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ALEE J BOOK OF AIWASS

(ain or no-thing) and returns to it. the first cause is not an explosion like the so-called big bang, but the emergence of chaos and order. people often ask "how can satan be the exception to every rule, the dissonance in the universal, the rebel of the cosmos, the rock cast in the still pond and still represent nature's balance factor" simply put, satan, the male principle, is chaos personified. babalon, the female principle, is order personified. these principles combine, divide and subdivide as the universe expands. these divisions create primary forms which help the co-creators weave the fabric of the universe. the process is reminiscent of the way cells divide and multiply in our own bodies. during the contraction phase, the primary forms rejoin the source as the two principles begin

rinciples begin to reconcile and recombine, realizing perfection as one (big crunch. since the universal constant is change, a thing which is perfected cannot stand and so, another expansion occurs and a new universe is formed. this process continues ad infinitum. all creatures on the wheel of life evolve gradually, as do the souls which inhabit these forms. all life springs from the dark mother, babalon, for she is the life giver, nurturer, sustainer. the role of satan is architect, builder and destroyer. both work interdependently to achieve balance, harmony and consistent change. they define, compliment and complete one another. life is an expression of both order and chaos. it consists of a continuous series of good and bad experiences which appear to follow a pattern. this is true reg

in less than a minute. there is a benefit; a gift from the daemon (god) with whom you choose to resonate- you must ask for your gift once you've assumed godform. it is also important to know what gift the god offers. let's start from the top; satan (baphomet) grants any object you desire; gold coins, expensive clothes, furniture, rare antiques, a new car, exotic pet, etc. no need to be specific. babalon (isis) grants a protective amulet to be worn about the neck. you must be specific concerning the material the amulet is to be made from, its design, the kind of protection you desire. aiwass, lord egan's daemonic form, grants one astral projection experience. lucifer grants increased intelligence. pan (priapus) grants one sexual encounter with whomever you desire. bacchus grants that your

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

lly was, a carpet made of many ingenious threads and not god- or eternal happiness- at all; only nap. therefore, it seemed almost logical that he should seek in the defeated, old religions of the world for the basis of his new philosophy and, some say, his new "religion. he raised the female aspect back up to one of equality with the male, as it was in the rites of egypt, and of eleusis "our lady babalon (his spelling) became a theme of many of his magickal writings, and he received he credo, the book of the law, through a woman, his wife rose kelly. the lunar element, as well as the venusian, are certainly accessible in his works. it has even been said in occult circles that he had a hand in putting together the grimoire of one gerald gardner, founder of a contemporary witchcraft movement

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

s unit being far beyond any conception. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 30 [31] 11 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta iota-alpha the glow-worm concerning the holy three-in-naught. nuit, hadit, ra-hoor-khuit, are only to be understood by the master of the temple. they are above the abyss, and contain all contradiction in themselves. below them is a seeming duality of chaos and babalon; these are called father and mother, but it is not so. they are called brother and sister, but it is not so. they are called husband and wife, but it is not so. the reflection of all is pan: the night of pan is the annihilation of the all. cast down through the abyss is the light, the rosy cross, the rapture of union that destroys, that is the way. the rosy cross is the ambassador of pan

ight in the darkness, though there may be a subtle reference to the nature of that light. eleven is the great number of magick, and this chapter indicates a supreme magical method; but it is really called eleven, because of liber legis, i, 60. the first part of the chapter describes the universe in its highest sense, down to tiphareth; it is the new and perfect cosmogony of liber legis. chaos and babalon are chokmah and binah, but they are really one; the essential unity of the supernal triad is here insisted upon. pan is a generic name, including this whole system of its manifested side. those which are above the abyss are therefore said to live in the night of pan; they are only reached by the annihilation of the all. thus, the master of the temple lives in the night of pan. now, below t

s of god. seven are the heads of the beast whereon she rideth. the head of an angel: the head of a saint: the head of a poet: the head of an adulterous woman: the book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 104 head of a man of valour: the head of a satyr: and the head of a lion-serpent. seven letters hath her holiest name; and it is a b 77 b a (drawn upon this page is the 77 77 sigil of babalon) n l 7 o this is the seal upon the ring that is on the forefinger of it: and it is the seal upon the tombs of them whom she hath slain. here is wisdom. let him that hath understanding count the number of our lady; for it is the number of a woman; and her number is an hundred and fifty and six [108] commentary( mu-theta) 49 is the square of 7. 7 is the passive and feminine number. the chapt

nd fifty and six [108] commentary( mu-theta) 49 is the square of 7. 7 is the passive and feminine number. the chapter should be read in connection with chapter 31 for it now reappears. the chapter heading, the waratah, is a voluptuous scarlet flower, common in australia, and this connects the chapter with chapters 28 and 29; but this is only an allusion, for the subject of the chapter is our lady babalon, who is conceived as the feminine counterpart of it. this does not agree very well with the common or orthodox theogony of chapter 11; but it is to be explained by the dithyrambic nature of the chapter. in paragraph 3 no man is of course nemo, the master of the temple, liber 418 will explain most of the allusions in this chapter. in paragraphs 5 and 6 the author frankly identifies himself

www.abika.com 105 word "angel" may refer to his mission, and the word "lion-serpent" to the sigil of his ascending decan (teth= snake=spermatozoon and leo in the zodiac, which like teth itself has the snake-form. theta first written sun= lingam- yoni and sol) paragraph 7 explains the theological difficulty referred to above. there is only one symbol, but this symbol has many names: of those names babalon is the holiest. it is the name referred to in liber legis, 1, 22. it will be noticed that the figure, or sigil, of babalon is a seal upon a ring, and this ring is upon the forefinger of it. this identifies further the symbol with itself. it will be noticed that this seal, except for the absence of a border, is the official seal of the a'.a. compare chapter 3. it is also said to be the seal

ot whom he loveth not. for it is laylah that he loveth. and yet who knoweth which is crowley, and which is frater perdurabo? book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 118 [122] commentary( nu-digamma) the number of the chapter refers to liber legis i, 24, for paragraph 1 refers to nuit. the "twins" in the title are those mentioned in paragraph 5. 555 is hadit, had spelt in full. 156 is babalon. in paragraph 4 is the gist of the chapter, laylah being again introduced, as in chapters 28, 29, 49 and 55. the exoteric blasphemy, it is hinted i the last paragraph, may be an esoteric arcanum, for the master of the temple is interested in malkuth, as malkuth is in binah; also "malkuth is in kether, and kether in malkuth; and, to the ipsissimus, dissolution in the body of nuit and a visi

. paragraph 6 whispers the ultimate and dread secret of initiation into his ear, identifying the vastness of the most holy with the obscene worm that gnaws the bowels of the damned. notes (36) death is said by the arabs to ride a camel. the path of gimel (which means a camel) leads from tiphareth to kether, and its tarot trump is the "high priestess (37) unt, hindustani for camel. i.e. would that babalon might look on thee with favour [157] 74 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta omicron-delta carey street when nothing became conscious, it made a bad bargain. this consciousness acquired individuality: a worse bargain. the hermit asked for love; worst bargain of all. and now he has let his girl go to america, to have "success" in "life: blank loss. is there no end to this immortal ache that h

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

i. a. o. vi the formula of the neophyte. vii the formula of the holy graal, of abrahadabra, and of certain other words; with some remarks on the magical memory. viii of equilibrium: and of the general and particular method of preparation of the furniture of the temple and the instruments of art. ix of silence and secrecy: and of the barbarous names of evocation. x of the gestures. xi of our lady babalon and of the beast whereon she rideth: also concerning transformations. xii of the bloody sacrifice and matters cognate. xiii of the banishings, and of the purifications. xiv of the consecrations: with an account of the nature and nurture of the magical link. xvi (1) of the oath. xv of the invocation. xvi (2) of the charge to the spirit: with some account of the constrains and curses occasio

that one can knock up against> can reach a reflection of this idea by the method of logical contradiction which ends in reason transcending itself. the reader should consult "the soldier and the hunchback" in equinox i, i, and konx om pax "unity" transcends "consciousness. it is above all division. the father of thought- the word- is called chaos- the dyad. the number three, the mother, is called babalon. in connection with this the reader should study "the temple of solomon the king" in equinox i, v, and liber 418. this first triad is essentially unity, in a manner transcending reason. the comprehension of this trinity is a matter of spiritual experience. all true gods are attributed to this trinity<christian trinity are of a nature suited only to initiates of the i

omplex of all of them. but this is the fault of the first matter of the work, which is so muddled that many operations are required to unify it- 40 chapter vii the formula of the holy graal: of abrahadabra "and of certain other words" also: the magical memory. the hieroglyph shewn in the seventh key of the tarot (described in the 12th aethyr, liber 418, equinox i, v) is the charioteer of our lady babalon, whose cup or graal he hears. now this is an important formula. it is the first of the formulae, in a sense, for it is the formula of renunciation<abyss> it is also the last! this cup is said to be full of the blood of the saints; that is, every "saint" or magician must give the la

ocating engine. iii there are many other sacred words which enshrine formulae of great efficacity in particular operations. for example, v.i.t.r.i.o.l. gives a certain regimen of the planets useful in alchemical work. ararita is a formula of the macrocosm potent in certain very lofty operations of the magick of the inmost light (see liber 813) the formula of thelema may be summarized thus: theta "babalon and the beast conjoined- epsilon unto nuith (ccxx, i, 51- lambda the work accomplished in justice- eta the holy graal- mu the water therein- alpha the babe in the egg (harpocrates on the lotus) that of "agape" is as follows: dionysus (capital alpha- the virgin earth gamma- the babe in the egg (small alpha- the image of the father- the massacre of the innocents, pi (winepress- the draught o

aled to the ultimate immutability of kether, invoking that unity by placing a fourfold knock on either side of it. in this case, his battery would be 1-4-1-4-1. he will naturally have been careful to preserve the balance of each part of the battery against the corresponding part. this would be particularly necessary in an operation such as we have chosen for our example- 87 chapter xi of our lady babalon and of the beast whereon she rideth. also concerning transformations. i the contents of this section, inasmuch as they concern our lady, are too important and too sacred to be printed. they are only communicated by the master therion to chosen pupils in private instruction. ii the essential magical work, apart from any particular operation, is the proper formation of the magical being or b

published writings of the master therion. but he has told no one where. it is reserved for the highest initiates, and is synonymous with the accomplished work on the 179 material plane. it is the medicine of metals, the stone of the wise, the potable gold, the elixir of life that is consumed therein. the altar is the bosom of isis, the eternal mother; the chalice is in effect the cup of our lady babalon herself; the wand is that which was and is and is to come. the eucharist of "two" elements has its matter of the passives. the wafer (pantacle) is of corn, typical of earth; the wine (cup) represents water (there are certain other attributions. the wafer is the sun, for instance: and the wine is appropriate to bacchus. the wafer may, however, be more complex, the "cake of light" described

the servant of his own destiny. it is only the magus, he of the grade above, who has attained to chokhmah, wisdom, and so dare act. he must dare act, although it like him not. but he must assume the curse of his grade, as it is written in the book of the magus<<equinox i, vii, 5-9> there are, of course, entirely black forms of magic. to him who has not given every drop of his blood for the cup of babalon 191 all magic power is dangerous. there are even more debased and evil forms, things in themselves black. such is the use of spiritual force to material ends. christian scientists, mental healers, professional diviners, psychics and the like, are all "ipso facto" black magicians. they exchange gold for dross. they sell their higher powers for gross and temporary benefit. that the most cras

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

arn that the passage which we are about to quote, is a parable based on the least decorous of the biblical legends which refer to noah. it simply captures for its own purposes the convenience of scripture (here follows the excerpt from the vision "and a voice cries: cursed be he that shall uncover the nakedness of the most high, for he is drunken upon the wine that is the blood of the adepts. and babalon hath lulled him to sleep upon her breast, and she hath fled away, and left him naked, and she hath called her children together saying: come up with me, and let us make a mock of the nakedness of the most high "and the first of the adepts covered his shame with a cloth, walking backwards, and was white. and the second of the adepts covered his shame with a cloth, walking sideways, and was

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

supreme moment of his agony could cry "not my will, but thine, be done" 81 chapter vii the cup as the magick wand is the will, the wisdom, the word of the magician, so is the magick cup his understanding. this is the cup of which it was written "father, if it be thy will, let this cup pass from me" and again "can ye drink of the cup that i drink of" and it is also the cup in the hand of our lady babalon, and the cup of the sacrament. this cup is full of bitterness, and of blood, and of intoxication. the understanding of the magus is his link with the invisible, on the passive side. his will errs actively by opposing itself to the universal will. his understanding errs passively when it receives influence from that which is not the ultimate truth. in the beginning the cup of the student is

y real meaning until they are harmonized in a third, and the operation is only perfect when these ideas are contradictory. this is the essence of the hegelian logic. the magick cup, as was shown above, is also the flower. it is the lotus which opens to the sun, and which collects the dew. this lotus is in the hand of isis the great mother. it is a symbol similar to the cup in the hand of our lady babalon. there are also the lotuses in the human body, according to the hindu system of physiology referred to in the chapter on dharana<three channels, sushumna in the middle, ida and pingala on either side("cf" the tree of life. the central channel is compressed at the base by kundalini, the magical power, a sleeping serpe

is that dew which bathes the body of the adept "in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat<equinox vii. sic to the quote, correctly. bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: o nuit, continuous one of heaven, let> in this cup, therefore, though all things are placed, by virtue of this 87 dew all lose their identity. and therefore this cup is in the hand of babalon, the lady of the city of the pyramids, wherein no one can be distinguished from any other, wherein no one may sit until he has lost his name. of that which is in the cup it is also said that it is wine. this is the cup of intoxication. intoxication means poisoning, and in particular refers to the poison in which arrows are dipped (greek<greek letters: tau-omicron-xi-omicron-n

this method of attainment to the world "see" equinox i "adeptus minor" a grade of adeptship "see" equinox iii "aethyrs "see" equinox v and vii "aima" the great fertile mother nature "ama" the great mother not yet fertile "amoun" the god amen= zeus= jupiter, etc, etc "ankh" the symbol of "life" a form of the rosy cross "see" equinox iii "apophis" the serpent-god who slew osiris "see" equinox iii "babalon, our lady "see" equinox v, the vision and voice, 14th aethyr "babe of the abyss "see" equinox viii, temple of solomon "bhagavadgita" scared hymn of india, translated by sir edwin arnold in the "song celestial "binah" understanding, the 3rd "emanation" of the absolute "caduceus" the wand of mercury "see" equinox ii and iii "chela" pupil "chesed" mercy, the 4th "emanation" of the absolute "c

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

13) hwqm a standing upright, stature hmwq jealous )nq 152 the bringing-forth one )ycwmh residence, station bycn 154 elohim of lives (cf. 149) myyx myhl) 155 adonai the king: a divine name of malkuth (cf. 65& 361) klm ynd) the faithful friend nm)n dwd the beard( gcorrect h (s.d. 2:1 et seq )nqd letters of the cherubic signs c n+ w a seed hnq 156 the number of letters in each tablet of enoch: 12 13 babalon: the victorious queen (lit. ggate of the gods h; see liber 418) n(l)b)b the tabernacle of the congregation (lev. 1:1) d(wm lh) a viper h(p) locked [door; shod, wearing shoes lw(n fowl pw( zion nwyc limpid blood lwlc crying aloud (the city of hadar (see 209, referred to binah in i.r.q. 994; cf. s.d. 4:19) w(p 157 the setting of the sun hmx ymwdmd was angry, enraged; anger p(z the beard (s.d

he three grades that are above the abyss) hl( ml# hby#y the vengeance of the covenant (lev. 26:25) tyrb mqn an ark (as of noah or of moses) tbt 803 person, self; back, top; wing (ch *pg created [they them (gn. 1:27 *m)rb a bone; to destroy *mrg 804 a wing (army, squadron; a chosen troop *pg) to be insensible; in deep sleep; in trance (cf. 649 *mdr 805 the faithful friend *nm)n dwd 806 silent qtw# babalon: the victorious queen (lit. ggate of the gods h; see liber 418 *n(l)b)b zion *nwyc height, altitude *mwr 807 blasphemed *pdg the beard (s.d. cap. 2; lingam (qnz *nqz to overwhelm (ps. 77:17; a flood *mrz 808 the brazen serpent (ii kings 18:4; cf. 1121) nt#xn under txt pure, innocent *px balances (ch *nynz)m the three that bear witness, above and beneath, respectively (md) the spirit, the w

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

coronal combination xxxi which we shall notice often enough later on. the beast, besides 666 correspondences, is by english sound, the magus (beth, mercury, etc) of this st. s has in the tarot the card numbered xx, which represents the stele of revealing, and is called the judgment; i.e, the ending of an aeon. t has the card numbered xi and is called strength. it is the card of leo and represents babalon and the beast conjoined "their fold; not only a sheepfold, but as if it were written "their embrace. al i,16 "for he is ever a sun, and she a moon. but to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight" the old comment 15. in ii, 16, we find that had is to be taken as 11 (see ii, 16, comment. then hadit= 421, nuit= 466. 421- 3 (the moon= 418 466+ 200 (sun= 666 these are

ods. the injunction "seek me only" is emphasized with an oath, and a special promise is made in connection with it. by seeking lesser ideals one makes distinctions, thereby affirming implicitly the very duality from which one is seeking to escape. note also that "me" may imply the greek mh "not. the word 'only' might be taken as ?ayin-lamed-nun-vau' with the number of 156, that of the secret name babalon of nuith. there are presumably further hidden meanings in the key-word 'all. al i,33 "then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law" the old comment 33. the prophet then demanded instruction; ordeals, rituals, law. the new comment law, in the common sense of the word, should be a

ion of hate, and this, multiplying itself, conflict upon conflict, endeth in hotchpot, and in the impotence and envy of choronzon, and in the abominations of the abyss. and of such the lords are the black brothers, who seek by their sorceries to confirm themselves in division. yet in this even is no true evil, for love conquereth all, and their corruption and disintegration is also the victory of babalon "o my son, know this concerning the black brothers, that cry: i am i. this is falsity and delusion, for the law endureth not exception. so then these brethren are not apart, as they think; but are peculiar combinations of nature in her variety. rejoice then even in the contemplation of these, for they are proper to perfection, and adornments of beauty, like a mole upon the cheek of a woman

er part of my will. note: this 'one' is not to be confused with the 'child' referred to elsewhere in this book. it is quite possible that o.i.v.v.i.o (who took the grade of 8degree= 3square by an act of will without going through the lower grades in the regular way) failed to secure complete annihilation in crossing the abyss; so that the drops of blood which should have been cast into the cup of babalon should "breed scorpions, and vipers, and the cat of slime. in this case he would develop into a black brother, to be torn in pieces and reduced to his elements against his will. al ii,77 "o be thou proud and mighty among men" the old comment 77. though the prophet had in a way at this time identified himself with the number 666, he considered the magic square drawn therefrom rather silly a

t" the new comment a: menstrual blood. b: possibly "dragon's blood. these two kinds of 'blood' are not to be confused. the student should be able to discover the sense of this passage by recollecting the qabalistic statement that "the blood is the life, consulting book 4 part iii, and applying the knowledge which reposes in the sanctuary of the gnosis of the ninth degree of o.t.o. the 'child' is "babalon and the beast conjoined, the secret saviour, that is, the being symbolized by the egg and serpent hieroglyph of the phoenician adepts. the second kind is also a form of baphomet, but differs from the 'child' in that it is the lion-serpent in its original form. the process of softening and smoothing down is thus in this case that of vitalizing the eagle. it is inadvisable to word this expla

use the true going-principle is the lion-serpent, or dragon; the egg is only the cavern where he takes refuge on occasions) weh note: shall we simply say that crowley had a problem with misogyny in general? his love for the specific seems not to have been effected, witness the latter part of "confessions. liber 418 explains this succinctly; 3rd aethyr "moreover, there is mary, a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut herself up; and therefore is she the queen of all those wicked devils that walk upon the earth, those that thou savest even as little black specks that stained the heaven of urania. and all these are the excrement of choronzon" it is this 'shutting up' that is hideous, the image of death. it is the opposite of going, which is god. women under christianity are kept virgin

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OTO GNOSTIC MASS

e company of stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one father of life, mystery of mystery, in his name chaos, the sole viceregent of the sun upon the earth; and in one air the nourisher of all that breathes. and i believe in one earth, the mother of us all, and in one womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, mystery of mystery, in her name babalon. and i believe in the serpent and the lion, mystery of mystery, in his name baphomet. and i believe in one gnostic and catholic church of light, life, love and liberty, the word of whose law is velhma. and i believe in the communion of saints. and, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, i believe in the miracle of the mass. and i confess one baptis

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

abuse and blame of him that set him there? 136. a mystic number of jupiter; the sum of the first 16 natural numbers. 144. a square and therefore a materialisation of the number 12. hence the numbers in the apocalypse. 144,000 only means 12 (the perfect number in the zodiac or houses of heaven and tribes of israel) 12, i.e. settled 1000, i.e. on the grand scale. 148 \ynzam, scales of justice. 156. babalon. see liber 418. this number is chiefly important for part ii. it is of no account in the orthodox dogmatic qabalah. yet it is 12 13, the most spiritual form, 13 of the most perfect number, 12, awh [it is wyx, zion, the city of the pyramids. ed.]51 175. a mystic number of venus. 203. abr, initials of ba, b, jwr, the trinity.52 206. rbd, speech, the word of power. 207. rwa, light. contrast w

ole of the law welded into one. hence we may be sure that the law shall stand as it is without a syllable of addition. note 1022, the modulus of the universe of atoms, men, stars. see two new worlds. 222. the grand scale of 2; may one day be of value. 256. the eighth power of 2; should be useful. 280. a grand number; the dyad passing to zero by virtue of the 8, the charioteer who bears the cup of babalon. see liber 418, 12th thyr. see also 280 in part i. 300. venerable, but only useful as explaining the power of the trident, and the flame on the altar. too stable to serve a revolutionary, except in so far is it is fire. 333. see part i. 340. connects with 6 through \c, the fire and the water conjoined to make the name. thus useful as a hint in ceremonial. 361. see part i. connects with the

wand, d, the cup; h, the sword; r, the rosy cross; and refer further to amoun the father, thoth his messenger, and isis, horus, osiris, the divine-human triad. also 418= way ta, the essence of iao, q.v. this short analysis might be indefinitely expanded; but always the symbol will remain the expression of the goal and the exposition of the path. 419. teth, the number of the laughing lion on whom babalon rideth. see liber 418. note 419+ 156= 575= 23 25, occultly signifying 24, which again signifies to them that understand the interplay of the 8 and the 3. blessed be his holy name, the interpreter of his own mystery! 434. daleth, the holy letter of the mother, in her glory as queen. she saves the 4 by the 7 (d= 4= venus= 7, thus connects with 28, mystic number of netzach (venus, victory. no

th. see liber 418. so the orthodox place the legal 4 before the holy 8 and the sublime zero. and therefore their breaths stink. 543. good, but only carries us back to the mother. 666. chosen by myself as my symbol, partly for the reasons given in part i, partly for the reasons given in the apocalypse. i took the beast to be the lion (leo my rising sign76) and sol, 6, 666, the lord of leo on which babalon should ride. and there were other more intimate considerations, unnecessary to enter upon in this place. note however that the tarot card of leo, strength, bears the number xi, the great number of the magnum opus, and its interchange with justice, viii; and the key of 8 is 418.77 74 364= inter alia, alpwm rua, the hidden light, a title of kether, and fch, the adversary t.s. 75 vide al i. 2

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

and blame of him that set him there? 136. a mystic number of jupiter; the sum of the first 16 natural numbers. 144. a square and therefore a materialisation of the number 12. hence the numbers in the apocapyse. 144,000 only means 12 (the perfect number in the zodiac or houses of heaven and tribes of israel) x 12 "i.e" settled x 1-000 "i.e" on the grand scale. 148. maznim, scales of justice. 156. babalon. see liber 418. this number is chiefly important for part ii. it is of no account in the orthodox dogmatic qabalah. yet it is 12 x 13, the most spiritual form, 13, of the most perfect number, 12, hva [it is tzivn, zion, the city of the pyramids- ed] 175. a mystic number of venus. 203. abr, initials of ab, bn, rvch, the trinity. 206. dbr, speech "the word of power" 207. avr, light. contrast

ause of its 37 x 3 sumbolism, its explanation of aleph, which we seek, and its comment that the unity may be found in "thick darkness" and in "sudden death" this is the most clear and definite help we have yet had, showing samadhi and the destruction of the ego as gates of our final victory. 120. see part i. and references. 124. odn, eden. the narrow gate or path between death and the devil. 156. babalon. this most holy and precious name is fully dealt with in liber 418. notice 12 x 13= 156. this was a name given and ratified by qabalah; 156 is not one of the priori helpful numbers. it is rather a case of the qabalah illuminating st john's intentional obscurity. 165. 11 x xv should be a number capricorni pneumatici. not yet fulfilled. 201. ar, light (chaldee. note 201= 3 x 67, binah, as if

he law welded into one. hence we may be sure that the law shall stand as it is without a syllable of addition. note 1022, the modulus of the universe of atoms, men, stars. see "two new worlds" 222. the grand scale of 2; may one day be of value. 256. the eighth power of 2; should should be useful. 280. a grand number, the dyad passing to zero by virtue of the 8, the charioteer who bears the cup of babalon. see liber 418, 12th aethyr. see also 280 in part i. 300. venerable, but only useful as explaining the power of the trident, and the flame on the altar. too stable to serve a revolutionary, except in so far as it is fire. 333. see part i. 340. connects with 6 through shm, the fire and the water conjoined to make the name. thus useful as a hint in ceremonial. 358. see part i. 361. see part

nd; d, the cup; h, the sword; r, the rosy cross; and refer further to amoun the father, thoth his messenger, and isis, horus, osiris, the divine-human triad. also 418= ath iav, the essence of iao, q.v. this short analysis might be indefinitely expanded; but always the symbol will remain the expression of the goal and the exposition of the path. 419. teth, the number of the "laughing lion" on whom babalon rideth. see liber 418. note 419+ 156= 23 x 25, occultly signifying 24, which again signifies to them that understand the interplay of the 8 and the 3. blessed be his holy name, the interpreter of his own mystery! 434. daleth, the holy letter of the mother, in glory as queen. she saves the 4 by the 7 (d= 4= venus= 7, thus connects with 28. mystic number of netzach (venus, victory. note the

0. lilith. see liber 418. so the orthodox place the legal 4 before the holy 8 and sublime zero "and therefore their breaths stink" 543. good, but only carries us back to the mother. 666. chosen by myself as my symbol, partly for the reasons given in part i, partly for the reasons given in the apocalypse. i took the beast to be the lion (leo my rising sign) and sol, 6,666, the lord of leo on which babalon should ride. and there were other more intimate considerations, unnecessary 118 to enter upon in this place. note however that the tarot card of leo, strength, bears the number xi, the great number of the magnum opus, and its interchange with justice, viii; and the key of 8 is 418. this all seemed to me so important that no qabalistic truths were so firmly implanted in my mind at the time

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h and freshness of meal, and the sweetness of honey, and the purity of olive-oil, and the holiness of that oil which is made of myrrh, and cinnamon, and galangal. the charioteer speaks in a low, solemn voice, awe-inspiring, like a large and very distant bell: let him look upon the cup whose blood is mingled therein, for the wine of the cup is the blood of the saints. glory unto the scarlet woman, babalon the mother of abominations, that rideth upon the beast, for she hath spilt their blood in every corner of the earth and lo! she hath mingled it in the cup of her whoredom. with the breath of her kisses hath she fermented it, and it hath become the wine of the sacrament, the wine of the 82 sabbath; and in the holy assembly hath she poured it out for her worshippers, and they had become drun

d. to pass choronzon one must abandon interpretation and identity of the elements of the vision. such an ecstasy of anguish racks me that i cannot give it voice, yet i know it is but as the anguish of gethsemane. and that is the last word of the aethyr. the outposts are passed, and before the seer extends the outermost abyss. i am returned. bou-saada "december" 5, 1909. 10.10-11.35 p.m. in nomine babalon amen. restriction unto choronzon. the tenth aethyr is called zax. this aethyr being accurs d, and the seer forewarned, he taketh these precautions for the scribe. first let the scribe be seated in the centre of the circle in the desert sand, and let the circle be fortified by the holy names of god- tetragrammaton and shaddai el chai and ararita. and let the demon be invoked within a triang

hat seer shall be slain as a result of his revealing. but the present seer, who is not p, seeth not the horror, because he is shut up, and hath no name (now was there some further parleying betwixt the demon and the scribe, concerning the departure and the writing of the word, the scribe not knowing if it were meet that the demon should depart. then the seer took the holy ring, and wrote the name babalon, that is victory over choronzon, and he was no more manifest) 101 (this cry was obtained on dec. 6, 1909, between 2 and 4.15 p.m, in a lonely valley of fine sand, in the desert near bou-s ada. the aethyr was edited and revised on the following day) after the conclusion of the ceremony, a great fire was kindled to purify the place, and the circle and triangle were destroyed. note by scribe

f the sun. and worship and blessing throughout the aeon unto the name of the beast, four-square, mystic, wonderful (v. ii) who is this that travelleth between the hosts, that is poised upon the edge of the aethyr by the wings of maut? who is this that seeketh the house of the virgin"(refrain (v. iii) this is he that hath given up his name. this is he whose blood hath been gathered into the cup of babalon.this is he that sitteth, a little pile of dry dust, in the city of the pyramids"(refrain (v. iv) until the light of the father of all kindle that death. until the breath touch that dry dust. until the ibis be revealed unto the crab, and the sixfold star become the radiant triangle"(refrain (v. v) blessed is not i, not thou, not he, blessed without name or number who hath taken the azure of

compared with her littlest finger-nail. for although he may not partake of the aethyr, without the ceremonial preparations, even the beholding of this aethyr from afar is like the partaking of all the former aethyrs. the seer is lost in wonder, which is peace. and the ring of the horizon above her is a company of glorious archangels with joined hands, that stand and sing: this is the daughter of babalon the beautiful, that she hath borne unto the father of all. and unto all hath she borne her. this is the daughter of the king. this is the virgin of eternity. this is she that the holy one hath wrested from the giant time, and the prize of them that have overcome space. this is she that is set upon the throne of understanding. holy, holy, holy is her name, not to be spoken among men. for ko

h that joineth the wisdom with the understanding. thus hast thou erred indeed, perceiving me in the path that leadeth from the crown unto the beauty. for that path bridgeth the abyss, and i am of the supernals. nor i, nor thou, nor he can bridge the abyss. it is the priestess of the silver star, and the oracles of the gods, and the lord of the 114 hosts of the mighty. for they are the servants of babalon, and of the beast, and of those others of whom it is not yet spoken. and, being servants, they have no name, but we are of the blood royal, and serve not, and therefore are we less than they. yet, as a man may be both a mighty warrior and a just judge, so may we also perform this service if we have aspired and attained thereto. and yet, with all that, they remain "themselves" who have eate

the balance of the seven and the four; and of this thou hast not even the first letter. now there is a word of four letters that containeth in itself all the mystery of the tetragrammaton, and there is a word of seven letters which it concealeth, and that again concealeth the holy word that is the key of the abyss.19 and this thou shalt find, revolving it in thy mind. 19 these words are probably babalon, c"h"aos, taro. hide therefore thine eyes. and i will set my key in the lock, and open it. yet still let thine eyes be hidden, for thou canst not bear the glory that is within. so, therefore, i covered mine eyes with my hands. yet through my hands could i perceive a little of those bowers of azure flame. and a voice said: it is kindled into fire that was the blue breast of ocean; because t

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shall stand upon the firm foundation; the kingdom shall be theirs; yea, the kingdom shall be theirs. in the name of the lord of initiation. amen. 22 liber cheth vel vallvm abiegni svb figvra clvi 23 a. a. publication in class a. imprimatur: n. fra a. a. liber cheth vel vallum abiegni svb figvra clvi 1. this is the secret of the holy graal, that is the sacred vessel of our lady the scarlet woman, babalon the mother of abominations, the bride of chaos, that rideth upon our lord the beast. 2. thou shalt drain out thy blood that is thy life into the golden cup of her fornication. 3. thou shalt mingle thy life with the universal life. thou shalt keep not back one drop. 4. then shall thy brain be dumb, and thy heart beat no more, and all thy life shall go from thee; and thou shalt be cast out u

BEHOLDERS OF NIGHT

az, for az is not only the demon of gluttony and lust, she is also the demon of death who is never sated; she is the demon 'who swallows all things: the dawn and twilight of zoroastrianism, r.c. zaehner, new york, 1961 az, which is a female demon related directly to ahriman, is considered a harlot and goddess of death and blood. in this aspect az is related or a blue-print for, lilith, hecate and babalon. she is the vampyre queen, the immortal witch whom creates the alchemical elixir of endless existence, the very core essence of the luciferian and vampyre. az may also be related to kali, the goddess who devours and brings life. the vampyre in this aspect is one who feeds of the blood- lifeforce or the nectar of the mind, the imagination, thus revealing the vampyre as a solitary being who

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

from clay, of light emerging from darkness. the magicians and witches of this 'skir-hand' guild are 2 equally focused on not only low sorcery, but utilizing the hidden nature of darkness to reveal light within themselves. here we find the foundation and essence of baphomet, the father of wisdom. the sabbatic god is both the union of the beast and the whore, ahriman (satan, samael) and az (lilith, babalon) which beget cain (by the circle of leviathan, the serpent of the depths. an initiatory image of cain as baphomet (by soror lilitu azhdeha) may be found in the book of cain and represents the black lord of the sabbat as a form of the adversary. a representation of this path may be found in my publications, luciferian witchcraft: a book of the serpent which contains the grimoires book of ca

en. she was said to have been the reunited with her mate samael (ahriman) after the fall, when he would not be roused by his fellow fallen ones and demons, only the words of az (lilith) could rouse him. he then kissed her form and caused menstruation, which was passed on to all women as lilith is directly connected with their fiery and dark sides. the goddess of luciferian witchcraft is lilith or babalon, as described previously. she is also hecate, the darkened moon goddess of the cunning circle, whose blessing is both youth, imagination and death. the son is within you and that is cain, the baphometic daemon whose magick is the core essence of the religion of sorcery. the very circle casting rite as written by gerald gardner presents the mother of witchcraft, mother, darksome and divine

BLUE EQUINOX

e company of stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one father of life, mystery of mystery, in his name chaos, the sole viceregent of the sun upon the earth; and in one air the nourisher of all that breathes. and i believe in one earth, the mother of us all, and in one womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, mystery of mystery, in her name babalon. and i believe in the serpent and the lion, mystery of mystery, in his name baphomet. and i believe in one gnostic and catholic church of light, life, love and liberty, the word of whose law is thelema. and i believe in the communion of saints. and, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, i believe in the miracle of the mass. and i confess one bapti

ht to them that dwell upon the earth. on the left hand path, the adept, wishing to keep all that he has, shuts himself up in a tower of silence, there to suffer the progressively degrading agony of slow dispersion. for on the right hand path the master of the temple is.momentarily.after a fashion.at rest. his intellectual and physical forces are acting in the world, but his blood is in the cup of babalon, a draught to awaken the eld of the all-father, and all that remains of him is a little pile of dust which only waits the moment when it shall be burnt to ashes. 49. to perish doomed is he, who out of fear of mara refrains from helping man, lest he should act for self. the the equinox 56 pilgrim who would cool his weary limbs in running water, yet dares not plunge for terror of the stream

all that shall hedge in the holy isle, the dam that will protect thy mind from pride and satisfaction at thoughts of the great feat achieved. here again is one of those unfortunate passages which enables the superficial to imagine that the task of the adept is to hunger strike, and wear the blue ribbon, and give up smoking. the first paragraph of this verse rather means that filling of the cup of babalon with every drop of blood, which is explained in liber 418. the higher ego..holy isle..is not the thinking self; it is the .dwarf-self. the self which is beyond thinking. the aspirant is now in fact beyond thought, and this talk of building high the wall or dam is too much like poetry to be good sense. what it means is .beware lest the reawakened ego, the chiah, should become self-conscious

CHAOS MAGICK AND LUCIFERISM

e act of love, considering it seems to incarnate or flow backwards. this can be viewed as an initiation resembling what has been described in my book of the witch moon as the osculum infame, or kiss of shame. the devil itself, resembling the o can achieve autoerotic intercourse with the combination of z, meaning inverse intercourse with the devil the very act of creation. the rite of thanatos vel babalon, as developed by michael dewitt is one of the most powerful descriptions of the essence of babalon that could be described. the ritual itself is opened with the quadriga sexualis banishing ritual and leads into the invoking of the force of darkness. the temple itself would be decorated in images of death, skulls and bones and a large black coffin in which one of the female magicians would

e of thanatos known to men as the face of death, whom they worship with howling and shattering teeth. all the while a funerary drum beats and calls forth the dead. soon, the congregation throws human bones and grave soil within the coffin, which is soon closed. the celebrants then meditate on among other things, their own death, and understanding that physical death is a natural function of life. babalon emerges then from the coffin and then announces herself incarnate. this sigil of babalon would be between the priestess breasts, being revealed when she tears the grave shroud off. babalon will now take a human skull bowl filled with blood and chant the dedication to her manifestation. the blood is then poured over herself in ecstasy with the celebrates, affected by the wild drumming do as

COMMENTARY ON THE SEAL OF THE NINE ANGLES

e seeds of the destruction of the hexagonal forms are carried within them, however, for they necessarily embrace two trapezoids (the four) and the pentagrams defined by those trapezoids (the five; hence 4+5 (the nine. seventh angle: the destruction of the status of monotheism by the addition of a line/angle to the hex. the legacy of the first beast of revelation and his sevenfold seal and star of babalon (a'.a. the forces of the aeon of horus overcoming those of the aeon of osiris. yet the only thing that can be said of seven is that it is an effective destroyer of six. it has no creative properties of its own; it has neither the strength of symmetry nor the magical powers of its asymmetrical predecessors (1,3,5. proponents of six-isms instinctively fear seven: they warn about such things

DIABOLUS

ister crowley here we are able to understand that lilith has many forms, yet her nature is clear to those who work with her. allow her entry into yourself, and know the ecstasy of man and woman, union with the blood of the moon. crowley refers to her as uncleanliness and sorcery, the very nature of az who is the mother of luciferians. crowley also saw divinity within az and lilith, in the form of babalon, the whore which rides the 7 headed dragon. the children of lilith are called lilin or lilim, being succubi who have no hair on their head and their body and face are covered. they visit men in their dreams and drain them of sexual fluids to create other demons. essentially, a magician who has worked in the lilith current (that of the feminine within luciferian witchcraft) can summon and e

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hat seer shall be slain as a result of his revealing. but the present seer, who is not p, seeth not the horror, because he is shut up, and hath no name (now was there some further parleying betwixt the demon and the scribe, concerning the departure and the writing of the word, the scribe not knowing if it were meet that the demon should depart. then the seer took the holy ring, and wrote the name babalon, that is victory over choronzon, and he was no more manifest (this cry was obtained on dec. 6, 1909, between 2 and 4.15 p.m, in a lonely valley of fine sand, in the desert near bou-saada. the aethyr was edited and revised on the following day) after the conclusion of the ceremony, a great fire was kindled to purify the place, and the circle and triangle were destroyed. note by scribe almos

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

events at parsons home reported that he was engaged in immoral actions and black magic. as a whole, the police discounted them. in 1943, parsons and his wife divorced, and he began a relationship with helen s sister sara elizabeth betty northrup. in the months immediately after world war ii (1939.45, parsons began a set of independent magical operations that would become known collectively as the babalon workings. these workings brought him into contact with a preternatural entity and also coincided with another shift in his personal relations. betty was attracted to a new friend of parsons, l. ron hubbard. soon after the workings began, marjorie cameron came to pasadena, and parsons introduced her to magic work. they would eventually marry. the results of the babalon workings were manifol

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

rite of godhood- 2 rite of godhood/ grendels had an accident- 3 results of the rite of godhood- 4 the summation of the techniques- 5 the bindings- the rite of suffering- 6 6a) the bindings 6b) what are demons? 6c) some journal entries the scarlet brotherhood- 7 phuture- 8 even the gods deserve their pain- the lady s law appendices i notes on chrnzn ii commentary on liber chrnzn iii the nature of babalon iv some notes on i v the binding of the i vi results of the binding of the i vii god-forms viii bibliography 0 introduction one thing which i seemed to have lost at first was trust; trust in myself and belief in the vomit of others -we 99 it is my purpose to convey to the reader my experiences as an explorer of the psycho-cosm of self. i hope to convey this knowledge with a sense of practi

n p.62(abbreviated kg:noe:p "the final head is named the 'messenger of the fatal wind' and it is identified with the breath of fire, with serk, scorpio, sirocco, and typhon, the typhoon. in the egyptian list this head is described as 'hissing to come forth and turn back; seeing by night and bringing by day, a perfect description of bennu or phoenix type of returner" kg:noe:p70-71"she is the whore babalon, the scarlet woman of the cult of the beast. in egyptian her name means the number seven (sefekh, she was the primordial goddess of the seven stars. 393 is the number of a highly secret ophidian formula concealed in the name of an extra-terrestrial entity known as aossic. the integers 393 (3+9+3=15=1+5=6, the number of the sun or solar phallic energy" so we see a unity between these concep

teresting note (with some biblio-mancy) is that in the last page of chapter 7 of nightside of eden page 76, grant brings reference to "the book of dyzan, and then this heralds chapter 8 (the number of submind and chaos. there also seems to be some relation to watery primordial teratomas which shall herald a return to chaos- the old ones, water signs: scorpio)"my sun is in scorpio. the relation to babalon also holds some connection with binah and we definitely have some crone type destructive energies here. the number of babylon is 156 which is also the number of chaos. with binah we have links to set, which was integral with the rite of god-hood. 76=7+6=13 and we have a ton of links here, but check out the relations to gargophias and the 13'th tunnel of set, in the outer spaces (this comes

s; we must reach our own bliss. i was visited by a goddess tonight and it scared the living shit out of me. i finished firing three sigils into the heart of oblivion on the dance floor. i was placing the third one by this "dark" dancing woman's feet. she did not see me. she turned around and came up to me in about a minute and took my hand and said "hello "you know who i am, right" it was fucking babalon! now believe me when i say that i have never fucking seen a manifestation "in the flesh" of a deity. this weirded the shit out of me. she swept up my desire into her being. she took me and a few others by the hand and danced with us, at the dance club. she wanted to play a little also. i felt un-worthy, but quickly shrugged this off and played the game. she smiled and danced with me and ot

deity. this weirded the shit out of me. she swept up my desire into her being. she took me and a few others by the hand and danced with us, at the dance club. she wanted to play a little also. i felt un-worthy, but quickly shrugged this off and played the game. she smiled and danced with me and others. there was a form of telepathy (sort of. i think it was a, and he was telling me(sort of) about babalon and the factions. babalon was a servant, sort of like a mayor of a city in comparison to a governor of the state. each of these factions (gods if you will) each had their own idea as to how the game should be played. she vanished after this and i knew she wanted me to partake of her bliss, instead of thinking on it. now i speak of the void. this was terrifying. it was isolated, cold, bleak

l. the only thing i can say, and have been saying is "oh my god..oh my god" i can't even describe this shit man. it seems also related to the zodiac in some way (maybe, i can't be sure. let me write a little bit of the background which elicited these un-coverings. this night i invoked many deities: moglthox: to steal my corruption and purify me. harakhan: to bring me knowledge and wisdom of self. babalon: for her ecstasy and love. teckno: to transport me to babalon in his medium. tiyet: to purify my dreams& submind, and give me the gift of her silence. set: as the dark sun, to show me the majesty and power of self. lucifer-christ (as luciferouschristos) to bring love& unity. the triple goddess of the moon and dyonysis and others (see appendix vii for commentaries on god-forms) all along (m

n mind i hope we can all learn to play a little more effectively, i love you all. in chaos and bliss, with fucking fuck- elijah i will pursue this further post-notes: there is no evil, but the things in the void came pretty close. after singing hymns of calling to the deities, but preceding the actual invocations, i read a little bit from the book of revelation (x-tian canon cp 17, the part about babalon& the great mystery) and a little bit from principia discordia (concerning eris and the origin of the universe. it seems now as i write this that my mind is trying to make me forget (my censor i think. another note on what was said by babalon "i came because you called me, silly" i told her i was scared, and thought myself unworthy, but she knew and understood me. this was communicated thro

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n. the body of shadow the demonic or infernal aspect or body of shadow is equally as significant in the development of the self. the shadow is developed by meditation initially and eventually by dreaming. one should approach the shadow as the devil-initiatic guide, be it as mephistopheles, belial, lucifuge or shaitan. some luciferians invoke the shadow as the demonic feminine, as lilith hecate or babalon, the crimson mother of succubi and the beasts of the earth. some view ahriman as correctly the initiatic and sorcerous daimon of the shadow. the shadow is the vampyric guide, the shape shifting and phantom body of self. the luciferian path works with such demonic forces as initiatic guides, and is related directly to the self. the shadow is significant as the adversary as it is the dreamin

the self to invoke them and gain their knowledge and attributes, that under willed association, you will grow in the perception of self. that which you seek from such contact you will ultimately grow in self by doing such. the body of shadow is developed by the following techniques: decorate your temple or chamber in a visually appealing manner, dragons, demons, the popular image of set, lilith, babalon upon the dragon, ect. the dark consciousness should be emanated within your black temple and that the demonic force of which you shall become by this work. you may anoint yourself in hecate oil, lucifer oil or even abramelin oil. sit quietly on a comfortable spot, facing a black or fogged mirror if possible. begin first by staring into the mirror and focusing on the very features of your f

ou ask her to lift her crimson veil, which she does a skull is beneath, the eyes are of blackness. before you this skull becomes flesh and a face which is of great beauty looks at you. her eyes are still black as pitch, and she speaks to you of that which you would tell no one. she knows you more than anyone else, lover friend or family member. this goddess, being lilith called hecate, ruha-az or babalon is the goddess of flame, she is the succubus queen, vampyre and dragon rider. she opens forth her robe and spreads her lips wide, to reveal teeth and a slithering tongue. she invites you in. the teeth retract yet the tongue still slithers as you grow close. you shall go unto her, muse and lover, mother and harlot feel this sensual fire within, open your eyes with her within. she embraces y

eviathan which makes the circle, is sigillized and charged essentially with the names of luciferian power, being sabaoth (the lord of the sabbat, or the sabbatic god, associated with zabbathi) adonai (the lord of the earth, associated with lucifer) azal ucel (the sigillic word formula of azazel and lucifer, used as the initiator or genius of the holy guardian angel rite presented in this edition) babalon (the power form of the goddess from lilith hecate az, the daemonic feminine) lilith (the queen of the sabbat the vampyre, the lady of the crimson caul, the mother of cain and the creator of succubi) these names as scribed around the circle are in the witch-language commonly known as theban. this provides a yet known but unseen sigillic formula not indifferent from the alphabet of desire, a

s temple, bring forth the wisdom of the wicked (translated- ol gnay zodaneta gah ialprg azazel, enay thahaaotahe ol zodameta micma micma micalz bransg gah a orh levithmong yolcam oxiayal ialpor gah ol vinu arphe gah, vovim de a mahorela ialprt momao de a vovim, vel ucorsapax ooanoan de pire ialprt zorse pambt ol, zimii oi comselh volcam g ananael vooan uniglag niisa vovim siaion yolcam ananael de babalon. 32 the invocation of the king being amaimon, gaap, paimon or zodimay great powerful amaimon, who exalted in the power of the spirits in the kingdom of the east (south, west or north) i invoke thee in the name of darkness, from the dwelling of darkness and in their power of illumination. in the name of primeumaton who reigns over the palaces of the sun and the moon i invoke thee to appear

sorcerer through invoking the spirit would focus on areas of character development and self-perception, that which separates the initiate from the profane and common clay of humanity. l sitri sitri appears in the black mirror as a man with a leopard s head with large wings. you may will sitri to change shape and it does so in the appearance of a beautiful angelick 42 figure. sitri is a spirit of babalon-lilith, being one who enflameth the love between individuals lust and desire. sitri is very useful in love and lust spells, thus being a powerful tool for the sorcerer. one may create s succubi/incubi from the shadows of sitri in the black mirror, forming them nude in the shape that you find desirable. you may then bind the spirit to the sigil of sitri to seek congress with by imagining so

arries a lance and a serpent. eligos may reveal hidden secrets i.e. within the self, outer as well. eligos is also a divinatory spirit as well, who may reveal the coming of wars, unrest and battles. it is suggested the eligos also causes love of people as well. he governs 60 legions of spirits. p zepar zepar is a duke whom appears in red clothing and armor. he is likewise considered a familiar of babalon-lilith, and causes lust and love between women and men. he is also one aspect of the crone as well, making women barren. 26 legions of spirits are under zepar, one may work through this spirit as a means of obtaining the union of another female, or creating a shadow form of a succubus via dreaming sorcery. 44 q botis botis appears in the black mirror as a viper, and then with the command o

