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xpel naturally of its own accord (34) finally, during that whole time, you shall touch no dead body of any description soever (35) you shall eat during this whole period neither the flesh nor the blood of any dead animal; and this you shall do for a certain particular reason.113 (36) you shall bind by an oath him unto whom you shall give this operation, neither to give nor sell it unto any avowed atheist or blasphemer of god (37) you shall fast for three days before giving the operation unto any; and he who shall receive it shall do likewise; and he also shall hand over unto you at the same time the sum of ten golden florins, or their value, the which you should with your own hand distribute unto poor persons whom you shall charge to repeat the psalms, miserere mei deus, etc, have mercy up

ALEE J BOOK OF AIWASS

with reincarnation we tend to forget our past incarnations and that there are daemons who sometimes forget it until something triggers it. i was wondering if there is a ritual or something one can do to find out if they are a reincarnated daemon" the daemons you are referring to are called "sleepers" but they are this way for a reason. recently, it was time for me to awaken one. he was an avowed atheist, which is fairly common. as was the case with me, his secret name had to be uttered by another daemon. timing is everything! it takes a while, then memories begin to creep. the daemon form attaches itself to the physical form. it's like you're being switched from a/c to d/c (alternating to direct current. why do sleepers exist? let's say, for example, aiwass has two physical forms; lord eg

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

with the true patriarchal feeling, and the manners and obligations of chivalry. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 170 [173] 82 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta pi-beta bortsch witch-moon that turnest all the streams to blood, i take this hazel rod, and stand, and swear an oath-beneath this blasted oak and bare that rears its agony above the flood whose swollen mask mutters an atheist's prayer. what oath may stand the shock of this offence "there is no i, no joy, no permanence? witch-moon of blood, eternal ebb and flow of baffled birth, in death still lurks a change; and all the leopards in thy woods that range, and all the vampires in their boughs that glow, brooding on blood-thirst-these are not so strange and fierce as life's unfailing shower. these die, yet time reb

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

baby to sleep? the master of the temple deals very simply and efficiently with problems of this kind "the mind (says he) of this party of the first part, hereinafter referred to as frater n (or whatever his 8= 3 motto may be) is so constructed that the interval from c to c is most harmoniously divided into n notes; that of the party of the second part hereinafter referred to as- not a heretic, an atheist, a bolshie, ad die-hard, a schismatic, and anarchist, a black magician, a friend of aleister crowley, or whatever may be the current term of abuse- mr. a, lord b, the duke of c, mrs. x, or whatever he or she may chance to be called- into five. the structure called of-all-truth in neither of us is affected in the least, any more than in the reading of a thermometer with fahrenheit on one si

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

l to the task. this form of dishonesty reaches its climax in the expurgating of the classics "the bible is the word of god, written by holy men, as they were inspired by the holy ghost. but we will cut out those passages which we think unsuitable "shakespeare is our greatest poet- but, of course, he is very dreadful "no one can surpass the lyrics of shelley, but we must pretend that he was not an atheist" some translators could not bear that the heathen chinese should use the word shang ti, and pretended that it did not mean god. others, compelled to admit that it did mean god, explained that the use of the term showed that "god had not left himself without a witness even in this most idolatrous of nations. they had been mysteriously compelled to use it, not knowing what it meant" all this

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE BANNED LECTURE

e ado ted the sensible course of asking the advice of an old hand at the game; and was told "you must do one of two things. you may assume that they know everything, or that they know nothing" thomas henry thought it over, and decided that he would assume that they know nothing. i think that merely shows how badly brought up he must have been; and explains how it was that he became a kirty little atheist, and repented on his death-bed, and died blaspheming. gilles de raise was born sometime in 1404. he married catherine de thonars on the 30th of november, 1420, thus becoming the richest noble in europe. he lived extravagantly until his arrest by the church. he geban alchemical studies under the instruction of gilles de sille, a priest of st. malo. montague summers believes he sacrificed ar

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

ture of the state includes all elements; it were stupid and suicidal to aim at homogeneity, or to assert it. spiritual experience soon enables the aspirant to assimilate these ideas, and he can enjoy life to the full, finding his true self alike in the contemplation of every element of existence. al ii,23 "i am alone: there is no god where i am" the old comment 23. the atheism of god "allah's the atheist! he owns no allah" to admit god is to look up to god, and so not to be god. the cures of duality. the new comment this refers to the spiritual experience of identity. when one realizes one's truth there is no room for any other conception. it also means that the god-idea must go with other relics of the fear born of ignorance into the limbo of savagery. i speak of the idea of god as genera

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see more than himself, or who regard things from a different standpoint. hence he is usually a bigot, intolerant even of tolerance. 2. the despairing wretch, who, having sought god everywhere, and failed to find him, thinks everyone else is as blind as he is, and that if he has failed he, the seeker after truth! it is because there is no goal. in his cry there is pain, as with the stupid kind of atheist there is smugness and self-satisfaction. both are diseased egos* and of course, if his revolt succeeds, he will acquisece in order. the first condition of gaining a grade is to be dissatisfied with the one that you have. and so when you reach the end you find order as at first; but also that the law is that you must rebel to conquer a.c. liber lviii 36 3. the philosophical adept, who, know

ose password is there is no god, so inflected that even the magister when received among them had not wisdom to interpret it. 1. mr daw, k.c: m lud, i respectfully submit that there is no such creature as a peacock. 2. oedipus at colonus: alas! there is no sun! i, even i, have looked and found it not. 3. dixit stultus in corde suo: ain elohim. 62 there is a fourth kind of atheister, not really an atheist at all. he is but a traveller in the land of no god, and knows that it is but a stage on his journey and a stage, moreover, not far from the goal. daath is not on the tree of life; and in daath there is no god as there is in the sephiroth, for daath cannot understand unity at all. if he thinks of it, it is only to hate it, as the one thing which he is most certainly not (see liber 418, 10t

th is not on the tree of life; and in daath there is no god as there is in the sephiroth, for daath cannot understand unity at all. if he thinks of it, it is only to hate it, as the one thing which he is most certainly not (see liber 418, 10th thyr. i may remark in passing that this book is the best known to me on advanced qabalah, and of course it is only intelligibile to advanced students. this atheist, not in-being but in-passing, is a very apt subject for initiation. he has done with the illusions of dogma. from a knight of the royal mystery63 he has risen to understand with the members of the sovereign sanctuary64 that all is symbolic; all, if you will, the jugglery of the magician. he is tired of theories and systems of theology and all such toys; and being weary and anhungered and a

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ird up my loins and make endeavour, and seek a refuge from my grief, o never in heaven but in hell! oh, very well! i think you say, wait only till your dying day! 645 see whether then you kiss the rod, and bow that proud soul down to god! i perfectly admit the fact; quite likely that i so shall act! here s why creation jumps at prayer. 650 you christians quote me in a breath this, that, the other atheist s death;73 how they sought god! of course! impair by just a touch of fever, chill, my health where flies my vivid will? 655 my carcase with quinine is crammed; i wish south india were damned; i wish i had my mother s nursing, find precious little use in cursing, the sword of song 22 poem does not treat of pal ontology: nor of poet s youth: nor of christian infamies. poet forced to mystic p

time during the winter of 1902- 1903. the ms. was accepted by the s. p. r. t. in may of this year, and after a postfinal revision, rendered necessary by my irish descent, went to press. 618. each life bound over to the wheel.72 cf. whatley, revelation of a future state* these page references have been altered to conform to the pagination of this electronic edition t.s] 652. this, that, the other atheist s death73 their stories are usually untrue; but let us follow our plan, and grant them all they ask. 709. a cannibal.74 this word is inept, as it predicates humanity of christian-hate- christian. j accuse the english language: anthropophagous must always remain a comic word. 731. the flaming star.75 or pentagram, mystically referred to jeheshua. 732. zohar.76 splendour, the three central b

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on "board of and save himself when all his lower being has gone "to pieces in the wreck."8 these last few lines bring us face to face with the subject of this volume, viz- frater p. to enter upon a somewhat irrelevant matter, this is what actually happened to the complier of this book: for ten years he had been a sceptic, in that sense of the word which is generally conveyed by the terms infidel, atheist, and freethinker; then suddenly, in a single moment, he withdrew all the scepticism with which he had assailed religion, and hurled it against freethought itself; and as 7 "the varieties of religious experience" pp. 498-501. 8 "the varieties of religious experience, pp. 507, 508. the former had crumbled into dust, so now the latter vanished in smoke. in this crisis there was no sickness of

ically expressed word-pictures (c) scientifically expressed facts. the first method is found appended to each of the four books, balancing, so to speak, illuminism and science. the second method is found almost entirely in the first book and the various pictures are entitled:19 the black watch-tower, or the dreamer. the miser, or the theist. the spendthrift, or the pantheist. the bankrupt, or the atheist. the prude, or the rationalist. the child, or the mystic. the wanton, or the sceptic. the slave, or he who stands before the veil of the outer court. the warrior, or he who stands before the veil of the inner court. the king, or he who stands before the veil of the abyss. the white watch-tower, or the awakened one. 161 the third method is found almost entirely in the second book. the third

