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ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

a one, or read the "akasic record" of his mind<magician belong to adepts sworn to suffer reincarnation at short intervals, and the best elements of such minds are bound up in the "unconscious self" of the adept, not left to wander idly about the astral plane. it will thus be more profitable to try to get into touch with the "dead teacher" in his present avatar. moreover, adepts are at pains to record their teaching in books, monuments, or pictures, and to appoint spiritual guardians to preserve such heirlooms throughout the generations. whenever these are destroyed or lost, the reason usually is that the adept himself judges that their usefulness is over, and withdraws the forces which protected them. the student is therefore advised to acquiesce

an gods: small selection of: hindu deities: 0 :harpocrates, amoun, nuith :aum: 1 :ptah, asar un nefer, hadith :parabrahm (or any other whom: one wishes to please: 2 :amoun, thoth, nuith (zodiac.:shiva, vishnu (as buddha ava: tara).akasa(as matter).lingam: 3 :maut, isis, nephthys :bhavani (all forms of sakti: prana (as force, yoni: 4 :amoun, isis :indra, brahma: 5 :horus, nephthys :vishnu, varruna-avatar: 6 :asar, ra :vishnu-hari-krishna-rama: 7 :hathoor :bhavani (all forms of sakti: prana (as force, yoni: 8 :anubis :hanuman: 9 :shu :ganesha vishnu (kurm avatar: 10 :seb. lower (i.e. unwedded :lakshmi, etc (kundalini: isis and nephthys :11 :nu :the maruts (vayu: 12 :thoth and cynocephalus :hanuman, vishnu (as parasa: rama: 13 :chomse :chandra (as moon: 14 :hathoor :lalita(sexual aspect of sa

(kundalini: isis and nephthys :11 :nu :the maruts (vayu: 12 :thoth and cynocephalus :hanuman, vishnu (as parasa: rama: 13 :chomse :chandra (as moon: 14 :hathoor :lalita(sexual aspect of sakti: 15 :men thu :shiva: 16 :asar ameshet apis :shiva (sacred bull: 17 :various twin dieties, rehkt :various twin and hybrid: merti, etc: deities: 18 :kephra: 19 :ra-hoor-khuit, pasht, sekhet,:vishnu (nara-singh avatar: mau, sekhmet: 20 :isis (as virgin :the gopi girls, the lord of: yoga: 21 :amoun-ra :brahma, indra: 22 :ma :yama :23 :tum athph auramoth (as water):soma (apas: asar (as hanged man: hekar, isis: 24 :merti goddesses, typhon :kundalini: apep, khephra: 25.:vishnu (horse-avatar: 26 :khem (set :lingam, yoni: 27 :horus: 28 :ahephi, aroueris: 29 :khephra (as scarab in tarot :vishnu (matsya avatar:

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

y cured by a single dose. chapter iv: p14. no known state of pure zro is stable. from this it will be seen how entirely atlas was in the hands of the servile races. fortunately no trouble ever arose; the supply of labour was always ample. p15. there was also a settlement in finland. its only remains in historic periods is 'lapland witches' chapter v: p16. there are various theories; one a sort of avatar affair, another that the atla is a quintessence of some kind; another calls 'to her' the 'angel of venus, the force of our aspiration' p16. a mere compliment. p17. especially monkeys. the results of this experiment were sent to colonize an island, but escaped, and after many journeys, reached japan, where their descendents flourish still. p19. a partial exception existed for prime numbers

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

sed it on victorian male conceptions of "unliberated women. the comment to this and the previous verse may say more about the defensive insecurity of crowley the man than the verses of liber al. in chapter i comment, remember that all this is a male mind trying to contemplate the revelations of a goddess. square peg and round hole problems may arise. i feel a certain necessity to explain that an 'avatar' implies rather a release from the limits of personality than anything else. the scarlet woman and i are peculiarly representative of nuit and hadit by virtue of our attainments in making our consciousness omniform as they re. it must not be supposed that our original individualities can claim any special prerogatives as such. al i,18 "burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent" the old co

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

ain from that chain in our scheme which is called the "venus" chain, and which is the second chain. he came via the second globe in our chain; his scarcely felt vibration was sensed- 218- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust (occultly) in the second round, but only in the third root-race of the fourth round did conditions permit of his physical incarnation and of his coming as the avatar. very reverently might it be said that the first three rounds and the two succeeding root-races in this chain correspond to the period prior to birth; and that his coming in the fourth round with the subsequent awakening of manas in the human units find their analogy in the awakening of the life principle in the unborn infant at the fourth month. the analogy holds good, for a heavenly man a

thought, and much of moment for the profound student. we might couple with these suggestions the recollection that we are speaking here only of the logos of our own scheme, and must carefully differentiate other cycles for the other logoi a thing as yet impossible for us. as this is meditated upon and studied, the wonder and beauty of the plan will become apparent. a clue to the idea of the final avatar is likewise to be seen here. many temporary incarnations precede this consummating one, which will be the incarnation wherein the heavenly man, in the full beauty of his completed seven cycles, and prior to his merging into his synthesising goal, will demonstrate as the embodiment of that perfected quality, or logoic aspect, for which he primarily stands. as a centre in the body logoic, he

ource. this in many ways sums up the totality of the present knowledge. let us briefly enlarge upon it, correct certain erroneous interpretations, and ascertain one or two new facts. we might tabulate these as follows: first, it should be borne in mind by the occult student that: a. this advent signalised the taking of a physical vehicle by the planetary logos, and was literally the coming of the avatar. b. that this advent was brought about by a definite systemic alignment which involved: the venus scheme of the system. the venus chain of the earth scheme. the venus globe of the earth chain. c. that the planetary logos did not come from the venus scheme but from the venus chain of his own scheme, the earth scheme. owing to systemic alignment logoic kundalini could flow through a certain t

f that scheme overcame the antagonistic forces, triumphed over material forms, and was consequently in a position when the right time came to apply the needed stimulation or an increased fiery vibration to our earth scheme. the fact that outside aid was called in during the third root-race of this chain, and that the evolution of manas brought about the individualisation, in physical form, of the avatar, needs to be pondered on. the divine manasaputra, the lord of the world, took form himself through the driving impulse of manas, inherent in his nature, and in some mysterious way this was aided by another heavenly man of another scheme. his co-operation was required. d. summation. we have been studying the origin of manas, and we saw first, that it is the active will, intelligently applied

of the mysteries, perhaps a little light may be thrown upon this profound subject. for purposes of clarity and in order to elucidate a matter of extreme difficulty to the occidental mind above all (on account of the fact that it has not yet grasped the rationale of the process of reincarnation, it would be wise to divide the differing types of avatars into five groups, bearing in mind that every avatar is a ray, emanated from a pure spiritual source, and that a self-conscious entity only earns the right to this peculiar form of work through a previous series of lives of achievement. 1. cosmic avatars. 2. solar avatars. 3. inter-planetary avatars. 4. planetary avatars. 5. human avatars- 427- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust as just said, an avatar is a ray of effulgent

aid, an avatar is a ray of effulgent and perfected glory, clothing itself in matter for the purpose of service. all avatars in the strict sense of the word are liberated souls, but the cosmic and solar avatars are liberated from the two lower planes of the cosmic planes. while the planetary and the interplanetary avatars are liberated from the cosmic physical plane, our systemic planes, the human avatar has achieved freedom from the five planes of human endeavour. in a strictly technical and lower sense, a master in physical plane incarnation is a type of avatar, for he is a "freed soul" and therefore only chooses to incarnate for specific purpose, but we will not deal with them. let us again subdivide these groups so as still further to clarify our ideas: 1. cosmic avatars: they represent

itiation of the solar logos, and they have a peculiar connection with the five kumaras and through them (using them as focal points for force) with the mahachohan's department in all the occult hierarchies of the system. only once has such a being visited our system, in connection with the appearance in time and space of the five mind-born sons of brahma. the effect of such a visit as that of the avatar from sirius is seen as the sumtotal of civilisation and culture, viewing these from the standpoint of the entire system and in one flash of time. an avatar from the cosmic centre will appear as pralaya is nearing and will produce in the body of the logos that which we call "death" he is the cosmic reaper, and (to reduce the above to- 428- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust

mic visitors, and are mainly concerned with certain processes in the system, among others the administration of the law of cause and effect, or of karma. they embody the karma of the past kalpas as far as our logos is concerned, and give the initiatory impulse to the processes of adjustment, of expiation and of recognition as it concerns the present system as a whole. one such entity, the "karmic avatar" appeared upon the second logoic vibration, being swept in on the second breath; he has stayed until now: he will remain with us until all the schemes have entered upon their fifth round, and are nearing their "judgment day" at that time, he can withdraw, leaving the planetary logoi concerned to fulfil the karmic purpose unwatched. the vibratory impulse will then be so strong and the realis

of the buddhic principle so consciously vivid that nothing can then arrest the onward march of affairs. under him work a number of cosmic entities who, as stated in the secret doctrine,41(211) have the privilege of "passing the ring-pass-not; these are, nevertheless, not avatars for they are themselves evolving through the administration of karma. it is their work, and opportunity to progress. an avatar can learn nothing from the place of his appearance. his work is to apply the force of some type of electrical energy to substance in one of its many grades, and thus bring about anticipated results. another type of solar avatar, who can be seen appearing in the schemes, has relation to the heart centre of a planetary logos, and appears on the higher planes (never on the lower) when the hear

ivity. it is this planetary phenomenon which produces (in connection with the fourth kingdom in nature) the throwing open of the door of initiation to man. such avatars do not come in connection with any particular hierarchy but only in relation to the total system. they produce the blending of the colours, and the synthesis of the units in their groups. at the initiation of a planetary logos, an avatar may appear in his scheme on the seventh globe from that cosmic centre or star which is ensouled by the particular rishi who (in the constellation of the great bear) is his cosmic prototype. this is, for the entity concerned, the- 429- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust taking of a physical form, for our higher planes are but matter from their standpoint. this has been emph

he particular rishi who (in the constellation of the great bear) is his cosmic prototype. this is, for the entity concerned, the- 429- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust taking of a physical form, for our higher planes are but matter from their standpoint. this has been emphasised frequently, as its significance is not yet sufficiently grasped. by means of the appearance of this avatar on the seventh globe, the planetary logos is enabled to preserve continuity of cosmic consciousness even when in physical incarnation; this solar avatar performs the same function for the planetary logos as the guru does for his disciple. he makes certain events possible by means of the stimulation and protection of his aura, and he acts as a transmitter of electrical energy from the cosmic

cal incarnation; this solar avatar performs the same function for the planetary logos as the guru does for his disciple. he makes certain events possible by means of the stimulation and protection of his aura, and he acts as a transmitter of electrical energy from the cosmic centre. we must be careful to hold this analogy very lightly, for the real work accomplished cannot be grasped by man. this avatar has naturally a direct effect upon the centres of the heavenly man and therefore upon the units or human monads, but only indirectly and upon the monad on its own plane. this influence meets with little response from the monad until after the third initiation when its conscious life becomes so strong that it grips afresh its egoic expression in one direction, and awakens to planetary realis

ffect upon the centres of the heavenly man and therefore upon the units or human monads, but only indirectly and upon the monad on its own plane. this influence meets with little response from the monad until after the third initiation when its conscious life becomes so strong that it grips afresh its egoic expression in one direction, and awakens to planetary realisation in another. this type of avatar appears only at the time of the initiation of a planetary logos. the number of initiations taken by a planetary logos in this system vary from two to four. 3. interplanetary avatars. a very interesting group of avatars is here to be found. they are mainly concerned with three things: first with the superintendence of the transfer of force units or egoic groups from one scheme to another (no

s at the time of its densest physical appearance, and has relation to the transference of deva impulse from one scheme to another. they are connected in this way with the appearance of the self-conscious units, being the primal embodiment of the latent self-consciousness of the atom of deva substance. they set the type for the devas of any particular scheme. once in the history of each scheme, an avatar from the constellation capricorn appears on mental- 430- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust levels. this level is the lowest one on which these interplanetary deities appear. no more can be communicated on this matter "the mystery of the goat" lies hidden here. this avatar makes his appearance in the third round of the third chain, and disappears in the fifth round of the

ysical manifestation) certain uncompleted work. 4. planetary avatars. these emanate from the central planetary logos of a scheme and embody his will and purpose. they are of two different kinds. the first type is a manifestation on etheric physical levels of the planetary logos himself for a specific length of time. it involves the definite taking of a physical body by one of the kumaras. such an avatar is to be seen in sanat kumara, who, with the three other kumaras, embodies the four planetary quaternic principles. in a very real sense, sanat kumara is the incarnation of the lord of the ray himself; he is the silent watcher, the great sacrifice for humanity.42(212) as noted in the above paragraph, there are secondly three entities who embody planetary principles. they are (speaking from

noted in the above paragraph, there are secondly three entities who embody planetary principles. they are (speaking from the present standpoint) the dynamic energy which holds together the three lower kingdoms, viewing these kingdoms as units and not as differentiations. they are closely connected with the energy aspect of the three earlier chains, and it only needed the work of an interplanetary avatar (at the formation of the triangle which resulted in the individualisation period in lemurian days) to enable them to take etheric bodies and incarnate among men. they act as focal points for the energy of the planetary logos on his own plane. the first kumara is in a mysterious sense the energy which produces self-consciousness in the human family. the three other kumaras, or the three budd

ir physical brains, and therefore in substance as does man, but the process is carried on in the etheric brain. this should be pondered on, for it holds the mystery hid. also, the fact that some of these lords of the rays are more proficient in meditation than others, and thus achieve differing results which work out in their schemes, should be carefully borne in mind (d) the future coming of the avatar. the coming avatar "from the zenith to the nadir, from dawn to fall of night, from the emergence into being of all that is or may be to the passing into peace of all that hath achieved, gleameth the orb of blue and the inner radiant fire. from the gates of gold down to the pit of earth, out from the flaming fire down to the circle of gloom, rideth the secret avatar, bearing the sword that p

ng the circle of the spheres, and sounding forth the word. from the nadir to the zenith, from eve unto the day be with us, from the circle of manifestation to the centre of pralayic peace, is seen the enveloping blue, lost in the flame of achievement. up from the pit of maya back to the portals of gold, forth from the gloom and darkness back to the splendour of day, rideth the manifested one, the avatar, bearing the shattered cross. naught can arrest his return, none can impede his path, for he passeth along the upper way, bearing his people with him. cometh the dissolution of pain, cometh the end of strife, cometh the merging of the spheres and the blending of the hierarchies. all then is re-absorbed within the orb, the circle of manifestation. the forms that exist in maya, and the flame

on for that specific purpose, or the energy of one of the planetary logoic principles, as it pours through him via a particular spirilla or life current in the permanent atom of the planetary logos. when these types of force are centralised in any particular adept, and he is expressing simply that extraneous force and nothing else, the effect is shown on the physical plane in the appearance of an avatar. an avatar is, but an adept is made, but frequently the force, energy, purpose or will of a cosmic entity will utilise the vehicles of an adept in order to contact the physical planes. this method whereby cosmic existences make their power felt can be seen- 444- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust working out on all the planes of the cosmic physical plane. a striking instan

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

are of use in this place: 1. the fish is the symbol of the vishnu aspect, the christ principle, the second aspect of divinity, the christ in incarnation, whether it is the cosmic christ (expressing himself through a solar system) or the individual christ the potential saviour within each human being. this is the "christ in you, the hope of glory (col. i:27) if the student will also study the fish avatar of vishnu he will learn still more. 2. the fish swimming in the waters of matter, an extension of the same idea only carried down to its more obvious present expression, man as the personality. where there is no longing for any object whatsoever, and where there is no desire for rebirth (ever the outcome of longing for "form-expression" or material manifestation) then the true thirstlessnes

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

ns from the astral body of this great life the work of breaking down the separative wall of individualism which demonstrates in man as selfishness and in nations as nationalism is carried forward. through this rapidly integrating etheric body this life is bringing the etheric body of our planet into a state of increased rapid vibration. reference will be found in the treatise on cosmic fire to an avatar from sirius who comes to bring about certain planetary effects. this life is not that avatar but is in the nature of a forerunner of a st. john the baptist, who "baptiseth with water (astral emanations) and the holy ghost. more information along these lines is not possible, but mention is made of it, as the energies coming from these two factors must be borne in mind. 3. astral energies ema

ting the group nature, manifesting in a small way the true significance of the body of christ, and giving to the world a picture of the true nature of a spiritual organism will so stimulate and energize the thoughts and souls of men that the new age will be ushered in by an outpouring of the love, knowledge and harmony of god himself. religions in the past have been founded by a great soul, by an avatar, by an outstanding spiritual personality, and the stamp of their lives and words and teaching has been set upon the race and has persisted for many centuries. what will be the effect of the message of a group avatar? what will be the potency of the work of a group of knowers of god, enunciating truth and banded together subjectively in the great work of saving the world? what will be the ef

ALICE A BAILEY11 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME II ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY II

, produce the light. in a curious and esoteric manner, therefore, the buddha embodied in himself the force and activity of the third ray, of the third aspect of divinity the divine cosmic principle of intelligence. by its fusion with the ray of our solar system (the ray of love) he expressed perfectly the significance of light in matter, of the intelligence principle as found in form, and was the avatar who carried in himself the fully ripened seeds of the past solar system. we should not forget that our present solar system is, as was stated in a treatise on cosmic fire, the second in a series of three systems. then came the next great avatar, the christ, who, enfolding in himself all that the buddha had of light and wisdom (being fully enlightened in the occult and spiritual sense) on th

ese are steps towards the approach of acquiescence which will become possible on our planet before long. there are after these seven and five steps three more to be taken before the cosmic approach of enlightenment can take place in a far distant future. so humanity enters into the outer court of god's love, passes into the holy place and is raised in the secret place of the most high. later, the avatar will emerge who will embody in himself all that the buddha had of enlightenment and all that christ had of acquiescing love. he will, however, also embody the energy which produced the approach of appropriation, and when he comes forth, there will transpire a great appropriation by humanity of its recognised divinity, and the establishing upon earth of a station of light and of power which

r, also embody the energy which produced the approach of appropriation, and when he comes forth, there will transpire a great appropriation by humanity of its recognised divinity, and the establishing upon earth of a station of light and of power which will make possible the externalising of the mysteries of initiation upon earth. this approach is the cause of much of the present turmoil, for the avatar is on his way. much of the above can mean but little to those who are not yet upon the path of accepted discipleship. we are here dealing with some of the major mysteries. but a mystery only remains a mystery when ignorance and unbelief exist. there is no mystery where there is knowledge and faith. the coming of the avatar who will fuse in himself three principles of divinity is an inevitab

ifficult initiatory processes. the reason for this difficulty and for the importance of this temple is due to the fact that our solar system is a system of love, of sentient response to the love of god, and of the development of that response through the innate faculty of feeling or sentiency. this calls for the cooperation of a son of god who will embody two divine principles. later will come an avatar who will achieve neither the full enlightenment of the buddha nor the full expression of the divine love of the christ, but who will have a large measure of wisdom and of love, plus that "materialising power" which will enable him to found a divine powerhouse upon the physical plane. his task, in many ways, is far more difficult than that of the two preceding avatars, for he carries in hims

ion- 170- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust finally will come the initiation of the transfiguration, wherein the light breaks forth, the touch of enlightenment is given, and the soul and the personality stand forth as one. this process requires also the aid of the buddha and the inspiration of the christ, and it is "occultly guarded" by the avatar of the physical plane. in all the above information there is given a hint as to what will take place when human personalities are actively functioning and steadily awakening. the rapid coming of the avatar who will found the station of light and power upon the physical plane is dependent upon the rapid unfoldment and appearance of integrated personalities who love and think and seek to serv

ink and seek to serve. there has here been given a new hint upon one of the more esoteric aspects of the work of the new group of world servers, and a hint at the same time as to the reason that this treatise upon the seven rays has been written. an understanding of the rays and of the impelling forces in, through, and with which the personality has to work was essential if the work of this third avatar from cosmic sources, was to be made possible. we have thus endeavored to outline something of the problems of the personality from the angle of the larger issues. we have, as the occult law dictates, begun with the relation of the form to the soul, with the descent of life and the ascent of the sons of god, and we have carried the thought forward to the fact of the hierarchy, working under

d world states are from the consciousness of the aboriginal savage. in connection with the problem of "presented attributes, it might be stated that those which characterise the soul and which cannot express themselves until the soul is consciously known and steadily achieving control, could be illustrated through attention to the word love. love is such a presented attribute, and it took a great avatar, such as the christ, to grasp for humanity and present to humanity its significance. it has taken two thousand years for this presented attribute to take even the form it has in the consciousness of the human family, and those of us who are students of world affairs well know how unknown real love is. even today, in relation to the entire planetary population, there is only a very small gro

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

on others when the fire of the mind is let loose with its destroying, burning and damaging effects. the masters are, therefore, anxious to "burn up the disciple in the fire of the will-to-love so that he is set free and the barriers to the inflow of the avataric force may be dissolved" why is this? because it is the disciples in the world and not the mass of men who today hinder the coming of the avatar and render useless his intention. he dare not come until the disciples and aspirants in the world bring about the needed changes in themselves, for the reason that there would not be "enough of the will-to-love with the fiery essence" where that will is present two things can take place: 1. there can be the needed stepping-down of the inflowing energy which the avatar would bring with him s

e until the disciples and aspirants in the world bring about the needed changes in themselves, for the reason that there would not be "enough of the will-to-love with the fiery essence" where that will is present two things can take place: 1. there can be the needed stepping-down of the inflowing energy which the avatar would bring with him so that it can be rendered effective in humanity. 2. the avatar and those who are working with him and under his influence can be provided with a group which can: a. respond intelligently to that influence, recognising it and absorbing it. b. distribute the inflowing energy- 555- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust c. interpret to humanity the new impelling forces which are occupied with the precipitation of the new vision

inflowing energy- 555- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust c. interpret to humanity the new impelling forces which are occupied with the precipitation of the new vision, the new world order and the new age ideals. there will then be very many chelas in the light and on the other graded steps of discipleship. the vision which many have of the influence and work of the avatar is that of a great appearance which will end all strife, inaugurate the new era of peace and goodwill, soothe the hearts of the people and lead mankind into realms of beauty and of happiness. he will be the consummation of the wishful thinking of countless minds down the ages. he will be the solace of distressed humanity. he will sweetly love and quietly deal with his own people and will sw

