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es unwanted or unnecessary elements after their usefulness has passed. geburah is reflected in the charioteer in the tarot. tiphareth: the sixth emanation on the tree of life. it is the sphere of beauty, harmonizing the forces of mercy (chesed) and judgement (geburah) higher on the tree. occultists identify tiphareth as the sphere of spiritual rebirth, and is ascribed to solar deities such as ra, apollo, and mithra as well as osiris and jesus christ. the tarot card temperence identifies the direct mystical ascent to tiphareth from malkuth, the physical. netzach: the seventh emanation on the tree of life. netzach is regarded as the sphere of creativity, subjectivity, and emotions, a very clear contrast to the sphere of hod, which represents intellect and rational thought. netzach is the sph

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andatur antro; saxo gram. p. 91, who misinterprets, as though the dead man fed upon them: nee contentus equi vel canis esu, p. 92' pro accipitribus' means, that in default of hawks, cocks were used. some have taken it, as though dogs and cocks were sacrificed to deified birds of prey. but the' pro' is immistakable^ conf. bopp's nalas and damajanti, p. 42, 268. the hyperboreans sacrificed asses to apollo; pindar pyth. 10. callimach. fr. 187. anton. liberal, metam. 20. the same was done at delphi; buckh corp. inscr. i, 807. 809. in a mod. greek poem tadupov, xvkov koi axcotrocy 8u]yt]ais w. 429-434, a.'similar oft'ering seems to be spoken of; and hagek's bohm. chrou. p. 62 gives an instance among the slavs. that, i suppose, is why the silesians are called ass-eaters (zeitvertreiber 1668, p

ople, he restores her to her sanctuary: satiatam conversatione mortalium deani templo reddit. tac. ann. 1, 51: caesar avidas legiones, quo latior populatio foret, quatuor in cuneos dispertit, quinquaginta millium spatium ferro flammisque pervastat; non sexus, non aetas miserationem st. benedict found at montecassino vetustissinmm fanuni, in quo ex antiqiio more gentilium a stulto rusticano populo apollo colebatur, circumquaque enini in cultuni daemoniorum luci succreverant, in quilius adluic eodem tempore infideliuni insana multitudo sacrificiis saciile^'is insudaliat. greg. ma. dialogi 2, 8. these were not german heathens, but it proves the custom to have been the more universal. 80 temples, attulit: profana simul et sacrcij et celehcrrimum illis gentibus templum, quod tanfanae^ vocabant

superficially than tacitus a hundred and fifty years later, cannot be allowed to derogate from the truth. he wants to contrast our ancestors with the gauls, with whom he had had more familiar converse; but the personifications of the sun, fire, and the moon, to which he limits the sum total of their gods, will hardly bear even a forced' interpretatio eomana. if in the place of sun and moon we put apollo and diana, they at once contradict that deeply rooted])eculiarity of the teutonic way of thinking, which conceives of the sun as a female, and of the moon as a male being, which could not have escaped the observation of the eoman, if it had penetrated deeper. and vulcan, similar to the norse loki, but one of those divinities of whom there is least trace to be found in the rest of teutondom

have the word irmansidi, pyramides, mons. 360. aveirun, irmansiut, pyramides. doc. 203^ irmansid, colossus, altissima columna, florent. 987, bias. 86. colossus est irminsim, gl. schletst. 18, 1. 28, 1. the literal meaning seems to be statue, to judge by the synonym avard, which in gl. jun. 226 is used for (deutsche scaqen, no. 347. tettaus, preuss. sagen, pp. 211-5-8. in eeinbot's georg tlie idol apollo is flogged with rods by a child, and forced to walk away (3258-69, which reminds one of the god perun, avhom, according to monk nestor, vladimir the apostolic caused to be scourged with rods. in an indian story i find a statue that eats the food set before it, poller 2, 302-3. antiquity then did not regard these images altogether as lumps of dead matter, but as penetrated l)y the life of th

isfies us least; but tacitus seems never to use the names of roman deities, except advisedly and with reflection. of the gods, he names only mercury and mars (germ. 9. ann. 13, 57. hist. 4, 64; of deified heroes, hercules, castor and pollux (germ. 9, 43; of goddesses, 120 gods. isis (germ. 9, the terra mater by her german name (germ. 40, and the mater deum (germ. 45. incompatible deities, such as apollo or bacchus, are never compared. what strikes us most, is the absence of jupiter, and the distinction given to mercury, who was but a deity of the second rank with the eomans, a mere god of merchants, but here stands out the foremost of all: deorum maxime mercurium colunt: to him alone do human sacrifices fall, while mars and hercules content themselves with beasts. this prominence of mercii

of 'dies saturni' in connection with the jewish sabbath, tibuu. 1, 3, 18. then tjxiov rjfiepa in justin mart, apolog. 1, 67 'epfiov and a^posctr^ rjfiepa in clem. alex, strom. 7, 12. the institution fully carried out, not long before dio cassius 37, 18, about the close 1 our mhg. poets impart no such information; they only trouble tlieir heads about saracen gods, among whom it is true jupiter and apollo make their appearance too. in rol. 97, 7 are named mars, jovinus, saturnus^ i can here use only the beginning, not the conclusion, which would be more useful for my investigation, of a learned paper by julius hare on the names of the days of the week (philolog. mus, nov" 1831. conf. idelers handb. der chronol. 2, 177-180, and letronne, observations sur les representations zodiacales, p. 99

n from so far back as the gothic. i remark further, that an observance liy the germani of sections of time must be inferred from the mere fact that certi dies were fixed for the sacrifices to mercury, tac. germ. 9^ jos. fuchs, gesch. von i\iainz 2, 27 seq (knpfert 4, no 7) describes a roman round altar, piob. of the 3rd or -ith century, on which are carved the .seven gods of the week (1 saturn, 2 apollo, 3 diana, 4 mars, 5 mercury, u jupiter, 7 venus, and in an 8lh place a genius. 128 gods. amongst us must be placed at latest in the fourth or fiftli century; it may not have taken place simultaneously in all parts of teutondom. our forefathers, caught in a natural delusion, began early to ascribe the origin of the seven days' names to the native gods of their fatherland. william of malmesbu

so late as in hans sachs (i. 5, 499, we read in a schwank, that the lord god has chosen wolves for his hounds, that they are his cattle. the two ravens are hvginn and muninn, from hugr (animus, cogitatio) and munr (mens; they are not only brave, but cunning and wise, they sit on the shoidders of osinn, and whisper in his ear whatever they see and hear, sa^m. 42' 88^ sn. 42. 56. 322. to the greek apollo too the wolf and raven were sacred^ his messenger the raven informed him when koronis was unfaithful, and aristeas accompanied him as a raven, herod. 4, 15; a raven is perched aloft on the mantle of mithras the sun-god. the gospels represent the holy ghost as a^ in marc. cap. 1, 11, the words 'augiirales vero alitcs ante curriini delio coiistiterunt, are transl. by notker 37: to warcn garo

ips, fornm. sog. 2, 16, hence a good sailing wind is called oshahjrr, ssem. 16o, i.c^oskahyrr\>yrv is from byrja, ohg. purran, to rise, be lifted up. it is in striking accord with this, that the mhg. poets use wunschivint in the same sense; hartmann says, greg. 615: do sande in (to them) der slieze krist den vil rehten wunschwint (see suppl) but other attributes of wuotan point more to hermes and apollo. he resembles the latter, in as much as from him proceed contagious diseases and their cure; any severe illness is the stroke of god, and apollo's arrows scatter])estilence. the gauls also imagined that apollo drove away diseases (apollinem morbos depellere, caes. b. g. 6, 17; and wodan's magic alone can cure balder's lamed horse. the raven on the god's shoulder exactly fits apollo, and sti

atter])estilence. the gauls also imagined that apollo drove away diseases (apollinem morbos depellere, caes. b. g. 6, 17; and wodan's magic alone can cure balder's lamed horse. the raven on the god's shoulder exactly fits apollo, and still more plainly the circumstance that osinn invented the poetic art, and saga is his divine daughter, just as the greek muses, though daughters of zeus, are under apollo's protection, and in his train. on the other hand, writing and the alphabet were not invented by apollo, but by hermes. tlie egyptian priests placed hermes at the head of all inventions (lamblich. de myst. aegypt. 8, 1, and theuth or thoth is said to have first discovered letters (plato's phaedr. 1, 96, bekker, while, ace. to hygin. fab. 143, hermes learnt them by watching the flight of cra

that thorr was thouglit the greatest, for eyvindr was actually dedicated to osinn. in fornm. sog. 5, 249, styrbiorn sacrifices to thorr, and eirekr to oc5inn, but the former is beaten. thorr tok^ so in an as. homily de temporibus anticliristi, in wheloc's bedap. 495, are eiimnerated' tlior and eotstven \c li,'vseue men hciiai^ swise; and before that' erculus se ent (hercules ^igas) and apouinis (apollo, j^e hi mterne god leton. the preacher was thinking of the greek and the norse deities, not of the saxon, or he vould have said thunor and woden. and in other cases, where distinctly norse gods are meant, as. writers use the norse form of name. f]\lagnusen3 lex. p. 919. 11 162 wodan. jolaveizlu fra haraldi, cnn offinn tok fra halfdani, fornm. sog. 10, 178. in the popular assembly at thrandh

ring stormful god of war. homer calls ares 0ovpns the wild, and("tcj)p(cv the insensate, 6y nvriva oi'sf depia-ra, ii. 5, 761. but naiverai is said of other gods too, particularly zeus (8 .300) and dionysos or bacchus (6, l;-i2^ one might think of fro, freyr (ch. x, but of course glittering swords were attributed to more than one god; thus poseidon (ke])tune) wields a sfivov aop, ii. 14, 38j, and apollo is called xpvo-zeus (see suppl. but further, as the saxons were so called, either because they wielded the sword of stone (saxum, or placed this god at the head of their race, so i think the chcruscans of tacitus, a people synonymous, nay ident

ortune, the god of victory shares to the full the prominent characteristics of luck in general, partiality and fickleness. and a remoter period of our nation may have used names which bore upon this^ amongst the train of ares and mars there appear certain mythic beings who personify the notions of fear and horror. ae2/jl0; and ^6l3o (ii. 4, 440. 11, 317. 15, 119) answer to the latin fallor^ conf. apollo xp^t^aopos above, p. 203, note. 2 cod. pal. 361, 65* tells of julian, that he was forced to piit his hand into the mouth of mercury's statue: die hant stiez er im in den niuiit dar, darinne uobte sich der valant (devil, er clemniete im die hant, und gehabete sie im so vaste, daz er sich niht irlosen mohte (could not get loose. besides, the wolfs limb has a likeness to the wuotan's limb, woe

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nt the generating influence of both brought into action by the rays of the sun. they are the two inferior or passive elements, as the sun and the air above them are the superior and active elements, of fire and air. furthermore, these two children resemble the sign gemini, which unites the earthly sign of taurus with the watery sign of cancer and this sign was by the greeks and romans referred to apollo or the sun. hiero: returns to place. heg: leads theoricus to west. hiereus (showing 1st tablet) the astrological symbols of the planets are derived from the 3 primary forms of the circle, the crescent and the cross, either singly or in combination. the circle denotes the sun and gold, the crescent the moon and silver, respectively, analogous to the red and the white alchemical natures. the

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s of love and passion aphrodite aphrodite is the cretan and greek goddess of love and beauty. her name means 'born from the foam. she can be invoked for the gentle attraction of new love as well as for sexuality and passion (hence the term 'aphrodisiac. aphrodite is especially potent in candle and mirror spells, romance and for love rituals involving the sea. artemis artemis is the twin sister of apollo, the young greek sun god, and is goddess of chastity, virginity, the hunt, the moon and nature. although a virgin goddess, she also presides over childbirth. because of her connection with the hunt, she is altogether a more active goddess than aphrodite if you are seeking love or, perhaps, trying to encourage a reluctant lover of either sex or win love under difficult circumstances. she is

ly sexual pleasure, but also innocent love and especially love in the springtime. her planetary associations mean she is the focus in all kinds of love rituals. as the evening star, venus takes on a warrior aspect and so can be invoked in fighting for one's lover or tough love in relationships. deities for power these deities may be invoked for strength, success, energy, inspiration and increase. apollo apollo, the greek sun god, was twin brother of artemis, the moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this s

he moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this sense predated all other gods and was later called the dark sun, apollo's alter ego. the ancient greeks rededicated his shrine to apollo) apollo was god of prophecy as well as music, poetry, archery, healing and divination. he is very strongly animus and is good for all rituals of power, ambition and inspiration, as well as those areas under his patronage. men tend to work better with him than women. aine aine is daughter of manananann, celtic sea god and ruler

jupiter's thunderbolts. hephaestus is patron of metal-workers in much of the western world and in the middle east from where his cult originated. he is effective in all rituals for craftsmanship, for the acquisition of wealth and treasures, for the development of skills and precision and for controlled power for a particular purpose. deities of healing aesculapius aesculapius was a healer, son of apollo and the mortal corona, who lived during the eleventh century bc, and became a god after zeus killed him with a thunderbolt for raising the dead. the first shrine dedicated to aesculapius was built in athens in the fifth century bc by sophocles. other shrines followed in rapid succession, the most famous at epidaurus, which became a major healing centre. many were sited at sacred wells and s

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n; in his hands it has become cold, fanatical, cruel, and stupid, a thing merciless and formal, without sympathy or humanity. love and art he rejects altogether; for him the only meaning of love is a mechanical--hardly even physiological--process necessary for the perpetuation of the human race (but why perpetuate it) art is for him the parasite and pimp of love. he cannot distinguish between the apollo belvedere and the crude bestialities of certain pompeian frescoes, or between rabelais and elenor glyn. what then is his ideal of human life? one cannot say. so crass a creature can have no true ideal. there have been ascetic philosophers; but the prohibitionist would be as offended by their doctrine as by ours, which, indeed, are not so dissimilar as appears. wage-slavery and boredom seem

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

ars a sceptre and a shield, whereon is figured a dove as a symbol of the male and female forces. line 15. his attitude suggests f, and he is seated upon the cubic stone, whose sides show the green lion and white eagle. line 16. he is crowned, sceptred, and blessing all in a threefold manner. four living creatures adore him, the whole suggesting a pentagram by its shape. line 17. he is inspired by apollo to prophesy concerning things sacred and progane: represented by a boy with his bow and two women, a priestess and an harlot. line 18. he drives furiously a chariot drawn by two sphinxes. as levi drew it. line 19. before him goeth upright the royal ur us serpent. line 21 [h, f, and g, or sattva, rajas, and tamas. line 23. from a gallows shaped like the letter d hangs by one foot a young fai

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a theta-epsilon-omega-nu chi-omicron-rho-omicron-pi-omicron-iota alpha-nualpha- xi soph. aj. thrill with lissome lust of the light, o man! my man! come careering out of the night of pan! io pan! io pan! io pan! come over the sea from sicily and from arcady! roaming as bacchus, with fauns and pards and nymphs and satyrs for thy guards, on a milk-white ass, come over the sea to me, to me, come with apollo in bridal dress (shepherdess and pythoness) come with artemis, silken shod, and wash thy white thigh, beautiful god, in the moon of the woods, on the marble mount, the dimpled dawn of the amber fount! dip the purple of passionate prayer in the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare, the soul that startles in eyes of blue v to watch thy wantonness weeping through the tangled grove, the gnarled bo

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

te :diana: 14 :aphrodite :venus: 15 :athena :mars, minerva: 16:(here :venus: 17 :castor& pollux, apollo the :casto& pollux (janus: diviner: 18 :apollo the charioteer :mercury: 19 :demeter (borne by lions :venus (repressing the fire of: vulcan: 20:(attis:(attis) ceres, adonis: 21 :zeus :jupiter (pluto: 22 :themis, minos, aeacus, and :vulcan: rhadamanthus :23 :poseidon :neptune: 24 :ares :mars: 25 :apollo, artemis (hunters :diana (as archer: 26 :pan, priapus (erect hermes :pan, vesta, bacchus, priapus: and bacchus: 27 :ares :mars: 28:(athena, ganymede :juno: 29 :poseidon :neptune: 30 :helios, apollo :apollo :31 :hades :vulcan, pluto: 32:(athena :saturn :32 "bis:(demeter :ceres :31 "bis :iacchus:(liber: 312 table i: xxxviii: xxxix :key scale: animals, real and: plants, real and: imaginary: im

s thou hast knowledge and skill to perform, and that at the end thereof the closing should be most carefully accomplished. but in the preliminary practice it is enough to cleanse thyself by ablution, by robing, and by the rituals of the pentagram and hexagram. 0-2 should be practised at first, until some realisation is obtained; and the practice should always be followed by a divine invocation of apollo or of isis or of jupiter or of serapis. next, after a swift summary of 0-2 practice 3-7. this being mastered, add 8. then add 9-13. then being prepared and fortified, well fitted for the work, perform the whole meditation at one time. and let this be continued until perfect success be attained therein. for this is a mighty meditation and holy, having power even upon death, yea, having power

s to 398 be noted that persons of powerful imagination, will, and intelligence have no need of these material symbols. there have been certain saints who are capable of love for an idea as such without it being otherwise than degraded by "idolising" it, to use this word in its true sense. thus one may be impassioned of beauty, without even the need of so small a concretion of it as "the beauty of apollo, the "beauty of roses, the "beauty of attis. such persons are rare; it may be doubted whether plato himself attained to any vision of absolute beauty without attaching to it material objects in the first place. a second class is able to contemplate ideals through this veil; a third class need a double veil, and cannot think of the beauty of a rose without a rose before them. for such, is th

d the duck, and the ass, and the gazelle, the man, the woman and the child. 22. all corpses are sacred unto me; they shall not be touched save in mine eucharist. all lonely places are sacred unto me; where one man gathereth himself together in my name, there will i leap forth in the midst of him. 23. i am the hideous god, and who mastereth me is uglier than i. 24. yet i give more than bacchus and apollo; my gifts exceed the olive and the horse. 25. who worshippeth me must worship me with many rites. 26. i am concealed with all concealments; when the most holy ancient one is stripped and driven through the market place, i am still secret and apart. 27. whom i love i chastise with many rods. 28. all things are sacred to me; no thing is sacred from me. 29. for there is no holiness where i am

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uer for the mysteriously radiant shape of spinoza! this latter philosopher, in respect at least of his pantheism, represents fairly enough the fundamental thesis of the white tradition. almost the first observation that we have to make is that this white tradition is hardly discoverable outside europe. it appears first of all in the legend of dionysus (in this connection read carefully browning's apollo and the fates) the egyptian tradition of osiris is not dissimilar. the central idea of the white school is that, admitted that "everything is sorrow" for the profane, the initiate has the means of transforming it to "everything is joy. there is no question of any ostrich-ignoring of fact, as in christian science. there is not even any more or less sophisticated argument about the point of v

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ices that he is so well carrying out the will of the father. let us pass from this most blessed subject to yet another. tom, tom, the piper's son, stole a pig and away he run. the pig was eat, and tom was beat, and tom went roaring down the street. this is one of the more exoteric of these rimes. in fact, it is not much better than a sun-myth. tom is toum, the god of the sunset (called the son of apollo, the piper, the maker of music. the only difficulty in the poem concerns the pig; for anyone who has watched an angry sunset in the tropics upon the sea, will recognize how incomparable a description of that sunset is given in that wonderful last line. some have thought that the pig refers to the evening sacrifice, others that she is hathor, the lady of the west, in her more sensual aspect

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r stays shut in his shell for all darwin may say about his "low stage of evolution, or puritans about his priapistic character, or idealists about his unfitness for civic government. the advocates of homosexuality "primus inter pares, john addington symonds- hammer away like hercules at the spiritual, social, moral, and intellectual advantages of cultivating the caresses of a comrade who combines apollo with achilles and antinous at the expense of escaping from a chimaera with circe's head, cleopatra's body, and cressida's character. why can't they let one alone? i agree to agree; i only stipulate to be allowed to be inconsistent. i will confess their creed, so long as i may play the part of peter until the cock crow thrice. they urge more strenuously still the claims of homosexuality to h

tself have been the monsters aborted from the dark womb of its infernal mystery. there is nothing unclean or degrading in any manifestation soever of the sexual instinct, because, without exception, every act is an impulsively projected image of the will of the individual who, whether man or woman, is a star; the pennsylvanian with his pig no less than the spirit with mary; sappho with atthis and apollo with hyacinth as perfect as daphnis with chloe or as galahad vowed to the graal. the one thing needful, the all-perfect means of purification, consecration, and sanctification, is independent of the physical and moral accidents circumstantial of the particular incident, is the realization of love as a sacrament. the use of the physical means as a magical operation whose formula is that of u

for the dour temperament and damp cold climate of the scot. sex-expression, too, depends on climate and so on, so that we must interpret the law to suit a socrates, a jesus, and a burton, or a marie antoinette and a de lamballe, as well as our own don juans and faustines. with this expansion, to the honour and glory of them, of their natures, we acclaim therefore our helpers, dionysus, aphrodite, apollo, wine, woman, and song. intoxication, that is, ecstasy, is the key to reality. it is explained in "energized enthusiasm "the equinox" i(9) that there are three gods whose function is to bring the soul to the realization of its own glory: dionysus, aphrodite, apollo; wine, woman, and song. the ancients, both in the highest civilizations, as in greece and egypt, and in the most primitive sava

e cloaks of the causists- and meant "that which leads one away from god" but each man, while postulating an absolute "god" defined him unconsciously in terms of a freudian phantasm created by his own wish-fulfilment machinery. thus "god" and "evil" were really expressions of personal prejudice. a man who "bowed humbly to the authority of" the pope, or the bible, or the sanhedrim, or the oracle of apollo, or the tribal medicine-man, none the less expressed truly his own wish to abdicate responsibility. in the light of this book, we know that the centre is everywhere, the circumference nowhere; that "every man and every woman is a star" a "khabs" the name of the house of hadit; that "the word of sin is restriction" to us, then "evil" is a relative term; it is "that which hinders one from ful

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take hurt from a mole grubbing i th ground? shall his spirit not see, 55 lightning to lightning, the spirit in me? parody? shall not his spirit forgive me, who shall love him as long as i live? love s at its height in pure love? nay, but after when the song s light dissolves gently in laughter! 60 then and then only the lovers may know nothing can part them for ever. and so, muse, hover o er me! apollo, above her! i, of the moderns, have let alone greek.21 out of the way intuition shall shove her. 65 spirit and truth in my darkness i seek. little by little they bubble and leak; such as i have to the world i discover. words are they weak ones at best? they shall speak! ascension day 7 his achievement. plan of poem. connspuez dieu! apology for manner of poem. a chance for tibet. hopes. iden

e my concept, i have let the passage stand. 219. i was lord roberts, he de wet.44 vide sir a. conan doyle s masterly fiction, the great boer war. 222. hill.45 an archaic phrase signifying kopje. 223. ditch.46 probably an obsolete slang term for spruit. 273. some.47 the reader may search modern periodicals for this theory. 282. the tmolian.48 tmolus, who decided the musical contest between pan and apollo in favour of the latter. 321. as masters teach.49 consult vivekananda, op. cit, or the hathayoga pradipika. unfortunately, i am unable to say where (or even whether) a copy of this latter work exists. 331, 332. stand (stephen) or sit (paul).50 acts vii. 36; heb. xii, 2. 337. samadhi-dak.51 ecstasy-of-meditation mail. 338. maha-meru.52 the mystic mountain of the hindus. see southey s curse o

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n hb:heh hb:yod hb:heh hb:aleph cum hb:heh hb:vau hb:heh hb:yod conjunctum "there are three contemplations as it were breaths in the human mind, that "is the abyss of hell: the first is called" nu epsilon kappa rho omicron sigma, the "second" pi upsilon rho alpha mu iota sigma, and the third "phi alpha lambda lambda omicron sigma" these are the watery reflexions of the three enthusiasms; those of apollo "dionysys, and aphrodite" the whole star is nechesh and messiach, the name" hb:heh hb:yod hb:heh hb:aleph" joined "with "hb:heh hb:vau hb:heh hb:yod" 7 liber hhh sub figura cccxli. continet capitula tres: mmm, aaa, et sss. i m m m "i remember a certain holy day in the dusk of the year, in the dusk of the equinox of osiris, when first i beheld thee visibly; when first the dreadful issue was

s thou hast knowledge and skill to perform, and that at the end thereof the closing should be most carefully accomplished. but in the preliminary practice it is enough to cleanse thyself by ablution, by robing, and by the rituals of the pentagram and hexagram. 0-2 should be practised at first, until some realisation is obtained; and the practice should always be followed by a divine invocation of apollo or of isis or of jupiter or of serapis. next, after a swift summary of 0-2, practise 3-7. this being mastered, add 8. then add 9-13. then being prepared and fortified, well fitted for the work, perform the whole meditation at one time. and let this be continued until perfect success be attained therein. for this is a mighty meditation and holy, having power even upon death; yea, having powe

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g with wonderful whips, life on the stroke of a glance, death in the stroke of the lips! i am hidden beyond, shed in a secret sinew smitten through by the fond folly of wisdom in you! come, while the moon (the moon) sheds her ambrosial splendour, reels in the redeless rune ineffably, utterly, tender! hark! the appealing cry of deadly hurt in the hollow- hyacinth! hyacinth! ay! smitten to death by apollo. swift, o maiden moon, send thy ray-dews after; turn the dolorous tune to soft ambiguous laughter! 214 mourn, o maenads, mourn! surely your comfort is over: all we laugh at you lorn. ours are the poppies and clover! o that mouth and eyes, mischevious, male, alluring! o that twitch of the thighs dorian past enduring! where is wisdom now? where the sage and his doubt? surely the sweat of the

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le glory. between strength and justice doth he kneel in the sign of his rising, and seeth again the cross, not now of suffering, but only of light. the god in his glory sayeth "i am amoun, the concealed one" not only osiris the justified. at the coming of that glory they bow and shade their eyes from its brilliance: for what are the sun and moon to abide his presence? but now the sun and moon are apollo and artemis, osiris and isis; the divine eye is formulated from the light of those eyes that are but as darkness, and the osiris saith in very truth "before i was blind: now i see" 232 the great light dawns, the flashing brilliance of the all-pervading spirit of the gods descends: the divine spirit is upon him, and all bow in adoration of that white glory. the osiris stands, and by that sig

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and "lamentation (conjoint "unlooked-for sorrow suddenly descending upon happiness) whilst cutting up a joint for a customer accidentally severed the femoral artery and died in a few minutes. these mishaps are most likely mere coincidences, but a coincidence when it happens is quite as awkward as the real thing, and in the case of abramelin the coincidences can be counted by scor " the coming of apollo red roses, o red roses, roses afire, aflame, o burgeon that discloses the glory of desire_ hush! all the heart of fire is mingled in thy name, o roses, roses, roses, red roses of desire. the golden-shafted sunlight beats down upon the sward; the pillared serpent's one light is a flame of red desire; o snake from out the mire, i slay thee with the sword, the strong sword of the sunlight, the

robert park, m.d. rebman limited. 1"s" net. dr. park is an old friend of ours; we enjoyed his masterly translation of ch: f r 's "the pathology of emotions" and his various writings in the days of the old "free review" and "university review" when j. m. robertson was worth reading, a review (by the way) which was assassinated by the prurient pot-scourers who would put a pair of "pants" on phoebus apollo, and who presumably take their bath in the dark for fear of expiring in a priapic frenzy at the sight of their own nakedness. dr. park in this most admirable little treatise declares that alcohol is one of "the good creatures of god; and that alcohol is a poison is only true relatively "it is not true of the stimulant dosage. it is true of it as a narcotic, in narcotic dosage "so the object

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f religion" london simpkin, marshall, hamilton, kent& co. ltd. contents page editorial 1 liber xiii 3 aha! by aleister crowley 9 the herb dangerous (part iii) the poem of hashish. by charles baudelaire (translated by aleister crowley) 55 an origin. by victor b. neuburg 115 the soul-hunter 119 madeleine. by arthur f. grimble 129 the temple of solomon the king (book ii "continued) 133 the coming of apollo. by victor b. neuburg 281 the brighton mystery. by george raffalovich 287 reviews 113, 285, 304 the shadowy dill-waters. by a. quiller, jr. 327 "special supplement" liber dcccclxiii_ the treasure-house of images illustrations the slopes of abiegnus "facing page" 4 the student" 10 the complete symbol of the rose and cross" 210 the elemental tablets and cherubic emblems" 212 the lid of the pa

which must be bought at the price of eternal salvation? i imagine a man (shall i 111 say a brahmin, a poet, or a christian philosopher) seated upon the steep olympus of spirituality; around him the muses of raphael or of mategna, to console him for his long fasts and his assiduous prayers, weave the noblest dances, gaze on him with their softest glances and their most dazzling smiles; the divine apollo, master of all knowledge (that of francavilla, of albert d rer, of goltzius, or another_ what does it matter? is there not an apollo for every man who deserves one, caresses with his bow his most sensitive strings; below him, at the foot of the mountain, in the brambles and the mud, the human fracas; the helot band imitates the grimaces of enjoyment and utters howls which the sting of the p

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with wonderful whips, life on the stroke of a glance, death in the stroke of the lips! i am hidden beyond, shed in a secret sinew, smitten through by the fond folly of wisdom in you! come, while the moon (the moon) sheds her ambrosial splendour, reels in the redeless rune ineffably, utterly, tender! hark! the appealing cry of deadly hurt in the hollow- hyacinth! hyacinth! ay! smitten to death by apollo. swift, o maiden moon, send thy ray-dews after; turn the dolorous tune to soft ambiguous laughter! mourn, o maenads, mourn! surely your comfort is over: all we laugh at you lorn. ours are the poppies and clover! o that mouth and eyes, mischievous, male, alluring! o that twitch of the thighs, dorian past enduring! where is wisdom now! where the sage and his doubt? surely the sweat of the bro

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d the duck, and the ass, and the gazelle, the man, the woman and the child. 22. all corpses are sacred unto me; they shall not be touched save in mine eucharist. all lonely places are sacred unto me; where one man gathereth himself together in my name, there will i leap forth in the midst of him. 23. i am the hideous god; and who mastereth me is uglier than i. 24. yet i give more than bacchus and apollo; my gifts exceed the olive and the horse. 25. who worshippeth me must worship me with many rites. 26. i am concealed with all concealments; when the most holy ancient one is stripped and driven through the marketplace i am still secret and apart. 27. whom i love i chastise with many rods. 28. all things are sacred to me; no thing is sacred from me. 29. for there is no holiness where i am no

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the heart of the father. to quote one writer who seeks to prove this continuity "at the time of the life or recorded appearance of jesus of nazareth and for some centuries before, the mediterranean and neighbouring world had been the scene of a vast number of pagan- 109- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust creeds and rituals. there were temples without end dedicated to gods like apollo or dionysus among the greeks, hercules among the romans, mithra among the persians, adonis and arris in syria and phrygia, osiris and isis and horus in egypt, baal and astarte among the babylonians and carthaginians, and so forth. societies, large or small, united believers and the devout in the service or ceremonials connected with their respective deities, and in the creeds which they con

his out, throwing light upon this ceaseless and age-old focussing of the love of god and the desire of man in the person of a son of god. he says "if the historicity of jesus, in any degree, could be proved, it would give us reason for supposing what i have personally always been inclined to believe that there was also a historical nucleus for such personages as osiris, mithra, krishna, hercules, apollo and the rest. the question, in fact, narrows itself down to this, have there been in the course of human evolution certain, so to speak, nodal points or periods at which the psychologic currents ran together and condensed themselves for a new start, and has each such node or point of condensation been marked by the appearance of an actual and heroic man (or woman) who supplied a necessary i

