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1 10 INITIATION CEREMONY

inting to the altar and diagram says: hiero: and tetragrammaton placed kerubim at the east of the garden of eden and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the path of the tree of life, for he has created nature that man being cast out of eden may not fall into the void. he has bound man with the stars as with a chain. he allures him with scattered fragments of the divine body in bird and beast and flower, and he laments over him in the wind and in the sea and in the birds. when the times are ended, he will call the kerubim from the east of the garden, and all shall be consumed and become infinite and holy. receive now the secrets of this grade. the step is thus given 6 by 6 showing you have passed the threshold. the sign is given by raising the right hand to an angle of 45 degrees

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

tac, germ. 9; i.e, with animals suitable for the purpose (hist. 5, 4' concessum' meaning sacrum as against profanum; and only those animals were suitable, whose flesh could be eaten by men. it would have been unbecoming to offer food to the god, which the sacrificer liimself would have disdained. at the same time these sacrifices appear to be also banquets; an appointed portion of the slaughtered beast is placed before the god, the rest is cut up, distributed and consumed in the assembly. the people thus became partakers in the holy offering, and the god is regarded as feasting with them at their meal (see suppl. at great sacrifices the kings were expected to taste each kind of food, and down to late times the house-spirits and dwarfs had their portion set aside for them by the superstitio

the farm-bailiff, half to the parish; on the same day there is also a distribution of bread and cheese to the parish. the price of seven shillings tallies with the seven and a half fi.xed by the lauterb. ordin, and is a high one, far exceeding the ordinary value (conf gijtt. anz. 1827, pp. 336-7; it was an arrangement long continued and often employed in these ordinances, and one well suited to a beast selected for sacrifice. the lauterbach goldferch, like that of vinkbuch, is doled out and consumed at a festive meal; the assize itself is named alter it (3, 370; at vinkbuch the heathenish name only has been forgotten or suppressed. assuredly such assize-feasts were held in other parts of germany too. st. adolf was a bishop of straszburg, his day falls on august 29 or 30 (conr. v. dankr. na

va^ e^atrr/sa? evitrettop- 1 neue mitth. des thiiv. siiclis. vereins v. 2, 131, conf. ii. 10, 292. od. 3, 382: o"oi 8 av iyoi pi^co ^ovv tjvlv, evpvfjlfrconov, u8fj.r]tt]i, ijv oi/'tto) vtto ^vyoi 'jyayev dui'jp ttjv toi iyui pf^co(^pvaov kfpacriv 7rfpt)(evas^ oc eingii skyldi tortyna hvurki i'e ne monnuni, neiiia sialft gengi i hurt. eyrb. saga, ix 10. and none shoiald they kill (tortima neither beast nor man, unless of itself it ran a-tilt^ saga hakonar g6?a, cap. 16. eyrb. saga p. 10. raus horgin, reddened the (stone) altar, fornald. sog. 1, 413. stalla lata riosa blosi, 1, 454. 527. stem. 114^ rioisutiih blosinu hl6ttre, fornald. sog. 1, 512. the grk ai/xa r ^o> i(o ttfpixffiv. conf. e.xod. 24, 8. 56 worship. irr^jjiival ^ojcrfia)(clkkovv e^ovaat 'yvfivotrose'i totf ovv al)(jiaxu- t0t9

suppl. when the husbandman cuts his corn, he leaves a clump of ears standing for the god who blessed the harvest, and he adorns it with^ yxo (t(ta koi koikla (tongue and entrail) lepetov sianettpayfifvov, phitarcli, phoc. 1. yxayacras rdfiveiv and ev irvpl /iiuxxeti, od. 3, 332. 341. conf. de linguae usu in sacriliciis, nitzsch ad horn. od. 1, 207. in the folk-tales, whoever has to kill a man or beast, is told to bring in proof the tongue or heart, apparently as being eminent portions- aiav. 2 dliti obiet, to kindle an offering, koniginh. hs, 98. 58- worship. ribbons. to this day, at a fruit-gathering in holstein, five or six apples are left hanging on each tree, and then the next crop will thrive. more striking examples of this custom will be given later, in treating of individual gods

genae magnum deum osiliensium natum qui tharapila- vocatur, et de loco illo in osiliam volasse, in the form of a bird (see suppl. to the old prussians, romove^n^'s, the most sacred spot in the land, and a seat of the gods; there stood their images on a liohj oak hung witli cloths. no unconsecrated person was allowed to set foot in the forest, no tree to be felled, not a bough to be injured, not a beast to be slain. there were many such sacred groves in other parts of prussia and lithuania^ the vita s. germani autisiodorensis (b. 378, d. 448) written by constantius as early as 473 contains a striking narrative of a ikcirtrec which stood in the middle of auxerre and was honoured by the heathen* as the burgundians did not enter gaul till the beginning of the 5th century, there is not likely t

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

of prosperity) and light a green candle. contagious magick this involves transferring and absorbing power directly from a creature or an object, such as an animal, a bird, a crystal, a metal, the wax of an empowered candle or even the earth itself. this principle is central to the potency of talismans and amulets; for example, traditionally, hunters might wear the pelt of a lion to bring them the beast's courage and ferocity. so, by the same token, if you wished to become pregnant, you might make love in a newly ripening cornfield (near the edge so as not to damage the crops; alternatively, you might try one of the ancient power sites of earth, close to the phallus of the chalk cerne abbas fertility giant that is carved in the hillside at cerne in dorset. attracting magick this type of mag

ABRAMELIN3

rom chzq, to bind. no. c is a square of e j squares, it will be noticed that a small o is placed at the end of each word in the last square towards the right hand. amigdel is from mgdl, a strong tower. no. d is a square of c f squares. iosua, the well-known hebrew name, signifies "he shall save. no. e is also a square of c f squares. peger is from pgr= a dead inactive carcase whether of man or of beast. the sacred magick 159 the fourteenth chapter. he twelve symbols for the twelve hours of the day and of the night, to render oneself invisible unto every person. a l a m a l a l a m a l a a t a t a n (1 (2) t s a p h a h s a p h a h i t n e r a n a o r i s (3) c a s a h a d o d a s o m o s a d o p a h a s a c (4) a l a t a h l a t a h r o g a t (5) c o d e r o d e r (6) s i m l a h i m l a h

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

y this- with a strange starry light. thereby it was known that i was indeed chosen aright. so last of all they took me to the banqueting-house and set me on the high throne. one by one the priests came by and kissed my lips: one by one the priestesses came by, and gave me the secret clasp of hands that hath hidden virtue. and the banquet waxed merry; for all the food was magically prepared. every beast that they slew was virgin; every plant that they plucked had been grown and tended by virgins in the gardens of the temple. also the wine was spring water only, but so consecrated by the holy priestesses that one glass was more intoxicating that a whole skin of common wine. yet this intoxication was a pure delight, an enthusiasm wholly divine; and it gave strength, and did away with sleep, a

i read this oracle as if ti were spoken "as above, so beneath" this came to me as i had flung myself in despair at the feet of my lady, covering them with my tears; for by a certain manifest token i now knew that i had done a thing that was so dreadful that even now- these many thousand years hence- i dare hardly write it. i loved the veiled one. page 14 gulf.txt yea, wit the fierce passion of a beast, of a man, of a god, with my whole soul i loved her. even as i knew this by the manifest token the veil burst into a devouring flame; it ate up the robes of my office, lapping them with its tongues of fire like a tigress lapping blood; yet withal it burnt me not, nor singed one hair. thus naked i fled away in fear, and in my madness slipped and fell into the pool of liquid silver, splashing

s as a straw in the simoom. yet i grew not weaker but stronger. though my ribs cracked, i held firm. presently indeed i stirred; it seemed as if her strength had come to me. thus i forced back her head and thrust myself upon and into her even as a comet that impales the sun upon its horn! and my breath came fast between my lips and hers; her moan now faint, like a dying child, no more like a wild beast in torment. even so, wild with the lust of conquest, i urged myself upon her and fought against her. i stretched out her arms and forced them to the ground; then i crossed them on her breast, so that she was powerless. and i became like a mighty serpent of flame, and wrapt her, crushed her in my coils. i was the master. then grew a vast sound about me as of shouting: i grew conscious of the

fore. at last the priestess tore herself away from the veil and reeled- as one drunken- down the temple. sighs and sobs tore her breast; and her nails made bloody grooves in her wet flanks. page 25 gulf.txt on a sudden she espied me and my companion; with one buffet she smote him to earth- it is unlawful to resist the priestess when she is in the ecstasy of union- and falling upon me, like a wild beast she buried her teeth in my neck, bearing me to the ground. then, loosing me, while the blood streamed from me, she fixed her glittering eyes upon it with strange joy, and with her hands she shook me as a lion shakes a buck. sinewy were her hands, with big knuckles, and the strength of her was as cords of iron. yet her might was but a mortal s; in a little she gave one gasp like a drowning ma

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

never have existed- and then found to exist after all- is itself a powerful psychic influence. a fantasy come true. a dream realised in waking life. the quest for a lifetime search come to an end. the ultimate book of spells. the godfather of grimoires. therefore it is with awe, and with something akin to dread, that i address this second edition to the courageous reader of the necronomicon. the beast has told us "i am the warrior lord of the forties: the eighties cower before me& are abased (al, iii:46) this edition of the necronomicon is scheduled for early delivery in january-february 1980, making it possibly the first occult book of the eighties. a herald of doom? or a harbinger of fate? since the publication of this book in december, 1977, the ancient forces of erstwhile victory have

f aleister crowley read the front page of the sunday express. it concerned testimony by one of the notorious magician's former followers (or, actually, the wife of one of his followers) that crowley had been responsible for the death of her husband, at the abbey of thelema, in cefalu, sicily. the bad press, plus the imagined threat of secret societies, finally forced mussolini to deport the great beast from italy. tales of horrors filled the pages of the newspapers in england for weeks and months to come: satanic rituals, black masses, animal sacrifice, and even human sacrifice, were reported- or blatantly lied about. for although many of the stories were simply not true or fanciful exaggeration, one thing was certain: aleister crowley was a magician, and one of the first order. born on oc

aleister crowley was a magician, and one of the first order. born on october 12, 1875, in england- in the same country as shakespeare- edward alexander crowley grew up in a strict fundamentalist religious family, members of a sect called the "plymouth brethren. the first person to call him by that name and number by which he would become famous (after the reference in the book of revelation "the beast 666, was his mother, and he eventually took this appellation to heart. he changed his name to aleister crowley while still at cambridge, and by that name, plus "666, he would never be long out of print, or out of newspapers. for he believed himself to be the incarnation of a god, an ancient one, the vehicle of a new age of man's history, the aeon of horus, displacing the old age of osiris. i

s life was spent trying to understand it fully, and to make its message known to the world. it, too, contains the formulae necessary to summon the invisible into visibility, and the secrets of transformations are hidden within its pages, but this is crowley's own necronomicon, received in the middle east in the shadow of the great pyramid of gizeh, and therein is writ not only the beauty, but the beast that yet awaits mankind. it would be vain to attempt to deliver a synopsis of crowley's philosophy, save that its 'leitmotif' is the rabelaisian do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. the actual meaning of this phrase has taken volumes to explain, but roughly it concerns the uniting of the conscious self, a process of individuation which culminates in a rite called "knowledge and c

ctory can be declared. demons, vampires, psychic leeches, ghastly forms accost the aspiring magician from every angle, from every quarter around the circumference of the magick circle, and they must be destroyed lest they devour the magician himself. when crowley professed to have passed the obstacles, and crossed the abyss of knowledge, and found his true self, he found it was identical with the beast of the book of revelation, 666, whom christianity considers to represent the devil. indeed, crowley had nothing but admiration for the shaitan (satan) of the so-called "devil-worshipping" cult of the yezidis of mesopotamia, knowledge of which led him to declare the lines that open this introduction. for he saw that the yezidis possess a great secret and a great tradition that extends far bac

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

for free on: www.abika.com 103 [107] 49 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta mu-theta waratah-blossoms seven are the veils of the dancing-girl in the harem of it. seven are the names, and seven are the lamps beside her bed. seven eunuchs guard her with drawn swords; no man may come nigh unto her. in her wine-cup are seven streams of the blood of the seven spirits of god. seven are the heads of the beast whereon she rideth. the head of an angel: the head of a saint: the head of a poet: the head of an adulterous woman: the book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 104 head of a man of valour: the head of a satyr: and the head of a lion-serpent. seven letters hath her holiest name; and it is a b 77 b a (drawn upon this page is the 77 77 sigil of babalon) n l 7 o this is the seal upo

who is conceived as the feminine counterpart of it. this does not agree very well with the common or orthodox theogony of chapter 11; but it is to be explained by the dithyrambic nature of the chapter. in paragraph 3 no man is of course nemo, the master of the temple, liber 418 will explain most of the allusions in this chapter. in paragraphs 5 and 6 the author frankly identifies himself with the beast referred to in the book, and in the apocalypse, and in liber legis. in paragraph 6 the book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 105 word "angel" may refer to his mission, and the word "lion-serpent" to the sigil of his ascending decan (teth= snake=spermatozoon and leo in the zodiac, which like teth itself has the snake-form. theta first written sun= lingam- yoni and sol) paragrap

nnot be too severe in checking any faltering in the work, any digression from the path. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 117 [121] 56 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta nu-digamma trouble with twins holy, holy, holy, unto five hundred and fifty five times holy be our lady of the stars! holy, holy, holy, unto one hundred and fifty six times holy be our lady that rideth upon the beast! holy, holy, holy, unto the number of times necessary and appropriate be our lady isis in her millions-of-names, all-mother, genetrix-meretrix! yet holier than all these to me is laylah, night and death; for her do i blaspheme alike the finite and the the infinite. so wrote not frater perdurabo, but the imp crowley in his name. for forgery let him suffer penal servitude for seven years; or a

dry stick. worship then the rosy cross, and the mystery of two-in-one. and worship him that swore by his holy t that one should not be one except in so far as it is two. i am glad that laylah is afar; no doubt clouds love. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 120 [124] commentary( nu-zeta) the title of the chapter suggest the two in one, since the ornithorhynchus is both bird and beast; it is also an australian animal, like laylah herself, and was doubtless chosen for this reason. this chapter is an apology for the universe. paragraphs 1-3 repeat the familiar arguments against reason in an epigrammatic form. paragraph 4 alludes to liber legis i, 52 "place" implies space; denies homogeneity to space; but when "place" is perfected by "t"-as it were, yoni by lingam -we get th

am going to rejoin laylah (5) my mission will succeed soon enough (6) death will remove the nuisance of success. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 144 [147] 69 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta xi-theta the way to succeed-and the way to suck eggs! this is the holy hexagram. plunge from the height, o god, and interlock with man! plunge from the height, o man, and interlock with beast! the red triangle is the descending tongue of grace; the blue triangle is the ascending tongue of prayer this interchange, the double gift of tongues, the word of double power-abrahadabra!-is the sign of the great work, for the great work is accomplished in silence. and behold is not that word equal to cheth, that is cancer. whose sigil is cancer? this work also eats up itself, accomplishes

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

stars& take your fill of love! i,13: i am above you and in you. my ecstasy is in yours. my joy is to see your joy. i,14: above, the gemm d azure is the naked splendour of nuit; she bends in ecstasy to kiss the secret ardours of hadit. the winged globe,the starry blue, are mine, o ankh-af-na-khonsu! i,15: now ye shall know that the chosen priest& apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the beast; and in his woman called the scarlet woman is all power given. they shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. i,16: for he is ever a sun, and she a moon. but to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight. i,17: but ye are not so chosen. i,18: burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! i,19: o azure-lidde

lt have danger& trouble. ra-hoor-khu is with thee. worship me with fire& blood; worship me with swords& with spears. let the woman be girt with a sword before me: let blood flow to my name. trample down the heathen; be upon them, o warrior, i will give you of their flesh to eat! iii,12: sacrifice cattle, little and big: after a child. iii,13: but not now. iii,14: ye shall see that hour, o blessed beast, and thou the scarlet concubine of his desire! iii,15: ye shall be sad thereof. iii,16: deem not too eagerly to catch the promises; fear not to undergo the curses. ye, even ye, know not this meaning all. iii,17: fear not at all; fear neither men nor fates, nor gods, nor anything. money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the eart

ause, that he is not there again. iii,21: set up my image in the east: thou shalt buy thee an image which i will show thee, especial, not unlike the one thou knowest. and it shall be suddenly easy for thee to do this. iii,22: the other images group around me to support me: let all be worshipped, for they shall cluster to exalt me. i am the visible object of worship; the others are secret; for the beast& his bride are they: and for the winners of the ordeal x. what is this? thou shalt know. iii,23: for perfume mix meal& honey& thick leavings of red wine: then oil of abramelin and olive oil, and afterward soften& smooth down with rich fresh blood. iii,24: the best blood is of the moon, monthly: then the fresh blood of a child, or dropping from the host of heaven: then of enemies; then of the

rs of the ordeal x. what is this? thou shalt know. iii,23: for perfume mix meal& honey& thick leavings of red wine: then oil of abramelin and olive oil, and afterward soften& smooth down with rich fresh blood. iii,24: the best blood is of the moon, monthly: then the fresh blood of a child, or dropping from the host of heaven: then of enemies; then of the priest or of the worshippers: last of some beast, no matter what. iii,25: this burn: of this make cakes& eat unto me. this hath also another use; let it be laid before me, and kept thick with perfumes of your orison: it shall become full of beetles as it were and creeping things sacred unto me. iii,26: these slay, naming your enemies& they shall fall before you. iii,27: also these shall breed lust& power of lust in you at the eating thereo

ughout the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt down& shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the great equinox; when hrumachis shall arise and the double-wanded one assume my throne and place. another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust& worship of the snake; another soul of god and beast shall mingle in the globed priest; another sacrifice shall stain the tomb; another king shall reign; and blessing no longer be poured to the hawk-headed mystical lord! iii,35: the half of the word of heru-ra-ha, called hoor-pa-kraat and ra-hoor-khut. iii,36: then said the prophet unto the god: iii,37: i adore thee in the song- i am the lord of thebes,and i the inspired forth-speaker of mentu

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

qadosh qadeshim, holy of holies. doubtless there is an arcanum concealed here, possibly along the lines of you can prove anything with gematria if you try hard enough. line 5. ashteroth. historically a middle eastern goddess (a.k.a. ishtar, astart, etc, denounced by old testament writers and given an inexplicable sex change by medieval demonologists. table of correspondences 55 line 6. chiva, the beast; said to be the offspring of samael and isheth zanunim (see mathers introduction to kaballah unveiled, para 61. only a hideous fudge (to wit (a) mis-spelling the name as ahija (b) writing each letter out in full and (c) counting h in full as ah rather than the more usual hh) can get this name to add to 666. line 7. asmodai. appears in the apocryphal book of tobit. sometimes also known by the

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

he navvy, the grocer, the factory girl, the mathematician, the stenographer, the golfer, the wife, the consul- and all the rest- to fulfil themselves perfectly, each in his or her own proper function. let me explain in a few words how it came about that i blazoned the word magick upon the banner that i have borne before me all my life. before i touched my teens, i was already aware that i was the beast whose number is 666. i did not understand in the least xi what that implied; it was a passionately ecstatic sense of identity. in my third year at cambridge, i devoted myself consciously to the great work, understanding thereby the work of becoming a spiritual being, free from the constraints, accidents, and deceptions of material existence. i found myself at a loss for a name to designate m

does not matter of one's present house of flesh be the hut of a shepherd; by virtue of my magick he shall be such a shepherd as david was. if it be the studio of a sculptor, he shall so chisel from himself the marble that masks his idea that he shall be no less a master than rodin. witness mine hand: tau-omicron mu-epsilon-gamma-alpha theta-eta-rho-iota-omicron-nu (taw- resh-yod-vau-nunfinal: the beast 666; magus 9 degree= 2square a. a. who is the word of the aeon thelema; whose name is called v.v.v.v.v. 8 degree= 3square a. a. in the city of the pyramids; ou mh 7 degree= 4square a. a; ol sonuf vaoresagi 6 degree= 5square, and. 5 degree= 6square a. a. in the mountain of abiegnus: but frater perdurabo in the outer order or the a. a. and in the world of men upon the earth, aleister crowley o

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

rstands this chain of the aeons from the point of view alike of the sorrowing isis and of the triumphant osiris, not forgetting their link in the destroyer apophis, there remains no secret veiled in nature. he cries that name of god which throughout history has been echoed by one religion to another, the infinite swelling paean i.a.o<beast and with his number 666, so that he who invokes the former invokes also the latter. also with aiwaz and the number 93. see chapter v> 15 chapter ii the formulae of the elemental weapons. before discussing magical formulae in detail, one may observe that most rituals are composite, and contain many formulae which must be harmonized into one. the first formula is that of the wand. in the spher

formula of osiris, of the redemption of mankind "i" is isis, nature, ruined by "a, apophis the destroyer, and restored to life by the redeemer osiris<father, o the mother, a the child- and yet another, in which i.a.o. are all fathers of different kinds balanced by h.h.h, 3 mothers, to complete the universe. in a third, the true formula of the beast 666, i and o are the opposites which form the field for the operation of a. but this is a higher matter unsuited for this elementary handbook. see, however, liber samekh, point ii, section j> the same idea is expressed by the rosicrucian formula of the trinity "ex deo nascimur. in jesu morimur per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus" this is also identical with the word lux, l.v.x, which is formed

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

im yehovah achad h, 151 )y)y unity dxy 23 parted, removed, separated xxz joy hwdx a thread +wx life; chiah: the soul in chokmah hyx lesser (ar)+wz 24 the number of enochian seniors, and of elders in revelation he whom i love ybwh) he who loves me ybhw) a mercurial god (whose essence is z, 8) hgwbz) substance; a body hywg a pauper; oppressed kd abundance zyz bucket, pail, vessel dk 25 to break )kd beast )wyx let there be yhy will be separated xzy thus, so; here, there hk 26 the number of the sephiroth of the middle pillar: 1+ 6+ 9+ 10. the pillar of mercy: the paths vau and kaph (cf. 48& 463) k w seeing, looking at hzwx sight, vision hwzx tetragrammaton: gyehovah h: the unutterable name: the lost word. hwhy kebad, husband of the impure lilith; to honour; heavy; liver dbk 27 wept, mourned hk

) ate; devoured lk) where; pain; heliopolis (cf. 57) n) tumultuously; to harass, perturb mwh failure; please, i pray thee; raw; now; thebes (na 3:8; for gna h, see dr. dee fs mysteriorum liber primus )n 52 father and mother )m)w )b) supernal mother, a title of binah (cf. 42 )my) elihu (eli hua, ghe is my god h, who is the holy guardian angel of job in the allegory) whyl) please, i beseech you )n) beast, cattle, brute animal hmhb from all, among all lkb the son: assiah fs gsecret nature h (see s.d. 1:38-39) nb meditation (cf. 827; imagination; sin hmz a desirable one; to desire dmx brother-in-law mby hwhy in assiah hh ww hh dwy a dog blk 53 a stone, rock nb) elihu (see 52 )whyl) garden ng to defend, hide; a wall; the sun; fury hmx the spleen lwx+ a lover hbh)m 54 a basin, bowl, vessel (ex

editation (ps. 49:4) twgh going forth (lit. masc. gwanderers h; cf. 770) my++w#m 415 the voice of the chief seer rbd h)rb) sister twx) the holy one; sodomite #wdqh work h#(m holy (ar)#ydq 416 the lesser light (luna) n+qh rw)mh thought, meditation rwhrh a pledge nwk#m 417 olive tyz an ark, box, chest hbyt shakanom: a title of tiphareth mwn)k# the red gleam (liber al 2:50) rwrhw 418 cheth: a fence; beast tyx boleskine: the house of the beast nyk#lwb abrahadabra: the word of the aeon given in liber al) r b) d) h) r b) 418= tyx )h tyb, the house of heh, because of i.z.q. 694; for h formeth k, but x formeth dwy: each= 20. thus is abrahadabra a key of the pentagram. also, by aiq bkr, it= 22; and 418= 19 22. 19= manifestation; it therefore manifests the 22 keys of r.o.t.a. the first meaning is rb

by day *mmwy 658 a name of god *myhl )wh 660 flashings, scintillations tycycyn zones; members nyr#q a day; the seas; the times *mymy vases, vessels *mylk spice; drug; poison *ms 661 a lily; a rose (cf. 656) hn#w# a storehouse *ms) 662 the garland of god l)yrtk) 663 stones of marble (see zohar, pt. i. fol. 34. col. 134# ynb) songs twrymz prophets *my)bn 665 the womb mxrh tyb 666 the number of the beast. 1-36. 36 is the sum of the letters aleph to cheth (tyx= 418, hence 666 is an expansion of 418. the number of talents of gold received by solomon in one year (i kings 10:14) aleister crowley (rabbi battiscombe gunn fs transliteration) ylwrq ry+syl) ommo satan: the gevil triad h of satan-typhon, apophras, and besz. lit. gthe dimness of satan h, scil. gveil h) nts wmm( the name jesus hw#hy m#

ls, wild beasts (pl. of 450 *mynt 1061 and breathed into his nostrils the neschamah of [their] lives (i.r.q. 939) myyx tm#n wyp)b xpyw palace of delight (referred to tiphareth *nwcr lkyh strong, hardy *mynt) 1062 white whorl *nbl rmc 1066 the lesser light (luna *n+qh rw)mh a pledge *nwk#m persons, faces *mypwcrp 1067 masters of the heavens: astrologers *mym#h yl(b 1068 boleskine: the house of the beast *nyk#lwb 1070 vapour, smoke *n( 1075 the song of songs myry#h ry# seizing without difficulty *myrcm ylb hlxn 1079 madness *nw(g# 1080 concealed *np# 1081 tiphareth: beauty tr)pt notariqon (the qabalistic method of acronyms *nwqyr+wn 1082 son of ayish: ursa minor*#y( nb 1086 gsatanas h: the goat satan *z( n# 1087 balm; the balsam tree *nwmsrp) 1088 the whole [perfect] stone (deut. 27:6 *hmyl#

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ose heat is forcing the congealed miasma to steam skyward in those murky bands of dim grey cloud? hark! yes, the few that are still alive have seen what rouses them to lift their crippled arms, to stare with blear bloodshot eyes, to jabber with broken jaw-bones and torn tongues "for christ's sake" screams an emasculate rag of flesh "don't look at that damned star "we're lost" another squeals "the beast" yells a third: maniac. i too am appalled not a little. for on the moving fumes crawl monstrous and hideous shapes- frightful forms, detestable gestures. all past belief for loathsomeness: filling my mortal spirit with delirious fear. beholding them, the wounded writhe in deadly anguish. some crazily catch up the filth in which they are already half sunk to throw it at the spectre, therby on

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ade open as never before has been done in the history of the planet. al i,5 "help me, o warrior lord of thebes, in my unveiling before the children of men" the old comment 5. nu, to unveil herself, needs a mortal intermediary, in the first instance. it is to be supposed that ankh-f-n-khonsu, the warrior lord of thebes, priest of men tu, is in some subtle manner identical with either aiwass or the beast. the new comment here nuit appeals, simply and directly, recognizing the separate function of each star of her body. though all is one, each part of that one has its own special work, each star its particular orbit. in addressing me as warrior lord of thebes, it appears as if she perceived a certain continuity or identity of myself with ankh-f-n-khonsu, whose stele is the link with antiquity

t division, which has wrought such appalling havoc upon the earth, were originally no more than a distinction adopted for convenience. it is indeed the task of this book to reduce theology to the interplay of the dyad nuith and hadith, these being themselves conceived as complementary, as two equivalent to naught "divided for lvoe's sake, for the chance of union- had enjoyed them in the form of a beast, bird, or what not; while later mary attributed her condition to the agency of a spirit- spiritus, breath, or air- in the shape of a dove. but the "small person" of hindu mysticism, the dwarf insane yet crafty of many legends in many lands, is also this same "holy ghost, or silent self of a man, or his holy guardian angel. he is almost the "unconscious" of freud, unknown, unaccountable, the

ar at all in this manifested form as two, but as naught. in the consciousness of the adept, this is called samadhi. he has united himself with, and lost himself in, nuit. when the "child" appears as two, it is magick, as the other is mysticism. this is the essential difference between these arts. al i,15 "now ye shall know that the chosen priest& apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the beast; and in his woman called the scarlet woman is all power given. they shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men" the old comment 15. the authority of the beast rests upon this verse; but it is to be taken in conjunction with certain later verses which i shall leave to the research of students to interpret. i am inclined, however, t

man called the scarlet woman is all power given. they shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men" the old comment 15. the authority of the beast rests upon this verse; but it is to be taken in conjunction with certain later verses which i shall leave to the research of students to interpret. i am inclined, however, to believe that "the beast" and "the scarlet woman" do not denote persons, but are titles of office, that of hierophant and high priestess( vau and gimel, else it would be difficult to understand the next verse. the new comment the definition of "infinite space" offered in the comment on verse 13 is useful here. my work is in great part to insist upon the infinite possibilities of human development. man has too slavis

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

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ible form and organization. the third is the abode of darkness. next follow seven hells occupied by thoe demons which represent incarnate human vices, and torture those who have given themselves up to those vices in earth-life. their prince is lams, samael, the angel of poison and of death.24 his wife is the harlot, or woman of whoredom \ynwnz tca, isheth zanunim;25 and united they are called the beast, awyj, chioa. thus the infernal trinity is completed, which is, so to speak, the averse and caricature of the supernal creative one. samael is considered to be identical with satan. the name of the deity, which we call jehovah, is in hebrew a name of four letters, hwhy; and the true pronunciation of it is known to very few. i myself know some score of different mystical pronunciations of it

d a thing known, the accursed dyad which is the prime cause of all misery.75 480. lilith. see liber 418. so the orthodox place the legal 4 before the holy 8 and the sublime zero. and therefore their breaths stink. 543. good, but only carries us back to the mother. 666. chosen by myself as my symbol, partly for the reasons given in part i, partly for the reasons given in the apocalypse. i took the beast to be the lion (leo my rising sign76) and sol, 6, 666, the lord of leo on which babalon should ride. and there were other more intimate considerations, unnecessary to enter upon in this place. note however that the tarot card of leo, strength, bears the number xi, the great number of the magnum opus, and its interchange with justice, viii; and the key of 8 is 418.77 74 364= inter alia, alpwm

quinox of the gods actually give cancer, not leo, rising, suggesting the figure had been fudged. the editor of the blue brick edition of magick obligingly corrected the time of birth to make leo the ascendent again. rupert gleadow (an astrologer friend of symonds to whom ac had claimed there was less than one per cent truth in astrology) prepared a hostile horoscope which was printed in the great beast as a piece of posthumous revenge t.s 77 because cheth, 8, spelt in full= tyj, 418 t.s. liber lviii 43 this all seemed to me so important that no qabalistic truths were so firmly implanted in my mind at the time when i was ordered to abandon the study of magic and the qabalah as these: 8, 11, 418, 666; combined with the profoundest veneration for 1, 3, 5, 7, 13, 37, 78, 91, 111. i must insist

ile, even to khem, more magnificent in ruin than all other lands are in plenitude of their glory [editor s note: this article on the qabalah was originally published in equinox i (5) as part v of the temple of solomon the king serial. essentially it was a filler, written after j.f.c. fuller who had been doing the legwork of working up the series from crowley s diaries and notebooks broke with the beast. in equinox i (10) it was declared to be liber lviii in class b (since 58= j grace, a secret title of the qabalah) it was reprinted by israel regardie in the qabalah of aleister crowley (a.k.a. 777 and other qabalistic writings) under the misleading title gematria, omitting the opening and closing sections (which were intended to link it in to the serial) and the tables of correspondences (r

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y, given in letter-for-letter transliteration, e.g. brashith for tycarb. footnotes indicated by, etc. appeared in the equinox publication and are presumably by crowley (hence i have initialled them a.c; footnotes indicated by numbers are by myself. key entry from the printed edition in the equinox; could probably use further proof-reading t.qathe sword of song called by christians the book of the beast aleister crowley y h a r h f s u r k h y h w here is wisdom: let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast. for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred, three score, and six the apocalypse of john this electronic edition prepared by celepha s press somewhere beyond the tanarian hills first published society for the propagation of religious truth benares [i.e

or sunwheel oasis, o.t.o. 2001 e.v. re-proofed and corrected edition issued by celepha s press august 2003 e.v (c) ordo templi orientis jaf box 7666 new york ny 10116 u.s.a. 1 you are sad! the knight said, in an anxious tone: let me sing you a song to comfort you* is it very long? alice asked. it s long, said the knight, but it s very very beautiful. the name of the song is called the book of the beast. oh! how ugly cried alice. never mind, said the mild creature. some people call it reason in rhyme. but which is the name of the song? alice said, trying not to seem too interested. ah, you don t understand, the knight said, looking a little vexed. that s what the name is called. the name really is ascension day and pentecost; with some prose essays and an epilogue, just as the title is the

itle was what a man of 95 ought to know, as endorsed by eminent divines, and that. seeing that she only begin to cry, he broke off and continued in a gentler tone: it means, my dear. he stopped short, for she was taking no notice; but as her figure was bent by sobs into something very like a note of interrogation: you want to know what it is, the sword of song called by christians the book of the beast 1904 to my old friend and comrade in the art bhikku ananda metteya and to those fools who by their short-sighted stupidity in attempting to boycott this book have witlessly aided the cause of truth i dedicate these my best words [this book is so full of recondite knowledge of various kinds that it seems quite ineffective to annotate every obscure passage. where references and explanations ca

lly such petty spites as these you strew throughout your verse. 90 the chance of birth! i choose to curse (writing in english28) just the yoke of faith that tortures english folk. i cannot write29 a poem yet to please the people in tibet; 95 but when i can, christ shall not lack peace, while their buddha i attack.30 yet by-and-by i hope to weave a song of anti-christmas eve and first- and second- beast-er day. 100 there s one*31 who loves me dearly (vrai) who yet believes me sprung from tophet, either the beast or the false prophet; and by all sorts of monkey tricks adds up my name to six six six. 105 retire, good gallup !32 in such strife her superior skill makes you a cipher* crowley s mother. the sword of song 8 necessity of poem. mysticism v. literal interpretation. former excused. bud

e is but one alarum, and the whole set of scoundrels surrender. note this well; it is not by brute force that the battle is won; for even if we exonerate the king of france, we may easily believe that the moral strength of the sisters cowed the french. this is the more evident, since in act v. shakespeare strikes his final blow at the absurdity of the duel, when edmund is dishonestly slain by the beast edgar. yet the poet s faith is still strong: wound up as his muse is to tragedy, he retains in edmund the sublime heroism, the simple honesty, of the true christian; at the death of his beloved mistresses he cries, i was contracted to them both: all three now marry in an instant at the moment of death his great nature (self-accusatory, as the finest so often are) asserts itself, and he forgi

