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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

around your desk or on the threshold, to create a protective shield. you can charge pepper in the same way to make a salt and pepper floor wash for floors (this is an old afro-caribbean tradition. as you scrub or sprinkle, create the empowerment charm, for example 'salt of earth, pepper of fire, guard my home and cleanse away all harm. pepper also works wonders for keeping away the office vamp or adonis and if you think your partner is at risk from temptation, add the empowered condiment to a salad and they will absorb the protection. a protective ritual with empowered salt* place the salt in a small ceramic dish on your altar and light a pure beeswax candle at the four main compass points around the edges of the altar. beeswax has a long tradition in magick: it was sacred to the mother go

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c, as before; but 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 a

to a blind horse- 91 chapter xii of the bloody sacrifice: and matters cognate. it is necessary for us to consider carefully the problems connected with the bloody sacrifice, for this question is indeed traditionally important in magick. nigh all ancient magick revolves around this matter. in particular all the osirian religions- the rites of the dying god- refer to this. the slaying of osiris and adonis; the mutilation of attis; the cults of mexico and peru; the story of hercules or melcarth; the legends of dionysus and of mithra, are all connected with this one idea. in the hebrew religion we find the same thing inculcated. the first ethical lesson in the bible is that the only sacrifice pleasing to the lord is the sacrifice of blood; abel, who made this, finding favour with the lord, whi

very aspirant of whatever grade. it builds up in him the character and karma which forms the spine of attainment. equinox iii, i, p. 171 "liber cccxxxiii. the book of lies falsely so-called" deals with many matters on all planes of the very highest importance. it is an official publication for babes of the abyss, but is recommended even to beginners as highly suggestive. published "liber cccxxxv. adonis" an account in poetic language of the struggle of the human and divine elements in the consciousness of man, giving their harmony following on the victory of the latter. equinox vii, p. 117 "liber ccclxi. liber h.h.h" 224 gives three methods of attainment through a willed series of thoughts "liber ccclxv, vel cxx. the preliminary invocation of the goetia" so-called, with a complete explanat

horus, tarpesheth: last judgment: 32 :sebek, mako :brahama :32 "bis :satem, ahapshi, nephthys:(prithivi: ameshet :31 "bis :asar:(akasa: 310& 311 table i: xxxiv: xxxv :key scale: some greek gods: some roman gods: 0 :pan: 1 :zeus, iacchus :jupiter: 2 :athena, uranus :janus: 3 :cybele, demeter, rhea, here :juno, cybele, saturn, hecate: 4 :poseidon :jupiter: 5 :ares, hades :mars: 6 :iacchus, apollo, adonis :apollo: 7 :aphrodite, nike :venus: 8 :hermes :mercury: 9 :zeus (as air, diana of :diana (as moon: ephesus (as phallic stone: 10 :persephone (adonis, psyche :ceres :11 :zeus :jupiter: 12 :hermes :mercury: 13 :artemis, hecate :diana: 14 :aphrodite :venus: 15 :athena :mars, minerva: 16:(here :venus: 17 :castor& pollux, apollo the :casto& pollux (janus: diviner: 18 :apollo the charioteer :merc

s moon: ephesus (as phallic stone: 10 :persephone (adonis, psyche :ceres :11 :zeus :jupiter: 12 :hermes :mercury: 13 :artemis, hecate :diana: 14 :aphrodite :venus: 15 :athena :mars, minerva: 16:(here :venus: 17 :castor& pollux, apollo the :casto& pollux (janus: diviner: 18 :apollo the charioteer :mercury: 19 :demeter (borne by lions :venus (repressing the fire of: vulcan: 20:(attis:(attis) ceres, adonis: 21 :zeus :jupiter (pluto: 22 :themis, minos, aeacus, and :vulcan: rhadamanthus :23 :poseidon :neptune: 24 :ares :mars: 25 :apollo, artemis (hunters :diana (as archer: 26 :pan, priapus (erect hermes :pan, vesta, bacchus, priapus: and bacchus: 27 :ares :mars: 28:(athena, ganymede :juno: 29 :poseidon :neptune: 30 :helios, apollo :apollo :31 :hades :vulcan, pluto: 32:(athena :saturn :32 "bis:(

of dante and beatrice, and the love of paolo and francesca, and the love of caesar and lucrezia borgia, and the love of aucassin and nicolette, and the love of daphnis and chloe, and the love of cornelia and caius gracchus, and the love of bacchus and ariadne, and the love of cupid and psyche, and the love of endymion and artemis, and the love of demeter and persephone, and the love of venus and adonis, and the love of lakshmi and vishnu, and the love of siva and bhavani and the love of buddha and ananda, and the love of jesus and john, and many more. also there is the love of many saints for their particular deity, as of st. francis of assisi for christ, of sri sabhapaty swami for maheswara, of abdullah haji shirazi for allah, of st ignatius loyola for mary, and many more. now do thou ta

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u're working with me, you'll have no time to waste on other people. i fear your "christianity" is like that of most other folk. you pick out one or two of the figures from which the alexandrines concocted "jesus (too many cooks, again, with a vengeance) and neglect the others. the zionist christ of matthew can have no value for you; nor can the asiatic "dying-god- compiled from melcarth, mithras, adonis, bacchus, osiris, attis, krishna, and others- who supplied the miraculous and ritualistic elements of the fable. rightly you ask "what can i contribute" answer: one book. that is the idea of the weekly letter: 52 of yours and 52 of mine, competently edited, would make a most useful volume. this would be your property: so that you get full material value, perhaps much more, for your outlay

ny other similar monuments of lexicography (for really they are little more, is our text-book. we are bound to note at once that the gods sympathise, run into one another, coalesce much more closely than any other of the orders of being. there is not really much in common between a jackal and a beetle, or between a wolf and an owl, although they are grouped under pisces or aries respectively. but adonis, attis, osiris, melcarth, mithras, marsyas- a whole string of them comes tripping off the tongue. they all have histories; their birth, their life, their death, their subsequent career; all goes naturally with them exactly as if they were (say) a set of warriors, painters, anything superbly human. we feel instinctively that we know them, or at least know of them in the same sense that we kn

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europa, semele and others claimed that zeus- air<<zeus obtained air for his kingdom in the partition with hades, who took fire, and poseidon, who took water. shu is the egyptian god of the firmament. there is a great difficulty here, etymologically. zeus is connected with iao, abrasax, and the dental sibilant gods of the great mysteries, with the south and hadit, ada, set, saturn, adonai, attis, adonis; he is even the "jesus, slain with the lance, whose blood is collected in a cup. yet he is also to be identified with the opposite party of the north and nuit, with the "john" slain with the sword, whose flesh is placed upon a disk, in the lesser mysteries, baptizing with water as "jesus" with fire, with on, oannes, noah, and the like. it seems as if this great division, which has wrought s

sar be with isa, who also are one. but they are not of me. let asar be the adorant, isa the sufferer; hoor in his secret name and splendour is the lord initiating" the old comment 49. declares a new system of magic, and initiation. asar-isa is now the candidate, not the hierophant. hoor- see cap. iii- is the initiator. the new comment this verse declares that the old formula of magick- the osiris-adonis-jesus-marsyas-dionysus-attis-etcetera formula of the dying god- is no longer efficacious. it rested on the ignorant belief that the sun died every day, and every year, and that its resurrection was a miracle. the formula of the new aeon recognizes horus, the child crowned and conquering, as god. we are all members of the body of god, the sun; and about our system is the ocean of space. this

cientific sense, come this earth, a chilled spark of him, and all our light and life. his vice-regent and representative in the animal kingdom is his cognate symbol the phallus, representing love and liberty. ra-hoor-khuit, like all true gods, is therefore a solar-phallic deity. but we regard him as he is in truth, eternal; the solar-phallic deities of the old aeon, such as osiris "christ, hiram, adonis, hercules &c, were supposed, through our ignorance of the cosmos, to 'die' and rise again. thus we celebrated rites of 'crucifixion' and so on, which have now become meaningless. ra-hoor-khuit is the crowned and conquering child. this is also a reference to the 'crowned' and conquering 'child' in ourselves, our own personal god. except ye become as little children, said 'christ, ye shall no

ription applies to this "equinox of the gods" itself. how have the conditions been fulfilled? the introduction to book 4, part iv tells us. we may briefly remind the reader of the principal events, arranging them in the form of a rubric, and placing against each the corresponding magical acts of the equinox previous to ours, as they are symbolized in the legends of osiris, dionysus, jesus, attis, adonis, and others. the ritual. aeon of horus aeon of osiris another prophet the beast 666 dionysus and shall arise (aleister crowley) others others are names for (perhaps) apollonius of tyana. in the conditions then obtaining, several magi were required and bring fresh "force& fire" of horus fever from the "skies" of nuit skies. another woman see comment on "venus" of the shall awake chapt. i. 15

onis, and others. the ritual. aeon of horus aeon of osiris another prophet the beast 666 dionysus and shall arise (aleister crowley) others others are names for (perhaps) apollonius of tyana. in the conditions then obtaining, several magi were required and bring fresh "force& fire" of horus fever from the "skies" of nuit skies. another woman see comment on "venus" of the shall awake chapt. i. 15. adonis legends. we have no clue to her name. the lust and the might and worthiness the "holy ghost" worship of the of hadit within men; also or "satan" indwelling. snake the cult of the spermatozoon the key to magick in the snake apophis the destroyer. another soul of the union of aiwaz and pan as god and god and beast the beast in aleister goat; mary &c: crowley. the identification as mother of t

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and sucking putrefaction from the sinews of the fallen, and rottenness from the charnel-house of might. o reason! thou hast become as a vulture feasting off the corpse of a king as it floats down the dark waters of acheron. nay! not so grand a sight, but as an old, wizened woman, skaldy and of sagging breast, who in the solitude of her "latrina" cuddles and licks the oleograph of a naked youth. o adonis, rest in the arms of aphrodite, seek not the hell-fouled daughter of ceres, who hath grown hideous in the lewd embrace of the serpent-god, betrayer of the knowledge of good and of evil. behold her bulging belly and her shrivelled breasts, full of scale and scab "bald, rotten, abominable" her tears no longer blossom into the anemones of spring; 184 for their purity has left them, and they ar

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(i cannot explain this, there is confusion of personalities) i who speak to you, see what i tell you; but i, who see him, cannot communicate it to me, who speak to you. if one could gaze upon the sun at noon, that might be like 44 the substance of him. but the light is without heat. it is the vision of ut in the upanishads. and from this vision have come all the legends of bacchus and krishna and adonis. for the impression is of a youth dancing and making music. but you must understand that he is not doing that, for he is still. even the hand that turns the wheel is not his hand, but only a hand energized by him. and now it is the dance of shiva. i lie beneath his feet, his saint, his victim. my form is the form of the god phtah, in my essence, but the form of the god seb in my form. and t

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as nearly the worst possible. he has abundantly proved his main point, the true antiquity of some masonic system. it is a parallel to frazer's tracing of the history of the slain god. but why is there no life in any of our slain god rituals! it is for us to restore them by the word and the grip. for us, who have the inner knowledge, inherited or won, it remains to restore the true rites of attis, adonis, osiris, of set, serapis, mithras, and abel. aleister crowley. 240 the herb dangerous part iv a few extracts from h. g. ludlow, the hasheesh eater which bear upon the peculiar characteristics of the drug's action the hasheesh eater for a place, new york for instance, a stranger accounts, not by saying that any one of the many who testify to its existence copied from another, but by acknowle

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eater of flesh is my name. aries. oh, our lord, our lord! arise in thy might, and let thine enemies be scattered [aries "and" leo "draw veil. the throne has been cast down. on the black veil is a great red cross, whereon" sol "has been crucified. before him stands" satan-typhon "in the sign of apophis and typhon [aries "and" leo "fall as if slain" scorpio-apophis "plays her murder melody<adonis: waddell["meanwhile the" probationers "advance and under the direction of typhon, who stabs" sol "in the proper manner with the spear of" sol "take down" sol from the cross and lay him in the pastos. they cover it" besz "does his brutal demoniac dance upon the lid of the coffin" 73 "exeunt" omnis "exc" sol "this ends in complete darkness. silence. there is a flash of light, and the stage is

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ueen of heaven" standing on the crescent moon, her head surrounded with twelve stars "it would seem more than a chance that so many of the virgin mothers and goddesses of antiquity should have the same name. the mother of bacchus was myrrha; the mother of mercury or hermes was myrrha or maia; the mother of the siamese saviour sommona cadom was called maya maria, i.e `the great mary; the mother of adonis was myrrha; the mother of buddha was maya; now, all these names whether myrrha, maia or maria, are the same as mary, the name of the mother of the christian saviour. the month of may was sacred to these goddesses, so likewise is it sacred to the virgin mary at the present day. she was also called myrrha and maria, as well as mary."37 in the symbolic language of esotericism, a cave is regard

me of the life or recorded appearance of jesus of nazareth and for some centuries before, the mediterranean and neighbouring world had been the scene of a vast number of pagan- 109- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust creeds and rituals. there were temples without end dedicated to gods like apollo or dionysus among the greeks, hercules among the romans, mithra among the persians, adonis and arris in syria and phrygia, osiris and isis and horus in egypt, baal and astarte among the babylonians and carthaginians, and so forth. societies, large or small, united believers and the devout in the service or ceremonials connected with their respective deities, and in the creeds which they confessed concerning these deities. and an extraordinarily interesting fact, for us, is that

nese tien the holy one `one with god and existing with him from all eternity' died to save the world; the egyptian osiris was called saviour, so was horus; so was the persian mithra; so was the greek hercules who overcame death though his body was consumed in the burning garment of mortality, out of which he rose into heaven. so also was the phrygian attis called saviour, and the syrian tammuz or adonis likewise both of whom, as we have seen, were nailed or tied to a tree, and afterwards rose again from their biers or coffins. prometheus, the greatest and earliest benefactor of the human race, was nailed by the hands and the feet, and with arms extended, to the rocks of mount caucasus. bacchus or dionysus, born of the virgin semele to be the liberator of mankind (dionysus eleutherios as he

iours of the past were all subjected to the processes of death in some form or other, but they all rose again or were translated to glory. in the initiation ceremonies this burial and resurrection at the end of three days was a familiar ceremonial. history tells us of many of these sons of god who died and rose again, and finally ascended into heaven. we find, for instance, that "the obsequies of adonis were celebrated in alexandria (in egypt) with the utmost display. his image was carried with great solemnity to a tomb, which served the purpose of rendering him the last honours. before singing his return to life, there were mournful rites celebrated in honour of his suffering and his death. the large wound which he received was shown, just as the wound was shown which was made to christ b

