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e reciprocal path connecting netzach with hod, victory with splendor; it is the lowermost of the three reciprocal paths. hiero: heg: pract: move to the west of altar. heg: before you upon the altar is the 16th key of the tarot which symbolically resumes these ideas. it represents a tower struck by a lightening flash, proceeding from a rayed circle and terminating in a triangle. it is the tower of babel struck by the fire from heaven. it is to be noted that the triangle at the end of the flash issuing from the circle forms exactly the astrological symbol of mars. it is the power of the triad rushing down and destroying the columns of darkness. three holes are rent in the walls, symbolizing the establishment of the triad therein, and the crown at the summit of the tower is falling, as the cr

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

ding to whether it has one, two, or three points respectively placed within it. so also with regard to the other letters. but there are many other ways of employing the qabalah of the nine chambers, which i have not space to describe. i will merely mention, as an example, that by the mode of temura called cbta, athbash, it is found that in jeremiah xxv, 26, the word kcc, sheshakh, symbolizes lbb, babel. besides all these rules, there are certain meanings hidden in the shape of the letters of the hebrew alphabet; in the form of a particular letter at the end of a word being different from that which it generally bears when it is a final letter, or in a letter being written in the middle of a word in a character generally used only at the end; in any letter or letters being written in a size

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, and set a-singing the wheels of progress, and all the crafts and the guiles and the artifices of knowledge? they have contained the waters with their hands; and the earth they have set in chains; and the fire they have bound up as a wisp of undried straw; even the winds they have ensnared as an eagle in a net- yet the spirit liveth and is free, and they know it not, as they gaze down from their babel of words upon the soot-grimed fields, and the felled forests, and the flowerless banks of their rivers of mud, lit by the sun which glows red through the hooded mists of their magic. yet he who gazeth into the heavens, and crieth in a loud voice "there is no-god" is as a prophet unto mankind; 180 for he is as one drunken on the vastness of deity. better to have no opinion of god than such an

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o whether it has one, two, or three points respectively placed within it. so also with regard to the other letters. but there are many other ways of employing the qabalah of the nine chambers, which i have not space to describe. i will merely mention as an example, that by the mode of temura called 74 athbsh, athbash, it is found that in jeremiah xxv. 26, the word shshk, sheshakh, symbolises bbl, babel. besides all these rules,there are certain meanings hidden in the shape of the letters of the hebrew alphabet; in the form of a particular letter at the end of a word being different from that which it generally bears when it is a final letter, or in a letter being written in the middle of a word in a character generally used only at the end; in any letters or letter being written in a size

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 2

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

the path which connects hod with netzach is the 27th path of the sepher yetzirah which answers to the letter hb:peh. it is the reflection of the sphere of mars and is the lowermost of the reciprocal paths. the tarot key attributed to this path is very rightly the 16th key- the tower; which we have seen in the 4= 7 ritual represents a tower struck by a flash of lightning, symbolising the tower of babel struck by the wrath of heaven, and also the power of the triad rushing down and destroying the columns of darkness, the light of adonai glimmering through the veils and consuming the elementary rituals of the 1= 10, 2= 9, 3= 8, and 4= 7 grades. in many cases the candidate, it is to be feared, can never have realised the necessity of this destruction of superficial knowledge, and the harnessi

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ation, and will be issued in number 3] 30 the herb dangerous part ii the psychology of hashish by oliver haddo the herb dangerous i "the girders of the soul, which give her breathing, are easy to be unloosed "nature teaches us, and the oracles also affirm, that even the evil germs of matter may alike become useful and good" zoroaster. comparable to the alf laylah wa laylah itself, a very tower of babel, partaking alike of truth both gross and subtle inextricably interwoven with the most fantastic fable, is our view of the herb- hashish- the herb dangerous. of the investigators who have pierced even for a moment the magic veil of its glamour ecstatic many have been appalled, many disappointed. few have dared to crush in arms of steel this burning daughter of the jinn; to ravish from her poi

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

ules and with many limitations: or again, the letters of a word are replaced by other letters as arranged by a definite scheme, often shown in a diagram. for example, a common form was to write one half of the alphabet over the other in reverse order, and so the first letter a was replaced by the last t, and b by shin, and so on. on this plan the word sheshak of jeremiah 25 v. 26, is said to mean babel: this permutation was known as atbsh, atbash. on this principle we find twenty-one other possible forms named in order albat, abgat, agdat: the complete set was called "the combinations of tziruph" other forms were rational, right, averse and irregular, obtained from a square of 22 spaces in each direction, that is of 484 secondary squares, and then putting a letter in each square in order u

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

elites, it will be easy to discover whence came also the confused account of the noachian deluge. it has become undeniable of late that the jews, who obtained their primitive ideas about creation from moses, who had them from[[footnote(s* as it is now asserted that the chaldean tablets, which give the allegorical description of creation, the fall, and the flood, even to the legend of the tower of babel, were written "before the time of moses (see g. smith's "chaldean account of genesis" p. 86, how can the pentateuch be called a revelation? it is simply another version of the same story[[vol. 2, page] 4 the secret doctrine. the egyptians, compiled their genesis and first cosmogonic traditions- when these were rewritten by ezra and others- from the chaldeo-akkadian account. it is, therefore

race down to the days of moses, and which found an objective form in those antediluvian giants, those terrible sorcerers and magicians, of whom the roman church has preserved such vivid and at the same time distorted legends. one who has read and studied the commentaries on the archaic doctrine, will easily recognise in some atlanteans, the prototypes of the nimrods, the builders of the tower of babel, the hamites, and all these tutti quanti of "accursed memory" as theological literature expresses it: of those, in short, who have furnished posterity with the orthodox types of satan. and this leads us naturally to inquire into the religious ethics of these early races, mythical as these may be. what was the religion of the third and fourth races? in the common acceptation of the term, neit

on on earth (as daksha did, when he saw that his manasaputras would not people the earth? and then comes a long break in this chapter vi. of genesis, between verses 4 and 5. for surely, it was not in or through the wickedness of the "mighty men. men of renown, among whom is placed nimrod the "mighty hunter before the lord" that "god saw that the wickedness of man was great" nor in the builders of babel, for this was after the deluge; but in the progeny of the giants who produced monstra quaedam de genere giganteo, monsters from whence sprang the lower races of men, now represented on earth by a few miserable dying-out tribes and the huge anthropoid apes. and if we are taken to task by theologians, whether protestant or roman catholic, we have only to refer them to their own literal texts

tions even against the sun- failing in which, they cursed it. the sorcerers of thessaly were credited with the power of calling down the moon, as greek history assures us. the atlanteans of the later period were renowned for their magic powers and wickedness, their ambition and defiance of the gods. thence the same traditions taking form in the bible about the antediluvian giants and the tower of babel, found also in the "book of enoch" diodorus records another fact or two: the atlanteans boasted of possessing the land in which all the gods had received their birth; as also of having had uranus for their first king, he being also the first to teach them astronomy. very little more than this has come down to us from antiquity. the myth of atlas is an allegory easily understood. atlas is the

BOOK OF JASHAR

eventually, the entire society itself must be redesigned to serve the needs of the construction project. to keep people working on the tower, regimentation and oppression must reach into every village. taking time off from construction work, even to care for newborn babies, becomes a crime punishable by death. thus, the jashar manuscript brings the binding of isaac into the story of the tower of babel. 6. the noahites' ultimate sin is their reversal god's act of creation, when they break humans back into red earth, in sacrifice to their tower (the red earth may be interpreted as a reference to adam in genesis; in hebrew, adom means red, and adamah means earth) so sarah calls god out of the tower, before the execution of her son isaac, and the unity of the noahites is destroyed. the tower

el. 6. the noahites' ultimate sin is their reversal god's act of creation, when they break humans back into red earth, in sacrifice to their tower (the red earth may be interpreted as a reference to adam in genesis; in hebrew, adom means red, and adamah means earth) so sarah calls god out of the tower, before the execution of her son isaac, and the unity of the noahites is destroyed. the tower of babel is a story that speaks directly to us today, as national and ethnic divisions generate a seemingly endless series of international crises and wars. we may ask why the world must be so divided. why should it be so easy for people to see themselves as divided into rival groups("us" against "them, and why should it be so hard for people to see a common heritage and unity of all humanity? if a t

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

r cheled- mixed earth and water. upon the left hand are the seven infernal habitations: 1. sheol- the depths of the earth [or literally, pit -editor] 2. abaddon- perdition 3. titahion- the clay of death 4. ber shacheth- the it of destruction 5. tzelmoth- the shadow of death 6. shaari moth- the gates of death 7. gehinnom- hell the evil and averse powers beneath the feet of the four cherubim lilith babel machaloth jonia samael media rehab edom 'splendour on every side fire endfolding whirlwind' these are from cherubic expressions of force and the evil and averse powers broken beneath their feet are: rahab, whose symbol is a terrible demon leaping upon an ox; machaloth, a form compounded of a serpent and a woman, and she rideth upon a serpent scorpion; and lilith, a woman outwardly beautiful

nd' these are from cherubic expressions of force and the evil and averse powers broken beneath their feet are: rahab, whose symbol is a terrible demon leaping upon an ox; machaloth, a form compounded of a serpent and a woman, and she rideth upon a serpent scorpion; and lilith, a woman outwardly beautiful but inwardly corrupt and putrefying, riding upon a strange and terrible beast. to these four (babel, jonia, media, edom) are attributed four kingdoms. 1. bairiron- so called because they are derived from the fourth evil, namely samael, the black. their colors are dull red and a black, and their form is that of a dragon- lion. 2. adimiron- whose colors are like blood mixed with water, a dull yellow and grey. their form is that of a lion-lizard. 3. tzelladimiron- whose colors are like limpid

