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ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

ns came clear on the soft wax of my brain; i had never worried because the scratch on the wax in no way resembled the sound it represented. in other words, i observed perfectly because i never knew that i was observing. so, if you pay sufficient attention to your heart, you will make it palpitate. i accordingly proceed to a description of the country. aleister crowley .pa i. of the plains beneath atlas, and its servile race. atlas is the true name of this archipelago--continent is an altogether false term, for every 'house' or mountain peak was cut from its fellows by natural, though often very narrow waterways. the african atlas is a mere offshoot of the range. it was the true atlas that supported the ancient world by its moral and magical strength, and hence the name of the fabled globe

er by the channels of the sea, but from the plains at their feet by cliffs naturally or artificially smoothed and undercut for at least thirty feet on every side in order to make access impossible. these plains had been made flat by generations of labour. vines and fruit-trees growing only on the upper slopes, they were devoted principally to corn, and to grass pastures for the amphibian herds of atlas. this corn was of a kind now unknown, flourishing in sea-water, and the periodical flood-tides served the same purpose as the nile in egypt. enormous floating stages of spongy rock--no trees of any kind grew anywhere on the plains so wood was unknown--supported the villages. these were inhabited by a type of man similar to the modern caucasian race. they were not permitted to use any of the

d labour. the young and active tended the amphibians, grew the corn, collected the shell-fish, gathered the "bread from heaven" for their elders, and were compelled to reproduce their kind. at twenty they were considered strong enough for the factory, where they worked in gangs on a machine combining the features of our pump and treadmill for sixteen hours of the twentyfour. this machine supplied atlas with its 'zro* or 'power, of which i shall speak presently. any worker showing even temporary weakness was transferred to the phosphorus works, where he was sure to die within a few months. phosphorus was a prime necessity of atlas; however, it was not used in its red or yellow forms, but in a third allotrope, a blue-black or rather violet-black substance, only known in powder finer than pre

precipitated gold, harder than diamond, eleven times heavier than yellow phosphorus, quite incombustible, and so shockingly poisonous that, in spite of every precaution, an ounce of it cost the lives (on an average) of some two hundred and fifty men. of its properties i shall speak later. the people were left in utmost slavery and ignorance by the wise counsel of the first of the philosophers of atlas, who had written "an empty brain is a threat to society" he had consequently instituted a system of mental culture, comprising two parts: 1. as a basis, a mass of useless disconnected facts. 2. a superstructure of lies. part 1 was compulsory; the people then took part 2 without protest* the language of the plains was simple but profuse. they had few nouns and fewer verbs 'to work again (ther

g any meaning to the words, in a manner both reverent and passionate. sexual life was entirely forbidden to the workers, a single breach implying relegation to the phosphorus works. in every field was, however, an enormous tablet of rock, carved on one side with a representation of the three stages of life: the fields, the labour mill, the factory; and on the other side with these words "to enter atlas, fly" beneath this an elaborate series of graphic pictures showed how to acquire the art of flying. during all the generations of atlas, not one man had been known to take advantage of these instructions. the principal fear of the populace was a variation of any kind from routine. for any such the people had one word only, though this word changed its annotation in different centuries 'witch

s, not one man had been known to take advantage of these instructions. the principal fear of the populace was a variation of any kind from routine. for any such the people had one word only, though this word changed its annotation in different centuries 'witchcraft 'heresy 'madness 'bad form 'sex-perversion 'black magic' were its principal shapes in the last four thousand years of the dominion of atlas. sneezing, idleness, smiling, were regarded as premonitory. any cessation from speech, even for a moment to take breath, was considered highly dangerous. the wish to be alone was worse than all; the delinquent would be seized by his fellows, and either killed outright or thrust into the compound of the phosphorus factory, from which there was no egress. the habits of the people were incredib

use was forbidden, every man saved all his earnings, and died rich. at his death his savings went back to the community. taxation was consequently unnecessary. clothes were unnecessary and unknown, and the 'bread from heaven' was the "free gift of god. the dead were thrown to the amphibians. each man built his own shelter of the rough stone sponge which abounded. the word 'house' was used only in atlas; the servile race called its huts 'hloklost (equivalent to the english word 'home. discontent was absolutely unknown. it had not been considered necessary to prohibit traffic with foreign countries, as the inhabitants of such were esteemed barbarians. had a ship landed men, they would have been murdered to a man, supposing that atlas had permitted any approach to its shores. that it hindered

t traffic with foreign countries, as the inhabitants of such were esteemed barbarians. had a ship landed men, they would have been murdered to a man, supposing that atlas had permitted any approach to its shores. that it hindered such, and by infallible means, was due to other considerations, whose nature will form the subject of a subsequent chapter. this then is the nature of the plains beneath atlas, and the character of the servile race .pa ii. of the race of atlas in the city or 'house' which was formed from the crest of every mountain, dwelt a race not greatly superior in height to our own, but of vaster frame. the bulk and strength of the bear is not inappropriate as a simile for the lower classes; the higher had the enormous chest and shoulders and the lean haunches of the lion. th

nd nourishing of the children. the priestly class was concerned with the further preparation of the zro supplied by the labour-mills, and its impregnation with phosphorus. this class had much leisure for 'work, a subject to be explained later. the high priests and high priestesses were restricted in number to eleven times thirty-three in any one 'house. to them were entrusted the final secrets of atlas, and to them was confided the conduct of the experiments in which every will was bound up* the colour of the atlanteans was very various, though the hair was invariably of a fiery chestnut with bluish reflections. one might see women whiter than aphrodite, others tawny as cleopatra, others yellow as tu-chi, others of a strange, subtle blue like the tattooed faces of chin women, others again

ke the tattooed faces of chin women, others again red as copper. green was however a prohibited hue for women, and red was not liked in men. violet was rare, but highly prized, and children born of that colour were specially reared by the high priestesses. however, in one part of the body all the women were perfectly black with a blackness no negro can equal; from this circumstance comes the name atlas. it is absurdly attributed by some authors to the deposit of excess of phosphorus in the zro. i need only point out that the mark existed long before the discovery of black phosphorus. it is evidently a racial stigma. it was the birth of a girl child without this mark which raised her mother to the rank of goddess, and ended the terrestrial adventure of the atlanteans, as will presently appe

klore; some mere superstitions. thus the correct number for a banquet was thirteen, because if there were only one more sign in the zodiac, the year would be a month longer, and one would have more time 'for work. this is probably a debased egyptian notion. atlanteans knew better than anyone that the zodiac is only an arbitrary division. still it may be laid down that the impossible never daunted atlas. if one said "two and two make four" his thought would be "yes, damn it* i now explain the language of atlas. the third and greatest of their philosophers saw that speech had wrought more harm than good, and he consequently instituted a peculiar rite. two men were chosen by lot to preserve the language, which, by the way, consisted of monosyllables only, two hundred and fourteen in number, t

to do without gesture, and in eight generations the difficulty was conquered, and telepathy* established. research then devoted itself to the task of doing without thought; this will be discussed in detail in the proper place. there was also a 'listener, three men who took turns to sit upon the highest peak, above the 'light- screens, and whose duty it was to give the alarm if any noise disturbed atlas. on their report that high priest charged with active governorship would take steps to ascertain and destroy the cause. the 'light-screens' spoken of were a contrivance of laminae of a certain spar such that the light and heat of the sun were completely cut off, not by opacity, but by what we call 'interference. in this way other subtle rays of the sun entered the 'house, these rays being su

atters were the subjects of the deepest controversy. some held that these rays themselves were injurious and should be excluded. others considered that the light-screens should be put in position during moonlight, instead of being opened at sunset, as was the custom. this, however, was never attempted, the great mass of the people being devoted to the moon. others wished full sunlight, the aim of atlas being (they thought) to reach the sun. but this theory contradicted the prime axiom of attaining things through their opposites, and was only held by the lower classes, who were not initiated into this doctrine. the 'houses' of atlas were carved from the living rock by the action of zro in its seventh precipitation. enormously solid, the walls were lofty and smoother than glass, though the p

pavements were rough and broken almost everywhere for a reason which i am not permitted to disclose. the passages were invariably narrow, so that two persons could never pass each other. when two met, it was the law to greet by joining in 'work' and then going away together on their separate errands, or passing one above the other. this was done purposely, so as to remind every man of his duty to atlas on every occasion on which he might meet a fellow- citizen. the banqueting-hall of the children was usually very large. the furniture, which had been brought by the first colonists, and gradually disused by adults, never needed repair. a vast open doorway facing north opened on the mountainside on to the vineyards and orchards, the meadows and gardens, in which the children passed their time

erways were haunted by shoals of a small and poisonous fish* whose bite was immediate death to man, a fact which altogether cut off communication between one island and another except by air, as the hippopotamus-animal, although immune to its bite, was unable to swim. of the sleeping chambers i shall tell more particularly in the course of my remarks on zro .pa iii. of the aim of the magicians of atlas: of zro; and its properties and uses: of that which combined with it: and of black phosphorus. it was the most ancient tradition of the atlantean magicians that they were the survivors of a race inhabiting a country called lemuria, of which the south pacific archipelago may be the remains. these lemurians had, they held, built up a civilization equal, if not superior to their own; but throug

g to one school of cosmology, he was exiled in the cosmic catastrophe which resulted in the formation of neptune. his task on any given planet was therefore to overturn the laws of nature on that planet, thus mastering it sufficiently to enable him to make the leap to the next planet inward. exactly how and in what sense the leap was made remains obscure, even to the heirs of atlantis* the men of atlas could fly, it is true, and that by a method so simple that men will laugh outright when it is rediscovered; but they needed air to support them; they could not confront the cold and emptiness of space. was it in some subtler body that they conveyed the palladium? or, content to die, could they project some vehicle across so great a distance? the answer to such questions probably lies in the

tage of division into two, and many openly deplored the discovery of black phosphorus. all however strive in harmony to produce a tenth stage that shall surpass the virtues of the ninth. theoretically it is possible to reach an eleventh stage wherein the zro takes human form, and lives! opinion is divided as to whether this was not actually done by a certain magician at the time of the passing of atlas. in any case, i beg the reader to remember that i have only described one seventh of the virtues of zro, and i have even omitted this, that in its ninth stage it is not only food and drink, but universal medicine, if properly understood. for zro is also a vision and a voice! now the muscles of the people of atlas are the muscles of giants, and yet they do one thing only. and this thing is co

t may fulfill life. this work never ceases. it has these parts: 1. working at zro, i.e. bringing it from the first stage to the ninth. 2. working with zro, i.e. for one's own particular purpose. 3. working for zro. this is the common and most honourable task, the zro eaten and drunken being worked into a quintessence of higher power, though identical in property with the common zro. this new zro (atlas zro) goes through the same stages as the common zro of the serviles. but it is the result of free and joyful labour, and so serves the magicians in their experiments, and the governor of all for his sustenance. none by the way is ever wasted. for example, a tunnel was drilled completely through the earth and filled with zro, and it is said that by this tunnel the atlanteans escaped. this wor

e new methods of continuing the race were not perfected. childbirth was therefore in one way accident; although a duty, everyone shrank from it. for though no pain or discomfort attached to the process, it was a sort of second-best achievement from which proud women turned contemptuously. this was in part the reason why the father's name was never mentioned. on several occasions in the history of atlas the zro 'failed. although not changed in appearance, its properties were lost or diminished. in such a case young men and maidens in great numbers were captured on the plains, brought into atlas, and offered in sacrifice to the gods. their blood was mingled with zro in its third stage, and the latter recovered its potency. their flesh was eaten by the high priests and priestesses in penance

esses in penance for the unknown wrong. it was subject to other and terrible scourges, being the most sensitive as well as the strongest thing on earth. on one occasion it had to be treated with a fox-like perfume prepared by the chief magician; on another it was subjected to streams of moonlight from parabolic mirrors. the most serious crisis was some two thousand years before the destruction of atlas. one of the serviles, riding his 'hippopotamus' to the ploughing, fell off and was instantly bitten by the poisonous fish previously described. through an accident of boyhood he had, however, for a reason too obscure to describe here, no such vulnerable spot as suited the zhee-zhou. he survived and went to work, as it chanced, the next day. the zro was poisoned; a third of atlas died within

or becoming 'bread from heaven' for the serviles, they were again worked up into zro itself, a transmutation which in their view would be well worth all the "resurrections of the body" and "immortalities of the soul" of the theoretical, dogmatic, hearsay religions. so much then concerning zro, and the matters immediately connected with it .pa iv. of the so called magic of the atlanteans. magic in atlas was a 'science of sciences. it was the final integration of all knowledge. in method its theory was differentiation, and in theory its method was integration. for example, the fifth of the great philosophers indicated "everything is zro" to the keeper of the speech at the annual sacrifice. this in spite of the fact that in that very year two new forms of zro had been discovered by that same

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

tion of a peculiar and secondary character. we might call one the son, the other the daughter, of the absolute. but the artist, though his work, the images of himself in the form that he loves, is less perfect than the work of his father, since he can but express one particular point of view and that by means of one type of technique, is not to be thought useless on that account, any more than an atlas is useless because it presents by means of certain crude conventions a fraction of the facts of geography. the artist calls our attention away from nature, whose immensity bewilders us so that she seems incoherent, and unintelligible, to his own interpretation of himself, and his relations with various phenomena of nature expressed in a language more or less common to us all. the smaller the

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9. arrangement of the temple for the ceremony of philosophus in the 4= 7 ritual. illustration on page 282 approximated_ air_ dee< water_ hexagram_ spirit_ diagram 50. the calvary cross of six squares. and then explains to him the symbolic representation of the fall "the great goddess, who in the 3= 8 degree, was supporting the columns of the sephiroth in the form of the sign of theoricus("i.e, of atlas supporting the world) being tempted by the fruit of the tree of knowledge, stooped down to the qliphoth. the columns were unsupported, and the sephirotic scheme was shattered; and with it fell adam the microprosopus. then arose the great dragon with seven heads and ten horns, cutting by his folds malkuth from the sephiroth, and linking it to the kingdom of the shells. the seven lower sephiro