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ion of a woman. and he is also called "lohita" the red, like adam, and the other "first men" hence, the author of "the source of measures" is quite right in thinking that mars (and all the other gods of like attributes "being the god of war and of[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 44 the secret doctrine. mikroprosopoi. with the jews adam kadmon was the same as athamaz, tamaz, or the adonis of the greeks "the one with, and of his father- the "father" becoming during the later races helios, the sun, as apollo karneios* for instance, who was the "sun born; osiris, ormazd, and so on, were all followed by, and found themselves transformed later on into still more earthly types: such as prometheus, the crucified of mount kajbee, hercules, and so many others, sun-gods and heroes, un

r thy salvation, o lord" of simeon and levi the patriarch remarks that they. are brethren; instru[[footnote(s "pantheon" text 15[[vol. 2, page] 212 the secret doctrine. ments of cruelty are in their habitations. o my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly* now in the original, the words "their secret" really are "their sod* and sod was the name for the great mysteries of baal, adonis and bacchus, who were all sun-gods and had serpents for symbols. the kabalists explain the allegory of the fiery serpents by saying that this was the name given to the tribe of levi, to all the levites, in short, and that moses was the chief of the sodales* it is to the mysteries that the original meaning of the "dragon-slayers" has to be traced, and the question is fully treated of hereaft

differences in human nature, which is divided into seven gradations of good and evil. there were seven tabernacles ready to be inhabited by monads under seven different karmic conditions. the commentaries explain on this basis the easy spread of evil, as soon as the human forms had become real men. some ancient[[footnote(s "genesis" ch. xlix* dunlap, in his introduction to "sod, the mysteries of adonis" explains the word "sod" as arcanum, religious mystery, on the authority of schindler's "penteglott "the secret of the lord is with them that fear him" says psalm xxv, 14. this is a mistranslation of the christians, for it ought to read "sod ihoh (the mysteries of ihoh) are for those who fear him (dunlap "mysteries of adonis" xi "al (el) is terrible in the great sod of the kadeshim (the pri

al (el) is terrible in the great sod of the kadeshim (the priests, the holy, the initiated, psalm lxxxix, 7 (ibid. the kadeshim were very far from holy (vide part ii "the holy of holies "the members of the priest-colleges were called sodales" says freund's "latin lexicon (iv. 448 "sodalities were constituted in the idaean mysteries of the mighty mother" writes cicero in de senectute("mysteries of adonis* the priests of baal who jumped over the fires. but this was a hebrew term and a local one "saraph "fiery or flaming venom[[vol. 2, page] 213 the seventh son of the seventh son. philosophers ignored the seven in their genetical accounts and gave only four. thus the mexican local genesis has "four good men" described as the four real ancestors of the human race "who were neither begotten by

were "adam-adami" is a generic compound name as old as languages are. the secret doctrine teaches that ad-i was the name given to the first speaking race of mankind- in this round- by the aryans. hence the adonim and adonai (the ancient plural form of the word adon, which the jews applied to their jehovah and angels, who were simply the first spiritual and ethereal sons of the earth; and the god adonis, who in his many variations stood for the "first lord" adam is the sanskrit ada-nath, also meaning first lord, as ad-iswara, or any ad (the first) followed by any adjective or substantive. the reason for this is that such truths were a common inheritance. it was a revelation received by the first mankind before that time which, in biblical phraseology, is called "the period of one lip and w

he pastoral cyclopes* his adventure with the latter- a savage gigantic race, the antithesis of cultured civilization in the odyssey- is an allegorical record of the gradual passage from the cyclopean civilization of stone and colossal buildings to the more sensual and physical culture of the atlanteans, which finally caused the last of[[footnote(s* deukalion is said to have brought the worship of adonis and osiris into phoenicia. now the worship is that of the sun, lost and found again in its astronomical significance. it is only at the pole where the sun dies out for such a length of time as six months, for in latitude 68[[degrees] it remains dead only for forty days, as in the festival of osiris. the two worships were born in the north of lemuria, or on that continent of which asia was a

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" the deity, from which these two in one have their being, is ever concealed and called the "hidden one" connected only indirectly with creation* as it can act only through the dual force emanating from the eternal essence. even aesculapius, called the "saviour of all" is identical, according to ancient classics, with phta, the egyptian creative intellect (or divine wisdom, and with apollo, baal, adonis and hercules (see dunlap's "mystery of adonis" pp. 23 and 95; and phta is, in one of its aspects, the "anima mundi" the universal soul of plato, the "divine spirit" of the egyptians, the "holy ghost" of the early christians and gnostics, and the akasa of the hindus, and even, in its lower aspect, the astral light. for phta was originally the "god of the dead" he in whose bosom they were rec

pts, explain well the thousand and one images under which the moon was represented by the ancients. it also shows how much more profoundly learned in the selenic mysteries were the ancients than are now our modern astronomers. the whole pantheon of the lunar gods and goddesses, nephtys or neith, proserpina, melytta, cybele, isis, astarte, venus, and hecate, on the one hand, and apollo, dionysius, adonis, bacchus, osiris, atys, thammuz, etc, etc, on the other, all show on the face of their names and titles- those of "sons" and "husbands" of their mothers- their identity with the christian trinity. in every religious system the gods were made to merge their functions as father, son, and husband, into one, and the goddesses were identified as "wife, mother, and sister" of the male god; the fo

according to creuzer (i, vi, ch. 1, oracles were rendered, then it will become the pleasure of the occultists to prove that both aidoneus and dionysius are the bases of adonai, or "jurbo adonai" as jehovah is called in codex nazaraeus "thou shalt not worship the sun, who is named adonai, whose name is also kadush and el-el (cod. naz, i, 47; see also psalm lxxxix, 18, and also "lord bacchus" baal-adonis of the sods or mysteries of the pre-babylonian jews became the adonai by the massorah, the later-vowelled jehovah. hence the roman catholics are right. all these jupiters are of the same family; but jehovah has to be included therein to make it complete. jupiter-aerios or pan, the jupiter ammon, and the jupiter-bel-moloch, are all correlations and one with yurbo-adonai, because they are all

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o understand the meaning of the overthrowing of osiris by horus in the present on. liber cxcvii. the high history of good sir palamedes the saracen knight and of his following of the questing beast. a poetic account of the great work, and enumeration of many obstacles. liber ccxlii. aha! an exposition in poetic language of several of the ways of attainment and the results obtained. liber cccxxxv. adonis. this gives an account in poetic language of the struggle of the human and divine elements in the consciousness of man, giving their harmony following upon the victory of the latter. liber xvi. liber turris vel domus dei. an instruction for attainment by the direct destruction of thoughts as they arise in the mind. liber clxxv. astarte vel liber berylli. an instruction in attainment by the

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around your desk or on the threshold, to create a protective shield. you can charge pepper in the same way to make a salt and pepper floor wash for floors (this is an old afro-caribbean tradition. as you scrub or sprinkle, create the empowerment charm, for example 'salt of earth, pepper of fire, guard my home and cleanse away all harm. pepper also works wonders for keeping away the office vamp or adonis and if you think your partner is at risk from temptation, add the empowered condiment to a salad and they will absorb the protection. a protective ritual with empowered salt seite 97 wicca01.txt* place the salt in a small ceramic dish on your altar and light a pure beeswax candle at the four main compass points around the edges of the altar. beeswax has a long tradition in magick: it was sa

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ls" and the new testament means "new balls. when we testify in court is the judge symbolically holding our testicles? you're right, don't lets go there. good thinking. suns of god tammuz was a name for the sumerian god dumazi or damu (the "only begotten son" or "son of the blood) who provided the blueprint for all the later sons of god, including jesus. the hebrews inherited tammuz (also known as adonis) from the babylonians and the roman records refer to tammuz as the chief god of the jews. the jewish calendar still has a month named after tammuz, who was known as "the serpent who emanated from the heaven-god, anu."3 and anu was the head of 198 children of the matrix the anunnaki, the sumerian tablets say. the mesopotamian kings were said to be of the bloodline of tammuz, just as sir laur

ck of stars. he died wearing a "crown of thorns" made from myrrh. tammuz was symbolically sacrificed on the day of atonement in the form of a lamb. he was worshipped in jerusalem where his exact story would later be re-told using the name "jesus. and, take a deep breath here vicar, the cave in bethlehem where jesus is said to have been born, is the same one where the ancients claimed that tammuz (adonis) was born. the bible "translator, jerome, admitted that bethlehem had been a sacred grove dedicated to tammuz, the fertility god or "spirit of the corn. bethlehem means "house of bread" or "house of corn. horns, the egyptian son of god, was born in the "place of bread" and jesus said he was "the bread of life. the priesthood took the ancient sumer sun religion, esoteric, astrological and as

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of thebonzes; adad of assyria; deva tat and sammonocadam of siam; alcides of thebes;mikado of the sintoos; beddru of japan; hesus or eros, and bremrillahm, of the druids;thor, son of odin, of the gauls; cadmus of greece; hil and feta of mandaites; gentautand quetzalcoatl of mexico; universal monarch of the sibyls; ischy of formosa; divineteacher of plato; holy one of xaca; fohi and tien of china; adonis, son of virgin lo, ofgreece; ixion and quirinus of rome; prometheus of the caucasus; and mohammed ormahomet, of arabia.22all but a few of those sons of god or prophets, and the mind-prison religions foundedin their names, come from the very lands occupied or influenced by peoples emerging fromthe near east and the caucasus. the lands of the aryans and reptile-aryans. other sons ofgod includ

ened. luke 23-44,45the son/sun had died and so there was darkness. and look how many hours thislasted for: three. the same story of darkness at their death was told by the hindus ofkhrishna, the buddhists of buddha, the greeks of hercules, the mexicans ofquetzalcoatl, ad infinitum, long before jesus. when he died, jesus descended intohell, just like the earlier khrishna, zoroaster, osiris, horus, adonis/tammuz, bacchus,hercules, mercury and so on. he then rose from the dead like the earlier khrishna,buddha, zoroaster, adonis/tammuz, osiris, mithra, hercules and baldur. jesus wassymbolically crucified at easter because this is the spring equinox when the sun (jesus)enters the astrological sign of aries, the ram or. the lamb. the lamb in the book ofrevelation is the same symbol. in around 2

t strand, a fusion between freemasonry and thejacobite movement which became known as grand orient freemasonry. there are alsogrand orient networks in others countries like brazil and portugal. grand orient meansgrand east and its rituals are inspired by the worship of zoroaster in persia, ishtar andtammuz (semiramis and nimrod) in babylon, demeter, persephone and dionysus ingreece, aphrodite and adonis in syria, isis and osiris in egypt, and mithra in persia.39the grand orient in france was to be the focus behind the manipulation andcoordination of the french revolution. from the brotherhoods point of view, thispeoples revolution had nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with itsagenda for global control. the famous cry of the french revolutionaries: liberty,equality, fraternity

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erb (foeniculum vulgare) credited in folklore with mysterious and vivifying properties. according to pliny, serpents eat fennel to shed the skin and thus renew youth and vision. in humans it has been said to improve the eyesight, increase the milk of nursing mothers, and reduce corpulence. in ancient times fennel leaves were used to crown victors in games, and fennel was also used in the rites of adonis. feola, jose m(aria (1926) argentine radiobiologist and parapsychologist. feola was born may 30, 1926, in buenos aires and served in argentine army research in the 1940s, earning the rank of lieutenant. feola was a radiobiological researcher at the argentine atomic energy commission in buenos aires (1956.64) before moving to the united states in 1965 as a researcher at donner laboratory, un

ally magical in conception and meaning, literature, sculpture, and history. the nature that surrounded them gave rise to their imaginations. the mountains and valleys, mysterious caves and fissures, vapors and springs of volcanic origin, and sacred groves were all, according to their character, dedicated to the gods. parnassus was the abode of the sun-god apollo; the lovely vale of aphaca that of adonis; the oak-groves of dodona favored of zeus; and the gloomy caves with their roar of subterranean waters the oracle of trophonius. innumerable instances of magical wonder-working are found in the stories of greek deities and heroes. the power of transformation is shown in a multitude of cases, among them that of bacchus who, by waving a spear, could change the oars of a ship into serpents and

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bers also deal with the periodic arrival of groups from other solar systems. some are highly evolved and benign, others less developed and belligerent. according to korsholm, the members of the planetary council are: horus, representing the sun, coordinates the council s work with that of higher space intelligences and christ councils. hermes (mercury) is in charge of communication through space. adonis (venus) guides the evolution of love and beauty. enoch (earth) oversees prophecy. croesus (mars) is responsible for the coordination of council activities with the dictates of the ascended masters in the brotherhood of light. athena (the asteroid belt, formerly the planet maldek) defends truth and justice. jove (jupiter) balances magnetic fields. zoroaster (saturn) monitors order, structure