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ENOCHALL

ow. aziazior: likeness. aziazor: in the likeness. azieh: whose hands. azien: on whose hand(s. aziz: kerubic angel of fire angle of fire tablet, angel, companion of ziza. azriz: angel, also known as aziz. baataiva: bataivah. bab: power/ ability/ possibility. babage/babagen: south. babage: in the south. babagen: of the south. babagen: of the south. babalel: prince, associated with mars of mars (15) babalon: wicked (cf. babalond. babalond: harlot (cf. babalon. bable/ babler: for/ because/ for why? bablibo: prince, associated with luna (45. baeovib/ baeouib: one of the names of god/ righteousness (cf. baltoh. 10 baeovib: righteousness. bafouib: name righteousness. bag: name of the twenty-eighth aethyr. bagenol: prince, associated with venus of luna (44. bagie/ baghie: fury. bagle/ baglen: beca

erful. micaoli: mighty. 37 micaolz: are mighty/ mighty. michael: name of hod outer heptagon. micma isro: behold the promise of. micma: behold/ behold the. mid: cacodemon of fire angle of water tablet. mii: cacodemon of earth angle of water tablet. miinoag: corner. miketh: wisdom) mio: cacodemon of fire angle of air tablet. mip: cacodemon of earth angle of water tablet. mire: torment (n. mir pizin babalon: a torment to the wicked. mir: cacodemon of air angle of earth tablet/ torment. mirc: upon. mirzind: governor of the first division of the aethyr uti (73. misao: angel, also known as miao. miz: cacodemon, counterpart of the angel izxp. mma: cacodemon, counterpart of the angel magm. mmag: subservient angel of water angle of water tablet. mmg: cacodemon of water angle of earth tablet. mmn: c

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e content of time ca niis od darbs qaas f etharzi therefore come ye and obey your creation. visit us in peace od bliora ia-ial ed-nas cicles bagle and comfort. conclude us receivers of your mysteries. for why? ge-iad i l our lord and master is the all one! nanta, l the sixth key gah s diu chis em micalzo pil11 the spirits of the fourth angle are nine, mighty in the firmament zin sobam el harg mir babalon of waters: whom the first hath planted a torment to the wicked od obloc samvelg dlugar malprg and a garland to the righteous: giving unto them fiery darts ar caosgi od a c a m canal to vanne the earth, and 7, 6, 9, 9 continual workmen sobol zar f bliard caosgi od chisa netaab whose courses visit with comfort the earth, and are in government od miam ta viv od d darsar and continuance as the

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he content of time ca niis od darbs qaas f etharzi therefore come ye and obey your creation. visit us in peace od bliora ia-ial ed-nas cicles bagle and comfort. conclude us receivers of your mysteries. for why? ge-iad i l our lord and master is the all one! nanta, l the sixth key gah s diu chis em micalzo pil- the spirits of the fourth angle are nine, mighty in the firmament zin sobam el harg mir babalon of waters: whom the first hath planted a torment to the wicked od obloc samvelg dlugar malprg 11 and a garland to the righteous: giving unto them fiery darts ar caosgi od a c a m canal to vanne the earth, and 7, 6, 9, 9 continual workmen sobol zar f bliard caosgi od chisa netaab whose courses visit with comfort the earth, and are in government od miam ta viv od d darsar and continuance as

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

ed for all operations on any of the squares of the sephirothic crosses. observation of figure 12, appendix a, shows that in each subquadrant, one square is used for both the horizontal and vertical names of the calvary cross angels. these 16 special letters can be arranged to spell the phrase ondo-apizebabalon (oh-en-doh ah-pee-zodeh bahbah- loh-en) which can be translated "the eternal regions of babalon" where babalon is the name of an important goddess. she is equivalent to kali, kundali, isis, and other feminine deities who are assodated with the qabalistic sephira of binah. the gematric value of this enochian phrase, i.e, the value of the 16 letters that are assigned to these squares, is 318. this is the value of the magick square of olap as explained later in enochian healing techniqu

s on or uses sexual forces or currents is of the jnanamudra type. in this stage you must create your own "partner" with your magical imagination and will. this is especially easy to do in enochian magick because the aethyrs, and certain of the watchtower squares, already contain willing partners. in pop, if you are a male for example, is the priestess of the silver star, in zip is the daughter of babalon, and in arn is babalon herself. in the same way, male "partners" await you, if you are female, in other aethyrs( for example, pan is in lin, jupiter is in khr, horus is in zen and hermes is in vta. prel iminary exercises and operat ions of the jnanamudra type are there-fore essential for you to advance in enochian magick. 3. mahamudra. this is the third and highest stage. literally the nam

are of your body of light rather than your physical body. notes to step 2. this is the blackness of zax. as you progress with this exercise, see this as the abyss itself. notes to step 3. this simulates rising out of zax into zip. because this is a simulation and a preparatory exercise, do not use the calls nor the names of power at this time. notes to step 4. this woman simulates the daughter of babalon who resides in zip. she should represent all of the alluring aspects of objectivity; everything that is desirable and attractive to you in the universe. she is the projected image of your anima, the feminine part of your own psyche. notes to step 5. this step should have the psychological 164 effect of placing the daughter of babalon and yourself on an equal footing. notes to step 6. durin

r lukiftiaskhidao which means "the brightness of diamonds" aiq brk reduces 924 to 6 which is the number for yellow diamonds (see crowley's liber 777. also, 924= 77x12 where 77 is the number for ed-nas (one who receives) as well as thil (seat. it is also the number for the 5th aethyr, lit, as well as the number for toog and iits magical formula. the letters of kal add up to 314 which is the sum of babalon (110) and the beast (lnniao= 204. in enochian, the word kal means "to solidify" the formula of kal is associated with the mystery of babalon and the beast and their ultimate union. this is shown in the number 314 which is equal to ia-idon- toant meaniing "all powerful uniion. this mystical union is none other than the great work. also 314= 157x2 where 157 is the number for zorge which can

ber vii the enochian word toog, pronounced toh-oh-geh, is comprised of the first letters of the phrase, tabges ors-oxex graa which means "an emanation from the dark recesses of the moon" this phrase adds up to 1142 which is the sum of the names of the three governors of the 19th aethyr, pop: t o r z o x i= 6 3 2 a b r a i o n d= 2 6 1 omagrap= 249 1142 furthermore, 1142 is the number for ka-kakom babalon which means "the vigorous nature of babalon" aiq bkr reduces 1142 to 8, the number for cycles. this phrase also adds up to 1136 which aiq bkr reduces to 2, the number for duality. the word toog adds up to 77 with an alternate value of 71 (the letter t can be either 9 or 3. this connects the formula with the 5th aethyr, lit. aiq bkr reduces 77 to 5 while 71 reduces to 8 (notice the recurren

enus herself. she told him "the price of the journey is l it tle, though its name be death" death of the human self is a small thing relative to the higher self, and is the price of spiritual adeptship. you must die to your lower nature in order to be born again to your higher nature. the method used to accomplish this birth and death process is called initiation. the guide in nia is an aspect of babalon. she will welcome you like a returning lover. she told crowley "if once i put thee apart from ate, it was for the joy of play. is not the ebb and flowing of the tide a music of the sea" this is but a taste of the feeling of oneness that will be encountered in the higher aethyrs. you must be able to accept joy as a natural condition of spirituality in order to master nia and rise above the

for yourselves between truth and falsehood" in whatever 225 form the angel may appear to you, the central message of the relat ivi ty of truth and error wi l l be the same. i f properly prepared, you will receive this message and then you will never be quite the same again (which is the way of all initiations. your ideas about what is right and what is wrong will be seen in a new light. 226 lea, babalon and the beast this is the secret of the holy graal, that is the sacred vessel of our lady the scarlet woman, babalon the mother of abominations, the bride of chaos, that rideth upon our lord the beast. thou shalt drain out thy blood that is thy life into the golden cup of her fornication. thou shalt mingle thy life with the universal life. thou shalt keep not back one drop. aleister crowle

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norant minds. samael is according to legend, the fallen angel taught by belial .he is also known as asmodeus or ashmodei, the yezidi archangel ashamdon, and is the solar aspect of ahriman it seems, whose other name is ashmedai. he is the male serpent who possessed adam in the garden of eden in order to copulate with eve. in the christian apocalypse, and in thelema, he is the beast and the mate of babalon. in the kabbala, samael is the prince of the qlippoth, the inverse side of the tree of life and mate of lilith the queen of the qlippoth (lilith and babalon being the same. he is the infernal sun(night and fire) and she is the moon. samael is the source of all demonic energy. his title samael the black refers to his sinister nature and is connected to the sinister nature of nature itself

be the daemon of wizards and warlocks, lilith is the patroness and queen of witches. through lesser black magick as well as dream magick (dayside and nightside respectively) allows them to seduce and command their wills. her various aspects include az (related to death,blood and darkness),that of lilith as the goddess of the earth, lilith hecate(or lucifera) as air or the bride of lucifer, and of babalon(also sekhet or sekhemet) who is fire, death, blood, passion and life. lilith has an angelic aspect as well as a bestial one. she was depicted by the hebrews as a beautiful woman from the waist up, but from the waist down covered in animal- hair or flame, and with birds feet. her animal is the screech owl and the connections to various other names (masks) by which she has been called throug

he results pointed very specifically to this ritual which i was about to perform ,as my next step in finding my true will. i had painted the sigil of infernal union to my satisfaction and placed this over my usual pantacle on my altar. i created a simple sigil for lilith and set up my circle with red and black candles for the infernal aspects of these powers. in the north, i set up my painting of babalon on the seven-headed beast with related sigils. i showered and put on nefilim-zoon. shut off at 11:15, banished, cast circle but without calling the enochian angels. i started the ritual by my declaration of intent and followed this by a simple acceptance of my pure intention and use of intense imagination throughout. manibus plenis, and a drop of blood on the lilith sigil. banished, dismis

LIBER 141

rcumstances (to ensure leisure for these operations, and to enlarge the field of choice of second parties) v. establishment of a protective bodyguard of invisible warriors (to secure freedom from interruption in the course of these operations. this may include preservation of the health) vi. the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel vii. spiritual attainment: e.g. devotion to nuit-babalon-baphomet viii. further insight into nature and her laws ix. the foundation of an abbey of o.t.o. x. the establishment of the kingdom of ra-hoor-khuit upon the earth. also divers matters, as the rejuvenation of one's own body, if desired, the power of healing, and the like. it will be seen that these few operations appear to fill every lotus of the universe with their buddhas. but it may be

21" luna in sagittarius 28'6" valley of london* addenda (the following occurs on a loose page in the japanese vellum bound note-book in which de arte magica was written) man is god therefore can create spirits by ceremonial masturbation on talismans as god first did. to be done peri ton broton tais abrotais erotos "o thou who hast formulated thy father and made fertile thy mother" 1. great adepts babalon- nuit. 2. isis- venus- aphrodite- astarte. 3. artemis- vesta- maria. 4. nymphs. in all cases death to be entrance into copulation, begetting yourself on them for new incarnation. woman adepts use corresponding male goou: liber 777 vel p rolegomena s y m b o l i c a ad s y s t e m am sceptico-mystic vi explicand fundamentum hieroglyphicum sanctissimorum scient summ v a\a\ publication in cla

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lower table of correspondences 12 xl* precious stones. xli. magical weapons. clxxxvii. magical formul (see col. xli) 0[[star sapphire, black diamond[[no attribution possible] lastal. m. m 1 diamond swastika or fylfot cross, crown[[the lamp. 2 star ruby, turquoise lingam, the inner robe of glory[[the word] viaov 3 star sapphire, pearl yoni, the outer robe of concealment[[the cup, the shining star] babalon. vitriol 4 amethyst, sapphire[[lapis lazuli] the wand, sceptre, or crook ihvh 5 ruby the sword, spear, scourge, or chain agla. alhim 6 topaz, yellow diamond the lamen or rosy cross abrahadabra. iao: inri 7 emerald the lamp and girdle ararita 8 opal, especially fire opal the names and versicles and apron. 9 quartz the perfumes and sandals[[the altar] alim 1010 rock crystal the magical circl

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rishna et de dionyso. 71 bs de tahuti. 72 bt de quodam mago gyptiorum quem appelunt iud i mosheh. 73 bu de mago arabico mohammed. 74 bf de se ipso, twi megalwi qhriwnoi, twi logwi aiwnos cuius verbum est qelhma. 75 bc mandatum ad filium suum. 76 by quare filium creavit ut fiat libertas. 77 bw de sua debilitate. 78 ga de manu qu magum sustinet. 79 gb de suo peccato. 80 gg de sua victoria per nomen babalon. 81 gd de arcano nefando. 82 ge de arcano per quod spiritus quidam in corpore recipiatur. 83 g# de clavi kabbalistica huius artis. 84 gz de missa spiritus sancti. 85 gh de formula tota. 86 gq de hac formula considerationes kabbalisitc. 87 gi de quibusdam artibus magicis. 88 gk de magno opere. 89 gl de gradibus ad magnum opus. 90 gm de formula lun. 91 gn de aquila sumenda. 92 gx de medicini

came to myself in a certain ordeal, wherein i knew myself finally, that i could do no other than take up that fearful burden that had broken my spirit. and for these fifteen days have i not suffered infinite things? was not the tree of my work frozen, one branch withered, and on blasted? look no more, o my son, upon thy father s shame! n the book of wisdom or folly 81 gg de sua victoria per nomen babalon (of his victory through the name babalon) nd after? this dawn (for i have toiled through the night in my great love and care of thee) how is it with me? it is well. for i have found myself; i have found my will; the obstacles that daunted me are seen to be by the shadows of shadows. grace be unto lady babalon. thus it is written in the book of the law .remember all ye that existence is pur

uadam (of a certain woman) nowest thou for what cause i am moved to write this unto hee, my son only-begotten, child of magick and of mystery? it is that i thy father am also in this ordeal of initiation at this hour. for the sun is nigh unto the end of the sign of he fishes in the thirteenth year of the on, and the new current of high magick leapeth forth as a flood from the womb of my true lady babalon. and a word hath come to me by he mouth of the scarlet woman, whose name is eve, or ahitha, concerning the temple of iuppiter that is builded for me. and therein is a woman appointed to a certain office. now this woman appeared to me in a vision when i was in the house of the juggler by the lake among the mountains, the sun being in cancer in the eleventh year of the on, even in the week a

t that temple, and abide therein, in the false sphere of daath, which is in the abyss. and to the adepts of our holy order this choice is terrible; by cause that they must abandon even him whose knowledge and conversation they have attained. yet, o my son, they have much help of our order in this on, because the general formula is love, so that their habit itself urges them to the bed of our lady babalon. know then the black brothers by this true sign of their initiation of iniquity, that that they resist change, restrict and deny love, fear death. percutiantur. o the book of wisdom or folly 105 da de virtute chirurgica (of the value of surgery) now that the cult of the slave-gods is a device of those black brothers. all that stagnateth is thereof, and thence cometh not stability, but putr

re is the jewel in the lotus-flower; yea, also is many other whereof i am partaker. but this last passion, that my lady olun hath brought unto me upon this last day of the winter of the thirteenth year of the on, even as i wrote these words unto thee, is a mystery of mysteries beyond all these. oh my son, thou knowest well the perils and the profit of our path; continue thou therein. olun! marie! babalon! adsum. m liber aleph vel cxi 110 d# de nomine olun (of the name olun) our seasons, or it may be nigh five, ago, i thy father was in the city called new-orleans, and being in travail of spirit i did invoke the god that giveth wisdom, bearing the word of the all-father by his caduceus. then, suddenly, as i began (as it were a gust of fire whirled forth against that idea) cam the wit of mine

the greek tongue, exclaimed `ermes 'eimi, whose numeration did i make in my mind forthwith, and it is four hundred and eighteen, like unto the word of the on. so by this i knew that my work was well wrought in truth. thus then also was it with this my lady; for after many questions i obtained from the wizard amalantrah that name olun, that is one hundred and fifty and six even as that of our lady babalon; and then, being inspired, i wrote down her earth-name in greek, marie, which is also that this name (as i have learned) is in the ph.nician tongue, wh lon; which by interpretation is that which is infinite, and space; so that all is consonant with nuith our lady of the stars. thus, o my son, is the word of truth echoed through-out all worlds; and thus have the wise mighty assurance in the

ion of hate. and this, multiplying itself, conflict upon conflict, endeth in hotchpot, and in the impotence and envy of choronzon, and in the abominations of the abyss. and of such the lords are the black brothers, who seek by their sorceries to confirm themselves in division, yet in this even is no true evil, for love conquereth all, and their corruption and disintegration is also the victory of babalon. n liber aleph vel cxi 140 ei rhapsodia de domina nostra (rhapsody on our lady) lessed be she, ay, blessed unto the ages be our lady babalon, that plieth her scourge upon me, to mega qhrion, to compel me to creation and to destruction, which are one, in birth and in death, being love! blessed be she, uniting the egg with the serpent, and restoring man unto his mother, the earth! blessed be

LIBER ASTARTE

er his reward will be greater if he choose a deity most remote from his own nature. this method is harder and higher than that of .liber e. for a simple object as there suggested is of the same nature as the commonest things of life, while even the meanest deity is beyond uninitiated human understanding. on the same plane, too, venus is nearer to man than aphrodite, aphrodite than isis, isis than babalon, babalon than nuit. let him decide therefore according to his discretion on the one hand and his aspiration on the other: and let not one outrun his fellow. 42. further concerning the value of this method. certain objections arise. firstly, in the nature of all human love is illusion, and a certain blindness. nor is there any true love below the veil of the abyss. for this reason we give t

of thy wife this is difficult, since she is more to thee than all others, and in this case thou mayst act with temperance, lest her personality overcome and destroy that of the deity. 48. concerning the holy guardian angel. do thou in no wise confuse this invocation with that. 49. the benediction. and so may the love that passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds through and through to babalon of the city of pyramids, and through astarte the starry one green-girdled in the name ararita. amn[.liber astarte. was first published in equinox i (7) in class b. in the 1913 .syllabus. it was declared to be class d. footnotes in square brackets are by the present editor; all others, and notes signed .ed. are from the equinox printing and are presumably by crowley (c) ordo templi orientis

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abuse and blame of him that set him there? 136. a mystic number of jupiter; the sum of the first 16 natural numbers. 144. a square and therefore a materialisation of the number 12. hence the numbers in the apocalypse. 144,000 only means 12 (the perfect number in the zodiac or houses of heaven and tribes of israel) 12, i.e. settled 1000, i.e. on the grand scale. 148 \ynzam, scales of justice. 156. babalon. see liber 418. this number is chiefly important for part ii. it is of no account in the orthodox dogmatic qabalah. yet it is 12 13, the most spiritual form, 13 of the most perfect number, 12, awh [it is wyx, zion, the city of the pyramids..ed.]52 175. a mystic number of venus. 203. abr, initials of ba, b, jwr, the trinity.53 206. rbd, speech .the word of power. 207. rwa, light. contrast w

le of the law welded into one. hence we may be sure that the law shall stand as it is without a syllable of addition. note 1022, the modulus of the universe of atoms, men, stars. see .two new worlds. 222. the grand scale of 2; may one day be of value. 256. the eighth power of 2; should be useful. 280. a grand number; the dyad passing to zero by virtue of the 8, the charioteer who bears the cup of babalon. see liber 418, 12th athyr. see also 280 in part i. 300. venerable, but only useful as explaining the power of the trident, and the flame on the altar. too stable to serve a revolutionary, except in so far as it is fire. 333. see part i. 340. connects with 6 through \c, the fire and the water conjoined to make the name. thus useful as a hint in ceremonial. 361. see part i. connects with th

, the sword; r, the rosy cross; and refer further to amoun the father, thoth his messenger, and isis, horus, osiris, the divine-human triad. on the qabalah 51 also 418= way ta, the essence of iao, q.v. this short analysis might be indefinitely expanded; but always the symbol will remain the expression of the goal and the exposition of the path. 419. teth, the number of the .laughing lion. on whom babalon rideth. see liber 418. note 419+ 156= 575= 23 25, occultly signifying 24, which again signifies to them that understand the interplay of the 8 and the 3. blessed be his holy name, the interpreter of his own mystery! 434. daleth, the holy letter of the mother, in her glory as queen. she saves the 4 by the 7 (d= 4= venus= 7, thus connects with 28, mystic number of netzach (venus, victory. no

n part i, partly for the reasons given in the apocalypse. i took the beast to be the 78 [victor neuburg, according to a note by crowley in a copy of equinox i (5, as transcribed by yorke. t.s] 79 [364= inter alia, alpwm roa, the hidden light, a title of kether, and fch, the adversary. t.s] 80 [vide al i. 22. t.s] 52 liber lviii lion (leo my rising sign81) and sol, 6, 666, the lord of leo on which babalon should ride. and there were other more intimate considerations, unnecessary to enter upon in this place. note however that the tarot card of leo, strength, bears the number xi, the great number of the magnum opus, and its interchange with justice, viii; and the key of 8 is 418.82 this all seemed to me so important that no qabalistic truths were so firmly implanted in my mind at the time wh

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of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. section d. water. hear me. ru-abra-iaf* gthou the wheel, thou the womb, that containeth the father iaf! h mariodom gthou the sea, the abode! h* see, for the formula of iaf, or rather fiaof, book 4 part iii, chapter v. the form fiaof will be found preferable in practice. liber samekh svb figvra dccc 6 babalon-bal-bin-abaft g babalon! thou woman of whoredom! thou, gate of the great god on! thou, lady of the understanding of the ways! h asal-on-ai g hail thou, the unstirred! hail, sister and bride of on, of the god that is all and is none, by the power of eleven! h aphen-iaf g thou treasure of iaf! h i g thou virgin twin-sexed! thou secret seed! thou inviolate wisdom! h photheth g abode of the li

un of myself! h pur g thou fire! thou sixfold star initiator, compassed about with force and fire! h iou g indwelling soul of myself! h pur (vide supra) iafth g sun-lion-serpent, hail! all hail, thou great wild beast, thou i a o! h iaeo g breaths of my soul, breaths of mine angel! h ioou g lust of my soul, lust of mine angel! h abrasax (vide supra) sabriam g ho for the sangraal! ho for the cup of babalon! ho for mine angel pouring himself forth within my soul! h oo g the eye! satan, my lord! the lust of the goat! h point i 9 ff g mine angel! mine initiator! thou one with me.the sixfold star! h ad-on-a-i* g my lord! my secret self beyond self, hadit, all-father! hail, on, thou sun, thou life of man, thou fivefold sword of flame! thou goat exalted upon earth in lust, thou snake extended upon

that i had attained unto the knowledge and conversation of him by virtue of mind ardour towards him, and of this ritual that i bestow upon men my fellows, and most of of his great love that he beareth to me. yea, verily, he led me to the abyss; he bade me fling away all that i had and all that i was; and he forsook me in that hour. but when i came beyond the abyss, to be reborn within the womb of babalon, then came he unto me abiding in my virgin heart, its lord and lover! also he made me a magus, speaking through his law the word of the new aon, the aon of the crowned and conquering child. thus he fulfilled my will to bring full freedom to the race of men. yea, he wrought also in me a work of wonder beyond that, but in this matter i am sworn to hold my peace* see the maps gminutum mundum

LIBER V

entre of his forehead, his mouth, and his larynx, crying aiwaz! 2. let him draw his thumb from right to left across his face at the level of the nostrils. 3. let him touch the centre of his breast, and his solar plexus, crying, therion! 4. let him draw his thumb from left to right across his breast, at the level of the sternum. 5. let him touch the svadistthana, and the muladhara chakkra, crying, babalon! 6. let him draw his thumb from right to left across his abdomen, at the level of the hips (thus shall he formulate the sigil of the grand hierophant, but dependent from the circle) the asseveration of the spells. 1. let the magician clasp his hands upon his wand, his fingers and thumbs interlaced, crying latsal! ehma! fiaof! aaph! aumn (thus shall be declared the words of power whereby th

with clenched finger and thumbs thrust out forwards, are held to the temples; the head is then bowed and pushed out, as if to symbolize the butting of an horned beast (attitude of pan, bacchus, etc (frontispiece, equinox i, iii. 15. proceeding as before, let him make in the west the averse pentagram whereby water is invoked. 16. pointing the wand to the centre of the pentagram, let him call upon babalon! 17. let him give the sign mulier. the feet are widely separated, and the arms raised so as to suggest a crescent. the head is thrown back (attitude of baphomet, isis in welcome, the microcosm of vitruvius (see book 4, part ii. 18. let him break into the dance, tracing a centripetal spiral widdershins, enriched by revolutions upon his axis as he passeth each quarter, until he come to the c

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centre of his forehead, his mouth, and his larynx, crying aiwaz! 2. let him draw his thumb from right to left across his face at the level of the nostrils. 3. let him touch the centre of his breast, and his solar plexus, crying therion! st 4. let him draw his thumb from left to right across his breast at the level of the sternum. 5. let him touch the sv.dis.t.h.na. and the m.l.dh.ra cakra, crying babalon! 6. let him draw his thumb from right to left across his abdomen, at the level of the hips (thus shall he formulate the sigil of the grand hierophant, but dependent from the circle) the asseveration of the spells. 1. let the magician clasp his hands upon his wand, his fingers and thumbs interlaced, crying lashtal! fiaof! aumgn!1 (thus shall be declared the words of power whereby the energi

with clenched fingers and thumbs thrust out forwards, are held to the temples; the head is then bowed and pushed out, as if to symbolize the butting of an horned beast (attitude of pan, bacchus, etc (frontispiece, equinox i(3).3 15. proceeding as before, let him make in the west the averse pentagram whereby water is invoked. 16. pointing the wand to the centre of the pentagram, let him call upon babalon! i 17. let him give the sign mulier. the feet are widely separated, and the arms raised so as to suggest a crescent. the head is thrown back (attitude of baphomet, isis in welcome, the microcosm of vitruvius (see book 4, part ii).4 18. let him break into the dance, tracing a centripetal spiral widdershins, enriched by revolutions upon his axis as he passeth each quarter, until he come to t

. sht is equally 31 with la and al, but it expresses the secret nature which operates the magick or the transmutations. sht is the formula of this particular aon; another aon might have another way of saying 31. 10 liber v vel reguli sh is fire as t is force; conjoined they express ra-hoor- khuit .the angel.8 represents the stele 666, showing the gods of the aon, while .strength.9 is a picture of babalon and the beast, the earthly emissaries of those gods. sht is the dynamic equivalent of la and la. sh shows the word of the law, being triple, as 93 is thrice 31. t shows the formula of magic declared in that word; the lion, the serpent, the sun, courage and sexual love are all indicated by the card. in la note that saturn or satan is exalted in the house of venus or astarte and it is an air

LIBER XXV THE STAR RUBY

(grk, go phallus h= 1366. see also stirling, the canon, p. 219 n] 4 [grk, gmighty. h] 5 [grk, ggrateful. h] 6 [chaos. the sign of horus is the sign of the enterer described in gliber o. h the version of the star ruby in magick has groar h (grk, gbeast h. 7 [the sign of silence, see gliber o. h magick has g c of hoor-paar-kraat. h] 8 [babalon. magick has gsay nuit. h] 9 [eros. magick has gwhisper babalon. h] liber xxv, the star ruby 2 go round to the south and repeat; but bellow .10 completing the circle widdershins, retire to the centre, and raise thy voice in the paian, with these words with the signs of n.o.x.11 extend the arms in the form of a tau, and say low but clear .12 repeat the cross qabalistic, as above, and end as thou didst begin* 25 is the square of 5, and the pentagram has

n appendix vi of magick in theory and practice. variations in the mtp version are recorded in footnotes (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press/ niwg. this e-text last revised 12.06.2004] 10 [psyche. for eros and psyche see the fable in the metamorphoses (golden ass) of apuleius, the reference in any case being to vau and he final of tetragrammaton, as chaos and babalon (see gthe vision and the voice h) represent yod and he. magick has gbellow hadit. h. t.s] 11 [the signs of n.o.x. are described in gliber v vel reguli. h the order in which they are given is left to the ingenium of the aspirant. t.s] 12 [grk, gbefore me the iunges, behind me the teletarchs, at my right the sunoches, at my left the daimons; for about me flames the star of five and in the co

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that many kept their art secret, working and weaving their webs of sorcery and magickal illumination unseen by outside folk. the sabbat is the meeting place of the feri, lycanthrope, vampire and the sorcerer s shades which act as familiars. it is the great manifestation of the hidden law, and that we may, by imagination, become lucifer in our self. it is through the chalice of lilith, revealed as babalon, that we seek the union of the goddess. the witches sabbath has long been a misunderstood and often misrepresented expression of magickal art. it should be considered that the witches sabbat cult is an expression of not only folk magic and lore, but that of a modern synthesis of advanced ideals of sorcery, psychology and psychic development. the witches sabbath has long been held in arcane

ays. i am holding the flame of awakening within and shall hold this oath of shadow and the graves of the sea shall still whisper into my ears! facing south: shaitan, satan, who exists behind saturn, let the fires of your manifestation be revealed in the rite of your true nature, from which all concepts of ill be forgotten and the essence absorbed. i call forth the shadows of flame who reside with babalon to bless my journey into the light of your self. facing east: lucet, lucifer, the source of my knowledge of self, morning star of wisdom and perfection. let the light of your essence rain upon me, so that i may become of your knowledge, from which i may become as god (goddess) itself. from the dream of spirit, emerge! facing north: belial, belarion, the seraphim who would command the earth

ne may perform the rite as one of self-isolated stimulation via sex magick. enflame the self through invocation, all the while focusing upon the luciferian aspects of self, the light and the darkness. glossary of termsakhu the ka and ba in union, the holy guardian angel and evil genius joined. this is the great work defined, the union of opposites. in thelemic view this would be the beast 666 and babalon conjoined. algol from the arabic al ghul, meaning demon star. algol is symbolized as the chaos star with an averse pentagram in it, representing the individual star or consciousness through black magick awakening. algol itself is the image of set in the aspect of the prince of darkness, being the manifestation of the black sun or opposite force of creation. through algol one may project an

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s would bring. iblis, a title of shaitan is described in ancient texts as a spirit of fire, one whose eternal flame would bow before no one, not even a god force. iblis/shaitan understood he was unique and powerful within his being, and that by separating himself from the natural order, would become as a god. azothoz presents a cipher in poem on the nature of the adversary and becoming. lilith-az-babalon- hecate the daemonic feminine is the fountain of the witch cult, in it's dreaming and waking aspect. while wicca has taken a more sterile approach to the goddess, a luciferian sorcerer acknowledges the beauty of the daemonic goddess as a well of power and selfdeification. through babalon we drink the blood of saints and emerge as god itself. lilith is the succubus witch queen of the sabbat

alon we drink the blood of saints and emerge as god itself. lilith is the succubus witch queen of the sabbat, whom is the very mother of us all. any within the veil of darkness are from her, we fornicate with her continually in the fruitful imagination of creation. the above four names are but a glimpse at her face, for she wears many masks in accordance with her role. all individuals must invoke babalon lilith within, regardless of gender. she is reached in the city of chorazin, from which you seek the skull cup of blood, drinking deep from the immortal well of her vampyric essence. part of the work of coven nachttoter (a small group of which the present author is a part of) is to explore and restore the work of john whiteside parsons, including the work of belarion armiluss al dajjal ant

LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT THE MYSTERY REVEALED

modeus. the universe seeks for all to flow according to its way, from which we work through in order to ultimately emerge through the left hand path. the two paths are essentially united consciously, from which each individual will be able to unite the microcosm with the macrocosm, the angelic and the demonic, the shadow and the light, all opposites in union. this is the work of the beast 666 and babalon conjoined. the very beginnings of witchcraft hold much lore and legend as any other religion or socio-formulated belief pattern. in the beginning within the great darkness, diana (liliththe moon) joined with lucifer (the sun) and produced the daughter and goddess aradia, or by some suggestion hecate. the watchers led by azazel, after lucifer fell from the heavens joined with man s daughter

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care. our basis is to establish a thought process ushering forth in this upcoming age based on balance and ancient values. the subconscious must be explored on numerous levels to understand what is known as the beast within. we do not wish to throw in a new religion, or claim something amazing or revolutionary. this book was conceived after a great personal undertaking which involved the goddess babalon, for which opened the 6 6 gates of hecate and lilith. this work is seen by me personally as a manifestation and gift for these forces, which both myself and elda isela continue to work with. our approach towards witchcraft is based in nature, that each sabbath is a time of tuning ourselves in with its tides and changes as well as reaffirming our paths and sorceries. the sethanic/luciferian

, you will be able to assume the wraith form so described in the devilcosm sigil itself. through these gates, the queen of the sabbath, lilith gives you the knowledge to become. the rituals contained in this grimoire each involve the use of the sigil. this feature derives from coven nachttoter (coven maleficia, a magickal base in which the author received the setting to write this book during the babalon working of december 1998 e.v) where this sigil was present in all night side path workings. sigils permit an individual or collective to focus upon one strong and consistent desire, by the medium of graphic symbol. sigils are not necessarily any one persons creation, however they should be complimentary to the individual's own natural ability and interest. the personal nature of sigil work

tual intent depend intensely on what is correct for the individual, what feels right and what they can achieve viable results with. this is a call to break down the near-there attitude over which dogma presides, imposing itself on all levels. separation from such limits is necessary for the continuation of real personal progress on whatever level. the red temple tiamat, considered as an aspect of babalon (11) in the path of vampirism, fits naturally in the work of the red temple, meaning sex and blood magick. this can be highly useful when forming a new point of mental/magickal power. creation is very much a part of this path as well as the blood which is of dual meaning. blood meaning astral and physical matter, the assumption being that blood can be used in evocations of which spirits ca

ith vampiric symbols and darkside objects which stir your imagination. the first step would be to set a single red candle upon an altar. the altar can have any significant symbols on it, but above the altar, framed if possible, should be displayed the varcolaci sigil. incense should be billowing in the chamber, frankincense, jasmine, and rose are preferred. each is a fragrance of our coven and of babalon, the scarlet woman. in my personal experience dream is a form of astral projection. if i create a sigil for dreaming and traveling/meeting with another, then this can be done through an induced trance and then sleep. many actually are able to lie down and astrally project, while i have developed this ability, my own preference and greatest experiences are obtained from the dream/astral tra

the self, extensions of your being. dagger-athame (will, wand (fire, sword (air) chalice (water) pentagram (earth. such instruments should be employed during invocations and evocations. each element would hold a significant point within the ritual undertaken. for instance, if one was invoking hecate the pentegram used would be an inverse pentagram, such as the varcolaci sigil, while one invoking babalon would implement the seal of babalon, known simply as the seven pointed star of babalon. the athame-dagger, wand, sword and chalice would always be used. ceremonial training is the most demanding in the advanced study and practice of a warlock or witch. each weapon should be consecrated at the appropriate time. the sword is blessed by horus, or baphomet, the chalice by 54 54 hecate or the g

known simply as the seven pointed star of babalon. the athame-dagger, wand, sword and chalice would always be used. ceremonial training is the most demanding in the advanced study and practice of a warlock or witch. each weapon should be consecrated at the appropriate time. the sword is blessed by horus, or baphomet, the chalice by 54 54 hecate or the goddess of the sea (witch queen, the wand by babalon or another fire associated elemental or spirit, the pentagram by the green man, pan or the witches sabbat goat. remember success is based upon an intent focus of will and investment in belief. belief, desire and will are the power points of success in any working. the kangling is an instrument that may be implemented within your own temple. a kangling is a tibetan instrument in origin used

ells 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 all apparent points of inspiration, from thence the fulfillment of the will occurs. to those seeking guidance, the goddess- once invoked under one of her many forms- offers a

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

tian vampirism, liber aapep, luciferian magick practice,the chaos cult workings of choronzon as vampire, the rites of hecate, the infernal and luciferian sabbat, and the foundations of satanic practice in magick. containing in this massive grimoire is also a study of the order of nine angles from a luciferian perspective, centered around their forbidden workings including the appearance of lilith-babalon as baphomet, the mistress of blood. 93 luciferian goetia a book of howling by michael w. ford printed: 137 pages, 6" x 9, perfect binding, black and white interior ink isbn: 978-1-4303-1569-8 darkness is always found within first. your entire life has been found in either an embrace of shadow or a carefully forgotten endless banishing of it. the luciferian path instructs the student to awa

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er that i had attained unto the knowledge and conversation of him by virtue of mine ardour towards him, and of this ritual that i bestow upon men my fellows, and most of his great love that he beareth to me, yea, verily, he led me to the abyss; he bade me fling away all that i had and all that i was; and he forsook me in that hour. but when i came beyond the abyss, to be reborn within the womb of babalon, then came he unto me abiding in my virgin heart, its lord and lover- aleister crowley magic in theory and practice the sabbat [4.3] the sabbat is a gathering of witches, warlocks, demons, and, in the earthly sabbat, even humans. there are generally 2 types of gatherings that are called sabbats; the celestial sabbat, and the infernal sabbat. even though sorcerers are always congregating in

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should banish immediately and consider not attempting this again. this may be a suggestion of your work in reference to vampyrism and shadow sorcery, both of the sabbat and the sethanic path of witchcraft will strengthen you in the darkened and tomb soiled shroud of ahriman. come now unto his pitch arms and talons, transform in the embrace of the father and mother of the blood moon of tiamat and babalon. ahrimanic vampyre the ahrimanic vampyre is one who has isolated the psyche, understanding that we are spiritual beings within flesh. we can thus control our immediate surrounding world. as we are born in darkness, we are nourished in the shadows. as we are strengthened in the noon-sun which is the time of shaitan, we create darkness and shadow equally. the ahrimanic vampyre seeks the in-b

led husks of evil) is from which lilith emerges from. consider also the realm of husks or shells, the qlippoth, the place of demons. the legends of lilith portray her as having the body of a beautiful woman from head to navel, and below she is flaming fire. this is also comparable to lilith as having the continence of beautiful maiden, and below the navel being as a beast with owl claws for feet. babalon, the enochian goddess and reappearing as the whore who rides the beast in the bible, is revealed as lilith the goddess of fire and beasts. it is barbara koltuv, ph.d. who suggests that the knowledge of lilith is necessary for strengthening man's ego, the shadow of the self. it is lilith who inspires sexual dreams, creative inspiration and sensuality. the daemonic feminine is therefore esse

whien the torch of wisdom (the black flame) is illuminated and revealed within. it is a rite of passage, of when the baphometic spirit of fire becomes separate from the natural order. thus the ritual of infernal union is a black magick working of self-empowerment and the beginning process of creating baphomet, or cain the lord of horsemen in the sethanic/luciferian witchcraft current. the work of babalon and lilith within an initiatory aspect is made through the alignment with the spirit of lilith, babalon and her children who would be your kin. by summoning and absorbing their knowledge and impulses, we become closer to her. in raphael patai's "the hebrew goddess" lilith is described as wearing jewelry and having red flaming hair. she is dressed in scarlet and wearing thirty-nine ornament

elry and having red flaming hair. she is dressed in scarlet and wearing thirty-nine ornaments. she seduces man and fornicates with him; finally arising presenting the demonic and beastlike essence, robed in garments of flaming fire, kills and takes his soul to gehenna. lilith is the tester of the path, she who would confront the weakest aspects of the human soul. those who would not be as set and babalon would then be devoured and tossed into the hell of the natural order. suggested reading: barbara koltuv, ph.d "the book of lilith, nicolas-hays, inc. 1986 raphael patai- gates to the old city, new york, avon 1980 the temple itself should be adorned in the decorations of the sabbat and reflective of the aesthetic concept of the daemonic feminine. a black mirror should be placed on the altar

my mother, lilith" focus now on the mantra of lil-ka-litu, recite slowly and build with repetitive vibrations, taking a quick and steady breath inbetween mantra breaks. allow your mind to focus only on the lilitu and succubi, not as a beautiful woman but beast- woman like, a vampyric tomb haunter who spits blood and sexual fluid. it is the lilitu who sip of the infernal menstrual blood of lilith- babalon, our witch goddess and initiator of the path of the red caul-stain of vampyric birth. focus this mantra as you move through the black mirror, noticing a great cave filled with moss and damp walls. hear the musick of the succubi, strange and distant flutes and the rattling and rhythm of drums and bones. you enter a room which has pools of blood, before you stands a lilitu-succubi. envision

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

lxv, iii, 3 1-36. 22. now, therefore, i am known to ye by my name nuit, and to him by a secret name which i will give him when at last he knoweth me. since i am infinite space, and the infinite stars thereof, do ye also thus. bind nothing! let there be no difference made among you between any one thing& any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. in a. c 's case, this secret name of nuit was babalon. see liber 333, chapter 49, and the commentary thereof. however, to each aspirant to her love she gives a secret name when at last he knows her. see liber nv, and verse 60 of this chapter. nevertheless, the name given to 666 is of generic importance to all thelemites, because of his office as prophet. that name is, therefore, the seal of the a and restriction to choronzon. see liber 156, a

ome of the characteristics of the ocean in a drop of sea water. further, as the verse itself states in no uncertain manner, the heavenly isis nuit cannot be regarded as an individual monad! nuit above the abyss does not become one: she is none. the ordeal being a crucial one, it is better that aspirants be forewarned. many ships sank against this rock, some of them vessels of great promise. also, babalon being merely one of the names of nuit, what is true of nuit is true of babalon. 28. none, breathed the light, faint& faery, of the stars, and two. 29. for i am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. 30. this is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. see the analysis of the word lashtal in liber v, and the following cha

he injunction "seek me only" is emphasized with an oath, and a special promise is made in connection with it. by seeking lesser ideals one makes distinctions, thereby affirming implicitly the very duality from which one is seeking to escape. note also that "me" may imply the greek mh,"not. the word 'only' may be taken as onlv, ayin, nun, lamed, vau, with the number of 156, that of the secret name babalon of nuit. there are presumably further hidden meanings in the key-word 'all. the reader is here referred to our previous warning on the matter of the vampire of this ordeal (commentary in italics to verse 27. if you seek her only, you cannot confuse any one of her manifestations with her. on the other hand, as long as a particular priestess shows her to you, concentrate! see liber artemis i

efined as being at least a master of the temple. true initiates never interfere with another human's will. however, they are in communion with all human wills in a manner incomprehensible by, and inexplicable to, the profane. even the highest types of samadhi give only a pale idea of this communion. it is the true and genuine communion of the saints, and the grail, the cup in the hand of our lady babalon, is its symbol. readers are referred to liber lxv, chapter i, vv. 3, 18, 63; chapter ii, vv. 4-6, 26, 28-29, 43; chapter iii, vv. 17-20, 4 7-48, 61, 65; chapter iv, vv. 47,51, 60; chapter v, vv. 1, 15-18, 22-24, 59-64. see also liber vii, chapter vii, vv. 41-52; liber i, and liber 156. 46. nothing is a secret key of this law. sixty-one the jews call it; i call it eight, eighty, four hundre

ople have said that crowley's soul is rotting in hell for years. this reasoning is entirely fallacious, much below his usual standard. he is merely trying to defend a verse that he abhors. now, as he changes the subject, his manner improves. he never understood the meaning of this verse at all) hadit calls himself the star (not in the least; servants of the star& the snake are the adepts, serving babalon and the beast. one does not serve had it "for it is i that go, the star being the unit of the macrocosm; and the snake, the snake being the symbol of going or love, and the chariot of life. he is harpocrates, the dwarf-soul, the spermatozoon of all life, as one may phrase it. the sun, etc, are the external manifestations or vestures of this soul, as a man is the garment of an actual sperma

temple. he is forced to work for mankind in spite of himself "choronzon" is that influence that destroys the ego which is precisely what the aspirant to true initiation desires. students are advised to read liber 156 with extreme care, and to consult liber 418, the tenth aethyr, which describes the circumstances in which choronzon manifests itself, and the attitude that forces choronzon to obey. babalon is the woman as therion is the man. we are all man and woman inside ourselves. the concept of woman as an entity that shuts itself is the product of the fear that the "black brothers" have of the universe. who bows to the tabu of incest, or who fears love, tends to visualize the "mother" as "pure "virgin "untouchable "untouched" this concept is partial and erroneous. there are two ways in

leads the adept exempt to open himself to the world, and to swear to interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing between god and his soul. let it be understood that the immaculate virgin is a necessary concept; but it must be equilibrated by the opposite concept, since no idea that is not thus balanced by its opposite can exist above the abyss. see liber xxv, and liber v, and liber xxx vi. babalon in greek is mapie, maria. she is the immaculate virgin, the woman clothed with the sun maia with the solar "r" in her womb. but she is simultaneously the great whore, the shameless one who gets drunk on the blood of the saints. she is nature, whose mystery is eternally inviolate, the veiled isis; and she is the diana of the ephesians, frenetically copulating with, and giving suck to, all h

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battles by carlo ginzburg 9 i the blackened forge of cain title-praecantrix the darkness of the earth color black symbol the sigil of infernal union -study of cain as the offspring of lucifer and lilith. the dynamics of self-transformation and how symbols relate to the self -foundations of sex magick and the will in the focus of selftransformation and self-deification -sex magick and the union of babalon (lilith) and the beast 666 (the solar phallic masculine archetype, the beast which rises from leviathan) in sexual union the creation of baphomet (an aspect of cain) 10 1. a study of austin osman spare via the book of pleasure. you will wish to obtain other titles by spare and seek to understand through practice the essence of zos kia and its view as a practitioner of the left hand path. 2

nd the beast 666 (the solar phallic masculine archetype, the beast which rises from leviathan) in sexual union the creation of baphomet (an aspect of cain) 10 1. a study of austin osman spare via the book of pleasure. you will wish to obtain other titles by spare and seek to understand through practice the essence of zos kia and its view as a practitioner of the left hand path. 2. lilith, hecate, babalon& az. what each goddess represents (and how they are the same) and the results of invoking them within (both male and female. the significance of the feminine (lunar) and the goddess of death and birth. the crimson caul and the birth of lilith within the luciferian circle. a minimum four page essay on the goddess and how this feminine aspect is used within the male or female. see nox umbra