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ride with us, as a good knight and gay? sir james. who poises in his mind the destinies of christendom needs not in his ear thy fool's prattle, or thy fool's face at his elbow. though he have seen but five-and-twenty summers he is wiser than many a greybeard! see, even afar, how weightily he sits his horse. his forehead bent, his shoulders arched- jocelyn. the seat of a hunchback! sir james. like atlas supporting the world. sir raymond. good jocelyn, could thy wisest thought match his most foolish, thou would'st sit at the council. jocelyn. gramercy! i smile awry. with a hawk on my wrist, and a madrigal at my lips, a prayer in the morning 72 given, and a kiss stolen at night, i want none of your dusty conclaves. i had as lief be a scholar. sir james. if the world were like thee, christendo

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

the first true statement given him as yet. therefore he turned his feet to the high mountains of the east and, on a bright and sunny day, he saw the object of his search and hastened then his steps "now i shall touch the sacred tree" he shouted in his joy "surmount the guarding dragon; see the fair maidens of wide fame; and pluck the apples" but again, he was arrested by a sense of deep distress. atlas confronted him, staggering 'neath the load of worlds upon his back. his face was lined with suffering; his limbs were bowed with pain; his eyes were closed with agony; he asked no help; he saw not hercules but stood bowed down with pain, with the weight of worlds. hercules. trembling, watched and gauged the measure of the load and pain. he forgot about his search [58] the sacred tree and app

he forgot about his search [58] the sacred tree and apples faded from mind; he only sought to aid the giant and that without delay; forward he rushed and eagerly removed the load, lifting it off the shoulders of his brother onto his own back, shouldering the burden of the worlds himself. he closed his eyes, bracing himself with effort, and lo! the load rolled off, and he stood free, and likewise atlas. before him stood the giant and in his hand he held the golden apples, offering them, with love, to hercules. the search was o'er. the sisters three held still more golden apples, and pressed them likewise into his hands, and aegle, that fair maid who is the glory of the setting sun, said unto him, placing an apple in his hand "the way to us is always marked by service. deeds of love are sig

and down, he found prometheus bound to a rock with the vultures tearing at his liver. the sight of such suffering was more than hercules could bear and he turned aside from his search to release prometheus, thus putting him in a position to drive away the vultures- 39- the labours of hercules we come now to the crucial point of the labor and to that which constituted the real test. hercules finds atlas bearing the load of the world on his shoulders, and staggering under the weight of the task he had undertaken. hercules is so overcome by the stupendous enterprise of atlas, and so concerned over his sufferings as he seeks to carry the weight of the world, that he gives up his search for the golden apples. he forgets what he himself has set out to do and, in pity, takes the load off the shou

ring the load of the world on his shoulders, and staggering under the weight of the task he had undertaken. hercules is so overcome by the stupendous enterprise of atlas, and so concerned over his sufferings as he seeks to carry the weight of the world, that he gives up his search for the golden apples. he forgets what he himself has set out to do and, in pity, takes the load off the shoulders of atlas and bears it himself. then we are told in the wonderful consummation of the story, that atlas, freed from his burden, goes to the garden of the hesperides, plucks the golden apples without any let or hindrance from the hundred-headed serpent, with the enthusiastic help of the three beautiful maidens, and brings the apples to hercules, who now also stands free, in spite of all the obstacles a

lly, the wonder and the glory of the higher self. in canis minor, the "underdog, the same writing tells us that the name of the brightest star signifies "redeemer, that the next brightest is "the burden bearer" or "the one who bears for others. we have, therefore, in the significance of these two names, a portrayal of hercules, as he works out his own salvation and as he bears the great burden of atlas and learns the meaning of service. lepus, the hare, associated with these two constellations, contains a star of the most intense crimson color, almost like a drop of blood. red is ever the symbol of desire for material things. in the zodiac of denderah, the name given is bashtibeki, which means "falling confounded. aratus, writing about 250 b.c, speaks of lepus as being "chased eternally, a

n, almost inevitably, our knowledge of the work that the great ones have to do will be so vital and so real that we will forego our own desire for contact and seek only to lift the burden that they carry. at the beginning of his search, hercules met nereus; but he was not impressed and so wandered elsewhere, furiously seeking the satisfaction of his aspiration. at the close of his search he meets atlas, bearing the burden of the world, and so impressed is he with the weight of that responsibility and the load that atlas, the great master, is carrying, that he forgets all about the goal and his search for the golden apples and endeavors to lift the burden off the shoulders of atlas. when aspirants in the religious field and in the church, in the theosophical field, in the rosicrucian field

s it, of the desire nature, and hercules freed himself from the vultures of desire that had for so long tortured him. he gave up being selfish, and gave up satisfying himself. he had had two bitter lessons in this sign and for this particular cycle was relatively free. prometheus, the god within- 46- the labours of hercules could go forward to the service of the world and to lifting the burden of atlas. after the sacrifice comes the reward, and hercules received his great surprise after freeing both prometheus and atlas. having, given up his search in order to help the world, atlas went for him to the garden and handed to him the golden [76] apples, bringing him in touch with the three beautiful maidens, the thee aspects of the soul. at the beginning of this labor he contacts his soul as n

for instance, defines the zodiac as "the imaginary path of the sun through the heavens, and in all books of reference upon the subject the emphasis is laid upon the fact that it is all appearance, the great illusion. one writer tells us that. to the astronomer the zodiac is merely the pathway of the sun, the moon and the planets, possessing no more reality than the tracks of liners shown upon an atlas for the information of the intending travellers" the zodiac and the soul, p. 1by c.e.o. carter as we study this imaginary path two thoughts emerge. we are brought face to face with the concept of a steady and unceasing progression around and around this vast belt of constellations. the idea of eternal recurrence and of constant activity, bringing- 126- the labours of hercules with it, we hop

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

64 the secret doctrine. puranas, nor anywhere else. but with simply one of the esoteric keys in hand it becomes an easy task to identify these departed lands in the numberless "lands of the gods" devas and munis described in the puranas, in their varshas, dwipas, and zones. their sweta-dwipa, during the early day of lemuria, stood out like a giant-peak from the bottom of the sea; the area between atlas and madagascar being occupied by the waters till about the early period of atlantis (after the disappearance of lemuria, when africa emerged from the bottom of the ocean, and atlas was half-sunk. it is of course impossible to attempt, within the compass of even several volumes, a consecutive and detailed account of the evolution and progress of the first three races- except so far as to give

ans simply a northern and post diluvian nation, which, however, as he says, certainly "flourished before the foundation of the hindu, the egyptian, and the phoenician empires" in this, had[[footnote(s* this is shown by faber, again a pious christian, who says that "the noetic family also. bore the appellations of atlanteans and titans, and the great patriarch himself was called by way of eminence atlas and titan (vol. ii. p. 285. and if so, then, according to the bible, noah must have been the progeny of the sons of god, the fallen angels, agreeably to the same authority, and of the "daughters of men who were fair (see genesis, chap. vi) and why not, since his father lamech slew a man, and was, with all his sons and daughters (who perished in the deluge, as bad as the rest of mankind[[vol

rmore, that before the year 1847, when boucher de perthes forced it upon the attention of science, almost nothing was known of fossil man, for archaeology complacently ignored his existence. of giants who were "in the earth in those days" of old, the bible alone had spoken to the wise men of the west, the zodiac being the solitary witness called upon to corroborate the statement in the persons of atlas or orion, whose mighty shoulders are said to support the world[[vol. 2, page] 278 the secret doctrine. nevertheless, even the "giants" have not been left without their witnesses, and one may as well examine both sides of the question. the three sciences- geological, sidereal and scriptural (the latter in its universal character- may furnish us with the needed proofs. to begin with geology; i

mont treats this as a pure fiction of theopompus("peuple primitif" vol. iii. 157) and even sees a fraud (supercherie) in the assertion of the saitic priests. this was denounced by the "demonologists" as illogical. in the words of de mirville "a supercherie which was based on a belief, the product of faith of the whole antiquity; a supposition which yet gave its name to a whole mountain chain (the atlas; which specified with the greatest precision a topographical region (by placing some of its lands at a small distance from cadiz and the strait of calpetus, which prophesied, 2,000 years before columbus, the great trans-oceanic land situated beyond that atlantis and which "is reached" it said "by the islands not of the blessed, but of the good spirits[[eudaimonia (our 'iles fortunees- such a

itself. this connects it with the "central" land "that never perishes; the land in which "the day of the mortal lasts six months and his night another six months" as the vishnu purana has it "for the north of meru there is, therefore, always night during day in other regions; for meru is north of all the dwipas and varshas (islands and countries (book ii, chap. viii) meru is therefore neither on atlas as wilford suggests, nor, as wilson tried to show "absolutely in the centre of the globe" only because "relatively with the inhabitants of the several portions, to all of whom the east is that quarter where the sun first appears* even the commentaries do not refrain from oriental metaphor. the globe is likened to the body of a woman "mother earth" from her neck downward, means from the inlan

ays parasara. likewise with pushkara and all others[[vol. 2, page] 404 the secret doctrine. which stands meru, for it is the country inhabited by beings who live ten thousand years, who are free from sickness or failing; where there is neither virtue nor vice, caste or laws, for these men are "of the same nature as the gods (vishnu purana, book ii. ch. iv. wilford is inclined to see meru in mount atlas, and locates there also the loka-lokas. now meru, we are told, which is the swar-loka, the abode of brahma, of vishnu, and the olympus of indian exoteric religions, is described geographically as "passing through the middle of the earth-globe, and protruding on either side (surya siddhanta, v. 5, whitney's trans. on its upper station are the gods, on the nether (or south pole) is the abode o

. now meru, we are told, which is the swar-loka, the abode of brahma, of vishnu, and the olympus of indian exoteric religions, is described geographically as "passing through the middle of the earth-globe, and protruding on either side (surya siddhanta, v. 5, whitney's trans. on its upper station are the gods, on the nether (or south pole) is the abode of demons (hells. how can then meru be mount atlas? besides which, taradaitya, a demon, cannot be placed on the seventh zone if the latter is identified with the "white" island, which is sveta-dwipa, for reasons given in the foot-note (vide infra) wilford accuses the modern brahmans "of having jumbled them (islands and countries) all together (a.r. iii. 300; but he jumbled them still more. he believes that as the brahmanda and vayu puranas d

atic, persian, and mohammedan traditions. wilford, who confuses sorely the hindu and the mussulman legends, shows this, however, clearly (see vol. viii, x. and xi. of[[footnote(s* they were called demons, asuras, giants, and monsters, because of their wickedness; and thus their country was likened to atala- a hell, because of that* not on the river nile, surely, but near the nila mountains of the atlas range[[vol. 2, page] 406 the secret doctrine. asiatic researches) and his facts and quotations from the puranas give direct and conclusive evidence that the aryan hindus and other ancient nations were earlier navigators than the phoenicians, who are now credited with having been the first seamen that appeared in the post-diluvian times. this is what is given in the journal of the asiatic soc

r, then, the latitude and longitude of the lost island, and of the remaining mount ashburj. it was on the seventh stage of the world, i.e, in the seventh climate (which is between the latitude of 24 degrees and latitude 28 degrees north. this island, the daughter of the ocean, is frequently described as lying in the west; and the sun is represented as setting at the foot of its mountain (ashburj, atlas, teneriffe or nila, no matter the name, and fighting the white devil of the 'white island" now, considering this statement from its astronomical aspect, and knowing that krishna is the incarnated sun (vishnu, a solar god; and that he is said to have killed dev-sefid, the white giant- a possible personification of the ancient inhabitants at the foot of the atlas- perchance krishna may be only

thou was created. thou art the anointed cherub. thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. therefore i will cast thee out of the mountain of god and destroy thee" the "mountain of god" means the "mountain of the gods" or meru, whose representative in the fourth race was mount atlas, the last form of one of the divine titans, so high in those days that the ancients believed that the heavens rested on its top. did not atlas assist the giants in their war against the gods (hyginus. another version shows the fable as arising from the fondness of atlas, son of iapetus and clymene, for astronomy, and from his dwelling for that reason on the highest mountain peaks. the truth

he last form of one of the divine titans, so high in those days that the ancients believed that the heavens rested on its top. did not atlas assist the giants in their war against the gods (hyginus. another version shows the fable as arising from the fondness of atlas, son of iapetus and clymene, for astronomy, and from his dwelling for that reason on the highest mountain peaks. the truth is that atlas "the mountain of the gods" and also the hero of that name, are the esoteric symbols of the fourth race, and his seven daughters, the atlantides, are the symbols of its seven sub-races. mount atlas, according to all the legends, was three times as high as it is now; having sunk at two different times. it is of a volcanic origin, and therefore the voice[[vol. 2, page] 494 the secret doctrine

at two different times. it is of a volcanic origin, and therefore the voice[[vol. 2, page] 494 the secret doctrine. within ezekiel says "i will bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee" etc (v. 18. surely it does not mean, as seems to be the case from the translated texts, that this fire was to be brought from the midst of the prince of tyrus, or his people, but from mount atlas, symbolising the proud race, learned in magic and high in arts and civilization, whose last remnant was destroyed almost at the foot of the range of those once gigantic mountains. truly "thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more; as the very name of the race and its fate is now annihilated from man's memory. bear in mind, that almost every ancient king and priest was an initia

me" the sixth and seventh coming root races, as also the sub-races of this, our present race? another still more forcible allusion to the seven rounds and the forty-nine root-races in leviticus, will be found elsewhere in the addenda, part iii- e. seven in astronomy, science, and magic. again, number seven is closely connected with the occult significance of the pleiades, those seven daughters of atlas "the six present, the[[vol. 2, page] 619 the cycle of the naros. seventh hidden" in india they are connected with their nursling, the war god, karttikeya. it is the pleiades (in sanskrit, krittika) who gave the god their name, for karttikeya is the planet mars, astronomically. as a god he is the son of rudra, born without the intervention of a woman. he is a kumara, a "virgin youth" again, g