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nstead of appearing as a child in the arms of its mother, is represented as a man, and that he is of equal importance with the woman; later he is identical with the sun, the woman, although still a necessary factor in the god-idea, being concealed or absorbed within the male. it is no longer woman who is to bruise the serpent's head, but the seed of the woman, or the son. he is bacchus in greece, adonis in syria, christna in india. he is indeed the new sun which is born on the 25th of december, or at the time when the solar orb has reached its lowest position and begins to ascend. it is not perhaps necessary to add that he is also the christ of bethlehem, the son of the virgin. nowhere, perhaps, is the growing importance of the male in the god-idea more clearly traced than in the history o

the jehovah of the jews, was indigenous in thrace, phrygia, and lydia as the great mother cybele. he was identical with bacchus, who although represented on various coins as a "bearded venerable figure" appears with the limbs, features, and character of a beautiful young woman. sometimes this deity is portrayed with sprouting horns, and again with a crown of ivy. the phrygian attis and the syrian adonis, as represented in monuments of ancient art, are androgynous personifications of the same attributes. according to the testimony of the geographer dionysius, the worship of bacchus was formerly carried on in the british islands in exactly the same manner as it had been in an earlier age in thrace and on the banks of the ganges. in referring to the idean zeus in crete, to demeter at eleusis

festivals in the east. when cyrus entered the temples he found the public clad in mourning. in a cavern lay the image of a young man (the dying savior) on a bed of flowers and odoriferous herbs nine days were spent in fasting, prayers, and lamentations, after which the public sorrow ceased and was changed into gladness. songs of joy succeeded weeping (for tamuz, the whole assembly singing hymns "adonis is returned to life, urania weeps no more, he has ascended to heaven, he will soon return to earth and banish hence all crimes and miseries forever" this scene, it will be remembered, was presented 500 years prior to the birth of christ. in rome, throughout the months preceding the winter solstice, hilaria or ceres, was especially honored. apollo and diana rose on the 7th of the julian apri

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rightful forms of mutilation. the' holde' goddess turns into an' unholde' still beautiful in front, but with a tail behind^ so much of her ancient charms as could not be stript off" was held to be seductive and sinful: and thus was forged the legend of the venus-mount. their ancient ofl'erings too the "wasscnberg p. 72. creuzer's symb. 2, 98. i fear eudbeck bad the boldness to adapt the legend of adonis (p. 949n) to oden- conf' frau welt' dame world, in conrad's poem p. 196 seq. vol. iii. e 948 spectres. peo^jle did not altogether drop, but limited them to tlie slieaf of oats for the celestial steed, as even death (another hunter, p. 845-6) has his bushel of oats found him (p. 844. when horn again as heroes, the gods retained their genuine old character undimmed. thus we see dietrich, ekli

de, who, like hel, is scented by the dogs (p. 667^ and for whom a paltry pittance was placed (as for berhta and the wild woman, p' a malefactor, whose crime is not divulged before bis death, is doomed to wander with liis head under his arm (superst. i, g05. can the being struck (or growing) blind be meant to exjiress ghostly wandering? 2 aratus phaenom. 037. ov. fast. 5, 541. lucan phars. 9, 832. adonis got bis death-wound from the boar. nestor (jos. miiller 101) tells us, it was prophesied to oleg that he would die of his horse; he still had it fed, but would not see it again. five years after, he inquired about it, and was told it was dead. then he laughed at soothsayers, and went into the stable, where the horse's skeleton lay, but when he trod on the skull, a snake darted out of it and

i-garen (sewing yarn. the alcyonium digitatum or palmatum is devil's hand, manus diaboli, thieps hand, engl, devil's hand or deadman's hand, nethl. doode mans hand, oude mans hand, fr. main de diahle, main de ladi'e, de larron, conf. forneotes folme, p. 240. lycopodium clavatum, devil's claw; euphorbia, devil's milk; clematis vitalba, devil's thread; scabiosa succisa, devil's bite, boh. cert-hus; adonis, devil's eye; convolvulus arvensis, devil's gut, etc, etc- probably the folktales of an earlier time knew the exact reasons of such names, conf. superst. i, nos. 189. 190. 4-7g. the thunderbolt, the elf-shot, was also called devil's finger, pp. 179. 187 (see suppl^ caterpillars, through shedding their skins, becoming pupje, and gradually changing from creeping and dead-like creatures into f

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

month of bo dromion (september, the time of grape-gathering, and lasted from the 15th to the 22nd-seven days. the hebrew feast of tabernacles-the feast of ingatherings-in the month of ethanim (the seventh) also began on the 15th and ended on the 22nd of that month. the name of the month (ethanim) is derived, according to some, from adonim, adonia, attenim, ethanim, and was in honor of adonai, or adonis (tham, page 151 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt whose death was lamented by the hebrews in the groves of bethlehem. the sacrifice of "bread and wine" was performed both in the eleusinia and during the feast of tabernacles. emanation (the doctrine of) is in its metaphysical meaning opposed to evolution, yet one with it. science teaches that, physiologically, evolution is a mode of gen

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ch of the inquiiition" digitizecoy google 80 isis unveiled buddha* au come from the same root. jesus says "upon uus pelra i will build my church, and the gates [or rulers] of hades shall not prevail against it; meaning by petra the rock-temple, and metaphorically, the christian mysteries; the adversaries to which were the old myatery-goda of the underworld, who were worshiped in the rites of lus, adonis, atys, sabazius, dionysus, and the eleusinia. no apoaue peter was ever at rome; but the pope, seizing the scepter of the ponufex maximum, the keys fa janus and cybele, and adorning his christian head with the cap of the magna mater, copied from that of the tiara of brahvmnut, the supreme pontiff of the initiates of old india, became the successor of the pagan high priest, the real peter-rom

e ancient oua-podrida of idolatrous nations, where was built nazara, the present nasra. it was in nazara that the ancient nazoria or nazireates held their 'mysteries of life' or 'assem- blies (as the word now stands in the translation* which['amcionea] were the secret mysteries of initiation* utterly distinct in their practical form from the popular mysteries which were held at byblus in honor of adonis. while the true initiaiet of the ostracised galilee were worship. ing the true god and enjoying transcendent visions, what were the 'chosen* ones about? ezekiel tells us this (ch. viii) when in describing what he saw he says that the form of a hand took him by a lock of his head and transported htm from chaldaea unto jerusalem "and there stood seventy men of the senators of the house of isr

tells us this (ch. viii) when in describing what he saw he says that the form of a hand took him by a lock of his head and transported htm from chaldaea unto jerusalem "and there stood seventy men of the senators of the house of israel 'son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients. do in the dark" inquires the 'lord "at the door of the house of the lord. behold there sat women weeping for tammuz (adonis. we really cannot suppose that the pagans have ever sutpassed the 'chosen' people in certain shameful abominatioru of which their own prophets accuse them so profusely. to admit this truth, one need hardly be a hebrew scholar; let him read the bible in english and meditate over the language of the 'holy' prophets. this accounts for the hatred of the later nazarenes for the orthodox jews fol

et him read the bible in english and meditate over the language of the 'holy' prophets. this accounts for the hatred of the later nazarenes for the orthodox jews followers of the exoterie mosaic law who are ever taunted by this sect with being the worshipers of lurbo-adunai, or lord bacchus. passing under the disguise of adoni-iahoh (original text, itaiah, ixi, 1, lahoh and lord sabaoth, the baal-adonis, or bacchus, worshiped in the groves and public tods or mysteries, under the polishing hand of ezra becomes finally the later-voweled adonai of the massorah the one and supreme god of the christians "tliou shalt not worship the sun who is named aduuai" says the codex of the nazarenes "whose name is also kaduak^ and ei-ei. this adunai will elect to himself a nation and congregate in crovada

onents of bacchus- worship" bacchus is brought up by the hyodes, the rain-nymphs" saya preller* and dunlap ahows furthermore* that at the conclusion of the religious mysteries the priests baptized (washed) their monuments and anointed them with oil. ah this is but a very indirect proof "die jordan baptism need not be shown a substitution for the exoteric bacchic rites and the ubations in honor of adonis or adoni whom the nazarenes ab- horred in order to prove them [the nazarenes] to have been a sect sprung from the' mysteries' of the' secret doctrine; and their rites can by no means be coctfounded with those of the pagan populace, who had simply fallen into the idolatrous and unreasoning faith of all plebeian multitudes. john was the prophet of these nazarenes, and in galilee he was termed

est plunges the statues of the gods thrice, in the name of the myttic trinity, into the water; after which they are purified" 2s5. hcmdotiu, ii, f 170. 171. 28b. the hindlk kgh ponus the chief d the nkmburu, who lives in the cochin land, it geneimll' preaent during thete fertivali of* hohr wst r' immanoiu. he tnrda lometiraea to voy gremt dictaiicm to preiidc orcr the oeremonj. digitizecoy google adonis wobship at bethlehem 1 he orphic hymn calls water the greatest purifier of men and gods. our nazarene sect is known to have existed some iso years b. c, and to have uved on the banks of the jordan, and on the eastern shore of the dead sea, according to pliny and josephus' but in king's gnimfic* we find quoted another statement whidi says that the essenes had been established on the shores o

as very intimate. the populace had proba- bly gradually adopted in their constant intercourse certain rites and modes of worship of the pagans; and the scorn with which the gali- leans were regarded by the orthodox jews is attributed by him to the same cause. their friendly relations had certainly led them, at a later period, to adopt the 'adonia' or the sacred rites over the body of the lamented adonis, as we find jerome plainly lamenting this circumstance "over bethlehem" he says "the grove of tham- muz, that is of adonis, was casting its shadow! and in the qbotto where formerly the infant jesus cried, the lover of venus was being mourned" it was after the rebellion of bar cochba that the boman emperor established the mysteries of adonis at the sacred cave in bethlehem; and who knows but

m" he says "the grove of tham- muz, that is of adonis, was casting its shadow! and in the qbotto where formerly the infant jesus cried, the lover of venus was being mourned" it was after the rebellion of bar cochba that the boman emperor established the mysteries of adonis at the sacred cave in bethlehem; and who knows but this was the p^a or rock-temple on which the church was built? the boar of adonis was placed above the gate of jerusalem which looked toward bethlehem. munk soys that the "nazireate was an institution established before the laws of moses' this is evident, as we find this sect not only mentioned but minutely described in number (ch. vi. in the com- mandment given in this chapter to moses by the 'lord' it is easy to recognise the rites and laws of the priests of adonis" he

sophy of siddhdrtho'sakyamimi. after nineteen centuries c^ enforced eliminations from the canonical books of every sentence which might put the investigator on the true 307. hu mlldtt "ilie zend aaeita' in chir. tit. i, pp. 83. 83. 308. 2dd ed, p. s6. digitizecoy google 144 ws vsvexlbd path, it has become vei7 difficult to show, to the satisfaction of exact science, that the 'pagan' worshipers of adonis, thor neighbors, the nazarenes, and the pythagorean essenes, the healing therapeutes" the bionites, and other sects, were all, with very slight differences, followers of the ancient theuigic mysteries. and yet by analogy and a close study of the hiddmt sense of their rites and customs, we can trace their kinship. it was given to a contemporary of jesus to become the means of pointing out to

nth the dead come up out of the earth, figuring the resurrection; ao when we are kneeling before the altar of the holy and immaculate mary, let us remember that there should come forth from us the bud of promise, the bower of hope, and the imperishable fruit of sanctity" this is precisely the substratum of the pagan thought, which, among other meanings, by the rites of the resurrection of osiris, adonis, bac- chus, and other slaughtered sun-gods, symbolized the resurrection of all nature in spring, the germination of seeds that bad been dead and sleep- ing during winter, and so were allegorically said to be kept in the under- world (hades. they are typified by the three days passed in hell before their resurrection by hercules, christos and others. this derivation, or rather h^ety, as it i

hows the ebionites numbering among their sect all the surviving relatives of jesus. john the baptist, his cousin and precursor, was the accepted savior of the naza- renes, and their prophet. his disciples dwelt on the other side of the jordan, and the seene of tiie baptism of the jordan is clearly and beyond any question proved by the author of sdd, the son of the man to have been the site of the adonis-worship" over the jordan and beyond the lake dwelt the nasarenes, a sect said to have existed already at the birth of lesus, and to have counted him among its number. they must have extended along the east of the jordan, and southeasterly among the arabians (gal, i, 17, 21; ii, 11) and sabaeaus in the direction of basra; and again, they must have gone far north over the lebanon to antioch

h of lesus, and to have counted him among its number. they must have extended along the east of the jordan, and southeasterly among the arabians (gal, i, 17, 21; ii, 11) and sabaeaus in the direction of basra; and again, they must have gone far north over the lebanon to antioch, also to the northeast to the nasarian settlement in beroea, where st. jerome found them. in the desert the mysteries of adonis may have still prevailed; in the mountains aiai adonin was still a cry i "having been united (conjunctug) to the nazarenes, each (ebionite) imparted to the other out of his own wickedness, and decided that christ toot of the seed of a man" writes epiphanius* and if they did, we must suppose they knew more about their con- temporary prophet than epiphanius 400 years later. theodoret, as show

oman, and thus the father and the son fecundated the heavenly 'woman' and from primal darkness procreated the visible light (sephira is the invisible, or spiritual li^t "whom they called the anointed christus, or king messiah^ this christus is the adam of dust before his fall, with the spirit of the adonai, his father, and shekhinah-adonai, his mother, upon him; for adam primus is adon, adonu, or adonis. the primal existence manifests itself by its wisdom, and produces the intdligible logos (all visible creation. this wisdom was venerated by the ophites under the form of a serpent. so far we see that the first and second life are the two adams, or the first and the second man. in the former lies eva, or the yet unborn spiritual eve, and she is within adam primus, for she is a part of him

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ilosophical principles. 2d edition, 2 vols. 8vo. london: j. davis, chancery lane, 1800. 260 the rosicrucians. the jewel of the rossi-crucians (rosicrucians) is formed of a transparent red stone, with a red cross on one side, and a red rose on the other-thus, it is a crucified rose. the rossi or rosy crucians ideas concerning this emblematical red cross and red rose probably came from the fable of adonis who was the sun whom we have seen so often crucified being changed into a red rose by venus (see drummond s origines, vol. iii, p. 121. rus (which is ras in chaldee) in irish signifies tree, knowledge, science, magic, power. this is the hebrew r as. hence the persian rustan (val. col. hib. vol. iv. pt. i. p. 84. the ancient sardica, in lat. 40 50, is now called sophia; the ancient aquineum

artists exercised their talents in the production of a kind of beauty mixed of that of the two sexes, merging and blending the softness and enchanting shapeliness of the one with the aggressive picturesque roundness and boldness of the other. each (separate) was the acm of picturelike propriety and grace. but the third thing was a new thing otherwise a miracle a new sensation. hence paris, hence adonis, hence ganymede, hence the loves of salmacis and hermaphroditus, hence the feminine bacchus, hence hylas hence these deities, in tresses, of neither sex, and yet of both. greek art in this respect presents a phenomenon. as a phenomenon we must recognise and regard it. the flower is supra-natural, treasonous, and abhorrent. it is a flower of hell. nevertheless, it is a flower. and thus the i

