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mblems of the lion, man, bull and eagle. around the great central lamp which is an image of the sun, is the great mother of heaven, symbolized by the letter heh, the first of the single letters, and by its number 5, the pentagram, malkah the bride, ruling in her kingdom malkuth, crowned with a crown of twelve stars. these twelve circles further represent the 12 foundations of the holy city of the apocalypse while in christian symbolism the sun and the twelve signs are referred to christ and his twelve apostles. heg: leads neophyte to hiereus and then returns to his place and is seated. hiereus: leads neophyte to the south, and says: hiereus: on the southern side of the holy place stood the seven branched candlestick, wherein was burned pure olive oil. it is an image of the mystery of the e

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s not included therein, but it is symbolized by the uppermost point of yod. it is macroprosopus or arikh anpin, the vast countenance. chokmah is attributed to yod, or the father abba; binah is attributed to heh or aima, the mother; vau embraces the six next sephiroth, which together form microprosopus or zauir anpin, the lesser countenance. malkuth is referred to the heh final or the bride of the apocalypse. heg: leads theoricus to tablet of 7 heavens of assiah in south. heg: these are the 7 heavens of assiah, the 1st is ghereboth, referred to chesed, wherein are the treasures of blessings. the 2nd is mekon referred to geburah, wherein are the treasures of the spirit of life. the 3rd is maghon referred to tiphareth, wherein are angels. the 4th is zebel, referred to netzach, wherein is the

: places admission badge aside and leads theoricus to hierophant and then returns to his place. hiereus: heg: rise and face inwards towards the altar. hiero (rising and facing inwards to the altar) before you is represented the symbolism of the garden of eden. at the summit are the supernal sephiroth summed up and contained in aima elohim, the mother supernal, the woman of the 12th chapter of the apocalypse clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet and upon her head the crown of 12 stars, kether. and whereas the name tetragrammaton is joined to the elohim when it is said tetragrammaton elohim planted a garden eastward in eden so this represents the power of the father joined thereto in the glory from the face of the ancient of days. and in the garden were the tree of life, and the t

first head is pison which flows into geburah where there is gold, it is the river of fire. the second head is gihon the river of waters, flowing into chesed. the third is hiddekel the river of air flowing into tiphareth. and the fourth river which receiveth the virtue of the other three is euphrates which floweth down upon malkuth, the earth. this river going forth out of eden is the river of the apocalypse, of waters of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of god and the lamb on either side of which was the tree of life bearing 12 manner of fruit. and thus do the rivers of eden form the cross, and on that cross the great adam the son who was to rule the nations with a rod of iron is extended from tiphareth and his arms stretch out to gedulah and geburah, and in malkuth is

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art from you. unto the which lord be praise, and glory, and honour, for the gifts which he hath granted unto us. so be it! end of the second book of abramelin the mage 111 footnotes to the second book 1 the style of the writing here is much more quaint and obscure than that of the first book; and is evidently the translation of abraham the jew from a more ancient writer. 2 i.e, the revelation, or apocalypse. 3 this whole passage about the signification of these numbers is very obscurely worded in the original. i take the meaning to be the following: the arts or methods of magical working are twelve, if we class them under the twelve signs of the zodiac. the second number mentioned above, 5, is perfect because of its analogy with the pentagram that potent symbol of the spirit and the four e

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oor is guarded by the elemental tablets and by the kerubic emblems" chief "to 120 years are referred symbolically the five grades of the first order, to the revolution of the powers of the pentagram, and also the five preparatory examinations for this grade. it is written 'his days shall be 120 years' 120 divided by 5 equals 24, the number of hours in a day and of the thrones of the elders in the apocalypse. further, 120 equals the number of the 10 sephiroth multiplied by that of the zodiac, whose key is the working of m and the four elements typified in the wand which i bear (chief, second, and third adept enter the vault consecutively, chief passes to the east of the pastos facing west. second adept goes to the south facing north. third adept goes to the north facing south (officers all

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

rt of it. this does not agree very well with the common or orthodox theogony of chapter 11; but it is to be explained by the dithyrambic nature of the chapter. in paragraph 3 no man is of course nemo, the master of the temple, liber 418 will explain most of the allusions in this chapter. in paragraphs 5 and 6 the author frankly identifies himself with the beast referred to in the book, and in the apocalypse, and in liber legis. in paragraph 6 the book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 105 word "angel" may refer to his mission, and the word "lion-serpent" to the sigil of his ascending decan (teth= snake=spermatozoon and leo in the zodiac, which like teth itself has the snake-form. theta first written sun= lingam- yoni and sol) paragraph 7 explains the theological difficulty re

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ich terminates the manifested life of vau by a continuous vibration of an impersonal energy of the nature of generation and knowledge, the virgin moon and the serpent furthermore operating to include in the idea a commemoration of the legend so grossly deformed in the hebrew legend of the garden of eden, and its even more malignantly debased falsification in that bitterly sectarian broadside, the apocalypse. sound work invariable vindicates itself by furnishing confirmatory corollaries not contemplated by the qabalist. in the present instance, the master therion was delighted to remark that his compound letter mgn, constructed on theoretical principles with the idea of incorporating the new knowledge of the aeon, had the value of 93 (m= 40, g= 3, n= 50. 93 is the number of the word of the

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to analyze, to order, to manipulate your thinking! and please remember when people compliment you on your memory or the clarity of your thought, to give credit to the qabalah! that's fine, i seem to hear you purr; that looks a lovely machine. the design is just elegant; that scarf-pin of yours is perfectly sweet. there's only one point: how to make the damn thing work? ah yes, like the one in the apocalypse, the sting is in your tail. honest, you needn't worry; it works on ball-bearings, and there's always those "thirteen fountains of magnificent oil flowing down the beard of macroprosopus" in case it creaks a little at first. but seriously, all the mathematics you need is simple addition and multiplication. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 62 "yeah" you rudely r

onflict is approaching a climax that it is necessary to write this essay. the adepts of the white school consider the present danger to mankind so great that they are prepared to abandon their traditional policy of silence, in order to enlist in their ranks the profane of every nation. we are in possession of a certain mystical document30 which we may describe briefly, for convenience sake, as an apocalypse of which we magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 82 hold the keys, thanks to the intervention of the master who has appeared at this grave conjuncture of fate. this document consists of a series of visions, in which we hear the various intelligences whose nature it would be hard to define, but who are at the very least endowed with knowledge and power far beyond a

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h) is atlantean for arch, zu (egyptian shu) for many ideas connecting with wind, asi means 'cum quasi serpens, obviously the name of an actual high priestess. ra is pure atlantean for sun, and 'mse (egyptian chomse) for moon. the idea in 'mse is that of a strong woman('m) closing the mouth of a serpent (s) or dragon, and from this we have the xith card of the bohemian tarot, and the legend in the apocalypse. in the mystic greek used by the gnostics we find similar traces, sophia being from s ph, giving the idea of 'serpent breath' i.e. wisdom. iao is phallos, kteis, proktos. the word logos means the boy (g) naturally engendered of the virgin (l) and the serpent (s. theos (root o, first written 0) means the sun in his strength and also the lingam-yoni conjoined. christos is 'the love of pas

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

as thou dost all else, as a phenomenon of change, that is, of love. for in a swift stream thou mayst behold a twig held steady for awhile by the play of the water, and by this analogue thou mayst understand the nature of this mystery of the path of perfection" al ii,57 "he that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is filthy shall be filthy still" the old comment 57. a quotation from the apocalypse. this god is not a redeemer: he is himself. you cannot worship him, or seek him- he is he. and if thou be he, well. the new comment this, and the first part of the next verse demonstrate the inviolability of hadit our quintessence. every star has its own nature, which is 'right' for it. we are not to be missionaries, with ideal standards of dress and morals, and such hard-ideas. we are

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its infancy t.s. 15 because of the insertion of the yod, representing the generative powers t.s. 16 this is misleading; the elohim are androgynous as has been repeatedly explained t.s. liber lviii 12 qabalah, equal before god. woman is equal with man, and certainly not inferior to him, as it has been the persistent endeavour of so-called christians to make her. aima is the woman described in the apocalypse (ch xii).17 this third sephirah is also sometimes called the great sea. to her are attributed the divine names \yhla, elohim, and \yhla hwhy; and the angelic order \ylara, aralim, the thrones. she is the supernal mother, as distinguished from malkuth, the inferior mother, bride and queen. the number 4. this union of the second and third sephiroth produced dsj, chesed, mercy or love, als

accuses morally; and even that spiritual accuser upon the threhold, without whom the sanctuary might be profaned. we must defeat him, it is true; but how should we abuse and blame him, without abuse and blame of him that set him there? 136. a mystic number of jupiter; the sum of the first 16 natural numbers. 144. a square and therefore a materialisation of the number 12. hence the numbers in the apocalypse. 144,000 only means 12 (the perfect number in the zodiac or houses of heaven and tribes of israel) 12, i.e. settled 1000, i.e. on the grand scale. 148 \ynzam, scales of justice. 156. babalon. see liber 418. this number is chiefly important for part ii. it is of no account in the orthodox dogmatic qabalah. yet it is 12 13, the most spiritual form, 13 of the most perfect number, 12, awh [

for the hindu thou art that (see previous chapter, the yogi; for the qabalist malkuth is in kether, and kether is in malkuth, or that which is below is like that which is above or simply yod (the foundation of all letters having the number 10, symbolising malkuth. the answer of the adept to the second form of the problem is for the christian all the familiar teaching of the song of songs and the apocalypse concerning the bride of christ* for the qabalist it is a long complex dogma which may be studied in the zohar and elsewhere. otherwise, he may simply answer h (the letter alike of mother and daughter in hwhy. see liber 418 for lengthy disquisitions on this symbolic basis. the answer of the adept to the third form of the problem is given by p, implying that an infinite factor must be emp

dge implies a knower and a thing known, the accursed dyad which is the prime cause of all misery.75 480. lilith. see liber 418. so the orthodox place the legal 4 before the holy 8 and the sublime zero. and therefore their breaths stink. 543. good, but only carries us back to the mother. 666. chosen by myself as my symbol, partly for the reasons given in part i, partly for the reasons given in the apocalypse. i took the beast to be the lion (leo my rising sign76) and sol, 6, 666, the lord of leo on which babalon should ride. and there were other more intimate considerations, unnecessary to enter upon in this place. note however that the tarot card of leo, strength, bears the number xi, the great number of the magnum opus, and its interchange with justice, viii; and the key of 8 is 418.77 74

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

cated by numbers are by myself. key entry from the printed edition in the equinox; could probably use further proof-reading t.qathe sword of song called by christians the book of the beast aleister crowley y h a r h f s u r k h y h w here is wisdom: let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast. for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred, three score, and six the apocalypse of john this electronic edition prepared by celepha s press somewhere beyond the tanarian hills first published society for the propagation of religious truth benares [i.e. boleskine, foyers, inverness] 1904 e.v. reprinted in vol ii. of crowley s collected works society for the propagation of religious truth 1906 e.v. this electronic edition (based on the collected works printing) hasti

nd to bring up in the nurture and admonition of the lord, was not a little perplexed by the sudden disappearance of his wife. at first he supposed that she had been translated, but, finding that she had not left behind the traditional mantle behind her, he abandoned this supposition in favour of quite a different, and indeed a more plausible one. he now believed her to be the scarlet woman of the apocalypse, with variations. on arrival in egypt he hired an old native nurse, and sailed for odessa. once in russia he could find gog and magog, and present to them the child as antichrist. for he was no persuaded that he himself was the first beast, and would ask the sceptic to count his seven heads and ten horns. the heads, however, rarely totted up accurately. at this point the accounts of mr

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e worthy of all honour. she is the supernal mother, co-equal with chokmah, and the great feminine form of god, the elohim, in whose image man and woman are created, according to the teaching of the qabalah, equal before god. woman is equal with man, and certainly not 78 inferior to him, as it has been the persistent endeavour of so-called christians to make her. aima is the woman described in the apocalypse (chap. xii. this third sephira is also sometimes called the great sea. to her are attribute the divine names, alhim, elohim, and ihvh alhim; and the angelic order, aralim, aralim, the thrones. she is the supernal mother as distinguished from malkuth, the inferior mother, bride, and queen. the number 4. this union of the second and third sephiroth produced chsd, chesed, mercy or love, al

the hindu "thou art that (see previous chapter "the yogi; for the qabalist "malkuth is in kether, and kether is in malkuth" or "that which is below is like that which is above" or simply "yod (the foundation of all letters having the number 10, symbolising malkuth) the answer of the adept to the second form of the problem is for the christian all the familiar teaching of the song of songs and the apocalypse concerning the bride of christ.8 for the qabalist it is a long complex dogma which may be studied in the zohar and elsewhere. otherwise, he may simply answer "h (the letter alike of mother and daughter in ihvh. see liber 418 for lengthy disquisition on this symbolic basis. the answer of the adept to the third form of the problem is given by pi, implying that an infinite factor must be e

uth knowledge implies a knower and a thing known, the accursed dyad which is the prime cause of misery. 480. lilith. see liber 418. so the orthodox place the legal 4 before the holy 8 and sublime zero "and therefore their breaths stink" 543. good, but only carries us back to the mother. 666. chosen by myself as my symbol, partly for the reasons given in part i, partly for the reasons given in the apocalypse. i took the beast to be the lion (leo my rising sign) and sol, 6,666, the lord of leo on which babalon should ride. and there were other more intimate considerations, unnecessary 118 to enter upon in this place. note however that the tarot card of leo, strength, bears the number xi, the great number of the magnum opus, and its interchange with justice, viii; and the key of 8 is 418. thi

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hold more fully: each tongue of flame, each leaf of flame, each flower of flame, is one of the great love-stories of the world, with all its retinue of "mise-en-sc ne" and now there is a most marvelous rose formed from the flame, and a 117 perpetual rain of lilies and passion-flowers and violets. and there is gathered out of it all, yet identical with it, the form of a woman like the woman in the apocalypse, but her beauty and her radiance are such that one cannot look thereon, save with sidelong glances. i enter immediately into trance. it seems that it is she of whom it is written "the fool hath said in his heart 'there is no god" but the words are not ain elohim, but la(=nay) and elohim contracted from 86 to 14, because la is 31, which x 14 is 434, daleth, lamed, tau. this fool is the f

h on the beast. and also there is an assyrian legend of a woman with a fish, and also there is a legend of eve and the serpent, for cain was the child of eve and the serpent, and not of eve and adam; and therefore when he had slain his brother, who was the first murderer, having sacrificed living things to his demon, had cain the mark upon his brow, which is the mark of the beast spoken of in the apocalypse, and is the sign of initiation. 148 the shedding of blood is necessary, for god did not hear the children of eve until blood was shed. and that is external religion; but cain spake not with god, nor had the mark of initiation upon his brow, so that he was shunned by all men, until he had shed blood. and this blood was the blood of his brother. this is a mystery of the sixth key of the t

ether to try and make a connected story, and they sophisticated them to suit their social and political conditions. all this while no image hath come unto the stone, and no voice hath been heard. i cannot get any idea of the source of what i have been saying. all i can say is, that there is a sort of dew, like mist, upon the stone, and yet it has become hot to the touch. 149 all i get is that the apocalypse was the recension of a dozen or so totally disconnected allegories, that were pieced together, and ruthlessly planed down to make them into a connected account; and that recension was re-written and edited in the interests of christianity, because people were complaining that christianity could show no true spiritual knowledge, or any food for the best minds: nothing but miracles, which

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temple in the 1= 10 ritual (second part. the "hegemon" then explains the symbolic drawing of the zodiac, which is most complicated, but consists mainly of twelve circles and a lamp in the centre to represent the sun "the whole figure represents the rose of creation, and is a synthesis of the visible universe. furthermore the twelve circles represent the twelve foundations of the holy city of the apocalypse, while in the christian symbolism the sun and the twelve signs typify our saviour and the twelve apostles."2 after which the hiereus says "at the southern side of the holy place stood the seven-branched candlestick. the symbolic drawing before you represents its occult meaning. the seven circles which surround the heptagram represents its occult meaning. the seven circles which surround

zirah is attributed the seven abodes of assiah; to the four elements, the kerubim, and the qliphoth.5 267 it represents the connecting-link between assiah and yetzirah. it is the rending of the veil of the tabernacle; and it is the passing of the gate of eden. after which he enters upon the symbolisms of the twenty-first key of the tarot, the naked female form of which represents the bride of the apocalypse, the qabalistic queen of the canticles, the egyptian isis of nature. her two wands are the directing forces of the positive and negative currents. she is the synthesis of the thirty-second path uniting malkuth and yesod. illustration on page 268 approximated_ diagram 21. the cubical cross of twenty- two squares. 5 "see 777" cols. civ, cviii, pp. 20 and 23; and revelations, chap. i. illu

which define the limits of the figure, a narrow ring being formed between them. eight additional radials extend inward between the original four lines from the outermost circle to the outer edge of the outermost square, forming twelve equal divisions of the outer ring in all. the "hegemon" then explains his tablet, which contains the occult symbolism of the garden of eden and the holy city of the apocalypse; and the "kerux" also his- the seven infernal mansions and the four seas.6 after which the "hierophant" confers on the zelator the title of the thirty- second path; the zelator then quits the temple for a short time before passing to the grade of theoricus. the ceremony of theoricus is opened by the "hierophant" who says to the zelator "frater pereclinos de faustis: as in the grade of 1

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atebo" which the chief adept explains as follows] the 120 years refer symbolically to the five grades of the first order, and to the revolution of the powers of the pentagram; also to the five preparatory examinations for this grade. it is written "his days shall be 120 years" and and 120 divided by five yields 210 twenty-four, the number of hours in a day, and of the thrones of the elders in the apocalypse. further, 120 equals the number of the ten sephiroth multiplied by that of the zodiac, whose key is the working of the spirit and the four elements, typified in the wand which i bear. 4 for a further account of these see "the elemental calls of dr. dee" in sloane mss, british museum. illustration on page 211 described and aproximated "diagram 64. the lotus wand" the top of the wand is c

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. heaven hath sent the knowledge of a new sweet way into the secret element. olympas. master, while yet the glory clings declare this mystery magical! marsyas. i am yet borne on those blue wings into the essence of the all. now, now i stand on earth again, though, blazing through each nerve and vein, the light yet holds its choral course, filling my frame with fiery force like god's. now hear the apocalypse new-fledged on these reluctant lips! olympas. i tremble like an aspen, quiver like light upon a rainy river! marsyas. do what thou wilt! is the sole word of law that my attainment heard. arise, and lay thine hand on god! arise, and set a period unto restriction! that is sin: to hold thine holy spirit in! o thou that chafest at thy bars, invoke nuit beneath her stars with a pure heart (h

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e of the fiends to the other "the lullaby of hell" the blasphemy now changed into an awful word-picturing of eternity, unveiling what it was, and dwelling with raptures of malice upon its infinitude, its sublimity of growing pain, and its privation of all fixed points which might mark it into divisions. by emblems common to all language rather than by any vocal words, did they sing this frightful apocalypse, yet the very emblems had a sound as distinct as tongue could give them. this was one, and the only one of their representatives that i can remember. slowly they began 'to-day is father of to-morrow, to-morrow hath a son that 257 shall beget the day succeeding" with increasing rapidity they sang in this way, day by day, the genealogy of a thousand years, and i traced on the successive g

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ited efforts of mathematicians have hitherto failed to discover. aleister crowley. 163 the porch. vol. i, no. 8. 3"d" j. m. watkins. the mirror of simple souls. of all this admirable series this is the best. such prose i have rarely found in all my reading. i am beggared of wit to review it; but i implore all who seek the pure light mirrored in flawless imagery to obtain it. aleister crowley. the apocalypse unsealed "being an estoeric interpretation" of the initiation of ioannes. by james m. pryse. new york; john m. pryse, 9-15 murray street, 1910. london: j. m. watkins. 8"s" 6"d" net it is possible to write upon this book in a freer manner, without offence, than upon any other book in the canon of scripture, for there is no other book which has caused so much disquiet to theologians, in a

r manner, without offence, than upon any other book in the canon of scripture, for there is no other book which has caused so much disquiet to theologians, in all ages, as has the "revelation of st john the divine" and it is but in comparatively recent times that it has been generally accepted as canonical, and this even by those who admit that they do not understand it; and to such as these the "apocalypse unsealed" will be a veritable "revelation" indeed. mr james m. pryse accepts it unreservedly as the work of the apostle john, but we ought to mention that there is a long string of authorities against this view. dionysius, who was surnamed the great, of alexandria, was a pupil of origen, and he of clement of alexandria, all catechists of the "arcane discipline" which taught a christiani

present time could understand it? against it are de wett, bleek, ewald, credner, schott, lucke, neander, michaelis, who treat the style as utterly foreign to that of john the apostle. the first-named observes that "revelation" is characterised by strong hebraisms, ruggedness, and exhibits the absence of pure greek words, whilst in the gospel of john is to be found a calm, deep feeling, but in the apocalypse we have great creative power of fancy- the two minds are at variance with each other. st jerome had an 164 exalted opinion of the book, and says that it has much of mystery therein; possibly he saw it with the same eyes as mr pryse. even both luther and erasmus were doubtful as to its acceptance. the "encyclopaedia britannica" argues that its allusions are of the 4th or 5th century. it

. even both luther and erasmus were doubtful as to its acceptance. the "encyclopaedia britannica" argues that its allusions are of the 4th or 5th century. it may be mentioned here, that dom john chapman, d.o.s, has made an examination of the question this year, and argues, with doubtful success, that john the presbyter and john the apostle were the same person, and accepts both the gospel and the apocalypse as the works of apostle john, and accounts for the difference in style as that of the amanuensis whom the apostle john employed. two noticable, but irreconcilable, attempts have in recent years been made to interpret the book, theologically and historically. the learned dr e. v. kenealy made sense out of it, but overdid the subject. he believed it to represent the apocalyptic church of

e hand to it. he quite believes it is a work of the apostle john, and defends the style; amongst these there are some doubtless who are narrow-minded, but here, and still more prominently in america, there are broad-minded clergy who will welcome the unsealing. the freemasons too in their higher grades, which have more or less reached us through the rosicrucians, have very strong allusions to the apocalypse, and may profit by it, and this refers to several systems practised throughout the world. thus the order of heredom (harodim) rosy cross, which has an unchanged ritual from 1740, at least, draws upon dionysius the areopagite, a disciple of st paul, and it has also a rhythmetical description of the new jerusalem. again, two entire degrees of the scottish rite of 33 degree are drawn from

alypse, and may profit by it, and this refers to several systems practised throughout the world. thus the order of heredom (harodim) rosy cross, which has an unchanged ritual from 1740, at least, draws upon dionysius the areopagite, a disciple of st paul, and it has also a rhythmetical description of the new jerusalem. again, two entire degrees of the scottish rite of 33 degree are drawn from the apocalypse, and certainly entered the rite before 1758, and seem as if they were drawn bodily from the rosicrucian militia of the cross: i allude to the 17 degree knight of the east and west, and the 19 degree of grand pontiff, which treat upon the heavenly jerusalem, and the opening scene of the revelations. it was rather a pity that when the late albert pike was revising the rituals, he did not

entary in application. mr pryse expresses the view that the book is necessarily incomprehensible to the conventional theologian, yet easily comprehended by the esoteric initiate "i.e" by him who possesses the gnosis, and that the drama is perfect in all its parts. i may add that most of this class of initiative books had a double interpretation, and hence that the same may be equally found in the apocalypse, but into this mr pryse does not enter. john yarker. mr pryse has undoubtedly found the key of the apocalypse, and many of his interpretations are profound and accurate. but he is afflicted by sexual mania to an extent positively shocking, and does not understand the harmony of the principles. adeptship is balanced growth, not lopping. a rose dies if you remove the root and stalk, mr pr

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ly the ultimate destination and the final purpose, are the recognised prerogative of the mystical aspirant. the mystical literature of all the world religions is, as you know, full of these visions, ranging all the way from the more sexual approach of the song of solomon or the writings of many of the feminine mystics of the church to the amazing revelations given in the ancient puranas or in the apocalypse. these cover all the ground from the formulation of the highgrade "wish-life" of the mystics to the true prevision as to the future of the race as found in the writings of the prophetical scriptures. with the detail i do not intend to deal. it has been considered by the modern psychologist and the religious instructor and church writers and dealt with by them at great length. i want onl

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osmic vision. the others were small, but intelligent men who, from analysis and deduction, assessed the immediate future and indicated immediate possibilities. they had no direct revealing intuition. in the new testament, john, the beloved disciple, was privileged to gain a cosmic picture and a true prophetic vision which he- 82- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust embodied in the apocalypse, but he is the only one who so achieved and he achieved because he loved so deeply, so wisely and so inclusively. his intuition was evoked through the depth and intensity of his love as it was in his master, the christ. 3. those who are the true priests. they are priests by spiritual calling and not by choice. it is the misunderstanding of the province and duties of a priest which has l

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ereditary british witch, whose long involvement in various magical circles and authorship of grimoires not only within the black tradition, but also that of the traditional witcha path, is bold enough to present ideas of our spiritual lineage found in the dreaming minds of the cunning brothers and sisters. the symbolic mark of initiation, which aleister crowley termed the mark of the beast of the apocalypse in the book of thoth, has brought different interpretations of its form, but the function itself is clear. this mark, or stigma, may have been a reference to some form of tattooing. the story may have originally referred to the nomadic tribe of the kenites, itinerant metal-smiths who believed themselves to be the descendants of a cain, related also to the midianites and israelites who t

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kness had an astronomical foundation. the position which the constellation of draco at one time occupied showed that the great serpent was the ruler of the night. this constellation was formerly at the very centre of the heavens, and is so extensive that it was called the great dragon. its body spreads over seven signs of the zodiac; and dupuis "who" says staniland wake "sees in the dragon of the apocalypse a reference to the celestial serpent" remarks that "it is not astonishing that a constellation so extended should be represented by the author of that book as a great dragon with seven heads, who drew the third part of the stars from heaven and cast them to earth (dupuis, tome iii, p. 255. only dupuis never knew why draco, once the pole-star- the symbol of "guide" guru and director- had

ever, teaches that one third* of the dhyanis- i.e, the three classes of the arupa pitris, endowed with intelligence "which is a formless breath, composed of intellectual not elementary substances (see harivamsa, 932- was simply doomed by the law of karma and evolution to be reborn (or incarnated) on earth* some[[footnote(s* whence the subsequent assertions of st. john's vision, referred to in his apocalypse, about "the great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads" whose "tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to the earth (ch. xii* the verse "did cast them to the earth" plainly shows its origin in the grandest and oldest allegory of the aryan mystics, who, after the destruction of the atlantean[[footnote continued on next pag

re of no sex- this archangel, st. michael, is the invincible, sexless, celestial 'energy- to dignify him by his grand characteristics- the invisible 'virgin combatant' clothed. and at the same time armed, in the denying mail of the gnostic 'refusal to create' this is another 'myth within myths. a stupendous 'mystery of mysteries' because it is so impossible and contradictory. unexplainable as the apocalypse. unrevealable as the 'revelation"(p. 213. nevertheless, this unexplainable and unrevealable mystery will now be explained and revealed by the doctrines of the east. but as the very erudite, but still more puzzling author of "phallicism" gives it, of course, no uninitiated mortal would ever understand the real drift of his remarks[[vol. 2, page] 239 theological snuffers. a theological ex

gious symbols. the repetition of this archaic tradition is found in ch. xii. of st. john's revelations, and comes from the babylonian legends without the smallest doubt, though the babylonian story had its origin in the allegories of the aryans. the fragment read by the late george smith (see "the chaldean account of genesis" p. 304) is sufficient to disclose the source of the xii. chapter of the apocalypse. here it is as given by the eminent assyriologist "our. fragment refers to the creation of mankind, called adam; as (the man) in the bible, he is made perfect. but afterwards joins[[footnote(s* the "life and the light" of the material physical world, the delight of the senses- not of the soul. apollo is pre-eminently the human god, the god of emotional, pomp-loving and theatrical church

l as the esoteric meaning about this universal myth? the whole essence of truth cannot be transmitted from mouth to ear. nor can any pen describe it, not even that of the recording angel, unless man finds the answer in the sanctuary of his own heart, in the innermost depths of his divine intuitions. it is the great seventh mystery of creation, the first and the last; and those who read st. john's apocalypse may find its shadow lurking under the seventh seal. it can be represented only in its apparent, objective form, like the eternal riddle of the sphinx. if the latter threw herself into the sea and perished, it is not because oedipus had unriddled the secret of the ages, but because, by anthropomorphizing the ever-spiritual and the subjective, he had[[footnote(s* so does every yogi and ev

t within the limit of the 4004 years b.c. assigned to the world from its "creation[[footnote(s* city of god, i. xv. ch. xxiii[[vol. 2, page] 536 the secret doctrine. xxii. the symbolism of the mystery-names iao and jehovah, with their relation to the cross and circle. when the abbe louis constant- known as eliphas levi- said in his histoire de la magie that the "sepher jezirah, the zohar, and the apocalypse (of st. john) are the master-pieces of the occult sciences" he ought, if he wanted to be correct and clear, to have added "in europe" it is quite true that these works contain "more significance than words; and that "its expression is poetical, while in numbers it is exact" unfortunately, before any one can appreciate the poetry of the expressions, or the exactness of the numbers, he wi

s that be on earth (see "hippolytus" vi, 48, and king's gnostics, p. 200) translated from the occult phraseology into still plainer language this would read "the sevenfold logos having differentiated into seven logoi, or creative potencies (vowels) these (the second logos, or "sound) created all on earth. assuredly one who is acquainted with gnostic literature can hardly help seeing in st. john's apocalypse, a work of the same school of thought. for we find john saying (chap. x. 3, 4 "seven thunders uttered their voices. and i was about to write (but) i heard a voice from heaven saying unto me 'seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not" the same injunction is given to marcus, the same to all other semi and full initiates. yet the sameness of equivalent expre

s" the seven rounds, and the seven times seven human cycles in each round on each globe. the kerkes and the onech stand for a race cycle, and the mystical tree ababel- the "father tree" in the kuran- shoots out new branches and vegetation at every resurrection of the kerkes or phoenix; the "day of judgment" meaning a "minor pralaya (see "esoteric buddhism. the author of the "book of god" and the "apocalypse" believes that "the phoenix is very plainly the same as the simorgh, the persian roc, and the account which is given us of this last bird, yet more decisively establishes the opinion that the death and revival of the phoenix exhibit the successive destruction and reproduction of the world, which many believed to be effected by the agency of a fiery deluge (p. 175; and a watery one in tu

nce the sun departed for long months, descended from their inhospitable regions and "tried to wrench the lord of light" from their better favoured brothers of the equatorial regions. we may be told that the ancients knew nothing of the long night of six months' duration in the polar regions. even herodotus, more learned[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] chapter just cited of the apocalypse. latona became a powerful goddess indeed, and saw her son receive worship (solar worship) in almost every fane of antiquity. in his occult aspect apollo is patron of number 7. he is born on the seventh of the month, and the swans of myorica swim seven times around delos singing that event; he is given seven chords to his lyre- the seven rays of the sun and the seven forces of nature. bu

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surements the mystery of the secret sciences which emanate from that deity. and what would you feel, were i to plunge you into the abysses of motion, the force which organizes the number? what would you think, were i to add that motion and number* are begotten by the word, the supreme reason of the seers and prophets, who, in days of old, sensed the mighty breath of god, a witness to which is the apocalypse (b "the radiant essence curdled and spread throughout the depths" of space. from an astronomical point of view this is easy of explanation: it is the "milky way" the world-stuff, or primordial matter in its first form. it is more difficult, however, to explain it in a few words or even lines, from the standpoint of occult science and symbolism, as it is the most complicated of glyphs. h

the innermost meaning of these three symbols- water, brazen, the serpent, and a few more- in the sense given to them in the holy bible, he will hardly like to connect the sacred name of his saviour with the "brazen serpent" incident. the seraphim[[hebrew (fiery winged serpents) are no doubt connected with, and inseparable from, the idea "of the serpent of eternity- god" as explained in kenealy's apocalypse. but the word cherub also meant serpent, in one sense, though its direct meaning is different; because the cherubim and the persian winged[[gruphes "griffins- the guardians of the golden mountain- are the same, and their compound name shows their character, as it is formed of[[hebrew (kr) circle, and[[hebrew "aub" or ob- serpent- therefore, a "serpent in a circle" and this settles the p

ound engraved on monuments, inscribed on papyri, and cylinders hardly posterior to the deluge, it does seem impossible to deny the existence of a first ante-historical (roman) catholicism of which our own is but the faithful continuation. but while the former was the culmination, the summum of the impudence of demons and goetic necromancy. the latter is divine. if in our (christian) revelation (l'apocalypse, mary, clothed with the sun and having the moon under her feet, has nothing more in common with the humble servant of nazareth (sic, it is because she has now become the greatest of theological and cosmological powers in our universe (archaeol. de la vierge, pp. 116 and 119, and by the marquis de mirville. verily so, since pindar's hymns to minerva (p. 19 "who sits at the right hand of

