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ry be to thee, father of the undying for thy glory flows out rejoicing to the ends of the earth" hierophant (turns back around "the red cross above the white triangle represents the unfolding of light. at its east, south, west, and north angles are a rose, 36 fire, cup of wine, and bread and salt. these allude to the elements of, air, fire, water, and earth. the mystical words- khabs am pekht-are ancient egyptian and are the origin of the greek words- konx om pax- which was uttered at the eleusinian mysteries. a literal translation would be 'light rushing out in one ray, and they signify the same form of light as that symbolized by the staff of the kerux. east of the double cubical altar of created things are the pillars of hermes and solomon. they are the door posts of the gateways of hid

the northern and southern gates of the hall of the neophyte or the hall of truth. like yin and yang, these pillars represent two great opposing and contending forces in the manifested universe. the pillars are traditionally black and white with various egyptian drawings on them. the black pillar is known as boaz and is feminine in nature. the white pillar is yachin and is masculine in nature. in ancient egyptian text, these pillars are portrayed as sacred columns through which is created a gateway that the candidate walks through only after he has completed his negative confession. incidently, the negative confession is the oldest prayer known to man. the black cubical bases on the pillars represent darkness and matter, or manifestation. it is in matter and manifestation that the ruach el

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, father of the undying. for thy glory bows out rejoicing, to the ends of the earth! hiero: he reseats himself. hiero: the red cross above the white triangle, is an image of him who was unfolded in the light. at its east, south, west and north angles are a rose fire, cup of wine and bread and salt. these allude to the four elements, air, fire, water, earth. the mystical words- khabs am pekht- are ancient egyptian and are the origin of the greek konx om pax- which was uttered at the eleusinian mysteries. a literal translation would be light rushing out in one ray and they signify the same form of light as that symbolized by the staff of the kerux. east of the double cubical altar of created things, art the pillars of hermes and of solomon. on these are painted certain hieroglyphics from the

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d the temperate seasons, and in man, they are imaged in the head, the chest, and the trunk. i now confer upon you the mystic title of periclinus de faustis, which signifies that on this earth you are in a wilderness, far from the garden of the happy. and give you the symbol of aretz which is the hebrew name for earth, to which the grade of zelator is referred. the word zelator is derived from the ancient egyptian zaruator, signifying searcher of athor, goddess of nature; but others assign to it the meaning of the zealous student whose first duty was to blow the athanor or fire which heated the crucible of the alchemist. hiero: resumes seat on dais. kerux: leads new zelator to seat in north west. hiero: frater kerux, you have my command to declare that our frater has been duly admitted to t

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and their reflection formed the triangle of the measureless waters. and thus was formulated the eternal hexad, the number of the dawning creation. heg: turns up the lights and then conducts the practicus to the foot of hierophant's throne, handing practicus the calvary cross of 12 squares. hiero: the calvary cross of 12 squares fitly represents the zodiac, which embraces the waters of nu, as the ancient egyptians called the heavens; the waters which be above the firmament. it also alludes to the eternal river of eden divided into four heads which finds their correlatives in the four triplicities of the zodiac (places cross aside) the 29th path of the sepher yetzirah which answereth to the letter qoph, is called the corporeal intelligence, and it is so called because it formeth every body

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ocean. homer wrote 'drawn in his swift chariot, he sheds light on gods and men alike; the formidable flash of his eyes pierces his golden helmet, sparkling rays glint from his breast and his brilliant helmet gives forth a dazzling splendour. his body is draped in shining gauze, whipped by the wind' he is especially associated with the life force and renewing health and energy. horus horus was the ancient egyptian sky god, represented as a falcon or a falcon-headed man. his eyes were the sun and moon and his wings could extend across the entire heavens. he was frequently associated with the morning aspect of ra, the sun god, and worshipped as re-harakhte. the son of isis and osiris, he is often depicted as an infant on his mother's lap and together the parents and child form a trinity. horu

hs, returning to the earth as the light-bringer in spring and so representing the cycle of death and rebirth. she is especially powerful in rituals by or for young women, especially those who have suffered loss or abuse, and also for mother-daughter relationships. she is sometimes regarded as a symbol of grain. proserpina, daughter of ceres, is the roman form of persephone. sekhmet sekhmet is the ancient egyptian solar and lion goddess created from the eye of ra. she is sometimes pictured as a woman with a lion's head and so is a good to evoke for courage, righteous anger, protection of the vulnerable, psychic protection and the correction of injustice. as an avenging goddess, she should be used only as a focus for positive rituals, for, like fire, her innate power can blaze out of control

orrows. deities of wisdom as well as wisdom, these gods and goddesses are for knowledge, truth and justice. athena athena, or athene, daughter of zeus, is goddess of wise counsel, both in peace and war, of intelligence, reason, negotiation and all forms of the arts and literature. the owl is her sacred bird and the olive her symbol representing peace, healing and nourishment. hathor hathor is the ancient egyptian goddess of truth, wisdom, joy, love, music, art and dance and protectress of women. she is said to bring husbands or wives to those who call on her and she is also a powerful fertility goddess. also worshipped as a sky goddess, hathor is frequently shown wearing a sun disc held between the horns of a cow as a crown. she was once entrusted with the sacred eye of ra, the sun god and

ht and only a brave person could look at it without flinching. hathor can be invoked for all forms of mirror magic and is also associated with gold and turquoise and so jewellery made of these can be a focus for her powers. in the modern world she is guardian of businesswomen. fiercely protective in defence of her own, she is especially potent against physical and psychic attack. ma'at ma'at, the ancient egyptian goddess of truth and justice, was responsible for maintaining the correct balance and order in the universe. she was daughter of ra who created her to establish unity and order in the world. ma'at is pictured as a woman wearing a single ostrich feather as a headdress. she was all-powerful, even over the king, who had to rule with truth and justice to attain eternal life. after dea

ho had to rule with truth and justice to attain eternal life. after death, a person's heart was weighed on the scales of justice against the feather from her headdress to see if it was free from sin. she can be invoked for all rituals of justice, uncovering secrets, truth and trustworthiness. hermes hermes is the greek messenger god who travelled between dimensions. he is associated with the wise ancient egyptian god thoth and the later roman mercury. he is credited with great knowledge, healing powers and medical knowledge. the double entwined snake of hermes' and mercury's caduceus, or wand, which is often a living growing staff, is a symbol both of healing and of powerful communication. the snake forms two circles, the interlinked cycles of good and evil, life and death, light and darkn

d in armour. minerva, whose creature is the owl, can be invoked in employment rituals and for the development of skills, retraining and musical ability as well as for truth and justice. unlike bellona (see page 70) and the warlike gods, both athena and minerva are used in rituals for using legal means or oratory and persuasion, rather than direct action, to overcome injustice. thoth thoth was the ancient egyptian god of the moon, wisdom and learning. he was also god of time, languages, law and mathematical calculations, who invented the calendar and hieroglyphic writing. he is often depicted with the head of an ibis although he was worshipped as a baboon in hermopolis. appeal to him for all matters of magical wisdom, learning, intellectual pursuits, examinations and better time management

is the colour of long-distance travel and house moves, legal matters and dealing with officialdom. it is also for careers involving justice and leadership. above all, blue brings calm and the ability to solve problems in the midst of crisis. blue candles are best used on thursday. purple purple is the colour of jupiter in his role of wise teacher and keeper of hidden knowledge, and of osiris, the ancient egyptian father god and lord of the underworld, who died each year and was resurrected by his wife isis. it represents unconscious wisdom and is used for all things of a psychic and spiritual nature and for divination. purple provides a link with higher dimensions and can bring happiness for all who yearn for something beyond the material plane. purple candles aid meditation, work with pas

herb of remembrance, especially of love, and can bring about reconciliation. ruled by the sun. sage sage is a popular culinary herb with many medical applications and healing powers; according to tradition, it prolongs life and health. in medieval times it was said 'why should a man who has sage in his garden ever die. sage was called herba sacra('the holy herb) by the romans and was used by the ancient egyptians to cure male infertility and by the chinese to stimulate both yang and yin energies. it is especially good for strengthening the lungs and it boosts the immune system, helping to build up resistance to illness and to speed recovery in cases of debilitating or chronic conditions. sage eases mental exhaustion and increases the ability to concentrate, so is ideal in sachets for peop

ome so that their husbands would return safely from the sea. it protects all who travel by night, alone or in lonely places, and older people in all aspects of their lives. it guards against bad dreams and endows the wearer with the emotional strength to face the ending of a natural phase. lapis lazuli known as the eye of wisdom and the stone of the gods, lapis lazuli jewellery is mentioned in an ancient egyptian papyrus dating from over 3,000 years ago as having healing powers. the sumerians believed it contained the souls of their gods and goddesses and as such would endow them with magical powers, and the goddess ishtar was famed for her beautiful necklaces of this crystal. in egypt, lapis lazuli was first used in a powdered form for eye make-up as protection against the evil eye. lapis

he golden energies if you used sunlight, and white flowers for the moon. colour healing colour has long been believed to have the power to influence not only our moods, but our physical well-being. the babylonians called the healing power of light 'the medicine of the gods. healing colours have been used for thousands of years in chinese treatments and in ayurveda, an ancient indian medicine. the ancient egyptians wore amulets of coloured stones: red to treat disease, yellow for happiness and prosperity, and green for fertility. colour healing is not just a fancy: we know for a fact that each beam of coloured light has its own wavelength and is absorbed by the body through the skin and the optic nerves. this triggers complex biochemical changes. each of the seven primary wavelengths or vib

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ent at the same time of the qabalah and of modern egyptology, the root and origin of the former is evidently to be sought in that country of mysteries, the home of the gods whose symbols and classification formed so conspicuous a part of the sacred rites; and from which even to the present day, so many recipes of magic have descended. for we must make a very careful distinction between the really ancient egyptian magic, and the arabian ideas and traditions prevailing in egypt in recent times. i think it is the learned lenormant who points out in his work on chaldean magic, that the great difference between this and the egyptian was that the magician of the former school indeed invoked the spirits, but that the latter allied himself with and took upon himself the characters and names of the

ful sciences. 51 the eighth chapter is entitled: how to excite tempests. 52 to know all sorts of matters past and to come, which are, however, not opposed to god and to his holy will! 53 thus spelt here. 54 as i have pointed out in my kabbalah unveiled, i consider this a truer orthography than cabala, or kabbalah. 55 troque ou change. 56 that is to say the true and unwritten qabalah, which is the ancient egyptian magical wisdom; and not later hebrew perversions thereof. 57 that is to say the administrators of the first cause, ie. the various divine powers, or gods and goddesses, who act more directly on matter. 58 abraham here alludes to the period of preparation required from the neophyte, as described later. 59 regarding the hierarchies, see end of third book. 60 thus in the indian mantr

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ah, or the soul, that is to say, the higher aspirations, and ruach, ie, the mind or spirit. but besides these, the qabalists also recognise certain higher principles, of which abraham the jew does not here speak, nor yet of the faculty of reincarnation of those principles. reincarnation is a subject much treated of by the oriental sacred writings, and was undoubtedly a fundamental doctrine of the ancient egyptian magic, from which, be it well remembered, the hebrew qabalah has been derived. the esoteric buddhists divide the personality into seven principles, instead of the three given above. 128 i.e, the four cardinal points, 129 the bandages. 130 in the original ms, despersonnes religieuses. this expression would include monks, nuns, and also people bigoted in religion. 131 i.e, such evil

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garding the pronunciation of the angelical language, thou shalt pronounce the consonants with the vowel following in the nomenclature of the same letter in the hebrew alphabet. for example, in b, the vowel following b is e pronounced ay. therefore, if b in an angelic name precedes another as in sobha, thou mayest pronounce it sobeh-hah. g may be g following whether it be hard or soft. this is the ancient egyptian use, whereof the hebrew is but a copy, and that many times a faulty copy, save in the divine and mystical names, and some other things. also y and i are similar, also v and u, depending whether the use intended be vowel or consonant. x is the ancient egyptian power of s; but there be some ordinary hebrew names wherein x is made x. from one ritual written by s.a. we find the follow

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

bethor, phaleg and the rest. these in their turn constitute a demiurge in order to crate matter; and this demiurge is jehovah. not far different are the ideas both of the classical greeks and the neo-platonists. the differences in the terminology, when examined, appear as not much more than the differences of local convenience in thinking. but all these go back to the still older cosmogony of the ancient egyptians, where we have nuit, space, hadit, the point of view; these experience congress, and so produce heru-ra-ha, who combines the ideas of ra-hoor-khuit and hoorpaar- kraat. these are the same twin vau and he' final which we know. here is evidently the origin of the system of the tree of life. 18. we have arrived at this system by purely intellectual examination, and it is open to cri

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perance :blue: 26 :the devil :indigo: 27 :the house of god :scarlet: 28 :the star :violet: 29 :the moon :crimson (ultra violet: 30 :the sun :orange :31 :the angel or last judgment :glowing orange scarlet (wands) kings or knights: 32 :the universe :indigo :32 "bis :empresses (coins :citrine, olive, russet: and black(1 :31 "bis :all 22 trumps :white merging into grey (1) the pure earth known to the ancient egyptians, during that: equinox of the gods over which isis presided (i.e. the pagan era) was: taken as green: 309 table i: xix: xxii :key scale: selection of egyptian gods: small selection of: hindu deities: 0 :harpocrates, amoun, nuith :aum: 1 :ptah, asar un nefer, hadith :parabrahm (or any other whom: one wishes to please: 2 :amoun, thoth, nuith (zodiac.:shiva, vishnu (as buddha ava: ta

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ble body."35 it appears that the levant, from byzantium and athens to damascus, jerusalem, alexandria and cairo, was preoccupied with the formulation of this school in a popular religion, beginning in the days of augustus caesar. for there are elements of this central idea in the works of the gnostics, in certain rituals of what frazer conveniently calls the asiatic god, as in the remnants of the ancient egyptian cult. the docmagic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 94 trine became abominably corrupted in committee, so to speak and the result was christianity, which may be regarded as a white ritual overlaid by a mountainous mass of black doctrine, like the baby of the mother that king solomon non-suited. we may define the doctrine of the white school in its purity in ve

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r "bahadit" is the winged sun disk, used over the entrances of temple doorways, at the tops of stel and elsewhere in egyptian art and architecture. interestingly, the full name of ra-hoor-khuit is ra-heru-khuti-ba-hadi, ra-horus who flies into the disk of the sun- information researched by fr. ebony. liber al was received during that part of the year in which ra-heru-khuti-ba-hadi was said by the ancient egyptians to rule the decan occupied by the sun. it is not known if crowley was aware of this particular deity being astrologically "on official watch" at the time. al ii,2 "come! all ye, and learn the secret that hath not yet been revealed. i, hadit, am the complement of nu, my bride. i am not extended, and khabs is the name of my house" the old comment 2. nuit is infinite extension; hadi

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at night, in calm and warm weather, mayst thou quicken the movement of the light until it be taken up by the brain and the spine, independently of thy will. 12. if in this hour thou shouldst die, is it not written "blessed are the dead that die in the lord? yea, blessed are the dead that die in the lord! 14 the blind prophet a ballet by aleister crowley the blind prophet a ballet "the scene is an ancient egyptian temple, supported by two mighty pillars. two "rows of marble seats form a semi-circle, cut by a gap covered by a veil "in the east. on the upper seats are the musicians, flutes and violins "on the lower are singers and dancers. there are doors also at the north "and south "the prophet" lead me to the holy place! trace the circle widdershins! light the incense! set the pace to the

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heir reflection formed the triangle of the measureless waters "and thus was formulated in eternity the external hexad; and this is the number of the dawning creation" the hegemon having illuminated the temple, the "hierophant" then explains to the practicus the calvary cross of twelve squares "the calvary cross of twelve squares fitly represents the zodiac; which embraces the waters of nu, as the ancient egyptians termed the heavens, the waters which be above the firmament. it also alludes to the eternal river of eden, divided into four heads, which find their correlation in the four triplicities of the zodiac" illustration on page 277 approximated below_ hb:shin hb:taw hb:qof_ salt/ lamp air tablet salt brass_ serpent_ banner of east/ heiroph. hegemon. lamp ant_ black/ white) incense_ inc

entirely unknown but is written in a language which he cannot even read, he is cross-questioned in a foreign tongue and judged in words which at present convey not a symptom of sense to him. as the rituals proceed it might be expected that these difficulties would gradually lessen, but this is far from being the case; for, as we have seen, the complexities already involved by the introduction of ancient egyptian deities, concerning whom it is probable the candidate has but little knowledge, are further heightened by a general intrusion on the part of hebrew, christian, macedonian and phrygian gods, angels and demons, and a profuse scattering of symbols; which, unitedly, are apt either so to bewilder the candidate that he leaves the temple with an impression that the whole ritual is a huge

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by a few members, constant fermentors of discord, jealous of my authority, though clamorous for my teaching, the so-called mr. and mrs. horos and a mrs. rose adams, who said she was a doctor of medicine, came to me in paris in the beginning of last year (1900) with an introduction from an acquaintance of good social standing. at this time my name was well known here in connection with lectures on ancient egyptian religious ceremonies. the female prisoner stated that they had come with the intention of aiding me in this, and she professed to be an influential member of the theosophical society, and also of my own order, giving me the secret name58 of a person of high occult rank in it, who had been reported to be dead some years before. i have yet to learn how, when, where and from whom she

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bacchus, and of osiris, to mention only a few of a large number. one of the early church fathers, firmicus maternus, tells us that the mysteries of osiris bear a close resemblance to the christian teaching, and that after the resurrection of osiris his friends rejoice together, saying "we have found him" annie besant points out in an illuminating passage that "in the christian mysteries as in the ancient egyptian, chaldean, and others there was an outer symbolism which expressed the stages through which the man was passing. he was brought into the chamber of initiation, and was stretched on the ground with his arms extended, sometimes on a cross of wood, sometimes merely on the stone floor, in the posture of a crucified man. he was then touched with the thyrsus on the heart the `spear' of

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mputations of astrologers. these changes are proceeding slowly and progressively and according to cosmic law. whilst they are in progress, accuracy of computation and deduction is unattainable. when the orientation and "pointed direction" of the earth's pole has again been stabilised, the new conditioning, mathematical figures can be again ascertained. there has indeed been no true accuracy since ancient egyptian days. anything now possible along these lines can only be regarded as approximate, and, therefore, certainty in analysis, prediction and interpretation is not possible. this whole subject is one of the greatest obscurity and quite incomprehensible to the average astrologer and certainly to the average student. i would remind you, however, that several times in the great life cycle

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tism in the post modern era taking liberally from several areas of philosophical and spiritual inquiry. existentialism, relativism, antinomianism, hermeticism, all share ideas which are synthesized into the lhp conception. tracing the roots of these ideas we find hints and glimpses contained in the extant thoughts of certain gnostic sects, the graeco/roman egyptian philosophies and aspects of the ancient egyptian philosophical and religious cults. particularly we see this in the reflections of the ancient setian priesthoods of egypt which have been integrated into other lines of philosophical thought. as previously stated, the differentiation between the lhp and the rhp is one of intent. for instance, in the church of rome (catholic) ritual is utilized. all the elements- altar, bell, candl

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and empires, the dynasties of kings* the fall of nations, the birth of churches, the triumph of time" for, as is said in hermes "satan is the door-keeper of the temple of the king; he standeth in solomon's porch; he holdeth the key of the sanctuary, that no man enter therein, save the anointed having the arcanum of hermes (v. 20 and 21. these suggestive and majestic verses had reference with the ancient egyptians and other civilized peoples of antiquity to the creative and generative light of the logos (horus, brahma, ahura-mazda, etc, etc, as primeval manifestations of the ever-unmanifested principle, e.g, ain-soph, parabrahm, or zeruana akerne- boundless time- kala, but the[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] incarnating angels. says the letter "now there are, and there

god, in narrating his expedition, describes a subterranean passage which ran underground, and terminated at the root of the heavens, adding that this passage was a snake's hole "un agujero de colubra; and that he was admitted to it because he was himself "a son of the snakes" or a serpent("die phoinizier" 70) this is, indeed, very suggestive; for his description of the snake's hole is that of the ancient egyptian crypt, as above mentioned. the hierophants, moreover, of egypt, as of babylon, generally styled them[[vol. 2, page] 380 the secret doctrine. selves the "sons of the serpent-god" or "sons of the dragon" during the mysteries "the assyrian priest bore always the name of his god" says movers. the druids of the celto-britannic regions also called themselves snakes "i am a serpent, i am

north without ever deviating from one's way* bailly thought he saw in this horse a twelve-oared ship. the secret doctrine teaches that the early third race built boats and flotillas before it built houses. but the "horse" though a much later animal, has, nevertheless, a more occult primitive meaning. the crocodile and the hippopotamus were held sacred and represented divine symbols, both with the ancient egyptians and with the mexicans. poseidon is, in homer, the god of the horse, and assumes that form himself to please ceres. arion, their progeny, is one of the aspects of that "horse" which is a cycle* the severed parts must be norway and other lands in the neighbourhood of the arctic circle[[vol. 2, page] 400 the secret doctrine "in the first beginnings of (human) life, the only dry land

rred to in the egyptian and chaldean records belong to the fifth race, which, though generally called aryan, was not entirely so, as it was ever largely mixed up with races to which ethnology gives other names. it would be impossible, in view of the limited space at our disposal, to go any further into the description of the atlanteans, in whom the whole east believes as much as we believe in the ancient egyptians, but whose existence the majority of the western scientists deny, as they have denied, before this, many a truth, from the existence of homer down to that of the carrier pigeon. the civilization of the atlanteans was greater even than that of the egyptians. it is their degenerate descendants, the nation of plato's atlantis, which built the first pyramids in the country, and that

session, is proved by the same esotericism existing to this day in india with regard to the "holy of holies" this, as said, was and still is the passage through the "golden" cow in the same stooping position as the one shown in the gallery of the pyramid, which identified man with jehovah in hebrew esotericism. the whole difference lies in the spirit of interpretation. with the hindus as with the ancient egyptians that spirit was and is entirely metaphysical and psychological; with the hebrews it was realistic and physiological. it pointed to the first sexual separation of the human race (eve giving birth to cain-jehovah, as shown in the "source of measures; to the consummation of terrestrial physiological union and conception (as in the allegory of cain shedding abel's blood- habel, the f

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nnection with it[[vol. 1, page] 227 the egyptian system. of the seven principles or the "seven souls of man* the book of the dead gives a complete list of the "transformations" that every defunct undergoes, while divesting himself, one by one, of all those principles- materialised for the sake of clearness into ethereal entities or bodies. we must, moreover, remind those who try to prove that the ancient egyptians knew nothing of and did not teach reincarnation, that the "soul (the ego or self) of the defunct is said to be living in eternity: it is immortal "co-eval with, and disappearing with the solar boat" i.e, for the cycle of necessity. this "soul" emerges from the tiaou (the realm of the cause of life) and joins the living on earth by day, to return to tiaou every night. this express

relation to our earth only, as garuda is the great cycle. the egg was sacred to isis; the priests of egypt never ate eggs on that account* diodorus siculus states that osiris was born from an egg, like brahma. from leda's egg apollo and latona were born, as also castor and pollux- the bright gemini. and though the buddhists do not attribute the same origin to their founder, yet, no more than the ancient egyptians or the modern brahmins, do they eat eggs, lest they should destroy the germ of life latent in them, and commit thereby sin. the chinese believe that their first man was born from an egg, which tien, a god, dropped down from heaven to earth into the waters* this symbol is still regarded by some as representing the idea of the origin of life, which is a scientific truth, though the

nction would naturally become a basis of astronomical calculation. we may almost affirm. that this was the mode of reckoning among all nations, either independently, or intermediately and indirectly by tuition. it was the mode with the hebrews, for even to-day they calculate the calendar by means of the 354 and 355 of the lunar year, and we possess a special evidence that it was the mode with the ancient egyptians, as to which this is the proof[[footnote(s* ancient mythology includes ancient astronomy as well as astrology. the planets were the hands pointing out, on the dial of our solar system, the hours of certain periodical events. thus, mercury was the messenger appointed to keep time during the daily solar and lunar phenomena, and was otherwise connected with the god and goddess of li

twelve tribes, established the twelve cakes (levit. xxiv, 5) of the shewbread, and placed twelve precious stones around the ephod of the pontiffs (see de profugis) according to seneca, berosus taught prophecy of every future event and cataclysm by the zodiac; and the time fixed by him for the conflagration of the world (pralaya, and another for a deluge, is found to answer to the time given in an ancient egyptian papyrus. it comes at every renewal of the cycle of the sidereal year of 25,868 years. the names of the akkadian months were called by, and derived from, the[[vol. 1, page] 650 the secret doctrine. names of the signs of the zodiac, and the akkadians themselves are far earlier than the chaldaeans. mr. proctor shows, in his myths and marvels of astronomy, that the ancient astronomers

the great mother, all the gods, and the seven great ones are born (see chapter cviii, 4, book of the dead and egyptian pantheon. both fohat and toum are addressed as the "great ones of the seven magic forces" who "conquer the serpent apap" or matter. no student of occultism, however, ought to be betrayed, by the usual phraseology used in the translations of hermetic works, into believing that the ancient egyptians or greeks spoke of, and referred, monk-like, at every moment in conversation, to a supreme being, god, the "one father and creator of all" etc, as found on every page of such translations. no such thing indeed; and those texts are not the original egyptian texts. they are greek compilations, the earliest of which does not go beyond the early period of neo-platonism. no hermetic[[

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ver form seems intelligible to them. in lesson one you saw how, in their early development, people came to worship two principle deities: the horned god of hunting and the goddess of fertility. these, then, were our representations our understandable forms of the supreme power which actually rules life. in the various areas of wo/man's development we see that these representations became, for the ancient egyptians, isis and osiris; for the hindus, shiva and parvati; for the christians, jesus and mary. in virtually all instances (there were exceptions) the ultimate deity was equated with both masculine and feminine. broken down into a god and a goddess. this would seem most natural since everywhere in nature is found this duality. with the development of the craft, as we know it, there was

itiation, whether it be witchcraft, primitive tribal or even christian, in form) is what is termed a palingenesis: a rebirth. you are ending life as you have known it to this point and are being "born again. and reborn with new knowledge* all initiation rituals follow the same basic pattern. and this is worldwide: australian aboriginals, africans, amerindians, eskimos, pacific islanders, witches, ancient egyptians, greeks and romans, to name but a few. all include the same basic elements in their rites. first comes a separation. with many peoples this is a literal separation from friends and especially from family; from all they have known so far. oftimes there is a special hut, cave or building of some sort, where the novices are taken. there they begin their training. a cleansing, extern

the acceleration on interval) must also be subtracted or added. with a person born, for example, in new york, further adjustment would be necessary since the ephemerides use g.m.t. as standard (e.g. 5:45 pm in new york would be 10:45 pm at g.m.t) example a person born at 11:45 am on august 31,1934, in new the zodiac as we know it is a combined invention of the egyptians and babylonians. above: an ancient egyptian map of the sky, the 'zodiac ofdenderah. astrology originally developed in mesopotamia and was more concerned with kings and peoples than with the destinies of individuals; above: a tablet giving astrological forecasts in cuneiform writing, derived from observations of the moon. from "man, myth& magic" york, would have the s.t. 10 hours 35 mins 54 sees (4:45 pm at g.m.t. the accele

written word/ 177 their own form of alphabet. it was known as ogam bethluisnion. it was an extremely simple form and was used more for carving into wood and stone than for general writing. with a center line, it lent itself especially to carving along the edge of a stone or a piece of wood. ogam bethluisnion egyptian heiroglyphics many magickal orders, past and present, have leaned heavily on an ancient egyptian background. for them, of course, the egyptian hieroglyphs are ideal as a magickal alphabet. sir wallis budge's book, egyptian language, is a useful reference work here. below is a basic egyptian alphabet: going back to where i started, with the magicians of the middle ages, we find a variety of magickal alphabets. these have been culled from various ancient grimoires (from the old

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e. a. wallis budge london; kegan, paul, trench, tr bner& co [1905] scanned at sacred-texts.com, may 2003. j.b. hare, redactor. this text is in the public domain. these files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact. next: note sacred texts egypt ehh index vol. i vol. ii vol. iii the book of am-tuat by e. a. wallis budge [1905] this book is an ancient egyptian cosmological treatise which describes the tuat, the underworld that the boat of the sun god, ra, traverses during the night hours. each chapter deals with one of the twelve hours of the night. a hallucinogenic travelogue of the netherworld, this extensively illustrated book depicts hundreds of gods and goddesses that appear nowhere else in the literature. title page note contents