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law is that you must rebel to conquer. from a different standpoint. hence he is usually a bigot, intolerant even of tolerance. 2. the despairing wretch, who, having sought god everywhere, and failed to hind him, thinks everyone else is as blind as he is, and that if he has failed- he, the seeker after truth- it is because there is no goal. in his cry there is 109 pain, as with the stupid kind of atheist there is smugness and self-satisfaction. both are diseased egos. 3. the philosophical adept, who, knowing god, says "there is no god" meaning "god is zero" as qabalistically he is. he holds atheism as a philosophical speculation as good as any other, and perhaps less likely to mislead mankind and do other practical damage than any other. him you may know by his equanimity, enthusiasm, and

ed by the ring of adepts whose password is "there is no god" so inflected that even the magister when received among them had not wisdom toe interpret it. 1. mr daw, k.c: m'lud, i respectfully submit that there is no such creature as a peacock. 2. oedipus at colonus: alas! there is no sun! i, even i, have looked and found it not. 3. dixit sultus in corde suo "ain elohim" there is a fourth kind of atheist, not really an atheist at all. he is but a traveller in the land of no god, and knows that it is but a stage on his journey- and a stage, moreover, no far from the goal. daath is not on the tree of life; and in daath there is no god as there is in the sephiroth, for daath cannot understand unity at all. if he thinks of it, it is only to hate it, as the one thing which he is most certainly

h is not on the tree of life; and in daath there is no god as there is in the sephiroth, for daath cannot understand unity at all. if he thinks of it, it is only to hate it, as the one thing which he is most certainly not (see liber 418. 10th aethyr. i may remark in passing that this book is the best known to me on advanced qabalah, and of course it is only intelligible to advanced students. this atheist, not in-being but in-passing, is a very apt subject for initiation. he has done with the illusions of dogma. from a knight of the royal mystery he has risen to understand with the members of the sovereign sanctuary that all is symbolic; all, if you will, the jugglery of the magician. he is tired of theories and systems of theology and all such toys; and being weary and anhungred and athirs

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s writing in greek above that. the word "nox" written in greek, and a circle with a cross in the centre of it, a st. andrew's cross. then above that is a sigil, hidden by a hand. and a voice proceedeth from the urn: from the ashes of the tarot who shall make the phoenix-wand? not even he who by his understanding hath made the lotus-wand to grow in the great sea. get thee back, for thou art not an atheist, and though thou have violated thy mother, thou hast not slain thy father. get thee back from the urn; thy ashes are not hidden here. 127 then again arose the god thoth, in the sign of the enterer, and he drove the seer from before his face. and he fell through the starry night unto the little village in the desert. benishrur, algeria "december" 10, 1909. 7.40-9.40 p.m. the cry of the 5th

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still there remain to be shown the ceremonial methods he adopted; however, before we enter upon these, we must return to our first point, namely_ the meaning and value of ceremonial magic. ceremonial magic, as a means to attainment, has in common with all other methods, western or eastern, one supreme object in view_ identification with the godhead; and it matters not if the aspirant be theist or atheist, pantheist or autotheist, christian or jew, or whether he name the goal of his attainment god, zeus, christ, matter, nature, spirit, heaven, 135 reason, nirvana, asgard, no-thing or no-god, so long as he "has" a goal in view, and a goal he is striving to attain. without a goal, he is but a human ship without port or destination; and, without striving, work, will to attain, he is but a huma

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this "to put it in another way; you say that the universe will go to nibb na, and that at one time naught save nibb na will be. then in the end desire dies in it, which was the primal germ of mind. where will that desire go to, if nibb na will be the all, and will be perfect, then what will be the object of this emanation of a sorrow-filled universe' this is all the merest twaddle of a hyde park atheist or christian evidence preacher. granted the hindu brahman is rationally ridiculous, yet nevertheless it is more rational to suppose a continuous chain of sorrowful universes and states of oblivion than an unaccounted-for state of sorrow and an unaccountable finality. it is as rational or irrational to ask where "brahman" came from, as it is to ask where "karma" came from. both are illusion

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adgita, the voice of the silence, knox om pax, and the tao teh king is to exclude by implication st. teresa. to deny crowley is to deny christ. similarly, the attempt to define magic in terms contrary to its tradition, is sectarian folly. i may disagree with huxley, but i shall not confute him by saying that he was a bigoted opponent of evolution. roosevelt, in calling thomas paine a dirty little atheist, when he was demonstrably a clean tall deist, established only the record for falsehood. mr 160 (or mrs or miss) evelyn underhill does the same thing when he abuses the magi by attributing to them the doctrines and practices of sorcerers. and we think that his sense of awe misleads him in one respect. the buddha, the christ, and he whom some of us know as frater perdurabo, were all men bef

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

, man can be defined as that central energy, life, or intelligence, who works through a material manifestation or form, this form being built up of myriads of lesser lives. in this connection a curious phenomenon has been frequently noticed at the time of death; it was brought very specially to my notice some years ago by one of the ablest surgical nurses of india. she had for a long time been an atheist, but had begun to question the ground of her unbelief after several times witnessing this phenomenon. she stated to me that, at the moment of death, in several cases, a flash of light had been seen by her issuing from the top of the head, and that in one particular case (that of a girl of apparently very advanced spiritual development and great purity and holiness of life) the room had app

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

perfection of a passive (objectively) incorporeal being, or even the universal static inertia personified in brahma during his "night's" rest. for, to quote from an able article by one[[footnote(s* the history of prometheus, karma, and human consciousness, is found further on* by an englishman whose erratic genius killed him. the son of a protestant clergyman, he became a mahomedan, then a rabid atheist, and after meeting with a[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 245 satan, a centripetal force. who, confusing the planes of existence and consciousness, fell a victim to it "satan, or lucifer, represents the active, or, as m. jules baissac calls it, the 'centrifugal energy of the universe' in a cosmic sense. he is fire, light, life, struggle, effort, thought, consciousness, prog

st powerful. it is emphatically a kingdom of peace and loyal submission as that of the 'arch-rebel' is one of war and revolution. it (the[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] master, a guru, he became a mystic; then a theosophist who doubted, despaired; threw up white for black magic, went insane and joined the roman church. then again turning round, anathematized her, re-became an atheist, and died cursing humanity, knowledge, and god, in whom he had ceased to believe. furnished with all the esoteric data to write his "war in heaven" he made a semi-political article out of it, mixing malthus with satan, and darwin with the astral light. peace be to his- shell. he is a warning to the chelas who fail. his forgotten tomb may now be seen in the mussulman burial ground of the jo

eir natural enemies- what is it that guides the force or forces so unerringly in this process of evolution? blind force? as well call blind the brain which evolved in haeckel his "pedigree of man" and other lucubrations. we can easily conceive that the said brain lacks an important centre or two. for, whoever knows anything of the anatomy of the human, or even of any animal, body, and is still an atheist and a materialist, must be "hopelessly insane" according to lord herbert, who rightly sees in the frame of man's body and the coherence of its parts, something so strange and paradoxical that he holds it "to be the greatest miracle of nature" blind forces "and no design" in anything under the sun; when no sane man of science would hesitate to say that, even from the little he knows and has

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same nirvana as the learned buddhist and brahmin do- the bosom of the eternal one, symbolized by that of abraham, and by palestine as its substitute on earth* the passage of the soul-atom "through the seven planetary chambers" had the same metaphysical and also physical meaning. it had the latter when it was said to dissolve into ether (see isis unveiled, vol. i, p. 297) even epicurus, the model atheist and materialist, knew and believed so much in the ancient wisdom, that he taught that the[[footnote(s* plato uses the words "secretions" of turbulent elements (timaeus* valentinus' esoteric treatise on the doctrine of gilgul* surely no educated jew ever believed the literal sense of this allegory- namely, that "the bodies of jews deposited in foreign lands contain within them a principle o

BOOK OF PLEASURE

cience-the lightning will thunder out the murder? new hope will be born? new creatures for the circus (the conception of) god-head must ever evolve its inertia for transmutation to its very opposite-because it contains it! the master must be the painful learner of his stupidity? the idea of god ever means the forgetfulness of supremacy and godliness. so must be supplanted by fear, eh? there is no atheist, no one is free from auto-biography, there is no fearless pleasurist? the conception is the absence of its indisputable reality within! when the conception is memorial in forgetfulness-it may be the chance of its reality for you? when the prayer-(you are always praying) has transmutated to its blasphemy-you are attractive enough to be heard-your desire is gratified! what a somersault of hu

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

not jewish. zionism is not a religion or a race; it is a political movement consisting of people, jews and non-jews, who support the claim for a jewish homeland. if you support that, you are a zionist, too, no matter what your race or religious belief. to say that zionism is the jewish race is like saying the british labour party is the english race. zionism was founded in the last century by an atheist, theodore herzl, and it is used as a front for the global elite and a means to dupe jewish people as a whole. the offer to recognise a homeland in palestine was designed both to persuade the united states to enter the war and 74 .and the truth shall set you free later to create 'managed conflict' and a situation of 'divide and rule' in the oil-rich middle east. more than twenty years after

