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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

lost daughter persephone for three months of the year and so is another icon for those who are feeling sorrow or loss and for maternal sacrifice. but she can be invoked for all matters of abundance, for reaping the benefits of earlier work or effort, for all mothering rituals and as a protectress of animals. innana innana was a sumerian goddess, known as the queen of heaven, who evolved into the babylonian goddess ishtar. innana was goddess of beauty, abundance, fertility and passion, famed for her loveliness and her lapis lazuli necklaces. she was the first goddess of the morning and evening stars, a legacy that has passed to aphrodite and venus. like many of the mother goddess icons, she descended into the underworld annually to face and overcome many trials, to bring back to life her s

f beauty, abundance, fertility and passion, famed for her loveliness and her lapis lazuli necklaces. she was the first goddess of the morning and evening stars, a legacy that has passed to aphrodite and venus. like many of the mother goddess icons, she descended into the underworld annually to face and overcome many trials, to bring back to life her shepherd god consort dumuzi. ishtar ishtar, the babylonian version of innana, also descended into the underworld each year to restore her consort tammuz to life. she was a fierce goddess of weapons and war. in ancient babylon, a sacred marriage took place each year between tammuz and ishtar. this was celebrated at the festival of akitu, or zag-mug, which marked the rising of the waters of the tigris and the euphrates and the coming of the sprin

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

stablished a covenstead of sorts in new york. in that story, published in weird tales in 1936, the cult leader is closely identified with chthonic forces, is described as "notorious, and linked to the strange fate that befell the protagonist, edward derby) supplementary material to 777 the chart that follows is based on research presently available to the editor with regard to sumerian and assyro-babylonian religions. entries in parentheses refer to the state of correspondences before the advert of the elder gods, the race of marduk; that is, it reflects the nature of the cosmos before the fall of marduk from heaven (names of zodiacal constellations are after budge's renderings) table vii [a.c] table xxv [s] 0. anu (tiamat) 1. sphere of the primum mobile enlil (absu) 2. sphere of the zodia

aire cuneiforme" babyloniaca paris, 1934 genouillac "les dieux de l'elam" recueil de travaux relatifs a la philologie et a l'archaeologie egyptiennes et assyriennes. paris, 1904 (ed. maspero) grant, k. aleister crowley and the hidden god new york, 1974 the magical revival new york, 1973 gray, j. near eastern mythology new york, 1969 griffith& thompson the leyden papyrus new york, 1974 hooke, s.h. babylonian and assyrian religion oklahoma, 1975 middle eastern mythology new york, 1975 king, l. babylonian magic and sorcery london, 1896 kramer, s.n. history begins at sumer new york, 1959 mythologies of the ancient world (ed) new york, 1961 sumerian mythology pennsylvania, 1972 laurent la magie et la divination chez les chaldeo-assyriennes paris, 1894 lenormant, f. science occult; la magie chez

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hich today comes under the name of scientific discovery were known in old atlantis, but they were not developed by men themselves but given to them as a free gift, much as people today give to a child beautiful and wonderful things which the child uses and enjoys but which he does not understand in any way. great and beautiful cities, full of temples and great buildings (of which the chaldean and babylonian remains are the degenerate remnants, and the modern skyscraper the child) were everywhere to be found. most of our modern scientific knowledge was possessed by these priest-kings and constituted in the eyes of the masses a form of wonderful magic. sanitation, hygiene, means of transportation and air machines were developed and of a very high order; these were not the result however of m

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

vanity. all go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. wherefore i perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him" who, indeed, except his own ego, soul or higher self. but perhaps this book is from the pen of some obscure jew, or half pagan chaldee or babylonian. not at all: jewish critics have all assigned it to solomon, who was the king of the jews at the time of their heyday of glory; surely if the immortality of the soul were the essence of the judaism of the people, solomon could not have so grossly denied it. go back, however, to the narrative of creation in genesis, and the same story is found; the animals are made from the dust, man is

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e. the secret doctrine is not alone in speaking of primeval men born simultaneously on the seven divisions of our globe. in the divine "pymander" of hermes we find the same seven primeval men* evolving from nature and "heavenly man" in the collective sense of the word, namely, from the creative spirits; and in the fragments (collected by george smith) of chaldean tablets on which is inscribed the babylonian legend of creation, in the first column of the cutha tablet, seven human beings with the faces of ravens (black, swarthy complexions, whom "the (seven) great gods created" are mentioned. or, as explained in lines 16 and 18 "in the midst of the earth they grew up and became great. seven kings, brothers of the same family" these are the seven kings of edom to whom reference is made in the

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, sufficient to examine the babylonian and assyrian cuneiform and other inscriptions to find also therein, scattered here and there, not only the original meaning of the name adam, admi, or adami* but also the creation of seven adams or roots of men, born of mother earth, physically, and of the divine fire of the progenitors, spiritually or astrally. the assyriologists, ignorant of the esoteric teachings, could hardly be exp

e and there, not only the original meaning of the name adam, admi, or adami* but also the creation of seven adams or roots of men, born of mother earth, physically, and of the divine fire of the progenitors, spiritually or astrally. the assyriologists, ignorant of the esoteric teachings, could hardly be expected to pay any greater attention to the mysterious and ever-recurring number seven on the babylonian cylinders, than they paid to it on finding the same in genesis and the bible. yet the number of the ancestral spirits and their seven groups of human progeny are there, notwithstanding the dilapidated condition of the fragments, as plainly as they are to be found in "pymander" and in the "book of the concealed mystery" of the kabala. in the latter adam kadmon is the sephirothal tree, as

[vol. 2, page] 5 the secrets of kouyunjik. suddenly by the waters of the euxine, regarded up to that time as a lake* but the israelites had, moreover, another legend upon which to base their allegory: the "deluge" that transformed the present gobi desert into a sea for the last time, some 10 or 12,000 years ago, and which drove many noahs and their families on to the surrounding mountains. as the babylonian accounts are now only restored from hundreds of thousands of broken fragments (the mound of kouyunjik alone having yielded to layard's excavations over twenty thousand fragments of inscriptions, the proofs here cited are comparatively scanty; yet such as they are, they corroborate almost every one of our teachings, certainly three, at least. these are (1) that the race which was the fir

n) imprisoned, and the creator of "the dark race which his hand has made" the god libzu "wise among the gods; the god nissi. and the god suhhab; and hea or sa, their synthesis, the god of wisdom and of the deep, identified with oannes-dagon, at the time of the fall, and called (collectively) the demiurge, or creator (see chaldean account genesis, p. 82) there are two "creations" so called, in the babylonian fragments, and genesis having adhered to this, one finds its first two chapters distinguished as the elohite and the jehovite creations. their proper order, however, is not preserved in these or in any other exoteric accounts. now these "creations" according to the occult teachings, refer respectively to the formation of the primordial seven men by the progenitors (the pitris, or elohim

rawlinson, the most important titles of this deity refer to "his functions as the source of all knowledge and science" not only is he "the intelligent fish" but his name may be read as signifying both "life" and a serpent (an initiated adept, and he may be considered as "figured by the great serpent which occupies so conspicuous a place among the symbols of the gods on the black stones recording babylonian benefactions" esculapius, serapis, pluto, knoum and kneph, are all deities with the attributes of the serpent. says dupuis "they are all healers, givers of health, spiritual and physical, and of enlightenment" the crown formed of an asp, the thermuthis, belongs to isis, goddess of life and healing. the upanishads have a treatise on the science of serpents- in other words, the science of

s a closer analysis than heretofore given (vide supra, stanza i, sub-sections 2, 3, et seq, where it is shown that the early akkadians called ea, wisdom, that which was disfigured by the later chaldees and semites into tismat, tisalat and the thallath of berosus, the female sea dragon, now satan) truly "how art thou fallen (by the hand of man, o bright star and son of the morning! now what do the babylonian accounts of "creation" as found on the assyrian fragments of tiles, tell us; those very accounts upon which the pharisees built their angelology? but compare mr. g. smith's "assyrian discoveries" p. 398, and his "chaldean account of genesis" p. 107. the "tablet with the story of the seven wicked gods or spirits" has the following account- we print the important passages in italics- 1. i

. i.e, matter. it even solves the recent perplexity of the assyriologists, who express their wonder through the late george smith "my first idea of this part (of the rebellion, he says "was that the wars with the powers of evil preceded the creation; i now think it followed the account of the fall (chaldean account of genesis, p. 92. in this work mr. george smith gives an engraving, from an early babylonian cylinder, of the sacred tree, the serpent, man and woman. the tree has seven branches: three on the man's side, four on that of the female. these branches are typical of the seven root-races, in the third of which, at its very close, occurred the separation of the sexes and the so-called fall into generation. the three earliest races were sexless, then hermaphrodite; the other four, mal

injure him, he shall have family quarrels, he will anger the gods, he shall submit to tyranny. he shall be disappointed in his desires, he shall pour out useless prayers, he shall commit future sin. no doubt subsequent lines continue this topic, but again our narrative is broken, and it re-opens only where the gods are preparing for war with the powers of evil, which are led by tiamat (the woman (babylonian legend of creation, p. 92) this account is omitted in genesis, for monotheistic purposes. but it is a mistaken policy- born no doubt of fear, and regard for dogmatic religion and its superstitions- to have sought to restore the chaldean fragments by genesis, whereas it is the latter, far younger than any of the fragments, which ought to be explained by the former[[vol. 2, page] 105 man'

fe and being, which the sun, or vishnu, the male principle, vivifies and fructifies* the first cosmic flood refers to primordial creation, or the formation of heaven and the earths; in which case chaos and the great deep stand for the "flood" and the moon for the "mother" from whom proceed all the life-germs* but the terrestrial deluge and[[footnote(s* we must remember that at the head of all the babylonian gods were ea, anu, and the primeval bel; and that ea, the first, was the god of wisdom, the great "god of light" and of the deep, and that he was identified with oannes, or the biblical dagon- the man-fish who rose out of the persian gulf* see part. ii "the holy of holies* it is far later on that the moon became a male god; with the hindus it was soma, with the chaldeans nannak or nanna

ed in a verse of the orphic hymns. according to orpheus the names of the seven "arkite" titans (whom faber refuses to identify with the impious titans, their descendants) were koeus, kroeus, phorcys, kronos, oceanus, hyperion, and iapetus[[koion te, kroion te melan, phorkun te krataion, kai kronon, okeanon d 'huperioa te iapeponet (orph. apud proclum. in tim. lib. v. p. 295. but why could not the babylonian ezra have adopted the name of iapetos for one of noah's sons? the kabiri, who are the titans, are also called manes and their mother mania, according to arnobius (adversum gentes, lib. iii, p. 124) the hindus can therefore claim with far more reason that the manes mean their manus, and that mania is the female manu (see ramayana) mania is ila or ida, the wife and daughter of vaivasvata

the latter reads "and darkness was upon the face of the deep. and the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters" in ch. 7 it is said. and the waters prevailed. and the ark went (with noah, the spirit) upon the face of the waters" thus noah, if identical with the chaldean nuah, is the spirit vivifying matter, which latter is chaos, represented by the deep, or the waters of the flood. in the babylonian legend (the pre-cosmical blended with the terrestrial event) it is ishtar (astaroth or venus, the lunar goddess) who is shut up in the ark and sends out "a dove in search of dry land("isis unveiled" vol. ii, pp. 423 and 424. george smith notes in the "tablets" first the creation of the moon, and then that of the sun "its beauty and perfection are extolled, and the regularity of its orbi

de for adam and his wife[[hebrew 'chitonuth our" the first hebrew word "chiton" is the greek[[chiton, chiton. it became a slavonic word by adoption from the bible, and means a coat, an upper garment "though containing the same substratum of esoteric truth as does every early cosmogony, the hebrew scripture wears on its face the marks of a double origin. its genesis is purely a reminiscence of the babylonian captivity. the names of places, men and even objects, can be traced from the original text to the chaldeans and the akkadians, the progenitors and aryan instructors of the former. it is strongly contested that the akkad tribes of chaldea, babylonia and assyria were in[[footnote(s* vol. i, pp. 575, et seq[[vol. 2, page] 203 the garden of eden, a college. any way cognate with the brahmans

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bright "sun-god" the once living hero and reformer. but there exists another book. none of its possessors regard it as very ancient, as it was born with, and is only as old as the black age[[footnote(s* rabbi jehoshua ben chananea, who died about a.d. 72, openly declared that he had performed "miracles" by means of the book of sepher jezireh, and challenged every sceptic. franck, quoting from the babylonian talmud, names two other thaumaturgists, rabbis chanina and oshoi (see "jerusalem talmud, sanhedrin" c. 7, etc; and "franck" pp. 55, 56) many of the mediaeval occultists, alchemists, and kabalists claimed the same; and even the late modern magus, eliphas levi, publicly asserts it in print in his books on magic[[vol. 1, page] xliv introductory. namely, about 5,000 years. in about nine yea

y, for the esoteric root or foundation is one- are the indian, the mazdean, and the egyptian. then comes the chaldean, the outcome of these- entirely lost to the world now, except in its disfigured sabeanism as at present rendered by the archaeologists; then, passing over a number of religions that will be mentioned later, comes the jewish, esoterically, as in the kabala, following in the line of babylonian magism; exoterically, as in genesis and the pentateuch, a collection of allegorical legends. read by the light of the zohar, the initial four chapters of genesis are the fragment[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] known causeless cause" is the oldest dogma in occultism, millenniums earlier than the pater-aether of the greeks and latins. so are the "force and matter, as

ysically to the descent of spirit into matter, of the logos falling as a ray into the spirit, then into the soul, and finally into the human physical form of man, in which it becomes life* ormazd is the logos, the "first born" and the sun[[vol. 1, page] 114 the secret doctrine. is identical with kronos, in his aeolian form, that of a circle. for the circle is sar, and saros, or cycle, and was the babylonian god whose circular horizon was the visible symbol of the invisible, while the sun was the one circle from which proceeded the cosmic orbs, and of which he was considered the leader. zero-ana, is the chakra or circle of vishnu, the mysterious emblem which is, according to the definition of a mystic "a curve of such a nature that as to any, the least possible part thereof, if the curve be

was derived. perchance, in the mosaic beginnings, that symbology was not as crude as it became later under the handling of ezra, who remodelled the whole pentateuch. for the glyph of pharaoh's daughter (the woman, the nile (the great deep and water, and the baby-boy found floating therein in the ark of rushes, has not been primarily composed for, or by, moses. it has been found anticipated in the babylonian fragments on the tiles, in the story of king sargon* who lived far earlier than moses. now, what is the logical inference? most assuredly that which gives us the right to say that the story told of moses by ezra had been learned by him while at babylon[[footnote(s* on page 224 of assyrian antiquities mr. george smith says "in the palace of sennacherib at kouyunjik i found another fragme

ght to say that the story told of moses by ezra had been learned by him while at babylon[[footnote(s* on page 224 of assyrian antiquities mr. george smith says "in the palace of sennacherib at kouyunjik i found another fragment of the curious history of sargon. published in my translation in the transactions of the society of biblical archaeology, vol. i. part i. p. 46" the capital of sargon, the babylonian moses "was the great city of agadi, called by the semitics akkad- mentioned in genesis as the capital of nimrod (gen. x. 10 "akkad lay near the city of sippara on the euphrates and north of babylon (see isis, vol. ii. p. 442-3) another strange coincidence is found in the fact that the name of the neighbouring above-mentioned city of sippara is the same as the name of the wife of moses

sed upon the solar and lunar worships. it is useless and vain for the protestants to exclaim against the roman catholics for their "mariolatry" based on the ancient cult of lunar goddesses, when they themselves worship jehovah, pre-eminently a lunar god, and when both churches have accepted in their theologies the "sun"-christ and the lunar trinity. what is known of chaldaean moon-worship, of the babylonian god, sin, called by the greeks "deus lunus" is very little, and that little is apt to mislead the profane student who fails to grasp the esoteric significance of the symbols. as popularly known to the ancient profane philosophers and writers (for those who were initiated were pledged to silence) the chaldaea were the worshippers of the moon under her (and his) various names, just as wer

s were rendered, then it will become the pleasure of the occultists to prove that both aidoneus and dionysius are the bases of adonai, or "jurbo adonai" as jehovah is called in codex nazaraeus "thou shalt not worship the sun, who is named adonai, whose name is also kadush and el-el (cod. naz, i, 47; see also psalm lxxxix, 18, and also "lord bacchus" baal-adonis of the sods or mysteries of the pre-babylonian jews became the adonai by the massorah, the later-vowelled jehovah. hence the roman catholics are right. all these jupiters are of the same family; but jehovah has to be included therein to make it complete. jupiter-aerios or pan, the jupiter ammon, and the jupiter-bel-moloch, are all correlations and one with yurbo-adonai, because they are all one cosmic nature. it is that nature and p

elves to semitic revelation, whereas it was the reverse. the jews, moreover, need not be accused of despoiling the hindus, of whose figures ezra probably knew nothing. they had evidently and undeniably borrowed them from the chaldeans, along with their gods. of the 432,000 years of the chaldean divine dynasties* they made 4,320 lunar years from the world's creation to the christian era; as to the babylonian and egyptian gods, they transformed them as quietly and modestly into patriarchs. every nation was more or less guilty of such refashioning and adaptation of a pantheon (common once to all) of universal, into national, tribal gods and heroes. it was their property in its new pentateuchal garb, and no one of the israelites has ever forced it upon any other nation- least of all upon europ

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

lost daughter persephone for three months of the year and so is another icon for those who are feeling sorrow or loss and for maternal sacrifice. but she can be invoked for all matters of abundance, for reaping the benefits of earlier work or effort, for all mothering rituals and as a protectress of animals. innana innana was a sumerian goddess, known as the queen of heaven, who evolved into the babylonian goddess ishtar. innana was goddess of beauty, abundance, fertility and passion, famed for her loveliness and her lapis lazuli necklaces. she was the first goddess of the morning and evening stars, a legacy that has passed to aphrodite and venus. like many of the mother goddess icons, she descended into the underworld annually to face and overcome many trials, to bring back to life her s

f beauty, abundance, fertility and passion, famed for her loveliness and her lapis lazuli necklaces. she was the first goddess of the morning and evening stars, a legacy that has passed to aphrodite and venus. like many of the mother goddess icons, she descended into the underworld annually to face and overcome many trials, to bring back to life her shepherd god consort dumuzi. ishtar ishtar, the babylonian version of innana, also descended into the underworld each year to restore her consort tammuz to life. she was a fierce goddess of weapons and war. in ancient babylon, a sacred marriage took place each year between tammuz and ishtar. this was celebrated at the festival of akitu, or zag-mug, which marked the rising of the waters of the tigris and the euphrates and the coming of the sprin

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

founded the first known cenobitical or "communal type" monastery at tabennis near denderah, egypt. 325 council of nicea, can. of christian bible (to 13th cent) puranas. iamblichus: on nicomachus's introduction to arithmetic- first mention of casting out nines. ca.340-420 jerome studied hebrew with jewish instructors in bethlehem. 346 st. pachomius dies. 350-407 john chrysostom 350? abbaye jewish babylonian teacher expounds on the decans. 363 last pagan emperor julian stopped at harran at the beginning of his persian campaign. he consulted the oracles at the temple of the moon. 380 hephaestio of thebes. compendium, delineations of the decans and contains a very long excerpt from nechepso/petosiris on detailed eclipse delineation. preserves an ancient egyptian method of prediction using the

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

ls how purusha, a primordial being, is sacrificed: his bodily parts then become the many components of the universe, including gods, man and animals. in saharan africa the world was originally made out of the numerous segments of the sacrificed cosmic serpent minia, god s first creation an event remembered in animal sacrifice in the region to this day. there is a similar cosmic drama in an assyro-babylonian myth when the celestial king marduk slaughters the serpent tiamat, the feminine principle of chaos, and divides her enormous corpse: from one half marduk constructs the vault of heaven, from the other the solid earth .2 the story of panku also introduces one of the most important concepts in chinese thought: yin and yang. authors martin palmer and zhao xiaomin of the international consu

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own as the elohim which created modern humanity from early human forms through genetic manipulation. he adds that some of them, the 'watchers' in the book of enoch, mated with humans and he believes that the alleged founders of the semitic race, shemjaza and yahweh, were among the extraterrestrial 'watchers' and 'shining ones'.12 an israeli scholar, zecharia sitchin, used the ancient sumerian and babylonian writings to support his belief that modern humans were created by ets called the nefilim.13 ufo abductees today have also spoken of communications with ets who described how they created the bodies of the present human race and manipulated our dna; there are many references by abductees to having sex with extraterrestrials while on a spacecraft. not all of these stories will be true, no

through the generations, and extraterrestrial intervention, was both positive and negative. there was the civilisation called sumer in mesopotamia (now iraq, which developed alongside the birth of the brotherhood 23 the tigris and euphrates rivers. sumer is believed to have originated from around 6000bc, although such figures must be treated as only estimates. this would later become part of the babylonian empire, which greatly influenced the beliefs of judaism and, through that, christianity, as did the egyptian civilisation. you can read the detailed history of all this in the robots' rebellion. a contact who has worked on the 'inside' of government and security agencies in the uk told me a story which relates both to sumer and the themes of an extraterrestrial takeover. he says that in

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

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and animals endowed with reason.30 other legends say that they were superhuman in their knowledge and their length of life. they were "the immortals" and returned to "the gods" in a ship, taking with them examples of the earth's fauna. interestingly, the dogon call sirius "the land of the fish" and "the pure earth, and the day the nommo landed on our earth is known as the "day of the fish".31 the babylonian priest berossus wrote that the origin of humans in babylonian belief could be traced to the "fish god" oannes, who was known as dagon to the philistines. what they said about oannes, the sumerians said about "enki, one of the key leaders of their reptilian anunnaki. enki was symbolised as closely connected with water and it was said that he rode in a ship that could go under the water o

ced to the "fish god" oannes, who was known as dagon to the philistines. what they said about oannes, the sumerians said about "enki, one of the key leaders of their reptilian anunnaki. enki was symbolised as closely connected with water and it was said that he rode in a ship that could go under the water or fly in the sky. he was described as a giant who had scales like a fish or reptile. in the babylonian legend, oannes was one of the "annedoti("the repulsive ones) who had the heads and legs of men, but the body and tail of a fish.32 this is the origin of the mermaid stories, no doubt. the greek gods known as the "old men of the sea" were depicted as "mermen. it was said that if you fought with them, they changed shape and the legendary founders of athens, cecrops and his son, were said

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

at the script used was early sumerian. it was the same as the script he saw in sumerian seals of the same sargon period found in the indus valley. 52 children of the matrix king sargon, in this early sumerian script, was known under his personal name of gin-ukus or gin-ukussi in egypt- thus relating to his title king gin or guni and the variant, gani, in mesopotamian inscriptions, particularly in babylonian.13 the title ukus or ukussi in egypt means that he was a descendant of the first sumerian king, ukusi of ukhu (meaning sun hawk city) and also the first aryan (hybrid) king in the indian epics and their holy books, the vedas, which use the solar title of ikshwaku or ukusi of ukhu.14 all these kings of the sumer empire were given "solar titles" because of the obsession and emphasis on th

klux klan, created by that infamous freemasonic "god" in america, albert pike, still uses the term grand dragon today. the indian-hindu name for the anunnaki hybrids was the nagas and they were also known as the dravidians (so close to the branch davidians who died at waco) and the dasyus. james churchward's research says the nagas came from lemuria. like the nommo from sirius and the annedoti of babylonian legend, the nagas were said to have a close connection to water and entered their underground centres through wells, lakes and rivers. the same was true in china of the lung wang or "dragon kings" who were described as part human, part serpent. the nagas were described as offspring from the interbreeding of humans with the serpent gods. at first it seems this union happened with a dark

thor or "goer (george) killed el, the matriarch of the serpent cult, the edda tells us, and she was symbolised as the "serpent-dragon. thus "george (thor) defeated "the dragon (el. the story of george and the dragon symbolises the battles with the reptilians located under the earth. the accounts in the british edda are confirmed in great detail by depictions all over the former sumer empire. in a babylonian seal dated to around 3300bc, el is pictured with the crescent moon of the serpent cult and wodan is given the body of a serpent. satanists worship the reptilians and also the moon, and have always done so. the inscription behind el in this babylonian seal reads ildi or "il-the- shining, yet another confirmation of the portrayal of reptilians as "shining" or "luminous" in some way. el or

nube region of europe into the domain of the serpent cult in the near and middle east, especially the place known as eden. after many battles between the nordics and the serpent cult a peace treaty was agreed between the entity known as thor/indara/ adam and the leaders of the serpent cult, el, wodan, and balder, the edda tells us. there is a portrayal of a meeting between thor/indara and el on a babylonian seal of about 3000bc. the "peace treaty" also led to the marriage between thor/indara/adam and a priestess of the serpent cult known as "eve" or "gunn-ifa, the edda says. the story of the marriage of her-thor (ar- thur) and his "queen" guin-eve-re, is a version of this, waddell suggests.37 he adds that "eve, despite being the "chief vestal priestess" of the serpent cult of eden, was, ne

-le-chateau was redesigned in the late 1800s by the priest abbe sauniere, who became extremely rich after discovering coded manuscripts and other artefacts. the story is told at length in the biggest secret. cain and abel? the edda describes how thor/adam/indara and "eve" had a son called gunn, ginn, or kon. this is the biblical "cain" and "gawain" of the king arthur stories, waddell contends. in babylonian seals dated to before 2500bc, he is called "adamu-the-son-of-the-god- induru. gunn or "cain" was attacked and wounded in the edda narrative by baldr or balder, the son of the serpent cult leaders, wodan and el. balder is the same guy as the biblical "abel, waddell says, and the edda refers to him as epli, which equates with the hebrew e-b-l, and his sumerian title was ibil or bal (the h

explanation for the ancient ruins that indicate they were destroyed by some kind of high-tech, even nuclear, weaponry. the edda tells how thor won the victory against the serpent cult and this is known as the "harrying of hell [el" in welsh traditions. a key moment was when prince cain, miok or michael, the son of thor, killed balder or abel, the son of el, and this is depicted in many sumerian, babylonian, assyrian, hittite, and persian seals and sculptures. cain, as horus, is seen spearing abel-set, symbolised as a demon crocodile, in an egyptian bas-relief of around 1000bc (see picture section).41 this is a version of st michael defeating the dragon. st michael, the sumerian-cappadocian deity, is portrayed as a dragon fighter. in india, balder is the "great deva (tiva, or "devil) felle

relate to the lady of the lake in the king arthur stories. the underground world is also symbolised as the "lake of fire, the domain of the death-goddess, hel. semiramis translates as "branch bearer" and her symbol was the dove- further links to the noah story with the dove arriving to noah bearing the olive branch. i have seen lake van associated with the garden of eden by one researcher. so the babylonian mother-son was semiramis of the serpent cult and her son, tammuz, the hero of their far earlier version of the "jesus" story. we shall see later that this same serpent cult moved from babylon to rome and founded the christian religion, as we know it today. the christian mother-son combination is mary (another name used for el) and "jesus (tammuz or balder. christianity, as created by th

t and the bloodline of the "dragon kings. hecate, another version of el or hel, was symbolised as the mother of dionysus, another classic son of god figure. both 168 children of the matrix tammuz and dionysus were mirrors of the much later "jesus" myth. lamentations of the chaldees for the death of tammuz/balder/abel are preserved in a large collection of hymns of the mother-son (serpent) cult in babylonian tablets from around 3000bc. they used to wail for tammuz in certain rituals and the wailing of jewish people at the western or "wailing" wall in jerusalem is a version of this. in the old testament, ezekiel describes the wailings for tammuz by hebrew women in jerusalem. legends also say that to reach the goddess el or hel in her underworld, you have to cross a wailing river.5 "jesus" is

ilisk is mentioned in psalm 91, but by the time of the king james translation, the reference has been changed to an "adder. later the basilisk became associated with the cock and became interchangeable with the term "cockatrice. st peter of basilica fame is connected to the cock, as we shall see. 194 r god save us from religion 195 how appropriate should the centrepiece of the headquarters of the babylonian church in rome be named after a royal serpent. rome to london when the anunnaki bloodlines moved their operational centre to london after william of orange arrived in 1688, we had the emergence of the british empire. in fact, the empires of sumer, babylon, rome, and britain were all created and controlled by one force. in babylon they used the same structure they had in sumer with the p

mystery babylon the mystery school/secret society network designed to advance the reptilian agenda expanded rapidly from the time of babylon after 2000bc. in this same period the royal court of the dragon was infiltrating the egyptian mystery schools and the other structures of power. the jewish historian, eupolemus, said that giants built babylon after the deluge- the usual story. according to a babylonian text, these giants were the anunnaki. the anunnaki priesthood in babylon began to god save us from religion 197 invent a whole new history and religious "truth, through which they could control the people mentally, emotionally, and, as a consequence, physically. in doing so, they replaced spiritual truths with fairy tales about mythical people, which the masses were told to take literal