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ocean. homer wrote 'drawn in his swift chariot, he sheds light on gods and men alike; the formidable flash of his eyes pierces his golden helmet, sparkling rays glint from his breast and his brilliant helmet gives forth a dazzling splendour. his body is draped in shining gauze, whipped by the wind' he is especially associated with the life force and renewing health and energy. horus horus was the ancient egyptian sky god, represented as a falcon or a falcon-headed man. his eyes were the sun and moon and his wings could extend across the entire heavens. he was frequently associated with the morning aspect of ra, the sun god, and worshipped as re-harakhte. the son of isis and osiris, he is often depicted as an infant on his mother's lap and together the parents and child form a trinity. horu

hs, returning to the earth as the light-bringer in spring and so representing the cycle of death and rebirth. she is especially powerful in rituals by or for young women, especially those who have suffered loss or abuse, and also for mother-daughter relationships. she is sometimes regarded as a symbol of grain. proserpina, daughter of ceres, is the roman form of persephone. sekhmet sekhmet is the ancient egyptian solar and lion goddess created from the eye of ra. she is sometimes pictured as a woman with a lion's head and so is a good to evoke for courage, righteous anger, protection of the vulnerable, psychic protection and the correction of injustice. as an avenging goddess, she should be used only as a focus for positive rituals, for, like fire, her innate power can blaze out of control

orrows. deities of wisdom as well as wisdom, these gods and goddesses are for knowledge, truth and justice. athena athena, or athene, daughter of zeus, is goddess of wise counsel, both in peace and war, of intelligence, reason, negotiation and all forms of the arts and literature. the owl is her sacred bird and the olive her symbol representing peace, healing and nourishment. hathor hathor is the ancient egyptian goddess of truth, wisdom, joy, love, music, art and dance and protectress of women. she is said to bring husbands or wives to those who call on her and she is also a powerful fertility goddess. also worshipped as a sky goddess, hathor is frequently shown wearing a sun disc held between the horns of a cow as a crown. she was once entrusted with the sacred eye of ra, the sun god and

ht and only a brave person could look at it without flinching. hathor can be invoked for all forms of mirror magic and is also associated with gold and turquoise and so jewellery made of these can be a focus for her powers. in the modern world she is guardian of businesswomen. fiercely protective in defence of her own, she is especially potent against physical and psychic attack. ma'at ma'at, the ancient egyptian goddess of truth and justice, was responsible for maintaining the correct balance and order in the universe. she was daughter of ra who created her to establish unity and order in the world. ma'at is pictured as a woman wearing a single ostrich feather as a headdress. seite 44 wicca01.txt she was all-powerful, even over the king, who had to rule with truth and justice to attain et

ho had to rule with truth and justice to attain eternal life. after death, a person's heart was weighed on the scales of justice against the feather from her headdress to see if it was free from sin. she can be invoked for all rituals of justice, uncovering secrets, truth and trustworthiness. hermes hermes is the greek messenger god who travelled between dimensions. he is associated with the wise ancient egyptian god thoth and the later roman mercury. he is credited with great knowledge, healing powers and medical knowledge [insert pic p080- the double entwined snake of hermes' and mercury's caduceus, or wand, which is often a living growing staff, is a symbol both of healing and of powerful communication. the snake forms two circles, the interlinked cycles of good and evil, life and death

d in armour. minerva, whose creature is the owl, can be invoked in employment rituals and for the development of skills, retraining and musical ability as well as for truth and justice. unlike bellona (see page 70) and the warlike gods, both athena and minerva are used in rituals for using legal means or oratory and persuasion, rather than direct action, to overcome injustice. thoth thoth was the ancient egyptian god of the moon, wisdom and learning. he was also god of time, languages, law and mathematical calculations, who invented the calendar and hieroglyphic writing. he is often depicted with the head of an ibis although he was worshipped as a baboon in hermopolis. appeal to him for all matters of magical wisdom, learning, intellectual pursuits, examinations and better time management

is the colour of long-distance travel and house moves, legal matters and dealing with officialdom. it is also for careers involving justice and leadership. above all, blue brings calm and the ability to solve problems in the midst of crisis. blue candles are best used on thursday. purple purple is the colour of jupiter in his role of wise teacher and keeper of hidden knowledge, and of osiris, the ancient egyptian father god and lord of the underworld, who died each year and was resurrected by his wife isis. it represents unconscious wisdom and is used for all things of a psychic and spiritual nature and seite 54 wicca01.txt for divination. purple provides a link with higher dimensions and can bring happiness for all who yearn for something beyond the material plane. purple candles aid medi

herb of remembrance, especially of love, and can bring about reconciliation. ruled by the sun. sage sage is a popular culinary herb with many medical applications and healing powers; according to tradition, it prolongs life and health. in medieval times it was said 'why should a man who has sage in his garden ever die. sage was called herba sacra('the holy herb) by the romans and was used by the ancient egyptians to cure male infertility and by the chinese to stimulate both yang and yin energies. it is especially good for strengthening the lungs and it boosts the immune system, helping to build up resistance to illness and to speed recovery in cases of debilitating or chronic conditions. sage eases mental exhaustion and increases the ability to concentrate, so is ideal in sachets for peop

ome so that their husbands would return safely from the sea. it protects all who travel by night, alone or in lonely places, and older people in all aspects of their lives. it guards against bad dreams and endows the wearer with the emotional strength to face the ending of a natural phase. lapis lazuli known as the eye of wisdom and the stone of the gods, lapis lazuli jewellery is mentioned in an ancient egyptian papyrus dating from over 3,000 years ago as having healing powers. the sumerians believed it contained the souls of their gods and goddesses and as such would endow them with magical powers, and the goddess ishtar was famed for her beautiful necklaces of this crystal. in egypt, lapis lazuli was first used in a powdered form for eye make-up as protection against the evil eye. lapis

he golden energies if you used sunlight, and white flowers for the moon. colour healing colour has long been believed to have the power to influence not only our moods, but our physical well-being. the babylonians called the healing power of light 'the medicine of the gods. healing colours have been used for thousands of years in chinese treatments and in ayurveda, an ancient indian medicine. the ancient egyptians wore amulets of coloured stones: red to treat disease, yellow for happiness and prosperity, and green for fertility. colour healing is not just a fancy: we know for a fact that each beam of coloured light has its own wavelength and is absorbed by the body through the skin and the optic nerves. this triggers complex biochemical changes. each of the seven primary wavelengths or vib

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es. 350-407 john chrysostom 350? abbaye jewish babylonian teacher expounds on the decans. 363 last pagan emperor julian stopped at harran at the beginning of his persian campaign. he consulted the oracles at the temple of the moon. 380 hephaestio of thebes. compendium, delineations of the decans and contains a very long excerpt from nechepso/petosiris on detailed eclipse delineation. preserves an ancient egyptian method of prediction using the dog-star alone. c.380 sepher ha-razim (the book of the mysteries) a jewish mystical and magical grimoire from egypt. related to the sepher raziel. 385 d. st. gregory of nyssa 386: augustine (354-430, a rhetorician of north african descent currently working in milan, accepts baptism into catholic christianity from bishop ambrose of milan. 391 second b

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er was a member of the brotherhood branch, the order of the christ. columbus himself was involved with a group which followed the beliefs of the poet dante, who was a member of the cathar church and an initiate of the knights templar. columbus was often seen wearing the garb of what was believed to be the franciscan order. columbus's son said his father had died in such attire. the priests at the ancient egyptian brotherhood temple at el-amarna wore a similar habit, as did a brotherhood group called the fraternites at the time of columbus. these are only some of his brotherhood connections. columbus's father-in-law was a member of the knights of christ, the undercover name for the knights templar. when the templars were purged across europe, they survived in portugal by changing their name

t until an experience in cairo in april 1904. crowley was asked by his wife, rose, to perform an esoteric ritual to see what happened. during the ceremony, she entered a trance-like state and began to channel the words of a communicator. the super elite- the black magicians 207 "they are waiting for you, she said to crowley. the "they, she said, was horus, the god of war and the son of osiris, in ancient egyptian belief. crowley did not accept any of this and asked his wife a series of detailed questions in an effort to trick her. but rose, who knew little of the esoteric, gave the correct answer every time. i believe the prison warders were on the line again. the communicator told crowley to be at a desk in his hotel room between noon and one o'clock on three specific days. he agreed and

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y. a precisely machined and shaped cube of metal was found in the centre of a block of coal in austria in 1885 and, based on the age of that coal seam, it must have been made some 300,000 years ago!7 a piece of gold thread was found embedded in eight feet of rock in rutherford mills, england, in 1844, and that rock was estimated to go back 60 million years!!8 electric batteries have been found in ancient egyptian tombs and a massive slab of green glass weighing many tons was found in israel.9 the prehistoric bones of animals have been discovered with bullets in them.10 as the brilliant author and researcher of far ancient history, colonel james churchward, wrote: 14 children of the matrix "civilisations have been born and completed and then forgotten again and again. there is nothing new u

ntain ranges in the piri reis map were not even found until 1952. reis said that he compiled his map from 20 older ones. flem-ath has also found astonishing evidence to support the existence of a highly advanced society thousands of years ago. he found that if you draw a line of longitude through the great pyramid at giza it crosses more land than anywhere else on the planet and this supports the ancient egyptian belief that the pyramid was the centre of the earth.36 flem-ath then realised that if the great pyramid is taken to be the centre of the 0 degree meridian, the longitude and latitude locations of the world's sacred sites fit together in neat geometrical patterns. they appeared as a grid system, very much like the blocks in the street plans of us cities.37 he found he could predict

e these beings from sirius. he further proposes that the body of the sphinx is that of a dog and not a lion, thus symbolising the dog star, sirius,9 and some researchers also suggest that the face of the sphinx is that of a woman, not a pharaoh. the egyptians certainly depicted their lion bodies very differently to that of the sphinx and the dog is a common symbol in ancient mythology.10 in fact, ancient egyptians revered the dog and their dog symbol was a code for sirius" the sirius system was symbolised as feminine and so a dog's body with a woman's face would make* it is the reptilian bloodline that most concerns us in this book, but there are others of extraterrestrial origin, also. cherokee and mayan records in north and central america and the greek historians, appollodorius and diod

, are so similar to the classic ziggurats built for the "gods" of sumer. there are great similarities in art and language between the two, as there are between central american religion and language and that of the atlantis revisited 57 hindus and the middle-near eastern semites. the mother goddess, maya, has the same name in the maya culture as she does in india and there are mayan remains at an ancient egyptian site i have visited not far from giza. james churchward shows in the children of mu that all these "maya" peoples around the world originated in lemuria-mu, hence the common connections. also, the legendary founder of the maya culture, called votan or wotan, is the name of the atlantean fire god and also the god of the teutonic peoples of germany and scandinavia. he was one of the

ate from around 700bc and they are identical to ones that once navigated the nile.51 i can understand the confusion with the vikings, however, because the scandinavian nordics travelled south to egypt and sumer after atlantis and there would be many similarities and mutual origins. the egyptologist, lorraine evans, also says in her book, kingdom of the ark (simon& schuster, london, 2000) that the ancient egyptians established a colony in ireland 3,500 years ago, after landing in county kerry. she suggests that the invaders were led by princess scota, the daughter of a pharaoh, and that she is buried in a valley called scota's glen about five miles from tralee in county kerry where she died after a bloody war with indigenous irish people. the grave is marked with a slab, but has never been

ster to tutankhamen. the hill of tara, not far from newgrange, was the seat of the irish king of kings (equivalent of the british "pendragon) and it is worth emphasising that the "elite" bloodlines of ireland and scotland are extremely important to the illuminati. bronze age shields found on the dingle peninsula in county kerry were identical to those discovered in spain, which were identified as ancient egyptian weaponry. other archaeologists and egyptologists have dismissed evans' claims, but she says that her findings in hull and elsewhere will revolutionise views about our ancestors "the simple fact that many peoples of britain are going about their daily business unaware of their egyptian heritage is astounding."52 but not quite so astounding when you realise that those in control don

estrial with a big copper willy (in come-and-get-me mode, and an earth woman into whom the et "fits, if you follow me. this is symbolic, credo explains, of the union between the people from the stars and humanity, which you find recorded in virtually every ancient culture. significantly, he says the copper willy was once made of gold before it was stolen and replaced with copper. this mirrors the ancient egyptian story about the golden penis of their key god, osiris, which is symbolised by the secret societies today, especially the freemasons, as an obelisk. the way the extraterrestrial is portrayed on the necklace, credo says, is merely symbolic because these "gods" were of a very distinct and unhuman form (reptilian) and they warned the people of instant death if they ever depicted them

rown dance is performed with serpents painted all over the bodies of the participants. the chief wears a 13- pointed crown of the atlantean fire god, votan, and other key performers wear the trident headdress. the trident is the symbol of atlantis and lemuria. hansen established that the tuareg people in north africa, who claim to originate in atlantis, perform an identical dance. she also saw an ancient egyptian artefact that appeared to depict the very same dance. the sioux tribe insist that their ancestors were from atlantis via peru, and again the serpent or reptilian imagery is extremely prominent in the story. sioux means "snakes, as another tribe, the iroquois, means "serpents".39 the sioux ancient records say that after the demise of atlantis, their ancestors, who they call the tur

istians get their term amen. under thebes/karnac are networks of tunnels known as the "serpent's catacombs. as a result of the travelling egyptians of the sumer empire (or the nordics who travelled to the sumer region) we also have carnac in brittany (barati, france. there were once 10,000 standing stones here, arranged to form the image of a seven-mile serpent. carnac means "serpent hill".55 the ancient egyptian accounts known as the pyramid texts speak of the serpent being both subterranean and celestial. stories of flying serpents can be found in egypt, as you would expect of an important colony of the sumer empire, and, once again, they symbolised immortality. flying serpents were pictured taking the kings to the land of immortality in a star constellation in the heavens. one serpent s

serpents can be found in egypt, as you would expect of an important colony of the sumer empire, and, once again, they symbolised immortality. flying serpents were pictured taking the kings to the land of immortality in a star constellation in the heavens. one serpent symbol was the divine asp on the headgear of egyptian kings and they used the fat of the crocodile in their coronations. the great ancient egyptian city of alexandria was called "city of the serpent's son (alexander the great) and there they worshipped the serpent god, serapis. he was known as the "sacred serpent" or "fire serpent" and from this comes the biblical "seraphim, the serpents associated with yhvh or yahweh (jehovah. the temple of serapeum in i alexandria was dubbed one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, as

y closing the interdimensional "portals, which allowed them to move into this density very easily. these portals are points on the earth's energy grid where the third and fourth dimensions can connect and these are often the places held most sacred by the ancients. the portals are similar in theme, if not detail, to the one featured in the film stargate, which, you may recall, was the story of an ancient egyptian people controlled by high-tech, extraterrestrial "gods. a theme of the atlantis legends is that groups with the advanced knowledge began to use it malevolently and it was then that they re-opened the portals and allowed these fourth-dimensional beings to flood back into this reality. one major portal appears to be in the caucasus mountains in southern russia/northern turkey, a reg

egion. here the rites of the "sisterhood of daughters" of the goddess hecate were performed.3 she was depicted with snake feet and snakes for hair.4 dogs, the sacred animal to hecate, were sacrificed to her in these rituals during the dark phase of the moon. this emphasis on the dog in hecate myth could connect her symbolically to the "dog star" sirius, a base for the reptilians. in colchis, that ancient egyptian settlement at the foot of the caucasus mountains, there was a cemetery sacred to hecate. jason of the argonaut legends was said to have offered a sacrifice to hecate at colchis.5 (colches-ter is the oldest recorded town in england and its first roman capital. the illuminati satanic network continues to perform sacrifice rituals to hecate and this goddess was massively part of the

th the symbolism of sirius, sirius b, and sirius c. the name, hecate, literally means "one hundred" both sirius b and c take 50 years to orbit sirius a and the symbolism of one hundred, the duel orbit of "the twins, was often used as code for the sirius system, according to robert temple in 148 children of the matrix the sirius mystery. it is also important to note that, as temple points out, the ancient egyptian word and hieroglyph for goddess also means serpent, and their hieroglyph for sirius also means tooth. thus the stories of the "serpent's tooth" can be read as the "goddess sirius. the egyptian word for tooth also means dog and, more specifically, dog-god and one hundred.7 the minoan civilisation on crete, part of the sumer empire, was another serpent-bull culture. they called its

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the reptile bloodlines here, the name theegyptians gave to their sacred messeh or crocodile was. draco. this also became asymbol of the egyptian therapeutate and their branch in israel called the essenes, andit was represented as a sea serpent or bistea neptunis by the royal merovingians andtheir decendents in france. the same tribe, all of them. if you look in the picture sectionyou will see an ancient egyptian depiction of a god on the temple wall at saqquara- itis a non-human reptilian figure with what appear to be wings.blond-haired, blue-eyed beings with eyes like lasers are still being reported. anamerican friend told me of an experience her father had in the early 1970s. they lived inturkey at the time where he worked at a listening post for american military intelligence.he came h

stretcheddown to the river thames where the templars had their own docks. during the reign ofqueen victoria, the brotherhood erected an obelisk alongside the thames at this pointand placed a sphinx on either side. the obelisk had formerly stood in the egyptian cityof on or heliopolis (the city or place of the sun) and it is known today as cleopatrasneedle (see picture section. this obelisk is an ancient egyptian-aryan symbol of thesun, the male energy, the phallus. these symbols are to be found in many places, oftenunder the guise of war memorials and have been placed there by freemasonicmanipulation. has anyone ever asked themselves why a war memorial nearly alwayshas to be an obelisk? and why do you think the washington monument in the centre ofwashington dc is a giant obelisk? because

wood and iancampbell in their books genisis and geneset (see figure 20. the goddess isis ismentioned in old records of rennes-les-bains, a short distance from rennes-le-chateau, and in the last century a statue of isis was found near the village.15 wood147and campbell suggest that rennes-le-chateau and rennes-le-bains translate as queenof the house and queen of the waters- the names given by the ancient egyptians totheir goddesses nephthys and isis.16 the area around rennes-le-chateau is one ofenormous power and importance within the earths energy grid and therefore became afocus from ancient times for those who understood this and knew how to harness theenergy. the modern world awoke to the story of rennes-le-chateau with henrylincolns bbc television films and the book, holy blood, holy

ineer.buddhism replaced his interest in the occult until an experience in cairo in april 1904.crowley was asked by his wife, rose, to perform an esoteric ritual to see what happened.during the ceremony she entered a trance-like state and began to channel the words of acommunicator. they are waiting for you she said to crowley. the they, she said, washorus, the god of war and the son of osiris, in ancient egyptian belief. crowley did notaccept any of this and asked his wife a series of detailed questions in an effort to trick her.but rose, who apparently knew little of the esoteric, gave the correct answer every time,according to the official story. the reptilians were on the line again. the communicatortold crowley to be at a desk in his hotel room between noon and one oclock on threespeci

housands of years and it is an epidemic today. as fritz springmeierand cisco wheeler say in their detailed investigation into mind control:the basic techniques were developed in german, scottish, italian, and english familiesand have been done for centuries. some report that techniques go back to ancient egyptand ancient babylon to the ancient mystery religions. the nazis are known to have studiedancient egyptian texts in their mind control research. the records and secrets of thegenerational bloodlines are very well guarded secrets.1control of the human mind and emotions is the very foundation of the reptiliancontrol of the human race. control a persons mind and you control them. the externalmanipulation of the mind takes many forms and the question is not how many are mindcontrolled, but

programmed to mind control others and thereare now fantastic numbers of mind controlled children and adults at large. there arewhole armies of them like the delta force, the toy soldiers, in the united states andother elite (often psychopathic) groupings like the sas and the parachute regiment inthe united kingdom. the name, delta, symbolises the pyramid and also relates to thenile delta and the ancient egyptians. delta programming creates killers, assassins.the training alone for these people is classic mind control, never mind all the individualstuff they experience. the children being prepared to join the delta force later in lifeare put through indescribable horrors to desensitise them from pain and death, both forthemselves and others. one of the techniques to do this is to bond the

a member of the theosophical society, has beennamed as a multiple slave by survivors and cisco wheeler, herself a recovering slave,says that her experiences led her to believe this about elvis. his handler was hismanager, colonel tom parker, she says.54 when elvis died (if he did, the suninternational corporation released a presley album called orion with a winged sun-discon the cover. this is an ancient egyptian and sumerian symbol used by the order of theoriental temple and other brotherhood groups. barbara streisand is a mind controlledasset of the brotherhood, as revealed in detail by the recovered slave, brice taylor, inher book, thanks for the memories. another mind controlled singer, according tocathy, is lorretta lynn, a slave of the cia. her mental and emotional problems arecaused

this book.on the two sides of the great seal you find 13 stars above the head of the eagle. themotto e pluribus unum has 13 letters, as does annuit coeptis. the eagle holds 13leaves with 13 berries in its right talon and 13 arrows in the left. there are 72 stones(another mystic number) on the pyramid arranged in 13 rows. the eagle evolved fromthe symbol of the phoenix, the sacred sun bird of the ancient egyptians andphoenicians and the native american version is the thunderbird. manly p. hall says thatthe original seal included the phoenix and it is known that one design for the great sealsubmitted by william barton in 1782 included a phoenix sitting on a nest of flames.2the symbol of the scottish rite of freemasonry is the double eagle with a head lookingin both directions- the symbol of

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ine, precisely 900 west of the capitol. the washington monument(left) is the most important presidential monument to the occultist, because it is an obelisk set inside a circle. what, you are probably saying, is an obelisk? an obelisk is a tall, four-sided stone pillar tapering toward a pyramidal top. the obelisk is critically important to the occultist because they believe that the spirit of the ancient egyptian sun god, ra, resided in the obelisk. thus, the obelisk represents the very presence of the sun god, whom the bible calls satan! there are only three major obelisks in the world today, and two of them are in the united states. according to epperson in his book "the new world order, the first major obelisk was constructed in st. peter's square in rome, and is so placed that every po

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tion were greatly distressed to see titles being awarded to people who did nothing more than give funds to the church. the argument for the awarding of the titles was that material success is an indication of satanic might and therefore the individuals in question deserved the titles regardless of their knowledge or previous commitment. michael aquino, claiming to be in contact with satan (in the ancient egyptian form of set, wrote the book of the coming forth by night in which he declared the start of the aeon of set, a succession to the aeon of horus. the word of the aeon was xeper, an egyptian word which means to become or to come into being. the egyptian god xepera was associated with the scarab beetle and was the god of expansion of consciousness. michael aquino claimed to be the seco

he scarab beetle and was the god of expansion of consciousness. michael aquino claimed to be the second beast from the book of the revelation of jesus to st. john the apostle and the spiritual son of aleister crowley described in the book of the law. in contrast to the church of satan s professed atheism, the temple of set embraced the literal existence of set, not as a christian devil, but as an ancient egyptian god associated with the night sky and with the expanding of consciousness. according to aquino, horus and set were the gods of ancient egypt prior to the syrian invasion. later, set was personified as evil, the enemy of osiris. one of set s titles, set-hen was adopted by the jews and became satan. by using a more ancient name for satan, the temple of set was able to escape the acc

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u, who is the son of set. it is said 7 azothoz, a grimoire of the adversary by michael w. ford, succubus publishing 9 that anubis is very similar to the grecian hecate, as they are deific forces over both the celestial and infernal realms and like dogs, were able to see in the night. as alexander sanders wrote, the inverted triangle was the symbol of the left hand path- after the great flood, the ancient egyptians used these triangles to represent a triad of deities. the people of neph-kam, the black lands of lower egypt used the triangle of darkness, led by sethan and supported by anubis and sekhmet. alex sanders lectures magick and sorcery within egyptian cults survived long beyond the death of that culture. consider the graeco-roman period, when wax figures were implemented as focus poi

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d of magic which he performed. k is the eleventh letter of several alphabets, and eleven is the principal number of magick, because it is the number attributed to the qliphoth- the underworld of demonic and chaotic forces that have to be conquered before magick can be performed. the 'k' has other magical implications: it corresponds to the power or *shakti* aspect of creative energy, for k is the ancient egyptian *khu *the* magical power. specifically, it stands for *kteis*(vagina, the complement to the wand (or phallus) which is used by the magician in certain aspects of the great work" magick, black: 1) the science and art of causing change (in reality or in consciousness) in conformity with will, using means not currently understood by traditional western science, for the purpose of cau

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le leven ons heeren jesu christi, 1648) a token is a sign that represents something else by association. a rose may be used as a token of love, a raven as a token of putrefaction. tokens do not embody the things they represent (astrological glyph of the planet neptune, from the book of signs (1930) by rudolf koch) a glyph, short for hieroglyph, is usually the pictorial representation of a letter. ancient egyptian and modern chinese, for example, use small pictograms in place of letters. in magic the term is sometimes employed specifically to denote the astrological signs of the zodiac and planets (gnostic amulet of chnoubis, one of the decans of cancer, for protection against stomach disease: from amulets and superstitions (1930) by e. a. wallis budge) amulet and talisman are frequently co

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242 translation 245-369 bibliography 371-377 next: the versions of the book of the dead. contents http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod02.htm [8/10/2001 11:22:27 am] sacred texts egypt index previous next introduction. the versions of the book of the dead. the four great versions of the book of the dead. the history of the great body of religious compositions which form the book of dead of the ancient egyptians may conveniently be divided into four[1] of the periods, which are represented by four versions- 1. the version which was edited by the priests of the college of annu (the on of the bible, and the heliopolis of the greeks, and which was based upon a series of texts now lost, but which there is evidence to prove had passed through a series of revisions or editions as early as the

ersion, in which, at some period anterior probably to the xxvith dynasty, the chapters were arranged in a definite order. it is commonly written in hieroglyphics and in hieratic, and it was much used from the xxvith dynasty to the end of the ptolemaic period. early forms of the book of the dead. the book of the dead. the earliest inscribed monuments and human remains found in egypt prove that the ancient egyptians took the utmost care to preserve the bodies of their p. xi dead by various processes of embalming. the deposit of the body in the tomb was accompanied by ceremonies of a symbolic nature, in the course of which certain compositions comprising prayers, short litanies, etc, having reference to the future life, were recited or chanted by priests and relatives on behalf of the dead. t

nstant. the chief features of the egyptian religion remained unchanged from the vth and vith dynasties down to the period when the egyptians embraced christianity, after the preaching of st. mark the apostle in alexandria, a.d. 69, so firmly had the early beliefs taken possession of the egyptian mind; and the christians in egypt, or copts as they are commonly called, the racial descendants of the ancient egyptians, seem never to have succeeded in divesting themselves of the superstitious and weird mythological conceptions which they inherited from their heathen ancestors. it is not necessary here to repeat the proofs, of this fact which m. am lineau has brought together,[1] or to adduce evidence from the lives of the saints, martyrs and ascetics; but it is of interest to note in passing th

conceptions which they inherited from their heathen ancestors. it is not necessary here to repeat the proofs, of this fact which m. am lineau has brought together,[1] or to adduce evidence from the lives of the saints, martyrs and ascetics; but it is of interest to note in passing that the translators of the new testament into coptic rendered the greek greek a!'dhs by, amenti, the name which the ancient egyptians gave to the abode of man after death,[3] and that the copts peopled it with beings whose prototypes are found on the ancient monuments. persistence of the legend of osiris and the belief in the resurrection. the chief gods mentioned in the pyramid texts are identical with those whose names are given on tomb, coffin and papyrus in the latest dynasties; and if the names of the grea

ing, his eternity, his almightiness, and external reproduction thereby as god; the attributing of the creation of the world and of all living beings to this supreme god; the immortality of the soul, completed by the dogma of punishments and rewards: such is the sublime and persistent base which, notwithstanding all deviations and all mythological embellishments, must secure for the beliefs of the ancient egyptians a most honourable place among the religions of antiquity"[1] nine years later he developed this view, and discussed the difficulty of reconciling the belief in the unity of god with the polytheism which existed in egypt from the earliest times, and he repeated his conviction that the egyptians believed in a self-existent god who was one being, who had created man, and who had end

it is clear that the form in which god made himself manifest to man upon earth was the sun, which the egyptians called ra and that all other gods and goddesses were forms of him. the principal authorities for epithets applied to god and to his visible emblem the sun are the hymns and litanies which are found inscribed upon [1. brugsch, religion und mythologie, pp. 96-99. the whole chapter on the ancient egyptian conception of god should be read with m. maspero's comments upon it in la mythologie gyptienne( tudes de mythologie, t. ii, p. 189 ff. 2. hibbert lectures, p. 99. 3. hypothezen omtrent de wording van den egyptischen godsdienst (in geschiedenis van den godsdienst in de oudheid, amsterdam, 1893, p. 25; and see lieblein, egyptian religion, leipzig, 1884, p. 10. 4 see the chapter "die

copts, or egyptians who had embraced christianity, how long the belief in a hell of fire and torturing fiends survived. thus in the life of abba shenuti,[1] a man is told that the" executioners of amenti will not show compassion upon thy wretched sol"[2] and in the history of pisentios, a bishop of coptos in the seventh century of our era, we have a series of details which reflect the tuat of the ancient egyptians in a remarkable manner. the bishop having taken up his abode in a tomb filled with mummies, causes one of them to tell his history.[3] after saying that his parents were greeks who worshipped poseidon, he states that when he was dying already the avenging angels came about him with iron knives and goads as sharp as spears, which they thrust into his sides, while they gnashed thei

g (12) in the form of the gods in the train of ra "i am he who is not driven back among the gods [1. for accounts of the way in which draughts were played by the egyptians, see birch, in revue arch ologique, 1864, p. 56 ff; birch, in aeg. zeitschrift, 1866, p. 97; birch, in trans. boy. son literature, new series, vol. ix, p. 256; and falkner, oriental games, london, 1892. the draught-board of the ancient egyptians is often a rectangular wooden box, the top divided into squares, containing a drawer in which the men are kept (british museum, no. 21,576. draught-boards were also made of blue glazed fa ence, and bone or ivory (british museum, no. 21,577. the draughtsmen n are of wood, bone, ivory, glazed fa ence, or stone, and have at times the heads of lions 1 (british museum, nos. 13,417, 21

mouth of hermopolis" 2. this meaning is indicated by the determinative in the variant given by naville, todtenbuch, bd. ii, bl. 95. the whole sentence may be a rubrical direction. 3 the text here appears to be corrupt, or at least some words have been omitted, for the equivalent passage in lepsius reads. the variant reading indicated by ki t' et shows that this passage offered difficulties to the ancient egyptian readers] p. 315 text [chapter lix (i) the chapter of sniffing the air, and of getting power over the waters in the underworld. saith osiris ani "hail, sycamore tree of the goddess nut! grant thou to me of the water and the air which are in (2) thee. i embrace thy throne which is in unnu,[l] and i watch and guard (3) the egg of the great cackler. it groweth, i grow; it liveth, i li

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se of sources and documentation. the odds of michael aquino having a personal agenda that provokes the view mentioned above are low given the additional documentation of anton lavey s accept of, or belief in, the devil cited earlier. in frustration over the new direction, which michael aquino saw as ideological treason, he claims to have performed a personal invocation of satan in the form of the ancient egyptian god set. in the book of coming forth by night, michael aquino describes how set explained that anton lavey s infernal mandate had been revoked and passed to michael aquino as anton lavey s successor: i [set] raised him [anton lavey] to the will of a daimon, unbounded by the material dimensions. and so i thought to honour him beyond other men. but it may have been this act of mine

