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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

h silver ribbon, for example, a toy horse during the month equos, for travel and the expansion of horizons, mental as well as physical. the cycle of the moon as i mentioned earlier in the chapter, as well as the months, the phases of the moon offer scope for different kinds of magick during the individual monthly moon cycles. however, problems in interpretation of these energies can arise because astronomy and astrology are no longer regarded as the same thing. for example, to our ancestors, the astrological dark of the moon was the same as the astronomical dark- the first two and a half days of the cycle when the moon is not visible at any hour of the day or night. to this were added the preceding three days of the old moon, when it did not rise until the early hours of the morning. so wh

derstand why you feel the way you do (and we all know that it will seem quite irrational sometimes. most importantly, you will be able to maximise your best moon times for action. make full moon water by catching the full moonlight in a silver-coloured bowl; drink it or add it to your bath. in addition, if you want to understand the mechanics as opposed to the workings of the moon, read a book on astronomy rather than astrology to learn about orbits and the eight phases. you might also, even if you do not read horoscopes, keep an eye for when the moon enters your birth sign- this happens for about two and a half days each month- and monitor the effects over a period of several months. does it make you more jittery, less cautious (which may or may not be a good thing, more intuitive, more f

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g worth were they not mingled with the foundation of the sacred ministry, whence later arose the mixed qabalah. the arts are principally twelve. four in number, 3, 5, 7, 9, among the numbers in the mixed qabalah. the second is the most perfect one, the which operateth by sign and visions. two of the even numbers, namely 6 and 2, which operate with the stars and the celestial courses which we call astronomy. three consisteth in the metals, and 2 in the planets.3 as to all these arts, the which be conjoined and mingled together: the sacred magic 44 with the sacred qabalah; both he who maketh use of these same, either alone, or mingled with other things which be in no way from the qabalah; and he who seeketh to exercise himself in performing operations with these arts; is alike liable to be d

know what occupations and business they can follow out without prejudice to this operation, i will here state the same in few words. we may then exercise the profession of medicine, and all arts connected with the same; and we may perform all operations which tend unto charity and mercy towards our neighbour purely and simply. as for what concerneth the liberal arts ye may interest yourselves in astronomy, etc, but flee all arts and operations which have the least tincture of magic and sorcery, seeing that we must not confound together god and belial: god wisheth to be alone; unto him pertain all honour and glory. all the above matters are however permitted during the two first and the two second moons. you may walk in a garden for recreation; but you shall do no servile work; and amidst

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

yet providing the assyrians with much of their mythology and religion; so much so that sumerian became the official language of the state church, much as latin is today of the roman catholic church. they had a list of their kings before the flood, which even they carefully chronicled, as did many another ancient civilisation around the world. it is believed that they had a sophisticated system of astronomy (and astrology) as well as an equally religious rituale. magick, as well in history, begins at sumer for the western world, for it his here, in the sand-buried cuneiform tablets that recorded an age, that the first creation epic is found, the first exorcism, the first ritual invocations of planetary deities, the first dark summonings of evil powers, and ironically, the first "burnings" o

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

this theory may indeed be studied in the article already referred to in no. v of the equinox, and, more deeply in the book of the law and the commentaries thereon: but the true understanding depends entirely upon the work of the magician himself. without magical experience it will be meaningless. in this there is nothing peculiar. it is so with all scientific knowledge. a blind man might cram up astronomy for the purpose of passing examinations, but his knowledge would be 5 almost entirely unrelated to his experience, and it would certainly not give him sight. a similar phenomenon is observed when a gentleman who has taken an "honours degree" in modern languages at cambridge arrives in paris, and is unable to order his dinner. to exclaim against the master therion is to act like a person

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

he recognized as a guide. to be accepted and admired, he must say what we all know, but have not told each other till it is tedious, and say it in simple and clear language, a little more emphatically and eloquently than we have been accustomed to hear; and he must please and flatter us in the telling by soothing our fears and stimulating our hopes and our self-esteem. when an artist- whether in astronomy, like copernicus, anthropology, like ibsen, or anatomy, like darwin- selects a set of facts too large, too recondite, or too "regrettable" to receive instant assent from everybody; when he presents conclusions which conflict with popular credence or prejudice; when he employs a language which is not generally intelligible to all; in such cases he must be content to appeal to the few. he

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ught: one-third per cent, perhaps, of mortals scape its woes that knock us, and bilk the wily gonococcus. so he is but a simple cynic who takes the world to match his clinic; and he assuredly may err who, keeping cats, think birds have fur. you say: there s berridge, felkin, mathers, hysteries, epileptoids, blathers, guttersnipe, psychopath, and mattoid, with ceremonial magic that toyed. granted. astronomy s no myth, but it produced piazzi smyth. what crazes actors? why do surgeons go mad and cut up men like sturgeons (the questions are the late chas. spurgeon s) of yogi i could quote you hundreds in science, law, art, commerce noted. they fear no lunacy: their on dread s not for their noddles doom-devoted. they are not like black bulls (that shunned reds in vain) that madly charge the goa

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- prophecies and anticipations- julian the apostate- mystical christianity- the perfect way- relationship of christianity to gnostic faiths- early christian evidences- new testament authorities- friedrich nietzsche- the strange case of lurancy vennum- cagliostro_ a manual of occultism. a complete exposition of the occult arts and sciences by sepharial, author of "a manual of astrology "prognostic astronomy "kabalistic astrology" etc. etc. with numerous diagrams and illustrations. 368 pp, handsomely bound in cloth gilt. gilt tops. crown 8vo. 6"s" net_ contents: part i. the occult sciences, comprising: astrology- palmistry- thaumaturgy- kabalism- numerology- talismans- hypnotism. part ii. the occult arts, comprising: divination- the tarot cartomancy- crystal gazing- clairvoyance- geomancy- p

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reading "the woman who did" a dozen and more years ago now, shortly after having closed "a child of the age_ both in the delightful keynote series. and what a difference! rosy howlet, a lazy rosebud, a little sweetheart and nothing else, but herminia barton_ lower tooting with a dash of clement's inn "as beneath so above" history of chemistry. by sir edward thorpe, r.p.a. vol. i. 1"s" history of astronomy. by george forbes, r.p.a. 1"s" excellent! in every way excellent! after munching through all this heavy pie-crust, we are beginning to feel like little jack horner when he pulled out the plum. if only schools would adopt these most interesting little histories, 318 in place of cramming a lot of ridiculous formulae and equations down children's throats, they might become places where time

phrastus bombast of hohenheim, called paracelsus the great, now for the first time translated into english. edited, with elucidatory notes, a copious hermetic vocabulary and index, by a. e. waite. 2 vols, 4to, cloth, 1894 (published 2 12s. 6d) 27s. 6d. alchemical writings of edward kelly, the englishman's two excellent treatises on the philosopher's stone, together with the theatre of terrestrial astronomy. by edward kelly, translated from the hamburg edition of 1676, and edited, with a biographical preface, emblematic figures. crown 8vo, cloth, 1893 (published, 7s. 6d) 4s. 6d. ashmole (elias) theatrum chemicum britannicum. containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous english philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language, with annotations. 4to

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re diseases in man and to remove the imperfection of metals. the alchemical writings of edward kelly. from the latin edition of 1676. with a biographical introduction, an account of kelly's relations with dr. dee, and a transcript of the "book of st. dunstan" edited by a. e. waite. crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. net. a methodised summary of the best hermetic philosophers, including a discourse on terrestrial astronomy, in which the planets are replaced by metals, and instead of an account of stellar influences we have the laws governing metallic conversion. your fortune in your name, or kabalistic astrology. new edition, largely revised. demy 8vo, cloth gilt, 96 pp, 2s. 6d. net. by "sepharial" a manual of cartomancy, fortune-telling and occult divination, including the oracle of human destiny, caglios

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is no question about the poetic quality of much of mr. neuburg's verse. we are given visions of love which open new amorous possibilities "daily chronicle" rider's occult publications- just published the kabala of numbers. a handbook dealing with the traditional interpretation of numbers and their predictive value. by "sepharial" author of "a manual of occultism "kabalistic astrology "prognostic astronomy" etc. etc. about 168 pp. crown 8vo, ornamental cloth gilt, 2"s" net- a manual of occultism. a complete exposition of the occult arts and sciences by "sepharial" author of "a manual of astrology "prognostic astronomy "kabalistic astrology" etc. etc. with numerous diagrams and illustrations. 368 pp, handsomely bound in cloth gilt. gilt tops. crown 8vo. 6"s" net. contents: part i. the occul

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

me quite possible lines of approach for us, others which we are only capable as yet of dimly anticipating. the occult fact, as stated by the english poet pope "the proper study of mankind, is man" is embodied in the investigation of all these vast cycles. the cosmic angle. this involves the study of the place of the solar logos within his greater sphere, the study of extra-systemic psychology and astronomy, and the consideration of the relation existing between our system and other constellations, and of our path in the vast arc of the heavens. it bears on the relation of the various suns with their circulating attendants, and of the planets with each other; it concerns the study of their individual polarisation, and their interaction with their polar opposites. it will lead the student in

emembered that the force which flows from the heart of the sun, works through a triangle formed by the venusian scheme, the earth and the sun. that another triangle was also formed involving two planets was to be expected under the law, and the triangles vary according to the scheme involved. cosmically there is a very interesting series of triangles which will be found by the student of esoteric astronomy and of occult cycles. they originate in the central sun of our particular group of solar systems. this series involves the pleiades. the fact that this is so will not be known until the last decade of the present century, and will not be recognised by science till that time when certain lines of knowledge and discovery will bring scientists to a realisation that there is a third type of

n it; secondly, it will come through a close study of the effect of one planetary scheme upon another, and the place of the moon in our own planetary life. this will lead to a close investigation of polar conditions in the earth, of the planetary magnetic currents, and of the electrical intercourse between our earth, and the venusian and martian planetary schemes. when this has been accomplished, astronomy and esoteric astrology will be revolutionised, and the nature of solar energy as an expression of an entity of the fourth rank will be appreciated. this will come at the close of this century after a scientific discovery of even greater importance to the scientific world than that as to the nature of the atom. until that time it will be as difficult to express the hylozoistic conception

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

the "survival of the fittest" reigned supreme from the moment that kosmos manifested into being. hence: a. the incessant fights of the gods in all the old scriptures. b. the war in heaven of the ancient mythologies (s.d. i. 223) 2. behind this veil. of astrological symbols, there were the occult mysteries of anthropography and the primeval genesis of man (s.d. i. 250) 3. astrology existed before astronomy (s.d. iii. 325) 4. astrolatry or the adoration of the heavenly host is the natural result of only half- revealed astrology. hence, divine astrology for the initiates; superstitious astrolatry for the profane (s.d. iii. 337) 5. primitive astrology is as far above modern astrology as the guides (the planets and the zodiacal signs) are above the lamp posts (s.d. iii. 341- 370- a treatise on

iation and the occult mysteries (s.d. ii. 525) 8. stars and constellations have an occult and mysterious influence on, and connection with, individuals. and if with the latter, why not with nations, races and mankind as a whole? this again is a claim made on the authority of the zodiacal records (s.d. i. 709) a. there are records preserved through the zodiac for incalculable ages (s.d. i. 709) b. astronomy, astrology and so on are all on the physical and not on the spiritual plane (s.d. ii. 667) c. those philosophers alone who studied astrology. knew that the last word of those sciences was to be sought in and expected from the occult forces emanating from the constellations (s.d. iii. 214) 9. in the presence of the eternal conformity of the divisions of the zodiac and of the names of the

cy of the alignment between any particular heavenly man and his prototype (cosmic fire, 1052) the seven sisters, the pleiades references in the secret doctrine 1 "the pleiades are the supposed wives of the seven rishis of the great bear. they are also the nurses of the god of war, mars, the commander of the celestial armies (ii. 579) 2 "the pleiades are the central group of the system of sidereal astronomy. a. they are found in the neck of the bull, the constellation taurus. b. they are therefore in the milky way. c. they are thus considered (alcyone, in particular) as the central point around which our universe of fixed stars revolves (ii. 582) 3 "the number seven is closely connected with the occult significance of the pleiades, the six present and the 7th hidden (ii. 654) 4 "the pleiade

jupiter are closely connected with the earth and form eventually an esoteric triangle (370) 11 "in the jupiter scheme, the sons of mind are just beginning their work (742) the planet mars reference in the secret doctrine 1. in answer to the questions "what planets of those known to ordinary science, besides mercury, belong to our system of world" the reply was mars and four other planets of which astronomy knows nothing. the inference is that these planets, a.b. and y.z. exist in etheric matter (i. 187) 2 "as to mars, mercury and the `four other planets' they bear relation to the earth of which no master. will ever speak (i. 187- 389- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. mars is in a state of obscuration at present: a. mars has two sate

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

rance of christ and the fish symbology which ran so characteristically through the entire gospel story. his disciples were largely fishermen. he performed the miracles with fishes and sent his apostles out after his death under the leadership of st. peter with the injunction to be fishers of men. it is for this reason that the mitre which the pope wears is the mouth of the fish. now, according to astronomy we are transitting into the sign of aquarius, the sign of the water-carrier, the sign of universality, for water is a universal symbol. prior to his death christ sent his disciples out to find the water-carrier who led them to an upper room where the communion service was instituted. all this was indicative of the recognition by the christ of the coming new era which would succeed his di

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

s a world war. after that date, and because the forces of evil took advantage of the state of war and belligerency existing on the planet, the real war began, involving the entire three worlds of human evolution and a consequent activity of the hierarchy. man's attention is normally focussed on the externalities of living. nevertheless, all great discoveries, such as those made in connection with astronomy or in relation to the laws of nature or involving such a revelation as that of radio-activity or the epoch-making event announced this week concerning the first steps taken in the harnessing of cosmic energy, are ever the result of inner pressure emanating from forces and lives found in high places. such inner pressures themselves function under the laws of the spirit and not just under

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

alled the good shepherd, and he has been depicted many times as the shepherd leading his sheep. the thought of the sheepfold has been closely associated in the minds of people with christ. connected with the sign cancer are three constellations: ursa major, ursa minor and argo. the common occidental names for the two former are the great bear and the little bear, but it is one of the mysteries of astronomy as to how the name "bear" came to be associated with either of these groups of stars, for in the chaldean, persian, indian and egyptian zodiacs, no bear is found. the names most commonly use are those of "the sheepfold, or "the flock of sheep" and an analysis of the hebrew and arabic names [91] for the stars found in these constellations will be found to prove the fact that the ancient n

efore, the limitations of the body nature working through form and the utilization of the personality; it symbolizes god in nature, whether cosmically or individually. hydra the serpent, represents the matter aspect, as it veils and hides the soul. the crater, or the cup, has in it thirteen stars of ordinary magnitude and about- 62- the labours of hercules ninety small stars, though some books of astronomy say three brilliant stars and ninety small. so we have again the number of matter, or of form-taking, and the number of what is called "apostasy, and of "the turning of the back, as judas iscariot did, upon the soul or christ aspect. this cup forms really part of the body of the hydra, for the stars at the foot of the cup form part of the body of the serpent, and both constellations clai

rs of hercules ecliptic and about eighteen degrees apart, which marked out the path of the sun either in its annual revolution when the twelve divisions indicated the succession of months in the year, or in its diurnal course, when the divisions marked the hours of the day and night" astrology, the link between two worlds. by s. elizabeth hall, m.a. valentia stratton might also be quoted here..in astronomy, says science, the zodiac is an imaginary [216] belt in the heavens, sixteen or eighteen degrees broad, through the middle of which passes the sun's path (the ecliptic. it contains the twelve constellations, which constitute the twelve signs of the zodiac, and from which they are named. the astrological zodiac proper, however, is an imaginary circle passing around the earth in the plane

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

95 its appearance as often as a new gate of entrance is opened to the fire. the king shares his royal dignity with noble venus, and appears in splendid state, surrounded by all the dignitaries of his court. before him is borne a beautiful crimson banner, in which there is an embroidered representation of charity in green garments. saturn is the prefect of the royal household, and in front of him astronomy bears a black standard, with a representation of faith in yellow and red garments. jupiter is the grand marshal, and is preceded by a banner of grey colour, borne by rhetoric, and adorned with a variegated representation of hope. mars is at the head of military affairs, and executes his office with a certain fiery ardour. geometry carries before him a crimson banner, on which you may beh

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

ur wise men represent the two globes, one over, the other under the double sign (the primeval svastica bereft of its four arms, or the cross[[diagram* the "double sign" is, as every student of occultism knows, the symbol of the male and the female principles in nature, of the positive and the negative, for the svastica or[[diagram] is all that and much more. all antiquity, ever since the birth of astronomy- imparted to the fourth race by one of its divine kings of the divine dynasty- and[[footnote(s* science teaches that venus receives from the sun twice as much light and heat as the earth. thus the planet, precursor of the dawn and the twilight, the most radiant of all the planets, said to give the earth one-third of the supply she receives, has two parts left for herself. this has an occ

nscientious student of the kabala, that the deeper he dives into it, the more he feels convinced that unless the kabala- or what is left of it- is read by the light of the eastern esoteric philosophy, its study leads only to the discovery that, on the lines traced by exoteric judaism and christianity, the monotheism of both is nothing more exalted than ancient astrolatry, now vindicated by modern astronomy. the kabalists never cease to repeat that primal intelligence can never be understood. it cannot be comprehended, nor can it be located, therefore it has to remain nameless and negative. hence the ain-soph- the "unknowable" and the "unnameable- which, as it could not be made manifest, was conceived to emanate manifesting powers. it is then with its emanations alone that human intellect h

the commentary appended to the stanza, two personages are mentioned: narada and asura maya, especially the latter. all the calculations are attributed to this archaic celebrity; and what follows will make the reader superficially acquainted with some of these figures- two antediluvian astronomers. to the mind of the eastern student of occultism, two figures are indissolubly connected with mystic astronomy, chronology, and their cycles. two grand and mysterious figures, towering like two giants in the archaic past, emerge before him, whenever he has to refer to yugas and kalpas. when, at what period of pre-history they lived, none save a few men in the world know, or ever can know with that certainty which is required by exact chronology. it may have been 100,000 years ago, it may have bee

verily, to serve and guide universal progress and evolution. narada is one of the few prominent characters, save some gods, in the puranas, who visits the so-called nether or infernal regions, patala. whether or not it was from his intercourse with the thousand-headed sesha, the serpent who bears the seven patalas and the entire world like a diadem upon his heads, and who is the great teacher of astronomy* that narada learned all that he knew, certain it is that he surpasses garga's guru in his knowledge of cyclic intricacies. it is he who has charge of our progress and national weal or woe. it is he who brings on wars and puts an end to them. in the old stanzas pesh-hun is credited with having calculated and recorded all the astronomical and cosmic cycles to come, and with having taught

, however, those of the brahmins as explained further on; but most of them are also those of the secret doctrine. the chronology and computations of the brahmin initiates are based upon the zodiacal records of india, and the works of the above-mentioned astronomer and magician- asuramaya. the atlantean zodiacal records cannot err, as they were compiled under the guidance of those who first taught astronomy, among other things, to mankind. but here again we are deliberately and recklessly facing a new difficulty. we shall be told that our statement is contradicted by science, in the person of a man regarded as a great authority (in the west) upon all subjects of sanskrit literature- professor albrecht weber, of berlin. this, to our great regret, cannot be helped; and we are ready to maintai

the tidal elevation concurring with the swing of the globular mass- centrifugal tendency being then nearly equal to gravity- the latter was overcome, and the tidally elevated mass could thus separate completely from the earth* the occult teaching is the reverse of this. the moon is far older than the earth; and, as explained in book i, it is the latter which owes its being to the former, however astronomy and geology may explain the fact. hence, the tides and the attraction to the moon, as shown by the liquid portion of the globe ever striving to raise itself towards its parent. this is the meaning of the sentence that "the mother-water arose and disappeared in the moon, which had lifted her, which had given her birth[[footnote(s* but see the difficulties suggested later, in the works of

mical and physical theories, in spite of mr. laing's assurances that "in (chronological) calculations of this sort, concerning older and later formations, there is no theory, and they are based on positive facts, limited only by a certain possible) amount of error either way" occultism will prove, scientific confessions in hand, that geology is very much in error, and very often even more so than astronomy. in this very passage by mr. laing, which gives to geology pre-eminence for correctness over astronomy, we find a passage in flagrant contradiction to the admissions of the best geologists themselves. says the author "in short, the conclusions of geology, at any rate up to the silurian period* when the present order of things was fairly inaugurated, are approximate (truly so) facts and n

uscs and animal life- granted; but what do they know of man[[vol. 2, page] 72 the secret doctrine. cases they give results incredibly short. in others they give results almost incredibly long" after which, the reader is advised that the safest course "seems to be to assume that geology really proves the duration of the present order of things to have been somewhere over 100 millions of years" as "astronomy gives an enormous though unknown time in the past, and to come in the future, for the birth, growth, maturity, decline, and death of the solar system, of which our earth is a small planet now passing through the habitable phase (p. 49) judging from past experience, we do not entertain the slightest doubt that, once called upon to answer "the absurd unscientific and preposterous claims of

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613 the monad and the duad. 617 the genesis of the elements. 621 hermes and huxley. 625 the teaching of leibnitz. 627 the monads according to occultism. 632- xvi. cyclic evolution and karma. 634 karmic cycles and universal ethics. 637 destiny and karma. 639 karma-nemesis. 643- xvii. the zodiac and its antiquity. 647 the jewish patriarchs and the signs of the zodiac. 651 zodiacal cycles. 656 hindu astronomy. 661- xviii. summary of the mutual position. 668 science confesses her ignorance. 669 materialism is leading europe towards a catastrophe. 675- n.b- the index and glossary will be found at the close of volume ii[[vol. 1, page xvii] introductory "gently to hear, kindly to judge- shakespeare. since the appearance of theosophical literature in england, it has become customary to call its te

g, both being due to heat and moisture under the efflux of the unseen creative spirit, justified fully the selection of this graphic symbol. the "virgin egg" is the microcosmic symbol of the macrocosmic prototype- the "virgin mother- chaos or the primeval deep. the male creator (under whatever name) springs forth from the virgin female, the immaculate root fructified by the ray. who, if versed in astronomy and natural sciences, can fail to see its suggestiveness? cosmos as receptive nature is an egg fructified- yet left immaculate; once regarded as boundless, it could have no other representation than a spheroid. the golden egg was surrounded by seven natural elements (ether, fire, air, water "four ready, three secret" it may be found[[vol. 1, page] 66 the secret doctrine. stated in vishnu

anuscript commentaries, to which the writer has had access "the breath of the father (or spirit) and the breath (or heat) of the mother (matter" and they give explanations which show that the modern theory of the extinction of the solar fires by loss of heat through radiation, is erroneous. the assumption is false even on the scientists' own admission. for as professor newcomb points out (popular astronomy, pp. 506-508 "by losing heat, a gaseous body contracts, and the heat generated by the contraction exceeds that which it had to lose in order to produce the contraction" this paradox, that a body gets hotter as the shrinking produced by its getting colder is greater, led to long disputes. the surplus of heat, it was argued, was lost by radiation, and to assume that the temperature is not

nless, turning only on its axis and regulating time and measure; and which cannot be turned aside from its true functions. the nomenclature of the days of the week is thus faulty "the sun-day ought to be uranus-day (urani dies, urandi" adds the learned writer, ragon* planetary system "the sun rotates on his axis always in the same direction in which the planets revolve in their respective orbits" astronomy teaches us[[vol. 1, page] 101 fire, the great symbol of deity. planetary world, and he is one of the three chief deities. he is called indifferently the son of dyaus and of aditi, because no distinction is made with reference to, or scope allowed for, the esoteric meaning. thus he is depicted as drawn by seven horses, and by one horse with seven heads; the former referring to his seven p

triangle, the first one, the cube, the second one, and the pentacle to circumscribe these figures, is thus shown to contain the symbol of 31415 again, or the coefficient constantly used in mathematical tables (the value of, pi, the geometrical figures standing here for numerical figures. according to the general philosophical teachings, this ring is beyond the region of what are called nebulae in astronomy. but this is as erroneous a conception as that of the topography and the descriptions, given in puranic and other exoteric scriptures, about the 1008 worlds of the devaloka worlds and firmaments. there are worlds, of course, in the esoteric as well as in the profane scientific teachings, at such incalculable distances that the light of the nearest of them which has just reached our moder

the tendency of nature "to run down" is to be considered so forcible an objection to occult cosmogony "how" we may ask "do your positivists and free-thinkers and scientists account for the phalanx around us of active stellar systems" they had eternity to "run down" in; why, then, is not the kosmos a huge inert mass? even the moon is only hypothetically believed to be a dead planet "run down" and astronomy does not seem to be acquainted with many such dead planets* the query is unanswerable. but apart from this it must be noted that the idea of the amount of "transformable energy" in our little system coming to an end is based purely on the fallacious conception of a "white-hot, incandescent sun" perpetually radiating away his heat without compensation into space. to this we reply that nat

e forbidden ground of the "eighth sphere" it may be useful to state some additional facts with regard to ex-monads of the lunar chain- the "lunar ancestors- as they play a[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] into thin air, as the "moons" of the other planets have, or have not, as the case may be, since there are planets which have several moons- a mystery again which no oedipus of astronomy has solved[[vol. 1, page] 157 opinions differ and yet agree. leading part in the coming anthropogenesis. this brings us directly to the septenary constitution of man; and as some discussion has arisen of late about the best classification to be adopted for the division of the microcosmic entity, two systems are now appended with a view to facilitate comparison. the subjoined short articl

t was asked "what planets, of those known to ordinary science, besides mercury, belong to our system of worlds" now if by "system of worlds" our terrestrial chain or "string" was intended in the mind of the querist, instead of the "solar system of worlds" as it should have been, then of course the answer was likely to be misunderstood. for the reply was "mars, etc, and four other planets of which astronomy knows nothing. neither a, b, nor yz are known nor can they be seen through physical means however perfected" this is plain (a) astronomy as yet knows nothing in reality of the planets, neither the ancient ones, nor those discovered in modern times (b) no companion planets from a to z, i.e, no upper globes of any chain in the solar system, can be seen* as to mars, mercury, and "the four o

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is .eye. sweeps over slumbering earth. behold the fiery aura of the .hand. of lhagpa (mercury) extended in protecting love over the heads of his ascetics. both are now servants to nyima (the sun) left in his absence silent watchers in the night. yet both in kalpas past were bright nyimas, and may in future .days. again become two suns. such are the falls and rises of the karmic law in nature. the astronomy of the author of this book is not equal to her poetic prose. mercury can hardly be said to have a fiery aura, or to be a silent watcher in the night. nor is it easy to attach any meaning to the statement that mars and mercury were once suns. the theories of transmigration of personality involved are a little difficult! the equinox 58 55. be, o lanoo, like them. give light and comfort to

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authority to touch it, could represent the present prohibition. at 31.1 enoch mentions galbanum, this is one of the ingredients of the incense that was to be burned on the incense altar in the tent of appointment, exodus 30:34. also, at 32.3-6, the tree of wisdom also sounds like cannabis. here we get a new insight into the adam and eve story. at 33.3-4, enoch mentions how uriel gave him notes on astronomy. these notes are in this book as sections 13, 14, and 16. the angel zotiel is mentioned at 32.2, east of the red sea, there are suggestions based on weathering data that the sphinx is much older (pre 10,000 bc) than the pyramids, so this is a possible candidate for zotiel. 24.1] and from there i went to another place of the earth and he showed me a mountain of fire that blazed day and ni

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h silver ribbon, for example, a toy horse during the month equos, for travel and the expansion of horizons, mental as well as physical. the cycle of the moon as i mentioned earlier in the chapter, as well as the months, the phases of the moon offer scope for different kinds of magick during the individual monthly moon cycles. however, problems in interpretation of these energies can arise because astronomy and astrology are no longer regarded as the same thing. for example, to our ancestors, the astrological dark of the moon was the same as the astronomical dark- the first two and a half days of the cycle when the moon is not visible at any hour of the day or night. to this were added the preceding three days of the old moon, when it did not rise until the early hours of the morning. so wh

derstand why you feel the way you do (and we all know that it will seem quite irrational sometimes. most importantly, you will be able to maximise your best moon times for action. make full moon water by catching the full moonlight in a silver-coloured bowl; drink it or add it to your bath. in addition, if you want to understand the mechanics as opposed to the workings of the moon, read a book on astronomy rather than astrology to learn about orbits and the eight phases. you might also, even if you do not read horoscopes, keep an eye for when the moon enters your birth sign- this happens for about two and a half days each month- and monitor the effects over a period of several months. does it make you more jittery, less cautious (which may or may not be a good thing, more intuitive, more f

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fer yetzirah" in egypt. 955 abu sahl dunash ibn tamim. sefer yetzirah published with gaon's commentary on the short version by tanin. 961 rasa'il-e-ikhwanus safa (epistles of brethren of purity "a mystical muslim order incorporating teachings from neoplatonic, hermetic, and even buddhist sources [netton 1991] and deriving from harran [nasr 1993: 25-104) an encyclopaedic work covering mathematics, astronomy, geography, music, ethics, philosophy, embodying the sum-total of knowledge that a cultured man of that age was supposed to acquire, the first 51 epistles lead up to the last, which is summation of all sciences. influenced al-ghazali and rashid al-din sinan ibn-sulayman, the chief of the assassins in syria. 969 emperor mu-tsung is reported to have played cards with his wives- the earlies

ate from the church, upon the the conversion of the jews and a "full restoring of the jewish nation; a literal kingdom on earth. 1558 elizabeth i becomes queen of england; giambattista della porta's magia naturalis published; zohar printed in mantua. john dee propaedeumata. 1559 august, postel and other prisoners are freed upon the death of the pope. 1559-1598 edward kelley theatre of terrestrial astronomy. the stone of the philosophers. 1560-1605 heinrich khunrath proto-rosicrucian amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae "what good are torches, light, or spectacles, to those who will not see" 1560 foxe's book of martyrs. zohar printed in cremona. adam von bodenstein begins his work of editing various writings of paracelsus. giambattista della porta magia naturalis. postel fearing reimprisonment

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he heaven was at that time very clear, i could well drive away the time in contemplating the stars. by chance i came to a great pair of stone stairs, which led up to the top of the wall. and because the moon shone very bright, i was so much the more confident, and went up, and looked a little upon the sea too, which was now exceedingly calm. and thus having good opportunity to consider more about astronomy, i found that this present night there would occur a conjunction of the planets, the like of which was not otherwise usually to be observed. now having looked a good while at the sea, and it being just about midnight, as page 66 soon as it had struck twelve i saw from afar the seven flames passing over the sea towards here, and taking themselves towards the top of the spire of the tower

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di (yellow emperor) shao hao kao yang yao ti (divine yao) k u shun yu the great fire, hunting, trigrams, domestication of animals 3000 b.c 2737 2598 b.c. agriculture, medicine overthrown by his brother, huang di 2697 2598 b.c. dams, compass, calendar, coins 2598 2591 b.c. few accomplishments uncertain accomplishments indeterminate time father of eight famous sons indeterminate time 2357 2255 b.c. astronomy, canal building 2317 2208 b.c. dams 2205 2197 b.c. mapping, flood control, founder of the legendary xia dynasty, 2005 1520, which has not yet been verified. b.c. brief rule name: dates: known for: chinese mythology 12 major historical dynasties3 shang zhou [joh] qin [chin] han six dynasties sui song tang yuan ming qing [ching] period of modern government 1523 1027 b.c. high bronze age 10

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an: azazyel taught metallurgy, the making of weapons, the workmanship of jewellery, the use of precious stones, of paint, cosmetics and dyes, so that the world became altered beyond recognition. amazarak taught sorcery and botany. armers taught sorcery. gadrel taught the methods of warfare and weaponry. yekun taught arts of seduction. barkayal taught astrology. akibeel taught signs. tamiel taught astronomy. asaradel taught the motion of the moon. penemue gave unto man the secrets of writing and the use of ink and paper, which so enraged demiurge, and every secret of your wisdom- vi- by our means did man reach civilization, and come to appreciate all that is noble and beautiful on earth and in kosmos. and our daimon seed within his daughters did breed great chiefs and warriors. demiurge gre

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because mars was destroyed millions of years ago. but was it? we only think it was because that's what the official version tells us and over and over when you look at the basis for such scientific "fact" you often find it is merely an assumption or an opinion and not a provable "fact" at all. just one example of this was confirmed by dr frank drake, the former chairman of the cornell university astronomy department, when he said "we used to think of the universe as nothing more than abundant fields of stars arranged in galaxies, but we underestimated the variety and quantity of matter in space by a factor of about one trillion. which means that we were about as wrong as we could be."51 but until they accepted they were wrong in the face of the evidence, they taught their monumental error

m the identity in their personal tradition, and the equation in their names, but also in the essentials of their culture and civilisation; and the sumerian sign for the man element in menes' name in the egyptian and indus valley inscriptions (manj and manja) reads also dialectically min."18 the sumerians, egyptians, and minoans also used identical systems for their calendars and their concepts of astronomy were identical. the most famous story of minoan crete is that of the son of king minos. his son was said to be the minotaur, the half man, half bull, which defended the labyrinth under the palace at knossos according to legend. how interesting, therefore, that nar-am, the son of menes, was known as the "strong wild bull".19 his name, nar-am, consisted of nar, meaning strong or mighty in

3000bc (figure 12 overleaf).26 this corresponds with the period when, it is claimed, the great stone circles like stonehenge and avebury were built with the same astonishing precision that you find with the giza pyramids and other breathtaking structures across the sumerian and former atlantean-lemurian empire. whoever designed stonehenge must have had a very advanced knowledge of mathematics and astronomy. geoffrey of monmouth, the 12th-century historian, wrote in histories of the kings of britain that the builders of the original stonehenge were "giants" from north africa.27 the aryans of sumer and egypt were a tall people because they came from the very tall nordics and the reptilians, which are almost always described as very tall. this fits with the emerging themes of this book and ce

them today for rituals, but no one is suggesting that these groups built them! archaeologists find druidic remains on these sites and assume they created them. they do the same with the later mayans of central america and the incas of south america. the later druidic religion and knowledge was brought by the atlanteans originally and re-enforced by the sumerians with their great understanding of astronomy, astrology, sacred geometry, mathematics, and the ley line system or "energy grid. both sources also knew of the cycle called "precession" in which the earth's "wobble" slowly moves the planet on its axis so it faces different star systems or astrological "houses" over thousands of years. it takes 2,160 years to cross one symbolic "house" and 25,920 years to complete the cycle of 12. we

used across the world by apparently unconnected peoples; how the nazca lines in peru were created and fantastic structures like the pyramids could have been built while the general population was technologically "primitive; how those breathtaking ancient structures could be aligned both with each other and the cycles of the sun, moon, planets and star systems; how ancient peoples knew more about astronomy than even modern science did until recently, and in some areas, still so; how the planet was mapped so accurately thousands of years ago, as proved by the maps showing antarctica before the ice came; how peoples in every part of the world have the same legends, stories, and basis for their religions; and why, the further back you go, the more impressive are the temples and other structur

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volution is to start at a lower level and slowly advance throughlearning and experience. there was clearly an infusion of highly advanced knowledgethat was later lost to most people. in every culture throughout the world are ancientstories and texts which describe the gods who brought this advanced knowledge. thiswould again explain the mystery of how the ancients had a phenomenal understandingof astronomy. there are endless legends all over the world of a time they call thegolden age, which was destroyed by cataclysm and the fall of man. the ancientgreek poet, heslod, described the world before the fall:man lived like gods, without vices or passions, vexation or toil. in happy companionshipwith divine beings (extraterrestrials, they passed their days in tranquillity and joy, livingtogethe

al traditions that go back enormousamounts of time and you have to be careful that details have not been added or lost andthat we dont take symbolism or parable as literal truth. i am sure that some confusiondid occur in this way. i have doubts myself about the nibiru-tiamat scenario and itsalleged timescale. but there is much truth in the texts which can be proven, not least intheir knowledge of astronomy. the tablets depict the solar system with the planets intheir correct positions, orbits and relative sizes, and their accuracy has only beenconfirmed in the last 150 years since some of these planets have been found. thetablets describe the nature and colour of neptune and uranus in ways that have onlybeen confirmed in the last few years! whats more, the modern experts did not expectthos

ter into wine. it is the suns warmth and theearths water which grow the grapes to make wine. bacchus, the greek son of zeus andthe virgin semele, was said to have turned water into wine. also there were esseneritual terms related to water and wine. the essenes, therapeutae and gnostics wereseriously into hidden meanings and the jesus stories are a mass of interweavedallegories related to the sun, astronomy, astrology, bloodlines, secret knowledge and therituals and names used by the mystery schools. the new testament is a mirror of theold in that some fact, much fiction, and a mass of esoteric codes and symbols are fused,and often con-fused, into a narrative which is desperately misleading if taken literally.this is summed up by the phrase: let he who has ears, let him hear. let he who isi

ington,356although others with greater esoteric understanding would have been the real architects.jefferson, however, had deep esoteric connections and when he died a code systemwhich was very similar to ancient rosicrucian secret manuscripts was found among hispossessions by the rosicrucian, spencer lewis.5 some researchers say jefferson was agrand master of the rosicrucians. he was an expert in astronomy and astrology, as wasbenjamin franklin who wrote a best-seller on the subject called poor richard salmanac. lenfant had fought in the war of independence and he, like washington,was a member of the highly secretive and exclusive grouping called the society ofcincinnati. it was officially a secret society for american and french officers in the warof independence and it introduced heredit

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of nature worship. men lived in greater harmony with the natural world than they did during the cycle of restriction which followed, but they also celebrated the carnal, exalted the ego, and explored deep philosophical thought. this was the time of the mystery schools and the philosophers of greece. this was the time of the great empires of babylon and rome. this was the time when men discovered astronomy, mathematics, and science. the aeon of isis was not a single aeon but a succession of aeons in a cycle of expansion. the religions which rose during this time involved the worship of fire or of planetary bodies: the sun, the moon, and the stars. 2100 years ago, the previous cycle of expansion ended and the cycle of restriction, which crowley calls the aeon of osirus, began. like the aeon

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rnment there be 22 legions of spirits, partly of the order of virtues and partly of the order of thrones. his mark, seal, or character is this, unto the which he oweth obedience, and which thou shalt wear in time of action, etc (21) marax- the twenty-first spirit is marax. he is a great earl and president. he appeareth like a great bull with a man s face. his office is to make men very knowing in astronomy, and all other liberal sciences; also he can give good familiars, and wise, knowing the virtues of herbs and stones which be precious. he governeth 30 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, which must be made and worn as aforesaid, etc (22) ipos- the twenty-second spirit is lpos. he is an earl, and a mighty prince, and appeareth in the form of an angel with a lion's head, and a goose'

ll the time of action, with his cap or headdress off; for if it be on, amaymon will deceive him and call all his actions to be bewrayed. but as soon as the exorcist seeth asmoday in the shape aforesaid, he shall call him by his name, saying: art thou asmoday? and he will not deny it, and by-and-by he will bow down unto the ground. he giveth the ring of virtues; he teacheth the arts of arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, and all handicrafts absolutely. he giveth true and full answers unto thy demands. he maketh one invincible. he showeth the place where treasures lie, and guardeth it. he, amongst the legions of amaymon governeth 72 legions of spirits inferior. his seal is this which thou must wear as a lamen upon thy breast, etc (33) gaap- the thirty-third spirit is gaap. he is a great preside

old his chief, who was solomon, that after 1,200 years he had hopes to return unto the seventh throne. and his seal is this, to be made and worn as a lamen, etc (36) stolas, or stolos- the thirty-sixth spirit is stolas, or stolos. he is a great and powerful prince, appearing in the shape of a mighty raven at first before the exorcist; but after he taketh the image of a man. he teacheth the art of astronomy, and the virtues of herbs and precious stones. he governeth 26 legions of spirits; and his seal is this, which is, etc (37) phenex- the thirty-seventh spirit is phenex (or pheynix. he is a great marquis, and appeareth like the bird phoenix, having the voice of a child. he singeth many sweet notes before the exorcist, which he must not regard, but by-and-by he must bid him put on human sh

n to go invisible, and also to be witty. he governeth 40 legions of spirits. his seal is this, etc (52) alloces- the fifty-second spirit is alloces, or alocas. he is a duke, great, mighty, and strong, appearing in the form of a soldier riding upon a great horse. his face is like that of a lion, very red, and having flaming eyes. his speech is hoarse and very big. his office is to teach the art of astronomy, and all the liberal sciences. he bringeth unto thee good familiars; also he ruleth over 36 legions of spirits. his seal is this, which, etc (53) camio or caim- the fifty-third spirit is camio, or caim. he is a great president, and appeareth in the form of the bird called a thrush at first, but afterwards he putteth on the shape of a man carrying in his hand a sharp sword. he seemeth to

herwise. he governeth 36 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, to be worn as a lamen, etc (65) andrealphus- the sixty-fifth spirit is andrealphus. he is a mighty marquis, appearing at first in the form of a peacock, with great noises. but after a time he putteth on human shape. he can teach geometry perfectly. he maketh men very subtle therein; and in all things pertaining unto mensuration or astronomy. he can transform a man into the likeness of a bird. he governeth 30 legions of infernal spirits, and his seal is this, etc (66) cimejes, or cimeies, or kimaris. the sixtysixth spirit is cimejes, or cimeies, or kimaris. he is a marquis, mighty, great, strong and powerful, appearing like a valiant warrior riding upon a goodly black horse. he ruleth over all spirits in the parts of africa

