides to the so

atan, and as abraxas. the holiness or unholiness of the metatron is undecided, thrown backwards and forwards by the argumenets of theologians, priests, magicians and rabbi. as such it is a most paradoxical name to conjure with. shekinah according to the zohar the creation of the world was the work of the shekinah, who is the female aspect of the metatron. the shekinah was exiled after the fall of adam and eve, and according to rabbinical lore the entire purpose of the torah is to lead the shekinah back to god and unite her with him. micha-el originally a chaldean deity, the name micha-el translates as who is as god. along with gabriel he is one of the only two angels actually named in the old testament. it was he who vanquished satan from heaven in single combat. it is also he who will des

er every kind of wrath upon them that stand on the left. so watch out! razi-el also known as ratzi-el, saraqu-el, akrasi-el, or gallizur, angel of the secret regions of the supreme mysteries. author of the book of the angel raziel, wherein all celestial and earthly knowledge is set down revealing the 1,500 keys to the mysteries in a code unknown to any living mortal. this grimoire he presented to adam, and it was then passed to enoch who incorporated much of it into the book of enoch. in was then passed to noah, who used information within it to design and build the ark. moses maimonides identifies him as the chief of the erelim (thrones, describing him as a brilliant white fire. according to targum ecclesiastes, each day razi-el stands upon the peak of mount horeb, proclaims the secrets t

ce within it. he then created a second order, but withheld his grace, so giving them the opportunity to sin. this they did, and with enthusiasm. amongst the first order was micha-el, who managed to expel the sinners from heaven. in an alternative version of this doctrine, the cause of the fall is disobedience and pride. lucifer was originally the greatest of the seraphim and refused to bow before adam, as god demanded. for how can a son of fire bow to a son of clay? as punishment lucifer was flung into the abyss, followed by one third of the angels. a sufic version of this tale exists in which lucifer is seen as the angel who loved god the most. his refusal to bow before adam was not out of pride, but through obedience to a previous ruling that god had given to bow before none but him. in

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omanian name for devil emma-o- japanese ruler of hell euronymous- greek prince of death fenriz- son of loki, depicted as a wolf gorgo- dim. of demogorgon, greek name of the devil haborym- hebrew synonym for satan hecate- greek goddess of the underworld and witchcraft ishtar- babylonian goddess of fertility kali (hindu) daughter of shiva, high priestess of the thuggees lilith- hebrew female devil, adam's first wife who taught him the ropes loki- teutonic devil mammon- aramaic god of wealth and profit mania- etruscan goddess of hell mantus- etruscan god of hell marduk- god of the city of babylon mastema- hebrew synonym for satan melek taus- yezidi devil mephistopheles (greek) he who shuns the light, q. v. faust metztli- aztec goddess of the night mictian- aztec god of death midgard- son of l

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willingly to an animal level, assuming animal attributes of honesty, purity and increased sensory perception. the priest who pronounces the law maintains the cadence and order needed to remind each participant that though he is an animal, he is still a man. it is this that gives the tierdrama its profound effect the rite was originally performed by the order of the illuminati, founded in 1776 by adam weishaupt as an extension of existing masonic ritual ten years earlier, gotthold lessing had influenced many germans' opinions on the limits of die arts with his critical treatise, laoco n. the intellectual climate in germany had reached the point of controversy that in england gave rise to the hell fire club. passing off the bavarian illuminati as a society with a purely political base is a

e caucasus in russia on the other. at intervals along this strip were seven towers-the towers of satan (ziarahs)-six of them trapezoidal in form, and one, the "center" on mount lalesh, shaped like a sharp, fluted point. each tower was topped by a brilliant heliographic reflector, and was intended to serve as a "power house" from whence a satanic magician could beam his will to the "descendants of adam" and influence human events in the outside world. like the watchers-the fallen angels of the book of enoch-the yezidis claimed to be the descendants of azazel. the yezidis believed in a counterpart of the story of lucifer, i.e. the manifestation of pride banished. like the legendary lost tribes of israel, the yezidis broke away from their roots as a result of unresolved conflicts, and felt a

even daily expressions of faith were referred to as "recitals" few outsiders had ever penetrated the sanctuaries of the yezidis. the exceptions have been almost exclusively within the past century when, unfortunately, the sect was waning as an organized movement. fewer had glimpsed the sacred sanjaks or seen the manuscript of the black book, for they were carefully guarded from the descendants of adam, whose progeny had filled the world with mindless clay. only four texts of the black book exist, other than the original. one is in arabic (called the carshuni text, two are in syriac (with respective french and italian translations, and the church of satan's present text, translated from the arabic manuscript of daud as-saig by isya joseph. during the early 1920's writer william seabrook ven

venant to him that trusts in me. moreover, i give counsel to the skilled directors, for i have appointed them for periods that are known to me. i remember necessary affairs and execute them in due time. i teach and guide those who follow my instruction. if anyone obey me and conform to my commandments, he shall have joy, delight, and comfort (pause, gong is struck) ii i requite the descendants of adam, and reward them with various rewards that i alone know. moreover, power and dominion over all that is on earth, both that which is above and that which is beneath, are in my hand. i do not allow friendly association with other people, nor do i deprive them that are my own and that obey me of anything that is good for them. i place my affairs in the hands of those whom i have tried and who ar

in accord with my desires. i appear in divers manners to those who are faithful and under my command. i give and take away; i enrich and impoverish; i cause both happiness and misery. i do all this in keeping with the characteristics of each epoch. and none has a right to interfere with my management of affairs. those who oppose me i afflict with disease; but my own shall not die like the sons of adam that are without. none shall live in this world longer than the time set by me and if i so desire, i send a person a second or a third time into this world or into some other by the transfer of will (pause, gong is struck) iii i lead to the straight path without a revealed book; i direct aright my beloved and my chosen ones by unseen means. all my teachings are easily applicable to all tunes

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d a tyrannical heaven. ideally, carpeting of one s hellscape would be fire red, though this may be of less importance to many. certainly though, it would make for a dramatic, concluding effect (standard ritual paraphernalia: satanagram altarpiece, altar, sword, etc, would be utilized as outlined further on. truly, we need no man-made heaven, garden of eden or place of perfection; nor did mythical adam and eve. they gained the knowledge and shed the shackles thus they became: satanic -13- beings and children of the night. they became the first human images of defiant individuality, in spite of becoming outcasts. finally, we need no steeple and spire to experience our truth, for as always, it permeates the deepest strata of our kind the devil over god; evil over good. the real-life relations

operly affected parallels the previous etherical event -14- when the black magician exercises his dark will, he enters into the governing etherical plane where everything lawful is subject to his desires. hence, this is the nature of the parallelogram, which is the foundation of cause and effect. devaxcus librt, the beast of revelation, was sired by satan and brought forth from the womb of lilith adam s first wife. the beast represents emotion and man s inherent animal nature that spiritual man has opposed; has fought to unlawfully repress since the very beginnings of civilization. prior to, and including the time of jesus the nazarene, devaxcus librt and his doctrine flourished. however, a time went on, the nazarene legacy spread and the old doctrine began to arouse fear and suspicion. th

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

mple ritual in which the worshipper makes eight offerings to the tirthankara. olo du` mare: the name of the supreme god in santer a. om: often spelled aum; the sacred syllable and symbol of jainism (and hinduism, used for purposes of meditation. oral torah: interpretations of the torah and ways to apply their laws. orders: religious communities. original sin: the sin that fell upon humankind when adam and eve ate of the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden; this act, in turn, led to the separation of humans from god. orishas: name given to the lesser gods of santer a. orthodox: the name of one of the sects of judaism, generally referring to traditional jews who are conservative in their outlook. oshogatsu: the shinto new year. ostara: neo-pagan holiday held at the time of the spring equin

vest gods, but nomads who invaded mesopotamia from the north or the east brought with them water gods and sand gods. people who came from high mountain regions brought gods of thunder and lightning. ancient egyptian gods were often depicted in human form, although they could appear with the head of an animal. among the central deities were horus (left, with the head of a falcon, osiris, and isis. adam woolfitt/ corbis. 46 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia the three chief gods in the sumerian pantheon were an, the sky god, enlil, the god of weather and storms, and enki, god of wisdom and the abzu. other important deities included the mother goddess, ninhursag; nanna, god of the moon who helped travelers find their way; utu, sun god and the watchful eye of j

human and fully divine. indulgence: in the roman catholic church, the belief that paying money to the church would allow a person to get into heaven or be forgiven for sins that were not yet committed. messiah: the expected deliverer and king of the jews, foretold by the prophets of the old testament; used by christians to refer to jesus christ. original sin: the sin that fell upon humankind when adam and eve ate of the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden; this act, in turn, led to the separation of humans from god. resurrection: the rising of jesus christ from the dead three days after his crucifixion, or death on a cross. sacrament: a sacred rite, or ceremony. saint: in christianity, someone who is judged to be particularly holy and worthy. salvation: the deliverance of human beings fr

ine. rather, as the council of nicea decided in 325, jesus was of the same substance as god the father. the doctrine of atonement speaks of reconciliation between god and humankind, a settlement ending the separation between god and humans. this separation was caused, according to some interpretations, by original sin (the doctrine of original sin says that sin, or disobedience to god, began when adam and eve ate the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden) this original sin had to be paid for, and it was the suffering and death of jesus on the cross that redeemed humanity. others see this separation in a more psychological (dealing with the human mind) manner. for example, the word sin has roots that are similar to the word sunder, meaning to split or to divide. in this interpretation origi

ugh most sources say there were twelve gods living on mount olympus, there are fourteen gods listed next. hades did not live on olympus, although most myths about him associate him with the olympian gods, and dionysius was a later addition to the pantheon: plotinus s idea of emanation, his belief that people wanted to return to the divine mind, can be seen in the christian story of the fall, when adam and eve were tempted into sin and were forced out of the garden of eden. public domain. 220 world religions: almanac greco-roman religion and philosophy zeus was a sky god, but he also represented order. he maintained order in the universe and in the home, protected strangers who arrived asking for hospitality, punished people who broke their sworn word, and served as god of intellectual thou

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illment eagle with six wings. the way of life is above to the wise, so that you shun the hell beneath. prov. 15, 24. the tree of good and evil knowledge there is one tree bearing two kinds of fruits. its name is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. like its name, are its fruits: namely, good and bad fruits of life and death, of love and hate, of light and darkness. this tree was put before adam, and even if he had in his innocence the liberty to look upon it as a tree of god's wonders. god's prohibition did not allow him to place his desire in it and eat of it, but threatened that (if he would do so) he would die from its fruit. for this was a tree of division where good and evil battled with each other: but in a battle there can be no life: for battle brings forth destruction, and

s wonders. god's prohibition did not allow him to place his desire in it and eat of it, but threatened that (if he would do so) he would die from its fruit. for this was a tree of division where good and evil battled with each other: but in a battle there can be no life: for battle brings forth destruction, and destruction brings forth death, life lives in the sweet unity of love. therefore, when adam ate from this tree, a battle started within him, and in this battle he lost his life. nevertheless wretched men will not learn through such fall and damage. his desire is still for that tree and its fruits. man is always desirous to have the division of manifold things, and man is always battling, when he could return to the unity of simplicity, if he only would come in peace. life's light st