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

ming is anticipated. always in the past, it has been the religious teachers of the period who have fostered and proclaimed this expectancy and the time has always been one of chaos and difficulty, of a climaxing point at the close of a civilisation or culture and when the resources of the old religions have seemed inadequate to meet men's difficulties or to solve their problems. the coming of the avatar, the advent of a coming one and, in terms of today, the reappearance of the christ are the keynotes of the prevalent expectancy. when the times are ripe, the invocation of the masses is strident enough and the faith of those who know is keen enough, then always he has come and today will be no exception to this ancient rule or to this universal law. for decades, the reappearance of the chri

the advent of a coming one and, in terms of today, the reappearance of the christ are the keynotes of the prevalent expectancy. when the times are ripe, the invocation of the masses is strident enough and the faith of those who know is keen enough, then always he has come and today will be no exception to this ancient rule or to this universal law. for decades, the reappearance of the christ, the avatar, has been anticipated by the faithful in both hemispheres not only by the christian faithful, but by those who look for maitreya and for the boddhisattva as well as those who expect the imam mahdi. when men feel that they have exhausted all their own resources and have come to an end of all their own innate possibilities and that the problems and conditions confronting them are beyond their

s the christ, and the scriptures of the world are full of the intervention of some being, originating from some source higher than the strictly human. always the appropriate mechanism is found through which divinity can reach and communicate with humanity, and it is with this communication and these instruments of divine energy that the doctrine of avatars or of divine "coming ones" has to do. an avatar is one who has a peculiar capacity (besides a self-initiated task and a pre-ordained destiny) to transmit energy or divine power. this is necessarily a deep mystery and was demonstrated in a peculiar manner and in relation to cosmic energy by the christ who for the first time in planetary history, as far as we know transmitted the divine energy of love directly to our planet and in a most d

ds of years after they no longer walk among men. again and again, they have come and have left a changed world and some new world religion behind them; we know also that prophecy and faith have ever held out to mankind the promise of their coming again amongst us in an hour of need. these statements are statements of fact, historically proven. beyond this we know relatively few details. the word "avatar" is a sanskrit word, meaning literally "coming down from far away" ava (as prefix to verbs and verbal nouns) expresses the idea of "off, away, down" avataram (comparative) farther away. the root av seems at all times to denote the idea of protection from above, and is used in compounds, in words referring to protections by kings or rulers; in regard to the gods, it means accepted favourably

ely divorced themselves from every limitation, from all sense of self hood and separativeness and are no longer by ordinary human standards the dramatic centre of their lives, as are most of us. when they have reached that stage of spiritual decentralisation, they themselves can then become events in the life of our planet; toward them every eye can look and all men can be affected. therefore, an avatar or a christ comes forth for two reasons: one, the inscrutable and unknown cause prompts him so to do, and the other is the demand or the invocation of humanity itself. an avatar is consequently a spiritual event, coming to us to bring about great changes or major restorations, to inaugurate a new civilisation or to restore the "ancient landmarks" and lead man nearer to the divine. they have

men who from time to time appear to change the face of the world and inaugurate a new era in the destinies of humanity" they come in times of crisis; they frequently create crises in order to bring to an end the old and the undesirable and make way for new and more suitable forms for the evolving life of god immanent in nature. they come when evil is rampant. for this reason, if for no other, an avatar may be looked for today. the necessary stage is set for the reappearance of the christ. avatars are of all degrees and kinds; some of them are of great planetary importance because they express whole cycles of future development within themselves and strike the note and give the teaching which will bring in a new age and a new civilisation; they embody great truths towards which the masses

on and have attained to the highest possible initiations. they have the gift of being these embodied spiritual qualities, and because they have in fullness expressed such a specific principle or quality they can act as channels for its transmission from the centre of all spiritual life. this is the basis for the doctrine of avatars or divine messengers. such an one was the christ; he was twice an avatar because he not only struck the keynote of the new age (over two thousand years ago) but he also, in some mysterious and incomprehensible manner, embodied in himself the divine principle of love; he was the first to reveal to men the true nature of god. the invocative cry of humanity (the second of the incentives producing a divine emergence) is potent in effect because the souls of men, par

e also, in some mysterious and incomprehensible manner, embodied in himself the divine principle of love; he was the first to reveal to men the true nature of god. the invocative cry of humanity (the second of the incentives producing a divine emergence) is potent in effect because the souls of men, particularly in concerted action, have in them something which is akin to the divine nature of the avatar. we are all gods, all the children of the one father, as the latest of the avatars, the christ, has told us. it is that divine centre in every human heart which, when awakened into activity, can call forth response from the high place where the coming one awaits his hour of appearance. it is only the united demand of humanity, its "massed intent" which can precipitate the descent (as it is

all gods, all the children of the one father, as the latest of the avatars, the christ, has told us. it is that divine centre in every human heart which, when awakened into activity, can call forth response from the high place where the coming one awaits his hour of appearance. it is only the united demand of humanity, its "massed intent" which can precipitate the descent (as it is called) of an avatar. to sum up, therefore: the doctrine of avatars is paralleled by the doctrine of the continuity of revelation. ever down the ages, and at every great human crisis, always in the hours of necessity, at the founding of a new race, or in the awakening of a prepared humanity to a new and wider vision, the heart of god impelled by the law of compassion sends forth a teacher, a world saviour, an i

up, therefore: the doctrine of avatars is paralleled by the doctrine of the continuity of revelation. ever down the ages, and at every great human crisis, always in the hours of necessity, at the founding of a new race, or in the awakening of a prepared humanity to a new and wider vision, the heart of god impelled by the law of compassion sends forth a teacher, a world saviour, an illuminator, an avatar, a transmitting intermediary, a christ. he gives the message which will heal, which will indicate the next step to be taken by the race of men, which will illumine a dark world problem and give to man an expression of some hitherto unrealised aspect of divinity. upon this fact of the continuity of revelation and upon the sequence of this progressive manifestation of the divine nature, is ba

hat the worldwide expectancy of the reappearance of the christ is based. it is the innate recognition of all these facts that has led to the steadily mounting invocative cry of humanity in every land for some form of divine relief or divine intervention; it is the recognition of these facts which also prompts the order which has gone forth from "the centre where the will of god is known" that the avatar should come again; it is the knowledge of both these demands which has led the christ to let his disciples in every land know that he will reappear when they have done the needed preparatory work. the avatars most easily known and recognised are the buddha in the east and the christ in the west. their messages are familiar to all, and the fruits of their lives and words have conditioned the

ause they are of like nature to us "flesh of our flesh and spirit of our spirit" we know and trust them and they mean more to us than other divine emergences. they are known, trusted and loved by countless millions. the nucleus of spiritual energy which each of them set up is beyond our measuring; the establishing of a nucleus of persistent energy, spiritually positive, is the constant task of an avatar; he focusses or anchors a dynamic truth, a potent thoughtform or a vortex of magnetic energy in the world of human living. this focal point acts increasingly as a transmitter of spiritual energy; it enables humanity to express some divine idea and this in time produces a civilisation with its accompanying culture, religions, policies, governments and educational processes. thus is history m

point acts increasingly as a transmitter of spiritual energy; it enables humanity to express some divine idea and this in time produces a civilisation with its accompanying culture, religions, policies, governments and educational processes. thus is history made. history is after all only the record of humanity's cyclic reaction to some inflowing divine energy, to some inspired leader, or to some avatar. an avatar is at present usually a representative of the second divine aspect, that of love-wisdom, the love of god. he will manifest as the saviour, the builder, the preserver; humanity is not yet sufficiently developed or adequately oriented to the life of the spirit to bear easily the impact of an avatar who would express the dynamic will of god. for us as yet (and this is our limitation

r. an avatar is at present usually a representative of the second divine aspect, that of love-wisdom, the love of god. he will manifest as the saviour, the builder, the preserver; humanity is not yet sufficiently developed or adequately oriented to the life of the spirit to bear easily the impact of an avatar who would express the dynamic will of god. for us as yet (and this is our limitation) an avatar is one who preserves, develops, builds, protects, shields and succours the spiritual impulses by which men live; that which brings him into manifestation is man's need and man's demand for preservation and help. humanity needs love, understanding and right human relations as an expression of attained divinity. it was this need which brought the christ to us before as the avatar of love. the

tar of love. the christ, that great human-divine messenger, because of his stupendous achievement along the line of understanding transmitted to humanity an aspect and a potency of the nature of god himself, the love principle of deity. light, aspiration, and the recognition of god transcendent had been the flickering expression of the human attitude to god, prior to the advent of the buddha, the avatar of illumination. then the buddha came and demonstrated in his own life the fact of god immanent as well as god transcendent, of god in the universe and of god within humanity. the selfhood of deity and the self in the heart of individual man became a factor in human consciousness. it was a relatively new truth to man. however, until christ came and lived a life of love and service and gave

rse and of god within humanity. the selfhood of deity and the self in the heart of individual man became a factor in human consciousness. it was a relatively new truth to man. however, until christ came and lived a life of love and service and gave men the new command to love one another, there had been very little emphasis upon god as love in any of the world scriptures. after he had come as the avatar of love, then god became known as love supernal, love as the goal and objective of creation, love as the basic principle of relationship and love as working throughout all manifestation towards a plan motivated by love. this divine quality, christ revealed and emphasised and thus altered all human living, goals and values. the reason he has not come again is that the needed work has not bee

, political and economic. to the above must be added what christians like to call "the inscrutable will of god" that unrecognised purpose of the lord of the world, the ancient of days (as he is called in the old testament) who "knows his own mind, radiates the highest quality of love and focusses his will in his own high place within the centre where the will of god is known" when the christ, the avatar of love, makes his reappearance then will the "sons of men who are now the sons of god withdraw their faces from the shining light and radiate that light upon the sons of men who know not yet they are the sons of god. then shall the coming one appear, his footsteps hastened through the valley of the shadow by the one of awful power who stands upon the mountain top, breathing out love eterna

attention of humanity and gradually developed into civilisations and cultures. such is the urgency of human need at this time, and such is the- 40- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust opportunity, that one such son of god is during this cycle of tension seeking to cooperate with the christ. as a result of christ's decision and his "spiritual fusion" with the will of god, the avatar of synthesis has become, for the time being, his close associate. this is an event of supreme and planetary importance. his relationship and planned help date from the time of the pronouncing of the great invocation and its use by men everywhere. owing to the stupendous task confronting christ, the avatar of synthesis will fortify him, and he will be buttressed by this "silent avatar" who (

o a general betterment. his activity is necessarily a mass activity, for he can only channel his energies through the mass consciousness or through a group conscious entity, such as the hierarchy, the united nations or humanity. the focal point of his effort and the agent through which distribution of his energy can be made is the new group of world servers; this group is uniquely related to this avatar of synthesis. the bringing together of all the agents of goodwill (who are responsive to the energy of the divine will-to-good) constitutes the major objective of the new group of world servers and always has been. their work can now be constructively and creatively intensified through the association of the avatar of synthesis with the christ. their task is to usher in the new age; in that

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t present, the divine intermediary, interpreting the will of god, which is the purpose of shamballa. it transmits or steps down the divine energy so that safe application to humanity becomes possible. it will be apparent, therefore, why in the second decanate of aquarius the hierarchy can, as the representative of shamballa and with the aid of mercury, bring into physical manifestation the coming avatar. this becomes possible when the work of the first decanate is accomplished and when shamballa has released and definitely re-oriented the energies of the third great centre, that of humanity. this release and readjustment leads to creative expression and renewed spiritual life. planetary alignment can take place and this is a planned objective for which the hierarchy is preparing and for wh

this becomes possible when the work of the first decanate is accomplished and when shamballa has released and definitely re-oriented the energies of the third great centre, that of humanity. this release and readjustment leads to creative expression and renewed spiritual life. planetary alignment can take place and this is a planned objective for which the hierarchy is preparing and for which the avatar himself is preparing at shamballa- 76- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust the third initiation is connected with shamballa as a planetary centre and to the activity of the first ray. it should be borne in mind that this is the first initiation in which personality and soul are united and fused so that the two aspects form one unit. when this initiation has taken place, it

will later come and express the shamballa urge to synthesis, the hierarchial aspiration towards love and the desire of humanity for intelligent activity with combined power will gather all into himself. all these qualities will focus in him, plus another quality or divine principle of which the race of men as yet knows nothing and for which there is, as yet, no name. he will be a great and potent avatar and is not along the line of our humanity at all. the numerical correspondences might be noted as follows, remembering that the third initiation is, in reality, the first initiation of the soul, after complete identification with the personality within the life and consciousness of the monad, the one and the first. 1. the first planetary centre shamballa. 2. the activity of the first ray wi

ne to the head centre, and the soul to the monad. 4. the first major centre the head. 5. the first truly divine race the final race. 6. the third plane, which is in reality the first plane of soul consciousness, the reflection of the highest plane, the logoic. 7. the first periodical vehicle the monadic. 8. the first divine aspect will or power. 9. the first or highest type of mediator the coming avatar. 10. the sustaining life, the spiritual sun the central spiritual sun. we will now consider the trend of the times and seasons as far as the rays are concerned: ray i this ray is still out of physical manifestation but is beginning to have a definite effect upon the mental plane; there it influences the minds of disciples everywhere and lays the stage for the appearance of a certain group o

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produce the advent or appearance of many avatars, bringing with them many and very different kinds of energies to those which hitherto have controlled human affairs and the events and evolution of the other, the subhuman kingdoms in nature. with the reappearance of the christ as the focal point or the supreme agent of the planetary heart centre, a new era or "divine epoch" will be instituted. the avatar of synthesis will draw very close to humanity and he will inaugurate the "reign of avatars" who will be embodied purpose and spiritual will; they will initiate both the hierarchy and humanity into phases of the divine character of which, at present, nothing is known and for which we have no terminology that could convey the exact facts and nature. all that i am attempting to do here is to g

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

cancer and of aquarius. this is of peculiar importance for it relates the- 162- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust form building aspect with the consciousness aspect which, at a high stage of development, produces the manifestation of the christ principle or christ-child. it has been said esoterically that four of the names by which the christ avatar is ever called are: 1. the desire of all nations. taurus. fixed cross. 2. he whom the masses sense or he whom they anticipate. cancer. cardinal cross. 3. he who is, for her, the purpose of existence. virgo. mutable cross. 4. he who shows the light and gives the water. aquarius. fixed cross. all these signs indicate forms of consciousness, which are conditioned and manifested by the energies

es the chains which bind or creates the key which unlocks the mystery of life; it is this forging process, with its consequent clamour, which is going on at this time in a most potent manner. vulcan controls the anvil-like processes of time and strikes the blow which shapes the metal into that which is desired, and this is true today as never before. he it is who is forging the way for the coming avatar who will at the right moment come forth, embodying in himself the will of god which is the divine will-to-good, to peace through understanding, and to right relations between men and between nations. the taurian influence must now be regarded as being of exceeding potency today, particularly from the angle of the subjective spiritual values; it is taurus which is the ruler and the guiding i

he sign pisces, then the night of brahma has come (ii. 612) references in a treatise on cosmic fire 6 "the mystery of capricorn is hidden in these five (spiritual man, aspirant, disciple, initiate and adept) and in the biblical words `the sheep and the goats (706- 401- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 7 "once in the history of each scheme, an avatar from the constellation capricorn appears on mental levels. this level is the lowest one on which these inter-planetary deities appear. no more can be communicated on this matter. the mystery of the goat lies hidden here. this avatar makes his appearance in the third round of the third chain and disappears in the fifth round of the fourth chain (727) gemini the third sign of the zodiac refer

ource. this in many ways sums up the totality of the present knowledge. let us briefly enlarge upon it, correct certain erroneous interpretations, and ascertain one or two new facts. we might tabulate these as follows: first, it should be borne in mind by the occult student that: a. this advent signalised the taking of a physical vehicle by the planetary logos, and was literally the coming of the avatar. b. this advent was brought about by a definite systemic alignment which involved: the venus scheme of the system. the venus chain of the earth scheme. the venus globe of the earth chain- 404- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust c. that the planetary logos did not come from the venus scheme but from the venus chain of his own scheme, the e

he came to this dense planet (the fourth) in the fourth chain from that chain in our scheme which is called the `venus' chain, and which is the second chain. he came via the second globe in our chain; his scarcely felt vibration was sensed (occultly) in the second round, but only in the third root-race of the fourth round did conditions permit of his physical incarnation and of his coming as the avatar. very reverently might it he said that the first three rounds and the two succeeding root-races in this chain correspond to the period prior to birth; and that his coming in the fourth round with the subsequent awakening of manas in the human units find their analogy in the awakening of the life principle in the unborn infant at the fourth month (c.f. 371) some hints on the science of trian

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arcane school emphasises the nature of the plan, the new evolutionary cycle into which humanity is at this time entering and the immediacy of the return of the christ as taught in all the world religions. the christian looks forward to the advent of christ, the jew is still expectant of the coming of the messiah, the buddhist is waiting for the coming of the boddhisattva, the hindu for the coming avatar and the mohammedan for the appearance of the imam mahdi. the universality of this teaching, plus the general expectancy is a major argument for the factual nature of the truth involved. the widespread acceptance of any truth down the ages and in every civilisation and culture is indicative of a divinely presented spiritual fact. today, the appeal of these truths must be mental and scientifi

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y from one form to another form, and always through an appropriate mechanism. this is true in the involutionary sense, in the evolutionary sense, and in a spiritual sense also; this latter is slightly different to the other two, as all initiates of the higher degrees know well. an entire thesis upon transmitting agencies could be written, and it would include, finally, the doctrine of avatars. an avatar is one who has a peculiar facility or capacity (besides a self -initiated task and a preordained destiny) to work with energies, transmitted via the etheric body of a planet or of the solar system; this, however, is a deep mystery. it was demonstrated in a peculiar manner, and in relation to cosmic energy, by the christ who, for the first time in planetary history, transmitted the cosmic en

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of power. at the period of these cycles, all within the ashram react in some way or another; no one moves forward upon the path without creating a new relationship and becoming a better transmitter of power. g. the sharing in the results of special spiritual events, such as: 1. the directed attention of shamballa. 2. an inflow of extra-planetary force. 3. the "nearing" or the directed power of an avatar of some degree. 4. the merging of all hierarchical thought and activity into some one directed event, such as the- 230- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust wesak festival and, increasingly, the full moon or festival of the christ. there are other events which have a definite effect upon every ashram, the effect being determined by the ray or by the "unfoldment

since 1925 a.d) from the higher mental levels to the buddhic plane, thereby making direct and unimpeded etheric reception possible. this is one of the significances of the words which we read in the new testament that "the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom" a symbolic way of expressing the unveiling of an unimpeded channel. this was made possible by the christ as the avatar, working in cooperation with the master jesus, and also by the point of evolution reached by the humanity of that time. we will leave the fifth point of revelation at this time and consider it in our next instruction. it is one of tremendous importance, for it concerns the highest aspect of the will and covers the synthesis of the energies of the five planes of human and superhuman evolutio

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d contacted. by the voiced appeal his attention will be forced to turn itself towards our planet. the consequences will be significant and potent but as to the form which they will take it is impossible for me to say. perhaps it will lead to some peculiar and powerful demonstration of the meaning of peace as the expression of universal and planetary love; perhaps it will produce the sending of an avatar or messenger of peace to lead the nations to right action; perhaps some happening will take place of such significance that its import will be immediately recognised by humanity as a whole, leading them to take all the needed steps to restore right human relations. the nature of the activities which the spirit of peace will institute is not our responsibility. our duty is to learn rightly t

the trend of their religious and psychological training and their particular mental or emotional bias. the advent of christ, or his "second coming" is anxiously anticipated by many orthodox christians, who regard this world war as indicating the end of the world and as preparatory to the appearance of the christ, to bring peace on earth. others, more orientally minded, await the appearance of an avatar who will transmit from god the needed world message or new type of energy. prophecy and astrology indicate a coming one and their many differing opinions seem to converge on him; occultists invoke everywhere the forces of light and call for the appearance of that extra-planetary potency to whom they give the title "spirit of peace" those with no religious or metaphysical bias recognise, how

e continuity of divine revelations. this is the persistent belief ineradicable and unalterable that (at major moments of world need) god reveals himself through appearances, through a coming one. this doctrine is found in all the basic world religions, in every time and age; it appears in the doctrine of the avatars of the hindu faith, in the teaching of the return of maitreya buddha or the kalki avatar, in the belief in the western world in the return of christ and his advent or second coming, and in the prophesied issuing forth of the divine adventurer of the moslem world. all this is tied up with the undying belief of mankind in the loving heart of god, who ever meets man's need. the witness of history is that always the appearance of man's necessity has been met with a divine revelatio

imself progressively and cyclically as man gets ready for further knowledge. 3. the continuity of revelation. ever down the ages and at each human crisis, always in the hours of necessity, at the founding of a new race, or in the awakening of a prepared humanity to a new and wider vision, the heart of god impelled by the law of compassion sends forth a teacher, a world saviour, an illuminator, an avatar. he gives the message which will heal, which will indicate the next step to be taken by the race, which will illumine a dark world problem and give to man an expression of a hitherto unrealised aspect of divinity. upon this fact of the continuity of revelation and upon the sequence of this progressive manifestation of the divine nature is based the doctrine of avatars, of divine messengers

long held him to earth. of this transcendence the present mastery over the air is the symbol. man is rapidly mastering the four elements. he cultivates the earth; he rides the waters; he controls the electrical fires of the planet, and he flies triumphant through the air. the question now emerges: what, my brothers, next? another transcendence lies ahead. it is one of the things which the coming avatar will reveal. with the lesser leaders, whom the human spirit evokes to its assistance, i shall not deal. i seek to unfold somewhat the doctrine of divine messengers, of avatars. from whence come they? what is their nature? who are they and what is their relation to humanity, to the hierarchy and to still greater groups of lives? these are questions which normally arise and need clear answeri

will reveal. with the lesser leaders, whom the human spirit evokes to its assistance, i shall not deal. i seek to unfold somewhat the doctrine of divine messengers, of avatars. from whence come they? what is their nature? who are they and what is their relation to humanity, to the hierarchy and to still greater groups of lives? these are questions which normally arise and need clear answering. an avatar is a being who having first developed his own nature, human and divine, and then transcended it is capable of reflecting some cosmic principle or divine quality and energy which will produce the desired effect upon humanity, evoking a reaction, producing a needed stimulation and, as it is esoterically called `leading to the rending of a veil and the permeation of light' this energy may be g

inciple or divine quality and energy which will produce the desired effect upon humanity, evoking a reaction, producing a needed stimulation and, as it is esoterically called `leading to the rending of a veil and the permeation of light' this energy may be generated within the human family and focussed in a responsive messenger; it may be generated within the planet itself and produce a planetary avatar; it may be the expression of the life impulse and energy of the solar system, or of sources outside the solar system and therefore cosmic. but always it is focussed through a manifesting entity, is called forth by a demand or massed appeal, and evokes response and consequent changes in the life activity, the culture and the civilisation of mankind- 189- the externalisation of the hierarchy

derstand; because they are of like nature to mankind "flesh of our flesh and spirit of our spirit" they therefore mean more to us than any other divine emergence. they are known, loved and followed by countless millions. i would ask you to ponder on the potency of the nucleus of force which they have set up. the establishing of a nucleus of energy, spiritually positive, is the constant task of an avatar. he focusses or anchors a dynamic truth, a potent thoughtform or a vortex of attractive energy in the three worlds of human living. then, as the centuries pass, that truth and the effect of their lives and words begin steadily to condition human thinking; the established thoughtform acts increasingly as a transmitter of divine energy as it expresses a divine idea, and this in time produces

gin steadily to condition human thinking; the established thoughtform acts increasingly as a transmitter of divine energy as it expresses a divine idea, and this in time produces a civilisation, with its accompanying culture, religions, policies, governments and educational processes. thus is history made. history is but the record of man's cyclic reaction to some inflowing divine energy, to some avatar or some inspired leader. divine intervention in considering the subject of avatars i would like to point out that (from the standpoint of mankind at his present point in evolution) avatars are of two kinds, as might be expected when the consciousness of humanity is subject to the control of the pairs of opposites. these two are: 1. those avatars who are the embodiment of the angel of the pr

to expanded life and liberation. the dweller challenges the freedom of the human soul. so it is also in the life of a nation, a race, and humanity as a whole. the angel of the presence indicates divine possibility, reveals to the attentive disciple the next step towards liberation which must be made, and throws light upon the immediate stage of the path to light which must be trodden. so does the avatar who reveals the lighted way to humanity. the dweller on the threshold summarises in itself the evil tendencies, the accumulated limitations and the sum total of the selfish habits and desires which are characteristic of the material nature of the disciple. the angel of the presence indicates the future possibility and the divine nature. so does the avatar. the dweller on the threshold indic

ng energy to flow into him; he may be succumbing to the influence of the dread sum total of his evil and material desires or he may be drawing gradually nearer to the angel. but and this is the point of importance it is he himself who evokes one or other of these manifestations. so it is with humanity. the call of humanity's soul, or of humanity's material nature, must evoke response, and thus an avatar can manifest. it is the magnetic appeal or the massed intent of the disciple or of humanity which produces the manifestation. in other lives, the disciple may simply swing between the two poles of his being, with no conscious effort, no direct confrontation and no clear understanding of life purpose. so does humanity. eventually, however, there comes a life wherein the disciple is confronte

dweller departs to his own place; the path ahead lies clear; the disciple can move forward with assurance, and a better life dawns for him. so it is for humanity. a demand rises to the very gates of heaven; the massed intent of humanity is that evil must end and a better and truer life become possible. at the moment of greatest tension and of difficulty the demand goes forth. response comes. the avatar appears and light pours in, making the way clear. new hope awakens and fresh determinations are made. strength to establish right relationships streams through the body of humanity, and mankind emerges into a more spacious life, conditioned by truer values. a fusion becomes possible between the outer world of daily living and the inner world of spiritual realities. a fresh influx of love an

which will bring the conflict to an end. it might here be pointed out that in similar though somewhat less potent crises in the past, this divine intervention superseded human effort, but that it is hoped by those who are seeking to aid humanity that such intervention will today simply supplement human effort a very different thing. therefore, humanity everywhere today awaits the coming one. the avatar is sensed as being on his way. the second coming (according to prophecy) is imminent, and from the lips of disciples- 192- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust mystics, aspirants and all enlightened people in all lands the cry goes up "let light and love and power and death fulfil the purpose of the coming one" those words are a demand, a consecration, a sacrifice

d coming (according to prophecy) is imminent, and from the lips of disciples- 192- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust mystics, aspirants and all enlightened people in all lands the cry goes up "let light and love and power and death fulfil the purpose of the coming one" those words are a demand, a consecration, a sacrifice, a statement of belief and a challenge to the avatar who waits in his high place until the demand is adequate, and the cry clear enough to warrant his descent and his appearance. demand without paralleling action is useless, just as faith without works is dead. it is here that there is a break in the magnetic link which should unite the avatar with the demand for his coming forth. his emergence must be caused by a fivefold chain or thread of

desire, their active participation in the task of clearing the way for him, and complete selflessness. only when humanity has itself done everything possible to adjust that which is wrong and to end that which is evil, and has carried this effort even to the sacrifice of life itself, can he, the desire of all nations, appear. today this is being attempted. the great event of the appearance of the avatar can be made possible by a little increased effort. the mission of the buddha at this particular wesak festival is to add that new impetus, that fresh illumination, and that added power and fixed purpose which will enable mankind to surmount this crisis. from the side of the spiritual forces of the planet, everything will then have been done to make the appearance of the avatar possible. fro

these avatars because they are avatars of another class and of infinitely greater potency. 3. ray avatars. these great beings come forth at relatively long intervals when a ray is coming into manifestation. they embody the quality and the force of a particular ray. next century, when the seventh ray has achieved complete manifestation and the piscean influence is entirely removed, the seventh ray avatar will appear. his work will demonstrate the law, order and rhythm of the creative process as it works out on the physical plane, blending spirit and matter. and as this ray is called the ray of ceremonial order or ritual, he will be largely instrumental in producing those conditions which will permit of the reappearance upon earth of the mysteries of initiation, of which the hierarchy is the

as this ray is called the ray of ceremonial order or ritual, he will be largely instrumental in producing those conditions which will permit of the reappearance upon earth of the mysteries of initiation, of which the hierarchy is the custodian. he is necessarily connected with the great white lodge on sirius. this fact does not, however, concern us now, for we await the coming of a still greater avatar. 4. transmitting avatars. these manifestations of divinity appear at those great cyclic moments of revelation when humanity needs the expression of a new truth or the expansion of an old one in- 194- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust order to progress still higher on the evolutionary ladder. these avatars issue forth in response to demand and are not so much co

n the heart of individual man became a factor in human consciousness. it was a relatively new truth to be grasped by humanity. it had always been known by disciples and initiates. however, until christ came and lived a life of love and service and gave mankind the new commandment to love, there had been very little emphasis upon god as love in any of the world scriptures. after he appeared as the avatar of love, then god became known as love supernal, love as the goal and objective of creation, love as the basic principle of relationships, and love working throughout all manifestation towards a plan motivated by love. this divine quality christ revealed, and thus altered all human living and human goals. at that time too there came a great impetus and extension to the work and growth of th

ly in an effort to reach a wider public with the teaching on the doctrine of avatars or of divine appearances. the bible is full of such appearances, but little is really understood about them. the above are the more familiar groupings. in september 1940 i gave an interpretation of a new stanza of the great invocation, and in that communication i spoke of divine embodiments as the highest type of avatar for which humanity could look at this point in its evolution. i spoke of the activity of the hierarchy and of shamballa, should these two divine agencies decide that intervention in the form of a widespread cataclysm (engulfing all peoples) was necessary, and i referred to the emergence of inspired leadership as- 195- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust another a