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s in the form of a serpent and called set-heh meaning the eternal set. when osiris came again, typhon plotted with seventy-two comrades, and with aso, the queen of ethiopia, to slay him -the egyptian book of the dead, e.a. wallis budge set is primarily regarded the same as the greek typhon, a serpent like daemon-god who is a patron spirit of sorcery and magick. plutarch explained that in egyptian astronomy seth or typhon was connected to the solar world, while osiris was associated with the moon. the sun was considered very hostile as it dried up and made lands inhabitable, while the moon nourished and brought moisture. plutarch writes the seth means compelling and overmastering, being a powerful force of chaos and order. typhon was collectively later known and associated to the earth s sh

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y of the offerings of all the gods (panth on, p. 61, having a snake's head, which in some instances is surmounted by the disk, horns and feathers of the goddess hathor (see lanzone, dizionario, tav. 188, no. 2. 2 thoth was the personification of intelligence. he was self-created and self-existent, and was the "heart of ra" he invented writing, letters, the arts and sciences, and he was skilled in astronomy and mathematics. among his many titles are "lord of law "maker of law" and "begetter of law" he justified osiris against his enemies, and he wrote the story of the fight between horus, the son of osiris, and set. as "lord of law" he presides over the trial of the heart of the dead, and, as being the justifier of the god osiris against his enemies, he is represented in funereal scenes as

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e insight to assist in the essential task of interpreting an astrological chart. as such, addey s theoretical work was soon forgotten, though his empirical studies remain a major building block of contemporary astrology s attempt to provide astrology with an acceptable scientific base. in 1970 addey founded the urania trust, which had the exceedingly ambitious goal of reintegrating astrology into astronomy, an objective on which almost no progress has been made. addey also served a term as editor of the astrological journal. addey died in 1982. sources: addey, john. astrology reborn. tempe, ariz: american federation of astrologers, 1972. harmonic anthology. tempe, ariz: american federation of astrologers, 1976. harmonics in astrology. romford: l. n. fowler, 1976. selected writings. tempe

f in arabic, so he went to baghdad and studied the greek philosophers under abou bachar maltey. he next stayed for a time in hanan, where he learned logic from a christian physician. having far surpassed his fellow scholars, he left hanan and drifted at last to egypt. during his wanderings he came in contact with the learned philosophers of his time, and he wrote books on philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, and other sciences, acquiring proficiency in 70 languages. his treatise on music, proving the connection of sound with at- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. alfarabi 27 mospheric vibrations and mocking the pythagorean theory of the music of the spheres, attained some celebrity. he gained the goodwill and patronage of the sultan of syria in a somewhat curious fashion. wh

greeted with hymns of joy, and conducted home. alocer according to johan weyer, alocer is a powerful demon, grand duke of hades. he appears in the shape of a knight mounted on an enormous horse. his face has leonine characteristics; he has a ruddy complexion and burning eyes, and speaks with much gravity. he is said to give family happiness to those whom he takes under his protection and to teach astronomy and liberal arts. thirty-six legions are controlled by him. sources: weyer, johannes. witches, devils, and doctors in the renaissance: johann weyer, de praestigiis. edited by george mora. binghamton, n.y: medieval and renaissance texts and studies, 1991. alomancy divination by means of salt, of which process little is known. from this ancient practice comes the saying that misfortune is

tation and technique. wellingborough, northhamptonshire, uk: aquarian press, 1982. lee, dal. dictionary of astrology. new york: coronet communications/ constellation international, 1968. ronan, margaret, and eve ronan. astrology and other occult games. new york: scholastic books services, 1972. astronomical communications from time to time, spiritualist mediums have delivered messages relating to astronomy. in discussing the question whether such communications have led science forward a single step, camille flammarion returned a negative answer. his conclusion was based on his own automatic scripts which were signed by galileo and contained nothing new and on the analysis of the writings of major general a. w. drayson (1827.1901, professor of military surveying, reconnaissance, and practi

onomy. in discussing the question whether such communications have led science forward a single step, camille flammarion returned a negative answer. his conclusion was based on his own automatic scripts which were signed by galileo and contained nothing new and on the analysis of the writings of major general a. w. drayson (1827.1901, professor of military surveying, reconnaissance, and practical astronomy at the royal military academy in woolwich. under the title the solution of scientific problems by spirits, drayson published an article in the journal light (1884) in which he asserted that the spirit of an astronomer, communicating through a medium at his house in 1858, had made known the true orbital movement of the satellites of uranus. this planet was discovered by william herschel i

a and admitted that there may exist in this world other wills than those of man and the animals, wills capable of acting on matter; zollner s experiments with slade are still widely quoted in books on the subject. crookes was assisted for some time, in his memorable experiments with d. d. home, by sir william huggins, ex-president of the royal society, well known for his researches in physics and astronomy (see also planetary travels) astrotalk (newsletter) an online publication for users of astrological software; features new programs, developments, technologies, compatible hardware, and related news. address: matrix software, 407 n. state st, big rapids, mi 49307. website: http/ www.astrologysoftware.com. astrotherapy astrotherapy, also called clinical astrology, is a practice which inte

, roger (ca. 1220.1292) versatile british scientist and philosopher around whom accumulated many legends of occult powers. he was born near ilchester in somerset, england. he entered the order of st. francis and studied mathematics and medicine in oxford and paris. returning to england, he devoted his attention to philosophy and also wrote latin, greek, and hebrew grammars. bacon was a pioneer of astronomy and, being acquainted with the properties of lenses, may have foreshadowed the telescope. in the mechanical sciences, bacon envisioned boats propelled without oars, cars that move without horses, and even machines that fly in the air. in the field of pure chemistry, bacon s name is associated with the making of gunpowder, for even if the discovery cannot be wholly attributed to him, at l

rding to sir james melville s memoirs, bassantin met with sir robert melville (brother of sir james, who was at that time engaged on the part of the unfortunate mary, queen of scots in endeavoring to effect a meeting between her and elizabeth. bassantin predicted that all his efforts would be in vain, which proved to be true. bassantin was a zealous protestant. his principal work is a treatise on astronomy, written in french and translated into latin by john tornaesius, which was published at geneva in 1599. he wrote four other treatises on mathematics and horoscopes, but they do not appear to have been published. bastian, harry (nineteenth century) nineteenth-century american materialization medium whose exposure in vienna on february 11, 1884, led archduke john to publish a pamphlet unde

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d of parapsychology. he was born november 23, 1914, at alkmaar, netherlands. he was an instructor and director at sneek technical school, sneek, netherlands (1939.56, and later director (1959.60. mak was a member of the amsterdam parapsychologische kring and served as research officer of the studievereniging voor psychical research (dutch society for psychical research. contributor of articles to astronomy journals, he won the van de bilt gold medal for the best amateur astronomical observations in 1950. he studied telepathy, clairvoyance, and psychokinesis and took part in experiments (with jan kappers, a. h. de jong, and f. v. d. berg) to test clairvoyance quantitatively. he also studied the question of evidence for reincarnation. sources: pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary o

m a distance without the intermediary of other bodies. similarly to light it is augmented and reflected by the mirror. it is communicated, propagated and augmented by the voice. by applying magnetic plates to the patient s limbs, mesmer effected his first cures in 1773. the arousal of public attention was due to a bitter controversy between mesmer and a jesuit priest maximilian hell, professor of astronomy at the university of vienna, who claimed priority of discovery. mesmer won. in 1778, after a bitter public controversy over the cure of a blind girl, mesmer went to paris. in a short time he became famous. his first convert was charles d eslon, medical adviser to count d artois. in september 1780 d eslon asked the faculty of medicine to investigate mesmer s ideas and practices. the propo

ft, sandy soil, unsuitable for any heavy vehicle to land on. maria reiche, an expert on nazca, has commented: i m afraid the spacemen would have gotten stuck. story cited professor kosok of long island university, who first mapped and photographed the mysterious markings from the air in june 1941 and discovered apparent alignment with solstices and equinoxes. perhaps the markings were the largest astronomy book in the world. similar astronomical ground markings have been discovered in what is termed the glastonbury zodiac in england. while the ideal viewing position for such markings as nazca is from a point about 600 feet above the plain, it does not necessarily follow that they were actually designed for viewing from the air. they could be interpreted as a giant image of astronomical mys

research. he was born on march 12, 1835, at wallace, nova scotia. he studied at lawrence scientific school (b.s, 1858, and harvard university. he joined the u.s. navy during the civil war as a professor of mathematics (1861, and was later assigned to the u.s. naval observatory (1867. he subsequently became the director of the american nautical almanac (1877.97) and a professor of mathematics and astronomy at johns hopkins university (1884.94. a world-famous astronomer and mathematician, newcomb s research made possible the construction of accurate lunar tables. in spite of his interest in psychical research, he remained an outspoken skeptic, a position he explained in his autobiography. he died july 11, 1909. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology

. it was associated with the crowley concept of the scarlet woman, whose formula was love under will. new-isis or nu-isis therefore symbolized the heavenly and earthly goddess. grant also began to work all eleven degrees of the order. accompanying the organization of the lodge, grant issued a manifesto announcing the discovery of a new planet in this solar system beyond pluto, a planet unknown to astronomy, which he named isis. quickly after receiving the manifesto and news of grant s actions, germer expelled grant from the oto. grant ignored the expulsion and continued to build his organization. he had no competition in the united kingdom until the 1970s. grant had access to crowley s library, which was eventually deposited at an academic library in london, and as his organization grew he

year before newspaper astrology columns became popular in england. old also wrote a number of books on general occult themes. sources: old, walter [sepahrial. the book of charms and talismans. n.p, 1974. book of the crystal and the seer. n.p, 1897. book of the simple way of laotze. n.p, 1904. the kabala of numbers. 2 vols. n.p, 1913. revised ed, 1928. a manual of occultism. n.p, 1910. prognostic astronomy. n.p, 1901. second sight. n.p, 1911. what is theosophy? n.p, 1891. old hat used for raising the devil one mode of summoning the devil was to make a circle, place an old hat in the center, and recite the lord s prayer backwards. old moore (1657.ca. 1714) pseudonym assumed by a succession of british astrologers for more than three centuries. the original dr. francis moore, a physician, was

ho published works on theology, politics, economics, mathematics, and physical science. his book livre de divinacions expresses orthodox theological thought on various aspects of medieval occultism. the book is titled after the de divinatione of cicero and defines the arguments for and against belief in the occult, lists frauds and deceptions in divination, and distinguishes between astrology and astronomy. oresme accepted alchemy and ascribed occult success to demons. oresme was born ca. 1320, probably in normandy, and entered the college of navarre in paris in 1348. as archdeacon of bayeux, he accepted the deanship of rouen but retained his university office until obliged to relinquish it due to a decision by the parliament of paris. in 1378, after his translation of the works of aristot

& parapsychology. 5th ed. placidus de titis 1217 brau, jean-louis, helen weaver, and allan edwards, eds. larousse encyclopedia of astrology. new york: new american library, 1982. holden, james h, and robert a. hughes. astrological pioneers of america. tempe, ariz: american federation of astrologers, 1988. lewis, james l. the astrology encyclopedia. detroit: gale research, 1994. placidus de titus. astronomy and elementary philosophy. translated by manoah sibley. london: w. justins, 1789. a collection of thirty remarkable nativities. translated by manoah sibley. london: w. justins, 1789. planchette a simple instrument designed for the purpose of communication with spirits. it consists of a thin heart-shaped piece of wood mounted on two small wheels that carries a pencil, point downward, for

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

also able to revive the dead. one critic has written, clearly, sitchin is a smart man. he weaves a complicated tale from the bits and pieces of evidence that survive from ancient sumeria to the present day. just as clearly, sitchin is capable of academic transgressions (fracturing quotes, ignoring dissenting facts. and flights of intellectual fancy. worst of all, he is almost utterly innocent of astronomy and other assorted fields of modern science (hafernik, 1996. see also: greater nibiruan council further reading hafernik, rob, 1996. sitchin s twelfth planet. h t t p/ w w w. g e o c i t i e s. c o m/ a re a 5 1/ c o r r i d o r/ 8148/hafernik.html schultz, dave. the earth chronicles: time chart. h t t p/ w w w. g e o c i t i e s. c o m/ a re a 5 1/ c o r r idor/ 8148/zchron.html sitchin

ndly extraterre s t r i a l s. see also: channeling; contactees further reading bryant, larry w, 1983. enid brady s e-t contact legacy. mufon ufo journal 179 (january: 12 13. pentagon hears voices from venus but fails to be excited about them, 1957. the saucers report 2, 3 (october/november: 8 9. cymatrili 77 david of landa david of the planet landa, a distant world not recognized by conventional astronomy, channeled through keith macdonald (d. 1999, a grayslake, illinois, car mechanic who lived a quiet life outside the public spotlight. macdonald is typical of the sorts of persons ufologist/occultist john a. keel has called silent contactees. unlike the flamboyant figures who seek attention and audiences, macdonald confided his experiences only with family and trusted friends. macdonald b

of earthly origin and the creators of an extraordinary technology that gave them space flight long ago. jessup first hinted at his theory in ufo and the bible (1956, asserting that all ufo evidence pointed to the presence of space-intelligence, relatively near the earth, but yet away from it and in open space. using navigatable contrivances. in his earlier life, he had done graduate-level work in astronomy at the university of michigan. in the course of his studies, and later in his adult life, he traveled in africa and south america, often stopping to examine archaeological artifacts. he became convinced that only an advanced civilization, with a technology that encompassed teleportation, levitation, and space flight, could have created such structures. eve n t u a l l y, he came to belie

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idely separated from the one on the egyptian idolatry and in quite a different context. augustine is affirming the extreme antiquity of the hebrew tongue and that the hebrew prophets and patriarchs are much earlier than any of the gentile philosophers, and the wisdom of the patriarchs earlier than the egyptian wisdom. and what was their [the egyptian's] goodly wisdom, think you? truly nothing but astronomy, and such other sciences as rather seemed to exercise the wit than to elevate the knowledge. for as for morality, it stirred not in egypt until trismegistus' time, who was indeed long before the sages and philosophers of greece, but after abraham, isaac, jacob, joseph, yea and moses also; for at the time when moses was born, was atlas, prometheus' brother, a great astronomer, living, and

s in capturing and guiding the, influx of spiritus into materia. the most important of the means of doing this is through the making of talismans, images of the stars inscribed on the correct materials, at the right times, in the right frame of mind, and so on. the whole of the first two long and complicated books of picatrix is devoted to this most difficult art which demands a deep knowledge of astronomy, mathematics, music, metaphysics, and indeed practically everything, for the introduction of spiritus into talismans is a most tricky business and no one can succeed in it unless he is a resolute philosopher. lists of the images suitable for use on talismans are given, of which the following are a few examples from the lists of planet images.2 two images of saturn "the form of a man with

em natural, statues and figures which move and speak (that is, mathematical magic can produce the living statues with the same powers as those made by using occult natural virtues, as described in the asclepius which agrippa has quoted on such statues) when a magician follows natural philosophy and mathematics and knows the middle sciences which come from them arithmetic, music, geometry, optics, astronomy, mechanics he can do marvellous things. we see to-day remains of ancient works, columns, pyramids, huge artificial mounds. such things were done by mathematical magic. as one acquires natural virtue by natural things, so by abstract things mathematical and celestial things one acquires celestial virtue, and images can be made which foretell the future, as that head of brass, formed at th

ny, which is one of the most characteristic aspects of renaissance thought from giorgi onwards, though it used number in a pythagorean or qualitative sense and not as mathematics proper, yet by so forcefully directing attention on number as the key to all nature it may be said to have prepared the way for genuine mathematical thinking about the universe. as is well known, kepler still saw his new astronomy in a context of harmonies, and he was well aware that the pythagorean theory was also implicit in the hermetic writings, of which he had made a careful study.3 heliocentricity the cult of the prisca theologia laid a greatly increased em- 1 see pagel, paracelsus, pp. 218 ff. 2 c vasoli "francesco giorgio veneto" in test, wnan, pp. 79 ff. 3 see below, pp. 441-2. i.5i renaissance magic and

close together again ran the lives of bruno and campanella, without meeting! for bruno, too, was in the prisons of the roman inquisition at this time, in some different dungeon. at the end of 1597, campanella left rome for naples where he conferred with an astrologer and with the geographer, stigliola, who had been in prison in rome with him and who was an enthusiastic adherent of the copernican astronomy.4 probably these conferences confirmed campanella in the view, to which he so often gave utterance during the calabrian revolt, that signs in the heavens were announcing the imminence of far-reaching political and religious changes. in 1598 he left naples to go farther 1 amabile, congiura, i, pp. 63 ff; blanchet, op. cit, pp. 24-7. 2 blanchet, op. cit, pp. 25-9. 3 ibid, p. 29. 4 ibid, p

senne suspects in general of being either atheists or deists. in other words, the bible text is being used as a canvas for mersenne's summa against renaissance magic, its whole way of thinking, and all its off-shoots in the vast contemporary dissemination of magical practices. it is also, suggests lenoble, a summa of mersenne's own scientific interests, his studies in music, mathematics, physics, astronomy and the like.2 thus, within the framework of the mosaic account of creation, mersenne is both driving out the old magical way of approaching nature, and also bringing in the new way, the coming way of science and genuine mathematics. from the vast mass of material in this most important book, which lies between the renaissance and the modern world, only a few points can be selected. mers

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disliked him because of his delicate nature and precocious intelligence. instead of joining their juvenile games, he developed his own, interior world of the imagination through writing, and at the age of 15 produced his first horror story, the beast in the cave by 1914, he had submitted a series of articles to the united amateur press association and to local newspapers, ranging in content from astronomy and philosophy, to his early stories of the occult and the supernatural. also at this time, he began the epistolary communications which were to become one of the main pleasures of his life (at one time, lovecraft had over a hundred regular correspondents, and in fact, his extant letters considerably outweigh his fiction- one estimate puts the total number of letters written by lovecraft

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arising from the annual revolution, and the diurnal rotation of the earth round its own axis. they are the noblest instruments for improving the mind, and giving it the most distinct idea of any problern or proposilion, as well as enabling it to solve the same. contemplating these bodies, we are inspired with a due reverence for the deity and the works, and are induced to encourage the studies of astronomy, geography, navigation, and the arts dependent on them, by which society has been so much benefitted* of order in architecture. by order in architecture, is meant a system of all the members, proportions and ornaments of columns and pilasters; or, it is a regular arrangement of the projecting parts of a building, which, united with those of a column, form a beautiful, perfect, and comple

ches the art of forming concords, so as to compose delightful harmony, by a mathematical and proportional arrangement of acute, grave and mixed sounds. this art, by a series of experiments, is reduced to a demonstrative science, with respect to tones and the intervals of sound. it inquires into the nature of concords and discords, and enables us to find out the proportion between them by numbers. astronomy is that divine art, by which we are taught to read the wisdom, strength and beauty of the almighty creator, in those sacred pages, the celestial hemisphere. assisted by astronomy, we can observe the motions, measure the distances, comprehend the magnitudes, and calculate the periods and eclipses of the heavenly bodies. by it we learn the use of the globes, the system of the world, and th

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

bined with the former particulars, led some to suppose they were solely intended for astronomical uses; and certainly, if not altogether true, it bespeaks, at all events, an intimate acquaintance with astronomical rules, as well as a due regard to the principles of geometry. others have fancied them intended for sepulchres; and as the egyptians, taught by their ancient chaldean victors, connected astronomy with their funereal and religious ceremonies, they seem in this to be not far astray, if we but extend the application to their sacred bulls and other animals, and not merely to their kings, as herodotus would have us suppose"[55 [55] the round towers of ireland, p. 159. according to the testimony of inman, the pyramid is an emblem of the trinity--three in one. the triangle typifies the

atastrophe on the himalaya mountains. this is confirmed by an observation which the reader will make in the sequel, that these doctrines have been, like all the other doctrines of antiquity, gradually corrupted--incarnated, if i may be permitted to compose a word for the occasion" of this cycle, bailly says "no person could have invented the neros who had not arrived at much greater perfection in astronomy than we know was the state of the most ancient assyrians, egyptians, and greeks" toward the close of the eighteenth century the celebrated astronomer, bailly, published a work entitled the history of ancient astronomy, in which he endeavored to prove that a nation possessed of profound wisdom and great genius, and of an antiquity far superior to the hindoos or egyptians "inhabited the co

29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, and 3 seconds, or 219,146 days and a half, was equal to 600 solar years of 365 days, 5 hours, 51 minutes, and 36 seconds, which time varies less than three minutes from the present observations of the year's length. the length of the year as calculated by the egyptians and other early historic nations was 360 days, which fact would seem to indicate that a science of astronomy had been developed in an earlier age which by the most ancient peoples of whom we have any historic records has been lost or forgotten. it has been said that if this cycle of the neros "were correct to the second, if on the first of january at noon a new moon took place, it would take place again in exactly 600 years at the same moment of the day, and under all the same circumstances"[61

st buried past is revealing the fact that not merely the germs whence our present civilization has been developed descended to us from the dim ages of antiquity, but that a great number of the actual benefits which go to make up our present state of material progress have come to us from prehistoric times. the art of writing, of navigation (including the use of the compass, the working of metals, astronomy, the telescope, gunpowder, mathematics, democracy, building, weaving, dyeing, and many of the appliances of civilized life, have been appropriated by later ages with no acknowledgment of the source whence they were derived. when pythagoras exhibited to the greeks some beautiful specimens of ancient architecture which he had brought from egypt and babylon, they simply claimed them as thei

bservations of the ancients would have been impossible without the aid of the telescope. diodorus siculus says there was an island west of the celtae in which the druids brought the sun and moon near them. an instrument has recently been found in the sands of the nile, the construction of which shows plainly that 6000 years ago the egyptians were acquainted with our modern ideas of the science of astronomy. william huntington, who has travelled widely in india, borneo, the malay peninsula, and egypt, says "i think, on the whole, the most interesting experience i ever had was in an ancient city on the nile in egypt. when i was there a year ago, and men were digging among the ruined temples, some curious things were brought to light, and these i regard as the strangest things seen in all my

the vast commercial system which formed a connecting link between the various countries of the globe, was created by this people, the great manufacturing skill and unrivalled maritime activity of the phoenicians which extended down to the time of the hellenes and the romans having been a result of the irgenius. it was doubtless during the supremacy of the ancient cushite race that a knowledge of astronomy was developed and that the arts of life were carried to a high degree of perfection. however, through the peculiar influences which were brought to bear upon human experience, this knowledge, which was bequeathed to their descendants or to the nations which they had created, was subsequently lost or practically obscured, only fragments of it having been preserved from the general ruin. w

ents of the world "it never has been improved and admits of no improvement" in fact all that may be gathered concerning the ancient etrurians, a people who by the most able writers upon this subject is believed to have been one of the first to leave the asiatic hive, is in perfect accord with the facts already set forth regarding that mighty nation, perhaps of upper asia, who carried the study of astronomy to a degree of perfection never again reached until after the discovery of the copernican system, who invented the neros and the metonic cycle, who colonized egypt and chaldea, and who carried civilization to the remotest ends of the earth. the philosophy of the etrurians corresponds with that of the most ancient hindoo system, and displays a degree of wisdom unparalleled by any of the p

orce which they venerated as the great mother. before the zend and sanskrit branches of the aryan race had separated, their religion was doubtless that given them by their cushite civilizers. the worship of the sun and the planets, with which were inextricably interwoven the fructifying agencies in nature, explains their devotion to the study of the heavenly bodies and their advanced knowledge of astronomy. the types of regeneration or reproduction which they venerated were symbols of abstract principles, and, from facts connected with their religious ceremonies as practiced by their immediate successors, and from the pure significance attached to their emblems, we are justified in the conclusion before referred to, that the sensuous element, which became so prominent in later religious de

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

his own expense,anodetoastronomyandotherpoems,'a minute quarto pamphletofverse,writtenat diverstimes-onehundred copiesofa few pages only'(slt,p.56).hedidnotchoose to alter the rhyme that had jarred on browning's ear, andyet-tohis surprise.!the tiny editiongotsold, so i gained something in shillings rather than lost a cent by this initial venture'.amongthe purchasers was fr rawes,whoread the'odeto astronomy' to the assembled pupilsofst charles's college.whatthey madeofthis decidedly mediocre poem is notrecorded.encouraged by his success,waite continued topouroutverse,butthe major literary periodicals-both heavyweights liketheathenaeumand lighter monthlies such asbelgravia-utterlyignored him, and the publications in which, as hemodestlysays,'some thingsgotinto print, were modest indeed.then

han attempt to live by literature, browning had urged waite in 1876,butitwasnoteasy for an eageryoungpoettofollow such sober advice, and it becamedoublydifficult after 1878whenhe reachedtheageoftwenty-one and wasadmittedtothereadingroomofthebritishmuseumlibrary. there,forfiveyears-except for interludes by the sea-waite busiedhimselfwithalchemy,theology, magic(in the guiseofeliphas levi, mythology.astronomy,and poetry;reading, annotating, and dreaming.butwhilethereadingroomgavehimthe.appearanceofapolymathit didnotgivehiman income.hecouldnotlive for ever ondwindlinglegacies and onthegoodwillofhismother, and as therewasno'anything'towhichhe couldturnhis hand,writingfor pleasuremustneeds becomewritingfor profit, waite's first forayintocommercialjournalismwas ashortpiece onsomesacredtrees,publi

w of his own anonymous prospectus forazoth:orthestar in theeast-e-ebook he had yet to write (it was eventually published in1893).similar oddities were a regularfeatureofthebritishmail;when there was insufficient secondhand commercial and industrial news'to fill anissue,waite suppliedessaysof his own on such uncommercial topicsashypnotism, freemasonry .philosophical idealism, the rosicrucians, and astronomy (in which he maintained his early interest. in one issue herevieweda privately printed volume of badverseby a young man using the name 'austin blake: if the theft of his own pseudonym was irritating, it must alsohavebeen satisfying torealizethatasoul'scomedyhad found at least one approvingreader.butin1891bottomley fell and the hansard union collapsed, taking with it allthe bottomleyjourn

d esoteric doctrinesthroughtheworkofthiscontinuing'holyassembly'.butit was far from being the instituted secret societyofoccult dreams; indeed it was far from being an institution at all.1.theyoung a. e. waite(c.1880).2.theoriginal buildings of st charles's college, bayswater.a nd otherp oems, fl yarthure. w aite, pit 1 ce8 1xp m s on. ll u ui\ co "6 ,l 'ttj.242tl ,h al't4wui.3au ,v r n 3.anodeto astronomy(1877, waite's first publishedbook.5.dorastuart255menteath(c.1900).4. eastlake lodge, harvard road,gunnersbury. 6. ada waite .7.toptrees, east molesey,homeof the stuart- menteath family.8 .cover design by evelyn stuart- menteath fortheunknownworld.9. waite's entry in the addressbookof the hermeticorderofthe goldendawn.1 0.theofficial record( fwaite's re-admission theg:.r273 11.arthurmache

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occult pursuits. william peck was the citys4thegoldendawnastronomer for edinburgh, a believer in astrology,a freemason, theosophist and a member of papus' martinist order. in the opinionofmme. de steiger, peck was 'abomoccultist..a first-rate astronomer and astrologer and accustomed to great thoughts, but he was extremely coy about publicizing his in. terests. even his quite objective lectures on astronomy to the' scottish lodge of the theosophical society were published anonymously. he joined the amen-ra temple in1893,entering the second order early in1895.after brodie-innes broke with, mathers, peck became imperatorbutwassoon faced with dissen255 sion in the ranks from supporters of brodie-innes; each side mustered about fifteen second order adepti but peck was faced; with a number of re

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e given to the fratres of the study group. the last great work of robert fludd was hisphilosophicmoysaica,gouda, 1638. this great work he also translated into english and called itmosaicallphilosophy,but it was not printed until 1659.ittreats of divine wisdom as contrasted with human knowledge, and he discourses upon the true meaning of philosophy, and considers theology, the world of the angels, astronomy, meteorology, the science of healing, music, geometry, rhetoric and oratory, politics and on miracles. he then complains of several heathen philosophies, greek and arabian: but objects less to plato than to aristotle. he then explains at length his views of creation and of the realms of nature and man as described in the mosaic works and in the bible generally, and again recounts the doc

ed in long past times, have laid the bases for our modern scientific investigations, while others have no doubt fallen into neglect and condemnation. many of the early discoveries in chemistry were made by the alchemists, who spent their lives in experimental researches designed to discover an elixir of life, and a mode of producing gold from other metals of less importance. our modern scientific astronomy has sprung from the very ancient observa255 tions of the planets and the hosts of glittering stars which the sages of chaldea in their researches into astronomy carried out and recorded.themagical arts of olden time were drawn from experiments in natural philosophy, and from these early attempts at using the rarer forces of nature and the undeveloped faculties of man have come the studie

e greek philosphers did not readily adopt astrologic ideals, but professors of the chaldean magical art of astrology spread among them, and we find astrological notions become notable in the later years of the roman republic, and were well marked in the curious jumble of eastern and western science which existed in the third and fourth centuries of our era. the greeks made a considerable study of astronomy, and so were in a position to understand the claims made by the chaldeans for their views of the influence of the stars upon human destinies. having learned the elements of the strange astrologic doctrines, the later greeks sought for references to themintheir own earlier writers; and especially in the170themagical masonvenerable works of homer and hesiod, possibly because they disliked

chiron, as being able to divine future events by means of observations of the stars.itis of course true that recent writers on greek myths have asserted relations between the incidents of these myths and astronomical facts, and have explained that greek and roman religious ideals were connected with the worship of the sun, moon, and stars.theprobably mythical orpheus is said to have first taught astronomy to the greeks. there are three lands which contest the claim to the earliest astronomical observations, egypt, india, and the akkadian empire of uncertain area, to which succeeded the babylonian civilization with which the chaldeans and hebrews were later associated. china also postulates a claim to an unknown antiquity for its astronomic learning, and astrology has always flourished amo

, and the akkadian empire of uncertain area, to which succeeded the babylonian civilization with which the chaldeans and hebrews were later associated. china also postulates a claim to an unknown antiquity for its astronomic learning, and astrology has always flourished among the chinese. there are really no data yet discovered which can prove which land was the source ofthehistory of astrology171astronomy; most probably the study was undertaken not only separately,butat much the same early period.theakkadian or pre-chaldean civilization is only of recent discovery, and has been obtained from studies of excavations in the regions of babylonia. from literary evidence derived from antiquity we have some proofs of very early astronomic observations made by all these ancient nations.theold gre

dertaken not only separately,butat much the same early period.theakkadian or pre-chaldean civilization is only of recent discovery, and has been obtained from studies of excavations in the regions of babylonia. from literary evidence derived from antiquity we have some proofs of very early astronomic observations made by all these ancient nations.theold greek and roman authors refer the source of astronomy variously to egypt, to chaldea, and to persia, and the papyri recently discovered in egypt also show astronomical allusions; while of course the pyramids of egypt and the towers of babylonia have led students to postulate that their builders possessed a deep astronomic knowledge. modern researches into sanscrit literature have also led students of eastern lore to the belief that the inha

l knowledge is thales, a citizen of miletus, and the founder of the ionic system of philosphy; he died about 546b.c.he predicted an eclipse, the horrid darkness of which stopped a battle between the medes under cyaxares, and the lydians led by alyattes. he was believed to have gained his knowledge of the heavenly bodies from egyptian sources; josephus and plutarch both say he wenttoegypt to study astronomy. the greeks seem to have recognised a meteorologic astrology,butnot a divinatory form.thechief outflow of chaldean lore over greece was during the first three centuries before christ.thegreek philosophers had good reason for adopting its notions: first, because their oracles had ceased to speak and they needed an alternative mode of divine guidance. secondly, they approved of the idea of

heres; and was called the ruler of day.thehebrew word for star in general was kukab, but this word was also applied to the planet venus, especially by the kabalistic rabbis of the middle ages. i may mention a few notable astrologers individually: claudius ptolemy lived at alexandria in egypt, the great centre of learning in the first century,a.d.his works illustrated one of the earlier systems of astronomy, which have come down to us, and many astrological treatises are extant which bear his name. he was the eminent student who rescued the labours of hipparchus, who lived 200 years before him, from oblivion. his most famous volume is thealmagest,and from this work later authors have largely extracted the treatises calledtetrabiblosandquadripartite,or the four books of astrology. there is a

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as an honoured guest in the courts of egypt at the time of thotmes ii or iii.inmedieval times we find the arabians the great teachers of science to europe. what was their science?the remains of the ancient mystic learning of egypt: only the remains it is true, and these were corrupt it may be, materialised certainly 255 grammarie become grammar, alchemy turned to chemistry, astrology merging into astronomy, but still it was the old science; and even in the forms of the figures the arabians gave us, there is a world of wealth of occult learning, and the key to many of the egyptian mysteries. alchemy was not a search after making gold; it was a search after the secrets of nature and the divine wisdom, the secrets and the knowledge of nature as leading to, and being the key to, the knowledge

r last meeting laid a very fine and solid foundation. he gave us a very good idea of what the zodiac is, and how it is that the signs of the zodiac are constantly changing; and he also gave us a conception of the great year, the period of 26,000 years roughly, which lies at the root of most of the teachings and calculations founded upon the zodiac. now the first point beyond the ordinary physical astronomy which strikes one is, what does the zodiac mean, and how in the world did these groups of stars, apparently chance groups of stars, ever come to have this extraordinary significance which has been attributed to them all over the world, and, as far as we can learn, in all ages? i think the answer to that may be given in one short sentence, and that is 'the periodicity of phenomena under t

the periods. is that clock true? are these periods right, or are they not? a careful study of history will throw a good deal of light upon it; and, at all event,thatbelief which impressed millions of men in generations long past, of races very far diverse, and countries far remote from each other, deserves a certain amount of careful recognition. and there we want distinctly the help of physical astronomy; we want these periods calculated for us; we want to know precisely at what time the signs of the zodiac and the planets occupy certain positions, and to compare these carefully with tradition and with hieroglyphics. some of you probably know that the egyptian priests told herodotus that at one time the pole of the earth corresponded with the pole of the ecliptic.thelecturer tells me tha

nt these periods calculated for us; we want to know precisely at what time the signs of the zodiac and the planets occupy certain positions, and to compare these carefully with tradition and with hieroglyphics. some of you probably know that the egyptian priests told herodotus that at one time the pole of the earth corresponded with the pole of the ecliptic.thelecturer tells me that that is false astronomy, and most probably it is in our present constitution;butlooking back upon those passages in herodotus, and looking at some of the old hieroglyphics, i rather incline to think that the egyptian priests meant that this was the case in a wholly antecedent period of the earth's history, not in historic times at all,butin the times of some of the earlier root races; and i should like to know

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ng of a cloud, having been accused of plagiarizing the sermons of dr. channing, the unitarian preacher, and of lifting the ideas of others for some of his earlier papers on scientific topics. beswick s vehement denials my ideas are too original generally for me to go to channing for assistance; and i am not indebted to a single man, living or dead. for a single idea or suggestion. in my papers on astronomy& 12[12] h. v. b. voorhis, concerning the swedenborgian rite, in collectanea, vol. 8, part 3, 1966, p. 226. the documents to which voorhis refers were in the archives of the supreme council 33 of the ancient& accepted rite for canada. they have subsequently disappeared 13[13] new jerusalem magazine (boston, vol. 30, 1857/58, p. 18, report of the committee of ministers on the case of mr. b

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rge proportion of its members have been chosen from illiterate classes. it is free alike from the enthusiasm and the errors of the elder order. it been singularly devoid of prejudices 6[6] eliphas levi was the pseudonym of the french occultist alphonse louis constant (1810-75. the standard biography is by chacornac, eliphas levi (paris, chacornac, 1926. 7[7] his first published work was an ode to astronomy (1877. he published many poems and stories in minor literary journals between 1876 and 1886 8[8] the mysteries of magic, a digest of the writings of eliphas levi, with a biographical and critical essay (redway, 1886) 9[9] jennings's book was the rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries (chatto& windus, 1879, 2nd ed. it was savaged by waite in redway's journal, walford's antiquarian and wi

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

s authority they influ- el from the templars to ancient egypt an ancient egyptian hieroglyphic script enced the egyptian people, and ensured their position within the administration of the pharaohs. this class, known from egyptian records as the "priests of amon" focused their attention on practicing magic and administering their pagan cult; in addition, they also studied various sciences such as astronomy, mathematics and geometry. this class of priests was a closed order possessed (so they thought) of a special knowledge. such orders are commonly known as esoteric organizations. in a magazine called mason dergisi (masonic journal, a publication distributed among turkish masons, the roots of freemasonry are stated as going back to this kind of esoteric order, and special mention is made o

GNOSTIC CATECHISM

rge proportion of its members have been chosen from illiterate classes. it is free alike from the enthusiasm and the errors of the elder order. it been singularly devoid of prejudices 6[6] eliphas levi was the pseudonym of the french occultist alphonse louis constant (1810-75. the standard biography is by chacornac, eliphas levi (paris, chacornac, 1926. 7[7] his first published work was an ode to astronomy (1877. he published many poems and stories in minor literary journals between 1876 and 1886 8[8] the mysteries of magic, a digest of the writings of eliphas levi, with a biographical and critical essay (redway, 1886) 9[9] jennings's book was the rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries (chatto& windus, 1879, 2nd ed. it was savaged by waite in redway's journal, walford's antiquarian and wi

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

back to the earliest periods, even before what we now consider as recorded history. if we wish to consider the earliest recorded forms of religion, then we need to consider the finds of archaeology. in the many digs which have occurred around the globe, the oldest finds have been of fertility figures with exaggerated sexual organs and images which give evidence of early forms of star watching and astronomy. since these earliest discoveries all seem to fall cleanly into one of two classes, then it is tempting to evaluate them in the light of the gnostic tradition. it is likely that the fertility symbols represented the worship of earth, the desire to reproduce, the submission of mankind to the physical, while the watching of the stars (the sky cult) illustrates the early development of the

GOETIA LUCIFERIAN

he may take a body that is astral/aeriel or human, and bring earthly secrets and divine ones (self-introspection. purson is an angelick ruler who brings good servitors, and has 22 legions of spirits whom are partly order of thrones and order of virtues. u marax marax is a great earl and president. he appears in the mirror and the mind as a bull like figure with a human face. marax is a spirit of astronomy whom may inspire learning in this area. he is also a witchcraft spirit of wort cunning and herbalism who governs 30 legions of spirits and gives excellent familiars. 46 v ipos ipos is an earl and might prince, who appears as an angel with a lions head. ipos is a spirit of divination and self-development, assisting and inspiring communication and moral concepts of communication of the era

uciferian witchcraft and primal sorcery. asmodai appears as a demon with three heads bull, a man and a ram, also a tail of a serpent and spits flames. his feet are webbed as a goose and sits upon an infernal dragon. asmoday appears with a lance and spear, the color of the flag on the banner is crimson with a black dragon upon it. he is the choice power under amaymon. this powerful daemon inspires astronomy, geometry and earthly arts. asmodai also inspires invincibility by the development of strength and will. as one evokes asmoday, a seeming cloud of black and gray smoke appears in the mirror it seems to move beyond the mirror from the circle yet this is a seeming illusion if ones concentration of will is upon the circle, hold it fast to the meeting place of spirits. asmoday may be summone

told after 1,200 years he had hopes to return to the seventh throne. marchosias teaches and initiates through lycanthropy and astral shape shifting, as well as war and combat techniques. 54 j stolas stolas also called stolos is the thirty-sixth spirit who is a great and powerful prince. he appears in the form of a mighty raven, who also takes the shape of a man. stolas teaches the ancient art of astronomy and herbalism. he inspires the magician the instinct of wort cunning, the art of the wise. stolas governs 26 legions of spirits, who also teaches astronomy. when one summons stolas this spirit often appears in the black mirror as a raven, which interestingly enough symbolizes hidden wisdom and the darker realms, thus one assumed as a god form by invocation, allows a very interesting pros

. he inspires the magician the instinct of wort cunning, the art of the wise. stolas governs 26 legions of spirits, who also teaches astronomy. when one summons stolas this spirit often appears in the black mirror as a raven, which interestingly enough symbolizes hidden wisdom and the darker realms, thus one assumed as a god form by invocation, allows a very interesting prose into the concepts of astronomy and spiritual impulses of that particular spirit. k phenex phenex (also pheynix) is a great marquis who appears like a phoenix bird, who has a voice of a child. phenex creates a form of music which is something described as a child s chorus, a very beautiful and entrancing form of song from which the magician must command phenex to take human shape. if willed to by the magician, this spi

magician. he governs 36 legions of spirits. andrealphus andrealphus is the sixty-fifth spirit who is a mighty marquis, who comes forth as a beast or jester spirit who is like a peacock, who speaks in tongues with two voices (high and low) at the same instance. he is a spirit of the infernal sabbat, who shall carry thee forth in astral and dreaming flesh in the form of a bird. andrealphus teaches astronomy and such sciences. if the magician desires it, andrealphus will 69 take human shape. he governs 30 legions of infernal spirits$ cimejes cimejes/cimeies/kimaris is the sixty-sixth spirit. he is a powerful marquis who appears in the form of a warrior who rides upon a large black horse. this spirit rules over all spirit who are haunters of africa, and governs 20 legions of infernal spirits