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erse, the fruit of the etrog tree, and the lulav. 173. what is the meaning of beautiful? it is the beauty of all things. this is also the beauty of the songs of songs. regarding it, it is written (songs of songs 6:10, who is she who looks forth as the dawn, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, terrible like an army with banners? this relates to the female. because of her, the female was taken from adam. this is because it is impossible for the lower world to endure without the female. and why is the female called nekevah? because her orifices (nekev) are wide. also because she has more orifices than the male. what are they? they are the orifices of the breasts, the womb, and the receptacle. 174. and what is the reason that you said that the song of songs is beautiful? yes, it is the most be

ing special that] she was female? but it is because she included both male and female. for [tamar means a date palm, and] every date palm includes both male and female. how is this? the frond (lulav) is male. the fruit is male on the outside and female on the inside. and how? the seed of the date has a split like a woman. paralleling it is the power of the moon above. the blessed holy one created adam male and female, as it is written (genesis 1:27, male and female he created them. is it then possible to say this? is it then not written (genesis the bahir 55 1:27, and god created man in his image, in the image of god he created him? it is only then later written (genesis 2:18, i will make him a helper opposite him, and (genesis 2:21, and he took one of his ribs, and closed the flesh under

hand of the wicked move me. there have the workers of iniquity fallen they are thrust down, they cannot rise. he then said to the woman, see, i touched the tree and i did not die. you can also touch it and not die. the woman went and touched the tree. she saw the angel of death approaching her and said, woe is to me. now i will die and the blessed holy one will make another woman and give her to adam. i will therefore cause him to eat with me. if we die, we will both die, and if we live, we will both live. she took the fruit of the tree and ate it, and she also gave some to her husband. their eyes the bahir 56 opened and their teeth were set on edge. he said, what is this that you have given me to eat? just as my teeth were set on edge, so will the teeth of all [future] generations be set

so gave some to her husband. their eyes the bahir 56 opened and their teeth were set on edge. he said, what is this that you have given me to eat? just as my teeth were set on edge, so will the teeth of all [future] generations be set on edge [god then] sat down in true judgement, as it is written (psalm 9:5 [you have upheld my cause, you have sat on the throne as a] righteous judge. he called to adam and said why do you flee from me [adam] replied (genesis 3:10, i heard your voice in the garden and my bones trembled. i was afraid because i was naked, and i hid. i was naked of works, i was naked of commandments, and i was naked of deeds. it is therefore written because i was naked, and i hid. what was adam s garment? it was a skin of fingernail. as soon as he ate from the fruit of the tree

mandments, and i was naked of deeds. it is therefore written because i was naked, and i hid. what was adam s garment? it was a skin of fingernail. as soon as he ate from the fruit of the tree, this skin of fingernail was removed from him, and he saw himself naked. it is thus written (genesis 3:11, who told you that you were naked [did you eat from the tree that i commanded you not to eat from it] adam said to the blessed holy one, master of all worlds: when i was alone, did i ever sin before you? but the woman that you placed with me enticed me from your word. it is thus written (gensis 3:12, the woman that you placed with me [gave it to me, and i ate. the blessed holy one said to her, is it not enough that you sinned? but you also caused adam to sin. she replied to him, master of all worl

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germinate in moisture. 14. herbs and trees. 15. fructification in vegetable life. 16. origin of low forms of animal life. 17. insects and reptiles appear. 18. fishes, vertebrate life in the waters. 19. birds, vertebrate life in the air. 20. quadrupeds, vertebrate earth animals. third order: decad of humanity 21. appearance of man. 22. material human body. 23. human soul conferred. 24. mystery of adam and eve. 25. complete man as the microcosm. 26. gift of five human faces acting exteriorly. 27. gift of five powers to the soul. 28. adam kadmon, the heavenly man. 29. angelic beings. 30. man in the image of god. fourth order: world of spheres 31. the moon. 32. mercury. 33. venus. 34. sol. 35. mars. 36. jupiter. 37. saturn. 38. the firmament. 39. the primum mobile. 40. the empyrean heaven. fi

SETH IN THE MAGICKAL TEXTS

r the name of seth is prevalent in magical literature. i at the yale conference on gnosticism (1978, b.a. pearson read a paper entitled "seth in gnostic literature. pearson showed that the gnostic figure of seth derives from jewish tradition. in an excursus at the end of the paper named "egyptian influences, the author laid down that the egyptian god seth is never identified with seth, the son of adam.1 in the discussion following pearson's paper, however, c. colpe asserted (p. 510 "in a single magical papyrus from egypt a mistaken identification has been made between egyptian seth and jewish seth (cf. w. fauth, orchr 57 [1973] 91-94" now fauth asserts that on account of the similarity of the names of the egyptian god and "the pneumatic seth, the latter "on egyptian soil was now and then s

ference on gnosticism (1966. fauth goes on to cite "the sethian gospel of the egyptians" as evidence for such a confusion and welding, referring to an article by a. bohlig. we may dispose of the latter's theory right away. pearson has shown conclusively that the gospel of the egyptians from nag hammadi does not try to "rehabilitate the egyptian god by interpreting him in terms of seth, the son of adam."3 in the gospel of the egyptians as well as other gnostic documents, the figure of seth is the jewish seth only. we move on to bleeker's article. here we find only the brief statement "in him [i.e, seth, the egyptian god and the noble son of adam and eve are fused."4 bleeker does not offer a shred of evidence for his assertion, but simply refers to j. doresse, the secret books of the egyptia

and gnostic seth, society of biblical literature seminar papers 22 (missoula 1977) 33. cf. pearson "seth, 501. 4 "the egyptian background of gnosticism" in le origini dello gnosticismo, ed. u. bianchi, studies in the history of religion 12 (leiden 1967) 236. seth in the magical texts 87 perchance, some of these [gnostic] myths did not bring him into such contact with his homonym, seth the son of adam, as to create some confusion between them."5 thinking that such a "confusion" was "not impossible, doresse goes on to assert that there can be found "some curious traces of a cult of this seth-typhon presiding over judeo-gnostic rituals in which adam plays the leading part" he then says "that this cult came to be actually codified is attested by the existence of egyptian figurines of the god

esse's evidence and arguments. to begin with, it must be pointed out that there is no evidence to the effect that the egyptian god seth was seen as a positive figure in gnosticism. fauth has shown that the ass-headed seth-typhon is always a negative archon in the gnostic texts("seth-typhon [above, n. 2] 106-120. moreover, as has been stated above, seth-typhon is never welded with seth, the son of adam, in gnostic literature. can there be found "traces of a cult of seth-typhon presiding over judeo-gnostic rituals in which adam plays the leading part? if the answer proves to be affirmatory, we should inquire whether the evidence for this "cult" shows a welding of egyptian seth and jewish seth. doresse refers to a prayer handed down in two recensions in the greek magical papyri (pgm i.195-222

h-typhon presiding over judeo-gnostic rituals in which adam plays the leading part? if the answer proves to be affirmatory, we should inquire whether the evidence for this "cult" shows a welding of egyptian seth and jewish seth. doresse refers to a prayer handed down in two recensions in the greek magical papyri (pgm i.195-222; iv.1167-1226. in these prayers, the celebrant identifies himself with adam, the first man, and prays to be restored to the original state from which he has fallen. e. peterson, to whom we are indebted for a penetrating analysis of the two prayers, connected the strange name of one of the prayers =u!tika (i.196, with the fifth hour of the day: in pgm iv.9, the time of the =u!tika is the fifth hour. according to iv.174ff, this is the hour when the sun is in zenith and

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es, and it is unified below, with this one and that one, woe unto him that uncovers her gate. 6 chapter two the beard of faith,50 not, is mentioned because it is the most precious of all, it egresses from the ears, round about the face, the white locks ascending and descending, separating into thirteen of that most splendid of splendors, it is written: not passes in it as man,51 and not dwells as adam52 there.53 adam to the son is he (avh, hu).54 adam-not is included therein, especially man. in these thirteen issue forth distinct fountains; four were kept separately,55 nine flow from the body.56 1) the splendid one begins to form itself near the opening of the ears. 2) it descends in beauty to the beginning of the lips. it stands from this beginning to that beginning. 3) there is a path go

elohim said the waters will swarm with movement of living-being.100 meaning to say hy,101 the light of the one extended into the other, all came forth at one time, the good waters, the evil waters. for he said: the waters will swarm 11 they were contained, one in the other. the upper living-being, the lower living-being. the good living-being. the evil living-being. and elohim said, we will make adam. 102 this adam-not is written on not-adam in order to take away adam of above who was made by the perfect name. when this is perfected, that is perfected. male and female were perfected in order to perfect everything. the lord hvhy is the side of the male. elohim(,yhla) is the side of the female. therefore was the male extended, and formed with his members, as it were, regenerative power. the

is very form he is found. but if judgments are to be mitigated, necessarily the ancient one is required. the serpent came upon the female and a nest of impurity was formed within her, establishing a dwelling for evil. thus it is written: and she conceived, and she gave birth to qain,103 the nest of the dwelling of the evil spirits, storms and demons, and blows to qain within hy. he formed in that adam(,da, by twos, by the general principle and the particular, which are contained in the particular and the general, legs and arms, right and left. it divides at its sides. male and female were established- vhy. yod y male, heh h female. vav v as it is written male and female created he them, and blessed them, 104 and called their name adam. the form and person of adam was seated upon the throne

r and the general, legs and arms, right and left. it divides at its sides. male and female were established- vhy. yod y male, heh h female. vav v as it is written male and female created he them, and blessed them, 104 and called their name adam. the form and person of adam was seated upon the throne,105 as it is written: 12 and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of adam upon it from above.106 13 chapter four the ancient one107 is hidden and concealed. the small face is manifested and not manifested, the manifested is written in the letters. the not on its level is hidden in the letters, and he, the not, is settled in hy, the upper ones and the lower ones. and elohim said the earth will bring forth living-being according to its kind, cattle and every creeping

ur the ancient one107 is hidden and concealed. the small face is manifested and not manifested, the manifested is written in the letters. the not on its level is hidden in the letters, and he, the not, is settled in hy, the upper ones and the lower ones. and elohim said the earth will bring forth living-being according to its kind, cattle and every creeping thing.108 this is that which is written adam and cattle you help, lord hvhy.109 one (dxa, echad) is found in the principle of the other. cattle in the principle of adam. adam who brings an offering to the lord hvhy from the cattle.110 because animals are included in the general principle of adam. when adam of below descended in the supernal form, there were found two spirits, from two sides, for adam includes both right and left, of the

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in writing, unto the place called 'of the head [4" for there is fore-appointed the angel of the great counsel, and now he will openly dwell on the cross. he doth frustrate me, and to him am i subject [1. tribolaios. the tribolos was a three-spiked instrument, thrown on the ground to wound horses' feet. 2. bub, an unknown word. 3. a word of doubtful sense. 4. i.e. golgotha. the old legend was that adam's skull reposed in this spot, and that the cross was planted upon it] 55 "but in the place where thou sittest, o king solomon, standeth a column in the air, of purple [1] the demon called ephippas hath brought [it] up from the red sea, from inner arabia. he it is that shall be shut up in a skin-bottle and brought before thee. but at the entrance of the temple, which thou hast begun to build