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ays been a symbol of authority. the wand also survives as the magical staff of modern conjuring magicians. aasc newsletter see anthropology of consciousness ab semitic magical month. crossing a river on the twentieth of that month was supposed to bring sickness. ancient texts state that if a man should eat the flesh of swine on the thirtieth day of ab, he will be plagued with boils. ab is also an ancient egyptian term for the heart. since the heart was the seat of the conscience, its preservation was a crucial part of the mummification process. abaddon the destroyer, from a hebrew word meaning destruction. chief of the demons of the seventh hierarchy. abaddon is the name given by st. john in the apocalypse to the king of the grasshoppers. he is sometimes regarded as the destroying angel or

n, bottle, or magic ring. agathodaemon benevolent deity in greek mythology, the good spirit of vineyards and cornfields. according to aristophanes, agathodaemon was honored by drinking a cup of wine at the end of a meal. he was represented pictorially in the form of a serpent or sometimes as a young man holding a horn of plenty, a bowl, and ears of corn. winged serpents were also venerated by the ancient egyptians, chinese, and other peoples (see also dragon) agent term in parapsychology to denote the individual who attempts to communicate information to a percipient, or subject, of extrasensory perception. the age of progress american spiritualist weekly edited by stephen albro, who witnessed and reported on the early demonstrations of the davenport brothers in the 1850s. agharta (or agha

by 1974 he had attained a following that joined him in the formation of two organizations, the horus centre and an associated school of pranotherapy. airaudi advocated the ideals of the communal life and in 1975 land was rented in the valchiusella valley north of turin as a possible site for the community. the following year some two dozen people moved to what was called damanhur, the name of an ancient egyptian city. the land was eventually purchased and damanhur was officially organized in 1979. airaudi led in the writing of a constitution, first promulgated in 1981, that described the community as a separate state or nation. members began to think of themselves as citizens of damanhur and even issued their own money. as the community grew, and married couples with children moved in, a

on behalf of the wearer; or (2) mascots to ward off bad luck or such influences as the evil eye. the amulet, a protective device, is thus distinguished from a talisman, a magical charm used to accomplish some end. there is little doubt that charms were worn by prehistoric peoples, because objects similar in appearance and general description to amulets have been discovered in neolithic tombs. the ancient egyptians possessed a bewildering variety of amulets, worn by both the living and the dead. indeed, among the latter, every part of the body had an amulet sacred to itself. these were, as a rule, evolved from various organs of the gods; for example, the eye of isis, the backbone of osiris, and so forth. among savage and semicivilized peoples, the amulet usually took the form of necklaces

ed with the leadership of church founder anton lavey. he opposed lavey s arbitrary leadership and atheistic approach to religion. lavey actually denied the existence of satan. in 1972 aquino resigned and was joined in his revolt by lilith sinclair, another prominent leader on the east coast. in 1975 he sought a new mandate to operate by invoking the devil. satan responded by appearing as set, the ancient egyptian deity, and gave aquino a document, the book of coming forth by night. he authorized aquino to found the temple of set to supersede the church of satan. aquino created a new religious society built around the worship of set, of whom satan is one derivation. during the 1980s aquino gained some degree of fame when the media became aware that an army officer led a satanic group. the t

being described in theosophical literature. kut-hu-mi told chaney that she had been selected for a special task.teaching the ancient wisdom to the people of the new age. the chaneys resigned from their church in eaton rapids, michigan, moved to los angeles, and founded astara. astara s teachings are an eclectic body. they draw on christianity, spiritualism, theosophy, yoga, and especially on the ancient egyptian teachings of hermes trismegistus, who is believed to have organized the original mystery school from which all others ultimately derive. the chaneys also have made themselves open to new insights from the world s religions and philosophies. from hermes, astara teaches that god is the only uncreated reality and that he has emanated his seven attributes and all that exists. hermes t

ve that the majority of the reports of the spread of black magic were simply polemics against idealogical and personal enemies. thus, members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn accused aleister crowley of practicing black magic while crowley complained that black magicians had perverted his system. the existence of the black art and its attendant practices can be traced from the time of the ancient egyptians and persians, from the greeks and hebrews, to the period when reports of black magic were most numerous, during the middle ages, thus forming an unbroken chain. in medieval magic may be found a degraded form of popular pagan rites.the ancient gods had become devils, their mysteries orgies, their worship sorcery. some historians have tried to trace the areas in europe most affecte

d into danish, swedish, and spanish. the church of satan and its literature has given rise to a variety of satanic groups that follow its beliefs and practices but are administratively separate. the most important group with roots in the church of satan is the temple of set, headed by michael a. aquino, which has developed a new theology based on the identification of the christian satan with the ancient egyptian god set. on the day of anton lavey s death, october 29, 1997, the church was placed under the control of high priestess, blanche barton. the church of satan s mailing address is po box 210666, san francisco, ca 94121. the church s official homepage is http//www.churchofsatan.com. sources: barton, blanche. the church of satan: a history of the world s most notorious religion. los a

eir first egyptian party as early as 1963. in 1970, moss and harrison combined their efforts in the church of the eternal source built upon two emphases, authentic egyptianism and a belief in the plurality of the gods. authentic egyptianism derives from attention to the earlier layers of the egyptian religion before its corruption by the entrance of many non-egyptian ideas. henri franfurt s book, ancient egyptian religion, is cited as a source for gaining an overview of the church s perspective, and mastery of ancient egyptian history is an important task for individual church members. in the church s understanding, the gods create reality. in their diversity and their transactions, divine vectors are established. the human task is to achieve balance by relating to the divine vectors. wors

ived. it has continued as a small group of fewer than 100 people, most residing on the american west coast. their periodical, kephera, has also had a sporadic life. the church may be contacted at p.o. box 44146, tucson, az 85733. the church s website may be found at http/ members.aol.com/amanitae/ces. sources: conway, david. magic: an occult primer. new york: e. p. dutton, 1972. frankfurt, henri. ancient egyptian religion: an interpretation. new york: harper& row, 1961. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. church of the eternal source 291 church of the final judgment see process church of the final judgment and foundation faith of god church of the lukumi babalu aye the church of the lukumi babalu aye is a public center in the greater miami, florida, metropolitan area of what

civilized people by persons who claim the faculty of divination, such as the spiritualist medium or the witch. the art is undoubtedly of great antiquity. it was employed in ancient egypt side by side with astrology, and divination by dreams was constantly resorted to, a class of priests being kept apart, whose office it was to interpret dreams and visions. instances of dreams are recorded in the ancient egyptian texts; for example those of thothmes iv, king of egypt in 1450 b.c.e, and nut-amen, king of the eastern soudan and egypt about displacement encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 426 670 b.c.e. the egyptian magician usually set himself to procure dreams for his clients by such devices as the drawing of magic pictures and the reciting of magic words, and some of these a

the time of the birth of olympias. he then told her fortune from them. it should be noted that the use of the horoscope is much older than the time of alexander the great. a greek horoscope in the british museum is attached to an introductory letter from some master of the art of astrology to his pupil, named hermon, urging him to be very exact and careful in his application of the laws which the ancient egyptians, with their laborious devotion to the art, had discovered and handed down to posterity. ghosts the notion that the ka or double of man wandered about after death added to the egyptian belief in ghosts. e. a. wallis budge observed as follows: according to them a man consisted of a physical body, a shadow, a double, a soul, a heart, a spirit called the khu, a power, a name, and a s

few strangers were permitted to enter the initiation after many severe preparations and trials. besides this, their functions were hereditary, and the son followed the footsteps of his father .for to the uninitiated the entrance was forbidden, and the initiated kept their vows. modern views of egyptian magic beginning in the nineteenth century, scholarship removed much of the mystery surrounding ancient egyptian magic. it also made magic an object of increasing occult and magic exploration. modern work on egypt really began in 1822, after j. f. champollion (1790.1832) successfully deciphered the hieroglyphics through his work on the rosetta stone, opening the way to understanding ancient egyptian inscriptions on monuments and papyrus. champollion s basic work was supplemented by other phi

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gic drums and blowing of trumpets, howlings and hour-long prayers, dancing, flagellation, convulsive movements and contortions, asceticism, fasting and sexual abstinence. recourse is also had to narcotics to bring about the desired result. thus the flyagaric is used in western siberia, in san domingo the herb coca, tobacco by some tribes of american indians, and in the east opium and hashish. the ancient egyptians had their intoxicating drinks, and receipts for witch s salves and philtres have come down to us from medieval times. in many countries this condition of possession was induced for a spectrum of purposes from the higher mystical and prophetic to mere fortune-telling. anthropologist edward tylor, in his primitive culture (1871, testifies to the extent to which this belief in obses

balists (see kabala) collected for the urim and thummim. in each verse the venerable name of four letters and the three lettered name of the seventy-two angels occurs. believers claim that at the end of this process would be the answer. other authorities give the name onychomancy to the interpretation of the spots on the human nails. onion the onion was regarded as a symbol of the universe by the ancient egyptians, and many beliefs were associated with it. it was believed that it attracted and absorbed infectious matters and was usually hung in rooms to prevent illness. this belief in the absorptive power of the onion is still prevalent. british folklorist james napier noted: when a youth, i remember the following story being told, and implicitly believed by all. there was once a certain k

l, featured in such scriptures as the yoga vashishta- maharamayana of valmiki. hindu teachings recognize three bodies.physical, subtle, and causal. the causal body builds up the characteristics of one s next reincarnation by the desires and fears in its present life, but the subtle body may sometimes leave the physical body during its lifetime and reenter it after traveling in the physical world. ancient egyptian teachings also represented the soul as having the ability to hover outside the physical body in the ka, or subtle body. in the twentieth century, psychical researchers began to study and conduct experiments on the possibility of out-of-thebody travel. their interest was provoked by its possible contribution to evidence of the survival of death. beginning in 1920 hugh g. callaway

ology is located at 108 broad st, chesham, bucks. hp5 3ed, england. occult speculations on the great pyramid have been varied and somewhat disjuncted. for example, in the 1880s, ignatius donnelly had suggested that the great pyramid had been built by the descendants of the atlanteans. that idea was picked up in the 1920s by manly palmer hall who went one to suggest that they were the focus of the ancient egyptian wisdom schools. edgar cayce built upon hall s speculations. through this century, other writers have suggested that the plan of the great pyramid and its internal structures may have embodied a mystical symbolism of the journey of the soul, as described in the egyptian book of the dead (papyrus of ani. it is also not unlikely that the north-south orientation of the pyramid and the

discussing his discovery that a primitive african tribe, the dogon of mali in former french sudan, apparently had been aware for centuries that the dog star sirius was orbited by a white dwarf neighbor invisible to the naked eye and only recently discovered by astronomers. temple claimed that this knowledge of the dogon tribe was five thousand years old, that the white dwarf was known also to the ancient egyptians in pre-dynastic times prior to 3200 b.c.e, and that the dogon people may have par- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. the sirius mystery 1411 tially descended from them. his idea was quickly integrated into the ancient astronaut hypothesis. sources: temple, robert k. g. the sirius mystery. folkstone, kent, england: bailey brothers and swinfen, 1972. sisters of the

d on-the-spot investigation by offering advice, helping to raise funds, and arranging contacts for members who planned field trips and expeditions. fieldwork and research were reviewed by a panel of 20 scientists. the society disseminated information on findings through a quarterly journal, pursuit, and through papers and reports. investigations by society members included such areas as claims of ancient egyptian television, ringing rocks, entombed toads, and poltergeist manifestations. the society maintained information files of original material, a map collection, and a specialized library. it was disbanded in the 1980s. society for the study of physiological patterns the society for the study of physiological patterns is a prominent british palmistry organization founded around 1945 by

cyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1456 absurd and ridiculous, and i could see no warrant in it. till at length, rambling amongst authors, i found this very medicine in dioscorides, approved by matthiolus, repeated by aldrovandus. i began to have a better opinion of it, and to give more credit to amulets, when i saw it in some parties answer to experience. spiders were sacred to the ancient egyptian goddess maat and are used today as symbolism of a maatian (feminist) form of ceremonial magic. spiegelschrift writing written backward, from right to left, so as to be read in a mirror. automatic writing is frequently done in this way, and it is said that the ability to produce spiegelschrift is often found where there is a natural tendency to automatism. spiral journey spiral jou

establishment of the occult tarot occurred in the mid-nineteenth century when eliphas levi encountered a deck during his massive reworking of the magical tradition in light of mesmerist thought. he identified their magical power with animal magnetism, a theory still popular to the present. in 1853 levi published dogma de la haute magie, in which he first laid out his ideas tying the tarot to the ancient egyptian teacher hermes trismegistus, the legendary author of the hermetic magical writings. he then tied the cards to the hebrew magical/mystical kabala (which he spelled qabalah. he identified the numbered cards with the ten sephiroth. the court cards represented the stages of human life, and the suits symbolized the tetragarmmaton, the four letters that made up the hebrew name of god. t

n 1972, michael aquino, an officer in the u.s. army and a priest in the church, critiqued the authoritarian leadership of church founder anton lavey as well as his understanding of satanism. claiming lavey to be an atheist who did not believe in the literal existence of satan, aquino left the church. three years later, in response to aquino s invocation, satan appeared under the guise of set, the ancient egyptian deity. set gave aquino a mandate in the form of a book, the book of coming forth by night, which authorized aquino to found the temple of set as the church of satan s successor. the temple is dedicated to set, the corrupted legends of whom became the basis of the christian devil. the temple teaches that the universe is a nonconscious environment possessed of mechanical consequence

f marie skotnicki spoke only polish, she developed the extraordinary habit of talking to herself in a foreign tongue that no one about her could understand but was later established to be pure gaelic. it is important to add that her greatgrandfather came from the island of lewis in the scottish hebrides. in the two worlds (march 31, 1933, f. h. wood wrote of the medium rosemary and lady nona, her ancient egyptian control: the fact is now established beyond disproof that over 140 egyptian word-phrases which were in common use when the great temple of luxor in egypt was built, have been spoken fluently through an english girl who normally knows nothing about the ancient tongue. howard hulme of brighton, sussex, the translator of the egyptian phrases, after a preliminary test by mail which re

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wledged the existence of an omnipotence who can act at times in such a manner as to leave the traces and steps of the process so hidden as to tempt scoffers to doubt, and doubters to scoff. but although perpetual motion be but a dream to us earthbound mortals, we do not doubt a future perpetual existence, and it is as reasonable to picture to ourself a perpetual flame, as an eternity of life. the ancient egyptian priests pictured life as a flame. the great master of the temple of this world being omnipotent, and able to do all things, does not usually proceed by miracles, or they will not be prized as such; an essence of miracle is rarity, a miracle imitated is not a second miracle. ordinary events, then, being the extreme of opposition to miracle, there are yet events of a third and inter

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r ascetic way of fife, the religious magic which they were thought to perform in the subterranean chambers of their temples, offered immense attractions. it is this pro-egyptian mood of the graeco-roman world which is reflected in the hermetic asclepius with its strange description of the magic by which the egyptian priests animated the statues of their gods, and its moving prophecy that the most ancient egyptian religion is destined to come to an end "in that hour, so the supposed egyptian priest, hermes trismegistus, tells his disciple, asclepius "in that hour, weary of fife, men will no longer regard the world as the worthy object of their admiration and reverence. this all, which is a good thing, the best that can be seen in the past, the present, 1 ibid, i, pp. 14 ff- 1 ibid, i, pp. 1

in which is assembled in one all, in a harmonious diversity, all that can be seen which is worthy of reverence, praise and love."1 thus egypt, and its magical religion, becomes identified with the hermetic religion of the world. so we can understand how the content of the hermetic writings fostered the illusion of the renaissance magus that he had in them a mysterious and precious account of most ancient egyptian wisdom, philosophy, and magic. hermes trismegistus, a mythical name associated with a certain class of gnostic philosophical revelations or with magical treatises and recipes, was, for the renaissance, a real person, an egyptian priest who had lived in times of remote antiquity and who had himself written all these works. the scraps of greek philosophy which he found in these writ

the complete works of plato, waiting, and they must wait whilst ficino quickly translates hermes, probably because cosimo wants to read him before he dies. what a testimony this is to the mysterious reputation of the thrice great one! cosimo and ficino knew from the fathers that hermes trismegistus was much earlier than plato. they also knew the latin asclepius which whetted the appetite for more ancient egyptian wisdom from the same pristine source.3 egypt was before greece; hermes was earlier than plato. renaissance 1 dedication by ficino to lorenzo de' medici of his epitome and commentaries on plotinus; ficino, p. 1537. 2 "mercurium paucis mensibus eo uiuente (referring to cosimo) peregi. platonem tunc etiam sum aggressus; ficino, loc. cit. cf. kristeller, studies, p. 223; a. marcel, ma

y the first treatise in the corpus hermeticum, but which he extended to cover the whole corpus, or rather the first fourteen of its items which were all that his manuscript contained. he dedicated the translation to cosimo, and this dedication, or argumentum as he calls it, reveals the state of mind, the attitude of profound awe and wonder, in which he had approached this marvellous revelation of ancient egyptian wisdom. in that time in which moses was born flourished adas the astrologer, brother of prometheus the physicist and maternal uncle of the elder mercury whose nephew was mercurius trismegistus.1 so the argumentum begins, with a slightly garbled version of the augustinian genealogy of hermes, which at once places him in extreme antiquity, and almost in a mosaic context. augustine h

mpressed accounts of the contents of four selected treatises of the corpus hermeticumy chosen only from amongst those fourteen which ficino translated and to which he gave the general title pimander. i shall indicate the more important points from ficino's commentaries on these works, trying to bring out his awe-struck wonder at the intuitions into mosaic and even christian truths which this most ancient egyptian author seemed to him to have had mysteriously revealed to him. finally, a compressed account of the contents of the asckpius will be given. in this way it is hoped to bring before the reader some impression of the two works which ficino in his argumentum before the pimander associates together as the two "divine books" of hermes trismegistus, namely the book "on the power and wisd

e heard something of christianity and of the christian's "son of god".3 but for our purposes here, the critical and historical problems of the hermetic literature are irrelevant, for they would have been entirely unknown to ficino and his readers, and we are going to try to approach these documents imaginatively as ficino and the whole renaissance after him approached them, as revelations of most ancient egyptian wisdom by a writer who lived long before plato and even longer before christ. to keep up this illusion i shall give the five treatises here analysed "egyptian" titles, and i shall refer throughout to their author as "hermes trismegistus. for it seems to me that it is only by entering with some degree of sympathy into the huge illusion of their vast antiquity and egyptian character

phasis. in the one the adept is released by bis vision from evil powers in matter and there is a strong ethical element. in the other, the vision is of god in nature, a kind of pantheism; the material world is full of the divine, and the gnosis consists in fully grasping it, as it is, and holding it within the mind. for the renaissance enthusiast, believing all to be the work of one man, the most ancient egyptian, hermes trismegistus, these distinctions would be blurred (4) egyptian philosophy of man and of nature: earth movement. hermes trismegistus to tat on the common intellect. corpus hermeticum xii1; optimist gnosis) the intellect, o tat, is drawn from the very substance of god. in men, this intellect is god; and so some men are gods and their humanity is near to the divinity. when ma

rmeticum, called by him pimander, where he says that of the many works of hermes trismegistus, two are "divine, the one the work on the divine will, the other on the power and wisdom of god. the first of these is called the asclepius, the second pimander j thus the asclepius is for ficino, a "divine" work on the will of god, intimately associated with the other "divine" work by this most holy and ancient egyptian, the pimander, on the power and wisdom of god. my purpose in bringing together in this chapter accounts of four works in the corpus hermeticum together with an account of the asclepius has been to suggest how, for ficino and his readers, what they thought to be the mosaic piety of the egyptian genesis, 1 in 1505, lefevre d'etaples published at paris ficino's pimander together with

isapproving his lapses into bad magic, as in the passage on making the idols in the asclepius, or by disposing of this passage by assuming that it was not really by hermes but inserted by the magician, apuleius of madaura, when he made the latin translation of the work. this left the way clear to admire hermes without reserve for his remarkable insights into old and new testament truths. the most ancient egyptian writes a genesis which is close to the hebrew genesis; he speaks of the son of god as the word; he describes in a "sermon on the mount (discourse on the mountain of hermes trismegistus to his son tat, corpus hermeticum, xiii) a religious experience which is like christian regeneration; he seems to echo the beginning of st. john's gospel. all these christian parallels, which had im

ses and hermes the egyptian is resolved by bruno. the egyptians are earlier than greeks and hebrews (and, of course, christians) and had the best rehgion and the best magic and the best laws of them all. he uses the familiar counters, but shifts them round into appallingly unorthodox positions. apart from the basic influences upon the spaccio of hermetic treatises, read by bruno as records of the ancient egyptian rehgion and ethic which he is reviving, there was another certain influence, namely that of the zodiacus vitae (first published in 1534)3 of 1 see above, p. 115. 2 spaccio, dial. 3 (dial, ital, pp. 799-80. 3 the work was very popular, particularly in protestant countries, because of its satire on monks. in england, it was used as a school textbook; see foster watson, the zodiacus

in the middle.3 this is the philosophy conducive to magic, that the all is one, and that the magus can depend on the ladders of occult sympathies 1 this phenomenon needs further study. is it possible that there are some epicurean influences in the hermetic writings (which do reflect, as discussed in chapter i, a mixture of the philosophies current in late antiquity) and that enthusiasts for that ancient egyptian, hermes trismegistus, were able to recognise some of his teachings in lucretius? just as the platonists could also find the source of platonism in hermes. some historical explanation is needed of the, apparently impossible, combination of hermes and lucretius in palingenius and bruno. 2 de la causa, principio e uno, dial. 5 (dial, ital, pp. 341-2. 3 de la causa, dial. 5 (dial, ita

e immense circumference" which, in the original reads "he ornamented the lower and upper (worlds) with living statues" 397 chapter xxi some discoveries of basic importance for the history of thought seem to pass relatively unnoticed. no one speaks of the "pre-casaubon era" or of the "post-casaubon era" and yet the dating by isaac casaubon in 1614 of the hermetic writings as not the work of a very ancient egyptian priest but written in post-christian times, is a watershed separating the renaissance world from the modern world. it shattered at one blow the build-up of renaissance neoplatonism with its basis in the prisci theologi of whom hermes trismegistus was the chief. it shattered the whole position of the renaissance magus and renaissance magic with its hermetic-cabalist foundation, bas

the ancient "egyptian" philosophy and cabalism. it shattered even the non-magical christian hermetic movement of the sixteenth century. it shattered the position of an extremist hermetist, such as giordano bruno had been, whose whole platform of a return to a better "egyptian" pre-judaic and pre- christian philosophy and magical religion was exploded by the discovery that the writings of the holy ancient egyptian must be dated, not only long after moses but also long after christ. it shattered, too, the basis of all attempts to build a natural theology on hermetism, such as that to which campanella had pinned his hopes. casaubon's bomb-shell did not immediately take effect and there were many who ignored it, or refused to believe it, and clung obstinately to the old obsessions. nevertheles

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

formula of his invocation is supplied by lovecraft in the curious ritual phrase, of non-human origin, which is chanted by the worshippers of the cthulhu cult: ph nglui mglw nafh cthulhu r lyeh wgah nagl fhtagn. cthulhu represents the abyss of the subconscious or dreaming mind, and astrologically by the sign of scorpio. ceremonially, he is referred to the west (amenta, or the place of the dead in ancient egyptian religion, and geographically, to the site of r lyeh in the south pacific (the exact coordinates for which are to be found in the call of cthulhu) as already stated, nodens is the only member of the elder gods to be mentioned by name, and lovecraft gives no further information concerning him. the sign of the elder gods is described as an upright pentagram containing an eye-shaped s

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL 2

latin version the same place is spoken of as naim, and eusebius says it was located near endor, famous as the abode of the witch, through whose instrumentality saul spoke with samuel after the latter had passed on. but it is not to be supposed that naioth and naim are places, or that they were used interchangeably. they describe two widely different classes of spiritually gifted people, which the ancient egyptians had marked by placing the uraeus upon the brows of one and at the navels of the other. the latter were mediumistic persons, receiving impressions from spirit controls through the solar plexus. they were properly designated naioth by the hebrews who used the feminine suffix to indicate their negative qualities. but the voluntary clairvoyant and the initiate, represented by the egy

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

. and our chief emblems originally came from egypt [william hutchinson, mason, the spirit of masonry, revised by george oliver, new york, bell publishing, originally published in 1775, p. 195] another masonic writer (albert churchward, states that masons are "our present druids [albert churchward, signs and symbols of primordial man: the evolution of religious doctrine from the eschatology of the ancient egyptians, london, england, george allen and company, ltd. 1913, second edition, p. 189. another masonic author, george oliver, also noted freemasonry's connection with the druids "the druids had a high veneration for the serpent. their great god, hu, was typified by that reptile; and he is represented by the bards as 'the wonderful chief dragon, the sovereign of heaven [george oliver, sig

olism, the sex act is portrayed as the union of the perpendicular and the base. we have pictured the triangle ithin. masonic author, r. swinburne clymer typifies, above, with the symbol of the tau w masonic symbolism of the tau gam, and the yoni, the male and female emblems of when he states "the phallus, or lin generation, are found in the triangle and the tau [clymer, the mysteries of osiris or ancient egyptian initiation, quakertown, pa, the philosophical publishing company, 1951, p. 131] masonic author, albert mackey, tells us of the sexual connotation of this hexagram "the triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam. when the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and pass

, at the battle of armageddon, lucifer and his forces will defeat jesus christ and then conquer heaven. thus, the torch signifies the belief that lucifer will ultimately defeat jesus christ. masonic author, manley p. hall, 33 degree mason, states that "the torches represent the occult arts and sciences, the doctrines and dogmas by the light of which truth is made visible [hall, freemasonry of the ancient egyptians to which is added an interpretation of the crata repoa initiation rite, los angeles, the philosophers press, 1937, p. 122; emphasis added] we also find it highly inte resting that one of the masonic publishing houses is called the torch press. we also know from history that the statue of liberty was given to us by illuminist french freemasons in 1876 ring "towe above the shimmeri

erative principle [phallus] was uniformly symbolized by a point within a circle. this emblem was placed by the scandinavian priests and poets on the central summit of a rainbow, which was fabled to be a bridge leading from earth [female vulva] to heaven [great father's pha llus [oliver, signs and symbols, macoy publishing and masonic supply co, p. 14; also r. swinburne, the mysteries of osiris or ancient egyptian initiation, p. 185] a christian author explains this somewhat obscure statement, above, on the sexual symbology of the rainbow "in the ancient jewish kabbala. mystical rabbis taugh he t that the rainbow symbolized a sexual rite. the bow of t rainbow was supposedly the phallus of the male god which descended into the kingdom of the womb, the queen or goddess. the union was said to

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

sdom of the qabalah page 14 the basic element of most of the ancient, and to this day, of many of the modern religions of the world is, the idea of a perfect invisible universe above, which is the real and true paradigm or ideal model, of the visible universe below, the latter being the reflection, a simulacrum or shadow, of the invisible perfect ideal above. this idea was fully understood by the ancient egyptians, as was shown in their deities nut or neith, the upper world, shu or ma, the intermediary, and seb, the earth.14 in india, the same idea is fully set forth in the esoteric books of the vedas, called the upanishads. it is the supreme ideal brahm which is the only true. it manifests itself first in brama, vishnu and siva, past, present and future time, and through these in the visi

GAMBLE ELIZA BURT THE GOD IDEA OF THE ANCIENTS OR SEX IN RELIGION

ng of things it was female. the hindoos regard it as sacred, and in one of their most solemn prayers it is thus invoked: waters, mothers of worlds, purify us![78 [78] quoted by inman from colbrook, vol. i, p. 85. doubtless it was from these ancient speculations regarding the beginnings of things that thales, the milesian philosopher, received his doctrine that water is the original principle. the ancient egyptians and the jewish people to this day have the custom of pouring out all the water contained in any vessel in a house where a death has taken place, because of the idea that as the living being comes from water, so does it make its exit through water. hence "to drink or to use in any way a fluid which contains the life of human beings would be a foul offense" the fact is noted by inm

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

nning were therosicrucians-orso it would seem from the words of their followers. far from seeing the rosicru255 cians for what they were, a creationofthe turmoil that followed the reformation, nineteenth-century occultists could see them only as stemming from a vast antiquity:'therosicrucians of germany are quite ignorantoftheir origin; but by tradition, they suppose themselves descendants of the ancient egyptians, chal255 deans, magi and gymnosophists; and this is probably true" this yearning for along-anddistinguished-ancestry was present, too, in the latter-day rosicrucians of the hermetic orderofthe golden dawn, as it was in all the occult movements and secret brotherhoods of the last century, whether respectable freemasons claiming spiritual descent from the builders of king solomon's

d among the members, but they came to the order fully clothed with their disciplines and fully clothed they left it. w. t. horton and pamela colman smith certainly drew upon magical ideas for the contentoftheirwork255as did austin osman spare,buthe only touched the order at secondhand-buttheir respective styles were born of theartnouveau movement and owed nothing to the idiosyncratic no255 tionsofancient egyptian art dreamed up by mathers for decorat255 ing the temples and vaultsofthe order.thetarotcards used by the order, and those designed later for waite by pamela colman smith, may have influenced more recent occultists in search of inspired interpretationsoftarotsymbolism,buttheir artistic influencehas-fortunately-beennon -existent.c.d. broad is alleged to have been a member of the her

lacked the true magic of egypt, and further the classics retain but faint glimpses of even the eleusinian secrets. and these glimpses serve only to disclose the fact that the eleusinian pupils were partly ignorant of the isiac mysteries, a notable example of which is seen in the use of the words konx om pax, of which even they knew not the meaning, the words being merely the greek imitationofreal ancient egyptian words whose meaning has been a secret for centuries. hence the nought equals nought grade of neophyte is found to possess egyptian characteristics and sym255 bolism, and further an attentive study of the higher grades will reveal the source of much of the culture and illustrate the language of the late eliphaz levi, through whose adeptship and advocacy the study of occultism has b

s being and in the triplicity of the world of sense.theyare thetriadof life.thered cross above the triangle is.asymbolofhim who is unfolded in the light.'thehierophant rises and extends his arms in the form of a cross.hierophant:'glory be to thee, father almighty, forthyglory flows out rejoicing to the endsofthe earth.'thehierophant reseats himself.hierophant:'themystical words khabs, am,pekhtare ancient egyptian and the original of the greek konx, om, pax, which were uttered in the eleusinian mysteries. they refer to the same mode oflight as that which is symbolised by the staff of the kerux.tothe east of the cubical altar are the pillars which are referred by our secret tradition to seth, hermes and solomon.theybear certain hieroglyphical texts from the xviith and cxxvth chapters of the