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

, not mere impulse and unevaluated circumstance. egotism however is a possible flaw and over estimation of self. as the luciferian is evolved and continues growing one must be in check with the ego. it should be understood that often the most humble will comprehend a greater knowledge of self. crowley often defined "black brothers" as those who shut themselves off from the universe and the cup of babalon, which is evolution. the sorcerer must realize that he or she is not necessarily more important than anything else, while at the same time be in full balance with the natural order and the survival of the psyche. a black magician is by no means what crowley defined as "black brothers. the essential study and practice of a sorcerer to ascend is significant in the point that the individual m

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d darbs qaas 3f 4ethani 'and comfort. tondude us 3receivers of 4your mysteries. 5for why 'od bliora 'la-la1 3ed- nas 4cicles 5bagle 'our lord and master is the all one 'ge-lad i l nanta, earth. the sixth key 'the spirits of %e fourth angle 'are nine, 4mighty in the firmament 'gah 2s diu 3chis em 4micalzo pil 'of waters: whom the first hath planted 3a torment to the wicked 'zin 'sobam el harg 3mir babalon 'and 2a garland to the righteous: 3giving unto them fiery darts 'od zobloc samvelg 3dlugar malprg 'to vanne the earth, 3and 47,61 9,9 tontinual workmen 'ar taosgi wd 4acam tam1 <337 'whose courses visit 2with comfort )the earth, 4and are in government 'sob01 zm f 'bliard fcaosgi 40d chisa netaab 'and continuance as the second 3and the thiid. 4wherefore '0d miam ta wdd 4darsar 'hearken unto

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my name nuit, and to him by a secret name which i will give to him when at last he knoweth me. since i am infinite space, and the infinite stars thereof, do ye also thus. bind nothing! let there be no difference made among you between any one thing& any other thing; for thereby cometh hurt. the secret name, revealed in the 12th aethyr of liber 418 (the vision and the voice, was that of babylon or babalon, incorporated by crowley into the seal of the a:.a. again nuit is shown to comprise the objective universe. the adjuration of this passage lays bare the terrible secret of all forms of god/nature worship: the forcing of all deviant will towards uniformity and conformity to the cosmic norm. difference or independence of any sort. particularly intellectual separation. is anathema to nuit. 23

habit might be required, but the "actual" pharaoh was immortal. in this verse may also be found one of the assumptions behind the practice of mummification: if the body is permitted to dissolve, the ba("heart-soul) and ka("double) cease to exist and are absorbed by the objective universe [see the book of opening the mouth, translated by sir e.a. wallis budge] the star is the silver star (a:.a) of babalon, and the snake is subsequently(#ii-22) identified as harwer. 22. i am the snake that giveth knowledge& delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. to worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof i will tell my prophet& be drunk thereof! they shall not harm ye at all. it is a lie, this folly against self. the exposure of innocence is a lie. be strong, o man! lus

rder to which he aspires. he must then decide upon the critical adventure of our order: the absolute abandonment of himself and his attainments. should he fail, by will or weakness, to make his self-annihilation absolute, he is nonetheless thrust forward into the abyss; but instead of being received and reconstructed in the third order [the silver star of the aa] as a babe in the womb of our lady babalon, under the night of pan, to grow up to be himself wholly and truly as he was not previously, he remains in the abyss, secreting his elements around his ego as if isolated from the universe, and becomes what is called a 'black brother. such a being is gradually disintegrated from lack of nourishment and the slow but certain action of the attraction of the rest of the universe, despite his n

m they came to know their relation to the first and second orderings, as well as the inspiration of their own creation and that deathless fire that burns through their past, present, and future. i bring this knowledge of your creation; i am with you in peace and comfort; and i entrust to you my essence, because thus are we the same. the sixth part gah sdiu chis em micalzo pilzin sobam el harg mir babalon od obloc samvelg dlugar malprg arcaosgi od acam canal sobolzar tbliard caosgi odchis anetab od miam taviv od d darsar solpeth bien brita od zacam gmicalzo sobhaath trian luiahe odecrin mad qaaon. beyond you who are of the third ordering shall be those of the fourth, mighty in the universe, who shall again come into being by a first, to recall the high orderings of the past and to witness t

ies of the draconian current [prepare the chamber. the pentagram of set should be centered above the altar on the west wall of the chamber as a symbolic gateway to the tuat. emphasis should be placed on egyptian symbolism, as is appropriate to the nature of the rite. the stele of bes-na-maut should be beneath the pentagram of' set in the center of the altar between two black candles. the graal of babalon and the ur-hekau("mighty one of enchantments) should be in place on the altar in front of the stele. the ur-hekau is an iron rod surmounted by a cobra's head, with a ram's head at one end, and meandering like a snake's body. this instrument is said to have been used by the god set to open the mouths of the gods. it is also symbolic of the stellar constellation of the thigh, and its metal

an priesthood gave way to the priesthoods of mentu and later of amon-ra. for in those days men did fear that this fall from the heavens would have ethical consequences. and so it was that the lord of darkness left his temple in uab as the time of the purification commenced. this era of purification is now past, and set once more seeks those who in turn seek him [drink from the graal. the graal of babalon is said to be filled with the blood of the saints. the celebrant will partake of the wine of her fornication [summoning of the elements. celebrant] 0 mighty sekhmet, goddess of vengeance, fire of life, come forth from the watchtower of fire, in the southern quadrant of the universe, guide and protect this sacred pylon. o mighty shu, god of the air, breath of life, come forth from the watch

SAPPHIRE TABLE OF SET MAIN

nce of the order to which he aspires. he must then decide upon the critical adventure of our order; the absolute abandonment of himself and his attainments" and further "should he fail, by will or weakness, to make his self-annihilation absolute, he is none the less thrust forward into the abyss; but instead of being received and reconstructed in the third order, as a babe in the womb of our lady babalon, under the night of pan, to grow up to be himself wholly and truly as he was not previously, he remains in the abyss, secreting his elements round his ego as if isolated from the universe, and becomes what is called a "black brother. such a being is gradually disintegrated from lack of nourishment and the slow but certain action of the attraction of the rest of the universe, despite his no

SAPPHIRE TABLET OF SET

nce of the order to which he aspires. he must then decide upon the critical adventure of our order; the absolute abandonment of himself and his attainments" and further "should he fail, by will or weakness, to make his self-annihilation absolute, he is none the less thrust forward into the abyss; but instead of being received and reconstructed in the third order, as a babe in the womb of our lady babalon, under the night of pan, to grow up to be himself wholly and truly as he was not previously, he remains in the abyss, secreting his elements round his ego as if isolated from the universe, and becomes what is called a "black brother. such a being is gradually disintegrated from lack of nourishment and the slow but certain action of the attraction of the rest of the universe, despite his no

SATANGEL

2. certain gnostic sects regard lucifer as a divine power in his own right, and the witches recognise him as the initiator and bringer of illumination. in etruscan gypsy lore he is the father of aradia and consort of diana. it is this godform that became the emperor of hell (grimorium verum. roman god of the morning star (venus. luciftias (enochian, brightness) whose return is heralded, alongside babalon, in the call of the thirty aethers. lucifuge (latin, running from the light. servants of lucifer who hunt for souls to damn. they are the henchmen who come to collect when a pact has been fulfilled, who tear the soul from the body with their sharp beaks and talons. lug, lugus, lamfada (celtic. irish god of light, sometimes associated with lucifer. god of war and the magick arts. mahazel (h

iis 2od darbs qaas 3f 4etharzi 1and comfort. 2conclude us 3receivers of 4your mysteries. 5for why? 1od bliora 2ia-ial 3ed-nas 4cicles 5bagle 1our lord and master is the all one! 1ge-iad i l the sixth key 1the spirits of 2the fourth angle 3are nine, 4mighty in the firmament 1gah 2s diu 3chis em 4micalzo pil- 1of waters. 2whom the first hath planted 3a torment to the wicked 1zin 2sobam el harg 3mir babalon 1and 2a garland to the righteous: 3giving unto them fiery darts 1od 2obloc samvelg 3dlugar malprg 1to vanne 2the earth, 3and 47, 6, 9, 9 5continual workmen 1ar 2caosgi 3od 4a c a m 5canal 1whose courses visit 2with comfort 3the earth, 4and are in government 1sobol zar f 2biiard 3caosgi 4od chisa netaab 1and continuance as 2the second 3and the third. 4wherefore, 1od miam ta 2viv 3od d 4dars

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a's jet propulsion laboratory, and a priest of the o.t.o, was, like mormon joseph smith, a premier servant of satan and a rebel against god. he even fancied himself to be the prophesied antichrist. parsons wrote this chilling paragraph in his diary: and thus was i antichrist loosed in the world; and to this am i pledged, that the work of the beast shall be fulfilled, and the way for the coming of babalon be made open and i shall not cease or rest until these things are accomplished. 24 a few years after writing this, jack parsons was killed in an explosion in a laboratory at his home, which also served as a meeting place for other members of his satanic order. he evidently was not to become the prophesied antichrist, a fact parsons now knows only too well, residing as he is in some subterr

occult paraphernalia. so much was he recognized that a bemused crowley wittily remarked "an elephant would break down under the insignia i am entitled to wear."2 it was napoleon who once observed how easy it is to win men over through flattery simply by bequeathing a title to them or pinning a medal or token on their chest. crowley's wicked philosophies and his ritual experimentation such as the "babalon working" ritual designed to invoke the coming of antichrist greatly inspired copycats and imitators. such include l. ron hubbard, who reportedly studied crowley's works and went on to found the fake religion called scientology; anton lavey, who founded the church of satan and authored the satanic bible; and alfred kinsey, notorious sex researcher whose kinsey institute pandered to kinky ho

ca the bearded revolutionary rebel is symbolic of baphomet, who also has a beard. this artist rendition of notorious cuban guerilla leader che gueverra does bear a remarkable resemblance to eliphas levi's famous drawing of baphomet, complete with the stars on their respective heads. baphles me! 107 a baphomet wall plaque and wall sculpture sold by an occult mail order store, along with a "seal of babalon" and the brotherhood a a wall plaque (the atlantean brotherhood. also offered: a "sabbatic goat" amulet, described as satanist eliphas levi's "baphomet god of the witches" 108 la codex magica the grand master of a satanic secret society in the country of greece wears a goat's head. the irregular pentagram with an image of baphomet filling up the interior spaces is called the "goat of mende

r made infamous by englishman aleister crowley("the beast, 666. parsons died in a mysterious explosion some 50 years ago, but his name and legend continue to be honored by illuminists around the world. nasa, america's space agency, even named a crater on mars after parsons. parsons conducted sex rituals designed to invoke the coming of the antichrist. satanists call these perverted, dark rituals "babalon working" every man and woman is a star 555 popular science magazine (july 2004) published this artist's conception of a proposed synthetic star, pentagram star of light to be beamed over the city of new york as a memorial to world trade center 9/11 victims. the designers believe the five-pointed star, designed to float serenely above a city center and pulse quietly at the same rate as a be

THE BLACK LODGE

er, leviathan, belial, that are the great princes of the evil of the world "and satan is worshiped by men under the name of jesus; and lucifer is worshiped by men under the name of brahma; and leviathan is worshiped by men under the name of allah; and belial is worshiped by men under the name of buddha (see al iii 48-56 "moreover, there is mary (the reflex, in the qliphoth of malkuth, of our lady babalon, the guardian of the abyss. she is the scarlet woman who rides the beast, and her cup of abominations is the holy grail. but again, this is an arcane of the grade of practicus of the a .a. and if we tried to explain it here we would only cause confusion, a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut herself up (this is the self-preservation instinct carried to the extreme of "absolute vir

your innate femaleness, augmenting both such that they are in balance. when, dear brothers and sisters, these disparate elements are in balance, then must you annihilate them in combination, which is bliss; 0=2. thus only may you enter the stream of life to emerge as the virgin of al. blessings, peace and silence in the name of our lord to mega therion and in the name of our seven times holy lady babalon love is the law, love under will. the black lodge lesson 4 dear sisters and brothers in the name of the initiator augmn do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. let us sum up that which we learned in the third part of this document: we learned that the black lodge creates false initiatic movements or they stimulate faith in false masters. the next means by which the black lodge spr

e is death to the body and the other is death to the spirit) this is the dichotomy of this particular time in the existence of our planet. these conditions may change with time but they will not change if there is no one left to change them. this is our challenge and our test of fire. blessings, peace and silence in the name of our lord to mega therion and in the name of our seven times holy lady babalon love is the law, love under wiot1 t h e b o o k o f p l e a s u r e (self-love) the psychology of ecstasy by austin osman spare an iv12 sol 15 leo, luna 6 taurus dies veneris friday, august 06, 2004 e.v. this digital edition was created especially for initiates of the order of phosphorus by frater a.s.a. iv, for the purpose of education and initiatory pursuits. this edition is not to be so

THE LUCIFERIAN PATH THE WITCHES SABBAT MICHAEL W FORD

minine or goddess is indeed lilith hecate. she has many names and masks, but revealed is something more terrible and beautiful than would be expected. she is the mother of all magick, she lives in the blackened flame of both man and woman. you cannot walk the path of magick and shut her out. she devours or blesses, her kiss means everything. invoke the goddess and listen well to her words. she is babalon, the crimson harlot who rides the infernal beast of the sun. she is az, the primal instinct of sexual hunger, she is the white goddess, who would caress you before removing the flesh of her pale face to reveal a ravenous wolf. lilith hecate is the triple mooned initiator, she who guides upon the path. in inspired lore, cain was initiated by lilith. she is the source, the point of luciferia

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

s aima: the bright, fertile, mother. dark isis three-fold system sattva: goodness; maiden (first quarter- mary, isis, nephthys rajas: passion; mother (full moon- venus, aphrodite, nike tamas: darkness; crone (third quarter- kalli, lilith other forms of the feminine associated with binah range from the shekinah, the "indwelling presence of god (also associated with malkuth as the unwedded soul, to babalon, the great whore or scarlet woman, deified by crowley in his elaborate symbology as the lady babalon, nursing the babe of the abyss in the city of pyramids under the night of pan. the catholic "litany of the blessed virgin" lists titles which could be transposed onto the tree of life with appropriate relevance, such as: mary i.e, exalted, also "bitterness of the sea "myrrh of the sea, or "

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

lly was, a carpet made of many ingenious threads and not god- or eternal happiness- at all; only nap. therefore, it seemed almost logical that he should seek in the defeated, old religions of the world for the basis of his new philosophy and, some say, his new "religion. he raised the female aspect back up to one of equality with the male, as it was in the rites of egypt, and of eleusis "our lady babalon (his spelling) became a theme of many of his magickal writings, and he received he credo, the book of the law, through a woman, his wife rose kelly. the lunar element, as well as the venusian, are certainly accessible in his works. it has even been said in occult circles that he had a hand in putting together the grimoire of one gerald gardner, founder of a contemporary witchcraft movement

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

e act of love, considering it seems to incarnate or flow backwards. this can be viewed as an initiation resembling what has been described in my book of the witch moon as the osculum infame, or kiss of shame. the devil itself, resembling the o can achieve autoerotic intercourse with the combination of z, meaning inverse intercourse with the devil the very act of creation. the rite of thanatos vel babalon, as developed by michael dewitt is one of the most powerful descriptions of the essence of babalon that could be described. the ritual itself is opened with the quadriga sexualis banishing ritual and leads into the invoking of the force of darkness. the temple itself would be decorated in images of death, skulls and bones and a large black coffin in which one of the female magicians would

e of thanatos known to men as the face of death, whom they worship with howling and shattering teeth. all the while a funerary drum beats and calls forth the dead. soon, the congregation throws human bones and grave soil within the coffin, which is soon closed. the celebrants then meditate on among other things, their own death, and understanding that physical death is a natural function of life. babalon emerges then from the coffin and then announces herself incarnate. this sigil of babalon would be between the priestess breasts, being revealed when she tears the grave shroud off. babalon will now take a human skull bowl filled with blood and chant the dedication to her manifestation. the blood is then poured over herself in ecstasy with the celebrates, affected by the wild drumming do as

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

poth lilith holds great power, the femal of samael is called serpent, woman of harlotry, end of all flesh, end of days. the name of baphomet is regarded by traditional satanists as meaning "the mistress (or mother) of blood- the mistress who sometimes washes in the blood of her foes and whose hands are thereby stained order of nine angles in some modern satanic orders, lilith has appeared as both babalon and even baphomet. the order of nine angles related baphomet as the bride of satan. the dark feminine energies were recognized as a valid magical practice in certain texts, azanigin being a name of the dark goddess and which such satanic magick was practiced. what is underlying is not what order practices what, rather that the demonic feminine or the fiery inspiration itself is central to

THE BINDING OF SHADOWS

inverse pentagram, symbolizing the matter of the flesh and the psyche which allows the spirit- god to emerge. baraqijal, allow the stars to align with my everlasting protection! may the dead hear my call! face now the altar: before me lucifer; behind me shaitan; on my right hand belial; on my left hand leviathan; for about me flames the pentagram, and in the column stands the seven-rayed star of babalon! ii. the circle of the dead upon the altar a pre-created nganga should be with you (creation of ngangas involves the use of human and animal bones-called a fetish spirit- your blood, sigil, grave soil and snake skin. this nganga will contain active fetish spirits related to the dead. you will use items of the dead which may bring shades or manes of the dead which will allow you to form fro

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

replaces loving-cup) viii (lifting (2nd, 3rd, and r.w.m. lift candlesticks) ad babalonis amorem do dedico omnia nihilo (throws 53 on ground, 2, 3, and r.w.m. throw down pillars) all (very loud) abaddon, the opening of the eye! file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c6.html (3 of 9 [12/28/2001 2:04:24 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. viii: la ahebah babalon (officers take new positions, and clap hands to form: viii, 2, 3, r.w.m: we four meet to adore the (raise and drop hands twice) for evermore but never to divulge the same till we four or four more meet to adore. r.w.m: adore. 3: adore. 2: adore. viii: adore (all give sign annihilation) herald: in the name of the grand master baphomet i declare this council of princes of jerusalem duly open

michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c6.html (6 of 9 [12/28/2001 2:04:24 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. herald: by order of the v.i.s.k.s.g.i.g, i proclaim our brethren. p.i.s. fanfare viii: let our brethren advance in due form (done) brethren, the p.i. will understand what has been done. the letters on the circle, which alone remains, now stand for l.a.b. this is for the love of babalon. i will now proceed to communicate to you the secrets of this degree. they consist of signs, a token and a word. the penal sign is given by, etc. the sign of combat is given by, etc. the sign of death of annihilation is given by, etc. the grip or token is given by, etc. this grip demands a word, and this word is, etc, and should always be followed by the sign. you will now retire, taking y

g of the perfect initiate stanza 1 how the simple mason plies tool to temple, see it rise! princes of jerusalem, how we mock and scoff at them! chorus. boaz broken, jachin gone, file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c6.html (8 of 9 [12/28/2001 2:04:24 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. freely spoken, jahbulon, all above is overthrown for the love of babalon. stanza 2 lend a hand, my trusty brother! while there stand upon another of their temple still a stone give the grip of abaddon! chorus. stanza 3 split the skull! on guard the sword! earth be null and heaven abhorred! all s a lie, although divine give annihilation s sign! chorus. nothing now remains. etc. unclothe: untyle. there is no formal closing; all has been destroyed. file//c /docume

d cross to the prosperity and happiness of the princes of this sublime degree, i subscribe myself (signed (iv* the furniture of a chapter of rose croix red room altar. white silk altar-cloth, with rose 49 on gold cross 5 with 4 green rays. super-altar. black. 7 steps. copy of stele of revealing. 33 lights. 33 roses. paten and chalice. cakes of light and red wine (optional. crystal globe: image of babalon &c. but no male symbol) thrones. one each side of the altar for m.w.s.55 and h.p.56 one in west for g.m.57 file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c7.html (1 of 14 [12/28/2001 2:04:51 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. stalls for other princes. banners. the banner of the rite above m.w.s. the banner of love above the most reverend and perfect p

ince the royal art has experienced such dire calamities, it is our duty, very excellent and perfect princes to retrieve the loss; and may the influence of truth, silence, and love prosper our endeavours to recover the lost word (he lays down the crucifix and tramples upon it) therefore, with my heel upon the head of the great serpent i declare this chapter of rose croix duly opened in the name of babalon and the beast conjoined, of the secret savior and of iao (applause) file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c7.html (3 of 14 [12/28/2001 2:04:51 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. h.p (sits) g.m (sits (all seat themselves) reception of postulant first point m.w.s: very excellent and perfect princes, the business of this evening is the reception

nt in white, with iv apron, and placed the v.s.l. in his hand, takes the petition to g.m. who takes it to m.w.s. who says: admit the postulant! introducer returns to postulant, and leads him amid strains of martial musick to the outer veil. then he knocks. g.m. draws veil) g.m: who are you? introducer: a member of the body of initiates. g.m: whither go you? introducer: to the immortal mansions of babalon. g.m: what is your rank? introducer: i am become a perfect magician. g.m: give me the sign (done) your petition has been favourably received by this princely chapter; but, whilst we admire your zeal and courage, alas! you came amongst us at a time when we are overwhelmed by the deepest sorrow. consternation now spreads horror over our brows. an earthquake rends the fair breast of our mothe

, which will enable us to erect a pyramid in our hearts to the glory of him, to whom belongeth might, majesty, dominion, and power; who liveth and reigneth world without end (all make the 3 signs of adoration, heredom, and pan) m.w.s: therefore, with my heel upon the head of the great serpent (he goes out, and turns facing red room) i declare this. chapter of rose croix duly closed in the name of babalon and the beast conjoined, of the secret savior and of iao. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c7.html (14 of 14 [12/28/2001 2:04:51 pm] sroto_notes 54. also known by the title of sovereign prince of the rose-croix. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael/my..20secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/note54.html [12/28/2001 2:04:53 pm] the secr

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

wise" but the modern sayings of" the beast 666" as crowley was wont to style himself. but, does any of this invalidate wicca as an expression of human spirituality? it depends on where one is coming from. certainly, the foundations of feminist wicca and the modern cult of the goddess are challenged with the fact that the goddess in question may be nuit, her manifestation the sworn whore, our lady babalon, the scarlet woman. transform what you will shall be the whole of history, but this makes what marx did to hegel look like slavish devotion. what crowley himself said of this kind of witchcraft is not merely instructive, but an afront to the conceits of an era "the belief in witchcraft" he observed" was not all superstition; its psychological roots were sound. women who are thwarted in the

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

tery, babylont he greatt, he mothero f harlots and abominationofs the earth"(r ev. 17:5. the fact that the lady babylon is called the mother of the abominations of the earth is significant, since in the key is written "woe be to the earth, for her iniquity is, was, and shall be, great" aleister crowley, who did considerable work with the keys and with the enochian language, made babylon (spelled "babalon) one of the prime figures in his personal apocalyptic mythology and considered himself to be the great beast incarnate. it is possible that he grasped the connection between the lady babylon in the apocalypse and the goddess of the world in the keys, although i have not myself seen any explicit mention of this link in his writings. it should be noted that the enochian word for "wicked" is

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

tion of the moral boundaries that confine ordinary human beings -162- i will work the work of wickedness i will kill my heart i will be loud and adulterous i will be covered with jewels and rich garments. i will be shameless before all men i will, for token thereof, will freely prostitute my body to the lusts of each and every living creature that shall desire it i claim the mystery of mysteries, babalon the great, and the number 156, and the robe of the woman of whoredomes and the cup of abominations.civ branded with the beast's mark as we have seen above, many of crowley's higher-level rituals centered around acts that were considered extremely transgressive in late victorian society. sodomy and masturbation were foremost among the acts considered both physically and morally dangerous in

WORKBOOK FOR GRADE 0 VOID AND THE ABYSS

to seduce and command by her will of appearance alone. by the nightside attribute, the goddess is the manifestation or channel of lilith, she becomes the witch queen herself, and able to work sorcery, attend the sabbat upon the steed kundak through the web of dreams itself. this is the complete witch, whom by dayside and nightside is able to master each by her own will. lilith is thus revealed as babalon, the goddess of death, blood, passion and life itself! let her mysteries be revealed to those through enflamed invocation! the sigil of infernal union, created by levi and used originally in maurice bessey s 1961 encyclopedia of the occult "histoire en 1000 images de la magie, and re-issued in english later on as a pictorial history of magic and the supernatural. this symbol, adopted by an

the moon queen of the witches and lilitu/succubi -witchcraft, sorcery, lunar dream magicks. lilith is the mother of harlots whom appears in the form of a beautiful woman with the lower half animal like, hairy and feet of a large bird. lilith is the gateway to the sabbat and to the arts of lesser and greater black magick. lilith is also the lunar blood covered goddess, revealed in thelemic lore as babalon. samael (the sun daemonic and solar phallic force, an extension of set -magick and solar creative sorcery. samael is the dragon daemon of warlocks and wizards, the manifestation aspect of daemonic becoming. samael is the mastery of the earth and positive creation by knowledge into wisdom. samael opens the gateway of the knowledge of the watchers, and all fallen angels. revealed in thelemic

dom. it is because of this that the union of samael and lilith, the marriage of opposites, through the dragon leviathan that wisdom grows from knowledge. 24 the ritual of infernal union solitary ritual based on the union of opposites. black robe, candles: black and red. sigil of infernal union may be used upon the altar wall as well as the altar itself. the sigil of the union of the beast 666 and babalon may be used as well. this symbol is based on the classic sigil originally designed by eliphas levi, but redrafted by elda isela ford. this is indeed a saturn/lunar rite, the merging of sexualities within the individual. 25 one should prepare the grand sabbatic circle, robed in black or red and candles should be black and red. a statement of intent would read as the following: it is my will

er of the path of the wise, reveal your bestial and angelic essence to me. do manifest through me now, join in union with your mate, samael. join through me the union of opposites! allow the lunar energy to flow through you, catching the visions of lilitu and such succubi, bestial and hair covered below their waste seeking the sexual union of others in great fornication and abandonment. lilith is babalon, the goddess who bathes in the blood of the moon. face now the altar, take the wand and recite while focusing upon lilith: she howls upon the desert winds, as the moon brings the cloak of darkness. the shadow radiate her essence, blood drinker, devouress of the sleeping, fornicate in the spilt veins of those who come to you! lilith, la-kal-il-li-ka, i invoke thee by your sacred names: abek

sacred names: abeko, batna, abito, eilo, amizo, ita, izorpo, kali, kea, kokos, odam, patrota, podo, partasah, satrina, talto, lilith! and by your other names of calling: 27 abyzu, ailo, alu, abro, amiz, amizu, ardad lili, avitu, bituah, gelou, gallu, gilou, ik, kalee, ils, kakash, lamassu, kema, partashah, petrota, pods, raphi, satrinah, thiltho, zahriel, zefonith, lilith! by the words of power: babalon-bal-bin-abraft, asal-on-ai, athor-e-bal-o, ereshkigal! i offer my essence as sacrifice, a drop of my blood. witch queen of the infernal sabbat! i do invoke thee, horned moon which spills and drinks the lunar blood, she who fornicates with daemons, i do seek your kiss, i give you substance now from which you shall enter me! lilith, beautiful mother, giver of life and desire, i do summon the

BOOK OF BARUCH

chaldeans took jerusalem, and burnt it with fire. 3 and baruch did read the words of this book in the hearing of jechonias the son of joachim king of juda, and in the ears of all the people that came to hear the book, 4 and in the hearing of the nobles, and of the king's sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and of all the people, from the lowest unto the highest, even of all them that dwelt at babylon by the river sud. 5 whereupon they wept, fasted, and prayed before the lord. 6 they made also a collection of money according to every man's power: 7 and they sent it to jerusalem unto joachim the high priest, the son of chelcias, son of salom, and to the priests, and to all the people which were found with him at jerusalem, 8 at the same time when he received the vessels of the house of t

ias, son of salom, and to the priests, and to all the people which were found with him at jerusalem, 8 at the same time when he received the vessels of the house of the lord, that were carried out of the temple, to return them into the land of juda, the tenth day of the month sivan, namely, silver vessels, which sedecias the son of josias king of jada had made, 9 after that nabuchodonosor king of babylon had carried away jechonias, and the princes, and the captives, and the mighty men, and the people of the land, from jerusalem, and brought them unto babylon. 10 and they said, behold, we have sent you money to buy you burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare ye manna, and offer upon the altar of the lord our god; 11 and pray for the life of nabuchodonosor king of babylo

you burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare ye manna, and offer upon the altar of the lord our god; 11 and pray for the life of nabuchodonosor king of babylon, and for the life of balthasar his son, that their days may be upon earth as the days of heaven: 12 and the lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of nabuchodonosor king of babylon, and under the shadow of balthasar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favour in their sight. 13 pray for us also unto the lord our god, for we have sinned against the lord our god; and unto this day the fury of the lord and his wrath is not turned from us. 14 and ye shall read this book which we have sent unto you, to make confession in the house of the lord, upon the fea

ail, and the hungry soul, will give thee praise and righteousness, o lord. 19 therefore we do not make our humble supplication before thee, o lord our god, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings. 20 for thou hast sent out thy wrath and indignation upon us, as thou hast spoken by thy servants the prophets, saying, 21 thus saith the lord, bow down your shoulders to serve the king of babylon: so shall ye remain in the land that i gave unto your fathers. 22 but if ye will not hear the voice of the lord, to serve the king of babylon, 23 i will cause to cease out of the cites of judah, and from without jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall be desolate of inhabitants. 24 but we would n

ave unto your fathers. 22 but if ye will not hear the voice of the lord, to serve the king of babylon, 23 i will cause to cease out of the cites of judah, and from without jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall be desolate of inhabitants. 24 but we would not hearken unto thy voice, to serve the king of babylon: therefore hast thou made good the words that thou spakest by thy servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of their place. 25 and, lo, they are cast out to the heat of the day, and to the frost of the night, and they died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence. 26 and the house which is called by thy nam

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

that has passed to aphrodite and venus. like many of the mother goddess icons, she descended into the underworld annually to face and overcome many trials, to bring back to life her shepherd god consort dumuzi. ishtar ishtar, the babylonian version of innana, also descended into the underworld each year to restore her consort tammuz to life. she was a fierce goddess of weapons and war. in ancient babylon, a sacred marriage took place each year between tammuz and ishtar. this was celebrated at the festival of akitu, or zag-mug, which marked the rising of the waters of the tigris and the euphrates and the coming of the spring rains, to bring fertility, at the spring equinox. like innana, she is a goddess of fertility, restoration, renewal, birth and the life cycles; she also represents power

ed water and wax amulets may also provide protection. one of the most potent methods of protection is through the use of crystals. crystals all crystals have innate protective qualities as well as healing and empowering properties and so can offer instant harmony and energy even in the most draining situations. collecting protective crystals certain crystals have, over the millennia, from ancient babylon, egypt and the orient, acquired the reputation of possessing strong protective qualities and are also usually potent in strengthening and healing. these include amber, black agate, amethyst, bloodstone, carnelian, garnet, jade, black and red jasper, jet, lapis lazuli, tiger's eye, topaz and turquoise. however, as you work with crystals and stones, you may discover that a particular crystal

allows you to be generous to the petty-minded. pink beryl (morganite) offers gentle protection for children and animals and encourages compassion towards our enemies. bloodstone (heliotrope) the red spots of bloodstone were, according to legend, formed from the blood of christ as it fell on green jasper at the crucifixion and so it is traditionally used in icons and religious carvings. in ancient babylon, bloodstone was used in amulets for protection against enemies and has been carried by soldiers in many cultures to overcome fears, to prevent wounds or stop bleeding. it is good for deflecting cruelty, spite and malice and for situations in which the fears are real and the opposition great. travellers may carry this stone to protect against accidents or attack. carnelian though most usual

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s 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 because they share our human qualities and are projections of our own divinity. it was as if you were standing in a darkened room with a bright halo emanating from behind your head- you point to the shadow cast in front of you and excla

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mind they did meet, and on common soil. sumeria. sumeria is the name given to a once flourishing civilisation that existed in what is now known as iraq, in the area called by the greeks "mesopotamia" and by the arabs as, simply "the island" for it existed between two rivers, the tigris and the euphrates, which run down from the mountains to the persian gulf. this is the site of the fabled city of babylon, as well as of ur of the chaldees and kish, with nineveh far to the north. each of the seven principal cities of sumeria was ruled by a different deity, who was worshipped in the strange, non-semitic language of the sumerians; and language which has been closely allied to that of the aryan race, having in fact many words identical to that of sanskrit (and, it is said, to chinese. for no on

mountains of madness new york, 1973 the dunwich horror new york, 1963 the lurker at the threshold (with august derleth) new york, 1971 mason, h. gilgamesh (ed) new york, 1972 neugebauer, o. the exact sciences in antiquity new york, 1969 pritchard, j. near eastern texts relating to the old testament princeton, 1958 the chaldean oracles of zoroaster "sapere aude" new york seignobos, s. the world of babylon new york, 1975 seligmann, k. magic, supernaturalism, and religion new york, 1968 shah, i. oriental magic new york, 1973 the secret lore of magic new york, 1972 the sufis new york, 1973 tallqvist, k.l "die assyrische beschworungsserie maqlu nach dem originalem im british museum herausgegeben" acta societatis scientiarum fennicae helsingfors, 1895 thompson, r.c. reports of the magicians and

gmann, k. magic, supernaturalism, and religion new york, 1968 shah, i. oriental magic new york, 1973 the secret lore of magic new york, 1972 the sufis new york, 1973 tallqvist, k.l "die assyrische beschworungsserie maqlu nach dem originalem im british museum herausgegeben" acta societatis scientiarum fennicae helsingfors, 1895 thompson, r.c. reports of the magicians and astrologers of nineveh and babylon london, 1900 semitic magic london, 1904 the devils and evil spirits of babylonia london, 1904 the testimony of the mad arab this is the testimony of all that i have seen, and all that i have learned, in those years that i have possessed the three seals of masshu. i have seen one thousand-and-one moons, and surely this is enough for the span of a man's life, though it is said the prophets l

n of man, when the elder gods walked the spaces, the race of marduk, as he is known to the chaldeans, and of enki our master, the lord of magicians. know, then, that i have trod all the zones of the gods, and also the places of the azonei, and have descended unto the foul places of death and eternal thirst, which may be reached through the gate of ganzir, which was built in ur, in the days before babylon was. know, too, that i have spoken with all manner of spirit and daemon, whose names are no longer known in the societies of man, or were never known. and the seals of some of these are writ herein; yet others i must take with me when i leave you. anu have mercy on my soul! i have seen the unknown lands, that no map has ever charted. i have lived in the deserts and the wastelands, and spok

igns carved upon the grey stone, that was the gate to the outside: an this is the amulet that i held in my hand, and hold to this very day, around my neck as i write these words: of the three carved symbols, the first is the sign of our race from beyond the stars, and is called arra in the tongue of the scribe who taught it to me, an emissary of the elder ones. in the tongue of the eldest city of babylon, it was ur. it is the sigil of the covenant of the elder gods, and when they see it, they who gave it to us, they will not forget us. they have sworn! spirit of the skies, remember! the second is the elder sign, and is the key whereby the powers of the elder gods may be summoned, when used with the proper words and shapes. it has a name, and is called agga. the third sign is the sigil of t

in the most beautiful flowers of a field, and in the saddest death of the battlefield, which is that field's fairest flower. her gate is the third you will pass in the rites that follow, and in which place you will be of a heart to stay; but turn you face to the road that leads beyond, for that is your genuine goal, unless the goddess choses you. her step on the ladder of lights, built of old in babylon and at ur, is white. this is her seal, which you must engrave on copper, venus being exalted in the heavens, with no one about watching its construction. being finished, it is to be wrapped in the purest silk and lain safely away, only to be removed when need arises, at any time. the number of inanna is fifteen, by which number she is frequently known in the incantations of the dispensatio

the time in which to lay it down. this book is not to be shown to the unclean or the profane or the uninitiated, for to do so is to call the most awful curse of the book upon thee and upon thy generations. spirit of the book, remember! the magan text the verses here following come from the secret text of some of the priests of a cult which is all that is left of the old faith that existed before babylon was built, and it was originally in their tongue, but i have put it into the golden speech of my country so that you may understand it. i came upon this text in my early wanderings in the region of the seven fabled cities of ur, which are no more, and it tells of the war between the gods that took place in a time beyond the memory of man. and the horrors and ugliness that the priest will e

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as been the basis of most of my work for the last five years, and to remind the reader that the essential form of it is "nothingness with twinkles. i conclude this note, therefore, by quoting certain chapters of liber aleph, in which i have described various cognate forms of the vision "de gramine sanctissimo arabico "recall, o my son, the fable of the hebrews, which they brought from the city of babylon, how nebuchadnezzar the great king, being afflicted in his spirit, did depart from among men for seven years' space, eating grass as doth an ox. now this ox is the letter aleph, and is that atu of thoth whose number is zero, and whose name is maat, truth, or maut, the vulture, the all-mother, being an image of our lady nuith, but also it is called the fool, who is parsifal 'der reine thor

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eaming waters of istar- pure and bright! speed, for he is the divine king of the fauns and the satyrs, the dryads and the oreads; the lord of the crowns; the decider of destiny; the god who prospers all above and beneath! and tarry not, lest as ye wander along the shore of the ionian sea ye hear a voice of lamentation crying "great pan is dead" 177 the bankrupt o where are the terraced gardens of babylon, with their mighty groves towering up amongst the clouds? o where is the sun-god of rhodes, whose golden brow was wont to blush with the first fire of dawn, whilst yet the waters at his feet were wrapped in the mists of night? o where is the temple of ephesus, and those who cried unto diana? o where is the gleaming eye of pharos that shone as a star of hope over the wild waters of the sea?

and of gods, how have ye fallen! for a whirlwind hath arisen and swept through the gates of heaven, and rushed down on the kingdoms of earth, and as a tongue of consuming flame hath it licked up the handicrafts of man and cloaked all in the dust of decay. a yoke hath been laid on the shoulders of the ancient lands; and where once the white feet of semiramis gleamed amongst the lilies and roses of babylon there now the wild goats leap, and browse the sparse rank grass which sprouts in tufts from the red and yellow sand- heaps, those silent memorial mounds which mark the spot where once stood palaces of marble, and of jasper, and of jade. o woe! o woe! for all is dust and ruin; the flood- gates of the years have been opened, and time has swept away as a mighty wind the embattled castles of k

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ghtfall is delight of eld, and i wander bareheaded under the dark sky; 121 calling and calling from the windy deeps, the olden night still draws me; moonlight weeps fro sunlight faded in the dark; the sea is under the dark clouds; still one by one soft, silver stars creep silently upon me, leaving soft trails of light; o wonder dawn of the inverted thunder of the skies! back to the gardens of old babylon, the hanging lamps, the slow, enchanted moon, the gold-eyed stars, the pillars of the sea, and the call of her forgotten- oh, i lie under the stars, upon the dewy sward; and all around me is the silent city, the soft white city, softened by the dawn; and i hear the sistron, and i hear the songs sung to the hanging moon, and thou, istar, radiantly comest on the brains of men to the slow ill

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reel under the intoxication of it. and every thought is destroyed by it. it abideth alone, and its name is compassion. i understand by "compassion" the sacrament of suffering, partaken by the true worshippers of the highest. and it is an ecstasy in which there is no trace of pain. its passivity(=passion) is like the giving-up of the self to the beloved) the voice continues: this is the mystery of babylon, the mother of abominations, and this is the mystery of her adulteries, for she hath yielded up herself to everything that liveth, and hath become a partaker in its mystery. and because she hath made herself the servant of each, therefore is she become the mistress of all. not as yet canst thou comprehend her glory. beautiful art thou, o babylon, and desirable, for thou hast given thyself

artaker in its mystery. and because she hath made herself the servant of each, therefore is she become the mistress of all. not as yet canst thou comprehend her glory. beautiful art thou, o babylon, and desirable, for thou hast given thyself to everything that liveth, and thy weakness hath subdued their strength. for in that union thou didst "understand" therefore art thou called understanding, o babylon, lady of the night! this is that which is written "o my god, in one last rapture let me attain to the union with the many" for she is 83 love, and her love is one, and she hath divided the one love into infinite loves, and each love is one, and equal to the one, and therefore is she passed "from the assembly and the law and the enlightenment unto the anarchy of solitude and darkness. for e

tten "o my god, in one last rapture let me attain to the union with the many" for she is 83 love, and her love is one, and she hath divided the one love into infinite loves, and each love is one, and equal to the one, and therefore is she passed "from the assembly and the law and the enlightenment unto the anarchy of solitude and darkness. for ever thus must she veil the brilliance of her self" o babylon, babylon, thou mighty mother, that ridest upon the crown d beast, let me be drunken upon the wine of thy fornications; let thy kisses wanton me unto death, that even i, thy cup-bearer, may "understand" now, through the ruddy glow of the cup, i may perceive far above, and infinitely great, the vision of babylon. and the beast whereon she rideth is the lord of the city of the pyramids, that

not as yet mayest thou understand the mystery of the beast, for it pertaineth not unto the mystery of this aire, and few that are new-born unto understanding are capable thereof. the cup glows ever brighter and fierier. all my sense is unsteady, being smitten with ecstasy. and the angel sayeth: blessed are the saints, that their blood is mingled in the cup, and can never be separate any more. for babylon the beautiful, the mother of abominations, hath sworn by her holy cteis, whereof every point is a pang, that she will not rest from her adulteries until the blood of everything that liveth is gathered therein, and the wine thereof laid up and matured and consecrated, and worthy to gladden the heart of my father. for my father is weary with the stress of eld, and cometh not to her bed. yet

the blood of the lamb being a ritual of the dark brothers, for they have sealed up the pylon with blood, lest the angel of death should enter therein. thus do they shut themselves off from the company of the saints. thus do they keep themselves from compassion and from understanding. accursed are they, for they shut up their blood in their heart. they keep themselves from the kisses of my mother babylon, and in their lonely fortresses they pray to the false moon. and they bind themselves together with an oath, and with a great curse. and of their malice they conspire together, and they have power, and mastery, and in their cauldrons do they brew the harsh wine of delusion, mingled with the poison of their selfishness. thus they make war upon the holy one, sending forth their delusion upon

y which he entereth in.12 the angel sayeth: and this is the word of double power in the voice of the master, wherein the five interpenetrateth the six. this is its secret interpretation that may not be understood, save only of "them that understand" and for this is the key of the pylon of power, because there is no power that may endure, save only the power that descendeth in this my chariot from babylon, the city of the fifty gates, the gate of the god on [hb:nun-final hb:ayin hb:lamed hb:aleph hb:bet hb:aleph hb:bet. moreover is on the key of the vault that is 120. so also do the majesty and the beauty derive from the supernal wisdom. but this is a mystery utterly beyond thine understanding. for wisdom is the man, and understanding the woman, and not until thou hast perfectly understood

s mighty host set only for a defense, and whoso passeth beyond their lines hath no help in them. yet must he that understandeth go forth unto the outermost abyss, and there must he speak with him that is set above the four-fold terror, the princes of evil, even with choronzon, the mighty devil that inhabiteth the outermost abyss. and none may speak with him, or understand him, but the servants of babylon, that understand, and they that are without understanding, his servants. behold! it entereth not into the heart, nor into the mind of man to conceive this matter; for the sickness of the body is death, and the sickness of the heart is despair, and the sickness of the mind is madness. but in the outermost abyss is sickness of the aspiration, and sickness of the will, and sickness 89 of the

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e that i fear he will carry away. 207 we have tried to bind him with song and with old customs, but they only held him for a little while, and he has always smitten us and mocked us. when he is blind he shall dance to us and make sport. great clumsy time shall stumble and dance, who like to kill little children and can hurt even the daisies no longer. then shall our children laugh at him who slew babylon's winged bulls and smote great numbers of the elves and fairies, when he is shorn of his hours and his years. we will shut him up in the pyramid of cheops, in the great chamber where the sarcophagus is. thence we will lead him out when we give our feasts. he shall ripen our corn for us and do menial work. we will kiss thy painted face, o sphinx, if thou wilt betray to us time. and yet i fe

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onettes and reducing himself to the level of an occult punch and judy showman. he had attained to powers that were beyond the normal, and now he carried them secretly like some precious blade of damascus steel, hidden in a velvet sheath, concealed from view, but ever ready to hand. he did not display his weapon to the wanton, neither did he brandish it before the 195 eyes of the gilded courtezan- babylon, thou harlot of the seven mansions of god's glory! but he kept it free from rust, sharp and glittering bright, so that when the time came wherein he should be called upon to use it, it might leap forth from its sheath like a flash of lightning from betwixt the lips of god, and slay him who had ventured to cross his path, silently, without even so much as grating against his bones. 196 297

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ss has no robe. for the performance of the rites of saturn, the magician may wear a black robe, close-cut, with narrow sleeves, trimmed with white, and the seal and square of saturn marked on breast and back. a conical black cop embroidered with the sigils of saturn should be worn. the magister templi robe is fitted for the great meditations, for the supernal rites of luna, and for those rites of babylon and the graal. but this robe should be worn by no man, because of that which is written "ecclesia abhorret a sanguine "any of these robes may be worn by a person of whatever grade on "appropriate occasions "crown 8vo, scarlet buckram, pp. 64" this edition strictly limited to 500 copies. a. a. publication in class b- book 777 this book contains in concise tabulated form a comparative view o

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of the battle. bro. aries["advances and kneels to" mars. mighty and terrible one, we beseech thee to lead us in the battle. here, by thy symbols, thy spear, the sword, and the drum, we pray thee to strengthen our arms and to defend our hearts. for we are thy chosen warriors, o thou master of the battle["silence" we now invoke thee, o ama-inanna, whom our brethren worshipped in the days of ancient babylon, great goddess of love and war, who made love and war to gilgames, the ruler of thine own city erech. we invoke thee, our mother, that thou entreat for us with the master of battles. sor. scorpio. to what end do we ask the aid of the lord mars? bro. aries. unto jupiter we have given the thunderbolt and the lightning- flash; for we seek to enthrone him in the stead of saturn his father. but

ss has no robe. for the performance of the rites of saturn, the magician may wear a black robe, close-cut, with narrow sleeves, trimmed with white, and the seal and square of saturn marked on breast and back. a conical black cap embroidered with the sigils of saturn should be worn. the magister templi robe is fitted for the great meditations, for the supernal rites of luna, and for those rites of babylon and the graal. but this robe should be worn by no man, because of that which is written "ecclesia abhorret a sanguine "any of these robes may be worn by a person of whatever grade on "appropriate occasions" george raffalovich's new works- the history of a soul "price "3"s "6"d. edition strictly limited- the deuce and all. a collection of short stories. 1"s. nl edition is limited to two hun

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he himalayan and southern indian adepts are the representatives, though the work is materially changed. at a later date than the present, discoveries will be made, revealing the reality of the old form of hierarchical work; ancient records and monuments will be revealed, some above ground and many in subterranean fastnesses. as the mysteries of central asia in the land stretching from chaldea and babylon through turkestan to manchuria, including the gobi desert- 219- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust are opened up, it is planned that much of the early history of the ibezhan workers 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