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eserving the original meaning. 82. it should be remembered that in doing this he was only bringing the practice of his people into line with that of neighbouring tribes and nations. there were many lines of mystery tradition, and though the jews had brought with them across the desert of sinai much of the egyptian form, the tyrians and others preserved rather the story of the descent of tammuz or adonis than that of the dismemberment of osiris. indeed, bro. ward in his latest book on this subject seems inclined to advocate the theory that we as masons owe comparatively little to egypt and very much to syria. in this briefest of outlines of masonic history i cannot pursue the question further, but i hope to say more upon it in my next volume, glimpses of masonic history. 83. it is principal

t persisted in a modified form until the time of david. solomon for patriotic reasons transferred the theatre of the drama to jerusalem, and centred its interest round the temple which he had built, winning popularity at the same time by bringing his ritual into accordance with that of surrounding peoples, who were mostly worshippers of the phoenician deity tammuz, afterwards called by the greeks adonis. 691. although he recast the legend, and made it wholly jewish, it was not he who imported into it the name which we know so well, for we find hiram abiff acting as what we should now call w.j.w. at a great private ceremony of consecration and dedication at which solomon fs new ritual was performed for the first time. on the same occasion hiram, king of tyre, took the part of w.s.w, though

an amazing collection of the most interesting facts. i strongly recommend his book to the perusal of our brn, even though i personally still cling to the idea that masonry originally reached the jews from egypt, however much it may afterwards have been influenced, as it certainly was, by the tammuz-worship of neighbouring nations. bro. ward cites instances of the survival of traces of the cult of adonis in the most unexpected quarters; for instance, he writes: 694. when the pope has died, a high official, armed with a small ivory hammer or gavel, goes up to the dead man and lightly taps him once on each temple and once on the centre of the forehead. after each knock he calls on him to arise, and only when the third summons has been made in vain does he officially proclaim the sad news that

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f time carried members of the guild to magna grecia, which was the early name for south italy(*an outline history of freemasonry, by ward, p. 22) 408. it is said that this cult of dionysus survived up to 1908 in thrace, in a slightly modified form at viza, and may still exist(*r. m. dawkins, journal of hellenic studies, xxvi (1906, pp. 191-206) 409. in the same land of phoenicia, the mysteries of adonis or tammuz were celebrated at byblos or gebal, where lived the gibelim or stone-squarers, deriving their name from that of the town. the legend of these mysteries is an interesting combination of those of egypt and eleusis, the death and resurrection of adonis being interwoven with a theme upon his exile and return for six months of the year, which reminds us of the fate of persephone. 410

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er made of our doctrine a musical fable, wherein we see amfortas, who yielded himself to seduction, wounded beyond healing; klingsor, who withdraw himself from a like danger, cast out forever from the mountain of salvation; and parsifal, who yielded not, able to exercise the true power of love, and thereby to perform the miracle of redemption. of this also have i myself written in my poema called adonis. it is the same with food and drink, with exercise, with learning itself, the problem is ever to bring the appetite into right relation with the will. thus thou mayst fast or feast; there is no rule than that of balance. and this doctrine is of general acceptation among the better sort of men; therefore on thee will i rather impress more carefully the other part of my wisdom, namely, the ne

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ed the holy books of thelema (equinox iii (9, additionally contains the .class a. libri 1, 10, 66, 90, 156, 231, 370 and 400, as well as a facsimile of the ms of liber al. t.s] svb figvra clxxv 7 cornelia and caius gracchus, and the love of bacchus and ariadne, and the love of cupid and psyche, and the love of endymion and artemis, and the love of demeter and persephone, and the love of venus and adonis, and the love of lakshmi and vishnu, and the love of siva and bhavani, and the love of buddha and ananda, and the love of jesus and john, and many more. also there is the love of many saints for their particular deity, as of st francis of assisi for christ, of sri sabhapaty swami for maheswara, of abdullah haji shirazi1 for allah, of st ignatius loyola for mary, and many more. now do thou t

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

ather being in 12 4. 2. of the sign leo, and the moon in 25 39. 11. of the sign libra, from the house of the juggler, that is by lake pasquaney in the state of new hampshire [this .class e. tract was written in july 1916 and first published in equinox iii (1) in 1919 (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 25.06.200 tliber cccxxxv adonis an allegory a a publication in class c. 1 adonis an allegory by alesiter crowley inscribed to adonis. argument esarhaddon is man ignorant of his high destiny, lost in love of the body (astarte) whose 5 handmaidens are the 5 senses. the soul (psyche) appeals to him in vain, but awakes his dread of the king of babylon (the material plane) who is death.but also subject to the king of greece, w

e leaps up freed. the body now feels worthless and the man despises it; but the soul says no: all 3 of us must enjoy together.1 1 [this .argument. not in the equinox printing, but handwritten by ac into a copy of equinox i (7) and subsequently transcribed by yorke. t.s] persons of the allegory the king of babylon, tributary to the king of greece hermes, a greek physician the lady psyche the count adonis, at first known as the lord esarhaddon the lady astarte the warriors of the king of babylon hanuman, servant to hermes charis. elpis. pistis. attendants on psyche. three aged women handmaidens and slaves of astarte 3 scene i: the hanging gardens of babylon. r, the house of the lady astarte; l, a gateway; c, a broad lawn enriched with clustered flowers and sculptures. the sun is nigh his set

ever tires, in his enchanted babylon of infinite desires [astarte kneels at the foot of the couch, and taking the feet of esarhaddon in her hands, covers them with kisses. astarte. nay, never wake! unless to catch my neck and break me up with kisses.never sleep, unless to dream new pains impossible to waking! girls! with more than dream.s address, wake him with perfume till he smile, with strokes adonis 5 softer than moonbeams till he turn, and sigh, with five slow drops of wine between his lips until his heart heave, with young thrills of song until his eyelids open, and the first and fairest of ye greet him like a flower, so that awakened he may break from you and turn to me who am all these in one. 1st maiden. here is the wealth of all amber and musk, secreted by stealth in the domes of

e. with an eyelash first! esarhaddon. treasure and torture! astarte. tantalising thirst makes the draught more delicions. heaven were worth little without the purgatory, earth! esarhaddon. you make earth heaven. astarte. and heaven hell. to choose thee is to interpret misery .to lose thee. esarhaddon. ay! death end all if it must end thy kiss! astarte. and death be all if it confirm life.s bliss! adonis 7 esarhaddon. and death come soon if death fill life.s endeavour! astarte. and if it spill life.s vintage, death come never! esarhaddon. the sun sets. bathe me in the rain of gold! astarte. these pearls that decked it shimmering star-cold fall, and my hair falls, wreathes an aureole. even as thy love encompasses my soul! esarhaddon. i am blinded; i am bruised; i am stung. each thread hisses

x urn with loves immortal.how shall i endure this moment fs patience? ah, she comes, be sure! her foot flits on the marble. open, gate [the gate, not of the house but of the garden, opens. the lady psyche appears. she is clothed in deep purple, as mourning, and her hair is bound with a fillet of cypress and acacia. she is attended by three maidens and three aged women. what tedious guest arrives? adonis 9 psyche. white hour of fate! i have found him! esarhaddon. who is this. fair lady, pardon. you seek the mistress of the garden? psyche. i thought i had found the lord i seek. your pardon, lord. these eyes are weary and weak with tears and my vain search. esarhaddon. whom seek you then? psyche. my husband.my sole miracle of men, the count adonis [esarhaddon staggers and falls on the couch

che. my husband.my sole miracle of men, the count adonis [esarhaddon staggers and falls on the couch. psyche. you know of him? esarhaddon. no. i cannot tell what struck me so. i never heard the name. psyche. indeed, your eyes are liker his than wedded dragon-flies! your brows are his, your mouth is his. yet all fs awry! esarhaddon. may be it is! psyche. oh, pardon. mine is but a mad girl.s glance adonis is this soul fs inheritance. all else is madness. esarhaddon. mad! mad! mad! mad! mad! why say you this? who are you? sad? glad? bad? bad! bad! speak, speak! bleak peak of mystery? weak cheek of modesty? psyche. oh, pardon me! i did not mean to move you thus. esarhaddon. i am stirred too easily. you used a shameful word! psyche. accept my sorrow. i am all alone in this black night. my heart

ou no tokens from the life forgot? esarhaddon. nay, i came naked into babylon. i live the starlight and sleep through the sun. i am happy in love, i am rich, i eat and drink, i gather goods, i laugh, i never think. know me the prince of perfect pleasure! psyche. yet is there not something that you would forget? some fear that chills you? while you talk to me i see you glance behind you fearfully. adonis 11 esarhaddon (with furtive fear amounting to horror) you see the shadow? psyche. no: slim shadows stretch from yonder moon, and woo the world, and etch with their fantastic melancholy grotesques the earth.man.s destiny in arabesques. esarhaddon. you are blind! you are mad! see where he stands! it is the king of babylon, reeking daggers in his hands. and black blood oozes, oozes, throbs and

fiery flight of snakes to lash you hence! psyche. it may be mine fs the right. it may be you are nothing in my sight. it may be i have found my lord at last; and you.his concubine? may be out-cast. astarte. this is the sure thing, that i chase thee. slaves! hither your whips! that are more black with blood of such as this thing than your skins with kisses of your sun fs frenzy [the slaves run up. adonis 13 psyche. thou vain woman! now i know him, lost, wrecked, mad, but mine, but mine, indissolubly dowered with me, my husband, the count adonis! esarhaddon. ah [he falls, but into the arms of astarte. astarte. ho! guard us now and lash this thing from the garden [the slaves form in line between psyche and the others. psyche. adonis! esarhaddon. ah! astarte, there fs some sorcery abroad. asta

d since god bade be arrayed earth.s bowers with his flowers, such a man to her powers! men. mix in the measure, black grape and white cherry! a passion, a pleasure, a torment, a treasure, you to be mournful and we to be merry! women. we shall be solemn and grave and alluring, you be the column upstanding, enduring. we be the ivy and vine to entwine. my mouth on your mouth, and your mouth on mine! adonis 15 men. burnish our blades with your veils, merry maids! women. sever their cords with the scales of your swords! men. as a whirlwind that licks up a leaf let us bear you, an aureate sheaf adrift in the air! women. as a butterfly hovers and flits, let us guide to bewilder your wits bewitched by a bride! men. now, as the stars shall encircle the moon, our ranks let us marshal in time and in

we fre getting near the flame! astarte. and what she said or did who knows? hermes. these men! astarte. yes! but he fs never been the same since then! i fve taken endless trouble not to fret him, done everything i could to please and pet him, and now this wretched woman has upset him! hermes. was he distressed much at the time? astarte. distressed? mad as an elephant in spring! hermes. i guessed adonis 17 it. think he took a fancy to the girl? astarte. well, honestly, i don.t. my mind.s a whirl with worry. she.s a flimsy creature, rags of sentiment, and tears, and worn-out tags of wisdom. hermes. yes, you fve nothing much to fear while you appear as. what you do appear. astarte. well, there they stood, crying like butchered swine, she and her maids. it seems she.s lost her man, can ft get

or babylonish is so quaint a tongue one often goes too right by going wrong! i fll call him from the garden [goes out. hermes (alone. is there need to see the man? he.s simply off his feed. a child could see the way to make him hearty: more exercise, less food.and less astarte [enter esarhaddon. i greet your lordship. esarhaddon. greeting, sir! hermes. and so we fre not as healthy as a month ago? adonis 19 the pulse? allow me! ah! tut! tut! not bad. the tongue? thanks! kindly tell me what you had for dinner. esarhaddon. nothing: practically nothing. i seem to look on food with utter loathing. hermes. just so; but you contrived to peck a bit? esarhaddon. only a dozen quails upon the spit, a little sturgeon cooked with oysters, wine, mushrooms and crayfish. hermes. that is not to dine. esarh

st follow my advice; that will come back before you say .knife. twice. first, fire your slaves, the rogues that thieve and laze: a slave.s worse than two masters now-a-days. next, live on nothing but boiled beans and tripe, with once a week a melon.when they fre ripe. next, sent the lady astarte up the river; she looks to me to have a touch of liver. and you must teach your muscles how to harden, adonis 21 so stay at home, and labour in the garden! esarhaddon. you damned insulting blackguard! charlatan! quack! trickster! scoundrel! cheating medicine-man! you ordure-tasting privy-sniffing rogue, you think because your humbug is the vogue you can beard me? hermes. i fll tell you just one thing. disobey me, and.trouble with the king! esarhaddon. ring-a-ling-ting! ping! spring! hermes. that.s

orward, so that his arms nearly touch the ground. he is clad in a tightly fitting suit of scarlet, and wears a scarlet skullcap. he makes deep obeisance] hermes. speak, hanuman! hanuman. a lady [hermes nods gravely. exit hanuman. hermes. abaoth! abraxas! pur! pur! aeou! thoth [enter the lady psyche with one attendant. ee! oo! uu! iao sabaoth! dogs of hell! mumble spell! up! up! up! sup! sup! sup! adonis 23 u! aoth! abaoth! abraoth! sabaoth! livid, loath, obey the oath! ah [he shuts the book with a snap. you have come to me because you are crossed in love. psyche. most true, sir! hermes. ah! you fre greek! psyche. as you yourself, sir. hermes. then i.ve lost my pains. i need not fear to speak. i took you for a fool. ho! veil, divide [hanuman appears and lays his hand on a cord. things are m

