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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

he english ear the more comprehensive title was truer to the facts on the whole than the more limited one would have been. r vl chapter i. inteoduction.i from the westernmost shore of asia, christianity had turned at once to the opposite one of europe. the wide soil of the continent which had given it birth could not supply it long with nourishment; neither did it strike deep root in the north of africa. europe soon became, and remained, its proper dwelling-place and home. it is worthy of notice, that the direction in which the new faith worked its way, from south to north, is contrary to the current of miration which was then driving the nations from the east and north to tlie west and south. as spiritual light penetrated from the one quarter, life itself was to be reinvigorated from the

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

cal images in a reflective medium, such as a crystal ball, mirror or a natural moving source of inspiration, such as fire, water or clouds. the word 'scry' comes from the anglo- saxon word descry, which means 'to perceive dimly. shamanism: possibly the oldest spiritual practice in the world, continued today in communities as far apart as india, australia, japan and china, siberia and mongolia, in africa, among the bedouins in the middle east and in north, central and south america. sky-clad: naked. sky gods: the powerful patriarchal gods of the classical and viking world, for example zeus of the greeks, jupiter of the romans, odin of the vikings and thunor of the anglo-saxons. they gained supremacy over the earth mother who appears as their wife-consort, full of human foibles. solstice: on

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

charlatans, is based upon the idea that there is something mysterious and oriental about it. there isn't. do not look to me for obelisks and odalisques, rahat loucoum, bul-buls, or any other tinsel imagery of the yoga-mongers. i am neat but not gaudy. there is nothing mysterious or oriental about anything, as everybody knows who has spent a little time intelligently in the continents of asia and africa. i propose to invoke the most remote and elusive of all gods to throw clear light upon the subject- the light of common sense (2) all phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed. what appear to be radical differences, irr

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

secret societies that sought to tap this telluric, occult force and use it to their own advantage, and to the advantage of humanity as was the original intent. the raising of the cone of power through the circle dancing is probably the simplest method of attaining results in "rousing leviathan, and has been used by societies as diverse as the dervishes in the middle east and the python dancers of africa, not to mention the round dances that were familiar to the gnostic christians, and the ones held every year in the past at chartres. the witches of today, however, while acknowledging the importance of the male element of telluric power, generally prefer to give the greater honour to the female principle, personified as the goddess. the goddess has also been worshipped all over the world, a

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

uch the same way as the laws of mechanics are based on mathematics. so far, therefore as we can be said to possess a magical theory of the universe, it must be a matter solely of fundamental law, with a 9 few simple and comprehensive propositions stated in very general terms. i might expend a life-time in exploring the details of one plane, just as an explorer might give his life to one corner of africa, or a chemist to one subgroup of compounds. each such detailed piece of work may be very valuable, but it does not as a rule throw light on the main principles of the universe. its truth is the truth of one angle. it might even lead to error, if some inferior person were to generalize from too few facts. imagine an inhabitant of mars who wished to philosophise about the earth, and had nothi

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

from the dissipations and distractions which contact with civilisation forces upon one, no matter how vigorously he may struggle against their insolence, to the sacred solitude of the desert, whether among the sierras of spain, or the sands of the sahara, i found that the philosophy of lao tze resumed its sway upon my soul, subtler and stronger on each successive occasion. but neither europe nor africa can show such desolation as america. the proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted spain; the most primitive and superstitious arab of the remotest oases, these are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the united states one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the 4 most charming and cultur

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

vivors proved difficult to enforce. it was even then not a tenth as efficient as that of the serviles at home. the imported serviles moreover caught native diseases, and died in hundreds; and though by prodigious sacrifices the west african empire was kept going for nearly 200 years, it had to end at last no less ingloriously than the french adventure in mexico, or the english in india, and south africa* the main causes were the impossibility of breeding children in a climate so unsuitable, even of maintaining their own women, and above all the fact that the crude zro was not of a quality equal to that obtained in atlas, and that the zro generated by the atlanteans themselves was not to be made at all outside their own country. the lesson was learnt. until the end no further attempt was ma

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2

he aquatic when applied to divine natures signifies a government inseparable from water, and hence the oracle calls the aquatic gods, water walkers "there are certain water elementals whom orpheus calls nereides, dwelling in the more elevated exhalations of water, such as appear in damp, cloudy air, whose bodies are sometimes seen (as zoroaster taught) by more acute eyes, especially in persia and africa "let the immortal depth of your soul lead you, but earnestly raise your eyes upwards- zoroaster "nama-rupa- purely material, and therefore shadowy and meaningless, are the innumerable shapes which haunt the mind of man. in one sense we must here include all purely sensory phenomena, and the images which memory presents to the mind which is endeavoring to concentrate itself upon a single tho

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3

d 63 of algeria enjoys the same properties, but in an inferior degree. hashish (or grass; that is to say "the" grass "par excellence" as if the arabs had wished to define in a single word the "grass" source of all material pleasures) has different names, according to its composition and the method of preparation which it has undergone in the country where it has been gathered: in india "bhang" in africa "teriaki" in algeria and in arabia felix "madjound"&c" it makes considerable difference at what season of the year it is gathered. it possesses its greatest energy when it is in flower. the flowering tops are in consequence the only parts employed in the different preparations of which we are about to speak. the "extrait gras" of hashish, as the arabs prepare it, is obtained by boiling the

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 2

to compose oneself in a comfortable position, for this book is large and weights i don't know how many pounds; the next to remember that the author has an axe to grind, a\or at least has constituted himself leading counsel for his client egypt, and in a learned and most convincing argument not only proves the undoubted antiquity of his client's claim, but that it was from egypt, or rather central africa, that the human race originated, and that it is to egyptian symbolism, and more particularly to the ritual of the dead, that we must go if we would rightly understand the temples, rites, ceremonies, and customs of mankind past and present. from egypt they came and to egypt must we go. the book is in every sense a great book, and, by the way, it forms an excellent seventh volume to gerald ma

e this frightful secret about a "tau" why bother to say so? remember that "an indicible arcanum is an arcanum which "cannot" be revealed" even by a r.a.m! the hebrew throughout is very faulty; either dr. churchward knows none, or else the proofs have been sadly neglected. but now let us turn to the subject over which he must have spent years of labour. man he traces back to the pygmies of central africa, these or beings very like them hundreds of thousands of years ago emigrated all over the world- they were paleolithic man, and whether these ape-like little beings had a mythos 341 or not would appear to be doubtful, but the next great exodus, that of neolithic man, carried with it the stellar mythos- that of the seven stars and the pole star, and the varied quarters to which these primiti

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6

looking-glass" and that he who himself sings so musically may be in his turn the means of making others sing. as we observed above, we are causing several extracts from the equinox to be translated into french. 1 we are further glad to hear such good reports from every branch. the north and the midlands are already making london look to its laurels; the west has surpassed all hope; america, south africa, burma, india, the malay peninsula, west africa, all thrive. australia has received an important addition to its strength; we have excellent accounts from british columbia, paraguay, and brazil. france is being specially nursed at present, but holland, switzerland, and germany need no such aid. the work in spain is still hampered by political conditions, and we are sorry to hear little from

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

t a protection from the cold. q: does it matter where coven meetings are held? a: notrea!ly, but the atmosphereoutside.is nearer to our religion, which, ideally, demands .a place near running wateror beneath trees. q: is. the growth. of :witchcraft, since the repeal of the witchcraft act .in' 1951, confined to britain? a: by no means. it is world-wide. we get requests from. people allover europe, africa and america asking if we can give them a correspondence course. this is impossible, of course, but some actually come to.bngland to be taught and initiated. q:many? a: not more than a dozen a year, for ittakes the best part ofa year before they can be initiated. but there is.a black market in some covens which accept foreign initiates who, fora consideration of 50 or more, get taught a trav

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

at present so far ahead that they are practically inconceivable unless we have the peculiar type of brain that can think somewhat abstractly. there is the stage in which we can transcend time and space, when the consciousness of the group in all parts of the planet, for instance, will be our consciousness, and when it will be just as easy for us to contact the consciousness of a friend in india, africa, or elsewhere, as it is here; distance and separation will- 46- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust prove no barrier to intercourse. symptoms of this can be seen in the ability which some people have to communicate telepathically, or to psychometrise. it is all very well to spend some time visioning this distant goal, and picturing the achievement of the logos billions

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

r body of sensation and feeling, and a rudimentary germ of mind which might some day form a nucleus of a mental body. left to himself for long aeons animal man would have eventually progressed out of the animal kingdom into the human, and would have become a self-conscious, functioning, rational entity, but how slow the process would have been may be evidenced by the study of the bushmen of south africa, the veddhas of ceylon, and the hairy ainus. the decision of the planetary logos to take a physical vehicle produced an extraordinary stimulation in the evolutionary process, and by his incarnation, and the methods of force distribution he employed, he brought about in a brief cycle of time what would otherwise have been inconceivably slow. the germ of mind in animal man was stimulated. the

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

quipment which is primarily responsive to the higher spiritual vibrations, a powerful and controlled energy body, and a sound physical body, though not robust in the ordinary use of the term. what then is the present situation in connection with the integrating group of mystics? let me be somewhat explicit. in every european country, in the united states of america, and in parts of asia and south africa are to be found certain disciples, usually unrecognised in the world at large, who are thinking truth. let me call your attention to that phrase. the most important workers in this new group and those who are closest to the great ones are those whose daily thought life is oriented by the new ideal. that this thought life of theirs may work out in definite esoteric activities may be true, bu

ALICE A BAILEY09 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME I ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY I

iness everywhere in the occident, is largely due to the work of the orientalist scholars in france, germany and england. they have made the literature of the east available, in all its beauty, to the west, and so have linked the spiritual truths of all ages with the truth of the christian presentation, showing them all to be of equal progressive value. now the masses in india, china, and northern africa must be awakened to the inner significance of their own faiths, and to the part that christianity plays in the same great religious programme. this is occupying the close attention of certain second ray teachers in india, japan and syria- 112- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust during the next ten years the work of the fellowship of reli

t little removed from that found in their enemies. it was only as the millenia of years passed away, and human intelligence and cunning began to assert themselves, that humanity became more powerful than the animals and in its turn devastated the animal kingdom. up until two hundred years ago the toll of life exacted by the animal world from the human, in the forests of the western continents, in africa, in the primeval lands of australia and in the islands of the tropic seas, was incalculable. this is a fact often forgotten in the sentimentality of a moment, but it lies at the root of man's cruelty to animals. it is but the inevitable karma of the animal kingdom working out. the question must be viewed from a larger scale than has hitherto been the case, and its true historic values must

ALICE A BAILEY11 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME II ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY II

bjectively welded together into a body, which we have called the new group of world servers, for lack of a better name. their characteristics are well known, for many have made a careful study of this group for two or three years and many also form a part of it. prominent members of this group are to be found in every country in europe, in china and japan, in north and south america, and in south africa. in australia, new zealand and other countries- 390- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust not enumerated above, members and servers of this group are to be found. many of these group members know or recognise each other from the similarity of objectives, ideals and methods, to be seen in their work, but in many cases they remain unknown

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

e its problems or to think in larger terms. the late world war was symptomatic of immaturity, of adolescent thinking, of uncontrolled childish emotions and of a demand by anti-social nations for that which does not belong to them. like children, they cry for "more. the intense isolationism and the "hands off" policy of certain groups in the united states, the demand for a white australia or south africa, the cry of "america for the americans, or british imperialism, the shouting of france for recognition, are other instances. they all indicate inability to think in larger terms; they are an expression of world irresponsibility; they indicate- 7- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust also the childishness of the race which fails to grasp the extent of the whole of which each natio

d understanding. they are: 1. the jewish problem. the jews constitute an international minority of great aggressiveness, exceedingly vocal, and they also constitute a minority in practically every nation in the world. their problem is, therefore, unique. 2. the negro problem. this is another unique problem, with the negro constituting a majority in that great (and as yet undeveloped) continent of africa, and at the same time constituting a minority in the united states of america and one which is attracting great attention. this problem is unique in the sense that it is essentially the problem of the white people and one which they must solve because they produced it and have perpetuated it. if we can get some idea of the significance of these problems, materially and spiritually, and can

lization which has enabled them to take their place on equal terms with what we call the "civilized" peoples. in the case of the negro, we are considering a people who have (during the past two hundred years) begun to rise in the scale of human endeavour and have, in that time, made amazing progress against great odds and much opposition. two hundred years ago, the negroes were all to be found in africa and are still there in the millions; two hundred years ago, they were what the european and american regarded as "raw savages, divided into countless tribes, living in a state of nature, primitive, warlike, totally uneducated from the modern point of view, ruled by chieftains and under the guidance of tribal gods, controlled by tribal taboos, differing greatly from each other the pygmy and

ce except their colour constantly fighting among themselves and raiding each other's territory. for centuries they have been exploited and driven into slavery, first by the arabs, then later by those who purchased them from the slave-owners and carried them into slavery to the united states or to the west indies. they have been exploited also by the european nations who seized vast territories in africa and enriched themselves on the produce of those countries and the labour of their inhabitants the french in the french sudan, the belgians in the belgian congo, the dutch and the british in south africa and the west coast of africa, the germans in german east africa and the italians in eastern africa. it is a sorry story of cruelty, theft and exploitation- 61- problems of humanity copyright

unfinished, and unless it is conducted in the future with righteousness and justice, may terminate in tragedy. there is, however, much improvement in the internal history of these territories, and there is much reason for optimism. the problem of the negro falls into two divisions: the problem of the future of the african negro and the problem of the future of the negro in the western hemisphere. africa is potential and the destiny of its countless millions of inhabitants is still in the embryonic stage; the relationship of its true inhabitants to the alien races who seek to dominate them remains still in the realm of political manoeuvring and commercial greed. it should, however, be recognized that in spite of the many attendant evils which follow ever on the trail of the exploiting white

of the christian presentation (with the emphasis upon love and goodness and the life hereafter) is understood by the emotionally focussed negro. behind the many separative religious cults of that dark land, there emerges a fundamental and pure mysticism, ranging all the way from nature worship and a primitive animism to a deep occult knowledge and an esoteric understanding which may some day make africa the seat of the purest form of occult teaching and living. this, however, lies several centuries ahead. in considering the problem of the african negro, it is the long range vision with which we must deal and the steady rising into power of millions of people who have, as yet, only made the first steps towards modern civilization and culture, but are taking others with an almost frightening

frightening rapidity. the undesirable aspects of civilization are present, but the benefits conferred far outweigh these, and the negro, in spite of his natural and understandable antagonism, should recognize them as a debt he owes to the aggressive and acquisitive white nations. contact with them has stimulated his intellectual perception; the white man's way of living has lifted the negroes of africa out of their primitive state into a more modern one; education and modern ways of thinking and planning are rapidly fitting the negroes to take their place in a modern world; science, transportation and knowledge brought to them through the medium of the white races are tying them closely into the developing scheme of modern history; the new world with its better ways of living is as much f

re tying them closely into the developing scheme of modern history; the new world with its better ways of living is as much for the negro as for the white man. but beyond this necessary recognition of indebtedness and the effort to benefit from the presented conditions and to ignore that which is evil and undesirable, the negro problem, both in- 62- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust africa and in the western world, is largely (if not entirely) that of the white race and one which it is their responsibility to solve. in africa the negro greatly outnumbers the white population; the latter is in so small a minority that they are faced with a most difficult situation, living as they do in the midst of an overpoweringly vast black population. in the west and in america, the situat

it is their responsibility to solve. in africa the negro greatly outnumbers the white population; the latter is in so small a minority that they are faced with a most difficult situation, living as they do in the midst of an overpoweringly vast black population. in the west and in america, the situation is reversed and the negroes constitute a minority, greatly outnumbered by the white people. in africa the negro is virile and militant; in america and the west indies he has been somewhat emasculated and psychologically defeated by years of forced labour and slavery. slavery exists also in africa, but it has been of a different kind and has not produced quite the same results as it has in the west. the problem facing the white races now in africa is so to train the negroes that they will be

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

f the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust and may it seal the door where evil dwells. let light and love and power restore the plan on earth. its extraordinary potency can be seen in the fact that hundreds of thousands of people are already using it day by day and many times a day; it is (1947) translated into eighteen different languages and used by people in all those languages; in the jungles of africa, groups of natives are using it and it can be seen on the desks of great executives in our major cities; it goes forth over the radio in europe and in america and there is no country or island in the world where its use is unknown. all this has taken place in the space of eighteen months. this new invocation, if given widespread distribution, can be to the new world religion what the lord's

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

ld aloft by a vital russian exponent of true religion that man for whom many russians have been looking and who will be the justification of a most ancient prophecy. spain has a sixth ray ego and a seventh ray personality thus reversing the forces which are expressing themselves through the russian spirit. spain, too, acts as a link in world adjustment but this time the link is between europe and africa, and in this capacity spain has earlier served. it will be apparent to you also how inevitable has been the relationship between spain and russia and how the ideology of the latter country has influenced the national government. it will also be apparent why the battleground of the two great ideologies the fascist and the communistic has been found inevitably in spain. the triumph of the fas

y present. duality, triplicity (england, scotland and wales) and also differentiation are the conditioning aspects of the empire. under the major control of gemini and taurus you have the following potencies active: egoic ruler personality ruler australia. virgo. 6th .c apricorn .1 0th canada .t aurus .2 nd. libra. 7th india. aries. 1st. capricorn .1 0th new zealand. gemini. 3rd. virgo. 6th south africa. aries. 1st. sagittarius. 9th these are the major divisions. there are lesser divisions but with these i am not here concerned. these countries are related to the mother-country through their planetary rulers, and in this- 36- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust statement you have a definite hint conveyed. the zodiacal signs relate, but the planets are more influential at

ly affecting the world and the united nations; this holds great hope for the future. it is for the reason that new york is one of these five centres that the united nations organisation is to work here. there are two centres on our planet which are as yet relatively quiescent as far as any world effect is concerned. to them i assign no other focal point beyond hinting that within the continent of africa one will some day be found, and later still (many millions of years later) another will be discovered in the region of australia. it is, however, with these five centres in this fifth rootrace that we are concerned. the force which the centre at geneva is expressing (at present ineffectually, though later a change will come) is that of the second ray of love-wisdom, with its major emphasis

ALICE A BAILEY18 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME III ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

ancer b. leo c. scorpio d. capricorn e. pisces- 251- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust these five signs are related in the planetary sense to the five great races of which our present race, the aryan, is the fifth. these five races, under the influence of the five signs, produce the externalisations which are called the five continents europe, africa, asia, australia, america. these five continents are to the planetary life what five major endocrine glands are to the human being. they are related to five centres. all these appearances, expressions of qualities and material evidences of life are the symbols or outer and visible signs of inner and spiritual realities or of life, whatever you may mean by that term. for our purposes, we cou

hich flows from them is profoundly affecting the world, holding great hope for the future but producing most disrupting and disastrous effects where the material side of human life is concerned. there are two centres in the planetary life which are as yet relatively quiescent as far as any world effect is concerned. to them i assign no other focal point beyond hinting that within the continent of africa one will some day be found, and later still (many millions of years ahead) another will be discovered in the region of australia. it is, however, with the five centres in this fifth root-race that we are concerned. the force which the centre at geneva is expressing (at present ineffectually, though later a change will come) is that of the second ray of love-wisdom, with its major emphasis a

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ny kind. the work is supported by the small subscriptions of the many, which is very much sounder and more dependable. i think this is all i have to tell you about the inception of the school and its functioning. it is the very heart of all we do. we now have a british section, a dutch section, an italian section, a swiss section and a south american section with organised work in turkey and west africa and members scattered in many other countries. the school papers go out in many languages and the students in these countries are handled by secretaries who speak their language. the service activities extend into an even wider field and i shall not attempt to deal with them here. the next six years, from 1924 to 1930, are somewhat monotonous. as i look over them i am- 112- the unfinished a

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ively working upon the physical plane. these focal points are used to bring about two major changes in the world; the first is the fusion and blending of peoples and minorities so that coordinated empires and cultural nations are appearing everywhere and, secondly, the changing of frontiers and the altering of boundaries so that a complete re-adjustment of the map of the world in asia, europe and africa can take place. it will be apparent to you that three major methods or modes of producing these fusions can be noted. great britain, the united states of america and the union of socialist soviet republics (the u.s.s.r) are working out the principle of federation, of relation and of the fusion of bodies into concentrated wholes, responding to the same inspiration but employing their own spe

ALICE A BAILEY24 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME V THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS

rtain) die out a different state of affairs will gradually supervene and a true communism (in the spiritual sense of the term) will take the place of the present wickedness. on the other hand, the much vaunted democracies have much to learn. men are not truly free, even in democratic countries; the negroes, for instance, lack their constitutional rights in parts of the united states; and in south africa, their educational facilities and their opportunity to work and live as free men are not equal to those of the white race; in the southern states, the constitution of the united states is infringed every day by those who believe in white supremacy a supremacy which will be put to a crucial test when africa awakes. this attitude of the united states and their failure to live up to the consti

thern states, the constitution of the united states is infringed every day by those who believe in white supremacy a supremacy which will be put to a crucial test when africa awakes. this attitude of the united states and their failure to live up to the constitution where negroes are concerned, have greatly weakened the faith of other countries in the wonder of america, and the situation in south africa is not honoured by thinking men. i mention these two situations because there is widespread evil even in the democracies; a true house cleaning is sorely needed. the imperialism of democratic britain has badly marred an otherwise fine record on behalf of dependent peoples, but it is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, as britain gives freedom of choice and democratic liberation to india

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

e aquarians; we are not yet equipped. for that age some of the children coming in have the earmarks, but even they are few and far between. the aquarian age is going to manifest over the whole world; there will be aquarians born everywhere because there is the working out of the subjective spirit in every part of the planet. it is possible that in america, canada, australia, new zealand and south africa there will be focal points of the energy, but what will really happen is the coming into incarnation all over the world in every kingdom of nature of those human beings and other forms of life, all merging under the new aquarian influence- 109- the labours of hercules a marvellous thing is taking place; let us get the [190] world ready so that our children, and children's children, can see

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

poetised fiction now; but it was poetised truth then. iii. the third continent, we propose to call "lemuria" the name is an invention, or an idea, of mr. p. l. sclater, who asserted, between 1850 and 1860, on zoological grounds the actual existence, in prehistoric times, of a continent which he showed to have extended from madagascar to ceylon and sumatra. it included some portions of what is now africa; but otherwise this gigantic continent, which stretched from the indian ocean to australia, has now wholly disappeared beneath the waters of the pacific, leaving here and there only some of its highland tops which are now islands. mr. a. r. wallace, the naturalist "extends the australia of tertiary periods to new guinea and the solomon islands, and perhaps to fiji" and from its marsupial ty

ifth, our aryan root-race, europe must be called the fifth great continent. the secret doctrine takes no account of islands and peninsulas, nor does it follow the modern geographical distribution of land and sea. since the day of its earliest teachings and the destruction of the great atlantis, the face of the earth has changed more than once. there was a time when the delta of egypt and northern africa belonged to europe, before the formation of the straits of gibraltar, and a further upheaval of the continent, changed entirely the face of the map of europe. the last serious change occurred some 12,000 years ago[[footnote(s* it is to be remarked, however, that mr. wallace does not accept mr. sclater's idea, and even opposes it. mr. sclater supposes a land or continent formerly uniting afr

ame has been given to this supposed land" yet the land did exist, and was of course pre-tertiary, for "lemuria (accepting this name for the third continent) had perished before atlantis had fully developed; and the latter sunk and its chief portions had disappeared before the end of the miocene period* one more "coincidence "now it is proved that in geologically recent times, this region of north africa was in fact a peninsula of spain, and that its union with africa (proper) was effected on the north by the rupture of gibraltar, and on the south by an upheaval to which the sahara owes its existence. the shores of this former sea of sahara are still marked by the shells[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 9 pre-tertiary giants. and was followed by the submersion of plato's litt

ical regions of the old world from anthropoid apes" asked for proofs, the evolutionist, not the least daunted, replies "of these no fossil remains are as yet known to us, but they were probably akin to the gorilla and orang of the present day" and then the papuan negro is mentioned as the probable descendant in the first line (pedigree of man, p. 80. haeckel holds fast to lemuria, which with east africa and south asia also, he mentions as the possible cradle of the primitive ape-men; and so do many geologists. mr. a. r. wallace admits its reality, though in a rather modified sense, in his "geographical distribution of animals" but let not evolutionists speak so lightly of the comparative size of the brains of man and the ape, for this is very unscientific, especially when they pretend to s

in scinde, and aria (iran, and were truly born from their father a-bram (no brahmin) some 8,000 years b.c. the latter, the arabs, are the descendants of those aryans who would not go into india at the time of the dispersion of nations, some of whom remained on the borderlands thereof, in afghanistan and kabul* and along the oxus, while others penetrated into and invaded arabia. but this was when africa had already been raised as a continent. we have meanwhile to follow, as closely as limited space will permit, the gradual evolution of the now truly human species. it is in the suddenly arrested evolution of certain sub-races, and their forced and violent diversion into the purely animal line by artificial cross-breeding, truly analogous to the hybridization, which we have now learned to ut

christian clergy "the insanely delirious voice of old superstition" atlantis is denied, when not confused with lemuria and other departed continents, because, perhaps, lemuria is half the creation of modern science, and has, therefore, to be believed in; while plato's atlantis is regarded by most of the scientists as a dream. atlantis is often described by believers in plato as a prolongation of africa. an old continent is also suspected to have existed on the eastern coast. only africa, as a continent, was never part and parcel of either lemuria or atlantis, as we have agreed to call the third and fourth continents. their archaic appellations are never mentioned in the[[vol. 2, page] 264 the secret doctrine. puranas, nor anywhere else. but with simply one of the esoteric keys in hand it

tify these departed lands in the numberless "lands of the gods" devas and munis described in the puranas, in their varshas, dwipas, and zones. their sweta-dwipa, during the early day of lemuria, stood out like a giant-peak from the bottom of the sea; the area between atlas and madagascar being occupied by the waters till about the early period of atlantis (after the disappearance of lemuria, when africa emerged from the bottom of the ocean, and atlas was half-sunk. it is of course impossible to attempt, within the compass of even several volumes, a consecutive and detailed account of the evolution and progress of the first three races- except so far as to give a general view of it, as will be done presently. race the first had no history of its own. of race the second the same may be said

ranean convulsions and the breaking asunder of the ocean floors. that which put an end to its successor- the fourth continent- was brought on by successive disturbances in the axial rotation. it began during the earliest tertiary periods, and, continuing for long ages, carried away successively the last vestige of atlantis, with the exception, perhaps, of ceylon and a small portion of what is now africa. it changed the face of the globe, and no memory of its flourishing continents and isles, of its civilizations and sciences, remained in the annals of history, save in the sacred records of the east. hence, modern science denies atlantis and its existence. it even denies any violent shiftings of the earth's axis, and would attribute the reason for the change of climates to other causes. but

materialists and the sceptics. but here we have one of their own flock, and a bird of the same feather- ernest haeckel, who, in his distribution of races, corroborates the statement almost verbatim "it would seem that the region on the earth's surface where the evolution of these primitive men from the closely related catarrhine apes) took place, must be sought either in southern asia or eastern africa [which, by the bye, was not even in existence when the third race flourished- h.p.b] or in lemuria. lemuria is an ancient continent now sunk beneath the waters of the indian ocean, which, lying to the south of the asia of to-day, stretched on the one hand eastwards to upper india and sunda island, on the other westward as far as madagascar and africa (see supra and compare "the pedigree of