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gale she hath torn her breast on thorns to avail the barren rose-tree to renew her life with that disastrous dew, building the rose o' the world alight with music out of the pale moonlight! o she is like the river of blood that broke from the lips of the bastard god, when he saw the sacred mother smile on the ibis that flew up the foam of nile bearing the limbs unblessed, unborn, that the lurking beast of nile had torn! 43 so (for the world is weary) i these dreadful souls of sense lay by. i sacrifice these impure shoon to the cold ray of the waning moon. i take the fork d hazel staff, and the rose of no terrene graff, and the lamp of no olive oil with heart's blood that alone may boil. with naked breast and feet unshod i follow the wizard way to god. wherever he leads my foot shall follow

re cold breath, down to the deeps of foul hot death, across the seas, through the fires, past the palace of desires; where he will, whether he will or no, if i go, i care not whither i go. for in me is the taint of the faery blood. fast, fast, its emerald flood leaps within me, violent rude like a bestial faun's beatitude. in me the faery blood runs hard: my sires were a druid, a devil, a bard, a beast, a wizard, a snake and a satyr; for- as my mother said- what does it matter? 44 she was a fay, pure of the faery; queen morgan's daughter by an aery demon that came to orkney once to pay the beetle his orisons. so, it is i that writhe with the twitch of the faery blood, and the wizard itch to attain a matter one may not utter rather than sink in the greasy splutter of britons munching their

man was bloated with disease and drink; his loose lips hung in an eternal leer; his fat eyes shed venom; his cheeks seemed ever on the point of bursting into nameless sores and ulcers. he bought the young girl's drawings "not so much for their value" he explained "as that i like to help promising young artists- like you, my dear! her steely virginal eyes met his fearlessly and unsuspiciously. the beast cowered, and covered his foulness with a hideous smile of shame* the night came, and young swanoff went to his rest without alarm. yet with that strange wonder that denotes those who expect the unknown and terrible, but have faith to win through. this night he dreamt- deliciously. a thousand years he strayed in gardens of spice, by darling streams, beneath delightful trees, in the blue raptu

w. my name is alpha and omega- the beginning and the end. my dwelling-house is built betwixt the water and the earth; the pillars thereof are of fire, and the walls are of air, and the roof above is the breath of my nostrils, which is the spirit of the life of man. i am born as an egg in the east, of silver, and of gold, and opalescent with the colours of precious stones; and with my glory is the beast of the horizon made purple and scarlet, and orange, and green, many-coloured as a great peacock 191 caught up in the coils of a serpent of fire. over the pillars of aethyr do i sail, as a furnace of burnished brass; and blasts of fire pour from my nostrils, and bathe the land of dreams in the radiance of my glory. and in the west the lid of mine eye drops- down smites the night of reckoning

s. beauty has conquered me and drunk up the strength of my might; i am alone, and all things are mine in the mystery of my loneliness "evoe" life burns in the brasier of love as a ruby flame in a sapphire bowl. i am dead, yet i live for ever" arise, o sleeper, for the night of loneliness hath rolled up the hangings of her couch, and my heart is burning like a sun of molten brass; awake before the beast riseth and enter the 227 sanctuary of eden and defile the children of dawn. thou child-man, cast off the cloak of dreams who before thy sleep wast enraptured with the strength of love. fair and fresh didst thou come from the woods when the world was young, with breast like the snowy hills in the sunlight, and thine hair as a wind-ravished forest of oak, and thine eyes deep and still as the l

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sence of visible form and organisation. the third is the abode of darkness. next follow seven hells occupied by those demons which represent incarnate human vices, and those who have given themselves up to such vices in earth-life. their prince is samael, smal, the angel of poison and death. his wife is the harlot, or woman of whoredom, ashth znvnim, isheth zennuim; and united they are called the beast, chiva, chioa. thus the infernal trinity is completed which is, so to speak,the averse and caricature of the supernal creative one. samael is considered to be identical with satan. the name of the deity, which we call jehovah, is in hebrew ad name of four letters, ihvh; and the true pronunciation of it is known to very few. i myself know some score of different mystical pronunciations of it

knower and a thing known, the accursed dyad which is the prime cause of misery. 480. lilith. see liber 418. so the orthodox place the legal 4 before the holy 8 and sublime zero "and therefore their breaths stink" 543. good, but only carries us back to the mother. 666. chosen by myself as my symbol, partly for the reasons given in part i, partly for the reasons given in the apocalypse. i took the beast to be the lion (leo my rising sign) and sol, 6,666, the lord of leo on which babalon should ride. and there were other more intimate considerations, unnecessary 118 to enter upon in this place. note however that the tarot card of leo, strength, bears the number xi, the great number of the magnum opus, and its interchange with justice, viii; and the key of 8 is 418. this all seemed to me so i

must accept every orthodox levitation, and explain it by weight-lifting competitions among the angels; he must deny every heterodox levitation, or explain it by demonic power. and as one's bitterest enemies are always one's nearest relations, so his bitterest polemics are against the quietists who are absolutely indistinguishable from the orthodox, and in favour at rome until the intrigues of the beast of blood of the society of jesus destroyed molinos. father poulain even repeats the catholic truths about molinos's confession. but father poulain is a jesuit. at this stage a reviewer wants to get up and stamp such people into pulp. but the hour is not yet, though ferrer's blood adds its cry to that of his fellow-martyrs. rather let us consider the good points in father poulain's poultice

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ash of dried leaves the worlds are blown before me. thou hast passed by me, and thou hast not known me. woe unto thee, that i have not devoured thee altogether! on my head is the crown, 419 rays far-darting. and my body is the body of the snake, and my soul is the soul of the crowned child. though an angel in white robes leadeth me, who shall ride upon me but the woman of abominations? who is the beast? am not i one more than he? in 22 his hand is a sword that is a book. in his hand is a spear that is a cup of fornication. upon his mouth is set the great and terrible seal. and he hath the secret of v. his ten horns spring from five points, and his eight heads are as the charioteer of the west. thus doth the fire of the sun temper the spear of mars, and thus shall he be worshipped, as the w

r is known; thine ignorance is known; thy weakness is known; but thou art nothing in this matter. shall the grain which is cast into the earth by the hand of the sower debate within itself, saying, am i oats or barley? bond-slave of the curse, we give nothing, we take all. be thou content. that which thou art, thou art. be content. and now the lion passeth over through the aethyr with the crowned beast upon his back, and the tail of the lion goes on instead of stopping, and on each hair of the tail is something or other- sometimes a little house, sometimes a planet, at other times a town. then there is a great plain with soldiers fighting upon it, and an enormously high mountain carved into a thousand temples, and more houses and fields and trees, and great cities with wonderful buildings

images in a misty landscape, all very transient. but the general impression is of moonrise at midnight, and a crowned virgin riding upon a bull. 60 and they come up into the surface of the stone. and she is singing a chant of praise: glory unto him that hath taken upon himself the image of toil. for by his labour is my labour accomplished. for i, being a woman, lust ever to mate myself with some beast. and this is the salvation of the world, that always i am deceived by some god, and that my child is the guardian of the labyrinth that hath two-and-seventy paths. now she is gone. and now there are angels, walking up and down in the stone. they are the angels of the holy sevenfold table. it seems that they are waiting for the angel of the aethyr to come forth. now at last he appears in the

y gather themselves together, the servants of the star and of the snake, and they shall eat up everything that is upon the earth. for why? because the lord of righteousness delighteth in them. the prophets shall prophesy monstrous things, and the wizards shall perform monstrous things. the sorceress shall be desired of all men, and the enchanter shall rule the earth. blessing unto the name of the beast, for he hath let loose a mighty flood of fire from his manhood, and from his womanhood hath he let loose a mighty flood of water. every thought of his mind is as a tempest that uprooteth the great trees of the earth, and shaketh the mountains thereof. and the throne of his spirit is a mighty throne of madness and desolation, so that they that look upon it shall cry: behold the abomination! o

and men shall see it afar off. then will i gather together my chariots and my horsemen and my ships of war. by sea and land shall my armies and my navies encompass it, and i will encamp round about it, and besiege it, and by the flame thereof shall i be utterly devoured. many lying spirits have i sent into the world that my aeon might be established, and they shall be all overthrown. great is the beast that cometh forth like a lion, the servant of the star and of the snake. he is the eternal one; he is the almighty one. blessed are they upon whom he shall look with favour, for nothing shall stand before his face. accursed are they upon whom he shall look with derision, for nothing shall stand before his face. and every mystery that hath not been revealed from the 62 foundation of the world

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the ears of isis. i want trouble. i want to say indra's mantram till his throne gets red-hot and burns his lotus-buttocks; i want to pinch little harpocrates till he fairly yells and i will too! somehow! 6.15. i have now got into a sort of smug content, grinning all over like some sleepy chinese god. no reason for it, lord knows! i can't make up my mind whether to starve or sandwich or gorge the beast st. john. he's not the least bit hungry, though he's had nothing to call a meal since thursday lunch. the hatha-yoga feeding game is certainly marvellous. i should like to work marching and breathing with this mantra as i did of old with aum tat sat aum. perhaps two steps to a mantra, and 4-8-16 steps to a breath-cycle? this would mean 28 seconds for a breath-cycle; quite enough for a marchi

s his appointment with michael brenner to continue moulding siddhasana. 7.45. again i awake.[o swine! thou hast felt in thyself "good! good! the night is broken up nicely; all goes very well" and thou hast written "i! o swine, john st. john! when wilt thou learn that the least stirring of thy smug content is the great fall from the path? it will be best to get up and do some kind of work; for the beast would sleep. 8.25. john st. john has arisen, after doing 20 breath-cycles, reciting internally the ritual, 70 per cent. of which he now knows by heart. 8.35. to the d me a caf -croissant. some proofs to correct during the meal. 10.25. having walked over to the studio reciting the ritual (9.25-9.55 approximately) john st. john got into his pose, and began going for the gloves. the interior t

nt method) by spiritualising away all the meaning, until the intuition pierces that blank wall of ignorance. let o.m. meditate upon this oracle on his way to feed john st. john's body and thus feed his own! 6.52. out, out, to feed! 6.57. trimming his beard in preparation for going out, he reflects that the deplorable tone (as one's dean would say) of the last entry is not the cry of the famished beast, but that of the over-driven slave."adonai, ply thou thy scourge! adonai, load thou the chain! 7.25. what the devil is the matter with the time? the hours flit just like butterflies the moon, dead full, shines down the boulevard. my moon full moon of my desire!(ha, ha, thou beast! are "i and me and mine" not dead yet? yea, lord adonai! but the full moon means much to john st. john; he fear

at the chittam is excited and racing, the control being impaired; and the ego is springing up again. 7.50. this racing of the chittam is simply shocking. john st. john must stop it somehow. hours and hours seem to have passed since the last entry. 7.57. he is in such a deuce of a hurry that (in a lucid moment) he finds himself trying to eat bread, radish, beef and potato at a mouthful. worse, the beast is pleased and excited at the novelty of the sensation, and takes delight in recording it. beast! beast! 8.3. after myriads of aeons. he has drunk only about one third of his half-bottle of light white wine; yet he's like a hashish- drunkard, only more so. the loss of the time-sense which occurs with hashish he got during his experiments with that drug in 1906, but in an unimportant way.(dam

to finish his wine! he orders cold water. 8.12. things a little better. but he tries 100 small muscular movements, pressing on the table with his fingers in tune, and finds the tendency to hurry almost irresistible. this record is here written at lightning speed. attempt to write slowly is painful. 107 8.20. the thought too, is wandering all over the world. since the last entry, very likely, the beast has not thought even once of adonai. 8.35. the reading of the ritual has done much service, though things are still far from calm. yet the mighty flood of the chittam is again rolling its tremendous tide toward the sea the sea of annihilation. amen. 9.0. returning home, with his eyes fixed on the supreme glory of the moon, in his heart and brain invoking adonai, he hath now entered into his

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203 i did it. how? so great and grim the gods are, i may never guess. suffice it, on his mouth i swim a drowning dastard. the caress wakes the lost life. i see him dress the godhead. up he bounds and brays- the wild ass of the wilderness, the soul that sees, the soul that slays! inhabit the untrodden ways; set! thou my god and i thy priest, thy temple hidden in the haze of deserts death to god or beast! thou who art both shalt foin and feast with me who am both, thy hate's co-heir, lord of the west and of the east- the scorpion's hole, the lion's lair! i kissed his mouth- sublime despair! our souls were one; our bodies met- yea! darkness cover everywhere the secret of the house of set! alys cusack. 204 the sphinx at gizeh 205 the sphinx at gizeh i saw the other day the sphinx's painted fac

y desert of sorrow that the magical eyes of me swoon with lust of rain to-morrow! ages and ages ago i stood on the bank of a river holy and holy and holy, i know, for ever and ever and ever! a priest in the mystical shrine, i muttered a redeless rune, till the waters were redder than wine in the blush of the harlot moon. i and my brother priests worshipped a wonderful woman with a body lithe as a beast's subtly, horribly human. deep in the pit of her eyes i saw the image of death, and i drew the water of sighs from the well of her lullaby breath. she sitteth veiled for ever brooding over the waste. she hath stirred or spoken never. she is fiercely, manly chaste! what madness made me awake from the silence of utmost eld the grey cold slime of the snake that her poisonous body held? 210 by n

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male and female; dragon trees, fig trees, cocoa-nut palms, bread-fruit trees, and the rest. beautiful birds are dwelling in the branches. all that is needed for life is abundant and easy to gather. the climate permits us 367 to spend night and day in the open, and when i retire to sleep on the box whose cover i have turned out to be, my companions sleep in the trees. no venomous or objectionable beast has yet dared to breathe the air of this balmy country. but it is not a deserted spot. the natives are black, but tame and pleasant, and one of my first steps will be to try and bring them into contact with the beauties of our civilisation. for this object the mighty box is of the utmost importance; and here i touch on the first difficulty which i encountered. the destiny of man being precar

mplice of his crimes and follies. i am ashamed of myself, but curiosity is stronger than shame. the carrier-pigeons have fled back to him with my word of honour. i was too anxious to know more about the man-cover, and my duty as a reporter has made me forget the moral ideas painfully inculcated unto me by a life of hard experience and severely-paid-for mistakes. scratch the man, you will find the beast. i must admit this has proved true for me also. it is the last time that i let my own personality come between the readers and the wickedly mad hero of history, and i apologise for this intrusion. i now give place to him, and will publish his notes as i receive them. the contents of the coffin have not suffered from the wreck. here they are all, the books and the skull, the roses white and r

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his work of art. 274 thou, the centre and the silence! light shrouded in darkness is thy name! the celestial fire is thy father! thy mother the celestial sea! thou art the equilibrium of the all, and thou art lord against the face of the dwellers within the waters! bring me, i say, bring me to thine abode of silence: that i may go invisible: so that every spirit created, and every soul of man and beast; and every thing of sight and sense, and every spell and scourge of god, may see me not nor understand! and now, in the name of god the vast one, who hath set limits and bounds unto all material and astral things, do i formulate a barrier and a bar without mine astral form, that it may be unto me as a wall, and as a fortress, and as a defence. and i now declare that it is so formulated, to b

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ful gallant in the skies! so do thou leave thy thoughts, intent on thy new noble element! throw the earth shackles off, and cling to what imperishable thing arises from the married death of thine own self in that whereon thou art fixed. olympas. then all life's loyal breath is a waste wind. all joy forgone, i must strive ever? marsyas. cease to strive! destroy this partial i, this moan of an hurt beast! sores keep alive by scratching. health is peace. unknown and unexpressed because at ease are the most high congruities. olympas. then death is thine "attainment? i can do no better than to die! marsyas. indeed, that "i" that is not god is but a lion in the road! knowest thou not (even now) how first the fetters of restriction burst? in the rapture of the heart self hath neither lot nor part

vel of lusting, singing, smiting! work; be the bed of work! hold! hold! the stars' kiss is as molten gold. harden! hold thyself up! now die- ah! ah! exceed! exceed! olympas. and i? marsyas. my stature shall surpass the stars: he hath said it! men shall worship me in hidden woods, on barren scaurs, henceforth to all eternity. olympas. hail! i adore thee! let us feast. marsyas. i am the consecrated beast. i build the abominable house. the scarlet woman is my spouse_ 49 olympas. what is this word? marsyas. thou canst not know till thou hast passed the fourth ordeal. olympas. i worship thee. the moon-rays flow masterfully rich and real from thy red mouth, and burst, young suns chanting before the holy ones thine eight mysterious orisons! marsyas. the last spell! the availing word! the two comp

cipice! master the cornice, gain the breach, and learn what next the ridge can teach! yet_ not the ridge itself may speak the secret of the final peak. olympas. all ridges join at last. marsyas. admitted, o thou astute and subtle-witted! yet one_ loose, jagg d, clad in mist! another_ firm, smooth, loved and kissed by the soft sun! our order hath this secret of the solar path, even as our lord the beast hath won the mystic number of the sun. olympas. these secrets are too high for me. 51 marsyas. nay, little brother! come and see! neither by faith nor fear nor awe approach the doctrine of the law! truth, courage, love, shall win the bout, and those three others be cast out. olympas. lead me, master, by the hand gently to this gracious land! let me drink the doctrine in, an all-healing medic

ight from the golden dawn, bidden the cavernous mount unfold its ruby rose, its cross of gold; until i saw, flashed from afar, the hawk's eye in the silver star! marsyas. peace to all beings. peace to thee, co-heir of mine eternity! peace to the greatest and the least, to nebula and nenuphar! light in abundance be increased on them that dream that shadows are! olympas. blessing and worship to the beast, the prophet of the lovely star! 54 the herb dangerous part iii the poem of hashish the poem of hashish chapter i the longing for infinity those who know how to observe themselves, and who preserve the memory of their impressions, those who, like hoffmann, have known how to construct their spiritual barometer, have sometimes had to note in the observatory of their mind fine seasons, happy da

rtificially the supernatural into his life and into his thought; but, after all, and despite the accidental energy of his experiences, he is nothing but the same man magnified, the same number raised to a very high power. he 68 is brought into subjection, but, unhappily for him, it is not by himself; that is to say, by the part of himself which is already dominant "he would be angel; he becomes a beast" momentarily very powerful, if, indeed, one can give the name of power to what is merely excessive sensibility without the control which might moderate or make use of it. let it be well understood then, by worldly and ignorant folk, curious of acquaintance with exceptional joys, that they will find in hashish nothing miraculous, absolutely nothing but the natural in a superabundant degree. t

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t, huntress-lithe. her dress, close- fitted, was of a gold-brown silk that matched, but could not rival, the coils that bound her brow- glittering and hissing like snakes. her face was greek in delicacy; but what meant such a mouth in it? the mouth of a satyr or a devil. it was full and strong, curved twice, the edges upwards, an angry purple, the lips flat. her smile was like the snarl of a wild beast. she stood, violin in hand, before the wall. against it was a large tablet of mosaic; many squares and many colours. on the squares were letters in an unknown tongue. she began to play, her gray eyes fixed upon one square on whose centre stood this character, n. it was in black on white; and the four sides of the square were blue, yellow, red, and black. she began to play. the air was low, s

breeds. but immanent as hers that reigns is this most silent crown of love, adela that broods on me, and is i, in the gondola. they twist, they twine, these white and black canals, now stark with lamplight, now a reach of styx. even as out love- raging wild animals suddenly hoisted on the crucifix to radiate seraphic coronals, flowers, flowers- o let our light and darkness mix, adela, goddess and beast with me in the gondola! come! though your hair be a cascade of fire, your lips twin snakes, your tongue the lightning flash, your teeth god's grip on life, your face his lyre, 315 your eyes his stars- come, let our venus lash our bodies with the whips of her desire. your bed's the world, your body the world-ash, adela! shall i give the word to the man of the gondola? aleister crowley.1 316 1

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long the snake is tame. see! he is strong! the wide-set temple-pillars gleam, as marble white, and tall as pines; the doorway to immortal dream lies through the temple's purple shrines. behold, pure queen, the magic signs. let words out-stream as mingled wines. victor b. neuburg. os"special supplement" the high history of good sir palamedes the saracen knight and of his following of the questing beast 1 by aleister crowley rightly set forth in rime to allan bennett "bhikkhu ananda metteyya" my good knight comrade in the quest, i dedicate this imperfect account of it, in some small recognition of his suggestion of its form. mandalay "november" 1905 1weh note: this work is read to best effect after crowley's "confessions. the sections are metaphoric accounts of crowley's own search for enli

lude to an attack of camelot, he maketh a desperate night sortie, and will traverse the wilds of wales. v. at the end of his resources among the welsh mountains, he is compelled to put to death his only remaining child. by this sacrifice he saves the world of chivalry. vi. he having become an holy hermit, a certain dwarf, splendidly clothed, cometh to arthur's court, bearing tidings of a questing beast. the knights fail to lift him, this being the test of worthiness. vii. lancelot findeth him upon scawfell, clothed in his white beard. he returneth, and, touching the dwarf but with his finger, herleth him to the heaven. viii. sir palamede, riding forth on the quest, seeth a druid worship the sun upon stonehenge. he rideth eastward, and findeth the sun setting in the west. furious he taketh

haseth an elephant in the indian jungle. the elephant escapeth; but he, led to trichinopoli by an indian lad, seeth an elephant forced to dance ungainly before the mahalingam. xi. a scythian sage declareth that it transcendeth reason. therefore sir palamede unreasonably decapitateth him. xii. an ancient hag prateth of it as evangelical. her he hewed in pieces. v xiii. at naples he thinketh of the beast as author of evil, because free of will. the beast, starting up, is slain by him with a poisoned arrow; but at the moment of its death it is reborn from the knight's own belly. xiv. at rome he meeteth a red robber in a hat, who speaketh nobly of it as of a king-dove-lamb. he chaseth and slayeth it; it proves but a child's toy. xv. in a tuscan grove he findeth, from the antics of a satyr, tha

n a moonlit vale of spain, he findeth the bait stolen by bermin. xvii. in crete a metaphysician weaveth a labyrinth. sir palamede compelleth him to pursue the quarry in this same fashion. running like hippogriffs, they plunge over the precipice; and the hermit, dead, appears but a mangy ass. sir palamede, sore wounded, is borne by fishers to an hut. xviii. sir palamede noteth the swiftness of the beast. he therefore climbeth many mountains of the alps. yet can he not catch it; it outrunneth him easily, and at last, stumbling, he falleth. xix. among the dunes of brittany he findeth a witch dancing and conjuring, until she disappeareth in a blaze of light. he then learneth music, from a vile girl, until he is as skilful as orpheus. in paris he playeth in a public place. the people, at first

h it; it outrunneth him easily, and at last, stumbling, he falleth. xix. among the dunes of brittany he findeth a witch dancing and conjuring, until she disappeareth in a blaze of light. he then learneth music, from a vile girl, until he is as skilful as orpheus. in paris he playeth in a public place. the people, at first throwing him coins, soon desert him to follow a foolish egyptian wizard. no beast cometh to his call. xx. he argueth out that there can be but on beast. following single tracks, he at length findeth the quarry, but on pursuit it eldueth hi by multiplying itself. this on the wide plains of france. xxi. he gathereth an army sufficient to chase the whole herd. in england's midst they rush upon them; but the herd join together, leading on the kinghts, who at length rush toget

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e eyes of st. ljubov. by j. f. c. fuller and george raffalovich 293 midsummer eve. by ethel archer 310 the poetical memory 311 adela 314 the three worms. by edward storer 317 the felon flower. by ethel archer 325 the big stick 327 glaziers' houses 346 in the temple. by victor b. neuburg 352 "special supplement" the high history of sir palamedes the saracen knight and of his following the questing beast illustrations aratrum securum "facing page" 11 the yogi" 90 the tatwas" 108 adonai ha aretz" 114 the interpreter" 199 "this page is reserved for official pronouncements by the chancellor" of the a" a] persons wishing for information, assistance, further interpretation, etc, are requested to communicate with the chancellor of the a. a. c/o the equinox, 124 victoria street, s.w. telephone 3210

y unto him that hath given us the symbol of the ankh, and of the cross within the circle! 1. three are the beasts wherewith thou must plough the field; the unicorn, the horse, and the ox. and these shalt thou yoke in a triple yoke that is governed by one whip. 2. now these beasts run wildly upon the earth and are not easily obedient to the man. 3. nothing shall be said here of cerberus, the great beast of hell that is every one of these and all of these, even as athanasius hath foreshadowed. for this matter1 is not of tiphereth without, but tiphereth within. 11 i 0. the unicorn is speech. man, rule thy speech! how else shalt thou master the son, and answer the magician at the right hand gateway of the crown? 1. here are practices. each may last for a week or more. alpha. avoid using some c

whilst p. was on a journey. 159 these meditations are called objective cognitions, by concentrating on certain nerve centres super-physical sensations are obtained. rays as of a sun. i then noticed that the figure had the power to reduplicate itself at various further distances; but the main figure was very steady. above and over the figure there towered a devil in the shape of some antediluvian beast. how long i mentally watched the figure i cannot say, but after a period it became obscure and difficult to see, and in order to prevent it vanishing it had to be willed to stay. after a further time the plesiosaurus) above the figure became a vast shadowy form including the figure itself. the experiment being at an end d. a. put the following question to p "how do you judge of distance of s

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th, he perisheth by the secret sibilant word that is spoken unto death. even as the profane hand reacheth to the sacred sand, fire consumes him that his name be forgotten in the land. 5 even as the wicked eye seeks the mysteries to spy, so the blindness of the gods takes his spirit: he shall die. even as the evil priest, poisoned by the sacred feast, changes by its seven powers to the misbegotten beast: even as the powers of ill, broken by the wanded will, shriek about the holy place, vain and vague and terrible: even as the lords of hell, chained in fires before the spell, strain upon the sightless steel, break not fetters nor compel: so be distant, o profane! children of the hurricane! lest the sword of fire destroy, lest the ways of death be plain! so depart, and so be wise, lest your p

rt of sorrow, that the magical eyes of me swoon with lust of rain to-morrow! ages and ages ago i stood on the bank of a river, holy and holy and holy, i know, for ever and ever and ever! 115 a priest in the mystical shrine, i muttered a redeless rune, till the waters were redder than wine in the blush of the harlot moon. i and my brother priests worshipped a wonderful woman with a body lithe as a beast's subtly, horribly human. deep in the pit of her eyes i saw the image of death, and i drew the water of sighs from the well of her lullaby breath. she sitteth veiled for ever, brooding over the waste. she hath stirred or spoken never. she is fiercely, manly chaste! what madness make me awake from the silence of utmost eld the grey cold slime of the snake that her poisonous body held? by nigh

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ple who do the practices find that results do happen. it is most astonishing, even to us; under the old empirical, dogmatic methods people could work really hard for years, and get absolutely nothing; in our three years' experience with the a. a, we have not found one man in whom three months' work has not produced at least one notable result. what can we add but this: blessing and worship to the beast, the prophet of the lovely star! 2 liber porta lvcis svb figvra x 3 a. a. publication in class a. imprimatur: n. fra a. a. liber porta lvcis svb figvra x 1. i behold a small dark orb, wheeling in an abyss of infinite space. it is minute among a myriad vast ones, dark amid a myriad bright ones. 2. i who comprehend in myself all the vast and the minute, all the bright and the dark, have mitiga

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

us. 18. and this is the grace of god, that these things should be thus. 19. wherefore i charge you that ye come unto me in the beginning; for if ye take but one step in this path, ye must arrive inevitably at the end thereof. 20. this path is beyond life and death; it is also beyond love; but that ye know not, for ye know not love. 21. and the end thereof is known not even unto our lady or to the beast whereon she rideth; nor unto the virgin her daughter nor unto chaos her lawful lord; but unto the crowned child is it known? it is not known if it be known. 22. therefore unto hadit and unto nuit be the glory in the end and the beginning; yea, in the end and the beginning. 27 liber resh vel helios svb figvra cc 29 a. a. publication in class d. imprimatur: n. fra a. a. liber resh vel helios

would never have given a hair of her head or all his body and soul. understanding was to his brain a momentary death. then with a silent snarl he sprang at her. she and her chair crashed backwards to the floor, and the black leopard was upon her, his teeth sunk in her throat. edgar rolles was only just in time. his boot caught the murderer behind the ear- and edgar rolles had played football. the beast was dead. edgar stooped and caught her up, blood leaping from her throat, while ninon, shriek upon shriek rising in torment, rushed to rouse the people of the restaurant "oh, my brother" gasped the girl "could you not understand? i wanted to die, so" there were her last words for long. lavenue's was a storm of chattering and gesticulating fools. the police pushed them aside. the corpse to th

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the premature compassion of our planetary logos) of the life of this nature, informing the dense globe of the moon chain. on his high level, pity awoke in the heart of the planetary logos for certain involutionary existences within the moon chain, and (like the buddha on a lesser scale and at a much later date) compassionate zeal brought the karmic results with which we are still concerned. the "beast" must be driven back for his own good to run his cycle, hidden in his den and confined within safe limits until the dawning of a new system brings him conscious opportunity. more we may not say. it must be remembered that the mysteries of existence are as yet but little cognised by man. in cases where profound mysteries lie, man is often totally unaware of it; and frequently man remains blin

er of the fiery heart a portion of the triple force which circulates within the planet's sphere. with eye intent and heart alive with burning love the master utters not the final word. he steps from off the disk and turns his lotus feet back to that path he earlier left behind, and from the other side remounts the dragon's crest. himself a dragon, he now identifies himself with those who seek the beast. and thus he serves, turning his back upon the door of light. he is the offspring of the dragon and serves his time. unknown and unseen by him, a greater disk becomes apparent, turning unceasingly. he seeth not its movement for his eyes are on the world he has returned to serve. the disk revolves and brings around before his yet unseeing eye a greater wider door..his eye of vision opens..he

ing from the triad, thus forming the decad and its permutations. seven, five and three" 3. it stops in the first, and is a metal and a stone; it passes into the second and behold a plant; the plant whirls through seven forms and becomes a sacred animal- 812- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust compare s. d, i, 266. note the kabalistic aphorism "a stone becomes a plant; a plant, a beast; a beast, a man; a man, a spirit; and the spirit, god. s. d, i, 267. 4. from the combined attributes of these, manu, the thinker, is formed. see s. d, ii, 179, 187. 5. who forms him? the seven lives and the one life. see s. d, ii. 268. the seven groups of lives who form the three lower bodies. the lunar pitris or fathers of the material forms. 6. who completes him? the fivefold lha. who unit

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ace of a lion, on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle."7 and again in the book of revelations, we find the same astrological symbology "and before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes, before and behind "and the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast was like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle."8 the "face of the man" is the ancient sign of aquarius, the sign of the man carrying the water-pot, to which christ referred when he sent his disciples into the city, saying "behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, beari

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vy millstone around the neck of the leaders of the race, and who are kept down either through fear, through applied poverty (yes, that is the proper term) or through regimentation. these constitute (as may be easily recognised) a harnessed menace, but that harness is rapidly becoming worn, and when the leash slips or breaks, it is difficult to forecast what the dire results may be. the caged wild beast of the unenlightened and therefore innocent human beings who work without the means for pleasure or leisure, who are underfed and exploited, cannot indefinitely be held back. the one hope of the world is that the enlightened and responsible people will readjust world relations, world conditions and the world economic situation, so that contentment through the removal of abuses may succeed, a

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is creative, artistic and capable of the highest mental development when taught and trained as capable as is the white man; this has been proved again and again by the artists and the scientists who have come out of the negro race and by the fact of their aspirations and their ambitions. the time has come when the white man must cease to look upon the negro as a field labourer, a factory hand, a beast of burden, or one only capable of housework or unskilled labour and accord him the respect and the opportunity which is due him. the negro of africa is emerging fast and when a few more years of education, study and travel have played their part, the problem of africa will become even more acute than it already is. it need not become dangerous if the white race demonstrates wisdom, understan

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in order to achieve the final liberation. pluto or death never destroys the consciousness aspect- 77- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust six planets, therefore, govern the mutable cross as far as humanity is concerned and this in itself is significant, for six is the number of the great work of the period of manifestation, is the number of "the beast" which is the lower nature as far as man is concerned, and is all that which seeks to destroy the higher life, but also that which can be controlled and directed finally by the soul. the significance of numbers enters into this science of esoteric astrology, and numerology, as it is, per se, a branch of esoteric astrology. love mind experience form human understanding death: these are the ke

ng of an idea. pisces sensation. mediumship. fluidity. gemini recognition of soul and form. soul interplay. sagittarius one-pointed spiritual aspiration. disciples. evolved man virgo the mother of the christ child. gestation. pisces the world saviour. mediatorship. in connection with the above, it is interesting to note that the twins set apart and unattached in gemini become the centaur, the man-beast, in sagittarius, whilst virgo, the virgin, becomes the fish goddess in the polar opposite, pisces. a treatise could be written on the subject of the relation of the opposites in the zodiacal circle for they express spirit and matter and their inter-relation, plus the play of qualitative energies; they bear witness at the same time to the fact that these two are one and are simply the express

of transmission. in the transit of energy from a major centre to a human being and when the energy is finally grounded in the disciple's centre, you will notice that it is then a fusion of six energies. these three groups of energies (each of them a fusion of six) make the dominating energies, controlling the human being, to number eighteen; this holds the clue to the mystery of the "mark of the beast" which is 666. this is the number of the active intelligent man and distinguishes his form nature from his spiritual nature which is 999. these three lines or streams of energy in man may be listed as follows: i. ii. iii. will. purpose. love-wisdom. active intelligence. spirit. c onsciousness. form. 1. the great bear..sirius..the pleiades. c osmic. c osmic. c osmic. 2. leo..pisces..capricorn

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therefore the number of idealism and of that driving force which makes mankind move forward upon the path and in response to the vision and press upward towards the light. it is in reality devotion to an unseen goal, ever on ahead, and an unswerving recognition of the objective. like all other divine qualities, it has its material counterpart, and that is why 666 is regarded as the number of the beast or of materialism, the number of the dominance of the three worlds prior to the process of reorientation and the expression of developed idealism and purpose. the third aspect expresses itself through pure materialism, and hence the three sixes. in an ancient book on numbers the initiate is defined as "the one who has experienced and expressed 666 and found it naught; who has dropped the 6 a

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ter or of illusion, with which the soul has identified itself for so long, is finally overcome. it y has in it sixty stars, and again we come in touch with a significant number, for six is the number of mind, of the creative work of the universal mind, and of the six days of creation. in the sixth sign, virgo, we have the completed form. we are told in the book of revelations that the mark of the beast is 666, and hydra, the serpent, lies under three constellations and its number 6 is, therefore, three times potent. ten is the number of completion. six expresses, therefore, the limitations of the body nature working through form and the utilization of the personality; it symbolizes god in nature, whether cosmically or individually. hydra the serpent, represents the matter aspect, as it vei

a son of god. how perfectly these fundamental ideas interplay and confirm each other, when we abandon the complexities of the lower mind. virgo is also called the "goddess of the two ways, because as the holy mother principle she symbolizes matter and also is the custodian of the christ life. it is meaningful that this sixth sign, the number of physical plane activity, is called the number of the beast. this idea seems to have a horrible fascination for many, but what it really means is that virgo is a symbol of the triplicity, 6 on the physical plane, 6 on the emotional plane, 6 on the mental plane, not 666 at all. it is to be remembered that the lion is the king of beasts. the native attains finally in that sign the rounded-out personality. but in virgo, the first of the steps towards sp

tle skill. he set a snare with skill, and wisely hid, and then he waited in a shadow dark for the coming of the boar. and hour by hour went by, and still he waited till the dawn drew near. out from its lair the boar emerged, seeking for food, driven by ancient hunger. and in the shadows near the snare waited the son of man. into the snare the boar fell and in due time hercules released the savage beast, making it the prisoner of his skill. he wrestled with the boar and mastered it, and made it do the thing he said, and go the way that he desired [127] down from the snowy summit of the mountain high came hercules, rejoicing on the way, driving before him, on the downward way, the fierce though tamed boar. by the hind legs twain, he drove the boar, and all upon the mountain laughed to see th

asure-seeking existence of the libran, harsh though the experience may be, is a necessity for the growth of the soul. without such tragedies, the potentialities of libra remain dormant. the libran sets out upon his journey in winter, a time of bleakness when the personality life has lost its allure. hercules does not use brute force in taking the boar captive. he sets a trap, waits and allows the beast to trap itself. when the boar flounders in the snowdrifts, hercules seizes his opportunity. it is curiously libran to avoid a direct encounter, and not to expend more force than is necessary. he seeks to achieve his ends gently, not coercively. we are told that hercules seizes the hind legs of the boar, and compels the beast to walk down the mountainside on its front legs, and that this spec