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vilisation, an esoteric doctrine, a system which was designated wisdom, and those who were devoted to its prosecution were first denominated sages, or wise men. pythagoras termed this system. the gnosis or knowledge of things that are. under the noble designation of wisdom, the ancient- 5- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust teachers, the sages of india, the magians of persia and babylon, the seers and prophets of israel, the hierophants of egypt and arabia, and the philosophers of greece and the west, included all knowledge which they considered as essentially divine; classifying part as esoteric and the remainder as exterior."3 we know much of the exoteric teaching. orthodox and theological christianity is founded on it, as are all the orthodox formulations of the great

n, star-crowned, she nurses her child horus, and the cross appears on the back of the seat in which he sits on his mother's knee. the virgo of the zodiac is represented in ancient drawings as a woman suckling a child the type of all future madonnas with their divine babes, showing the origin of the symbol. devaki is likewise figured with the divine krishna in her arms, as is mylitta, or istar, of babylon, also with the recurrent crown of stars, and with her child tammuz- 40- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust on her knee. mercury and aesculapius, bacchus and hercules, perseus and the dioscuri, mithras and zarathustra were all of divine and human birth."41 it is apposite to recall that the cathedral of notre dame in paris is built upon the ancient site of a temple of isis

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

the kabalah is lost in the mists of antiquity; no one can demonstrate who was its author, or who were its earliest teachers. considerable evidence may be adduced to show that its roots pass back to the hebrew rabbis who flourished at the time of the second temple about the year 515 b.c. of its existence before that time i know of no proofs. it has been suggested that the captivity of the jews in babylon led to the formation of this philosophy by the effect of chaldean lore and dogma acting on jewish tradition. no doubt in the earliest stages of its existence the teaching was entirely oral, hence the name qblh from qbl to receive, and it became varied by the minds through which it filtered in its course; there is no proof that any part of it was written for centuries after. it has been kep

red to primeval air, water and fire; seven double letters are referred to the planets and the sevenfold division of time, etc: and the twelve simple letters are referred to the months, zodiacal signs and human organs. modern criticism tends to the conclusion that the existing ancient versions were compiled about a.d. 200. the "sepher yetzirah" is mentioned in the talmuds, both of jerusalem and of babylon; it was written in the neo-hebraic language, like the mishna. the "zohar" or" sohar" spelled in hebrew zhr or zuhr "the book of splendour" or of "light" is a collection of many separate treatises on the deity, angels, souls and cosmogony. its authorship is ascribed to rabbi simon ben jochai, who lived a.d. 160; he was persecuted and driven to live in a cave by lucius aurelius verus, co-reg

earliest are the volume called the "targum of onkelos" on "the law" written about a.d. 100, and that of jonathan ben uzziel on "the prophets" about a.d 141 there first came into note the now famous treatise written by the rabbis of judah, called "mishna" and this formed the basis of those vast compilations of hebrew doctrine called the "talmud" of which there are two extant forms, one compiled at babylon-the most notable, and the other associated with jerusalem. to the original "mishna" the rabbis added further commentaries named "gemara" from this time the literature of judaism grew apace, and there was a constant succession of notable hebrew rabbis who published religious treatises, until at least a.d. 1500. the two talmuds were first printed at venice in 1520 and 1523 respectively. the

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he name of the demon of the storm. lilith is associated with the screech owl and other beasts of the wild, as it is where she went after she left heaven to wander the earth. she is considered one of the three assyrian demons being ardat lilit, lilit and lilu, but rather these may be just variations of her name. it is suggested by some hebrew scholars that lilith was worshipped by exiled jews from babylon as a goddess of the wilderness. 6 lilith as described in post-biblical literature is viewed as the queen of demons, she went to the caves near the red sea and copulated with fallen angels to beget other demons, she also taught (according to manichaean lore az) the fallen angels how to form bodies and have sexual relations to give life to other dragon children. she was said to have been the

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same as hebe, the grecian goddess of youth and the olympian bride of heracles, makes the name jehovah appear still more clearly in its primitive doublesexed form. finding in sanskrit such syllables as jah and yah, e.g, jah (navi "ganges" and jagan-natha "lord of the world" it becomes clear why mr. rawlinson is so very confident in his works of an aryan or vedic influence on the early mythology of babylon. nor is it to be much wondered at that the alleged ten tribes of israel disappeared during the captivity period, without leaving a trace behind them, when we are informed that the jews had de facto but two tribes- those of judah and of levi. the levies, moreover, were not a tribe at all, but a priestly caste. the descendants have only followed their progenitors, the various patriarchs, int

at any rate, the names of the oldest arabic tribes, re-transliterated, yield the names of the zodiacal signs and of the mythical sons of jacob likewise. where are the traces of the jewish twelve tribes? nowhere. but there is a trace, and a good one, that the jews have tried to deceive people with the help of those names. for, see what happens ages after the ten tribes had wholly disappeared from babylon. ptolemy philadelphus, desiring to have the hebrew law translated for him into greek (the famous septuagint, wrote to the high priest of the jews, eleazar, to send him six men from each of the twelve tribes; and the seventy-two representatives (of whom sixty were ghosts apparently) came to the king in egypt and translated the law amid miracles and wonders. see butler's "horae biblicae" jos

religion as uniformly assuming the name of his god("archaeology" vol. xxv, p. 220, london. in the religions of the past, it is in egypt we have to seek for its western origin. the ophites adopted their rites from hermes trismegistus, and heliolatrous worship crossed over with its sun-gods into the land of the pharaohs from india. in the gods of stonehenge we recognise the divinities of delphi and babylon, and in those of the latter the devas of the vedic nations. bel and the dragon, apollo and python, krishna and kaliya, osiris and typhon are all one under many names- the latest of which are michael and the red dragon, and st. george and his dragon. as michael is "one as god" or his "double" for terrestrial purposes, and is one of the elohim, the fighting angel, he is thus simply a permuta

first gave rise to the allegory of the "war of heaven" its earthly origin has to be sought in the temples of initiation and archaic crypts. the following are the proofs- we find (a) the priests assuming the name of the gods they served (b) the "dragons" held throughout all antiquity as the symbols of immortality and wisdom, of secret knowledge and of eternity; and (c) the hierophants of egypt, of babylon, and india, styling themselves generally the "sons of the dragon" and "serpents; thus the teachings of the secret doctrine are thereby corroborated. there were numerous catacombs in egypt and chaldea, some of them of a very vast extent. the most renowned of them were the subterranean crypts of thebes and memphis. the former, beginning on the western side of the nile, extended towards the l

d, and terminated at the root of the heavens, adding that this passage was a snake's hole "un agujero de colubra; and that he was admitted to it because he was himself "a son of the snakes" or a serpent("die phoinizier" 70) this is, indeed, very suggestive; for his description of the snake's hole is that of the ancient egyptian crypt, as above mentioned. the hierophants, moreover, of egypt, as of babylon, generally styled them[[vol. 2, page] 380 the secret doctrine. selves the "sons of the serpent-god" or "sons of the dragon" during the mysteries "the assyrian priest bore always the name of his god" says movers. the druids of the celto-britannic regions also called themselves snakes "i am a serpent, i am a druid" they exclaimed. the egyptian karnak is twin brother to the carnac of bretagne

d with having written the work called[[footnote(s* thence king solomon, whose traces are nowhere to be found outside of the bible, and the description of whose magnificent palace and city dovetail with those of the persian tales; though they were unknown to all pagan travellers, even to herodotus[[vol. 2, page] 397 the persian phoenix "eternal wisdom" and even with having built the cities of luz, babylon and ispahan, though they were built ages later. but as modern delhi is built on six other older cities, so these just-named cities may be built on emplacements of other cities of an immense antiquity. as to his date, it can only be inferred from another legend. in the same tradition that wise prince is credited with having made war against the giants on a twelve-legged horse, whose birth i

* tahmurath is the third king of persia, the st. george of iran, the knight who always has the best of, and who kills, the dragon. he is the great enemy of the devs who, in his day, dwelled in the mountains of kaf, and occasionally made raids on the peris. the old french chronicles of the persian folklore call him the dev-bend, the conqueror of the giants. he, too, is credited with having founded babylon, nineveh, diarbek, etc, etc. like his grand-sire huschenk, tahmurath (taimuraz) also had his steed, only far more rare and rapid- a bird called simorgh-anke. a marvellous bird, in truth, intelligent, a polyglot, and even very religious (see orient. collect. ii, 119) what says that persian phoenix? it complains of its old age, for it is born cycles and cycles before the days of adam (also k

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

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

the old testament borrowed anything from the more ancient religion of the brahmans and buddhists, it does not follow that the jews have not borrowed all they knew from the chaldean records, the latter being mutilated later on by eusebius. as to the chaldeans, they assuredly got their primitive learning from the brahmans, for rawlinson shows an undeniably vedic influence in the early mythology of babylon; and col. vans kennedy has long since justly declared that babylonia was, from her origin, the seat of sanskrit and brahman learning. but all such proofs must lose their value, in the presence of the latest theory worked out by prof. max muller. what it is everyone knows. the code of phonetic laws has now become a universal solvent for every identification and "connection" between[[footnot

ken wall of the mountains that hem in the whole table-land of tibet, from the upper course of the river khuan-khe down to the kara-korum hills, witnessed a civilization during millenniums of years, and would have strange secrets to tell mankind. the eastern and central portions of those regions- the nan-schayn and the altyne-taga- were once upon a time covered with cities that could well vie with babylon. a whole geological period has swept over the land, since those cities breathed their last, as the mounds of shifting sand, and the sterile and now dead soil of the immense central plains of the basin of tarim testify. the borderlands alone are superficially known to the traveller. within those table-lands of sand there is water, and fresh oases are found blooming there, wherein no europea

alexandrian library was destroyed; the thousands of sanskrit works which disappeared in india in the reign of akbar; the universal tradition in china and japan that the true old texts with the commentaries, which alone make them comprehensible- amounting to many thousands of volumes- have long passed out of the reach of profane hands; the disappearance of the vast sacred and occult literature of babylon; the loss of those keys which alone could solve the thousand riddles of the egyptian hieroglyphic records; the tradition in india that the real secret commentaries which alone make the veda intelligible, though no longer visible to profane eyes, still remain for the initiate, hidden in secret caves and crypts; and an identical belief among the buddhists, with regard to their secret books

k i found another fragment of the curious history of sargon. published in my translation in the transactions of the society of biblical archaeology, vol. i. part i. p. 46" the capital of sargon, the babylonian moses "was the great city of agadi, called by the semitics akkad- mentioned in genesis as the capital of nimrod (gen. x. 10 "akkad lay near the city of sippara on the euphrates and north of babylon (see isis, vol. ii. p. 442-3) another strange coincidence is found in the fact that the name of the neighbouring above-mentioned city of sippara is the same as the name of the wife of moses- zipporah (exodus ii. of course the story is a clever addition by ezra, who could not be ignorant of it. this curious story is found on fragments of tablets from kouyunjik, and reads as follows- 1. sarg

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that has passed to aphrodite and venus. like many of the mother goddess icons, she descended into the underworld annually to face and overcome many trials, to bring back to life her shepherd god consort dumuzi. ishtar ishtar, the babylonian version of innana, also descended into the underworld each year to restore her consort tammuz to life. she was a fierce goddess of weapons and war. in ancient babylon, a sacred marriage took place each year between tammuz and ishtar. this was celebrated at the festival of akitu, or zag-mug, which marked the rising of the waters of the tigris and the euphrates and the coming of the spring rains, to bring fertility, at the spring equinox. like innana, she is a goddess of fertility, restoration, renewal, birth and the life cycles; she also represents power

amulets may also provide protection. one of the most potent methods of protection is through the use of crystals. crystals all crystals have innate protective qualities as well as healing and empowering properties and so can offer instant harmony and energy even in the most draining situations [insert pic p149- collecting protective crystals certain crystals have, over the millennia, from ancient babylon, egypt and the orient, acquired the reputation of possessing strong protective qualities and are also usually potent in strengthening and healing. these include amber, black agate, amethyst, bloodstone, carnelian, garnet, jade, black and red jasper, jet, lapis lazuli, tiger's eye, topaz and turquoise. however, as you work with crystals and stones, you may discover that a particular crystal

allows you to be generous to the petty-minded. pink beryl (morganite) offers gentle protection for children and animals and encourages compassion towards our enemies. bloodstone (heliotrope) the red spots of bloodstone were, according to legend, formed from the blood of christ as it fell on green jasper at the crucifixion and so it is traditionally used in icons and religious carvings. in ancient babylon, bloodstone was used in amulets for protection against enemies and has been carried by soldiers in many cultures to overcome fears, to prevent wounds or stop bleeding. it is good for deflecting cruelty, spite and malice and for situations in which the fears are real and the opposition great. travellers may carry this stone to protect against accidents or attack. carnelian though most usual

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and 5 visible planets are used. astrological knowledge is recorded in cuneiform on clay tablets. 3761 bc first day of jewish calendar (according to jewish sources. 3760 bc the assyrian calendar begins with the first recorded year of the "beginning of civilization (shooraya d'mdeetanayoota) as seen through the eyes of the ancient bet-nahranaye (mesopotamians. these ancient inhabitants of assyria, babylon, and sumer believed that civilization was a "gift from the gods" and it was marked from the time "kingship was lowered from heaven" 3200 bc writing in sumerian tablets 3100 bce pyramid texts [egy. 2953-2838 chinese emperor fu hsi, produced first w.v. of i ching 2700 bce the great pyramid of khufu is built in accordance with astronomical factors. 2494-2345 pyramid texts [egy. 2340 bc first

sogdhiana in north-east iran to the northern parts of tibet. they brought with them an ancient form of polytheistic mithraism and the araimic alphabet. 550- the celts invade the island of britain. 535 bc pythagoras sets up esoteric colony near crotona in southern italy where scholars learn about numerology, astrology and the occult arts, which pythagoras learned during his 20 years of travels in babylon and egypt. 500 bce w.v. gensis, exodus, numbers (o.t) 475 bc empedocles of agrigentum introduces the 4 elements, fire, earth, air and water, into astrology, as the 4-fold root of all things. he discovered the idea that nothing can be destroyed (or created) only transformed. 427-347 plato 400 bce books of proverbs, job (o.t) 384-322 aristotle 370 bc eudoxus of cnidus devises calendars using

y ptolemy ii in his effort to bring together the egyptian and hellenistic cultures. mentioned 36,525 manuscripts of hermes. these books state that the world was made out of fluid; that the soul is the union of light and life; that nothing is destructible; that the soul transmigrates; and that suffering is the result of motion. 330 bc alexander the great (356-323 bc) helps to spread astrology from babylon and egypt throughout the middle east. greek philosophers exposed to new occult ideas from egypt and babylon. astrology is personalized in greece. alexander founds library of alexandria. 300? bce euclid 290 bc alexandria in egypt becomes center of astrological research. eratosthenes, arristyllus and timocharis are its leading astrologers. 285 septuagint, first greek trans. of the o.t. c. 25

t. by 1200, the game has spread over most of europe, reaching iceland, the baltic and bohemia. 1012: ben gabirol brings the works of plato to spain. 1013 1103 jacob ha-kohen's book of illumination aleph and angelic symbolism overlayed on the menorah 1016-1100 naropa 1018-c. 1079 michael psellus: on the hieratic art(alchemy theologised. 1020 d. meshullam ben kalonymos corresponded with the jews of babylon. rhineland mysticism. 1034 d. abu'l-hasan kharraqani. iranian sufi of the uwaysis tradition (whom suhrawardi claimed himself a spiritual heir to "i am amazed at those disciples who declare that they require this or that master. you are perfectly well aware that i have never been taught by any man. god was my guide, though i have the greatest respect for all the masters" 1034 to 1124- life

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d this planet. some people still talk of being in 'seventh heaven' when something wonderful happens to them. one of these 'planes' is our third dimension and just above us vibrationally is the level which has manipulated us. in the book of enoch, the 'watchers' sound remarkably like extraterrestrials. the dead sea scrolls say that the father of noah was a 'watcher, and nebuchadnezzar, the king of babylon from 651-604bc, records being visited by a watcher and a holy one who came down from heaven.4 the dakas in mahayana buddhism were 'sky travelling beings' and padma sambhava, the founder of tibetan buddhism, was said to have left tibet in a celestial chariot.5 something similar was claimed for the biblical prophet elijah when he left israel6 and for the central american god, quetzalcoatl.7

i am going to use the term blocking and jamming frequency for simplicity, but it could well have taken the form of closing down the portals and gateways which link this physical dimension we see around us with other space-time dimensions. some of these gateways are reckoned to be at the great sacred places of the ancients, like stonehenge, machu picchu in peru, ayers rock, and the former lands of babylon and mesopotamia, now iraq. the bermuda triangle is believed to be another, which could explain the many strange disappearances of ships and aircraft, as the gateway opens. it may even be that these gateways were largely closed down for positive reasons, to prevent more negative extraterrestrials from entering this space-time reality. there are lots of maybes and so much more to know and un

he first of the new genetic line. all over the ancient world, you find that the royal families were supposed to have originated with the sky gods- extraterrestrials. records left by the ancient civilisations of mesopotamia say that their pyramidal towers known as ziggurats were built for intercourse between a priestess and a god from the sky. herodotus described the inside of a ziggurat he saw in babylon "on the topmost tower there is a spacious temple, and inside the temple stands a great bed covered with fine bedclothes with a golden table at its side. there is no statue of any kind set up in this place, nor is the chamber occupied at night by any but a single native woman who, say the chaldean priests, is chosen by the deity out of all the women of the land. the priests also declare, bu

strials in relation to the earth was to turn humans into little more than a slave race. this has been a theme all along and it remains so today, although in another form. instead of controlling us physically by occupation of the planet, over the past few thousand years they have sought to do so by working through our consciousness from other dimensions. i believe there came a period after ancient babylon and egypt when, for some reason, they no longer came here in the same way. maybe they were forced out by other extraterrestrials who were trying to help us. maybe it was vibratory changes that took place. either way, i believe they began to work mostly through the human mind from the fourth dimension and that this has replaced the physical occupation of the distant past. i have no doubt th

ower which those men had built, and he said 'now then, these are all one people and they speak one language; this is just the beginning of what they are going to do. soon they will be able to do anything they want! let us go down and mix up their language so they will not understand one another' so the lord scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. the city was called babylon, because there the lord mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth" genesis, 11:1-9 christianity sees those people in a highly negative light when, i believe, it was actually the other way around. they were rebelling against the control. after atlantis, other civilisations began to emerge from the reincarnation of atlantean consciousness. t

what we would call a mouth, and very big feet. make of all that what you will, but this could- could- be another expression of fourth dimensional beings operating on our frequency. it is certainly true that sumer was the origin of so much that was to shape human culture and existence. the christian belief in a son of god and a lamb of god dying so our sins could be forgiven can be found in sumer, babylon, and egypt. the idea of a lamb dying to forgive the sins of humanity originates from the sumerian belief that if you literally sacrificed a lamb on the altar, it would remove the sins of the people involved. while i was writing this book, i saw a picture in a newspaper of an orthodox jew today, still waving a chicken around the head of a young girl, in the belief that the chicken would abs

f 'saviour' figures abound throughout the ancient world and, indeed, can be found in the beliefs of the native peoples of north, south, and central america. the bible story of the garden of eden is mirrored in the much earlier sumerian story of the garden of edinnu, and even the idea of the sabbath can be found in the sumerian day of rest, the sabattu. the jewish peoples were held in captivity in babylon and, when they were freed by the persians, they took many of the babylonian stories and beliefs back to palestine. these found their way into the old testament of the bible and through that into the new testament. today's religions are the recycling of ancient beliefs and symbolic stories which have been added to and twisted under the guidance of the prison warder consciousness, until the

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euphrates and tigris. sumer, according to official "history, was the start of human "civilisation, but, in fact, it was merely the re-start after the atlantis upheavals. the seeding of extraterrestrial-human bloodlines continued and so did the policy of placing the purest of these hybrids, the reptilian-nordics, into the positions of royal and administrative power over the people in sumer, egypt, babylon, the indus valley, and, as the sumer empire expanded, much further afield. similar seeding went on in other parts of the world, like the americas and china, but the middle eastern area was the most important to these extraterrestrial factions (at least at that time. these factions were dominated by the reptilian or "serpent race. over thousands of years these peoples expanded out of the mi

her through arranged marriages and secret breeding programmes. we see the same with the ruling families of today because they are seeking to perpetuate a particular genetic code, which can be quickly diluted by breeding outside of their hybrid circle. in the ancient world, one of the headquarters for the secret society network or illuminati, through which these bloodlines manipulate humanity, was babylon, also in the lands of sumer. this illuminati network then moved its headquarters to rome and during that time came the roman empire and the creation of the roman church, or institutionalised christianity. the headquarters moved on into northern europe after the fall of the roman empire and for a period was based in amsterdam, the netherlands. this was when the dutch began to build their em

of a long-planned agenda for the complete centralised control of the planet through a world government, central bank, currency, army, and a micro-chipped population connected to a global computer. this is the very governmental structure that is now staring us in the face. the bloodlines that control the world and our lives today are the same bloodlines that ruled lemuria, atlantis, sumer, egypt, babylon, the roman empire, and the british and european empires. they are the presidents of the united states, the prime ministers, the leading banking and business families, the media owners, and those who control the military. we have been ruled by the same interbreeding tribe of extraterrestrial or inner-terrestrial hybrids, the nefilim, for thousands of years and we are now facing a crucial ti

wrong on both counts, i would suggest. sumer was not the start of what is called civilised society on this planet. it was the most significant one to emerge after the catastrophe that destroyed the global society of the "golden age- atlantis and lemuria, or mu. sumer was not the beginning; it was the start-over-again which was to become the centre of another virtually global empire. indeed sumer, babylon, egypt, and the indus valley civilisations had actually begun tens of thousands of years before history records them. after the cataclysms, these advanced cultures in egypt and the indus valley, which "suddenly" and unexplainably manifested at a very high level of development, were not independent of sumer, as the historians claim. they were part of the same sumer empire and ruled by the s

geert, which became geert-mannen or geert-men, later ger-man; and otto, which later became ottoman. he says that the illuminati habsburg bloodline was nordic or viking originally, but they interbred with the reptilian race to form a genetic and political alliance. so did many others of the "royal" nordic bloodlines. james churchward, however, also documents the fundamental influence in the sumer/babylon region of former lemurian peoples via india. frans kamp came across a common theme i have found in reptilian research: they want something very badly that is contained in the nordic and human genetic code. interbreeding is their way to access it. the blond-haired, blue-eyed, race and its connection to the reptilians is crucial to understanding both past and present, or, at least, what we c

same or very similar in all three places. in egypt he was known as manjthe- warrior; in sumer he was manis-the-warrior; and in the indus valley he was called manja-the-shooter.2 his father, sargon the great, is a semitic name for the sumerian-mesopotamian emperor, king gin, gani, or guni. he was called in the later babylonian texts, the "king of the four quarters of the world, because they knew (babylon was also a mesopotamian culture) that the sumerian empire was enormous. the incas of south america used this term "four quarters, also. in the indian epics, sargon's son, manja, was called "the royal eye of gopta and of the four ends of the earth" when he became emperor.3 in the indus valley clay seal records, sargon and manja or menes also called themselves and their dynasty gut or got("g

l 1848."21 but control by these bloodlines only appeared to collapse. they just moved from overt power through royal rule to covert control through politics, banking, business, and media. in appendix i at the back of this book, you will see just some of the famous rulers and influences on the world over thousands of years who come from the same bloodline, starting with the rulers of sumer, egypt, babylon, and greece. these were all part of, or the successors to, the sumer empire and based on that same knowledge, culture, and bloodline hierarchy of the "gods. as we follow this bloodline through the millennia we find that all 43 presidents of the united states to george w. bush, the royal families of england, including the house of windsor, and those responsible for the creation and impositi

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oimply domesticated animals. this is what the human race has been ever since. theanunnaki have been overtly and now covertly ruling the planet for thousands of years.the mistranslation of the bible and symbolic language taken literally has devastated theoriginal meaning and given us a fantasy story. genesis and exodus were written by thehebrew priestly class, the levites, after they were taken to babylon from around 586bc. babylon was in the former lands of sumer and so the babylonians, and thereforethe levites, knew the sumerian stories and accounts. it was from these recordsoverwhelmingly, that the levites compiled genesis and exodus. the source is obvious.the sumerian tablets speak of e.din (the abode of the righteous ones. thisconnects with the sumerian name for their gods, din.gir (th

that birds are descendants of the dinosaurs. and while the bodiesof most dinosaurs might have been destroyed, their consciousness would have survivedbecause consciousness is energy and energy is indestructible. it can only be transmutedinto a different form. what happened to that dinosaur consciousness that dominated theearth for 150 million years? as weve seen, the earliest accounts of assyria, babylon,old testament history, china, rome, america, africa, india and elsewhere, featurestories of the dragons. the serpent symbol has also been found in ancient britain,greece, malta, egypt, new mexico, peru and all over the pacific islands. there is anunmistakable resemblance between some dinosaurs and ancient depictions of dragons.several species of small indo-malayan lizards with webbed wings

martians when they came to earth. one of themain locations for the anunnaki and the martians or aryans, particularly during andafter the v enus cataclysm of around 4,800 bc, were the mountains of turkey, iran andkurdistan, and it was from here that they and their hybrids re-emerged when thewaters receded. it was they who created the instant advanced civilisations in the lowlands of sumer, egypt, babylon and the indus v alley. a particular centre for theanunnaki reptilians would seem to have been the caucasus mountains and this is anarea that will appear again and again in this story. i feel there was a major breedingprogramme in this region, probably underground, which produced a very large numberof hybrid reptile-human crossbreeds. one area of research that is highly relevant tothis regi

iesspontaneously emerged. however within this white race, and others also, was a geneticstream i will call reptile-aryan or reptile-human. whenever i use the term aryan i amreferring to the white race. these were the crossbreed bloodlines created from thegenetic manipulation of the anunnaki. the major centre for the reptile-aryanbloodlines, in the ancient world after the flood waters receded, was babylon in thesouth of the sumer region alongside the river euphrates. a closer look at the evidenceappears to date the foundation of babylon far earlier than previously believed and itwas one of the first cities of the post-flood era. it was here that the mystery schools andsecret societies were formed which were to span the globe in the thousands of years thatfollowed. the brotherhood which cont

ously believed and itwas one of the first cities of the post-flood era. it was here that the mystery schools andsecret societies were formed which were to span the globe in the thousands of years thatfollowed. the brotherhood which controls the world today is the modern expression ofthe babylonian brotherhood of reptile-aryan priests and royalty which came togetherthere after the flood. it was in babylon in this post-flood period from around 6,000years ago that the foundation beliefs- manipulated beliefs- of todays world religionswere established to control and rule the people.the founder of babylon according to ancient texts and legend was nimrod whoreigned with his wife, queen semiramis. nimrod was described as a mighty tyrant andone of the giants. the arabs believed that after the flood

od whoreigned with his wife, queen semiramis. nimrod was described as a mighty tyrant andone of the giants. the arabs believed that after the flood it was nimrod who built orrebuilt the amazing structure at baalbek in the lebanon with its three stones weighing800 tons each. it was said that he ruled the region that is now lebanon and, accordingto genesis, the first centres of nimrods kingdom were babylon, akkad and others inthe land of shinar (sumer. later he expanded further into assyria to build cities likenineveh where many of the sumerian tablets were found. nimrod and semiramis (orthe beings those names symbolised) were from the reptile bloodlines which also becameknown as titans, the genetic streams of the reptile-possessed humans and the full blood51reptilians. this race of giants o

enoch (previously the book of noah) as being awatcher-human hybrid with extremely white skin. the father of nimrod in the text ofgenesis was cush, also known as bel or belus, who was the grandson of noah and sonof ham. cush became known as the deity, hermes, which means son of ham.1 ham orkhem means the burnt one and may have been connected to sun worship.2 a greatnetwork of deities emerged from babylon and its connections with egypt.nimrod and semiramis have remained the key deities of the brotherhood to this dayunder many different names and symbols. nimrod was symbolised as a fish and queensemiramis as a fish and a dove. semiramis is likely to be symbolic of ninkharsag, thecreator of the reptile-human crossbreeds. nimrod was the fish-god dagon who wasdepicted as half man, half fish.3 i

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nd in the river seine in paris. initiates into the rites of mithra were called lions and were marked on their foreheads with the egyptian cross. the first degree initiates had a golden crown placed on their heads, representing their spiritual self, and this crown, symbolizing the rays of the sun, can be found on the statue of liberty in ny harbor. all these rituals went back thousands of years to babylon and the stories of nimrod, queen semiramis, and tammuz, their version of jesus mathra was said to be the son (sun) of god who died to save humanity and give them eternal life. one classic symbol of mithra was a lion with a snake curled around his body, while he holds the keys to heaven. better business bureau, notice the torch? the individuals who are in control of this world are not who t

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

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r could be associated with all of these. lucifer became the latin name for the devil of hebrew origin, satan. in hebrew mythology, satan was an angel who accused men before god in order to bring about their punishment. he was never the enemy of god but at times the enemy of man. the name satan in hebrew means adversary. it is recounted in the bible that the jews were carried away as captives into babylon. when later freed by the persians, the jews were exposed to the religion of zoroaster. the jews adopted zoroastrian belief of a war in heaven between ahura-mazda and ahriman, the serpent, with yahweh taking the role of ahura-mazda and satan assuming the part of the serpent ahriman. satan, a minor angel in hebrew mythology, became equal in power with god. the belief of a war in heaven betwe

of the demonic bible as revealed to me by the spirit azael, my unholy guardian demon, and confirmed by the 4 crown princes of hell, the 8 sub-princes of hell, and the 9 lords of the abyss* dark lord, consecrate this work which i begin this night that i may emerge from the waters of leviatan as a new born babe from the womb and, as a suckling, feed upon the breast of the great harlot, the lady of babylon and, once weened from the tit, grow as a child of darkness until i have become a god upon the earth, exercising the power and authority of the highest and ineffable king of hell* i bless and consecrate this water in the name of satan and in the name of lucifer (recite three times, then enter bath* sanctify me in the waters of the abyss that i may rise up, from this bath, reborn in the imag

temple which i have prepared. come forth, beast of revelation, and manifest thyself. place thy mark upon me. come forth, beast of revelation, and manifest thyself. for i have crossed the gates of hell and i have become the devil incarnate. i am satan; i am lucifer; i am belial; and i am leviatan. come forth, beast of revelation, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice) invocation of the whore of babylon into the abyss i call; to the depths of hell i call; to the whore of babylon i call: whore of babylon, i invoke thee. whore of babylon, i summon thee. whore of babylon, i conjure thee. come forth, whore of babylon, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, whore of babylon, and manifest thyself. ride upon me as you do upon the beast. come forth

nto the abyss i call; to the depths of hell i call; to the whore of babylon i call: whore of babylon, i invoke thee. whore of babylon, i summon thee. whore of babylon, i conjure thee. come forth, whore of babylon, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, whore of babylon, and manifest thyself. ride upon me as you do upon the beast. come forth, whore of babylon, and manifest thyself. for i have crossed the gates of hell and i have become the devil incarnate. i am satan; i am lucifer; i am belial; and i am leviatan. come forth, whore of babylon, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice) invocation of the dragon choronzon into the abyss i call; to the depths of hell i call; to the dragon choronzon i call: choronzon, i invoke thee. choronzon, i summ

ed. come forth, legion, and manifest thyself. enter into this body that i may become like you, that i may become one with the forces of darkness. come forth, legion, and manifest thyself. for i have crossed the gates of hell and i have become the devil incarnate. i am satan; i am lucifer; i am belial; and i am leviatan. come forth, legion, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice) the 72 djinn of babylon after invoking the eight sub-princes of hell and the nine lords of the abyss, the magician may call upon the 72 lords of the djinn. the 72 lords rule over the 72 divisions of the earth. invoking these 72 lords gives the magician power over all the demons which dwell upon the earth but not the demons which dwell in the firmament, in the tartaran abode, or in the abyss of chaos. power over t

l being, the sorcerer is neither male nor female. only in the form which his physical body has taken is sex a consideration. through transmigration of the spirit, the sorcerer may choose incarnation in bodies of various races and sex. many spirits and demons also choose to take male and female forms. for example, astaroth (a male demon) is also ishtar (a female demoness, originally the goddess of babylon. the devil has been personified in art and in literature as an androgenous being, with both the breasts of a woman and the erect penis of a man. to attain union with the "forces of darkness, the sorcerer will summon both male and female beings into himself. the marriage should be in the form of a male/female union, however, regardless of the practitioner's sexual inclinations since magical

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abraham and jacob went thither; joseph and moses were mystical qabala page 6 intimately associated with the court of the royal adepts. when we read of solomon sending to hiram, king of tyre, for men materials to aid in the building of the temple we know that the famous tyrian mysteries must have profoundly influenced the hebrew esotericism. when we read of daniel being educated in the palaces of babylon we know that the wisdom of the magi must have been accessible to hebrew illuminati. 11. this ancient mystical tradition of the hebrews possessed three literatures: the books of the law and the prophets, which are known to us as the old testament; the talmud, or [page 4] collection of learned commentaries thereon; and the qabalah, or mystical interpretation thereof. of these three the ancie

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entance or compensated by the overplus of good in other members of the same group-soul. there is a deep occult doctrine here which we cannot enter upon now; it must suffice to state it dogmatically in explanation of the qabalistic conception of the qlippoth. when we consider all that must have been poured into these ten sinks of iniquity since the days of atlantean magic, through the decadence of babylon and rome, down to the great war, we can guess what rises up from them when their seals are broken. not only do influences emanate from them which tempt and corrupt souls, each according to its susceptibility, but time has served for the formulation of evil intelligences. these probably originated through the workings of black magic, which took the essential evil essence and organised it fo

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

ht great cosmic gods, the hermopolis of the greek writers( greek e?'rmopolitikh` fulakh, strabo, xvii, i, 41, and the metropolis of the fifteenth nome of upper egypt. the old egyptian name for the city is preserved in its coptic and arabic names# and eshm n n. kher-aba, a very ancient city which was situated on the right bank of the nile, a little to the south of annu, near the site of which the "babylon of egypt"[1 (the greek babulw'n, frou'rion e?rumno'n of strabo, xvii, i, 30, was built. manu is the name given to the region where the sun sets, which was believed to be exactly opposite to the district of bekha, where he rose in the east; manu is a synonym of west, just as bekha is a synonym of east.[2] nekhen, the name of the shrine of the goddess nekhebet, which is supposed to have been

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ed the part of the changeling prince in max reinhardt s a midsummer night s dream for warner brothers. it was the beginning of anger s fascination with filmmaking. he grew up in hollywood and collected a great deal of film memorabilia along with stories and gossip of the film industry, which formed the basis of his book hollywood babylone, first published in paris, 1959, and reissued as hollywood babylon in 1965 and revised in 1975. on graduation from high school, anger s grandmother, who had happy memories of paris, sponsored anger s visit to paris, where he met jean cocteau. cocteau was impressed by anger s first film, fireworks, and introduced anger to writer anais nin. in 1955 anger paid a visit to cefalu, sicily, and rediscovered the abbey of thelema, the occult community established

dian blanket containing a human scalp and tomahawk, a block of lead said to be found in roman strata at rome and bearing the name of augustus, a quantity of gravel alleged to have come from central america and quite unlike anything seen in australia, two perfect clay tablets covered with cuneiform inscriptions and several thousands of years old, said to have been brought direct from the mounds at babylon, and finally, a bird s nest containing several eggs and the mother bird undoubtedly alive. he was famous for living apports, jungle sparrows, crabs, turtles. once an 18-inch-long shark, at another time a 30-inch snake appeared mysteriously in the seance room. the apport of jungle sparrows passed the test of a committee of investigation in milan. six years later, however, bailey got into tr

. tiburon, calif: future medicine publishing, inc, 1997. thompson, c. j. s. the mystery and lure of perfume. london, 1927. tisserand, robert. aromatherapy. 1977. reprint, london: mayflower, 1979. worwood, valerie ann. the complete book of essential oils and aromatherapy. san rafael, calif: new world library, 1991. arphaxat a persian sorcerer who was killed by a thunderbolt (according to abdias of babylon) as st. simon and st. jude were martyred. in the account of the possession of the nuns of loudun, there is also a demon known as arphaxat, who took possession of the body of louise de pinterville. arriola, pepito (1896.1954) a spanish musical prodigy who, in 1900, at the age of three years and three months, was introduced by charles richet to the international psychical congress. arriola h

ow 4, no. 4 (summer 1956. fiore, edith. you have been here before: a psychologist looks at past lives. new york: coward, mccann& geoghegan, 1978. gardner, martin. fads and fallacies in the name of science. new york: dover publications, 1957. berosus (fl. 290 b.c.e) berosus is the babylonian priest most responsible for spreading chaldean astrological ideas to greece. berosus was born and raised in babylon (present-day iraq. he was a contemporary of alexander the great, who died at babylon when berosus was still a child. as an adult he traveled to greece and settled on the island of cos, where he founded a school of astrology. around 280 b.c.e. he wrote a history of his homeland; only fragments of this document remain. his greater influence came from the number of students he trained who wen

all that the bible was written in pre-scientific times in which all people operated as if what came to be known as the supernatural or the psychic was a fact of life. visions and dreams were a common means of receiving direction in one s life, and dream interpretation was a most valued skill, among the more famous incidents being those of joseph interpreting the dreams of pharaoh and of daniel in babylon (gen. 41; dan. 2. for many years israel was ruled by psychic seers or judges, who regularly received extrasensory information, a word from the eternal, and to whom the people could turn for guidance. decisions were commonly made by the casting of lots. the role of judge was vividly illustrated in the incident in which the future king david met israel s most renowned seer/judge samuel and a

eed, and sydic, whose name denotes the just; these discovered the use of salt. from misor descended taautus (thoth, athothis, or hermes trismegistus, who invented letters; and from sydic descended the dioscuri, or cabiri, or corybantes, or samothraces. according to sanchoniathon, first built a complete ship and others descended from them who discovered medicine and charms. all this dates prior to babylon and the gods cabiri encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 234 of paganism, the elder of whom are next introduced in the generations. finally, sanchoniathon settles poseidon (neptune) and the cabiri at berytus, but not till circumcision, the sacrifice of human beings, and the portrayal of the gods had been introduced. he describes the cabiri as husbandmen and fishermen, which l

omplected people were on occasion sacrificed because they were identified with him. devereux, george encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 408 in early polygamous religious systems, the gods were pictured in quite human terms, possessing both admirable and detestable attributes at the same time. very few of them were seen as evil like the devils in christianity or islam. in egypt and babylon, figures like apepi and tiawath, although clearly in the line of evolution toward a satanic personality, were by no means rulers of the infernal regions. again, the hades of the greeks is merely a ruler of the ghosts of the dead, not an enemy of olympus or of mankind. it is strange that in mexico, mictlantecutli, lord of hell, is a much more directly satanic figure than any european or asi

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or wicked ends. the term red magic was also occasionally employed, as indicating a more exalted type of the art, but the designation is fanciful. white magic to a great extent concerned itself with the evocation of angelic forces and the spirits of the elements. the angelology of the catholic church was undoubtedly derived from the ancient faith of israel, which in turn was indebted to egypt and babylon. the alexandrian system of successive emanations from the eternal substance evolved a complex hierarchy of angels, all of whom appear to have been at the bidding of the magician who was in possession of the incommunicable name, a concept deriving from that of the name of power so greatly used in egyptian magic. the letters that composed this name were thought to possess a great measure of

sure, a walled-in place; old persian pairi, around, dig, to mould, form, shape (hence to form a wall of earth. the word moved into greek (paradeisos, latin (paradisus, and hebrew (pardes. it literally denotes an enclosure or park planted with fruit trees and abounding with various animals, i.e, a pleasure garden or park. josephus referred to solomon s garden at etham and to the hanging gardens of babylon as paradises. eden is not termed a paradise in the hebrew text of gen. 2:8, but a place where god planted a garden. the term, however, was inserted in the text in the greek septuigant translation, which read that god planted a paradise in eden. while the biblical paradise is located in reference to several well-known geographic reference points such as the euphrates and hiddekrl (tigris) r

a comparatively early date, placing all other systems in the background. regarding alchemy, the evidence is much more sure, and the same may be said regarding astrology. these are occult studies in which it is peculiarly necessary to obtain the assistance of an adept if any excellence is to be gained in their practice, and it is known that the first originated in egypt, and the second in ancient babylon. the names of those early adepts who carried the sciences forward until the days of alexandria are not known, but subsequent to that period the identity of practically every alchemical and astrological practitioner of any note is known. in the history of no other occult study is the sequence of its professors so clear as is the case in alchemy, and the same might almost be said of astrolog

es they found their way among catholics too, principally by means of the apocryphal gospels and the hagiography of the saints. an incident in the life of st. margaret is typical. this holy virgin, having vanquished an evil spirit who assaulted her, demanded his name. my name, replied the demon, is veltis, and i am one of those whom solomon, by virtue of his spells, confined in a copper caldron at babylon, but when the babylonians, in the hope of finding treasures, dug up the caldron and opened it, we all made our escape. since that time, our efforts have been directed to the destruction of righteous persons, and i have long been striving to turn thee from the course which thou hast embraced. the reader of the arabian nights entertainments will be immediately reminded of the story of the fi

ue collection that contains parodies of the work of lewis and others, and does not therefore seem to be compiled by lewis either (see also english occult fiction) talisman an inanimate object which is supposed to possess a supernatural capacity of conferring benefits or powers, in contradistinction to the amulet, the purpose of which is to ward off evil. talismans were common in ancient egypt and babylon, and have been popular in magical communities to the present. originally, talismans were usually a disc of metal or stone engraved with astrological or magical figures. in recent centuries, among practitioners of ceremonial magic, talismans inscribed in parchment have been favored. traditionally, three varieties of talisman have been recognized: 1. the astronomical, having the characters o

(3) nashim, with the law regarding women (4) nezaqin, with civil law (5) qodashim, with the sacrificial law; and (6) tohoroth or tah, with purifications. the mishna is said to have been handed down by ezra and to be in part the work of joshua, david, or solomon, and originally communicated orally by the deity in the time of moses. there are two recensions.the talmud of jerusalem and the talmud of babylon. the latter, besides the sedarim already mentioned, contains seven additional treatises that are regarded as extra-canonical. the first is supposed to have been finally edited toward the close of the fourth century, and the second by rabbi ashi, president of the academy of syro in babylon, sometime in the fourth century. although revised from time to time before then, both versions have be

in generations past but which were almost totally fraudulently produced. according to the testimony of the bible, teleportation is by no means new in human experience. we find in ezek. 11:1, moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the lord s house which looketh eastward. elijah, walking with elisha, was carried away by a whirlwind. habakkuk was carried from judea to babylon to bring food to daniel in the lion s den, then carried back to judea through the air. in the acts of the apostles 5:23, the warders of st. peter s prison testify: the prison house we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing before the doors; but when we opened we found no man within. when st. philip baptized the ethiopian, the author of the acts of the apostles notes (8:39.40, a

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d centuries bce. the tractates of the mishnah were edited and codified circa 220 ce, and form the core of the talmud. the bulk of the talmud, called the gemara (lit. completion, is a 4' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% collection of discussions among later palestinian and babylonian rabbis regarding passages and topics in the mishnah. the gemara of jerusalem was formally compiled circa 430 ce, and the gemara of babylon circa 530 ce. the talmud yerushalmi is composed of three volumes and the talmud babli has sixtyfour volumes, reflecting the relative complexity of the environments and cultural milieus in which they developed. the pharisaic rabbinate emerged as the dominant sect in judaism, occupying the seat of its orthodox authority. it peaked with the virtual political and economic control of the temple

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s of that book, in reference to the interest of christianity; yet this opinion of the praeexistency of the soul, in which christianity did not interest itself, cannot but be judged, from the testimony of those writings, to have been a branch of the wisdome of that nation: of which opinion not only the gymnosophists and other wise men of egypt were, but also the brachmans of india, and the magi of babylon and persia; as you may plainly see by those oracles that are called either magical or chaldaical, which pletho and psellus have commented upon. to these you may adde the abstruse philosophy of the jews, which they call their cabbala, of which the soul's prae-existence makes a considerable part; as all the learned of the jews do confess. and how naturally applicable this theory is to those

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virtue of understanding is gained by the will, that she becomes succubus (the cup. it was then during this course that i made her swear unto me. an enrapt state pulsing too and from, she swore unto her master and servant. she understands all of this, but as is true to her urgence, she attempts to draw the magician into her inferno she is a transmutor. upon the awakening of the great prophet, when babylon the great shall fall, this revelation shall become spontaneous among mankind. iv some notes on i what has self to do with eye- liber chrnzn there are a multitude of mathematical relations for the exploration of shells. among the most profound are complex numbers (also called imaginary numbers (see also liber chrnzn plate ii/11a. the set of complex numbers in set theoretic notation is: c= a

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mons (by the numerology of the qabbalah, its number is 129, which represents amongst other things, a place of ravenous creatures, and corresponds with the egyptian word, atem, to annihilate) alhazred had spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of arabia, the roba-el-ehaliyeh or empty space of the ancients, which was rumoured to be inhabited by evil spirits. he had explored the ruins of babylon and the subterranean tombs of memphis, and visited the forbidden city of hem. beneath the remains of a nameless desert town, he discovered the annals of a race older than mankind, which he set down in the azif. in 950 a.d, the book was secretly translated into greek by theodorus philetas of constantinople, under the title of the necronomicon, and in 1228, olaus wormius made a latin transcr

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other names of god and the angels, comprised in the theosophy as well as with the cosmogony which also played so important a part among the jewish mystics and the kabbalists. 11 but long before the essenes existed lived the qabalah. aryan and chaldean esoteric doctrines percolated into it. in egypt, the mysteries of the sun god, the moon goddess, of osiris and isis, impinged upon it. assyria and babylon gave it much, and not a little may be traced to the vedas, the upanishads, the bhagavad-gita, and the vedantas, and much of the practical qabalah to the tantras more especially. historically, the main point of interest is that the qabalist is an inveterate plagiarist; he never hesitates to absorb knowledge from outside. his doctrines, being secret, are vastly attractive; they suck in all m