erday i paid a visit to the fair. astarte, is it? saw the kitchen and the closet, deduced diet from deposit, saw where silkworm joined with swan to make a bed to sleep upon, saw the crowd of cringing knaves that have made their masters slaves, saw astarte.diagnosed what had made him see a ghost! psyche. can you cure him? hermes. in my hurry (and a not unnatural worry at the name of lobster curry) adonis 25 i so far forgot my duty as to mention to the beauty what. well! here.s the long and short of it! just exactly what i thought of it. tempests, by oannes. fin! psyche. sorry that he.d called you in? hermes. so much so that i.d a doubt if he wouldn ft call me out! psyche. then he will not hear your counsel? hermes. no; i bade him live on groundsel; but the little social friction interfered

his majesty that hideth, pride and delight whereon his image rideth, while in thick night and darkness he abideth [the stage now darkens. even the light shed by the jewels of the lady psyche is extinguished. then, from the gate of the palace between the man-bulls there issueth a golden hawk. in his beak is a jewel which he drops into the lamp that hangs from the height above the head of the lady adonis 29 psyche. this lamp remains dark. during this darkness the unicorn, the lion, and the peacock disappear] love me and lead me through the blind abysses! fill me and feed me on the crowning kisses, like flowers that flicker in the garden of glory, pools of pure liquor like pale flames and hoary that lamp the lightless empyrean! ah! love me! all space be sightless, and thine eyes above me! th

the candid stigma.even now [the lamp flashes forth into dazzling but momentary radiance. as it goes out a cone of white light is seen upon the head of the lady psyche, and before her stands a figure of immense height cloaked and hooded in perfect blackness] the king. come! for the throne is hollow. the eagle hath cried: come away! the stars are numbered, and the tide turns. follow! follow! thine adonis slumbered. as a bride adorned, come, follow! fate alone is fallen and wried. follow me, follow! the unknown is satisfied [the lady psyche is lifted to her feet. in silence she bows, and in silence follows him as he turns and advances to the gate while the curtain falls] 30 scene v: the garden of the lady astarte. the lord esarhaddon is lying on the couch with his mistress. their arms are in

chasms the lively strife of her sharp spasms of lust, of life. hark! to the whisper of my fan, my sister kiss to maid and man. through all earth fs wombs, through all sea fs waves, gigantic glooms, forgotten graves, i haunt the tombs of kings and slaves. i hush the babe, i wake the bird, i wander away beyond stars unstirred, soften the ripples of the tide, soothe the bruised nipples of the bride, adonis 31 help stars and clouds play hide-and-seek, wind seamen fs shrouds, bid ruins speak, bring dreams to slumber, sleep to dream whose demons cumber night fs extreme. and softer sped than dream or death quiet as the dead, or slain love.s breath, i sigh for loves that swoon upon the hanging groves of babylon. each terrace adds a shower of scent where lass and lad seduce content; each vine that

ow the dice are falling. all deeds are locked in links, one to another calling through time: from the dim throne the first rune that was ree.d by god, the supreme sphinx, determined the last deed [the king of babylon reaches forth his hand and arm. it is the hand and arm of a skeleton. he touches the forehead of the sleeping lord. instantly, radiant and naked, a male figure is seen erect] psyche. adonis! adonis. psyche [they run together and embrace. psyche. ah! long-lost! adonis. my wife! light, o intolerable! infinite love! o life beyond death! psyche. i have found thee! adonis. i was thine. psyche. i thine from all the ages! adonis. to the ages! psyche. mine [the king passes over and departs. chorus of soldiers hail to the lord! without a spear, without a sword he hath smitten, he hath

ntolerable! infinite love! o life beyond death! psyche. i have found thee! adonis. i was thine. psyche. i thine from all the ages! adonis. to the ages! psyche. mine [the king passes over and departs. chorus of soldiers hail to the lord! without a spear, without a sword he hath smitten, he hath smitten, one stroke of his worth all our weaponed puissiances. there is no helm, no hauberk, no cuirass, adonis 33 no shield of sevenfold steel and sevenfold brass resists his touch; no sword, no spear but shivers before his glance. eternally life quivers and reels before him; death itself, the hound of god, slinks at his heel, and licks the dust that he hath trod [they follow their lord, singing. psyche. i am a dewdrop focussing the sun that fires the forest to the horizon. i am a cloud on whom the

vers and reels before him; death itself, the hound of god, slinks at his heel, and licks the dust that he hath trod [they follow their lord, singing. psyche. i am a dewdrop focussing the sun that fires the forest to the horizon. i am a cloud on whom the sun begets the iris arch, a fountain in whose jets throbs inner fire of the earth fs heart, a flower slain by the sweetness of the summer shower. adonis. i am myself, knowing i am thou. forgetfulness forgotten now! truth, truth primeval, truth eternal, unconditioned, sempiternal, sets the god within the shrine and my mouth on thine, on thine [the lady astarte wakes. in her arms is the corpse of the lord esarhaddon] astarte. o fearful dreams! awake and kiss me! awake! i thought i was crushed and strangled by a snake [she rises. the corpse fa

ed and strangled by a snake [she rises. the corpse falls. he is dead! he is dead! o lips of burning bloom, you are ashen [the jaw falls. the black laughter of the tomb! then let me kill myself! bring death distilled from nightshade, monkshood. let no dawn regild this night. let me not see the damned light of day, but drown in this black-hearted night! ho, slaves [adonis and psyche advance to her. adonis. thyself a slave! what curse (unbated till patient earth herself is nauseated) is worse than this, an handmaiden that creeps into her mistress. bed while her lord sleeps, and robs her? liber cccxxxv 34 astarte. and what worse calamity than his revenge? but leave me, let me die [she falls prone at their feet. psyche. add robbery to robbery! we need thee to serve us. let us raise thee up and

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ctual amount of mss. written at this time is astounding; their variety is even more so; of their excellence i will not speak. here is a rough list from memory; it is far from exhaustive (1) some dozen books of a a instruction, including gliber astarte, h and the temple of solomon the king for equinox vii (2) short stories the woodcutter. his secret sin (3) plays: his majesty's fiddler. elder eel. adonis. the ghouls. written straight off, one after the other. mortadello. energized enthusiasm 3 (4) poems: the sevenfold sacrament. a birthday (5) fundamentals of the greek qabalah (involving the collection and analysis of several thousand words. i think this phenomenon is unique in the history of literature. i may further refer to my second journey to algeria, where my sexual life, though fairl

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bolism--the odinic, or gothic, mysteries. 25 the ancient mysteries and secret societies, part iii the eleusinian mysteries--the lesser rites--the greater rites--the orphic mysteries- the bacchic mysteries--the dionysiac mysteries. 29 atlantis and the gods of antiquity plato's atlantis in the light of modern science-the myth of the dying god-the rite of tammuz and ishtar--the mysteries of atys and adonis-the rites of sabazius--the cabiric mysteries of samothrace. 33 the life and writings of thoth hermes trismegistus suppositions concerning identity of hermes--the mutilated hermetic fragments--the book of thoth--poimandres, the vision of hermes--the mystery of universal mind- the seven governors of the world. 37 the initiation of the pyramid the opening of the great pyramid by caliph at mamo

s: the taautos and astarte of the phoenicians, and the saturn and ops of the latins" the second quotation is from albert pike's morals and dogma"'thee' says martianus capella, in his hymn to the sun 'dwellers on the nile adore as serapis, and memphis worships as osiris: in the sacred rites of persia thou art mithras, in phrygia, atys, and libya bows down to thee as ammon, and phoenician byblos as adonis; thus the whole world adores thee under different names" the odinic mysteries the date of the founding of the odinic mysteries is uncertain, some writers declaring that they were established in the first century before christ; others, the first century after christ. robert macoy, 33, gives the following description of their origin "it appears from the northern chronicles that in the first c

its god-given adornments as it passes upward through the rings of the planets. another mystery ritual among the babylonians and assyrians was that of merodach and the dragon. merodach, the creator of the inferior universe, slays a horrible monster and out of her body forms the universe. here is the probable source of the so-called christian allegory of st. george and the dragon. the mysteries of adonis, or adoni, were celebrated annually in many parts of egypt, phoenicia, and biblos. the name adonis, or adoni, means "lord" and was a designation applied to the sun and later borrowed by the jews as the exoteric name of their god. smyrna, mother of adonis, was turned into a tree by the gods and after a time the bark burst open and the infant savior issued forth. according to one account, he

s. the name adonis, or adoni, means "lord" and was a designation applied to the sun and later borrowed by the jews as the exoteric name of their god. smyrna, mother of adonis, was turned into a tree by the gods and after a time the bark burst open and the infant savior issued forth. according to one account, he was liberated by a wild boar which split the wood of the maternal tree with its tusks. adonis was born at midnight of the 24th of december, and through his unhappy death a mystery rite was established that wrought the salvation of his people. in the jewish month of tammuz (another name for this deity) he was gored to death by a wild boar sent by the god ars (mars. the adoniasmos was the ceremony of lamenting the premature death of the murdered god. in ezekiel viii. 14, it is written

th of december, and through his unhappy death a mystery rite was established that wrought the salvation of his people. in the jewish month of tammuz (another name for this deity) he was gored to death by a wild boar sent by the god ars (mars. the adoniasmos was the ceremony of lamenting the premature death of the murdered god. in ezekiel viii. 14, it is written that women were weeping for tammuz (adonis) at the north gate of the lord's house in jerusalem. sir james george frazer cites jerome thus "he tells us that bethlehem, the traditionary birthplace of the lord, was shaded by a grove of that still older syrian lord, adonis, and that where the infant jesus had wept, the lover of venus was bewailed (see the golden bough) the effigy of a wild boar is said to have been set over one of the g

he lord's house in jerusalem. sir james george frazer cites jerome thus "he tells us that bethlehem, the traditionary birthplace of the lord, was shaded by a grove of that still older syrian lord, adonis, and that where the infant jesus had wept, the lover of venus was bewailed (see the golden bough) the effigy of a wild boar is said to have been set over one of the gates of jerusalem in honor of adonis, and his rites celebrated in the grotto of the nativity at bethlehem. adonis as the "gored (or "god) man is one of the keys to sir francis bacon's use of the "wild boar" in his cryptic symbolism. adonis was originally an androgynous deity who represented the solar power which in the winter was destroyed by the evil principle of cold--the boar. after three days (months) in the tomb, adonis r

man is one of the keys to sir francis bacon's use of the "wild boar" in his cryptic symbolism. adonis was originally an androgynous deity who represented the solar power which in the winter was destroyed by the evil principle of cold--the boar. after three days (months) in the tomb, adonis rose triumphant on the 25th day of march, amidst the acclamation of his priests and followers "he is risen" adonis was born out of a myrrh tree. myrrh, the symbol of death because of its connection with the process of embalming, was one of the gifts brought by the three magi to the manger of jesus. in the mysteries of adonis the neophyte passed through the symbolic death of the god and "raised" by the priests, entered into the blessed state of redemption made possible by the sufferings of adonis. nearly

f a myrrh tree. myrrh, the symbol of death because of its connection with the process of embalming, was one of the gifts brought by the three magi to the manger of jesus. in the mysteries of adonis the neophyte passed through the symbolic death of the god and "raised" by the priests, entered into the blessed state of redemption made possible by the sufferings of adonis. nearly all authors believe adonis to have been originally a vegetation god directly connected with the growth and maturing of flowers click to enlarge the great god pan. from kircher's oedipus gyptiacus. the great pan was celebrated as the author and director of the sacred dances which he is supposed to have instituted to symbolize the circumambulations of the heavenly bodies. pan was a composite creature, the upper part--w

esented the impregnating power of the sun and was the chief of a horde rustic deities, and satyrs. he also signified the controlling spirit of the lower worlds. the fabricated a story to the effect that at the time of the birth of christ the oracles were silenced after giving utterance to one last cry "great pan is dead" p. 36 and fruits. in support of this viewpoint they describe the "gardens of adonis" which were small baskets of earth in which seeds were planted and nurtured for a period of eight days. when those plants prematurely died for lack of sufficient earth, they were considered emblematic of the murdered adonis and were usually cast into the sea with images of the god. in phrygia there existed a remarkable school of religious philosophy which centered around the life and untime

eriod of eight days. when those plants prematurely died for lack of sufficient earth, they were considered emblematic of the murdered adonis and were usually cast into the sea with images of the god. in phrygia there existed a remarkable school of religious philosophy which centered around the life and untimely fate of another savior-god known as atys, or attis, by many considered synonymous with adonis. this deity was born at midnight on the 24th day of december. of his death there are two accounts. in one he was gored to death like adonis; in the other he emasculated himself under a pine tree and there died. his body was taken to a cave by the great mother (cybele, where it remained through the ages without decaying. to the rites of atys the modern world is indebted for the symbolism of

entifies aschieros with demeter, achiochersus with pluto, achiochersa with persephone, and cashmala with hermes. alexander wilder notes that in the samothracian ritual "cadmillus is made to include the theban serpent-god, cadmus, the thoth of egypt, the hermes of the greeks, and the emeph or sculapius of the alexandrians and phoenicians" here again is a repetition of the story of osiris, bacchus, adonis, balder, and hiram abiff. the worship of atys and cybele was also involved in the samothracian mysteries. in the rituals of the cabiri is to be traced a form of pine-tree worship, for this tree, sacred to atys, was first trimmed into the form of a cross and then cut down in honor of the murdered god whose body was discovered at its foot "if you wish to inspect the orgies of the corybantes"

present. it was their need of light, and of his creative energy, that was felt by all men; and nothing was more fearful to them than his absence. his beneficent influences caused his identification with the principle of good; and the brahma of the hindus, and mithras of the persians, and athom, amun, phtha, and osiris, of the egyptians, the bel of the chaldeans, the adonai of the phoenicians, the adonis and apollo of the greeks, became but personifications of the sun, the regenerating principle, image of that fecundity which perpetuates and rejuvenates the world's existence" among all the nations of antiquity, altars, mounds, and temples were dedicated to the worship of the orb of day. the ruins of these sacred places yet remain, notable among them being the pyramids of yucatan and egypt