. amymone besought the aid of neptune. he bade her strike a rock, and when she did, outgushed three crystal streams; but soon a hydra made his dwelling there "beside the river amymone, the festering swamp of lerna stands. within this noisome bog the monstrous hydra lies, a plague upon the countryside. nine heads this creature has, and one of them is immortal. prepare to battle with this loathsome beast. think not that common means will serve; destroy one head, two grow apace" expectantly hercules waited "one word of counsel only i may give" the teacher said "we rise by kneeling; we conquer by surrendering; we gain by giving up. go forth, o son of god and son of man, and conquer" through gate the eighth, then, hercules passed. the stagnant swamp of lerna was a blot dismaying all who came wi

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

it, again, that a great author of modern times has said "prosperity was the blessing of the old testament for good works, but adversity that of the new? this could only be true if there were no future life or lives, or no coming period of reward and punishment contemplated by the old testament doctrine. but the comment is true and the old testament does teach that man is no more immortal than the beast, as witness ecclesiastes, iii. 19-"for that which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea they have all one breath; so that man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is 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

t come thu, tohu, the formless; and bhu, bohu, the void, thirdly chshk, the darkness, of the early universe, and from these our world was developed and now exists; then come seven hells, whose dwellers are evil beings representing all human sins; their rulers are samael or satan the angel of death, and lilith, the asheth zenunim, the woman of whoredom, and this pair of demons are also called "the beast" see zohar ii. 255; samael had also an incommunicable name, which was ihvh reversed; for demon est deus inversus. the whole universe only became complete with the creation of man, called the microcosm, the earthly adam; a copy of "the archetypal man" after another manner; he has principles and faculties and forms comparable to all the sephiroth and worlds, although his material body dwells o

y. as the neshamah draws one to spiritual excellence, so the nephesh leads down to physical enjoyment. in another form of symbolism the kabalist tells us a man has two companions, or guides; one on the right, yetzer ha tob, to good acts, he is from the higher sephiroth; and one on the left, yetzer ha ra, encouraging the appetites and passions, temptations to evil, is an agent of samael and of the beast. man is in a very unfortunate position according to the zohar 95 b, for it is there said that the evil angel joins him at birth, but the good angel only at the age of 13 years. as to death, as we have already learned, the man's ego or soul, unless the life has been superexcellent, has to be re-born in another form, but at death, as all religions agree, great changes occur. according to the k

ANATHEMA OF ZOS

tion. monsters arose and walked the earth in the guise of living men and women. these are the hypocrites to whom the sermon was delivered. the goat-herd found himself in a pigsty; speaking to swine bred on foul aethers. where once there was the sermon on the mount, now there need be a sermon of the midden. zos eats complacency and his leavings bear the name of doubt. zos heralds the onrush of the beast as john the baptist once swept the path of the christos. this time it is not the oracles' head served upon the platter. be not complacent. the anthem of liber l will, on saturn s touch, turn its melody inward and become a funeral dirge of the soul. if there is ought to be learnt it is this..we are the hypocrites to whom zos speaks. there is no hope. the great wheel turns. all that we love an

APOCALYPSE MOSES

but adam said to eve 'arise and go with my son seth near to paradise, and put earth upon your heads and weep and pray god to have mercy upon me and send his angel to paradise, and give me of the tree out of which the oil floweth, and bring it me, and i shall anoint myself and shall have rest from my complaint' chapter 10. 1 then seth and eve went towards paradise, and eve saw her son, and a wild beast assailing him, and eve wept and said' 2 woe is me; if i come to the day of the resurrection, all those who have sinned will curse me saying: eve hath not kept the commandment of god' 3 and she spake to the beast 'thou wicked beast, fearest thou not to fight with the image of god? how was thy mouth opened? how were thy teeth made strong? how didst thou not call to mind thy subjection? for lon

come to the day of the resurrection, all those who have sinned will curse me saying: eve hath not kept the commandment of god' 3 and she spake to the beast 'thou wicked beast, fearest thou not to fight with the image of god? how was thy mouth opened? how were thy teeth made strong? how didst thou not call to mind thy subjection? for long ago wast thou made subject to the image of god' 4 then the beast cried out and said: chapter 11. 1 'it is not our concern, eve, thy greed and thy wailing, but thine own; for (it is) from thee that the rule of the beasts hath arisen. 2 how was thy mouth opened to eat of the tree concerning which god enjoined thee not to eat of it? on this account, our nature also hath been transformed. 3 now therefore thou canst not endure it, if i begin to reprove thee' c

'it is not our concern, eve, thy greed and thy wailing, but thine own; for (it is) from thee that the rule of the beasts hath arisen. 2 how was thy mouth opened to eat of the tree concerning which god enjoined thee not to eat of it? on this account, our nature also hath been transformed. 3 now therefore thou canst not endure it, if i begin to reprove thee' chapter 12. 1 then seth speaketh to the beast 'close thy mouth and be silent and stand off from the image of god until the day of judgment' 2 then saith the beast to seth 'behold, i stand off from the image of god' and he went to his lair. chapter 13. 1 and seth went with eve near paradise, and i they wept there, and prayed god to send his angel and give them the oil of mercy. 2 and god sent the archangel michael and he spake to seth 's

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

re un po di bene,a quella povera bestia!e poi si troverauna grossa capra,ma un vero caprone,et tu dirai:bona sera, bel caprone,e questo ti risponderbuona sera galantuomosono tanto stanco, ioche non mi sento di andare pi avanti.e risponderai al solito,fata diana vi scongiuro,di dare pace e benea questo caprone!fairy diana! fairy diana! fairy diana!i conjure thee to do some little goodt o this poor beast.then thou wilt finda great goat,a true he-goat,and thou shalt say,good evening, fair goat!and he will reply,good evening, fair sir!i am so wearythat i can go no fartherand thou shalt reply as usual,fairy diana, i conjure theet o give to this goat relief and peace! page 73 n r r r r r we implore thee give this sleeper,give unto this good melambothe great gift of understandingwhat all creature

me, and whatever did not belong to hisreligion, and he, passing the garden one day,beheld the statue of dianacrowned with roses and other flowers. and being in a rage, and seeing inthe street a decayed cabbage, he rolled it in the mud, and threw it all dripping at the face of the god-dess, saying: ecco mala bestia didoli!questo e lomaggio che io ti do,gia che il diavolo ti aiuta!behold, thou vile beast of idolatry,this is the worship which thou hast from me,and the devil do the rest for thee!then the priest heard a voice in the gloom where the leaves were dense, and it said: bene, bene! tu mi hai fattoloffrando tu avraila tua porzionedella mia caccia. aspetta! page 51 n r r r r r invocation to diana.bella dea dellarco!bella dea delle freccie!della caccia e dei cani!tu vegli colle stelle,qu

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

a profound sleep. happy is the man who knows the great works of the divine power. blessed is he whose eyes are opened to behold light where before they saw darkness. two stars are given by the gods to man to lead him to great wisdom. gaze steadily upon them, follow their lights, and you will find in them the secret of knowledge. the bird phoenix, from the south, plucks out the heart of the mighty beast from the east. give the animal from the east wings, that it may be on an equality with the bird from the south. for the animal from the east must be deprived of its lion s skin, and lose its wings. then it must plunge in the salt water of the vast ocean, and emerge thence in renovated beauty. plunge thy volatile spirits in a deep spring whose waters never fail, that they may become like thei

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

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

harris, an hereditary british witch, whose long involvement in various magical circles and authorship of grimoires not only within the black tradition, but also that of the traditional witcha path, is bold enough to present ideas of our spiritual lineage found in the dreaming minds of the cunning brothers and sisters. the symbolic mark of initiation, which aleister crowley termed the mark of the beast of the apocalypse in the book of thoth, has brought different interpretations of its form, but the function itself is clear. this mark, or stigma, may have been a reference to some form of tattooing. the story may have originally referred to the nomadic tribe of the kenites, itinerant metal-smiths who believed themselves to be the descendants of a cain, related also to the midianites and isr

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

ven human groups on seven different portions of our globe (b) the birth of the astral, before the physical body: the former being a model for the latter; and (c) that man, in this round, preceded every mammalian- the anthropoids included- in the animal kingdom[[footnote(s* see genesis ch. ii, v. 19. adam is formed in verse 7, and in verse 19 it is said "out of the ground the lord god formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto adam to see what he would call them" thus man was created before the animals; for the animals mentioned in chapter i. are the signs of the zodiac, while the man "male and female" is not man, but the host of the sephiroth; forces, or angels "made in his (god's) image and after his likeness" the adam, man, is not made in that liken

have. why then this feature in the embryo, and how do the former explain it "the proofs of evolution" a lecture by haeckel[[vol. 2, page] 188 the secret doctrine. instant of its physical appearance as a germ to its ultimate formation and birth- the pythagorean esoteric doctrine of metempsychosis, so erroneously interpreted by critics. the meaning of the axiom "a stone becomes a plant; a plant, a beast; a beast, a man, etc" was mentioned in another place in relation to the spiritual and physical evolution of men on this earth. we will now add a few more words to make the matter clearer. what is the primitive shape of the future man? a grain, a corpuscle, say some physiologists; a molecule, an ovum of the ovum, say others. if it could be analysed- by the microscope or otherwise- of what oug

nd the neighbourhood of adelaide are very hairy, and the brown down on the skin of boys of five or six years of age assumes a furry appearance. they are, however, degraded men- not the closest approximation to the "pithecoid man" as haeckel so sweepingly affirms. only a portion of these men are a lemurian relic (cf "esoteric buddhism" p.55* in calling the animal "soulless" it is not depriving the beast, from the humblest to the highest species, of a "soul" but only of a conscious surviving ego-soul, i.e, that principle which survives after a man, and reincarnates in a like man. the animal has an astral body, that survives the physical form for a short period; but its (animal) monad does not re-incarnate in the same, but in a higher species, and has no "devachan" of course. it has the seeds

a creature contemporary with the earliest fifth race, and exists no more[[footnote(s* the ultramontane writers accept the whole series of draconian stories given by father kircher (edipus aegyptiacus "de genere draconum) quite seriously. according to that jesuit, he himself saw a dragon which was killed in 1669 by a roman peasant, as the director of the museo barberini sent it to him, to take the beast's likeness, which father kircher did and had it published in one of his in-folios. after this he received a letter from christopher scherer, prefect of the canton of soleure, switzerland, in which that official certifies to his having seen himself with his own eyes, one fine summer night in 1619, a living dragon. having remained on his balcony "to contemplate the perfect purity of the firmam

, he was ambitious and proud, and rejecting the spiritual light of the middle space offered him by his mother sophia- achamoth, he set himself to create a world of his own. aided by his sons, the six planetary genii, he fabricated man[[vol. 2, page] 244 the secret doctrine. but this one proved a failure. it was a monster, soulless, ignorant, and crawling on all fours on the ground like a material beast. ilda-baoth was forced to implore the help of his spiritual mother. she communicated to him a ray of her divine light, and so animated man and endowed him with a soul. and now began the animosity of ilda-baoth toward his own creature. following the impulse of the divine light, man soared higher and higher in his aspirations; very soon he began presenting not the image of his creator ilda-bao

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

s of the air, and everything living. animals have only the latent germ of the highest immortal soul in them. this latter will develop[[footnote(s* codex nazaraeus, i, 135* ibid* see the cosmogony of pherecydes[[vol. 1, page] 197 ilda-baoth-jehovah. only after a series of countless evolutions; the doctrine of which evolution is contained in the kabalistic axiom 'a stone becomes a plant; a plant, a beast; a beast, a man; a man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god (vol. i, p. 301, note) the seven principles of the eastern initiates had not been explained when "isis" was written, but only the three kabalistic faces of the semi-exoteric kabala* but these contain the description of the mystic natures of the first group of dhyan chohans in the regimen ignis, the region and "rule (or government) of fi

y or otherwise, confused the numbers: with us his no. 2 is no. 1 (spirit; and by making of nephesch both the plastic mediator and life, he thus makes in reality only six principles, because he repeats the first two* esotericism teaches the same. but manas is not nephesch; nor is the latter the astral, but the 4th principle, if also the 2nd prana, for nephesch is the "breath of life" in man, as in beast or insect, of physical, material life, which has no spirituality in it[[vol. 1, page] 244 the secret doctrine[[first column continued from previous page] life" is a misnomer and a useless puzzle to the student] 2. ruach progresses by the evolution of ideas. 3. neschamah is progressive without oblivion and destruction. 4. the soul has three dwellings. 5. these dwellings are: the plane of the

d "a great age" or a day of brahrna, 14 manus reign; after which comes pralaya when all the souls rest in nirvana (souls= egos[[vol. 1, page] 246 the secret doctrine. such are the distorted copies of the esoteric doctrine in the kabala. but see also "the primeval manus of humanity" in book ii. to return to stanza vii (b) the well-known kabalistic aphorism runs "a stone becomes a plant; a plant, a beast; the beast, a man; a man a spirit; and the spirit a god" the "spark" animates all the kingdoms in turn before it enters into and informs divine man, between whom and his predecessor, animal man, there is all the difference in the world. genesis begins its anthropology at the wrong end (evidently for a blind) and lands nowhere* had it begun as it ought, one would have found in it, first, the

ar, in its kamarupic state- the astral body of desires of ahamkara, dark egotism, the progeny of mahat, on the lower plane. it is not molecularly constituted matter- least of all the human body (sthulasarira- that is the grossest of all our "principles" but verily the middle principle, the real animal centre; whereas our body is but its shell, the irresponsible factor and medium through which the beast in us acts all its life. every intellectual theosophist will understand my real meaning. thus the idea that the human tabernacle is built by countless lives, just in the same way as the rocky crust of our earth was, has nothing repulsive in it for the true mystic. nor can science oppose the occult teaching, for it is not because the microscope will ever fail to detect the ultimate living ato

es of the triple veda. some reviled the vedas, others the gods, others the ceremonial of sacrifice, and others the brahmans. this, they exclaimed, is a doctrine which will not bear discussion. the slaughter of animals in sacrifice is not conducive to religious merit. to say that oblations of butter consumed in the fire produce any future reward, is the assertion of a child. if it be a fact that a beast slain in sacrifice is exalted to heaven, why does not the worshipper slaughter his own father. infallible utterances do not, great asuras, fall from the skies; it is only assertions founded on reasoning that are accepted by me and by other intelligent persons like yourselves! thus by numerous methods the daityas were unsettled by the great deceiver (reason. when[[footnote(s "there was a day

BLUE EQUINOX

nt of the continent of atlantis: the manners and customs, magical rites and opinions of its people, together with a true account of the catastrophe, so called, which ended in its disappearance. liber cvi. a treatise on the nature of death, and the proper attitude to be taken towards it. liber dccclxxxviii. a complete study of the origins of christianity. pr monstrance of a.a. 15 liber dclxvi. the beast. this book is an account of the magical personality who is the logos of the present on. liber lxxxi. the butterfly net. an account of a magical operation, particularly concerning the planet luna, written in the form of a novel. liber dcclxxvii. a complete dictionary of the correspondences of all magical elements, reprinted with extensive additions, making it the only standard comprehensive b

path in the language of alchemy. liber lix. across the gulf. a fantastic account of a previous incarnation. its principal interest is that its story of the overthrowing of isis by osiris may help the reader to understand the meaning of the overthrowing of osiris by horus in the present on. liber cxcvii. the high history of good sir palamedes the saracen knight and of his following of the questing beast. a poetic account of the great work, and enumeration of many obstacles. liber ccxlii. aha! an exposition in poetic language of several of the ways of attainment and the results obtained. liber cccxxxv. adonis. this gives an account in poetic language of the struggle of the human and divine elements in the consciousness of man, giving their harmony following upon the victory of the latter. li

d to this planet, how the on of horus is made manifest by the universal war. this is the first great and direct result of the equinox of the gods, and is the preparation of the hearts of men for the reception of the law. let us remind you that this is a magical formula of cosmic scope, and that it is given in exact detail in the legend of the golden fleece. jason, who in this story represents the beast, first fits out a ship guided by wisdom or athena, and this is his aspiration to the great work. accompanied by many heroes, he comes to the place of the fleece, but they can do nothing until medea, the scarlet woman, puts into his hands a posset .drugged with somnolence, sleepy with poppy and white hellebore. for the dragon. then jason is able to subdue the bulls, sacred to osiris, and symb

posset .drugged with somnolence, sleepy with poppy and white hellebore. for the dragon. then jason is able to subdue the bulls, sacred to osiris, and symbolical of his on and the magical formula of self-sacrifice. with these he plows the field of the world, and sows therein .the dreadful teeth of woe, cadmean stock of thebes. old misery. which refers to a certain magical formula announced by the beast that is familiar unto thee, but unsuited to the profane, and therefore the equinox 174 not further in this place indicated. from this seed armed men sprung to life; but instead of attacking him .mutual madness strikes the warriors witless, and fierce wrath invades their hearts of fury, and with arms engaged, they fell upon each other silently, and slew, and slew. now then, the dragon being a

ical method of overcoming opposition given in ccxx iii:23-26. but this is not to our immediate purpose in this epistle. note, pray thee, the instruction in the 38th and 39th verses of the third chapter of the book of the law. it must be quoted in full .so that thy light is in me; and its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. that is, the god himself is aflame with the light of the beast, and will himself push the order, through the fire (perhaps meaning the genius) of the beast. liber ccc 177 .there is a secret door that i shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (these are the adorations, as thou hast written) as it is said: the light is mine; its rays consume me: i have made a secret door into the house of ra and tum, of khephra, and of ahathoor. i am thy theba

BOOK OF JASHAR

gathered food, but every seventh day he had visions of cities which god had planned for the children of abel. cain wandered for twenty years, and then he knew the whole vastness of the world. seth found rama, flo's daughter, alone along the river, and together they had a daughter named jashar. when jashar had grown into womanhood, she met cain returning home. on that day, seth had killed a great beast, and so they celebrated at the return of cain. eve made a fire, and human sang, and rama and jashar danced. and god married cain and jashar that night, under the stars "in this way" human said "we shall always rejoice when two branches of my family are rejoined" then they feasted late into the night, while human foretold joys and sorrows, and cain described his visions. everything that human

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

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

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

) and light a green candle (see page 96. contagious magick this involves transferring and absorbing power directly from a creature or an object, such as an animal, a bird, a crystal, a metal, the wax of an empowered candle or even the earth itself. this principle is central to the potency of talismans and amulets; for example, traditionally, hunters might wear the pelt of a lion to bring them the beast's courage and ferocity. so, by the same token, if you wished to become pregnant, you might make love in a newly ripening cornfield (near the edge so as not to damage the crops; alternatively, you might try one of the ancient power sites of earth, close to the phallus of the chalk cerne abbas fertility giant that is carved in the hillside at cerne in dorset. attracting magick this type of mag

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

hn dee and his associate edward kelley in prague, in the company of the emperor rudolph ii (the son of maximilian ii. william schaw was appointed master of works for all royal building projects for king james vi (later to become james i of england. 1584-1653 johann valentin andreae 1584 edward kelley's vision of four castles john dee and edward kelley in cracow bruno's expulsion of the triumphant beast published. in london, alexander dickson the scottish disciple of bruno, published a book on the hermetic art of memory: on the shadow of reason and judgement. hermetic concepts later become an influence on scottish mason craft perhaps via dic(k)son through william schaw's statutes. 1585 petrus bongus mysticae numerorum asserts pythagoras derived from the cabbalists 1586-1652 pietro della val

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

with the gods of old in the creation process? a: people are delighted and proud of each new creation, or child, who brings joy and laughter to the world. 29 expert commentary jan and yvonne walls are two noted sinologists, or scholars who study chinese language and culture. they point out that chinese gods have four basic types of physical forms: of the four characteristic form-types human form, beast form, half-human-half-beast form, and composite form of several animals those of a purely human form are in a definite minority in the classical [chinese] pantheon. almost all the gods are, in fact, represented as half-human, halfbeast. it is only in later centuries, with the introduction of buddhist and taoist pantheons that most primary gods and goddesses are totally human in appearance.3

had been hardworking farmers, but greedy lords took their crops, taxed them, stole their wives, enslaved their children, and took their land. after years of humiliation and starvation, the farmers hearts turned to stone. desperate and famished, they turned into robbers who roamed the countryside, stealing food and killing people. over the years, the bandits had become more ruthless than any wild beast in the mountains. as cheng walked carefully along the dirt path, she stepped in some faint animal footprints. as she looked at them, the image of the footprints grew stronger and clearer. they were shaped like horse s hooves, only much larger. as she examined the hoof prints closely, her heart filled with joy. could these be the footprints of the magic unicorn, the chi-lin? from childhood st

COMMENTARY ON THE SEAL OF THE NINE ANGLES

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

COVENANT OF SAMYAZA

t don t make a religion of it. we have enough of those things in the world as it itthe covenant of samyaza- i- i, samyaza, speak to mortal man of fallen angels, those who are called watchers, whose blessing man reapeth in defiance of the tyrant-god demiurge. o man, hear of thy daimonic inheritance, and of the daimon seedwhich continues to manifest its power on earth, which doth uplift you fromthe beast of the field unto godhood. know that it was demiurge who conceived the earth and man as his playthings to do with as it pleaseth him, that he may in his vanity be glorified, and receive everlasting tribute and adulation from man, as he receiveth from his angels. for it is demiurge who create man in ignorance and fear that man should forever be servile before him. it is written that demiurge

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

o crowley, and to anyone else on that vibration who would help to stimulate the conflict and the energy of human misery, on which the prison warders feed. this is the force that controls the consciousness of those which control the global elite-illuminati-brotherhood, and it is the focus of worship in the all-seeing eye cult going back to ancient times. the communicator said that crowley was the "beast 666" who had come to destroy christianity, something his mother had said earlier in his life. he apparently tried to ignore what he had written with his guided hand, but it would not go away, and from 1909 on he began to take it seriously. very seriously. he said: 208..and the truth shall set you free "after five years of folly and weakness, miscalled politeness, tact, discretion, care for t

corgis microchipped. who next, prince charles? alongside this, the move to phase out the use of coins and notes is being quickened and all money transactions will be electronic via a credit card and/or smart card. this is planned to become a joint identity/money card with all personal details on a microchip. if things go to plan, all these transactions will be recorded by a global computer- the "beast, possibly, mentioned in the biblical revelations. the "mark of the beast" the microchip, is planned to be moved from the smart card to the human body when a story can be hatched to persuade people to accept it. some researchers suggest that the human barcoding system will include three sets of six digits in the computer- hence 666 "the number of the beast. once we have agreed to the end of c

al offence. the dna makeup of a human being is a potentially catastrophic tool in the wrong hands because the underground science knows far more about these things than the public are told or even mainstream science knows. in the light of all these 404..and the truth shall set you free provable developments, it focuses the mind to reflect on the predictions in the biblical revelation "and he [the beast or antichrist] causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no-one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name. here is wisdom. let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast for it is the number of a man: his number is 666" revelation

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is, manj, the son of sargon, ruler of the sumerian empire, and also known as king minos to the greeks, actually died in ireland" this story sums up how 64 children of the matrix ludicrous official history can be and how one mis-translation can make a complete pig's ear of what really happened. according to the accepted story, menes died after a reign of some 60 years when he was killed by a "kheb beast" that came from the waters of the nile. this "kheb beast" has been translated as hippopotamus. but, as waddell points out, the word "kheb" in egyptian also means wasp or hornet.42 pictographs relaying this story portray an insect that looks remarkably like a wasp or hornet and very unlike a friggin' hippo, unless in those days hippos had wings and looked like flying insects. accounts of mene

rthur stories. lilith comes from lilim or "children of lilith, which relates to the symbolism of set. lilith aquino founded the lilith grotto in lavey's church of satan and was a member of its council of nine. the official church of satan website outlines its philosophy..we are the first above-ground organization in history openly dedicated to the acceptance of man's true nature- that of a carnal beast, living in a cosmos which is permeated and motivated by the dark force which we call satan. over the course of calling the demons 291 time, man has called this force by many names, and it has been reviled by those whose very nature causes them to be separate from this fountainhead of existence. they live in obsessive envy of we who exist by flowing naturally with the dread prince of darkness

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estament, the iranians appeared to have anaversion to children born with extremely white features. and who is said to be extremelywhite, albino white? the royal hierarchy of the draco.the text of the shahnemeh says of zal:no human being of this earthcould give such a monster birth,he must be of the demon race,though human still in form and face,if not a demon, he at least,appears a party-coloured beast.48zal later marries a foreign princess called rudabeh, thedaughter of mehrab, the king of karbul, and a descendantof the serpent king, zahhak, who was said to have rulediran for a thousand years. this was one of the reptilianbloodlines and in keeping with this, rudabeh is describedas tall as a teak tree, ivory white etc, the familiar featuresof the watcher-human offspring. these descriptions

depts in the western tradition(philosophical research society, los angeles, 1979, part five, p 50.3james shelby downard, sorcery, sex, assassination, and the science of symbolism, anarticle in the book, secret and suppressed, edited by jim keith (feral house, p0 box 3466,portland, oregon 97208, 1993, p 62.4ibid, p 61.5ibid.6ibid, p 62.7the temple and the lodge, p 238.8john daniel, scarlet and the beast, volume ill, english freemasonry banks, and the drugtrade (jki publishing, tyler, tx, usa, p 63.9lb!d.10ibid, p 64.11anton chaitkin, treason in america, 2nd edition (new benjamin franklin house, new york,1984, p 217.12scarlet and the beast, p 64.13ibid, p 75.14ibid.15ibid, p 76.16the temple and the lodge, p 237.17ibid.18lord stormont writing to george ill, the correspondence of george the th

emember this: you are not being a rebel ordropping out, you are committing mental, emotional, spiritual and eventuallyphysical, suicide, and you are doing exactly what the people who control this worldwant you to do. the choice is yours, but understand the game before you start. there isonly one winner when you get into drugs. and its never you. soursoursoursoursourcescescescesces1scarlet and the beast, p 15.2ibid.3ibid.4ibid, p 11.5ibid, p 13.2876ibid, p 31.7us news and world report, august 4th 1986.8scarlet and the beast, p 23.9ibid.10state organised crime, the presidential address by william j. schambliss, to the americansociety of criminology, 1988.11rodney stitch, defrauding america (diablo western press, alamo, california. 1994, p 355.12ibid,p355.13michael collins piper, final judgem

ibid.10state organised crime, the presidential address by william j. schambliss, to the americansociety of criminology, 1988.11rodney stitch, defrauding america (diablo western press, alamo, california. 1994, p 355.12ibid,p355.13michael collins piper, final judgement, the missing link in the jfk assassination (the wolfepress, washington dc, 1995, p 92.14defrauding america, p 295.15scarlet and the beast, pp 33 and 35.16ibid, p 36.288chapter fifteensatan222s childrenthe black magic rituals we know as satanism are the modern expression of the ritualsand human sacrifice in ancient babylon and the brotherhood infiltrated societies of thesumerian, phoenician, hittite, egyptian, canaanite and akkadian peoples, among manyothers across the world. it has been a seamless procession through history of

est his faith andobedience. the same ritual continues today among the satanists, the bloodline familiesof the brotherhood, and their organised crime offshoots like the mafia. sacrificing thefirst born son is used by these strange people as a way of testing a persons commitmentto the cause.yahweh-jehovah makes it plain in the book of numbers that. all the firstborn of israel are mine, both man and beast, and in exodus, yahweh demands thatthe first of all thy sons shalt thou give unto me. the bible says that abraham camefrom the sumer city of ur and excavations in 1927 by sir leonard woolley in theroyal cemetery there revealed widespread evidence of human sacrifice in gravesdating from about 2,800 bc. the scythians, the people who transported many of the292aryan bloodlines and rituals into e

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masonic number. and, also remember the importance of the number 8 in occultic numerology, for it carries the meaning of "new beginnings. combined with the meaning of number 13, as "extreme rebellion, you get the total message that this "new beginning" new world order is to be carried out in "extreme rebellion" i believe this to also be connected to the upc/ean 13 barcode specification(mark of the beast. there are several other, more complicated masonic numbers concealed within the construction of the washington monument, but you get the point: this monument, constructed to honor the first masonic president, was designed so that both the white house and the capitol face toward it so that the leaders of both branches have to face the spirit of lucifer thought to be residing in it. this is ty

in the design of cydonia, mars, avebury, england and washington d.c. there is a small owl just to the left of the "1" which appears on the upper right hand corner of the dollar bill. from time to time politicians like bill clinton and george w. bush jr. have been caught with a camera flashing the horned owl symbol with their hands. george bush flahing the horned owl bill clinton the number of the beast- 666 on a previous page you learned that the letters on the base of the illuminati pyramid stand for certain numbers. and all those numbers when added up equal 1776, the year the illuminati formed. more than one method exists for arriving at 1776. however, there is only one way to arrive at the following sequence. the babelonian numbering system was used by the masonic designers of the seal

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as said by the sumerians, the blood of kingu, leader of the armies of chaos, flows within the veins of man, and also, the ancient ones (man) will once more rule. all of these statements are therefore symbolic and refer to the rise of man as a god. the realization of deitus is the recognition that man has become a god. there is within man, however, a great dichotomy between light and dark, god and beast. in order to assume our place as gods upon the earth, we must recognize the reality that we have already become gods. we must put aside the religions and ideologies of the past, and the moralities of the societies of the past, all of which have hindered us from assuming our rightful place as heirs of creation. we must then assume the responsibilities which come with recognition of being gods

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god. the english translation of the keys bear a striking similarity to invocations in the clavicula solomonis, another medieval grimoire, but dee& kelly claimed that the keys were revealed to them by the angels, the letters of the words shown to them in a crystal show stone. the enochian evocation of dr. john dee also gives the invocation for various spirits with which dee& kelly communicated. a beast of revelation on april 4, 1904, aleister crowley, declared the start of a new aeon the aeon of horus. in crowley s philosophy each aeon represents a stage in the non-natural evolution of man. the aeon of isis was a time when man lived in close harmony with the natural world and the dominant religions involved the worship of nature. this was characterized by the pre-christian pagan world. the

religions involved the worship of nature. this was characterized by the pre-christian pagan world. the aeon of osiris, which followed the aeon of isis, was a time when man rejected the natural world, accepting self-denial and sacrifice of the flesh and body as the ideal. christianity rose as the dominant religion in the west during the aeon of osiris. crowley, who came to believe that he was the beast described in the book of the revelation of jesus to st. john the apostle, wrote the book of the law, which he claimed was revealed to him by the spirit aiwass and was a true revelation from the egyptian deities nuit, hadit, and ra hoor khut. in the book of the law we read dowhat thou will shall be the whole of the law and love is the law, love under will. the word of the aeon of horus was th

was nothing occult or sinister in its philosophy or practice. satan, to the church of satan was a miltonian figure, a symbol of defiance against tyranny. it is satan who says, i would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven. this combined with the philosophy of nietzche, who says plainly, god is dead, made the philosophy of the church of satan attractive to the rebel and the outcast. the second beast in 1975, michael aquino, a magister templi in the church of satan, along with several other members, resigned from the church of satan and established the temple of set. one of the key issues in the schism was the alleged sale of titles within the church of satan. members of the church of satan who felt they had earned recognition for their knowledge of the black arts and their commitment to

ient egyptian form of set, wrote the book of the coming forth by night in which he declared the start of the aeon of set, a succession to the aeon of horus. the word of the aeon was xeper, an egyptian word which means to become or to come into being. the egyptian god xepera was associated with the scarab beetle and was the god of expansion of consciousness. michael aquino claimed to be the second beast from the book of the revelation of jesus to st. john the apostle and the spiritual son of aleister crowley described in the book of the law. in contrast to the church of satan s professed atheism, the temple of set embraced the literal existence of set, not as a christian devil, but as an ancient egyptian god associated with the night sky and with the expanding of consciousness. according to

th lock of the abyss, moloch. open the ninth lock. come forth, moloch, and manifest thyself. come forth, moloch, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice then say) the ninth lock is open. opening the abyss i have opened the nine locks of the abyss. the abyss is open beneath me. the abyss is open around me. the abyss is open within me (recite three times; then drink from chalice) invocation of the beast into the abyss i call; to the depths of hell i call; to the beast of revelation i call: beast of revelation, i invoke thee. beast of revelation, i summon thee. beast of revelation, i conjure thee. come forth, beast of revelation, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, beast of revelation, and manifest thyself. place thy mark upon me. come forth

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practiced by certain luciferian covens in the united states, instead of wolf blood various herbs and apple 11 against heresies by eznik 12 isis and osiris 12 cider is used in replacement, following along the same form of sacrifice by an offering into an area where the suns rays never touch. and i saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. for they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of god almighty. revelation 16:13-14 ahriman appeared in the zoroastrian legends in numerous forms. his astral body was considered that of a frog, toad, or crab, often a lizard or se

the devil was said to have lengthened his life and transformed him into a immortal daeva or demon, even later mythological reference that dragons and other serpents rise from his body. this can be connected by the libation vase which was of gudea, dated from 2350 b.c. which was found at telloh. this vase contains an image of two snakes entwined around a staff, representing magical power. and the beast which i saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority (revelation 13:2) slowly zohak became a demon, a dragon king whose companions were the druj and other demons of ahriman. in later lore zohak became the storm fiend, azi dahaka, who is ahriman s most powerful d

th each of the demons, he carries the attributes to relate to different forms and techniques of being. he understands flight and how such demons see in such a capacity, as a fish to swimming and moving much differently and as a dragon, a serpent which is both cunning and instinctually in tune with its surroundings. it seems that the category of demon simply represents any combination of animal or beast, similar to the plethora of demonic imagery from the earliest times of man. manichaean belief, as it developed from the dualistic religion of zoroastrianism, views the creation myth of mankind slightly different from its zoroastrian counterparts. in manichaean concepts adam was engendered by satan with the traits of desire, cupidity and those concepts which religions always have difficulty w

te existence and to astrally vampirize it s creator if not bound and focused correctly. we see with reference to samael and lilith, a working aleister crowley conducted with his scarlet woman, one of which brought to excite his kundalini or magick fire. this serpent is controlled starting at the base of the spine and moving upward, thus allowing for ecstasy and power. in the magical record of the beast 666 crowley described his working involving shtn, or the fire serpent (satan/set/shaitan) with the scarlet woman, thus what crowley referred to as the sun and the moon conjoined. a fascinating description of his rite describes the ecstasy of magick- the tortured-ecstasy of the contorted face, the writhing of the hag body that ground down it s beast. the storm of lust and pain and madness. it

was like hecate in a death-dance, satan-possessed, convulsive, pumping my life, body and soul, as twere a python in his agony. she certainly gave me what i ve been losing. youth s intensity .that sacrament of satan that may be consummated only beneath night s dome, in utmost silence, because it s elements are not symbols of things, but they themselves. aleister crowley, the magical record of the beast 666 here we see the infernal union of both outward with his partner, but also a mirror shining into the depths of the abyss of his self, his possibility and that chaos which was within him. controlling it, focusing it, crowley was able to manifest his will from this very essence of magick. in luciferian witchcraft cain is considered the devil incarnate in flesh. he is the first born in the c

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theons to the sephiroth; and secondly, they form part of the symbolism of the astral paths and serve as landmarks when travelling in the spirit-vision. for instance, if one saw a horse (mars) or a jackal (luna) in the sphere of netzach (venus, one would know that there was confusion of plane and the vision was not reliable. in her sphere one [page 100] would expect to see her doves, and a spotted beast, such as a lynx or leopard. 25. it may be thought that the association of the symholi beasts with the gods and goddesses in the old myths is entirely arbitrary and the fruit of the poetic imagination, which, like the wind, bloweth where it listeth. to this the occultist answers that the poetic imagination is not an arbitrary thing and refers the sceptic to the works of dr jung of zurich, the

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estic duties. the suggestion was acted upon, and a few days after my own arrival miss l. joined us. she seemed quite normal, made herself agreeable, and was well liked. one incident, however, in the light of subsequent events, was significant. on getting out of the ancient fly in which she had driven from the station, she immediately went and patted the still more ancient horse that drew it. that beast, usually sunk in an apathy from which he was with difficulty roused when action was required of him, galvanised into life at her touch as if she had stung him. he threw up his head, backed, snorted, and nearly turned the equipage over in the ditch, to the amazement of his jehu, who declared he had never been known to do such a thing before, and viewed our visitor with disfavour. miss l, howe