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which he proffered, in a silver sheath, to hercules. he strapped it on the thigh of hercules, bidding him keep it sharp and bright "it must divide and cut" said mercury "and with precision and acquired skill must move" and hercules, with joyous words, tendered his thanks. he had yet to prove his boasted skill. with blaring trumpets and the rush of stamping feet the chariot of the sun god flashed. apollo came and with his light and charm cheered hercules, giving him a bow, a bow of light. through nine wide open gates must the disciple pass before he had acquired sufficient skill to draw that bow. it took him all that time to prove himself the archer. yet when the gift was proffered, hercules took it, confident of power, a power as yet unproven. and thus he stood equipped. the gods stood rou

any part of our objective. the various accounts differ in detail, according to the bias of the historian, and can be studied in the many classical histories [17] and dictionaries. we will deal here only with the twelve famous labors, and of them we read "hercules, by the will of jupiter, was subjected to the power of eurystheus, and obliged to obey him in every demand. he consulted the oracle of apollo and was told that he must be subservient for twelve years to the will of eurystheus, in compliance with the commands of jupiter; and that, after he had achieved the most celebrated labors, he should be translated to the gods" so he started off upon his career and, as the disciple under command of his soul, undertook the twelve labors, performing each of them in one of the zodiacal signs. he

re cast. equipped, therefore, with vocation, spiritual energy and sensitivity, the gift of a sword that came from mercury, the messenger of the gods, is of profound significance, for the sword is the symbol of the mind which divides asunder, separates and cuts off. through its use, mercury added to the other gifts bestowed upon hercules that of mental analysis and discrimination. we are told that apollo, the sun god himself, became interested in hercules and pondered what he could give him that would serve him. finally he gave him a bow and arrow, symbolizing the capacity to go straight to the goal; symbol, too, of that piercing illumination, that shaft of light which could irradiate the darkness of his path, when needed. thus equipped, hercules stands ready for the great endeavor. and whe

gnificance of the sign is to be found in the words of an ancient indian scripture "man does not rightly know the way to the heavenly world, but the horse does rightly know it" in the very ancient days in india, the horse sacrifice was linked with the sun god, and, yearly, we are told, the sun god, as the zodiacal horse, was supposed by the vedic aryans to die to save all flesh. the sun chariot of apollo is depicted as drawn by horses, and the "princely sign of the ram" is closely connected with the horse symbology, a fact to which this first labor bears witness. reference to books on symbology will show us that the horse [35] stands for intellectual activity. the white horse symbolizes the illumined mind of the spiritual man, and so we find in the book of revelations that christ comes fort

ry of god incarnate in matter, and the crucifixion of the cosmic christ upon the cross of matter, is tied up with the relationship (presumed from most ancient times to exist) between the stars of the pleiades and those of the great bear. these two groups of stars represent god, the macrocosm, whilst in gemini, castor and pollux were regarded as symbols of man, the microcosm. they were also called apollo and hercules: apollo, meaning the ruler, the sun god; and hercules "the one who comes to labor. they represent, therefore, the two aspects of man's nature, the soul and the personality, the spiritual man and the human being through which that spiritual entity is functioning: christ incarnate in matter, god working through form. castor was regarded as mortal and pollux as immortal. it is an

u may not enter here, o artemis, but know i speak the truth. diana, that fair huntress- 48- the labours of hercules of the lord, may enter for a moment and tell you what she sees" into the shrine for one brief moment passed the huntress of the lord and saw the form of that which was the doe, lying before the altar, seeming dead. and in distress she said "but if its spirit rests with thee, o great apollo, noble son of god, then know the doe is dead. the doe is slain by the man who is a son of man, e'en though a son of god. why may he pass within the shrine and we await the doe out here "because he bore the doe within his arms, close to his heart, and in the holy place the doe finds rest, and so does man. all men are mine. the doe is likewise mine, not yours, nor man's but mine" and hercules

and intuition, and driven by the urge of the christ life, he again merges himself with the mass and becomes identified with the group. he then becomes the world server in aquarius and has no sense of separateness. the lesson of the labor we have seen that the hind or doe, for which hercules sought, was sacred to artemis, the moon, but was also claimed by diana, the huntress of the heavens, and by apollo. the sun god. one of the things that is often forgotten by students of psychology and those who probe the unfolding consciousness [93] of man, is the fact that there are no sharp distinctions between the various aspects of man's nature, but that all are phases of one reality. the words instinct, intellect and intuition, are but varying aspects of consciousness and of response to environment

hunting. finally, we read, he captured it and carried it into the temple, where it was claimed by the sun god [94] who in the doe recognized the spiritual intuition, that extension of consciousness, that highly developed sense of awareness, which gives to the disciple a vision of new fields of contact and opens up for him a new world of being. we are told that the battle is still going on between apollo, the sun god, who knew that the doe was the intuition, diana, huntress of the heavens, who knew it was intellect, and artemis, the moon, who thought that it was only instinct. both goddess claimants have a point and the problem of all disciples is to use the instinct correctly, in its right place, and in its proper way. he must learn to use the intellect under the influence of diana, the hu

r; salvage a ravaged country, yet take the time to eat" and hercules went forth- 72- the labours of hercules and hercules, who is a son of man and yet a son of god, passed through the seventh gate. the power of the seventh sign passed through him. he knew not that he faced a dual test, the test of friendship rare and the test of courage unafraid. the teacher had instructed him to seek a boar, and apollo gave to him a brand-new bow to use. quoth hercules 'i will not take it with me on the way, for fear i kill. at my last labor, upon the shores of the great sea, i slew and killed. this time i slaughter not. i leave the bow" and so unarmed, save with his trusty club, he climbed the mountain steep, seeking the boar, and seeing sights, on every hand, of fear and terror. higher and higher still

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r ignores the whole spirit and meaning of the ancient myth, while in this rude witch-song it is minutely developed. the conception is that of a beautiful youth furtively kissed in his slum-ber by dianaof reputed chastity. the ancient myth is, to begin with, one of darkness and light, orday and night, from which are born the fifty-one (now fifty-two) weeks of the year. this is diana, thenight, and apollo, the sun, or light in another form. it is expressed as love-making during sleep,which, when it occurs in real life, generally has for active agent some one who, without beingabsolutely modest, wishes to preserve appearances. the established character of dianaamong theinitiated (for which she was bitterly reviled by the fathers of the church) was that of a beautiful hyp-ocrite who pursued am

nvocation and tradition, and probably of great antiquity from very strikingintrinsic evidence. for it is firstly devoted to a subject which has received little attention the con-nection of diana as the moon with bacchus, although in the great dizionario storico mitologico, bypozzoli and others, it is expressly asserted that in greece her worship was associated with that ofbacchus, esculapius, and apollo. the connecting link is the horn. in a medal of alexander severus,diana of ephesus bears the horn of plenty. this is the horn or horn of the new moon, sacred todiana. according to callimachus, apollo himself built an altar consisting entirely of horns to diana.the connection of the horn with wine is obvious. it was usual among the old slavonians for thepriest of svantevit, the sun-god, to s

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it brings a blessing with it. a bride, when she is to be brought forth to be married, is gloriously adorned in a great variety of precious garments, which, by enhancing her beauty, render her pleasant in the eyes of the bridegroom. but the rites of the bridal night she performs without any clothing but that which she was arrayed withal at the moment of her birth. in the same way our bridal pair, apollo and diana, are arrayed in splendid attire, and their heads and bodies are washed with various kinds of water, some strong, some weak, but not one of them exactly like another, and each designed for its own special purpose. know that when the moisture of the earth ascends in the form of a vapour, it is condensed in the upper regions, and precipitated to the earth by its own twelve keys of ba

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2, page] 7 hyperboreas and lemuria. ii. the "hyperborean" will be the name chosen for the second continent, the land which stretched out its promontories southward and westward from the north pole to receive the second race, and comprised the whole of what is now known as northern asia. such was the name given by the oldest greeks to the far-off and mysterious region, whither their tradition made apollo the "hyperborean" travel every year. astronomically, apollo is of course the sun, who, abandoning his hellenic sanctuaries, loved to visit annually his far-away country, where the sun was said never to set for one half of the year[[eggus gar nuktos te kai ematos eisi keleuthoi, says a verse in the odyssey (x. 86. but historically, or better, perhaps, ethnologically and geologically, the mea

ither an ideal country, as surmised by the mythologists, nor yet a land in the neighbourhood of scythia and the danube* it was a real continent, a bona-fide land which knew no winter in those early days, nor have its sorry remains more than one night and day during the year, even now. the nocturnal shadows never fall upon it, said the greeks; for it is the land of the gods, the favourite abode of apollo, the god of light, and its inhabitants are his beloved priests and servants. this may be regarded as poetised fiction now; but it was poetised truth then. iii. the third continent, we propose to call "lemuria" the name is an invention, or an idea, of mr. p. l. sclater, who asserted, between 1850 and 1860, on zoological grounds the actual existence, in prehistoric times, of a continent which

but rather in their perfect accord on one point, for a wonder, and this a very important one. they all agree that during "the miocene age- whether one or ten million years ago- greenland and even spitzbergen, the remnants of our second or hyperborean continent "had almost a tropical climate" now the pre-homeric greeks had preserved a vivid tradition of this "land of the eternal sun" whither their apollo journeyed yearly "during the miocene age, greenland (in n. lat. 70 degrees) developed an abundance of trees, such as the yew, the redwood, the sequoia, allied to the californian species, beeches, planes, willows, oaks, poplars and walnuts, as well as a magnolia and a zamia" says science; in short greenland had southern plants unknown to northern regions. and now this natural question rises

ource of measures" is quite right in thinking that mars (and all the other gods of like attributes "being the god of war and of[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 44 the secret doctrine. mikroprosopoi. with the jews adam kadmon was the same as athamaz, tamaz, or the adonis of the greeks "the one with, and of his father- the "father" becoming during the later races helios, the sun, as apollo karneios* for instance, who was the "sun born; osiris, ormazd, and so on, were all followed by, and found themselves transformed later on into still more earthly types: such as prometheus, the crucified of mount kajbee, hercules, and so many others, sun-gods and heroes, until all of them came to have no better significance than phallic symbols. in the zohar is it said "man was created by th

page] bloodshed, was but a secondary idea flowing out of the primary one of shedding of blood in conception for the first time" hence jehovah became later a fighting god "lord of hosts" and one who commands war. he is the aggressive zodh- or cain by permutation who slew his (female "brother" whose "blood crieth from the ground" the earth having opened her mouth to receive the blood (genesis iii* apollo karneios is certainly a greek transformation from the hindu krishna karna "karna" means radiant from "carne "a ray" and karneios, which was a title of apollo with the celts as with the greeks, meant "sun born[[vol. 2, page] 45 the first war in heaven. metaphorically immortal through their wisdom. such is the common belief of those who credit every star or planet with being inhabited (and th

r solution, rather than described. if he would learn something of the secret of the fires, let him turn to certain works of the alchemists, who very correctly connect fire with every element, as do the occultists. the reader must remember that the ancients considered religion, and the natural sciences along with philosophy, to be closely and inseparably linked together. aesculapius was the son of apollo- the sun or fire of life; at once helios, pythios, and the god of oracular wisdom. in exoteric religions, as much as in esoteric philosophy, the elements- especially fire, water, and air- are made the progenitors of our five physical senses, and hence are directly connected (in an occult way) with them. these physical senses pertain even to a lower creation than the one called in the purana

husband "to two sons of valiant heart- castor[[vol. 2, page] 122 the secret doctrine. and pollux. jupiter endows them with a marvellous gift and privilege. they are semi-immortal; they live and die, each in turn, and every alternate day[[eteremeroi. as the tyndaridae, the twin brothers are an astronomical symbol, and stand for day and night; their two wives, phoebe and hilasira, the daughters of apollo or the sun, personifying the dawn and the twilight* again, in the allegory where zeus is shown as the father of the two heroes- born from the egg to which leda gives birth- the myth is entirely theogonical. it relates to that group of cosmic allegories in which the world is described as born from an egg. for leda assumes in it the shape of a white swan when uniting herself to the divine swa

, the form and name partaking of, and being common to both the male and female. their bodies were round, and the manner of their running[[footnote(s* see extracts from that essay in "the theosophist" of february, 1883[[vol. 2, page] 134 the secret doctrine. circular* they were terrible in force and strength and had prodigious ambition. hence zeus divided each of them into two, making them weaker; apollo, under his direction, closed up the skin" meshia and meshiane were but a single individual with the old persians "they also taught that man was the product of the tree of life, growing in androgynous pairs, till they were separated at a subsequent modification of the human form" in the toleduth (generation) of adam, the verse "god created (bara, brought forth) man in his image, in the image

odite. this process of men-bearing explains, perhaps, why aristophanes* describes the nature of the old race as androgynous, the form of every individual being rounded "having the back and sides as in a circle" whose "manner of running was circular. terrible in force and strength and with prodigious ambition" therefore, to make them weaker "zeus divided them (in the third root-race) into two, and apollo (the sun, under his direction, closed up the skin" the madagascans (the island belonged to lemuria) have a tradition about the first man, who lived at first without eating, and, having indulged in food, a swelling appeared in his leg; this bursting, there emerged from it a female, who became the mother of their race. truly "we have our sciences of heterogenesis and parthenogenesis, showing

spirit. for, if the followers of the roman church are taught that mercury and aesculapius, or asclepios, who are, in truth, one, are "devils and sons of devils" and the wand and serpent of the latter were "the devil's wand; how about the "brazen serpent" of moses? every scholar knows that both the heathen wand and the jewish "serpent" are one and the same, namely, the caduceus of mercury, son of apollo-python. it is easy to comprehend why the jews adopted the ophidian shape for their "seducer" with them it was purely physiological and phallic; and no amount of casuistical reasoning on the part of the roman catholic church can give it another meaning, once that the mystery language is well studied, and that the hebrew scrolls are read numerically. the occultists know that the serpent, the

spiritual eye, nebo, the prophet and seer, etc. it is not the proper name of any one living man, but a generic title of many adepts. their connection in symbolic allegories with the serpent is due to their enlightenment by the solar and planetary gods during the earliest intellectual race, the third. they are all the representative patrons of the secret wisdom. asclepios is the son of the sun-god apollo- and he is mercury; nebo is the son of bel-merodach; vaivasvata manu, the great rishi, is the son of vivisvat- the sun or surya, etc, etc. and while, astronomically, the nagas along with the rishis, the gandharvas, apsarasas, gramanis (or yakshas, minor gods) yatudhanas and devas, are the sun's attendants throughout the twelve solar months; in theogony, and also in anthropological evolution

ntific journals of 1858, which spoke of a sarcophagus of giants found that year on the site of that same city. as to the ancient pagan writers- we have the evidence of philostratus, who speaks of a giant skeleton twenty-two cubits long, as well as of another of twelve cubits, seen by himself at sigeus. this skeleton may perhaps not have belonged, as believed by protesilaus, to the giant killed by apollo at the siege of troy; nevertheless, it was that of a giant, as well as that other one discovered by messecrates of stire, at lemnos "horrible to behold" according to philostratus (heroica, p. 35. is it possible that prejudice would carry science so far as to class all these men as either fools or liars? pliny speaks of a giant in whom he thought he recognised orion, the son of ephialtes (na

n. in the religions of the past, it is in egypt we have to seek for its western origin. the ophites adopted their rites from hermes trismegistus, and heliolatrous worship crossed over with its sun-gods into the land of the pharaohs from india. in the gods of stonehenge we recognise the divinities of delphi and babylon, and in those of the latter the devas of the vedic nations. bel and the dragon, apollo and python, krishna and kaliya, osiris and typhon are all one under many names- the latest of which are michael and the red dragon, and st. george and his dragon. as michael is "one as god" or his "double" for terrestrial purposes, and is one of the elohim, the fighting angel, he is thus simply a permutation of jehovah. whatever the cosmic or astronomical event that first gave rise to the a

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th deities have a number of monasteries (see part ii. kwan-shai-yin and kwan-yin[[footnote(s* hence all the higher gods of antiquity are all "sons of the mother" before they become those of the "father" the logoi, like jupiter or zeus, son of kronos-saturn "infinite time (or kala, in their origin were represented as male-female. zeus is said to be the "beautiful virgin" and venus is made bearded. apollo is originally bisexual, so is brahma-vach in manu and the puranas. osiris is interchangeable with isis, and horus is of both sexes. finally st. john's vision in revelation, that of the logos, who is now connected with jesus- is hermaphrodite, for he is described as having female breasts. so is the tetragrammaton= jehovah. but there are two avalokiteshwaras in esotericism; the first and the

er; when you have studied thoroughly 'the music of the spheres' then only will you become quite free to share your knowledge with those with whom it is safe to do so. meanwhile, be prudent. do not give out the great truths that are the inheritance of the future races, to our present generation. do not attempt to unveil the secret of being and non-being to those unable to see the hidden meaning of apollo's heptachord- the lyre of the radiant god, in each of the seven strings of which dwelleth the spirit, soul and astral body of the kosmos, whose shell only has now fallen into the hands of modern science. be prudent, we say, prudent and wise, and above all take care what those who learn from you believe in; lest by deceiving themselves they deceive others. for such is the fate of every truth

ssences except those which it can see, smell, or taste. it leaves others to the metaphysicians" we must feel grateful even for so much* writing upon this subject in isis unveiled we said of it that it was "the chaos of the ancients, the zoroastrian sacred fire, or the atash-behram of the parsees; the hermes-fire, the elmes-fire of the ancient germans; the lightning of cybele; the burning torch of apollo; the flame on the altar of pan; the inextinguishable fire in the temple on the acropolis, and in that of vesta; the fire-flame of pluto's helm; the brilliant sparks on the hats of the dioscuri, on the gorgon head, the helm of pallas, and the staff of mercury; the egyptian phtha-ra; the grecian zeus cataibates (the descending) of pausanias; the pentacostal fire-tongues; the burning bush of m

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

ntiquity would have it (see petronii satyrica, cxxxvi; but that the abstract and divine power of procreative nature had become grossly anthropomorphized. nor does the swan of leda show "priapic doings and her enjoyment thereof" as mr. hargrave jennings chastely expresses it- for the myth is but another version of the same philosophical idea of cosmogony. swans are frequently found associated with apollo, as they are the emblems of water and fire (sun-light also, before the separation of the elements. our modern symbologists might profit by some remarks made by a well-known writer, mrs. lydia maria child "from time immemorial an emblem has been worshipped in hindostan as the type of creation, or the origin of life. siva or the mahadeva being not only the reproducer of human forms, but also

he self-born sprung from time" one of the seven "creators" of our world, brought forth an egg from which was born garuda, the vehicle of vishnu, the latter allegory having a relation to our earth only, as garuda is the great cycle. the egg was sacred to isis; the priests of egypt never ate eggs on that account* diodorus siculus states that osiris was born from an egg, like brahma. from leda's egg apollo and latona were born, as also castor and pollux- the bright gemini. and though the buddhists do not attribute the same origin to their founder, yet, no more than the ancient egyptians or the modern brahmins, do they eat eggs, lest they should destroy the germ of life latent in them, and commit thereby sin. the chinese believe that their first man was born from an egg, which tien, a god, dro

he germ contained in it is ripe, was the mystery god whose name was unpronounceable. it is phtah, however "he who opens" the opener of life and death* who proceeds from the egg of the world to begin his dual work (book of numbers) according to the greeks, the phantom form of the chemis (chemi, ancient egypt) which floats on the ethereal waves of the empyrean sphere, was called into being by horus-apollo, the sun god, who caused it to evolve out of the mundane egg* in the scandinavian cosmogony- placed by professor max muller, in point of time, as "far anterior to the vedas" in the poem of voluspa (the song of the prophetess, the mundane egg is again discovered in the phantom-germ of the universe, which is represented as lying in the ginnungagap- the cup of illusion (maya) the boundless and

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

the personification of illusion. in religious rites the moon served a dual purpose. personified as a female goddess for exoteric purposes, or as a male god in allegory and symbol, in occult philosophy our satellite was regarded as a sexless potency to be well studied, because it was to be dreaded. with the initiated aryans, khaldii, greeks and romans, soma, sin, artemis soteira (the hermaphrodite apollo, whose attribute is the lyre, and the bearded diana of the bow and arrow, deus lunus, and especially osiris-lunus and thot-lunus* were the occult potencies of the moon. but whether male or female, whether thot or minerva, soma or astoreth, the moon is the occult mystery of mysteries, and more a symbol of evil than of good. her seven phases (original, esoteric division) are divided into thre

applied to the virgin. it is st. bernard, who, quoted by cornelius a lapide, is made to address the virgin mary in this wise "the sun-christ lives in thee and thou livest in him (sermon on the holy virgin. again the virgin is admitted to be the moon by the same unsophisticated holy man. being the lucina of the church, that is in childbirth, the verse of virgil "casta fove lucina, tuus jam regnat apollo- is applied to her. like the moon, the virgin is the queen of heaven" adds the innocent saint (apocal, ch. xii, comm. by cornelius a lapide. this settles the question. the more similarity, according to such writers as de mirville, there exists between the pagan conceptions and the christian dogmas, the more divine appears the christian religion, and the more is it seen to be the only truly

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p n liplagkte, kullan.aj cionokt poi petra.aj p deir doj f nhq, qe n corop i nax .soph. aj. thrill with lissome lust of the light, o man! my man! come careering out of the night of pan! io pan! io pan! io pan! come over the sea from sicily and from arcady! roaming as bacchus, with fauns and pards and nymphs and satyrs for thy guards, on a milk-white ass, come over the sea to me, to me, come with apollo in bridal dress (shepherdess and pythoness) come with artemis, silken shod, and wash thy white thigh, beautiful god, in the moon of the woods, on the marble mount, the dimpled dawn of the amber fount! dip the purple of passionate prayer in the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare, the soul that startles in eyes of blue to watch thy wantonness weeping through the tangled grove, the gnarled bole

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finger is the mount associated with the sign of the finger (e.g. index finger= mount of jupiter. the fullness or thinness of the mount shows how strongly that particular sign affects the individual. as the diagram shows, each finger is, in turn, divided into three sections to show the relative spiritual, intellectual and material development under each of the astrological signs: jupiter, saturn, apollo (the sun) and mercury. if, for example, the lowest digit of the small finger (mercury) is noticably larger and more developed than the finger's other two digits, then there would be strength especially in management and salesmanship. similar traits can be derived, using judgement and intuition with the astrological characteristics below, for each of the other signs. index finger (jupiter) t

ach of the other signs. index finger (jupiter) the matriarch/patriarch image; the "boss; commander; leader; executive. principle traits of this sign are pride, ambition and confidence. middle finger (saturn) the wise old wo/man, often a personification of old age and the very end of life. principle traits of this sign are wisdom, solitude, shyness, melancholy and solitary bleakness. third finger (apollo) the sun; all things bright and good. the arts; medicine. the principle trait of this sign is love of beauty. small finger (mercury) sharpness and quickness of mind; cleverness; shrewdness. principle traits of this sign are buoyancy; friendliness; skill in management and commerce. study your own hands and see if you can form some tentative conclusions. remember that every sign will have its

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ion [insert pic p060- aphrodite aphrodite is the cretan and greek goddess of love and beauty. her name means 'born from the foam. she can be invoked for the gentle attraction of new love as well as for sexuality and passion (hence the term 'aphrodisiac. aphrodite is especially potent in candle and mirror spells, romance and for love rituals involving the sea. artemis artemis is the twin sister of apollo, the young greek sun god, and is goddess of chastity, virginity, the hunt, the moon and nature. although a virgin goddess, she also presides over childbirth. because of her connection with the hunt, she is altogether a more active goddess than aphrodite if you are seeking love or, perhaps, trying to encourage a reluctant lover of either sex or win love under difficult circumstances. she is

love and especially love in the springtime. her planetary associations mean she is the focus in all kinds of love rituals. as the evening star, venus takes on a warrior aspect and so can be invoked in fighting for one's lover or tough love in relationships. deities for power these deities may be invoked for strength, success, energy, inspiration and increase [insert pic p061- seite 33 wicca01.txt apollo apollo, the greek sun god, was twin brother of artemis, the moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this s

he moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this sense predated all other gods and was later called the dark sun, apollo's alter ego. the ancient greeks rededicated his shrine to apollo) apollo was god of prophecy as well as music, poetry, archery, healing and divination. he is very strongly animus and is good for all rituals of power, ambition and inspiration, as well as those areas under his patronage. men tend to work better with him than women. aine aine is daughter of manananann, celtic sea god and ruler

jupiter's thunderbolts. hephaestus is patron of metal-workers in much of the western world and in the middle east from where his cult originated. he is effective in all rituals for craftsmanship, for the acquisition of wealth and treasures, for the development of skills and precision and for controlled power for a particular purpose. deities of healing aesculapius aesculapius was a healer, son of apollo and the mortal corona, who lived during the eleventh century bc, and became a god after zeus killed him with a thunderbolt for raising the dead. the first shrine dedicated to aesculapius was built in athens in the fifth century bc by sophocles. other shrines followed in rapid succession, the most famous at epidaurus, which became a major healing centre. many were sited at sacred wells and s

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n has been brainwashed by a cia mind-control operation based on fear of ridicule. there have been at least one million abductees in the us since 1947. in the last 13 years, there have been over 40,000 cattle mutilations in the us. there are approximately 70 alien civilisations known to be visiting us at the present time "gordon cooper, one of our very best astronauts, lost his chance to go on the apollo flights because he dared to speak out about ufos in a letter to the united nations. during the past few years, there has been a steep increase in the number of missing persons. it is estimated that there are about ten million of the grays [an alleged et race] in bases on the earth and moon, but it is not known whether they are able to return to their home base. they enter and exit their und

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altars, both protestant and catholic, thus clearly 206 children of th matrix showing that the christian religion is but a modification of oriental sun worship, attributed to zoroaster. the christians read the same letters 'ihs' in the greek text as 'jes' and the roman christian priesthood added the terminus 'us" here are some of the other pre-christian deities of whom the "jesus" story was told: apollo, hercules, and zeus of greece; adad and marduk of assyria; buddha sakia and indra of india and tibet; salivahana of southern india and bermuda; osiris and horus of egypt; odin, balder, and frey of scandinavia; crite of chaldea; zoroaster of persia; baal (bel) and taut of phoenicia; bali of afghanistan; jao of nepal; wittoba of bilingonese; xamolxis of thrace; zoar of the bonzes; chu chulain

re-named and christmas day, the ancient festival of the sun, was transformed into the birthday of jesus" the defining moment in christian history came in ad325 when constantine called together 318 bishops of the "christian" church to his palace at nicaea (now iznik in turkey) for the infamous council of nicaea. i say "christian, but in fact there were representatives of the sun and moon cults of apollo, osiris and isis, demeter/ceres, dionysus/bacchus, jupiter/zeus, and, of course, sol invictus. so jesus was naturally given the birthday of december 25th; the birthday of the sun. nicaea was the moment when jesus and christ were brought together for the first time in the way of the other "anointed" sun gods. the council was convened to end the conflict and squabbling between the followers o

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ed miracles such ashealing the sick and raising people from the dead. so did khrishna, buddha, zoroaster,bochia, horus, osiris, serapis, marduk, bacchus, hermes and others. jesus was bornof royal blood. so was buddha, rama, fo-hi, horus, hercules, bacchus, perseus andothers. jesus was born to a virgin. so was khrishna, buddha, lao-kiun or tsze,confusius, horus, ra, zoroaster, prometheus, perseus, apollo, mercury, baldur,quetzalcoatl and far too many others to mention. jesus will, we are told, be bornagain. the sky is going to be rather crowded because khrishna, vishnu, buddha,quetzalcoatl and others, will also be there. the star at the birth ofjesus is another multideity story and goes back at least to thebabylonian tale of nimrod who, in a dream, saw a brilliant starrising above the horiz

aid, he had a vision of jesus who told him to put the cross on his flag to guaranteevictory over his enemies. good story, but the word bollocks* is drifting across mymind. constantine was said to have been converted to christianity by his visions, buttheres one tiny problem with that. he never did become a christian, except perhaps onhis deathbed as a bit of insurance. he worshipped the greek god apollo (the sun, andthe sol invictus (unconquered sun, and he remained to his death the pontifexmaximus of the pagan church! as a result, jesus was given the suns birthday ofdecember 25th which has remained ever since. constantine is also responsible for thegreat christian shrine in jerusalem. his mother, helena, was dispatched to the city to* american readers, i understand, do not know the meanin

eans bath and this isan origin of the order of the bath title awarded by the british monarch. purification orabsolution baths are given to the masonic knights of the bath before they cause murderand mayhem on the brotherhoods behalf. after her husbands death, jackie kennedyjourneyed to the island of delos in the aegean sea which is considered by legend to bethe birthplace of the goddess diana and apollo the greek sun god. diana (the moon) andapollo (the sun) are often brought together in brotherhood symbolism. delos is alsoknown as the island of the dead because another version of the goddess diana, known ashecate, is said to be the patroness of the infernal arts. jackie went on to the temple ofapollo at delphi in greece and in the ruins of a greek theatre on that site she performedan anci

tz is in the place v endome and all around that square at first floor level aresymbols of the sun and the cross, very much like the symbols used by the ancients tosymbolise the journey of the sun through the year which i featured earlier in the book.this was the symbol of king louis xiv, who was known as the sun king. at hispalace at v ersailles in the 17th century he decorated rooms in honour of apollo, the sungod, and diana, the goddess of the moon. there was also a statue of the goddess dianaat v ersailles. in the centre of the v endome square is an immense pillar with a statue ofnapoleon on the top and it mirrors the famous nelsons column in trafalgar square,london. at this stage diana still had the same level of security that shed had since theairport, but this could have been increas

o were said to be three aspects of thesame female energy. it was called diana on earth, luna in heaven, and hecate in hell.hecate is one of the premier deities of satanism and she is a version of aphrodite andv enus, different names for the same energy. after her husbands death, jackie kennedytravelled to the greek island of delos in the south west aegean sea, the legendarybirthplace of diana and apollo and the considered domain of hecate, the goddess of theinfernal arts. delos is known for this reason as the island of the dead. hecate wasportayed as both the virgin and the whore and crossroads are the sacred places of444diana-hecate. it is at crossroads that the witches and the grand masters and sorcerers offreemasonry perform their rituals. crossroads are symbolic of the vortex points cr

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ies which come with recognition of being gods and begin to act in a manner that reflects the wisdom, enlightenment, beauty, power, and majesty which is within us. it is not required of us that we become pure or blessed, or that we become all-loving and charitable. these concepts are christian corruptions. we must become, like the gods of the ancient world, unique, powerful, and glorious beings an apollo, an artemis, a zeus, or an aphrodite. i say that such beings as these cannot be judged for they are governed each by their own laws alone. they set their own values and move in their own spheres. i have said that man has already become a god, but this knowledge is not yet fully realized and will not be fully realized until the end of the aeon. the law of the aeon of lucifer is will to come

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t was born in bethlehem. sky-clad: literally, implying naked, to "wear only the sky" a term used by wiccans (q.v) to indicate ritual nudity. gardnerian (q.v) witches are supposed to work their rituals in this state. most however, do in fact wear robes. sol (the sun: the only star in the terran solar system. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the roman god hellios adapted from the greek god apollo. attributed as being the ruler of the zodiac (q.v) sign leo (q.v. on the tree of life (q.v) within the kabbalah (q.v) the sun is attributed to the sixth sephirah (q.v, tiphereth (q.v. keywords include: basic character, identity, vitality, creativity, ruler, king, ego, significance, crown, proudly, golden, heart, life-force, haughty, arrogant, egocentric, powerful, self esteem, inner self, v