all but denied, an attempt being made to show one to be a nom de plume, and the other a person who never existed. what wonder then, that the two powerful races- the lemurians and the atlanteans- have been merged into and identified, in time, with a few half mythical peoples, who all bore the same patronymic? herodotus speaks of the atlantes- a people of western africa which gave its name to mount atlas; who were vegetarians, and "whose sleep was never disturbed by dreams; and who, moreover "daily cursed the sun at his rising and at his setting because his excessive heat scorched and tormented them" these statements are based upon moral and psychic facts and not on physiological disturbance. the story of atlas (vide supra) gives the key to it. if the atlanteans never had their sleep disturb

ible about the antediluvian giants and the tower of babel, found also in the "book of enoch" diodorus records another fact or two: the atlanteans boasted of possessing the land in which all the gods had received their birth; as also of having had uranus for their first king, he being also the first to teach them astronomy. very little more than this has come down to us from antiquity. the myth of atlas is an allegory easily understood. atlas is the old continents of lemuria and atlantis, combined and personified in one symbol. the poets attribute to atlas, as to proteus, a superior wisdom and an universal knowledge, and especially a thorough acquaintance with the depths of the ocean: because both continents bore races instructed by divine masters, and because both were transferred to the b

s, combined and personified in one symbol. the poets attribute to atlas, as to proteus, a superior wisdom and an universal knowledge, and especially a thorough acquaintance with the depths of the ocean: because both continents bore races instructed by divine masters, and because both were transferred to the bottom of the seas, where they now slumber until their next reappearance above the waters. atlas is the son of an ocean nymph, and his daughter is calypso "the watery deep (see hesiod's theogony, 507-509, and odyssey 1, 51: atlantis has been submerged beneath the waters of the ocean, and its progeny is now sleeping its eternal sleep on the ocean floors. the odyssey makes of him the guardian and the "sustainer" of the huge pillars that separate the heavens from the earth (1, 52-53. he is

ntis has been submerged beneath the waters of the ocean, and its progeny is now sleeping its eternal sleep on the ocean floors. the odyssey makes of him the guardian and the "sustainer" of the huge pillars that separate the heavens from the earth (1, 52-53. he is their "supporter" and as both lemuria, destroyed by submarine fires, and atlantis, submerged by the waves, perished in the ocean deeps* atlas is said to have been compelled to leave the surface of the earth, and join his brother iapetos in the depths of tartarus. sir theodore martin is right in interpreting this allegory as meaning, atlas "standing on the solid floor of the inferior hemisphere of the universe and thus carrying at the same time the disc of the earth and the celestial vault- the solid envelope of the superior hemisp

stians ought not to object to this doctrine of the periodical destruction of continents by fire and water; for st. peter speaks of the earth "standing out of the water, and in the water, which earth, being overflowed, perished, but is now reserved unto fire (see also the "lives of alchemystical philosophers" p. 4, london, 1815[[vol. 2, page]]763 the heirloom of atlantis. inscriptions, p. 176. for atlas is atlantis which supports the new continents and their horizons on its "shoulders" decharme, in his mythologie de la grece antique, expresses a doubt as to the correctness of pierron's translation of the homeric word[[echei] by sustinet, as it is not possible to see "how atlas can support or bear at once several pillars situated in various localities" if atlas were an individual it would be

aning[[phulassei] and[[epimeleitai, does not render the same sense. the conception was certainly due to the gigantic mountain chain running along the terrestrial border (or disc. these mountain peaks plunged their roots into the very bottom of the seas, while they raised their heads heavenward, their summits being lost in the clouds. the ancient continents had more mountains than valleys on them. atlas, and the teneriffe peak, now two of the dwarfed relics of the two lost continents, were thrice as lofty during the day of lemuria and twice as high in that of atlantis. thus, the lybians called mount atlas "the pillar of heaven" according to herodotus (iv, 184, and pindar qualified the later aetna as "the celestial pillar (pyth. 1, 20; decharme, 315. atlas was an inaccessible island peak in

v, 184, and pindar qualified the later aetna as "the celestial pillar (pyth. 1, 20; decharme, 315. atlas was an inaccessible island peak in the days of lemuria, when the african continent had not yet been raised. it is the sole western relic which survives, independent, of the continent on which the third race was born, developed and fell* for australia is now part of the eastern continent. proud atlas, according to esoteric tradition, having sunk one third of its size into the waters, its two parts remained as an heirloom of atlantis. this again was known to the priests of egypt and to plato himself, the solemn oath of secrecy, which extended even to the mysteries of neo-platonism, alone preventing the whole truth from being told* so[[footnote(s* this does not mean that atlas is the local

the waters, its two parts remained as an heirloom of atlantis. this again was known to the priests of egypt and to plato himself, the solemn oath of secrecy, which extended even to the mysteries of neo-platonism, alone preventing the whole truth from being told* so[[footnote(s* this does not mean that atlas is the locality where it fell, for this took place in northern and central asia; but that atlas formed part of the continent* had not diocletian burned the esoteric works of the egyptians in 296, together with their books on alchemy[[peri chumeias kai chrusou; caesar 700,000 rolls at alexandria, and leo isaurus 300,000 at constantinople (viiith cent; and the mahomedans all they could lay their sacrilegious hands on- the world might know to-day more of atlantis than it does. for alchemy

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o mind what preternatural and impossible enterprises i then heard, i am still ready to vomit at it. in a word, they never kept in their order, but whenever one rascal here, another there, could insinuate himself in between the nobles, then they pretended to having finished such adventures as neither samson nor yet hercules with all their strength could ever have achieved: this one would discharge atlas of his burden; the other would again draw forth the threeheaded cerberus out of hell. in brief, every man had his own prate, and yet the greatest lords were so simple that they believed their pretences, and the rogues so audacious, that although one or other of them was here and there rapped over the fingers with a knife, yet they flinched not at it, but when anyone perchance had filched a g

on it in several places) served for; at which my page laughed, and advised me to view them more closely. in brief, i found there my native country noted in gold also; whereupon my companion sought his, and found that so too. now for as much as the same happened in a similar way to the rest who stood by, the page told us for certain that it was yesterday declared to the king s majesty by their old atlas (so is the astronomer named) that all the gilded points exactly answered to their native countries, according as had page 37 been shown to each of them. and therefore he also, as soon as he perceived that i undervalued myself and that nevertheless there stood a point upon my native country, moved one of the captains to entreat for us that we should be set upon the scale (without peril) at al

majesties, with most humble suit to discharge myself of this commission of mine, and most graciously to take sufficient information from each of them, concerning both my actions and omissions. hereupon she laid down her branch upon the ground. now it would have been very fitting for one of us to have put in and said something on this occasion, but seeing we were all tongue-tied, at length the old atlas page 47 stepped forward and spoke on the king s behalf- their royal majesties do most graciously rejoice at your arrival, and wish that their royal grace be assured to all, and every man. and with your administration, gentle virgin, they are most graciously satisfied, and accordingly a royal reward shall therefore be provided for you. yet it is still their intention that you shall also conti

which he courteously took off to us, so to signify his favour towards us. we bowed ourselves to him, as also to the first, as we had been instructed before. after the kings came the three queens, two of whom were richly dressed, but she in the middle was likewise all in black, and cupid held up her train. after this, intimation was given to us to follow, and after us the virgins, till at last old atlas brought up the rear. in such procession, through many stately walks, we at length came to the house of the sun, there next to the king and queen, upon a richly furpage 51 nished scaffold, to behold the previously ordained comedy. we indeed, though separated, stood on the right hand of the kings, but the virgins stood on the left, except those to whom the royal ensigns were committed. to them

in. then i had a better look at all the little doors, and first found that on every corner there burned a small taper of pyrites, of which i had before taken no notice, for the fire was so clear that it looked much more like a stone than a taper. from this heat the tree was forced continually to melt, yet it still produced new fruit. now behold (said the page) what i heard revealed to the king by atlas. when the tree (he said) shall be quite melted down, then shall lady venus awake, and be the mother of a king. whilst he was thus speaking, in flew the little cupid, who at first was somewhat abashed at our presence, but seeing us both look more like the dead than the living, he could not in the end refrain from laughing, demanding what spirit had brought us there. i with trembling answered

and in which sat the king and queen, together with other lords, ladies, and virgins of high birth. as soon as they were well in sight of us the pieces were discharged on both sides, and there was such a din of trumpets, shalms, and kettle drums that all the ships upon the sea capered again. finally, as soon as we came near they brought our ships together, and so made a stand. immediately the old atlas stepped forth on the king s behalf, making a short but handsome oration, in which he welcomed us, and asked whether the royal presents were ready. the rest of my companions were in great amazement, where this king should come from, for they imagined nothing other than that they would have to awaken him again. we allowed them to continue in their amazement, and acted as if it seemed strange t

rth on the king s behalf, making a short but handsome oration, in which he welcomed us, and asked whether the royal presents were ready. the rest of my companions were in great amazement, where this king should come from, for they imagined nothing other than that they would have to awaken him again. we allowed them to continue in their amazement, and acted as if it seemed strange to us too. after atlas oration out stepped our old man, making a rather longer reply, in which he wished the king and queen all happiness and increase, after which he delivered up a curious small casket. what was in it, i do not know, but it was committed to cupid to keep, who hovered between the king and queen. after the oration was finished, they again let off a joyful volley of shot, and so we sailed on a good

ed at the hanging of the weights- rode just behind us) observed this, and therefore asked him what this letter might mean. but he had no mind to take any notice of it, and putting away the paper, began to talk about other matters, till thus in about three hours time we came to the castle, where we alighted, and waited upon the king as he went into his hall. immediately the king called for the old atlas to come to him in a little closet, and showed him the writing, and atlas did not tarry, but rode out again to the porter to get more information on the matter. after this the young king, with his spouse, and the other lords, ladies and virgins, sat down. then our virgin began to highly commend the diligence we had shown, and the pains and labour we had undergone, requesting that we might be

n to play together, at something which looked not unlike chess, only it had different rules; for it was the virtues and vices one against another, and it might ingeniously be observed with what plots the vices lay in wait for the virtues, and how to re-encounter them again. this was so properly and cleverly performed, that it is to be wished that we had the same game too. during the game, in came atlas again, and made his report in private, but i blushed all over, for my conscience gave me no rest. after this the king gave me the supplication to read, and the contents of it were much to this purpose. first he (the doorkeeper) wished the king prosperity, and increase, and that his seed might be spread abroad far and wide. afterwards he remonstrated that the time was now come in which accord

we exceeded in drinking! and this was the last and noblest meal at which i was present. after the banquet the tables were suddenly taken away, and certain curious chairs placed round about in a circle, in which we, together with the king and queen, and both their old men and the ladies and virgins, were to sit. after this, a very handsome page opened the above-mentioned glorious little book, and atlas immediately placed himself in the midst, and began to speak to this purpose: that his royal majesty had not forgotten the service we had done him, and how carefully we had attended to our duty, and therefore by way of retribution had elected all and each of us knights of the golden stone. and that it was therefore further necessary not only once again to oblige ourselves towards his royal ma

ed or suspected nothing concerning the offender? upon which i began undauntedly to relate how all the business had passed, how through ignorance i fell into that mistake, and so offered myself to undergo all that i had thereby deserved. the king, and the rest of the lords, wondered greatly at so unexpected a confession, and so asked me to step aside a little. now as soon as i was called in again, atlas declared to me that although it was grievous to the king s majesty that i, whom he loved above others, had fallen into such a mischance, yet because it was not possible for him to transgress his ancient usages, he did not know how to absolve me; the other must be at liberty, and i put in his place; yet he would hope that some other would be apprehended, so that i might be able to go home aga

i should behave myself according to my place, and not against the order. upon which he took me in his arms, and kissed me, all which i understood to mean that in the morning i must sit at my gate. now after they had all spoken friendlily to me for a while, and at last given their hands, committing me to the divine protecpage 88 tion, i was conducted by both the old men, the lord of the tower, and atlas, into a glorious lodging, in which stood three beds, and each of us lay in one of them, where we spent almost two &c (here about two leaves in quarto are missing, and he (the author of this, whereas he imagined he must in the morning be doorkeeper, returned homorclarification oath i, in the presence of the lord of the universe, and my higher self, have fully read and understand my obligation

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rigins, et influences on humankindsbiological and cultural evolution (a and l horn, pd box 1632, mount shasta, california,96067, 1994).482jason bishop ill, matrix ii, compiled by valdamar valerian (arcturus book service, usa, 1990),p 96.3rev john bathhurst deane, the worship of the serpent (j. g. and f. rivington, london,1833).4bible myths, p 11.5ibid, p 15.6ibid, p 12.7francis hitching, the wodd atlas of mysteries (pan books, london, 1981, p 10, sectionentitled, death of the dinosaurs.8ibid.9ibid.10john rhodes, the reptoid website, http//www.reptoids.com11dale russell, exponential evolution: implications for intelligent extraterrestrial life (advancedspace research, 1983).12the wodd atlas of mysteries, p 159.13ibid.14herbert s. zim and robert h. baker, stars, a golden guide (golden press

e global centres for theanunnaki-reptilians and, according to the research of professor phillip calahan imentioned earlier, the round towers are aligned with stars systems in the northern sky -especially draco.the connections between ireland and the berbers of morocco deserves a specialmention. they are a light-skinned mountain people, some blue-eyed and blond-haired. they are associated with the atlas mountains which are themselves associatedwith atlantis and named after atlas, a son of the legendary ruler of atlantis,poseidon. berber art has many similarities to the irish version and anyone speaking72gaelic could comfortably understand the berber tongue. the main berber clans likemtir, mtuga and mghill, are obvious origins or derivatives of the ireland-scottishmactier, macdougal and macg