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e forces and inflaming energies. it is of course not possible for me to give you any true picture of the interior events and happenings in the life of our planetary being. i can only indicate and point out that the world situation is simply an embodiment of the reaction and the response by mankind to great paralleling and originating happenings which involve the following groups: 1. the emanating avatar and his relationship to the lord of the world, our planetary logos. 2. the lords of liberation, focussed in their high place, as they become conscious of the invocation of humanity and become more closely related to the three buddhas of activity. 3. the great council at shamballa and the planetary hierarchy. 4. the buddha and his arhats as they unitedly cooperate with the christ and his dis

ive agents as well, who are and will be responsible for the task of preparation, of fertilisation and of all the coming new age enterprises. these descending energies evoke also the obstructing forces, and i would here remind you that these obstructing evil forces (so-called) are met with upon the highest spiritual levels because they are in their turn evoked by the impelling impact of the coming avatar whose "note is heard ahead of him, and his energy spreads before him" this is a great mystery and can only be understood (and then merely theoretically) if you bear in mind that all our planes even the very highest are the subplanes of the cosmic physical plane. when this fact is somewhat grasped there comes a simplification of thought. as a consequence of all this, great and fundamental re

christ as he "enveloped humanity in the mantle of love, grasped the rod of initiation on behalf of his brothers, and faced the lord of life himself, unattended, unafraid and in his own right" the episodes refer to happenings in the life of jesus. at the present time, and at the immediate point of tension, christ has added to his two immediate and constant tasks that of hastening the coming of the avatar who waits for the perfected work of the hierarchy, focussed in the christ, and the powerful work of shamballa, focussed in the lord of the world. when the exact moment has arrived, the work of the buddha, representing shamballa, and of the christ, representing the hierarchy, plus the sincere demand of humanity, will bring about an arrangement or an alignment which will release an evocative

rarchy, focussed in the christ, and the powerful work of shamballa, focussed in the lord of the world. when the exact moment has arrived, the work of the buddha, representing shamballa, and of the christ, representing the hierarchy, plus the sincere demand of humanity, will bring about an arrangement or an alignment which will release an evocative sound which will be extra-planetary, and then the avatar will come. ask me not for the date or the hour, brother of mine, for i know it not. it is dependent upon the appeal the voiceless appeal of all who stand with massed intent; it is dependent also upon the hour of exact alignment and upon certain aspects of work being done at this time by the senior members of the hierarchy, and also upon the steadfastness of the disciples in the world and th

chy, and also upon the steadfastness of the disciples in the world and the initiates working in their various ashrams. to this must be added what christians call the "inscrutable will of god" the unrecognised purpose of the lord of the world who "knows his own mind, radiates the highest quality of love, and focusses his will in his own high place outside the council chamber of shamballa" that the avatar will come is a predictable certainty. that his forerunner will be the christ is equally sure. when christ comes it will be for the advanced units of the human family; they will recognise him because he has always been with us, whilst his advent will evoke a responsive vibration from the masses, but not straight recognition. in connection with the avatar, it will be a process of hierarchical

sciousness of men. i am not able to express the effect of the outpouring from shamballa in clearer terms. we are told in the bible that christ will come in the air, and that he will bring the "healing of the nations" in his wings. i would call your attention to this thought and to its appositeness to this day and generation. i make no prophetical predictions, i only indicate possibility. when the avatar has made his appearance, then will the "sons of men who are now the sons of god withdraw their faces from the shining light and radiate that light upon the sons of men who know not yet they are the sons of god. then shall the coming one appear, his footsteps hastened through the valley of the shadow by the one of awful power who stands upon the mountain top, breathing out love eternal, ligh

the ways of what may be "so peace will come again on earth, but a peace unlike aught known before. then will the will-to-good flower forth as understanding, and understanding blossom as goodwill in men" so speaks a prophetic passage in the ancient archives of the hierarchy which deals with the present cycle of distress (written in june, 1943. for this time men must prepare. you will know when the avatar links up with the planetary logos because i will then give you the final stanza of the great invocation (given out in april, 1945. its use will serve to bring the coming one to recognition and enable him to draw upon the resources of the avatar in the task of world reorganisation and regeneration. he will again come as the world saviour, but owing to the stupendous nature of the work ahead

ill then give you the final stanza of the great invocation (given out in april, 1945. its use will serve to bring the coming one to recognition and enable him to draw upon the resources of the avatar in the task of world reorganisation and regeneration. he will again come as the world saviour, but owing to the stupendous nature of the work ahead, he will be fortified and buttressed by the "silent avatar" who (occultly speaking) will "keep his eye upon him, his hand beneath, and his heart in unison with his" the keynote of christ's mission will be to evoke from humanity a response to that influence, and an unfoldment on a large scale of intuitive perception. when he came before, he evoked from humanity a gradual response to truth, and mental understanding. that is why at the end of the cycl

hierarchy. in this manner the three planetary centres arrive at the needed relationship, and another great triangle reaches true functioning activity. when this takes place, a revelation undreamt of will be manifested upon the earth; a new divine quality, of which no knowledge at present exists, will make its presence felt, and the work of the buddha and of the christ, and the work of the coming avatar, will be superseded by one for whom both shamballa and the hierarchy have unitedly waited and of whom the doctrine of the messiah and the- 167- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust doctrine of avatars have been and are today only the dim distant symbols. they preserve this concept of the great revelation in the consciousness of men

r evolution, but at the same time all of them are postponing this proposed progress upon their chosen path in order, for a brief time, to implement and aid the work of the christ and help towards the externalisation of the hierarchy, through the medium of certain of its ashrams; they will also form a protecting wall around the christ, and act as liaison officers between their great leader and the avatar of synthesis. christ himself took this initiation some time ago and passed through the resurrection initiation and the experience of the seventh initiation. these masters can, in a mysterious fashion, implement the expression of the divine will-to-good on earth. they will work in collaboration- 430- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis tr

e of the new group of world servers. all these three groups are fundamentally "transmitters of energy; the two highest are exceedingly susceptible to cosmic impression and to the vibratory quality of the extra-planetary body of avatars who hold themselves in readiness to function as destroying or building energies in any part of our solar system and are under the direction of the solar logos. the avatar of synthesis, who is working in cooperation with the christ, is one of them. bear in mind that these extra-planetary avatars have not arrived at their high state of spiritual unfoldment on our planet or even in our solar system. their origin, source and spiritual relationships are a great mystery even to the planetary logoi to whose help they go when the invocative appeal of any planet is a

lationships are a great mystery even to the planetary logoi to whose help they go when the invocative appeal of any planet is adequate. think not that they come to put wrong right or to arrest evil. a few, a very few, may do so, but they work along the line of the seven ray energies in the solar system and produce certain energy effects desired at any particular time; the constructive work of the avatar of synthesis will be apparent to you in the name he is known by; he is coming to the earth in order to further the manifestation of unity, of oneness and of inter-relation, and he comes, therefore, to wield and apply first ray energy. he will charge or galvanise the three groups the directing agents in shamballa, the nirmanakayas and the new- 481- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the

gy enhance the magnetic-attractive force of the initiate, and at the same time are eliminative in their effects. in this fact lies a great planetary truth and the key to the science of planetary redemption. when the spiritual and the electrical charging of the three major centres on the planet shamballa, the hierarchy and humanity has reached a high stage of receptive efficiency, a certain cosmic avatar will "become conscious of the vibratory quality of the little point of light within the solar sphere" and will then "turn his gaze and send his force unto that point of light, and cosmic evil will be driven out and find no more a place on earth" two more initiations remain to be considered, but so high is their potency and so mysterious their working that i find myself unable to deal with t

wards goodwill, and then set an example by eliminating cleavages in the home, the business, or the nation. goodwill is contagious; once a definite start has been made in a pure and disinterested spirit, goodwill will permeate the world and right human relations will be rapidly established. the healing of cleavages is a practical matter. the spirit of synthesis, working through the great first ray avatar (the avatar of synthesis) is closer to the earth than ever before, and the clarity which will emerge in the light of his presence is already available; the tendency to integration can therefore be more easily fostered and a new synthesis attained among men. before, however, integration and synthesis are possible, this first ray energy must work to destroy all that prevents integration and a

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essential duality and the link between the two parts of himself, two fishes linked by a band. this consciousness, on a large scale, began to make its impact upon [184] the human being, i.e. that he is soul and body. christ came in pisces to demonstrate to us perfectly what would be our ultimate achievement when we had linked those two together, the fish, the symbol of the second person, the fish avatar, and the fish swimming in matter, the symbol of the human being in incarnation. there you have the story. having traced that wonderful, idealistic, evolutionary teaching down the last five to six thousand years as the result of subjective forces playing upon humanity, we are now passing into the sign aquarius where, through symbolism of water and purification, we shall learn how to be the s

ugurated would pass away, that a new method of work would have to emerge whereby the masters would employ a new mode of reaching humanity, but he prepared the way for his own later work. there are three constellations in aquarius. the southern fish, pisces australes, picturing in connection with aquarius the coming world saviors. note that here, in the culmination of pisces, we have one fish, the avatar, not the two fishes banded together. the second constellation is pegasus, the winged horse, ever the inspiring symbol of the higher mind, love, spurning the earth, at home in the air. on a lower level we are reminded of the winged feet of mercury, ever wings of the mind remembering also that one definition of love is "the cold, clear light of reason. the third constellation takes yet a furt

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a rishi (divine rishi, more than a demi-god) by parasara, and yet he is cursed by daksha and even by brahma. he informs kansa that bhagavat (or vishnu in exotericism) would incarnate in the eighth child of devaki, and thus brings the wrath of the indian herod upon krishna's mother; and then, from the cloud on which he is seated- invisible as a true manasaputra- he lauds krishna, in delight at the avatar's feat of killing the monster kesim. narada is here, there, and everywhere; and yet, none of the puranas gives the true characteristics of this great enemy of physical procreation. whatever those characteristics may be in hindu esotericism, narada- who is called in cis-himalayan occultism pesh-hun, the "messenger" or the greek angelos- is the sole confidant and the executor of the universal

matter, sinful substance, and ea is changed into tiamat, the dragon slain by merodach, or satan, in the astral waves. in the hindu puranas, brahma, the creator, is seen recommencing de novo several creations after as many failures; and two great creations are mentioned* the padma and the varaha, the present, when the earth was lifted out of the water by brahma, in the shape of a boar, or "varaha avatar" creation is shown as a sport, an amusement (lila) of the creative god. the zohar speaks of primordial worlds, which perished as soon as they came into existence. and the same is said in midraish, rabbi abahu explaining distinctly (in bereschith rabba, parscha ix) that "the holy one" had successively created and de[[footnote(s* these two must not be confused with the seven creations or divi

. 864,000 kali yuga contains. 432,000 the total of the said four yugas constitute a maha yuga. 4,320,000 seventy-one of such maha-yugas form the period of the reign of one manu. 306,720,000 the reign of 14 manus embraces the duration of 994 maha-yugas, which is equal to. 4,294,080,000[[footnote(s* vaivasvata manu is the one human being- some versions add to him the seven rishis- who in the matsya avatar allegory is saved from the deluge in a boat, like noah in the ark. therefore, this vaivasvata manvantara would be the "post-diluvian" period. this, however, does not refer to the later "atlantean" or noah's deluge, nor to the cosmic deluge or pralaya of obscuration, which preceded our round, but to the appearance of mankind in the latter round. there is a great difference made, however, bet

t it needs to be explained by the secret sense contained in the bhagavad gita. it is the prologue to the drama of our (fifth) humanity. while vaivasvata was engaged in devotion on the river bank, a fish craves his protection from a bigger fish. he saves and places it in a jar, where, growing larger and larger, it communicates to him the news of the forthcoming deluge. it is the well-known "matsya avatar" the first avatar of vishnu, the dagon* of the chaldean xisuthrus, and many other things besides. the story is too well known to need repetition. vishnu orders a ship to be built, in which manu is said to be saved along with the seven rishis, the latter, however, being absent from other texts. here the seven rishis stand for the seven races, the seven principles, and various other things; f

the zodiac and their architecture (ferguson- from the macedonian greeks; these and other such cock-and-bull hypotheses, are threatened with ruin. it is the ghost of old chaldea that comes to the rescue of truth. in his third hibbert[[footnote(s* thus we are shown one hero, to give an instance, first born as the "unrighteous but valiant monarch (purusha) of the daityas, hiranyakasipu, slain by the avatar nara-sinha (man-lion. then he was born as ravana, the giant king of lanka, and killed by rama; after which he is reborn as sisupala, the son of rajarishi (king rishi) damaghosha, when he is again killed by krishna, the last incarnation of vishnu. this parallel evolution of vishnu (spirit) with a daitya, as men, may seem meaningless, yet it gives us the key not only to the respective dates o

ruel tyrant, which we call providence[[vol. 2, page] 307 the seven and fourteen manus. the primeval manus of humanity. those who are aware that the "great flood" which was connected with the sinking of an entire continent- save what became a few islands- could not have happened so far back as 18,000,000 years ago; and that vaivasvata manu is the indian noah connected with the matsya (or the fish) avatar of vishnu- may feel perplexed at this discrepancy between facts stated and the chronology previously given. but there is no discrepancy in truth. the reader is asked to turn to the theosophist of july, 1883, and after studying the article therein "the septenary principle in esotericism" the whole question can be explained to him. it is in this explanation, i believe, that the occultists dif

eld successively possession of the country for seventy-one periods of the aggregate of the four ages" or the reign of a manu, representing a mahayuga of 4,320,000 years. but having said so much, parasara suddenly explains that "this was the creation of swayambhuva manu, by which the earth was peopled when he presided over the first manvantara, in the kalpa of varaha" i.e, the boar incarnation, or avatar. now every brahmin knows that it is only with vaivasvata manu that our humanity began on this earth (or round. and if the western reader turns to the sub-section on "the primeval manus of humanity" he will see that vaivasvata is the seventh of the fourteen manus who preside over our planetary chain during its life cycle: i.e, that representing or standing in every round for two manus of the

ctured by professor newman to have meant the[[footnote(s* it is complained by the author of the version on, and translator of "prometheus bound" that in this tracing of io's wanderings "no consistency with our known geography is attainable (p. 191, vol. ii. there may be good reason for it. first of all it is the journey and wandering from place to place of the race from which the "tenth" or kalki avatar, so called, is to issue. this he calls the "kingly race born in argos (888. but argos has no reference here to argos in greece. it comes from arg or arca- the female generative power symbolised in the moon- the navi-formed argha of the mysteries, meaning the queen of heaven. eustathius shows that, in the dialect of the arg-ians, io signified the moon; while esotericism explains it as the di

rfect number, or jehovah. arghya in sanskrit is the libation cup, the navi-form or boat-shaped vessel in which flowers and fruit are offered to the deities. arghyanath is a title of the maha-chohan, meaning "the lord of libations" and arghya varsha "the land of libations- is the mystery name of that region which extends from kailas mountain nearly to the schamo desert- from within which the kalki avatar is expected. the airyana-varsedya of the zoroastrians, as a locality, is identical with it. it is now said to have been situated between the sea of aral, baltistan, and little tibet; but in olden times its area was far larger, as it was the birth-place of physical humanity, of which io is the mother and symbol[[vol. 2, page] 417 the mistake of arrian explained. ural, the arimaspi of herodot

sia was a periodical festival with mysteries enacted in honour of some gods, a variant on the mithraic mysteries. the whole evolution of the races was performed in them[[vol. 2, page] 420 the secret doctrine. cyclic evolution the "man-saviour" the solar bacchus or "dionysos" more than a man. dionysos is one with osiris, with krishna, and with buddha (the heavenly wise, and with the coming (tenth) avatar, the glorified spiritual christos, who will deliver the suffering christos (mankind, or prometheus, on its trial. this, say brahminical and buddhistic legends, echoed by the zoroastrian and now by the christian teachings (the latter only occasionally, will happen at the end of kaliyuga. it is only after the appearance of kalki-avatar, or sosiosh, that man will be born from woman without sin

nd sorely misunderstood wisdom. the history begins by the descent on earth of the "gods" who incarnate in mankind, and this is the fall. whether brahma hurled down on earth in the allegory by bhagavant, or jupiter by kronos, all are the symbols of the human races. once landed on, and having touched this planet of dense matter, no snow-white wings of the highest angel can remain immaculate, or the avatar (or incarnation) be perfect, as every such avatar is[[footnote(s* saith uriel (chap. xxvi. v. 3, in the "book of enoch "all those who have received mercy shall for ever bless god the everlasting king" who will reign over them[[vol. 2, page] 484 the secret doctrine. the fall of a god into generation. nowhere is the metaphysical truth more clear, when explained esoterically, or more hidden fr

's mystic "ministers" now the reader is reminded that these "five ministers" are symbolized both in the dolphin, who had overcome the chaste amphitrite's unwillingness to wed poseidon, and in triton their son. the latter, whose body above the waist is that of a man and below a dolphin, a fish, is, again, most mysteriously connected with oannes, the babylonian dag, and further also with the (fish) avatar of vishnu, matsya, both teaching mortals wisdom. the dolphin, as every mythologist knows, was placed for his service by poseidon among the constellations, and became with the greeks, capricornus, the goat, whose hind part is that of a dolphin, thus shown identical with makara, whose head is also that of an antelope and the body and tail those of a fish. this is why the sign of the makara wa

istakes have been made in "isis unveiled" in "esoteric buddhism" in "man" in "magic: white and black" etc, etc; and more than one mistake is likely to be found in the present work. this cannot be helped. for a large or even a small work on such abstruse subjects to be entirely exempt from error and blunder, it would have to be written from its first to its last page by a great adept, if not by an avatar. then only should we say "this is verily a work without sin or blemish in it" but, so long as the artist is imperfect, how can his work be perfect "endless is the search for truth" let us love it and aspire to it for its own sake, and not for the glory or benefit a minute portion of its revelation may confer on us. for who of us can presume to have the whole truth at his fingers' ends, even

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difference between the esoteric and the christian trinities. the mystics and the philosophers, the eastern and western pantheists, synthesize their pregenetic triad in the pure divine abstraction. the orthodox, anthropomorphize it. hiranyagarbha, hari, and sankara- the three hypostases of the manifesting "spirit of the supreme spirit (by which title prithivi- the earth- greets vishnu in his first avatar- are the purely metaphysical abstract qualities of formation, preservation, and destruction, and are the three divine avasthas (lit. hypostases) of that which "does[[footnote(s* it is not the physical organisms that remain in statu quo, least of all their psychical principles, during the great cosmic or even solar pralayas, but only their akasic or astral "photographs" but during the minor

use they are the first beings (in the secret doctrine they are called "minds, evolved from primordial fire "the lord is a consuming fire (deuteronomy iv. 24 "the lord (christos) shall be revealed with his mighty angels in flaming fire (2 thessal. i. 7, 8. the holy ghost descended on the apostles like "cloven tongues of fire (acts ii. v. 3; vishnu will return on kalki, the white horse, as the last avatar amid fire and flames; and sosiosh will be brought down equally on a white horse in a "tornado of fire "and i saw heaven open and behold a white horse, and he that sat upon him. is called the word of god (rev. xix. 13) amid flaming fire. fire is aether in its purest form, and hence is not regarded as matter, but it is the unity of aether- the second manifested deity- in its universality. but

seven dhyani-buddhas, avalokiteswara was the first buddha (the logos, so amitabha is the inner "god" of gautama, who, in china, is called amita(-buddha. they are, as mr. rhys davids[[footnote(s* see a. p. sinnett's "esoteric buddhism" 5th annotated edition, pp. 171-173* the first and greatest reformer who founded the "yellow-caps" gyalugpas. he was born in the year 1355 a.d. in amdo, and was the avatar of amitabha, the celestial name of gautama buddha[[vol. 1, page] 109 theogony of the creators. correctly states "the glorious counterparts in the mystic world, free from the debasing conditions of this material life" of every earthly mortal buddha- the liberated manushi-buddhas appointed to govern the earth in this round. they are the "buddhas of contemplation" and are all anupadaka (parent

not find sufficient oxygen for themselves, adapt themselves to that condition and form ferments, which, by absorbing oxygen from substances coming in contact with them, ruin the latter. thus the process is commenced by one cell robbing its neighbour of the source of its vitality when the supply is insufficient; and the ruin so commenced steadily progresses[[vol. 1, page] 264 the secret doctrine. avatar of vishnu, the chaldean oannes- the man-fish, recorded in the imperishable sign of the zodiac, pisces, and running throughout the two testaments in the personages of joshua "son of the fish (nun" and jesus; the allegorical "sin" or fall of spirit into matter, and the moon- in so far as it relates to the "lunar" ancestors, the pitris. for the present it may be as well to remind the reader th

e puranas, one thing is to be especially noted. he must not take literally, and in one sense only, the statements therein found; since those which especially concern the manvantaras or kalpas have to be understood in their several references. so, for instance, these periods relate in the same language to both the great and the small periods, to maha kalpas and to minor cycles. the matsya, or fish avatar, happened before the varaha or boar avatar; the allegories, therefore, must relate to both the padma and the present manvantara, and also to the minor cycles which took place since the reappearance of our chain of worlds and earth. and, as the matsya avatar of vishnu and vaivasvata's deluge are correctly connected with an event that happened on our earth during this round, it is evident tha

ali age will decay constantly proceed, until[[footnote(s* see jacquolliot's "les fils de dieu; l'inde des brahmes, p. 230* if this is not prophetic, what is[[vol. 1, page] 378 the secret doctrine. the human race approaches its annihilation (pralaya. when the close of the kali age shall be nigh, a portion of that divine being which exists, of its own spiritual nature. shall descend on earth (kalki avatar) endowed with the eight superhuman faculties. he will re-establish righteousness on earth, and the minds of those who live at the end of kali yuga shall be awakened and become as pellucid as crystal. the men who are thus changed. shall be the seeds of human beings, and shall give birth to a race who shall follow the laws of the krita age, the age of purity. as it is said 'when the sun and m

to which chandragupta belonged (see sanscrit literature. in matsya purana, chapter cclxxii, the dynasty of ten moryas (or maureyas) is spoken of. in the same chapter, cclxxii, it is stated that the moryas will one day reign over india, after restoring the kshattriya race many thousand years hence. only that reign will be purely spiritual and "not of this world" it will be the kingdom of the next avatar. colonel tod believes the name morya (or maureyas) a corruption of mori, a rajpoot tribe, and the commentary on mahavansa thinks that some princes have taken their name maurya from their town called mori, or, as professor max muller gives it, morya-nagara, which is more correct, after the original mahavansa. vachaspattya, we are informed by our brother, devan badhadur r. ragoonath rao, of m

tic monster associated always with water. the letter ma is equivalent to and corresponds with number 5- composed of a binary, the symbol of the two sexes separated, and of the ternary, symbol of the third life, the progeny of the binary. this, again, is often symbolised by a pentagon, the latter being a sacred sign, a divine monogram. maitreya is the secret name of the fifth buddha, and the kalki avatar of the brahmins- the last messiah who will come at the culmination of the great cycle. it is also the initial letter of the greek metis or divine wisdom; of mimra, the "word" or logos; and of mithras (the mihr, the monad, mystery. all these are born in, and from, the great deep, and are the sons of maya- the mother; in egypt, mouth, in greece minerva (divine wisdom, mary, or miriam, myrrha

eborach, the "holy" or the "blessed" and the name for the water of the flood is m'bul. a reminder of the "three maries" at the crucifixion and their connection with mar, the sea, or water, may close this example. this is why in judaism and christianity the messiah is always connected with water, baptism, the fishes (the sign of the zodiac called meenam in sanskrit, and even with the matsya (fish) avatar, and the lotus- the symbol of the womb, or the water-lily, which is the same. in the relics of ancient egypt, the greater the antiquity of the votive symbols and emblems of the objects exhumed, the oftener are the lotus flowers and the water found in connection with the solar gods. the god khnoom- the moist power- water, as thales taught it, being the principle of all things, sits on a thro

acts and popular belief? everyone knows that the real time and year of the birth of jesus are totally unknown. and it is the jews, whose forefathers have made the word dag signify both "fish" and "messiah" who, during the forced development of their rabbinical language, are the first to deny this christian claim. and what of the further facts that brahmins also connect their "messiah" the eternal avatar vishnu, with a fish and the deluge, and that the babylonians made of their dag-on, equally a fish and a messiah, the man-fish and prophet? there are those learned iconoclasts among egyptologists, who say that "when the pharisees sought a 'sign from heaven' jesus said 'there shall no sign be given but the sign of jonas (mat. xvi. 4. the sign of jonas is that of the oan or fishman of nineveh

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o fabricate, referring to the handmade quality of these material creations. colonial observers in africa often identified the fetish as the primary substance of african spiritual life. as willem bosman, a dutch administrator at the west african port of elmina in the late 1600s exclaimed "they cry out, let us make fetiche; by which they express as much, as let us perform our religious worship" the avatar of the national deity of whydah, a serpent, was called a fetish by white missionaries on the slave coast in the late seventeenth century. bosman spoke of fetishes as "all things made in honour of [their] false gods" as did wilhelm muller, a german lutheran prelate who wrote from the gold coast that akan fetishes incarnated "the devil himself, from whom c they seek advice, comfort and help"