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ess. 17. for instance, the seventeenth path, between tiphareth and binab, is assigned by the sepher yet rah to the element of air. we are far wiser to work it with the rite of the element of air and the holy names assigned thereto, and to approach it through the appropriate tattva, rather than confuse the issue with the associations of the assorted collection of deities, castor and pollux, janus, apollo, merti, and other incompatibles assigned to it by crowley, whose correspondences present an inextricable tangle of associations. mystical qabala page 61 18. the sephiroth should be interpreted macrocosmically, and the paths microcosmically; thus we shall find the clue to the tree in both man and nature. chapter xiii practical work upon the tree 1. if among the readers who have followed thes

f rnaul festation in the darkness of the cosmic night. mystical qabala page 149 14. the gods are emanations of the group-minds of races; they are not emanations of eheieh, the one and eternal. nevertheless, they are immensely powerful, because by means of their influence over the imaginations of their worshippers they link the microcosm with the macrocosm; for by meditation on the ideal beauty of apollo the soul of man is opened to beauty in general. 15. as man has analysed life and discerned factor by factor its prime motives, he has apotheosised them. because man in all parts of the globe has found that the same needs and motives actuate him, he has evolved comparable pantheons. because temperaments differ, he has evolved as different pantheons as the blood-thirsty fiends of mexico and t

ill flow into your soul if you contemplate these ideas. it is probable to the point of certainty that the illumination given in the mysteries included the elucidation of the metaphysics of these myths. 61. persephone, diana, aphrodite, hera, all exchange their symbols, functions, characteristics, and even subordinate titles in a bewildering manner in greek myths and art. likewise do priapos, pan, apollo, and zeus. the best we can say of them is that all the goddesses are great mothers and all the gods are givers of life; the difference between them lying not in function but in he level upon which they function. a distinction is drawn between the celestial venus and the goddess of earthly love of the same name; the discerning can see an equal distinction, and an equal underlying identity, b

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he 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. he chanted the praises of apollo, his master, so flatteringly that the god gave him a golden arrow on which he could ride through the air like a bird. therefore, the greeks called him the aerobate. pythagoras, his pupil, stole this arrow from him and thus accomplished many wonderful feats. abaris foretold the future, pacified storms, banished disease, and lived with

poet of the fourteenth century. sources: waite, a. e. the occult sciences. 1891. reprint, secaucus, n.j: university books, 1974. aleuromancy an ancient kind of divination practiced with flour. sentences were written on slips of paper, each of which was rolled up in a little ball of flour. these were thoroughly mixed up nine times and divided among the curious who were waiting to learn their fate. apollo, who was supposed to preside over this form of divination, was surnamed aleuromantis. the custom lingered in remote districts as late as the nineteenth century. sources: waite, a. e. the occult sciences. 1891. reprint, secaucus, n.j: university books, 1974. alexander ab alexandro (alexandro alessandri (ca. 1461.1523) a neapolitan lawyer, who published a dissertation on the marvelous entitle

, he possessed little in the way of worldly wealth. his sole capital consisted in his good looks, fine presence, exquisite voice, and certain talent for fraud, which he was soon to profit from in an extraordinary manner. his idea was to institute a new oracle, and he chose chalcedon as a suitable place to begin operations. finding no great encouragement there, he spread a rumor to the effect that apollo and his son aesculapius intended shortly to take up residence at abonotica. the rumor at length reached the ears of his fellow townsmen, who promptly set to work making a temple for the gods. the way was thus prepared for alexander, who proceeded to abonotica, diligently advertising his skill as a prophet, so that on his arrival people from many neighboring towns consulted him, and his fame

e, beautiful, and so tame and harmless that they were allowed by the inhabitants to enter their houses and play with children. a plan took shape in his brain that would help him attain the fame he craved. selecting the largest and finest specimen of the macedonian snakes that he could find, he carried it secretly to his destination. the temple that the credulous natives of abonotica had raised to apollo was surrounded by a moat, and alexander, ever ready to seize an opportunity wherever it presented itself, emptied a goose egg of its contents, placed within the shell a newly hatched serpent, and sunk it in the moat. he then informed the people that apollo had arrived. making for the moat with all speed, followed by a curious multitude, he scooped up the egg, and in full view of the people

e coiled about his neck. the head of the serpent was concealed under the prophet s arm, and an artificial head, somewhat resembling that of a human being, allowed to protrude. the assembly was astonished to find that the tiny serpent of a few days ago had already attained such remarkable proportions and possessed the face of a human being, and they appeared to have little doubt that it was indeed apollo come to abonotica. by means of ingenious mechanical contrivances, the serpent was apparently made to reply to questions put to it. in other cases sealed rolls containing the questions were handed to the oracle and returned with the seals intact and an appropriate answer written inside. his audacity and ready invention enabled alexander to impose at will upon the credulous people of his time

irly common. as calmet further noted, the ancient greeks, who had derived their religion and theology from the egyptians and eastern nations, and the latins, who had borrowed theirs from the greeks, were all firmly persuaded that the souls of the dead appeared sometimes to the living.that they could be called up by necromancers, that they answered questions, and gave notice of future events; that apollo gave oracles, and that the priestess, filled with his spirit, and transported with a holy enthusiasm, uttered infallible predictions of things to come. homer, the most ancient of all the greek writers, and their greatest divine, relates several apparitions, not only of gods, but of dead men and heroes. in the odyssey, he introduces ulysses consulting teresias, who, having prepared a pit ful

e way: beacons of ascension. sedona, ariz: light technology publishing, 1995. ascent journal of spiritual development published by yasodhara ashram, founded in canada by swami sivananda radha, a disciple of the late swami sivananda saraswati of rishikesh, himalayas, india. address: yasodhara ashram, box 9, kootenay bay, bc, canada v0b 1x0. asclepius (or aesculapius) in greek mythology, the son of apollo and coronis who was instructed in the arts of healing by the centaur chiron. asclepius married epione, who begat hygeia (health. so successful was asclepius in the art of healing that zeus was fearful that he would make mankind immortal, so he killed him with a thunderbolt. apollo retaliated by attacking the cyclopes who had forged the thunderbolt, and zeus was eventually prevailed upon to

antity. knowing the value of the powder, richtausen presented himself to emperor ferdinand, himself an alchemist, and gave him a quantity of the powder. the emperor, assisted by his mine master count russe, succeeded in converting three pounds of mercury into gold by means of one grain of the powder. the emperor is said to have commemorated the event by having a medal struck bearing the effigy of apollo with the caduceus of mercury and an appropriate motto. richtausen was ennobled under the title of baron chaos. a. e. waite, in his lives of alchemistical philosophers (1888, stated: among many transformations performed by the same powder was one by the elector of mayence, in 1651. he made projections with all the precautions possible to a learned and skilful philosopher. the powder enclosed

iodical, the key. he also authored the first book on the planet, interpreting chiron, in 1983. it was immediately followed by several others in the attempt to offer psychological insights into the new factor in the horoscope. the story of the ancient greek mythological character for whom the planet was named was detailed by dale o brien, who saw him as the first astrologer, trained by artemis and apollo. by the time that chiron was discovered to be a comet, an estimated 20 percent of practicing astrologers were regularly adding it to their clients charts (astrologers being quite conservative in making any major alteration to the preparation of charts. the discovery that chiron was a comet did not lead to any demise in its popularity, though it may slow any further acceptance by the next ge

gmans, green, 1903. abridged edition. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1961. osty, eugene. supernormal faculties in man: an experimental study. london: methuen, 1923. pollack, j. h. croiset the clairvoyant. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1964. rhine, j. b. the reach of the mind. new york: w. sloane associates, 1947. rhine, louise e. hidden channels of the mind. london, 1962. reprint, new york: apollo, 1966. tenhaeff, w. h. c. telepathy& clairvoyance. springfield, ill: charles c. thomas, 1972. tischner, r. telepathy& clairvoyance. new york: harcourt brace, 1925. van over, raymond. esp& the clairvoyants. new york: award books, happauge, 1970. clancarty, earl of (1911) a writer on ufo and ancient astronaut themes better known under his given name (william) brinsley le poer trench, under wh

tia) ancient system of divination based on the good or evil presage of certain words uttered without premeditation when persons come together in any way. the system also regulated the words to be used on particular occasions. cicero stated that the pythagoreans were very attentive to these presages, and according to pausanius, it was a favorite method of divination at smyrna, where the oracles of apollo were thus interpreted. cleidomancy system of divination using a suspended door key. it was to be performed when the sun or moon was in virgo. the name of the individual being investigated was written upon a key tied to a bible, and both were hung upon the nail of the ring finger of a virgin, who softly repeated certain words three times. depending on whether the key and bible turned or were

arctic explorer sir hubert wilkins that yielded a significant account of telepathic communication of interest to parapsychologists. a log of wilkins s thoughts and actions compared with sherman s received impressions provide a startling record of the possibilities of psychic comunication. this served as a model for a similar experiment conducted by edgar mitchell during his voyage to the moon on apollo 14 in 1971. through the 1940s and 1950s sherman continued to write metaphysical and psychic books that brought him a great following. they became the basis for the formation of esp research associates foundation, which among other activities provided a contact point for people who wished to have psychic readings from sherman. through the 1980s, the foundation conducted conferences but was u

ler, j(ohn) f(rederick) c(harles (1878.1966) distinguished british soldier and friend of magician aleister crowley. as a young man he became impressed by crowley s poems and occult philosophy and wrote a eulogistic book, the star in the west (1907, in which he hailed crowley as more than a new-born dionysis, he is more than a blake, a rabelais or a heine; for he stands before us as some priest of apollo. crowleyanity was to be the new religion of mankind. it was fuller who introduced crowley to poet victor neuburg, encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. fuller, j(ohn) f(rederick) c(harles) 611 who was to become crowley s foremost disciple (fuller was not related to jean overton fuller, who wrote an excellent biography of victor neuburg) fuller parted company with crowley in 191

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uty and with a heavy attack squadron. he studied for his doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics at massachusetts institute of technology and became chief of the project management division of the navy field office for manned orbiting laboratory (1964. he later attended air force aerospace research pilot school. he was selected by nasa as an astronaut in april 1966 and was lunar module pilot of apollo 14, which landed on the moon february 5, 1971. his interest in parapsychology dated from 1967, soon after his arrival at the nasa manned spacecraft center in houston. he was dissatisfied with orthodox theology and began to investigate areas of psychic phenomena and mysticism. in december 1969 mitchell became friendly with medium arthur ford, who suggested an interesting esp test from a man

ted from 1967, soon after his arrival at the nasa manned spacecraft center in houston. he was dissatisfied with orthodox theology and began to investigate areas of psychic phenomena and mysticism. in december 1969 mitchell became friendly with medium arthur ford, who suggested an interesting esp test from a man in a rocket to a contact on earth. mitchell planned a rocket-to-earth esp test for the apollo 14 mission, although ford died january 4, 1971, 27 days before the mission launch (to which he had been invited as mitchell s guest. nasa had rejected a telepathy experiment planned by the american society for psychical research in 1970, so mitchell s test was a private affair in his own rest periods. the tests involved the transmission of symbols associated with a range of chosen numbers

the spot, was seized and uttered words deemed to be inspired. later as the danger of inhaling the fumes without proper caution was known, the fissure was covered by a table, with a hole in the center and called a tripod, so that those who wished to try the experiment could safely. eventually, a young girl became the medium for responses, now deemed oracular and called pythian, as proceeding from apollo, the slayer of python, to whom delphi was consecrated. a wooden structure of laurel branches was erected over the spot and the pythoness sat on throne to receive apollo s dictation. as the oracle became better known, the structure was constructed of more costly materials. the tripod was made of gold but the lid continued to be made of brass. the pythoness began by drinking from a sacred fou

g a laurel leaf, and placing a laurel crown on her head. the person making an inquiry from the oracle first offered a victim and then, having written his question in a notebook, handed it to the pythoness before she ascended the tripod. the inquisitor and the priestess wore laurel crowns. originally the oracle spoke only on the seventh day of the month byssus. this was regarded as the birthday of apollo and was called polypthonus. according to diodorus, virginity was originally a prerequisite in the pythoness, due to the purity of that state and its relation to diana; moreover, virgins were thought better adapted than other women to keep oracular mysteries secret and inviolate. but after an accident had occurred to one of the pythonesses, the guardians of the temple permitted no one to ful

returned, what they had uttered, so that all others, rather than they, knew it. the oracle of jupiter trophonius according to pausanias (ca. 470 b.c.e, trophonius was the most skillful architect of his day. there are various opinions regarding the origin of his oracle. some say he was swallowed up by an earthquake in the cave and became prophetic; others, that after having completed the adytum of apollo at delphi, he declined asking any specific pay, but requested the god to grant him whatever was the greatest benefit a man could receive. and three days later he was found dead. this oracle was discovered after two years, when the pythoness ordered the starving population who applied to her to consult trophonius in lebadaea. the deputies sent for that purpose could not find any trace of suc

ything belonging to the hieron of trophonius in its original state, except the narrow entrance to the temple was filled with rubbish. the turkish governor was afraid of civil unrest if he gave permission to clean the aperture. in modern times, the waters of lethe and mnemosyne are used for the wash of lebadaea. the oracles of delos and branchus the oracle of delos was derived from the nativity of apollo and diana in that island. at dindyma, or didyma, near miletus, apollo presided over the oracle of the branchidae, so called from either one of his sons or of his favorites branchus of thessaly, whom he instructed in soothsaying while alive and canonized after death. the responses were given by a priestess who bathed and fasted for three days before consultation, then sat upon an axle or bar

ly, whom he instructed in soothsaying while alive and canonized after death. the responses were given by a priestess who bathed and fasted for three days before consultation, then sat upon an axle or bar, with a charming-rod in her hand, and inhaled the steam from a hot spring. offerings and ceremonies were necessary, including baths, fasting, and solitude. the oracle at colophon of the oracle of apollo at colophon, iamblichus (ca. 330 c.e) left an account relating that it prophesied by drinking water: it is known that a subterranean spring exists there, from which the prophet drinks; after he has done so, and has performed many consecrations and sacred customs on certain nights, he predicts the future; but he is invisible to all who are present. that this water can induce prophecy is clea

d runs nearly at right angles extending towards the wrist. the line of fortune runs from the base of the third finger towards the wrist parallel to the line of fate. if the lines are deep, firm, and of narrow width, the significance is good.excepting that a strong line of health shows constitutional weakness. at the base of the fingers, beginning with the first, lie the mounts of jupiter, saturn, apollo, and mercury; at the base of the thumb the mount of venus; opposite to it, that of luna. if well-proportioned they show certain virtues, but if exaggerated they indicate the vices that correspond to these. the first displays religion, reasonable ambition, or pride and superstition; the second wisdom and prudence, or ignorance and failure; the third when large, makes for success and intellig

gs. the trees also harbored the spirits of the dead, who came forth as dreams to the souls of men. pliny the elder stated in this matter: trees have a soul since nothing on earth lives without one. they are the temples of spirits and the simple countryside dedicates still a noble tree to some god. the various kinds of trees are sacred to their protecting spirits: the oak to jupiter, the laurel to apollo, olive to minerva, myrtle to venus, white poplar to hercules. these trees therefore partook of the nature of their presiding spirits and it was desirable to bring about communion with their magical influence, as in the spring, when laurel boughs were hung at the doors of the flamens and pontiffs, and in the temple of vesta, where they remained hanging until the following year. trees and the

nt in classical greece and were referred to by aristophanes and plato. sibylline books the manuscripts that embodied the secrets of human destiny, the work of the sibyls or prophetesses of the ancient world. according to the historian tacitus (ca. 55.120 c.e, these books were first preserved in the roman capitol. when it burned down, the previous leaves were preserved and removed to the temple of apollo palatinus. their subsequent fate is enshrouded in mystery, but it would seem that the cumean books existed until 339 c.e, when they were destroyed by the consul stilikon. augustus sent three ambassadors.paulus gabinus, marcus otacillius, and lucius valerius.into asia, africa, and italy to collect whatever could be discovered of the sibylline oracles in order to replace those that had been l

of the later sibyls, which are falsified and disfigured with numerous interpolations. of the latter, eight books in greek and latin are still said to exist. those preserved in rome had been collected from various places, at various times, and contained predictions of future events couched in the most mysterious of symbolic languages. at first they were permitted to be read only by descendants of apollo, then later by priests, until their care was entrusted to certain officials. siddhas according to hindu mythology, the 88,000 semi-divine beings of great holiness dwelling between the earth and the sun. siddhis the eight occult powers resulting from the practice of yoga, according to the system of patanjali (ca. 200 b.c.e. these powers are anima (to become infinitely small at will, mahima (

e common casting of dice. the following are the more classical methods: sortes thriaecae, or thriaen lots, were chiefly used in greece; they were pebbles or counters distinguished by certain characters that were cast into an urn, and the first that came out was supposed to contain the right direction. this form of divination received its name from the thriaej, three nymphs supposed to have nursed apollo and to have invented this mode of predicting futurity. sortes viales, or street and road lots, were used both in greece and rome. the person that wanted to learn his fortune carried with him a certain number of lots, distinguished by several characters or inscriptions. walking to and fro in the public ways he asked the first boy whom he met to draw, and the inscription on the lot thus drawn

EVERBURNING LAMPS

e also "licetus" cap. v. herodotus tells us that the egyptians made a special and extensive use of lamps in the religious festivals, and that the temples of king mycerinus had many mysterious ones. strabo, and pausanias in his atticus, narrate that in the temple of minerva polias, at athens, there was a mysterious lamp of gold always burning; it was made by callimachus. the altar of the temple of apollo carneus, at cyrene, 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 befo

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

the ascended masters in the brotherhood of light. athena (the asteroid belt, formerly the planet maldek) defends truth and justice. jove (jupiter) balances magnetic fields. zoroaster (saturn) monitors order, structure, and destiny. quetzalcoatal (uranus) leads religious and philosophical change. merlin (neptune) directs scientific discovery. lao-tzu (pluto) offers objective, detached wisdom, and apollo (phoenix) generates change. all of these individuals figure in earthly mythology and (in the case of lao-tzu, the founder of taoism) history. see also: ascended masters; athena; fairies encountered; sasquatch further reading korsholm, celeste, 1991. lao-tzu, planetary council member from pluto. http//www.spiritweb. org/spirit/pluto-celeste.html, 1995. tales from the planets. http//spiritweb

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and splendid ether-blue, if them i had not worked to shove there? a picturesque, entrancing view! whenas (the primal sires surveying, chaos and night) i saw my honour lost, i, with the titans joined in playing, hurled ossa, pelion too, as balls are tossed. thus we raged on in youthful passion till vexed and weary at the last both mountains we, in wanton fashion, like twin peaks on parnassus cast. apollo gladly lingers yonder there in the muses blest retreat. for jove himself and for his bolts of thunder i heaved on high his lofty seat. thus i, by strainings superhuman, pushed from the depths to upper air, and dwellers glad i loudly summon new life henceforth with me to share. sphinxes surely one would call primeval what so burg-like looms today, but we saw the earth give way to the straini

ipe food of the meadows, and honey from the hollowed tree distils. here comfort is the birthright of a nation, both cheek and lips express serenity, each is immortal in his age and station, healthy they live and happily. and thus the lovely child develops, gaining the father s strength as bright day follows day. we marvel, in our minds a doubt remaining if they are gods, if men are they. thus was apollo shepherd-like in feature, only the fairest was as fair as he; for where in a pure orbit ruleth nature, all worlds unite and blend in harmony. taking his seat beside helena. thus hath success both thee and me attended, now let the past be past, behind us flung; oh, feel thyself from highest god descended, thou of the primal world whence thou art sprung! thee shall no fortress keep in hiding!

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

hrough the species which are in the womb of nature, to receive those benefits which they desired from her. for, as she gives fish to the sea and rivers, deserts to wild animals, metals to the mines, fruits to the trees, so they give certain lots, virtues, fortunes and impressions to certain parts of certain animals, beasts, and plants. hence the divinity in the sea was called neptune, in the sun, apollo, in the earth ceres, in the deserts, diana, and diversely in all other species which, like diverse ideas, were diverse divinities in nature, all of 213 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform which referred to one deity of deities and fountain of the ideas above nature.1 what is giordano bruno doing here? it is quite simple. he is taking renaissance magic back to its pagan source, ab

bering, but the idea of the moral regeneration taking place in the cosmological setting can now be recognised as undoubtedly hermetic in origin. the names of the gods who attend the reforming council and conduct the reform of the heavens are nowhere listed, but we know who they are from the names of the speakers in the deliberations of the council. summoned by jupiter, the council was attended by apollo, mercury, saturn, mars, venus, diana. these are, of course, the planetary gods, with sol and luna under their olympian names. others present were juno, minerva, neptune, and isis, the latter being a very prominent speaker. in the dedication to sidney, bruno explains that the gods represent "the virtues and powers of the soul",5 and that, since "in every man. there is a world, a universe",6

. 561-2. 6 ibid (dial, ital, p. 560. see above, p. 217. 220 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform which is being formed in the spaccio, a personality whose powers are being formed into a successful whole. what kind of personality? that we can know by looking round the heavens and reading off the victorious good qualities in the constellations. it is a predominantly solar personality, for apollo is the patron of magic and divination, and this personality is the prophet and leader of a revival of magical religion. the triumph of good solar characteristics is witnessed in, for example, draco, where apollo with his magic charms the dragon,1 and in corvus in which magia divina triumphs over bad forms of magic.2 another most important influence in this character is that of jupiter. the

(cassiopeia was punished by neptune for boasting of being fairer than the nereids) but her pride, arrogance, and falsehood are made to go down out of heaven, in spite of pro- spanish mars's plea for her, and simplicity ascends in her place.3 it is clear, by implication, that catholic spain represents another kind of pedantry, making for war and social disruption. in contrast, under gemini, cupid, apollo, mercury, saturn, venus speak in favour of love, friendship, and peace which are to replace partiality.4 under libra, we learn that the balance must go down to look into injustices on earth, amongst other things to correct the violence done to nature in vestal edifices.5 the ethic which bruno advocates is that of a rule of law and order which encourages peaceful and useful activities and fr

th the church, for the altar, discussed under the constellation of that name, is to remain in heaven with the centaur, half beast (in the egyptian sense of god) and half man beside it.1 the centaur is admired for having healed the sick and shown a way to mount up to the stars. he is to remain in heaven, for where there is an altar, there must be a priest for the altar. under the corona australis, apollo asks what is to be done with this crown? that (replied jupiter, is the crown which, by the high decree of fate and the inspiration of the divine spirit and as a reward for high merit, awaits the invincible henri iii, king of the magnanimous, powerful, and warlike realm of france, which he promises himself after the crown of france and the crown of poland, as he testified at the beginning of

cific natural forms in which they contemplate the eternal essence, the specific substantial perpetuator of the eternal generation and vicissitude of things which are called after their founders and fabricators, and above them all presides the form of forms, the fountain of light, the truth of truths, the god of gods, for all is full of divinity, truth, being, and goodness.3 the sun, the universal apollo, the absolute light, is reflected in its shadow, its moon, its diana which is the world of universal nature in which the enthusiast hunts for the vestiges of the divine, the reflections of the divine light in nature, and the hunter becomes converted into what he hunts after, that is to say, he becomes divine. hence the wonderful image of actaeon and his dogs, hunting after the "vestiges, wh

whom we have found to have been so constantly consulted by our magician. the four degrees of furor, or enthusiasm, by which the soul re-ascends to the one, had been drawn up by ficino, from platonic sources, in his commentary on plato's symposium and elsewhere, as being, first the furor of poetic inspiration, under the muses; second, religious furor, under dionysius; third, prophetic furor, under apollo; fourth the furor of love, under venus. in this last and highest of the four degrees of inspiration, the soul is made one and recovers itself into the one. agrippa in the de occulta philosophia3 goes through the furores, in this order, and when he reaches the fourth and highest one, this is what he says: as for the fourth furor, coming from venus, it turns and transmutes the spirit of man i

th the approbation of lactantius, as prophecies or prefiguration of the christian trinity, lie at the heart of ficino's christian neoplatonism, much of the terminology of which bruno is here repeating. but bruno, the "egyptian, rejects the christian interpretation and reverts to the hermetic gnosticism. after the "infigurables" come the "figurables, the magic inner statues. first is the statue of apollo or the monad. he stands in his chariot to signify the absolute one; he is naked to signify the one simplicity; the constancy and solidity of his rays signify the one pure truth. one crow flying before his face signifies unity by the negation of multitude. he denotes one genus because he illuminates all the stars; one species because he illuminates the twelve signs; one number through the li

the one pure truth. one crow flying before his face signifies unity by the negation of multitude. he denotes one genus because he illuminates all the stars; one species because he illuminates the twelve signs; one number through the lion his sign; one congregation through the chorus of the muses over which he presides; one harmony or consonance, one symphony of many voices, denoted by the lyre of apollo which is called the spirit of the universe.3 this sounds like a fairly normal statue of apollo, but its magical or talismanic nature is indicated by some of the ingredients, for instance the "one crow" which flies before his face, suggesting the talisman with a crow in it which ficino had used.4 the statue of saturn, or the beginning, is constructed on similar principles; he is the usual ol

through these magic memory rooms, but the twelve central "principles" or powers on which the whole scheme centres are interesting because they remind us of the gods in the spaccio della bestia trionfante. the twelve "principles" of the de imaginum compositione, some of which have other principles with them, or in the same "field, are as follows: jupiter, with juno; saturn; mars; mercury; minerva; apollo; aesculapius, with whom are grouped circe, arion, orpheus, sol; luna; venus; cupid; tellus, with ocean, neptune, pluto.1 if these twelve principles are set out in a column, and in a parallel column are listed the gods who are the speakers in the spaccio, the gods who hold the council by which the heaven is reformed, the result is as follows: 1 op. lat, ii (iii, pp. 200-77. 326 giordano brun

e result is as follows: 1 op. lat, ii (iii, pp. 200-77. 326 giordano bruno: last published work the twelve principles the gods of of g. bruno's de imaginum, signorum g. bruno's spaccio et idearum compositione, 1591 delta bestia trionfante, 1585 i jupiter (18 images) jupiter juno juno ii saturn (4 images) saturn iii mars (4 images) mars iv mercury (7 images) mercury v minerva (3 images) minerva vi apollo (8 images) apollo vii aesculapius (6 images) with his magicians circe (1 image) circe and medea arion (i image) with his physician orpheus (3 images) aesculapius viii sol (1 image) ix luna (6 images) diana x venus (10 images) venus and cupid xi cupid (2 images) xii tellus (3 images) ceres ocean (1 image) neptune neptune (1 image) thetis pluto (i image) momus isis as can easily be seen by co

here is a marked similarity between the gods of the spaccio and the "principles" of de imaginum compositione. many, indeed most of them, are the same. there is a general similarity, too, in the fact that both lists contain the seven planetary gods and also other non-planetary principles. even these non-planetary principles are somewhat similar in both lists; minerva is in both; if we include with apollo in the spaccio list, circe, medea, aesculapius who support apollo in the council, we have something corresponding to the curious aesculapius group in the de imaginum compositione; if we remember that isis can mean the earth or nature, we have something corresponding to the isis of the spaccio in the tellus group of the other work. one naturally thinks, in connection with these "principles

corresponding to the curious aesculapius group in the de imaginum compositione; if we remember that isis can mean the earth or nature, we have something corresponding to the isis of the spaccio in the tellus group of the other work. one naturally thinks, in connection with these "principles, of the twelve olympian gods whom manilius associates with the signs of the zodiac, namely minerva, venus, apollo, mercury 327 giordano bruno: last published work jupiter, ceres, vulcan, mars, diana, vesta, juno, neptune. it is possible that bruno has these in mind but is, as usual, adapting and altering a conventional scheme to suit his own purposes. the astrological aspect of bruno's "principles" is certainly strong, for the seven which correspond to the seven planets (jupiter, saturn, mars, mercury

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

ve to a creative principle, or god, descent and the rights of succession which had hitherto been reckoned through the mother were changed from the female to the male line, the father having in the meantime become the only recognized parent. in the eumenides of aeschylus, the plea of orestes in extenuation of his crime is that he is not of kin to his mother. euripides, also, puts into the mouth of apollo the same physiological notion, that she who bears the child is only its nurse. the hindoo code of menu, which, however, since its earliest conception, has undergone numberless mutilations to suit the purposes of the priests, declares that "the mother is but the field which brings forth the plant according to whatsoever seed is sown" although, through the accumulation of property in masses a

sanskrit and hebrew scholar, says that ra, ilos, helos, bil, baal, al, allah, and elohim were names given to the sun as representative of the creator. we are assured by godfrey higgins that brahme is the sun the same as surya. brahma sprang from the navel of brahme. faber in his pagan idolatry says that all the gods of the ancients "melt insensibly into one, they are all equally the sun" the word apollo signifies the author or generator of light. in the rig veda, surya, the sun, is called aditya "truly, surya, thou art great; truly aditya, thou art great" selden observes that whether the gods be called osiris, or omphis, or nilus, or any other name, they all center in the sun. according to diodorus siculus, it was the belief of the ancients that dionysos, osiris, serapis, pan, jupiter and

f the diurnal and nocturnal sun; and, upon a crescent supported by the tips of her wings, are the seven planets, each signified by a bust of its presiding deity resting upon a globe, and placed in the order of the days of the week named after them. in her left hand she holds two cornucopiae, to signify the result of her operation on the two hemispheres of the earth; and upon them are the busts of apollo and diana, the presiding deities of these hemispheres, with a golden disk, intersected by two transverse lines, such as is observed on other pieces of ancient art, and such as the barbarians of the north employed to represent the solar year, divided into four parts, at the back of each"[30 [30] symbolism of ancient art. it was doubtless at a time when woman constituted the head of the gens

her pieces of ancient art, and such as the barbarians of the north employed to represent the solar year, divided into four parts, at the back of each"[30 [30] symbolism of ancient art. it was doubtless at a time when woman constituted the head of the gens, and when the feminine element in the sun, in human beings, and in nature generally was regarded as the more important, that latona and her son apollo were worshipped together. latona, apollo, and diana constituted the triune god. the last two were the female and male energies, the former being the source whence they sprang. as soon as one is divested of a belief in the popular but erroneous opinion that the gods of the early egyptians and greeks were deified heroes of former ages, he is prepared to perceive the fact that, although to the

onger in the hands of the people; the masses have become enslaved. their rulers are priests--deified tyrants who are unable to maintain their authority except through the ignorance and credulity of the masses. hence one is not surprised to find that the change which took place at a certain stage of human growth in respect to the manner of reckoning descent was instigated and enforced by religion. apollo had declared that woman is but the nurse to her own offspring. neither is it remarkable at this stage in the human career, as women had lost their position as heads of families, and as they were no longer recognized as of kin to their children, that man should have attempted to lessen the importance of the female element in the god-idea. wherever in the history of the human race we observe

by the amazons, and is essentially the same as the egyptian isis. she represents universal female nature. the thesmophorian rites, which are believed by most writers to have been introduced into greece directly from thrace, were performed by "virgins distinguished for probity in life, who carried about in procession sacred books upon their heads" inman, in his ancient faiths, quotes an oracle of apollo, from spencer, to the effect that "rhea the mother of the blessed, and the queen of the gods, loved assemblages of women" as this festival is in honor of female nature, the various female attributes are adored as deities, demeter being the first named by the worshippers. after a long season of fasting, and "after solemn reflection on the mysteries of life, women splendidly attired in white

ping (for tamuz, the whole assembly singing hymns "adonis is returned to life, urania weeps no more, he has ascended to heaven, he will soon return to earth and banish hence all crimes and miseries forever" this scene, it will be remembered, was presented 500 years prior to the birth of christ. in rome, throughout the months preceding the winter solstice, hilaria or ceres, was especially honored. apollo and diana rose on the 7th of the julian april and on the 10th their religious festivals began. on easter morn, during the earlier ages of the church, the observances of christians were exactly the same as were those of the so called pagans, all together hurried out long before the break of day that they might behold the sun ascend, or "dance" as they called it, for on this morning he was to

aster morning the peasants of saxony and brandenburg still climb to the hilltops "to see the sun give his three joyful leaps" in buckland's land and water it is stated that on the first of may all the choristers of magdalene college, oxford, still meet on the summit of their tower, 150 feet high, and sing a latin hymn as the sun rises, during which time ten bells are rung "to welcome the gracious apollo" formerly, high mass was celebrated here and early mass for sol was held in the college chapel, but, as at the time of the reformation this service was forbidden "it has since been performed on the top of the tower" after the hymn is sung "boys blow loud blasts to sol through bright new tin horns" perhaps none of the ideas which enter into present religious rites and ceremonies proclaims it

t night, were used to decorate their homes. this festival is said to be the most ancient of any known, and during the earlier and purer ages of human faith was celebrated in honor of returning spring. in later ages, however, after passion had become the only recognized god, may-day was celebrated with "all manner of obscenity and lewdness" although the uneducated masses among the gauls worshipped apollo, mercury, and mars without understanding their true significance, the druids, who are thought to be pythagorians, invoked one great power, the animating force which pervades the universe, the essence of which they believed resides in fire. it is related that although after the introduction of romish christianity, may fires still continued to be lighted on bealtine day, the more impressive c

ught that he had been bred or brought up in the lyceum and had conversed all his life with the academy of athens. he had frequent intercourse with pythagoras whom he astonished by the variety and extent of his knowledge" from the descriptions given of the native country of abarras by the greeks, it is evident that it could have been none other than ireland. although at this time in their history, apollo the sun-god was the deity worshipped in greece and in ireland, still both nations honored latona his mother. the same as in the mother country (persia, or phoenicia, the oracles, or sybils of ireland, had prophesied a "savior" and three hundred years before greek emissaries visited that country, its people, through the preaching of eastern missionaries, had substituted for the worship of la

e sun-god was the deity worshipped in greece and in ireland, still both nations honored latona his mother. the same as in the mother country (persia, or phoenicia, the oracles, or sybils of ireland, had prophesied a "savior" and three hundred years before greek emissaries visited that country, its people, through the preaching of eastern missionaries, had substituted for the worship of latona and apollo that of the new solar incarnation--the third son of zarathustra, whose appearance had been heralded by a star. the identity of the symbols used by the early people of ireland who were sun worshippers, and those employed in that country for ages after the romish church had usurped the ecclesiastical authority, has been a subject for much comment. after describing the peculiar form of the ear