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. therefore, if the curve of the crescent is continued fullcircle, the figure which results is a hidden point within a circle, the symbol which was adopted by the astronomers as their sign of the sun. in the ancient- 17- mysteries the point in the circle denoted the principle of fecundity and has been carried down through the ages as a sign of various secret societies, including the llluminati of adam weishaupt in 1776.20 the female principle is also emphasized by the crescent moon or lunette figure. there are 72 geometrical figures (and shadings) in the mural. the two crescent shapes and the four long triangles. white, yellow, blue and black. which are located in the two upper tiers of the mural, are each counted as one figure. the number 72 denoted from the earliest days the divine name

r end of this arc meets the apex of four triangles. two white, one gray, and one yellow, the last of which touches the perimeter of the black and blue sphere. this arc represents the crown of the sephiroth, the first of the ten emanations issued from en soph, the divine darkness (waite, op. cit, p. 26. the four triangles represent other emanations. the caduceus line symbolizes the spinal chord of adam kadmon, the archetypal man, another form of the sephiroth (pick, op. cit, p. 70. the quartered sphere represents the four different worlds of the tree. the three rows up and down of the mural are the three pillars of the tree. the 22 iriangles in the mural are the 22 lines or paths by which the (en sephiroth are connected one to another (waite, op. cit, p. 381. the left, male side of the tree

hiroth are connected one to another (waite, op. cit, p. 381. the left, male side of the tree, indicated by the black half of the sphere, is darkness and death (ibid, p. 350. the right side of the tree is female: as symbolized by the moon figure, the while halfcrescent. the caduceus line .spinal chord is the sex force which extends down (he middle pillar of the sephiroth, which is also the body of adam kadmon. the base of the spine is the yesod or foundation, the sacred generative organs (ibid, p. 1201. from yesod springs the kingdom at the bottom of the tree, which represents mankind. the literature on this subject is vast and confusing, but there are certain basic ideas to be found in all cabalistic writings. bernhard pick (op. cit, p. 104-5) has written that "the idea of god according to

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ed footnotes are mine. the translation is based on the original text of das christentum als mystische tatsache of 1902, but including all the additions of 1910 (see appendix. in preparing the translation and notes i have benefited from the edition and annotations of caroline wispler and karl-martin dietz (dornach 1976; from the previous version by a. cotterell and its revision by charles davy and adam bittleston (london 1972; and from the version by eva frommer, gabrielle hess, and peter k ndler (new york 1961, which remains valuable not least for its extensive indications of steiner s further discussions of many themes. andrew welburn new college, oxford chapter 1 the mysteries and mysteriosophy the mysteries and initiation it is as though a veil of secrecy is drawn over the way in which

ession in the platonic philosophy. we know of this secret doctrine from the report of hippolytus, one of the church fathers. this is the great and ineffable mystery of the samothracians, he says, referring to the guardians of a particular mysterycult: only the initiates are permitted to know it. for in their mysteries the samothracians have the explicit tradition of a primordial, macrocosmic man (adam).67 the mystery of love it is also as an initiation that we have to interpret the symposium the platonic dialogue on love. love figures here as the herald of wisdom. we have seen that wisdom is the eternal logos, the son of the eternal world-father. to this logos love stands in the position of a mother. before even so much as a spark of the light of wisdom can be struck in the human soul, the

the jewish inheritance of the people of god and extend it to universal community: and the christ-spirit is active wherever that process is being carried forward. steiner often referred in this context to the christ-impulse as a spiritual and evolutionary power, at work in humanity. 161. cf. steiner, the gospel of st. matthew, pp. 79-83; exactly this idea underlies the extraordinary apocalypse of adam, found in the gnostic discovery at nag hammadi in egypt, but having jewish (probably essene) connections. cf. welburn, beginnings of christianity, pp. 44ff. 162. see further steiner, building stones for an understanding of the mystery of golgotha (rudolf steiner press, london, 1985. 228 christianity as mystical fact 163. zohar ii, 110 b. 164. clement of alexandria, miscellanies i, l (citing e

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ajor players, but again, they are dupes because there is a secret, invisible, arcane or hidden "inner circle" which works behind the scenes and tells these major players what to do. this higher level of the illuminati elite have historically thought of themselves as 30 codex magica the builders. there is even a classic masonic textbook by this very title. the builders believe that jehovah god did adam and eve a disservice by driving them out of the garden. they rankle at the fact that nimrod, the king of babylon, was confounded in building the tower of babel, and they are seized with rage over the destruction of their temple in jerusalem. indeed, the builders are angered that every time they have sought to bring the world together as one, they have been thwarted by god. all of their chosen

ffman ii once sagely noted, the analogy of "insects" often resides in the true tale of the initiates of secret societies and orders. this is because these men are themselves deceived by lucifer, and so they go about deceiving others. thus there is a group mind resident in all these people, whether an illuminatus is a member of the inner circle or is a lowly puppet. it is for reason that professor adam weishaupt, co-founder of the classical order of the illuminati (may 1, 1776, called his sect the beenan order (order of the bees. jim keith, in mind control and ufos, also noted this hive mentality. keith wrote that in the south american nation of columbia, there is a german community which, even today, over 60 years after world war ii, uses the swastika as its icon. this group calls its comp

. instead, our nation's founders used vague, illuminist coded terms like "nature's god" or "providence" benjamin franklin, a key leader of the delegates, was both a grand master mason (lodge of nine sisters, paris, france) and a rosicrucian. thomas jefferson, who helped draft the declaration of independence, wrote favorably of the order of the illuminati and its founder, european jesuit professor adam weishaupt. hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 63 this poster showing america's first president, george washington, as a mason, is distributed by the george washington masonic national memorial association. it was printed in the scottish rite journal (august 1992. 64 codex magica hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 65 u.s. civil war officers displaying the masonic sign of the brotherhood of j

devious process practiced by like-minded fellows who are bent on, and have agreed to follow, the ritualized path prescribed to effect the magic of the great work of alchemical transformation. the fellow craft degree (2) of freemasonry is found in both the largest bodies, the york rite and the scottish rite. according to coil's masonic encyclopedia, the order of the illuminati, formally founded by adam weishaupt and baron von knigge in 1776, divided its rites into three principal classes and the second of the second class of rites was the fellow craft, 2 .1 reinforcing the authoritative coil's masonic encyclopedia is the work of other masonic and occult researchers who report that the fellow craft degree was awarded in the 2 of the order of the illuminati. in the book, witchcraft, magic, an

n. indeed, some believe that dashwood was as important to the illuminist 82 codex magica sir francis dashwood, leader of england's 18th century "hell fire club" practiced the dark side of magic. the nobility and rich frequented his group and called on him for rituals and advice (from: witchcraft, magic and the supernatural, london: octopus books, 1974, p. 33. cause on the isle of great britain as adam weishaupt was on the european continent.2 the cunning vs. those of lesser wit the late sovereign grand commander (scottish rite, dr. albert mackey, 33, in his classic encyclopedia reference book, says that the fellow craft degree implies "mutual trust" among the "brethren" of the order. but he notes it is in a lower degree. the masons, in the middle ages, he writes, were divided into two clas

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92. sullivan, lawrence e, ed. death, afterlife, and the soul. new york, macmillan, 1989. wilson, andrew, ed. world scripture: a comparative anthology of sacred texts. new york: paragon house, 1995. zaehner, r. c, ed. encyclopedia of the world s religions. new york: barnes& noble, 1997. islam in regard to the concept of a soul, islam envisions a human as a being of spirit and body. the creation of adam as described in the qur an (or koran) is reminiscent of genesis in the judeo-christian bible as the lord announces to the angels that he is going to create a human of clay and that he will breathe his spirit into him after he has given him form. and he originated the creation of man out of clay, then he fashioned his progeny of an extraction of mean water, then he shaped him, and breathed his

rlife, and the soul. new york: macmillan, 1989. wilson, andrew, ed. world scripture: a comparative anthology of sacred texts. new york: paragon house, 1995. judaism then the lord god formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being (genesis 2:7. in the second chapter of genesis, yahweh, the god of israel, shapes the form of adam from the clay, then breathes into him the breath of life, so that adam becomes nephesh, or a living soul. interestingly, yahweh also bestows the breath of life into the animals that flourished in the garden of eden, and they, too, are considered living souls. nephesh is closely associated with blood, the life-substance, which is drained away from the body at death, thus establishing in hebrew

in honor of the gods and a guide for the proper behavior of royalty; the sixth, medical commentary. legend has it that these sacred texts contain all the accumulated wisdom of ancient egypt, going back in an unbroken tradition to the very earliest time. as the hermetic texts continued to influence the growth of european alchemy, astrology, and magic, the author of the books was said to have been adam s grandson, who built the great pyramids of egypt; or an egyptian magician who lived three generations after moses; or a magus from babylonia who instructed pythagoras. the hermetic text decrees against transmigration, the belief that the souls of humans may enter into animals: divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. m delving deeper gordon, stuart. the encyclopedia of myths and

physical form human, animal, or inanimate is gilgul neshamot. although reincarnation as a doctrine is generally renounced by jewish theologians and philosophers, the karaites, a jewish sect which rejected rabbinism and talmudism, taught transmigration of the soul. anan ben david, who founded the karaites in baghdad about 765, said that all human souls have a common origin in the primordial human, adam kadmon, whose spiritual essence sends forth sparks which form individual souls. when the later adam of genesis committed sin in the garden of eden, his fall brought about confusion among higher and lower souls throughout creation, which resulted in the need for every soul to pass through a series of incarnations. although anan ben david s teachings were severely criticized as contrary to orth

hings that he/she has never done before. in the worst of cases, the possessing spirit or demon will consume the victim s life. it may reach to a climax where the possessed commits murder, suicide, or some violent antisocial act. healthcare professionals will point out that many of the above symptoms of possession may also indicate the onset of stress, depression, and certain mental illnesses. dr. adam crabtree, a psychotherapist in toronto, has stated his view that the spirits of the deceased can possess their living relatives. crabtree, who is a former priest and benedictine monk, said that entities from beyond the grave usually seek a living person s mind and body because they have unfinished business on earth. crabtree has encountered such cases when emotionally disturbed patients came

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_east/archive/ 2002/09/04/abom.re.html. scientists are hair s breadth from the yeti. the herald, september 5, 2002 [online] http//www.theheard.co.uk/ news/archive/5-9-19102-23-54-40.html. the real manimal? an early analysis of hair samples taken by a british expedition to the mountain rainforest near gunung kerinci in western sumatra did not appear to have come from any known primate in the area. adam davies, the leader of the expedition, stated that he had no doubt that orang pendek truly exists. m delving deeper henderson, mark. team find traces of sumatran yeti. the times, october 29, 2001 [online] http//www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001373 161,00.html. heuvelmans, bernard. on the track of unknown animals. new york: hill and wang, 1958. man-beast hunts in the far east. fortean times

anism and witchcraft. new york: citadel press, 1939, 1960. walker, barbara. the woman s dictionary of symbols& sacred objects. edison, n.j: castle books, 1988. incubus according to ancient tradition, there are two main classifications of demons that sexually molest humans the incubi that assault women and the succubi that seduce men. both sexual predators are said to have been born as a result of adam s sexual intercourse with lilith, a beautiful demonic entity, often said to have been his first wife, or in other traditions, a fantasy wife created to alleviate his loneliness before the advent of eve. the incubi were said to seduce unsuspecting women by appearing to them in the guise of their husbands or lovers, and as one might suspect, the incubi played an important role in the history of