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ally andemotionally imprison the masses and set them at war with each other. the hierarchy ofthis tribe of bloodlines is not exclusively male and some of its key positions are held bywomen. but in terms of numbers it is overwhelmingly male and i will therefore refer tothis group as the brotherhood. even more accurately, given the importance of ancientbabylon to this story, i will also call it the babylonian brotherhood. the plan they termtheir creat work of ages, i will call the brotherhood agenda. the present magnitudeof brotherhood control did not happen in a few years, even a few decades or centuries:it can be traced back thousands of years. the structures of todays institutions in2government, banking, business, military and the media have not been infiltrated by thisforce, they were cr

pp 268, 269.51ibid.52l. a. waddell, the phoenician origin of britons, scots and anglo saxons (the christian bookclub of america, hawthorne, california, first published 1924, p 65.53from the ashes of angels, p 191.54ibid.55second book of enoch, 1:4-5.56revelation, 12:9.57ibid, 20:2-3.58geza vermes, the dead sea scrolls in english (penguin books, harmondsworth, 1990).59ibid, p 7.50chapter threethe babylonian brotherhoodas the flood waters receded after the v enus cataclysm the survivors came down fromthe mountains and up from within the earth. they settled on the lowlands and plainsand began to rebuild. this was when sumer, egypt and the civilisation in the indusv alley suddenly appeared at a very high level of technological advancement, althoughthey had existed before and were now restored

e river euphrates. a closer look at the evidenceappears to date the foundation of babylon far earlier than previously believed and itwas one of the first cities of the post-flood era. it was here that the mystery schools andsecret societies were formed which were to span the globe in the thousands of years thatfollowed. the brotherhood which controls the world today is the modern expression ofthe babylonian brotherhood of reptile-aryan priests and royalty which came togetherthere after the flood. it was in babylon in this post-flood period from around 6,000years ago that the foundation beliefs- manipulated beliefs- of todays world religionswere established to control and rule the people.the founder of babylon according to ancient texts and legend was nimrod whoreigned with his wife, queen

they offered bunsinscribed with a solar cross. yes, even the hot cross buns of british easter traditioncome from babylon. easter comes from another face of queen semiramis- ishtar -andit is from this, and possibly another brotherhood deity, ashtaroth, that we get the nameof ashtar as in ashtar command, a completely manipulated new age belief in anextraterrestrial hero who has come to save us. the babylonian myths and symbolismprovided the foundations for all the major religions, especially christianity. the romanchurch was the creation of the babylonian brotherhood and the pope still wears a mitreshaped like a fish head to symbolise nimrod. this is also the significance of hisfishermans ring. the chair of st peter in the v atican was claimed to be a holy relic, butin 1968 it was exposed by

paul ii, he was given a guided tour of theplace which blew his mind. he was shown the popes solid gold bath which is decoratedwith all the astrological symbols and he saw inside the vacuum-sealed vaults whichcontain thousands of ancient esoteric books which have been stolen and hoarded overhundreds of years of religious dictatorship and so taken out of public circulation. theroman church and the babylonian brotherhood are one and the same.nimrod was also eannus, the god with two faces, who was later known to theromans as janus. one of the anunnaki brothers, enki the serpent god, was alsofigure 6: the fleur-de-lis, symbolof the babylonian trinity of nimrod,queen semiramis and tammuz,among other things. 53known as ea. the freemasonic eagle with two heads looking left and right, east andwest

nic eagle with two heads looking left and right, east andwest, is symbolic of nimrod in the role of eannus, and i would suggest that the eagle issymbolic of the winged draco. eannus, it was said, held the keys to the doors of heavenand he was the sole intermediary between god and humanity, therefore any belief notsupported by him was false and should be condemned. this was a wonderful tool forthe babylonian priesthood to impose their will on the populous and exactly the samescam has been played by their successors, the christian priests, the rabbis and thepriesthoods of islam, hinduism and all the rest. the roman catholic title of cardinalcomes from the word cardo meaning hinge and relates to nimrods role as guardian ofthe door to heaven.10 the babylonian priests even established a governi

their successors, the christian priests, the rabbis and thepriesthoods of islam, hinduism and all the rest. the roman catholic title of cardinalcomes from the word cardo meaning hinge and relates to nimrods role as guardian ofthe door to heaven.10 the babylonian priests even established a governing body theycalled the grand council of pontiffs, a name later transferred to the church of rome.11the babylonian high priest, who instructed the inner circle initiates, was known as..peter, meaning the great interpreter. the feast day of the christian st peter wastraditionally celebrated on the day the sun entered the astrological house of aquarius,the very day that eannus and janus were honoured!12 the babylonian religion, like allthe look-alikes that were to follow, consisted of two levels. the

and kept only for the few.human sacrifice was fundamental to the religion of babylon and wherever thebabylonian brotherhood and their reptilian bloodlines have travelled, human sacrificehas always gone with them because the reptilians demand these rituals. the malevolentones seem to be addicted to blood and this has been passed on to their crossbreeds asthe evidence i shall present will show. the babylonian priests were required to eatsome of their sacrificial offerings and so the word for priest, cahna-bal, became theterm for eating human flesh, cannibal.13 moloch, the name of that flying lizard imentioned earlier, was another name for nimrod-tammuz. tam means to perfect andmuz means to burn. you can see the symbolism of tammuz-moloch, therefore, in therituals of burning children alive in

ants. who consumed all theacquisitions of men. and when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turnedagainst them and devoured mankind. and they began to sin against birds and beasts, andreptiles, and fish, and to devour one anothers flesh and drink blood. the earth laidaccusation against the lawless ones.16that passage describes the bloodlines i am highlighting and they came together inthe babylonian brotherhood which has since expanded across the planet. while welook out of our eyes and feel part of this physical world, the reptiles look into this thirddimension, much like someone looking through a window. in this case, the eyes of thephysical body. we are consciously in the third dimension, they are consciously in thefourth looking into the third. when you know what you are lookin

ay. yes, i am talkingabout some of the biggest royal, political, business, banking and media names on theplanet. people like henry kissinger, george bush, the british royal family and manyother presidents, prime ministers and members of royalty. fantastic? of course it is, butsince when did the truth not sound fantastic in a world of such denial and illusion?three of the principle elements of the babylonian religion were fire, serpents and thesun. i should explain their focus on the sun because it is a vital part of the story. most55of the global population worshipped the sun for its obvious gifts of heat and light and theeffect this had on their crops and well-being. however, within the hierarchy of the babylonbrotherhood and other elite groups which had the advanced knowledge, they focus

the human race if youknew the cycles of energy from the sun and other planets and how they were likely toaffect human consciousness. you would know when people would be more prone toanger, aggression, fear, doubt and guilt, and therefore when to have your wars,economic collapses and so on. the brotherhood have always had this knowledge andthey use it to great effect today as i shall document.the babylonian brotherhood and its reptilian bloodlines expanded across the middleand near east, especially to egypt, and eventually into europe and the americas. i thinkthe early egyptian civilisation after the v enus upheavels was the work of the aryans frommars, the phoenicians, with or without the reptilian anunnaki. but before 2,000 bc thereptilians were taking over. the royal court of the dragon

erial court of dragon sovereignty and his postal address in devon, england is atcolomba house. columba= dove= queen semiramis. according to gardner, the namedracula means son of dracul and was inspired by prince vlad iii oftransylvania-wallachia, a chancellor of the court of the dragon in the 15th century. theprinces father was called dracul within the court. dracul= draco. wherever they went,the babylonian brotherhood created their own mystery schools to manipulate thepopulation into believing a nonsense and into giving away their power through superstitionand fear. at the same time the higher levels of these pyramid structures communicated theadvanced knowledge to those who would serve the reptilian agenda. where other non-reptilian initiation schools existed, they were infiltrated and t

ctual and spiritualactivities of the individual by demanding his complete and unhesitating acquiescence inthe dogma formulated by the priestcraft. the pharaoh became a puppet in the hands ofthe scarlet council- a committee of arch-sorcerers elevated to power by the priesthood.22the black magicians that hall says were formerly in atlantis were, for me, thereptilian-human hybrids of what i call the babylonian brotherhood. it is their secretsociety network that now spans the globe and operates in literally every country. itallows the coordination of the agenda across national borders and between apparentlyunconnected companies and institutions like politics, banking, business, the militaryand the media. knowledge is not good nor bad, it just is. it is how we use thatknowledge that is positive

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el which began revealing to him the rituals contained in the demonic bible. he performed the rituals and experienced the crossing of the gates in extremely vivid and symbolic dreams. in 1989, at the age of 19, he began working for the atmospheric environment service of environment canada. over the next few years his library grew extensively as he studied cabalistic magic, enochian magic, sumerian/babylonian magic, celtic magic, norse magic, egyptian magic, witchcraft, voodoo, and satanism. he sought out the lavey church of satan but, at the time, the church of satan was no longer active. he instead became involved in several other satanic organizations: the embassy of s.a.t.a.n, the temple of set, the order of the left-hand-path, the temple of pan-shaitan, and the order of the nine angles

is the techniques used (and their effect upon the practitioner's mind) which accounts for magical powers and not the particular deities or spirits called upon. many spirits are accredited with giving knowledge of "arts and sciences. the "lesser key of solomon, a book of goetic sorcery, lists 72 demons which solomon allegedly bound inside a brazen vessel. this cabalistic tale has its origin in the babylonian legend of the 72 lords of the djinn. the word demon comes from the greek "daemon, an influencing spirit of intelligence. djinn (or genie) is also the root of the word "genius" although the word "genius" is often used by the mundane, he who is called a "genius" is said to be under the influence of an intelligence, daemon, or genie. if demons do not exist objectively (only subjectively, t

k god/masculine dragon. while most of the names for the devil are simply titles, some are actual names such as astaroth, kali, and lillith. in studying the names for the devil you will find that most can be traced to ancient goddesses who represented various aspects of tiamat, either as goddess of the earth, goddess of fertility and pleasure, or goddess of death. astaroth is a form of ishtar, the babylonian goddess of pleasure who descends into the underworld to conquer her sister ereshkigal, the goddess of death. in this ancient myth, both ishtar and ereshkigal are forms of tiamat. the dark goddess was also often depicted carrying a phallic object a severed penis. the egyptian god set was originally a female deity and was identified with isis. the goddess set carried as a talisman the sev

nto the underworld to conquer her sister ereshkigal, the goddess of death. in this ancient myth, both ishtar and ereshkigal are forms of tiamat. the dark goddess was also often depicted carrying a phallic object a severed penis. the egyptian god set was originally a female deity and was identified with isis. the goddess set carried as a talisman the severed penis of osiris. isis and set, like the babylonian ishtar and ereshkigal, represent life and death and are both aspects of the dark goddess of chaos, tiamat. it was often said that witches of the middle ages gathered in covens of twelve women and one man, the high priest, who assumed the form of the devil and had sexual intercourse with the women. it was also said that his penis was unusually large and that his semen was cold. the truth

ry spheres. come forth, cronus, and manifest thyself. come forth, cronus, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice, then say) i have crossed the sanguine sphere. planetary demonic spirits once the magician has crossed the planetary spheres, he may wish to invoke demonic spirits associated with each of these spheres. the 50 names of marduk, listed in the necronomicon and refered to in sumerian and babylonian mythology, are an example of spirits associated with the jovial sphere. i have invoked these spirits using the formula given in this book. the first name is marduk the lord of lords, master of magicians. his name should not be called except when no other will do, and it is the most terrible responsibility to do so. the word of his calling is dugga. this is his seal: the second name is m

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y recourse was to fight against them with magic. they placed special bowls inscribed with potent word charms upside down under the foundations of their houses to catch demons and prevent them from entering the houses through the ground. they also made amulets with avertive verses against specific demons, such as those that might threaten the life of women during childbirth. during their period of babylonian captivity, the ancient hebrews absorbed many sumerian demons into their own folklore, and over time these were transmuted into uniquely jewish demons, such as lilith, the demon who strangles children in their cribs and visits solitary men in their beds to provoke nocturnal emissions. lilith began her life as a class of babylonian demon known as the lilitu. in addition to the direct pers

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been identified with kolmer, the instructor of adam weishaupt (a german leader of the illuminati) in magic, and at other times with the comte de saint germain. the accounts concerning him are certainly conflicting, for whereas cagliostro stated at his trial in paris that althotas had been his lifelong preceptor, another account says that he met him first on the quay at messina. alu-demon ancient babylonian demon, said to owe his parentage to a human being; he hides himself in caverns and corners and slinks through the streets at night. he also lies in wait for the unwary, and at night enters bed-chambers and terrorizes people, threatening to pounce on them if they shut their eyes. amadeus a visionary who experienced an apocalypse and revelations, in one of which he learned the two psalms

sky, improved the methods for recording the passing of time, successfully predicted eclipses, and accurately determined the length of the solar year (within 26 minutes. thus astrology was well developed in chaldea when (in the second millennium b.c.e) the biblical abraham migrated from ur of the chaldees (gen. 11:31) to palestine. the conflict between the emerging religions of the israelites and babylonian astrology can be seen in isa. 47:13 and repeatedly in the book of daniel (e.g. 2:27, 4:7. a primitive astrology had developed among the greeks, but during the conquests of alexander in the west beginning in 334 b.c.e. chaldean astrology flowed into the mediterranean basin. alexander s conquests also introduced astrology into india, although the indians took the chaldean notions and deve

gazing down into clear water the mind is disposed to contemplation, often of a melancholy character. this form of divination is termed hydromancy and is similar to crystal gazing. 137 babylonia ancient religion and magic magic was integral to the religion of ancient babylonia. all the deities (the most prominent ones being ea, anu, and enlil, the elder bel) retained, even in the last centuries of babylonian development, traces of their early demonic character. ea, anu, and enlil formed a triad at the dawn of history and appear to have developed from an animistic group of world spirits. although ea became specialized as a god of the deep, anu as a god of the sky, and enlil as an earth god, each also had titles that emphasized that they had attributes overlapping those of the others. thus ea

of magical rites, and his services were obtained by humankind, who performed requisite ceremonies and repeated appropriate spells. although he might be worshipped and propitiated in his temple at eridu, he could also be conjured in reed huts. the latter indeed appear to have been the oldest holy places. in the deluge myth, he makes a revelation in a dream to his human favorite, pirnapishtim, the babylonian noah, of the approaching disaster planned by the gods, by addressing the reed hut in which he slept: o, reed hut, hear; o, wall, understand. the sleeper received the divine message from the reeds. the reeds were to the babylonians what rowan branches were to northern europeans. they protected them against demons. thus, for example, the dead were buried wrapped in reed mats. the priestho

and children had to be charmed against her attacks. she also had a human history. another belief prevalent in babylonia was that the spirits of the dead could be conjured from their graves to make revelations. in the gilgamesh epic, the hero visits the tomb of his old friend and fellow warrior ea-bani. the ghost rises like a weird gust of wind and answers the various questions with great sadness. babylonian vision of the future life was colored by profound gloom and pessimism. it was even the fate of the ghosts of the most fortunate and ceremonially buried dead to live in darkness, amid dust. the ghost of ea-bani said to gilgamesh: were i to inform thee the law of the underworld which i have experienced, thou wouldst sit down and shed tears all day long. gilgamesh lamented: the sorrow of t

ies had to be clothed in magical garments. they received inspiration from their clothing. the gods derived power from the skins of animals in a similar way, with which they were associated from the earliest time. thus ea was clad in the skin of the fish.probably the fish totem of the ea tribe. the dead were not admitted to the heavens of the gods. when a favored human being, like utnapishtim, the babylonian noah, joined the company of the gods, he was assigned an island paradise where gilgamesh visited him. he lived there with his wife. gilgamesh was not permitted to land, and conversed with his immortal ancestor while sitting in his boat. the deities secured immortality by eating the food of life and drinking the water of life. astrology the ancient babylonians were credited with some of

duk or bel, said to have created the sun, moon, stars, and five planets. they knew that the length of the solar year was approximately 365.4 days and had divided the period of 24 hours into 12 beru (double hours) in accordance with the divisions of the equator, each of which was divided into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds. such data were recorded on clay tablets in the library of the babylonian king assurbani-pal, around 668 b.c.e. babylonian astrologers attributed human characteristics to planetary influences at birth, and laid the foundation for modern astrologers. sources: encyclopedia.com. babylonia. http/ www.encyclopedia.com. june 26, 2000. ferry, david. gilgamesh: a new rendering into english verse. new york: farrar, straus and giroux, 1992. jastrow, morris. aspects of

s kept in the room except chairs and a table, the fireplace was blocked, and the only second floor window was papered. immediately after bailey went into trance, the controls took charge of the phenomena. the chief control was a dr. whitcombe, sometime physician in melbourne. another, dr. robinson, claimed to have been professor of syro-chaldaic literature in new york. the apport of old coins and babylonian clay tablets with cuneiform inscriptions were apparently due to him. a third control was a hindu named abdul. it was he who actually brought the apports. a few minutes were sufficient, and when light was produced, the medium was found to hold a live bird and a nest in each hand. many of these birds were kept for days in cages. sometimes they disappeared as mysteriously as they came, and

ied and the knots were sealed. his coat and boots were taken off, and the investigators felt over his body, especially in hollow parts where objects could be hidden. bailey, however, refused to allow himself to be entirely undressed, saying he was afraid of catching cold. the apports consisted mostly of small articles: two or three live birds; a fish with an acrid, penetrating, saline odor; and a babylonian tablet enveloped in a hard coating of sand. some of the birds, nests, and eggs disappeared before the end of the seance. in the dark bailey demonstrated the rapid growth of a seed in a flower pot and the presence of phosphorescent lights and luminous shapes. the committee s desire to have a specially designated object transported from one room to another was not realized. the report, si

te from the punjab. according to this, bailey was still active and produced such objects as a saracen helmet of scale armour, each scale (3,000 of them) a silver coin with inscription; 30 to 40 chinese carved figures in ivory of exquisite workmanship and draped in silk arranged to represent a royal court, a complete mandarin s robe which a friend of williams saw fall from the ceiling, live birds. babylonian cuneiform tablets. punic tablets, faience figures from egypt, cut and polished stone and coins, coins in gold, silver, and copper with inscriptions in sanskrit, persian, and arabic; plaster casts of hands and feet of adults and children obtained from materialisations, etc. williams says that half the homes of sydney are stocked with these apports. bailey held daily seances and charged a

arch for bridey murphy. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1956. bridey murphy.fact, fraud, or fancy? special issue of tomorrow 4, no. 4 (summer 1956. fiore, edith. you have been here before: a psychologist looks at past lives. new york: coward, mccann& geoghegan, 1978. gardner, martin. fads and fallacies in the name of science. new york: dover publications, 1957. berosus (fl. 290 b.c.e) berosus is the babylonian priest most responsible for spreading chaldean astrological ideas to greece. berosus was born and raised in babylon (present-day iraq. he was a contemporary of alexander the great, who died at babylon when berosus was still a child. as an adult he traveled to greece and settled on the island of cos, where he founded a school of astrology. around 280 b.c.e. he wrote a history of his home

y of alexander the great, who died at babylon when berosus was still a child. as an adult he traveled to greece and settled on the island of cos, where he founded a school of astrology. around 280 b.c.e. he wrote a history of his homeland; only fragments of this document remain. his greater influence came from the number of students he trained who went on to teach astrology throughout greece. the babylonian astrologers were the first to carefully map the night sky and to calculate the length of the solar years (to within 26 minutes. they greatly improved methods of forecasting eclipses and recording time. sources: brau, jean-louis, helen weaver, and allan edmands. larousse encyclopedia of astrology. new york: new american library, 1977. burstein, stanley mayer. the babyloniaca of berosus

tism among the major themes of the history of israel was its struggle to institute the exclusive worship of yahweh, the god of abraham. this effort involved them in separating jewish life from that of their pagan neighbors, especially those who practiced human sacrifice, keeping to a minimum the influences of the steady stream of merchants who traveled through their land, and surviving during the babylonian captivity. as a result, the biblical text is replete with admonitions to abstain from following the religious/occult practices of israel s neighbors. the most cited cases having to do with occultism concern king saul s interaction with the woman of endor and the encounter of daniel with the babylonian sorcerers and astrologers. to understand the role of the occult in the biblical litera

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rtifacts strengthen the theory that late paleolithic art had its origin in magic beliefs and practices.that hunters carved on the handles of weapons and implements, or scratched on cave walls, the images of the animals they desired to capture.sometimes with the secured cooperation of demons and sometimes with the aid of magic spells. a highly developed magic system existed in ancient egypt, as in babylonian (see semites) and other early cultures. from these cultures the medieval european system of magic is believed to have evolved. greece and rome also possessed distinct magic systems that were integrated into their religious practice and thus, like the egyptian and babylonian rituals, were preserves of the priesthood. magic in early europe was integral to the various religious systems tha

impart the great truths of this science to their disciples. its nature is such that communication by lecture would be worse than useless. it is necessary to suppose then that it was imparted by one adept to another. but it is not likely that this magic arose at a very early period in human history, probably not before some three or four thousand years b.c.e. the undisturbed nature of egyptian and babylonian civilization leads to the belief that these countries brought forth a long series of adepts in the higher magic. we know that alexandria was heir to the works of these adepts, but it is unlikely that their teachings were publicly disseminated in her public schools. individuals of high magical standing would, however, be in possession of the occult knowledge of ancient egypt, and it seem

ferent hypothesis, that ancient mythology should be read as historical documents, as reports of actual occurrences. his starting point was the biblical book of genesis, chapter 6, and the cryptic references to the sons of god marrying the daughters of men and the giants or nephilim who were on earth in the era prior to the biblical flood. using a variety of ancient documents, though primarily the babylonian epic known as enuma elish, he hypothesized the existence of another planet in our solar system, which he named nibiru, that travels an eliptical orbit that brings it into the area between the orbits of jupiter and mars every 3,600 years. the planet is inhabited by a humanoid race called the anunnaki, who created homo sapiens. a war in the heavens, as described in the ancient sumerian ch

central focus of jewish law. it has been considered by some authorities that a great many of the traditional tales in the talmud have a magical basis, and that magical secrets are contained in them, but this depends entirely upon the interpretation put upon them, and the subject is one which necessitates close study. an english translation of the jerusalem talmud was published in 1871, and of the babylonian talmud (35 vols, 1935.52. tamlin, sarah (ca. 1848) one of the very early american rapping mediums, soon after the famous rochester rappings of the fox sisters. e. w. capron visited tamlin and attended one of her seances at which raps were heard. a table moved in various directions and was held down to the floor so that it required the whole strength of a man to move it from its position

of hebrew society, but beginning with the prophet samuel (i sam. 15:23) were condemned by association with sorcery and idolatry. tenhaeff, w(ilhelm) h(einrich) c(arl) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1550 when josiah conducted his reforms (ii kings. 23:24, the destruction of the teraphim was included among his actions. they were still being used, however, after the period of the babylonian exile (zech. 10:2. tesla, nikola (1856.1943) eccentric scientific genius whose inventions in the field of electrical apparatus stemmed from inspirations received in extraordinary visions of a paranormal character. unlike most innovators in the fields of engineering and electricity, his inventions did not require patient experiment and trial-and-error testing of models. the ideas flashed

s cross, u.k: colin smyth, 1975. the upright man in the sixteenth century, the vagabonds and beggars of britain were organized into unions with rules and grades. of these grades, the order of the upright man seems to have had some special significance and authority, and it is believed by some authorities to have descended from the folk adherents of paganism, the old religion, or witchcraft. ura a babylonian spirit (see also babylonia) uranian astrology uranian astrology is an innovative system of astrology developed early in the twentieth century by friedrich sieggrun (1877.1951) and alfred witte (1878.1943, two pioneers of the contemporary astrological revival. the system is sometimes referred to as the hamburg school, a reference to witte s main teaching centre in germany. the uranian sy

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.4 these attitudes also serve to 8- f e 0 solidify the position of orthodox rabbis as intermediaries and authorities in the dispensation of the jewish religion. the authority of the pharisees evolved from the growing prominence of the academies of jewish learning that started to appear in the late fifth century bce under the tolerant regime of the persians, after hundreds of years of assyrian and babylonian repression. the word pharisee comes from the word parush, meaning one separated i.e. one who withdraws himself out of motives for piety. among the jews thus separated, there arose not only differences in social customs, but also in doctrinal views xand specifically, an oral tradition. this oral tradition not only outlined a rigorous routine of lifestyle and conduct, but also created spe

xegesis attributed to various heralded palestinian rabbis, many of whom were associated with rabbinical academies from the fifth through second centuries bce. the tractates of the mishnah were edited and codified circa 220 ce, and form the core of the talmud. the bulk of the talmud, called the gemara (lit. completion, is a 4' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% collection of discussions among later palestinian and babylonian rabbis regarding passages and topics in the mishnah. the gemara of jerusalem was formally compiled circa 430 ce, and the gemara of babylon circa 530 ce. the talmud yerushalmi is composed of three volumes and the talmud babli has sixtyfour volumes, reflecting the relative complexity of the environments and cultural milieus in which they developed. the pharisaic rabbinate emerged as the d

study the jewish kabbalah are mainstream orthodox and chasidic jews of european descent. it is but a footnote for most conservative and reform jews, though there is a resurgence of interest among those in the jewish renewal movement. the vast majority of the written works of jewish kabbalah originated or reemerged within the last 800 years. rabbinical jews spend many years studying the voluminous babylonian talmud in order to learn and carefully adhere to the detailed halachic interpretations of how to fulfill the 613 mitzvoth, or righteous deeds, prescribed in the extant version of the ezra torah. they generally regard the current version of the torah to be the exact original, faithful in every detail to the one penned by master mosheh. hence, they consider every word and every line to be

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t, ii(i, pp. 20 ff. 2 ibid, p. 54. 3 see above, p. 190. 4 op. lat, ii(i, pp. 41 ff. 5 ibid, pp. 135-57- 195 giordano bruno: first visit to paris stature, with burning eyes, angry face, and clothed in a white garment' the fearless bruno does not hesitate to inscribe on his memory the images of the egyptian decan demons. as e. garin has pointed out,2 bruno has taken the list, ascribed to teucer the babylonian, of the thirty-six decan images almost entirely from cornelius agrippa's de occulta philosophic then come forty-nine images of the planets, seven for each planet. for example: first image of saturn. a man with a stag's head, on a dragon, with an owl which is eating a snake in his right hand.4 bruno's planet images are close to those given by agrippa,5 though with some variations. next c

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evealed tonight and is a fusion of heaven and earth. i have not found any "practical" use of these sigils yet, but they have brought me in contact with, what i firmly believe to be my hga, the "perfected" form of me "in the future" of whom i am grendel/ we and will become as/ a. i have never heard of a. before, but it does bear a resemblance to azathoth. i heard a somewhere before, a demon maybe, babylonian, i'll research this. in final note. magick is the ultimate communication and it is right to say that things are playing. all of this is play, a big game. the void was not. nice place to visit but cthulhu wants to live there (this is supposition on my part. i do not know if "cthulhu" was there, but there were these things, unwholesome things. this is very much "real" and i exaggerate not

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

t is placed on the apron of the master of the lodge, though placed upside down so as to give the symbol of the square, and also to emphasize its phallic meaning [ibid; emphasis added] when we were discussing the triangle and the hexagram, above, we displayed a tau cross [t-cross] within a triangle and circle. we encourage you to refer to it now. the tau-cross was originally created to worship the babylonian god, tammuz, a worship highly condemned in the bible. thus, once again, we can see that freemasonry is always lining up against god of the bible, and for satan of paganism, even though their propaganda machine continues to churn out the opposite claim that they are christian. sex at the end of the masonic rainbow masonic author, george oliver states "it is remarkable that in all the anc

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

ich in hebrew are rendered by the word b'raishith, which by many qabalists is spelt be'raishith, which means gthrough wisdom h, or through the word or principle which expresses wisdom- namely the logos of philo and st. john. a similar idea is found in the chaldaic word memrah, in the vach of the rig veda, honover of the zend avesta, and in the boundless light of latter-day buddhists. nebo was the babylonian god of wisdom, and his planet was mercury. moses, the supposed originator of the qabalah, was buried on mount nebo. bo, bod, boden, and in china fo, are all gods of wisdom. amongst the buddhists and brahmins the day of wisdom is wednesday. amongst the scandinavians we have wo, wod, and woden; in egypt, thoth; in classical greece, hermes; and among the romans, mercury- all gods of wisdom

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

in later ages came to be regarded as men, represent the sun, but after the separation of the male and female elements in the originally indivisible god, maut or minerva, demeter, ceres, isis, juno, and others less important in the pagan world were also the sun, or, in other words, they represented the female power throughout the universe which was supposed to reside in the sun. in most groups of babylonian and assyrian divine emblems, there occur two distinct representations of the sun "one being figured with four rays or divisions within the orb, and the other, with eight" according to george rawlinson, these figures represent a distinction between the male and female powers residing within the sun, the quartered disk signifying the male energy, and the eight-rayed orb appearing as the e

ical, and who was the goddess of fertility seems to have been transferred to her"[36 [36] historical and critical commentary of the old testament. to such an extent, in the earlier ages of the world had the female been regarded as the creator, that in many countries where her worship subsequently became identified with that of the moon, luna was adored as the producer of the sun. according to the babylonian creation tablets, the moon was the most important heavenly body. in later ages, the gender of the sun and the moon seems to be exceedingly variable. the achts of vancouver's island worship sun and moon--the sun as female, the moon as male.[37] in some of the countries of africa the moon is adored as female and sun-worship is unknown. among various peoples the sun and the moon are regard

the goths had their odin, vile, and ve, who are described as the three sons of bura, the offspring of the mysterious cow, and the celts had their three bulls, venerated as the living symbols of the triple hu or menu. to the same class we must ascribe the triads of the orphic and pythagorean and platonic schools; each of which must again be identified with the imperial triad of the old chaldaic or babylonian philosophy"[43 [43] faber, pagan idolatry, book vi, ch. ii, p. 470. the history of the catastrophe known as the deluge, which, it is claimed, took place either in armenia, at cashgar, or at some other place in the east, is observed, in later ages, to furnish a covering beneath which have been veiled the mythical doctrines of the priests. of the catastrophes which from time to time have

served that each deity has as many as forty or fifty titles, each of which represents a certain attribute. since the invention of the cuneiform alphabet, by which pictures have been reduced to phonetic signs, the attempt has been made to arrange or classify these gods according to their proper order in the pantheon, but thus far much obscurity and doubt seem to pervade their history. in assyrian, babylonian, and egyptian mythologies are observed much confusion and no small degree of mystery surrounding the positions occupied by certain gods "children not unfrequently change positions with parents" but more frequently, we are told "women change places with men" or, more properly speaking, the titles, attributes, and qualities ascribed to the great universal female god are now transferred to

the title "mother of the gods" and even by that of "queen of heaven" is utterly without power. not only is it plain that the titles and attributes of female gods have been appropriated by males, but it is also true that the more ancient deities, which are now known to have been female, have by later investigators been represented as male. the interpretations which have hitherto been put upon the babylonian and assyrian deities by many of those who have attempted to unravel the mysteries of an earlier stage of religious worship, is doubtless due to the fact that since the so-called historic period began, the qualities which have been considered godlike have all been masculine; it has therefore never occurred to the minds of these writers that the ancients may have entertained quite differe

onarchs, and then it was that the attributes belonging to this deity began to appear in connection with royalty. there is no ancient divinity about which there seems to be connected so much mystery as the assyrian hea. when referring to the "great obscurity" which surrounds this god we are assured that there is at present "no means of determining the precise meaning of the cuneiform hea, which is babylonian rather than assyrian" but that it is doubtless connected with the arabic hya, which is said to mean "life" or the female principle in creation. this deity is the god of "glory" and of "giving" titles which during the earlier ages of human existence belonged to the queen of heaven, the celestial mother. the representation of the god amun or amun-ra, which superseded the triune deity, kne

he name of a certain egyptian god appears first in connection with royalty, that "his name was substituted for some earlier divinity whose hieroglyphics were chiselled out of the monuments to make place for his" according to the testimony of rawlinson, the god hea is represented by the great serpent, which occupies a conspicuous position among the symbols of the gods on the black stones recording babylonian benefactions. now these flat black stones are themselves said to symbolize the female element in the deity, in contradistinction to the obelisks, which prefigure the male, while the serpent, for reasons which have already been explained, appeared for ages in connection with the figure of a woman. in later inscriptions "king" is everywhere attached to the name of the god hea, which fact

e a death has taken place, because of the idea that as the living being comes from water, so does it make its exit through water. hence "to drink or to use in any way a fluid which contains the life of human beings would be a foul offense" the fact is noted by inman that in all assyrian mythology the water god hea is associated with life and with a serpent. although rawlinson declares that hea is babylonian rather than assyrian, may she not, in view of the facts concerning her, be not only babylonian, but egyptian, indian, phrygian, mexican, and all the rest? it would seem that in this deity, who is figured in connection with a shield and serpent, as is minerva, and who is worshipped near water- an emblem which is sacred to her--and whose titles correspond exactly to those of neith or cybe

was symbolized by an upright stone, was none other than a "life-giver" in the most practical sense. it was the emblem of virility, and from the facts at hand, at the present time, there is little doubt but that all the spirituality with which we find this "lord" invested was an after-thought and comprehended no part of the belief of the jews until after their contact with the persians during the babylonian captivity. doubtless the story in which their journeyings toward canaan are set forth contains an esoteric as well as an exoteric significance for ages known only to the priests, and that within it is embodied not alone something of the true history of this people, but an account also of their struggle against an older religion. at this time the israelites had practically commenced the

nting on the above, bunsen is constrained to admit that it is usually understood as being "decidedly pantheistic" he suggests, however, that the writer may have intended to say (the italics are mine) that "the spirit who was heretofore the creator was the unconscious spirit" berosus, the scholar of babylon, who, until a comparatively recent time has furnished all the information extant concerning babylonian antiquities, in his account of the creation of man and of the universe, says that in the beginning all was water and darkness; that in the water were the beginnings of life; but as yet there was no order. men were there with the wings of birds and even with the feet of beasts. there were also quadrupeds and men with fishes' tails, all of which had been produced by a twofold principle. o

ut as yet there was no order. men were there with the wings of birds and even with the feet of beasts. there were also quadrupeds and men with fishes' tails, all of which had been produced by a twofold principle. over this incongruous mass a woman presided. this woman is called omoroka by the babylonians and by the chaldeans thalatth. the latter name, signifies "bearing" or "egg producing" in the babylonian kosmogony, according to endemus, the pupil of aristotle, the beginning of the universe was called tauthe, which being interpreted means "mother of the gods" associated with her sometimes appears the male principle--apason. in the history of berosus, there is given an account of oaunes--a mythical teacher of babylon, who appeared with the head of a human being and the body of a fish or s

rites and ceremonies observed in the worship of baal-peor are not of a character to be described in these pages: it is perhaps sufficient to state that by them the fact is clearly established that profligacy, regulated and controlled by the priestly order as part and parcel of religion, was not confined to the gentiles; but, on the contrary, that the religious observances of the jews prior to the babylonian captivity were even more gross than were those of the assyrians or the hindoos. these impure faiths arose at a time when man as the sole creator of offspring became god, when the natural instincts of woman were subdued, and when passion as the highest expression of the divine force came to be worshipped as the most important attribute of humanity. the extent to which these faiths have i