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

an actual calamity by which a large portion of asia was inundated, is not for a certainty known; but the fact that there was a deluge of contention and strife, surpassing anything perhaps which the world has ever witnessed, seems altogether probable. not long after the catastrophe designated as the flood, emblems of the deity, representations of the male and female elements, appear in profusion. babylon, at which place was erected the tower of belus, and memphis, which contained the pyramids, were among the first cities which were built. as the tower typified the deity worshipped by those who claimed superiority for the male, so the pyramids symbolized the creative agency and peculiar qualities of the female, or of the dual deity which was worshipped as female. although the grosser elemen

e of the compass, the working of metals, astronomy, the telescope, gunpowder, mathematics, democracy, building, weaving, dyeing, and many of the appliances of civilized life, have been appropriated by later ages with no acknowledgment of the source whence they were derived. when pythagoras exhibited to the greeks some beautiful specimens of ancient architecture which he had brought from egypt and babylon, they simply claimed them as their own, giving no credit to the people who originated them; and subsequent ages, copying their example, have refused to acknowledge that anything of value had been achieved prior to the first greek olympiad. when philip of macedon opened the gold mines of thrace, a country in which it will be remembered the worship of the great mother cybele was indigenous

ive agency and as a prime and most essential factor in the universe must be concealed "isis must be veiled" through the appropriation of the titles of the original dual god by reigning monarchs, is perceived at least one of the processes by which the great universal female deity of the ancients has been transformed into a male god. we are assured that the "redundant nomenclature of the deities of babylon renders an interpretation of them impossible. each divinity has many distinct names, by which he is indifferently designated" it is observed that each deity has as many as forty or fifty titles, each of which represents a certain attribute. since the invention of the cuneiform alphabet, by which pictures have been reduced to phonetic signs, the attempt has been made to arrange or classify

long that "some derive our term devil from niphl or nevil, the wind that blasts or obstructs the growth of corn; and it used sometimes to be written th' evil, which is d'evil or devil" it was "this dualistic heresy which separated the zend or persian branch of the aryans from their vedic brethren, and compelled them to emigrate to the westward"[91 [91] see rawlinson, notes on the early history of babylon. the ancient philosophical truth that matter is eternal, and that the destruction of vegetable life through the agency of cold was one of the necessary processes of re-generation, or the renewal of life, had evidently been lost sight of at the time when seth was dethroned in egypt. wilkinson informs us that "both seth and osiris were adored until a change took place respecting seth, brough

to be regarded as something outside or above nature "had no consciousness of its own creation" commenting on the above, bunsen is constrained to admit that it is usually understood as being "decidedly pantheistic" he suggests, however, that the writer may have intended to say (the italics are mine) that "the spirit who was heretofore the creator was the unconscious spirit" berosus, the scholar of babylon, who, until a comparatively recent time has furnished all the information extant concerning babylonian antiquities, in his account of the creation of man and of the universe, says that in the beginning all was water and darkness; that in the water were the beginnings of life; but as yet there was no order. men were there with the wings of birds and even with the feet of beasts. there were

ldeans thalatth. the latter name, signifies "bearing" or "egg producing" in the babylonian kosmogony, according to endemus, the pupil of aristotle, the beginning of the universe was called tauthe, which being interpreted means "mother of the gods" associated with her sometimes appears the male principle--apason. in the history of berosus, there is given an account of oaunes--a mythical teacher of babylon, who appeared with the head of a human being and the body of a fish or serpent. this personage brought to the babylonians all the knowledge which they possessed. oaunes wrote "concerning the generation of mankind, of their different ways of life, and of their civil polity" he it was who gave the above account of creation. he says that finally omoroka, or thalatth, the woman who existed bef

amous rites and the most shameless self-abandonment; and that throughout europe, down to a late period in the history of the race, religious festivals were celebrated at certain seasons of the year, at which the ceremonies performed in honor of the god of fornication were of the grossest nature, and at which the bacchanalian orgies were only equalled by those practiced in the religious temples of babylon. it is impossible longer to conceal the fact that passion, symbolized by a serpent, an upright stone, and by the male and female organs of generation, the male appearing as the "giver of life" the female as a necessary appendage to it, constituted the god-idea of mankind for at least four thousand years; and, instead of being confined to the earlier ages of that period, we shall presently

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tians, in which the bible itself tells us that moses the founder of the jewish system was 'learned, that is, in which he had been in255 itiated. through the hebrew kabbalah we have indeed become pos255 sessed of more of the ancient wisdom than from any other source, for it must be borne in mind that the hebrews were taught at one time by the egyptians, and at a later date by the chaldean sages of babylon.itis a very curious fact that the classical nations, the greek and the roman, have handed down to usbutslight glimpses of the ancient magic, and this is the more notable because greece succeeded to the mastership of egypt and rome to the empire both of the greeks and of the jews. greece indeed succeeded to a shareofthe mysteries of the egyptians, for the eleusinian mysteries were copies of

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how that its roots pass back to the hebrew rabbis who flourished at the time of the second temple.ofits existence before this time i know of no evidence. one of the chief books, thesepheryetsirah,is ascribed to abraham:butmodern criticism, which is hardly disposed to grant the existence of abraham, does not of course assent to this ascription.ithas been suggested that the captivity of the jews in babylon led to the formation of this philosphy by the effect of chaldean lore and dogma acting on jewish tradition. no doubt in the earliest stages of its existence the teaching was entirely oral, and became varied by the minds through whom it filtered in its course: there is no proof that any part of it was written for centuries after; and it was kept curiously distinct both from the exoteric pen

m, and sh, referred to primeval air, water and fire; seven double letters referred to the planets and the seven-fold division of time, etc, and the twelve simple letters referred to the months, zodiacal signs, and human organs. modern criticism tends to the statement that the existing ancient versions were compiled abouta.d.200.thesepher yetzirahis mentioned in thetalmuds,both of jerusalem and of babylon, and is written in the neo-hebraic language, like themishnah.we must next consider thezohar,or 'book of splendour, a collection of many separate treatises on the deity, angels, souls, and cosmogony. this is ascribed to rabbi simeon ben jochai, who liveda.d.160, who was persecuted and driven to liveina cave by lucius aurelius verus, co-regent with the emperor marcus aurelius antoninus. some

ld testament books, which have come down to our times. of these, one of the earliest is the volume called thetargumof ankelos,written abouta.d.100. abouta.d.141 there first come into note the now famous treatise written by the rabbis of judah, calledmischna,and this formed the basis of those vast compilations of hebrew doctrine called thetalmud,of which there are two extant forms, one compiled at babylon- the most notable- and the other associated with jerusalem. to the originalmischnatime added further commentaries namedgemara.from this time the literature of judaism grew apace, and there was a constant succession of notable hebrew rabbis who published religious treatises, until, at least.a.d.1500. the twotalmudswere first printed at venice in 1520 and 1523 respectively.theold testament m

ates are available in the latin language, but even those are difficult to study and comprehend. beyond the writings of ginsburg in english, adolphe franck in french, and meyer who has published a work in america, real kabalists are few and far between. i hope to give here a slight resume of the information to be found in the old talmudic and kabalistic volumes. the talmuds, mishnah and gemara, of babylon and jerusalem, with the tractates of the medieval rabbis are the storehouse of this recondite philosophy. the ancient hebrew theologists speak of classes of devils; such are the: satanim, that is haters-antagonists. shedim-destroyers.seirim-hairymonsters. mazikim-mischief makers; and theklippoth-shells,extra-human evil beings. of individuals there are notable:134themagical masonsatan or sh

amael is also one of these princes. edom, amalek arid rome, are some of those seventy nations. in emek ha malekh, it is said that these seventy inferior spirits arebutklippoth or shells; there are fourteen above the others, princes of seir; fourteen toward the east, are over the medes and persians; fourteen over the south are the ishmaelites and the turks; fourteen of the north are the princes of babylon; and fourteen of the west who rule over thirteen nations. these seventy nations have sprung fromjaphet-fourteen;from ham, thirty; and from shem, twenty-six. each had its own language originating at the confusion of tongues. so that all beside the jews have a taintofthedevil and his works. concerning lilith or lilis there is an immense collection of fables, in some she is a woman of pre-ada

diagnosis of char255 acter from the position of the planets at birth of any man, and still less will he believe in the processes called horary astrol255 ogy, or the judgments of fate derived from figures of the sky drawn for the time of the special event, or from the time of asking the question. to return to the origins of history, we find references to astrologic notions in the civilizations of babylon and chaldea, on the banks of the gangesoflndia,on the nile of egypt, and also in turanian chinese history. from chaldea astrology came to persia and asia minor, to greek culture, to roman cities, and to the jews who overspread all these parts after the destruction of jerusalem.itis said that the arabs knew of the science even before the days of mohammed; the saracens carried it to spain ab

0, and hipperachus, and their discoveries were amplified in the great school of alexandria which arose aboutb.c.300 and flourished for a long period. among their successors were artus and claudius ptolemy who are respected even at the present day for their writings on the sun, moon and stars.theancient astronomy upon which greek culture founded classical astronomy was the star lore of chaldea and babylon, and of egypt; it originated at a much earlier date, and so very little of a definite character can be asserted upon its extent and accuracy: modern research among brick tablets and ancient papyri is furnishing some further data. it may be noted that greek astronomy arose about the time of the writing of the later old testament books. in a consideration of the referencestoastronomy to be f

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main of folklore.itis a field of occultism well defined, and illustrated by a wealth of example, not difficult of access, and very well worth the working.[reprinted fromtheoccultreview,vol. xxv, no. 6(june1917),pp. 328-36.]17. the hermetic systemthis system is not to be found in any book. a knowledge of the system is acquired muchinthesameway that george smith readtheinscribed bricksthatcame from babylon and nineveh: the bricks were all broken to pieces, but he was lucky enough to find outthatthe same words, the same inscriptions, were written on a great many of these tablets; and so when a bit of the inscription was wanting in one, he was able to supply it, or partially. supplyitfrom another. so, putting one with another. he managed to read out complete inscriptions in various places. thu

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is not of purely jewish origin.25 there is a verse in the qur'an that refers to this topic. god says that the israelites learned satanic sorcery rituals from sources outside their own religion: they follow what the satans recited in the reign of solomon. solomon did not become unbeliever, but the satans did, teaching people sorcery and what had been sent down to harut and marut, the two angels in babylon, who taught no one without first saying to him "we are merely a trial and temptation, so do not become unbeliever" people learned from them how to separate a man and his wife but they cannot harm anyone by it, except with god's permission. they have learned what will harm them and will not benefit them. they know that any who deal in it will have no share in the hereafter. what an evil thi

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

s it is not primarily a religious text, but a mixture of myths, legends, histories and interpretations. while certainly the esoteric keys are found hidden throughout its pages we must also be aware of the distortions of the gnosis that exist within it. the priestly stream (that of the scribe) rightly belongs beyond the old testament, it occurred the gnostic handbook page 72 after the captivity in babylon when yahwehist scribes took control of diaspora israel in babylon and re-moulded judaism into a new form. this new form was based on literalist and fundamentalist not gnostic values. the yahwahist tradition was embodied, the el demolished and the priest class was edited into the old testament to make it seem supreme. the old testament, as such, is a very edited book. it was written by a pr

ng nature to achieve a miracle. the priestly tradition has moses raising his arms and opening the red sea, this second tradition emphasises the nearly magical power of moses and hence, by inference, the occult power of the later priesthood. in the epic tradition there are eight plagues upon egypt, in the priestly tradition, ten. these differences, and many others, are major and show that while in babylon the pharisees mixing babylonian paganism and judaism not only wrote such texts as the talmud but also edited together the old testament. hence, the task of restoration becomes even more daunting and reference to documents such as the dead sea scrolls becomes imperative. a further issue is with the clear intimation that the bible has an inner meaning. certainly the oral tradition of the isr

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

fe, the top of the head chakra (kether. the church of pergamos the church of pergamos is the solar plexus chakra. it is known as elevation or height, for it governs the balance of the organism through its central position. it is also elevated in that it dominates and controls the lower chakras. the characteristic of the city is that of being the capital city where the supreme court and priests of babylon sat in judgement. it can hence be understood that the pergamos is the seat of control and discrimination (right thinking. however, there is clearly a great danger, for the priests of babylon are fallen. accordingly, it is imperative that our self-control comes from the true self, not just from subpersonalities or the mind. the mind is a great servant, but a dangerous master. the commendati

s travelled to southern spain and the phoenicians settled in the punjab region of india, but only the later migrations concern us here. the ariosophic kabbalah is embodied in much of the later hermetic and alchemical traditions and it represents the heritage of aryan israel. however, all is not at it seems, during this same period, a false tradition, a counterfeit kabbalah was being developed. in babylon the children of cain created an amalgam of babylonian paganism and israelite belief which later became known as the talmud. as time progressed they stepped into the shoes of the now-believed lost ten tribes and falsely identified themselves as jews (of judea) or as israel. they edited the torah to reflect their distorted view of judaism, and created a apostate faith based on the values of

or of the thirteenth tribe) the ancestors of the modern jews did not come from jordan, but from the volga, not from canaan but from the caucasus. genetically they are more related to the hun, uigar and magyar tribes than to the seed to abraham, isaac and jacob (and this is from a zionist jewish writer) it seems likely that the traditions of modern jewry were evolved by the edomite tribes while in babylon, here gained precedence while the real people of israel migrated to the west. the migration of isreal created a void and substitute israelites stepped in. accordingly, we need to totally review our interpretation of judaism. when we consider the great fraud that has been perpetuated, we need to run a critical eye over the old testament as well. when we do, we find some interesting anomalie

ament actually includes many different streams which seem to have be written by many different authors, many of which had conflicting religious views (for example, isaiah is said to have been written by at least three different people. accordingly, the old testament represents myths and legends adapted and modified (even twisted) by the beliefs of the prevailing ideological elite. for example, in babylon, records and legends of the older qadesh israelite priesthood were expunged and a emphasis placed on the pharisaic priesthood. these multiple streams and authors can be discovered by reading any modern text on biblical criticism, however, only when seen in the light of the aryan-israelite/edomite gnostic theurgy page 195 dichotomy do they take on special relevance. the druid connection it

racially, by geography (he was a galilean) and he was certainly not a jew by religion (pharisaic or edomite. he was an israelite in the essene sense of the world. in this context we can then see how gnosticism (or real christianity) developed out of the israelite-essenes, not the judaism of palestine. we can also clearly see how judaism (in the modern sense) developed from the talmudic schools of babylon rather than from the traditions of israel. accordingly we get a clear picture that all is not what it seems in modern religious traditions. when we couple this to the fact that emperor constantine re-moulded the prevailing jewish and christian groups into a political amalgam in 325 ad (nicea, a new perspective on history arises. they (the essenes) were not waiting to receive the law- they

561 ce, who not only taught that once you was born again you became free of sin and could live as you please, but that to become born again you had to experience a secret union with christ through the gnostic rite of the bridal chamber. while doctrines varied throughout the free spirit movement, there was a consensus regarding the nature of the ecclesiastical authorities- they were believed to be babylon, the fallen harlot of the book of revelation. on the whole, the free spirit movements tended to be anti-reproduction, believed that all unions with unbelievers were cursed and that the use of sex was a major key within the redemption process. out of all of the free spirit founders the most recognised was marguerite porete the authoress of the only fully extant free spirit scripture, the mi

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to. andromalis governs 36 legions of spirits. presented here are the 72 mighty kings, princes and djinn which king solomon commanded into the vessel of brass and skull, together with their legions. which belial, bileth, asmoday and gaap were chief djinn. it is suggested that solomon bound them because of their pride. he bound them and sealed the vessel, and chased them into a deep lake or hole in babylon. those of babylon who wished to see such an act, went forth into the lake and broke the vessel. they wished to find much treasure but out came the chief spirits and then their legions. they were then restored to their places in the world, and still walk with us today. all of these except for belial, who entered into a certain image and gave answers to those who gave sacrifices unto him, an

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h, and how long they shall last. from these letters we have borrowed our magic writing, and thence made for ourselves a new language, in which the nature of things is expressed, so that it is no wonder that we are not so eloquent in other tongues, least of all in this latin, which we know to be by no means in agreement with that of adam and enoch, but to have been contaminated by the confusion of babylon. chapter x but this also must by no means be omitted, that, while there are yet some eagle's feathers in our way, which do hinder our purpose, we do exhort to the sole, only, assiduous, and continual study of the sacred scriptures, for he that taketh all his pleasure therein shall know that he hath prepared for himself an excellent way to come into our fraternity, for this is the whole sum

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ade void. the holy place was made waste and the sons of the house of wisdom were taken away into the captivity of the senses. we have worshipped since then in a house made with hands, receiving a sacramental ministration by a derived light in a place of the cohabiting glory. and yet, amidst signs and symbols the tokens of the higher presence have never been wanting in our hearts. by the waters of babylon we have sat down and wept, but we have ever remembered zion, and that memorial is a witness testifying that we shall yet return with exultation into the house of our father. as a witness in the temple of the heart, so in the outer house of our initiation do we have ever present certain watchers from within, deputed by the second order to guard and lead the lesser mysteries of the temple of

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

ng, for such stories cannot be linked by internal sequence. and when the pied piper turns up both in the german myth of hamelin and in mexico long before columbus, and is linked in both places to certain attributes like the colour red, it can hardly be a coincidence. likewise, when one finds numbers like 108, or 9 x 13 reappearing under several multiples in the vedas, in the temples of angkor, in babylon, in heraclitus dark utterances, and also in the norse valhalla, it is not accident..4 connecting the great universal myths of cataclysm, is it possible that such coincidences that cannot be coincidences, and accidents that cannot be accidents, could denote the global influence of an ancient, though as yet unidentified, guiding hand? if so, could it be that same hand, during and after the l

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

e with extra-terrestrials. george c. andrews, ibid. the inner order tells us clearly, through the new aeon cipher, how to resist alien abduction and alien conquest the earth has been invaded by various claimants throughout its history. invaders have always attempted to present themselves as invincible, veritable gods. for a time many have gained control over whole civilizations. aliens controlled babylon for a time. they exercised, through the black order, considerable control over nazi germany. they made war, at various levels and dimensions, on the adepts of ancient india and the high lamas of tibet, with fire and blood, seduction and dark magick. they did not lose, but they did not win. they made spiritual war on gotama the buddha, and some of them were converted. then they knew the ter

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es a boundary; this was because the circle was traced out by a trickle of flour- a practice still used in the craft and the rites of the voudoun. the magician or witch was therefore 'the en-circling one' and this may be seen by looking at the names attributed to a sect of witches or sorcerers in ancient persia- the yatukan- a sect believed to be of direct descent from the magicians of chaldea and babylon; this name is derived from the same roots as the name for sorcerers in the atharva veda, namely yatuvidah- meaning 'those who bewitch. these early sorcerers were also called abhicarika- which is derived from the sanskrit abhi-car meaning 'to bewitch or encircle. this infers a continuation from babylon into regions both east and west-that is, into the near middle east and into regions of as

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ous were the sects in egypt and palestine alone. how could he reconcile them? a. by doing that which we again try to do now. the neo-platonists were a large body, and belonged to various religious philosophies; so do our theosophists. it was under philadelphus that judaism established itself in alexandria, and forthwith the hellenic teachers became the dangerous rivals of the college of rabbis of babylon. as the author of the eclectic philosophy very pertinently remarks: the buddhist, vedantic, and magian systems were expounded along with the philosophies of greece at that period. it was not wonderful that thoughtful men supposed that the strife of words ought to cease, and considered it possible to extract one harmonious system from these various teachings panaetius, athenagoras, and clem

full length, as all the initiates have done before and after him. he was initiated by the priests of the temple of aesculapius (asclepios) at aegae, and learnt many of the "miracles" for healing the sick wrought by the god of medicine. having prepared himself for a higher initiation by a silence of five years, and by travel-visiting antioch, ephesus, and pamphylia and other parts-he repaired via babylon to india, alone, all his disciples having abandoned him as they feared to go to the "land of enchantments" a casual disciple, damis, whom he met on his way, accompanied him, however, on his travels. at babylon he got initiated by the chaldeans and magi, according to damis, whose narrative was copied by one named philostratus one hundred years later. after his return from india, he showed h

-taijas. in short, it is the human soul illuminated by the radiance of the divine soul, the human reason lit by the light of the spirit or divine self-consciousness. cabala (heb) the hidden wisdom of the hebrew rabbis of the middle ages derived from the older secret doctrines concerning divine things and cosmogony, which were combined into a theology after the time of the captivity of the jews in babylon. all the works that fall under the esoteric category are termed cabalistic. caste originally the system of the four hereditary classes into which indian population was divided: brahmana, kshatriya, vaisya, and sudra-(a) descendant of brahm (b) warrior (c) mercantile, and (d) the lowest or agricultural sudra class. from these four, hundreds of divisions and minor castes have sprung. causal

ral spirit of the jewish bible and sectarian teachings, have sadly confused what they saw, and fallen far short of true clairvoyance. clemens alexandrinus a church father and voluminous writer, who had been a neo-platonist and a disciple of ammonius saccas. he was one of the few christian philosophers between the second and third centuries of our era, at alexandria. college of rabbis a college at babylon; most famous during the early centuries of christianity, but its glory was greatly darkened by the appearance in alexandria of hellenic teachers, such as philo-judaeus, josephus, aristobulus, and others. the former avenged themselves on their successful rivals by speaking of the alexandrians as theurgists and unclean prophets. but the alexandrian believers in thaumaturgy were not regarded

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amucl, 1897, with portraits of paracelsus and mattei. the letters 65 letter no. 33, of 22 june 1891" needs a brief commentary. w. t. stead (1849-1912) was an outstandingly able and energetic journalist who became editor of the pall mall gazette in 1883. he soon gave the newspaper a reputation for courageous investigative reporting. thus in july 1885 an article headed 'the maiden tribute to modern babylon' exposed the traffic in young girls. to obtain the evidence he nominally procured one (i.e, eliza jones) and was prosecuted and sentenced to three months in prison. however, as a result of his campaign parliament raised the age of consent to sixteen. the story that w. e. gladstone and his liberal henchman sir william harcourt frequented a brothel in st john's wood was nonsense and merely i

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rejoinder, which impressed my uncle enough to make him recall and record it verbatim, was of a fantastically poetic cast which must have typified his whole conversation, and which i have since found highly characteristic of him. he said "it is new, indeed, for i made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than brooding tyre, or the contemplative sphinx, or garden-girdled babylon" it was then that he began that rambling tale which suddenly played upon a sleeping memory and won the fevered interest of my uncle. there had been a slight earthquake tremor the night before, the most considerable felt in new england for some years; and wilcox's imagination had been keenly affected. upon retiring, he had had an unprecedented dream of great cyclopean cities of titan blocks

ation. all this johansen did not suspect, but god knows he soon saw enough! i suppose that only a single mountain-top, the hideous monolith-crowned citadel whereon great cthulhu was buried, actually emerged from the waters. when i think of the extent of all that may be brooding down there i almost wish to kill myself forthwith. johansen and his men were awed by the cosmic majesty of this dripping babylon of elder daemons, and must have guessed without guidance that it was nothing of this or of any sane planet. awe at the unbelievable size of the greenish stone blocks, at the dizzying height of the great carven monolith, and at the stupefying identity of the colossal statues and bas-reliefs with the queer image found in the shrine on the alert, is poignantly visible in every line of the mat

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

ered floor was quite heavily glaciated, and we fancied that the true bottom lay at a considerably lower depth. but the salient object of the place was the titanic stone ramp which, eluding the archways by a sharp turn outward into the open floor, wound spirally up the stupendous cylindrical wall like an inside counterpart of those once climbing outside the monstrous towers or ziggurats of antique babylon. only the rapidity of our flight, and the perspective which confounded the descent with the tower s inner wall, had prevented our noticing this feature from the air, and thus caused us to seek another avenue to the subglacial level. pabodie might have been able to tell what sort of engineering held it in place, but danforth and i could merely admire and marvel. we could see mighty stone co

HP LOVECRAFT HISTORY OF THE NECRONOMICON

ated april 27, 1927 and was apparently kept by lovecraft to circulate as needed- original title al azif- azif being the word used by arabs to designate that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos'd to be the howling of daemons. composed by abdul alhazred, a mad poet of sana, in yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the ommiade caliphs, circa 700 a.d. he visited the ruins of babylon and the subterranean secrets of memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of arabia- the roba el khaliyeh or "empty space" of the ancients- and "dahna" or "crimson" desert of the modern arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetra

ance to produce new material this autumn, but have been classifying notes& synopses in preparation for some monstrous tales later on. in particular i have drawn up some data on the celebrated& unmentionable necronomicon of the mad arab abdul alhazred! it seems that this shocking blasphemy was produced by a native of sana, in yemen, who flourished about 700 a.d& made many mysterious pilgrimages to babylon's ruins, memphis's catacombs& the devil-haunted& untrodden wastes of the great southern deserts of arabia- the roba el khaliyeh, where he claimed to have found records of things older than mankind& to have learnt the worship of yog-sothoth& cthulhu. the book was a product of abdul's old age, which was spent in damascus& the original title was al azif- azif (cf. henley's notes to vathek) be

references by kendrick kerwin chua, 1993. see above for the date of this essay. original title al azif- azif being the word used by arabs to designate that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos'd to be the howling of daemons. composed by abdul alhazred, a mad poet of sana, in yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the ommiade caliphs, circa 700 a.d. he visited the ruins of babylon and the subterranean secrets of memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of arabia- the roba el khaliyeh or "empty space" of the ancients- and "dahna" or "crimson" desert of the modern arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetra

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

s rejoinder, which impressed my uncle enough to make him recall and record it verbatim, was of a fantastically poetic cast which must have typified his whole conversation, and which i have since found highly characteristic of him. he said 'it is new, indeed, for i made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than brooding tyre or the contemplative sphinx, or gardengirdled babylon' it was then that he began that rambling tale which suddenly played upon a sleeping memory and won the fevered interest of my uncle. there had been a slight earthquake tremor the night before, the most considerable felt in new england for some years; and wilcox's imaginations had been keenly affected. upon retiring, he had had an unprecedented dream of great cyclopean cities of titan block

ation. all this johansen did not suspect, but god knows he soon saw enough! i suppose that only a single mountain-top, the hideous monolith-crowned citadel whereon great cthulhu was buried, actually emerged from the waters. when i think of the extent of all that may be brooding down there i almost wish to kill myself forthwith. johansen and his men were awed by the cosmic majesty of this dripping babylon of elder daemons, and must have guessed without guidance that it was nothing of this or any sane planet. awe at the unbelievable size of the greenish stone blocks, at the dizzying height of the great carven monolith, and at the stupefying identity of the colossal statues and bas-reliefs with the queer image found in the shrine on the alert, is poignantly visible in every line of the mate's

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

the eldest pyramid; and a viewless aura repelled me and bade me retreat from antique and sinister secrets that no man should see, and no man else had dared to see. remote in the desert of araby lies the nameless city, crumbling and inarticulate, its low walls nearly hidden by the sands of uncounted ages. it must have been thus before the first stones of memphis were laid, and while the bricks of babylon were yet unbaked. there is no legend so old as to give it a name, or to recall that it was ever alive; but it is told of in whispers around campfires and muttered about by grandams in the tents of sheiks so that all the tribes shun it without wholly knowing why. it was of this place that abdul alhazred the mad poet dreamed of the night before he sang his unexplained couplet: that is not de

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e to the able worlc of mr. george reber, entitled the chrui of pouj. the arguments ol this author are condunve. he above artide in the chnmiqiu dee arte speaks of the incrtate of the faithful to such an extent that ostriaoum could not omtain the number of chiistiaiks. now if peter was at rone at all runs mr. beber'i argument it must have been between the years a. d. 64 and 69; for at 04 he was at babylon, from whence he wrote epistles and letters to rome, and at some time between 64 and 68 (the rdgn of nero) he dther died a martyr or in his bed, for ireuaeas makes him ddivcr the church of rome, together with paul (whooi he persecuted and quarreled with ah his life, into the hands of laniu, who became bishop m 69 (see reber'a chrit of paul, p. 122. we will treat of the subject miwe fully in

sebius states that linus held this ofbce twelve years eccuaiaatical hittory, iii, xiii, entering 242. irenaeiu: agaiiut beraiei, ih. iii, 2, 3. digitizecoy google the fiction of apostouc succession 12s upon it a. d. 69, ode year after the death of nero, and dying himself in 81. after this the author maintfun8 on very soud grounds that peter could not have been in rome a. o, 64, for he was then in babylon, where he wrote his first epistle, the date of which is fixed by dr. lardner and other critics at precisely this year. but we believe that his best argument is in proving that it was not in the character of the cowardly peter to risk him- self in such close neighborhood with nero, who "was feeding the wild beasts of the amphitheater with the flesh uid bones of christians* at that time. per

different. simon peter, it says, was one of their own brethren, thou^ he had somewhat departed from the laws, and the jewish hatred and persecution of the apostle seems to have existed but in the fecund imagination of the fathers. the author speaks of him with great respect and fairness, calling him "a faithful servant of the living god" who passed his life in austerity and meditation "living in babylon at the summit of a tower" composing hymns, and preaching charity. he adds that peter always recommended the christians not to molest the jews, but as soon aa he was dead, behold another preacher went to rome and pretended that simon peter had altered the teachings of his master. he invented a burning hell and threatened every one with it; promised miracles, but worked none. how much there

fies to vow or conse- crate one's self to the service of god. as a noun it is a diadem or emblem of sudi consecratiod, a head so consecrated* joseph was styled a fiosor "the head of joseph, the vertex of the nasar among his brethren" samson and samuel (ttotsv ptmv, semes-on and sem- va-el) are described alilce as naxara. porphyry, treating of ivthagoras, says that he was purified and initiated at babylon by zar-adas, the head of the sacred college. may it not be surmised, therefore, that the zoro- aster was the ruaar of ishtar, zar-adas or na-zar-ad* being the same with change of idiom? ezra, or vrw> was a priest and scribe, a hiero- phant; and the first hebrew colonizer of judaea was ?33ni, zoru- babel, or the zoro or nasar of babylon. the jewish scriptures indicate two distinct worships

ant; and the first hebrew colonizer of judaea was ?33ni, zoru- babel, or the zoro or nasar of babylon. the jewish scriptures indicate two distinct worships and religions among the israelites; that of bacchus-worship under the mask of jeho- vah, and that of the chaldaean initiates to whom belonged some of the maara, the theurgists, and a few of the hophets. the headquarters of these were always at babylon and chaldaea, niiete two rival schools of mayans can be distinctly shown. those who would doubt the statement will have in sudi a case to account for the discrepancy between history and halo, who of all men of his day was certainly one of the best in- formed. speaking of the magians, he shows them as instructing the per- sian kings of [i. e, in the worship according to] zoroaster, as the s

distinguishing traits by which, were there no other archaic vestiges, the physical and psycbological status of its creators could be estimated, all preserved a common likeness to one prototype. this parent cult was none other than the primitive \nsdom-religion. the israeiitish scriptura are no exception. the national history of the israelities if they can claim any autonomy b^ore the return from babylon, and were anything more than migratory septs of hindq pariahs cannot be carried back a day beyond moses; and if this ex-egyptian priest must from theological necessity be transformed into a hebrew patriarch, we must insist that the jewish nation was lifted with that smiling infant out of the bulrushes of lake moeris. abraham, their alleged father, belongs to the univeisal mythology. most l

mon's seal* 65s. dagoba ii a niull temple of lobular fonn, in which are preoerved the relics of gautama. 659. prachtdai are buildings of all naes and foniu; like our mauaoleunu, and are taoed to *otive offeringi to the dead. 660. tbe tumndiiuc recorda daim that, after baring been hanged, he was lapidated and buried under the water at thejjunction of two itreama. mukruui svuudrin, vi, 4; tatnud at babylon, tame article^ 4s a, 67 a (cited bf e. renau) 661. cofhe legend* tf uu cneifixion, mss. xi. 662. tne engraving represents the talisman as of twice the natural die. we are at a kaa to ondentand wby king, in bii 'gnostic genu' r^reseota solomon's seal as m flve-pointed star, wb naa it is six-pointed, and is the sigikt of vishnu, in india the ommmw. tie p. 388i 2nd ed. digitizecoy google 2h i

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rstition of the arabians, who therefore turn to the north to pray; in contradiction to the practice of the persians, who adore the rising sun. the arabians avert in prayer from this malific sign of the horns, because the sun is seen rising from between them; and when disclosing from between these mythic pillars, the sun becomes a portent. fig. 57 is an egyptian seal, copied by layard (nineveh and babylon, p. 156. subject: the egyptian god harpocrates, seated on the mythic lotus, in adoration of the yoni, or hwj, or havah. the druidical circles, and single stones standing in solitary places, are all connected with the mystic speculations of the rosicrucians. fig. 58. figures on the egyptian sarcophagus in the british museum. fig. 59. the eminences, st. michael's mount and mont st- michel, w

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

and earth, and enki. the god of water and wisdom; less important were utu. the sun god, nanna. the moon god, inanna. the goddess of love and war, and ninhursag, the mother of gods (kramer 1977: 122.130; 146.152. the name and status of the main god depended on who had the power. in sumerian times, the greatest god was an, whose son was enki. in the old babylonian period, of course, the city god of babylon, marduk became the main god and was also to be son of enki and grandson of an. as an was more like a deus otiosus, marduk as an acting god started to be identified with the acting main god enlil, whose son, god of war ninurta was identified with marduk fs son, multifunctional nabu. the rise of the assyrian empire put the city god assur on the throne of the main god, but in the late babylon

are translated as modern planet names: in the presence of the planets, jupiter, venus, saturn, mercury, mars, sirius, and in the presence of assur, anu, enlil, ea, sin, shamash, adad, marduk, nabu, nusku, urash, nergal, ninlil, ishtar of niniveh, ishtar of arbela i tar, by all the gods in [the cities of] assur, niniveh, kalah, arbela, kakzu, harran, by all the gods of assyria, by all the gods in babylon, borsippa, nippur, by the gods of sumer, all of them, by the gods of the lands, all of them; by the gods of heaven and earth (lindsay 1971: 42) planets are named first to stress their importance. a closer look reveals also that the god of a planet and its corresponding god are named separately in the list. first of all, this is valid about i.tar, but such splitting can be seen in case of f

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in gilded brilliance brighter than the noonday sun of arabia. a robe woven of a hundred diamonds wrapped round my princely shoulders. to me were there seven hundred concubines. they were more beautiful than loti or roses, their caresses softer than sinaean silks, their embraces warmer than furs from russia. my gardens were more verdant than the forests of brazil, more opulent than the sultan's or babylon's. they were most populous with cedar and ebon and boats made as swans plied the waters 5 of rivers filled with fish of silver scales that darted forth and back, faster than arrows. it was my custom to hunt there, upon a stallion of marble-white, so proud that i alone could ride the intemperate steed, seeking with lance and bow, camelopards, monoceri and other wonderful beasts that as the

rilliance brighter than the noonday sun of arabia. a robe woven of a hundred hundred diamonds wrapped round my princely shoulders. 66 to me were there seven hundred concubines. they were more beautiful than loti or roses, their caresses softer than sinaean silks, their embraces warmer than furs from russia. my gardens were more verdant than the forests of brazil, more opulent than the sultan's or babylon's. they were most populous with cedar and ebon and boats made as swans plied the waters of rivers filled with fish of silver scales that darted forth and back, faster than arrows. it was my custom to hunt there, upon a stallion of marble-white, so proud that i alone could ride the intemperate steed, seeking with lance and bow, camelopards, monoceri and other wonderful beasts that as the su

es out in piety to assail the walls of chadel. no shedim device may conquer one so pure as you so that which they may not win they reach out to destroy and ruin, breaking with despair and ten thousand woes saintly noah, enemy of their evil. for this do the shedim conspire against you, strengthening your foes' arms and stealing the strength of your own forces. 230 by their malice does the might of babylon, den of all sin, wax great against you and thus are you cast into the power of those villains that satan favours. because of the wickedness that is sustained upon the earth, adonai yahweh cannot intervene upon the side of his favoured noah and grant you victory in your long struggle. yet if you would but kneel to god and pledge your soul to his service then surely would his intervention co

hat path you have decreed for the faithful 245 rather than those that do offend you and those that have wandered far. does it seem strange to you, my people, that i should call out so? would that you knew that which i knew and had seen the witness of my own eyes. yet you lack the faith by which the path laid down would be apparent and by which you could walk to heaven. misguided are the slaves of babylon and their eyes are blinded by wickedness. my people, hear these words that i speak and learn of what has come to pass. i, noah, have, with my own eyes, seen michael of the elohim and with these ears of mine heard that which he has spoken. i have learnt what is true and purged from my soul the false which yet binds you with its shackles. so has michael taught to noah and employed upon this

s there to the dead nor voice that they might laugh aloud. the laughter of the archons was silent yet heard, echoing about the dark vaults of the mind. yet ishtar conquered fear. now spoke mot his reply, yet no voice had he that spoke but rather it was his words were dreamt and recalled by the waking mind as some paroxysm of disturbed sleep. these words spoke the infernal king "o ishtar, whore of babylon, well known to me is your fame and i am most honoured that you come, at satan's bidding, to me indeed must his respect of me be great that he deems such a messenger rightful, of such fame and power as ishtar, the queen of men. else is it that he prizes high that which i hold, his souls of those precious children of the earth, that he himself would have. yes! most dear to him are these ones

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ing as to how they can be happy. this builds a strong attraction for people today. and, although most people still do not understand the essence of the method, they feel deep within that it will provide the answer. thus, they are willing to explore what kabbalah has to offer. to understand what has made the wisdom of kabbalah expand worldwide, we must go back to the cradle of humanity, to ancient babylon, mesopotamia. this is the beginning of the process that is being completed these days, a process that is attracting people to kabbalah. the wisdom of kabbalah explains that the evolution of humanity is essentially the evolution of the desire to enjoy. this desire evolves from generation to generation and prompts us to fulfill it. the first time a desire for something beyond the desire to e

, within 6,000 years of this day. this is why it was written that the world exists for six thousand years (talmud bavli, sanhedrin, 97:71. during those years, the human ego will gradually grow and bring humanity to the realization that it must be mended. it will also show humanity the method of correction, and how to implement it. a few generations after adam, humanity was centered around ancient babylon, and that is where the first outbreak of egoism occurred. as a result, people began to want to dominate nature and the world, and to exploit everything to their own benefit. this outbreak of egoism was allegorically described as the building of the tower of babel: come, let us 158 from chaos to harmony build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven (genesis, 11:4. however, the babylo

d greater achievements. people kept believing that very soon they would reach their ultimate fulfillment. yet they remained emptier than before the new hope had emerged. today, the ego has reached its final degree; hence, many are sensing that millennia of the evolving ego have yielded only helplessness and a general, global crisis. realizing this puts humanity in the same position it occupied in babylon. but this time humanity, which has spread across the globe and proliferated into billions of people, is ready to listen. now, the time is ripe to absorb the method founded by abraham, intended to teach everyone how to use their egos correctly, how to achieve balance with nature, and how to feel like the whole of nature: eternal and whole. until recently, kabbalists were compelled to concea

were born, they were raised by the correction method and achieved their own spiritual attainments. thus the people lived within the sensation of the common, collective nature, until the ego jumped one more degree, causing them to lose that sensation. the detachment from the sensation of the inclusive nature is called the ruin of the temple, and the new domination of the ego is called the exile in babylon. the correction of the ego that erupted at the ruin of the first temple was called the return from the exile in babylon and the erection of the second temple. however, this time the nation had been split in two: some succeeded in correcting their egos; others were overpowered by their egos and could not correct them. the ego gradually grew among the first group, too, until the entire natio

of the nations were ready to receive it; clearly, humanity did not need it yet. for this reason, the method was given to the people of israel to function as israel s role 169 a transit for the method that would ultimately be realized by all of humanity. the people of israel are different from all other nations. they comprise the same group of kabbalists that abraham established from residents of babylon. their task is to preserve the correction method throughout human history until the time when everyone needs it. at that time, this group, by now called the people of israel, would be able to realize its function and transfer the correction method to all the nations. the fall of that group of kabbalists under the ego s domination produced within them a sophisticated and unique ego. this wa

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of nations we have today. one of the most obvious symptoms of the division, which the bible describes as the fall of the tower of babel, was the creation of different languages. these different languages disconnected people from each other and created confusion and malfunction. the hebrew word for confusion is bilbul, and to mark the confusion, the capitol of mesopotamia received the name, babel (babylon. 28 kabbalah revealed ever since that split xwhen our desires grew from level zero to level one xwe have been confronting nature. instead of correcting the ever-growing egoism to remain as one with nature, that is, with the creator, we have built a mechanical, technological shield to protect us from it. the initial reason we developed science and technology was to secure our shielded exist

eator and take over the driver s seat. h i d i n g, s e e k i n g, b u t n o t f i n d i n g the level of egoism in humanity has kept growing, with each level driving us farther away from nature (the creator. in kabbalah, distance is not measured in inches or yards; it s measured in qualities. the creator s quality is whole- at the time when all this bilbul was taking place, abraham was living in babylon, helping his father build little idols and sell them in the family shop. it s not hard to see that abraham was right in the middle of all this vibrant mishmash of ideas that thrived in babylon, the new york of the ancient world. this confusion also explains abraham s persistent question, whose answer led him to discover nature s law: who is the owner of the capitol? when he realized that t

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o r t e n e d e x i l e q: baal hasulam writes about a premature spiritual birth. how does this happen and can it be prevented? a: the exile in egypt was supposed to last 400 years, to match the four degrees of the development of each desire. instead, it lasted only t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 212 210 years. as a result, israel had to experience three more exiles: persia and media, babylon and the current and last exile. an early exit from exile, from pregnancy, is called abortion. but this also happens in the collective development of the souls, through their evolution from above downward, meaning even before they are born as creations. that is why we don t ascribe it to the creation, but to the development of the creation within the creator. this occurs before the creation

extent that it can bond with other souls. that fills the soul of adam ha rishon, because the attributes of the creator and the corrected attributes of the soul equalize. 600,000 is a symbolic number. at the first breaking, the soul of the creature, called adam, broke into 600,000 parts. then, over many generations, it continued to break into the following smaller parts: cain and abel the tower of babylon the rest of the generations in addition, the souls constantly go from one body to the next, divide and unite, because they are in fact one soul divided only by our individual feelings. the will to enjoy for itself only is imprinted in them. you might say that there is only one soul, which is filled with light, but because of our imperfection, we feel ourselves as separate parts of it. at t

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herefore named the impure bya. the impure worlds (shells) are called: esh mitlakachat (erupting fire) opposite the world of beria. anan gadol (great cloud) opposite the world of yetzira. ruach se ara (stormy wind) opposite the world of assiya. after the sin, partzuf adam ha rishon broke into 600,000 pieces. the pieces continued to break (the torah describes them as the killing of abel, the flood, babylon, and more. consequently, all that was left of partzuf adam ha rishon were fragments with a will to receive in order to receive, with just a spark of light. these parts with sparks in them clothe people in this world and awaken them to spirituality, to the light, to the creator. this is how people are pushed to join groups of kabbalah students. there is yet another shell, called klipat noga

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temple should take the place of the house of light, and become the spiritual centre of the jewish mysteries. king hiram of tyre warmly supported this idea; he himself had inherited initiatory rites which had been derived from the mysteries of chaldaea, a very ancient line of tradition running parallel with the mysteries of egypt from atlantean days, and having its own chief halls of initiation in babylon. he, too, felt that a centre nearer home and in friendly hands was eminently desirable, and he therefore co-operated in the plan of judaizing the ancient rites and focusing them upon the temple in jerusalem. 279. at first, it appears, the two kings sent an embassy to egypt to consult the pharaoh in the matter, telling him of the temple which they had built, and asking for some recognition

ritual murder of one of the priest-kings of that religion. he points out that most primitive races enact a drama in which some one, usually a priest or king, represents a god who is slain and comes to life again; that in earlier times at any rate such a representative was really killed and offered up as a sacrifice to ensure fertility; that we first hear of this myth of tammuz in connection with babylon, and that the tribes in the neighbourhood of judaea were all addicted to the worship of that deity. in fact, among the jews themselves we find the prophets blaming the hebrew ladies for taking part in the ritual mourning for him(*ezekiel, viii, 14) 283. solomon himself was by no means definitely monotheistic, and his people betrayed a distinct tendency to run after strange gods. there seem

orm it is a mere shadow of the glorious teaching of the mysteries of egypt from which it was derived. 291. the transmission of the new rites 292. the mysteries were transmitted from generation to generation for the next three hundred and fifty years, during the survival of the kingdom of judah. in 586 b.c. the city of jerusalem was destroyed by nebuchadnezzar, and the people were led captive into babylon. during the captivity the mysteries were interrupted, and it does not seem probable that they were seriously worked during the fifty years of exile. nevertheless, the succession of i.m.s remained unbroken, and when the people returned from babylon to rebuild the temple, they also tried to reconstruct their rites of initiation. 293. herein we find the facts underlying the tradition of the t

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gon that lies in the midst of his streams (ezek. 29:3, into whose jaws he will put hooks and whom he will have thrown into the wilderness. elsewhere in the old testament, the dragon is represented also as a symbol of mourning and desolation. one of the most discussed chapters of the old testament is daniel 7, which reports a dream, alleged to have occurred in the first year of belshazzar, king of babylon, in which daniel sees the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea. out of the sea emerge, one after the other, a series of beasts, four in number, all of fabulous form. the fourth beast, in particular, is especially terrible and has ten horns. the four beasts represent in succession the babylonian, median, persian, and hellenistic empires. in classical legend, the dragon guarded the

rticular city-states, so that the importance of various gods tended to vary in some letters from the secret enochian language, used in elizabethan times. this section is taken from the center of a magic table used by occultist john dee to raise spirits (fortean picture library) ereshkigal 83 different time periods according to the relative strength of their respective city. thus marduk, patron of babylon, rose from the status of a rather obscure divinity to become king of the gods with the rise of babylon s political fortunes. like the gods of the greek and roman pantheons,mesopotamian divinities were pictured as human beings drawn large. the gods were, in other words, not much more than strong human beings, possessing magical powers and immortality. humanity, for its part, was created out

e act by a passerby, they killed him so that no one could testify to their sin. however, as one might anticipate, the all-knowing god was perfectly aware of their actions. furthermore, he arranged it so that the angels in heaven would witness the reprehensible actions of their brothers on earth. having miserably failed the test, harut and marut were punished by being hung upside down in a well in babylon, this being preferable to eternal punishment in hell. the other angels had to admit that god was right, and, presumably, snide remarks about the weakness of humanity ceased to be made within the precincts of heaven. as for harut and marut, they occupied their time teaching sorcery to humanity, although they never failed to warn human beings of the ultimate consequence of practicing the for

t of his streams, into whose jaws he will put hooks leviathan (dover pictorial series) limbo 151 and whom he will have thrown into the wilderness. elsewhere in hebrew scriptures, the dragon is represented also as a symbol of mourning and desolation. one of the most discussed chapters of scripture is daniel 7, which reports a dream, alleged to have occurred in the first year of belshazzar, king of babylon, in which daniel sees the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea. out of the sea emerge, one after the other, a series of beasts, four in number, all of fabulous form. the fourth beast, in particular, is especially terrible and has ten horns. the four beasts represent in succession the babylonian, median, persian, and hellenistic empires. the endtime significance of this creature i

ch i desire!(147 148) if the magician is female, she asserts: my loins are aflame! the dripping of the nectar from my eager cleft shall act as pollen to that slumbering brain, and the mind that feels not lust shall on a sudden reel with crazed impulse. and when my mighty surge is spent, new wanderings shall begin; and that flesh which i desire shall come to me. in the names of the great harlot of babylon, and of lilith, and of hecate, may my lust be fulfilled!(148) see also curses; lavey, anton szandor for further reading: lavey, anton szandor. the satanic bible. new york: avon, 1969. marlbrough, ray l. charms, spells, and formulas. st. paul, mn: llewellyn, 1987. lucifer the name lucifer means light giver, and connotes star, applying to the morning or evening star venus, the brightest obje

marlbrough, ray l. charms, spells, and formulas. st. paul, mn: llewellyn, 1987. lucifer the name lucifer means light giver, and connotes star, applying to the morning or evening star venus, the brightest object in the sky apart from the sun and moon. it has been erroneously equated with the fallen angel satan, because of a misreading of a scriptural passage that applied to nebuchadnezzar, king of babylon, who in his glory and pomp had set himself among the gods, as it is reported in isaiah 14:12: how art thou fallen from heaven, o lucifer, son of the morning. just as the brilliancy of lucifer surpasses that of all other stars in the firmament, so the splendor of the king of babylon surpasses that of all other oriental monarchs. the authors of the earlier books of hebrew scriptures (the old