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

d external buttresses, surmounted at the centre by a stubby vertical prong. jigsaw puzzle how old is machu picchu? the academic consensus is that the city could not have been built much earlier than the fifteenth century ad.9 dissenting opinions, however, have from time to time been expressed by a number of more daring but respectable scholars. in the 1930s, for example, rolf muller, professor of astronomy at the university of potsdam, found convincing evidence to suggest that the most important features of machu picchu possessed significant astronomical alignments. from these, through the use of detailed mathematical computations concerning star positions in the sky in previous millennia (which gradually alter down the epochs as the result of a phenomenon known as precession of the equino

ially fostered agriculture. in his time maize was so large in the head that a man might not carry more than one stalk at a time and cotton grew in all colours without having to be dyed. he built spacious and elegant houses, and inculcated a type of religion which fostered peace. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 110 masonry and architecture. he was the father of mathematics, metallurgy, and astronomy and was said to have measured the earth. he also founded productive agriculture, and was reported to have discovered and introduced corn literally the staff of life in these ancient lands. a great doctor and master of medicines, he was the patron of healers and diviners and disclosed to the people the mysteries of the properties of plants. in addition, he was revered as a lawgiver, as a

, london, 1975 (c) sabatino moscati, the world of the phoenicians, cardinal, london, 1973. 5 this can be confirmed in any of the works cited in note 4. 6 w. b. emery, archaic egypt, penguin books, london, 1987, p. 192. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 139 what is remarkable is that there are no traces of evolution from simple to sophisticated, and the same is true of mathematics, medicine, astronomy and architecture and of egypt s amazingly rich and convoluted religio-mythological system (even the central content of such refined works as the book of the dead existed right at the start of the dynastic period).7 the majority of egyptologists will not consider the implications of egypt s early sophistication. these implications are startling, according to a number of more daring thinke

that it was the 33 the cities of ancient mexico, p. 53. 34 the ancient kingdoms of mexico, p. 53; mexico, p. 671. 35 the ancient kingdoms of mexico, pp. 53-4; the cities of ancient mexico, p. 50. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 150 earliest-known writing in mexico .36 it was also clear that the people who had lived here had been accomplished builders and more than usually preoccupied with astronomy. an observatory, consisting of a strange arrowhead-shaped structure, lay at an angle of 45 to the main axis (which was deliberately tilted several degrees from north-south).37 crawling into this observatory, i found it to be a warren of tiny, narrow tunnels and steep internal stairways, giving sightlines to different regions of the sky.38 the people of monte alban, like the people of tre

about maps. in part i we saw evidence suggesting that the cartographers of an as yet unidentified civilization might have mapped the planet with great thoroughness at an early date. could the popol vuh be transmitting some garbled memory of that same civilization when it speaks nostalgically of the first men and of the miraculous geographical knowledge they possessed? geography is about maps, and astronomy is about stars. very often the two disciplines go hand in hand because stars are essential for navigation on long sea-going voyages of discovery (and long sea-going voyages of discovery are essential for the production of accurate maps. is it accidental that the first men of the popol vuh were remembered not only for studying the round face of the earth but for their contemplation of the

men of the popol vuh were remembered not only for studying the round face of the earth but for their contemplation of the arch of heaven ?8 and is it a coincidence that the 6 popol vuh, introduction, p. 16. see also the magic and mysteries of mexico, p. 250ff. 7 popol vuh, pp. 168-9. 8 ibid. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 160 outstanding achievement of mayan society was its observational astronomy, upon which, through the medium of advanced mathematical calculations, was based a clever, complex, sophisticated and very accurate calendar? knowledge out of place in 1954 j. eric thompson, a leading authority on the archaeology of central america, confessed to a deep sense of puzzlement at a number of glaring disparities he had identified between the generally unremarkable achievements

quirks, he asked, led the maya intelligentsia to chart the heavens, yet fail to grasp the principle of the wheel; to visualize eternity, as no other semi-civilized people has ever done, yet ignore the short step from corbelled to true arch; to count in millions, yet never to learn to weigh a sack of corn? 9 perhaps the answer to these questions is much simpler than thompson realized. perhaps the astronomy, the deep understanding of time, and the long-term mathematical calculations, were not quirks at all. perhaps they were the constituent parts of a coherent but very specific body of knowledge that the maya had inherited, more or less intact, from an older and wiser civilization. such an inheritance would explain the contradictions observed by thompson, and there is no need for any disput

indicate the correct orbital distances of the inner planets, the asteroid belt, jupiter, saturn (represented by the so-called sun pyramid, uranus (by the moon pyramid, and neptune and pluto by as yet unexcavated mounds some kilometres farther north.11 if these correlations were more than coincidental, then, at the very least, they indicated the presence at teotihuacan of an advanced observational astronomy, one not surpassed by modern science until a relatively late date. uranus remained unknown to our own astronomers until 1787, neptune until 1846 and pluto until 1930. even the most conservative estimate of teotihuacan s antiquity, by contrast, suggested that the principal ingredients of the site-plan (including the citadel, the street of the dead and the pyramids of the sun and the moon)

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

he watchtowers. 425 appendix e. the thirty aethyrs. 429 1 p r e f a c e; an introduction to this manual this manual is meant to provide a convenient and reasonably complete source of all information required by the serious practitioner of enochian magick. the branch of magick called enochian was disclosed in modere times by dr. john dee (1527-1608. dee was an authority on mathematics, navigation, astronomy, and optics. he was also the astrologer royal to elizabeth 1. his magical partner, edward talbott, who changed his name to kelly, assisted him in the descriptions of the subtle regions known as the four watchtowers and thirty aethyrs. these, together with their presiding deities, formed the kernel of the powerful magical system now known as enochian magick. dee has been called "a pioneer

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

and hour of birth. time and careful analysis have proven the coincidences to be based upon fundamental laws regardless of whether the planets have any effect upon birth or upon the nature of man after birth. only the fanatical extremist makes. or believes. the claim that we are ruled by planets. it is advisable that all be acquainted with the history of astrology out of which arose the science of astronomy.[163] aten.a name for the symbol of the "sole everliving god" made understandable by akhnaton after he established a monotheistic religion in egypt. aten was represented by the sun disk, the sun being the symbol of the life-giving radiance of the invisible god. not as god, or even as a sacred symbol, is the sun disk used by modern rosicrucians, but as an objective symbol of the creative

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

retation of their symbolism, whilst the introduction of 'secret chiefs' was a masterstroke permitting the most outrageous claims to be made which could be neither proved nor disproved. english rosicru255 cianism was said to encompass dr dee, robert fludd, john heydon, thomas vaughan, william backhouse and elias ashmole-s-indeed anyone who had any interest or skill in mathematics, natural science, astronomy, astrology, or alchemy. by the nineteenth century the rosicrucian idea was to. a great extent a spent force in england but its. nineteenth-century apologists 225<;laimedfor.itamajor revivalist in the person of ebenezersibley, whose works were to be called in as evidence of the continuing tradition. sibley was to be quickly followed by francis barrett, whose seminal workthemagus(1801, a p

red.'p,160.'numerous witnesses can testify that what is said about an eighth and ninth planet wasinmanuscript months before le verrier's calculations and conclusions had been announced in this country. lb.161210therosicrucianseermuch science of the nineteenth century; anticipatedinastro255 nomy, the discovery of the seventh planet, but unhappily not also the eighth; anticipated the views of modem astronomy in regard to the generation of earthsbythe sun; in magnetism, some important experiments and conclusions of later students; in chemistry, the atomic theory; in anatomy, the discoveries ofpeccadilloes, and finally of a little act of roguery committed by him on the strong box of his employer. i described the uninhabited room with its white walls, where to the right of the brown door there

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

corpion: un monographie sur la d sse serket. paris: 1984. p. vernus. the gods of ancient egypt. translated by jane marie todd. london and new york: 1998, 35. primary sources: pt 308, 362, 555; btw; true name; pbm 9997+ 10309; magical statue texts; metternich stela seshat (sechat) seshat was the goddess who measured and recorded the world. as lady of builders she was the patroness of architecture, astronomy, and mathematics. known as she who is foremost in the library, seshat was an assistant or female counterpart of thoth, the god of wisdom and knowledge. she and thoth fixed the length of a king s reign by inscribing his name on the leaves of the ished tree at heliopolis. seshat usually wears a panther skin, a symbol of priestly office. she sometimes carries a palm frond carved with notche

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ges a secret science in the page 145 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt east, and its final expression remains so to this day, its esoteric application only having been brought to any degree of perfection in the west during the lapse of time since varaha mihira wrote his book on astrology, some 1400 years ago. claudius ptolemy, the famous geographer and mathematician who founded the system of astronomy known under his name, wrote his tetrabiblos, which is still the basis of modern astrology, in 135 ad. the science of horoscopy is studied now chiefly under four heads, viz: 1. mundane, in its application to meteorology, seismology, husbandry. 2. state or civic, in regard to the future of nations, kings, and rulers. 3. horary, in reference to the solving of doubts arising in the mind upon

h the physical celestial bodies as its upadhi or material basis. yet, all persecutions notwithstanding, the number of adherents to astrology among the most intellectual and scientific minds was always very great. if cardan and kepler were among its ardent supporters, then later votaries have nothing to blush for, even in its now imperfect and distorted form. as said in isis: astrology is to exact astronomy, what psychology is to exact physiology. in astrology and psychology one has to step beyond the visible world of matter and enter into the domain of transcendent spirit. athenagoras a platonic philosopher of athens, who wrote an apology for the christians in 177 ad, addressed to marcus aurelius, to prove that the accusations brought against them, viz, that they were incestuous and ate mu

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

e business in london, as i had this last time, i am obliged to be nearer my base of operations. i also hesitate to inflict my vegetarian habits on other people. it is believed by many that piazzi smythe [sic' made errors in his application of dimensions of pyramid of gizah &c. present my respectful remembrances to mrs gardner. 1 charles piazzi smyth was not an occultist but professor of practical astronomy at the university of edinburgh and astronomer royal for scotland. his our inheritance in the great pyramid (1864, reached its. fifth edition in 1890. 1 there were two keightleys, bertram and dr archibald both in their early thirties at the time this letter was written. bertram was younger than archibald but nevertheless the latter's uncle. they private again many thanks for your hospitab

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

nd diagrams shuddering recognizable to the occult student. clearly, the lingering local rumours had not lied. this place had once been the seat of an evil older than mankind and wider than the known universe. in the ruined desk was a small leatherbound record-book filled with entries in some odd cryptographic medium. the manuscript writing consisted of the common traditional symbols used today in astronomy and anciently in alchemy, astrology, and other dubious arts- the devices of the sun, moon, planets, aspects, and zodiacal signs- here massed in solid pages of text, with divisions and paragraphings suggesting that each symbol answered to some alphabetical letter. in the hope of later solving the cryptogram, blake bore off this volume in his coat pocket. many of the great tomes on the she

hbours, and with his only son in california, after my experience in his lonely farmhouse. he was, i discovered, the last representative on his home soil of a long, locally distinguished line of jurists, administrators, and gentlemen-agriculturists. in him, however, the family mentally had veered away from practical affairs to pure scholarship; so that he had been a notable student of mathematics, astronomy, biology, anthropology, and folklore at the university of vermont. i had never previously heard of him, and he did not give many autobiographical details in his communications; but from the first i saw he was a man of character, education, and intelligence, albeit a recluse with very little worldly sophistication. despite the incredible nature of what he claimed, i could not help at once

ISIS UNVEILED

sal humanity. bunsen says that in the "chaldaean tribe immediately connected with abraham, we find remi- niscences of dates disfigured or misunderstood, as genealogies of single men, or indications of epochs. the abrahamic tribe-recollections go back at least three millenia beyond the grandfather of jacob* eupolemus says that abraham was bom at kamarina or una, a city of soothsayers, and invented astronomy' josephus claims the same birthplace for terab, abraham's father. the tower of babel was built as much by the direct descendants of shem as by those of the 'accursed' ham and canaan, for the people in those days were 'one' and the "whole earth was of one language; babel was simply an astrological tower, and its builders were astrologers and adepts of the primitive wisdom-religion, or aga

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ding unseen the ways of men, and unwitted of by them, and most abundant and most active there where the mother of all of them is in the ascendant with her influences; or when night is abroad, throned in her cope of stars letters, from their first judiciary arrangement in the heavens, spelling out continually new astrological combinations. for astrology was the mother, as she was the precursor, of astronomy, and was once a power; into whatever mean roads the exercise of the art of her servants has strayed now, in unworthy and indign divination, and in the base proffer of supposed gipsy arts ministration becomes ridiculous (or made so, which was once mighty and sublime. the pyramidal or triangular form which fire assumes in its ascent to heaven is in the monolithic typology used to signify t

nd only the conviction that such things have been in the mind, notwithstanding the insurmountable contradiction of the senses. bheems chlori (mokundra pass) chapter the twenty-fourth. the great pyramid. n a very elaborate and interesting book, published in the year 1867, the title of which, at length, is the following: life and work at the great pryamid. by c. piazzi smyth, professor of practical astronomy in the university of edinburgh, and astronomer royal for scotland. edmonston& douglas, edinburgh and london. 1867: the conclusions (though a mistake) which we now supply from the author are offered as definitions, after infinite card, of this important name or word, pyramid. pyramid is derived in this book from two greek terms pur j, wheat; metron, measure; or from coptic roots, signifyi

which are uniform. 268 the rosicrucians. the claims for the real reading of the egyptian hieroglyphics are distinct and unhesitating, as put forward by the egyptologists; who, if industry could have succeeded, certainly would have realised their desire. but it is extremely doubtful whether, after all, they are not very widely astray. the late sir george cornewall lewis, in his history of ancient astronomy, has disposed conclusively of the assumed correctness of most of these interpretations. the egyptologists, the principal of whom are champollion, rawlinson, dean milman, sir george lewis (perhaps the best critic, professor wilson, sir gardner wilkinson, dr. cureton, dr. hincks, m. oppert, mr. fox talbot, with a large amount of ingenious and very plausible research and conjecture, have no

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

flying saucer study. jessup s background not much detail is known of jessup s life before he emerged as one of the early writers on ufos, mainly because nobody has taken the trouble to do the needed research. probably the most that ufology knows about him prior to his involvement with flying saucers is contained on the jacket flap of his first book. he is described as having been an instructor in astronomy and mathematics at the university of michigan and drake university. the jacket copy also notes that jessup completed his thesis for the doctorate degree in astro-physics at the university of michigan, though it does not state whether on not he was awarded the actual degree. in the academic business, usually the thesis is the thing that comes 4 last, and is the final step in the awarding

n" for mankind is to 10 egotistical, values too much the material, wars over mer parcels of the planet, is too filled with jealously, and lacks true brotherhood. how much truth is there in this? that cannot be answered. it is evident that these men provide some very intriguing explanations; explanations that may be worth consideration. 11 preface_ the subject of ufo's in its present stage is like astronomy in that it is a purely observational "science" not an experimental one; necessarily, therefore, it must be based on observation and not on experiment. observation, in this case, consists of everything which can be found to have bearing on the subject. there are thousands of references to it in ancient literature, but the authors did not know that their references had any bearing, for the

part ii meteorology speaks falling ice 28 falling stones 32 falling live things 37 falling animal and organic matter 40 falling shaped things 45 falls of water 52 clouds and storms 56 rubbish in space 60 part iii history speaks disappearing ships and crews 65 teleportation or kidnapping? 75 levitation 84 marks and "footprints" 91 disappearing planes 97 fireballs and lights 101 legends 106 part iv astronomy speaks the incredible decade 115 ufo's against the sun 119 location of ufo's 125 ufo patrol 128 the height of the puzzle 133 the case is proved! 137 a note on sources 144 list of illustrations a flying saucer photographed over brasil 2 passage of auroral beam, november 17, 1882 13 cross found in an ancient grave in georgia. 50 meteor from an organic cloud, salford, england, 1877 59 the "

or resemble, acts rather than things. 26 all of these are terrestrial events--manifestations more or less on the terrestrial surface. but there is a third great area of observational data. it is that vast conglomerate of purely astronomical observations which relates to things and phenomena in space or on planets and satellites other than earth. these are the unpopular, poor relatives of orthodox astronomy, the untouchable erratics. these have come to be regarded with such disfavor that there are few published records of them within the past fifty to seventy-five years. we may consider that the sciences of meteorology and mereoritics, whose nature we will discuss later, speak almost eloquently in behalf of the case for space life and ufo's. it is within these fields that we have found the

tion, it became necessary to consider, as a third group, the less spectacular terrestrial events and to clarify our thinking by segregating these and getting them out of our way. the upshot of this coercion was that we found more than half a dozen subcategories wherein we were allied with the sciences of meteorology which is the terrestrial science of the air, and meteoritics which is a branch of astronomy. let us, then, consider briefly these segments of our problem. to most of you who read this book, falling ice has been limited to hailstones, mostly small, perhaps the size of marbles. but in trying to organize data on ice which falls from the sky, we ran head-on into cases where chunks of ice weighing from a few pounds to some tons were known to fall, and without final proof we were for

er grounded in factual and quantitative data. it must be given great weight. if, in reality, the astronomical profession is to be forced into the position of being the principal witness for the defense, in the case of the ufo's its members will suffer a most peculiar type of embarrassment, for theirs is the unenviable position of having been most dogmatic and derogatory. it seems unfortunate that astronomy, once the leader in the search for qualitative knowledge, is apparently degenerating into opposition to pioneering. yet, astronomy, while strictly an observational and not an experimental science, takes front rank in denying authentic observational data which threatens in the slightest to upset its own scientific applecart. it seems quiotically reliable of humans to wait 30 till they the

ghtest to upset its own scientific applecart. it seems quiotically reliable of humans to wait 30 till they themselves have known flight& think now of space-flight before admitting that others too have flight. not, of course (he!-heh) that they are surpassed,no not when they now are clued to an equaling idea in force fields. they now hope to become equals. alas! in an observational science such as astronomy, laws have to be built from innumerably repeated observations and not, as is partially true in physics and chemistry, on the basis of duplicative laboratory experiment. in such cases, as the astronomer knows only too well, repeated observations must be accepted as tantamount to proof. h-k has enough observations, as he says, they ignore them many of astronomy's tenets are in such a categ

l remains of those nuclei civilizations, which have, for 7,000 years or more been recovering from the celestial impact which caused the traditional flood, redistributed the surface soil of the earth, destroyed continents and made new ones, sunk atlantis and mu and raised hob in general, are readily available in quantity. they offer easy materials for study. archaeology and ethnology, sharing with astronomy the feature of being observational and not experimental, have built their entire framework upon the study of those remains. yet, underlying and intermingled with this vast array of material, there are remnants of cultures of almost unspeakable age. their artifacts have been subjected to geological and cosmic cataclysms of almost incomprehensible violence and few major relics remain for p

KARR DON NOTES ON EDITIONS OF SEFER YETZIRAH IN ENGLISH

a commentary on sy is the universe of shabbetai donnolo by andrew sharf (new york: ktav publishing house, 1976, which is a study of sefer hakhmoni, donnolo s commentary on sy. donnolo was a tenth-century doctor whose medical tracts on herbal prescriptions came to be overshadowed by his cosmological writings, in particular sefer hakhmoni. donnolo brought together jewish and non-jewish ideas about astronomy and astrology, but fell short of creating a unified, organized system. further on donnolo s commentary, see elliot r. wolfson, the theosophy of shabbetai donnolo, with special emphasis on the doctrine of sefirot in his sefer hakmoni, in jewish history, vol. 6, nos. 1-2 (haifa: haifa university press, 1992; and joseph dan, medieval jewish influences on renaissance concepts of harmonia mun

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

of them, are wondrous contained in it. it equalizes all teachings those far and different from one another as the east from the west. it equalizes them in an order that is the same for all, meaning until the conducts of every teaching must come by its own ways. for example, the science of physics is arranged precisely according to the order of the worlds and the sefirot. similarly, the science of astronomy is arranged by the same order, and so it is with music and so on. thus, we find that all the teachings are arranged and follow a single connection and a single ratio they are all similar to it as the child resembles its progenitor. this is why they are contingent upon one another, meaning the wisdom of truth is contingent upon all the teachings, and all the teachings are contingent upon

a p r o m i n e n t s c h o l a r s w r i t e a b o u t k a b b a l a h 213 giordano bruno (1548-1600) this italian philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, and occultist was ahead of his time. his theories anticipated modern science. the most notable of these were his theories of the infinite universe and the multiplicity of worlds, in which he rejected the traditional geocentric (earth-centered) astronomy and intuitively went beyond the copernican heliocentric (sun-centered) theory, which still maintained a finite universe with a sphere of fixed stars. bruno is, perhaps, chiefly remembered for the tragic death he suffered at the stake. a victim of his own beliefs, he maintained his unorthodox ideas when both the roman catholic and the reformed churches were reaffirming rigid aristotelian

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

you re interested in learning why our world is built the way it is, including the earth and stars, the planets and the links among them, know that in actuality everything corresponds to the forces in the upper world. all the bodies and the forces in our world are but a consequence of the materialization of those upper forces. the reflection of the upper world in ours creates various fields called astronomy, astrology, psychology, medicine, etc. that is why the science in our world is to some extent a reflection of the wisdom of kabbalah in the material foundation of our world. q: why is it that, in our time, there is such an evolution of sciences such as astrology? a: people have always searched for any possible way to end the misery of mankind and society. humanity has slowly gained exper

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hing is connected and dependent on every other force and element of nature. pa r t f i v e: r e l i g i o n, p r e j u d i c e a n d k a b b a l a h 307 after all, the subject matter is one, and we just separate the research into pieces to make it easier on us. the wisdom of kabbalah ties all these phenomena of spirit and matter together. this means that from the point of view of kabbalah, music, astronomy, biology, and medicine externally express a unique law of the inner makings of nature. a kabbalist who feels the upper world finds that there is only one law, expressed in many different ways in our world. the wisdom of kabbalah contains every necessary component of every science: it consists of researches, records of the results of experiments, continuity and consistency, repetition of

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ate, so a metre is now a conventional length standardized by a bar kept in paris, just as a standard yard is kept in london. 550. scientific knowledge in that ancient land was in some respects fully as advanced as our own indeed even more advanced than was ours until very recently. the mysteries included a thorough and liberal education, and especial stress seems to have been laid upon chemistry, astronomy and geodesy. in the very early ages when the great pyramid, the house of light, was built, a vast amount of information was already in the possession of those who erected that stupendous monument, and they so designed its proportions as to enshrine within it in what they hoped was an indestructible form a great deal of this invaluable knowledge. for example, the perimeter of the base (36

w. in their capacity of lesser lights these officers correspond to the devis. it is the w.j.w. who especially helps the e.a, the w.s.w. the f.c, and the r.w.m. the m.m. 724. it is interesting to note that in the above ex-planation fire corresponds to the mind. another aspect of the same truth is seen in the fact that it is the power behind modern science. without fire chemistry, physics, geology, astronomy and all the practical applications of these sciences could not exist. the m.m. is symbolically a wielder of this power; he is a worker in metals, a caster of pillars, hollow within, to contain the archives of the soul and spirit. in his hand is kriyashakti, the creative power. 725. the path of the moon is said to typify the life of the ordinary man, who clings to objects of desire and pa

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teaching upon the life after death- which was elaborated by countless stories of imaginary individuals, showing the results in the astral plane after death of certain courses of action during life- a fine course of education was also given to the initiates of the first degree, embracing what masons term the seven liberal arts and sciences- grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. by grammar the egyptians meant the sacred hieroglyphic writing of the priests, which was taught to all the initiates of the mysteries, but it also signified a kind of secret language, a way of speaking peculiar to the priesthood. in the secret language of the mysteries it was not so much that different words were used, as that the familiar words had a different meaning. those who have s

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

written records. although the aztec and incan societies were for the most part destroyed by spanish conquistadors, their less-than-extensive writings in combination with the observations of their conquerors allow us to partially reconstruct their worldview and religious beliefs. the mayans, who were the oldest of these three, were remarkable for their development of mathematics, the calendar, and astronomy developments in which they exceeded even the ancient mesopotamians. although the mayans postulated an underworld, xibalba, existing documents do not contain developed notions of this realm. there are, however, other indications, such as certain written documents, like the popol vuh, as well as evidence from burial chambers, that point to a more developed idea of the afterlife. in mayan f

aya. london: thames and hudson, 1993. popul vuh. trans. dennis tedlock. 2nd ed. new york: touchstone, 1996. milton, john angels and demons (portrayed traditionally as fallen angels) are at the very center of john milton s (1608 1674) cosmic scenario, dwelling in the empyrean, a boundless region of light and freedom, and living dispersed throughout it in organized ranks. by using the old ptolemaic astronomy,milton was able to build a magnificent literary atlas of comparative maps, showing the arrangements before and after the fall of the angels. the oldest son of a london scrivener, john milton was born in london on 9 december 1608. as a boy he was very studious, and was supplied with the best teachers by his father. he entered christ s college, cambridge, where he developed a deep interest

LIBER BATRACHOPHNEROBOOCOSMOMACHIA

thereof. 21. and in the word chaos let the book be sealed; yea, let the book be sealedliber batrachophrenoboocosmomachia sub figura dxxxvi by aleister crowley a. a. publication in class b imprimatur: n. fra. a. a. within his skull exist daily thirteen thousand myriads of worlds, which draw their existence from him, and by him are upheld. i.r.q. iii. 43. 0. let the practicus study the textbooks of astronomy, travel, if need be, to a land where the sun and stars are visible, and observe the heavens with the best telescopes to which he may have access. let him commit to memory the principal facts, and (at least roughly) the figures of the science. 1. now, since these figures will leave no direct impression with any precision upon his mind, let him adopt this practice "a. a. let the practicus

t, until he have an image of the whole field of vision. he will probably discover that it is very difficult to increase the apparent size of the picture as he proceeds, and it should be his most earnest endeavour to do so. he should seek in particular to appreciate distances, almost to the point of combatting the laws of perspective. 3. these practices "a" and "b" accomplished, and his studies in astronomy completed, let him attempt this practice "c. c. let the practicus form a mental picture of the earth, in particular striving to realize the size of the earth in comparison with himself, and let him not be content until by assiduity he has well succeeded. let him add the moon, keeping well in mind the relative sizes of, and the distance between, the planet and its satellite. he will proba

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sist me. comment: the power of satan is the highest metacausal power we are aware of- it should be treated with reverence and respeevliber- svb figvra dxxxvi v a a publication in class b imprimatur: n. fra. a a 1 within his skull exist daily thirteen thousand myriads of worlds, which draw their existence from him, and by him are upheld..i.r.q. iii. 43.1 0. let the practicus study the textbooks of astronomy, travel, if need be, to a land where the sun and stars are visible, and observe the heavens with the best telescopes to which he may have access. let him commit to memory the principal facts, and (at least roughly) the figures of the science. 1. now, since these figures will leave no direct impression with any precision upon his mind, let him adopt this practice a. a. let the practicus b

istant, until he have an image of the whole field of vision. he will probably discover that it is very difficult to increase the apparent size of the picture as he proceeds, and it should be his most earnest endeavour to do so. he should seek in particular to appreciate distances, almost to the point of combating the laws of perspective. 3. these practices a and b accomplished, and his studies in astronomy completed, let him attempt this practice c. c. let the practicus form a mental picture of the earth, in particular striving to realize the size of the earth in comparison with himself, and let him not be content until by assiduity he has well succeeded. let him add the moon, keeping well in mind the relative sizes of, and the distance between, the planet and its satellite. he will probab

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ght .one-third per cent, perhaps, of mortals .scape its woes that knock us, and bilk the wily gonococcus. so he is but a simple cynic who takes the world to match his clinic; and he assuredly may err who, keeping cats, think birds have fur. you say .there.s berridge, felkin, mathers, hysteries, epileptoids, blathers, guttersnipe, psychopath, and mattoid, with ceremonial magic that toyed. granted. astronomy.s no myth, but it produced piazzi smyth. what crazes actors? why do surgeons go mad and cut up men like sturgeons (the questions are the late chas. spurgeon .s) of yogi i could quote you hundreds in science, law, art, commerce noted. they fear no lunacy: their on dread.s not for their noddles doom-devoted. they are not like black bulls (that shunned reds in vain) that madly charge the go

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

reason why the universe is built the way it is. by extending this type of reasoning further, one can imagine that this supernatural being (god) had a purpose in mind when it created our unique universe. this purpose is the creation of a universe where celestial bodies would form and where ultimately life, including human life, could appear. but in fact, victor stenger, a professor of physics and astronomy at the university of hawaii, has shown that other universes, some populated with stars like ours, are possible. to show this, he simulated putative universes where four basic physical constants, the proton and electron masses and the strength of the electromagnetic and strong forces are varied by 10 orders of magnitude, that is, by a factor of one billion-fold. in more than half of these

s the only heavenly body where life, and particularly sentient life, existed. our centrality was assured by the old (and wrong) ptolemaic system in which our planet occupied the center of the universe. as we know, this view was endorsed by the catholic church for many centuries and was officially rescinded only recently in an official, and much belated, apology to galileo. in the meantime, modern astronomy has shown that nearby stars also have planetary companions; our sun s planetary system is no longer unique in the universe. in fact, it now seems that planetary systems analogous to our solar system are common in our stellar neighborhood. these systems seem to be a evolution of the dna world 171 direct consequence of star formation, with primeval circumstellar dust disks coalescing into

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

ion of science, from a point to a line, from a line to a superficies, from a superficies to a solid."65 this "progression" was used by proculus, the last of the classical neo- platonist philosophers, to describe the process by which the deity projects itself into existence.66 given this emphasis, the importance of geometry becomes clear, and its place at tiferet is very appropriate. understanding astronomy, by which the framers of the liberal arts and sciences must certainly have meant astrology, has the connotation of being able to see and understand the divine plan. it is suitably placed in the triad of the spirit. on the central column can be found two new jewels: the level of the senior warden in the triad of the soul, and the square of the master in the triad of the spirit. i have inc

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chaldean philosophy of triads--the orphic egg. 57 wonders of antiquity the ever-burning lamps--the oracle of delphi--the dodonean oracle--the oracle of trophonius--the initiated architects--the seven wonders of the world. 61 the life and philosophy of pythagoras pythagoras and the school of crotona--pythagoric fundamentals--the symmetrical solids--the symbolic aphorisms of pythagoras--pythagorean astronomy--kepler's theory of the universe. 65 pythagorean mathematics the theory of numbers--the numerical values of letters--method of securing the numerical power of words--an introduction to the pythagorean theory of numbers--the sieve of eratosthenes--the meanings of the ten numbers. 69 the human body in symbolism the philosophical manikin--the three universal centers--the temples of initiati

by the sun. after pythagoras of samos, its founder, the italic or pythagorean school numbers among its most distinguished representatives empedocles, epicharmus, archytas, alcm on, hippasus, philolaus, and eudoxus. pythagoras (580-500? b.c) conceived mathematics to be the most sacred and exact of all the sciences, and demanded of all who came to him for study a familiarity with arithmetic, music, astronomy, and geometry. he laid special emphasis upon the philosophic life as a prerequisite to wisdom. pythagoras was one of the first teachers to establish a community wherein all the members were of mutual assistance to one another in the common attainment of the higher sciences. he also introduced the discipline of retrospection as essential to the development of the spiritual mind. pythagore

ance absolutely selfexistent and needing no other conception besides itself to render it complete and intelligible. the nature of this being was held by spinoza to be comprehensible only through its attributes, which are extension and thought: these combine click to enlarge the ptolemaic scheme of the universe. from an old print, courtesy of carl oscar borg. in ridiculing the geocentric system of astronomy expounded by claudius ptolemy, modem astronomers have overlooked the philosophic key to the ptolemaic system. the universe of ptolemy is a diagrammatic representation of the relationships existing between the various divine and elemental parts of every creature, and is not concerned with astronomy as that science is now comprehended. in the above figure, special attention is called to th

nct parts, and the secret teachings embodied therein are practically the same as the mysteries concealed under the allegories of blue lodge masonry. the lowest of the three divisions was that of ovate (ovydd. this was an honorary degree, requiring no special purification or preparation. the ovates dressed in green, the druidic color of learning, and were expected to know something about medicine, astronomy, poetry if possible, and sometimes music. an ovate was an individual admitted to the druidic order because of his general excellence and superior knowledge concerning the problems of life. the second division was that of bard (beirdd. its members were robed in sky-blue, to represent harmony and truth, and to them was assigned the labor of memorizing, at least in part, the twenty thousand

us, stopped at the island of samothrace for the purpose of having its members initiated into the cabiric rites. herodotus relates that when cambyses entered the temple of the cabiri he was unable to restrain his mirth at seeing before him the figure of a man standing upright and, facing the man, the figure of a woman standing on her head. had cambyses been acquainted with the principles of divine astronomy, he would have realized that he was then in the presence of the key to universal equilibrium"'i ask' says voltaire 'who were these hierophants, these sacred freemasons, who celebrated their ancient mysteries of samothracia, and whence came they and their gods cabiri (see mackey's encyclop dia of freemasonry) clement speaks of the mysteries of the cabiri as "the sacred mystery of a brothe

and the mortar of slime. out of the cold ashes of lifeless creeds, however, shall rise phoenixlike the ancient mysteries. no other institution has so completely satisfied the religious aspirations of humanity, for since the destruction of the mysteries there never has been a religious code to which plato could have subscribed. the unfolding of man's spiritual nature is as much an exact science as astronomy, medicine or jurisprudence. to accomplish this end religions were primarily established; and out of religion have come science, philosophy, and logic as methods whereby this divine purpose might be realized. the dying god shall rise again! the secret room in the house of the hidden places shall be rediscovered. the pyramid again shall stand as the ideal emblem of solidarity, inspiration

and egypt, the snake mounds of the american indians, the zikkurats of babylon and chaldea, the round towers of ireland, and the massive rings of uncut stone in britain and normandy. the tower of babel, which, according to the scriptures, was built so that man might reach up to god, was probably an astronomical observatory. many early priests and prophets, both pagan and christian, were versed in astronomy and astrology; their writings are best understood when read in the light of these ancient sciences. with the growth of man's knowledge of the constitution and periodicity of the heavenly bodies, astronomical principles and terminology were introduced into his religious systems. the tutelary gods were given planetary thrones, the celestial bodies being named after the deities assigned to

of julian (hymn to the sun, p. 155. this epithet 'invictus' is the same as the persians gave to this same god, whom they worshipped by the name of mithra, and whom they caused to be born in a grotto (justin. dial. cum trips. p. 305, just as he is represented as being born in a stable, under the name of christ, by the christians" concerning the catholic feast of the assumption and its parallel in astronomy, the same author adds "at the end of eight months, when the sun-god, having increased, traverses the eighth sign, he absorbs the celestial virgin in his fiery course, and she disappears in the midst of the luminous rays and the glory of her son. this phenomenon, which takes place every year about the middle of august, gave rise to a festival which still exists, and in which it is suppose

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rnment there be 22 legions of spirits, partly of the order of virtues and partly of the order of thrones. his mark, seal, or character is this, unto the which he oweth obedience, and which thou shalt wear in time of action, etc (21) marax- the twenty-first spirit is marax. he is a great earl and president. he appeareth like a great bull with a man s face. his office is to make men very knowing in astronomy, and all other liberal sciences; also he can give good familiars, and wise, knowing the virtues of herbs and stones which be precious. he governeth 30 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, which must be made and worn as aforesaid, etc (22) ipos- the twenty-second spirit is lpos. he is an earl, and a mighty prince, and appeareth in the form of an angel with a lion's head, and a goose'

ll the time of action, with his cap or headdress off; for if it be on, amaymon will deceive him and call all his actions to be bewrayed. but as soon as the exorcist seeth asmoday in the shape aforesaid, he shall call him by his name, saying: art thou asmoday? and he will not deny it, and by-and-by he will bow down unto the ground. he giveth the ring of virtues; he teacheth the arts of arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, and all handicrafts absolutely. he giveth true and full answers unto thy demands. he maketh one invincible. he showeth the place where treasures lie, and guardeth it. he, amongst the legions of amaymon governeth 72 legions of spirits inferior. his seal is this which thou must wear as a lamen upon thy breast, etc (33) gaap- the thirty-third spirit is gaap. he is a great preside

ne codex of the seventeenth century, very badly written, it might be read "ox" instead of "wolf- trans [for me he appeared always like an ox, and very dazed.-ed (36) stolas, or stolos- the thirty-sixth spirit is stolas, or stolos. he is a great and powerful prince, appearing in the shape of a mighty raven at first before the exorcist; but after he taketh the image of a man. he teacheth the art of astronomy, and the virtues of herbs and precious stones. he governeth 26 legions of spirits; and his seal is this, which is, etc (37) phenex- the thirty-seventh spirit is phenex (or pheynix. he is a great marquis, and appeareth like the bird phoenix, having the voice of a child. he singeth many sweet notes before the exorcist, which he must not regard, but by-and-by he must bid him put on human sh

go invisible, and also to be witty. he governeth 40 legions of spirits. his seal is this, etc (52) alloces- the fifty-second spirit is alloces, or alocas. he is a duke, great, mighty, and strong, appearing in the form of a soldier22 riding upon a great horse. his face is like that of a lion, very red, and having flaming eyes. his speech is hoarse and very big.23 his office is to teach the art of astronomy, and all the liberal sciences. he bringeth unto thee good familiars; also he ruleth over 36 legions of spirits. his seal is this, which, etc (53) camio or caim- the fifty-third spirit is camio, or caim. he is a great president, and appeareth in the form of the bird called a thrush at first, but afterwards he putteth on the shape of a man carrying in his hand a sharp sword. he seemeth to

herwise. he governeth 36 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, to be worn as a lamen, etc (65) andrealphus- the sixty-fifth spirit is andrealphus. he is a mighty marquis, appearing at first in the form of a peacock, with great noises. but after a time he putteth on human shape. he can teach geometry perfectly. he maketh men very subtle therein; and in all things pertaining unto mensuration or astronomy. he can transform a man into the likeness of a bird. he governeth 30 legions of infernal spirits, and his seal is this, etc (66) cimejes, or cimeies, or kimaris- the sixtysixth spirit is cimejes, or cimeies, or kimaris. he is a marquis, mighty, great, strong and powerful, appearing like a valiant warrior riding upon a goodly black horse. he ruleth over all spirits in the parts of africa

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arly in the parts describing the individual angels and their subordinates. the punctuation in this edition represents my own best guess as to how the run-on strings of words are divided into sentences. the ars paulina is, in one way, the most sophisticated of the books of the lemegeton. unlike the other books, effective practice of its methods required a detailed knowledge of both mathematics and astronomy, possessed in those days only by those who could afford the full course of the traditional liberal arts education. as well, a tremendous amount of effort went into the preparations for any single operation of the art. calculating a single astrological chart by hand, without even the aid of a pre-calculated ephemeris, could consume many hours. there is one flaw in this sophistication, and

MEANING OF MASONRY

e operate metaphysical forces inherent in himself and described by the same terms. in the make-up of each of us exists a psychic magnetic field of various forces, determining our individual temperaments and tendencies and influencing our future. to those forces have also been given the names of" sun" moon" and planets, and the science of their interaction and outworking was the ancient science of astronomy, or, as it is now more often called astrology, which is one of the liberal arts and sciences recommended further to the study of every mason and the pursuit of which notes on belongs in particular to the fellow-craft stage. the positions of the officers of the lodge. the seven officers- three principal and three subordinate ones, with an additional minor one serving as a connecting link

ving mouth-piece of the divine word. geometry and arithmetic were sciences of transcendental space and numeration (seeing that, as in the words of our own scriptures, god has" made everything by measure, number and weight, the comprehension of which provides the key, not only to the problems of one's being, but to those physical ones which are found so baffling by the inductive methods of to-day. astronomy for them required no telescopes; it dealt not with the stars of the sky, but was the science of metaphysics and the understanding of the distribution of the forces latent in, and determining the destiny of, individuals, nations and the race. finally music (or harmony) was for them not of the vocal or instrumental kind; it meant the l iving practice of philosophy, the adjustment of human