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beast; for all is vanity. all go unto one place; all areofthedust, and all turn to dust again..wherefore i perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for thatishis portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him' who, indeed, except his own higher self. but perhaps this book is from the pen of some obscure jew, or half pagan chaldee or babylonian. not at all; jewish critics have all assigned it to solomon, the king of the jews at the time of their heyday of glory; surely if the immortality of the soul were the essence of the judaism of the people, he could not have so grossly denied it.a further glance atthekabalah101goback, however to the narrative of creation and the same story is found; the animals are made from the dust, man

myths and astronomical facts, and have explained that greek and roman religious ideals were connected with the worship of the sun, moon, and stars.theprobably mythical orpheus is said to have first taught astronomy to the greeks. there are three lands which contest the claim to the earliest astronomical observations, egypt, india, and the akkadian empire of uncertain area, to which succeeded the babylonian civilization with which the chaldeans and hebrews were later associated. china also postulates a claim to an unknown antiquity for its astronomic learning, and astrology has always flourished among the chinese. there are really no data yet discovered which can prove which land was the source ofthehistory of astrology171astronomy; most probably the study was undertaken not only separatel

he zodiac: other interpreters write sirius, the dog star. schiaparelli prefers to consider that the mazzaroth were the five great planets.thequestion of the origin of the zodiac and its twelve signs has been much debated, and is still undecided. various authors have declared its origin from egypt, from china, from india, from babylon and from the greeks, either in greece or in alexandria. no true babylonian monument showing all twelve signshas yet been found. the earliest extant greek reference to the zodiac is in the writing of aristotle. in the second dream of joseph, the son of the patriarch jacob, he narrates that the sun, moon and eleven stars made obeisance to him; hence it has been argued that joseph himself with the eleven stars refer to the twelve constellations of the zodiac, and

ple service, there must have occurred many eclipses of the sun and moon, both total and partial, visible in palestine. all uncivilised peoples have stood in awe of eclipses, and many have looked upon them as portents of the wrath of the gods. in jeremiah x, v. 2, however, we read a warning to the jews 'not to be dismayed at the signs of heaven, for the heathen are dismayed at them. we know from a babylonian table that there was a notable eclipse of the sun in july 1063,b.c.this is not referred to in the bible. there was another in 831b.c.in the time of joel and amos, but is not mentioned by them as having taken place. there was a third total eclipse in 763b.c.,a fourth in 603b.cat the time of the fall of the assyrian kingdom, and a fifth mentioned by thales occurred in 585b.c.ofall these e

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s concept is based on a dubious use of grammar, especially dubious if we understand that the grammar was added in by translators for easy reading; nothing more, nothing less. chapter twelve: restoring the bible the gnostic handbook page 114 what about the old testament? the gnostic attitude towards the old testament is ambivalent to say the least. the major issue is that it was written during the babylonian captivity and edited to fit the prevailing pharisaic form of judaism that existed at that time. the fact is the old testament was written at the same time as the babylonian talmud and other questionable edomite/judaic texts. in this context it becomes clear that the old testament as we have it is not a gnostic or israelite text, but a text distorted to fit the talmudic jewish tradition

and interpret the whole old testament as a coherent early revelation and it does little for their intellectual integrity. bible narratives biblical criticism has shown that there are at least four intermingled narratives within the old testament, most of which specifically seem to be in conflict. the epic tradition seems to date from the original exodus while the priestly tradition dates from the babylonian captivity. this second narrative was probably written by a literalist priestclass who had little knowledge of the true meaning of the tradition. therefore, it is clear that most sections of the old testament have been re-worked. a number of examples may help you to get the overall picture. in the epic tradition the original covenant includes the ten words or ten commandments only, the g

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

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

bylonian paganism and israelite belief which later became known as the talmud. as time progressed they stepped into the shoes of the now-believed lost ten tribes and falsely identified themselves as jews (of judea) or as israel. they edited the torah to reflect their distorted view of judaism, and created a apostate faith based on the values of the talmud. as the deception continued many of these babylonian cainites migrated to other regions, they became known as the edomites and later on many of their number integrated with the people known as the khazars. the khazars were of turkish stock and converted to the talmudic form of judaism around 900 c.e. this conversion is of great significance. in his book, the thirteenth tribe, arthur koestler argues that modern jewry is descended not from

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

the principles of geometrical knowledge. he made them distinguish the seeds of the earth, and showed them how to collect fruits; in short, he instructed them in every thing which could tend to soften manners and to humanise mankind. from that time, so universal were his instructions, nothing has been added materially by way of improvement..12 surviving images of the oannes creatures i had seen on babylonian and assyrian reliefs clearly portrayed fish-garbed men. fish-scales formed the dominant motif on their garments, just as they did on those worn by el fraile. another similarity was that the babylonian figures held unidentified objects in both their hands. if my memory served me right (and i later confirmed that it did) these objects were by no means identical to those carried by el frai

. she flew away, but finding no resting place she returned. then i loosed a swallow, and she flew away but finding no resting place she returned. i loosed a raven, she saw that the waters had retreated, she ate, she flew around, she cawed, and she did not 2 ibid, p. 108. 3 ibid, and myths from mesopotamia, p. 110. 4 myths from mesopotamia, pp. 112-13; gilgamesh, pp. 109-11; edmund sollberger, the babylonian legend of the flood, british museum publications, 1984, p. 26. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 186 come back.5 utnapishtim knew that it was now safe to disembark: i poured out a libation on the mountain top. i heaped up wood and cane and cedar and myrtle. when the gods smelled the sweet savour they gathered like flies over the sacrifice. 6 these texts are not by any means the on

ing to professor de santillana, this type of uniformity suggests a guiding hand at work. in hamlet s mill, a seminal and original thesis on ancient myth written in collaboration with hertha von dechend (professor of the history of science at frankfurt university) he argues that: universality is in itself a test when coupled with a firm design. when something found, say, in china, turns up also in babylonian astrological texts, then it must be assumed to be relevant if it reveals a complex of uncommon images which nobody could claim had risen independently by spontaneous generation. take the origin of music. orpheus and his harrowing death may be a poetic creation born in more than one instance in diverse places. but when characters who do not play the lyre but blow pipes get themselves fla

llied forth from valhalla to do battle with the wolf. a glance back at that myth shows that it contains several permutations of precessional numbers. likewise, as we saw in chapter twenty-four, ancient chinese traditions referring to a universal cataclysm were said to have been written down in a great text consisting of precisely 4320 volumes. thousands of miles away, is it a coincidence that the babylonian historian berossus (third century bc) ascribed a total reign of 432,000 9 death of gods in ancient egypt, p. 205. 10 ibid. 11 ibid. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 254 years to the mythical kings who ruled the land of sumer before the flood? and is it likewise a coincidence that this same berossus ascribed 2,160,000 years to the period between creation and universal catastrophe

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

ipher of the ufonauts discovered a s those who have studied the prehistory of ufology will tell you, ufos and rumors of them have seemingly been around as long as human beings have looked up and wondered at the vast fantasia playing itself out every day and night in the sky. as the old song says, at night the sky puts on a show for free. in the process of looking at the then-unpolluted skies, the babylonian, mayan, chinese and egyptian astronomers and magi developed both a vast and complex mythology of gods and heroes and a means of foretelling the future, or, as they would have it, the will of heaven. in time they would also learn that knowledge of the sky led to the ability to predict the seasons and impressive celestial events, such as lunar and solar eclipses. with this knowledge came

and supernov. however, these celestial occurrences leave unexplained such events as the mythos surrounding the star sirius and the knowledge of its dark star neighbor, or semi-aquatic beings called the oannes (oannes were considered visitors from the sirius region who taught on earth and left behind a divine mythos and a priesthood awaiting their return. they are known to the sumerians and their babylonian successors, and to the egyptians, and held as legends to the present day by remote african tribal priesthoods) nor do comets and supernov explain the ascent of elijah alive into heaven, nor the vision of ezekiel the prophet, which in hebrew is even eerier than in the english translation. a priesthood protecting what it took to be the secrets of the divine visitors, whether an actuality

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

er arrangement of the hall gives each student an unobstructed view of the platform and demonstration table. rosicrucian park in san jose, california the authentic egyptian motif used in buildings, grounds, and statuary catches the eye and imagination of thousands who visit rosicrucian park each month. the rosicrucian egyptian museum houses one of the largest collections of egyptian, assyrian, and babylonian antiquities on display in the united states. many of the museum's acquisitions are extremely rare and draw distinguished visitors from all over the world [18] great american manifesto issued by the charter members of the supreme grand lodge as founders of the order in america the ancient and mystical order rosae crucis in the united states of america, its territories and dependencies, s

ences was obvious, frater schaa also loved ancient history, and had continued his interest in egyptian and tibetan mysticism throughout his membership. to this he added a college degree in museum science, and pursued an active interest in modern egyptology. during this time he began his extensive travels for the order, touring egypt, lebanon and damascus as well as studying the major egyptian and babylonian collections of the united states. frater schaa seemed to have found his niche in life. however, in december of 1976, the imperator asked frater schaa to leave the museum in order to learn bookkeeping skills and become familiar with the financial workings of amorc. in may of 1977 frater schaa was appointed amorc controller, and served in that capacity until his promotion to the office of

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

forms of horus were equated with other planets such as mars, jupiter, and saturn. it is possible that the planet mercury was associated with seth. the constellation we know as the great bear was interpreted by the egyptians as several deities guarding seth s bull form or its severed leg. this is one of the few recognizable parts of the star maps that decorate the ceilings of some royal tombs. the babylonian concept of the stars of the zodiac was introduced into egypt by the greeks. three decan stars were assigned to each zodiacal sign. nut could be shown on coffins or temple ceilings surrounded by the hours of the day and night and the twelve signs of the zodiac. see also boats; eye of ra; feline deities; hippopotamus goddesses; horus; isis; moon; nut; osiris; satet and anuket; seshat 208

HEAVEN HELL

led saiu, i.e, producers of magical effects by making knots in ropes, over which they whisper incantations; and the women are called sait, and work the same kind of magic as the apes. the object which each member of these three groups holds with both hands above his, or her, head is probably a net and, as m. lef bure has pointed out, it is actually so represented in the tomb of rameses vi. in the babylonian legend of the fight between marduk and tiamat, the great she-monster of the deep, the god is made to provide himself with a net with which to entangle her feet. in the book of the dead (chapter cliii. b) we read of the net anqet, and in the vignette we see three apes working it, and securing the fish which are caught inside it. as apep was a monster of the deep, to make use of nets in h

HEKAS

paths with another "return to the circle for there the ghosts of old still tread their path and it is in your own breath that they find voice today" therefore, to begin once more with the 'circle- we may find that there are spells of incantation for circle-craft which date back to the earliest written inscriptions in ancient mesopotamia circa the early dynastic period (2400bc. the magic circle in babylonian sorcery was called zisurru- meaning 'flour which makes a boundary; this was because the circle was traced out by a trickle of flour- a practice still used in the craft and the rites of the voudoun. the magician or witch was therefore 'the en-circling one' and this may be seen by looking at the names attributed to a sect of witches or sorcerers in ancient persia- the yatukan- a sect beli

interested in the connections made in the course of this article might also be interested to read my book, qutub: the point, which deals in part with the symbolism of the yezidis, mandaeans and connections between the sabbatic and sufic symbolism. further information pertinent to these and tangential area may be gained from the sufis by idries shah, also the works of lady drower, and in regard to babylonian sorcery i recommend the works of r.c. thompszi, but in that part of the world, atthe time, the case created a delirium of excitement. in the austrian dominions and in those under the doubtful protectorate of turkey, from bucharest down totrieste, no high family felt secure. in those half oriental countries every montecchi has its capuletti, and itwas rumoured that the bloody deed was pe

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

eurgists and unclean prophets. but the alexandrian believers in thaumaturgy were not regarded as sinners and impostors when orthodox jews were at the head of such schools of "hazim" there were colleges for teaching prophecy and occult sciences. samuel was the chief of such a college at ramah; elisha, at jericho. hillel had a regular academy for prophets and seers; and it is hillel, a pupil of the babylonian college, who was the founder of the sect of the pharisees and the great orthodox rabbis. cycle (gr. kuklos) the ancients divided time into endless cycles, wheels within wheels, all such periods being of various durations, and each marking the beginning or end of some event either cosmic, mundane, physical, or metaphysical. there were cycles of only a few years, and cycles of immense dur

, and explained to the postulants for initiation the various phenomena of creation that were produced for their tuition. he was the sole expounder of the exoteric secrets and doctrines. it was forbidden even to pronounce his name before an uninitiated person. he sat in the east, and wore as symbol of authority, a golden globe, suspended from the neck. he was also called mystagogus. hillel a great babylonian rabbi of the century preceding the christian era. he was the founder of the sect of the pharisees, a learned and a saintly man. hinayana (sans) the "smaller vehicle" a scripture and a school of the buddhists, contrasted with the mahayana "the greater vehicle" both schools are mystical (see mahayana) also in exoteric superstition, the lowest form of transmigration. homogeneity from the g

HP LOVECRAFT HISTORY OF THE NECRONOMICON

at last, conover writes that lovecraft wrote the history in order to allow people with any understanding of arab studies to see through the mock scholarship. note also the inconsistencies here with the description of al-hazred in the simon necronomicon. al-hazred there supposedly witnessed the horrible rituals at masshu, a mythical island at the mouth of the euphrates upon which utnapishtim, the babylonian noah, supposedly still resides today. whereas lovecraft describes the crimson desert as the place where al-hazred witnessed much of what he wrote down. note also that in the simon version, al-hazred warns against worshipping "iak-sakkak" and "kutulu, whereas lovecrafts claims he did just that. note also the improper use of the a.d. prefix until the next paragraph. kkc in a.d. 950 the az

INFERNAL UNION

against using mirrors too much and falling into liliths trap. charms were created to protect against the threat of succubus attacks (lilith is in the qlippothic sphere, lust) and infants from being killed by lilith or her children. her earlier origins are somewhat vague though she appears to have always been related somewhat to being a goddess/spirit of the night/air whether in sumerian/assyrian/babylonian or cainanite mythology. lilith is the queen of demons and the wife of samael, from whom came the succubi. she is the infernal moon and queen of the infernal sabbat. she does have a lighter side as well, that of being a protectress to mothers and children. her nature is that of feminine fertility,seduction ,the cycles of the moon, and perhaps one of the reasons she is considered evil bei

ISIS UNVEILED

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 flame, three manifestations of the sun who is one. bel-saturn, jupiter-bel, and bel or baal-chom are the chaldaean trini- ty" the babylonian bel was regarded in the triune aspect of belitan, zeus-belua [the mediator] and baal-chom who is apollo cbomaeus "this was the triune aspect of the 'highest god' who is, according to berosus, either el [the hebrew, bel, belitan, mithra, or zeroana, and has the name t^p 'the father* the brahmft, vishnu, and siva" corresponding to power, wisdom, and justice, which answer in their turn to

akmix blend into one who ia bythoa, ennma. these be (neulct gender, creatinj anu (double-aexed) through come owe who ia abraaax, and being crested throu^ the virgin mylitta from the virgin saplua (or the. virgin ntit (the pneiima, who bencu ii an ?dother of p(n>ctua] feo emanation of bythoa and undity) the uyitery-god and eman- ate! throu^ tbem, cfariatos to put the matter still more clearly, the babylonian system recog- nises first the one ad, or ad-ad) who ia never named but only ac- knowledged ia thought as the hindq iscaj/ammll. from this he becomes manifest as anu or ana the one above all monae. next comes the demiurge called bd or el, who is the active power of the godhead. the third is the principle of wisdom, hea or boa, who also rules the sea and the imderworld. each of these has

m logajuii, the 'firit-bonu' 516. d* diertibim, p it ii 'cain* 17; also de viui^o, i 3- 517. ci maven: die pmnit.,1, p. 86, tq. ansel, angel of death, iialwlaad. ab-r m ?dcani fatlicr of devation. hi^puced father; for saturn ii the hi^ieat or outennoit tiiible planet. 518. see gmtnt, xiii. 2. 519. saturn ii geaertlly rqtr eao itad as a to? old man. wilh a (idle is hi* hand. digitizecoy google the babylonian legend of xisuthkus 217 the bdcient babylontaa legend ia tliat'xisuthrus (hosuadm of the tablets^ or xisuthrus) sailed witli his ark to armenia, and his son sim became supreme king. moses of chorene says that sim was called zeruan; and sim is shem" in hebrew, his name writes utd, shem a sign. as^ria is held b; the ethnologists to be the land of shem, and egypt called that of ham. shem

doctrine. the berosian sibyl says: before the tower, zeni-an, titan, and ya- petoathes governed the earth. zeru-an wished to be supreme, but his two brothers resisted, when their sister, astlik, intervened and appeased them. it was agreed tiiat zeru-an should rule, but bis male children should be put to death; and strong titans were appointed to carry this into effect" sar (circle, aaroa) is the babylonian god of the sky. he is also assaros or asshur (the son of shem, and zero zero-ana, the chakra or wheel, boundless time. hence as the first step taken by zoroaster, 519a. or alrakhuui also called vtnapuhtim. in the ubieta. 520. beroriu in eiuebius: caronvoon, i, iii, 2; abydeniu &id, i, vii. 521. cf. kieuker: anh.m.zend-averla,l,i,p.ls. 522. biuuen: eggjict plant. he, v, p. 8s. 523. eiueb

, and the eagle" furthermore, we may well express our wonder that irenaeus should not have re-enforced his argument for the four gospels by citing the whole pantheon of the four-armed hindfi gods! ezekiel in representing his four animals, now called cherubim, as ^jrpes of the four symbolical beings which in his visions support the throne of jehovah, had not tar to go for his models. the chaldaeo- babylonian protecting genii were familiar to him; the sed, alaph or kiritb (cherubim, the bull, with the human face; the nergal, human- headed lion; ustur, the sphinz-man; and the nattig, with its eagle's head" the religion of the masters the idolatrous babylonians and assyrians was transferred almost bodily into the revealed scripture of the captives, and from thence came into christianity. alrea

sed upon the 'secret doctrine* is found held by the people of eritene [in bactria; it was the religion of the persians when they con- quered the assyrians. from thence it is easy to trace the introduction of this emblem of lite represented by the bull, in every religious system. the college of the magians had accepted it with the change of dynasty? daniel is described as a rabbi, the chief of the babylonian astrologers and magi" therefore we see the assyrian uttle bulls and the attributes of siva reappearing under a hardly modified form in the cherubs of the talmudistie jews, as we have traced the bull apis in the sphinxes or cherubs of the mosaic ark; and as we find it several thousand years later in the company of one of the christian evangelists, luke. whoever has lived in india long en

rt from judah [the lion's whelp, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until shiloh (siloh) come. binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine, he washed his garments in wijie, and his clothes in the blood of grapes" shiloh is 'king messiah' as well as the shiloh in ephraim, which was to be made the capital and the place of the sanc- tuary. in the targum of onkelos, the babylonian, the words of jacob read" until the ainjjfwnoa shall come" the prophecy has failed in the christian as well as in the kabalistico-jewish sense. the scepter has departed from judah, whether the messiah has already or will come, unless we believe, with the kabalists, that moses was the first messiah, who transferred his soul to joshua jesus* says hermas "and in the middle of the plain he

comprehen- sible. the whole secret lies in the easily- ascertained fact that, while in the kabala the king messiah b called 'interpreter' or revealer of the mystery, and shown to be the fifth emanation, in the tiumttd for reasons we will now explain the messiah is very often designated as *dao' or the fish. this is an inheritance from the chaldaeans, and relates as the very name indicates to the babylonian dagon, the man-fish, who was the instructor and interpreter of the people to whom he appeared. abarbanel explains the name, by stating that the sign of his (messiah's) coming "is the con- junction of saturn and jupiter in the sign puces* therefore, as the christians were intent upon identifying their christos with the messiah of the old testament, they adopted it so readily as to forget

reter of the people to whom he appeared. abarbanel explains the name, by stating that the sign of his (messiah's) coming "is the con- junction of saturn and jupiter in the sign puces* therefore, as the christians were intent upon identifying their christos with the messiah of the old testament, they adopted it so readily as to forget that its true origin mi^t be traced still farther back than the babylonian dagon. how eagerly and closely the ideal of jesus was united, by the early christians, with every imaginable kabahstic and pagan tenet, may be inferred from the language of clement of alexandria, addressed to his brother co-religionists. when they were debating upon the choice of the most appropriate symbol to remind them of jesus, clement advised them in the following words "let the en

ssed the night "it is be" says the sacred book "who taught men, aft the diluvi- um, all that was necessary for their hippinesa "one day he plunged into the water and returned no more, for the earth had covered itself again with vegetation, fruit, and cattle "but he had taught the brahmanas the secret of all things (bari- put&na. so far, we see in this narrative the double of the story ^ven by the babylonian berosus about oannes, the fish-man, who is no other than ^sluiu unless, indeed, we have to believe that it was chaldaea which civilized india! we say again, we desire to give nothing on our sole authority. there- fore we cite jacolliot who, however criticized and contradicted on other points, and however loose he may be in the matter of chronology (though even in this he is nearer right

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

r of avalon, noted for her healing powers and prophetic vision, controller of destinies. etain. celtic moon goddess, wife of midir king of the underground, symbol of fertility. teaches us to be shining wherever we are. arianrhod. welsh triple moon goddess, keeper of the heavens and cycles and changes of time. nurtures us thru dark night of soul changes. and some of the egyptian goddesses. ishtar. babylonian creator goddess, the source of all life. queen of heaven, giver of light, represents being active and strong. isis. moon goddess, mother and giver of all life. goddess of agriculture, medicine and wisdom, isis represents total femininity. hathor. the mother of all gods and goddesses. goddess of love, mirth, beauty and sensual pleasure. sustainer, destroyer, creator. divine nutrition: th

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

tion resembling the crux-ansata an incessant symbol, always reappearing in egyptian sculptures and hieroglyphics. there is also a likeness to the mysterious letter tau. the whole first chapter of genesis is said to be contained in this latter emblem this magnificent, all-including tau. three bent spikes, or nails, are unmistakably the same symbol that belus often holds in his extended hand on the babylonian cylinders, afterwards discovered by the jewish cabalists in the points of the letter shin, and by the mediaeval mystics in the three nails of the cross. the gnostics and their remains, ancient and medi val, p. 208. this figure, which is clearly a nail, has also characteristics, which will be remarked in its upper portion, which suggest a likeness to the obelisk, pin, spike, upright, or

m thence come nave and navel, in which the germ of animated nature was saved. thebes, or theba, means the ark. carnac, or karnak, in egypt, is reckoned to be older than the days of moses at least dating from 1600 a.c. 170 the rosicrucians. heraldic genealogy of the fleur-de-lis, or flower-de-luce. apotheosis of the symbol fig. 40. 4. bee. 6. bee. 7. imperial bee. 8. fleuron. 9. charlemagne. 10. a babylonian gem. 11 and 12. early french (also babylonian. 13. middle french. 14. later french. 16. valois. 17. henry of navarre. 18. in england, thus. 19. bourbon. 20. egyptian sculptures: fleur-de-lis; asp. architerctural finials. 171 fig. 41. 21. finial: meaning the fleur-de-lis. 22. finial* the opinion of m. dupuis was (see his learned memoir concerning the origin of the constellations, that li

nine, 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 forms are also fig. 53. pyramid. fig. 54. egyptian seated figure (british museum. said to have been the

he coupled s.s. means the sanctus spiritus, or holy spirit, or the third person. the fleurs-de- lis, or lisses, or the lilies of the field, invariably appear in close connection with st. john, or the sanctus fig. 168. collar of esses. spiritus, and also with the blessed virgin mary, in all christian symbola or insignia. the prince of wales triple plume appears to have the same mythic egyptian and babylonian origin, and to be substantially the same symbol as the fleur-de-lis. when arranged in threes, the fleurs-de- lis represent the triple powers of nature, the producer, the means of production, and that produced. the fleur-de-lis is presented in a deep disguise in the t 238 the rosicrucians. three feathers which is the crest of the prince of wales; in this form the fleur-de-lis is intended

ar form called the vesica piscis, which is the oblong shuttleshaped frame continually set over doors and windows and elsewhere in gothic churches, to contain effigies of the saviour, or virgin mary, or groups from the new testament in connection with these two sacred persons. a doorway in barfreston church, kent, supplies an excellent example of the employment of this oblong figure; which is also babylonian, and means the female member as its starting-point in a previous part of our book we give various figures of the prows or cutwater-heads of gondolas, in which we clearly show the origin of their peculiar form, which represents the seeuris, or sacrificial axe, that crook originally expressed in the hook of saturn. the bu-centaur indicates the fabulous being, the bicorporate ox or horse a

for the changing of this first figure of a dragon into a woman, or a siren, or virgin, on the irish harp; and this fact assists the supposition of an identity, at some time, of these two figures, all drawn from the double sign virgo-scorpio in the zodiac. there is a strange confirmation of the account of creation in the book of genesis, in the discovery of the woman and snake in the most ancient babylonian or chald an zodiac. the indian zodiacs and the egyptian zodiacs repeat the same myth, slightly varied in certain particulars. the different versions of the story of the temptation and fall, in the main respects, are the same legend, only altered to suit ideas in every varying country. traversing all the long-descended paths of the mythologies, this singular, but in reality sublime, myth

KARR DON NOTES ON THE STUDY OF EARLY KABBALAH JEWISH MYSTICISM IN ENGLISH

. there are substantial discussions of this text in ok (pp. 35-48, 49-198) and dan fs jmii (xiv-lvii, 1-18. see below in gother references h; translated excerpts are given in ek (pp. 57-69. using scholem fs observations as a starting point, ronit meroz has presented her conclusions regarding the three distinct strata of sefer ha-bahir in several lectures (including ga bright light in the east.the babylonian stratum in sefer ha-bahir, h session: hermeneutical reflections on early kabbalah at the association for jewish studies thirty-fourth annual conference, los angeles: december 17, 2002) and her hebrew article, ga bright light in the east: on the time and place of part of sefer ha-bahir h in da fat: a journal of jewish philosophy and kabbalah 49 (2002. about half was written in provence i

ons on early kabbalah at the association for jewish studies thirty-fourth annual conference, los angeles: december 17, 2002) and her hebrew article, ga bright light in the east: on the time and place of part of sefer ha-bahir h in da fat: a journal of jewish philosophy and kabbalah 49 (2002. about half was written in provence in the 12th or 13th century. most of the rest was written in the jewish babylonian congregation which lived in the 9th and 10th centuries; this strata has several layers within it and includes raza rabba. a few paragraphs were written earlier in the land of israel, some time before the babylonian strata there are three english translations. campanini, saverio (ed. the book of bahir: flavius mithridates f latin translation, the hebrew text, and an english version [the

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

y lies in the land between tigris and eufrat. mesopotamia (greek ethe land between two rivers f. it is hard to grasp how much our current culture has inherited from the people of that land. be it either the wheel, the art of writing, or the units for measuring time and angles. science and knowledge of stars has always. though with varying success. been important in european culture. much from the babylonian beliefs about constellations and planets have reached our days. planets had an important place in babylonian astral religion, they were observed as much for calendrical as astrological purposes, and the qualities of the planetary gods were carried on to greek and rome. the following started out as an attempt to compose a list of planets together with corresponding gods who lend their na

lic indicates foreign rule. brackets include some renowned rulers and their time of ruling. of course, it would be possible to further specify much, e.g. the neo-sumerian period can be subdivided into three, but for our purposes this table is sufficient. sumerian period 3500.2300 bc akkadian period (sargon i, 2275.2219) 2275.2094 neo-sumerian period (sumerian renaissance, 2094.1939) 2094.1750 old babylonian (hammurabi 1728.1686/ old assyrian period 1850.1531 middle babylonian/ middle assyrian period 1531.1000 neo-babylonian/ neo-assyrian period (assurbanipal 668.631) 1000.626 late babylonian period (nebuchadnezzar ii 604.562) 626.539 persian period (achaemenides) 539.331 macedonian period (alexander the great 331.323) 331.150 parthian period 150 bc. 226 ad less if we did not have astronomi

details to historians, we will focus on the most important events in mesopotamian history (table 1. before the akkadian rule, dates can vary within a big interval; the beginning of akkadian dynasty is fixed fairly certainly. the possible error of the assyrian dating from the beginning of 15th c bc onwards is 10 years, from 1180 bc onwards 1.2 years, and the dates are quite certain from 900 bc on; babylonian dates are completely fixed from 747 bc onwards (soden 1991. 9 writing was invented by sumerians ca 3200 bc. cuneiform1 tablets of sumerian period give us very interesting material but unfortunately no astronomical or astrological texts. though some texts have been thought to originate from former periods, they have been only found in later copies, making dating extremely difficult. the

sumerians ca 3200 bc. cuneiform1 tablets of sumerian period give us very interesting material but unfortunately no astronomical or astrological texts. though some texts have been thought to originate from former periods, they have been only found in later copies, making dating extremely difficult. the oldest existing texts about stars, one astrological and one astronomical, both come from the old babylonian period. analysis of religious texts has led some scientists to suppose semitic or even west-semitic origin for the concept connecting stars and earthly phenomena, because akkadians (the term is hereby used to denote linguistically close semitic peoples. babylonians, assyrians and their predecessors) take a much more personal approach to gods than sumerians. on the other hand, the akkadi

considered indirect proof. scales are a symbol of justice. also in greece, virgo. which lies besides scales. was connected to dike, goddess of justice.2 in any case, to talk about planet names, we have to start from the babylonians, not sumerians, though we have to consider the influence of sumerian language and writing. the term akkadian is used as a common name for the related semitic languages babylonian and assyrian which can also be considered dialects of the akkadian language. as most contemporary scientists consider the cuneiform script to have originally been used for sumerian language, and the sumerian language has no typological relatives whatsoever (despite several claims by pseudo-sci10 entists, it must have been very hard to adjust it for use by akkadians. the difficulties can

: kak-ka-bu, ka-ak-ka-bu, ka-ka-bu, and muul; this list is by no means exhaustive as syllables can be written in phonetically similar, but literally different ways (hunger 1992: 27, 29, 44, 57. figure 2. some ways of writing estar f. kakkabu. in akkadian. during the course of mesopotamia fs long history there were changes in both language and writing; naturally there were also differences between babylonian and assyrian dialects. in the current article we use mostly later writings in problematic cases as the consensus is that mesopotamia was on the highest level of astrological and astronomical development in the late babylonian period (kugler 1909/10: 27; barton 1994: 20.22. 12 figure 3. neo-assyrian prediction about lunar eclipses. hunger 1992, text no. 535, plate xiv (tablet 80.7.19, 10