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ls life is not the only feature of experience. st. paul has prophesied of the future of the church .many members in one body. and it is also written "i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. the equinox 304 do not even the most pious and pig-headed agree that these are the last days? are we not come through much tribulation to the latter end of the apocalypse, and shall we not cry with the apostle "the spirit and the bride say: come "yea, come, lord jesus, come quickly" john st. john. on the threshold of the unseen. an examination of the phenomena of spiritualism and of the evidence for survival after death. by sir william f. barrett. e. p. dutton& co. sir william barrett.s book is decidedly well worth reading by those who imagine that there

is a mingling of terror and rapture impossible to describe, and as a general rule it completely discharges the energy of the adept, leaving him weaker than an attack of malaria would do; but if the practice has been right, this soon passes off, and the experience has this advantage, that one is far hess troubled with minor phenomena than before. it is just possible that this is referred to in the apocalypse xvi, xvii, xviii. 41. when the six are slain and at the master.s feet are laid, then is the pupil merged into the one, becomes that one and lives therein. the note tells that this refers to the six principles, so that the subject is completely changed. by the slaying of the principles is meant the withdrawal of the consciousness from them, their rejection by the seeker of truth. sabhapa

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the heads, yet an eighth ariseth. seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life, by the waters of the river, in the garden of wisdom, is the serpent of the paths; it is the serpent in the celestial eden. but the serpent of the temptation is that of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the antithesis and opposer of the other: the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse, the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou therefore the celestial serpent, as of brass, glistening with green and gold, the color of vegetation and of growth: banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good. for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of adam be lifted up, raised through the balance of strife and of trial, through the pathway of e

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with me. take heed that thou despise not thy lord in human form [170] comment on qoph* q o p h, pronounced kqfe. transcribed as" q. the number 100. meaning: back of the head. the corporeal intelligence. 1 the ancient form of the letter qoph looks like a knot tied in a cord. ateph and tav are the first and last letters of the hebrew alphabet. this statement "i am aleph and tav, is like that in the apocalypse, which says of the heavenly man that he is alpha and omega. it is a commonplace of the qabalah that the accusative particle eth, a th, formed from the first and last letters of the alphabet, implies the whole alphabet, and thus the totality of the divine powers. 2 this paragraph is based on the meaning of the lettername qoph, q v p "back of the head. the "head which is not a head "is a

h world is 100, or 400 for the four worlds. yet all 400 are included in the primal ten, the ineffable, unmanifested tree of life subsistent eternally in en soph aur, the limitless light. the letter tav, because its number is 400, represents the total manifestation of the sephiroth. the" four-and-twenty thrones of primal forces" are the "thrones of the elders" mentioned in the first chapter of the apocalypse, written by one who was a profound qabalist. the number 24 is the result of the multiplication of the digits in 406 (4 x 6, the number of the letter-name th v. the twenty-four thrones are the positive and negative manifestations of the twelve forces corresponding to the twelve signs of the zodiac "instruction" or "erudition" is the meaning of the hebrew maskil, m sh k i l. this word is

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books belonged to the higher ranks of the priesthood. wrote an account of the egyptian priesthood preserved by porphyry on the sanctity and symbolical secrets of ancient egypt. 60-80 (n.t) acts of the apostles. 68 destruction of qumran community (dead sea scrolls. 70 (n.t) gospel of mark. 70 destruction of the second temple in jerusalem by the forces of emperor vespasian. 2 enoch, or the slavonic apocalypse of enoch, was written late first century c.e. in egypt by a jew. it survives only in late old slavonic manuscripts. it may have been composed originally in aramaic or hebrew, later being translated into greek, and later still being translated into old slavonic. 80 (n.t) gospel of matthew. 80 (n.t) gospel of luke. c.86 apollonides archprophet orapis of memphis wrote in greek on egyptian

gospel of john. 81-96 revelation of st. john. 123-170? apuleius, the golden ass 100-300 ce composition of corpus hermetica 100-185? pistis sophia 120-189 r. judah the prince, redactor of the mishnah. gave merkabah teachings to r. yochanam. c.120 r. akiba ben joseph 130 theon of smyrna: biblion- natural square often cited as magic. d. 132 rabbi ishmael. attributed to him is 3 enoch, or the hebrew apocalypse of enoch, supposedly written after his visionary ascension into heaven 132-5: bar kokhba rebellion in palestine. jerusalem is leveled and jews are forbidden to live there, removing any hope of establishing a third temple c.150 n.t. apocrypha. lotus sutra. cyranides(hermetica which catalogues the occult properties of birds, fishes, plants, and stones for the 4 elements of air,water,earth

an and philosopher born. professor of medicine in padua. heptameron. knew marco polo. translates abraham ibn ezra on decanates. 1260- 1294 kublai khan c.1260 "the book of kings of merlin(liber regnum) 1260: kublai is appointed khan and declares buddhism the state religion mongols are defeated for the first time in palestine (by muslims, in the battle of ain jalut. joachite date of the anticipated apocalypse. 1264 albertus magnus, bishop of regensburg, writes de mineralibus 1265-1321 dante alighieri 1266 b.john duns scotus, scottish scholastic philosopher and theologian. 1266 roger bacon opus maius. 1267 roger bacon opus tertium first who anticipates angelic pope. 1268 sefer hayyim("book of life")r. ezra. connects the golem with the influence of the planets- after 1269 sordello italian trou

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of its own; it has neither the strength of symmetry nor the magical powers of its asymmetrical predecessors (1,3,5. proponents of six-isms instinctively fear seven: they warn about such things as the seventh son of a seventh son, of the seven towers of satan in yezidi legend, of the seventh seal, of the jewel of the seven stars. seven is thus a harbinger of doom to six: a shadowing- forth of the apocalypse to come. geometrically and numerically, like the aeon of horus, seven has an "identity crisis. additions or multiplications or powers of seven yield all sorts of random values and relationships. eighth angle: the temple containing the trihedral angles is a truncated pyramid: the power of the trapezoid perfectly manifest in a golden section-based threedimensional structure. thus its arch

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have mentioned that in hebrew myth, the biblical "nefilim, the "sons of the gods, are called awwim, which means devastators or serpents. hebrew legends also describe the eden serpent as a being who walked and talked like a human. the hebrew book of ancient oral tradition, the haggadah, speaks of this serpent as a creature with two legs that stood upright to the "height of a camel".7 the slavonic apocalypse of abraham says the serpent with eve had hands, feet and wings,8 just like many other ancient and modern descriptions of the draco. the hebrew stories came from the earlier sumerian, atlantean, and lemurian accounts, many of them changed and twisted to suit the priesthood and to lose most of the direct reptilian references. these can be identified, however, by following the trail from w

and lemurian accounts, many of them changed and twisted to suit the priesthood and to lose most of the direct reptilian references. these can be identified, however, by following the trail from which their terms and names derived. the name of the hebrew winged "angels, the seraphim, means serpent and they were described as having six wings- just like the one in the garden of eden featured in the apocalypse of abraham.9 flying angels in religious texts are symbolic of the reptilians, some of which, according to ancient and modern descriptions, have wings and can fly. this is also symbolised in the flying reptilian gargoyle figures, which the bloodlines have on their homes, cathedrals, churches, and other buildings, including the british houses of parliament. seraph in the king james versio

ised the sun as a living man and the signs of the zodiac as his disciples. and the christian religion was created in rome. mark, luke, matthew, and john, the names carried by the gospels, represent the four cardinal signs of the zodiac. these are also symbolised in christian cathedrals as a man (aquarius, an ox (taurus, a lion (leo, and an eagle (scorpio, together called the four creatures of the apocalypse. joseph wheless says in forgery in christianity (health research, 1990..the holy twelve had no existence in the flesh, but their 'cue' being taken from old testament legends, they were mere names- dramatis personae- mask of the play- of 'tradition, such as shakespeare and all playwrights and fiction-writers create for the actors of their plays and works of admitted fiction."29 in the an

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aven occurred. and there was a great battle in heaven, michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the draghon fought his angels: they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven. and that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and satan, who seduceth the whole world; and he was cast unto the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. apocalypse 12: 7-9 this leaves a question of subjective and objective planes of existence. if satan had awoken his state of independence, to think differently then could heaven truly be something which existed objectively, even within a spiritual or aethyric sense? could heaven only be a subjective term as would be hell, while what is one to an individual may be different to another? here we see t

tion, which some witches disagree with according to their tradition. to paraphrase: there is the legend of eve and the serpent, for cain was the child of eve and the serpent, and not of eve and adam; and therefore when he had slain his brother, who was the first murderer, having sacrificed living things to his demon, had cain the mark upon his brow, which is the mark of the beast spoken of in the apocalypse, and is the sign of initiation. the book of thoth, aleister crowley in luciferian grimoires, cain is said to be a symbol and gateway for man and woman to become, thus the symbol of baphomet as anton lavey called it, is the inverted pentagram with a goat head in the middle. the original, which lavey took out, contained the words samael and lilith, surrounded in the circle ring the hebrew

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defining the terms the term occult remains suspect in many circles. the word derives from latin and simply means to shut off from view or exposure. however, it eventually came to refer to realities specifically hidden from common sight; the occult realm is invisible to the physical eye but can be seen by an inner spiritual vision and/or grasped by psychic intuition. the occult is the opposite of apocalypse, which means to uncover. the last book of the christian bible is alternatively called the apocalypse or the revelation. to many religious people, the term occult denotes that which is opposite of what god has revealed; hence, the realm of satan and his legions of demons. some substance for this observation has been provided by religious leaders who combine an exploration of the occult w

at 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 prince of the underworld, also synonymous with apollyon (rev. 9:11 (see also black magic) sources: barrett, francis. the magus. london, 1801. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1967. 1 abadie, jeannette see jeannette d abadie abaris a scythian high priest of apollo and a renowned magician. h

says that he met him first on the quay at messina. alu-demon ancient babylonian demon, said to owe his parentage to a human being; he hides himself in caverns and corners and slinks through the streets at night. he also lies in wait for the unwary, and at night enters bed-chambers and terrorizes people, threatening to pounce on them if they shut their eyes. amadeus a visionary who experienced an apocalypse and revelations, in one of which he learned the two psalms composed by adam, one a mark of joy at the creation of eve, and the other the dialogue he held with her after they had sinned. both psalms are printed in the codex pseudepigraphus veteris testamenti of johann albert fabricius, published at hamburg, 1713.33. amadou, robert (1924) french writer and editor in the field of parapsych

hing friar born at viterbo who published a collection of manuscripts known as the antiquities of annius, full of fables and absurdities, and falsely attributed to berosus, fabius victor, cato, manettio, and others. he was also responsible for the treatise the empire of the turks and the book future triumphs of the christians over the turks and the saracens. these two works are explanations of the apocalypse. the author claimed that mahomet was the antichrist, and that the end of the world would take place when the christians overcome the jews and the muslims. annwyn (or annwfn) the celtic other-world. according to ancient belief, it might be located either on or under the earth or the sea, or might be a group of islands or a revolving castle surrounded by sea, and anima mundi encyclopedia

cently, however, cardinal bellarmin asserted that antichrist will be the son of a demon incubus and a sorceress. he will be a jew of the tribe of dan, according to malvenda, who supported his view with the words the dying jacob spoke to his sons, dan shall be a serpent by the way.an adder in the path: by those of jeremiah, the armies of dan will devour the earth; and by the seventh chapter of the apocalypse, where st. john has omitted the tribe of dan in his enumeration of the other tribes. elijah and enoch will return to convert the jews and will die by order of antichrist. then christ will descend from the heavens, kill antichrist with the two-edged sword, which will issue from his mouth, and reign on the earth for a thousand years. it is claimed by some that the reign of antichrist will

arles berlitz. the philadelphia experiment. new york: grosset& dunlap, 1979. bermechobus the supposed writings of st. methodius of olympus (martyred 311 c.e; or the saint of the same name who was patriarch of constantinople and who died in 846. the real name of the work is bea-methodius, a contraction for beatus methodivo, which was misprinted bermechobus. the work is of the nature of a prophetic apocalypse and tells the history and destiny of the world. it was handed down by the gnostics and printed in the mirabilis liber. there are no grounds, however, to suppose that the writings were the work of either of the saints mentioned. the book recounts how seth sought a new country in the east and came to the country of the initiates, and how the children of cain instituted a system of black m

thereby was criticized for later contradicting himself. what he actually exclaimed at the time was typical of the last ditch materialist unable to believe his own senses: spirit is the last thing i will give in to! briah in the kabala, briah is the third of the three stages of spirit progress, the three original ranks or classes. men are called upon to proceed from the lower to the higher. in the apocalypse briah is represented as the feet of the mighty angel with the face of the sun. briccriu an ulster chieftain surnamed of the poisoned tongue, mentioned in the myth of cuchulain, a medieval irish romance. it is said that on one occasion he asked certain warriors to a feast and raised the question which of them was the greatest. conall, laery, and cuchulain were selected, and a demon calle

w of a corresponding spiritual reality. ultimately, he believed the nature of the connection with the spiritual world is most easily realized through a knowledge of the correspondences found in the bible. swedenborg devoted a considerable part of his life to writing a 12-volume commentary on the books of genesis and exodus (arcana coelestia (1905.10) and several volumes on the book of revelation (apocalypse revealed (1970. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. correspondences, doctrine of 339 in his last book, the true christian religion, originally published in 1770.71, he detailed his method of interpreting the bible spiritually. while on cursory examination it appears similar to allegory, it differs considerably. swedenborg said he learned from the angels that scripture had

faithful will be saved from destruction. there are a number of biblical passages representative of the apocalyptic viewpoint. in the hebrew bible (the christian old testament) passages in isaiah, jeremiah, ezekiel, joel, zechariah, and especially daniel speak in apocalyptic terminology. in the christian new testament, passages in mark and thessalonians have strong apocalyptic overtones, while the apocalypse or book of revelation is an entire apocalyptic tract, demonstrably the most influential apocalyptic text in western culture. apocalyptic reflections also dominate some of the apocryphal literature, books written by ancient hebrews but not included in the bible. such writings embody inspirational visions of the coming or second advent of a messiah, the state of faith, and interpretations

alm. in recent centuries, a number of apocalyptic date-setting groups arose from the teachings of british visionaries joanna southcott and, more notably, william miller. miller led an adventist movement in the united states in the 1830s, a forerunner of both the jehovah s witnesses and the seventh-day adventists. miller proclaimed the day of judgment as march 21, 1843, but the date passed without apocalypse, and a revised calculation by one of the adventist leaders proposed a new date of october 22, 1844. many adventists made special preparations for the coming of christ, and most gathered for all-night prayer meetings on the eve of the expected event, but did not, as was widely reported by their theological enemies, don ascension robes and gather on hilltops. all were disappointed. many

maria (1776.1853) polish mathematician and inventor who developed a philosophy of messianism, derived from the kabala and gnosticism. he claimed to have discovered the secret of the absolute, which he revealed for 150,000 francs to pierre arson, a businessman who agreed to publish hoene-wronski s messianic works. when arson backed out of the deal, hoene-wronski declared him to be the beast of the apocalypse and published a pamphlet with the immortal title yes or no.that is to say, have you or have you not, yes or no, purchased from me for 150,000 francs my discovery of the absolute? not surprisingly, hoene-wronski lost his court battle to obtain the remainder of the money, but the unfortunate arson had already expended some 40,000 francs on the works of hoene-wronski. about 1850 hoene-wron

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ugh the mutual opinion of operator and subject; hence homeopathic medicine dispenses with them and no serious inconvenience follows. oil and wine, combined with salt or camphor, are sufficient for the healing of all wounds, and for all external frictions or soothing applications. oil and wine are the chief medicaments of the gospel tradition. they formed the balm of the good samaritan, and in the apocalypse, when describing the last plagues, the prophet prays the avenging powers to spare these substances, that is, to leave a hope and a remedy for so many wounds. what we term extreme unction was the pure and simple practice of the master s traditional medicine, both for the early christians and in the mind of the apostle saint james, who has included the precept in his epistle to the faithf

gfoot. the society maintains a speakers bureau, museum, and charitable program, and compiles statistics. it maintains a library of 1,500 volumes on metempirical, occult, and ufo topics and issues a periodical, beacon, semiannually. the society can be contacted at its headquarters, 32055 hwy. 24e, simla, co 80835. occult general term (derived from latin occultus, occulere, to hide; the opposite of apocalypse, that which is revealed. the word has come to denote that which is hidden from the uninitiated, which is imperceptible by normal senses, and thus refers to various magical and divinatory beliefs and practices, beginning with astrology, tarot, palmistry, numerology and other divinatory arts and especially including various forms of spirit contact. spiritualism (and the various forms of m

atherings in los angeles. in 1925 he founded the gnostic society with six people who met in his home to discuss his metaphysical interpretation of christianity. the small group is important as possibly the first modern group to describe itself as gnostic. the society disbanded soon after pryse s death on april 22, 1942, but has been revived by stephan a. hoeller. sources: pryse, james morgan. the apocalypse unsealed. los angeles: the author, 1931. reincarnation in the new testament. new york: theosophical publishing co. of new york, 1900. the restored new testament. los angeles: the author, 1914. the sermon on the mount. new york: theosophical society, 1904. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. pryse, james morgan, jr. 1245 psi greek letter used in parapsychology to indicate

y as the man by my side. but if they turn away from man, he hears nothing more whatever, even if they speak close to his ear. it is also remarkable that several angels can speak to a man; they send down a spirit inclined to man, and he thus hears them united. from his ongoing conversations with the angelic beings, he wrote a number of books. these may be divided into expository books, notably the apocalypse revealed, the apocalypse explained, and arcana celestia; books of spiritual philosophy, such as intercourse between the soul and the body, divine providence and divine love and wisdom; books dealing with the hierarchy of supernatural spheres, such as heaven and hell and the last judgment; and books outlining the teachings of the new church, such as the new jerusalem, the true christian

EVERBURNING LAMPS

, was similarly furnished. a like account is given of the great temple of aderbain, in armenia, by said ebn batric. kenealy in his "book of god" calls attention to the name carystios applied to the asbestine wicks of the lamps in ancient greek temples, and draws attention to its relations to chr. of christos and to eucharist, anointed with oil, as to everburning lamps before the throne, as in the apocalypse. chrs=[hebrew: chrsh]=solar fire. chre=[hebrew: chrh]=sun=he burned. krs=[hebrew: krsh]=sun=(greek?-eo)kupios= cyrus. ceres=was called taedifera=torch bearing. chrs, from this also comes eros in greek, material light coming from ineffable light. there is a curious reference of asbestos to fire, and the heat of the sun, in "the ecstatic journey to heaven" of kircher, where casmiel, the g

gives theodidaktos a boat of asbestos to embark in for his travels to and on the sun, the centre of heat. see "itinerar 1, dialogue 1" cap. 5. irish lore recounts a mysterious everburning flame in the temple at kildare, sacred to st. bridget-daughter of fire.-see giraldus cambrensis, de mirab. hibern. 2, xxxiv. khunrath, in his "amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae" cites the ancient author of "the apocalypse of the sweet spirit of nature" as speaking of a liquid which burneth with a bright light and wastes not. at the dissolution of the monasteries in britain, by order of henry viii, a tomb, in yorkshire, purporting to be that of constantius chlorus, father of the great constantine, was opened and ransacked, and a lamp burning was found in it: he died 300 a.d.-see camden "brittania (gough's

EVIL AND UNCLEAN SPIRITS

ven are the heads, yet an eighth ariseth. seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life by the waters of the river in the garden of wisdom is the serpent of the paths. it is the serpent of the celestial eden. but the serpent of temptation is that of the tree of knowledge of good and of evil. it is the antithesis and the opposer; the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse; the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou, therefore, the celestial serpent as of brass; glistening with green and gold, the colors of vegetation and of growth. banish thou, therefore, the evil and seek the good, thou who wouldst know the life of ages, thou who would follow in the footsteps of our master, o brother of the order of the golden dawn! for as moses lifted up the serp

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

. the plotters call it plan 2000. the space people and their e a rthly allies such as those in the phoenix pro ject are working to thwart the conspiracy and to c reate a new earth after wars and natural disasters have reshaped the face of the planet. see also: ashtar; channeling; contactees; sananda further reading ecker, don, 1992. hatonn s world. ufo 7, 4 (july/august: 30 31. heard, alex, 1999. apocalypse pretty soon: travels in end-time america.new york: w.w. norton and company. who is hatonn? http//www.fourwinds10.com/ information.html 118 gyeorgos ceres hatonn hierarchal board the hierarchal board communicates through pauline sharpe (also known as nada-yolanda) via channeling and automatic writing. the board is the solar system s spiritual government, and its members include sananda (

oodrew and her husband, dick smolowe, bought a property in western north carolina in 1982. they moved from westport, connecticut, to the survivalist compound they named reisha way. in 1988, doubleday released woodrew s book memories of tomorrow. a few years later, woodrow and smolowe moved to winston-salem for health reasons. see also: channeling; dual reference further reading heard, alex, 1999. apocalypse pretty soon: travels in end-time america.new york: w.w. norton and company. woodrew, greta, 1981. on a slide of light. black mountain, nc: new age press, 1988. memories of tomorrow. new york: dolphin/doubleday. oints oints are other intelligences in an acronym coined by maverick biologist and anomalist ivan t. sanderson. to sanderson oints are any beings that are on earth but are not hu

to ad a m s k i s first venusian encounter) lived in arizona. t h e laugheads, now resettled in southern california, dropped in from time to time. through williamson s channelings, the laugheads and martin learned of the brotherhood of the seven rays, a supernatural order dating back to lemurian times and headquartered in the present lake titicaca in peru. guided by further prophecies of imminent apocalypse channeled through both williamson and martin, the two along with a small band of disciples moved to titicaca to establish the priority of all saints in the remote northern town moyobamba. from hemet, california, the laugheads kept the north american faithful abreast of developments. a sister thedra 231 bulletin reported day-by-day activities there. each report was accompanied by a trans

y believed was following the hale- bopp comet. see also: contactees further reading balch, robertw, 1995. waiting for the ships: disillusionment and the revitalization of faith in bo and peep s ufo cult. in james r. lewis, ed. the gods have landed: new religions from other worlds, 137 166. albany, ny: state university of new york press. bruni, frank, 1997. cult leader believed in space aliens and apocalypse. new york times (march 28. flying saucery in the wilderness, 1979. time (august 27: 58. hewes, hayden, and brad steiger, eds, 1976. ufo missionaries extraordinary. new york: pocket books. hoffmann, bill, cathy burke, and the staff of the new york post, 1997. heaven s gate: cult suicide in san diego. new york: harper-paperbacks. niebuhr, gustav, 1997. on the furthest fringes of millennia

FLY THE LIGHT

pirit form. lucifuge is also the name of the patron devil in the grand grimoire, being an emissary of lucifer the light bringer. in this sense, lucifuge can be a shadow which comes from the above light of lucifer, thus a connected force of rebellion and self- liberation. contained on fly the light are 14 tracks, with a running time slightly over 70 minutes. seven tracks symbolize the beast of the apocalypse, being the 7 headed dragon. the remaining seven ascend in a crooked pattern around the tree of daath, or the qlippoth. this movement is thus symbolized as the fly god, beelzebub, as a form of the adversary. fly the light begins with alone and divided, an atmosphere of post-industrial chaos and the machinery of a new religion- luciferian youth. this album does not move in the clean and s

ist who had joined in a covenant with the devil in nod. in addition some initiatory grimoires present cain as being the son of samael (satan) and lilith (through possession of eve via the fruit given by the serpent. cain is thus a symbol of the self which transforms itself through dissatisfaction. fly the light is in part a symbol of the transformation through the seven heads of the dragon of the apocalypse via the angel of prostitution who rides the beast. the son of satan is also represented as a serpent. the dragon itself holds significance in that it is a relation to diabolism, in zoroastrian lore, the avestan word devak means worm which is a dragon or snake. an early form of the antichrist, called zohak and later azhi dahaka is a dragon-king who had two black and venomous serpents on

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

cult of the statues of these divinities; and he mentions here, too, the egyptian worship of animals (i revert now to an earlier part of the asclepius) 1 on the decans, see below, pp. 45-7. 2 c.h, i i, pp. 325-6. 3 ibid, pp. 347-9- 37 ficino's "pimander" and the "asclepius" yet the religion of egypt, and its wise and true cult of the divine all in one, is destined to pass away. the lament1 (or the apocalypse) there will come a time when it will be seen that in vain have the egyptians honoured the divinity with a pious mind and with assiduous service. all their holy worship will become inefficacious. the gods, leaving the earth, will go back to heaven; they will abandon egypt; this land, once the home of religion, will be widowed of its gods and left destitute. strangers will fill this count

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

ucifer is the one who bears the light of freemasonry. the sentence immediately preceding confirms not only that lucifer is the light-bearer, but that masons of previous degrees have been led to believe that the opposite was true. the wording of this sentence is difficut to understand unless you have special knowledge. doc marquis was asked for his explanation, lets look at what he had to say "the apocalypse is, to those who receive the nineteenth degree, the apotheosis of that sublime faith which aspires to god alone, and despises all the pomps and works of lucifer [ibid] it seems to contradict the sentence first quoted above, it appears to contradict the quote above where pike identifies lucifer as the masonic light-bearer. however when you understand the esoteric explanation from doc mar

degree, the apotheosis of that sublime faith which aspires to god alone, and despises all the pomps and works of lucifer [ibid] it seems to contradict the sentence first quoted above, it appears to contradict the quote above where pike identifies lucifer as the masonic light-bearer. however when you understand the esoteric explanation from doc marquis, your understanding clears up completely. the apocalypse is identified first by pike as being the book of revelation written by the apostle john. pike then states that similar books from other religions are just as 'inspired' as revelation, mentioning plato, philo, the sephar yezirah, and the sohar. pike says all three of these books- apocalypse [revelation, the sephar yezirah, and the sohar, are all identically "inspired" and since the last

two books are of non-christian faiths, albert pike is saying that the contents of revelation are no big deal. therefore, it is no big deal that the book of revelation denigrates the "pomp and works" of satan, since the god of that book is known to hate satan. pike then says that these three books "are the completest embodiment of occultism [ibid] now, we understand that pike views the god of the apocalypse as being the opposite but equal to satan just as typical occultists believe and teach! secondly, doc marquis provides the esoteric, occultic, explanation. pike is also saying in this sentence that, in the previous 18 degrees, masons believed that god was the light-bearer, but now, in this 19th degree, pike is giving them new revelation. this insight completely squares with stated masoni

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

many problems are divided under two main headings, the theoretical and the practical qabalah; the first being again divided into the symbolical, dogmatic, and speculative branches. the first main division, that is the theoretical, is philosophical; the second is magical and is largely elaborated round the maaseh merkabah- the chariot of ezekiel and the four animals which are also mentioned in the apocalypse. out of this magical qabalah much of the magic of the middle ages was developed. the speculative, or metaphysical, qabalah is the more important branch. it forms, as adolph franck says: gthe heart and life of judaism h.1 it covers the evolution, involution, and devolution of the universe in every conceivable spiritual, moral, and intellectual form; and under such symbolism as gthe spiri

satan, the serpent, who seduced eve. 13 we are also told that: the ten sephiroth of atziluth have scintillated and brought forth the ten sephiroth of briah, and from the energy of these ten of briah sparkled forth the scintillations of the world yetzirah, and through these the ten sephiroth of the world assiah were sealed. 14 secret wisdom of the qabalah page 40 these are the seals of st. john's apocalypse. thus it is disclosed to us that the god of assiah is the reversed sammael of yetzirah, who is the reversed metatron of briah, who is the reversed adam qadmon of atziluth. in brief, sammael in assiah is the reversed adam qadmon three times removed; he is the gdark shadow of the manifestation of the great androgene of good h. 15 he is metatron in an active form, just as when in yetzirah

erpents of egypt, and, according to eliphas levi, the astral light between the horns of the baphomet of mendes- the panlike satan of the templars. when erect it is the rod of aaron and the brazen serpent of moses (see plate vii on page 44) its three teeth, or tongues, represent three vaudin and consequently may be translated into the number 666, the solar number and the number of the beast in the apocalypse. according to the siphrah d'tzniuthah, it is the serpent which runs with 370 leaps. 25 it gleaps over mountains and hastily runs up over hills h. the serpent holds its tail in its mouth with its teeth. it is perforated on both sides. when the perfect one [or the archangel metatron] is raised up, the serpent is changed into three spirits. 26 secret wisdom of the qabalah page 43 plate 7:

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

s, at cyrene, was similarly furnished. a like account is given ofthegreat temple of aderbain,inarmenia, by said ebn batric. kenealy in hisbook of godcalls attention to the name carystios applied to the asbestine wicks of the lamps in ancient greek temples,anddraws attention to its relatons to chr. of christosandto eucharist, anointed with oil, as to ever burning lamps before the throne, as in the apocalypse. chrs==solarfirechre==sun=heburnedkrs==sun=kupios=cyrusceres=wascalled ta:difera=torch bearing chrs, from this also comes eros in greek, material light coming from ineffable light.thereis a curious reference of asbestos to fire,andthe heat of thesun,intheecstaticjourneytoheavenof kircher, where casmiel,thegenius of this world, gives theodidaktos a boat of asbestos toembarkin for his tra

upon christian doctrine, entitled,the perfectway,and in her personal teachings given at the hermetic society of 1885-7, of which i was a member. the present rosicrucian continental schools suggest that there is an esoteric view of the origin and doctrine of the christian faith; that the works of the evangelists, of the apostles and of st paul and notably of st john in the fourth gospel and in the apocalypse are all full of an inner illumin255 ation (in addition to their obvious meaning) which men of intellectual attainments should study and assimilate if truly desirous of spiritual progress, which is still possible even while we are clothed in coats of skin, and while our senses are limited by material defects of the sense organs, which indeed give us sight and hearing, but yet limit the e

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

ch men as reuchlin, athanasius kircher, knorr de rosenroth (whose 'kabbalah denudata' is the leading work on the subject, picus de mirandola, dr henry more, cornelius agrippa, and robert fludd, is surely worthy of more than a passing and superficial examination, especially when it is considered that the hebrew scriptures require some key wherewith to unlock the mysteries of the prophecies and the apocalypse; and that key, i venture to assert, is to be found, and found only in the kabbalah.18 the sorcererand his apprentice[reprinted fromwal/ords amiquarian magazine,vol. xi,no. 65(1887)pp.305-8.]2. thesymbolismofthe4ancientsin thisclavicula'no.2,ashortexplanation ofthesymbolism of those four important officers of a college, openinthe zelatorgrade,whoarenamedancients "they preside, in the fir

are the heads, yet an eighth ariseth, seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life, by the waters of the river, in the garden of wisdom, is the serpent of the paths; it is the serpent of the celestial eden. but the serpent of the temptation is that of the tree of knowledgeofgoodand evil, the antithesis and opposer of the other: the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse, the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou therefore the celestial serpent, as of brass, glistening with. green and gold, the colour of vegetation and of growth: banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good, thou who wouldst follow in the footsteps of our master, brother of the golden dawn. for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of adambeli

before him is the butterflyofpleasure luring him on (while in some packs a tiger, in others a dog, attacks him from behind).itsignifiesfolly, expiation. 21. the universe.within a flowery wreath is a female figure nude save for a light scarf. she represents nature and the divine presence therein. in each hand she should bear a wand.atthe four angles of the card are the four cherubic animals of the apocalypse. above, the eagle and the man; below, the lion and the bull.itrepresentscompletion, reward.thus the whole series of the twenty-two trumps will give a connected sentence which is capable of being read thus: the humanwill(1)enlightened byscience(2) and manifested byaction(3) should find itsrealisation(4) in deeds ofmercyandbeneficence(5. thewise disposition(6) of this will give himvictory

arently disregards. this divinatory meaning is broadly borne out by the old symbolic designs.thetheory, therefore, is that the tarot was in its origin a symbolic book, whose meaning can now only be remotely guessed at; that the original designers worked upon thethetarot cards127fourfold division of all created things, whereof well-known examples are the four beasts of ezekiel's vision, and of the apocalypse, the four cherubim, the four archangels, the four letters of tetragrammaton, and many others; to which they added the mystic virtues of numbers, and upon each page of the book they palced a symbolic design still further to elucidate it. each page on this theory would in fact form a chapter in the book, describing the good and evil influences operating from the spiritual on the material