5. keel, john a. strange creatures from time and space. greenwich, conn: fawcett publications, 1970. seibert, trent. scary legend has roots in wilderness of new jersey. denver post, june 2, 2001 [online] http//www.100megsfree4. com/farshores/ cjdevil.htm. succubus according to certain mystical traditions, the demonic sexual molesters known as the incubi and the succubi were the children of father adam s consorting with a beautiful fallen angel named lilith, who in the view of certain jewish mystics, was adam s wife before the creation of eve. succubi appear to men as beautiful, sensual women, tempting and promising, but they also may be vampires thirsting for human blood. while those males who consort with a succubus often meet an untimely end, on occasion their interaction with the entity

day, they most often wish to convey that they feel lazy, tired, or would rather be on holiday than at work. the origin of the superstition concerning friday is traced by most authorities to the crucifixion of jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) on that day. but some writers advance the theory that friday is regarded as an unlucky day because, according to ancient tradition, it was on friday that adam and eve partook of the forbidden fruit and were cast out of paradise. followers of islam try to avoid beginning any new enterprise on wednesdays. for reasons long forgotten, wednesday is seen as a bad day. even today, many muslims avoid even getting their hair cut on that day. and such important occasions as weddings are never scheduled for a wednesday. a familiar old rhyme preserves the old

ds have admitted that none of these catastrophes have been caused by volcanoes, by lightning, by crashing comets, or by conflagrations set by humankind. m delving deeper downing, barry. the bible and flying saucers. new york: lippincott, 1968; avon, 1970; marlowe, 1997. drake, w. raymond. gods and spacemen in the ancient west. new york: new american library, 1974. ginsburg, irwin. first man, then adam! new york: pocket books, 1978. jessup, m. k. ufo and the bible. new york: citadel press, 1956. von daniken, erich. chariots of the gods? new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1970. the modern ufo era begins after takeoff from the chehalis, washington, airport in his personal plane on june 24, 1947, kenneth arnold headed for yakima, washington. as he flew directly toward mount rainier at an altitude

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political goal of encouraging rebellion of the people and the abolition of the established monarchies. structuring the society along the lines of the classes and orders of the freemasons, the illuminati included levels of enlightenment that could be achieved by undergoing initiation through various mystical rites and ceremonies. although the society fs founder, a professor of religious law named adam weishaupt, sought to establish a new world order in the late eighteenth- century, the illuminati was destroyed within 15 years of its founding. the term gilluminati h was first used by spanish occultists toward the end of the fif- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 16 secret societies t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u

the gnostic dualism of the forces of light and darkness, and many individuals who claimed to be illuminati, those enlightened by a higher wisdom, joined the rosicrucians and took refuge in france to escape the fires of the spanish inquisition. the secret society known as the order of the illuminati was founded in the city of ingolstadt in the southern german monarchy of bavaria on may 1, 1776 by adam weishaupt, a 28-year-old professor of religious law. beginning with only five members, weishaupt fs order grew slowly, numbering about 60 in five cities by 1780. the professor deliberately blended mysticism into the workings of the brotherhood in order to make his agenda of republicanism appear to be more mysterious than a political reform group. he joined the masons in munich in 1777 and ado

of the hollow earth, which had concentric spheres and received light and warmth from the sun through large holes in the planet open at each of the poles. symmes proved relentless in publicizing his views: he was a prolific lecturer and writer of letters and articles; wrote fictional accounts of the hollow earth, including symzonia: voyage of discovery (1820, which he published under the pseudonym adam seaborn; and advocated expeditions to the poles. his hollow earth illuminated by openings at the poles became the most popularly known version, and one that would be tested as humans began struggling to reach the poles. symmes was able to impress two influential men who would take his cause further. james mcbride, a wealthy ohio man, wrote articles supporting the concentric spheres version of

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as with a wedding garment. 20 the great week of creation has been imitated by human genius, divining the forms of nature. every day has furnished a new revelation, every new king of the world has been for a day the image and the incarnation of god! sublime dream which explains the mysteries of india, and justifies all symbolisms! the lofty conception of the man-god corresponds to the creation of adam, and christianity, like the first days of man in the earthly paradise, has been only an aspiration and a widowhood. we wait for the worship of the bride and of the mother; we shall aspire to the wedding of the new covenant. then the poor, the blind, the outlaws of the old world will be invited to the feast, and will receive a wedding garment. they will gaze the one upon the other with inexpre

s thy murder; only thy mother weeps for thee, even god abandons thee "eli! eli! lama sabachthani" vii the septenary the septenary is the great biblical number. it is the key of the creation in the books of moses and the symbol of all religion. moses left five books, and the law is complete in two testaments. the bible is not a history, it is a collection of poems, a book of allegories and images. adam and eve are only the primitive types of humanity; the tempter serpent is time which tests; the tree of knowledge is 'right; the expiation by toil is duty. cain and abel represent the flesh and the spirit, force and intelligence, violence and harmony. the giants are those who usurped the earth in ancient times; the flood was a great revolution. the ark is tradition preserved in a family: relig

comes to giving a place to man, and a sanctuary to his alliance with divinity, moses speaks of a garden, in the midst of which a single fountain branched into four rivers (the iod and the tetragram, and then of two trees, one of life, and the other of death, planted near the river. there are placed the man and the woman, the active and the 186 passive; the woman sympathizes with death, and draws adam with her in her fall. they are then driven out from the sanctuary of truth, and a kerub (a bull-headed sphinx "vide" the hieroglyphs of assyria, of india and of egypt) is placed at the gate of the garden of truth in order to prevent the profane from destroying the tree of life. here we have mysterious dogma, with all its allegories and its terrors, replacing the simplicity of truth. the idol

rom the blade of the sword. theurgy evoked them, and the qabalah recognized them under the name of elementary spirits. they were not spirits, however, for they were mortal. they were fluidic coagulations which one could destroy by dividing them. there were a sort of animated mirages, imperfect emanations of human life. the traditions of black magic say that they were born owing to the celibacy of adam. paracelsus says that the vapours of the blood of hysterical women people the air with phantoms; and these ideas are so ancient, that 226 we find traces of them in hesiod, who expressly forbids that linen, stained by a pollution of any sort, should be dried before a fire. persons who are obsessed by phantoms are usually exalted by too rigorous celibacy, or weakened by excesses. fluidic phanto

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itself, brings experience from a vague concept of mystery, that flesh which emerges in the heart of the adept. the sorcerer and witch are as the sorcerous daemon ahriman themselves, they stand in both darkness and light, being lords of both horizons. in sufism shaitan was the single angel, who by antinomian acts separated himself against the natural order by refusing to bow before clay which was adam. it was the yezidi tribe, who venerated shaitan in the form of malak tauus, the peacock angel. in the meshaf resh10 it presents azazel as the angel created before all others, thus the brightest star. in the jilwa, lucifer is presented as malak tauus existed before all other creatures and was then and now .there is no place devoid of me thus presenting the unnatural concept of self-illuminatio

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ppoth" is the plural of the word spelt qoph-lamed-peh-heh, meaning "shell, husk, skin, peel or rind. this indicates at once that the klippoth are the shells or leftovers of a process, in the same way that an eggshell is related to an egg, or the peel related to a.n apple. in the cosmology of kabbalah, these shells or "envelopes" were said to hold their abode beneath the world of assiah into which adam descended at the fall. much of the development of this idea was made by issac de loria (1534-1572) who in his commentary on the "book of concealment" added his own viewpoint to the original zoharic teachings. commenting on the formation of the nations of the gentiles, he said that the recrements, the evil and rejected parts of the edomite kings (who existed in the void before the world was fo

idea was made by issac de loria (1534-1572) who in his commentary on the "book of concealment" added his own viewpoint to the original zoharic teachings. commenting on the formation of the nations of the gentiles, he said that the recrements, the evil and rejected parts of the edomite kings (who existed in the void before the world was formed) are the cortices or shells which compose the adverse adam belial, or the "shadow" side of humanity. when adam and eve partook of the forbidden fruit, their fall confounded the good and the evil of the cortices, and after this fall the nations of the world were produced from the shells. in this we can see some reflection of the politics of the age, and the history of the jewish people, but also a commentary on the nature of the pysche, which in its "

by asking oneself, or another "what do i think of" how much of the thought complex is; an item of fact, an emotional charge, a value judgement, an image, a reference to another thought, a memory, and so on? how would this be modelled by kabbalah? 2. take any number of names of objects, and note what thought associations you have with them. make a connection between this and the biblical story of adam naming the animals. read "the greater trumps" by charles williams in this context. 3. note a few examples of the power of a word in your own life. expand this exercise to historical or present examples in the social sphere around you, and the political sphere. note examples of the magic of language to affect our awareness. chapter nine 1. make a list of some of the beliefs that you hold, from

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on of shin to the sacred tetragram (i.h.v.h) marks the passage of the quaternary into the quinary for the formation of the living creature. jesus, the word made flesh, kabalistically represents all creatures, but particularly man, as man is the most evolved of all creatures" having been taught, and which is in accordance with the general christian tradition, that the entire nature had fallen with adam as a result of his own fall, we can easily understand how in effect this same nature can evolve, with man, back to its original state, starting with the redemption of man by the word. henry cornelius agrippa tells us in his famous "occult philosophy"2. during the time of the law, the ineffable name of god was composed of four letters: iod-hevau- he, in place of which and out of respect, the h

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greek cross. doing this he says at each corner: may any spirit who does not proclaim the glory of god fly away by this sign. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. note: the french version of this martinist operative and general ritual can be obtained from: l' initiation, organe de l'union des ordres martinistes, 6, rue jean-bouverl 92100 boulogne-billancoowthis new edition of israel regardie's tke middle adam forrest, isidora forrest, r a. gilbert, darcy kiintz, thm p, prof. sein 0 miadhachiin, and wiliiam stoltz. figure i: cover artfrom the second edition of the middle pillar (painting by marjo y paskaruk) introduction to the third edition i n the early decades of this century, little was known about the techniques of western ceremonial magic due to the veil of secrecy which had shrouded these pr

ne form or another, since the beginning of civilization. 3. the more common name for this sephrah is chesed, whch means "mercy" its other title, gedulah, means "glory" or "greatness" 4. the serpent is often a symbol of wisdom. on the qabalistic tree of life, the serpent of wisdom represents the paths that connect the various sephroth. in the story of the garden of eden, the serpent suggested that adam and eve eat fruit from the tree of knowledge. this means that they became sentient t m- ing beings who were set apart from "the unconsciousness of nature" 5. a tingling sensation can also sometimes be felt in the face. the qabalistic cross and the pentagram ritual 65 6. scientists are now becoming aware of what magicians have known for centuries- that all matter is vibratory energy. there is

iluth. this implies that daath as a bridge or energy conduit has more in common with the paths of the tree than with the sephiroth. 14 "god" 15 "righteous of god" 16. elohirn gibor "god of battles" or "almighty god" 17. the "severity of god" william gray erroneously stated that the root of this name was khab, whch meant "to suffer, to feel pain, or make war" however, prominent golden dawn scholar adam p. forrest has pieced together the true origin of this name. according to forrest, the original archangel of mars was samuel-a name that macgregor mathers changed to zarnael in order to avoid confusion with the qliphotic samael. when the qabalists began to assign archangels to the sephiroth, someone attributed a list of planetary archangels to their corresponding sephroth, and the martial sam

nity, or as the scriptures tell us "one cannot look upon the face of god and live" it was safer to "image" the deity from behmd. therefore to the roman catholic, geburah is on the left shoulder-the same as the image of the tree seen from the back, and outside of the human being. the pentagram 181 one qabalistic diagram often used to illustrate the idea of the divine on the tree of life is that of adam kadmon, the so-called atziluthic or archetypal man. adam kadmon is the "heavenly man" or'%ody of god" he is the divine prototype of humanity which is circumscribed upon the tree of life. the crown of kether is above his head, malkuth is at his feet, geburah is at his left shoulder, and chesed is at hs right shoulder. in hs book kabbalah: tradition of hidden knowledge, z'ev ben shimon halevi t

ziluthic or archetypal man. adam kadmon is the "heavenly man" or'%ody of god" he is the divine prototype of humanity which is circumscribed upon the tree of life. the crown of kether is above his head, malkuth is at his feet, geburah is at his left shoulder, and chesed is at hs right shoulder. in hs book kabbalah: tradition of hidden knowledge, z'ev ben shimon halevi tells us about the diagram of adam kadmon. ths reflection, however, like that in any mirror, is only a refection and never the reality."5 halevi says: the likeness of a man (ezekiel 1:26) zuas used by early nzystics to describe the divine glory. the figure of a prinzordial, atziluthic man, god's image is the embodiment of the sefirot. this, the most perfect image of divinity, is seen not as god but as his reflection, and there