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

god of babylon, marduk became the main god and was also to be son of enki and grandson of an. as an was more like a deus otiosus, marduk as an acting god started to be identified with the acting main god enlil, whose son, god of war ninurta was identified with marduk fs son, multifunctional nabu. the rise of the assyrian empire put the city god assur on the throne of the main god, but in the late babylonian 13 period marduk rised again. in local tradition, of course, both had the power all the time, but while marduk has been mentioned also in more distant regions, assur stayed a city and state god, never reaching the status of a planetary god. however, according to another interpretation the concept of assur developed to monoteism (parpola 1997: xxi. things are no clearer with the function

d30, the symbolic number of the moon (leick 1998: 125. sometimes this number could be written without a determinative, just 30 (neugebauer 1955. this number marks wisdom in the assyrian tree of life (number 3 in cabala, which indeed is connected to the moongod dsin (g352. in horoscopes, moon is often marked by the number 30 if literary pseudonyms are not used. both dnanna (g295, often seen in old babylonian texts, and d.e..ki were read by akkadians simply sin (borger 1981: 138. in old babylonian astrological predictions and the oldest astronomical text mul.apin, moon can be denoted simply by dingir. akkadian ilu (g194. egod f. moon as the celestial body is in akkadian (w)arhu (g169, in more poetic cases either mulgal (g62) or more often as mulbir (g56, which gossmann suggests to read as mu

common ways to write esun f in cuneiform: d20, dutu, d.a-ma. and dgi..nu. all these are still usually read .ama. 20 jupiter the name mul d marduk (g260. star of god marduk. confirms that jupiter was the star of marduk, who was, first of all, a god caring for the state and royalty, thus making jupiter the star connected to the king. though jupiter fs name mul damar.utu shows it as the star of the babylonian main god, it is clear that this relation appeared only after marduk fs theological rise during the rise of the babylonian state with the more this same name was used also for mercury (brown 2000: 57. it can be supposed that mullugal eking f also developed from the epithet of marduk, what in assyria was taken over by assur. in any case, this relation is so strong that brown characterises

er marduk fs theological rise during the rise of the babylonian state with the more this same name was used also for mercury (brown 2000: 57. it can be supposed that mullugal eking f also developed from the epithet of marduk, what in assyria was taken over by assur. in any case, this relation is so strong that brown characterises it as gtraditional/fundamental h (brown 2000: 63. as marduk was the babylonian main god, there started the tradition by which jupiter later became the main god both in greece and rome. but their clear relations cannot be compared to the tangle in mesopotamian planet names: e.g. on some occasions mercury was also called the star of marduk (e.g. on the new year, and sometimes even mars was called so. eking star f mullugal (g240 (akkadian kakkab .arr) means besides j

he cult of hercules in the hellenistic period. nergal, whose portfolio also included some fertility functions, also occurred widely in mythology and absorbed in time many smaller gods. it is interesting that mars is not referred to by nergal fs most widespread designations dgir3.unu.gal and du.gar, although in some later texts we can find dnergal. his name does not seem to be originally sumerian: babylonian theologians constructed a derivation from ne3.eri.gal elord of the underworld f (leick 1991: 127. one of the most popular names of mars is albat nu mul a-al-ba-tanu (g360, but up to the present day its meaning has remained unknown. scholars have explained it as ehe, who keeps the plague lasting f by breaking the name into syllables and interpreting these syllables in sumerian, thus gett

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achieving balance with nature. 162 from chaos to harmony the provider of this new method was moses, the great kabbalist of that time. moses led the people out of egypt, out of the domination of the new ego, and taught them to be as one man in one heart, as parts of a single body. because of its size, this group was now called a people or a nation. however, genetically, it was part of the ancient babylonian people to which abraham belonged, as even science confirms today.21 moses method of balancing with nature was a continuation of abraham s method. it was named the torah. this does not refer to the torah (pentateuch) as a historic document, as we know it today, but as a method for correcting the ego. the term, moses, symbolizes the force that pulls (moshech, in hebrew) one out of the ego

s considered the successor of rabbi isaac luria (the holy ari. his method is unique in that it allows any person to internalize the origins of the authentic kabbalistic knowledge, which the formers kabbalists have left behind. 9 baal hasulam, preface to the wisdom of kabbalah, item 1. this quote is also available in m. laitman, the science of kabbalah, 2005, laitman kabbalah publishers, p. 87. 10 babylonian talmud, baba kama, 45, 72. 11 published june 2006 in science magazine. the research was headed by 2002 nobel prize laureate in economics, daniel kahneman. 12 baal hasulam, talmud eser sefirot (the study of the ten sefirot, part one. 13 for more on this, see nedelcu s and michod s essay, the evolutionary origin of an altruistic gene, published may 2006 in the journal of molecular biology

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desires, during which we experience feelings of- 139- suffering. but once we move over this bridge that leads to the dwelling of the creator, we enter the world of spirituality, the kingdom of light. at this point, we reach the final goal of creation the ultimate perception of the creator. the generation of the flood is called "a period of work of the heart" whereas the generation of building the babylonian tower is regarded as "the period of working with one s intellect" each of us strives to satisfy every desire from the first moment of life up to the very last moment. the difference between us is in the object from which we want to receive pleasure, whereas the pleasure itself is always spiritual. only the outer shell creates the illusion of a material nature of pleasure. for this reaso

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lowing measures from the diagram: 500, 480, 400, 320, 180, 144, and 108; and all these without the slightest fraction. supposing, then, the 500 to be cubits, we have the measure of the base of the great pyramid of memphis. in the 400 cubits of the base of the triangle we have the exact length of the egyptian stadium. the 320 gives us the exact number of egyptian cubits contained in the hebrew and babylonian stadium. the stadium of ptolemy is represented by the 480 cubits, or length of the line falling from the right angle to the circumference of the circle, through the hypotenuse. the number 180, which expresses the smaller segment of the hypotenuse, being doubled, will give 360 cubits, which will be the stadium of cleomedes. by doubling the 144, the result will be 288 cubits, or the lengt

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

row, 1981. adramelechk adramelechk, or king of fire, is mentioned in traditional demonography as eighth of the ten archdemons, as well as a great minister and chancellor of the order of the fly, an infernal order founded by beelzebub. in rabbinic literature, it is said that when he is conjured he manifests himself in the form of a mule or a peacock. adramelechk, who has also been equated with the babylonian anu and with the ammonite moloch, is mentioned in various sources, such as in the history ofmagic, where seligmann pictures him in the shape of a horse; in 2 kings, where he is regarded as a god of the sepharvite colony in samaria to whom children were sacrificed; and in milton s paradise lost, where he is referred to as both an idol of the assyrians, and a fallen angel overthrown by ur

mythologies the dragon is seen as a beneficent animal and is often a symbol or a portent of prosperity, in most european mythologies it is viewed as a demonic beast hostile to humanity. in christian symbolism, for instance, the dragon represents the chief of the fallen angels, the devil. one of the inspirations for the christian devil via hebrew scriptures (the old testament) is derived from the babylonian female dragon monster, tiamat. in early christian thought, the dragon represents the devil or the devil s servant, and has the allegorical role of representing the antichrist, or more generally, evil passions, paganism, or the oppressive powers of this world. in chapter 12 of book of revelation, it is described as large and red, with seven heads and ten horns. with reference to the stor

niel 7, which reports a dream, alleged to have occurred in the first year of belshazzar, king of babylon, in which daniel sees the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea. out of the sea emerge, one after the other, a series of beasts, four in number, all of fabulous form. the fourth beast, in particular, is especially terrible and has ten horns. the four beasts represent in succession the babylonian, median, persian, and hellenistic empires. in classical legend, the dragon guarded the golden apples in the garden of hesperides.among the most famous encounters between a christian warrior and a dragon is that of st. george, who slays the dragon or tames the animal and frees the maiden. it has been argued that the story of st. george and the dragon owe much to the greek myth of perseus

ty-first chapter of job, though it is unclear how much of the content of yahweh s challenge to job refers to an earlier tale and how much is being composed on the spot. in any event, the hebrew tale appears to derive from a ugarit story in which baal defeats a seven-headed sea monster with the aid of mot. furthermore, this story seems to be a variation of the well-known (to students of mythology) babylonian myth of marduk s defeat of the sea monster tiamat. tiamat, the babylonian female dragon monster, is one of the inspirations for the christian devil via hebrew scriptures. in early christian thought, the dragon represents the devil or the devil s servant, and has the allegorical role of representing the antichrist, or more generally, evil passions, paganism, or the oppressive powers of t

niel 7, which reports a dream, alleged to have occurred in the first year of belshazzar, king of babylon, in which daniel sees the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea. out of the sea emerge, one after the other, a series of beasts, four in number, all of fabulous form. the fourth beast, in particular, is especially terrible and has ten horns. the four beasts represent in succession the babylonian, median, persian, and hellenistic empires. the endtime significance of this creature is that yahweh will release leviathan to wreak havoc upon the earth shortly before the end of the world. then god will finally destroy the beast. there is a foreshadowing of this scenario in jonah, where the prophet is swallowed by and eventually regurgitated from a whale. jonah then travels to ninevah

t for destroying children. lilith is the archetypal seductress, and the personification of the dangerous feminine glamour of the moon. lilith was said to search for newborn children to kidnap or strangle, and to seduce sleeping men in order to produce demon sons. she is a patroness of witches, and is usually depicted as a beautiful vampire,with great claws as feet. lilith can be found in iranian, babylonian, mexican, greek, arab, english, german, oriental, and north american indian legends, and is often associated with other characters, such as the queen of sheba and helen of troy. according to muslim legend, lilith slept with satan. in the talmud, she was the first wife of adam who refused to accept her subservient role. adam then ejected her, and god created eve as a more obedient helpma

sacrifice, and so forth. despite some attempts to place other kinds of interpretations on the bible s moloch passages, it is almost certain that the ancient israelites engaged in such practices, particularly at a ritual site immediately south of jerusalem known as tophet. scholars have speculated that giving moloch (or even yahweh) children as burnt offerings did not finally stop until after the babylonian conquest. the practice was condemned in no uncertain terms as early as the book of leviticus; for example: say to the people of israel, any man of the people of israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in israel, who gives any of his children to molech shall be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones. i myself will set my face against that monastery of the seven

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thevetat, the atlantis-race became a nation of wicked magicians. in consequence of this, war was declared, the story of which would be too long to narrate; its substance may be found in the disfigured allegories of the race of cain, the giants, and that of noah and his righteous family. the conflict came to an end by the submersion of the atlantis; which finds its imitation in the stories of the babylonian and mosaic flood: the giants and magicians* and all flesh died* and every man' all except xisuthrus and noah, who are substantially identical with the great father of the thlinkithians in the popol vuh, or the sacred book of the guatemaleans, which also tells of his escaping in a large boat, like the hindu noah--vaiswasvata (see isis unveiled) from the atlanteans the world has received

st deities venerated by the babylonians, who for lack of deeper knowledge looked upon him as a god of agriculture or a vegetation spirit. originally he was described as being one of the guardians of the gates of the underworld. like many other savior-gods, he is referred to as a "shepherd" or "the lord of the shepherd seat" tammuz occupies the remarkable position of son and husband of ishtar, the babylonian and assyrian mother-goddess. ishtar--to whom the planer venus was sacred--was the most widely venerated deity of the babylonian and assyrian pantheon. she was probably identical with ashterorh, astarte, and aphrodite. the story of her descent into the underworld in search presumably for the sacred elixir which alone could restore tammuz to life is the key to the ritual of her mysteries

s of pythagoras indicate that he was thoroughly conversant with the precepts of oriental and occidental esotericism. he traveled among the jews and was instructed by the rabbins concerning the secret traditions of moses, the lawgiver of israel. later the school of the essenes was conducted chiefly for the purpose of interpreting the pythagorean symbols. pythagoras was initiated into the egyptian, babylonian, and chaldean mysteries. although it is believed by some that he was a disciple of zoroaster, it is doubtful whether his instructor of that name was the god-man now revered by the parsees. while accounts of his travels differ, historians agree that he visited many countries and studied at the feet of many masters "after having acquired all which it was possible for him to learn of the g

a fellow craft, pass from the square to the compass; for the meanings of these phrases as symbols have long been lost" according to the ancient rabbins, solomon was an initiate of the mystery schools and the temple which he built was actually a house of initiation containing amass of pagan philosophic and phallic emblems. the pomegranates, the palm-headed columns, the pillars before the door, the babylonian cherubim, and the arrangement of the chambers and draperies all indicate the temple to have been patterned after the sanctuaries of egypt and atlantis. isaac myer, in the qabbalah, makes the following observation "the pseudo-clement of rome, writes 'god made man male and female. the male is christ: the female, the church' the qabbalists called the holy spirit, the mother, and the church

d three wounds to slay prince coh, the mexican indian osiris, is significant. c. w. king, in his gnostics and their remains, thus describes a gnostic gem "the gnostic pleroma, or combination of all the ons [is] expressed by the outline of a man holding a scroll. the left hand is formed like three bent spikes or nails; unmistakably the same symbol that belus often holds in his extended hand on the babylonian cylinders, afterwards discovered by the jewish cabalists in the points of the letter shin, and by the medi val mystics in o the three nails of the cross" from this point hargrave jennings continues king's speculations, noting the resemblance of the nail to an obelisk, or pillar, and that the qabbalistic value of the hebrew letter shin, or sin, is 300, namely, 100 for each spike. the pas

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ross the sky, became enamoured of her brother the sun and seduced him in the shape of his pet cat. the offspring from this union was a daughter, aradia or herodias, the archetypal "avatar" or patroness of all witches. in this legend of diana with its gnostic overtones, there are reflections of the cabalistic tradition of naamah, the seductress of the fallen angel azael. naamah, is synonymous with babylonian lilith, and azael is none other than babylonian shamash, the sun-god in his underworld aspect as lord of riches and artificer of metals. in fact he is the alter ego of tubal cain himself, naamah's own brother. azael or azazel, is in fact one of the modern witch's gods. which brings me to the crux of the matter. according to ancient magical legend, azael was originally one of those being

wisdom of the watchers, or gods, which constitutes the lore of the witch. the wisdom was said to have been borne away from the lost lands prior to the cataclysm by certain survivors, who knew the minds of the watchers, and fled the oncoming doom. the knowledge is said to have been preserved until such a time as bit by bit in devious manners it could be secretly reintroduced to humanity once more. babylonian legends of uta-napishtim and the biblical noah or his greek parallel, deucalion, all contain echoes of this belief. witch lore, moreover, tells of settlers from the lost lands coming in their wanderings to the land which is now britain and northern europe, or middle earth as it was called in old english, and mingling with the neolithic cultures then in existence. it was the people produ

seudomonarchia demonorum- 1. the wand 2. seeing stone within the triangle 3. and 4. lamps of art. vassago, a mighty prince, of the nature of agares, who declareth things past, present and to come and discovereth that which hath been lost or hidden. he is good by nature, and governeth twenty-six legions of spirits. but knowledge of his existence dates back long before this, even to before earliest babylonian times. he was one of the nephelim, and in eastern fable, he is accounted one of the seventy-two lords of the djinn. your experiment should be performed during clear weather, when the moon is two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, or fourteen days old, and thereby, of course, always on the increase. so great is the power of vassago, however (he is a "prince" in the hierarchy, that he is not

et again will do. you should wipe your pen of art carefully free of all ink before you embark upon this. this last design is known as the secret seal of solomon and traditionally was the symbol by means of which the seventy-two lords of the demons or djinn were imprisoned in a brazen vessel by the magus-king and sunk beneath the ocean. they were later released, providentially it seems, by certain babylonian wizards. the legend probably stems from that of the drowned nephelim. when you have drawn the symbol and let it dry, retrace over it with your athame, charging it strongly with light and conjuring with these words: bound, bound, bound be all demons and powers of adversity from the north, south, east, and west! bound, bound, bound be all ill-wishers and those that practise violence again

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her, that thou shall make an ivory casket, and therein place, keep, and hide this my key; and when i shall have passed away unto my fathers, i entreat thee to place the same in my sepulchre beside me, lest at another time it might fall into the hands of the wicked. and as solomon commanded, so was it done. and when, therefore (men) had waited for a long time, there came unto the sepulchre certain babylonian philosophers and when they had assembled they at once book one page 5 took counsel together that a certain number of men should renew the sepulchre in his (solomon s) honour; and when the sepulchre was dug out and repaired the ivory casket was discovered, and therein was the key of secrets, which they took with joyful mind. and when they had opened it none among them could understand it

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n impulse to assist in rebuilding the destroyed national temple, their work among its ruins and the discovery of an ancient and apparently important archive the perspicacious mind will not fail to perceive in this historical or quasi-historical narrative an allegory of the spiritual process which has been going on within the candidate himself. it is he, as 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

real that process was and the extremely high degree of regeneration aimed at. in hebrew the title osiris became changed into azarias (and sometimes zeruiah) and shall further corrupted into esdras and ezra, the name of the senior scribe 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 sout

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shing ground. just as with any pagan goddess or god, lilith is not entirely of dark nature, being known as a protectress of mothers and children. the sacred bird of lilith was the owl, one may 60 60 seek to invoke, or identify with the goddess lilith through the dream assumption of the owl form. such experiments should prove insightful. liliths name was suspected to have derived from the sumerian babylonian belitilli. one rather interesting connection is that one of the 17 names of lilith is actually kali. kali kali is the black destroyer as well as nurturing mother. often represented as a black demonic goddess, kali stands atop her husband, shiva, holding in her hands blades dripping with blood, and upon her neck a necklace of human skulls. kali is black because all that transpires return

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ndeniablesimilarities, mainly because contingents of the samepeople were spreading the knowledge to these differentlocalessame people, similar paradigms and symbol-ism. commensurate with this comes the ambiguoussymbols of the snake, the serpent, and the dragon. prehistoric artatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation57 i shall reverse the world lished what are known as the sumerian and babylonian civilizations, as well as all thehigh profile empires to come. and it is upon the foundations of these dynasties andcultures that the post-diluvian or historical periods rest. the horrendous events that areassociated with these belligerent nations aptly testify to who was behind them. andsince it was these brotherhoods that began recording history, they commissioned theaccounts to be co

tic tests on certain animals. it was found that the dna of the reptiles was the mostsuitable for their purposes. the alien masters then crossed their own dna with that ofcertain reptiles, and it is from this that the reptilian (dragon) beings of the story-books were born. and on earth shall be monsters, a generation of dragons of men and likewise of serpents.(clement: apocalyptic fragment) in the babylonian legend of creation, we read: men with bodies of birds of the deserts, human beings with the faces of ravens, these thegods created and in the earth the gods created for them a dwellingin the midst of the earththey grew up and became great, and increased in number .atlantis researcher andrew collins provides the story of amram, father of the law-giver moses, who had a personal encounter

gends speak of certain chosen mortals that would be transformed into gods once they had enteredinto a special flame or light. there is a clear legend relating this in the aztec mythology (see p. 215)the four ages of the quichesclearly mentions the coming of a time when advanced gods walked the planet, populated the earth andwere with great intelligence but without conscience.the babyloniansin the babylonian genesis tablets we have the same references to the man or people who, after the greatdisaster, divided the heavens into constellations, and regulated, that is, discovered and revealed, theirmovements (p. 223)tezcatlipocarepresented as a winged serpent.egyptwhen we turn to egypt, we find that their whole religion was constructed upon legends relating to theages of fire and ice, and the v

of the raceblood factor rh negative. the sahara desertbeneath the desert scans have seen rivers and tributaries. the water from all these beds clearly sustainedcivilizations. spina of the etruscansspina was buried under water and mud in northern italy. it was a prehistoric city. appendix b: book abstracts202atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation new calendarsthe hindu, egyptian, and babylonian calendars start or commence a new cycle from the point of11,500 to 11,000 b. c, fairly close to the figure given by plato for the end of atlantis, or 9,500 beforehis time (p. 160)dinosaurs and manin peru, artifacts (round stones) have been found that show depictions of men fighting with dinosaurs,saber-tooth tigers, and all the other so-called extinct mammals. there are also images of p

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

to form a base for foreign religious cultsfirst judaism and then christianity.appendix b: book abstracts214atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the corrupted dogma of the religions then became established as history and because the contriveddogma (the new approved history) was so different from the original, the early first-hand records werelabeled mythology (p. 60)mardukthe great babylonian god was the son of goddess damkina, by way of the sumerian annunaki king,enki (see p. 63)enki and enlilsumerian annunaki, the sons of anu, the supreme father, who was the son of anshar and kishar. theywere the brother and sister of mummu, who was the son of the primal pair tiamat and apsu (see p. 62)enki and nin-khursag (wife and half-sister)it is they who hold the key to the story of a

ought about the devastating flood, and it was he who had leveled the citiesof sodom and gomorrahnot because of their wickedness, as related in genesisbut because of thewisdom and insight of their inhabitants, as depicted in the coptic paraphrase of shem. it was jehovahwho removed the israelites from their homeland, sending them into seventy years of captivity by kingnebuchadnezzar ii and his five babylonian successors down to king balshazzer (545 539 b.c (p.118)babylons declineas the centuries progressed, babylon fell to various other invadersthe written legacy of theannunaki was, henceforth, confined to an underworld darkness, and all the tablets of sumerian andakkadian record that had been available to the hostage jews of the sixth century b.c, were destined tobe forgotten beneath the wa

n was so startling that hispaper was not published until thirty years later (p. 272-3)the biblical delugecould also have been caused or at least precipitated due to the impact of a watery comet (p. 30)such a comet would have had its icy content melted or vaporized, which would have saturated the airwhich could not hold water. the release would have created the rains spoken of in the bible.ancient babylonian descriptions of the events leading up to the flood, which are found in various cune-iform translations, seem to describe the earthly arrival of this serpentine comet (p. 260)reduction of lifespanwhile the average life before the deluge extended for a period 912 years, after this great catastrophe itwas reduced one-half, and we must admit the entrance of some great calamity must have pro

over the past thirty years rediscovered six cities hidden withinatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation269 appendix c: suggested areas of research the cloud forest, whose culture is distinct from the incas. the largest of these is the fortress of kuelap,built with 2.5 times as much stone as the great pyramid of giza.one design commonly found in the ruins is remarkably similar to the babylonian motif for aship. gene savoy is certain that ships were navigated along the amazon and were capable ofreaching europe and asia. this indicates contact was likely between south america andcultures such as the egyptians and mesopotamians. so far, historians deny the possibility ofthe existence of a white, blue-eyed race in south america. but, in 1997 a cliff-top tomb wasdiscovered in the c

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

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ght. azazel was later related to the watchers, the hebrew goat demon god and shaitan. azazel is a name of lucifer, who is the solar aspect of the dragon, the bringer of light. azhi [avestan/pahlavi] serpent, snake azhi dahaka [avestan/pahlavi] the son of angra mainyu/ahriman. azhi dahaka as the storm fiend has six eyes, three heads and three pairs of fangs. in human form, he was zohak, an ancient babylonian/scythian/assyrian king or shah, who according to zoroastrian mythology, was transformed into the immortal storm fiend by a pact with ahriman. azhi dahaka is said to be filled with serpents, scorpions, toads and other insects and reptiles. azothoz a sigillic word formula which represent the golden dawn definition of the beginning and end, alpha and omega. azothoz is a reversed form which

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

ain 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 occupy the whole earth and, most importantly, not reach heaven. although the bible stories are the most well-known, especially in the west, they are not the fi

s tales of inundation are even more alarming. most people who are even remotely familiar with atlantis will know that it was consumed by a flood. in the norse tradition of sweden and norway, a flood with poured forth from the bleeding god ymir consumed the whole of humanity, save a man named bergelmir and his wife who survived the flood using a hollowed-out tree trunk as a vessel. in the sumerian/babylonian accounts (2500bc, allegedly, a man named utnapishtim is warned by the god ea that another god enlil intends to flood the earth. utnapishtim then built a massive boat, and loaded his wife and 2 of every creature aboard. as the flood began to subside, utnapishtim released a dove, as noah did, to see if there was dry land nearby. and like noah from the bible, the boat finally rested on a m

e both good and bad aspects, and true to that logic she if often spoke of as lilith who was consumed or possessed by a much more ancient goddess named tiamat. as if lilith is now the body that tiamat walks in. lilith is the feminine principle personified. tiamat is said to be the most ancient of god s enemies, long before the fall of lucifer, and she spawned a race of wicked giants and demons. in babylonian legend, tiamat was called the monster of chaos, and waged war against the gods. finally marduk defeated tiamat, split her in two, and used her flesh to create the world. this battle between the angels and the older gods goes unmentioned in the biblical genesis account, but remains in the greek tradition. according to greek mythology zeus, along with his brothers poseidon and hades, defe

closely related to selene, yet another moon goddess. in hinduism, lilith goes by the name kali. kali is a goddess identified with death, carnage, and the feminine principle. she often called mother kali and the mother goddess who is the consort of the god shiva, the destroyer. kali is depicted as a naked woman with black skin, who wear a necklace of skulls and holds a bloody sword. similar to the babylonian account of tiamat, kali s body parts constitutes the universe of space and time. the goddess kali, along with her husband shiva, roam the cremation grounds; this is a likely reference to the qliphoth or underworld. in the persian narration, az is the mother of demons and the consort of ahriman (satan. semiramis, yet another name for this goddess, an assyrian queen of legend, was reporte

MORALS AND DOGMA

tain meru was ascended by seven steps or stages; and all the pyramids and artificial tumuli and hillocks thrown up in flat countries were imitations of this fabulous and mystic mountain, for purposes of worship. these were the "high places" so often mentioned in the hebrew books, on which the idolaters sacrificed to foreign gods. the pyramids were sometimes square, and sometimes round. the sacred babylonian tower[[hebrew, magdol, dedicated to the great father bal, was an artificial hill, of pyramidal shape, and seven stages, built of brick, and each stage of a different color, representing the seven planetary spheres by the appropriate color of each planet. meru itself was said to be a single mountain, terminating in three peaks, and thus a symbol of the trimurti. the great pagoda at tanjo

worshipped, with fear and dread, the stars of the constellation pisces, and consecrated images of them in their temples. the sun as adonis was worshipped in byblos and about mount libanus. there was a magnificent temple of the sun at palmyra, which was pillaged by the soldiers of aurelian, who rebuilt it and dedicated it anew. the pleiades, under the name of succoth-beneth, were worshipped by the babylonian colonists who settled in the country of the samaritans. saturn, under the name of remphan, was worshipped among the copts. the planet jupiter was worshipped as bel or baal; mars as malec, melech, or moloch; venus as ashtaroth or astarte, and mercury as nebo, among the syrians, assyrians, ph nicians, and canaanites. sanchoniathon says that the earliest ph nicians adored the sun, whom the

isdom, more especially cultivated by the babylonians and egyptians. each nation was supposed by the hebrews to have its own guardian angel, and its own provincial star. one of the chiefs of the celestial powers, at first jehovah himself in the character of the sun, standing in the height of heaven, overlooking and governing all things, afterward one of the angels or subordinate planetary genii of babylonian or persian mythology, was the patron and protector of their own nation "the prince that standeth for the children of thy people" the discords of earth were accompanied by a warfare in the sky; and no people underwent the visitation of the almighty, without a corresponding chastisement being inflicted on its tutelary angel. the fallen angels were also fallen stars; and the first allusion

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

any person will depend upon the freedom of that function. see liber ci "de lege libellum, cap. iv, in equinox iii, 1. also, the following chapters of liber aleph: 3-6, 17, 18,20,22,24- 34, 44-46, 57-65, 85, 88, 95-98, 104, 105, 111, 112, 140, 142-144. there is a technical aspect to the above verse which may be of importance to a certain type of aspirant of either sex. in one sense, sin is but the babylonian moon-god, who is represented on seal- cylinders as an old man with flowing beard. the crescent moon was his symbol. this conception is totally hostile to ours. to us, the moon is a feminine symbol. further, our hermit of the tarot is solar, not lunar' sin' is essentially homosexual. his word is restriction because his nature is twisted. perhaps because of hebrew enslavement by the babyl

3. the general key is that you should practice homosexuality only with a fellow thelemite. the house of god, in a sense, is the phallus, xv, the devil, but also is pe, 80, the blasted tower. still in another sense, the phallus being god, the house of god is the kteis, in this case the empress, atu iii. beth, the letter of the magician, also means house, and this is that mystery concerning sin the babylonian moon-god and its influence, that we have already spoken about. serious students are referred to book four, part iii, chapter iv, the long note on the word alim; to the scholion on liber samekh, book four, part iii, appendix iv, section j; to liber aleph, chapters 173-176, 185; to verses 14-2 1 and 34-36 of liber ccclxx; and to the hymn in liber xv. also, since hadit is the highest possi

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

ment of human societies, the homeric era recognized only four specialized trades: woodworking that is to say, the building of houses (so there can be no question of masons; metalworking; certified leatherworking; and clayworking (making vases and pottery. going through the centuries, we find house builders falling under the term carpenters. yet the oldest code of laws to have come down to us, the babylonian code of hammurabi discovered in susa and dating back to about 2000 b.c, reveals even in its time a certain division in the art of building. it mentions architects, carpenters, stonecutters, masons, and bricklayers, and building seems to have been the only art to have contained this degree of specialization.7 the roman collegia formed one of the essential parts of the constitution attrib

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

fresh, new creation will arise. the flood just as many mythologies look forward to the destruction of this world in a catastrophe, such as the norse cataclysm called ragnarok, so many record a time, within this creation, when the gods grew angry with humankind, and attempted to destroy them with a flood. the biblical story of the deluge is one of many such accounts, and owes much to the sumerian/babylonian account in the epic of gilgamesh, in which the noah figure is named utnapishtim (see p. 19. the ancient greeks told how zeus tried to destroy mankind with a flood, but prometheus (see p. 24) warned deucalion and pyrrha. manu was saved from the hindu deluge vishnu in the form his fish avatar, matsya (see p. 110. flood myths can be found in peru and in china, among the australian aborigin

te, goddess from the east t he worship of aphrodite emanated from the island of cyprus, which was culturally influenced from the near east. she is related to the goddess ishtar (see p. 19; her love for adonis (see pp. 32 33) echoes that of ishtar and tammuz, and the existence of temple prostitutes in her temple in corinth reflects the custom in the temples of ishtar. herodotus points out that the babylonian custom of every woman prostituting herself once in the temple of the goddess was also to be found in cyprus. the rape of persephone 28 the rape of persephone persephone (roman proserpine, the daughter of zeus (jupiter) and demeter (ceres, was carried off by hades (pluto) to be his queen in the underworld. devastated, demeter, the earth goddess, refused to fulfil her duties until she was

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

e copper, whose legs were iron, and whose feet were iron and clay. daniel told him that the components of this statue were the kingdom of babylonia (the gold head) and the empires that would succeed it in ruling over the jews. by making a similar statue entirely of gold, nebuchadnezzar sought to subvert the prophecy and perpetuate the kingdom of babylonia. chananiah, misha fel, and azariah (whose babylonian names were shadrach, meisach, and abednego) were daniel fs jewish companions, who refused to bow down to this statue. nebuchadnezzar punished them by having them thrown into a fiery furnace, but they emerged unscathed. he also intended to build a tower and a city, as it is written, gis this not the great [city of] babylon that i built up [into a royal house with my powerful strength, to

he verse ga river went forth from eden to water the garden; from there it divided and became four heads h5 is taken to allude to the four archtypal empires. 1 exodus 10:1-2. 2 habakkuk 1:4. 3 bereishit rabbah 16:4. 4 rashi on genesis 2:10. 5 genesis 2:10. the arizal on parashat bo (2) 6 in the egyptian exile, evil clothed the gneck h of holiness, i.e, the three highest sefirot all at once. in the babylonian exile, evil clothed the ghead h [of holiness, as it is written, gyou are the head of gold. h6 of this it is written, gher [i.e, jerusalem fs] enemies were the head, h7 meaning that they clothed the [holy] head. thus, these two exiles were equivalent; that is why they are counted as one. the book of daniel opens with the story of daniel fs interpretation of nebuchadnezzar fs dream, in wh

t directly create female principle, since their respective orientations are opposite. 1 exodus 27:20. 2 etz chaim 25:2, etc. the arizal on parashat tetzaveh (3) 366 these two sub-sefirot of chesed within netzach and hod [of z feir anpin] are manifest as two olives, as it is written, gthere were two olive [trees] above it. h3 this verse is part of zechariah fs prophetic vision of the return of the babylonian exile, in which he is shown a golden menorah. the two olive trees seem to be the source of the oil burning in the lamps of the menorah. when these two [sub-sefirot] descend to yesod [of z feir anpin, they are crushed there by the force of their impact and are thus ground [to produce oil. as is mentioned in the zohar,4 the grinding [of the oil] occurs at the level of the tzadik [i.e, yes