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nzon study crowley's vision and the voice, casaubon's true and faithful relation, and grant's nightside of eden. for an analysis of the numerical significance of coronzon's name, and how my interpretation differs from that of aleister 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

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he modern witch and the poor unfortunate innocents falsely accused in the middle ages of witchcraft. nor is there any similarity between the modern witch and the ugly fantasy that existed in the minds of the medieval witch-finders. in addition to those accused of sorcery and witchcraft, certain animals were also believed by the ancient greeks and romans to have the power of the evil eye. one such beast was the european wolf. it was thought that if a wolf approached a man unseen and set the ray of its gaze upon him, the man would at once be struck speechless with paralyzing fear. the wolf was then free to attack and kill the man, since he could neither run away nor cry out to attract the attention of others. this spell of the evil eye would persist, even if the wolf came out from hiding so

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ole in the ground, and bury the paper under the earth where it will lie undisturbed in darkness. your will suffer no more misfortunes. return h nhome resources demons bios fiction tyson the truth about familiars (names of familiar spirits residing in animal hosts) as is true of so many aspects of western occultism, the witch's familiar had its origin in shamanism. every shaman has his own totemic beast, with whom he believed himself to be related by blood. the great spirit of that animal's species, a larger all-white beast that possessed the power of speech, watched over the shaman and protected him from harm, and also taught the shaman occult secrets. in the middle ages, the inquisitors of the catholic church believed the pets of accused witches to be possessed by demons. a witch was supp

witch madness that resulted in the deaths of so many innocent women. is it really possible for a modern witch or magician to cause a spirit to possess an animal? yes, but it is usually not convenient to do so. familiar spirits are very useful. i have one myself who watches over me, teaches me secret matters, and performs other personal services. however, a spirit that is bound into the body of a beast is less versatile since the pet cannot always be with the magician, and on some occasions it may be impossible for the pet to be present. a familiar spirit who is unbound can roam free, and will appear anywhere it is needed at the bidding of its master. sometimes it is convenient to localize the familiar upon a particular image or object. this makes the evocation of the familiar easier and m

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he trouble is, these events are often indistinguishable. to account for this similarity, christian scholars assert that the changes wrought by god are true and enduring changes, whereas the changes worked by magicians are temporary illusions. hence in christian folklore you read of the glamours of witches, who can make a man believe that his penis has fallen off, or that he has transformed into a beast such as a swine or a donkey, even though these things have not actually taken place. you encounter tales of magicians such as faust who could transform for a time bits of twigs and stones into the semblance of gold and silver coins, or could make a lavish banquet seem to appear in a twinkling- but eventually the coins became twigs again, and the food of the banquet failed to fill the stomach

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text of lovecraft's brief bogus history of the necronomicon. concerning the curious connnecting thread that links gnostic theology, the book of enoch, the new testament book of revelation, the elizabethan magician dr. john dee and his communications with the enochian angels, the victorian era secret society of practical magic known as the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the magician and great beast aleister crowley, the dreamer and writer h. p. lovecraft, and the writer and magician kenneth grant (and perhaps i should not exclude myself from this list) read the essay "dr. john dee, the necronomicon, and the cleansing of the world- a gnostic trail" by colin low, to be found at a miscellany of essays. return h ahome resources demons bios fiction tyson the truth about pentagrams (eliphas

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hat werewolves were hereditary, and originated from a curse of the gods on particular families or clans. the greek werewolf actually transformed into a wolf, and was condemned to seek out human flesh while in its wolf state. to the old folk tale of a god's curse, the modern disease of rabies was added. a person bitten by a mad dog or other animal over time becomes mad, and begins to behave like a beast. traditionally, all madness falls under the domain of the moon. in movies, the bite of a werewolf acts in a very similar way to the bite of a mad dog. it is a kind of infection. moonlight triggers it. but enough of the more ancient myth of a god's curse survived to cause some films to hint that the person bitten in some way deserved his or her fate- that it was more than simple chance that l

ssentially the form of the werewolf legend that was used by hollywood. however, the origins of the werewolf are lost in the mists of pre-history. werewolves are only one form of a whole host of were animals that exist in the mythology of cultures all around the globe. in northern europe there are tales of were-bears. the japanese had were-cats, the malaysians and indians were-tigers. almost every beast has been a were-beast to some culture. shape-changers in the east were usually said to be evil magicians or evil witches who used their magic to cause harm to others. shape-changing into animal form is a feature of shamanism, the oldest human religion. shamans are universally believed in their cultures to possess the power of transforming themselves into animals such as wolves, bears and rav

a were-beast to some culture. shape-changers in the east were usually said to be evil magicians or evil witches who used their magic to cause harm to others. shape-changing into animal form is a feature of shamanism, the oldest human religion. shamans are universally believed in their cultures to possess the power of transforming themselves into animals such as wolves, bears and ravens. in their beast form the shamans travel the world to acquire wisdom or exercise their magic power. individual shamans have an affinity to one or another beast, which is the totemic animal of their family or clan. one shaman may be linked to the raven, another to the fox. this link is not exclusive, but merely stronger than the links that exist between the shaman and other species of animal. are there real w

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art lord of the grave. grant thou to me to endure for ever, even as thou didst grant unto thy father tmu to endure; and his body neither passed away nor decayed. i have not done that which is hateful unto thee, nay, i have spoken that which thy ka loveth: repulse thou me not, and cast thou me not behind thee, o tmu, to decay, even as thou doest unto every god and unto every goddess and unto every beast and creeping thing which perisheth when his soul hath gone forth from him after his death, and which falleth in pieces after his decay. homage to thee, o my father osiris, thy flesh suffered no decay, there were no worms in thee, thou didst not crumble away, thou didst not wither away, thou didst not become corruption and worms; and i myself am khepera, i shall possess my flesh for ever and

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e west (1907. meanwhile, crowley had joined another secret order, the ordo templi orientis (oto, which strongly emphasized the power of sex magic. after crowley departed to the united states toward the end of 1914, the a a ceased working as a group in london. sources: king, francis. ritual magic in england: 1887 to the present day. london: neville spearman, 1970. suster, gerald. the legacy of the beast. york beach, maine: samuel weiser, 1989. symonds, john. the great beast: the life and magick of aleister crowley. london: macdonald, 1971. rev. ed. london: mayflower, 1973. the king of the shadow realm. london: duckworth, 1989. aaron s rod a magic wand deriving from the biblical narrative of the rods of moses and aaron that were used in the miracles of dividing the waters of the red sea and

ous stone protected against the biting of scorpions or serpents, soothed the mind, drove away contagion, and put a stop to thunder and lightning. it was also said to dispose the wearer to solitude, promote eloquence, and secure the favor of princes. it gave victory over enemies to those who wore it. agathion a familiar spirit that was said to appear only at midday. it took the shape of a man or a beast, or even enclosed itself in a talisman, bottle, or magic ring. agathodaemon benevolent deity in greek mythology, the good spirit of vineyards and cornfields. according to aristophanes, agathodaemon was honored by drinking a cup of wine at the end of a meal. he was represented pictorially in the form of a serpent or sometimes as a young man holding a horn of plenty, a bowl, and ears of corn

t his learning ultimately gained wide recognition, for a collected edition of his vast writings was issued at leyden as late as 1653. albertus died in 1280, was beatified in 1622, and canonized by pius xi in 1932. there is no firm evidence that albertus was author of the ever popular occult work ascribed to him under the title albertus magnus. egyptian secrets; or, white and black art for man and beast. sources: albertus magnus. the book of secrets of albertus magnus: also, a book of the marvels of the world. edited by m. r. best and f. h. brightman. oxford: clarendon press, 1973. federmann, reinhard. the royal art of alchemy. new york: chilton, 1969. kovech, f. j, and r. w. shahan, eds. albert the great: commemorative essays. norman okla: university of oklahoma press, 1980. sighart, j. al

hrist according to early and medieval christian belief, antichrist is the universal enemy of human beings who in the latter days will scourge the world for its wickedness. he is only mentioned as a character in the bible in two brief passages occurring in the first and second epistles of john (1 john 2:18, 22, and 4:3; and 2 john 7. however, the man of lawlessness (2 thessalonians 2:3.12) and the beast (revelation 13) are also commonly thought to represent the antichrist. abbot bergier described the antichrist as a tyrant, impious and excessively cruel, the arch enemy of christ, and the last ruler of the earth. the persecutions he will inflict on the elect will be the last and most severe ordeal that they will have to endure. the antichrist will pose as the messiah and will perform things

ear; that the philosophers, encyclopedists, and revolutionaries of the eighteenth encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. antichrist 61 century were only demons incarnated to precede and prepare the way for antichrist. during world war i, there were people who were convinced that antichrist was none other than the exkaiser of germany. another way to recognize antichrist is by the title beast 666, because revelation describes the beast as a false prophet. the title beast 666 was applied to modern occultist aleister crowley (1875.1947) by his mother, and he accepted it as a symbol of his break with the severe fundamentalism of his plymouth brethren father. sources: crowley, aleister. the confessions of aleister crowley. edited by john symonds and kenneth grant. new york: hill& wan

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9 abounded with apparent animal materializations in the kluski seances. an account in psychic science (april 1926) reads in part: the bird was photographed, and before the exposure a whirring, like the stretching of a huge bird s wings, could be heard, accompanied by slight blasts of wind, as if a large fan were being used. hirkill (an afghan) materialised. accompanying him always was a rapacious beast, the size of a very big dog, of a tawny colour, with slender neck, mouth full of large teeth, eyes which glowed in the darkness like a cat s, and which reminded the company of a maneless lion. it was occasionally wild in its behaviour, especially if persons were afraid of it, and neither the human nor the animal apparition was much welcomed by the sitters. the lion, as we may call him, liked

laimed that the marks on sorcerers were areas that had mortified from the touch of the devil s finger. about 1591, leonarde chastenet, an old woman of eighty, was taken up as a sorceress while begging in poitou. brought before mathurin bonnevault, who deponed to having seen her at the meeting of witches, she confessed that she had been there with her husband, and that the devil, a very disgusting beast, was there in the form of a goat. she denied that she would have carried out any witchcraft, but nineteen witnesses testified to her having caused the death of five labourers and a number of animals. finding her crimes discovered and herself condemned she confessed that she had made a compact with the devil, given him some of her hair, and promised to do all the harm she could. she added tha

ome weeks he was not able to speak or perform divine service. an old woman of elfdale confessed that the devil had helped her make a nail, which she stuck into a boy s knee, of which stroke the boy remained lame a long time. she added that before she was burned or executed by the hand of justice, the boy would recover. another circumstance confessed by these witches was that the devil gave them a beast, about the shape and size of a cat, which they called a carrier, and a bird as big as a raven, but white, and these they could send anywhere, and wherever they went, they took away all sorts of victuals, such as butter, cheese, milk, bacon, and all sorts of seeds, and carried them to the witches. what the bird brought, they kept for themselves, but what the carrier brought they took to block

quite different. while the same basic practices are present in both eastern and western forms of occult sexuality, the ideas under which they were organized do not easily mix. sources: crowley, aleister. de arte magica. san francisco: level press [1974. magical diaries of aleister crowley. edited by john symonds and kenneth grant. montreal: next step publications, 1972. the magical record of the beast 666. edited by john symonds and kenneth grant. montreal: next step publications, 1972. culling, louis, ed. a manual of sex magick. st. paul: llewellyn publications, 1971. king, francis, ed. the secret rituals of the o.t.o. new york: samuel weiser, 1973. sexuality, magic, and perversion. secaucus, n.j: citadel press, 1972. sexton, george british secularist teacher of the nineteenth century. r

er than 12 chapters of the egyptian book of the dead (chapters 77 to 88) are devoted to providing the deceased with words of power, the recital of which was necessary to enable him to transform himself into various animal and human forms. s. baring gould, in his book of folklore (1913, states that in such cases the consequence of a spell being cast on an individual required him or her to become a beast or a monster with no escape except under conditions difficult to obtain. to this category belong a number of so-called fairy tales that are actually folktales. wherever the magical art is believed to be allpowerful, one of its greatest achievements is the casting of a spell so as to alter completely the appearance of the person on whom it is cast, so that this individual becomes an animal. o

EVIL AND UNCLEAN SPIRITS

and adverse powers broken beneath their feet 1. rahab (bahar) whose symbol is a woman riding upon an ass. 2. samael (lams) whose symbol is a terrible demon leaping upon an ox. 3. macholoth (twlwjam) a form compounded of a woman and a serpent, and she rideth upon a serpent scorpion. 4. lilith (tylyl, a woman outward beautiful but inwardly corrupt and putrefying, riding upon a strange and terrible beast. j bwlwg wryrgt qrz bru laylmg lams k b j laymwat layrts laygwu hlkcug g t h n m y tylyl 5 the evil and averse powers beneath the feet of the four kerubim to these four are attributed the four kingdoms and they are also classed under the sephiroth. sephiroth spirit kingdom qlippoth rtk hmkj hnyb tylyl (strange beast) babel splendor l dsj hrwbg trapt twlwjam (serpent scorpion) greeks whirling

devilish and human headed insect, for h. wrycjn (nachashiron: whose colors are like serpents, and whose form is like that of a dog-headed serpent, for i. wrygdgd (dagdagiron: whose colors are reddish and gleaming, and their form is like vast, devouring, flat-headed fish, for j. wrymyhb (bahimiron: whose name is derived from behemoth, and whose colors are black and brown. its form is like an awful beast, similar to a hippopotamus or elephant but crushed flat as though their skin were spread out flat over the body of a gigantic beetle or cockroach; yet it has vast strength, for k. wrymycn (nashimiron: whose colors are of a stagnant, gleaming, watery line whose forms are like hideous women, almost similar to skeletons united to the bodies of serpents and fishes, for l. in the midst of the cir

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

eld, in the old labor temple on new yo rk s 14th st re e t( keel, 1991. after a tour of duty in the mil- 142 keel, john alva john alva keel (august c. roberts/fortean picture library) i t a ry in the early 1950s, he wandered the east and wrote his first book, ja d o o( 1 9 5 7, on his adve n t u res and observations. he w rote that while in the himalayas, he saw the yeti( abominable snow m a n, a beast he would come to think of as a d e m o n( c h o rv i n s k y, 1990. in the 1960s, he emb a rked full time on investigations of ufos, men in black, monsters (including mo t hman, an eerie winged humanlike cre a t u re with which ke e l s name would fore ver after be associated, contactees, and more. he e ven re p o rted having his own encounters with unearthly entities. borrowing from califor

world harboring an intelligent civilization that builds and flies superaircraft that are called ufos. palmer got the byrd story from giannini but did not mention him, claiming that he had gotten his information from years of research (palmer, 1959. a number of readers pointed out that the new york times stories about byrd s expedition did not quote him as saying anything about forests or a giant beast; even worse, in 1947 and 1956, byrd was at the south, not the north, pole. palmer was forced to acknowledge that his sole source was giannini. unapologetic, he went on to speculate that perhaps byrd had made a secret flight to the arctic in 1947; either that, or a deliberate effort was being made to build an edifice which could be toppled if and when the truth came out about the south pole (

wers, the migrants conjured up g rotesque material forms for themselves. t h i s period is known among extraterrestrial historians of earth as the great ab o m i n a t i o n. williamson reported, the abomination was so vast that forms were fusing together into monsters having no purpose but self-destruction. men and animals were growing interchangeable of spirit and structure. man was beastly and beast was manlike. these abominable entities took the forms of the creatures remembered in legend and mythology as griffins, centaurs, dragons, and sphinxes. eventually the host on the sirian planets could take no more of this insubordination. men were to be men, beasts were to be beasts, the host declared before setting loose a kind of global warming that melted the poles and sparked huge floods

FAUST

t let us go! the world s already grey, the air grows chill, the mists of evening fall! tis now we treasure home the most of allwhy do you stand and stare? what is the trouble? what in the gloaming seizes you in such a way? faust you see that black dog streaking through the grain and stubble? wagner i saw him long since; not important did he seem to me. faust observe him well! what do you take the beast to be? wagner why, just a poodle; in his way he s worrying in his attempt to find his master s traces. faust but do you note how in wide spiral rings he s hurrying around us here and ever nearer chases? and if i err not, there s a trail behind him! along his path a fiery eddy flies. wagner only a plain black poodle do i see. don t mind him! i think it s an illusion of your eyes. faust he see

nooses to be sweeping around our feet, a future snare to bind. wagner i see he doubts, he s timidly around us leaping, two strangers- not his master- does he find. faust the circle narrows; he s already near! wagner you see a dog! it is no spectre here. he snarls and doubts, now on his belly see him crawl, he wags his tail, dog-habits all. faust come here! and be a friend with us! wagner it is a beast and, poodle-like, ridiculous. stand quiet and he ll sit up too; speak to him and he ll scramble up on you; lose something and he ll bring it back again, leap into water for your cane. faust you re likely right. i find no trace remaining of any spirit; it is all mere training. wagner by any dog, if he but be well trained, even a wise man s liking may be gained, yes, he deserves your favour th

half-hellish crew the key of solomon will do. spirits[in the corridor] captured is someone within! stay without, none follow in! like a fox in a snare quakes an ancient hell-lynx there. but now give heed! hover hence, hither hover, under, over, and he soon himself has freed. can ye avail him, oh, do not fail him! for he has already done much to profit us, each one. faust first, to deal with this beast s core, i will use the spell of four: salamander must be glowing, undine self-coiling, sylph vanish in going, kobold keep toiling. who would ignore the elements four, their powers and dowers, no master he over spirits can be. vanish in fiery glow, salamander! gurgling, together flow, undine! in meteoric beauty shine, sylph! bring homely help, incubus! incubus! step forth and end the charm fo

f four: salamander must be glowing, undine self-coiling, sylph vanish in going, kobold keep toiling. who would ignore the elements four, their powers and dowers, no master he over spirits can be. vanish in fiery glow, salamander! gurgling, together flow, undine! in meteoric beauty shine, sylph! bring homely help, incubus! incubus! step forth and end the charm for us. none of the four hides in the beast. he lies quite calmly, grins evermore; i ve not yet hurt him in the least. thou lt hear me longer conjure thee stronger! art thou, fellow, one that out of hell has run? then see this sign! before which incline black cohorts e er! it swells up now with bristling hair. thou reprobated, canst rede his token? the ne er-originated, the never-spoken, who every heaven has permeated, he! wantonly im

oo- what the devil!your head and seed are yours alone! yet all with which i gaily revel, is it on that account the less my own? if for six stallions i can pay, aren t all their powers added to my store? i am a proper man and dash away as if the legs i had were twentyfour! quick, then! let all reflection be, and straight into the world with me! a chap who speculates- let this be saidis very like a beast on moorland dry, that by some evil spirit round and round is led, while fair, green pastures round about him lie. faust but how shall we begin? mephistopheles we ll just get out, so come! bah! what a place of martyrdom! what kind of life is this you lead? boring the youngsters and yourself indeed! leave that to master paunch, your neighbour! why plague yourself by threshing straws? the best

FLY THE LIGHT

plane in a spirit form. lucifuge is also the name of the patron devil in the grand grimoire, being an emissary of lucifer the light bringer. in this sense, lucifuge can be a shadow which comes from the above light of lucifer, thus a connected force of rebellion and self- liberation. contained on fly the light are 14 tracks, with a running time slightly over 70 minutes. seven tracks symbolize the beast of the apocalypse, being the 7 headed dragon. the remaining seven ascend in a crooked pattern around the tree of daath, or the qlippoth. this movement is thus symbolized as the fly god, beelzebub, as a form of the adversary. fly the light begins with alone and divided, an atmosphere of post-industrial chaos and the machinery of a new religion- luciferian youth. this album does not move in th

in addition some initiatory grimoires present cain as being the son of samael (satan) and lilith (through possession of eve via the fruit given by the serpent. cain is thus a symbol of the self which transforms itself through dissatisfaction. fly the light is in part a symbol of the transformation through the seven heads of the dragon of the apocalypse via the angel of prostitution who rides the beast. the son of satan is also represented as a serpent. the dragon itself holds significance in that it is a relation to diabolism, in zoroastrian lore, the avestan word devak means worm which is a dragon or snake. an early form of the antichrist, called zohak and later azhi dahaka is a dragon-king who had two black and venomous serpents on his shoulders, who emerged with the initiatory kiss of

FOCUS OF LIFE

e utmost contempt. consumption, evacuation, sleep: this labour suffers of no variation for to-morrow we again procreate life. o, fool! suicide does not exist. there is no death. death is change and for many very small change. you who stink like a butcher's shambles-what is your daily menu? become less carnivorous. if the food is wholesome, the body shall not suffer. the difference between man and beast is one of acquisition, not digestion. there is no lasting peace-ye eternally fall in love with the new thing of belief. to the mental gymnast: your somersault returns from the place where it began. slave! all you know for certain-you suffer. embrace reality by imagination. from birth is a degeneration of function-safe is he who never leaves his mother's womb. what is perfect does not reflect

excess. verily, greater courage hath none than to satisfy the unexpected desire by self-pleasure. for this reason, that when the desire again reacts, to operate in the ego, the suffering shall be ecstatic. how do i know? not by farcical dialogue with self but through contact with its undulations. are we not ever standing on our own volcano? what is beyond man-something more dishonest or a further beast? one thing is desired, another is thought; and a different becomes. everything loved obtains an obscene disease. these dream postures are ominous pophecy of thyself to become-the obscure wish. o joy and woe! which is the higher morality-to love man while being man or to reincarnate as woman to fulfil desire? death is that degeneration, an alternation of ego in consciousness [i.e, desire, its

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

about a universal religious and moral reform. as each constellation image is discussed, vices associated with it are deplored and the virtues opposite to these vices are praised. more than that, there is an active movement of ascent and descent going on; the vices are thrown out by the gods, cast out of the heavens, and to their places ascend the opposite virtues. thus, in the end, the triumphant beast is fully expelled. and the triumphant beast is not the pope, as used sometimes to be thought. it 1 spaccio, dial. 1 dial, ital, pp. 611-2. 2 ibid. dial, ital, pp. 595 ff. 3 hyginus, fabularum liber, paris, 1578. see below, p. 328. 218 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform is the sum of all the vices which are opposite to the virtues. this is stated by bruno in the dedication of the

beast is not the pope, as used sometimes to be thought. it 1 spaccio, dial. 1 dial, ital, pp. 611-2. 2 ibid. dial, ital, pp. 595 ff. 3 hyginus, fabularum liber, paris, 1578. see below, p. 328. 218 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform is the sum of all the vices which are opposite to the virtues. this is stated by bruno in the dedication of the work to philip sidney "then the triumphant beast is driven out, that is the vices which predominate, and oppose the divine part (of the soul).1 the list of the constellations and of the virtues and vices he connects with them is given twice by bruno, first in the dedication to sidney, and again in the dialogues where the reform movement is described in detail as the gods work through the heavens. in the second dialogue, where he is discuss

f the ethics of the spaccio is correct, it means that bruno has developed the ficinian magic, directed towards the formation of a personality in which solar, jovial, and venereal influences predominate and the bad influences of the stars are kept at bay, into a fully "egyptian" or hermetic ethic or rehgion, in which reformation or salvation is achieved in the cosmological setting, the "triumphant beast" of the sum of the vices, the bad influences coming from the stars, is cast out by their good opposites, and the divine virtues or powers predominate in the reformed personality. animal form or the form of the "beast" is used in a strangely ambivalent manner in the spaccio. sometimes the animal forms in the sky, that is in the constellation images in animal form, seem to represent the vices

he egyptians from the natural forms of beasts ascended to the penetration of the divinity.3 thus, though the animal forms of some of the constellation images signify vices contrary to the virtues which the reform proclaims, yet animal form itself as the representative of deus in rebus is vindicated by the celestial animal forms, and particularly by that of capricorn. the ethical reform drives the beast images out of heaven when those beasts are understood as allegories of vices. the religious reform maintains the beasts in heaven as representative of egypt 1 see below, pp. 328-9. 2 spaccio, dial. 1 (dial, ital, p. 602. 3 ibid, dial. 3 (dial, ital, pp. 795-6. 222 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform and its animal worship. the "expulsion of the triumphant beast" thus has a double

out of heaven when those beasts are understood as allegories of vices. the religious reform maintains the beasts in heaven as representative of egypt 1 see below, pp. 328-9. 2 spaccio, dial. 1 (dial, ital, p. 602. 3 ibid, dial. 3 (dial, ital, pp. 795-6. 222 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform and its animal worship. the "expulsion of the triumphant beast" thus has a double meaning; the beast is expelled on one level and triumphs on another. one wonders whether pope alexander vi thought along these extremely difficult lines about apis.1 for his meditations on greek and egyptian forms of the gods, it is possible that bruno had been studying cartari's de gli immagini degli dei, the plates of which often show greek and egyptian forms together. the gods of the spaccio almost, as it w

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

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

alling head first into a well of souls; we are already surrounded by those waters- well of souls (l. kohanov) chrnzn was the first child of wisdom and understanding. it is 333 to cover reflection across all worlds (mind, body, spirit. the base guardian of knowledge in human form to the world without in divinity. chrnzn thus reflects the formation of and dissolution gateway of the mind of man. the beast 666 is the formation of this principle in the body (zos. the yet to come is 999 which is a fusion of the reflex of body-mind in the real of spirit (or, the reverse, thus completing the current and giving rise to the urge for unity. the beast took on flesh as it s necessity in the realm of physicality (as this is all necessary for completion. chrnzn s unity comes from unity with thee angel. t

st 666 is the formation of this principle in the body (zos. the yet to come is 999 which is a fusion of the reflex of body-mind in the real of spirit (or, the reverse, thus completing the current and giving rise to the urge for unity. the beast took on flesh as it s necessity in the realm of physicality (as this is all necessary for completion. chrnzn s unity comes from unity with thee angel. the beast gains union with babalon. the final force is yet to be seen appendix ii liber chrnzn cycles in the blackness; can t you see i m trying to die- div liber chrnzn was started a short while after the babalon incident. each chapter was received spontaneously on three separate occasions. the linkage of each was not realized until chapter 2. what is liber chrnzn? it is a book of chrnzn and more, a

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

ated due to an unstable constitution, which lead to long periods of absence from school. he preferred the company of adults to that of other children, who disliked him because of his delicate nature and precocious intelligence. instead of joining their juvenile games, he developed his own, interior world of the imagination through writing, and at the age of 15 produced his first horror story, the beast in the cave by 1914, he had submitted a series of articles to the united amateur press association and to local newspapers, ranging in content from astronomy and philosophy, to his early stories of the occult and the supernatural. also at this time, he began the epistolary communications which were to become one of the main pleasures of his life (at one time, lovecraft had over a hundred reg

s work he could have seen a copy of the equinox, the volume of collected essays in which-the hymn to pan first appeared, in the widener library at harvard, which obtained a copy in december 1917. however, from passing references to crowley in one of lovecraft s letters, identifying him with a character in a story by h. r. wakefield6, it would appear unlikely that lovecraft knew much of the great beast, except by reputation. the elemental nature of shub-niggurath is that of earth, symbolized by the sign of taurus. his station is the north. hastur is the voice of the old ones an elemental deity assigned to the air, or the void of outer space. on earth, the station of hastur is the east, and his sign is aquarius. the god dagon was appropriated by lovecraft from ancient hebraic texts, in whic

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

carpenter or to hear the noise made by his hammer and other tools. then it would be in the same relation to this builder, as humanity at large is to the architect of the universe and the forces which work under his command. for the dog would then see only the materials coming together slowly and taking shape, finally forming a finished structure. humanity also sees the silent growth of plant, of beast and of bird, but is unable to understand what causes this physical growth and the changes in the visible universe, for it does not see the immense army of invisible workmen who are silently toiling in the soundless silence to bring about these results. nor do they respond to the call of anyone who has not the sign and the word of power, no matter how high his standing or station in the world

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

. it forms, as adolph franck says: gthe heart and life of judaism h.1 it covers the evolution, involution, and devolution of the universe in every conceivable spiritual, moral, and intellectual form; and under such symbolism as gthe spirit clothes itself to come down and unclothes itself to go up h; and again in ecclesiastes, gwho knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? h2 all these doctrines are wrapped up in the most complete secrecy. they form, in fact, the ancient sod; or mystery, of the hebrews. woe to the man who sees in the thorah, i.e. law, only simple recitals and ordinary words! because, if in truth it only contained these, we would even today be able to compose a thorah much more worthy of admiration. the recital

: daemon est deus inversus. like adam qadmon, the evil sammael is androgenous, for his female companion, or counterpart, is esheth zenunim (ashth17 znvnim) the harlot, or woman of whoredom, also called lilith, which name signifies gnight h. sammael is the active principle, lilith the passive; in union they formulate the antichrist, anti-logos, or anti-word, known under the name of 'hay-yah 18 the beast, 19 the numerical value of which is 25, that is one unit less than the numerical value of tetragrammaton, which is 26. one is the numerical value of aleph, a, hence in omar khayyam we read: a hair perhaps divides the false and true; yes; and a single alif were the clue- could you but find it-to the treasure-house, and peradventure to the master too. this mystery is solved as follows: aleph i

sc and dual serpents of egypt, and, according to eliphas levi, the astral light between the horns of the baphomet of mendes- the panlike satan of the templars. when erect it is the rod of aaron and the brazen serpent of moses (see plate vii on page 44) its three teeth, or tongues, represent three vaudin and consequently may be translated into the number 666, the solar number and the number of the beast in the apocalypse. according to the siphrah d'tzniuthah, it is the serpent which runs with 370 leaps. 25 it gleaps over mountains and hastily runs up over hills h. the serpent holds its tail in its mouth with its teeth. it is perforated on both sides. when the perfect one [or the archangel metatron] is raised up, the serpent is changed into three spirits. 26 secret wisdom of the qabalah page

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

operation. it is related that at stated seasons great fires were lighted in public places, on which occasions, fathers, taking their children in their arms, would leap and run through the flames. at the same time, two large fires were kindled a short distance from each other through which the cattle were driven. it was believed that by means of this ceremony, fecundity is imparted both to man and beast. may, the month in which all nature revives, and in which life starts anew, is the time selected for the lighting of those sacred fires. may is the month of the fires of baal. according to maurice in his work on the antiquities of india, the festival and the may-pole of great britain are the remnants of a religious ceremony once common in egypt, india, and phoenicia, which nations all worshi

, either human beings or animals were, at stated seasons, sacrificed to the deity. of the universality of this practice faber says "throughout the whole world we find a notion prevalent that the gods could be appeased only by bloody sacrifices. now this idea is so thoroughly arbitrary, there being no obvious and necessary connection, in the way of cause and effect, between slaughtering a man or a beast, and recovering of the divine favor by the slaughterers, that its very universality involves the necessity of concluding that all nations have borrowed it from some common source"[164 [164] the origin of pagan idolatry, vol. i, book 2, p. 465. dr. shuckford is constrained to admit that the sacrifices and ceremonies of purification practiced by abraham and his descendants and those of surroun

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

will sap the foundations of willpower. look unto the master jesus, if you will, with reverence, with admiration, with gratitude, in that his history, his life and his teachings have led you to recognize holiness and purity, but look not to him, or any other, to saveyou-ifyou won't save yourself. he has shewn an excellent path, attempt it, but do not cling to his garments, he is an 'example' not a beast of burden. substituted service is a weakness and a failure. salvation by faith alone in any god or any man is a chimera, a fatal delusion.ifthese sayings are hard untoyou-comenot with us;delay,255in hope of increased strength and clear insight into analogies between man the microcosm and the universal macrocosm, which passes up to the divinest essence we can conceive,andbeyond it. in the sec

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

gain, that a great author of modern times has said 'prosperity was the blessing of the old testament for good works, but adversity that of the new? this could only be true if there were no future life or lives, or no coming period of reward and punishment contem255 plated by the old testament doctrine. but the comment is true, and the old testament does teach that man is no more immortal that the beast, as witness ecclesiastes, iii, 19:'forthat which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that man hathnopreeminence above a 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 s

ter. in this last place is the visible world, and man; and the devils dwell in its lowest and most gross layers, seven of them, they are the abodes called hells; and in them dwell also the shells of the wicked dead of mankind.thebiblical satan rules in them under his title of samael. with him in power is his female companion asheth zenunim or the woman of whoredom: as one personality they are the beast, chiva, or chi-yoh of meyer, see zohar ii, 255-259,the devil, and evil spirits 135amsterdam, 1805. like all other forms of being samael proceeded from the one infinite source, and must in the end return to light and purity and to the one fount; at which time samael, smal, will lose his poison sm and remain al, an angel of god: hell will disappear, and with them all sin, and there will be one

becomes in greek,psuche;hence psyche, the vital soul, as opposed to body, but with no idea of 'mind. the learned calmet in hisdictionaryofthe biblewrites 'the word soul- nephesh- is very equivocal, in the stile of the hebrews, it is taken for the soul which animates man, the soul which animates beasts, for a living person, for life, for death, for desire, love, inclination, and for the life of a beast' in the dictionaryofthe learned and othodox parkhurst, we find a confession of sad confusion under the work nephesh: he..givesas meanmgs: 1. breath, as job xli. 12, 21. 2. animal body, as genesis ix. 4. 3.theblood. psalm cxli. 8. 4. a dead body. lev. xxi. i, numbers xix, 11. 5. an animal that has breathed. lev. vi. 6. 6. a living creature. gen. i. 20. 7. living men. gen. xii. 5. 8.theselfof

rieved. hosea ix. 7 'the man that hath thespiritis mad. while in1.samuel xvi. 23, we have first ruach elohim, translated 'evilspiritfrom god was upon saul, and later in the verse 've ruach le shaul' becomes 'saul wasrefreshed'.in esther iv. 14, ruach becomes'enlargement'.in chapter iii. of ecclesiastes there are notable uses of the word ruach as a human principle: in verse 19, speaking of man and beast, are the words 'they have all onebreath'-ruach255and in verse 21, who knoweth thespiritof man that goeth upward, and thespiritof the beast that goeth downward to the earth; herespiritis in each case 'ruach. in the context alsoitis stated 'that which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts 'as the one dieth so dieth the other. but orthodoxy denies an immortal soul to beasts,butgrants it t

liest life, that it is partly our own. we know some landmarks at any rate of our history for three if not for six thousand years, and we have gained some glimpses of evolving nature and man from prehistoric times by reason of our researches into the form and structure of our globe. in our studies of the various strata of earth and of the solid layers beneath the seas we have found remains of man, beast, bird, fish and vegetable deeply hid by the deposits of ages of time;butwe have more knowledge even than these around us, for we possess, although in shadowy form, a vast collection of legends and myths which have come down to us from eastern lands, having originated among peoples who have long since passed into oblivion. these oriental tales are doubtless only partly historical, being in pa