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e beyond,although machines can. this has caused them enormous frustration, and they will notrest until they find the means to break through this energy field. the moons orbit haslong been associated with power, protection, and ethereal energies. the chinese referto its encirclement as the coils of the great dragon, and this is what their dragondances are partly about. even in modern astrology and astronomy, we have the moonsnodes, also known as the circling dragon. the dragon symbol is one of the supreme archetypes; one should endeavor to make a com-plete study of all its permutations. if done, an incredible tale will unfold. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation109 from the sword to the syringe beyond the moons circlet of apotropaic power, the true governing angelic agencie

who have spent many decades investigating the causes and significance of this apparentanomaly (p. 182)despite the demonstrated occurrence of an unexpectedly large number of magnetic reversals throughoutearth history, it cannot be a mere coincidence that a particularly well-marked reversal took place aroundthe general date (11,500 years b.c) advocated in this book for the phaeton disaster (p. 183)astronomy and astrophysicsastronomers and astrophysicists, familiar with the near-endless succession of paroxysmal events occur-ring naturally throughout the universe during the birth, evolution and demise of galaxies, stars and sun-dry other cosmic bodies, concede that such events are of the astronomical norm (p. 19)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation169 appendix b: book abstract

r a period of time and mayyet do so again (p. 189)the earths axial rotation was about 30 hours, rather than 24.the moon was closer to the earth in the past. the earths orbit is very erratic and unstable. the speed of rotation on the axis has changed considerably. the earth has a negative electrical charge. this charge emanates from the core. the suns magnetic field reverses every 11 years. modern astronomy recognizes only nine planets in the solar system, mercury, v enus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune and pluto. mercurys orbit is not circular.v enus orbits very slowly for its size and in opposite direction.mars is also slow and extremely erratic.uranus has a tilted axis.pluto has an eccentric orbit.chiron, exists between saturn and uranus, broke off from the former.roche li

orkney islands (p. 22)pharaoh or farraghfarragh was the word for chieftain in hebridean and used by the ancient irish, and also used as a battlecry (p. 23)poseidonaccording to platos critias, he was the creator of men. he was the earthquake deity.appendix b: book abstracts256atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation chaosa word connoting the earth.children of sethwere the inventors of astronomy and erected certain pillars to warn the world of future events. hesays that in the process of time they became perverted, begat sons who made god their enemy, weredespisers of all that was good and were destroyed (p. 26)odysseus meets the fomoriansthe laestrygones were also a giant people, kinsmen of the cyclops, we are told, addicted to cannibal-ismand were worshippers of poseidon like

the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and forseasons, and for days, and years (genesis 1:14)modern religions grew out of four ancient cults of power, which ruled theworld for millennia. the most powerful of these cults was called the stellarcult, dominant for over 25,000 years. christ and all original magi were ini-tiates of this cult, which gave mankind such sciences as: astrology, astronomy, and the tarot. theywere the architects of the great temples-structures, such as the pyramids and sphinx. after the fourgreat cults became corrupted they eventually gave rise to the modern religions and political hierar-chies we all know today. our world is still controlled by the elite families of these secret orders today.in this talk and slide show presentation, michael will present i

ally gave rise to the modern religions and political hierar-chies we all know today. our world is still controlled by the elite families of these secret orders today.in this talk and slide show presentation, michael will present information which will shift your entireview of how religion and politics work to shape the events of the world. astro-theology, the parentsubject of common astrology and astronomy, exposes the occult roots of religion, government and bigbusiness. knowledge of these roots will empower, inform and clarify your perception of the seem-ingly complex dynamics of the world (includes 600+ digital slides).what connection do the symbols of government, religion, royalty and the corporate world have with the constellations and the zodiac? who was jesus christ? was he the foun

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those whose tastes are more technical. this evidence involves the manner in which ancient civilizations rose and fell; it also involves what (how much) ancient man knew, and when he came to know it. ancient man, predictably, attributed their knowledge to the teachings of the gods. to modern scholars, this explanation as to where ancient man received his knowledge of architecture, agriculture, and astronomy is largely unsatisfactory. but it appears that the ancients explanation was no more of a cop-out than the explanations of today s university scholars, who label everything that doesn t fit within their theory a mystery. when it comes to the more tangle forms of evidence, exhibit a would be the ultra-accurate maps of antiquity--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 16 map-making, or cartogr

MORALS AND DOGMA

uch importance, and whose mysteries are found everywhere in the ancient religions, and most of all in the kabalah and in the bible, is not sufficiently expressed by either the word"_geometry" or the word"_trigonometry" for that science includes these, with arithmetic, and also with algebra, logarithms, the integral and differential calculus; and by means of it are worked out the great problems of astronomy or the laws of the stars* virtue is but heroic bravery to _do_ the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces. man is accountable for the _up_rightness of his doctrine, but not for the rightness of it. devout enthusiasm is far easier than a good action. the end of thought is action; the sole purpose of religion is an eth

laim to the exclusive possession of the true meaning of the holy writings, by virtue of the oral tradition which moses had received on mount sinai, and which successive generations of initiates had transmitted, as they claimed, unaltered, unto them. their very costume, their belief in the influences of the stars, and in the immortality and transmigration of souls, their system of angels and their astronomy, were all foreign. sadduceeism arose merely from an opposition essentially jewish, to these foreign teachings, and that mixture of doctrines, adopted by the pharisees, and which constituted the popular creed. we come at last to the _essenes_ and _therapeuts, with whom this degree is particularly concerned. that intermingling of oriental and occidental rites, of persian and pythagorean op

bitious of worldly honors and distinctions, he was rejected. in his lectures, pythagoras taught the mathematics, as a medium whereby to prove the existence of god from observation and by means of reason; grammar, rhetoric, and logic, to cultivate and improve that reason, arithmetic, because he conceived that the ultimate benefit of man consisted in the science of numbers, and geometry, music, and astronomy, because he conceived that man is indebted to them for a knowledge of what is really good and useful. he taught the true method of obtaining a knowledge of the divine laws of purifying the soul from its imperfections, of searching for truth, and of practising virtue; thus imitating the perfections of god. he thought his system vain, if it did not contribute to expel vice and introduce vi

ine, the christian emperor, allowed to do so, after his murder of his relatives. everywhere, and in all their forms, the mysteries were funereal; and celebrated the mystical death and restoration to life of some divine or heroic personage: and the details of the legend and the mode of the death varied in the different countries where the mysteries were practised. their explanation belongs both to astronomy and mythology; and the legend of the master's degree is but another form of that of the mysteries, reaching back, in one shape or other, to the remotest antiquity. whether egypt originated the legend, or borrowed it from india or chald a, it is now impossible to know. but the hebrews received the mysteries from the egyptians; and of course were familiar with _their legend--known as it wa

when isis first found the body, where it had floated ashore near byblos, a shrub of _erica_ or tamarisk near it had, by the virtue of the body, shot up into a tree around it, and protected it; and hence our sprig of acacia. isis was also aided in her search by anubis, in the shape of a dog. he was sirius or the dog-star, the friend and counsellor of osiris, and the inventor of language, grammar, astronomy, surveying, arithmetic, music, and medical science; the first maker of laws; and who taught the worship of the gods, and the building of temples. in the mysteries, the nailing up of the body of osiris in the chest or ark was termed the _aphanism, or disappearance [of the sun at the winter solstice, below the tropic of capricorn, and the recovery of the different parts of his body by isis

al physiology. so phanes, the light-god, in the mysteries of the new orphics, emerged from the egg of chaos: and the persians had the great egg of ormuzd. and sanchoniathon tells us that in the ph nician theology, the matter of chaos took the form of an egg; and he adds "such are the lessons which the son of thabion, first hierophant of the ph nicians, turned into allegories, in which physics and astronomy intermingled, and which he taught to the other hierophants, whose duty it was to preside at orgies and initiations; and who, seeking to excite the astonishment and admiration of mortals, faithfully transmitted these things to their successors and the initiates" in the mysteries was also taught the division of the universal cause into an active and a passive cause; of which two, osiris an

the seventh, of gold, that of the sun. this order is not the real order of these planets; but a mysterious one, like that of the days of the week consecrated to them, commencing with saturday, and _retrograding_ to sunday. it was dictated, celsus says, by certain harmonic relations, those of the fourth. thus there was an intimate connection between the sacred science of the mysteries, and ancient astronomy and physics; and the grand spectacle of the sanctuaries was that of the order of the known universe, or the spectacle of nature itself, surrounding the soul of the initiate, as it surrounded it when it first descended through the planetary gates, and by the equinoctal and solstitial doors, along the milky way, to be for the first time immured in its prison-house of matter. but the myster

irtue and piety and good deeds, the soul was enabled at length to free itself from the body, and ascend along the path of the milky way, by the gate of capricorn and by the seven spheres, to the place whence by many gradations and successive lapses and enthralments it had descended. and thus the theory of the spheres, and of the signs and intelligences which preside there, and the whole system of astronomy, were connected with that of the soul and its destiny; and so were taught in the mysteries, in which were developed the great principles of physics and metaphysics as to the origin of the soul, its condition here below, its destination, and its future fate. the greeks fix the date of the establishment of the mysteries of eleusis at the year 1423 b.c, during the reign of erechtheus at ath

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s he recognized as a guide. to be accepted and admired, he must say what we all know, but have not told each other till it is tedious, and say it in simple and clear language, a little more emphatically and eloquently than we have been accustomed to hear; and he must please and flatter us in the telling by soothing our fears and stimulating our hopes and our self-esteem. when an artist whether in astronomy, like copernicus, anthropology, like ibsen, or anatomy, like darwin selects a set of facts too large, too recondite, or too "regrettable" to receive instant assent from everybody; when he presents conclusions which conflict with popular credence or prejudice; when he employs a language which is not generally intelligible to all; in such cases he must be content to appeal to the few. he m

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this evil race, except deucalion and pyrrha. the theory of hesiod,[8] the oldest of all the greek poets, was that the titan prometheus, the son of iapetus, had formed man out of clay, and that athene had breathed a soul into him. full of love for the beings he had called into existence, prometheus determined to elevate their minds and improve their condition in every way; he therefore taught them astronomy, mathematics, the alphabet, how to cure diseases, and the art of divination. he created this race in page 24 such great numbers that the gods began to see the necessity of instituting certain fixed laws with regard to the sacrifices due to them, and the worship to which they considered themselves entitled from mankind in return for the protection which they accorded them. an assembly was

occupy a more distinguished position than the muses, the nine beautiful daughters of zeus and mnemosyne. in their original signification, they presided merely over music, song, and dance; but with the progress of civilization the arts and sciences claimed their special presiding divinities, and we see these graceful creations, in later times, sharing among them various functions, such as poetry, astronomy &c. the muses were honoured alike by mortals and immortals. in olympus, where apollo acted as their leader, no banquet or festivity was considered complete without their joy-inspiring presence, and on earth no social gathering was celebrated without libations being poured out to them; nor was any task involving intellectual effort ever undertaken, without earnestly supplicating their ass

muse of comedy, carries in her right hand a shepherd's crook, and has a comic mask beside her. polyhymnia, the muse of sacred hymns, is crowned with a wreath of laurel. she is always represented in a thoughtful attitude, and entirely enveloped in rich folds of drapery. terpsichore, the muse of dance and roundelay, is represented in the act of playing on a seven-stringed lyre. urania, the muse of astronomy, stands erect, and bears in her left hand a celestial globe. euterpe, the muse of harmony, is represented bearing a musical instrument, usually a flute. erato, the muse of love and hymeneal songs, wears a wreath of laurel, and is striking the chords of a lyre [160] page 181 erato. page 182 euterpe. page 183 terpsichore. page 184 clio. with regard to the origin of the muses, it is said th

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se of epic poetry, was the mother of orpheus; when he was torn apart by the maenads (see p. 31, the other muses helped her gather his limbs and bury them at the foot of mount olympus. the muses themselves lived on mount helicon. the other eight muses were: clio (history, euterpe (fluteplaying, terpsichore (dance, erato (lyric poetry, melpomene (tragedy, thalia (comedy, polymnia (mime, and urania (astronomy. orpheus and eurydice 31 hesitant walk eurydice, newly arrived in the land of the dead, still walked slowly with a limp from her injured foot. when she was returning to the upper world, this caused her to lag behind orpheus, making him doubt that she was still with him and glance back. orpheus singing the singing of orpheus even eased the torments of the damned. according to ovid, the gh

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s that, throughout the true tarot, the teaching assigns the commencing point of the zodiac to the bright star "regulus" which is in leo. and it measures right ascension and longitude from that point, and not from a suppositious point divided by the equinox and called the 0" of aries (though in reality now far removed from the constellation of that name, which has been adopted by modern or western astronomy and astrology. by this now usual way of reckoning, and the precession of the equinoxes, it has gradually come to pass that the signs (or divisions, each of 30, of the zodiac) no longer coincide with the constellations of the same name, and each decade of years shows them slowly but surely receding. but the tarot method of reckoning from the star named regulus has, it will be seen, the ef

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bell in the middle of the night 226 whichannounced his success. however, when the other brethren reached him, he was lying on the floor,apparently dead. the brethren tried to discover his last secret by consulting the working papers thatlay on the bench205the initiate is therefore put into the role of a brother trying to piece together gualdi222s discovery, byinvestigating alchemy, astrology and astronomy, etc. at the climax of the philosophus ceremony,the initiate sees gualdi return to life 226 the hymn which is sung at this point giving some telling cluesrituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliaforeword3 as to the real nature of the "elixir vitae"alex sumner.rituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliaforeword4 zelatorfirst sectionthe aspirant in the preparation room, retains h

on of man through the science of chemistry.2nd chemist:perfection of man, thou canst not find it here. the rosicrucian chemist bestows his time, dutifully togod in diligent search of the scriptures, in healing without man's reward, and in experimenting in thehidden secrets of nature and art; he delves in true physics and medicine, and as the hope you willhereafter discover in true mathematics and astronomy, by which being enabled to produce more andwonderful effects, he is brought nearer to god and his perfections; but perfection is obtainable onlyin the spirit when beyond these realms.as rosicrucians we are laborious, frugal, temperate, discreet and true, and. while acknowledgingourselves lovers of truth and virtue we neither dream of, hope for, nor endeavour to make anyreformation in the

ch. we are toapproach creation, the breaking away of night, to enter upon the first rays of lux. the chaoticelements of fire and flood are to give place to a serene, calm, passionless and pure existence of allthings terrestrial and celestial; the heavens and. the earth are to take form, system and harmony. therituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliaphilosophus37 fair urania, the goddess of astronomy, by the aid of the divine will, is to guide our mentalfootsteps. as the pure and heavenly teacher appointed 12 apostles to make known his holy laws, soastronomy, through the wondrous mower of the great creator of all things, has 12 instructors called"gates, or signs of the zodiac, which typify the 12 stones of foundation of the holy city. the mindof the father also decreed that all thing

es such strong proof and evidence at thewondrous power of the great creator of all things. it could be impossible to contemplate theheavens and not believe in the existence of one supreme being of the universe.a consideration of this science includes the movements, distribution, and the physical characteristicsof the heavenly bodies. next to that of tilling the soil to obtain sustenance for life, astronomy is theoldest science, for it became essential to measure time, and this could be furnished only through astudy of the firmament.the first recorded observations off any remarkable accuracy are those from the tower of bel, atbabylon, by the assyrians in the 23rd century before this era. this powerful empire understood theuse of the dial, the precession of the equinoxes, and within a fracti

eive credit in astronomical history. theremarkable coincidence exists, that through the inclined entrance of the great pyramid, the stardraco, in hesperides, at its upper transit was visible day and night, and marked the period 2170 bcor the period when the chronological mensuration takes 25,868 years to return to itself again. theerection of that pyramid marked the great year of the pleiades.the astronomy of the chinese is ancient though inexact. the wise chwien-hio marked 2449 yearsbefore christ, as an epoch, through the conjunction of mercury, mars, jupiter and saturn. theseancient people understood, to some extent, the celestial motions, calculated eclipses and slew two oftheir philosophers, ho and hi, for not announcing an eclipse of the sun, 2169 bcthe ionian school of the greeks was

of the planets, and described. their motions by atheory of epicycles: he also invented plain and spherical trigonometry. ptolemy followed, correctingthe procession, but insisted in placing the earth in the centre of his system.the arabians, impelled by the mahomedan faith, swept down upon the egyptians in the 7th.century, and by the destruction of the alexandrian library, the great history of the astronomy of thispast was mainly lost to the world. but the arabians surpassed the greeks in practical astronomy.continental europe took little interest in this science until the 13th century, and even then madeimmaterial advancement until the active days of the rosicrucians when fraters purbach andreglementanus paved the way for our brother copernicus, who died in 1543, aged 70, and whofounded th

phus44 with this brief review of the history of our science, you will repair to the suffragan for furtherinstruction.the conductor and practicus now pass the centre of the east to the station of the suffragan.suffragan:whatever throws additional light on the marvels of the aerial world, and into the starry depths,necessarily exercises a powerful influence over the mind of the earnest rosicrucian. astronomy is anexact science, but an abstruse subject, yet a simple key opens much of its inner mysteries. we dividethe heavens into three classes, the world of air, the world of stars, and the heaven of heavens.the first embraces the atmospheric envelope, clouds, and attendant storms with their inhabitants.the second includes the infinite space containing the stars, planets, asteroids, meteors, c

ch are harnessed. two sphinxes, one white and the other black, makingcontrary exertions, and turning the head to look backward.you will now return to the chief adept and be mindful of his final instructions.conductor of novices and his companion repair to the chief adept in the centre of the hall.chief adept:my brother, thus far your instruction has teen mainly directed to historical and physical astronomy,but man has within him a microcosmical sun, moon and stars, that bear a. sympathy with thecelestial bodies, and in the centre of which shines thee divine spirit. this celestial spirit actuatesand influences thee elementary essence and stirs it up to the propagation of its like, for which naturedesigned it, shining with a pure, ethereal, angelic part called the rational soul, being a divi

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imension, an affirmation for each negation: herein is the eternal realization of the phoenix allegory. two illustrious scholars have preceded me along the path that i am travelling, but they have, so to speak, spent the dark night therein. i refer to volney and dupuis, to dupuis above all, whose immense erudition produced only a negative work, for in the origin of all religions he saw nothing but astronomy, taking thus the symbolic cycle for doctrine and the calendar for legend. he was deficient in one branch of knowledge, that of true magic which comprises the secrets of the kabalah. dupuis passed through the antique sanctuaries, like the prophet ezekiel over the plain strewn with bones, and only understood death, for want of that word which collects the virtue of the four winds and can m

rice, by the moon; charity, in opposition to luxury, by venus, the bright star of morning and evening; strength, superior to wrath, by mars; prudence, hostile to idleness, by mercury; temperance, opposed to gluttony, by saturn, who was given a stone instead of his children to devour; finally, justice, in opposition to envy, by jupiter, the conqueror of the titans. such are the symbols borrowed by astronomy from the hellenic cultus. in the kabalah of the hebrews, the sun represents the angel of light; the moon, the angel of aspirations and dreams; mars, the destroying angel; venus, the angel of loves; mercury, the angel of progress; jupiter, the angel of power: saturn, the angel of the wilderness. they were named also michael, gabriel, samael, anael, raphael, zachariel and orifiel. these go

rated it in their rites. the seventh year was a jubilee among the jews; the seventh day is set apart for rest and prayer; there are seven sacraments, etc. the seven colours of the prism and the seven musical notes correspond also to the seven planets of the ancients, that is, to the seven chords of the human lyre. the spiritual heaven has never changed, and astrology has been more invariable than astronomy. the seven planets are, in fact, the hieroglyphic symbols of the keyboard of our affections. to compose talismans of the sun, moon or saturn, is to attach the will magnetically to signs corresponding to the chief powers of the soul; to consecrate something to mercury or venus is the fiery sword 37 to magnetize that object according to a direct intention, whether pleasure, science or prof

so to take into consideration human liberty and its initiative, should the child eventually come to be a true man and to isolate himself by strength of will from fatal influences and from the chain of destiny. it will be seen that we do not allow too much to astrology, but so much as we leave it is indubitable: it is the scientific and magical calculus of probabilities. astrology is as ancient as astronomy, and indeed it is more ancient; all seers of lucid antiquity have accorded it their fullest confidence; and it is not for us to condemn and reject lightly anything which comes before us encompassed and supported by such imposing authorities. long and patient observations, conclusive comparisons, frequently repeated experiments, must have led the old sages to their decisions, and to refut

er also wherein consists the salvation and reprobation of men, all called and all elected successively, but in small number, after having risked falling into the eternal fire through their own fault. such is the great and sublime revelation of the magi, a revelation which is the mother of all symbols, of all dogmas, of all religions. we can realize already how far dupuis was mistaken in regarding astronomy as the source of every cultus. it is astronomy, on the contrary, which has sprung from astrology, and primitive astrology is one of the branches of the holy kabalah, the science of sciences and the religion of religions. hence upon the seventeenth page of the tarot we find an admirable allegory a naked woman, typifying truth, nature and wisdom at one and the same time, turns two ewers to

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s termed them the seven great archangels, giving them the names of michael, gabriel, raphael, anael, samael, zadkiel and oriphiel. the christian gnostics named the four last uriel, barachiel, sealtiel and jehudiel. other nations attributed to these spirits the government of the seven chief planets, and assigned to them the names of their chief divinities. all believed in their relative influence; astronomy divided the antique heaven between them and allotted the seven days of the week to their successive rule. such is the reason of the various ceremonies of the magical week and the septenary cultus of the planets. we have observed previously that in this sense the planets are only signs; they have the influence which universal faith attributes because they are more truly the stars of the h

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ek ni definiran. philosophy ancient egyptian philosophy inhabiting a land characterized by the regularity of the elements (behavior of the winds, the nile, the climate, the sun, and the skies, the egyptians sought perfection in stability, harmony, symmetry, geometry, and a cyclical [as opposed to progressive or linear] concept of time. egyptian achievements, correspondingly, were in areas such as astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and architecture. egyptian religion and art tend to be oversimplified in many modern treatments, due in part to the absence of verifiable data in later history until the deciphering of hieroglyphics by champollion in 1822. because of the destruction and despoliation of ancient egyptian records and works of art by religious fanatics of later eras, it is estimated t

omponent of orphism, the cult of dionysus, which emphasized the division of the human being into psychic and material components] pythagoras (569-470 bce) was born and lived his early years on samos, which was exposed to the "barbaric" east as well as to the greek west. initiated into the egyptian priesthood of hathor, he remained in egypt over ten years, learned hieroglyphics, and was exposed to astronomy, geometry, and the egyptian concepts of panpsychism. sent to babylon, he was there exposed to persian dualism. he saw the psyche as "good" and the matter into which it entered as "evil, but accepted their merger as something at least temporarily fulfilling to both. goal for the psyche was its escape from reincarnation into an eternal existence of pure spirit. the "music of the spheres. f

s. this resulted in widespread migration into urban areas and the consequent creation of large cities (such as alexandria, with a population of 500,000- 1,000,000. hellenistic art differed from hellenic by a greater emphasis on qualities of exaggerated realism, sensationalism, and voluptuousness. luxurious palaces and elaborate public works were undertaken. a flowering of the sciences occurred in astronomy, mathematics, geography, medicine, and physics. the seleucid empire embraced elam, sumeria, persia, babylonia, assyria, syria, phoenicia, and at times asia minor and palestine. the function of the empire was to give to the near east the economic protection provided earlier by persia and later by the roman empire. commerce was the key to its prosperity. old persian trade routes were expan

bal mind: the thought `appears' to consciousness in much the same fashion that an object `appears' to the eye. yet the thought-form is subject to rational review and empirical use, just as the object seen with the eye is subject to other tests of existence. compare the prerequisites demanded of students by pythagoras and plato, and those of mystics hostile to intellect. music theory, geometry and astronomy are hardly needed for the abandonment of reason! we never find such things required by shamans, gurus, meditation instructors, priests, or other teachers of the right-hand path. on this basis alone, we ought to reject the identification of platonic noesis with mysticism. moreover, these prerequisites share a common feature: each has evolved notation and formalism. an artificial language

rdinary [for he went into the adyta of the egyptians (and, as clemens saith, permitted himself to that end to be circumcised) and learned things not to be communicated concerning the gods, mystick philosophy] he travelled to all the priests, and was instructed by every one, in that wherein they were particularly learned. in egypt he lived twenty two years, in their private sacred places, studying astronomy and geometry, and was initiated (not cursorily or casually) into all the religious mysteries of the gods. laertius saith, he made three cups of silver, and presented them to each [society] of the egyptian priests; which, as we said, were three, of heliopolis, memphis, and thebes. the sphinx: it is perhaps worthy of note that the sources cited by stanley lived at points of time when the b

in the house of his grandparents. they gave him a chemistry set, and he set out straightaway to making explosions and strange smells in the basement. his grandfather encouraged lovecraft's scientific pursuits and his taste for the weird, telling him horror tales and folk legends. lovecraft received his first telescope in 1903 at the age of 13; shortly thereafter he began writing and publishing an astronomy newsletter. he had an intense lust for knowledge. this translated into precise thinking, yet he had a powerful imagination. there are elements of his innate nature, and his physiology, which are peculiar. we don't know to whether these were side effects, illness, or mutation. we know that he possessed an extreme sensitivity to cold- he was most lively at high temperatures, became letharg

out that. that's ucky. that's terrible. setians try to raise these principles to their ultimate potential (the deification of the bestial) as part of our idea of xeper, of becoming, but for most people these are hideous ancestral secrets they would rather not deal with. lovecraft enjoys working with this dread. finally, there is the starry wisdom element of his tales. lovecraft's understanding of astronomy and the sciences is incorporated to emphasize that the actual structure of reality is so fantastic, there is no reason to rely on old fables and old tales to reveal the strangeness and otherness of things. anyone who actually looked into it would find the cosmos unimaginably vast and alien. lovecraft certainly portrayed this as an element of horror. setians experience almost an exaltatio

ier books, 1974. m. crowley, aleister, magick in theory and practice, new york, ny: castle books, n.d. n. davis, v. l, pathways to the gods, ancient egypt, washington, dc: national geographic society, 1978, pp, 154-201. o. frazer, j. g, the golden bough, new york, ny: macmillan co, 1971. p. lavey, anton szandor, the satanic bible, new york, ny: avon books, 1969. q. lockyer, j. norman, the dawn of astronomy, cambridge, ma: m.i.t. press, 1964. r. rossiter, e, the book of the dead, fribourg/geneva: miller graphics, 1979. s. watts, alan, beyond theology, new york, ny: vintage books, 1973. the ordeal(1) classification: v2- a17.25- 1 author: alexandra sarris iii date: march 24-25, xiv html revision: september 27, 1998 ce subject: xem- ordeal in preparation for the evening's work, i had spent a g

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em-ists1, may be likened to a code describing ideas more profound than their absurd and laborious rituals seem to describe. many illuminating comparisons may be made with the classical works of the hermeticists, texts which are commonly accepted to be metaphorical. we might like to think, for example, that modern chemistry is progressive, and that alchemy was in some way primitive, or that modern astronomy is an improvement upon the astrology of the ancients. yet this is not really so; the ancient egyptians possessed knowledge of chemistry that is only now being verified by modern science. their astrologers were aware of the dog star sirius before modern astronomers were. the difference is that these schools also possessed the esoteric wisdom, of which modern science recognises only the ou

gems and perfumes. ezeqeel: taught the science of meteorology. gadreel: god is my helper. identified by enoch as the one who lead eve astray, although eve protested strongly that she had..copulated with no false beguiling serpent. also taught men how to make tools and weapons. kasdaye: taught women how to abort. kashdejan: taught the curing of diseases including those of the mind. kokabel: taught astronomy and the science of the constellations. penemue/penemuel: who taught the art of writing although through this many went astray until this day, for men were not created for such a purpose to confirm their good intentions with pen and ink. is also able to cure stupidity. pharmaros: who brought us pharmacy, herb lore, and diagnosis. satanail/salamiel: great prince amongst grigori. according

tian papyri dealing in magick. the word also appears as a designation for a demon created from the spirit of a beheaded criminal. the rite of the bornless one is employed in goetic evocation, chiefly through the innovation of aliester crowley. alloces (goetia, 52nd spirit. duke commanding 36 legions. a soldier with a red face and flaming eyes, with a huge and course voice, riding a horse. teaches astronomy and liberal arts, gives good familiars. the name possibly has its roots in the greek allecto, meaning she who is unremitting, a cthonian goddess who arose from the spilt blood of kronos father. amaimon (goetia. demon king of the element of earth, and of the north. possibly traceable to ammonium, the oracle site of the egyptian god amun. alternatively, the celts had an agricultural god na

friends. the name is traceable to the egyptian god amun, who was usually represented as a ram andras (goetia, 63rd spirit. marquis commanding 30 legions. angel with a black raven, riding a strong black wolf, with a shining sword. sower of discord. andrealphus (goetia, 65th spirit. marquis commanding 30 legions, who appears as a peacock accompanied by loud noises. teaches geometry, mensuration and astronomy. turns men into birds. andromalius (goetia, 72nd spirit. earl commanding 36 legions, who appears as a man holding a large serpent. retrieves stolen good, punishes miscreants, finds out all underhand dealings, and locates hidden treasure. aniquiel one of the nine great dukes of hell, specifically named as being the serpent in the garden. ariton (goetia. demon king of water, and the west

etimes a woman, he runs the casinos in hell. on earth, he tempts humans to squander their wealth, following meaningless fads of fashion. the child of lilith and an angel. inventor of carousels, music, dancing and drama. archdemon corresponding to geburah (mathers, waite) or to netzach (crowley. 32nd spirit of the goetia, a king commanding 72 legions. gives the ring of virtues, teaches arithmatic, astronomy, geometry, handicrafts. answers demands fully and truthfully, makes one invincible, finds and guards hidden treasures. originally an old iranian spirit inherited by the post exile jews (tobias 3: 8, 17. in some ways reminiscent of the assyrian demon pazuzu. astaroth, ashtaroth (persian ashtoreth, the biblical place name ashtoreth-karnaim means ashtoreth of the twin horns. goetia, 29th sp

m. patron devil of avarice, and ambassador to england. who is so stooped from the impact from the fall that he must spend his days staring at the ground. possibly a form of mammitu, the akkadian goat headed queen of the underworld, goddess of oaths and pacts, spouse of nergal. marax, morax (goetia, 21st spirit. earl and president commanding 30 legions. appears as a bull with a human face. teaches astronomy, gives wise familiars who know the virtues of herbs and stones. marbas (goetia, 5th spirit. president commanding 36 legions. appears as a great lion. gives true answers on secret matters, causes and cures disease, teaches mechanics, transforms men into other forms. marchosia, marchocias (goetia, 35th spirit. formerly an angel of dominations, now a prince of hell. appears as a wolf or ox

nimals, of whatsoever nature they may be. sitri (goetia, 12th spirit. prince commanding 60 legions. procures love, compels people to appear naked. skratte (anglo-saxon. a name for the devil, which also means a sorcerer, and cross dresser! recognised as a title for the magister in some forms of the craft. stolas (goetia, 36th spirit. prince commanding 26 legions. appears as a mighty raven. teaches astronomy, and the virue of herbs and stones. succor-beloth. who presides over the devil s harem in hell, and tempts mortals to lechery. succubus (latin, succumbere, meaning to lie beneath. female demons who steal men s seed during the night. erotic dreams and sexual vampires. surgat (grimorium verum, honorius. a subordinate spirit of lucifer. has power to open all locks, to locate and transport t

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plains in the armed forces. someone must be wrong, someplace. could it be that satan is the one qualified to act as accuser? certainly they named him that! when a puppy reaches maturity it becomes a dog; when ice melts it is called water; when twelve months have been used up, we get a new calendar with the proper chronological name; when "magic" becomes scientific fact we refer to it as medicine, astronomy, etc. when one name is no longer appropriate for a given thing it is only logical to change it to a new one which better fits the subject. why, then, do we not follow suit in the area of religion? why continue to call a religion the same name when the tenets of that religion no longer fit the original one? or, if religion does preach the same things that it always has, but its followers

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tities. these problems usually involved finding lengths, widths, or diagonals of rectangles. in babylonian times, astrology, or the study of how the planets affect human lives, became an important part of religion. the movements of the planets had to be charted, and for this mathematical calculations were a vital tool. the observation of the stars and planets likewise led to the modern science of astronomy. world religions: almanac 65 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia ancient egyptian influences egyptian religion passed on many of its deities to other religions. for example, isis, in her aspect as the mother of horus, also influenced the later christian cult of the virgin mary. like the mesopotamians, the egyptians also passed on additional products of their religion in the form o

being infinite, just as plato and aristotle had centuries before. influences on science further, modern western science would not exist without the foundation laid by greek thinkers. the atomists anticipated modern atomic theory, and biology is highly indebted to aristotle and his classification systems. many greek philosophers, including thales and anaximander, made significant contributions to astronomy. anaximander was also an early evolutionist, noting from a study of fossils that animals tend to develop from simpler forms into more complex ones. mathematics was profoundly changed by the pythagoreans work with numbers, such as the pythagorean theorem. likewise, physics owes much to the work of thinkers such as empedocles. the greek desire to offer rational explanations also contribute

ns for the scientific method (the systematic investigation of a problem, including formulating the problem, gathering data and evidence, and testing theories through experimentation) and systematized the study of chemistry (the science of the composition of substances. they also invented algebra, which is from the arabic word al-jabr, meaning the reduction. muslim scientists made great strides in astronomy (the study of the stars and planets) and gave the world such tools as the astrolabe, a device used for navigation and time-keeping at sea by plotting the position of the sun and stars. without such tools, the european explorer christopher columbus (1451 1506) would not have been able to make his voyage to the new world in 1492. islamic countries were also the source of many words and con

only to the qur an. it is sometimes even called the qur an-e farsi, meaning the qur an in persian. another poet who gained some fame in the western world is omar khayyam (1048 1131, a persian astronomer and mathematician who also wrote a long series of four-line poems called robaiyat, usually written as rubaiyat in english. these poems covered a range of topics, including history, law, medicine, astronomy, and mathematics. they are best known in the west from their translation and adaptation by the english poet edward fitzgerald (1809 1883, who in 1859 published them under the title the rubaiyat of omar kayyam. likely the most famous work of islamic literature in the west is the book of one thousand and one nights, often popularly referred to as a thousand and one nights or sometimes just

texts are divided into three groups: the purva, the anga, and the angabahya. however, fourteen of the purva texts, plus the last anga text, are now also lost. from references in other, later texts, the purva texts are believed to have been compiled about 250 years before mahavira lived, during the time of parshva from roughly 650 to 700 bce. these texts outline jain beliefs about such matters as astronomy, the nature of the universe, the soul, and karma. the anga texts, which by default have become the central texts of jainism, summarize the teachings of the purva texts and include a traditional history of jainism down to the time of mahavira. all of these texts were passed down orally by generations of monks who memorized them. scholars believe that they were finally compiled at bhadrabh

ems and how to live a good life. for them, the concept of an ordering principle to the universe, such as nous, was appealing. they criticized anaxagoras, however, for not taking his theory further and explaining the purpose of such an ordering principle. anaxagoras simply explained his theory of matter and motion but did not ask why it happened as it did. anaxagoras was also known for his work in astronomy (the study of the sun, moon, planets, stars, and objects found in space, which may have been inspired by the fall of a large meteorite, or mass of matter that falls to earth from space, near aegypotomi in 467 bce. he believed that the sun was a blazing ball of metal about the size of the peloponessus, the major island of southern greece. anaxagoras went further, however, and said that th

totle, and his teacher plato (c. 427 347 bce; see entry) were the most famous of the classic greek philosophers. the word philosophia means love of wisdom, a concept embraced with great energy by men such as these. aristotle wrote not only on philosophical and logical matters, but also on biology, the natural sciences, ethics, politics, poetry, drama, economics, meteorology (the study of weather, astronomy (the study of the planets and stars, theology (the study of religion, and psychology (the study of the mind. most significantly, he was the first to treat many of these areas of knowledge as subjects worthy of individual study. his existing writings fill more than two thousand pages, and that is thought to be only a small portion of his total work. plato searched for the ultimate reality

in order to study at his yeshiva, or jewish school. mendelssohn s life in berlin was one of extreme poverty, and although he earned small sums of money by tutoring, he was forced to accept meals from neighboring families. he did, however, receive a very thorough education at the yeshiva. in addition to studying jewish theology (the study of religion, he became skilled in mathematics, philosophy, astronomy (the study of the stars and planets, and logic. he studied french, english, italian, greek, and latin. he used his small income to purchase a latin copy of essay concerning human understanding, a major work by the english philosopher john locke (1632 1704. mendelssohn took a job tutoring the children of isaac bernhard, a silk merchant in 1750. he quickly won bernhard s confidence, and in

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his ignorance. man's natural tendency is to egotism. man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him. for several ages he saw in the countless worlds that sparkle through space like the bubbles of a shoreless ocean only the petty candles, the household torches, that providence had been pleased to light for no other purpose but to make the night more agreeable to man. astronomy has corrected this delusion of human vanity; and man now reluctantly confesses that the stars are worlds larger and more glorious than his own, that the earth on which he crawls is a scarce visible speck on the vast chart of creation. but in the small as in the vast, god is equally profuse of life. the traveller looks upon the tree, and fancies its boughs were formed for his shelter in t

s of the sons of science, upon an embryo world, upon a crude, wan, attenuated mass of matter, one of the nebulae, which the suns of the myriad systems throw off as they roll round the creator's throne, to become themselves new worlds of symmetry and glory, planets and suns that forever and forever shall in their turn multiply their shining race, and be the fathers of suns and planets yet to come*"astronomy instructs us that, in the original condition of the solar system, the sun was the nucleus of a nebulosity or luminous mass which revolved on its axis, and extended far beyond the orbits of all the planets, the planets as yet having no existence. its temperature gradually diminished, and, becoming contracted by cooling, the rotation increased in rapidity, and zones of nebulosity were succ

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lor in numerical terms. and when two substances combine in a compound, it happens always in certain specific quantities that can be numerically expressed that the two substances come together. the pythagoreans paid special attention to such instances of measure and the mysteries and pre-socratic philosophy 37 proportion in nature. geometrical figures play a similar role in nature, for instance in astronomy, in the application of mathematics to the heavenly bodies. central to the way of thinking developed by the pythagoreans is the fact that one discovers numerical and geometrical laws purely through autonomous mental activity. and when one s gaze is turned toward the natural world, things obey the same laws that have been ascertained in one s own soul. if one grasps the idea of an ellipse

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to further stress the seriousness of his study program, pythagoras lectured while standing behind a curtain, thereby denying all personal contact with his students until they had achieved progress on a ladder of initiatory degrees that allowed them to reach the higher grades. while separated from them by the curtain, pythagoras lectured his students on the basic principles of music, mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy. pythagoras called his disciples mathematicians, for he believed that the higher teachings began with the study of numbers. from his perspective, he had fashioned a rational theology. the science of numbers lay in the living forces of divine faculties in action in the world, in universal macrocosm, and in the earthly microcosm of the human being. numbers were transcendent

hom had been recruited from the ranks of brazil s leading scientists, medical doctors, administrators, and writers, with an occasional learned visitor from abroad. as a trance-speaking medium, mirabelli particularly excelled in xenoglossy, the ability to speak in languages unknown to him in his normal state. not only did he speak in foreign tongues, but he gave spontaneous lectures on philosophy, astronomy, sociology, politics, medicine, history, and the natural sciences. these speeches were delivered alternately in german, french, dutch, english, greek, polish, syrian, albanian, czech, four italian dialects, arabic, turkish, hebrew, chinese, japanese, and several african dialects, in addition to latin, ancient greek, and his native tongue, portuguese. as an automatic-writing medium, he pr

s he sat in the house of nobles, swedenborg was much admired for his political views. some of his opinions were a bit unsettling to his royal benefactors, however, for swedenborg was openly in favor of a democratic form of government. hardly content to pontificate in the house of nobles, he published works on the nature of the universe, as well as papers on geology, physics, anatomy, zoology, and astronomy which were decidedly ahead of their time. in 1734, he published prodomus philosophia ratiocinatrio de infinite, which explores the relationship of the finite to the infinite and of the soul to the body. in spite of his mastery of the material sciences and mechanical engineering, it was becoming obvious to all his readers that swedenborg s concept of the supreme effort of humankind was an

ery of body, soul, and spirit could one see beyond death and perceive the pathways to be taken in the afterlife. only when one has conquered fate and acquired divine freedom could he or she, the initiate, become a seer, a magician, an initiator. the greek philosopher pythagoras (c. 580 c. 500 b.c.e) learned the secret doctrine of numbers, the heliocentric system of the universe, music, astrology, astronomy, mathematics, and geometry from the powerful egyptian magi. before he established his own school of philosophy in southern italy, pythagoras spent 22 years in the temples of egypt as an initiate in the ancient mysteries. a particularly interesting aspect of the egyptian mystery schools is that for centuries the pharaohs themselves were the pupils and instruments of the hierophants, the m

, which is the mountain region of megiddo. megiddo is the site where the great final battle between good and evil will be fought as prophesied and will be a decisive catastrophic event that many believe will be the end of the world. astral self theosophical belief that humans possess a second body that cannot be perceived with normal senses, yet it coexists with the human body and survives death. astronomy the scientific study of the of the workings of the universe of stars, planets, their positions, sizes, composition, movement behavior. via the old french and latin from greek astronomia, meaning literally star-arranging. automatic writingwriting that occurs through either an involuntary, or unconscious, trance-like state with the source being the writer s own unconscious self, from a tel