] divine names, which are branches from these roots. these [four letters] are the four rivers of the garden [of eden, as is known. similarly, in the realm of evil, there are four rivers.[known by the same names] the pishon, the gichon [the tigris, and the euphrates]13.which are the roots, which divide into seventy nations. as our sages say: g ethe name of the first was pishon f.this refers to the babylonian empire; ethe name of the second was gichon f.this refers to the medean empire, h etc.14 since all seventy nations are included within these four grivers, h therefore the entire jewish people were exiled to each of these four [archetypal] nations. babylonia, medea [greece, and rome. but the other seventy nations are just particulars and branches [of these, and each of these [lesser] nati

se gand his feet will stand on that day [on the mount of olives c] h16 will be fulfilled, as is explained in the zohar.17 this verse describes the future, messianic redemption. therefore the entire jewish people were exiled into egypt and babylonia, for egypt was the ghead h [relative to the other exiles, and babylonia is also called a ghead, h as it is written, gyou are the head of gold. h18 the babylonian king nebuchadnezzar had a dream vision of a strange statue. daniel interpreted the various parts of the statue as referring to the various empires that would rule the world. but the ten [northern] tribes did not go into the exiles of greece and rome, for sennacherib [the king of assyria] had already exiled them, as is known, and [greece and rome] are not included in the head, which incl

exiled there by himself. this explains everything. in fact, the assyrians deported the ten tribes of the northern kingdom, israel, before the babylonians ascended to power and conquered (and exiled) the southern kingdom, judah. so it would appear that the entire jewish people participated only in the egyptian exile, while only the judean remnant were subject to the subsequent exiles.including the babylonian exile. true, as rabbi chaim yosef david azulai points out,19 the prophet jeremiah brought some members of the ten exiled tribes back to judah. these refugees intermingled with the southern tribes, and therefore there are members of all the tribes among us to this day. it may therefore be said that at least representatives of the whole jewish nation did undergo all the exiles. but then

avid azulai points out,19 the prophet jeremiah brought some members of the ten exiled tribes back to judah. these refugees intermingled with the southern tribes, and therefore there are members of all the tribes among us to this day. it may therefore be said that at least representatives of the whole jewish nation did undergo all the exiles. but then, this applies to all four exiles, not just the babylonian. he therefore proposes that the arizal only stated that the entire jewish people underwent the egyptian exile, and that the four subsequent, archetypal exiles were experienced by only the southern tribes (with representatives from the other 15 genesis 2:10. 16 zechariah 14:4. 17 2:258. 18 daniel 2:38. 19 midbar kedeimot 7. the arizal on parashat re feh (2) 742 ten. relative to each othe

ian. he therefore proposes that the arizal only stated that the entire jewish people underwent the egyptian exile, and that the four subsequent, archetypal exiles were experienced by only the southern tribes (with representatives from the other 15 genesis 2:10. 16 zechariah 14:4. 17 2:258. 18 daniel 2:38. 19 midbar kedeimot 7. the arizal on parashat re feh (2) 742 ten. relative to each other, the babylonian exile was the ghead h of these four, but it was not a ghead h in the same overarching sense that the egyptian exile was a ghead. h we can now explain the egyptian exile, and why it is mentioned more than the others. this is because all the sparks of the collective ghead h of the jewish people were present in egypt, and the people were not redeemed from egypt until they had extricated al

1.meaning jews, who are likened to fish, as in the verse, gand they will multiply like fish. h22 or [as the sages said, they left it] glike a silo with no grain h.also meaning jews, who are likened to grain, as it is written, gisrael is holy to g-d, the first of his produce, h23 and gthose who devour my people like those who eat bread. h24 in contrast, in the subsequent three redemptions.from the babylonian, medean, and greek exiles.they were not entirely redeemed from them, and some aspects of the jews f souls remained in them, not having been extricated entirely. accordingly, some of the jews remained under the rule of babylonia and medea and did not return [to the land of israel] to build the second temple, as is known, in order to redeem the [sparks] that remained there. nonetheless, t

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

n to moslem rule, will fully account for any variations in their present opinions and rites, from those which they originally professed and practised. fr. 1 fn. 1. mr. layard, in his "nineveh and its remains (vol. ii. p. 462) gives the annexed sketch of a bird from one of the slabs dug up at nimrood: thumb 12700 to which he subjoins the following note "the iynges, or sacred birds, belonged to the babylonian and probably to the assyrian religion. they were a kind of demons, who exercised a peculiar influence over mankind, resembling the ferouher of the zoroastrian system. the oracles attributed to zoroaster describe them as powers animated by god' greek noo menai ?uggec par en no ousi ka au?ta. greek boula c a?f gktoic kino menai w'?ote noh^sai/ cont (zoroaster, oracul. magn. ad calcem orac

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

tion; and we can only express our astonishment that hebrew kabalists have not recognized and explained this symbolism, which so closely and inseparably connects the highest mysteries of christianity with the secret but invariable doctrine of all the masters in israel. the beast with seven heads, in the symbolism of st. john, is the material and antagonistic negation of the luminous septenary; the babylonian harlot corresponds after the same manner to the woman clothed with the sun; the four horsemen are analogous to the four allegorical living creatures; the seven angels with their seven trumpets, seven cups and seven swords characterize the absolute of the struggle of good against evil by speech, by religious association and by force. thus are the seven seals of the occult book opened suc

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

upon various traditional and neoplatonic sources. similar sets of harmonic or hierarchical relationships are found in many publications from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, and earlier variants are found in medieval texts, often in complex written form with no illustration, though illustrations also occur. earlier cosmic figures or maps are known, of course, from roman, greek, egyptian, babylonian and assyrian cultures, so the concept of interlinked or concentric levels of entities or worlds is inherent in human consciousness. kirk's model is very close to the cosmology described in detail in the twelfthcentury vita merlini, which, like kirk's own book, was based upon celtic oral tradition. while the vita was based upon bardic poems and tales concerning merlin, as amended and exp

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entrate without becoming sensitive to. 33. freedom to create and to construct requires that the individual be_ and. 34. in al, had is actually. 35 "medu" means both_ and_ and is the_ of western magical tradition. 36. maat is the egyptian neter of_ and_ and her symbol is a. 37. the symbol used by both the church of satan and the knights templar with which crowley identified himself was the. 38. in babylonian mythology_ was the original watery chaos. 39. zoroaster professed that ahura did not create the masculine devil, but stated rather that this was an_ existence. 40. the yezidis worshipped the devil-god_ who took the form of a. 41. consciousness is the measure of, making actual that which otherwise is only. 42. manifestation separates creative thought into_ and. 43. the ancient egyptian c

animals, e.g. the ass, oryx antelope, greyhound, fennec, jerboa, camel, okapi, long-snouted mouse, aardvark, giraffe, and the hog or boar, as candidates for the original set-animal- generally based on some single, distinctive aspect of the figure- we must conclude with te velde that it represents a mythical or imaginary beast. te velde identifies it with a kind of "griffin- somehow related to the babylonian mythic creature- called the (axex) in egyptian. he shows that there are essentially three distinctive features of the graphic representation of the set-animal (1) a curved snout (2) square, brush-like "ears, and (3) a forked or brush-like tail. these features do not allow identification with any known animal. this situation is unique in the history of the iconography of the egyptian div

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d man of the sea, the imam with hair that grows longer by the minute, streaming in every direction, his eyebrows like pennants in the wind. jerusalem, he wonders, which way is that- and then, it's a slippery word, jerusalem, it can be an idea as well as a place: a goal, an exaltation. where is the imam's jerusalem "the fall of the harlot" the disembodied voice resounds in his ears "her crash, the babylonian whore" they zoom through the night. the moon is heating up, beginning to bubble like cheese under a grill; he, gibreel, sees pieces of it falling off from time to time, moon-drips that hiss and bubble on the sizzling griddle of the sky. land appears below them. the heat grows intense. it is an immense landscape, reddish, with flat-topped trees. they fly over mountains that are also flat

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brujeria, stregeria, rosicrucianism, the golden dawn, thelema, and (according to some) in the rites and observances of freemasonry, as it may be seen in what might be patronisingly called folk magic across europe. this same syncretism is evident in the classical grimoire in the rites, signs, seals; even in the names of the angels and devils themselves. here we find numerous survivals of assyrian, babylonian, hebrew, greek, roman, egyptian, norse and celtic gods, yet given new existence and identities as the denizens of pandemonium. that these arts have their roots in pre-christian magick is a fact alluded to again and again as this work progresses, for it cannot be overstressed. in the words of arthur e. waite, it is croquetemaine explained by diabolus, the runes of elf-land read with the

ely to the spirits of the previous aeon of pagan magick. the hebrew term for angel is mal akh, meaning messenger. the word angel itself comes through the sanskrit angeres, persian angeres, to the greek angelos. such pre-christian roots are apparent even in their names, which commonly end with the singular el, meaning shining one. the word is of sumerian origin, and is related to the akkadian ilu, babylonian ellu, old welsh ellu, old irish aillil, anglo- saxon aelf, and english elf. even our classical image of the angel, a beautiful human with bird wings, has its origin in pagan imagery. in the 8th century, when the foundations of church doctrine were being laid, the visual artists were no less influenced by their heritage than the writers were. two of the common inspirational sources of th

o so because we are carrying forward the genetic anomaly of the children of cain, whose blood was tainted with that of the grigori. thus these arts are not mere low sorcery, but the profound veneration of our ancestry. it is our embracing of the infernal nature that is within all humankind, and its deliberate awakening within the current of witchcraft. this myth itself is reflected in the earlier babylonian tale where humankind are created from the blood of kingu, first of her brood leader of the dragon tiamat s army of chaos. through us, they walk upon the earth. according to the book of enoch, their identities are as follows; agni-el: who taught of enchantments of roots and the secrets of conjure. anma-el: made a sexual pact with a mortal woman to reveal the secret names of god. araqui-e

s of roots and the secrets of conjure. anma-el: made a sexual pact with a mortal woman to reveal the secret names of god. araqui-el/saraqa-el: taught the signs and secrets of the earth (geography and/or geomancy. araziel/arazyael: god is my noon. asael: made by god. asbeel: god s deserter. it is he who sowed the first seeds of dissention and lead the others astray. azael/azazel: possibly from the babylonian arsiel, who was the demon of the bottomless pit and whose name meant black sun, although usually translated to mean whom god strengthens. he was supposedly the first to descend, and later becomes ibliss. according to rabbinical texts, he is also satan, who refused to bow before the son of clay. with naamah, sister of cain, he fathered azza the strong one, who later revealed the heavenly

se called the lesser key of solomon. yet the traditions of black witchcraft are none of them frozen in time, and there may be found below various other names that have been added to the infernal census in days previous to and since those in which the classical grimoire were composed. many pagan sources have contributed to the pantheon of goetic magick and black witchcraft generally; the assyrian, babylonian, greek and roman especially. the greatest influence with regard to the classical grimoire is hebrew, itself having incorporated various names and mysteries from these same sources in its history. details are given, where possible, as to the grimoire within which the spirits may be found. the reader is directed to these sources, where they will find the traditional rites and prayers of e

ut the saved will be swallowed by leviathan. lilin (aramaic. succubi spawn of lilith, one of four classes of spirits, the others being mazziqin, ruachin, and shedim. lilith (aramaic. mother of the lilim and all succubi, nocturnal sexual vampire, mother of *cain, first wife of adam. the screech owl (isiah 34:14. whose cult spread from palestine to greece, where she merged with hekate. originally a babylonian goddess lilitu, or ardat-lilil. lucifer (latin, bringer of light. the rebel angel who was cast from heaven (isiah 14:12. certain gnostic sects regard lucifer as a divine power in his own right, and the witches recognise him as the initiator and bringer of illumination. in etruscan gypsy lore he is the father of aradia and consort of diana. it is this godform that became the emperor of h

l of prostitution, the greatest seductress of mortals, said to be the most sensuous of satan s brides. arch-demoness corresponding to the qulippoth of malkuth. naberius (goetia, 24th spirit. marquis commanding 19 legions. appears as a black crane fluttering about the circle. makes men cunning in arts and sciences, especially rhetoric. restores lost dignities and honours. possibly from the ancient babylonian god of writing, logic, and history nabium, who is mentioned in the old testament as nabu. naphula, vapula (goetia, 60th spirit. duke commanding 36 legions. appears as a winged lion. teaches handicrafts, philosophy, and other sciences. ningiszida (sumerian, lord of the tree. horned serpent who, according to akkadian incantations, watches over the demons exiled to the underworld. olam ha

ogians say he is alive and well as the demon of insolence and pride. raum (goetia, 40th spirit. formerly of the order of thrones, now an earl commanding 30 legions. appears as a crow. steals treasure from king s palaces, destroys cities and men, tells fortunes, brings love between friends and foes. rephaim (syrrian, hebrew. giants of the old testament. originally ancient cthonian spirits. rimmon (babylonian, roarer. originally a god of thunderstorms, later identified as an archangel commanding the same, now hell s only doctor. rofocale (hebrew. the second name of lucifer, also a specific devil with control of the world s treasury. according to the grand grimoire, lucifer rofocale is the prime minister of hell. ronove (goetia, 27th spirit. marquis and earl commanding 19 legions. appears as

e night. erotic dreams and sexual vampires. surgat (grimorium verum, honorius. a subordinate spirit of lucifer. has power to open all locks, to locate and transport treasures. sustugriel (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of satanachia. teaches magickal art. he gives good familiars and furnishes mandragores. sut one of the sons of iblis, a demon of the order of flies. tehom hebrew form of the babylonian tiamat, queen of the waters of the deep. the abyss itself (gen 1:2. tiamat (babylon. primordial mother dragon of chaos, defeated by marduk and torn apart to become the earth and the sky. equated with typhon and leviathan. trimasel (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of satanachia. teaches chemistry, alchemy, and all sleight of hand. tubal-cain son of lamech and zillah, master of meta

SATANIC BIBLE

the deeps, the sea, the west the infernal names abaddon (hebrew) the destroyer adramelech- samarian devil ahpuch- mayan devil ahriman- mazdean devil amon- egyptian ram-headed god of life and reproduction apollyon- greek synonym for satan, the arch fiend asmodeus- hebrew devil of sensuality and luxury, originally "creature of judgement" astaroth- phoenician goddess of lasciviousness, equivalent of babylonian ishtar azazel (hebrew) taught man to make weapons of war, introduced cosmetics baalberith- canaanite lord of the covenant who was later made a devil balaam- hebrew devil of avarice and greed baphomet- worshipped by the templars as symbolic of satan bast- egyptian goddess of pleasure represented by the cat beelzebub (hebrew) lord of the flies, taken from symbolism of the scarab behemoth

emogorgon- greek name of the devil, it is said should not be known to mortals diabolus (greek "flowing downwards" dracula- romanian name for devil emma-o- japanese ruler of hell euronymous- greek prince of death fenriz- son of loki, depicted as a wolf gorgo- dim. of demogorgon, greek name of the devil haborym- hebrew synonym for satan hecate- greek goddess of the underworld and witchcraft ishtar- babylonian goddess of fertility kali (hindu) daughter of shiva, high priestess of the thuggees lilith- hebrew female devil, adam's first wife who taught him the ropes loki- teutonic devil mammon- aramaic god of wealth and profit mania- etruscan goddess of hell mantus- etruscan god of hell marduk- god of the city of babylon mastema- hebrew synonym for satan melek taus- yezidi devil mephistopheles (

of babylon mastema- hebrew synonym for satan melek taus- yezidi devil mephistopheles (greek) he who shuns the light, q. v. faust metztli- aztec goddess of the night mictian- aztec god of death midgard- son of loki, depicted as a serpent milcom- ammonite devil moloch- phoenician and canaanite devil mormo (greek) king of the ghouls, consort of hecate naamah- hebrew female devil of seduction nergal- babylonian god of hades nihasa- american indian devil nija- polish god of the underworld o-yama- japanese name for satan pan- greek god of lust, later relegated to devildom pluto- greek god of the underworld proserpine- greek queen of the underworld pwcca- welsh name for satan rimmon- syrian devil worshipped at damascus sabazios- phrygian origin, identified with dionysos, snake worship saitan- eno

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as an established religion, we ve blatantly chosen to represent all that is considered xianly immoral, evil sinful, and we further accept and embrace this unholy stance as righteous reality undeniable parts and proclivities of human nature. historically, our kindred predecessors, ancient babylon, were renowned for their unrestricted sexual expression and taboo practices. likewise, our modern-day babylonian ethic regarding sex is, if someone or something tempts you; arouses you sexually, and you are within your personal mores and the laws of the land, you should feel free to indulge yourself in your ecstasy. touching, smelling and tasting one s love object simply enhances and intensifies the experience of the forthcoming act(s; and it s nonsensical for a religious doctrine (especially one

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

ce the pharaoh akhenaten rules egypt and enforces the worship of a single god, aten. all evidence of his reign is wiped out after his death. tenth century bce the jewish temple of solomon is constructed in jerusalem. seventh century bce beginning of the milesian school of philosophy in ancient greece. 600 bce official formalization of the rig veda, one of hinduism s most sacred texts. 586 bce the babylonian king nebuchadnezzar destroys the jewish temple in jerusalem and drives the jews into exile (the babylonian exile. 563 bce siddhartha gautama, who will become the buddha, is born in present-day nepal. c. 551 479 bce life span of the scholar kongzi, who is known in the west by his latinized name, confucius. xi c. 540 c. 470 bce life span of mahavira, considered the main founder of jainism

with their origins in asia also have codes of moral behavior and right living, as seen in buddhism s five precepts and eightfold path. in addition to instructions for proper living, religions have also been responsible, in part, for the rule of law in society. religious law was one of the early inspirations for secular or nonreligious legal codes. the code of hammurabi, the eighteenth-century bce babylonian code of law, takes as its inspiration the gods who put hammurabi in power. in some cultures, the secular legal system is still highly influenced by religious law. this is true in some islamic states, where religious law, sharia, is practiced. additionally, some religious historians believe that the development of 16 world religions: almanac what is religion? monotheistic religions led t

vil spirits and to foretell future events to ensure the good will of the gods and to protect against demons. astronomical (relating to the heavens) events took on major importance and astrology, the study of the influence of the stars and planets on human affairs, became nearly a science for the priests. organized mesopotamian religion collapsed after cyrus of persia, a zoroastrian, conquered the babylonian empire in 539 bce. history of ancient egyptian religion the official ancient egyptian religion lasted from about 3110 bce to 550 ce. the official beginning of the religion is the date that menes (c. 2925 bce, a king of upper egypt, is believed to have defeated a king of lower egypt and unified the nation. menes set up a national religion in the process, worshipping the creator god ptah

e followers of mesopotamian religion, the egyptians had a strong belief in the afterlife, which they expressed by building elaborate tombs such as the pyramids. followers. worshippers took their names from the numerous gods and the cults that honored the deities. name of god. the major god for much of mesopotamia was the sky god enlil; later the worship of enlil was replaced by the worship of the babylonian god marduk. for egyptians, amen-ra was the most powerful deity, chief of the pantheon. symbols. statues of winged bulls were a protective symbol related to the god sin mesopotamia, while the ankh, a kind of cross with a loop at the top, was a prominent representation of life in ancient egypt. worship. priests in both religions made daily offerings in the temples and held annual festival

rving the gods and by living a moral (good and honest) life, humankind would be rewarded with long life and many offspring. as for the afterlife, it was believed that a kind of ghost or double survived physical death. when a person died and his or her body was buried, his or her ghost descended to the underworld to join those already departed. the underworld was ruled by the god ereshkigal. later babylonian religion also assumed that resurrection, or physical life after death, was possible. babylonians believed in the waters of life and called their chief deity, marduk, the one who brings the dead to life. mostly, however, it appears that mesopotamians believed that earthly life was all there was, and that death led to disintegration of the body. hundreds of gods were involved in mesopotam

god and ask for protection or relief. these private gods were often fired if the people felt they were not getting satisfaction and that their offerings were being wasted. they would adopt another personal god in the hopes of getting better results from their prayers. early on, the priests in mesopotamian religion took charge of the temples and storehouses and also of the care of the gods. by the babylonian period these priests had created elaborate rituals and ceremonies, including offerings and sacrifices. they were responsible for foretelling the future and created more elaborate rituals for such acts of divination, or reading of the signs of the gods. wind, storms, rain, fire, eclipses of the sun or moon, the appearance of a lion, the shape of a sheep s liver, and the movement of the s

ruler] of all the gods, thou god of life, thou creator of eternity, thou maker of heaven wherein thou art firmly established. hymn to ra. internet ancient history sourcebook. http//www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/ ra-ani.html. ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia 54 world religions: almanac astrology, or predicting the future from the movement of the stars, also became a central practice of babylonian religion. the babylonians were the first to divide the sky into the twelve zones of the zodiac. they followed the movements of planets and stars with great care in an effort to foretell the will of the gods. priests also made a good living in the sale of magic charms and formulas to drive away evil spirits. egyptian worship egyptians also had cults that worshipped their own particular g

ny hundreds to worship. even pharaohs would differ about which god they preferred. gods of the mesopotamian pantheon anu: the sky god. he is sometimes called the king of the gods. at the beginning of time, earth was separated from heaven, and heaven became anu s home. he can be sent to earth to avenge the gods. ea: the fun-loving god of fresh waters, wisdom, and magic. ea is also named enki. in a babylonian myth similar to that of the judeo-christian story of noah s ark, ea reveals to utnapishtim that enlil intends to destroy mankind in a flood. enlil: the god of air, wind, and storms. enlil is one of the most important mesopotamian gods. he guards the tablets of destiny, on which the fate of everything on earth is written. ishtar: the goddess of love and war. she is also known as inanna

greatly aided later societies. mesopotamian influences mesopotamian religion was one of the earliest organized religious systems. it had a formal structure, hierarchy (chain of command, and rituals for worship. it influenced all later religious tradition, not only with its gods (some of whom, such as inanna, were adapted into later religious traditions, but also with its central myths. during the babylonian period the state cult of marduk was an important early step toward the nationalistic monotheism later developed by judaism, christianity, and islam. although marduk was only the foremost among a pantheon of other gods, his elevation to national god was a beginning in a gradual process toward modern national religions. other influences to come from mesopotamian religions include advances

me period. there are multiplication tables, tables of squares, square roots, and other mathematical figurings. there are also lists of problems for teachers to set and solutions given by students. the mesopotamians used algebraic equations to solve quadratic problems, or those involving two unknown quantities. these problems usually involved finding lengths, widths, or diagonals of rectangles. in babylonian times, astrology, or the study of how the planets affect human lives, became an important part of religion. the movements of the planets had to be charted, and for this mathematical calculations were a vital tool. the observation of the stars and planets likewise led to the modern science of astronomy. world religions: almanac 65 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia ancient egypti

(d. 962 bce, and solomon (tenth century bce, who constructed a magnificent temple (the first temple) in jerusalem in the tenth century bce. there, in a room called the holy of holies, the ark of the covenant was kept. this cabinet contained the tablets on which the ten commandments were carved. jews soon came to regard the temple and the city of jerusalem as their most holy sites. in 586 bce the babylonian king nebuchadnezzar destroyed the temple and drove the jews into exile (the babylonian exile. the jews returned and rebuilt the temple, the second temple, in 515 bce after the babylonians were defeated by the persian empire. in 175 the king of syria desecrated (violated and damaged) the temple and passed laws in an effort to eliminate the jews. in 164 bce the jews revolted, a revolt sti

efers to his mercy is used just as often as the other. 12. the messiah will come. the word messiah is an english version of the hebrew word moshiach, which means anointed. jews believe that god will appoint a messiah who will end evil, rebuild the temple, and return exiles to israel( jews frequently refer to the diaspora, or the scattering of jews throughout the world. the diaspora began with the babylonian exile and continues to this day) judaism s split with christianity came about primarily because of this belief. christians believe that jesus christ (c. 6 bce c. 30 ce) was the messiah, while jews do not. 13. the dead will be resurrected in the time to come, or in hebrew, olam ha-ba, the afterlife. sacred writings jewish tradition recognizes tanakh, also called the hebrew bible (mainly

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

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eph" is concerned with the assiatic, fourth, or lowest world of shells, and is on the face of it an alchemical treatise; and again the "siphra dtzenioutha" may be fittingly considered to be an aziluthic work, treating of the emanations of deity alone; and there was doubtless a fourth work assigned to the world of briah -the second type, but i have not been able to identify this treatise. both the babylonian and the jerusalem talmuds refer to the "sepher yetzirah" their treatise, named "sanhedrin" certainly mentions the "book of formation" and another similar work; and rashi in his commentary on the treatise "erubin" considers this a reliable historical notice.other historical notices are those of saadya gaon, who died a.d. 940, and judah ha levi, a.d. 1150; both these hebrew classics speak

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what was the old colchian magic, but the minute study of nature in her lowliest works? what the fable of medea, but a proof of the powers that may be extracted from the germ and leaf? the most gifted of all the priestcrafts, the mysterious sisterhoods of cuth, concerning whose incantations learning vainly bewilders itself amidst the maze of legends, sought in the meanest herbs what, perhaps, the babylonian sages explored in vain amidst the loftiest stars. tradition yet tells you that there existed a race("plut. symp" l. 5. c. 7) who could slay their enemies from afar, without weapon, without movement. the herb that ye tread on may have deadlier powers than your engineers can give to their mightiest instruments of war. can you guess that to these italian shores, to the old circaean promont

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d all together. and we are called as it were goddesses. we change our place all and together, and together we live, sometimes in lydia, sometimes in olympus, sometimes in a great mountain [1. the pleiades seem to be referred to. cp. job xxxviii. 31, in the revised version "canst thou bind the cluster of the pleiades" they had a malign influence. the grouping of evil spirits by sevens is common in babylonian and jewish folk-lore. as examples i may cite the testamentum of reuben, ch. 2, and the seven evil spirits of the n.t. possibly, however, the seven planets are here in question; though this is unlikely, for they do not tally with the description given. 2. rom. xv. 6 has the same phrase. for "thirty-three" we should read "thirty-six" elements. note that later in the testament these seven

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f 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 earlier, according to some sources. the sungods of egypt were nine in number. the chief among them was osiris, whose worship was universal. he was "the great deity of amenti or hades [hell" rawlinson described osiris' role as the judge of the dead "it was

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r to ear' 285 15 up to their necks in mischief 295 16 hand on heart sign of devotion to the chiefs 307 17 triangles up, triangles down, triangles, triangles all around 327 18 black magic, masonic witchcraft, and triangle powers 361 19 part devil, part angel 393 20 the merovingian dynasty, the priory of sion, and the spear of longinus 405 21 magical signs of the jewish cabala the six-pointed star, babylonian 419 witchcraft, and the hollywood perdition of jerry seinfeld and associates 22 scorched by the sun solar signs, circles, and serpents 459 23 "i fell in to a burning ring of fire" arnold schwarzenegger's 483 masonic ring, newt gingrich's t-rex dinosaur, and other mysterious messages on rings and neckties of the elite 24 ok-sign of the divine king 501 2 5 victory for the devil fabulous e

bols, signs, and codes, and who has taken a solemn oath to maintain secrecy in fear of disclosure, the world takes on a supernatural, paranoid quality. indeed, such men are schizophrenic in tendency, being torn between their role in the normal everyday world and their underground existence in the sordid world of their occult fraternity. illuminists are, indeed, very dangerous men. ancient origins babylonian now it is important to understand that almost all the symbols and signs of the elite are very ancient in origin. former scottish rite freemasonry sovereign grand commander henry c. clausen, 33, who was appointed in 1942 by president roosevelt to head up the commission to investigate the pearl harbor attack, writes that the footsteps of the order go deep, and its symbols are thousands of

s civilized."17 in other words, clausen is telling his masonic readers that their signs and symbols came from babylon. the holy bible warns that the ancient mystery religion of wicked babylon will bounce back into demonic prevalence in the last days (see revelation 13, 17, and 18, and here we have the sovereign grand commander, the international chieftain of the masonic lodge, informing us of the babylonian origins of the secret symbols and signs of his illuminist order. when we realize that, for the elite, their symbols are claimed to be infused with dynamic life to be real things, active images that make and testify and create, we begin to comprehend the powerful and explosive meaning with which the illuminati endow their signs and symbols. to them, these are not just geometric shapes, a

h talmud, the rabbis' holiest book. according to the talmud, gentiles are not even to be considered humans "the goyim (gentiles) are not men, but beasts (baba mezia fol. 1146. it should be further noted that the encyclopedia britannica says "the talmud is still the authoritative and practical guide of the great mass of the jews (from the 36 codex magica 9-volume german language translation of the babylonian talmud in the library of congress, washington, d.c) slaves and beasts slaves and beasts! that is what the zionists of israel consider those who aren't jewish. now we discover what the elitist, favored sons of the zionist illuminati think of you, me, and the masses. no wonder they kill without conscience through their instigation of world wars, through initiation of regional conflicts, a

nd in the most ancient religions and some of their analogies to masonic symbolism are peculiar" mackey revealingly says that the hand is deemed important "as that symbol of mystical intelligence by which one mason knows another in the dark as well as in the light" he goes on to discuss the use of the hand in such ancient mystery religions as mithraism and in worship of the sumerian, assyrian, and babylonian gods. he notes that the tradition of the red seal attached to important documents is a throwback to the ancient use of the bloody hand as a way of authenticating documents. examples of grips and handshakes i have included in this section of codex magica drawings of a number of masonic handshakes taken from official masonic publications and from other objective sources. in addition to fr

orne hidden messages and symbols of the llluminati. this new clipping from usa today newspaper discusses and pictures the new nickel (5c coin) released in 2004 to commemorate the louisiana purchase of 1803. the coin bears the image of the masonic handshake and also the occultic "x" masonic handshake imbedded in greek 500 d. note. secret handshakes of the illuminati 157 this drawing of the ancient babylonian god, nebo, from a dictionary of the bible, makes him appear to be instructing adepts on the finer points of using hand signs or exchanging mysterious grips. in fact, nebo's title was "interpreter of the gods" and he was said to be the god of learning and of letters. the biblical king nebuchadnezzar in the book of daniel was named after nebo. this cut is in the british museum, london. 15

a show of hands 187 instructional material for educators in the fort worth, texas, independent school district included this drawing of 13 goddess worshippers (13 comprise a witches coven) on a succession of six circle platforms paying homage to the sun. the illustration originally came from an italian foundation dedicated to the work of new age evolutionist and educator maria montessori. in the babylonian religion, as the initiate entered into the "mysteries" part of the ritual was the drinking from the cup of the woman (the goddess. here, in this ancient woodcut we find a supplicant kneeling while raising his hands in submissive fashion after just drinking from the cup. the priest (at right) appears to be administering an oath while offering an oblation perhaps a wafer, piece of bread

rn louis eugene wolcott in 1933 in new york city, changed his name to louis x after his conversion to islam by black muslim leader elijah muhammed. today, he is known as louis farrakhan. it is well-known that farrakhan is a 33 prince hall mason. x as symbol for the sun god according to dr. c.j. koster, head of the institute for scripture research in south africa, x was the emblem of the chaldean (babylonian) sky god. koster says that x was an ancient symbol of the sun deity and that the letter carried with it sexual connotations. in the old semitic languages, x represented the cross.1 freemasonry early-on latched onto this letter exactly because of its paranormal significance as a sign of lucifer, the solar (sun) god. the masonic lodge also uses x because of its sexual meanings and its bab