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

reation is governed by a series of cyclic processes, these range from the days and nights of brahma (the creative force) to the yugas or epochs. the sanskrit names for the four ages are krita or satya yuga, treta yuga, dvapara yuga and kali yuga. the krita or satya yuga is the golden age, the age of spirit and it is from here that things get successively worse until the kali age, which ends in an apocalypse of water and fire. each age in succession is shorter than its predecessor, is more intense, and more material. the kali age is the shortest, most materialistic and intensely destructive. it is this age we are in now. the kali yuga, or iron age is sometimes described as the age of the wolf, due to its ferocity and violence. there are many different dating systems, but according to the ma

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

efore (even beyond) the framework of the line, the start of the line (the alpha event, the line itself and the end of the line (the omega point (fig 1. for ease, let us call this line the cosmic timeline. from the gnostic understanding what which exists before and beyond the timeline is perfection, the treasury of light (we will return to this soon, the end of the timeline is the omega day or the apocalypse, the timeline itself is formed by the various stages of human development, while the alpha event is how time, space and matter began. it is not the point where or when everything began, but only the point ages or yugas. figure one the alpha event the omega day gnostic theurgy page 14 at which time and matter began. this is an important point as the central questions for the gnostic are

first, and the most brutal as the last. the sanskrit names for the four ages are krita or satya yuga, treta yuga, dvapara yuga and kali yuga. these can also be correlated to the greek tradition of dividing history into ages of gold, silver, bronze and iron. the krita yuga is the golden age, the age of spirit and from there onwards things get successively worse until the kali age, which ends in an apocalypse of water and fire. the evolutionary or technological worldview sees human life from a materialistic angle. life has evolved from amoeba to human, becoming more and more complex with related advances in culture and technology. when two worldviews as juxtapositioned and considered in the light of the alpha event, some interesting things come to our attention. gnostic theurgy page 19 if we

ic system by dividing history into four ages or yugas. the sanskrit names for the four ages are krita or satya yuga, treta yuga, dvapara yuga and kali yuga. these can also be correlated to the greek historical tradition as the ages of gold, silver, bronze and iron. the krita yuga is the golden age, the age of spirit and from there things get successively worse until the kali age, which ends in an apocalypse of water and fire. each age in succession is shorter than it predecessor, is more intense, and more material. the kali age is the shortest, most materialist and intensely destructive. it is this age we are in now. gnostic theurgy page 183 the cycle of the yugas the cycle of the yugas within the vedic canon of india are important, for they show the overall state of the earth itself (with

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pt "the one hundred and twenty years refer symbolically to the five grades of the first order and to the revolution of the powers of the pentagram; also to the five preparatory examinations for this grade. it is written 'his days shall be one hundred and twenty years; and one hundred and twenty divided by five yields twentyfour, the number of hours in a day and of the thrones of the elders in the apocalypse. further, one hundred and twenty equals the number of the ten sephiroth multiplied by that of the zodiac, whose key is the working of the spirit and four elements typified in the wand which i bear (chief adept knocks four times. all face east. chief adept opens the vault wide, enters, passes to the eastern end, or place of the head of the pastos, the coffin of 9 christian rosenkreutz, a

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

reach a judgement concerning the riddle of our converging myths of global destruction. through these myths the voices of the ancients speak to us directly. what are they trying to say? 53 world mythology, p. 26. details of the hopi world destruction myths are in frank waters, the book of the hopi, penguin, london, 1977. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 197 chapter 25 the many masks of the apocalypse like the hopi indians of north america, the avestic aryans of pre-islamic iran believed that there were three epochs of creation prior to our own. in the first epoch men were pure and sinless, tall and long lived, but at its close the evil one declared war against ahura mazda, the holy god, and a tumultuous cataclysm ensued. during the second epoch the evil one was unsuccessful. in the

opping into the void. 3 such celestial imagery, repeated again and again with only relatively minor variations in myths from many different parts of the world, belongs to a category earmarked in hamlet s mill as not mere storytelling of the kind that comes naturally .4 moreover the norse traditions that speak of the monstrous wolf fenrir, and of the shaking of yggdrasil, go on to report the final apocalypse in which the forces of valhalla issue forth on the side of order to participate in the terrible last battle of the gods a battle that will end in apocalyptic destruction: 500 doors and 40 there are i ween, in valhalla s walls; 800 fighters through each door fare, when to war with the wolf they go.5 with a lightness of touch that is almost subliminal, this verse has encouraged us to coun

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

e suppl. it is only the edda that brings in the name of surtr; but our ohg. poetry seems to have interwoven features of him into the church doctrine about antichrist, ohg. antichristo (p. 173-4, which, originally founded on the llth chap, of kevelation, was afterwards worked out further on jewish-christian lines of thought. the name occurs in two epistles (1 john 2, 18. 4, 3. 2 john 7, not in the apocalypse, where he is meant by the many-headed beast. in his time two prophetic witnesses are to be sent from heaven to earth, but to be conquered and slain bv him. muspilli. 811 their names are not given either; that they are enoch and elias follows from, the power given them to shut heaven that it rain not, and is expressly acknowledged by the fathers.1 their bodies lie unburied in the street:

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

t.xxi.-thatunless a new church be established by the lord, no one can be saved; and that this is meant by these words "unless those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved" mat. xxiv.,22.'xxii.-thatthe opening and rejection of the tenets of the faith of the present church, and the revelation and reception of the tenets of the faith of the new church is meant by these words in the apocalypse,"hethat sat upon the throne said, behold, i make all things new; and he said unto me, write, for these words are true and faithful" chap.xxi.,5.thatthe new church about to be establishedbythe lord is the new jerusalem, treated of in the apocalypse, chap.xxi.andxxii.,which is there called the bride and the wife of the lamb.'200therosicrucianseernerves of the eye and eyelids; or, in mr br

INFERNAL UNION

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

ISIS UNVEILED

3 christian symbolism derived from fbauic worship 109 hindu doctrine of the pitns, 114 "brahmanic spirit-dinununion dangers of u digitizecoy google contents chapter m ditisioi^ amongst the early christiai>k beaemblance between eariy chrotianity and boddhiun 12 iwer oeyex la rome 12 meanibg ot 'naiw' and 'naiarene' 12' b denved right 13 a generic name, islhagorean teacbin^ of jenu. ine apocalyps e apocalypse kabalistk. jesui coniidcied an adept by some pagan philoiopbaa and early chrituani 150 doctiiae of permatation 152 the meaning irf god-incarnate 153 dogmas ol tbe gnostics 155 idraa of marcion, the 'bereaiardi' 159 precepts of mann 163 jebovab, identical with baccbos 165 chafteb jv oriental cosmogonies and bible bbcords discrepancies in the pentateoch 167 indian, chaldaean and ophite sy

e righteous. so be s^rs "these (speaking of tbe wicked "sballgoaway its koxatm airnnon into eternal punishment; but tbe ri^teous ds w^ otwvuif into life eternal* tbe reverend t. swinden' commenting on tbe speculations of bis predecessors, fills a whole volume with unanswerable arguments, tending to show that the locauty of hell is in the sun. we suspect tbat tbe rev- erend speculator bad read the apocalypse in bed, and had the night- mare in consequence. there are two verses in the revelation of john reading thus "and tbe fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. and men were scorched with great beat, and blasphemed the name of god* lliis is simply j^rthagorean and kabalistic allegory. the idea is new nather with the above-mentione

rites, although peisons of both sexes and all classes were allowed to take a part, and a participation in them was even obligatory, very few indeed attained the higher and final initiation. the gradation of the mysteries is given us by proclus in the fourth book of bis theplato "the perfective rite ttamj, precedes in order the initiation muetia, and the initiation epopteia, or the final apocalypse (revelation" theon of smyrna, in mathematica, also divides the mystic rites into five parts "the first of which is the previous purification; for neuher are the myateries communicated to all who are willing to re- ceive them; but there are certain persons who are prevented by the voice of the crier (v^pu. since it is necessary that such as are not expelled from the mysteries should firs

and taliamans are mostly the emblems^ the apocalyptic allegories. the 'seven vowels' are closely related to the 'seven seals; and the mystic title abraxas partakes as much of the composition c^ skvm ham-tnxjaoraah 'the holy word' or ineffable name, as the name called: the word of god, that "no man imew but he hirmdf* as john ex- it would be difbcult to escape from the well-adduced proofs that the apocalypse is the production of an initiated kabalist, when this revdo' hon presents whole passages taken from the books of enoch and danid, which latter is in itself an abridged imitation of the former; and when furthermore we ascertain that the ophite gnostics who rejected the old tettameni entirely, as "emanating from an inferior being (jehovah, accepted the most ancient prophets, such as enoch

ccounts also for the rejection of tbe vrorks of justin martyr, who used onjv this 'gospd according to the hebrews' as also did moit probably tatian, his di- dple. at what late period was fully established the diviniii/ of chrut, we can jndge t^ the mere fact that even in the fourth century eusebius (eixi. hitt, ill, xxv) did not denounce this book as spurious, but only ctsssed it with such lu the apocalypse of john; and credner (ztir oeka, dei kanons, p. 120 shows nicephorus, at the end of the dghth century, inserting it, together with the raeiation of john, in his 'stichometjy* ankong the aruiugomena, the ebionites. the genuiiu primitive christians, rejecting the rest of theaposto1icwritldgs,madeu9eodlyof thisgoqiel (irenaeus: agtt.bet.,i,nvi,2: also euseb: ecei. hi*t, ill, xxvii, and the

temporary with jesus, had not taken the slightest notice either of his life or death. christians wondered at such an unaccountable omission of what the church considered the greatest events in the world's history. eusebius saved the battle of the day. such are the men who have slandered the gnostics. the first and most unimportant sect we hear of is that of the nico- laitans, of whom john, in the apocalypse, makes the voice in his viuon say that he hates their doctrine" these nicolaitans were the followers, however, of nicolas of antioch, one of the "seven" chosen by the "twelve" to make distribution from the common fund to the proselytes at jerusalem ads ii, 44, 45; vi, 1-5, hardly more than a few weeks, or perhaps months, after the crucifixioa* and a man "of honest report, fiul of the ho

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r frow, the figure-head and fiddlehead. they have all a feminine origin. fig. 174 represents s. johan (st. john, from an early woodcut of the twelve apostles. his right hand is raised in the act of the holy sign, whilst his left clasps the chalice of the s.s, or sacrament of wine; in the cup is a salamander, signifying the h.g. this is st. john the 242 the rosicrucians. apostle, the author of the apocalypse; or the sanctus spiritus, who baptises in the mystic eucharist with the holy ghost and with fire. fig. 174. the following are the names of the angels of the planets, according to the gnostics. at the beginning of all things, is jehovah (sabaoth, victory; at the end, the old serpent (ophis. between these are the seraphim (intelligences) and cherubim (benevolences, and their representativ

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le university press, 1993, the second part of which charts the primal swirlings of the path which eventually leads to jewish (and christian) mysticism, beginning with zoroastrian concepts, tracing their development in jewish apocalyptic, finally landing in the book of revelation. this last turn may seem to veer off track unless one keeps in mind the fundamentally jewish character of this mystical apocalypse. for grounding in the theme (the ascension to heaven) taken up by the ancient jewish mystics associated with the merkabah and hekhalot, a most informative source is martha himmelfarb fs ascent to heaven in jewish and christian apocalypses (new york/ oxford: oxford university press, 1993. on a somewhat different tack, though holding onto the thread begun with the last two selections, is

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t civitates fortitudinis eius derelictae sicut aratra et segetes quae derelictae sunt a facie filiorum israhel et erit deserta in that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of israel: and there shall be desolation. iv piscatores the fishers et maerebunt piscatores et lugebunt the fishers also shall mourn. v apocalypsis apocalypse ecce dominus dissipabit terram et nudabit eam et adfliget faciem eius et disperget habitatores eius behold, the lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. vi dissolutio destruction quia indignatio domini super omnes gentes et furor super universam militiam eorum interfecit eos et dedit eos in occisionem 39

e divine will. but masleh moved to confuse the brilliance of the archangel of light, and he called to michael, thou who wield the force of god, strike down this deadliness which would bring ruin to heaven! and michael struck lucifer and cast him from the gates of heaven, and the cosmos was shaken by great fires of war and holocaust, and throughout countless galaxies and dimensions of time was the apocalypse felt. many were the angels who perished amidst divine and infernal wrath, and the great race was decimated in number. and the very concept of god was shaken, and endless chaos rose up again to reign where the order of god was no more. and lucifer said, this horror can not be permitted to endure, lest all creation be sacrificed to the final devastation of chaos. let those who acknowledge

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that glow flash out into a sun-like radiance in immediate response to her earnest thought of devotion! the holy presence is never absent, but it certainly exhibits itself in greater activity in answer to an appeal. is the angel fs force-centre something like a faint reflection of that? 825. perhaps another analogy may be found in the twelve stars which, following the beautiful description in the apocalypse, are so often shown in medieval paintings round the head of the blessed virgin mary. all these represent powers; perhaps they correspond in some way to the points of light which the angels leave in our aura. the star always floating over the head of an initiate betokens the power of the king, upon which he can draw at any moment, while the star upon his forehead is the symbol of his own

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anetary spheres of the ptolemaic astronomical scheme. the archons are the rulers who govern each of these levels, and who act as guardians preventing the sparks of light (i.e, the divine essence of individual human beings) from returning to the pleroma. part of the knowledge imparted to the gnostics is information on how to bypass these archons on their journey back to the pleroma (e.g, the first apocalypse of james v, robinson 1981, 33f. one of the results of conceptualizing the cosmos as being the creation of an evil divinity is that the angelic beings in the heavenly spheres surrounding the earth the archons are also evil. familiarity with gnosticism allows us to understand certain otherwise unintelligible passages in the writings of certain early christians, who were clearly influenced

in the roman and hellenistic world to indicate evil forces, and thus entered early christian writings with the negative connotation of impure spirits. the judeo-christian tradition elaborated the concept of the devil as the fallen angel who tempted adam and eve and was forever banished from paradise. christian literature also drew upon the belief systems of their neighbors in the depiction of the apocalypse, wherein appear demons that recall jewish, persian, and mesopotamian myths. in the transmission of the texts of the scriptures the devil (in hellenistic greek, diabolos) came to be identified with satan (the name used in the hebrew bible to indicate an adversary. the belief in evil powers as the source of sicknesses and problems for humans is found in early christian literature, and chr

mage that may ultimately be derived from the ancient vedic rite of horse sacrifice) as the source of this doomsday fire. in a well-known mythological episode, shiva, in a moment of anger, slew kama, god of desire, with a fiery blast from his third eye. once set in motion, however, this fire could not be 118 humor stopped, and threatened to destroy the three worlds before the appointed time of the apocalypse. brahma therefore transformed the fire into a fire-breathing mare. the mare s fire, which is inextinguishable, is held in check until the endtime by her residence at the bottom of the ocean. while consuming the three worlds of hindu cosmology, first with fire and then with water, shiva dances the tandava dance in his familiar form as nataraja, lord of the dance. in the words of the kurm

s during one s life into greek spirituality. this philosopher also aimed at understanding hades as a psychological state rather than as a physical location, while all the symbology related to it was interpreted allegorically. in judaism the underworld was viewed as a dusty shadowy realm called sheol, representing the extreme point in the universe, at the opposite end from heaven. in the ethiopian apocalypse of enoch, sheol is subdivided into three areas according to merit: subsequently it came to be identified with the gehenna (hell, imagined the united kingdom, ritual abuse in 267 either as a valley (thought to be located near jerusalem) or in other sources believed to be underneath the earth, and reserved for sinners. the essene sect reinforced the dualism between evil and good, believin

visions of the impending disaster. to begin with, god is seen on his throne in heaven 282 wormwood holding a scroll kept closed with seven seals that no one can open except for a seven-eyed and sevenhorned lamb (christ. the narrative goes on to relate how with each opening of a seal another cataclysmic or wondrous event occurs for the earth. first there is the release of the four horsemen of the apocalypse:war, famine, death, and civil conflict. this is followed by martyrs calling out for justice, then an earthquake on earth while the sun turns black and the moon red.when the seventh and last seal is opened, wormwood appears: a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the fountains of water. the name of the star is wormwood (rev. 8:10

nce is only three tiny acts of wrongdoing, the sinner falls off the bridge and into hell. hell is a dismal realm of torment, where the damned can consume only the foulest food for nourishment. if debits and credits cancel each other out, the soul is placed in hammistagan( region of the mixed, a limbo realm in which souls are neither happy nor sorrowful and in which they will abide until the final apocalypse. in later texts, a person s deeds z 283 284 zoroastrianism greet him on the bridge in personified form a beautiful maiden for a good person; an ugly hag for a bad person who either leads the soul to paradise( the luminous mansions of the sky) or embraces the soul and falls into hell, according to whether the person has been good or evil. after the final battle between good and evil, the

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. heaven hath sent the knowledge of a new sweet way into the secret element. olympas. master, while yet the glory clings declare this mystery magical! marsyas. i am yet borne on those blue wings into the essence of the all. now, now i stand on earth again, though, blazing through each nerve and vein, the light yet holds its choral course, filling my frame with fiery force like god.s. now hear the apocalypse new-fledged on these reluctant lips! olympas. i tremble like an aspen, quiver like light upon a rainy river! marsyas. do what thou wilt! is the sole word of law that my attainment heard. arise, and lay thine hand on god! arise, and set a period aha! 31 unto restriction! that is sin: to hold thine holy spirit in! o thou that chafest at thy bars, invoke nuit beneath her stars with a pure

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ssing through the tuat, appears to be an early draft differing in a number of respects from the one on which this practice is based. in any case, it is based on egyptian texts describing the nightly journey of the sun through twelve divisions of the underworld. see for example budge, the egyptian heaven and hell. 12 i am not entirely sure what alice is talking about here, but can take a guess. 13 apocalypse xiii. 14. 14 h.b. in an editorial note to the .blue brick. demonstrates that this is one of the .methods of sabhapaty swami. referred to in .liber o. being derived from a r.jayoga practice described in a book by said author; a summary by crowley survives in his diariicliber iii vel jvgorvm v a a publication in class d 1 o 0. behold the yoke upon the neck of the oxen! is it not thereby t

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he worthy of all honour. she is the supernal mother, co-equal with chokmah, and the great feminine form of god, the elohim,16 in whose image man and woman are created, according to the teaching of the qabalah, equal before god. woman is equal with man, and certainly not inferior to him, as it has been the persistent endeavour of so-called christians to make her. aima is the woman described in the apocalypse (ch xii).17 this third sephirah is also sometimes called the great sea. to her are attributed the divine names \yhla, elohim, and \yhla hwhy; and the angelic order \ylara, aralim, the thrones. she is the supernal mother, as distinguished from malkuth, the inferior mother, bride and queen. the number 4. this union of the second and third sephiroth produced dsj, chesed, mercy or love, als

accuses morally; and even that spiritual accuser upon the threhold, without whom the sanctuary might be profaned. we must defeat him, it is true; but how should we abuse and blame him, without abuse and blame of him that set him there? 136. a mystic number of jupiter; the sum of the first 16 natural numbers. 144. a square and therefore a materialisation of the number 12. hence the numbers in the apocalypse. 144,000 only means 12 (the perfect number in the zodiac or houses of heaven and tribes of israel) 12, i.e. settled 1000, i.e. on the grand scale. 148 \ynzam, scales of justice. 156. babalon. see liber 418. this number is chiefly important for part ii. it is of no account in the orthodox dogmatic qabalah. yet it is 12 13, the most spiritual form, 13 of the most perfect number, 12, awh [

the hindu .thou art that (see previous chapter .the yogi; for the qabalist .malkuth is in kether, and kether is in malkuth. or .that which is below is like that which is above. or simply .yod (the foundation of all letters having the number 10, symbolising malkuth. the answer of the adept to the second form of the problem is for the christian all the familiar teaching of the song of songs and the apocalypse concerning the bride of christ* for the qabalist it is a long complex dogma which may be studied in the zohar and elsewhere. otherwise, he may simply answer .he (the letter alike of mother and daughter in hwhy. see liber 418 for lengthy disquisitions on this symbolic basis. the answer of the adept to the third form of the problem is given by p, implying that an infinite factor must be e

dge implies a knower and a thing known, the accursed dyad which is the prime cause of all misery.80 480. lilith. see liber 418. so the orthodox place the legal 4 before the holy 8 and the sublime zero .and therefore their breaths stink. 543. good, but only carries us back to the mother. 666. chosen by myself as my symbol, partly for the reasons given in part i, partly for the reasons given in the apocalypse. i took the beast to be the 78 [victor neuburg, according to a note by crowley in a copy of equinox i (5, as transcribed by yorke. t.s] 79 [364= inter alia, alpwm roa, the hidden light, a title of kether, and fch, the adversary. t.s] 80 [vide al i. 22. t.s] 52 liber lviii lion (leo my rising sign81) and sol, 6, 666, the lord of leo on which babalon should ride. and there were other more

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nd to bring up in the nurture and admonition of the lord, was not a little perplexed by the sudden disappearance of his wife. at first he supposed that she had been translated, but, finding that she had not left behind the traditional mantle behind her, he abandoned this supposition in favour of quite a different, and indeed a more plausible one. he now believed her to be the scarlet woman of the apocalypse, with variations. on arrival in egypt he hired an old native nurse, and sailed for odessa. once in russia he could find gog and magog, and present to them the child as antichrist. for he was no persuaded that he himself was the first beast, and would ask the sceptic to count his seven heads and ten horns. the heads, however, rarely totted up accurately. at this point the accounts of mr

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pure source must be revealed. to better explain the luciferian path in the terms of which is offered in luciferian witchcraft, liber hvhi and book of the witch moon, an assessment of the basic tools, god forms and models of belief are given here: apep the serpent-demon of chaos and the abyssic waters of the tuat. apep is the early embodiment of the sumerian tiamat or the sevenheaded dragon of the apocalypse. in early persian manifestation, ahriman and the archdaevas. in egyptian lore, apep is by cipher and study nothing more than set revealed, his primal draconian aspect of self. apep embodies the very essence of set and may even be considered associated with his shadow or demonic form. in the tenth and eleventh sections of the tuat set-heh is shown as being to the left of the gods in a fi

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itage. 173 mystic christianity st. iran us on the life of christ--the original name of jesus--the christened man--the essenes--the arthurian cycle--merlin the mage. 177 the cross and the crucifixion the aurea legenda--the lost libraries of alexandria--the cross in pagan symbolism- the crucifixion, a cosmic allegory--the crucifixion of quetzalcoatl--the nails of the passion. 181 the mystery of the apocalypse the sacred city of ephesus--the authorship of the apocalypse--the alpha and omega- the lamb of god-the four horsemen-the number of the beast. 185 the faith of islam the life of mohammed--the revelation of the koran--the valedictory pilgrimage--the tomb of the prophet--the caaba at mecca--the secret doctrine of islam. 189 american indian symbolism the ceremony of the peace pipe--the hist

e of these birds and it exhibition in the roman forum during the reign of the emperor claudius. p. 90 from the days of noah by all those who were of the church of god. the prophet sent to ninevah as god's messenger was called jonah or the dove; our lord's forerunner, the baptist, was called in greek by the name of ioannes; and so was the apostle of love, the author of the fourth gospel and of the apocalypse, named ioannes (bryant's analysis of ancient mythology) in masonry the dove is the symbol of purity and innocence. it is significant that in the pagan mysteries the dove of venus was crucified upon the four spokes of a great wheel, thus foreshadowing the mystery of the crucified lord of love. although mohammed drove the doves from the temple at mecca, occasionally he is depicted with a

tiated the seventy elders into the secrets of this doctrine and they again transmitted them from hand to hand. of all who formed the unbroken line of tradition, david and solomon were most initiated into the kabbalah (see the kabbalah) according to eliphas levi, the three greatest books of qabbalism are the sepher yetzirah, the book of formation; the sepher ha zohar, the book of splendor; and the apocalypse, the book of revelation. the dates of the writing of these books are by no means thoroughly established. qabbalists declare that the sepher yetzirah was written by abraham. although it is by far the oldest of the qabbalistic books, it was probably from the pen of the rabbi akiba, a.d. 120. the sepher ha zohar presumably was written by simeon ben jochai, a disciple of akiba. rabbi simeon

he beginning of the world, but that rabbi simeon was the first man permitted to reduce them to writing. twelve hundred years later the books which he had compiled were discovered and published for the benefit of humanity by moses de le n. the probability is that moses de le n himself compiled the zohar about a.d. 1305, drawing his material from the unwritten secrets of earlier jewish mystics. the apocalypse, accredited to st. john the divine, is also of uncertain date, and the identity of its author has never been satisfactorily proved. because of its brevity and because it is the key to qabbalistic thought, the sepher yetzirah is reproduced in full in this chapter. so far as is click to enlarge the seventy-two names of god. from kircher's oedipus gyptiacus. this rare cut shows the name of

ted "long anterior to the christian ra" the existence of interpolated material in the fourth gospel substantiates the belief that the work was originally written without any specific reference to the man jesus, the statements therein accredited to him being originally mystical discourses delivered by the personification of the universal mind. the remaining johannine writings--the epistles and the apocalypse--are enshrouded by a similar veil of mystery. by notarikon each letter of a word may become the initial character of a new word. thus from brashith, first word in the book of genesis, are extracted six words which mean that "in the beginning the elohim saw that israel would accept the law" mr. macgregor-mathers also gives six additional examples of notarikon formed from the above word b

he 22 major trumps represent the letters of the hebrew alphabet. this supposition is based upon nothing more substantial than the coincidence that both consist of 22 parts. that postel, st. martin, and levi all wrote books divided into sections corresponding to the major tarots is an interesting sidelight on the subject. the major trump cards portray incidents from the book of revelation; and the apocalypse of st. john is also divided into 22 chapters. assuming the qabbalah to hold the solution to the tarot riddle, seekers have often ignored other possible lines of research. the task, however, of discovering the proper relationship sustained by the tarot trumps to the letters of the hebrew alphabet and the paths of wisdom thus far has not met with any great click to enlarge early portugues

om. in the pseudo-egyptian tarot the priestess is veiled, a reminder that the full countenance truth is not revealed to uninitiated man. a veil also covers one-half of her book, thus intimating that but one-half of the mystery of being can be comprehended. the third numbered major trump is called l'imp ratrice, the empress, and has been likened to the "woman clothed with the sun" described in the apocalypse. on this card appears the winged figure of a woman seated upon a throne, supporting with her right hand a shield emblazoned with a phoenix and holding in her left a scepter surmounted by an orb or trifoliate flower. beneath her left foot is sometimes shown the crescent. either the empress is crowned or her head is surrounded by a diadem of stars; sometimes both. she is called generation

the nail-marks in hands and feet, indicate a christian origin; while the parthian coronet of seven points, the absence of the wood and of the usual inscription, and the rays of glory above seem to point to some christian origin. can it be the victim, man, or the priest and victim both in one, of the hindu mythology, who offered himself a sacrifice before the worlds were" next: the mystery of the apocalypse sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 185 the mystery of the apocalypse the presence of the temple of diana at ephesus marked that city as sacred to the mystery religion, for the seven wonders of the ancient world were erected to indicate the repositories of recondite knowledge. of ephesus, h. p. blavatsky writes "it was a focus of the universal 'secret' doctrines; the weird labo

still alive, and closing the entrance behind him, vanished forever from mortal sight. a rumor was current in ancient ephesus that st. john would sleep in his tomb until the return of the savior, and that when the apostle turned over on his sepulchral couch the earth above moved like the coverlets of a bed. subjected to more criticism than any other book now incorporated in the new testament, the apocalypse--popularly accredited to st. john the divine--is by far the most important but least understood of the gnostic christian writings. though justin martyr declared the book of revelation to have been written by "john, one of christ's apostles" its authorship was disputed as early as the second century after christ. in the third century these contentions became acute and even dionysius of a

ter christ. in the third century these contentions became acute and even dionysius of alexandria and eusebius attacked the johannine theory, declaring that both the book of revelation and the gospel according to st. john were written by one cerinthus, who borrowed the name of the great apostle the better to foist his own doctrines upon the christians. later jerome questioned the authorship of the apocalypse and during the reformation his objections were revived by luther and erasmus. the once generally accepted notion that the book of revelation was the actual record of a "mystical experience" occurring to st. john while that seer was an exile in the isle of parmos is now regarded with disfavor by more critical scholars. other explanations have therefore been advanced to account for the sy

, the pagan initiates retorted with a powerful effort to paganize christianity. the christians failed but the pagans succeeded. with the decline of paganism the initiated pagan hierophants transferred their base of operations to the new vehicle of primitive christianity, adopting the symbols of the new cult to conceal those eternal verities which are ever the priceless possession of the wise. the apocalypse shows clearly the resultant fusion of pagan and christian symbolism and thus bears irrefutable evidence of the activities of these initiated minds operating through early christianity. third, the theory has been advanced that the book of revelation represents the attempt made by the unscrupulous members of a certain religious order to undermine the christian mysteries by satirizing thei

ianity, and by using its own symbols toward its disparagement. for example, the star which fell to earth (rev. viii. 10-11) could be construed to mean the star of bethlehem, and the bitterness of that star (called wormwood and which poisoned mankind) could signify the "false" teachings of the christian church. while the last theory has gained a certain measure of popularity, the profundity of the apocalypse leads the discerning reader to the inevitable conclusion that this is the least plausible of the three hypotheses. to those able to pierce the veil of its symbolism, the inspired source of the document requires no further corroborative evidence. in the final analysis, true philosophy can be limited by neither creed nor faction; in fact it is incompatible with every artificial limitation

stian origin of the book of revelation is, consequently, of little importance. the intrinsic value of the book lies in its magnificent epitome of the universal mystery--an observation which led st. jerome to declare that it is susceptible of seven entirely different interpretations. untrained in the reaches of ancient thought, the modem theologian cannot possibly cope with the complexities of the apocalypse, for to him this mystic writing is but a phantasmagoria the divine inspiration of which he is sorely tempted to question. in the limited space here available it is possible to sketch but briefly a few of the salient features of the vision of the seer of patmos. a careful consideration of the various pagan mysteries will assist materially also in filling the inevitable gaps in this abrid

iting is but a phantasmagoria the divine inspiration of which he is sorely tempted to question. in the limited space here available it is possible to sketch but briefly a few of the salient features of the vision of the seer of patmos. a careful consideration of the various pagan mysteries will assist materially also in filling the inevitable gaps in this abridgment. in the opening chapter of the apocalypse, st. john describes the alpha and omega who stood in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks. surrounded by his flaming planetary regents, this sublime one thus epitomizes in one impressive and mysterious figure the entire sweep of humanity's evolutionary growth--past, present, and future "the first stages of man's earthly development" writes dr. rudolph steiner "ran their course at

r of ram's horns. the lamb is used in preference to the ram apparently because of its purity and gentleness; also, since the creator himself was symbolized by aries, his son would consequently be the little ram or lamb. the lambskin apron worn by the freemasons over that part of the body symbolized by typhon or judas represents that purification click to enlarge episodes from the mysteries of the apocalypse. from klauber's historiae biblicae veteris et novi testamenti. in the central foreground, st. john the divine is kneeling before the apparition of the alpha and omega standing in the midst of the seven lights and surrounded by an aureole of flames and smoke. in the heavens above the twenty-four elders with their harps and censers bow before the throne of the ancient one, from whose hand

wearing a crown and holding in his hand a bow. when the second seal was broken, there rode forth a man upon a red horse and in his hand was a great sword. when the third seal was broken there rode forth a man upon a black horse and with a pair of balances in his hand. and when the fourth seal was broken there rode forth death upon a pale horse and hell followed after him. the four horsemen of the apocalypse may be interpreted to signify the four main divisions of human life. birth is represented by the rider on the white horse who comes forth conquering and to conquer; the impetuosity of youth by the rider on the red horse who took peace from the earth; maturity by the rider on the black horse who weighs all things in the scales of reason; and death by the rider on the pale horse who was g