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

r more of the original knowledge than those religions (such as christianity) which condemn it as 'evil. the fourth dimensional prison warders wish to prevent us from knowing who we are, how we have 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 wit

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

t of the sahara desert, was once a green and pleasant land. this could explain the water erosion found on the sphinx. to divide and rule the people, credo continues, the chitauri scattered them across the earth and gave them different languages so they could not communicate with each other. this is another story repeated all over the world and not just in the old testament version of the tower of babel. that was a steal from many more ancient accounts. the hopi say that when they came to the surface on the orders of "spider woman, a "mocking bird" arrived to confuse their language and make the tribes talk in different tongues. credo, repeating the information passed on to him in a lifetime of initiations into this underground knowledge, said that the chitauri reptilians interbred with all

god. the first line of genesis "in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth" actually reads in the hebrew "in the beginning the gods created the heavens and the earth" the word elohim, plural, is used 30 times in genesis and 2,570 times in all.14 these include the terms "and the elohim said let us make men in our image; the elohim said "come let us go down" in the story of the tower of babel; and "behold, the man has become like one of us, to know good and evil" in the garden of eden. also in genesis we have "and elohim said 'let us make adam".15 terms like yahveh-elohim or yahveh of the gods, is translated as lord and lord god to hide the truth. it was impossible to eliminate "the gods" when these texts were first written because the whole of the world was worshipping a vast ra

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

ng here only of one group of them. the hopi say that one day under theorders of their goddess, spider woman, they ascended to the surface of the earth andemerged through their cave they called the sipapuni. once on the outside, the hopi say,a mocking bird arrived to confuse their language and make different tribes speakdifferent tongues. this is such a repeat of the biblical story of the tower of babel that aconnection is obvious. to this day the hopi will not recreate the images of their snakeancestors for fear of death. the layout of the underground world discovered in arizonawas described by g .e. kincaid as a..mammoth chamber from which radiates scores ofpassageways like the spokes of a wheel. this is also how the modern reptilianunderground base at dulce, new mexico is described, and

ese deities throughout the world may seem to be54an unfathomable tidal wave of names, but they are overwhelmingly different names forthe same two figures. another deity widely used in satanism for the sacrifice ofchildren today is kronos, the king of the cyclops in greek legend. he was known asthe tower builder and is almost certainly another version of nimrod, the builder of thebiblical tower of babel.15the reason the reptile bloodlines are involved in such unspeakable ritual andpractice today, is quite simply because they always have been. when you follow thesebloodlines across history, you find they use the same rituals and sacrifice to the samedeities, right to the present day. another passage in the book of enoch tells of thewatchers breeding with human women and the behaviour of the

ELIPHAS LEVI SANCTUM REGNUM

the archangels are referred to the planets of the ancients, and their successive periods of dominion are taken in the following order- orifiel representing saturn anael venus zachariel jupiter raphael mercury samael mars gabriel luna michael sol the first course of these rulers ended in anno mundi 2480. the noachian deluge is placed at 1656, in the reign of samael. the destruction of the tower of babel (see tarot trump, no. xvi, page 63) occured in the second reign of orifiel; the life of abraham in the second reign of zachariel; the life of moses in the second reign of raphael; pythagoras, xerxes, and alexander the great in the second solar reign of michael. the era of jesus christ comes in the third reign of orifiel. the third reign of anael began in 109 ad the third reign of zachariel b

ELLIS LOW TWELVE 1907

assage of an act, during the minority of henry vi, which forbade the masons to hold their accustomed chapters and assemblies. but the act was never enforced, and when henry vi. became of age he joined the order, while henry vii. was the grand master in england. the origin of operative masonry is traced back by many to the old roman empire, the pharaohs, the temple of solomon, even to the tower of babel and to the ark of noah. speculative free masonry originated in england and dates from the seventeenth century. its foundation lies in the "practice of moral and social virtue" its characteristic feature being charity in the broadest sense, brotherly love, relief and truth. it is because of this foundation, so closely approaching that which is divine, that the growth, prosperity and permanenc

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

raternity founded by christian rosencreutz, a high occult initiate. the order had supposedly been founded a century earlier and was only now being made public. the documents further invited inquiries from interested readers but failed to give an address or location for the fraternity. over the next decades, many would look in vain for the group. in 1619 andrae published a short work, the tower of babel, in which he confessed his authorship and told his readers that the rosicrucian order did not exist. he apparently derived the basic symbolism of the order from martin luther s coat of arms, which had a rose and a cross on it. however, by this time the original writings had spread far and wide, and many did not believe andrae s confession. andrae essentially left his rosicrucian ideas behind

ical medium. their stay in england was strenuous. public opposition was violent, but interest in their feats was tremendous, and the spiritualists reaped rewards of favorable press. their first seance in london was held privately at the residence of dion boucicault, the famous actor and author, in the presence of scientists and members of the press. in a report on the seance, after describing the babel generated by the musical instruments playing in the light and dark seances, a correspondent for the times continues: a new experiment was now made. darkness having regained its supremacy, one of the brothers expressed a desire to be relieved of his coat. returning light showed him in his shirtsleeves, though his hands were still firmly bound behind the chair. it was now stated that he was pr

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

o mentioned that the rites of cybele were celebrated in asia minor in a manner identical with the grecian mysteries of dionysius and the cretan rites of the cabiri. the rev. geo. oliver, in his book the history of initiation (1829, asserted that the rites of freemasonry were exercised in the antediluvian world, were received by noah after the flood, and were practiced by people at the building of babel. these rites spread and were molded into a form, the great outlines of which can be traced in the mysteries of every heathen nation. these mysteries are the shattered remains of the one true system, from which they were derived. although there may have been likenesses between the rites of certain societies, the idea that all sprang from one common source has never been proved. one thing, how

EVIL AND UNCLEAN SPIRITS

ul but inwardly corrupt and putrefying, riding upon a strange and terrible beast. j bwlwg wryrgt qrz bru laylmg lams k b j laymwat layrts laygwu hlkcug g t h n m y tylyl 5 the evil and averse powers beneath the feet of the four kerubim to these four are attributed the four kingdoms and they are also classed under the sephiroth. sephiroth spirit kingdom qlippoth rtk hmkj hnyb tylyl (strange beast) babel splendor l dsj hrwbg trapt twlwjam (serpent scorpion) greeks whirling o jxn dwh dwsy lams (ox) medes great cloud n twklm bahar (ass) edom whirlwind m the above paper was in full or part given to members of the 4=7 grade, later it was changed to the 5=6 grade. because of inherent changes of just having knowledge of these names within the sphere of sensation, we have limited access to this pap

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

tance of tetragrammaton, continued to grow until the repopulated world cried: ggo to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, h 14 that is an object of worship; 15 for they had a crafty design to rid themselves of the supreme power and to secret wisdom of the qabalah page 59 transfer his glory to another. 16 the inner meaning of the tower of babel is that any attempt to possess the secrets of heaven in order to divulge them to the uninitiated on earth must lead to misunderstanding and anarchy- a confusion of tongues, that is of false symbols. a universal pentacle cannot be constructed for the unpurified multitudes, for the multitudes can only comprehend parables. we have now descended a long way in the hierarchy of evil. from the divi

which at present bars us from a completer understanding. today we wait on the threshold of this door, fearfully gazing out upon a world monstrous and twoheaded. darkness has taken upon itself a political form which has bereft the nations of their sight; has shrouded their minds and blotted out their wisdom; has sown among them the dragon's teeth of war. we stand today at the foot of the tower of babel- the tower of class strife and international conflict. meanwhile light has scintillated forth in science, the boundless shekinah of this present age. it is girt by no frontier and circumscribed by no class. it shines forth over the north and the south, over the east and the west. into the heights and into the depths it glows, and yet for the perfection of its creative force it demands that u