're observing the great secret in operation, the perennial teaching of the hidden god, the god of the mysteries, the god who it is said possesses the key to the invisible world (hell, the god of the arch, the god of cunning, lies and deceit, the two-faced deity, the masonic double-headed eagle. in other words, bluntly stated, you are viewing satan in disguise. among hard-core occultists deep into babylonian and egyptian lore and magic we find the worship of the two-headed mammon ra, the god of prosperity and riches. mammon ra is actually a powerful demon, one of the four great princes of hell. he is especially worshipped with great pomp by jewish cabalists hungry and greedy for wealth and affluence. 250 codex magica two golden phoenix serpents face each other inside the temple room of the

figure with a cape, carrying a lance, riding a white horse found within the "heart" of the doubleheaded black bird. the symbolical meaning of this image is overwhelming, to say the least, in terms of bible prophecy. the idolatrous image of the double-headed eagle shown here on the cover of albert pike's classic text, morals and dogma is a much-treasured symbol of jewish masons. it represents the babylonian god of money and forces, mammon-ra, as well as the hegelian dialectical process practiced by the jewish elite. this same symbol is the "masonic jewel" awarded high level masons initiated into the 33rd degree. 2 6 0 codex magica a friend of the author sent him this photograph he took while visiting russia recently. it is the fence and gate outside a sprawling and luxurious old mansion es

ch was seen as a tribute to elizabeth i, and of her effeminate successor, ninus, which the king interpreted as an unflattering caricature of himself. sir walter raleigh's distinguished book, the history of the world (written between 1607 and 1614) had this illustration as its frontispiece. the book was banned by england's king james i because it revealed too much, ostensibly for its portrayals of babylonian queen semiramis and her effeminate son, ninus. more likely is that the artwork shown here revealed far too many occult secrets, including the androgynous (male/female) figure holding aloft the globe, the allseeing eye, etc. united mine workers union poster, 1890. the two miners are exchanging a masonic handshake, being overseen by the all-seeing eye. almost all unions in america and eur

mesmerizing effect on men's minds. the never-ending blizzard of triangle designs we encounter daily is intended to induce a trance state in those who are bombarded day and night by it. back to babylon for an answer why the triangle may be the ultimate satanic symbol for illuminists we go back in time to uncover its origins. a book on mathematics history called early computations tells us that "a babylonian tablet dated around 1900 bc to 1600 bc and called 'plimpton 322' deals with pythagorean triplets" this ancient document detailed an elementary knowledge of triangles and proportions. the triangle as woman's "holy door' barbara walker, in her the woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets, outlines how the ancient mystery religions greatly honored the triangle as the sign of deity. she no

xperience) is formed with fingers separated to form a triangle. in the photos and illustrations in this section, you will find several real-life examples of this grip. in coil's masonic encyclopedia we are told of the triangular chain, the legend taught by freemasonry that jewish freemasons were carried as captives from jerusalem to babylon by nebuchadnezzar, being bound by triangular chains. the babylonian king is said to have been gravely insulting the jews by doing this because, to the jews, the triangle, or delta symbol, was a symbol of their deity.2 king solomon and the triple triangle in the 6 of freemasonry, the degree of intimate secretary, the concept of a triple triangle is introduced, said to be emblematic of the three masons who were present at the opening of the first lodge of

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stianity. the term gnostic is derived from the greek gnosis, meaning to know, and the adherents of gnosticism unabashedly declared that members of their form of religious expression knew from firsthand experience the truths that other beliefs had to accept on faith. many of the gnostic sects blended elements of christianity with the eleusianian mysteries, combining them with indian, egyptian, and babylonian magic, and also bringing in aspects of the jewish kabbalah as well. whatever the expression of the various gnostic belief structures, they all emphasized a detachment from the material world and an elaborate series of spiritual hierarchies through which those initiates who had achieved personal knowledge of divinity could arise. the christian church fathers branded the gnos- t h e g a l

d glossary 325 g l o s s a r y desecration when something sacred is treated in a profane or damaging manner. discarnate the lack of a physical body. coined from dis- and the latin stem carn, meaning flesh. the dispersion from the greek diaspora meaning to scatter or disperse. refers to the period in history when the jewish people were forced to scatter in countries outside of palestine after the babylonian captivity. dogma from greek stem word dogmat, meaning opinion or tenet, and from dokein, to seem good. a belief or set of beliefs, either political, religious, philosophical, or moral and considered to be absolutely true. druid someone who worships the forces of nature as in the ancient celtic religion. can also refer to a priest in the celtic religion. ecclesiasticism principles, pract

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went on to show how the very first word ever written by a human hand soon became linked with the symbol for deity, thus communicating star god. michanowsky saw the deathblaze of vela x to have been such a dramatic sky show that it became a profound cultural organizing principle that forced human knowledge to take a giant leap forward. but was there something more that took place at that time? the babylonian priest-historian berossus chronicled the coming of oannes, an entity described as being half-man, half-fish, who surfaced from the persian gulf to instruct the early inhabitants of mesopotamia in the arts of civilization. before the advent of oannes, berossus stated, the sumerians lived like beasts in the field, with no order or rule. the sumerians lived exactly as their primitive foref

d glossary 305 g l o s s a r y desecration when something sacred is treated in a profane or damaging manner. discarnate the lack of a physical body. coined from dis- and the latin stem carn, meaning flesh. the dispersion from the greek diaspora meaning to scatter or disperse. refers to the period in history when the jewish people were forced to scatter in countries outside of palestine after the babylonian captivity. dogma from greek stem word dogmat, meaning opinion or tenet, and from dokein, to seem good. a belief or set of beliefs, either political, religious, philosophical, or moral and considered to be absolutely true. druid someone who worships the forces of nature as in the ancient celtic religion. can also refer to a priest in the celtic religion. ecclesiasticism principles, pract

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f the occult, the masons f gsupreme architect of the universe h is none other than lucifer, who cloaks himself in masonic literature under such names as zoraster, shiva, abaddon, and other pagan-god disguises. the so-called gholy writings h of freemasonry, as well as their secret rites, passwords, initiations, and handshakes have their origins in the roman mystery religions, egyptian rituals, and babylonian paganism. often linked to the illuminati, freemasonry is said to have exerted its influence on every aspect of american society. including its currency. of all of the above alarmist concerns, only the part about the currency may have some credence. on the front of a one-dollar bill, there is a portrait of george washington (1732.1799, an avowed mason, who donned his masonic apron and pr

encyclopedia of occultism. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1960. simon magus (c. first century) several cults with widely differing beliefs all bearing the label of ggnostic h arose in the first century, very strongly competing with the advent of christianity. many of the gnostic sects blended elements of christianity with the eleusianian mysteries, combining them with indian, egyptian, and babylonian magic, and bringing in aspects of the jewish kabbalah as well. the first gnostic of importance was simon magus, a samarian sorcerer, a contemporary of the apostles, who was converted to christianity by philip. although he had been a highly respected magus, simon continued to be impressed by the remarkable powers of the apostles and their ability to heal and to manifest miracles. when he

1786) of prussia called the count of saint-germain the man who could not die, for according to the count, he had already lived 2,000 years by partaking of his discovery of a regenerative liquid that could prolong human life indefinitely. saint-germain captivated the courts of europe in the eighteenth century. he would refer to a pleasant chat with the queen of sheba and relay amusing anecdotes of babylonian court gossip. he would speak with reverence of the miraculous event that he had witnessed at the marriage feast at cana when the young rabbi jesus (c. 6 b.c.e..c. 30 c.e) turned water into wine. saint-germain spoke and wrote greek, latin, sanskrit, arabic, chinese, french, german, english, italian, portugese, and spanish. he was also a talented painter and an accomplished virtuoso on th

told by the prophetess deborah, gfrom heaven fought the stars, from their courses they fought against sisera. h deborah was not the only seer who had knowledge of the stars. amos (5:8) speaks of god as ghe who made the pleiades and orion, and turns deep darkness into morning. h in malachi 4:2, the righteous are promised that the gsun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings (rays. h babylonian priests developed and perfected a system of interpreting the phenomena observed in the heavens for the purpose of determining the will of the powers of heaven. the greeks enlarged the scope of astrology to include all the known sciences. empedocles, a greek philosopher of about 450 b.c.e, developed the idea that the universe is composed of four basic elements: fire, water, air, and eart

ly end by trying to get the best of both. impulsiveness is second nature to them, and movement and change are essential to their peace of mind. sagittarians are often able to retain their physical youth into advanced maturity, and they are relatively free of health problems as well. capricorn, the goat, december 22 to january 20, is an earth sign. capricorn was named first in honor of the ancient babylonian god, ea, a part-goat, part fish entity, who emerged from the sea to bring learning and culture to the valley of mesopotamia. the romans transformed ea to pan, a half-goat, half-human god who ruled the woodlands and the fields. capricorns are individuals of deeply rooted habits who tend to become industrious and economical individuals with great powers of endurance. although generally ki

rly, harmonious and integrated whole. deity from late latin deitas gdivine nature, h and deus ggod. h a divine being or somebody or something with the essential nature of a divinity, such as a god, goddess. the dispersion from the greek diaspora meaning to scatter or disperse. refers to the period in history when the jewish people were forced to scatter in countries outside of palestine after the babylonian captivity. haruspicy a method of divining or telling the future by examining the entrails of animals. horoscope from greek horoskopos, literally meaning gtime observer h and from hora meaning gtime, or hour, h referring to the time of birth. a diagram or astrological forecast based on the relative position in the heavens of the stars and planets in the signs of the zodiac, at any given

he ark of the covenant, a wooden chest covered with gold, is said to contain such sacred relics as the tablets of law from god that moses (14th.13th century b.c.e) brought back from mt. sinai. the ark possessed supernatural powers and served as a means through which god could express his will to the israelites. it was last known to have rested in the temple of solomon in jerusalem, but ever since babylonian forces conquered the city in 587 b.c.e. the whereabouts of the ark of the covenant has been a mystery. interest in the ark of the covenant has inspired generations of those who would recover the sacred relic. in medieval times the knights templar supposedly came into possession of the ark. a whole mythology has been built around the legendary holy grail, said to be the drinking vessel o

d power m delving deeper bernstein, henrietta. the ark of the covenant, the holy grail. marina del ray, calif: devorss publications, 1998 goodrich, norma.the holy grail. new york: harper- collins publishers, 1992. hancock, graham. the sign and the seal. london: heinemann, 1992. weston, jessie l. from ritual to romance. mineola, n.y: dover publications, 1997. the ark of the covenant ever since the babylonian captivity of jerusalem in the sixth century b.c.e, the whereabouts of the ark of the covenant has been a mystery. as described in the old testament of the bible, the ark served as the visible sign of god fs presence to the israelites. the israelites would rally and vanquish their foes when the ark was brought to sites of battle, and death came to those in the presence of the ark who wer

and vanquish their foes when the ark was brought to sites of battle, and death came to those in the presence of the ark who were enemies of god, betrayed their allegiance to god, or who simply forgot about the ark fs immense power. according to the bible, the ark was last known to have rested in the temple of solomon in jerusalem. whether it was destroyed, stolen, moved, or remained hidden after babylonian forces conquered the city and leveled the temple in 587 b.c.e. is not known. another mystery concerning the ark is its contents. the ark is said to contain numerous sacred relics, including the tablets of law from god that moses (14th.13th century b.c.e) brought back from mt. sinai; aaron fs rod, a kind of rounded stick that miraculously grew leaves as a sign of god fs trust in aaron, b

s of absalom. eventually, the ark was placed in the new temple of solomon in jerusalem. it was occasionally taken away from the temple for a battle or ceremony, but soon the ark was not allowed to leave the temple. as decades passed, the sacredness and powers of the ark were largely forgotten. when jerusalem was invaded and taken by babylonians led by king nebuchadnezzar ii (c. 630.562 b.c.e; the babylonian captivity of jerusalem is dated from 587 b.c.e, the whereabouts of the ark became a mystery. it was either destroyed along with the city or, as suggested in kings 4:25, taken to babylon as one of the spoils of victory. some biblical scholars theorize that those israelites still faithful to god were forewarned about the fall of jerusalem and moved the ark to safety. jeremiah is said to h

the great invaded jerusalem and took valuable items from the new temple, but the ark was not mentioned among them. one account has the illegitimate son of solomon and sheba stealing the ark about 1000 b.c.e. and hiding it in aksum, ethiopia, where it was guarded by a monk in a church. other stories have the ark being transported during a hebrew migration to abyssinia (ethiopia) that preceded the babylonian captivity. there, according to that version, the ark remained on an island in lake tana. with the spread of christianity throughout the roman world by 300 c.e, abyssinia was largely christian. later, during the sixteenth century, fierce battles were waged by invading muslim armies on the christian empire of abyssinia, causing much destruction, including the razing of monasteries on the

fter it came to rest and all those aboard disembarked safely is not mentioned in the bible. questions persist about where the ark finally landed. the bible cites the mountains of ararat, which could designate a region (then known as armenia) or a specific mountain peak. some biblical scholars locate it in kurdistan, an area that encompasses mt. ararat and parts of present-day turkey and iran. the babylonian account of the deluge in the epic of gilgamesh names mt. nisir in that region. after the ark came to rest, according to the gilgamesh epic, pilgrims would scrape off bitumen (a sealant against water) and make charms of it to guard against witchcraft. most evidence and sightings are based on locations on mt. ararat. as the christian religion spread in the first century, the christians of

d glossary 283 g l o s s a r y desecration when something sacred is treated in a profane or damaging manner. discarnate the lack of a physical body. coined from dis- and the latin stem carn, meaning flesh. the dispersion from the greek diaspora meaning to scatter or disperse. refers to the period in history when the jewish people were forced to scatter in countries outside of palestine after the babylonian captivity. dogma from greek stem word dogmat, meaning gopinion h or gtenet, h and from dokein, gto seem good. h a belief or set of beliefs, either political, religious, philosophical, or moral and considered to be absolutely true. druid someone who worships the forces of nature as in the ancient celtic religion. can also refer to a priest in the celtic religion. ecclesiasticism principl

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

n dynasty. it is about half life-size,and the style and workmanship show an advanced stage of metal-working. the eyes were originally inlaidwith limestone or shell for the white of the eye, and lapis lazuli for the iris. the head wears two horns, anumber which at a slightly later period would indicate that the wearer was an inferior deity; for, during manycenturies, the position of a deity in the babylonian pantheon was shown by the number of horns worn. thegreat gods and goddesses had seven horns, which is the reason that the divine lamb in the book ofrevelation was said to have seven horns. the two-horned deities of babylonia are so numerous that it islikely that they were originally the deities of the primitive inhabitants, who had to take a lower place whenthe great gods were introduce

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

yesod ysvd foundation, base, ground, principle, compilation malkuth mlkvth kingdom, dominion, realm, reign appendix two the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram. there are a number of variants of this ritual, which was the primary practical work of golden dawn initiates until their attainment of the grade of adeptus minor. it pre-dates even its jewish origins, and is to be found in a ancient babylonian text where the individual summons the four major deities to each of the four quarters to protect them. in essence, it is a statement of separation and preparation for esoteric work, but in daily life it is also a ritual of observation, and an attempt to awaken and identify with the observer within. although often cited as an ideal preparation for meditation work, i would recommend the a

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

e higher self27or the true transpersonal self whch is above and is unaffected by the thoughts from the mind-stream or the sensations of the body. it is that pure consciousness, the core of the self, that underlies all other aspects and functions of the psyche as well. all personal energy and consciousness issues from ths source. archetypes of the hgher self include omnipotent sky gods such as the babylonian marduk, the greek zeus, and the hebrew yahweh. 3. the conscious selfor "i" is the ego or point of self-awareness. it is the seat of personal identity that we organize our field of psychology and magic 125 awareness around. its function is to coordinate the vast amount of interior and exterior information that we acquire and to act as a intermediary between our internal and external real

f we were to add anything to assagioli's model it would be the body, or manifest psyche, which must be considered in a holistic psychology. mind and body are interrelated extensions of one another. just as physical discomfort can affect the mind, the mind, through focused visualization, can affect the body. archetypes of the manifest psyche include all earth deities, such as the egyptian geb, the babylonian ninhursag, and the greek demeter. assagiolifs division of the psyche is remarkably similar to the qabalistic model of the soul. like jung, he saw the pressing need for all human beings to achieve a balanced inner integration and true self-realization, and he outlined a system for achieving this goal in four stages: 1. thorough knowledge of one's personality. this includes a frank analys

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

stablished a covenstead of sorts in new york. in that story, published in weird tales in 1936, the cult leader is closely identified with chthonic forces, is described as "notorious, and linked to the strange fate that befell the protagonist, edward derby) supplementary material to 777 the chart that follows is based on research presently available to the editor with regard to sumerian and assyro-babylonian religions. entries in parentheses refer to the state of correspondences before the advert of the elder gods, the race of marduk; that is, it reflects the nature of the cosmos before the fall of marduk from heaven (names of zodiacal constellations are after budge's renderings) table vii [a.c] table xxv [s] 0. anu (tiamat) 1. sphere of the primum mobile enlil (absu) 2. sphere of the zodia

aire cuneiforme" babyloniaca paris, 1934 genouillac "les dieux de l'elam" recueil de travaux relatifs a la philologie et a l'archaeologie egyptiennes et assyriennes. paris, 1904 (ed. maspero) grant, k. aleister crowley and the hidden god new york, 1974 the magical revival new york, 1973 gray, j. near eastern mythology new york, 1969 griffith& thompson the leyden papyrus new york, 1974 hooke, s.h. babylonian and assyrian religion oklahoma, 1975 middle eastern mythology new york, 1975 king, l. babylonian magic and sorcery london, 1896 history begins at sumer new york, 1959 kramer, s.n. mythologies of the ancient world (ed) new york, 1961 sumerian mythology pennsylvania, 1972 laurent la magie et la divination chez les chaldeo- assyriennes paris, 1894 lenormant, f. science occult; la magie che

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

f love-songs aleister crowley excels. the following is from gthe star and the garter h: your lips are gathered up to mine; your bosom heaves with fearful breath; your scent is keen as floral wine, inviting me, and love, to death *the star and the garter, vol. iii, p. 11. also the following is charming in its simplicity: she has a lithe white body, slim and limber, fairy-like, a snake hissing some babylonian hymn tangled in the assyrian brake *the star and the garter, vol. iii, p. 10. a curious swinburnian strain of passion is found wedged in the satiric lines of gwhy jesus wept. h percy, the youth flatulent with love, chants to his angela. society. thus: to me she is the rosy incarnation of a kiss, the royal rapture of a young delight, the mazy music of virginity, sun of the day, moon of t

, however, or rather with the primal symbol of all numbers. 0 (zero, we shall deal. in a slender pamphlet entitled gberashith, h aleister crowley ontologically asserts the absoluteness of the qabalstic zero* let us as shortly as possible now see how he arrives at this ultimate genesis *berashith, vol. ii, p. 236. the ancient hebrew qabalah was as closely connected with assyriology, as it was with babylonian and egyptian thought, hindu mythology, and the philosophy of the vedas and upanishads; its conception of the supreme god was ineffable, for he bore neither name nor attribute, being beyond the power of human conception. over the face of the whole world we find earnest thought arriving at or towards such a conclusion. in ancient china we hear lao-tze declaring: gwhat is there superior in

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

manation beneath the throne of glory in the form of a double-faced androgynous angel, said to be in the form of the one above. lilith has a long history and a background in all magical practices. she is the one who is of the astral plane, of the air, and began all legends of vampiric acts committed at night. lilith grows strong from the blood of humans, but also has been worshiped by rebels since babylonian times. in the qlippoth lilith holds great power, the femal of samael is called serpent, woman of harlotry, end of all flesh, end of days. the name of baphomet is regarded by traditional satanists as meaning "the mistress (or mother) of blood- the mistress who sometimes washes in the blood of her foes and whose hands are thereby stained order of nine angles in some modern satanic orders

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

phere. this is caused by what is called the coriolis effect, and is a func- tion of the rotation of the earth acting upon moving masses of air at different latitudes. the effect is also seen in water swirling down a drain. the coriolis effect provides a physical basis for the different uses of dockwise and counterdockwise vortices in magic. the nature of the vortex explains why ancient hebrew and babylonian writ- ings said that god manifested out of a whirlwind. all creative acts of god must pass through the point by means of spiral motion. it is the only way to get from there to here. it is also why the dervishes of turkey spin themselves into delirium and call their god the axis of the world. i symbols of the spiral acting along the ray abound. the cone is the traditional headgear of the

ts fire farther away from its root essence. a triangle may be rotated so that any side acts as the base and any point as the apex. the opposite principles are in this way shown to be composed of the same stuff acting in reverse polarity. if the equilateral triangle is rotated rapidly, its three points trace the line of a circle, which has no top or bottom, illustrating that from table of triangle babylonian egyptian hindu creek roman teutonic christian motions colors elements heavens earth speech space anu osiris brahma chaos jupiter woden father linear red fire sun lightning subject up-down ea lsis siva gaea juno frija holy ghost rotary blue water moon rain verb left-right enlil horus vishnu eros minerva donar son vibratory yellow air star wind object front-back a change of perspective an

tagiriron (disputers)-belphegor 7. netzach: gharab tzerek (raveners)-baal 8. hod: samael (false accusers)-adrammelech 9. yesod: gamaliel (obscene ones)-lilith 10. malkuth: nahemoth (dolorous ones)-nahema this list differs slightly from that published in israel regardie's the golden dawn.18 regardie gives the order of qlippoth associated with malkuth as lilith. this might better be written in its babylonian plural form as lilitu, which is an order of succubi or night hags. there is sometimes confusion in ancient magic over whether a demon represents an entire class or a single individual. this confusion arose because individual demons, such as satan, were supposed capable of being in sever- al places at once. thus, during the witch-craze of the middle ages the devil was thought by some abl

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

r the past two centuries are of this type. almost all trance mediums had spirit guides. in the early days of the american spiritualist movement, when the old west was still being lived, it chapter sixteen: astral guides 281 became popular to adopt guides who identified themselves as the spirits of dead indians. in later decades, it grew more common for guides to identify themselves as egyptian or babylonian priests or sages. there was a huge rise of interest in anything egyptian around the period that the hermetic order of the golden dawn flourished, so we find that the astral guide of the sphere group of florence farr was identified as the "egyptian astral' and was believed by her group to be the spirit of a long-dead egyptian adept. spirits who profess to once have lived as human beings

say by the magician. the feast is wholly astral in nature. later in the ritual, bread and salt are physically offered, but this first offering consists of astral bread and astral wine. it is the imagination of the seer that creates the materials of the feast on the astral level, allowing the god anubis to acquire them. 230. griffith and thompson, leyden papyrus, 31. 294 soul flight in a ritual of babylonian oil magic, recorded in a jewish magical manuscript of the eighteenth century that is based on much older sources, the magician is instructed in the text to tell the child seer the following: and if he sees a man dressed in black tell him that he should put on white garments and return at once, and when he returns he shall say unto him: i command that thou shalt go at once to thy kingdom

ling with them."232 the methods of dealing with such deceptions in appearance mentioned by mathers involved the vibration of divine and angelic names, the making of signs of the elemental grades of the golden dawn, and the formation of pentagrams upon the air with various elemental associations. their purpose was to show to the spirit that the astral traveler 231. gaster and daiches, three works (babylonian oil magic, 20. 232. regardie, 460. chapter seventeen: etiquette in the astral world 295 had authority over the spirit, and to compel the spirit to present itself honestly and in harmony with the elemental level represented by the name or sign. returning to our analysis of the babylonian ritual, the magician tells the child what he is to say to the spirit who has put on white garments-th

is the boy's master, then by the master of the spirit, and finally by the king of the astral world within which the spirit resides. these names are not given in the ritual, presumably because they are specific to each spirit invoked, but during the practice of the ritual they would be voiced by the young seer. the use of compulsions i have quoted from these two rituals, one egyptian and the other babylonian, in order to show that this sort of astral offering was not unusual, but was a normal part of astral magic in ancient times. in my opinion, the second ritual suffers from a lack of good etiquette toward the spirit invoked. it seems poor manners to make a spirit fetch his own feast offering. this may have been the accepted practice, but it is better to rely on your guide, if you have one

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

they were expelled from it following an ancient conflict with our distant ancestors. many of their kind having escaped into underground systems, to other worlds, and even to other dimensions [the fifth dimension is most often identified] of this planet. aside from the ancient legends such as that of the cavern dwelling reptilian "nagas" of hindu tradition, the mayan serpent-god quetzalcoatl, the babylonian tales of "oannes- the amphibious humanoid from the sea, and the edenic account of the "serpent" race described in genesis chapter 3 [my personal favorite. are there any other hints that reptilian humanoids might have occupied the surface of the earth in prehistoric times? i have heard vague "legends" of ancient wars between humans and "other" creatures "of a different blood" that are wh

cted. when her parents came home they expressed concern because her eyes were glassy and her right eye seemed to have a cast. the sample pill proved to be a sulfa drug normally prescribed for infections of the urinary tract" the possible significance of the "sulfa" drugs will become apparent later on in these 'files. case file #9: from: robin collyns [article source/title uncertain..old sumerian, babylonian, egyptian, and greek legends refer to the "serpent" deities who were believed to have once resided in the "underworld. the garden of eden in this context takes on additional interest and significance, possibly of paramount importance. pristine legends from australia and the pacific islands offer innumerable references to serpent deities/beings who were anciently associated with the crea

hat the nazis took a positive symbol, the swastika, and turned it around to symbolise the negative. this is why the satanists invert the pentagram and why they use black to symbolise the darkness, hence their black mass. but they also reverse the symbolism of white and that is a powerfully negative colour to them. the satanic networks, under the names of their various deities, were created by the babylonian brotherhood to serve their needs. we have seen that the accounts of the watchers and their off spring, the nefilim, include references to their blood drinking activities. the brotherhood know that blood contains the life-force energy. drinking menstrual blood has always been a feature of the reptilian bloodlines because they need blood to live in this dimension. who are the draconians f

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

10 days, which was known to the chaldeans and greeks, a period after the expiry of which the eclipses of the moon recur similarly. it consists of 223 lunations. 69. the circumference of a globe has been fixed at 360 degrees, six sixties; the hour divided into 60 minutes, each of 60 seconds. the tartars had a period of 60 days, the chinese also. and the asiatics generally a period of 60 years. the babylonian great period was 3600 years, the naros multiplied by 6. the lily which in all the old annunciation pictures gabriel presents to the virgin has 6 leaves and the numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott flower shows 6 petals all alike, around a central threeheaded stigma, as is botanically correct. one of the three main divisions into which plants are arr

soul, the intellectual, irascible and epithymetic (desiring) and numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 4 most perfect virtues are produced. just as of the three intervals, length, breadth, and depth, there are four boundaries in corporeal existence point, line superficies and solid. it is called agelia, from agelai, herds, as groups of stars were called by the babylonian sages, over which herds ruled 7 angels. also phylakikos, guardian, because the seven planets direct and guide our universe. 73. also aegis, from pallas athene, or minerva, the bearer of the breastplate or aegis, also telesphoros, leading to the end, because the 7th month is prolific; and judgment, because their physicians looked for a crisis on the 7th day in many diseases. among other

WOLFSON ELLIOT ALEF MEM TAU KABBALISTIC MUSINGS ON TIME TRUTH AND DEATH

about making general claims with respect to the rabbinic sages, i feel confident that it is con- linear circularity (a)temporal poetics 63 ceptually sound, and even methodologically valid, to speak of a rabbinic notion of time that is intimately connected to understanding the revelation of torah as a recurring phenomenon. by way of illustration, consider the following declaration preserved in the babylonian talmud: r. judah began [to expound] the honor of torah, and he explicated the verse [moses and the levitical priests spoke to all israel, saying] silence! hear o israel! today you have become the people [of the lord, your god (deut 27:9. was the torah given to israel on that very day? was that day not at the end of the forty years? rather this is to teach you that the torah is cherished

rom mount sinai.56 leaving aside the redactional issues and the reasonable demand on the part of historically minded text scholars to locate this dictum diachronically on some chronological grid, it is not unwarranted to say that this statement gives voice to a religious belief (for lack of a better term) foundational to the reconstruction of judaism promoted and sanctioned by the palestinian and babylonian sages: study of torah demands that one be able to imagine each day as a recurrence of the sinaitic theophany, a reiteration of the past that induces the novelty of the present. the conception of time as the moment of unique repetition is elucidated further in the theme of reliving the experience of sinai as it appears in textual aggregates presumed to be earlier than the aforecited talm

by the man clothed in linen with the writing case at his waist. the individuals so inscribed are instructed by the angelic man to slay all those who are guilty. compliant with the biblical text, the mark (tau) empowers the faithful so that they may participate in the dispensation of divine judgment. the second interpretation attested in zohar, by contrast, is based on a homily transmitted in the babylonian talmud in the name of r. aha ben hanina.25 the narrative about god s punishing the jerusalemites in the ninth chapter of ezekiel is presented as the sole textual source for an exception to the theological axiom that a good measure (middah tovah) does not go forth from god and change into evil. according to the exegesis of r. aha, the man clothed in linen refers to gabriel,26 who was com

lose in time to the production of zoharic literature that may contribute to our understanding of this mystical doctrine as promulgated in the tightly knit circle of castilian kabbalists responsible for the literary fabrication of zohar. i refer to the commentary on the talmudic aggadah by todros ben joseph ha-levi abulafia.56 the opening line of abulafia s remarks on the relevant passage from the babylonian talmud bodes an auspicious beginning as he reminds the reader that in the words of the rabbis there are several deep secrets, several hidden mysteries, and several hidden matters. the secret, we soon learn, concerns the emanation of judgment from the left that parallels the emanation of mercy from the right. in abulafia s time, this idea was treated as one of the most recondite componen

account for the rabbinic sensibility regarding the timeless nature of time and the timely nature of timelessness. also relevant to this question is the analysis of agus, innere zeit, pp. 87 111, and the brief comments regarding the jewish indifference to time in funkenstein, perceptions, pp. 253 254. 22. palestinian talmud, berakhot 4:1, 7c (cited according to the editio princeps, venice 1523 24; babylonian talmud, rosh ha-shanah 9a; yoma 81b; sifra on leviticus, emor 14:5, 107b. in the latter case, the rabbinic ruling is derived exegetically from the scriptural admonition: on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall observe this your sabbath (lev 23:32. 23. babylonian talmud, rosh ha-shanah 9a; yoma 81b. 24. genesis rabbah, 9:14, p. 74. see parallel in pes

imensions. 30. see wolfson, language, eros, being, pp. xi xxxi. regarding the hermeneutic reversibility in rosenzweig, see idem, facing the effaced, pp. 55 63. 31. aristotle, problemata, 17.3, 916a 33. 32. the version i have cited is from freeman, ancilla, p. 40. see also kirk and raven, presocratic philosophers, p. 235; vernant, myth and thought, p. 87. 33. palestinian talmud, sheqalim 6:1, 49d; babylonian talmud, pesahim 6b. see also mekhilta de-rabbi ishmael, shirata, 7, p. 139; heschel, heavenly torah, pp. 240 243; schl ter, creative force, pp. 59 84. 34. foucault, death and the labyrinth, p. 33. 35. on the distinction between tehillah as beginning and re shit as principle, see maimonides, guide, 2.30, p. 348. see, for instance, kristeva, desire in language, p. 205: traditionally, time

nstruct us that in each and every moment he gives (be-khol et wa-et noten. 55. for discussion of this theme in later hasidic sources, see wolfson, cut that binds, pp. 108 110. on the nexus between the novelty of time and the rabbinic phenomenon of hiddush, innovative textual interpretation, see the account of temps talmudique as temps herm neutique in ouaknin, m ditations rotiques, pp. 80 82. 56. babylonian talmud, berakhot 63b. 57. for instance, see the interpretation of the formulation connected to the promise of the land of canaan to the israelites and has given it to you (exod 13:11) in mekhilta de-rabbi ishmael, bo, 18, p. 70: so that it should not be in your eyes like the inheritance of your fathers, but rather it should be in your eyes as if [ke-illu] it were given to you today. 58

gue, netivot olam, vol. 1, netiv ha-torah, ch. 3, p. 10. 73. judah loew of prague, tif eret yisra el, ch. 8, p. 132; idem, derekh hayyim, pp. 356, 434, 641. see also derashot maharal mi-pra ag, p. 31, where torah is designated sekhel iyyuni, the theoretical intellect. see ibid, pp. 8, 49, and esp. 54 55, where the rabbinic maxim that torah is not sustained except by one who kills himself over it (babylonian talmud, shabbat 83b, is interpreted in the following way: since torah is the absolute intellect [sekhel gamur, and the intellect is entirely separate from the body, how is it possible for two opposites to be in one subject, that is, the torah, which is an absolute intellect, and man who is 212 notes to pages 64 66 corporeal? therefore, it is impossible for the torah to exist except in o

same functionally approximates such a conception. see, for instance, will to power, sec. 462, p. 255: in place of metaphysics and religion, the theory of eternal recurrence (this as a means of breeding and selection. 89. stambaugh, nietzsche s thought, pp. 103 112. 90. see bregman, past and present, pp. 47 49; wolfson, iconic visualization, p. 141, and other references cited on p. 157 n. 37. 91. babylonian talmud, menahot 110a. 92. shalom dovber schneersohn, sefer ha-ma amarim 5663, vol. 2, p. 199. 93. al-qushayri thus referred to the sufi as the son of his moment, ibn waqtihi, that is, the sufi is distinguished by the fact that he lives fully in the moment in which he must fulfill his religious duty. see sells, early islamic mysticism, p. 100; rumi, mathnawi, 1:132 133, 3:1426. the intri

f binah, the third from the top, is called shiv at yamim, seven days, since it comprises the lower seven sefirot, which are the supernal days that correspond to the days of creation. 172. zohar 3:134b. see tishby, wisdom, p. 283. 173. the expression mi-qedem can assume two connotations: from the east (the sensus literalis of the verse) and from before (the meaning assumed by asher ben david. 174. babylonian talmud, rosh ha-shanah 32a. 175. asher ben david, r. asher ben david, p. 75. 176. this word is lacking in the printed editions that i consulted (berlin, 1850 and warsaw, 1890. i have restored it on the basis of the citation of azriel s passage in ibn gabbai, avodat ha-qodesh, 1:8, p. 17. 177. see n. 111, this chapter. 178. azriel of gerona, perush eser sefirot, 4a. see also r. azriel of