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same area. the origins of western culture were nursed in sumer, and it has come to be acknowledged as the cradle of civilization all because of a starburst. astronomers recognize that the nearest and brightest supernova that has ever been witnessed by humankind was vela x, now a faintly flashing pulsar about 1,300 light-years from our solar system. george michanowsky, a specialist in mesopotamian astronomy, saw how the first and most fundamental symbol of sumerian script was one which represented star. he went on to show how the very first word ever written by a human hand soon became linked with the symbol for deity, thus communicating star god. michanowsky saw the deathblaze of vela x to have been such a dramatic sky show that it became a profound cultural organizing principle that force

t see extraterrestrial spacecraft, but bright stars, balloons, satellites, comets, fireballs, conventional aircraft, moving clouds, vapor trails, missiles, reflections, mirages, searchlights, birds, kites, spurious radar indications, fireworks, or flares. dr. j. allen hynek, who for more than two decades served as an astronomical consultant to project sign and project blue book, had been teaching astronomy at ohio state university in columbus, which is not far from dayton, where wright-patterson air force base, the home of project blue book, was located. when he entered the project, the government was trying desperately to determine whether it was the martians or the russians who were responsible for the elusive discs being tracked in the atmosphere over north america. the air force appeal

n the year 2066 may think us very naive in our denials. project blue book, begun as project sign in 1947, produced what the air force considered a satisfactory explanation for most of the 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 invaders from outer space 257 j. allen hynek (j. allan hynek center for ufo studies) dr. j. allen hynek had been teaching astronomy at ohio state university. nearly 13,000 sightings reported through 1969. of the unexplained ufo incidents, the official statement is: the description of the object or its motion cannot be correlated with any known object or phenomenon. on the basis of blue book reports, therefore, the air force concluded: 1. no ufo has ever given any indication of threat to the national security. 2. ther

n of qinghai province to examine relics allegedly left there by extraterrestrial beings. the site, known to local inhabitants as the et relics, is on mount baigong, about 28 miles to the southwest of delingha city. yang ji, a research fellow at the purple mountain observatory of the chinese academy, stated that the area is high in altitude with thin and transparent air, an ideal place to practice astronomy. while conceding that the extraterrestrial hypothesis as an explanation for the mysterious relics is worth examining, yang stressed that scientific analysis is necessary to prove whether or not it is true. sources: chinese scientists to head for suspected et relics. people s daily online, june 20, 2002 [online] http//english. people daily.com.cn/20020619_98177.html. heng, li. mysterious

her individuals who have claimed alien abductions with their requisite physical and sexual exams. however, the single aspect that may be most essential in giving the hills story credibility is the star map that betty said she was shown by the extraterrestrials while on board the ufo. under hypnosis in 1964, three years after their alleged alien abduction, betty, with little or no understanding of astronomy, drew her impressions of the map with a remarkable expertise that concurred with other, professionally drawn, star maps. as an important bonus, betty s map showed the location of two stars called zeta i and zeta ii reticuli, allegedly the home base of the space travelers who abducted 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 invaders from o

uth area. the ship had been clearly identified as being at that place; then the ship again disappeared and returned to its philadelphia dock in only a few minutes. jessup was puzzled by the letter. it had been sent from texas, but its author gave a home address in pennsylvania. jessup had brought an abundance of academic distinction to his study of the ufo. after having served as an instructor in astronomy and mathematics at the university of michigan and at drake university, he was awarded a ph.d. in astrophysics and was sent to south africa by the university of michigan. here he was assigned to erect and operate the largest refracting telescope in the southern hemisphere. the jessup- directed research produced the discovery of several double-stars, which were catalogued by the royal astr

her will. alien a being or living creature from another planet or world. anomalous something strange and unusual that deviates from what is considered normal. from the greek anomalos, meaning uneven. archaeologist a person who scientifically examines old ruins or artifacts such as the remains of buildings, pottery, graves, tools, and all other relevant material in order to study ancient cultures. astronomy the scientific study of the of the workings of the universe of stars, planets, their positions, sizes, composition, movement behavior. via the old french and latin from greek astronomia, meaning literally star-arranging. conspiracy an agreement or plot between two or more people to commit an illegal or subversive action. contactee someone who believes to have been or is in contact with a

, which is the mountain region of megiddo. megiddo is the site where the great final battle between good and evil will be fought as prophesied and will be a decisive catastrophic event that many believe will be the end of the world. astral self theosophical belief that humans possess a second body that cannot be perceived with normal senses, yet it coexists with the human body and survives death. astronomy the scientific study of the of the workings of the universe of stars, planets, their positions, sizes, composition, movement behavior. via the old french and latin from greek astronomia, meaning literally star-arranging. automatic writingwriting that occurs through either an involuntary, or unconscious, trance-like state with the source being the writer s own unconscious self, from a tel

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to further stress the seriousness of his study program, pythagoras lectured while standing behind a curtain, thereby denying all personal contact with his students until they had achieved progress on a ladder of initiatory degrees that allowed them to reach the higher grades. while separated from them by the curtain, pythagoras lectured his students on the basic principles of music, mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy. pythagoras called his disciples mathematicians, for he believed that the higher teachings began with the study of numbers. from his perspective, he had fashioned a rational theology. he believed the science of numbers lay in the living forces of divine faculties in action in the world, in universal macrocosm, and in the earthly microcosm of the human being. numbers were

g (1875.1961) used astrology charts to assist him in diagnosis and treatment of his patients. john j. o fneill, science editor of the new york herald tribune, the first science writer to win a pulitzer prize, began as a skeptic and ended up a believer in astrology. astronomer gustaf stromberg (1882.1962) of the mount wilson observatory believed in the charts of astrology as well as the science of astronomy. french psychologist and statistician michael gauquelin (d. 1991) spent more than 30 years investigating astrology, exhaustive research that led him to give verification to the importance of the planetary positions at a person fs birth. british astronomer and fellow of the royal astronomical society percy seymour (1901.1980) set forth his theory that astrology is neither magical nor myst

knowledge and technology needed to move massive stones. even if large labor forces were available, most megalithic structures demanded keen architectural and mathematical skills for planning and erection. additionally, many ancient megaliths seem to have had sophisticated uses as solar and lunar calendars and as astronomical observatories. in fact, the discipline of archaeoastronomy (the study of astronomy among ancient societies) has become a burgeoning field of study during the past few decades, with ancient megaliths often serving as the focus of the discipline. as ancient megaliths are studied, a greater appreciation for the skills and knowledge of prehistoric civilizations comes forth. missing pieces of the puzzle of human development remain, however, fueling more speculation and theo

agnificent terraces and a stone mosaic frieze more than 300 feet long (a mosaic consists of small, inlaid materials of various colors that form a pattern or a picture, and a frieze is a richly ornamented band or line on a building. the various ruins were not excavated and examined until the latter half of the nineteenth century. they show that mayans developed systems of mathematics, writing, and astronomy and erected monumental forms of architecture. subsequent discoveries showed their calendar recorded dates as far back as 600 b.c.e. by the first century b.c.e, they specifically used a calendar that had 18 20-day months.matching the mayan base- 20 mathematical system (the contemporary mathematical system used in the west is base-10. because of the state of decline in which the conquistad

t the mediterranean seafarers had directed the mayans to build pyramids, taught them hieroglyphics, and brought them social order. variations on the theme of an external influence on the ancient mayans continued to develop. instead of egyptians or phoenicians, however, it was advanced asians who first reached the mayans and taught them secrets of architecture and mathematics, written language and astronomy. or perhaps inhabitants of the legendary continent of atlantis spread their knowledge to various peoples of the world, including the mayans. excavations helped clarify some of the mysteries involving the mayans. they had distinctive cultural traits evident in similarities of architecture.including pyramids, terraces, and ball courts.and artistic styles of paintings and pottery spread thr

aff of the high altitude observatory, national center for atmospheric research, in boulder, colorado, became interested in the site, especially after he discovered a large, crude pile of stones oriented to the summer solstice sunrise at over 11,000 feet on the continental divide. interested by this discovery, he wanted to investigate just how much the pre-contact native people might have known of astronomy, and it occurred to him that the wheel might have been an observatory. research over two summers on the site convinced him that the big horn monument may have been a primitive astronomical observatory that served its creators at least as well as stonehenge served its primitive astronomers. the high altitude (9,640 feet) and the clear horizons of the monument make visible the marking of s

http//www.mystical-www.co.uk/leylines.htm. hitching, francis. earth energy. new york: william morrow, 1984. thenazca lines are located in peru between the andes mountain range and the pacific ocean. brought to the site by kosok. she remained there for the next 50 years and made the study of the nazca lines her life work, represented in contributions of ancient peru to the history of geometry and astronomy (1993. the theory that the nazca lines have astronomical purposes has been effectively challenged. in 1967, for example, gerald hawkins, an astronomer based at boston university, used a computer to create a map of the sky over nazca covering a 7,000-year period. the figures and lines on the ground were matched against actual settings of the solar system and constellations. only 20 percen

purpose of a community struggling to tap a basic necessity. the idea that the nazca lines served a spiritual function can encompass the water 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 262 places of mystery and power aerial view of a nazca line depicting a hummingbird (corbis corporation) there are over 800 nazca lines made by an unknown culture. and astronomy-related theories. similar ancient lines found in present-day bolivia, which borders peru, were to be used in ritual processions. that rituals related to water took on spiritual dimensions in nazca would hardly be surprising, for the area averages one-half inch of rainfall every two years. in addition to geoglyphs that seem to correspond to constellations, a number of the figures resemble

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ith the "stellar" or "astrological aspects of the tree, as it relates to the realm of the sky, with air being attributed to yesod. indeed the tarot cards at the base of the tree mirror this scheme, with path 30 having the "sun" card attributed to it, and path 28 the "star" card. through path 28, the "nature of everything in the orb of the sun is completed and perfected, which refers to both basic astronomy and the fact that the "orb of the sun" symbolises the sephiroth about tiphareth, to which the sun is attributed. netzach represents the instincts and processes of nature, and yesod represents the "foundation, or "compilation" stage of an activity or creative process. thus this path is where life takes on levels of meaning and is woven into a whole. the star card shows this as the pouring

"astrologers derive the speculations and perfection of their science according to the movement of stars. this path is thus related to the science (hod) regarding the hidden substructure (yesod) of the world (malkuth, and aims to comprehend the processes running through path 28. the tarot card relating to the path is that of the "sun, which is obviously the centre of any form of astrology or early astronomy (vi) the final triad of the tree is that of the paths leading to malkuth. we have already examined the central path, and here we will look at the two paths leading from hod, path 31, and netzach, path 29. path 31 has the "last judgement" card attributed to it, and is called the "perpetual intelligence. it "rules the movement of the sun and moon. again, we see a reflection in one path of

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certainly no airplane" one witness told harold t. wilkins (1 "the wings, which moved, were too wide for any bird. indeed, they were rather like the wings of a butterfly. the whole object emitted a red glow" the object was especially conspicuous as it crossed the face of the moon. some of the witnesses thought it. resembled a gigantic bat. astronomers have also reported similar objects. in popular astronomy, 1912, dr. f.b. harris stated "lathe evening of january 27, 1912,1 saw an intensely black object, like a crow, poised upon the moon. i estimated it at 250 miles long by 50 miles wide. i cannot but think that a very interesting phenomenon happened" in that crazy year 1880, an italian astronomer named ricco, on the observatory at palermo, sicily, was studying the sun at 8 a.m, november 30

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yet providing the assyrians with much of their mythology and religion; so much so that sumerian became the official language of the state church, much as latin is today of the roman catholic church. they had a list of their kings before the flood, which even they carefully chronicled, as did many another ancient civilisation around the world. it is believed that they had a sophisticated system of astronomy (and astrology) as well as an equally religious rituale. magick, as well in history, begins at sumer for the western world, for it his here, in the sand-buried cuneiform tablets that recorded an age, that the first creation epic is found, the first exorcism, the first ritual invocations of planetary deities, the first dark summonings of evil powers, and ironically, the first "burnings" o

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te sciences, divided to specific sciences. however, the truth is that everything is connected and interdependent on every other force and element of nature. after all the subject matter is one, and we just dissect the research to pieces to make it easier on us. the wisdom of kabbalah ties all these phenomena of spirit and matter together. this means that from the point of view of kabbalah, music, astronomy, biology and medicine form an external expression of a unique law of the inner makings of nature. a kabbalist who feels the upper world finds that there is only one law, expressed in many different ways in our world. the wisdom of kabbalah contains all the necessary components of every science: it s got researches, records of the results of the experiments, continuity and consistency, re

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

ickster, tout, or quack. and the result? a vast drift of earnest aspirations seething in an ocean of ignorance. the great thoughts of old prostituted to the gains and stupidity of modernity, a great libel foisted on the past to satisfy the credulity of the present; a systematized thieving from the statue of isis to adorn the idol of mammon, god of bankers, brigands, and beggars. astrology gave us astronomy, and alchemy gave us chemistry, both were antagonistic to the ideas of their day; let us hope that psychical research will give us a purer metaphysics. now the question before us here, is: how does all this decaying and growing of ideals affect the poetic philosophy of aleister crowley? and the answer is as follows: to the writer of this essay it seems on reading aleister crowley fs poem

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nile and do some serious anthropology among hamitic speaking native cultures- the roots of the nile may hold keys to egyptian thought that mute stones do not. archaic egypt: set generally occupies a secondary role to his enemy horus, champion of the people of the north (except in the 2nd dynasty when one pharaoh took a "set" name rather than a horus name) set is intimately connected with teaching astronomy,the methods of agriculture, medicine, and above all magic. he is said to have opened the mouth of the other gods, and is the patron of the sem ritual. his cult titles include "great of magic" and "eternal. there is indeed evidence that set is set apart from other gods to die (bonnet's commentaries on the pyramid texts. the astronomical cult, which placed the afterlife in the region of th

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irmeth, that by this part of magick or astrologie, together with the motions of the stars and other heavenly bodies, abraham found out the knowledge of the true god while he lived in caldea, qui contemplatione creaturarum, cognovit creatorem (saith damascen) who knew the creator by the contemplation of the creature. josephus reporteth of abraham, that he instructed the egyptians in arithmetic and astronomy; who before abraham s coming unto them, knew none of these sciences. abraham sanctitate& sapientia omnium pr stantissimus, primum cald os, deinde phoenices, demum egyptios sacerdotes, astrologia& divina docuerit. abraham the holiest and wisest of men, did first teach the caldeans, then the phoenicians, lastly the egyptian priests, astrologie and divine knowledge. without doubt, hermes tr

och, hagith, ophiel, phul, after the olympick speech. every one of these hath under him a mighty militia in the firmament. 12 arathon ruleth visible provinces xlix. bethor, xlii. phaleg, xxxv. och, xxviii. hagith, xxi. ophiel, xiiii. phul, vii. so that there are 186 olympick provinces in the whole universe. wherein the seven governours do exercise their power: all which are elegantly set forth in astronomy. but in this place it is to be explained, in what maner these princes and powers may he drawn into communication. aratron appeareth in the first hour of saturday, and very truely giveth answers concerning his provinces and provincials. so likewise do the rest appear in order in their days and hours. also every one of them ruleth 490 yeers. the beginning of their simple anomaly, in the 60

lly the princes of the seven governments are called simply, in that time, day and hour wherein they rule visibly or invisibly, by their names and offices which god hath given unto them; and by proposing their character which they have given or confirmed. the governor aratron hath in his power those things which he doth naturally, that is, after the same manner and subject as those things which in astronomy are ascribed to the power of saturn. those things which he doth of his own free will, are, 1. that he can convert any thing into a stone in a moment, either animal or plant, retaining the same object to the sight. 2. he converteth treasures into coles, and coles into treasure. 3. he giveth familiars with a definite power. 4. he teacheth alchymy, magick, and physick. 5. he reconcileth the

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the most overt. it is the only "planet" that can directly be felt, producing life- giving warmth and chastising the unwary with sunburn and sun-blindness. all the magi of old were astrologers. they observed the planets and ordered them by their apparent motions. the moon was quickest, saturn slowest, and the sun of median speed. therefore the sun was assigned the central planetary sphere. modern astronomy did nothing to upset this sun centrality. the sun is observed by telescopes and calculated by mathematics to reside at the center of the solar system, fixed in relation to the other bodies that revolve around it. again it is distinguished as singularly different, more important, and central. the difficulty with a sun-central arrangement is that it results in an imbalance among the other

r n fire south hearing right leg yew drum venus green 0 circular v water west taste left arm birch guitar jupiter orange linear a air north smell right arm oak organ saturn blue 0 circular b earth east touch left leg elm bass moon purple v vibratory a inertia (black moon) down motion sexual organs willow z violin f r z$ seven planets of the ancients, which must not be confused with the planets of astronomy, for the ancient planets are god-forms rather than material bodies. it would be reasonable to assume that the seven planets would be most close- ly linked to the star of seven points, the heptagram. traditionally this is not the case. it has been the custom in magic to assign six of the planets to the outer points of the hexagram and one to the emerging center point. therefore, the hexag

arts. originally there were only three muses-mneme, melete, and aoide. as greek understanding developed, it was found necessary to make a further threefold subdivision into nine, which retained the perfect wholeness of the trinity. cornelius agrippa recorded the renaissance assignment of these goddesses to the nine spheres of the heavens: 1) calliope (primum mobile--epic poetry 2) urania (zodiac)-astronomy 3) polyhymnia (saturn)-sacred poetry 4) terpsichore (jupiter--choral dance and song 5) cleo (mars)-history 6) melpomene (sun)-tragedy 7) erato (venus)-love poetry 8) euterpe (mercury)-lyric poetry 9) thalia (moon--comedy the magus should find little difficulty in assigning powers to the points of the nonagram. some possible correspondences are given in the table that accompanies this cha

aches of interstellar space. the notion that stars and planets physically determine events on earth is a superstition, a belief that is in defiance of reason. such a view was forgivable before the 18th century, when no one was really sure what stars and planets were made of, or how they had formed, or what physical influences they might exert on other bodies. with the advent of modern physics and astronomy there is no longer any rational way to postulate that some occult power flowing from the stars and plan- ets influences or predisposes the fate of human beings. the gravitational, electro- magnetic, and spectral forces acting upon earth from the other planets in the solar system are minute. even when these are of a more significant strength, as in the cases of the sun and moon, there is

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

program, project grudge, to record and investigate these events. 171. darrach and ginna "have we visitors" 172. sagan and page, ufo's: a scientific debate, 130-1. 173. darrach and ginna. chapter nine: ufo abductions 137 investigations of j. allen hynek these sightings were examined under the expert control of the astronomer dr. josef allen hynek (1910-1986, who in the spring of 1948 was teaching astronomy at ohio state university in columbus when he was approached by three military men from wright- patterson air force base in nearby dayton. they asked him what he thought about flying saucers. he responded that he thought they were a lot of "junk and nonsense" immediately, they offered him a job as an astronomical consultant. he joined project sign, and stayed with the team investigating u

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

dule of daily study a primary focus on the training and conditioning of the mind and the will, which is far more important than physical actions or material instruments for successful ritual work complete details of each exercise, encompassing internal as well as external activity about the author donald tyson (nova scotia, canada) was drawn to science early in life by an intense fascination with astronomy. he began university seeking a science degree, but became disillusioned with the aridity and futility of a mechanistic view of the universe, and shifted his major to english. after graduating with honors he has pursued a writing career. now he devotes his life to the attainment of a complete gnosis of the art of magic in theory and practice. his purpose is to formulate an accessible syst

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

d in us, thus including god, men, and all created things, with all their mysterious powers. adding three, you get ten, which marks the return to unity. in appendix b: commentaries on tetragrammaton this arcanum in concluded all knowledge of hidden things which god, by his word, has made known to the men of his good pleasure, so that they might have a true conception of him("theatre of terrestrial astronomy [sixteenth century, the alchemical writings of edward kelly, edited by a. e. waite [new york: weiser, pp. 117-8) robert fludd the soul of the world is therefore metatron, whose light is the soul of the messiah or of tetragrammaton's virtue, in which is the light of the living god, in which is the light of the ain soph, beyond which there is no progression (philosophia moysaica, 1638) fab

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century, the great christian qabalist dr. paul foster case said that in the future, humankind would re-discover the ancient pythagorean principles of healing through sound and color, and advised meditation on the planetary chakras in the body (which each have a different color) for maintenance of a healthy etheric body. the wonder-working pythagoreans also applied their understanding of number to astronomy, devising a system of nine concentric circles or spheres to represent the heavenly bodies. soon it came to be understood that the relationships existing in these heavenly planets had direct counterparts within the human dimension. this was not just a simple belief in astrology, which was a much more ancient science. it was a more sophisticated understanding of the hermetic principle that

e may well ask what makes a kamea magical if there are so many possible combinations? when mathematicians use examples of magical squares, they imply nothing esoteric by this term, but throughout history kameas have been considered numinous in all esoteric traditions, because, although modern scientist's scoff at this idea, numbers are emanations of the deity. the same relationship exists between astronomy and astrology. simply because we now have a rational science that can define the physical characteristics of the planets in no way hinders the journeys of today's magicians into inner space. the planetary spirits are just as numinous today as they were in the ancient world for those who have experienced their angelic energies directly. we know a lot more about the geography of the body a

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

surer grounds when we investigate the opinions of his followers. it is recorded that his instruction to his followers was formulated into two great divisions--the science of numbers and the theory of magnitude. the former division included two branches, arithmetic and musical harmony; the latter was further subdivided into the consideration of magnitude at rest--geometry, and magnitude in motion--astronomy. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the most striking peculiarities of his doctrines are dependent on the mathematical conceptions, numerical ideas and impersonations upon which his philosophy was founded. the principles governing numbers were supposed to be the principles of all real existences; and as numbers are the primary constituents of mathe

e scorpio of the chaldean zodiac (related to nachash, serpent) and judah, of whom jacob is talking in the prophecy, is the sign of the zodiac; leo for judah is a lion s whelp (the chaldean zodiac has a lion couchant, he crouches as a lion. in this sense, then, the scepter shall not depart from judah, i.e, power shall not leave leo, until leo, until shelah, shiloh or scorpio shall come up or rise. astronomy teaches that as leo passes away from the meridian, scorpio rises. the title comforter, menachem, mnchm, 40, 50, 8, 40, amounting to 138, and the title the branch, applied to the messiah in zechariah iii. v. 8, namely, tzmch, 90, 40, 8 also 138, are of the same number. metatron, the great angel mthrthn, and shaddai shdi, sh =300 is used as a glyph of the the spirit of the living gods, rua

the same. 4. fountain of symphony, and harmony. 5. erato, because it attracts the monad, like love, and another is formed. 37. 6. patience, because it is the first number that endures separation from the monad. 7. phanes, or intelligible intellect. 8. it is the fountain of all female divinities, and hence nature, rhea and isis. 9. cupid, just as erato, from desiring its opposite for a partner. in astronomy, we speak of 2 nodes, caput and cauda draconis; and in astrology of 2 aspects of the planets, benefic and malefic. the two pillars ikin and boz at the entrance of king solomon s temple are notable symbols of strength and stability. they are comparable to the two beings, kratos and bia, who appear in the play by eschylus, as a male and a female potency, who bind prometheus. numbers--th ei

by w. wyn n wes tcott hotius observes that the triad is the first odd number in energy, is the first perfect number and is a middle and analogy. the pythagoreans referred it to physiology; it is the cause of all that has triple dimension. it is also cause of good counsel, intelligence and knowledge, and is a mistress of music, mistress also of geometry, possesses authority in whatever pertains to astronomy and the nature and knowledge of the heavenly bodies, connects and leads them into effects. every virtue also is suspended from it, and proceeds from it. in mythology it is referred by nicomachus to: 1. saturn, time, past, present and future. 2. latona. 3. the horn of amalthea, the nurse of jupiter. 4. polyhymnia, among the muses. number being more increased by multiplication than it is b

apostles besides judas. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 12. original apostolic college. 13. college completed by st. paul. the nine muses of ancient greece were called daughters of zeus and mnemosyne (memory, and were calliope, poetry; clio, history; melpomene, tragedy; euterpe, music; erato, love, inspiration and pantomime; terpsichore, dancing; urania, astronomy; thalia, comedy and polyhymnia, eloquence. the novensiles are the nine sabine gods: viz. hercules, romulus, aesculapius, bacchus, aeneas, vesta, santa, fortuna and fides. the sabines became merged with the romans about 266 b.c. 90. the nine gods of the etruscans were juno, minerva, tinia, vulcan, mars, saturn, hercules, summanus and vedius; the etruscans also became united with the roman

5; r, 62; s, 80; t, 90; u, 34; v, 12; w, 20; x, 4; y, 20; z, 2. 27. the number of the izeds or angels who ruled under the supervision of the seven amshaspands of the zoroastrian theology. 28. a division of the zodiac into 28 mansions of the moon, was probably earlier than the solar division into 12 parts. the names and symbols can be obtained in sanskrit and in arabic. proctor believes that solar astronomy of the 12 signs arose about 2170 b.c, in a country of about 36 degrees of north latitude, and at a period when taurus was the first constellation of the zodiac. 114. 29. the rosh hashanah says the period of the moon s revolution is 29 days, 6 hours and 40 minutes. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 30. a meal of lentils once in 30 days keeps off th

WILLIAM WESCOTT THE CHALDEAN ORACLES OF ZOROASTER TRANSLATION

ulty and defective in the greek are read perfect and entire" and ficinus indeed states that he found this ms. upon the death of mirandula. in addition to this, it should be noted that here and there in the original greek version, words occur which are not of greek extraction at all, but are hellenised chaldee. berosus is said to be the first who introduced the writings of the chald ans concerning astronomy and philosophy among the greeks* and it is certain that the traditions of chaldea very largely influenced greek thought. taylor considers that some of these mystical utterances are the sources whence the sublime conceptions of plate were formed, and large commentaries were written upon them by porphyry, iamblichus, proclus, pletho and psellus. that men of such great learning and sagacity

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

the finnish and lithuanian with gothic, and of the slavic with high german. but also the myths and superstitions of these very nations are peculiarly adapted to throw light on the course taken by our domestic heathenism in its duration and decadence. against the error which has so frequently done damage to the study of the norse and greek mythologies, i mean the mania of foisting metaphysical or astronomical solutions on but half-discovered historical data, i am sufficiently guarded by the incompleteness and loose connexion of all that has been preserved. my object is, faithfully and simply to collect what the distortions early introduced by the nations themselves, and afterwards the scorn and aversion of christians have left remaining of heathenism; and to enlist fellow-labourers in the

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so. the two urns contain the influences from chokmah and binah. on the right springs the tree of life and on the left the tree of knowledge of good and evil, whereon the bird of hermes alights. and therefore does this key represent the restored world after the formless and the void and the darkness, the new adam, the countenance of the man which falls in the sign aquarius. and therefore doth the astronomical symbol of this sign represent as it were, the waves of water, the ripples of that river going forth out of eden. but therefore, also it is justly attributed unto air and not unto water, because it is the firmament dividing and containing the waters. hierophant and practicus go to east. hiero: before you is shown the manner of writing the holy name in each of the four worlds at length

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

hen it's invisible, inside the shell. i prefer to wait for the crescent because to me those last days of the old moon are still very precious. i can remember waking before it was light in spain and seeing that last waning crescent with its accompanying star, shining like a jewel in the warm sky. the answer, as always, is to do what you feel is best for you. working with the phases there are eight astronomical phases of the moon, but magick generally focuses on three that are considered to be particularly significant. the waxing moon: as the moon is increasing in size, it is said to be waxing. the light increases, appearing to spread from right to left, and this phase lasts right until the moment that the moon becomes completely visible- the full moon. the waxing phase is the time for magic

malised by the celts, although some historians believe that it was predated by an earlier threefold division that celebrated the beginning of winter, midwinter and midsummer, and was perhaps linked to the movement of the herds. the wheel of the year co-exists with the wider seasonal divisions of the year and incorporates the four solar festivals; these fall on the solstices and the equinoxes, the astronomical marker points of the ebbs and flows of cosmic energies. between each of these solar festivals, which are known to witches as the lesser sabbats, is one of the four great fire festivals that are major rites in the wiccan and neo-pagan calendar, as they were to the celts. it is interesting to note that the wheel of the year is mirrored almost exactly in the medicine wheel, or circle of

ed or adapt them to your own clime. you may, indeed, find that if your ancestors came from another land or continent, your seasonal energies resonate more with theirs. even if you live in sydney or florida, it may be that come november you instinctively hibernate; in this case, you may find the celtic pattern right for you no matter what the barometer says. because the solstices and equinoxes are astronomical measures- that is they depend on the movement of the planets and stars- the dates will vary by a day or two depending on the year. i have written in several of my books about the folk and religious lore behind seasonal festivals and there are many other good books on this subject. in this chapter i mainly focus on the way they amplify the positive energies of the universe and provide

the bedouins in the middle east and in north, central and south america. sky-clad: naked. sky gods: the powerful patriarchal gods of the classical and viking world, for example zeus of the greeks, jupiter of the romans, odin of the vikings and thunor of the anglo-saxons. they gained supremacy over the earth mother who appears as their wife-consort, full of human foibles. solstice: one of the main astronomical points of the year. the summer solstice (21 june, or 21 december in the southern hemisphere) marks the sun at its height and greatest power. the winter solstice (21 december or 21 june) is the shortest day when the sun is at its weakest and it was feared by early humans that the sun would die. spirit guides: guardians from another dimension who advise and protect humans. they may be d

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

d what was meant by 'tendency' to help you to realise this i should like to find a good illustration. for instance, a clock does nothing at all but offer indications of the time. it is so constructed that this is all we can know about it. we can argue about whether the time is correct, and that means nothing at all, unless, for example, we know whether the clock is controlled electrically from an astronomical station where the astronomer happens to be sane, and in what part of the world the clock is, and so on. 21. i remember once when i was in teng-yueh, just inside the chinese frontier in yunnan. the hour of noon was always telegraphed to the consulate from pekin. this was a splendid idea, because electricity is practically instantaneous. the unfortunate thing was, if it *was* unfortunat

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

aches his extreme southern declination at the winter solstice, the season of the death of vegetation, for the folk of the northern hemisphere. this gave them a second cause for cursing the south. a third; the tyranny of hot, dry, poisonous winds; the menace of deserts or oceans dreadful because mysterious and impassable; these also were connected in their minds with the south. but to us, aware of astronomical facts, this antagonism to the south is a silly superstition which the accidents of their local conditions suggested to our animistic ancestors. we see no enmity between right and left, up and down, and similar pairs of opposites. these antitheses are real only as a statement of relation; they are the conventions of an arbitrary device for representing our ideas in a pluralistic symbol

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

cotine colle m me le fer. this may be, but i think should not be, used as an argument to prove the poet an illegitimate son of queen elizabeth. plainest sense we are likely to here for the rest of our lives; then, with the prettiest humour in the world takes the cue of his father s absurdity, and actually plays it on his enemy. edgar s leg is not so easily pulled( how long have you been a sectary astronomical? ll. 169, 170) and the bastard hero, taking alarm, gets right down to business. in scene iii. we find lear s senile dementia taking the peculiarly loathesome form familiar to alienists this part of my subject is so unpleasant that i must skim over it; i only mention it to show how anxious shakespeare is to show his hidden meaning, otherwise his naturally delicate mind would have avoid

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ten squares refers to the ten sephiroth in balanced disposition; before which the formless and the void rolled back. it is also the opened-out form of the double cube, and of the altar of incense" and the sixteenth key of the tarot: it represents a tower struck by a lightning-flash proceeding from a rayed circle and terminating in a triangle. it is the tower of babel. the flash exactly forms the astronomical symbol of mars. it is the power of the triad rushing down and destroying the column of darkness. the men falling from the tower represent the fall of the kings of edom "on the right-hand side of the tower is light, and the representation of the tree of life by ten circles. on the left-hand side is darkness, and eleven circles symbolically representing the qliphoth" illustration on pag

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a central larger life towards which the informing spirit within the solar sphere is gradually attracted, and towards whose consciousness our deity aspires? are there anywhere indications of such an attractive force, or goal? are there greater spheres of solar life outside our system, that have a definite effect upon it? this may be but a speculation, but it has its points of interest. if we study astronomical books, and seek to ascertain whether astronomers say that this is so, we shall meet with a vast amount of contradictory opinion; we shall find that some astronomers say that within the pleiades is a central point around which our solar system revolves; others say that in the constellation of hercules is the point of magnetic attraction for our solar system. on the other hand, you will

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

o form and text-book if i might so express it) during the final part of the next round. the systemic angle. this deals with the place of the heavenly men within the body logoic, their mutual interplay, and their rational interdependence, and with the cycles wherein each in turn, or in dual formation, is the recipient of logoic force. it necessitates the study of the solar system as a unit, of the astronomical and orbital relation of the sun to the planets. the systemic triangles will eventually become a subject of popular speculation, then of investigation, of scientific demonstration, and finally be known to be proved and authenticated fact, but the time is not yet. the different polarities of the schemes will be studied, and information, that is now imparted only to initiates of the thir

to their relative insignificance, they have not yet been considered factors of moment. this attitude of mind will change when etheric vision is a fact, and the reality of the existence of an etheric double of all that is in manifestation will be recognised by scientists. this fact will be demonstrated towards the close of the century, and, during the early part of the next century a revolution in astronomical circles will occur which will result in the study of the "etheric planets" as these bodies are organs of energy, permeating the dense form, the study of the interaction of solar energy, and the occult "give and take" of planetary bodies will assume a new significance. certain planetary bodies (both greater and lesser) are "absorbers" others are "radiators" while some are in the stage

c fire copyright 1998 lucis trust vast periods by those with the "seeing eye" for it causes a turning of varying parts of the sphere to the differing zodiacal constellations. this influence (in connection with the planets) is increased or mitigated according to the place of the planets on their various orbital paths. hence the immense complexity of the matter and the impossibility for the average astronomical and astrological student to make accurate computations or to draw accurate horoscopes. within the hall of wisdom, there exists a department of which the modern varying astrological organisations are but the dim and uncertain reflections. the adepts connected with it work not with humanity but concern themselves specifically with "casting the horoscopes (thus ascertaining the nature of

of that formula which is the basic formula for a solar system that the physical plane- 679- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust appearance of a solar logos is controlled, and the length of a cosmic pralaya settled. we must not forget that the lipika lords of the solar system have their cosmic prototypes, and that these have their feeble and groping human reflections in the great astronomical scientists who endeavour to ascertain facts anent the heavenly bodies, being subconsciously aware of the existence of these cosmic formulas conveying information as to the specific gravity, constitution, radiation, magnetic pull, heat and light of any sun, solar system, or constellation. many of them in future and remote ages will pass to a full comprehension, and will have the formul

nstitute a kalpa, i.e, one day of brahma, equal to. 4,320,000,000 as brahma's night is of equal duration, one day and night of brahma will contain..8.,640,000,000 360 of such days and nights make one year of brahma, equal to. 3,110,400,000,000 100 of such years constitute the whole period of brahma's age, i.e, maha kalpa..3,110,400,000,000 that these figures are not fanciful, but are founded upon astronomical facts, has been demonstrated by mr. davis, in an essay in the asiatic researches; and this receives further corroboration from the geological investigations and calculations made by dr. hunt, formerly president of the anthropological society, and also in some respects from the researches made by professor huxley. great as the period of the maha kalpa seems to be, we are assured that t

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l phenomena which produce the coordination of all forms. g. the sixth ray influence produced the emergence in men's minds of the following knowledges: 1. knowledge of physical plane light and electricity. 2. among the esotericists and spiritualists of the world, knowledge of the existence of the astral light. 3. an interest in illumination, both physical and mental. 4. astro-physics and the newer astronomical discoveries. the seventh ray will change the theories of the advanced thinkers of the race into the facts of the- 224- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust future educational systems. education and the growth of the understanding of illumination in all fields will eventually be regarded as synonymous ideals. h. the sixth ray taught t

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hich it is the task of all religions to aid. each of us has to make "of twain, one new man, so making peace" for peace is unity and synthesis. but the lesson and message which christ brought to individual man he brought also to the nations, holding before them the hope of future world unity and world peace. he came at the- 13- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust beginning of that astronomical age which we call "the piscean age" because, during this period of approximately two thousand years, our sun is passing through that sign in the zodiac which we call pisces, or the fishes. hence the frequent references to fishes, and the appearance of the symbol of the fish in christian literature, including the new testament. this piscean age comes between the previous jewish dispens

call pisces, or the fishes. hence the frequent references to fishes, and the appearance of the symbol of the fish in christian literature, including the new testament. this piscean age comes between the previous jewish dispensation (the two thousand years wherein the sun was passing through the sign aries, the ram) and the aquarian age into which our sun is now in process of transiting. these are astronomical facts, for i am not here speaking of astrological conclusions. in the period when the sun was in aries, we find the frequent appearance of the ram or the scapegoat in the old testament teaching, and the keeping of the passover feast. in the christian age we use the fish symbology, even to eating fish on good friday. the symbol of the aquarian age, as it appears in all the ancient zodi

nd in the "ear of corn (sign of fertility) which the virgin holds. bethlehem means the "house of bread" and there is therefore an obvious connection between these two words. this constellation is also composed of three stars in the shape of a cup. this is the true holy grail, that which contains the life blood, the repository of the sacred and the holy, and that which conceals divinity. these are astronomical facts. the interpretation of the symbolism attached from ancient days to these constellations is as old as religion itself. whence came the signs, and how the meanings and symbols associated with them came into being, is lost in the night of time. they have existed in men's minds and thoughts and writings for thousands of years, and are our joint heritage today. the ancient zodiac of

virgo, and is the sign of all world saviours. we have already seen that the age of christianity is the piscean age, and christ came to the holy land when our sun transitted into that sign. therefore that which was started and had its being in virgo (the birth of the christ child) is consummated in pisces when that christ child, having attained maturity, comes forth as the world saviour. one other astronomical fact is of interest in this connection. closely associated with the constellation virgo, and to be found in the same section of the heavens, are three other constellations, and in these three there is portrayed for us symbolically the story of the child which shall be born, suffer and die and come again. there is the group of stars called coma berenice, the woman with the child. there

arly four centuries after christ was born. the combination of virgo with the star in the east (sirius, and the three kings (symbolised by orion's belt) was the determining factor. the virgin was seen in the east, with the line of the horizon passing through her centre, and this is one of the factors determining the doctrine of the virgin birth. another instance can here be given to illustrate the astronomical background of our christian festivals. there are two festivals kept in the roman catholic and the higher anglican churches, called the assumption of the virgin and the birth of the virgin mary. one is celebrated on august 15th and the other on september 8th. each year, the sun can be seen entering the sign virgo about the time of the assumption, and the entire constellation is envelop

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ence of a more general understanding of: a. the causes of unrest- 423- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust b. the point in evolution reached by humanity. c. the crises which must inevitably occur when man, the integrated human being, meets man, the spiritual reality. d. the moment of opportunity which is upon us. this is the result of certain astronomical happenings, such as the pouring in of energy from a new sign in the zodiac, and the shift of the earth's pole. 3. the development of the new art. this will be expressive of a sensitive response to ideas. the art of the past expressed largely man's understanding of the beauty of god's created world, whether it was the phenomenal wonder of nature or the beauty of the human form. the art

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

d are all connected with the hierarchical preparation for christ's reappearance. ii. christ as the forerunner of the aquarian age people are very apt to overlook the fact that though christ recognised his function as teacher and spiritual leader of humanity during the age which is so rapidly drawing to a close, he also recognised the work which he would do when that age came to an end and the new astronomical cycle came into existence. the average christian is singularly unaware of the times and cycles through which our planet passes, under influence of solar progression. the at present dubious science of astrology has sidetracked the legitimate interest of humanity in the astronomical teaching and its spiritual interpretation of the passage of the sun through the signs of the zodiac. yet

er room and there make ready the communion feast in which he and they would share (luke xxii.10) this they did and the last supper took place. the ancient symbol for the sign aquarius (into which our sun is now entering) is that of the water-carrier, the man with a pitcher of water. this passing of the sun- 42- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust into the sign aquarius is an astronomical fact, as any one can ascertain by writing to any observatory; it is not an astrological prognostication. the great spiritual achievement and evolutionary event of that age will be the communion and human relationships established among all peoples, enabling men everywhere to sit down together in the presence of the christ and share the bread and wine (symbols of nourishment. preparati

ople, and thus originating the doctrine of the vicarious at-one-ment. it was st. paul who was responsible for this emphasis. a paralleling instance of a similar distortion was also of jewish origin and appeared in the early stages of the cycle of aries, the ram. we are told that the children of israel fell down and worshipped the golden calf, the symbol of taurus, the bull; this was the preceding astronomical cycle. these are astronomical cycles and not a presented astrology. in the early stages of aries, the teaching reverted to that of taurus and in the early stages of pisces, it reverted to that of aries and thus set the seal of retrogression upon the teaching which now controls so many orthodox christians. buddha answered the questions posited in his time by giving out the four noble t

not only its relation to the spiritual life of our planet, the "one in whom we live and move and have our being" but will also give a glimpse of the relation of our planet to the circle of planetary lives, moving within the orbit of the sun and the still greater circle of spiritual influences which contact our system as it pursues its orbit in the heavens (the twelve constellations of the zodiac. astronomical and astrological investigation has demonstrated this relationship and the influences exerted but there is still speculation and much foolish claiming and interpretation. yet the churches have ever recognized this and the bible has testified to it "the stars in their courses fought against sisera (judges v.20 "who can withstand the sweet influences of the pleiades (job xxxviii.31. many

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ty and their own qualified life. i dealt with much of this in a treatise on cosmic fire and you would find it profitable to reread what i there said. i will not repeat it here as i am seeking a different approach. it might be profitable to point out that the entire universe is etheric and vital in nature and of an extension beyond the grasp of the greatest mind of the age, mounting into more than astronomical figures if that statement even conveys sense to your minds. this extent cannot be computed, even in terms of light years; this cosmic etheric area is the field of untold energies and the basis of all astrological computations; it is the playground of all historical cycles cosmic, systemic and planetary and is related to the constellations, to the worlds of suns, to the most distant st

use the same terminologies in order to express the same factual truths or ideas. again, each point of life within a centre has its own sphere of radiation or its own extending field of influence; this field is necessarily dependent upon the type and the nature of the indwelling consciousness. it is this magnetic interplay between the many vast centres of energy in space which is the basis of all astronomical relationships between universes, solar systems and planets. bear in mind, however, that it is the consciousness aspect which renders the form magnetic, receptive, repudiating and transmitting; this consciousness differs according to the nature of the entity which informs or works through a centre, great or small. bear in mind also that the life which pours through all centres and whic