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ok of wisdom from china, commonly called i ching. like the tarot (q.v, it has many spiritual purposes, but is popularly known for giving divinations. kobaloi: a greek word used to indicate a wicked spirit invoked by rogues. the origin of the german kobold and the english goblin (q.v. kobolds: mischievous earth elementals that are said to inhabit german households. krishna: although only the sixth avatar, or incarnation of vishnu, krishna has developed into a popular hindu deity due to his representing unbridled sexuality. some hindu traditionalists would down play this reason for his popularity, citing his role as "savior" and "messiah" in hindu culture. kundalini: an energy said to lie dormant at the base of the spine, ready to rise through the spine to the top of the head and bring down

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dian law at oxford university, 1923.30. he published scholarly translations of rare hindu esoteric religious scriptures and became a leading authority on hindu tantra and yoga. sources: avalon, arthur. the garland of letters: varnamala; studies in the mantra-shastra. madras, india: ganesh, 1922. the serpent power. madras, india: ganesh, 1924. shakti and shakta. 3d ed. madras, india: ganesh, 1929. avatar a term used in hindu religion to indicate the incarnation of a deity. avatara is a sanskrit word meaning descent, and the hindu gods take on animal or human form in different ages for the welfare of the world. in hindu mythology, the god brahma (originally known as the creator prajapati) became successively incarnated as a boar, a tortoise, and a fish, to assist the development of the world

e suffering. avidya a hindu religious term also used in theosophy to denote the ignorance of mind which causes those commencing the spiritual pathway to expend vain effort and pursue vain courses. it is the antithesis of vidya, or true knowledge. the awakener (magazine) one of several independent journals presenting the teachings of famous mystic meher baba (1894.1969, regarded by disciples as an avatar or descent of divine power. address: 938 18th st, hermosa beach, ca 90254. awareness awareness is a holistic health and new age networking periodical based in orange county, california. it primarily serves the greater los angeles area, but includes a special section devoted to the san diego area. based primarily around health concerns, it has adopted the format pioneered by common ground, t

isdom. fabens, tex: lotus ashram, 1978. reincarnation: one life.many births. fabens, tex: lotus ashram, 1978. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. lotus ashram 937 lou (1898.1968) name assumed by the dutch fisherman louwrens van voorthuizen (or voorthuyzen, who claimed to have experienced the annihilation of his human self and the taking over by a divine self, as a kind of christian avatar. lou was born in 1898 at anna paulowna, in the netherlands. he began preaching in 1950 with the words: i preach jesus christ bodily, his resuscitated body, with his new name, which is lou. those who accept this shall experience it and those who have experienced, shall be as jesus christ was on earth. brothers and sisters of jesus, sons and daughters of god. a small group gathered around lou

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he would one day speak the one word that would bring spiritualization and love to the world, but he died january 31, 1969, without utterance. many believe that his prophecy may have been symbolic, like his mysterious life itself, and devotees continue to share the intense affection, of a sufi kind, that characterized his mission during his lifetime. he came to be regarded by many disciples as an avatar, or descent of divine power. one early american disciple of meher baba was rabia martin. she led a sufi group originally established by pir inayat khan (1881.1927. she had a falling out with pir khan s successors and looked for a new teacher, began to correspond with meher baba, and eventually accepted him as the qutb, a sufi term for hub of the universe. martin s successor, ivy duce, visit

ound him, and he has directed devotees into social work, resulting in the building of a number of schools and medical centers. his fame has spread far beyond india into both african and western countries due to the distribution of his writings and the books about him written by indra devi, howard murphet, and other western writers. a charismatic figure, he is regarded by many devotees as a divine avatar. sai baba remains something of an enigma. he has refused many parapsychologists the opportunity to study him. many have, however, joined his audiences and reported seeing the extraordinary feats his followers have reported. c. t. k. chari raised the question of trickery, but gathered no substantial proof of it. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology

n of trickery, but gathered no substantial proof of it. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. chari, c. t. k. regurgitation, mediumship, and yoga. journal of the society for psychical research 47 (1973. haraldsson, erlendur. modern miracles. new york: fawcett columbine, 1988. murphet, howard. sai baba avatar. london, frederick muller, 1979. sai baba, man of miracles. levittown, n.y: transatlantic arts, 1972. schulman, arnold. baba. new york: viking press, 1971. saucer and unexplained celestial events research society a flying saucer organization founded on paper in 1954 by james w. moseley as the sponsoring organization for his periodical, saucer news. saucers was never established as a group

y heldref publications. wilber has taken a special interest in the study of new religious movements in the light of transpersonal psychology, arguing for a non-reductionistic approach that is rooted in a transcendental structuralism and takes into account the various stages of human evolution, which culminates in godrealization. wilber is a buddhist but hailed the mystic da free john as a new age avatar. in the 1980s he became the general editor of the new science library, published by random house. sources: anthony, dick, bruce ecker, and ken wilber. spiritual choices: the problem of recognizing authentic paths to inner transformation. new york: paragon house publishers, 1987. wilber, ken. eye to eye: the quest for the new paradigm. garden city, n.y: anchor/doubleday, 1983. no boundary: e

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perfect master who has incarnated to do so, or through a supra-conscious experience of the divine. master mosheh was dramatically changed by his experience of the burning bush. the qur an also tells us that master mosheh was guided by al khidr, often referred to as the green one or the jew. the perfect master john baptized master yeshuvah in the holy spirit. the monk tota puri struck the bengali avatar sri ramakrishna in the center of his forehead with a sharp rock. it immediately sent him into a nirvikalpa samadhi that lasted for six months and culminated twelve years of intense spiritual practices, after which ramakrishna commenced his activity as a world teacher. the mystery of messiah (heb. mashiach) has been an important component of the hebrew faith since ancient times. yet, in the

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on. he is the antithesis of creation, the ultimately negative aspect of elemental fire. magically, his attribution is to passive spirit. subservient to the idiot god is a group referred to as the other gods the amorphous dancers who attend azathoth at the throne of chaos. their soul and messenger is nyarlathotep, the crawling chaos, who mediates between the old ones and their human followers. his avatar manifests as a human figure dressed in black, with jet black skin but caucasian features. in this form he is recognisable as the black man of the witches sabbath an incarnation commonly associated with satan. he is depicted in seventeenth century tracts on witchcraft as a creature with ebony skin, the long black robe of a priest, and a conical hat a description substantiated by the testimon

ocieties whose traditions and rituals preserve the hidden knowledge of these elder races. lovecraft documents three such cults, the cult of cthulhu, the esoteric order of dagon, centred in innsmouth (actually newburyport, massachusetts, and the starry wisdom sect. in the haunter of the dark, lovecraft describes how the latter sect held meetings in a church in providence, where it communed with an avatar of nyarlathotep via a magical object known as the shining trapezohedron. the name, starry wisdom, recalls that of crowley s argentum astrum, or order of the silver star, founded in 1907. the silver star represents sirius, from which emanates the magical cultent represented on earth by the entity, aiwaz. another contemporary of lovecraft s whose writings contain many similarities and corresp

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frica as well. however, as cybele and muth portrayed the same idea, namely, female power and wisdom, we are not surprised that they should have been worshipped under the same emblem. neither is it remarkable, when we recall the fact that the female was supposed to comprehend both sexes, that in certain instances a beard appears as an accompanying feature of the sphinx. we are told that the fourth avatar of vishnu was a sphinx, but a further search into the history of this deity reveals the fact that her ninth avatar is brahm (masculine. the female principle has at length succumbed to the predominance of male power, and vishnu herself has become transformed into a male god. although the rites connected with the worship of cybele were phallic they were absolutely pure. in an allusion to this

the caligula are elapsed, will appear king saca to remove wretchedness from the world" we have seen that at the birth of christ the time had arrived for a new solar incarnation. regarding the introduction of christianity into ireland it is claimed by certain writers that the irish did not receive the "new religion" from greek missionaries; but when at the close of the cycle, a new solar deity, an avatar of vishnu or crishna was announced, and when missionaries from the east proclaimed the glad tidings of a risen savior, the irish people gladly accepted their teachings, not, however, as a new system, but as the fulfilment to them of the prophecy of the most ancient seers of the east, and as part and parcel of the religion of their forefathers. therefore when the devotees of the romish faith

his figure, which was one of the representations of the sun-god crishna, was worshipped both in india and in egypt. in various of the manifestations of this deity he appears in the act of killing a serpent. he was the dead man on a cross and also the sun, which although continually dying is constantly being revived again. various incarnations of this god have appeared as crucified saviors. of the avatar of crishna known as ballaji or baal-jah little is positively known. indeed there seems to be some impenetrable mystery surrounding this figure, which makes it impossible for scholars to absolutely prove that which by means of the evidence at hand amounts almost to a certainty. a print by moore of this god represents him in the shape of a romish crucifix, but although there is a nail hole in

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e flourishing of life. this reminds us that creation and destruction are the normal cycles of the universe and we must grow through them not being too attached to the material experience. since the triune principles do not directly manifest in the lower worlds the solar sphere becomes the intermediary, the manifestation and the gateway. in some sense this is where the legend of the incarnation or avatar originated. the belief that god came into the lower worlds is an adaptation or analogy to the process whereby the pleroma manifests via the solar sphere into the lower planes. for the gnostic, jesus, for example, was michael, a created being who incarnated and became christed, he was not god made flesh. there are many other entities who being old souls achieve christhood and become son/suns

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guardian, reflecting zurvan and a hint that the sun also contains the darker force which is symbolised by the demiurge or negative saturn. the treasury of light cannot exist in the lower worlds, due to the fallen nature of the dialectic kingdoms. accordingly, the solar sphere becomes the intermediary, the manifestation and the gateway. in some sense this is where the legend of incarnation or the avatar sprang from. the belief that god came into the lower worlds is an adaptation or analogy to the process whereby the treasury of light is manifested in the currents of light, via the solar sphere. for the gnostic, jesus was michael, a created being who incarnated and became christed, he was not god made flesh. there are many other entities who being old souls achieve christhood and become son

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ld that idea for as long as you can. 271 the sun-savior cosmologically, then, all the dragons and serpents conquered by their "slayers" are, in their origin, the turbulent confused principles in chaos, brought to order by the sun-gods or 'creative' powers. h.p. blavatsky, the secret doctrine a sun-savior in enochian magick is called an arsoe (ahrah-soheh. the sun-savior is equivalent to the hindu avatar, the buddhist bodhisattva and the hanged man of the tarot. it is a manifestation of solar forces and energies in human form. tradi t ion holds that the sun-savior embodies himself periodically on earth in order to alleviate the sufferings of man and to keep the light of truth burning in men's hearts. the sublime concept of the soe (savior) and especially of the arsoe (sun-savior) is one of

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, magnetic fields, infrared radiation, ultraviolet radiation, volatile chemicals and hormones, and psychic emanations. in other words, the aura consists of both spirit energy and vital life force. our thoughts, emotions, health, and growth all affect, and are affected by, the energy flow in and around the body. the study of human energy is an important aspect of a rosicrucian's work and research. avatar.in general mystical parlance, and in the mode used by the rosicrucians, an avatar is one whose soul personality is highly advanced or spiritually developed through numerous cycles of incarnations on this plane. there is no specific number of incarnations designating one as an avatar. spiritual insight, compassion, human understanding, mastery of life, and unselfish service are the character

eral mystical parlance, and in the mode used by the rosicrucians, an avatar is one whose soul personality is highly advanced or spiritually developed through numerous cycles of incarnations on this plane. there is no specific number of incarnations designating one as an avatar. spiritual insight, compassion, human understanding, mastery of life, and unselfish service are the characteristics of an avatar. one who is an avatar has no peculiar manner of dress, speech, or appearance. his comprehension of life and its problems, and his conduct are his only outward signs of attainment. one obviously cannot attain avatarship in one incarnation. it is a process of evolution. the etymology of the word is sanskrit. it is commonly used in the hindu philosophy, but in a manner not wholly compatible wi

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taking hold of my mind. trouble with memory. i see things i never knew before. other worlds and other galaxies. dark. the lightning seems dark and the darkness seems light. it cannot be the real hill and church that i see in the pitch-darkness. must be retinal impression left by flashes. heaven grant the italians are out with their candles if the lightning stops! what am i afraid of? is it not an avatar of nyarlathotep, who in antique and shadowy khem even took the form of man? i remember yuggoth, and more distant shaggai, and the ultimate void of the black planets. the long, winging flight through the void. cannot cross the universe of light. re-created by the thoughts caught in the shining trapezohedron. send it through the horrible abysses of radiance. my name is blake- robert harrison

companion; for they knew the tendency of kindred eccentrics and monomaniacs to band together, and believed that charles or allen had merely unearthed an expatriated counterpart- perhaps one who had seen orne's handwriting and copied it in an attempt to pose as the bygone character's reincarnation. allen himself was perhaps a similar case, and may have persuaded the youth into accepting him as an avatar of the long-dead curwen. such things had been known before, and on the same basis the hard-headed doctors disposed of willett's growing disquiet about charles ward's present handwriting, as studied from unpremeditated specimens obtained by various ruses. willett thought he had placed its odd familiarity at last, and that what it vaguely resembled was the bygone penmanship of old joseph curw

y recording the spying of smith and weeden on the curwen farm, and in that dreadful chronicle there had been a mention of conversations overheard before the old wizard betook himself wholly beneath the earth. there had been, smith and weeden insisted, terrible colloquies wherein figured curwen, certain captives of his, and the guards of those captives. those guards, according to hutchinson or his avatar, had "eaten their heads off, so that now dr. allen did not keep them in shape. and if not in shape, how save as the "salts" to which it appears this wizard band was engaged in reducing as many human bodies or skeletons as they could? so that was what these lekythoi contained; the monstrous fruit of unhallowed rites and deeds, presumably won or cowed to such submission as to help, when calle

gin of the strange minuscule message, it seemed certain the "curwen" who must be destroyed could be no other than the bearded and spectacled stranger. charles had feared this man, and had said in the frantic note that he must be killed and dissolved in acid. allen, moreover, had been receiving letters from the strange wizards in europe under the name of curwen, and palpably regarded himself as an avatar of the bygone necromancer. and now from a fresh and unknown source had come a message saying that "curwen" must be killed and dissolved in acid. the linkage was too unmistakable to be factitious; and besides, was not allen planning to murder young ward upon the advice of the creature called hutchinson? of course, the letter they had seen had never reached the bearded stranger; but from its

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e incarnated on this earth. 362. ireaaeui: agaiiiml herttiet, iziv, 3. 353. hie gve nujce myatkftllf ten. the' we ftndrosmei "having (tivided hk body in two p rt4^ tbe suikcme wiadom became male and female (ifaiui, i, lloka 32. iliere are many early buddhittic ideaa to be lound in brihmaniim. tbe prevalent idea that the last of the buddhaa, gautama, ii tbe aintb itmamatiab of vishnu, or the ninlt avatar, it disdaimed partially by tbe brthmanaa, and wha&j rejected by the seamed buddhist theologians, llie latter insist that the wosdk^ of buddha poasesses a far higber daim to antiquity than that of any at the brahmania] ddtiei of the vedat, wbidi they call aecular literature 'rte brthmanaa, tbey abov, came from other countries, and catabliabed their bercay on [the worabqi of) tbe already acce

e the tabernacles of your moloch and chiun your images, the god (v, 25, 26. who are moloch and chiun but baal-satum-siva, and chiun, kivan, the same satiu-n whose star the israelites had niade to themselves? there seems no escape in this case; all these duties are identical. llie same in the cose of the numerous logoi. while the zoroastriao sosiosh is framed on the tenth br&hmanical avatar, and the fifth buddha of the followers of gautama; and while we find the former, after having passed part and parcel into the kabalistic system of king messiah, re- flected in the apostle gabriel of the nazarenes, and aebel-zivo, the legatus, sent on earth by the lord of celsitude and light; all of tb^e 586. see j. tfatter's hutoire eriliqtu de gnotheinu upon tbe aubjecl 587. cf. danid, iv

isis unveiled general retwrection, when the good will immediately enter into this happy abode the regenerated earth; and ahriman and his angels (the devils* and the wicked, be purified by immersion in a lake of molten metal. henceforward all will enjoy unchangeable happiness and, headed by sosiosh, ever sing the praises of the eternal one* the above is a perfect repetition of vishnu in his tenth avatar, for he will then throw the wicked into the infernal abodes in which, after purifying themselves, they will be pardoned even those devils which rebelled against brahmi, and were hurled into the bottomless pit by $va; as also the 'blessed ones* will go to dwell with the gods, over the mount mem* having thus traced the similarity of views respecting the logos, met- atron, and mediator, as fou

eans jesus, son of the fish-god; but it was really too hazardous to connect the emblems of venus, a^tarte, and all the hindo goddesses the argka, doce, and fiak with the' immaculate' birth of their god i this looks very much as if in the early days of christianity but little distinction was nude be- tween christ, bacchus, apouo, and the hindfi krishna, tlie incarnation of vishnu, with whose first avatar this symbol of the fish originated. in the hari'purdna, in the bhdgavata-purdna, as well as in several other books, the god vishnu is shown as having assumed the form of a fish with a human head in order to reclaim the vedar lost during the deluge. having enabled vaivasvata to escape with all his tribe in the ark, vi^nu, pitying weak and ignorant humanity, remained with them for some time

l apply to the hindtt vishnu, the "preserving' spirit, find the second personage of the brahmanie trinity. this deity, having already manifested itself, is still regarded as the future savior of humanity, and is the selected redeemer, who will appear at its tenth incarnation or avaidra, like the messiah of the jews, to lead the blessed onward, and restore to them the primitive vedoi. at his first avatar, vishnu is alleged to have appeared to hu- manity in form like a fish. in the temple of rama there is a representa- tion of this god which answers perfectly to the description of dagon, as given by berosus. he has the body of a man issuing from the mouth of a fish, and holds in his hands the lost veda. vishnu, moreover, is the water-god, in one sense, the logos of the parabrahman, for as th

in the jewish kabala, where the ten sephiroth emanate from adam kadmon (placed below the crown, he comes fifth. so in digitizecoy google 260 isis dnveiud the gnostie system; so in the buddhistic, in which the fifth buddha maitreya, will itppear at his last advent to save mankind before the final destruction of the world. if vishnu is represented in his forthcoming and last appearance as the tenth avatar or incarnation, it is only because every unit held as an androgyne manifests itself doubly. the buddhists who reject this dual-sesed incarnation reckon but five. thus, while vishnu is to make hia last appearance in his tenth, buddha is said to do the sante in his fifth incamation* the better to illustrate the idea, and show how completely the real meaning of the avatars, known only to the s

e uni- hiit wtdd within the infinite universe it venal ^lirit. the microcoam within the macrocomn. as toa bn? tb* trinit? ol sum, ud a, in the jewish kabala. it is tbe tymbol of bbht of the womb of the universe, the terreatrial dpk, tli tgg, whose archetype is the golden mun- dpk dane egg. it is from within this spiritual bosom of mother natute that proceed all the great savion of the onivene the avatar* of the invisible deity "of him who it and yet is not, from the not-being, etenial cause, is bom the being^ j n u puruaha" says manu, the legislator. wuntfacis puni^ia i* the 'divine male' the tecond god, and the avatar, or the logos of paia- brahman and his divine ton, who in hit turn produced virij, the ton, or the ideal^^j^ ll^jj type of the univetae "virij" bepns the- work of ca ation b

l tbe poa^dilarias noah, and hia 'lii lona' dt lubaequcnt (enbatiom, who are the orifbiali ol the poat-dihiviau and mjthi- al patriareba of tbe bible "of him who is formless, the non- existent (also the eternal, but nof fint cause, is bom the heavenly man" but after he created the form of the heavenly man hk^ mn, he "used it as a vehide wherein to descend" says tbe kabala. thus adam kadmon is the avatar of the concealed power. after that the heavenly adam creates or engenders by the combined power of the sephiroth, the earthly adam. the work of creation is abo begun by sephira in the creation of the ten sephi- roth (who are tbe prajapatis of the kabala, for they are likewise the lords of all beings. the zohar asserts the same. according to the kabalistic doctrine there woe worlds zolia

ions, and all feeing (matuu) becomes dormant. when tbey are all absorbed in the sopbeme soui, this soul of all the beings sleeps in complete repose till the day when it resumes its form and awakes again from its primitive darkness* if we now examine the ten mythical avatars of vishnu, we find them recorded in the following progression: 1. matgya-avat&ra: asasah. it will also be his tenth and last avatar, at the end t^ the kali-yuga. 2. kdrma-avatdra: as a tortoise. 3. variuta: as a boar. 4. ndra-sinha: as a manaion; last animal stage. 5. vdmana &s a dwarf; first step toward the human form. 6. parasu-rdma: as a hero, but yet an imperfect man. 7. rdma-chandra: as the hero of rdnuljfana. i^iysically a perfect man; his next of kin, friend and ally, hanuman the monkey-god. ths mojucey endowed w

hanuman the monkey-god. ths mojucey endowed wuh epeedi' 8. kriskna'atiatdta: the son of the virgin deoandgi (or deeam) one formed by god, or rather by the manifested deity\^hnu, who is identical with adam kadmon" krishna is also called kamya, the son^ the virgin. 0. gautama-buddha, siddhdrtha, or sakya muni (the buddhists reject this doctrine of their buddha being an incarnation^ vishnu) 10. this avatar has not yet occurred. it is expected in the future, like the christian advent, the idea of which was undoubtedly copied from the hindq. when vishnu appears for the lost time he will come as a 'savior' according to the opinioo of some br&hmonas he will appear himself under the form of the horse kalki. others maintain that he will be mounting it. this horse is the envelope of the spirit of ev

acred to be pronounced, and whose power is too majestic and infinite to be imagined" thus by describing the avatars of one, all others ore included in the all^ory, with a change of form but not of substance. it is out of such manifestations that emanated the many worlds that were, and that will emanate the one which is to come. coleman, followed in this by other orientalists, presents the seventh avatar of vishnu in the most caricatured way* apart from the fact that the rsmdyana is one of the grandest epic poems in the world the source and origin of homer's inspiration this avatar conceals one of the most scientific problems of our modem day. the learned btfthroanas of india never understood the allegory of the famous war between men, giants, and monkeys otherwise than in the light of the

cimal notation was known among them at least as early as four centuries b. c, for aristotle does not seem to treat the question as an innovation of the 'neo-ivthagoreaus* besides, as we have remarked above, the representations ot the archaic deities, on the walls of the temples, are (rf themselves quite sug- gestive enough. so, for instance, vishnu is represented in the kiirmira- idra (his second avatar) as a tortoise sustaining a circular pillar, on which the semblance of himself (m&yd, or the illusion) mts with all his attri- butes* while one hand holds a flower, another a club, the third a sbdl, 767. ckipt. ric, n. p. 284. 76s. ibid. 769. king: tia omma. p. 370; 2di1 cd. 770. ptoiatoroe nla. 771. 608 b. c. 772. this dty wu built 332 b. c 773. jfefatay. xii. vui; xiii, viu. 774. see[d.ix

atoroe nla. 771. 608 b. c. 772. this dty wu built 332 b. c 773. jfefatay. xii. vui; xiii, viu. 774. see[d.ixibbl>iirice:hii<^ffmdmta,i. digitizecoy google the 'lord god' op the hebrews 301 the fourth, generally the upper one, or at the ri^t, holds on his forefinger, extended as the cipher 1, the cholera, or discus, which resembles a ring or b wheel, and might be taken for the nought. in his first avatar, the mataydvatara, when emerging from the fish's mouth, he is represented in the same position* the ten-armed durg& of bengal; the ten-headed r&eana the giant; p&naa as durgd, indra and /tt^rdnt are found with this attribute, which is a perfect representation of the may-pole* the holiest of the temples among the hindfis are those of jagan- natha. this deity is wor^ped equally by all the sec

an and others. 797. bed. hitt. oeot xvi. pl hi. li, 19. digitizecoy google 810 isis unveiled of god. he is the essence of life, and, althou^ mcomprebensible uid invisible, is to be known through occatumal laanifeglatiotu in human /orm* like the hindfls, they hold that he has incarnated more than once on earth 'hamza was the precursor, not the inheritxh, of hakem, the last manifestation (the tenth avatar* who is yet to come 'hamza was the personification ol the 'universal wisdom' bohaeddin in his writings calls him messiah. the whole number of his disciides, or those who at different ages of the world have imparted wisdom to man- kind, whidi the latter as invariably have forgotten and rejected in course of time, is one hundred and sixty-four (164, the kabalistic< d k. therefore their stages

itarmjia-upattiaad, iv, 5, 15, p. 4s7, ed. rocs: ibid, p. 478; clikdniioniyupanitliod, vlli. 3, 3, 4" chiptfmn a otrman worktop, i. pp. 07-m. 809. john, z, 34. 35. 810. t carinlkiaiu, vi, ib. digitizecoy google the esoteric doctrine of buddhism 319 buddha is thus addressed "arise into nirvi (nirv&na) from this dt_ crepit body into which thou hast been sent. ascend into thy former abode, o blessed avatar" this seems to us the very opposite of nihil- ism. if gautama is invited to reascend into his "former abode" and this abode is nirv&na, then it is incontestable that buddhistic philosophy does vat teach final annihilation. as jesus is alleged to have appeared to his disciples after death, so to the present day is gautama believed to descend from nirvana. and if he has an existence there, th

never been in india, on the same prindple as the jews are forbidden, by the christian theologians, to interpret their own scriptures the brftbmanas, we say, have sutboitic records. and these ^ow the incarnation from the virgin avany c^ the first buddha divine light as having taken place more than some thousands of years b. c, on the island of ceylon. the br&hmanas reject the claim that it was an avatar of viahnu, but admit the ai^iear- ance of a r^ormer of brfihmanism at that time. the story of the virgin avany and her divine son, sdkya-muni, is recorded in one^ the saoed books of the singhalese buddhists the nirdkaia; and the brfthmanic chronology fixes the great buddhistic revolution and reli^us war, and the subsequent spread of s&kya-muni's doctrine in tibet, china, japan, and other pl