ving acquired all which it was possible for him to learn of the greek philosophers and, presumably, become an initiate in the eleusinian mysteries, he went to egypt, and after many rebuffs and refusals, finally succeeded in securing initiation in the mysteries of isis, at the hands of the priests of thebes. then this intrepid 'joiner' wended his way into phoenicia and syria where the mysteries of adonis were conferred upon him, and crossing to the valley of the euphrates he tarried long enough to become versed in, the secret lore of the chaldeans, who still dwelt in the vicinity of babylon. finally, he made his greatest and most historic venture through media and persia into hindustan where he remained several years as a pupil and initiate of the learned brahmins of elephanta and ellora (s

in their hands branches of these sacred plants or small clusters of sanctified flowers. albert g. mackey calls attention to the fact that each of the ancient mysteries had its own peculiar plant sacred to the gods or goddesses in whose honor the rituals were celebrated. these sacred plants were later adopted as the symbols of the various degrees in which they were used. thus, in the mysteries of adonis, lettuce was sacred; in the brahmin and egyptian rites, the lotus; among the druids, the mistletoe; and among certain of the greek mysteries, the myrtle (see encyclop dia of freemasonry) as the legend of chiram abiff is based upon the ancient egyptian mystery ritual of the murder and resurrection of osiris, it is natural that the sprig of acacia should be preserved as symbolic of the resurr

proper symbol of the solar spirit--the giver of divine enthusiasm. in a somewhat similar manner, christians have accepted wine as the emblem of the blood of christ, partaking of it in holy communion. christ, the exoteric emblem of the solar spirit, said "i am the vine" he was therefore worshiped with the wine of ecstasy in the same manner as were his pagan prototypes--bacchus, dionysos, arys, and adonis. the mandragora officinarum, or mandrake, is accredited with possessing the most remarkable magical powers. its narcotic properties were recognized by the greeks, who employed it to deaden pain during surgical operations, and it has been identified also with baaras, the mystic herb used by the jews for casting out demons. in the jewish wars, josephus describes the method of securing the baa

l the qualities of deity, signifies the latent divinity in every man. mortal man achieves deification only through at-one-ment with this divine self. union with the immortal self constitutes immortality, and he who finds his true self is therefore "saved" this christos, or divine man in man, is man's real hope of salvation--the living mediator between abstract deity and mortal humankind. as atys, adonis, bacchus, and orpheus in all likelihood were originally illumined men who later were confused with the symbolic personages whom they created as personifications of this divine power, so jesus has been confused with the christos, or god-man, whose wonders he preached. since the christos was the god-man imprisoned in every creature, it was the first duty of the initiate to liberate, or "resur

king horns. the earliest grail legends describe the cup as a veritable horn of plenty. its contents were inexhaustible and those who served it never hungered or thirsted. one account states that no matter how desperately ill a person might be he could not die within eight days of beholding the cup. some authorities believe the holy grail to be the perpetuation of the holy cup used in the rites of adonis and atys. a communion cup or chalice was used in several of the ancient mysteries, and the god bacchus is frequently symbolized in the form of a vase, cup, or urn. in nature worship the ever-flowing grail signifies the bounty of the harvest by which the life of man is sustained; like mercury's bottomless pitcher, it is the inexhaustible fountain of natural re source. from the evidence at ha

h he was hailed as a brother by the priests, who believed that he had returned from the land of the dead. this concept was, in substance, the teaching of the mysteries. the crucified saviors the list of the deathless mortals who suffered for man that he might receive the boon of eternal life is an imposing one. among those connected historically or allegorically with a crucifixion are prometheus, adonis, apollo, arys, bacchus, buddha, christna, horus, indra, ixion, mithras, osiris, pythagoras, quetzalcoatl, semiramis, and jupiter. according to the fragmentary accounts extant, all these heroes gave their lives to the service of humanity and, with one or two exceptions, died as martyrs for the cause of human progress. in many mysterious ways the manner of their death has been designedly conc

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the gnostic magician, simon magus. herne. witch name derived from early english version of the anglo-saxon god, odin or woden. a god of wisdom and storm, and also a guide of the dead, he leads his wild rout across the winter skies accompanied by the baying of his death hounds! gogmagog. prehistoric version of the god and goddess in giant form. andros. the god as worshipped in the weald. adonai or adonis. hebrew for "the lord" dying god, consort of astarte. sabaoth. another hebrew name for god. baphomet. horned deity allegedly worshipped by the templars, a christian order of fighting monks of the twelfth century. the name has been variously construed to mean "the father of the temple of universal peace among men" the initials of which phrase in latin spell the name backwards: templi omnium

rred to in leland's aradia, the gospel of the witches. habondia or dame habonde. goddess seen as lady of love and plenty. holda or hulda. german version of the same. morgan or morrigan. celtic names for goddess seen a lady of death, variant of classical hecate. also king arthur's half-elven sister. brigid or bride. a celtic mother goddess. astarte or ishtar. mesopotamian goddess of love. bride of adonis-tammuz. the virgin or maiden. referring to perephone, the greek underworld goddess. should the lady or high priestess have a daughter present within the coven, the latter title of "maiden" is sometimes conferred on her. let me reiterate: the titles bestowed upon the leaders vary considerably from coven to coven, depending on the approach adopted, dianic or druidic, celtic or cabalistic, rob

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n the composition of asteroids, meteor-ites, meteorsregardless of whether they are big, little, in space, or on the earth. why there are so manynames for the same thing is beyond us (p. 51)space debristhere are other, much larger asteroids roaming around in our celestial backyard just waiting to maketheir presence known. some of these dark demons are hard to detect. these demons are called hermes,adonis, apollo, and eros.asteroidsan asteroid weighing some 150 million tons and travelling some 45,000 miles per hour came veryclose to earth on may 19, 1996, wrote editor brent raynes in alternate perceptions (p. 251)another asteroid approached earth in 1992. it has a destructive power of 20 million megatons, the forceof 1,600,000 hiroshima bombs (p. 253)oceans from spaceit is speculated by astr

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saw reflected in his light, and fancied they saw in its originality the changelessness of deity. he had seen thrones crumble, earthquakes shake the world and hurl down mountains. beyond olympus, beyond the pillars of hercules, he had gone daily to his abode, and had come daily again in the morning to behold the temples they built to his worship. they personified him as brahma, amun, osiris, bel, adonis, malkarth, mithras, and apollo; and the nations that did so grew old and died. moss grew on the capitals of the great columns of his temples, and he shone on the moss. grain by grain the dust of his temples crumbled and fell, and was borne off on the wind, and still he shone on crumbling column and architrave. the roof fell crashing on the pavement, and he shone in on the holy of holies wit

n _hari_ is a hindu name of the sun _ari-al, ar-es, ar, aryaman, areimonios, the ar meaning _fire_ or _flame, are of the same kindred _hermes_ or _har-mes(_aram, remus, haram, harameias, was kadmos, the divine light or wisdom _mar-kuri, says movers, is _mar, the sun. in the hebrew, aoor, is light, fire, or the sun. cyrus, said ctesias, was so named from _kuros, the sun _kuris, hesychius says, was adonis. apollo, the sun-god, was called _kurraios, from _kurra, a city in phocis. the people of _kurene, originally ethiopians or cuthites, worshipped the sun under the title of _achoor_ and _achor. we know, through a precise testimony in the ancient annals of tsur, that the principal festivity of _mal-karth, the incarnation of the sun at the winter solstice, held at tsur, was called his _rebirth

apricorn, and the recovery of the different parts of his body by isis, the _euresis, finding. the candidate went through a ceremony representing this, in all the mysteries everywhere. the main facts in the fable were the same in all countries; and the prominent deities were everywhere a male and a female. in egypt they were osiris and isis: in india, mahadeva and bhavani: in ph nicia, thammuz (or adonis) and astarte: in phrygia, atys and cybele: in persia, mithras and asis: in samothrace and greece, dionusos or sabazeus and rhea: in britain, hu and ceridwen: and in scandinavia, woden and frea: and in every instance these divinities represented the sun and the moon. the mysteries of osiris, isis, and horus, seem to have been the model of all other ceremonies of initiation subsequently estab

in the religious ceremonies and mysteries of greece. osiris and typhon, ormuzd and ahriman, bacchus and the titans and giants, all represented these principles. phanes, the luminous god that issued from the sacred egg, and night, bore the sceptres in the mysteries of the new bacchus. night and day were two of the eight gods adored in the mysteries of osiris. the sojourn of proserpine and also of adonis, during six months of each year in the upper world, abode of light, and six months in the lower or abode of darkness, allegorically represented the same division of the universe. the connection of the different initiations with the equinoxes which separate the empire of the nights from that of the days, and fix the moment when one of these principles begins to prevail over the other, shows

have sway and rule in nature" sallust the philosopher makes almost the same remark as to the relations of the soul with the periodical march of light and darkness, during an annual revolution; and assures us that the mysterious festivals of greece related to the same. and in all the explanations given by macrobius of the sacred fables in regard to the sun, adored under the names of osiris, horus, adonis, atys, bacchus, etc, we invariably see that they refer to the theory of the two principles, light and darkness, and the triumphs gained by one over the other. in april was celebrated the first triumph obtained by the light of day over the length of the nights; and the ceremonies of mourning and rejoicing had, macrobius says, as their object, the vicissitudes of the annual administration of

hon, the polar serpent that annually heralds the coming of autumn, cold, darkness, and winter, had slain him, and over whom the god triumphs, on the 25th of march, on his return to the lamb of the vernal equinox. in crete, jupiter ammon, or the sun in aries, painted with the attributes of that equinoctial sign, the ram or lamb--that ammon who, martianus copella says, is the same as osiris, adoni, adonis, atys, and the other sun-gods--had also a tomb, and a religious initiation; one of the principal ceremonies of which consisted in clothing the initiate with the skin of a white lamb. and in this we see the origin of the apron of white sheep-skin, used in masonry. all these deaths and resurrections, these funeral emblems, these anniversaries of mourning and joy, these cenotaphs raised in dif

est or ark, magnificently ornamented, containing an image of the organs of generation of osiris, or perhaps of both sexes; emblems of the original generating and producing powers. when typhon, said the egyptian fable, cut up the body of osiris into pieces, he flung his genitals into the nile, where a fish devoured them. atys mutilated himself, as his priests afterward did in imitation of him; and adonis was in that part of his body wounded by the boar: all of which represented the loss by the sun of his vivifying and generative power, when he reached the autumnal equinox (the scorpion that on old monuments bites those parts of the vernal bull, and descended toward the region of darkness and winter. then, says apuleius, came "one who carried in his bosom an object that rejoiced the heart of

e, say cicero and plutarch, it was not permitted to any man to know, celebrated at rome from the earliest times of that city. it was these mysteries, practised by women alone, the secrecy of which was impiously violated by clodius. they were held at the kalends of may; and, according to plutarch, much of the ceremonial greatly resembled that of the mysteries of bakchos. the mysteries of venus and adonis belonged principally to syria and ph nicia, whence they passed into greece and sicily. venus or astarte was the great female deity of the ph nicians, as hercules, melkarth or adoni was their chief god. adoni, called by the greeks adonis, was the lover of venus. slain by a wound in the thigh inflicted by a wild boar in the chase, the flower called anemone sprang from his blood. venus receive

er should thereafter pass six months of each year with her, and the other six in the shades with proserpine; an allegorical description of the alternate residence of the sun in the two hemispheres. in these mysteries his death was represented and mourned, and after this maceration and mourning were concluded, his resurrection and ascent to heaven were announced. ezekiel speaks of the festivals of adonis under the name of those of thammuz, an assyrian deity, whom every year the women mourned, seated at the doors of their dwellings. these mysteries, like the others, were celebrated in the spring, at the vernal equinox, when he was restored to life; at which time, when they were instituted, the sun (adon, lord, or master) was in the sign taurus, the domicile of venus. he was represented with

ke the others, were celebrated in the spring, at the vernal equinox, when he was restored to life; at which time, when they were instituted, the sun (adon, lord, or master) was in the sign taurus, the domicile of venus. he was represented with horns, and the hymn of orpheus in his honor styles him "the two-horned god" as in argos bakchos was represented with the feet of a bull. plutarch says that adonis and bakchos were regarded as one and the same deity; and that this opinion was founded on the great similarity in very many respects between the mysteries of these two gods. the mysteries of bakchos were known as the sabazian, orphic, and dionysiac festivals. they went back to the remotest antiquity among the greeks, and were attributed by some to bakchos himself, and by others to orpheus

eceded and he passed over dry-shod. water was obtained, during the ceremonies, by striking a rock with it. the bakch crowned their heads with serpents, carried them in vases and baskets, and at the [greek??s, or finding, of the body of osiris, cast one, alive, into the aspirant's bosom. the mysteries of atys in phrygia, and those of cybele his mistress, like their worship, much resembled those of adonis and bakchos, osiris and isis. their asiatic origin is universally admitted, and was with great plausibility claimed by phrygia, which contested the palm of antiquity with egypt. they, more than any other people, mingled allegory with their religious worship, and were great inventors of fables; and their sacred traditions as to cybele and atys, whom all admit to be phrygian gods, were very v

le, given by julius firmicus, diodorus, arnobius, lactantius, servius, saint augustine, and pausanias. it is enough to say that it is in substance this: that cybele, a phrygian princess, who invented musical instruments and dances, was enamored of atys, a youth; that either he in a fit of frenzy mutilated himself or was mutilated by her in a paroxysm of jealousy; that he died, and afterward, like adonis, was restored to life. it is the ph nician fiction as to the sun-god, expressed in other terms, under other forms, and with other names. cybele was worshipped in syria, under the name of rhea. lucian says that the lydian atys there established her worship and built her temple. the name of rhea is also found in the ancient cosmogony of the ph nicians by sanchoniathon. it was atys the lydian