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t recall a single instance of bad manners, except on the part of babus who had learned them from low-class europeans, like william archer. when he comes to talk of art and culture, it gets worse, if anything .remember.it is certainly not irrelevant-that india is the most tropical country that ever possessed any art of importance. this person has never heard of cambodia, yucatan, peru, egypt, west africa, java. his art criticism is beneath the depth of upper tooting .can any unprejudiced observer deny that even these exceptionally favourable specimens of indian workmanship are marred by the gravest effects of conventionality in form, of overcrowding in composition, of excess in ornament? in a few seated female figures, viewed from behind, there is a certain natural grace, but most of the wo

BOOK OF JASHAR

f god and peace. the world was warm and wet and nourishing for living things, and so they formed and grew on its surface. new life came from old, which died and gave its place. plants turned their leaves to the sun, and animals grew eyes to see. and yet their eyes could see neither good nor evil in the world. such was the world, when god led flo and faben and human and eve wandering northwards in africa, along the great river. by day, faben and human hunted together, while eve swam for fish and flo gathered fruit. in the evening, human sang and eve shaped rocks into tools, while flo and faben slept together under a tree. then god said "see now what i can do with a spark" and thus fire was given into the hand of eve. she nourished the spark with dry leaves, and human brought her sticks, and

fled from the river, into the east. he ran for six days, pausing only to eat or rest. on the seventh day, he ascended to the top of a mountain. there god showed him a vision of a great city of peace, surrounded by fields and orchards, which the children of abel would have made. cain looked in wonder at his vision until it faded with the setting sun, for there were then no other people outside of africa. and cain continued thus in his exile. six days he walked and gathered food, but every seventh day he had visions of cities which god had planned for the children of abel. cain wandered for twenty years, and then he knew the whole vastness of the world. seth found rama, flo's daughter, alone along the river, and together they had a daughter named jashar. when jashar had grown into womanhood

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

ght and color. put true color back into your life with the rich spectrum of ideas and practical magical formulas from practical color magick! 0-87542-047-6,160 pgs, 5v* x 8, illus, softcover $6.95 charms, spells and formulas by ray malbrough hoodoo a word many have heard, but few have understood. hoodoo magick is a blend of european techniques and the magic brought to the new world by slaves from africa. hoodoo is a folk magic that can be learned and easily mastered by anyone. in this book, ray malbrough reveals to you the secrets of hoodoo magick. by using the simple materials available in nature, you can bring about the necessary changes to greatly benefit your life and that of your friends. you are given detailed instructions for making and using the gris-gris (charm) bags only casually

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

ctive medium, such as a crystal ball, mirror or a natural moving source of inspiration, such as fire, water or clouds. the word 'scry' comes from the anglo-saxon word descry, which means 'to perceive dimly. shamanism: possibly the oldest spiritual practice in the world, continued today in seite 180 wicca01.txt communities as far apart as india, australia, japan and china, siberia and mongolia, in africa, among the bedouins in the middle east and in north, central and south america. sky-clad: naked. sky gods: the powerful patriarchal gods of the classical and viking world, for example zeus of the greeks, jupiter of the romans, odin of the vikings and thunor of the anglo-saxons.they gained supremacy over the earth mother who appears as their wife-consort, full of human foibles. solstice: one

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

culous as he delivered sermons to his afro-christian followers. shifting to a very different context, we may consider the kongolese in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, pious african catholics who assigned supernatural significance to the gnarly, rootlike incarnations of their patron deities. far from representing religious oddities, do these phenomena point to continuities that reach from africa to america? to begin to answer this question i present a spectrum of beliefs and practices by illuminating the "magical" aspects of african american spirituality. african american magical practices and beliefs possess an extensive historiography, as writers in the fields of black studies, religion, history, folklore, and anthropology have all examined conjuring traditions. theophus smith fo

lem of conjure harming.the malign use of supernatural power by practitioners. how did blacks respond to persons who utilized conjure for malevolent ends? there were few organized crusades to drive out those who engaged in supernatural harming practices within their own communities. neither were there collective attempts to cleanse public spaces of evil magic, as with the witchfinding movements of africa and the caribbean, where purging "fetishers" using prayer became a frequent practice for establishing the supremacy of the christian deity. in nineteenth-century west indian slave societies, it was common for churchgoing folk to engage in collective digging expeditions of obeah charms. not so in black america, where christianity and conjure were not so much actively resisted as they were\ 3

dlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006\ 34\ facing page illustration: gris-gris with qur'an verses, purchased by an american collector in the caribbean, late eighteenth century. typically such charms were carried for good luck, health, and spiritual protection. from the collection of pierre eugene dusimitiere, courtesy of the library company of philadelphia\ 35\ 2 "africa was a land a f magic power since de beginnin f a history" old world sources of conjuring traditions new providence, bahamas, circa 1760. a schooner embarks for the english colony of georgia on a fair spring morning. on board are a small crew, several black slaves, and a young ibo freedman named olaudah equiano. suddenly the wind blows high and the boat careens toward the rocky coastline. de

ects of black culture in both the old and new worlds. some scholars have argued that the manufacture of minkisi, the sacred\ 37 "medicines" of kongo tradition, is reconfigured in black charm-making practices in the united states "voodoo" dolls and figures, as seen in southeastern cities such as new orleans and miami, have been identified with artistic motifs originating not only in kongo, central africa, but in benin and togo, west africa. but it is not only in visual creations that strong influences of african spirituality appear in black american supernatural traditions. a consideration of african cosmologies shows that a proliferation of ideas.ranging from concepts of divinity to theories concerning cause, effect, and the responsiveness of spiritual forces to human will.have informed ex

o human will.have informed expressions of black american religion and magic. a brief look at the religions of african people before the transatlantic passage of the slaves can illuminate the characteristics that black spirituality would later acquire in the united states. the indigenous religions in the areas from which the slaves were taken.those of the western and central regions of sub-saharan africa.were extremely diverse and paralleled an equally diverse range of linguistic groups. it is arguable that most practitioners, irrespective of their national origins, adhered to characteristic traits of african religions: highly structured cosmologies, concepts of a diffused monotheism, rituals of sacred mediation, an emphasis on devotions to ancestors and the dead, and the use of spiritually

ralleled an equally diverse range of linguistic groups. it is arguable that most practitioners, irrespective of their national origins, adhered to characteristic traits of african religions: highly structured cosmologies, concepts of a diffused monotheism, rituals of sacred mediation, an emphasis on devotions to ancestors and the dead, and the use of spiritually efficacious objects.[2] throughout africa, certain cosmological precepts appear to have been relatively congruent from people to people. precolonial kongolese, for example, envisioned the world as a multidimensional structure, with two mountains connected at their foundations and divided by a barrier or horizon line, symbolized by water. they believed that on death human beings would pass into the other realm, a land paralleling th

tural powers. idowu has argued that the efficacy of magic "depends upon the form rather than the spirit" others have challenged this view, noting that the performance of magical acts in african traditions is normally not mechanical but nearly always depends on a secondary "supernatural agency" such as a deity, a spirit, or some otherworldly force. for example, the near-ubiquitous use of charms in africa is an example of magic that is governed by a supernatural agency, for certain manufactured objects can be activated by invisible black magic page 26 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 powers and persuaded or compelled to act according to a person's will.[6] according to some observers, magical acts are also distinguished from religio

term "fetish" was widely used as a concept to describe one of the most salient features of african spirituality: the construction and use of sacred charms and other supernatural artifacts. conceived as a practice, an invisible force, and a commodity "fetish" derived from the portuguese verb feitico, to fabricate, referring to the handmade quality of these material creations. colonial observers in africa often identified the fetish as the primary substance of african spiritual life. as willem bosman, a dutch administrator at the west african port of elmina in the late 1600s exclaimed "they cry out, let us make fetiche; by which they express as much, as let us perform our religious worship" the avatar of the national deity of whydah, a serpent, was called a fetish by white missionaries on th

variety of unusual shells, stones, and irregular objects point to the use of supernatural artifacts that date back nearly three hundred years.[14] a major difficulty in identifying the forms and expressions of african spiritual beliefs in early periods has to do with the task of distinguishing african-based traditions from other cultural practices. it is likely that the supernatural traditions of africa were fortified by traditions that were adopted from anglo-americans. as did africans, europeans envisioned the universe as a territory inhabited by a hierarchy of forces and spirits. they developed rituals to allow them to interact with benevolent forces and defend themselves against the malevolent forces that existed within that universe. while some anglo-american practitioners incorporate

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ckley "the spiritualist sect in nashville: a study in personality reorganization (bachelor's thesis, virginia union university, richmond, 1933, pp. 136, 182, 123, 97, 152, 160, 180.82. lockley white's revised thesis\ 1erchronologia rorispergius (mach 37 -compiled by elias pandochaeus 144,000 bc geneticists believe that an ancestral human population of about 2000 individuals who lived somewhere in africa began to split up. 24,000 bc "black venus" figurine unearthed near the czech village of dolni vestonice in 1924. also one at willendorf. 11 cm tall. discovered in 1908. oldest paleolithic sculptures? oldest known portrayals of women? 100 small statuettes have been found. 6500 bc catal huyuk, neolithic site in turkey (central anatolia) flourished..at catul huyuk the goddess images were shown

os the areopagite. 590: gregory (540-604) becomes pope. 610 w.v. qur'an 642 third (and final) destruction of library of alexandria (by moslems. arabs bearing the new religion of islam captured alexandria, and the mantle of alchemical study and research passed from the greeks to the arab world. 644-656 can. of qur'an. 692 chinese reopened the silk-routes across central asia 711: muslims from north africa invade spain and quickly dismantle most of the hispano-visigothic kingdom there. they head north, into the pyrenees, towards modern-day france. 717 muslim caliph umar ii founded the first muslim university at harran. umar brought many of the last remaining hermeticists from alexandria and installed them at harran. 721 al-jabir(jabir ibn hayyan) born in the town of tus. 732: at the battle of

creation of a golem. commentary on the sefer yetzirah called "pe'ullah ha-yetsirah("practice or practical application of. sefer ha-hokhmah, a major part of which is concerned with exegesis of holy names. 1165-1235 isaac the blind. provencal kabbalist. 1165-1240 ibn arabi (spanish muslim mystic poet) d.1166 abd al-qadir al-jilani founds one of the earliest sufi orders(prominent in india and north africa. d. 1170 natanael ben al-fayyumi, the garden of intellects,astrological thought influenced by ismaili encyclopaedia of the brotherhood of purity "also by the esoteric teachings which were not widespread among the ordinary people. c.1170- 1230 gaucelm faidit -troubadour- travelled to italy and went on the fourth crusade. 1170-1200 rigaut de barbezieux troubadour refers to his beloved as the

a learned jewish scholar. his followers regarded him as the reincarnation of plato. 1362 d. john of roquetaillade 1363-1437 niccoli, niccol c.1365 judah ben nissim ibn malka(moroccan. commentary on sefer yetsirah mentions that students of this book were given a magical mansucript named "sefer raziel" to study. 1365-1393 "sefer yetzirah "l" paris 764 (1, foll. 1a-3a. paper, written in spanish (n. africa (gruenwald, 136) 1370 william langland's piers plowman criticises alchemists as deceivers. 1375-1425 author of red book of hergest (mabinongion. 1376 the dominican directorium inquisitorum, the textbook for inquisitors, places alchemists among magicians and wizards. 1377: the earliest mention of playing cards. 1379-1439 isaac holland 1380 king charles v the wise issues a decree forbidding a

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

o be found among them. the story of panku is probably the closest chinese version of a creation myth. it first appears in the han dynasty (206 b.c. a.d. 220, hundreds of years after the first stories were told about the ancient rulers. many experts believe that the story of panku was molded and influenced by the caravan traders who wound across the deserts and mountains of the middle east, india, africa, and china carrying silk, spices, and other precious items of trade.1 the panku story shares some common elements with creation myths of those far-flung regions: a cosmic egg, separation of the world into opposing forces, and doomed gods. this story introduces the important concept of yin and yang. these opposing forces, which exist in everything found in nature, are not seen as evil and go

comparison of world mythologies, anthropologist roy willis writes about the death of panku: in many traditions, creation is brought about by sacrificial death. this story [of panku] resembles a vedic hymn of the indian tradition which tells how purusha, a primordial being, is sacrificed: his bodily parts then become the many components of the universe, including gods, man and animals. in saharan africa the world was originally made out of the numerous segments of the sacrificed cosmic serpent minia, god s first creation an event remembered in animal sacrifice in the region to this day. there is a similar cosmic drama in an assyro-babylonian myth when the celestial king marduk slaughters the serpent tiamat, the feminine principle of chaos, and divides her enormous corpse: from one half mar

item in ancient egypt, rome, and persia. the water spinach, ung choy, has thick hollow stems and long slender leaves. it will sprout leaves and regenerate with very little water, and it will grow as much as four inches per day. this hardy plant saved people from starvation during china s many wars and is also a valuable source of iron for the people of india, vietnam, brazil, central america, and africa.2 64 china was once thought to be surrounded by four seas. to the east was a vast ocean. beyond the ocean, magnificent plants bloomed on an island paradise. the most glorious specimen of all the plant life was the fusang tree, whose wondrous branches stretched up toward the heavens and out across the island for hundreds of miles. scattered among its masses of dark green foliage, fragrant hi

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

es to extraterrestrial activity all over the 21 t 22..and the truth shall set you free world. in the period after atlantis, i believe that extraterrestrial expressions of the prison warder consciousness still landed and interacted with the people, telling different peoples the same basic manipulated story. some atlanteans escaped by sailing west to the americas, some went east to europe and north africa. it is possible that the biblical story of noah and the ark relates to this period, although it could involve another flood some thousands of years later. over many millennia, the atlantean and extraterrestrial knowledge was passed on through the succeeding generations, and the original clarity was lost in the repeated communication. the knowledge also became a vehicle for control, and it w

the plan to keep the earth races ignorant of who they really were. in effect, a slave race was created and this has continued to the present day. the contactees said that it was the melchedekans who became known as the elohim in the biblical texts. i think this fourth dimensional force is known by many names. the original earth people were the black, red, and other native peoples of the world in africa, the americas, asia and australia- not the white race, the contactees were told. there were two streams of melchedekan 'invaders. those who only interbred with each other, thus keeping the blond haired, blue eyed genetic 'purity. these, the et communicators said, were still living on the earth, though mostly out of sight underground. the others interbred with their newly created earth races

s the intent behind such communications which differs. the elite have thoughts and information fed into their consciousness to guide them and so do those challenging this structure. we on earth are vehicles for a spiritual tussle happening on another level of this planet, not only this one. the round table cecil rhodes was a fabulously wealthy englishman who exploited the continent and peoples of africa, and particularly the diamond reserves of south africa. the name rhodesia, now zimbabwe, is an indication of his influence in that part of the world. as a student at oxford university, rhodes was inspired by a fine arts professor called john ruskin, who is still considered a legendary figure at oxford. ruskin was born in london in 1819, the son of a wealthy wine merchant, and inherited a la

ntred on britain became rhodes's obsession and lay at the heart of almost everything he did. as his wealth grew with his exploitation of south african diamonds and minerals, he established companies like debeers consolidated mines and consolidated gold fields. he also became the prime minister of the cape colony and used his wealth and influence to control parliamentary seats in britain and south africa. by the 1890s, he had an income of at least a million pounds a year (over a hundred years ago, but he was usually overdrawn on his account, such was his ability to spend. a large amount went to furthering his aims of a world government. rhodes is claimed to have been a member of an elite group known as the committee of 300, also known as the olympians. this organisation was the subject of a

round table inner elite and he was an example of another key area of control by the elite: the media. he would later own the times newspaper. still today, the power lies not with politicians, but with the shadowy figures who 'advise' and control them, and those who manipulate the flow of information into the public arena. the round table, another rothschild creation, plotted the boer war in south africa of 1899-1902, in which tens of thousands of men, women, and children were killed, many of them in the concentration camps established by lord kitchener (comm 300. the british prime minister and foreign minister at the time was lord salisbury (comm 300, of the elite cecil family, a close friend of winston churchill (comm 300. lord salisbury and the cecil family were key players in the rhodes

shed by lord kitchener (comm 300. the british prime minister and foreign minister at the time was lord salisbury (comm 300, of the elite cecil family, a close friend of winston churchill (comm 300. lord salisbury and the cecil family were key players in the rhodes-round table operation. manipulation by the round table secured british control of the mineral wealth and introduced the union of south africa. nathan (baron) rothschild was a member of the round table which represented the interests of the house of rothschild and the bankers they controlled such as the warburgs, schroders, and lazards. j.p. morgan (comm 300) became a member in 1899. when rhodes died in 1902, he bequeathed his funds to the cause. these continued to support the round table to an extent, although much of the funding

the elite's strategy because the way we perceive history fundamentally affects the way we see the world and each other today. george orwell made the point in his book, 1984, that those who control history control the present, and those who control the present control history. other branches of the round table were set up in other countries. by 1915, there were round table groups in britain, south africa, canada, australia, new zealand, india, and the united states. the coordination between them was improved by the publication of the society's magazine, the round table, which began in november, 1910. the 'achievements' i've listed, which have had such an effect on our lives to the present day, were not the result of democratic decision making, but of the manoeuvrings of a secret society cal

tionals was already established; this continues today with global companies making donations to the cause. in 1926, funding came from, among many others: the bank of england; barclays bank; lloyds, and lloyds bank; westminster bank; midland bank; hambros bank; rothschild and sons; ford motor company; anglo- iranian oil (now bp; baring brothers; imperial chemical industries (ici; the british south africa company; the mercantile and general insurance company; erlangers ltd; lever brothers; stern brothers; vickers-armstrong; central mining and industrial investment ltd; british american tobacco company; whitehall securities corporation; and reuters, the newsagency which supplies news to newspapers and the broadcast media across the world.1 in the years that followed, institute branches were e

government (taxpayer) began to fund this organisation to do in non-white countries of the world 134 .and the truth shall set you free what it had already done to children in north carolina. in 1988, the year george bush was elected president, another contract was arranged which involved the american taxpayer spending $80 million dollars over five years to expand this work in 58 countries in asia, africa, and spanish-america. millions have been sterilised and most of it has been funded by the taxpayer. other countries do the same. and by the way, dr clarence gamble, the sterilising enthusiast from the proctor and gamble soap family and the bowman gray medical school, has also enjoyed funding from the usaid budget. his so called pathfinder fund is paid to infiltrate non-white societies and b

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

moved its headquarters to rome and during that time came the roman empire and the creation of the roman church, or institutionalised christianity. the headquarters moved on into northern europe after the fall of the roman empire and for a period was based in amsterdam, the netherlands. this was when the dutch began to build their empire through the dutch east india company and they settled south africa. in 1688, one of these hybrid bloodlines, william of orange, invaded england from the netherlands and took the british throne as william iii in 1689. william ruled jointly with queen mary and alone after her death in 1694. from this time, the illuminati moved their centre of operations to london. what followed, of course, was the "great" and enormous british empire. the plot xxiii this vast

as the "great" and enormous british empire. the plot xxiii this vast expansion of the british and other european empires to all parts of the world exported these nefilim hybrid bloodlines to every continent, including, most importantly today, to north america. when these european empires began to recede and collapse, especially in the 20th century, it appeared that these lands, like the americas, africa, and australia, had won their "independence. instead, the nefilim bloodlines and the illuminati merely exchanged overt control for the far more effective covert control. while these empires apparently withdrew, they left out in those countries, including the united states, the bloodlines and the secret society network through which they operate. ever since they have continued to control eve

u will find stories of a great flood and incredible geological upheavals. there is no doubt that an unimaginable catastrophe or, more likely, catastrophes were visited upon the earth between approximately 11000 and 5000bc. the geological and biological evidence is overwhelming in support of the countless stories and traditions that describe such events. they come from europe, scandinavia, russia, africa, throughout the americas, australia, new zealand, asia, china, japan, and the middle east. everywhere. some speak of great heat that boiled the sea; of mountains breathing fire; the disappearance of the sun and moon and the darkness that followed; the raining down of blood, ice, and rock; the earth flipping over; the sky falling; the rising and sinking of land; the loss of great continents;

he age of the atlantic empire would prove to be a free-for-all for the sons of belial and the followers of the temple of the sun. the dominant white tribe came to rule all aspects of atlantean society. they disregarded the law of one, placed their faith in technology and were driven by greed and the lust for power. the arms of the atlantic empire came to stretch nearly worldwide. the americas and africa, the european countries, the middle east, india and tibet came under the control of the empire. the one temple was divided and ineffective, the sun temple flourished and the sons of belial prospered. during that time, one law priests were leading migrations of the red race west to the americas and east to africa. they sought to preserve the law of one and so they built new circles in the fa

e term "dog star" comes from its position in the constellation of canis major and it is also known as orion's dog" the legends and accounts say that the beings from sirius brought an infusion of highly advanced knowledge to atlantis and lemuria-mu and founded the atlantean mystery school. according to robert temple in the sirius mystery (destiny books, vermont, usa, 1998, the dogon tribe in mali, africa, claim that beings from sirius visited their ancestors and gave them knowledge of the universe. he says that they describe the sirians as amphibious and "serpent-featured- a recurring theme as you will see. temple suggests that the anunnaki of the sumerian tablets could be these beings from sirius. he further proposes that the body of the sphinx is that of a dog and not a lion, thus symboli

of interconnecting evidence to support his belief that an amphibious race from sirius came to the earth in far ancient times and brought with them the knowledge that founded those advanced civilisations. the sirius system is also depicted as a snake or serpent in a greek representation in the louvre museum in paris.13 temple's research began when he heard that the dogon people in mali, northwest africa, had told french researchers in 1931 some remarkable information about the sirius system. according to these researchers, the dogon also knew about all the planets of the solar system out to pluto, and of moons that have only recently been confirmed. they said that a star orbited sirius and it was so heavy all the people of the world could not lift it.14 at the time, the star they were talk

rom the reservation of the hopi tribe, which has lemurian connections. the atlantean/lemurian colonies a branch of the atlanteans and lemurians who colonised the planet were called the carians (carian "serpent sea people of the atlantean fire god; the eus-cara (same basic meaning; and the tuarkes (serpent people of the all glorious fire god).44 the tuarkes became the tuaraks, who settled in north africa with their atlantean knowledge; the eus-cara became the basques of spain; and the carians became known as the phoenicians- a very important fact, as will become clear soon.45 james churchward also documents the carians in the americas. the taureg people of north africa today, descendants of the tuarkes, have allowed some visitors to see their ancient cavern system in the ahaggar mountains w

y had been, at least in the latter stages, before those continents sank. these are the same bloodlines that run the world today. just before each of the cataclyms, many atlantean and lemurian royal bloodlines and initiates fled to other parts of the world, heading mostly for high places to escape the impending flood. atlanteans went to britain, one of their colonies, to europe, scandinavia, north africa, the mountains of turkey and iraq, and the americas. all along the american continent are the ancient legends and accounts of highly advanced beings, the founders of their culture, arriving with great knowledge from the sunken land in the atlantic. on the western seaboard of the americas and in asia, they talk of similar advanced "gods" arriving from a sunken continent in the pacific. polyn

. quetzalcoatl was born to a virgin mother, fasted for 40 days, was tempted by their version of satan, and left promising to return in a second coming. indeed, when cortes, the spanish architect of native genocide, landed there in the years after columbus, he was treated as a god because, with his european features, he was considered to be the return of quetzalcoatl. something similar happened in africa when the white europeans arrived and the native people believed they were the return of the "nordic" extraterrestrial beings of then legends. cortes was obviously aware of the quetzalcoatl story because he landed near the point the legend said the deity would return and he wore a plumed hat in line with quetzalcoatl's title of the "plumed serpent. cortes even arrived in 1519, the time the n

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rmed in the last few years! whats more, the modern experts did not expectthose planets to look as they did, yet the sumerians knew thousands of years bc whatour advanced science has only just discovered.most stunning about the sumerian tablets is the way they describe the creation ofhomo sapiens. sitchin says the anunnaki came to the earth an estimated 450,000 yearsago to mine gold in what is now africa. the main mining centre was in todayszimbabwe, an area the sumerians called ab.zu (deep deposit, he claims. studies bythe anglo-american corporation have found extensive evidence of gold mining inafrica at least 60,000 years ago, probably 100,000.3 the gold mined by the anunnakiwas shipped back to their home planet from bases in the middle east, sitchin claims thetablets say. i think there

revious physical formknown as homo erectus became what we now call homo sapiens. from the start the newhomo sapiens had the ability to speak a complex language and the size of the humanbrain increased massively. yet the biologist thomas huxley said that major changeslike this can take tens of millions of years. this view is supported by the evidence ofhomo erectus which appears to have emerged in africa about 1.5 million years ago. forwell in excess of a million years their physical form seems to have remained the same,but then, out of nowhere, came the dramatic change to homo sapiens. about 35,000years ago came another sudden upgrade and the emergence of homo sapiens sapiens,the physical form we see today. the sumerian tablets name the two people involved inthe creation of the slave race

.it,which means that which is with life. adam was not created from dust from the ground,but from that which is with life- living cells. the sumerian term, ti, means both rib andlife and again the translators made the wrong choice. eve (she who has life) was notcreated from a rib, but from that which has life- living cells. the human egg for thecreation of the lulu/adam came from a female in abzu, africa, according to thesumerians, and modern fossil finds and anthropological research suggests that homosapiens did indeed come out of africa. in the 1980s, douglas wallace of emoryuniversity in georgia compared the dna (the blueprint for physical life) of 800 womenand concluded that it came from a single female ancestor.5 wesley brown of theuniversity of michigan said, after examining the dna o

e out of africa. in the 1980s, douglas wallace of emoryuniversity in georgia compared the dna (the blueprint for physical life) of 800 womenand concluded that it came from a single female ancestor.5 wesley brown of theuniversity of michigan said, after examining the dna of 21 women of different geneticbackgrounds from around the world, that they all originated from a single source whohad lived in africa between 180,000 and 300,000 years ago.6 rebecca cann of theuniversity of california at berkeley did the same with 147 women of diverse racial andgeographical backgrounds and she said their common genetic inheritance came from asingle ancestor between 150,000 and 300,000 years ago.7 another study of 150american women from genetic lines going back to europe, africa and the middle east,togethe

same with 147 women of diverse racial andgeographical backgrounds and she said their common genetic inheritance came from asingle ancestor between 150,000 and 300,000 years ago.7 another study of 150american women from genetic lines going back to europe, africa and the middle east,together with aborigines from australia and new guinea, concluded that they had thesame female ancestor who lived in africa between 140,000 and 290,000 years ago.8personally i think the human race was seeded by many sources; not just the annunaki.the sumerian tablets and later akkadian stories give the names and hierarchy ofthe anunnaki. they call the father of the gods, an, a word that means heaven.our father who art in heaven? an, or anu to the akkadians, stayed mostly inheaven with his wife, antu, and he made

ying craft, as an enormous surge of water wiped out much of humanity. there is nodoubt that an unimaginable catastrophe, or more likely catastrophes, were visited upon theearth between approximately 11,000 and 4,000 bc. the geological and biologicalevidence is overwhelming in its support of the countless stories and traditions whichdescribe such events. they come from europe, scandinavia, russia, africa, throughoutthe american continent, australia, new zealand, asia, china, japan and the middle east.10everywhere. some speak of great heat which boiled the sea; of mountains breathingfire; the disappearance of the sun and moon and the darkness that followed; the rainingdown of blood, ice and rock; the earth flipping over; the sky falling; the rising andsinking of land; the loss of a great con

le the bodiesof most dinosaurs might have been destroyed, their consciousness would have survivedbecause consciousness is energy and energy is indestructible. it can only be transmutedinto a different form. what happened to that dinosaur consciousness that dominated theearth for 150 million years? as weve seen, the earliest accounts of assyria, babylon,old testament history, china, rome, america, africa, india and elsewhere, featurestories of the dragons. the serpent symbol has also been found in ancient britain,greece, malta, egypt, new mexico, peru and all over the pacific islands. there is anunmistakable resemblance between some dinosaurs and ancient depictions of dragons.several species of small indo-malayan lizards with webbed wings look so much likedragons that they have been given t

ons of god whointerbred with the daughters of men. these hybrid human-reptile lines carry thereptilian genetic code and thus can be far more easily possessed by the reptilians ofthe lower fourth dimension. as we shall see, these bloodlines became the british andeuropean aristocracy and royal families and, thanks to the great british empire,they were exported across the world to rule the americas, africa, asia, australia,new zealand and so on. these genetic lines are manipulated into the positions ofpolitical, military, media, banking and business power and thus these positions areheld by lower fourth dimensional reptilians hiding behind a human form or by mind-puppets of the these same creatures. they operate through all races, butpredominantly the white one.as is well acknowledged, there

colour. there were five sightings of this lizard-man and thestory was reported in the los angeles times and the herald examiner .35when you go with the flow of life and listen to your intuition, you are shown whatyou need to know by the incredible synchronicity that daily surrounds you and guidesyou through the smokescreens and the halls of mirrors. one day in february 1998 injohannesburg, south africa, i spent nearly five hours talking with a zulu shaman calledcredo mutwa. the word zulu means people from the stars because they believe theyare a royal race that originates beyond this planet. we talked about the globalmanipulation and his belief that an extraterrestrial race is behind the global brotherhoodof monarchs, politicians, bankers and media owners. afterwards i went back to thehou