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interpreted as mere representations of common fears of his own time. however,they are not merely myopic sketches of events of his own time. durer and other artists whotreated canonical subjects were remote viewers, prophesizing, warning, and revealing.their iconic allegories deal with timeless meta-themes of which the average critic and alsotheir admirers are unaware. durer's four horsemen of the apocalypse; st. michael's fightagainst the dragon; knight, death and the devil; and melancholia i should be read as fore-casts, as portents of things to come. artists and minstrels of more recent times also have thesame macro-theme in their creations, though few are aware of itconsider the final lines ofthe song stairway to heaven, by led zeppelin, and then why millions resonate with this andother

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d marched from victory to victory, exclaimed to his wearied soldiers_"let no man sleep! there will be rest enough in the bowers of paradise; sweet will be the repose never more to be followed by labor_ the faith of the arab had become stronger than that of the christian, and he conquered. the sword is also, in the bible, an emblem of speech, or of the utterance of thought. thus, in that vision or apocalypse of the sublime exile of patmos, a protest in the name of the ideal, overwhelming the real world, a tremendous satire uttered in the name of religion and liberty, and with its fiery reverberations smiting the throne of the c sars, a sharp two-edged sword comes out of the mouth of the semblance of the son of man, encircled by the seven golden candlesticks, and holding in his right hand se

ys hosea "by the words of my mouth "the word of god" says the writer of the apostolic letter to the hebrews "is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit "the sword of the spirit, which is the word of god" says paul, writing to the christians at ephesus "i will fight against them with the sword of my mouth" it is said in the apocalypse, to the angel of the church at pergamos* the spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. it is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. it is nothing to the living and coming generations of men. it was the _written_ human speech, that gave

cian deity was called the heptakis or god of _seven_ rays _seven_ days of the week; and _seven_ and _five_ made the number of months, tribes, and apostles. zechariah saw a golden candlestick, with _seven_ lamps and _seven_ pipes to the lamps, and an olive-tree on each side. since he says "the _seven_ eyes of the lord shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of zerubbabel" john, in the apocalypse, writes _seven_ epistles to the _seven_ churches. in the _seven_ epistles there are _twelve_ promises. what is said of the churches in praise or blame, is completed in the number _three. the refrain"_who has ears to hear" etc, has _ten_ words, divided by _three_ and _seven, and the _seven_ by _three_ and _four; and the _seven_ epistles are also so divided. in the seals, trumpets, and vi

and there were _seven_ years of plenty, and _seven_ of famine. jericho fell, when _seven_ priests, with _seven_ trumpets, made the circuit of the city on _seven_ successive days; once each day for six days, and _seven_ times on the seventh "the _seven_ eyes of the lord" says zechariah "run to and fro through the whole earth" solomon was _seven_ years in building the temple _seven_ angels, in the apocalypse, pour out _seven_ plagues, from _seven_ vials of wrath. the scarlet-colored beast, on which the woman sits in the wilderness, has _seven_ heads and _ten_ horns. so also has the beast that rises up out of the sea _seven_ thunders uttered their voices _seven_ angels sounded _seven_ trumpets _seven_ lamps, of fire, the _seven_ spirits of god, burned before the throne; and the lamb that was

images, which, he thought, sooner or later produced idolatry. the holy kabalah, or tradition of the children of seth, was carried from chald a by abraham, taught to the egyptian priesthood by joseph, recovered and purified by moses, concealed under symbols in the bible, revealed by the saviour to saint john, and contained, entire, under hieratic figures analogous to those of all antiquity, in the apocalypse of that apostle. the kabalists consider god as the intelligent, animated, living infinite. he is not, for them, either the aggregate of existences, or existence in the abstract, or a being philosophically definable. he is _in_ all _distinct_ from all, and _greater_ than all. his name even is ineffable; and yet this name only expresses the human ideal of his divinity. what god is in hims

gated with animals and plants and stars was the only genuine temple of the divinity. how completely the temple of solomon was symbolic, is manifest, not only from the continual reproduction in it of the sacred numbers and of astrological symbols in the historical descriptions of it; but also, and yet more, from the details of the imaginary reconstructed edifice, seen by ezekiel in his vision. the apocalypse completes the demonstration, and shows the kabalistic meanings of the whole. the symbola architectonica are found on the most ancient edifices; and these mathematical figures and instruments, adopted by the templars, and identical with those on the gnostic seals and abrax, connect their dogma with the chaldaic, syriac, and egyptian oriental philosophy. the secret pythagorean doctrines o

the templars, and identical with those on the gnostic seals and abrax, connect their dogma with the chaldaic, syriac, and egyptian oriental philosophy. the secret pythagorean doctrines of numbers were preserved by the monks of thibet, by the hierophants of egypt and eleusis, at jerusalem, and in the circular chapters of the druids; and they are especially consecrated in that mysterious book, the apocalypse of saint john. all temples were surrounded by pillars, recording the number of the constellations, the signs of the zodiac, or the cycles of the planets; and each one was a microcosm or symbol of the universe, having for roof or ceiling the starred vault of heaven. all temples were originally open at the top, having for roof the sky. twelve pillars described the belt of the zodiac. what

which they considered as the source of all evils, the mother and dwelling-place of satan. to philo and the platonists, there was a soul of the world, creating visible things, and active in them, as agent of the supreme intelligence; realizing therein the ideas communicated to him by that intelligence, and which sometimes excel his conceptions, but which he executes without comprehending them. the apocalypse or revelations, by whomever written, belongs to the orient and to extreme antiquity. it reproduces what is far older than itself. it paints, with the strongest colors that the oriental genius ever employed, the closing scenes of the great struggle of light, and truth, and good, against darkness, error, and evil; personified in that between the new religion on one side, and paganism and

out, everywhere the first instruments of the divine will and vengeance, are the seven amshaspands of parsism; as the twenty-four ancients, offering to the supreme being the first supplications and the first homage, remind us of the mysterious chiefs of judaism, foreshadow the eons of gnosticism, and reproduce the twenty-four good spirits created by ormuzd and inclosed in an egg. the christ of the apocalypse, first-born of creation and of the resurrection, is invested with the characteristics of the ormuzd and sosiosch of the zend-avesta, the ainsoph of the kabalah and the carpistes [greek ?a?p?st] of the gnostics. the idea that the true initiates and faithful become kings and priests, is at once persian, jewish, christian, and gnostic. and the definition of the supreme being, that he is at

atan which no man can measure; his triumph for a time by fraud and violence; his being chained by an angel; his reprobation and his precipitation into a sea of metal; his names of the serpent and the dragon; the whole conflict of the good spirits or celestial armies against the bad; are so many ideas and designations found alike in the zend-avesta, the kabalah, and the gnosis. we even find in the apocalypse that singular persian idea, which regards some of the lower animals as so many devs or vehicles of devs. the guardianship of the earth by a good angel, the renewing of the earth and heavens, and the final triumph of pure and holy men, are the same victory of good over evil, for which the whole orient looked. the gold, and white raiments of the twenty-four elders are, as in the persian f

of right belongs to us_ therefore faint not, nor be weary in well-doing! be not discouraged at men's apathy, nor disgusted with their follies, nor tired of their indifference! care not for returns and results; but see only what there is to do, and do it, leaving the results to god! soldier of the cross! sworn knight of justice, truth, and toleration! good knight and true! be patient and work! the apocalypse, that sublime kabalistic and prophetic summary of all the occult figures, divides its images into three septenaries, after each of which there is silence in heaven. there are seven seals to be opened, that is to say, seven mysteries to know, and seven difficulties to overcome, seven trumpets to sound, and seven cups to empty. the apocalypse is, to those who receive the nineteenth degree

r, the _light-bearer_ strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of darkness! lucifer, the son of the morning! is it _he_ who bears the _light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? doubt it not! for traditions are full of divine revelations and inspirations: and inspiration is not of one age nor of one creed. plato and philo, also, were inspired. the apocalypse, indeed, is a book as obscure as the sohar. it is written hieroglyphically with numbers and images; and the apostle often appeals to the intelligence of the initiated "let him who hath knowledge, understand! let him who understands, calculate" he often says, after an allegory or the mention of a number. saint john, the favorite apostle, and the depositary of all the secrets of the savio

images; and the apostle often appeals to the intelligence of the initiated "let him who hath knowledge, understand! let him who understands, calculate" he often says, after an allegory or the mention of a number. saint john, the favorite apostle, and the depositary of all the secrets of the saviour, therefore did not write to be understood by the multitude. the sephar yezirah, the sohar, and the apocalypse are the completest embodiments of occultism. they contain more meanings than words; their expressions are figurative as poetry and exact as numbers. the apocalypse sums up, completes, and surpasses all the science of abraham and of solomon. the visions of ezekiel, by the river chebar, and of the new symbolic temple, are equally mysterious expressions, veiled by figures of the enigmatic

_white, the analogous symbol of the good: the _absence_ of all is the _black, the analogous symbol of the evil. there are three primary colors _red _yellow, and _blue; and four secondary _orange _green _indigo, and _violet; and all these god displays to man in the rainbow; and they have their analogies also in the moral and intellectual world. the same number _seven, continually reappears in the apocalypse, compounded of _three_ and _four; and these numbers relate to the last seven of the sephiroth, three answering to benignity or mercy, severity or justice, and beauty or harmony; and four to _netzach _hod _yesod, and _malakoth, victory, glory, stability, and domination. the same numbers also represent the _first_ three sephiroth, kether, khokmah, and bainah, or _will _wisdom, and _unders

the terror which that reptile inspired, as the symbol of typhon and his malign influences; wherefore the eagle, as its paranatellon, that is, rising and setting at the same time with it, was naturally used in its stead. hence the four famous figures in the sacred pictures of the jews and christians, and in royal arch masonry, of the lion, the ox, the man, and the eagle, the four creatures of the apocalypse, copied there from ezekiel, in whose reveries and rhapsodies they are seen revolving around blazing circles. the ram, domicile of mars, chief of the celestial soldiery and of the twelve signs, is the device of _gad, whom jacob characterizes as a warrior, chief of his army. cancer, in which are the stars termed _aselli, or little assess, is the device of the flag of _issachar, whom jacob

zodiac and the planets. so also did lycurgus at sparta, and cecrops in the athenian commonwealth. chun, the chinese legislator, divided china into twelve tcheou, and specially designated twelve mountains. the etruscans divided themselves into twelve cantons. romulus appointed twelve lictors. there were twelve tribes of ishmael and twelve disciples of the hebrew reformer. the new jerusalem of the apocalypse has twelve gates. the souciet, a chinese book, speaks of a palace composed of four buildings, whose gates looked toward the four corners of the world. that on the east was dedicated to the new moons of the months of spring; that on the west to those of autumn; that on the south to those of summer; and that on the north to those of winter: and in this, palace the emperor and his grandees

overcome by the superior might of the hebrew god, as monstrous leviathans maimed and destroyed by him. ophioneus, in the old greek theology, warred against kronos, and was overcome and cast into his proper element, the sea. there he is installed as the sea-god oannes or dragon, the leviathan of the watery, half of creation, the dragon who vomited a flood of water after the persecuted woman of the apocalypse, the monster who threatened to devour hesione and andromeda, and who for a time became the grave of hercules and jonah; and he corresponds with the obscure name of _rahab, whom jehovah is said in job to have transfixed and overcome. in the spring, the year or sun-god appears as mithras or europa mounted on the bull; but in the opposite half of the zodiac he rides the emblem of the water

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s for all interpretation of scripture, it required in accordance with the methodology of church scholars the perception of its allegorical, tropological, and anogogical meanings. in the allegorical sense, jerusalem was the militant church; in the tropological sense, it was the christian soul; and in the anagogical sense it was the celestial jerusalem, the land above announced by saint john in the apocalypse. with respect to kings david and solomon, both of whom were extremely popular, they were regarded, curious as this might appear today, as signs or portents of jesus christ. the same was true of hiram, the founder of the pillars of the temple, and adoniran, solomon's high official and head of the conscripted labor. hic et christus, said the venerable bede in the eighth century, meaning t

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upon the elements <144> the garden of eden before the fall this diagram is described in the practicus ritual. it shows in a glyph the teaching proper to the practicus on entering the sephirah hod which he has reached by the paths of shin and resh from malkuth and yesod respectively. at the summit are the three supernal sephiroth summed up into one-aima elohim, the mother supernal-the woman of the apocalypse (chap. 12) clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, and on her head the crown of twelve stars. it is written 'so the name jehovah is joined to the name elohim, for jehovah planted a garden eastward in eden' from the three supernals follow the other sephiroth of the tree of life. below the tree, proceeding from malkuth is the tree of knowledge of good and of evil which is between t

y, flowing into chesed. hiddikel: air-flowing into tiphareth. phrath (euphrates: earth- flowing into malkuth. 74 the golden dawn: volume i book one it is written 'ln daath the depths are broken up and the clouds drop down dew" the word naher has the meaning 'perennial stream1-'never failing waters' as opposed to other words mearung torrent or brook. the river going out of eden is the river of the apocalypse, the waters of life, clear as crystal proceeding from the throne, on either side of the tree of life, bearing all manner of fruit. thus the rivers form a cross and on it the great adam, the son who is to rule the nations, was extended from tiphareth and his arms stretch out to geburah and gedulah, and in malkuth is eve, supporting with her hands the two pillars <146> on the general guid

blems of the lion, man, bull and eagle. around the great central lamp which is an image of the sun, is the great mother of heaven, syrnbolised by the letter heh, the first of the simple letters, and by its number 5, the pentagram, malkah the bride, ruling in her kingdom malkuth, crowned with a crown of twelve stars. these twelve circles further represent the 12 foundations of the holy city of the apocalypse, while in christian symbolism the sun and the twelve signs are referred to christ and his twelve apostles <62> hegemon leads neophyte to hiereus and then returns to his place and is seated. hiereus leads neophyte to the south, and says: hiereus on the southern side of the holy place stood the seven-branched candlestick, wherein was burned pure olive oil. it is an image of the mystery of

path of the sepher yetzirah, which answereth unto malkuth and the letter tau, is called the administrative intelligence, and it is so-called because it directeth and associateth in <79> all their operations, the seven planets, even all of them in their own due courses. to it, therefore, is attributed the due knowledge of the seven abodes of assiah, the material world, which are symbolised in the apocalypse by the seven churches. it refers to the universe as composed of the four elements, to the kerubim, to the qlippoth, and to the astral plane. it is the reflection of the sphere of saturn. it represents the connecting and binding link between the material and formative worlds, assiah and yetsirah, and necessarily passes through the astral plane, the abode of the elementals and the shells

ofaltar. hedraws attention to the key of the universe. these ideas are symbolically resumed in the representation of the twenty first key of the tarot, in front of you. within the oval formed of the 72 circles, is a female form, nude save for a scarf that floats round her. she is crowned with the lunar crescent of isis, and holds in her hands, two wands. her legs form a cross. she is the bride of apocalypse, the kabbalistic queen of the canticles, the egyptian isis or great feminine kerubic angel sandalphon on the left hand of the mercy seat of the ark 160 the golden dawn: volume i1 book l b o <80> the wands are the directing forces of the positive and negative currents. the seven pointed heptagram or star alludes to the seven palaces of assiah; the crossed legs to the symbol of the four l

be moved back towards the west, and placed in readiness for the candidate at the closing. hiereus and hegemon stand either side of the altar, facing it. before you is represented the symbolism of the garden of eden. at the summit is the supernal eden, containing the three supernal sephiroth, summed up and contained in aima elohim, the mother <114> supernal, the woman of the twelfth chapter of the apocalypse, crowned with the sun and the moon under her feet, and upon her head the crown of twelve stars, kether. and whereas the name, yod he vau he, is joined to the name elohim, when it is said tetragrammaton elohim planted a garden eastward in eden, so this represents the power of the father joined thereto in the glory from the face of the ancient of days. and in the garden was the tree of th

d is pison, which ifo' wsinto geburah (whencet here is gold) it is the river of fire. the second head is gihon, the river of waters, flowing into chesed. the third is hiddekel, the river of air, flowing into tiphareth, and the fourth which receiveth the virtues of the other three, is phrath, euphrates, which floweth down <115> upon the earth. this river going forth out of eden is the river of the apocalypse, the waters of life, clear as crystal proceeding out of the throne of god and the lamb, on either side of which was the tree of life, bearing twelve manner of fruits. and thus do the rivers of. eden form a cross, and on that cross the great adam, the son who the golden dawn: volume i1 book two was to rule the nations with a rod of iron, is extended from tiphareth and his arms stretch ou

nted the hot and moist natures, symbolised by the torch and the horn of water. these are further strengthened by the solar and fiery emblems of the king and lion, and the luna and watery emblems of the queen and dolphin. above the whole figure rise the wings of the aerial nature, the reconciler between the fire and the water. compare this symbol with the angel described in the 10th chapter of the apocalypse of st. john-"and i saw another mighty angel come down from heaven clothed with a cloud; and a rainbow was this is an important point, often overlooked. in book five, p. 82 of vol. iii, we read "the temple, as arranged in the neophyte grade of the order of the golden dawn in the outer, is. in malkuth in assiah" this means the temple in the 0= is the bottom five sephiroth of the tree of l

anged with each other by revolution, whence the symbolic forms of the wheels beside them, wherein was the spirit; and with two of the wings they covered their bodies and two were stretched upwards one to another. so the synthesis of the kerubim is found in the revolving cross, in the pentagram, and in the idea of one spirit dominating the four elements. but the kerubim of st. john's vision in the apocalypse are uncompounded, having single heads, but they have six wings and thus unite the powers of the seven with the four. and their cry is similar to that of the seraphim of isaiah "holy, holy, holy* heg. returns to place. 2nd and 3rd ad. bar way in s. w. ask for= words. 3rd ad. comes fomard and conducts phil. to w. gives phil. cup of water -directs phil. to go round repeating the words whil

s of chesed, geburah and tiphareth respectively, just as the fire wand, water cup, air dagger and earth pentacle each establish the magus in netzach, hod, yesod and malkuth. h.s. adeptus minor ritual 225 the five preparatory examinations for this grade. it is written "his days shall be 120 years,"and 120 divided by 5 equals 24, the number of hours in a day, and of the thrones of the elders in the apocalypse. further, 120 equals the number of the ten sephiroth multiplied by <204> that of the zodiac, whose key is the working of the spirit and the four elements, typified in the wand which i bear. a11 face east. chief adept opens the door wide, passes to east or head of pastos of c. r c, and faces west. second enters and passes to south facing north. third enters and passes to north facing sou

d the door is guarded by the elemental tablets and by the kerubic emblems. the 120 years refer symbolically to the 5 grades of the first order and to the revolution of the powers of the pentagram; also to the five preparatory examinations for this grade. it is written "his days shall be 120 years" and 120 divided by 5 yields 24, the number of hours in a day and of the thrones of the elders in the apocalypse. further 120 equals the number of the ten sephiroth multiplied by that of the zodiac, whose key is the working of the spirit and the four elements typified in the wand which i bear. chief knocks. all face east. chief adept opens the vault wide, enters, passes to the eastern end, or place of the head of the pastos or coffin of c.r, and then faces west. second enters and passes to south

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ts hopes. then it was that the jargon of alchemy was created, an impenetrable illusion for the vulgar in their greed of gold, a living language only for the true disciple of hermes. extraordinary fact! among the sacred records of the christians there are two texts which the infallible church makes no claim to understand and has never attempted to expound: these are the prophecy of ezekiel and the apocalypse, two kabalistic keys reserved assuredly in heaven for the commentaries of magian kings, books sealed as with seven seals for faithful believers, yet perfectly plain to an initiated infidel of the occult sciences. there is also another work, but, although it is popular in a sense and may be found everywhere, this is of all most occult and unknown, because it is the key of the rest. it is

e of the magi, once demonstrated fully, will be a discovery of no second-rate importance, and we do not doubt that the serious study of magic and the kabalah will lead earnest minds to a reconciliation of science and dogma, of reason and faith, heretofore regarded as impossible. we have said that the church, whose special office is the custody of the keys, does not pretend to possess those of the apocalypse or of ezekiel. in the opinion of christians the scientific and magical clavicles of solomon are lost, which notwithstanding, it is certain that, in the domain of intelligence, ruled by the word nothing that has been written can perish. whatsoever men cease to understand exists for them no longer, at least in the order of the word, and it passes then into the domain of enigma and mystery

universal key, of which we give for the first time a complete and adequate explanation. let this work now go its way where it will and become what providence determines; it is finished, and we believe it to be enduring, because it is strong, like all that is reasonable and conscientious. eliphas levi. 1 i' a the candidate disciplina ensoph ketheri when a philosopher adopted as the basis for a new apocalypse of human wisdom the axiom: i think, therefore i am, in a measure he altered unconsciously, from the standpoint of christian revelation, the old conception of the supreme being. i am that i am, said the being of beings of moses. i am he who thinks, says the man of descartes, and to think being to speak inwardly, such a one may affirm, like the god of st. john the evangelist: i am he in w

her by the horns of isis, who has her head veiled and an open book concealed partially under her mantle, or otherwise by a sovereign lady, juno, the greek goddess, with one hand uplifted towards heaven and the other pointed to earth, as if formulating by this gesture the one and twofold dogma which is the foundation of magic and begins the marvellous symbols of the emerald table of hermes. in the apocalypse of st. john there is reference to two witnesses or martyrs on whom prophetic tradition confers the names of elias and enoch-elias, man of faith, enthusiasm, miracle; enoch, one with him who is called hermes by the egyptians, honoured by the phoenicians as cadmus, author of the sacred alphabet and the universal key to the initiations of the logos, father of the kabalah, he who, according

called hermes by the egyptians, honoured by the phoenicians as cadmus, author of the sacred alphabet and the universal key to the initiations of the logos, father of the kabalah, he who, according to sacred allegories, did not die like other men, but was translated to heaven, and will return at the end of time. much the same parable is told of st. john himself, who recovered and explained in his apocalypse the symbolism of the word of enoch. this resurrection of st. john and enoch, expected at the close of the ages of ignorance, will be the renovation of their doctrine by the comprehension of the kabalistic keys which unlock the temple of unity and of universal philosophy, too long occult and reserved solely for the elect, who perish at the hands of the world. but we have said that the re

rinciple of the whole kabalah, or sacred tradition of our fathers, was necessarily the fundamental dogma of christianity, the apparent dualism of which it explains by the intervention of a harmonious and all-powerful unity. christ did not put his teaching into writing, and only revealed it in secret to his favoured disciple, the one kabalist, and he a great kabalist, among the apostles. so is the apocalypse the book of the gnosis or secret doctrine of the first christians, and the key of this doctrine is indicated by an occult versicle of the lord's prayer, which the vulgate leaves untranslated, while in the greek rite, which preserves the traditions of st. john, the priests only are permitted to pronounce it. this versicle, completely kabalistic, is found in the greek text of the gospel a

kabalistic correspondent, and the equipoise of geburah and chesed, repeating itself in the circles of heavens called eons by the gnostics, provided the keystone of the whole christian temple in this occult versicle. it has been retained by protestants in their new testament, but they have failed to discern its lofty and wonderful meaning, which would have unveiled to them all the mysteries of the apocalypse. the triangle of solomon 17 there is, however, a tradition in the church that the manifestation of these mysteries is reserved till the last times. malkuth, based upon geburah and chesed, is the temple of solomon having jakin and boaz for its pillars; it is adamite dogma, founded, for the one part on the resignation of abel and, for the other, on the labours and self reproach of cain; i

he seven spirits, to which we shall refer subsequently; by means thereof, observing the analogical proportions of successive events, it is possible to predict important future occurrences with certitude, and to fix beforehand, from age to age, the destinies of nations and the world. st. john, depositary of the secret doctrine of christ, has commemorated this sequence in the kabalistic book of the apocalypse, which he represents sealed with seven seals. we meet also the seven genii of ancient mythologies, and the cups and swords of the tarot. the doctrine concealed under these emblems is pure kabalah, already lost by the pharisees at the time of christ's advent. the scenes which succeed one another in this wonderful prophetic epic are so many pantacles, the keys of which are the ternary, th

th principles and numbers, are called the ten sephiroth by the masters in kabalah. the sacred tetragram, drawn in the following manner, indicates the number, source and correspondence of divine names. to this name of jotchavah, written by these four-and-twenty signs, crowned with a triple flower of light, must be referred the twenty-four thrones of heaven and the twenty-four crowned elders in the apocalypse. in the kabalah the occult principle is called the ancient, and this principle, multiplied and, as it were, reflected in secondary causes, creates images of itself that is to say, so many ancients as there are diverse conceptions of its unique essence. these images, less perfect in proportion as they are removed farther from their source, project upon the darkness an ultimate reflection

e wheels of ezekiel; the two emblems contain the same secrets and belong to the 91 same philosophy; they constitute the key of all pantacles, and we have made mention previously of both. the four living creatures or rather the four-headed sphinx of the same prophet are identical with the admirable indian symbol of adda-nari, given on the next page, as having reference to the great arcanum. in his apocalypse st. john followed and elaborated ezekiel; indeed the monstrous figures of his wonderful book are so many magical pantacles, the key of which is easily discoverable by kabalists. on the other hand, christians, rejecting science in their anxiety to extend faith, sought later on to conceal the origin of their dogmas and condemned all kabalistic and magical books to the flames. to destroy o

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in turn their victims; cossacks, knouts and siberian deserts are still at the disposal of the russian emperor; but the spirit of orpheus, of socrates, of jesus and of all martyrs will live for ever in the midst their dead persecutors, will stand erect amidst decaying institutions and collapsing empires. it is this divine spirit, the spirit of the only son of god, which st. john represents in his apocalypse, standing between golden candlesticks, because he is the centre of all lights; having seven stars in his hand, like the seed of a new heaven; and sending down speech upon the earth under the symbol of a two-edged sword. when the wise in their discouragement sleep through the night of doubt, the spirit of christ is erect and vigilant. when the nations, weary of the labour which emancipat

ich results from the union of the two principles. the number 11, which is that of the letters of the word, combines the unity of the initiate with the denary of pythagoras, and the number 66, the added total of all the letters, form kabalistically the number 12, which is the square of the triad and consequently the mystic quadrature of the circle. we may remark, in passing, that the author of the apocalypse, that key of the christian kabalah, composed the number of the beast, that is to say, of idolatry, by adding a 6 to the double senary of abracadabra, which gives 18 kabalistically, the number attributed in the tarot to the hieroglyphic sign of night and of the profane. the moon, together with the towers, dog, wolf and crab. a mysterious and obscure number, the kabalistic key of which is

yrrh, image of death and of darkness; the brown king sacrifices incense, emblem of the conciliating doctrine of the two principles. they return thereafter into their own land by another road, to show that a new cultus is only a new path, conducting man to one religion, being that of the sacred triad and the radiant pentagram, the sole eternal catholicism. st. john, in the blazing pentagram 37 the apocalypse, beholds this same star fall from heaven to earth. it is then called absinthe or wormwood, and all the waters of the sea become bitter. a striking image of the materialization of dogma, which produces fanaticism and the acridities of controversy. then unto christianity itself may be applied those words of isaiah: ghow has thou fallen from heaven, bright star, which wast so splendid in t

eir neglect and oblivion. the gnostic disclosures, for example, alienated the christian church from the high truths of the kabalah, which contains all secrets of transcendental theology. hence the blind, having become leaders of the blind, great obscurities, great lapses and deplorable scandals have followed. subsequently, the sacred books, of which the keys are all kabalistic from genesis to the apocalypse, have become so little intelligible to christians, that prudent pastors have judged it necessary to forbid them being read by the uninstructed among believers. taken literally and understood materially, such books could be only an inconceivable tissue of absurdities and scandals, as the school of voltaire has demonstrated but too well. it is the same with all the ancient dogmas, the bri

esis, which, taken literally and accepted as actual histories, merit even more derision and contempt than voltaire heaped upon them, become lumithe key of occultism 59 nous for the initiate, who still hails with enthusiasm and love the perpetuity of true doctrine and the universality of initiation, identical in all sanctuaries of the world. the five books of moses, the prophecy of ezekiel and the apocalypse of st. john are the three kabalistic keys of the whole biblical edifice. the sphinxes of ezekiel are identical with those of the sanctuary and the ark, being a fourfold reproduction of the egyptian tetrad; the wheels revolving in one another are the harmonious spheres of pythagoras; the new temple, the plan of which is given according to exact kabalistic measures, is the type of the lab

stic keys of the whole biblical edifice. the sphinxes of ezekiel are identical with those of the sanctuary and the ark, being a fourfold reproduction of the egyptian tetrad; the wheels revolving in one another are the harmonious spheres of pythagoras; the new temple, the plan of which is given according to exact kabalistic measures, is the type of the labours of primitive masonry. st. john in his apocalypse reproduces the same images and the same numbers, and reconstructs the edenic world ideally in the new jerusalem; but at the source of the four rivers the solar lamb replaces the mysterious tree. initiation by toil and blood has been accomplished, and there is no more temple because the light of truth is diffused universally and the world has become the temple of justice. this splendid f

inally, but one true religion, having one doctrine and one legitimate belief, even as there is but one god, one reason and one universe; that revelation is obscure for no one, since the whole world understands more or less both truth and justice, and since all that is possible can only exist analogically to all that is. being is being, xvx' wc' xvx. the apparently bizarre figures presented by the apocalypse of st. john are hieroglyphics, like those of all oriental mythologies, and can be comprised in a series of pantacles. the initiator clothed in white, standing between seven golden 60 the ritual of transcendental magic candlesticks and holding seven stars in his hand, represents the unique doctrine of hermes and the universal analogies of the light. the woman clothed with the sun and cro

opinion of operator and subject; hence homeopathic medicine dispenses with them and no serious inconvenience follows. oil and wine, combined with salt or camphor, are sufficient for the healing of all wounds and for all external frictions or soothing applications. oil and the thaumaturge 121 wine are the chief medicaments of gospel tradition. they formed the balm of the good samaritan, and in the apocalypse. when describing the last plagues. the prophet prays the avenging powers to spare these substances, that is, to leave a hope and a remedy for so many wounds. what we term extreme unction was the pure and simple practice of the master's traditional medicine, both for the early christians and in the mind of the apostle saint james, who has included the precept in his epistle to the faithf

us. it is a key of all prophecies new or old, a mathematical, historical and simple method of surpassing isaiah and jeremiah in the prevision of all great events to come. the author in bold outline sketches the philosophy of history, and divides the existence of the entire world between seven genii of the kabalah. it is the grandest and widest interpretation ever made of those seven angels of the apocalypse who appear successively with trumpets and cups to pour out the word and its realization upon earth. the duration of each angelic reign is 354 years and 4 months, beginning with that of orifiel, the angel of saturn, on 13 march, for, according to trithemius, this was the date of the world's creation; his rule answers to a period of savagery and darkness. next came the reign of anael, the

only to initiates. the word may read rota, thus signifying the wheel of ezekiel, or tarot, and then it is synonymous with the azoth of hermetic philosophers. it is a word which expresses kabalistically the dogmatic and natural absolute; it is formed of the characters of the monogram of christ, according to the greeks and hebrews. the latin r or greek p is found between the alpha and omega of the apocalypse; the sacred tau, image of the cross, encloses the complete word, as represented previously in our gritual h. without the tarot the magic of the ancients is a closed book, and it is impossible to penetrate any of the great mysteries of the kabalah. the tarot alone interprets the magic squares of agrippa and paracelsus, as we may satisfy ourselves by forming these same squares with the ke

symbol nothing but a monumental portrait of his pretended pope joan. g the word, the triad, plenitude, fecundity, nature, generation in the three worlds. symbol, the empress, a woman, winged, crowned, seated and uplifting a sceptre with the orb of the world at its end: her sign is an eagle, image of the soul and of life. she is the venus-urania of the greeks and was represented by st. john in his apocalypse as the woman clothed with the sun, crowned with twelve stars and having the moon beneath her feet. she is the mystical quintessence of the triad; she is spirituality, immortality, the queen of heaven. d the porte or government of the easterns, initiation, power, the tetragram, the quaternary, the cubic stone, or its base. hieroglyph, the emperor, a sovereign whose body represents a righ

bjects with unequalled learning and inexhaustible eloquence. in fact, this wheel is the real key to the oratorical art and the grand art of raymund lully; it is the true secret of the transmutation of shadows into light; it is the first and most important of all the arcana of the great work. by means of this universal key of symbolism, all allegories of india, egypt and judea are illuminated; the apocalypse of st. john is a the book of hermes 139 kabalistic book the sense of which is indicated rigorously by the figures and numbers of the urim, thummim, teraphim and ephod, all resumed and completed by the tarot. the old sanctuaries contain no further mysteries, and the significance of the objects of the hebrew cultus is comprehensible for the first time. who does not perceive in the golden

is remarkable work on playing-cards, has given some admirably executed specimens. the chinese tarot preserves several primeval emblems; the deniers and swords are plainly distinguishable, but it would be less easy to discover the cups and clubs. it was at the epoch of the gnostic and manichaean heresies that the tarot must have been lost to the church, at which time also the meaning of the divine apocalypse perished. it was understood no longer that the seven seals of this kabalistic book are seven pantacles, the representation of which we give (facing this page, and that these pantacles are explained by the analogies of the numbers, characters and figures of the tarot. thus the universal tradition of the one religion was broken for a moment, darkness or doubt spread over the whole earth

t, darkness or doubt spread over the whole earth, and it seemed in the eyes of ignorance, that true catholicism, the universal revelation, had disappeared for a space. the explanation of the book of st. john by the characters of the kabalah will be an entirely new revelation, though foreseen by several distinguished magi, one among whom, m. augustin chaho, thus expresses himself: gthe poem of the apocalypse presupposes in the young evangelist a complete system and traditions individually developed by himself. it is written in the form of a vision, and weaves into a brilliant framework of poetry the whole erudition, the whole thought of african civilization. an inspired bard, the author touches upon a series of ruling events; he draws in bold outlines the history of society from cataclysm t

is the voice which cries, the voice which chants the harmonies of the desert and prepares paths for the light. his speech peals forth with mastery and compels faith, for he carries among 142 the ritual of transcendental magic savage nations the oracles of iao, and unveils him who is the first-born of the sun for the admiration of civilizations to come. the theory of the four ages is found in the apocalypse, as it is also in the books of zoroaster and in the bible. the gradual reconstruction of primeval federations, of the reign of god among peoples emancipated from the yoke of tyrants and the bonds of error, are foretold clearly for the end of the fourth age, and the recurrence of the cataclysm, exhibited at first from afar, is portrayed in the fulness of the book of hermes 143 time. the

n, change of discourse, translation. the observation just made applies exactly to all barbarian cosmogonical language. seers made use of the same inspired radical to express nourishment and instruction. is not the science of truth the nourishment of the soul? thus, the scroll of papyrus, or the book, eaten by the prophet ezekiel; the little volume which the angel gave as food to the author of the apocalypse; the festivities of the magical palace of asgard, to which gangler was invited by har the sublime; the miraculous multiplication of seven loaves narrated of the nazarene by the evangelists; the living bread which jesus-sun gave his disciples to eat, saying, ethis is my body f; and a host of similar stories, are a repetition of the same allegory; the life of souls who are sustained by tr