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small selection of hindu deities. xxiii* the forty buddhist meditations. 0 aum nothing and neither p nor p' f space f consciousness f 1 parabrahm (or any other whom one wishes to please[[shiva, brahma] indifference s 2 shiva, vishnu (as buddha avatars, akasa (as matter, lingam joy s 3 bhavani (all forms of sakti, prana (as force, yoni compassion s 4 indra, brahma friendliness s 5 vishnu, varruna-avatar death r 6 vishu-hari-krishna-rama buddha r 7[[bhavani, etc] the gods r 8 hanuman analysis into 4 elements a 9 ganesha, vishnu (kurm avatar) dhamma r 1010 lakshmi &c [kundalini] sangha r the body r 11 the maruts [vayu] wind k 12 hanuman, vishnu (as parasa-rama) yellow k 13 chandra (as) loathsomeness of food p 14 lalita (sexual aspect of sakti) dark blue k 15 shiva bloody corpse i 16 shiva (s

vatar) dhamma r 1010 lakshmi &c [kundalini] sangha r the body r 11 the maruts [vayu] wind k 12 hanuman, vishnu (as parasa-rama) yellow k 13 chandra (as) loathsomeness of food p 14 lalita (sexual aspect of sakti) dark blue k 15 shiva bloody corpse i 16 shiva (sacred bull) beaten and scattered corpse i 17 various twin and hybrid deities white k 18[[krishna] worm-eaten corpse i 19 vishnu (nara-singh avatar) gnawed by wild beasts corpse i 20 the gopi girls, the lord of yoga bloated corpse i 21 brahma, indra liberality r 22 yama hacked in pieces corpse i 23 soma [apas] water k 24 kundalini[[yama] skeleton corpse i 25 vishnu (horse-avatar) limited aperture k 26 lingam, yoni putrid corpse i 27[[krishna] blood-red k 28[[the maruts] purple corpse i 29 vishnu (matsya avatar) conduct r 30 agni [tejas

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

a legend of initiation into the mysteries, and the "great fish" represents the darkness of ignorance which engulfs man when he is thrown over the side of the ship (is born) into the sea (life. the custom of building ships in the form of fishes or birds, common in ancient times, could give rise to the story, and mayhap jonah was merely picked up by click to enlarge the first incarnation, or matsya avatar, of vishnu. from picart's religious ceremonials. the fish has often been associated with the world saviors. vishnu, the hindu redeemer, who takes upon himself ten forms for the redemption of the universe, was expelled from the mouth of a fish in his first incarnation. isis, while nursing the infant horus, is often shown with a fish on her headdress. oannes, the chaldean savior (borrowed fro

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

f into two equal and opposite forces, night and day. the night was ruled over by diana herself as the moon, the day by her alter ego and brother, lucifer, the sun. diana, inasmuch as the moon is ever pursuing the sun across the sky, became enamoured of her brother the sun and seduced him in the shape of his pet cat. the offspring from this union was a daughter, aradia or herodias, the archetypal "avatar" or patroness of all witches. in this legend of diana with its gnostic overtones, there are reflections of the cabalistic tradition of naamah, the seductress of the fallen angel azael. naamah, is synonymous with babylonian lilith, and azael is none other than babylonian shamash, the sun-god in his underworld aspect as lord of riches and artificer of metals. in fact he is the alter ego of tu

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

ded and focussed on what you wish to accomplish. by entering the vast night side, in which vampires truly exist, you will be opening yourself to a world whose inhabitants may devour you unless strength and the shield of will are present. frozen silence the practice of holding the body in one position for extended amounts of time is very significant. the self in a still or frozen state is often an avatar of building and controlled energy. when an individual controls their thoughts on almost every level, holding the point of consciousness between lines of almost subconscious existence, then the mind is at the threshold of magick and sorcery. this is why i have always relied on physical exercise and training as a stepping stone towards magickal practice. the mind on the conscious levels works

e individual enters the abyss there is no concept of the self, there is no form or matter in this state. it is during this state that one can inaugurate or enflesh the intense desires, whatever they may be, during a state of forgetting the self. this is the direct communication with the subconscious, the delivering of the letter if you will. the sorcerer who dives through the abyss and acts as an avatar for its power keeps the spirit bound to the earth, he or she escapes the recycling for an amount of time. many memories of a previous life are lost in the traumatic act of death; only the strong willed even emerge with some essence of their power source intact. it is often when the greatest shocks and traumas are inflicted, when the exterior and ego built selves are stripped away that the t

recommend a building of astral walls, of the "black iron walls (13) which will act as a protection from unwanted spirits and enemies. once erected, with will, sweat and blood it is very difficult for another to trespass these walls. the vampiric strength of astral shape shifting is through dream manipulation and awakening. the vampire who is able to alter his/her form in the dream is an awakened avatar of the great vampiric spiral force. for if opened one is able to take on the personal and psychic attributes of the god form they most assume. the wolf offers speed, the bat offers flight, excellent night vision (in bat assumed forms on the dream plane, from personal experience and others testimony, you are usually able to see perfectly compared to the bats' own lack of eyesight) and a heig

anging. the key essence of this statement is that even though the exterior and first layer of the interior is always changing, the basis of the individual, learned through childhood and teenage years remains within the ever changing persona. only those who have extreme imbalances such as personality disorders (ie multiple personalities) are unable to control significant change. the sorcerer is an avatar of the magickal current which is embodied through him/her. the significant and essential 'trick' is to realize that the magickian is the manifestation of that particular current of energy. the traditions of which i speak are aligned and/or parallel with the 93 current, known as thelema which is greek for will. the witches oath to know is a symbol of retention of knowledge gained in life. to

nown, is called theban. attributed to honorius, theban is an ancient script of runes from which the sorcerers of old inscribed many of their instruments and the inking of spells to hide from profane eyes. invoking the goddess- manifestation of the lunar current what is the connection between the zos kia cultus, thelema and witchcraft? the answer is the goddess, the all-prevailing woman who is the avatar of the gods, bringer of birth, life and death. through her eros and thanatos are united. the goddess can assume many guises and forms, hecate, lilith, kali, isis and babalon. in these forms she will manifest in the witch. the witches sabbat craft recognizes that the witch-goddess is the prime manifestation of individual power and focus upon earth. from the drops of her menstruation spring a

goddess of an opened spirit, the luciferian mind. she is the exact opposite of mary, for the christians goddess is the mother of the black brotherhood of christianity in many aspects, she is closed therefore non existent to those who seek the light of god (lucifer. john whiteside parsons wrote much, and dedicated a majority of his short life to babalon. marjorie cameron parsons was said to be an avatar of this goddess, and lived her life expressing the importance of individual thought and goddess worship through her art and talks. the babalon working, which was conducted, by parsons and the scribe (his assistant at that time) sought to incarnate babalon in flesh. shortly after, cameron arose. 61 61 babalon is also to be considered a goddess of death and blood, she is actually a varied asp

from which one observes sethian isolation and the various aspects of self. the initiate shall receive instructions of the coven, and may then seek the discarnate who reside in the lands of the gast for selfintrospection. six: the infernal induction. the initiate shall embrace the daemonic essence and enjoy the pleasures of the earth. the initiate shall for a period chosen by the coven, become an avatar for a specific associate god or goddess form of the higher famulus/angel/demon. seven: this is the path of over-stimulation and exhaustion, which ushers forth ones coming into being. this may be conducted for a period with devotion to the goddess babalon/lilith/az. that all sexual and physical acts are focused and dedication to ones becoming through her. your body shall be a temple in her n

with incense and any trappings which would add to this context of ritualistic lycanthropy "black streamed mother of night, casting transparent enveloping shadows veiling the secrets of infinite space beneath the flames of your sabbath. shine your star upon me, pleasure of the night mask, for i invoke the hidden mysteries! the spirit of the_ i invoke to become as thee and be thee! self love is the avatar of all gods, of which the sickle moon holds the very life! i breathe with the stealth of night to see beyond the veil of dreams" focus intently upon the sigil until you memorize it "awaken hecate! through the serpents kiss under the moon of blood our sleep becomes waking, memories of our past flesh become present memory" the sigil should now be consecrated with sexual fluid and then absorbe

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

nd, after 3 days, his--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 9 body disappeared and returned to heaven. in heaven he resides to this day, promising to return and rule for a 1,000 years, and afterwards he will live forever more with god. the hindus have the many incarnations of the most-high god vishnu. vishnu, who resides in heaven, came upon man in many forms and these forms are called avatars. an avatar is essentially a god in the flesh. for example, krishna, one of the 10 avatars of vishnu, was born from the womb of a human woman in order to fight the demons that plagued humanity. the first incarnation of vishnu was that of a fish-man. nine incarnations of vishnu have already arrived, whereas the tenth avatar will arrive to earth during the end of the world riding a white horse and fighti

pon man 9 times already, meaning there are 10 gods who are all associated with the single god vishnu. this model could amount to a rather confusing situation if the hindus weren t aware of the multiplicity of their gods. so, not only will one find correspondences between gods in separate mythologies, but correspondences between the gods of a single mythology can also be found. i suspect that this avatar relationship with the gods explains this multiplicity. another common habit of mythology is to describe a single god as a pair, one good and one evil. in this way do the gods of mythology have multiple aspects. there is, in fact, little argument among those who study mythology that the same gods seem to make their appearances in multiple mythologies, the only argument is why this is occurri

een the serpent, azazel, and satan himself gets a tad-bit blurry in--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 14 the world of the occult. satanists often speak of azazel as being a mouthpiece or mask of satan. occultists frequently tell the story of satan approaching eve in the form of azazel, as if azazel were in fact a separate entity who, while tempting eve, was possessed by satan. this follows the avatar model, where multiple gods are related to a single god and vice-versa. after giving man magical knowledge that was forbidden by god, and mating with human women, the book of enoch describes the fallen angels, their offspring, and almost the whole of humanity (except for noah and his family) being destroyed by a flood whose cause was divine. black magicians, to this day, revere azazel and th

ck sun, or a sun that is in total eclipse. perhaps it was a time before the merger of satan and hades, but once these two beings competed for the souls of the nephilim who had died in the flood. satan send ishtar to the gates of the underworld, demanding the souls of those nephilim from hades. lucifer, who is also called azazel and prometheus, absorbed the essence of satan; think of lucifer as an avatar of satan, and it must be remembered that lucifer is satan only because of the merger. upon falling to earth, he worked some kind transformation upon himself, where he became both angel and demon. azazel, one of the children of jehovah, fell from heaven along with leviathan, belial, beelzebub, ashtoreth, asmodeus, dagon, satan, and many others whose names go unrecorded. lucifer is often char

s possessed by lilith. other times they speak of the azazel as the direct father, after his merger with satan, seducing eve and spitting filth into her. still in other cases, they speak of cain as the direct child of lucifer and lilith. cain, like his father lucifer, is strongly associated with baphomet and the black man of the sabbat, and has been called the earthly devil. cain is apparently the avatar by which satan visit s the realm of the flesh. cain also represents humanity perfected, as he is both angel and demon. cain is said to be the first born child of witch s blood, and it is he who bestows the mark of the beast. belial [5.10] belial is yet another character who is spoke of as another aspect of satan who rules over hades, other times belial is spoke of as a separate entity from

MORALS AND DOGMA

es a usurper it does not follow that he was all the time a hypocrite. shallow men only so judge of others. the truth is, that creed has, in general, very little influence on the conduct; in religion, on that of the individual; in politics, on that of party. as a general thing, the mahometan, in the orient, is far more honest and trustworthy than the christian. a gospel of love in the mouth, is an avatar of persecution in the heart. men who believe in eternal damnation and a literal sea of fire and brimstone, incur the certainty of it, according to their creed, on the slightest temptation of appetite or passion. predestination insists on the necessity of good works. in masonry, at the least now of passion, one speaks ill of another behind his back; and so far from the "brotherhood" of blue

by iswara, and committed to the waves on a chest, like osiris and bacchus; during which the candidate was terrified by phantoms and horrid noises. then he was made to personify vishnu, and perform his avatars, or labors. in the first two he was taught in allegories the legend of the deluge: in the first he took three steps at right angles, representing the three huge steps taken by vishnu in that avatar; and hence the three steps in the master's degree ending at right angles. the nine avatars finished, he was taught the necessity of faith, as superior to sacrifices, acts of charity, or mortifications of the flesh. then he was admonished against five crimes, and took a solemn obligation never to commit them. he was then introduced into a representation of paradise; the company of the member

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

bacon depicts a republic headed by a secret society consisting entirely of intellectuals from the fields of both letters and sciences. the members of this order, speculative freemasonry 241 who called each other brother, devoted themselves in complete freedom to philosophical discussion and to working to improve the conditions of the lower classes and advance true religion and morality. one final avatar whose plans for an ideal society offer many analogies to the tenets of modern freemasonry is the famous czech pedagogue jan amos komensky. the persecutions suffered by reformers in catholic countries during the thirty years' war and the sight of the bloody collisions among races and religions had inspired in some noble souls the conception of a humanitarian mysticism for which komensky was

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

h a flood. the biblical story of the deluge is one of many such accounts, and owes much to the sumerian/babylonian account in the epic of gilgamesh, in which the noah figure is named utnapishtim (see p. 19. the ancient greeks told how zeus tried to destroy mankind with a flood, but prometheus (see p. 24) warned deucalion and pyrrha. manu was saved from the hindu deluge vishnu in the form his fish avatar, matsya (see p. 110. flood myths can be found in peru and in china, among the australian aboriginals and in many native american cultures, including the mandan myth of lone man (see p. 94. even in the 19th century, folklorists could still collect in serbia a cycle of slavonic myths about the great flood from which the sole survivor kranyatz was preserved by the trickster god of wine, kurent

t creator actually turned into the trickster god coyote. such tricksters, whose mischief may lead them into wickedness, are found throughout mythology, from the greek dionysus to the norse loki to the japanese susano (see pp. 58, 69, and 123. but another theme is the creator s care for the beings he has made. it is this care that leads vishnu, the hindu preserver of the world, to take on his many avatar forms in order to help humanity in times of crisis. his final avatar, kalkin, the white horse, will appear at the end of this era, to usher in a new age. the great mother creator gods tend to be male, but much of the work of creation may be delegated to a goddess. for example, among the keres of the american southwest, utsiti, the creator god, who made the world from a clot of his own blood

ite the obvious connection between agricultural and human fertility, the earth is not always vishnu the preserver vishnu and his wife lakshmi (or shri) are shown riding on their mount, the celestial bird garuda. vishnu, the wide-strider, measured out the cosmos in three strides. he is regarded as the protector of the world, and because of his compassion for humankind, descends to earth in various avatar forms, such as prince rama, to fight evil. whenever vishnu is incarnated, so is lakshmi, to be his bride. here, garuda is taking the loving couple to their own heaven, vaikuntha. introduction 9 female. the egyptians, for example, worshiped geb as god of the earth, and his sister-bride nut as the goddess of the sky. nowhere has worship of the eternal female been so strong as in india, where

, to help humankind. in theory, there have been nine avatars and a tenth is yet to come, although many stories exist that detail other appearances. lakshmi, vishnu s wife, has always accompanied him in his incarnations for example, as prince rama s wife sita (see p. 114 15, or as krishna s lover radha, and his wife, rukmini. that lakshmi can be incarnated twice in the krishna story and that other avatar stories exist is indicative of the way in which myths grow, appropriating elements from different sources at different times, often resulting in a varying versions of a common theme. matsya, the fish vishnu s first avatar was matsya the fish, a form he took to protect manu, the first man, from the deluge. when manu found the tiny fish, it told him, look after me, and i will look after you

gain with his tusk. narasimha, the man-lion once, a demon king called hiranya-kashipu ruled the world. he was cruel and wicked, and invulnerable to men, animals, or gods, inside or outside his house, by day or by night. one day, as a joke, hiranya-kashipu struck a pillar in his palace, and asked if vishnu was in there. to his amazement, vishnu emerged, roaring, as a ferocious man-lion (his fourth avatar, and tore the demon to pieces at twilight on the veranda of the palace. vamana, the dwarf vishnu s fifth avatar, vamana the dwarf, was born to curb the power of another demon king, bali. when he begged bali for only as much land as he could cover in three strides, the king laughed and granted his wish. he was horrified when vamana covered the whole world, leaving bali only the kingdom of pa

a, the dwarf vishnu s fifth avatar, vamana the dwarf, was born to curb the power of another demon king, bali. when he begged bali for only as much land as he could cover in three strides, the king laughed and granted his wish. he was horrified when vamana covered the whole world, leaving bali only the kingdom of patala, underneath the earth. kurma, the tortoise kurma the tortoise, vishnu s second avatar, held up mt. meru and helped the gods reclaim 14 treasures from the sea of milk (see pp. 108-9. this illumination dating from 1770 shows vishnu and lakshmi on vishnu s vehicle garuda. vishnu and lakshmi v ishnu and lakshmi are shown riding the sacred bird garuda, who is linked with fire and the sun, up to their heaven of love. the marital devotion of vishnu and lakshmi extends through all o

hu-rama, the axman in this sixth incarnation, vishnu was born into the brahman caste, or class, of scholars. at this time, the warrior caste, the kshatriya, dominated the world, but the gods thought it better that the brahmans should rule. so parashu-rama (who was also a warrior) destroyed the warriors with his ax, and slew their 1,000-armed king, kartavirya. rama, the gentle as rama, his seventh avatar, vishnu was born to slay the demon ravana. king dasharatha prayed for a son, and vishnu gave him a bowl of divine nectar to share between his three wives. as a result, four sons were born: rama, who received half the divine essence, bharata, who received a quarter, and lakshmana and satrughna, who received an eighth each. therefore, all four brothers shared in vishnu s divine nature. the bu

slay the demon ravana. king dasharatha prayed for a son, and vishnu gave him a bowl of divine nectar to share between his three wives. as a result, four sons were born: rama, who received half the divine essence, bharata, who received a quarter, and lakshmana and satrughna, who received an eighth each. therefore, all four brothers shared in vishnu s divine nature. the buddha the buddha, the ninth avatar shown here with the attributes of vishnu, was a historical figure. he taught humankind how to free itself of desire, and the illusion of this world, and its endless reincarnations. the buddha s previous incarnations are recounted in the jataka tales. kalkin, the white horse at the end of this era of the world, when humankind has become totally degenerate, vishnu will come in his tenth incar

he illusion of this world, and its endless reincarnations. the buddha s previous incarnations are recounted in the jataka tales. kalkin, the white horse at the end of this era of the world, when humankind has become totally degenerate, vishnu will come in his tenth incarnation, riding a white horse and wielding a flaming sword to destroy the wicked and renew the world. krishna krishna, the eighth avatar, is preeminently vishnu in his role as lover. he loved radha and the story of their love is a favorite theme in indian art and literature. however, krishna did go to war and the philosophical conversation he had with arjuna, his charioteer, became the bhagadvad gita, one of hinduism s holy books. vishnu s discus, symbol of the mind and the sun vishnu s mace, associated with the power of the

. krishna and the gopis krishna is shown playing his flute, attended by radha, his favorite gopi, one of the young women of his adoptive tribe who were all in love with him. the stories of krishna are so extensive that, like rama, he can be considered as a god in his own right, although he is a manifestation of vishnu. his name means black and, with his flute, may suggest a tribal origin for this avatar. radha krishna the god krishna during her eighth pregnancy, krishna s mother devaki was imprisoned by her evil brother king kamsa because it was prophesied that her eighth child would kill him. but devaki smuggled out the baby, krishna, and he was placed in a family of cowherds. although he was evidently a god (his mother saw the universe in his mouth and, as a baby, he killed the ogress pu

, as a baby, he killed the ogress putana, who fed him poisoned milk, krishna was playful, and many stories tell how he stole butter and teased the girls. with balarama, his brother, he had many adventures, killing king kamsa and winning his bride, rukmini. although it is said that vishnu put one black and one white hair from his head in devaki s womb to create the brothers, balarama is clearly an avatar of ananta, the world serpent, for the snake came out of his mouth when he died. krishna himself was killed after a long life by a hunter, who shot him by accident in the sole of his foot, his only vulnerable spot. shiva and his family 112 shiva and his family the god shiva lived on mount kailasa with his wife, the gentle goddess parvati, and his two sons skanda (or kartikeya) and ganesh. sk

off, fighting any creature that tries to stop him. rama and sita 115 demon in disguise the golden deer was a demon in disguise called maricha, who had been asked by ravana to entice rama and his brother away, leaving sita defenseless. ravana was avenging his sister surpanakha whom rama had rejected. in a fit of jealousy she had attacked sita, and had her nose and ears cut off by lakshmana. rama, avatar of vishnu rama s blue skin marks him as an avatar of vishnu. rama, or rama-chandra, is moon rama or gentle rama, in contrast to vishnu s previous avatar, the warrior parashu-rama. rama shares his divine essence with his brothers, though he, with half of vishnu s divinity, has the chief role. captive princess sita, who refused to yield to ravana, was taken to the golden city on the island of

lakshmana, tricked by ravana into imagining he heard rama crying for help, left sita (at her insistence) and ran to his brother s aid. rama killed the magical deer with an arrow a.s ad end rama rejected sita after he rescued her because he believed she was defiled. sita, unable to bear the slander, wanted to die but the gods would not allow it. they testified to her purity and told rama he was an avatar of vishnu (see pp. 110 11. rama and sita lived happily for 10,000 years until rama, told that his subjects still considered sita impure, sent her into exile where she gave birth to his twin sons. years later, rama saw his sons and asked sita to come back. but her heart was broken and she sank into the earth. rama ruled sadly for another 1,000 years before he also returned to the gods. in th

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

chamchawala's teak-lined study, beside a ten-volume set of the richard burton translation of the arabian nights, which was being slowly devoured by mildew and bookworm owing to the deep-seated prejudice against books which led changez to own thousands of the pernicious things in order to humiliate them by leaving them to rot unread, there stood a magic lamp, a brightly polished copper--and--brass avatar of aladdin's very own genie-container: a lamp begging to be rubbed. but changez neither rubbed it nor permitted it to be rubbed by, for example, his son "one day" he assured the boy "you'll have it for yourself. then rub and rub as much as you like and see what doesn't come to you. just now, but, it is mine" the promise of the magic lamp infected master salahuddin with the notion that one d

next day there was no sign of a doctor, or of pamela, and chamcha in his utter bewilderment woke and slept as if the two conditions no longer required to be thought of as opposites, but as states that flowed into and out of one another to create a kind of unending delirium of the senses. he found himself dreaming of the queen, of making tender love to the monarch. she was the body of britain, the avatar of the state, and he had chosen her, joined with her; she was his beloved, the moon of his delight. hyacinth came at the appointed times to ride and pummel him, and he submitted without any fuss. but when she finished she whispered into his ear "you in with the rest" and he understood that she was involved in the great conspiracy, too "if you are" he heard himself saying "then you can count

elf by the window in a first-class non-smoking compartment, with his back to the engine because unfortunately another fellow was already in the other place, and jamming his trilby down on his head he sat with his fists deep in scarlet--lined gabardine and panicked. the terror of losing his mind to a paradox, of being unmade by what he no longer believed existed, of turning in his madness into the avatar of a chimerical archangel, was so big in him that it was impossible to look at it for long; yet how else was he to account for the miracles, metamorphoses and apparitions of recent days "it's a straight choice" he trembled silently "it's a, i'm off my head, or b, baba, somebody went and changed the rules" now, however, there was the comforting cocoon of this railway compartment in which the

ns were walking around wherever he went, gibreel reflected, fictions masquerading as real human beings "i have brought him upon me" he accused himself "by fearing for my own sanity i have brought forth, from god knows what dark recess, this voluble and maybe dangerous nut "you don't know it" maslama yelled suddenly, jumping to his feet "charlatan! poser! fake! you claim to be the screen immortal, avatar of a hundred and one gods, and you haven't a _foggy_ how is it possible that i, a poor boy made good from bartica on the essequibo, can know such things while gibreel farishta does not? phoney! phooey to you" gibreel got to his feet, but the other was filling almost all the available standing room, and he, gibreel, had to lean over awkwardly to one side to escape maslama's windmilling arms

ress of events injahilia and yathrib gives way to the struggle of imam and empress, gibreel briefly hopes that the curse has ended, that his dreams have been restored to the random eccentricity of ordinary life; but then, as the new story, too, falls into the old pattern, continuing each time he drops off from the precise point at which it was interrupted, and as his own image, translated into an avatar of the archangel, re-enters the frame, so his hope dies, and he succumbs once more to the inexorable. things have reached the point at which some of his night-sagas seem more bearable than others, and after the apocalypse of the imam he feels almost pleased when the next narrative begins, extending his internal repertory, because at least it suggests that the deity whom he, gibreel, has tri

es- because how could he leave her now- he put such notions out of his head and allowed her, gently but with unmistakable intent, to push him backwards on to the bed. o o o whether the slowly transmogrifying saladin chamcha was turning into some sort of science-fiction or horror-video mutey, some random mutation shortly to be naturally selected out of existence- or whether he was evolving into an avatar of the master of hell- or whatever was the case, the fact is (and it will be as well in the present matter to proceed cautiously, stepping from established fact to established fact, leaping to no conclusion until our yellowbrick lane of things-incontrovertibly-so has led us to within an inch or two of our destination) that the two daughters of haji sufyan had taken him under their wing, car

no opposition. hind, not simbel, ruled the city now; or so she undeniably believed. as the grandee grew into a soft and pursy old age, hind took to writing a series of admonitory and hortatory epistles or bulls to the people of the city. these were pasted up on every street in town. so it was that hind and not abu simbel came to be thought of by jahilians as the embodiment of the city, its living avatar, because they found in her physical unchangingness and in the unflinching resolve of her proclamations a description of themselves far more palatable than the picture they saw in the mirror of simbel's crumbling face. hind's posters were more influential than any poet's verses. she was still sexually voracious, and had slept with every writer in the city (though it was a long time since baa