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ion or astronomy. he can transform a man into the likeness of a bird. he governeth 30 legions of infernal spirits, and his seal is this, etc (66) cimejes, or cimeies, or kimaris. the sixtysixth spirit is cimejes, or cimeies, or kimaris. he is a marquis, mighty, great, strong and powerful, appearing like a valiant warrior riding upon a goodly black horse. he ruleth over all spirits in the parts of africa. his office is to teach perfectly grammar, logic, rhetoric, and to discover things lost or hidden, and treasures. he governeth 20 legions of infernals; and his seal is this, etc (67) amdusias, or amdukias. the sixty-seventh spirit is amdusias, or amdukias. he is a duke great and strong, appearing at first like a unicorn, but at the request of the exorcist he standeth before him in human sha

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ike it, either before or since, nor did it occur again after miss l. left. i did not tell the adept z. about it at the time, and later, when i was reminded of the incident and mentioned it, the opportunity for investigation had gone by. he expressed the opinion that it was a vampire's work, and cited similar cases which he had met with in the course of his experience. he said he had seen cases in africa where the victim had become so bloodless that it was with difficulty that a specimen of blood could be obtained for examination, for it could hardly be induced to flow from the debilitated tissues. nothing can be done for such cases by medical science. they are dying by inches, and yet no organic disease can be demonstrated. nevertheless, their appearance is that of a person sinking from re

swaying gently from side to side. there is a curious antagonism between elms and humanity, and about orchids all sensitive persons agree there is some thing sinister. tropical vegetation, as a whole, is over-powerful for humanity. under the tremendous stimulation of the solar fire the elemental forces are concentrated to a poisonous strength. i am not personally acquainted with the west coast of africa, but from what i can gather i am of the opinion that the elemental forces and the atmosphere made by juju rites are between them more responsible than the climate for earning that part of the world its sinister reputation as the white man's grave. there are other spots where the climate is equally hot and humid, burmah, for instance, but 40 of 103 there is no other spot that produces the sa

operation, hence the visit to me. i am afraid i was unsympathetic, consequently i did not obtain any further information concerning this curious experiment. an even more curious case came to my knowledge some years ago. a woman told me that in the days of her youth she had been engaged to marry a man to whom she was very deeply attached, and who was murdered while working as a missionary in west africa. having lost the only man she felt she could love, she consented to marry a second cousin who had long been in love with her, and who was a semi-invalid. whenever she had relations with her husband, she always visualised the form of her first lover. she herself was short, dark and petite. her husband, a blood relation, was similar in type to herself, and a weed into the bargain. but her thr

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that appear within one of the four watchtowers on the quarters of the great table- the names linked with zax lie outside the watchtowers. they are lexarph, comanan and tabitom. it is interesting that this particular air rules over the nation of germany, in view of the attempt by the nazis to exterminate the jews during the second world war. in 1909, while on a walking tour of algeria in northern africa, crowley took up a project he had begun in 1900 in mexico- the invocation of the thirty enochian aethyrs. while in mexico he had procured through ritual means psychic visions of the last two aethyrs, numbers thirty and twenty-nine. now, nine years later, he took up where he had left off with an invocation to the twenty-eighth aethyr. israel regardie wrote concerning this inspiration of crow

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belief was also held with regard to the hyena by the ancient romans. belief in the evil eye has never ceased since the dawn of recorded history. it is still widely held in the mediterranean region, where it has persisted in exactly the same form for thousands of years in an unbroken tradition. it is said to be especially common among the working classes in italy, greece and sicily. even in modern africa, tribal witch hunts are conducted against those unfortunate citizens accused by their neighbors of having the evil eye, and of causing bad luck or sickness by their mere glance. countless innocent individuals, men and woman, have been murdered on the twin charges of witchcraft and the evil eye. it would be difficult to maintain that there is no such thing as the evil eye, when the belief is

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es, as if traditions had assigned a sequence to certain texts. historical reference. that events of contemporary history were sometimes reflected in the book of the dead of the early dynasties is proved by the following. we learn from the inscription upon the tomb of heru-khuf at asw n,[l] that this governor of elephantine was ordered to bring for king pepi ii.[2] a pigmy,[3] from the interior of africa, to dance before the king and amuse him; and he was promised that, if he succeeded in bringing the pigmy alive and in good health, his majesty would confer upon him a higher rank and dignity than that which king assa conferred upon his minister ba-ur-tettet, who performed this much appreciated service for his master.[4] now assa was the eighth king of the vth dynasty, and pepi ii. was the f

la r. accademia dei lincei, anno cclxxxix, ser. 4a, classe di scienze morali, etc, t. x, rome, 1893, pp. 22-53. this text has been treated by erman (z.d.m.g, bd. xlvi, 1892, p. 574 ff, who first pointed out the reference to the pigmy in the pyramid texts, and by maspero in revue critique, paris, 1892, p. 366. 2 see erman in aeg. zeitschrift, bd. xxxi, p. 65 ff. 3 on the pigmy see stanley, darkest africa, vol. i, p. 198; vol. ii, p. 40f; schweinfurth, im herzen von africa, bd. ii, kap. 16, p. 131 ff. that the pigmies paid tribute to the egyptians is certain from the passage "the pigmies came to him from the lands of the south having things of service for his palace; see d michen, geschichte des alten aegyptens, berlin, 1887, p. 7. 4] p. xxvi of the god [osiris] before his great throne. the

of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod10.htm (2 of 4 [8/10/2001 11:24:04 am] 73-76] p. cxxxvi pe, a district of the town of per-uatchet, the buto of the greeks( greek bou^tos, strabo, xvii, i, 18, which was situated in the delta. punt, the tropical district which lay to the south and east of egypt, and which included probably a part of the arabian peninsula and the eastern coast of africa along and south of somali land. re-stau, or a name given to the passages in the tomb which lead from this to the other world; originally it designated the cemetery of abydos only, and its god was osiris. sa, the sa s of the greeks( greek sa' s, strabo, xvii. i, 23, the metropolis of the fifth nome of lower egypt, and the seat of the worship of the goddess neith. sekhem, the letopolis of the

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d even in fallen poland; in italy and spain (under cover of secrecy; in various parts of asia; in turkey; in introduction ix syria (as at aleppo, where an english lodge was established more than a century ago; in all the east india settlements, in bengal, bombay, madras (in all of which lodges are numerous; in china, where there is a provincial grand master and several lodges; in various parts of africa, as at the cape of good hope and at sierra leone; on the gambia and on the nile; in all the larger islands of the pacific and indian oceans, as at ceylon, sumatra, st. helena, mauritius, madagascar; the sandwich group; in all the principal settlements of australia, as at adelaide, melbourne, parramatta, sidney, new zealand; in greece, where there is a grand lodge; in algeria, in tunis, in t

s established in philadelphia and a third soon after in providence. these three lodges united in forming a grand lodge in 18o8, which in 1827 declared itself independent of england. our colored grand lodges now number over thirty. the legality of these masons is indisputable, but as much can hardly be said of the negro royal arch masons, commandery and scottish rite. liberia, on the west coast of africa, has had a legitimate grand lodge for sixty years. in some parts of germany jews are not admitted as candidates, nor are they recognized as such individually. these isolated instances of race prejudice must disappear with the progress of enlightenment and real brotherhood. it has seemed to me and many of the brethren that a collection of incidents illustrative of the true nature of free mas

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, in 1997 to more than 40, scattered across the united states and canada, in 2000. the network may be contacted c/o dr. harry morgan moses at the new thought center, 8798 complex dr, san diego, ca 92123. its webpage can be found at http//www.newthought.org. sources: affiliated new thought network. http/ www.newthought.org. may 16, 2000. emerson institute. http//emersoninstitute.edu. may 16, 2000. africa (note: the north of africa, including the sahara and the sudan, has been islamic territory for many centuries. for a discussion of islamic magic and alchemy, see the entry arabs. instances of arabic sorcery are also discussed in the semites entry) beliefs and practices thought of as occult in western society were integral to the traditional tribal religions in the southern two-thirds of afr

iefs and modifying old ones. today a large but undetermined number of africans follow traditional beliefs involving deities, ghosts, and spirits as well as an array of special powers in nature presided over by the supreme entity adopted from christianity and islam. the latter, somewhat remote from everyday problems, is believed to largely operate on humans through the many other deities. southern africa among the zulu and other bantu tribes of equatorial and southern africa, witchcraft or malevolent sorcery was traditionally practiced.in secret, for the results of detection were terrible. tribes instituted a caste of witchfinders assigned the task of tracking down witches. the nineteenth-century writer lady mary anne barker observed, it is not difficult to understand, bearing in mind the s

he measure and rhythm of which changed at times with a stomp and a swing of the arm. ceremonial dress was also an important part of the witch doctor s role, for such things appealed directly to the imagination of the crowd and prepared onlookers to be readily swayed by the necromancer s devices. one of the witchfinders, nozinyanga, was especially encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. africa 13 impressive. her fierce face, spotted with gouts of red paint on cheek and brow, was partly overshadowed by a helmetlike plume of the tall feathers of the sakabula bird. in her right hand she carried a light sheaf of assegais (spears, and on her left arm was slung a small and pretty shield of dappled oxhide. her petticoat, made of a couple of large handkerchiefs, was worn kiltwise. from n

rated with red rosettes, and her dress was considered more careful and artistic than any of the others. nozilwane, however, had youth and stamina on her side. the others, although they all joined in and hunted out an imaginary enemy, and in turn exulted over his discovery, soon became breathless and spent and were glad when their attendants led them away to be anointed and to drink water. central africa the magical beliefs of central and eastern africa were for the most part connected with beliefs and practices concerning the dead and the honoring of images. when the ghost of a dead person was weary of staying in the bush, many believed that the spirit would come for one of the people over whom they exerted the most influence. the spirit would say to that person, i am tired of dwelling in

he ritual, which seems to show that these people had a legend something like the old greek myth of charon and the river styx, was a song chanted during the ceremony with the following line: you are well dressed, but you have no canoe to carry you across to the other side. possession in most preindustrial cultures, epileptic diseases were assumed to be the result of demoniac possession. in much of africa the sufferer was supposed to be possessed by mbwiri, and the person was relieved only by the intervention of the medicine man (priest) or a spirit or deity. in the middle of the street a hut was built for the sufferer, and there he resided, along with the priest and his disciples, until cured, or maddened. townspeople held a continuous revel, including what seemed like unending dances to th

he would tell me nothing of very great importance in public, negotiations were suspended. the claims of the priest to possess supernatural powers were seldom questioned. he was not only a doctor and a priest who intervened with the spirits and deities.two capacities in which his influence was necessarily very powerful.he was also a witchfinder, and this office invested him with a truly formidable africa encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 14 authority. when a man of worth died, his death was invariably ascribed to witchcraft, and the aid of the priest was invoked to discover the witch. when a man was sick a long time, his neighbors called ngembi, and if she could not make him well, they called the priest. he came at night, in a white dress, with cock s feathers on his head

the shekani country. at night he went into the street; all the people flocked about him. with a tiger skin in his hand, he walked to and fro, until, singing all the while, he laid the tiger skin at the feet of the witch. at the conclusion of his song the people seized the witch and put him or her in chains, saying, if you don t restore our brother to health, we will kill you. western occultism in africa today more than 100 million africans follow a form of islamic faith, and an almost equal number some form of christianity. in addition to roman catholic and protestant faiths, there are many variant forms of christianity, and many christian groups have become independent of the older missionary churches and reorganized as indigenous religious bodies. the religious picture has been confused

igious picture has been confused in recent years as a result of the unrest attending the throwing off of colonial regimes and the establishment of autonomous governments. another important factor in the changes surfacing on the entire continent, in addition to political reform and upheaval, has been the education of many young africans at american and european universities. as they travel back to africa with western ideas and the seeds for a new way of economic survival, the scene is likely to change on all fronts.even regarding their own ancient superstitions and folk legends. in the midst of these changes, western occult, metaphysical, and mystical literature has circulated through the continent since the 1920s, especially in south africa, the central african states, and such west africa

and folk legends. in the midst of these changes, western occult, metaphysical, and mystical literature has circulated through the continent since the 1920s, especially in south africa, the central african states, and such west african nations as ghana and nigeria. since world war ii there has been a noticeable popular response to such ideas. as early as 1925 the rosicrucians were present in west africa, and new thought was introduced into africa in the 1930s when several american teachers toured the country and assisted in the formation of the school of practical christianity in 1937 (now known as the school of truth. today a broad range of such groups as the church of religious science, the unity school of christianity, swedenborgians, and the church universal and triumphant are in exist

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political and humanitarian activist, notably for civil rights, women s rights, and environmental protection. during the vietnam war, she supported george mc- govern s 1972 presidential campaign. she was the first woman ever to speak at the national democratic club, where she addressed the dangers of overpopulation. maclaine s extensive travels have included such remote parts of the world as east africa, where she lived among the masai tribe, and the himalayan kingdom of bhutan, where she was detained by border guards during a political crisis. when traveling in india, she became sympathetic to the plight of the gutter babies and helped to establish an orphanage for them in calcutta. her best-selling autobiography don t fall off the mountain (1970, which detailed her experiences in africa

tice of magic is found as far back as human prehistory. among the earliest traces of magic practice are paintings found in the european caves of the middle paleolithic period. these belong to the last interglacial period of the pleistocene epoch, named the aurignacian after the cave dwellers of aurignac (southern france, whose skeletons, artifacts, and drawings link them with the bushmen of south africa. in the cave of gargas, near bagneres de luchon, there are, in addition to spirited and realistic drawings of animals, numerous imprints of human hands in various stages of mutilation. some hands were apparently first smeared with a sticky substance and then pressed onto the rock; others were held in position to be dusted around with red ocher or black pigment. most of the imprinted hands h

missing; in others only the stumps of all fingers remain. a close study of the hand imprints shows that they are not those of lepers. there can be little doubt that the joints were removed for a specific purpose; on this point there is general agreement among anthropologists. a clue to the mystery is provided by a similar custom among the bushmen. g. w. stow, in his book the native races of south africa (1905, refers to this strange form of sacrifice. he once came into contact with a number of bushmen who had all lost the first joint of the little finger, which had been removed with a stone knife for the purpose of ensuring a safe journey to the spirit world. another writer told of an old bushman woman whose little fingers of both hands had been mutilated, three joints in all having been r

ion in voudou. port-au- prince, haiti: state printing, 1946. rev. ed. reed, cannon and johnson, 1977. mars, louis, and g. devereux. haitian voudou and the revitalization of the nightmare. psychoanlytic review 38, no. 4 (1951. marsh, maurice clement (1922) south african university lecturer in psychology who took special interest in parapsychology. he was born march 13, 1922, at bloemfontein, south africa. he studied at the university of south africa (b.a, 1942; b.a, hons. psychology, 1946; u.e.d, 1948) and rhodes university, grahamstown (ph.d, 1959. he served as a lecturer in psychology at rhodes university (1950.61) and in 1962 joined the faculty in psychology at the university of new england, new south wales, australia. marsh s ph.d. dissertation dealt with experimental work in esp, and h

parture of emma hardinge britten to australia. his address with some additions was later printed under the title concerning spiritualism. in his later years he published four large volumes in which he tried to trace the origin of language, symbols, myths, and religions. the work was reminiscent of godfrey higgins (1772.1833. his final product was not well received during his lifetime, the idea of africa as the birthplace of mankind being quite unacceptable in victorian england. thus a book of the beginnings (1881) and his other texts were largely ignored or ridiculed until later archaeological discoveries provided more solid evidence in support of massey s themes. he died on october 12, 1907. sources: massey, gerald. ancient egypt. 2 vols. london, 1907. reprint, new york: samuel weiser, 19

observations on the political and military conflicts into articles for national magazines. in 1992, mcnallen felt ready to resume his leadership in what had become an expansive international asatru community. he revived the runestone and founded a new fellowship group, the asatru folk assembly, modelled on the previous asatru free assembly. he has also continued his global travels, beginning with africa and bosnia in 1993. he maintains the internet page for the new assembly at http//www.runestone.org. sources: mcnallen, stephen a. rituals of asatru. 3 vols. breckenridge, tex: asatru free assembly, 1985. what is the norse religion? turlock, calif: the author, n.d. mead, g(eorge) r(obert) s(tow (1863.1933) theosophist, scholar, and writer on gnosticism and early christianity. born march 22

ylor s rightful successor, and bishop thomas watson, who had headed the former spiritual churches of the southwest. two factions developed, the largest one accepting the leadership of cobbs, pastor of the first church of deliverance. under cobbs s leadership, a revived metropolitan spiritual churches of christ expanded to encompass close to 100 congregations in the 1960s. it also expanded to west africa, making it the largest spiritual association operating in the united states. last known address: 4329 park heights ave, baltimore, md 21215. sources: murphy, larry g, j. gordon melton, and gary l. ward. encyclopedia of african american religions. new york: garland publishing, 1993. metzger, herman joseph (1919.1990) herman joseph metzger, the outer head of the ordo templi orientis (oto) in

gs. n.p, 1880. mumbo-jumbo a term used to denote an object of senseless veneration, or a meaningless ceremony designed to overpower impressionable people. it has often been used by individuals as a pejorative label to express their strong personal belief about the occult. mumbo-jumbo dates back to the early eighteenth century, when it was reported as an image used by the mundingo tribe in gambia, africa, to keep women in subjection. if the men had a dispute with the women, the mumbo-jumbo image was brought to adjudicate. this image was eight or nine feet high, made from the bark of trees, with straw on the head, and dressed in a long frock coat. a man of the tribe would be hidden under the coat, and would always give a judgment in favor of the men. the women would usually run away when he

orcism in 1949, and has since performed as many as 500 exorcisms in a single year. by 1974, he had performed some 2,200 exorcisms, one of which was filmed for television. he became well known in the public debates about exorcism in the mid-1970s following the popular response to peter blatty s the exorcist. he has appeared on radio and television programs in north america, continental europe, and africa as well encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. neil-smith, christopher 1099 as in the united kingdom. he describes his experiences and beliefs in his 1974 book, the exorcist and the possessed. sources: deutsch, richard. exorcism: possession or obsession? foreword by christopher neil-smith. london: bachman& turner, 1975. neil-smith, christopher. the exorcist and the possessed: th

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erience: examining the scientific evidence. washington, dc: american psychological association. hynek, j. allen, 1972. the ufo experience: a scientific inquiry, p.138. chicago: henry regnery company. introduction xvii extraordinary encounters a a is the pseudonym ann grevler (a writer who uses the pen name a n c h o r) gives the venusian whom she allegedly encountere d while driving through south africa s eastern tr a n s vaal on an unspecified day in the 1950s. gre v l e r, a flying-saucer enthusiast sympathetic to the contactee movement (contactees are individuals who claim to be in regular communication with kindly, advanced extraterre s t r i a l s, met a when her car inexplicably stopped on a rural highway. as she was looking under the hood, she became aware of a buzzing sound in her

n. they also learned cosmic language which is expressed simply by symbols of various forms and colors, so that meanings are the same in any language (anchor, 1958. grevler had other space adventures. one was a visit to a depopulated, destroyed planet, the dreary result of science gone amok. see also: contactees further reading anchor [pseud. of ann grevler, 1958. transvaal episode: a ufo lands in africa. corpus christi, tx: essene press. abductions by ufos since the mid-1960s a number of individuals around the world have reported encounters in which humanoid beings took them against their will usually from their homes or vehicles into apparent spacecraft and subjected them to medical and other procedures. as often as not, witnesses spoke of experiencing amnesia, aware at first only of unex

kull-like face and a small mouth standing at the foot of her bed. he spoke to her, but all she could remember was that he had told her his name was ahab. further reading hartman, terry a, 1979. another abduction by extraterrestrials. mufon ufo journal 141 (november: 3 4. akon akon appeared to elizabeth klarer on april 6, 1956, when his spaceship landed in the drakensberg mountains of natal, south africa. she was flown to a waiting mother ship, where she met other friendly space people and learned that they came from the beautiful planet meton in the orbit of alpha centauri four light years away. the metonites, she learned, are vegetarians who live in a utopian society without conflict or disease. they are also a passionate people, and in due course, as the contacts continued, klarer and ak

n in the orbit of alpha centauri four light years away. the metonites, she learned, are vegetarians who live in a utopian society without conflict or disease. they are also a passionate people, and in due course, as the contacts continued, klarer and akon became lovers. she bore him a son, ayling, during a four-month stay on meton. k l a rer became well known in saucer and occult circles in south africa and eu rope where she lectured from time to time. she distributed photographs of akon s spacecraft and showe d i n q u i rers a ring she said he had given her. though many dismissed her stories and evidence as bogus, her friend cynthia hind, a we l l- k n own ufologist from zi m b a bwe, bel i e ved her to be sincere and has helped keep her name and story alive. on the occasion of her death

fame (or m o re accurately, notoriety) but certainly no r i c h e s (hind, 1994. further reading hind, cynthia, 1982. ufos african encounters. salisbury, zimbabwe: gemini, 1994. mufon forum: contactee klarer. mufon ufo journal 315 (july: 18, 1999. ufology profile: elizabeth klarer. mufon ufo journal 379 (november: 10 11. akon 15 klarer, elizabeth, 1980. beyond the light barrier. cape town, south africa: howard timmins. alien diners an alien family ate at a restaurant and stayed overnight in a motel in suburban st. louis in may 1970, according to ufologist john e. schroeder, who interviewed employees and heard a strange and comic tale. dorothy simpson, a front desk clerk at the motel and a fellow member of the ufo study group of greater st. louis, tipped schroeder off to the incident soon

story that he ascribes to his grandfather, who heard it from his father. around 600 b.c, while traveling in europe, solon (a historical figure remembered for his legal and poetic genius) learned of a great civilization that existed nine thousand years earlier. it was located in the atlantic ocean beyond the pillars of hercules (the present-day straits of gibraltar) on an island larger than north africa and asia combined. according to solon s informant, an egyptian priest, atlantis had grown arrogant and warlike. it ruled many other islands and parts of what is now europe. but when it attacked athens and other greek city-states, those communities joined forces to repel the invaders and drive them back to atlantis, freeing other islands from atlantis s tyranny in the process. but when the b

nd their way to the americas, several writers, most prominently sir francis bacon (1551 1626, revived the myth of atlantis and theorized that its remains could be found in the newworld. that would be only the beginning of a new round of speculation. at one time or another, a modern chronicler of the legend observes, atlantis has been located in the arctic, nigeria, the caucasus, the crimea, north africa, the sahara, malta, spain, central france, belgium, the netherlands, the north sea, the bahamas, and various other locations in north and south america (ellis, 1998. among the most influential books ever written on the subject, atlantis: the antedilu- vian world (1882) was the creation of a former minnesota congressman named ignatius donnelly (1831 1901. donnelly surveyed what he presented

ederation, put it this way: guardianship by the cetaceans can best be described by observing the use of their energies. through the use of their rituals, their sonar songs and their ocean travels, they vivify the biosphere. whale song has been found throughout all the oceans of the world. it is also found in, and resonates throughout, the skies of the earth. it exists even in the deepest parts of africa, the americas, asia, and europe. because the energies of the cetaceans can be found both in the sky and in the water, those great energies they bring forth in their song create the resonance that sustains life (nidle and essene, 1994. see also: adama; channeling further reading nidle, sheldon, and virginia essene, 1994. you are be- coming a galactic hu m a n. santa clara, ca: sp i r itual e

the phenomenon from the beginning, 207 239. detroit, mi: omnigraphics, 2000. the extraterrestrial hypothesis in the early ufo age. in david m. jacobs, ed, ufos and abductions: challenging the borders of knowledge, 122 140. lawrence: university press of kansas. fuller, john g, 1966. the interrupted journey: two lost hours aboard a flying saucer. new york: dial press. hind, cynthia, 1996. ufos over africa. madison, wi: horus house press. hopkins, budd, 1981. missing time: a documented study of ufo abductions. new york: richard marek publishers. hynek, j. allen, 1972. the ufo experience: a scien- tific inquiry. chicago: henry regnery company. hynek, j. allen, and jacques vallee, 1975. the edge of reality: a progress report on unidentified flying objects. chicago: henry regnery company. keyhoe

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

is that i alone am. 23 everywhere you look, there is the face of allah. 24 several centuries after the birth of islam, a number of informal private sufi teaching circles in iraq and persia grew in numbers and organized into orders (tariqa. soon thereafter, dozens of other orders, most of which evolved as sub-branches of the initial ones, arose throughout the middle east, central asia, india, east africa, and spain. sufi influence continued to expand with the spread of islam throughout the world. the various orders trace their lineages to, and are generally named after, extraordinary sufi masters who lived at different times and came from different locales. the naqshbandi take the name of their order from khaja bahaudin naqshband of central asia (1318- 1389, the qadiri from abdul qadir of g

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d a wellspent life. they are emblematical of that divine ark which safely wafts us over this tempestuous sea of troubles, and that anchor which shall safely moor us in a peaceful harbor, where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary shall find rest. the fortyseventh problem of euclid was an invention of our ancient friend and brother, the great pythagoras, who, in his travels through asia, africa, and europe, was initiated into several orders of priesthood, and is said to have been raised to the sublime degree of master mason. this wise philosopher enriched his mind abundantly in a general knowledge of things, more especially in geometry, or masonry. on this subject he drew out many problems and theorems; and among the most distinguished he erected this when, in the joy of his heart