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

n. the only planet affected is the sun, whose power is lessened. what is the symbolic significance of this? it consists in the relation of aquarius to capricorn and of the fixed cross to the cardinal cross and of the third initiation to those succeeding it, of the point of balance reached between pisces and capricorn, which focus in aquarius. i am not here considering the orthodox mathematical or astronomical reasons, for they are, in reality, dependent upon the subjective and spiritual reasons, and it is with these that we are concerned. one of the facts which will emerge in our consciousness as we study along these esoteric lines is that all the outer indications do not indicate truth but only point the way to the subjective realities of which the outer facts are but the illusory symbols

cles of response and upon the mechanism of reception with which he enters into incarnation. the heavens, the constellations, signs and planets mean one thing to the hierarchy and another thing to the astronomers and still another thing to the astrologers, whilst they are simply bewildering galaxies of light to the average citizen. i feel the need to remind you of this and to point out to you that astronomical facts are only relative as regards the true and factual nature of that about which scientific pronouncement is made; they are declarative of life and potency but not as science and the average man understand them. from the standpoint of esoteric truth, they are simply embodied lives and the expression of the life, the quality, the purpose and the intent of the beings who have brought

religion is founded and is working- 177- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust we shall find that the major, monthly festival in august, held at the time of the full moon, will be dedicated to the task of making contact, via the hierarchy, with sirian force. each of the months of the year will later be dedicated (through accurate astrological and astronomical knowledge) to whichever constellation in the heavens governs a particular month, as sirius governs leo. this i shall later elaborate in the papers to be written anent the new "approaches" to spiritual reality. mercury again comes, at this point, into our discussion, and you thus have the formation of an esoteric quaternary, affecting powerfully the major quaternary of man spirit, soul

atise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust years. these are points which astrologers would do well to consider. i would remind students again that when speaking of signs i am referring to the influences of the constellations as they are represented by the signs, calling to your attention that in the great evolutionary process and owing to certain shifts and astronomical-astrological discrepancies, the sun is not in the constellation to which a particular sign refers at any given moment. this i called to your attention in an earlier part of this treatise. 5. another factor little known is that the moon today is disintegrating with increasing rapidity and this necessarily affects the earth and produces terrestrial results. students would find it of int

will; through ray vi, we move forward to complete identification with that synthesis and will, and through ray vii we demonstrate on earth the nature of that synthesis through the medium of the appearing form and the purpose of that underlying will. and so the many are absorbed into the one. appendix suggestions for students astrology in the secret doctrine (third edition) 1. mythology relates to astronomical, theogonical and human struggles; to the adjustment of orbs and the supremacy of nations and tribes. the "struggle for existence" and the "survival of the fittest" reigned supreme from the moment that kosmos manifested into being. hence: a. the incessant fights of the gods in all the old scriptures. b. the war in heaven of the ancient mythologies (s.d. i. 223) 2. behind this veil. of

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

rmediary between the spiritual hierarchy of our planet and the mass of humanity. through them the masters of the wisdom, under the direction of the christ, are working out gigantic plans of world salvage. this attempt to lead humanity onward along new and more definite lines and on a much larger scale than heretofore is made possible by the coming in of the aquarian age. this aquarian age is both astronomical and astrological in import. there is a very strong prejudice in the world today against astrology and this is understandable and also constitutes a definite safeguard for the gullible and the stupid. predictional astrology is, to my personal point of view, both a menace and a handicap. if a person is highly developed they will begin to rule their stars. they will do the unpredictable

effort to discover in what manner the horoscope of the soul can be cast so that the life purpose of the incarnating individual can be ascertained, and therefore a clear distinction can be made between the tendencies of the personality established through many incarnations and the emerging purpose and will of the soul. when, however, one comes to a consideration of the astrological implications to astronomical happenings the story is very different. people hear the statement made that we are now transitting into the sign aquarius which means that from the angle of the zodiac, which is the imaginary path of the sun in the heavens, the sun appears to be going through the constellation aquarius. this is an astronomical fact at this time and has nothing to do with astrology. the influence, howe

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

is relation to the spiritual life of our planet, the "one in whom we live and move and have our being" but will also give him a glimpse of the relation of our planet to the circle of planetary lives moving within the orbit of the sun, and the still greater circle of spiritual influences which contact our solar system as it pursues its orbit in the heavens (the twelve constellations of the zodiac. astronomical and astrological investigation has demonstrated this relationship and the influences exerted, but there is still speculation and much foolish claiming and interpretation. yet the churches have ever recognised this relationship, and the bible has testified to it "the stars in their courses fought against sisera "who can withstand the sweet influences of the pleiades; and many other pas

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

ness and "black power; the other leads to the straight and narrow way, to the razor-edged path which leads into light and life. one group has never freed itself from the principles which governed the first solar system. they were principles entirely related to matter and substance, and were at that time and in that period (so remote that the number of years of distance can be stated only in super-astronomical figures) the conditioning factors for the initiation of the time. certain units of humanity then existent were so completely conditioned by these material principles and so deliberately unready for moving on to the comprehension of another set of principles (more expressive of the divine nature) that they remained of "fixed and selfish material purpose" and a planned distortion of the

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

uced, it is apparent how closely linked with sex, in its lower and in its higher aspects, is this important constellation of taurus. this is why it has been called in some books, the "sign of generation, both earthly and heavenly. we have seen that the power of the sign taurus is that of attraction, or of bringing together. it exerts a steady and continuous pull and in both the symbolical and the astronomical sense it attracts. we have seen that in this sign are to be found the pleiades, among them alcyone, called the central sun of our universe, and around it circles our sun, with its attendant planets. the words of job when he said "canst thou bind the sweet influences of pleiades or loose the bands of orion" thus become clear. the pleiades are the symbol of the soul around which the whe

the central sun of our universe, and around it circles our sun, with its attendant planets. the words of job when he said "canst thou bind the sweet influences of pleiades or loose the bands of orion" thus become clear. the pleiades are the symbol of the soul around which the wheel of life revolves. it is interesting to discover again, in taurus, the triplicity which is so constantly recurrent in astronomical lore and in mythology: taurus, representing form and the attractive pull of matter; the pleiades, representing soul and the vast recurring cycle of experience; and, among the seven pleiades [note the "seven sisters" singing- 30- the labours of hercules about hercules, in the statement of the myth] the lost pleiad (for only six are visible) a symbol of the obscuration of spirit, whilst

ercules: 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 interesting astronomical fact that the star, castor, is waning in brilliancy and has not the light that it had several hundred years ago; whilst pollux, the immortal brother, is waxing in brightness and eclipsing his brother, so reminding one of the words of john the baptist, spoken as he looked at the christ "he must increase, but i must decrease (st. john, iii, 30) thus [65] we have a most significant const

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xisuthrus and noah) is based on the universal or even on the atlantean deluges, recorded in the indian allegory of vaivaswata manu. they are the exoteric allegories based on the esoteric mysteries of samothrace. if the older chaldees knew the esoteric truth concealed in the puranic legends, the other nations were aware only of the samothracian mystery, and allegorised it. they adapted it to their astronomical and anthropological, or rather phallic, notions. samothrace is known historically to have been famous in antiquity for a deluge, which submerged the country and reached the top of the highest mountains; an event which happened before the age of the argonauts. it was overflowed very[[footnote(s* vide "adam-adami" in part ii. of this volume[[vol. 2, page] 5 the secrets of kouyunjik. sud

r takes any blame upon herself. having never claimed personal infallibility, that which is given on her own authority may leave much to be desired, in the very abstruse cases where too deep metaphysics is involved. the teaching is offered as it is understood; and as there are seven keys of interpretation to every symbol and allegory, that which may not fit a meaning, say from the psychological or astronomical aspect, will be found quite correct from the physical or metaphysical[[vol. 2, page] 23 the action of the great breath. reckoned according to the enumeration devised later by people who had forgotten, or who had an inadequate notion of, the real mysteries, and included neither the sun, the moon, nor the earth. the sun was the chief, exoterically, of the twelve great gods, or zodiacal

ordinate to them. but these, in their turn, are subordinate to their "fathers" and "mothers- the latter interchangeable and varying with each nation- the gods and their planets, such as jupiter, saturn bel, brihaspati, etc (c "his breath gave life to the seven" refers as much to the sun, who gives life to the planets, as to the "high one" the spiritual sun, who gives life to the whole kosmos. the astronomical and astrological keys opening the gate leading to the mysteries of theogony can be found only in the later glossaries, which accompany the stanzas. in the apocalyptic slokas of the archaic records, the language is as symbolical, if less mythical, than in the puranas. without the help of the later commentaries, compiled by generations of adepts, it would be impossible to understand the

ns to the lord of wisdom (a. seven times doth he see thee nearer to himself; seven times more doth he feel thee. thou hast forbidden thy servants, the small rings, to catch thy light and heat, thy great bounty to intercept on its passage (b. send now to thy servant the same (c (a) the "lord of wisdom" is mercury, or budha (b) the modern commentary explains the words as a reference to a well-known astronomical fact "that mercury receives seven times more[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] law of buddha" as schlagintweit believes, but real living men, some superior to men by virtue of their occult knowledge, and the protectors of buddha's law, inasmuch as they interpret his metaphysical tenets correctly, others inferior morally as being black magicians. therefore it is truly

d to the fourth race by one of its divine kings of the divine dynasty- and[[footnote(s* science teaches that venus receives from the sun twice as much light and heat as the earth. thus the planet, precursor of the dawn and the twilight, the most radiant of all the planets, said to give the earth one-third of the supply she receives, has two parts left for herself. this has an occult as well as an astronomical meaning "as it is above so it is below" is the fundamental axiom of occult philosophy. as the logos is seven-fold, i.e, throughout kosmos it appears as seven logoi under seven different forms, or, as taught by learned brahmins "each of these is the central figure of one of the seven main branches of the ancient wisdom religion" and, as the seven principles which correspond to the seve

branches of the ancient wisdom religion" and, as the seven principles which correspond to the seven distinct states of pragna, or consciousness, are allied to seven states of matter and the seven forms of force, the division must be the same in all that concerns the earth* venus is thus[[diagram] the earth[[diagram[[vol. 2, page] 30 the secret doctrine. also of astrology, represented venus in its astronomical tables as a globe poised over a cross, and the earth, as a globe under a cross. the esoteric meaning of this is "earth fallen into generation, or into the production of its species through sexual union" but the later western nations did not fail to give quite a different interpretation. they explained this sign through their mystics- guided by the light of the latin church- as meaning

e, as venus, equally with isis, was represented with cow's horns on her head, the symbol of mystic nature, and one that is convertible with, and significant of, the moon, since all these were lunar goddesses, the configuration of this planet is now placed by theologians between the horns of the mystic lucifer* it is owing to the fanciful interpretation of the[[footnote(s* the ansated cross is the astronomical planetary sign of venus "signifying the existence of parturient energy in the sexual sense, and this was one of the attributes of isis, the mother, of eve, hauvah, or mother-earth, and was so recognised among all the ancient peoples in one or another mode of expression (from a modern kabalistic ms* athenaeus shows that the first letter of satan's name was represented in days of old by

ming dhyan chohan[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] have chosen the crescent for their national arms. venus has always been identified, since the establishment of roman catholic dogmatism, with satan and lucifer, or the great dragon, contrary to all reason and logic. as shown by the symbologists and astronomers, the association between the serpent and the idea of darkness had an astronomical foundation. the position which the constellation of draco at one time occupied showed that the great serpent was the ruler of the night. this constellation was formerly at the very centre of the heavens, and is so extensive that it was called the great dragon. its body spreads over seven signs of the zodiac; and dupuis "who" says staniland wake "sees in the dragon of the apocalypse a

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in paris, complained in 1881[[vol. 1, page] xxvi introductory. if one turns to the ancient literature of the semitic religions, to the chaldean scriptures, the elder sister and instructress, if not the fountain-head of the mosaic bible, the basis and starting-point of christianity, what do the scholars find? to perpetuate the memory of the ancient religions of babylon; to record the vast cycle of astronomical observations of the chaldean magi; to justify the tradition of their splendid and eminently occult literature, what now remains- only a few fragments, said to be by berosus. these, however, are almost valueless, even as a clue to the character of what has disappeared. for they passed through the hands of his reverence the bishop of caesarea- that self-constituted censor and editor of

of his reverence the bishop of caesarea- that self-constituted censor and editor of the sacred records of other men's religions- and they doubtless bear to this day the mark of his eminently veracious and trustworthy hand. for what is the history of this treatise on the once grand religion of babylon? written in greek by berosus, a priest of the temple of belus, for alexander the great, from the astronomical and chronological records preserved by the priests of that temple, and covering a period of 200,000 years, it is now lost. in the first century b.c. alexander polyhistor made a series of extracts from it- also lost. eusebius used these extracts in writing his chronicon (270-340 a.d. the points of resemblance- almost of identity- between the jewish and the chaldean scriptures* made the

, as a unity, and a quaternary, as a living manifestation) has been the means of leading to the very archaic idea of immaculate conception, now finally crystallized into a dogma of the christian church, which carnalized this metaphysical idea beyond any common sense. for one has but to read the kabala and study its numerical methods of interpretation to find the origin of that dogma. it is purely astronomical, mathematical, and pre-eminently metaphysical: the male element in nature (personified by the male deities and logoi- viraj, or brahma; horus, or osiris, etc, etc) is born through, not from, an immaculate source, personified by the "mother; because that male having a mother cannot have a "father- the abstract deity being sexless, and not even a being but be-ness, or life itself. let u

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

er jezirah it is stated that "god engraved in the holy four the throne of his glory, the ophanim (wheels or the world-spheres, the seraphim* the sacred animals, and the ministering angels, and from these three (the air, water, and fire or ether) he formed his habitation" thus was the world made "through three seraphim- sepher, saphar, and sipur" or "through number, numbers, and numbered" with the astronomical key these "sacred animals" become the signs of the zodiac[[footnote(s* this is the literal translation from the ixth and xth sections "ten numbers without what? one: the spirit of the living god. who liveth in eternities! voice and spirit and word, and this is the holy spirit. two: spirit out of spirit. he designed and hewed therewith twenty-two letters of foundation, three mothers an

the "sun-sons" refer not only to our planets but to the heavenly bodies in general. himself only a reflection of the central spiritual sun, surya is the prototype of all those bodies that evolved after him. in the vedas he is called loka-chakshuh "the eye of the world (our[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] author of "maconnerie occulte "occult sciences having discovered through astronomical calculations that the number of the planets must be seven, the ancients were led to introduce the sun into the scale of the celestial harmonies, and make him occupy the vacant place. thus, every time they perceived an influence that pertained to none of the six planets known, they attributed it to the sun. the error only seems important, but was not so in practical results, if the anc

isms made by students of old religions. the "three strides of vishnu" through the "seven regions of the universe" of the rig veda, have been variously explained by commentators as meaning "fire, lightning and the sun" cosmically; and as having been taken in the earth, the atmosphere, and the sky; also as the "three steps" of the dwarf (vishnu's incarnation, though more philosophically- and in the astronomical sense, very correctly- they are explained by aurnavabha as being the various positions of the sun, rising, noon, and setting. esoteric philosophy alone explains it clearly, and the zohar laid it down very philosophically and comprehensively. it is said and plainly demonstrated therein that in the beginning the elohim (elhim) were called echod "one" or the "deity is one in many" a very

l understand why, while the trans-himalayan chackra has inscribed within it[[diagram[[diagram[[diagram (triangle, first line, cube second line, and a pentacle with a dot in the centre thus[[diagram, and some other variations, the kabalistic circle of the elohim reveals, when the letters of the word[[hebrew (alhim or elohim) are numerically read, the famous numerals 13514, or by anagram 31415- the astronomical (pi) number, or the hidden meaning of dhyani-buddhas, of the gebers, the geborim, the kabeiri, and the elohim, all signifying "great men "titans "heavenly men" and, on earth "the giants" the seven was a sacred number with every nation; but none applied it to more physiologically materialistic uses than the hebrews. with these it was pre-eminently the generative number and 9 the male c

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

e, inside the shell [insert pic p217- i prefer to wait for the crescent because to me those last days of the old moon are still very precious. i can remember waking before it was light in spain and seeing that last waning crescent with its accompanying star, shining like a jewel in the warm sky. the answer, as always, is to do what you feel is best for you. working with the phases there are eight astronomical phases of the moon, but magick generally focuses on three that are considered to be particularly significant. the waxing moon: as the moon is increasing in size, it is said to be waxing. the light increases, appearing to spread from right to left, and this phase lasts right until the moment that the moon becomes completely visible- the full moon. the waxing phase is the time for magic

alised by the celts, although some historians believe that it was predated by an earlier threefold division that celebrated the beginning of winter, mid-winter and midsummer, and was perhaps linked to the movement of the herds. the wheel of the year co-exists with the wider seasonal divisions of the year and incorporates the four solar festivals; these fall on the solstices and the equinoxes, the astronomical marker points of the ebbs and flows of cosmic energies. between each of these solar festivals, which are known to witches as the lesser sabbats, is one of the four great fire festivals that are major rites in the wiccan and neo-pagan calendar, as they were to the celts. it is interesting to note that the wheel of the year is mirrored almost exactly in the medicine wheel, or circle of

ed or adapt them to your own clime. you may, indeed, find that if your ancestors came from another land or continent, your seasonal energies resonate more with theirs. even if you live in sydney or florida, it may be that come november you instinctively hibernate; in this case, you may find the celtic pattern right for you no matter what the barometer says. because the solstices and equinoxes are astronomical measures- that is they depend on the movement of the planets and stars- the dates will vary by a day or two depending on the year. i have written in several of my books about the folk and religious lore behind seasonal festivals and there are many other good books on this subject. in this chapter i mainly focus on the way they amplify the positive energies of the universe and provide

the bedouins in the middle east and in north, central and south america. sky-clad: naked. sky gods: the powerful patriarchal gods of the classical and viking world, for example zeus of the greeks, jupiter of the romans, odin of the vikings and thunor of the anglo-saxons.they gained supremacy over the earth mother who appears as their wife-consort, full of human foibles. solstice: one of the main astronomical points of the year. the summer solstice (21 june, or 21 december in the southern hemisphere) marks the sun at its height and greatest power. the winter solstice (21 december or 21 june) is the shortest day when the sun is at its weakest and it was feared by early humans that the sun would die. spirit guides: guardians from another dimension who advise and protect humans. they may be d

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

t-nahranaye (mesopotamians. these ancient inhabitants of assyria, babylon, and sumer believed that civilization was a "gift from the gods" and it was marked from the time "kingship was lowered from heaven" 3200 bc writing in sumerian tablets 3100 bce pyramid texts [egy. 2953-2838 chinese emperor fu hsi, produced first w.v. of i ching 2700 bce the great pyramid of khufu is built in accordance with astronomical factors. 2494-2345 pyramid texts [egy. 2340 bc first imperial dynasty of egypt 2300 bc astarte, one of the ancient forms of the universal great goddess, was worshipped by the iranians in her form as anahita. her image was found in sumeria around 2300 bc. in the tibetan pantheon she is a manifestation of the sky goddess kaladugmo (mkhah.la.gdug.mo) or ma namkha (ma.nams.mkha) or 'mothe

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

many of velikovsky's earlier descriptions were proved correct, including what appeared to be a comet-like tail. mariner's pictures of mars also supported some of his theories. he pointed out that ancient peoples depicted venus as a very bright object trailing smoke following a very different orbit and trajectory than we see today. the chinese, toltecs, and mayans recorded this. the early sumerian astronomical accounts did not include venus, but the later chaldeans in the same region did so. they described it as a "bright torch in heaven" that "illuminates like the sun" and "fills the entire heavens" one of the major problems that people have in encompassing ideas about the planet's past is that they judge possibility on their present experience, which is a tiny, tiny, fraction of the earth

with names like queen semiramis, isis, barati, artemis, diana, and the biblical mary. these were also used to symbolise the feminine principle as goddesses of the moon or waters, which are 74 children of the matrix considered feminine in balance to the masculine sun. there are often two distinct camps in these areas of research. there are those who believe that these deities were only symbolic of astronomical and esoteric principles, and those who say they were originally flesh and blood extraterrestrial "gods" or "goddesses. my own view is that sometimes, not always by any means, it is a combination of the two, as some changed over thousands of years from literal descriptions of anunnaki leaders to symbolic of astronomical and esoteric themes. after many failures and some horrendous creat

orld, but no one realised it because they looked human. cathy relates another important experience she had with miguel de la madrid, the president of mexico during bush's tenure at the white house. she writes in trance-formation of america "de la madrid had relayed the 'legend of the iguana' to me, explaining that lizardlike aliens had descended upon the mayans. the mayan pyramids, their advanced astronomical technology, including sacrifice of virgins, was supposedly inspired by the lizard aliens. he told me that when the aliens interbred with the mayans to produce a form of life they could inhabit, they fluctuated between a human and iguana appearance through chameleon-like abilities 'a perfect vehicle for transforming into world leaders' de la madrid claimed to have mayan/alien ancestry

(adonis) was born. the bible "translator, jerome, admitted that bethlehem had been a sacred grove dedicated to tammuz, the fertility god or "spirit of the corn. bethlehem means "house of bread" or "house of corn. horns, the egyptian son of god, was born in the "place of bread" and jesus said he was "the bread of life. the priesthood took the ancient sumer sun religion, esoteric, astrological and astronomical knowledge, and the stories of their reptilian gods, and buried them in symbolic fables. this hid their real meaning, except to initiates, while introducing the rigid beliefs of the prison religions. every major religion, judaism, christianity, hinduism, islam, and buddhism all had the same basic origin: the knowledge and beliefs of sumer, which inherited the knowledge and beliefs of a

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onisation of the giza pyramids toorion, but at the very least they have triggered an important area of investigation, evenif they prove not to be accurate in every detail. after all, finding the truth, especially sofar back, is hardly easy. it is certainly astonishing how the ancient structures andtemples, of apparently unconnected societies all over the world, align with each otherwith fantastic astronomical, mathematical and geometrical precision. but then, thesesocieties were not unconnected. as we shall see, they had the same origins. the templesat angkor wat are covered in reptilian images, a feature of all the ancient cultures,including the egyptian, the central american and the indian. professor phillip calahanin his study of the surviving and mysterious round towers of ireland has

ion has been controlling the planet for thousands of years. i know otherpeople who have seen bush shape-shift into a reptilian.the president of mexico in the 1980s, miguel de la madrid, also used cathy in hermind controlled state. she said he told her the legend of the iguana and explained thatlizard-like extraterrestrials had descended upon the mayans in mexico. the mayanpyramids, their advanced astronomical technology and the sacrifice of virgins, wasinspired by lizard-like aliens, he told her.30 he added that these reptilians interbred withthe mayans to produce a form of life they could inhabit. de la madrid told cathy thatthese reptile-human bloodlines could fluctuate between a human and iguana appearancethrough chameleon-like abilities- a perfect vehicle for transforming into worldlea

tivity, as he explains in his book with adrian g. gilbert called themayan prophecies.20 when cotterells research was already advanced, he came acrossthe amazing mathematical system of numbers and symbols left by the ancient mayapeople in central america. the maya claimed to have originated with the gods andrecognised a lost island as their former home. their astonishingly accuratemathematical and astronomical systems, and their measurement of time, were inheritedfrom much older cultures and ultimately from the extraterrestrials. we have alreadyseen that mexican president miguel de la madrid claimed that the mayans wereinterbred with the reptilians, the iguana race as he put it.maurice cotterell was fascinated to realise that the mayan cycles of humanevolution corresponded remarkably with h

, megalithic sites in britain, that the stones not only formed geometric patterns inand around the circle, they also aligned to features in the surrounding landscape and tothe positions of the sun, moon and prominent stars at particular times, particularlywhere the sun appeared or disappeared at the equinox or solstice and where the moonwas at the extreme positions of its cycle. it was a gigantic astronomical clock, he said.but it is more than that. it is a receiver and transmitter of energy. the earths magneticgrid, or grids, consist of lines of magnetic energy known as ley lines, meridians ordragon lines to the chinese. where these lines cross, the energy spirals into a vortexand where many lines cross you have a massive vortex of energy. these are the powerplaces, the sacred sites of th

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out having any idea as to the existence of these symbols, not to mention their meaning! and, if you have ever driven a car in washington d.c. area, you will now understand why these streets seem to be laid out so weird! driving in washington d.c. can be a nightmare. now you know why. i will challenge any one to try and disprove this information. the odds against this happening accidentally are so astronomical and ridiculous! do you see irrefutable evidences of a conspiracy here? and, now the end is apparently in sight. the third world war, envisioned by albert pike in 1870 between israel and her arab neighbors, is apparently at hand. out of this war is to come antichrist. are you spiritually ready? is your family? are you adequately protecting your loved ones? from the rest of my website

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uring these two conduit periods, i was getting momentary weight losses on the order of 30 to 64 grams. this means that the gravity wheel was getting a negative weight showing a total weight loss as high as 533. joe and i believe that these experiments mean we have the embryonic basis for a true space drive. figure 7.3.1-4. correlation of dan davidson's gravity wheel experiment with joe parr's 7.4 astronomical correlations with great pyramid there are numerous relationships of the great pyramid to various astronomical bodies. the two main constellations which are related to the pyramid are taurus (the bull) and orion (the hunter. both these constellations are in the same portion of the sky. taurus is located just above orion. 7 .4.1 the taurus/pleiades connection the star alcyone in the con

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hed and twisted as though alive. this was disturbing enough to cause me to suspend my research, at that time. return h, home resources demons bios fiction tyson the truth about ufos (ufos seen over nuremberg on april 14th, 1561) the term ufo is an acronym for "unidentified flying object" throughout human history there have been sightings of things in the sky that could not be identified. most are astronomical, but some are atmospheric. the qualifier "flying" implies that ufos are objects unknown to their observers that travel through the air. stretching the term ufo, we can apply it to "near earth objects (neos) in orbit around our planet, or passing near the earth. an example of the first type would be sunlight reflected from the wings of a flock of birds. an example of the second type wo

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ca, among whose local predecessors it has been seen that it is just possible the doctrine of the four elements and their mutual convertibility may have arisen. perhaps they drew them from greece, modifying and adapting them to their own specific forms of matter, mercury, sulphur, and arsenic. arabian astrology astrology was also employed by the oracles of spain. al- battani was celebrated for his astronomical science, as were many others; and in geometry, arithmetic, algebraical calculations, and the theory of music, the list of asiatic and spanish practitioners is long, but only known by their lives and principal writings. the works of ptolemy also exercised the ingenuity of the arabians. but judicial astrology, or the art of foretelling future events from the position and influences of t

events of life. the tenets of islam, which inculcate an unreserved submission to the overruling destinies of heaven, are evidently adverse to the lessons of astrology; but this by no means hindered the practitioners of old spain and arabia from attaining a high standard of perfection in the art, which they perhaps first learned from the peoples of chaldea, the past masters of the ancient world in astronomical science, in divination, and the secrets of prophecy. but in arab spain, where the tenets of islam were perhaps more lightly esteemed than in their original home, magic unquestionably reached a higher if not more thoughtful standard. from the greeks, still in search of science, the arabs turned their attention to the books of the sages who are esteemed the primitive instructors of mank

upon natural things. the characters used in astrology to denote the 12 signs represent natural objects, but they have also a hieroglyphic or esoteric meaning that has been lost. the figure of aries represents the head and horns of a ram; that of taurus, the head and horns of a bull; that of leo, the head and mane of a lion; that of gemini, two persons standing together; and so on. the physical or astronomical reasons for the adoption of these figures is explained by the abbe pluche in his histoire du ciel (1739.41, and charles f. dupuis, in his abrege de l origine de tous les cultes (1798, endeavors to establish the principles of an astro-mythology by tracing the progress of the moon through the 12 signs in a series of adventures he compares with the wanderings of isis. nativities traditio

probability of their existence, this subject was discussed several times, notably by dean swift and voltaire. of drayson s book thirty thousand years of the earth s past history, read by aid of the discovery of the second rotation of the earth, which seeks to explain the glacial periods and variations of climate, flammarion says that it is full of scientific errors unpardonable in a man versed in astronomical studies. no mention is made by flammarion of the book nature s divine revelations by andrew jackson davis which, written in march 1846, speaks of nine planets. seven planets were known at the time. the existence of an eighth was calculated by leverrier but was not discovered until september 1846. the statement of the poughkeepsie seer that its density is four-fifths of water agreed wi

oined the company of the gods, he was assigned an island paradise where gilgamesh visited him. he lived there with his wife. gilgamesh was not permitted to land, and conversed with his immortal ancestor while sitting in his boat. the deities secured immortality by eating the food of life and drinking the water of life. astrology the ancient babylonians were credited with some of the first correct astronomical observations. they were also pioneers of astrology, which they attributed to the god marduk or bel, said to have created the sun, moon, stars, and five planets. they knew that the length of the solar year was approximately 365.4 days and had divided the period of 24 hours into 12 beru (double hours) in accordance with the divisions of the equator, each of which was divided into 60 min

0.1805) physician who was also an alchemist and a rosicrucian. believed to be of scandinavian origin, he spent some time as a ship s surgeon. while visiting the island of mauritius, he met the mysterious occultist and alchemist comte louis de chazel, who initiated him into a societas rosae crucis. de chazel owned an extensive library of occult and mystical works and a well-equipped laboratory for astronomical observations and alchemical experiments. he informed bacstrom that he had succeeded in making the philosophers stone and demonstrated the transmutation of quicksilver into gold. subsequently bacstrom lived in london and had discussions with other individuals interested in hermetic subjects. he translated a number of treatises on alchemy from german, french, and latin into english, add

eath, or by the villagers, who sometimes took the law into their own hands and punished the supposed offender. astrology was also widely practiced in cambodia. astrologers, or, as they were called, horas, were attached to the court, and their direct employment by the king gave them some standing in the country. at the beginning of each year they made a calendar, which contained, besides the usual astronomical information, weather and other predictions. they were consulted by the people on all sorts of subjects, and were believed to be able to avert the calamities they predicted. in modern cambodia, the songkran, or astrology festival, is still celebrated. it is not surprising that in such a country, where good and evil powers were ascribed so lavishly, much attention should be paid to omen

the unexplained anomalous natural phenomena studied by charles fort, author of the book of the damned (1919. the damned were the data rejected or explained encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. chaos: the review of the damned 271 away by orthodox science, including strange falls from the sky, mysterious appearances and disappearances, unusual synchronicities, enigmatic artifacts, and astronomical ambiguities. chaos explored the background detail of fort s references and supplements them by additional in-depth material. last known address: res bureaux, box 1598, kingston, ontario k7l 5c8, canada. charcot, jean martin (1825.1893) french physician who studied hypnotism in relation to hysteria. born november 29, 1825, in paris, charcot became a doctor of medicine and was later app

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lso be drawn with vermilion upon lambskin without a blemish prepared under the auspices of the sun. the sign was next consecrated with the four elements, breathed on five times, dried by the smoke of five perfumes (incense, myrrh, aloes, sulfur, and camphor. the names of five genii were breathed above it, and then the sign was placed successively at the north, south, east, west, and center of the astronomical cross, while the letters of the sacred tetragram and various kabalistic names were prounced over it (see kabala. it was believed to be of great efficacy in terrifying phantoms if engraved upon glass, and the magicians traced it on their doorsteps to prevent evil spirits from entering and good spirits from departing. this symbol was used by many secret and occult societies, by the rosi

d jehovah. in ancient greece, the seven prominent stars were named after the seven daughters of atlas and pleione. atlas, a titan who warred against the gods, was condemned by zeus to hold up the heavens on his shoulders. his daughters were named alcyone, asterope, celaeno, electra, maia, merope, and taygete. each has her own story from the mythological cycles. pleiades, largely a concern for the astronomical community in recent centuries, broke into the news in 1975 when eduard albert billy meier, the leader of a small metaphysical study group in his native switzerland, announced that he had seen a saucer-shaped craft land and had communicated with its pilot, a woman named semjase. semjase claimed to reside on a planet in the pleiades. having discovered earth in the distant past, some ple

d he uses, to range nature s memory under favourable conditions a little beyond the area with which he himself is in normal relationship. such a person has begun, however slightly, to exercise the faculty of astral clairvoyance. such highly speculative ideas are beyond the scope of psychical research, but the concept of the akashic records in its philosophical depths can be partly supported by an astronomical analogy. because of the vastness of interstellar distances it takes hundreds of thousands of years for light, traveling at the enormous speed of 186,000 miles per second, to reach us from distant stars. anyone who could look at the earth from such a distant star would witness, at the present moment, the primeval past. from various distances the creation of our world could be seen as a

edgar cayce built upon hall s speculations. through this century, other writers have suggested that the plan of the great pyramid and its internal structures may have embodied a mystical symbolism of the journey of the soul, as described in the egyptian book of the dead (papyrus of ani. it is also not unlikely that the north-south orientation of the pyramid and the nature of its dimensions reveal astronomical and geometrical knowledge of a high order. it seems clear that the egyptians were aware of the mathematical radio of pi. during the last generation, widespread publicity has been given to two interesting speculations about pyramids. the first was proposed by erich von daniken who, drawing upon popular ignorance about the broad findings of egyptology, suggested that the pyramids had be

tagram which was taught to neophytes in the hermetic order of the golden dawn. the name raphael was also adopted by pioneer british astrologer robert cross smith (1795.1832) whose career really marks the beginning of the modern astrological revival from the low point of astrological interest in the eighteenth century. smith founded a successful astrological publishing house and compiled raphael s astronomical ephemeris, the book of sun, moon, and planet position for each day of the year, a necessary tool for the preparation of an accurate horoscope. since his death, the publishing house continues to publish his ephemeris which remains one of the most popular used today. through the nineteenth century, individual astrologers also assumed the name and operated as raphael. raphael ii was john

arth chronicles, that expand and undergird the original hypothesis. the most recent volume, the cosmic code, appeared in 1998. sitchin s hypothesis was given additional credibility by a lively debate among astronomers in the 1970s over the possible existence of an additional planet in the solar system, commonly referred to as planet x. sitchin identified nibiru with the hypothesized planet x. the astronomical debate, however, proceeded without reference to sitchin, and by the 1990s astronomers had abandoned the search for planet x. at the end of the 1990s, alan f. alford, whose 1998 book gods of the new millennium had been most supportive of sitchin, attempted independently to verify sitchin s hypothesis with his own research. in the end, however, he too abandoned sitchin after encounterin

tronomical debate, however, proceeded without reference to sitchin, and by the 1990s astronomers had abandoned the search for planet x. at the end of the 1990s, alan f. alford, whose 1998 book gods of the new millennium had been most supportive of sitchin, attempted independently to verify sitchin s hypothesis with his own research. in the end, however, he too abandoned sitchin after encountering astronomical data suggesting the impossibility of some of sitchin s claims about the way that nibiru s close approach affected the earth. he subsequently has produced a significant variant hypothesis that nevertheless retains much of sitchin s alternative approach to history. sitchin resides in new york city. he has an internet site: http//www.crystalinks.com/sitchen.html. there are a number of ad

od of megalith construction, remnants of which can be found across the british isles. it was probably last in use about 1400 b.c.e. megalithic (large stone) monuments exist in many locations in europe. a major step in understanding the use and significance of stonehenge occurred in the 1960s when it was discovered that the alignment of the stones seems to facilitate the prediction of a variety of astronomical events, such as the summer solstice, and were thus probably related to late neolithic worship ceremonies. the stonehenge site is composed of three distinct elements. an outer circle of local sarsen stones and two inner circles of blue stones from the prescelly mountains of wales, 200 kilometers (125 miles) away. the first and third circles are capped with stone lintels, and the whole

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ted with persons from the red planet, which she also visited astrally. she produced a ma rtian language that fl o u r n oy identified as an infantile trave s t y of fre n c h (fl o u r n oy, 1963. reflecting a belief popularized by american astronomer percival lowell, smith/muller saw canals on the martian surface. her story, like those of swedenborg and the contactees of the saucer era, mirrored astronomical and other scientific theories of the period. within a few years, the notion of a martian canal system would be thoroughly debunked. in the late 1940s and into the 1950s, it was still vaguely possible, some astronomers thought, that some neighboring planets (most likely mars and venus) could harbor intelligent life. perhaps not surprisingly, the aliens in contact lore often hailed from

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bstantiate that the sefer yetzirah is not of medieval origin. the work of the chariot trust version was made using all six known textural sources.14 some of the versions contain considerable addenda whose language points to the hasmonean period, circa 130 bce, and later. the additional material was left out of the redaction the work of the chariot used as the basis for its translation. based upon astronomical information in the book itself, the work of the chariot translator attributed authorship of the sefer yetzirah to master abraham in the nineteenth century bce. an adjunctive note to the translation points out that the procession of the equinoxes acts as an unforgeable clock, allowing us to determine that the correspondence of the constellations given in the sixth chapter to the twelve

in the sixth chapter to the twelve hebrew months (with no variations in the six texts considered) occurred during the time of abraham, circa 4000 years ago. allowing for 4' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% an optimal variation of plus or minus 800 years ago, it is still not anywhere within the range of medieval times. a check on the data logs of the old chaldeans, egyptians, and greeks indicated that no one had astronomical knowledge of the procession (until about 1700 ce. the sefer yetzirah is the first mystical manual on, and possibly the source text for, the original hebrew alphabet. its chapters explain the significance of the twenty-two letters and ascribe various attributes to them. it is second only to the sefer hashmoth as the most prolific source of distinct forms of the tree of life. the first

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ferent bodily temperaments were related to different planets. much of ficino's book could therefore be regarded, as he claimed, as normal medicine. nevertheless he was also putting forward in it a subtle and imaginative kind of magic involving the use of talismans. he was nervously aware of possible dangers in this, and in his preliminary address he tells the reader that "if you do not approve of astronomical images" these may be omitted.3 the work is intended primarily for students who are liable 1 ficino's magic has been admirably discussed by d. p. walker in his book on spiritual and demonic magic from ficino to campanella to which i am greatly indebted in this chapter. i am also indebted to e. garin's essay "le 'elczioni' e il problema dell'astrologia" in umanesimo e esoterismo, ed. e

looked at,2 suggesting that it is perhaps a medal, perhaps an elaborate jewel' ficino, p. 559. 2 "uel gestabit, uel oppositam imucbitur" ibid, loc. cit. 74 ficino's natural magic he then says that the figure of the world may be constructed so as to reproduce the motion of the spheres, as was done by archimedes, and has been done recently by a florentine called lorenzo. he is here referring to the astronomical clock made by lorenzo della volpaia1 for lorenzo de' medici which contained representations of the planets. such a figure of the world, says ficino, is made not only to be gazed at but to be meditated upon in the soul. it is obviously a different kind of object to the one previously hinted at. it is a cosmic mechanism. finally, someone may construct, or will construct: on the domed ce

entricity the cult of the prisca theologia laid a greatly increased em- 1 see pagel, paracelsus, pp. 218 ff. 2 c vasoli "francesco giorgio veneto" in test, wnan, pp. 79 ff. 3 see below, pp. 441-2. i.5i renaissance magic and science phasis on the sun, and two of the prisci thealogi in ficino's lists' had taught that the earth moves. these were pythagoras and philolaus; the latter had published the astronomical views of the pythagorean school, which were that the earth, sun, and other bodies revolve around a central fire. the cult of hermes trismegistus also tended to suggest a different position for the sun to that which it held in the chaldean-ptolemaic system, universally accepted in the middle ages. the egyptian order of the planets was different from the chaldean order, for the egyptian

essis mornay; he knew dee, who was a magus, but a christian one, also a genuine scientist having a genuine mathematical understanding of the copernican theory.2 bruno was to present him with yet another brand of hermetism. we are at last ready for the eruption of giordano bruno into 1 a true and faithfull relation of what passed. between dr. john dee and some spirits, p. 397. 2 see f. r. johnson, astronomical thought in renaissance england, baltimore, 1937, pp. 134-5. 188 religious hermetism in the sixteenth century this book. we have been preparing for him all along, for it is only by putting him into the context of the history of hermetism in the renaissance that one can begin to understand this extraordinary man. 189 chapter xi giordano bruno1 was born at nola, a small town on the foot

tury liberals into ecstasies as the cry of the advanced scientific thinker breaking out of mediaeval shackles, and they are indeed very striking, very thrilling words. what do they mean? forms of heliocentricity had been known in antiquity and copernicus himself had cited some antique predecessors.3 but this ancient truth now reviving of which the nolan is the prophet is not heliocentricity in an astronomical sense, or as a mathematical hypothesis. bruno has himself explained that he sees far more in 1 ariosto, orlando furioso, xxxv, i. quoted in sir john harington's translation. 2 cena, dial. 1 dial, ital, pp. 29-33. 3 see above, pp. 153-4. 237 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic philosophy it than the mere mathematician had done. yet even copernicus had not been purely mathematical

verse move through space like great animals, animated by the divine life. he. made his affirmation that the universe is infinite; that it consists of an immense ethereal region; that it is like a vast sky of space in whose bosom are the heavenly bodies. that the moon, the 1 thomas digges, a perfit description of the caelestiall orbes, first edition in 1576. on digges and bruno, see f. r. johnson, astronomical thought in renaissance england, baltimore, 1937, pp. 168 ff. 2 see a. o. lovejoy, the great chain of being, harvard university press, 1942 (second edition, pp. 116 ff. 3 a. koyre. from the closed world to the infinite universe, new york, 1958 (second edition, p. 54. 244 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic philosophy sun, and innumerable other bodies are in this ethereal region, an