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ch for what he terms the monomyth, the single underlying story all the myths tell. he followed the hero with a thousand faces with a fourvolume work, the masks of god (1959.68, which traces the development of ancient mythology and argues for the need of a new worldwide mythology adaptable to the emerging worldwide culture. campbell s last years were spent writing the proposed sixvolume historical atlas of world mythology, of which only two volumes were completed. he did complete a series of interviews with bill moyers that were broadcast posthumously over the public broadcasting service as the power of myth. the television series brought campbell s works a measure of acclaim the man himself never enjoyed in life. campbell died on october 31, 1987. his library and papers have been deposited

sly over the public broadcasting service as the power of myth. the television series brought campbell s works a measure of acclaim the man himself never enjoyed in life. campbell died on october 31, 1987. his library and papers have been deposited at the pacifica institute in santa barbara, california. sources: campbell, joseph. the hero with a thousand faces. new york: pantheon, 1949. historical atlas of world mythologies. 2 vols. new york: harper, 1983.88. the masks of god. 6 vols. new york: viking, 1959.68. myths to live by. new york: viking, 1972. campion, nicolas (1953) nicolas campion, an astrologer known for his scholarly accomplishments, was born on march 4, 1953, in england. he traces his interest in astrology to his childhood, and was only 12 years old when his horoscope was cast

tool that works for all astrologers, from the beginner who wishes to learn astrology, to the professional who needs assistance in constructing charts, to the advanced researcher who needs to make a variety of calculations beyond the average horoscope. the ephemeris contains the positions of the planets from 1000 b.c.e. to 2300 c.e. and for the asteroids from 1000 c.e. to 2300 c.e. it has a world atlas for locating birthplaces and complete information on daylight savings time and its variations since instituted. recently, cochrane has created avalon college, a nonresidential course of study attached to kepler that offers complete beginning and intermediate training in astrology in 27 lessons. the step-by-step program is designed so that upon completion one will have a thorough grasp of ast

ed to singapore to cover affairs in the orient. there he met a teacher from whom he learned meditation and yoga. in 1910 dingle went to tibet, where he studied for nine months and reportedly learned pranayama (breathing control, the remembrance of past lives, and other advanced spiritual disciplines. he returned to england to write books on his experiences and published the important dingle s new atlas and commercial gazetteer of china (1914, which was a standard reference for many years. in 1921 dingle settled in oakland, california. he began his career as a teacher after being asked to lead an informal class on what he had learned from his teachers in singapore and tibet. he taught informally for more than a decade before incorporating the institute of mentalphysics in 1934. dingle taugh

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said that ancient writer, alluding to the constellation, is the same as that which guarded the golden apples, and was slain by hercules. for, when the gods offered presents to juno on her nuptials with jupiter, the earth also brought golden apples. juno, admiring their beauty, commanded them to be planted in the garden of the gods; but finding that they were continually plucked by the daughter of atlas, she appointed a vast serpent to guard them. hercules overcame and slew the monster. hence, in this constellation the serpent is depicted rearing its head aloft, while hercules, placed above it with one knee bent, tramples with his foot upon its head, and brandishes a club in his right hand. the greeks placed the garden of the hesperides close to mount atlas, and then claimed it was far into

ed above it with one knee bent, tramples with his foot upon its head, and brandishes a club in his right hand. the greeks placed the garden of the hesperides close to mount atlas, and then claimed it was far into the regions of western africa, yet all knowledge of its asiatic site was not erased from the classical mythologists. apollodorus states that certain writers situated it not in the libyan atlas, but in the atlas of the hyperboreans. others believed the world was originally a paradise, and its first inhabitants were human, whose dwelling was a magnificent hall glittering with fine gold and where love, joy, and friendship presided. but this happiness was soon overthrown by certain women from the country of the giants, to whose seductions the first mortals yielded, losing their innoce

significance on the objects seen in the night sky. and such speculations have not been limited to prescientific cultures. early in the twentieth century, the leader of the group later known as the jehovah s witnesses suggested that one of the stars of the pleiades was actually the throne of the lord god jehovah. in ancient greece, the seven prominent stars were named after the seven daughters of atlas and pleione. atlas, a titan who warred against the gods, was condemned by zeus to hold up the heavens on his shoulders. his daughters were named alcyone, asterope, celaeno, electra, maia, merope, and taygete. each has her own story from the mythological cycles. pleiades, largely a concern for the astronomical community in recent centuries, broke into the news in 1975 when eduard albert billy

useum, 1964. melton, j. gordon. religious leaders of america. 2nd edition. detroit: gale research, 1999. nicholas roerich, 1874.1947. new york: nicholas roerich museum, 1974. pealian, gerhard. nicholas roerich. agoura, calif: aquarian education group, 1974. roerich, nicholas. adamant. new york: corona mundi, 1922. flame in chalice. new york: nicholas roerich museum, 1929. heart of asia. new york: atlas publishing, 1929. realm of light. new york: nicholas roerich museum, 1931. roessling, bernhardt emil (1892.1961) teacher who wrote on parapsychology. he was born on november 27, 1892, in brussels, belgium. he completed his doctorate at louvain university, belgium (1914, moved to the united states and became a language teacher at st. joseph s college, philadelphia (1919.23, and was later an a

a charlatan. sardou was elected to the french academy in 1878. he died in paris november 8, 1908. sargent, epes (1813.1880) well-known american author, editor, and psychical investigator. he was born on september 27, 1813, in gloucester, massachusetts. he graduated from boston latin school in 1829 and joined the editorial staff of the boston daily advertiser. he subsequently worked for the daily atlas as its washington correspondent. he wrote two plays, the bride of genoa and velasco, which led to a move to new york city, where he worked as a journalist, founding the short-lived sargent s new monthly magazine (january.june 1843. he also published a biography of henry clay (1842) and a popular novel fleetwood, or the stain of birth (1845. returning to boston, he edited the boston transcrip

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ght mysterious to be nearing, and i ascend to the proscenium. mephistopheles [rising to view in the prompter s box. i hope for favour here from all and each, for promptings are the devil s art of speech. to the astrologer. you know the tempo of the stars on high; you ll understand my whispering masterly. astrologer by magic might before us doth appear, massive enough, an ancient temple here. like atlas who upheld the sky of old, columns enough, in rows, you can behold. well for the weight of stone may they suffice, since two could bear a mighty edifice. architect so that s antique! i can t say i would praise it; top-heavy, clumsy, is the way to phrase it. rude is called noble, awkward great; far more i love slim shafts that boundless soar. high pointed arches lift the soul on high, such ed

hocking, surging to and fro and rocking! an unbearable affray! but we shall not change our places, though all hell bursts in our faces. now a dome- behold the wonder!is arising. ah, tis yonder very ancient, long since hoar, who built delos isle of yore, drove it upward from the billow for a travailing woman s pillow. he, with straining, pressing, rending, rigid arms and shoulders bending, like an atlas in his gesture, heaves up earth and all its vesture, loam and stone and sand and gravel, quiet shores and calm beds level. thus the valley s placid bosom rends he with a power gruesome, still most strenuous, never sated, a colossal caryatid, bears an awful weight of boulders, buried still up to his shoulders. but twill not come near these spaces; sphinxes now are in their places. seismos i

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he egyptian's] goodly wisdom, think you? truly nothing but astronomy, and such other sciences as rather seemed to exercise the wit than to elevate the knowledge. for as for morality, it stirred not in egypt until trismegistus' time, who was indeed long before the sages and philosophers of greece, but after abraham, isaac, jacob, joseph, yea and moses also; for at the time when moses was born, was atlas, prometheus' brother, a great astronomer, living, and he was grandfather by the mother's side to the elder mercury, who begat the father of this trismegistus.2 augustine thus confirmed with the great weight of his authority the extreme antiquity of hermes trismegistus, who was "long before the sages and philosophers of greece. and by giving him 1 see below, pp. 169, 172-3. 2 de civ. dei, xvi

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the sun, in his left hand a horn for drinking or a cornucopia; initiates stand around, a radiated cup hangs upon a pole, and several animals are also drawn in the upper part of the scene.resemblances of freemasonry to mithra 251thetauroctonic sculpture at osterburken is considered the best example extant. in some sculptures these scenes are supplemented by zodiacal figures, by kronos or time, by atlas, oceanus, the fates and zeus with his thunderbolt. at one period the goddess anaitis (astarte, aphrodite) was associated with mithras in sculptures.theancient persian work namedbundahish,which gives a theory of cosmogony after the zoroastrian ideals throws some light upon these mythical scenes. it narrates that the first creation of ormuzd was of goshurun, the heavenly bull, that this bull w

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so to go round the central sun with poles inclined to the plane of its orbit at a particular angle, it generated two centres offorce, one positive and the other negative; and it generated a double kind of current, a positive current and a negative current, and these currents really account for most of the physical phenomena of the globe. these currents are of different kinds. look at any physical atlas and you can trace some of them; you can see the magnetic currents coming to a pole, not at all coincident with the geographical pole, nor coincident with the pole of extreme cold, which also again is different from the noth pole or the geographical pole. you will alsos.etraced the prevailing currents of the wind, and of the ocean, and so forth, so that the conclusion you will draw is that th

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cator projection, still used on most world maps today, this enigmatic individual (who paid an unexplained visit to the great pyramid of egypt in 156310) was reportedly indefatigable in searching out. the learning of long ago, and spent many years diligently accumulating a vast and eclectic reference library of ancient source maps.11 significantly, mercator included the oronteus finaeus map in his atlas of 1569 and also depicted the antarctic on several he himself drew in the same year. identifiable parts of the then undiscovered southern continent on these maps are cape dart and cape herlacher in marie byrd land, the amundsen sea, thurston island in ellsworth land, the fletcher islands in the bellinghausen sea, alexander i island, the antarctic (palmer) peninsula, the weddell sea, cape nor

s a desolate place, sere and unwelcoming, barren and profitless. human populations have never concentrated here, nor will they do so in the future: the surface of the moon seems hardly less hospitable. if you happen to be an artist with grand designs, however, these high 1 tony morrison with professor gerald s. hawkins, pathways to the gods, book club associates, london, 1979, p. 21. see also the atlas of mysterious places (ed. jennifer westwood, guild publishing, london, 1987, p. 100. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 44 and daunting plains look like a very promising canvas, with 200 square miles of uninterrupted tableland and the certainty that your masterwork won t be carried away on the desert breeze or covered by drifting sand. it s true that high winds do blow here, but by a ha

rn peru. it was the development of aviation that made the difference, giving men and women the godlike ability to take to the skies and see beautiful and puzzling things that had hitherto been hidden from them. 7 maria reiche, mystery on the desert, nazca, peru, 1989, p. 58. 8 luis de monzon was the corregidor, or magistrate, of rucanas and soras, near nazca, in 1586. pathways to the gods, p. 36; atlas of mysterious places, p. 100. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 49 rodolfo is steering the cessna in a gentle circle over the figure of the monkey a big monkey tied in a riddle of geometric forms. it s not easy to describe the eerie, hypnotic feeling this design gives me: it s very complicated and absorbing to look at, and slightly sinister in an abstract, indefinable way. the monkey s

ogist alberto ruz lifted the flagstones in the temple floor. although a second such tomb was found at palenque in 1994,2 ruz had the honour of being the first man to discover such a feature inside a new world pyramid. the stairway had been intentionally filled with rubble by its builders, and it took four more years before the archaeologists cleared it out completely and reached the bottom. 1 the atlas of mysterious places (ed. jennifer westwood, guild publishing, london, 1987, p. 70. 2 the times, london, 4 june 1994. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 153 when they had done so they entered a narrow corbel-vaulted chamber. spread out on the floor in front of them were the mouldering skeletons of five or possibly six young victims of sacrifice. a huge triangular slab of stone was visib

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

40 feet long at the base and 120 feet wide. it was, moreover, very high, rising 120 feet above the surrounding plain. since time out of mind this edifice, which did look like the castle of a necromancer, had been known as the pyramid of the magician and also as the house of the dwarf. these names were derived from a maya legend which asserted that a dwarf with supernatural powers had raised 6 the atlas of mysterious places, p. 70. 7 time among the maya, p. 298. 8 fair gods and stone faces, pp. 95-6. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 155 the entire building in just one night.9 the steps, as i climbed them, seemed more and more perversely narrow. my instinct was to lean forward, flatten myself against the side of the pyramid, and cling on for dear life. instead i looked up at the angry

gnment with each other while the third appeared to have been deliberately offset to one side. finally, at giza, the summits of the great pyramid and the pyramid of khafre were level, even though the former was a taller building than the latter. likewise, at teotihuacan, the 15 ibid. 16 bernardino de sahagun, cited in mysteries of the mexican pyramids, p. 23. 17 mexico: rough guide, p. 216. 18 the atlas of mysterious places, p. 158. 19 pre-hispanic gods of mexico, p. 24. 20 the ancient egyptian pyramid texts, utt. 667a, p. 281. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 170 summits of the pyramids of the sun and the moon were level even though the former was taller. the reason was the same in both cases: the great pyramid was built on lower ground than the pyramid of cephren, and the pyramid o

y suggests not only the existence of advanced mathematical knowledge in antiquity but some sort of underlying common purpose. the height of the pyramid of the sun x 4pi= the perimeter of its base. the height of the great pyramid at giza x 2pi= the perimeter of its base. as we have seen the desired height/perimeter ratio of the great 14 the ancient kingdoms of mexico, p. 74. 15 mexico, p. 201; the atlas of mysterious places, p. 156. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 179 pyramid (2pi) called for the specification of a tricky and idiosyncratic angle of slope for its sides: 52. likewise, the desired height/perimeter ratio of the pyramid of the sun (4pi) called for the specification of an equally eccentric angle of slope: 43.5. if there had been no ulterior motive, it would surely have be

nt out in hamlet s mill, the figures do not carry the serpent but are shown to pull it, which indicates that these 540 statues are churning the milky ocean. the whole of angkor thus turns out to be a colossal model set up with true hindu fantasy and incongruousness to express the idea of precession.14 12 ibid, p. 196. 13 skywatchers of ancient mexico, p. 143. 14 hamlet s mill, pp. 162-3; see also atlas of mysterious places, pp. 168-70. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 255 churning the milky ocean, one of the several thought tools for precession encountered in ancient myths. the same may be true of java s famous temple of borobudur, with its 72 bell-shaped stupas, and perhaps also of the megaliths of baalbeck in the lebanon which are thought to be the world s biggest blocks of cut st