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p subsequently became identified with that of the moon, luna was adored as the producer of the sun. according to the babylonian creation tablets, the moon was the most important heavenly body. in later ages, the gender of the sun and the moon seems to be exceedingly variable. the achts of vancouver's island worship sun and moon--the sun as female, the moon as male.[37] in some of the countries of africa the moon is adored as female and sun-worship is unknown. among various peoples the sun and the moon are regarded as husband and wife, and among others as brother and sister. in some countries, both are female. i can find no instance in which both are male. hindoos and aztecs alike, at one time, said that luna was male and often that the sun was female [37] tylor, primitive culture, vol. ii

inx is figured with the head of a woman and the body of a lion. by various writers it is stated that the sphinxes which were brought as spoils from asia, the very cradle of religion, were thus represented. the lion, which symbolizes royal power and intellectual strength, is always attached to the chariot of cybele. the sphinx is supposed to typify not only cybele, but the great androgynous god of africa as well. however, as cybele and muth portrayed the same idea, namely, female power and wisdom, we are not surprised that they should have been worshipped under the same emblem. neither is it remarkable, when we recall the fact that the female was supposed to comprehend both sexes, that in certain instances a beard appears as an accompanying feature of the sphinx. we are told that the fourth

ushite religion and enterprise. baldwin, commenting on the greatness of this remarkable people, says that early in the period of its colonizing enterprise, commercial greatness, and extensive empire, it established colonies in the valleys of the nile and the euphrates, which in later ages became barbary, egypt, and chaldea. the ancient cushite nation occupied arabia and other extensive regions of africa, india, and western asia to the mediterranean. while remarking upon the vastness and antiquity of this old cushite race, rawlinson says that they founded most of the towns of western asia. the vast commercial system which formed a connecting link between the various countries of the globe, was created by this people, the great manufacturing skill and unrivalled maritime activity of the phoe

unded rome--a race which, although superior in numbers, arms, and influence, were, when compared with this more ancient people, little better than barbarians.[66 [66] it is thought that as early as the nineteenth century b.c. the pelasgians or pelargians went to aenonia, or ionia. it was a detachment of this people which, according to herodotus, captured a number of athenian women on the coast of africa, lived with them as wives, and raised families by them, but "because they differed in manners from themselves" they murdered them, which act was attended by a "dreadful pestilence" it is the opinion of certain writers that these women were of a different religious faith from their captors, and that so intense and bitter was the feeling upon the comparative importance of the sex functions in

light, such lights differing in size and expense according to the degree of wealth or poverty of those to whom they belong. light was the symbol of muth (perceptive wisdom. among the persians, the egyptians, the mexicans, the jews, the etruscans, the greeks, and the romans, fire was venerated as the essence of the deity; and, at the present time, in thibet, in china, in japan, and in portions of africa, it still forms an important part of worship. the hebrew writings show conclusively that not only the jews but all the surrounding nations were fire-worshippers, and that their sacrifices were not infrequently to the god of fire. of this forlong says "when rome was rearing temples to the fame and worship of fire, we find the prophets of israel occasionally denouncing the wickedness of its w

they carried about a serpent on a pole representing it to be the "healer of nations" they also kept a phallic emblem in a box, chest, or ark which they worshipped as the "god of hosts" the "life giver" etc. it has been observed that although the jews frequently lost their ark, they were never without their serpent-pole. at a certain stage in the religious development of mankind all the temples in africa and western asia were dedicated to vulcan the fire god or the "lord of fire" to whom all furnaces were sacred. the principal festivals in honor of this deity took place in the spring, at the easter season, and on the 23d of august, when it is said that the licentiousness practiced in the temples compared with those of the "harvest homes" of europe when the sun was in libra and the harvest h

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

ferotic poetry by aleister crowley,butalthough eachauthorstill retained a setofproofs, crowley let his lie in limbo, while waite surrendered his to the theosophical publishing society and saw thebookprinted afresh in1902.this, however, he didnotdo willingly,butaswithelliott, sowithredway.thepublishing house hadgotinto difficulties, waite declined toputup money and redway took himself off to south africa to fight the boers, leaving his firm in the handsofa receiver. shortly before this, and becauseofthe non-appearanceofbothhis kabbalisticbookand his studyoflouis claude de saint-martin, waite had sold eastlake lodge to raise money andnowhad neither a publishernora home.buthe did have a job.fromfebruary1898,for a periodofsome five years,bothlondon and provincial newspapers were bombardedwitha

aphy of her,florencefarr,bernardshaw's 'newuioman: by josephine johnson, was published in 1975. 5. percy bullock (b. 1868) was a solicitor and enthusiastic student of alchemy,whomarriedwithinthe golden dawn; his wife, pamela carden, had followed her parents into the order and played a prominent role in isis-urania during its most activeperiod.robertwilliam felkin (1858-1922) practised medicine in africa and later in edinburgh, where hejoinedtheamen-ratemple. he moved to london and transferred to isis-urania,comingto prominence in theorderduringthe 'interregnum' of 1900 to 1903. his later yearswere spent in taking the stella matutinadownever more eccentric paths in search of the chiefs of the third order. eventually he believedthathe had foundthemin the person of an imaginary beingwhomhe ca

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rite- i should be sent to coventry in london'.7he further advised reuss not to permit 'any branch of either society [to] admit a mr macgregor mathers alias the count of glenstrae of paris" there was to be no more impropriety, whether of a literary or any other kind in westcott's life. in 1918 he retired from his professional life and went to live with his daughter and son-in-law at durban, south africa, where he continued with his studies, his correspondence and his writing uptothe time of his death, in july 1925. unlike his ancient predecessors he seemstohave failed in his rosicrucian duty to 'select a proper person to succeed him- no one since has equalled westcott's literary output on the curious subjects that he made his own. whatever his motives were for sustaining the fiction of ann

anslated thus 'a seed sown in the breast of ihesus 'christian rose cross, sprung from a noble and famous german family.theman of his age for the most subtle imaginations and divine revelations, and one of unwearied labour in the search for heaven's mysteries and those alsoofhumanity; he was secretly admitted to a morethanregal or imperial gaza (or treasure house) during his journeys in arabia and africa; he instituted and became the custodian for posterity of these arts; he formed theminutummundum,which related the past, present and future. he lived more than a century, and passed away, not of disease, but at the call of god; away from the embrace and last kiss of his brethren, and so returned to divinity.'hewas a beloved father, a very dear brother, a most faithful teacher, and the most e

o say that both are from the same hand; as well say that jeremiah wrote the book of esther, so much also do they differ in style, and in that case too, one is apologetic, and the other is history or fableat least a narrative. so much for the history of the founding of the order, now what is stated of the tenets? we must presume that an order founded on a basis of philosophy gathered in arabia and africa was not simply a christian one. the claim alsoto magical power negatives the idea that the doctrines were orthodox; and yet we find a profession of christianity running through the volume. we must remember that c.r. began life as a pupil in a cloister, and was the associate in early life of monks: we must bear in mind that out of europe, in the east, christianity was gnostic,22themagical ma

e public, or at least to all who ask; sothatseeing they might believe,andbelieving understand. may we not then observe a parallel between the promul255 gation of the doctrines of christian rosenkreuz and the establishment of the theosophical society andh.p.b.'sinner group of students? in each case the instruction in mystic philosophy came from the east: in the former case from asia minor, arabia, africa, and notably fez; in the latter from india, tibet, and egypt. in each case the inspiration and actual founding of the order is really due to one alone: in the former case by aman,in the latter by a woman. in each case the order appears to have been founded in the closing quarter of a century.christian rosenkreuz27in each case the initiator laid some part of his or her store of learning befo

in 1885, collected a great number of ms treatises upon alchymy, astrology, crystal vision and the occult sciences; he possessed an original ms (of which he gave a copy to the s.r.i.a, which described the admission to the rosicrucian fraternity in the island of mauritus, in 1792, ofdrsigismund bacstrom, a notable physician,bythe comte de chazal. dr wynn westcott, when on a visit to natal and east africa, traced the descendants of this french rosicrucian, who ceased to use his title of nobility: he was noted in the island of mauritius as a learned person of eccentric habits and benevo255 lent character.in 1803 christoph gottlieb vonmurrpublished his uber denwahrenursprungdesrosenkreuzer,in which he asserts that the freemasons and rosicrucians were at first identical, and only became distinc

igned his pledge to fourteen promises: to piety and sobriety, to keep the secrecy of his admission, to preserve the secret knowledge, to choose suitable successors, to carryon the great work, to give aid and charity privately, to share discoveries with his fellows, to avoid politics, to help strangers, and to show gratitude to those who had led to his reception, etc. during a recent visit to east africa i met in natal a mauritius born doctor whose wife was a miss de chazal, a native of mauritius; among her ancestors about 1780-90 there was this m. de chazal who was an eccentric genius and was considered to possess curious arts; he also became a notable sweden255 borgian and held classes of mystical philosophy.thename is many times mentioned in a french history of mauritius which was lent t

the gangesoflndia,on the nile of egypt, and also in turanian chinese history. from chaldea astrology came to persia and asia minor, to greek culture, to roman cities, and to the jews who overspread all these parts after the destruction of jerusalem.itis said that the arabs knew of the science even before the days of mohammed; the saracens carried it to spain about 711a.d.and the moors from north africa brought it afresh to western europe by their invasion of spain in 1237. from the seventh to the thirteenth century the minds of these arabian255 descended conquerors in europe were filled with astrologic notions; we have heard of the great renown of messalah, albumazar, almanseer, ei batani and ibn yunis. our english astrology comes from two sources, direct from the east, and from the moors

4themagical masonof reckoning primary and secondary directions differing from that of zadkiel's lilly. quoting, we presume, from talmudic tradition, josephus, the historian of the jews, asserts that adam was instructed by divine inspiration in astrology, and that his son seth practised the art. he wrote abouta.d.66.theannals of the ottoman empire, and the history of the mohammedan rulers in asia, africa and spain, teem with narratives of astrological pre255 dictions, and supernatural warnings which helped to arouse the enthusiasm of these hardy and superstitious warriors. osman the first, the founder of the ottoman empire in 1299, is said to have been much guided by a sheik who professed astrology. timour or tamerlane, the tartar chief, was induced to make war with baiazet, the sultan of t

variousmanteias.thedead civilisations of the aztecs and toltecs of central america have left records of similar attempts to divinethefuture; the dying tribes ofnorthamerican indians and the maoris of new zealand have still similar practices, and indeed some forms of divinatory magical arts are found existing in every race now still behind-hand in evolution, as among the zulus, the negroes of west africa, and even among those very degraded human beings the veddas of ceylon.theclassical literature of the ancient greeks and the later latin authors supplies an ample store of information con255 cerning the old modes of divination, and of these a summary of the more notable is here given. different nations affected different forms of magical art, and although the course of history shows a gradua

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, succeeds upon its physical instrument to such an extent that it leaves the earth just a stage or two better than it enters, a success has been won. therefore it matters not what this physical body is, because the task of manas is to bring physical matter into subjection to itself.if,therefore, the manas body, the real man, undertakes the body of a tramp in the grassmarket, or a savagein central africa, or222thesorcerer and his apprenticeof the greatest saint or greatest philosopherin the west, or the greatest mahatma or guru in the east, stillitmatters not. the task is to improve that body; and by doing so, to educate itself. as.an artstudentmaypainthundredsof pictures and spoil acres of canvas, everyone of the pictures-may be absolutely and utterly worthless in itself,.andonlyfitto ligh

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ten to the qur'an, taking the qur'an as a guide, a lurking threat: heedlessness, sincerity in the qur'an, the religion of worshipping people, the methods of the liar in the qur' an. f www. h a r u n y a h y a. c o m title :global freemasonry author: harun yahya translated by ron evans edited by david livingstone publisher: iqra agencies isbn 0-620-30165-1 address: p.o.box 34027 erasmia 0023 south africa tel: 012- 374 0756 fax: 012- 374 0576 all translations from the qur'an are from the noble qur'an: a new rendering of its meaning in english by hajj abdalhaqq and aisha bewley, published by bookwork, norwich, uk. 1420 ce/1999ah. global freemasonry harun yahya january, 2003 i to the reader in all the books by the author, faith-related issues are explained in the light of qur'anic verses, and

phical and theological underpinnings provided by the church for civil and political life not surprisingly given such an animus, these associations had their own conception of the original message of the bible and of god's revelation. they latched onto what they considered to be an ultrasecret body of knowledge, a gnosis, which they based in part on cultic and occultist strains deriving from north africa notably, egypt and, in part, on the classical jewish kabbala. italian humanists bowdlerized the idea of kabbala almost beyond recognition. they reconstructed the concept of gnosis, and transferred it to a thoroughly this-wordly plane. the special gnosis they sought was a secret knowledge of how to master the blind forces of nature for a sociopolitical purpose.39 in short, the humanist socie

tury, socialism was born from the notion of the possibility of morality without religion, and with even more disastrous results. socialism supposedly demanded a just, equal society in which there was no exploitation and, to this end, proposed the abolition of religion. however, in the twentieth century, in places such as the soviet union, the eastern block, china, indo-china, several countries in africa and central america, it subjected people to dreadful misery. communist jd humanism revisited another violent scene of the french revolution. regimes murdered an incredible number of people; the total number nears about 120 million.52 moreover, contrary to what has been claimed, justice and equality have never been established in any communist regime; the communist leaders in charge of the s

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stians can both misinterpret the equinox of the gods and look for physical rather than spiritual manifestations. gurdjieff gurdjieff, like blavaskty and crowley, is another character than is either loved or loathed. he was born in 1872 in alexandropol on the russian-persian border and was initiated as a child into the yezidi cult. this was followed by a twelve year exploration of asia, europe and africa. his first teaching took place in the institute for the harmonious development of mankind which he founded in russia, this institute was later moved to france due to the intervention of world war i. the significance of gurdjieff was that he sensed that the time was right for mankind to awake, he outlined a powerful system in which he taught that man was asleep and that mankind as a whole sp

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g flesh in the form of a bird. andrealphus teaches astronomy and such sciences. if the magician desires it, andrealphus will 69 take human shape. he governs 30 legions of infernal spirits$ cimejes cimejes/cimeies/kimaris is the sixty-sixth spirit. he is a powerful marquis who appears in the form of a warrior who rides upon a large black horse. this spirit rules over all spirit who are haunters of africa, and governs 20 legions of infernal spirits. cimejes teaches grammar, logic and is a divinatory spirit who reveals hidden treasures of subconscious knowledge within the self% amdusias amdusias/amdukias is the sixty-seventh spirit who appears as a unicorn like creature, but will transform into a human shape if commanded. amdusias is a strong and powerful duke who is a spirit of the earth, wh

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vered) possess such knowledge. indeed, it is impossible to see how the remnant glaciers and other features shown on ptolemy s map could have been surveyed, imagined or invented by any known civilization prior to our own. the implications of this are obvious. so, too, are the implications of another map, the portolano of iehudi ibn ben zara, drawn in the year 1487.30 this chart of europe and north africa may have been based on a source even earlier than ptolemy s, for it seems to show glaciers much farther south than sweden (roughly on the same latitude as england in fact)31 and to depict the mediterranean, adriatic and aegean seas as they might have looked before the melting of the european ice-cap.32 sea level would, of course, have been significantly lower than it is today. it is therefo

e to do. it is therefore surprising and unsettling to come across vastly older maps which give latitudes and longitudes with modern precision. precision instruments these inexplicably precise latitudes and longitudes are found in the same general category of documents that contain the advanced geographical knowledge i have outlined. the piri reis map of 1513, for example, places south america and africa in the correct relative longitudes,11 theoretically an impossible feat for the science of the time. but piri reis was candid in admitting that his map was based on far earlier sources. could it have been from one of these sources that he derived his accurate longitudes? also of great interest is the so-called dulcert portulano of ad 1339 which focuses on europe and north africa. here latitu

ly to kill him were left behind in terror and astonishment for this lake has no current. the boat came to the shore at cochamarca, where today is the river desguardero. indian tradition asserts that the boat struck the land with such force it created the river desguardero, which before then did not exist. and on the water so released the holy body was carried many leagues away to the sea coast at africa..3 boats, water and salvation there are curious parallels here to the story of osiris, the ancient egyptian high god of death and resurrection. the fullest account of the original myth defining this mysterious figure is given by plutarch4 and says that, after bringing the gifts of civilization to his people, teaching them all manner of useful skills, abolishing cannibalism and human sacrifi

ked like a viable solution to the problem: the bearded, thin-featured individuals could have been phoenicians from the mediterranean who had sailed through the pillars of hercules and across the atlantic ocean as early as the second millennium bc. advocates of this theory went on to suggest that the negroes shown at the same sites were the slaves of the phoenicians, picked up on the coast of west africa prior to the trans- atlantic run.2 the more consideration i gave to the strange character of the la venta sculptures, the more dissatisfied i became with these ideas. probably the 2 ibid, p. 141-42. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 138 phoenicians and other old world peoples had crossed the atlantic ages before columbus. there was compelling evidence for that, although it is outside

ted by the subspecies name homo sapiens sapiens remains one of the great puzzles of palaeoanthropology, admits one authority.1 about three and a half million years of more or less relevant evolution are indicated in the fossil record. for all practical purposes, that record starts with a small, bipedal hominid (nicknamed lucy) whose remains were discovered in 1974 in the ethiopian section of east africa s great rift valley. with a brain capacity of 400cc (less than a third of the modern average) lucy definitely wasn t human. but she wasn t an ape either and she had some remarkably human-like features, notably her upright gait, and the shape of her pelvis and back teeth. for these and other reasons, 1 roger lewin, human evolution, blackwell scientific publications, oxford, 1984, p. 74. grah

ice age.32 a more representative impression would be the indonesian volcano krakatoa, which erupted in 1883 with such violence that more than 36,000 people were killed and the explosion was heard 3000 miles away. from the epicentre in the sunda strait, tsunamis 100 feet high roared across the java sea and the indian ocean, carrying steamships miles inland and causing flooding as far away as east africa and the western coasts of the americas. eighteen cubic kilometres of rock and vast quantities of ash and dust were pumped into the upper atmosphere; skies all over the world were noticeably darker for more than two years and sunsets notably redder. average global temperatures fell measurably during this period because volcanic dust-particles reflect the sun s rays back into space.33 during

encyclopaedia britannica, 1991, 10:845. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 361 texts possibly have obtained the information that sirius was two stars in one? in the sirius mystery, an important book published in 1976, i knew that the american author robert temple had offered some extraordinary answers to this question.40 his study focused on the traditional beliefs of the dogon tribe of west africa beliefs in which the binary character of sirius was explicitly described and in which the correct figure of fifty years was given for the period of the orbit of sirius-b around sirius-a.41 temple argued cogently that this high quality technical information had been passed down to the dogon from the ancient egyptians through a process of cultural diffusion, and that it was to the ancient egy

penly acknowledged and understood that they had a special connection of some kind with another land a fabulous and far-off country referred to in the ancient texts as ta-neteru, the land of the gods .18 ta-neteru was thought to have had a definite earthly location a very long way south of ancient egypt seas and oceans away farther even than the spice country of punt (which probably lay along east africa s somali coast).19 to confuse matters, however, punt was also spoken of sometimes as the divine land, or god s land, and was the source of the sweet-smelling frankincense and myrrh especially favoured by the gods.20 another mythical paradise was also linked to the neteru an abode of the blessed, where the best of humans were sometimes taken which was believed to be situated away beyond a la

the egyptians, volume i, p. 400. 18 ibid, volume i, p. 443; volume ii, pp. 7, 287. 19 ibid, volume ii, p. 7, where the deity amen-ra is addressed in a hymn: the gods love the smell of thee when thou comest from punt, thou eldest-born of the dew, who comest from the divine land (ta-neteru. see also volume ii, p. 287. punt is thought by many scholars to have been located on the somali coast of east africa where the trees that produce frankincense and myrrh( the food of the gods) are still grown today. 20 ibid. 21 osiris and the egyptian resurrection, volume i, p. 98; pyramid texts of pepi i, mer-en- rah and pepi ii, translated in ibid, volume ii, p. 316, where the maritime connections of the land of the blessed are made clear. 22 ibid, volume i, p. 97. 23 ibid, pp. 97-8. 24 ibid, volume ii

GREY W G CONDENSATION OF KABBALAH

crown above their heads and a kingdom beneath their feet. such indeed are the symbols of the tree from top to bottom. our striving for the sangreal is what the tree of life should encourage us to try as a major motivation for living (a hebrew/english glossary continues on the page following the copyright notice) the end copyright jacobus g. swart, 74 twelfth street, parkmore, sandton 2196, south africa. this document is for personal use only. no part of this document may be reproduced or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, without permission in writing from the copyright holder. brief passages may be quoted with due acknowledgement of their source. 16 17 18 19oudavid griffin d lamdq laygh t/ab;x] hwhy laynah yhiloa e hgno c thee riittuall magiicc manuall a complete

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

ld to a carelian smith, and set to mind the baby, he dug its eyes out, killed it, and burnt the cradle. then, when his master ordered him to fence the fields in, he took whole fir-trees and pines, and wattled them with snakes; after that, he 1 stonehenge, as. stanhenge(-hanging, near salisbury, in welsh choirgaur ;at. chorea gigantum; ace. to giraldus cambr. rom cap. 18, a cairn brought by giants africa to spain (palgrave s hist, of as, p. 50; conf. diefenbach s celtica 2 -n gurmun is said to be born of africa. i ooq, han sprans saa vildt i bjerget om, og blev tilflintesten* i!i blev tu en kampenteen graa. 1, 233 < saa fioj han bort i flint, og blev saa borte med alle. 1, 185 of a cruel stepmother: hun sprang rt iftmtestcens but h. sachs too has, iii. 3, 31. 426, vor zorn zu einem s

sun, then darkness arises, and all creatures are in fear lest the dear sun be worsted; it has been staved off for a long time, but it must come to that at the end of the world (nat-butt 1, 127. 142. in eclipses of the moon, the greenlanders carry boxes and kettles to the roofs of their houses, and beat on them as hard as they can (cranz s gronland 3, 294. an english traveller says of the moors in africa: when the sun s eclipse was at its height, we saw the people running about as if mad, and firing their rifles at the sun, to frighten the monster who they supposed was wishing to devour the orb of day. the plains and heights of tripoli resounded with the death- dirge (the cry wulliali wu, and the same all along the coast. the women hanged copper vessels together, making such a din that it w

hemel te rnogen opklimmeuy.maar daar ingebannen te zijn. exactly as in chaucer. solstice. sunset. 721 had it not seemed credible that such accounts may not have reached the romans from germany itself, but been spread among them by miscellaneous travellers tales. strabo 3, 1 (tsch. 1, 368) quotes from posidonius a very similar story of the noise made by the setting sun in the sea between spain and africa: yu-6/f &vvlv tov rjxiov ev rfj trapw/ceavitisi i^era tyo<pov 7rapa7r\7 <7/o&gt, tovavel ctl^ovtos tov 7re\dyovs kara arftecnv avrov sia to efjuttitrreiv et? tov (bvoov. but the belief may even then have prevailed among germans too; the radiant heads, like a saint s glory, were discussed at p. 323, arid i will speak of this mar vellous music of the rising and setting sun i

GRIMOIRE OF TURIEL

7 (see suppl. 1* die sechtesal vlouc uber al; ir echte vlouc in die lant, kaiserchr. 6406-79. butler& tanner, frome, and londtothe secret grimoire the secret grimoire of turiel a system of ceremonial magic the great arcanum (the rites of ceremonial magick. part i. the secret grimoire of turiel. introduction. the secret grimoire the s.s. umvoti, on which i was travelling from beira, portugese east africa, to london, reached las palmas in november, 1927, after a very stormy passage. like the rest ofthe passengers, i was thankful to get ashore. the usual vendors, beggars, and guides were soon in evidence. one oid man in the garb of a peasant offered me his services as a guide, which j gladly accepted. the man was bearded, swarthy of complexion, and very thin. he spoke in broken english and sn

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

rosicrucian to indicate the sincerity of their search for truth. the a.m.o.r.c. always maintains the attitude of broad-mindedness and tolerance toward every person or group of persons seeking to contribute to the uplift of man. and this attitude we desire to have expressed by every member of the older. the present worldwide jurisdiction of the order consists of the americas, australasia, europe, africa, and asia.the jurisdiction having been extended throughout the years. those readers of the rosicrucian manual who are not members of the rosicrucian order, amorc, and have not had other descriptive literature pertaining to its activities and purposes, may address a communication to scribe r. h. m, rosicrucian order, amorc, san jose, california 95191, u.s.a, and ask for a complimentary copy

fter to be organized and chartered by the supreme grand lodge or the imperator of the order in america. decreed and issued june, 1915, at a meeting of the first american supreme council held in the city of new york, n.y [19] part two extracts from the constitution and statutes of the grand lodge of the ancient, mystical order rosae crucis worldwide jurisdiction (the americas, australasia, europe, africa, and asia) article i.section 1 this lodge is a separate and distinct body created and chartered by the hierarchy of the supreme grand lodge of the ancient, mystical order rosae crucis, worldwide jurisdiction (hereinafter referred to as the grand lodge of amorc, or as grand lodge. section 2 this grand lodge is subordinate to and derives its existence and powers from the imperator and the boa

are in manuscript form. in fact, each degree of our order consists of an initiation and from twelve to fifty or more monographs. in the higher degrees the monographs increase in number with each degree. these lectures, or monographs, are prepared by the imperators staff at the supreme grand lodge and sent to sanctum members throughout the worldwide jurisdiction (the americas, australasia, europe, africa, and asia. all members receive identical monographs. for the benefit of the latin-american countries, the monographs are translated into spanish, but are issued directly from the department of instruction of the grand lodge in san jose. no master of any subordinate lodge or chapter shall be authorized or permitted to add to the work or teachings or to insert any personal opinion. other gran

s. therefore, all that is private, are the rituals and teachings which are extended to the member of the order. such a practice, then, is not different than that of many other fraternal orders, even those which are not philosophical or esoteric in nature [46] part four membership information [47 [48] membership all members of amorc in the worldwide jurisdiction (the americas, australasia, europe, africa, and asia) are members of the grand lodge. their membership privileges and obligations are formally defined in the constitution and statutes of the grand lodge, excerpts of which are contained in this manual. grand lodge sanctum membership. all members of the grand lodge of amorc in the worldwide jurisdiction (the americas, australasia, europe, africa, and asia) are sanctum members; that is

hree neophyte degrees. as explained before, they are reserved for those sanctum members who have made the necessary preparation and progress. demonstra [54] tions are such as can be performed at home; thus, members are able to benefit from personalized instruction. these lessons and monographs are the same throughout the a.m.o.r.c. of the worldwide jurisdiction (the americas, australasia, europe, africa, and asia. in addition to the lectures and study material, all members have the privilege of associating with an amorc lodge, chapter, or pronaos, where rituals and discussions are part of the group's activity. members who complete the ninth degree are eligible to continue on in the work of the rosicrucian order through specialized studies under the direction of the imperator. they will als

ame point in the teachings for the exchange of knowledge that may be beneficial to the good of the order [55] the rose-croix university in keeping with the ancient and modern practices of the rosicrucian order in various lands, the supreme grand lodge of the ancient, mystical order of rosae crucis maintains a rose-croix university for the worldwide jurisdiction (the americas, australasia, europe, africa, and asia) at rosicrucian park, san jose, california. the large rose-croix university building* in which special sciences are taught and demonstrated, and profound scientific research is carried on, was constructed from the donations sent to the order for this purpose by thousands of advanced rosicrucians in all parts of north america. it is probably the first university building ever to be

c, and ask for literature pertaining to the university. certain preliminary requirements are necessary, however, and all applicants must be members of the a.m.o.r.c. in good standing. the idly curious will not be admitted to any of the classes or allowed to participate in any of the courses of instruction. the rose-croix university of the worldwide jurisdiction (the americas, australasia, europe, africa, and asia) is maintained by the supreme grand lodge of amorc as one of its allied activities and in harmony with similar work being done in the rosicrucian universities and colleges of other lands* see photographs of university on page 17 [56] interesting facts for our members to explain to inquirers about amorc the following facts are based upon an examination of 1,000 application blanks t

a part of, or related to, any other socalled rosicrucian society, movement, or any other organization using the name rosicrucian. the genuine fraternity is always known as the rosicrucian order, and never as society or fellowship. the term rosicrucian brotherhood is used sometimes by the order as a substitute general term. there is only one rosicrucian order in the americas, australasia, europe, africa, and asia, recognized as the authorized body perpetuating the ancient organization, and which was affiliated with the international federation of esoteric orders and societies. the a.m.o.r.c. is affiliated in the fraternal and federation sense, however, with the rosicrucian order and its allied bodies in other lands. ques. what is the esoteric federation? ans. the federation was known as fe

iatiques (or by the initials of the term, fudosi. it was an alliance of fourteen or more of the esoteric organizations throughout the world which were carrying out the work of the great white rrotherhood, and all of which conducted esoteric initiations for the attunement of the initiate with the cosmic consciousness. the a.m.o.r.c. of the worldwide jurisdiction (the americas, australasia, europe, africa, and asia) and its affiliate, the traditional martinist order, were the only representatives of this federation in this part of the western world (the fudosi does not now operate objectively) ques. how can there be a number of rosicrucian societies without relationship [58] ans. the word or term rosicrucian has been misused and improperly applied by a number of publishing houses or small or