says, the sun was adored under the name of atys. the ceremonies were all allegorical, some of which, according to the emperor julian, could be explained, but more remained covered with the veil of mystery. thus it is that symbols, outlast their explanations, as many have done in masonry, and ignorance and rashness substitute new ones. in another legend, given by pausanias, atys dies, wounded like adonis by a wild boar in the organs of generation; a mutilation with which all the legends ended. the pine-tree under which he was said to have died, was sacred to him; and was found upon many monuments, with a bull and a ram near it; one the sign of exaltation of the sun, and the other of that of the moon. the worship of the sun under the name of mithras belonged to persia, whence that name came

ntance, as a means of obtaining mercy and forgiveness, it is also devoted to an explanation of the symbols of masonry; and especially to those which are connected with that ancient and universal legend, of which that of khir-om abi is but a variation; that legend which, representing a murder or a death, and a restoration to life, by a drama in which figure osiris, isis and horus, atys and cybele, adonis and venus, the cabiri, dionusos, and many another representative of the active and passive powers of nature, taught the initiates in the mysteries that the rule of evil and darkness is but temporary, and that of light and good will be eternal. maimonides says "in the days of enos, the son of seth, men fell into grievous errors, and even enos himself partook of their infatuation. their langu

es, and syrians, among whom abraham lived, did the same. the canaanites consecrated horses and chariots to the sun. the inhabitants of emesa in ph nicia adored him under the name of elagabalus; and the sun, as hercules, was the great deity of the tyrians. the syrians worshipped, with fear and dread, the stars of the constellation pisces, and consecrated images of them in their temples. the sun as adonis was worshipped in byblos and about mount libanus. there was a magnificent temple of the sun at palmyra, which was pillaged by the soldiers of aurelian, who rebuilt it and dedicated it anew. the pleiades, under the name of succoth-beneth, were worshipped by the babylonian colonists who settled in the country of the samaritans. saturn, under the name of remphan, was worshipped among the copts

the melilot, procyon and canis major, one star of which was called the star of isis, while sirius himself was honored in egypt under the name of anubis. isis repaired to byblos, and seated herself near a fountain, where she was found by the women of the court of a king. she was induced to visit his court, and became the nurse of his son. the fourth full moon was in leo, domicile of the sun, or of adonis, king of byblos. the paranatellons of this sign are the flowing water of aquarius, and cepheus, king of ethiopia, called regulus, or simply the king. behind him rise cassiopeia his wife, queen of ethiopia, andromeda his daughter, and perseus his son-in-law, all paranatellons in part of this sign, and in part of virgo. isis suckled the child, not at her breast, but with the end of her finger

of those festivals were the risings and settings of the stars of the husbandman, bear-driver, or hunter, bo tes. his stars were, among the hierophants, the established nocturnal indices or signs of the sun's place in the ecliptic at different seasons of the year, and the festivals were named, one, that of the _aphanism_ or disappearance; another, that of the _zetesis_ or search, etc, of osiris or adonis, that is, of _bo tes_ the returns of certain stars, as connected with their concomitant seasons of spring (or seed-time) and harvest, seemed to the ancients, who had not yet discovered that gradual change, resulting from the apparent movement of the stars in longitude, which has been termed the precession of the equinoxes, to be eternal and immutable; and those periodical returns were to th

na, and of dead heroes, like glaucus, resuscitated in caves, were allegories of the natural alternations of life and death in nature, changes that are but expedients to preserve her virginity and purity inviolable in the general sum of her operations, whose aggregate presents only a majestic calm, rebuking alike man's presumption and his despair. the typical death of the nature-god, osiris, atys, adonis, hiram, was a profound but consolatory mystery: the healing charms of orpheus were connected with his destruction; and his bones, those valued pledges of fertility and victory, were, by a beautiful contrivance, often buried within the sacred precincts of his immortal equivalent. in their doctrines as to the immortality of the soul, the greek philosophers merely stated with more precision id

ithr--to the invincible sun-god mithras _nomen invictum sol mithra. soli omnipotenti mithr. to him, gold, incense, and myrrh were consecrated "thee" says martianus capella, in his hymn to the sun "the dwellers on the nile adore as serapis, and memphis worships as osiris; in the sacred rites of persia thou art mithras, in phrygia, atys, and libya bows down to thee as ammon, and ph nician byblos as adonis; and thus the whole world adores thee under different names" osiris was the son of helios (phra, the "divine offspring congenerate with the dawn" and at the same time an incarnation of kneph or agathod mon, the good spirit, including all his possible manifestations, either physical or moral. he represented in a familiar form the beneficent aspect of all higher emanations and in him was deve

y of the second harvest. from his wintry death he rises with the early flowers of spring, and then the joyful festival of osiris found was celebrated. so the pride of jemsheed, one of the persian sun-heroes, or the solar year personified, was abruptly cut off by zohak, the tyrant of the west. he was sawn asunder by a fish-bone, and immediately the brightness of iran changed to gloom. ganymede and adonis, like osiris, were hurried off in all their strength and beauty; the premature death of linus, the burthen of the ancient lament of greece, was like that of the persian siamek, the bithynian hylas, and the egyptian maneros, son of menes or the eternal. the elegy called maneros was sung at egyptian banquets, and an effigy enclosed within a diminutive sarcophagus was handed round to remind th

y. the temporary decline of the sons of light is but an episode in their endless continuity; and as the day and year are more convenient subdivisions of the infinite, so the fiery deaths of pha thon or hercules are but breaks in the same ph nix process of perpetual regeneration, by which the spirit of osiris lives forever in the succession of the memphian apis. every year witnesses the revival of adonis; and the amber tears shed by the heliades for the premature death of their brother, are the golden shower full of prolific hope, in which zeus descends from the brazen vault of heaven into the bosom of the parched ground. bal, representative or personification of the sun, was one of the great gods of syria, assyria, and chaldea, and his name is found upon the monuments of nimroud, and frequ

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others claimed that zeus--air [inserted footnote* zeus obtained air for his kingdom in the partition with hades, who took fire, and poseidon, who took water. shu is the egyptian god of the firmament. there is a great difficulty here, etymologically. zeus is connected with iao, abrasax, and the dental sibilant gods of the great mysteries, with the south and hadit, adad, set, saturn, adonai, attis, adonis; he is even the "jesus, slain with the lance, whose blood is collected in a cup. yet he is also to be identified with the opposite party of the north and nuit, with the "john" slain with the sword, whose flesh is placed upon a disk, in the lesser mysteries, baptizing with water as "jesus" with fire, with on, qannes, noah, and the like. it seems as if this great division, which has wrought s

the cross and the circle. 49. abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. ra-hoor-khuit hath taken his seat in the east at the equinox of the gods; and let asar be with isa, who also are one. but they are not of me. let asar be the adorant, isa the sufferer; hoor in his secret name and splendour is the lord initiating. this verse declares that the old formula of magick the osiris-adonis-jesus-marsyas-dionysus- attis-etc. formula of the dying god is no longer efficacious (it never was efficacious; it was merely the least deficient formula possible in the aeon of pisces just past) it rested on the ignorant belief that the sun died every day, and every year, and that its resurrection was a miracle. the formula of the new aeon recognizes horus, the child crowned and conquering

scientific sense, come this earth, a chilled spark of him, and all our light and life. his viceregent and representative in the animal kingdom is his cognate symbol the phallus, representing love and liberty. ra-hoor-khuit, like all true gods, is therefore a solar-phallic deity. but we regard him as he is in truth, eternal; the solar-phallic deities of the old aeon, such as osiris "christ, hiram, adonis, hercules, etc, were supposed through our ignorance of the cosmos, to 'die' and 'rise again. thus we celebrated rites of 'crucifixion' and so on, which have now become meaningless. ra-hoor-khuit is the crowned and conquering child. this is also a reference to the 'crowned' and conquering 'child' in ourselves, our own personal god. except ye become as little children, said 'christ, ye shall

ription applies to this "equinox of the gods" itself. how have the conditions been fulfilled? the introduction to book 4, part iv tells us. we may briefly remind the reader of the principal events, arranging them in the form of a rubric, and placing against each the corresponding magical acts of the equinox previous to ours, as they are symbolized in the legends of osiris, dionysus, jesus, attis, adonis, and others. the ritual aeon of horus aeon of osiris another prophet shall arise the beast 666. dionysus and others are names for (perhaps) apollonius of tyana. in the conditions then obtaining, several magi were required. and bring fresh fever from the skies "force and fire" of horus "skies" of nuit another woman shall awake see comment on al i, v.15 "venus" of the adonis legends. we have

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in italy, and from which arose the city of rome. as a mother aphrodite claims our sympathy for the tenderness she exhibits towards her children. homer tells us in his iliad, how, when aneas was wounded in battle, she came to his assistance, regardless of personal danger, and was herself severely wounded in attempting to save his life [59] aphrodite was tenderly attached to a lovely youth, called adonis, whose exquisite beauty has become proverbial. he was a motherless babe, and aphrodite, taking pity on him, placed him in a chest and intrusted him to the care of persephone, who became so fond of the beautiful youth that she refused to part with him. zeus, being appealed to by the rival foster-mothers, decided that adonis should spend four months of every year with persephone, four with ap

ond of the beautiful youth that she refused to part with him. zeus, being appealed to by the rival foster-mothers, decided that adonis should spend four months of every year with persephone, four with aphrodite, whilst during the remaining four months he should be left to his own devices. he became, however, so attached to aphrodite that he voluntarily devoted to her the time at his own disposal. adonis was killed, during the chase, by a wild boar, to the great grief of aphrodite, who bemoaned his loss so persistently that aides, moved with pity, permitted him to pass six months of every year with her, whilst the remaining half of the year was spent by him in the lower world. aphrodite possessed a magic girdle (the famous cestus) which she frequently lent to unhappy maidens suffering from

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ivious. ares and aphrodite, although they were caught on this occasion, managed to have several children together: deimos (fear, phobos (panic, harmonia (concord, and, according to some sources, eros (desire. bed of love aphrodite had many lovers including dionysus (bacchus, who fathered her son the phallic god priapus, and hermes who fathered the twin-sexed hermaphroditus. mortal lovers included adonis (see pp. 32 33) and anchises, who was the father of her son, the hero aeneas (see pp. 66 67. the story of aphrodite s affair with ares, and the revenge of her husband hephaestus, is sung by the blind bard demodocus at the phaeacian games in the odyssey, to the delight of odysseus (see pp. 64 65. jealous husband hephaestus was enthralled by aphrodite, and deeply jealous of her infidelities

rodite worked at a loom, athena, goddess of arts and crafts, protested most vigorously at this invasion of her own domain. aphrodite humbly apologized, and has never done a day s work since. aphrodite, goddess from the east t he worship of aphrodite emanated from the island of cyprus, which was culturally influenced from the near east. she is related to the goddess ishtar (see p. 19; her love for adonis (see pp. 32 33) echoes that of ishtar and tammuz, and the existence of temple prostitutes in her temple in corinth reflects the custom in the temples of ishtar. herodotus points out that the babylonian custom of every woman prostituting herself once in the temple of the goddess was also to be found in cyprus. the rape of persephone 28 the rape of persephone persephone (roman proserpine, the

titans (see p. 23; king tantalus, who killed his son, abused the gods friendship and was condemned to stand chin-deep in water that he could never drink (thus forever tantalized; and sisyphus, deceitful and disobedient, who was forced to roll a heavy rock uphill for eternity every time it neared the top, the rock rolled back down. the underworld cerberus by william blake (1757 1827) aphrodite and adonis 32 aphrodite and adonis adonis was a beautiful youth with whom the goddesses aphrodite (roman venus) and persephone (proserpine, see pp. 28 29) fell in love. he died as a result of their quarrels, killed at the request of persephone (who wanted to keep adonis in the underworld with her forever) by ares (mars, aphrodite s jealous lover, who was disguised as a boar. adonis was the son of ciny

and his daughter smyrna (myrrha. aphrodite had made smyrna fall in love and sleep with her father while he was drunk, in revenge for cinyras boasting that his daughter was more beautiful than she was herself. when smyrna fell pregnant, her father tried to kill her but aphrodite, now feeling sorry for smyrna, turned her into a myrrh tree. the tree subsequently split in two and the beautiful infant adonis tumbled out. aphrodite placed the baby in a chest and gave him to persephone for safekeeping. persephone was immediately infatuated. warnings of a goddess aphrodite clings to adonis, trying to persuade him not to go hunting. she constantly warned him against exposing himself to the dangers of hunting wild beasts fearing especially the wild boars that could so easily take his life. the strug

baby in a chest and gave him to persephone for safekeeping. persephone was immediately infatuated. warnings of a goddess aphrodite clings to adonis, trying to persuade him not to go hunting. she constantly warned him against exposing himself to the dangers of hunting wild beasts fearing especially the wild boars that could so easily take his life. the struggle between aphrodite and persephone for adonis led zeus to ask the muse calliope (see p. 30) to make a decision about the situation. she decided that adonis should spend a third of his time with aphrodite in the upper world, a third with persephone in the underworld, and the rest he could do with as he pleased. to persephone s anger, aphrodite, with the aid of her magic girdle, persuaded him to spend his free time with her as well. care

bout the situation. she decided that adonis should spend a third of his time with aphrodite in the upper world, a third with persephone in the underworld, and the rest he could do with as he pleased. to persephone s anger, aphrodite, with the aid of her magic girdle, persuaded him to spend his free time with her as well. careless cupid according to the roman poet ovid, aphrodite fell in love with adonis because her son eros (cupid, the god of love, accidentally grazed her with one of his arrows while he was kissing her one day, thus inflaming her with passion for the beautiful youth. born from a tree some sources say that after his mother had been turned into a myrrh tree, the baby adonis continued to develop inside the tree. when it was time for him to be born, ilithyia, the goddess of ch