ate that they would have needed to place 31 blocks in position every hour (about one block every two minutes) to complete the pyramid in twenty years. assuming that construction work had been confined to the annual three-month lay-off, 3 dr. joseph davidovits and margie morris, the pyramids: an enigma solved, dorset press, new york, 1988, pp. 39-40. 4 ibid, p. 37. 5 john baines and jaromir malek, atlas of ancient egypt, time-life books, virginia, 1990, p. 160; the pyramids of egypt, pp. 229-30. 6 the pyramids of egypt, p. 229. 7 ibid, p. 85. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 276 the problems multiplied: four blocks a minute would have had to be delivered, about 240 every hour. such scenarios are, of course, the stuff construction managers nightmares are made of. imagine, for example

t sides were probably used. 9 to carry an inclined plane to the top of the great pyramid at a gradient of 1:10 would have required a ramp 4800 feet long and more than three times as massive as the great pyramid itself (with an estimated volume of 8 million cubic metres as against the pyramid s 2.6 million cubic metres).10 heavy weights could not have been dragged up any gradient 8 ibid, p. 220. 9 atlas of ancient egypt, p. 139. 10 peter hodges and julian keable, how the pyramids were built, element books, shaftesbury, 1989, p. 123. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 277 steeper than this by any normal means.11 if a lesser gradient had been chosen, the ramp would have had to be even more absurdly and disproportionately massive. the problem was that mile-long ramps reaching a height of

ve had to take account of the refraction of the atmosphere; and that would have necessitated the building standing not at 11 ibid, p. 11. 12 ibid, p. 13. 13 ibid, p. 125-6. failure to reach the top would be because spiral ramps and linked scaffolds overlap and exceed the space available long before arrival at the summit. 14 ibid, p. 126. 15 see chapter twenty-three; the pyramids of egypt, p. 219; atlas of ancient egypt, p. 139. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 278 30 but at 29 58 22 .16 compared to the true position of 29 58 51, this was an error of less than half an arc minute, suggesting once again that the surveying and geodetic skills brought to bear here must have been of the highest order. feeling somewhat overawed, we climbed on, past the 44th and 45th courses of the hulking

fter limestone surrounding them and, after several weeks of backbreaking toil, rejoined the ascending corridor higher up having bypassed a formidable obstacle never before breached. the implications were obvious. since no previous treasure-seekers had penetrated this far, the interior of the pyramid must still be virgin territory. the diggers must have licked their lips with anticipation at the 5 atlas of ancient egypt, p. 36. 6 the pyramids of egypt, pp. 94-5. 7 the pyramids of egypt by professor i. e. s. edwards is the standard text on the pyramids. 8 w. m. flinders petrie, the pyramids and temples of gizeh (new and revised edition, histories and mysteries of man ltd, london, 1990, p. 21. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 287 immense quantities of gold and jewels they could now exp

ride themselves on looking exclusively at the ground beneath their feet) had failed to spot it. on a truly giant scale, as we see in later chapters, it also reflected the same obsessive concern with orientations and dimensions demonstrated in each of the monuments. a singular oppression. giza, egypt, 16 march 1993, 8 a.m. at a little over 200 feet tall (and with a side length at the base of 356 1 atlas of ancient egypt, p. 36. 2 the orion mystery. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 298 feet) the third pyramid was less than half the height and well under half the mass of the great pyramid. nevertheless, it possessed a stunning and imposing majesty of its own. as we stepped out of the desert sunlight and into its huge geometrical shadow, i remembered what the iraqi writer abdul latif ha

d dynasty step pyramid of zoser at saqqara.18 that meant that they were at least as old as zoser himself (i.e. around 2650 bc19. theoretically, they could have been even older than that, 14 ibid, pp. 74-5. 15 the pyramids: an enigma solved, p. 8. 16 the pyramids and temples of gizeh, p. 75. 17 the pyramids: an enigma solved, p. 118. 18 egypt: land of the pharaohs, time-life books, 1992, p. 51. 19 atlas of ancient egypt, p. 36. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 322 because identical vessels had been found in pre-dynastic strata dated to 4000 bc and earlier,20 and because the practice of handing down treasured heirlooms from generation to generation had been deeply ingrained in egypt since time immemorial. whether they were made in 2500 bc or in 4000 bc or even earlier, the stone vesse

form as atum (sometimes depicted as an old bearded man leaning on a staff):5 1 saqqara, egypt: archaeologists have discovered a green limestone obelisk, the world s oldest-known complete obelisk, dedicated to inty, a wife of pharaoh pepi i, egypt s ruler almost 4300 years ago, who was regarded as a goddess after her death. times, london, 9 may 1992; see also daily telegraph, london, 9 may 1992. 2 atlas of ancient egypt, pp. 173-4; rosalie and anthony e. david, a biographical dictionary of ancient egypt, seaby, london, 1992, pp. 133-4; blue guide, egypt, p. 413. 3 the encyclopaedia of ancient egypt, p. 110. 4 george hart, egyptian myths, british museum publications, 1990, p. 11. 5 the encyclopaedia of ancient egypt, p. 110; traveller s key to ancient egypt, p. 66; graham hancock fingerprint

reasonably welldocumented reports, an egyptian foreman of the excavations at saqqara had been up and about at dawn one morning and had found himself by the side of a ruined pyramid looking into the bright amber eyes of a lone desert jackal: it was as if the animal were taunting his human observer. and inviting the puzzled man to chase him. slowly the jackal sauntered towards the north face of 17 atlas of ancient egypt, p. 36. 18 from fetish to god in ancient egypt, p. 147: judging by the pyramid texts, the priests of heliopolis borrowed very largely from the religious beliefs of the predynastic egyptians. see also the ancient egyptian book of the dead, p. 11. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 352 the pyramid, stopping for a moment before disappearing into a hole. the bemused arab de

hieroglyphic art. in short, like the pyramids at giza, it seemed that the pyramid texts had burst upon the scene with no apparent antecedents, and had occupied centre-stage for approximately a hundred years before ceasing operations, never to be bettered. presumably the ancient kings and sages who had arranged these things had known what they were doing? if so, their minds must have contained 62 atlas of ancient egypt, p. 36. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 366 a plan, and they must have intended a strong connection to be seen between the completely uninscribed (but technically brilliant) pyramids at giza, and the brilliantly inscribed (but technically slipshod) pyramids of the fifth and sixth dynasties. i suspected, too, that at least part of the answer to the problem might lie i

ge electric bulbs; otherwise the only illumination was that which the pharaoh s architects had originally planned: a few isolated shafts of sunlight that penetrated through slits in the outer masonry like beams of divine radiance. hovering among the motes of dust dancing in those beams, and infiltrating the heavy stillness of the air amid the great columns that held up the roof of the hypostyle 1 atlas of ancient egypt, p. 36. 2 dates from atlas of ancient egypt. for further data on ramesses ii as the pharaoh of the exodus see profuses k. a. kitchen, pharaoh triumphant: the life and times of ramesses ii, aris and phillips, warminster, 1982, pp. 70-1. 3 see, for example, a biographical dictionary of ancient egypt, pp. 135-7. 4 traveller s key to ancient egypt, p. 384. 5 the ancient egyptian

nal in a southwesterly direction relative to the axis of the nile. if you look carefully on a clear night you ll also see that the smallest of the three stars, the one at the top which the arabs call mintaka, is slightly offset to the east of the principal diagonal formed by the 2 virginia trimble, cited in the orion mystery, p. 241. 3 ibid, p. 172. 4 personal communications/interviews, 1993-4. 5 atlas of ancient egypt, p. 36. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 427 other two. this pattern is mimicked on the ground where we see that the pyramid of menkaure is offset by exactly the right amount to the east of the principal diagonal formed by the pyramid of khafre (which represents the middle star, al nilam) and the great pyramid, which represents al nitak. it s really quite obvious that

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nd he, answering in song, tells her his poetic names. hence an enchantress is called qyeld-rid'a, evening-rider, sssm. szirmai's notitia comitatns zempleniensis, budac 1803. p. 3; aud hungaria in parabolis p. 158-9- courl. society's communic, mitau 18io. 1, 47^ nocturnal meetings on mountains can also be conn, with other heathen notions: giants and elves reside on mountains. pliny 5, 1 says of mt atlas' incolarum neminem interdiu cerni, silere omnia. noctibus micare crebris ignibus, aegipanum satyrorumque lascivia impleri, tibiarum ac listularum cantu, tympanorum et cymbalorum sonitu strepere' 1054 magic. 143, and myrk-rid'a 77% by wliicli monstrous miscliievous giantwomen are meant, wild women, waldminnes, iarnvi'sjur (p. 483, whom the heroes are bent on putting down' hefi ec qvaldar qvel

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all, asiatic myths of the creation coincide with the norse (and what i believe to have been once the universal teutonic) view of the world s origin out of component parts of the human body: it must therefore be of remote antiquity. the story lasts in india to this day, that brahma was slain by the other gods, and the sky made out of his skull: there is some analogy to this in the greek notion of atlas supporting on his head the vault of heaven. according to one of the orphic poets, the body of zeus is understood to be the earth, his bones the mountains, and his eyes the sun and moon.2 cochin- chinese traditions tell, how buddha made the world out of the giant banio s body, of his skull the sky, of his eyes the sun and moon, of his flesh the earth, of his bones rocks and hills, and of his

ll is a space thickly sown with stars, but in which seven (really six) larger ones are recognis able; hence it is called sieben-gestirn, ohg. thaz sibunstirri, 0. v. 17, 29. diut. i. 520a. gl. jim. 188 (where it is confounded with the hyades not far off, in the bull s head. beside this purely arithmetical denomination, there are others more living: gr. it/vetase, ion. ila^tase, seven daughters of atlas and pleione, whom zeus raised to the sky, ii. 18, 486. od. 5, 272, and who, like the norse thiassi and orvandill, are of giant kin; but some explain these pleiads from trexeta? wild dove, which is usually trexeta.1 lat. vergiliae, of which festus gives a lame explanation. a german poet writes virilie, amgb. 42b. the picture of the pleiades that finds most favour among the people in germany a

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column.may have the 26th section loosely attached to the end of it, or this 26th section may form part of the 25th. however, originally, at some time, the large 25th section consisted of nine definite divisions, each having the same purpose as each of the separate vertebrae above. therefore, we continue to look upon the spinal column as consisting of 33 sections (that is, counting the so-called "atlas" as the first section. upon the first section.the "atlas".rests the skull, which, from one viewpoint, forms another section of the spine, and would, therefore, make a 34th section. however, using the plan or diagram of the spine as usually adopted by all textbooks on anatomy, we have, as shown in the two diagrams opposite, 33 or 34 sections or divisions. through this spine runs the spinal co

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lture of hieroglyphs. cambridge: cambridge university press, 2000. a good place to start for anyone who would like to try reading some ancient egyptian texts in their original language and script. the lessons on middle egyptian grammar are interleaved with essays on the geography, history, and culture of ancient egypt. several of these essays discuss creation myths. john baines and jaromir malek. atlas of ancient egypt. rev. ed. new york: checkmate books, 2000. an excellent introduction to the history and geography of ancient egypt with a superb range of maps. the gazetteer of archaeological sites includes concise information on all the major temples and royal tombs. there is an essay on religion and a list of important deities. erik hornung. idea into image: essays on ancient egyptian tho

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a red rose by venus (see drummond s origines, vol. iii, p. 121. rus (which is ras in chaldee) in irish signifies tree, knowledge, science, magic, power. this is the hebrew r as. hence the persian rustan (val. col. hib. vol. iv. pt. i. p. 84. the ancient sardica, in lat. 40 50, is now called sophia; the ancient aquineum, buda, or buddha. these were, i believe, old names restored (vide d anville's atlas. the society bearing the name of the rossicrucians (or rosicruxians) is closely allied with the templars. their emblem is a monogram or jewel; or, as malicious and bigoted adversaries would say, their object of adoration is a red rose on a cross. thus: fig. 226. when it can be done, it is surrounded with a glory, and placed on a calvary. this is the naurutz, natsir, or rose of isuren, of tam

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turning wheels that dictate the movements of the sky. auspicious spheres were conjoined upon their paths, telling of ruin and ascendance: the kingdom of the old, overthrown; the kingdom of the new, made great. now, scattered before amongst the multitudinous caverns of the lands beneath the earth, the shedim once more converged, to hear again the instruction of their chief. upon the high peaks of atlas did they gather and upon the highest of those peaks i stood. now every ear was mine, every arm at my command, every soul to dispose of as i willed. even when i had ruled as vice-regent in the halls and towers of doomed heaven i had not known such faith as now i knew. how could unworthy satan repay such love as of the shedim whom both loved me and were themselves most dear to my heart? as ado

entrance into the garden. once within its walls we shall fulfil our charms and bring to being our champion race the new heroes of our cause, inheritors of our legacy, kings of the empire that is to be. await us, then, upon this mountain. we shall return in triumph" as the sun's last embers faded upon the farthest horizon of the west, melting like oil across the ocean, i went from the mountains of atlas with ishtar at my right hand and baalzebub upon my left hand. now the night's shadows devoured the sight of mountains where our comrades waited, their keen eyes watching for our return else turned to heaven to descry the foe and whether they moved against our grand ambition or remained ignorant of our endeavour. yet no action of the elohim was apparent to them nor the return of satan in triu

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

and ayn rand. although observers have often perceived connections between anton lavey s satanism and such philosophers as frederick nietzsche, rand was the more immediate source for much of lavey s thinking. the influence of rand on lavey is most evident in the nine satanic statements, which, according to the schrecks, are little more than a condensed paraphrase of material found in rand s novel atlas shrugged. see also lavey, anton szandor; rand, ayn for further reading: lavey, anton. the satanic bible. new york: avon, 1969. rand, ayn. atlas shrugged. new york: random house, 1957. schreck, zeena lavey, and nikolas schreck. anton lavey: legend and reality. http//www.churchofsatan.org/aslav.html the ninth covenant the ninth covenant was founded in 1997 by syn holiday. the group is centered