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k (hebrew king of fire. an angel of the throne, now a fallen angel, arch-demon chancellor of the order of the fly, patron of hypocrites. manifests as a peacock or a mule, or as bearded, eagle winged, lion bodied. charged with the devil s livery. corresponds to the quabballistic sphere of yod. identified with sacrifices by fire. agares (goetic, from greek agreus meaning hunter, also the name of an avatar of dionysos. a duke ruling in the east. formerly of the angelic order of virtues. appears as an old man riding a crocodile, with a goshawk on his fist. causes earthquakes, destroys dignities, teaches languages, brings back runaways, makes those who run stand still. agrath bath mahalath, aggerath, igrath, igerath, agrat (hebrew, daughter of mahalath. one of samael s three wives, queen of dem

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, and faith in the future. members of this movement practice rhythmic praying and chanting, follow a strict vegetarian diet, and are urged to lead a simple life. the movement eventually spread to mexico and to several countries in europe. 7. the lovers of meher baba: this movement has only very loose links with zoroastrianism. it was founded by meher baba (1894 1969, who declared himself the last avatar in the current cycle of time (an avatar is an incarnation of a god and is usually associated with the god vishnu of hinduism) baba, whose name means compassionate father, preached that the goal of life was to become one with god through love. it is believed that this sect has hundreds of thousands of believers. darius the great one of the most famous zoroastrians in history was darius i, al

of self-denial and religious devotion a mystic is a person who claims to have direct knowledge of god and of spiritual truth. caitanya was the founder of a sect, or division, of hinduism called gaudiya vaishnavism. vaishnavas, or those who practice vaishnavism, regard krishna as the supreme, original god. in this respect they differ from members of other schools of hinduism who see krishna as an avatar of vishnu. vishnu is one of the major hindu gods and is regarded as the preserver of the universe. an avatar is an incarnation, or birth in human form, of a hindu god. all hindu gods are considered to be representations of the one god, brahma. the movement caitanya founded declined after his death, but in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it experienced a rebirth. 67 in the

the shore, not knowing what to do. he encountered a pair of caitanya s followers and told them the story. they rushed to the fisherman s boat, freed caitanya from the net, and brought him back to consciousness. regardless of whether any of these legends are true, they show how highly caitanya s followers respected him. indeed, followers of gaudiya vaishnavism believe that caitanya was the latest avatar of krishna. as he neared his death, caitanya selected six of these followers to spread his principles of devotion. these six formalized the teachings of gaudiya vaishnavism and spread them throughout eastern india, primarily in bengal and orissa. in fact some historians of religion believe that hinduism in bengal might not have survived if not for caitanya s influence. to keep gaudiya vaish

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

, a lucis trust organization, and the message from alice bailey, occultist founder, was included in world goodwill newsletter (1997, no. 4. world goodwill is yet another global organization, affiliated with the lucis trust, but which also networks with scores of other illuminist groups, orders, and secret societies. lucis trust and world goodwill teach of the coming of the cosmic, new age christ, avatar for the age of aquarius, who represents the central sun, also called the solar logos. 374 codex magica the new age group, energy system parameters (esp, has this as the logo on its letterhead. in this letter announcing its general membership's annual meeting, the co-presidents emphasized esp's focus on "group energies "cosmic reorganization" and the importance of achieving the "crystalized

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lay within the heart of each sincere pilgrim who sought to join him there. author/philosopher john w. white (1939) also sees jesus as an evolutionary forerunner of the higher race that will inherit the earth, a race of people that will embody cosmic consciousness, the christ consciousness on a species-wide basis, rather than the sporadic individual basis seen earlier in history when an occasional avatar, such as buddha or jesus, appeared. white gives the name of homo noeticus (pertaining to higher consciousness) to this evolving form of humanity. because of their deepened awareness and self-understanding, the traditionally imposed forms, controls, and institutions of society are barriers to their full development, white says. their changed psychology is based on expression, not suppression

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

*the mother fs tragedy, vol. i, p. 65. thus does this fearful tragedy end. gruesome with lust and cruelty, ulric, a horrible perversion, overcome by the violence of his desires, a second amnon, a second de sade. his ideal once at least partially pure, broke, as the truth burst on his ear, into a wild and fearful nightmare; and in his brutal fury we find that perhaps the sadism of to-day is but an avatar of those past days, when our progenitors, like some still existing savages, carried on their courtship with club and spear, and solemnized their marriage with rape and ravishment. still one more phase of perverse love remains for us to study; the curious lust of man for woman as depicted in gjezebel, h a curious manifestation of what is known as masochism, which after the death of the objec

THOUGHTS ON SETH

f the heirus. seth gives the grips and words to the aspirant, the symbolic secrets of the gods. seth gives power, including ethical power, the power to choose one's will, to "do that, and no other shall say nay" seth has a very luciferian aspect (i believe there are luciferian aspects to high degree scottish masonry) seth is the bringer of intelligence, and by personifying the darkness, he is the avatar of the knowledge of the good and evil; without darkness, we could not comprehend the ligota true history of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 1 a true history of witchcraft by allen greenfield get any book for free on: www.abika.com a true history of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 2 "the fact is that the instincts of ignorant people invariably find expre

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called the black man or the devil of the infernal sabbat. this god form in flesh is always portrayed by the master or magister of the coven, a chosen individual who will wear robes and the mask of sathan. cain is considered a form of the black man in the sabbat as well, the book of cain presents an illustration of cain as the adversary and the sabbatic goat a point of initiation and an enfleshed avatar of the witch cult. the black man of the sabbat is a symbol for the enfleshed power of darkness, that by will-desire-belief may that come to be. the master of the circle who undertakes the role of the nyarlathotep (as h.p. lovecraft calls it) is the horned daemon of self-liberation. the witch hunting writer guazzo described some instances of imagined sabbats, while proving very useful to lat

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stra hermana secreta, dice que los estudiantes que quieran conocer los misterios de chiram (el fuego) deben buscar a los alkimistas medievales. la gran maestra fue una verdadera yoguina disc pula de kout humi y sin embargo despu s de haber enviudado del conde blavatsky se cas con el coronel olscott, para trabajar con el arcano de la magia sexual. s lo as logr realizarse a fondo. 49 the great yogi-avatar sri lahiri lahasaya was called to the initiation by the immortal babaji when he already had a spouse. thus, this is how the yogi-avatar was self-realized. in hindustan, sexual magic is known by the sanskrit term urdhvareta9 and the yogis who practice it are named urdhavareta yogis. authentic yogis practice sexual magic with their spouse. there are two types of brahmacharya (sexual abstinenc

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this the sixteenth year of the aeon, when he st ood in the 6th degree of the sign sagittarius, whose letter hath the value of 6 0, the moon being in the 16th degree of the sign cancer whose letter hath the v alue 8, did the beast 666 to mega therion a magus of a. a. baphomet 729 t he supreme holy king of ireland, iona and all the britains that are in the sanc tuary of the gnosis xth degree o.t.o, avatar of bacchus diphues in the place o f the xith degree o.t.o, logos of the aeon of ra hoor khuit, grand master of t he knights of the holy ghost, grand master of the knights of the temple, eidolo n of the rosy cross, alastor the destroyer spirit of solitude, wanderer of the waste, of the blood of kerval arch-druids hereditary to the oak, whose holy ang el his guardian is aiwaz 93, the god firs

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, in this the sixteenth year of the aeon, when he stood in the 6th degree of the sign sagittarius, whose letter hath the value of 60, the moon being in the 16th degree of the sign cancer whose letter hath the value 8, did the beast 666 to mega therion a magus of a. a. baphomet 729 the supreme holy king of ireland, iona and all the britains that are in the sanctuary of the gnosis xth degree o.t.o, avatar of bacchus diphues in the place of the xith degree o.t.o, logos of the aeon of ra hoor khuit, grand master of the knights of the holy ghost, grand master of the knights of the temple, eidolon of the rosy cross, alastor the destroyer spirit of solitude, wanderer of the waste, of the blood of kerval arch-druids hereditary to the oak, whose holy angel his guardian is aiwaz 93, the god first da

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monic incubation process now begins and lasts about five centuries. this is an extremely volatile, difficult period- roughly fifty per cent do not survive- they return to the all, back to square one. should the infant daemon emerge, it is still in a precarious situation. daemons do not measure time as we do- childhood is an occurrence spanning millions of your years. aiwass is a boy past puberty. avatars, saints and sinners they have, down through history, been called by various names; daemons, watchers, asuras, divas, archons (ancient ones, jinn (genies, nephilim (angels, shining ones, spirit guides, the gods of olympus, egypt, babylon, etc. we give them masks and this arises from our human need to idolize them- man creates gods in his own image. the gods of different cultures are similar

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ferocious cowardice as shelly and luther; they were assailed on every ground from religion and morality upwards; every falsehood that malice could invent was circulated about them. in short, they were treated then as i am being treated now; and i am resolute to prosecute my work now as they were resolute then. that which is beneath is like that which is above. the beast and the scarlet woman are avatars of tao and teh, shiva and sakti. this law is then an exact image of the great law of the cosmos; this is an assurance of its perfection. it is necessary to say here that the` beast appears to be a definite individual; to wit, the man aleister crowley. but the scarlet woman is an officer replaceable as need arises. thus to this present date of writing, anno xvi, sun in sagittarius, there ha

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any. 2 cf. evolution and ethics, note 1. from such possibility of misinterpretation in our own bodies. compare the longevity of a bone with that of a corpuscle. but it is this substratum universe, which must not be confounded with the substratum, the arguments for whose existence berkeley so utterly shattered,1 which may conserve memory for a period greatly exceeding that of one of its particular avatars. hence the jataka. but the doctrine is not very essential; its chief value is to show what serious difficulties confront us, and to supply a reason to struggle to some better state. for if nothing 1 without an elaborate analysis of the ideas involved in the ding an sich of kant, and of h. spencer s definition of all things as modes of the unknowable, i may point out in passing that all the

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aped from the cave of a multiform proteus, or like orpheus, conquerors of hell. you may take, if you will, this form of language for an exaggerated metaphor, but for my part i will affirm that these exciting poisons seem to me not only one of the most terrible and the most sure means which the spirit of darkness uses to enlist and enslave wretched humanity, but even one of the most perfect of his avatars. this time, to shorten my task and make my analysis the clearer, instead of collecting scattered anecdotes i will dress a single puppet in a mass of observation. i must, then, invent a soul to suit my purpose. in his "confessions" de quincey rightly states that opium, instead of sending man to sleep, excites him; but only excites him in his natural path, and that therefore to judge of the

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

e world, came down to this dense physical planet and has remained with us ever since. owing to the extreme purity of his nature, and the fact that he is (from the human standpoint) relatively sinless, and hence incapable of response to aught on the dense physical plane, he was unable to take a dense physical body such as ours, and has to function in his etheric body. he is the greatest of all the avatars, or coming ones, for he is a direct reflection of that great entity who lives, and breathes, and functions through all the evolutions on this planet, holding all within his aura or magnetic sphere of influence. in him we live and move and have our being, and none of us can pass beyond the radius of his aura. he is the great sacrifice, who left the glory of the high places and for the sake

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

ee major rays, or lords of aspect. 3. the seven heavenly men. 4. the forty-nine regents of the planetary chains. ii. two permanent atoms. the physical and the astral. 1. the seven lords of the globes in every chain. 2. the forty-nine root manus. 3. the seventy-seven embodiers of form a group of solar lords who are concerned with form building, working primarily on the first ray. 4. certain of the avatars, who are selected by the logos to carry a certain type of force at stated intervals and thus further the evolution of the psyche. iii. three permanent atoms. physical, astral, and mental. 1. the lords of the third kingdom, the animal. they are seven entities whose bodies are made up of animal souls just as the heavenly men embody for man the buddhic principle, so these lords embody for the

. c. the true meaning of the words "divine hermaphrodite" is there to be comprehended. d. it is predominantly the plane of life-force, and one of the planes of generation. e. here man will for the first time understand and utilize his relationship with the devas. f. it will see the fruition of the combined evolutionary process of the two solar systems. g. it is the plane from whence all planetary avatars emanate. h. the heavenly men take the first initiation on this plane. i. on this plane the true inner significance of the "sun" is apprehended. more i cannot say, but careful study of that which is here given may open up much that is of significance in the study of the macrocosm and the microcosm. c. the devas and the planes. preliminary remarks. we have considered in broad and general ter

he occult books. much confusion exists in the minds of students as to the distinction between the agnishvattas who incarnated in man, and those who simply were responsible for the implanting of the manasic or mental spark in animal man. this opens up for us the entire question of individualisation itself, and the incarnation of certain spiritual existences who when in bodily form are spoken of as avatars, as buddhas of activity, or as direct manifestations of the logos. the entire mystery is hidden in the relationship of the individual monads who form the various centres in the body of a planetary logos and the self-conscious identity of that planetary logos himself. the student must here bear in mind the fact that the mental plane is the first aspect of the dense physical body of the plan

line of occult dispassion; this likewise will leave its mark upon matter, tinging it in such a way that in the third system, primordial substance will demonstrate a second quality. in the next system "non-attachment through abstraction" is as near as we can get to the method of the liberating process but it is useless for man to speculate upon this as his mind cannot conceive of the condition (d) avatars, their nature and their work. we have, in our discussion above, connected the phenomenon of individualisation with the appropriation by the logos, or by a planetary logos, of their dense physical vehicles, and their self-conscious existence through the medium of the physical body. a very difficult and mysterious subject might be touched upon here, that of avatars, and though it will not be

of which we find faint correspondences in the work of the "destroyer" aspect of the logos, and in the forces which produce physical death, and the disintegration of the physical body of man. it is not possible to say more on these fundamentally esoteric matters, and the value of what is said lies largely in the bringing to the mind of the student the reality of our cosmic interrelation. 2. solar avatars: these avatars are of three types though there are really many more. they are also extra-systemic visitors, and are mainly concerned with certain processes in the system, among others the administration of the law of cause and effect, or of karma. they embody the karma of the past kalpas as far as our logos is concerned, and give the initiatory impulse to the processes of adjustment, of ex

elves with the result of the merging of the polar opposites in the four lesser schemes until but one is left; and then with the transference of the life and quality of this remaining one on to the third ray. b. those dealing with the transference and interaction of the life forces between the three major rays. c. those producing the final systemic transfer at the end of the age. secondly, certain avatars from the fourth creative hierarchy, for esoteric and for us inexplicable reasons, leave their own hierarchy, and appear in one or other of the deva hierarchies. this happens only once in the history of each scheme and occurs at the time of its densest physical appearance, and has relation to the transference of deva impulse from one scheme to another. they are connected in this way with th

corn appears on mental- 430- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust levels. this level is the lowest one on which these interplanetary deities appear. no more can be communicated on this matter "the mystery of the goat" lies hidden here. this avatar makes his appearance in the third round of the third chain, and disappears in the fifth round of the fourth chain. these interplanetary avatars come in, as the products of much earlier kalpas when systemic conditions are refined enough to permit of their appearance. they are the nirmanakayas of an earlier solar cycle who now again take the opportunity to effect (in an active sense and through physical manifestation) certain uncompleted work. 4. planetary avatars. these emanate from the central planetary logos of a scheme and embod

few hints with those earlier given in the secret doctrine, the mystery of the "holy four" may be somewhat clarified from the standpoint of energy and evolution. the times and seasons of their appearing vary according to the particular karma of the lord of the ray, and nothing in connection with these great cycles, and incarnation periods, can be revealed to the unpledged and the profane. 5. human avatars. these are fully dealt with by h. p. b. and there is nothing further to add to her information, for the time is not ripe.43(213) all the above has its place here, as it concerns the mystery of force and consciousness, and the fullest manifestation of a planetary logos and of a solar logos in a dense physical body is hidden in the appearance of these various avatars and in- 431- a treatise

is in connection with the cosmic entities who seek existence on the physical plane of the cosmos, our solar systemic planes, or the reincarnating jivas who are driven by the law towards earthly manifestation in order to become fully conscious, and acquire (by means of sentient existence, added faculty and power. h. p. b. has said that rebirths may be divided into three classes:49(218) a. those of avatars. b. those of adepts. c. those of jivas seeking development. to those who are endeavouring to grasp somewhat the mystery of rebirth and its laws and purpose, and who are confused when considering the mystery of the buddha, and the secret purpose of that mysterious entity, the silent watcher; to those who find the problem of understanding the position of the kumaras and their relation to the

solution of pain, cometh the end of strife, cometh the merging of the spheres and the blending of the hierarchies. all then is re-absorbed within the orb, the circle of manifestation. the forms that exist in maya, and the flame that devoureth all, are garnered by the one who rideth the heavens and entereth into the timeless aeon (from the archives of the lodge) we have touched upon the subject of avatars and the various classes into which they might be divided. we might now enlarge somewhat more upon the methods. the methods whereby certain cosmic existences and certain highly evolved entities appear among men to do a specific work might be very inadequately, and cursorily summarised, as follows: the method of overshadowing. the method of embodying some principle. the method seen in the my

e simultaneous in time, for the people could not stand the tremendously increased inflow of force, and recognition of them and of their methods will depend upon the intuition, and the training of the inner senses. they come with no herald, and only their works will proclaim them (e) impulse and incarnation. perhaps light upon this very difficult question of the incarnating jivas, of adepts and of avatars may come if the student remembers that- 449- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. an ordinary man demonstrates the third aspect of intelligent activity in his personality life, and is evolving consciously the second aspect, or the egoic manifestation on the physical plane. 2. an adept in incarnation is demonstrating fully the second aspect as well as the third, and in hi

ed in atma-buddhi. the thinker or spiritual entity stands free of the three worlds, and functions consciously on the buddhic plane. between these two stages of quiescent (though self-conscious) inertia and of that radiant activity which produces a balancing of forces, is a long series of lives. in our consideration of the subject of the reincarnating jivas, we have touched upon three subjects: a. avatars, with the intent of disposing of the confusion in the minds of students as to certain types of appearances. in our present study we shall deal only with the process followed by ordinary men. b. pralayas, with the intent of arousing in the mind of the student the idea of interludes of quiescence dependent upon the intervening periods of activity. c. the appearance of the body egoic and its

e will or purpose, the object is sensation, and the method is force transference. exactly the same understanding lies back of the coming in of egos from the inner round, only this time the energy is sent forth by certain existences (working in connection with any planetary logos) who are the "custodians of the inner circle" this touches upon a mystery and deals with the coming-in of high egos, of avatars, of buddhas, of masters, of initiates, and of disciples, and of all who have to wait for group, and not individual, urge for the fulfillment of cyclic karma on a large scale, and whose "wheels" are controlled by cosmic forces and not by purely systemic forces- 503- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust another factor might be termed the karmic results of seeds sown in days l

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

d and functioning. this stream of living energy can nevertheless be sensed in a large way, though not as yet appropriated in its pure essence. we call it the "love of god. it is indeed that free flowing, outgoing, magnetically attractive force which leads each pilgrim home to the father's house. it is that force which stirs in the heart of humanity and finds expression through the medium of world avatars, through the mystical yearning found in every human being, through all movements that have for their objective the welfare of humanity, through philanthropic and educational tendencies of every kind, and (in the natural world so-called) through the instinct of protective motherhood. but it is essentially a group sentiency, and only in the coming aquarian age will its true nature find corre

ers will be revealed. we might here note the fact that the word ibez is literally in the nature of an acrostic veiling the true name of the planetary logos of the earth, one of whose principles is working in sanat kumara, making him thus a direct incarnation of the planetary logos and an expression of his divine consciousness. these four letters are the first letters of the real names of the four avatars on the four globes of our earth chain who have embodied four of the divine principles. the letters i b e z are not the true sensar letters, if such an inaccurate expression can be used of an ideographic language, but are simply a europeanized distortion. the true meaning is only conveyed at the fourth initiation when the nature of the planetary logos is revealed and his four avatars are de

ALICE A BAILEY11 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME II ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY II

h of initiation. it has been portrayed for us by the buddha when he took illumination and became the enlightened one. there is one peculiarly interesting point which can perhaps be made clear. god, or whatever word anyone may employ to express the originator of all that exists, constantly re-enacts these dramatic approaches for his people. in so doing and as history proceeds, two great classes of avatars must inevitably emerge, or have emerged. there are, first of all, those who embody in themselves the great major soul approaches. there will be (and i would ask you to note the change of tense) those who will embody the human approaches, or the corresponding activities of the personality to the soul approaches. these are called in the language of esotericism "the avatars of logoic descent

have emerged. there are, first of all, those who embody in themselves the great major soul approaches. there will be (and i would ask you to note the change of tense) those who will embody the human approaches, or the corresponding activities of the personality to the soul approaches. these are called in the language of esotericism "the avatars of logoic descent upon the radiant path of" and "the avatars of divine descent upon the claiming way" i cannot translate these terms more clearly, nor can i find an adequate word for the phrase which qualifies the radiant path. on the way of descending approaches, the buddha from the mental plane and also upon it, embodied in himself the blazing enlightenment which is the result of a rare occurrence a cosmic touch. he challenged the people to the pa

ise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust stations of power exist and have been founded through the work of the various world saviours. these stations of power must be contacted by humanity as time transpires, through their individual re-enactment (on a tiny scale) of the cosmic approaches, or the touches of divinity, dramatically engineered by the cosmic avatars, the buddha and the christ. it is because the christ has approached closer to humanity by focussing divine energy upon the astral plane through his divine acquiescence that he is the first initiator. from one point of view, these two centres of force constitute the temples of initiation through which all disciples have to pass. this passing is the theme of the coming new religion. mankind

s appeal for recognition an appeal which can only evoke response from the higher types of men, even though centuries have elapsed since plato endeavoured to picture forth the completeness of the whole and the intricacy of the ideas which have come forth as an expression of that whole. such great revealers of emerging divine attributes as are plato, the buddha or christ differ radically from other avatars in that they are so constituted that they are focal points through which a new presented attribute can emerge as a thought form, and, therefore, impinge definitely upon the minds of the racial thinkers. these avatars are possessed by the attribute; they intelligently comprehend it and are used to "anchor" the attribute in human consciousness. there then ensues a long period of adjustment

presenting themselves in the persons of those who are destined to reveal them eventually to man. just as, symbolically speaking, the meditation on inclusive reason opens the way to the "heart of the sun, so this meditation brings in certain agencies and forces from the "central spiritual sun, and these energies find their focal point through the medium of some revealing agent. thus the problem of avatars or of the messengers from the most high, the embodied principles, and the revealers of divine attribute will gradually come to be understood in a new light, and grasped and understood as a possible goal for certain types of men. 2. this theme opens up a wide range wherein the creative imagination can roam, and provides a fertile source of specialised divine expression. the purer the agent

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th deliberation and knowledge, they may constantly give along the indicated lines and thus contribute to the group life. there is the gift of being these embodied qualities. there is also the gift of realising that because one does embody some divine attribute in some measure large or small one can act as a channel for its transmission from the greater centre. this is the basis of the doctrine of avatars or divine messengers. the gift of being and the gift of deliberate transmission of qualified powers must be better understood. i have only a brief mantric sentence for you; it has the significance of a dedication "i plunge myself into the pool of wisdom. from thence i come, bearing a knowledge of its mysteries for my fellowmen" seek during the next few months to understand not only the way