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s sought for references to themintheir own earlier writers; and especially in the170themagical masonvenerable works of homer and hesiod, possibly because they disliked to acknowledge that any sort of learning was not in the possession oftheirancestors. sofar as can be judged the deities of the early greeks were not closely related to the sun and planets, although the later greeks identified their apollo with helios the sun, and artemis with the moon.theearlier greeks looked upon the sun as driving his chariot through the sky, but the sun was not an olympian god, and held a minor rank in the earliest pantheon. venus, the planet, was called hesperus, as the evening star, and there was the morning star eosphorus,butit was not until the time at any rate of pythagoras circa 612b.c.,that they we

iests" upon all the events of the state, the home and the individual, and paid heavily for these privileges.theoracles the oracles of the ancient greeks and romans were considered to be revelations made by the gods to men: the wordoraculummeant the place of divination and also the inspired message. it was said that zeus the supreme god did but rarely commu255 nicate, but sent his commands through apollo and other minor gods to the mouth of the oracles. the most famous oracle was that in the temple of apollo at delphi, at first called pytho. before the golden statue of apollo burned a perpetual fire of fir wood; there was also an altar of incense where laurel wood was burned. within the temple was a natural chasm, from which there was an occasional escape of some noxious gas from a subterra

re in verse; the messages always tended to inculcate religious conduct and to encourage the worship of the. gods. the real control ofthis oracle is believed to have been ill the hands of five priests selected from the noble families or: delphi; it lost its great fame about 400b.c.,butwas still consulted even down to 200a.d.other famous oracular shrines were those of zeus at olympia and dodona; of apollo at delos, and the cave of trophoniusin bceotia, pausanias gives a full account of his visit to thelast;'mentioned oracle. there were also at a later date several notable roman oracles, of which mention may be made of those of faunus. fortuna, and of mars, where a bird, a woodpecker, is saidtohave delivered the messages.thesibyls the sibyls were a group of prophetic females who were' conside

going to his sleep, for mercury presided over a man's sleeping hours (homer in hymn xiv. some persons also carried out this200themagical masonprocedure in their own homes.theeating of fish was said to make dreams obscure and meaningless or deceptive. when a dream seemed to be of doubtful meaning, a soothsayer calledmanteiswas consulted, who said he must appeal according to circumstances to zeus, apollo hestia or to herakles, forlightuponthe matter, and then he gave an explanation 'themagic of chaldea professed and practised the artofinterpretation of dreams, and so indeed did the priests of almost' allthegreat religions of asia. a belief in dreams as havingconcealedbutdiscoverable meaning has existed down topresentday-itis a notion that very few persons are quite, without.thecontinued lar

saviour of mankind from the effects of its fall from grace. it has been suggested that the later mithraism was mazda worship, greatly influenced by chaldean astrological notions. the name mitra is the ancient sanskrit indian word for the sun, and it is said by c. w. king to be also the zend (iranian) word meaning the sun; the wordmitramalso meant 'friend. many students have associated mithra with apollo, the sun248themagical masongod, phcebus, hyperion, phanes and dionysos of the greeks, as well as with fire and light as sources of benevolent force and energy; he is distinctly related to the indian vedic varuna, god of the heavens- the greek ouranos and the chaldee shamas. as the cult of mithra arising anew from the persian faith spread into europe, the great first powers appeartohave been

slaying is performed was deemed to represent the universe. other suggestions have been made in explanation of the sculptures, remembering that mithras was a solar diety. in the birth scene, the torch-bearers, with one torch up and the other down, may refer to the rise and setting of the sun. in the later period of mithra worship in italy, these was a blending with the more usual solar worship of apollo as the sun god, as we read of mithra assol invictus, deus invictus mithras, deus sol invictus mithras;before its abolition we also find mithras associated with the paganmagna mater,the great mother goddess. as mithra worship was fading out, the emperor julian made an attempt to restore its dominance, but his failed, and persecution by christian authorities caused its extinction: the christi

rms related tocertain tribes, sects, and families. we remember, of course, that the four quarters of the earth were associated with lion, bull, man and eagle, and that these symbols were allocated by the hebrews to the four cherubim and by the christiansto the four evangelists.theancient greek kronos, emblematic of time, was considered as lion-headed; venus as love, as a dove; jove with an eagle; apollo is shown with a swan. preliminary to admission to the secret grades we read that candidates had to pass a long period of probation, of cleansing both moral and physical, and of prolonged abstinence from meat food, and that they suffered many other privations. after severe tests a form of baptismperlavacrumwas carried out and solemn oaths administered, and tertullian states that in the grade

cal stone.thegreeks used also to place pillars, consecrated stones, before their temples and gymnasia, and even before the dwellings of the notables: pausanias says that unhewn stones were preferred. cybele, the goddess, was represented by a black stone; and eusebius remarks that a black stone was peculiarly appropriate to a god because of his obscure and inscrutable nature. in a temple at delos, apollo is said to have been represented by a stone. ovid tells us of sisyphus, whose punishment was to roll a stone continually up a hill. in the roman forum, among the remains of ancient times, there is thelapisnigeror black stone, said to mark the burial place of romulus the first king of rome.theroman god, terminus, was represented as a stone, and so the pillar became used as a landmark. toland

reward.theeighth day was of a supplementary character, and was calledepidauria.on this day any initiate who had been unavoidably detained could be received. the custom is said to have originated from the late arrival of asklepios, who came from epidauros too late for the ceremonial of the sixth night. this asklepios was the famous physician, called by the romans l243sculapius, fabledtobe a son of apollo, by the princess coronis, of thessaly.theninth day was calledplemochoai,from the nature of the ceremony concluding the festival. two special cups, namedplemochoaiandkotuliskoi,were filled with consecrated wine, and their contents were scattered as a libation by the priests, one to the east- sacred to jupiter- and one to the west- sacred to pluto- during the recitation of a ritual, with cert

eaven and earth- having by the stratagem of juno, enticed dionysos to a variety of sports, at last captivated his attention by means of a mirror. they then tore him to pieces, boiled and roasted his limbs, and began to feed upon them. zeus, noticing the scent, and being incensed at the cruel deed, hurled his thunderbolts at the titans, who had killed his son, born of semele, and sent another son, apollo, the sun-god, to collect and inter the remains.theheart of dionysos had, however, been saved by pallas (minerva, and from it the god was re-born and restored to olympos. from the burnt remains of the titans all mankind was produced byzeusas the demiurgos, the fashioner of this earthworld.thedionysia, at their origin, were concerned with this fable, which refers both to the gods and to men

has a large volume on the kabeiri. herodotus tells us that cambyses, king of persia, unlawfully entered the temple of the kabeiri when in a fit of madness, defiled it, and burned the sacred images.theartemisiawere the festivals of the greek artemis, who became at a later date the goddess diana of the romans. she was fabled to be a daughter of zeus, the king of gods, by latona, and was a sister of apollo, who was often considered to represent the sun, and so diana was called the goddess of the moon. diana was deemed to be a chaste maiden goddess, and her nymphs were vowed to modesty and abstinence from sexual love. she was famous as devoted to hunting, and alsotomusic and the dance. she was mistress of the animal world, guardian of youth, patroness of temperance, and preserver of civil righ

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kind of abomination of that nature. we are emerging from materialism now, and the evil potencies of this planet are getting into something worse- spiritual insteadofmaterial degradation. so it looks at any rate, and so say the propheciesbothof east and west. and in the same way you can go on- you can traceoutthe plagues in the sign sagittarius, the plagues shot by the arrowsofthesun,the arrows of apollo, whichhomerspeaks of.thoughputdown by chroniclers to destruction oftroy,anda thousand years before christ or so, undoubtedlythatlegend belongs to the last sagittariusmonthin the kali yug, and that sagittariusmonthis coming again some five thousand years hence, when the second five thousand yearsofthe kali yug come to an end.thatis prophesied also in thehinduand chinese records, and similarl

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nternal transformation that are working through transfiguration. the church of thyatira the church of thyatira is the heart or anahata chakra. it is known as "sacrifice or contrition" as it involves the sacrifice of the fallen facets of the organism and the things of the world to the higher self (yechidah. the characteristic of the city is that it is a manufacturing town with a altar dedicated to apollo. these two characteristics are very important; the first represents the power of the heart centre, when properly activated it manufactures static forces that transform the organism. the second characteristic represents the importance of the mystery teachings. through modern scholarship it has been discovered that many of the greek mysteries completed and fulfilled the ancient hebrew mystery

stics are very important; the first represents the power of the heart centre, when properly activated it manufactures static forces that transform the organism. the second characteristic represents the importance of the mystery teachings. through modern scholarship it has been discovered that many of the greek mysteries completed and fulfilled the ancient hebrew mystery teachings, and accordingly apollo represents the need to complete our understanding of the nature of all things. the commendation of the church is fourfold..charity, service, faith and patience. each of these attributes should be central to the gnostic life. the counsel and warning is against false teachers, fornication and meat offered to idols. these warnings can be understood in two distinct ways. firstly, they are a war

s the destructive currents of the demiurge, these must be resisted and controlled if liberation is to be achieved. fig 32: veils on the tree of life gnostic theurgy page 117 this destructive current is known as the y factor, and also has twin poles, the x and y factors create a solar cross of four energy forces (fig 33) the solar sphere is, hence, the focus of the mystery tradition, whether it be apollo, mithra, christ, horus or ra, we can see the secret teachings in application. the solar sphere itself became a symbol of the hidden mysteries. at rising it is the logos, at the height it is the christ, at setting it is sophia. this represents the doorway through which fallen mankind can awaken. i am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pa

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of the name atyrara. the left uppermost arm is scarlet. this arm is attributed to hrwbg and is represented by the sword and spear of f. in the center of the left upper arm is the letter a which corresponds unto the third letter of the name atyrara. the center of the hexagram is represented by the hexagon. it is to be colored a golden yellow and is represented by the bow and shaft of the greek god apollo. the center portion of the hexagram is attributed unto trapt. in the center is the letter r which corresponds unto the fourth letter of the name atyrara. the right lower point is green. this arm is attributed to jxn and is represented by the girdle of venus. in the center of the right lower arm of the hexagram is the letter y, the fifth letter of the name atyrara. the left lower point is or

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ble that of hermes to calypso, when she is commanded to let odysseus go. but such wanderings of heroes and encounters with wise women and giants seem to be a common epic property prevailing everywhere, while the very absence here of all the other main motives of the greek myth excludes the supposition of borrowing. we may surely give their due weight to the many resemblances of wuotan to zeus and apollo, of zio to zeus and ares, we may recognise nerthus in demeter, fx-igg and freyja in hera and aphrodite, wieland in hephaestus and daedalus, without the whole swarm of grecian gods needing therefore to be transported to our soil, or all that this produced having to be looked for in greece. must' honum hlo hugr i briosti' have somehow got into the edda from homer's iyexaaae se ol<^i\ov r/rop?

my own dear mother (dorothea grimm, b. 20 nov. 1755, d. 27 may 1808. another thing also we learn from the oldest history of our people, that modesty and virtue had never fled from the land; beside tacitus, we may rely on salvian (5th cent) as the most unimpeachable of witnesses. refined grace might be wanting, nay, it has often retired before us, and been washed out of remembrance; to the greeks apollo, pallas, aphrodite stood nearer, their life was brighter like their sky. yet fro and frouwa appear altogether as kind and loving deities, in wuotan i have produced the god of song, and as wish he may have been a god of longing and love. however many blossoms of our old mythology and poetry may lie undisclosed and withered, one thing will not escape the eye of a judge, that our poesy still h

a thing of such high importance cannot have originated with man himself, it must be regarded as the gift of heaven. invention and utterance are put in the heart by the gods, the minstrel is god-inspired: oecrm; aoihi, od. 1, 328. 8, 498. aothyi deatrea-ir, ii. 2, 600. deaitl'i aotso9 6 k6v repirrjaiv aelhwv, od. 17, 385. gods of the highest rank are wardens and patrons of the art divine, zeus and apollo among the greeks, with us wuotan 1' tehessa isiin iloa' kalew. 22, 236. 29, 227, the father (the god wainiimoinen) was making (waking) joy= he sang' io kiiwi ilo ilolle' 22, 215, joy came to joy= the song resounded, struck up. 902 poetet. and bragr, wainamoinen witli tlie finns. saga was wuotan's daughter (p. 310, as the muse was zeus's; freyja loved the minnesong: mienni lika'si vel manson

lfilled his commission, opusc. hincmari remensis (par. 1615, p. 643. the like is told in fuller detail of the famous as. poet cfedmon, beda's hist, eccl. 4, 24 (fran aventiure p. 28-9. all these poets, on awaking in the morning, succeed in a task untried before (see suppl. not only does the poetic faculty itself proceed from the gods; they invent the very instruments by which song is accompanied. apollo, who in homer plays the phorminx, is said by calliinstruments invented. 907 inaclius to have strung the lyre with seven chords; yet the invention of the lyre is ascribed to hermes^ who gave it to apollo. this is important for its, as in wuotan there is much of hermes and of apollo, with a preponderance of the former. ingenuity is characteristic of mercury, and i can scarcely doubt that in o

egree of diabolic activity. when thrown down, they complain, as demons, of the violence of the intruders (p. 498-9: ferun's image, which the men of novgorod dragged through their streets and flung into the volkhov, broke into wailings on the faithlessness of his former adorers. olaf talks to the statue of freyr (p. 657, and with thorr he has to stand a regular contest (p. 177. st. geoi'ge compels apollo's image to walk and speak, geo. 33 35. mars, a miigeliche got' had prophesied at rome the saviour's birth, and when it took place, his image suddenly crumbled down' als der tievil do verdolte den slac (tholed, suflfered the blow) von himel so grozen, er fuor ze sinen genozen (fared to his comrades) sa verstozen in die helle, da ist er gebunden sere, daz er niemer mere her uz mac gereichen'

mething of other people's. hence a witch is called mausscldagerin, mouse-beater, and a wizard maus-sclddgel. in north german trials the expression is muse-maker, and the process is different: the witch boils magic herbs, then cries' mouse, mouse, come out in devil's name' and the beasts come jumping out of the pot (laflfert's relat. crim. p. 57-9. it reminds one of the destructive mice created by apollo smintheus in his wrath, and the devastations of lemings in lapland; so that this plague may with perfect right take its place with the desolating storm and hail, although our witch-trials say hardly anything of the damage done by the magic beasts (conf. klausen's aeneas p. 73 5. one nethl. story in wolf no. 401 relates how a young girl flung two j^e^ze^s of earth one after the other, and in

t, pertz's ai-chiv 6, 500-1. 2 so in bohemia and moravia. lowe's denkw. u. reiseu 72. vol iii. r 1140 superstition. climxlies built; the rise of new establishments and kingdoms is liallowed by beasts, whicb, alien to all human ends^ reveal the higher counsels of the gods. greek and roman story teems with examples. a i^aven leads battus and his emigrants to cyrene (kopa^ rjyyjaaro, callim. hymn to apollo 6q. the irpini are so called from irpus, the ivolf that led them (strabo 2, 208^ floki sacrificed for three ravens to shew him the way' hann fekk at bloti miklu, ok blotasi hrafna pria, pa er homtm shijlclu lei& visa ]7viat:'a hof'su hafsiglingarmenn engir leisarstein i])ann tima i norsrlondum/ isleud. sog. 1, 27; the divine bird supplied the place of a loadstone to seafaring men. it can ha

siius's volksm. 4, 65. e. chambers's fireside stories p. 12, wliich prove the legend rife iu various parts of scotland. chapter xxxvi. sicknesses. by the anger of the gods diseases are decreed, yet also their mercy reveals healing remedies to man. all deities can be healers, they seem to give their names to the herbs and flowers whose healing virtues they make known. with the greeks it is chiefly apollo and his sister artemis from whom this knowledge is derived; our wuotan, where he touches apollo rather than hermes, represents him in the capacity of healer too (p. 149; with artemis and athena skilled in leechcraft, we may here match our holda and frouwa, replaced by ^lary in later legend. a special god of physic, asmepios or aesculapius, is apollo^s son and a mere emanation of him. of div

1, 81. 113. 127. 148. 377, and even a mhg. poem (meyer and mooyer, p. 46) has hoge. mhg. usually mer gahe tot' swift death, wigal. 3726 (nethl. ga-dot, maerl. 1, 230. 293; but also^ der grosse tod' great death, swed. diger-doden (on. digr crassus, tumidus; on. svarti daii&i, dan' den sorte dod' black death, perhaps even in allusion to surtr (p. 809. 1 to the greeks the whizzing shafts of wrathful apollo brought the plague: a man dying suddenly is slain by apollo's artillery, a woman by that of artemis; conf. the destroying angel, 2 sam. 24, 16. hermes, protector of the flock, carries round it the ram, to ward off murrain; afterwards he carries it round the city also, kpio(f)6po" virgins were sacrificed to stay the ravages of pestilence. pliny 26, 9 [60] says a maiden can cure boils (panes)

. 24, 16. hermes, protector of the flock, carries round it the ram, to ward off murrain; afterwards he carries it round the city also, kpio(f)6po" virgins were sacrificed to stay the ravages of pestilence. pliny 26, 9 [60] says a maiden can cure boils (panes) by laying verbascum on them: experti afermavere plurimum referre, si virgo imponat nuda, jejuna jejuuo, et manu supina tangens dicat' negat apollo pestem jiosse crescere, cui nuda virgo restinguat' atque retrorsa manu ter dicat, totiesque despuant ambo. the ceremony was transferred from the heavy scourge to lighter ones: the disrobing of the maiden was required for allaying drought (p. 593-4, and in many other cases (see suppl. that angel of death, means death himself, who comes to gather his own. a lombard legend speaks of two angels

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friction, but by in tercepting the sun s rays in clay vessels destined for the pur pose. the greeks worshipped hestia as the pure hearth-flame itself.1 but lemnos, the island on which zeus had flung down the celestial fire-god hephaestus, 3 harboured a fire-worship of its own. once a year every fire was extinguished for nine days, till a ship brought some fresh from delos off the sacred hearth of apollo: for some days it drifts on the sea without being able to land, but as soon as it runs in, there is fire served out to every one for domestic use, and a new life begins. the old fire was no longer holy enough; by doing without it altogether for a time, men would learn to set the true value on the element (see suppl. 3 like vesta, st. bridget of ireland (d. 518 or 521) had a perpetual fire m

et lucerna ardens, praecedens et praecursor verae lucis; rota in quibusdam locis volvitur, ad significandum, quod sicut sol ad altiora sui circuli pervenit, nee altius potest progredi, sed tune sol descendit in circulo, sic et faina johannis, qui putabatur christus, descendit 1 m6m. des antiquaires de fr. 5, 383-6. 2 in memory of the hermit paulus, who in the mid. of the 7th cent, hurled the idol apollo from mt. gehenna, near treves, into the moselle, thinks the writer of the article on konz, pp. 387-8. if trithem s de viris illustr. ord. s. bened. 4, 201, is to vouch for this, i at least can only find at p. 142 of opp. pia et spirit. mogunt. 1605, that paulus lived opposite treves, on cevenna, named mons pauli after him; but of apollo and the firewheel not a word [and other authorities ar

h, liveila, ohg. huila, i.e. revolving time; conf. goth, hveila-hvairbs, ohg. huil-huerbic, volubilis. another symbolic epithet of the sun seems to be of great age: the warlike sentiment of olden times saw in him a gleaming circular shield, and we noticed above (p. 700) that the sky itself formed a sceldbyrig. notker cap. 71, finding in his text the words sinistra clypeum coruscantem praeferebat (apollo/ translates: f an dero winsterun truog er einen* rotetv sjtilt/ then adds a remark of his own: wanda selbiu diu sunna, einemo sffilte gelih ist/ in german law and german poetry ve catch the glimmer of these red shields/ even opitz 2, 286 calls the sun( the beauteous shield of heaven. the very oldest and most universal image connecied with the sun and other luminaries seems after all to be t

he blood, and as that ebbs away, she escapes with it. greek fables tell us how the bodies of the persecuted and slain, espe cially women, assumed forthwith the figure of a flower, a bush, a tree (p. 653, without leaving any matter behind to decay or be burnt; nay, life and even speech may last while the transforma tion is taking place. thus daphne and syrinx, when they cannot elude the pursuit of apollo or pan, change themselves into a laurel and a reed; the nymph undergoing transformation speaks on so long as the encrusting bark has not crept up to 1 percy 3, 123; variant in kob. jamieson 1, 33-4. 2 therefore der rebe (vine) belongs to tristan s grave, diu rose to isote s, as in eilhart and the chap-book; uirich and heinrich made the plants change places. 828 souls. her mouth. viutler tel

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in a bookcase, and even there they are bad enough, but i am always in pain and have no heart to move about or do any thing after business is over.letme know where to address you when you get to'paradise'-andwith kind regards believe me, yours faithfully and fraternally. now act like a philosopher and take care of yourselfliwalter moseley of buijduas park. he had been initiated into freemasonry in apollo university lodge no. 357, oxford, when a student at trinity college, but although remaining a member for the remainder of his life he was not an active freemason. he appears to have been more interested in practical magic. on his death his collection was bought by redway and included a number of hockley mss, including the crowned angel'smagnumopus.2see letter2.3 richard monckton milnes, rst

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ts in several important religious centers, but his information mainly seems to derive from memphis and the eastern delta. he argued that the priests knowledge was important to humanity because, unlike the greeks, the egyptians had access to very ancient and continuous records. herodotus thought it possible to identify many egyptian deities with greek ones, so he calls osiris, dionysus, and horus, apollo. it became a general practice among classical writers to use greek names for egyptian deities, but these cross-cultural identifications are not always consistent. herodotus says more about religious architecture and rituals than about mythology. as for the sto- 34 handbook of egyptian mythology ries told by the egyptians, he wrote, let whoever finds them credible use them. 78 he does not re

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be as we are. the fancy of poets and painters and sculptors never fails to represent even the angels as a beautiful copy of man-plus wings. we say that all this is an error and a delusion; because, if on this little earth alone one finds such a diversity in its flora, fauna, and mankind-from the seaweed to the cedar of lebanon, from the jellyfish to the elephant, from the bushman and negro to the apollo belvedere-alter the conditions cosmic and planetary, and there must be as a result quite a different flora, fauna, and mankind. the same laws will fashion quite a different set of things and beings even on this our plane, including in it all our planets. how much more different then must be external nature in other solar systems, and how foolish is it to judge of other stars and worlds and

h kama, which is characterized by irrationality (agnoia. the greek agnoia is evidently a derivative of the sanskrit aj ana (phonetically agnyana, or ignorance, irrationality, and absence of knowledge. anthropomorphism from the greek anthropos, man. the act of endowing god or the gods with a human form and human attributes or qualities. anugita (sans) one of the upanishads. a very occult treatise. apollo belvidere of all the ancient statues of apollo, the son of jupiter and latona, called phoebus, helios, the radiant, and the sun-the best and most perfect is the one of this name, which is in the belvidere gallery in the vatican, at rome. it is called the pythian apollo, as the god is represented in the moment of his victory over the serpent python. the statue was found in the ruins of antiu

HP LOVECRAFT POETRY AND THE GODS

over the tropics, a white curved bud opening its petals slowly in the warmth of heaven. the air is full of odours and languorous warm sounds. moon over china, weary moon on the river of the sky. out of the mists gleamed godlike the torm ot a youth, in winged helmet and sandals, caduceus-bearing, and of a beauty like to nothing on earth. before the face of the sleeper he thrice waved the rod which apollo had given him in trade for the nine-corded shell of melody, and upon her brow he placed a wreath of myrtle and roses. then, adoring, hermes spoke "0 nymph more fair than the golden-haired sisters of cyene or the sky-inhabiting atlantides, beloved of aphrodite and blessed of pallas, thou hast indeed discovered the secret of the gods, which lieth in beauty and song. 0 prophetess more lovely t

e for the nine-corded shell of melody, and upon her brow he placed a wreath of myrtle and roses. then, adoring, hermes spoke "0 nymph more fair than the golden-haired sisters of cyene or the sky-inhabiting atlantides, beloved of aphrodite and blessed of pallas, thou hast indeed discovered the secret of the gods, which lieth in beauty and song. 0 prophetess more lovely than the sybil of cumae when apollo first knew her, thou has truly spoken of the new age, for even now on maenalus, pan sighs and stretches in his sleep, wishful to wake and behold about him the little rose-crowned fauns and the antique satyrs. in thy yearning hast thou divined what no mortal, saving only a few whom the world rejects, remembereth: that the gods were never dead, but only sleeping the sleep and dreaming the dre

dreams of gods, and in each and every age someone hath sung unknowingly the message and the promise from the lotosgardens beyond the sunset. then in his arms hermes bore the dreaming maiden through the skies. gentle breezes from the tower of aiolas wafted them high above warm, scented seas, till suddenly they came upon zeus, holding court upon double-headed parnassus, his golden throne flanked by apollo and the muses on the right hand, and by ivy-wreathed dionysus and pleasure-flushed bacchae on the left hand. so much of splendour marcia had never seen before, either awake or in dreams, but its radiance did her no injury, as would have the radiance of lofty olympus; for in this lesser court the father of gods had tempered his glories for the sight of mortals. before the laurel-draped mouth

, but only slept; for it is in poetry that gods speak to men. then spake the thunderer "0 daughter for, being one of my endless line, thou art indeed my daughter behold upon ivory thrones of honour the august messengers gods have sent down that in the words and writing of men there may be still some traces of divine beauty. other bards have men justly crowned with enduring laurels, but these hath apollo crowned, and these have i set in places apart, as mortals who have spoken the language of the gods. long have we dreamed in lotosgardens beyond the west, and spoken only through our dreams; but the time approaches when our voices shall not be silent. it is a time of awakening and change. once more hath phaeton ridden low, searing the fields and drying the streams. in gaul lone nymphs with d

ISIS UNVEILED

them the trinity of deus-lunus was manifested in the three lunar phases, completing the quaternary with the fourth, and typi- fying the death of the moon-god in its gradual waning and final disap- pearance. this death was allegorised by them, and attributed to the triumph of the genius of evil over the light-giving deity; as the later na- tions allegorized the death of their sun-gods, c^iris and apollo, at the hands of lyphon and the great dragon ^thon, when the sun entered the winter solstice. babel, arach, and akkad are names of the sun. the chaldaean orada are full and explicit upon the subject of the divine triad "a triad of deity shines forth throughout the whole worid, of which a monad is the head" admits the reverend dr. maurice "for from this triad, in the bosoms, are all things g

. maurice "for from this triad, in the bosoms, are all things governed" sajrs a chaldaean oracle" the ph5, pur, and phlox, of sanchoniathon* are light, fire, and flame, three manifestations of the sun who is one. bel-saturn, jupiter-bel, and bel or baal-chom are the chaldaean trini- ty" the babylonian bel was regarded in the triune aspect of belitan, zeus-belua [the mediator] and baal-chom who is apollo cbomaeus "this was the triune aspect of the 'highest god' who is, according to berosus, either el [the hebrew, bel, belitan, mithra, or zeroana, and has the name t^p 'the father* the brahmft, vishnu, and siva" corresponding to power, wisdom, and justice, which answer in their turn to spirit, matter, time, and the past, present, and future, can be found 89. w. d. whitney: orienlal and liofui

sterity a time-honored custom required such an allegorical homage to every hero worthy of deification were revamped and used by the christians. without going so far as india, did they not have a ready model for the 'miraculous conception' in the legend about perictione, plato's mother* in her case it was also muntained by popular tradition that she had immaculately conceived him, and that the god apollo was his father. even the annunciation by an angel to joseph "in a dream" the christians copied from the message of apollo to ariston, perictione's husband, that the child to be bom from her was the offspring of that god. so too, romulus was said to be the son of mars by the vii^ rhea sylvia. it is generally held by all the symbolical writers that the ophites were found guilty of practising

worships" speaking further of art, which formed an essential part of the anreligion, he says that" a had to break wuh scarce one of its tradiiions. primitive christian art is really nothing but pagan art in its decay, or in its lower departments. digitizecoy google jesus totally unknown to his century- 335 the good shepherd of the catacombs in rome is a copy from the aris- t us, or from the apollo nomius, which figures in the same posture on the pagan sarcophagi, and still carries the fiute of pan, in the midst of the four half-naked seasons. on the christian tombs of the cemeteiy of st. calixtus, orpheus charms the animals. elsewhere, the christ as jupiter* pluto, and mary as proserpina, receive the souls that mercury wear- ing the broad-brimmed bat, and carrying in his hand the rod