day, thus inflaming her with passion for the beautiful youth. born from a tree some sources say that after his mother had been turned into a myrrh tree, the baby adonis continued to develop inside the tree. when it was time for him to be born, ilithyia, the goddess of childbirth, released him. others say that foreshadowing his death a wild boar charged the tree and split it in two. aphrodite and adonis by hendrick goltzius (1558 1616/17) this painting shows the goddess aphrodite and the youth adonis in a summer embrace, just before he goes off on a hunting trip. aphrodite entreats him not to go because she is frightened for his safety. white roses the rose, a flower sacred to aphrodite, was originally white. according to one story, as she ran to help the dying adonis, aphrodite stepped on

e youth adonis in a summer embrace, just before he goes off on a hunting trip. aphrodite entreats him not to go because she is frightened for his safety. white roses the rose, a flower sacred to aphrodite, was originally white. according to one story, as she ran to help the dying adonis, aphrodite stepped on a thorn and the blood that fell onto the white rose petals stained them red. hunting dogs adonis loved hunting and only laughed at aphrodite who, prophetically, was terrified that he would be harmed on one of his hunting trips. aphrodite and adonis 33 determined to hunt adonis comforts aphrodite, but is determined to take his leave while the sun is shining and his dogs are keen to take up the chase. fearless youth adonis was a fearless youth and his bravado in ignoring aphrodite s warn

he would be harmed on one of his hunting trips. aphrodite and adonis 33 determined to hunt adonis comforts aphrodite, but is determined to take his leave while the sun is shining and his dogs are keen to take up the chase. fearless youth adonis was a fearless youth and his bravado in ignoring aphrodite s warnings led to his downfall. persephone, angered that aphrodite should have twice as much of adonis time as she did, complained to aphrodite s lover ares (see pp. 26 27. furiously jealous, ares changed into a wild boar and, evading adonis spear, mortally wounded him. the dying days of summer it is harvest time and the summer is coming toward an end, indicating that it will soon be time for adonis to visit persephone in the underworld. symbolically, it also prefigures adonis s death. chari

y, it also prefigures adonis s death. chariot of a goddess aphrodite s golden chariot is drawn by two swans. aphrodite was often accompanied by birds, especially doves and sparrows. echo and narcissus by nicholas poussin (1594 1665) echo, fading to a shadow from her unrequited love for narcissus, gazes on him as he lies dead by a pool in a forest glade, while eros, the god of love, looks on. when adonis died, he should have remained in the underworld, never to see the upper world and aphrodite again. but she begged zeus not to allow persephone to take him from her completely and he agreed to let adonis join her above ground for the four months of the summer each year. red material the red material suggests the drops of blood that fell to the ground as adonis lay dying, charged by a wild bo

. but as she was only able to echo him, narcissus ignored her, and she faded to a shadow. retribution, however, awaited narcissus. selfish and dismissive of all his admirers, he fell in love with his own reflection in a pool on mount helicon. sick for love, he lay by the water s edge gazing at his own reflection until he died, and the gods turned him into the narcissus flower. tammuz, the eastern adonis adonis is the phoenician word for lord and the story of adonis death and resurrection reflects aspects of the near-eastern god tammuz (see p. 19. tammuz was the spouse of the goddess ishtar, who descended to the underworld to rescue him from death. he is essentially a fertility god, associated with the miracle of the harvest. his death and rebirth were celebrated each spring and autumn and

tion reflects aspects of the near-eastern god tammuz (see p. 19. tammuz was the spouse of the goddess ishtar, who descended to the underworld to rescue him from death. he is essentially a fertility god, associated with the miracle of the harvest. his death and rebirth were celebrated each spring and autumn and the spectacle of women weeping for tammuz is mentioned in the bible (ezekiel 8:14. like adonis, he was killed by a boar and while he is in the underworld all vegetation withers. the sumerian innanna s journey to hell is an early version of ishtar and tammuz, under the names innanna and dumuzi, and records an early song for the lost god: who is your sister? i am she. who is your mother? i am she. day dawns the same for you and me. this is the same day we shall see. cupid and psyche 34

SATANIC BIBLE

greek personification of satan yaotzin- aztec god of hell yen-lo-wang- chinese ruler of hell the devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego. the pig was despised by the jews and the egyptians. it symbolized the gods frey, osiris, adonis, persephone, attis, and demeter, and was sacrificed to osiris and the moon. but, in time, it became degraded into a devil. the phoenicians worhipped a fly god, baal, from which comes the devil, beelzebub. both baal and beelzebub are identical to the dung beetle or scarabaeus of the egyptians which appeared to resurrect itself, much as the mythical bird, the phoenix, rose from its own ashes

SEVEN SCROLLS CHILDREN OF THE BLACK ROSE

always been in touch with lucifer and has drawn its energy from him since the beginning. we call this energy the force. now that you are solidly on the path, you will do the same. when you come upon a rough stretch of road, draw upon the force. you do that by asking for help, and it is well to get into the habit early. now the cbr kids under formal circumstances, have often called lucifer, father adonis or mother sofia, the beautiful ones. they represented beauty, wisdom and knowledge and didn't upset the locals too much at least until a couple of thousand years ago when events got all out of hand. however, most of the kids still use a familiar name for him under normal circumstances. most just call him dad or mom, though many call him grandfather or grandmother. there are reasons for this

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

s of the extinct language. zan was unquestionably the chaldean appellation for the sun. even the greeks, who mutilated every oriental name, had retained the right one in this case, as the cretan inscription on the tomb of zeus (ode megas keitai zan "cyril contra julian (here lies great jove) significantly showed. as to the rest, the zan, or zaun, was, with the sidonians, no uncommon prefix to on. adonis was but another name for zanonas, whose worship in sidon hesychius records. to this profound and unanswerable derivation mervale listened with great attention, and observed that he now ventured to announce an erudite discovery he himself had long since made, namely, that the numerous family of smiths in england were undoubtedly the ancient priests of the phrygian apollo "for" said he "was n

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

s were already disconcerted by the growing evidence that the historical figure of christ was in fact a complex creation, molded by biblical and extra-biblical ideas, expectations, and hopes. scholarship had turned up parallels to the redeemer s life and death in eastern religions, and in the paganism contemporary with christian origins. was christ perhaps just another dying-and-rising god such as adonis or attis, or the others surveyed in james frazer s monumental study, the golden bough? not at all, declared others, hastily dissociating jesus from anything of the sort by turning him into the simple man of nazareth, an image equally inappropriate as an interpretation of the new testament sources. closer to our own day, these issues have been sharpened still further by the discovery of esse

. on the kinds of explanation developed in the ancient mysteries, which might be allegorical, physical (that is, including cosmic, natural or seasonal events, mystic, and so on, see w. burkert, ancient mystery cults (harvard university press, cambridge, 1987, pp. 78ff. 72. sallust, on the gods and the world iii, 3-4. 73. steiner develops such a structural approach, for example, in relation to the adonis mysteries in the easter festival in the evolution of the mysteries (anthroposophic press, 1987, pp.6ff. thus one might say that for steiner, as for a modern structural interpreter of myths such as l vi-strauss, study must proceed from the study of conscious content to that of unconscious forms: claude l vi-strauss, structural anthropology (harmondsworth, 1972, p. 24. steiner s interpretatio

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

; and, being probably endowed with that human frailty called laziness, he hopes to find a weapon ready made. thus we find the christian magus who imposed his power upon the world taking the existing worships and making a single system combining all their merits. there is no single feature in christianity which has not been taken bodily from the worship of isis, or of mithras, or of bacchus, or of adonis, or of osiris. in modern times again we find frater iehi aour trying to handle buddhism. others again have attempted to use freemasonry. there have been even exceptionally foolish magicians who have tried to use a sword long since rusted. wagner illustrates this point very clearly in "siegfried" the great sword nothung has been broken, and it is the viii only weapon that can destroy the god

le and jealous father. the sombre saturn, armed with his parricidal scythe, set himself to devour his children. jupiter had eyebrows which shook olympus; jehovah wielded thunders which deafened the solitudes of sinai. 21 nevertheless, the father of men, being on occasion drunken like noah, let the world perceive the mysteries of life. psyche, made divine by her torments, became the bride of eros; adonis, raised from death, found again his venus in olympus; job, victorious over evil, recovered more than he had lost. the law is a test of courage. to love life more than one fears the menaces of death is to merit life. the elect are those who dare; woe to the timid! thus the slaves of law, who make themselves the tyrants of conscience and the servants of fear, and those who begrudge that man s

lled father. however, the poetry of the east, in its magical souvenirs, will call him still brahma, and jupiter. india will teach our enchanted climates the marvellous fables of vishnu, and we shall place upon the still bleeding forehead of our well-beloved christ the triple crown of pearls of the mystical trimurti. from that time, venus, purified under the veil of mary, will no more weep for her adonis. the bridegroom is risen to die no more, and the infernal boar has found death in its momentary victory. lift yourselves up again, o temples of delphi and of ephesus! the god of light and of art is become the god of the world, and the word of god is indeed willing to be called apollo! diana will no more reign widowed in the lonely fields of night; her silvern crescent is now beneath the fee

us aspirations of the world; with moses and mohammed, it affirms the unity of god; with zoroaster, hermes and plato, it recognizes in him the infinite trinity of its own regeneration; 78 it reconciles the living numbers of pythagoras with the monadic word of st. john<gospel legend itself is a macedoine of those of bacchus, adonis, osiris, and a hundred others, and that the mass, and christian ceremonies generally, have similarly pagan sources- o. m> so much, science and reason will agree. it is then in the eyes of reason and of science themselves the most perfect, that is to say the most complete, dogma which has ever been produced in the world. let science and reason grant us so much; we shall ask nothing more of t

estments of grand hierophant, he stands upright, his lyre in his hand, his head crowned with the sacred laurel, his eyes turned towards the east, and he sings. he sings of the luminous arrows of love that traverse the shadows of old chaos, the waves of soft, clear light, flowing from the black teats of the mother of the gods, from which hang the two children, eros and anteros. he says the song of adonis returning to life in answer to the complaint of venus, reviving like a flower under the shining dew of her 121 tears; the song of castor and pollux, whom death could not divide, and who love alternately in hell and upon earth. then he calls softly eurydice, his dear eurydice, his so much loved eurydice: ah! miseram eurydicen anima fugiente vocabat, eurydicen! toto referebant flumine ripae

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

idea, and most religions have experienced this unity of virtue and vice; the early christians applauded it, and even now in christian churches is still sung the beautiful hymn: nearer, my god, to thee, nearer to thee, e fen though it be a cross that raiseth me! still all my song shall be nearer, my god, to thee, nearer to thee. to raise oneself through the vicious and the virtuous, to reside, as adonis did, six months with proserpine, and six with venus, to be as day and night, winter and summer, is no easy path to tread; and if it be necessary for the initiate to gaze on the back parts of jahveh, it is, however, most certainly not necessary for him to kiss the hind quarters of the goat of mendes, or to revel in the secret orgies of the agapae; for the tempting of man is but the tempering

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

assed, is in every essential the lesser or infernal rite of the slain god, whose name is john, or some sound similar, as jonah, dionysus, janus, dianus, nu, anu, oannes, on, noah, and many others. this god of water is of the north, because the sun touches his northern limit as he enters the watery sign cancer, and turns towards the south, represented by the goat-gods, set, had, hades, adad, odin, adonis, adonii, atys, etc, who are of the earthly sign capricornus, the southern limit of the sun s journey. as the end of summer is in libra, the cardinal sign of air, the gods of water partake also of the airy nature, and similarly, the earthy gods have their natures intermixed with fire, since the end of winter announces the fiery sign of aries, whose mysteries are those of spring and called th

le the christs of the latin, lutheran and anglican churches alike are but the machine-gods of all fraud and oppression, being stolen and prostituted from that christ in whom our fathers in the gnosis strove to synthesize the warring gods of syria, greece, chaldea, rome and egypt at the time when the growth of the roman empire first made travel and the intercommunication of the priests of mithras, adonis, attis, osiris, dionysius, isis, astarte, venus and many scores of others possible. traces of this recension are still visible in the mass and in the calendar of the saints, all gods and goddesses of universal import receiving the same honour by the same rites as before, while the local gods were replaced by saints, virgins, martyrs, or angels, often of the same name, always of the same cha

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

n episode of symbolical death, because kasmillos, a technical name ascribed to the candidate, was represented as slain by the gods. some of the rites which prevailed within and around greece in ancient times are concerned with the idea of a regeneration or new birth. the mysteries of bacchus depicted the death of this god and his restoration to light as rhea. osiris died and rose, and so also did adonis. he was first lamented as dead and then his revivification was celebrated with great joy. there is no need, however, to multiply the recurrence of these events in the old mysteries nor to restrict ourselves within their limits, for all religions have testified to the necessity of regeneration and have administered it's imputed processes. that which is most important- from my point of view

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

order gained its great wealth and power. writers say that this would seem to be a garbled account of a ceremony of death and resurrection, perhaps seen by some outsider. there are many ancient legends of such heads or skulls: that of bran the blessed in the mabinogion, the bleeding head in the story of peredur, and others, all bringers of victory and prosperity, reminiscent of the old legends of adonis and astarte, and of horus who was begotten by the dead osiris. the templars may have attempted practices which, while sheer heresy to a witch, were founded on her methods. witches teach that to work magic you must start with a couple, a male and a female intelligence being necessary, and they must be in sympathy with each other; and they find that in practice they become fond of each other

ggestion. in its most perfect stage this palingenesis is a veritable substitution of personality: the man is invested with the personality of a god, a hero or an ancestor, repeating and reproducing the gestures and actions attributed to him by tradition' only those deities who, owing to their own mythical history, bore within themselves the elements of new birth, demeter, dionysus, isis, atys and adonis, could confer palingenesis, the identification of the self with the divinity, owing to the special conception which the greeks had of the relations between life and death. the postulant passed through the divine myth, revived the life of god and passed, together with the god of sorrow, into joy, from life unto death. professor macchioro gives this account 'all the mysteries operated after t

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