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ed 1976 by lucis trust keynote whenever there is a withering of the law and an uprising of lawlessness on all sides, then i manifest myself. for the salvation of the righteous and the destruction of such as do evil, for the firm establishing of the law, i come to birth age after age. the bhagavad gita book iv, sutra 7, 8. chapter one the doctrine of the coming one western teaching the doctrine of avatars eastern teaching right down the ages, in many world cycles and in many countries (and today in all) great points of tension have occurred which have been characterised by a hopeful sense of expectancy. some- 1- copyright 1998 lucis trust one is expected and his coming is anticipated. always in the past, it has been the religious teachers of the period who have fostered and proclaimed this

hausted all their own resources and have come to an end of all their own innate possibilities and that the problems and conditions confronting them are beyond their solving or handling, they are apt to look for a divine intermediary and for the mediator who will plead their cause with god and bring about a rescue. they look for a saviour. this doctrine of mediators, of messiahs, of christs and of avatars can be found running like a golden thread through all the world faiths and scriptures and, relating these world scriptures to some central source of emanation, they are found in rich abundance everywhere. even the human soul is regarded as an intermediary between man and god; christ is believed by countless millions to act as the divine mediator between humanity and divinity. the whole sys

esides a self-initiated task and a pre-ordained destiny) to transmit energy or divine power. this is necessarily a deep mystery and was demonstrated in a peculiar manner and in relation to cosmic energy by the christ who for the first time in planetary history, as far as we know transmitted the divine energy of love directly to our planet and in a most definite sense to humanity. always too these avatars or divine messengers are linked with the concept of some subjective spiritual order or hierarchy of spiritual lives, who are concerned with the developing welfare of humanity. all we really know is that, down the ages, great and divine representatives of god embody divine purpose, and affect the entire world in such a manner that their names and their influence are known and felt- 2- the r

ove, and is used in compounds, in words referring to protections by kings or rulers; in regard to the gods, it means accepted favourably when a sacrifice is offered. with the result that the root word can be said to mean "coming down with the approval of the higher source from which it came and with benefit to the place at which it arrives (from monier-williams' sanskrit dictionary) all the world avatars or saviours, however, express two basic incentives: the need of god to contact humanity and to have relationship with men and the need of humanity for divine contact, help and understanding. subject to those incentives, all true avatars are therefore divine intermediaries. they can act in this fashion because they have completely divorced themselves from every limitation, from all sense of

s; some of them are of great planetary importance because they express whole cycles of future development within themselves and strike the note and give the teaching which will bring in a new age and a new civilisation; they embody great truths towards which the masses of men must work and which still constitute an objective to the greatest minds of the age, even though as yet unrealised. certain avatars also express in themselves the sum total of human achievement and of racial perfection, and thus become the "ideal men" of the ages. others, greater still, are permitted to be the custodians of some divine- 3- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust principle or some divine quality which needs fresh presentation and expression upon earth; this they can be because they hav

ng intermediary, a christ. he gives the message which will heal, which will indicate the next step to be taken by the race of men, which will illumine a dark world problem and give to man an expression of some hitherto unrealised aspect of divinity. upon this fact of the continuity of revelation and upon the sequence of this progressive manifestation of the divine nature, is based the doctrine of avatars, divine messengers, divine appearances and saviours. to them all, history unmistakenly testifies. it is upon the fact of this continuity, this sequence of messengers and avatars, and upon the dire and dreadful need of humanity at this time, that the worldwide expectancy of the reappearance of the christ is based. it is the innate recognition of all these facts that has led to the steadily

riers in his consciousness. it matters not to him of what faith a man may call himself. the son of god is on his way and he cometh not alone. his advance guard is already here and the plan which they must follow is already made and clear. let recognition be the aim. chapter four the work of the christ today and in the future we have seen that the doctrine of great appearances and of the coming of avatars or world teachers or saviours underlies all the world religions. through them, the continuity of revelation is implemented and humanity is enabled, each successive age, to take its next step forward along the path of evolution closer to god and that divine centre in which the will of the one "in whom we live and move and have our being (as st. paul expressed it in acts xvii.28) is focussed

ough them, the continuity of revelation is implemented and humanity is enabled, each successive age, to take its next step forward along the path of evolution closer to god and that divine centre in which the will of the one "in whom we live and move and have our being (as st. paul expressed it in acts xvii.28) is focussed, understood and directed. we have touched upon the mission of two of these avatars the buddha, the messenger of light for the east, and the christ, the messenger of love for the west and their work for the entire world; we have also considered the unique opportunity with which christ is today faced and the response he made in 1945 when he signified his intention to reappear and gave the great invocation to us as an aid in the preparatory work with which we are immediatel

will be superseded by a living energy which can be sensed in a large way, though it cannot as yet be appropriated in its pure essence; this energy, we call the "love of god" it is that free-flowing, outgoing, magnetically attractive force which leads each pilgrim back to the father's house. it is that force which stirs in the heart of humanity and finds expression through the medium of such great avatars as the christ; which guides the mystical yearning found in each human being, and works through all movements that have for their objective the welfare of humanity, through philanthropic and educational tendencies of all kinds and through the instinctual motherhood found everywhere. but it is essentially a group sentiency, and only in the aquarian age, and as a result of the reappearance of

he enunciation of a clear-cut principle and not with the wordy arguments of an analytical mind; from that field of threefold experience he went forth to love, to teach and to heal. christ is the great dispeller of world glamour when he comes, and in this work the buddha has previously prepared the way. the possibility of such a dispelling and dissipation is therefore definitely centred in the two avatars, the buddha and the christ. one of the essential things at this time is to bring home to humanity and to the nations of the world the nature of the work undertaken by the buddha and the christ, and to re-emphasise the truths projected by them into the arena of world thought. the work of the lord of light and of the lord of love must be presented anew to a needy world. in this connection, i

ion. this revelation will be brought about by the combined efforts of the buddha and the christ. all that we can foresee or foretell anent that revelation is that some potent and far-reaching results will be achieved by the merging of light and love, and by the reaction of "lighted substance" to "the attractive power of love" i have here given a clue to the true understanding of the work of these avatars a thing hitherto quite unrealised. it might be added that when an appreciation of the meaning of the words "transfiguration of a human being" is gained, the realisation will come that when "the body is full of light (luke xi.36) then "in thy light shall we see light (ps. xxxvi.9) this means that when the personality has reached a point of purification, of dedication and of illumination, th

- 78- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust the second truth to which all give allegiance no matter what the faith is that of man's essential relationship to god. inherent in the human consciousness inchoate often and undefined is a sense of divinity "we are all the children of god (gal. iii.26 "one is our father, even god" says the christ and so say all the world teachers and avatars down the ages "as he is, so are we in this world (1 john iv.17) is another biblical statement "closer is he than breathing, nearer than hands and feet" chants the hindu "christ in us, the hope of glory" is the triumphant affirmation of st. paul. 3. the fact of immortality and of eternal persistence. third, is the sense of persistence, of eternal life or of immortality. from this recognitio

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material. b. the united nations need to learn to apply the law of love as enunciated in the life of christ and to express the truth that "no man liveth unto himself" and no nation either, and that the goal of all human effort is loving understanding, prompted by a programme of love for the whole- 99- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust if the lives and teachings of these two great avatars can be comprehended and wrought out anew in the lives of men today, in the world of human affairs, in the realm of human thinking and in the arena of daily living, the present world order (which is today largely disorder) can be so modified and changed that a new world and a new race of men can gradually come into being. renunciation and the use of the sacrificial will should be the keynot

s and every point of crisis are symbolised by the ancient symbol of a point within the circle, the focus of power within a sphere of influence or aura. so it is today with the entire problem of ending the world glamour and illusion which fundamentally lie behind the present acute situation and world catastrophe. the possibility of such a dispelling and dissipation is definitely centred in the two avatars, the buddha and the christ. within the world of glamour the world of the astral plane and of the emotions appeared a point of light. the lord of light, the buddha, undertook to focus in himself the illumination which would eventually make possible the dissipation of glamour. within the world of illusion the world of the mental plane appeared the christ, the lord of love himself, who embodi

f light and love, and by the reaction of "lighted substance to the attractive power of love" in this sentence i have given those who can understand a profound and- 100- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust useful hint as to the method and purpose of the undertaking which was staged for the june full moon, 1942. i have also given a clue to the true understanding of the work of these avatars a thing hitherto quite unrealised. it might be added that when an appreciation of the meaning of the words "transfiguration of a human being" is gained, the realisation will come that when "the body is full of light" then "in that light shall we see light" this means that when the personality has reached a point of purification, of dedication and of illumination, then the attractive power

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ing the qualities of the three major rays, and then the point at the centre which stands for the dynamic embodied life. in connection with shamballa, that point is sanat kumara himself; when the right time comes (though the hour is not yet) he will place his representatives as the central points in both the hierarchy and in humanity. for this relatively distant event the doctrine or the theory of avatars, of mediators or of inter-mediaries is preparing the way, thus enabling men to think in these representative and inclusive terms. not even in the hierarchy is the time yet ripe for the "residence in state of the divine representative" each year, the buddha comes and carries the force of sanat kumara to the hierarchy but he cannot stay. the "units of energy" the members of the hierarchy, ca

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three centres in the body of the one about whom naught may be said. the seven stars of the great bear correspond to the seven head centres of this great entity (cosmic fire, 182) 7 "vibrations (energies) come to our solar system from the seven rishis of the great bear and primarily from those two who are the prototypes of the seventh and fifth rays or planetary logoi (cosmic fire, 553) 8 "cosmic avatars `represent embodied force from sirius, and from that one of the seven stars of the great bear which is ensouled by the prototype of the lord of the third major ray, the third planetary logos (cosmic fire, 723) 9 "cosmic evil from the standpoint of our planet consists in the relation between that spiritual, intelligent unit or rishi of the superior constellation the informing life of one of

sness of the cosmic mental plane is the goal of attainment for our solar logos and the sirian logos is to our solar logos what the human ego (or soul) is to the human personality (592) 8 "three constellations are connected with the fifth logoic principle in its threefold manifestation: sirius, two of the pleiades and a small constellation whose name must be intuitively ascertained (699) 9. cosmic avatars. represent embodied forces from the following cosmic centres: sirius, and that one of the seven stars of the great bear which is ensouled by the prototype of the lord of the third ray, and our own cosmic centre (723) a. only one being (from sirius) has visited our system and that was at the time of individualisation. b. they only appear usually and normally at the initiation of a solar log

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fest. 2. nature itself, the mother of all forms. 3. the moon also, who is the symbol of the generative, creative life which gives birth to forms and is therefore the symbol of the form nature. 4. the concentration of the feminine force in nature in some individual in female form who is then called the "world mother" such an individual has never existed in our particular planetary life, though the avatars of a previous solar system, expressing itself through planetary life, always took this form. but not in this solar system. the tradition of such appearances is purely symbolic, inherited from the previous solar system from which we inherited the matter of which all manifested forms are made. this symbolism has come down from the far-off period of the matriarchate, which had a religion that

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ently, with dynamic intent and true understanding, and thus cooperate by its use, by your love of humanity, and by your activity on the side of the forces of light with those on the outer and inner planes who are seeking to drive aggression back to the place from whence it came, and to end the rule of hate and fear. section three forces behind the evolutionary progress of the race the doctrine of avatars may 1941 as we enter the momentous month of may this year, i have asked myself if there is any way in which i can arouse the world aspirants and my disciples to a truer appreciation of the immanent significance of the presented opportunity, and also if there is any way in which i can simplify and make more real to you the doctrine of the coming one linked as it is to the teaching of every

rocesses of thought and ideologies. what then is the true inner structure of reality which will provide the needed strength for humanity at this time, thus sufficing to satisfy man's demand for truth and prove adequate to answer his ceaseless yet intelligent questions? i would assert here that the great and satisfying reply to all human questioning and human need is to be found in the doctrine of avatars, and in the continuity of divine revelations. this is the persistent belief ineradicable and unalterable that (at major moments of world need) god reveals himself through appearances, through a coming one. this doctrine is found in all the basic world religions, in every time and age; it appears in the doctrine of the avatars of the hindu faith, in the teaching of the return of maitreya bu

f this divine characteristic can be summed up in the words from the voice of the silence "compassion is no attribute. it is the law of laws eternal harmony, alaya's self; a shoreless, universal essence, the light of everlasting right and fitness of things, the law of love eternal" to this everlasting compassion the cyclic appearance of the sun gods of the ancient myths, the world saviours and the avatars bear witness and are the guarantee. the wesak festival at the time of this wesak festival, i would call your attention to the fact that the annual return of the buddha to bless his people everywhere and to convey the message of wisdom, light and love to humanity coming as he does from the very heart of deity itself is the outer evidence and guarantee of inner divine guidance and revelation

ponse or reaction of humanity to the divine messenger establishes in due time the recognition of something transcendent, something to be desired and striven for, something which indicates a vision which is first a possibility and later an achievement. this is the historically proven process and testifies eventually to a fact. this new fact, when added to the facts established by other and earlier avatars, enriches the spiritual content of the human consciousness, enhances the spiritual life of the race, and stimulates man to move a step forward into the world of reality and out of the world of illusion. each revelation brings him nearer to the world of causes. at the present time, the avatars most easily recognised and known are the buddha and the christ, because their messages are familia

nto the world of reality and out of the world of illusion. each revelation brings him nearer to the world of causes. at the present time, the avatars most easily recognised and known are the buddha and the christ, because their messages are familiar to all and the fruits of their lives and words have conditioned the thinking and the civilisations of both hemispheres; because they are divine-human avatars and represent something which humanity can more easily understand; because they are of like nature to mankind "flesh of our flesh and spirit of our spirit" they therefore mean more to us than any other divine emergence. they are known, loved and followed by countless millions. i would ask you to ponder on the potency of the nucleus of force which they have set up. the establishing of a nuc

resent point in evolution) avatars are of two kinds, as might be expected when the consciousness of humanity is subject to the control of the pairs of opposites. these two are: 1. those avatars who are the embodiment of the angel of the presence, whether that presence is the soul in man, the planetary logos, some extra-planetary entity, some cosmic being, or an expression of cosmic good. 2. those avatars who are embodiments of the dweller on the threshold, whether that dweller is the human dweller on the threshold, planetary forces of materialism, or some aspect of cosmic evil- 190- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust let me attempt to make this analogy a little clearer. just as in the case of individual man there comes a point in his life experience when the an

he threshold summarises in itself the evil tendencies, the accumulated limitations and the sum total of the selfish habits and desires which are characteristic of the material nature of the disciple. the angel of the presence indicates the future possibility and the divine nature. so does the avatar. the dweller on the threshold indicates the past with its limitations and evil habits. so do those avatars who from time to time appear as the embodiments of evil and of the lower nature of mankind. and, my brother, they do appear from age to age. some cycles in a disciple's life present one aspect of a "confrontation" and some another. in one life he may be entirely occupied with fighting the dweller on the threshold or with orienting himself to the angel of the presence and permitting the div

ly, however, there comes a life wherein the disciple is confronted by both the dweller and the angel simultaneously and the major conflict of his experience takes place. so it is today in the world. the spiritual and the material are in conflict, and humanity itself is the battleground- 191- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust again, a correspondence to the doctrine of avatars can be seen in the disciple's individual life. when he has achieved right desire and has made a true effort towards correct orientation, then when the conflict between good and evil is at its height there comes a moment when he demands more light, more power, more understanding, and liberation to take his next forward step. when he can make this demand with firm intent and can stand steady

rticular wesak festival is to add that new impetus, that fresh illumination, and that added power and fixed purpose which will enable mankind to surmount this crisis. from the side of the spiritual forces of the planet, everything will then have been done to make the appearance of the avatar possible. from the side of humanity, i would ask you: what will be done? between the source from which all avatars come forth and humanity, stands the hierarchy of love, stands christ and his disciples, stand the masters of the wisdom. they are united, all of them, in one stupendous effort to aid mankind at this time to surmount the dweller on the threshold and to come closer to the angel. this necessitates some greater help and this help will be forthcoming when humanity and the hierarchy in one fused

masters of the wisdom. they are united, all of them, in one stupendous effort to aid mankind at this time to surmount the dweller on the threshold and to come closer to the angel. this necessitates some greater help and this help will be forthcoming when humanity and the hierarchy in one fused and blended effort stand with massed intent, invoking that aid and expecting it also. the appearance of avatars since the year 1400 (a date to which i referred earlier) there have been constant appearances of lesser avatars, called forth in response to minor crises, to national dilemmas and religious necessity. they have taken the form of those men and women who have championed successfully some truth or some right cause, some human right or correct human demand. all these people have worked activel

ouls, as leaders of men. with these disciples i shall not deal. they embodied ideas and made history not the history of conquest but the history of progress. i seek to consider with you those still greater appearances who come forth from some hidden centre, remote from or near to humanity, and who "release from crisis the sons of men" these fall mainly into four relatively minor groups: 1. racial avatars. these appearances are evoked by the genius and destiny of a race. the typical man (in quality and consciousness, not necessarily physically) foreshadows the nature of some race. such a man was abraham lincoln, coming forth from the very soul of a people, and introducing and transmitting racial quality a quality to be worked out later as the race unfolds. coming forth correspondingly from

acial quality a quality to be worked out later as the race unfolds. coming forth correspondingly from the realm of cosmic evil, and responsible for the focus of materialism upon the planet today was bismarck. both men came forth within the same one hundred years, thus demonstrating the balance in nature and the constant interplay of the pairs of opposites. they are both types of the most powerful avatars which humanity itself has as yet produced. they emerge along the lines of government, of the first ray and in the department of the manu, and are very sensitive to shamballa force. such avatars frequently emerge at the founding of a nation. this is true of both bismarck and lincoln. 2. teaching avatars. these appearances sound a new note in the realm of thought and of consciousness; they r

are very sensitive to shamballa force. such avatars frequently emerge at the founding of a nation. this is true of both bismarck and lincoln. 2. teaching avatars. these appearances sound a new note in the realm of thought and of consciousness; they reveal the next needed truth; they pronounce those words and formulate those truths which throw light upon the spiritual development of humanity. such avatars were plato, the first patanjali and sankaracharya; they emerge upon the second ray line of energy, in the department of the christ and are expressions of hierarchical force. when i say the department of the christ, i would remind you that the name "christ" is that of an office an office that has always had its head. i do not mention the christ or the buddha as among these avatars because t

n of a new truth or the expansion of an old one in- 194- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust order to progress still higher on the evolutionary ladder. these avatars issue forth in response to demand and are not so much concerned with racial development as they are with the subjective unfoldment of consciousness and with the stimulation of humanity as a whole. of these avatars the buddha and the christ are outstanding examples. they were not only human-divine avatars, and hence able to link humanity with the hierarchy, but they were something far greater and more important. they had reached the point where they could act as transmitters of certain cosmic principles which focussed in them in an extra-planetary sense could stimulate the deeply hidden and latent co

oo there came a great impetus and extension to the work and growth of the hierarchy, as there was in a lesser degree when the buddha came. many initiates became masters; many masters passed to still higher work, and many disciples took their places in the ranks of the initiates. there was numerically a great influx of aspirants into the ranks of accepted disciples. i have considered some of these avatars in my earlier writings under different names and categories. i deal with them here simply in an effort to reach a wider public with the teaching on the doctrine of avatars or of divine appearances. the bible is full of such appearances, but little is really understood about them. the above are the more familiar groupings. in september 1940 i gave an interpretation of a new stanza of the gr

ne and unaided, to overcome evil. they never descend lower than the mental plane, and the main emphasis and attention of their work is directed to the hierarchy; the hierarchy is their transmitting agency; they occasionally reach those thinking people, focussed on the mental plane, who have clear vision, potent resolve, directed will and open minds, plus of course, essential purity of form. these avatars express the will of god, the energy of shamballa, and the impulse lying behind divine purpose. when they do come forth, it will be the destroyer aspect of the first ray of power which they will express; they bring about death the death of all old and limiting forms and of that which houses evil. their work will, therefore, fall into two categories: a. they will destroy the forces of evil

the time when he makes his annual contact with humanity. this emphasis, which will continue to increase for years to come, has not been brought about in order to impose recognition of the buddha upon the occident. there have been two main reasons why, since 1900, this effort has been made. one was the desire on the part of the hierarchy to bring to the attention of the public the fact of the two avatars, the buddha and the christ, both upon the second ray of love-wisdom, who were the first of our humanity to come forth as human-divine avatars and to embody in themselves certain cosmic principles and give them form. the buddha embodied the principle of light, and because of this illumination, humanity was enabled to recognise christ, who embodied the still greater principle of love. the po

id of their compassion and their wisdom until you stand where the one initiator is invoked, until you see his star shine forth. the cause of the world catastrophe june 1942 we come now to the consideration of the present acute situation and world catastrophe which is rooted in world glamour, and will study the possibility of relief and cure. this possibility exists and is centred in the two great avatars, the buddha and the christ. it is difficult to write clearly about this matter of world glamour*(7) because we are in the midst of its most concentrated expression the worst the world has ever seen because glamour, incident to centuries of greed and selfishness, of aggression and materialism, has been focussed in a triplicity of nations. it is, therefore, easily to be seen and most effecti

f all sorrow and woe is desire desire for that which is material. b. the united nations need to learn to apply the law of love as enunciated in the life of christ and to express the truth that "no man liveth unto himself" and no nation either, and that the goal of all human effort is loving understanding, prompted by a programme of love for the whole. if the lives and teachings of these two great avatars can be comprehended and wrought out anew in the lives of men today, in the world of human affairs, in the realm of human thinking and in the arena of daily living, the present world order (which is today largely disorder) can be so modified and changed that a new world and a new race of men can gradually come into being. renunciation and the use of the sacrificial will should be the keynot

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then becomes a factual part of the hierarchical membership. of that truth, we know (as aspirants) relatively very little. truth as we understand it during the early treading of the path of discipleship is concerned with great verities which are (from the insight of the enlightened ones) only the a b c of life. these truths are: the manifestation of divinity on the physical plane. the doctrine of avatars. this religious history reveals. the nature of consciousness, through the development of psychology. the doctrine of the trinity, as it expresses itself through the aspects and the attributes. these four expressions of truth will be found to convey all the knowledge with which the initiate must stand equipped when he climbs the mount of transfiguration at the time of the third initiation

aving force" a circulatory combination of the three major energies is radiated by humanity as a group-creative impulse, and this gradually sweeps all forms of life into the field of its magnetic potency, thus relating them (or rather the soul of each kingdom) to the hierarchy and to shamballa. this involves a great mystery which is closely tied up little as you may realise it with the doctrine of avatars or of world saviours. it is in this connection that the words i gave you previously are pertinent- 104- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust 1 "the group must understand the nature of the three" this will be seen to refer to the three major centres and the nature of their relationship, and not specifically to the trinity. 2 "the na

vocative note of our united evolution at- 258- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust stated times and cycles sounds out and reaches those who are waiting for spiritual opportunity and service. they then follow the path to our planet. from other spheres and planes they emerge along the lines of their destiny and intention; we then call them avatars or great enlighteners or planetary saviours or spiritual regents; they act at the request of sanat kumara, given on higher cosmic levels. it is nevertheless a statement of fact that in due time even those who choose the path of earth service and remain in hierarchical work are eventually given the right to follow their decision and pass to extra-planetary service. the hierarchy, as we have

apparent; it produces relation between our system, our planets and the universe. this "open" triangle presents opportunity to those lives who, from the other side of the triangle to that presented to our solar system and its contents, seek to help our solar system and bring the non-sacred planets to the point of liberation which is their particular goal. through this triangular door all the great avatars enter our system and "find the point where they can serve- 275- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust the inflow of extra-solar energy is what produces the seven cosmic paths. there is no such grouping as the seven solar paths. in most cases, the paths lead away from our solar system altogether. if you will study the more abstruse t

t ray energy. he will charge or galvanise the three groups the directing agents in shamballa, the nirmanakayas and the new- 481- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust group of world servers with dynamic energy and, in a mysterious way, relate them to each other so that a new synthesis and alignment will be present upon the earth. all these avatars embody energy to the extent that any particular planet is capable of receiving it. these are interesting items of information but are only of value in so far as they convey to you a sense of planetary integrity and of solar synthesis, and present to you a closer spiritual inter-relation in which you, as individuals, can share if you are linking your fate and service to that of the new grou

BEHOLDERS OF NIGHT

elf is symbolic, as an invocation to the dark well of the fallen angels, the subconscious or imagination (iblis, shaitan. az is connected with the word, azhi, meaning a serpent. the chaos of the divine feminine or lunar essence is explored through a godform relation to this goddess, thus the magician invokes az to understand the feminine within. it is the serpent and dragon which are the immortal avatars of the well of the imagination, the blood pool of immortality and the endless existence of the psyche. death and the grave exists a challenge and significance within the shadow sabbatic path, being of two primary points. one is that death and darkness is a challenging image and concept which the magician must overcome mentally to invoke a higher point of self-initiation, to understand oppo

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

igu the great rishi, and one of the seven prajapati, the founder of the race of bhargavas, in which parasu rama is born[[vol. 2, page] 33 parent stars and sister planets. that occult mysticism has to deal. the allegory which states that for killing sukra's mother, vishnu was cursed by him to be reborn seven times on the earth, is full of occult philosophical meaning. it does not refer to vishnu's avatars, since these number nine, the tenth being still to come, but to the races on earth. venus, or lucifer (also sukra and usanas) the planet, is the light-bearer of our earth, in both its physical and mystic sense. the christians knew it well in early times, since one of the earliest popes of rome is known by his pontiff name as lucifer "every world has its parent star and sister planet. thus

her atlantis, nor yet sancha dwipa, was ever called "white island" when tradition says that "the white island became black on account of the sins of people" it only means the denizens of the "white island" or siddhapura, or sveta dwipa, who descended to the atlantis of the third and fourth races, to "inform the latter; and who, having incarnated, became black with sin- a figure of speech. all the avatars of vishnu are said to come originally from the white island. according to tibetan tradition the white island is the only locality which escapes the general fate of other dwipas and can be destroyed by neither fire nor water, for- it is the "eternal land[[vol. 2, page] 409 what marcellus says. islands beyond, which are not far from the firm land, near which is the true sea "these seven dwip

n" additional fragments from a commentary on the verses of stanza xii. the ms. from which these additional explanations are taken belongs to the group called "tongshaktchi sangye songa" or the records of the "thirty-five buddhas of confession" as they are exoterically called. these personages, however, though called in the northern buddhist religion "buddhas" may just as well be called rishis, or avatars, etc, as they are "buddhas who have preceded sakyamuni" only for the northern followers of the ethics preached by gautama. these great mahatmas, or buddhas, are a universal and common property: they are historical sages- at any rate, for all the occultists who believe in such a hierarchy of sages, the existence of which has been proved to them by the learned ones of the fraternity. they ar

med shakya thub-pa, is the twenty-seventh of the last group, as most of these buddhas belong to the divine dynasties which instructed mankind* of these "buddhas" or the "enlightened" the far distant predecessors of gautama the buddha, and who represent, we are taught, once living men, great adepts and saints, in whom the "sons of wisdom" had incarnated, and who were, therefore, so to speak, minor avatars of the celestial beings- eleven only belong to the atlantean race, and 24 to the fifth race, from its beginnings. they are identical with the tirtankaras of the jainas[[vol. 2, page] 424 the secret doctrine. bay* just, as in the palmy days of the atlantean giants, the sons of the "giants from the east" a pilgrim could perform a journey from what in our days is termed the sahara desert, to

ho is made to strike, so to say, the key-note of that which may be called the correlation of individuality and personality in the subsequent scheme of evolution. the logos it is, who is shown in the mystic symbolism of cosmogony, theogony, and anthropogony, playing two parts in the drama of creation and being, i.e, that of the purely human personality and the divine impersonality of the so-called avatars, or divine incarnations, and of the universal spirit, called christos by the gnostics, and the farvarshi (or ferouer) of ahura mazda in the mazdean philosophy. on the lower rungs of theogony the celestial beings of lower hierarchies had each a farvarshi, or a celestial "double" it is the same, only a still more mystic, reassertion of the kabalistic axiom "deus est demon inversus; the word

constellation of the seven rishis in the great bear, if egypt made them sacred to "the oldest genitrix, typhon- india has connected all these symbols ages ago with time or yuga revolutions, and the saptarishis are intimately connected with our present age- the dark kali yug* the great circle of time, on the face of which fancy in india has represented the tortoise (kurma, or sisumara, one of the avatars of vishnu, has the cross placed on it by nature in its division and localisation of stars, planets and constellations. thus in bhagavata purana v, xxx, it is said that "at the extremity of the tail of that animal, whose head is directed toward the south and whose body is in the shape of a ring (circle, dhruva (the ex-pole star) is placed; and along that tail are the prajapati, agni, indra

araka. michael is the conqueror of the dragon, and indra and karttikeya are often made identical[[vol. 2, page] 550 the secret doctrine. circle, as it bears strongly upon the elements of fire and water, which play such an important part in the circle and cross symbolics. like mars, who is alleged by ovid to have been born of a mother alone (juno, without the participation of a father, or like the avatars (krishna, for instance, in the west as in the east- karttikeya is born, but in a still more miraculous manner- begotten by neither father nor mother, but out of a seed of rudra siva, via agni, who dropped it into the ganges. thus he is born from fire and water- a "boy bright as the sun and beautiful as the moon" hence he is called agnibhuva (agni's son) and ganga-putra (son of ganges. add

ween speculative atheism and idiotic anthropomorphism there must be a philosophical mean, and a reconciliation. the presence of the unseen principle throughout all nature, and the highest manifestation of it on earth- man, can alone help to solve the problem, which is that of the mathematician whose x must ever elude the grasp of our terrestrial algebra. the hindus have tried to solve it by their avatars, the christians think[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] de grandeur oppose a celui de tant de misere, l'esprit qui se met a observer ce vaste ensemble, se represente je ne sais quelle grande diviniti qu'une diviniti, plus grande et plus pressante encore, aurait comme brisee et mise en pieces en dispersant les debris dans tout l'univers" the "still greater and still more e