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

t to be of philosophy (that is, illumination) denied. the death and descent of balder into the hell of the scandinavians may be supposed to be the purgatory of the human unit (or the god-illuminate, from the light (through the god-dark phases of being, back into its native light. balder was the scandinavian sun-god, and the same as the egyptian osiris, the greek hercules, bacchus, and phoebus, or apollo, the indian crishna, the persian mithras, the aten of the empires of insular asia; or, even of the sidonians, the athyr or ashtaroth. the presences of all these divinities indeed, of all gods were of the semblance of fire; and we recognise, as it were, the mark of the foot of them, or of the impersonated fire, in the countless uprights, left, as memorials, in the great ebb of the ages (as w

erful pillars and monuments of egypt, as of other lands, are, as it were, only tombstones of the fire! all testify to the great, so darkly hinted secret. in troy was the image of pallas, the myth of knowledge, of the world, of manifestation, of the fire-soul. in athens was pallas- athene, or minerva. in the greek cities, the form of the deity changed variously to bacchus, to hercules, to phoebus- apollo; to the tri-formed minerva, dian, and hecate; to the dusky ceres, or the darker cybele. in the wilds of sarmathia, in the wastes of northern asia, the luminous rays descended from heaven, and, animating the lama, or light-born spoke the same story. the flames of the greeks, the towers of the phoenicians, the emblems of the pelasgi; the story of prometheus, and the myth of his stealing the f

fire inflaming, or flowering (in stage of flowering) blooming fire (as a being. elementumignis. first affection, or results (p r) pyr-fri-ga phrodite first. empyr um. 1. teraphim. 3. cherubim. heraldic chart. 163 heraldic and figurative chart, according to the oldest heraldic systems (no. 2) prismatic colours. valois. bourbon. gaulois. sigma. obeliscus: mystic figure. red. baal bel osiris phoebus-apollo (in manifestation) aphrodite (sexless in this sense) theproducingpower (agent) therefore white, with the lilies, or creature- forms, in white, or the light. or green (charlemagne, emperor, or c sar, or kaisar of the west, with the golden, or bees, in lieu of the lisses, or lilies. napoleon the first and third. scarab us of egypt. lucifera. morningstar. scarabs red therefore the oriflamme (o

each table of five) are called, in old parlance, the ten com- fig. 131. devices from the tombs in the catacombs at rome. mandments. i will write the ten commandments in thy face, was spoken in fury, in the old-fashioned days, of an intended assault. the hands explain the meaning of this gnostic figures. 231 proverbial expression, interpreted astrologically. palmistry is called chiromancy, because apollo, mythologically, was taught letters by chiron, the centaur. fig 132. fig 133. fig 134. fig 135. fig 136. the devices on most roman bronze lamps present continual gnostic ideas. the temple church, london, will be found to abound fig. 137. monogram of the three emblems carried in the mysteries. figs. 138, 139. the heathen monogram of the triune. with rosicrucian hieroglyphs and anagrammatical

lucifera: an epiphet of diana. fig 236. figs. 239, 240, represent, under different aspects, the armed abraxas, the chief deity of the gnostics. in fig. 239 fig. 237. pillars of seth. fig. 238 (1) osiris, bhidd (2) thus in india (3) hermes. thus in egypt (4) bel or baal. thus in britain (all the ahove are different versions of the phallus with its meanings) he is displayed with characteristics of apollo, or the sun rising in the east, in the quadriga, or four-horsed chariot. the gnostic abraxas. 271 fig. 240: abraxas brandishing his whip, as if chasing away the evil genii. on his shield, the titles if. iaw. neat work. green jasper (the gnostics, p. 201. the ur on or winged solar disc, or egg, from which issue, on reversed sides, the two emblematical asps, has fig. 239. fig. 240. certain ch

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

rst of all esavior in the battle with sin and death f, while nabu eradiant f was primarily the ewinner, who judges all people on judgment day f. influences of this concept have spread into jewish magical texts, where michael. as the earlier ninurta/nabu. occurs as ehealer f and is connected to mercury (parpola las, n.196. the cult of nabu lasted until the 2nd c ad, later he became identified with apollo. 25 figure 10. most widespread variants of mercury in cuneiform: muludu.idim.gu4.ud and mulna-bu-u2. the full name of mercury is muludu.idim.gu4.ud (g139bis) estar of the sun bull f or estar of the white bull f, in connection with the earlier name of marduk amar.utu ecalf of sun f. akkadians translated it .i u ejump f or .a i u ejumpy f. both names suit the edarting f mercury. from this dev

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

rest retreats, averse to cities and to the crowded haunts of men. a band of disciples grew around him, and he taught them in the glades of woodland, silent save for the singing of the birds and the sweet sounds of forest life, that seemed not to break the stillness. 323. he taught by song, by music, music of voice and instrument, carrying a five-stringed musical instrument, probably the origin of apollo s lyre, and he used a pentatonic scale. to this he sang, and wondrous was his music, the angels drawing nigh to listen to the subtle tones; by sound he worked upon the astral and mental bodies of his disciples, purifying and expanding them; by sound he drew the subtle bodies away from the physical, and set them free in the higher worlds. his music was quite different from the sequences, rep

losely to the indian goddess parvati, the shakti or power of shiva, imaged as his consort, as hera was the consort of zeus. 330. dionysus was the logos himself, just as osiris had been in egypt, though in a somewhat different aspect; and the legend of his death and resurrection corresponded closely with that of osiris, and was taught with the same signification in the mysteries of greece. phoebus apollo, the god of the sun and of music, whose symbol was the lyre, seems originally to have been orpheus; so that in venerating him the greeks in reality offered their love to the great world teacher. demeter and her daughter persephone or kore were especially reverenced at eleusis. these two deities were personifications of the great forces of nature, the first of the brooding motherhood of the

e cannot hope to make exact comparisons; and the difficulty is still greater when we try to compare the ancient with the modern faiths- their whole outlook was so different from ours. 345. the officials 346. the control of the eleusinian mysteries in classical times lay in the hands of two families: the eumolpidae and the keryces or heralds, who were also connected with the worship of the pythian apollo at delphi. most of the officers were chosen from these two families, although there were also important civil representatives of the athenian state who were responsible for the public ceremonial of the mysteries as well as for the control of finance. 347. the chief officer was the hierophant, chosen for life by lot from the eumolpidae. he alone had the guardianship of the hallows (hiera, th

cornwall and brittany. they all formed a branch of that fourth sub-race from which the later greeks and romans were also descended; and the origin of the mysteries of the druids may be traced to the great world teacher, in his incarnation as orpheus, the singer of hellas, though they were also influenced somewhat by the still older mysteries of ireland which date from atlantean times. the lyre of apollo became the harp of angus; and the old worship of god as the divine beauty manifesting through music thus passed down into britain. 492. the druidical mysteries had a certain influence on the imported roman or norman rites. they are compared by strabo and artemidorus to the rites of samothrace, and by dionysius to those of bacchus, while mnaseas refers to their kabiric correspondences. we le

the literature of rosicrucianism 696. the order of the rosy cross was first made known to europe by the publication in 1614 of the fama fraternitatis of the meritorious order of the rosy cross, addressed to the learned in general and the govenors of europe. this was, according to mediaeval custom, bound up with another treatise: a universal reformation of the whole wide world, by order of the god apollo, is published by the seven sages of greece, and some other litterati. some have thought this latter to be a rosicrucian pamphlet, but in reality it is a translation from the ragguagli di parnasso of boccalini, and probably, as michael maier held, had no connection with the order at all(*a. e. waite. the real history of the rosicrucians, p. 35) 697. the fama fraternitatis contains a descript

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

n comes out for a little while to try to entrap mankind once again) in the biblical references above, appolion is a good angel, servicing god, but in other writings he has fallen and succumbed to evil. for example, in john bunyan s pilgrim s progress, appolion is the devil himself, with fire and smoke coming out of his belly. in hebrew, appolion is known as abaddon and is the fallen greek sun god apollo, living in hell as a serpent angel. the term appolion has also been used to mean hell itself as a place. see also demons; satan for further reading: godwin,malcolm. angels: an endangered species. new york: simon and schuster, 1990. ronner, john. know your angels. murfreesboro, tn: mamre, 1993. apsaras apsaras, a word derived from the sanskrit ap, which means water, refers to a form of spiri

LIBER 777

xxiv. certain of the hindu and buddhist results. xxv- xxxii. xxxiii. some scandinavian gods. xxxiv. some greek gods. 0 nerodha-samapatti, nirvikalpa-samadhi, shiva darshana. pan. z1z1 unity with brahma, atma darshana wotan zeus, iacchus 2. odin athena, uranus[[hermes] 3. frigga cybele, demeter, rhea, her[[psych, kronos] 4. wotan poseidon[[zeus] 5. thor ares, hades 6 vishvarupa-darshana. iacchus, apollo, adonis[[dionysus, bacchus] 7. freya aphrodit, nik 8. odin, loki hermes 9. zeus (as d, diana of epheus (as phallic stone[[and[[eros] 1010 vision of the higher self, the various dhyanas or jhanas. persephone [adonis, psych 11 vaya-bhawana valkyries zeus 12. hermes 13 vision of chandra. artemis, hekat 14 success in bhaktioga freya aphrodit 15. athena 16 success in hathayoga, asana and prana-y

] 7. freya aphrodit, nik 8. odin, loki hermes 9. zeus (as d, diana of epheus (as phallic stone[[and[[eros] 1010 vision of the higher self, the various dhyanas or jhanas. persephone [adonis, psych 11 vaya-bhawana valkyries zeus 12. hermes 13 vision of chandra. artemis, hekat 14 success in bhaktioga freya aphrodit 15. athena 16 success in hathayoga, asana and prana-yama [her] 17. castor and pollux, apollo the diviner[[eros] 18. apollo the charioteer 19. demeter [borne by lions] 20 [attis] 21. zeus 22. themis, minos, aeacus and rhadamanthus 23 apo-bhawana. poseidon 24. ares[[apollo the pythean, thanatos] 25. apollo, artemis (hunters) 26. pan, priapus [erect hermes and bacchus] 27. tuisco ares[[athena] 28 [athena] ganymede 29. poseidon[[hermes psychopompos] 30 vision of surya. helios, apollo 3

ars a sceptre and a shield, whereon is figured a dove as a symbol of the male and female forces. line 15. his attitude suggests f, and he is seated upon the cubic stone, whose sides show the green lion and white eagle. line 16. he is crowned, sceptred, and blessing all in a threefold manner. four living creatures adore him, the whole suggesting a pentagram by its shape. line 17. he is inspired by apollo to prophesy concerning things sacred and progane: represented by a boy with his bow and two women, a priestess and an harlot. line 18. he drives furiously a chariot drawn by two sphinxes. as levi drew it. line 19. before him goeth upright the royal ur us serpent. line 21 [h, f, and g, or sattva, rajas, and tamas. line 23. from a gallows shaped like the letter d hangs by one foot a young fai

LIBER AASH

ss, and the gazelle, the man, the woman, and the child. 22. all corpses are sacred unto me; they shall not be touched save in mine eucharist. all lonely places are sacred unto me; where one man gathereth himself together in my name, there will i leap forth in the midst of him. svb figvra ccclxx 3 23. i am the hideous god; and who mastereth me is uglier than i. 24. yet i give more than bacchus and apollo; my gifts exceed the olive and the horse. 25. who worshippeth me must worship me with many rites. 26. i am concealed with all concealments; when the most holy ancient one is stripped and driven through the marketplace i am still secret and apart. 27. whom i love i chastise with many rods. 28. all things are sacred to me; no thing is sacred from me. 29. for there is no holiness where i am no

LIBER ASTARTE

. it is to be noted that persons of powerful imagination, will, and intelligence have no need of these material symbols. there have been certain saints who are capable of love for an idea as such without it being otherwise than degraded by idolising it, to use this word in its true sense. thus one may be impassioned of beauty, without even the need of so small a concretion of it as .the beauty of apollo .the beauty of roses .the beauty of attis. such persons are rare; it may be doubted whether plato himself attained to any vision of absolute beauty without attaching to it material objects in the first place. a second class is able to contemplate ideals through this veil; a third class needs a double veil, and cannot think of the beauty of a rose without a rose before them. for such is this

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

ot to me.but to her! 3rd maiden. here the quintessence of dream and delight, evoking the presence of savour to sight! 4th maiden. list to the trill and the ripple and roll of a tune that may thrill thee through sense to the soul! 5th maiden. look on the fairest, the masterless maid! ere thine eye thou unbarest, i flicker, i fade. all. wake! as her garland is tossed in the air when the nymph meets apollo, our forehead is bare. we divide, we disperse, we dislimn, we dissever, for we are but now, and our lady for ever [they go out. esarhaddon. i dreamed of thee! dreams beyond form and name! it was a chain of ages, and a flash liber cccxxxv 6 of lightning.which thou wilt.since.oh i see nothing, feel nothing, and am nothing.ash of the universe burnt through! astarte. and i the flame! esarhaddon

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

e organization of genius is on original lines, and ill-balanced and ignorant medicine-men mistake it for disorder. time has shown that whistler and gauguin gkept rules h as well as the masters whom they were supposed to be upsetting. iv the greeks say that there are three methods of discharging the leyden jar of genius. these three methods they assign to three gods. these three gods are dionysus, apollo, aphrodite. in english: wine, women and song. now it would be a great mistake to imagine that the greeks were recommending a visit to a brothel. as well condemn the high mass at st. peter fs on the strength of having witnessed a protestant revival meeting. disorder is always a parody of order, energized enthusiasm 5 because there is no archetypal disorder that it might resemble. owen seaman

seeds ever shoots forth a blade, so do conditions all but kill the strongest shoots of genius. but just as rabbits increased apace in australia, where even a missionary has been known to beget ninety children in two years, so shall we be able to breed genius if we can find the conditions which hamper it, and remove them. the obvious practical step is to restore the rites of bacchus, aphrodite and apollo to their proper place. they should not be open to every one, and manhood should be the reward of ordeal and initiation. the physical tests should be severe, and weaklings should be 1 of course there has been a school of devilish ananders that has held the act in itself to be gwicked. h of these blasphemers of nature let no further word be said, 12 liber dcccxi killed out rather than artific

rippa in de occulta philosophia lib. iii cap. 45-49, and giordano bruno in de gli eroici furori (for which see yates, giordano bruno and the hermetic tradition. in connection with the three genthusiasms h mentioned here, there is evidence that crowley referred the letters of iao to iacchus, asi (isis) or aphrodite and `orus (permissible since h is not a letter in greek, the latter as a cognate of apollo. the reference to gspurious masons working under a forged charter h at the end of section xv probably denotes the ancient and accepted scottish rite, so called because it originated in france, claimed an authorisation from a prussian prince, and had its greatest initial success in the southern u.s.a. aasr, despite being founded on a questionable warrant, is the most numerous and wellestabli

LIBER HHH

ma; secunda; tertia. vocatur. et ha reflexiones aquatica sunt trium enthusiasmorum, apollonis, dionysi, veneris .total stella est nechesh et messiach, nomen hyha cum hwhy conjunctum. there are three contemplations as it were breaths in the human mind, that is the abyss of hell: the first is called.,2 the second.,3 and the third..4 these are the watery reflexions of the three enthusiasms; those of apollo, dionysus, and aphrodite.5 the whole star is nechesh and messiach, the name hyha joined with hwhy.6 2 i m m m .i remember a certain holy day in the dusk of the year, in the dusk of the equinox of osiris, when i first beheld thee visibly; when first the dreadful issue was fought out; when the ibis-headed one charmed away the strife. i remember thy first kiss, even as a maiden should. nor in

u hast knowledge and skill to perform, and that at the end thereof the closing should be most carefully accomplished. but in the preliminary practice it is enough if thou cleanse thyself by ablution, by robing, and by the rituals of the pentagram and hexagram. 0-2 should be practiced at first, until some realisation is obtained; and the practice should always be followed by a divine invocation of apollo or of isis or of jupiter or of serapis. next, after a swift summary of 0-2, practise 3-7. this being mastered, add 8. liber hhh 6 then add 9-13. then being prepared and fortified, well fitted for the work, perform the whole meditation at one time. and let this be continued until perfect success be attained therein. for this is a mighty meditation and holy, having power even upon death; yea

cated, and svb figvra cccxli 9 its number, 341, is the sum of these letters. the other three letters, aleph, yod and vau, re-arranged, give way, a hebrew spelling of iao, which adds to 17. even leaving aside the purported liber iao, there is evidence in other crowley mss. that he referred the letters of iao to the .three enthusiasms. as i= iacchus (dionysus, a= aphrodite, o `orus (as a cognate of apollo: a permissable fudge since the aspirate is not a letter in greek. 7 this whole section parallels .liber pyramidos. fairly closely and is the .meditation practice corresponding to ritual dclxxi. mentioned in liber xiii. the versified solo version of liber 671 which has been published is adequate for the purposes of exploring the parallels, although one suspects the meditation-practice will b

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ory, take hurt from a mole grubbing i. th. ground? shall his spirit not see, lightning to lightning, the spirit in me? parody? shall not his spirit forgive me, who shall love him as long as i live? love.s at its height in pure love? nay, but after when the song.s light dissolves gently in laughter! then and then only the lovers may know nothing can part them for ever. and so, muse, hover o.er me! apollo, above her! i, of the moderns, have let alone greek.21 out of the way intuition shall shove her. spirit and truth in my darkness i seek. little by little they bubble and leak; such as i have to the world i discover. words.are they weak ones at best? they shall speak! 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 apology of poet. skeleton of poem. valuable fact for use of lovers. invocation. imperfect scholastic att

e my concept, i have let the passage stand. 219. i was lord roberts, he de wet.44.vide sir a. conan doyle.s masterly fiction .the great boer war. 222. hill.45.an archaic phrase signifying kopje. 223. ditch.46.probably an obsolete slang term for spruit. 273. some.47.the reader may search modern periodicals for this theory. 282. the tmolian.48.tmolus, who decided the musical contest between pan and apollo in favour of the latter. 321. as masters teach.49.consult vivekananda, op. cit, or the hathayoga pradipika. unfortunately, i am unable to say where (or even whether) a copy of this latter work exists. 331, 332. stand (stephen) or sit (paul).50. acts vii. 36; heb. xii, 2. 337. samadhi-dak.51..ecstasy-of-meditation mail. 338. maha-meru.52.the .mystic mountain. of the hindus. see southey.s cur

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

in the rituals of druidism. according to artemidorus, ceres and persephone were worshiped on an island close to britain with rites and ceremonies similar to those of samothrace. there is no doubt that the druidic pantheon includes a large number of greek and roman deities. this greatly amazed c sar during his conquest of britain and gaul, and caused him to affirm that these tribes adored mercury, apollo, mars, and jupiter, in a manner similar to that of the latin countries. it is almost certain that the druidic mysteries were not indigenous to britain or gaul, but migrated from one of the more ancient civilizations. the school of the druids was divided into three distinct parts, and the secret teachings embodied therein are practically the same as the mysteries concealed under the allegori

rformed great miracles for the good of mankind; particularly one in which he changed water into wine; he rode in a triumphal procession on an ass; he was put to death by the titans, and rose again from the dead on the 25th of march: he was always called the saviour. in his mysteries, he was shown to the people, as an infant is by the christians at this day, on christmas day morning in rome" while apollo most generally represents the sun, bacchus is also a form of solar energy, for his resurrection was accomplished with the assistance of apollo. the resurrection of bacchus signifies merely the extraction or disentanglement of the various parts of the bacchic constitution from the titanic constitution of the world. this is symbolized by the smoke or soot rising from the burned bodies of the

humanity, and several authors have declared that the gods, though loving him, feared that he would overthrow their kingdom and therefore reluctantly encompassed his destruction. as time passed on the historical orpheus became hopelessly confounded with the doctrine he represented and eventually became the symbol of the greek school of the ancient wisdom. thus orpheus was declared to be the son of apollo, the divine and perfect truth, and calliope, the muse of harmony and rhythm. in other words, orpheus is the secret doctrine (apollo) revealed through music (calliope. eurydice is humanity dead from the sting of the serpent of false knowledge and imprisoned in the underworld of ignorance. in this allegory orpheus signifies theology, which wins her from the king of the dead but fails to accom

e sun, mars, jupiter, and saturn, the latter containing the symbols of the zodiacal constellations. above the arch of the heavens (saturn) is the dwelling place of the different powers controlling the universe. the supreme council of the gods is composed of twelve deities--six male and six female--which correspond to the positive and negative signs of the zodiac. the six gods are jupiter, vulcan, apollo, mars, neptune, and mercury; the six goddesses are juno, ceres, vesta, minerva, venus, and diana. jupiter rides his eagle as the symbol of his sovereignty over the world, and juno is seated upon a peacock, the proper symbol of her haughtiness and glory. p. 34 oath of loyalty upon the sacred inscription. here also the kings donned azure robes and sat in judgment. at daybreak they wrote their

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

ch bore a representation of the solar globe surrounded by emanating rays. all the kingdoms of earth were but copies of the kingdoms of heaven, and the kingdoms of heaven were best symbolized by the solar kingdom, in which the sun was the supreme ruler, the planets his privy council, and all nature the subjects of his empire. many deities have been associated with the sun. the greeks believed that apollo, bacchus, dionysos, sabazius, hercules, jason, ulysses, zeus, uranus, and vulcan partook of either the visible or invisible attributes of the sun. the norwegians regarded balder the beautiful as a solar deity, and odin is often connected with the celestial orb, especially because of his one eye. among the egyptians, osiris, ra, anubis, hermes, and even the mysterious ammon himself had point

ir correlations in the movements, phases, or functions of the heavenly bodies. among other allegories borrowed by christianity from pagan antiquity is the story of the beautiful, blueeyed sun god, with his golden hair falling upon his shoulders, robed from head to foot in spotless white and carrying in his arms the lamb of god, symbolic of the vernal equinox. this handsome youth is a composite of apollo, osiris, orpheus, mithras, and bacchus, for he has certain characteristics in common with each of these pagan deities. the philosophers of greece and egypt divided the life of the sun during the year into four parts; therefore they symbolized the solar man by four different figures. when he was born in the winter solstice, the sun god was symbolized as a dependent infant who in some mysteri

ucted in the secrets of the sacerdotal caste. the tablet of isis was originally a table or altar, and its emblems were part of the mysteries explained by priests. tables were dedicated to the various gods and goddesses; in this case isis was so honored. the substances from which the tables were made differed according to the relative dignities of the deities. the tables consecrated to jupiter and apollo were of gold; those to diana, venus, and juno were of silver; those to the other superior gods, of marble; those to the lesser divinities, of wood. tables were also made of metals corresponding to the planets governed by the various celestials. as food for the body is spread on a banquet table, so on these sacred altars were spread the symbols which, when understood, feed the invisible natu

but the seven powers that rule over the world? psellus writes 'the egyptians worshipped the triad of faith, truth, and love; and the seven fountains: the sun as ruler--the fountain of matter; then the fountain of the archangels; the fountain of the senses; of judgment; of lightning; of reflections; and of characters of unknown composition. they say that the highest material fountains are those of apollo, osiris, and mercury--the fountains of the centers of the elements 'thus, they understood by the sun as ruler the solar world; by the material archangelic, the lunar world; by the fountain of the senses, the world of saturn; by judgment, jupiter; by lightning, mars; by that of the reflections, or mirrors, the world of venus; by the fountain of characters, the world of mercury. all these are

ared and anointed, is to be put into a glass like a scallop-shell, in such manner that some part of it may lie above the mass of prepared sulphur; then setting this glass upon hot sand, you must melt the sulphur, so that it may lay hold of the wick, and when it is lighted, it will burn with a perpetual flame and you may set this lamp in any place where you please" the greek oracles the worship of apollo included the establishment and maintenance of places of prophecy by means of which the gods could communicate with mankind and reveal futurity to such as deserved the boon. the early history of greece abounds with accounts of talking trees, rivers, statues, and caves in which nymphs, dryads, or d mons had taken up their abodes and from which they delivered oracles. while christian authors h

ence to it in their own sacred writings. if the onyx stones on the shoulders of israel's high priest made known by their flashings the will of jehovah, then a black dove, temporarily endowed with the faculty of speech, could indeed pronounce oracles in the temple of jupiter ammon. if the witch of endor could invoke the shade of samuel, who in turn gave prophecies to saul, could not a priestess of apollo call up the specter of her liege to foretell the destiny of greece? the most famous oracles of antiquity were those of delphi, dodona, trophonius, and latona, of which the talking oak trees of dodona were the oldest. though it is impossible to trace back to the genesis of the theory of oracular prophecy, it is known that many of the caves and fissures set aside by the greeks as oracles were

ny of greece? the most famous oracles of antiquity were those of delphi, dodona, trophonius, and latona, of which the talking oak trees of dodona were the oldest. though it is impossible to trace back to the genesis of the theory of oracular prophecy, it is known that many of the caves and fissures set aside by the greeks as oracles were sacred long before the rise of greek culture. the oracle of apollo at delphi remains one of the unsolved mysteries of the ancients. alexander wilder derives the name delphi from delphos, the womb. this name was chosen by the greeks be cause of the shape of the cavern and the vent leading into the depths of the earth. the original name of the oracle was pytho, so called because its chambers had been the abode of the great serpent python, a fearsome creature

, the womb. this name was chosen by the greeks be cause of the shape of the cavern and the vent leading into the depths of the earth. the original name of the oracle was pytho, so called because its chambers had been the abode of the great serpent python, a fearsome creature that had crept out of the slime left by the receding flood that had destroyed all human beings except deucalion and pyrrha. apollo, climbing the side of mount parnassus, slew the serpent after a prolonged combat, and threw the body down the fissure of the oracle. from that time the sun god, surnamed the pythian apollo, gave oracles from the vent. with dionysos he shared the honor of being the patron god of delphi. after being vanquished by apollo, the spirit of python remained at delphi as the representative of his con

MEANING OF MASONRY

oul became unified with him and consciously heard, because it now participated* the four cardinal virtues are referred to in both plato's phoedo and the book of wisdom, ch. viii, 5-7, indicating community of teaching between the greek and hebrew schools. in, the music of the spheres. as milton puts it "how lovely is divine philosophy, not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, but musical as is apollo's lute and a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets where no crude surfeit reigns" every possible device was employed and practised to train the mind to acquire dominion over the passions and to loosen and detach it from the impressions and attractions of the senses, to destroy the illusions and false imaginations under which it labours when using no higher light than its own, and to qualify it

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

on july 3. the dog days are so-called because they refer to the risingof the star sirius.this emphasis on the star sirius is singular since a name of the monarch of atlantis, posei-don, comes from the syllable po, meaning sirius and don meaning lord. even more sugges-tively, poseidon was the god of earthquakes and was said to be the creator of men. sirius also played a part in the moon landing of apollo 11. it appears that the eagle landedwhen the light from this star was the brightest. the landing also took place in july, when sir-ius is rising and visible from earth. ovason reveals that before the cameras filmed the atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation99 serpents in the streets official placing of the american flag, a masonic ceremony took place, which was never tele-vise

erworld are trying desperately to regaintheir freedom. they have been chained in the pit (earth, but are convinced that thereis a way out of their terrestrial prison. this is why the space program exists, and whythere is exorbitant and frenzied expenditure in satellites and the exploration of outerspace. look at the names given to many of the space programs and modules: gemini, mercury,capricorn, apollo, seti, nasa, v oyager, columbia, challenger, etc. notice also the namesof the research and invention laboratories that produce the technology. so many bear namesthat come out of the ancient world or are cryptically occult (see phoenix, microsoft, loral,altera, lam, siliconix, teknekron, nec, apple, oracle, 3m, intel, nasa, sun, double tree,sunaco, t exaco, and so on. the aliens on this plan

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

ests.augustus caesarthe worship of augustus was not, as the ecclesiastical schools have insinuated, a mere lip-service, ameaningless mode of saluting the sovereign-pontiff, an elusive form of adulation or flattery to theemperor of rome; it was the worship of a personage who was believed to be a supernatural, omniscient,all-powerful and beneficent, the reincarnation of quirinus, the son of the god apollo and of the wife-virgin maia; the god whose coming was foretold by the cumaen sibyl; whose sway was to extend overthe whole earth; whose conception and birth were both miraculous; and whose advent was to usher inthe golden age of peace and plenty and to banish sin for ever. such was his character in rome (p. 38)the months of the year were not named after such people for nothing. ritual sacri

afe bet that thetruth and what the controlled media present as the facts will become further and further apart. a revivalof the anti-masonic movement in the united states, such as the small movement that has begun ingreat britain, would benefit all law-abiding americans. the number 23aol chat rooms allow 23 personsmovie airport the mad bomber sits in seat 23230 people died in tw a flight 800first apollo moon landing 23.63 degrees eastapril 19th waco, the battle of lexington and oklahoma bombingappendix c: suggested areas of research284atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation oklahoma bomb killed 23 personsthere are 23 characters on every us coinfederal reserve act passed on dec. 23 1913dec. 23 2012 mayan calendar terminateswilliam shakespeare born april 23 1556, died april 23 1

d of eternallove sets up lsd and hashish production and marketing operations in costa rica. 1968 general electric recalls 90,000 color televisions emitting x-rays. 1968 the kaiser group founded. group composed of 60 german-americans who want to make nixona dictator. 1968 ship scheersberg disappears with 200 tons of uranium. believed to have been taken to israel. 1968 surveyor 7 lands on the moon. apollo 7 and 8 launched. 1968 more than 78 million television sets in united states. 1968 crimes of violence increase 57% since 1960. 1968 non-proliferation treaty of 1968. 1968 robert kennedy announces his bid for president and is assassinated. 1968 richard nixon elected president of the united states. 1968 queen elizabeth ii visits brazil and chile. 1968 riots at democratic convention in chicago

ban, the armybiological warfare laboratory at fort detrick is renamed the frederick cancer research instituteand turned over to the national cancer institute for civilian use. the military section is later renamedthe u.s. army medical research institute for infectious disease (u.s.amriid, which is restrictedto defensive research. by 1971, the budget of the fcri would triple (see 1983, fcri. 1969 apollo 10,11,12 flights to moon. apollo 11 mission spots huge spacecraft on the moon (arm-strong conversation with professor in british intelligence. 1969 cia achieves direct communication between brain and computer. the capability develops tounscramble one persons brainwaves, decipher and record them, and beam them to another person. 1969 dr. jose delgado publishes physical control of the mind: t

ussisvaccination in 1970. 1970 u.s. army buries drums of ddt and other chemicals in british columbia's far north (ap 9/11/94. 1970 u.s. dept. of health, education, and welfare (hew) reports as much as 26% of children receiv-ing ruebella (german measles) vaccination in national testing programs developed arthralgia and arthri-tis. many had to seek medical attention and some were hospitalized. 1970 apollo 13 mission almost loses astronauts after breakdown in equipment. 1970 first synthesis of gene announced at university of wisconsin. 1970 soviet luna 16 goes to moon for samples. 1970 ford foundation establishes the police foundation, headed by pat murphy, to train police inbehaviorism and human relations. 1970 otto warburg, physiologist and chemist, dies. 1970 u.s. army records show that am

d astute manipulation of reward and punish-ment to gain almost complete control over individual behavior..we should reshape society so that we allwould be trained from birth. no one owns his own personality. 1971 george hw bush joins the council on foreign relations. 1971 r.k. procunier, director of corrections of the state of california, proposes neurosurgical treat-ment of violent inmates. 1971 apollo 14 and 15 explore the moon. 1971 mariner 9 orbits mars. 1971 soyuz 11 cosmonauts die entering atmosphere. 1971 dr.choh hao li synthesizes human growth hormone. 1971 united states explodes hydrogen bomb near alaska. 1971 saccarin removed from fda gras (generally recognized as safe) list. 1971 nixon ends international redeemability of federal reserve notes. 1971 the incidence of asthma in chi

ming from under herbasement floor, indicative of underground tunneling. 1972 central security service (css) created at fort meade. 1972 strange whining sounds begin to be heard near satus peak near y akima washington, an areaknown to have an nsa communications facility and sightings of mysterious flying disks. over the next6 years, the hum would be heard over a gradually expanding area. 1972 last apollo landing on the moon. 1972 arthur jensen's genetics and education published. in it he writes that the rate of occurrence ofmental retardation is eight times higher in the black population. 1972 nixon reelected president of the united states. 1972 u.s. army study on the effect of amyl nitrates entitled effect of amyl nitrate on man con-ducted (biomedical and behavioral research, v ol. 40, res

and information, lying, committing unconstitutional acts and inother ways thwarting potential cures to which they were opposed (letter to congressman louis frey jr.also dealt with the issue of laetrile, a non-patentable (natural) product opposed by the california medi-cal association, who only sanctions the use of dangerous or toxic treatment for cancer. burk openlyrefers to fda corruption. 1972 apollo 16 goes to moon. soviet spacecraft soft lands on v enus. 1972 harry truman dies. 1972 u.s. army study titled controlled offensive behavior: u.s.s.r. concerns itself with targetingindividuals with mind altering techniques and the total submission of one's will to some outsideforce. the study involved the use of pulsed microwaves (ref: cellular telephone& satellite technol-ogy. 1972 roy m. as