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

by)ung,theoryofpneumatology,p26774-'in the neighbourhoodofphiladelphia there dwelt a solitary man in a lonely house. he was very benevolent, but extremely retired and reserved; and strange things were relatedofhim, amongst which were his being able to tell a person things that were unknown to every one else. now it happened that a captain of a vessel belonging to philadelphia was about to sail to africa and europe. he promised his wife that he would return again in a certain time, and also that he would write to her frequently; she waited long, but no letters arrived: the time appointed passed over, but her beloved husband did not return. she was now deeply distressed, and knew not where to look either for counsel or consolation; at length a friend advised her to go to the pious solitary

ckwood'smagazine,for august,183i.t'lord prudhoe and major felix, being at cairo last autumn, on their return from abyssinia, where they picked up much of that information which has been worked up so well by captain bond head, in his life of bruce, found the town in a state of extraordinary excitement, in consequence of the recent arrival in those parts of a celebrated magician, from the centre of africa, somewhere in the neighbourhood of the mountains of the moon. it was universallysaid, and generally believed, that this character possessed and exercised the power of shewing to any visitor who chose to comply with histerms,anyperson, dead orliving,whom the same visitor pleased to name.theenglish travellers, after abundant enquiries and some scruples, repaired to his residence, paid their f

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

se questions may be unanswerable but provide strategies for coping with the sorrows and contradictions of human life. examples of all these different categories of myths can be found within egyptian mythology. in order to explore this mythology, we must first look at the geography and history of ancient egypt. myth and geography egypt is a large country in the northeast corner of the continent of africa, but modern geographical terms have little relevance to how the ancient egyptians saw themselves. they had no conception of the huge size of africa. in the third millennium bce the egyptians known world extended only from what are now greece and turkey in the north to what is now ethiopia in the south, and from libya in the west to what is now iraq in the east (see map two. the egyptians be

re set apart from the people who lived in these surrounding countries. the ancient word kemet (usually translated as egypt) literally means black land. this referred to the rich black soil of the land on either bank of the great river nile, which flows through the center of egypt. the egyptians were claiming to be the people of the valley, but they had not always been so. for many millennia north africa enjoyed a moist climate. vast areas that are now desert were then grasslands with large animal populations. nomadic peoples, all with a fairly similar culture, ranged across the grasslands. from around the sixth millennium bce on, the climate became drier and hotter, and the grasslands gradually turned into desert. the first egyptians built villages on the edges of the nile valley, where th

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

known. one of these events was the first voyaging to a populated and barbarous coast where human beings were a familiar article of traffic; and the other the discovery of a new world, where mines of glittering wealth were open, provided labor could be imported to work them. for four hundred years men and women and children were torn from all whom they knew and loved, and were sold on the coast of africa to foreign traders; they were chained below decks-the dead often with the living-during the horrible "middle passage" and, according to bancroft, an impartial historian, two hundred and fifty thousand out of three and a quarter millions were thrown into the sea on that fatal passage, while the remainder were consigned to nameless misery in the mines, or under the lash in the cane and rice f

consigned to nameless misery in the mines, or under the lash in the cane and rice fields. the guilt of this great crime rests on the christian church "in the name of the most holy trinity" the spanish government (roman catholic) concluded more than ten treaties authorizing the sale of five hundred thousand human beings; in 1562 sir john hawkins sailed on his diabolical errand of buying slaves in africa and selling them in the west indies in a ship which bore the sacred name of jesus; while elizabeth, the protestant queen, rewarded him for his success in this first adventure of englishmen in that inhuman traffic by allowing him to wear as his crest "a demi-moor in his proper color, bound with a cord, or, in other words, a manacled negro slave" q. i have heard you say that the identity of o

platonist of fame and celebrity in the school of alexandria. he lived in the sixth century under the emperor justinian. there were several writers and philosophers of this name in pre-christian as in post-christian periods. one of these was the teacher of proclus, another a historian in the eighth century, and so on. origen a christian churchman, born at the end of the second century, probably in africa, of whom little, if anything, is known, since his biographical fragments have passed to posterity on the authority of eusebius, the most unmitigated falsifier that has ever existed in any age. the latter is credited with having collected upwards of one hundred letters of origen (or origenes adamantius, which are now said to have been lost. to theosophists, the most interesting of all the wo

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

st before it was to be heard in court. see a. h. nethercott, the first five lives ofannie besant (1961, p. 330. mabel collins was the author of light on the path (1885, which was widely read in theosophical circles. there were many reprints, including a russian translation (geneva, 1925. 15 latter remained supreme magus of the societas rosicruciana in anglia until he went to live in durban, south africa, in 1920. indeed, he was still corresponding with gardner in 192 4 a year before his death on 30 june 192 5' gardner's early connection with the soc. ros. remains obs ure- for example, why he joined the bristol college on 12 april 1894 rather than the london metropolitan college. according to the latter's transactions for 1897-8, on 13 january 1898 'v[ery "yv[orshipful] frederick leigh gard

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

ardy coleopterous species immediately following mankind, to which the great race was some day to transfer its keenest minds en masse in the face of horrible peril; and several from different branches of humanity. i talked with the mind of yiang-li, a philosopher from the cruel empire of tsan-chan, which is to come in 5,000 a.d; with that of a general of the greatheaded brown people who held south africa in 50,000 b.c; with that of a twelfth-century florentine monk named bartolomeo corsi; with that of a king of lomar who had ruled that terrible polar land one hundred thousand years before the squat, yellow inutos came from the west to engulf it. i talked with the mind of nug-soth, a magician of the dark conquerors of 16,000 a.d; with that of a roman named titus sempronius blaesus, who had b

ck- there can't be more'n 300 or 400 people living there now "but the real thing behind the way folks feel is simply race prejudice- and i don't say i'm blaming those that hold it i hate those innsmouth folks myself, and i wouldn't care to go to their town. i s'pose you know- though i can see you're a westerner by your talk- what a lot our new england ships- used to have to do with queer ports in africa, asia, the south seas, and everywhere else, and what queer kinds of people they sometimes brought back with 'em. you've probably heard about the salem man that came home with a chinese wife, and maybe you know there's still a bunch of fiji islanders somewhere around cape cod "well, there must be something like that back of the innsmouth people. the place always was badly cut off from the re

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

ence will require revision, while in other cases its bold deductions are magnificently confirmed. as i have said, the hypothesis of taylor, wegener, and joly that all the continents are fragments of an original antarctic land mass which cracked from centrifugal force and drifted apart over a technically viscous lower surface- an hypothesis suggested by such things as the complementary outlines of africa and south america, and the way the great mountain chains are rolled and shoved up- receives striking support from this uncanny source. maps evidently showing the carboniferous world of an hundred million or more years ago displayed significant rifts and chasms destined later to separate africa from the once continuous realms of europe (then the valusia of primal legend, asia, the americas

HP LOVECRAFT THE CATS OF ULTHAR

, which lies beyond the river skai, no man may kill a cat; and this i can verily believe as i gaze upon him who sitteth purring before the fire. for the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. he is the soul of antique aegyptus, and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in meroe and ophir. he is the kin of the jungle s lords, and heir to the secrets of hoary and sinister africa. the sphinx is his cousin, and he speaks her language; but he is more ancient than the sphinx, and remembers that which she hath forgotten. in ulthar, before ever the burgesses forbade the killing of cats, there dwelt an old cotter and his wife who delighted to trap and slay the cats of their neighbors. why they did this i know not; save that many hate the voice of the cat in the night, and

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

at their pictured history was allegorical, perhaps shewing the progress of the race that worshipped them. these creatures, i said to myself, were to men of the nameless city what the she-wolf was to rome, or some totem-beast is to a tribe of indians. holding this view, i could trace roughly a wonderful epic of the nameless city; the tale of a mighty seacoast metropolis that ruled the world before africa rose out of the waves, and of its struggles as the sea shrank away, and the desert crept into the fertile valley that held it. i saw its wars and triumphs, its troubles and defeats, and afterwards its terrible fight against the desert when thousands of its people- here represented in allegory by the grotesque reptiles- were driven to chisel their way down though the rocks in some marvellous

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

ack-there can't be more'n 300 or 400 people living there now "but the real thing behind the way folks feel is simply race prejudice- and i don't say i'm blaming those that hold it i hate those innsmouth folks myself, and i wouldn't care to go to their town. i s'pose you know- though i can see you're a westerner by your talk- what a lot our new england ships- used to have to do with queer ports in africa, asia, the south seas, and everywhere else, and what queer kinds of people they sometimes brought back with 'em. you've probably heard about the salem man that came home with a chinese wife, and maybe you know there's still a bunch of fiji islanders somewhere around cape cod "well, there must be something like that back of the innsmouth people. the place always was badly cut off from the re

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

as fallen foul of them, or else they act on behalf of those whose willingness is circumscribed by their powerlessness. from the aran islands a story comes of the power of an old woman to transfer disease from the afflicted individual to another, with the result that the first recovered, while the newly-stricken person died; the passage reads more like the doings of savages in polynesia or central africa than of christians in ireland. in 1892 a man stated that a friend of his p. 246 was sick of an incurable disease, and having been given over by the doctor, sought, after a struggle with his conscience, the services of a cailleach who had the power to transfer mortal sickness from the patient to some healthy object who would sicken and die as an unconscious substitute. when fully empowered b

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

something very extraordinary, and quite beyond belief to the moderns, in the origin of them. the religion of the phallos (and of its twin emblem) is to be traced all over the east. it prevailed not only amongst the hindoos, assyrians, babylonians, mexicans, etruscans, greeks, and romans, in ancient times, but it still forms an integral part of the worship of india, thibet, china, siam, japan, and africa. we cannot, therefore, afford to ignore this grand scheme of ritual, when we discover it to be a religion so widely spread, and reappearing so unexpectedly, not only in the countries with which we are contemporaneously acquainted, but also in those old countries of which we in reality know very little, or nothing at all; for all history reads doubtfully, being written for popular purposes

netralibus ignem. neid, ii. 296. numa settled an order of virgin priestesses, whose business and care it was constantly to maintain the holy fire. and long before numa s days, we find it not only customary, but honourable, among the albans to appoint the best-born virgins to be priestesses of vesta, and to keep up the constant, unextinguished fire. when virgil speaks( neid, iv. 200) of iarbas, in africa, as building a hundred temples and a hundred altars, he says vigilemque sacraverat ignem, excubias div m seternas, vestal fires. 57 that he had consecrated a fire that never went out. and he calls these temples and these lights, or this fire, the perpetual watches or watch-lights, or proof of the presence, of the gods. by which expressions he means, that places and things were constantly pr

se as a feeling in early days by passing into dreadful ceremonies in regard to this fire, which they reverenced as the last possible physical form of divinity, not only in its grandeur and power, but also in its purity. it arose from this view that human sacrifices came to be offered to the deities in many parts of the world, particularly in phoenicia, and in the colonies derived from thence into africa and other places. in the intensity of their minds, children were sacrificed by their parents, as being the best and dearest oblation that could be made, and the strongest arguments that nothing ought to be withheld from god. this was expiation for that sad result, the consequence of the original curse, issuing from the fatal curiosity concerning the bitter fruit of that forbidden tree, whos

edness, or of the forbidden attaching to the spot where four roads meet? it is sacer, as sacred, in the latin; extra-church or heathen, supposedly unhallowed, in the modem acceptation. the appellative ob, in the word obelisk, means occult, secret, or magic. ob is the biblical name for sorcery. it is also found as a word signifying converse with forbidden spirits, among the negroes on the coast of africa, from whence and indicating the practices marked out by it it was transplanted to the west indies, where it still exists. it is well known that a character resembling the runic alphabet was once widely diffused throughout europe. a character, for example, not unlike the hammer of thor, is to be found in various spanish inscriptions, and lurks in many magical books. sir william jones, procee

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1879 said that about two bushels had fallen. 54 1881: two silver crosses were found by charles c. jones in georgia. an unintelligible inscription was upon them and they were definitely not christian since both arms of the cross were of equal length. 1884: nature, of january 10, quotes a kimberley newspaper "toward the end of november, 1883, a thick shower of ashy matter fell at queenstown, south africa. it was in marble-sized balls, soft and pulpy, and crumbled when dry. the shower was confined to one narrow strip of land, and thus hardly attributable too krakatao almost halfway around the world. with the fall, loud noises here(sic) heard" it is most significant that this shower was confined to a narrow strip of land. 1908: a white substance, like ashes, fell at annoy, france, on march 27

s were falling in washington and oregon. texas should be warm, maybe hot, in latter march; there were unprecedented snows, as also in new mexico and oklahoma. alabama was inundated; florida flooded. deluges in france. all europe was wet. not much sunny evaporation there. in spain, near valencia, there was a hailstorm: trains were stalled by unusually large hailstones, piles three feet deep. south africa is practically antipodal to our midwest; there were watery fists from the skies of colesburg, murraysburg, and prieska, and one of these bulks was the equivalent of one-tenth of the total normal rainfall of south africa for a whole year! summer in the south american andes? maybe, but snow was covering them two months ahead of schedule and in the jungles of paraguay people were dispersing in

her to montevideo with a cargo of lumber. she arrived there minus her deck load, and minus spars and sails. there the captain got a charter to carry horses. the few delivered alive were too ill to be worth anything. edgar m. tuthill (her skipper) obtained a charter to bring freight from calcutta. on the passage home he was taken sick and died in st. helena, three weeks later. we next sent her to africa. she lost $1,000.00" but the end was near. the marie celeste's last proprietor, wesley a. grove, signed captain gillman e. parker and loaded her with assorted cargo for port-au prince, haiti. the various shippers; first took out insurance for $25,000 and on january 3, 1885, the drunken parker staggered up to the helmsman, pointing to a clearly visible coral reef "steer hard for her, m'heart

ote that she was dismasted not the type of damage to expect from a tidal wave. several weeks after the disappearance of the crew of the freya, another strange sea occurrence was reported. according to the log of the s.s. fort salisbury, the second officer, mr. a. h. raymer, had, october 28, 1902, in latitude 50 31, longitude 4 42' w (which is a few hundred miles off the coast of french equatorial africa, in the south atlantic, been called by the lookout, at 3:05 am, who reported that there was a huge, dark object, bearing lights, in the sea ahead. two lights were seen, and the steamer passed a bulk of an estimated length of 500 600 feet, which seemed to be slowly sinking. a mechanism of some sort, the observers thought, was making a commotion in the water. phosphorescence was mentioned, bu

n have developed( red is a& b) cut with over sized measure-marker on all-power, i.e. cutter in many areas we find evidence of stone blocks of unbelievable weight being quarried, more or less casually moved considerable distances, then lifted into place. this common factor connects pre- inca peru with easter island in a startling and undeniable way, and seems to tie in the middle east, the orient, africa, and maybe polynesia. many investigators and thinkers have proposed methods for moving these quarried and dressed blocks. all of the proposals are based on application of such simple block& tackle unknown to those peopole (sic) mech. lifting, thusly not feasable (don't know) present day engineering equipment as block-and tackle or sand ramps. the great pyramids, consisting of hundreds of th

ould have been an l-m aboard& he said "standback" very fast. in 1947, an american superfortress bomber strangely vanished when 100 miles off bermuda the area of missing planes. in march, 1950, a u.s. globemaster disappeared while flying from north america to ireland, without warning, without trace. the pan-american airways liner, a constellation with forty people aboard, was on her way from south africa to new york, on june 20, 1951. the ship left accra, west africa, for monrovia, liberia, and at 3:00 am the crew radioed that she was due at roberts field airport, monrovia, at 3:15 am. this plane was never seen nor heard of again. fifteen minutes out, with no trouble to report, and anticipating an eventless landing, this giant craft disappeared without a trace of a record, no outcry from it

to show the correctness of his "reason" for retraction. 151 the height of the puzzle there is no way of estimating how many of these fast-moving space objects escape all notice, nor is there any way of knowing how many are seen but not reported for fear of embarrassment. we have found a few examples, and still further search of the literature would produce more. colonel marwick, amateur in south africa, saw an object near the moon on september 27, 1881 (not the concentration of these in 1881, like a comet but moving very rapidly. on august 28, 1883 captain noble saw something "like a comet, new and glorious" on the nights of september 11, and 13, 1883, professor swift, at rochester, saw an unknown object like a comet, and something was seen in puerto rico and about the same time in ohio

but moving very rapidly. on august 28, 1883 captain noble saw something "like a comet, new and glorious" on the nights of september 11, and 13, 1883, professor swift, at rochester, saw an unknown object like a comet, and something was seen in puerto rico and about the same time in ohio. the most spectacular of these speed demons was seen by captain eddie, at his observatory in grahamstown, south africa, on october 27, 1890. it was called a comet, but almost certainly was not, for its description was much more like that of maunder's auroral object. in fact it has something of the appearance of an auroral arch bridging a quarter of the horizon, but moving with a deliberate speed very similar to the maunder thing. this object of captain eddie's sped 100 degrees across the sky in threequarter

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ebub to a place long hidden from those who would seek it. that which i speak is known to but few even the elohim know not of it 139 for its treasures are too precious for michael and his three brother-lords to trust to their treach'rous kin. yet i, as the second lord of heaven, learnt of secrets that i entrust to you, my brothers. to the south of these high-peaked hills upon the burning plains of africa, hidden within a high-walled valley, carved out by the passage of a river's flow, is a wondrous garden abounding in verdant growth. there grow herbs of such rarity that nowhere are they found but in that garden. the fruits of that place are endowed with potencies that are unmatched by the sorcerer's art. of most worth to our purpose are the fruits of two trees that grow within the garden's

did made fat the crows for the hosts of shurupuk were mighty in battle and put all before them as leaves before the winds and swelled further the coffers of utanapishtim, carrying back the battle's spoils and the booty of the cities that had, in error, strived against utanapishtim. west of the kingdom between two rivers, where bright shurupuk's walls were high, by the sea, upon the western coast, africa to the south and italy upon the northern coast king methuselah brought his people there and they prospered there and grew powerful. fierce were the tribe methuselah in victory and when fortune favoured them they were without mercy. to the south and north rode methuselah's horsemen and rode in return laden with the booty and many captives, tied in train behind their columns. twenty towns, by

d those that might come later to fulfil that foreseen destiny and build amongst my children an eternal empire to exceed heaven and reign most potent over all creation. yet was it in those days that ishtar came to me where it was that i watched all things that passed upon the earth within a magic mirror of mercury. it was a time not long before tanit, ishtar's favoured queen, had fled from tyre to africa and there had built a great city, known to men as kart-hadasht and in later days as carthage. there were the shedim most honoured and the men of that city remembered best 307 that which i had taught their fathers even a greater part of half the knowledge of this truth that was known to shurupuk was there to the men of kart-hadasht. so did ishtar come to me at my throne at the spire of opal

out to me with these words "uhud is won to mecca and by your aid have they indeed conquered but i am patient yet. what is not won at first 365 is yielded with a second assault. you defeat me this day, satan, but not ever am i defeated. mecca shall fall to me and medina even as carthage fell to rome. not all the hannibals and archimeds could deliver your little jewel from me. my legions conquered africa's beloved and her walls resisted me not. remember you not syracuse and how rome came against her with men and ships to take her walls. remember the thousand devices built to hold her gates against my hosts. every wit of archimedes was employed as onagers and cranes consigned my ships that assailed the seaward side into the deeps beneath the waves. machines that cast a thousand bolts against

s the sea and silenced forever the songs of the incas. could you, iberia, make gold of the blood that you poured out? gabriel moved the hand of spain against the western peoples. now jesu's name was resounded across oceans. now the ships of the north sail across the sea to a distant shore. in chadel i heard the weeping that came from those vessels. the people of the north had brought into bondage africa's children and borne them away. the blood of the stolen was on them; the tears of africa have stained them. how swiftly goes time, how slow! when i awaited it seemed not fast. as i endured the torments of my children its passing seemed slow to me. that i now look back upon it it passed most swiftly by me. the journey ends not here but the harder part is travelled. i have made haste across h

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g of the weak, and so on. in fact, altruists handle cases and situations that society does not, either for lack of attention or for lack of empathy with others difficulties. chapter eight: everything is ready 123 altruistic organizations spend fortunes and make tremendous efforts in many ways; alas, for the most part, their help to the needy does not bring substantial changes to their situations. africa is an example of this state of affairs. in the past, before the west interfered with their lives, africans provided for themselves. today, however, despite the food and the water they receive, they are starving. the vast amount of money collected on their behalf does not change their situation; they are in constant struggle and are rapidly declining. there is almost nothing that altruistic

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

the rough and the smooth ashlars with much the same meaning that masons attach to them today(*ibid, p. 60) a wand surmounted by a dove is represented, not only in ancient egypt, but also in some of the monuments in central america, and those who bore it were called gconductors h. it is a curious fact, also, that the descendants of the nilotic negroes, who emigrated long ago from egypt to central africa, when called to take an oath in a court of law, still do so with a gesture which, still do so with a gesture, were i at liberty to describe it in writing, would be universally recognized by the craft. 20. another point that struck me much on looking at engravings of vignettes in the book of the dead is that the h c s c of the f.c. is depicted perfectly clearly; a group of people is shown as

d of men and women belonging to the highest classes of the great south indian empire which then existed set out on an expedition to egypt, by way of ceylon, having been directed to do so by the manu. the ruling race in egypt in those days was a branch of what has been called in theosophical books the toltec sub-race- a branch probably identical with that cro-magnon race which inhabited europe and africa somewhere about 25,000 b.c. in ancient types of man(*op. cit, p. 71) sir arthur keith remarks that this race was mentally and physically one of the finest that the world has ever seen. broca has noted that the brain content of the skull of the cro-magnon woman surpasses that of the average male of today. the average height of the men of this race was six feet one and a half inches; the shou

but long before this half-savage tribes had ventured into the land, fighting their primitive battles on the banks of the great river which had once borne the argosies of a mighty civilization, and was yet to witness a revival of those ancient glories, and to mirror the stately temples of osiris and amen-ra. the first of the several races that entered the country was a negroid people from central africa; they had, however, been displaced by various others before the aryo-egyptians returned from arabia, settled near abydos, and gradually in a peaceful manner became once more the dominant power. two thousand four hundred years later the manu (under the name of menes) incarnated, united the whole of egypt under one rule, and founded at the same time the first dynasty and his great city of mem

rld (fig. 8a. 242. figure 8. 243. 244. this long line with two crossed bars upon it has for uncounted thousands of years been the special sign of the supreme being. the pygmy race is probably the most primitive at present existing, but even they have that symbol for their chief. older people will remember the excitement that was caused when the famous explorer stanley journeyed into the centre of africa to find dr. livingstone, and came back to us with the story of the pygmies living in the forests there. his new s way a confirmation of that which a french explorer, du chaillu, had brought some quarter of a century before, but it had not been generally accepted until stanley fs evidence arrived. 245. that pygmy race is a relic of the old lemurians, and represents them more purely than any

ere at one time a gigantic people, but in process of dying out they diminished in size. the african bushmen are also remnants of the same race, but with very mixed blood, and the same thing is true of those who are usually called the australian aboriginals, except that in their case there is a very alight admixture of aryan blood. 246. at one time the pygmies were spread over a great deal more of africa than at present, and some of them were the first people to enter egypt when the marshes were partially drying up after the great flood that followed the sinking of the island of poseidonis some nine thousand five hundred years before christ. they were driven out a little later by the nilotic negroes, but that more advanced race was finally dispossessed (and, i think, to some extent absorbed

or example, it was the token of ramu, which was their name for the supreme god, and one of his titles was the god of the age. the same symbol was also found among the aztecs, which shows their connection with egypt. they represented their chieftain by this symbol of the age, which was their sign for god, because the chief was looked upon as god fs representative. there are still tribes in central africa among which that double axe has a hut to itself, as a great chief would have. 248. quite recently extensive archaeological researches have been made in the island of crete, and among other things discovered there was this symbol of the double axe, which there also stood for the deity(*fig. 9 is reproduced (with permission) from an illustration in the palace of minos in knossos, by sir arthu

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han the authentics have ever ventured to do, and traces striking analogies with the ancient mysteries of many nations, which clearly possessed our symbols and signs, and in all probability ceremonies analogous to those worked in masonic lodges to-day. 13. the anthropologists do not confine their studies to the past alone, but have investigated the initiatory rites of many existing tribes, both in africa and australia, and have found them to possess signs and gestures still in use among masons. striking analogies to our masonic rites have also been found among the inhabitants of india and syria, interwoven with their religious philosophy in a way which renders entirely impossible the idea that they were copied from european sources. masonic scholars have by no means exhausted the facts whic

ntermingling of the two richest streams of oriental wisdom: the one, directly through persia from india; the other, traversing that marvellous egyptian period, enriched by the wisdom of the great hermetic teachers, flowed into syria and arabia, and thence with added force- garnered from the new divine powers made manifest in the profound mystery of the blessed jesus- into europe, through northern africa, finding a home in spain, where it took deep root. from this stock sprang into full flower that richness of speech and song for which the troubadours will live for ever, manichaeans who sang and chanted the esoteric wisdom they dared not speak. 668. next we see them dispersed in sects, taking local names- separated in name only, but using the same secret language, having the same signs. thu

martin, the close friend and collaborator of mdlle. deraismes, succeeded upon the death of the latter to the leadership of the movement, dr. georges martin holding the office of grand orateur, and she occupied her exalted position with distinction, with dignity, and with utter devotion, until her demise in 1914. 782. there are lodges in france, belgium, england, scotland, india, australia, south africa, america (over 100, holland, java, switzerland, and norway. 783. we need add only a few words about the movement in england. the first of our english lady members to enter the order was our highly esteemed sister francesca arundale. mrs. annie besant, feeling that a masonic movement open to men and women alike could be made a powerful force for good in the world, who had been offered initia