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he phenomena and personalities associated with spiritualism. barbanell was noted for his vigorous journalism in support of spiritualism, and he frequently lectured across both europe and north america. born in london, may 3, 1902, he was the son of a barber who also practiced dentistry. young barbanell s first job involved sweeping up hair and acting as lather boy. as a young man barbanell was an atheist like his father. he became unpaid secretary of a social and literary club in london s east end. one evening, there was a talk by a young man on the subject of spiritualism. although antagonistic to the subject, barbanell said that this was a subject on which only those with personal experience could venture any worthwhile opinions. when challenged as to whether he was prepared to back this

theosophical movement. besant was born annie wood in london, england, october 1, 1847. she was raised by a widowed mother in a very religious environment and in 1867 married frank besant, a church of england minister. however, when she became increasingly skeptical of christian teachings and refused to silence her doubts, the marriage ended in separation (1873) and divorce (1878. in 1874 she met atheist and freethinker charles bradlaugh, leader of the national secular society, became friends with him, joined the society, began to write for the national reformer, and was elected vice-president of the society in 1875. her first public lecture concerned the political rights of women. in 1876 she and bradlaugh formed a partnership, the freethought publishing company, and besant became coedito

t advocating birth control. in 1877 she and bradlaugh were arrested on charges of publishing obscene literature, and in a sensational trial, which became a forum for both to present their opinions to the public, they were convicted of intending to corrupt morals (the conviction was later overturned on a technicality. the trial established besant s reputation as one of england s finest orators, an atheist, and advocate for women s rights. in the 1880s she was drawn into the circle of george bernard shaw s associates. besant became a socialist, which led to her break with bradlaugh, and in 1887 she resigned as coeditor of the national reformer. she joined shaw s fabian society. meanwhile, she championed the strike of the underpaid matchgirls in 1888 and became the first woman to be accepted

on spiritualism of the committee of the london dialectical society, first published in london in 1871 and reissued in 1873, is something of a landmark in the development of enlightened interest in spiritualism and psychical phenomena, and in standards of evidence. bradlaugh s association with the investigation of spiritualist phenomena is noteworthy because of his reputation as a freethinker and atheist. his atheism and his political convictions were based on eighteenth century individualism.his associate in the cause of freethought and birth control was annie besant, who later became the president of the theosophical society. born september 26, 1833, bradlaugh early on became a disciple of richard carlile. by 1853 bradlaugh was a lawyer s clerk and began to lecture and write in the cause

accusations that csicop was strongly slanted to debunking the paranormal rather than impartial in- comets encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 312 vestigation. critics charged that chairman kurtz was exploiting the prestige lent by the names of the scientists who joined the committee to further the aims of his american humanist society.which, ironically, is registered as a religion( atheist) for tax purposes. however, kurtz insisted that csicop was not a witch hunt nor biased or locked in by established scientific views, and claimed that it was willing to consider and investigate areas however strange or anomalous they seem to the existing state of knowledge. he also stressed the social consequences of increasing acceptance of reports of paranormal phenomena, which might cont

entury, more than a million copies had been published. the material in acim was received quietly over eight years (1965.1973) by dr. helen schucman (1910.1981, the assistant to the head of the department of psychology at presbyterian hospital in new york city, and an associate professor of psychology at columbia university s college of physicians and surgeons. in spite of having adopted a secular atheist perspective earlier in her life, schucman began to have visionary experiences and to hear an inner voice. then one day, the voice said, this is a course in miracles. please take notes. she confided this experience with a colleague, william n. tetford, and he encouraged her to follow her inner instructions. she began to take notes in shorthand. that very evening she began receiving what was

. please take notes. she confided this experience with a colleague, william n. tetford, and he encouraged her to follow her inner instructions. she began to take notes in shorthand. that very evening she began receiving what was to become a 622-page textbook, the heart of the course. over the next seven years she also received the material for a 478-page workbook and 88-page teacher s manual. the atheist schucman continued to have intellectual problems with her channeling activity, problems complicated by the apparent source of the material she was receiving.the biblical jesus christ. the course was published without her name, and her identity was kept confidential by the small inner circle of people who initially read the manuscript and assisted in the publication. prominent among these w

tion to the immaculate heart. the third part of the secret was written down and placed in the hands of the bishop of leiria, portugal. rather than assume the responsibility of knowing the secrets of heaven, the bishop decided to send it to the vatican. in 2000, pope john paul ii revealed the content of the third secret. the third secret dealt with an assassination attempt on bishop in white by an atheist system against the catholic church and christians in the twentieth century. this was considered to be the assassination attempt of pope john paul ii in 1981. the miraculous occurrences at fatima on october 13, 1917, have also been evaluated in light of the post-world war ii ufo phenomenon, and many ufologists view it as a classic appearance of a ufo. they note that the sun that danced in t

adare, in his privately published experiences in spiritualism with d.d. home (1869, covers most of home s work for the period 1867 to 1869, including some 80 seances. in 1869 the london dialectical society appointed a committee for the investigation of spiritualistic phenomena. the committee, before which home appeared, had some of the most skeptical members of the society on its list, including atheist spokesman charles bradlaugh. four seances were held, but because of home s illness the manifestations did not extend beyond slight raps and movements of the table. the committee reported that nothing material had occurred, but added that during the inquiry mr. home afforded every facility for examination. in may 1871 sir william crookes began an investigation of home and reached a very fav

tish nationalists on christmas eve 1950 as a protest, then recovered and restored to westminster abbey in february 1952. it is also known as the tanist stone, or jacob s stone (see also danaans) lia light lia light is an organization that facilitates the work and disseminates the teachings of lia shapiro, a ufo contactee who claims communications from the pleiades. she was born the daughter of an atheist jewish father and southern baptist mother. as a child, in the 1950s, she had had a vision of an intense light which visited her son. then in 1982, she had a born again experience and became an evangelical christian. finally, in 1994, while in japan teaching english classes, shapiro met a japanese woman who told her that she had a great mission in her life. the woman turned out to be part o

ghly regarded association of professional individuals. with the appearance and popularity of spiritualism in england, the society resolved on january 26, 1869, to investigate the phenomena alleged to be spiritual manifestations, and to report thereon. a committee was convened on which 33 members were appointed: h. g. atkinson, g. wheatley bennett, j. s. bergheim, charles bradlaugh (later a famous atheist leader, g. fenton cameron, george cary, e. w. cox, rev. c. maurice davies, d. h. dyte, mrs. d. h. dyte, james edmunds, mrs. james edmunds, james gannon, grattan geary, william b. gower, robert hannah, jenner gale hillier, mrs. j. g. hillier, henry jeffery, h. d. jencken, albert kisch, j. h. levy, joseph maurice, isaac l. meyers, b. m. moss, robert quelch, thomas reed, g. russel roberts, w

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a salette, and fatima, in which teenage visionaries state that the virgin has given them secrets concerning civilization and religion. it is the latest of a series of prominent cases of the apparition of the virgin that began in the early nineteenth century. the visionaries have attracted some attention due to their location. they began to report apparitions in 1981 in yugoslavia, at that time an atheist marxist country. although yugoslavia was independent of the soviet union, the state tolerated religion but hardly encouraged it. the reported apparitions brought many tourists, especially from italy, into the country. medjugorje is located at some distance from the serbian- bosnian war as it progresses into the 1990s, but the number of visitors from outside of the country has definitely dr

arcotics. he was a member of the overseas press club, dutch treat club, the players, p.e.n, harvard club of new york, baker street irregulars. his books include (with the late fulton oursler) father flanagan of boys town (1949 (with lawrence dwight smith) narcotics: america s peril (1952, the boy scout story (1955, the healing power of faith (1957, the road to faith (1960, family story (1963, the atheist: a novel (1965, marijuana: the facts and the truth (1968, religion: out or way out (1968. he has published a number of articles dealing with human problems and religious faith in such magazines as collier s, reader s digest, true, american weekly, photoplay. oursler died january 7, 1985, after a long illness. ousby, w(illiam) j(oseph (1904) british investigator on hypnosis. ousby performed

hy and christian science, but helen had not been interested in either. she was influenced by a roman catholic governess and throughout her life she periodically attended mass and possessed a number of rosaries she had collected over the years. during her teens, she was attended by an african-american maid who saw to her baptism as a baptist. however, through most of her life, she was a professing atheist who was quite aware of the dominant secularism of her professional colleagues. she attended new york university, aiming for a career as a writer or possibly an english teacher, but following her graduation suffered a traumatic experience from complications following a gall bladder operation. in 1933 she married louis schucman, the owner of an antiquarian bookstore, and settled down to life

made by people such as lucia or those from the vatican known to have been privy to the secret, agree that the document speaks of the last days but suggest that it refers to a falling away of the faithful and a great apostasy among church teachers. in may of 2000, pope john paul ii revealed the third secret of fatima. the third secret dealt with an assassination attempt on a bishop in white by an atheist system against the catholic church and christians in the twentieth century. this was considered to be the assassination attempt of pope john paul ii in 1981. apart from speculation over the content of the fatima secret, the idea of mary sharing a secret with the persons to whom she appears has become a common element in more recent apparitions. it was integral to the apparitions at beaurai

ning in every curve of these templar tombs. temple of set the temple of set emerged during the period of internal discord that almost destroyed the church of satan in the early 1970s. in 1972, michael aquino, an officer in the u.s. army and a priest in the church, critiqued the authoritarian leadership of church founder anton lavey as well as his understanding of satanism. claiming lavey to be an atheist who did not believe in the literal existence of satan, aquino left the church. three years later, in response to aquino s invocation, satan appeared under the guise of set, the ancient egyptian deity. set gave aquino a mandate in the form of a book, the book of coming forth by night, which authorized aquino to found the temple of set as the church of satan s successor. the temple is dedica

as a change of form of perception (1886, baron lazar de baczolay hellenbach wrote that zollner was in his last days deeply wounded and embittered by the treatment of his colleagues, whose assaults he took too much to heart. zollner, however, was in perfect possession of his intellect till his last breath. when the report of the seybert commission was made public, anti-spiritualists, like popular atheist writer joseph mc- cabe, seized upon the remarks about zollner and wrote of him as elderly and purblind. dr. isaac kauffmann funk, the new york publisher and psychical investigator, wrote to leipzig and received from dr. karl bucher, the rector magnificus of the university of leipzig, a letter, dated november 7, 1903, that information received from zollner s colleagues states that during hi