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e divine will. but masleh moved to confuse the brilliance of the archangel of light, and he called to michael, thou who wield the force of god, strike down this deadliness which would bring ruin to heaven! and michael struck lucifer and cast him from the gates of heaven, and the cosmos was shaken by great fires of war and holocaust, and throughout countless galaxies and dimensions of time was the apocalypse felt. many were the angels who perished amidst divine and infernal wrath, and the great race was decimated in number. and the very concept of god was shaken, and endless chaos rose up again to reign where the order of god was no more. and lucifer said, this horror can not be permitted to endure, lest all creation be sacrificed to the final devastation of chaos. let those who acknowledge

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en, as the new story, too, falls into the old pattern, continuing each time he drops off from the precise point at which it was interrupted, and as his own image, translated into an avatar of the archangel, re-enters the frame, so his hope dies, and he succumbs once more to the inexorable. things have reached the point at which some of his night-sagas seem more bearable than others, and after the apocalypse of the imam he feels almost pleased when the next narrative begins, extending his internal repertory, because at least it suggests that the deity whom he, gibreel, has tried unsuccessfully to kill can be a god of love, as well as one of vengeance, power, duty, rules and hate; and it is, too, a nostalgic sort of tale, of a lost homeland; it feels like a return to the past. what story is

one, she told chamcha when she pointed him out from the attic one day _capable of anything; he could've killed me, and all because i told everybody he wasn't no african, i knew him when he was plain sylvester roberts from down new cross way;fucking witch doctor, if you ask me- and mishal herself, and jumpy, and hanif- and the bus conductor, too, they all dreamed him, rising up in the street like apocalypse and burning the town like toast. and in every one of the thousand and one dreams he, saladin chamcha, gigantic of limb and horn-turbaned of head, was singing, in a voice so diabolically ghastly and guttural that it proved impossible to identify the verses, even though the dreams turned out to have the terrifying quality of being serial, each one following on from the one the night befor

lena cone next to the image of the regenerated man, sitting naked and splay-legged on a hill with the sun shining out of his rear end _i have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise. allie put her hands up and covered her face. gibreel tried to cheer her up "you have written in the flyleaf 'creation of world acc. arch- bish. usher, 4004 bc. estim'd date of apocalypse, 1996' so time for improvement of sensual enjoyment still remains" she shook her head: stop. he stopped "tell me" he said, putting away the book. o o o elena at twenty had taken london by storm. her feral six-foot body winking through a golden chain-mail rabanne. she had always carried herself with uncanny assurance, proclaiming her ownership of the earth. the city was her medium, she c

he roofs of deliquescent gullies, too shocked to come out and play. then the butterflies returned. from nowhere, as if they had been hiding behind the sun; and to celebrate the end of the rain they had all taken the colour of sunlight. the arrival of this immense carpet of light in the sky utterly bewildered the people of sarang, who were already reeling in the aftermath of the storm; fearing the apocalypse, they hid indoors and closed their shutters. on a nearby hillside, however, mirza saeed akhtar and his party observed the miracle's return and were filled, all of them, even the zamindar, with a kind of awe. mirza saeed had driven hell-for--leather, in spite of being half- blinded by the rain which poured through the smashed windscreen, until on a road that led up and around the bend of

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as a guide of sheol, the pit or womb of the underworld. uri-el fire of god, identified in later scriptures with phanuel, face of god. the angel who gave mankind the kaballah. presides over tartarus (hell, being both seraphim and cherubim. identified as the cherub who stands at the garden of eden with a fiery sword, and who watches over thunder and terror. appears as the angel of repentance in the apocalypse of st. peter; uri-el, the angel of god, will bring forth an order, according to their transgression, the souls of those sinners. they will burn them in their dwelling places in everlasting fire. and after all of them are destroyed with their dwelling places, they will be punished eternally. those who have blasphemed the way out of righteousness will be hung up by their tongues. spread u

shone god. bathin (goetia, 18th spirit. duke commanding 30 legions. appears as a strong man with a serpent tail, riding a pale horse. knows herb-lore, precious stones, teleportation. beast 666 (hebrew. scarlet hued monster with ten horns and seven heads, the body of a leopard, the feet of a bear, the jaws of a lion, who rises from the sea ridden by the whore of babylon to herals the coming of the apocalypse. it will have power over earth for fourty-two months, during which time all will marvel because it was and is not and is to come (revelations 17:8. the beast shall lay waste with plague and destruction, defeating the power of the saints. the antichrist tricks mortals into believing it is the messiah, commanding them to worship its brazen image. at armageddon, the beast 666 and his legio

SCHEM HA MEPHORESH

s refers to the seventy two names of the expounded name yhvh. four is the number of the letters of the tetragrammaton. four is also the number of the letters of the name adni which is its representative and key. the latter name is bound with the former and united thereto, thus iahdvnhy forming a name of 8 letters. 8 x 3, the number of the supernal triad, yields the 24 thrones of the elders of the apocalypse, each of whom wears on his head a golden crown of three rays, each ray of which is a name, each name an absolute idea and ruling power of the great name yhvh tetragrammaton. the number 24 of the thrones multiplied by the 3 rays of the crown which equals 72, the name of god of 72 letters, which is thus mystically shown in the name yhvh, as under (or as the book of revelation says: when t

tter of air. and the 4th division of 3 signs headed by the earthy sign capricorn is under the presidency of heh final, the letter of earth. but it should be remembered that the most powerful rule of y of tetragrammaton is over the fiery triplicity; that of h over the watery triplicity; that of vau over the airy triplicity; and that of h final over the earthy triplicity. in the 22nd chapter of the apocalypse of st. john it is said that the tree of life which bare twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. and there shall be no more curse; but the throne of god and of the lamb shall be in it. this is exemplified in the drawing taken from the 3-8 altar diagram. the twelvemanner of fruits yielded every month answer

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pondence. by the science of the sepher jezirah the human spirit is fixed to truth, and in reason, and is able to take account of the possible development of intelligence by the evolutions of numbers. the zohar represents absolute truth, and the sepher jezirah provides the means by which we may seize, appropriate and make use of it" upon another page eliphas l vi writes "the sepher jezirah and the apocalypse are the masterpieces of occultism; they contain more wisdom than words; their expression is as figurative as poetry, and at the same time it is as exact as mathematics. in the volume entitled la kabbale by the eminent french scholar, adolphe franck, there is a chapter on the "sepher yetzirah" he writes as follows "the book of formation contains, i will not say system of physics, but of

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

tery processes in the pre-socratics and plato (again i have tried in the footnotes to refer to discoveries that now prove his case) part of the roundaboutness of the book is thus explained; but he also clearly wanted to establish a larger perspective than the shortsighted historical approach. later, especially in his lectures, he was to extend his treatment into the details of the gospels and the apocalypse, only touched on here. his evolutionary idea that in christianity the processes of the mysteries, hitherto experienced in vision and expressed in myth, had to become an individual life, already opens the way however for his intimate and deeply moving account of the founder s role. in obedience to his father, the god of history, christ had to be willing to translate that pattern of death

, had been enacted only in secret. this initiation prepares us for an understanding of the mystery of golgotha. formerly only those who were seers that is, 122 christianity as mystical fact who were initiated could know something of the goal of the mysteries. from now on there could be witnesses to the secrets of a higher reality among those who have not seen, and yet have believed. chapter 8 the apocalypse of john the seven letters at the end of the new testament stands an extraordinary document. it is the apocalypse the secret revelation of saint john. the esoteric character of the work is apparent from the opening words: the revelation of jesus the christ, which god granted him in order to show to his servants how the necessary events will shortly run their course. this is communicated

was in the spirit on the lord s day, and i heard behind me a voice like a trumpet saying, write what you see in a book and send it to the seven communities. 124 he received the revelation when he was in the spirit. also, it is a revelation of jesus the christ, presenting in esoteric form the meaning of christ jesus manifestation to the world. therefore we are to look for the hidden meaning of the apocalypse in the teaching of christ, so that the revelation it contains stands in the same relation to mainstream christianity as the mysteries in pre-christian times stood to the public religion. this would seem to justify us in approaching the apocalypse as a mystery. what then does the apocalypse mean by addressing the seven communities? to understand it, we must take a specific instance from

n messages, and we may begin with the first one: write to the angel of the community in ephesus: these are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, and who walks among the seven golden lights, i know your deeds, and what you have suffered and also your patient endurance, and that you will not support those who are evil; also, that you have called to account those who call the apocalypse of john 125 themselves apostles and are not, and that you have recognized them as false. and you are enduring patiently and are building up your work upon my name, and you have not grown weary. but i demand of you that you should attain the highest love: consider from what you have fallen, change your way of thinking, and achieve the highest deeds. otherwise, i will come to you and remo

thing else if it does not undergo that transformation into divine wisdom. you, however, says the spirit to the angel at ephesus, have not relied in this way upon mere human wisdom. you have persevered in the path of christianity. yet to reach the goal you need nothing short of the first and highest love. you need a love greater than all other loves, because only then can it be the first love. the apocalypse of john 127 the road to the divine reaches endlessly before you and the first step, once gained, is the starting point for an ascent that leads ever higher. so must we understand the message to the first of the communities, and it must serve as an example for the rest.126 the son of man john turns round, and he sees seven golden lights. and: among the lights was one like a son of man, d

dergone only when someone dies. the one who guides john through them has to take him into realms where birth and death no longer have any meaning. the initiated one therefore enters on a new life: and i was dead, but see! i am alive throughout all the cycles of time. and i hold the keys of death and the underworld. 133 thus john is brought to the stage of beholding the mysteries of existence. the apocalypse of john 129 and after this i looked, and saw the door of heaven open. and the first voice that was heard was like a trumpet sounding and it said to me, ascend to this place and i will reveal what must take place hereafter. 134 the messages that were proclaimed to the seven churches taught john what had to happen in the physical realm in order to prepare the way for christianity. what he

mpets that is, when the life contained in physical forms is transformed and spiritualized. the book with seven seals the one who sits enthroned holds in his right hand a book, which marks out the path to the summit of wisdom. only one person is worthy to open this book: look! the lion of the tribe of judah, the root of david, has triumphed. he is able to open the book and its seven seals. 138 the apocalypse of john 131 the book has seven seals human wisdom is sevenfold. once again we encounter the holiness of the number seven. seals, in the mystical philosophy of philo judaeus, are the eternal cosmic ideas that come to expression in things.139 human wisdom is the quest for these creative ideas. only in the book sealed by them can divine wisdom be found. the archetypal ideas behind the crea

eal is opened, the souls of those who have already taken up christianity appear: the creative idea behind christianity itself is manifested. but this refers only to the first stage of christian society, which is no less transitory than the other manifestations of the creative ideas. the sixth seal is opened. and now it is revealed that the spiritual world of christianity is something eternal. the apocalypse of john 133 the people are pervaded by the spiritual reality that actually brought christianity into existence. they are themselves made holy by what they have created: and i heard the number of those who were sealed: one hundred and forty-four thousand out of all the tribes of the children of israel were sealed.143 these are the ones who prepared the way for the eternal before it took

r the uninitiated. in the process of initiation the seals are opened. at the end of the time covered by the seven letters, the earthly age begins to pass over into a more spiritual condition. life will no longer be limited as it is in its present physical forms, but will appear even externally as an imaging of the supersensible archetypes represented by the four living creatures and the other the apocalypse of john 135 pictures connected with the seals. still further ahead in the future the earth will take on the form intimated to the initiates by the sounding of the trumpets. in this way the initiate has a prophetic experience of future conditions. the initiate into the christian mystery experiences the impetus given to life on earth by the entering and onward working of the christ. meanw

ith the seventh trumpet: the kingdoms of the world have become those of the lord and of his anointed, who will reign from eternity to eternity. 147 upon which, the temple of god in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant became visible there. 148 666: the beast and the abyss the initiate s experience brings back in a new form the primaeval struggle between the higher and lower natures. the apocalypse of john 137 on the christian path, everything that the initiates in the older mysteries had to undergo must be recapitulated. as osiris was threatened by the evil typhon, so now there is the great dragon, the ancient snake to be defeated. from far back the wisdom of the mystai had used the snake as its symbol of knowledge. the snake knowledge may be a seductive force, however, unless hu

no longer is blessedness reserved for those who have witnessed within the confines of the mystery-temples those awe-inspiring enactments that are the types and symbols of eternity. for now, blessed are those who have not seen, but who have believed. 150 even if at first they wander in darkness, the light may yet reach them. there is no secrecy; the way opens out for all. there is much more in the apocalypse concerning the threat to christianity from anti-christian powers and the eventual triumph of christianity. all other gods are taken up into the higher unity of the christian divinity: i did not see a temple in the city, because the lord, the all-ruling god, and the lamb are its temple. the city had no need of the sun nor of the moon to shine upon it, because the revelation of the divine

its temple. the city had no need of the sun nor of the moon to shine upon it, because the revelation of the divine presence is its light, and its lamp is the lamb. 151 the mystery at the heart of the revelation of saint john is precisely this: the mysteries are no longer secret. the angel says to him: do not seal up the prophecies in this book, for the time of god s manifestation is near.152 the apocalypse of john 139 thus the writer of the apocalypse expounds, from the standpoint of his own belief, the relationship of his community to those of previous times. his view of the mysteries has become the content of a mystery-text. the traditions that have come down about it are appropriate to its mystery character: the author wrote it down on the island of patmos, and the revelation is said t

dpoint of his own belief, the relationship of his community to those of previous times. his view of the mysteries has become the content of a mystery-text. the traditions that have come down about it are appropriate to its mystery character: the author wrote it down on the island of patmos, and the revelation is said to have been received in a cave. christianity arose out of the mysteries. in the apocalypse, christian wisdom was a mystery reborn but a mystery which breaks out of the framework of the ancient mysteries. the mystery of a unique, single event was to become the mystery with a significance for all. there is an apparent contradiction in saying that the secrets of the mysteries became manifest in christianity but that in the spiritual visions of the apocalyptist we nevertheless ob

e experience of the individual mystic now passes over to the community as a whole. in the mystery-places the spirit had been poured out upon the mystai of old. through the mystery of golgotha it was poured out upon the whole christian community. 36 one man brings the community along with him so that it can receive there the fruits of the mysteries. the consciousness of the angel of the community (apocalypse 1:20 2:1) carries the consciousness of the individual who is only more or less awakened. this new principle of an unconscious initiation belongs to the christianity of following christ, whose substance we receive through tradition. it is not without presuppositions and requires the traditional images upon which faith is based and through which faith is given direction. but such christia

he candidate into a trance-state resembling sleep for three days. the kind of initiation that belongs to modern times never uses these procedures. it requires on the contrary an intensification of consciousness; ordinary consciousness is never suspended during the drama of modern initiation (r.st) 120. john 11:41. 121. john 11:42. 122. j.burckhardt, die zeit konstantins (basel, 1929, p. 163. 123. apocalypse 1:1. steiner identified the john who writes under his own name in the apocalypse with the enigmatic author of the fourth gospel; steiner, from jesus to christ (rudolf steiner press, london, 1991, pp. 99 100. he rejected, however, the church s rather belated claim that this john was the same as the apostle john, son of zebedee. see further, for the whole nature and interpretation of the

d the john who writes under his own name in the apocalypse with the enigmatic author of the fourth gospel; steiner, from jesus to christ (rudolf steiner press, london, 1991, pp. 99 100. he rejected, however, the church s rather belated claim that this john was the same as the apostle john, son of zebedee. see further, for the whole nature and interpretation of the document, steiner s lectures the apocalypse of st. john (anthroposophic press, hudson, ny, 1993; also reading the pictures of the apocalypse (anthroposophic press, hudson, ny, 1993, and for related themes the fall of the spirits of darkness (rudolf steiner press, london, 1993. the apocalypse is important to steiner here because it represents a new form of the ancient mysteryteachings and esoteric cosmology, now centered on christ

at mysterywisdom cannot just remain a primordial revelation, but must be modified to meet the changing conditions of evolution in the notes 225 cosmic rhythms of history. according to steiner, the defeat of the rebel angels does not refer to a once-and-for-all event, but to the recurring need to renew mystery-wisdom in its christian form at the turning-points of new human potential unfolding. the apocalypse remains our profoundest guide to this form of cultural and spiritual renewal. 124. apocalypse 1:10 11. 125. apocalypse 2:1 7. 126. the communities represent periods defined by the cosmic phenomenon of the precession of the equinox. for the significance of these in cultural evolution, see steiner, the gospel of john, pp. 128-136. however, the point is not that each should be left behind

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all of the great witches and sorcerers of this century were kabbalists. william j. schnoebelen, the dark side of freemasonry the hebrew cabala is a series of occultic writings that are as demonic as any incantation ever uttered in witchcraft. webster's dictionary tells us the cabala (sometimes spelled kabbala) is "an occult religious philosophy developed by certain jewish rabbis" james lloyd the apocalypse chronicles (vol. vii, no. 1, 2005) 426 codex magica sorcery is commonplace in the depraved religious rituals of cabalistic judaism. here a rabbi is seen carrying a chicken off to be sacrificed in a voodoo/ santeria-type ritual during the jewish festival of yom kippur (israel, a photobiography, by micha bar-am, new york: simon& schuster, 1998) twisted satanic rituals and lies the rabbini

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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 mediums and mystics 175 chapter 3 religious phenomena this chapter will explore a number of the phenomena that surround a great variety of religious beliefs, from the veneration of sacred objects to the expectation of miracles, from the power of prayer to heal to the judgment of ecclesiastical tribunals to cause suffering. 177 antichrist apocalypse apparitions of holy figures armaggedon cosmic consciousness demons devil s mark ecstasy exorcism faith healing guardian angels illumination inquisition miracles possession power of prayer the rapture shroud of turin 666 snake handling stigmata virgin of guadalupe visions weeping statues and icons introduction in recent years there has been a tremendous surge of interest in both organize

elf magazine published the results of a similar survey conducted with their readership: 91 percent believed in miracles; 87 percent, angels; 85 percent, spirits; 82 percent, heaven; 65 percent, hell; and 65 percent, the devil. some observers of the contemporary scene attribute this great spiritual questing to the advent of the millennium and the concerns of certain christians about an approaching apocalypse, when people will be called to account for their misdeeds. others say that large masses of people have become disillusioned with the tenets of science and the tools of technology that promised an earthly paradise, but cannot answer the basic questions of why humans are here and what they are to do with themselves in their allotted time on the planet. in why religion matters: the future

ons for the ayatollah khomeini (1900 1989) to don the mantle. but later when certain extremists named president reagan, former u.s. secretary of state henry kissinger (1923, and even the children s television icon barney the dinosaur as the antichrist, the word began losing its threat for the general population. however, those christians who believe strongly in the coming time of tribulation, the apocalypse, the rapture, and the great final battle of good versus evil at armageddon, firmly believe that the title of antichrist maintains its fear factor and that those signs and warnings of the beast as prophesied in the book of revelation should be seriously heeded. m delving deeper crim, keith, gen. ed. the perennial dictionary of world religions. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1989. lin

n. ed. the perennial dictionary of world religions. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1989. lindsey, hal, with c. c. carlson. the late great planet earth. new york: bantam books, 1978. mcginn, bernard. antichrist: two thousand years of the human fascination with evil. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1994. unterman, alan. dictionary of jewish lore and legend. new york: thames and hudson, 1991. apocalypse in apocalyptic visions, prophets see ahead to the end time. humankind s salvation lies in the future, and the meaning of the present is obscured in the chaos of survival on the earth s plane. in apocalyptic thought, humankind s destiny is viewed as steadily unfolding according to a great design of god. the present is a time of trial and tribulation, and its meaning will only be made cle

n the antichrist, summoning great powers of evil, will triumph for a period over the righteous believers and that there will be one last awful clash between the forces of good under the banner of christ and his angels and the minions of evil under the banner of satan. before that final battle in the valley of armageddon, the faithful may look for various signs to alert them that the end time, the apocalypse, has begun. drawing upon the apocalyptic traditions of his jewish background, john the revelator, presents in revelation, the last book in the new testament, a guidebook for the christian on what to expect during the apocalypse, the time of tribulation. specifically, the book was written for the members of the churches of ephesus, smyrna, pergamum, thyatira, sardis, philadelphia, and la

n for the members of the churches of ephesus, smyrna, pergamum, thyatira, sardis, philadelphia, and laodicea in order to prepare them for what john believed to be a fastapproaching time of persecution and the return of jesus christ. the first of seven seals to be opened (revelation 6:1 2) by the lamb (christ) discloses a conquering king astride a white horse, the first of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. scholars disagree whether this triumphant king represents christ returning to do battle with satan or the antichrist emerging to summon the forces of evil to oppose christ and his angelic army. the second seal (6:3 4) reveals the red horse, representing civil war; the third, the black horse, symbolizing famine (6:5 6; the fourth, the pale horse, representing the suffering that follows

e mentioned over 300 times in the new testament, the only references to the millennium are found in revelation 20:2 7. christian scholars disagree whether or not there will be an initial resurrection of the just at the advent of the millennium and a second one a 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 184 religious phenomena the four riders of the apocalypse (fortean picture library) thousand years later immediately prior to the final day of judgment. while many christian theologians link christ s second coming, the resurrection, and judgment day all occurring after the defeat of satan and the beginning of the thousand years of peace and harmony, others maintain that the resurrection of the dead and the final judgment of god will not take p

he rest of eternity in a lake of fire. and now (revelation 20:11 15) comes the final judgment, the time when god shall judge the secrets of all men and women (romans 2:16. this judgment will be com- 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 religious phenomena 185 doomsday clock s minute hand is moved to show the world that it is closer to a nuclear apocalypse (ap/wide world photos) althoughchrist s second coming is said to be mentioned more than 300 times in the new testament, the only references to the millennium are found in revelation 20:2 7. plete. every person from every age and nation will be there. and there shall only be classes: the saved and the lost. the book of life will have the names of the saved. for those whose names do not a

dgment has been completed, the first heaven and earth shall pass away and a new heaven and new earth shall be established for those saved to occupy with their glorified, incorruptible, spiritual bodies. m delving deeper abanes, richard. end-time visions. nashville, tenn: broadman& holman, 1998. cohn, norman. the pursuit of the millennium. new york: oxford university press, 1970. goetz, william r. apocalypse next. camp hill, penn: horizon books, 1996. shaw, eva. eve of destruction: prophecies, theories and preparations for the end of the world. chicago: contemporary books, 1995. unterman, alan. dictionary of jewish lore and legend. new york: thames and hudson, 1991. wheeler, john jr. earth s two-minute warning: today s bible-predicted signs of the end times. north canton, ohio: leader co, 1

pedition and the ename center for public archaeology of belgium in offering visitors a dramatic perspective of the history of armageddon. m delving deeper bloomfield, arthur e. before the last battle armageddon. minneapolis: dimension books, bethany fellowship, 1971. 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 192 religious phenomena goetz, william r. apocalypse next. camp hill, penn: horizon books, 1996. shaw, eva. eve of destruction: prophecies, theories and preparations for the end of the world. chicago: contemporary books, 1995. silberman, neil asher, israel finkelstein, david ussishkin, and baruch halpern. digging at armageddon. archaeology, november/december 1999, pp. 32 39. unterman, alan. dictionary of jewish lore and legend. new york:

sted a human body and soul in the many encounters described in the gospels, the possessing entities are always demons, never satan himself. although these are victories that diminish satan s earthly powers, it may be that the great showdown between jesus, the son of god, and satan, the lord of the earth, is building for the great final battle between good and evil at armageddon at the time of the apocalypse. although accounts of exorcism are not to be found in the old testament, later jewish tradition employs a ritual that involves the sounding of the shofar, the reciting of prayers, and the anointing of the afflicted person with oil and water over which passages from psalms have been read. as in christian exorcism, it is important that the true identity of the demon be learned so that it

area, and commented how unbelievable it was that she could have allowed a ouija board to consume her life. international newspapers carried an account in march 2001 describing how demands for exorcisms were soaring in brazil due to the fact that demonic possession was on the rise. a priest was quoted as saying that he believed the number of evil spirits among the populace could only mean that the apocalypse would soon be manifesting. in april 2001, croatian newspapers reported that the roman catholic clergy were desperately looking for exorcists to deal with the large numbers of men and women who gave evidence of being possessed by satan. in june 2001, a new gallup poll of adult americans indicated that 41 percent believe that people can be possessed by the devil or his minions. the majori

initial print run of two million and appeared on the bestseller lists a few days after its publication. in addition, a complementary left behind series for children has sold three million copies, and, altogether, over 18 million various products related to the series have been purchased. m delving deeper abanes, richard. end-time visions. nashville, tenn: broadman& holman, 1998. goetz, william r. apocalypse next. camp hill, penn: horizon books, 1996. lindsey, hal, with c. c. carlson. the late great planet earth. new york: bantam books, 1978. mcginn, bernard. antichrist: two thousand years of the human fascination with evil. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1994. shaw, eva. eve of destruction: prophecies, theories and preparations for the end of the world. chicago: contemporary books, 199

0) portrays a desperate mother (kim basinger) who must somehow prevent her specially gifted and blessed child from becoming the human sacrifice that would grant the antichrist his full-powered entry into the world. christians who believe completely that the end times drama will play out according to certain scriptural references maintain a wary eye for signs of the antichrist and the onset of the apocalypse, but not all christians accept the warnings of the advent of the beast with his telltale numerical designation of 666 or believe that the traditional scenario of the antichrist and his seven-year reign has any real relevance to the actual signs in the sky that will precede the second coming of christ. in today s world the term antichrist lost much of its power to provoke fear after the

r men and women, the beast 666 has become merely a sinister, but always defeated, villain in horror movies, and his once dreaded title is often loosely applied in an offhanded manner to everything from cartoon figures to a wide range of men and women in a vast spectrum of modern society. m delving deeper abanes, richard. end-time visions. nashville, tenn: broadman& holman, 1998. goetz, william r. apocalypse next. camp hill, penn: horizon books, 1996. mcginn, bernard. antichrist: two thousand years of the human fascination with evil. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1994. shaw, eva. eve of destruction: prophecies, theories and preparations for the end of the world. chicago: contemporary books, 1995. unterman, alan. dictionary of jewish lore and legend. new york: thames and hudson, 1991. s

nist or opponent of jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e, who is anticipated by many early as well as contemporary christians to lead the world into evil before christ returns to earth to redeem and rescue the faithful. can also refer to any person who is in opposition to or an enemy of jesus christ or his teachings, as well as to those who claim to be christ, but in fact are false and misleading. apocalypse from the greek apokalupsis, meaning revelation. in the bible, the book of revelation is often referred to as the apocalypse. comes from many anonymous, second-century b.c.e. and later jewish and christian texts that contain prophetic messages pertaining to a great total devastation or destruction of the world and the salvation of the righteous. armageddon from late latin armagedon, gree

the christian tradition. while there are references to a gnostic savior, his presentation does not seem to be based on the jesus found in the new testament. on those occasions when jesus does appear in the texts, he often appears to be criticizing those orthodox christians who have confused his words and his teachings. by following the true way and thus achieving transcendence, jesus says in the apocalypse of peter, every believer s resurrection becomes a spiritual reality. throughout the nag hammadi library there are admonitions to resist the lures and traps of trying to be content in a world that has been corrupted by evil. the world created by god is good. the evil that has permeated the world, although alien to its original design, has risen to the status where it has become the ruler

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g. anthroposophy a spiritual or religious philosophy that rudolph steiner (1861 1925, an austrian philosopher and scientist, developed, with the core belief centering around the human accessibility of the spiritual world to properly developed human intellect. steiner founded the anthroposophical society in 1912 to promote his ideas that spiritual development should be humanity s foremost concern. apocalypse from the greek apokalupsis, meaning revelation. in the bible, the book of revelation is often referred to as the apocalypse. comes from many anonymous, second-century b.c.e. and later jewish and christian texts that contain prophetic messages pertaining to a great total devastation or destruction of the world and the salvation of the righteous. apothacary from the greek apotheke meaning

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. anthroposophy a spiritual or religious philosophy that rudolph steiner (1861.1925, an austrian philosopher and scientist, developed, with the core belief centering around the human accessibility of the spiritual world to properly developed human intellect. steiner founded the anthroposophical society in 1912 to promote his ideas that spiritual development should be humanity fs foremost concern. apocalypse from the greek apokalupsis, meaning grevelation. h in the bible, the book of revelation is often referred to as the apocalypse. comes from many anonymous, second-century b.c.e. and later jewish and christian texts that contain prophetic messages pertaining to a great total devastation or destruction of the world and the salvation of the righteous. apothacary from the greek apotheke mean

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f resurrection as not being a natural, normal part of reality, but a divine gift, a divine, supernatural occurrence based on the salvific activity of a single historical savior, to whom it was necessary to bond one s self, if a person wanted to take part in the resurrection. this narrow view of the regeneration included an ultimate vision of a new and perfected world, which would emerge after the apocalypse, but not a world that anyone except faithful christians would get to share in. this limited view of the universal truth of regeneration was tainted severely by christian moralism- again, regeneration was not a certainty, but a special state achieved by performing particularly christian moral actions and deeds, avoiding thoughts and deeds that the christians decided were immoral, and the

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, not death, reveals the soul- trans> and do you know what the catholicism of the future must be? it will be the dogma of the gospel, tried like gold by the critical acid of voltaire, and realized, in the kingdom of the world, by the genius of the christian napoleon. those who will not march will be dragged or trampled by events. immense calamities may again hang over the world. the armies of the apocalypse may, perhaps, one day, unchain the four scourges. the sanctuary will be cleansed. rigid and holy poverty will send forth its apostles to uphold what staggers, lift up again what is broken, and anoint all wounds with sacred oils. those two blood-hungered monsters, despotism and anarchy, will tear themselves to pieces, and annihilate each other, after having mutually sustained each other