1986. real space aliens took me to their planet.waduz, lichtenstein: face, 1975. rand, ayn although observers have often perceived connections between anton lavey s satanism and such philosophers as frederick nietzsche, one of the more immediate sources for some of lavey s thinking was the popular mid-twentieth century author and intellectual ayn rand. her fiction included the best-selling novels atlas shrugged and the fountainhead. in contrast to the marked subjectivism and relativism of contemporary philosophy, rand advocated her own philosophy, which she referred to as objectivism. an unabashed apologist for capitalism, her perspective is perhaps best summed up in the titles of such books as capitalism, the unknown ideal (1966, the virtue of selfishness (1961, and america s persecuted m

itional christians would undoubtedly have considered her diabolically inspired, which may explain lavey s attraction to her thought. 224 rivera, geraldo the influence of rand on lavey is most evident in the satanic bible s nine satanic statements, one of the church of satan s central doctrinal documents. as a number of observers have pointed out, these statements appear to draw from rand s novel, atlas shrugged. lavey and rand also both endorsed unbridled capitalism, although the former was less squeamish about accepting the potentially brutal consequences of a system in which the strong dominate the weak. lavey s religious system was not, however, simply ayn rand s philosophy in occult garb. objectivism holds that the nature of reality and therefore truth is completely objective. rand als

of his or her own personal needs as the ultimate criterion for indicating the best course of action in any situation. the final major difference is that lavey saw tremendous value in tapping the power of our emotional nature through irrational psychodramas such as magical rituals, a view that likely would have been unpalatable to rand. see also lavey, anton szandor for further reading: rand, ayn. atlas shrugged. new york: random house, 1957 .the fountainhead. new york: bobbs- merrill, 1943. schreck, zeena lavey, and nikolas schreck. anton lavey: legend and reality. http//www.churchofsatan.org/aslav.html rivera, geraldo satanic cults! every hour, every day, their ranks are growing. estimates are there are over one million satanists in this country. the majority of them are linked in a highl

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7, contains a collection of chapters by various experts on a number of subjects, based on the latest research. numerous illustrations enhance the work. r. i. page, chronicles of the vikings: records, memorials, and myths (toronto and buffalo: university of toronto press, 1995) offers a collection of primary source materials with introductions and commentaries. john haywood, the penguin historical atlas of the vikings (new york and london: penguin books, 1995, is a wonderful collection of maps and includes illustrations in color and apt commentary. of the many older works on the viking age, none is encountered more frequently than gwyn jones, a history of the vikings, rev. ed (new york and london: oxford university press, 1984. it is engaging if a bit wordy. peter foote and david m. wilson

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continent of atlantis. in the midst of the island was a mountain which was the dwelling place of three earth-born primitive human beings--evenor; his wife, leucipe; and their only daughter, cleito. the maiden was very beautiful, and after the sudden death of her parents she was wooed by poseidon, who begat by her five pairs of male children. poseidon apportioned his continent among these ten, and atlas, the eldest, he made overlord of the other nine. poseidon further called the country atlantis and the surrounding sea the atlantic in honor of atlas. before the birth of his ten sons, poseidon divided the continent and the coastwise sea into concentric zones of land and water, which were as perfect as though turned upon a lathe. two zones of land and three of water surrounded the central isl

g sea the atlantic in honor of atlas. before the birth of his ten sons, poseidon divided the continent and the coastwise sea into concentric zones of land and water, which were as perfect as though turned upon a lathe. two zones of land and three of water surrounded the central island, which poseidon caused to be irrigated with two springs of water--one warm and the other cold. the descendants of atlas continued as rulers of atlantis, and with wise government and industry elevated the country to a position of surpassing dignity. the natural resources of atlantis were apparently limitless. precious metals were mined, wild animals domesticated, and perfumes distilled from its fragrant flowers. while enjoying the abundance natural to their semitropic location, the atlanteans employed themselv

break they wrote their sentences upon a golden tablet: and deposited them with their robes as memorials. the chief laws of the atlantean kings were that they should not take up arms against each other and that they should come to the assistance of any of their number who was attacked. in matters of war and great moment the final decision was in the hands of the direct descendants of the family of atlas. no king had the power of life and death over his kinsmen without the assent of a majority of the ten. plato concludes his description by declaring that it was this great empire which attacked the hellenic states. this did not occur, however, until their power and glory had lured the atlantean kings from the pathway of wisdom and virtue. filled with false ambition, the rulers of atlantis det

le and female; odd and even, for being added to the even it makes odd, and to the odd, even; god, because it is the beginning and end of all, but itself has neither beginning nor end; good, for such is the nature of god; the receptacle of matter, because it produces the duad, which is essentially material. by the pythagoreans monad was called chaos, obscurity, chasm, tartarus, styx, abyss, lethe, atlas, axis, morpho (a name for venus, and tower or throne of jupiter, because of the great power which abides in the center of the universe and controls the circular motion of the planers about itself. monad is also called germinal reason, because it is the origin of all the thoughts in the universe. other names given to it were: apollo, because of its relation to the sun; prometheus, because he

ings relating to age, power, faith, necessity, and the power of memory. it was also called unwearied, because, like god, it was tireless. the pythagoreans divided the heavenly bodies into ten orders. they also stated that the decad perfected all numbers and comprehended within itself the nature of odd and even, moved and unmoved, good and ill. they associated its power with the following deities: atlas (for it carried the numbers on its shoulders, urania, mnemosyne, the sun, phanes, and the one god. the decimal system can probably be traced back to the time when it was customary to reckon on the fingers, these being among the most primitive of calculating devices and still in use among many aboriginal peoples. next: the human body in symbolism sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 7

he so-called talking trees were merely strips of wood with tables of letters upon them, by means of which oracles were evoked. at one time books written upon wood were called "talking trees" the difficulty in deciding the origin of alchemy is directly due to ignoring the lost continent of atlantis. the great arcanum was the most prized of the secrets of the atlantean priestcraft. when the land of atlas sank, hierophants of the fire mystery brought the formula to egypt, where it remained for centuries in the possession of the sages and philosophers. it gradually moved into europe, where its secrets are still preserved intact. click to enlarge the leaves of hermes' sacred tree. redrawn from an original manuscript dated 1577. in his key to alchemy, samuel norton divides into fourteen parts th

throne room and especially by the magnificence of the queen's robes, which were so dazzling that he could not gaze upon them. each guest was presented to the king by one of the virgins and after this ceremony the virgo lucifera made a short speech in which she recited the achievements of the honest "artists" and begged that each be questioned as to whether she had properly fulfilled her duty. old atlas then stepped forward and in the name of their royal majesties greeted the intrepid band of philosophers and assured virgo lucifera that she should receive a royal reward. the length of the throne room was five times its width. to the west was a great porch in which stood three thrones, the central one elevated. on each throne sat two persons: on the first an ancient king with a young consort

side the inscription "at. nat. mi" and on the other "tem. na. f" the entire company returned in twelve ships to the king's palace. the flags on the vessels bore the signs of the zodiac, and c.r.c. sat under that of libra. as they entered the lake, many ships met them and the king and queen, together with their lords, ladies, and virgins, rode forth on a golden barge to greet the returning guests. atlas then made a short oration in the king's behalf, also asking for the royal presents. in reply the aged warden delivered to cupid, who hovered about the royal pair, a small, curious-shaped casket. c.r.c. and the old lord, each bearing a snow-white ensign with a red cross on it, rode in the carriage with the king. at the first gate stood the porter with blue clothes, who, upon seeing c.r.c, beg

ed the following: summa scientia nihil scire, fr. christianus rosencreutz. eques aurei lapidis. anno 1459. after the ceremony, c.r.c. admitted that he was the one who had beheld venus and consequently must become the porter of the gate. the king embraced him fondly and he was assigned to a great room containing three beds--one for himself, one for the aged lord of the tower, and the third for old atlas. the chemical marriage here comes to an abrupt end, leaving the impression that c.r.c. was to assume his duties as porter on the following morning. the book ends in the middle of a sentence, with a note in italics presumably by the editor. under the symbolism of an alchemical marriage, medi val philosophers concealed the secret system of spiritual culture whereby they hoped to coordinate the

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

s of the illi. see alsopole.el ymi early tribe paralli early tribevirgil means strong illicharlemagne great illi of chariotscharles martel illi of waraedl name of thora tlas supported the world. house of a tlas was a family of gods that ruled the world. they lived on islands.a tl name found in mexico, at the end of the name of every god.a tl becomes itl, giving italythe house of atlasthe house of atlas ruled the world in the age before the beginning of written historythe atlas mythsprang from the fact that the house of atlas bore the burdens of the whole world. thus the greeks gaveus the statue of the powerful man actually upholding the earth (p. 39)illi shortened becomes il, or el.the gods keep mankind ignorant of the ways of living, else one would do enough in one day to last a year (hes

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n the lights of heaven, which, as "bright potentates of the sky" were formerly the vigilant directors of the economy of earth, now shine dim and distant, and uriel no more descends upon a sunbeam. but the real change has been in the progressive ascent of man's own faculties, and not in the divine nature; as the stars are no more distant now than when they were supposed to rest on the shoulders of atlas. and yet a little sense of disappointment and humiliation attended the first awakening of the soul, when reason, looking upward toward the deity, was impressed with a dizzy sense of having fallen. but hope revives in despondency; and every nation that ever advanced beyond the most elementary conceptions, felt the necessity of an attempt to fill the chasm, real or imaginary, separating man fr

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

of a peculiar and secondary character. we might call one the son, and the other the daughter, of the absolute. but the artist, though his work, the images of himself in the form that he loves, is less perfect than the work of his father, since he can but express one particular point of view and that by means of one type of technique, is not to be thought useless on that account, any more than an atlas is useless because it presents by means of certain crude conventions a fraction of the facts of geography. the artist calls our attention away from nature, whose immensity bewilders us so that she seems incoherent, and unintelligble, to his own interpretation of himself, and his relations with various phenomena of nature expressed in a language more or less common to us all. the smaller the

y make the fact known, if they will. the important point is that you should not come to harm through your own folly of believing that lie: that thou must die for them. on the contrary, thou must live. let them die in their misery! the social aspect of this verse has been sensed by a woman writer. ayn rand, and developed in two works of fiction worthy of perusal by thelemites: the fountainhead and atlas shrugged. although her reasoning is often mixed-up or naive, she grasped the main point well enough. 60. therefore strike hard& low, and to hell with them, master! one must never be so careless as to let oneself think that even the "style of the letter (how much less a phrase) in this book is casual. the expression "to hell with them" is not merely an outburst of colloquial enthusiasm. the w

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quares. being the god of all undertakings in which gain was a feature, he was worshipped as the giver of wealth and [119]good luck, and any unexpected stroke of fortune was attributed to his influence. he also presided over the game of dice, in which he is said to have been instructed by apollo. hermes was the son of zeus and maia, the eldest and most beautiful of the seven pleiades (daughters of atlas, and was born in a cave of mount cyllene in arcadia. as a mere babe, he exhibited an extraordinary faculty for cunning and dissimulation; in fact, he was a thief from his cradle, for, not many hours after his birth, we find him creeping stealthily out of the cave in which he was born, in order to steal some oxen belonging to his brother apollo, who was at this time feeding the flocks of adme

ction thus interfered with, sent pegasus to check the boldness of the mountain, in daring to move without his permission. when pegasus reached the summit, he stamped the ground with his hoofs, and out gushed the waters of hippocrene, afterwards so renowned as the sacred fount, whence the muses quaffed their richest draughts of inspiration. the hesperides. page 190 the hesperides, the daughters of atlas, dwelt in an island in the far west, whence they derived their name [163] they were appointed by hera to act as guardians to a tree bearing golden apples, which had been presented to her by gaa on the occasion of her marriage with zeus. it is said that the hesperides, being unable to withstand the temptation of tasting the golden fruit confided to their care, were deprived of their office, w

e view of the gorgons, whilst the latter bore him swiftly over land and sea, far beyond the reach of pursuit. in passing over the burning plains of libya the drops of blood from the head of the medusa oozed through the wallet, and falling on the hot sands below produced a brood of many-coloured snakes, which spread all over the country. perseus continued his flight until he reached the kingdom of atlas, of whom he begged rest and shelter. but as this king possessed a valuable orchard, in which every tree bore golden fruit, he was fearful lest the slayer of the medusa might destroy the dragon which guarded it, and then rob him of his treasures. he therefore refused to grant the hospitality which the hero demanded, whereupon perseus, exasperated at the churlish repulse, produced from his wal

uming his journey he now wandered on through arabia until he arrived at mount caucasus, where prometheus groaned in unceasing agony. it was at this time that heracles (as already related) shot the eagle which had so long tortured the noble and devoted friend of mankind. full of gratitude for his deliverance, prometheus instructed him how to find his way to that remote region in the far west where atlas supported the heavens on his shoulders, near which lay the garden of the hesperides. he also warned heracles not to attempt to secure the precious fruit himself, but to assume for a time the duties of atlas, and to despatch him for the apples [249] on arriving at his destination heracles followed the advice of prometheus. atlas, who willingly entered into the arrangement, contrived to put th

f atlas, and to despatch him for the apples [249] on arriving at his destination heracles followed the advice of prometheus. atlas, who willingly entered into the arrangement, contrived to put the dragon to sleep, and then, having cunningly outwitted the hesperides, carried off three of the golden apples, which he now brought to heracles. but when the latter was prepared to relinquish his burden, atlas, having once tasted the delights of freedom, declined to resume his post, and announced his intention of being himself the bearer of the apples to eurystheus, leaving heracles to fill his place. to this proposal the hero feigned assent, merely begging that atlas would be kind enough to support the heavens for a few moments whilst he contrived a pad for his head. atlas good-naturedly threw do

ept odysseus, who, clinging to a mast, floated about in the open sea for nine days, when, after once more [317]escaping being sucked in by the whirlpool of charybdis, he was cast ashore on the island of ogygia. calypso..ogygia was an island covered with dense forests, where, in the midst of a grove of cypress and poplar, stood the charming grotto-palace of the nymph calypso, daughter of the titan atlas. the entrance to the grotto was entwined with a leafy trellis-work of vine-branches, from which depended clusters of purple and golden grapes; the plashing of fountains gave a delicious sense of coolness to the air, which was filled with the songs of birds, and the ground was carpeted with violets and mosses. calypso cordially welcomed the forlorn and shipwrecked hero, and hospitably ministe