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o. when the zohar writes that a certain person met rabbi shimon it means that that person rose to the degree of rabbi shimon and because of that can see and understand what rabbi shimon can. this is how a degree gets its name, and when a person climbs to it, he is called by that name. if he attains only a part of that degree he is regarded as a son to it. that is why we are considered the sons of adam, because we are all parts of the degree called adam, and our task is to attain that part individually. a person who rises to a certain degree feels what happens in it. he attains its characteristics and sees the creator accordingly. if he climbs higher, the picture that he saw in the previous degree changes too. it is not like a movie theatre playing 125 different films, one for each degree

ness, and attain the spiritual degree of the world of assiya. a screen for 1st degree coarseness raises us to the degree of the world of yetzira. a screen for 2nd degree coarseness raises us to the degree of the world of beria. a screen for 3rd degree coarseness raises us to the degree of the world of atzilut. and finally, a screen for 4th degree coarseness raises us to the degree of the world of adam kadmon. above adam kadmon the soul ascends to the world of ein sof. there are five partzufim in every world, comprised of five sefirot. each time a person acquires five new sefirot, he acquires a new degree, a new partzuf. if it is in the world of assiya, the first five sefirot give us the ability to attain the partzuf of malchut of the world of assiya. the next five sefirot raise us to partz

and phases in the ascent, but though the ways are common to all, each person experiences them differently. in order for this instruction to be suitable for everyone, kabbalists wrote it from above downward, not from below. it is in fact the same road, but when looking from above, it is described in more general terms, more uniform. light descends from the creator, building five worlds on its way adam kadmon, atzilut, beria, yetzira, assiya. below the world of assiya there is the barrier a partition that separates this world from the spiritual worlds. there is another partition between the world of atzilut and the worlds below it. it is called parsa. between the world of ein sof and the world of atzilut there is the restriction. thus, from the highest state the world of ein sof down to the

below the world of assiya there is the barrier a partition that separates this world from the spiritual worlds. there is another partition between the world of atzilut and the worlds below it. it is called parsa. between the world of ein sof and the world of atzilut there is the restriction. thus, from the highest state the world of ein sof down to the lowest, where we are, there are five worlds- adam kadmon, atzilut, beria, yetzira, assiya, each consisting of five partzufim and each partzuf of five sefirot. thus, the total number of degrees that stand between our (necessary) future state and our present state is 125. these degrees are not made of marble or stone, they are inside us. they are degrees of internal spiritual development. when a person changes something inside himself, he asce

r the soul to correct, there is no escaping that. any attempt only makes the pain worse. all we can feel before we cross the barrier are beastly desires. as we approach the barrier, while in it and across it we discover the desires of the creator. in none of those desires will we find man himself. the only desire in which we have free choice is agreement with the creator s providence. the soul of adam harishon (the first man) broke into 600,000 parts that are interconnected, but have a different coarseness, from the root to the 4th degree. from us to the creator there are 6,000 degrees-years. in the first millennium the root degree souls are corrected. all they have to do is just live a little in this world; suffer some (wild animals, enemies, famine etc. for them, attempting to escape the

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om the glory of the almighty; she is the brightness of eternal light, and an undefiled mirror of the majesty of god, and an image of his goodness; she teacheth us soberness and prudence, righteousness and strength; she understands the subtilty of words, and solution of dark sentences; she foreknoweth signs and wonders, and what shall happen in time to come; with this treasure was our first father adam fully endued: hence it doth appear, that after god had brought before him all the creatures of the field, and the fowls under heaven, he gave to every one of them their proper names, according to their nature. although now through the sorrowful fall into sin this excellent jewel wisdom hath been lost, and meer darkness and ignorance is come into the world, yet notwithstanding hath the lord go

y understood, and observed by every one (if 2 he be not altogether voyd of understanding) what now adays, and at these times, is meant thereby. those who are true disciples of wisdom, and true followers of the spherical art, will consider better of these things, and have them in greater estimation, as also judge far otherwise of them, as hath been done by some principal persons, but especially of adam haselmeyer, notarius publicus to the arch duke maximilian, who likewise hath made an extract ex scriptis theologicis theophrasti, and written a treatise under the title of jesuiter, wherein he willeth, that every christian should be a true jesuit, that is, to walk, live, be, and remain in jesus: he was but ill rewarded of the jesuits, because in his answer written upon the famam, he did name

hstanding our hand-writing which is in our hands, no man (except god alone) can make it common, nor any unworthy person is able to bereave us of it. but we shall help with secret aid this so good a cause, as god shal permit or hinder us: for our god is not blinde, as the heathens fortuna, but is the churches ornament, and the honor of the temple. our philosophy also is not a new invention, but as adam after his fall hath received it, and as moses and solomon used it: also she ought not much to be doubted of, or contradicted by other opinions, or meanings; but seeing the truth is peaceable, brief, and always like herself in all things, and especially accorded by with jesus in omni parte and all members. and as he is the true image of the father, so is she his image; it shall not be said, th

ed, until the lion doth come, who will ask them for his use, and employ them for the confirmation and establishment of his kingdom. we ought therefore here to observe well, and make it known unto everyone, that god hath certainly and most assuredly concluded to send and grant to the world before her end, which presently thereupon shall ensue, such a truth, light, life, and glory, as the first man adam had, which he lost in paradise, after which his successors were put and driven, with him, to misery. wherefore there shall cease all servitude, falsehood, lies, and darkness, which by little and little, with the great world s revolution, was crept into all arts, works, and governments of men, and have darkened the most part of them. for form thence are proceeded an innumerable sort of all man

, and how long they shall last. from the which characters or letters we have borrowed our magic writing, and have found out, and made, a new language for ourselves, in the which withal is expressed and declared the nature of all things. so that it is no wonder that we are not so eloquent in other languages, the which we know that they are altogether disagreeing to the language of our forefathers, adam and enoch, and were through the babylonical confusion wholly hidden. but we must also let you understand that there are yet some eagles feathers in our way, the which do hinder our purpose. wherefore we do admonish everyone for to read diligently and continually the holy bible, 25 for he that taketh all his pleasures therein, he shall know that he prepared for himself an excellent way to come

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he flesh fades into the gray lands of death does initiation begin. the mind set free from the limitations of the physical body, which flies forth from the skull temple of man can then we understand that all of us are within the possibility of power. my gift is to bring you to a life not comprehended previously, one which demands the attention and challenge of self-excellence. the children of this adam know not those things which are determined, wherefore they oft-times fall into error. the beasts of the field, and of heaven, and the fish of the sea, all of them are in my hand and under my control kitab el-jelwa i am the dragon clothed in the feathers of the peacock, that which is sacred unto me. i formed this bird to represent the beauty of the hidden soul, what may become from the balance

THE STAR IN THE WEST BY CAPTAIN FULLER A CRITICAL ESSAY ON THE WORKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY

as those of the poet of khorassan, flights of great power of thought; the following five quatrains are well worth quoting: we weep them as they slip away; we gaze back on the likeness of the former days. the hair we fondle and the lips we kiss. roses grow yellow and no purple stays. why not with time? to-morrow we may see the circle ended. if to-morrow be. and gaze on chaos, and a week bring back adam and eve beneath the apple tree. join fst thou thy feeble hands in foolish prayer to him thy brain hath moulded and set there in thy brain fs heaven? such a god replies as thy fears move, so men pray everywhere. god did first work in earth when womankind he chipped from adam fs rib. a thankless task i wot his wisdom has long since repined. when i am dead remember me for this that i bade worker

il cords of honour strain and slip. for in the midst of that tremendous tide the mighty vigour of a god was mine! drunk with desire, her lamentations died. the dove gave place a moment to the swine! rapturous draughts of madness! out she sighed uttermost life fs love, and became a bride *alice, an adultery, vol. ii, p. 77. gmany sins are forgiven this woman because she hath loved much. h not like adam and eve, however, did they then discover that they were naked, such epilogues being more especially suited to the author of glot and his daughters h and gthe concubine of gibeah, h than the author of gtannhauser h or galice. h nevertheless reproach followed, if shame did not, the celebration of love fs mystic eucharist. reproach rises, but falls enamoured to his kisses; all is extremes, there

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mayest freely eat: 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. 2:18 and the lord god said [it is] not good that the man should be alone; i will make him an help meet for him. 2:19 and out of the ground the lord god formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever adam called every living creature, that [was] genesis page 2 the name thereof. 2:20 and adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for adam there was not found an help meet for him. 2:21 and the lord god caused a deep sleep to fall upon adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed

gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for adam there was not found an help meet for him. 2:21 and the lord god caused a deep sleep to fall upon adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 2:22 and the rib, which the lord god had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 2:23 and adam said, this [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. 2:24 therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 2:25 and they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. 3:1 now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the lor

to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 3:7 and the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 3:8 and they heard the voice of the lord god walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord god amongst the trees of the garden. 3:9 and the lord god called unto adam, and said unto him, where [art] thou? 3:10 and he said, i heard thy voice in the garden, and i was afraid, because i [was] naked; and i hid myself. 3:11 and he said, who told thee that thou [wast] naked? hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof i commanded thee that

halt thou eat all the days of thy life: 3:15 and i will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. 3:16 unto the woman he said, i will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. 3:17 and unto adam he said, because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which i commanded thee, saying, thou shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life; 3:18 thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 3:19 in the sweat of thy face shalt thou ea

u shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life; 3:18 thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 3:19 in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art] and unto dust shalt thou return. 3:20 and adam called his wife s name eve; because she was the mother of all living. 3:21 unto adam also and to his wife did the lord god make coats of skins, and clothed them. 3:22 and the lord god said, behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: 3:23 therefore the lord god sent him forth