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of a virgin. but do thou meditate strictly upon these things, distinguishing the right property, order, and use of the one and the other in the relative, even as thou makest them all-one, that is none, in the absolute. m the book of wisdom or folly 177 #t de herbo sanctissimo arabico (of the most holy grass of the arabs) ecall, o my son, the fable of the hebrews, which they brought from the city babylon, how nebuchadnezzar the great king, being afflicted in his spirit, did depart from among men for seven years. space, eating grass as doth an ox. now this ox is the letter aleph, and is that atu of thoth whose number is zero, and whose name is maat, truth, or maut, the vulture, he all- mother, being an image of our lady nuith, but also it is called the fool, who is parsifal .der reine thor

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t.s. for niwg/ celephais press. this e-text last revised 25.06.200 tliber cccxxxv adonis an allegory a a publication in class c. 1 adonis an allegory by alesiter crowley inscribed to adonis. argument esarhaddon is man ignorant of his high destiny, lost in love of the body (astarte) whose 5 handmaidens are the 5 senses. the soul (psyche) appeals to him in vain, but awakes his dread of the king of babylon (the material plane) who is death.but also subject to the king of greece, who is the one lord. hermes, the wisdom of god, leads the man to recollection of his true nature by putting him into samadhi, the .sudden death. of the qabalah. he leaps up freed. the body now feels worthless and the man despises it; but the soul says no: all 3 of us must enjoy together.1 1 [this .argument. not in th

llection of his true nature by putting him into samadhi, the .sudden death. of the qabalah. he leaps up freed. the body now feels worthless and the man despises it; but the soul says no: all 3 of us must enjoy together.1 1 [this .argument. not in the equinox printing, but handwritten by ac into a copy of equinox i (7) and subsequently transcribed by yorke. t.s] persons of the allegory the king of babylon, tributary to the king of greece hermes, a greek physician the lady psyche the count adonis, at first known as the lord esarhaddon the lady astarte the warriors of the king of babylon hanuman, servant to hermes charis. elpis. pistis. attendants on psyche. three aged women handmaidens and slaves of astarte 3 scene i: the hanging gardens of babylon. r, the house of the lady astarte; l, a gat

he full moon through midnight.s haze of gauze.her body is like a dove and a snake, and life, and death, and love! the boy. even as the twilight so is she, half seen, half subtly apprehended, ethereally and bodily. the soul incarnate, the body transcended! the girl. aching, aching passionately, insufferably, utterly splendid! the boy. her lips make pale the setting sun! the girl. her body blackens babylon! the boy. her eyes turn midnight fs murk to grey! the girl. her breasts make midnight of the day! the boy. about her, suave and subtle, swims the musk and madness of her limbs! the girl. her mouth is magic like the moon fs. the boy. her breath is bliss! the girl. her steps are swoons [enter astarte, with her five handmaidens. the boy. away, away! the girl. with heart.s accord, to leave his

e and subtle, swims the musk and madness of her limbs! the girl. her mouth is magic like the moon fs. the boy. her breath is bliss! the girl. her steps are swoons [enter astarte, with her five handmaidens. the boy. away, away! the girl. with heart.s accord, to leave his lady to our lord [they go out. the boy. let him forget our service done of palm-leaves waved, that never tires, in his enchanted babylon of infinite desires [astarte kneels at the foot of the couch, and taking the feet of esarhaddon in her hands, covers them with kisses. astarte. nay, never wake! unless to catch my neck and break me up with kisses.never sleep, unless to dream new pains impossible to waking! girls! with more than dream.s address, wake him with perfume till he smile, with strokes adonis 5 softer than moonbeam

ow the sun fs rim is dipped. and thus i dip my gold to the horizon of thy lip. esarhaddon. ah. astarte. there fs no liquor, none, within the cup. esarhaddon. nay, draw not back; nay, then, but lift me up. i would the cup were molten too; i fd drain its blasting agony. liber cccxxxv 8 astarte. in vain. esarhaddon. in vain? nay, let the drinker and the draught in one blaze up at last, and burn down babylon! astarte. all but the garden, and our bed, and.see! the false full moon that comes to rival me. esarhaddon. she comes to lamp our love [a chime of bells without. astarte. i.ll tire my hair. the banquet waits. girls, follow me [they go out, leaving esarhaddon. esarhaddon. how fair and full she sweeps, the buoyant barge upon the gilded curves of tigris. she fs the swan that drew the gods to

und, but the white cerements of a corpse, and high upon a pyre of sandal and ebony, should dare through flame the inequitable profound! but only these of all mine household come in faith and hope and love so far from home, and these three others joined me.why, who knows? but thou, lord, in whose face his likeness shows. at the first glance.for now, i. faith .tis gone. hast thou dwelt away here in babylon? esarhaddon. now must i laugh.forgive me in your sorrow! my life.s not yesterday and not to-morrow. i live; i know no more. psyche. how so? esarhaddon. i fear i know but this, that i fm a stranger here. the call me the lord esarhaddon.name borrowed or guessed, i cannot tell! i came whence i know not.some malady destroyed my memory. psyche. oh, were you he! but yet i see you are not. had yo

ife.s not yesterday and not to-morrow. i live; i know no more. psyche. how so? esarhaddon. i fear i know but this, that i fm a stranger here. the call me the lord esarhaddon.name borrowed or guessed, i cannot tell! i came whence i know not.some malady destroyed my memory. psyche. oh, were you he! but yet i see you are not. had you no tokens from the life forgot? esarhaddon. nay, i came naked into babylon. i live the starlight and sleep through the sun. i am happy in love, i am rich, i eat and drink, i gather goods, i laugh, i never think. know me the prince of perfect pleasure! psyche. yet is there not something that you would forget? some fear that chills you? while you talk to me i see you glance behind you fearfully. adonis 11 esarhaddon (with furtive fear amounting to horror) you see t

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

s of the sun, the regenerating principle, image of that fecundity which perpetuates and rejuvenates the world's existence" among all the nations of antiquity, altars, mounds, and temples were dedicated to the worship of the orb of day. the ruins of these sacred places yet remain, notable among them being the pyramids of yucatan and egypt, the snake mounds of the american indians, the zikkurats of babylon and chaldea, the round towers of ireland, and the massive rings of uncut stone in britain and normandy. the tower of babel, which, according to the scriptures, was built so that man might reach up to god, was probably an astronomical observatory. many early priests and prophets, both pagan and christian, were versed in astronomy and astrology; their writings are best understood when read i

n it immediately begins to increase. hence the greeks said that jupiter (a name of the sun god) was suckled by a goat. a new and different sidelight on zodiacal symbolism is supplied by john cole, in a treatise on the circular zodiac of tentyra, in egypt "the symbol therefore of the goat rising from the body of a fish [capricorn, represents with the greatest propriety the mountainous buildings of babylon rising out of its low and marshy situation; the two horns of the goat being emblematical of the two towns, nineveh and babylon, the former built on the tigris, the latter on the euphrates; but both subjected to one sovereignty" the period of 2,160 years required for the regression of the sun through one of the zodiacal constellations is often termed an age. according to this system, the ag

teps (a sacred number, and upon the apex was a statue of king mausolus in a chariot. his figure was 9 feet 9 inches tall. many attempts have been made to reconstruct the monument, which. was destroyed by an earthquake, but none has been altogether successful. this monument was sacred to the planet mars and was built by an initiate for the enlightenment of the world. 6. the gardens of semiramis at babylon--more commonly known as the hanging gardens--stood within the palace grounds of nebuchadnezzar, near the euphrates river. they rose in a terrace-like pyramid and on the top was a reservoir for the watering of the gardens. they were built about 600 b.c, but the name of the landscape artist has not been preserved. they symbolized the planes of the invisible world, and were consecrated to ven

and refusals, finally succeeded in securing initiation in the mysteries of isis, at the hands of the priests of thebes. then this intrepid 'joiner' wended his way into phoenicia and syria where the mysteries of adonis were conferred upon him, and crossing to the valley of the euphrates he tarried long enough to become versed in, the secret lore of the chaldeans, who still dwelt in the vicinity of babylon. finally, he made his greatest and most historic venture through media and persia into hindustan where he remained several years as a pupil and initiate of the learned brahmins of elephanta and ellora (see ancient freemasonry, by frank c. higgins, 32) the same author adds that the name of pythagoras is still preserved in the records of the brahmins as yavancharya, the ionian teacher. pytha

roups of numbers resulting from the translation of names of deities into their numerical equivalents have a basis in one of the first ten numbers. by this system, in which the digits are added together, 666 becomes 6+6+6 or 18, and this, in turn, becomes 1+8 or 9. according to revelation, 144,000 are to be saved. this number becomes 1+4+4+0+0+0, which equals 9, thus proving that both the beast of babylon and the number of the saved refer to man himself, whose symbol is the number 9. this system can be used successfully with both greek and hebrew letter values. the original pythagorean system of numerical philosophy contains nothing to justify the practice now in vogue of changing the given name or surname in the hope of improving the temperament or financial condition by altering the name

also the philosophic and astronomic cycles of the egyptians, chaldeans, and brahmins. for example, consider the number 33. the first temple of solomon stood for thirty-three years in its pristine splendor. at the end of that time it was pillaged by the egyptian king shishak, and finally (588 b.c) it was completely destroyed by nebuchadnezzar and the people of jerusalem were led into captivity to babylon (see general history of freemasonry, by robert macoy) also king david ruled for thirtythree years in jerusalem; the masonic order is divided into thirty-three symbolic degrees; there are thirty-three segments in the human spinal column; and jesus was crucified in the thirty-third year of his life. the efforts made to discover the origin of the hiramic legend show that, while the legend in

this new language we read god's will for all his creatures, and just as astronomers predict eclipses so we prognosticate the obscurations of the church and how long they shall last. our language is like unto that of adam and enoch before the fall, and though we understand and can explain our mysteries in this our sacred language, we cannot do so in latin, a tongue contaminated by the confusion of babylon. chapter x. although there are still certain powerful persons who oppose and hinder us--because of which we must remain concealed--we exhort those who would become of our fraternity to study unceasingly the sacred scriptures, for such as do this cannot be far from us. we do not mean that the bible should be continually in the mouth of man, but that he should search for its true and eternal

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

and princes which king solomon commanded into a vessel of brass, together with their legions. of whom belial, bileth, asmoday, and gaap, were chief. and it is to be noted that solomon did this because of their pride, for he never declared other reason why he thus bound them. and when he had thus bound them up and sealed the vessel, he by divine power did chase them all into a deep lake or hole in babylon. and they of babylon, wondering to see such a thing, they did then go wholly into the lake, to break the vessel open, expecting to find great store of treasure therein. but when they had broken it open, out flew the chief spirits immediately, with their legions following them; and they were all restored to their former places except belial, who entered into a certain image, and thence gave

MEANING OF MASONRY

degree; none but indicates that in that hour of greatest darkness the light of the primal divine spark within us is never wholly extinguished, and that by loyalty to that light, by patience and by perseverance, time and circumstances will restore to us the" genuine secrets" the ultimate truths and realities of our own nature. we are here, masonry teaches, as it were in captivity, by the waters of babylon and in a strange land; and our doctrine truly tells us that the richest harmonies of this life are as nothing in comparison with the songs of zion; and that, even when we are installed into the highest eminences this world or the craft may offer, it were better that our right hand should forget its cunning and that we should fling the illusory treasures of this transitory world behind our

attainment of beatific vision at the restoration to light, the effective part of the royal arch ceremony as an initiatory rite concludes. what follows upon it is anti-climax and allegorical exposition of a similar nature to the traditional history in the master mason's degree. this takes the form of a mythos or dramatic narrative by the three sojourners, describing their release from captivity in babylon, their return to jerusalem under an impulse to assist in rebuilding the destroyed national temple, their work among its ruins and the discovery of an ancient and apparently important archive the perspicacious mind will not fail to perceive in this historical or quasi-historical narrative an allegory of the spiritual process which has been going on within the candidate himself. it is he, as

n allegory of the spiritual process which has been going on within the candidate himself. it is he, as it is every human soul, that has been in babylonian bondage, in captivity to the babel-confusion of mundane existence, the tyranny of material interests, and the chaos of his own disordere d nature. it is he who, in revolt from these, has in reflective moments" sat down and wept by the waters of babylon--the transient flux of temporal things-and" remembered zion" in a yearning for inward freedom and permanent peace of heart. it is he who finds the temple of his old natural self worthless and in ruins, and realizes that upon its site he must rebuild another and worthier one. from within himself comes the urge of the inward lord (kurios) which (under the mask of cyrus the king) bids him for

zra (including the apocryphal books of esdras) in this light, and with this key to their true purport, will not fail to profit by the instruction they will yield. hence too they are called" scribes; both of them are recorders of, and testifiers to, distinct but representative experiences encountered in the inner man at different stages of the" great work" of self-integration and journeying from a babylon condition to the spiritual jerusalem. here we bring to an end our examination of the true meaning and purpose of the royal arch ceremony. dealing as it does with a supreme human experience which none can fully appreciate without undergoing it, it is the greatest and most momentous rite in masonry, and no one who studies it comprehendingly and in its sacramental significance will withhold a

ns' sake i will say, peace be within thee (psalm cxxii) in those few lines is sketched all that is implied in the symbolic spectacle that greets the eyes of the royal arch mason at the supreme moment of his restoration to light. exalted into and become identified with the supreme bliss, peace and selfconsciousness of the all-pervasive and omniscient spirit, he sees how he has" gone up" out of the babylon of his old complex and disordered nature and upon its ruins has built for himself an ethereal body of glory, a" house of the lord" he sees how this ecstatic condition and this new-made celestial body are the sublimated products of his former self and its temporal organism. he sees how each separate part and faculty of that old nature, or as it were each of the zodiacal divisions of his own

ndition, which mystically is called "jerusalem" within whose walls is the peace which passeth understanding and whose palaces reveal to the enfranchised soul the unfailing plenteousness and fecundity of the indissoluble trinity of wisdom and love and power from which man and the universe have issued and into which they are destined to return. the antithesis of this" heavenly city" is the confused babylon city of this world, of which it is written to all captives therein" come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues (rev. xviii. 4. and, in a word, the royal arch ceremony sacramentally portrays the last phase of the mystical journey of the exiled soul from babylon to jerusalem as it escapes from its captivity to this lower world and"

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

hed from tongue to mind, so did the growing psychic strength of the witch. this is still the case, with slight differences due to the modern view point and increase of information. the energies available are balanced positive and negative, thus eminently suited for growth. the renewed tradition now opens doors to the mind unknown for thousands of years. we are relinked with the 82 82 sorcerers of babylon and egypt, who passed on the cups of witch blood to those psychically connected or of lineal descent. rites on the equinox should be employed to benefit the coven or individual witch, so that balance is achieved. these goals have plentiful magickal energy to employ, will and athame- the cause of change and passion! approach the equinox with the witches rune and, according to your atavistic

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

d while its utility was beneficial. now they are deprived and slaughtered and turneven upon themselves. debauchery is everywhere and the planet is handed over to the perverse sci-ons of the sorcerers of atlantis. we sink into chaos of unimaginable proportions, with all therepressed, dark content of consciousness in full view and without restraints of inner or outerauthority.this is the bridges to babylon outcome.2the third outcome is that the good under the weight of the yoke finally rise against their oppres-sors, actively preventing them from ever leaving and taking their evil elsewhere. to do this, wedestroy (sacrifice) ourselves, taking them with us (the reader is referred to the movies: the wildbunch, the magnificent seven, and terminator ii).this is the..start the fuse tector outcome

s back outcome.4y ou may notice something is missing from these scenarios. there is no mention ofanyone or anything else coming to our rescue. there is no mention of the conventionalavengers and redeemers: gods, greys, christs, angels, or pleiadeans. there is noflash gordon on his way.we can accept god becoming man to save man, but not man becoming god to save himself (v ernon howard) 2bridges to babylon, from the album by the rolling stones, one of the bands funded by the present, but ancient, powerful psychedelic cult of dionysus.3start the fuse tector, from sam peckinpah's classic western, the wild bunch, which shows exactly how to fightfire with fire.4the empire strikes back, from the film of the same name by george lucas. lucas, founder of industrial light and magic, is one of the blo

lly approved as the hebrew bible appeared after the fallof jerusalem to the roman general titus in ad 70, and it was compiled in an endeavor to restore faith injudaism at a time of social turmoil (p. 28)eriduthe most important and sacred of the sumerian cities. the seat of the kings before the flood. enuma elishthe original genesis story. the hebrews became exposed to it during their captivity in babylon.while the babylonian enuma elish pre-dates the genesis account by more than 1,000 years, it was itselfbased on far more ancient records, and the earliest sumerian creation story discovered to date is morethan a 1000 years older than the enuma elish (p. 75)tiamattiamat means the deep.sumeriathe sumerians were not called after the regionthe region gets its name from the race. nephilim, not g

him in social matters (p. 117)mis-translations continuehistorically, it was enki (not enlil) who had created adam (atabba) and eve (nin-khawa; it wasenki who had granted them the rights to qabalistic wisdom, and it was enki who had appointed atabbato his priest-kingly station. these things were known in mesopotamia and canaan; they were writtendown and readily available in the temple libraries of babylon, and so they could not be ignored butthey could be reinterpreted. enki, the wise hero of sumer, could be portrayed (in accordance with hisemblem) as a troublesome serpentan image which could incorporate lilith too, for she held the matri-lineal heritage of the kingdom: the malkhut, the sovereignty of the dragon.the nature of the brothersenki was more liberal minded, whereas enlil was sever

their wickedness, as related in genesisbut because of thewisdom and insight of their inhabitants, as depicted in the coptic paraphrase of shem. it was jehovahwho removed the israelites from their homeland, sending them into seventy years of captivity by kingnebuchadnezzar ii and his five babylonian successors down to king balshazzer (545 539 b.c (p.118)babylons declineas the centuries progressed, babylon fell to various other invadersthe written legacy of theannunaki was, henceforth, confined to an underworld darkness, and all the tablets of sumerian andakkadian record that had been available to the hostage jews of the sixth century b.c, were destined tobe forgotten beneath the wasteland (p. 119)appendix b: book abstracts218atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation gardner conti

did retreat into thesidhe, the portals to the underworld.hathorthe cow goddess. the word galaxy meant mothers milk and refers to the milky way in particular.hathor was therefore connected with the milky way.the beehiveoften used as a cryptic representation of the pleiades in the constellation of taurus. in latin, bee isapis, which also means bull.tiamatcalled rahab in the bible, rahab the seat of babylon.psalm 89:10-11 thou hast broken rahab to piecesjob 26:12-13 by his wisdom he hath cut rahab to pieces (see p. 90.)merthe hebrews called the planet tiamat, or mot, or rahab, by the name of mer. those from this planetwere the original mer-men, half-man, half-fish, or reptile.an or marduk or nibiruin 1982, the space telescope iras (infrared astronomical station) saw what had not been seen for

rgy. a disaster in which the fire-crystals wentout of control was responsible for atlantis's sinking, he said, in what sounds like a cautionary fableon the dangers of nuclear power. remaining active beneath the ocean waves, damaged fire-crystalsemit energy fields that disrupt ships and aircraftwhich is how cayce accounted for the bermudatriangle.3.1704-1662 b.c. the babylonian empire was based in babylon, near the 33rd parallel. the empirestretched from the persian gulf to the middle euphrates river and upper tigris river regions. ham-murabi, the last great king of the first dynasty, developed his legal code and ordered it to be incisedon a basalt column and placed in the temple of shamash, the god of justice, for all to see.4.1500 b.c. tel megiddo: one of the most important archaeological

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gs like atlantis. there is a day coming when the vampires will unveil themselves and walk in the open, but the veil of lies surrounding humanity s past will remain (i ve seen the movies and tv shows, i know you re preparing us to go public) unbeknownst to most, the highest achievement for the satanist is self-deification through magic. in this, the dark powers of magic, namely lucifer and lilith (babylon, are called upon to perform a surgical operation on the spirit of the satanist. after being summoned in ritual, these beings bring the participant from the human to the vampiric condition. vampires favor their own, and often make stars and power magnates out of each other. my guess is that it is hard, if not impossible, to rise through the ranks of the illuminati while remaining in the hum

ted in his name. he delights in hearing stories of mischief and hardship being caused among mankind. but in truth, they report to him all things relevant to baphomet. he will often place a mark on a concealed part of the attendees flesh after they have verbally committed to giving him their soul. the attendees of the sabbat are often made to renounce god and jesus, and accept baphomet and lilith (babylon) as their new father and mother. magical powders and poisons are commonly distributed to those present so that they can continue causing mischief among mankind. sometimes baphomet would assign those who attend spirits called familiars. a familiar is a spirit who has been consigned to serve an individual. the devil insisted that all the food served at the festival be insipid and disgusting

everyone knows jesus went up, not down. but then i was directed to this bible verse, which shook my view regarding the nature of his sacrifice. i can t believe it s not fiction: osiris& horus, vader& luke starwars lilith [5.4] the goddess lilith is associated with a host of other goddesses, including hecate, astarte, isis, sekhmet, virgo, venus, ishtar, inanna, aradia, davcina, selene, diana, az, babylon, kali, tiamat, al-uzza, and gaia. although this goddess is mostly associated with the moon, she is said to have both good and bad aspects, and true to that logic she if often spoke of as lilith who was consumed or possessed by a much more ancient goddess named tiamat. as if lilith is now the body that tiamat walks in. lilith is the feminine principle personified. tiamat is said to be the m

demons. the screech owl and dove are lilith s sacred animals. the us dollar bill contains a tiny image of what is commonly thought to be a spider, but is in fact an owl. at bohemian grove, members of the elite perform rituals and mock-sacrifices before a 35 foot stone owl. this owl, which was long suspected to be symbolic of the ancient canaanite god moloch, is in fact symbolic of lilith, who is babylon the great and the bride of lucifer. tiamat may also be symbolized by a red dragon, and is known as a devouring goddess. in the bible, lilith goes by the titles whore of babylon, mother of harlots, and babylon the great. this woman is depicted holding a golden cup and wearing many precious stones and robed in the colors purple and scarlet. scarlet is plain red with a slight hint of orange

picted holding a golden cup and wearing many precious stones and robed in the colors purple and scarlet. scarlet is plain red with a slight hint of orange. the imagery commonly relates her as riding a scarlet beast. this woman is described--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 78 as drunk (intoxicated) from the blood of the saints. lilith being the mother of vampires, this is fitting. the whore of babylon is also related to a city or location. this city has had relations with all the rich men of the earth, and is a haven for demons. it is understood that this character, or city, currently rules the world and uses sorcery to do so. hecate, also equated with lilith, is the greek triple goddess. she is the goddess of the crossroads, who is frequently depicted with three heads; one of a dog, on

nstitutes the universe of space and time. the goddess kali, along with her husband shiva, roam the cremation grounds; this is a likely reference to the qliphoth or underworld. in the persian narration, az is the mother of demons and the consort of ahriman (satan. semiramis, yet another name for this goddess, an assyrian queen of legend, was reportedly the inspiration behind the hanging gardens of babylon. the hanging gardens of babylon, also called the hanging gardens of semiramis, are considered to be one of the 7 great wonders of the ancient world. the hanging gardens, which some speculate to date back to 600 bc (more likely much earlier, was a spectacular series of manmade terraces, with flowing waters and lush growth on every platform. queen semiramis is said to be a harlot, a home wre

kely much earlier, was a spectacular series of manmade terraces, with flowing waters and lush growth on every platform. queen semiramis is said to be a harlot, a home wrecker, and a powerful sorceress. this personage is associated with the dove and, proper to the virgin, was credited with the invention of the chastity belt. semiramis became the--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 79 patroness of babylon when she restored the city to its ancient glory. i can t believe it s not fiction: tiamat queen of the damned (2002) hades [5.5] hades is the lord of the underworld. although greek mythology does not depict hades as a villain, modern satanists( and a little common sense) have confirmed to me that he is god s greatest enemy today. in rome, he was known as pluto and the hebrews knew him as m

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arn this from celsus, in origen, who says that the symbolic image of this passage among the stars, used in the mithraic mysteries, was a ladder reaching from earth to heaven, divided into seven steps or stages, to each of which was a gate, and at the summit an eighth one, that of the fixed stars. the symbol was the same as that of the seven stages of borsippa, the pyramid of vitrified brick, near babylon, built of seven stages, and each of a different color. in the mithraic ceremonies, the candidate went through seven stages of initiation, passing through many fearful trials and of these the high ladder with seven rounds or steps was the symbol. you see the lodge, its details and ornaments, by its lights. you have already heard what these lights, the greater and lesser, are said to be, and

r had said to the persians "offer up thy grateful prayers to the lord, the most just and pure ormuzd, the supreme and adorable god, who thus declared to his prophet zerdusht 'hold it not meet to do unto others what thou wouldst not desire done unto thyself; do that unto the people, which, when done to thyself, is not disagreeable unto thee" the same doctrine had been long taught in the schools of babylon, alexandria, and jerusalem. a pagan declared to the pharisee hillel, that he was ready to embrace the jewish religion, if he could make known to him in a few words a summary of the whole law of moses "that which thou likest not done to thyself" said hillel "do it not unto thy neighbor. therein is all the law: the rest is nothing but the commentary upon it "nothing is more natural" said con

mong us, to wear, as we wear, with humility, and conscious of your demerits and shortcomings, the title of grand elect, perfect, and sublime mason. it was not without a secret meaning, that _twelve_ was the number of the apostles of christ, and _seventy-two_ that of his disciples: that john addressed his rebukes and menaces to the _seven_ churches, the number of the archangels and the planets. at babylon were the seven stages of bersippa, a pyramid of seven stories, and at ecbatana seven concentric inclosures, each of a different color. thebes also had seven gates, and the same number is repeated again and again in the account of the flood. the sephiroth, or emanations _ten_ in number, three in one class, and seven in the other, repeat the mystic numbers of pythagoras. seven amschaspands o

iate color of each planet. meru itself was said to be a single mountain, terminating in three peaks, and thus a symbol of the trimurti. the great pagoda at tanjore was of six stories, surmounted by a temple as the seventh, and on this three spires or towers. an ancient pagoda at deogur was surmounted by a tower, sustaining the mystic egg and a trident. herodotus tells us that the temple of bal at babylon was a tower composed of seven towers, resting on an eighth that served as basis, and successively diminishing in size from the bottom to the top; and strabo tells us it was a pyramid. faber thinks that the mithriac _ladder_ was really a pyramid with seven stages, each provided with a narrow door or aperture, through each of which doors the aspirant passed, to reach the summit, and then des

erors. their descendants, as azra and nahamaiah show us, hardly desired to leave persia, when they were allowed to do so. they had a special jurisdiction, and governors and judges taken from their own people; many of them held high office, and their children were educated with those of the highest nobles. danayal was the friend and minister of the king, and the chief of the college of the magi at babylon; if we may believe the book which bears his name, and trust to the incidents related in its highly figurative and imaginative style. mordecai, too, occupied a high station, no less than that of prime minister, and esther or astar, his cousin, was the monarch's wife. the magi of babylon were expounders of figurative writings, interpreters of nature, and of dreams--astronomers and divines; a

r of sects, and a new exposition, the mystical interpretation, with all its wild fancies and infinite caprices. the _aions_ of the gnostics, the _ideas_ of plato, the _angels_ of the jews, and the _demons_ of the greeks, all correspond to the _ferouers_ of zoroaster. a great number of jewish families remained permanently in their new country; and one of the most celebrated of their schools was at babylon. they were soon familiarized with the doctrine of zoroaster, which itself was more ancient than kuros. from the system of the zend-avesta they borrowed, and subsequently gave large development to, everything that could be reconciled with their own faith; and these additions to the old doctrine were soon spread, by the constant intercourse of commerce, into syria and palestine. in the zend

of hovels cowering under the dominion of the crescent; and the holy land is a desert. the kings of egypt and assyria, who were contemporaries of solomon, are forgotten, and their histories mere fables. the ancient orient is a shattered wreck, bleaching on the shores of time. the wolf and the jackal howl among the ruins of thebes and of tyre, and the sculptured images of the temples and palaces of babylon and nineveh are dug from their ruins and carried into strange lands. but the quiet and peaceful order, of which the son of a poor ph nician widow was one of the grand masters, with the kings of israel and tyre, has continued to increase in stature and influence, defying the angry waves of time and the storms of persecution. age has not weakened its wide foundations nor shattered its column

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

their leader, count henri, as royalty. the same author informs us that in 1227 the sultan coradin, at the time of his death, entrusted his land and children to a spanish knight who was a templar brother "he was fully aware that this knight would faithfully protect his land. he had no desire to leave it to the saracens, for he knew full well that they would entrust it to his brother, the sultan of babylon* it was through the intervention of the templars in 1243 that the christians were able to conclude an accord with the malek of damascus and take possession of jerusalem. in the following years, the franks made an alliance with the malik of horns, al-mansour. the templars made themselves noticeable by their eagerness to arrange this union. in fact, they celebrated in their strongholds to su

ciences and the greatest of the seven liberal arts follows this. these are the essential points it covers:11 after the flood, hermes found one of two pillars+ in which the scriptures containing all the sciences had been hidden. he absorbed all the knowledge that he rediscovered, taught it to humanity, and became the father of all sages. the legend goes on to state that nimrod (or nimroth, king of babylon, provided his masons with a "rule" stating that they should be loyal to each other and love each other. it is said that he also gave them two other rules concerning their science, though it is not known what these were. the next major figure in the narrative was abraham. he left his native region on the euphrates river for egypt, where he taught the egyptians the seven sciences. one of his

RABBI MOSHE WISNEFSKY APPLES FROM THE ORCHARD THE ARIZAL ON THE PARASHAH

tuate the kingdom of babylonia. chananiah, misha fel, and azariah (whose babylonian names were shadrach, meisach, and abednego) were daniel fs jewish companions, who refused to bow down to this statue. nebuchadnezzar punished them by having them thrown into a fiery furnace, but they emerged unscathed. he also intended to build a tower and a city, as it is written, gis this not the great [city of] babylon that i built up [into a royal house with my powerful strength, to glorify my splendor? h6 1 genesis 11:1-9. 2 ibid. 10:8 ff. 3 daniel 3:1. 4 isaiah 14:14. 5 daniel 3:3-30. 6 ibid. 4:27. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 34 the people who built the tower of babel had said, glet us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top reaches the heavens, and we will [thereby] achieve glory. h7 he bui

gcrowns h in the verse quoted (machtir) also means gsurrounds, h just a crown surrounds and encompasses the head. you might think that there are five exiles.egypt, babylonia, media, persia, greece, and the present exile.so how can we speak of only four? the answer is that egypt and babylonia were equivalent, equally deep and of the same nature. our sages indicated this by saying gpishon refers to babylon h;3 gpishon refers to egypt. h4 the four rivers that originated in the river that watered the garden of eden express the conscious of divine oneness present in the garden splitting into the consciousness of plurality that informs reality outside the garden. thus, they epitomize the idea of exile, i.e, the state of lower or non-g-d-consciousness that leaves us with the impression that the w

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

peech adds "the holy place was made waste and the sons of the house of wisdom were taken away into the captivity of the senses. we have worshipped since then in a house made with hands, receiving a sacramental ministration by a derived light in place of the cohabiting glory. and yet, amidst signs and symbols the tokens of the higher presence have never been wanting in our hearts. by the waters of babylon we have sat down and wept, but we have ever remembered zion 'and that memorial is a witness testifying that we shall yet retum with exultation into the house of our father" thus and unmistakably is the true object of the great work set before us, and we shalldo well ever to keep eye andaspiration firmly fixed thereto. for while the <43> road to the spiritual zion demands great exertion, an

made void. the holy place was made waste and the sons of the house of wisdom were taken away into the captivity of the senses. we have worshipped since then in a house made with hands, receiving a sacramental ministration by a derived light in place of the co-habiting glory. and yet, amidst signs and symbols the tokens of the higher presence have never been wanting in our hearts. by the waters of babylon we have sat down and wept, but we have ever remembered zion, and that memorial is a witness teswng that we shall yet return with exultation into the house of our father. as a witness in the temple of the 252 the golden dawn: volume ii book three heart, so in the outer house of our initiation, we have ever present certain watchers from within, deputed by the second order to guard and lead t

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

ankind, resembling the ferouher of the zoroastrian system. the oracles attributed to zoroaster describe them as powers animated by god' greek noo menai ?uggec par en no ousi ka au?ta. greek boula c a?f gktoic kino menai w'?ote noh^sai/ cont (zoroaster, oracul. magn. ad calcem oracul. sybill. ed. gall. p. 80; and cary's fragments, p. 250) their images made of gold were in the palace of the king of babylon, according to philostratus (lib. i. c. 25, and lib. vi. c. 2) they were connected with magic (selden, de diis syriis, p. 39) it is possible that the bird borne by warriors, in a bas-relief from the centre palace. way represent the iynges" there can be little doubt, but that the melek taoos is in substance the ferouher of zoroastrianism; and i think it very probable, that this image in used

RUBY TABLET OF SET

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

sun enclosed in the earth's womb, at the bottom of the underworld, in a secret pyramid filled with "blackest darkness" sokaris was a title of the phallus at the point of "dying" sending forth seed into the dark. the arabic word for "penis" zekkar, came from the god's name. the same lord of death was a tutelary deity of the necropolis at saqqara, another variation of his name. he also appeared in babylon as zaqar, a messenger from the moon- that is, from the land of death. in hebraic he was zakar "maleness, virility" his medieval descendant was the phallic satan enclosed in the darkest central pit of hell, yet radiating the spirit of lust. in peter tompkins' secrets of the great pyramid, sokaris is identified as the omphalos or central point on the surface of the earth. this juncture or sa

s] with my sword in the south do i invoke the lords of fire to bathe this grotto in the flames of hell! with my sword in the east do i call upon the lords of air to fill this vault with the lightnings of sith! with my sword in the north do i command the masterless ones of the blasted heath to trod this ground as the deathscapes of mashu! with my sword in the west do i will the daemons of dripping babylon to shower this abyss with the seas of mentu [eighteenth enochian key- here the 18th key is read, in enochian, and then in english. the text is found in the satanic bible [upon completion of the enochian key, retune the synthesizer to the "sith dirge, and activate the stroboscopic lighting. the celebrant then leaves the control console, and moves to the center of the chamber. he lifts his s

y hand waxed strong, and images of the deathless world have i hurled at those who are without. with the command to look have i proffered my image to the weak and exalted your semblance through visions of unseen terror! through the power of the tempestial cycling winds of the kings of tartarus have i brought back to life my brothers who have faltered along the way. in the names of the great harlot babylon, hecate, and lilith the scarlet sorceress, have my lusts been satisfied and consummated unto the logos of indulgence! in the name of satan, archdaemon of hell, ruler of the world and price of the pit, have i brought my enemies to their knees, and made myself as a devouring demon strong in my doings. in nightly wanderings have my cloven feet pranced among the tombstones, and with twisted wr

with my trident in the south do i invoke the lords of fire to bathe this chamber in the flames of hell! with my trident in the east do i invoke the lords of air to fill this vault with vapors of sith. with my trident in the north do i command the masterless fiends of the blasted heath to trod this ground as the death-scapes of mashu. with my trident in the west do i will the sentinels of dripping babylon to shower this abyss with the tears of mentu [reading of the eighteenth part of the word of set- at this time the synthesizer operator creates the electronic path, the sith dirge, and brings the volume from zero to +six, modulates the voice processor to the desired frequency, and activates the tesla coil and stroboscopic lighting [invocation to the nine angles] we move our swords with the

preme terror, the nightmare corpse-city of r'lyeh, do we stand, loathsome seepage from the dark stars. we have heard thy sendings and dreamed thy dreams, hidden though you are in your vaulted asylum. thy hordes have sent their dreams that spread fear to the profane, and call imperiously to the elect to a diabolical pilgrimage of liberation and restoration. from the cosmic majesty of this dripping babylon of elder daemons do your chosen priests come to break the spell of the sleep of symmetry. from the bastions of the earth and lonely places in the world, and through the angles in the sky, have the old ones again returned, harkening to our voices. for we have always been and shall forever more prove to be. yea, dark cthulhu in his dark city is rising again to bring the world beneath his swa

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meteor or lightning or vengeance of god. out of thin air, baby _dharrraaammm_ wham, na? what an entrance, yaar. i swear: splat" out of thin air: a big bang, followed by falling stars. a universal beginning, a miniature echo of the birth of time. the jumbo jet _bostan, flight ai-420, blew apart without any warning, high above the great, rotting, beautiful, snow-white, illuminated city, mahagonny, babylon, alphaville. but gibreel has already named it, i mustn't interfere: proper london, capital of vilayet, winked blinked nodded in the night. while at himalayan height a brief and premature sun burst into the powdery january air, a blip vanished from radar screens, and the thin air was full of bodies, descending from the everest of the catastrophe to the milky paleness of the sea. who am i? w

ovoked into real tears by counterfeit emotion, by a disco-beat imitation of pain. it was the one hundred and thirty-seventh psalm "super flumina. king david calling out across the centuries. how shall we sing the lord's song in a strange land "i had to learn the psalms at school" pamela chamcha said, sitting on the floor, her head leaning against the sofa-bed, her eyes shut tight _by the river of babylon, where we sat down, oh oh we wept. she stopped the tape, leaned back again, began to recite "if i forget thee, o jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning; if i do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; yea, if i prefer not jerusalem in my mirth" later, asleep in bed, she dreamed of her convent school, of matins and evensong, of the chanting of psalms, when

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might terrify adam from the entrance of paradise. in the hebrew tradition they are described as having four faces and four wings, or alternatively by john of patmos in revelations as having six wings and six eyes. they are considered the bearers of god s throne and his charioteers. see psalm 18. they also appear as golden sculptures covering the ark of the covenant. the origins of the term lie in babylon, where they are monstrous winged entities guarding the entrances to temples; the ka-ri-bu. similar creatures guarded the assyrian tree of everlasting life. 3rd choir: thrones- ophanim or galgallin in hebrew merkabah lore, they are the great wheels or many eyed ones. galgal meaning pupil of the eye. whilst the cherubim are god s charioteers, the ophanim are the actual chariots. in more mode

r glory that it is said that she outshone god. bathin (goetia, 18th spirit. duke commanding 30 legions. appears as a strong man with a serpent tail, riding a pale horse. knows herb-lore, precious stones, teleportation. beast 666 (hebrew. scarlet hued monster with ten horns and seven heads, the body of a leopard, the feet of a bear, the jaws of a lion, who rises from the sea ridden by the whore of babylon to herals the coming of the apocalypse. it will have power over earth for fourty-two months, during which time all will marvel because it was and is not and is to come (revelations 17:8. the beast shall lay waste with plague and destruction, defeating the power of the saints. the antichrist tricks mortals into believing it is the messiah, commanding them to worship its brazen image. at arm

inate spirit of lucifer. has power to open all locks, to locate and transport treasures. sustugriel (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of satanachia. teaches magickal art. he gives good familiars and furnishes mandragores. sut one of the sons of iblis, a demon of the order of flies. tehom hebrew form of the babylonian tiamat, queen of the waters of the deep. the abyss itself (gen 1:2. tiamat (babylon. primordial mother dragon of chaos, defeated by marduk and torn apart to become the earth and the sky. equated with typhon and leviathan. trimasel (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of satanachia. teaches chemistry, alchemy, and all sleight of hand. tubal-cain son of lamech and zillah, master of metal working. the first blacksmith, whose forge is the fires of hell, and whose name is th

although there is much room for speculation concerning the true nature of those spirits summoned. the techniques they employed had their routes in those same practices described in the grimoire as summoning the denizens of hell. their researches brought a new gift to the traditions of the black arts; that language spoken by the angels and devils, and by all mankind before the fall of the tower of babylon. our source for this knowledge are the nineteen enochian keys, provided below. each is an incantation composed in this language, evoking principles and powers which may be directed by the sorcerer. these appear to have sound grammatical basis, with many words that seem related to hebrew, arabic, and latin. whether divined or constructed, their employment effectively appeals to some deeper

SATANIC BIBLE

w synonym for satan hecate- greek goddess of the underworld and witchcraft ishtar- babylonian goddess of fertility kali (hindu) daughter of shiva, high priestess of the thuggees lilith- hebrew female devil, adam's first wife who taught him the ropes loki- teutonic devil mammon- aramaic god of wealth and profit mania- etruscan goddess of hell mantus- etruscan god of hell marduk- god of the city of babylon mastema- hebrew synonym for satan melek taus- yezidi devil mephistopheles (greek) he who shuns the light, q. v. faust metztli- aztec goddess of the night mictian- aztec god of death midgard- son of loki, depicted as a serpent milcom- ammonite devil moloch- phoenician and canaanite devil mormo (greek) king of the ghouls, consort of hecate naamah- hebrew female devil of seduction nergal- bab

sh of that which i desire! shemhamforash! hail satan (female) my loins are aflame! the dripping of the nectar from my eager cleft shall act as pollen to that slumbering brain, and the mind that feels not lust shall on a sudden reel with crazed impulse. and when my mighty surge is spent, new wanderings shall begin; and that flesh which i desire shall come to me. in the names of the great harlot of babylon, and of lilith, and of hecate, may my lust be fulfilled! shemhamforash! hail satan! invocation employed towards the conjuration of destruction behold! the mighty voices of my vengeance smash the stillness of the air and stand as monoliths of wrath upon a plain of writhing serpents. i am become as a monstrous machine of annihilation to the festering fragments of the body of he (she) who wou

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ry essence of civilization. the xian church and its pulpit-pounders have always made their living off the fears of the people: the fear of retribution if one does not submit to their doctrines and eternal punishment if one does not submit to their god. to be a false christ is to allow the worthless to perish while allowing the worthy to flourish. the second coming not of jesus but the re-birth of babylon! the society of satan! the true saviors of mankind; the enlighteners of truth are the antichrists! the satanic creed and the precepts of evilution are guidelines, which if adhered to, will serve as a catalyst for individuality, creativity, diabolical thought and the development of a strong ego* further, it is essential that the satanist maintain these evilutionary formulae if he/she is to

trength-in-purpose and action all add up to results! 13 occasional solitude is essential for imaginative thought and reflection on life! 14 satan is the original rebel he staged a revolt. do not remain oppressed! we satanists have religious rights and freedoms which need to be exercised now! 15 blaspheme and scorn the xian deities! 16 build and direct the race of evil towards the second coming of babylon! 17 be merciless during and after the religious war! 18 realize that throughout life, and unto death, the only being worthy of passing judgment upon you, is you -10- the satanic philosophy of sexual love we of the antichrist religion recognize our birth-right to instinctual and mythological sexual pleasures. complete sexual freedom is absolute, whether one is heterosexual, homosexual, bise

exual. such preferences are not in any way, pertinent in determining one s inherent value or place in society. as an established religion, we ve blatantly chosen to represent all that is considered xianly immoral, evil sinful, and we further accept and embrace this unholy stance as righteous reality undeniable parts and proclivities of human nature. historically, our kindred predecessors, ancient babylon, were renowned for their unrestricted sexual expression and taboo practices. likewise, our modern-day babylonian ethic regarding sex is, if someone or something tempts you; arouses you sexually, and you are within your personal mores and the laws of the land, you should feel free to indulge yourself in your ecstasy. touching, smelling and tasting one s love object simply enhances and inten

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

ts in both mesopotamian and egyptian religions wore no special costumes. texts. the enuma elish tells the mesopotamian story of creation and explains how marduk became the chief of the gods. the egyptian book of the dead was a guide for the dead, setting out magic spells and charms to be used to pass judgment in the afterlife. sites. ancient nippur was the site of the chief temple to enlil, while babylon was the location of marduk s sanctuary. thebes and the temple complex of karnak were home to the worship of amen-ra. in the modern world the remains of these early religions can be seen in egypt s pyramids, tombs for the pharaohs, and in mesopotamia s ziggurats, temples to the gods. observances. the new year s festival was a major event in mesopotamian religion, while egypt s most importan

the sun god, took the place of atum in the pantheon; later pharaohs, for instance, called themselves sons of ra. ancient egypt and mesopotamia. reproduced by permission of thomson gale. red sea mediterranean sea nile delta river river p e r s i a n g u l f tigris euphrates nile river sinai peninsula arabian peninsula a s i a a f r i c a upper egypt lower egypt memphis aswan thebes ur luxor karnak babylon uruk nineveh khorsabad amarna (akhetaten) heliopolis giza (cairo) n 0 150 300 mi. 0 150 300 km ancient egypt and mesopotamia area under egyptian control mesopotoamia ancient coastline ancient city temple great pyramid sphinx world religions: almanac 43 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia another creation myth came from the city of memphis, where ptah was worshipped for creating the

orms. enlil is one of the most important mesopotamian gods. he guards the tablets of destiny, on which the fate of everything on earth is written. ishtar: the goddess of love and war. she is also known as inanna. ishtar journeyed to the underworld to retrieve her love, tammuz. she is often described as very violent and is depicted holding several weapons and standing on a lion. marduk: the god of babylon who later came to be the supreme god. marduk fought an army of demons led by the goddess tiamat. the new year s festival celebrates the king s fitness to rule through a ceremony in which he bows to a statue of marduk. sin: the moon god. he is also known as nanna. he is lord of the calendar and oversees the seasons. sin wears a beard of the blue stone lapis lazuli and rides a winged bull. g

hanging overnight. world religions: almanac 355 judaism (use of the term torah can be ambiguous. depending on the context, torah can mean the written torah or both the written and oral torah. in connection with the written torah, it is sometimes used to refer to the entire hebrew bible) in the centuries that followed, further commentaries, called the gemara, were written, both in jerusalem and in babylon. so there are actually two talmuds: the jerusalem talmud and the babylonian talmud. the babylonian talmud is more complete and comprehensive. it is usually this version that jews mean when they refer to the talmud. the mishnah, or written text of the talmud, consists of six sections, or sedarim (orders: 1. zera im (seeds, dealing with agricultural laws. 2. mo ed( festival, dealing with fes

oastrianism. scholars continue to debate the influences that zoroastrianism had. one factor that sustains the debate is the uncertainty about dates. conventionally, zoroastrianism is regarded as the first monotheistic religion, but that holds true only if it predated judaism. scholars are by no means unanimous in their belief that it did. many historians believe that because the ancient region of babylon was part of the persian empire, some of the beliefs of zoroastrianism were transferred to judaism during the time of the jews babylonian captivity. additionally, because zoroastrianism influenced judaism, it indirectly influenced christianity, which developed out of judaism. some of these beliefs include belief in angels and devils, a life after death, a system of punishments and rewards f

d young abram breaking all the idols in a shop except for one, which was said to be an early hint that his later beliefs would turn to monotheism. other tales have him criticizing older customers for buying idols. several later stories relate how abram burned his father s idols. the qur an recounts that because of his disapproval of idols, abram was condemned to burn in the furnace of the king of babylon, but god protected him. abram s brother, haran, also did not believe in idols, but he was not saved by god. he is said to have died in the furnace because his faith in god was not strong enough. abraham 2 world religions: biographies promise of a new land terah decided to leave ur around the time abram married his half sister, sarai. tereh took his family, including abram, sarai, and haran

ramer. inanna, queen of heaven and earth: her stories and hymns from sumer. new york, ny: harper and row, 1983. web sites binkley, roberta. context: who was enheduanna? http//www.public.asu. edu/ rbinkle/enheduanna.htm (accessed on june 2, 2006. binkley, roberta. enheduanna. feminist theory website. http//www.cddc.vt. edu/feminism/enheduanna.html (accessed on june 2, 2006. enheduanna. gateways to babylon. http//www.gatewaystobabylon.com/gods/ ladies/ladyenheduanna.html (accessed on june 2, 2006. enheduanna. other women s voices. http//home.infionline.net/ ddisse/ enheduan.html (accessed on june 2, 2006. the exaltation of inana (inana b: translation. the electronic text corpus of sumerian literature. http//www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/section4/tr4072.htm (accessed june 2, 2006. world religions