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

ld not have happened in consensus reality leads some, such as h o l l ow- e a rth chronicler walter kafton-mi nkel, to see sh a ver as a visionary, a member of that ancient fellowship of re c e i vers of re ve a l e d shaver mystery 225 k n owledge, a prophet like moses or jo s e p h smith though without the religious trappings. even if sh a ver technologized hell, he re m a i n e d to the end an atheist and a materialist. to him the caverns existed in this world and had nothing to do with the supernatural. though usually depicted as a cynical exploiter of a deluded man whom any responsible adult would have directed to the nearest psychiatrist, palmer himself for all his promotional instincts, which he exercised vigorously in the long course of his association with shaver may have been cau

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

anded universe is related to the expanded non-ascetic epicurean ethics. the huge extension of hermetic gnosis connects with his dissatisfaction with organised forms of religion. lucretius' dislike of the forms of religion current in his time, his direction of attention towards "the world" as an escape from superstitious terrors, was no doubt most congenial to bruno. yet bruno was certainly not an atheist, like lucretius. the infinite universe and the innumerable worlds are for him new revelations, intense accentuations of his overpowering sense of the divine. or they are ways of figuring the infigurable, of grasping and holding within, the infinite divine reality. for bruno uses thought in a hermetic way, a semi-magical way, as a mode of reaching intuitive knowledge of the divine. his pecu

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

manifesto was published which confirmed the first, but contained some additions relative to some developments that had occurred in the meantime. thousands of thinkers, scientists, writers and members of the media signed the second manifesto, which is supported by the still very active american humanist association. when we examine the manifestos, we find one basic foundation in each of them: the atheist dogma that the universe and human beings were not created but exist independently, that human beings are not responsible to any other authority besides themselves, and that belief in god has retarded the development of individuals and societies. for example, the first six articles of the first humanist manifesto are as follows: first: religious humanists regard the universe as self-existin

xplosion called the "big bang" although those who espouse the humanist and materialist philosophy were unwilling to accept the big bang theory, they were eventually won over. as a result of the scientific evidence that has come to light, the scientific community has finally accepted the big bang theory, that is, that the universe had a beginning, and therefore humanists have no argument. thus the atheist thinker anthony flew was forced to confess: hh humanism revisited i will therefore begin by confessing that the stratonician atheist has to be embarrassed by the contemporary cosmological consensus. for it seems that the cosmologists are providing a scientific proof of what st. thomas contended could not be proved philosophically; namely, that the universe had a beginning 36 2. the theory

he cosmologists are providing a scientific proof of what st. thomas contended could not be proved philosophically; namely, that the universe had a beginning 36 2. the theory of evolution, the most important scientific justification behind the first humanist manifesto, started to lose ground in the decades after it was written. it is known today that the scenario proposed for the origin of life by atheist (and no doubt humanist) evolutionists, such as a. i. oparin and j. b. s. haldane in the 1930's, has no scientific validity; living things cannot be generated spontaneously from non-living matter as proposed by this scenario. the fossil record demonstrates that living things did not develop through a process of small cumulative changes, but appeared abruptly with their distinct characterist

otal of 120 million people were killed by communist regimes or organizations. it is also evident that the western brand of humanism (capitalist systems) has not succeeded in bringing peace and happiness to their own societies or to other areas of the world. the collapse of humanism's argument on religion has also been manifested in the field of psychology. the freudian myth, a corner-stone of the atheist dogma since early twentieth century, has been invalidated by empirical data. patrick glynn, of the george washington university, explains this fact in his book titled god: the evidence, the reconciliation of faith and reason in a postsecular world: the last quarter of the twentieth century has not been kind to the psychoanalytic vision. most significant has been the exposure of freud's vie

pts to employ suggestive methods such as these. when the promises of the 1933 i. humanist manifesto proved vain, forty years passed after which humanists presented a second draft. at the beginning of the text was an attempt to explain why the first promises had come to nothing. despite the fact that this explanation was extremely weak, it demonstrated the enduring attachment of humanists to their atheist philosophy. the most obvious characteristic of the manifesto was its preservation of the anti-religious line of the 1933 manifesto: as in 1933, humanists still believe that traditional theism, especially faith in the prayer-hearing god, assumed to live and care for persons, to hear and understand their prayers, and to be able to do something about them, is an unproved and outmoded faith we

ence of religion. they want to reduce the role of religion as merely a cultural element that expresses its ideas on a number of general moral questions. the way to accomplish this, according to the masons, is to impose atheism on the society in the guise of science and reason. ultimately though, their goal is to remove religion from its position as even a cultural element, and establish a totally atheist world. in an article by isindag, in the magazine mason, entitled "positive science the obstacles of mind and masonry" he says: as a result of all this, i want to say that the most important humanistic and jj humanism revisited masonic duty of us all is not to turn away from science and reason, to acknowledge that this is the best and only way according to evolution, to spread this faith of

he masonic magazine called ayna (mirror, this is called a "temple of ideas: modern masons have changed the goal of the old masons to build a physical temple into the idea of building a "temple of ideas" the construction of a temple of ideas will be possible when masonic principles and virtues are global freemasonry jk g. e. lessing and e. renan. the masons wanted to realize the dream of these two atheist writers in eradicating religion from the face of the earth. established and such wise people increase on the earth.57 to further this goal, masons work tirelessly in many countries of the world. the masonic organization is influential in universities, other educational institutions, in the media, in the world of art and ideas. it never ceases in its efforts to disseminate its humanist phil

infernal activities of the society, and in 1765, charles johnstone published a roman a clef entitled chrysal, or the adventures of a guinea, which was popularly believed to reveal the secrets of the "medmenham monks. the monks' most important precursor is the hell-fire club founded around 1719 in london by philip, duke of wharton (1698-1731. wharton was a prominent whig politician, freemason, and atheist who sought to ridicule religion by publicly presiding over festive gatherings with "satanic" trappings and wharton went on to become grand master mason of the london grand lodge in 1722 by 1739, dashwood was on the homeward leg of his journey. on his way, he stopped in florence to see the abbe nicolini, and it was there that he met lady mary wortley montagu [who] would eventually join. das

the church and public order. it is an accepted fact that the carbonari were founded by the masons who engaged in parallel revolutionary activities with them. after the july revolution in france in 1830, the organization lost its influence and grad- a publication of italian masonry. ually disappeared. in italy, it united with the "young italy" movement founded by guiseppe mazzini. mazzini, a known atheist, had struggled for years against the papal state and the church and finally became a high-ranking mason who would become founder of the italian union. with the support of two other prominent masons, guiseppe garibaldi and count di cavour, he founded the italian union in 1870, and drew the boundaries of the papal state within its present borders. afterwards, italy entered a process by which

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

th a view to a clearer comprehension of the situation, i must interrupt these recollections with a few wordsabout myself. oh how, if i could, would i obliterate that hated self!born in switzerland, of french parents, who centred the whole world-wisdom in the literary trinity ofvoltaire, j. j. rousseau and d'holbach, and educated in a german university, i grew up a thoroughmaterialist, a confirmed atheist. i could never have even pictured to myself any beings- least of all a being- above or even outside visible nature, as distinguished from her. hence i regarded everything that couldnot be brought under the strictest analysis of the physical senses as a mere chimera. a soul, i argued, evensupposing man has one, must be material. according to origen's definition, incorporeus- the epithet heg

rs that could no longerbe afforded, she had renounced her own happiness. she sacrificed herself and the man she loved, byindefinitely postponing their marriage, in order to help our father and chiefly myself by her undivided nightmare talesii- the mysterious visitor31 devotion. and, oh, how i loved and reverenced her, time but strengthening this earliest family affection! theywho maintain that no atheist, as such, can be a true friend, an affectionate relative, or a loyal subject, utter--whether consciously or unconsciously- the greatest calumny and lie. to say that a materialist growshard-hearted as he grows older, that he cannot love as a believer does, is simply the greatest fallacy. there may be such exceptional cases, it is true, but these are found only occasionally in men who are ev

truth, becomes what is called atheistical, he isonly strengthened in his family affections, and in his sympathies with his fellow men. all his emotions, allthe ardent aspirations towards the unseen and unreachable, all the love which he would otherwise haveuselessly bestowed on a supposititional heaven and its god, become now centred with tenfold force upon hisloved ones and mankind. indeed, the atheist's heart alone. can know, what secret tides of still enjoyment flow when brothers love. it was such holy fraternal love that led me also to sacrifice my comfort and personal welfare to secure herhappiness, the felicity of her who had been more than a mother to me. i was a mere youth when i left homefor hamburg. there, working with all the desperate earnestness of a man who has but one noble

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

to believe in what they please, as their belief or page 32 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt disbelief can hardly affect a self-evident fact. the jesuits tell us that two and two are not always four to a certainty, since it depends on the will of god to make 2 2= 5. shall we accept their sophistry for all that? q. then you are atheists? a. not that we know of, and not unless the epithet of "atheist" is to be applied to those who disbelieve in an anthropomorphic god. we believe in a universal divine principle, the root of all, from which all proceeds, and within which all shall be absorbed at the end of the great cycle of being. q. this is the old, old claim of pantheism. if you are pantheists, you cannot be deists; and if you are not deists, then you have to answer to the name of ath