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

ughout the roman provinces, it was far from being peculiar to them, for the same superstition formed part of the religion of the teutonic race, and was carried with that race wherever it settled. the teutonic god, who answered to the roman priapus, was called, in anglo-saxon, fr a, in old norse, freyr, and, in old german, fro. among the swedes, the principal seat of his worship was at upsala, and adam of bremen, who lived in the eleventh century, when paganism still retained its hold on the north, in describing the forms under which the gods were there represented, tells us that the third of the gods at upsala was fricco [another form of the name, who bestowed on mortals peace and pleasure, and who was represented with an immense priapus, and he adds that, at the celebration of marriages

r to his female representative of the same name, the teutonic venus, friga, the fifth day of the week was dedicated, and on that account received its name, in anglo- saxon, frige-d g, and in modern english, friday. friged g appears 1 tertius est fricco, pacem voluptatemque larigens mortalibus, cuius etiam simulachrum fingunt ingenti priopo; si nupti celebrand sunt, friccioni [sacrificia offerunt] adam bremena, de situ dani, p. 23, ed. 1629. generative powers 127 to have been a name sometimes given in anglo-saxon to frea himself; in a charter of the date of 959, printed in kemble's codex diplomaticus, one of the marks on a boundary-line of land is friged ges- tr ow, meaning apparently frea s tree, which was probably a tree dedicated to that god, and the scene of priapic rites. there is a pl

ast of devon; and there are curious sculptures, which appear to be of the same character, among the architectural ornamentation of the very early church of san fedele at como in italy. three of these are engraved in our plate xxxii. on the top of the right hand jamb of the door5 is a naked male figure, and in the same position on the other side a female,6 which are described to us as representing adam and eve, and our informant, to whom we owe the drawings describes that at the apex7 merely as the figure of a woman holding her legs apart. we understand that the surface of the stone in these sculptures is so much 1 plate xxxi, figs. 1, 2, 3. 2 plate xxxi, fig. 4. 3 plate xxvi, fig. 5. 4 plate xxxvi, fig. 4. 5 plate xxxii, fig. 1. 6 plate xxxii, fig. 2. 7 plate xxxii, fig. 3. 138 on the wors

-bottoms received the names, no doubt suggested by its form, of cuckoo s pintle, or priest s pintle, or dog's pintle; and, in french, those of vit de chien and vit de prestre; in english it is now abbreviated into cuckoo-pint, or, sometimes, cuckoo-point. the whole family of the orchides was distinguished by a corresponding word, accompanied with various qualifications. we have in william coles s adam in eden (fol. 1659) the different names, for different varieties, of doggsstones, fool-stones, fox-stones; in the older herbal of gerard (fol. 1597) triple ballockes, sweet ballockes, sweet cods, goat s-stones, hare s-stones &c; in french, couillon de bouc (the goat was especially connected with the priapic mysteries) and couille, or couillon de chien. in french, too, as we learn from cotgrav

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

y: in the progression we will notice this other mercury will appear who is truly the twin brother of the first: for by the complete lunar and solar magic of the ele- ments, the hieroglyph of this messenger speaks to us very distinctly, and we should examine it carefully and listen to what it says. and (by the will of god) it is the mercury of the philosophers, the greatly celebrated microcosm and adam. therefore, some of the most expert were inclined to place him in a posi- tion of, and give him a rank equal to, the sun himself (john dee, the hiero- glyphic monad [antwerp, 15641, translated by j. w. hamilton-jones [london, 19471, reprinted by samuel weiser, maine, 1975, p. 17) dee goes on to say that this exchange cannot be made in the "present" epoch without great peril. as throughout the

nd made-to-order. the implication was that the magician could not do this without the aid of the devil. it was diabolical to actively seek to upset the laws of nature. god might do xxii new millennium magic so at his pleasure, but man had no right to ape him. such effrontery must be pun- ished. magicians must be cast down for their sin. satan was thrown from heaven for seeking to become like god. adam and eve were turned out of the garden for essentially the same reason. prometheus was bound to a rock in the caucasus when he defied zeus and brought fire down from heaven. christ was crucified for proclaiming himself the son of god. the magus is a direct descendant of this august company. he or she seeks to be the master of fate and the captain of the soul. yet the magus does not defy god, a

ade of nothingness that rises from nowhere, momentarily forms the flame-body, and then vanishes upwards into the nothingness from whence it came. it is also useful to med- itate on the wave. just as both universes are in every human, so does a living human being occu- py a portion of both universes. humans are formed both of the clay and of the light. there is an old alchemical woodcut that shows adam (archetypal man) standing with his feet on the earth and his head through the heavens, signifying symbolically the two universes, the veil, and the intermediary place occupied by the human race. it is incorrect to say that mankind is half in the world of forms and half in heaven. in truth only the smallest fraction of what humanity perceives itself to be is touching god-the merest tip of the

t expression of the will of the unmanifest in the mate- rial universe. it takes the form of a blindingly brilliant pearl or blue-white radiance, like the radiance of a star, but it is featureless and formless, suf- fusing the physical surroundings in which it is experienced. accompanying the light is a sense of awe, and often a fear so intense that the individual bathed in it may wish to hide, as adam and eve hid in the garden of eden. this is the illumination saul experienced as he journeyed to damascus "and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: and he fell to earth. trembling and astonished (acts 9:3-6. this is the light christ was said to radiate at times "and his face did shine like the sun, and his raiment was white as the light (matthew 17:2. all true prophets ha

reaction is terror and frustration, both emotions stemming from its inability to command these powers. at once it begins to confine the manifestations of the all into envelopes, thereby demonstrating that it is capable of manipulating them mentally and, by extension, physically. the process begins in the womb but is accelerated sharply by the shock of birth. this is the biblical fall of humanity. adam sinned when he drew a circle of flesh around himself to cover his nakedness, his lack of a barrier between outside and inside. in the timeless and dimensionless garden he had always been united with god and had known everything without conceptualizing; but when he accepted the apple from eve, who in her turn had received it from the serpent, he created his own ignorance by dividing wisdom int

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is gender neutral, as is the term shaman. even so, today most people think of witches as exclusively women. there is a reason for this error. throughout history witches have been presented in literature and in art as female. medieval christian theologians held that women were by their nature more susceptible to evil influences than men. they derived this belief in part from the biblical fable of adam and eve because it was eve who was seduced by the serpent. due to this imagined vulnerability of women, theologians believed that more women than men became witches. however, many men were also accused of witchcraft and executed for it. an examination of the long lists of witch names in appendix 111 of margaret a. murray's witch-cult in western europe shows a ratio or roughly one man for ever

te, but the actual disappearance is seldom witnessed. descent into hell it is the dogma of the church that jesus came back to life after his crucifixion and ascended in the living body to heaven. the apocryphal gospel of nicodemus relates the legend that after his ascent to heaven, he subsequently descended into hell to free all the souls who had been imprisoned there since the fall from grace of adam. after shattering the gate of brass and bars of iron that closed the entrance to hell, jesus caused the chains to fall off those languishing in hell and led them up to heaven, where they encountered two others who had ascended in the flesh. chapter four: religious bilocation 53 thus he went into paradise holding our forefather adam by the hand, and he handed him over and all the righteous to

with black calfskin, and there are no new revelations. those who seek guidance must do so by looking into the black book on its reading stand beside the altar. vi the lovers hebrew letter: zayin (sword) correspondence: gemini path: seventeenth a young man and young woman are united in marriage by a winged angel beneath the bright rays of the sun. in the waite design, both are naked and represent adam and eve. the woman stands beneath the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, around the trunk of which coils a green serpent. the man stands beneath the tree of life, the leaves of which are flames. the angel, who may be the archangel michael, blesses their union from a cloud of chapter twelve: the tarot 209 glory. when not portraying this pantomime of the marriage rite, they come and go ben

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

the verbal expression of the archetypal pattern through the mystical power of the name; then follows the actual manifest structure. the apostle john understood this quite clearly when he wrote "in the beginning was the word, and the word was with 38 tetragrammaton god, and the word was god (john 1:l. this creative (and destructive) word is tetragrammaton. when god created the microcosm, or lesser adam, he used the same method by which he had created the universe "and the lord god formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul (gen. 2:7. human beings are made of dust only in the sense that our material bodies are formed from the elements of the earth. the shape of our souls was determined by the expressed word in the vit

d created the universe "and the lord god formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul (gen. 2:7. human beings are made of dust only in the sense that our material bodies are formed from the elements of the earth. the shape of our souls was determined by the expressed word in the vital breath of god when he inspired life into adam. the ba'al shem draws upon the divine life force that lies stored in the human blood, particularly the heart. this spiritual energy is the original gift of life from god that has been passed down generation after generation from adam, the first man. it is carried out of the occult circle of the lesser self upon the vehicle of the breath, which is shaped for a specific magical act by the autho

signs from virgo to capricorn, while the moon, ruling in cancer, is placed over the mirror-opposite ordering of the same five planets in the signs from gemini to aquarius. mercury is the only planet belonging both to the sect of the sun and the sect of the moon. it is the crucible of solar and lunar forces, where these powers mingle and amalgamate with each other. as such, it represents heavenly adam incarnated upon the earth (the messiah, or christ) and the middle pillar of mildness on the tree of the sephiroth. this is an occult correspondence that is seldom found in the texts of the kabbalah, but was well understood by john dee (see the hieroglyphic monad, theorem xiii, and 100 tetragrammaton also familiar to the medieval alchemists, who represented mercury in this moderating and recon

aur, whose purpose is to descend from heaven (atziluth) to earth (assiah, uniting spirit with flesh, and by this act of sacrifice to redeem humanity from its sin of imbalance (pure judgment, or din-see scholem, kabbalah, p. 123) and restore it to the harmony of its rightful spiritual estate through the infusion of loving kindness (chesed. according to the kabbalah, the true first sin committed by adam was the division of the tree of knowledge from the tree of life, originally a single tree. this division is known as the "cutting of the shoots" and is symbolically represented by the plucking of the apple, which divided fruit from root. the aim of the messiah is to reunite the tree of life (right pillar) with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (left pillar. the golden solar rings are

ough their shapes may reflect these natures. angels derive the forms that humans perceive them to wear from the limitations and unconscious expectations of the human mind. we expect to see an intelligent spirit with whom we can converse wearing a human shape, since nothing in our natural world but a human being can think and speak. this expectation is reinforced in the bible by the assertion that adam was fashioned in the image of god (gen. 1:26. naturally, we expect the holy angels to also approximate god's image. we expect the fallen angels, or demons, to diverge from this perfect form, and therefore they are often perceived in distorted or monstrous shapes that express their chaotic natures. in magic, it is often convenient to consciously endow spirits with the form and dimension of hum