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d the existence of an omni255 potence who can act at times in such a manner as to leave the traces and steps of the process so hidden as to tempt scoffers to doubt, and doubters to scoff. but although perpetual motion be but a dream to us earth255 bound mortals, we do not doubt a future perpetual existence, and it is as reasonable to picture to ourself a perpetual flame, as an eternity of life.theancient egyptian priests pictured life as a flame.thegreat master of the temple of this world beingthoughts on the ever-burning lamps 55omnipotent, and able to do all things, does not usually proceed by miracles,ofthey will not be prized as such; an essence of miracle is rarity, a miracle imitated is not a second miracle. ordinary events, then, being the extreme of opposition to miracle, there are

of, the masonic aphanism. i shall briefly point out a few masonic points which are illuminated by a comparison with the kabbalah. some references to the mysteries are conveniently interspersed, of these there is much evidence that the egyptian forms are the oldest; now it must be specially remembered that the lecture on the tracing board of the first degree actually refers to these customs of the ancient egyptians as the fount of origin for many masonic points; it refers also to the doctrines of pythagoras whose five pointed star i mention later on. among the masonic points which have been derived from the ancient mysteries, i notice the triple degrees of the system corresponding to the mysteries of serapis, isis, and osiris. now our second degree has feminine suggestions; note, shibboleth

de and material body. the modern theosophist describes this system as the descent of the supernal triad into the lower quaternary. these principles, however, are not quite definite; for some thinkers divide manas, mind, into a higher and a lower, and speak of an antahkarana or thread soul uniting them; other compli255 cations are also heard of, such as the mysterious vehicle called the auric egg. ancient egyptian mythology alsoexhibitsa beliefin several indistinct principles, such as the ka, the ren or name, the ba or soul, the ab and sahu, all dwelling in the khat, the material body. the romans spoke of corpus the body, vita the life essence, animus or mens the mind, and anima the soul: the greeks recognised several principles, such as the psyche the soul, nous or phren the mind, thumos t

alogy in several directions; as, for example, let us considerthepack of playing cards, as now used. we find thefoursuits of diamonds and hearts, both red, representing the higher principles, with spades and162themagical masonclubs, both black, meaning the lower aspects. in the very old and curious tarocchi or tarot cards, to which court de gebelin, eliphaz levi and others grant an origin from the ancient egyptian myths, we find the four suits to be wands, cups, swords and pentacles of similar colours.thetarot pack has also four court cards, king, queen, knight and knave, which are suitable emblems of the four human principles. both types are exactly related in works upon the occult sciences to the symbolism of the kabalistic jehovah, the sacred name of god, composed of the four letters, yo

ngs go stately along; a lion, a war-horse, a he-goat, and a king with his army. in the book of revelation we find mentioned four beasts (living beings, lion, calf, man and eagle) full of eyes, iv, 6-9: four horses, white, red, black and the pale horse called death, vi, 2-8: four hornsofthegolden altar before the eyes of god, ix, 13, and four angels who were bound in the river euphrates, ix, 14.theancient egyptians in their burials of notable men preserved the internal organs in four canopic jars, dedicated tothenumber four165amset,hapi,taumautefandquebsenuph,theso-called children ofhorus,asungod.thesewereguardedbyfourgoddesses, isis,nephthys,neithandserquet.thenumberfourisprominentin several formsofchron255 ology, for example,thehindoos,who allotted vast ages to human history, toldofakrita

ult science, and many such students are convinced that some magical power does reside in these symbols when used by those who have passed through a special course of astrological and kabalistic study. the french author, court de gebelin, in hismond primitil,paris, 1781, was the first to call attention in modern literature to these cards, and to assert that they were a remnant of the wisdom of the ancient egyptians; he has been followed byj.f.divination and its history 213vaillant, and p. christian, as well as by the noted mystic eliphaz levi. apart from the use of tarots by the gypsies of southern europe, and the use of common playing cards by gypsies in england for purposes of fortune telling, there has been during the last twenty years a revival of card divination by ladies in their home

ted in egypt, or during which dynasty they reached the period of greatest importance;butit is generally agreed that they had already lost much of their religious significance by the time the greek domination of egypt took place, about 300b.c.,butthe greeks had introduced them into their own country centuries before they became rulers in egypt. we are all, no doubt, led to the belief that the most ancient egyptian mysteries were of high importance, becausean essay ontheancient mysteries 273we still see in egyptian ruins the works of men who must have possessed such great knowledge and such vast powers, that we moderns are forced to confess that we are ignorant of how they erected such pyramids and temple buildings, and some of our engineers doubt if we could erect such structures even now w

rs doubt if we could erect such structures even now withourmodern machinery. we recognise that such builders of religious monuments must have had a science and arts of their own, which have been lost to the world, and we can only suppose that men with such giant intellects must have had equally notable religious conceptions and exalted ideas of the universe and its creator, god.inthe times of the ancient egyptian dynasties, the priest255 hood was the dominant power, and not the military. each pharaoh was passed through the priestly system of culture, and on his accession became the head of the religion of the country. he was esteemed the chief magician as well as the benevolent despot of his people.thepriestly caste included a prophetic branch of diviners and astrologers, mathematicians an

ve, and near at hand. i adored them.'276themagical masonit has also been held that virgil in the sixth book of l243.neid is referring to some details concerning the sacred mysteries in the visit of l243.neas to hades. a small volume, calledcrata repoa,describing initiation into the egyptian mysteries, was published in 1770, anony255 mously.itprofessed to give details of a series of degrees of the ancient egyptian mysteries as follows:1.pasrophoros or novice. 2. neocoros or craftsman. 3. melanophoros or master. 4. christophoros or judge. s. balahatos or philosopher. 6. knephu or astronomer. 7. prophetos, or prophet and priest.itstates that in these grades a secret language, called amma255 nian, was taught and used. this essay was by many people taken as a real revelation of antiquity, but t

of the flood. streams of survivors from this deluge, led by adepts, settled in egypt and passed to central asia, forming the sources of the great ancient nations which have flourished since the deluge. the first to obtain precedence was iran, ancient persia, then india, then chaldeo255 egyptian and semitic dominance, then the greco-roman, and last our own civilization, in which it is believed the ancient egyptians are being reborn. in this succession of nations we see man gradually developing his human consciousness; in persia discerning the two elements of good and evil: then in chaldea arose the dawning study of heavenly bodies affecting theearth;inegypt came the appreci255 ation of form and permanence shown in their buildings, their ideals of some sphere to follow death, by their ritual

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be relegated to a far earlier period inthehistory of the worldthanthat usually assigned to the introduction of cards into europe; and we may take the fact of thetarotbeing the originofthe modern cards as being now pretty well established by general consensus of opinion. it was court de gebelin who, in hismondeprimitif(paris, 1781, wrote 'were we to hear that there exists in our day a work of the ancient egyptians, one of their books which had escaped the flames which devouredtheirsuperb libraries, and which contains their purest doctrine on most interesting subjects, every one would doubtless be anxious to acquire the knowledge of so valuableandextraordinary a work. were we toaddthatthis book is widely spread through a large partofeurope,andthat for several centuries it has been accessibl

subliminal, and superliminal consciousness, and of unconscious cerebra255 tion, none of which seems to take us very much further thanegyptian ritual and modern witchcraft 137the old theory of obsession,butenables the scientist to evade the use of a much-dreaded term, and to present a demi-semi255 materialistic theory, even if it be an unaccountable one. there seems some reason to believe that the ancient egyptians were well acquainted with hypnotism, as a means 267of exorcizing demons. this part of the papyrus of nesi amsu concludes with a long list of the titles and offices of the scribe, but whether these are intended to be recited for the terrorizing of apophi, or are simply given as warrant for the ritual which he sets forth, is not clear. probably the latter, but possibly also it may

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e basic military power of the regimes of the pharaohs. but, we should look more closely at the role of the priests. the priests of ancient egypt were a class referred to in the qur'an as magicians. they represented the cult which supported the regime. it was believed that they had special powers and possessed secret knowledge. by this authority they influ- el from the templars to ancient egypt an ancient egyptian hieroglyphic script enced the egyptian people, and ensured their position within the administration of the pharaohs. this class, known from egyptian records as the "priests of amon" focused their attention on practicing magic and administering their pagan cult; in addition, they also studied various sciences such as astronomy, mathematics and geometry. this class of priests was a

omy, mathematics and geometry. this class of priests was a closed order possessed (so they thought) of a special knowledge. such orders are commonly known as esoteric organizations. in a magazine called mason dergisi (masonic journal, a publication distributed among turkish masons, the roots of freemasonry are stated as going back to this kind of esoteric order, and special mention is made of the ancient egyptian priests: as thought develops in human beings, science advances and as science advances, the number of secrets increases within the lore of an esoteric sys- global freemasonry fc the most important supporters of pharaoh's regime in ancient egypt was the priestly class (magicians. their beliefs later formed the roots of the kabbalah and were transmitted from there to masonry. tem. i

s of years and formed the basis of the power of the priests in egypt.20 how can there be a relationship between the esoteric philosophy of the priests of ancient egypt and present-day freemasons? ancient egypt a classic example in the qur'an of a godless political system disappeared thousands of years ago. can it have any influence today? to find the answer to these questions, we must look at the ancient egyptian priests' beliefs with regards to the origin of the universe and of life. the ancient egyptian belief in materialist evolution in their book the hiram key, the english masonic authors christopher knight and robert lomas argue that ancient egypt has a very important place in regards to the origins of masonry. according to these authors, the most important idea that has transpired to

y" and the "essential organization of matter" knight and lomas continue their foregoing discussion by saying: amazingly, this description of creation perfectly describes the view held by modern science, particularly "chaos theory" which has shown intricate designs which evolve and mathematically repeat within completely unstructured events.22 knight and lomas claim that there is a harmony between ancient egyptian beliefs and modern science, but what they mean by modern science, as we have stressed, is materialist concepts, such as the theory of evolution or chaos theory. despite the fact that these theories have no scientific basis, they have been forcibly imposed on the field of science over the past two centuries, and are presented as scientifically justified (in the following sections w

a replica of the egyptian idols hathor and aphis. in his book, too long in the sun, the christian author richard rives writes: hathor and aphis, the cow and bull gods of egypt, were representatives of sun worship. their worship was just one stage in the long egyptian history of solar veneration. the golden calf at mount sinai is more than sufficient ev- fj the inside story on the kabbalah another ancient egyptian idol: hathor, the golden calf. idence to prove that the feast proclaimed was related to sun worship 23 the influence of the egyptian pagan religion on the israelites occurred in many different stages. as soon as they had encountered a pagan people, this leaning towards heretical belief appeared and, as the verse maintains, they said "moses, give us a god just as these people have

terial being that they could see, as their pagan religion provided the egyptians with. the tendency of the israelites to the paganism of ancient egypt, that we have here outlined, is important to understand and gives us some insight into the corruption of the text of the torah and the origins of the kabbalah. when we consider these two topics carefully, we will see that, at their source, is found ancient egyptian paganism and the materialist philosophy. from ancient egypt to the kabbalah while moses was still alive, the israelites began to create likenesses of the idols they had seen in egypt and to worship them. after moses died, there was less to deter them from backsliding farther into perversity. of course, the same thing cannot be said of all jews, but some of them did adopt egyptian

likenesses of the idols they had seen in egypt and to worship them. after moses died, there was less to deter them from backsliding farther into perversity. of course, the same thing cannot be said of all jews, but some of them did adopt egyptian paganism. indeed, they carried on the doctrines of the egyptian priesthood (pharaoh's magicians, that lay at the foundation of global freemasonry fk an ancient egyptian statue of hathor. that society's beliefs, and corrupted their own faith by introducing these doctrines into it. the doctrine that was introduced into judaism from ancient egypt was the kabbalah. like the system of the egyptian priests, the kabbalah was an esoteric system, and its basis was the practice of magic. interestingly, the kabbalah provides an account of creation quite dif

own faith by introducing these doctrines into it. the doctrine that was introduced into judaism from ancient egypt was the kabbalah. like the system of the egyptian priests, the kabbalah was an esoteric system, and its basis was the practice of magic. interestingly, the kabbalah provides an account of creation quite different from that found in the torah. it is a materialist account, based on the ancient egyptian idea of the eternal existence of matter. murat ozgen, a turkish freemason, has this to say on this topic: it is evident that the kabbalah was composed many years before the torah came into existence. the most important section of the kabbalah is a theory about the formation of the universe. this theory is very different from the story of creation accepted by theist religions. acco

ber of these things was 32. the first ten represented the solar system and the others represented the masses of stars in space. this particularity of the kabbalah shows that it is closely connected to ancient astrological systems of belief. so, the kabbalah is far removed from jewish religion and much more closely related to the ancient mystery religions of the east.24 the jews, by adopting these ancient egyptian materialist and esoteric doctrines that were founded on magic, ignored the related prohibitions in the torah. they took on the magic rituals of other pagan peoples, and thus, the kabbalah became a mystical doctrine within judaism, but contrary to the torah. in her book entitled secret societies and subversive movements, the english writer nesta h. webster says: global freemasonry

en jews who adopted, honored and cherished a tradition foreign to the torah, and changed the latter by adding into it ideas derived from the tradition they espoused. the origin of this tradition stretches back to the priests of ancient egypt (the magicians of pharaoh's regime. it is, in fact, the kabbalah which was passed on from there by a number of jews. the kabbalah assumed a form that enabled ancient egyptian and other pagan doctrines to insinuate themselves into judaism and de- global freemasonry gg velop within it. kabbalists, of course, assert that the kabbalah simply explains in more detail the hidden secrets of the torah, but, in reality, as jewish historian of the kabbalah, theodore reinach, says, the kabbalah is "a subtle poison which enters into the veins of judaism and wholly

velop within it. kabbalists, of course, assert that the kabbalah simply explains in more detail the hidden secrets of the torah, but, in reality, as jewish historian of the kabbalah, theodore reinach, says, the kabbalah is "a subtle poison which enters into the veins of judaism and wholly infests it."26 it is possible, then, to find in the kabbalah clear traces of the materialist ideology of the ancient egyptians. the kabbalah a doctrine opposed to creationism god reveals in the qur'an that the torah is a divine book that was sent as a light to humanity: we sent down the torah containing guidance and light, and the prophets who had submitted themselves gave judgment by it for the jews as did their scholars and their rabbis by what they had been allowed to preserve of god's book to which t

this corrupt doctrine began to develop, whose intent was to satiate jewish arrogance. in spite of its contrary nature to the torah, the kabbalah was introduced into judaism. eventually though, it began to corrupt the torah itself. another interesting point about the corrupt doctrines of the kabbalah is its similarity to the pagan ideas of ancient egypt. as we have discussed in earlier pages, the ancient egyptians believed that matter had always existed; in other words, they rejected the idea that matter was created from nothing. the kabbalah asserts the same thing in relation to human beings; it claims that human beings were not created, and that they are responsible for regulating their own existence. to state it in modern terms: the ancient egyptians were materialists, and, essentially

with its roots in ancient egypt was transmitted to the templars through the kabbalah. in foucault's pendulum, the famous italian novelist, umberto eco, relates these facts in the course of the plot. throughout the novel, he relates, through the mouths of its protagonists, that the templars were influenced by the kabbalah and that the kabbalists possessed a secret that could be traced back to the ancient egyptian pharaohs. according to eco, some prominent jews learned certain secrets taken from the ancient egyptians, and later inserted these into the first five books of the old testament (pentateuch. but, this secret, which was transmitted secretly, could be understood only by the kabbalists (the zohar, written later in spain, and forming the fundamental book of the kabbalah, deals with th

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ion of this formulae as found within the teachings of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, in this interpretation the letters are related to hebrew letters, astrological signs and the trumps of the tarot (fig 28) since this is a cyclic formulae, starting at i and ending at i, the final i is inferred and hence dropped from the formulae. we are accordingly left with inr. when this is found in the ancient egyptian and gnostic systems, it is in the secret word iao. this formulae can be understood in terms of the old egyptian myth of the death of osiris and hence we have isis, apophis, osiris. in the gnostic pantheon we can find a similar interpretation but with o being used to represent oen or aeon, the term used for a gnostic theurgy page 108 i yam water n nour fire r ruach air i yebeshah e

htforms which are programmed to only exist for a predestined time period. a classic example here would be the thoughtforms which exist at any given religious festival or feast. solo thoughtforms these exist to achieve one action only. they are programmed to achieve a certain task or do a certain job. there are some amazing examples of the above classifications. for example, it is thought that the ancient egyptians used a sustained thoughform which took it s energy from the forces around it in the tomb and sand and thus it could exist for an immense time period without degradation. another interesting consideration, is at what stage a thought becomes an eggregore. it has to be realised that all out thoughts are not our own. memes, as special types gnostic theurgy page 172 of thought, can tr

the egyptian god thoth. however this time something strange occurred, his wife rose fell into a trance state and began to chant they are waiting for you. this continued until the 18th of the month. during this day s invocation the startled rose exclaimed he who is waiting is horus. as the story unfolds crowley invokes horus and feels that he has communication with a being called aiwass, who is an ancient egyptian priest. aiwass then dictates to crowley the book of the law- a cryptic book of three chapters. what are we to make of aiwass and the book of the law? while aiwass claims to be a messenger of horus he does sound a lot like aleister crowley, however at the same time, there are complex numerical codes within the book of the law which suggest it is not a conscious fraud. aiwass could

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a. leviathan is the daemon of immortality and initiation, that the beast and scarlet whore moves through to arise from the oceans as the beast 666, the solar spirit of manifestation and creativity) satan south (from the root shtn, meaning adversary. satan is the name associated with azazel the fire djinn, who is also lucifer and samael. the goat with one thousand names by form. satan= set-an, the ancient egyptian god of darkness, chaos and isolation) satan is the adversary, whose symbol can be viewed as a forked stave which rises in the noon-tide sun. belial north (from bliol, a wicked one. belial is the spirit of the earth, created second after lucifer/azazel as a powerful angel. belial is a powerful daemonic and angelick spirit and initiator, and is associated with both the infernal and

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, thou shalt pronounce the consonants with the vowel following in the nomenclature of the same letter in the hebrew alphabet. for example, in b, the vowel following "b" is "e" pronounced ay. therefore, if "b" in an angelic name precedes another as in "sobha" thou mayest pronounce it "sobeh-hah "g" may be either g or jimel (as the arabs do call it) following whether it be hard or soft. this is the ancient egyptian use, whereof the hebrew is but a copy, and that many times a faulty copy, save in the divine and mystical names, and some other things. also "y" and "t" are similar, also "v" and "u, depending whether the use intended be vowel or consonant "x" is the ancient egyptian power of s; but there be some ordinary hebrew names wherein "x" is made x. in pronouncing the names, take each lett

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halt pronounce the consonants with the vowel folloing in the nomenclature of the same letter in the hebrew alphabet. for example, in beth, the vowel following "b" is "e" pronounced ay. therefore, if "b" in an angelic name precedes another as in "sobha" thou mayest pronounce it "sobeh-hah "g" may be either gimel ort jimel (as the araqbs do call it) following whether it be hard or soft. this is the ancient egyptian use, wherof the hebrew is but a coy, and that many times a faulty copy, save in the divine and mystical names, and some other things. also "y" and "t" are similar, also "v" and "u, depending whether the use intended be vowel or consonant "x" is the ancient egyptian power of samekh; but there be some ordinary hebrew names wherein "x" is made tzaddi" in pronouncing the names, take e

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ng of a force in nature then in operation, rather than a continuous and graduated ceremony to build up the same. consequently also, it is well to use the password then in being as an adjunct to the other names employed in magical ceremonies as bringing into operation the link with the solar light. notes on the opening exordium of z the great tho-oth is the highest aspect of the hermes of the most ancient egyptian mysteries, and corresponds almost to the great angel wrffm. it is the archangel of rtk in the briatic world. the mercury of the romans must not be confused with this great hermes* the doctrines of gnosticism and of valentinus approached those of the pure qabalah. in them we find speech and silence. across the abyss of silence comes the primal speech. the divine ones here referred

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uires at least three key ingredients: great journeys of discovery; first-class mathematical and cartographic skills; sophisticated chronometers. it was not until harrison s chronometer became generally available in the 1770s that the third of these preconditions was fulfilled. this brilliant invention made it possible for cartographers to fix longitude precisely, something that the sumerians, the ancient egyptians, the greeks and the romans, and indeed all other known civilizations before the eighteenth century were supposedly unable 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 doc

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 sacrifice, and providing them with their first legal code, osiris left egypt and travelled about the worl

rs old. in other words, they had been carved here, by a people with absolutely no knowledge of christianity, a full millennium before the arrival of the first spanish missionaries on the altiplano. where, come to that, had the christians obtained their crosses? not only from the shape of the structure to which jesus christ was nailed, i thought, but from some much older source as well. hadn t the ancient egyptians, for example, used a hieroglyph very like a cross (the ankh, or crux ansata) to symbolize life. the breath of life. eternal life itself?8 had that symbol originated in egypt, or had it perhaps occurred elsewhere, earlier still? with such ideas chasing one another around my head, i walked slowly around puma punku. the extensive perimeter, which formed a rectangle several hundred f

ble-lion graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 133 symbolism from ancient egypt, depicting the akeru, lion gods of yesterday and today (akeru was written in hieroglyphs as. the religions of both regions share many other common images and ideas. also noteworthy is the fact that p achi, the central american word for human sacrifice, means, literally to open the mouth which calls to mind a strange ancient egyptian funerary ritual known as the opening of the mouth. likewise it was believed in both regions that the souls of dead kings were reborn as stars. deus ex machina villahermosa, tabasco province i was looking at an elaborate relief that had been dubbed man in serpent by the archaeologists who found it at la venta. according to expert opinion it showed an olmec, wearing a head-dress and

each other during the historical period, than between the two middle eastern cultures and the cultures of far-off central america, which enjoyed at most only haphazard, slight and intermittent contacts prior to the discovery of the new world by columbus in ad 1492. eaters of the dead, earth monsters, star kings, dwarves and other relatives for some curious reason that has not been explained, the ancient egyptians had a special liking and reverence for dwarves.1 so, too, did the civilized peoples of ancient central america, right back to olmec times.2 in both cases it was believed that dwarves were directly connected to the gods.3 and in both cases dwarves were favoured as dancers and were shown as such in works of art.4 in egypt s early dynastic period, more than 4500 years ago, an ennead

facilitate the dead monarch s rapid rebirth in the heavens: oh king, you are this great star, the companion of orion, who traverses the sky with orion. you ascend from the east of the sky, being renewed in your due season, and rejuvenated in your due time. 11 we have encountered the orion constellation before, on the plains of nazca, and we shall encounter it again. meanwhile, let us consider the ancient egyptian book of the dead. parts of its contents are as old as the civilization of egypt itself and it serves as a sort of baedeker for the transmigration of the soul. it instructs the deceased on how to overcome the dangers of the afterlife, enables him to assume the form of several mythical creatures, and equips him with the passwords necessary for admission to the various stages, or lev

parallel vision of the perils of the afterlife? there it was 6 the mythology of mexico and central america, p. 148. 7 popol vuh: the sacred book of the ancient quiche maya (english version by delia goetz and sylvanus g. morley from the translation by adrian recinos, university of oklahoma press, 1991, p. 163. 8 ibid, 164. 9 ibid, p. 181; the mythology of mexico and central america, p. 147. 10 the ancient egyptian pyramid texts (trans. r. o. faulkner, oxford university press, 1969. numerous utterances refer directly to the stellar rebirth of the king, e.g. 248, 264, 265, 268, and 570( i am a star which illumines the sky, etc. 11 ibid, utt. 466, p. 155. 12 the ancient egyptian book of the dead (trans. r. o. faulkner, british museum publications, 1989. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods

hat the passengers in the barque of the dead pharaoh, and in the canoe in which double comb makes his final journey, include (in both cases) a dog or dogheaded deity, a bird or bird-headed deity, and an ape or ape-headed deity?17 the seventh stratum of the ancient mexican underworld was called teocoyolcualloya: place where beasts devour hearts .18 is it a coincidence that one of the stages of the ancient egyptian underworld, the hall of judgement, involved an almost identical series of symbols? at this crucial juncture the deceased s heart was weighed against a feather. if the heart was heavy with sin it would tip the balance. the god thoth would note the judgement on his palette and the heart would immediately be devoured by a fearsome beast, part crocodile, part hippopotamus, part lion

are reproduced in john romer, valley of the kings, michael o mara books limited, london, 1988, p. 167, and in j. a. west, the traveller s key to ancient egypt, harrap columbus, london, 1989, pp. 282-97. 17 in the case of ancient egypt the dog represents upuaut, the opener of the ways, the bird (a hawk) represents horus, and the ape, thoth. see the traveller s key to ancient egypt, p. 284, and the ancient egyptian book of the dead, pp. 116-30. for ancient central america see note 15. 18 pre-hispanic gods of mexico, p. 40. 19 the egyptian book of the dead (trans. e. a. wallis budge, arkana, london and new york, 1986, p. 21. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 146 and believed by archaeologists to date back to pre-dynastic times.20 the high priest and four assistants participated, wieldin

connectedness links the belief systems of pre-colombian mexico with those of sumer in mesopotamia. again the evidence is more suggestive of an ancient common ancestor than of any direct influence. 20 see, for example, r. t. rundle-clark, myth and symbol in ancient egypt, thames& hudson, london, 1991, p. 29. 21 henri frankfort, kingship and the gods, university of chicago press, 1978, p. 134. the ancient egyptian pyramid texts, e. g. utts. 20, 21. 22 robert bauval and adrian gilbert, the orion mystery, wm. heinemann, london, 1994, pp. 208-10, 270. 23 the gods and symbols of ancient mexico and the maya, pp. 40, 177. 24 maya history and religion, p. 175. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 147 take the case of oannes, for example. oannes is the greek rendering of the sumerian uan, the na

g to a man half that age.4 having reached the bottom of the stairway, some eighty-five feet below the floor of the temple, i crossed the chamber where the sacrificial victims had lain and gazed directly into pacal s tomb. the air was dank, full of mildew and damp-rot, and surprisingly cold. the sarcophagus, set into the floor of the tomb, had a curious shape, flared strikingly at the feet like an ancient egyptian mummy case. these were made of wood and were equipped with wide bases since they were frequently stood upright. but pacal s coffin was made of solid stone and was uncompromisingly horizontal. why, then, had the mayan artificers gone to so much trouble to widen its base when they must have known that it served no useful purpose? could they have been slavishly copying a design-featu

erning the perils of the afterlife, might pacal s sarcophagus not be an expression of a common legacy linking ancient egypt with the ancient cultures of central america? rectangular in shape, the heavy stone lid of the sarcophagus was ten inches thick, three feet wide and twelve and a half feet long. it, too, seemed to have been modelled on the same original as the magnificent engraved blocks the ancient egyptians had used for this exact purpose. 3 quoted in the atlas of mysterious places, pp. 68-9. 4 ibid. michael d. coe, the maya, thames and hudson, london, 1991, pp. 108-9. 5 fair gods and stone faces, pp. 94-5. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 154 indeed, it would not have looked out of place in the valley of the kings. but there was one major difference. the scene carved on top

has described as one of the most fertile inventions of humanity .16 someone else s science? let us now consider the question of venus, a planet that was of immense symbolic importance to all the ancient peoples of central america, who identified it strongly with quetzalcoatl (or gucumatz or kukulkan, as the plumed serpent was known in the maya dialects).17 unlike the ancient greeks, but like the ancient egyptians, the maya understood that venus was both the morning star and the evening 10 william gates s notes (p. 81) to diego de landa s yucatan before and after the conquest. 11 this is evident from the dresden codex. see, for example, an introduction to the study of maya hieroglyphs, p. 32. 12 the maya, p. 176; mysteries of the mexican pyramids, p. 291; the rise and fall of maya civiliza

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t meaning that, when used to refer to a male being, renders the phrase androgynous. the cross references are complex. for example, koot hoomi= 109= androgynous, but also lord hadit now (from a qabalistic standpoint, identical with lord hadit won (compare the 1970s new age control seth. seth= 58= hadit. hadit, nuit and ra hoor khuit are the trinity of the book of the law) although the names are of ancient egyptian deities, in the book of the law they are transformed into the forces basic to the present aeon. the androgynous lam= 24= god but also now (or won. lam, as we note elsewhere in this book, is the prototype of the modern gray alien. both beings carry the implication of divine victory of the androgynous god. interestingly, aia aziz (65, 2 meade layne is a major link between the worlds

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from their surroundings and from themselves. they are embodiments of the mascul ine current and are total ly lacking the feminine current. for this reason the masculine current is quite strong in vta while the feminine current is too weak to even be noticed. crowley described these residents as being shaped like pyramids of dust. pyramids were used as both places of initiation and as tombs by the ancient egyptians. in the same way, you can think of your body as either a temple of the spirit (an initiatory chamber) or as a prison (a tomb. the former view is held by the residents of vta. the symbolism of dust was used to emphasize their lack of life. the vast numbers of residents, all quietly sharing the same detachment and unconcern, gave rise to the name city of the pyramids. crowley's gui

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ro, it means as in truth. it is a salutation quite frequently used in the rituals of the organization, both in the temple lodges and in the grand lodge rituals. peculiar to note, if you reverse the letters of the word, cromaat, they constitute the abbreviation of the words: the ancient and mystical order rosae crucis. crux ansata.the looped cross. a tau or t cross with a loop at the top. it is of ancient egyptian origin and was referred to by them as the ankh or key of life. an ancient symbol of immortality and of life. it was often included as part of a pharaoh's name as in tutankhamen. cycle.a period of time, evolution, process, method, or manifestation. mystically every progressive action is in cycles, definite and important. the cycle of human life is divided into periods of seven year

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f theancientegyptians,ii.,22,v,28.)good accounts of the urim and thummim, or rather of what is understood concerning them, may be found in winer'sbib/ischesrealverterbuch.in the rev. d. kitto'scyclopcediaofbiblicalliterature,are extracted the observations and wood-cuts of sir gardner wilkinson, before whose researches ultra255 theologians endeavoured to make the world believe that the immense and ancient egyptian nation had only copied thejews, whose urim and thummim they had learnt after solomon had married a daughter of pharaoh! dr kitto, though we dare say quite orthodox, is not among these, but cheerfully admits the force of sir g. wilkinson's observations: just as other orthodox divines cheerfully allow ustoadmit the fact of the existence of the countless worlds for millions of years