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ithstanding this, the clergy fear above all to be forced to rehn- qui^ this bold on humanity. they are not willing to let us judge of the tree by its fruits, for that might sometimes force them into dangerous di- lemmas. they refuse ukewise to admit, with unprejudiced people, that the phenomena of spiritualism have unquestionably spiritualized and re- cliumed from evil courses many an indomitable atheist and skeptic. but, as they confess themselves, what is the use of a pope, if there be no devil? and so rome sends her ablest advocates and preachers to the rescue of those perishing in 'the bottomless pit' rome employs her cleverest writers for this purpose albeit they all indignantly deny the accusation and in the preface to every book put forth by the prolific des mous- seaux, the french

the modem 'medium' was subject to be entranced at the will and pleasure of the 'power' which controlled him; therefore, he could not well have been entrusted with the awful secrets of the final initiation "never to be re- vealed under the penalty of death" the old sage, in unguarded mo- ments of' spiritual inspiration' revealed that which he had never learned; and was therefore put to death as an atheist. how then, with such an instance as that of socrates in relation to the visions and spiritual wonders at the epoptai of the inner temple, can any one assert that these aeers, tbeur^ts, and thaumaturgists were all 'spirit-mediums? neither pythagoras, plato, nor any of the later more important neo-putonists; neither laniblichus, longinus, proclus, dor apollonius of ivana, were ever mediums;

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

. 188 the rosicrucians. all this strange, dreamy, ethereal view of a vital, accessible something, entirely separate from the suggestions of mere sensation, is gnosticism, or bhuddism, in its own profoundest depth. it follows on similarly to the intoxication, or suffusion with the very certainty of the presence of god, which, in the poetic sense, was said to fill the mind of even the supposed arch-atheist spinoza. the rosicrucians, through the revelations concerning them of their celebrated english representative, robertus de fluctibus, or robert fludd, declare, in accordance with the mosaic account of creation,-which, they maintain, is in no instance to be taken literally, but metaphorically, that two original principles, in the beginning, proceeded from the divine father. these are light

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

the antithesis of the latter two traits thus became associated with the devil (as one respondent wrote, satan stands for all that christians deem wrong in the world) laveyan satanism celebrates such vices as virtues, and identifies them as the core of what satanism is really all about. finally, lavey was able to suggest the reality of mysterious, occult forces while simultaneously appealing to an atheist viewpoint that, he asserted, was supported by modern science. the pervasive influence of lavey s vision was reflected in numerous responses to a questionnaire item about the nature of satan. one respondent wrote that satan is not physical or even spiritual, but instead is a mythological character whose saving quality is his pride and refusal to obey just for the sake of obeying. echoing la

(the latter is most often the case, but these types tend to outgrown the fascination when they reach their twenties. at its best, according respondents, mature satanism is an attractive religion that, like all religions, provides a structure of meaning and enhances one s life: religion is an integral part of the human experience. there are people who can live without it, but i find the life of an atheist rather sterile. satanism gives me a connection to things greater than myself and opens a door of new sights, sounds, smells, ritual, art, music, and a connection with a tribal underculture [finally, satanism provides me with a moral view of the universe in which i live. conclusion as we noted earlier, the author of the psychology of adolescent satanism unwittingly praises satanism for its

LIBER CXLVIII SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK

hume in his turn becomes perfectly futile, pitted against the hindu mystic, who is in constant enjoyment of his new-found atman. it takes a buddha-gun to knock his castle down. now the ideas of mccabbage are banal and dull; those of hume are live and virile; there is a joy in them greater than the joy of the man in the street. so too the buddha-thought, anatta, 1 [joseph mccabe, a grationalist h/ atheist writer of the period. t.s] 14 liber cxlviii is a more splendid conception than the philosopher fs dutch-dolllike ego, or the rational artillery of hume. this weapon, too, that has destroyed our lesser, our illusionary universes, ever revealing one more real, shall we not wield it with divine ecstasy? shall we not, too, perceive the interdependence of the questions and the answers, the nece

LIBER LVII

ust rebel to conquer.a.c. on the qabalah 43 from a different standpoint. hence he is usually a bigot, intolerant even of tolerance. 2. the despairing wretch, who, having sought god everywhere, and failed to find him, thinks everyone else is as blind as he is, and that if he has failed. he, the seeker after truth!.it is because there is no goal. in his cry there is pain, as with the stupid kind of atheist there is smugness and self-satisfaction. both are diseased egos. 3. the philosophical adept, who, knowing god, says .there is no god. meaning .god is zero. as qabalistically he is. he holds atheism as a philosophical speculation as good as any other, and perhaps less likely to mislead mankind and do other practical damage as any other. him you may know by his equanimity, enthusiasm, and de

d by the ring of adepts whose password is .there is no god. so inflected that even the magister when received among them had not wisdom to interpret it. 1. mr daw, k.c: m.lud, i respectfully submit that there is no such creature as a peacock. 2 .dipus at colonus: alas! there is no sun! i, even i, have looked and found it not. 3. dixit stultus in corde suo .ain elohim..64 there is a fourth kind of atheist, not really an atheist at all. he is but a traveller in the land of no god, and knows that it is but a stage on his journey.and a stage, moreover, not far from the goal. daath is not on the tree of life; and in daath there is no god as there is in the sephiroth, for daath cannot understand unity at all. if he thinks of it, it is only to hate it, as the one thing which he is most certainly

th is not on the tree of life; and in daath there is no god as there is in the sephiroth, for daath cannot understand unity at all. if he thinks of it, it is only to hate it, as the one thing which he is most certainly not (see liber 418, 10th athyr. i may remark in passing that this book is the best known to me on advanced qabalah, and of course it is only intelligible to advanced students. this atheist, not in-being but in-passing, is a very apt subject for initiation. he has done with the illusions of dogma. from a knight of the royal mystery65 he has risen to understand with the members of the sovereign sanctuary66 that all is symbolic; all, if you will, the jugglery of the magician. he is tired of theories and systems of theology and all such toys; and being weary and anhungered and a

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

e well gird up my loins and make endeavour, and seek a refuge from my grief, o never in heaven.but in hell .oh, very well. i think you say .wait only till your dying day! see whether then you kiss the rod, and bow that proud soul down to god. i perfectly admit the fact; quite likely that i so shall act! here.s why creation jumps at prayer. you christians quote me in a breath this, that, the other atheist.s death;73 how they sought god! of course! impair by just a touch of fever, chill, my health.where flies my vivid will? my carcase with quinine is crammed; i wish south india were damned; i wish i had my mother.s nursing, find precious little use in cursing, 620 625 630 635 640 645 650 655 death-bed of poet. effect of body on mind. ascension day 19 and slide to leaning on another, god, or

deal of my time during the winter of 1902-1903. the ms. was accepted by the s. p. r. t. in may of this year, and after a postfinal revision, rendered necessary by my irish descent, went to press. 618. each life bound over to the wheel.72. cf. whatley .revelation of a future state* these page references have been altered to conform to the pagination of this e-text. t.s] 652. this, that, the other atheist s death73. their stories are usually untrue; but let us follow our plan, and grant them all they ask. 709. a cannibal.74.this word is inept, as it predicates humanity of christian-hate- christian. j.accuse the english language: anthropophagous must always remain a comic word. 731. the flaming star.75.or pentagram, mystically referred to jeheshua. 732. zohar.76..splendour. the three central

MORALS AND DOGMA

cial charities, in the relations of husband and wife, parent and child, in the daily work and the daily prayer of every man. as the world grows in its development, it necessarily _out_grows its ancient ideas of god, which were only temporary and provisional. a man who has a higher conception of god than those about him, and who denies that their conception _is_ god, is very likely to be called an atheist by men who are really far less believers in a god than he. thus the christians, who said the heathen idols were no gods, were accounted atheists by the people, and accordingly put to death; and jesus of nazareth was crucified as an unbelieving blasphemer, by the jews. there is a mere formal atheism, which is a denial of god in _terms, but not in _reality. a man says, there is no god; that

d; for it is utterly impossible for any human creature to conceive, however much he may _pretend_ to do so, of either of these, except as a consequence of the action of intelligence; which is, indeed, that otherwise unknown thing, the existence of which these alone prove; otherwise than as the cause of these, not a thing at all; a mere _name_ for the wholly uncognizable cause of these. the _real_ atheist must deny the existence of the qualities of god, deny that there is any mind of or in the universe, any self-conscious providence, any providence at all. he must deny that there is any being or cause of finite things, that is self-consciously powerful, wise, just, loving, and faithful to itself and its own nature. he must deny that there is any _plan_ in the universe or any part of it. he

om, affection, justice, morality in the world, is an accident, and may end to-morrow. all over the world there is heroism unrequited, or paid with misery; vice on thrones, corruption in high places, nobleness in poverty or even in chains, the gentle devotion of woman rewarded by brutal neglect or more brutal abuse and violence; everywhere want, misery, over-work, and under-wages. add to these the atheist's creed--a body without a soul, an earth without a heaven, a world without a god; and what a pandemonium would we make of this world! the intellect of the atheist would find matter everywhere; but no causing and providing mind: his moral sense would find no equitable will, no beauty of moral excellence, no conscience enacting justice into the unchanging law of right, no spiritual order or