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

erence to an army of demons, have a king over them who is an angel. this angel, along with his army of locusts, arrives from an extra-dimensional place called the bottomless pit. the verse also states that this angel has names in the mythologies of the neighboring peoples; the jews called this angel abaddon, and the greeks called this angel apollyon. but apollyon is what the ancient greeks called apollo, a sun god of greek mythology. what the bible has done is verified (at least in the eyes of christians and muslims) the actual existence of a god from the greek pantheon. is it likely that apollo is the only greek god that actually exists? probably not. what s more likely is that many( if not all) characters from the bible have corresponding names in greek mythology. but even though the cha

MORALS AND DOGMA

d fancied they saw in its originality the changelessness of deity. he had seen thrones crumble, earthquakes shake the world and hurl down mountains. beyond olympus, beyond the pillars of hercules, he had gone daily to his abode, and had come daily again in the morning to behold the temples they built to his worship. they personified him as brahma, amun, osiris, bel, adonis, malkarth, mithras, and apollo; and the nations that did so grew old and died. moss grew on the capitals of the great columns of his temples, and he shone on the moss. grain by grain the dust of his temples crumbled and fell, and was borne off on the wind, and still he shone on crumbling column and architrave. the roof fell crashing on the pavement, and he shone in on the holy of holies with unchanging rays. it was not s

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

ifficult well to comprehend. did the deity leave the whole world without light for two score centuries, to illuminate only a little corner of palestine and a brutal, ignorant, and ungrateful people? why always calumniate god and the sanctuary? were there never any others than rogues among the priests? could no honest and sincere men be found among the hierophants of ceres or diana, of dionusos or apollo, of hermes or mithras? were these, then, all deceived, like the rest? who, then, constantly deceived them, without betraying themselves, during a series of centuries--for the cheats are not immortal! arago said, that outside of the pure mathematics, he who utters the word "impossible" is wanting in prudence and good sense. the true name of satan, the kabalists say, is that of yahveh reverse

him who died upon the cross. the ancients thought that universal humanity acted under the influence of two opposing principles, the good and the evil: of which the good urged men toward truth, independence, and devotedness; and the evil toward falsehood, servility, and selfishness. masonry represents the good principle and constantly wars against the evil one. it is the hercules, the osiris, the apollo, the mithras, and the ormuzd, at everlasting and deadly feud with the demons of ignorance, brutality, baseness, falsehood, slavishness of soul, intolerance, superstition, tyranny, meanness, the insolence of wealth, and bigotry. when despotism and superstition, twin-powers of evil and darkness, reigned everywhere and seemed invincible and immortal, it invented, to avoid persecution, the myst

oriously, and at her death was reunited to her husband, in the same tomb. typhon was represented as born of the earth; the upper part of his body covered with feathers, in stature reaching the clouds, his arms and legs covered with scales, serpents darting from him on every side, and fire flashing from his mouth. horus, who aided in slaying him, became the god of the sun, answering to the grecian apollo; and typhon is but the anagram of python, the great serpent slain by apollo. the word typhon, like eve, signifies _a serpent, and _life.[2] by its form the serpent symbolizes life, which circulates through all nature. when, toward the end of autumn, the woman (virgo, in the constellations seems (upon the chald an sphere) to crush with her heel the head of the serpent, this figure foretells

and whose mysteries were termed _isiac, at sais, he speaks of a tomb in the temple, in the rear of the chapel and against the wall; and says "it is the tomb of a man, whose name respect requires me to conceal. within the temple were great obelisks of stone[_phalli, and a circular lake paved with stones and revetted with a parapet. it seemed to me as large as that at delos [where the mysteries of apollo were celebrated "in this lake the egyptians celebrate, during the night, what they style the mysteries, in which are represented the sufferings of the god of whom i have spoken above" this god was osiris, put to death by typhon, and who descended to the shades and was restored to life; of which he had spoken before. we are reminded, by this passage, of the tomb of khir-om, his death, and hi

darkness. the sufferings and death of osiris in the mysteries of the night were a mystic image of the phenomena of nature, and the conflict of the two great principles which share the empire of nature, and most influenced our souls. the sun is neither born, dies, nor is raised to life: and the recital of these events was but an allegory, veiling a higher truth. horus, son of isis, and the same as apollo or the sun, also died and was restored again to life and to his mother; and the priests of isis celebrated these great events by mourning and joyous festival succeeding each other. in the mysteries of phoenicia, established in honor of thammuz or adoni, also the sun, the spectacle of his death and resurrection was exhibited to the initiates. as we learn from meursius and plutarch, a figure

epresenting the corpse of a young man, over whose tomb tears were shed, and to whom funeral honors were paid. at samothrace, in the mysteries of the cabiri or great gods, a representation was given of the death of one of them. this name was given to the sun, because the ancient astronomers gave the name of gods cabiri and of samothrace to the two gods in the constellation gemini; whom others term apollo and hercules, two names of the sun. athenion says that the young cabirus so slain was the same as the dionusos or bakchos of the greeks. the pelasgi, ancient inhabitants of greece, and who settled samothrace, celebrated these mysteries, whose origin is unknown: and they worshipped castor and pollux as patrons of navigation. the tomb of apollo was at delphi, where his body was laid, after py

and tim us of locria says "the equilateral triangle enters into the composition of the pyramid, which has four equal faces and equal angles, and which in this is like fire the most subtle and mobile of the elements" they and the obelisks were erected in honor of the sun, termed in an inscription upon one of the latter, translated by the egyptian hermapion and to be found in ammianus marcellinus "apollo the strong, son of god, he who made the world, true lord of the diadems, who possesses egypt and fills it with his glory" the two most famous divisions of the heavens, by seven, which is that of the planets, and by twelve, which is that of the signs, are found on the religious monuments of all the people of the ancient world. the twelve great gods of egypt are met with everywhere. they were

ies and scorpio; jupiter, pisces and sagittarius; and saturn, aquarius and capricornus. from this distribution of the signs also came many mythological emblems and fables; as also many came from the places of exaltation of the planets. diana of ephesus, the moon wore the image of a crab on her bosom, because in that sign was the moon's domicile; and lions bore up the throne of horus, the egyptian apollo, the sun personified, for a like reason: while the egyptians consecrated the tauriform scarab sus to the moon, because she had her place of exaltation in taurus; and for the same reason mercury is said to have presented isis with a helmet like a bull's head. a further division of the zodiac was of each sign into three parts of 10 each, called decans, or, in the whole zodiac, 36 parts, among

uman soul through the spheres, when it descends to the earth by the sign of the serpent, and returns to the empire of light by that or the lamb or bull. the creative action of heaven was manifested, and all its demiurgic energy developed, most of all at the vernal equinox, to which refer all the fables that typify the victory of light over darkness, by the triumphs of jupiter, osiris, ormuzd, and apollo. always the triumphant god takes the form of the bull, the ram, or the lamb. then jupiter wrests from typhon his thunderbolts, of which that malignant deity had possessed himself during the winter. then the god of light overwhelms his foe, pictured as a huge serpent. then winter ends; the sun, seated on the bull and accompanied by orion, blazes in the heavens. all nature rejoices at the vic

is, except his organs of generation, which had been thrown into and devoured in the waters of the river that every year fertilized egypt. the other portions were buried by isis, and over them she erected a tomb. thereafter she remained single, loading her subjects with blessings. she cured the sick, restored sight to the blind, made the paralytic whole, and even raised the dead. from her horus or apollo learned divination and the science of medicine. thus the egyptians pictured the beneficent action of the two luminaries that, from the bosom of the elements, produced all animals and men, and all bodies that are born, grow, and die in the eternal circle of generation and destruction here below. when the celestial bull opened the new year at the vernal equinox, osiris, united with the moon

of chemmis, and auriga, leading a she-goat, himself identical with pan, whose wife aiga the she-goat was styled. then isis went in search of the body. she first met certain children who had seen it, received from them their information, and gave them in return the gift of divination. the second full moon occurred in gemini, the twins, who presided over the oracles of didymus, and one of whom was apollo, the god of divination. she learned that osiris had, through mistake, had connection with her sister nephte, which she discovered by a crown of leaves of the melilot, which he had left behind him. of this connection a child was born, whom isis, aided by her dogs, sought for, found, reared, and attached to herself, by the name of anubis, her faithful guardian. the third full moon occurs in c

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

r stays shut in his shell for all darwin may say about his "low stage of evolution, or puritans about his priapistic character, or idealists about his unfitness for civic government. the advocates of homosexuality--primus inter pares, john addington symonds--hammer away like hercules at the spiritual, social, moral, and intellectual advantages of cultivating the caresses of a comrade who combines apollo with achilles and antinous at the expense of escaping from a chimaera with circe's head, cleopatra's body, and cressida's character. why can't they let one alone? i agree to agree; i only stipulate to be allowed to be inconsistent. i will confess their creed, so long as i may play the part of peter until the cock crow thrice. they urge more strenuously still the claims of homosexuality to h

ion itself have been monsters aborted from the dark womb of its infernal mystery. there is nothing unclean or degrading in any manifestation soever of the sexual instinct, because, without exception, every act is an impulsively projected image of the will of the individual who, whether man or woman, is a star; the pennsylvanian with his pig no less than the spirit with mary; sappho with athis and apollo with hyacinth as perfect as daphnis with chloe or as galahad vowed to the graal. the one thing needful, the all-perfect means of purification, consecration, and sanctification, is independent of the physical and moral accidents circumstantial of the particular incident: is the realization of love as a sacrament. the use of the physical means as a magical operation, whose formula is that by

for the dour temperament and damp cold climate of the scot. sex-expression, too, depends on climate and so on, so that we must interpret the law to suit a socrates, a jesus, and a burton, or a marie antoinette and a de lamballe, as well as our own don juans and faustines. with this expansion, to the honour and glory of them, of their natures, we acclaim therefore our helpers, dionysus, aphrodite, apollo, wine, woman and song. intoxication, that is, ecstasy, is the key to reality. it is explained in "energized enthusiasm (equinox i, ix) that there are three gods whose function is to bring the soul to the realization of its own glory: dionysus, aphrodite, apollo; wine, woman, and song. the ancients, both in the highest civilizations, as in greece and egypt, and in the most primitive savagery

the cloaks of the casuists and meant 'that which leads one away from god. but each man, while postulating an absolute 'god, defined him unconsciously in terms of freudian phantasm created by his own wish-fulfilment machinery. thus 'good' and 'evil' were really expressions of personal prejudice. a man who 'bowed humbly to the authority of' the pope, or the bible, or the sanhedrim, or the oracle of apollo, or the tribal medicine- man, none the less expressed truly his own wish to abdicate responsibility. in the light of this book, we now know that the centre is everywhere, the circumference nowhere; that "every man and every woman is a star, a 'khabs' the name of the house of hadit; that "the word of sin is restriction. to us, then 'evil' is a relative term; it is 'that which hinders one fro

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utiful chariot, which, drawn by horses or other animals of celestial breed, conveyed them rapidly over land and sea according to their pleasure. most of these divinities lived on the summit of mount olympus, each possessing his or her individual habitation, and all meeting together on festive occasions in the council-chamber of the gods, where their banquets were enlivened by the sweet strains of apollo's lyre, whilst the beautiful voices of the muses poured forth their rich melodies to his harmonious accompaniment. magnificent temples were erected to their honour, where they were worshipped with the greatest solemnity; rich gifts were presented to them, and animals, and indeed sometimes human beings, were sacrificed on their altars. in the study of grecian mythology we meet with some [9]c

is highly probable that the reputed actions of these deified beings were commemorated by bards, who, travelling from one state to another, celebrated their praise in song; it therefore becomes exceedingly difficult, nay almost impossible, to separate bare facts from the exaggerations which never fail to accompany oral traditions. in order to exemplify this, let us suppose that orpheus, the son of apollo, so renowned for his extraordinary musical powers, had existed at the present day. we should no doubt have ranked him among the greatest of our musicians, and honoured him as such; but the greeks, with their vivid imagination and poetic license, page 9 exaggerated his remarkable gifts, and attributed to his music supernatural influence over animate and inanimate nature. thus we hear of wild

est compassion her weary wanderings and agonized fears, resolved to create for her some place of refuge, however humble, where she might feel herself safe from the venomous attacks of the serpent. he therefore brought her to delos, a floating island in the agean sea, which he made stationary by attaching it with chains of adamant to the bottom of the sea. here she gave birth to her twin-children, apollo and artemis (diana, two of the most beautiful of the immortals. according to some versions of the story of leto, zeus transformed her into a quail, in order that she might thus elude the vigilance of hera, and she is said to have [32]resumed her true form when she arrived at the island of delos. hera, being the principal wife of zeus and queen of heaven, a detailed account will be given of

r poets, he became so weary of his cheerless and miserable existence, that he entreated to be allowed to die. this was, however, impossible; but eos, pitying his unhappy condition, exerted her divine power, and changed him into a grasshopper, which is, as it were, all voice, and whose monotonous, ceaseless chirpings may not inaptly be compared to the meaningless babble of extreme old age. phoebus-apollo. phoebus-apollo, the god of light, prophecy, music, poetry, and the arts and sciences, is by far the noblest conception within the whole range of greek mythology, and his worship, which not only extended to all the states of greece, but also to asia minor and to every greek colony throughout the world, stands out among the most ancient and strongly-marked features of grecian history, and pa

eption within the whole range of greek mythology, and his worship, which not only extended to all the states of greece, but also to asia minor and to every greek colony throughout the world, stands out among the most ancient and strongly-marked features of grecian history, and page 74 exerted a more decided influence over the greek nation, than that of any other deity, not excepting zeus himself. apollo was the son of zeus and leto, and was born beneath the shade of a palm tree which grew at the foot [69]of mount cynthus, on the barren and rocky island of delos. the poets tell us that the earth smiled when the young god first beheld the light of day, and that delos became so proud and exultant at the honour thus conferred upon her, that she covered herself with golden flowers; swans surrou

orth he would announce to mankind the will of his father zeus "the golden lyre" said he "shall be my friend, the bent bow my delight, and in oracles will i foretell the dark future" with these words he ascended to olympus, where he was received with joyful acclamations into the assembly of the celestial gods, who acknowledged him as the most beautiful and glorious of all the sons of zeus. phoebus-apollo was the god of light in a twofold [70]signification: first, as representing the great orb of day which illumines the world; and secondly, as the heavenly light which animates the soul of man. he inherited his function as sun-god from helios, with whom, in later times, he was so completely identified, that the personality of the one became gradually merged in that of the other. we, according

0]signification: first, as representing the great orb of day which illumines the world; and secondly, as the heavenly light which animates the soul of man. he inherited his function as sun-god from helios, with whom, in later times, he was so completely identified, that the personality of the one became gradually merged in that of the other. we, accordingly, find helios frequently confounded with apollo, myths belonging to the former attributed to the latter; and with some tribes.the ionic, for instance.so complete is this identification, that apollo is called by them helios-apollo. as the divinity whose power is developed in the broad light of day, he brings joy and delight to nature, and health and prosperity to man. by the influence of his warm and gentle rays he disperses the noxious v

of his character that we must look for the explanation of his being considered, in conjunction with his twin-sister, artemis (as moon-goddess, a divinity of death. the brother and sister share this function between them, he taking man and she woman as her aim, and those especially who died in the bloom of youth, or at an advanced age, were believed to have been killed by their gentle arrows. but apollo did not always send an easy death. we see in the iliad how, when angry with the greeks, the "god of the silver bow" strode down from olympus, with his quiver full of death-bringing darts, and sent a raging pestilence into their camp. for nine days he let fly his fatal arrows, first on animals and then on men, till the air became darkened with the smoke from the funeral pyres. in his charact

n easy death. we see in the iliad how, when angry with the greeks, the "god of the silver bow" strode down from olympus, with his quiver full of death-bringing darts, and sent a raging pestilence into their camp. for nine days he let fly his fatal arrows, first on animals and then on men, till the air became darkened with the smoke from the funeral pyres. in his character as god of light, phoebus-apollo is the protecting deity of shepherds, because it is he who warms [71]the fields and meadows, and gives rich pastures to the flocks, thereby gladdening the heart of the herdsman. as the temperate heat of the sun exercises so invigorating an effect on man and animals, and promotes the growth of those medicinal herbs and vegetable productions necessary for the cure of diseases, phoebus-apollo

getable productions necessary for the cure of diseases, phoebus-apollo was supposed to possess the power of restoring life and health; hence he was regarded as the god of healing; but this feature in his character we shall find more particularly developed in his son asclepius (asculapius, the veritable god of the healing art. pursuing our analysis of the various phases in the character of phoebus-apollo, we find that with the first beams of his genial light, all nature awakens to renewed life, and the woods re-echo with the jubilant sound of the untaught lays, warbled by thousands of feathered choristers. hence, by a natural inference, he is the god of music, and as, according to the belief of the ancients, the inspirations of genius were inseparably connected with the glorious light of he

life, and the woods re-echo with the jubilant sound of the untaught lays, warbled by thousands of feathered choristers. hence, by a natural inference, he is the god of music, and as, according to the belief of the ancients, the inspirations of genius were inseparably connected with the glorious light of heaven, he is also the god of poetry, and acts as the special patron of the arts and sciences. apollo is himself the heavenly musician among the olympic gods, whose banquets are gladdened by the wondrous strains which he produces from his favourite instrument, the seven-stringed lyre. in the cultus of apollo, music page 78 formed a distinguishing feature. all sacred dances, and even the sacrifices in his honour, were performed to the sound of musical instruments; and it is, in a great measu

y the wondrous strains which he produces from his favourite instrument, the seven-stringed lyre. in the cultus of apollo, music page 78 formed a distinguishing feature. all sacred dances, and even the sacrifices in his honour, were performed to the sound of musical instruments; and it is, in a great measure, owing to the influence which the music in his worship exercised on the greek nation, that apollo came to be regarded as the leader of the nine muses, the legitimate divinities of poetry and song. in this character he is called musagetes, and is always represented robed in a long flowing garment; his lyre, to the tones of which he appears to be singing, is suspended by a band across the chest; his head is encircled by a wreath of laurel, and his long hair, streaming down over his should

nded by a band across the chest; his head is encircled by a wreath of laurel, and his long hair, streaming down over his shoulders, gives him a somewhat effeminate appearance. and now we must view the glorious god of light under [72]another, and (as far as regards his influence over the greek nation) a much more important aspect; for, in historical times, all the other functions and attributes of apollo sink into comparative insignificance before the great power which he exercised as god of prophecy. it is true that all greek gods were endowed, to a certain extent, with the faculty of foretelling future events; but apollo, as sun-god, was the concentration of all prophetic power, as it was supposed that nothing escaped his all-seeing eye, which penetrated the most hidden recesses, and laid

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antiquity, even though it may have led to the same traditional values. after around 1530, this tradition became blurred and the symbolic thought employed in religion, art, and philosophy became foreign and eventually disappeared altogether from popular thought. it no longer had any deep roots. how could the people have any genuine interest in those who took the place of the saints jupiter, mars, apollo, ceres, and proserpine or the ancient heroes of greece and rome or the caesars? even if this new art, especially prominent in the plastic arts, still speculative freemasonry 225 recalled the tradition, it no longer faithfully translated the civilization and life of that time. the cathedral no longer took the place of all the books. it was no longer the symbol of the faith, of love, of all

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p of mount olympus, the highest peak in greece. later their home was conceived of as a heaven in the skies. from olympus, the gods loved, quarrelled, watched the world, and helped and hindered mortals according to their whims. presided over by zeus (roman jupiter, ruler of heaven and earth, there were many gods and immortals of whom 12 are usually regarded as the most important: aphrodite (venus, apollo (apollo, ares (mars, artemis (diana, athena (minerva, demeter (ceres, dionysus (bacchus, hephaestus (vulcan, hera (juno, hermes (mercury, hestia (vesta, and poseidon (neptune. hades (pluto, zeus brother, ruled the underworld. these olympian gods succeeded earlier generations of gods. gaia (mother earth) was the first goddess, and bore the race of titans by her son uranus. the titans, led by

earth. he was married to hera but had many other sexual liaisons. zeus brandishes thunderbolts, his chief weapons, made for him by the cyclopes the gods of olympus by giulio romano (c. 1499 1546) this 16th-century ceiling painting shows the gods and some of the immortals of mount olympus. it would have been painted to suggest the power and glory of the patron. artemis artemis (see pp. 36 37) was apollo s twin sister and the goddess of hunting and archery. all wild animals were in her care. demeter demeter, zeus sister, was the greek earth-goddess. her brother zeus fathered her daughter, persephone. her search for persephone formed the basis of the mysteries of eleusis (see p. 29. dionysus dionysus (see pp. 58 59, god of ecstasy and wine, was the child of zeus by a mortal, semele. he is sh

le form and snatched the beautiful youth to be his cup-bearer on olympus. hera, queen of the gods hera was zeus wife and sister. in one account it was she, not her mother rhea, who saved zeus from being swallowed by their father cronos (see above. she was the goddess of marriage, and many of the stories about her centre on her jealousy of zeus many affairs. saturn by francisco de goya (1746 1828) apollo apollo (see pp. 38 39) and his sister artemis were zeus children by the titaness leto. he was god of prophecy, divination, and the arts, especially music, and also a sun-god, although he was not the sun itself this was represented by the god helios. hephaestus hephaestus, the lame blacksmith god (see pp. 26 27, was the son of hera produced without a mate, although some sources say that zeus

mmortals on mount olympus by swapping his own mortality with the immortality of the centaur cheiron (see p. 39, who, accidentally wounded by heracles, was doomed to an eternity of suffering and wished to die. prometheus prometheus gave humankind the gift of thought, and the secrets of many skills, including how to navigate and how to tell the time. chariot of the sun helios (later identified with apollo) drove the sun across the sky in his chariot each day; once he allowed his son phaethon to take his place, but the youth was unable to control the horses of the sun. the earth would have been destroyed by fire had not zeus struck phaethon down with a thunderbolt. goddess of wisdom athena passed on her knowledge and wisdom to prometheus, who shared it with humankind. according to one myth, p

se the earth gaped open and let in daylight, which would frighten the dead. black horses hades black horses drew his fiery chariot towards the chasm of the underworld. they were among his most prized possessions, along with his helmet of invisibility, which he once lent to perseus (see pp. 46 47. demeter is shown on this greek blackfigure amphora, together with her daughter persephone and the god apollo in his chariot. snake snakes have many meanings in greek myth depending on the context. a symbol of fertility in earlier religions, the snake had similar connotations as an attribute of persephone s mother, demeter, the earth/grain goddess. the artist may also be referring here to the story of zeus taking the form of a snake and enveloping persephone in his coils. the rape of pers eph one b

ds eurydice down to her new home. unusually, he is shown with wings, rather than winged sandals. orpheus was torn apart by maenads, the wild women in the retinue of dionysus (see pp. 58 59, because he would not join in their revels. only his head survived this floated down the river hebrus singing, and was washed ashore on the island of lesbos, where it began to prophesy, until it was silenced by apollo. aristaeus, the shepherd who chased eurydice, was a son of apollo, and he taught mankind the art of beekeeping. for his part in eurydice s death, the gods destroyed his bees. his mother, the nymph cyrene, advised him to ask the advice of the sea god proteus. proteus told him to make offerings to the shade of eurydice; when he did so, the bees recovered and swarmed up. orpheus orpheus was re

mankind the art of beekeeping. for his part in eurydice s death, the gods destroyed his bees. his mother, the nymph cyrene, advised him to ask the advice of the sea god proteus. proteus told him to make offerings to the shade of eurydice; when he did so, the bees recovered and swarmed up. orpheus orpheus was revered as a great poet and musician the son of the muse calliope and the son or pupil of apollo. orpheus charmed all the nymphs with his music, but was indifferent to them until he met the lovely eurydice, whom he married. he invited the marriage god hymen to the wedding, but hymen was in low spirits; his torch sputtered and smoked and would not stay alight. the underworld, also called hades after its ruler, was the land of the dead. hermes took the souls of the dead to the river styx

t, and less important references, such as the conception and birth of psyche, are included. presumably this is because, as it was painted on a wedding chest, a reference to having children was considered appropriate. love falls in love cupid, sent by his mother venus to visit vengeance on psyche by making her fall in love with a vagabond, was himself captivated by her beauty, and enlisted the god apollo to help him win her. worshiping suitors every day, people from far and wide came to admire the beautiful princess. they said she was venus in human form, and began to neglect the worship of the goddess much to venus anger. temple of apollo concerned for psyche, her father consulted the oracle of apollo at miletus. he was told that psyche must dress for her wedding, climb a mountain, and the

eeping beauty psyche s sleep here is a reminder of the deathly sleep that came upon her when she opened the box of beauty from the underworld (see above. in true fairy-tale style, she could only be woken by her true love, cupid. psyche and charon by john roddam spencer-stanhope (1829 1908) grieving parents psyche s parents shown here with her two sisters and their elderly husbands were shocked at apollo s prophecy. but psyche realizing that the worship of her beauty must have offended venus begged them not to grieve. doomed conspirators psyche s sisters plan to ruin her happiness proved their downfall. in revenge, psyche (who had been prevented from committing suicide by pan) told them that cupid now wished to marry one of them instead. each, in turn, climbed the mountain to meet him but w

she was revived by cupid, granted immortality, and gave birth to their daughter voluptas (pleasure. artemis and actaeon 36 dogs of death actaeon s faithful hounds did not recognize their master once the furious artemis had transformed him into a stag. true to their nature, they chased and killed him. artemis and actaeon artemis (roman diana) was goddess of the hunt and the moon. like her brother apollo (see pp. 38 39, she was a child of zeus and the titan leto. she was also the goddess of childbirth and, by extension, of all young creatures, because her mother gave birth to her without pain. the story of actaeon seeing her bathe and her revenge in turning him into a stag to be set upon by his own dogs, is best told in ovid s metamorphoses. this is a roman source, although the story is gre

eternal virginity, which she begged zeus to grant her at the age of three. however, some sources claim she was taking revenge on actaeon for having claimed to be a better hunter than she was. zeus seduces callisto disguised as artemis by jean-simon barth lemy (1743 1811) zeus kneels before callisto disguised, wearing the crescent moon of artemis. actaeon actaeon s father aristaeus was the son of apollo; his mother autono was the daughter of cadmus, founder of thebes (see p. 49, and brother of europa (see p. 45. artemis surprised by actaeon by titian, originally tiziano vecelli(o (c. 1488/90 1576) this picture shows the moment when actaeon, while hunting in the forest, accidentally comes upon artemis and her nymphs bathing. the virgin goddess is horrified, tries to cover herself, and will

r guardian of the bear. artemis and actaeon 37 sacred grotto artemis is seen bathing in her secret cave at the heart of the valley of gargaphie near thebes. she carved the arches from the living rock, and made the pool from a spring of pure water. daughter of the river artemis is attended by the nymph crocale whose father was ismenus, god of the river ismenus in boeotia, near thebes, and a son of apollo and the nereid, melia. as crocale binds her hair, artemis suddenly starts back in horror at the sight of actaeon. artemis maids of honor the six nymphs depicted here are crocale, nephele, hyale, rhanis, psecas, phiale just a handful of artemis huge retinue which included 60 ocean nymphs, who acted as maids of honor, and 20 river nymphs, who looked after her clothes and her dogs. artemis, go

mare used to be placed where three roads met, one face looking down each road. hecate is said to be the daughter of asteria, leto s sister. she is sometimes identified with her cousin, artemis, and like her she is closely associated with the moon. in her triple aspect she is said to represent selene (luna) in heaven, artemis on earth, and persephone (proserpine) in the underworld (see pp. 28 29. apollo and daphne 38 apollo and daphne apollo, the god of archery, music, prophecy, and light, was very powerful, but not always successful in love. his first love was the nymph daphne, who refused him. apollo s fiery passion and daphne s cold resistance were both the fault of eros (roman cupid, who, angry at jokes apollo had made, shot him with a golden arrow to make him fall in love, and daphne

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classic treatise on the subject entitled galwink cabalistic encyclopedia. out of print for several years, popular demand dictated that it be reprinted. it is now available again with new additions and information, from llewellyn publications. godwin has worked as a manual laborer, a newspaper reporter, an editor for a petrochemical magazine, a technical editor for two nasa contractors during the apollo missions, a typesetter, a free-lance writer and a practicing astrologer. he has never been to a writers'workshop, owns no cats, and is entirely ignorant of the martial arts. godwin believes in maintaining the open-minded, balanced attitude advocated by the middle path of cabalism. donald tyson of halifax, nova scotia, was born in 1954. his work on the sigils drawn from the planetary kameas

, brought into action by the rays of the sun. they are the two inferior and passive elements, as the sun and air above them are the superior and active elements of fire and air. furthermore, these two children resemble the sign gemini which unites the earthy sign of taurus with the watery sign cancer, 176 the golden dawn: volume i1 book two and this sign was, by the greeks and romans, referred to apollo and the sun. hierophanf returns to his throne. hegemon comes to the north by theoricus who remains in the west. i have much pleasure in conferring upon you the title of lord of the thirtieth path. you will now quit the temple for a short time, and on your return the ceremony of your reception into the grade of three equals eight will take place <112> temple in hod arranged as in diagram dia