-hem, and to him one belongs, as opposed to the orthographic tradition (ketiv, we-lo ehad ba-hem, and not one of them. 199. haver, pithei she arim, pt. 1, seder ha-parsufim, 10, 84a. notes to pages 86 89 223 200. gruenwald, preliminary critical edition, p. 140, sec. 1. 201. the expression is derived from the aramaic blessing uttered by a galilean (galila ah) before rav hisda as it is preserved in babylonian talmud, shabbat 88a: berikh rahamana dihav orya n telita i le-am telita i al yedei telita i be-yom telita i be-yarha telita i, blessed be the merciful one who gave the threefold torah to the tripartite nation through the agency of the one who is third on the third day of the third month. this motif is found elsewhere in rabbinic texts, expressed, however, in the equivalent hebrew formul

anakh, the tripartite division of the canon: torah, nevi im, and ketuvim. 202. zohar 3:288b, 289a, 289b (idra zuta. in zohar 1:65a, there is reference to the will that is not known, which is also depicted as the head that is more concealed above. 203. haver, pithei she arim, gadlut di-ze eir anpin, 36, 53b. 204. ibid, seder ha-parsufim, 10, 83b. see ibid, netiv olam ha-tiqqun, 9 10, 68a 69b. 205. babylonian talmud, sanhedrin 97a. 206. that is, hadar, the last of the eight kings who reigned in the land of edom according to the delineation in genesis 36:31 39. 207. babylonian talmud, berakhot 17a. 208. tiqqunei zohar, introduction, 11b, and compare passage from ra aya meheimna in zohar 2:116a. 209. mishnah, avot 1:13. 210. elijah ben solomon, be ur ha-gr a le-sifra di-seni uta, p. 38. 211. s

lly means rides upon. my rendering reflects a metaphorical meaning of the semantic root rkhb known in the time of the composition of this kabbalistic treatise. a likely source would have been maimonides, guide, 1.70, p. 171; see discussion in wolfson, abraham abulafia, pp. 44 45. 214. tiqqunei zohar, sec. 70, 122b. 215. both connotations, ascend to and vanish in, are implied by the root slq. 216. babylonian talmud, berakhot 9b. 217. elijah ben solomon, tiqqunei ha-zohar im be ur ha-gr a, 141b. 218. the kabbalistic gnosis, it seems to me, is conveyed by the vedic wisdom expressed in the maitrayana-brahmana-upanishad, 6:14, cited in m ller, the upanisads, vol. 2, p. 317: he who worships time as brahman, from him time moves away very far. 219. menahem azariah of fano, yonat elem, ch. 38, in s

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a clear glass bottle with a stopper and send or give it to the sick person. they may drink it or use it in a bath* return the energies to the cosmos by placing yellow flowers or seeds in a pot for the golden energies if you used sunlight, and white flowers for the moon. colour healing colour has long been believed to have the power to influence not only our moods, but our physical well-being. the babylonians called the healing power of light 'the medicine of the gods. healing colours have been used for thousands of years in chinese treatments and in ayurveda, an ancient indian medicine. the ancient egyptians wore amulets of coloured stones: red to treat disease, yellow for happiness and prosperity, and green for fertility. colour healing is not just a fancy: we know for a fact that each be

spiritual and ecological or global focus. as you discover particular combinations that work well, you can add them to your book of shadows. planetary magical days of the week though i have written primarily about the significance of the different days, i have also listed the effects of the planetary hours. the planets have had a special place in both ritual magick and astrology, since the ancient babylonians and chaldeans first observed them wandering across the sky (the word 'planet' derives from the greek planetes, meaning 'wanderer) against the fixed constellations of the zodiac. the ancients knew of only five planets- mercury, venus, mars, jupiter and saturn. uranus, neptune and pluto were discovered only after the invention of the telescope and so have not assumed the importance in ma

influence of destructive lovers and possessiveness. also like the moon, the spells of venus are potent for fertility and for matters of women's health. venus is sometimes known as the morning or evening star and at her brightest she is the most brilliant object in the sky besides the sun and moon. for this reason, in many cultures she took the name of the goddess of beauty. she was ishtar to the babylonians, aphrodite to the greeks and her viking counterparts are the goddess frigg, the mother goddess, and freyja, maiden goddess of beauty and love, after one or both of whom friday is named. spells at the hour of venus are especially good for new love and the growth of self-love, for if we do not love ourselves we cannot love others creatively. element: earth colour: green, pink crystals: a

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ou who may watch you in its construction. being finished, it should be wrapped in a square of the finest silk and lain aside until such time as you desire its use, and then, it should be removed only when its light is in the sky. such is also the best time for its manufacture. the number of nebo is twelve and this is his seal: the goddess of venus is the most excellent queen inanna, called of the babylonians ishtar. she is the goddess of passion, both of love and of war, depending upon her sign and the time of her appearance in the heavens. she appears as a most beautiful lady, in the company of lions, and partakes of a subtle astral nature with the moon god nanna. when they are in agreement, that is, when their two plants are auspiciously arranged in the heavens, it is as two offering-cup

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anean and neighbouring world had been the scene of a vast number of pagan- 109- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust creeds and rituals. there were temples without end dedicated to gods like apollo or dionysus among the greeks, hercules among the romans, mithra among the persians, adonis and arris in syria and phrygia, osiris and isis and horus in egypt, baal and astarte among the babylonians and carthaginians, and so forth. societies, large or small, united believers and the devout in the service or ceremonials connected with their respective deities, and in the creeds which they confessed concerning these deities. and an extraordinarily interesting fact, for us, is that, notwithstanding great geographical distances and racial differences in the details of their services

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inscriptions, the proofs here cited are comparatively scanty; yet such as they are, they corroborate almost every one of our teachings, certainly three, at least. these are (1) that the race which was the first to fall into generation was a dark race (zalmat gaguadi, which they call the adami or dark race, and that sarku, or the light race, remained pure for a long while subsequently (2) that the babylonians recognised two principal races at the time of the fall, the race of the gods (the ethereal doubles of the pitris, having preceded these two. this is sir h. rawlinson's opinion. these "races" are our second and third root-races (3) that these seven gods, each of whom created a man, or group of men, were "the gods imprisoned or incarnated" these gods were: the god zi; the god ziku (noble

eity, and was worshipped as such, not alone at borsippa in his gorgeous temple, or planet-tower. he was likewise adored by the moabites, the canaanites, the assyrians, and throughout the whole of palestine: then why not by the israelites "the planetary temple of babylon" had "its holy of holies" within the shrine of nebo, the prophet god of wisdom. we are told in the hibbert lectures "the ancient babylonians had an intercessor between men and the gods. and nebo, was the 'proclaimer' or 'prophet' as he made known the desire of his father merodach" nebo is a creator, like budha, of the fourth and also of the fifth race. for the former starts a new race of adepts, and the latter, the solar-lunar dynasty, or the men of these races and round. both are the adams of their respective creatures. ad

christian devil, a piratical reprint from the chaldeo-judaean mythology- the primitive origin of this personification rests upon the akkadian conception of the cosmic powers- the heavens and the earth- in eternal feud and struggle with chaos. their silik-muludag "the god amongst all the gods" the "merciful guardian of men on earth" was the son of hea (or ea) the great god of wisdom, called by the babylonians nebu. with both peoples- as in the case of the hindu gods- their deities were both beneficent and maleficent. as evil and punishment are the agents of karma, in an absolutely just retributive sense, so evil was the servant of the good (hibbert lect. 1887, pp. 101-115. the reading of the chaldeo-assyrian tiles has now demonstrated it beyond a shadow of doubt. we find the same idea in th

the creator in his own realm as the spirit of the heavens. they were twin brothers and interchangeable in their functions, when not two in one. nothing of that which we find in genesis is absent from the chaldeo-assyrian religious beliefs, even in the little that has hitherto been deciphered. the great "face of the deep" of genesis is traced in the tohu-bohu "deep "primeval space" or chaos of the babylonians. wisdom (the great unseen god- called in genesis chap. i. the "spirit of god- lived, for the older babylonians as for the akkadians, in the sea of space. toward the days described by berosus, this sea became the visible waters on the face of the earth- the crystalline abode of the great mother, the mother of ea and all the gods, which became, still later, the great dragon tiamat, the s

" lama, meaning the wisdom ocean. abbe huc speaks of it[[vol. 2, page] 503 the myth of bel and merodach. local cataclysm, which swept the waters south and west and so formed the present great desolate desert, left only a certain oasis, with a lake and one island in the midst of it, as a relic of the zodiacal ring on earth. for ages the watery abyss- which, with the nations that preceded the later babylonians, was the abode of the "great mother (the terrestrial post-type of the "great mother chaos" in heaven, the parent of ea (wisdom, himself the early prototype of oannes, the man-fish of the babylonians- for ages, then, the "abyss" or chaos was the abode of wisdom and not of evil. the struggle of bel and then of merodach, the sun-god, with tiamat, the sea and its dragon, a "war" which ende

beginning with and ending with the manifesting vishnu, what other account of garuda's birth could be expected* vide revelation xvii, verses 2 and 10; and leviticus xxiii, verses 15 to 18; the first passage speaking of the "seven kings" of whom five have gone; and the second about the "seven sabbaths" etc[[vol. 2, page] 566 the secret doctrine. them from chaldea. this is more than likely. but the babylonians, who had all those cycles and taught them only at their great initiatory mysteries of astrological magic, got their wisdom and learning from india. it is not difficult, therefore, to recognize in them our own esoteric doctrine. in their secret computations, the japanese have the same figures in their cycles. as to the brahmins, their puranas and upanishads are a good proof of it. the l

for the non-initiated in comprehending correctly this cycle, which plays such an important part in st. john's revelation. it is the truly apocalyptic cycle; yet in none of the numerous speculations about it have we found anything but a few approximate truths, because of its being of various lengths and relating to various pre-historic events. it has been urged against the duration claimed by the babylonians for their divine ages, that suidas shows the ancients counting, in their chronological computations, days for years. dr. sepp in his ingenious plagiarism- exposed elsewhere- of the hindu 432 in thousands and millions of years (the duration of the yugas) which he dwarfed to 4,320 lunar years before the "birth of christ- as "foreordained" in the sidereal (besides the invisible) heavens

, and on which it lived and perished, showed the first symptoms of sinking. and it was in the miocene age, that it was finally destroyed- save the little island mentioned by plato. it is these points that have to be checked by the scientific data[[footnote(s* from a report of the "hibbert lectures, 1887. lectures on the origin and growth of religion, and illustrated by the religion of the ancient babylonians" by a. h. sayce (london: williams and norgate[[vol. 2, page] 694 the secret doctrine. a. modern scientific speculations about the ages of the globe, animal evolution, and man. may we not be permitted to throw a glance at the works of specialists? the work on "comparative geology: the world- life" by prof. a. winchell, furnishes us with curious data. here we find an opponent of the nebu

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se parturient and natural periods are found to have been subjects of symbolism all over the world. they were thus used by the hindus, and are found to be most plainly set forth by the ancient americans, in the richardson and gest tablets, in the palenque cross; and manifestly lay at the base of the formation of the calendar forms of the mayas of yucatan, the hindus, the assyrians, and the ancient babylonians, as well as the egyptians and old hebrews. the natural symbols. would be either the phallus or the phallus and yoni. or male and female. indeed, the words translated by the generalizing terms male and female, in the 27th verse of the 1st chapter of genesis are. sacr and n'cabrah, or literally, phallus and yoni* while the representation of the phallic emblems would barely indicate the g

nies. as thomas taylor* the most intuitional of all the translators of greek fragments, shows, no nation has ever conceived the one principle as the immediate creator of the visible universe, for no sane man would credit a planner and architect with having built the edifice he admires with his own hands. on the testimony of damascius[[peri archon) they referred to it as "the unknown darkness" the babylonians passed over this principle in silence "to that god" says porphyry, in[[peri apoches empsuchon "who is above all things, neither external speech ought to be addressed, nor yet that which is inward" hesiod begins his theogony with "chaos of all things was the first produced* thus allowing the inference that its cause or producer must be passed over in reverential silence. homer in his po

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

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is the gardnerian and that (in its present form) is only about thirty-five years old, as of this writing. not very old when we look at the whole picture of witchcraft. so if a gardnerian initiation (for example) can be considered "valid, then so can yours. circles a roman ambassador in a foreign country would draw a circle around himself with his staff, to show he should be safe from attack; the babylonians drew a circle of flour on the floor round the bed of a sick man, to keep demons away; german jews, in the middle ages, would draw a circle round the bed of a woman in labor, to protect her from evil spirits. the use of a circle to mark the boundary of an area which is sacred, is very ancient (e.g. stonehenge. but the circle not only keeps the unwanted out, it also keeps the wanted the

nds per hour (known as the acceleration on interval) must also be subtracted or added. with a person born, for example, in new york, further adjustment would be necessary since the ephemerides use g.m.t. as standard (e.g. 5:45 pm in new york would be 10:45 pm at g.m.t) example a person born at 11:45 am on august 31,1934, in new the zodiac as we know it is a combined invention of the egyptians and babylonians. above: an ancient egyptian map of the sky, the 'zodiac ofdenderah. astrology originally developed in mesopotamia and was more concerned with kings and peoples than with the destinies of individuals; above: a tablet giving astrological forecasts in cuneiform writing, derived from observations of the moon. from "man, myth& magic" york, would have the s.t. 10 hours 35 mins 54 sees (4:45

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a clear glass bottle with a stopper and send or give it to the sick person. they may drink it or use it in a bath* return the energies to the cosmos by placing yellow flowers or seeds in a pot for the golden energies if you used sunlight, and white flowers for the moon. colour healing colour has long been believed to have the power to influence not only our moods, but our physical well-being. the babylonians called the healing power of light 'the medicine of the gods. healing colours have been used for thousands of years in chinese treatments and in ayurveda, an ancient indian medicine. the ancient egyptians wore amulets of coloured stones: red to treat disease, yellow for happiness and prosperity, and green for fertility. colour healing is not just a fancy: we know for a fact that each be

spiritual and ecological or global focus. as you discover particular combinations that work well, you can add them to your book of shadows. planetary magical days of the week though i have written primarily about the significance of the different days, i have also listed the effects of the planetary hours. the planets have had a special place in both ritual magick and astrology, since the ancient babylonians and chaldeans first observed them wandering across the sky (the word 'planet' derives from the greek planetes, meaning 'wanderer) against the fixed constellations of the zodiac. the ancients knew of only five planets- mercury, venus, mars, jupiter and saturn. uranus, neptune and pluto were discovered only after the invention of the telescope and so have not assumed the importance in ma

influence of destructive lovers and possessiveness. also like the moon, the spells of venus are potent for fertility and for matters of women's health. venus is sometimes known as the morning or evening star and at her brightest she is the most brilliant object in the sky besides the sun and moon. for this reason, in many cultures she took the name of the goddess of beauty. she was ishtar to the babylonians, aphrodite to the greeks and her viking counterparts are the goddess frigg, the mother goddess, and freyja, maiden goddess of beauty and love, after one or both of whom friday is named. spells at the hour of venus are especially good for new love and the growth of self-love, for if we do not love ourselves we cannot love others creatively. element: earth colour: green, pink crystals: a

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y varieties. some were tall blond-haired, blue-eyed, types, while others took a reptilian form (see picture section for artists' impressions of these beings. these and others came here from constellations like orion, draco, andromeda, lyra, and bootes, and other locations like the pleiades, sirius, vega, zeta reticuli, arcturus, aldebaran, and elsewhere. australian aborigines, african tribes, the babylonians, and south american indians are just some of the diverse peoples who claim ancient connections with such places. the reptilians are a tall, mostly humanoid-type race, with snake-like eyes and skin and they are connected to the classic "greys" with the big black "eyes, which have become the very symbol of the "et. often these various extraterrestrial factions battled for supremacy in th

n the summer months was believed to be, in part, caused by sirius and so they became known as "dog days. the egyptian calendar was regulated by the movement of sirius (sothis to the greeks) and the sothic calendar was founded on the rising of sirius one minute before the sun, the so-called heliacal rising in the summer" the number 23 was important to the dogons, as it was to the egyptians and the babylonians. some researchers say this was connected to the 34 children of the matrix heliacal rising on july 23rd when sirius, the earth, and the sun are in a straight line. others speculate that this could create a "star gate" connection between the two systems, a sort of interdimensional (inter-density) portal. this moment was the beginning of the calendar for the new year in many cultures. it

word honeymoon comes from this. it spanned a lunar month, normally in may, which was named after the virgin maya, another version of el. the honeymoon would include the menstrual period of the bride and the combination of menstrual blood and honey was once thought to be the elixir of life. el is also the inspiration for the children's stories of mother hubbard or "mother hubur, as she was to the babylonians. mother hubbard was distressed because she couldn't find a bone for her dog (a domesticated wolf- mother hubur, also tiawath, was described as the "plague, the fearful dragon, the dragon which shines brightly, the female spirit who devours with a serpent's mouth. the other members of the serpent trinity in the edda, consort wodan and son balder, were major "gods" of the reptiliancontro

estament means "new balls. when we testify in court is the judge symbolically holding our testicles? you're right, don't lets go there. good thinking. suns of god tammuz was a name for the sumerian god dumazi or damu (the "only begotten son" or "son of the blood) who provided the blueprint for all the later sons of god, including jesus. the hebrews inherited tammuz (also known as adonis) from the babylonians and the roman records refer to tammuz as the chief god of the jews. the jewish calendar still has a month named after tammuz, who was known as "the serpent who emanated from the heaven-god, anu."3 and anu was the head of 198 children of the matrix the anunnaki, the sumerian tablets say. the mesopotamian kings were said to be of the bloodline of tammuz, just as sir laurence gardner clai

gon called leviathan, hence levite.6 yhvh's serpent form was also known as nehushtan or "brazen serpent" by the levites and they placed golden and brass images of this deity on the altars of hebrew temples.7 excavations have discovered bronze and copper serpent symbols in former levite temples. the mythical story of moses and the brazen serpent set upon a cross is symbolic of this same theme. the babylonians had inherited the stories and myths of egypt and sumer, and now they would reappear in a twisted form in the texts that would later become the old testament. genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy, which together make up the "jewish" torah, were all written by the levites, or under their supervision, during or after the captivity in babylon when the levites joined forces

rince, and there are fundamental connections between the hebrews and both egypt and babylon. after all, the people who became known as the hebrews came from 200 children of the matrix within the same sumer empire that included the lands we now call israel or palestine. they were just an expression of the same empire and doubtless the priesthood of the sumerians, egyptians, hebrews, sumerians, and babylonians, were connected by the same brotherhood networks going back to atlantis and lemuria. the sumerian priesthood were the middlemen between the people and the reptilian "gods" and so, in the end, were the others. the invented story of the "exodus" was written to obscure the truth of what really happened in egypt and there is no historical record outside of the levite texts, nor any archaeo

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

dwith a lamb at his feet and placed in a cave. when a rockwas rolled away from the caves entrance three days later,his body had disappeared. heard that somewhere before?this husband-wife-son theme of nimrod-semiramis-andninus/tammuz became the osiris-isis-horus mythologyof the egyptians with its equivalent in india, asia, china and elsewhere. much later itwould be joseph, mary and jesus. when the babylonians held their spring rites to markthe death and resurrection after three days of tammuz-ninus, they offered bunsinscribed with a solar cross. yes, even the hot cross buns of british easter traditioncome from babylon. easter comes from another face of queen semiramis- ishtar -andit is from this, and possibly another brotherhood deity, ashtaroth, that we get the nameof ashtar as in ashtar c

rod-tammuz. tam means to perfect andmuz means to burn. you can see the symbolism of tammuz-moloch, therefore, in therituals of burning children alive in honour of this deity which, staggeringly, still go ontoday. the beltane ritual later performed in britain by the druids on may 1st, may day,involved the burning of children in the belly of a huge wicker effigy of a man. this wasinherited from the babylonians when the brotherhood expanded across europe. indeedit may well be that the reptilians had once based themselves in what is now the unitedkingdom and ireland before they moved their main focus to the near east and africa.the feast of tammuz was on june 23rd and celebrated his ascension from theunderworld. when he was resurrected, tammuz was known as oannes, the fish god,and oannes is a

sisted that irish druidswere the snake priests of the phoenician seafarers. this would certainly explain theorigin of the balor of the evil eye, the irish version of the north african god baal,and the celebration in may of the baal ritual, beltane. the evil eye relates to thehypnotic stare of the reptilians. the sun god of the phoenicians was bel or bil andlater became known by the canaanites and babylonians as baal- nimrod. thedruids became the carriers of the mystery school tradition in britain, ireland andfrance or britannia, eire and gaul as they were then called, and some of thembecame deeply corrupted by the influence of the reptile-human bloodlines of thebabylonian brotherhood which established control of the aryan priesthood as thecenturies passed. the origin of the word druid is n

of the world dominated bychristianity and judaism and so i shall take those as the main examples of how symbolicstories have become literal truths and how the manipulation of these stories has producedthe most powerful form of mass mind control yet invented.to understand the true background to the religions, we need to appreciate the basisof all ancient religion going back to the phoenicians, the babylonians and beyond. itwas the sun. the hierarchy focused on the sun because, as i outlined earlier, theyunderstood its true power as an amazing generator of electromagnetic energy which isaffecting our lives and behaviour every second of every day the sun contains 99% ofthe mass of this solar system. just think about that. the sun is the solar system andwhen it changes, we change. understandin

biblical texts and they are certainly not credible. so where did they come from?the old testamentin 721 bc, it appears that israel was overrun by the assyrians and the israelites orcanaanites were taken into captivity. however, the tribes known by official history asjudah and benjamin, survived for more than a hundred years after that, before they81were conquered and captured by our friends, the babylonians, in around 586 bc. it wasin babylon, that ancient capital city of the reptile-aryan priesthood and hierarchy, thatthe hebrew priests, the levites, began to create a manufactured history which obscuredthe truth of what really happened. i mean, ask yourself, is a brotherhood who arrangedfor the destruction of ancient knowledge and libraries all over the world going to writedown the true

s under the direction of the reptile full-bloods and crossbreeds of the babylonianbrotherhood. the sumerian tablets prove beyond question that genesis was a muchedited and condensed version of sumer records. the sumerian story of edin became thelevites biblical garden of eden. remember the story of moses being found in thebulrushes by the egyptian princess? the same tale was told by the sumerians-babylonians about king sargon the elder. the story of moses is make-believe, as is theegyptian captivity, the exodus, at least in the form described, and also the creation ofthe 12 tribes via jacob.these texts were written by the levites, the heads of which were reptilian mysteryschool initiates in babylon. their stories are symbolic and coded for initiates tounderstand and the masses to take lite

ecrophiliaroom, and one known as the underground lounge, spelt as u.n.derground on thesign. ive seen a covertly taken picture of robed men at bohemian grove standingalongside a large fire worshipping a 40 foot stone owl (see picture section. the owl isthe symbol of moloch or molech, an aspect of nimrod/baal. moloch demands thesacrifice of children and it was to this deity that the children of the babylonians,hebrews, canaanites, phoenicians and carthaginians, were sacrificially burned. thispicture provided visual support for the claims over many years that druid rituals werebeing performed at the grove with people in red robes marching in procession chantingto the great owl, moloch. the romans called the owl by the same word that meantwitch. the greeks said the owl was sacred to athene, th

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(making 180 degrees from the southern horizon to the northern horizon. multiplying 8 by 9 (to get the number of angles created by the division of the eight cardinal points with the nine angular points) gives a total of 72, the traditional number of lords of the djinn, powerful spirits of air and fire described in the goetia of solomon as bound by solomon in a brazen vessel but later freed by the babylonians. these 72 demonic spirits rule over the angles of the earth, and therefore over all the spirits which dwell upon the earth. initial statement i have crossed the gates of hell and have become the devil incarnate. i am satan; i am lucifer; i am belial; and i am leviatan. i shall invoke the eight sub-princes of hell. i shall invoke the *first of the eight sub-princes of hell *or second, o

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ister crowley, see my response to a visitor's e-mail, what is coronzon, elsewhere on this site. return he home resources demons bios fiction tyson the truth about demons (beast with seven heads and ten horns from revelation) in general, a demon may be defined as a malicious spirit who does harm to human beings. in this sense, demons have been recognized since the time of the ancient sumerians and babylonians. the culture of the mesopotamian valley was particularly rich in demon lore. demons were usually the spirits of natural forces such as fire, plagues, droughts, infant crib death, and diseases, and often took the form of fantastically-shaped creatures made up of a conglomeration of parts from dangerous or dreaded living things such as scorpions, serpents, lions, hawks, and so on. for ex

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of lots, was often resorted to by the caste of augurs. the election of magistrates was nearly always referred to the diviners, as was the dispatching of an army for war and the passing of laws. in the east divination generally appears to have been effected by crystal gazing, dreams, and similar methods of selfhallucination or self-hypnotism. divination flourished in chaldea and assyria among the babylonians and ethiopians, and appears to have been much the same as in egypt. in the jewish talmud witches were said to divine by means of bread crumbs. among the arabs, the future was often foretold by means of the shapes seen in sand. the burmese and siamese pierced an egg at each end, and having blown the contents onto the ground, traced within them the outline of things to be. divination by

imals to the gods, then inspect the intestines, spleen, kidneys, lungs, gall bladder, and liver. the shapes, colors, and markings of entrails were interpreted. skilled haruspices or diviners also claimed to be able to interpret the condition of entrails from the outward appearances of animals, such as colors and shapes of eyes, ears, and other organs. haruspicy was practiced by ancient assyrians, babylonians, and etruscans, as well as by african and south american tribes. alternative terms for haruspicy include aruspicy and extispicy. divination involving the liver of animals is a special branch of haruspicy called hepatoscopy. hasted, john b(arrett (1921) british physicist who conducted important research in parapsychology and paraphysics. hasted began his professional training as a chemi

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ely for some time, then meeting at a place called bahlaka, or balk. two gigantic statues, which the moslems said were yet to be seen between bahlaka and bamiyan, represented adam and eve. a third statue was that of their son seish or seth, whose tomb, or its site, was pointed out near bahlaka. some writers maintained that paradise was under the north pole. they argued over the idea of the ancient babylonians and egyptians that the ecliptic or solar way was originally at right angles to the equator, and so passed directly over the north pole. some moslems speculated that it was in one of the seven encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. paradise 1179 heavens. one commentator summed up extravagant theories respecting the locality of paradise. some place it as follows: in the third

ship manual of services. los angeles: self-realization fellowship, 1965. yogananda, swami paramahansa. autobiography of a yogi. new york: philosophical library, 1946. reprint, los angeles: self-realization fellowship, 1971. descriptive outlines of yogoda. los angeles: yogoda satsang society, 1928. the semites this entry on the semites applies to the more ancient divisions of the race, such as the babylonians and assyrians, and the hebrews in biblical times. for later semitic occultism, see arabs and kabala. in ancient babylonia and chaldea, magic was a department of priestly activity. in mesopotamia a sect of priests named the asipu were set apart for the practice of magic, which in their case probably consisted of hypnotism, the casting out of demons, the banning of troublesome spirits an

an legends speak of a prehistoric race that was ruled by 72 monarchs by the name of suleiman. nineteenth-century occultist john yarker, author of the arcane schools (1909, stated: it does not seem that these suleimans who are par excellence the rulers of all djinn, afreets and other elemental spirits, bear any relationship to the israelite king. the name, he said, is found in that of a god of the babylonians. dr. kenealy, the translator of hafiz, said that the earliest aryan teachers were named mohn, bodles, or solymi, and that suleiman was an ancient title of royal power, synonymous with sultan or pharaoh. a persian legend states that in the mountains of kaf, there is a gallery built by the giant arzeak, where there are statues of a race who were ruled by the suleiman or wise king of the

spells to procure some minor end. love spells were engraved on metal tables by the gnostics and the magicians of the middle ages. instances of these are to be found in the book of the sacred magic of abraham the jew. spells were often employed to imprison evil spirits. jewish folklore has many opinions and legends relating to this subject, which appear to have derived in a great measure from the babylonians. the ancient historian josephus affirmed that it was generally believed by his countrymen that solomon left behind many spells that had the power of terrifying and expelling evil spirits. some of the old rabbis also described solomon as an accomplished magician. it is possible that the belief in the power of spells and incantations became general among the hebrews during the captivity

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

s of the sea. n.p, 1977. vehm-gerichte encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1632 veltis an evil spirit who assaulted st. margaret of cortona (died 1297, but was overcome by her. on being asked by st. margaret who he was and whence he came, he replied: my name is veltis, and i am one of those whom solomon by virtue of his spells, confined in a copper cauldron at babylon, but when the babylonians, in the hope of finding treasure dug up the cauldron and opened it, we all made our escape. since that time our efforts have been directed to the destruction of righteous persons, and i have long been striving to turn thee from the course thou hast embraced. verdelet said to be a demon of the second order, master of ceremonies at the infernal court. he was charged with the transport of

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f lachish circa 701 bce. the sinatic alphabet could have evolved as an alphabetic representation of the twentysix sumerian cuneiform ciphers, the world s oldest known nonalphabetic language.2 by the time the current torah was redacted, the original sinatic hebrew alphabet had long been extinct. after hundreds 04' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% of years of religious and cultural repression under the assyrians, babylonians, and romans, the original biblical hebrew had faded from the memories of the jews. as a solution, the final redactor (i.e. ezra) chose to record the torah in a new alphabet that would be more recognizable to the generations of jews who had long forgotten the original. it was derived by using the twenty-two letter format of the old hebrew alphabet, with letter forms synthesized from the