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

] asiatic researches, vol. iii, pp. 125-132 [51] asiatic researches "egypt and the nile" vol. iii, pp. 361-363. the people who were dominant in asia long before the rise of the late assyrian monarchy, are said to be those whom scriptural writers represent as cushim, and the hindoos as cushas. they were the descendants of cush, or cuth, and were believed to have been the architects of the tower of babel. epiphanius, eusebius, and others assert that at the time of the building of this tower there existed two rival beliefs, the one demonstrated as scuthism, the other as ionism, or hellenism, the latter of which embodied the worship of the great mother, or the female element, which was worshipped in the shape of the mystic "iona or dove" the scuths, on the other hand, believed in the pre-emine

the great mother, or the female element, which was worshipped in the shape of the mystic "iona or dove" the scuths, on the other hand, believed in the pre-eminence of a great father, or, perhaps i should say, in a deity composed of a triad containing the elements of a male parent. upon this subject the learned faber remarks "i am much mistaken if some dissension on these points did not prevail at babel itself; and i think there is reason for believing that the altercation between the rival sects aided the confusion of languages in producing the dispersion"[52 [52] pagan idolatry, book vi, ch. ii. those who believed in the superiority of the male in the processes of reproduction, adored the male element in the deity, while those who held that the female is the more important, worshipped the

os that in india, during a period of several thousand years, there existed various sects, those who worshipped the male as the only creative force, others who adored the female as the origin of life, and those who paid homage to both, as alike important in the office of reproduction. it would seem that the fierce wars which had devastated the land had ceased prior to the beginning of the tower of babel. according to the testimony of moses, the lord himself declared "behold the people is one" this unanimity of belief, as is plainly shown, was of short duration, for the tower arose "upright and defiant" not, however, as an emblem of the primeval dual or triune god in which the female energy was predominant, but as a symbol of male creative power. it was the type of virility which in the subs

was of short duration, for the tower arose "upright and defiant" not, however, as an emblem of the primeval dual or triune god in which the female energy was predominant, but as a symbol of male creative power. it was the type of virility which in the subsequent history of religion was to assume the position of the "one only and true god" it is not improbable that idolatry began with the tower of babel. indeed it has been confidently asserted by certain writers that the earliest idols set up as emblems of the deity, or as expressions of the peculiar worship of the lingajas, were obelisks, columns, or towers, the first of which we have any account being the tower of babel, erected probably at nipur in chaldea. until a comparatively recent time, the actual significance of this monument seems

ree of certainty that this great upheaval of society was the culmination of a dispute which had long been waged between two contending powers, and which finally resulted in a separation of the people, and in the final success, for the time being, of the sect which refused longer to recognize the superior importance of the female in the god-idea. at what time in the history of mankind the tower of babel was erected has not been ascertained, but the great antiquity of chaldea is no longer questioned. sir henry rawlinson, in the royal geographical journal says "when chaldea was first colonized, or at any rate when the seat of empire was first established there, the emporium of trade seems to have been at ur of the chaldees, which is now 150 miles from the sea, the persian gulf having retired

ught down by the euphrates and tigris" to which baldwin adds "a little reflection on the vast period of time required to effect geological changes so great as this will enable us to see to what a remote age in the deeps of antiquity we must go to find the beginning of civilization in the mesopotamian valley"[53 [53] prehistoric nations, p. 191. although at the time of the building of the tower of babel the worship of a deity in which the male principle was pre-eminent had not become universal, still the facts seem to indicate that the doctrine of male superiority which for ages had been steadily advancing had at length gained the ascendancy over the older religion. the new faith and worship had corrupted the old, and through the conditions which had been imposed upon women, and the consequ

successively. for they say that these are the names of them among the gentiles, and they have been derived, with altered denomination, from the energy of the maternal angels. when he seemed to have vanquished his antagonists, omphale (now she is venus) clings to him and entices away hercules, and divests him of his power, viz: the commands of baruch which elohim issued. and in place of this power babel, or venus, envelops him in her own peculiar robe, that is, in the power of edem, who is the power below; and in this way the prophecy of hercules remained unfulfilled and his work" as men were still bound by the power of edem, or the devil, in the days of herod the king, baruch was again dispatched by elohim, and coming to nazareth delivered his message to jesus, son of joseph and mary. nass

e worship of the male emblems of generation prevailed in the christian church even as late as the 16th century, proves that it was not the particular symbols connected with the worship of fertility upon which the western christian missionaries made war, but, on the contrary, that it was the recognition by them of that detested female element against which, even before the erection of the tower of babel, there had been almost a constant warfare. the rites of potin, or photin, bishop of lyons, who was honored in provence, languedoc and the lyonais as st. fontin, also the rites performed in many of the christian churches as late as the 16th century, prove that the devotees of the christian system were not at this time a whit behind their pagan predecessors in their zeal for "heathen abominati

and a "pillar of fire by night" is said to be none other than a reproductive emblem, as was also the "lord" which "reposed in the ark of the covenant" monuments set up to symbolize the religion of the parsees or fire-worshippers after they had succumbed to the pressure brought to bear upon them by the adorers of the male principle were each and all of them, like their great prototype the tower of babel, typical of the universal creative power which was worshipped as male. notwithstanding the fact that the male energy had come to be recognized as the principal factor in reproduction, it is observed that wherever these monuments or other symbols of fertility appear, there is always to be found in close connection with them certain emblems symbolical of the female power; thus showing that alt

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

eath (6) shaari moth- the gates of death (7) gehinnom- hellthe qliphoth of theqabalah25theevil and averse powers beneath thefeetof thefourcherubim[these,and all followingpropernames,are given inhebrewwith englishtransliterationsandtranslationswhereappropriate.thehebrewishereomitted.rg]lilith machaloth samael rahab the asstheoxserpentsstrange beasts splendour on every side fire enfolding whirlwind babel ionia media edomthemercavah in the mercavah vision of ezekiel it is written 'and i looked and behold a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire enfolding itself and a splendour on every side, and hashmal the brilliance of the innermost flame in the midst of fire' these are from cherubic expressions of force and the evil and averse powers broken beneath their feet are:rahab

of fire' these are from cherubic expressions of force and the evil and averse powers broken beneath their feet are:rahab,whose symbol is a terrible demon leaping upon an ox;machaloth,a form compounded of a serpent and a woman, and she rideth upon a serpent scorpion; andlilith,a woman outwardly beautiful but inwardly corrupt and putrefying, riding upon a strange and terrible beast. to these four (babel, ionia, media, edom) are attributed four kingdoms, and they are also classed under the sephiroth as shewn.thetwelve princes of the qliphoth who are the heads of the months of the year these are the names of the twelve princes and tribes of the qliphoth who are the heads of the months of the year:(1)bairiron- so called because they are derived from the fourth evil, namely samael, the black. t

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

throw the cult of tezcatilpoca and to inaugurate an era when the gods would again accept sacrifices of flowers and cease their clamour for human blood.29 25 world mythology, p. 237. 26 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 437. 27 ibid. 28 fair gods and stone faces, pp. 139-40. 29 the feathered serpent and the cross, pp. 35, 66. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 114 chapter 15 mexican babel we drove south-east from tula, by-passing mexico city on an anarchic series of fast freeways that dragged us through the creeping edge of the capital s eye-watering, lung-searing pollution. our route then took us up over pine-covered mountains, past the snowy peak of popocatepetl and thence along tree-lined lanes amid fields and farmsteads. in the late afternoon we arrived at cholula, a slee

ight of the sun and his beauty? come and confound them, because it is not right that they of the earth, living in the flesh, should mingle with us. immediately the inhabitants of the sky sallied forth like flashes of lightning; they destroyed the edifice and divided and scattered its builders to all parts of the earth.18 it was this story, almost but not quite the biblical account of the tower of babel (which was itself a reworking of a far older mesopotamian tradition, that had brought me to cholula. the central american and middle eastern tales were obviously closely related. indeed, the similarities were unmissable, but there were also differences far too significant to be ignored. of course, the similarities could be due to unrecorded pre-colombian contacts between the cultures of the

man had built. so they are all a single people with a single language! said yahweh. this is but the start of their undertakings! there will be nothing too hard for them to do. come, let us go down and confuse their language on the spot so that they can no longer understand one another. yahweh scattered them thence over the whole face of the earth, and they stopped building the tower. it was named babel, therefore, because there yahweh confused the language of the whole earth. it was from there that yahweh scattered them over the whole face of the earth.19 the verse which most interested me suggested very clearly that the ancient builders of the tower of babel had set out to create a lasting monument to themselves so that their name would not be forgotten even if their civilization and lang

ints of the gods 185 goddess of war and sexual love and ea, lord of the waters, man s natural friend and protector. in those days the world teemed, the people multiplied, the world bellowed like a wild bull, and the great god was aroused by the clamour. enlil heard the clamour and he said to the gods in council, the uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reason of the babel. so the gods agreed to exterminate mankind. 2 ea, however, took pity on utnapishtim. speaking through the reed wall of the king s house he told him of the imminent catastrophe and instructed him to build a boat in which he and his family could survive: tear down your house and build a boat, abandon possessions and look for life, despise wordly goods and save your soul. tear down your house

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

elp uslikewise. the monotonous cry of the muezzins from the tops of the minarets had just proclaimed the hour of noon aswe, descending from the heights of pera to the port of galata, with difficulty managed to elbow our waythrough the unsavoury crowds of the commercial quarter of the town. before we reached the docks, we hadbeen half deafened by the shouts and incessant ear-piercing cries and the babel-like confusion of tongues. inthis part of the city it is useless to expect to be guided by either house numbers, or names of streets. thelocation of any desired place is indicated by its proximity to some other more conspicuous building such as amosque, bath, or european shop; for the rest, one has to trust to allah and his prophet. it was with the greatest difficulty, therefore, that we fin

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

be brought to see alike. q. but surely those few who have felt the need of such truths must have made up their minds to believe in something definite? you tell me that, the society having no doctrines of its own, every member may believe as he chooses and accept what he pleases. this looks as if the theosophical society was bent upon reviving the confusion of languages and beliefs of the tower of babel of old. have you no beliefs in common? a. what is meant by the society having no tenets or doctrines of its own is, that no special doctrines or beliefs are obligatory on its members; but, of course, this applies only to the body as a whole. the society, as you were told, is divided into an outer and an inner body. those who belong to the latter have, of course, a philosophy, or-if you so pr