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ost flame in the midst of fire' these are from cherubic expressions of force and the evil and averse powers broken beneath their feet are:rahab,whose symbol is a terrible demon leaping upon an ox;machaloth,a form compounded of a serpent and a woman, and she rideth upon a serpent scorpion; andlilith,a woman outwardly beautiful but inwardly corrupt and putrefying, riding upon a strange and terrible beast. to these four (babel, ionia, media, edom) are attributed four kingdoms, and they are also classed under the sephiroth as shewn.thetwelve princes of the qliphoth who are the heads of the months of the year these are the names of the twelve princes and tribes of the qliphoth who are the heads of the months of the year:(1)bairiron- so called because they are derived from the fourth evil, namel

who set that tune on the great pipes' many strange stories too i have heard when sitting by the shore, and watching the gambols of the seals in the offmg, for to the celt of the islands the seal is at least half human, and is capable of taking human form. but woe to the man or woman106 the sorcerer and his apprenticewho is beguiled by one of the seal people 'the form of a god with the heart of a beast' they say.itwas in the north of skye, not far from portree, that a young fisherman took me once to see a seal that had got stranded in a rock pool 'many's the one she has killed' he said 'look ye only at the eyes of her now' anyone who has looked into the eyes of a seal may be pardoned for believing all the wild tales that are told of them, the human beauty, and pathos, and yearning in those

me a most elaborate fortune, some of which at all events came off. we got so friendly that i ventured to askherabout the cattle that had died, and the misfortunes that had befallen sundry folk. she said they were rightly served, being cruel unfeeling people, and that god would never allow such to prosper. i hinted that i had heard among the romani of certain spellsthatbrought ill-luck on man and beast, whereon she smiled, and said it was useless to tell anything to a person who knew so much. this was a clear evasion,butit cameprettynear to an admission. on another interview i asked her whether a cow's milk could be drawn off without touching the cow, and she said of courseitcould, it only needed a rope plaited backwards, laid between the cow's hind legs and out at the byre door. you could

that is an indication of one way in which these kabalistic names and numbers were used by the hermetic initiates in communicating knowledge to one another, without letting the outside world know in the least what was meant. as another exampleofthat, the name of the spirit which is formed from the key number, the great number of the sun, is sorath, which indicates the number 666, the number of the beast of revelation, about which a great deal has been written with very little understanding. taking the numbers individually, there is not very much that one can usefully say.thedual was always looked upon as a very particular number, because it was the first number which emerges from the great silence of unity, and therefore called by pythagoras and his disciples the number of audacity, the num

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n consciousness. the animal is the body, the adept the mind and the angel, the developing higher self. each can only exist correctly at the level to which he is assigned. the animal and adept make good servants but very bad masters. the animal is the body which we have as an interface to the physical world, if it is allowed to go its own merry way then it will become our master. it is a difficult beast to control and is manipulated by desires, lusts and, of course, genes. the adept is the mind, it too, is a servant not a master. there are lots of highly intelligent people who have no sense of the spiritual life whatsoever. the mind is a scribe, a record keeper, even a grand machine, it is not the true self. the mind is a difficult thing to control, and yet it must be forced to submit. the

the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. and god saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. and it repented the lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. and the lord said, i will destroy man whom i have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that i have made them. genesis 3:4-8 gnostic theurgy page 218 for i see and behold that demons have begun their seductions against you and against your children and now i fear on your behalf that after my death ye will shed the blood of men upon the earth and ye too will be destroyed. the book of jubilees 7:27 and he test

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the adversary. lucifer is a title which is beheld by the fire djinn azazel being the first angel, fallen from the stasis of light. by this manner, lucifer is the liberator and developer of humanity with his gift of the black flame, or individualized self-perception. leviathan- west (from lvthn, the crooked serpent/dragon of the sea. leviathan is the daemon of immortality and initiation, that the beast and scarlet whore moves through to arise from the oceans as the beast 666, the solar spirit of manifestation and creativity) satan south (from the root shtn, meaning adversary. satan is the name associated with azazel the fire djinn, who is also lucifer and samael. the goat with one thousand names by form. satan= set-an, the ancient egyptian god of darkness, chaos and isolation) satan is the

nsformed, i summon thee as fulmino-lucifer, the morning star of the east, the serpent-angel of the emerald crown who fell to earth awaken now and open forth the gates of the imagination by air and dream. mahazael father of the witch spirit, who blesses and curses under the hidden and bright moon, i do summon thee forth unto me, initiator of flame and iron, come thou forth unto this circle. horned beast and angel perfected, awaken to my northern calls of the earth! in hearth and forest shall you walk with me; in shadowed valley shall you walk as me; in desert and mountain shall you carry my body in thy circle of being! mahazael, incarnate within! azael as the candle burns out and as the sun fall into the darkness, i call unto thee azael spirit of the western gates of twilight and the grave

in shall you carry my body in thy circle of being! mahazael, incarnate within! azael as the candle burns out and as the sun fall into the darkness, i call unto thee azael spirit of the western gates of twilight and the grave, i summon thee forth. show unto me your mask of the dead and encircle me in the spirits of thy self, i seek to walk between the darkness and the light. i come unto you as the beast from the ocean, the dragon arisen! open forth the path of serpents! open forth the path of the dragon! hekas! hekau! hekas! working with demonic spirits demonic spirits are essential chthonic/infernal forces which are bound to and from the shadow and dark places of the earth. one should approach daemonic spirits as something other than the self. they are a testing ground; the ones who would

socially constructed self-makeup. begin focusing on what you are in the dark aspects, that which drives you and your deep desires. your form will change in the mirror, begin shaping it unto what shadow form you wish. now close your eyes and begin to enflesh the body of shadow. visualize yourself summon a great blackened shadow, which is fiery and violet in the fire of spirit. the shadow has long beast like talons, a face which becomes both a horned demon head, scaled with serpent skin and a wolf head arising further from the shadows, growling in a human and beast union. your shadow grows and expands, and may change form according to your will and desire. descend below the earth, allowing your ahrimanic shadow to absorb and associate with other demonic elementals, feelings and emotions. un

a golden chalice which is filled with blood. she licks your lips with another serpent tongue, and the taste of blood drives you deep within her. the embrace is the paramount of ecstasy, from which shakes the foundation of your being. as you are close to her, another hand brings up a skull bowl of blood, which was catching the fornication of her lips below. this is her sacrament, the elixir of the beast and the venom of the infernal sabbat. drink deep and know the vampyric reawakening to the shadow. when you go forth to the sabbat or seek dreaming consultation with the goetic spirits, always remember this union with both aspects of the shadow, and the light. this is a mirror of yourself, that by magick you become god-like, welcome to the awakening and become! 17 an invocation to the holy gu

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est. lazdixi: governor of the first division of the aethyr lit (13. lea: name of the sixteenth aethyr. leaoc: angel also known as leoc. lehusan (meaning unknown) lehuslach (meaning unknown) lel: same (cf. l. leoc: subservient angel of water angle of water tablet, also known as leaoc. lephe (meaning unknown) leveanael: planetary angel, associated with luna, name of lunar pentagram. levithmong: the beast of the field/ cattle. lexarph: governor of the first division of the aethyr zax (28. lgaiol: senior of venus on the water tablet. lgba: subservient angel of water angle of earth tablet. lhetga: alhctga, senior of earth. lhiansa: senior of saturn on the earth tablet. li: first (cf. l, la, lo. liah: subservient angel of water angle of earth tablet. liaida: laiad, secret. liba: angel (filius fi

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ght shrouded in darkness is thy name. the celestial fire is thy father, thy mother is the heavenly sea. thou art the air of life, the harmony of all, and lord against the face of the dwellers within the waters! bring me, i say, bring me to thy abode of everlasting silence, that i may awake to the glory of my godhead, that i may go invisible, so that every spirit created, and every soul of man and beast, and everything of sight and sense, and every spell and scourge of god, may see me not nor understand! and now, in the name of \yhla, let there be unto the void a restriction! hwchy, where are now their gods? oh my father, my father; there are the wheels of thy 6 chariot! lift up your heads, o ye gates! be ye opened, ye everlasting doors, that the king of glory and of silence and of night ma

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d and imaged-forth in phantastical invention, let us consider that the divine imagination contains its own denizens- the 'messengers' of godhood, and that the shadows thereof may impress themselves in 'types' conducive to the perceiver's apprehension. the open mind thus behold the whispering daimon as an ancestor- an elderly forbear, or as a stranger, a 'black man' bearing a curious gift of book, beast, or secret salve. the sabbat is an astral conclave, a state of gnosis in ecstasy, its impress upon mind is beyond all simple reckoning. if we can guide well in instances where its activity is fore-shadowed in the play of imagination, an individua l may gain insight and succeed in establishing an interior link with the current, above and beyond the mere outward show of an apparent 'history. i

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18 is it a coincidence that one of the stages of the ancient egyptian underworld, the hall of judgement, involved an almost identical series of symbols? at this crucial juncture the deceased s heart was weighed against a feather. if the heart was heavy with sin it would tip the balance. the god thoth would note the judgement on his palette and the heart would immediately be devoured by a fearsome beast, part crocodile, part hippopotamus, part lion, that was called the eater of the dead .19 finally, let us turn again to egypt of the pyramid age and the privileged status of the pharaoh, which enabled him to circumvent the trials of the underworld and to be reborn as a star. ritual incantations were part of the process. equally important was a mysterious ceremony known as the opening of the m

he instructed to build a great survival ship 450 feet long x 75 feet wide x 45 feet high, and ordering the hebrew patriarch to gather together breeding pairs of every living creature so that they too might be saved, the lord then sent the flood: in the selfsame day entered noah and ham and japheth, the sons of noah, and noah s wife, and the wives of his sons with them, into the ark they and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. and they went in unto noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life. and they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as god had commanded, and the lord shut them in. and the

in great abundance. and all three sorts of beasts shall perish, those that live in the wilderness, and those that live on the tops of the mountains, and those that live in the depths of the valleys under the shelter of stables. therefore make thee a var [a hypogeum or underground enclosure] the length of a riding ground to all four corners. thither bring thou the representatives of every kind of beast, great and small, of the cattle, of the beasts of burden, and of men, of dogs, of birds, and of the red burning fires.3 there shalt thou make water flow. thou shall put birds in the trees along the water s edge, in verdure which is everlasting. there put specimens of all plants, the loveliest and most fragrant, and of all fruits the most succulent. all these kinds of things and creatures sha

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ues in the book of the law was discovered. the solution produced immediate, specific results. a key has been left by crowley, under the direction of aiwass, wrote carol smith in 1980, in order that thou shalt obtain the order and value of the english alphabet (ch.1 v.55) the instruction is in ch.1li v.47 this shall be translated into all tongues but always with the originals in the writing of the beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another; in these are mysteries no beast shall divine. aleister crowley, in sardonic commentary on his fundamentalist plymouth brethren upbringing, called himself the great beast. in crowley s original liber al, sheet 16 of chapter iii is a page containing the balance of verse 47 written over a grid made with simple lines. an

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abyss. ztztzt 54, sacrifice, compassion, helping others. 36, 18 iliatai 20 knowledge and conversation with 9 your holy guardian angel. 175 the formula of kal lazily, hungrily, ardently, patiently, so will i work. aleister crowley, liber vii the enochian word kal, pronounced either kah-leh or kahel, is comprised of the first letters of the words, icicle aai-lnnia which means "the mysteries of the beast within you" the entire phrase adds up to 924, the number for lukiftiaskhidao which means "the brightness of diamonds" aiq brk reduces 924 to 6 which is the number for yellow diamonds (see crowley's liber 777. also, 924= 77x12 where 77 is the number for ed-nas (one who receives) as well as thil (seat. it is also the number for the 5th aethyr, lit, as well as the number for toog and iits magic

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

x2 where 157 is the number for zorge which can mean love, friendship or kindness, and the number for batawah, the king of the watchtower of air. the formula of kal is expressed in its letters: the hierophantof taurus (a) with the fire of judgement (k) on his left and the chariot of cancer (l) on his right.in other words, it is the formula of consciousness acting through proper discrimination. the beast is the developing spiritual consciousness within you, the magician. this consciousness acts according to iits perceptions which change as spiritual iinsightgrows. kal is the way of white magick. it is 176 the process of the yogi whose daily meditations gradually solidify the inner spirit. it is the formula of true alchemy. the letters veh, un, and ur are written: 177 the formula of lao i am

f fate" this reduces to 2 by aiq bkr, the number for divine will. the two main words of the phrase (i.e, kafafam komselha) add up to 866, the names of the three governors of khr, the 20th aethyr, the aethyr of the wheel (zildron= 255, parziba=189, totokan=422 and 255+189+422=866. aiq bkr reduces 866 to 2. the letters of kika add up to 666 which crowley adopted as his own number, being that of the beast of the new testament. the word kika means "mystery" aiq bkr demonstrates how close this formula is to mzkzb: 1746 and 666 both reduce to 9 because both are formulas of slow but sure cyclic spiritual development. the number 666 is equal to elzap-mika-lnnia which means "the way of the great beast" the word lnnia (beast) is 174 which is the number for olora which means "man" the number 666 is a

e sense of ego must be acquired and developed in them as they grow in order to function properly in society. soon the ego beings to think that it is something very special in the scheme of things. eventually it begins to consider its own survival after death of the body. but the ego in des is not the ego in asp as your experiences in these aethyrs will demonstrate. 207 vti, the first stage of the beast this confusing of the real immortal ego in man, with the false and ephemeral 'personalities' it inhabits during its manvantaric progress, lies at the root of every such misunderstanding. h.p. blavatsky, theories about reincarnation and spirits the 25th aethyr, vti, is the region of the first stage of what crowley called the beast. although not clearly developed until the 16th aethyr, lea, th

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er the ural into northern asia extends this widespread group of nations of the finn kind, their languages and myths shewing everywhere a common character. the votiaks, like the slavs and germans, hold the woodpecker sacred (p. 765; but what i lay special stress upon is the bear-worship of these nations, which has left its traces in sweden and norway, and betrays the earliest stage of our teutonic beast-legend (p. 667. poetic euphemisms designate the sacred beast, and as soon as he is slain, solemn hymns are struck up as by way of atonement. kunes 28 and 29 in kalewala describe such a hunt with all its ceremonial. ostiaks in taking an oath kneel on a bearskin, in heathen sacrifices they covered the victim with a bearskin (p. 1010, and long afterwards they hung bearskins about them in the se

met the horse, and asked his way' i have no time to shew thee the way, i have to eat' hard by was an ox grazing who had heard the traveller's request' come, stranger' he cried' i will shew thee the way to the river' then said the god to the horse' as thou couldst not for eating find time to do me a turn of kindness, thou shalt for a punishment be never satisfied' then to the ox' thou good-natured beast shalt conveniently appease thy hunger, and after chew the cud at thine ease, for thou wert ready to serve me' this myth likewise inculcates kindness to the stranger, and for perkunos subsequent narrators could without x] peeface. scruple substitute the saviour. in the edda it is always osinn, loki and hoenir that go on journeys together, the same three ases that also co-operate in creating (

made oc)iun and loki change places. loki is all the more a cook, a roast-stcalcr, and therefore on a line with peter, as even the edda imputes to him the eating of a heart (the suspected passage in sa^m. us" i emend thus 'loki athiarta lundi brenda, fanu liann halfsvi^inn hugstein kouu' lokius comedit cor in uemore assum, invenit semiustum xlii preface. mentis-lapidem mulieris, and in our ancient beast-fable the slyfox (loki still) carries off tlie stag's heart half-roasted (reinh. xlviii. lii. nor does this by any means exhaust the stock of such tales of travel. hans sachs 1^ 492 made up a poem in 1557 (and burc. waldis 4, 95 before him in 1537) how peter journeying with christ wished in the pride of his heart to rule the world, and could not so much as manage the goat which the lord had

says, ilaiis von hackehiherg was chief master of the hounds to the duke of brunswick, and a mighty woodman, said to have died in 1521 (some say, born that year, died 1581, landau's jagd 190. his tombstone is three leagues from goslar, in the garden of an inn called the klepperkrug. he had a had dream one night; he fancied he was fighting a terrific hoar and got beaten at last. he actually met the beast soon after, and brought it down after a hard fight; in the joy of his victory he kicked at the boar, crying* now slash if you can' but he had kicked with such force, that the sharp tusk 2vent through ids hoof, and injured his foot^ he thought little of the wound at first, but the foot swelled so that the boot had to be cut off his* weddigen's westfiil. mag. vol. 3, no. 18^ redeker's westfal

does them no other harm but that he disturbs their night's rest by his whining. he is not to be pacified, nor driven away. kill him, and he turns 1 liscb, mocmoub. jahrbuch 5, 78-80. 926 spectres. into a stone by day, wlicli, if tlirown away, comes back to tlie bouse by main force, and is a dog again at night. so be whimpers and whines the whole year round, brings sickness and death upon man and beast, and danger of fire to the house; not till the tiuolven come!*round again does peace return to the house. hence all are careful in the twelves, to keep the great house-door well locked up after nightfall; whoever neglects it, has himself to blame if /raw gaiiden looks him up. that is what happened to the gi"andparents of the good people now at bresegardt. they were silly enough to kill the d

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e same story is told at dittersdorf near blankenburg (betw. eudolstadt and saalfeld. again, a hiinin with her daughter dwelt on hiinenkoppe at the entrance of the black forest. the daughter found a peasant ploughing on the common, and put him in her apron, oxen, plough and all, then went and showed her mother the little fellow 540 giants. and his pussy-cats. the mother angrily bade her carry man, beast and plough directly back to where she found them: they belong to a people that may do the hiines much mischief/ and they both left the neighbourhood soon after.1 yet again: when the griingrund and the country round about were still inhabited by giants, two of them fell in with an ordinary man: what sort of groundivorm is this? asked one, and the other answered, these groundworms will make a

what kind of beetle (sontiainen) can this be, mother, that i found rooting up the ground there? the mother said, put them away, child; we have to leave this country, and they are to live here instead/ the old giant race have to give way to agri cultural man, agriculture is an eye-sore to them, as it is to dwarfs (p. 459. the honest coarse grain of gianthood, which looks upon man as a tiny little beast, a beetle burrowing in the mud, but yet is secretly afraid of him, could not be hit off more happily than in these few touches. i believe this tradition is domiciled in many other parts as well (see suppl. not less popular or naive is the story of the giant on a journey being troubled with a little stone in his shoe: when at last he shakes it out, there is a rock or hill left on the ground

d lays waste the land (4464. 4500: 3 when slain, he falls to the ground like a tree (5074. 4 still more vapid are the two giants intro duced at 6588 seq. even in the tristan, the description of giant urgan (15923) is not much more vivid: he levies blackmail on oxen and sheep, and when his hand is hewn off, he wants to heal 1 tevetat s second birth (keinhart cclxxxi) is a rakshasi, giantess, not a beast. 2 mightily works man s smell, and amazingly quickens my nostrils, arjuna s journey, by bopp, p. 18. the same in our fairy-tales (supra, p. 486. epithets of these indian daemons indicate that they walk about by night (bopp s gloss. 91. 97. 3 one giant is hagel al der lande, hail-storm to all lands, bit. 6482. 4 n.b, his bones are treasured up outside the castle-gate (5881, as in fischart s g

it no wickedness can bear, wiener merfart 392 (see suppl. 2. fiee. fire/ like water, is regarded as a living being: corresponding to quecprunno (p. 588 n) we have a quecfiur, daz quecke fiwer, parz. 71, 13; serv. vatra zhiva, ogan zhivi (vivus, vuk 1, xlvi. and 3, 8. 20; to irvp oijptov $fttyv%ov of the egyptians, herod. 3, 16; ignis animal, cic. de n. d. 3, 14, i.e. a devouring hungry insatiable beast, vorax flamma; frekr (avidus, ssem. 50b; bitar fiur, hel. 78, 22; bitar logna 79, 20; gradag logna (greedy lowe, 130, 23; grim endi gradag 133, 11; eld unfuodi (insatiabilis) 78, 23; it licks with its tongue, eats all round it, pastures, i/e/^era, ii. 23, 177; the land gets eaten clean by it, irvpl %6a)v ve^erai, 2, 780; f leztu eld eta iofra bygdir, sgem. i42a; it is restless, dtcd/matov ir

to leap three times over the flames. here the reference to the worship of a deity is too plain to be mistaken: we see by the leaping over the flame, that the main point was, to select a human being to propitiate the god and make him merci ful, that afterwards an animal sacrifice was substituted for him, and finally, nothing remained of the bodily immolation but a leap through the fire for man and beast. the holy rite of friction is not mentioned here, but as it was necessary for the needfire that purged pestilence, it must originally have been much more in requisition at the great yearly festival. the earliest mention of the beiltine is found in cormac, arch bishop of cashel (d. 908. two fires were lighted side by side, and to pass unhurt between them was wholesome for men and cattle. henc

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

he mummy (1827, which were forerunners of the modern horror genre. most major egyptian religious and literary texts were translated into western languages during the second half of the nineteenth century ce. some of these sources, particularly e. a. wallis budge s translation of the book of the dead, were drawn on by occult writers such as the theosophist madam blavatsky and the self-styled great beast, aleister crowley. sigmund freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, was attracted by the symbolic qualities of ancient egyptian art, and his colleague carl jung was fascinated by egyptian solar mythology.112 sir james frazer, the father of anthropology, devoted several chapters of his influential book the golden bough to the myths of osiris and isis, which he interpreted as primarily relating t

ry sources: pt 306; ct 270, 783; bd 130; hmp deities, themes, and concepts 205 sothis see sopdet souls of pe and nekhen the souls of pe and nekhen were two groups of demigods regarded as the divine ancestors of egyptian kings. the souls of pe (buto) have the heads of falcons, and the souls of nekhen (hierakonpolis) have the heads of jackals. see also sons of horus sphinx the sphinx was a mythical beast with the body of a lion or lioness and the head of a different creature. the most common combination was the body of a lion and a human head with the face of a reigning king or queen. these sphinxes embodied the power and duty of the ruler to defend egypt. other sphinxes had the heads of rams, hawks, or even the seth monster. these served as terrifying animated guardians for temples or tombs

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

had not heard. the gods say, clovis, thou art accursed clovis, thou shalt be reborn among thy present enemies, and sufferthe tortures thou hast inflicted upon thy victims. all the combined power and glory thou hast deprived themof shall be thine in prospect, yet thou shalt never reach it. thou shalt" the prophetess never finishes her sentence. with a terrible oath the king, crouching like a wild beast on his skin-covered seat, pounces upon her with theleap of a jaguar, and with one blow fells her to the ground. and as he lifts his sharp murderous spear the"holy one" of the sun-worshipping tribe makes the air ring with a last imprecation "i curse thee, enemy of nerthus! may my agony be tenfold thine. may the great law avenge. the heavy spear falls, and, running through the victim's throat

htmare talesviii16 population clad in iron armour" it replies "two score millions of men dead now to all spiritual aspirationand soul-life. a people, henceforth deaf to the peaceful voice of the honest citizen's duty, averse to a life ofpeace, blind to the arts and literature, indifferent to all but lucre and ambition. what is thy future kingdom,now? a legion of war-puppets as units, a great wild beast in their collectivity. a beast that, like the seayonder, slumbers gloomily now, but to fall with the more fury on the first enemy that is indicated to it.indicated, by whom? it is as though a heartless, proud fiend, assuming sudden authority, incarnate ambitionand power, had clutched with iron hand the minds of a whole country. by what wicked enchantment has hebrought the people back to thos

i found it was my own child-niece. but, as in my first vision, i felt in me nothing of the nature of that despair born of affection that fills one'sheart, at the sight of a wrong done to, or a misfortune befalling, those one loves; nothing but a manlyindignation in the presence of suffering inflicted upon the weak and the helpless. i rushed, of course, to herrescue, and seized the wanton, brutal beast by the neck. i fastened upon him with powerful grasp, but, theman heeded it not, he seemed not even to feel my hand. the coward, seeing himself resisted by the girl, liftedhis powerful arm and the thick fist, coming down like a heavy hammer upon the sunny locks, felled the childto the ground. it was with a loud cry of the indignation of a stranger, not with that of a tigress defending hercub

upon him with powerful grasp, but, theman heeded it not, he seemed not even to feel my hand. the coward, seeing himself resisted by the girl, liftedhis powerful arm and the thick fist, coming down like a heavy hammer upon the sunny locks, felled the childto the ground. it was with a loud cry of the indignation of a stranger, not with that of a tigress defending hercub, that i sprang upon the lewd beast and sought to throttle him. i then remarked, for the first time, that, ashadow myself, i was grasping but another shadow. my loud shrieks and imprecations had awakened the whole steamer. they were attributed to a nightmare. idid not seek to take anyone into my confidence; but, from that day forward, my life became a long series ofmental tortures, i could hardly shut my eyes without becoming

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

uld have a good proof that the writers of the pentateuch, and genesis especially, never regarded nephesh, that which god breathes into adam, as the immortal soul. here are some instances "and god created every nephesh (life) that moveth" meaning animals; and it is said "and man became a nephesh (living soul, which shows that the word nephesh was indifferently applied to immortal man and to mortal beast "and surely your blood of your nepheshim (lives) will i require; at the hand of every beast will i require it, and at the hand of man "escape for nephesh (escape for thy life, it is translated "let us not kill him" reads the english version "let us not kill his nephesh" is the hebrew text "nephesh for nephesh" says leviticus "he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death" literally "h

l i require it, and at the hand of man "escape for nephesh (escape for thy life, it is translated "let us not kill him" reads the english version "let us not kill his nephesh" is the hebrew text "nephesh for nephesh" says leviticus "he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death" literally "he that smiteth the nephesh of a man" and from verse 18 and following it reads "and he that killeth a beast (nephesh) shall make it good beast for beast" whereas the original text has it "nephesh for nephesh" how could man kill that which is immortal? and this explains also why the sadducees denied the immortality of the soul, as it also affords another proof that very probably the mosaic jews-the uninitiated at any rate-never believed in the soul's survival at all -ooo- on eternal reward and puni

are buddhas and initiates. this is what the yogis call samm -sambuddha, or the knowledge of the whole series of one's past incarnations. q. but we ordinary mortals who have not reached samm -sambuddha, how are we to understand this simile? a. by studying it and trying to understand more correctly the characteristics and the three kinds of sleep. sleep is a general and immutable law for man as for beast, but there are different kinds of sleep and still more different dreams and visions. q. but this takes us to another subject. let us return to the materialist who, while not denying dreams, which he could hardly do, yet denies immortality in general and the survival of his own individuality. a. and the materialist, without knowing it, is right. one who has no inner perception of, and faith i

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

r. air crash survivors resorting to cannibalism is an extreme example of this. in attempting to strip away the layers of my own psyche in this way, i was struck by the .russian-doll. nature of the demons- that the roots of a cognitive value could be traced downwards into the levels of self-esteem, affiliation, and survival needs. 11 this idea seems to be implied in the zoomorphic image of the man-beast. if we deny our demons then they are indeed .outside. and the self becomes a fortress, for an army at war with itself. in contrast, the babblogue is a trial by catharsis, to understand and unify the dwellers within, rather than deny or subjugate them. the shaman.s journey the central theme of all .magical retirements. of this nature is the journey within. shamans world-wide, and the most pow

HP LOVECRAFT HERBERT WEST REANIMATOR

rist-church cemetery was the scene of a terrible killing; a watchman having been clawed to death in a manner not only too hideous for description, but raising a doubt as to the human agency of the deed. the victim had been seen alive considerably after midnight- the dawn revealed the unutterable thing. the manager of a circus at the neighbouring town of bolton was questioned, but he swore that no beast had at any time escaped from its cage. those who found the body noted a trail of blood leading to the receiving tomb, where a small pool of red lay on the concrete just outside the gate. a fainter trail led away toward the woods, but it soon gave out. the next night devils danced on the roofs of arkham, and unnatural madness howled in the wind. through the fevered town had crept a curse whic

HP LOVECRAFT THE BEAST IN THE CAVE

eby you may recognize the will which has through six long centuries fulfilled the dreadful curse upon the house? have i not told you of the great elixir of eternal life? know you not how the secret of alchemy was solved? i tell you, it is i! i! i! that have lived for six hundred years to maintain my revenge, for i am charles le sorcier' 1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:4299the beast in the cave by h.p. lovecraft april 21, 1905 the horrible conclusion which had been gradually obtruding itself upon my confused and reluctant mind was now an awful certainty. i was lost, completely, hopelessly lost in the vast and labyrinthine recess of the mammoth cave. turn as i might, in no direction could my straining vision seize on any object capable of serving as a guidepost to set me

rtal man. in the unearthly stillness of this subterranean region, the tread of the booted guide would have sounded like a series of sharp and incisive blows. these impacts were soft, and stealthy, as of the paws of some feline. besides, when i listened carefully, i seemed to trace the falls of four instead of two feet. i was now convinced that i had by my own cries aroused and attracted some wild beast, perhaps a mountain lion which had accidentally strayed within the cave. perhaps, i considered, the almighty had chosen for me a swifter and more merciful death than that of hunger; yet the instinct of self-preservation, never wholly dormant, was stirred in my breast, and though escape from the on-coming peril might but spare me for a sterner and more lingering end, i determined nevertheless

er wholly dormant, was stirred in my breast, and though escape from the on-coming peril might but spare me for a sterner and more lingering end, i determined nevertheless to part with my life at as high a price as i could command. strange as it may seem, my mind conceived of no intent on the part of the visitor save that of hostility. accordingly, i became very quiet, in the hope that the unknown beast would, in the absence of a guiding sound, lose its direction as had i, and thus pass me by. but this hope was not destined for realisation, for the strange footfalls steadily advanced, the animal evidently having obtained my scent, which in an atmosphere so absolutely free from all distracting influences as is that of the cave, could doubtless be followed at great distance. seeing therefore

ar. certainly, the conduct of the creature was exceedingly strange. most of the time, the tread seemed to be that of a quadruped, walking with a singular lack of unison betwixt hind and fore feet, yet at brief and infrequent intervals i fancied that but two feet were engaged in the process of locomotion. i wondered what species of animal was to confront me; it must, i thought, be some unfortunate beast who had paid for its curiosity to investigate one of the entrances of the fearful grotto with a life-long confinement in its interminable recesses. it doubtless obtained as food the eyeless fish, bats and rats of the cave, as well as some of the ordinary fish that are wafted in at every freshet of green river, which communicates in some occult manner with the waters of the cave. i occupied m

n its interminable recesses. it doubtless obtained as food the eyeless fish, bats and rats of the cave, as well as some of the ordinary fish that are wafted in at every freshet of green river, which communicates in some occult manner with the waters of the cave. i occupied my terrible vigil with grotesque conjectures of what alteration cave life might have wrought in the physical structure of the beast, remembering the awful appearances ascribed by local tradition to the consumptives who had died after long residence in the cave. then i remembered with a start that, even should i succeed in felling my antagonist, i should never behold its form, as my torch had long since been extinct, and i was entirely unprovided with matches. the tension on my brain now became frightful. my disordered fa

HP LOVECRAFT THE CRAWLING CHAOS

nder and escape from the imperilled peninsula had largely dissipated my fear, but as i paused and sank fatigued to the path, idiy digging with my hands into the warm, whitish-golden sand, a new and acute sense of danger seized me. some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and i started up crying aloud and disjointedly "tiger? tiger? is it tiger? beast? beast? is it a beast that i am afraid of" my mind wandered back to an ancient and classical story of tigers which i had read; i strove to recall the author, but had difficulty. then in the midst of my fear i remembered that the tale was by rudyard kipling; nor did the grotesqueness of deeming him an ancient author occur to me; i wished for the volume containing this story, and had almost st

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

into it, finding more vague stones and symbols, though nothing more definite than the other temple had contained. the room was just as low, but much less broad, ending in a very narrow passage crowded with obscure and cryptical shrines. about these shrines i was prying when the noise of a wind and my camel outside broke through the stillness and drew me forth to see what could have frightened the beast. the moon was gleaming vividly over the primitive ruins, lighting a dense cloud of sand that seemed blown by a strong but decreasing wind from some point along the cliff ahead of me. i knew it was this chilly, sandy wind which had disturbed the camel and was about to lead him to a place of better shelter when i chanced to glance up and saw that there was no wind atop the cliff. this astonish

ng. with matchless skill had the artist drawn them in a world of their own, wherein they had cities and gardens fashioned to suit their dimensions; and i could not help but think that their pictured history was allegorical, perhaps shewing the progress of the race that worshipped them. these creatures, i said to myself, were to men of the nameless city what the she-wolf was to rome, or some totem-beast is to a tribe of indians. holding this view, i could trace roughly a wonderful epic of the nameless city; the tale of a mighty seacoast metropolis that ruled the world before africa rose out of the waves, and of its struggles as the sea shrank away, and the desert crept into the fertile valley that held it. i saw its wars and triumphs, its troubles and defeats, and afterwards its terrible fi

HP LOVECRAFT THE UNNAMABLE

of the cramped divines. and in side that rusted iron straitjacket lurked gibbering hideousness, perversion, and diabolism. here, truly, was the apotheosis of the unnamable. cotton mather, in that demoniac sixth book which no one should read after dark, minced no words as he flung forth his anathema. stern as a jewish prophit, and laconically unamazed as none since his day could be, he told of the beast that had brought forth what was more than beast but less than man- the thing with the blemished eye- and of the screaming drunken wretch that hanged for having such an eye. this much he baldly told, yet without a hint of what came after. perhaps he did not know, or perhaps he knew and did not dare to tell. other: knew, but did not dare to tell- there is no public hint of why they whispered a

INFERNAL UNION

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

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

INVOCATION OF THE ADVERSARY

force of change and self-deification. there are two primary faces of the adversary. the celebrant may construct as mask of two sides, which shall be placed upon the center of the altar. one- the fallen seraph lucifer, the angelick essence of the black flame, the very source of our wisdom, being and becoming. two the seraph of flame, the djinn iblis of fire, daemon of the blackened flame, serpent beast dragon wolf goat. satanas is the devil-cloaked initiator of the path of the wise, those who laugh at the warnings of a cringing society. robe thyself in crimson, the color of flame and movement. the symbol of the averse pentagram, being downward pointing to indicate the union of the fallen angels with humanity to create divinity. in the sethian witchcraft current the sorcerer becomes as set

ISIS UNVEILED

e glad tidings all over the universe. a grasshopper, profiting by the absence of the holy virgin, who generally kept company with the saint, remained perched on the head of the "blessed one" for a whole week. attacked by a ferocious wolf, the saint, who hod no other weapon but the sign of the cross which he made upon himself, instead of running away from his rabid assailant, b^pn arguing with the beast. having imparted to him the benefit to be derived from the holy religion, st. francis never ceased talking until the wolf became as meek as a iamb, and even shed tears of repentance over his past sins. finally, he "stretched his paws in the bands of the saint, followed him like a dog through all the towns in which he preached, and became half a chris- tian* wonders of zoology! a horse turned

christ is, with the ex- cation of a stray expression here and there, identical with the catholic ritual* the latter however makes one improvement, for the original- ity of which the church should be allowed all credit. certwnly nothing so fantastical could be found in a ritual of magic" give place" it says, apostrophizingthe 'demon'"give place to jesus christ .ihoujuthy, tiinkitig, and ferocious beast. dost thou rebel? listen and tremble, satan; enemy of the faith, enemy of the human race, introducer of death. root of all evil, promoter of vice, soul of envy, origin of avarice, cause of discord, prince of homicide, whom god curses; author of incest and sacrilege, inventor of all obscenity, professor of the most detestable actions, and qrand master of heretics [doetor kaa^eiieorumf] what

aster of this style, and the vehement vituperatitm with which he opens and often interlards his work against 'the im- pious and sacrilegious marcion' offers anything but a guarantee (tf fair and legitimate criticism" how firm these two fathers tertullian and epiphanius were on their theological ground, may be inferred from the curious fact that they both intemperately and vehemently reproach "the beast (marckm "with erasing passages from the goapel of luke which nev^ were in luke at all "the lightness and inaccuracy" adds the critic "with which tertullian proceeds, are all the better illustrated by the fact that not only does he accuse manson falsely, but he actually defirut the motivea for which he expunged a passage which never existed; in the same chapter he also similarly accuses marci

the giod ta moses, was not a pure spirit; he was ambitious and proud, and rejecting the spiritual light of the middle space offered him by his mother sophia-achamoth, he set himself to create a world of. his own. aided by his sons, the nx planetary genii, he fabricated man, but this one proved a failure. it was a monster; soulless, ignorant, and crawling on all fours on the ground like a material beast. flda-baotb was forced to implore the help of his spiritual mother. she communicated to him a ray of her divine light, and so animated man and endowed him with a soul. and now began the animosity of dda-baoth toward his own creature. following the impulse of the divine light, man soared higher and higher in his aspi- rations; very soon he began presenting, not the image of his creator dda-ba

s, or heavenly spheres, each sphere being encircled by a aea. these are the celestial mansions of the deoatds, or gods, each losing somewhat in holiness and purity aa it approaches the earth. then comes mem itself, formed of numberless circles within three large ones^^iffing the trinity of man; and for one acqu^ted with the numerical value of the letters in biblical names, like that of the' great beast' or that of mithra, luibpat appoint, and others, it is an easy matter to establish the identity of the meru-gods with the emana- ticms or sephiroth of the kabalists. also the genii of the nazarenes, with their special missions, are all found in this most ancient mythoi, a most perfect representation of the symbolism of the 'secret doctrine' as taught in archaic ages. king gives a tew hints t