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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 believed that they were set apart from the people who lived in these surr

fourth millennium bce, agriculture-based communities were established in the nile valley and delta. this great climatic and cultural change may have shaped the idea found in egyptian myth that the world had once been different. egypt had become one of the driest places on earth and a hard country to get in or out of. to the north there were marshes, saltwater lakes, and the mediterranean sea. the ancient egyptians were never enthusiastic seafarers and were one of the few coastal cultures to worship no deities of the sea. to the east, west, and south there were deserts that were dangerous to cross. these deserts made up about 90 percent of egypt s territory. the egyptians called them the red land in contrast to the black land of the valley.6 the mountainous areas of the deserts contained go

barley grew very quickly in the moist, fertile soil. in a good year, the egyptians could grow more grain than they needed to feed the population. in bad years, the flood might not be high enough to reach all the fields, or it might be too high and sweep away villages and towns and drown thousands of people. the whole welfare of the country depended on this one phenomenon, and because of this the ancient egyptians seem to have felt both uniquely blessed and uniquely vulnerable. aspects of the inundation were personified as deities (see hapy in deities, themes, and concepts, but there was no god or goddess of the nile. introduction 3 figure 1. the nile valley (black land) seen from the desert hills (red land (courtesy of geraldine pinch) the annual rising of the nile was thought of as part

rite about egyptian myth in a tone of baffled irritation. g. s. kirk complained that a liberalism of interpretation, amounting at times to a chaotic indifference to consistency and meaning, is characteristic of egyptian thought. 8 much of this confusion can be resolved if the myths are examined in the contexts in which they occur, rather than in isolation. history and the sources of egyptian myth ancient egyptian religion had no official holy book equivalent to the bible or the koran (quran. the relationships between deities did not become fixed at one 4 handbook of egyptian mythology moment in time but went on changing and developing for thousands of years. egyptian mythology was never gathered by priests into one authorized version or harmonized in any long literary work comparable to he

fting from a system in which the king honored the gods and goddesses in their local shrines to one in which the gods and goddesses were brought together to help sanctify the king in life and the afterlife. this trend developed further in the third dynasty. some egyptologists place the third dynasty at the end of the early dynastic period, whereas others put it at the beginning of the old kingdom. ancient egyptian king lists gave particular prominence to a third dynasty ruler called netjerikhet, later known as djoser (zoser. his reign was regarded as the beginning of a new era. introduction 7 old kingdom (dynasties 3 6) and first intermediate period (dynasties 7 11: c. 2686 2055 bce in later times the egyptians looked back on the old kingdom as a golden age of stability and achievement. kin

ting the day and night voyages of ra were inscribed at the entrances to some new kingdom private tombs or on statues of priests and officials. by the end of the new kingdom, a version of the litany of ra was appended to the mortuary texts known as the book of the dead. the book of the dead the egyptian book of the dead is a term coined in the nineteenth century ce for a body of texts known to the ancient egyptians as the spells for going forth by day. after the book of the dead was first translated by egyptologists, it gained a place in the popular imagination as the bible of the ancient egyptians. the comparison is very inappropriate. the book of the dead was not the central holy book of egyptian religion. it was just one of a series of manuals composed to assist the spirits of the elite

s were translated into western languages during the second half of the nineteenth century ce. some of these sources, particularly e. a. wallis budge s translation of the book of the dead, were drawn on by occult writers such as the theosophist madam blavatsky and the self-styled great beast, aleister crowley. sigmund freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, was attracted by the symbolic qualities of ancient egyptian art, and his colleague carl jung was fascinated by egyptian solar mythology.112 sir james frazer, the father of anthropology, devoted several chapters of his influential book the golden bough to the myths of osiris and isis, which he interpreted as primarily relating to the annual growth and decay of vegetation.113 other twentieth-century ce anthropologists and historians of relig

gyptian art, and his colleague carl jung was fascinated by egyptian solar mythology.112 sir james frazer, the father of anthropology, devoted several chapters of his influential book the golden bough to the myths of osiris and isis, which he interpreted as primarily relating to the annual growth and decay of vegetation.113 other twentieth-century ce anthropologists and historians of religion used ancient egyptian religion to argue that myths were always linked with rituals or even that all myths evolved to explain existing rituals. extreme advocates of the latter school derived all the world s myths from prehistoric egyptian kingship rituals.114 equally controversial in recent times has been martin bernal s work on the egyptian contribution to greek mythology and culture.115 one offshoot o

116 the sensational discovery of the tomb of tutankhamun in 1922 encouraged the cinema s fascination with the curse of the mummy. 117 the plot of the re- introduction 47 cent hollywood blockbuster the mummy, in which a mercenary searches for a magical golden book in a haunted city, is very close to that of the setna story. like setna, the hero has to learn that seeking the secret knowledge of the ancient egyptians can be a risky business. you have been warned. notes 1. for summaries of these and many other interpretations, see g. s. kirk, myth: its meaning and functions in ancient and other cultures (cambridge and berkeley, 1970; or w. g. doty, mythography: the study of myths and rituals, 2d ed (tuscaloosa, al, and london, 2000. 2. kirk, myth, 252 261. 3. for examples, see clyde kluckhohn

rkeley, 1970; or w. g. doty, mythography: the study of myths and rituals, 2d ed (tuscaloosa, al, and london, 2000. 2. kirk, myth, 252 261. 3. for examples, see clyde kluckhohn, myths and rituals: a general theory, harvard theological review 35 (1942: 45 79. 4. kirk, myth, 254 255. 5. it is a feature of etiological myths that, factually speaking, the explanation given is nearly always wrong. 6. in ancient egyptian color symbolism, black was a good color standing for fertility and rebirth, whereas red was a bad color standing for danger and sometimes for evil. 7. because of the nile flood, all permanent settlements had to be built on banks or mounds of high ground within the floodplain or in the desert hills that flank the nile valley. the annual flood is now controlled by the huge aswan dam

. 11. for a very detailed study of these rules about the content and style of art, see heinrich sch fer, principles of egyptian art, rev. ed, trans. and ed. john baines (oxford, 1986. those with less time to spare should consult the first two chapters in gay robins, the art of ancient egypt (london, 1997. 12. a variety of views on divine kingship can be found in d. o connor and d. silverman (eds, ancient egyptian kingship (leiden, 1995. see also l. bell, mythology and iconography of divine kingship in ancient egypt (chicago, 1994. 13. this copy may date to the twenty-third century bce. see d. b. redford, pharaonic kinglists, annals, and day-books: a contribution to the study of the egyptian sense of history (mississauga, ontario, 1986. 48 handbook of egyptian mythology 14. for a comprehens

nes (london, 1988, 124 133. 18. for a summary of recent theories about pyramid complexes, see dieter arnold, royal cult complexes of the old and middle kingdoms, in temples of ancient egypt, ed. byron e. shafer (ithaca, 1997, 31 85. 19. for a full bibliography of translations and interpretations of the pyramid texts and all the other funerary texts mentioned in this chapter, see erik hornung, the ancient egyptian books of the afterlife, trans. david lorton (ithaca and london, 1999. 20. recent research has suggested that the stars and planets were thought of as forming part of the great cycle of the sun s progression through the sky, so it was not contradictory to claim that the deceased king was joining both the sun and the stars. 21. these statements are from pyramid text 477. this is typ

ion ceremony, or as part of the sed festival at which a king s power was renewed by the gods, or a royal funeral. 25. for a persuasive interpretation of the religious symbolism of middle kingdom tomb decoration, see janice kamrin, the cosmos of khnumhotep ii at beni hasan (london and new york, 1999. introduction 49 26. for a translation and study of the book of two ways, see leonard h. lesko, the ancient egyptian book of two ways (berkeley, 1972. 27. hornung, the ancient egyptian books of the afterlife, 11. 28. see mircea eliade, shamanism: archaic techniques of ecstasy, trans. w. r. trask (new york, 1964. 29. both views about the coffin texts are represented among the essays in h. willems (ed, the world of the coffin texts (leiden, 1996. 30. the services in egyptian temples did not includ

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hagus &c; in fact, he was painfully anxious to omit nothing from the inscriptions in his tomb which would propitiate any god, or appease the wrath and turn aside the opposition of any of the fiends wherewith he had filled his underworld. footnotes 8:1 see a letter in the times of june 22nd, 1905 (p. 4, on the "most ancient temple at thebes" by prof. e. naville and mr. if. r. hall. 11:1 see birch, ancient egyptian texts front the coffin of amamu in the british museum, london, 1886. 12:1 schack-schackenburg, das buch von den zwei wegen des seligen toten, leipzig, 1903. 13:1 see page 49, l. 9-p. 51, l. 11. 13:2 see page 49, ll. 4-9. 17:1 see maspero's recueil de travaux, tom. xxvii, p. 67. 17:2 according to m. legrain, the iiird dynasty (recueil, tom. xxvii, p. 67. 23:1 see within, chapter iv

apter iv, p. 85. next: chapter ii. the earliest egyptian conception of the other world. sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 27 chapter ii. the earliest egyptian conception of the other world. having briefly referred to the origin and development of the magical, religious, and purely funeral texts which, sometimes with and sometimes without illustrations, formed the "guides" to the ancient egyptian underworld, the form of the conceptions concerning the place of departed spirits as it appears in the recensions of the xviiith and xixth dynasties must now be considered. to reconstruct the form which they took in the predynastic period is impossible, for no materials exist, and the documents of the early empire are concerned chiefly with providing the deceased with an abundance

kingdom of osiris, the judgment of the dead, the life of the beatified in sekhet-hetepet, the punishment of the wicked, and the foes of the sun-god. 2. a series of texts and pictures which represent the magical ceremonies that were performed in very ancient times with the view of reconstructing the body of the sun, and of making him rise each day. that the book of gates embodied many of the most. ancient egyptian religious beliefs and traditions is evident, but it is. quite certain that it never became as popular as the book am-tuat; it must always be a matter for wonder that seti i, having covered several walls in his tomb with the texts of this book, should fill several more with sections of the book of gates, and then have a complete copy of it cut and inlaid on the sides of his alabast

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ch 381 secfet maaonic dpben 3s5 jehovah not the "ineffable nanw' 398 chapter ix -the vedas and the bible ne*rly evwy myth baaed on some gnat truth 405 whence the christian sabbath 406 antiquity of the ved s 410 ^rthasoran doctrine of the potentialities of number* 417 'd*ys of (bnetu and 'days' of brahmi 422 fall ot man and the deluge in the hiadh books 425 antiquity of the mancient egyptians of the aryan race? 434 skmnel. david, and solomon mythicsl powmages 439 ^mbcjiam of noah's ark 447 "nie patriaichs identical with sodiacal signs 459 ad biue legends bdong to univenal history 4c9 chapter x the devil-myth itw devil officially recognised by the church 477 sktan tbe mainstay of sacmdolalism 480 idmtity of staaa irith the e^tiui typhod 483 ifis relatiini to mn>ent-wot

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r self destructive behavior. maya. hindu mother of creation, weaver of the web of life and illusion. the virgin aspect of kali s virgin, mother and crone. maya comes to show us the illusionary nature of the material world, she brings magic and creativity. maeve. intoxicating irish goddess of the magical land of tara. maeve challenges us to act responsibly and become the queen of our domain. maat. ancient egyptian goddess of law, order, truth and justice. maat comes to bring justice to our life, to right wrongs and administer lessons that we need. freya. northern european goddess of sexuality of maiden and mother as two aspects of the great goddess. freya assists us in honoring our sexuality and connecting with our vital, primal energy and to be fully present in our body. divine nutrition:

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n any form desired, of hearing the forces of nature by being enshrined as a living bai" and the rubric is "the united with osiris shall recite it when he has entered the harbour. may glorious things be done thereby upon earth. may all the words of the adept be fulfilled" owing to the complex use of symbols, the ritual translation of the chapter can only be understood by perpetual reference to the ancient egyptian commentaries, and therefore the following paraphrase has been put together to convey to modern minds as nearly as possible the ideas conceived by the old egyptians in this glorious triumphal song of the soul of man made one with osiris, the redeemer "i am tum made one with all things "i have become nu. i am ra in his rising ruling by right of his power i am the great god self-bego

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ber. 4. egyptian evidences 5. knowing these facts to be so from my own experience, i set to work to collect ordinary physical-plane corroborative evidence for them from such books as were within my reach, and found even more than i had hoped. the explanation of the first degree t c b c begins by remarking that the usages and customs among freemasons have ever borne a near affinity to those of the ancient egyptians, but does not furnish us with any illustrations of the points of similarity. these are to be found in bro. churchward fs most illuminative books, signs and symbols ofprimordial man and the arcana of freemasonry, also in the arcane schools, by bro. john yarker, and freemasonry and the ancient gods, by bro. j. s. m. ward. i will proceed to summarize, with grateful acknowledgment, t

memberment of osiris, in which his body was cut into pieces and then put together again- not the body of a real person, of course, but none the less very realistically enacted. these splendid processions swept down the river between the thronging multitudes of worshippers, shedding the benediction of the gods as they passed by, and evoking tremendous enthusiasm and devotion in the people. 48. the ancient egyptians have often been accused of polytheism, but in reality they were no more guilty of the charge than are the hindus. all men knew and worshipped the one god, amen-ra, the gone without a second h, the centre of whose manifestation on the physical plane is the sun; but they worshipped him under different aspects and through different channels. in one of the hymns addressed to him it w

a vast number of churches dotted all over the land; the egyptian plan required only the action of a few grand lodges established in the principal cities in order to flood the whole kingdom with the hidden light- the work of the ordinary lodges being regarded as subsidiary to these, and rather as a training ground for membership in the grand lodges. 57. the central doctrine of the religion of the ancient egyptians was that the divine power dwelt in every man, even the lowest and most degraded, and they called that power gthe hidden light h. they held that through that light, which existed in all, men could always be reached and helped, and that it was their business to find that light within every one, however unpromising, and to strengthen it. the very motto of the pharaoh was glook for t

st assuredly we are doing work, collecting, concentrating and storing up great superhuman forces, and then, with the closing blessing, pouring all that out upon the world. without this, all the preliminaries are, as it says in the co-masonic mystic charge, glike massive doorways, leading nowhither h. 76. there is no reason why we in the present day should not do as much with our ritual as did the ancient egyptians. any defects that may stand in the way are to be found not in the outer world, but in the failure on the part of the brn. to realize the seriousness of the work which they have undertaken, or to rise to the degree of unselfishness that is requisite to ensure regular attendance for the sake of humanity. in egypt no one troubled the bro. secretary with letters of excuse; the brn. c

be induced to share in this vast undertaking. our members must also be able, when they in turn visit other lodges, to explain our method of working, and show how, from the occult point of view, the ceremonies should be performed. above all, they must carry with them everywhere the strong magnetism of a completely harmonious centre, the potent radiation of brotherly love. 88. to us also, as to the ancient egyptians, the lodge should be holy ground, consecrated and set apart for masonic work, never to be used for any secular purpose. it should have an atmosphere of its own, just as have the great medieval cathedrals; as they are permeated by the influence of centuries of devotion, so should the very walls of our temple radiate strength, broadmindedness and brotherly love. 89. chapter ii 90

foreseen that there would be a great flood, and the aryan portion of the egyptian population had left the country and gone over to arabia, where it was mountainous. when the returned a long time after the flood they found the nilotic negroes in possession of their country, and to some slight extent they blended with them; that is the explanation of the traces of negro blood which are found in the ancient egyptians. 247. these nilotic negroes also used the same symbol, but they altered it somewhat; instead of having the two sticks crossed (fig. 8 a, they laid them across the vertical rod one above the other (fig. 8 b, thereby making the double cross which is still used by the greek church, having come to it via the coptic church. but in the meantime another development of this symbol had ta

of the ancient mysteries, and also explains why the essential part of the masonic clothing, to be worn by all with the exceptions above mentioned, is the apron. our modern apron has departed somewhat from the form used in ancient egypt; no doubt it was modified at the time when it was found necessary to merge the speculative and operative freemasons, in the days of persecution by the church. the ancient egyptian apron(*see plate i, and fig. 12) was triangular, with the apex upward, and its ornamentation differed in several respects from that used at the present time. but the most important change is in the thought that now prevails, that the apron itself is everything, 315. figure 12 316. 317. and that the band which passes round the body exists merely to secure it and retain it in place

. also instructs the n. in the s c s of this degree, a s c, a g c and a w c the s c in this degree is often supposed to be related to the p c mentioned in the o, but the s c, existed long before the p c, which was invented to fit it. among the egyptians the same p c existed, and even before them among the nilotic negroes in egypt, and probably in other places as well. it mattered enormously to an ancient egyptian that his body should be cast into the waves, and that he should not be decently buried with the proper rites, which he believed would set him free from the physical body, to which otherwise he might be tied. in the ghost stories of homer, in the iliad and the odyssey, in nearly all cases when unhappy ghosts returned they did so because they wanted their bodies to be buried with pr

careful measurements of the mean equatorial horizontal solar parallax, taken at the time of the transits of venus in 1874 and 1882, and they estimated it at ninety-two and a half million miles. i remember that mr. gladstone announced that in the house of commons, and it aroused great interest at the time. in the eleventh edition of the encyclopedia britannica it is given as 92,998,000 miles. the ancient egyptians made it 92,996,08 miles; who shall say that they may not have been nearer to the truth than we? 553. in ancient egypt the t c f c i c g c was taken as the symbol of instinct. i am using there a word which is generally applied only to animals, and i do not want it to be misunderstood. by instinct was meant an inner feeling- the instinctive feeling that we have with regard to thing

f the rose-croix of heredom, through which he finds the divine love reigning in his own heart and in those of his brn. he also learns that god has descended and shared our lower nature with us expressly in order that we may ascend to share his true nature with him. 787. the name of t.g.a.o.t.u. which is revealed to the aspirant in this most wonderful 18 was the central and innermost secret of the ancient egyptian mystery-teaching. the h.o.a.t.f. in his incarnation as christian rosenkreutz translated the word into latin, most ingeniously retaining its remarkable mnemonic character, all its complicated implications, and even a close approximation to its original sound. naturally it cannot be given here, but the general character of the instruction which it conveys in so skilful a manner may

ht k.h. the darker aspects of karma are largely connected with man fs ignorance of the nature of god, and with confusion with regard to many forms in which he reveals himself, and thus the s c s of the 30 contain the heart of its philosophy. that degree would not be fully and validly conferred unless these s c s were duly communicated, since they express its inner meaning and purpose. 797. in the ancient egyptian instruction, corresponding to this group of degrees, it was taught that whatsoever a man sowed that also must he reap, and that if he sowed evil the result would be suffering to himself. the karma of nations and races was also studied, and the inner working of the law upon the different planes was investigated by the inner sight, and shown to the student. the whole of what we now

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-general, linked to his higher self, never to desert him unless by unworthiness he first deserts them and casts them off. the symbols of the sun and moon are seen to-day on the gauntlets of the sovereign grand inspector-general, and they are intended to refer to these great angelic powers in the inner worlds. 183. the powers associated with the 33 appear to have been slightly modified since those ancient egyptian times. the great white angels seemed to be sterner and more rhadamanthine in ancient egypt; today those who belong to the degree are in some ways gentler, though their power is no less splendid. this stage combined the wonderful love of horus the son with the ineffable life and strength of osiris the divine father, and isis, the eternal mother of the world; and this union of love

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revented any poisonous drug from having power to harm. the idea of the amulet is ancient. the earliest amulets were likely to have been natural objects with unusual shapes or colors. later, amulets were crafted into symbolic shapes. a figurine of one s god(dess) has been and continues to be a popular amulet theme. catholics utilize figurines and pictures of certain saints in a similar manner. the ancient egyptians used eye amulets to protect good health. they also used the udjat eye on pottery, rings, and other amulets to ward off the forces of darkness. the udjat eye was the characteristic stylization of the eye of the youthful egyptian sun god horus. the udjat eye was placed on rings in ancient egypt. the scarab beetle symbolized resurrection after death and protection against evil magic

urst publishers, 1994. schick, lawrence. heroic worlds: a history and guide to role-playing games. amherst, ny: prometheus books, 1991. stackpole,michael. the truth about role-playing games. in shawn carlson and gerald larue, ed. satanism in america. el cerrito, ca: gaia press, 1989. wise, russ. satanism: the world of the occult, probe ministries. http//www.probe.org/docs/satanism.html. egypt the ancient egyptians originally had no figure corresponding to a western satan. over time, however, set (also seth; sutekh, originally the god of the lower kingdom, became an evil deity. historians speculate that during reign of the hyksos, a foreign people who controlled egypt for 400 years, set was identified with their own god of war, baal, and worshiped under the name sutekh. after the hyksos lef

have followed the first century edition, rendering it impossible to identify the original text. besides the key of solomon and its derivations, many other grimoires circulated in the middle ages. some of these are still used as references in modern witchcraft. the intent of the majority of grimoires was to teach magicians how to summon and control the power of spirits and demons. the sources were ancient egyptian,greek,hebrew, and latin texts. the rituals illustrated in grimoires are usually very complicated. they suggest ways of dressing and of behaving during and prior to evocation ceremonies. they contain prayers and incantations, directions for the creation of amulets, instructions on how to sacrifice animals, and provide lists of demons and spirits who can be summoned through the grim

l units of the church of satan, and decided to reorganize the church as a fellowship of individuals. this action prompted the formation of the temple of set. the temple was established by michael a. aquino, a magister templi with the church of satan, lilith sinclair, head of the largest of the grottos in spottiswood, new jersey, and other cos priests. the temple of set is a group dedicated to the ancient egyptian deity believed to have become the model for the christian satan. in sharp contrast to laveyan satanism, the temple affirms that the prince of darkness is a real being. at the time of the schism, aquino was the editor of the church of satan s periodical, the cloven hoof. aquino was particularly upset by lavey s practice of bestowing priesthoods upon individuals only nominally assoc

s made by a christian chaplain, in the late 1980s he was investigated by local, federal, and military agencies for supposedly sexually molesting a young girl at the army base in san francisco. an in-depth investigation showed him to be completely uninvolved with the day-care center on base or any of the children. the temple of set views itself as a philosophical organization, revolving around the ancient egyptian principle of xeper (which setians translate as self-improvement or self-creation, and the ideals represented by a modern understanding of set, perhaps the closest divinity the egyptians had to satan.many members of the temple believe that the individual does not automatically have an immortal self, but that he or she can, by certain practices, achieve immortality. thus, while xepe

s slain. in relation to the daily movement of the sun from east to west, the sunset was used by many traditions to locate the realm of the dead in the west. in ancient mesopotamia, the underworld was viewed as a dark realm, a land of no return under the tyrannical rule of a queen (later a king and a queen. the idea of a hereafter that differed depending upon social status was an innovation of the ancient egyptians. aristocrats were believed to travel to celestial blessed lands to enjoy a life devoid of pain and suffering. common people, on the other hand, were believed to spend eternity near their own tombs or in the netherworld (they were buried in dry sand that accelerated the decomposition process. the netherworld of ancient egypt, as depicted in the book of the dead, was ruled by osiri

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rocessions as follows "for the egyptians pursue a philosophy of their own. this is click to enlarge hermes mercurius trismegistus. from historia deorum fatidicorum. master of all arts and sciences. perfect in all crafts, ruler of the three worlds, scribe of the gods, and keeper of the books of life, thoth hermes trismegistus--the three times greatest, the "first intelligencer--was regarded by the ancient egyptians as the embodiment of the universal mind. while in all probability there actually existed a great sage and educator by the name of hermes, it is impossible to extricate the historical man from the mass of legendary accounts which attempt to identify him with the cosmic principle of thought. p. 38 principally shown by their sacred ceremonial. for first advances the singer, bearing

hermes mercurius trismegistus (london, 1650, translated out of the arabic and greek by dr. everard; hermetica (oxford, 1924, edited by walter scott; hermes, the mysteries of egypt (philadelphia, 1925, by edouard schure; and the thrice-greatest hermes (london, 1906, by g. r. s. mead. to the material contained in the above volumes he has added commentaries based upon the esoteric philosophy of the ancient egyptians, together with amplifications derived partly from other hermetic fragments and partly from the secret arcanum of the hermetic sciences. for the sake of clarity, the narrative form has been chosen in preference to the original dialogic style, and obsolete words have given place to those in current use. hermes, while wandering in a rocky and desolate place, gave himself over to med

ness descended and, expanding, swallowed up the light. everything was troubled. about hermes swirled a mysterious watery substance which gave forth a smokelike vapor. the air was filled with inarticulate moanings and sighings which seemed to come from the light swallowed up in the darkness. his mind told hermes that click to enlarge thoth, the ibis-headed. from wilkinson's manners& customs of the ancient egyptians. it is doubtful that the deity called thoth by the egyptians was originally hermes, but the two personalities were blended together and it is now impossible to separate them. thoth was called "the lord of the divine books" and "scribe of the company of the gods" he is generally depicted with the body of a man and the head of an ibis. the exact symbolic meaning of this latter bird

d a pair of scales, to denote the exactitude of nature in her weights and measures. isis is often represented as the symbol of justice, because nature is eternally consistent. click to enlarge thoth, the dog-headed. from lenoir's la franche-maconnerie. aroueris, or thoth, one of the five immortals, protected the infant horus from the wrath of typhon after the murder of osiris. he also revised the ancient egyptian calendar by increasing the year from 360 days to 365. thoth hermes was called "the dog-headed" because of his faithfulness and integrity. he is shown crowned with a solar nimbus, carrying in one hand the crux ansata, the symbol of eternal life, and in the other a serpent-wound staff symbolic of his dignity as counselor of the gods. click to enlarge the egyptian madonna. from lenoi

ng example of the important part which the sun plays in the symbols and rituals of freemasonry is given by george oliver, d.d, in his dictionary of symbolical masonry, as follows "the sun rises in the east, and in the east is the place for the worshipful master. as the sun is the source of all light and warmth, so should the worshipful master enliven and warm the brethren to their work. among the ancient egyptians the sun was the symbol of divine providence" the hierophants of the mysteries were adorned with many. insignia emblematic of solar power. the sunbursts of gilt embroidery on the back of the vestments of the catholic priesthood signify that the priest is also an emissary and representative of sol invictus. christianity and the sun for reasons which they doubtless considered suffic

very little imagination to trace in this first so-called eagle the mythological phoenix of antiquity. what is more, there is every reason why a phoenix bird should be used to represent a new country rising out of an old, while as benjamin franklin caustically noted, the eagle was not a bird of good moral character! click to enlarge an egyptian phoenix. from wilkinson's manners and customs of the ancient egyptians. the egyptians occasionally represented the phoenix as having the body of a man and the wings of a bird. this biform, creature had a tuft of feathers upon its head and its arms were upraised in an attitude of prayer. as the phoenix was the symbol of regeneration, the tuft of feathers on the back of its head might well symbolize the activity of the pineal gland, or third eye, the

ers of nature may only be accomplished by the aid of solar virility, as symbolized by the cone or grapes. in the phrygian mysteries, atys--the ever-present sun-savior--dies under the branches of the pine tree (an allusion to the solar globe at the winter solstice) and for this reason the pine tree was sacred to his cult. this tree was also sacred in the mysteries of dionysos and apollo. among the ancient egyptians and jews the acacia, or tamarisk, was held in the highest religious esteem; and among modern masons, branches of acacia, cypress, cedar, or evergreen are still regarded as most significant emblems. the shittim-wood used by the children of israel in the construction of the tabernacle and the ark of the covenant was a species of acacia. in describing this sacred tree, albert pike h

the rituals were celebrated. these sacred plants were later adopted as the symbols of the various degrees in which they were used. thus, in the mysteries of adonis, lettuce was sacred; in the brahmin and egyptian rites, the lotus; among the druids, the mistletoe; and among certain of the greek mysteries, the myrtle (see encyclop dia of freemasonry) as the legend of chiram abiff is based upon the ancient egyptian mystery ritual of the murder and resurrection of osiris, it is natural that the sprig of acacia should be preserved as symbolic of the resurrection of chiram. the chest containing the body of osiris was washed ashore near byblos and lodged in the roots of a tamarisk, or acacia, which, growing into a mighty tree, enclosed within its trunk the body of the murdered god. this is undou

t mythology notes that the ancients recognized in this fruit an appropriate emblem of the ark of the deluge, click to enlarge the sunflower. from kircher's magnes sive de arte magnetica opus tripartitum. the above diagram illustrates a curious experiment in plant magnetism reproduced with several other experiments in athanasius kircher's rare volume on magnetism. several plants were sacred to the ancient egyptians, greeks, and hindus because of the peculiar effect which the sun exerted over them. as it is difficult for man to look upon the face of the sun without being blinded by the light, those plants which turned and deliberately faced the solar orb were considered typical of very highly advanced souls. since the sun was regarded as the personification of the supreme deity, those forms

a well-established fact; and it does not contradict the statement made by some writers who declared that the gypsies--who about that time began to wander over europe--brought with them and introduced cards, which they used, as they do at the present day, for divining the future (see the devil's picture books) through the gypsies the tarot cards may be traced back to the religious symbolism of the ancient egyptians. in his remarkable work, the gypsies, samuel roberts presents ample proof of their egyptian origin. in one place he writes "when gypsies originally arrived in england is very uncertain. they are first noticed in our laws, by several statutes against them in the reign of henry viii; in which they are described as 'an outlandish people, calling themselves egyptians--who do not prof

brahmin culture. still others hold the opinion that the "society of the rose cross" was founded in egypt during n the philosophic supremacy of that empire, and that it also perpetuated the mysteries of ancient persia and chaldea. in his anacalypsis, godfrey higgins writes "the rosicrucians of germany are quite ignorant of their origin; but, by tradition, they suppose themselves descendants of the ancient egyptians, chaldeans, magi, and gymnosophists (the last was a name given by the followers of alexander the great to a caste of naked wise men whom they found meditating along the river banks in india) the consensus among these factions is that the story of father c.r.c, like the masonic legend of hiram abiff, is an allegory and should not be considered literally. a similar problem has conf

ss is symbolic of the human body, and the two symbols together--the rose on the cross--signify that the soul of man is crucified upon the body, where it is held by three nails. it is probable that rosicrucian symbolism is a perpetuation of the secret tenets of the egyptian hermes, and that the society of unknown philosophers is the true link connecting modern masonry, with its mass of symbols, to ancient egyptian hermeticism, the source of that symbolism. in his doctrine and literature of the kabalah, a. e. waite makes this important observation "there are certain indications which point to a possible connection between masonry and rosicrucianism, and this, if admitted, would constitute the first link in its connection with the past. the evidence is, however, inconclusive, or at least unex

e hidden. for this reason i am called chiram telat mechasot, one in essence, but three in aspect. in this trinity is hidden the wisdom of the whole world (i.e, in chiram and its use. it is thought that hermes was moses or zoroaster, otherwise hermes signifies a serpent, and the serpent used to be an emblem of knowledge or wisdom. the serpent is met with everywhere amongst the hieroglyphics of the ancient egyptians, so is the globe with wings, the sun and moon, dragons and griffins, whereby the egyptians denoted their sublime knowledge of the lapis philosophorum, according to suidas, the hints in the scriptures, and even de non where he speaks of the sanctuaries of the ancient egyptian temples "it is ended now, what i have said concerning the effects of the sun. finish of the tabula smaragd