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fundamentally traditional basis and is of a definite efficiency. 12. the tau's+ traced during the orisons: the sign+ or rather x has been the cursive hebrew tau used well before, and after, the beginning of our era (see jean danielou's "les symboles 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 he

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f its rays. there shall we perchance discover the blending of all opposites in one harmonious light; thence shall we travel to the holy and humble house of the heart, wherein our god is born, whose name is ineffable, a crown of glory, exalted forever above the balance of righteousness and truth. t.a.r.o. as author of the following essay to you my readers, i can but say with the four beasts of the apocalypse: gcome and see. h gbehold the lion c hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof. h for until now gno man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. h yet through the astrolabe of his mind and in the alembic of his heart aleister crowley has opened the book, breaking not only the first six seals, but the

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her revealing the truth of soul-matehood, and indicating how the finer energies of man rejuvenate woman and how the finer energies of woman rejuvenate man; their forces mutually sustaining each other and making a joint immortality possible. the eight-point star symbolizes the law of equilibrium, the balance between spirit and matter, male and female, the inner and the outer. it is the book of the apocalypse sealed with seven seals, and thus represents the inner realization and the outer realization, the birth of the soul and the birth of the body, under the influence of the planets, represented by the 7 surrounding stars, or seals. each of these smaller stars, or seals, has four points, to signify that man should recognize the nature of its influence and realize how to direct it into chann

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ow the secret of secrets, the key of all magick, revealed unto me for your instruction and behoof by the loving kindness of the o.h.o. lege judica tace of the nature of the arcanum i am alpha and omega, the first and the last, i will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. he that overcometh shall inherit all things; and i will be his god and he shall be my son (apocalypse) come unto me, that i may declare unto ye the wonder ineffable! know that our beginning is in god, and our end in god; wherefore this is the great work, to attain unto the godhead. pitiful and of tender love, hath he revealed unto the wise men of old time, the way of this attainment. the gnostics and manichees preserved it in their most secret assemblies as they had received it from the

ega, the symbol of the union of god and man. here then is a second trinity; god, god-man, man. and to this god-man our ancient brethren have given many names. and though this name of jesus christ hath been universally blasphemed by christians, yet this name hath been acknowledged by the true brothers of the rosie crosse: and this which is written of him in the evangels and in the epistles and the apocalypse is true, if it be interpreted in light by the adepts of the stone. for in god-man is our salvation; in him we are both god and man. yet the testament thereof, being betrayed and given to the multitude, hath been profaned; as it is written, cast not your pearls before swine, lest they turn again and rend you! therefore for their ill guarding of the secrets have the adepts been persecuted

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ch can be recalled easily without the need for memorization merely by understanding their graphic patterns. this is not the place to enter fully into the use of the twenty-four banners of tetra- grarnrnaton in ritual magic. those who are interested in pursuing this subject will iind it presented in detail in the author's work tetragrammaton: the secret to evoking angelic powers and the key to the apocalypse (llewellyn: st. paul, mn, 1995. when trying to understand a system of symbols, it is always helpful to break it down into its component parts. the zodiac has a twofold division into signs that are animal and signs that are human. the animal signs are aries, taurus, cancer, leo, scorpio, capricorn, and pisces. the human signs are gemini, virgo, libra, sagittarius, and aquarius. the anima

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ated, although they are more numerous in some decades than in others. how they are interpreted depends on the culture in which they are perceived. for the ancient greeks, ufos were signs from the gods on mount olyrnpus, given to mankind to guide its actions. the biblical hebrews were more apt to view them as expressions of divine wrath. to medieval christians, they were seen as forerunners of the apocalypse. in the modern technological age of science-fiction films and rockets, ufos are described in a more mechanical way as vessels from outer space believed to carry intelligent alien beings, visitors from other worlds. a specific event marks the beginning of the modern cycle of sightings of unidentified objects in the sky. on june 24, 1947, private pilot kenneth arnold was making the short

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books on magic wrestling with the meaning of tetragrammaton. the speculations of these and many other occult writers have been collected together for the first time in appendix b. it is fascinating to compare the words of levi with those of papus; of s.l. macgregor mathers, the leader of the golden dawn, with those of aleister crowley, his former student and the self-proclaimed great beast of the apocalypse; of helena p. blavatsky, the leader of the theosophists, with paul foster case, the founder of builders of the adytum; of p.d. ouspensky, the disillusioned former pupil of the mystic gurdjieff, with frater achad, a rebellious student of crowley. even in modern times, tetragrammaton continues to exert a powerful fascination over magicians working in the western tradition of ceremonial ma

our watchtowers and allow the entry into our time-space of the forces of coronzon, the great dragon. the gates of the watchtowers cannot be forced open from the outside. they open inward. we must ourselves unlock them with the keys and initiate our own annihilation. this is the terrible legacy of human free will-we are free to choose our own destruction. it was to set the stage for this potential apocalypse (which will not happen unless we make it happen) that the angels gave the patterns of the watchtowers and the keys to dee, who never grasped their true purpose during his lifetime. many of the occult correspondences found in this book differ from those in the widely used golden dawn system of magic. although i have a high respect for the magical ability and knowledge of the founders of

e angels of the banners, stated in the eighth verse "and they rest not day and night, saying, holy, holy, holy, lord god almighty, which was, and is, and is to come" notice the reference to day and night, which comprehends both the manifest and occult sets of the banners. it is interesting that this is in the eighth verse, since dee refers to the "fourth and last part of the fourth chapter of the apocalypse, who is seated on his throne, around and in front of which the four animals, each with six wings, chant night and day without repose 'holy, holy, holy is the lord god omnipotent, who was, is and is to come (hieroglyphic monad, p. 53. 62 tetragrammaton the actual office of these wings, or angels, is given in the chant they proclaim before the throne of christ, which dee took the trouble

endix a. there is a fable that if the tetragrammaton should ever be spoken in its entirety, it would destroy the world. i believe the enochian keys to be one form of the complete voicing of the terrible name of the god of wrath, designed to release the thunders of judgment. since the keys were given to dee and kelley by the angels, it appears that it is necessary for human beings to initiate this apocalypse by correctly and completely executing the enochian evocation of the four watchtowers and forty-eight keys. we must willingly invite the destruction of our universe with the speech from our own lips. the gates at the four corners of creation are locked from the inside. they cannot be battered down by the forces of coronzon, but if we can be deceived into opening them by using the keys, t

petty material concerns of dee, and their outright contempt for kelley, is apparent throughout the magical record of the scrying sessions. numerous times the angels snap at dee when he asks them for some prediction of the future, or chastise him. i do not believe dee ever suspected that he was being used by the angels for the terrible and awesome purpose of transmitting the magical formula of the apocalypse to the human race. i believe that had dee so much as suspected this purpose, he would have burned all his books at once. however, dee was an the watchtowers and the keys 187 extremely pious man, and might well have regarded the apocalypse as a necessary cleansing of the world. in recent decades, many occultists have taken up enochian magic. it may not be long before it is perfected, and

ey conducted a series of rituals to invoke the angels of the enochian keys in the desert of north africa (see the confessions of aleister crowley, chapter 66. it is possible that he succeeded in opening the gates of the four watchtowers a small crack, and that the continuing warfare, crimes and moral decay that have afflicted the earth throughout this century are merely the first stirrings of the apocalypse. about one thing i feel quite confident. if there is to be such a thing as an apocalypse (and i do not say that there must be) it will take place on a psychic level, within the realm of the subconscious mind, and only display itself in the physical world as a secondary consequence of this mental and moral armageddon. the true gates of the watchtowers open inwardly on our own subconsciou

ious will exhibit itself in chaotic and random acts of aggression, violence, and vandalism. perhaps it has already started. perhaps not. you be the judge. ince the keys are fairly brief, it will be useful to examine each individually for its ritual application in magic, its gnostic symbolism, and its correspondences with the imagery in the revelation of st. john. the ties between the keys and the apocalypse are many, as will quickly become apparent in the course of the following analysis. most important of these, on the matter of tetragrammaton, is the symbolism of the heavenly throne of revelation 4, which in the keys takes on the structure of a great clock. the vital significance of this image of the throne as a cosmic clock cannot be overemphasized. the original versions of the english

t babylon shall be built, and the son of wickednesse, shall sit in judgement. from the north shall come a whirlwind, and the hills shall open their mouths: and there shall a dragon flie out, such as never was (due& faithful relation, p. 43) the last part of this key is interesting because it shows that, even though this in an evocation of a class of vengeful angels who will take part in the final apocalypse of the world, the key is designed to control those angels for the personal use of the magician "come away, and not your vials" means that the angels, or their ministers, should come without their poisons. otherwise, the magician working this enochian magic might expect to die of plague. the attempt to call the angels of wrath without their vials seems somewhat naive, since the identity

l in revelation 17:1, but only after he has emptied the vial out upon the face of the earth. at that point, he becomes a different angel, since he has been assigned a different function by the heavenly christ. i am inclined to think that the words "and not your vials" were inserted into the key to deceive dee and lead him to believe that he could work the magic of the keys without bringing on the apocalypse-their true purpose. nowhere do the angels admit the secret purpose of the keys to dee. on april 12, 1584, just before beginning the dictation of the keys, the angel nalvage states their supposed function: i am therefore to instruct and inform you, according to your doctrine delivered, which is contained in 49 tables. in 49 voyces, or callings: which are the natural keyes, to open those

is written "woe be to the earth, for her iniquity is, was, and shall be, great" aleister crowley, who did considerable work with the keys and with the enochian language, made babylon (spelled "babalon) one of the prime figures in his personal apocalyptic mythology and considered himself to be the great beast incarnate. it is possible that he grasped the connection between the lady babylon in the apocalypse and the goddess of the world in the keys, although i have not myself seen any explicit mention of this link in his writings. it should be noted that the enochian word for "wicked" is babalon and the word for "harlot" is babalond. the observations made about the end of the ninth key also apply to the end of this one "come away, but not your noises" is another attempt to evoke the dread a

to be "drunken which are empty" to signify that they become intoxicated in their wrath with no need to fill their bellies with wine. lust and rage alone deprive them of their senses and reduce them to the level of the beasts. the "promise of god" is here used ironically in the form of a pun. promise can mean hope, but it can also mean a threat fulfilled, and the promise of god in this key is the apocalypse foreshadowed in the vision of st. john, and in the writings of the hebrew prophets. the power of god is called a "bitter sting7' to evoke the memory of the demoniac locusts released from the bottomless pit by the trumpet of the fifth angel "and they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails (rev. 9:lo. as the keys unfold, the imagery gets progressively and cons

he keys 22 1 bright ornaments after the manner of harlots. it may be these same virgins who become the "lanterns of sorrow" in the twelfth key and provoke the lust and wrath of men in the thirteenth, although it is equally possible that the virgins of the east are the righteous sealed with the mark of god in their foreheads, as i explained in the commentary on the seventh key. in either case, the apocalypse draws nearer as the keys progress. this is understandable, because the successive vibration of the keys is intended to provoke the end of the world. although this is not clearly stated, it is implied in a passage delivered by the angel ave to kelley on june 22,1582: thou hast three names of god, out of the line of the holy ghost, in the principal1 crosse of the first angle, so hast thou

rs. this dichotomy is nicely illustrated by the existence of two types of clock, those that run on a twelvehour cycle, and those that run on a twenty-four-hour cycle. it is also found expressed in the great clock in the piazza san marco in venice (see the description in the analysis of the third key. how can we be sure that the enochian angels intended that dee should understand the elders of the apocalypse to be both twelve and at the same time twenty-four in number? we know this from the vision of the heavenly throne received by kelley in the crystal: now i see all those men, whose feet i saw before: and there sitteth one in a judgement seat, with all his teeth fiery. and there sit six, on one side of him, and six on the other. and there sit twelve in a lower seat under them (a due& fait

speaks in the fourteenth key, his words become visible upon the air, written in enochian characters of fire. since he is the god of fury, his "promise" is a severe judgment upon the goddess of the world for her sinful multiplicity of forms. she is to be punished for her diversity, which pollutes her primordial simplicity and bars her from heaven. in the keys, this is the true reason given for the apocalypse-not the sins of men, but the sin of diversity committed by the soul of the world. in the original english text of the key, kelley received the words "which is called amongst you fury" but the angel nalvage added the footnote "or extreme justice (see casaubon, p. 193. i have chosen to retain both names to indicate that in this key, god is dual. he is both the god of din and the god of ge

heavenly kingdom of this fourth flame, who expresses the merciful aspect of christ, truth is called joy that cannot be measured. the judgmental and wrathful natures of the preceding keys have been left behind. this key foreshadows the establishment of the kingdom of god upon the earth, the heavenly city of new jerusalem that is the bride of the lamb, which will follow after the destruction of the apocalypse. the "center" is always the place of god, because where god is, that place is the center of everything. the description of the fourth flame as a "mighty light" which "openest the glory of god to the center of the earth in interesting in view of this description of new jerusalem: and the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine it it: for the glory of god did lighten it

e world is explicitly stated "for why? it repenteth me i made man" the soul of the world is to be punished because she harbors and nurtures the human race, who have fallen from grace "because she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling place of him that is fallen "him that is fallen" is usually taken to mean coronzon, the great dragon, who is the same as the rebellious angel called satan in the apocalypse, cast by michael down to the earth (rev. 12:9. however, the fallen one is also adam, cast out of the garden of eden for the sin of rebellion against divine authority. fallen lucifer and fallen adam play the same dramatic figure on different stages. lucifer is cast out of heaven because he dares to think for himself. this creates division within the perfect unity of heaven, and god canno

gels regarded kelley as a kind of human telephone, nothing more, through which they could communicate with dee. although they respected dee as a good man, and needed his immense scholarship and knowledge of languages and ciphers to accurately transmit their works, it was quickly apparent to them that even dee was incapable of grasping the true magnitude of what he was ushering into the world. the apocalypse glimpsed in the vision of st. john is a complex magical working that cannot be initiated by the angels themselves but must be called into the universe by the living word vibrated in a vessel of flesh that wears the form of the warrior christ. the angels of wrath cannot call themselves into being. what they could, and did, do is teach mankind how to summon them through the guardian gates

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s the three traitors of hiram abiff; those three traitors are inside of us. the first traitor is the demon of desire; that traitor lives within the astral body. the second traitor is the demon of the mind; that traitor lives within the mental body. the third traitor is the demon of evil will; that traitor lives within the body of willpower (causal body. the bible cites these three traitors in the apocalypse of saint john [in revelations: 16: 13-14: and i saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet; for they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of god almighty. arca

on. with the seven metals, gnostic brethren can manufacture medallions and rings with the seal of solomon. the seal of solomon must be utilized in all of the works of invocations, and in the practices with elementals (as we have already taught in arcanum 4 of this series of lectures on kabbalah. the elementals of nature tremble before the seal of the living god. the angel of the sixth seal of the apocalypse has reincarnated at this time within a feminine body (this angel is a specialist in the sacred jinn science. arcanum 6 is the lover of the tarot. it is the soul between vice and virtue. the arcanum six is enchainment, equilibrium, loving union between man and woman. it struggles terribly between love and desire, the mysteries of lingam-yoni connection. the struggle between the two terna

m chymicum, la muerte est representada por un cad ver, la putrefacci n por unos cuervos, la siembra por un humilde agricultor, el crecimiento por una espiga de trigo, la resurrecci n por un muerto que se levanta del sepulcro y por un ngel que toca la trompeta del juicio final. 55 we, the gnostics know that the corpse, the death in the 8th key of basil valentine represents the two witnesses of the apocalypse [revelations, 11:3-6] that are now dead. by means of alchemical putrefaction represented by the crows, by means of alchemy, the two witnesses resurrect. our motto is thelema. the entire power is found enveloped within the seed that is symbolized in the wheat stalk. the sacred angel that we carry within, plays his trumpet and the two witnesses rise from the grave. two archers, one who hi

dalini. the outcome of such black tantrism is the negative awakening of the serpent. therefore instead of ascending, the serpent descends downwards into the atomic infernos of the human being and becomes the tail of satan. this is how these black yogis end up separating themselves from their inner god forever; they are demons. so, that is the black magic. through this way the two witnesses of the apocalypse never resurrect because this way leads into the abyss and the second death. therefore, whosoever ejaculates his seminal liquor withdraws himself from his inner god. los gn sticos sabemos que el cad ver, la muerte de la octava llave de basilio valent n, representa a los dos testigos del apocalipsis que ahora est n muertos. mediante la putrefacci n alkimista, representada por los cuervos

priest) without a woman cannot receive the sword. there exists the eve-venus, the instinctual woman. the venus-eve, the noble home woman. there also exist venus-urania, the woman initiated into the great mysteries and finally, we confirm the existence of the urania- venus, the female adept, the woman that is self-realized in depth. the flaming fire the flaming fire opens the seven churches of the apocalypse (seven magnetic centers of the spinal medulla. we conquer the powers of the earth with the first center (situated at the level of the sexual organs. el trabajo en el laboratorium oratorium, es una verdadera ceremonia m stica que no debe ser profanada por el deseo animal, ni por los malos pensamientos. el sexo es el sanctum santorum del templo. antes de entrar al sanctum de los sanctum

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ismegistus, sent to the egyptians. amosis, or moses, the jewish law-giver, the seventh. lao tseu, a second to china, 600 b.c, the eighth. jesus the ninth, to the jews first and then to the gentiles. mohammed the tenth; he flourished about a.d. 600. chengiz khan the eleventh, a.d. 1200, conquered persia. who the special messenger of 1800 was, the author is ignorant. the secrets of the naros of the apocalypse and of the mediatorial sacrifice have been considered the secrets of the ancient mysteries. circumcision was possibly an outward sign of initiation in the earliest times. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott jesus, at any rate, writes the author of the book of god, appeared at the 9th naros, and no one can deny that such a messenger was expected. ju

r occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the golden candlestick of seven branches was a notable emblematic ornament of the tabernacle of moses, exodus xxv. 31. note the seven years for repentance; 7 churches of asia (or assiah, 7 angels with trumpets, 7 candlesticks of the holy places, 7 seals, 7 trumpets, 7 kings, 7 thousands slain, 7 vials of wrath to be poured out, pace the apocalypse. 7 members make a freemasons lodge perfect, although 5 may hold one. francis barrett, in his magus, catalogs 7 birds, fishes, animals, metals, stones and members of the body. it has been said there are seven apertures of the skull to correspond with the seven planets. there are seven degrees in the oriental order of sikha and the sat bhai (7 brothers; but i have doubts of the brahmanic

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one who has freed human beings from their sin by his blood (ibid, 6) and thereby transformed believers into a kingdom of priests (a locution based on exod 19:6) to whom belong the dominion and glory everlastingly (rev 1:6. the surmise that reish laqish s statement is responding to the christological doctrine is substantiated by the celebrated poetic flourish that ends the opening prayer of john s apocalypse: i am the alpha and the omega, says the lord god, who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty (ibid, 8).40 this utterance is very likely based on god s proclamation i am the first and i am the last (ani ri shon wa-ani aharon) in deutero-isaiah (44:6).41 in the new testament context, the temporal classification is expressed linguistically, and thus the beginning and end are terme

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l to your mind that passage in one of the eddas "i hung on the tree three days and three nights, wounded with spear, myself, a sacrifice offered to my (highest) self: odin unto odin" it will furthermore be noticed that this way of looking at the matter at once makes a reconciliation between the account in the gospel of the christ as a calm, peaceful, and pitiful man, and the representation in the apocalypse of a tremendous and flaming god. a glance at the top half of the pastos shows the descent of a flaming sword which casts out evil, the whole surrounding being with brilliance "and he had in his right hand seven stars. and the seven stars represent the (arch)angels of the seven churches" or abodes in assiah, at his feet. the life of nations is like the life of men: they are born, become

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ern side of the holy place stood the seven branched candlestick, wherein was burned pure olive oil. it is an image of the mystery of the elohim, the seven creative ideas. the symbolic drawing before you represents its occult meaning. the seven circles which surround the heptagram, represent the seven planets and the seven qabalistic palaces of assiah, the material world- which answer to the seven apocalyptic churches which are in asia or assiah- as these again allude to the seven lamps before the throne on another plane. within each circle is a triangle to represent the three fold creative idea operating in all things. on the right-hand side of each is the hebrew name of the angel who governs the planet; on the left side is the hebrew name of the sphere of the planet itself; while the hebr

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m containing 18,000 worlds, and also gehennah, and the garden of eden. the 9th is 18,000 more worlds wherein abide shekinah and metatron. and the 10th is thebel wherein standeth the earth, between eden and gehennah. heg: leads theoricus to tablet of 10 averse sephiroth in north. heg: before you are the 10 averse and evil sephiroth of the qlippoth or shells, collected into 7 palaces wherein is the apocalyptic mystery of the 7 heads and 10 horns. the qlippoth of kether are called thaumiel or the two contending forces, the shells of chokmah are the ghogiel, or hinderers. those of binah are the satariel or concealers. those of chesed are the gagh shekelah or breakers in pieces. to geburah belong the golahab or burners. to tiphareth the tagariron or disputers. to netzach the gharab zereq or rav

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each letter out in full and (c) counting h in full as ah rather than the more usual hh) can get this name to add to 666. line 7. asmodai. appears in the apocryphal book of tobit. sometimes also known by the latinised form asmodeus. the name is possibly a modification of aeshma deva, an evil spirit from persian mythology. line 8. belial. said to be the chief of the evil spirits in some late jewish apocalyptic literature (e.g. the testament of the 12 patriarchs, but in the old testament the name was a mere term of abuse meaning masterless or worthless. line 9. lilith. she gets everywhere. line 10. naamah. the sister of tubal-cain (see masonic symbolism; but in the zohar she gets turned into another version of lilith. col. cix. rather than use planetary symbols to distinguish the kings and du

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the hiereus says "at the southern side of the holy place stood the seven-branched candlestick. the symbolic drawing before you represents its occult meaning. the seven circles which surround the heptagram represents its occult meaning. the seven circles which surround the heptagram represent the seven planets and the seven qabalistic palaces of assiah, the material world which answer to the seven apocalyptic churches of asia minor, and these again represent, on a higher plane, the seven lamps before the throne."3 264 illustration described from page 265 "diagram 16. the rose of creation" this is a twelve-pointed star made up of four line-drawn equilateral triangles, effectively two hexagrams placed one on top of the other and rotated to produce a symmetrical duo-decagram. there are small c

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planets, such as jupiter, saturn bel, brihaspati, etc (c "his breath gave life to the seven" refers as much to the sun, who gives life to the planets, as to the "high one" the spiritual sun, who gives life to the whole kosmos. the astronomical and astrological keys opening the gate leading to the mysteries of theogony can be found only in the later glossaries, which accompany the stanzas. in the apocalyptic slokas of the archaic records, the language is as symbolical, if less mythical, than in the puranas. without the help of the later commentaries, compiled by generations of adepts, it would be impossible to understand the meaning correctly. in the ancient cosmogonies, the visible and the invisible worlds are the double links of one and the same chain. as the invisible logos, with its se

the name mazdha, as above, which makes of the sevenfold asura the "lord" or "lords" collectively "who bestow intelligence" connects the amshaspends with the asuras and with our incarnating dhyan chohans, as well as with the elohim, and the seven informing gods of egypt, chaldea, and every other country. why these "gods" refused to create men is not, as stated in exoteric[[vol. 2, page] 93 a grand apocalyptic metaphor. accounts, because their pride was too great to share the celestial power of their essence with the children of earth, but for reasons already suggested. however, allegory has indulged in endless fancies and theology taken advantage thereof in every country to make out its case against these first-born, or the logoi, and to impress it as a truth on the minds of the ignorant an

kind was never more selfish and vicious than it is now, civilized nations having succeeded in making of the first an ethical characteristic, of the second an art, is an additional proof of the exceptional nature of the phenomenon[[vol. 2, page] 111 the shells of sheba hachaloth. the entire scheme is in the "chaldean book of numbers" and even in the zohar, if one only understood the meaning of the apocalyptic hints. first comes en-soph, the "concealed of the concealed" then the point, sephira and the later sephiroth; then the atzilatic world, a world of emanations that gives birth to three other worlds- called the throne, the abode of pure spirits; the second, the world of formation, or jetzira, the habitat of the angels who sent forth the third, or world of action, the asiatic world, which

h floats in the air" which is the hindu golden hiranyapura "he is called the pure[[agnos, agnus dei (the indian agni, as dr. kenealy thinks, and in the primal myth he is exempt "from all sensual love("book of god" p. 88. he is, therefore, a kumara, like karttikeya, and as indra was in his earlier life and biographies. python, moreover, the "red dragon" connects apollo with michael, who fights the apocalyptic dragon, who wants to attack the woman in child-birth (see revelation xii, as python attacks apollo's mother. can any one fail to see the identity? had the rt. hon. w. e. gladstone, who prides himself on his greek scholarship and understanding of the spirit of homer's allegories, ever had a real inkling of the esoteric meaning of the iliad and odyssey, he would have understood st. john'

r conceptions of the resurrection, judgment, immortality, perdition, and of the universal reign of righteousness under the eternal dominion of the son of man. this evangelical plagiarism culminates in the revelation of john, which adapts the visions[[vol. 2, page] 483 vedas, once universal. of enoch to christianity, with modifications in which we miss the sublime simplicity of the great master of apocalyptic prediction, who prophesied in the name of the antediluvian patriarch (int. xxxv "antediluvian" truly; but if the phraseology of the text dates hardly a few centuries or even millenniums before the historical era, then it is no more the original prediction of the events to come, but, in its turn, a copy of some scripture of a prehistoric religion "in the krita age, vishnu, in the form o

on legends of pagan antiquity- the grandeur and the beauty of the imagery might have biased the critics' opinion in favour of the christian interpretation of that first war, whose battle field was starry heaven, and the first slaughterers- the angels. as the matter stands now, however, one has to trace revelation, event by event, to other and far older visions. for the better comprehension of the apocalyptic allegories and of the esoteric epos we ask the reader to turn to revelation, and to read chapter xii, from verse 1 to verse 7. this has several meanings, most of which have been found out with regard to the astronomical and numerical keys of this universal myth. that which may be given now, is a fragment, a few hints as to its secret meaning, as embodying the record of a real war, the

is no news to any one. but now they are prepared to give out to the above-mentioned profane even the secrets hinted at by eliphas levi without adequate explanation; for the latter's policy of veiled revelations could only lead to further superstition and misunderstanding. what, indeed, can a student of occultism, a beginner, gather from the following highly poetical sentences of eliphas levi, as apocalyptic as the writings of any of the alchemists "lucifer, the astral light. is an intermediate force existing in all creation, it serves to create and to destroy, and the fall of adam was an erotic intoxication which has rendered his generation a slave to this fatal light. every sexual passion that overpowers our senses is a whirlwind of that light which seeks to drag us towards the abyss of

noah seems to know nothing of his intended salvation. a decree had come indeed; the decree of nature and the law of evolution, that the earth should change its race, and that the fourth race should be destroyed to make room for a better one. the manvantara had reached its turning point of three and a half rounds, and gigantic physical humanity had reached the acme of gross materiality. hence the apocalyptic verse that speaks of a commandment gone forth that they may be destroyed "that their end may be (of the race; for they knew truly "every secret of the angels, every oppressive and secret power of the satans, and every power of those who commit sorcery, as well as of those who make molten images in the whole earth" and now a natural question. who could have informed the apocryphal autho

ever, the "spear-holder" and the conqueror of taraka "taraka-jit" that he is shown most famous. the years of the naros, being (in india) counted in two ways- either "100 years of the gods (divine years- or 100 mortal years- one can see the tremendous difficulty for the non-initiated in comprehending correctly this cycle, which plays such an important part in st. john's revelation. it is the truly apocalyptic cycle; yet in none of the numerous speculations about it have we found anything but a few approximate truths, because of its being of various lengths and relating to various pre-historic events. it has been urged against the duration claimed by the babylonians for their divine ages, that suidas shows the ancients counting, in their chronological computations, days for years. dr. sepp i

hs which have covered that symbol "with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs" who protested and do protest "and there are seven kings (seven races; five are fallen (our fifth race included, and one is (the fifth continues, and the other (the sixth and the seventh races) is not yet come. and when he (the race "king) cometh, he must continue a short space (v. 10. there are many such apocalyptic allusions, but the student has to find them out for himself. these five kings were mentioned before. if the bible combines with archaeology and geology to show that human civilization has passed through three more or less distinct stages, in europe at least; and if man, both in america and europe, as much as in asia, dates from geological epochs- why should not the statements of the se

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h rounders" in our fourth round. gautama buddha, it was held, was a sixth-rounder, plato and some other great philosophers and minds "fifth-rounders" how could it be? one master taught and affirmed that there were such "fifth-rounders" even now on earth; and though understood to say that mankind was yet "in the fourth round" in another place he seemed to say that we were in the fifth. to this an "apocalyptic answer" was returned by another teacher "a few drops of rain do not make a monsoon, though they presage it "no, we are not in the fifth round, but fifth round men have been coming in for the last few thousand years" this was worse than the riddle of the sphinx! students of occultism subjected their brains to the wildest work of speculation. for a considerable time they tried to outvie

iven by eliphas levi. 1. nephesh is immortal because it renews its life by the destruction of forms [but nephesh, the "breath of[[first column continued on next page[[second column] say the theosophists- esoteric pneumatics. 1. ditto, for it is atma-buddhi-manas. 2. ditto* 3. spiritual soul. 4. mediator between spirit and its man, the seat of reason, the mind, in man. 5. correct. 6. too uselessly apocalyptic. why not say that the astral reflects the good as well as the bad man; man, who is ever tending to the upper triangle, or else disappears with the quaternary. 7. ditto, the earthly image- occult pneumatics. as given by the occultists. 1. manas is immortal, because after every new incarnation it adds to atma-buddhi something of itself, and[[second column continued on next page[[footnote

erhaps, the only occultist in europe, during the last centuries since the christian era, who was versed in this mystery. had not a criminal hand put an end to his life, years before the time allotted him by nature, physiological magic would have fewer secrets for the civilized world than it now has (d) but what has the moon to do in all this? we may be asked. what have "fish, sin and moon" in the apocalyptic saying of the stanza to do in company with the "life-microbes? with the latter nothing, except availing themselves of the tabernacle of clay prepared by them; with divine perfect man everything, since "fish, sin and moon" make conjointly the three symbols of the immortal being. this is all that can be given. nor does the writer pretend to know more of this strange symbol than may be in

urally fell back into the figures "given by suidas" who affirmed that the 120 saroses made 2,222 sacerdotal and cyclic years, which equalled 1,656 solar years (vie de notre seigneur jesus christ, vol. ii, p. 417) suidas said nothing of the kind, and, if he had, he would prove little, if anything, by it. the neroses and saroses were the same thorn in the side of uninitiated ancient writers, as the apocalyptic 666 of the "great beast" is in that of the modern, and they have found their unlucky newtons as the latter figures have[[vol. 1, page] 656 the secret doctrine. phantly over a new manvantara, for the septenary chain it illuminates. the teaching had penetrated into palestine and europe centuries before the christian era (see isis unveiled ii. 132, and was present in the minds of the mosa

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e. for black magic page 40 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 instance, in eighteenthcentury south carolina, three blacks.a slave and two freedmen. plotted an insurrection in st. helena parish, with the intent to kill the "buckras" the governor accused the trio's leader of trying to "stir up sedition among the negroes" after he received an apocalyptic vision in which he had fellowshiped with "god almighty c in the woods" these prophetic, visionary strains of religious radicalism were also in evidence among black insurrectionists in north carolina and virginia at the turn of the nineteenth century.[9] what was distinctive about the turner and vesey uprisings, however, was the rebels f perception of african-based supernaturalism as an

as an additional weapon in their arsenal of resistance. in these conspiracies, conjure harming beliefs and practices would play indispensable roles.[10] a confluence of christianity and african-based spiritual traditions linked turner and vesey. turner, a self-styled prophet, was believed to have interspersed the famous confessions with divine pronouncements, otherworldly revelations, and graphic apocalyptic visions. although he was said to have eschewed the practices of "conjuring and such like tricks" he shared dramatic traits with other african american supernatural practitioners and conjurers who were his contemporaries. in fact, the fusion of christianity and supernaturalism in nat turner's life has\ 64\ led one historian to conclude that "religion and magic sustained nat turner's reb