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and timid in the morning, shines with all its power at midday and goes wearied to rest in the evening. nevertheless, it is earth which revolves, while the sun is motionless. having faith therefore in human progress, and in the stability of god, the free man respects religion in its past forms, and no more blasphemes jupiter than jehovah. he still salutes lovingly the radiant image of the pythian apollo and discovers its fraternal resemblance to the glorified countenance of the risen redeemer. he believes in the great mission of the catholic hierarchy, and finds satisfaction in observing the popes of the middle ages who opposed religion as a check upon the absolute power of kings; but he protests with the revolutionary centuries against the servitude of conscience which the pontifical keys

unity mother of numbers, the first substance. all these ideas are expressed hieroglyphically by the figure of the juggler. his body and arms constitute the letter aleph; round his head there is a nimbus in the form of, emblem of life and the universal spirit; in front of him are swords, cups and pantacles; he uplifts the miraculous rod towards heaven. he has a youthful figure and curly hair, like apollo or mercury; the smile of confidence is on his lips and the look of intelligence in his eyes. b the house of god and man, the sanctuary, the law, gnosis, kabalah, the occult church, the duad, wife, mother. hieroglyph of the tarot: the female pope, a woman crowned with a tiara, wearing the horns of the moon and isis, her head enveloped in a mantle, the solar cross on her breast, and holding a

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fairy lore. the two classes of books, however, are more suggestive of classical lore. the first is a description of prophetic books or divinatory systems, the operation of which only works in a fit or paroxysms, ravished by the entry of a new spirit. kirk is drawing a comparison to the delphic oracle, which could only utter obscure verses when the pythoness was taken over by the spirit of the god apollo. this comparison is found again on page 36, comparing an old woman of the second sight with the delphian priestess. kirk leavens the use of antic spirit inspiration (which was of course frowned upon and punishable, by making it a matter of jollity and merriment. the second class of fairy books are involved and abstruse, much like the rosicrucian style. here kirk is referring to a class of l

ical defense, kirk proceeds to develop this context on his own behalf, including an interesting interpretation of the temptation of jesus in matt. 4. once again he stresses the actual visual nature of the event, and that in both seership and in the case of jesus, it is not a phantasm or a sick apprehension. to round the examples off, kirk mentions the pythoness, priestess of the delphic oracle of apollo, an allusion that would have been well known to any gentleman or classical scholar from texts such as virgil's aeneid. page 34 also the seer trains his scholar by telling [him] of the gradations of nature [and that the second sight] is a native habit in some. and an artificial improvement of their natural sight in others. we have referred above to the use of natural and animal gradations or

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o the council of nicea. in summary the aim was to once and forever squelch any isolated pockets of rebellion. the political gains achieved by the holy roman empire upon the adoption of christianity are still being felt. and one of the chief motivators for political rebellion is religious differences. thus we see in god the father both the yhwh of the hebrews and the various attempts at describing apollo as the god above gods among the greek philosophers. in god the son and the events of his earthly life we find plagiarisms of various cults such as that of mithras. in god the holy ghost is every concept the mystic could desire, sufficiently ambiguous to allow unlimited explanation and devotion. surely the philosophers and gnostics could be kept busy. the pantheon of deities would not be com

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whose name milton uses to describe the pit of hell. chief of the demonic locusts, whose faces are human and whose tails are scorpion. the name of the sixth hell, corresponding to chesed. the hebrews borrowed their seven layered gehenna from the babylonians, whose dark prince is also called arsi-el (black sun. within the central pit of the bottom layer lives the serpent angel apollyon, the fallen apollo, king of locusts. again, we see the incorporation and demonisation of pagan dieties of the previous age. abraxas, abrasax, abraxis (greaco-oriental, gnostic) whose name means king, adds to 365, and the hebdomad of letters is assosciated with the seven planets. who has the head of a cockrel and snakes for legs (abrasax, abraxis, and in scientific literature, angnipede, meaning snake feet. ab

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myths about the workings of nature. there were several instances where philosophy conflicted with religion, but the most famous was the trial and execution of socrates. world religions: almanac 219 greco-roman religion and philosophy when he was seventy years old, he was charged with impiety: corrupting young people, insulting the gods of athens, and teaching about new gods. socrates argued that apollo, god of wisdom, had given him the duty to search for the truth and to encourage others to do the same. a jury of 501 athenians (large enough to give a cross-section of athenian society and too many to bribe) finally condemned him to death; the method was by drinking a poison made from hemlock. socrates, a strong believer in the rule of law, took the poison. while socrates may have broken th

ux or change is similar to the buddhist concept of impermanence. the logos is often equated with the dao, or the way, in daoist belief. world religions: almanac 221 greco-roman religion and philosophy directly from zeus s forehead. because she was the protector and defender of athens, she is often depicted as armed. artemis, the goddess of hunting and wild places, was also a moon goddess. she was apollo s twin sister, and young men and girls held her sacred because she was a virgin. hermes was the messenger of the gods. apollo was the sun god and the god of music and prophesy, or predictions on the future. he also represented law and order, appearing in court in aeschylus s plays. hephaestus was the god of fire and crafts requiring fire, such as metalworking. he was also the god of volcano

more complex than that of the other olympians. as a child, the story goes, he was torn apart by wild women and spent three years in the underworld. the worship of dionysius played a significant role in the development of greek drama. the romans adopted this pantheon and gave many of them different names. the roman gods were, in the same order, jupiter, juno, venus, mars, minerva, diana, mercury, apollo, vulcan, neptune, vesta, ceres, pluto, and bacchus (in parts of the roman empire, the emperor was also worshipped as a god) these gods, along with many minor deities who came to earth to do the bidding of the gods, controlled the fate of humankind. zeus also appeared in human form, or even in animal form at times, to father children by mortal women. some of his sons became the heroes of gre

and priestesses took care of these temples and supervised the official sacrifices to the gods and goddesses. some priestesses also served as oracles, persons who acted as a medium or messenger between the gods and humans. greeks would go to oracles to receive messages from the gods in order to determine what they should do in the future. one of the most famous of the oracles was at the temple of apollo at delphi, which is located in central greece. the greeks believed in a soul, which they called psyche, but beliefs varied as to whether it survived after death. the traditional belief was that both good and bad souls went to the underworld, hades, escorted there by the god hermes. there, those who were evil were punished in a place called tartaros, while good souls lived in elysium, a plac

n within. world religions: almanac 229 greco-roman religion and philosophy sacred symbols there is no one powerful symbol that represents either greek or roman religion. instead, various gods and goddesses have symbols attaching to them. athena, the patroness of athens, carried a shield, or aegis, representing her role as a divine protector of the city. the arrow was the symbol for the greek gods apollo and artemis, as well as for eros, god of love; for the romans the arrow was the symbol of cupid, god of love. the arrow was also used on roman coins to represent the god mithra. the lightning bolt was a symbol for zeus and his roman equivalent, jupiter. it would be thrown by these sky gods to punish, water, or fertilize the earth or its creatures. the greeks also adapted the egyptian sphinx

locations throughout greece that honored the major gods and attracted people from not just one city-state, but from all over greece. the largest and best known of these was the games at olympia that celebrated the major god, zeus. these have evolved into the modern-day olympic games. there were other similar religious athletic contests. the pythian games were held at delphi and were dedicated to apollo. these included musical competitions in addition to athletic ones. the isthmian games were held at corinth and dedicated to poseidon. each of these festivals included sacrifices and prayers to the gods. initially, the number of religious holidays in rome were small, but later in the roman empire so many festivals were adopted that there were more holidays than workdays per year. among the m

lgrimage or holy journey. this was the site of the temple of the delphic oracle, world religions: almanac 233 greco-roman religion and philosophy the famous priestess who sat on a stool over a deep chasm. she would go into a dream state and begin to speak the words she heard from the gods. only men, however, were able to approach her. delphi may also have been the source of the delphinios cult of apollo. major festivals also served as pilgrimages, such as the panathenaea, the olympic games, and the isthmian games. there were additionally numerous healing sanctuaries and caves throughout greece where people would go to pray for good health. similarly, attendance at events such as the equiria and the secular games were forms of pilgrimage for the ancient romans. everyday living religion, mor

d for any number of purposes. during groundbreaking for a new building, shinto priests purify the plot of ground (a process called jichinsai. automobiles on the assembly line are often blessed, and new car owners often take their cars to shrines to have them blessed and purified. similarly, new airplanes are blessed and purified during their first flight. a purification ritual was held during the apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969. individuals also practice purification rituals by standing beneath a waterfall or bathing in the sea. the concept of purification also dictates that people avoid certain activities. even in modern life, purification is achieved by avoiding certain words or activities. recently bereaved people (people whose loved ones have just died, for example) typically do

totle s father. he remained in stagira until 335 bce, when he returned to athens. he was nearly fifty, which was considered quite old as the life expectancy of most greeks at the time was around twenty. founds the lyceum in aristotle s absence from athens, the leadership of the academy had passed to an old friend, xenocrates of chalcedony. aristotle began teaching at a location near the temple of apollo lyceus, just outside athens in a grove of olive trees. the school was called the lyceum, after its temple location. a shaded walkway, the peripatos, was a favored place of instruction for aristotle, who liked to walk as he lectured. because of this, the school also became known as the peripatetic school, as peripatoi means to walk. aristotle believed that a person could not really claim to

is a person. people are male or female, and they identify themselves with names. many cultures picture their god as a person. an example is ahura mazda, the name for god in zoroastrianism, an ancient religion from what is now iran. ahura mazda is identified as male. christianity also identifies god as male. the religion of wicca identifies both male and female gods. examples include the male gods apollo and tammuz and the female goddesses hecate and ceriddwen. the notion of god as a person often leads both monotheistic and polytheistic religions to assign human characteristics to god. in the jewish sacred scripture, the tanakh (referred to by christians as the old testament, god is a humanlike being who often has to be appeased (soothed or calmed) because he grows angry with humans. he sho

ll to upstart christianity in europe. most of the rites vanished, but they weren t the only effective ones. wicca is alive and well and the deities respond to our calls and invocations. when envisioning the goddess and god, many of the wicca see them as well-known deities from ancient religions. diana, pan, isis, hermes, hina, tammuz, hecate, ishtar, cerridwen, thoth, tara, aradia, artemis, pele, apollo, kanaloa, bridget, helios, bran, lugh, hera, cybele, inanna, maui, ea, athena, lono, marduk the list is virtually endless. many of these deities, with their corresponding histories, rites and mythic information, furnish the concept of deity for wiccans. some feel comfortable associating such names and forms with the goddess and god, feeling that they can t possibly revere nameless divine be

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

iliar; hark to the mother's merry, low, english laugh. why, viola, strange child, sittest thou apart, thy face leaning on thy fair hands, thine eyes fixed on space? up, rouse thee! every dimple on the cheek of home must smile to-night("ridete quidquid est domi cachinnorum" catull "ad sirm. penin) and a happy reunion it was round that humble table: a feast lucullus might have envied in his hall of apollo, in the dried grapes, and the dainty sardines, and the luxurious polenta, and the old lacrima a present from the good cardinal. the barbiton, placed on a chair a tall, highbacked chair beside the musician, seemed to take a part in the festive meal. its honest varnished face glowed in the light of the lamp; and there was an impish, sly demureness in its very silence, as its master, between e

no uncommon prefix to on. adonis was but another name for zanonas, whose worship in sidon hesychius records. to this profound and unanswerable derivation mervale listened with great attention, and observed that he now ventured to announce an erudite discovery he himself had long since made, namely, that the numerous family of smiths in england were undoubtedly the ancient priests of the phrygian apollo "for" said he "was not apollo's surname, in phrygia, smintheus? how clear all the ensuing corruptions of the august name, smintheus, smitheus, smithe, smith! and even now, i may remark that the more ancient branches of that illustrious family, unconsciously anxious to approximate at least by a letter nearer to the true title, take a pious pleasure in writing their names smithe" the philolog

, selecting only the loftiest combinations, is the perpetual struggle of humanity to approach the gods. the great painter, as the great author, embodies what is possible to man, it is true, but what is not common to mankind. there is truth in hamlet; in macbeth, and his witches; in desdemona; in othello; in prospero, and in caliban; there is truth in the cartoons of raphael; there is truth in the apollo, the antinous, and the laocoon. but you do not meet the originals of the words, the cartoons, or the marble, in oxford street or st. james's. all these, to return to raphael, are the creatures of the idea in the artist's mind. this idea is not inborn, it has come from an intense study. but that study has been of the ideal that can be raised from the positive and the actual into grandeur and

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

dal for merit, awarded to civilians of the united states and her allies by act of congress 7/20/42.41 the all-seeing eye a symbol of osiris we now arrive at the point when we must consider that all-important key symbol, the all-seeing eye. mr. totten traced the history of the eye in the triangle back to ancient chaldea and its appearance as the solar eye, the eye of jove or jupiter, of phoebus or apollo, the eye of baal, and as the eye of providence. the eye of jove appeared on the front of jove's temple at peloponnessus. as the solar eye it was the symbol of the arabian god of. jethro, the black father-in-law of moses, and of the arabic motto "allah" or "i am that i am" all ancient temples of arabia were decorated with the eye, which had first appeared as the symbol of osiris, isis and ho

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payers and funneled it to falwell. secret handshakes of the illuminati 169 president clinton in a masonic grip with supreme court justice stephen breyer. breyer, a devout cabalistic jew, was nominated by clinton to the supreme court. to the right of breyer is justice ruth bader ginsberg, also a cabalistic and talmudic jew and again a clinton appointee (photo: the cincinnati post, october 1, 1994) apollo 8 crewman frank borman and a top nasa manager in a masonic hand grip. 170 codex magica karl rove, top white house advisor to president george w. bush, sharing a masonic connection (photo: newsweek, february 20, 2005) french president jacques chirac, masonic initiate of paris' grand orient lodge, with irish prime minister bertie ahern (left. shimon peres, former prime minister and leader of

ith the arm displaying a triangle pattern. according to the book axis of death, by d.c. yermak, this is similar to a secret rosicrucian sign indicating the initate has removed himself from god's control and given his life over to the devil. aldrin is confirmed to be a mason, but his rosicrucian involvement is unknown. astronaut buzz aldrin, supposedly walking on the moon in 1969. many believe the apollo 11 mission was a hoax, filmed right here on earth. in this classic, staged photo, notice aldrin's left arm in its triangle position. did the taxpayers pay billions just so aldrin and his masonic brothers could claim the moon for the illuminati in a staged esoteric ritual? 384 codex magica the three super-rich hunt brothers in a downward triangle arrangement on the cover of the new york time

codex magica buzz aldrin, scottish rite mason, was the first astronaut to walk on the moon. aldrin also planted a double-headed eagle flag on the soil of the moon's surface, claiming the moon as territory belonging to the supreme mother lodge of freemasonry. note aldrin's masonic arm pose (photo: nasa) astronaut edwin "buzz" aldrin, 33 mason, presents the scottish rite flag carried to the moon on apollo 11 in 1969 to masonic grand commander luther a. smith (from the book, lodge of the doubleheaded eagle, by william l. fox, university of arkansas press, 1997. part devil, part angel 403 will rogers (1879-1935, was a famous storyteller and a freemason. here he is in the pose of sublime knights elected degree. general robert e. lee, commanding officer of the army of the confederacy (oil portra

bels propaganda minister nazi germany in the mythology of the primitive world, the serpent is universally the symbol of the sun..the serpent was universally represented by the sun symbol, the circle or disk. bishop alexander hislop the two babylons t h e sun has ever been at the center of false religion. the ancient mystery religions venerated the sun, the solar disk, as deity. the greeks honored apollo as the child of the sun. the romans paid homage to mithra the sun god. these pagan philosophies form the basis for the worship of the 460 codex magica illuminati and indicate the importance of the sun as symbol of satanic deity. englishman john yarker, a well-known nineteenth century masonic magician and occultist, in his notes on the scientific and religious mysteries of antiquity, makes m

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uccession of receptacles for the housing of the soul. many of his followers became vegetarians, for he taught that the soul might live again in animals. because of his importance to early greek culture, pythagoras is among those individuals given the status of becoming a myth in his own lifetime. therefore, the philosopher was said to have been born of the virgin parthenis and fathered by the god apollo. pythagoras s human father, mnesarchus, a ring merchant from samos, and his mother consulted the delphic oracle and were told that he would be born in sidon in phoenicia and that he would produce works and wonders that would benefit all humankind. wishing to please the gods, mnesarchus demanded that his wife change her name from parthenis to pythasis, in order to honor the seeress at delphi

scribner s sons, 1969. cotterell, arthur, ed. encyclopedia of world mythology. london: dempsey parr book, 1999. crim, keith, ed. the perennial dictionary of world religions. san francisco: harper collins, 1989. ferm, vergilious, ed. ancient religions. new york: philosophical library, 1950. larousse dictionary of beliefs and religions. new york: larousse, 1994. delphi for centuries, the temple of apollo at delphi in central greece contained the most prestigious oracle in the graeco-roman world, a favorite of public officials and individuals alike. the oracle was said to relay prophetic messages and words of counsel from python, the wise serpent son of the mother-goddess delphyne or from the moon-goddess artemis through their priestess daughters, the pythonesses or pythia. according to myth

delphi in central greece contained the most prestigious oracle in the graeco-roman world, a favorite of public officials and individuals alike. the oracle was said to relay prophetic messages and words of counsel from python, the wise serpent son of the mother-goddess delphyne or from the moon-goddess artemis through their priestess daughters, the pythonesses or pythia. according to myth, the god apollo murdered delphyne and claimed the shrine and the pythia for himself, imprisoning the serpent seer in the recesses of a cave beneath the temple. the historian plutarch (c. 46 120 c.e, author of plutarch s lives, served for a time as high priest at the delphic oracle and explained why its oracles had remained popular while others had fallen into disrepute. in his opinion, the gods had decline

ut waging war against the persians. the oracle at delphi was a major religious site for 2,000 years until it was closed by the christian emperor theodosius i (346? 395. later, arcadius ordered the temple destroyed. in the summer of 2001, jelle de boer of wesleyan university in connecticut and coworkers discovered a previously unknown geological fault passing through the sanctuary of the temple of apollo. according to de boer, the fault crosses the previously known delphi fault directly below the temple. this crossing makes the bitumen-rich limestone much more permeable to gases and groundwater. the researchers speculated that seismic activity on the faults could have heated such deposits, releasing light hydrocarbon gases, such as ethylene. ethylene is a sweet-smelling gas that was once us

entury b.c.e. these magical symbols were buried with the dead and meant to protect the soul from the dangers of the underworld. orpheus may have been an actual historic figure, a man capable of charming both man and beast with his music, but god or human, he modified the dionysian rites by removing their orgiastic elements. according to some traditions, he was said to be the son of a priestess of apollo, gifted with a melodious voice, golden hair, deep blue eyes, and a powerful magnetism that exerted a kind of magic upon all those with whom he came into contact. then, so the legend goes, he disappeared, and many presumed him dead. in reality, he had traveled to memphis, where he spent the next 20 years studying in the egyptian mystery schools. when he returned to greece, he was known only

war rages, so it is the duty of each human to repress the titanic element and allow the dionysian an opportunity to assert itself. the final release of the divine essence within, the redemption of the soul, is the utmost goal of the orphic process. this process may best be obtained by the soul reincarnating in a number of physical bodies in different life experiences. in orphic thought, the gods apollo and dionysus were two representations or revelations of the same divinity. dionysus represented the mysteries of life, the secrets of past and future incarnations, the true relationship between spirit and body truths that could only be accessible to the initiates of the mystery school. dionysus was the expression of the evolving soul in the universe. apollo personified those same truths as

of the same divinity. dionysus represented the mysteries of life, the secrets of past and future incarnations, the true relationship between spirit and body truths that could only be accessible to the initiates of the mystery school. dionysus was the expression of the evolving soul in the universe. apollo personified those same truths as they could be applied to humans in their earthly existence. apollo gave inspiration to those who would be artists, poets, doctors, lawyers, and scientists through divination, such as that which issued from his priestesses at delphi. one of the essential aspects of the orphic initiation was the process of the initiate absorbing the healing light of orpheus and purifying the heart and spirit. among the truths that orpheus had learned in the egyptian sanctuar

of the orphic initiation was the process of the initiate absorbing the healing light of orpheus and purifying the heart and spirit. among the truths that orpheus had learned in the egyptian sanctuaries was that god is one, but the gods are many and diverse. orpheus had 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 mystery religions and cults 267 thegods apollo and dionysus were two representations or revelations of the same divinity. descended into hell, the underworld, and braved its challenges and subdued the demons of the pit. the disciples of the orphic/dionysus schools were promised the celestial fire of zeus, the light retrieved by orpheus, that enabled their souls to triumph over death. these things would all be enacted in the mystery play

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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 70 magic and sorcery prophet, and the brahmans of india; and he initiated into the orphic, egyptian, judaic, chaldean, and many other mystery schools. pythagoras is among those individuals given the status of becoming a myth in his own lifetime. the philosopher was said to have been born of the virgin parthenis and fathered by the god apollo. pythagoras f human father, mnesarchus, a ring merchant from samos, and his mother consulted the delphic oracle and were told that he would be born in sidon in phoenicia and that he would produce works and wonders that would benefit all humankind. wishing to please the gods, mnesarchus demanded that his wife change her name from parthenis to pythasis, in order to honor the seeress at delphi

emist, and it was widely rumored that he had succeeded in transforming base metals into gold. it was believed that he could remove flaws from diamonds, and in this way improved one of the gems of king louis xv (1710.1774. his chemical training t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d magic and sorcery 71 pythagoraswas said to be fathered by the god apollo. far surpassed that of his contemporaries of the eighteenth century. his skill at mixing pigments was considered extraordinary, and famous painters begged in vain for the count to reveal his formulas. it was also claimed by many that saint- germain could render himself invisible.a remarkable accomplishment said to have been often witnessed. he was also a proficient hypnotist and could fall

doubleday, 1967. sugrue, thomas. there is a river: the story of edgar cayce. new york: h. holt and co, 1942. delphic oracles the famed oracle of delphi on the slopes of mt. parnassos in greece made known the will of the gods to rulers, philosophers, generals, politicians, and anyone else of reasonably high status who was anxious to hear a favorable word from the gods. for centuries, the temple of apollo at delphi in central greece contained the most prestigious oracle in the graeco- roman world, a favorite of public officials and individuals alike. at various times throughout its long history, the oracle was said to relay prophetic messages and words of counsel from python, the wise serpent son of the mother-goddess delphyne or from the moongoddess artemis through their priestess daugh- t

ython, the wise serpent son of the mother-goddess delphyne or from the moongoddess artemis through their priestess daugh- 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 154 prophecy and divination painting depicting aegeus of athens consulting the oracle of delphi (fortean picture library) ters, the pythonesses or pythia. then, according to myth, the god apollo murdered delphyne and claimed the shrine and the pythia for himself, imprisoning the serpent seer in the recesses of a cave beneath the temple. the name of delphi means gwomb, h and suggests the journey that the seekers of prophetic knowledge had to take as they entered the cave of the pythoness and descended deeper into the mystical recesses of the oracle, deeper into the womb of mother ea

erances. the many tripods scattered throughout the cave were, in essence, individual altars for her sister priestesses, the three legs symbolizing the connection between them and the triadic spirit of prophecy. in the summer of 2001, jelle de boer of wesleyan university in connecticut and coworkers discovered a previously unknown geological fault that passes through the sanctuary of the temple of apollo. such a crossing makes the bitumen-rich limestone found there much more permeable to gases and groundwater. the researchers went on to speculate that seismic activity on the faults could have heated such deposits, releasing light hydrocarbon gases, such as ethylene, a sweet-smelling gas that was once used in certain medical procedures as an anesthetic. although fatal if inhaled in large qua

it to be accurate. h m delving deeper hughes, irene. especially, irene: a guide to psychic awareness. blavelt, n.y: rudolf steiner publications, 1972. irene hughes [online] http//www.irenepsychic. com. 29 may 2002. steiger, brad. know the future today. new york: paperback library, 1970. olof jonsson (1918.1998) in february 1971 all the media was abuzz with rumors that one of the astronauts on the apollo 14 mission was conducting a moon-to- earth esp experiment with a psychic-sensitive somewhere on earth. on february 26, life magazine was revealed that chicagobased olof jonsson was the psychic who had been chosen to participate with astronaut edgar mitchell in the experiment. jonsson was considered the most tested, tried, laboratory- evaluated psychic-sensitive in the united states and scan

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pearls of the mystical trimurti. from that time, venus, purified under the veil of mary, will no more weep for her adonis. the bridegroom is risen to die no more, and the infernal boar has found death in its momentary victory. lift yourselves up again, o temples of delphi and of ephesus! the god of light and of art is become the god of the world, and the word of god is indeed willing to be called apollo! diana will no more reign widowed in the lonely fields of night; her silvern crescent is now beneath the feet of the bride. but diana is not conquered by venus; her endymion has wakened, and virginity is about to take pride in motherhood! quit the tomb, o phidias, and rejoice in the destruction of thy first jupiter: it is now that thou wilt conceive a god! o rome, let thy temples rise again

s closed expresses the negation of the ternary, and the affirmation of the natural forces alone. the ancient hierophants, as our learned and witty friend desbarolles is about to explain in an admirable book which is at present in the press, had given a complete "resume" of magical science in the human hand. the forefinger, for them, represented jupiter; the middle finger, saturn; the ring-finger, apollo or the sun. among the egyptians, the middle finger was ops, the forefinger osiris, and the little finger horus; the thumb represented the generative force,and the little finger, cunning. a hand, showing only the thumb and 151 the little finger, is equivalent, in the sacred hieroglyphic language, to the exclusive affirmation of passion and diplomacy. it is the perverted and material translat

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ss. this contains all t h g s in our field of awareness that we are not normally aware of, but that we can become aware of. it is an unconscious matrix that underlies the conscious mind where the mental activities are "incubated before their birth into consciousness. archetypes of the middle unconscious include all deities who are associated with prophecy and oracles, such as the greek divinities apollo and gaea. 1 collective unconscious figure 6: assagioli's model of the psyche. psychology and magic 127 7. the lower unconscious contains fundamental drives, primitive urges, inferior dreams, and complexes. this is the personal unconscious which is the storehouse of hidden memories, repressed psychic content, and the shadow personality. this part of the psyche is accessed by working with hyp

ritual system and another is an inexact science at best. the associations given here are only one of several that are possible. a list of deity correspondences sephirah egypfian greek roman celtic norse hindu kether chokmah binah chesed geburah tiphareth netzach hod yesod malkuth nudjer ptah thoth isis- amoun horus- osiris ra hathor- anubis khnum shu khonsu geb aither- uranus rhea hera zeus ares- apollo- aphrodite- hermes- artemis- demeter aether- coelus juno- jupiter mars- sol- venus- mercury- diana- ceres dagda- lugh danu- llyr morrigan- angus mac og brigit- ogma- cerridwen- cemunnos ymir- odin frigga- frey thor t y balder- freya- loki bragi nanna- nerthus brahman- vishnu mahasakti- indra shiva- krishna surya lakshmi pamati hunuman- chandra soma ganesha daath nephthys hypnos janus arianr

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

s of egotistical conceit, it has been cast up once again on the shores of unknowable despair, a veritable mass of philosophic pig-iron, of no further use than that of acting as ballast to the good ship which is to carry us across the turbid ocean of raging eclectics. crowley is more than a new-born dionysus, he is more than a blake, a rabelais or a heine; for he stands before us as some priest of apollo, hovering etwixt the misty blue of the heavens, and the more certain purple of the vast waters of the deep. before the name of that which is beyond life and death, beyond matter and energy, beyond the human and the mortal; he stands, holding before us as a standard, the homologue of the labarum of old, gin hoc signo vinces c non timendum est veritate duce. h in order to cut a long story sho

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gether, and with strange suppers and spells diverse, did call forth him, whom the enemy called ignorantly satan, and was in truth the great god pan, or bacchus, or even that baphomet whom the templars worshipped secretly, and yet worship as in the vi all illustrious knights of the holy order of kadosch, all dame companions of the holy grail are taught to do, or babalon the beautiful, or even zeus apollo of the greeks. and each when first inducted to the revel was made partner of that incarnate one by the consummation of the rite of marriage. consider of this. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c2.html (4 of 12 [12/28/2001 2:05:25 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. vi of classical fables the ancients of every nation report their heroes to h

the wheat of demeter. and even as the muslim trust to be united by death to the hur al ayn of paradise, so do these others yet think that earthly marriage is but fornication, for that death is a nuptial wherein the soul is united to that god or goddess to whom on earth his lust aspired. thus, even in the embraces of their lovers, their hearts were fixed on artemis or on aphrodite or on ares or on apollo, as the inner tendency urges and the intuition thereof proclaims. consider of this. viii file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c2.html (5 of 12 [12/28/2001 2:05:25 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. of succubi and incubi from all time the life of man has now and again overflowed, in sleep, without will, and only reflected itself dimly and fant

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and paraphernalia of wicca. the charter and the book being a radical revisionist history of the origins of the modern witch cult and the book of shadows "it was one of the secret doctrines of paganism that the sun was the source, not only of light, but of life..the invasion of classical beliefs by the religions of syria and egypt which were principally solar, gradually affected the conception of apollo, and there is a certain later identification of him with the suffering god of christianity, free- masonry and similar cults" aleister crowley in astrology, 1974..if gbg and crowley only knew each other for a short year or a true history of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 13 two, do you think that would be long enough for them to become such good friends that gifts of pers

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, of falsehood with truth, of corruption with purity. the good, the truth, the purity, in every kinde, may well be embraced: as in the ancient worshipping of god by sacrifice, there was no man knowing god among the elders, that did not forbear to worship the god of all power, or condemn that kinde of worship, because the devil was so adored in the image of baal, dagon, astaroth, chemosh, jupiter, apollo, and the like. neither did the abuse of astrology terrify abraham (if we believe the most ancient and religious writers) from observing the motions and natures of the heavenly bodies. neither can it dehort wise and learned men in these days from attributing those vertues, influences, and inclinations, to the stars and other lights of heaven, which god hath given to those his glorious creatu

not unto him that willeth, nor unto him that runneth; but to whom god will have mercy, or of some other spiritual fate. from 31 hence springeth all magick, and thither again it will revolve, whether it be good or evil. in this manner tages the first teacher of the magick of the romanes, gushed out of the earth. diana of the ephesians shewed her worship, as if it had been sent from heaven. so also apollo. and all the religion of the heathens is taken from the same spirits; neither are the opinions of the sadduces, humane inventions. aphorism 49. the conclusion therefore of this isagoge is the same which we have above already spoken of, that even as there is one god, from whence is all good; and one sin, to wit, disobedience, against the will of the commanding god, from whence comes all evil