- because the last two names have ever been kept secret; they are the fifth order of brahmadevas, and the fivefold chohans, having the soul of the five elements in them, water and ether predominating, and therefore their symbols were both aquatic and fiery "wisdom lies concealed under the couch of him who rests on the golden lotos (padma) floating on the water" in india it is vishnu (one of whose avatars was budha, as claimed in days of old. the prachetasas, the worshippers of narayana (who, like poseidon moved or dwelt over not under the waters, plunged into the depths of the ocean for their devotions and remained therein 10,000 years; and the prachetasas are ten exoterically, but five, esoterically "prachetas" is in sanskrit, the name of varuna, the water god, nereus, an aspect of the sa

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

soteric. it has misled the orientalists into erroneous speculations with respect to the dhyani-buddhas and their earthly correspondencies, the manushi-buddhas. the real tenet is hinted at in a subsequent volume (see "the mystery about buddha, and will be more fully explained in its proper place* to quote hegel again, who with schelling practically accepted the pantheistic conception of periodical avatars (special incarnations of the world-spirit in man, as seen in the case of all the great religious reformers "the essence of man is spirit. only by stripping himself of his finiteness and surrendering himself to pure self-consciousness does he attain the truth. christ-man, as man in whom the unity of god-man (identity of the individual with the universal consciousness as taught by the vedant

2, 33- v. on the hidden deity, its symbols and glyphs. the logos or creative deity, the "word made flesh" of every religion, has to be traced to its ultimate source and essence. in india, it is a proteus of 1,008 divine names and aspects in each of its personal transformations, from brahma-purusha down through the seven divine rishis and ten semi-divine prajapati (also rishis) to the divine-human avatars. the same puzzling problem of the "one in many" and the multitude in one, is found in other pantheons, in the egyptian, the greek and the chaldeo-judaic, the latter having made confusion still more confused by presenting its gods as euhemerizations, in the shapes of patriarchs. the latter are now accepted by those who reject romulus as a myth, and are represented as living and historical e

more or less defined doctrine, indicating as a possible fact that might come to pass, a divine and immaculate incarnation under a human form" precisely. but why throw the explanation on an impossible prophecy, when the whole secret is explained by the later religion copying the earlier? that doctrine was universal, and it was not the mind of any one hierogrammatist that evolved it; for the indian avatars are a proof to the contrary. after which, having come "to realize clearer* what "the divine father and son" were with the egyptians, de rouge still fails to account for, and perceive what were the functions attributed to the feminine principle in that primordial generation. he does not find it in the goddess neith, of sais. yet he quotes the sentence of the commander to cambyses when intro

tva is said "to assume any form he pleases" from the beginning of a manvantara to its end, though his special birthday (memorial day) is celebrated according to the kin-kwang-ming-king("luminous sutra of golden light) in the second month on the nineteenth day, and that of "maitreya buddha" in the first month on the first day, yet the two are one. he will appear as maitreya buddha, the last of the avatars and buddhas, in the seventh race. this belief and expectation are universal throughout the east. only it is not in the kali yug, our present terrifically materialistic age of darkness, the "black age" that a new saviour of humanity can ever appear. the kali yug is[[vol. 1, page] 471 diseased imagination "l'age d'or) only in the mystic writings of some french pseudo-occultists (see "la miss

he "constellation" one is born under, or, we should say, with the characteristics of its animating principle or the deity that presides over it, whether we call it a dhyan chohan, as in asia, or an archangel, as with the greek and latin churches. in ancient symbolism it was always the sun (though the spiritual, not the visible, sun was meant, that was supposed to send forth the chief saviours and avatars. hence the connecting link between the buddhas, the avatars, and so many other incarnations of the highest seven. the closer the approach to one's prototype "in heaven" the better for the mortal whose personality was chosen, by his own personal deity (the seventh principle, as its terrestrial abode. for, with every effort of will toward purification and unity[[footnote(s "the cycles of mat

en and earth have placed in heaven the types of twelve vicious jews. and if, as the author of the gnostics asserts, the aim of all the gnostic schools and the later platonists "was to accommodate the old faith to the influence of buddhistic theosophy, the very essence of which was that the innumerable gods of the hindu mythology were but names for the energies of the first triad in its successive avatars or manifestations unto man" whither can we turn to trace these theosophic ideas to their very root- better than to old indian wisdom? we say it again: archaic occultism would remain incomprehensible to all, if it were rendered otherwise than through the more familiar channels of buddhism and hinduism. for the former is the emanation of the latter; and both are children of one mother- ancie

DONALDTYSON MIRACLES

istaken for miracles, because it merely pretends to transcend natural law but can be explained in ordinary ways. events recognized as miracles usually have other qualities in common that narrow the definition. miracles are frequently associated with religion. they are popularly perceived to be caused by deities, by spiritual agents of deities known as angels, or by human agents of deities such as avatars or saints. although we are most familiar in the west with miracles associated with the christian religion, all religions have their history of miracles. religious miracles may be divided into two types, spontaneous or induced. in the first case, a wondrous event occurs without warning or petition, to the complete surprise of those who witness it. the second case involves divine interventio

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

n the spirit of the ancient hindu scripture, the bhagavad gita, a work which greatly impressed him. he edited the irish homestead for the organization from 1906 to 1923. in 1923 he became the editor of the irish statesman in which he tried to steer a moderate course for the newly founded irish free states. he gave expression to his political idealism in two novels, the interpreters (1922) and the avatars (1932. his major mystical book was the candle of vision (1918. his book song and its fountains (1932) developed the mystical meditations of candle of vision and spoke of poetry as oracles breathed from inner to outer being. the avatars: a futurist fantasy (1933) indicated his debt to hindu philosophy. russell died july 17, 1935. sources: ae [george russell. the candle of vision. 1918. repr

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

rongest links to the earliest group, emerged the strongest. based in olympia, washington, it survives today and maintains a sometimes controversial presence on the new age scene. its head, paul shockley, continues to channel teachings from awareness. his organization characterizes awareness as the force that expressed itself through jesus of nazareth, the buddha, krishna, mohammed and other great avatars who served as channels for what is commonly known as god, and which expresses itself once again as the world begins to enter the new age of spiritual consciousness and awareness( cosmic awareness communications, 1994. awareness teaches that the united states of america came into being through intervention with the founding fathers. the motive was to allow personal freedom, which would acce

f what george hunt williamson calls trash can worlds in other words, backward planets such as the earth. when they find such a world, they offer their souls to the reincarnation cycle. on earth their leader was the elder brother also known as the son of thought incarnate and, in a later life, jesus christ. the elder brother came to this planet accompanied by one hundred forty-four thousand lesser avatars. over the centuries, many forgot their cosmic origins and mission, but some kept the faith. after world war ii, with the coming of flying saucers, the seeding process accelerated. a space friend told williamson, many of our people are in your world now. there are nearly ten million of them, with six of those million in the united states itself. see also: williamson, george hunt further rea

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

rounding this figure, which makes it impossible for scholars to absolutely prove that which by means of the evidence at hand amounts almost to a certainty. a print by moore of this god represents him in the shape of a romish crucifix, but although there is a nail hole in his foot he is not transfixed to a wooden cross. instead of a crown of thorns a parthian coronet encircles his head. as all the avatars of crishna are represented with coronets, this fact has caused several writers to observe that the effigies of ballaji have furnished the copies for the thorn-crowned jesus. through the ignorance of the early christians who in the second century adopted the religion of crishna, the true significance of this coronet was not understood, hence the thorns upon the head of christ. in referring

tion which presents itself is whence comes the elephant--an animal not found within these countries--and again why should these beasts have been placed here as christian emblems? the facts in the case as revealed by unprejudiced investigators are, that the towers in ireland are not christian monuments, and that the crucifix found on them is not that of christ but of ballaji, or of some one of the avatars of crishna. the fact that the figure of crishna as a crucified god was found in the ruins of a temple at thebes in egypt, is sufficient to prove his antiquity; still, as we have seen, he represents the god-idea at a much later date than did buddha. regarding the evidence furnished by the rev. mr. maurice of the ten avatars of the indian sun-god, higgins observes "the only fact worthy of no

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

er. and this, by the way, is the aim of the gnosis, the transformation of lead into gold, man into god, the transfiguration of the student from a seeker of the mysteries to a partaker of the gnosis. in the past such experiences have remained largely unexplored, they have been dimensions only dreamed of by madman, experienced by mystics, mastered by gnostic theurgy page 6 magicians and embodied by avatars. however, today, as the omega day fast approaches, we offer the challenge of uncharted dimensions and new worlds, which can not only be explored, but used to develop undreamed of levels of post-human potential. x gnostic theurgy page 7 what is truth? this is a question that is central to understanding life as we know it. it is never an easy question to answer. two thousand years ago pilate

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

compassion. it is this esoteric organization that keeps the spirit of love and brotherhood alive in the world. if you have love for your fellow man in your heart, then you are already a member of this organization. it is this organization or lodge that periodically sends selected members into our world to keep truth alive and to stir the human mind to see beyond itsel f. such beings are known as avatars, mahatmas, adepts, bodisattvas or simply good people who try as best as they can to make the world a better place to live. most remain anonymous and shun publicity. many are not consciously aware of their self-imposed tasks but diligently carry them out anyway. some are cast into the public limelight and must bear the jeers and derision of those whom they came to help. most of our religiou

HINE P OVEN READY CHAOS

g a unique self, doesn t like the process of becoming more adaptive to experience. one of the 45 oven-ready chaos more subtle defences that it throws up is the sneaking suspicion (which can quickly become an obsession) is that you are better than everyone else. in some circles, this is known as magusitis, and it is not unknown for those afflicted to declare themselves to be maguses, witch queens, avatars of goddesses, or spiritual masters. if you catch yourself reffering to everyone else as the herd, or human cattle, etc, then its time to take another look at where you re going. myself, i prefer the benefits of empathy and the ability to get on with other people than the limitations of being a reclusive wouldbe raskalnikov dreaming of the serving slaves. while we might echo the words of ha

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

alienists, they did not refrain from acting upon it themselves. no amount of learned sophistry could controvert the fact that the strangely bearded and spectacled dr. allen, of whom charles's frantic letter had spoken as such a monstrous menace, was in close and sinister correspondence with two inexplicable creatures whom ward had visited in his travels and who plainly claimed to be survivals or avatars of curwen's old salem colleagues; that he was regarding himself as the reincarnation of joseph curwen, and that he entertained- or was at least advised to entertain- murderous designs against a "boy" who could scarcely be other than charles ward. there was organised horror afoot; and no matter who had started it, the missing allen was by this time at the bottom of it. therefore, thanking h

ISIS UNVEILED

upon the uncreated substance of the 'unknown/ the adi-bvddha^ this eternal, infinite monad possesses, as proper to its own essence, five acts of wisdom. prom these, by five separate acts of dhy&na, emanated five dhyaiubuddluu: these, like adi-bvddjia, are quiescent in their system (passive. neitho- adi, nor any of the five dkydni-bvddjuu, were ever incarnated, but seven of their emanations became avatars, i. e, were incarnated on this earth. 362. ireaaeui: agaiiiml herttiet, iziv, 3. 353. hie gve nujce myatkftllf ten. the' we ftndrosmei "having (tivided hk body in two p rt4^ tbe suikcme wiadom became male and female (ifaiui, i, lloka 32. iliere are many early buddhittic ideaa to be lound in brihmaniim. tbe prevalent idea that the last of the buddhaa, gautama, ii tbe aintb itmamatiab of vis

ht and ether of the kabalists aod adeiitists; and within the central drclea appears 'the likeness of a man' he is the achamoth^ the gnostics, the twofold unity, or the androgyne man; the heavenly incarnation, and a perfect representation of ze'ir anptn (short-face, the son of a'tiih anpin (long-face" this likeness is now represented in many lamaseries by gautama-buddha, the last of the incarnated avatars. still lower, under the mem, is the dwelling of the great ndga, who b called naga-r&ja, the king-serpent the serpent of qtnena, the gnostic ophis and the goddess of the earth, mflmaj/t-ivdrt, or y&mi, who waits upon the great dragon, for she ia eve 'the mother of all that hve' still lower is the eighth sphere, the infernal regions. the uppermost r^ona of brahmfl are surrounded by the sun

t d in their development, and tell, wo to say, into a retrogrtiiive evolution? 713. the iviinal or ultimate esmdce faaa na ronm in' india. it? indicated aome- time 'hut' and 'iliia "tbi [univenel vas not originallf anything. thcm? nathet heaven, nor earth, nor atnioqihete. that being don-oiitent tcaolvml 'let me be (dr. jobii muir: ongin^ smtkrit fait. v, p. 366) digitizecoy google diagram of the avatars 275 the ineamations of their god ahahnu in nniirml forms htoally. they claim that these must be understood as allegorical. in this list of avatars we see traced the gradual evolutioq and transformation of all species out of the ante-silurian mud ot darwin and the iltu of sanchoniathon and berosus. beginning with the azoic time, corresponding to the ilus in which brahma implants the creatir

ah the garment of ain-soph. she is the sakti through which the passive' eternal' calls forth the visible universe from its first ideal conception. all three personages of tlie exoteric trimarti are shown using their saktu as vdhanat (vehicles. each of them is for the time being the form which sits upon the mys- terious wagon of ezekiet. nor do we see less clearly carried out in this succession of avatars the truly philosophical idea of a simultaneous spiritual and physical evolution of creatures and man. from a fish the progress of this dual transformation carries on the physical form through the shape of a tortoise, a boar, and a man-lion; and then, appearing in the dwarf of humanity, it shows paratu-rdma physically a p^ect, spiritually an undeveloped entity, until it carries mankind, per

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

y. 2 cf .evolution and ethics. note 1. from such possibility of misinterpretation in our own bodies. compare the longevity of a bone with that of a corpuscle. but it is this .substratum. universe, which must not be confounded with the substratum, the arguments for whose existence berkeley so utterly shattered,1 which may conserve memory for a period greatly exceeding that of one of its particular avatars. hence the .jataka. but the doctrine is not very essential; its chief value is to show what serious difficulties confront us, and to supply a reason to struggle to some better state. for if nothing 1 without an elaborate analysis of the ideas involved in the ding an sich of kant, and of h. spencer.s definition of all things as modes of the unknowable, i may point out in passing that all th

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

nt inroads in india, and it is likely that christian creationists will not be any more successful than were traditional missionaries. one can see that in hinduism there is little, if any, conflict between creation and evolution. for one thing, hinduism can easily reconcile the idea of creation (through brahma the creator) with that of change (evolution) as represented by the 10 incarnations (dash avatars) of vishnu, the protector. in addition, as a colleague from hindu india pointed out, the idea of humans descending from a long line of animal ancestors would not be a problem in hinduism, where there is such a high value on animal life and some animals (cows, for example) are considered sacred. one great god, hanuman, is a monkey. hindu mythology is also replete with animals taking human f

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

l and psychic strength. 28 28 such spirits can be controlled, and are often servitors of the most willful sorcerer. once their purpose is fulfilled however, it is wise to banish or destroy them to save the ill effects afterwards. no qlipothic spirit, vampire or not, should be employed under any circumstance for matters of helping another, for it is not of their nature. such wraiths may be used as avatars of personal power but do not expect this to be an easy task. da athian spirits, if controlled and evoked properly, are useful for certain divinations and vampiric explorations beyond the mind, as subconscious guides and servitors for destruction, attack and defense, or in some species of sexual workings. within such sexual sorcery, such as succubus/incubus evocation, beware of the obsessio

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

rpent then ensorcels the spine to become the foundation of leviathan. 15 luciferian will is the satori, which is an endless chalice of blood of fire you may sip the venom of this cup yet you shall never take your fill. as the self is always progressing and mutating into a godlike being the serpent hungers for more those who fail become the feast of the shades of the void. those who become are the avatars of set s endless power of being. i am of ahriman s flesh. the wolf is the skin which cloaks the hunger of struggle. the serpent is the skin which directs the gaze of the eye. the bat is the thirst within called trshna, to fall into the abyss and the graal of dragon s blood from the eye of set does his form become darkness, ahriman. that spark within to awaken the senses. from which as shad

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

ated with bast, who is known to not be isis. also, in egyptian mythology, ra is the sun god, but then again so is osiris and osiris son, horus; all three are known as sun gods, and all three are confirmed as different beings--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 12 i suspect that the hindus has the best grasp on what is actually taking place. in the hindu religion gods come upon man in the form of avatars. vishnu, for instance, has come upon man 9 times already, meaning there are 10 gods who are all associated with the single god vishnu. this model could amount to a rather confusing situation if the hindus weren t aware of the multiplicity of their gods. so, not only will one find correspondences between gods in separate mythologies, but correspondences between the gods of a single mytholog

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

your first occult tool. this is the time to be specific, and your notebook is a handy reminder that a certain spell will produce a certain result. you will get your first inkling of the power you are in touch with as you see the magical happenings in your life recorded in your notebook. chapter 2 you can awaken your magic power you have a power within you that can be woken. it is what the ancient avatars of the mystic east use to call the fiery serpent the great body of radiance and the immutable light. it is the same power that you can now use to work any magic you want. you may have expected that at this stage you would be told to obtain mystic robes, magic wands, bat s wings, eye of newt, and cauldrons, or to indulge in blood drinking and human sacrifice. such occult paraphernalia and a

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

hma the creator, and shiva the destroyer. confusingly, although brahma created the world, both he and shiva were born from vishnu, brahma emerging from vishnu s navel, and shiva springing from his forehead. vishnu is also called the wide-strider because he can cross the whole world in three strides. there are endless stories about vishnu, of which the most important relate to his incarnations, or avatars, in which he has come to earth, in animal or human form, to help humankind. in theory, there have been nine avatars and a tenth is yet to come, although many stories exist that detail other appearances. lakshmi, vishnu s wife, has always accompanied him in his incarnations for example, as prince rama s wife sita (see p. 114 15, or as krishna s lover radha, and his wife, rukmini. that laksh

preeminently vishnu in his role as lover. he loved radha and the story of their love is a favorite theme in indian art and literature. however, krishna did go to war and the philosophical conversation he had with arjuna, his charioteer, became the bhagadvad gita, one of hinduism s holy books. vishnu s discus, symbol of the mind and the sun vishnu s mace, associated with the power of the mind the avatars of vishnu this 18th-century picture from rajasthan in northern india, shows the ten official avatars of vishnu. in the center vishnu is shown as krishna, accompanied by his lover radha and two cowgirls. the other nine incarnations five human, four animal, and one composite run around the edge. krishna and the gopis krishna is shown playing his flute, attended by radha, his favorite gopi, o

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

had been possible to make out the seams mined by his recent, near-fatal illness. and yet, in spite of profanity and debilitation, this was a face inextricably mixed up with holiness, perfection, grace: god stuff. no accounting for tastes, that's all. at any rate, you'll agree that for such an actor (for any actor, maybe, even for chamcha, but most of all for him) to have a bee in his bonnet about avatars, like much-metamorphosed vishnu, was not so very surprising. rebirth: that's god stuff, too. or, but, then again. not always. there are secular reincarnations, too. gibreel farishta had been born ismail najmuddin in poona, british poona at the empire's fag-end, long before the pune of rajneesh etc (pune, vadodara, mumbai; even towns can take stage names nowadays) ismail after the child inv

at him, but never, on celluloid, looked at him or sang to him or danced around him with cinematic love in their eyes. off-screen, he lived alone in two empty rooms near the studios and tried to imagine what women looked like without clothes on. to get his mind off the subject of love and desire, he studied, becoming an omnivorous autodidact, devouring the metamorphic myths of greece and rome, the avatars of jupiter, the boy who became a flower, the spider-woman, circe, everything; and the theosophy of annie besant, and unified field theory, and the incident of the satanic verses in the early career of the prophet, and the politics of muhammad's harem after his return to mecca in triumph; and the surrealism of the newspapers, in which butterflies could fly into young girls' mouths, asking t

memorizing the lines of the creationist's leaflet, while his already heavy eyelids drooped lower and lower until he forced them to open wide again. the leaflet argued that even the scientists were busily re--inventing god, that once they had proved the existence of a single unified force of which electromagnetism, gravity and the strong and weak forces of the new physics were all merely aspects, avatars, one might say, or angels, then what would we have but the oldest thing of all, a supreme entity controlling all creation "you see, what our friend says is, if you have to choose between some type of disembodied force-field and the actual living god, which one would you go for? good point, na? you can't pray to an electric current. no point asking a wave-form for the key to paradise" he cl

our lives. how do you call it when fifty kids come out of the same mother? god knows. fiftuplets. damn" reincarnation, for frenzied gibreel, was a term beneath whose shield many notions gathered a-babeling: phoenix-from-ashes, the resurrection of christ, the transmigration, at the instant of death, of the soul of the dalai lama into the body of a new-born child. such matters got mixed up with the avatars of vishnu, the metamorphoses of jupiter, who had imitated vishnu by adopting the form of a bull; and so on, including of course the progress of human beings through successive cycles of life, now as cockroaches, now as kings, towards the bliss of no-morereturns _to be born again, first you have to die. chamcha did not bother to protest that in most of the examples gibreel provided in his s

ly while pinkwalla rants toasts raps up on the stage _now-mi-feel- indignation-when-dem-talk-immigration-when-dem-make-insinuation- we-no-part-a-de-nation-an-mi-make-proclamation-a-de-true-situation-how-we-make-contribution-since-de-rome-occupation, and from a different part of the crowded room, bathed in evil green light, wax villains cower and grimace: mosley, powell, edward long, all the local avatars of legree. and now a murmur begins in the belly of the club, mounting, becoming a single word, chanted over and over "meltdown" the customers demand "meltdown, meltdown, melt" pinkwalla takes his cue from the crowd _so-it-meltdown-time-when-de-men-of-crime-gonna-get-in-line-for-some-hell-fi re-fr yin, after which he turns to the crowd, arms wide, feet with the beat, to ask _who"s-it-gonna

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

impression of what spiritual growth is, it has also resulted in many seekers assuming that their meditations yield contact with "secret chiefs or illuminated masters from the inner planes" thus they mistake initial contacts with the higher self, along with corresponding images of personal growth meant for themselves, as important messages for all humanity, and they come to think of themselves as avatars or messiahs. this unfortunate tendency is an anathema to the great work. 13. this should be a special dagger that is only used for the purpose of banishing. in actuality, no such implement is needed, and the magician may simply use his index and middle fingers to trace the pentagram just as effectively. 14. although the figure traced is the same as the banishing earth pentagram, in the lbr

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

sman, the psychologist to the murderer. the adversary is made great in this world by the individuals who manifest it in our material world. the children of the lie are many, legion, our visual appearance is often bold to even normal or bland. many of our kind are those who go unnoticed in society, yet master and control our personal lives in such a way to which much good luck befalls us. some are avatars of darkness, appearing as what society fears and hates most. the beast headed god has taken many masks in our world, the adversary has also mastered the elements as well. the adversary is anything but mysticism. when you discover something you destroy mysticism, within the circle of azothoz, you banish mysticism by obtaining knowledge of the self. during pathworkings, camping away from any

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

on of man, meaning to transplant the totality of the sexual energies to adam christ; this is how he becomes absolutely strong. the path is named transmutation and sexual sublimation. whosoever reaches these heights becomes a master of samadhi. the same energy that produces sexual sensations (when it is transmuted) then produces mystical ecstasy. christ, buddha, hermes, quetzalcoatl and many other avatars were suprasexual [the forge of] vulcan sexual energy is divided into three distinct types. first: the energy having to do with the reproduction of the species. second: the energy having to do with the spheres of thought, feeling and will. third: the energy that is found related with the world of pure spirit. la esfera de la suprasexualidad, es la esfera de la iluminaci n interna. el gozo s

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