) who follow the law of nature are so close to christianity, their natural laws needing nothing but the addition of the sacraments, i draw from this the conclusion that the true law is christian, and that, when its abuses are taken away, it will rule the world.1 the city of the sun is heliocentric in a religious and magical sense, being ruled by the sun priest. is its plan also heliocentric in an astronomical sense, that is to say, is it copernican? the giri are called after the planets, but it is not specified whether the earth is one of them, with the sun at the centre, or whether the sun is among them, with the earth at the centre. the solarians were interested in both theories. they (the solarians) praise ptolemaeus and admire copernicus, although aristarchus and philolaus were before

said about signs in the stars, the sun, and the moon is true. and that the end of things will come, like a thief in the night. whence they expect the renovation of the age (the millennium before the end of the world) and perhaps its end. they are enemies of aristotle, whom they call a pedant.2 it would thus seem that, though not quite decided about copernicus, their minds ran on immediately from astronomical theory to "portents, and they disliked aristotle, the "pedant. we are close here to the atmosphere in which bruno in the cena defends copernicanism against aristotelian pedantry as a portent of the rising sun of the return to egyptianism. the millenarianism of the solarians is unlike bruno and there are some other differences. nevertheless i would think that the city of the sun repres

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rious. yet to scoff at science would be foolishness, just as it is foolishness to scoff at any honest idea. science is a means to an end- the knowledge of shadows. so also is the qabalah, though it looks at the mystery from a different angle of thought. when the qabalist says, gas above so beneath h, and when the scientist says, gto measure the mass of an electron, a suitable procedure is to make astronomical observations of the distances and velocities of spiral nebulae h, 15 these angles all but coincide. and when the qabalist postulates no-thingness as the beginning of every-thingness, and the scientist says, gthe beginning seems to present insuperable difficulties unless we agree to look on it as frankly supernatural h, 16 coincidence is absolute; for in both reality remains impenetrab

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ca, seem plainly to have crossed over from the north-eastern extremity of siberia. upon this subject the same writer remarks thus "agreeably to the mystical notion so familiar to the hindoos, that the self-triplicated great father yet remained but one in essence, the peruvians supposed their tanga-tanga to be one in three, and three in one: and in consequence of the union of hero worship with the astronomical and material systems of idolatry they venerated the sun and the air, each under three images and three names. the same opinions equally prevailed throughout the nations which lie to the west of hindostan. thus the persians had their ormuzd, mithras, and ahriman: or, as the matter was sometimes represented, their self-triplicating mithras. the syrians had their monimus, aziz, and ares

ighteenth century the celebrated astronomer, bailly, published a work entitled the history of ancient astronomy, in which he endeavored to prove that a nation possessed of profound wisdom and great genius, and of an antiquity far superior to the hindoos or egyptians "inhabited the country to the north of india, or about fifty degrees north latitude" this writer has shown that "the most celebrated astronomical observations and inventions, from their peculiar character, could have taken place only in these latitudes, and that arts and improvements gradually travelled thence to the equator" a colony of brahmins settled near the imans, and in northern thibet, where in ancient times they established celebrated colleges, particularly at nagraent and cashmere. in these institutions the treasures

been previously worked "at great expense and with great ingenuity by a people well versed in mechanics, of whom no monuments whatever are extant" the decorations on the breasts of some of the oldest mummies show that the early egyptians understood the art of making glass. it is now known that the lens as a magnifying instrument was in use among them. attention has been drawn to the fact that the astronomical observations of the ancients would have been impossible without the aid of the telescope. diodorus siculus says there was an island west of the celtae in which the druids brought the sun and moon near them. an instrument has recently been found in the sands of the nile, the construction of which shows plainly that 6000 years ago the egyptians were acquainted with our modern ideas of t

the carved figures on the caves of india, the lares and penates of the romans, and the stone pillars or crosses in the market-places and at the intersection of roads in brittany. eusebius says that at elephanta they adored a deity in the figure of a man in a sitting posture painted blue, having the head of a ram with the horns of a goat encircling a disk. the deity thus described is said to be of astronomical origin, denoting the power of the sun in aries. this figure, which was one of the representations of the sun-god crishna, was worshipped both in india and in egypt. in various of the manifestations of this deity he appears in the act of killing a serpent. he was the dead man on a cross and also the sun, which although continually dying is constantly being revived again. various incarn

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arnings to vespasian. these facts are narrated by the historian tacitus.theastrologer heliodorus was the adviser of the emperor valens. juvenal mentions the astrologers on several occasions.theearly christian fathers all condemned judicial astrology, among these tertullian, augustine and isidorus were most famous. apart from mythological fancies, the first man of whom it can be proved that he had astronomical knowledge is thales, a citizen of miletus, and the founder of the ionic system of philosphy; he died about 546b.c.he predicted an eclipse, the horrid darkness of which stopped a battle between the medes under cyaxares, and the lydians led by alyattes. he was believed to have gained his knowledge of the heavenly bodies from egyptian sources; josephus and plutarch both say he wenttoegyp

cy, are schemes which, however imperfect their present condition, have been provedtodeliver judgment much more often accurate than the laws of probability should bring about.[reprinted from s.r.i.a.,transactionsof themetropolitancollege(1910, pp.1-19.]21.thestar lore ofthebibleduring recent years the great italian astronomer, schiaparelli, and a notable englishman, walter maunder of the greenwich astronomical observatory have published volumes concern255 ing the biblical references to the sun, moon and stars.theformer has written a learned treatise with explanation of hebrew words in connection with the subject; the latter is more concerned with the relations of the jewish faith and christian religion to the star lore to be found in the bible. these eminent astronomers agree in the opinion

other possible sources of error in the attempt to identify stars with star names, as for example, it may be that in the course of centuries a star name such as arcturus may have been transferred from one star to another, and the error of viewing venus at its rising as a star distinct from venus at its setting was universal for some centuries. i supply a short catalogue of hebrew words relating to astronomical subjects, with their translation and alleged meanings, with references to the books of the bible where they are to be found.osh&oishthestar lore ofthebible 219kimhpronounced kimah; in amos v, 8, is translated'theseven stars, in the authorised bible, and the'thepleiades' in the revised version. in jobix,9, and xxxviii,31,it is called'thepleiades, both in the a.b. and r.v.ksilpronounced

inscriptions also name the ceremonies as hiero255 coracica, leontiaca, persica, heliaca, and patrica. augustine noted that he had heard that 'some members flap their wings like birds, imitate the cries of ravens, and others growl like lions; his remarks are all intended to be contemp255 tuous and insulting to these mystics. some old authors explained these practices as being illustra255 tions of astronomical details, and so related to the zodiacal signs, and to gods of the planets which had mostly animal secondary attributions in greco-roman mythology. cumont remarks that many cults of ancient nations of asia minor, mysteries of greece and egypt, consecrated animals to definite gods, goddesses, and religious ideals; perhaps this practice was a survival of prehistoric forms of belief, and

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tecedent period of the earth's history, not in historic times at all,butin the times of some of the earlier root races; and i should like to know whether there is any reason to say that such a position of the earth's axis would be impossible at the time when the incandescent earth occupied the position of a sun to a possibly inhabited moon.thatwas probably a fact, as we were told in the course of astronomical lectures last winter. supposing that it were a possible fact that egyptian priests might have drawn a zodiac or hieroglyphic representing such a position of the earth's axis as indicating to them that far distant time- probably, i think,ifwe may go by the hindu calculations, about eight to nine millions of years ago- that is a calculation which one may leave to physical astronomers;bu

posing that every human being in anthetatwas195assemblyhadsuch perfect health, you still have to take account of the personal equation.letan electric flash be started at one end of this room and every person here will see it at a different time, slightly different of course,butdifferent and calculably different, as every astronomer knows, because the personal equation has to be allowed for in all astronomical observations, and each observer's has to be known, calculated, and allowed for, in order that his observation may be rectified. therefore, when the vayu tatwa comes into play upon the world in general, every human being upon the world will respond to it at a different time, in proportion to the rapidity or slowness of the carrying power of their nerves, and the sensitiveness of the pa

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o give an expression to this doctrine. moreover, humanists maintain that science supports these claims. however, they are wrong. since the first humanist manifesto was published, the two premises that humanists have presented as scientific facts the idea that the universe is eternal and the theory of evolution have collapsed: 1. the idea that the universe is eternal was invalidated by a series of astronomical discoveries made when the first humanist manifesto was being written. discoveries such as the fact that the universe is expanding, of cosmic background radiation and the calculation of the ratio of hydrogen to helium, have shown that the universe had a beginning, and that it came to be from nothing some 15-17 billion years ago in a giant explosion called the "big bang" although those

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ture was based in the arctic region and due to severe weather changes migrations took place to many diverse locations. while an arctic origin to vedic culture may seem unusual to modern scholarship, it is exactly what was argued in the arctic home in the vedas (1903) by bal gangadhar tilak. in this work tilak argued for an early origin of vedic culture in the interglacial period and used detailed astronomical an historical research to prove his thesis. he argued that the earliest records were from up to 35,000 bce (very similar to the pharaoh lists of manetho, but that the major impetus was circa 10,500 8,000 bce when after the destruction of the original polar home, migrations began. these continued through the period of 8,000-5,000 bce with settlements through northern europe and asia. i

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vanced meditation of rah ynda end of second stage. the adept must now pass examination on [c] and [e. tarot [n [n1 [p [o [q [r [f] 21. tarot description of 78 cards (symbology and meaning [n] 22. major arcana series [n1] 23. tarot: tabular view of dominion of symbols of book t in the celestial heavens, and operation and rules of the tree of life as projected in a solid sphere [p] 7 24. tarot: the astronomical correspondences [o] 25. tarot: method of divination (opening of the key [q] 26. tarot: tabulated rules [r] the adept must now pass an examination on. concourse of forces [t [x [s [h [y] 27. forty-eight enochian calls [t] 28. attributions of the enochian tablets- n.o.m- official attributions [s] 29. document- not given out- history of r.r. et a.c [l] 30. key of governance of combinatio

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n the work of god, and be serviceable to the constitution of your time? on which work these profits will follow, that all those goods which nature hath disposed in every part of the earth shall at one time and altogether be given to you, tanquam in centro solis et lunae. then shall you be able to expel from the world all those things which darken human knowledge and underaction, such as the vain (astronomical) epicycles and eccentric circles. chapter xiv you, however, for whom it is enough to be serviceable out of curiosity to any ordinance, or who are dazzled by the glistering of gold, or who though now upright, might be led away by such unexpected great riches into an effeminate, idle, luxurious, and pompous life, do not disturb our sacred silence by your clamor, but think that although

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

uanaco.10 the question, therefore, is this: when was tiahuanaco built? the orthodox historical view is that the ruins cannot possibly be dated much earlier than ad 500.11 an alternative chronology also exists, however, which, although not accepted by the majority of scholars, seems more in tune with the scale of the geological upheavals that have occurred in this region. based on the mathematical/astronomical calculations of professor arthur posnansky of the university of la paz, and of professor rolf muller (who also challenged the official dating of machu picchu, it pushes the main phase of construction at tiahuanaco back to 15,000 bc. this chronology also indicates that the city later suffered immense destruction in a phenomenal natural catastrophe around the eleventh millennium bc, and

e calendar could not have been drawn up and laid out in any other way than this.10 my background research had made me especially curious about the gateway of the sun and, indeed, about the kalasasaya as a whole. this 7 ibid, i, p. 78. 8 the lost realms, p. 215. 9 tiahuanacu, ii, pp. 44-105. 10 the calendar of tiahuanaco, pp. 17-18. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 82 was so because certain astronomical and solar alignments which we review in the next chapter had made it possible to calculate the approximate period when the kalasasaya must originally have been laid out. these alignments suggested the controversial date of 15,000 bc about seventeen thousand years ago. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 83 chapter 11 intimations of antiquity in his voluminous work tiahuanacu: the

hese alignments suggested the controversial date of 15,000 bc about seventeen thousand years ago. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 83 chapter 11 intimations of antiquity in his voluminous work tiahuanacu: the cradle of american man, the late professor arthur posnansky (a formidable german-bolivian scholar whose investigations at the ruins lasted for almost fifty years) explains the archaeo-astronomical calculations which led to his controversial re-dating of tiahuanaco. these, he says, were based solely and exclusively on the difference in the obliquity of the ecliptic of the period in which the kalasasaya was built and that which it is today .1 what exactly is the obliquity of the ecliptic, and why does it make tiahuanaco 17,000 years old? according to the dictionary definition it

he obliquity of the ecliptic of the period in which the kalasasaya was built and that which it is today .1 what exactly is the obliquity of the ecliptic, and why does it make tiahuanaco 17,000 years old? according to the dictionary definition it is the angle between the plane of the earth s orbit and that of the celestial equator, equal to approximately 23 27 at present .2 to clarify this obscure astronomical notion, it helps to picture the earth as a ship, sailing on the vast ocean of the heavens. like all such vessels (be they planets or schooners, it rolls slightly with the swell that flows beneath it. picture yourself on board that ship as it rolls, standing on the deck, gazing out to sea. you rise up on the crest of a wave and your visible horizon increases; you fall back into a troug

is the obliquity of the ecliptic. but because the earth is a ship that rolls, its obliquity changes in a cyclical manner over very long periods. during each cycle of 41,000 years the obliquity varies, with the precision and predictability of a swiss chronograph, between 22.1 and 1 tiahuanacu, ii, p. 89. 2 collins english dictionary, london, 1982, p. 1015. in addition, dr john mason of the british astronomical association defined obliquity of the ecliptic in a telephone interview on 7 october 1993: the earth spins about an axis which goes through its centre and its north and south poles. this axis is inclined to the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun. this tilt is called the obliquity of the ecliptic. the current value for the obliquity of the ecliptic is 23.44 degrees. graham hancoc

tiahuanaco preferring, as noted in chapter eight, to agree on the safe estimate of ad 500. during the years 1927-30, however, several scientists from other disciplines checked carefully posnansky s astronomic-archaeological investigations. these scientists, members of a high-powered team which also studied many other archaeological sites in the andes, were dr hans ludendorff (then director of the astronomical observatory of potsdam, dr friedrich becker of the specula vaticanica, and two other astronomers: professor dr arnold kohlschutter of the university of bonn and dr rolf muller of the astrophysical institute of potsdam.6 at the end of their three years of work the scientists concluded that posnansky was basically right. they didn t concern themselves with the implications of their find

er astronomers: professor dr arnold kohlschutter of the university of bonn and dr rolf muller of the astrophysical institute of potsdam.6 at the end of their three years of work the scientists concluded that posnansky was basically right. they didn t concern themselves with the implications of their findings for the prevailing paradigm of history; they simply stated the observable facts about the astronomical alignments of various structures at tiahuanaco. of these, the most important by far was that the kalasasaya had been laid out to conform with observations of the heavens made a very long time ago much, much further back than ad 500. posnansky s figure of 15,000 bc was pronounced to be well within the bounds of possibility.7 if tiahuanaco had indeed flourished so long before the dawn o

ain s satanic mission to wipe clear the memory banks of central america. notable among these was juan de zumarraga, bishop of mexico, who boasted of having destroyed 20,000 idols and 500 indian temples. in november 1530 he burned a christianized aztec aristocrat at the stake for having allegedly reverted to worship of the rain-god and later, in the market-place at texcoco, built a vast bonfire of astronomical documents, paintings, manuscripts and hieroglyphic texts which the conquistadores had forcibly extracted from the aztecs during the previous eleven years.12 as this irreplaceable storehouse of knowledge and history went up in flames, a chance to shake off at least some of the collective amnesia that clouds our understanding was lost to mankind for ever. what remains to us of the writt

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plete eye of his son, horus. each month as the moon waned, the body of osiris and the eye of horus were divided. evil seemed to triumph, until the waxing of the moon completed these two symbols of beneficent power again. periodic eclipses of the moon were explained by myths such as that of seth taking the form of a black boar to swallow the eye of horus and being forced to expel it again. regular astronomical events such as the appearance of the morning star or the heliacal rising of sirius also feature in egyptian myth (see stars and planets in deities, themes, and concepts, but by far the most significant heavenly phenomenon was the daily rising and setting of the sun. the solar cycle the apparent movement of the sun across the sky was seen both as a life cycle and as a journey. the dail

l gende de la d sse lointaine. in the intellectual heritage of ancient egypt, edited by u. luft. studia aegyptica 14. budapest: 1992, 449 456. m. verner. a statue of tweret (cairo museum no. 39145) dedicated by pabesi and several remarks on the role of the hippopotamus goddess. zeitschrift f r gyptische sprache und alterumskunde 96 (1969: 52 63 primary sources: pt 269; bd 137, 186; medamud hymn; astronomical ceilings; metternich stela; i&o 19 horemakhet (harmachis) horemakhet was horus in the horizon, a solar form of the celestial falcon. see under horus; sphinx horus (hor) horus was the celestial falcon and the embodiment of kingship. the conflict between horus and seth, the two lords, was an enduring theme in egyptian myth. the name horus probably means the distant one. two main forms o

crowned with a sun disk or a sun disk with falcon s wings. when a king appeared to his subjects, it was compared with the glorious rising of horemakhet (horus in the horizon. the two lords, horus and seth, were either named as brothers or as nephew and uncle. many theories have been advanced to explain the origins of their combat, from memories of an ancient civil war to observations of storms or astronomical phenomena. when the combatants are horus the elder, the celestial falcon, and seth, the chaotic god of storms, the conflict seems to belong to the primeval age when opposing elements had to come together to create the divine order. the necessity of horus and seth being reconciled is stressed in many sources. one of the key images of royal art was horus the uniter and seth tying togeth

ket; seshat 208 handbook of egyptian mythology references and further reading: j. p. allen. cosmology of the pyramid texts. in j. p. allen et al. religion and philosophy in ancient egypt. yale egyptological studies 3. new haven: 1989, 1 28. jane b. sellars. the death of the gods in ancient egypt (ebook. mighty words ebook: 2000. primary sources: pt 219, 245, 273 274, 422, 466, 670; bd 17; bofnut; astronomical ceilings tatjenen (tatenen) tatjenen was the god of the primeval mound and the depths of the earth. see also primeval mound; ptah taweret (tweret, taurt, thoeris) taweret was an apotropaic goddess often shown with the head and body of a hippopotamus, the breasts of a fecundity figure, the paws of a lion, and the tail of a crocodile. see also hippopotamus goddesses tayet tayet was the

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

ease of heating and solidfood. however, we were finally reconciled to our loss, and even got accustomed to the local and in realitymore nutritious food- seals, and seal-grease. our men from the remnants of our lumber built a houseneatly divided into two compartments, one for our three professors and myself, and the other for themselves;and, a few wooden sheds being constructed for meteorological, astronomical and magnetic purposes, we evenadded a protecting stable for the few remaining deer. and then began the monotonous series of dawnlessnights and days, hardly distinguishable one from the other, except through dark-grey shadows. at times, the"blues" we got into, were fearful! we had contemplated sending two of our three steamers home, inseptember, but the premature, and unforeseen format

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

peans, many people having entertained the conception of an underworld climate; as well we may, if we localize our hell in the center of the earth. all exoteric religions-the creeds of the brahmins, buddhists, zoroastrians, mohammedans, jews, and the rest, made their hells hot and dark, though many were more attractive than frightful. the idea of a hot hell is an afterthought, the distortion of an astronomical allegory. with the egyptians page 154 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt hell became a place of punishment by fire not earlier than the 17th or 18th dynasty, when typhon was transformed from a god into a devil. but at whatever time they implanted this dread superstition in the minds of the poor ignorant masses, the scheme of a burning hell and souls tormented therein is purely egy

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

portion of evident history. it is this abnormal historic-mindedness of the primal race- a chance circumstance operating, through coincidence, miraculously in our favor- which made the carvings so awesomely informative to us, and which caused us to place their photography and transcription above all other considerations. in certain rooms the dominant arrangement was varied by the presence of maps, astronomical charts, and other scientific designs of an enlarged scale- these things giving a naive and terrible corroboration to what we gathered from the pictorial friezes and dadoes. in hinting at what the whole revealed, i can only hope that my account will not arouse a curiosity greater than sane caution on the part of those who believe me at all. it would be tragic if any were to be allured

e picked up what we know of that monstrous chapter of prehuman life. after the first shock of the certain revelation, we had to pause a while to recuperate, and it was fully three o clock before we got started on our actual tour of systematic research. the sculptures in the building we entered were of relatively late date- perhaps two million years ago-as checked up by geological, biological, and astronomical features- and embodied an art which would be called decadent in comparison with that of specimens we found in older buildings after crossing bridges under the glacial sheet. one edifice hewn from the solid rock seemed to go back forty or possibly even fifty million years- to the lower eocene or upper cretaceous- and contained bas-reliefs of an artistry surpassing anything else, with o

HP LOVECRAFT BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP

editary folk-tales which circulated in even the most decadent of communities. all this he tells me- yet i cannot forget what i saw in the sky on the night after slater died. lest you think me a biased witness, another pen must add this final testimony, which may perhaps supply the climax you expect. i will quote the following account of the star nova persei verbatim from the pages of that eminent astronomical authority, professor garrett p. serviss "on february 22, 1901, a marvelous new star was discovered by doctor anderson of edinburgh, not very far from algol. no star had been visible at that point before. within twenty-four hours the stranger had become so bright that it outshone capella. in a week or two it had visibly faded, and in the course of a few months it was hardly discernible

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

s atomic weight or the number of protons and electrons in its individual atoms. numbers are basic to life; they are inherent in all things. so if we want to establish control over things, as witches do, it is natural that we explore the relation between us and the numbers that mean something to our lives. we are not ruled by numbers, although sometimes it might seem so. the force of the moon, the astronomical arithmetic by which we count off our months, affects the tides. all our days are numbered by a calendar that is attuned to the motion of the planets and the forces of the universe. a woman in her menstrual cycle counts the days. the blood that flows in our veins resembles the structure of the salt water that flows in oceans, oceans governed by the moon, oceans from which, evolution sa

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virginity. being before the sun, she almost eclipses its light. than this, nothing could more completely identify the christian mother and child with isis and horus, ishtar, venus, juno, and a host of other pagan goddesses, who have been called 'queen of heaven 'queen of the universe 'mother of god 'spouse of god' the 'celestial virgin' the 'heavenly peace-makn* etc" such pictures are not purely astronomical. they represent the mole god and the female goddess, as the sun and moon in conjunction "the union of the triad with the unit" the horns of the cow on the head of isis have the same significance. and so above, below, outside, and inside the cbristiaii church, in the priestly ganneots. and the religious rites, we recognise the stamp of exoteric heathenism. on no subject within the wide

and erudite pagan scholars, and the no less learned gnostics, held in their doctrines the hitherto concealed wires c^ ad these theological marionettes. once the curtain should be lifted, the connexion between the old pagan and the new christian religions would be exposed; and then, what would have beme of the 'mysteries' into which it is sin and blasphemy to pry? with such a coincidence of the astronomical allegories of various pagan myths with the dates adopted by christianity for the nativity, cruci- fixion, and resurrection, and such an identity of rites and ceremonies, what would have been the fate of the new religion, had not the church under the pretext of serving christ got rid of the too-well-informed philosophers? to guess what, if the coup d'hid had then failed, might have bee

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

eared in the french arms until the time of philip augustus. see montfau on s monumens de la monarchie fran aise, paris, 1729, also jean-jacques chifflet, anutasis de childerie, 1655. see also notes and queries, 1856, london, 2d series, for some under the stone or the mystic human possibility, is the infant saviour, born in the mysterious month of the propitiation, or the mystical astrological and astronomical escaped month of the zodiac; and the stone is the philosopher s stone. the lisses of france. 43 learned papers on the fleur-de-lis. in the early armorial bearings of the frankish kings, the lilies are represented as insects, sembed (seeded, or spotted, on the blue field. these are, in their origin, the scarab ei of the orientals; they were dignified by the egyptians as the emblems of

of their genealogy, all spires and towers, in their grand hieroglyphic proclamation, all over the world. all these are phalli, and express a sublime meaning (a) aries (b) taurus (c) gemini (d) cancer (e) leo (f) virgo, are the six first signs; and they collectively (in their annual succession) form the macrocosmos of the cabalists. then succeeds the turning-point, balances, or nave (navel, of the astronomical wheel, represented by the sign libra (g, which, be it remembered, was added by the imaginative (and therefore, practically inventive) greeks. the foregoing, up to libra, represent the ascending signs, or six of the spokes, so to speak, of the annual zodiacal wheel, circling to the zenith or vertex. the last six signs of the zodiac are called descending signs, and they are the sinister

strial ground-line, or horizontal, or equatorial (symbol, or sigma, as thus: the union of these (at the intersection of these rays) at fig. 13. mysteries of the cross. 63 the junction-point, or middle point, forms the cross as thus: fig. 15 (b) cross (c) fig. 16. fig. 17. fig. 18. fig. 19. in figure c, the union of fig. 16 and fig. 17 forms the cross. fig. 18 is the mundane circle. fig. 19 is the astronomical cross upon the mundane circle. the union of fig. 18, fig. 17, and fig. 16, in this respective order, gives the crux-ansata, so continual in all the egyptian sculptures, which mark or sign is also the symbol of the planet venus, as below. fig. 20. the crux-ansata. fig. 21. mark of the planet venus. their origin is thus traced clearly to the same original meanings, which reappear under

e present itself. the explorations of the rosicrucians may be said to be as keys to masked doors in the ramparts of nature, which no mortal can pass through without rousing dread sentries never seen upon this side (a strange story, lord lytton, vol. i. p. 265. omnia ex uno, omnia in uno, omnia ad unum, omnia per medium, et omnia in omnibus (hermetic axiom. in the speculations of the gnostics, the astronomical points cancer and capricorn are called the gates of the sun. cancer, moreover, is-termed the "gate of man; capricorn is the gate of the gods. these are platonic views, as macrobius declares. with the influences of the planets, saturn brings reason and intelligence; jupiter, power of action; mars governs the irascible principle, the sun produces sensation and speculation, venus inspire

authentic history of the garter. origin of the order of the garter. 159 tion of the object, will be perceived upon close and delicately respectful consideration. there is great obscurity as to the character of abraxas, the divinity of the gnostics. the eons, or degrees of advance in the zodiacal circle, are thirty in number to each of the twelve signs, and consequently there are 360 to the entire astronomical circle, or 365, counting for each day of the solar year. the inscription upon the gnostic gems, ceou, is probably intended for qeou; for the arabs yet substitute the s for the th in their pronunciation (gnostics, p. 233; matter, histoire critique du gnostidsme. in this s and the th standing for it, lie all the mysteries of masonry, christos, was designed for the guide of all that proc

and, thus. 19. bourbon. 20. egyptian sculptures: fleur-de-lis; asp. architerctural finials. 171 fig. 41. 21. finial: meaning the fleur-de-lis. 22. finial* the opinion of m. dupuis was (see his learned memoir concerning the origin of the constellations, that libra was formerly the sign of the vernal equinox, and aries of the nocturnal, autumnal equinox; that is, that since the origin of the actual astronomical system, the procession (precession) of the equinoxes had carried forward by seven signs the primitive order of the zodiac. now, estimating the procession (precession) at about 70 years to a degree, that is, 2115 years to each sign,-and observing that aries was in its fifteenth degree 1447 before christ, it follows that the first degree of libra could not have coincided with the vernal

hus the great inexpressible talisman is said to be borne to the initiate through the ages. proposals were published some years ago for a book entitled, the enigma of alchemy and of oedipus resolved; designed to elucidate the fables, symbols, and other mythological disguises, in which the hermetic art has been enveloped and signalised in various ages, in ecclesiastical ceremonies, masonic formula, astronomical signs, and constellations, even in the emblazonments of chivalry, heraldic badges, and other emblems; which without explanation, have been handed down, and which are shown to have originated in the same universal mystic school, through each particular tracing their allusion to the means and mechanism. this intended work was left in ms. by its anonymous author, now deceased, but was ne

te capitals, a close affinity will be remarked with examples of capitals with horns or 252 the rosicrucians. volutes from the temple of ellora, in india, and other indian and persian temples: placed under, for comparison, in the illustration. fig. 200. norman capital: foliated ornament, resembling the honeysuckle and lotus. various mouldings, both gothic and classic, present shapes drawn from the astronomical sign aquarius. these signs, or ciphers, are significant of the sea and of fig. 201. canterbury cathedral: volutes of the corinthian form. fig. 202. canterbury cathedral: corinthian scrolls or horns. the moon. glyphs resembling fishes mean iona, or jonah. they are also symbols of the saviour, when they occur amidst the relics left by the early christians, and in forms of the first chri

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

r. jessup, but who never used the title in correspondence, nor on the covers or title pages of his four books. very likely jessup was never actually awarded the degree. apparently, his thesis consisted of a report on his research program which (again according to the book jacket) resulted in several thousand discoveries of physical double-stars which are now catalogued in the memoirs of the royal astronomical society of london. the short biography also lists other important research activities by jessup. it indicates that he was assigned by the united state department of agriculture to study the sources of crude rubber in the headwaters of the amazon, though no date is given. he made archeological studies of the maya in the jungles of central america for the carnegie institute of washingto

ciations of flight with the disappearance of atlantis, and tours of france some centuries ago, indicate a pattern, then it may be of little wonder that the civilizations of today, perhaps the most spectacular of all, are receiving attention. in many ways, the most intriguing data of all comes from the skeptical astronomers. their observations do tend to be quantitative, timed, and documented. the astronomical data is more than merely qualitative. in other words, the astronomers themselves, being conscientious data hounds, were not content with merely seeing things move in space. although unaware of the true nature of what they saw, they recorded as much as time and equipment would permit, and, as a result, they have enabled us to locate the habitat of the ufo's. as with out own observation

. simultaneous observations by tow or more observers have at times established the approximate distances of the ufo's through study of parallax("parallax" is the displacement, often measurable, caused by looking at an object from too different points; e.g. hold up a finger and view it with first one eye and then the other. the displacement against a distinct background is parallax) all-i-all, the astronomical evidence for ufo's while less voluminous than other types, is better grounded in factual and quantitative data. it must be given great weight. if, in reality, the astronomical profession is to be forced into the position of being the principal witness for the defense, in the case of the ufo's its members will suffer a most peculiar type of embarrassment, for theirs is the unenviable p

few in number, not many (there is some possibility, in fact, that there may be only two of them) and that they do not come from distant planets such as venus, mars, jupiter or the vastly more distant stars. it is my belief that they are usually globular, sometime spindlelike, and that they are an indigenous part of earth-moon binary-planet system. i make this statement on the basis of hundreds of astronomical observations in which the rough determinations of parallax can be made. parallax shows these objects to be somewhere between a few hundred miles away and a maximum of something less than the distance of the moon. while i believe that these space islands probably use both earth and moon for their own convenience, i suggest that their most natural and permanent habitat is at the gravita

spatial origin. this has been called to our attention by john philip bessor in the saturday evening post as early as may, 1949; but no one has thus far been able to catalogue and classify enough of this data to determine for certain whether such cycles exist, much less their time period or cause. it is not particularly astonishing that these phenomena should be cyclic, for practically everything astronomical is periodic. if periodicity could be firmly established for these phenomena, that fact alone would be proof of their reality and integration with the organic world about us. the rush of oddities and unusual events in the decade 1877 to 1887 is very much in evidence. perhaps it does seem to be drawing the long bow a bit if one tries to make out that the presence of the great comets, or

escent craters and contribute to their obscuration. observations of ufo phenomena and related events on or near the earth's surface may be distorted by excitement, emotionalism and prejudice. but the direct observations of space life and its contingent activity, as seen by astronomers are more objective and more coolly recorded. we can feel more relaxed in dealing with them, on more solid ground. astronomical observations break naturally into three categories: lights, shadows, and bodies. lights and shadows, perhaps, in reality comprise one group since one is the counterpart of the other, while bodies, on the other hand, tend to divide into two groups, one made up of solid contrivances and the other of nebulous or cloudlike units. lights seem to be especially representative of intelligence

to the importance of those old observations, to make what we can of parallax studies for determining the distance of the objects sighted. it is not astonishing that our findings substantiate earlier analyses, but there may be an element of amazement in finding that these bodies are being navigated within the earth-moon system. there is something more of astonishment, however, in finding that the astronomical observations include two distinct and divergent types of bodies: the solid, geometrically shaped structures, and the illdefined nebulous clouds. both have been recorded by impeccable witnesses. both have been shown to exhibit evidences of intelligent direction or control. both have their parallel instances among the current observations of ufo's seen by the man in the street, since 19

es of intelligent direction or control. both have their parallel instances among the current observations of ufo's seen by the man in the street, since 1947, and by our forebears as shown in historical records. strangely enough, however, the cloudy types have been seen really far out in space, and rather probably associated with such large comets as that of 1882. but whether seen two-thirds of an astronomical unit away or hovering over new york harbor, they have had peculiar characteristics. some of those seen by schmidt in the neighborhood of the great comet in 1882 were moving both with the comet and at right angles to it, and there were undoubtedly objects moving about within the head of the comet. the astronomical observations are so definite that we must leave them largely to speak fo

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

y certainly. the possible error of the assyrian dating from the beginning of 15th c bc onwards is 10 years, from 1180 bc onwards 1.2 years, and the dates are quite certain from 900 bc on; babylonian dates are completely fixed from 747 bc onwards (soden 1991. 9 writing was invented by sumerians ca 3200 bc. cuneiform1 tablets of sumerian period give us very interesting material but unfortunately no astronomical or astrological texts. though some texts have been thought to originate from former periods, they have been only found in later copies, making dating extremely difficult. the oldest existing texts about stars, one astrological and one astronomical, both come from the old babylonian period. analysis of religious texts has led some scientists to suppose semitic or even west-semitic orig

57. figure 2. some ways of writing estar f. kakkabu. in akkadian. during the course of mesopotamia fs long history there were changes in both language and writing; naturally there were also differences between babylonian and assyrian dialects. in the current article we use mostly later writings in problematic cases as the consensus is that mesopotamia was on the highest level of astrological and astronomical development in the late babylonian period (kugler 1909/10: 27; barton 1994: 20.22. 12 figure 3. neo-assyrian prediction about lunar eclipses. hunger 1992, text no. 535, plate xiv (tablet 80.7.19, 103; obverse) for transliteration and translation see hunger 1992: 293. the planetary gods of mesopotamia the mesopotamian pantheon is quite tangled because different cultures and ages have a

55. this number marks wisdom in the assyrian tree of life (number 3 in cabala, which indeed is connected to the moongod dsin (g352. in horoscopes, moon is often marked by the number 30 if literary pseudonyms are not used. both dnanna (g295, often seen in old babylonian texts, and d.e..ki were read by akkadians simply sin (borger 1981: 138. in old babylonian astrological predictions and the oldest astronomical text mul.apin, moon can be denoted simply by dingir. akkadian ilu (g194. egod f. moon as the celestial body is in akkadian (w)arhu (g169, in more poetic cases either mulgal (g62) or more often as mulbir (g56, which gossmann suggests to read as mulkalam2, with the akkadian translation in both cases mulkal tu ethe kidney star f. as a pseudonym, this combination can be also used to mark

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

e to the jewish priestly line, and thus it survived in a more or less defective form till the time of david and solomon. 81. when solomon built his temple he erected it on masonic lines, and made it a centre of masonic symbolism and work. he unquestionably intended his temple to demonstrate and to preserve for his people a certain set of measurements, in the same sort of way in which all kinds of astronomical and geodetic facts were enshrined in the measurements of the great pyramid(*see ch. ii, on the pillars) he did not succeed, because much of the tradition had been lost; or it would perhaps be truer to say that while external ceremonial and even the traditional ornamentation had been very fairly preserved, the clue to the meaning of it all was no longer known. until that time initiates

this includes the values of the sidereal and solar years, the mean sun-distance, the sun fs diameter, and the maximum and minimum values of the eccentricity of the earth fs orbit(*op. cit, p. 95) 552. the great pyramid was a house for initiations, and if some criminal muhammadan fanatics had not destroyed the outer casing of it we should still have there, enshrined in stone, measurements of many astronomical phenomena more accurate than any that were available to us until the last century. it is only recently that reliable measurements have been obtained by european astronomers of the average distance of the earth from the sun. when i was a boy we were taught that it was ninety-six million miles; then they got it down to ninety-three million; later, calculations were made from very carefu

it is worth the notice of the masonic as well as of the ecclesiastical student that a number of these festivals of the christian church are much more than mere commemorations; they are definitely occasions on which, for various reasons, heaven and earth draw nearer together, and communication between the seen and the unseen worlds is noticeably easier than is commonly the case. often there is an astronomical basis for the phenomenon, as in the case of the festivals of the two st. johns who are said to be the patron saints of freemasonry- one occurring on june 24th, and the other on december 27th- obviously aiming respectively at the summer and winter solstices, though wrong by a few days because of the maladjustment of the medieval calendar. michaelmas day is evidently an attempt to mark

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

nd fifty thousand years ago, and the first great egyptian empire lasted until the catastrophe of 75,025 b.c, when the two great islands ruta and daitya were whelmed beneath the ocean, and only the island of poseidonis remained(*op. cit, pp. 119 and 132, and the story of atlantis, by scott elliott) it was during the dominance of that empire that the three pyramids were built in accordance with the astronomical and mathematical lore of the atlantean priests(*see the hidden life in freemasonry, p. 229) and it is to this age also that we look for the origin of those mysteries which have been handed down to us in the ceremonies of freemasonry. even then the ceremonies were ancient, and we must search a still more remote past for their ultimate source. in the great catastrophe of 75,025 b.c. the

of spiritual illumination for the entire western world, and all those who sought the great initiations were attracted to it; and it is this fact which explains the reverence paid to the egyptian mysteries by learned greeks in later times. 105. the principal centre for the public work of these mysteries was the great pyramid, called in ancient egypt khut, the light. it was built on the most exact astronomical and mathematical calculations, and provided a veritable key in stone to the enigmas of the universe(*see the hidden life in freemasonry, pp. 228-30) 106. the initiates of the egyptian mysteries were symbolically engaged in the building of the pyramid, just as in our modern masonry we are engaged in erecting the temple of king solomon, both structures being intended to be emblematical

n s was but the symbol- temples and palaces each relating to a different aspect or plane of nature and forming an intricate system of reflections and correspondences. the prototype of all this wealth of symbolism is found in the mysteries of egypt, wherein the measurements of the great pyramid were studied as emblematical of the proportions of the universe, and contained vast stores of occult and astronomical lore. the jews applied what they knew of the egyptian system to the temple of king solomon, reflecting the wisdom of egypt through the lens of their own fiery and poetical tempera-ment, whence some portion of it gradually passed on the one hand into written and exoteric literature, and on the other was handed down in the secret lodges of masonry. 306. the loss of the divine name 307

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

g to the gnostic myth of creation, sophia, one of the spiritual beings (one of the aeons) residing in the pleroma inadvertently creates another entity often called yaldabaoth who creates our familiar world (e.g, the apocryphon of john 2, in robinson 1981, 9f. this creation involves the emanation of the seven levels of the classical cosmos, corresponding to seven planetary spheres of the ptolemaic astronomical scheme. the archons are the rulers who govern each of these levels, and who act as guardians preventing the sparks of light (i.e, the divine essence of individual human beings) from returning to the pleroma. part of the knowledge imparted to the gnostics is information on how to bypass these archons on their journey back to the pleroma (e.g, the first apocalypse of james v, robinson 1

LIBER 777

s 72 evil spirits and gives instructions for evoking them (it derives variously from the key of solomon, the heptameron, the fourth book of pseudo-agrippa and the pseudomonarchia d monum published by wier. crowley published an edition of it in 1904. in 777 cols. clv clxvi the spirits are referred to the decans by day and night. the second book, theurgia goetia, lists 31 principal spirits, with an astronomical number of subordinates of whom few are named; of the 31, 20 are referred to the points of the compass and the other 11 are said to wander and have no fixed place. they are said to be partly evil and party good, hence the apparently oxymoronic title. it is possible that the theurgia- goetia was based on the steganographia of trithemius by someone who did not realise that the latter was

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

cotine colle m me le fer. this may be, but i think should not be, used as an argument to prove the poet an illegitimate son of queen elizabeth. plainest sense we are likely to here for the rest of our lives; then, with the prettiest humour in the world takes the cue of his father.s absurdity, and actually plays it on his enemy. edgar.s leg is not so easily pulled(.how long have you been a sectary astronomical. ll. 169, 170).and the bastard hero, taking alarm, gets right down to business. in scene iii. we find lear.s senile dementia taking the peculiarly loathesome form familiar to alienists.this part of my subject is so unpleasant that i must skim over it; i only mention it to show how anxious shakespeare is to show his hidden meaning, otherwise his naturally delicate mind would have avoid