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pp. 58 59, god of ecstasy and wine, was the child of zeus by a mortal, semele. he is shown with goat s legs and horns. hercules hercules (see pp. 50 51) was a son of zeus by a mortal. hera hated him. he earned immortality by performing 12 impossible tasks. when he went to olympus he married zeus daughter hebe. hermes hermes was the messenger of the gods and zeus son by maia, daughter of the titan atlas. he is wearing his winged hat and carrying his herald s staff, the caduceus. ganymede ganymede was a young prince of troy; zeus was so overwhelmed by his beauty that he descended in eagle form and snatched the beautiful youth to be his cup-bearer on olympus. hera, queen of the gods hera was zeus wife and sister. in one account it was she, not her mother rhea, who saved zeus from being swallo

hildren of uranus, the sky, and gaia, the earth, were the first gods. they were deposed after a 10-year struggle by zeus, son of cronos (see p. 23, and sent to tartarus in the underworld, locked behind bronze doors guarded by three 100-armed giants. zeus and his siblings then became the gods of mount olympus. prometheus and epimetheus sided with zeus in this war; his older brothers, menoetius and atlas, supported the titans zeus killed menoetius and sent him to tartarus; atlas he condemned to support the heavens on his shoulders for eternity. prometheus 25 the first man prometheus shaped the first man in the image of the gods, by mixing earth and water into clay; athena, the goddess of wisdom, breathed life into him. whereas the other animals hung their heads to look at the ground, prometh

. the most difficult tasks were the last: the capture of the watchdog of the underworld, cerberus, and the acquisition of the apples of the hesperides (shown here, which were guarded by a fearful serpent. hercules completed his tasks successfully, encountering many adventures along the way. when he died several years and exploits later from putting on a poisoned shirt, he rose to olympus, causing atlas to stagger under the sudden extra weight. lyre singing was the chief recreation of the hesperides. here, one of them dreamily strums on an upside-down lyre (it was by playing the lyre upside-down that apollo vanquished his challenger marsyas in a musical contest [see p. 41) garden of the hesperides the garden of the hesperides was at the edge of the earth, enclosed behind a high wall. inside

ay he had many adventures, which included freeing prometheus (see pp. 24 25) and killing the eagle that daily fed on his liver. cranes of vigilance cranes are a symbol of vigilance. however, as the hesperides seem to be asleep, and the apples that they are guarding are eventually stolen, the presence of the cranes may be ironic. daugh ters of a titan the hesperides were the daughters of the titan atlas (see p. 22) and hesperis, the daughter of the evening star hesperus (venus. they lived in a garden hidden in the far west; their name means daughters of the evening. this roman bronze shows the baby hercules killing two serpents with his bare hands an early indication of his superhuman strength, and a clue to his father s identity. the labors of hercules the childhood of hercules hercules wa

monsters typhon and echidna. when he was killed, the grief-stricken hera set him in the sky as the constellation draco. sleeping hesperides sources vary as to whether there were three or four hesperides. those shown on the left are aigle, erytheia, and hesperia. so peaceful here, the theft of the apples caused them unspeakable sorrow. in one story, nereus (or prometheus) advised hercules to trick atlas, who supported the sky, into fetching the golden apples. while he was away hercules held up the sky. when atlas returned, he refused to take up his burden again, but hercules persuaded him to do so while he arranged a pad on his head. as soon as atlas had the sky on his shoulders, hercules took the apples and ran. the garden of the hespe rides by frederic leighton (1830 96) this painting sho

n he sent the sword to amaterasu as a token of submission. together with amaterasu s mirror and jewels, it formed the japanese imperial regalia. susano then returned the rice paddy princess to human form and made her his wife. susano no mikoto preparing to kill the eight-headed dragon, 1832, by keisei. the greek gods 124 hera x m mars key married descriptive (nymph) roman name union olympian gods atlas x hesperus hephaestus hesperides vulcan m aphrodite venus the greek gods this family tree, starting with the union of the sky and earth, uranus and gaia, shows the relationships between the greek gods and goddesses mentioned in this book. the fourth generation became the deities of mount olympus and were the first to have children with mortals, thus mixing the divine and human bloodlines. th

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a drug to ward off old age -greek lyric iii ibycus frag 342 (from aelian, on the nature of animals) that is why melanippides says that thetis was pregnant by zeus when she was given in marriage to peleus because of the remarks of prometheus or themis [that she would bear a son greater than his father. greek lyric v melanippides frag 765 (from scholiast on homer s iliad "the titanes had children. atlas (who holds the sky on his shoulders, prometheus, epimetheus, and menoitios (whom zeus struck with a thunderbolt in the titane battle and confined to tartaros, were all sons of iapetos and asia -apollodorus 1.8 -9 "when it came time for the birth, prometheus (or hephaistos, according to some) by the river tiron struck the head of zeus with and ax, and from his crown athene sprang up, clad in

he mainland on the other side he killed with an arrow the eagle on the kaukasos, the product of ekhidna and typhon that had been eating the liver of prometheus. then he selected for himself a restraining bond of olive, and released prometheos; and he offered zeus kheiron, who was willing to die in herakles place. prometheus advised herakles not to go after the apples himself, but rather to relive atlas of the celestial sphere and dispatch him. so when herakles reached atlas among the hyperboreans, he remembered prometheus advise and took over the sphere -apollodorus 2.119-120 "some say that, when zeus was eager to have sex with thetis, prometheus told him that his son by her would take over dominion of the sky -apollodorus 3.169 it was that year when the winged fowl and the dweller in the

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

preceding it, certain signs and tokens are attributed. they consist of a sign, token, grand word, mystic number and pass-word formed therefrom. the sign is thus given. stand with feet together and raise both arms upwards and back, palms up, as if supporting a weight, thus w. it represents you in the path of yesod, supporting the pillars of mercy and severity. it is the sign made by the greek god atlas, who supported the universe on his shoulders and whom hercules was directed to emulate. it is the isis of nature, supporting the heavens. the grip is that of the first order which you received in the preceding grade. the grand word is a name of seven letters, shaddai el chai, which means the almighty and living one. the mystic number is 45, and from it is formed the pass-word which is mem he

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

agrippa, but which is now believed to be by some unknown author. 90 the ritual of transcendental magic the princes of hell, attested judicially. judicially, o m. le comte de mirville. and preserved in the archives of justice as convincing evidences for the trial of the unfortunate urban grandier: these signatures appear under a pact of which collin de plancy gives a facsimile reproduction in the atlas of his infernal dictionary. it has this marginal note: gthe draught is in hell, in the closet of lucifer h, a valuable item of information about a locality but imperfectly explored, and belonging to a period in no wise remote from our own, though anterior to the trial of young labarre and etalonde, who, as everyone knows, were contemporaries of voltaire. evocations were followed frequently b

ibe separately the stars which you have noticed; find the names of all the stars in the planisphere; classify them according to their size and brightness, choosing the most brilliant of all as the pole-star of your astrological operation; find lastly, in the egyptian planisphere, the names and figures of the genii to which these stars belong. a good example of the planisphere will be found in the atlas to the great work of dupuis. you will learn in this manner the fortunate and unfortunate signs enter into the name of the person, and what is their influence; whether in childhood, which is the name traced at the east; in youth, which is the name traced at the south; in mature age, which is the name at the west; in decline, which is the name at the north; or finally, during the whole life, o

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ll! you wouldn't like _that" o o o punched in the nose, taunted by phantoms, given alms instead of reverence, and in divers ways shewn the depths to wihich the denizens of the city had sunk, the intransigence of "the evil manifest there, gibreel became more determined than ever to commence the doing of good, to initiate the great work of rolling back the frontiers of the adversary's dominion. the atlas in his pocket was his master-plan. he would redeem the city square by square, from hockley farm in the north-west cornerr of the charted area to chance wood in the south-east; after which, perhaps. he would celebrate the conclusion of his labours by playing a round of golf at the aptly named course situated at the very edge of the map: wildernesse. and somewhere along the way the adversary h

his garments filthy, his hair lank and greasy, his chin sprouting hair in uncontrollable tufts. it was in this sorry condition that he arrived at the angel underground. it must have been early in the morning, because the station staff drifted up as he watched, to unlock and then roll back the metal grille of night. he followed them in, shuffling along, head low, hands deep in pockets (the street atlas had been discarded long ago; and raising his eyes at last, found himself looking into a face on the verge of dissolving into tears "good morning" he ventured, and the young woman in the ticket office responded bitterly "what's good about it, that's what i want to know" and now her tears did come, plump, globular and plenteous "there, there, child" he said, and she gave him a disbelieving loo

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

strong muslim dynasties. the almoravids ruled morocco and muslim spain in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and the almohads ruled the same areas in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. after the fall of these dynasties, the berbers who lived on the plains gradually became part of the mainstream arab culture. other berber tribes refused to conform and migrated to mountainous areas such as the atlas mountains. they have maintained their traditions for centuries. in the early twentyfirst century berber and arab relations continue to be tense at times in morocco and algeria. 166 world religions: biographies ibn khaldu n bedouin type and the city dweller, or the desert versus the town. for ibn khaldu n, the bedouin type represented the principle of disorder and restlessness, while the city

a: islamic publications bureau, 1975. hiskett, mervyn. the sword of truth: the life and times of shehu usman dan fodio. evanston, il: northwestern university press, 1994. johnston, hugh anthony stephens. the fulani empire of sokoto. london, uk: oxford university press, 1970. last, murray. the sokoto caliphate. london, uk: harlow, longmans, 1967. murray, jocelyn, and sean sheehan. africa: cultural atlas for young people. new york, ny: facts on file, 2003. web sites key episodes in nigerian history: the 19th century: usman dan fodio. nigeriafirst.org. http//www.nigeriafirst.org/article_3847.shtml (accessed on june 2, 2006. peoples. motherland nigeria. http//www.motherlandnigeria.com/people.html# hausa (accessed on june 2, 2006. world religions: biographies 381 usuman dan fodio philips, anza

our father cronides, throned in the highest; that man assuredly lies in a death that is his due; so perish likewise all who work such deeds! but my heart is rent for wise odysseus, that happless one, who far from his friends this long while suffereth affliction in a seagirt isle, where is the naval of the sea, as woodland isle, and therein a goddess hath her habitation, the daughter of the wizard atlas who knows the depths of every sea, and himself upholds the tall pillars which keep earth and sky assunder. his daughter it is that holds the hapless man in sorrow: and ever with soft and guileful tales she is wooing him to forgetfulness of ithaca. but odysseus yearning to see if it were but the smoke leap upwards from his own land, hath a desire to die. as for thee, thine heart regardeth it

flocks, and his kine with trailing feet and shambling gait. and i will guide him to sparta and to sandy pylos to seek tidings of his dear father s return, if peradventure he may hear thereof and that so he may be had in good report among men. spake: spoke. perish: die. rent: torn; broken. happless: unlucky. affliction: torment. seagirt: surrounded by ocean or sea. naval: center. habitation: home. atlas: one of the titans, or giant gods who ruled earth until overthrown by zeus. assunder: apart. guileful: deceptive. wooing: convincing. yearning: longing. wroth: angry. girdler: supporter. quenchless: never satisfied. cyclops: one-eyed giant. unerring: unfailing. rouse: wake. might: strength. achaeans: greek armies. wooers: those hoping to marry odysseus s wife. thronging: large. kine: cattle

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power, and wonder. this chapter shall explore those sites.both sacred and secular.that have fascinated and inspired men and women for thousands of years. m delving deeper gaddis, vincent h. invisible horizons: true mysteries of the sea. philadelphia: chilton books, 1965. gordon, stuart. the encyclopedia of myths and legends. london: headline books, 1993. harpur, james, and jennifer westwood. the atlas of legendary places. new york: konecky& konecky, 1997. ingpen, robert, and philip wilkinson. encyclopedia of mysterious places. new york: barnes& noble, 1999. kusche, lawrence d. the bermuda triangle mystery. solved. new york: harper and row, 1975. larousse dictionary of world folklore. new york: larousse, 1995. spence, lewis. the history of atlantis. new york: university books, 1968. t h e

ome disgusted with the wickedness of humankind. those searching for the ark with the hope of making great profits probably missed that most enduring legacy of the story, a moral that persists regardless of whether or not physical remnants of the ark have been, or can be, found. m delving deeper fasold, david. the ark of noah. new york: wynwood press, 1988. harpur, james and jennifer westwood. the atlas of legendary places. new york: konecky& konecky, 1997. kite, l. patricia, ed. noah fs ark: opposing viewpoints. san diego: greenhaven press, 1989. toumey, christopher p. gwho fs seen noah fs ark? h natural history, l06, no. 9 (october 1997: 14.17. atlantis more than 2,500 years ago, a legend first began to spread about a society of the past that enjoyed an abundance of natural resources, gre

elped form a series of natural defenses that made an invasion of atlantis extremely difficult. the city of atlantis, in the innermost circle, had palaces and temples where wise and powerful rulers lived. the ruling coalition descended from poseidon, the greek god of the sea. poseidon and clieto had five sets of twin sons, according to greek mythology, each of which was given a region of atlantis. atlas, the firstborn son, was given the largest province, which became the city of atlantis, a name that derives from atlas. the finest structure on the island, the temple of poseidon, honored the god and served as the home of the primary ruler. atlantis had a powerful army of professional soldiers, as did each of the other nine regions of the continent. the culture of atlantis promoted learning

is on the seven continents or under the seas, two popular locations are based on areas that, like atlantic ocean regions gbeyond the pillars of hercules, h can be related to plato fs time. one site is the island of crete, where the thriving minoan civilization fell into disarray around 1400 b.c.e. the other site is in present-day turkey, known in ancient times as anatolia, where associations with atlas and his descendants were strong. little was known about minoan culture before the discovery in 1900 of a great palace at knossos on the island of crete by the british archaeologist sir arthur evans (1851.1941. he named the culture that created knossos and thrived on crete gminoan civilization h after minos, the legendary king of crete. the palace at knossos was probably t h e g a l e e n c y

b.c.e. after the defeat of persia by alexander iii (c. 356.323 b.c.e, king of macedonia, lydia was brought under greco-macedonian control, and then in 133 b.c.e. it became part of the roman province of asia. lydia was across the agean sea from greece. a legendary king of lydia was named tantalis: his name sounds similar to atlantis, and he shared many mythic attributes among lydians that the god atlas had among greeks. like atlas, tantalis was a leader of the titans, the group of gods who were overthrown by zeus. in greek mythology, zeus punished atlas by banishing him to the west and made to hold up the sky. a similar fate was shared by tantalis in myths of anatolia (an old name for the region in asia minor that includes turkey. according to that myth, tantalis ruled over a fabulously we

online] http//abcnews.go.com/ wire/scitech/reuters20011206_346.html. copley, jan. gsea level study reveals atlantis candidate. h new scientist, september 19, 2001 [online] http//www.newscientist.com/news/ news.jsp? id fns99991320. donnelly, ignatius. atlantis: the antediluvian world. 1882. evised edition. ed. by egerton sykes. new york: harper& row, 1949. harpur, james, and jennifer westwood. the atlas of legendary places. new york: konecky& konecky, 1997. hill, amelia. gmyth of atlantis all took place in plato fs mind. h the observer, december 16, 2001 [online] http//www.observer.co.uk/international/ story /0,6903,619567,00.html. muck, otto. the secrets of atlantis. new york: times books, 1978. plato. the timaeus and kritias. trans. by desmond lee. london: penguin books, 1977. spence, lew