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

rule, will not try to help you at all. the magister is selfish. he minds his own business, and no other. frederick pohl and c. m. kornbluth had a very amusing tale of a man who approached two 'black brethren' and challenged them "what does he say" the second 'black brother who was somewhat hard of hearing, asked the first "he says we are not god" the first explained. at once, the second snapped "atheist" the utter lack of sense of humor is a characteristic of 'black brotherhood. a magister might have said the same thing but with a twinkle. there are certain analogies between 'black brotherhood' and paranoia, but while paranoia is a mental disorder 'black brotherhood' is of dadth, and much more dangerous. religious persecutions, throughout history, were always the result of a man reaching

ecret. worship of nu is reserved for her 'chosen which means, those who love her. on the plane of religions, the influence of the law consists in making them tolerate each other, so that all men may worship in the temple or manner of their choice, without interference even from those whose theory of the universe is utterly contrary to theirs. see liber oz, and chapter 35 of liber aleph. also, the atheist has as much right to his opinion as anybody else, and perhaps more "there is no god where i am" liber xv was read in california for several years, the mass was performed, and interviews were given to reporters, who referred to that particular group as "the purple cult" it was indeed purple, and perhaps a bit too voluptuous. love must be under will, and the word of the law is thelema, not a

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

and can be justified, with inflexions and nuances, by the events that took place not only in great britain but on the continent as well. the british reactions article 1 of the obligations of 1723, an accessory document to the book of constitutions, concerns god and religion: a mason is oblig'd, by his tenure, to obey the moral law; and if he rightly understands the art, he will never be a stupid atheist nor an irreligious libertine. but though on ancient times masons were charg'd in every country to be the religion of that country or nation, whatever it was, yet'tis now thought more expedient only to oblige them to that religion in wich all men agree, leaving their particular opinions to themselves; that is, to bee good men and true, or men of honour and honesty, by whatever denominations

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

daughter, irene, to ascertain from her the whereabouts of some concealed money which she had taken in charge for a traveller. swedenborg communicated habitually with the so-called dead, whose forms appeared to him in the astral light. several credible persons necromancy 71 of our acquaintance have assured us that they have been revisited for years by the dead who were dear to them. the celebrated atheist sylvanus marechal appeared to his widow and one of her friends, to acquaint her concerning a sum of 1,500 francs which he had concealed in a secret drawer. this anecdote was related to us by an old friend of the family. evocations should have always a motive and a justifiable end; otherwise, they are works of darkness and folly, most dangerous for health and reason. to evoke out of pure cu

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ical statement of man as a product and subject of his environment. unlike b.f. skinner and other environmental materialists, however, hegel postulated a deliberate, universal intelligence behind the historical process. the philosophy of nietzsche friedrich nietzsche (1844-1900) completed and published his major theoretical works also sprach zarathustra and beyond good and evil ca. 1885. he was an atheist and a materialist, insisting that the universe [or world] of appearances is the only true one. he carries this principle into his assessment of humanity by denying any "dual existence" within the body (i.e. soul vs. physical body. man is a unified, material being. nietzsche defines the will to power as the inherent compulsion of any being to create and control its environment and interacti

an seek truth by means of "unconcealment, or the grasping of truth through the uncovering of himself. truth is the uncovering of dasein; therefore truth exists only as long as the individual exists. the peril of dasein's state of being is what heidegger calls "falling, which is the individual's becoming immersed in inauthenticity and self-deception. in addition to this, and since heidegger was an atheist, he saw the basic underlying feeling of dasein to be anxiety, as a result of his realization of his temporality and utter aloneness, with no god to guide or save him. the acceptance of his temporality and the absence of god becomes dasein's most powerful motivation toward unconcealment and authenticity. despite the conditions of anxiety and finitude, the individual who seeks truth must pus

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

fierce and proud, very. pure carnivores; you can see it in the pictures. during the long nights of their insomnia she told him about the heat-haze that would come over the pampa so that the few trees stood out like islands and a rider looked like a mythological being, galloping across the surface of the ocean _it was like the ghost of the sea. she told him campfire stories, for example about the atheist gaucho who disproved paradise, when his mother died, by calling upon her spirit to return, every night for seven nights. on the eighth night he announced that she had obviously not heard him, or she would certainly have come to console her beloved son; therefore, death must be the end. she snared him in descriptisns of the days when the per n people came in their white suits and slicked do

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ies may seem irrelevant to us now, at the time they were considered crucial to our common perception of ourselves in relation to cosmos. what can hardly be disputed is that the angels, and their relatives the devils, have been wholly accepted and imprinted into the collective imagination of our culture over hundreds of thousands of years. thus, although we may now be wholly immersed in an aeon of atheist and nihilist world views, the angels and devils themselves still provoke a powerful response from our deeper minds. angelology, like the pantheistic cosmologies that precede it, reflects our human psychology. that is, the various spheres of angelic influence, love, protection, vengeance, even death and disease, are human concerns. approaching as rationalist, artist or mystic we may seek to

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many people currently cannot rationally accept christianity the way it has been practiced in the past. great numbers of people are beginning to doubt the existence of god, in the established christian sense of the word. so, they have taken to calling themselves "christian atheists. true, the christian bible is a mass of contradictions; but what could be more contradictory than the term "christian atheist? if prominent leaders of the christian faith are rejecting the past interpretations of god, how then can their followers be expected to adhere to previous religious tradition? with all the debates about whether or not god is dead, if he isn't he had better have medicare! the god you save may be yourself all religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. he has created an entire sys

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orical religions: some religions existed only in the past and are no longer followed. for instance, the religions of ancient greece and rome are still studied today for their historical and cultural interest. however, those religions have no followers today. in the same way, the religion of the ancient egyptians is no longer alive. egyptians today instead follow islam or christianity, or they are atheist or agnostic. choose an ancient religion and write a report in which you explain when the religion died and what replaced it. war and peace: followers of different religions have differing attitudes toward warfare. for instance, islam has the concept of jihad, which is sometimes translated in english as holy war. throughout history, some muslims have used this concept to attack other muslim

tween 200 and 240 million. many of these are in china and the former soviet union, where religion, under communism, was discouraged (communism is an economic and political philosophy that tries to establish a society without rich or poor people in which all property is communally owned) at the same time, it is also unclear whether such numbers include daoists and buddhists, who could very well be atheist and religious at the same time. as a result, it is not possible to obtain an accurate worldwide number of atheists and agnostics. if general nonbelievers are added to the figures for atheists and agnostics (those who do not follow any faith, the numbers double or triple. some countries, such as japan, report two-thirds of their population in the category of nonbelievers. in the western wor

eator-god, but he did uphold the moral order, or the right and proper way of existence. the greek pantheon, the set of all their gods and goddesses, was attacked as early as the sixth century bce by the greek philosopher xenophanes (570 475 bce. he thought that a group of hard-drinking and loose-living deities like the greek gods were hardly god-like in their behavior. xenophanes, however, was no atheist. he suggested instead that one god was directly connected to the world. his criticism of the greek pantheon was important, though, because it showed that humans could question the existence of gods. world religions: almanac 23 agnosticism and atheism the ancient greek philosophy of atomism made a more consistent argument against the need for god or gods. atomists, like the indian materiali

he gods was a requirement in many ancient societies, including athens and rome. the gods gave the state rulers their legitimacy( legal right to rule. atheism was a charge brought against any person who differed from the beliefs of the state religions of greece and rome. the famous philosopher socrates (c. 470 399 bce) was tried and executed in athens for being atheos. however, socrates was not an atheist. he believed in certain gods, just not the right ones to save him from such a charge. early christians and pagans (followers of the greek and roman state religions) also accused each other of being atheists because they each believed the other had denied the existence of their gods. the greek philosopher democritus suggested that all matter in the universe was made of an eternal element he

n a rejection, of a belief in a single god (which could include some polytheists and those who have had no exposure to monotheistic beliefs) is called implicit atheism. a conscious rejection of god s existence is called explicit atheism. some atheists also call themselves secularists, agnostics, or bright. bright is meant to take some of the historical stigma (mark of disgrace) away from being an atheist. agnosticism also blends greek elements to form a new compound word. it mixes a with gnosis or knowledge, meaning without knowledge. broadly speaking, the difference between the two concepts is that while atheists claim there is no god, agnostics claim not to be able to make statements one way or the other about the existence of god. agnosticism is a form of skepticism, or doubt, towards r

for the ruling class to oppress workers and keep them under control. ap images. world religions: almanac 31 agnosticism and atheism philosopher lucretius (c. 100 c. 55 bce. this work is a defense of materialist epicurean thought. though not specifically atheistic, it does question the gods interest in humans and opened a discussion on the role of gods in humans lives. one of the most influential atheist works, the system of nature, by baron d holbach comes from the eighteenth century. his book describes the world in materialistic terms, saying that all that exists is physical matter. for holbach there was no soul and no god. atheism was the only honest belief. though not a scientist himself, holbach attempted to use the latest scientific findings of his day to support his work. his attack

atients toward an acceptance of atheism was an important part of freud s treatment. some basic texts for agnostics include david hume s dialogues concerning natural religion, and thomas henry huxley s essay agnosticism, which first introduced the term. two pamphlets by philosopher bertrand 32 world religions: almanac agnosticism and atheism russell (1872 1970: why i am not a christian and am i an atheist or an agnostic? are also core texts. russell thought that religion was just superstition, or blindly accepted belief, and that although there were positive aspects to religion, the negative ones outweighed the good. for him religion made people dependent and stopped the attainment of real knowledge. in why i am not a christian, russell wrote: religion is based, i think, primarily and mainl