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as necessary for the religious experience, quoting moses' vision in solitude, and proclus on rising to the vision of the intelligible essence in solitude.7 this becomes the basis of bruno's first "contraction" mentioning among those who in solitude have achieved the vision and gained marvellous powers, moses, jesus of nazareth, ramon lull, and the leisured contemplators amongst the egyptians and babylonians, and he introduces attacks on those who have destroyed the leisure and peace necessary for the con- 1 see below, pp. 284-5. 21 give the work this title to cover its three parts; see above, p. 205, note 1. 3 see above, p. 206* it will be treated more fully in the book which i hope to write on the art of memory. 5 these are a combination of mnemonic "place" systems with magical figures

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present the tree of the knowledge of good and evil- the eternal complementary forces in life without which nothing can be. this symbolism is an excessively ancient one thus, in the norse mythology we find the mystic tree yggdrasil, the roots of which are in the material world and the branches of which reach up to asgard, the happy dwelling of the gods. again, amongst the akkadians, chaldeans, and babylonians we find the world tree, or tree of life, which gstood mid-way between the deep and zikum h- the primordial heaven above. in hindu mythology there is also a world tree- the lingam-and in buddhist the bodhi tree, or tree of wisdom under which buddha sat in meditation. finally, that masterpiece of gothic architecture the cathedral probably finds its origin in the tree-trunks and overhangi

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red upon, the simple conception of a creative agency originally entertained became obscured, mankind began to speculate on the nature and attributes of the two principles by which everything is produced, and to dispute over their relative importance in the office of reproduction. much light has been thrown upon these speculations by the kosmogonies which have come down to us from the phoenicians, babylonians, and other peoples of past ages. in the phoenician kosmogony, according to the mokh doctrine as recorded by philo, out of the kosmic egg toleeleth (female "sprang all the impregnation of creation and the beginning of the universe" in this exposition of the beginnings of things, it is distinctly stated that the spirit which in after ages came to be regarded as something outside or above

emus, the pupil of aristotle, the beginning of the universe was called tauthe, which being interpreted means "mother of the gods" associated with her sometimes appears the male principle--apason. in the history of berosus, there is given an account of oaunes--a mythical teacher of babylon, who appeared with the head of a human being and the body of a fish or serpent. this personage brought to the babylonians all the knowledge which they possessed. oaunes wrote "concerning the generation of mankind, of their different ways of life, and of their civil polity" he it was who gave the above account of creation. he says that finally omoroka, or thalatth, the woman who existed before the creation, was divided, one half of her forming the heavens "the other half the earth "all this" berosus declar

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.thewordsun-dialis translated from moluth, which is really steps. so it has been argued that beside the palace of ahaz was a staircase, upon the steps of which the sun cast a moving shadow. even if this was the case, the sun must have turned back to carry the shadow. still, ahaz may have imported from babylon a rudimentary sun-dial, but if so it would have had divisions of two hours each, for the babylonians divided thenuctemeron,night and day of 24 hours, into 12 parts orkaspuof 2 hours each. the hebrews always spoke of 'evening and morning, and not of 'morning and evening' to form a day, as in genesis i, 5. in the time of the222themagical masonjudges, the jews divided the day into four parts, and the night into three watches, but after the captivity into 4 watches, as when jesus walked u

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f the kabbalah. in ancient israel we have the sethian form of kabbalah, the ariosophic mysteries (ario meaning aryan and sophic meaning wisdom, while at the same time, among the outskirts of the kingdoms of israel were those who followed the cainite traditions, the distorted teachings which belonged to the lower world. after israel was taken into captivity, first by the assyrians, and then by the babylonians they became scattered. it was during this diaspora the myth of the lost ten tribes began. according to the recent research, as the ten tribes travelled, they changed their names and identities and slowly took on new traditions, many completed their migration in ireland, england and other european countries. hence gnostic theurgy page 89 the ariosophic mysteries travelled all over the g

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hools. the chaldaeaa sun-god, mithra, was called 'triple' and the trinitarian idea of the chaldaeans was a doctrine of the akkadians, who themselves belonged to a race which was the first to conceive a metaphysical trinity. according to rawlinson, the chaldaeans are a tribe^ the akkadians, who lived in babylonia from the earliest times. they were turanians, according to others, and instructed the babylonians in the first notions of religion. but these same akkadians, who were theyp those s
who were theyp those stradition worthy of credence is that these akkadians iostnicted the babylonians in the mysteries, and taught them the sacerdotal or 3f jf fon/-language. these akkadians were then simply a tribe -of the hindfi-br&hmanas, now called aryans their vernacular language, the sanskrit" of the vedas; and their sacred or mystery-language, that which, even in our own age, is used by the hindq fakirs and initiated br&hmanas in their magical evocations* it has been from time i

pean critics] it is far easier to* 86 (mrmial and tan^ume sbiditt, p. 138, 87. ibid, pp. 147. 3. 88. l. jaoouiot: ckritiiut ti u ckriit, p. 339. digitizecoy google isis unveiled pull to pieces than to build up. is nowhere truer than in matters affecting the archaeology and history of india* babylonia happened to be situated on the way of the great stream of the earliest hindfl emigration, and the babylonians were one of the first peoples benefited thereby" these khaldi were the worshipers of the moon-god, deus-lunus, from which fact we may infer that the akkadi- ans if such must be their name: belonged to the race of the kings of the moon, whom tradition shows as having reigned in praydga now allah&bad. with them the trinity of deus-lunus was manifested in the three lunar phases, completin

priests, then the doctrine taught by him was but a portion of the' secret doctrine' taught by the pagan hiero- pbants to the few select adepts admitted within the sacred adyta. but we will discuss this question farther on. for the present we will endeavor briefly to indicate the extraordinary cnmilarity or rather identity of rites and ceremonial dress of the christian clergy with those of the old babylonians, assyrians, phoenicians, egyptians, and other pagans of hoary antiquity. if we would find the model of the papal tiara, we must search the records of the ancient assyrian tablets. we invite the reader to give his attention to dr. imnan's illustrated work. ancient pagan and modem chruhan sfftnmiem. on page sixty-four he will readily recognise the head-gear oi the successor of st. peter

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f the sacred mystic suggestions implied in both, as well as the inflections in design of these unlikely, repulsive figures for serious worship, prove that there was something very extraordinary, and quite beyond belief to the moderns, in the origin of them. the religion of the phallos (and of its twin emblem) is to be traced all over the east. it prevailed not only amongst the hindoos, assyrians, babylonians, mexicans, etruscans, greeks, and romans, in ancient times, but it still forms an integral part of the worship of india, thibet, china, siam, japan, and africa. we cannot, therefore, afford to ignore this grand scheme of ritual, when we discover it to be a religion so widely spread, and reappearing so unexpectedly, not only in the countries with which we are contemporaneously acquainte

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cient 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 other. this moment is described as the evolution of different languages. thus, hatred drew them apart, and they were scattered all

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 other. this moment is described as the evolution of different languages. thus, hatred drew them apart, and they were scattered all over the world. yet, in one of those babylonians, a man named abraham, there surfaced a desire to know the secret of life, along with the growth of the ego. it was the same desire that had first appeared in adam. until that point, abraham had been helping his father build idols and sell them. but once he began to feel that the idols no longer satisfied his growing desire, he began to search for higher forces. this story symbolizes ab

s performing mitzvot (keeping commandments. this refers to changing the intention with which we use our desires, not to any physical actions. the method for achieving equilibrium with nature, beyond the ego, was discovered by abraham. it is called the wisdom of kabbalah. sefer yetzira (the book of creation) is also ascribed to abraham. abraham began to teach this wisdom to his people, the ancient babylonians. it was written that abraham the patriarch would bring them into his home, give them food and drink, and would bring them closer (bereshit raba 84:4. however, most of the people did not take interest in correcting their egos. but after abraham and his wife, sarah, made considerable efforts to teach the correction method, they managed to organize a group of people that became the first

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

ays the psalmist (ps. 74:13, and the lord. shall slay the dragon that is in the sea (isa. 27:1. moreover, in psalms 91:13, the saints shall trample the dragon under their feet. the battle between yahweh and the dragon is very popular in the visions of the later hebrew prophets, although the dragon usually embodies a purely symbolic meaning as the enemy of israel, that is to say the assyrians, the babylonians, or the egyptians. an account of god s hostility toward pharaoh is reported by the prophet ezekiel, who speaks of pharaoh as the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams (ezek. 29:3, into whose jaws he will put hooks and whom he will have thrown into the wilderness. elsewhere in the old testament, the dragon is represented also as a symbol of mourning and desolation. one of t

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

st (ps. 74:13, and the lord. shall slay the dragon that is in the sea (isa. 27:1).moreover, in psalms 91:13, the saints shall trample the dragon under their feet. the battle between yahweh and the dragon is very popular in the 150 leviathan visions of the later hebrew prophets, although the dragon usually embodies a purely symbolic meaning as the enemy of israel, that is to say the assyrians, the babylonians, or the egyptians. an account of god s hostility toward pharaoh is reported by the prophet ezekiel, who speaks of pharaoh as the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, into whose jaws he will put hooks leviathan (dover pictorial series) limbo 151 and whom he will have thrown into the wilderness. elsewhere in hebrew scriptures, the dragon is represented also as a symbol of

h 14:12: how art thou fallen from heaven, o lucifer, son of the morning. just as the brilliancy of lucifer surpasses that of all other stars in the firmament, so the splendor of the king of babylon surpasses that of all other oriental monarchs. the authors of the earlier books of hebrew scriptures (the old testament, however, knew nothing of fallen angels or evil angels, and did not mention them. babylonians and assyrians personified the morning star as belit and istar. others have speculated that the phrase son of the morning might refer to the crescent moon.others argue for an identification with the planet jupiter. the devil acquired the name lucifer when the early christian theologians tertullian and st. augustine identified him with the falling star in the passage from isaiah 14:12 qu

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nts, it incarnates in the physical body- hades--where the mistress of that body heaps every form of sorrow and misery upon the imprisoned consciousness. the waters of life--the secret doctrine--cure the diseases of ignorance; and the spirit, ascending again to its divine source, regains its god-given adornments as it passes upward through the rings of the planets. another mystery ritual among the babylonians and assyrians was that of merodach and the dragon. merodach, the creator of the inferior universe, slays a horrible monster and out of her body forms the universe. here is the probable source of the so-called christian allegory of st. george and the dragon. the mysteries of adonis, or adoni, were celebrated annually in many parts of egypt, phoenicia, and biblos. the name adonis, or ado

supreme authority of the creator himself. from a deep philosophic consideration of the powers and principles of the sun has come the concept of the trinity as it is understood in the world today. the tenet of a triune divinity is not peculiar to christian or mosaic theology, but forms a conspicuous part of the dogma of the greatest religions of both ancient and modern times. the persians, hindus, babylonians, and egyptians had their trinities. in every instance these represented the threefold form of one supreme intelligence. in modern masonry, the deity is symbolized by an equilateral triangle, its three sides representing the primary manifestations of the eternal one who is himself represented as a tiny flame, called by the hebrews yod. jakob b hme, the teutonic mystic, calls the trinity

other in the zodiac, their symbolism is often closely intermingled. the hon. e. m. plunket, in ancient calendars and constellations, says "the scorpion (the constellation scorpio of the zodiac opposed to taurus) joins with mithras in his attack upon the bull, and always the genii of the spring and autumn equinoxes are present in joyous and mournful attitudes" the egyptians, the assyrians, and the babylonians, who knew the sun as a bull, called the zodiac a series of furrows, through which the great celestial ox dragged the plow of the sun. hence the populace offered up sacrifice and led through the streets magnificent steers, bedecked with flowers and surrounded with priests, dancing girls of the temple, and musicians. the philosophic elect did not participate in these idolatrous ceremonia

na as described by herodotus, its seven walls colored according to the seven planets, revealed the knowledge of this subject possessed by the persian magi. the famous zikkurat or astronomical tower of the god nebo at borsippa ascended in seven great steps or stages, each step being painted in the key color of one of the planetary bodies (see lenormant's chaldean magic) it is thus evident that the babylonians were familiar with the concept of the spectrum in its relation to the seven creative gods or powers. in india, one of the mogul emperors caused a fountain to be made with seven levels. the water pouring down the sides through specially arranged channels changed color as it descended, passing sequentially through all shades of the spectrum. in tibet, color is employed by the native arti

ies among the pagans was said to take place only in the sign of the scorpion. in the papyrus of ani (the book of the dead, the deceased likens his soul to a scorpion, saying "i am a swallow, i am that scorpion, the daughter of ra" elizabeth goldsmith, in her treatise on sex symbolism, states that the scorpions were a "symbol of selk, the egyptian goddess of writing, and also [were] revered by the babylonians and assyrians as guardians of the gateway of the sun. seven scorpions were said to have accompanied isis when she searched for the remains of osiris scattered by set (typhon. in his chaldean account of the genesis, george smith, copying from the cuneiform cylinders, in describing the wanderings of the hero izdubar (nimrod, throws some light on the scorpion god who guards the sun. the t

upon the painted greek vases. the primitive custom of worshiping the gods in the form of heaps of stones gave place to the practice of erecting phallic pillars, or cones, in their honor. these columns differed widely in size and appearance. some were of gigantic proportions and were richly ornamented with inscriptions or likenesses of the gods and heroes; others- like the votive offerings of the babylonians--were but a few inches high, without ornament, and merely bore a brief statement of the purpose for which they had been prepared or a hymn to the god of the temple in which they were placed. these small baked clay cones were identical in their symbolic meaning with the large herm set up by the roadside and in other public places. later the upper end of the column was surmounted by a hu

hese are the problems to the solution of which the ancients consecrated their temples of learning. who shall say that they did not answer those questions? who would recognize the answers if given? is it possible that under the symbols of alchemy and astrology lies concealed a wisdom so abstruse that the mind of this race is not qualified to conceive its principles? the chaldeans, phoenicians, and babylonians were familiar with the principles of alchemy, as were many early oriental races. it was practiced in greece and rome; was the master science of the egyptians. khem was an ancient name for the land of egypt; and both the words alchemy and chemistry are a perpetual reminder of the priority of egypt's scientific knowledge. according to the fragmentary writings of those early peoples, alch

life" augustus le plongeon, in his sacred mysteries among the mayas and quiches, notes that the crux ansata, which he calls the key to the nile and the symbol of symbols, either in its complete form or as a simple tau, was to be seen adorning the breasts of statues and bas-reliefs at palenque, copan, and throughout central america. he notes that it was always associated with water; that among the babylonians it was the emblem of the water gods; among the scandinavians, of heaven and immortality; and among the mayas, of rejuvenation and freedom from physical suffering. concerning the association of this symbol with the waters of life, count goblet d'alviella, in his migration of symbols, calls attention to the fact that an instrument resembling the crux ansata and called the nilometer was u

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panecas (of columbia)mormonsmikados of japan (decent from the sun)sumerians (sargon the great)semites (moses, isaac, john and jesus, abrahamthe name means father is high)greeks (hesiod theogony, pindar. in plato, the deluge of deucalion)appendix b: book abstracts190atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation chinese (in the pwan-ku, or reign of chaos, states that people lived underground)babylonians and akkadiansindians (indra versus vritra and the battles between the asas and the asuras or gods and demons)russianscelts (in the deluge of ogyges and the journey of bran, of the coming of the tuatha de dannan, the creation of the isle of man, etc.scriptures and texts that mention earth devastationbooks of genesis, job, and revelationthe ramayana and the mahabharatathe shastrasthe v e

y moved great blocks of stone.(from ancient history of the east, v ol 2, p. 269, lenormant and chevalier)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation199 appendix b: book abstracts lenormant goes on to comment:in these legends we find traces of a wealthy nation, constructors of great buildings, with an advancedcivilization, analogous to that of chaldea, professing a religion similar to the babylonians; a nation, inshort, with whom material progress was allied to great moral depravity and obscene rites (p. 277)ptah a god of highest veneration who was an artificer of stone and metal.indian recordsand how could the sanskrit writings have preserved maps of ireland, england, and spain, giving theshape and outline of their coasts, and their very names, and yet have preserved no memory of

control of asgard. golden asgard with its palaces wasdestroyed by flames while its queens were inside. the gods died fighting and the gotterdamerungensued (p. 66)indiathe social system of india drifted into the caste system that they have there today. the gods are still ontop today (p. 67)serpent cultthe following peoples identified themselves with the serpent:druids, chiefs of v otan (popul vuh, babylonians, cretans, the pharaohs, the indians and israelites.(see p. 68.)appendix b: book abstracts242atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation there are no snakes on most of the islands and there never were. so how did the image and name ofit come into the civilizations that existed on these islands?the ascendancy of jehovahafter the catastrophe that removed the gods from the human a

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tain vessels of drink-offering, whilst the drink-offering is in _the golden horns" in which we readily discover the mystic and obscure allusion to the autumnal serpent pursuing the sun along the circle of the zodiac, to the celestial cup or crater, and the golden horns of virgil's milk-white bull; and, a line or two further on, we find the priest imploring the victorious _beli, the sun-god of the babylonians. with the serpent, in the ancient monuments, is very often found associated the cross. the serpent upon a cross was an egyptian standard. it occurs repeatedly upon the grand staircase of the temple of osiris at phil; and on the pyramid of ghizeh are represented two kneeling figures erecting a cross, on the top of which is a serpent erect. the _crux ansata_ was a cross with a coiled ser

golden age, whose looks held commerce with the skies, and who watched the radiant rulers bringing winter and summer to mortals, might be said with poetic truth to live in immediate communication with heaven, and, like the hebrew patriarchs, to see god face to face. then the gods introduced their own worship among mankind: then oannes, oe or aquarius rose from the red sea to impart science to the babylonians; then the bright bull legislated for india and crete; and the lights of heaven, personified as liber and ceres, hung the b otian hills with vineyards, and gave the golden sheaf to eleusis. the children of men were, in a sense, allied or married, to those sons of god who sang the jubilee of creation; and the encircling vault with its countless stars, which to the excited imagination of

c was the supreme god in ph nicia. his seven sons were probably the seven cabiri; and he was the heptaktis, the god of seven rays. kronos, the greek saturn, philo makes sanchoniathon say, had six sons, and by astarte seven daughters, the titanides. the persians adored ahura masda or ormuzd and the six amshaspands, the first three of whom were lords of the empires of light, fire, and splendor; the babylonians, bal and the gods; the chinese, shangti, and the six chief spirits; and the greeks, kronos, and the six great male gods, his progeny, zeus, poseidon, apollo, ares, hephaistos, and hermes; while the female deities were also seven: rhea, wife of kronos, here, athene, artemis, aphrodite, hestia, and demetei. in the orphic theogony, gaia produced the fourteen titans, seven male and seven f

y kabalah the exclusive heritage of the people of israel, and the inviolable secret of its priests. the mysteries of thebes and eleusis preserved among the nations some symbols of it, already altered, and the mysterious key whereof was lost among the instruments of an ever-growing superstition. jerusalem, the murderess of her prophets, and so often prostituted to the false gods of the syrians and babylonians, had at length in its turn lost the holy word, when a prophet announced to the magi by the consecrated star of initiation, came to rend asunder the worn veil of the old temple, in order to give the church a new tissue of legends and symbols, that still and ever conceals from the profane, and ever preserves to the elect the same truths. it was the remembrance of this scientific and reli

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oyer. fallen angel, who is the destroyer, the place of destruction, the abyss (job 26:2;28:2. lord of the locust plague, angel of hell (revelation 9:7-11. whose name milton uses to describe the pit of hell. chief of the demonic locusts, whose faces are human and whose tails are scorpion. the name of the sixth hell, corresponding to chesed. the hebrews borrowed their seven layered gehenna from the babylonians, whose dark prince is also called arsi-el (black sun. within the central pit of the bottom layer lives the serpent angel apollyon, the fallen apollo, king of locusts. again, we see the incorporation and demonisation of pagan dieties of the previous age. abraxas, abrasax, abraxis (greaco-oriental, gnostic) whose name means king, adds to 365, and the hebdomad of letters is assosciated wi

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axes to 248-699-8097; or send e-mail via http//www.gale.com. world religions: almanac ix reader s guide this page intentionally left blank timeline of events 10,000 400 bce the span of the jomon period in japan, during which shinto first emerged. 3500 2000 bce duration of religion in ancient sumer. 3110 bce 550 ce duration of religion in ancient egypt. 3102 bce emergence of hinduism. 1700 bce the babylonians devise a new creation myth, the enuma elish. c. 1353 34 bce the pharaoh akhenaten rules egypt and enforces the worship of a single god, aten. all evidence of his reign is wiped out after his death. tenth century bce the jewish temple of solomon is constructed in jerusalem. seventh century bce beginning of the milesian school of philosophy in ancient greece. 600 bce official formalizati

n and his people, nanna was called sin or suen. inanna, mistress of heaven, became ishtar in akkadian. the direction of religion also changed over time. the early sumerians believed that humanity, after it was created, was given a divine spark by the god enlil. this not only made people the servants of the gods during their lifetimes, but also assured them an afterlife. the coming to power of the babylonians in the second millennium bce changed the emphasis of religion. the babylonians the babylonians carefully preserved the literary and religious heritage passed down from the sumerians, but their major concern was to integrate their main god, marduk, into the existing pantheon. for the sumerians, enlil had been the protector of kingship; for the babylonians this was marduk s task. in orde

ged the emphasis of religion. the babylonians the babylonians carefully preserved the literary and religious heritage passed down from the sumerians, but their major concern was to integrate their main god, marduk, into the existing pantheon. for the sumerians, enlil had been the protector of kingship; for the babylonians this was marduk s task. in order to make marduk the most important god, the babylonians devised a new creation myth, the enuma elish( the epic of creation, literally meaning then up there. ritual became more important after the arrival of the babylonians. priests increasingly relied on rituals to ward off evil spirits and to foretell future events to ensure the good will of the gods and to protect against demons. astronomical (relating to the heavens) events took on major

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

lf pregnant from osiris s body, and their son horus revenged osiris s murder, defeating his uncle set in epic combat. horus became the god of a unified egypt, identified throughout egyptian history with the divine right of the pharaoh. 48 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia thus a rather late addition to the mesopotamian religion. it is, in effect, an effort by the babylonians to assert the power of their national god, marduk. as such, the poem not only relates how earth was created but also how the gods came to be. the gods, according to this text, came before the creation of the world. this epic describes the fight between the forces of order, as represented by marduk and the young gods, and the forces of chaos, as represented by tiamat, kingu, and the old

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

ased with her work. similarly, wiccans worship a god and a goddess, masculine and feminine principles of creation and renewal. common to most creation myths is the notion of a supreme being. the creation accounts of judaism, christianity, and islam see a single supreme god as responsible for all creation. similarly, zoroastrianism attributes creation to its supreme deity, ahura mazda; the ancient babylonians to marduk; and hindus to krishna, the cause of all causes. interestingly, while the church of christ of latter-day saints (also known as mormons) is christian, its followers believe that the physical universe is eternal, so it was not created by a supreme being; god, however, organized and arranged the physical universe in the act of creation. yet another theme that runs through the wo

surrounding areas for several thousand years, much longer than our modern alphabet has been in existence. the gilgamesh epic was originally written in the sumerian language, which bears no resemblance to any other known language in the world. the version that survives, however, was written later in the akkadian language. akkadian was a semitic language (related to hebrew and arabic) spoken by the babylonians. these people were natives of babylon, a town to the north of sumer on the euphrates river. the twelve clay tablets that contain the epic were discovered in the city of nineveh (in modern iraq) in the ruins of the library of ashurbanipal, who was king of assyria from 669 to 633 bce. the library was destroyed by persian invaders in 612 bce, and all of the tablets were damaged, some more

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

aning of the seal proved the contrary. he was always the optimist, even when he wrote that he could not "but feel. the certainty that a hidden hand blazoned the heraldry of this great people."47 george rawlinson;s massive three-volume history of the seven great monarchies o/ the ancient eastern world48 provides us with vital and pertinent data concerning the symbols with which we are dealing. the babylonians of the 7th century b.c. attached to each god in their pantheon "a special mystic number, which is used as his emblem and may even stand for his name in an inscription" further, each god had an emblematic sign "thus a circle, plain or crossed, designates the sun-god, san or shamas; a six-rayed or eight-rayed star the sun-goddess, gula or anunit" the altar was represented by an emblem su

and may even stand for his name in an inscription" further, each god had an emblematic sign "thus a circle, plain or crossed, designates the sun-god, san or shamas; a six-rayed or eight-rayed star the sun-goddess, gula or anunit" the altar was represented by an emblem surmounted by a triangle.49 the use of the simple circle and the quartered disk as a divine symbol of the sun traced back from the babylonians to the chaldeans of the 23rd century b.c. the gods were the same, san 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

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

ouncil of the scottish rite, rex hutchens, 33, reveals that "the body of the holy spirit, the universal agent" is none other than "the serpent devouring his own tail."4 that is, the oroboros serpent. remember, in all their writings, the most revered of masonic scholars manly p. hall, albert mackey, albert pike, etc. claim that the masonic rituals and teachings come from the "mysteries" of ancient babylonians, egyptians, greeks, persians and others. thus, we glean understanding when we read, in earth's earliest ages, this the riddle of the great seal of the united states 269 statement by g. pember "there is little doubt that the culmination of the mysteries was the worship of satan himself."5 you'll also recall our discussion elsewhere in this book that the illuminist and masonic theology i

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

he same 12 zodiacal signs as does astrology, but begins with virgo and ends with leo. katter stated that, according to tradition, jacob and his 12 sons carried zodiacal tablets and banners into egypt and carried them out in the exodus. like astrology, the star gospel holds that the 12 signs stand for 12 positions of the sun in relation to earth. while western astrology evolved from the egyptians, babylonians, chaldeans, and greeks, chinese astrology developed independently of outside influences and was formed around the belief that the emperor was divine. some scholars of astrology place the beginning of chinese astrology during the reign of emperor fu hsi around 2800 b.c.e. and attribute the naming of the 12 signs of the chinese zodiac to a legendary emperor yao. the figures of the chines

led prophecy. new york: g. p. putnam fs sons. 1969. scrying/crystal gazing/crystalomancy for many centuries, those who would divine the future have assisted their clairvoyant abilities by crystal gazing, known technically as scrying. this method of divination is of such vast antiquity that it would be impossible to state exactly where it originated. it is known that both the ancient egyptians and babylonians scryed by means of gazing into low, open stone dishes filled with palm oil. but who can say for certain when the first diviner entered into an altered state of consciousness while gazing into a pool of water, a crystal globe, the surface of a polished gem, or any transparent object and received what he or she believed to be a vision of the future? the practice of scrying consists of fi

ising five books of the old testament of the bible, is among the copies of holy books including the bible (christians, vedas (hindu, the koran (muslims, and the avestar (zoroastrians) believed by the faithful to 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 objects of mystery and power 169 ancient amulets of the middle east ancient assyrians, egyptians, babylonians, arabs, and hebrews placed great importance in amulets. frog.protected fertility. ankh.everlasting life. udjat.health. scarab.resurrection after death some of the egyptian amulets are massive.a stone beetle at karnak measures five feet long by three feet wide and weighs more than two tons. source: gamulets history h [online] http//www.paralumun.com/amulet. htm. november 11, 2002. bring

and rome, 1,500 miles northwest, jerusalem became a very cosmopolitan city with a steady flow of merchants and traders arriving from nations throughout the known world. david established jerusalem as israel fs national capital in about 1000 b.c.e, and in about 950 b.c.e, his son solomon built the magnificent temple that housed the ark of the covenant. the city and the temple were destroyed by the babylonians in 586 b.c.e, but by the time that jesus walked its streets in about 29 c.e, jerusalem had been restored to its former glory. in 70, a series of jewish revolts against rome brought the imperial army to the walls of jerusalem on the day of passover. after a five-month siege, the city walls were brought down, the temple of herod destroyed, and jerusalem was left in ruins and desolate. in

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

ing a staff, but his special duty isto guard the door. he has a man's head with two horns, his body is human, and from the waist down he is abull. sometimes the legs appear to be human, but the hoofs are always clearly indicated, and the tail also is amarked feature. in short, he answers to the usual description of the christian devil in having horns, hoofs anda tail. but in the eyes of the early babylonians he was far from being a devil, and his image-sometimes thewhole figure, sometimes the head only-was worn as a charm against all evil and ill-luck. he was creditedwith great prophylactic powers; so much so that such charms were in use throughout babylonia. theevidence shows that the great seven-horned gods of the temples, who gave their special protection to theroyal family, had little

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

awn. there are undoubtedly similar versions of the invocation of the archangels still tucked away in hebrew texts. what the pentagram represents no one knows the exact magical origins of the pentagram, or pentalpha, as it is sometimes called in older texts. for centuries the fivepointed star has been used as a symbol of protection and a talisman for health and well-being. it was popular among the babylonians, egyptians, assyrians, and hebrews. according to eliphas levi, magicians of old used to draw the symbol upon their doorsteps, to keep malevolent spirits out and beneficent spirits in. and as early as the sixth century b.c.e, pythagoras, the greek philosopher-mystic, used the pentagram as a holy symbol for his followers. five was a number peculiarly associated with the ideas of marriage

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ou who may watch you in its construction. being finished, it should be wrapped in a square of the finest silk and lain aside until such time as you desire its use, and then, it should be removed only when its light is in the sky. such is also the best time for its manufacture. the number of nebo is twelve and this is his seal: the goddess of venus is the most excellent queen inanna, called of the babylonians ishtar. she is the goddess of passion, both of love and of war, depending upon her sign and the time of her appearance in the heavens. she appears as a most beautiful lady, in the company of lions, and partakes of a subtle astral nature with the moon god nanna. when they are in agreement, that is, when their two plants are auspiciously arranged in the heavens, it is as two offering-cup

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writing of the letter [was] written in the syrian tongue, and interpreted in the syrian tongue. 4:8 rehum the chancellor and shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against jerusalem to artaxerxes the king in this sort: 4:9 then [wrote] rehum the chancellor, and shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the dinaites, the apharsathchites, the tarpelites, the apharsites, the archevites, the babylonians, the susanchites, the dehavites [and] the elamites, 4:10 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble asnapper brought over, and set in the cities of samaria, and the rest [that are] on this side the river, and at such a time. 4:11 this [is] the copy of the letter that they sent unto him [even] unto artaxerxes the king; thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a

ses, all of them desirable young men. 23:13 then i saw that she was defiled [that] they [took] both one way, 23:14 and [that] she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, 23:15 girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the babylonians of chaldea, the land of their nativity: 23:16 and as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into chaldea. 23:17 and the babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. 23:18 so she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nake

as] the flesh of asses, and whose issue [is like] the issue of horses. 23:21 thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the egyptians for the paps of thy youth. 23:22 therefore, o aholibah, thus saith the lord god; behold, i will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and i will bring them against thee on every side; 23:23 the babylonians, and all the chaldeans, pekod, and shoa, and koa [and] all the assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses. 23:24 and they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people [which] shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and i will se

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n came to worship jesus, and this is the first and highest kind, which is called divine magick; and these the latins did entitle sapientes, or wise men: for the feare and worship of god, is the beginning of knowledge. these wise men the greeks call philosophers; and amongst the egyptians they were termed priests; the hebrews termed them cabalistos, prophets, scribes and pharisees; and amongst the babylonians they were differenced by the name of caldeans& by the persians they were called magicians: and one speaking of sosthenes, one of the ancient magicians, useth these words: et verum deum merita majestate prosequitur& angelos ministros dei, sed veri ejus venerationi novit assistere; idem d monas prodit terrenos, vagos, humanitatis inimicos; sosthenes ascribeth the due majesty to the true

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