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om rabbi moses botarel, who wrote his famous commentary in 1409-"it was abraham our father--blessed be he--who wrote this book to condemn the doctrine of the sages of his time, who were incredulous of the supreme dogma of the unity. at least, this was the opinion of rabbi saadiah--blessed be he--as written in the first chapter of his book the philosopher's stone. these are his words: the sages of babylon attacked abraham on account of his faith; for they were all against him although themselves separable into three sects. the first thought that the universe was subject to the control of two opposing forces, the one existing but to destroy the other, this is dualism; they held that there was nothing in common between the author of evil and the author of good. the second sect admitted three

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

e who could neither understand nor read them to be nothing more nor less than magical figures and formula which were intended to serve as talismans. the historian mas'udi mentions 1 an instance of the powers of working magic possessed by a certain jew, which proves that the magical practices of the egyptians had passed eastwards and had found a congenial home among the jews who lived in and about babylon. this man was a native of the village of zurarah in the district of kufa, and he employed his time in working magic. in the mosque at kufa, and in the presence of walid ibn ukbah, he raised up several apparitions, and made a king of huge stature, who was mounted upon a horse, gallop about in the courtyard of the mosque. he then transformed himself into a camel and walked upon a rope; and m

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

person not to go under, and if a new world comes into being either the seeker vanishes from sight, or emerges once more, transfigured, and looks out upon a new sun and a new earth. out of the fire of the spirit the universe has been reborn. birth and rebirth in testimony of what happened to them in the mysteries we have the accounts of the initiates themselves. menippus relates how he traveled to babylon in order to be taken the mysteries and mysteriosophy 7 to hades and brought back again by the followers of zoroaster. 6 he says that in the course of his wanderings he crossed the great water, and that he passed through fire and ice. we hear that the mystai were struck with terror by a drawn sword, that blood was caused to flow. such words are made intelligible by a knowledge of the stages

agment preserved in stobaeus, anthology iv.52.49; it is translated in m. w. meyer s book, the ancient mysteries: a sourcebook (harpersanfrancisco, san francisco, 1987, p. 8. 5. descent into the underworld figures in many of the mysteries, whether in the legends of their heroes (such as herakles or theseus, or in the symbolic enactments, for example, in the creation festival at new year in ancient babylon. there the initiate-king died and entered the dark interior of the worldmountain, but later returned and ascended the ziggurat, or pyramid with its seven levels, and received cosmic symbols of power. he was identified in the rites with the creator-god marduk, who had also died before defeating the powers of chaos and ascending to his father, the wisdom-god ea, in heaven. on the festival, s

SZYMANSKI GREG SEARCHING FOR THE ILLUMINATI DEEP WITHIN THE BOWELS OF THE VATICAN

a child growing up in the ranks. in a manuscript from a book she is trying to publish, written after she ran from the illuminati in san diego, svali explains "the illuminati are a group of people who follow a philosophy known as "illuminism" or "enlightenment. the illuminati were named several hundred years ago, but trace their roots and history to the ancient mystery religions of egypt, ancient babylon, and even mesopotamia. out of these ancient religions, which were practiced secretly over hundreds and hundreds of years, there arose esoteric groups which continued to practice the rites, traditions, and enculturation brought in from the original groups "over the centuries, these groups practiced openly in some countries, and covertly in countries where christianity or other religions opp

t fiction. i know because i lived it for many years" although many researchers of the illuminati feel that america is doomed, svali feels differently "the illuminati and other groups that are organizing to create a world order based on the occult are hoping that this won't happen. but history is against them. they base their principles and spirituality on the occultism of ancient rome, crete, and babylon. but look what happened to the original practitioners! their rules ended, and god brought those rulers filled with pride to dust. i know that this is the end of the illuminati and any other occult groups as well; god has given us a wonderful glimpse in daniel of their eventual fate "there is only one rule, one kingdom that will last forever, and that is the reign of jesus. his reign has al

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

es "the signs, symbols, and inscriptions come to us from across long, drifting centuries and will be found in ancient sumerian clay tablet libraries of the cities of lir, lagash, and others of the first 20 codex magica true urban civilization. this, occurred about 600 years before egypt was civilized."17 in other words, clausen is telling his masonic readers that their signs and symbols came from babylon. the holy bible warns that the ancient mystery religion of wicked babylon will bounce back into demonic prevalence in the last days (see revelation 13, 17, and 18, and here we have the sovereign grand commander, the international chieftain of the masonic lodge, informing us of the babylonian origins of the secret symbols and signs of his illuminist order. when we realize that, for the elit

"what is most worth knowing in masonry is never very openly taught. the symbols are displayed, but they are mute. it is by hints only. that the initiate is put upon the track of the hidden secret" 22 how does one finally discover the inner secrets of freemasonry? my own experience provides the answer. it has taken me many years of meticulous research and study of the ancient mystery religions of babylon, sumeria, greece, rome, china, etc. i have spent many nights reading old textbooks and treatises on medieval and occult subjects; conducted intensive investigation of the rituals and symbols of scores of secret societies and orders; and spent years examining the true teachings and practices of new ageism, witchcraft and satanism. moreover, without study of the holy bible and constant refer

which works behind the scenes and tells these major players what to do. this higher level of the illuminati elite have historically thought of themselves as 30 codex magica the builders. there is even a classic masonic textbook by this very title. the builders believe that jehovah god did adam and eve a disservice by driving them out of the garden. they rankle at the fact that nimrod, the king of babylon, was confounded in building the tower of babel, and they are seized with rage over the destruction of their temple in jerusalem. indeed, the builders are angered that every time they have sought to bring the world together as one, they have been thwarted by god. all of their chosen disciples, the caesars, charlemagne, napoleon, hitler, stalin, fdr, mao, saw their grand plan of conquest go

e three royal arch masons pronouncing the hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 55 name three times each, altogether, says zain, twenty-seven syllables are pronounced. this, he explains, represents "the twenty-seven days it takes the moon to pass through the circle of zodiacal signs."3 interestingly, in the ritual drama, the three masons doing the pronouncing of jahbuhlun are said to have come from babylon! so, we have a ritual the 13th degree in the scottish rite and 7th in the york rite in which three "masters" come from babylon (the font of all evils, see revelation 13, 17, and 18 in the holy bible) to instruct the candidate on how to build the royal arch (symbolically, how to rebuild the jewish temple in jerusalem and thus establish the kingdom of the elite and their devil god on earth

ttish rite and 7th in the york rite in which three "masters" come from babylon (the font of all evils, see revelation 13, 17, and 18 in the holy bible) to instruct the candidate on how to build the royal arch (symbolically, how to rebuild the jewish temple in jerusalem and thus establish the kingdom of the elite and their devil god on earth. the lost word found moreover, the three messengers from babylon inform the candidate that the true name of god, the name that had been lost for so long, is not jesus, but is jahbuhlun. they conveniently omit mention of the fact that this is, in fact, the name of a monstrous devil god, that the name is an unholy and blasphemous composite of jahweh, baal, and osiris, or on (on is a city in egypt where the worship of the sun god, osiris, is alleged to hav

ign figure 34 shown here is taken directly from duncan's masonic ritual and monitor (3rd edition. it pictures the royal arch mason performing the magical sign of the master of the second veil, which i informally and more informatively call here the sign of the hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun. according to duncan's the candidate presents this sign when he is approached by three sojourners from babylon. their objective: rebuild the temple of solomon in jerusalem and eventually establish a world empire of the jews. 58 codex magica in his teaching course on ancient masonry, c.c. zain of the brotherhood of light explains that the ritual for this degree requires a keen understanding of astrology. but, its performance is said to be derived from a passage in the scriptures "the sign is made" w

r deceptive wisdom and for your cunning aid in our struggle to overcome our enemies and to effect the great work" pharaoh ramses paying homage to the god horus, son of osiris, the sun god deity symbolized as the allseeing eye in the capstone on the u.s.a.'s dollar bill. quite possibly, the masons' sign of admiration and astonishment came from practices of adherents to the old mystery religions of babylon and egypt (from book, other worlds, hilary evans, readers digest books, 1998) on all occasions when the egyptian high priest was called to officiate, he wore his robe of office, the spotted leopard's skin. the priest then led the rituals in worship of the "hidden one" the concealed mystery divinity, known esoterically as saturn, the sixth planet from the sun. here we see the priest, attire

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to the fact that he had six letters in each of his three names 6-6-6. in recent decades, the term of antichrist has been applied to so many individuals in popular culture that it has lost much of its meaning and its sense of menace. during the gulf war in 1992, saddam hussein (1937) received many votes for the title of the beast, especially when he announced plans to begin to restore the ruins of babylon to a splendor that would approximate the wicked city s former glory. before hussein, there were many nominations for the ayatollah khomeini (1900 1989) to don the mantle. but later when certain extremists named president reagan, former u.s. secretary of state henry kissinger (1923, and even the children s television icon barney the dinosaur as the antichrist, the word began losing its thre

he christian ranks. in verse 22, john names as the antichrist anyone who would deny jesus as the christ and the father and the son as the antichrist, and in 2 john verse 7 he declares that there are many deceivers already at work among the faithful. according to revelation, christ and his angelic armies of light destroy the forces of darkness at armageddon in the final battle of good versus evil. babylon, the false prophet, and the beast (the antichrist) are dispatched to their doom, and satan, the dragon, is bound in a pit for a thousand years. with satan imprisoned and chained, the millennium, the thousand years of peace and harmony, begins. although christ s second coming is said to be mentioned over 300 times in the new testament, the only references to the millennium are found in reve

he resurrection of the dead and the final judgment of god will not take place until after the millennium has come to a close. for some rather incomprehensible reason, satan is released from the pit at the conclusion of the millennium; and true to his nature, he makes a furious attempt to regain his earthly kingdom. his former allies, the beast (the antichrist, the false prophet, and the hordes of babylon, were destroyed at armageddon, but there were some demons who escaped annihilation at the great battle who stand ready to serve their master. in addition to these evil creatures, satan summons gog and his armies of the magog nations to join them in attacking the saints and the righteous followers of god. although the vast multitude of vile and wicked servants of evil and grotesque monsters

over the place and the driving out of evil spirits has a long and varied history. marty noted that the godparents at the baptismal service in many christian faiths are asked, on behalf of the child they sponsor, if they renounce the devil and all his works and ways. that, he explained, is a mild version of exorcism. and exorcism is a smaller part of modern western religions than it was in ancient babylon, egypt, and greece. there are witchdoctors in african societies who perform exorcisms, medicine people among native american tribes who are exorcists, and shamans throughout asia who banish evil spirits. as long as there are human beings who believe in supernatural powers, there will be exorcists who will be summoned to rid the innocent of the demons who have possessed them. a survey of it

ry. san francisco: harper& row, 1981. manichaeism mani (c. 216 277, a self-proclaimed apostle of christ who spoke in syrian, a version of the aramaic language in which jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) taught, proclaimed that his church would preach a universal religion that would be for all people, regardless of nationality or tongue. the well-educated child, born to a persian family that lived near babylon and who worshipped with the elkesaites, fell under the influence of gnostic teaching and began to devise a philosophy that saw life on earth as a constant struggle between good and evil. when he was only 12, mani experienced his first religious vision and perceived an angelic being who declared itself his heavenly twin and who promised always to be mani s helper and protector. when he was

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ued to draw large audiences into the 1990s. basically, the philosophy behind the relaxation process is quite t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 156 mysteries of the mind fdaresearch noted that extended use of lsd could lead to mood swings, including depression, which could in turn lead to suicide. likely as old as the first healers in ancient babylon, egypt, and greece, who believed that the evil spirits within the ill could be replaced by good spirits if the patient concentrated on positive images of benevolent entities. new age practitioners believe that in order to achieve a complete healing of body, mind, and spirit, one must counter the negative input that the individual has placed in his or her mind over decades of negative reinf

es of the world that an attack from outer space was about to begin. people of all nations would believe the leaders who advised that unconditional surrender to the aliens was for everyone s own good. immediately following their betrayal of earth to the aliens, the united leaders would form a one world government, a new world order, thus fulfilling biblical prophecies about a return to the days of babylon. the aliens would reveal themselves as demonic entities, and the planet would be in torment until jesus returned to deal the final blow to the armies of evil. during that same period of paranoia in the mid-to-late 1990s, ufo believers and investigators began seeing treacherous agents of the secret government everywhere. men in black were joined by black helicopters, and hun- t h e g a l e

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nded by powerful and mysterious forces over which they had no control. hoping to influence the supernatural beings whom they believed controlled their destiny, or at least to appease the beings f wrath, humans sought to know the will of the gods. the ancient chaldeans read the machinations of the gods in the star-filled heavens, as well as in the bloody livers of sacrificed fowl. when the king of babylon went forth to war, he wrote the names of cities on his arrows, put them back into the quiver, and shook them. he then removed an arrow and attacked first the city whose name was written thereon. the children of israel sought the word of the lord in the jewels of the ephod; and jonah deemed it a just verdict when the casting of lots decreed that it was he who was the cause of the storm. pha

owed to leave the temple. as decades passed, the sacredness and powers of the ark were largely forgotten. when jerusalem was invaded and taken by babylonians led by king nebuchadnezzar ii (c. 630.562 b.c.e; the babylonian captivity of jerusalem is dated from 587 b.c.e, the whereabouts of the ark became a mystery. it was either destroyed along with the city or, as suggested in kings 4:25, taken to babylon as one of the spoils of victory. some biblical scholars theorize that those israelites still faithful to god were forewarned about the fall of jerusalem and moved the ark to safety. jeremiah is said to have moved the ark to a cave on mt. sinai, the mountain in egypt where moses first spoke with god. the talmud, the ancient, authoritative history of the hebrews, indicates that the ark was k

tive history of the hebrews, indicates that the ark was kept in a secret area of the temple of solomon and survived the destruction and pillaging of jerusalem. the temple of solomon was rebuilt on its original foundation after the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 202 objects of mystery and power ark of the covenant (fortean picture library) babylon captivity. around 150 b.c.e, a successor of alexander the great invaded jerusalem and took valuable items from the new temple, but the ark was not mentioned among them. one account has the illegitimate son of solomon and sheba stealing the ark about 1000 b.c.e. and hiding it in aksum, ethiopia, where it was guarded by a monk in a church. other stories have the ark being transported during

b.c.e, who mentions such an inventory. later greek historians wrote about the great monuments of their time, and the list of seven ancient wonders of the world was finalized from among those opinions during the middle ages. the seven wonders include. the great pyramid of khufu (cheops. the oldest of the seven wonders and the only surviving one, constructed about 2630 b.c.e. the hanging gardens of babylon. part of the palace of king nebuchadnezzar ii and built about 600 b.c.e, it featured a series of terraces with stone arches. the terraces were filled with plants, and an elaborate tunnel and pulley system brought water from the nearby euphrates river. the statue of zeus. dated to the mid-fifth century b.c.e. and credited to the greek sculptor phidias, it was located at the temple of zeus a

s on its east, south, and west sides. with the spring of gihon at its feet to provide fresh water easily available for its inhabitants even during times of siege, the location of salem made it a naturally impregnable fortress. as the city of jerusalem grew, it sprawled out over the two larger and three smaller hills of the ridge. with egypt about 300 miles southwest; assyria, 700 miles northeast; babylon, 700 miles east; persia, 1,000 miles east; greece, 800 miles northwest; and rome, 1,500 miles northwest, jerusalem became a very cosmopolitan city with a steady flow of merchants and traders arriving from nations throughout the known world. david established jerusalem as israel fs national capital in about 1000 b.c.e, and in about 950 b.c.e, his son solomon built the magnificent temple tha

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

god of the witcheschapter i. the horned god6middle east, i.e, in egypt, mesopotamia and india. in the near east the figures may be either male orfemale, and the horns are those of cattle, sheep or goats.[1] there are no stag antlers, possibly because thestag did not occur in those lands or was so uncommon as not to be of importance as a food animal.horned gods were common in mesopotamia, both in babylon and assyria. the copper head found in one ofthe gold-tombs at ur, is very early; possibly earlier than the first egyptian dynasty. it is about half life-size,and the style and workmanship show an advanced stage of metal-working. the eyes were originally inlaidwith limestone or shell for the white of the eye, and lapis lazuli for the iris. the head wears two horns, anumber which at a slight

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n these circumferences become a true image of the purity of my words and intentions, for thy greatest glory and justice. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator throws more incense into the censer and makes his second turn around the altar saying: o eternal, may this perfume which i offer thee in testimony of the purity of my 19 soul have the same success as the one which zerubbabel offered thee in babylon for the deliverance of the remnants of israel. o eternal, deliver me from the slavery of darkness which surrounds and keeps me in privation of thy will and of thy science. hear my prayer so that my words and my will may conform with thine. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator again throws more incense into the censer and makes the third turn around the altar saying: o eternal, may my pray

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y. this was a woman with striking white hair who claimed to represent a local newspaper. she carried a book "like a big ledger" and asked the witness a number of personal questions about her family background. when i later checked 'with the newspaper i found they employed no one of that description. the local mount misery expert was miss jaye p. paro, a radio personality then with station wbab in babylon, new york. miss paro is a dark-haired, dark-eyed young lady with a soft, haunting voice. at that time she conducted an interview show, largely devoted to the historical and psychic lore of the region. soon after she reported some ufo sightings around mount misery she began to receive all manner of crank calls, both at the station and on her unlisted home phone. metallic voices ordered her

r experiences. in early june, jane began to see the "librarian" wherever she went. on june 6, while wandering through a local department store, the woman appeared behind a dress rack. she wore the same old-fashioned clothes and tried to speak to jane in "broken english" there was something wrong about her speech and movements "it was as if. she were dead" jane said. when asked if she lived around babylon, the woman laughed in a strange hysterical way "like an emotionally disturbed person (this weird laugh has been described by many contactees "is there any a-u here" the woman asked. jane didn't know what she meant. just that week i had been pondering the significance of gold in ufo and religious lore. gold is the seventy-ninth element and the chemical symbol for it is au. jane offered to g

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mind they did meet, and on common soil. sumeria. sumeria is the name given to a once flourishing civilisation that existed in what is now known as iraq, in the area called by the greeks "mesopotamia" and by the arabs as, simply "the island" for it existed between two rivers, the tigris and the euphrates, which run down from the mountains to the persian gulf. this is the site of the fabled city of babylon, as well as of ur of the chaldees and kish, with nineveh far to the north. each of the seven principal cities of sumeria was ruled by a different deity, who was worshipped in the strange, non-semitic language of the sumerians; and language which has been closely allied to that of the aryan race, having in fact many words identical to that of sanskrit (and, it is said, to chinese. for no on

ness new york, 1973 lovecraft, h.p. the dunwich horror new york, 1963 the lurker at the threshold (with august derleth) new york, 1971 mason, h. gilgamesh (ed) new york, 1972 neugebauer, o. the exact sciences in antiquity new york, 1969 near eastern texts relating to the old testament princeton, 1958 pritchard, j. the chaldean oracles of zoroaster "sapere aude" new york seignobos, s. the world of babylon new york, 1975 seligmann, k. magic, supernaturalism, and religion new york, 1968 oriental magic new york, 1973 shah, i. the secret lore of magic new york, 1972 the sufis new york, 1973 tallqvist, k.l "die assyrische beschworungsserie maqlu nach dem originalem im british museum herausgegeben" acta societatis scientiarum fennicae helsingfors, 1895 reports of the magicians and astrologers of

york, 1975 seligmann, k. magic, supernaturalism, and religion new york, 1968 oriental magic new york, 1973 shah, i. the secret lore of magic new york, 1972 the sufis new york, 1973 tallqvist, k.l "die assyrische beschworungsserie maqlu nach dem originalem im british museum herausgegeben" acta societatis scientiarum fennicae helsingfors, 1895 reports of the magicians and astrologers of nineveh and babylon london, 1900 thompson, r.c. semitic magic london, 1904 the devils and evil spirits of babylonia london, 1904 the testimony of the mad arab this is the testimony of all that i have seen, and all that i have learned, in those years that i have possessed the three seals of masshu. i have seen one thousand-and-one moons, and surely this is enough for the span of a man's life, though it is said

n of man, when the elder gods walked the spaces, the race of marduk, as he is known to the chaldeans, and of enki our master, the lord of magicians. know, then, that i have trod all the zones of the gods, and also the places of the azonei, and have descended unto the foul places of death and eternal thirst, which may be reached through the gate of ganzir, which was built in ur, in the days before babylon was. know, too, that i have spoken with all manner of spirit and daemon, whose names are no longer known in the societies of man, or were never known. and the seals of some of these are writ herein; yet others i must take with me when i leave you. anu have mercy on my soul! i have seen the unknown lands, that no map has ever charted. i have lived in the deserts and the wastelands, and spok

igns carved upon the grey stone, that was the gate to the outside: an this is the amulet that i held in my hand, and hold to this very day, around my neck as i write these words: of the three carved symbols, the first is the sign of our race from beyond the stars, and is called arra in the tongue of the scribe who taught it to me, an emissary of the elder ones. in the tongue of the eldest city of babylon, it was ur. it is the sigil of the covenant of the elder gods, and when they see it, they who gave it to us, they will not forget us. they have sworn! spirit of the skies, remember! the second is the elder sign, and is the key whereby the powers of the elder gods may be summoned, when used with the proper words and shapes. it has a name, and is called agga. the third sign is the sigil of t

in the most beautiful flowers of a field, and in the saddest death of the battlefield, which is that field's fairest flower. her gate is the third you will pass in the rites that follow, and in which place you will be of a heart to stay; but turn you face to the road that leads beyond, for that is your genuine goal, unless the goddess choses you. her step on the ladder of lights, built of old in babylon and at ur, is white. this is her seal, which you must engrave on copper, venus being exalted in the heavens, with no one about watching its construction. being finished, it is to be wrapped in the purest silk and lain safely away, only to be removed when need arises, at any time. the number of inanna is fifteen, by which number she is frequently known in the incantations of the dispensatio

the time in which to lay it down. this book is not to be shown to the unclean or the profane or the uninitiated, for to do so is to call the most awful curse of the book upon thee and upon thy generations. spirit of the book, remember! the magan text the verses here following come from the secret text of some of the priests of a cult which is all that is left of the old faith that existed before babylon was built, and it was originally in their tongue, but i have put it into the golden speech of my country so that you may understand it. i came upon this text in my early wanderings in the region of the seven fabled cities of ur, which are no more, and it tells of the war between the gods that took place in a time beyond the memory of man. and the horrors and ugliness that the priest will e

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ore named the impure bya. 162 of 273 the impure worlds are called: esh mitlakachat (fire catches fire) opposite the world of beria. anan gadol (great cloud- opposite the world of yetzira. ruach se ara (stormy wind- opposite the world of assiya. after the sin, partzuf adam harishon broke into 600,000 pieces. the pieces continued to break (the torah describes them as the killing of abel, the flood, babylon, and there is more. consequently, all that was left of partzuf adam harishon are fragments that have a will to receive in order receive, with just a spark of light. these parts, with sparks in them, clothe people in this world and awaken them to spirituality, to the light, to the creator. this is how people are pushed to join the group of kabbalah students. there is yet another shell: it i

hat does it mean that the entire creation was built in man s image? a: the term man s image refers to ten sefirot that were corrected with three lines, and consist of rosh, toch, sof that consist of 248 organs. it is called the image of man because our world is built from a different substance, but as a replica of spiritual partzuf. 185 of 273 chapter 3.25 english meaning of hebrew terms 1. bavel babylon 2. bore creator 3. keli vessel 4. mador haklipot the shell section 5. masach screen 6. ohr hassadim light of mercy 7. ohr hochma light of wisdom 8. ohr hozer returning light 9. ohr makif surrounding light 10. ohr pnimi inner light 11. ohr yashar direct light 12. raglaim- legs 13. tzimtzum aleph 1st restriction 14. tzimtzum bet 2nd restriction part four: man s study of himself part one: the

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srael from following the lord, and made them sin a great sin. 17:22 for the children of israel walked in all the sins of jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; 17:23 until the lord removed israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. so was israel carried away out of their own land to assyria unto this day. 17:24 and the king of assyria brought [men] from babylon, and from cuthah, and from ava, and from hamath, and from sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the cities of samaria instead of the children of israel: and they possessed samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. 17:25 and [so] it was at the beginning of their dwelling there [that] they feared not the lord: therefore the lord sent lions among them, which slew [some] of them. 17:26 wherefore th

nd let him teach them the manner of the god of the land. 17:28 then one of the priests whom they had carried away from samaria came and dwelt in bethel, and taught them how they should fear the lord. 17:29 howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put [them] in the houses of the high places which the samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. 17:30 and the men of babylon made succoth-benoth, and the men of cuth made nergal, and the men of hamath made ashima, 17:31 and the avites made nibhaz and tartak, and the sepharvites burnt their children in fire to adrammelech and anammelech, the gods of sepharvaim. 17:32 so they feared the lord, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the h

go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? 20:10 and hezekiah answered, it is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. 20:11 and isaiah the prophet cried unto the lord: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of ahaz. 20:12 at that time berodach-baladan, the son of baladan, king of babylon, sent letters and a present unto hezekiah: for he had heard that hezekiah had been sick. 20:13 and hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and [all] the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that he

the spices, and the precious ointment, and [all] the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that hezekiah shewed them not. 20:14 then came isaiah the prophet unto king hezekiah, and said unto him, what said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? and hezekiah said, they are come from a far country [even] from babylon. 20:15 and he said, what have they seen in thine house? and hezekiah answered, all [the things] that [are] in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that i have not shewed them. 20:16 and isaiah said unto hezekiah, hear the word of the lord. 20:17 behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thine house,and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day

aid, what have they seen in thine house? and hezekiah answered, all [the things] that [are] in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that i have not shewed them. 20:16 and isaiah said unto hezekiah, hear the word of the lord. 20:17 behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thine house,and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the lord. 20:18 and of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of babylon. 20:19 then said hezekiah unto isaiah, good is the word of the lord which thou hast spoken. and he said [is it] not [good] if peace and truth be in my days? 20:20 and the rest of the acts of he

one according to his taxation, to give [it] unto pharaoh-nechoh. 23:36 jehoiakim [was] twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in jerusalem. and his mother s name [was] zebudah, the daughter of pedaiah of rumah. 23:37 and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the lord, according to all that his fathers had done. 24:1 in his days nebuchadnezzar king of babylon came up, and jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. 24:2 and the lord sent against him bands of the chaldees, and bands of the syrians, and bands of the moabites, and bands of the children of ammon, and sent them against judah to destroy it, according to the word of the lord, which he spake by his servants the prophets. 24:3 surely at the command

t he shed: for he filled jerusalem with innocent blood; which the lord would not pardon. 24:5 now the rest of the acts of jehoiakim, and all that he did [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of judah? 24:6 so jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead. 24:7 and the king of egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of babylon had taken from the river of egypt unto the river euphrates all that pertained to the king of egypt. 24:8 jehoiachin [was] eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in jerusalem three months. and his mother s name [was] nehushta, the daughter of elnathan of jerusalem. 24:9 and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the lord, according to all that his father had done. 2

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relatively easy to grasp and they convey the same meaning to all peoples in all ages. in ancient times the elemental principles were represented by the emblems of four beasts whose natures embody the underlying essences of the elemental forces: 1) lion (fire; 2) eagle (water; 3) angel (air; 4) bull (earth. it would be difficult to trace the origin of these kerubic figures; they go back to ancient babylon, in whose ruins archaeologists have found their effigies, and doubtless their genesis is even earlier. they may have arisen not long after the human race began to favor agriculture over the nomadic lifestyle. on first look it appears that the eagle would be a more appropriate emblem for the element air than the angel, but upon deeper consideration this is not so self- evident. no one who h

cles 4:l. even the christian church was not insensitive to the occult significance of stone and the cubic shape. the earliest christians did not use altars, but in the third century it became the custom to enclose holy relics within the altar, which assumed a box shape with a stone slab for a top. in 517 the council of epaone in burgundy forbad the consecration of any but stone altars. in ancient babylon altars had square tops and were made of sun-dried bricks. in ancient egypt they were of black stone in the shapes of a cube or a truncated cone (magically, a form of the truncated pyramid. the builders of stonehenge traveled many miles to harvest the blue stones, presumably because of their enhanced power to retain spiritual energy, and these stones were cut into roughly oblong shapes away

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he land inhabited by the spirits, will find it easier to shape his offerings chapter seventeen: etiquette in the astral world 293 mentally, and present them through the intermediary of his astral guide, or directly if he has no guide. the idea of giving astral beings gifts composed of astral substance may appear strange at first consideration, but it is quite an ancient practice. the magicians of babylon and egypt used it when dealing with spirits in their rituals. rather than travel to the astral realms themselves, they employed scryers to see and converse with the spirits, usually a young boy or girl. children are naturally more mediumistic than adults. for the gathering and presentation of the astral offerings, they either had a spirit act as their agent, or they caused the spirits rece

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the sprinkling of blood. stones had other uses besides the building of altars. when the prophet jeremiah wished to punish the men and women of judah who had gone to live in egypt, he took "great stones" and buried them in the soft clay in the brickkiln in front of one of the pharaoh's houses, speaking to the men of judah in the voice of god "behold, i will send and take nebuchadrezzar the king of babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that i have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them (jer. 43:lo. the stones in this way accomplished the destruction of egypt. we are not told how many stones jeremiah used for this magic, only that there were more than one, but four would seem the most appropriate number--one for each letter of tetragrammaton, and for ea

lpam carcedoma italia brytania phenices comaginen apulia marmarica concava syria gebal elam adunia media arriana chaldea serica populi persia gongatha gorsin hispania pamphilia aethers 19: pop 20: chr 21: asp 22: lin 23: tor 24: nla 25: uti 26: des tetragrammaton enochian geographical spirits (continued) spirit names regions aethers original reformed 79) saziami saziami oacidi 80) mathula mathula babylon 27: zaa 81) orpanib crpanib median 82) labnixp pabnixp adumian 83) pocisni pocisni felix arabia 28: bag 84) oxlopar oxlopar metagonitidim 85) vastrim vastrim assyria 86) odraxti odraxti africa 29: rii 87) gomziam gmtziam bactriani 88) taoagla taaogba asnan 89) gemnimb gemnimb phrygia 30: tex 90) advorpt advorpt creta 91) doxmael doxmael mauritania 92) laxdizi laxdizi- on the golden dawn wa

ower birds with their talons. thus the "stooping dragon" is kept back from his prey, the living things of the earth, by the "long continuance" of the pillars of the watchtower of the south, which act as shields upheld against his attack. there is a striking contrast here with the second image, the "harvest of a widow" the harvest of a widow is lamentation and want. this seems to be an allusion to babylon, who is personified as a harlot: how much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, i sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the lord god who judgeth her (rev. 18:7-8)

ay imagery that surrounds the keys and shows how close the prophecies of the angels are to those delivered by st. john: i will plague the people, and their blood shall become rivers. fathers shall eat their own children, and the earth shall be barren: the beasts of the field shall perish, and the waters shall be poisoned. the air shall infect her creatures, and in the deep shall be roaring. great babylon shall be built, and the son of wickednesse, shall sit in judgement. from the north shall come a whirlwind, and the hills shall open their mouths: and there shall a dragon flie out, such as never was (due& faithful relation, p. 43) the last part of this key is interesting because it shows that, even though this in an evocation of a class of vengeful angels who will take part in the final ap

uld not normally assume that spoken words could be perceived visually. however, the words of god are the events of the world. in the bible, the words of god frequently appear in written form. the ten commandments were not merely dictated by god but were incised into the stone tablets by the finger of god (exod. 31:lb. in the vision of st. john, the name of the great whore appendix a: the keys 225 babylon is written in her forehead (rev. 17:5, and the name of the mounted warrior christ is written on his thigh (rev. 19:16. this prominence of writing has to do with the peculiar reverence of the ancient hebrews for the written word, which has come down to modern times preserved in the mysticism of the kabbalah. kabbalists believe that the holy torah is not merely a record of god's pronouncemen

inferior yaldabaoth in order to bring about the restoration of human souls to their rightful place in the heavens. this voluntary degradation, or descent into forgetfulness("and the dwelling places, let them forget their names .confound her understanding with darkness) is usually symbolized in the various myths by prostitution. in the vision of st. john, the goddess earth becomes the great whore babylon, who from a gnostic perspective is a degraded form of the queen of heaven. among some gnostic sects, she was called barbelo or sophia. in the myth of the simonian gnostics, she is helena, one of whose incarnations was helen of troy. the gnostic prophet simon, who was confused with the biblical simon magus by the fathers of the church, taught that he was himself the highest power, god the f

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faces toward jerusalem, looking for that time; but for jewry at large the question has passed from the field of view, much as the quest is continued by us in virtue of a ceremonial formula but cannot be said to mean anything for those who undertake and pursue it. it was lost owing to the unworthiness of israel, and the destruction of the first temple was one consequence thereof. by the waters of babylon, in their exile, the jews are said to have remembered zion, but the word did not come back into their hearts; and when divine providence inspired cyrus to bring about the building of the second temple and the return of israel into their own land, they went back empty of all, recollection in this respect. the divine name i am putting things in a summary fashion that are scattered up and dow

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ions. they did change density at times. they made heavy footsteps, in the hallway, on the wood floor. who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (24 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:58] and could walk through the walls. they "glow" an electrical blue/greenish color, like some kind of aura. the head is similar to the reptilian humanoids on the tv program "babylon 5. the head was more cone shaped, like the "yeti" kind of have. in fact, the reptoids are built like big foot. the one has scales, the other has hair. the eyes are "slit" serpert-like. very strange "flame-like" and flickery. three fingers and an opposing thumb. with claw-like talons(on fingers and feet. a small tail. large scales, like a "breast plate" on the chest. the scales were smaller

two months before it happened. there may be something to it. below is the mechanism or rather the connection between reptilian, satanism and blooddrinking/sacrifices, etc. very interesting. show this to your kids or potential satanists who think it is only a fad or game. icke wrote "the black magic rituals we know as satanism are the modern expression of the rituals and human sacrifice in ancient babylon and the brotherhood infiltrated societies of the sumerian, phoenician, hittite, egyptian, canaanite and akkadian, peoples, among many others across the world. it has been a seamless procession through history of the same rituals to the same deities and this remains of fundamental importance to the initiates of the brotherhood today. my use of the term satanism has nothing to do with the ch

WILLIAM WESCOTT GOLDEN DAWN HISTORTY LECTURE

this arrival of mysticism was a new development of the older wisdom of the qabalistic rabbis and of that very ancient secret knowledge of the magic of the egyptians into which moses had been initiated. through the qabalah, indeed, europe became possessed of the ancient wisdom more than from any one other source, for the hebrews were taught at one time by the egyptians and later by the chaldees of babylon. it is a curious fact that the classic nations, the greeks and romans, have handed down to us but slight glimpses of the ancient magic, and this is more notable because greece succeeded to the mastership of egypt, and rome to the empire of both the greeks and jews. greece did indeed succeed to a share in the mysteries of the egyptians for the eleusinian mysteries were copies of the ancient

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as the previous volumes which treated of alchemy, in the hermetic arcanum, hermetic art, euphrates and aesch metzareph; the dream of scipio and the golden verses of the pythagoreans, the pymander of hermes and egyptian magic. i have added in this edition many notes on the notions of the rabbis of israel, both from those who contributed to the mishnah and gemara of the talmuds of jerusalem and of babylon, and from the rabbis who made a special study of the kabalah. only a few talmudic treatises have as yet appeared in the english language, and hardly any kabalistic tracts, except three from the zohar or book of splendour, viz, the siphra dtzenioutha, the idra rabba and the idra suta. many talmudic and kabalistic quotations may, however, be found in j. p. stehelin s rabbinical literature of

ks used their numbers almost exclusively for everyday purposes; while the jewish rabbis added to their practical value special peculiar purposes, and looked to them to furnish deeper views of nature, existence and doctrine. no doubt can exist that the ancient egyptians were fully aware of the wondrous mysteries which numbers are able to disclose, so, considering that greece, and neither judea nor babylon, succeeded to the empires of ancient egypt, it is a curious fact how little knowledge of the dogmas of the hierophants of sais, memphis and thebes greek literature has transmitted to us. the jewish rabbis discovered so much of interest and importance behind the merely superficial value of numbers, and of words as their representatives, that they gradually developed a complete science of nu

id, consider the end, b.c. 590. 3. cleobulos who said, avoid extremes, b.c. 580. 4. periander who said, nothing is impossible to perseverance, b.c. 600. 5. pittacus who said, know thy opportunity, b.c. 569. 6. solon who said, know thyself, b.c. 600. 7. thales who said, suretyship is ruin, b.c. 550. the seven wonders of the world are thus enumerated: 1. pyramids of egypt. 2. the hanging gardens of babylon, for semiramis. 3. tomb of mausolus, king of caria, at halicarnassus, built by artemisia, his queen. 4. temple of diana at ephesus, 552 b.c. ctesiphon was the chief architect. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 5. colossus of rhodes, an image of the sun god, apollo, of brass, 290 b.c. 76. 6. statue of zeus, at athens, by phidias. 7. pharos of egypt

, jeremiah, hilkiah, hannemeel and shallum. note also that huldah the prophetess was the grandchild of rahab. 87. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the last 8 verses of deuteronomy, the mosaic law, the pentateuch, were written by joshua. bava bathra, 14. i. rabbi nathan states that there were 8 sects of the pharisees, but both of the talmuds (jerusalem and babylon) name only seven. it is prophesized that the harps, which will be played on earth before the messiah, will have 8 strings. erachin, 13. 2. as seven was the number of the original creation, so 8, says w. f. shaw, may be considered as the day of regeneration. eight souls were saved in the ark of noah, and noah was the 8th in descent, his name was nvch=8 times 8=64. 888 is the special number

midian, and 40 in the wilderness. the israelites were 40 years among the philistines. 42. 42 is notable because of the 42-lettered name of god, taught by the kabalists. there were 42 judges in the judgment hall of osiris. see bettany, the world s religions, pg. 166, on the events of the 42nd day after death. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the talmud of babylon in kiddushin 71, mentions the 42-lettered name, and it is given by ignatz stern as composed of the divine names of the bible; thus eheyeh asher eheyeh, al, jah, jehovah, elohim, jehovah sabaoth, el chai and adonai. ahih ashr ahih; ih; ihvih; al; alhim; ihvh tzbavt; al chi; adni, or 4, 3, 4, 2, 5, 2, 5, 4, 5, 2, 2, 4=42. it is very curious that the ten sephiroth which denote the attributes

adult man is 96 digits, which equaled 24 palms, or six feet. 99. the mahometans have 99 names attributed to god. 100. this is the number of mdvn, which means strife, and it is the beginning of 100 lawsuits. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the jerusalem talmud, bava metzia, 85. 1, says that rabbi zira fasted 100 times to enable him to forget the talmud of babylon, in favor of the talmud of jerusalem. obadiah was considered worthy to be called prophet, because he concealed 100 prophets in a cave. 103. the family of herod asmonaeus ruled jewry 103 years. 120. for 120 years, the secret vault of christian rosenkreutz remained unopened, as he had ordered, 1484 to 1604. the shemaneh esreh, the 18 blessings, were composed by 120 elders. 130. the rabbis sa

od almighty; and of shmh (shemah, the name of the absolute god; also of mshh, moses and shilh, shiloh. 119. 358. the number of messiah, mshich and nchsh, nachash, the serpent symbol of life. 364. the name satan, the shathan, h,shthn, contains 364, and all these days of each year he can tempt man, but not on the 365th, the day of atonement. 365. days of the year, negative jewish precepts, dukes of babylon, and streets in the city of rome. 370. directions of the thought of microprosopus. see idra rabba, 5. 537. 373. logos. 375. shlmh, solomon. 394. there were this number of law-courts in the jerusalem of the kingdom period. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 400. the body of joseph was carried 400 miles to burial. david is said to have had a guard of 4

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ignorant priestcraft, by absurd superstitions and by a science which fell to a divine revelation in place of rising to a sublime art. in the west, for some fifteen hundred years now, christianity has swayed the minds of men from the arctic seas to the mediterranean. at first but one of many small excrescent faiths, which sprang up like fungi amongst the superb "d bris" of the religions of egypt, babylonia, and greece, it was not long before (on account of its warlike tenets and the deeply magical nature of its rites1) it forced its head and then its arms above the shoulders of its 1 primitive christianity had a greater adaptability than any other contemporary religion of assimilating to itself all that was more particularly pagan in polytheism; the result being that it won over the great

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every nation a virgin forbidden soil, untrodden by man's thought[[footnote(s* the appellation ak-ad (or akkadians) is of the same class as ad-m, ha-va (eve, aed-en (eden; ak-ad meaning "son of ad (like the sons of ad in ancient arabia. ad-ad, the "only one" and the first, was the ad-on or "lord" of syria and consort of ad-ar-gat or aster't, the syrian goddess. and gan-aeden (eden) or gandunia was babylonia and mesopotamia. in assyrian ak meant creator, the letter k pronounced kh (ah) gutturally. according to swedenborg's mysticism adam was not a man but a church) of primitive light. in the vedas ad-iti is the primitive light, the akasa of the phenomenal world[[vol. 2, page] 43 adam-adami. untouched by fruitless speculation. the only reference made to it was the brief conception of its dias

rs correct and expose the later cunning shuffling of the gods in the hindu pantheon, and restore through ahura the asuras to their legitimate place in theogony, so the recent discoveries of the chaldean tablets vindicate the good name of the first divine emanations. this is easily proved. christian angelology is directly and solely derived from that of the pharisees, who brought their tenets from babylonia. the sadducees, the real guardians of the laws of moses, knew not of, and rejected, any angels, opposing even the immortality of the human soul (not impersonal spirit. in the bible the only "angels" spoken of are the "sons of god" mentioned in genesis vi (who are now regarded as the nephilim, the fallen angels, and several angels in human form, the "messengers" of the jewish god, whose o

d that he was identified with oannes, or the biblical dagon- the man-fish who rose out of the persian gulf* see part. ii "the holy of holies* it is far later on that the moon became a male god; with the hindus it was soma, with the chaldeans nannak or nannar, and sin, the son of mulil, the older bel. the "akkadians" called him the "lord of ghosts; and he was the god of nipoor (niffer) in northern babylonia. it is mulil who caused the waters of the flood to fall from heaven on earth, for which xisuthrus would not allow him to approach his altar. as the modern assyriologists have now ascertained, it is the northern nipoor which is the centre whence chaldean (black) magic spread; and eridu (the southern) which was the primitive seat of the worship of the culture god, the god of divine wisdom

ion. we may believe the man (of the third round) evolved 'by gradual modification of an (astral) mammal of ape-like organization' still easier when we remember that (though in a more condensed and less elegant, but still as comprehensible, phraseology) the same theory was said by berosus to have been taught many thousands of years before his time by the man-fish oannes or dagon, the semi-demon of babylonia (though on somewhat modified lines "but what lies back of the darwinian line of descent? so far as he is concerned nothing but 'unverifiable hypotheses' for, as he puts it, he views all beings 'as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the silurian system was deposited* he does not attempt to show us who these 'few beings' were. but it answers

lity is no myth at all; it belongs to those landmarks of history which occasionally disclose to the student that the bible is not all mere allegory. eden, or the hebrew[[hebrew] gan-eden, meaning the park or the garden of eden, is an archaic name of the country watered by the euphrates and its many branches, from asia and armenia to the erythraean sea (a. wilder says that gan-duniyas is a name of babylonia) in the chaldean "book of numbers" the location is designated in numerals, and in the cypher rosicrucian manuscript, left by count st. germain, it is fully described. in the assyrian tablets it is rendered ganduniyas "behold" says the[[hebrew (elohim) of genesis "the man is become as one of us" the elohim may be accepted in one sense for gods or powers, and in another for aleim, or pries

truth as does every early cosmogony, the hebrew scripture wears on its face the marks of a double origin. its genesis is purely a reminiscence of the babylonian captivity. the names of places, men and even objects, can be traced from the original text to the chaldeans and the akkadians, the progenitors and aryan instructors of the former. it is strongly contested that the akkad tribes of chaldea, babylonia and assyria were in[[footnote(s* vol. i, pp. 575, et seq[[vol. 2, page] 203 the garden of eden, a college. any way cognate with the brahmans of hindostan; but there are more proofs in favour of this opinion than otherwise. the shemite or assyrian ought, perchance, to have been called the turanian, and the mongolians have been denominated scyths. but if the akkadians ever existed, otherwi

. ii, p. 197[[vol. 2, page] 456 the secret doctrine. praises it in unmeasured terms. spencer, quoting the latter, speaks of it as that "most excellent oriental work" adding (vol. 1, p. 354) that by nabatheans, the sabeans, the chaldeans, and the egyptians, in short all those nations against whom the laws of moses were most severely enacted, have to be understood. nebo, the oldest god of wisdom of babylonia and mesopotamia, was identical with the hindu budha and hermes- mercury of the greeks. a slight change in the sexes of the parents is the only alteration. as budha was the son of soma (the moon) in india, and of the wife of brihaspati (jupiter, so nebo was the son of zarpa-nitu (the moon deity) and of merodach, who had become jupiter, after having been a sun god. as mercury the planet, n

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st adam" when the theosophists and occultists say that god is no being, for it is nothing, no-thing, they are more reverential and religiously respectful to the deity than those who call god a he, and thus make of him a gigantic male. he who studies the kabala will soon find the same idea in the ultimate thought of its authors, the earlier and great hebrew initiates, who got this secret wisdom at babylonia from the chaldean hierophants, while moses got his in egypt. the zohar cannot well be judged by its after translations in latin and other tongues, as all those ideas were, of course, softened and made to fit in with the views and policy of its christian arrangers; but in truth its ideas are identical with those of all other religious systems. the various cosmogonies show that the archaic

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n (dead sea scrolls. 150 bc esoteric form of astrology based on the teachings of hermes or thoth circulates in numerous works under such titles as: astrologoumena, hermaikai diataxeis or doctrines of hermes, apokotastasis, liber hermetis(listing of decan images, asklepios. 130 bc greek astronomer hipparchus is credited for the discovering the precession of the equinoxes which was already known in babylonia centuries earlier. 86-82 bc rhetorica ad herennium latin rhetorical treatise on the classical art of memory attributed to marcus tullius cicero. 70-19 virgil 67 pirates based in cilicia (a province on the southeastern coast of asia minor) were practicing secret rites of mithras. 46-120 plutarch 20 bc- 45 philo of alexandria, jewish platonic philosopher 10 bce apollonius of tyana 4? bce-3