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

christianity as being under the sway of demonic forces. furthermore, in line with the apostle paul s assertion in 1 corinthians cited above, conservative christians also believe that demons founded and continue to shape all non-christian traditions. as asserted in demons in the world today, the great ethnic faiths of india, china and japan major in demonism, as well as the animistic religions of africa, south america and some islands. conservative christians take a similar position with respect to occult/metaphysical/new age religion. to cite a sample passage from lee and hindson s angels of deceit: today people are experimenting with astrology, witchcraft, ouija boards, divination, channeling, tarot cards, fortune-tellers, mediums, crystals and shamans.mankind has come to the final concl

essed in 186 b.c. this phenomenon was not limited to the mediterranean world. spirit possession is found in different forms throughout history and across the world, with somewhat more emphasis in traditional pacific and indigenous american cultures. but it was also widespread in the western world (famous in medieval and later reports of the church on possessed women, the mediterranean region, and africa. the different social and cultural backgrounds of civilizations determined the variations that could be seen from one version to another in ritualization and the values attributed to such an experience. being possessed is a phenomenon difficult to define because of its fluidity and many facets. it is related to certain forms of dissociation, ritual trance and similar altered states of consc

times less, than 100 percent. table 2 geographical distribution state/country count percentage canada 9 6 united kingdom 6 4 netherlands 5 4 australia 5 4 denmark 3 2 other countries* 11 8 california 13 9 texas 9 6 wisconsin 7 5 virginia 7 5 colorado 6 7 new york 6 7 massachusetts 5 4 north carolina 5 4 pennsylvania 4 3 oklahoma 3 2 other u.s. states 56 40 *one respondent each from germany, south africa, poland, czech republic, sweden, new zealand, india, estonia, russia, and the philippines. one respondent also indicated south america without specifying a country. 328 appendix iii: satanist survey from stripper to clinical psychologist, and from salesman to engineer. with respect to the writer/artist category, one of my contacts, the webmaster of the satanic media watch, offered the criti

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ola anno belli universalis (1914) ne perdat arcanum scripta* baphomet x rex summus sanctissimus o.t.o. national grand master general ad vitam of ireland, iona and all the britains, in the name of the secret master, aumn. greeting and peace to our most holy, most illuminated, most illustrious, and most dear brother, his excellency sir james thomas windram x o.t.o, our viceroy in the union of south africa, and sendeth these for his pleasure and instruction, and for communication at utmost extremity of need to selected initiates of the sanctuary of the gnosis ix who have either (a) shewn by power their fitness for that degree, or (b) shewn by wisdom their suitability to ward the arcanum arcanorum. also to certain trusty brethren of the viii, vii, and vi chosen for this moment of peril. for at

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

celanders to regain sight of god. unlike the pagans whom icelanders learned about when they translated and read the lives of the early saints of the christian church, nordic pagans were not doomed souls in league with satan. they were merely sheep who had lost their way. snorri now adds a historical dimension to his prologue. after presenting a standard medieval view of the world as consisting of africa, europe, and asia, he says that near the center of the earth, in tyrkland, lies the city of troy. a king there was called munon or mennon, who was married to troan, the daughter of king priam; their son was tror, gwhom we call thor. h he was raised by duke loricus, whom he subsequently killed, and he took over the kingdom of loricus, trakia (thrace, gwhich we call thrudheim. then he travele

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ir, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth (genesis 1:26, king james version. fish, plants, and beasts were given by god to humans for food. beyond accounting for the origin of the world and life, myths can also provide explanations of why life is as it is or how many things came to be as they are. for example, the nuer people of east africa provide a mythological account of why some people have white skin and others have black skin. here, a high god, kwoth (spirit of the sky, gave europeans white skin as punishment for an act of mother-son incest committed by a pair of their ancestors. in nuer mythology, we also have an explanation for death. at one time there was no death. earth was connected to heaven by a rope; when people

marsupials would either become extinct or remain a small minority. we can thus see that geography, including continental drift, which isolates landmasses from one another, also plays an important role in evolution. other excellent examples of evolution by geographic isolation can be found in madagascar, the large island located 300 miles east of southern 36 evolution and religious creation myths africa. much of the fauna and flora found there are unique to the island and are not found elsewhere in the world. geologists think that madagascar once was connected to africa but started to drift away from it about 150 million years ago. as is widely known, madagascar is home to several species of lemurs, primates that are ancestral to both monkeys and apes. it is thought that the ancestors of l

a and flora found there are unique to the island and are not found elsewhere in the world. geologists think that madagascar once was connected to africa but started to drift away from it about 150 million years ago. as is widely known, madagascar is home to several species of lemurs, primates that are ancestral to both monkeys and apes. it is thought that the ancestors of lemurs first appeared in africa and that some individuals were then somehow carried to madagascar, perhaps on floating logs. interestingly, lemurs no longer exist in continental africa, where they were presumably outcompeted by monkeys and apes. however, monkeys and apes did not evolve on madagascar, and neither did large predators, allowing lemurs to evolve there into several subspecies. in the same vein, it is estimated

where it is a high 95. clearly, europe ranks well below the world average, while what is evolutionary biology? 45 asia ranks well above. this is because european and asian populations moved in different evolutionary directions regarding the rh gene variant. another interesting example is that of a human gene variant known to enhance susceptibility to malaria, often a fatal disease. in sub-saharan africa, where malaria is endemic, the frequency of this variant is essentially zero, as evolution by natural selection predicts. in australia, where malaria does not exist, the frequency of this variant is 99. here again, the reason for this big difference is natural selection: a gene favoring the incidence of malaria is rapidly selected against in regions where the disease exists. where malaria i

ion is applied to populations where malaria is absent (for example, african americans living in the united states, many of whom are descended from west african populations, the observed ratios between the three gene combinations conform to the theoretical equation, taking into account the lethality of the s /s combination. not so, however, with nigerians who live in malaria-infested areas of west africa, who have a ratio strongly skewed in favor of the a /s type. the comparison between theoretical and observed numbers, then, actually allows one to obtain a quantitative estimate of the fitness of the different gene combinations under natural selection by malaria. in conclusion, survival of the fittest, in a reallife context is no longer a phrase used to summarize and simplify a concept; it

omplex system, meaning that changes occurring in it through mutation, for example, can only lead to grave defects and total loss of function. the example above shows that this not the case. in addition, researchers now predict that, if the aids epidemic cannot be stopped, the mutant gene that renders individuals resistant to aids will increase in the human population, in particular in sub-saharan africa. while the frequency of this mutation is 13% in european populations, it is extremely rare in africa. since hiv is a powerful selective factor it kills unmedicated people extremely efficiently and since anti-hiv medications are not readily available to most africans, it follows that natural selection will favor the survival and differential reproduction of the rare aids-resistant africans

ng humans. can you think of truly perfect life-forms? 4. id scientific research is nonexistent. how, then, can the id viewpoint be defended as science? creationist purpose and irreducible complexity rebutted 83 this page intentionally left blank 4 the origins and evolution of homo sapiens what is clearly implied by the data. is that all modern human genetic diversity found around the world was in africa around 60,000 years ago. spencer wells, the journey of man: a genetic odyssey surveys consistently show that about 45% of the american public believes that modern humans were created by god (the designer) some time between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, in accordance with biblical precepts. the imprecision on this date is due to the difficulty of evaluating, based on biblical information, the

forcefully of human and prehuman fossils. for obvious reasons, we humans are more excited about our own origins than we are about the origins of, say, flowering plants and aardvarks. it is then no surprise that the efforts of paleontologists have focused on the discovery of bipedal primates, our forebears. paleoanthropologists (paleontologists specializing in human evolution) have discovered that africa occupies a special place in human origins because prehuman fossils are more abundant there than they are anywhere else in the world.what, then, does the fossil record tell us about the origins of humans? the following description is what some call a streamlined version of human evolution, that is, a simplified version accepted by most paleoanthropologists. some scientists do not agree with

ts fossil remains are more abundant. australopithecus first appeared about 4.2 million years ago. its most representative specimen, the famous lucy, lived in ethiopia about 3.2 million years ago. lucy was clearly bipedal, about 3 feet tall, and weighed about 55 pounds. her cranial capacity was about that of a modern chimp. australopithecus fossils have been found in multiple places in sub-saharan africa but not in the rest of the world. the genus australopithecus became extinct about 1.5 million years ago. however, about 2.5 million years ago, in kenya and ethiopia, some australopithecus individuals evolved into the first representatives of our own genus: homo (see figure 4.1. these first humans, called homo habilis, developed stone tool technology, were taller, and had a bigger brain size

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that the devil had the feet of a rooster, while the egyptians assigned to typhon (devil) the body of a hog. the habits of the insects were carefully studied. therefore the ant was looked upon as emblematic of industry and foresight, as it stored up supplies for the winter and also had strength to move objects many times its own weight. the locusts which swept down in clouds, and in some parts of africa and asia obscured the sun and destroyed every green thing, were considered fit emblems of passion, disease, hate, and strife; for these emotions destroy all that is good in the soul of man and leave a barren desert behind them. in the folklore of various nations, certain insects are given special significance, but the ones which have received world-wide veneration and consideration ate the

this stone was so delicately poised that it swayed back and forth with the wind, but no application of force could overturn it. a number of logan stones have been found in britain, traces of one no longer standing having been discovered in stonehenge (see the celtic druids) it is interesting to note that the green stones forming the inner ring of stonehenge are believed to have been brought from africa. in many cases the monoliths are without carving or inscription, for they undoubtedly antedate both the use of tools and the art of writing. in some instances the stones have been trued into columns or obelisks, as in the runic monuments and the hindu lingams and sakti stones; in other instances they are fashioned into rough likenesses of the human body, as in the easter island statues, or

of his temple, likenesses of the male and female principles, to adumbrate this mystery; such, it is said, were the figures of the cherubim. this was, however, not in obedience to the words of the thorah. they were symbolical of the upper, the spiritual, the former or maker, positive or male, and the lower, the passive, the negative or female, formed or made by the first" masonry came to northern africa and asia minor from the lost continent of atlantis, not under its present name but rather under the general designation sun and fire worship. the ancient mysteries did not cease to exist when christianity became the world's most powerful religion. great pan did not die! freemasonry is the proof of his survival. the pre-christian mysteries simply assumed the symbolism of the new faith, perpe

selves to serious study, and a lady doctor was not unknown among the people of cordova. mathematics, astronomy and botany, history, philosophy and jurisprudence, were to he mastered in spain and in spain alone" the library of original sources thus sums up the effects of islam "the results of mohammedism have been greatly underestimated. in the century after mohammed's death it wrested asia minor, africa, and spain from christianity, more than half of the civilized world, and established a civilization, the highest in the world during the dark ages. it brought the arabian race to their highest development, raised the position of women in the east, though it retained polygamy, was intensively monotheistic, and until the turks gained control for the most part encouraged progress" in the same

their discoveries never had the influence they should have had upon the course of european civilization, but this was because europe itself was not enlightened enough to grasp and make use of them. gerber's observation that oxidized iron weighs heavier than before oxidation had to be made over again. so had some of their work in optics, and many of their geographical discoveries. they had rounded africa long before vasco da gama. the composition of gunpowder came into northern europe from them. we must never forget that the dark ages in christian europe were the bright ones of the mohammedan world. in the field of philosophy the arabs started by adopting the neo-platonism they found in europe, and gradually working back to aristotle" what means the subtle mystery of the phoenix reborn ever

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

ion or astronomy. he can transform a man into the likeness of a bird. he governeth 30 legions of infernal spirits, and his seal is this, etc (66) cimejes, or cimeies, or kimaris- the sixtysixth spirit is cimejes, or cimeies, or kimaris. he is a marquis, mighty, great, strong and powerful, appearing like a valiant warrior riding upon a goodly black horse. he ruleth over all spirits in the parts of africa. his office is to teach perfectly grammar, logic, rhetoric, and to discover things lost or hidden, and treasures. he governeth 20 legions of infernals; and his seal is this, etc (67) amdusias, or amdukias- the sixty-seventh spirit is amdusias, or amdukias. he is a duke great and strong, appearing at first like a unicorn, but at the request of the exorcist he standeth before him in human sha

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

t an alliance of reptilians and human blackmagicians were causing chaos and destruction in the surface societies by projectingmalevolent energy fields into peoples minds using that which we call witchcraftthemanipulation of energy. dickhoff says that the monk led 400 warrior-monks into thecaverns to do battle with this serpent cult. scholar and researcher, j. j. hurtakdeclares: in our research in africa, the far east and the mountains of south america, we have comeacross statuary of very grotesque beings, who according to the indian and shamanistic tra-dition, went into the earth at the time of a great cataclysm .the apache indians tell stories of tunnels between their lands and the city of tiahuan-aco and claim that their ancestors traveled for years by this route. the indian chiefsalso a

sequestered in caseof future cataclysms and disturbances. the great pyramids, it is thought, were constructed in the 4thdynasty.the copper ageit is remarkable that so few antique copper implements have been found (in europe, although a knowl-edge of that metal must have been the preliminary stage in the manufacture of bronze (sir w.r. wilde,from p. 238)the fact that there was in europe, asia, or africa and no copper or tin age prior to the bronze age isconclusive testimony that the manufacture of bronze was an importation into those continents fromsome foreign country (p. 267)the fact that in america alone of all the world is found the copper age, which must necessarily havepreceded the bronze age, teaches us to look westward of europe and beyond the sea for that foreigncountry (p. 267)gi

n history does not extend beyond 4,000 years b.c (p. 13)in the last fifty years, the period for the emergence of developed, if not civilized, man has been pushedback to more than two million years (p. 14)the positive development of advanced group cultures is now estimated to have occurred from fifty to ahundred thousand years ago (p. 14)iron mines before the iron agean iron mine was discovered in africa (swaziland) that was being worked over 43,000 years before theiron age of the middle east.in front of marseilles in france, under the water have been found a cliff that once would have beenabove sea level. it contains mine shafts and smelting facilities. this dates from the stone age.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation201 appendix b: book abstracts the mediterraneanwas not

he festival of ascension (p. 113)fatal plaguesthe fatal disease which depopulated the earth in the time of justinian and his successors, first appearedin the neighborhood of pelusium, between the serbonian bog and the eastern channel of the nile. fromthence, tracing as it were a double path, it spread to the east over syria, persia, and the indies, and pen-etrated into the west along the coast of africa, and over the continent of europe (p. 115)dinosaursit has been wondered why, if comet impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, why did it not do thesame for other contemporary creatures. it is therefore, conjectured that the comets that descended toearth were bringers of lethal infections from bacteria, but that only certain creatures would be suscepti-ble to the contagion. halleys co

ellation orion, which possibly is as big as thegigantic jupiter and perhaps so close to the earth that it could belong to our solar systemwhen irasresearchers saw the mysterious celestial body and calculated that it was possibly eighty billion kilome-ters away from earth, they speculated that it is moving towards earth (p. 95)quetzalcoatlhe whose home is water .oannes (the original fisher king)in africa, known as the king of the dogons. the name means the dove. from oannes we derivejoannes or john, the same as the author of revelation, or worshipped by the knights templar. john wascalled the baptizer and connected to water and to the dove also.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation253 appendix b: book abstracts oannes was said to have a removable fish-skin, probably a wet-sui

ancient cousins, the lumbering neanderthals, coexisted with homo sapiens in europeand the near east until about 25,000 years ago. they may even have mated with our forebears. homoerectus survived until about 50,000 years ago, overlapping with both neanderthals and early homosapiens.in the latest version of the story of human origins, we are members of a large family called hominids,which arose in africa and included apes and humans. the apes and our ancestors parted ways about 6million years ago. our branch of the hominids eventually split into various subfamilies, tribes, generaand species. a species is a collection of creatures that can breed with one another. a genus is a closelyrelated group of species. a tribe is a group of genera (the plural of genus. at last count, there werethree t

ications, but the general outline is broadlyaccepted. orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees and humans are the only survivors of these multiple evolu-tionary experiments. the question, said potts, is what allowed some hominids to endure while othersdied out? part of the answer is that homo sapiens was better able than more specialized species toadapt to the rapidly changing climate of its homeland in africa between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago,when what had been a warm, moist environment turned cold and dry.if a species is tied to a given setting, it can be annihilated if the setting changes, william schopf,director of the center for the study of evolution and the origin of life at the university of california,los angeles, wrote in his book, cradle of life. in addition to its adaptability, th

ds giving the cranium the appearance of having a very shortface. actually the face would be very similar in overall dimensions to the jinniushan cranium uponreconstruction. the dali cranium has extremely robust brow ridges. they do not, however, assume thestraight bar-like character of the brow seen at zhoukoudian and are more similar structurally to the browseen in archaic humans from europe and africa. dali is dated to a time when neanderthals were spreadthroughout much of europe. the facial anatomy of dali is very different from that seen in neanderthalsand is much more similar to that seen in later, more modern looking humans not only in china butnorthern and eastern africa as well. this lateral view of dali shows the rounding of the posterior con-tour of the skull, differing in this r

ll earth hishome. first man soon returned to the green place or sakwap with his family shortly afterwards (manyof the hero stories throughout time and through many different cultures refer to a valiant group ofseven) these two legends remind of the story of kashyapa muni and his two wives, kadru, the mother of ser-pents, and vinata, the mother of garuda, the divine eagle, mentioned later. western africa the legend of da- the world was created by nana-buluku, the one god, who is neither male norfemale. in time, nana-buluku gave birth to twins, mawu and lisa, and it is they who shaped the worldand control it still, with their fourteen children, the v odou, or lesser gods. in the beginning, beforemawu had any children, the rainbow serpent, da, already existed- created to serve nana-buluku. th

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

llegedly, why did these early map-makers describe the continent of antarctica at all? another world map, compiled by the cartographer oronteus finaeus in 1531, not only depicts antarctica s form beneath the ice, but also illustrates where particular mountain ranges and rivers would be. stranger still is the map s incredible accuracy regarding antarctica s location relative to the southern tips of africa and south america--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 17 how was an accurate map of antarctica, including her location, hinterlands, and true form beneath the surface of the ice drawn up 300 years before antarctica was supposed to have been discovered? there are other maps that include antarctica, aside from the reis and finaeus maps, before the continent was first spotted; these maps too

MORALS AND DOGMA

when john the baptist made his appearance in the desert, near the shores of the dead sea, all the old philosophical and religious systems were approximating toward each other. a general lassitude inclined the minds of all toward the quietude of that amalgamation of doctrines for which the expeditions of alexander and the more peaceful occurrences that followed, with the establishment in asia and africa of many grecian dynasties and a great number of grecian colonies, had prepared the way. after the intermingling of different nations, which resulted from the wars of alexander in three-quarters of the globe, the doctrines of greece, of egypt, of persia, and of india, met and intermingled everywhere. all the barriers that had formerly kept the nations apart, were thrown down; and while the p

moses and christ, is his apostle" for many years unaided, then with the help of his family and a few friends, then with many disciples, and last of all with an army, he taught and preached the koran. the religion of the wild arabian enthusiast converting the fiery tribes of the great desert, spread over asia, built up the saracenic dynasties, conquered persia and india, the greek empire, northern africa, and spain, and dashed the surges of its fierce soldiery against the battlements of northern christendom. the law of mahomet still governs a fourth of the human race; and turk and arab, moor and persian and hindu, still obey the prophet, and pray with their faces turned toward mecca; and he, and not the living, rules and reigns in the fairest portions of the orient. confucius still enacts t

gious reverence for the zodiacal bull [taurus] appears, from a very early period, to have been pretty general--perhaps it was universal, throughout asia; from that chain or region of caucasus to which it gave name; and which is still known under the appellation of mount taurus, to the southern extremities of the indian peninsula; extending itself also into europe, and through the eastern parts of africa. this evidently originated during those remote ages of the world, when the colure of the vernal equinox passed across the stars in the head of the sign taurus [among which was aldebar n; a period when, as the most ancient monuments of all the oriental nations attest, the light of arts and letters first shone forth. the arabian word al-de-bar n, means the _foremost, or _leading, star: and it

ther cities. on the medals of antoninus are found nearly all the signs of the zodiac. astrology was practised among all the ancient nations. in egypt, the book of astrology was borne reverentially in the religious processions; in which the few sacred animals were also carried, as emblems of the equinoxes and solstices. the same science nourished among the chaldeans, and over the whole of asia and africa. when alexander invaded india, the astrologers of the oxydraces came to him to disclose the secrets of their science of heaven and the stars. the brahmins whom apollonius consulted, taught him the secrets of astronomy, with the ceremonies and prayers whereby to appease the gods and learn the future from the stars. in china, astrology taught the mode of governing the state and families. in a

arts of all kinds, religious worship, temples, the invention of letters, astronomy, the gymnastic arts, and music; and thus they were the universal benefactors. osiris travelled to civilize the countries which he passed through, and communicate to them his valuable discoveries. he built cities, and taught men to cultivate the earth. wheat and wine were his first presents to men. europe, asia, and africa partook of the blessings which he communicated, and the most remote regions of india remembered him, and claimed him as one of their great gods. you have learned how typhon, his brother, slew him. his body was cut into pieces, all of which were collected by isis, except his organs of generation, which had been thrown into and devoured in the waters of the river that every year fertilized eg

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

fear and disgust in the mind of the beholder; whilst her former roseate hue and milk-white skin assumed a loathsome greenish tinge. seeing herself thus transformed into so repulsive an object, medusa fled from her home, never to return. wandering about, abhorred, dreaded, and shunned by all the world, she now developed into a character, worthy of her outward appearance. in her despair she fled to africa, where, as she passed restlessly from place to place, infant snakes dropped from her hair, and thus, according to the belief of the ancients, that country became the hotbed of these venomous reptiles. with the curse of athene upon her, she turned into stone whomsoever she gazed upon, till at last, after a life of nameless page 162 misery, deliverance came to her in the shape of death, at th

urytion, and a two-headed dog called orthrus, the offspring of typhon and echidna. in choosing for him a task so replete with danger, eurystheus was in hopes that he might rid himself for ever of his hated cousin. but the indomitable courage of the hero rose with the prospect of this difficult and dangerous undertaking. after a long and wearisome journey he at last arrived at the western coast of africa, where, as a monument of his perilous expedition, he erected the famous "pillars of hercules" one of which he placed on each side of the straits of gibraltar. here he found the intense heat so insufferable that he angrily raised his bow towards heaven, and threatened to shoot the sun-god. but helios, far from being incensed at his audacity, was so struck with admiration at his daring that h

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

such stories explain and justify the world, and define our role within creation. once a civilization has become established, the myths that formed it may dwindle into superstition or entertainment, but even so, they never lose their intrinsic power, for the world s mythologies enshrine all the poetry and passion of which the human mind is capable. from ancient egypt to greece and rome, from west africa to siberia, from the hindu concept of brahman and the endless cycle of creation to the eternal dreaming of the australian aboriginals, the same themes recur, as humankind engages with the great mysteries of life and death. the best definition of myth is maya deren s in her book on the voodoo gods: myth, she writes, is the facts of the mind made manifest in the fiction of matter. the first p

of a divine being, and that men and women were created especially to live in it. in the mandan creation myth, first creator and lone man send a mudhen down to fetch sand from the bottom of the primeval flood, in order to make the land. the ainu of japan tell how the creator kamui sent a water wagtail down from heaven to accomplish the same task (see p. 120. according to the yoruba people in west africa, the world was made when obatala, the son of the great sky god olorun, threw earth from a snail shell, and got a pigeon and a hen to scatter it. the supreme gods of africa tend, like olorun, to withdraw from their creation leaving the main work to their successors. in the original myth preserved by the priests of the fon skycult, it is the androgynous deity the eternal wheel of time this az

carving has two faces, the second one at the back of the phallic headdress (see above. one face looks into the spirit world, and the other into the world of men. also, each side of the carving is different. lightning the decoration here may represent lightning; the lightning bolt was eshu s gift to shango, the thunder god. eshu the trickster eshu is the trickster god of the yoruba people of west africa. he acts as a messenger and mediator between gods and men, and he is a key player in divination, the cornerstone of yoruba culture, a ritual that resolves and balances the conflicting forces of the world. full of human contradictions and a lover of mischief, eshu looms larger in yoruba myth than either the supreme god, olodumare, or the creator, obatala who, with the other orisha, or benevo

. furious, shango tried to kill her with his thunderstones, but she hid. when his anger cooled, he forgave her, and tried the medicine himself. so much flame leaped from his mouth that the whole city of oyo was burned to the ground. eshu turns right into wrong, wrong into right. yoruba poem eshu supports only he who offers sacrifice. yoruba saying the wily trickster, hare many stories are told in africa of animal trickster figures. one such is hare (who in american folklore became brer rabbit. one story tells how hare owes money to both elephant and crocodile. to placate them he tells them that he will repay them with interest all they have to do is pull on a rope of liana and they will recover a treasure chest. so without realizing it, they engage in a tug-of-war, each unaware that the ot

ssed that he gives anansi his stories with his blessing. since then, they have been called spider-stories. anansi or nancy stories are now commonly told in the west indies as well as ghana. this headpiece belonged to the yoruba people in nigeria and was used in ceremonies to impersonate the trickster hare. hare s ears hare orb-web spider the cosmic serpent 88 the cosmic serpent t he fon people of africa tell how the cosmic serpent, aida-hwedo, was brought into being at the beginning of time by the creator, an androgynous god with two faces: mawu the female moon and lisa, the male sun. aido-hwedo helped with the creation by carrying the creator in his mouth as the world was shaped. but when the work was done, the creator saw that there was too much weight for the earth to bear too many tree

h in the earth and in the sky. aido-hwedo in the sea supports the earth and everything on it; aido- hwedo, the rainbow serpent in the sky, sends thunderbolts to earth. the second crack of thunder, the recoil, is the sound of aido- hwedo s tail whipping back after flinging the bolt to earth. the two aido-hwedos are sometimes regarded as twins. painted wooden bowl this painted wooden bowl from west africa shows the world and a man, woman, and snake. the fon believe that the first man and woman came to earth in the company of aido-hwedo, the cosmic serpent. aido-hwedo is also said to have helped the creator to shape the world like a great calabash gourd. in the mythology of the fon sky-cult, the creator parent, nana- buluku, is revered as the creator of the world, which mawu then shaped and p

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

resented rome. media and persia [clothed] the garms h [of holiness; this is why they are counted as two, inasmuch as there are two arms. greece [clothed] the gtorso h; it is therefore counted as one [in] the present exile [evil clothes] the legs [of holiness, there are therefore two [aspects to it] edom and ishmael, corresponding to the two legs and feet. the former roman empire (europe and north africa) was inhereted by christianity and islam. this is alluded to in the verse: g cwho have defamed the heels of your messiah, h8 since this exile is that of the feet. that is why it is written, gand [the stone] smote the image on its feet. h9 this exile is the final one before the advent of the messiah. both christianity and islam have corrupted the doctrine of the messiah. the downfall of the

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

ther. it is said that he was a german nobleman who had been educated in a convent, and that long before the time of the reformation he had made a pilgrimage to the holy land in company with another brother of this convent, and that while at damascus they had been initiated by some learned arabs into the mysteries of the secret science. after remaining three years at damascus, they went to fez, in africa, and there they obtained still more knowledge of ma ca.n d of the relations existine between the macrocosm and microcosm. after havini also travelled in spain, he relrned to germany, where he founded a kind of convent called sancfus spiritus, and remained there writing his secret science and continuing his studies. he then accepted as his assistints, at first, three, and after <14> wards, f

RITUEL ET DOGME DE LA HAUTE MAGIE BY ELIPHAS LEVI PART II

e word-light, consoles and instructs the seer. gthe prophet daniel beholds a sea tossed by the four winds of heaven, and beasts differing one from another come out of the depths of the ocean. the empire of all things on earth was given them for a time, two times, and the dividing of time. they were four who so came forth. the first beast, symbol of the solar race of seers, came from the region of africa, resembling a lion and having eagle's wings: the heart of a man was given it. the second beast, emblem of the northern conquerors, who reigned by iron during the second age, was like unto a bear; it had three rows of sharp teeth, images of three great conquering families, and they said unto it: arise, devour much flesh. after the apparition of the fourth beast, there were thrones raised up