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

vatsky's society it was the oriental branch of this wisdom, comprising the teachings of vedanta and esoteric buddhism, which was the main inspiration. closely paralleling this movement, however, the hermetic order of the golden dawn was formed in england a few years later, similar in ideal but pursuing a western, rosicrucian path bound up with a system of ceremonial magic comprising invocation of ancient egyptian gods, cabalistic formulae, and dr. john dee's sixteenth-century enochian research. this erudite institution attracted many fertile minds including the poet w. b. yeats, arthur machen, and algernon blackwood, all on the fringe or involved with the "celtic twilight" and all greatly preoccupied with the rediscovery of the old gods, as will be readily discerned if one acquaints onesel

y choose the name of a legendary sorcerer such as zyto, balaam, elymas, or cyprian; or, alternatively, maybe merlin, althotas, vergilius, or vandermast. a witch might well choose morgana, armida, vivienne, or melusina; brisen, nimue, hellawes, or fredegonda, nocticula, bensozia, sidonia, or even urganda! or you might choose a name of more classical inspiration like apollonius, medea, or circe; or ancient egyptian like nectanebo or arnuphis, or maybe something really complicated like diancecht, osmandine, or ansuperomin! the choice is yours. you must find one that appeals to you, that calls forth your feeling for the unseen world, gives you a thrill, and frankly makes you feel considerably powerful and no less sinister! should you not wish to use a name from legend, you may try toying with

MEANING OF MASONRY

old be such as none but the good can bear. anything more? that prayer, i think, is enough for me (prayer of socrates. in the lecture on the first degree tracing board masonry is spoken of as" an art founded on the principles of geometry" and also as being" a science dealing with the cultivation and improvement of the human mind" its usages and customs are also there said to have derived" from the ancient egyptians whose philosophers, unwilling to expose their mysteries to vulgar eyes, conceal their principles and philosophy under signs and symbols" which are still perpetuated in the masonic order. something of these signs and symbols, as well as the purpose of the masonic system as a whole, has already been outlined in previous papers. in the present notes it is proposed to extend the cons

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

f vampirism and predatory spirituality. the nine angles and the trapezoid workings, inspired by anton lavey and presented around the cult of daeva-yasna, the persian demon-sorcery of yatuk dinoih.contains the rituals of dream, ritual and astral vampirism as an initiatory tool, other cabalistic workings presenting the qlippoth and the tree of da ath or hidden wisdom. contains the grimoire based on ancient egyptian vampirism, liber aapep, luciferian magick practice,the chaos cult workings of choronzon as vampire, the rites of hecate, the infernal and luciferian sabbat, and the foundations of satanic practice in magick. containing in this massive grimoire is also a study of the order of nine angles from a luciferian perspective, centered around their forbidden workings including the appearanc

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

modern man has done much speculation regarding the reason for building the pyramids, and the methods used. experts of our day have suggested that the pyramids were built to be tombs, the eternal resting place of ego-maniacal pharaohs (egyptian king. but without so much as a trace of the more practical construction methods, even a skeptical observer would be forced to entertain the theories of the ancient egyptians regarding their own creations. those of ancient egypt are unambiguous about the reasoning and construction methods of the pyramids. they claim that these structure were more like machines that allowed the king to join with the gods after death; they were essentially stargates to the heavens, where one could be transformed into a god. instead of masses of men dragging large, perfe

MORALS AND DOGMA

ession female attendants, with ivory combs, seemed to dress and ornament the royal hair of the goddess. the palm-tree, and the lamp in the shape of a boat, appeared in the procession. if the symbol we are speaking of is not a mere modern invention, it is to these things it alludes [illustration: hieroglyph] the identity of the legends is also confirmed by this hieroglyphic picture, copied from an ancient egyptian monument, which may also enlighten you as to the lion's grip and the master's gavel [hebrew, in the ancient phoenician character [symbols, and in the samaritan [symbols, a b (the two letters representing the numbers 1, 2, or unity and duality, means _father, and is a primitive noun, common to all the semitic languages) it also means an ancestor, originator, inventor, head, chief o

buddha was said to have died upon it. the druids cut an oak into its shape and held it sacred, and built their temples in that form. pointing to the four quarters of the world, it was the symbol of universal nature. it was on a cruciform tree, that chrishna was said to have expired, pierced with arrows. it was revered in mexico. but its peculiar meaning in this degree, is that given to it by the ancient egyptians _thoth_ or _phtha_ is represented on the oldest monuments carrying in his hand the _crux ansata, or _ankh [a tau cross, with a ring or circle over it. he is so seen on the double tablet of shufu and noh shufu, builders of the greatest of the pyramids, at wady meghara, in the peninsula of sinai. it was the hieroglyphic for _life, and with a triangle prefixed meant _life-giving. to

g the horns of the crescent; in which form it is seen in the hands of anubis. the triple tau, in the centre of a circle and a triangle, typifies the sacred name; and represents the sacred triad, the creating, preserving, and destroying powers; as well as the three great lights of masonry. if to the masonic point within a circle, and the two parallel lines, we add the single tau cross, we have the ancient egyptian triple tau. a column in the form of a cross, with a circle over it, was used by the egyptians to measure the increase of the inundations of the nile. the tau and triple tau are found in many ancient alphabets. with the tau or the triple tau may be connected, within two circles, the double cube, or perfection; or the perfect ashlar. the _crux ansata_ is found on the sculptures of k

ch reign therein seem to belong to and be a part of it, and the design of the various plans of construction of organized beings would seem to be graven in its supreme intelligence, source of all the other intelligences which it communicates together with life to man. nothing existing out of it, it must be regarded as the principle and term of all things. ch remon had no reason for saying that the ancient egyptians, inventors of the sacred fables, and adorers of the sun and the other luminaries, saw in the universe only a machine, without life and without intelligence, either in its whole or in its parts; and that their cosmogony was a pure epicureanism, which required only matter and movement to organize its world and govern it. such an opinion would necessarily exclude all religious worsh

ently opposite, the eternal balance of being; it alone reconciles reason with faith, power with liberty, science with mystery; it has the keys of the present, the past, and the future. the bible, with all the allegories it contains, expresses, in an incomplete and veiled manner only, the religious science of the hebrews. the doctrine of moses and the prophets, identical at bottom with that of the ancient egyptians, also had its outward meaning and its veils. the hebrew books were written only to recall to memory the traditions; and they were written in symbols unintelligible to the profane. the pentateuch and the prophetic poems were merely elementary books of doctrine, morals, or liturgy; and the true secret and traditional philosophy was only written afterward, under veils still less tra

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

to become the hierophant of the greater mysteries that is to say, the magus of the aeon, the initiator of the masters of the temple. obviously, he must be in chokhmah. 6. be thou hadit, my secret centre, my heart& my tongue! aleister crowley is being 'chosen and the choice is specifically declared: he is to be hadit, that is, simultaneously kether (the centre, chokhmah (the tongue) and binah (the ancient egyptians believed that the heart was the seat of intelligence. in short, in order to do the job for which he was chosen nuit's helpmeet he must reach the highest initiations possible to man. which, of course, he did. 7. behold! it is revealed by aiwass the minister of hoor-paar kraat. aiwass is the name given by ouarda the seer as that of the intelligence communicating. see note to title

hough thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. but ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever to me! to me! it is clear that this 'kiss (i.e. this book) will regenerate earth by establishing the law of liberty 'my heart& my tongue' seems a mere phrase of endearment; but has possibly some deep significance which at present escapes me. heart--the seat of intelligence for the ancient egyptians. tongue- the organ of the word, corresponding to the phallus, for which it is often an euphemism. a possible meaning is therefore heart ra-hoor khuit, tongue thoth. see liber resh. the second paragraph is perhaps an answer to some unspoken thought of my own that my work was accomplished. no: though i be 'of the princes, with the right to enter into my reward, it is my destiny to

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

hen one of them wished to appear before the world. when perseus entered upon his expedition to slay the medusa, he repaired to the abode of the graa, in the far [146]west, to inquire the way to the gorgons, and on their refusing to give any information, he deprived them of their one eye, tooth, and wig, and did not restore them until he received the necessary directions. sphinx. the sphinx was an ancient egyptian divinity, who personified wisdom, and the fertility of nature. she is represented as a lion-couchant, with the head and bust of a woman, and wears a peculiar sort of hood, which completely envelops her head, and falls down on either side of the face. transplanted into greece, this sublime and mysterious egyptian deity degenerates into an insignificant, and yet malignant power, pag

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

written in egypt in 1740, and how one may acquire riches through the application of magical rites and ceremonies. the magic of herbs herbs have always been a staple item in the witch s world of chants, spells and rituals. they have a long wiccan tradition, being used for all kinds of weird and wonderful purposes. the historical record shows that they were part of the wiccan tradition amongst the ancient egyptians, celts, druids, romans and greeks. herbs can be obtained in one of two ways. from the countryside where they grow in abundance, or ready-packed for sale in occult supply stores. witches have also been known to employ the humble lemon in their spellcasting. a traditional formula for ascertaining if the man on a woman s mind is going to be hers or not is the following: carry all da

e than the secret code of communication concealed in an ordinary set of dice. your psychic legacy from the past divining the future with dice is done by a mere handful of people. millions of others look upon dice as merely familiar components of most board games, yet their history is very much involved with divination. the use of dice as a fortune telling tool was widespread and far-reaching. the ancient egyptians, romans, greeks and arabs have all, at one time or another employed dice of various shapes, markings and materials for divination. the earliest known examples were made from astragali small, uneven, four-sided bones found within the joints of hoofed animals such as sheep and goats. dice are perhaps the only method of divination that the bible does not frown upon, and are referred

ONYX TABLET OF SET

go sum proposition. unlike descartes, however, we see this phenomenon to be a "thing totally apart" which is not an extension of "god" or anything else. set is the conceptualizer of this principle: the designer. to rewrite the crucial sentence in the above quote from the point of view of a neter "a thing created in the mind thereby exists" this is dangerous ground to tread, so much more so for an ancient egyptian civilization whose entire "natural" cosmology was based upon the perfection and harmony of the universe. former director of cairo's french oriental archaeological institute serge sauneron comments "to understand the attitude of the egyptians, it is necessary to emphasize the striking contrast between their view of the world and ours. we live in a universe which we know is in perpe

es to set that did not support their portrayal of him as a "devil. and that is the image of set which has been accepted by most casual writers on ancient egypt. today the temple of set returns to the original, undistorted apprehension of set. in keeping with our modern levels of knowledge, of course, this image has been both enhanced and refined. enhanced in that we now understand better than the ancient egyptians how the material universe functions, refined to exclude those aspects of the human personality that are natural, externally-controlled functions. at the same time, contemporary civilization's impatience and superficiality- its restless inability to study anything metaphysical in any depth- have tended to condense the delicate, complex study of egyptian cosmology [presented so wel

PATRON OF SORCERY

h the gods! i'm he who closed heav'ns double gates and put to sleep the serpent who must not be seen" later in the same text the magician addresses the rising sun..you who are fearful, awesome, threatening, you who're obscure and irresistable, and hater of the wicked, you i call, typhon, in hours unlawful and unmeasured" as mentioned elsewhere, the rising sun was one of the symbols of xepera, the ancient egyptian concept of self-creation. fragments of egyptian are found everywhere in these greek spells. the 'true names "erbeth "pakerbeth" and "bolchoseth" appear repeatedly in invocations of set. they may be corrupted praise names. the words are seen in binding and restraining spells (pgm iv 2145-2240, perhaps pgm vii 467-77, pgm xxxvi 1-34, spells to charm and subject (pgm vii 940-68, pgm

f egypt. thessalos, a greek physician, reported that theban priests were scandalized at his inqury as to whether anything remained of the old egyptian magic. nevertheless, an old priest agreed to perform a divination for thessalos. his account of the working corresponds pefectly with descriptions in demotic and greek magical papyri that have come into our hands (robert k. ritner, the mechanics of ancient egyptian magical practice, chicago: university of chicago, 1993, p. 219. we thus have cause to think that these papyri reflect authentic temple practice, and that priests of egypt under greek and roman rule performed such rites until the temples were shut down. whether this includes the invocation of set for aggressive magic, under temple auspices, is an open question. however diabolized s

PHOSPHORUS

o are natural at this gnosis will pass through quickly, while some will require a more detailed and refined purpose in this grade. the circles of initiation as grades are a magickal transformation of self. they are dynamic as they are essentially the individual becoming as lucifer and lilith the adversary. some will find the plethora and multi-cultural symbolism something they resonate with, from ancient egyptian, hebrew, persian, european and english focuses of symbolism from set as the luciferian initiator, hecate, ahriman or lilith. the path is long; the road thorn covered yet the emerald grail filled with the elixir of gold and silver. initiates are able to join the black order of the dragon after they have become unto the grade i the blackened forge of cain. the initiate may indicate

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

e rite in question, thus briefly gives an account of its origin. the rite of memphis, or oriental rite, was introduced into europe by, ormus, a seraphic priest of alexandria, and egyptian sage,who had been converted by st.mark, and reformed the doctrines of the egyptians in accordance with the principles of christianity. the disciples of ormus continued, until b b b i, to be the sole guardians of ancient egyptian wisdom as purified by christianity, and solomonian science. this science they communicated to the templars.they were then known by the title of knights of palestine or brethren rose-croix of the east. in them, the rite of memphis recognizes its immediate founders. in defining the object and intention of his order,marconis speaks as follows: the masonic rite of memphis is a combina

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

n any form desired, of hearing the forces of nature by being enshrined as a living bai" and the rubric is "the united with osiris shall recite it when he has entered the harbour. may glorious things be done thereby upon earth. may all the words of the adept be fulfilled" owing to the complex use of symbols, the ritual translation of the chapter can only be understood by perpetual reference to the ancient egyptian commentaries, and therefore the following paraphrase has been put together to convey to modem minds as nearly as possible the ideas conceived by the old egyptians in this glorious triumphal song of the soul of man made one with osiris, the redeemer "i am tum made one with all things "i have become nu. i am ra in his rising ruling by right of his power. i am the great god self-bego

the first order the stella wtutina or golden dawn 114 the golden dawn: volume iz book two introduction to the neophyte ceremony god forms and stations in the= h the openin of the hall of the neophytes and the ceremony of initiation into the b= h grade describe the essential formula of the outer order work and set in motion the energies necessary for the aspirant's spiritual growth. the setting is ancient egyptian, particularly based upon the 125th chapter of the egyptian book of the dead, and the= elhall is also called "the hall of maat" the "hall of two truths, and the "hall of dual manifestation" the hall of maat is the scene for the weighing of the soul where the crucial judgment of the deceased is made. just as the deceased anils soul hangs in the balance, the soul and aspiration of th

ry be to thee, father of the undying. for thy glory flows out rejoicing, to the ends of the earth! he reseats himself. the red cross above the white triangle, is an image of him who was unfolded in the light. at its east, south, west and north angles are arose, fire, cup of wine and bread and salt. these allude to the four elements, air, fire, water, earth. the mystical words- khabs am pekht- are ancient egyptian,and are the origin of the greek "konx om pax" which was uttered at the eleusinian mysteries. a literal translation would be "light rushing out in one rayuand they signify the same form of light as that symbolised by the staff of the kerux. east of the double cubical altar, of created things, are the pillars of hermes and of solomon. on these are painted certain hieroglyphics from

e temperate seasons, and in man, they are imaged in the head, the chest, and the trunk. i now confer upon you the mystic title of periclinus de faustis, which signifies that on this earth you are in a wilderness, far from the garden of the happy. and i give you the s bol of aretz which is the hebrew name for earth, to which the 6= grade of zelator is referred. the word zelator is derived from the ancient egyptian zaruator, sigrufylng "searcher of athor, goddess of nature; but others assign to it the meaning of the zealous student whose first duty was to blow the athanor of fire which heated the crucible of the alchemist <65> hierophant resumes seat on dais: kern leads new zelator to seat in north west. hiero frater kerux, you have my command to declare that our frater has been duly admitte

f the measureless heavens -and their reflections formed the <129> triangle of the measureless waters. and thus was formulated the eternal hexad- the number of the dawning creation. hegemon conducts the practicus to the foot of hiero's throne- handing to hiero the calva y cross of twelve squares. the calvary cross of twelve squares fitly represents the zodiac which embraces the waters of nu as the ancient egyptians called the heavens, the waters which be above the firmament. it also alludes to the eternal river of eden, divided into four heads which find their correlations in the four triplicities of the zodiac. places cross aside. the 29th path of the sepher yetsirah which answereth unto the letter qoph is called the corporeal intelligence- and it is so called because it forms the very bod

of a force in nature then in operation- rather than a continuous and graduated ceremony to build up the same. consequently also, it is well to use the password then in being as an adjunct to the other names employed in magical ceremonies as bringinginto operation the link with the solar light. notes on the' opening exordium of "z" the great tho-0th is the highest aspect of the hermes of the most ancient egyptian mysteries, and corresponds almost to the great angel metatron. it is the archangel of kether in the briatic world. the mercury of admission of the candidate 3 75 the romans must not be confused with this great hermes* the doctrines of gnosticism and of valentinus approached those of the pure qabalah. in them we find speech and silence. across the abyss of silence comes the primal

shalt pronounce the consonants with the vowel following in the nomenclature of the same letter in the hebrew alphabet. for example, in beth, the vowel following 'b' is 'e' pronounced ay. therefore, if 'b' in an angelic name precede another as in 'sobha' thou mayest pronounce it 'sobeh-hah 'gi may be either gimel or jimel (as the arabs do call it) following whether it be hard or soft. this is the ancient egyptian use, whereof the hebrew is but a copy, and that many times a faulty copy, save in the divine and mystical names, and some other things "also y' and' are similar, also 'v' and 'u' depending whether the use intended be vowel or consonant. x' is the ancient egyptian power of samekh; but there be some ordinary hebrew names wherein x' is made tzaddi" from one ritual written by s.a, we

r. the initiations attempted to build the abalisticm icrocosm called the tree of-me into the soul of the k d i d a t et. he intent was to both evolve the subject soul and to provide an artifice whereby the soul could articulate its will. as a system of thought the golden dawn brought together and energized the sundry branches of hermetic and magickal practice. for the first time since perhaps the ancient egyptians, the divergent streams of rnagickal energy like daemonology* astrology and tarot were fused together in a single coherent albeit unwieldy system for the adepts the system was a vessel and vehicle for magickal power. the golden dawn as rr et ac functioned as framework within which to operate as a group. from this platform the adventurous could set out to explore new magicks while

ger's cat) it is now possible to correlate the teachings of ancient wisdoms, if we have the courage to see them clearly. one profitable vein of research is in r buckminster fuller's synergetic geometries which link the patterns of thought to the interpatternings of the stars and subatomic particles. this is clearly a not so faint echo of the axiom "as above, s below" another is in reexamining the ancient egyptian teaching as brought to light by the researches of ra. schwaller de lubicz connecting consciousness and matter in hieroglyphic expression. we may find the eternal wisdom of the ancient sages etched in stone and built into their architecture helpful in understanding humanity as part and not separate from nature. things have changed a great deal from the days of mathers, crowley and

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

the bible, with all its allegories, gives expression to the religious knowledge of the hebrews only in an incomplete and veiled manner. the book which we have mentioned, the hieratic characters of which we shall explain subsequently, that book which william postel names the genesis of enoch, existed certainly before moses and the prophets, whose doctrine, fundamentally identical with that of the ancient egyptians, had also its exotericism and its veils. when moses spoke to the people, says the sacred book allegorically, he placed a veil over his face, and he removed it when communing with god: this accounts for the alleged biblical absurdities which so exercised the satirical powers of voltaire. the books were written only as memorials of tradition and in symbols that were unintelligible

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

ergies of poetry and inspiration, smithcraft, and therapy. in celtic christian trad-ition she was midwife to mary and/or foster mother to jesus. we may see echoes of this in the many examples of the theme of the otherworld or fairy child and the human nurse or midwife, though this comparison need not be extended too far. a perpetual fire was kept burning in the temple of vesta in rome, and in the ancient egyptian temple of neith in sais. in britain the ancient temple of sulis minerva had a perpetual fire, which was recorded in the legendary history of the kings commentary 86 of britain by geoffrey of monmouth, a text with which kirk was undoubtedly familiar. in geoffrey's vita merlini we find a detailed description of the otherworld island, known as the fortunate isle, and ruled over by a

RUBY TABLET OF SET

have been deeper than this: in english ingle- as in ingle-nook- meant fire, and according to skeat it also meant a darling or a paramour. worldwide copyright 1990, 1998-2001, rjstewart, all rights and permissions reserved http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_171.htm [10/9/2001 12:37:42 4 napaka! zaznamek ni definiran. a guide to effective public speaking. napaka! zaznamek ni definiran. philosophy ancient egyptian philosophy inhabiting a land characterized by the regularity of the elements (behavior of the winds, the nile, the climate, the sun, and the skies, the egyptians sought perfection in stability, harmony, symmetry, geometry, and a cyclical [as opposed to progressive or linear] concept of time. egyptian achievements, correspondingly, were in areas such as astronomy, mathematics, medi

ssive or linear] concept of time. egyptian achievements, correspondingly, were in areas such as astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and architecture. egyptian religion and art tend to be oversimplified in many modern treatments, due in part to the absence of verifiable data in later history until the deciphering of hieroglyphics by champollion in 1822. because of the destruction and despoliation of ancient egyptian records and works of art by religious fanatics of later eras, it is estimated that modern archaeologists have at their disposal less than 10% of that country's cultural creations from which to reconstruct its values. classification: v2- 102- 1 author: michael a. aquino vi date: october 1, xix revision: january 1, xxiv html revision: oct 07, 1997 ce subject: philosophy reading list

by one participant as containing documentation on his cross-cultural studies in this area. not having access to any resource materials that would answer our questions at the time, the workshop session then proceeded into the topic of egyptian neters and the use of neters in symbolism. neters the workshop discussion of egyptian neters started with a brief discussion of the egyptian languages. the ancient egyptians used three different written languages, the hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic. the demotic language was a mostly alphabetic language used for common communications among those who could read and write. its primary uses were for social and business reasons. the hieratic language was a pictographic language related to the hieroglyphic, but in which the pictographs were abbreviate

n to the sounds and symbols used to form words, the egyptians used determinatives, signs added to specifically identify each word. through the use of the determinative, it was impossible to mistake one written word for another, even if verbal sounds were the same, even if the letters used were the same. this use of a purely symbolic, picture-oriented language encouraged the ability in the learned ancient egyptians to think with right brained methods while doing the left brain activity of reading. it also encouraged these educated and intelligent egyptians to work with symbols as they worked with language. they were able to communicate ideas and ideals in a language particularly well suited to this purpose. setians use the ancient egyptian neters as symbols, representing aspects of the worl

g. it also encouraged these educated and intelligent egyptians to work with symbols as they worked with language. they were able to communicate ideas and ideals in a language particularly well suited to this purpose. setians use the ancient egyptian neters as symbols, representing aspects of the world, or aspects of the individual. we feel this is very close to the way the higher initiates of the ancient egyptian temples, the priests of the temples, and the smarter pharaohs used and viewed their neters. the neters were concepts that could be communicated to and shared among the initiated, rather than being actual gods and goddesses. the common man may very well have believed in the literal existence of his many gods and goddesses, but we believe the elite of the egyptian society understood

ed in studying and working with them. the neters were used and viewed as symbols. but the egyptian temples were temples, and were recognized as religions, not simply as centers of enlightened philosophy. this brings up the question: do/did the egyptian neters actually exist? were these religions founded to worship or work with beings that actually existed? or were they simply the creations of the ancient egyptian priesthoods? rather than tackle immediately the question of whether the neters actually existed, workshop participants first chose to examine. egyptian priesthoods the first statement made about these priesthoods was that each temple in egypt taught a different area of philosophy or knowledge. those temples dedicated to a major neter or god taught that their primal form was the fi

fense. de lubicz puts the psychological, ultimate developed state of man at about 17 years old, on a personal level. in the temple in man is shown the "crowning of the skull" thesis to illustrate more than what seems simply to be adulthood. this "crowning" has not yet been achieved by mankind. there may have been those isolated cases mentioned earlier, but i doubt t. i believe, in accordance with ancient egyptian tradition, that man cannot achieve this "crowning" in his present state of development. not yet, at least, and not the man we know. in my view this ancient premise is correct. man. all men. has reached what we could consider the age of 17; the total mass of humanity has a 17-year-old psychological make-up. please think deeply about that. the following scale may serve as a guide: p

gypt. new york: time, inc. 1965. christian, paul, histoire de la magie, du monde surnaturel et de la fatalitj b travers les temps et les peuples. paris, 1870 (translation- new york: citadel press, 1969. cottrell, leonard, life under the pharaohs. new york: hold, rinehart and winston, 1960. fairservis, walter a. jr, the ancient kingdoms of the nile. new york: mentor books, 1962. frankfort, hentry, ancient egyptian religion. new york: harper and brothers, 1948. frankfort, hentry et al, before philosophy. baltimore: penguin books, 1972. grun, bernard, the timetables of history. new york: simon and schuster, 1975. jerome, st "taceo de philosophis" in the prologus galeatus to the bible, 1590. piankoff, alexandre (ed, the tomb of ramesses vi. new york: bollingen foundation, 1954. plato, the coll

under the pharaohs, pages 189-191. 5. casson, lionel, ancient egypt, page 146. 6. ibid, page 141. 7. tompkins, op. cit, pages 3-4. 8. berlitz, charles, mysteries from forgotten worlds, page 36. 9. compare this to the chinese view of china as the "middle kingdom (chhung kuo, the "focus" of civilization and creativity. 10. clark, r.t, myth and symbol in ancient egypt, page 74. 11. frankfort, henry, ancient egyptian religion, page 62. 12. fairservis, walter a, the ancient kingdoms of the nile, pages 98-99. 13. stanley, thomas, the history of philosophy, page 494. 14. asimov, isaac, asimov's biographical encyclopaedia of science and technology, page 2. 15. stanley, op. cit, page 494. 16. plato, collected dialogues, page 1059. 17. stanley, op. cit, pages 494-495. 18. budge, sir e. a. wallis, eg

nd orientation of the church of satan were discarded in favor of the completely distinct character of the original egyptian priesthood of set. the temple of set was incorporated as a non-profit church in california in 1975, and qualified for u.s. federal and state tax- exempt status that same year. basic beliefs: the temple considers itself to be consecrated by and dedicated to set, originally an ancient egyptian deity. one rival cult, that of osiris- whose myths were erroneously assumed to be "pan-egyptian" by later civilizations- portrayed set as the god of evil. setians themselves, however, did not then and do not now consider set an evil figure, nor consider the setian religion merely a refutation of conventional religion. setians perceive the universe as a non-conscious but ordered en

laves. dietary standards: it is the individual consciousness that is sacred within each setian. therefore any substance which impairs or distorts the consciousness, such as hallucinogenic drugs or excessive alcohol, is disapproved of by the temple. other than this there are no dietary guidelines. funeral or burial practices: the center of self-consciousness of each initiated setian- the ba of the ancient egyptians- is perceived to separate from the physical body when that body ceases to be serviceable to it. the bodily remains themselves are then not considered to be sacred in any sense, though they may be cared for in any memorial way desired by the individual and his or her relatives. the ba itself does not separate from the consciousness of set, nor from those of other setians via gbm w

ve systems of intelligent individuals- beyond any ideology, beyond any given cultural environment, beyond any specific time-period or geographic locus) is indispensable to the magician. no magical order can be sustained for long without it, and this is why most orders have been short-lived. an intriguing exception to the rule is the original priesthood of set, the most ancient godentity of egypt. ancient egyptian politics was an extension of the esoteric principles of its priesthoods into mundane affairs. and though the setian priesthood was exterminated by osirian persecution during the xxv dynasty, egypt was a viable nation (indeed, the first true nation, as opposed to city-state) for three thousand years. a test of adept knowledge introduction towards the end of his tenure as high pries

emotions leave marks upon the mind, yet passions are_ of the will. 22. the wand is divine force; the sword is_ force. 23. in magick, nothing of impression or experience is; all must be. 24_ represents all that we are as well as that which there is a tendency to be. 25. the threefold process of raising up the magickal being is, and. 26. the laws of magick are the laws of. 27. al is. 28. set-hn in ancient egyptian means_ and was caricatured by the hebrews as. 29. the magickal text that authorized the founding of the current temple of set is called. 30. love is an_ power in humans. 31. the major factor necessary for love to be accomplished is. 32. one cannot learn to concentrate without becoming sensitive to. 33. freedom to create and to construct requires that the individual be_ and. 34. in

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the promise of this vision. i entered into dialogue with priestess marie kelly, who discussed the oa with me. at first i felt a need to discuss the theoretical possibility that amn might be taken up as an onic word. soon, however, my interest in the oa became more personal, and i understood the implications of a long series of past experiences that had to do with a personal vision of myself as an ancient egyptian priest. having always prepared myself with very theoretical and linguistic/rational methods (i've studied theoretical philosophy, comparative religion and a variety of languages, the sudden need to switch to the language of the heart felt difficult, yet compelling. in the process i was invited to join the oa, and so i did. in the course of this process my personal vision became ov

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the promise of this vision. i entered into dialogue with priestess marie kelly, who discussed the oa with me. at first i felt a need to discuss the theoretical possibility that amn might be taken up as an onic word. soon, however, my interest in the oa became more personal, and i understood the implications of a long series of past experiences that had to do with a personal vision of myself as an ancient egyptian priest. having always prepared myself with very theoretical and linguistic/rational methods (i've studied theoretical philosophy, comparative religion and a variety of languages, the sudden need to switch to the language of the heart felt difficult, yet compelling. in the process i was invited to join the oa, and so i did. in the course of this process my personal vision became ov