HEPTAMERON

. ministers. suquinos, sallales. the winde to which the said angels of the air are subject. the southwest-winde. the angels of the second heaven govern wednesday, which ought to be called from the four parts of the world. at the east. mathlai. tarmiel. baraborat. at the west. jeresous. mitraton. at the north. thiel. rael. jariahel. venahel. velel. abuiori. ucirnuel. at the south. milliel. nelapa. babel. caluel. vel. laquel. the fumigation of wednesday. mastick. the conjuration of wednesday. conjuro& confirmo vos angeli fortes, sancti& potentes, in nomine fortis, metuendissimi& benedicti ja, adonay, eloim, saday, saday, saday, eie, eie, eie, asamie, asaraie& in nomine adonay dei israel, qui creavit luminaria magna, ad distinguendum diem nocte& per nomen omnium angelorum deservientium in exe

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

downpour waxed in heaviness, and distant peals of thunder sounded from far horizons. sheet lightning shimmered, and then a forky bolt flashed near at hand, as if descending into the accursed glen itself. the sky grew very dark, and the watchers hoped that the storm would prove a short, sharp one followed by clear weather. it was still gruesomely dark when, not much over an hour later, a confused babel of voices sounded down the road. another moment brought to view a frightened group of more than a dozen men, running, shouting, and even whimpering hysterically. someone in the lead began sobbing out words, and the arkham men started violently when those words developed a coherent form 'oh, my gawd, my gawd' the voice choked out 'it's a-goin' agin, an' this time by day! it's aout- it's aout

erially tangible blackness. this is the end of my experience, so far as i can recall. any further impressions belong wholly to the domain of phantasmagoria delirium. dream, madness, and memory merged wildly together in a series of fantastic, fragmentary delusions which can have no relation to anything real. there was a hideous fall through incalculable leagues of viscous, sentient darkness, and a babel of noises utterly alien to all that we know of the earth and its organic life. dormant, rudimentary senses seemed to start into vitality within me, telling of pits and voids peopled by floating horrors and leading to sunless crags and oceans and teeming cities of windowless, basalt towers upon which no light ever shone. secrets of the primal planet and its immemorial aeons flashed through my

ich no light ever shone. secrets of the primal planet and its immemorial aeons flashed through my brain without the aid of sight or sound, and there were known to me things which not even the wildest of my former dreams had ever suggested. and all the while cold fingers of damp vapor clutched and picked at me, and that eldritch, damnable whistling shrieked fiendishly above all the alternations of babel and silence in the whirlpools of darkness around. afterward there were visions of the cyclopean city of my dreams- not in ruins, but just as i had dreamed of it. i was in my conical, non-human body again, and mingled with crowds of the great race and the captive minds who carried books up and down the lofty corridors and vast inclines. then, superimposed upon these pictures, were frightful

ld not, except by a malign miracle, see me. all at once i began dreading to look at them as they passed. i saw the close moonlit space where they would surge by, and had curious thoughts about the irredeemable pollution of that space. they would perhaps be the worst of all innsmouth types- something one would not care to remember. the stench waxed overpowering, and the noises swelled to a bestial babel of croaking, baying and barking without the least suggestion of human speech. were these indeed the voices of my pursuers? did they have dogs after all? so far i had seen none of the lower animals in innsmouth. that flopping or pattering was monstrous- i could not look upon the degenerate creatures responsible for it. i would keep my eyes shut till the sound receded toward the west. the hord

HP LOVECRAFT HERBERT WEST REANIMATOR

rto hopeless cases of maiming. there he worked like a butcher in the midst of his gory wares- i could never get used to the levity with which he handled and classified certain things. at times he actually did perform marvels of surgery for the soldiers; but his chief delights were of a less public and philanthropic kind, requiring many explanations of sounds which seemed peculiar even amidst that babel of the damned. among these sounds were frequent revolver-shots- surely not uncommon on a battlefield, but distinctly uncommon in an hospital. dr. west s reanimated specimens were not meant for long existence or a large audience. besides human tissue, west employed much of the reptile embryo tissue which he had cultivated with such singular results. it was better than human material for maint

HP LOVECRAFT THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN

nceive as produced by one player. certainly, erich zann was a genius of wild power. as the weeks passed, the playing grew wilder, whilst the old musician acquired an increasing haggardness and furtiveness pitiful to behold. he now refused to admit me at any time, and shunned me whenever we met on the stairs. then one night as i listened at the door, i heard the shrieking viol swell into a chaotic babel of sound; a pandemonium which would have led me to doubt my own shaking sanity had there not come from behind that barred portal a piteous proof that the horror was real the awful, inarticulate cry which only a mute can utter, and which rises only in moments of the most terrible fear or anguish. i knocked repeatedly at the door, but received no response. afterward i waited in the black hallw

nses. he did not respond, and still the viol shrieked on without slackening. i moved my hand to his head, whose mechanical nodding i was able to stop, and shouted in his ear that we must both flee from the unknown things of the night. but he neither answered me nor abated the frenzy of his unutterable music, while all through the garret strange currents of wind seemed to dance in the darkness and babel. when my hand touched his ear i shuddered, though i knew not why knew not why till i felt the still face; the ice-cold, stiffened, unbreathing face whose glassy eyes bulged uselessly into the void. and then, by some miracle, finding the door and the large wooden bolt, i plunged wildly away from that glassy-eyed thing in the dark, and from the ghoulish howling of that accursed viol whose fury

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

ld not, except by a malign miracle, see me. all at once i began dreading to look at them as they passed. i saw the close moonlit space where they would surge by, and had curious thoughts about the irredeemable pollution of that space. they would perhaps be the worst of all innsmouth types- something one would not care to remember. the stench waxed overpowering, and the noises swelled to a bestial babel of croaking, baying and barking without the least suggestion of human speech. were these indeed the voices of my pursuers? did they have dogs after all? so far i had seen none of the lower animals in lnnsmouth. that flopping or pattering was monstrous- i could not look upon the degenerate creatures responsible for it i would keep my eyes shut till the sound receded toward the west. the horde

ISIS UNVEILED

ith the fourth, and typi- fying the death of the moon-god in its gradual waning and final disap- pearance. this death was allegorised by them, and attributed to the triumph of the genius of evil over the light-giving deity; as the later na- tions allegorized the death of their sun-gods, c^iris and apollo, at the hands of lyphon and the great dragon ^thon, when the sun entered the winter solstice. babel, arach, and akkad are names of the sun. the chaldaean orada are full and explicit upon the subject of the divine triad "a triad of deity shines forth throughout the whole worid, of which a monad is the head" admits the reverend dr. maurice "for from this triad, in the bosoms, are all things governed" sajrs a chaldaean oracle" the ph5, pur, and phlox, of sanchoniathon* are light, fire, and fl

ceremony of auto-da-fi at lisbon in 1601, as wizards^ this immortal institution of christianity did not remain without its dante to sing its praise "macedo, a portuguese jesuit" says the author of demonologia "has discovered the ori^ of the inquisition in the terres- trial paradise, and presumes to allege that god was the first who began the functions of an inquisitor over cain and the workmen of babel? nowhere during the middle ages were the arts of magic and sorcery 123. demenoutgia, p. 3 digitizecoy google 00 isis unveiled more pracused by the dergy than in spun and portugal. the moon were profoundly versed in the occult sciences, and at ttdedo, seville, and salamanca there were, once upon a time, great schools of magic. the kabalists of the latter town were skilled in ail the abstruse

ilce 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 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

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

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

difficult subjects, and contain splendid passages and truths upon all subjects, upon the nature of metals, upon medical science, upon the unsupposed properties of simples, upon theological and ontological speculation, and upon science and objects of thought generally, upon all these matters they enlarge to the reader stupendously when the proper attention is directed to them. the mythical tor of babel. egyptian crux. chapter the fifth. an historical adventure. ut to return to signor gualdi, from whom we have notwithstanding made no impertinent digression, since he was eventually suspected to be one of the strange people, or rosicrucians, or ever-livers of whom we are treating. this was from mysterious circumstances which occurred afterwards in relation to him, and which are in print. the

he art of her servants has strayed now, in unworthy and indign divination, and in the base proffer of supposed gipsy arts ministration becomes ridiculous (or made so, which was once mighty and sublime. the pyramidal or triangular form which fire assumes in its ascent to heaven is in the monolithic typology used to signify the great generative power. we have only to look at stonehenge, ellora, the babel-towers of central america, the gigantic ruins scattered all over tartary and india, to see how gloriously they symbolised the majesty of the supreme. to these uprights, obelisks, or lithoi, of the old world, including the bethel, or jacob s pillar, or pillow, raised in the plain of luz, we will add, as the commemorative or reminding shape of the fire, the pyramids of ascending and descending

l the minarets of the mohammedan, we say, together with all the other symbols of moon, of disc, of wings, or of horns (equally with the shadowy and preternatural beings in all mythologies and in all theologies, to which these adjuncts or insignia are referred, and which are symbolised by them, all these monuments, or bodied meanings, testify to the deification of fire. what may mean that tower of babel and its impious raising, when it sought, even past and over the clouds, to the tower, tor, or tau of babel. 91 imply a daring sign? what portent was that betrayal of a knowledge not for man, that surmise forbidden save in infinite humility, and in the whispered impartment of the further and seemingly more impossible, and still more greatly mystical, meanings? in utter abnegation of self alon