ade in god s image, as the bible says, are instead the descendants of other primates (evolutionary relatives of humans, a group that includes apes and monkeys. in his works darwin implied that all life evolves from simpler forms and thus each form was not created individually by a master designer or supreme being. though his work has been used as an argument for atheism, darwin himself was not an atheist. he furthermore claimed that he thought of himself as an agnostic and found nothing inconsistent about believing in god and believing in evolution. in fact, darwin did not give up christianity himself until he was forty. a careful man, darwin discussed religion very little. his job was science, and his theory of natural selection was controversial enough without discussing it in the contex

vements homepage. http//religiousmovements.lib.virginia. edu/nrms/atheism.html (accessed on june 5, 2006. atheism, agnosticism, humanism. religious tolerance.org. http//www. religioustolerance.org/at_ag_hu.htm (accessed on june 5, 2006. world religions: almanac 35 agnosticism and atheism atheism web. http//www.infidels.org/news/atheism/overview.html (accessed on june 5, 2006. secular/nonreligious/atheist/agnostic. major religions ranked by size. http/ www.adherents.com/religions_by_adherents.html (accessed on june 5, 2006. smart, j. j. c. atheism and agnosticism. stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. http//plato.stanford.edu/entries/atheism-agnosticism (accessed on june 5, 2006. 36 world religions: almanac agnosticism and atheism 3 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia organized religi

that the state should play no role in determining the religious beliefs of its citizens. 1804 the islamic leader usuman dan fodio leads a successful jihad (holy war) to become the ruler of the fulani empire in west africa. world religions: biographies xv timeline of events 1844 the communist philosopher karl marx publishes critique of the hegelian philosophy of public law. in it, he explains his atheist views, writing that man makes religion, religion does not make man. 1866 baha u lla h, founder of the baha faith, publicly declares himself the messenger of god. 1873 jewish rabbi isaac mayer wise forms the union of american hebrew congregations; two years later he forms hebrew union college. in so doing, wise becomes a key figure in the development of reform judaism in the united states

s: biographies moses maimonides karl marx born: may 5, 1818 trier, prussia died: march 14, 1883 london, england prussian philosopher; economist; writer religion is the groan of the oppressed, the sentiment of a heartless world, and at the same time the spirit of a condition deprived of spirituality. it is the opium of the people. karl marx was an economist, journalist, historian, philosopher, and atheist (a person who does not believe in a god or gods) who played a major role in shaping the intellectual atmosphere of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. he was born in trier, prussia, on may 5, 1818, to hirschel and henrietta marx. prussia was a separate kingdom that later became part of a unified germany. prussia s state religion was protestant lutheranism, a branch of christ

ty to submit articles. over the next decade, marx delivered nearly five hundred articles to dana, some of which were actually written by engels. another publisher in the united states, george ripley (1802 1880, paid marx to write for the new american cyclopedia. communist supporters carry portraits of friedrich engels( from left, karl marx, and vladimir lenin during a rally in europe. marx was an atheist who believed that religion was a method used to oppress the working man. ap images. 262 world religions: biographies karl marx this work, combined with a small inheritance from jenny marx s mother, allowed the family to move to more comfortable quarters in kentish town, near london. marx s good fortune, however, was short-lived. in 1856 jenny gave birth to a stillborn child, then was later

and jenny were ill. in december 1881 jenny died. two years later marx s eldest daughter also passed away. marx did not recover from these losses and died himself on march 14, 1883. he never completed either the second volume, or a planned third volume of das kapital. engels later assembled the volumes from marx s notes. world religions: biographies 263 karl marx marx and atheism karl marx was an atheist nearly his entire life. as a very young man he saw himself as a child of the enlightenment, also called the age of reason, a period of increasingly progressive intellectualism in europe that covered roughly the eighteenth century. thinkers during this period preferred reason and the scientific method to faith, especially religious faith. in a paper he wrote at the university of jena, marx

ion as part of a system that created privileged classes of industrial masters who used their religion to justify their worldly success. in his view, the proletarian revolution would sweep away all such institutions that contributed to inequality. 264 world religions: biographies karl marx largely influenced by marx s views of religion, the communist states of the twentieth century were officially atheist. for more information books bottomore, tom, ed. a dictionary of marxist thought. oxford, uk: blackwell reference, 1991. marx, karl. critique of hegel s philosophy of right. cambridge, uk: cambridge university press, 1970. marx, karl, and friedrich engels. the communist manifesto. new york, ny: signet, 1998. marx, karl, and friedrich engels. on religion. new york, ny: random house, 1982. wh

1869, and numerous writers used it in their books and essays. in his 1879 autobiography, darwin himself described himself as an agnostic. in the twentieth century one of the most prominent persons to carry on the agnostic tradition in england was the philosopher bertrand russell (1872 1970. he outlined his position in a 1927 pamphlet called why i am not a christian, a 1947 pamphlet called am i an atheist or an agnostic? a plea for tolerance in the face of new dogmas, and a 1953 essay entitled what is an agnostic? agnosticism is now used to describe a series of related beliefs. while agnosticism still is used to describe a state between belief and disbelief, modern thinkers blur the distinctions that huxley tried to make between agnosticism, atheism, and other forms of questioning dogmatic

ism the philosophy of atheism, available online from spunk library at http//www.spunk.org/library/writers/goldman/sp001502.html by emma goldman published in 1916 in mother earth it is the earth, not heaven, which man must rescue if he is truly to be saved. emma goldman (1869 1940) is remembered as one of the most outspoken american atheists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. an atheist is someone who does not believe in god. she rejected belief in such religious ideas as heaven, hell, sin, and other principles, and she outlined her views in a 1916 essay called the philosophy of atheism. goldman was also a prominent anarchist. anarchism is a political theory that considers government to be unnecessary and even harmful. anarchists call for a society based on voluntary coop

n in russia but in her teens immigrated to the united states. she was drawn to anarchist beliefs by the events surrounding the haymarket square bombing in chicago, illinois, in 1886. during a workers rally a bomb was tossed into the crowd, killing a number of policemen and wounding many more, including bystanders. many people, including goldman, weak versus strong atheism sometimes the terms weak atheist and strong atheist are used to refer to different types of atheists. weak atheists do not find the evidence for the existence of gods persuasive. while theists say that deities, or gods, do exist, weak atheists do not necessarily disagree. some simply hold no opinion on the matter. others more actively have doubts that gods exist. they consider it likely that gods do not exist because no o

ain, france, the united states and their allies defeated germany, austria-hungary, and their allies. after she was convicted of openly opposing the military draft, she was sentenced to prison, stripped of her u.s. citizenship, and deported to the soviet union. consistent with her social beliefs and her distrust of institutions, which she believed robbed people of their freedom, goldman was a firm atheist. her views were by no means new. atheism, from the greek word atheos, meaning without gods, can be traced back to ancient greece and rome. for many centuries, people who opposed the official religion of the country in which they lived faced charges of atheism and were often executed for their beliefs. it was not until the dawn of the age of reason in europe (roughly the seventeenth and eig

n of the idea itself. the conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature and harassed by them, saw in every terrifying manifestation some sinister force expressly directed against him; and as ignorance and fear are the parents of all superstition, the troubled fancy of primitive man wove the god idea. very aptly, the world-renowned atheist and anarchist, michael bakunin, says in his great work god and the state: all religions, with their gods, their demi-gods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the prejudiced fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties. the history of religions, of the birth, grandeur, and the decline of the gods who had succ

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s of the "holy mother guillotine" with as little ceremony as if they had been the montmorencies or the la tremouilles, the malesherbes or the lavoisiers "at this time" said couthon, justly "les ombres de danton, d'hebert, de chaumette, se promenent parmi nous (the shades of danton, hebert, and chaumette walk amongst us) among those who had shared the doctrines, and who now dreaded the fate of the atheist hebert, was the painter, jean nicot. mortified and enraged to find that, by the death of his patron, his career was closed; and that, in the zenith of the revolution for which he had laboured, he was lurking in caves and cellars, more poor, more obscure, more despicable than he had been at the commencement, not daring to exercise even his art, and fearful every hour that his name would swe

nd dull minds, for showing that even the worst alloy has some particles of gold, and even the best that come stamped from the mint of nature have some adulteration of the dross. but there are exceptions, though few, to the general rule, exceptions, when the conscience lies utterly dead, and when good or bad are things indifferent but as means to some selfish end. so was it with the protege of the atheist. envy and hate filled up his whole being, and the consciousness of superior talent only made him curse the more all who passed him in the sunlight with a fairer form or happier fortunes. but, monster though he was, when his murderous fingers griped the throat of his benefactor, time, and that ferment of all evil passions the reign of blood had made in the deep hell of his heart a deeper st

pologies in sullen silence, and, folding his arms, leaned against the wall, waiting in grim patience for his admission. the loiterers talked to each other in separate knots of two and three; and through the general hum rang the clear, loud, careless whistle of the tall jacobin who stood guard by the stairs. next to nicot, an old woman and a young virgin were muttering in earnest whispers, and the atheist painter chuckled inly to overhear their discourse "i assure thee, my dear" said the crone, with a mysterious shake of head "that the divine catherine theot, whom the impious now persecute, is really inspired. there can be no doubt that the elect, of whom dom gerle and the virtuous robespierre are destined to be the two grand prophets, will enjoy eternal life here, and exterminate all their

es that seemed like an epileptic affection, to which he was subject, distorted his features "citizen, i think i have found one. thou must know that amongst those most disaffected is the painter nicot "stay, stay" said robespierre, opening a manuscript book, bound in red morocco (for robespierre was neat and precise, even in his death-lists, and turning to an alphabetical index "nicot! i have him, atheist, sans-culotte (i hate slovens, friend of hebert! aha! n.b. rene dumas knows of his early career and crimes. proceed "this nicot has been suspected of diffusing tracts and pamphlets against thyself and the comite. yesterday evening, when he was out, his porter admitted me into his apartment, rue beau repaire. with my master-key i opened his desk and escritoire. i found herein a drawing of t

ows life had desecrated the altar, and denied the god! they had removed from the last hour of their victims the priest, the scripture, and the cross! but faith builds in the dungeon and the lazar-house its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro, prayer. and there, in the very cell beside her own, the atheist nicot sits stolid amidst the darkness, and hugs the thought of danton, that death is nothingness("ma demeure sera bientot le neant (my abode will soon be nothingness, said danton before his judges) his, no spectacle of an appalled and perturbed conscience! remorse is the echo of a lost virtue, and virtue he never knew. had he to live again, he would live the same. but more terrible than th