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ave been imprisoned, and how we can get out of prison. making us confused and dividing us into factions, religions, and tongues was part of the prison warder strategy. if you read the story of the tower of babel, you can see this described symbolically "at first the people of the whole world had only one language and used the same words. as they wandered about in the east, they came to a plain in babylonia and settled there. they said to one another 'come on! let's make bricks and bake them hard. so they had bricks to build with and mortar to hold them together. they said 'now let's build a city with a tower that reaches to the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth "then the lord [extraterrestrials] came down to see the city and the tower whi

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d place for the followers of mithra, and hisimage and symbols have been found cut into rocks and stone tablets throughout thewestern provinces of the former roman domain, including germany, france andbritain. christianity and the roman church were based on the persian-roman sun godcalled mithra (nimrod, who has an earlier equivalent in india called mitra. tammuz oradonis (lord, who was revered in babylonia and syria, was said to have been born atmidnight on december 24th. these were also sons of god.horus was the the son of god in egypt. he was derived from the babyloniantammuz and, in turn, provided another blueprint for the later jesus. theconnections are devastating for the credibility of the christian church: jesus wasthe light of the world. horus was the light of the world. jesus said

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

gick (q.v. water: one of the five magickal elements. it has the properties of being cool and moist. the element of the west. the elemental weapon/tool is the cup or chalice. waxing (moon: the moon from when the new moon can just be seen to the time of the full moon. western occultism: the magick of europe and english speaking nations around the world that has descended from the magick of sumeria, babylonia, egypt, greece, rome, the arabs and the jews, as well as from the indigenous european magick of ancient times. it's range is roughly coequal with that of christianity. the kabbalah is said to be the heart of modern western occultism. white magick: 1) the science and art of causing change (in reality or in consciousness) in conformity with will, using means not currently understood by tra

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thousand powerful and artistic illustrations of the events in the marvelous history of the nations whose deeds and achievements will shine forth through all the ages yet to come. published in serial parts at 25 cents each or in bound sets of io volumes. for particulars and circulars address francis r. niglutsch, publisher 39 east nineteenth street new york. egypt greece france assyria rome russia babylonia germany spain persia austria china japan norway sweden holland belgium denmelthe emerald tablet of hermes multiple translations this page copyright 2002 blackmask online. http//www.blackmask.com history of the tablet translations from jabir ibn hayyan. another arabic version (from the german of ruska, translated by 'anonymous. twelfth century latin translation from aurelium occultae phil

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u is welsh for fairies. babiagora certain lakes of a gloomy nature between hungary and poland that have figured in various stories of witchcraft. pools such as these were often used for purposes of divination, as by gazing down into clear water the mind is disposed to contemplation, often of a melancholy character. this form of divination is termed hydromancy and is similar to crystal gazing. 137 babylonia ancient religion and magic magic was integral to the religion of ancient babylonia. all the deities (the most prominent ones being ea, anu, and enlil, the elder bel) retained, even in the last centuries of babylonian development, traces of their early demonic character. ea, anu, and enlil formed a triad at the dawn of history and appear to have developed from an animistic group of world

were observed, one might still meet with ill fortune on unlucky days. on the festival day of marduk (merodach) a man must not change his clothes, nor put on white garments, nor offer up sacrifices. certain disaster would overcome a king if he drove out in a chariot, or a physician if he laid hands on the sick, or a priest who sat in judgment, for example. on lucky days good fortune was the heri- babylonia encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 138 tage of everyone. good fortune meant good health in many cases, sometimes assured by worshiping the dreaded spirit of disease called ura. a legend related that this demon once made up his mind to destroy all humankind. his counsellor, ishun, however, prevailed upon him to change his mind, and he said, whoever will laud my name i will

ailed her grief nightly in solitary places. occasionally she appeared in some terrible form and killed travellers. adam s first wife lilith was a demon who had once been beautiful and was in the habit of deceiving lovers, working evil on them. a hag, labartu, haunted mountains and marshes and children had to be charmed against her attacks. she also had a human history. another belief prevalent in babylonia was that the spirits of the dead could be conjured from their graves to make revelations. in the gilgamesh epic, the hero visits the tomb of his old friend and fellow warrior ea-bani. the ghost rises like a weird gust of wind and answers the various questions with great sadness. babylonian vision of the future life was colored by profound gloom and pessimism. it was even the fate of the

n accordance with the divisions of the equator, each of which was divided into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. such data were recorded on clay tablets in the library of the babylonian king assurbani-pal, around 668 b.c.e. babylonian astrologers attributed human characteristics to planetary influences at birth, and laid the foundation for modern astrologers. sources: encyclopedia.com. babylonia. http/ www.encyclopedia.com. june 26, 2000. ferry, david. gilgamesh: a new rendering into english verse. new york: farrar, straus and giroux, 1992. jastrow, morris. aspects of religious belief and practice in babylonia& assyria. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1911. kramer, samuel n. from the tablets of sumer. falcon s wing, 1956. gilgamesh and the huluppu-tree: a reconstructed sumerian t

pects of religious belief and practice in babylonia& assyria. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1911. kramer, samuel n. from the tablets of sumer. falcon s wing, 1956. gilgamesh and the huluppu-tree: a reconstructed sumerian text. chicago: university of chicago press, 1938. lenormant, francois. chaldean magic: its origin& development. london: samuel bagster [1877. spence, lewis. myths and legends of babylonia& assyria. london, 1916. reprint, detroit: gale research, 1975. thierens, a. e. astrology in mesopotamian culture. leiden: e. j. brill, 1935. bach, edward (1886.1936) british physician who developed an unconventional system of healing. bach (his name is pronounced batch) was a graduate of university college hospital (m.b, b.s, m.r.c.s. he left his flourishing harley street practice in fav

1989. the varieties of dream experience: expanding our ways of working with dreams. new york: continuum, 1987. ullman, montague, and stanley krippner. dream studies and telepathy: an experimental approach. new york: parapsychology foundation, 1970. dreams the occult significance of dreams was a matter of speculation among the wise at an early period in the history of civilization. the entries on babylonia and egypt to some extent outline the methods by which the wise men of those countries divined the future from visions seen in sleep, and articles dealing with other countries include data relating to dreams and dreamlore. this entry addresses some of the more outstanding theories of antiquity regarding the nature and causes of dreams and the manner in which the ancient diviners generally

istograph encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 464 e the e. f. benson society british society organized to arrange social and literary events relating to e. f. benson, his writings, and the benson family s. it publishes a journal for members, the dodo, named after benson s 1893 novel. address: allan downend, the old coach house, 10 a high st, rye, e. sussex, tn31 7fj england. ea see babylonia eaglesfield, francis pseudonym of arthur guirdham, physician, novelist, and writer on esp and reincarnation. eaks, duane l (1940) duane l. eaks, a contemporary australian astrologer, was born in montrose, colorado, on march 6, 1940. he grew up in colorado and attended northern colorado university, from which he earned a degree in chemistry in 1963. following graduation he switched to psy

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gi. new york: philosophical library, 1946. reprint, los angeles: self-realization fellowship, 1971. descriptive outlines of yogoda. los angeles: yogoda satsang society, 1928. the semites this entry on the semites applies to the more ancient divisions of the race, such as the babylonians and assyrians, and the hebrews in biblical times. for later semitic occultism, see arabs and kabala. in ancient babylonia and chaldea, magic was a department of priestly activity. in mesopotamia a sect of priests named the asipu were set apart for the practice of magic, which in their case probably consisted of hypnotism, the casting out of demons, the banning of troublesome spirits and so forth. the caste of priests called the baru consulted the oracles on the future by inspecting the entrails of animals

o and the roman rhetorician lian alluded to chaldean knowledge of astrology, and it is supposed to have been the chaldean magician oethanes who introduced his science into greece, which he entered with xerxes. the great library of assurbanipal, king of assyria, who died in 626 b.c.e, affords first-hand knowledge of assyrian magic. assurbanipal gathered together numerous volumes from the cities of babylonia, stored them in his great library at nineveh, and had them copied and translated. in fact, letters have been discovered from assurbanipal to some of his officials, giving instructions for the copying of certain incantations. many grimoires also come from babylonia, written during the later empire, the best known of which are the series entitled maklu (burning, utukki limnuti (evil spirit

mpathetic magic was often resorted to by the arabic witch and wizard, just as it was among the ancient hebrews and assyrians. the great repertory of semitic occultism is the kabala, but here the occult has been transmuted into hebrew mysticism. sources: thompson, c. j. s. the mysteries and secrets of magic. london: allen lane, 1927. reprint, causeway, 1973. thompson, r. c. devils& evil spirits of babylonia 2 vols. london: luzac, 1903.04. semitic magic. london: luzac, 1908. sensitive the term sensitive, often interchangeable with psychic, refers to a person with psychic powers, but eschews communication with the dead. a sensitive is thus distinguished from the medium, or channel. a medium is usually also a sensitive. according to spiritualism, a medium is not necessarily a sensitive but may

975. the upright man in the sixteenth century, the vagabonds and beggars of britain were organized into unions with rules and grades. of these grades, the order of the upright man seems to have had some special significance and authority, and it is believed by some authorities to have descended from the folk adherents of paganism, the old religion, or witchcraft. ura a babylonian spirit (see also babylonia) uranian astrology uranian astrology is an innovative system of astrology developed early in the twentieth century by friedrich sieggrun (1877.1951) and alfred witte (1878.1943, two pioneers of the contemporary astrological revival. the system is sometimes referred to as the hamburg school, a reference to witte s main teaching centre in germany. the uranian system was distinguished from

dictio- valkhoff, marius encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1620 nary defines a vampire as a blood-sucking ghost or reanimated body of a dead person; a soul or re-animated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, causing their death. the belief in vampires is an ancient one. it was found in ancient india, babylonia, greece, and for a time accepted by early christians. the conception of the vampire was common among slavonic peoples, especially in the balkan countries and in hungary, bohemia, moravia, and silesia. in these territories from 1730 to 1735, there was a claimed epidemic of vampirism, but it was by no means confined there. in russia and the ukraine it was believed that vampires were genera

green, ohio: bowling green state university popular press, 1988. shepard, leslie. the dracula book of great vampire stories. new york: citadel, 1977. summers, montague. the vampire, his kith and kin. london: kegan, paul, 1928; new york: university books, 1960. the vampire in europe. london: kegan, paul, 1929; new york: university books, 1962. thompson, r. campbell. the devils and evil spirits of babylonia. 2 vols. london, 1903.04. underwood, peter. the vampire s bedside companion: the amazing world of vampires in fact and fiction. london: leslie frewin, 1972. wright, dudley. the book of vampires. 2d ed. london, 1924; causeway books, 1973. zopfius, johan heinrich. dissertatio de vampiris seruiensibus. halle, 1733. vampire information exchange vampire interest group founded by eric held and

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it is not a mere coincidence that the hebrew word sod, which means gmystery h or gsecrets h, has the same numerical value, namely 70, as the hebrew word which represents gwine h; for mystery can intoxicate as well as refresh. the mysteries of the early hebrews were closely guarded by the sons of the doctrine, and it would appear that many of their secrets were derived from egypt and later on from babylonia. we are told that moses was learned in all the wisdom of the egyptians2 and that in the first four books of the pentateuch he has esoterically laid down the principles of the secret doctrine. he initiated seventy elders into the mysteries,3 which they transmitted from mouth to ear. generally speaking, the initiates led an ascetic life in order to separate themselves from the ignorant and

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n from any sin which he may have committed "may aditi by day protect our cattle, may she, who never deceives, protect us from evil" in the egyptian as in the indian and hebrew religions, the two generating principles throughout nature represent the infinite, the holy of holies, the elohim or aleim--the ieue. within the records of the earliest religions of ethiopia or arabia, chaldea, assyria, and babylonia, is revealed the same monad principle in the deity. this monad conception, or dual unity, this god of light and life, or of wisdom and generative force, is the same source whence all mythologies have sprung, and, as has been stated, among all peoples the fact is observed that the religious idea has followed substantially the same course of development, or growth. within the sacred writin

d the divine creative energies represented under the figures of mother, father, and the life proceeding therefrom, until, finally, when the earth is reached, isis, osiris, and horus appear as the representation of the creative forces in human beings, and therefore as the embodiment of the divine in the human. the deity invoked in all the earlier inscriptions is a triad, and we are assured that in babylonia, where beltis is associated with belus "no god appears without a goddess" the supreme deity of assyria was asshur, who was worshipped sometimes as female, sometimes as male. this god doubtless represents the dual or triple creative principle observed in all the earlier forms of worship. asshur had no distinct temple, but as her position was at the head of the pantheon, all the shrines th

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hem to be warnings of the anger of their gods, and signs of coming punishment. the greeks and the earlier romans do not appear, so far as greeks and roman literature can show, to have practised studied, or taught any original system, of which the astronomic observations were used for purposes of astrologic divination; this line of thought seems rather to have had its origin among the chaldeans of babylonia, from whom it came to the notice of the more western nations after the travels and wars of alexander the great. the greek philosphers did not readily adopt astrologic ideals, but professors of the chaldean magical art of astrology spread among them, and we find astrological notions become notable in the later years of the roman republic, and were well marked in the curious jumble of east

trology has always flourished among the chinese. there are really no data yet discovered which can prove which land was the source ofthehistory of astrology171astronomy; most probably the study was undertaken not only separately,butat much the same early period.theakkadian or pre-chaldean civilization is only of recent discovery, and has been obtained from studies of excavations in the regions of babylonia. from literary evidence derived from antiquity we have some proofs of very early astronomic observations made by all these ancient nations.theold greek and roman authors refer the source of astronomy variously to egypt, to chaldea, and to persia, and the papyri recently discovered in egypt also show astronomical allusions; while of course the pyramids of egypt and the towers of babylonia

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bithynia; d. after 127 bc, rhodes, greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes. this notable discovery was the result of painstaking observations, worked upon by an acute mind. hipparchus observed the positions of the stars, and then compared his results with those of timocharis of alexandria about 150 years earlier and with even earlier observations made in babylonia. he discovered that the celestial longitudes were different and that this difference was of a magnitude exceeding that attributable to errors of observation. he therefore proposed precession to account for the size of the difference and he gave a value of 45 or 46 (seconds of arc) for annual changes. this is very close to the figure of 50.274 seconds of arc accepted today. 3 first, a poi

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ransforms himself into the tempting demon, or as he is fond of calling the devil the "serpent of genetu" in his desire to demon- strate in every manifestation the presence of the evu one, he only suc- ceeds in demonstrating that spiritualism and magic are no new things in the world, but very ancient twin-brothers, whose origin must be sought for in the earliest infancy of ancient india, chaldaea, babylonia, egypt. persia, and greece. he proves the existence of 'spirits' whether these be angels or devils, with such a clearness of argument and logic, and aucfa an amount digitizecoy google 16 isis unveiled of evidence, historical, iir^utable, and strictly autheaticated. that little is left for spiritualist authors who may come after him. how unfortunate that the scientists, who believe neithe

izecoy google 46 isis unveiled it was tau^t in tbe oldest chaldaean, egyptian, and mithraltic schools. the chaldaeaa sun-god, mithra, was called 'triple' and the trinitarian idea of the chaldaeans was a doctrine of the akkadians, who themselves belonged to a race which was the first to conceive a metaphysical trinity. according to rawlinson, the chaldaeans are a tribe^ the akkadians, who lived in babylonia from the earliest times. they were turanians, according to others, and instructed the babylonians in the first notions of religion. but these same akkadians, who were theyp those s
incompetents and literary journeymen. we quite agree with professor whitney that "the truism, that [for european critics] it is far easier to* 86 (mrmial and tan^ume sbiditt, p. 138, 87. ibid, pp. 147. 3. 88. l. jaoouiot: ckritiiut ti u ckriit, p. 339. digitizecoy google isis unveiled pull to pieces than to build up. is nowhere truer than in matters affecting the archaeology and history of india* babylonia happened to be situated on the way of the great stream of the earliest hindfl emigration, and the babylonians were one of the first peoples benefited thereby" these khaldi were the worshipers of the moon-god, deus-lunus, from which fact we may infer that the akkadi- ans if such must be their name: belonged to the race of the kings of the moon, whom tradition shows as having reigned in pr

ddhist monks for over 3300 jrears. the lingams in the hindfi temples are ornamented upon certain days with large berries, from a tree sacred to mahddeva, which are strung into rosaries. thetitleof'nud'isauegyptian word, and had with them the accepted meaning; the christians did not even take the trouble to translate the word nonna, the aureole of the saints was used by the antediluvian artists of babylonia whenever they desired to honor or deify a mortal's head. in a celebrated picture in moor's hindoo pantheon, en- titled "krishna nursed by devoid, from a highly-finished picture" the hindfi virgin is represented as seated on a loimge and nursing krishna. the hair brushed back, the long veil, and the golden aureole around the virgin's head, as well as around that of the hindfl savior, are

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st two principle waves of civilization. the first can be said, roughly, to be antediluvian and the second postdiluvian, speaking in general terms and putting the flood, or its equivalent, far enough back in history so as to coincide with the cataclysm which caused it. all of the centers of civilization and cultural renaissance recognized by present-day anthropologists india, peru, yucatan, egypt, babylonia, greece, china, rome, england and others are but the reviving remnants of an empire and civilization which colonized the world a hundred thousand years ago. they area all "parts" or nuclei, in one great renaissance which has been taking place for, roughly, six to ten thousand years. in it are some traces of the archaic, original, master culture, and, perhaps through india, tibet, egypt a

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60,000 years, we can only date permanent settlements there beginning with the sumerians in the 4th millennium bc. events since then are dated differently in different sources in addition to which in those times time was reckoned from some important event or the enthronement of the ruler currently in power. the situation would be hope8 table 1. periods in mesopotamian history. if both assyria and babylonia are mentioned then the dominating power is written in bold; italic indicates foreign rule. brackets include some renowned rulers and their time of ruling. of course, it would be possible to further specify much, e.g. the neo-sumerian period can be subdivided into three, but for our purposes this table is sufficient. sumerian period 3500.2300 bc akkadian period (sargon i, 2275.2219) 2275

unding designations coming from the meaning elady of heaven f: dnin.an.na figure 9. common versions of venus in cuneiform: d15, muldil(i)-bat, di.-tar and dnin.si4.an.na. in gossmann fs time, the last sign row was read as dnin.tar.an.na. 24 (g315) elady of heaven f and dnin.si4.an.na efair (many-hued) lady of heaven f (g320; ninsianna, a minor sumerian goddess, later identified with i.tar. in old babylonia venus was marked similarly. dnin.si.an.na (g327. the long name mulnin.a.ha.kud.du (g314, akkadian be-lit te-lil-ti, meaning elady of incantations f, refers to a minor sumerian goddess ningirin (leick 130. characteristically to mesopotamia, matters are made no clearer by mulnita.a.ta (g330) emale f, denoting venus in the morning a.k.a. the morning star. as the evening star, venus is calle

gs become even more confused if we take into account that venus, too, could be named differently in different months, e.g. mulsag, akkadian kakkabu re.tu ehead/main star f. venus in the simanu month. mercury mercury is primarily the star of the god nabu. mulna-bu-u2 (g290, who was identified with sumerian ninurta. in later period, nabu was considered to be son of the state god marduk or assur (in babylonia and new assyria, accordingly; therefore he came to be protector of the crown prince. hence a name of mercury dumu.lugal= m r .arri ecrown prince f. e.g. esarhaddon fs enthronement was to have been predicted by a meeting of jupiter and mercury (reiner 1995: 74.75. in spring mercury could also be star of marduk (gossmann 1950: 99. analogically to venus, since mercury appears both as a morn

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were angels, sent by god for the purpose of obstructing or blocking the acts of human beings. this is clearly represented in the book of job, where satan is portrayed as a member of god s heavenly court a kind of celestial prosecuting attorney. satan s transformation into a true bad guy did not really begin until after the persians defeated the babylonians and returned the jews to palestine from babylonia. seeking to make them allies, the persians even gave the repatriated jews money to rebuild the temple. the persians were zoroastrians, a religion built around the notion of an ongoing, more or less evenly matched struggle between ahura mazda (in later zoroastrianism, uhrmazd, the god of light and the upper world, and angra mainyu (later ahriman, the god of darkness and the lower world. p

accuse him. and the lord said to satan, the lord rebuke you, o satan! the lord who has chosen jerusalem rebuke you! is not this a brand plucked from the fire (zech. 3:1 2) here satan is still performing his older role as accuser, but now god is moved to anger by satan s activity. zechariah lived during the time when the persians had defeated the babylonians and returned the jews to palestine from babylonia. seeking to make them allies, the persians even gave the repatriated jews money to rebuild the temple. the persians were zoroastrians, whose religious system was built around the notion of an ongoing conflict between ahura mazda, the god of light and the upper world, and ahriman, the god of darkness and the lower world. partially because of their friendly link with the persians, the juda

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these atlanteans p. 35 established themselves in egypt, where they became its first "divine" rulers. nearly all the great cosmologic myths forming the foundation of the various sacred books of the world are based upon the atlantean mystery rituals. the myth of the dying god the myth of tammuz and ishtar is one of the earliest examples of the dying-god allegory, probably antedating 4000 b. c (see babylonia and assyria by lewis spence) the imperfect condition of the tablets upon which the legends are inscribed makes it impossible to secure more than a fragmentary account of the tammuz rites. being the esoteric god of the sun, tammuz did not occupy a position among the first deities venerated by the babylonians, who for lack of deeper knowledge looked upon him as a god of agriculture or a ve

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indeed land nearby. with the waters subsiding, the ark would come to rest on a mountain named ararat. noah, his family, and the animals exited the ark and once more began to replenish the earth. after the decedents of noah (humanity) successfully repopulate the earth, they again lose the god s favor. instead of dispersing and filling every quarter of the planet, they concentrate in a land called babylonia. the king of babylonia, nimrod, endeavored to build a tower that could reach heaven; this is the famous tower of babel. god, who was enraged by nimrod s presumption and arrogance, takes matters into his own hands by confusing the languages of nimrod s workforce. the babylonian kingdom is instantly cast into disorder as its inhabitants no longer spoke a single language. this act of confus

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ry as nebo, among the syrians, assyrians, ph nicians, and canaanites. sanchoniathon says that the earliest ph nicians adored the sun, whom they deemed sole lord of the heavens; and honored him, under the name of beel-samin, signifying _king of heaven_ they raised columns to the elements, fire, and air or wind, and worshipped them; and sab ism, or the worship of the stars, flourished everywhere in babylonia. the arabs, under a sky always clear and serene, adored the sun, moon, and stars. abulfaragius so informs us, and that each of the twelve arab tribes invoked a particular star as its patron. the tribe hamyar was consecrated to the sun, the tribe cennah to the moon; the tribe misa was under the protection of the beautiful star in taurus, aldebar n; the tribe tai under that of canopus; the

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o masterminded and led this revolt against g-d was nimrod, who was mentioned in the preceding chapter.2 know that the incident of the tower and nimrod transmigrated into [the person and career of] nebuchadnezzar. this is why he erected the statue in the dura valley. gking nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and erected it in the plain of dura in the country of babylonia. h3 a cubit is about a foot and a half, so this statue was around 90 feet high and 9 feet wide. nebuchadnezzar was thus a reincarnation of the nimrod, and the statue was a greincarnation h of the tower of babel. just as in the time of nimrod, everyone spoke the same language and he ruled the whole world, nebuchadnezzar also ruled the whole world. thus, it is written, gi will ascend above

d, had chananiah, misha fel, and azariah (g-d forbid) bowed down to it, israel would not have been able to arise [out of its exile. nebuchadnezzar had dreamt that he saw a statue whose head was gold, whose chest and arms were silver, whose stomach and thighs were copper, whose legs were iron, and whose feet were iron and clay. daniel told him that the components of this statue were the kingdom of babylonia (the gold head) and the empires that would succeed it in ruling over the jews. by making a similar statue entirely of gold, nebuchadnezzar sought to subvert the prophecy and perpetuate the kingdom of babylonia. chananiah, misha fel, and azariah (whose babylonian names were shadrach, meisach, and abednego) were daniel fs jewish companions, who refused to bow down to this statue. nebuchadn

in, they forfeit their preeminence and increase the power of evil, allowing it to receive the divine flow first. the forces of good then have to receive their beneficence via the forces of evil. this is the condition of exile. he was the keter of evil. this is why he was known as the king of sheshach,8 for the numerical value of sheshach is the same as that of keter. sheshach in at-bash is bavel, babylonia. sheshach: shin-shin-kaf= 300+ 300+ 20= 620. keter: kaf-taf-reish= 20+ 400+ 200= 620. g-d, in his mercy, confounded his plan and ruined his intentions, and the statue fell on its face, for it was overcome by chananiah, misha fel, and azariah. they were saved from the fiery furnace just as our father abraham had been saved. similarly, g-d humbled nimrod before our father abraham, and he w

abraham became known as a crusader against idolatry, nimrod had him thrown in a fiery furnace, but abraham emerged unscathed. when nimrod saw that his scheme [to get rid of abraham] failed, he gathered four kings and waged war against five kings, all in order to snatch the divine beneficence from our father abraham. after the incident with nimrod and the fiery furnace, abraham and his family left babylonia to eventually settle in the land of israel. the torah then relates how king amrafel of shinar (another name for babylonia) joined forces with three other neighboring kings and waged war against five kings of city-states in the land of israel. when they conquered them, abraham went to rescue his nephew lot (who had been taken captive) and defeated this confederacy of four kings.9 the oral

the city and idol-tower that nimrod built. furthermore, nebuchadnezzar also built his statue with the power of divine names, for he took the headband [tzitiz] of the high priest, on which was engraved g-d fs name havayah, and placed it on the mouth of the idol. the priestly garments, including the high priest fs headband, had been captured by nebuchadnezzar with the fall of jerusalem and taken to babylonia. thus, the statue spoke and said, gi am g-d, your g-d. h it was actually speaking the truth, for the divine name [on the headband] was speaking, but the people were tricked into thinking that the statue was saying this. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 37 daniel climbed up to the statue fs head with ladders they brought him, because he said he wanted to kiss the statue. when he kissed it

they brought him, because he said he wanted to kiss the statue. when he kissed it, he removed [the headband] from its mouth, and it immediately toppled. it could not stand naturally for it was sixty cubits tall and only six cubits wide; it was only because of the divine power of the name havayah [engraved on the headband] that it was able to stand. about this it is written, gi will punish bel in babylonia, and i will remove from his mouth what he has swallowed. h13 bel was the idol of babylonia. what was gswallowed h in his mouth was the name havayah[ c] this is the meaning of gbehold, they are one people with the same language, h meaning that if they did not know hebrew, they would not be able to manipulate g-d fs names. but gthis they have begun to do, h meaning that the sole reason the

i on genesis 18:2. 3 yalkut shimoni, isaiah 393; ibid. hosea 522, etc. 4 anno mundi, i.e, since creation. the arizal on parashat lech lecha 92 that the leading sages dispersed, each one establishing his own beis midrash that stood side by side with the sanhedrin. but all these became diminished in standing and authority when compared to the newly arising torah center that was being established in babylonia. h5 many of the inhabitants of the land of israel left at this point.6 thus, this year may be considered to mark the point when the emphasis in judaism shifted from learning torah toward yearning for the redemption from exile, in other words, for the messianic era. the sages also state that before the creation of the world, g-d was gcreating worlds and destroying them. h7 in kabbalah, th

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lity to adapt to the continuing competition of foreign cultures. her new empire of the setian (xixxx) dynasties was a protectionist backlash rather than an effort to "civilize" or create a permanent empire [as per macedonia, persia, or rome. mesopotamian philosophy mesopotamia is that area (the "fertile crescent) in the ancient near east generally defined to include sumer (beginning ca. 2500 bce, babylonia (b. 2000 bce, and assyria (b. 1300 bce, and which shared cultural ties with canaan (b. 1400 bce) and israel (b. 1200 bce. all of the mesopotamian cultures were polytheistic, with the exception of israel in its later development. humanity was considered to have been created merely to serve the local divinity or divinities, the priesthood of whom tended to dominate the government and contr

alexandria, with a population of 500,000- 1,000,000. hellenistic art differed from hellenic by a greater emphasis on qualities of exaggerated realism, sensationalism, and voluptuousness. luxurious palaces and elaborate public works were undertaken. a flowering of the sciences occurred in astronomy, mathematics, geography, medicine, and physics. the seleucid empire embraced elam, sumeria, persia, babylonia, assyria, syria, phoenicia, and at times asia minor and palestine. the function of the empire was to give to the near east the economic protection provided earlier by persia and later by the roman empire. commerce was the key to its prosperity. old persian trade routes were expanded. money produced in egypt, rhodes, seleucia, and pergamon replaced the barter of the previous four centurie

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e jewish temple in jerusalem and drives the jews into exile (the babylonian exile. 563 bce siddhartha gautama, who will become the buddha, is born in present-day nepal. c. 551 479 bce life span of the scholar kongzi, who is known in the west by his latinized name, confucius. xi c. 540 c. 470 bce life span of mahavira, considered the main founder of jainism. 539 bce mesopotamian religion ends when babylonia accepts cyrus of persia as king. 515 bce the second jewish temple is built in jerusalem. 483 bce death of the buddha. c. 470 399 bce life span of the greek philosopher socrates. c. 428 348 bce life span of the greek philosopher plato. 384 322 bce life span of the greek philosopher aristotle. c. third century bce period in which the major text of daoism, the dao de jing, is likely written

d roman pantheons in the figures of athena and diana. even after the introduction of christianity, the ancient gods continued to be worshipped until about the sixth century ce. sects and schisms both egyptian and mesopotamian deities had cults that were popular in different places and in different times. of note were two later mesopotamian deities, marduk and ashur. marduk was the national god of babylonia, and the babylonians went to great pains to rewrite the creation myth so that he would be the king of gods, replacing the mesopotamian god enlil. such a replacement lasted for about one thousand years until the assyrian god ashur replaced marduk as the primary god in the pantheon. ashur was a warlike god and took ishtar, the goddess of war, as his wife or consort. the most notable schism

ods. constantine the great (c. 288 337) became the first roman emperor to convert to christianity, and by the end of the fourth century theodosius i (c. 346 395, also a christian, officially banned the practice of the old roman polytheistic religion. history and development: greco-roman philosophy some believe the beginning of early greek philosophy can be traced to contact with ancient egypt and babylonia. by the seventh century bce egyptians had allowed ionian (from the west coast of modern-day turkey) traders to establish a seaport on a branch of the nile river about greco-roman religion belief. greco-roman religion was polytheistic, believing in many gods. the twelve main gods formed a pantheon, or group. all the gods could involve themselves in human affairs and often acted very much

ed father in hebrew. it was much later in his life that god supposedly gave him the name abraham, which means father of many nations. abram s father, terah, was well over seventy when abram and his brothers, haran and nahor, were born. abram was raised in a wealthy family. terah owned property and livestock and also is said to have made idols (images worshipped as gods) of various gods of ancient babylonia. polytheism, or belief in many gods, was common among mesopotamians and babylonians during this period. ur was the center of a cult, or group of religious followers, that worshipped nanna, the moon god. around the time of abram s birth, the babylonians began to recognize one god, marduk, as having power over all the other gods. some historians consider this an early move in the direction

te to editors, world religions: primary sources, u x l, 27500 drake road, farmington hills, michigan 48331-3535; call toll-free 800-877- 4253; send faxes to 248-699-8097; or send e-mail via http//www.gale.com. world religions: primary sources ix reader s guide this page intentionally left blank timeline of events c. 2000 bce shin-eqi-unninni writes the epic of gilgamesh, about a king who lived in babylonia around 2700 bce. one story in the poem tells of a great flood, for which one man prepares by building a boat and gathering all living things into it. a similar story (noah s ark) would appear in the bible. 1700 400 bce period during which the avesta, sometimes referred to as the zend-avesta, the sacred scripture of zoroastrianism, is compiled. the core of the avesta is the gathas, a coll

ses, scholars are not sure of the word they have chosen for their translation. when a word is followed by an exclamation point set in parentheses, scholars are sure of the translation but unsure of 62 world religions: primary sources the epic of gilgamesh the meaning of the passage. other sections of the epic, however, remain forever lost. tablet i introduces gilgamesh, the heroic king of uruk in babylonia, who lived around 2700 bce. many legends grew up around gilgamesh, some of which were recorded in other poems. in tablet xi, gilgamesh is speaking to an immortal human named utanapishtim, asking him why he cannot die. utanapishtim reveals to the hero the secret of his immortality by telling his story. utanapishtim says that in the city of shuruppak, on the banks of the euphrates river, t

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

comprehensive knowledge of christ. in christianity as mystical fact rudolf steiner bore witness to the latter approach for the first time. this book contains anthroposophical christology in a germinal yet comprehensive form. translator s notes 1. that is, the mysteries. rudolf steiner connects the mysteries with the great cultural developments of the ancient civilizations: india, iran, egypt, and babylonia, as well as greece. they provided the knowledge in practical as well as spiritual matters that underlay the myths, religious symbols, festival calendars, and so on, by which life was shaped and given meaning. but the ordinary people received only the results they did not know the source directly. that was reserved for special leaders: initiate-heroes, priests, prophets, or similar person

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

t seal and see if we can make sense of their true, esoteric meaning and purposes. let us wipe away the gloss and get down to the base surface to better understand. this is vital because of the future of the united states and the destiny of all humanity is wrapped up, and is revealed, in this collection of illuminist symbols and marks. the ashlar stones and the pyramid masonry is a peculiar egypto-babylonia-jewish institution, and so the pyramid itself hearkens back to the dynasty of the pharaohs and to the gods and goddesses of ancient egypt. the stones which make up the pyramid are also of esoteric significance. in the masonic philosophy it is taught that unenlightened man is in a rude, natural state. having little or no "light" and without the spiritual illumination offered by the myster

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s contain all the accumulated wisdom of ancient egypt, going back in an unbroken tradition to the very earliest time. as the hermetic texts continued to influence the growth of european alchemy, astrology, and magic, the author of the books was said to have been adam s grandson, who built the great pyramids of egypt; or an egyptian magician who lived three generations after moses; or a magus from babylonia who instructed pythagoras. the hermetic text decrees against transmigration, the belief that the souls of humans may enter into animals: divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. m delving deeper gordon, stuart. the encyclopedia of myths and legends. london: headline house, 1993. orphic mysteries orpheus may have been an actual historic figure, a man capable of charming both

s or alleged past lives under hypnosis are actually healthier than those who cannot. according to kampman, one of her subjects, a 28- year-old woman, revealed eight different personalities in progressive chronological order, ranging from a young woman who lived in russia during the bolshevik revolution to an eighteenth-century titled english lady to a girl named bessina who said that she lived in babylonia. contrary to what the established psychiatric literature would lead one to believe, kampman stated, these were not troubled minds on the verge of fragmentation. compared with those who could not rise to the hypnotist s challenge, the multiple-personality group had greater stress tolerance, more adaptability, and far less guilt. internal identity diffusion a neurotic quality defined as th

eval liturgies, there were three kinds of common exorcisms the exorcism or blessing of houses or objects, of those about to receive baptism, and of people believed to be possessed by demons. in various parts of europe, the priest conducting the exorcism might also use the rites to banish such pre-christian deities as thor and odin. accounts of demonic possession were commonplace in ancient egypt, babylonia, and persia from the earliest times. although there are no accounts of demonic possession or of exorcism in the old testament, the casting out of demons is an integral part of jesus ministry and it is an important aspect of the earthly assignments that he gives to his followers( then he called together his twelve apostles and sent them out two by two with power over evil spirits [mark 6:

n d u n e x p l a i n e d 252 religious phenomena the weeping statue of rosa mystica in maamechelen, belgium (fortean picture library) mesopotamia greek word, meaning between two rivers. an ancient region that was located between the tigris and euphrates rivers in what is today, modern iraq and syria. some of the world s earliest and greatest ancient civilizations such as ur, sumer, assyria, and babylonia were developed in that region. old testament the first of the two main divisions of the christian bible that corresponds to the hebrew scriptures. omen a prophetic sign, phenomenon, or happening supposed to portend good or evil or indicate how someone or something will fare in the future. qur an (koran) the sacred text, or holy book, of islam. for muslims, it is the very word of allah, t

se of satanism in the middle ages black mass catherine montvoisin gilles de rais anton lavey s first church of satan temple of set ufo cults aetherius society heaven s gate the raelians twentieth-century spiritual expression branch davidians eckanar falun gong order of the solar temple the people s temple scientology introduction from the very beginnings of organized religion in egypt, sumer, and babylonia (c. 3000 b.c.e, certain members of the established or state religion have become dissatisfied with the structure of orthodox worship and have broken away from the larger group to create what they believe to be a more spiritually transcendent and personal form of religious expression. sometimes these splinter groups are organized around the revelations and visions of a single individual

wn by the crowds at ephesus who pledged their obeisance to diana. until they had been romanized and westernized, diana/artemis, together with the other two preeminent goddesses of the east, isis and cybele, were first represented as black madonnas. and before the people of the east bent their knees to diana, isis, and cybele, they had worshipped the great mother as inanna in sumeria, as ishtar in babylonia, and as astarte among the hebrews. most scholars agree that among the first images of the black madonna and her son were representations of isis and horus. the black madonna may also refer to mary magdalene, who, in the traditions of many christian sects, such as the gnostics, was the wife of jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) in this interpretation of the events that occurred after jesus dea

e deceased and the spirits of the living. megalith a very large stone that is usually a part of a monument or prehistoric architecture. mesopotamia greek word, meaning between two rivers. an ancient region that was located between the tigris and euphrates rivers in what is today, modern iraq and syria. some of the world s earliest and greatest ancient civilizations such as ur, sumer, assyria, and babylonia were developed in that region. messiah a leader who is regarded as a liberator or savior. in christianity, the messiah is jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e, in judaism, it is the king who will lead the jews back to the holy land of israel and establish world peace. metaphysical relating to abstract thought or the philosophical study of the nature of existence and truth. metrology the s

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and friends of deceased persons ceremonially cast sand three times upon the body before it was entombed or buried. the coffin has taken many shapes and forms in its evolution as a final resting place for the deceased. many authorities attribute the presence of trees in the churchyard or cemetery to ancient notions concerning a hollowed- out tree as a dwelling place for the spirits of the dead. in babylonia, great boxes of clay were baked to form a kind of coffin in which the dead were buried. the first actual coffins, as they are known today, probably originated in ancient egypt where the people believed that the body of the deceased must be kept safe until a future time of resurrection. the egyptian word for coffin is from kas, which means to bury. another form of the word became kast, in

e deceased and the spirits of the living. megalith a very large stone that is usually a part of a monument or prehistoric architecture. mesopotamia greek word, meaning between two rivers. an ancient region that was located between the tigris and euphrates rivers in what is today, modern iraq and syria. some of the world s earliest and greatest ancient civilizations such as ur, sumer, assyria, and babylonia were developed in that region. messiah a leader who is regarded as a liberator or savior. in christianity, the messiah is jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e, in judaism, it is the king who will lead the jews back to the holy land of israel and establish world peace. metaphysical relating to abstract thought or the philosophical study of the nature of existence and truth. metrology the s

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f sophistication and evolved into more formal religious practices and the rudiments of early science. the word gmagic h comes from the greek gmagein, h denoting the science and religion of the priests of zoroaster (or according to some scholars from gmegas, h signifying the ggreat h secret science, i.e. knowledge. so it is that by the time of the historic period, the great civilizations of egypt, babylonia, and persia had fully developed magical systems with entire hierarchies of sorcerers, priests, seers, and magi. greece and rome supported both a state religion of gods and goddesses and a loosely structured priestcraft as well as a healthy respect for those magicians who could prove their worth as dependable soothsayers. in addition, the mystery schools in greece and rome were popular wi

and perfected a system of interpreting the phenomena observed in the heavens for the purpose of determining the will of the powers of heaven. the greeks enlarged the scope of astrology to include all the known sciences. empedocles, a greek philosopher of about 450 b.c.e, developed the idea that the universe is composed of four basic elements: fire, water, air, and earth. following the conquest of babylonia by alexander the great (356.323 b.c.e, it was found that chaldean astrologers had divided the signs of the zodiac into four triangles of three each and called the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d prophecy and divination 119 ancients held the celestial bodies in great regard. groupings by the same names as were empedocles fs four el

quarians do not fit into the general concept of conventional living, and they make for most interesting, albeit unusual, friends and companions. aquarians must be free of mental and emotional tensions if they are to be healthy. pisces, the fish, february 20 to march 20, is a water sign. pisces, the fishes swimming in opposite directions, has been known by that designation since the astrologers of babylonia named the constellation two fishes as long ago as 2000 b.c.e. although pisces people are industrious workers, they do not possess a great deal of stamina. it seems that fate often picks on pisceans, and they are more liable to come into contact with suffering. for this reason, nursing, social work, medicine, and missionary work tend to attract pisceans, and they are generally willing to

o hebrew tradition, jerusalem was chosen to be the earthly headquarters for the lord fs work among humankind in very ancient times, for melchizedek, a priest, a survivor of the pre-flood world, the oldest living human at that time, was living there as king of salem even before father abraham set out on his quest for the promised land. obeying a commandment of the lord, melchizedek had come out of babylonia to south central canaan to build a city on the summit of the watershed between the jordan river and the mediterranean. salem was constructed on the southeast hill of a mountain ridge with deep valleys on its east, south, and west sides. with the spring of gihon at its feet to provide fresh water easily available for its inhabitants even during times of siege, the location of salem made i

ceased and the spirits of the living. megalith a very large stone that is usually a part of a monument or prehistoric architecture. mesopotamia greek word, meaning gbetween two rivers. h an ancient region that was located between the tigris and euphrates rivers in what is today, modern iraq and syria. some of the world fs earliest and greatest ancient civilizations such as ur, sumer, assyria, and babylonia were developed in that region. messiah a leader who is regarded as a liberator or savior. in christianity, the messiah is jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e..c. 30 c.e, in judaism, it is the king who will lead the jews back to the holy land of israel and establish world peace. metaphysical relating to abstract thought or the philosophical study of the nature of existence and truth. metrology the s

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

ead wears two horns, anumber which at a slightly later period would indicate that the wearer was an inferior deity; for, during manycenturies, the position of a deity in the babylonian pantheon was shown by the number of horns worn. thegreat gods and goddesses had seven horns, which is the reason that the divine lamb in the book ofrevelation was said to have seven horns. the two-horned deities of babylonia are so numerous that it islikely that they were originally the deities of the primitive inhabitants, who had to take a lower place whenthe great gods were introduced; these latter were given more horns than the godlings to show their superiorposition. the horns were a sign of divinity. when the king or high-priest appeared as the god asshur withthe queen or high-priestess as his consort

riate number of horns was worn on the royalheaddresses, the royal pair being then regarded as the incarnate deities. when alexander the great raisedhimself above the kings of the earth and made himself a god, he wore horns in sign of his divinity, hence hisname in the koran, dhu'l karnain the two-horned. in egypt his horns were those of amon, the supremegod.a godling, who is found in all parts of babylonia and at all periods of her history, is a two-horned malefigure, known as enkidu. he is represented as fighting with animals, or holding a staff, but his special duty isto guard the door. he has a man's head with two horns, his body is human, and from the waist down he is abull. sometimes the legs appear to be human, but the hoofs are always clearly indicated, and the tail also is amarked

d feature. in short, he answers to the usual description of the christian devil in having horns, hoofs anda tail. but in the eyes of the early babylonians he was far from being a devil, and his image-sometimes thewhole figure, sometimes the head only-was worn as a charm against all evil and ill-luck. he was creditedwith great prophylactic powers; so much so that such charms were in use throughout babylonia. theevidence shows that the great seven-horned gods of the temples, who gave their special protection to theroyal family, had little or no appeal for the people, and that the smaller deities, the little two-horned godlings,were regarded as the real protectors in matters of everyday life.throughout the bronze and iron ages horned deities are to be found in egypt. the earliest example has

st remains of that most ancient of all recorded religions, the worship of the horned god.the name of the great pagan deity varied according to the country in which the cult was followed. in the neareast the names were recorded from very early times; the name of the indian deity cannot yet be read, but thetraditional name still survives; in greece and in crete the record is later than in egypt and babylonia. inwestern europe, however, it was not till the roman domination that any written records were made;therefore it is only by tradition and an occasional roman inscription that the names of the homed god areknown to us. the great gaulish god was called by the romans cernunnos, which in english parlance washerne, or more colloquially "old hornie. in northern europe the ancient neck or nick

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in the sky. it seemed to be attached to a seventy-foot "airship" with wings "the mysterious machine appeared to be propelled by the wings alone and rose and fell as the wings flapped like a gigantic bird" the brawley, california, news reported, august 4, 1905. others in the area reported seeing the same thing. winged beings are an essential part of the folklore of every culture. from the times of babylonia and the pharaohs, sculptors were preoccupied with putting wings on lions and unidentifiable beasts. although the angels of biblical times were never described as being winged, painters and sculptors have always persisted in giving them feathered appendages (actually, the old-time angels appeared like ordinary human beings. they even had supper with lot) when demons overran the planet dur

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

of gthe star and garter h is concentrated the whole of the ethical philosophy of aleister crowley. it reads as follows: but. had it not been for the garter, i might never have seen the star. in it we find the sublime maxim, almost universal, which has been postulated by all the greatest ethical codes of the world. it is the moral prototype, the favashi of the zoroastrian, the tree of knowledge of babylonia and genesis, the light and darkness of isaiah, the yakheen and boaz of solomon, the unique athanor of the qabalist, the balance of hegel; the polarity of the worlds, the great centripetal and centrifugal forces, the harmony of the spheres, the path of the stars, the life of the universe. without vice there can be no virtue, without virtue there can be no vice. without the one, the other

alists. deity created good and evil; and both are absolutely necessary to the existence of each other. further, the qabalist does not even recognize their independence as two opposing powers, but as one under the one supreme deity; the external visible matter world of evil and darkness, and the internal spiritual higher world of goodness and light, beneficent and malevolent as the ancient gods of babylonia. the unique athanor of philosophic and moral alchemy was the transmutation of darkness into light. gquand l fhomme grandit dieu s feleve h. it was but a reconstruction of the same idea as held in exodus, xxxiii, moses was unable to look at god face to face; it was also the same idea as held by charles darwin. the theory of evolution. the growth of the protoplast into man, of evil into go

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adonai occurred together on the page "elohim" translated the omnipotent, was voiced in place of the ineffable name to avoid the awkward adonai-adonai. this continues to be the practice today. with such fanatical secrecy, it was inevitable that the true pronunciation of the name would be lost, but this did not take place overnight. as late as the fourth century, perhaps much later, it was known in babylonia, and the jewish magicians, who styled themselves ba'alei shem (masters of the name) used it widely in driving demons out of the possessed and healing the sick. among the kabbalists of the middle ages, it was handed down from master to disciple. much of the ire of the rabbis against these mystics may have been incited by the fear that they would misuse the name in secular magic and thus p

s a connection between tetragrammaton and the greek god of thunderbolts (jehovah= jove, or with the gnostic deity iao, are generally discounted (although gershom scholem finds a connection between iao and the truncated name ihv used in sepher yetzirah to seal the six directions of space-see scholem, kabbalah, p. 27. so are wilder claims that the name can be traced back to ancient china, egypt, or babylonia. all these propositions have been put forth at different times, but there is little hard evidence to support them. the pronunciation jehovah, which occurs in many english bibles, including the king james, is the result of an error that arose due to a lack of familiarity with hebrew scribal practices on the part of european scholars of the fourteenth century. in hebrew, all the letters ar

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