of what was this tower of belus, or the fire, to be the monument? when it soared, as a pharos, on. the rock of the traditionary ages, to defy time in its commitment to form of the unpronounceable secret, stage on stage and story on story, though it climbed the clouds, and on its top should shine the ever-burning fire, first idol in the world, dark save with neglected stars, what was the tower of babel but a gigantic monolith? perhaps to record and to perpetuate this ground-fire of all; to be worshipped, an idol, in its visible form, when it should be alone taken as the invisible thought: fire to be waited for (spirit-possession, not waited on (idolatry. therefore was the speech confounded, that the thing should not be; therefore, under the myth of climbing into heaven by the means of it

re coloured on 208 the rosicrucians. the right, white, on the left, red. these imply masculine and feminine, ideas. fig. 42. fig. 43. fig. 44. the accompanying figure is the winged human-headed lion. it comes from the nineveh gallery. it may be fig. 45. fig. 46. pyramid fig. 47. tower or tor. recognised as the winged bull, and also as the winged lion of st. mark. fig. 48. tower. fig. 49. tower of babel. the lion, bull, eagle, man, are the symbols of the evangelists; the man, or angel, standing for babylonian mythic tors. 209 st. matthew, the lion for st. mark, the bull for st. luke, and the eagle for st. john. in these strange fig. 50. pyramid. fig. 51. scarab us. fig. 52. egyptian colossus. aspects the evangelists figured in many ancient churches, and on most fonts. these representative f

eir material and worldly side, the character of charms, sigils, and talismans, in the evil sense, or dark sense. they were supposed to be means of magic by the old soothsayers. the celebrated lord monboddo produced a very elaborate treatise quite contrary to recognised ideas to show that speech was not natural to man, but that language was a result of the primeval fall, and that the punishment of babel signified the acquisition of the tongues, and not the confusion of language. this idea is sufficiently startling. a general display of the esses (s.s) and the zeds (z.z, and their involutions, combinations, and sounds in* we conceal, under this term, a great rosicrucian mystery, which we determine to be excused explaining more particularly, and which must ever remain at its safest in the imp

s had been man's reasons man would never have been; because man has no place in reason he is not reasonable. it is the self-assertion and the self-presumption that is at fault mere miserable self-conceit produces these men: volubility-and reading-provide them with a cloud of words wherewith they may (and do) confuse. they have dared in their lofty (toppling) philosophical climbing like the men of babel or babble, as the tongues afterwards became forcing into their heights of metaphysics (as it were) to look down upon god spying him at his work! impious mad stupidity; trusting brains, in which the devil (or denier) forges lies forgetting that darkness is only the reversed side of light, as light is only the presented side of darkness and that both are the same. we should know no light witho

et mourant comme lui, rachet es par n. s. j sus- christ et capables de salut ou de damnation. par le r. p. louis marie sinistrari d ameno, de 1 ordre des mineurs r form s de l' troite observance de saint-fran ois (xvii. siecle. publi d'apr s le manuscrit original d couvert londres en 1872, et traduit du latin par isidore liseux (seconde edition) paris, isidore liseux, 5 rue scribe, 1876. tower of babel. chapter the thirty-eighth. robert fludd (robertus de fluctibus, the english rosicrucian. t is a reflection on the knowledge of the compilers of all books treating of the history and topography of kent, that perhaps the most remarkable man born in it because his pursuits lay out of the beaten track of recognition or of praise should not be mentioned in any of the descriptive or biographical

KETAB E SIYAH

ecause it is the name of our god, nor any name resembling this, such as kitan, sharr, shatt; nor any vocable resembling mal'un, na'l, or the like. before our religion was called idolatry and the jews, christians, muslims and persians held aloof from our religion. king ahab and amran were of us, so that they used to call the god of ahab beelzebub, whom they call amongst us pirbub. we had a king in babel whose name was bukhti-nossor (nebuchadnezzer, and ahasuerus in persia, and in constantinople aghriqalus. before heaven and earth existed, god was over the waters in a vessel in the midst of the waters. 404 then he was wroth with the pearl which he had created, wherefore he cast it away: and from the crash of it were produced the mountains, and from the clang of it the sand-hills, and from it

LAITMAN M FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

o 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 babylonians plot failed because it is impossible to satisfy the ego directly. as their egos grew, it separated them from one another. previously, the people of babel had lived as one people. but now, when the ego began to speak in them, they stopped understanding each oth

LAITMAN M KABBALAH REVEALED

ew apart and became detached from one another. in consequence, the single nation of the ancient world was divided. it first split into two groups that drifted to the east and to the west. the two groups continued to divide and splinter, eventually forming the multitude 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

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

uoted from mackey s encyclopaedia(*art. legend of the craft) 550. the legend begins with an account of lamech and his four children, who founded all the sciences of the world before the flood. these sciences were engraved on two pillars, one of which was later found by hermes, who taught its contents to the people. nimrod is next mentioned as having employed masons at the building of the tower of babel, and as having given them their first charge. next abraham and sarah are said to have taught the seven sciences to the egyptians, and especially to a worthy scoller that hight ewclyde. the latter was commissioned by the king to teach masonry to a large number of children of the lord and estates of the realm. the legend passes then to david, who, when he began the temple of jerusalem, learned

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eday, 1968. kramer, heinrich, and james sprenger. malleus maleficarum. 1486. trans.montague summers. new york: benjamin blom, 1970. nielsen, niels c. jr, et al. religions of the world. new york: st.martin s press, 1983. van de castle, robert l. our dreaming mind. new york: ballantine, 1994. nimrod nimrod was a hunter, the son of cush, and, according to legend, the moving force behind the tower of babel. in the book of genesis, he is mentioned briefly in chapter 10: nimrod. was the first on earth to be a mighty man. he was a mighty hunter before the lord; therefore it is said, like nimrod a mighty hunter before the lord. the beginning of his kingdom was babel, erech, and accad (gen. 10:9 10. according to jewish legend, nimrod was one of the nephilim the children of the angels who, as it say

LIBER LVII

ding to whether it has one, two, or three points respectively placed within it. so also with regard to the other letters. but there are many other ways of employing the qabalah of the nine chambers, which i have not space to describe. i will merely mention, as an example, that by the mode of temura called cbta, athbash, it is found that in jeremiah xxv, 26, the word kcc, sheshakh, symbolizes lbb, babel. besides all these rules, there are certain meanings hidden in the shape of the letters of the hebrew alphabet; in the form of a particular letter at the end of a word being different from that which it generally bears when it is a final letter, or in a letter being written in the middle of a word in a character generally used only at the end; in any letter or letters being written in a size

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

rchaeologist accepts the biblical account that animal husbandry was invented by (or provided to) humans before they first experienced a very long period of hunting and gathering, as overwhelmingly demonstrated by the paleontological record. and finally, no credible linguist accords validity to the idea that the 6,000 or so human languages appeared all at once, as humans were building the tower of babel. accordingly, books and web sites that prescribe id are generally silent regarding the time frames in which the origins of life and the universe, as well as the appearance of humans, took place. this distinguishes id from old-style creationism. also, proponents of id no longer invoke the concept of a young earth intentionally created to look old and thus fool naive scientists, or claims that

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

kind to regain the edenic state in which he was conscious of the divine presence, and this is the essence of masonic teaching. the latter, which has to do with the making of physical structures and was learned from man's study of nature, is peripheral to the central masonic teaching. initially these two disciplines were quite separate. the builders at cain's city of enoch and at nimrod's tower of babel are said not to have been practitioners of the "royal art" as a result of the teachings of the "cabalists" at solomon's temple, builders have been practicing the "royal art" under the name of "free-masonry" ever since. this analysis certainly suggests that among the members of the antient grand lodge there was a mystical, and probably a kabbalistic, understanding of freemasonry. this is an u

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

new one--and that one was greater than the million; for the million secrets breed death, disaster, sorrow, selfishness, lust, and avarice, but the one secret confers life, light, and truth. the time will come when the secret wisdom shall again be the dominating religious and philosophical urge of the world. the day is at hand when the doom of dogma shall be sounded. the great theological tower of babel, with its confusion of tongues, was built of bricks of mud and the mortar of slime. out of the cold ashes of lifeless creeds, however, shall rise phoenixlike the ancient mysteries. no other institution has so completely satisfied the religious aspirations of humanity, for since the destruction of the mysteries there never has been a religious code to which plato could have subscribed. the un

ong 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 in the light of these ancient sciences. with the growth of man's knowledge of the constitution and periodicity of the heavenly

ee alphabets is its hebrew letter equivalent. next: freemasonic symbolism sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 173 freemasonic symbolism in several early masonic manuscripts--for example, the harleian, sloane, lansdowne, and edinburgh- kilwinning--it is stated that the craft of initiated builders existed before the deluge, and that its members were employed in the building of the tower of babel. a masonic constitution dated 1701 gives the following naive account of the origin of the sciences, arts, and crafts from which the major part of masonic symbolism is derived "how this worthy science was first begunne, i shall tell. before noah's flood, there was a man called lameck as it is written in the 4 chap. of gen: and this lameck had two wives. the one was called adah, and the other