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re is that angels are the higher aspect, or faculties of man. the symbol of the snake is blackened with soot. the word itself holds a key to its meaning, black is from the word fehm (which means charcoal) and is related to the arabic root fhm, being wisdom or knowledge. the black snake and peacock represent the wisdom of life. then the great lord, malak tauus, said to the angels, i want to create adam and eve and make them give rise to mankind. of the seed of adam there shall be 11 derived from a sufi called sheik adi ibn musafir around 1100 a.d. vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 8 born a prophet, and from him shall descend a people on the earth; the the people of me, malak tauus, and these people are to be the yezidis -the mershaf resh the black book the witches sabbat -dreaming and waking

l life. as lucifer fell to the earth and into the abyss he fell into a state of transformation as a djinn of fire, first born and favored of god, he vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 21 understood the highest principles of light. now lucifer would develop the aspect of his being called noctifer, thus ahriman sprang forth through his shadow. noctifer was awakened from a slumber by the first bride of adam, called az lilith. she was fiery, bestial, vampyric and a demoness of insatiable lust. she awoke ahriman (or noctifer) and by this stimulation he kissed her, causing menstruation. she joined soon with shaitan/samael the dragon and spawned cain. ahriman or noctifer wandered the earth and learned its many secrets; he could do so with speed and cunning. he taught further in the form of azazel me

ones, infinite, youth maiden and hag. approach the bride of chaos in honesty, seeking her cold kiss and warmth in the sabbat fire, where you shall drink of both her skull cup of menstrual blood and from the golden chalice of the beast, the life of the sun22. cain cain or tubal-cain is the anthropomorphic child of the spiritual union of samael (the dragon) and lilith (the mother of demons) through adam and eve. 22 in some christian gnostic texts, such as the apocryphon of john cain is called the sun. vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 34 cain is the wanderer, the first murderer who tasted blood and became as the off spring of his spiritual mother and father. cain is also the black smith of the forge, a myth which originates in the middle east. cain is the first sorcerer and shape shifter, who

une with cain, to become like him through initiatory work based on your own predilection. shaitan the islamic traditions consider satan to be a djinn of fire, which presents a certain superiority over other angels. azazel was originally the preacher to all the other angels in pre eternity, who was first seated under the throne of glory. azazel was cast from heaven for refusing to bow before clay (adam) and thus fell into the darkness. it was ayn al-qozat hamadani who symbolized iblis being a guardian of the threshold, a black light and the tresses which hide the beloved s face. thus shaitan was a guardian and initiatory focus24, from which one could move through to godhead. it is essentially, self-deification through separation from the natural order. in the gnostic christian text, the apo

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

h lay beyond the letter of the written law, which "the stiff-necked and disobedient" of the patriarchal, sacerdotal and prophetical dispensations contrived to destroy. according to the secret tradition of israel, the whole creation was established for the manifestation of this life, which became manifested actually in its dual aspect when the spiritual eve was drawn from the side of the spiritual adam and placed over against him, in the condition of face to face. the intent of creation was made void in the event which is called the fall of man, though the particular expression is unknown in scripture. by the hypothesis, the "fatal consequences" which followed would have reached their time on mount sinai, but the israelites, when left to themselves in the wilderness "sat down to eat and ros

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rgy" this is the number 10 of the second great iniciation of the major mysteries that permits the iniciate to travel in the etheric body. this is the wisdom of john the baptist. arcanum 20 "the awakening of the dead" the eleventh hour of apollonius. the angels, the cherubims, and the seraphims fly with rumors of wings. there is rejoicing in the sky, awakening on the earth, and the sun that raises adam. this process belongs to the great iniciations of major mysteries where only the terror of the law reigns. arcanum 21 the twelveth hour of appolonius. the towers of fire unease. this is the triumphant entrance into the limitless bliss of nirvana, where either the master dresses himself with the resplendent robe of dharmasaya, or he renounces the bliss of nirvana for the love of humanity, and

no ocho. esos son los fracasados. el viejo saturno balancea al padre de los dioses, j piter tonante. esa es la ley del equilibrio. 61 arcanum 9 in this lesson, we will study the ninth key of basil valentine in the illustration of viridarium chymicum. the ninth key represents old saturn falling and the goddess moon victoriously rising. saturn is the lead and the moon is the silver (the terrestrial adam, the psychological i. it must fall and die so that the adam christ can be born within us. we need to transmute the lead into gold. the lead of our personality must be transmuted into the gold of the spirit. the moon-mercury-sophic (the ens seminis) must rise and return inwardly and upwardly. to disincarnate signifies to perpetuate error. the psychological i, the terrestrial adam is born milli

t be transmuted into the gold of the spirit. the moon-mercury-sophic (the ens seminis) must rise and return inwardly and upwardly. to disincarnate signifies to perpetuate error. the psychological i, the terrestrial adam is born millions of times; in order to satisfy desires. terrestrial births are the perpetuation of ignorance. to be born in spirit and in truth signifies death for the terrestrial adam. the adam christ is born from the seed. the grain, the seed, needs thelema (willpower) in order for the super man to heroically germinate; the birth of the super man is not the outcome of evolution. the super man does not need to evolve to attain perfection as is assumed by many students of occultism. evolution is simply the movement of the universal life according to the concepts of time, sp

very bad. however, the super man is not the result of any sort of evolution, but the outcome of a tremendous revolution of the consciousness. arcano ix en esta lecci n, estudiaremos la novena llave de basilio valent n (ilustraci n de viridarium chymicum. la novena llave representa al viejo saturno cayendo y a la diosa luna elev ndose victoriosa. el primero es el plomo y la segunda es la plata (el adam terrenal, el yo psicol gico. este debe caer y morir, para que en nosotros nazca el adam cristo. necesitamos transmutar el plomo en oro. el plomo de la personalidad debe transmutarse en el oro del esp ritu. la luna mercurio s fico (el ens seminis) debe levantarse y retornar hacia dentro y hacia arriba. desencarnarse significa perpetuar el error. el yo psicol gico, el adam terrenal nace millona

d debe transmutarse en el oro del esp ritu. la luna mercurio s fico (el ens seminis) debe levantarse y retornar hacia dentro y hacia arriba. desencarnarse significa perpetuar el error. el yo psicol gico, el adam terrenal nace millonadas de veces, se reencarna para satisfacer deseos. los nacimientos terrenales son la perpetuaci n de la ignorancia. nacer en esp ritu y en verdad significa muerte del adam terrenal. el adam cristo nace de la semilla. el grano, la semilla necesita thelema (voluntad) para que germine heroicamente el s per hombre, el nacimiento de ste no es el resultado de la evoluci n. este no necesita perfeccionamiento como suponen muchos estudiantes de ocultismo. la evoluci n es simplemente el movimiento de la vida universal de acuerdo con los conceptos de tiempo, espacio y mov

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like the names of the intelligences, spirits, etc. they communicate their particular energy when added to the talisman. any word can be used, but those that have a numerical equivalent to the magical numbers of the kamea have a special added potency. the intelligence of this planet is agiel, whose number is forty-five, the theosophic extension of the kamea (see figure 5-e. it is also the same as adam, a hebrew word which indicates the life-force (aleph, a) manifesting in the life-blood (dam) of the microcosmic human. its sigil is pictured in figure 5-f. either name can be spelled with a slight variation on the sigil line, and with the arrow (or any ending point) going either direction in the case of adam (see 5-g and 5-h. another name with the numerical vibration of forty-five is hame (hm

8th sephira 15: zub, zabe: to flow; menstrual flow 15: abib, abib: the first month of spring; month of passover and resurrection 15: gavh: pride, exaltation 15: abvha, aboha, angel of third decante of sagittarius 15: gbhh: high 15: zch: to move, to impel root: movement made with effort; tenacious spirit 15: number of the goddess gaia in greek. 45: theosophic extension of numbers in kamea 45: adm, adam: generic humanity 45: agial, agiel: intelligence of saturn 45: hm, hame: abundance, multitude, themselves root: universalized life, vital power of the universe 45: amd, ahmad: to appraise, value, estimate 45: zbvl, zebul: habitation, dwelling place 45: zzal, zazel: the spirit of saturn 45: mad, meode: strength, force, might 45: mh, mah: what? why; secret nature of yetzirah. root: female gener

ynthesized principle represented by the joining of the masculine and feminine polarities (mars and venus) on the twentyseventh path, peh. one of the magical numbers of mercury, 260, has several interesting words through gematria that point to this alchemical mystery: tzimtsen (tzmtzm, which means to contract or draw together, and the plural of the venus flower, roses (veradim. likewise, the words adam-eve, when conjoined, equal sixty-four, another of mercury's magical numbers (adm-chvh. this conjoined sigil looks like figure 10-a. one of the things immediately apparent about this sigil is that it forms an x, which is a form of the tau cross. it actually resembles a figure eight lying on its side. one of the intriguing points of interest between the symbols of the tau cross (christ) and the

b, ahab: to love; a lover, paramour, beloved 8: az, auz: there; in that place root: a fixed point in space or duration 8: bah, bah: entrance, threshold 8: dbb, dabab: to go softly, to creep along; to slander 8: dd, dahd: breast of love; beloved (deut 33: 12) root: that which is divided in order to be propagated; effusion, affinity, sympathy 8: hba, heba: bring 64: divisions of kamea 64: adm-chvh: adam-eve 64: din, din: justice and dni, doni, twin intelligence with din 64: gbvah, gebuah: prophecy *64: hua-bn (hu-kether and ben, the son) he is the son (mark 1: 11) 64: hgvim, he-goyim: the nations (the hosts) 64: vhabn, ve-ha-eben: and this stone (gen. 28: 22) 64: ydim, yadim: hands 64: idid ihvh, yediyd ihvh: beloved of god (deut. 33: 12; john 13: 23) 64: mizhb, mezahab: mother of gold 64: m

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r hand, supposing they possess a soul-chakra matrix, might escape this particular judgment. could this be one of the main reasons behind the so-called "hybrid" projects? so then, how did lucifer/satan gain the serpents' compliance? perhaps he/it began to use deception on this king of the animal realm as he/it had done with the fallen angels? for instance "i know how you feel, in that jehovah gave adam a superior position of dominion than you. you deserve better than that. allow me and my angels to indwell you and your seed and we will give you supernatural powers over man and nature, but first we must destroy adam's connection with his god from which his dominion-power comes. we will use his mate in order to do so, and adam who will not be deceived like his mate will be, shall nevertheless

troy adam's connection with his god from which his dominion-power comes. we will use his mate in order to do so, and adam who will not be deceived like his mate will be, shall nevertheless reject his god and do as we desire for fear of losing the love of his mate" these may not be the exact words used to gain the serpent's cooperation, however it was probably something very similar. so then, once adam lost his supernatural dominion and innocence, his connection with his creator having been severed by the dark cloud of guilt which adam had allowed himself to create- the divine dominion-flow having been severed at the human level- nature began to turn wild, harmony turned to chaos, love turned to selfishness, and the spirit of the world became a slave to the material. everything went out of

the universe with soulless robots, the creator allowed his creatures to choose and determine their own destiny. they would have the power to choose heaven or hell on earth, but the creator knew the weakness and pull of the flesh and therefore would provide a way out of the endless cycle of mutual abuse for those who were willing. but the damage was done. lucifer/satan was ecstatic! he had tricked adam into capitulating his dominion over the planet if not the creation. lucifer was now the "god of this world, who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (4 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:57] adam essentially having squandered his birthright to the planet over to the deceiver, the prince of darkness. that is, until god extended his creative "word" or

dimension. the following for scrutiny. icke wrote" the reason that belgium is a headquarters for satanism and so many brotherhood institutions is very simple. the brotherhood created belgium for just this reason in 1831 and they imposed upon it a reptilian 'royal' line, the house of saxe-coburg-gotha, the bloodline of the british royal family and, through its branch in prussia, the supporters of adam weishaupt, the founder of the bavarian illuminati. the paedophile murder ring which came to light in belgium in 1996 is but one part of the satanic network operating from and in that country. it was organised by marc dutroux, who is connected to the satanic order, of abrasax, based in the village of forchies-la-marche near charleroi in southern belgium not far from the castle of darkness. abr