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

hidden god. 41 isis, the virgin of the world the birthdays of the gods--the murder of osiris--the hermetic isis--the symbols peculiar to isis--the troubadours--the mummification of the dead. 45 the sun, a universal deity the solar trinity-christianity and the sun--the birthday of the sun--the three suns- the celestial inhabitants of the sun--the midnight sun. 49 the zodiac and its signs primitive astronomical instruments--the equinoxes and solstices--the astrological ages of the world--the circular zodiac of tentyra--an interpretation of the zodiacal signs- the horoscope of the world. 53 the bembine table of isis plato's initiation in the great pyramid--the history of the bembine table--platonic theory of ideas--the interplay of the three philosophical zodiacs--the chaldean philosophy of t

eanings of the ten numbers. 69 the human body in symbolism the philosophical manikin--the three universal centers--the temples of initiation--the hand in symbolism--the greater and lesser man--the anthropos, or oversoul. 73 the hiramic legend the building of solomon's temple--the murder of chiram abiff--the martyrdom of jacques de molay--the spirit fire and the pineal gland--the wanderings of the astronomical chiram--cleopatra's needle and masons' marks. 77 the pythagorean theory of music and color pythagoras and the diatonic scale--therapeutic music--the music of the spheres--the use of color in symbolism--the colors of the spectrum and the musical scale--zodiacal and planetary colors. 81 fishes, insects, animals, reptiles, and birds jonah and the whale--the fish the symbol of christ--the

p were not patterned after those of other nations. most of their ceremonies were performed at night, either in thick groves of oak trees or around open-air altars built of great uncut stones. how these masses of rock were moved ahs not been satisfactorily explained. the most famous of their altars, a great stone ring of rocks, is stonehenge, in southwestern england. this structure, laid out on an astronomical basis, still stands, a wonder of antiquity. p. 24 according to the persians, there coexisted in eternity two principles. the first of these, ahura-mazda, or ormuzd, was the spirit of good. from ormuzd came forth a number of hierarchies of good and beautiful spirits (angels and archangels. the second of these eternally existing principles was called ahriman. he was also a pure and beau

mithras; for mithras was his own soul, standing as mediator between ormuzd, his spirit, and ahriman, his animal nature. in the second degree he was given the armor of intelligence and purity and sent into the darkness of subterranean pits to fight the beasts of lust, passion, and degeneracy. in the third degree he was given a cape, upon which were drawn or woven the signs of the zodiac and other astronomical symbols. after his initiations were over, he was hailed as one who had risen from the dead, was instructed in the secret teachings of the persian mystics, and became a full-fledged member of the order. candidates who successfully passed the mithraic initiations were called lions and were marked upon their foreheads with the egyptian cross. mithras himself is often pictured with the he

philosophies, and sciences of antiquity by the study of the planets, luminaries, and constellations. not without adequate reason were the magi of persia called the star gazers. the egyptians were honored with a special appellation because of their proficiency in computing the power and motion of the heavenly bodies and their effect upon the destinies of nations and individuals. ruins of primitive astronomical observatories have been discovered in all parts of the world, although in many cases modern arch ologists are unaware of the true purpose for which these structures were erected. while the telescope was unknown to ancient astronomers, they made many remarkable calculations with instruments cut from blocks of granite or pounded from sheets of brass and cop per. in india such instrument

otion of the sun in relation to the earth under such conditions. mr. mackey advances the labyrinth of crete, the name abraxas, and the magic formula, abracadabra, among other things, to substantiate his theory. concerning abracadabra he states "but the slow progressive disappearance of the bull is most happily commemorated in the vanishing series of letters so emphatically expressive of the great astronomical fact. for abracadabra is the bull, the only bull. the ancient sentence split into its component parts stands thus: ab'r-achad-ab'ra, i. e, ab'r, the bull; achad, the only &c--achad is one of the names of the sun, given him in consequence of his shining alone--he is the only star to be seen when he is seen--the remaining ab'ra, makes the whole to be, the bull, the only bull; while the

ody with three heads is folded up by a serpent with eleven coils, and placed by sorapis: and the eleven volves of the serpent form a triangle similar to that formed by the eleven diminishing lines of the abracadabra" nearly every religion of the world shows traces of astrological influence. the old testament of the jews, its writings overshadowed by egyptian culture, is a mass of astrological and astronomical allegories. nearly all the mythology of greece and rome may be traced in star groups. some writers are of the opinion that the original twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet were derived from groups of stars, and that the starry handwriting on the wall of the heavens referred to words spelt out, with fixed stars for consonants, and the planets, or luminaries, for vowels. these, co

rose in a terrace-like pyramid and on the top was a reservoir for the watering of the gardens. they were built about 600 b.c, but the name of the landscape artist has not been preserved. they symbolized the planes of the invisible world, and were consecrated to venus as the goddess of love and beauty. 7. the great pyramid was supreme among the temples of the mysteries. in order to be true to its astronomical symbolism, it must have been constructed about 70,000 years ago. it was the tomb of osiris, and was believed to have been built by the gods themselves, and the architect may have been the immortal hermes. it is the monument of mercury, the messenger of the gods, and the universal symbol of wisdom and letters. click to enlarge trophonius of lebadia. from historia deorum fatidicorum. tr

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instance, in some parts of europe, beltane was celebrated as the summer festival, while in others, midsummer was accorded the same honour instead, with identical symbolism. of the two varieties, however, the so-called great sabbats of candlemas, beltane, lammas, and hallows appear to be the older, antedating the solstices and equinoxes which sprang directly from the advent of a more sophisticated astronomical science, characteristic of the druids. but nowadays all eight appear on the witches' calendar,and you can take your choice which you will celebrate. of course, most witches celebrate the grand sabbats of hallows and beltane, if not all four. some ardent practitioners even fit all eight in, but they are generally performed more on the scale of esbats than sabbats. ideally, a sabbat sho

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

pre-diluvian civilizations once occupying these continents were gone for-ever. the pillars of heaven were broken-the earth shook to its foundations-the heavens sunk lowertowards the north- the sun, the moon and the stars, changed their motions-the earth fell topieces, and the waters enclosed within its bosom burst forth with violence and overfloweditthe grand harmony of nature was disturbed (from astronomical revelations by larrybrian radka. the quiche indians of guatemala recorded this event as follows:the waters were agitated by the will of hurakan, the heart of heaven, and a great inunda-tion camemasses of sticky material fellthe face of heaven was obscured and a heavydarkening rain beganthere was a great noise above, as if by fire. now men were seen run-ning, pushing each other, filled

ong mankind on page 187temple of the stars on page 191 the destruction of atlantis on page 193 atlantis the antediluvian world on page 197 atlantis the eighth continent on page 200 world of the odd and the awesome on page 203 the return of the serpents of wisdom on page 205past shock on page 209 flying serpents and dragons on page 210 genesis of the grail kings on page 211gods of eden on page 227 astronomical revelations on page 231 the priesthood of the illes on page 235the secret architecture of our nations capitol on page 243 middle ages revisited on page 246 one foot in atlantis on page 250 britain the key to world history on page 254the abduction and manipulation of humans using advanced technology on page 261 the master chronology: the psychosocial, biological and electromagnetic man

lly suppressed the peasants revolt, and said to the survivors of his plague wrecked country:god omnipotent, is mustering in his clouds on our behalf, armies of pestilence and they shall strike your children yet unborn and unbegot, that lift your vassal hands against my head and threat the glory of my precious crown.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation231 appendix b: book abstracts astronomical revelations by larry brian radkathe author gives the name zion to the planet that used to exist between mars and jupiter. it is possiblethat this planet was exceedingly bright like a star, even like unto the sun. its luminosity may have comefrom the suns rays shining on its particular atmosphere. its loss was recorded, but the phenomena andthe subsequent symbolism associated with this

, changed their motionsthe earth fell to pieces, andthe waters enclosed within its bosom burst forth with violence and overflowed it. man having rebelledappendix b: book abstracts232atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation against heaven, the system of the universe was totally disordered. the sun was eclipsed, planets alteredtheir course, and the grand harmony of nature was disturbed (astronomical revelations, p. 225)the great lakesthe cavities in which rest the great lakes have been attributed to the ice-sheet, but it is difficult to com-prehend how an ice-sheet could dig out and root out a hole, as in the case of lake superior, nine hun-dred feet deep! and, if it did this, why were there not similar holes excavated wherever there were icesheets (p. 69)the irish and christiani

.tiamatcalled rahab in the bible, rahab the seat of babylon.psalm 89:10-11 thou hast broken rahab to piecesjob 26:12-13 by his wisdom he hath cut rahab to pieces (see p. 90.)merthe hebrews called the planet tiamat, or mot, or rahab, by the name of mer. those from this planetwere the original mer-men, half-man, half-fish, or reptile.an or marduk or nibiruin 1982, the space telescope iras (infrared astronomical station) saw what had not been seen for per-haps two thousand years. on december 30, 1983, the world press reported that the advanced space tele-scope:discovered a celestial body in the direction of constellation orion, which possibly is as big as thegigantic jupiter and perhaps so close to the earth that it could belong to our solar systemwhen irasresearchers saw the mysterious celes

about the building of the city of tiahuanaco. according to inca mythology, itwas built in a single night by men who survived the flood. an older legend says that it was built bygiants that did not build the city of their own free will but were made to do it by beings who came fromthe sky (p. 371)the mayan calendarthe use of a v enusian calendar is remarkable, because it requires a great deal more astronomical knowl-edge to observe its revolutions than those of earths moon (p. 372)apache indiansthe apache indians tell stories of tunnels between their lands and the city of tiahuanaco, and claim thattheir ancestors traveled for years by this route. the indian chiefs also assured that the tunnels werecarved out by rays that destroy the living rock, and that their creators were beings who live

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

ns and angels, respectively. a fact related in his novels, and echoed by a few in the occult, is that the ancient ones are chained in darkness, and that there is a certain celestial radiation arriving from space that is utterly toxic to these titans. there is a day coming, however, when the rays of the stars will no longer be toxic to the old ones, and this day will be marked by some kind of rare astronomical event. after this event in the sky, the wicked god azag-thoth, also called hades and pluto, will free and lead the titans out of their prison. the black magicians also have a long list of titles for lilith, and have much reverence for her because she is among those who give them the dark gift of transformation. among these titles are: queen of the qliphoth, queen of the underworld, qu

MORALS AND DOGMA

other; the circle, the boundary line of his conduct, beyond which he is never to suffer his prejudices or passions to betray him" this is not to _interpret_ the symbols of masonry. it is said by some, with a nearer approach to interpretation, that the point within the circle represents god in the centre of the universe. it is a common egyptian sign for the sun and osiris, and is still used as the astronomical sign of the great luminary. in the kabalah the point is yod, the creative energy of god, irradiating with light the circular space which god, the universal light, left vacant, wherein to create the worlds, by withdrawing his substance of light back on all sides from one point. our brethren add that "this circle is embordered by two perpendicular parallel lines, representing saint john

eceived the mysteries from the egyptians; and of course were familiar with _their legend--known as it was to those egyptian initiates, joseph and moses. it was the fable (or rather the _truth_ clothed in allegory and figures) of osiris, the sun, source of light and principle of good, and typhon, the principle of darkness and evil. in all the histories of the gods and heroes lay couched and hidden astronomical details and the history of the operations of visible nature; and those in their turn were also symbols of higher and profounder truths. none but rude uncultivated intellects could long consider the sun and stars and the powers of nature as divine, or as fit objects of human worship; and _they_ will consider them so while the world lasts; and ever remain ignorant of the great spiritual

n there given, of this representation of _isis, weeping at byblos, over the column torn from the palace of the king, that contained the body of osiris, while horus, the god of time, pours ambrosia on her hair. nothing of this recital was historical; but the whole was an allegory or sacred fable, containing a meaning known only to those who were initiated into the mysteries. all the incidents were astronomical, with a meaning still deeper lying behind _that_ explanation, and so hidden by a double veil. the mysteries, in which these incidents were represented and explained, were like those of eleusis in their object, of which pausanias, who was initiated, says that the greeks, from the remotest antiquity, regarded them as the best calculated of all things to lead men to piety: and aristotle

ient condition of the race prior to civilization: but they led men to piety by instruction in morals and as to a future life; which at a very early day, if not originally, formed the chief portion of the ceremonial. symbols were used in the ceremonies, which referred to agriculture, as masonry has preserved the ear of wheat in a symbol and in one of her words; but their principal reference was to astronomical phenomena. much was no doubt said as to the condition of brutality and degradation in which man was sunk before the institution of the mysteries; but the allusion was rather metaphysical, to the ignorance of the uninitiated, than to the wild life of the earliest men. the great object of the mysteries of isis, and in general of all the mysteries, was a great and truly politic one. it w

rails. they reappeared in greater splendor than ever under commodus, who with his own hand sacrificed a victim to mithras: and they were still more practised under constantine and his successors, when the priests of mithras were found everywhere in the roman empire, and the monuments of his worship appeared even in britain. caves were consecrated to mithras, in which were collected a multitude of astronomical emblems; and cruel tests were required of the initiates. the persians built no temples; but worshipped upon the summits of hills, in enclosures of unhewn stones. they abominated images, and made the sun and fire emblems of the deity. the jews borrowed this from them, and represented god as appearing to abraham in a flame of fire, and to moses as a fire at horeb and on sinai. with the

river, as it withdrew into its banks, the husbandman sowed his seed; and the rich soil and the genial sun insured him an abundant harvest. babylon lay on the euphrates, which ran from southeast to northwest, blessing, as all rivers in the orient do, the arid country through which it flowed; but its rapid and uncertain overflows bringing terror and disaster. to the ancients, as yet inventors of no astronomical instruments, and looking at the heavens with the eyes of children, this earth was a level plain of unknown extent. about its boundaries there was speculation, but no knowledge. the inequalities of its surface were the irregularities of a plane. that it was a globe, or that anything lived on its under surface, or on what it rested, they had no idea. every twenty-four hours the sun came

d dan; and still appear on the shield of american royal arch masonry. afterward the ram or lamb became an object of adoration, when, in his turn, he opened the equinox, to deliver the world from the wintry reign of darkness and evil. around the central and simple idea of the annual death and resurrection of the sun a multitude of circumstantial details soon clustered. some were derived from other astronomical phenomena; while many were merely poetical ornaments and inventions. besides the sun and moon, those ancients also saw a beautiful star, shining, with a soft, silvery light, always following the sun at no great distance when he set, or preceding him when he rose. another of a red and angry color, and still another more kingly and brilliant than all, early attracted their attention, by

h the good principle, the principle of empyreal light and splendor, osiris, ormuzd, jupiter or dionusos, with his bright hosts of amshaspands, izeds, angels, and archangels; a warfare that goes on from birth until death, in the soul of every man that lives. we have heretofore, in the 24th degree, recited the principal incidents in the legend of osiris and isis, and it remains but to point out the astronomical phenomena which it has converted into mythological facts. the sun, at the vernal equinox, was the fruit-compelling star that by his warmth provoked generation and poured upon the sublunary world all the blessings of heaven; the beneficent god, tutelary genius of universal vegetation, that communicates to the dull earth new activity, and stirs her great heart, long chilled by winter an

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n of the mountain (sheik means "master "teacher" or "head of a brotherhood" and "old man" as in a person worthy of respect.)28 the higher adepts within the assassins devoted their time to the study of philosophy in the fortress of alamut, which was located in a persian domain. when the mongols of kubla khan defeated the assassins in the twelfth century, the victors found an immense library and an astronomical observatory there. outside of the holy land, there was another region where christians had contact with arab civilization and ismailian sects in particular: spain. in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, an ismaili group similar to the assassins, the brothers of purity, lived on the iberian peninsula. we possess fifty-one treatises left by these brothers and know that their initiation

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s daily journey across the sky (center, the warmth of the sun will make the crops grow another symbol of osiris resurrection from the dead. the egpytian year was made up of 12 lunar months of 30 days, plus another five days to make up the number to 365. however, the egyptians did not add the extra quarter day to make a true solar year. therefore, their calendar drifted slowly out of sync with the astronomical calendar, so that it might officially be summer in the wintertime, or vice versa. the two calendars came back into line every 1,460 years, a mystical cycle for the egyptian priesthood. waters of fruitfulness the goddess nephthys, sister of isis, pours the waters of fruitfulness over the earth, where men hoe the land. the mummified body of osiris (see p. 16) is reborn where the water m

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the two urns contain the influences from chokmah and binah. on the right springs the tree of life, and on the left the tree of knowledge of good and of evil whereon the bird of hermes alights, and therefore does this key represent the restored world, after the formless and the void and the darkness, the new adam, the countenance of the man which falls in the sign aquarius. and therefore doth the astronomical ripple of this sign represent, as it <136> were, waves of water- the ripples of that river going forth out of eden- but, therefore also, is it justly attributed to air and not unto water because it is the firmament dividing and containing the water. hierophant returns to his place. i have much pleasure in conferring upon you the title of lord of the 28th path. you will now quit the te

heel of the spirit. the seven walls are under the planetary presidency, one side to each planet. the subsidiary squares represent the colouring of the combined forces of the planet; the symbol of each square is represented by the ground colour, while the symbol is in the colour contrasted or complementary to that of the ground. now these planetary sides are found to be in a special order, neither astronomical nor astrological. the common order of the succession of the planets is that defined by their relative distances from earth, putting the sun, however, in the earth's place in the series thus: saturn, jupiter, mars, sun, venus, mercury, moon. saturn is farthest from the earth, and the earth is between mars and venus. beginning with satum in the case of the walls of the vault, the order

t; it is complex but not confused <286> 1. kerubic. fixed. shining rank. 2. cardinal. fiery. solar rank. 3. common (mutable) airy. subtle rank. from above down, or in columns these are: earthy signs. airy signs. watery signs. fiery signs. rank 5. the kerubic line shows the signs in the order of tetragrammaton read in hebrew. rank 7. the cardinal line shows the signs from the right in the order of astronomical sequence of the solar course: vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumn equinox, winter solstice. rank 8. the common line shows the signs again in a different position. here the earliest in the year is gemini on the left of mem, and passing left to virgo, you then go round to extreme right to sagittarius, pass centrewards to pisces close to makuth. the colouring of each square is dual

scales immediately purify and consecrate him, which operation calls into action the forces of the <134> pillars in his own sphere of sensation. this is the first of four consecrations because when the pillars of the tree are projected onto the sphere of sensation there are four pillars, of which the middle pillar is the axis (note: this idea is elaborated more clearly and at greater length in the astronomical view of the tarot, in book eight, volume 4.-i. r) at this point of the ceremony, the astral appearance of the candidate is that of a form wrapped in darkness as if extinguished thereby, and having unto his right and unto his left the faint semblance of the two great pillars of admission of the candidate 3 65 fire and of cloud, whence issue faint rays into the darkness which covers him

receding. but the tarot method of reckoning from the star named regulus has, it will be seen, the effect of making the signs and the constellations coincide "regulus" is also named cor leonis "the heart of the lion "regulus" means "star of the prince."l'regulus"coincides with the position of the "heart" in the figure of leo upon the star maps <219 (note: the principia or fundamental ideas of this astronomical view of the tarot may be found, as least in its essential form, in the astronomical writings of claudius ptolemy of alexandria. naturally, this reference only concerns the signs, constellations and other astronomical divisions noted. the expansion of this scheme, and its allocation to other forms of universal symbolism, such as the tarot cards, hebrew letters, and enochian tablets, ha

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y remarkable accuracy are those from the tower of bel, atbabylon, by the assyrians in the 23rd century before this era. this powerful empire understood theuse of the dial, the precession of the equinoxes, and within a fraction the exact length of the tropicalyear, they even predicted in some cases, the return of comets.rituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliaphilosophus43 the chief seat of astronomical learning among the hindus, was at benares, but the knowledge of theindians in this science was not equal to their neighbours. the egyptians, however, who erected theirpyramids with mathematical precision, and not unlikely for astronomical purposes, and who erectednumerous monoliths to their sun-god ra, justly receive credit in astronomical history. theremarkable coincidence exists, th

three classes, the world of air, the world of stars, and the heaven of heavens.the first embraces the atmospheric envelope, clouds, and attendant storms with their inhabitants.the second includes the infinite space containing the stars, planets, asteroids, meteors, comets,star-showers, nebulae and the universal system while the third opens to our view god's holy ofholies, the eternal heavens, the astronomical and divine evidence of a real or an ideal residence ofthe deity.to the ancients, there were known but seven planets, the sun .moon, mercury, mars, venus,jupiter and saturn, revolving about the central earth, each symbolised to them distinctive metals,gold, silver, mercury, steel, copper, tin, and lead: each had. its assigned colour, musical tone,animal representative, sacerdotal title

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number four, unless it turns in unity itself as in a vicious circle. so also the triad, as we have observed already, is explained by the duad and resolved by the tetrad, which is the squared unity of even numbers and the quadrangular base of the cube, regarded as unity of construction, solidity and measure. the kabalistic tetragram, jodheva, expresses god in humanity and humanity in god. the four astronomical cardinal points are, relatively to us, the yea and the nay of light east and west and the yea and nay of warmth south and north. as we have said already, according to the sole dogma of the kabalah, that which is in visible nature reveals that which is in the domain of invisible nature, or secondary causes are in strict proportion and analogous to the manifestations of the first cause

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er; it is dried by the smoke of five perfumes, namely, incense, myrrh, aloes, sulphur and camphor, to which a little white resin and ambergris may be added. the five breathings are accompanied by the utterance of names attributed to the five genii, who are gabriel, raphael, anael, samael and oriphiel. afterwards the pentacle is placed successively at the north, south, east, west and centre of the astronomical cross, pronouncing at the same time, one after another, the consonants of the sacred 36 the ritual of transcendental magic tetragram, and then, in an undertone, the blessed letters aleph and the mysterious tau, united in the kabalistic name of azoth. the pentagram should be placed upon the altar of perfumes and under the tripod of evocations. the operator should wear the sign also as

re indicated by the mystical figures and magical legends in a book of henry khunrath, entitled amphitheatrum sapientae aeternae. khunrath represents and resumes the most learned gnostic schools, and connects in symbology with the mysticism of synesius. he affects christianity in expressions and in signs, but it is easy to see that his christ is the abraxas, the luminous pentagram radiating on the astronomical cross, the incarnation in humanity of the sovereign sun celebrated by the emperor julian; it is the luminous and living manifestation of that ruach- elohim which, according to moses, brooded and worked upon the bosom of the waters at the birth of the world; it is the man-sun, the monarch of light, the supreme magus, the master and conqueror of the serpent, and in the fourfold legend o

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st have felt that he was arguing a case for the way things actually are, even if he encountered difficulties in justifying that position logically. the sphinx: to be quite precise, a chair does not remain a chair or a desk a desk. both are undergoing continuous molecular breakdown, which is not apparent to humans because they normally experience sensory input at a relatively swifter rate. nor are astronomical bodies truly constant; they only seem that way, again because of the relative differences in their rates of change and in human perceptive powers. at the other end of the scale, there are phenomena that occur too swiftly for human senses to register them. so they seem "instantaneous" so how dependable is plato's "actual world" the chimaera: i am tempted to say that, relatively speakin

al. but christianity is not exactly an accurate way of getting a clear idea of the man jesus. we have time and perspective on our side; with it let us take another look at this man and his own brand of magic. traced back through forty grand and great-grand sires to abraham, jesus emerges as a rather nondescript infant born circa 30 ce, amid what has been calculated as the time of some spectacular astronomical displays. described in biblical commentaries as "perhaps a miraculously governed meteor, star or comet"(1) the star of bethlehem was more probably an alignment of the major planets or a supernova than any god-guided phenomenon. still, no random association is too unbelievable when power seekers ply their trade on the sheep. acts of irrational faith grant any number of illogical things

g interest and are worth mentioning if only for the further correspondences of the thoth deck and the thelemic/satanic/setian interpretations. the six titled personages: the pope the emperor the juggler the high priestess the empress the hermit the two allegorical personages: the devil death the four cardinal virtues (with the hanged man as prudence: justice strength temperance prudence the three astronomical elements: the sun the moon the star the two elements of fate in human life: the lovers the wheel of fortune the four elements in cosmic fate: the chariot the judgement the world the house of god a flaw, insofar as setians will see de gebelin's theory, is that he places no emphasis on trump 0 [the fool] and sees its appearance as having no meaning. the correspondences above are listed

d tail of the set-animal.(8) it is this sceptre which signifies the guardianship of the temple of set; thus it is the symbol carried by each of the nine. the first two lines of hieroglyphics read: uset-f neter set em xennu kekiu em-sa pa xepe em pet("the throne of the divine set is within the darkness behind the star thigh in the heavens. this refers to the traditional associating of set with the astronomical north pole (the egyptians "thigh of set" constellation, the principle star of which then being alpha draconis and now being polaris. following the name of the individual setian is "is come into being (as" the appropriate degree "of the divine temple of set" and then the most recent solstice or equinox. all founding memberships in the temple of set are dated to the north solstice x- be

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task. in order to make marduk the most important god, the babylonians devised a new creation myth, the enuma elish( the epic of creation, literally meaning then up there. ritual became more important after the arrival of the babylonians. priests increasingly relied on rituals to ward off evil spirits and to foretell future events to ensure the good will of the gods and to protect against demons. astronomical (relating to the heavens) events took on major importance and astrology, the study of the influence of the stars and planets on human affairs, became nearly a science for the priests. organized mesopotamian religion collapsed after cyrus of persia, a zoroastrian, conquered the babylonian empire in 539 bce. history of ancient egyptian religion the official ancient egyptian religion las

ional but desirable. making a pilgrimage is a good example of a kamya ritual. observations and pilgrimages some observers describe hinduism as a religion of feasts, fasts, and festivals. indeed, a glance at the hindu religious calendar reveals a large number of festivals and other religious observances. the dates for these events typically differ from year to year because their dates are based on astronomical events such as the new moon. two of the most important hindu holidays are diwali, the festival of lights, and navratri, the festival of nine nights. in which aspects of the divine goddess are worshipped. in addition, many hindu pilgrims attend the kumbh mela, a pilgrimage that is held four times during a twelve-year cycle. diwali, or the festival of lights, can be thought of as somewh

our lives and lend energy to the earth. cunningham, scott. wicca: a guide for the solitary practitioner. st. paul, mn: llewellyn publications, 1999: pages 19 20. world religions: almanac 385 neo-paganism principles of wiccan belief. the following list summarizes some of the most important principles. wiccans practice rites attuned to the natural rhythm of life forces. its rituals follow both the astronomical year, marked by the movement of the sun, and the waxing and waning of the moon. because they believe that the divine manifests itself in all creation, wiccans advocate responsibility toward the environment. many are involved with environmental protection activities and oppose destruction of the natural world. wiccans believe that a great depth of power exists in the world that is not

es of wiccan belief. the following list summarizes some of the most important principles, along with ways they are reflected in cunningham s book. world religions: primary sources 99 wicca: a guide for the solitary practitioner wiccans practice rites attuned to, or in step with, the natural rhythm of life forces, cunningham notes, referring to rituals that follow the course of the sun through its astronomical year. as well as the monthly waxing and waning of the moon. a waxing moon means the moon is appearing larger, and is one where the side of the moon facing east is dark. a waning moon is one where the side of the moon facing west is dark. this gives the appearance that the moon is getting smaller. wiccans encourage and support responsibility toward the environment. cunningham points ou

reveres these twin deities because of its links with nature. since most (but certainly not all) nature is divided into gender, the deities embodying it are similarly conceived. in the past, when the goddess and god were as real as the moon and sun, rites of worship and adoration were unstructured spontaneous, joyous union with the divine. later, rituals followed the course of the sun through its astronomical year (and thusly the seasons) as well as the monthly waxing and waning of the moon. today similar rites are observed by the wicca, and their regular performance creates a truly magical closeness with these deities and the powers behind them. fortunately, we needn t wait for ritual occasions to be reminded of the gods presence. the sight of a perfect blossom in a field of bare earth ca

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to prevent this alexander placed talismans upon the pillars which, according to mas'udi, were there in his day. each pillar was in the shape of an arrow and was eighty cubits in height, and rested upon a plinth of brass; the talismans were placed at their bases, and were in the form of figures or statues of certain beings with suitable inscriptions, and as they were put in position after careful astronomical calculations had been made for the purpose we may assume that they produced the effect desired by the king. footnotes 109:1 see the vignettes to chapters liv.-lx. of the book of the dead. 110:1 see chapters of coming forth by day, p. 106. 110:2 ibid, p. 289. 111:1 see chapters of coming forth by day, p. 162. 111:2 ibid, p. 212. 111:3 i.e, cxxx. 120:1 see above, p. 55 121:1 see chapter

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the riddles of philosophy, pp. 30ff. 39. pindar, fragment 102. 40. see the brilliant study by w. burkert, lore and science in ancient pythagoreanism (harvard, 1972. the main fragments are in kirk, raven, and schofield, the presocratic philosophers, pp. 214ff. see further steiner, the riddles of philosophy, pp. 21ff. 41. aristotle, metaphysics 985, 24-34. 42. naturally i do not enter here into the astronomical views of the early pythagoreans. what is said about them here may be applied equally to the ideas of modern copernicanism (r.st) 43. gregory of nyssa, great baptismal address, 10. 44. many references are made in the ancient literature to plato s unwritten doctrines; these are evidently connected with ideas closely related to those of the pythagoreans just considered. nevertheless, the

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in dublin, ireland (photo and article from the korea times newspaper, march 19, 2002, p. 14) designs on a return envelope for subscriptions of meditation, a new age magazine. 474 codex magica like many in the new age and occult worlds, the managers of book people, a large occult bookstore in austin, texas, claim their works are loving and good. but in this revealing advertisement in the swirling astronomical spiral mist at right, is clearly seen the letter "s" as in satan? let the discerning reader decide. scorched by the sun 475 prozac can help? really? so why the design resembling the oroboros serpent? and is it just this author's imagination, or are the radiant sun rays in the form of number 6s? 476 codex magica american hindu guru dafree john publishes the dawn horse newspaper with th

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s. as the experiment progressed, even more precautions were taken. the cards were shut up in packs of opaque cardboard and wrapped in layers of blue wrapping paper. enclosed in the pack was a strip of sensitive photographic film, which was examined after each test for further assurance that the deck had not been opened. in an adjoining room mrs. ryzl prepared the cards, determining their order by astronomical data available for the day of the experiment. she handed the cards to ryzl, then sat in a corner of the room. ryzl and stepanek were separated by an opaque screen through which there was no possibility of seeing the cards or the envelopes. the first test of 200 sets was run, giving a total of 2,000 individual cards. for this test stepanek performed under hypnosis, not having achieved

eport, scientific study of unidentified flying objects (1969, complain that it is neither scientific nor objective and that edward condon, head of the project, used the report for personal vindictiveness. commissioned by the u.s. air force at a cost exceeding $600,000, more than 50 percent of the condon report consists of reprints of old u.s. air force releases and irrelevant papers and essays on astronomical, meteorological, and other mundane phenomena. many of the charts and graphs included date back to the early 1950s. it would appear that little or no effort was made to collect, correlate, and present accurate data on the thousands of ufo reports received and allegedly studied by the project during the 1966 68 period. the various contributors were unfamiliar with ufo research and the r

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t the date for his coronation; pope paul iii (1468.1549) was guided throughout life by his horoscope; and pope leo x (1475.1521) established a chair of astrology at a major university. church scholars began to associate the signs of the zodiac with the 12 apostles, and cathedrals throughout europe were decorated with zodiacal symbols. danish astronomer tycho brahe (1546. 1601, who built the first astronomical observatory in the western world, practiced and defended astrology. brahe fs exact planetary figures allowed his pupil johannes kepler (1571.1630) to work out his great laws of motion. sir isaac newton (1642.1727, who followed in kepler fs footsteps, used an eclectic mix of science and astrology to arrive at many of his theories. admiral george dewey (1837.1917) and president grover c

00 ancient chambered burial sites beneath mounds in northern europe, have arrangements of stone or markings that correspond with lunar and solar cycles. all of those ancient structures and arrangements of large stones are examples of a megalith (from the greek gmegas h meaning large, and glitho h meaning stone, a term used most specifically in reference to stone structures erected for ceremonial, astronomical, and religious purposes, and as monuments. megalith building (placing large stones in a specific site) dates back to at least 5000 b.c.e. many of the most famous megaliths were erected between then and 1500 b.c.e. the communities that erected them eventually faded into the recesses of history, but the megaliths they left behind continue to tantalize the imagination. adding to the myst

. megalithic brittany: a guide to over 350 ancient sites and monuments. london: thames and hudson, 1985. daniel, glyn edmund. megaliths in history. london: thames and hudson, 1972. 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 196 objects of mystery and power manyancient megaliths appear to have had sophisticated uses as solar and lunar calendars and as astronomical observatories. lancaster brown, peter. megaliths, myths, and men: an introduction to astroarchaeology. new york: dover, 2000. michell, john f. megalithomania: artists, antiquarians, and archaeologists at the old stone mountains. ithaca, n.y: cornell university press, 1982. mohen, jean-pierre. the world of megaliths. new york: facts on file, 1990. runes although the various markings on

ipment were used to ensure that the landscape was level and that measurements were accurate. many researchers argue about the number of workers needed for such an undertaking and wonder how such an army of laborers could be mobilized, housed, and fed. other mysteries surrounding the pyramids are the contentions that the structures are situated at cardinal points on the compass, and their numerous astronomical uses show knowledge of mathematics in advance of other civilizations. in addition, the body of the pharaoh khufu (cheops) for whom the tomb was built, and precious objects that usually surround the bodies of royalty in egyptian tombs, have never been found. in fact, all three of the pyramids at giza were allegedly erected as tombs, yet not a single body has been found in any of them

together many different kinds of things from many different time periods. even though quite a few intriguing leys were discovered, the theory began losing support because of extravagant claims. ley hunting enjoyed a revival beginning in the 1970s. by then, much more information was known about prehistoric civilizations and their capacity for great engineering feats and mastering of sophisticated astronomical and mathematical techniques. the enthusiasm for the pastime was channeled through a magazine, the ley hunter, which paul devereux took over as editor in 1976. devereux set up a system where all prospective leys could be catalogued and researched. hundreds of claims were submitted and checked, and the results were published in the ley hunter fs companion (1979. forty-one leys, each inc

pose of the niches is unknown. a plaza with a large rock in the center separates the urban and religious areas. among the structures in the religious center is the 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 252 places of mystery and power an aerial view of the ancient incan city machu picchu (john m. barth) thetemple of the sun is believed to have an astronomical significance. intihuantana shrine, a temple carved from granite. the temple is considered a shrine to sun and stone, both of which were worshipped by incas, and is also believed to have served as an astronomical observatory. some of the buildings in the religious center are threewalled structures, including what is called the great central temple and the temple of the three windows. t

of the buildings in the religious center are threewalled structures, including what is called the great central temple and the temple of the three windows. the latter building is believed to be associated with an incan legend that their original ancestors emerged from a cave that had three windows. also located in the religious center is the temple of the sun, a circular tower believed to have an astronomical orientation. the most accepted view of machu picchu portrays it as a religious sanctuary serving high priests and gvirgins of the sun. h more than 80 percent of the graves found on the site contain the bones of females, considered to have been gchosen women. h machu picchu was thought to have been visited by selected members of incan royalty who were transported along special roads th

vation that had more lasting significance. he noted that an ancient chamber constructed in the naturally formed megaliths called the extersteine had a circular window that formed a point where rays of light at the midsummer solstice shone through, and where the moon was visible when it reached its northernmost position. he believed the neolithic peoples (before 2000 b.c.e) had used the site as an astronomical observatory and a calendar. the extersteine, which lies at the approximate latitude as stonehenge in great britain, is a natural site of five sandstone pillars rising 120 feet above an area filled with caves and grottoes. it served as a ritual center for nomadic reindeer hunters, and later was the site of pagan rituals until the eighth century, when such rituals were forbidden by law

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his business with license numbers was repeated over and over, and in many places. witnesses would carefully note the plates on the black cadillacs and mysterious panel trucks, but when the police ran a routine check the computers came up with a blank. when you consider the many millions of licenses issued in the united states, the odds against your being able to manufacture an unlisted number are astronomical. yet our mib always manage to come up with unused numbers (there were more incidents of this type during the october 1973 wave) phantom photographer reports have been rare in england, but in 1973 two leading british ufologists, brinsley le poer trench and j.b. delair, came across an incident involving the bogart family who live in a forest near maresfield, sussex. the bogarts' isolate

ree ceremony on the white house lawn, i was told at the very moment when president lyndon johnson threw the switch to light up the tree, the power all over the country would fail. knowing the entities' perverse sense of humor, and impressed by the accuracy of many of their previous predictions, i bought this lock, stock, and barrel. my biggest concern, however, was my telephone. my bills were now astronomical. i was constantly being cut off in the middle of conversations, or foreign sounds were injected into my line. somebody would strum a one-stringed guitar or blow a shrill whistle while i was talking. like ivan, i often heard the distinct sound of an extension being picked up or put down electronic beeps, eerie music, hollow metallic voices, all became common on the blasted instrument

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god. the mean secrets are likewise seven in number. 1. the first is, the transmutation of metals, which is vulgarly called alchymy; which certainly is given to very few, and not but of special grace. 2. the second is, the curing of diseases with metals, either by the magnetick vertues of precious stones, or by the use of the philosophers stone, and the like. 3 the third is, to be able to perform astronomical and mathematical miracles, such as are hydraulick-engines, to administer business by the influence of heaven, and things which are of the like sort. 4. the fourth is, to perform the works of natural magick, of what sort soever they be. 5. the fifth is, to know all physical secrets. 19 6. the sixth is, to know the foundation of all arts which are exercised with the hands and offices of

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nd consciousness light and consciousness are two phenomena of the same thing. the higher levels of christic consciousness we develop the more levels of light we attain. the planets are gradually absorbing the christic consciousness of the sun. thus when the planets of our solar system have integrally absorbed the divine solar consciousness, then life, light and heat will no longer occupy only the astronomical place of the sun, but the entire solar system will then shine like the sun. this is the case of the gigantic sun of antares, which is a million times more rarified than our sun. the light of the solar system of antares is not only concentrated in its sun, because each one of its planets has become a sun. the planetary humanities enjoy the solar consciousness; the outcome of this joy i

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year shall make me a bride* in addition to the four great festivals of the pagan celtic year, there are four lesser holidays as well: the two solstices, and the two equinoxes. in folklore, these are referred to as the four 'quarter-days' of the year, and modern witches call them the four 'lesser sabbats, or the four 'low holidays. the summer solstice is one of them. technically, a solstice is an astronomical point and, due to the procession to the equinox, the date may vary by a few days depending on the year. the summer solstice occurs when the sun reaches the tropic of cancer, and we experience the longest day and the shortest night of the year. astrologers know this as the date on which the sun enters the sign of cancer. this year (1988) it will occur at 10:57 pm cdt on june 20th. howe

tedly, it does involve the concept of sacrifice, but one that is symbolic only. the sacrifice is that of the spirit of vegetation, john barleycorn. occurring 1/4 of the year after midsummer, harvest home represents mid-autumn, autumn's height. it is also the autumnal equinox, one of the quarter days of the year, a lesser sabbat and a low holiday in modern witchcraft. technically, an equinox is an astronomical point and, due to the fact that the earth wobbles on its axis slightly (rather like a top that's slowing down, the date may vary by a few days depending on the year. the autumnal equinox occurs when the sun crosses the equator on it's apparent journey southward, and we experience a day and a night that are of equal duration. up until harvest home, the hours of daylight have been great

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

brew letters heading the portions of the 119th psalm in our bibles. the word kabalah includes the hebrew doctrines of cosmogony and theology as well as the science of numbers. the former is specified as the dogmatic qabalah, the latter as the literal qabalah. 25. by means of associating the ancient doctrines of numbers with the letters of the alphabet, the planets, stars, zodiacal signs and other astronomical terms, a form of divination became practiced, by which the professors attempted to foretell the future, life and death, good and evil fortune, detection of theft, etc, an ample explanations of which may be studied by the curious in the holy guide of john heydon. with this system is associated the practice of pure astrology, the divination of fate by means of the heavenly bodies, espec

preference for the number 6. they performed their principal ceremonies on the 6th day of the moon, and on the 6th day of the moon began their year. they went 6 together to gather the sacred mistletoe (misseltoe, and in monuments and plates now extant we often find 6 of their priests grouped together. see mayo, ii. 239. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott an astronomical period of 600 years, spoken of as the naros, the cycle of the sun, the luni-solar period or sibylline year, consisting of 31 periods of 19 years, and one of 11 years, is often referred to in old works on the mysteries. it seems to have been known by the chaldeans and ancient indians; it is a period of peculiar properties. cassini, a great astronomer, declares it the most perfect of al

are 1 2 3 4 7 9 11 13 14. very good 16 17 19 20 22 23 10 26 27. indifferent 5 6 8 12 15 18 21. very bad 24 25 28 29 30# numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 109. chapter s eventeen thirteen, 1 3. hirteen was the sacred number of the mexicans and people of yucatan; twelve of many tribes of north american indians, as of so many nations of antiquity. this had an astronomical connection, because the stars and sun were gods to them. the method of computation among the mexican priests was by weeks of 13 days; consult dunlop s vestiges, their year contained 28 weeks of 13 days and 1 day over, just as ours contains 52 of 7 days and one day over. thirteen years formed another week. four times 13, or 52, years was their cycle. in yucatan, there were 13 snake god

so says the talmudic treatise. sanhedrin, 97. 1. 25,000. according to ezekiel, the mystical city of jerusalem was surrounded by a square space measuring 25,000 roods in length and this he called the holy oblation, and it was for the use of the priests, the sons of zadok. 3.14159. this is the value of pi, the ratio of diameter to circumference of a circle. bode s law is a curious arithmetical and astronomical problem- take the series of numbers 0 3 6 12 24 48 96 192 numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott add 4 to each. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 and we obtain 4 7 10 16 28 52 100 196 the numbers- these show the relation of the ancient planets to the sun, as to distance, in the order mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn and uranus. the planet corresponding to

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