MEANING OF MASONRY

stroyed 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 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 sel

spiritual force and vitalizing energy of their inherent ideas. it may, therefore, be both helpful and a corroboration of what has been said if we scrutinize the hebrew names of a chapter's officers; what they yield upon analysis will demonstrate that those officers impersonate ideas rather than represent persons. 1" zerubabel, prince of the people" the name literally means" a sprouting forth from babel, or from among the people" babel" and "people" are two forms of expressing the same idea and the english word is almost identical with the hebrew one. society as a whole, the multitude" the people" bebeloi" as it is in greek, at all times of the world's history constitutes a babel of confused aims and interests. but there are always individuals intellectually or spiritually in advance of the

royal arch. to understand the significance of the two scribes ezra and nehemiah it is necessary to recall that, in the biblical account of the return from babylonian captivity, these two were leading men. transposing this historicized narrative into its spi ritual implication, ezra and nehemiah personify two distinct stages of the mystical progress made by the candidate who essays to renounce the babel of his lower nature and, by reorganizing himself, regain his native spiritual home and condition "nehemiah (whose place in the chapter is in the south west) is a figure of a certain measure of that reorganization and return. like his biblical prototype, he symbolizes the candidate engaged in rebuilding the wall of jerusalem, and occupied in the great work of self-reconstruction, from which h

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

descriptions of kali and her various mythological guises. adamu features numerous discipline-building excercises which will set the focus for serious initiatory practionthe soul travelers: by michael wynn@ hollywoodinsiders.net chapter 1- the great name game--pg 3 the collective hallucination [1.1--pg 3 the story of the serpent [1.2--pg 5 story of the flood [1.3--pg 6 paradise lost, the tower of babel, and the savior [1.4--pg 9 the great name game [1.5--pg 12 hidden history [1.6--pg 16 the stargates [1.7--pg 18 chapter 2- universe.com--pg 19 quantum confusion [2.1--pg 19 the onion of reality [2.2--pg 22 dreamscape [2.3--pg 25 on the inside looking out [2.4--pg 30 meet the neighbors [2.5--pg 32 the jinn [2.6--pg 35 meet the neighbors (revisited [2.7--pg 36 chapter 3- magic--pg 40 the merel

d 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 confusing the languages accomplished god s original intent for humanity, because it caused humanity to finally split up and occup

t requires contest, and there is none, or none who do; even occultists speak about the flood that wiped out the noble nephilim. bottom line: a wicked race of both humans and non-humans--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 8 an angry creator, a small family warned by a god, 2 of every creature on a boat, a big damn flood, and humanity reborn. that s one hell of a dream. paradise lost, the tower of babel, and the savior [1.4] another reoccurring theme through out the mythologies is man s loss of paradise. this story, whose most popular variation occurs in the bible, details man s plight from a worry-free life to an existence of suffering and hardship. but as usual, the bible is not alone in describing humanity s fall from grace. just as the christians have the garden of eden, the persians ha

MORALS AND DOGMA

y, and can see a short and more direct means of attaining them, than it pleases him to employ: who would have no discords in the great harmony of the universe of things; but equal distribution of property, no subjection of one man to the will of another, no compulsory labor, and still no starvation, nor destitution, nor pauperism. let him not spend his life, as they do, in building a new tower of babel; in attempting to change that which is fixed by an inflexible law of god's enactment: but let him, yielding to the superior wisdom of providence, content to believe that the march of events is rightly ordered by an infinite wisdom, and leads, though we cannot see it, to a great and perfect result--let him be satisfied to follow the path pointed out by that providence, and to labor for the go

of providence, content to believe that the march of events is rightly ordered by an infinite wisdom, and leads, though we cannot see it, to a great and perfect result--let him be satisfied to follow the path pointed out by that providence, and to labor for the good of the human race in that mode in which god has chosen to enact that good shall be effected: and above all, let him build no tower of babel, under the belief that by ascending he will mount so high that god will disappear or be superseded by a great monstrous aggregate of material forces, or mere glittering, logical formula; but, evermore, standing humbly and reverently upon the earth and looking with awe and confidence toward heaven, let him be satisfied that there is a _real_ god; a _person, and not a formula; a father and a p

? the reasoning powers of the elephant? the wondrous instincts, passions, government, and civil policy, and modes of communication of ideas of the ant and bee? who has yet made us to understand, with all his learned words, how heat comes to us from the sun, and light from the remote stars, setting out upon its journey earth-ward from some, at the time the chaldeans commenced to build the tower of babel? or how the image of an external object comes to and fixes itself upon the retina of the eye; and when there, how that mere empty, unsubstantial image becomes transmuted into the wondrous thing that we call sight? or how the waves of the atmosphere striking upon the tympanum of the ear--those thin, invisible waves--produce the equally wondrous phenomenon of hearing, and become the roar of th

is supported by stronger testimony; nor has any one ever even attempted to explain what may well be termed their miracles. how far, in this life, the mind and soul can act without and independently of the body, no one as yet knows. that the will can act at all without bodily contact, and the phenomena of dreams, are mysteries that confound the wisest and most learned, whose explanations are but a babel of words. man as yet knows little of the forces of nature. surrounded, controlled, and governed by them, while he vainly thinks himself independent, not only of his race, but the universal nature and her infinite manifold forces, he is the slave of these forces, unless he becomes their master. he can neither ignore their existence nor be simply their neighbor. there is in nature one most pot

arefully, and strictly observing to put neither too much nor too little; inasmuch as, if you add too much, you will destroy that growing and multiplying substance; and if too little, it will be self-consumed and destroyed, and shrink away, not having sufficient substantiality for its preservation. this third point or rule of the scottish masters gives us the emblem of the building of the tower of babel, used by our scottish masters, because by irregularity and want of due proportion and harmony that work was stopped; and the workmen could proceed no further "next comes the fourth operation, represented by the cubical stone, whose faces and angles are all equal. as soon as the work is brought to the necessary point of multiplication, it is to be submitted to the third degree of fire, wherei

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

e fifth presents the legend of the four crowned martyrs, the protectors of the order (37 verses* the* the legend of the four crowned martyrs also entered england at a very early time. it is said that a church of the four martyrs was built in canterbury in 597 (gould, a concise history of freemasonry, 238. the corporative masonry of great britain 191 sixth concerns the construction of the tower of babel (33 verses; the seventh discusses the liberal arts (19 verses; the eighth dwells on religious instructions (111 verses, and the ninth section is an outline of expected social graces and civility (101 verses. the cooke manuscript dates from 1410-1420 but is a transcription of a compilation that was at least a century older. it is divided into two parts. the first, consisting of nineteen artic

st and the apostles, the persian philosopher each-ben-mohammed- eleansi, ormus, the egyptians, the benedictines, the rosicrucians, zoroaster, abbaris, channondas, eudoxus, hermippis, hermes trismegistus, porphyrus, plotinus, proclus, jamblique, the priesthood schools of india, the gauls, the hebrews, the essenes, and the persian magi.22 the temple of solomon had been transformed into the tower of babel. only a single brother, one of the most eminent in attendance, baron von gleichen, made any allusion to operative masons but only for the the grand lodges and modern freemasonry 267 purpose of disdainfully rejecting any such vulgar association "the charters cited by preston are not relevant to the free brothers of modern masonry but to practical, material masons. preston has no doubt confuse

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

k for around fifty years. no wonder the former assistant secretary general to the u.n, robert muller, is a devoted disciple of alice bailey, whose book, a treatise on white magic, forms the basis for the robert muller schools (the leavening) these people are called the torchbearers or lightbearers of the new world order. a spiritual plan that has been traced to the time of nimrod and the tower of babel, up through to the illuminati and onwards. a loosely-knit world conspiracy, david allen lewis writes, a so called network of illuminists. whether the illuminati has one special organization that is its orginal descendant. we can be very sure that its philosophical torchbearers are represented by literally hundreds of organizations and individuals in many diverse realms (dark angels of light)

ncient mysteries, and the real purpose of modern masonry is, not the social and charitable purposes to which so much attention is paid, but the expediting of the spiritual evolution of those who aspire to perfect their own nature and transform it into a more god-like quality. freemasonry, through its mysteries, will soon usher in a new world religion for the new world order. a modern day tower of babel and the ultimate unification of the world s religions. the new age welcomes these goals and looks to the light of masonry as its esoteric basis for occult initiation into the new world order. benjamin creme writes: the new religion will manifest, for instance,through organizations like masonry. in freemasonry is embedded the core or the secret heart of the occult mysteries, wrapped up on num

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

ad this week describes the famous story of the flood. we must understand: 1. why did g-d had to save noah by means of an ark? 2. why [did he command noah him to bring] seven each of the ritually pure animals and of the ritually impure only two each? and 3. who exactly were the generation of the flood and the generation of the dispersion? the end of the portion describes the events of the tower of babel, the aftermath of which was the dispersion of mankind [to answer these questions] know that adam, before he sinned, was not physical. his was clothed in light, and he encompassed all [the spiritual] worlds. his head was in atzilut; his [torso, corresponding to the] middle triad [of sefirot, chesed-gevurah-tiferet] was in beriah; his [lower extremities, corresponding to the] final triad [of s

om erred in some way regarding proper g-d-consciousness. as we said above, holiness has to be guarded and protected from the attacks of evil; therefore, until the world was purified, noah and his sons had to be concealed inside the ark .translated from likutei torah 11 genesis 6:9. 33 parashat noach [second installment] toward the end of parashat noach, the torah relates the story of the tower of babel.1 according to the oral torah, the king who 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 er

is 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 the clouds; i will be like the most high, h4 [the numerical value of the word for gclouds h] alluding to the seventy-two nations. the verse quoted was spoken by (or reflects the sentiments of) nebuchadnezzar. the n

y 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 built the statue in place of the tower. he wanted to receive the divine beneficence via the seventy [celestial] princes, hoping that perhaps in this way israel would be unable to arise [from its exile] and g-d fs beneficence would be directed toward the forces of evi