. arran, an island off the coast of scotland, has been considered a possible model for avalon. the name arran derived from gemhain of the apple trees. h another popular claim for the site of avalon is glastonbury, a longtime apple-growing area in england. m delving deeper gordon, stuart. the encyclopedia of myths and legends. london: headline books, 1993. harpur, james, and jennifer westwood. the atlas of legendary places. new york: konecky& konecky, 1997. ingpen, robert, and philip wilkinson. encyclopedia of mysterious places. new york: barnes& noble, 1999. larousse dictionary of world folklore. new york: larousse, 1995. the bermuda triangle the bermuda triangle, also called the devil fs triangle, is an imaginary area that can be roughly outlined on a map by connecting miami, florida; san

f a great ruler-priest. in 1961, dr. warren wittry unearthed the remains of a circle of red cedar posts that may have been used as a solar calendar to note coming seasons and to help determine when to plant and when to harvest crops. the discovery was dubbed gwoodhenge, h in recognition to its similarity to the circular arrangement known as stonehenge in great britain. sources: harpur, james. the atlas of sacred places. old saybrook, conn: konecky& konecky, 1994. thomas, david hurst. exploring ancient native america. new york: macmillan, 1994. cahokia and its woodhenge vision, an image of the virgin with the babe resting on her knee was carved from a peach tree and placed next to the well and the power point within the dolmen. when the first christians appropriated the area in the third ce

e twentieth and into the twentyfirst century, glastonbury remains the site of official festivals and unofficial gatherings that celebrate its celtic roots. beltane day, as the celts called may day, is celebrated with a festival for the rebirth of the sun. m delving deeper gordon, stuart. the encyclopedia of myths and legends. london: headline books, 1993. harpur, james, and jennifer westwood. the atlas of legendary places. new york: konecky& konecky, 1997. maltwood, katherine e. a guide to glastonbury fs temple of the stars. london: clarke, 1929. hollow earth edmund halley (1656.1742) is best known for having calculated the orbit of a comet that passes by earth every 76 years. the comet known as halley fs made its first appearance under that name in 1682. during the next decade, halley tur

and shavuot. since 1968, jerusalem has been a city divided by uneasy truces and sporadic fighting. perhaps as the twenty-first century progresses, a lasting peace can be achieved and jerusalem may truly become the city of god. m delving deeper halley, h. h. halley fs bible handbook: an abbreviated bible commentary. 24th ed. grand rapids, mich. zondervan publishing house, 1965. harpur, james. the atlas of sacred places. old saybrook, conn: konecky& konecky, 1994. kunstel, marcia, and joseph albright. their promised land: arab and jew in history fs cauldron.one valley in the jerusalem hills. new york: crown publishers, 1990. shanks, hershel. the city of david: a guide to biblical jerusalem.washington, d.c: biblical archaeological society, 1975. starr, chester g. a history of the ancient wor

uilding projects of their own or even to deface some of the statuary had not removed or destroyed enough of karnak to spoil the magic of the place for the generations yet unborn. the whole of the ancient site remains in good condition today, and each year convinces thousands of tourists from all over the world that karnak is indeed gthe most select of places. h m delving deeper harpur, james, the atlas of sacred places. old saybrook, conn: konecky& konecky, 1994. 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 246 places of mystery and power entrance to the temple of karnak (dr. g. t. meaden/fortean picture library) harpur, james, and jennifer westwood. the atlas of legendary places. new york: konecky& konecky, 1997. ingpen, robert, and philip wilk

embers of the medical profession in order to qualify as a miraculous healing do little to deter the five million visitors each year who travel to the small town in the foothills of the pyrenees in search of their own miracle. m delving deeper carrel, alexis. voyage to lourdes. new york: harper& brothers, 1950. cranston, ruth. the miracle of lourdes. new york: mcgraw-hill, 1955. harpur, james. the atlas of sacred places. old saybrook, conn: konecky& konecky, 1994. lourdes, france [online] http//www.lourdes-france. com/bonjour.htm. 2 may 2002. our lady of lourdes [online] http//www.catholic. org/mary/lourdes1.html. 2 may 2002. machu picchu at its height during the 1400s, the incan empire was the largest in the world, stretching 2,500 miles north to south and supporting a population of more t

way, nor did they find incas who could lead them to the site. the reason why machu picchu was abandoned remains a secret lost to time. m delving deeper deuel, leo. conquistadors without swords: archaeologists in the americas. new york: st. martin fs press, 1967. flights into yesterday: the story of aerial photography. new york: st. martin fs press, 1969. harpur, james, and jennifer westwood. the atlas of legendary places. new york: konecky& konecky, 1997. hodges, henry. technology in the ancient world. new york: alfred a. knopf, 1970. irwin, constance. fair gods and stone faces. new york: st. martin fs press, 1963. mayan temples when the spanish conquistadors claimed areas of central america and mexico in the sixteenth century, they discovered the ruins of a great civilization, that of th

n pilgrims crowd into mecca to observe the annual event, it may last a day or two longer to accommodate the vast numbers of the faithful. m delving deeper crim, keith, general ed. the perennial dictionary of world religions. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1989. eerdmans f handbook to the world fs religions. grand rapids, mich: william b. eerdmans f publishing company, 1994. harpur, james. the atlas of sacred places. old saybrook, conn: konecky& konecky, 1994. hixon, lex. heart of the koran. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing co, 1988. westwood, jennifer. mysterious places. new york: galahad books, 1996. the nazca lines on the western side of the andes mountain range are a modern town and a river named nazca, as well as the mysterious remains of an ancient civilization also identifie

tural or human catastrophe. lerner, while searching for evidence of cayce fs prophecies, discovered, as have so many researchers before him, that there exist many intriguing possibilities to further broaden the mystery, and the achievement, of the pyramid builders. m delving deeper de camp, l. sprague. the ancient engineers. new york: barnes& noble, 1993. harpur, james, and jennifer westwood. the atlas of legendary places. new york: konecky& konecky, 1997. hays, h. r. in the beginnings. new york: g. p. putnam fs sons, 1963. hodges, henry. technology in the ancient world. new york: alfred a. knopf, 1970. the sphinx the sphinx at giza faces due east and is referred to in some egyptian hieroglyphics as hamachis, the god of the rising sun. later, hamachis evolved into the name hor-em-akhet. th

ing the construction is not known. still, human sweat and ingenuity were shown as a legitimate alternative to merlin fs magic and other theories about how stonehenge was erected. m delving deeper bahn, paul g, ed. 100 great archaeological discoveries. new york: barnes& noble, 1995. de camp, l. sprague. the ancient engineers. new york: barnes& noble, 1993. harpur, james, and jennifer westwood. the atlas of legendary places. new york: konecky& konecky, 1997. hodges, henry. technology in the ancient world. new york: alfred a. knopf, 1970. taos pueblo in 1992, taos pueblo in new mexico was admitted to the world heritage society as one of the most significant historical cultural landmarks in the world, thereby joining such sites as the taj mahal, the great pyramids, and the grand canyon. for ma

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

our place and role within the environment. maps: maps are usually historical, in that they are descriptions of a place or places already experienced, and are drawn to guide others. note that a map does not per se contain any indications of where one ought to go, or indeed the best way to get there. a map only serves to indicate possible routes. usually the scale of the map needs attention, as an atlas and a street-map both serve different needs. models: usually, a model is a three-dimensional or conceptual map, but as well as being descriptive, it is informative also. a model tends to show not only what is, but how it works. by making a model of a system (systems analysis, one can then vary components of the process and view likely outcomes based on the model. this enables businesses, for

of their relationships to the rest of the system, and not as isolated functions. the deities of yesod relate to varying characteristics of the sephirah itself. thus: air: the middle pillar having attributed to it the element of air, yesod is the realm of skygods such as the greek zeus. foundation: by its meaning and placement on the tree, yesod as foundation has such gods as ganesha and shu, like atlas, supporting the world, or heavens. the grade-sign of the golden dawn for this sephirah is that of shu supporting the firmament. moon: as its primary symbol is that of the moon, yesod has attributed to it such lunar deities as diana. also, in its generative aspect (merging to netzach, diana-artemis of epheseus, the many-breasted. threshold: as the connective element between the nephesch (anim

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

the letter omega is pronounced as "aw" like in the word "saw" thus, the first vowel in the word gnosis sounds like the first vowel in the word gnostic. 11. an alternative vibration would be oe e lo-"themelioosr "foundation" pronounced "theh-mel-lee-ohs" 12. the "great spirit" of the lakota tribes\ 13. a god of the crow tibe of the plains. 14. a healing spirit of the dakota (sioux) tribes. 15. an atlas-like god of the tsimishan tribe of the pacific northwest. 16. algonquin earth goddess. 17. the "great spirit" of the lakota tribes (alternative deities for kether would be manitou, the great spirit known to many tribes, the iroquois' orenda, the oglala's wakan tanka, and the eskimo's innua) 18. creator god of the dakota (sioux) tribes. 19. iroquois/huron great mother goddess (an alternative

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

ted to blood taken from a victim at the moment of sacrifice because of the adrenaline which is produced at that time. i am told this addiction is quite common among satanists, and researchers into the reptilian question suggest that this is the substance the reptiles also want. it all fits (note: below is the reference to denver, colorado being a major satanic centre. i checked with encarta world atlas and littleton is only 16 km from denver "low income parents, and those addicted to drugs, are at the mercy of the freemasons and satanists operating among the social services hierarchy and judges. their children are often taken away from them for satanic ritual or mind control projects. so called 'crack' babies are apparently sought after for mind control operations, as are twins. i know of

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

second. indeed, in some areas- notably wales- it is considered the great holiday. may day ushers in the fifth month of the modern calendar year, the month of may. this month is named in honor of the goddess maia, originally a greek mountain nymph, later identified as the most beautiful of the seven sisters, the pleiades. by zeus, she is also the mother of hermes, god of magic. maia's parents were atlas and pleione, a sea nymph. eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 17 the old celtic name for may day is beltane (in its most popular anglicized form, which is derived from the irish gaelic 'bealtaine' or the scottish gaelic 'bealtuinn, meaning 'bel-fire, the fire of the celtic god of light (bel, beli or belinus. he, in turn, may be traced to the middle eastern god

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

wes tcott 10. tartarus, from its being at the lowest extremity, is dissimilarly similar to god, at the highest end of the series. 11. the styx, from its immutable nature. 12. horror, the ineffable, is perfectly unknown and is therefore terrible. 13. void of mixture, from the simplicity of the nature of the ineffable. 14. lethe, oblivion, ignorance. 15. a virgin, from the purity of its nature. 16. atlas, it connects, supports and separates all things. 17. the sun. 18. apollo. 19. pyralios, dweller in fire. 2 0. morpho. 2 1. the axis. 2 2. vesta, or the fire in the center of the earth. 2 3. spermatic reason. 2 4. the point within a circle, the central fire deity. the lingam, an upright pillar, was its hindu symbol. the monad being esteemed the father of numbers is the reason for the universa

th 7 years, perfection of both. ninth 7 years, equity and mildness, passions become gentle. tenth 7 years, the end of desirable life. solon the athenian lawgiver, and hippocrates the physician, also used this 7-year division of life. the pleiades, a group of seven stars in the constellation taurus, was thought of mighty power over earthly destiny; there were seven also of the hyades, daughters of atlas; and the seven stars which guided the sailors. ursa major, in which the hindus locate the sapta rishi, seven sages of primitive wisdom, are a group of the first importance and are easily recognized. duncan, in his astro-theology, gives 7 stages of life with associated planets; thus, infancy, moon, luna; childhood, mercury, knowledge; youth, venus, love; numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys

the dogmas of esoteric buddhism. the kabalah divides these into four planes of the soul, which are further separated by adepts; these are chiah, neshamah, ruach and nephesh, which correspond to the symbolical worlds of atziluth, briah, yetzirah and assiah. there is an occult reference in the seven stars in the head of taurus called the pleiades, six present and one hidden said to be daughters of atlas, who, pursued by numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott orion, were changed by zeus in mercy into pigeons (peleia. the missing one is merope, who married the mortal sisyphus and hides herself for shame. seven was the number of the rabbis who left the greater holy assembly; ten had formed it, three had passed away from the sod, svd, mystery. see the greater

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