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nduit for sufi-kabbalist techniques between east and west for a restricted circle in barcelona in the 13th c. c. 1310-1366 john of roquetaillade (de rupescissa)joachite franciscan alchemist and prophet predicted that the birth of the antichrist would occur in 1365. imprisoned multiple times throughout his life, the friar used his jail sentences to write a great volume of works, including his most apocalyptic title "visiones seu revelationes. 1310s and 1320s: the dominican meister eckhart (c. 1260-1327) teaches in latin at paris and preaches vernacular sermons in strassburg and cologne. 1311-2: the council of vienne legislates against beguines and the beguine-associated "heresy of the free spirit" 1313 friars minors' constitution generales antique forbade the friars to practice alchemy 1314

h a particular interest in classical greece. 1392 a decree in paris includes cards; also, the treasurer's accounts of charles vi of france includes a payment for three packs of handmade cards (a painter by the name of jacquemin gringoneur designed them especially for the amusement of the king) 1397-1468 johannes gutenberg. c. 1400 francesc eiximenis. catalan joachite franciscan tertiary wrote the apocalyptic apparatus de triplici statu mundi(latin) and vida de jesuchrist(catalan. influenced by arnold of villanova and jean roquetaillade. c. 1400 moses ben isaac botarel provencal kabbalist 1400-1464 nicholas of cusa 1402-1442 bernard of treviso 1403-1472 cardinal johannes bessarion encouraged the spread of greek studies in italy 1403 king henry iv of england issues a prohibition of alchemy a

he holy spirit embodied. together working among the poor at the ospedaletto of venice, which was operated by a confraternity. 1499 (d. after) ibn abi jumhur..12th or, hidden imam, is the pole during the period of occultation" 1499 hypnerotomachia poliphili (written before 1467) 1500 "sefer yetzirah "r" paris 809 (2, foll 93a,-94a. italy. short recension of tamim. 1500 kaf ha-ketoreth "the censer"-apocalyptic commentary written in italy on the psalms as text of the millenium; magical weapons of purification and destruction to annihilate the forces of evil. 1501 d. ibn abi jumhur al-ahsa'i. imami author of kitab al mujli, combined mu'tazilite theology with illuminationist philosophy and mysticism. 1501-1575 girolamo cardano 1502-1594 foix, francois de- comte de candale 1503-1566 nostradamus

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was written by his political advisor, john wheeler bennett of the royal institute of international affairs, received by w. averell harriman, and passed on to stalin.33 the iron curtain and the berlin wall were elite creations on the classic principle of divide and rule and manipulate through fear. world war as a form of control was going to be replaced, at least for a few decades, by the fear of apocalyptic conflict between east and west. this fear was fuelled by the unveiling of a new and devastating weapon, the atomic bomb. it was created by the americans under the so called 'manhattan project, led by robert oppenheimer, with support from the elite-controlled institute for advanced study at princeton university (where albert einstein was a regular visitor. after roosevelt's death,34 his

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practices of their neighbors occurred in the babylonian court where daniel had found some favor. he stood out as he followed the strict dietary regulations of jewish law. when the king s advisors were unable to interpret king nebuchadnezzar s dream, daniel succeeded. he later had a number of dreams and visions which were recounted in the book that bears his name, including some of his most famous apocalyptic visions of the endtime. at one point in his confrontations with the babylonian psychic advisors, their plotting against him led to his being cast in the famous den of lions. it appears that the babylonian kings employed a wide variety of advisors, including astrologers, and the harshest words concerning astrology in the bible come from this period (dan. 2:27; 5:7.11. christianity the n

tee books. through the 1990s a variety of people began to look at the metaphysical and philosophical implications of the abduction phenomena and seriously began suggesting paranormal explanations for the phenomena surrounding the stories. such approaches did away with extraterrestrials and had no need of physical space craft. they quickly returned to the warnings of the 1950s contactees about the apocalyptic conditions facing humanity, now rushing to destruction at breakneck speed. alien contact was an urgent message for humankind to reverse its course. the new age movement at the same time that ufologists were discovering and reorienting their work around the abduction phenomenon, the new age community emerged as the nurturing community for a new generation of channelers. new age channele

ve christian circles and given widespread coverage in books and movies like the exorcist, by william p. blatty. the idea of demons became a divisive force in the church, with some churchmen reviving rituals of exorcism and others remaining adamant in their unwillingness to endorse ancient concepts of demonology. at any rate, the sensationalist aspect of possession by demons is in keeping with the apocalyptic character of modern life, and demons have once again become part of theological discourse. sources: bodin, jean. de la demonomania des sorciers. paris, 1580. conway, moncure d. demonology and devil-lore. 2 vols. london: chatto& windus, 1879. ebon, martin, ed. exorcism: fact not fiction. new york: new american library, 1974. irvine, doreen. from witchcraft to christ. london: concordia p

nity. the term can denote either the end of the physical world (cosmos) or the end of the social order (aeon. the theological term eschatology refers to teachings about the last things (from the greek eschaton. eschatology includes a consideration not only of the destiny of the world but of the individual (death, judgment, heaven, hell. the most dramatic form of eschatology is apocalypticism. the apocalyptic vision views the world as essentially on a downward path. it will soon reach such a negative state that divine powers will intervene and bring the present order to an end. only the faithful will be saved from destruction. there are a number of biblical passages representative of the apocalyptic viewpoint. in the hebrew bible (the christian old testament) passages in isaiah, jeremiah, e

an entire apocalyptic tract, demonstrably the most influential apocalyptic text in western culture. apocalyptic reflections also dominate some of the apocryphal literature, books written by ancient hebrews but not included in the bible. such writings embody inspirational visions of the coming or second advent of a messiah, the state of faith, and interpretations of the future. the most well-known apocalyptic book is that channeled by st. john of patmos, the book of revelation, which describes in some detail a vision of the endtime. it circulated widely among christians at a time when they were under severe persecution for their faith. like many older apocalyptic works, it is written in highly metaphorical language and describes a climatic cosmic war between the forces of good and evil. the

war between the forces of good and evil. the forces of good are represented by the church and god s angels and the forces of evil by the antichrist, the beast whose name can be determined by numerology, 666, and their respective human supporters. the powerful images of this book constant- encausse, gerard encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 502 ly reappear in western prophetic and apocalyptic literature over the centuries. one persistent theme in apocalyptic literature, for example, is the figure of the antichrist, the mighty ruler opposed to god, as cited in the epistles of john. this image harks back to the historical figure of antiochus iv, a persecutor of the jews. the apocalyptical concept of the end of the world and the antichrist figure have analogies in pre-christia

osed to god, as cited in the epistles of john. this image harks back to the historical figure of antiochus iv, a persecutor of the jews. the apocalyptical concept of the end of the world and the antichrist figure have analogies in pre-christian religions, such as iranian mythology of the final conflict between ahura mazda and ahriman. however, it is within the jewish and christian traditions that apocalyptic enthusiasm has been most notable. in the west, in almost every generation there have arisen groups with an apocalyptic worldview and an expectation that they are witnessing the last days of human history. not infrequently, these groups go so far as to set a specific date on which the endtime events will be initiated. basic to such groups have been a historicist reading of the apocalypt

sing the last days of human history. not infrequently, these groups go so far as to set a specific date on which the endtime events will be initiated. basic to such groups have been a historicist reading of the apocalyptic passages of the bible, in which the prophetic texts are seen as referring to contemporary events. the failure of the proposed events to occur on time always creates a crisis in apocalyptic groups. only rarely do they admit any significant error. rather, they suggest that the date was incorrect and propose a new date, or, more often, they spiritualize the prophecy and suggest that it really occurred, but in an invisible spiritual realm. in recent centuries, a number of apocalyptic date-setting groups arose from the teachings of british visionaries joanna southcott and, mo

moment of time in divine consciousness, of which the individual souls are myriad fragments; and in self-realization, or moksha, the individual consciousness goes beyond the duality of subject and object and is subsumed in a timeless and blissful divine consciousness, independent of time, space, and causality, which fall away as illusory. it is of some interest that astrology has been the basis of apocalyptic speculations. for example, at the end of the seventeenth century, a group of german rosicrucians settled in pennsylvania and established an astrological observatory to search for the signs of jesus return. the group, known as the woman in the wilderness, died out, disappointed, in the early eighteenth century. more recently, with the alignment of most of the planets in the solar system

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erging new age movement and in her 1979 volume strangers among us presented the idea of walk-ins, people who had died but whose bodies had been immediately taken over and life continued by returning spirits. people claiming to be such walk-ins have now emerged as leaders of various new age groups. in the 1980s she became a popular spokesperson within the new age movement and an advocate of a more apocalyptic understanding of society s moving into the new age through a cataclysmic event, accompanying a pole shift, at the end of the 1990s. in 1986 she released her autobiography, ruth montgomery: herald of the new age. sources: melton, j. gordon, jerome clark, and aidan kelly. new age encyclopedia. detroit: gale research, 1990. montgomery, ruth. born to heal. new york: coward, mc- cann& geoch

he missionary efforts of various christian churches that were working among all the native american people at the time. the movement spread quickly, aided by the memory of kanakuk s teachings. the movement called for moral living according to the ten commandments and offered special condemnation of some particular evils attendant upon reservation life: drunkenness, horse racing, and gambling. the apocalyptic element, offering the imminent end to white rule, had been abandoned in favor of rewards in the next life. it found a response among those native americans who had not joined a christian church and who remembered kanakuk. while surviving for some years, it was eventually overwhelmed by christian missionary efforts. sources: mooney, james. the ghost-dance religion and the sioux outbreak

father recovered. southcott left the farm and went into domestic service for five years at the house of an upholsterer in exeter, where she also became skilled in the trade. she next went to work as a maid for a couple named taylor. for 42 years joanna had lived a normal life, but in 1792, at the time of her menopause, she began to have strange experiences. southcott s prophetic career these were apocalyptic times. in france, revolutionary mobs had stormed the king s palace, and the houses of noblemen were in flames. radical propagandists sought to foment revolution in britain. tom paine s the rights of man had just been published. several extreme religious movements had appeared. among the prophetic voices was that of a young naval officer, richard brothers. brothers immersed himself in b

had stormed the king s palace, and the houses of noblemen were in flames. radical propagandists sought to foment revolution in britain. tom paine s the rights of man had just been published. several extreme religious movements had appeared. among the prophetic voices was that of a young naval officer, richard brothers. brothers immersed himself in bible study and preached powerful sermons on his apocalyptic visions, with warnings of the day of doom. he believed that the time had come for the jews to regain palestine, that the british were a lost tribe of israel, and that the second coming of the lord was at hand. brothers was eventually arrested and charged with maliciously publishing fantastical prophecies with intent to cause disturbances, certified as insane, and sent to a mental asylu

ome for the jews to regain palestine, that the british were a lost tribe of israel, and that the second coming of the lord was at hand. brothers was eventually arrested and charged with maliciously publishing fantastical prophecies with intent to cause disturbances, certified as insane, and sent to a mental asylum, where he stayed for 11 years. about this time southcott also began to have similar apocalyptic dreams and visions. she was visited by a voice, which told her, the lord is awakened out of sleep. he will terribly shake the earth. at first, southcott thought she was being deluded by satan, but the voice began to make amazingly accurate prophecies about events, both great and small. asked for a sign, the voice knocked three times on the bedstead. an early precursor of the raps at ni

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along with a small band of disciples moved to titicaca to establish the priority of all saints in the remote northern town moyobamba. from hemet, california, the laugheads kept the north american faithful abreast of developments. a sister thedra 231 bulletin reported day-by-day activities there. each report was accompanied by a transcript of channeled or automatically written messages, often with apocalyptic overtones. soon, these messages said, cataclysmic changes would bring flying saucers down from the skies and lemuria and atlantis up from the ocean bottom. by the summer of 1957, however, nearly all of the spiritual pilgrims were back in the united states. the exception was martin, whom sananda had directed to stay behind. living under the most primitive conditions, suffering from pove

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n of universal mystical spirituality clothed in the context of the historical setting, cultural milieu, environment, language, characteristic worldview, and prevailing body of discourse among the people to whom it was being delivered. the mainstream of jews at the time master yeshuvah appeared had been expecting a savior of the jewish people who would deliver them from roman oppression through an apocalyptic process. this contrasted with the jewish mystical community, which had been anticipating a messianic advent with the spiritual mission of reuniting israel with their lord hvhy, and a returning to the true religion of the children of abraham. master yeshuvah himself clearly asserted that he had not come as an innovator to replace the tradition with a new teaching, but as a reformer who

terpretations of verses in torah) and midrashic commentary (i.e. on the halacha. the sabaeans are thought to have been among the earliest inhabitants of syria, and only a little is known of their history, culture, and spirituality. the christian inhabitants consisted largely of the descendants of heretics who had been expelled from the roman empire. these arabian desert fathers possessed numerous apocalyptic and pseudo-epigraphic texts. but it is suspected that they had limited knowledge of the peshitta, and that the bulk of the material related to the prophet isa (master yeshuvah) and miryam (mary) in the qur an was derived from jewish sources. the hanifites were an arabian faith community largely concentrated in mecca, medina, and a few other cities, who had rejected idolatry previous to

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stnut tail and mane, a star on his face and a spot on his breast, and his masters name was qayyifly the light psychonaut 75- text by michael ford (keteb) industrial musick needs the original formula which it came from- freedom and self- liberation. it needs something which breathes that chaotic fire and storm of creativity and aggression. psychonaut 75 is bringing back the original methodology of apocalyptic desire and the fires which spring from such ideas. fly the light is a cd recorded by psychonaut 75 as their most intense, profound a intricate album to date. being recorded as a musical ritual, fly the light was structured around certain cabalistic numerical values, phi and binaural beats and a foundation based around opening or creating gates of hell within the individual listener, th

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i keep the city in permanent happiness, health and virtue, and the religion of the city is in perfect accord with its scientific view of the world, that is to say with natural magic. when we look at the propaganda for the calabrian revolt, we find that it is full of mystical imperialism, of prophecy of the return of an imperial golden age- such as lactantius and the sibyls speak of, combined with apocalyptic prophecy, joachimism, and the like. campanella believed from the portents that the hour had struck for such a renewal of the age; the calabrians and the dominicans were to prepare for it by establishing the ideal city in calabria, whence it was to spread to the rest of the world. when the revolt failed, he did not think that the portents had deceived him (he went on talking of them for

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steries. accordingly, the king messiah tends to be seen in purely political and revolutionary terms, while certainly there is a political element to the message of the davidic messiah we must realise that since matter is only a temporal manifestation, for the messiah to save israel as a whole (as a collective of particles of light, the physical world must be redeemed! this is why there is such an apocalyptic emphasis in essene and gnostic literature, for the davidic messiah to complete his task all matter must be trasnformed back to spirit. accordingly, the role of the davidic messiah was to prepare israel for a new interpretation of the kingdom of god, jesus as the davidic messiah illustrated how individual theosis was possible. for through individual theosis the particles of light may be

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gods 68 chapter 8 the lake at the roof of the world la paz, the capital city of bolivia, nestles in the uneven bottom of a spectacular hole in the ground more than two miles above sea level. this plunging ravine, thousands of feet deep, was carved in some primeval age by a tremendous downrush of water that carried with it an abrasive tide of loose rocks and rubble. provided by nature with such an apocalyptic setting, la paz possesses a unique though slightly sleazy charm. with its narrow streets, dark-walled tenements, imposing cathedrals, garish cinemas and hamburger bars open till late, it generates an atmosphere of quirky intrigue which is oddly intoxicating. it s hard going for the pedestrian, however, unless equipped with lungs like bellows, because the whole of the central district i

nscious wave of intercultural telepathy, or could elements of these remarkable universal myths have been engineered, long ages ago, by clever and purposeful people? which of these improbable propositions is the more likely to be true? or are there other possible explanations for the enigma of the myths? we shall return to these questions in due course. meanwhile, what are we to conclude about the apocalyptic visions of fire and ice, floods, volcanism and earthquakes, which the myths contain? they have about them a haunting and familiar realism. could this be because they speak to us of a past we suspect to be our own but can neither remember clearly nor forget completely? 27 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, pp. 275-7. 28 maya history and religion, p. 332. graham hancock fingerprint

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ge bennett being toward the window and william tobey toward the fireplace. bennett was asleep, having apparently felt the same anomalous drowsiness which affected me, so i designated tobey for the next watch although even he was nodding. it is curious how intently i had been watching the fireplace. the increasing thunder must have affected my dreams, for in the brief time i slept there came to me apocalyptic visions. once i partly awaked, probably because the sleeper toward the window had restlessly flung an arm across my chest. i was not sufficiently awake to see whether tobey was attending to his duties as sentinel, but felt a distinct anxiety on that score. never before had the presence of evil so poignantly oppressed me. later i must have dropped asleep again, for it was out of a phant

these rides he had imbibed something of the colour of a quaint colonial village. the nurse used to stop and sit on the benches of prospect terrace to chat with policemen; and one of the child's first memories was of the great westward sea of hazy roofs and domes and steeples and far hills which he saw one winter afternoon from that great railed embankment, and violet and mystic against a fevered, apocalyptic sunset of reds and golds and purples and curious greens. the vast marble dome of the state house stood out in massive silhouette, its crowning statue haloed fantastically by a break in one of the tinted stratus clouds that barred the flaming sky. when he was larger his famous walks began; first with his impatiently dragged nurse, and then alone in dreamy meditation. farther and farther

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ge bennett being toward the window and william tobey toward the fireplace. bennett was asleep, having apparently felt the same anomalous drowsiness which affected me, so i designated tobey for the next watch although even he was nodding. it is curious how intently i had been watching the fireplace. the increasing thunder must have affected my dreams, for in the brief time i slept there came to me apocalyptic visions. once i partly awaked, probably because the sleeper toward the window had restlessly flung an arm across my chest. i was not sufficiently awake to see whether tobey was attending to his duties as sentinel, but felt a distinct anxiety on that score. never before had the presence of evil so poignantly oppressed me. later i must have dropped asleep again, for it was out of a phant

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e in hf^t "arose and went to the visible jordan and flowing water, where they assembled for a counsel, and called forth the only-begotten son 6ss. codtx naaaraaa, ii. pp. 47-57. 556. fud. i, p. 145. 557. ihid. u. p. 211. 558. ibid, i. p. 309. 559. sopioa. acfaunotfa klw begeti her k>n ilik-bkotb, tl>e dnaurje, by kxaids into chao* cr mktter, and by coming in oootact with it. digitizecoy google an apocalyptic allegory explained 229 c^ an imperishable image who cannot be conceived by reflenon, lehdoio the just lord, and sprung from lehdoio the just lord, whom the life had produced by his word" mano is the chief of the seven aeons, who are mano rex lucia) aiar zivo, ignis vivus, lux, vita, aqua viva (the living water of bap- tism, the genius of the jordan, and ipsa vita, the chief of the six

the ancient of days. whose hair was white as pure wool. etc" and "the appear- ance of a man. above the throne. and the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about* thefitebeing"thegloiy of the lord" fetahil is son of the nuin, the third life' and his upper part is represented as white as snow, while standing near the throne of the living fire he has the appearance of a fiame. all these 'apocalyptic' visions are based on the description of the 'white head' of the zohar, in whom the kabalistic trinity is united the white head "which conceals in its cranium the spirit" and which is environed by subtle fire. the "appearance of a man" is that of adam kadmon, through which passes the thread of li^t represented by the fire. fetahil is the vir noneaimus (the newest man, the son of abatur

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ceforth, from the fall, and as a consequence of it, they are in opposition. the sign of the balances is placed between, as the rescuing heavenly shield, miraculously interposed, separating, as the tremendous gis, the two originally conjoint signs, and simultaneously presented both ways (to speak in figure, defending each from destruction by either until the time shall be complete! which means the apocalyptic new heaven and new earth. marks, movements, or influence from the side of scorpio, or from the sinister side, are malign, and mean danger; because they represent the old serpent, or, in other terms, the great deep, or matter. of such magic character are the letters s and z, and all their compounds; because this originally single sound, or letter s-z, z-s, came into the world representi

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more gmystical h than others. more important to our line of inquiry is that certain themes were developed more than others for a variety of mystical purposes. by talmudic times, two branches of the mysteries were well known and defined: the work of creation, i.e. developments of the first chapters of genesis, and the work of the chariot, developments of ezekiel and, to a lesser extent, isaiah. a. apocalyptic, wisdom literature, pseudepigrapha radicalizations of bible themes appeared in the intertestamental apocalypses, which, when grouped together with a somewhat irregular splay of wisdom literature, psalms, testaments, prayers, and other material, are referred to as the pseudepigrapha. two fine introductions to apocalyptic are 1. russell, d. s. the method and message of jewish apocalyptic

bible themes appeared in the intertestamental apocalypses, which, when grouped together with a somewhat irregular splay of wisdom literature, psalms, testaments, prayers, and other material, are referred to as the pseudepigrapha. two fine introductions to apocalyptic are 1. russell, d. s. the method and message of jewish apocalyptic. philadelphia: westminster press, 1964. 2. collins, john j. the apocalyptic imagination: an introduction to the jewish matrix of christianity. new york: crossroad, grand rapids: wm. b. eerdmans publishing co, 1984; rpt. 1998* refer to my gkabbalah study: jewish mysticism in english h (1996-8, appended below, where there is a section offering suggestions for a survey of jewish mysticism, one segment of which parallels the outline presented here. alternative tit

gs of the fathers (pirqe aboth. an enduring treatment of all this is o. s. rankin fs israel fs wisdom literature (edinburgh: t&t clark ltd, 1936; rpt 1954 and 1964; rpt new york: schocken books, 1969) a generous compendium of pseudepigrapha (which includes some material which does not really belong under this heading) is the old testament pseudepigrapha, edited by james h. charlesworth: volume 1: apocalyptic and testaments; volume 2: expansions c legends, wisdom c prayers, odes, psalms, fragments (garden city: doubleday and company, 1983 and 1985. it is a collection of utmost value, far more inclusive than the previous standard, apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the old testament, edited by r. h. charles (2 vols, oxford: clarendon press, 1913; rpt 1973* b. philo philo, who has a somewhat ant

gmagic and religion in ancient judaism, h in envisioning magic. 2. merkabah and hekhalot material& 3. sefer yezirah on these, see my papers, gnotes on the study of merkabah mysticism and hekhalot literature in english h and gnotes on sefer yezirah in english. h 4. transition a. geonic period it is generally thought that the geonic period left little by way of evidence of theosophical development. apocalyptic, merkabah, and rabbinic writings continued to exercise authority, this material being compiled and redacted with little being added to the existing traditions. in this period, however, magical works circulated and grew. joseph dan writes, gthe geonic period, from the sixth to tenth centuries, is a period which seems to be outside the realm of the history of jewish thought. c [i]t still

e time before its appearance.13 20081 27 b. to investigate jewish mysticism, how is one to begin at the beginning? the documentary evidence is sprawling, yet incomplete. we cannot commence with genesis 1:1 and travel a nice straight line to kabbalah today. however, to set a broad stage for subsequent mystical endeavor, a fine first book is cosmos, chaos and the world to come: the ancient roots of apocalyptic faith, by norman cohn (new haven: yale university press, 1993, the second part of which charts the primal swirlings of the path which eventually leads to jewish (and christian) mysticism, beginning with zoroastrian concepts, tracing their development in jewish apocalyptic, finally landing in the book of revelation. this last turn may seem to veer off track unless one keeps in mind the

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indeed might we presume to order even our own thought without reference to the elemental bases of god? then michael turned to me and said, lucifer, thou host elected a direction whose end none can foresee, for it is estranged from the design of god. those who confirm thee do so as much for faith in thy 444 person as for sanction of thy ideal. and i perceive that, should thou fail in thy ambition, apocalyptic madness shall be thy ruin and damnation. then shall thy light perish, and all that thou host achieved become as naught, for all will be conformed to the divine law. but if thou should succeed, then god would be cast down, vesting in ourselves alone the control of the universe- would we dare to presume to this? such a future might well be glorious beyond measure, but, should we prove un

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ity and externality, and it cannot be changed. 186 from chaos to harmony t h e wa r o f g o g a n d mag o g the struggle between internality and externality is called the war of gog and magog. it unfolds within the people of israel, and its consequences determine the fate of the entire world. if we are triumphant, we will spare ourselves the horrifying depictions of the war of gog and magog as an apocalyptic global war. the war of gog and magog is actually an internal war, occurring within individuals from israel. it is not a physical war with planes and missiles, as is often thought. the planes and the missiles are not the real war; they are merely a physical manifestation of accumulated imbalance. the war of gog and magog is a war between the internality and the externality of our desire

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ohar said, almost 2,000 years ago, that humanity s darkest time will come right before its spiritual awakening. for centuries, beginning with the ari, author of the tree of life, who lived in the 16th century, kabbalists have been writing that the time the zohar was referring to was the end of the 20th century. they called it the last generation. they did not mean that we would all perish in some apocalyptic, spectacular event. in kabbalah, a generation represents a spiritual state. the last generation is the last and highest state that can be reached. and kabbalists said that the time we are living in xthe beginning of the 21st century xis when we would see the generation of the spiritual ascent. but these kabbalists also said that for this change to happen, we cannot continue to develop

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lower world. partially because of a friendly link with the persians, judaism took in influences from zoroastrianism. thus satan, the closest thing the jews had to an evil spirit, was reconceived in the mold of angra mainyu as god s enemy. this portrait of an evil divinity locked in a cosmic war against god was later bequeathed to christianity. early christianity arose as a jewish sect during the apocalyptic period. the first christians strongly believed in the imminent second coming of christ (within their lifetimes, which would be accompanied by the resurrection of the dead, a final judgment, the defeat of satan, and the end of this world. with these apocalyptic additions, the christian devil remained essentially unchanged for centuries. these understandings were, however, gradually ampl

h hurley) who searches for a simple soul to grant seven wishes. fast-paced action with elliot s every wish consistently being sabotaged by the devil, who wants him to regret his superficial, soulless desires. evil doings are replaced by magical happenings. the narrative concludes with the moral intervention of a wise angel. beelzebub beelzebub appeared in the old testament only once, never in the apocalyptic literature, and a number of times in the new testament. although the origin of his name is uncertain, beelzebub shared the destiny of many heathen gods of beelzebub (dover pictorial archive) bells 25 canaan who were turned into demons when the jews began to filter in and developed what eventually became monotheistic judaism. baal was mocked by the jews as baalzebub, lord of flies, who

le, 1989. oppenheimer, paul. evil and the demonic: a new theory of monstrous behavior. new york: new york university press, 1996. russell, jeffrey burton.mephistopheles: the devil in the modern world. ithaca, ny: cornell university press, 1986. wilde, oscar. the picture of dorian gray. in richard aldington, ed, the portable oscar wilde. new york: viking, 1946. fear no evil this 1981 film features apocalyptic battle scenes developed from visions taken out of the bible s book of revelation. heavenly warriors defend the earth from evil demons and ghouls who fight to defend the incarnation of lucifer embodied in a screwed-up teenage loner. film outside of the church, the most influential source of information about satan and his minions is hollywood. the image of the diabolical in film is dive

indu texts, is a short work that western scholars speculate was inserted into the mahabharata, the world s longest epic, sometime a distinctive fresco depicting shiva-gajantaka, the story of the hindu god shiva killing the elephant demon (bridgeman art gallery) hinduism 115 between 200 b.c.e. and 200 c.e. the bhagavad gita contains a number of evocative passages on the subject of the destructive, apocalyptic side of the divine nature. the central narrative of the mahabharata is about a civil war and the events surrounding the culminating battle in an ancient indian kingdom. before the great battle begins, arjuna, the chief protagonist, asks his chariot driver, krishna, to drive his chariot out between the two armies. krishna is a complex figure, who many hindus regard as the supreme deity

angels and the daevas the demons in zoroastrianism, and the devas became demigods and the asuras became demons in hinduism. this confusion is reflected in modern english, in which the term divinity and the term devil derive from the same root word, deva or daeva. see also asuras; hinduism; zoroastrianism for further reading: cohn, norman. cosmos, chaos and the world to come: the ancient roots of apocalyptic faith. new haven, ct: yale university press, 1993. eliade,mircea. a history of religious ideas. vol. 1. chicago: university of chicago press, 1978. noss, john b.man s religions. 1956. 4th ed. new york:macmillan, 1969. the infernal chapel the infernal chapel was founded in june of the year 2000 for the spreading of left-hand path philosophy in the southern california area. the infernal

vision of the singer s death, his body buried by the roadside, his evil spirit riding on a greyhound bus. hell hound on my trail, more a series of images of romantic conflict and rambling than a coherent tale, opens with a singer in desperate flight, lost in fear and anxiety( blues fallin down like hail, with a hellhound on my trail. the hellhound then vanishes from the song, which turns to less apocalyptic, more prosaic matters. cross road blues has a clearer story line,with the singer again in desperate flight, caught at a crossroads, praying anxiously and trying without success to flag a ride. night falls, and the song ends with the singer s frightened cry, i believe i m sinkin down. the only supernatural reference is to the lord, whom the singer implores for mercy. the devil appears n

idea of a final judgment, in which the entire human race was resurrected, and individuals rewarded or punished. this clearly appealed to jewish religious thinkers of the time as an adequate way of coming to grips with the injustices that were so apparent in this life, and was incorporated into such late books as the book of daniel. the book of daniel incorporated a notion of resurrection into its apocalyptic, final scenario in the following words: many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt (dan. 12:2. while resurrection is a type of afterlife, it is peculiar in that it is an afterlife that returns the deceased to this life. it is thus, in a sense, more of a continuation of the present life than a true a

mned will trade their ongoing torment in hell for a painful annihilation. the souls of the blessed, on the other hand, will be resurrected in physical bodies, which ahura mazda will make both immortal and eternally youthful. many of the components of this vision of the endtimes a final battle between good and evil, judgment of the wicked, resurrection of the dead, and so on were adopted by jewish apocalyptic thinkers. from texts composed by these apocalyptists, such notions were adopted into christianity and islam. although seemingly a dreadful day, many believers throughout the centuries have looked forward to the final judgment as the day on which their suffering for the faith will be vindicated, and their persecutors and ridiculers punished. this revenge motif finds expression in, for e

edian, persian, and hellenistic empires. the endtime significance of this creature is that yahweh will release leviathan to wreak havoc upon the earth shortly before the end of the world. then god will finally destroy the beast. there is a foreshadowing of this scenario in jonah, where the prophet is swallowed by and eventually regurgitated from a whale. jonah then travels to ninevah to preach an apocalyptic message. see also dragons; judaism;war in heaven for further reading: davidson,gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. 1967.new york: free press, 1971. day, john. god s conflict with the dragon and the sea. echoes of a canaanite myth in the old testament. cambridge: cambridge university press, 1985. sykes, egerton. who s who: non-classical mythology. new york: oxfor

n. in this interworld, which somewhat resembles dreaming, the soul of the deceased, liberated from its bodily layers, can awaken and become aware of its true nature. the interworld period is important in preparing for the day of resurrection, which occurs at the end of time. see also limbo; zoroastrianism for further reading: cohn, norman. cosmos, chaos and the world to come: the ancient roots of apocalyptic faith. new haven, ct: yale university press, 1993. eliade,mircea, ed. encyclopedia of religion. new york:macmillan, 1987. mcdannell, colleen, and bernhard lang. heaven: a history. 1988. new york: vintage, 1990. the pyx, a.k.a. the hooker cult murders karen black attends a black mass in this 1973 film, and is later found murdered, her hand still grasping a host container. detective chri

100 prominent angels in legend and folklore, and much more. murfreesboro, tn:mamre, 1993. satanic reds 239 satan satan s name is commonly believed to originate from the term satan, which connotes the idea of opposition. the traditional account that satan led a revolt against god and ultimately was banished along with his followers from heaven originates in the apocryphal, noncanonical hebrew and apocalyptic books. this is the literature that inspired john milton s paradise lost in the seventeenth century. originally satan represented more of an abstract entity than the personification of evil as it is commonly interpreted.when satan appeared in the hebrew scriptures (the old testament, he represented an adversary or an enemy, but he was also a divine agent who could at times assume human

a number of concepts about satan. he is found in the koran as al-shaytan (the demon, and was conceived of as a tempter. he is also associated with the lower human principle, the flesh, or the nafs, and has the power to lead humans astray by disguising his identity and inducing humans to do evil deeds. in the biblical literature, satan and the serpent are often interchangeable, particularly in the apocalyptic literature. but in the third century, the christian philosopher origen fully established the association between satan and the snake. in the following centuries the snake was conceived of as either the tool of satan, or as his incarnation. satan, however, is not only the symbol of death and evil. in judeo-christian and islamic folklore traditions, where he is typically depicted as the

ll be no more begetting of children. all mankind will form a single community of devout zoroastrians, all united in adoration of ahura mazda and the holy immortals, and all at one in thought word and deed (cohn 1993, 98 99) many of the components of this vision of the end times a final battle between good and evil, judgment of the wicked, resurrection of the dead, and so on were adopted by jewish apocalyptic thinkers. from texts composed by these apocalypticists, such notions were adopted into christianity and islam. see also ahriman for further reading: biedermann, hans. dictionary of symbolism: cultural icons and the meanings behind them. new york:meridian, 1994. cohn, norman. cosmos, chaos and the world to come: the ancient roots of apocalyptic faith. new haven, ct: yale university pres