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ently interred. above the head of the deceased there was found a lamp, burning with the supposed fabulous perpetual fire. neither wind or water, nor any other superinduced means, could extinguish it; but the flame was mastered eventually by the lamp being bored at bottom and broken by the astonished investigators of this consummate light. the man enclosed in this monument had a large wound in the beast. that this was the body of pallas was evident from the inscription on the tomb, which was as follows: pallas, evander s son, whom turnus spear in battle slew, of mighty bulk, lies here. 12 the rosicrucians. a very remarkable lamp was discovered about the year 1500 near ateste, a town belonging to padua, in italty, by a rustic who in his explorations in a field came upon an urn containing ano

intense family pride by shallow (lucy, in the merry wives of windsor: shallow. it is an old coat evans. the dozen white louses do become an old coat well. the significant part of the passage follows to this effect, though deeply hidden in the sly art of our knowing, but reticent, shakspeare: it agrees well passant (we would here read passim, every where, which makes clear sense. it is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love (the generative act. merry wives of windsor; act i. sc. i. we.commend the above history of the fleur-de-lis to the thoughtful attention of our reader, because he will find under it the whole explanation of the arms of france. and yet, although the above is all-essentially feminine, this is the country that imported amidst its frankish or saxon progenitors (clodio

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

there have been found several times, upon the snow, the tracks of an animal seemingly unknown at present, in scotland. the prints in every respect resemble that of a foal of considerable size, although perhaps the sole seems a little stronger and not so round. no one has obtained a glimpse of this creature, only, it is remarked that, from the depth to which the feet sank in the snow, it must be a beast of considerable size. it has been observed also that its walk is not like that of the generality of quadrupeds, but more like the bounding or leaping of a horse when scared or pursued. it is not only in one locality that the tracks have been met with, but through a range of at least twelve miles. here, once again, is the element of localization which we can associate with intelligence "cup m

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

in the periphery, e.g. among the hittites and aramaic. sin was depicted as a horned bull (qarnu) and a efruit that grows by itself f (enbu .a ina ram ni.u ibbanu; a reference to the belief that the moon regenerates itself after each waning. gamong the astral deities, the moon-god was considered to be the most gentle and reliable, intimately connected with the fertility and fruitfulness of man and beast h (leick 1998: 152.153. and moon fs moving is really clear and simple to observe. in akkadian, the most widespread form of writing the moongod fs name was dsin (sumerian dnanna(r; dnanna is a rare sumerogram. dsin itself was originally written en.zu elord of wisdom f (later also written as dzu.en, with the earlier reading dsu fen soon shortened to dsin. though the moongod fs name can some18

KETAB E SIYAH

fell the dominion of the elohim. gabriel rose high above the elohim below and, upon swift wings of purest gold, flew straight and quick to the silver spire that was the eternal tower where god held court upon his pristine throne. before that august minaret did he alight upon the earth and thence enter in by gates of pearl, stolen from the ancient, coral shell that armoured the back of that primal beast, most archaic and fearful leviathan. coming before the father of the elohim, old beyond memory of angels, and there fell upon his knees in supplication before the king 12 whose love he would betray with the same deceit which now he prosecuted falsely against the elder brother that he should have love. he pressed his face against the floor and grovelled there a while, like a dog, before he up

es, shining with the light of stars, and that run with rivers of molten gold, the bones and blood of mighty gog, the giant and father of giants who lead his children in gross rebellion against us, the most noble elohim, until he was defeated you, my brother, when you caused the stone of earth to yawn open, like a maw of blackest night, beneath the serpent-feet of the giant-father thus casting the beast into the heart of the earth and then, in mighty upheaval, crushed the skull of that titanic brute between the vast and ancient stones of the deeps of the inner earth. yet to those who would enjoin rebellion against him he grants them only the terrible fire 27 of his most formidable wrath. an evil reward, indeed! but to those who repent of their wrongs he is oft-forgiving and most merciful. y

your determined and steadfast hearts. yet i was not deterred by this spurning for i reasoned i, myself, would do no different, knowing, as i did, the pernicious nature that giant-kind was heir to. so, instead, i sought some way to prove my faith, knowing that where words might fail, deeds may persuade the resolute mind. i was not long denied this opportunity. 57 great leviathan, that most awesome beast, eldest and most feared of mummu's brood, made war upon the elohim race, casting down their spires with her tail and consuming their wondrous hosts. no force that heaven could raise against her, could withstand her or prevail. yet in my long travels had taught me much and i knew such lore as others did not know. in those caves beneath the earth i had seen wondrous metals of such strength as

l the dominion of the elohim. gabriel rose high above the elohim below and, upon swift wings of purest gold, flew straight and quick to the silver spire that was the eternal tower where god held court upon his pristine throne. before that august minaret did he alight upon the earth 73 and thence enter in by gates of pearl, stolen from the ancient, coral shell that armoured the back of that primal beast, most archaic and fearful leviathan. coming before the father of the elohim, old beyond memory of angels, and there fell upon his knees in supplication before the king whose love he would betray with the same deceit which now he prosecuted falsely against the elder brother that he should have love. he pressed his face against the floor and grovelled there a while, like a dog, before he uprai

shining with the light of stars, and that run with rivers of molten gold, the bones and blood of mighty gog, the giant and father of giants who lead his children in gross rebellion against us, the most noble elohim, until he was defeated you, my brother, when you caused the stone of earth to yawn open, like a maw of blackest night, 88 beneath the serpent-feet of the giant-father thus casting the beast into the heart of the earth and then, in mighty upheaval, crushed the skull of that titanic brute between the vast and ancient stones of the deeps of the inner earth. yet to those who would enjoin rebellion against him he grants them only the terrible fire of his most formidable wrath. an evil reward, indeed! but to those who repent of their wrongs he is oft-forgiving and most merciful. yet

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unto him that hath given us the symbol of the ankh, and of the cross within the circle! 1. three are the beasts wherewith thou must plough the field; the unicorn, the horse, and the ox. and these shalt thou yoke in a triple yoke that is governed by one whip. 2. now these beasts run wildly upon the earths and are not easily obedient to the man. 3. nothing shall be said here of cerberus, the great beast of hell that is every one of these and all of these, even as athanasius hath foreshadowed. for this matter note 1 is not of tiphereth without, but tiphereth within. i. 0. the unicorn is speech. man, rule thy speech! how else shalt thou master the son, and answer the magician at the right hand gateway of the crown? 1. here are practices. each may last for a week or more. 2 (a) avoid using som

LAITMAN M FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

in. for example, we are willing to make tremendous efforts in schooling to learn a trade that will yield high wages or a respectable position. it is all a question of profitability calculations. we calculate how much effort will bring us how much likely pleasures, and if we are left with a surplus of pleasure, we act to achieve it. this is how we are all built. the only difference between man and beast is that man can look forward to a future goal and agree to experience a certain measure of hardship and pain for a future reward. if we examine a specific individual, we will see that all actions stem from this kind of calculation, and that one, in fact, performs them involuntarily. although the desire to enjoy compels us to escape pain and choose pleasure, we are unable to choose even the k

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

qualitatively. it is only by learning kabbalah properly, however, that we can learn how to eradicate our egos and thus achieve personal redemption. our yearning for relief must be so strong that we commit to our studies completely, unable to be diverted for a moment from the search for ourselves in the wisdom of kabbalah. however, if we have not yet been cornered by suffering, like the frightened beast in his cage, and still yearn for pleasure in the deepest corners of our hearts, then we will not realize that egoism still lives within us. egoism is the enemy we must vanquish. until we do so, we will not be able to reach through our anguish and make a total effort to find in kabbalah the- 67- strength and the way to escape the confines of our own egoism. freedom will not be ours until we v

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

te. t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 18 creation is the state of the creator because the creator is unique and supreme. is it possible to attain the creator? that is the purpose of the life of each and every one of us. the method by which we can attain perfection is called kabbalah. if you start to study it, you will feel the most wondrous sensations. the whole difference between man and beast is that man has the freedom of choice. in the directive, therefore, choose life (deuteronomy 30, 19) the term, life, refers to adhesion with the attributes of the creator. q: if, as you say, we have to resemble the creator, why not aspire to peace? a: the creator is in a state of complete rest because he is in a perfect situation and does not require any change. you want peace as well, but s

does it mean that the act was superfluous? a: only reading kabbalah over many months can bring you to feel and appreciate what goes on inside you, assess your thoughts and examine your actions from the point of view of the kabbalah. then the scrutiny will begin, meaning the ability to criticize yourself from the perspective of the truth. before one attains this ability, a person is like any other beast, because there s nothing within but one s animate nature. only when the seed of the future sublime soul appears can a person appreciate self correctly. only then does one stop being a beast and become a man, for man is that part of god within us. a n e w b r a i n q: since i ve begun reading kabbalah books, i feel as though my brain has been reprogrammed. it seems that all my moral values ha

s such a society with great help and personal care. o n e i s w h e r e o n e s t h o u g h t s a r e. q: i read in an article written by rav baruch ashlag that the only way to escape situations of spiritual decline and unawareness is to examine the current situation while still in a state of ascent, and understand that nothing is lower or more distanced from the creator than one s existence as a beast. in this state, we lack the ability to evaluate our situation under the dictatorship of worldly desires. what does it mean to inquire, to purposely decline to a lower degree? a: one must never search for lower situations because one is where one s thoughts are. the lower we decline, the more distanced we become from the creator. always try to feel the contact with the creator and leave the r

, and after that, the soul of rabbi shimon entered him. did it unite with his original soul, or did he have two souls in one body? a: the body is born, lives and dies in this world. there is a force that sustains it, with its unique attributes, character and skills. together, s o u l, b o d y a n d r e i n c a r n a t i o n 249 these qualities form a being in our world that is no different from a beast. animals live amongst themselves, separated from one another, but not as much as people, because they are not as well developed. the level of development is determined by the amount of the variations in that creation. for example: stones of the same kind are no different from one another. among plants of the same kind there are minor differences. one can already recognize unique characterist

inner situations evoke the sensation of time and motion. the zohar speaks of spiritual degrees and of situations of the eternal soul, about measures of its fulfillment with the light of the creator. but the sensation of the animate life can accompany a soul if a person receives it. t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 362 otherwise it is as it says: kso that man hath no pre-eminence above a beast (ecclesiastes 3, 19. q: what does man ultimately risk? a: a person risks the thing that is most precious to him: what he feels, what he possesses, his very life. there is no total absence! but everything he has vanishes. as a matter of fact, there is no risk in anything because everything is in the hands of the benevolent creator. but we feel it like that unless we attain spiritual faith: th

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anting to resemble him and to attain his degree. the will to receive is essentially the desire of us creatures to enjoy, corresponding to the abundance and pleasure that come from the creator. we feel that will to receive and the creator wants us to enjoy it. if we feel an abstract will to receive, it is not a creature, it is nature, god. if one works according to nature s guidance, one is like a beast that hasn t even a spark of a godly soul. only if our will to receive is clothed with an intention that monitors its use and corrects it, can we regard ourselves as creatures enlivened intentionally by the creator, and not just another rock, animal or bird. but that depends on us. our desires to drink, eat, sleep, marry, and have children are natural and come from the creator. we can t escap

in order to help him acquire equivalence of form with the creator, which he lacks by the nature of creation. in the beginning, successive worlds and degrees went through a progressive process of restrictions and developments, up until our own material world, in order to come to a body of this world, which is a desire only to receive and not to bestow. at this degree, a man is like an animal or a beast, which is the complete desire to receive, denied of any bestowal. in such a state man is the complete opposite to the creator, between whom there is no greater separation. when we study kabbalah, we invoke the surrounding light to shine upon us from afar. this light is found outside our vessels (our will) and waits until we fix our vessels and shape them into a form of bestowal upon the crea

tions to correct the body-desire. in the end, that will result in the beginning of the process of correction, which will end when we attain the level of the soul-light. at that time, there will be no difference between the body and the soul, or between man s desire and the creator s. the end of this process is when the body-desire declines even further, until finally it declines to the level of a beast (animate degree. this is all preordained in the breaking of the vessels in the world of nekudim. however, since the corrected state is also preordained even before the breaking of the vessels, every desire will be reconstructed to resemble the light, and the more identical it is to the light, the more light will enter it. during the 6,000 years, meaning before the souls complete their correc

e at the end of correction; it will be the same universe, with the same stars, the same birds, and the same trees. but our consciousness will change! our perception of the world around us will change because we will be different inside. nothing else needs to change, but need only continue naturally, guided by the creator. the only difference will be that man will become a real man, instead of the beast he is today. t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 264 this can be attained by studying in a special group, with the right books and guided by a real spiritual guide. it is written that the more a teacher s students understand what their teacher is required to do, the closer both students and teacher are to achieving perfection. that is what baal hasulam writes about; he describes how we should b

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re the same as the four devarajas of india- the kings of the elements, earth, air, fire and water, who likewise preside over the cardinal points. they correspond also with the cherubim described by ezekiel, and with the four beasts of the revelation. s. john says of them: 77. and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. and the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. and the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, holy, holy, holy, lord god almighty, which was and is, and is to come(*rev, iv, 6-8) 78. ezekiel describes them a little d

eir rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four(*ezekiel, i, 9, 10, 13, 15-18) 80. this symbolism is strange; but it has its meaning, and any investigator who has ever had the privilege of seeing the mighty four will at once recognize that s. john and the prophet ezekiel had seen them too, however inadequate are their descriptions. the beast with the face of a man stands for the physical body (earth; the ox or the bull (as in the case of the bull of mithra and the apis bull) typifies the emotional or astral body (water; the lion symbolizes the will or the mental aspect (air; and the soaring eagle is taken to indicate the spiritual side of man s nature (fire. the egyptian forms were a little different; but the same four elements

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

r two thousand years man has done penance for something he never should have had to feel guilty about in the first place.we are tired of denying ourselves the pleasures of life which we deserve. today, as always, man needs to enjoy himself here and now, instead of waiting for his rewards in heaven. so, why not have a religion based on indulgence? certainly, it is consistent with the nature of the beast.we are no longer supplicating weaklings trembling before an unmerciful god who cares not whether we live or die.we are self-respecting, prideful people we are satanists! anton szandor lavey, the satanic bible xii introduction as representatives of pure evil, our culture has also invested the devil with many positive and attractive traits. a prime example of this is sex: because of the church

ies at the appropriate time. at the end of the bardo, the effigy is hung with ornaments and dismantled, and the ghost of the death is warned not to return to haunt the body. the corpse, meanwhile, is given a funeral. tibetans favor cremation, as they believe earth burial can cause the dead one to survive as a vampire. another favored means is to dismember the corpse and leave it to the birds. the beast computer legend 23 at the moment of death, the spirit sees the primary clear light, and experiences ecstasy. all persons get at least a glimpse of the clear light, but the more enlightened can see it longer and use it to transcend the cycle of death and rebirth to a higher reality. most relapse into the secondary clear light, a lesser ecstasy. the second stage is like an awakening, in which

on my long distress! at least one satanist group, the brotherhood of the ram, incorporated it into their regular rituals. it can also sometimes be found on satanist websites. see also brotherhood of the ram for further reading: baddeley, gavin. lucifer rising: sin, devil worship and rock n roll. london: plexus, 1999. scott,miriam van. encyclopedia of hell. new york: thomas dunne books, 1998. the beast computer legend according to an urban legend that has been heard and repeated by millions of christians, there is a computer under the control of the european common market in belgium that occupies three stories of an unmarked building. one version of this tale from a letter written by a georgia woman appears on the ship of fools website: a myth i heard as early as 1973, and have heard repea

european common market in belgium that occupies three stories of an unmarked building. one version of this tale from a letter written by a georgia woman appears on the ship of fools website: a myth i heard as early as 1973, and have heard repeatedly over the years, concerns a giant computer in belgium, taking up the space of a city block, and housed in a building. the name of the computer is the beast, and reportedly information on everyone in the world is kept on it. this means that when we have to take the mark of the beast, the antichrist government can track us down. high school teachers talked 24 beast of the yellow night about it, as well as it being fodder for several sermons i heard as a teenage person. supposedly, the beast a nickname taken from the description of endtime events

description of endtime events contained in the book of revelation tracks every person on earth. in some versions of the tale, the computer is selfprogramming, meaning that it has a life (implicitly a demonic life) of its own. this devilish computer is part of a diabolical plan to imprint id numbers on the hands or foreheads of every man, woman, and child. this will be so the so-called mark of the beast mentioned in revelation: it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name (rev. 13:18 17. the story was particularly promoted by an article printed in christian life in 1976.months later, the magazine was

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n increasing until its climax in his physical death in its due season. this practice should, however, prolong life "this is the second indication of the nature of the result("ccxx. ii" 66, 72-74. 23. let the adept aspire to the practice of liber xi. and preach to mankind "this is the fourth practice of ethics("ccxx. ii" 76. 24. let the adept worship the name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, of the beast, and the name of his house; and give blessing and worship to the prophet of the lovely star "this is the fifth practice of ethics("ccxx. ii" 78, 79. 25. let the aspirant expand his consciousness to that of nuit, and bring it rushing inward. it may be practised by imagining that the heavens are falling, and then transferring the consciousness to them "this is the fifth practice of meditation

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doubtless there is an arcanum concealed here, possibly along the lines of you can prove anything with gematria if you try hard enough. transcriber s endnotes 55 line 5. ashteroth. historically a middle eastern goddess (a.k.a. ishtar, astart, asherah, etc, denounced and maliciously mis-spelt by old testament writers and given an inexplicable sex change by medieval demonologists. line 6. chiva, the beast; said to be the offspring of samael and isheth zanunim (see mathers introduction to kaballah unveiled, para 61. only a hideous fudge (to wit (a) mis-spelling the name as ahija (b) writing each letter out in full and (c) counting h in full as ah rather than the more usual hh) can get this name to add to 666. line 7. asmodai. appears in the apocryphal book of tobit. sometimes also known by the

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idst, even as the indus is water in the cavern of the glacier, and water among the greater hills and the lesser hills and through the ramparts of the hills and through the plains, and water at the mouth thereof when it leaps forth into the mighty sea, yea, into the mighty s sliber a vel cxi l i b e r a l e p h v e l c x i the book of wisdom or folly in the form of an epistle of 666 the great wild beast to his son 777 being the equinox volume iii no. vi. by the master therion (aleister crowley) an lvii sol in 0 0. 0. libra september 23, 1961 e.v. 6.19 a.m. celepha s press ulthar- sarkomand- inquanok- leeds first published king.s beach, california: thelema publishing, 1962 e.v. corrected edition, york beach, maine: samuel weiser, 1991. this electronic edition (based on the 1991 printing) iss

is true word was la allh, that is to say (there is) no god, and la al is that mystery of mysteries which thine own eye pierced in thine initiation. and of that truth have the illusion and falsehood enslaved the souls of men, as is written in the book of the magus. b the book of wisdom or folly 75 bf de se ipso, twi megalwi qhriwnoi, toi logwi 'aionoj cuius verbum est qelhma (of himself, the great beast, the logos of the on, whose word is thelema) my son! me seemeth in certain hours that i am myself fallen on a time even more fearful and fatal than did mohammed, peace be upon him! but i read clearly the word of the aeon, that is abrahadabra, wherein is the whole mystery of the great work, as thou knowest. and i have the book of the law, that was given unto me by him thou wottest of; and it

ee to unite each element of sorrow with its opposite; in whose triumph of hymen is ekstacy, until by apprehension of the new great opposite the idea is again seen as sorrow. this then is the issue from sorrow; and thou mayst understand that i now also am confident in the necessity of this my fall to prepare the formula of my exaltation. therefore, my son, thus hail me: blessing and worship to the beast, the prophet of the lovely star. a liber aleph vel cxi 82 gd de arcano nefando (of the forbidden secret) my son, learn this concerning magick, that the yang moveth, and thus giveth itself up eternally; but the yin moveth not, seeking ever to enclose or restrict, reproducing in its own likeness what impressions soever it made thereon, yet without surrender. now the tao absorbeth all without r

that the arcanum should not be profaned during the on of the slain god. but now it has been given unto me to understand the heart of her mystery, wherefore, o my son, by right of the great love that i bear unto thee, i will inform thee thereof. i liber aleph vel cxi 152 eu de natura s#inu (of the nature of the sphinx) irstly, this sphinx is a symbol of the coition of our lady babalon with me the beast in its wholeness. for as i am of the lion and the dragon, so is she of the man and the bull, in our natures, but the converse thereof in our offices, as thou mayst understand by the study of the book of the vision and the voice. it is thus a glyph of the satisfaction and perfection of the will and of the work, the completion of the true man as the reconcilor of the highest with the lowest, s

od, leaping upon all things, and seizing hem for their prey. his letter is teth, whose implication is a serpent, and the number thereof nine, whereof is aub, the secret fire of obeah. also nine is of jesod, uniting change with stability. but in the book of thoth, he is the atu called strength, whose number is eleven which is aud, the light odic of magick. and therein is figured the lion, even the beast, and our lady babalon with her hands upon his mouth, that she may master him. here i would have thee to mark well how these our symbols are cognate, and flow forth the one into the other, because each soul partaketh in proper measure of the mystery of holiness, and is kin with his fellow. but now let me show how this lion of courage is more especially the light in thee, as leo is the house o

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rning voluntary privations and tortures, without use save as against the devotee, they are generally not natural to healthy natures, and wrong. for they are selfish. to scourge one fs self serves not one fs master; yet to deny one fs self bread that one fs child may have cake is the act of a true mother. 35. further concerning mortifications. if thy body, on which thou ridest, be so disobedient a beast that by no means will he travel in the desired direction, or if thy mind be baulkish and eloquent as balaam fs fabled ass, then let the practice be abandoned. let the shrine be covered in sackcloth, and do thou put on habits of lamentation and abide alone. and do thou return most austerly to the practice of liber jugorum, testing thyself by a standard higher than that hitherto accomplished

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to this planet, how the aon of horus is made manifest by the universal war. this is the first great and direct result of the equinox of the gods, and is the preparation of the hearts of men for the reception of the law. let us remind you that this is a magical formula of cosmic scope, and that it is given in exact detail in the legend of the golden fleece. jason, who in this story represents the beast, first fits out a ship guided by wisdom or athena, and this is his aspiration to the great work. accompanied by many heroes, he comes to the place of the fleece, but they can do nothing until medea, the scarlet woman, puts into his hands a posset .drugged with somnolence, sleepy with poppy and white hellebore. for the dragon. then jason is able to subdue the bulls, sacred to osiris, and symb

posset .drugged with somnolence, sleepy with poppy and white hellebore. for the dragon. then jason is able to subdue the bulls, sacred to osiris, and symbolical of his aon and the magical formula of self-sacrifice. with these he plows the field of the world, and sows therein .the dreadful teeth of woe, cadmean stock of thebes. old misery. which refers to a certain magical formula announced by the beast that is familiar unto thee, but unsuited to the profane, and therefore not further in this place indicated. from this seed armed men sprung to life; but instead of attacking him .mutual madness strikes the warriors witless, and fierce wrath invades their hearts of fury, and with arms engaged, they fell upon each other silently, and slew, and slew. now then, the dragon being asleep, we may st

ical method of overcoming opposition given in ccxx iii:23-26. but this is not to our immediate purpose in this epistle. note, pray thee, the instruction in the 38th and 39th verses of the third chapter of the book of the law. it must be quoted in full .so that thy light is in me; and its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. that is, the god himself is aflame with the light of the beast, and will himself push the order, through the fire (perhaps meaning the genius) of the beast .there is a secret door that i shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (these are the adorations, as thou hast written) as it is said: the light is mine; its rays consume me: i have made a secret door into the house of ra and tum, of khephra, and of ahathoor. i am thy theban, o mentu, the

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he skies! so do thou leave thy thoughts, intent on thy new noble element! throw the earth shackles off, and cling liber ccxlii 4 to what imperishable thing arises from the married death of thine own self in that whereon thou art fixed. olympas. then all life fs loyal breath is a waste wind. all joy forgone, i must strive ever? marysas. cease to strive! destroy this partial i, this moan of an hurt beast! sores keep alive by scratching. health is peace. unknown and unexpressed because at ease are the most high congruities. olympas. then death is thine .attainment? i can do no better than to die! marysas. indeed, that .i. that is not god is but a lion in the road! knowest thou not (even now) how first the fetters of restriction burst? in the rapture of the heart self hath neither lot nor part

el of lusting, singing, smiting! work; be the bed of work! hold! hold! the stars f kiss is as molten gold. harden! hold thyself up! now die. ah! ah! exceed! exceed! olympas. and i? marsyas. my stature shall surpass the stars: he hath said it! men shall worship me in hidden woods, on barren scaurs, henceforth to all eternity. olympas. hail! i adore thee! let us feast. marsyas. i am the consecrated beast. i build the abominable house. the scarlet woman is my spouse. olympas. what is this word? aha! 33 marsyas. thou canst not know till thou hast passed the fourth ordeal. olympas. i worship thee. the moon-rays flow masterfully rich and real from thy red mouth, and burst, young suns chanting before the holy ones thine eight mysterious orisons! marsyas. the last spell! the availing word! the two

precipice! master the cornice, gain the breach, and learn what next the ridge can teach! yet.not the ridge itself may speak the secret of the final peak. olympas. all ridges join at last. marsyas. admitted, o thou astute and subtle-witted! yet one.loose, jagged, clad in mist! another.firm, smooth, loved and kissed by the soft sun! our order hath this secret of the solar path, even as our lord the beast hath won the mystic number of the sun. olympas. these secrets are too high for me. marsyas. nay, little brother! come and see! neither by faith nor fear nor awe approach the doctrine of the law! truth, courage, love, shall win the bout, and those three others be cast out. olympas. lead me, master, by the hand gently to this gracious land! aha! 35 let me drink the doctrine in, an all-healing

the golden dawn, aha! 37 bidden the cavernous mount unfold its ruby rose, its cross of gold; until i saw, flashed from afar, the hawk fs eye in the silver star! marsyas. peace to all beings. peace to thee, co-heir of mine eternity! peace to the greatest and the least, to nebula and nenuphar! light in abundance be increased on them that dream that shadows are! olympas. blessing and worship to the beast, the prophet of the lovely star! fmpliber ]wnj [chanokh] sub figur lxxxiv a brief abstract of the symbolic representation of the universe derived by doctor john dee through the skrying of sir edward kelly first published in the equinox, vol. i, nos. 7& 8 (1912) this electronic edition prepared by celepha s press, somewhere beyond the tanarian hills: first issued september 2002; last revised

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kisses. 65. so also is the end of the book, and the lord adonai is about it on all sides like a thunderbolt, and a pylon, and a snake, and a phallus, and in the midst thereof he is like the woman that jetteth out the milk of the stars from her paps; yea, the milk of the stars from her paarliber cxcvii the high history of g o o d s i r palamedes the saracen knight and his following of the questing beast a a publication in class c to allan bennett .bhikkhu ananda metteyya. my good knight comrade in the quest, i dedicate this imperfect account of it, in some small recognition of his suggestion of its form. aleister crowley mandalay, november 1905. sir palamdes, the saracen knight v argument i. sir palamede, the saracen knight, riding on the shore of syria, findeth his father.s corpse, around

lude to an attack of camelot, he maketh a desperate night sortie, and will traverse the wilds of wales. v. at the end of his resources among the welsh mountains, he is compelled to put to death his only remaining child. by this sacrifice he saves the world of chivalry. vi. he having become an holy hermit, a certain dwarf, splendidly clothed, cometh to arthur.s court, bearing tidings of a questing beast. the knights fail to lift him, this being the test of worthiness. vii. lancelot findeth him upon scawfell, clothed in his white beard. he returneth, and, touching the dwarf but with his finger, herleth him to the heaven. viii. sir palamede, riding forth on the quest, seeth a druid worship the sun upon stonehenge. he rideth eastward, and findeth the sun setting in the west. furious he taketh

ungle. the elephant escapeth; but he, led to trichinopoli by an indian lad, seeth an elephant forced to dance ungainly before the mahalingam. xi. a scythian sage declareth that it transcendeth reason. therefore sir palamede unreasonably decapitateth him. xii. an ancient hag prateth of it as evangelical. her he hewed in pieces. sir palamdes, the saracen knight vi xiii. at naples he thinketh of the beast as author of evil, because free of will. the beast, starting up, is slain by him with a poisoned arrow; but at the moment of its death it is reborn from the knight.s own belly. xiv. at rome he meeteth a red robber in a hat, who speaketh nobly of it as of a king-dove-lamb. he chaseth and slayeth it; it proves but a child fs toy. xv. in a tuscan grove he findeth, from the antics of a satyr, th

n a moonlit vale of spain, he findeth the bait stolen by vermin. xvii. in crete a metaphysician weaveth a labyrinth. sir palamede compelleth him to pursue the quarry in this same fashion. running like hippogriffs, they plunge over the precipice; and the hermit, dead, appears but a mangy ass. sir palamede, sore wounded, is borne by fishers to an hut. xviii. sir palamede noteth the swiftness of the beast. he therefore climbeth many mountains of the alps. yet can he not catch it; it outrunneth him easily, and at last, stumbling, he falleth. xix. among the dunes of brittany he findeth a witch dancing and conjuring, until she disappeareth in a blaze of light. he then learneth music, from a vile girl, until he is as skilful as orpheus. in paris he playeth in a public place. the people, at first

h it; it outrunneth him easily, and at last, stumbling, he falleth. xix. among the dunes of brittany he findeth a witch dancing and conjuring, until she disappeareth in a blaze of light. he then learneth music, from a vile girl, until he is as skilful as orpheus. in paris he playeth in a public place. the people, at first throwing him coins, soon desert him to follow a foolish egyptian wizard. no beast cometh to his call. xx. he argueth out that there can be but one beast. following single tracks, he at length findeth the quarry, but on pursuit it eldueth him by multiplying itself. this on the wide plains of france. xxi. he gathereth an army sufficient to chase the whole herd. in england.s midst they rush upon them; but the herd join together, leading on the kinghts, who at length rush tog

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h magisteri appoint adepti to help zelators, and notes that the general plan of the o.t.o. is to be put before all members of the order( of thelemites. ritual cxx called "of passing through the tuat. 23(1,1 (members assembled, clothed, throned) enter the hierophant (all rise and salute him) the "ceremony of recognition" followeth. but all, or one, shall show on entering the temple the mark of the beast lest the guardian of the temple be hasty with them. all words and numbers affirmed (crieth the hierophant or magus "abrahadabra. hail unto thee, heru-ra-ha, ra-hoor, abrahadabra lord of the day! the dark of the sun is sunk in the waters of amentet. let there be a gathering of the lords of silence" 111-11111-111 (he knocketh, he riseth, and giveth the 3 signs of. taking the weapon of which he

date. the officer leaves the candidate, and circumambulates the temple 11 times widdershins, chanting the song even as the traitors breath. etc (he then approaches the candidate and says "repeat after me: i who am nothing deny all that i was; i who am nothing affirm all that i shall be. i swear that as nuit is about me, as hadit is within me, so am i ra-hoor-khuit! and blessing and worship to the beast, the prophet of the lovely star (the officer withdrawing the brand 666 from the altar, marks the candidate on brow, heart& head. the officer now circumambulates the temple 11 times reciting "i am the girdle of the robe of the god nu (here he robes the candidate in the proper robe) which shineth and sheddeth light upon that which belongeth to his breast, sending forth light into darkness, bri

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the ears of isis. i want trouble. i want to say indra.s mantra till his throne gets red-hot and burns his lotus-buttocks; i want to pinch little harpocrates till he fairly yells. and i will too! somehow! 6.15. i have now got into a sort of smug content, grinning all over like some sleepy chinese god. no reason for it, lord knows! i can.t make up my mind whether to starve or sandwich or gorge the beast st. john. he.s not the least bit hungry, though he.s had nothing to call a meal since thursday liber dccclx 26 lunch. the hatha-yoga feeding game is certainly marvellous. i should like to work marching and breathing with this mantra as i did of old with aum tat sat aum. perhaps two steps to a mantra, and 4-8-16 steps to a breath-cycle? this would mean 28 seconds for a breath-cycle; quite eno

s his appointment with michael brenner to continue moulding siddh.sana. 7.45. again i awake [o swine! thou hast felt in thyself .good! good! the night is broken up nicely; all goes very well..and thou hast written .i. o swine, john st. john! when wilt thou learn that the least stirring of thy smug content is the great fall from the path] it will be best to get up and do some kind of work; for the beast would sleep. john st. john 83 8.25. john st. john has arisen, after doing 20 breath-cycles, reciting internally the ritual, 70 per cent. of which he now knows by heart. 8.35. to the dome.a cafe-croissant. some proofs to correct during the meal. 10.25. having walked over to the studio reciting the ritual (9.25- 9.55 approximately, john st. john got into his pose, and began going for the glove

t method) by spiritualising away all the meaning, until the intuition pierces that blank wall of ignorance. let o.m. meditate upon this oracle on his way to feed john st. john fs body.and thus feed his own! 6.52. out, out, to feed! 6.57. trimming his beard in preparation for going out, he reflects that the deplorable tone (as one fs dean would say) of the last entry is not the cry of the famished beast, but that of the over-driven slave. 1 [i.e, the chaldaan oracles, whose ascription to zoroaster is late (mediaval/ renaisance. while the oracles only survive as fragmentary quotations in the writings of proclus and other later platonists, they are believed to be parts of a single greek hexameter poem, probably first written down during the reign of marcus antoninus aurelius (2d. century c.e

written down during the reign of marcus antoninus aurelius (2d. century c.e. the passage quoted is fragment 130 in the westcott edition. t.s] john st. john 89 .adonai, ply thou thy scourge! adonai, load thou the chain. 7.25. what the devil is the matter with the time? the hours flit just like butterflies.the moon, dead full, shines down the boulevard. my moon.full moon of my desire (ha, ha, thou beast! are .i and me and mine. not dead yet) yea, lord adonai! but the full moon means much to john st. john; he fears (fears, o lord of the western pylon) lest, of once that full moon pass, he may not win through .the harvest is over, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. yet hath not abramelin lashed the folly of limiting the spiritual paths by the motions of the planets? and zoroaster, in

that the chitta is excited and racing, the control being impaired; and the ego is springing up again. 7.50. this racing of the chitta is simply shocking. john st. john must stop it somehow. hours and hours seem to have passed since the last entry. 7.57! he is in such a deuce of a hurry that (in a lucid moment) he finds himself trying to eat bread, radish, beef and potato at a mouthful. worse, the beast is pleased and excited at the novelty of the sensation, and takes delight in recording it. beast! beast! 8.03! after myriads of aons. he has drunk only about one third of his half-bottle of light white wine; yet he fs like a hashish-drunkard, only more so. the loss of the time-sense which occurs with hashish he got during his experiments with that drug in 1906, but in an unimportant liber dc

LIBER HAD

il its climax in his physical death in its due svb figvra dlv 5 season. this practice should, however, prolong life. this is the second indication of the nature of the result (ccxx. ii. 66, 72-74. 23. let the adept aspire to the practice of liber xi, and preach to mankind. this is the fourth practice of ethics (ccxx ii. 76. 24. let the adept worship the name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, of the beast, and the name of his house; and give blessing and worship to the prophet of the lovely star. this is the fifth practice of ethics (ccxx ii. 78, 79. 25. let the aspirant expand his consciousness to that of nuit, and bring it rushing inward. it may be practised by imagining that the heavens are falling, and then transferring the consciousness to them. this is the fifth practice of meditation (