, through the crowded and roaring streets, on moves the procession of death. ha, brave people! thou art aroused at last. they shall not die! death is dethroned! robespierre has fallen! they rush to the rescue! hideous in the tumbril, by the side of zanoni, raved and gesticulated that form which, in his prophetic dreams, he had seen his companion at the place of death "save us! save us" howled the atheist nicot "on, brave populace! we shall be saved" and through the crowd, her dark hair streaming wild, her eyes flashing fire, pressed a female form "my clarence" she shrieked, in the soft southern language native to the ears of viola "butcher! what hast thou done with clarence" her eyes roved over the eager faces of the prisoners; she saw not the one she sought "thank heaven! thank heaven! i

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culture. in this light we can see that god did not change joe smith from a drunken bastard to a pillar of strength, but rather, it was the psyop technique and the religious and spiritual significance joe smith found in god that has provided the impetus and energy to direct the will to create change. this is why these psyop techniques are just as valid for the christian, muslim, buddhist, or even atheist! the underlieing technical mechanism is the same for all of these belief systems. however, the trappings that has given these techniques personal significance are all different, and even ideologically opposed to each other. a rather important aspect to this concept is that the individual must totally transfer their beliefs to an outward and externalized totem(s. this is a primary psycholog

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lin's exploits and positions held as a freemason, not only in the united states, but in great britain and in france. in 1779, he was elected worshipful master of the lodge of the nine sisters in paris, and in 1782 he became head of a lodge of the grand orient de paris. earlier, benjamin franklin had officiated at the masonic funeral of one of his 296 codex magica "brothers" the monstrously wicked atheist, voltaire.2 voltaire, as historians will attest, was certainly up to his neck in mischief. the neck a sign of sacrifice a number of dictionaries of symbols state that the hand placed on the neck signifies sacrifice. now sacrifice can have at least two meanings one, the continuing threat of one of the signs for ritual of the grand master elect degree is a dagger under the chin (richardson's

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cience-the lightning will thunder out the murder? new hope will be born? new creatures for the circus (the conception of) god-head must ever evolve its inertia for transmutation to its very opposite-because it contains it! the master must be the painful learner of his stupidity? the idea of god ever means the forgetfulness of supremacy and godliness. so must be supplanted by fear, eh? there is no atheist, no one is free from auto-biography, there is no fearless pleasurist? the conception is the absence of its indisputable reality within! when the conception is memorial in forgetfulness-it may be the chance of its reality for you? when the prayer21 (you are always praying) has transmutated to its blasphemy-you are attractive enough to be heard-your desire is gratified! what a somersault of

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h no religious affiliation, t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 24 afterlife mysteries the near-death experiences and the afterlife website (http//www.near-death. com) presents a comprehensive overview of the near-death experience and views of the afterlife from the standpoint of all world religions including christian, new age, jewish, hindu, atheist, buddhist, and muslim. there are also ndes (neardeath experiences) of children, of those who are blind and those who committed suicide. research, analysis, and support are among the many other features on the website. there are interesting and related topics including scientific or psychic research, informative news, books, documentaries, audio, television shows, and films available within

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ich you reside; you promise not to be concerned in plots and conspiracies against the government. h m delving deeper carlson, peter. gfezzes, sphinxes and secret handshakes, h the washington post, november 25, 2001 [online] http//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ articles/a61372-2001nov20.html. goeringer, conrad. gfreemasons.from the 700 club to art bell, an object of conspiracy thinking. h american atheist, may 1998 [online] http/ www.americanatheist.org/supplement/conspiracy. html. lomas, robert, and christopher knight. the hiram key: pharaohs, freemasons, and the discovery of the secret scrolls of jesus. boston: element books, 1999. macoy, robert. a dictionary of freemasonry. new york: gramercy books, 2000. seligmann, kurt. the history of magic. new york: pantheon books, 1948. the garduna

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the holy book "and he who consents to lose it will save it" duty is love; perish every obstacle to love! silence, ye oracles of hate! destruction to the false gods of selfishness and fear! shame to the slaves, the misers of love! god loves prodigal children! v the quinary the quinary is the number of religion, for it is the number of god united to that of woman<atheist and woman-despiser- o.m> 25 faith is not the stupid credulity of an awestruck ignorance. faith is the consciousness and the confidence of love. faith is the cry of reason, which persists in denying the absurd, even in the presence of the unknown. faith is a sentiment necessary to the soul, just as breathing is to life; it is the dignity of courage, and the reality of enthusiasm. faith does

ssary to the soul, just as breathing is to life; it is the dignity of courage, and the reality of enthusiasm. faith does not consist of the affirmation of this symbol or that, but of a genuine and constant aspiration towards the truths which are veiled by all symbolisms. if a man rejects an unworthy idea of divinity, breaks its false images, revolts against hateful idolaters, you will call him an atheist! the authors of the persecutions in fallen rome called the first christians atheists, because they did not adore the idols of caligula or of nero. to deny a religion, even to deny all religions rather than adhere to formulae which conscience rejects, is a courageous and sublime act of faith. every man who suffers for his convictions is a martyr of faith. he explains himself badly, it may b

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. tannhauser, vol. i, p. 253 *2. ibid, vol. i, p. 254. he taunts them, insults god; and tells all, shouting it far and broad, that his road was the road of the mount of venus, the road of lust, the fiery baptism of vice which impels virtue. then the silence breaks, the foul mob of the self-sufficient, the spawn of ignorance, and the slime of superstition, let loose their hell-hound voices. fiend! atheist! devil! are hurled at his head; kill him! crucify him! death! death! but tannhauser stands a colossus amid the bursting bubbles of this stygian mire of corruption, and turning to the landgrave he says: will they answer you? my arm is weary as your souls are not of beastliness: i have drawn my father fs sword. hard as your virtue is the easy sort, heavy to handle as your loves are light, sm

t things, h*1. others are ranting about athiest death-bed scenes. for these crowley also has a word: goh, very well! h i think you say, gwait only till your dying day! see whether then you kiss the rod, and bow that proud soul down to god! h i perfectly admit the fact; quite likely that i so shall act! here fs why creation jumps at prayer. you christians quote me in a breath this, that, the other atheist fs death; how they sought god! of course! impair by just a touch of fever, chill, my health. where flies my vivid will? my carcass with quinine is crammed; i wish south india were damned; i wish i had my mother fs nursing, find precious little use in cursing, and slide to leaning on another, god, or the doctor, or my mother. but, dare you quote my fevered word for better than my health ave

became known as christianity, so let this theurgy, as expounded by this marvellous being, be known as crowleyanity: or in other words, according to the mind of the reader. pyrrhonic-zoroastrianism, pyrrhonic-mysticism, sceptical- transcendentalism, sceptical- theurgy, sceptical-energy, scientific- illuminism, or what you will; for in short it is the conscious communion with god on the part of an atheist, a transcending of reason by scepticism of the instrument, and the limitation of scepticism by direct consciousness of the absolute. to attain to such an illumination the mind of a huxley and the soul of a loyola must be united in one person. and this illumination must be as definite a phenomenon as orgasm, following which we find the material world, and its foundation the world of thought

and descartes, locke and spinoza, hume and berkeley, swedenborg and kant, hegel and comte, tyndall, spencer, and huxley. declining the mimetic, seeking the idiosyncratic, and standing by the eclectic, it has stood and grown a colossus of thought, ever young, ever virile, as age after age has gathered round it, and as the years have swept by it on their path to oblivion. between the theist and the atheist stands the agnostic, and as the most vital point of attack is that which lies nearest to the object to be attacked, the great danger to theistic churches was threatened not from the atheistical extremity, but from the agnostic frontier. the agnostic said, gi do not know, h the theist said, gi do, h hence the uninterrupted warfare of 3,000 years or more, in which the priest has ever been re

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e senses; or that the demands for uplifting and protecting others is so great that, though enlightened, he ignores all danger. the fallen obelisk symbolizes the final overthrow of all temporal work and power. the crocodile indicates the ultimate fate of all who are blind to spiritual things, and also the persecution of those who work to spread the true facts of spirituality. this blind man is the atheist, or materialist, and the man who is so absorbed in material aims that he neglects all thought of spiritual things. it is likewise the man who is a slave to his desires. and the ensemble thus symbolizes the inevitable suffering which follows sin. or, it symbolizes the truly spirit ual man, who is so enthusiastic in his effort to assist the race that he is completely blind to the consequence

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