s 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 tradition identifies amrafel with nimrod.10. 7 genesis 11:4. 8 jeremiah 25:26, 51:41. 9 genesis 14. 10 see rashi on genesis 14:1. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 35 when nimrod and his people built the tower of babel, g-d said, gbehold, they are one people with one language, and this is what they have begun to do. now, shall nothing be denied them of all they scheme to do? h11 how could g-d say, gshall nothing be denied them? h even though man does possess free choice, would it be so difficult for g-d to prevent them from fulfilling their evil schemes? why, then, does g-d apparently have to do something

is seed in the 130 years prior to the birth of his son seth, who was the very same aspect as moses.17 initially, these souls had been incarnated into the bodies of the people who lived during the time of the flood. however, they wantonly spilled their seed upon the earth, following their roots and the place from whence they were drawn. they were then reincarnated in the generation of the tower of babel [but again they did not rectify the sin of adam and the following generations. now, once again, they had been reincarnated as egyptians. joseph had prophetic vision,18 and he knew that they were the sparks of souls that had been produced from wasted seed. he therefore decreed that they be circumcised, in order to rectify some of the sin of their initial root (i.e, they were produced by a ble

h in the place of the holy covenant. after the circumcision they began to be rectified to a degree, and during the subsequent 130-year period [prior to the birth of moses] they were reincarnated in as israelites. it is for this reason that the israelites were sentenced to hard labor, in order to rectify, refine and purify them, and particularly to rectify the sin of the generation of the tower of babel who built the tower from mortar and bricks. 13. berachot 55a. 14. in the current printed version of tractate berachot the words gevery day h are not found. 15. midrash rabbah, miketz 90,91; yalkut shimoni, miketz, remez 148. 16. sha far hakavanot, drushei pesach, drush 1. 17. this is explained in sha far hamitzvot, parshat shoftim. 18. ruach hakodesh. the arizal on parashat miket 206 (sha fa

e. cain caused the divine presence to ascend from the first to the second heaven when he killed his brother, abel. the generation of enoch caused the divine presence to ascend to the third heaven when they introduced idolatry into the world. the generation of the flood caused the divine presence to ascend to the fourth heaven because of their social and sexual sins. the generation of the tower of babel caused the divine presence to ascend to the fifth heaven by declaring war on g-d. the generation of sodom caused the divine presence to ascend to the sixth heaven by their social sins. the egyptians of abraham fs generation caused the divine presence to ascend to the seventh heaven. the [souls of the] jews of the generation that was in exile in egypt were derived from the drops of semen that

y. some deficiency of theirs caused a blockage in the flow of divine beneficence to them. thus, the whole purpose of the egyptian exile was to purify these souls. this is why they were subjected to such oppression, and [the egyptians] gmade their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks, h corresponding to the mortar and bricks the generation of the dispersion used [to build the tower of babel. understand this. of the generation of the dispersion, it is written: gthey said to one another, ecome, let us make bricks and burn them hard. f they had bricks for stone and bitumen for mortar. h12 thus, the jews f suffering through mortar and bricks atoned for their sins with mortar and bricks in their previous incarnation. now, since their sin was only with respect to da fat.for the spark

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

reciprocal path connecting netzach with hod, victory with splendour. it is the lowermost of the three reciprocal paths. hiero, heg, and practicus come to the w. of altar. hiero before you upon the altar is the 16th key of tarot, which symbolically resumes these ideas. it represents a tower struck by a lightning flash proceeding from a rayed circle and terminating in a triangle. it is the tower of babel struck by the fire from heaven. it is to be noted that the triangle at the end of the flash, issuing from the circle, forms exactly the as192 the golden dawn: volume ii book two tronomical symbol of mars. it is the power of the triad rushing down and destroying the columns of darkness. three holes are rent in the walls, symbolising the establishment of the triad therein and the crown at the

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

127 lowed speedily an epoch of general corruption, preceding the universal deluge, under the reign of samael, angel of mars, which was inaugurated on 26 june, a.m. 1417. after long exhaustion, the world strove towards a new birth under gabriel, the angel of the moon, whose reign began on 28 march, a.m. 1771, when the family of noah multiplied and re-peopled the whole earth, after the confusion of babel, until the reign of michael, angel of the sun, which commenced on 24 february, a.m. 2126, to which epoch must be referred the origin of the first dominations, the empire of the children of nimrod, the birth of sciences and religions, the first conflicts between despotism and liberty. trithemius pursues this curious study throughout the ages, and at corresponding epochs exhibits the recurrenc

ult science, magic, commerce, eloquence, mystery, moral force. hieroglyph, the devil, the goat of mendes, or the baphomet of the temple, with all his pantheistic attributes. this is the only hieroglyph which was properly understood and interpreted correctly by etteilla. u the heaven of the moon, alterations, subversions, changes, failings. hieroglyph, a tower struck by lightning, probably that of babel. two persons, doubtless nimrod and his false prophet or minister, are precipitated from the summit of the ruins. one of the personages in his fall reproduces perfectly the letter ayin. p heaven of the soul, outpourings of thought, moral influence of idea on form, immortality. hieroglyph, the blazing star and eternal youth. we have described this symbol previously. x the elements, the visible

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

's white bathrobe, bent over him and kissed his chin "i'll tell you what happened to you tonight" she said "you could say we cracked your shell" he sat up, angry "well, this is what's inside" he blazed at her "an indian translated into english-medium. when i attempt hindustani these days, people look polite. this is me" caught in the aspic of his adopted language, he had begun to hear, in india's babel, an ominous warning: don't come back again. when you have stepped through the looking-glass you step back at your peril. the mirror may cut you to shreds "i was so proud of bhupen tonight" zeeny said, getting into bed "in how many countries could you go into some bar and start up a debate like that? the passion, the seriousness, the respect. you keep your civilization, toadji; i like this on

and again verses. the trumpet, azraeel, calls out from a greatcoat pocket _pick me up! yesyesyes: the trump. to hell with it all, the whole sorry mess: just puff up your cheeks and root y-toot-toot. come on, it's party time. how hot it is: steamy, close, intolerable. this is no proper london: not this improper city. airstrip one, mahagonny, alphaville. he wanders through a confusion of languages. babel: a contraction of the assyrian "babilu "the gate of god" babylondon. where's this- yes- he meanders, one night, behind the cathedrals of the industrial revolution, the railway termini of north london. anonymous king's cross, the bat-like menace of the st pancras tower, the red-and-black gas-holders inflating and deflating like giant iron lungs. where once in battle queen boudicca fell, gibre

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orm was nevertheless monstrous. generally they are described as serpents and dragons with seven heads, each with two faces, and as twelve wings. as in the above passage they were seduced by the potentials of the flesh and descended onto mount hermon 12,000 years ago. they cohabited with human females of the lowlands below eden to father the nephilim, giants who later went on to build the tower of babel and brought an end to the aeon of enoch. rabbi elkiezer of the 8th century puts the blame squarely on the women. the angels who fell from heaven saw the daughters of cain perambulating and displaying their private parts, their eyes painted with antimony in the manner of harlots, and, being seduced, took wives from amongst them. the watchers and their brood devolved through their carnal obses

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

hat the more ancient branches of that illustrious family, unconsciously anxious to approximate at least by a letter nearer to the true title, take a pious pleasure in writing their names smithe" the philologist was much struck with this discovery, and begged mervale's permission to note it down as an illustration suitable to a work he was about to publish on the origin of languages, to be called "babel" and published in three quartos by subscription. chapter 2.vii. learn to be poor in spirit, my son, if you would penetrate that sacred night which environs truth. learn of the sages to allow to the devils no power in nature, since the fatal stone has shut 'em up in the depth of the abyss. learn of the philosophers always to look for natural causes in all extraordinary events; and when such n

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

and gula; the symbols were the same.50 the two monarchies placed their gods in triads, headed by one god, ra "a sort of fount and origin of deity" san was the second member of the second triad, accompanied by his wife.51 the first triad consisted of ana (pluto, the "lord of darkness or death" belus (jupiter, the son of the egyptian osiris and the god whose temple was the original of the tower of babel;52 and hoa (neptune, strongly connected "with the serpent of scripture and. the tree of life" hoa's wife was the mother of belus.53 the cabalists lifted their entire sephirotic tree of life representing jehovah from the triads of the chaldean-babylonian pantheon (see sephirolh, part 1. the egyptian pantheon was even more ancient, dating from the 27th to the 30th centuries b.c. or even earlie

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

or 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 down to resounding defeat. but still, they strive

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

ontinues, the vast arcana of alchemical truths are represented by various animals, mythological beings, and human personalities. in addition to being an advocate of alchemy and the process of contacting intermediary spirits to accomplish good for society, andreae believed in becoming an active reformer of social ills, as well as supporting the reformation of the church. his treatises the tower of babel (1619) and the christianopolitan republic (1620) argue in favor of a general transformation of european society. m delving deeper caron, m, and s. hutin. the alchemists. translated by helen r. lane. new york: grove press, 1961. 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 magic and sorcery 43 de givry, emile grillot. illustrated anthology of sorce

in the sacred scriptures from the beginning. letters and numbers, the kabbalah teaches, are not merely signs invented by humans to record things, events, and thoughts, but are in themselves reservoirs of divine power. hebrew, in the kabbalistic sense, is a universal language, capable of restoring to humankind the universal understanding that existed before the confusion of tongues at the tower of babel. it is interesting to note that the greek school of neo-pythagorean philosophers also understood numbers and letters to be divine things endowed with supernatural powers. the kabbalah began to emerge as a text of power and influence in spain and southern france in the thirteenth century. many of its teachers proclaimed that the kabbalah (hebrew for greceived tradition h) had been given by go