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food) and energy from the sun. seven percent per day is the statistical measure of our inter dependence. in view of the consistent recycling of the human body, the epidermis of our skin can be likened ecologically to a pond surface, not so much a shell or wall as a place of exchange. in a very real sense the world is our body. original lilith myth after the holy one created the first human being, adam, god said: it is not good for adam to be alone. god created a woman, also from the earth, and called her lilith. they quarreled immediately. she said: i will not lie below you. he said, i will not lie below you, but above you. for you are fit to be below me and i above you. she responded: we are both equal because we both come from the earth. neither listened to the other. when lilith realize

rth, and called her lilith. they quarreled immediately. she said: i will not lie below you. he said, i will not lie below you, but above you. for you are fit to be below me and i above you. she responded: we are both equal because we both come from the earth. neither listened to the other. when lilith realized what was happening, she pronounced the ineffable name of god and flew off into the air. adam rose in prayer before the creator, saying, the woman you gave me has fled from me. immediately the holy one sent three angels after her. the holy one said to adam: if she wants to return, all the better. if not, she will have to accept that one hundred of her children will die every day. the angels went after her, finally locating her in the sea, in the powerful waters in which the egyptians

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ven upon one who studies the law. one pang of remorse is of more avail for reformation than many stripes. one thing obtained with difficulty is more valued than a hundred obtained with ease. talmud. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott it is indiscreet for one man to sleep in a house alone, for fear that he may be attacked by lilith, who was said to have been adam s first wife; she is the night specter, and has also power over newly-born infants who are not protected by an amulet. rabbi nathan exhorted- repent one day before thy death; a wise maxim inculcating the duty of being ever prepared; every day some advance in knowledge and goodness should be attained. ever work and ever pray, for the road winds upward all the way, as the lord buddha taught in

of a tree and a serpent, referring as some say to the mosaic account of the tree of knowledge and the tempter serpent. some have supposed that it is only since the condemnation on thy belly shalt thou go that the serpent has been limbless and obliged to crawl. note, it has been argued, and by a great churchman too, that the whole tale rests on error, and that for serpent we should read ape (rev. adam clarke. this is substituting one error for another. in the orgies of bacchus maenades, the worshippers had snakes twined in their hair and danced, singing eve, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott eve, by whom came the sin. see clemens alexandrinus, protrept 9. 38. duality introduces us to the fatal alternative to unity or good, namely evil; and to many o

e was forty and inclined to become gray, the young one pulled out all the gray hairs and the old wife pulled out all his black hairs, so he became bald. which things point a moral as well as adorn a tale. given two dry firebrands of wood and one of green, the dry will destroy the green. two dogs once killed a lion, so the minority must at last always give way to a majority. the talmud argues that adam had two faces. some say one before and one behind, while others say one looked to right and one to the left. others say that adam was both a male and a female. others say that eve was made from his thirteenth rib, and was not drawn out from his head, lest she should be vain. not from his eyes, lest she should be wanton; not from his mouth, lest she should talk to much; not from his ears, lest

are three parts of a man. the father gives the white parts, bones, nails, brain and the whites of the eyes; the mother gives the red parts, skin, flesh, etc. while god gives the breath, soul, mind and senses. the sanhedrin could order as a punishment three degrees of excommunication--separation for an undefined time, exclusion for 60 days, and execration for 30 days. moed katon, 17.1. the name of adam is of three letters, a, d and m: these are the initials of adam, david and messiah, and the soul of the first passed to david and then to the messiah. nishmath chajim, 152.2. 46. the soul of cain passed to jethro, his spirit into korah, and his body to an egyptian. yalkut reuben, 9. 18. 24. the soul of eve passed to sarah, to hannah the shunamite, and then to the widow of zarepta. the soul of

es which occurs again and again in the course of a mundane revolution) begins afresh. the virgin astraea returns, another reign of saturn commences, and a new progeny descends from heaven. 68. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott it has been calculated by the late dr. kenealy that a messiah, or divine teacher, has been sent to the world every 600 years, thus- adam, the first messenger from the gods to our race on earth. enoch the second 600 years. fo-hi, the third, to china in particular. brighou, a hindu prophet. zaratusht, zoroaster, the fifth, to persia. thoth, taautus, or hermes trismegistus, sent to the egyptians. amosis, or moses, the jewish law-giver, the seventh. lao tseu, a second to china, 600 b.c, the eighth. jesus the ninth, to the jews fir

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ivra im, formed [yesurim, and made [na asim, and in him there is no time of origin or beginning [zeman hathalah we- linear circularity (a)temporal poetics 77 re shit, for he exists permanently [tamid] and persists forever [la ad, and in him there is no commencement or termination at all [ro sh we-sof kelal. from ein sof there emanates subsequently the existence of the great light, which is called adam qadmon. the emanation of this adam qadmon, and all the more so the other worlds beneath him, have a beginning and end, and they have a beginning of the time of their being and their emanation, which is not the case with regard to ein sof, as was stated above. from the moment [et] and time [zeman] that the emanation and concatenation of the above-mentioned lights and worlds began, the being of

ied to ein sof since he exists permanently and persists forever. note the precise language: the eternality of the infinite is not set in opposition to time; it is, rather, the embracing of a sempiternal time that cannot be marked in a linear fashion by commencement or termination, a time that is continuous and everlasting. by contrast, all beings beneath ein sof in the ontic chain, beginning with adam qadmon, can be characterized by beginning and end, and hence time can be positively attributed to them.141 not only is the emanation of the sefirot not outside time, it is the paradigmatic pattern of temporality, the order of time (seder zemannim) that gives shape to all that exists. it should be recalled that cordovero likewise a rms an apophatic approach with respect to ein sof that makes i

created, and before the world was created there was no moment [et] and no time [zeman. how, then, he asks, is one to understand the words a source of delight [sha ashu im] every day [yom yom (prov 8:30, the prooftext utilized in rabbinic dicta181 to anchor the idea that the torah was created two thousand years prior to the world s coming into being? those days are not the days of humanity [yemei adam, for the measure [middah] of the days of humanity was not yet made, and those days were from the days whence are the years that cannot be probed, as it is written, god is greater than we can know; the number of his years cannot be counted (job 36:26, and it is written, are your days the days of a mortal, are your days the years of a man (ibid, 10:5. rather, when it arose in thought to bring t

anpin, the event of its arousal is designated by the temporal term zimna, which i have rendered moment to capture the sense of spontaneous diremption or recurrent irruption, that is, the summoning of what-will-be in the expectation of what-has-been the summoning of what-will-be, zimna zeman, the moment to be, momentous, momentary.231 haver, in accord with the symbolic language of luria, positions adam qadmon, the primordial human, above the world of emanation, which is divided into linear circularity (a)temporal poetics five configurations (parsufim: arikh anpin, abba, imma, ze eir anpin, and nuqba. haver describes adam qadmon as the root of roots [shoresh ha-shorashim. above the aspect of temporal governance [hanhagat ha-zeman. yet he is the root for the temporal governance [shoresh le-ha

her, they are eternal [lefi ha-nishiyyut. yet, it is impossible to reach the quality of limitless perfection and the matter of eternality, which is the reward for the souls, except by means of volition [behirah] and temporal governance [hanhagat ha-zeman. consequently, the root for vessels [shoresh la-kelim] is there, but they are not disclosed, only potentialities [hakhanot].232 on the one hand, adam qadmon is beyond space and time, and hence it is inappropriate to ascribe a vessel to it. in the world of emanation, by contrast, where space and time prevail, we can speak of the duality of container and contained. on the other hand, since there is no way to reach the imaginal plenum of the boundless and timeless except through the emanations, which exhibit boundary and temporality, it is po

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ence, much different from her original journey to the red sea caves in which she bred demons. the mirror itself is the gateway for her home and from which she may emerge and possess young girls. in a magickal sense, lilith represents the lunar qualities of both woman and man, therefore possession is the conscious alignment with this fertile and seductive force. it was specifically that lilith and adam was not a happy or unified couple. she wished independence and to be equal with mate, and adam was not pleased. lilith refused to lay beneath and in a moment of anger and disgust, rose to the air and called the secret magickal name of god, from which she fled to the shores of the red sea. adam called upon angels to find her and they did locate her, in the caves on the red sea. there she mated

and disgust, rose to the air and called the secret magickal name of god, from which she fled to the shores of the red sea. adam called upon angels to find her and they did locate her, in the caves on the red sea. there she mated with demons and produced 100 lilim or lilitu, succubi and children spawn of her blood. needless to say, the angels felt little security in trying to persuade her back to adam. considering the lunar qualities and the connection to screech owls, lilith is the queen of witches. by witch i do mean cunning woman who is able, by the abilities of command to look, by her own dayside attributes and her concise desire to dress for success, is able to seduce and command by her will of appearance alone. by the nightside attribute, the goddess is the manifestation or channel o

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llow the formation of the names of the governors of the aethyrs and their sigils. dee even had a numbex of different versions which were also corrected. the final version does not fit well either, although it was corrected by the archangel raphael. making changes using the raphael revised version to the various subsystems would be a monumental undertaking, an article written by christian wilby in adam mclean's prestigious hermetic journal (volume 30) discusses the four angelic tablets. in the article, mathers is attacked for putting all the letters on the tablets. i assume the author was talking about the regardie version, as mathers' version is the same as the one published by crowley in his equinox, vol. 1, no. 7. i mention this in case others, like christian wilby, are confused between

tcott's suggest. the only other explanation i could give is that this was one of those "unofficial" golden dawn papers that were often handed around to members. the enochian vocabulary, published in my secret inner order rituals of the golden dawn, is one such example, and dozens of alchemical and old grimoire manuscripts contain others. a copy of rudd's version of this manuscript is contained in adam mclean's angelic magic, which is a part of his magnum opus hermetic source-works series, a limited publication in england. the standard seven seals, as taken from the dee manuscripts and the westcott-rudd versions, are given in figures 92 through 98. the exact nature or divisions of these seven seals are something of a puzzle. though i have toyed with them for years, i have 142 143 144 145 14

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h the paths. in the 4=7 grade however, you are shown the same serpent; its representation being that of the serpent nechushtan. this was the serpent of brass that moses made in the wilderness, and which was turned around the central pillar of mildness, having three cross bars upon it, representing a species of triple cross. dealing now with the altar diagram of the 3=8 grade, it will be seen that adam is the tiphareth part, wherein he is extended. that is to say that the form of the man is projected from there. the figure of eve stands in malkuth, in the form of the supporter. the first ideal form of man is in adam kadmon, behind the kether form and, as it were, the prototype of the tiphareth form. this tiphareth answers to the letter vau of the holy name, as representing the prince. the l

ended. that is to say that the form of the man is projected from there. the figure of eve stands in malkuth, in the form of the supporter. the first ideal form of man is in adam kadmon, behind the kether form and, as it were, the prototype of the tiphareth form. this tiphareth answers to the letter vau of the holy name, as representing the prince. the letter vau also represents the number six and adam was created on the sixth day, for tiphareth is the symbol of the creation. furthermore, the hexagram consists of the two forms fire and water: the ideal fire and the ideal water; the spirit and the water of creation; the spiritual ether and the ethereal fire; the fire of the holy spirit. thus, in the creation of the man is the extension from tiphareth i.e, the moment adam is created, that is

ed in him may be brought up, as it were, to the heights "and may stand in the presence of the holy one (which genius will be a might angelic power, and in a form far different from the petty personages we are here "in that hour, when the son of man is invoked before the lord of spirits, and his name, in the presence of the ancient days" this will be the synthetical form of the son of man, the ben adam, who is the synthesis of the ruach of the universe: in other words, the allusion is to the great god of the world of yetzirah or the microprosopus, the son of the first adam when he is invoked before the lord of spirits, which can but be in kether; and his name in the presence of the ancient of days "he who is ancient before the gods, ancient before time, ancient before the formation of the w

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