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us rituals seem to describe. many illuminating comparisons may be made with the classical works of the hermeticists, texts which are commonly accepted to be metaphorical. we might like to think, for example, that modern chemistry is progressive, and that alchemy was in some way primitive, or that modern astronomy is an improvement upon the astrology of the ancients. yet this is not really so; the ancient egyptians possessed knowledge of chemistry that is only now being verified by modern science. their astrologers were aware of the dog star sirius before modern astronomers were. the difference is that these schools also possessed the esoteric wisdom, of which modern science recognises only the outer forms. so it is with the hermeticists, who were well aware of much that we now call psychol

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

literature. write a web guide for your classmates that catalogs the literature sites that you find. historical religions: some religions existed only in the past and are no longer followed. for instance, the religions of ancient greece and rome are still studied today for their historical and cultural interest. however, those religions have no followers today. in the same way, the religion of the ancient egyptians is no longer alive. egyptians today instead follow islam or christianity, or they are atheist or agnostic. choose an ancient religion and write a report in which you explain when the religion died and what replaced it. war and peace: followers of different religions have differing attitudes toward warfare. for instance, islam has the concept of jihad, which is sometimes translate

to ensure the good will of the gods and to protect against demons. astronomical (relating to the heavens) events took on major importance and astrology, the study of the influence of the stars and planets on human affairs, became nearly a science for the priests. organized mesopotamian religion collapsed after cyrus of persia, a zoroastrian, conquered the babylonian empire in 539 bce. history of ancient egyptian religion the official ancient egyptian religion lasted from about 3110 bce to 550 ce. the official beginning of the religion is the date that menes (c. 2925 bce, a king of upper egypt, is believed to have defeated a king of lower egypt and unified the nation. menes set up a national religion in the process, worshipping the creator god ptah at his new government center of memphis

lonia, and the babylonians went to great pains to rewrite the creation myth so that he would be the king of gods, replacing the mesopotamian god enlil. such a replacement lasted for about one thousand years until the assyrian god ashur replaced marduk as the primary god in the pantheon. ashur was a warlike god and took ishtar, the goddess of war, as his wife or consort. the most notable schism in ancient egyptian religion was launched by amenhotep iv (c. 1371 c. 1336 bce, who proclaimed the worship of aten, the god and disk of the sun. in the fourteenth century bce amenhotep iv demanded that the worship of other gods be abandoned and that aten be served by a cult in which he, himself, was the only priest. to show his dedication to aten, amenhotep changed his name to akhenaten, meaning he w

. successive waves of settlers and conquerors in the region all brought their own gods and goddesses. these were mixed with those already found in mesopotamia. the sumerians had their city gods and harvest gods, but nomads who invaded mesopotamia from the north or the east brought with them water gods and sand gods. people who came from high mountain regions brought gods of thunder and lightning. ancient egyptian gods were often depicted in human form, although they could appear with the head of an animal. among the central deities were horus (left, with the head of a falcon, osiris, and isis. adam woolfitt/ corbis. 46 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia the three chief gods in the sumerian pantheon were an, the sky god, enlil, the god of weather and storms

different deities. what began as animal worship led to an immense pantheon. amen or amen-ra became the most powerful of the gods, center of the national cult; the cult of osiris was second most powerful. the worship of the sun god ra led to the construction of immense pyramids for the pharaohs, sons of ra. the pharaoh was considered a living god, appointed by horus (son and avenger of osiris. for ancient egyptians the gods were subject to the same sense of order and justice, maat, that mortals were. the universe had been created through maat as a replacement for the chaos that once existed. interaction with the gods was intended to establish maat in society. it was the duty of the pharaoh to interpret the word of the gods in order to establish order and justice. the ancient egyptians also

asons and fertility. she descends to the underworld in search of him and returns with him triumphantly to earth. tammuz, however, can only spend spring and summer on earth; the rest of the year he must remain in the underworld. in some traditions, tammuz is ishtar s son; in others, he is her lover rather than her husband. a similar regeneration myth lies at the heart of egyptian popular religion. ancient egyptians believed that osiris was god of the nile river and of resurrection and vegetation before he became god of the underworld. killed by his evil brother set, god of chaos, his body was chopped into pieces and scattered. his loyal wife, the sky goddess isis, found the pieces and put his body back together. she made herself pregnant from osiris s body, and their son horus revenged osir

ived the orphan of his property, i have not done what the gods detest, i have not slandered a servant to his master, i have not caused pain, i have not made hungry, i have not made to weep, i have not killed, i have not turned anyone over to a killer, i have not caused anyone s suffering. the book of the dead, sometimes called the papyrus of ani, contains detailed instructions on how the deceased ancient egyptians should act when facing the weighing of the heart against the feather of truth. public domain. 50 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia the book of the dead was found in tombs for commoners as well as royalty. all levels of egyptian society were concerned about their afterlife and wanted to be prepared to meet it successfully. sacred symbols the winge

nied by inscriptions that called upon the winged bulls to deter enemies and protect the king. the mesopotamian moon god, sin (also called nanna, has a lapis lazuli beard and rides a winged bull. lapis lazuli is a blue semiprecious stone. a powerful and still popular symbol of ancient egypt s religion is the ankh. the ankh resembles a cross, but has an upside down teardrop shape at its top. in the ancient egyptian written language of hieroglyphs, the ankh represents life. it is often present in tomb carvings and other artwork. it is associated with magical protection, or sa. even those ancient egyptians who could not read hierogylphs knew the ankh symbol. the ankh may represent the sunrise or rebirth. many ancient gods carried ankhs and often blessed pharaohs with an ankh, symbolizing the a

tians who could not read hierogylphs knew the ankh symbol. the ankh may represent the sunrise or rebirth. many ancient gods carried ankhs and often blessed pharaohs with an ankh, symbolizing the act of giving them the breath of life. among the gods often seen with ankhs are osiris, isis, ra, hathor, and anubis. as a result the ankh not only represented worldly life but the afterlife. in fact, the ancient egyptian term for sarcophagus or coffin was neb-ankh, meaning possessor of life. the ankh s popularity has reached beyond egypt s borders and around the world into the twenty-first century. whether it is the appeal of an ancient symbol for life or an interest in ancient egypt, the ankh remains a popular decoration. the remains of civilization the most obvious symbols of both mesopotamian a

ient egyptian term for sarcophagus or coffin was neb-ankh, meaning possessor of life. the ankh s popularity has reached beyond egypt s borders and around the world into the twenty-first century. whether it is the appeal of an ancient symbol for life or an interest in ancient egypt, the ankh remains a popular decoration. the remains of civilization the most obvious symbols of both mesopotamian and ancient egyptian religions are their architectural remains. world religions: almanac 51 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia while these are the historical remnants of great civilizations, they have also come to represent all that those civilizations entailed. many of these ancient artifacts are, in fact, religious in nature. the ziggurat, or stepped temple, of mesopotamia is an impressive s

ld the responsibility for keeping the gods happy. commoners mesopotamia s ziggurats were large, stepped temples dedicated to a particular god or goddess. they could contain as few as two or as many as seven levels. nik wheeler/ corbis. 52 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia also gave personal worship to the gods. religion was such a central part of mesopotamian and ancient egyptian life that each day involved some devotion or other action to the gods. mesopotamian worship obedience to the gods was the primary job of humankind in mesopotamian religion. the legion of gods all had to be cared for. that was the task of the priestly class. statues to the gods were kept in temples, each of which was devoted to a different deity. the temples employed a vast staff o

o worship and care for the gods. in ancient egypt, for instance, there was a large class of priests and priestesses entrusted with caring for the temples. mesopotamian religion was divided in a similar way. part of the mesopotamian priesthood s job included praising the gods in hymns and prayers. the two excerpts here, the exaltation of inana and hymn to ra, show how differently mesopotamians and ancient egyptians viewed their gods. the mesopotamian goddess innana (spelled inana in this translation) is described by her priestess enheduanna as fierce and capable of much destruction. the royal scribe nekht associates the egyptian sun god ra (also spelled re) with love and joy. the exaltation of inana lady of all the divine powers, resplendent [dazzling] light, righteous woman clothed in radi

heir dead relatives and loved ones. visits to important temples, such as those at luxor and karnak, were also important pilgrimages. abydos is an ancient holy place in egypt. it was believed that the god osiris s head was sent to abydos after he was assassinated and dismembered by his brother set. pilgrims began to preserving the dead the process called mummification helped preserve the bodies of ancient egyptians, making them suitable for the afterlife. moisture is needed for the decay of a human or animal body. in ancient egypt, a very arid or dry land, the mummification process was accomplished by making the dead body very dry. the first mummies found date from about 2900 bce, and the process improved slowly over time. the basic technique of mummification involves taking all the organs

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st shall be able to prevent his light from falling upon the earth. moreover, the rubric describes the performance of the ceremony as a meritorious act! e. a. wallis budge. london, august 28th, 1899 p. 1 egyptian magic. chapter i. antiquity of magical practices in egypt. in the first volume of this series 1 an attempt was made to set before the reader a statement of the ideas and beliefs which the ancient egyptians held in respect of god, the "gods" the judgment, the resurrection, and immortality; in short, to sketch in brief outline much of what was beautiful, and noble, and sublime in their religion. the facts of this statement were derived wholly from native religious works, the latest of which is some thousands of years old, and the earliest of which may be said to possess an antiquity

t there is no possible reason for doubting that they were very real things to those who held them, and whether they are childish or foolish or both they certainly passed into the religion of the people of egypt, wherein they grew and flourished, and were, at least many of them, adopted by the egyptian converts to christianity, or copts. reference is made to them in the best classical works of the ancient egyptians, and it is more than probable that from them they found their way into the literatures of the other great nations of antiquity, and through the greeks, romans, arabs, and others into the countries of europe. in the following pages an attempt will be made to place in the reader's hands the evidence as to the magical side of the egyptian religion, which would have been out of place

he name, or emblem, or picture, was not p. 64 erased from it. the use of amulets was common in egypt from the earliest times to the roman period, and when the egyptians embraced christianity, they, in common with the gnostics and semi-christian sects, imported into their new faith many of the views and beliefs which their so-called heathen ancestors had held, and with them the use of the names of ancient egyptian gods, and goddesses, and demons, and formula, which they employed in much the same way as they were employed in the days of old. footnotes 27:1 i.e, chapter xxiv, which is entitled "the chapter of bringing words of power unto osiris in the underworld" 27:2 ethnographie prehistorique, p. 144. 28:1 unas, ed. maspero, line 584. 28:2 teta, ed. maspero, line 351. 29:1 chapter xxvi, ent

dly, placed in some conspicuous place in a courtyard or in a house to protect the building and its inmates from the attacks of hostile beings, visible and invisible, and its power was believed to be invincible. there is not a god of any importance whose figure is not on it, and there is not a demon, or evil animal or reptile, who is not depicted upon it in a vanquished state; the knowledge of the ancient egyptian mythology p. 152 and the skill shewn by the designer of this talisman are very remarkable. the small cippi of horus contain nothing but extracts from the scenes and texts which we find on the "metternichstele" and it, or similar objects, undoubtedly formed the source from which so many of the figures of the strange gods which are found on gnostic gems were derived. certain of the

represented as a huge serpent having the head of a lion surrounded by seven or twelve rays. over the seven rays, one on the point of each, are the seven vowels of the greek alphabet, which some suppose to p. 180 refer to the seven heavens; and on the back of the amulet, on which the figure of khnoumis occurs, is usually found the sign of the triple s and bar. khnoumis is, of course, a form of the ancient egyptian god khnemu, or "fashioner" of man and beast, the god to whom many of the attributes of the creator of the universe were ascribed. khnemu is, however, often depicted with the head of a ram, and in the later times, as the "beautiful ram of ra" he has four heads; in the egyptian monuments he has at times the head of a hawk, but never that of a lion. the god abrasax is represented in

at was the result of the husband's complaint. elsewhere 2 we have a fragment of a conversation which a priest of amen called khonsu-em-heb, who was searching for a suitable place in which to build his tomb, holds with the. double or spirit of some person whom he has disturbed, and the spirit of the dead tells some details of his life to the living man. the cemeteries were regarded with awe by the ancient egyptians because of the spirits of the dead p. 220 who dwelt in them, and even the arabic-speaking peoples of egypt and the sudan, if we exclude the "antiquity grubber" have them in great respect for the same reason. 1 the modern peoples of the sudan firmly believe that the spirits of those slain in battle dwell on the field where they fell, or where their bodies are buried, and the soldi

would be at the time of the birth of olympias, and then told her fortune from them. but the use of the horoscope is much older than the time of alexander the great, for to a greek horoscope 3 in the british museum is attached "an introductory letter from some master of the art of astrology to his pupil, named hermon, urging him to be very exact and careful in his application of the laws which he ancient egyptians, with their laborious devotion to the art, had discovered and handed down to posterity" thus we have good reason for assigning the birthplace of the horoscope to egypt. in connexion with the horoscope must be mentioned the "sphere" or "table" of democritus as a means of making predictions as to life and death. in a magical p. 230 papyrus 1 we are told to "ascertain in what month

childish and illogical methods which they adopted in serving them with a conservatism and zeal which have earned for them the reputation of being at once the most religious and most superstitious nation of p. 234 antiquity. whatever literary treasures may be brought to light in the future as the result of excavations in egypt, it is most improbable that we shall ever receive from that country any ancient egyptian work which can properly be classed among the literature of atheism or freethought; the egyptian might be more or less religious according to his nature and temperament, but, judging, from the writings of his priests and teachers which are now in our hands, the man who was without religion and god in some form or other was most rare, if not unknown. footnotes 206:1 as recently as 1

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he is the god poured out into cosmic existence, torn apart in order to be reborn spiritually. he rightly takes his place beside demeter in the festivals.85 chapter 5 the egyptian and other eastern mysteries the egyptian mysteries: becoming osiris the so-called egyptian book of the dead, 86 now restored to us by the diligence of nineteenth-century scholarship, demonstrates the existence among the ancient egyptians of ideas concerning humanity s eternal existence and communion with the divine, which might be summed up in the words attributed to empedocles: when, set free from the body, released you rise to the ether, you become divine, an immortal, escaped from the power of death. it contains, in fact, all kinds of teachings and invocations, which were put into the grave along with the dece

ty of chicago press, chicago, 1981, pp. 290-301. 85. the spirit of the eleusinian mysteries is brilliantly captured by edouard schur in sanctuaires d orient (paris, 1898 (r.st) 86. it has been called the greatest coherent literary work that has come down to us from ancient egypt; r. lepsius, das totenbuch der alten gypter (berlin, 1842, p. 17 (r.st) a modern english rendering is: r. faulkner, the ancient egyptian book of the dead (university of texas, austin, 1990. the ideas it contains about astral immortality are already prefigured in much older egyptian texts subsequently discovered, for example, the coffin texts and pyramid texts. on their initiatory significance see m. eliade, a history of religious ideas, vol. i, pp. 94ff. the nature, and even the existence, of egyptian mysteries has

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by one participant as containing documentation on his cross-cultural studies in this area. not having access to any resource materials that would answer our questions at the time, the workshop session then proceeded into the topic of egyptian neters and the use of neters in symbolism. neters the workshop discussion of egyptian neters started with a brief discussion of the egyptian languages. the ancient egyptians used three different written languages, the hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic. the demotic language was a mostly alphabetic language used for common communications among those who could read and write. its primary uses were for social and business reasons. the hieratic language was a pictographic language related to the hieroglyphic, but in which the pictographs were abbreviate

n to the sounds and symbols used to form words, the egyptians used determinatives, signs added to specifically identify each word. through the use of the determinative, it was impossible to mistake one written word for another, even if verbal sounds were the same, even if the letters used were the same. this use of a purely symbolic, picture-oriented language encouraged the ability in the learned ancient egyptians to think with right brained methods while doing the left brain activity of reading. it also encouraged these educated and intelligent egyptians to work with symbols as they worked with language. they were able to communicate ideas and ideals in a language particularly well suited to this purpose. setians use the ancient egyptian neters as symbols, representing aspects of the worl

g. it also encouraged these educated and intelligent egyptians to work with symbols as they worked with language. they were able to communicate ideas and ideals in a language particularly well suited to this purpose. setians use the ancient egyptian neters as symbols, representing aspects of the world, or aspects of the individual. we feel this is very close to the way the higher initiates of the ancient egyptian temples, the priests of the temples, and the smarter pharaohs used and viewed their neters. the neters were concepts that could be communicated to and shared among the initiated, rather than being actual gods and goddesses. 1571 the common man may very well have believed in the literal existence of his many gods and goddesses, but we believe the elite of the egyptian society under

in studying and working with them. the neters were used and viewed as symbols. but the egyptian temples _were_ temples, and were recognized as religions, not simply as centers of enlightened philosophy. this brings up the question: do/did the egyptian neters actually exist? were these religions founded to worship or work with beings that actually existed? or were they simply the creations of the ancient egyptian priesthoods? rather than tackle immediately the question of whether the neters actually existed, workshop participants first chose to examine. egyptian priesthoods the first statement made about these priesthoods was that each temple in egypt taught a different area of philosophy or knowledge. those temples dedicated to a major neter or god taught that their primal form was the fi

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arth. september 9, 1995 under the guidance of the researchers of the orderof setne khamuast (osk, the temple of set has a heb-sed festival at the oasis of las vegas. end quote. a few comments- the probable initial manifestation of xeper was during the first intermediate period of ancient egypt. this was a period when the first libraries were being put together, but it was also a period of time in ancient egyptian literature that often reflected a "skepticism and lamentation about the meaning of life. this is significant in terms of understanding the genesis of the antinomian character found within the left hand path. it is one of the hallmarks of the antinomian character to create internal disorder of this type. however, functionally it is this type of internal disarray and personal questi

e post modern era, one which takes liberally from several areas of philosophical and spiritual inquiry. existentialism, relativism, antinomianism, hermeticism, all share ideas that are synthesized into the lhp conception. tracing the roots of these ideas we find hints and glimpses contained in the extant thoughts of certain gnostic sects, the graeco/roman egyptian philosophies, and aspects of the ancient egyptian religious cults. particularly, we see this in the reflections of the ancient setian priesthoods of egypt whose ideas have been integrated into other lines of philosophical thought. as previously stated, the differentiation between the lhp and the rhp is one of intent. for instance, in the church of rome (catholic) ritual is utilized. all the elements- altar, bell, candles, incense

priate visual design in the ritual chamber. we know from neuronic tracing that angular motifs are processed within the higher functioning areas of the brain. angularism as found within the inverted pentagram used within the lhp is a central gate that needs to be exploited within the chamber area. a few notes about the inverted pentagram the inverted five point pentagram- the pentagram of set (the ancient egyptian war god of magic, initiation, the future) is a vital constituent within the ritual chamber. it is also the most important lhp talisman available to our senses psychologically, and to a great extent even physically, as it opens a direct neural signal to the cerbral cortex through its perfect use of angles. it has most often been associated to the ideas of magic, mystery, truth and

a gate that leads into transformational experience. interestingly enough, the inverted pentagram has found its way into the domain of advanced qantum physics as being a geometric model of the activity of high energy particles in the future! metaphorically, in this context, it is the antinomian character who puts into motion waves of energetic activity that will effect the path of the future. the ancient egyptian god set- as the principle of future becoming- and the inverted pentagram, whose geometric configuration has been found to represent the activity of energy in the future, form the two discreet systems whose interactions allow shifts in the energetic fabric of present activity (the only activity we have at hand. this activity then manifests within consciousness as particular types o

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piritual energy" mentioned by masonic authority jim tresner, 33? x the egyptian connection from what source do the masons draw for this funeral symbolism of the x? in my book, dark majesty, i explain the egyptian connection: in ancient egypt, the mark of "x" and the symbol of cross-bones in the symbol of an x was very prominent in religious contexts. you can find the x on the walls of a number of ancient egyptians temples and pyramids..it is the sign of osiris, the great sun god. the ancient pharaohs, when they were buried, had the legs crossed in the form of "x" as a sign of devotion to osiris' today, as in ancient egypt, osiris the sun god is worshipped; now the homage and veneration comes from the masons and their fellow illuminists. these confused and perverted men mistakenly believe t

is karloff, in the classic cinema, the mummy, lays in the mummy's crypt and symbolically crosses his arms("x) just as was done in egyptian ritual in the days of the pharaohs. stephen king, whose novels on horror and terror invariably go to the top of the bestseller's list. the caption of this photo, published in newsweek (august 28, 2000, p. 45) reads "it's good to be king" 222 codex magica these ancient egyptian figures demonstrate how prevalent was osiris' sacred sign "x "cross my heart and hope to die" 223 the mummy of ramescs the great (1279-1213 b.c) was found in this cedarwood sarcophagus. this pharaoh is thought by egyptologists to be the ruler who enslaved the israelites and forced them to build cities. 224 codex magica painting from the tomb of rameses i, valley of the kings, west

r who enslaved the israelites and forced them to build cities. 224 codex magica painting from the tomb of rameses i, valley of the kings, west thebes, in egypt. the figure at right (luriferian angel) has wings crossed in "x" fashion. this is said to be a secret, coded alphabet used by the clandestine templars order (from secret societies, by arkon daraul "cross my heart and hope to die" 225 these ancient egyptian figures demonstrate how prevalent was osiris' sacred sign "x" bronze figurine of the demon god pazuzu, 800-600 b.c. pazuzu is still secretly worshipped today by many. a real egyptian mummy, arms crossed in honor of osiris, divine father. pre-aztec figurine, today on display in mexico, has arms crossed in "x" position. 226 codex magica rosicrucian and other mystical orders emphasiz

ringlets" and in the procession female attendants, with ivory combs, seemed to dress and ornament the royal hair of the goddess. the palm-tree, and the lamp in the shape of a boat, appeared in the procession. if the symbol we are speaking of is not a mere modern invention, it is to these things it alludes. the identity of the legends is also confirmed by this hieroglyphic picture, copied from an ancient egyptian monument, which may also enlighten you as to the lion's grip and the master's gavel. in his classic masonic textbook, morals and dogma, scottish rite legend albert pike suggests that "this hieroglyphic picture, copied from an ancient egyptian monument, may enlighten you as to the lion's grip and the master's gavel" two standards of the ritual ceremony for the master degree. in the

many are similar to those of freemasonry and other secret societies. the penalty sign related to having one's throat cut is shown at number x. sixteen hand on heart sign of devotion to the chiefs m a s o n r y' s homage to the heart by the sign of hand on heart can best be understood by the fact that the leaders of the masonic lodge themselves boast that the rituals of freemasonry hearken back to ancient egyptian religion. the egyptian book of the dead addressed prayers to "my heart of my mother..my heart of transformations" meaning the source of rebirths. the mother goddess of egypt was worshipped by various names isis, hathor, rhea, etc. she was the one to whom the people "gave their hearts" meaning their heart-felt devotion and allegiance. as the goddess of sacrifices, it was deemed nec

ck robin. updated to more recent times, we find that in her occult book, a treatise on the seven rays, lucis trust director alice bailey taught the occult importance of colors "the three major rays" she said "are red, blue, and yellow" the color red, bailey explained, has to do with "will, or power."19 in the symbolism of color, faber birren points out the primacy of the color red. he notes:20 in ancient egyptian religion, the god shu was red, and red animals symbolized seth. the red poppy was sacred to ceres, the goddess of the harvest. the face of the wine-god dionysus was sometimes painted red. in my researches of occult traditions, the color red is always the color of fire and blood, of evil and destruction, and of immorality. even the devil is sometimes conceived of as a red beast. an

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n 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 depicted their gods as human-animal hybrids. pharaoh identified himself with the god horus, who could be represented as a falcon or a falcon- headed human. anubis, the god of the necropolis, can be shown as a jackal-headed man, probably because such carrion-eating jackals prowled egyptian cemeteries. many other civilizations felt the power of these kinds of images. for exam

nd bones with the deceased. because of the placement of such funerary objects in the graves, one may safely conjecture that these prehistoric people believed death was not the end. there was some part of the deceased requiring nourishment, clothing, and protection in order to journey safely in another kind of existence beyond the grave. this belief persisted into more recent historical times. the ancient egyptians had a highly developed concept of life after death, devoting much thought and effort to their eternal wellbeing, and they were not the only early civilization to be concerned about an afterlife. with all their diversity of beliefs, the major religions of today are in accord in one essential teaching: human beings are immortal and their spirit comes from a divine world and may eve

lving deeper jewish publication society translation. the tanakh. new york, 1992. sullivan, lawrence e, ed. death, afterlife, and the soul. new york: macmillan, 1989. unterman, alan. dictionary of jewish lore and legend. new york: thames and hudson, 1997. wilson, andrew, ed. world scripture: a comparative anthology of sacred texts. new york: paragon house, 1995. ancient egypt and the afterlife the ancient egyptians were preoccupied with the specter of death and the problem of how best to accomplish passage to the other side. there was never an ancient people who insisted upon believing that death was not the final act of a human being, that it is not death to die, with more emphasis than the egyptians. in the cosmology of the early egyptians, humans were considered the children of the gods

rson might need on a long journey, together with toilet articles, vessels for water and food, and weapons and hunting equipment to protect against robbers and to provide food once the initial supply was depleted. based on their writings concerning their concepts of goodness, purity, faithfulness, truth, and justice, beginning in the pyramid texts and extending onward, most scholars agree that the ancient egyptians were a highly moral people. the gods osiris and isis were exalted as the ideal father and mother, and set (god of chaos) became the personification of evil. during the time of the middle kingdom (c. 2000 b.c.e) the story of osiris became a kind of gospel of righteousness, and justice was exalted in a manner found in few periods of history. egyptian book of the dead as early as th

f the dead is that while the work is filled with realistic and graphic scenes of the preparation of the deceased for mummification, there are no illustrations depicting death and dying. for a people obsessed with the mortuary and funerary aspects of death, the egyptians seldom dealt with the actual ways in which people lost their lives. some scholars have observed that it was not so much that the ancient egyptians wished to avoid the unpleasant topic of death and dying; it was rather that they never really formulated any clear conception of the nature of death or of its cause. by the time the text of the book of the dead was being copied on rolls of papyrus and placed in the tombs of the dead, a great social and religious revolution had taken place. whereas the pyramid texts were meant onl

during which he was a peaceful political power, an administrator of a higher culture, the unifying factor in bringing the delta and northern upper egypt into one realm, the ideal husband and father, and after his death, the god of resurrection. the second period extended from the time of the pyramid texts to the common era, when he was primarily god of the dead and king of the underworld. when an ancient egyptian died, the deceased expected to appear before osiris, who would be sitting upon his throne, waiting to pass judgment on him or her. the deceased would be led in by the jackal-headed god anubis, followed by the goddess isis, the divine enchantress, representing life, and the goddess of the underworld, nephthys, representing death. there were 42 divine judges to assess the life of th

heart. in those instances when the heart outweighed the feather and few devout egyptians could really believe that their beloved osiris would condemn them the deceased was permitted to proceed to the fields of aalu, the world, where the gods lived. because humans were the offspring of the gods, the fields of aalu offered an eternal association and loving companionship with the deities. this, the ancient egyptians believed, was the natural order of things. they had no doubts about immortality. in their cosmology, a blessed afterlife was a certainty. m delving deeper ferm, vergilious, ed. ancient religions. new york: the philosophical library, 1950. gaster, theodor h, ed. the new golden bough. new york: criterion books, 1959. larousse dictionary of beliefs and religions. new york: larousse

xray techniques to examine mummies without unwrapping them. 7. in the early 1970s, scientists began using computed tomography, or cat scans, to create images of the insides of mummies. this aided them in determining information about the embalming and wrapping processes the egyptians used. 8. during the 1980s and 1990s, scientists extracted dna from mummies in hopes of gathering information about ancient egyptian patterns of settlement and migration, as well as information on diseases and genetic characteristics. 9. recent approaches to studying mummies involve the interdisciplinary cooperation of egyptologists, physicians, radiologists, physical anthropologists, and specialists in ancient languages. 10. recent discoveries of mummies in the sinai peninsula, the desert oases, and the easter

ed the het ka, the house of the ka, suggesting that the egyptians not only considered the ka an essential aspect of a human being, but understood that a provision for it, as well as for the physical body, must be made at the time of death. the ba is generally understood by modern scholars as representing that aspect of the essential self that is commonly referred to as the soul. often depicted in ancient egyptian art and hieroglyphs as a bird with a human head male or female, corresponding to the sex of the person represented the ba hovers near its physical counterpart. in cultures throughout the world, the bird is often utilized as a symbol for the soul. and certainly, in the egypt of thousands of years ago, the high-flying, free-moving creature of the air would have seemed an obvious rep

ted the ba hovers near its physical counterpart. in cultures throughout the world, the bird is often utilized as a symbol for the soul. and certainly, in the egypt of thousands of years ago, the high-flying, free-moving creature of the air would have seemed an obvious representation of the aspect of the self that separates from the body at the time of death. while there seems no question that the ancient egyptian view of the nature of each individual human included both the physical and nonphysical aspects of the whole person, the spiritual, nonmaterial representations were not valued above the material body. such an assertion is easily demonstrated by the lengthy process of embalmment and the elaborate process of mummification conducted on the physical body of the deceased. the magical ri

e initiates a happy immortality. m delving deeper ferm, vergilious, ed. ancient religions. new york: philosophical library, 1950. gaster, dr. theodor h, ed. the new golden bough. new york: criterion books, 1959. larousse dictionary of beliefs and religions. new york: larousse, 1994. hermetic mysteries the hermes trismegistus (the thrice greatest hermes, who set forth the esoteric doctrines of the ancient egyptian priesthood, recognized the reincarnation of impious souls and the achievement of pious souls when they know god and become all intelligence. hermes was the name the greeks gave to the egyptian god thoth, the god of wisdom, learning, and literature. to hermes was given the title scribe of the gods, and he is said to have authored 42 sacred books, the hermetic mysteries, which conta

n throughout the world. in native american tribal art or sign-writing, a black circle signified the departure of the soul, whose travel to the land of the grandparents occurred at night, after the sun had gone down. the human soul was represented among some tribes as a dark and somber image, complete with feet, hands, and head. because the soul still existed in human shape, it, like the ka of the ancient egyptians, still needed to be provided with nourishment. some tribal members burned the best part of their food as an offering to the souls of the departed. m delving deeper emerson, ellen russell. indian myths. minneapolis: ross& haines, 1965. 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 40 afterlife mysteries gill, sam d, and irene f. sullivan

ental in producing volumes of impressive communications from the other side and has also helped to develop hundreds of psychic-sensitives who have become adept at spirit contact. the ouija board was first available for the american public in 1890 and was marketed as a parlor game. according to its creators, e. c. reiche, elijah bond, and charles kennard, the name of the board was derived from the ancient egyptian word for good luck. egyptologists flatly stated that ouija was not an ancient blessing, and william fuld, a foreman at kennard s company, agreed, protesting that he was the one who had really invented the board, fashioning its name by splicing together the german (ja) and the french (oui) 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 med