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

eason must renounce for ever the project of attaining to him; necessarily credible, since science and reason, far from demonstrating that he does not exist, are dragged by the chariot of fatality to believe that he does exist, and to adore him themselves with closed eyes. why- because this absurd is the infinite source of reason. the light springs eternally from the eternal shadows. science, that babel tower of the spirit, may twist and coil its spirals ever ascending as it will; it may make the earth tremble, it will never touch the sky. god is he whom we shall eternally learn to know better, and, consequently, he whom we shall never know entirely. the realm of mystery is, then, a field open to the conquests of the intelligence. march there as boldly as you will, never will you diminish i

'right; the expiation by toil is duty. cain and abel represent the flesh and the spirit, force and intelligence, violence and harmony. the giants are those who usurped the earth in ancient times; the flood was a great revolution. the ark is tradition preserved in a family: religion at this period becomes a mystery and the property of the race. ham was cursed for having revealed it. 32 nimrod and babel are the two primitive allegories of the despot, and of the universal empire which has always filled the dreams of men- a dream whose fulfilment was sought successively by the assyrians, the medes, the persians, alexander, rome, napoleon, the successors of peter the great, and always unfinished because of the dispersion of interests, symbolized by the confusion of tongues. the universal empir

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

e tower connecting hod to netzach shows the dramatic tension that resides between these two sephiroth. the relationship of ones thoughts to ones feelings is often a disharmonious one, thus causing the destruction of the tower. however, this friction can be utilised by the initiate in order to work on his psyche and perceptions and to build a tower of singular language, not merely another tower of babel. sun (yesod) the mind can reflect from tiphareth experiences of a "higher order, and such is often termed "gnosis" by contemplatives. this illuminates the psyche, centred in yesod, through the path of the sun atu. it is interesting to note that this functional triad utilises the devil atu as lucifer, the light-bringer. last judgement (malkuth) the "last judgement" atu shows the resultant flo

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

; cush, and mizraim, and phut, and canaan. 10:7 and the sons of cush; seba, and havilah, and sabtah, and raamah, and sabtechah: and the sons of raamah; sheba, and dedan. 10:8 and cush begat nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 10:9 he was a mighty hunter before the lord: wherefore it is said, even as nimrod the mighty hunter before the lord. 10:10 and the beginning of his kingdom was babel, and erech, and accad, and calneh, in the land of shinar. 10:11 out of that land went forth asshur, and builded nineveh, and the city rehoboth, and calah, 10:12 and resen between nineveh and calah: the same [is] a great city. 10:13 and mizraim begat ludim, and anamim, and lehabim, and naphtuhim, 10:14 and pathrusim, and casluhim (out of whom came philistim) and caphtorim. 10:15 and canaan be

ve all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 11:7 go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another s speech. 11:8 so the lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 11:9 therefore is the name of it called babel; because the lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 11:10 these [are] the generations of shem: shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat arphaxad two years after the flood: 11:11 and shem lived after he begat arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 11:12 and arphaxad lived fiv

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ther. xiii. death-decay necessary for rebirth. the dead must be absorbed into the earth before new shoots can sprout. serpent in the skull. flower on the grave. xiv. temperance-blending of opposites. the search for balance. dynamic tension. the golden mean. xv. devil-inertia in matter. the shadow, the vacuum, the mask, the bag of wind, the bluff, the bully, the lie. xvi. tower-pride. the tower of babel. all castles in the air that are over- thrown with time. the vanity of human wishes. denial of natural law. xvii. star-light in darkness. heart's ease in heart's sorrow. hope. the voice of angels. what makes the stumbling sufferer look up. xviii. moon-waters of despair. tears. light that vanishes in a dream. will-0- the-wisps. false prophets. indifference at the gates of success. xix. sun-bl

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pada entre sus manos. ese es el yo psicol gico, el bafometo, que con su espada aleja del umbral a todos aquellos que no est n preparados. dentro de nosotros est el enemigo. necesitamos trabajar con el demonio para disolverlo. necesitamos robarle el fuego al diablo. 104 arcanum 16 let us study now the sixteenth arcanum of the tarot. this is the arcanum of the fulminated tower. this is the tower of babel. two personages are precipitated to the bottom of the abyss. one of these personages when falling with his head downwards and his legs and arms outstretched represent the inverted pentagram. many are the initiates that allow themselves to fall; many are the fulminated towers. any initiate that spills the cup of hermes inevitably falls. the legend of the fallen angels has been repeated and wi

us to the conclusion that the human specter is a den of filthy demons. the conclusion is that the human being becomes a legion of demons that continue on. indeed, the physical human person dies. the human being is not immortal nor powerful yet; however, the human beings believe themselves to be so, but the breaking point of arrogance is that the ray of death fulminates them and from the tower of babel they roll into the abyss. this is the fatality. arcano xvi estudiemos ahora el arcano diecis is del tarot. este es el arcano de la torre fulminada. esta es la torre de babel. dos personajes son precipitados al fondo del abismo, uno de stos personajes al caer con la cabeza hacia abajo y las piernas y brazos abiertos hacia la derecha e izquierda, representa el pentagrama invertido. muchos son

ue normalmente vive en el mundo causal. un an lisis de fondo nos lleva a la conclusi n de que el espectro humano es guarida de demonios inmundos. total el ser humano se vuelve legi n de demonios que contin a. realmente la persona humana muere. el hombre todav a no es inmortal. el hombre se cree inmortal y poderoso, y es el colmo de la soberbia, el rayo de la muerte lo fulmina, y desde la torre de babel rueda al abismo. esas es la fatalidad. 105 astral christ and mental christ the man has two centers that he does not yet use: the superior mind and the superior emotion. these are the two divine centers, the true instruments of the eternal and imperishable man with soul. we can profoundly study the great mysteries of life and death with these two superior centers. we may be able to penetrate

ese two superior vehicles. in the third initiations of major mysteries the astral-christ is born. in the fourth initiation of major mysteries the mental-christ is born. the astral and mental bodies studied by occultists, and which theosophy often refers to, are just miserable specters of death that eventually will be fulminated by the terrible ray of cosmic justice. thus, this is how the tower of babel along with satan, will roll into the abyss. immortality whosoever possesses the astral and mental bodies becomes absolutely immortal. when we study these christic vehicles and compare them with the astral and mental vehicles that are used by the defunct, then we find the following differences: the astral-christ shines marvelously, whereas the dead astral does not shine because it is just a f

culos superiores. en la tercera iniciaci n de misterios mayores nace el astral cristo. en la cuarta iniciaci n de misterios mayores nace el mental cristo. los cuerpos astral y mental estudiados por todos los ocultistas y de los cuales habla tanto la teosof a, son tan s lo miserables espectros de la muerte que deber n ser fulminados por el rayo terrible de la justicia c smica. as caer la torre de babel, y sat n rodar al abismo. inmortalidad todo aquel que posee los cuerpos mental y astral cristo, se hace absolutamente inmortal. cuando estudiamos estos veh culos cr sticos y los comparamos con el astral mental que usan los difuntos, hallamos las siguientes diferencias: astral cristo: este resplandece maravillosamente. astral de la muerte. este no resplandece, es tan s lo una sombra fatal. me

anctuary and thus sabotage the great work. in practical life, we may see that students (apparently very serious) when they became careless, when they could not protect their own inner lodge, were invaded by people and strange doctrines. often times they continue working in the flaming forge of vulcan, but they mixed many different methods and systems. the result of all of this was a true tower of babel, a barbaric confusion whose only purpose was to bring disorder into the inner lodge of their consciousness. therefore, it is necessary to have the inner lodge, the authentic school of inner education, in perfect order. we are absolutely sure that only one door and only one way exist: sex. thus, anything that is not through this way is just a miserable waste of time. el arca ten a cuatro quer

interno para sabotear la gran obra. en la pr ctica pudimos ver que estudiantes aparentemente muy serios cuando se descuidaron, cuando no supieron cubrir su logia interna, fueron invadidos por gentes y doctrinas extra as, muchas veces continuaron trabajando en la fragua encendida de vulcano, pero mezclaron m todos y sistemas tan distintos, que el resultado de todo esto, fue entonces una verdadera babel, una confusi n b rbara que solo sirvi para traer desorden a la logia interior de la conciencia. es necesario tener la logia interior, en perfecto orden, la aut ntica escuela de auto educaci n intima. estamos absolutamente seguros de que s lo existe una sola puerta y un solo camino, el sexo, todo lo que no sea por all es perder miserablemente el tiempo. 144 we are not against any religion, sc

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th certain limitations; at others each letter of a word is replaced by another according to a definite scheme, forming a new word, of which permutation there are many recognized forms. for example, the alphabet of 22 letters is halved and the two sets placed one over the other in reverse order, thus- a b g d h v z ch th y k t sh r q tz p o s n m l then a is changed to t, and v to p, and so on; so babel=bbl becomes sheshak, i.e, shshk used by jeremiah xxv. v. 26. this form is called atbash or at-bsh; it will be seen that there must be 21 other possible forms, and these were named in order, thus, albat, agdat, etc; the complete set was called numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the combinations of tziruph. other permutations were named rational right, a

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