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rd. but do i understand you to say that plato was a pythagorean? the sphinx: not in the sense that he had any connections with one of the pythagorean schools as such. he was born in athens in 427 bce, and he was a disciple of socrates from 409 to 399. following socrates' execution in that year, plato traveled abroad, absorbing pythagorean doctrines in many of the greek cities located in italy and africa. it was not until 387 that he returned to athens to found his academy. the chimaera: that is interesting, but it does not constitute evidence that plato endorsed the views of the pythagoreans. the sphinx: no, and for that one must turn to the timaeus, wherein plato presents his concept of the universe. here he describes the five possible regular solids. that is, those with equivalent faces

cyclic rather than linear. individual pharaohs and dynasties came and went, but the social system and political structure remained constant. each successive pharaoh, for example, was merely the momentary personification of a permanent, semi-divine entity that governed egypt in the name of the gods. the nation itself was not viewed as merely one in a series of political units located in northeast africa; it had existed as a divine creation before recorded history, and it would continue to exist indefinitely. various natural cycles and human lifetimes would impact upon it, but the essence of egypt would remain untouched by [linear] time.9 consider, for example, the following hieroglyphic inscription accompanying an image of the scarabbeetle xepera, principle of cyclical regeneration and imm

yptian priesthoods its meanings are quite clear. if plato was an egyptian initiate, one can see why he would dismiss conventional means of reductionist logic as a means for comprehending the forms. the chimaera: we have seen definite evidence of pythagorean doctrine in the platonic writings, and at the beginning of this discussion we recounted plato's visit to the pythagorean centers in italy and africa from 399 to 387 bce. but are there any grounds to suppose that plato received direct initiation at the hands of an egyptian priesthood? the sphinx: there are at least two indications that he did. first there is the following passage from the prefaces of st. jerome [circa 340-420 ce, placed by order of popes sixtus v [1585- 1590] and clement viii [1592-1605] as introduction to the bible:24 p

c approaches 9. always keeping in mind that to them paganism is the worship of "false gods" 10. not only are the criteria also present in these religions, but some interesting developments show up in modern judaism. 11. roman catholicism is a valid example, since it is largely imitated in the various sects that are followed by hundreds of millions of people worldwide from the coptic christians of africa to the russian and greek orthodox of middle and eastern europe. 12. which established the "apostles' creed" as the basic statement of belief for each baptized catholic 13. though not admitted in centuries that followed, or at that time for that matter 14. an innovation which occurred to them after seeing similar movements in egypt 15. today called syncretisms 16. changed to holy spirit in t

judges were not in complete agreement on the rationale behind the decision, all 9 justices agreed that the hialeah ordinances were unconstitutional. i have taken great care to organize my paragraphs by subject matter, so you can skip over those paragraphs you are not interested in. factual background the lukumi religion is a blend of roman catholicism and the religion of the yoruba region of west africa. in the 19th century, when the yoruba were brought to cuba as slaves, they absorbed some elements of roman catholicism. the melded religion is generally known as santeria. santeria involves the worship of orishas, which are powerful but not immortal spirits dependent upon animal sacrifices for their survival. the religion was brutally suppressed in cuba. many of its modern practitioners are

more then a follower of osiris. gandhi, as a hindu, was married at age thirteen to a stranger who later stayed by his side through the thick and thin of his life's passion for the elevation of man. he was an intelligent and thoughtful child from the beginning and at age nineteen sailed for england to study law and was admitted to the bar (inner temple) in london at age twenty-one: it was in south africa that he had the fateful encounter which the movie took pains to relate. here are his own words to tell what his feelings were after having been tossed from his first class rail carriage for the crime of not being caucasian. fischer relates in the essential gandhi what ran through the future mahatma's mind while shivering in the rail station waiting room "there was a white man in the room; i

ndor lavey his human aspect and his degree of magus in my order. thus all may understand that he is dearly held by me, and that the end of the church of satan is not a thing of shame to him. but a new aeon is now to begin, and the work of anton szandor lavey is done. let him be at ease, for no other man has ever seen with his eyes. 1 reading list: in april of the common year 1904, i came forth in africa as my opposite self and brought into being an aeon to end the horrors of the stasis of the death-gods of men. this new aeon was a purification, to prepare men for that which would follow it. and aleister crowley received the book of the law, and my opposite self declared him magus of the aeon. but harwer, my opposite self, is a strange and fitful presence. i, set, am my self distinct from t

e end, which proved to be unnecessarily traumatic. from the manuscript of the book of coming forth by night i printed and bound thirty copies, which i sent to the high initiates of the church of satan on june 23. xu thenru ast a ari-f em suten. middle egyptian hieroglyphics. translation "he did many glorious things and mighty deeds as high priest" in april of the common year 1904, i came forth in africa as my opposite self and brought into being an aeon to end the horrors of the stasis of the death-gods of men. this new aeon was a purification, to prepare men for that which would follow it. on april 8-10 in cairo in 1904 ce, aleister crowley wrote down the book of the law, a magical text which announced the end of the aon of osiris and the beginning of the aon of horus. crowley [though he

t and an expression of man's evolving essence. cf. the greek aeon (an "earthly age) and the germanic aldaz("the age of man, life, man. 6. here we come to what seems to be an important distinction between woden and set: that woden has always been attached to his particular group, who took him with them wherever they ruled, so that the wodenic seed-idea was spread from the northern regions to north africa, spain, italy, france, england, and eastern europe- not once but in several historical waves. set, however, had been freed from the ties to one particular group and had made transformations within several cultures "shape-shifting" as it were, through satan, lucifer, etc. until x a.s, when his temple was re-founded in a land far from his original home. it seems that the meetings "on the sout

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

--riot--shields--catching--fire. he refers to organized crime, political agitators, bomb- factories, drugs "we understand some of these kids may feel they have grievances but we will not and cannot be the whipping boys of society" emboldened by the lights and the patient, silent lenses, he goes further. these kids don't know how lucky they are, he suggests. they should consult their kith and kin. africa, asia, the caribbean: now those are places with real problems. those are places where people might have grievances worth respecting. things aren't so bad here, not by a long chalk; no slaughters here, no torture, no military coups. people should value what they've got before they lose it. ours always was a peaceful land, he says. our industrious island race- behind him, the camera sees stre

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ss. a specific sub-class of jinn were the ghouls. kakabel once an angel known for their interest in astrology. now a demon ruling 365,000 spirits. kesef an angel of wrath who transgressed their position and attacked moses at horeb. it was kezef who was imprisoned by aaron. khil (grimorium verum. occasions great earthquakes. kimaris, cimejes, cimeies (goetia, 66th spirit. rules over all spirits of africa. a marquis commanding 20 legions, appearing as a valiant warrior on a black horse. teaches grammar, logic, rhetoric. discovers things lost or hidden. kiskil-lilla (sumerian, lillu meaning night. female night demon who dwelled in the haluppa tree of inanna, which was later felled by gilgamesh. see lilith. kobal. manager of the infernal theatre who tempts men to pretence and fraud. lahash onc

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phomet- worshipped by the templars as symbolic of satan bast- egyptian goddess of pleasure represented by the cat beelzebub (hebrew) lord of the flies, taken from symbolism of the scarab behemoth- hebrew personification of satan in the form of an elephant beherit- syriac name for satan bil- celtic god of hell chemosh- national god of moabites, later a devil cimeries- rides a black horse and rules africa coyote- american indian devil dagon- philistine avenging devil of the sea damballa- voodoo serpent god demogorgon- greek name of the devil, it is said should not be known to mortals diabolus (greek "flowing downwards" dracula- romanian name for devil emma-o- japanese ruler of hell euronymous- greek prince of death fenriz- son of loki, depicted as a wolf gorgo- dim. of demogorgon, greek name

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branched off from a larger established religion. sect (kyoha) shinto: shinto as it is practiced by a number of sects, or groups, formed primarily in the nineteenth century. secular: worldly things, of the physical world, as opposed to religious and spiritual. world religions: almanac xxvii words to know sedreh-pushi: the zoroastrian initiation rite. sephardic: term used to refer to jews of north africa, the middle east, spain, and portugal. shahadah: the islamic declaration of faith. it consists of the words ashahadu an la ilaha ill allah wa ashahadu ann muhammadar rasulullah, or i declare there is no god except god, and i declare that muhammad is the messenger of god. shaman: in indigenous tribes, an intermediary between the gods and the tribal members; also one who controls various spir

ed religions such as baha, confucianism, daoism, jainism, shinto, sikhism, and zoroastrianism. sometimes the indigenous (native) religions of the the venus of willendorf statue was discovered in 1908, but was created between c. 28,000 25,000 bce, most likely as a representation of an early fertility goddess. archivo iconografico, s.a./corbis. 8 world religions: almanac what is religion? americas, africa, and oceania are added to these, as well as more recent forms, such as neo-paganism, which worships ancient norse, celtic, egyptian, and other pagan (pre-christian) gods. god has many names as different religions developed over time and geographic regions, they all established one or more gods that the faithful could call upon and worship. the names of these gods differed across religions

reated equally. there are more than seven million baha s worldwide. followers can be found in 247 countries and include more than two thousand ethnic, tribal, and racial groups. while the united states and europe were among the first areas outside the middle east to have baha congregations (worshippers, the fastest growth in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has been in asia and africa. by 2002 there were 3.6 million baha s in asia and 1.8 million in africa, with about 150,000 members of the faith in the united states, 15,000 in canada, and 130,000 in europe. history and development the baha religion developed over a period known as the heroic age of the baha faith, which lasted from 1844 to 1921. the baha religion emerged from an earlier faith, babi (pronounced bah-bee

ut his visitation eleven years earlier, announcing for the first time that he was the long-awaited messenger of god. this declaration took place in the garden of ridvan, near baghdad, and was later celebrated in one of baha s main holy days, the festival of ridvan. there are more than seven million followers of baha around the world. the religion s largest growth in the twenty-first century is in africa and asia. reproduced by permission of thomson gale. bah' faith more than 1.5 million adherents between 140,000 and 500,000 adherents slight population to no adherents 2006 thomson gale 72 world religions: almanac baha the baha religion is born baha u lla h, along with his family and a small group of followers, traveled to constantinople (modern-day isanbul, turkey) and then on to adrianople

eace-building activities, women s and human rights, education, health, and sustainable development (creating economic development without hurting the environment. other efforts include helping to bring literacy to all populations, educating people about proper nutrition, and assisting with farming techniques. baha s are involved, for example, in hands-on projects planting trees in barren parts of africa, in educating african farmers about proper agricultural techniques, and in providing health care workshops and vocational training to indian women. by 2002 baha s operated more than 1,300 local development projects, from mongolia to south america, and africa to australia. such projects are a way to put the baha faith into action. for baha s, social action is a spiritual activity. for more i

ntries with large buddhist populations include thailand with 95 percent, cambodia at 90 percent, tibet with 65 percent, and japan with 50 percent. eight percent of china s population follows buddhism, as does 0.7 percent of india s population. buddhist followers in the united states comprise 1 percent of the population and 0.5 percent in the united kingdom. less than one percent of populations in africa follow buddhism. history and development the early history of buddhism is bound up with the life of its founder, siddhartha gautama. that siddhartha gautama was an actual historical figure is generally accepted. he was born into a noble family at lumbini, a site in the southwest of modern nepal. his mother s name was maha maya. his father, suddhodana, ruled over a small village and was part

ion followers. believers live around the globe, but the heaviest concentration of christians is in europe and north and south america. the united states contains the most number of christians, with 85 percent of the population, or 225 million people, who claim to be christians. other major areas of christian population include europe, with about 550 million; latin america, with about 450 million; africa, with about 350 million; and asia, with about 310 million. history and development christianity s earliest foundations are based on historical events. the central event of christianity is, as huston smith notes in the religions of man, the life of a little-known jewish carpenter who. was born in a stable, died at the age of thirty-three as a criminal rather than a hero, never traveled more

ever, there was continual competition between the popes and the princes for power. meanwhile the eastern orthodox church extended its control over asia minor and over christians in the middle east. constantinople became the center of what was called the byzantine empire. this empire ruled over what had been the eastern half of the roman world, including asia minor, the middle east, parts of north africa, and some of europe, including what is now northern greece, from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries. this control, however, soon found new competition in the form of another religion, islam. early conflict between christianity and islam in the eighth century the eastern orthodox church and the byzantine empire faced another challenge. traditional christian areas of north africa, egypt, an

goods and services. after communists lost control, the eastern orthodox church in many central and eastern european countries and in russia was able to hold services without fear of repression. another trend in the twentieth century was a decline in europe of religious affiliation, or formal connection with an organized church. this was accompanied by a sharp rise in church membership in asia and africa. changes in social values forced christian churches to address issues once avoided, such as female clergy. many christians, especially those belonging to more conservative protestant denominations, object to the changes introduced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. they feel that these changes, like changing ad (anno domini, in the year of our lord) and bc( before christ) to ce (c

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room was opened for one day at the u.n. secretariat building. on october 14. 1952, the opening day of the 7th general assembly, a permanent meditation room was made available to the public. since then each assembly has opened with one minute of silence. in 19557 the meditation room contained a 300-year old, 800-pound, 37- inch wide upright section of an agba (mahogany) tree from french equatorial africa. it was the idea of wallace harrison, director of the international board of architects which planned the u.n; co-architect and director of rockefeller center; and member of the board of directors of the socialist new school of social research in new york city (see who's who in america, 1959) the room contained a philodendron plant on the altar, to symbolize some unknown person killed in a

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le in the cleveland plain dealer newspaper followed the international controversy of bush and family giving what appeared to be the devil's hand sign. 124 codex magica yet another article, this one in fort worth's star-telegram newspaper. the editors insisted that the bushes were only displaying the "hook 'em horns" sign common to university of texas longhorns fans. the article points out that in africa and europe, the sign is clearly the devil's own. doesn't it seem odd to you that even mother barbara bush is giving the sign? and, after all, neither george nor laura were ever students at the university of texas! george was a bonesman at new england's preppie school, yale "el diablo" shows his horns-the devil rides out 125 126 codex magica new york governor mario cuomo. knights of malta ma

recruited into the order of the llluminati, also (photo: associated press, in austin american-statesman, august 17, 2000, p. a3) european farm commissioner franz fischler (left) in handshake with german agriculture minister karl heinz funke at a european community session in brussels, belgium (photo: spotlight newspaper, december 7, 1998) 164 codex magica nelson mandela, political leader of south africa, shakes hands (masonic) with south african communist party leader oliver tambo. mandela, lionized by the western press, is a life long communist activist and a known terrorist criminal. mandela acquired power at the helm of the south african government by arrangement with the heads of the llluminati s rockefeller, rothschild, and oppenheimer dynasties. in exchange, the llluminati cartel hol

) with south african communist party leader oliver tambo. mandela, lionized by the western press, is a life long communist activist and a known terrorist criminal. mandela acquired power at the helm of the south african government by arrangement with the heads of the llluminati s rockefeller, rothschild, and oppenheimer dynasties. in exchange, the llluminati cartel holds exclusive rights to south africa's mineral rich assets of diamonds, gold, and platinum (photo: from the book, in the words of nelson mandela, published by carol publishing group, york, 1998) new york governor george pataki and new york state senator joseph bruno meet in december 2003 with tetsuro higashi, president of tokyo electron ltd, to announce a new $300 million research and development facility (newsletter of state

would be most prominently displayed. kofi annan is married to a white woman, a rothschild heiress.(photo: usa today, september 22, 1998, p. 11a) secret handshakes of the illuminati 167 great britain's duke of kent, head of the united lodge, the largest masonic fraternity in england, holds the title, the most worshipful grand master. the duke is sharing a masonic grip on visit to cape town, south africa. frenchman jean-marie le pen (member of paris' grand orient lodge) warmly welcomes masonic brother nick griffin, leader of the british national party (bnp. jean-marie le pen, head of a supposed right-wing populist party in france, is oft criticized in that country's press for what they say are his anti-semitic views. in fact, by this hand grip and by other clear masonic gestures he has made

u, krishnamurti. occultist annie besant, who took over as leader of theosophy after the death of its founder, once touted krishnamurti as the "christ of the new age" tbe guru's pose here shows he's "on the square" and honors the trifold deity of illuminist sects. this man, in 1994, participated in the brutal, genocidal massacre of 3,000 tutsi tribes people who sought refuge in a church in rwanda, africa. in this news article (austin american-statesman, april 11, 2004, he says he is repentant and is rehabilitated. the cultic positioning of his arms and clenched fist say otherwise. rock star ozzy osbourne lets his masonic friends know he's "on the square" with this hand/arms pose (usa today, november 29, 2002, p. 10a) jewish actor e. g. marshal who played a crusading lawyer on tv's the defen

ose for themselves. the latter, who was born louis eugene wolcott in 1933 in new york city, changed his name to louis x after his conversion to islam by black muslim leader elijah muhammed. today, he is known as louis farrakhan. it is well-known that farrakhan is a 33 prince hall mason. x as symbol for the sun god according to dr. c.j. koster, head of the institute for scripture research in south africa, x was the emblem of the chaldean (babylonian) sky god. koster says that x was an ancient symbol of the sun deity and that the letter carried with it sexual connotations. in the old semitic languages, x represented the cross.1 freemasonry early-on latched onto this letter exactly because of its paranormal significance as a sign of lucifer, the solar (sun) god. the masonic lodge also uses x

polar opposites, the hegelian dialectic, the high masonic principle of equilibrium. summers is currently president of harvard university. cross my heart and hope to die 213 donald e. graham, chairman and ceo of the washington post, in a staged setting in the newsroom (vanity fair) 214 codex magica "cross my heart and hope to die" 215 sometimes, a person wears what they are! these photos of south africa's political leader nelson mandela (left) and disney corp. ceo michael eisner (above) paint a story by reference to the design on each man's neckties. look close-up and the "x" and other llluminist symbols are clearly seen (vanity fair, november 1997) 216 codex magica noted japanese architect yoshio taniguchi who specializes in buildings and structures housing museums "cross my heart and hop

lmost all unions in america and europe were founded by jewish activists deep into cabala, masonry, and other occult secrets. 274 codex magica the riddle of the great seal of the united states 275 three versions of oroboros, the circular serpent biting its own tail. above left: this version is from atlanta fugiens, by michael maier, 1618. above right: this version of oroboros is from dahomey, west africa. left: an early, hand-painted masonic apron depicts many occult symbols, including the serpent oroboros, the skull and bones, pentacle stars, the pyramids, the mallet, and the x. the fox-tv network ran 67 episodes of the popular series, millennium. the oroboros serpent was the focal point of advertising for the series though the occult meaning of the symbol was never fully explained. 276 co

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truggled against them for dominance. the memories of the ancient night terrors surface in dreams and imagination, a kind of psychic residue of primitive fears. anthropologists have observed that such half-human, half-animal monsters as the werewolf and other werecreatures were painted by stone age artists more than 10,000 years ago. some of the world s oldest art found on ancient sites in europe, africa, and australia depict animal- human hybrids. such therianthropes, or hybrid beings, appear to be the only common denominator in primitive art around the planet. these werewolves, were-lions, and werebats belonged to an imagined world which early humans saw as powerful, dangerous, and frightening. images of these creatures persisted into the historical period. the ancient egyptians often dep

o explain the phenomena, doyle declared that he saw his loved ones as plainly and as clearly as he had ever seen them in life. after the war ended in 1918, sir arthur and lady doyle began the first of their extensive lecture tours. for the next 12 years, they were seldom at home for very long periods of time as they traveled throughout great britain, australia, new zealand, northern europe, south africa, and the united states. among the members of the large crowds that gathered were those who were eager to meet the author of their favorite detective fiction and those who wished to hear words of comfort from the doyles concerning the kind of existence that their deceased loved ones were living on the other side. the december 1920 issue of strand magazine contained several allegedly authenti

mageddon, the mound of megiddo. the inspiration for such a choice of battlegrounds was quite likely an obvious one for john the revelator, for it has been said that more blood has been shed around the hill of megiddo than any other single spot on earth. located 10 miles southwest of nazareth at the entrance to a pass across the carmel mountain range, it stands on the main highway between asia and africa and in a key position between the euphrates and the nile rivers, thus providing a traditional meeting place of armies from the east and from the west. for thousands of years, the valley of mageddon, now known as the jezreel valley, had been the site where great battles had been waged and the fate of empires decided. thothmes iii, whose military strategies made egypt a world empire, proclaim

doctrines. at the instigation of the magi, persia s next ruler, bahram i, who ruled from 273 276, ordered mani arrested, interrogated, then executed, his head impaled on the city gates and his body thrown to the dogs. mani s death did little to thwart the zeal of the ever-growing number of new manichaean missionaries, and his religion came to be preached in eleven languages and spread from north africa to china; there it continued to thrive as a living faith from the t ang dynasty (618 907) to the 1930s. in europe, manichaeism remained quite strong in sicily, spain, and southern france until the sixth century. although the sect posed little threat to the christian church in the middle ages, the term manichaean was used interchangeably with heretic. elements of manichaeism have survived in

or t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 282 mystery religions and cults inthe middle ages, the term manichaean was used interchangeably with heretic. enslaved. while the early christian missionaries, ministers, and priests were sincere in preaching what they considered to be the authentic word of god to the tribes of north and south america and africa, they regarded their culture, customs, and religion as innately superior. thus, a deeper understanding and respect between the missionaries and the tribal peoples was difficult to achieve. lost in the dark the heathen doth languish, bemoans a familiar missionary hymn, soundly implying that there is but a single source of illumination. when the christian clergy set forth on their spiritual j

f the aetherius churches, prince grand master of the mystical order of st. peter, and hrh prince de george king de santori. by 1960, king and his aetherius society had spread their cosmic gospel throughout the british isles, as well as to the united states, and an american headquarters was established in hollywood, california. soon there would be branches in detroit, michigan; australia; and west africa. the aetherius society warned that matters were serious in the view of the cosmic masters. two previous terrestrial civilizations, atlantis and lemuria, had destroyed themselves in a nuclear war in prehistory, and the intergalactic council was concerned that such a catastrophe could take place once again. the members of humankind were regarded as the problem children of the solar system, an

th another, or from a deceased spirit wishing to communicate a message. banal boring, very ordinary and commonplace. from the french word ban, originally used in the context of a mandatory military service for all or common to all. barter the exchange or the process of negotiating certain goods or services for other goods or services. bedouin a nomadic arabic person from the desert areas of north africa and arabia. via old french beduin, ultimately from arabic badw, or desert, nomadic desert people. betrothal the act of becoming or being engaged to marry another person. bhagavad gita from sanskrit bhagavadgi ta, meaning song of the blessed one. a hindu religious text, consisting of 700 verses, in which the hindu god, krishna, teaches the importance of unattachment from personal aims to the

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truggled against them for dominance. the memories of the ancient night terrors surface in dreams and imagination, a kind of psychic residue of primitive fears. anthropologists have observed that such half-human, half-animal monsters as the werewolf and other werecreatures were painted by stone age artists more than 10,000 years ago. some of the world s oldest art found on ancient sites in europe, africa, and australia depict animal- human hybrids. such therianthropes, or hybrid beings, appear to be the only common denominator in primitive art around the planet. these werewolves, were-lions, and werebats belonged to an imagined world which early humans saw as powerful, dangerous, and frightening. images of these creatures persisted into the historical period. the ancient egyptians often dep

umankind dreaded nightfall and the predators that stalked the darkness for victims. dr. christopher chippindale of cambridge university s museum of archaeology and anthropology has observed that such halfhuman, half-animal monsters as the werewolf and other were-creatures were painted by stone age artists more than 10,000 years ago. some of the world s oldest art found at ancient sites in europe, africa, and australia depict animalhuman hybrids. in other words, chippindale told the guardian newspaper, werewolves and vampires are as old as art. composite beings from a world between animals and humans, he said, are a common theme to be found in the earliest of cave and rock art. such therianthropes, or hybrid beings, are, in fact, the only common denominator in primitive art around the plane

mpires, werewolves, and other bloodsucking monsters to lie in the ancient nightmares of stone age peoples, other researchers called cryptozoologists (from kryptos, greek for hidden) seek to prove that such creatures as bigfoot, the loch ness monster, and sea serpents really exist. such determined individuals point out that the mountain gorilla was considered a superstition of the native people of africa until 1902 when oscar van beringe, a german explorer, shot two of them while climbing a volcano in the eastern congo. cryptozoologists argue that such physical evidence as hair samples, feces, and casts of footprints indicate that unknown species of apes or apemen unrecognized by science may exist in the himalayan mountains, the remote forests of northern california and canada, and other pa

n mountains, the remote forests of northern california and canada, and other parts of the world. some cryptozoologists claim that the loch ness monster and sea serpents could be survivors from the age of the dinosaurs. the coelacanth, a bizarre fish older than the great reptiles by millions of years, was thought to have been extinct for 65 million years until one was caught off the coast of south africa in 1938. since that time, more than 200 have turned up in fishnets from indonesia to kenya. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 58 mysterious creatures if the coelacanth survived for over 380 million years, cryptozoologists maintain, why couldn t certain of the giants from the relatively recent jurassic era, roughly 150 million years ago

usive yeti and returned with nothing shown for his efforts but a fur hat that had been fashioned in imitation of the snowman s scalp. the humanlike creature whether sighted in the more remote, wooded, or mountainous regions of north america, south america, t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysterious creatures 59 russia, china, australia, or africa is believed by some anthropologists to be a two-footed mammal that constitutes a kind of missing link between humankind and the great apes, for its appearance is more primitive than that of neanderthal. the descriptions given by witnesses around the world are amazingly similar. height: six to nine feet. weight: 400 to 1,000 pounds. eyes: black. dark fur or body hair from one to four inches

sh, wilkolak; russian, olkolka or volkulaku; and in greek, brukolakas. native american tribes tell of bear-people, wolf-people, fox-people, and so forth, and state that in the beginning of things, humans were as animals and animals as humans. stories of women who gave birth to werecreatures are common among the north american tribal myths. early cultures throughout the americas, europe, asia, and africa formed totem clans and often worshipped minor deities that were half-human, half-animal. norse legends tell about hairy, humanlike beings that live in the underworld caves and come out at night to feast on the flesh of unfortunate surface dwellers. to the people of the middle ages, there was little question that such creatures as werewolves truly existed, and the inquisition was certain to

t the world? what prehistoric monsters might be surviving unchanged, unscathed by the earth changes t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 86 mysterious creatures that annihilated their cousins more than 60 million years ago? supporting such speculations were the discoveries of numerous coelacanths (crossoptergian fish) off the coast of southeast africa in 1938. the coelacanths that were dragged from the ocean by the nets of fishermen had survived almost unchanged for 70 million years from a time even before the age of reptiles. then, after nearly 200 of the supposedly extinct living fossils had been discovered on the southeast african coast, the fourth coelacanth, a female almost five and a half feet long, was caught off the coast of mada

ucky day, it would be killed. the ancient greeks believed that the 13th day was unlucky for sowing, but favorable for planting. many early peoples harbored the superstitious belief that it was best to sow seed at the full of the moon. others maintained that it was best to gather in the harvest when the moon was full. still others regarded the crescent moon as a fortunate omen. even today in south africa, many people consider it unlucky to begin a journey or undertake a work of importance during the last quarter of the moon. the romans marked their lucky days with a piece of chalk, their unlucky days with charcoal. from this custom of marking unlucky days with charcoal started the phrase black-letter day. today, black-letter days are generally ones remembered with regret because of some unf

f modern transportation and its diverse inhabitants encounter people from different cultures more often than ever before in the history of the human species, it becomes increasingly difficult to condemn one person s custom as another s taboo. within a nation, such as the united states, which has always endeavored to maintain a democratic, pluralistic society, an influx of immigrants from asia and africa, which began in the 1970s, has made the task of balancing cultural variety with traditional american mainstream values more and more difficult. barbara crosette, writing in the march 8, 1999 issue of the new york times, tells of a refugee from afghanistan who was arrested in maine when he was seen kissing his baby boy s genitals. the father was exhibiting a traditional expression of love th