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n 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 depicted their gods as human-animal hybrids. pharaoh identified himself with the god horus, who could be represented as a falcon or a falcon- headed human. anubis, the god of the necropolis, can be shown as a jackal-headed man, probably because such carrion-eating jackals prowled egyptian cemeteries. many other civilizations felt the power of these kinds of images. for exam

nd bones with the deceased. because of the placement of such funerary objects in the graves, one may safely conjecture that these prehistoric people believed death was not the end. there was some part of the deceased requiring nourishment, clothing, and protection in order to journey safely in another kind of existence beyond the grave. this belief persisted into more recent historical times. the ancient egyptians had a highly developed concept of life after death, devoting much thought and effort to their eternal wellbeing, and they were not the only early civilization to be concerned about an afterlife. with all their diversity of beliefs, the major religions of today are in accord in one essential teaching: human beings are immortal and their spirit comes from a divine world and may eve

her spirit to enter his body and thus the two were bound together forever. other scholars have made the unpleasant suggestion that the earliest form of wedding rings were the fetters bound around a woman s wrists and ankles to indicate that she had been captured and become the property of a man in the tribe. from what can be ascertained from historical records available, it would appear that the ancient egyptians were the first to use the wedding ring in taking their marriage vows. in hieroglyphics a circle represents eternity, and the circular form became symbolic of a marriage that would be binding throughout all time. the early anglo-saxon groom gave a pledge or wed to his intended at the betrothal ceremony. at this time he also placed a metal ring around her right hand, where it remai

eaten out of the same dish. in madagascar as well, all that was necessary to become man and wife was to eat out of the same bowl. in ancient rome, a marriage was dignified and solemnized once the bride and groom had eaten together. the navajo mar- 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 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends 213 ancient egyptians were the first to use the wedding ring. riage couple ate maize pudding together. to some extent, eating and drinking together still forms an essential part of the marriage ceremony in japan, russia, and scandinavia. until recent times, a serbian woman ate only once in her life with a man, and that was on her marriage day, when she shared a meal with her husband. the wedding cake

guest was invited to share the meal, the father would relinquish his chair to him. although the chair reached a high degree of development among most of the european nations, it failed to gain much of a foothold among various other peoples. eating utensils. humankind s first eating utensil was some form of the spoon or the ladle. museums display spoons of wood, stone, and ivory that were found in ancient egyptian tombs. spoon-like implements belonging to the paleolithic age have been found in caves in france and other european countries, thereby indicating that early humans used such eating utensils as far back as 100,000 or more years. the greeks and romans used spoons of bronze and silver, some exquisitely wrought by the hands of master craftspersons. during the middle ages in europe, th

ad and redress them each year on the anniversary of the person s death. the same custom is found among the eskimo, who annually take new clothes as a gift to the dead. among many native american tribes in earlier times, the widow was obligated to remain beside the tomb of her deceased husband for a year, while other family members brought food daily for her and for the spirit of the dead man. the ancient egyptians shaved their heads in time of mourning, and for a certain period abstained from mixing with any other than their immediate family. when it came to looking after the needs of their deceased in the afterlife, the egyptians provided weapons, food, drink, furniture all went into the tomb with the mummy. wealthy egyptians were buried with their slaves so they might be certain of good

a french from the latin oraculum, from orare to speak. passover the seven or eight days of a jewish festival that begins on the fourteenth day of nissan and commemorates the exodus of the hebrews from their captivity in egypt. from the hebrew word pesa, meaning to pass without affecting. pharaoh an all-powerful person in a position of authority and who expects unquestioning obedience, such as the ancient egyptian rulers of egypt. from the hebrew paroh and egyptian pr-o, meaning great house. predator any organism or animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals. can refer to a ruthless person who is extremely aggressive in harming another. from the latin praedator and praedari, meaning to seize as plunder. sabbath a day set apart as one of religious worship and rest from work observed on

ific explanation in the known psychological principles. passover the seven or eight days of a jewish festival that begins on the fourteenth day of nissan and commemorates the exodus of the hebrews from their captivity in egypt. from the hebrew word pesa, meaning to pass without affecting. pharaoh from the hebrew par oh, egyptian pr- o, and latin and greek pharao, meaning literally great house. an ancient egyptian title for the ruler or king of egypt, often considered a tyrant and one who expected unquestioning obedience. pharmacologist the study of or science of drugs in all their aspects, including sources, chemistry, production, their use in treating ailments and disease, as well as any known side effects. phenomena strange, extraordinary, unusual, even miraculous events, or happenings t

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ncient 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 depicted their gods as human-animal hybrids. pharaoh identified himself with the god horus, who could be represented as a falcon or a falcon- headed human. anubis, the god of the necropolis, can be shown as a jackal-headed man, probably because such carrion-eating jackals prowled egyptian cemeteries. many other civilizations felt the power of these kinds of images. for exam

nd bones with the deceased. because of the placement of such funerary objects in the graves, one may safely conjecture that these prehistoric people believed death was not the end. there was some part of the deceased requiring nourishment, clothing, and protection in order to journey safely in another kind of existence beyond the grave. this belief persisted into more recent historical times. the ancient egyptians had a highly developed concept of life after death, devoting much thought and effort to their eternal wellbeing, and they were not the only early civilization to be concerned about an afterlife. with all their diversity of beliefs, the major religions of today are in accord in one essential teaching: human beings are immortal and their spirit comes from a divine world and may eve

as do the practitioners of white magick, the black magicians seek to gain control over supernatural forces for the sole purpose of personal aggrandizement, the glorification of their baser appetites, and the sowing of discord, discontent, and disease. the desire to use supernatural entities to wreak havoc upon one fs enemy or to acquire material wealth and power was in play during the time of the ancient egyptians and persians. the greeks and hebrews adapted many of the rituals and incantations, transforming the gods of the earlier cultures into the demons of their own time. this process of deity transmutation was continued into medieval times when the earlier gods of the middle east became devils, the ancient mysteries and fertility rites became orgies, and the orders of worship for the o

wisdom, and their title has provided the root for the words gmagic, h gmagician, h and so forth. such men were the councilors of the eastern empires, the possessors of occult secrets that guided royalty. in europe during the middle ages, those who bore the title of magi were more likely to be men who had devoted their lives to the accumulation of occult wisdom and knowledge from the kabbalah, the ancient egyptians, the arabs, and various pagan sources, and had thereby come under the scrutiny of the church and suspected of communicating with demons. although these individuals valiantly clung to precious fragments of ancient lore and insisted that they were practitioners of good magic, the clergy saw few distinctions between the magi and the witches that the inquisition sought to bring to tr

ised as a pack of playing cards, has remained a popular method of divining the future. combining esoteric wisdom with the hebrew system of numbers, many individuals maintain that it is likely that the philosophy of the ancient kabbalah was the spiritual ancestor of the philosophy of the tarot. enthusiasts in the new age movement have rediscovered and embraced the teachings of the kabbalah and the ancient egyptian wisdoms believed to be instilled in the cards. although many authorities have suggested that the tarot cards were adapted from the pages of the legendary egyptian book of magic, the book of thoth.and certain of the imagery on the cards encourages these perceptions.such an assertion cannot be proved. what does appear to be authentic lore in regard to the tarot cards is the fact tha

e. the story of fulfilled prophecy. new york: g. p. putnam fs sons. 1969. scrying/crystal gazing/crystalomancy for many centuries, those who would divine the future have assisted their clairvoyant abilities by crystal gazing, known technically as scrying. this method of divination is of such vast antiquity that it would be impossible to state exactly where it originated. it is known that both the ancient egyptians and babylonians scryed by means of gazing into low, open stone dishes filled with palm oil. but who can say for certain when the first diviner entered into an altered state of consciousness while gazing into a pool of water, a crystal globe, the surface of a polished gem, or any transparent object and received what he or she believed to be a vision of the future? the practice of

has been known as gbloodstone h and credited with the power to stem loss of blood from wounds or excessive menstrual flow. although some have declared that its name was derived from the latin carne, gflesh, h most authorities maintain that the origin of the bloodstone fs common european version, carnelian, lies in the word cor, gheart. h the blood redness of carnelian made it highly desired among ancient egyptians who used it to represent the blood or virtue of the goddess isis and placed it within the body cavity of a mummy. the egyptian jewelers also favored the bloodstone as an addition to their heart amulets and proclaimed it as a symbol of the heart-soul of the goddess. carnelian is called the mecca stone by many muslims and is carried by them as an object that may assist in fulfillin

erusalem.washington, d.c: biblical archaeological society, 1975. starr, chester g. a history of the ancient world. new york: oxford university press, 1991. westwood, jennifer. mysterious places. new york: galahad books, 1996. karnak on the banks of the nile, between the ancient cities of luxor and thebes, lie the remains of karnak, one of the most magnificent temple complexes ever constructed. in ancient egyptian, karnak means gthe most select of places, h and it became a religious center during the period known as the new kingdom (founded c. 1550 b.c.e. dedicated to the sun deity amon-ra (also 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 places of mystery and power 245 amun-re) and built around 1500 b.c.e, karnak consists of massive pillars, to

x are probably the world fs oldest and best-known enigmas. among the questions swirling about the pyramids include the location of the sites from which the immense amount of rock forming them (11 million cubic yards of stone for the great pyramid alone) was quarried, and how it was moved and then erected into an astonishingly precise structure. what kind of surveying methods and equipment did the ancient egyptians use to ensure that the landscape was level and their measurements were accurate? and how could the vast number of workers required for such an undertaking be mobilized, housed, and fed? other mysteries abound: the pyramids are situated at cardinal points on the compass, and numerous astronomical uses show knowledge of mathematics in advance of other civilizations. in addition, th

to match the height in gpyramid inches h (slightly less than the common inch) of the pyramid multiplied by 10 to the 9th power (10 to 9 is also the proportion of height to width of the pyramid. the latitude and longitude lines that intersect at the pyramid run across more land than any others, leading some to believe that giza and the monuments there represent the center of the inhabitable world. ancient egyptians would have had to determine the world was round in order to reach such a conclusion, a possibility accepted by some scholars. lines extending northwest and northeast from the great pyramid neatly encompass the nile delta, the naturally formed area of deposits where the nile river branches to flow into the mediterranean. deltas are formed by streams and become triangular-shaped, t

, the alignment does not fit quite precisely, and two corresponding pyramids are missing. according to herodotus, 100,000 men were needed to build the great pyramid. they were organized in groups that worked on the project for three-month stints. for many centuries it has been commonly believed that the workers were slaves forced to perform hard labor. modern scientific studies tend to support an ancient egyptian civilization capable of acquiring the knowledge and the extended social system required for the building of such massive and sophisticated structures as the pyramids. recent discoveries support a view that skilled engineers and masses of peasants were fed, housed, and clothed while performing work for a leader they revered as a godking. evidence that some of the laborers took grea

with the fourth dynasty, when each of the pyramid builders of giza ruled. nevertheless, the dating of the sphinx remains a source of controversy, and even in ancient times, some sources dated it as preceding the pyramids. in greek mythology developed over two thousand years after the egyptian use of hieroglyphics, a sphinx was a half-woman, half-lion creature that guarded the gates of thebes, an ancient egyptian city. a scourge fell upon the land that could only be lifted by solving a riddle posed by the sphinx: what begins life on four legs, lives most of its life on two legs, and ends life on three legs? in oedipus the king, a play by the greek dramatist sophocles (c. 496.406 b.c.e, the title character solves the riddle with the answer ga human, h for an infant crawls on four legs befor

t. the calassassayax (house of worship, he believed, was so similar to the egyptian temple of karnak in design and layout that its relative dimensions made it almost a scale model of the old world structure. the stones used in the temple at tiahuanaco are fitted and joined with their joints and facing parts polished to make a nearly perfect match. the incas did not build in such a manner, but the ancient egyptians did. and then there were the buildings constructed of massive, polished stones, many tons in weight, that had been placed in such a manner that only a people with advanced engineering methods could have designed and transported them. if this were not enough of an impossible situation, the particular andesite used in much of the tiahuanacan construction can only be found in a quar

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y. he isusually represented in human form wearing the curved horns of the theban ram. herodotus mentions that atthe great annual festival at thebes the figure of amon was wrapped in a ram's skin, evidently in the sameway that the dancing god of ari350ge was wrapped. there were two types of sheep whose horns were theinsignia of divinity; the theban breed had curved horns, but the ordinary breed of ancient egyptian sheep hadtwisted horizontal horns. the horizontal horns are those most commonly worn by egyptian gods. one of themost important of these deities is khnum, the god of the district round the first cataract; he was a creatorgod and was represented as a human being with a sheep's head and horizontal horns. but the greatest of allthe horned gods of egypt was osiris, who appears to have

man's mother and severalof the harem ladies and harem officials, besides people from outside. they began by making wax figures, butthese not proving a success the conspirators resorted to personal violence, from the effects of which thepharaoh eventually died. the conspirators were brought to justice, and the guilty were condemned to death. itis interesting to see how much less superstitious the ancient egyptians were than the medieval christians.there is no mention of the devil, no feeling that an evil power was invoked; there is none of that shudderinghorror which is so marked a feature of the christian records, and the only abusive term used is the word"criminal" applied to the convicted prisoners. there were two men concerned in the making of the waxfigures. the record of the first on

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n their knowledge of kabbalah, which he sees as "infinitesimal. another stream stemming from rosenroth's work came through eliphas levi (1810-75, who became familiar with cabalistic martinism through hoene wronski (1778-1853, and had read both boehme and rosenroth amongst many others. he also became a student of tarot through the writings of court de gebelin (1725-84, who ascribed to the tarot an ancient egyptian origin. from de gebelin and rosenroth, levi synthesised a scheme of attribution of the tarot cards to the twenty-two paths of the tree of life, a significant development in that it provided a synthetic model of processes to be later modified and used by the golden dawn as mapping the initiation system of psychological, occult, and spiritual development. levi wrote "qabalah. might

verse. one of the key functions of the tree, and one at which it excels, is as a mental filing-system. not only can the tree be viewed as a system, but also a meta-system, that is, a system which includes other systems within it. in this way, ideas may be compared across apparently different models. an example of this is the association of astrological concepts and symbology with the myths of the ancient egyptians. thus, one familiar with the former, say, understanding the "nature" of venus, would be able to equate this knowledge to an understanding of the "nature" of hathor, through their mutual correspondence on the tree. there are dangers in taking this approach too simplistically, as there are dangers in all methods of translation and learning, but it provides an incomparable method of

nita, which refer to tiphareth and malkuth. as the ramak stated in pardes rimonim "the nefesh (lower soul) can motivate the ruach (middle spirit) and the ruach in turn motivates the neshamah (upper soul. the neschamah then ascends from one essence to the next, until it reaches its source" the kabbalah is only one of many cosmologies which attempt to describe the functions of human experience. the ancient egyptians developed a complex system of souls inhabiting the individual, and as these may be contrasted against the kabbalistic divisions, i will mention them here briefly. as the egyptian model is usually based on the works of wallis budge, whose writings were original at the time, but are now dated by more modern research, there are many differences of spelling and opinion as to the sign

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

ymboles chretiens primitifs, paris 1961. it was the sign of the elect' of the old testament, even before it was mentioned in the revelation of st. john (the apocalypse) and also well prior to its adoption by the christians as a sign recalling the passion of christ. for example we read in ezekiel that it was supposed to have been traced upon the foreheads of the elect by the angel of yaveh. 11 the ancient egyptians, the eleusinian mysteries and those of dionysos, the gnostics, all had known and used this tau for the same reason as ancient israel and her kabbalists- thus it can be used by initiates 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 sa

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

ind and g i c a reminder that here on malkuth, our immediate symbolic link with the lord of light and strength is through the life-giving rays of the sun. the name of e,heieh is vibrated after the western pentagram is drawn. eheieh, meaning "i am" is the divine name of kether. the west is the place of sunset, the completion of the sun's journey across the sky. it represents rest and peace. to the ancient egyptians, ra, the sun god died each night when he entered amentet (the west. the west is a symbol of the completion of the soul's journey and the goal of spiritual growth. therefore the west is an emblem of kether, the goal which we seek throughout our incarnation on earth and which we hope to reach at the end of life, when we (like ra) journey to amentet. the name eheieh vibrated in the

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

ed upon our longtime awareness of this intelligence and our struggle to reduce it to humanly acceptable terms. the ancient ethiopians viewed their gods as black, snub-nosed entities. the greeks and romans populated their mountaintops with longhaired, handsome gods and goddesses. the indians of south america worshiped bearded gods who traveled the night skies in luminous discs of light, as did the ancient egyptians. but religious views were modified in the nineteenth century with the coming of the industrial age. the lights were still there but a new frame of reference was needed to cover their activities. somebody somewhere does not want us to understand the true nature of this phenomenon and its true purpose. for years the ufo enthusiasts believed the u.s. air force was the culprit and th

THE BOOK OF GATES

red-texts.com, may 2003. j.b. hare, redactor. this text is in the public domain. these files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact. next: note sacred texts egypt ehh index vol. i vol. ii vol. iii the book of gates by e. a. wallis budge [1905 (original title) the short form of the book of am-tuat and the book of gates the book of gates is an ancient egyptian cosmological treatise describing the architecture and inhabitants of the tuat, the underworld which the boat of the sun god, ra, traverses during the night hours. this is the second volume of the three volume budge series which deals with the books of the underworld, the egyptian heaven and hell. it also includes a short summary of the book of am-tuat, the longer version of which

ation, appearing as if just finished on the day we entered it; and what i found in it will show its great superiority to all others. not fifteen yards from the last tomb i described, i caused the earth to be opened at the foot of a steep hill, and under a torrent, which, when it rains, pours a great quantity of water over the very spot i have p. 72 caused to be dug. no one could imagine, that the ancient egyptians would make the entrance into such an immense and superb excavation just under a torrent of water; but i had strong reasons to suppose, that there was a tomb in that place, from indications i had observed in my pursuit. the fellahs who were accustomed to dig were all of opinion, that there was nothing in that spot, as the situation of this tomb differed from that of any other. i c

THE GOD SET

ers coming to live in egypt. his worship has always been connected with the outsider. the twentieth dynasty began by looking very favorably on this god, as is shown in the name of its founder setnakt "set is mighty" there is also considerable evidence that the set cult was favored among artisans of the time (see romer's ancient lives, henry holt, 1984, and if you've got as copy of stephen quirk's ancient egyptian religion check out the beautiful stella of aapehty- probably the most beautiful surviving example of setian art. by the end of the twentieth dynasty, as the funerary cult of osiris became the dominate force in popular egyptian religion,more and more, set as the murderer of osiris became the evil one. in fact by the twenty sixth dynasty it was a common practice to disfigure any rep

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

r manifest inferiority; yet it does not appear, from any accounts extant, that they were able to assign any reason for this preference. on the contrary, strabo tells us that the egyptians of his time were wholly ignorant of their ancient learning and religion,1 though impostors continually pretended to explain it. their ignorance in these points is not to be wondered at, considering that the most ancient egyptians, of whom we have any authentic accounts, lived after the subversion of their monarchy and destruction of their temples by the persians, who used every endeavour to annihilate their religion; first, by command of cambyses,2 and then of ochus.3 what they were before this calamity, we have no direct information; for herodotus is the earliest traveller, and he visited this country wh

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

er alternative. a necessary evolution of the basic concept of choice was the varieties of possi- bility inherent in any decision. every question can yield three possible answers: yes; no; and yesino. this triplicity is expressed in all the holy trinities of gods the world has known. in christianity it is father, holy ghost, and son. in hinduism it is brahma, shiva, and vishnu. tn the faith of the ancient egyptians it was osiris, isis, and horus. symbolically it is embodied in the triskelion, a design of three appendages radiating from a center point, which occurs in such diverse cultures as the celtic, greek, and native american. 7: affirmation the seventh point is the essential yes, a rushing forth with purpose, an assertion that may be called male in character, although in manifest natur

lickers. then suddenly he notices a small aperture in the side of the pit near the lad- der, just wide enough to admit the body of a man. hope surges within him. can this narrow avenue lead to salvation? with a trembling and thankful heart he pulls himself into the opening, which ultimately leads to the inner temple and the place of the initiation ritual. whether this is a true description of the ancient egyptian initiation or, as seems more probable, is a fiction based on esoteric practices familiar to the chris- tian, does not matter. the meaning is clear. the clanging door is the gate of death. the sloping dark passage is the birth canal, and the dark pit is the abyss that every soul must cross when it moves from one life to another. had the candidate hesi- tated, the lamp-his hope-woul

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

w it is by experience confirmed, that no devil nor power of hell, which vex and trouble men, can resist this name, but will they, nil1 they, bow the knee and obey, when the name jesu by a due pronunciation is proposed to them to be worshipped (three books of occult philosophy 3.12) 50 tetragrammaton when agrippa writes of "knowledge going before" he is referring to the age-old belief, held by the ancient egyptians and others, that knowledge of the true name of a spirit gives command over that spirit. when agrippa writes of invoking the name of jesus "in the holy spirit" he means the elevation and focus of the mind that comes with magical purity of the will. when he writes of "a due pronunciation" he refers to the technique of vibrating the fivefold name. although the christian kabbalists o

s in the celestial heavens (golden dawn, p. 656. the four angelic tables literally become the guardian gates at the ends of the manifest universe, the ultimate bastion against the violent entry of the "death-dragon" telocvovim (him-that-is-fallen, who is mighty coronzon, or lucifer. the notion that the firmament of heaven is sustained above the floor of the world by four supports is very old. the ancient egyptians believed that 182 tetragrammaton four pillars supported the sky at the cardinal points. later these pillars became the scepters of four gods "four elder spirits who dwell in the locks of hair of horus" namely amset (south, hap (north, tuamutef (east, and qebhsennuf (west. the supporting pillars were formed from the hair of horus, whose head was the heavens and whose eyes were the

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

i believe that they mean what the original writers intended to say. in the case of passages where the text is corrupt, and readings are mixed, or where very rare words occur, or where words are omitted, the renderings given claim to be nothing more than suggestions as to their meanings. it must be remembered that the exact meanings of many egyptian words have still to be ascertained, and that the ancient egyptian scribes were as much puzzled as we are by some of the texts which they copied, and that owing to carelessness, ignorance, or weariness, or all three, they made blunders which the modern student is unable to correct. in the introduction will be found brief descriptions of the contents of the egyptian texts, in which their general bearing and importance are indicated, and references

r drunk, the words were equally efficacious as a charm against snakebites. to this day water in which the written words of a text from the kur'an have been dissolved, or water drunk from a bowl on the inside of which religious texts have been written, is still regarded as a neverfailing charm in egypt and the sudan. thus we see that the modern custom of drinking magical water was derived from the ancient egyptians, who believed that it conveyed into their bodies the actual power of their gods. iv. the legend of heru-behutet and the winged disk. the text of this legend is cut in hieroglyphics on the walls of the temple of edfu in upper egypt, and certain portions of it are illustrated by large bas-reliefs. both text and reliefs were published by professor naville in his volume entitled myth

[fn#172] the son of ptah of his southern wall [fn#166] tcheser was a king of the iiird dynasty, and is famous as the builder of the step pyramid at sakkarah. his tomb was discovered by mr. j. garstang at bet khallaf in upper egypt in 1901 [fn#167] i.e, the people who were in front of, that is, to the south of egypt, or the population of the country which lies between dakkah and aswan [fn#168] the ancient egyptian name for elephantine island, which appears to have gained this name because it resembled an elephant in shape [fn#169] i.e, the palace [fn#170] i.e, risen [fn#171] i.e, the high court officials and administrators [fn#172] the famous priest and magician, who was subsequently deified and became one of the chief gods of memphis "where is the place of birth of hapi (the nile? what god

that season of the moon, accidentally found the wooden chest wherein was deposited the body of osiris, which he immediately pulled to pieces. this story, however, is not generally admitted, there being some who look upon it, as they do many other relations of the same kind, as founded upon some mistake or misrepresentation. all agree, however, in saying that so great was the abhorrence which the ancient egyptians expressed for whatever tended to promote luxury, expense, and voluptuousness, that in order to expose it as much as possible they erected a column in one of the temples of thebes, full of curses against their king meinis, who first drew them off from their former frugal and parsimonious course of life. the immediate cause for the erection of the pillar is thus given: technatis,[f

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

scientists feel that true inspiration comes from some sort of platonic realm of archetypal, mathematical, or aesthetic forms which somehow break through our world. to the scientist, mathematics is the discipline which is most closely tied to nature itself. this may seem strange to the outsider.one to whom math is a bizarre world of numbers and strange symbols.but the idea dates as far back as the ancient egyptians, who used their understanding of correct proportion of number and ratio to build the pyramids. they could have influenced the ancient greeks; plato makes reference in his laws to their sacred canon which served to help preserve their civilization over centuries. certainly we know that the greek philosophers perceived numbers and geometry as the ordering principles of the universe

iens in a land not their own" this refers to the time that the israelites would be in egypt, but in an esoteric sense, it can be taken for the mysterious alien territory of daath, about which we can only make strange guesses as to its real nature. it is interesting to note that gareth knight assigns the mundane chakra sothis to daath, as this was the deep esoteric mythology that most inspired the ancient egyptians.it was said to be the home of isis herself (sirius. isis is the high priestess in the tarot and this is the only path, it is said by the masters, that one can use to safely cross the abyss. although some have placed daath in the throat center (visualizing the tree within one's body) or in the head, in this system, as we will see in the chapter on chakras, it is conceived as a sil

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

o spend their lives inside rooms. it is an indoor philosophy. ed abbey we shall never achieve harmony with the land anymore than we shall achieve justice or liberty for people. in these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve, but to strive. aldo leopold education and learning let not thy heart be great because of thy knowledge, but converse with the ignorant as with the learned. ancient egyptian i hear and i forget. i see and i remember. i do and i understand. chinese thou dost not practice what thou knowest; why, then, dost thou seek what thou knowest not? muslim he who learns well defends himself well. argentine first learn, then form opinions. talmud knowledge that can be stolen is not worth having. al-ghazdi the men who deserted thee will teach thee knowledge. talmud

WILLIAM WESCOTT GOLDEN DAWN HISTORTY LECTURE

osiris and serapis; but they lacked true magic. and further, the classic writings contain but faint glimpses of even the eleusinian mysteries, and these disclose the fact that the pupils were partly ignorant of the true mysteries, a notable example of which is seen in the use of the words konx om pax, of which they knew not the meaning, the words being the greek imitation or translation of really ancient egyptian words, whose meanings has been kept secret for centuries. hence the 0=0 grade is found to possess egyptian characteristics and symbolism and the higher grades will reveal the source of much of the culture and illustrate the language of eliphas levi, through whose adeptship the study of occultism has been popularized. the first order is a group of four grades of which neophytes are

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

ons. it is with the hebrew letters as numerals that we are chiefly concerned, and to a smaller extent with greek. ancient records show that the greeks used their numbers almost exclusively for everyday purposes; while the jewish rabbis added to their practical value special peculiar purposes, and looked to them to furnish deeper views of nature, existence and doctrine. no doubt can exist that the ancient egyptians were fully aware of the wondrous mysteries which numbers are able to disclose, so, considering that greece, and neither judea nor babylon, succeeded to the empires of ancient egypt, it is a curious fact how little knowledge of the dogmas of the hierophants of sais, memphis and thebes greek literature has transmitted to us. the jewish rabbis discovered so much of interest and impo

of the active and the passive; the brilliant and the obscure. the followers of pythagoras spoke of two kinds of enjoyment. first, lasciviousness and indulgence of the belly, like the murderous songs of sirens; second, honest and just indulgences, which bring on no repentance. hierocles says two things are necessary to life, the aid of kindred, and benevolent sympathy of one s neighbors. a notable ancient egyptian hieroglyphic was formed of two serpents in connection with a globe or egg, representing the world. another celebrated pair, in connection with worship, is the association of a tree and a serpent, referring as some say to the mosaic account of the tree of knowledge and the tempter serpent. some have supposed that it is only since the condemnation on thy belly shalt thou go that the

iple deity on the cross of 4 limbs, is the descent of spirit into matter; or, as the theosophists say, the triad of atma-buddhi-manas descends into the quaternary of personal man, the kama, prana, linga and sthula sarira. the 4 cabeiri, or great deities of syro-phenicia, were axieros, axiokersos, axiokersa and kasmillos, children of sydyk, are named by sanchoniathon and quoted by eusebius. in the ancient egyptian form of burial, while the body was made into a swathed mummy, the internal organs of the chest and abdomen were removed and preserved in 4 jars, often called the canopic jars; they were dedicated to the 4 genii of the cardinal points, who were at times called the children of horus. the jar of amset, amesheth or mestha, the south, was man-shaped, and in it were put the stomach and

otype, schechem ben hamor, whose name is 666 by gematria, shkm bn chmvr, he was the corrupter of dinah. see genesis xxxiv. verse 2. the jews expected that the end of the present dispensation of the world would arrive after 6000 years, and st. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott barnabas repeats this as a reasonable belief of the ancient christian church. the ancient egyptians had for their highest priests a college of 6, of which hardly any information has come down to us; but one aseshra, is mentioned as master of the mysterious words of the 6, and a stature has been found of one ei-meri, whose engraved title is chief of the dwelling of the great six# 72. chapter eleven the heptad, s even, 7. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w

(peleia. the missing one is merope, who married the mortal sisyphus and hides herself for shame. seven was the number of the rabbis who left the greater holy assembly; ten had formed it, three had passed away from the sod, svd, mystery. see the greater holy assembly and lesser holy assembly, or the ha idra rabba quadisha and ha idra suta quadisha. 80. athanasius kircher the jesuit states that the ancient egyptians associated numbers to the planets as follows- aanncci iient table of planets and numbers planet assigned numbers saturn 3, 9, 15, 45 jupiter 4, 16, 34, 136 mars 5, 25, 65, 325 sol 6, 36, 111, 666 venus 7, 49, 145, 1225 numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott planet assigned numbers mercury 8, 64, 260, 2080 luna 9, 81, 369, 3521 in this matter, s

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