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s, which seems hitherto to have been misunderstood. at the opening of the play, the old tutor of orestes, entering argos with his young pupil, points out to him the most celebrated public buildings, and amongst them the lyc an forum, tou lukoktonou qeou, which the scholiast and translators interpret, of the wolf-killing god, though there is no reason whatever why this epithet should be applied to apollo. but, if we derive the compound from lukoj, light, and ekteinein, to extend, instead of kteinein, to kill, the meaning will be perfectly just and natural; for light-extending, is of all others the properest epithet for the sun. sophocles, as well as virgil, is known to have been an admirer of ancient expressions, and to have imitated homer more than any other attic poet; therefore, his empl

the mystic worship. 2 plate iii, fig. 1. 3 lib. i. 40 on the worship world venerates, in many forms, with various rites, and various names. the egyptians, skilled in ancient learning, worship me with proper ceremonies, and call me by my true name, queen isis. 1 according to the egyptians, isis copulated with her brother osiris in the womb of their mother; from whence sprung arueris, or orus, the apollo of the greeks.2 this allegory means no more than that the active and passive powers of creation united in the womb of night; where they had been implanted by the unknown father, kronoj, or time, and by their union produced the separation or delivery of the elements from each other; for the name apollo is only a title derived from apoluw, to deliver from.3 they made the robes of isis various

xi. 2 plutarch, de is. et osir. 3 damm. lex. etym. 4 plutarch, de is. et. osir. 4 ibid. 5 hymn xlvi. 7 hymn. xlix. the initials of this epithet are with the bull on a medal of naples belonging to me the bull has a human countenance, and has therefore been called a minotaur by antiquarians; notwithstanding he is to be found on different medals, accompanied with all the symbols both of bacchus and apollo, and with the initials of most of the epithets to be found in the orphic litanies. of priapus 41 universe, with the planets moving round, was, by his attractive force, the cause of all union and harmony in the whole; and, by the emanation of his beams, the cause of all motion and activity in the parts. this system is alluded to by homer in the allegory of the golden chain, by which jupiter

ents of the same kind found in the north, belonged to the same religion, 1 see plate xv. fig 1, c c. 2 see plate xvii, fig. 1. 3 see proclus in theol. platon. lib. i. c. 19. 66 on the worship which appears, at some remote period, to have prevailed over the whole northern hemisphere. according to that ancient historian, the hyperboreans inhabited an island beyond gaul, as large as sicily, in which apollo was worshipped in a circular temple considerable for its size and riches.1 apollo, we know, in the language of the greeks of that age, can mean no other than the sun, which, according to c sar, was worshipped by the germans, when they knew of no other deities except fire and the moon.2 the island i think can be no other than britain, which at that time was only known to the greeks by the va

le of bacchus sebazius.1 the large obeliscs of stone found in many parts of the north, such as those at rudstone,2 and near boroughbridge in yorkshire,3 belong to the same religion; obeliscs being, as pliny observes, sacred to the sun, whose rays they represented both by their form and name.4 an ancient medal of apollonia in illyria, belonging to the museum of the late dr. hunter, has the head of apollo crowned with laurel on one side, and on the other an obelisc terminating in a cross, the least explicit representation of the male organs of generation.5 this has exactly the appearance of one of those crosses, which were erected in church-yards and cross roads for the adoration of devout persons, when devotion was more prevalent than at present. many of these were undoubtedly erected befor

, the produce of the earth; for diana was the fertility of the earth personified, and therefore is said to have received her nymphs or productive ministers from the ocean, the source of fecundity.4 the lion, therefore, in the former instance, appears as a symbol of the sun exhaling the waters; and in the latter, as whithering and putrifying the produce of the earth. on the frieze of the temple of apollo didym us, near miletus, are monsters composed of the mixt forms of the goat and lion, resting their fore feet upon the lyre of the god, which stands between them.5 the goat, as i have already shown, represented the creative attribute, and the lyre, harmony and order; therefore, if we admit that the lion represented the destroying attribute, this composition will signify, in the symbolical l

on the worship which really existed. the bold and magnificent idea of a creation from nothing was reserved for the more vigorous faith, and more enlightened minds of the moderns,1 who need seek no authority to confirm their belief; for, as that which is self-evident admits of no proof, so that which is in itself impossible admits of no refutation. the fable of the serpent pytho being destroyed by apollo, probably arose from an emblematical composition, in which that god was represented as the destroyer of life, of which the serpent was a symbol. pliny mentions a statue of him by praxiteles, which was much celebrated in his time, called sauroktwn (the lizard-killer).2 the lizard, being supposed to live upon the dews and moisture of the earth, is employed as the symbol of humidity in general

he destroyer of life, of which the serpent was a symbol. pliny mentions a statue of him by praxiteles, which was much celebrated in his time, called sauroktwn (the lizard-killer).2 the lizard, being supposed to live upon the dews and moisture of the earth, is employed as the symbol of humidity in general; so that the god destroying it, signifies the same as the lion devouring the horse. the title apollo, i am inclined to believe, meant originally the destroyer, as well as the deliverer; for, as the ancients supposed destruction to be merely dissolution, the power which delivered the particles of matter from the bonds of attraction, and broke the desmon peribriqj erowtoj, was in fact the destroyer.3 it is, probably, for this reason, that sudden death, plagues, and epidemic diseases, are sai

but because disease necessarily precedes 1 the word in genesis upon which it is founded, conveyed no such sense to the ancients; for the seventy translated it epoihse, which signifies formed, or fashioned. 2 hist. nat. lib. xxxiv. c. 8. many copies of it are still extant. winkleman has published one from a bronze of cardinal albani's. monum. antichi. inediti, plate xl. 3 the verb luw, from which apollo is derived, signifies in homer both to free and to dissolve or destroy, il a, ver. 20; il. i, ver. 25. macrobius derives the title from apollumi, to destroy; but this word is derived from luw sat. lib. i, c. 17. of priapus 77 cure, and is the cause of its being invented. the god of health is said to be his son, because the health and vigour of one being are supported by the decay and dissol

rs, withered the herbs, and produced disease and putrefaction; and in the latter, 1 hieron. comment. in paul epist. ad ephes. 2 pausan. lib. iii, c. 16. 3 see a medal of augustus, published by spanheim. not. in callim, hymn. ad dian. ver. 113. 4 plate vi, from a bronze in the museum of c. townley, esq. 5 sophoclis ajax, ver. 172. 6 nonni dionys, lib. i. the title tauropoloj was sometimes given to apollo, eustath. schol in dionys.perihghs. ver. 609. 78 on the worship that he returned the exhalations in dews, tempered with the genial heat which he had transfused into the atmosphere, to restore and replenish the waste of the day. hence, when they personified the attributes, they revered the one as the diurnal, and the other as the nocturnal sun, and in their mystic worship, as macrobius says

ol in dionys.perihghs. ver. 609. 78 on the worship that he returned the exhalations in dews, tempered with the genial heat which he had transfused into the atmosphere, to restore and replenish the waste of the day. hence, when they personified the attributes, they revered the one as the diurnal, and the other as the nocturnal sun, and in their mystic worship, as macrobius says,1 called the former apollo, and the latter dionysus or bacchus. the mythological personages of castor and pollux, who lived and died alternately, were allegories of the same dogma; hence the two asteriscs, by which they are distinguished on the medals of locri, argos, and other cities. the p ans, or war-songs, which the greeks chanted at the onset of their battles2 were originally sung to apollo,3 who was called p on

the two asteriscs, by which they are distinguished on the medals of locri, argos, and other cities. the p ans, or war-songs, which the greeks chanted at the onset of their battles2 were originally sung to apollo,3 who was called p on; and macrobius tells us,4 that in spain, the sun was worshipped as mars, the god of war and destruction, whose statue they adorned with rays, like that of the greek apollo. on a celtiberian or runic medal found in spain, of barbarous workmanship, is a head surrounded by obeliscs or rays, which i take to be of this deity.5 the hairs appear erect, to imitate flames, as they do on many of the greek medals; and on the reverse is a bearded head, with a sort of pyramidal cap on, exactly resembling that by which the romans conferred freedom on their slaves, and whic

of liberty.6 on other celtiberian medals is a figure on horseback, carrying a spear in his hand, and having the same sort of cap on his head, with the word helman written 1 sat. lib. i, c. 18. 2 thucyd. lib. vii. 3 homer, il. s, v. 472. 4 sat. lib. i, c. 19. 5 plate x fig. 2, engraven from one belonging to me. i have since been confirmed in this conjecture by observing the characters of mars and apollo mixt on greek coins. on a mamertine one belonging to me is the head with the youthful features and laurel crown of apollo; but the hair is short, and the inscription on the exergue denotes it to be mars. see plate xvi. fig 2. 6 it may be seen with th edagger on the medals of brutus. of priapus 79 under him,1 in characters which are something between the old runic and pelasgian; but so near

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ation into nine emana- tions that are materially embodied in the tenth. the tenth emanation then becomes the first on a lower plane of being. there are four of these planes, or worlds. but they table of nonagram c, c, n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 i family emotions gods muses elements descriptions examples occupations cc obedience horus clio air of air childish child joseph goebbels disciples cf exuberance apollo terpsichore fire of air fatherly child sir francis drake explorers fc petulance thor thalia air of fire childish father alexander the great conquerors ff confidence love calliope fire of fire fatherly father augustus caesar rulers fm contemplation hermes euterpe water of fire motherly father king james i priests mf arrogance diana melpomene fire of water fatherly mother joan of arc rebels m

through the eyes of the egyptian 1. stand in the outer temple before the altar faci g south (the golden dawn say west-this is a matter of the magical system eing followed) with your hands at your sides and your feet together. d' god of learning. if it were necessary for a female adept to dominate a social function, she might invoke aphrodite, greek goddess of love and beauty; a male might invoke apollo for the same purpose. usually invocation is made to meet the needs of a specific situation, or perhaps to briefly experience life through the personality of a particular god and thus grow in the area of wisdom related to that deity. sometimes, however, a single spirit is invoked repeatedly. in this way the magus can, in a sense, become the spirit. through constant association his or her ide

f oil and smoke and darkness who cares nothing for the sorrows of humanity. in magic, the common way of utilizing the power of the gods is by putting them on, like a cloak or mantle, over the perceived self. this is called assuming the god-form and is a kind of invocation. if the magus wished to become more attractive, through this method he or she might create a ritual to take on the god-form of apollo or aphrodite, and view the world through the eyes of that lesser deity for a time. if done correctly and repeat- edly, this would give the magus great personal charm and beauty of a combined physical and psychic character. the hidden forces of beauty channeled through the magus by the focusing lens of the god-form would transform the personality of the magus by reaction and alter the physic

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hem. in the center of the garden is a hedge maze, and the plants that form its walls are covered with red and yellow flowers. birds keep up a ceaseless chatter in the tops of the trees, and swoop down to peck at the seeds in the heads of the sunflowers. the air is heavy with heat and shimmers as it rises from the path. the sound of music leads you into the maze. the ruling intelligence is the god apollo, who is sometimes depicted in the form of a young boy. he is a god of healing, but can also cause sickness and death with the arrows of his golden solar bow. at his shrine in the center of the garden maze, you may consult his oracle through the mediation of his solemn white-robed priest, who utters the inspired responses of the god. xx the last judgement hebrew letter: shin (tooth) correspo

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of the god-form is very simple. to change ourselves in a fundamental way, it is necessary that we become 148 tetragrammaton someone else. to change for the better, we must become one who is better. to become wiser, we must take on the identity and persona of a spirit of wisdom such as the egyptian god thoth. to become more beautiful, we must assume the form and persona of a god of beauty such as apollo or aphrodite. to become more courageous and warlike, we must take on the nature of a war god such as mars or the northern god tew. when properly done, the assumed god or spirit actually displaces the thoughts, feelings, and even the physical appearance of the ritualist. while wearing the god-form, the ritualist retains only a detached self-awareness. his or her emotional responses, cogitati

re the pillars are said to be of "hyacinth" which perhaps means they are blue. hyacinth was for the ancients a blue stone, likely the sapphire. its color was synonymous with the clear light of heaven, which is why the hebrew for "sapphire" forms the basis for the word sephiroth. hyacinth is also a type of lily connected with the greek legend of hyacinthus, a beautiful youth accidentally killed by apollo. some of hyacinthus' blood dripped onto the ground, and from the spot sprang up a purple flower with the greek letters ai, a1 (woe, woe) written on its petals. the pillars suggest a house of god, or temple, and both these images occur later in the key. they are said to be 26, which may signify two parallel rows of six pillars each. within this house, the elders "are become strong" the "long

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d more advanced in wisdom and science. nay 'tis my opinion, i own, that even the blessedness of that eternity which is the portion of the deity himself consists in that universal knowledge of all nature which accompanies it; for setting this aside, eternity might be more properly styled an endless duration than an enjoyment of existence [fn#259] she is said to have been a priestess of isis and of apollo delphicus. ii. to desire, therefore, and covet after truth, those truths more especially which concern the divine nature, is to aspire to be partakers of that nature itself, and to profess that all our studies and inquiries are devoted to the acquisition of holiness. this occupation is surely more truly religious than any external purifications or mere service of the temple can be. but more

a kind of riddle. for many of the precepts of pythagoras come nothing short of the hieroglyphical representations themselves, such as "eat not in a chariot "sit not on a measure (choenix "plant not a palm-tree" and "stir not the fire with a sword in the house" and i myself am of the opinion that, when the pythagoreans appropriated the names of several of the gods to particular numbers, as that of apollo to the unit, of artemis to the duad, of athene to the seven, and of poseidon to the first cube, in this they allude to something which the founder of their sect saw in the egyptian temples, or to some ceremonies performed in them, or to some symbols there exhibited. thus, their great king and lord osiris is represented by the hieroglyphics for an eye and a sceptre,[fn#286] the name itself s

s at thebes, heard a voice commanding him to proclaim aloud that the good and great king osiris was then born, and that for this reason kronos committed the education of the child to him, and that in memory of this event the pamylia were afterwards instituted, which closely resemble the phallephoria or priapeia of the greeks. upon the second of these days was born aroueris,[fn#300] whom some call apollo, and others the elder horus. upon the third day typhon was born, who came into the world neither at the proper time nor by the right way, but he forced a passage through a wound which he made in his mother's side. upon the fourth day isis was born, in the marshes of egypt,[fn#301] and upon the fifth day nephthys, whom some call teleute, or aphrodite, or nike, was born. as regards the father

they neither transacted any business in it, nor even suffered themselves to take any refreshment until the evening. they further add that typhon married nephthys,[fn#303] and that isis and osiris, having a mutual affection, enjoyed each other in their mother's womb before they were born, and that from this commerce sprang aroueris, whom the egyptians likewise call horus the elder, and the greeks apollo [fn#293] i.e, nut, the sky-goddess [fn#294] i.e, keb, the earth-god [fn#295] i.e, ra [fn#296] i.e, aah [fn#297] in egyptian "the five days over the year [fn#298] in egyptian thus- i. birthday of osiris, ii. birthday of horus, iii. birthday of set, iv. birthday of isis, v. birthday of nephthys [fn#299] one of the chief titles of osiris was neb er tcher, i.e "lord to the uttermost limit of ev

fections, as flow from their various combinations. such affections, however, have a greater power and influence over some of them than over others, just as there are different degrees of virtue and vice found in these daemons as well as in mankind. in like manner, the wars of the giants and the titans which are so much spoken of by the greeks, the detestable actions of kronos, the combats between apollo and the python, the flights of dionysos, and the wanderings of demeter, are exactly of the same nature as the adventures of osiris and typhon. therefore, they all are to be accounted for in the same manner, and every treatise of mythology will readily furnish us with an abundance of other similar instances. the same thing may also be affirmed of those other things which are so carefully con

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why both martin luther and john calvin abhorred it, why the puritans refused to acknowledge it, much less celebrate it (to them, no day of the year could be more holy than the sabbath, and why it was even made illegal in boston! the holiday was already too closely associated with the birth of older pagan gods and heroes. and many of them (like oedipus, theseus, hercules, perseus, jason, dionysus, apollo, mithra, horus and even arthur) possessed a narrative of birth, death, and resurrection that was uncomfortably close to that of jesus. and to make matters worse, many of them pre-dated the christian savior. ultimately, of course, the holiday is rooted deeply in the cycle of the year. it is the winter solstice that is being celebrated, seed-time of the year, the longest night and shortest da

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ote a, i, q=1, 10, 100. and in greek a, i, r, a=1, 10, 100, 1000. according to the canon, of 1897, anonymous work, 32. a vesica piscis (the figure formed by the intersection of two equal circles) whose dimensions are 26 and 15, is a symbol of the hidden rule or canon by which natural laws were represented to initiates in the secret wisdom of the ancient mysteries. the greek gods zeus, jupiter and apollo, the sun god, have the same numerical relation. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott# 33. part four numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott chapter four the individual numerals the monad, one, 1 he number one or the monad has been defined by the mathematician theon of smyrna as the principal and element of numbers, whi

milarly similar to god, at the highest end of the series. 11. the styx, from its immutable nature. 12. horror, the ineffable, is perfectly unknown and is therefore terrible. 13. void of mixture, from the simplicity of the nature of the ineffable. 14. lethe, oblivion, ignorance. 15. a virgin, from the purity of its nature. 16. atlas, it connects, supports and separates all things. 17. the sun. 18. apollo. 19. pyralios, dweller in fire. 2 0. morpho. 2 1. the axis. 2 2. vesta, or the fire in the center of the earth. 2 3. spermatic reason. 2 4. the point within a circle, the central fire deity. the lingam, an upright pillar, was its hindu symbol. the monad being esteemed the father of numbers is the reason for the universal prejudice in favor of odd numbers over even numbers, which are but cop

diaphanous and exalted, the others becoming more and more concrete and manifest. the ten sephiroth exist on each plane, those of the higher planes being more sublime than those of the lowest. each world has a secret name and number. man displays 4 evil tendencies, one in opposition to each of these 4 worlds. an evil inclination, evil thoughts, evil words and evil actions (isaac myer. vulcan gave apollo and diana arrows on the 4th day of their nativity. this say, sir thomas browne, is the gentile equivalent to the creation of the sun and moon on the 4th day. 55. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the talmud lays down the law as to a woman s drinking, saying one cup of wine is good for her, two do her harm, three demoralize her, and the fourth convert

imelech with seven lambs, genesis, chapter xxi. vv. 28, 21-28. the hebrew word seven, also sh b o h, is derived from, or is similar to sh b, o, to swear. 75. clean beasts were admitted into the ark by sevens, whilst the unclean only in pairs. the goths had 7 deities from whom come our names of weekdays; sun, moon, tuisco, wotan, thor, friga, seatur, corresponding, of course, to the seven planets. apollo, the sun god, had a greek title ebdomaios, sevenfold. the persian mithras, a sun god, had the number 7 sacred to him. note the mysterious kadosh ladder of 7 steps ascent and 7 steps descent, the one side oheb eloah, love of god; the other oheb kerobo, love of the neighbor. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott plato, in his timaeus, teaches that from the

en wonders of the world are thus enumerated: 1. pyramids of egypt. 2. the hanging gardens of babylon, for semiramis. 3. tomb of mausolus, king of caria, at halicarnassus, built by artemisia, his queen. 4. temple of diana at ephesus, 552 b.c. ctesiphon was the chief architect. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 5. colossus of rhodes, an image of the sun god, apollo, of brass, 290 b.c. 76. 6. statue of zeus, at athens, by phidias. 7. pharos of egypt, built by ptolemy philadelphus, of white marble, 283 b.c; or the palace of cyrus which is sometimes substituted. sapta rishi, seven sages. sapta kula, 7 castes; sapta loka, seven worlds; sapta para, 7 cities; sapta dwipa, seven holy islands; sapta arania, 7 deserts; sapta parna, 7 human principles; sapta sa

i have doubts of the brahmanic authenticity of the present order of the name, which was introduced by j. h. lawrence archer. from the relative strength of their courses the ancients constructed a planetary ladder, with vowel symbols, thus--moon (a, mercury (e, venus (ee, sun (i, mars (o, jupiter (u) and saturn (oo. these symbols were used in mystical knowledge, as an inscription at the temple of apollo at delphi shows, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott where e i meant the sun and its nearest planet, i.e, sun and mercury; and mercury was often represented as a dog, following a sun man. the oracle of claros (macrobius, saturnalia, i. 18) said that ia (the gnostic deity) was the sun and the first and last of the planetary set, hence the 7 concentric s

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eceive, or prevaricate. iparkas: probably from greek, hipparches= a commander of cavalry, or leader of horse. nuditon: apparently from the latin, nuditas= nakedness, derived in its turn from nudatus. melna: perhaps from hebrew, ln, to abide or rest. melhaer: perhaps from hebrew, ml, to cut off, or divide, and chr, whiteness, purity. ruach: from hebrew, rvch= spirit. apolhun: from greek, apolluon, apollyon= the destroyer. schabuach: from arabic= to calm or assuage. mermo: from coptic, mer, across, and moou, water, across water. melamud: from hebrew, mlmd= stimulus to exertion. poter: from greek, poter= a drinking cup, or vase. sched: from hebrew, shdd, the hebrew name for a devastating demon. but the hebrew root shd implies the same idea as the english words to shed; and signifies a female

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osed to be an invalid. i am glad to say that i woke properly and got quite automatically on to the mantra. my prana, however, seems feverish and unbalanced. so i eat a biscuit or two and drink some water and will put it right with the pentagram ritual. 2 weh note: this is a correction from hb:vau hb:yod hb:aleph an evident typo in the original printing. done, but oh! how hard. sleep fights me as apollyon fought christian! but i will up and take him by the throat.(see;'tis 2.30. twelve minutes to do that little in! and look at the handwriting! 3.6. how excellent is prana yama, a comfort to the soul! i did thirty-two cycles, easy and pleasant; could have gone on indefinitely. the muscles went rigid, practically of their own accord; so light did i feel that i almost thought myself to be "tha

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that "satan was from the moment of his creation surrounded by the insignia of royalty: that he "awoke to consciousness to find the air filled with the rejoicing music of those whom god had appointed" then the devil "passes from the royalty to his priestly dignity "satan was also a priest of the most high" etc, etc. and now "antichrist will be satan incarnate (pp. 56-59. the pioneers of the coming apollyon have already appeared- they are the theosophists, the occultists, the authors of the "perfect way" of "isis unveiled" of the "mystery of the ages" and even of the "light of asia! the author notes the "avowed origin (of theosophy) from the "descending angels" from the "nephilim" or the angels of the vith ch. of genesis, and the giants. he ought to note his own descent from them also, as th

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fe and times of apollonius of tyana, rendered into english from the greek of philostratus the elder. stanford, calif: stanford university press, 1923. mead, g. r. s. apollonius of tyana: the philosopher-reformer of the first century a.d. 1901. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1966. philostratus. the life of apollonius of tyana. translated by f. c. conybeare. london: macmillan, 1912. apollyon the destroying angel or prince of the underworld (rev. 9:11, synonymous with abaddon. sources: barrett, francis. the magus. 1801. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1967. apostolic circle a sectarian group of early american spiritualists that claimed to be in communication (through the mediumship of mrs. benedict of auburn) with the apostles and prophets of the bible. the sect

le hordes and legions of demons and spirits, ready and able to procure and work any and every evil or disaster the mind of man might conceive and desire. in one grimoire, as presented in francis barrett s the magus, it tells of nine orders of evil spirits, these being false gods, lying spirits, vessels of iniquity, revenge led by asmodeus, deluders by the serpent, turbulents by merigum, furies by apollyon, calumniators by astaroth, and tempters by mammon. these demons again are named separately, the meaning of each name indicating the possessor s capacity, such as destroyer, devastator, tumult, ravage, and so forth. each earthly vice and calamity was personified by a demon.moloch, who devours infants; nisroch, god of hatred, despair, fatality; astarte, lilith, and astaroth, deities of deba

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vil tempts job; and samael is the being who is named as tempting eve in the fall. asmodai, is the rabbinic name of asmodeus. belial, is a name used as synonymous with satan. wicked men were called sons of belial. beelzebub, said to be a synonym of satan. matt. xii. 24. abaddon, said to be a synonym of satan. asmodeus, an evil spirit, is named in tobit. iii. 8. lucifer, is named in isaiah xiv. 12. apollyon, is the greek for abaddon. of female devils, the chief are: lilis or lilith, called the first wife of adam. nahemah or naamah, mother of asmodai, sister of tubal cain. agereth, daughter of machalath. machalath, wife of samael.thekabalistic theosophy teaches that from god emanated the four worlds: atziluth, of emanations. briah, of pure spirits and creation. yetzirah, of forms; and finally

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

i owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to the many individuals who responded so generously to my queries. finally, a word of thanks is due to the interlibrary loan department at the university of wisconsin, stevens point library for the many requests they so graciously fulfilled for me over the course of writing this book. abaddon abaddon, which means the destroyer, is the hebrew name for the greek apollyon, known as the angel of the bottomless pit (rev. 9:10) and the angel who ties up the devil for a millennium (rev. 20. different sources speak of abaddon, such as the thanksgiving hymns (a dead sea scroll document, which mentions the sheol of abaddon, and the torrents of belial that burst into abaddon, as well as the first-century the biblical antiquities of philo, in which abaddon is used

ty and its survival of bodily death. vols. 1 and 2. 1903.new ed.new york: longman s, green& co, 1954. stevenson, ian. the contribution of apparitions to the evidence for survival. journal of the american society for psychical research 76, no. 4 (october 1982: 341 356. tyrrell, g. n. m. apparitions. 1943. rev. 1953. london: society for psychical research, 1973. appolion appolion (also appolyon and apollyon, means destroyer. he is the angel of hell s bottomless pit. as described in revelation (9:1 11 and 20:1 8, appolion opened the shaft of this pit and let out upon the earth a swarm of locusts with humanlike faces. the locusts proceeded to torture those of mankind who have not the seal of god upon their forehead for five months. the locusts king appolion later takes on an even greater chall

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or years had ever seen anything but his head, which he would poke out of a waterproof sheet. he was supposed to be an invalid. i am glad to say that i woke properly and got quite automatically on to the mantra. my prana, however, seems feverish and unbalanced. so i eat a biscuit or two and drink some water and will put it right with the pentagram ritual. done, but oh! how hard. sleep fights me as apollyon fought christian! but i will up and take him by the throat (see .tis 2.30. twelve minutes to do that little in) and look at the handwriting! liber dccclx 44 3.6. how excellent is pr.n.y.ma, a comfort to the soul! i did thirty-two cycles, easy and pleasant; could have gone on indefinitely. the muscles went rigid, practically of their own accord; so light did i feel that i almost thought my

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

n, beast, bird, owl, etc. the northeast angle is aggereth, the daughter of machaloth, a fiendish witch with serpent hair, standing in a chariot drawn by an ox and an ass. she is featured in the luciferian tarot. the northwest angle is a large scorpion with a fearful countenance, but standing upright as it were and formed of putrefying water, dripping. with him comes the unnameable one, abbadon or apollyon the destroyer, and his appearance and symbol are of a closely-veiled, black, gigantic shape covered with whirling and cutting wheels which are razor sharp, and in his hand is a vast wheel whence come as it whirls, multitudes of cat-like demons, behind him comes maamah, a crouching woman with an bestial 61 body crawling along the ground like an insect and eating the earth. and at the south

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pared to the greek god zeus. we re talking about god here, not a promiscuous cartoon character who throws lightning-bolts! but your own bible does indeed spell out the truth of the matter. in the book of revelation [9:11] we read; and they [the locusts] had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the hebrew tongue is abaddon, but in the greek tongue hath his name apollyon. in this verse we read that the locusts, which appears to be a reference to an army of demons, have a king over them who is an angel. this angel, along with his army of locusts, arrives from an extra-dimensional place called the bottomless pit. the verse also states that this angel has names in the mythologies of the neighboring peoples; the jews called this angel abaddon, and the greeks

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

solute of the struggle of good against evil by speech, by religious association and by force. thus are the seven seals of the occult book opened successively, and universal initiation is accomplished. the commentators who have sought anything else in this book of the transcendent kabalah have lost their time and their trouble only to render themselves ridiculous. to discover napoleon in the angel apollyon, luther in the star which falls from heaven, voltaire or rousseau in the grasshoppers armed like warriors, is merely high fantasy. it is the same with all the violence done to the names of celebrated persons so as to make them numerically equivalent to that fatal number 666, which we have already explained sufficiently. when we think that men like bossuet and newton amused themselves with

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thrown. they will be tormended day and night for ever and ever. here we have another example of how christians have inverted the truth. they would have us believe that satan not only is the deceiver, but is himself deceived. satan proposed this unto you: is it not jehovah who is the true deceiver of multitudes? and, if satan desireth not thy soul, what does jehovah intend to do with it, and why? apollyon: revelation 9:11 and they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in hebrew is abaddon, but in the greek tongue hath his name apollyon. the satanic destroyer does not destroy flesh and blood or property. the satanic apollyon destroys the veil of blindness from the human psyche. the destroyer is highly effective and powerful at reaching deep within such p

king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in hebrew is abaddon, but in the greek tongue hath his name apollyon. the satanic destroyer does not destroy flesh and blood or property. the satanic apollyon destroys the veil of blindness from the human psyche. the destroyer is highly effective and powerful at reaching deep within such psyche for such purpose. for this purpose apollyon is swift and effective. beelzebub: matthew 12:24 but when the pharisees heard it, they said, this fellow doth not cast out devils, but by beelzebub the prince of devils. i see here that the religious leaders of the day recognized that jesus had absorbed and twisted satan's will for jehovah's own purposes. due to this, the pharisees were able to see the deception of jesus and his intent to

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ricts of england, or whose names have been passed as secrets amongst certain lineages of witchcraft. one or two of the better known of these are also included below, for the convenience of the reader. on the whole such spirits are also christianised and demonised forms of old pagan powers. abalim (hebrew, mourning. demon attendant upon paimon. abbadon (hebrew, downfall, ruin, probably from greek, apollyon, meaning destroyer. fallen angel, who is the destroyer, the place of destruction, the abyss (job 26:2;28:2. lord of the locust plague, angel of hell (revelation 9:7-11. whose name milton uses to describe the pit of hell. chief of the demonic locusts, whose faces are human and whose tails are scorpion. the name of the sixth hell, corresponding to chesed. the hebrews borrowed their seven la

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(roman) bringer of light, enlightenment, the air, the morning star, the east belial (hebrew) without a master, baseness of the earth, independence, the north leviathan (hebrew) the serpent out of the deeps, the sea, the west the infernal names abaddon (hebrew) the destroyer adramelech- samarian devil ahpuch- mayan devil ahriman- mazdean devil amon- egyptian ram-headed god of life and reproduction apollyon- greek synonym for satan, the arch fiend asmodeus- hebrew devil of sensuality and luxury, originally "creature of judgement" astaroth- phoenician goddess of lasciviousness, equivalent of babylonian ishtar azazel (hebrew) taught man to make weapons of war, introduced cosmetics baalberith- canaanite lord of the covenant who was later made a devil balaam- hebrew devil of avarice and greed ba

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l upon the altar. end of ritual -27- book iv: the satanic philosophy -28- pandemonium: the infernal hierarchy princes: lucifer: morning star and light-bringer; satan: adversary of god; belial: a vicious and wicked beast; beelzebub: lord of the flies; leviathan: prince of heresies and serpent of the infernal seas. the first legion: set, tiamat, eblis, mephistopheles, ahriman, fenris, pan, abaddon, apollyon the second legion: asmodeus, adramaleck, astaroth, kali, nergal, lilith, typhon, moloch, midgard, diabolus the third legion: caop, amon, skoll, hati, azazel, marchocias, serapis, bali, orias, maskim, mastema, nebrios, emma, furfur, pazuzu the fourth legion: pursan, nabarus, alastor, silcharde, incubus, succubus, hekate, asag, mara, euronome, forneus, xaphan, ukoback, belphegor, kobal, ler

TEXE MARRS CODEX MAGICA SECRET SIGNS MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS AND HIDDEN CODES OF THE ILLUMINATI

the ritual ceremony of the knights of the east and west. in this ritual, the sacred word abaddon is expressed. abaddon is a synonym for the name of the devil who leads millions of demons out of the pit of hell to torment earth in the last days. and they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the hebrew tongue is abaddon, but in the creek tongue hath his name apollyon. in richardson's monitor of freemasonry it is revealed that, following the announcement of the sacred word, abaddon, the lodge drama for this fateful degree provides a demonstration "intended to represent the end of the world."8 208 codex magica how very appropriate. how very telling! x symbol in the masonic lodge one thing is for sure: the masonic order uses the x not only for the revela

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