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ruggled against them for dominance. the memories of the ancient night terrors surface in dreams and imagination, a kind of psychic residue of primitive fears. anthropologists have observed that such half-human, half-animal monsters as the werewolf and other werecreatures were painted by stone age artists more than 10,000 years ago. some of the world fs oldest art found on ancient sites in europe, africa, and australia depict animal- human hybrids. such gtherianthropes, h or hybrid beings, appear to be the only common denominator in primitive art around the planet. these werewolves, were-lions, and werebats belonged to an imagined world which early humans saw as powerful, dangerous, and frightening. images of these creatures persisted into the historical period. the ancient egyptians often

ed disbanded by papal decree, and its members tortured and burned at the stake. history has not yet determined the degree of their true guilt as heretics, but it is unlikely the knights templar deserved such an ignoble end. while there was never any clear evidence to prove that the knights templar committed the acts of human sacrifice of which they were accused, the members of the leopard cult of africa were responsible for many such ritual murders on their jungle altars and left hundreds of mutilated human corpses to prove their guilt. the thuggee of india, who committed more murders than any other secret society, allegedly dedicated the lives of the thousands of victims which they strangled to death to their goddess kali. of all the secret societies examined in this chapter, only the ton

e: history fs biggest mysteries, coverups, and cabals. new york: citadel, 1998. the leopard men in ancient egypt, the leopard was esteemed as an aspect of divinity and associated with the god osiris, the judge of the dead. for many african tribes, the leopard is a powerful totem animal that is believed to guide the spirits of the dead to rest. for many centuries a leopard cult has existed in west africa, particularly in nigeria and sierra leone, wherein its members kill as does the leopard, by slashing, gashing, and t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 24 secret societies mauling their human prey with steel claws and knives. later, during gory ceremonies, they drink the blood and eat the flesh of human victims. those initiates who aspire

l meaning of gmau-mau h other than a kikuyu (also gikuyu) tribesperson and that is because its name, like its origins, is shrouded in ancient african tribal mysteries and covered in blood. on the other hand, some authorities claim that the name was invented by european settlers and applied to the native insurrectionists in kenya. at any rate, the name was first heard among the white population of africa in 1948 when police officials in the british colony of kenya began to receive rumors of strange ceremonies being held late at night in the jungle. these midnight assemblies were said to be bestial rituals that mocked christian rites and included the eating of human flesh and the drinking of blood. then came the reports of native people being dragged from their beds at night, being beaten or

y as it can be determined from the vantage point of an historical re-examination of events, the mau-mau was quite likely an ancient kikuyu secret society that was reactivated. the kikuyu tribe was the most populous and educated in kenya, but their culture also permitted secret societies to flourish, and there were many such groups that had been in existence since long before the europeans came to africa. the mau-mau leaders invoked the old secret society in order to stir up the kikuyu tribe to support their demands for independence and for the return of the kikuyu land that the whites had stolen over the years. what was ignored by the society fs leaders was the fact that the land occupied by the european settlers had long been designated a kind of buffer zone between the kikuyu and their t

hcraft. new york: meridian books, 1960. vodun/vodoun/voodoo vodun, voudoun, or, more popularly, voodoo, means gspirit h in the language of the west african yoruba people. vodun as a religion is a mixture of african beliefs and rites that may go back as many as 6,000 years with the teachings, saints, and rituals of roman catholicism. early slaves, who were snatched from their homes and families on africa fs west coast, brought their gods and religious practices with them to haiti and other west t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 52 magic and sorcery black magick is the use of supernatural knowledge and powers for doing evil. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d magic and sorcery 53 am

is called a houngan or hungan; his female counterpart, a mambo. the place where one practices vodun is a series of buildings called a humfort or hounfou. a gcongregation h is called a hunsi or hounsis, and the hungan cures, divines, and cares for them through the good graces of a loa, his guiding spirit. the worship of the supernatural loa is the central purpose of vodun. they are the old gods of africa, the local spirits of haiti, who occupy a position to the fore of god, christ, the virgin, and the saints. from the beginning, the haitians adamantly refused to accept the church fs position that the loa are the gfallen angels h who rebelled against god. the loa do good and guide and protect humankind, the hungans argue. they, like the saints of roman catholicism, were once men and women wh

cursing, hexing, and causing death by witchcraft remains very powerful in many nations. in 1998, in scenes reminiscent of the salem witch hunts, mobs in indonesia attacked and killed 153 people who were accused of practicing sorcery. in an eight-yearperiod, from 1990 to 1998, more than 2,000 cases of witchcraft-related violence, including 577 murders, were recorded in the northern corner of south africa. in june 2001, the london sunday times reported that the president of zimbabwe, robert mugabe, feared that he and his government had become the victims of black magic directed at them by powerful sangomas (witchdoctors. in august 2001, a teenaged girl in nigeria confessed to taking part in the ritual killing of 48 people after being initiated into a secret witchcraft cult. three men were ar

spended between heaven and earth, guarding the passageway between the material and nonmaterial worlds, frightening away demons. the sacred bell of the buddhists, the ghanta, serves that spiritual expression in a similar manner, driving away the negative entities and encouraging the positive spirits to manifest. the very sound of a bell is a symbol of creative power. people along the west coast of africa used to tie a bell to the foot of an ill child to ward off evil, and food was placed nearby to lure those spirits away. in contemporary times, bells above the door of a shop alert the shopkeeper that customers have entered. that practical function is predated by the use of bells over doors to keep evil spirits from entering into a home or shop. m delving deeper bracken, thomas. good luck sy

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trife."kipling in his "ballad of east and west" describes a similar faculty of complete invisibility among the indianborderers:"there is rock to the left and rock to the right, and low lean thorn between, and ye may hear a breech-bolt snick where never a man is seen."these primitive people or fairies were spread across the country in little communities, each governed by itsown ruler, as in modern africa. lady wilde notes that every district in ireland had its peculiar and separatefairy chief or king.[19] occasionally the names of the fairy kings and queens have survived.[20]from the great importance of the queen in the community it would seem that she was the real ruler and thatthe king had only a secondary place, except perhaps in case of war. property appears to have been communal,conseq

sed, but in origin they belong to the pre-christian religion. under a slight change of name much of theold religion still survives in europe and can be found by any who are sufficiently interested to search for it.as an anthropological field of research europe is almost untouched; yet in our midst the primitive cults stillcontinue, though slightly overlaid by what we arrogantly term civilisation. africa may be the training groundfor beginners, but the so-called "advanced" countries offer to the investigator the richest harvest in the world.chapter vi. the divine victimit is expedient that one man should die for the people."2424john xi. 50.there is a strong body of evidence to show that in the primitive cult of western europe the god wassacrificed. the christian inquisitors are unanimous on

er places aterm of years was fixed, usually either seven or nine. when the changes inevitable to all human customsgradually took place, a substitute could suffer in the king's stead, dying at the time the king should have diedand thus giving the king a further lease of life.this, put shortly, is the theory and cult of the dying god. the belief belongs to all parts of the old world,and survives in africa into the present century. it was a fundamental dogma of the pre-christian religion ofeurope, believed in and practised as ardently as among the africans of to-day.to investigate the subject of the divine victim of the witch-cult it is essential to put aside all preconceivedideas, remembering always that the records were made by the prejudiced pens of monkish chroniclers. thesubject must be

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

es of any religious or philosophical appurtenance. it used to be traced in oil of unction upon the forehead of the high priest of israel at the moment of his consecration. lastly, it is a 'sign of salvation' for christians of all denominations, a sign which makes the daemons flee and disperse. it is a reminder of the triumph of christ over death. during the first centuries the christians in north africa used to have it painted and tattooed on their foreheads. it was also a short version of the divine tetragram and the mediaeval rabbis endeavoured to visualize it, flamboyant, upon their foreheads in a sort of interior vision, when thrown into the flames of the stakes. the operator will restrict himself to trace it upon his forehead, each time, with his right thumb. he could as well, accordi

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

spread of the ufo belief and its accompanying disease. if it continues unchecked we may face a time when universal acceptance of the fictitious space people will lead us to a modern faith in extraterrestrials that will enable them to interfere very overtly in our affairs, just as the ancient gods dwelling on mountaintops directly ruled large segments of the population in the orient, greece, rome, africa, and south america. however they arrived at their 1953 decision, the cia/air force plan to debunk, downgrade, and ridicule flying saucers was, in retrospect, the most responsible course the government could take. but they underestimated the scope of the phenomenon and its ability to manipulate humans and generate propaganda. iv. on may 20, 1967, steve michalak was out prospecting near falco

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

secret societies that sought to tap this telluric, occult force and use it to their own advantage, and to the advantage of humanity as was the original intent. the raising of the cone of power through the circle dancing is probably the simplest method of attaining results in "rousing leviathan, and has been used by societies as diverse as the dervishes in the middle east and the python dancers of africa, not to mention the round dances that were familiar to the gnostic christians, and the ones held every year in the past at chartres. the witches of today, however, while acknowledging the importance of the male element of telluric power, generally prefer to give the greater honour to the female principle, personified as the goddess. the goddess has also been worshipped all over the world, a

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

figure of the female organ, as well as the male, appears to have been employed during the middle ages of western europe far more generally than we might suppose, placed upon buildings as a talisman against evil influences, and especially against witchcraft and the evil eye, and it was used for this purpose in many other parts of the world. it was the universal practice among the arabs of northern africa to stick up over the door of the house or tent, or put up nailed on a board in some other way, the generative organ of a cow, mare, or female camel, as a talisman to avert the influence of the evil eye. it is evident that the figure of this member was far 1 see von hammer-p rgstall, fundgruben des orients, vol. vi, p. 26. 2 von hammer-p rgstall, fundgruben des orients, vol. vi, p. 35, and p

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in theory, but cannot be built because of the large amounts of energy required to run them. chaos theory has demonstrated that even in deterministic systems a small change can have exponential consequences impossible to foresee, even when the system is a very simple one and all physical factors are readily measurable. the example that is usually given is that the flutter of a butterfly's wing in africa can cause a hurricane off the coast of mexico (or wherever. while this particular example is probably invalid, something as simple as a spherical pendulum (a weight on a string fiee to swing in any direction) can yield chaotic motions impos- sible to predict in advance with even the most sophisticated computer. this is completely at odds with newtonian physics. sir isaac newton, who for- mu

c the old view is of more practical value. in magic the eye is an organ of immense power. through it individuals can control, and be controlled, by other individuals. it is through the eye that rays of will are most often projected into the circles of the per- sonal universe that lie beyond the sphere of the perceived self. such eye magic is very common among simple peoples of the world. in north africa and india, in the rural regions of italy and spain, and even in the more developed countries of europe, the evil eye is accepted as a reality that must either be avoided or countered with a magical act. the evil eye is no more than the projection of malignancy through the eye along a ray to the object of hatred. it is considered most effective when it enters the eye of the intended victim

bits of amber-all are used to attract the first malignant glance, which is thought to be the most hurtful. mirrors are used for this reason, as well as for reflecting the glance back to its source. the most common defense is the symbol of the open hand, which is repre- sented in a wide variety of patterns. the examples below (as well as all the follow- ing figures in this chapter) are from north africa. other charms against the evil eye are themselves shaped like eyes on the assumption that if an eye sends the evil, another eye can return it: effective charms can be made combining the stylized forms of the hand and the eye: the power of these signs stems from their underlying symbolic meaning, which directs the forces of the victim's mind effectively for defense in the same way a circuit

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

represents the living axis of the world that has its roots in the underworld and its branches in the heavens. it is found in norse legends in the form of yggdrasill, the world ash, the roots of which run so deep not even the wise god of the shamans, odin, knows their endings. one of the many names of odin is yggr-he was named aft'er the shamanic tree. in the religion of voudoun, transplanted from africa to the new world by black slaves, it appears in the form of the central pillar (poteau-mitan) of the ritual space that holds up the roof, representing the starry heavem4 during his ecstasy, this tree or post becomes for the shaman the central channel of the universe that he is able to ascend or descend at will, with the aid of his familiar spirits. the ritual of ascent, performed before the

ly she changed her mind, but she was compelled to go through with the ceremony. after three months of constant bickering, she fled her bewildered husband on horseback and never returned. her biographer, the theosophist a. p. sinnett, wrote "thus madame blavatsky abandoned her country at seventeen and passed ten long years in strange and out-of-the-way places-in central asia, india, south america, africa, and eastern u r o p e" 88. kuhn, modern revival ofdncient wisdom, 45. 89. sinnett, incidents in the life of madame blavatsky, 39-40. there is undoubtedly much more myth in the unobserved portions of the life of blavatsky than fact. she had no intention of telling the truth about herself when a more exciting lie would add to the aura of mystery and romance that she deliberately cultivated

atural dream in which a member of the golden dawn visited him on the astral level for the purpose of testing him, to determine whether he was worthy of admission. it shook his nerves to such a degree that doyle decided not to become a member.125 two members of the golden dawn later visited doyle in an attempt to change his mind. they told him of an astral journey they had made together to central africa. doyle wrote "from what i learnt i should judge that the powers of this society included that of loosening their own etheric bodies, in summoning the etheric bodies of others (mine, for example) and in making thought images."126 this might be dismissed as merely an odd fixation in the mind of doyle, who was a confirmed believer in spiritualism, were it not that others reported the same sort

nfessions of aleister crowley, 616. 116 soul flight point to begin his ascent of the enochian aethyrs, but instead ascended directly from his physical body. this appears to have been a shortcut of the standard golden dawn technique. as crowley experienced the successive enochian worlds, he narrated what he was seeing and experiencing. one of crowley's disciples who was traveling with him in north africa, victor b. neuburg, whose magical motto in crowley's occult order of the silver star was omnia vincam, took down crowley's words as a direct dictation. crowley generally visited one enochian aethyr per day. crowley had begun this astral work in mexico in 1900, but after exploring the lowest two aethyrs, he found himself unequal to the task of continuing "what i saw was not beyond my previou

the lowest two aethyrs, he found himself unequal to the task of continuing "what i saw was not beyond my previous experience, but what i heard was as unintelligible to me as blake to a baptist. i was encouraged by the evident importance of these results, but i found that i could no more force myself to go on to the twenty-eighth aethyr than i could have thrown myself from a in the desert of north africa in 1909, he discovered that he had made sufficient progress as an adept and that the work came easily to him. the resulting descriptions of the thirty astral worlds of the enochian angels are often enigmatic, frequently poetic, and contain a wealth of esoteric references and associations that shed light on both the golden dawn system of magic and on crowley's esoteric writings. it was mathe

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

0: chr 21: asp 22: lin 23: tor 24: nla 25: uti 26: des tetragrammaton enochian geographical spirits (continued) spirit names regions aethers original reformed 79) saziami saziami oacidi 80) mathula mathula babylon 27: zaa 81) orpanib crpanib median 82) labnixp pabnixp adumian 83) pocisni pocisni felix arabia 28: bag 84) oxlopar oxlopar metagonitidim 85) vastrim vastrim assyria 86) odraxti odraxti africa 29: rii 87) gomziam gmtziam bactriani 88) taoagla taaogba asnan 89) gemnimb gemnimb phrygia 30: tex 90) advorpt advorpt creta 91) doxmael doxmael mauritania 92) laxdizi laxdizi- on the golden dawn watchtowers, some squares contain more than one letter. at first sight, this seems very puzzling, but james points out that it results from the various corrected versions of the great table found

former member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. it is perhaps no coincidence that from childhood crowley had called himself the "great beast" and saw his role in life as the herald of the coming aeon of horus, an age of warfare and destruction soon to sweep the face of the world. in 1909 crowley conducted a series of rituals to invoke the angels of the enochian keys in the desert of north africa (see the confessions of aleister crowley, chapter 66. it is possible that he succeeded in opening the gates of the four watchtowers a small crack, and that the continuing warfare, crimes and moral decay that have afflicted the earth throughout this century are merely the first stirrings of the apocalypse. about one thing i feel quite confident. if there is to be such a thing as an apocalyps

VOX SABBATUM

to a writer named idries shah, two books10 specifically deal with aspects of witchcraft from a multi-cultural perspective. the foundations of the art of the witches sabbat was based on adversarial practice, not for negative or counter-productive means, but to illuminate the self by walking between two worlds. the reports of witchcraft from far reaching sources such as sweden, france, scotland to africa and the middle east. the cult of the double horned ones according to shah were attributed to worship of the moon. these double horned ones would gather on thursday nights, their initiation was having a small wound cut on their body, this sacred knife was called the al-dhamme, which means bloodletter. the word athame is said to have derived in part from this term. the two-horned ones would g

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

oes on to state that the king was in the "country of the two rivers" by which we are to understand some portion of mesopotamia, the rivers being the tigris and euphrates, and that the local chiefs were bringing to him tribute consisting of gold, lapis-lazuli, turquoise, and logs of wood from the land of the god. it is difficult to understand how gold and logs of wood from southern arabia and east africa came to be produced as tribute by chiefs who lived so far to the north. among those who sent gifts was the prince of bekhten, and at the head of all his tribute he sent his eldest daughter, bearing his message of homage and duty. now the maiden was beautiful, and the king of egypt thought her so lovely that be took her to wife, and bestowed upon her the name "raneferu" which means something

ds, and that a deputy-god was appointed to perform miracles outside thebes. this arrangement would benefit the people, and would, moreover, bring much money to the priests. the appointment of a deputy-god is not so strange as it may seem, and modern african peoples are familiar with the expedient. about one hundred years ago the priests of the god bobowissi of winnebah, in the tshi region of west africa, found their business so large that it was absolutely necessary for them to appoint a deputy. the priests therefore selected brahfo, i.e "deputy" and gave out that bobowissi had deputed all minor matters to him, and that his utterances were to be regarded as those of bobowissi. delegates were ordered to be sent to winnebah in ashanti, where they would be shown the "deputy" god by the priest

at a time when men were weary of their national cults, and when the speculations of the philosophers carried no weight with the general public, the people everywhere welcomed it with the greatest enthusiasm. from egypt it was carried to the islands of greece and to the mainland, to italy, germany, france, spain and portugal, and then crossing the western end of the mediterranean it entered north africa, and with carthage as a centre spread east and west along the coast. wherever the cult of isis came men accepted it as something which supplied what they thought to be lacking in their native cults; rich and poor, gentle and simple, all welcomed it, and the philosopher as well as the ignorant man rejoiced in the hope of a future life which it gave to them. its egyptian origin caused it to b

ge, bearing offerings to the souls of his majesty; and they brought their gifts, gold, lapis-lazuli, turquoise, bars of wood of every kind of the land of the god,[fn#159] on their backs, and each one surpassed his neighbour [fn#158] the "country of the rivers" the hbw aaram naharayim of gen. xxiv. 10, the# of syrian writers [fn#159] a name including western asia and a portion of the east coast of africa. and the prince of bekhten [also] caused his gifts to be brought, and he set his eldest daughter at the head of them all, and he addressed words of praise to his majesty, and prayed to him for his life. and the maiden was beautiful, and his majesty considered her to be the most lovely [woman] in the world, and he wrote down as her title "great royal wife, ra-neferu; and when his majesty arr

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

and the edenic account of the "serpent" race described in genesis chapter 3 [my personal favorite. are there any other hints that reptilian humanoids might have occupied the surface of the earth in prehistoric times? i have heard vague "legends" of ancient wars between humans and "other" creatures "of a different blood" that are whispered among the native peoples of south america, australia, and africa to name just a few, but i wanted to track down something more specific, so i did some investigations and- aside from reports and even photos of human footprints found fossilized inside of dinosaurian prints, suggesting a common existence- i discovered some interesting biological facts concerning "reptilians. it seems that biologists agree that snakes ultimately mutated from lizards, and liz

res of south america..in some parts of the world the serpent people successfully posed as gods and imitated the techniques of the superintelligence. this led to the formation of pagan religions centered around human sacrifices. the conflict, so far as man himself was concerned, became one of religions and races. whole civilizations based upon the worship of these false gods rose and fell in asia, africa, and south america. the battleground had been chosen, and the mode of conflict had been decided upon "the human race would supply the pawns. the mode of control was complicated as usual. human beings were largely free of direct control. each individual had to consciously commit himself to one of the opposing forces "the main battle was for what was to become known as the human soul "once an

sent documents and transcripts to two quest international investigators, tony dodd and henry azadehdel, telling of the event. also, several recorded telephone conversations with high-ranking military and government officials were obtained which strongly suggest that "something" did in fact happen over south african terrain. some of these recorded conversations involved military officials in south africa who strongly reprimanding the intelligence worker-turned-informer over the phone. this was due to the fact that the informer had left south africa for britain, where he stayed at the house of the researchers, and then later went into hiding. quest international director graham w. birdsall has stated that the documentation and the individuals involved in the incident are of such a nature tha

icular document which is now in the hands of quest international is as follows "all informations found aboard alien spacecraft concerning the evolution of alien life forms indicates to an evolution similar to that which we find on earth prior to the extinction of the dinosaurs (the findings indicate) a high degree of adaptability. further physiological and psychological studies performed in south africa and in the united states points to a simple and complex structure of behavior. it would seem as if these lifeforms can not function independently without group intelligence and identity together with a central command. according to additional informations found aboard retrieved craft a separate race is designated superior by them. conclusion: an in-depth study and analysis of the psychologi

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

what truth i do not know, that the wee frees only believe in religions that make you miserable. neither the witches nor myself see eye to eye with the wee frees in this respect. 5- the little people i believe in the little people who used to live in the isle of man; but they were not really fairies. there were many races of pygmies in europe. they were much the same as the present-day pygmies of africa, small people bullied by their bigger neighbours and driven out of the best lands into the hills and woods and other inaccessible places. they raid cultivated fields and play pranks, but if their thefts are forgiven and food is sometimes left out for them, they will, in return, leave gifts of their hunting spoils, meat, ivory and skins. it is said that at times they steal babies and leave o

woods and other inaccessible places. they raid cultivated fields and play pranks, but if their thefts are forgiven and food is sometimes left out for them, they will, in return, leave gifts of their hunting spoils, meat, ivory and skins. it is said that at times they steal babies and leave one of their own in return, as british fairies were said to do. pygmies now live in the same way in central africa, malaya, new guinea, the deccan, ceylon and the philippines. i have known many of them and they all use poisoned arrows, and are thought to possess magical powers. there is evidence for these pygmy races in europe. many rock dwellings are too small for a modern man but are very comfortable for children. people of the invading races who had driven them out of the best lands were inclined to

inclined to suspect a connection. i expect many people will attack this view and i only hope that they will. discussion and criticism is the only way to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion. the first and strongest argument against my views will be, i think, the belief 'that to gain power and to stop the people thinking of their miseries, the priests and kings encouraged the greatest excesses. in africa at present the action of missionaries and the government in putting down big tribal dances is said to have caused the present political unrest and campaign of murder. and it is certain that the mysteries made the population happy and quiet. that at them there were orgies at times is common knowledge; no one attempts to deny the facts; but whether they were much more than beanfeasts is a moo

because they had many and diverse gods. it is highly probable that the early jewish rites were festive also, though reformers constantly strove to abolish all mention of this, and there is no doubt that the bible has been tampered with to this end. 8- out of the land of egypt in mr. pennethorne hughes's book we have the following interesting passage on page 23 'studies of the magic and ritual of africa have in the last few years established with some certainty that all the systems for the disturbance of consciousness practised by the african negro are derived from ancient egypt. thousands of africans were transported to the new world and many of those who went to haiti from 1512 onwards were of the finest african stock and perhaps carried with them a synthesis of the cults then existing i

y french half-castes, from european magic, inverted roman catholicism and mixed memories of different african religions. i cannot say if this is right; but if some of these french half-castes had a witch tradition this would account for all the resemblances. for all over the world when faced with certain problems people are apt to solve them in the same way. if the knowledge now practised in west africa is derived from ancient egypt, there is no reason to doubt that some witch practices may have come from the same source to europe via the roman and greek mysteries, which all seem to be derived from ancient egypt. i feel that the egyptian cults were too severe and respectable to go in for the blood practices used by africans. i think pythagoras, who is generally credited with bringing the m

of worshipping their own god in their own way. some people say that the church simply had written lists, and tortured witches and knights templar till they said 'yes' to all charges, and this accounts for all resemblances. but this is only partly true. the important resemblances are not in the stock charges, but in little, unimportant things, and many of these resemble what is still done today in africa, america and madagascar, of which the inquisitors had no knowledge. the fact is, the average person can tell a big lie, but cannot invent all the little details to deceive a good cross-examiner and so lets out bits of seemingly unimportant truth. that is why soldiers if captured are told to give only their name, rank and number: not to try and deceive the enemy by giving false information

f drugs and herbal remedies suited to the discovered condition of the patient' so we see that radiesthesia has been brought to the scientific instrument stage. i cannot verify all these claims of course, but i have had a blood spot taken and was given remedies which did me a great deal of good. i am still receiving treatment, the original blood spot being used; it was in london when i was in west africa, and the treatment still does me good. many other people have the same experience. it is curious that medical men should believe that there is a connection between the sample of blood taken from me six months ago and that it shows all the changes that have taken place in my body, unless they had considerable previous proof that such things were possible. i am told that radiesthesia is of gr

le to link in other ways if they cannot obtain a severed portion of the body, i.e. form a mental link, when they are working solely on the mind, does not affect the matter. i was much interested in mr. pennethorne hughes's theory, vide page 23 of his book, that magic was evolved by the egyptian priests, that one branch of this knowledge came to europe, becoming witchcraft, the other going to west africa and thence to america, becoming voodoo. i know that frazer and others have mentioned the resemblance between the african cults of the divine king and egyptian myths, and i had already noted the resemblance between certain voodoo practices and european witchcraft; but it seemed to me that the proof of mr. hughes's theory must lie in west africa. if the witches or witch doctors there had the

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

ing alone brings no vision nor does courage, nor does sheer nor will power. a vision, comes as a gift born of humility, of wisdom, and of patience. if from your vision quest you have learned nothing else, you have already learned much. think about it. wisdom of the africans source: these proverbs are from the akan people of ghana and were collected from the book; speak to the winds, proverbs from africa by kofi asare opoku, lothrop, lee and shepard company, new york 1975. proverbs on wisdom a fool s walking stick helps the wise person to stand. wisdom is not like money which should be kept in a safe. if you are greedy in conversation, you lose the wisdom of your friends. the wise person who does not learn ceases to be wise. all knowledge is acquired by learning. it is through other people

s origins, the marks of which he carries with him everywhere. james baldwin the various cultures of people of color often seem very attractive to white people (yes, we are wonderful, we can t deny it) but white people should not make a playground out of other people s cultures. we are not quaint. we are not exotic. we are not cool. amoco three rivers europeans created and popularized the image of africa as a jungle, a wild place where people were cannibals, naked and savage in a countryside overrun with dangerous animals. such an image of the africans was so hateful to afro-americans that they refused to identify with africa. we did not realize that in hating africa and the africans we were hating ourselves. you cannot hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree itself. malcolm x honor

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