LIBER III VEL JUGORUM

y unto him that hath given us the symbol of the ankh, and of the cross within the circle! 1. these are the beasts wherewith thou must plough the field; the unicorn, the horse, and the ox. and these shalt thou yoke in a triple yoke that is governed by one whip. 2. now these beasts run wildly upon the earth and are not easily obedient to the man. 3. nothing shall be said here of cerberus, the great beast of hell that is every one of these and all of these, even as athanasius hath foreshadowed. for this matter* is not of tiphereth without, but tipereth within. i 0. the unicorn is speech. man, rule thy speech! how else shalt thou master the son, and answer the magician at the right hand gateway of the crown? 1. here are practices. each may last for a week or more. avoid using some common word

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

e breaks forth into a weird and monstrous speech. 11. the embrace of him intense on every centre of pain and pleasure. 12. the sixth interior sense aflame with the inmost self of him, 13. myself flung down the precipice of being 14. even to the abyss, annihilation. 15. an end to loneliness, as to all. 16. pan! pan! io pan! io pan! 2 i 1. my god, how i love thee! 2. with the vehement appetite of a beast i hunt thee through the universe. 3. thou art standing as it were upon a pinnacle at the edge of some fortified city. i am a white bird, and perch upon thee. 4. thou art my lover: i see thee as a nymph with her white limbs stretched by the spring. 5. she lies upon the moss; there is none other but she: 6. art thou not pan? 7. i am he. speak not, o my god! let the work be accomplished in sile

LIBER LVII

e qlippoth or shells are the remnants of these primal worlds. t.s] 23 [in the equinox publication this replaced a reference to one of the tables accompanying mathers. introduction. t.s] 16 liber lviii those vices in earth-life. their prince is lams, samael, the angel of poison and of death.24 his wife is the harlot, or woman of whoredom \ynwnz tca, isheth zanunim;25 and united they are called the beast, awyj, chioa. thus the infernal trinity is completed, which is, so to speak, the averse and caricature of the supernal creative one. samael is considered to be identical with satan. the name of the deity, which we call jehovah, is in hebrew a name of four letters, hwhy; and the true pronunciation of it is known to very few. i myself know some score of different mystical pronunciations of it

d a thing known, the accursed dyad which is the prime cause of all misery.80 480. lilith. see liber 418. so the orthodox place the legal 4 before the holy 8 and the sublime zero .and therefore their breaths stink. 543. good, but only carries us back to the mother. 666. chosen by myself as my symbol, partly for the reasons given in part i, partly for the reasons given in the apocalypse. i took the beast to be the 78 [victor neuburg, according to a note by crowley in a copy of equinox i (5, as transcribed by yorke. t.s] 79 [364= inter alia, alpwm roa, the hidden light, a title of kether, and fch, the adversary. t.s] 80 [vide al i. 22. t.s] 52 liber lviii lion (leo my rising sign81) and sol, 6, 666, the lord of leo on which babalon should ride. and there were other more intimate consideration

x of the gods actually give cancer, not leo, rising, suggesting the figure had been fudged. the editor of the .blue brick. edition of magick obligingly .corrected. the time of birth to make leo the ascendent again. rupert gleadow (an astrologer friend of symonds to whom ac had claimed there was .less than one per cent truth in astrology) prepared a hostile horoscope which was printed in the great beast in posthumous revenge. t.s] 82 because cheth, 8, spelt .in full= tyj, 418. t.s. on the qabalah 53 zodiac was perhaps responsible for buddha and his 12 disciples, christ and his 12 disciples, charlemagne and his 12 peers &c &c, but to disbelieve in christ or charlemagne is not to alter the number of signs in the zodiac. veneration for 666 does not commit me to admiration for napoleon and glad

.may the lord our god, who gave us the supreme science, be blessed] 54 liber lviii transcriber fs note. this article on the qabalah was originally published in equinox i (5) as part v of the temple of solomon the king serial. essentially it was a filler, knocked together after j.f.c. fuller who had been doing the legwork of working up the series from crowley.s diaries and notebooks broke with the beast. in equinox i (10) it was declared to be liber lviii in class b (since 58. j grace, a secret title of the qabalah) it was reprinted by israel regardie in the qabalah of aleister crowley (a.k.a. 777 and other qabalistic writings) under the spurious title .gematria. omitting the opening and closing sections (which were intended to link it in to the serial) and the tables of correspondences (re

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

e.v. re-proofed and corrected edition issued by celepha s press august 2003 e.v. last revised june-july 2004 (c) ordo templi orientis jaf box 7666 new york ny 10116 u.s.a. i .you are sad! the knight said, in an anxious tone .let me sing you a song to comfort you .is it very long. alice asked .it.s long. said the knight, but it.s very very beautiful. the name of the song is called .the book of the beast .oh! how ugly. cried alice .never mind. said the mild creature .some people call it .reason in rhyme .but which is the name of the song. alice said, trying not to seem too interested .ah, you don.t understand. the knight said, looking a little vexed .that.s what the name is called. the name really is .ascension day and pentecost; with some prose essays and an epilogue. just as the title is

tle was .what a man of 95 ought to know. as endorsed by eminent divines, and that. seeing that she only begin to cry, he broke off and continued in a gentler tone .it means, my dear. he stopped short, for she was taking no notice; but as her figure was bent by sobs into something very like a note of interrogation .you want to know what it is, the sword of song called by christians the book of the beast 1904 to my old friend and comrade in the art bhikku ananda metteya and to those fools who by their short-sighted stupidity in attempting to boycott this book have witlessly aided the cause of truth i dedicate these my best words [this book is so full of recondite knowledge of various kinds that it seems quite ineffective to annotate every obscure passage. where references and explanations ca

specially such petty spites as these you strew throughout your verse. the chance of birth! i choose to curse (writing in english28) just the yoke of faith that tortures english folk. i cannot write29 a poem yet to please the people in tibet; but when i can, christ shall not lack peace, while their buddha i attack.30 yet by-and-by i hope to weave a song of anti-christmas eve and first- and second- beast-er day. there.s one*31 who loves me dearly (vrai) who yet believes me sprung from tophet, either the beast or the false prophet; and by all sorts of monkey tricks adds up my name to six six six. retire, good gallup !32 in such strife her superior skill makes you a cipher! 1 crowley.s mother. 70 75 80 85 90 95 100 105 his achievement. plan of poem .connspuez dieu. apology for manner of poem

e is but one alarum, and the whole set of scoundrels surrender. note this well; it is not by brute force that the battle is won; for even if we exonerate the king of france, we may easily believe that the moral strength of the sisters cowed the french. this is the more evident, since in act v. shakespeare strikes his final blow at the absurdity of the duel, when edmund is dishonestly slain by the beast edgar. yet the poet.s faith is still strong: wound up as his muse is to tragedy, he retains in edmund the sublime heroism, the simple honesty, of the true christian; at the death of his beloved mistresses he cries .i was contracted to them both: all three now marry in an instant. at the moment of death his great nature (self-accusatory, as the finest so often are) asserts itself, and he forg

ind her, he abandoned this supposition in favour of quite a different, and indeed a more plausible one. he now believed her to be the scarlet woman of the apocalypse, with variations. on arrival in egypt he hired an old native nurse, and sailed for odessa. once in russia he could find gog and magog, and present to them the child as antichrist. for he was no persuaded that he himself was the first beast, and would ask the sceptic to count his seven heads and ten horns. the heads, however, rarely totted up accurately. at this point the accounts of mr. turle and mathilde diverge slightly. the cleric affirms that he was induced by a tartar lady, of an honourable and ancient profession, to accompany her to tibet .to be initiated into the mysteries. he was, of course, robbed and murdered with du

LIBER SAMEKH

of the breath. and rechaka .exhalation] pr.n.y.ma properly performed [it has been found necessary to show this because students were trying to do it without exertion, and in other ways incorrectly..ed] 1. the end of p.raka. the bad definition of the image is due to the spasmodic trembing which accompanies the action. 2. kumbhaka. 3. the end of rechainliber samekh being the ritual employed by the beast 666 for the attainment of the knowledge and conversation of his holy guardian angel during the semester of his performance of the operation of the sacred magick of abramelin the mage. prepared an xvii! in 6 f at the abbey of thelema in cephaloedium, by the beast 666 in service to frater progradior. to which is added liber viii being the ritual revealed in the vision of the eighth athyr for t

it thy mysteries, the ceremonies of khem.5 2. thou didst produce the moist and the dry, and that which nourisheth all created life. 3. hear thou me, for i am the angel of ptah-apophrasz-ra6 (vide the rubric: this is thy true name, handed down to the prophets of khem. liber samekh svb figvra dccc 4 section b. air hear me. ar g o breathing, flowing sun! h thiaf*7 g o sun iaf! o lion-serpent sun the beast that whirlest forth, a thunderbolt, begetter of life! h rheibet g thou that flowest! thou that goest! h a-thele-ber-set g thou satan-sun hadit that goest without will! h a g thou air! breath! spirit! thou without bound or bond! h belatha g thou essence, air swift-streaming, elasticity! h abeu g thou wanderer, father of all! h ebeu g thou wanderer, spirit of all! h phi-theta-soe g thou shinin

bound or bond! h belatha g thou essence, air swift-streaming, elasticity! h abeu g thou wanderer, father of all! h ebeu g thou wanderer, spirit of all! h phi-theta-soe g thou shining force of breath! thou lion-serpent-sun! thou saviour, save! h ib g thou ibis, secret solitary bird, inviolate wisdom, whose word is truth, creating the world by its magick! h thiaf g o sun iaf! o lion-serpent sun the beast that whirlest forth, a thunderbolt, begetter of life! h (the conception is of air, glowing, inhabited by a solar- phallic bird, gthe holy ghost, h of a mercurial nature) hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell a

er: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. section f. spirit. hear me. aft gmale-female spirits! h abaft gmale-female sires! h bas-aumgn gye that are gods, going forth, uttering aumgn h isak gidentical point! h sa-ba-ft gnuit! hadit! ra-hoor-khuit! h iaf9 g hail, great wild beast! hail, i a o! h* sacred to ahathoor. the idea is that of the female conceived as invulnerable, reposeful, of enormous swallowing capacity, etc. the word that goeth from (a) free breath (u) through willed breath (m) and stopped breath (gn) to continuous breath, thus symbolizing the whole course of spiritual life. a is the formless zero; u is the sixfold solar sound of physical life, the trian

der the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. section g. spirit. hear me. ieou gindwelling sun of myself! h pur g thou fire! thou sixfold star initiator, compassed about with force and fire! h iou g indwelling soul of myself! h pur (vide supra) iafth g sun-lion-serpent, hail! all hail, thou great wild beast, thou i a o! h iaeo g breaths of my soul, breaths of mine angel! h ioou g lust of my soul, lust of mine angel! h abrasax (vide supra) sabriam g ho for the sangraal! ho for the cup of babalon! ho for mine angel pouring himself forth within my soul! h oo g the eye! satan, my lord! the lust of the goat! h point i 9 ff g mine angel! mine initiator! thou one with me.the sixfold star! h ad-on-a-i*

LIBER V

ords shall illumine the worlds. 44. they shall be masters of majesty and might; they shall be beautiful and joyous; they shall be clothed with victory and splendour; they shall stand upon the firm foundation; the kingdom shall be theirs; yea, the kingdom shall be theirs. in the name of the lord of initiation. amenliber v vel reguli a: a: publication in class d. being the ritual of the mark of the beast: an incantation proper to invoke the energies of the aeon of horus, adapted for the daily use of the magician of whatever grade. the first gesture. the oath of the enchantment, which is called the elevenfold seal. the animadversion towards the aeon. 1. let the magician, robed and armed as he may dee to be fit, turn his face towards boleskine, that is the house of the beast 666. note 1: boles

efore; then in the east, let him make the averse pentagram that invoketh earth (taurus. 13. let him point his wand to the centre of the pentagram, and cry, therion! 14. let him give the sign called vir, the feet being together. the hands, with clenched finger and thumbs thrust out forwards, are held to the temples; the head is then bowed and pushed out, as if to symbolize the butting of an horned beast (attitude of pan, bacchus, etc (frontispiece, equinox i, iii. 15. proceeding as before, let him make in the west the averse pentagram whereby water is invoked. 16. pointing the wand to the centre of the pentagram, let him call upon babalon! 17. let him give the sign mulier. the feet are widely separated, and the arms raised so as to suggest a crescent. the head is thrown back (attitude of ba

t a crescent. the head is thrown back (attitude of baphomet, isis in welcome, the microcosm of vitruvius (see book 4, part ii. 18. let him break into the dance, tracing a centripetal spiral widdershins, enriched by revolutions upon his axis as he passeth each quarter, until he come to the centre of the circle. there let him halt, facing boleskine. 19. let him raise the wand, trace the mark of the beast, and cry aiwaz! 20. let him trace the invoking hexagram of the beast. 21. let him lower the wand, striking the earth therewith. 22. let him give the sign of mater triumphans (the feet are together; the left arm is curved as if it supported a child; the thumb and index finger of the right hand pinch the nipple of the left breast, as if offering it to that child. let him utter the word ehma! 2

LIBER V VEL REGULI

attitude of phthah erect, the feet together, the hands clasped upon the vertical wand) h "about me flames my father's face, the star of force and fire" i "and in the column stands his six-rayed splendour (this dance may be omitted, and the whole utterance chanted in the attitude of phthah) the final gesture. this is identical with the first gestufiliber v vel reguli the ritual of the mark of the beast v a a publication in class d liber v vel reguli being the ritual of the mark of the beast; an incantation proper to invoke the energies of the aon of horus, adapted for the daily use of the magician of whatever grade the first gesture the oath of the enchantment, which is called the elevenfold seal. the animadversion towards the aon. 1. let the magician, robed and armed as he may deem to be

e ritual of the mark of the beast; an incantation proper to invoke the energies of the aon of horus, adapted for the daily use of the magician of whatever grade the first gesture the oath of the enchantment, which is called the elevenfold seal. the animadversion towards the aon. 1. let the magician, robed and armed as he may deem to be fit, turn to face towards boleskine, that is the house of the beast 666* 2. let him strike the battery 1.3.3.3.1. 3. let him put the thumb of his right hand between its index and medius, and make the gestures hereafter following. the vertical component of the enchantment. 1. let him describe a circle about his head, crying nuit! 2. let him draw the thumb vertically downward, and touch the muladhara cakra, crying hadit* boleskine house is on loch ness, 17 mil

) the asseveration of the spells. 1. let the magician clasp his hands upon his wand, his fingers and thumbs interlaced, crying lashtal! fiaof! aumgn!1 (thus shall be declared the words of power whereby the energies of the aon of horus work his will in the world) the proclamation of the accomplishment. 1. let the magician strike the battery: 3.5.3, crying abrahadabra. the ritual of the mark of the beast 5 the second gesture the enchantment. 1. let the magician, still facing boleskine, advance to the circumference of his circle. 2. let him turn himself towards the left, and pace with the stealth and swiftness of a tiger the precincts of his circle, until he complete one revolution thereof. 3. let him give the sign of horus (or the enterer) as he passeth, so to project the force that radiatet

ore; then in the east, let him make the averse pentagram that invoketh earth (taurus. 13. let him point his wand to the centre of the pentagram, and cry therion! i 14. let him give the sign called vir, the feet being together. the hands, with clenched fingers and thumbs thrust out forwards, are held to the temples; the head is then bowed and pushed out, as if to symbolize the butting of an horned beast (attitude of pan, bacchus, etc (frontispiece, equinox i(3).3 15. proceeding as before, let him make in the west the averse pentagram whereby water is invoked. 16. pointing the wand to the centre of the pentagram, let him call upon babalon! i 17. let him give the sign mulier. the feet are widely separated, and the arms raised so as to suggest a crescent. the head is thrown back (attitude of b

a crescent. the head is thrown back (attitude of baphomet, isis in welcome, the microcosm of vitruvius (see book 4, part ii).4 18. let him break into the dance, tracing a centripetal spiral widdershins, enriched by revolutions upon his axis as he passeth each quarter, until he come to the centre of the circle. there let him halt, facing boleskine. 19. let him raise the wand, trace the mark of the beast,5 and cry aiwaz! y the ritual of the mark of the beast 7 20. let him trace the invoking hexagram of the beast.6 21. let him lower the wand, striking the earth therewith. 22. let him give the sign of mater triumphans (the feet are together; the left arm is curved as if it supported a child; the thumb and index finger of the right hand pinch the nipple of the left breast, as if offering it to

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

the box, and there was my fairy prince, quite, quite, dead. if you only knew how sorry i was! but i had with me a walking-stick with wings, and a shining sun at the top that had been his, and i touched him on the breast to try and wake him; but it was no good. only i seemed to hear his voice saying wonderful things, and it was quite certain he wasn.t really dead. so i put the walking-stick on his beast, and another little thing he had which i had forgotten to tell you about. it was a kind of cross with an oval handle that he had been very fond of. but i couldn.t go away without something of his, so i took a shepherd.s staff, and a little whip with blood on it, and jewels oozing from the blood, if you know what i mean, that they had put in his hands when they buried him. then i went away, a

LINDOW JOHN NORSE MYTHOLOGY A GUIDE TO THE GODS HEROES RITUALS AND BELIEFS

ostrils. h in the series of duels that make up the gods f last stand against the forces of chaos, odin fights with and is killed by fenrir. voluspa, stanza 53, reads: then the second sorrow of hlin [frigg] occurs, when odin goes to fight with the wolf. voluspa gives no details on odin fs death, only on the subsequent vengeance: then comes the great son of sigfather [odin; vidar, to fight with the beast of battle; for the son of hvedrung, he makes stand with his hand a sword in the heart; thus the father is avenged. hvedrung is surely loki, since ynglinga tal, stanza 32, refers to hel as hvedrung fs daughter. it is also to be found among the thulur as a word for giant, and, confusingly, as an odin name. deities, themes, and concepts 113 vafthrudnismal, stanza 53, also tells of odin fs death

new and had already quoted in another context the stanza from grimnismal, calls garm gthe greatest monster h and says that after getting from the place before gnipahellir where he is bound, he will fight with ty lr and they will kill each other. the name (or noun) is used as a base word in kennings, always with the connotation of one who destroys (e.g, fire is the ggarm of wood h. thus, snorri fs beast managarm (moon-dog) must be the destroyer of the moon, and that is precisely what snorri says he is in gylfaginning. see also bound monster; managarm gefjon minor goddess and/or female figure of legendary prehistory. snorri lists gefjon fourth in his catalog in gylfaginning of goddesses among the asir and says she is a virgin, served by those women who died unmarried. snorri also numbers her

be consistent with the danger the shaman faces on the trance-state journey. see also bracteates; odin references and further reading: hugin and munin are treated among albert morey sturtevant fs gcomments on mythological name giving in old norse, h germanic review 29 (1954: 68.71. hvedrung alternate name for loki. voluspa, stanza 55, describing the vengeance that vidar takes on fenrir, calls the beast gthe son of hvedrung, h and the skaldic poem ynglinga tal, by thjodolf of hvin, uses the kenning ghvedrung fs maiden h for hel. as fenrir and hel make up two of loki fs three monstrous offspring, hvedrung must be loki. the thulur list hvedrung as an odin name, but it is found nowhere. see also fenrir; hel; loki hvergelmir (hot-spring-boiler) spring located near the center of the cosmos. the

vidar managarm (moon-dog) monstrous hound, destroyer of the moon or sun according to snorri sturluson. garm turns up often as the base word in kennings, where it means gdestroyer, h and managarm thus has the form of a kenning, for the first part of the name is just the genitive case of the word gmoon. h only snorri knows about managarm, deities, themes, and concepts 221 but his description of the beast, early in gylfaginning, is memorable. he has just mentioned an old giantess, one of the jarnvidjur (ironwoodites) who gives birth to many sons, all in the form of wolves. and it is said, that the most powerful of that family will be the one who is called managarm. he is filled with the life of all people who die, and he will swallow the heavenly bodies, and bespatter with blood the heaven an

gard; ymir references and further reading: in the second chapter of den dubbla scenen: muntlig diktning fran eddan till abba (stockholm: prisma, 1978, lars lonnroth has an interesting reading of the hypothetical performance situation of the opening stanzas of voluspa, in which the building of midgard might be paralleled by the building of the home of a chieftain in iceland. midgard serpent mighty beast sunk in the sea encircling the earth, a son of loki, and thor fs greatest opponent. the midgard serpent, also known as jormungand (mighty-snake, was one of the three in the monstrous brood sired by loki on angrboda. when odin saw the danger the three posed, he had them fetched, and he dispatched the serpent into the sea, hel into the underground realm of the dead, and the wolf fenrir to a ca

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

ion of art is to make something more like or unlike itself than it appears. of beauty there is no finality; it confirms our inner sense of perfection which changes less than we do. over-modesty permits the unworthy to seek our company. vicious circle: fear as the offspring of fearing to face things. our near relatives are the greatest insurance against belief in ourselves. when art is wanting the beast is superior. the one constancy in life is change, yet the becoming or going is seldom pleasant. birth and death begin, like everything else, before the event. god is often a generalization of our ignorance and unfulfilment, as "god knows" and "in. 0.we forget that we are the knowledge of god and his good time. anything is justified if superbly simulated; it becomes believable. the body is so

when we fear it, conscience is actively malignant. only dominant desire shall compel us to do what we want to do successfully. nature is an integrating principle, never compelling uniformity. i do know, not only that i know but also what little i know of my own omniscience. i dreamed the psychic world was a concurrent inverse devolution; man, failing as human, reincarnates as a caricature of the beast. the price of identity is suffering. i< 3= x( 6 2..1. 5< z. x- e..q present behaviour is too bloody for words. space is the limit of probabilities; time, of the immediately possible. lies 6. 9= k 9( e..1. 2 o 3> z@ e..1 p- live. whatever lie you state could be true. at one time, at another time, but not at this time and place. we must first create a suitable environment. xk5! s* 2 6. e 5* 6

eral procession of dead selves and loves always in attendance. we presuppose that our processes of thought and conation are those of nature, whereas they are a conditioned process with limited technique within our understanding: in no manner are we spontaneous. though other powers in us may simulate such when we are sufficiently automatic. even to see myself in others, all so much alike, the same beast amuck. rather let me know trees and have friendship with plants. t .k 3= 5! 5( o5! 5. 9 -5! s. v h7 we know our lineage is of all things, yet the deepest thought, the wildest guesses are futile answers as to why we exist. the answer may be tied up in some form of pleasuring now unknown to us but not to our early originations. we never reach the first cause. the diversities and differences of

them. they ultimately become organic, hence the eternal recurrence giving further disclosures and the feeling that we have experienced them before. mind and body constantly constipating is a sign of permanent invalidism. the beautiful face covers the skull, hence beauty is the out-product of the grotesque (no relation to ugliness. we become like our desires: whether we desire like a god, a man, a beast or an abortion, we become akin. the constant process: illusions becoming true, and truths becoming illusions. h..1 y. e n f6..q( s 5! 2 &7 i =h never managed it for a minute; perhaps morons are more successful. g. 5..q. 5..1. x e 6..1 2 5( 9"f' z! 5..q as. release from evil is more by aesthetics than by asceticism. learned only of our solitude is a sound personal theology. all things realize

e unless stimulated by some experience from without: a rule of regurgitation. man leads two lives (two-faced mongrel, imaginary and more or less real. he has marked preferences for his suppositions; he fears or resents everything that makes him feel inferior and therefore grasps everything that gives him a sense of superiority. man, as standing unpretentiously for what he is, is inferior to none. beast, man or god; which makes the whole thing an absurdity. man lies to defeat his defects; he deceives a few, but himself most; paradoxically, because he is actually far more than his pretence 7 jk z> p. 5! 9 "4( d# s( than the truth. his syntax is at fault c he is only what he formulates as be-livable as god. the all-wise mind permits us any absurdity; yet power is given to all selfbelievers wh

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f darkness whom is ultimately revealed as the lord of light. upon the great meeting of lilith, the witch queen of the sabbat, shall the woman emerge as the model for the goddess to manifest in the earth. therefore shall the woman dress, think and align herself with this positive and balanced image of death and life, that through the witchcraft shall she set herself up as queen and mistress of the beast 666, whom is the solar force of creation and joy. the woman is highly respected in the witches sabbat path, as she is the beauty, life and joy of the feminine which is beheld in us all. it is through her womb that the night transfers knowledge and one must seek to continually manifest this through the individual, being male or female. the sabbat is the manifestation of the witch queen in all

ire, and the profane are no longer. the wings of djinn beside that of the dragon, black and billowing answer to your shadowy presence. from this a torch is revealed. lilith from your loins great pleasure is shown, felt and ravished upon ecstasy from the children who feed nightly the bed chamber welcomes your passion shall you reveal the hidden moon, which acts as a door for such sight and beauty? beast and angel, i seek the addiction of your sweet veins. leviathan 26 when silence is broken, yet the profound depths asleep shall i know the oceans calm violence from passion a struggle of life brings both angels and demons, which become separate and alone. those who dive the depths will become as draconis, the ourobouris eternal which dreams of enfleshing all desires. belial those who wear the

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

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

tory spiritualism, which involves astral projection and aspects of lycanthropy, communion with the dead and necromantic workin tluciferian sorcery and set- typhon by michael w. ford first written in 2003 and updated january 2006 suti (set) and the devil-forms of ancient egypt i am the crocodile-god (sebak) who dwelleth amid his terrors. i am the crocodile-god and i seize (my prey) like a ravening beast transformation into the crocodile-god from the egyptian book of the dead set is considered in the developing luciferian gnosis as the adversary, an early form of the adversary. the crocodile god sebak in the egyptian book of the dead draws some aspects similar in nature to set, such as the forms he would take. seemingly, it is considered by the initiatory focus into the symbol and traits of

ed with the god baal, whom the hyskos held as their highest god. set is called a mighty warrior who had his kingdom in the north, specifically in the northern sky where he dwelled in a star of the constellation of khepesh or the thigh. as typhon has long been associated with set the common traits of his nature are clear. consider the nature of typho as the greeks called him, his nature was of the beast and he corrupted the natural order, the course of nature. set was of this nature as well, an anti-nature in that his spirit was against the natural laws and went forth upon its own course. in the luciferian path, the common element of practice is to forge with your own identification of mythology, your own path against others. that is, by antinomian practice from a spiritual foundation, the

k, sabau, apophis, suti, baba, smy, hemhemti, pakerbeth, saatet-ta, qerneru, tutu, nesht, hau-hra, iubani, amam, sebaent- seba, khak-ab, khan-ru,uai sau, beteshu, kharubu the four times wicked the smaiu and mesu betshet were the children of rebellion, those who were shape shifters and cult members who venerated the serpent as their god. as it was written in genesis the serpent was subtle than any beast and refers to the cunning and mindful approach it had towards anything done. the material associated with set-typhon is iron, called often the bone of typho. it was by this strength in which set held dominion over all at some point in time, his forms many and his will and hunger to exist was greater than the efforts of his enemies to destroy him. set is called the personification of the dark

self aided with the manes of the dead, willed into a form which exists through the fetish or storehouse, but ultimately is a repose of the sorcerer's consciousness. a vampyre within the context written of here is a word denoting the essence of the myths of old, essentially a predatory spirituality which the black adept slowly transforms into upon the path. cain known also as chiva, or chioa, the beast offspring of samael and lilith. tubal-qayin is the lord of the horsemen, the luciferian patron of the path, the initiator. cain in some areas of the luciferian witchcraft gnosis is an earth form of set, the form imposed in flesh and greenery, the desert and the caverns of the earth. cain may be viewed as a symbolic form of awakening, and much of the luciferian witchcraft gnosis is based upon

LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT THE MYSTERY REVEALED

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

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

--merlin the mage. 177 the cross and the crucifixion the aurea legenda--the lost libraries of alexandria--the cross in pagan symbolism- the crucifixion, a cosmic allegory--the crucifixion of quetzalcoatl--the nails of the passion. 181 the mystery of the apocalypse the sacred city of ephesus--the authorship of the apocalypse--the alpha and omega- the lamb of god-the four horsemen-the number of the beast. 185 the faith of islam the life of mohammed--the revelation of the koran--the valedictory pilgrimage--the tomb of the prophet--the caaba at mecca--the secret doctrine of islam. 189 american indian symbolism the ceremony of the peace pipe--the historical hiawatha--the popol vuh--american indian sorcery--the mysteries of xibalba--the midewiwin. 193 the mysteries and their emissaries the golde

enerated from the combination of the influences of the celestial bodies; hence isis is sometimes represented as pregnant. frequently the statue of isis was accompanied by the figure of a large black and white ox. the ox represents either osiris as taurus, the bull of the zodiac, or apis, an animal sacred to osiris because of its peculiar markings and colorings. among the egyptians, the bull was a beast of burden. hence the presence of the animal was a reminder of the labors patiently performed by nature that all creatures may have life and health. harpocrates, the god of silence, holding his fingers to his mouth, often accompanies the statue of isis. he warns all to keep the secrets of the wise from those unfit to know them. the druids of britain and gaul had a deep knowledge concerning th

t greeks called a centaur--a composite creature, the lower half of whose body was in the form of a horse, while the upper half was human. the centaur is generally shown with a bow and arrow in his hands, aiming a shaft far off into the stars. hence sagittarius stands for two distinct principles: first, it represents the spiritual evolution of man, for the human form is rising from the body of the beast; secondly, it is the symbol of aspiration and ambition, for as the centaur aims his arrow at the stars, so every human creature aims at a higher mark than he can reach. albert churchward, in the signs and symbols of primordial man, sums up the influence of the zodiac upon religious symbolism in the following words "the division here [is] in twelve parts, the twelve signs of the zodiac, twelv

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

om that the earth is an inanimate thing, the pagans considered not only the earth but also all the sidereal bodies as individual creatures possessing individual intelligences. they even went so far as to view the various kingdoms of nature as individual entities. the animal kingdom, for example, was looked upon as one being--a composite of all the creatures composing that kingdom. this prototypic beast was a mosaic embodiment of all animal propensities and within its nature the entire animal world existed as the human species exists within the constitution of the prototypic adam. in the same manner, races, nations, tribes, religions, states, communities, and cities were viewed as composite entities, each made up of varying numbers of individual units. every community has an individuality w

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h side of the altar table with a dab of wine from the chalice. this in effect is consecrating the triangle to the service of cernunnos. at the same time, try to visualize yourself as standing in a small clearing within a vast, dark forest. the tops of the tree close far above you over your head, and through the green twilight you can hear in the distance the trampling and occasional cry of a wild beast as it crashes through the undergrowth. it seems to be approaching the clearing in the trees where you stand, drawing ever nearer each time you face another quarter to repeat your invocation. now you can even smell the rank goaty smell of the beast! it is cernunnos himself, the horned one in his dark semianimal form with rearing antlers and erect phallus, eyes burning like coals in the forest

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g him forth, as is before spoken of regarding beleth.17 he can turn all metals into gold. he can give dignities, and can confirm them unto man. he speaketh with a, very clear and subtle voice. he governeth 26 legions of spirits. his seal is this, etc (29) astaroth- the twenty-ninth spirit is astaroth. he is a mighty, strong duke, and appeareth in the form of an hurtful angel riding on an infernal beast like a dragon, and carrying in his right hand a viper. thou must in no wise let him approach too near unto thee, lest he do thee damage by his noisome breath. wherefore the magician must hold the magical ring near his face, and that will defend him. he giveth true answers of things past, present, and to come, and can discover all secrets. he will declare wittingly how the spirits fell, if de

true answer! then let the exorcist state his desires and requests. and when the evocation is finished thou shalt license the spirit to depart thus: the license to depart. o thou spirit n, because thou hast diligently answered unto my demands, and hast been very ready and willing to come at my call, i do here license thee to depart unto thy proper place; without causing harm or danger unto man or beast. depart, then, i say, and be thou very ready to come at my call, being duly exorcised and conjured by the sacred rites of magic. i charge thee to withdraw peaceably and quietly and the peace of god be ever continued between thee and me! amen! after thou hast given the spirit license to depart, thou art not to go out of the circle until he or they be gone, and until thou shalt have made praye

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d& turned all the dust into flies& chains& by that great power that brought frogs all over the land of egypt& entered into the king s palace& chambers& by that great power that terrible thunder& lightning& hail stones mixt with fire& sent locusts which did destroy all growing things in the whole land of egypt& by that great power that destroyed all the first born of the land of egypt both of man& beast& by that great power that divided the hard rock& rivers of water issued out of the sand of the wilderness, and by that great power that led the children of israel into the land of canaan& by that great power that destroyed sonachoribs great host& by that great& almighty power of him that walked on the sea as on dry land& by that almighty power that raised the dead lazarus out of his grave& b

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realities present within himself. as the perfected head of creation, he beholds how he sums up in himself all the lower forms of life through which his organism has passed to attain to that perfection. the four symbolic standards exhibiting the lion, ox, man and eagle are a very ancient glyph, declaring among other things the story of the soul's evolution and its progress from the passional wild-beast stage to one which, while still sensuous and animal, is docile and disciplined for service, and thence to the stage of human rationality, which at length culminates in upward-soaring spirituality. similarly the displayed banners of the twelve israelitish tribes are again but fi gures of their prototypes, the twelve zodiacal sections of those heavens which could not exist or be discernible to

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

ergo the inevitable fate of everything that is but a form from which its native spirit has departmsl i s h i n g 2 a rite of the werewolf the going forth to the infernal sabbat by michael w. ford, akhtya seker arimanius once the sorcerer has undertaken the self-initiation ritual entitled, a ritual of lycanthropy 1 in both parts, and he has visualized perfectly his werewolf shadow, or that similar beast of sorcerer, he has entered into the pact of the devil, the black man of the sabbat. it is the passing of that rite of initiation that will prepare the witch to travel forth to the infernal sabbat, symbolized as the persian arezura, the place in the north, the gates of hell. let the practitioner be perfectly still in focus and will, that nothing shall break his or her concentration of that t

evigrof dna. daerd yliad ruo yad siht su evig. nevaeh ni ti sa htrae ni enod eb lliw yht. emoc modgnik yht. eman yht ed dewollah, neveah ni tra hcihw rehtaf ruo. the chant of becoming a werewolf (inspired by the sloane ms. british museum manuscript, as given to me by the skratte) under the gleam of the moon, be it full or dark i stand in the crossroads of cain under the horns of the adversary and beast lord as the gray shadow which ensorcels my being as with who drinks water from the prints of the wolf to he who has taken the wolf belt of the devil by satanadar i summon thee, by the devil i become thee i shall become the werewolf, man and beast to go forth this night to feast none shall capture my gray form by the binding words, nasatanda so it is done! i am indebted to: skratte (nathaniel

ssibilities of being. the sorcerer thus begins to adopt the god form of shaitan to master the spirits and djinn of the self all of those elements which command mastery of the self. night is the in-between point which later unveils the light, therefore being a barrier and initiation aspect of the self and such conceptual matter. the numerical 666, described by aleister crowley is the number of the beast11, which is inherent in the sun in the zodiac. the sun is also associated with the adversarial triad, being shaitan (set) typhon, apophras (apep) and besz, a god of transformation. the devil as an initiatory force is considered masculine, thus is represented by the phallus or source of creative life. in the tarot, the devil is attributed to capricornus, and the hebrew letter ayin, being an e

o ahriman, who created azi-dahaka, called zohak the king made daemon! who by dreams shall guide me into the dire mansion of shades and thorn covered thrones! ohrmazd sought to free all limitations, yet space could not recount ahriman. it was shadow and darkness, nourished in the abyss, with the violet light of the black sun, called al ghul, the point of all hunger known as az, the crowning of the beast. this night, as candle burns and my vessel of darkness is prepared, shall i go forth to the gathering of our spirits thou yatus and wondering demon kin of mine. druj, descend, i shall become as dragon of flesh and seed, fire, smoke and soul. come forth now! so it is done further reading- yatuk dinoih (second edition) the book of cain the toad rite nox umbra azot rthe book of cain by akhtya s