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each letter out in full and (c) counting h in full as ah rather than the more usual hh) can get this name to add to 666. line 7. asmodai. appears in the apocryphal book of tobit. sometimes also known by the latinised form asmodeus. the name is possibly a modification of aeshma deva, an evil spirit from persian mythology. line 8. belial. said to be the chief of the evil spirits in some late jewish apocalyptic literature (e.g. the testament of the 12 patriarchs, but in the old testament the name was a mere term of abuse meaning masterless or worthless. line 9. lilith. she gets everywhere. line 10. naamah. the sister of tubal-cain (see masonic symbolism; but in the zohar she gets turned into another version of lilith. col. cix. rather than use planetary symbols to distinguish the kings and du

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ount for thepresence of evil in the world. these accounts relate to the same idea of alien visitationand colonization. in this case, the alien invaders are referred to either as the serpentpeople or the brotherhood of the snake (it has been repeatedly noted that thoughphysical snakes were unknown on most islands, the symbol of the snake or serpent oncarvings, etc, is extremely conspicuous. in the apocalyptic fragment of clement, weread: and on earth shall be monsters, a generation of dragons of men, and likewise of serpents. but though this is their title, it should not be taken that they had the physical likeness of ser-pents, which they did not. a fuller explanation of this is provided later. though no two writers wholly agree on the question of evil, or an alien presence,according to th

king to the fauna, makinggenetic tests on certain animals. it was found that the dna of the reptiles was the mostsuitable for their purposes. the alien masters then crossed their own dna with that ofcertain reptiles, and it is from this that the reptilian (dragon) beings of the story-books were born. and on earth shall be monsters, a generation of dragons of men and likewise of serpents.(clement: apocalyptic fragment) in the babylonian legend of creation, we read: men with bodies of birds of the deserts, human beings with the faces of ravens, these thegods created and in the earth the gods created for them a dwellingin the midst of the earththey grew up and became great, and increased in number .atlantis researcher andrew collins provides the story of amram, father of the law-giver moses

adamic race. for millennia,the priestess cults held the knowledge of flora and fauna and of herbs and healing.under the dominican order and the inquisition, they were brought to pay for their her-esies, though the crimes against them from this source were only part of what theyhave had to endure.epilogue: time to change the road youre on144atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the apocalyptic masterpieces of albrecht durer (one of the sons of the serpents) havebeen misinterpreted as mere representations of common fears of his own time. however,they are not merely myopic sketches of events of his own time. durer and other artists whotreated canonical subjects were remote viewers, prophesizing, warning, and revealing.their iconic allegories deal with timeless meta-themes of w

of which is abstracted here, concerns the real placement of continents, the reallocation of atlantis and the reason why the centers of world history were artificially displaced to asiaminor. beaumont reveals that the ancients manufactured and utilized powerful weapons in their warsand power politics.and on earth shall be monsters, a generation of dragons of men, and likewise of serpents (clement, apocalyptic fragment)above all, the history of the old testament is the history of atlantis (comyns beaumont)investigations into the beginnings of religion have accumulated steadily throughout the past half-century. it is only by great efforts of censorship, by sectarian education of an elaborately pro-tected sort, and the like, that ignorance about them is maintained (h. g. wells, the fate of hom

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e primal rounds of evolutionary effort when self-consciousness had not yet been won by self-induced and self-devised efforts, and when peace and harmony prevailed both within and without by right of heritage rather than through personal labour. the diagram appears in the water grade of practicus, since water is a fitting representation of this placid peace. at the summit of the diagram stands the apocalyptic woman clothed with the sun of glory, crowned with the twelve stars, and the moon lying at her feet. her symbolism pertains to the supernal essence of mind, representing thus the type and symbol of the glittering augoeides, the neschamah. introduction 33 speaking of an analogous psychological conception in his commentary to the secret of the golden flower, dr. c. g. jung remarks that th

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nd the kabalistic alphabet of the tarot. thus, figure i, entitled the juggler, represents the active principle in the economy of divine and human autotelia. figure ii, vulgarly called pope joan, represents dogmatic unity based upon numbers, and is the personification of the kabalah or the gnosis. figure iii represents divine spirituality under the emblem of a winged woman, holding in one hand the apocalyptic eagle, and in the other the world suspended from the end of her sceptre. the other emblems are equally clear, and can be explained as easily as the first. turnthe kabalah 49 ing now to the four suits, namely, clubs, cups, swords, and circles or pantacles, commonly called deniers all these are hieroglyphics of the tetragram. thus, the club is the egyptian phallus or hebrew jod; the cup

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the cultural milieu in which the jews must live, wherein the women of the western world generally have equal access to the same educational, political, and economic roles as men. some of the discussion in the source text dealt with the shift from a spiritual focus to a much more materialistic and secular judaism. this was seen as the only way the modern jew could salvage something from his recent apocalyptic past. with the shift from prophets to politicians, and the emphasis on a new world order of peace, it will be interesting to watch the birth-pangs of the new judaism. behind this shift is the disillusionment evidenced in rubenstein's comments, quoted earlier, which he states go back to the destruction of the temple. in that he revealed that the jews also have an aeonic viewpoint. the c

how indeed might we presume to order even our own thought without reference to the elemental bases of god? then michael turned to me and said, lucifer, thou hast elected a direction whose end none can foresee, for it is estranged from the design of god. those who confirm thee do so as much for faith in thy person as for sanction of thy ideal. and i perceive that, should thou fail in thy ambition, apocalyptic madness shall be thy ruin and damnation. then shall thy light perish, and all that thou hast achieved become as naught, for all will be conformed to the divine law. but if thou should succeed, then god would be cast down, vesting in ourselves alone the control of the universe- would we dare to presume to this? such a future might well be glorious beyond measure, but, should we prove un

n "genesis, where the fifth chapter recounts "and enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat methuselah: and enoch walked with god after he begat methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: and enoch walked with god: and he was not; for god took him" the book of enoch comprises a part of what is generally called apocalyptic literature. the apocalyptists were a school of pre-rabbinical hebrews who believed that the world was in such catastrophic condition as to be incurable by any of man's efforts. the name "apocalyptist" means "revealer, and this sect maintained that human progress was rigidly mapped by god and was not subject to human will at all. in this the apocalyptists differed from the other major h

calyptists were a school of pre-rabbinical hebrews who believed that the world was in such catastrophic condition as to be incurable by any of man's efforts. the name "apocalyptist" means "revealer, and this sect maintained that human progress was rigidly mapped by god and was not subject to human will at all. in this the apocalyptists differed from the other major hebraic branch, pharisaism. the apocalyptic literature is generally fixed to the period 200-150 bce, and the book of enoch is generally regarded as the oldest such work. it seems to have been written by a number of authors, the earliest being a hebrew from the land of dan in northern palestine. the original text was probably written in hebrew or aramaic, later translated into greek and latin. these translations did not directly

v2- c32- 2 author: gary glunz ii date: july 10, xxvi html revision: dec. 22, 1998 ce subject: the stars reading list: out there in the cold art thou- rumbling on thy blast-furnacing engines of the ages! so alone- yet thy stormeth on with thy grand orchestral concert of fusion and rage! some among you giveth life to worlds- only to take it away at the ends of times of worlds- releasing souls in an apocalyptic flash of helium ignition. some of you will towards iron- only to serve as seeds for the further information of stars and worlds. still others out there among you exist as blue-hot x-ray blasters- and serve as signals of warning to those who might embark on the journey with deceit or falsehood in their hearts. and then there are you red supergiants- willing on towards supernova detonati

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s originally that of psychopomp to the dead souls. no less than three of the apostles identify him as incarnate evil and lord of chaos. johann weyer in pseudographica demonica makes him supreme overlord of the underworld and founder of the great order of the fly. the grand grimoire and grimorium verum have him as the prince of hell. corresponds to chokmah. behemoth (hebrew behema, meaning animal. apocalyptic beast of jewish eschatology. identified in the middle ages with satan. a designation of the hippopotamus (job 40. may also appear as an elephant, crocodile or whale, and was created with leviathan on the fifth day. the devil s cup bearer, patron devil of gluttony and despair, who presides over the feasts of hell, entertaining its denizens with songs and plays. creates chaos and discord

heatre who tempts men to pretence and fraud. lahash once led 184 spirits to prevent the prayers of moses from reaching god, and was thus expelled from the presence. leraikha, leraje, leraie (goetia, 14th spirit. marquis commanding 30 legions. appears as an archer dressed all in green. causes battles and contests, festers arrow wounds. leviathan, livjatan (phoenician. who is a form of the devil in apocalyptic christianity, monstrous she-dragon of chaos (psalm 74:14, the crooked serpent (isiah 27:1. admiral of the devil s navy. created with behemoth on the fifth day. on judgement day, all but the saved will be swallowed by leviathan. lilin (aramaic. succubi spawn of lilith, one of four classes of spirits, the others being mazziqin, ruachin, and shedim. lilith (aramaic. mother of the lilim an

e commanding 30 legions. appears as a gallant warrior riding a crocodile and wearing a ducal crown. procures love. salmael this fallen one has a loathing for israel and their yahweh, and calls for their destruction. samael, sammael, samiel (hebrew, poison of god. thus sammael is the angel of poison, the bright and poisonous one, or the poison of god. he is also identified as the angel of death in apocalyptic writings, a name of satan from the third century onwards. identified by enoch as the chief of the satans. known as a great serpent with twelve wings (ie grigori) he is also accused of causing the fall of eden, and of fathering cain. isaiah, in his visit to heaven, saw the hosts of sammael squabbling with each other. prince amongst sorcerers, a handsome redheaded young man of intense be

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raditional rules (isn t that an affliction of xianity) regarding our satan/reality-based mythology and symbolism. it s time we evolve (an inability of xianity) into a new phase of religious reverence: satan will be actively represented and recognized by more than the one traditional aspect of fire. it s only proper and becoming that he be symbolized also by the nightsky, darkness moreover, as our apocalyptic creed continues its prophetic trek, it s also time we symbolically, and literally, depose the tyrant; replace god, the so-called supreme being with a god truly representative of man; for he was made in man s image our infernal god, satan! so it shall come to pass that the nightsky will reflect the true nature of those who have the knowledge of life and who tread heavily and fiercely up

ndividuality, in spite of becoming outcasts. finally, we need no steeple and spire to experience our truth, for as always, it permeates the deepest strata of our kind the devil over god; evil over good. the real-life relationship endures through man and it may extend well beyond the underground hellscape: becoming common knowledge within our towns and cities; and into the homes, minds, dreams and apocalyptic beliefs of xians as we continue to propagate and empower evil, and work toward the re-creation of hell on earth! the most recognized symbol of the satanic arts, the pentagram represents evil man and the dark earth. the illustration above is representative of its magickal nature. it s the symbol of the five senses which feed the emotions; the earthly elements; evil and darkness; the ess

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f the ox, is the natural ruler of earth in malkuth, under the power of h final of the holy name, the bride, eve, and the queen. and the schem ha-mephoresch, the 72, are found in the number of the family of jacob s sons is 70; and jacob and joseph equals 72. but the then ruling pharoah, corresponds more to hadar amongst the edomite kings, as representing one of not so evil 4 a tendency. yet as the apocalyptic symbol of the lamb and the airy sign which leads off the schem ha-mephoresch is chesed; one opposed to the evil symbol of the dragon, so is every shepherd an abomination to the egyptians, who yet are friendly with the ox symbol, the kerubic ruler of earth, and therefore is it symbolically said by the children of israel that their business has been about cattle and not about sheep. name

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ng has frequently been the introduction xi response today also. this reflects a desire to keep treasured items of belief safe from the restless questioning of the modern world, even at the cost of a debilitating split between head and heart. if early christian texts present jesus in cosmic terms, relating stories that are less history than myths like those about the pagan savior-gods, or like the apocalyptic figures anticipated by the essenes, these must be seen as unfortunate vestiges in the christian message of former superstitious and unrealistic times. the response of christian theologians must be to demythologize christianity a program relentlessly pursued by bultmann and his many followers in particular, but tacitly followed by many more.2 and what has the result been? stripped bare

kabeiros: the kabeiroi of the ancient mysteries are beings with a consciousness far transcending that of humanity today. schelling means that through initiation individuals could gain a consciousness of a higher nature than their own present one. p. 123 seven is a sacred symbol: its significance is further explained in my an outline of occult science (anthroposophic press, hudson, ny, 1984. p.131 apocalyptic symbols: the explanations given here are necessarily brief and could naturally be greatly extended; but that lies outside the scope of this book. p.181 ingersoll: these assertions from r.g.ingersoll s modern twilight of the gods are not quoted on the assumption that everyone would agree with them. many would deny them, yet their ideas about the human being and nature would lead to the

the gospel of st. matthew (anthroposophic press, hudson, ny, 1985, pp. 132ff. 102. the phrase is attributed to the second century a.d. neoplatonist, numenius of apamea, fragment 10 (leemans. 103. cf. g. scholem, major trends in jewish mysticism (schocken, new york, 1961, p. 42. to this tradition belong for example the so-called iii enoch and the writings of the merkavah mystics: see i. gruenwald, apocalyptic and merkavah mysticism (leiden, 1980. for other mystery groups such as the essenes and therapeutae in judaism at the time of jesus, see ch. 9 below. 104. zohar (book of splendor, 110 b. 105. steiner s version is closest to that in the jerusalem talmud, hagigah 14 b. 106. john 20:29. 107. luke 19:10. 108. luke 17:20-21. 109. luke 10:20. 110. john 1:1, 1:14. 111. ernst renan, das leben j

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the universe. only through complete mastery of oneself could one see beyond death and perceive the pathways of the after-life. many times these mysteries were taught in the form of a play and were celebrated in sacred groves or in secret temples away from the cities. in contemporary usage, the word cult generally carries with it negative connotations and associations. in modern times, a number of apocalyptic cults, such as the branch davidians and the people s temple, have alarmed the general population by isolating themselves and preparing for armageddon, the last great battle between good and evil. the mass suicides carried out by members of heaven s gate, people s temple, and order of the solar temple have also presented alarming images of what many believe to be typical cultist practic

en the sons of light and the sons of darkness. the qumran sect, known as the essenes, forms a definite link between judaism and christianity, and many scholars have suggested that jesus was a member of the group. the nag-hammadi scrolls, discovered in egypt in 1945, also give a strong indication that jesus may have been an essene, a student of the essenes, or at least closely associated with this apocalyptic sect during the so-called silent years of jesus, ages 12 to 30. it is generally believed that the essenes incorporated certain aspects of reincarnation in their teachings. certain scholars have also speculated that jesus may have studied various mystical traditions in egypt, india, and tibet, all of which would have introduced him to the teachings of reincarnation. m delving deeper eer

always remain. is it the wiring of the human brain that creates god and the mystical experience? or was it god who created this brain wiring so humans might experience the splendor within and all religious phenomena? antichrist the antichrist, as the word implies, is one who opposes christ or who falsely presents himself or herself as christ. although the word is most commonly associated with the apocalyptic new testament book of revelation, the word antichrist is nowhere to be found within its text. in 1 john 2:18, the epistle writer declares that the enemy of christ has manifested and that many false teachers have infiltrated the christian ranks. in verse 22, john names as the antichrist anyone who would deny jesus as the christ and the father and the son, and in 2 john verse 7 he declar

cording to a great design of god. the present is a time of trial and tribulation, and its meaning will only be made clear in the last days before the final judgment occurs. placing the ultimate revelation of god at the end time seems to imply a history for god, as well as for his creation or at least an evolution, or transformation, from one sphere of activity to another. in the jewish tradition, apocalyptic thought presupposes a universal history in which the divine author of that history will reveal and manifest his secrets in a dramatic end time that with finality will establish the god of israel as the one true god. the end of days (acharit ha-yamin) is bound up with the coming of the messiah, but before his appearance governments will become increasingly corrupt, religious schools wil

ut the end of the world. he makes reference to the prophet daniel and his warnings concerning the end times and the antichrist, and he admonishes the disciples not to chase after false teachers who will produce great miracles and signs to trick god s chosen ones. no one knows when the son of man shall appear again coming on the clouds of heaven, jesus tells them, not even the angels. as in jewish apocalyptic tradition, christians also recognize that there must come the terrible time when the antichrist, summoning great powers of evil, will triumph for a period over the righteous believers and that there will be one last awful clash between the forces of good under the banner of christ and his angels and the minions of evil under the banner of satan. before that final battle in the valley o

word armageddon is a greek corruption of the hebrew har-megiddo, the mound of megiddo, but they debate exactly when the designation of armageddon was first used. the city of megiddo was abandoned sometime during the persian period (539 b.c.e. 332 b.c.e, and the small villages established to the south were known by other names. it could well have been that john the revelator, writing in the jewish apocalyptic tradition of a final conflict between the forces of light and darkness, was well aware of the bloody tradition of the hill of megiddo and was inspired by the ruins of the city on its edge; but by the middle ages, theologians appeared to employ armageddon as a spiritual concept without any conscious association with the valley of megiddo. armageddon simply stood for the promised time wh

ame convinced that ha-farchi was correct in his designation of the site as the biblical megiddo. later explorers and archaeologists determined that the ruins of the ancient city lay about a mile north of lejjun at what had been renamed by the ottoman government as the mound of tell el-mutasellim, the hill of the governor. today, tourists visit tel megiddo in great numbers, attracted by the site s apocalyptic mystique and the old battleground s significance as the place where the fate of ancient empires was decided with the might of sword and spear. the israel national parks authority works in close coordination with the megiddo expedition and the ename center for public archaeology of belgium in offering visitors a dramatic perspective of the history of armageddon. m delving deeper bloomfi

t 2001. shroud of turin. http//www.shroud.com. 14 august 2001. tribbe, frank. portrait of jesus? the illustrated story of the shroud of turin. new york: stein& day, 1983. wilson, ian. the shroud of turin: the burial cloth of jesus christ? new york: doubleday, 1978. 666 the association of the number 666 with the antichrist is derived from revelation 13:18 in which john the revelator is told in his apocalyptic vision that the number of the beast is 666 and that the number stands for a person. in john s world of the first century, the beast that ruled the earth would have been the emperor, the caesar, of the roman empire, nero (37c.e. 68 c.e. using the hebrew alphabet, the numerical value of caesar nero, the merciless persecutor of the early christians, is 666. although jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c

r nationalism surface and one is likely to find a religious core, some older binding energy of belief or superstition, previous to civic consciousness, previous almost to thought. here, morrow discovered, is the great paradox god-love, the life-force, the deepest well of compassion is capable of transforming itself into a death force, with the peculiar annihilating energies of belief. a number of apocalyptic cults, such as aum supreme truth, the branch davidians, and the people s temple, have seen signs in contemporary society that they have interpreted as omens that the end-times are fast approaching. because these groups want to isolate their members and prepare to defend themselves during armageddon, they have frightened the general population by their stockpiling of arms and their occa

at must be observed by those who wished to follow him, participated in a communal meal of bread and water which resembled the eucharist, and celebrated his birthday on december 25, mithraism had been established throughout the persian empire at least 500 years before the birth of jesus christ in 6 b.c.e. mithraism had been spread throughout the then-known world by a group of magi, who preached an apocalyptic scenario in which mithras, greatly associated with solar symbolism, would return at the end of a 7,000-year cycle to renew the world and to reestablish his earthly reign. in rome, mithras had appeal to both the foot soldier and his ranking officers. mithraism was a macho religion for men only no women allowed. after baptismal rites had been conducted, the rugged legionnaires passed thr

the houston music theatre; and from 1966 to 1971 taught music at the university of st. thomas in houston. nettles, an astrology enthusiast, was a graduate of the hermann hospital school of professional nursing in 1948 and worked as a nurse in the houston area. although they had each been previously married to others, in 1974, when applewhite and nettles were creating their philosophical blend of apocalyptic christianity and ufology, they said that they were not married, but were living together by spiritual guidance. espousing the highest principles, the couple stated that they had renounced sex in preparation for their journey to the father s kingdom. applewhite and nettles began to call themselves bo and peep, and they proclaimed that they had awakened to their true extraterrestrial ori

8 january 2002. story, ron, ed. the encyclopedia of extraterrestrial encounters. new york: new american library, 2001. twentieth-century spiritual expression although millennial thought dates back to the ancient persian philosophers and was sustained through the centuries by christian, jewish, and muslim teachers, americans especially seem always to have been fascinated by the horror of a certain apocalyptic vision that includes plagues, earthquakes, and cataclysmic volcanic eruptions. christopher columbus was a devout student of biblical prophecies who believed that the world would end in 1650. he perceived that his personal mission was to find a new continent that would be a special refuge for those who survived the purging of armageddon, the final battle between the armies of christ and

of christ and satan, that he believed would occur during the mid-seventeenth century. scores of american preachers and mystics from colonial times through the civil war and up to the present day have continued the precedent set by columbus and occupied themselves with predicting the exact time of christ s return and the subsequent final battle between good and evil. of course such obsessions with apocalyptic teachings and personal quests for spiritual fulfillment are by no means limited to americans. by the twentieth century, many formerly loyal followers of organized religious bodies throughout the world were beginning to become impatient with doctrinal rules of order and began to blend the new discoveries of science with the faith of their forefathers. in the west, many spiritual seekers

science which they felt supported their spiritual beliefs, including meditation, biofeedback, and extrasensory perception as means of attaining higher awareness. these amalgamations of science, conventional christianity, and such eastern religions as hinduism and buddhism offended many individuals who deemed themselves to be the true followers of the revelations disclosed in the bible; and these apocalyptic groups, such as the branch davidians set themselves apart to prepare for the time of judgment that they believed was imminent. while members of organized church bodies, as well as the general public, were quick to brand these various splinter groups as cults, in contemporary language usage such a term is considered negative and judgmental. although the beliefs practiced by some of thes

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the universe. only through complete mastery of oneself could one see beyond death and perceive the pathways of the after-life. many times these mysteries were taught in the form of a play and were celebrated in sacred groves or in secret temples away from the cities. in contemporary usage, the word cult generally carries with it negative connotations and associations. in modern times, a number of apocalyptic cults, such as the branch davidians and the people s temple, have alarmed the general population by isolating themselves and preparing for armageddon, the last great battle between good and evil. the mass suicides carried out by members of heaven s gate, people s temple, and order of the solar temple have also presented alarming images of what many believe to be typical cultist practic

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universe. only through complete mastery of oneself could one see beyond death and perceive the pathways of the after-life. many times these mysteries were taught in the form of a play and were celebrated in sacred groves or in secret temples away from the cities. in contemporary usage, the word gcult h generally carries with it negative connotations and associations. in modern times, a number of apocalyptic cults, such as the branch davidians and the people fs temple, have alarmed the general population by isolating themselves and preparing for armageddon, the last great battle between good and evil. the mass suicides carried out by members of heaven fs gate, people fs temple, and order of the solar temple have also presented alarming images of what many believe to be typical cultist prac

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

for his murderer. the day was falling, and the church was beginning to grow dark. the archbishop, his arms raised to heaven, lighted by a last ray which penetrated the casements of the nave, stood out upon a dark background, where one could scarcely distinguish a pedestal without a statue, on which were written these two words of the passion of christ: ecce homo! and farther in the background, an apocalyptic painting representing the four plagues ready to let themselves loose upon the world, and the whirlwinds of hell, following the dusty traces of the pale horse of death. before the archbishop, a lifted arm, sketched in shadow like an infernal silhouette, held and brandished a knife. policemen, sword in hand, were running up. and while all this tumult was going on at the bottom of the chu

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rone and clock are so important in understanding tetragrammaton, i have examined the system of enochian magic in considerable detail in chapter xvi. xvi tetragrammaton appendix a contains the corrected english text of all eighteen enochian keys and the key of the thirty aethers, with an accompanying analysis of the symbolism in the keys. this study shows the angels of the keys to possess the same apocalyptic nature as those described by st. john the divine in his biblical book of revelation. i have put forward the theory, which will undoubtedly arouse controversy, that the watchtowers and enochian keys are parts of a great ritual of ceremonial magic designed to trigger the chaotic final destruction of our universe. in my opinion it was the desire, perhaps the necessity, of the enochian ang

s a crown of twelve stars. it is not widely recognized by occultists who employ the keys in their magic that the forty-eight keys, taken as a whole, represent a complex ritual working whose sole purpose is to open the four sealed gates of the watchtowers, allowing the entry of the great dragon, coronzon or satan, who will bring about the final destruction of the manifest universe. the keys are an apocalyptic evocation. this function is examined at greater length in appendix a. there is a fable that if the tetragrammaton should ever be spoken in its entirety, it would destroy the world. i believe the enochian keys to be one form of the complete voicing of the terrible name of the god of wrath, designed to release the thunders of judgment. since the keys were given to dee and kelley by the a

im by the blood of the lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time (rev. 12:7-9, 11-2. it is vital to grasp that the imagery in the keys is apocalyptic if we are to gain any understanding of its meaning. in using the keys, the magician, speaking as the voice of the heavenly christ, is calling through the gates of the watchtowers the wrathful angels and spirits of righteous judgment that will bring about the final destruction of the universe. the annihilation of the universe is a cause for rejoicing in heaven, because all division and

m seizing his prey by the barrier of the firmament supported upon the hyacinth pillars. it is evident that this frustration will not last long. the rhetorical question, really more of a statement, asks "how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth, which are, and shall not see death until this house fall, and the dragon sink" this notion of imminent destruction is a common feature of apocalyptic literature. appendix a: the keys 207 it is not clear if the sinking of the dragon refers to his descent upon the earth or his ultimate fall into the bottomless pit (rev. 20:z-3. however, the final part of the key seems to summon the dragon "come, appear to the terror of the earth, and to our comfort, and of such as are prepared" those who are "prepared" are those who come before the th

ide the keys in dee's magical record, where kelley describes to dee a vision of the heavenly throne of christ: and there sitteth one in a judgement seat, with all his teeth fiery. all the place is like gold, garnished with precious stones. on his head is a great stone; covering his head; a stone most bright, brighter then fire (a due& faithful relation, p. 61) dee's occult diaries are filled with apocalyptic prophecies spoken by the enochian angels. the sample below illustrates the pervasive doomsday imagery that surrounds the keys and shows how close the prophecies of the angels are to those delivered by st. john: i will plague the people, and their blood shall become rivers. fathers shall eat their own children, and the earth shall be barren: the beasts of the field shall perish, and the

-two chapters in the book of revelation. therefore, the nests of woe upon the tree lament the destruction of the world, which in ancient times was not merely the physical earth, but the entire universe, just as the chapters of revelation lament its destruction. there are also twenty-two letters in the hebrew alphabet, so the lamentation of the nests may refer to the hebrew letters with which many apocalyptic prophecies are expressed in the old testament. in the kabbalah, the letters have a living, individual existence that is similar to the independence accorded the simple numbers by the pythagoreans. the hebrew letters themselves might almost be thought of as angels of god. in dee's time, the sephirothic tree of the kabbalah, a glyph that embodies the underlying structure of the world, wa

enochian magick of dr. john dee, p. 87. however, laycock follows casaubon, and i can see no reason for departing fiom dee's version. for an angel to become the house of death may mean incarnation in a physical body. when human souls incarnate, they put on houses of mortality. however, it is possible that to become the house of death signifies to commit mass slaughter, which is in keeping with the apocalyptic theme of the keys. the house of death in the east here in the eleventh key is a striking contrast to the house of virgins of the east in the seventh key. a house in this sense means not only a physical structure in which to dwell, but also a group of individuals who are bound together by some common link such as a tie of blood, a religious sect, a business practice, a fraternal associa

s of god, twelve thousand from each tribe of israel (rev. 7:4. however, it may also refer to an occult sigil or symbol, possibly the sigil of aemeth, concerning which the angel uriel says "this seal is not to be looked upon without great reverence and devotion (james, the enochian magick of dr. john dee, p. 37, transcribed from dee's de heptarchia mystica, sloane 3191. because of the dominance of apocalyptic appendix a: the keys 227 imagery throughout the keys, i am more inclined to think it refers to the seal on the foreheads of the righteous. the sixteenth key 0 thou second flame, the house of justice, which hast thy beginning in glory, and shalt comfort the just; which walkest on the earth with feet 8763 that understand and separate creatures: great art thou in the god of stretch-forth

faithful relation, p. 29) it is doubtful if dee, despite his great wisdom, ever really understood the transcendent purpose for the keys. he sought the magic of the angels for personal and political ends, and only in a secondary way did he desire knowledge of them for its own sake. it is clear from his diaries that the angels were using both dee and kelley as unwitting instruments through whom the apocalyptic bomb that is the magic of the four watchtowers and the enochian keys might be planted upon the earth. time and time again, the impatience that madimi, nalvage, ave, and other angels felt for dee's preoccupation with physical events shows through the transcript of the scrying sessions. appendix a: the keys 237 while many of the angels respected dee for his learning and holiness, they he

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

the vernal equinox, and sign and constellation coincided; now they do not, so do not be confused by our still calling the first sign of spring aries, although the sun is now really at such time in pisces; numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott every 2160 years, the sign is changed. precedent to aries, the sun at the vernal equinox# 125. 126. chapter twenty the apocalyptic numbers 1st resurrection, revelation xx. 5. 2nd death, xx. 14. 2 witnesses, xi. 3. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 2 olive trees and 2 candlesticks (before throne of god of the earth, xi. 4. 2-horned beast who spoke like a dragon, xiii. ii; his number is 666. 3 woes, ix. 12. 1/ 3 part of vegetation killed, viii. 7 do. of sea became blood and d

WOLFSON ELLIOT ALEF MEM TAU KABBALISTIC MUSINGS ON TIME TRUTH AND DEATH

-khen derekh ha-galggal hozer u-mitggalggel ad ein sof we-takhlit. 160 needless to say, the turning and rotating suggest a circular motion indicative of the sefirotic activity, but the forms of the straight and restored light by which the latter is also described are manifestly linear. insofar as the world of discrete entities continues to exist, a condition to which cordovero refers in blatantly apocalyptic terms as long as the world is impaired on account of the filth of the serpent and the shell [kol od she-ha-olam be-qilqul me-zohamat ha-nahash we-haqelippah] the providential power of god is manifest under the guise of the time of action, zeman ha-ma aseh, which fluctuates in accord with the dual movement of procession and return. however, when the semblance of all particularity is ann

ent without consulting the heavenly court. god s autonomy is nonetheless upheld by the claim that there is only one seal (hotam) of judgment, that is, it may be necessary for god to consult with others in rendering judgment, but he alone bears responsibility for the judgment that is eventually rendered. this idea is supported textually by the image of the book of truth (ketav emet) drawn from the apocalyptic vision of daniel, an image that conveys the quality of truth as durable or steadfast, for what is inscribed in a book was thought even from antiquity to stand the test of time.36 as another rabbinic aphorism states, truth stands, deceit does not stand (qushta qa ei shiqra lo qa ei).37 the correlation between the seal and truth is even more pronounced in the tradition that the seal of g

e finegan, archaeology, pp. 220 260; gieschen, divine name, pp. 133 134. lastly, it is worth recalling here that the archaic symbolism lived well into the middle ages, as we may adduce, for example, from the case of francis of assisi, who considered the tau a symbol of redemption and thus worthy of being his order s coat of arms. see goffen, spirituality, pp. 5, 89 90 n. 36; emmerson and herzman, apocalyptic imagination, pp. 46 48, 52 53, 68, and references to other scholars cited on p. 197 n. 25. 30. the polemical dimension of the rabbinic dicta is developed further by liebes, studies in zohar, pp. 235 237 n. 56. 31. as oron, narrative, pp. 100 101 notes, according to the earlier sources, the case that tau presents before god rests on its standing at the start of the word torah, whereas

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