MICHAEL FORD BOOK OF CAIN

this torch shall my father be revealed. lilith who wrapped her serpents tail around eve s brain, unlocked the depths of her lust and rode this dragon until i was conceived that was then perfection beheld. i walked the paths with my family, and my brother abel was born. my father, who was called adam was alien to me, i knew him not but grew under his protection. my flesh mother eve rode again this beast, from which abel slept dreamless and in the fires of her lust was my sister naamah born. at an early age, her difference amoung the tribe was even beyond mine, fled away from this family. i missed her but could not leave yet. i worked the fields as a being of nothing my brother was beheld as beautiful. i was the dark one, considered by most but yet i held more questions than they. i began to

ess of it s coppered kiss then in your ecstasy and thy devil s phallus reaching towards the sun shall my serpent s tongue enflame you to me. i then found myself wandering in the wilds, sleeping beneath the stars hunting and learning nature without any other being. i perceived myself and what i was, what i became and what i could become. i understood life was precious, and beautiful. i was just as beast yet a part of angel as well. my dreaming guide would speak to me when i sought her, and i knew that i would come to her. i began walking the desert sands. i dreamt of waking and diving a great abyssic tunnel, that which crawled from the depths of my mind, the horrid yet erotic shapes which appeared within it. i felt my very body changing, longing for transformation into the beasts of the fie

loth to cover me, and was chilled in the damp cave air. i heard many voices and noises around me, i grew scared from this. before was she, beautiful and fiery, pale and raven haired. it was mother, lilith who was the queen of demons, yet she was so beautiful and full of life. my mother welcomed me, and her touch was cold. her waist was made of flames, yet she transformed into the bottom half of a beast. she spoke to me of what i was to become, and that i had passed through a rite of passage. i was to become immortal and forever a spirit who walked the path of the dragon, who was my father. in the darkness of the caves, i grew strong again and learned arts which were taught to me by lilith. she was terror, yet kindness in one kiss. i understood that she was the first wife of adam, who then

drank of the serpent s wisdom and became immortal in the shadows, she walked between time. i learned how to extend and make flesh my shadow, and desires that i slowly became like my father, who was the prince of the air and of flame. lilith showed me the knowledge of dreams, how she may always speak to me from this inbetween time. i first understood the ecstasy of transformation, of become like a beast, and of flight. mother lilith summoned great shadows which obeyed her, and i learned how they may obey me as well. after a period of working with such arts, lilith then revealed a darker path. lilith drank the blood of man, and bred her children from their seed, taken from nocturnal congress with those sleeping. desert travelers were drained of life and their children were given to her vampy

ts, lilith then revealed a darker path. lilith drank the blood of man, and bred her children from their seed, taken from nocturnal congress with those sleeping. desert travelers were drained of life and their children were given to her vampyric children to grow strong. lilith opened the gates for arezura, called the secret place, and the great shadow ahriman came before me. i took the mark of the beast and lilith s mark, being the bloodied caul. lilith bathed in blood, and grew strong and comforted from it. she was isolate and beautiful. kind and pale features would caress one who feared her, then her hand would become blackened talons, covered in course gray hair, and her face become contorted in demonic ecstasy i grew in lust for her, this goddess who was both beauty and bestial hunger i

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elementals which hold their own godlike association not associated with any dogma s such as good or evil. the great opening of the abyss is encoded within the grimoire, open and enter with care. our basis is to establish a thought process ushering forth in this upcoming age based on balance and ancient values. the subconscious must be explored on numerous levels to understand what is known as the beast within. we do not wish to throw in a new religion, or claim something amazing or revolutionary. this book was conceived after a great personal undertaking which involved the goddess babalon, for which opened the 6 6 gates of hecate and lilith. this work is seen by me personally as a manifestation and gift for these forces, which both myself and elda isela continue to work with. our approach

t is through consciously and willfully exploring areas of ourselves- analyze and become stronger because of it. devoid of this, there would be no great pleasure of life, no reward for hard work and no point of building the greatest strength of all- that of the mind! presented in this grimoire is a formula of magickal growth, which, if practiced under will and with a sound mind will awaken a great beast willing it's flesh and spirit on the 8 8 earth. demons do exist, however it is not always their intent to harm innocent humans. our point is to destroy and create. the magick in these pages is of all colors, being that of significant power. law perceived as going forth by night and day, creating with love and joy and the destruction of that which is ill. the manifestation of both the black a

r sister lying on the bed, blood pulsating from her throat and the white sheets covered in burgundy. there was no one present in the room, save the ghostly wind which blew through the cold room, from which no window pane kept out the night air. the werewolf has long been associated with vampirism in european folklore. it is after all, the vampire which is able to shape shift into such a wolf like beast covered in gray or black fur, gleaming red or yellow eyes and enormous, cruel fangs. the wolf form can be assumed in one of two external shapes, being a large hunting wolf or a giant man-wolf form, which proves to be a mental and physical terror. one of the first werewolves, lycon, was turned into a wolf by zeus in a form of punishment for a crime. in scandinavia, werewolves were regarded as

tal and physical terror. one of the first werewolves, lycon, was turned into a wolf by zeus in a form of punishment for a crime. in scandinavia, werewolves were regarded as great warriors who fought for their land and family honor. the werewolf was not one in the actual form of a wolf, however, but a norseman covered in the skin of a bear or wolf. they would attain a mental-shamanistic balance of beast and with a mind sigil of odin and wotan ascend to the battle which would last to the death. their ferocity was legendary and these warriors, who had no one sided concepts of good or evil, found a balance for the love of their culture and family. they fought in harmony with nature. there was however a shadowside within their culture: the great demon-wolf fenrir which devoured the sun; and the

f. it is possible for one to assume the form of the wold during astral projection. the transformation on the astral plane permits intensely surreal experiences. the hunt in the dead of night is one of the most significant of htese experiences. details on lycanthropic transformation are given later in this book. the wolf girdle would often give the individual the power to alter his/her form into a beast. this method, which would require an atavism working, would cause the individual to feel a large shadow move within him/her and become one with their mind. the beast would transform the flesh and spirit into an enormous wolf, hungering for blood and flesh. for the hunt. during the period of such transformations, as i can personally attest, tracking or traveling in great forests or through fi

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ion sealed their fate. that the compilers ofthe old testament and the creators of the anthrocentric, monotheistic religions pro-pound the subservience of woman should be enough proof of whom they serve. thefollowing passage reveals the wrath of the atlanteans, not only toward their firstborn, but also toward the eves:because thou hast done this, though art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of thefield; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shall you eat all the days of thy life (genesis 3:14) in eve s scene at the treenothing is said to indicate that the serpent who appeared andspoke to her was a deity in his own right, who had been revered in the levant for at leastseven thousand years before the composition of the book of genesis (joseph campbell,occidental mythology)the ap

ent paroxysms were recorded by almostall the cultures of the world: and god saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imaginationof the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. and it repented the lord that he hadmade man on earth, and it grieved him at his heart. and the lord said, i will destroy manwhom i have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing,and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that i have made them (genesis 6-8. and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the dragon: and thedragon fought and his angels, and prevailed notand the great dragon was cast out that oldserpent, called the devil, and satan which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out intothe earth, and his ange

being seen to by other genetic mutants or even by compliant adams who stillremained in the ignorant state. they periodically demanded live sacrifices to be madeto them and would go in search of the enemies of their masters. some of these geneticcreations had wings, others were polymorphic. so, we have it contained and recited inmost of the myths that the archetypal hero comes into conflict with a beast, a greatserpent, or hybrid demon. their combat is the staple method of proving prowess. itbecame a custom that when a prospective hero did overcome one of the dragons, thatthey would wear the symbol of the serpent on their heraldic shield or banner, in thesame manner as the native indians collected and wore human scalps. the hero wasthen also considered blooded. many of the demeaning hazing

hich had prevailed previously.in genesis, there is more than a hint that antediluvian man was vegetarian:and god said, behold, i have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be your meat.following the deluge, genesis states-and the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you. appendix b: book abstracts174atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation that dead meat was indeed eaten is indicated elsewhere in genesis, which mentions how godinstructed noah

he wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. and it repented the lord that he had made atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation185 appendix b: book abstracts man on earth, and it grieved him at his heart. and the lord said, i will destroy man whom i have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that i have made them (genesis chapter 6-8)the great waras a result of the forces employed in this great war, much of the moisture in suspension in the atmo-sphere was condensed and fell down in torrents (p. 62)the bronze menbehold these bronze folk have filled the earth with deceit and violence and there is not one right

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

m or vampirism as it is spelled is reflective of the spirit and astral plane. the name lucifuge means fly the light and reflects the nocturnal nature of many luciferian spirits. just as lucifer was the brightest of angels, upon his initiation and fall he was encircled in darkness. thus he has the highest articulation and knowledge, the deviation and perverseness of the darkest aspects. he is both beast and serpent and he may take many forms as well. lucifer is proteus and changes at will. the astral plane when entered will provide an exciting and challenging initiatory experience. you must be willing to trust your instincts and above all know yourself. astral beings may experience the past like recordings in specific areas, pass through walls and enter dark places just as a spirit. this of

each action. i recognize there is no other god than myself. i am the serpent. urvan ameretat me nemah'ya i (i worship my immortal soul) vangh da va uz-d i (i shall raise up the daemon within) we drink from the sun at midnight, the blood congealed under a pale moon. we drink from the 14 ecstasies of the qlippoth, and leave strengthened and whole. we seek to go forth in the night in the form of the beast, drinking from the waters under the moon. we devour paradise and bath in the blood of the moon. our brothers are yatus, sorcerers of ahrimanic witchcraft; our sisters are pairikas, daughters of az. we are the people of the lie (druj, we are the those of demon-flesh awakened and ancient, forever seeking to further illuminate the black flame. our religion is sorcery, that which is ensorcelled

ncircling, casting lots and visualizing 1 'the deep things of satan' revelations. ch.2 22 the result. if you lay out conditions to occur, aligning situations to move in this direction, this is indeed sorcery. rituals align thought and some believe the astral is controlled by this subconscious activated force. one should think in terms of being a manifestation of this dragon, for instance: i saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. on his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. the beast which i saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. the dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. revelations the beast or dragon, much like the assyrian tiamat of old, can repres

abiron leo (july 23 august 22 -fixed fire spirits whose colors are fiery, yellow and they appear as merciless wolves and jackals, howling among flames and seeking to devour those in their path. master these spirits by evoking shelhabiron and entering the nightmare, visualize your devouring a wolf and its blood, using a belt made of its skin. you can transform yourself accordingly and rise up as a beast. tzephariron virgo (august 23rd september 22nd -mutable earth earth colors, dark forest greens, tan, and their form is partially living yet decaying corpses and 58 zombie like ghouls. these are the corrupted spirits of the shades of the dead. drink from these corpses in the dream and gain the power of sight. evoke tzephariron in evocation workings. obiriron libra (september 23rd october 22nd

man, crouching but arises to crush others with a blood dripping mace or spear. he drains life force in this manner. the southeast angle is the evil adam or cain the son, a goat-headed, skeleton-like giant, the thousand- headed hydra serpent; and the elder lilith, wife of samael, a woman with an ever-changing and distorted countenance who is at times hag young maiden, beaten whore, vampire woman, beast, bird, owl, etc. the northeast angle is aggereth, the daughter of machaloth, a fiendish witch with serpent hair, standing in a chariot drawn by an ox and an ass. she is featured in the luciferian tarot. the northwest angle is a large scorpion with a fearful countenance, but standing upright as it were and formed of putrefying water, dripping. with him comes the unnameable one, abbadon or apo

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

iel remarks on four living beings that came upon him instantly in a cloud [ezekiel 1:10, as for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. later on in the bible [revelation 4:7, nearly the exact same animals are mentioned again. and the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. the calling [3.6] as stated earlier, once the magician has invoked a spirit or type of energy he has a number of options. the first option is to invoke the spirit into his body. to invoke a being into your body allows for direct communication between the s

ome what are commonly known as vampires. like all spiritual development, the vampiric rite is irreversible, but unlike the great work, it requires the selling of one s soul to satan; after the vampiric rite, the individual has no chance of redemption, and no chance to enter heaven. from this fact have vampires been rightly labeled the damned. theories and interpretations regarding the mark of the beast abound in religious and conspiracy circles but, in the occult, this phrase has only one meaning: permanent spiritual transformation. it is said that those endowed with the mark of the beast can shape shift into hideous creatures at will (and take on personalities of a more chaotic sort. the fruit of eden has just as many interpretations (and in just as many circles, but in the occult this fr

s "the soul travelers" 67 resides invisibly on the individual s left side. what s more, muslims prefer to do clean jobs such as eating and greeting others with the right hand, while relegating the left hand to dirty jobs like cleaning one s house and body. teachings of the right hand path always include a firm belief in right and wrong, and the existence thereof. as stated before, the mark of the beast are those who have sold their soul to satan in exchange for vampiric transformation; this is also called making the black pact or oath. those endowed with the mark of the beast can easily change into the shapes of animals. there is also much speculation about the number 666, and its true meaning. but among the satanists, it has but one meaning: achieving a sort of godhood. the phoenix bird

e sun, which represents the masculine principal of life; the demonic counterpart, and the demon race in general, is associated with the moon and the feminine principal of life. so naturally an androgynous figure, like that of baphomet, is used to symbolize a perfected human--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 68 famous phrases: reborn before i touched my teens, i was already aware that i was the beast whose number is 666. i did not understand in the least what that implied; it was a passionately ecstatic sense of identity.in my third year at cambridge, i devoted myself consciously to the great work, understanding thereby the work of becoming a spiritual being, free from the constraints, accidents, and deceptions of material existence. i, the beast 666, lift up my voice and swear that i my

y also be symbolized by a red dragon, and is known as a devouring goddess. in the bible, lilith goes by the titles whore of babylon, mother of harlots, and babylon the great. this woman is depicted holding a golden cup and wearing many precious stones and robed in the colors purple and scarlet. scarlet is plain red with a slight hint of orange. the imagery commonly relates her as riding a scarlet beast. this woman is described--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 78 as drunk (intoxicated) from the blood of the saints. lilith being the mother of vampires, this is fitting. the whore of babylon is also related to a city or location. this city has had relations with all the rich men of the earth, and is a haven for demons. it is understood that this character, or city, currently rules the worl

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

ide of which we assume (bat. wolf, moth, or a hybrid of each and others) are the extensions of our will and desire. the vampyre is a being which has deified itself through the antinomianian process of death and rebirth, one who has passed through the ancient aspects of set and anubis, the guardians of the threshold. the symbol of the dragon known as tiamat or leviathan is also ahriman, the coiled beast that is of serpent wisdom. the dragon has fueled the myths of dracula, the dragon race from wallachia. dracos, draconum is the very shadow of the immortal fountain of life, which the vampyre seeks to bask in eternally. remember, in bram stoker's immortal "dracula" novel, the prince of vampyres is transformed not by another vampyre. but rather his own self-iniliatory work and black magic. dra

this focus point of the mind the magician uses the imagination and will to visualize and create the vampyric form accordingly. in the full moon darkness of night, when shades and the manes of the dead remain close to the earth, approach the tomb of sah in the honor of the self, which is the mysteries of the nephilim and watchers, who descended into the demonium of the earth, to merge spirit with beast and human flesh. wear this mask with intent and pure love, then shall the secret of the essence be revealed in your sunless palace of night. approach the tomb "gate of black earth, nephilimic tomb in the sunless palace of azrail, open forth the dreaming fields of night, from thy vessel, born of lilith's womb shall the vampyre shade awaken hekak vozath ka-sath-ompos shu-seth-evoi-zrazza (by t

the dead- i will walk in the world of shadow and twilight embrace. by the circle of mitrokht, which i evoke vampyre spirit of the eye and the voice, i summon you to encircle my being so it is done! invocation of the vampyre queen lilith lilith is the mother of the vampyrie myth, as well as the symbol of fountainhead of the daemonic feminine. the witch queen is represented as a partial woman with beast like lower half, owl claws and a hypnotic stare. within her caves by the red sea, the darkness of the earth, the gateway of the demonum she breeds phantoms, shades and lilitu, sexual daimons which cater to the sorcerers who work in her veil. the daemonic feminine itself is defined as instinct, the knowledge of emotion and how one may control their deepest desires. this instinct is the primal

tinct, the knowledge of emotion and how one may control their deepest desires. this instinct is the primal aspect of the animals of the earth, how their mind's work, the intuition, understanding, graciousness and ferociousness when the animal hunger emerges. the vampyric and daemonic feminine is the point of intellect which combines and balances elegance and nobility with predatory instincts, the beast itself. it is this balance of being which allows self-improvement and introspection, ultimately to create a self-deified and productive god and goddess. the luciferian essence is found within the eyes of cain, the father of witchblood, buried deep within the dark well of the watchers, from which our mind is of the deep. leviathan the serpent guards this gateway of the arcana of sleep, from w

ad. it is noctulia -hecate (named also lilith) whom we sing hymns of the night unto. the ritual of lycanthropy is a two part process. the first involves the making of a belt of symbolic wolf skin, and possibly obtaining a wolf, dog or coyote skull (if you had a loyal familiar as a dog which had passed, this is perhaps a wonderful way to honor it) the altar should be decorated in the sigils of the beast, the sign of hecate. the evocation dagger should also be upon the altar, with the coyote or dog skull in the center. the individual seeking the darkness of the werewolf must create his or her own wolf belt. this is symbolic of the belt given to the initiate by the devil, and is made of wolf skin. in modern times, wolves are a precious and beautiful animal, which should be respected. a replac

MIDNIGHTS CIRCLE A COMMENTARY OF AZOTHOZ

qually important and play a direct correlation between text and image, thus being a grimoire which plants a seed in the reader, as one widdershins[6] forward via magickal development the adversary awakens via the black flame. a section in the throne of twilight mentions an atavistic resurgence concept which was propagated to some extent by austin osman spare. humanity carried the knowledge of the beast which angels sought to possess this refers to the fall and how lucifer sought to invoke the dragon and beast within his being, thus joining in union the sun with the moon. the practitioner of the art magical[7] is one who seeks the knowledge and conversation of his holy guardian angel or luciferian angel, but also to enflesh the bestial aspects of his being, thus developing the shadow and th

MORALS AND DOGMA

en_ priests, with _seven_ trumpets, made the circuit of the city on _seven_ successive days; once each day for six days, and _seven_ times on the seventh "the _seven_ eyes of the lord" says zechariah "run to and fro through the whole earth" solomon was _seven_ years in building the temple _seven_ angels, in the apocalypse, pour out _seven_ plagues, from _seven_ vials of wrath. the scarlet-colored beast, on which the woman sits in the wilderness, has _seven_ heads and _ten_ horns. so also has the beast that rises up out of the sea _seven_ thunders uttered their voices _seven_ angels sounded _seven_ trumpets _seven_ lamps, of fire, the _seven_ spirits of god, burned before the throne; and the lamb that was slain had _seven_ horns and _seven_ eyes. eight is the first cube, that of _two. nine

higher feeling than mere personal revenge. remember that every moral characteristic of man finds its prototype among creatures of lower intelligence; that the cruel foulness of the hyena, the savage rapacity of the wolf, the merciless rage of the tiger, the crafty treachery of the panther, are found among mankind, and ought to excite no other emotion, when found in the man, than when found in the beast. why should the true man be angry with the geese that hiss, the peacocks that strut, the asses that bray, and the apes that imitate and chatter, although they wear the human form? always, also, it remains true, that it is more noble to forgive than to take revenge; and that, in general, we ought too much to despise those who wrong us, to feel the emotion of anger, or to desire revenge. at th

ich, if it were upon us, would make us insensible of our present sorrow, and glad to receive it in exchange for that other greater affliction. measure your desires by your fortune and condition, not your fortunes by your desires: be governed by your needs, not by your fancy; by nature, not by evil customs and ambitious principles. it is no evil to be poor, but to be vicious and impatient. is that beast better, that hath two or three mountains to graze on, than the little bee that feeds on dew or manna, and lives upon what falls every morning from the store-houses of heaven, clouds and providence? there are some instances of fortune and a fair condition that cannot stand with some others; but if you desire this, you must lose that, and unless you be content with one, you lose the comfort of

but entertaining and uttering his own convictions, he leaves everyone else free to do the same; and only hopes that the time will come, even if after the lapse of ages, when all men shall form one great family of brethren, and one law alone, the law of love, shall govern god's whole universe. believe as you may, my brother; if the universe is not, to you, without a god, and if man is not like the beast that perishes, but hath an immortal soul, we welcome you among us, to wear, as we wear, with humility, and conscious of your demerits and shortcomings, the title of grand elect, perfect, and sublime mason. it was not without a secret meaning, that _twelve_ was the number of the apostles of christ, and _seventy-two_ that of his disciples: that john addressed his rebukes and menaces to the _se

his vivifying and generative power, when he reached the autumnal equinox (the scorpion that on old monuments bites those parts of the vernal bull, and descended toward the region of darkness and winter. then, says apuleius, came "one who carried in his bosom an object that rejoiced the heart of the bearer, a venerable effigy of the supreme deity, neither bearing resemblance to man, cattle, bird, beast, or any living creature: an exquisite invention, venerable from the novel originality of the fashioning; a wonderful, ineffable symbol of religious mysteries, to be looked upon in profound silence. such as it was, its figure was that of a small urn of burnished gold, hollowed very artistically, rounded at the bottom, and covered all over the outside with the wonderful hieroglyphics of the eg

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

see liber 418. l is the letter of libra, balance, and 'justice' in the taro. this title should probably be al "el, as the 'l' was heard of the voice of aiwaz, not seen. al is the true name of the book, for these letters, and their number 31, form the master key to its mysteries. with regard to the above note by a.c, serious students should consult liber v vel reguli, the ritual of the mark of the beast, for a more thorough analysis of the word al. the first chapter 1. had! the manifestation of nuit. the theogony of our law is entirely scientific: nuit is matter, hadit is motion, in their full physical sense. they are the tao and teh of chinese philosophy; or, to put it very simply, the noun and verb in grammar. our central truth beyond other philosophies is that these two infinities cannot

is great division, which has wrought such appalling havoc upon earth, was originally no more than a distinction adopted for convenience. it is indeed the task of this book to reduce theology to the interplay of the dyad nuit and hadit, these being themselves conceived as complementary, as two equivalent to naught "divided for love's sake, for the chance of union- had enjoyed them in the form of a beast, bird, or what not; while later mary attributed her condition to the agency of a spirit spiritus, breath, or air in the shape of a dove (simple-minded readers must not think for one moment that a. c. is here "admitting the historical existence of the virgin mary; on the contrary, he is obviously putting her on the same footing with europa, semele and others. the virgin birth, like the dying

th, or air in the shape of a dove (simple-minded readers must not think for one moment that a. c. is here "admitting the historical existence of the virgin mary; on the contrary, he is obviously putting her on the same footing with europa, semele and others. the virgin birth, like the dying god, is a much older myth than christianity; and the virgin was usually seeded by a god under the form of a beast. far from being original, christian theology is a pot-pourri of stolen goods) but the "small person" of hindu mysticism, the dwarf insane, yet crafty, of many legends in many lands,is also this same "holy ghost, or silent self of a man, or his holy guardian angel. he is almost the "unconscious" of freud, unknown unaccountable, the silent spirit, blowing "whither it listeth, but canst not tel

ed splendour of nuit; she bends in ecstasy to kiss the secret ardours of hadit. the winged globe, the starry blue, are mine, 0 ankh-af-na-khonsu! exoterically, this is a straightforward description of the relative positions of nuit and hadit in the stele. the esoteric meaning had better remain secret. 15. now ye shall know that the chosen priest& apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the beast; and in his woman called the scarlet woman is all power given. they shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. the authority of the beast rests upon this verse; but it is to be taken in conjunction with certain later verses which i shall leave to the research of students to interpret. 16. for he is ever a sun, and she a moon. but

ld: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. the authority of the beast rests upon this verse; but it is to be taken in conjunction with certain later verses which i shall leave to the research of students to interpret. 16. for he is ever a sun, and she a moon. but to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight. a. c "was inclined to believe" that "the beast" and "the scarlet woman" are titles of office rather than persons. whether this is true or not, speculation as to the secret meaning of this verse may lead to disaster. it is obvious that it is a temptation for an aspirant's vanity to fancy himself as "the next beast' or herself as "the scarlet woman. there has been, in the last 65 years, a painful abundance of self- deluded disciples who fa

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

ngled remains of his unfortunate followers met his view, and near them he beheld the frightful monster, dripping with the blood of his victims. seizing a huge rock, the hero hurled it with all his might upon the dragon; but protected by his tough black skin and steely scales as by a coat of mail, he remained unhurt. cadmus now tried his lance, and with more success, for it pierced the side of the beast, who, furious with pain, sprang at his adversary, when cadmus, leaping aside, succeeded in fixing the point of his spear within his jaws, which final stroke put an end to the encounter. while cadmus stood surveying his vanquished foe pallas-athene appeared to him, and commanded him to sow the teeth of the dead dragon in the ground. he obeyed; and out of the furrows there arose a band of arme

ely victim should become his bride. overjoyed at the prospect of andromeda's release, the king gladly acceded to the stipulation, and perseus hastened to the rock, to breathe words of hope and comfort to the trembling maiden. then assuming once more the helmet of aides, he mounted into the air, and awaited the approach of the monster. presently the sea opened, and the shark's head of the gigantic beast of the deep raised itself above the waves. lashing his tail furiously from side to side, he leaped forward to seize his victim; but the gallant hero, watching his opportunity, suddenly darted down, and producing the head of the medusa from his wallet, held it before the eyes of the dragon, whose hideous body became gradually transformed into a huge black rock, which remained for ever a silen

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

money spells how to cast spells that really work thank you letter #1 practical witchcraft the magic word that will bring money to you the green candle spell thank you letter #2 the magic power of chants the golden square spell spell brings needed money the devil s treasurer thank you letter #3 what will happen after casting your spells and working your rituals? 4: sex magic today the mark of the beast< thank you letter #4 the demon of lust thank you letter #5 the occult seduction spell thank you letter #6 a magical threesome thank you letter #7 magical aphrodisiacs the black candle of love thank you letter #8 sex magic for couples 5: ancient secrets of the cabala the tree of life the power of the spheres the sacred names of power the middle pillar circulation ritual using the middle pilla

member of the coven) is elected to satisfy the sexual demands of the coven master. she is carried to the altar, laid down and surrounded by black candles, and worshipped by the more virile men of the coven. she is stroked, kissed and otherwise stimulated until her passions are aroused. only then is she brought before the coven master who copulates with her, until he is exhausted. the mark of the beast aleister crowley, an infamous black magician of the 1920s, was< dubbed by the daily express the wickedest man who ever lived and came to believe that he was the biblical beast of the revelations. he was, for a short time, a member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, but his true interest lie in the oto (ordo templis orientis, a german order involved in sexual magic. he took this and ad

o be his idea of the scarlet woman, a particularly wanton prostitute. and subject her to every form of humiliation and degradation his fertile mind could come up with including branding between the breasts! after his death at hastings, england in 1947, his erotic poem hymn to pan, was recited during the funeral services by his remaining few disciples, and an occult ceremony held at his grave. the beast had fallen. thank you letter #4 thank you for your letter and advice. anyway i ve tried your asmodeus spell with amazing results, also the seduction spell worked first time and it worked well. the girl in question i had not seen for 18 months it s a long story, but i could not believe my luck. i thought a couple of years ago i would never score with her, and for that alone i thank you. i hop

PATH OF INITIATION

rsonality of the initiate is altered forever, and made better, wiser, capable of experiencing life in a new way. this is the descent into the dark waters below. 4. the meeting of the devil or the otherworldly guardian and the trial, followed by the bestowal of a first stage transformation. this stage is the fetch-awakening, at the threshold of the soul, wherein the puckril, the familiar or 'fetch beast, is identified or bestowed. this is the merging of the human nature and the animal nature; this is also a further "arrival" of outside forces that were called by the soul of the initiate. this is the kindling of the cunning fire. 5. the meeting with the fetch mate, or otherworldly lover- the congress of the incubi/succubi, the faery marriage between the mortal and the immortal, this world an

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

leius, usually known as the golden ass. although apuleius presents the story as an allegory of the soul (psyche) in search of love (cupid, and sets the story in the world of the roman gods, it is recognizably a version of a fairy tale widely distributed in the indo-european tradition, known to folklorists as the search for the lost husband or the animal bridegroom. variants include beauty and the beast and the black bull of norroway; over 60 versions have been recorded from italian oral tradition. cupid and psyche 35 sleeping beauty psyche s sleep here is a reminder of the deathly sleep that came upon her when she opened the box of beauty from the underworld (see above. in true fairy-tale style, she could only be woken by her true love, cupid. psyche and charon by john roddam spencer-stanh

iobates with a letter asking that the bearer be put to death. iobates, expecting him to be killed, asked bellerophon to slay the chimaera, a fire-breathing monster with the front legs of a lion, the body of a she-goat, and the tail of a snake, which was devastating his kingdom. bellerophon tamed the winged horse pegasus with a golden bridle given to him by athena, and, swooping down, riddled the beast with arrows and thrust a lump of lead between its jaws. the chimaera s breath melted the lead and it choked to death. when he survived other trials, iobates gave up trying to kill bellerophon and made him his heir instead. when he heard the accusation that had been made against him, bellerophon returned to argos and killed the queen, pushing her off pegasus back into the sea. he eventually d

seus was one of greece s most famous heroes. said to have had two fathers, king aegeus of athens and the sea god poseidon (roman neptune, he grew up unaware of who his father was. he showed heroic qualities even as a child when hercules (see pp. 50 51) visited and caused panic among the children by throwing his great lion skin over a stool, the seven-year-old theseus fetched an ax to confront the beast. when he was 16, theseus mother aethra told him that aegeus was his father. she led him to the altar of strong zeus where aegeus had left his sword and sandals under a heavy rock so that if aethra bore him a son, the boy could reclaim them when he was strong enough and come to athens. theseus moved the rock with ease, claimed the tokens of his birth, and set out for athens. he encountered ma

. homer speaks in the iliad of the dancing floor which daedalus once built in knossos for lovely-haired ariadne. also at knossos, frescoes show youths and maidens leaping over bulls in ritual dances. the minotaur 57 athenian hero the athenian hero theseus heir to king aegeus makes his way to the labyrinth where the minotaur is incarcerated, sure that the gods will help him triumph. half-man, half-beast the minotaur, with his human mind trapped in the body of a beast, is one of the most tragic and pitiable of all the monsters of greek mythology. he even had a human name, the same as that of minos foster-father: asterius or asterion. both names mean star; minotaur means simply bull of minos. savage animal the minotaur, like his father the rampaging white bull, was liable to kill anyone who s

up and down the tree, carrying insults from the dragon at the roots to the eagle at the top. special fruit the cooked fruit of yggdrasil ensured safe childbirth. the tree drips dew so sweet that bees make honey from it. strange new fetters fenrir was suspicious of the strange new fetter, and agreed to be bound only if one of the gods put their hand in his mouth. tyr thrust his right hand into the beast s mouth and when fenrir realized he had been tricked, he bit off tyr s hand. trembling leaves when ragnarok approaches, the world tree will begin to shake and tremble. four deer four horned deer dain, dvalin, duneyr, and durathror lived on yggdrasil s trunk, nibbling the fresh green shoots. sheltering tree yggdrasil shelters the nine worlds. at the end of the world, during the battle of ragn

PHOSPHORUS

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

e of the wise do illuminate me, by dreaming and waking guide me into the astral plane to become, in the twilight i awaken to thy fiery spirit! o archon of this world, djinn of holy fire and perfected spirit do move through me as i descend with you! guide me unto the empyrean and celestial sabbat of self-deification! from the north, belial, lord of the earth and perfected essence of both angel and beast, do move the spirits of the earth of wolf and jackal, come forth through me! i seek thy mysteries of the earth, of the infernal sabbat and its pleasure of lilith-hecate! i descend into the caverns of darkness with thee! from the west, leviathan, lord of the gateways of the darkness of the oceans, i do summon thee to behold my path! i seek thou crooked serpent of which i shall walk with in th

ome as a dragon, to know the ecstasies of light and shadow. al ghul, serpent tongue which arouses perception i invoke thee! i do affirm hecate, goddess of crossroads, enchanter of nightmares, guardian of shades and the howling beasts, bless my path with your eyes which are always seeing bless me with the fallen star of azazel, as lightening i awake! i do affirm ahriman, prince of darkness and the beast in flesh spectral shadow who is lucifugus, bless my rites with the astral shape of the toad and the serpent dragon open thy eye as algol! i do affirm lucifer azazel, fire born angel of the abyss, who comes forth in the earth as the devil and djinn of flame before me is algol my essence, my desire, my will within me sparks the black flame of set, the forge of cain! within me now is algol this

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

lucifer stands as the fountain head of astral magick (i.e, astral projection, dream control, ect) lucifer is balance in the instance of both shadow and light, blood red and jet black. lucifer is the colour of an awakened and enlightened mind. the psyche which is open for magical inspiration. blavatsky understood the significance of balance within the individual, to ascend the individual from the beast like qualities so inherent within our subconscious. blavatsky wrote "thus it stands proven that satan, or the red fiery dragon, the "lord of phosphorus" and lucifer, or "light bearer" is in us; it is our mind-our temptor and redeemer, our intelligent liberator and saviour from pure animalism" asmodeus/ahriman is the fountain head of sorcery and earth based black magic. asmodeus is the god of

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

them and does not arouse any feeling whatsoever, for this is no different than mentioning the name of an individual that one does not know. certainly, the only reaction can be one of indifference. those who fall into this category are no better than trained animals which have been taught to act in a certain way. certainly, they cannot be regarded as human beings, since what distinguishes man from beast is his intellect, and though they have been endowed with it, they make no use of it. they do not ponder the ways of the creator, and of all existence. they do not ask themselves "where did all this come from" and "what is the purpose of our existence. even if, occasionally, they have fleeting thoughts pertaining to lofty matters, it is completely external and does not penetrate and affect th

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

h [aryeih. it tends toward the right in order that [chesed and gevurah] inter-include. therefore, since it is so hot, it draws to itself all types of moisture and thereby cools off, and then fans the heart. this is why the chief butler corresponds to the trachea. we exile hot air, indicating the the lungs are naturally hot. heat and fire exemplify gevurah, power and strength. the lion, the strong beast, also exemplifies gevurah, yet in ezekiel fs vision of the chariot,13 it is on the right side, the side of chesed. this signifies rectified gevurah, i.e, gevurah tempered by chesed. gevurah: gimel-beit-vav-reish-hei= 3+ 2+ 6+ 200+ 5= 216. aryeih: alef-reish-yud-hei= 1+ 200+ 10+ 5= 216. the chief baker corresponds to the esophagus, which in turn corresponds to gevurah. the baker bakes bread

so (sha far hakavanot, discourse on tzitzit 4, in note, section 7; pri eitz chaim, zemirot 2; sha far hahakdamot 44c. the arizal on parashat shemini 444 name first spellingout second spellingout yud yud vav dalet vav vav alef vav dalet lamed yud dalet tav hei hei hei hei hei hei hei vav vav alef vav vav alef vav vav vav hei hei hei hei hei hei hei [23 is] the numerical value of the word for gwild beast h [chayah. chayah: chet-yud-hei= 8+ 10+ 5= 23. thus, chayah alludes to the spelling-out of the spelling-out of the 52-name, and thus chayah is gincluded h within beheimah. we will now explain this in greater detail. i have already explained that after the states of chesed descend from the yesod of ima [into z feir anpin, only three of them [continue and] fall into the yesod of z feir anpin

rocreate. h the female shell obviously cannot be called gemasculated, h but only gfrigid, h as our sages said with regard to the great serpents.9 it is said that g-d castrated the male primordial sea-creature, the leviathan and killed the female in order to prevent them from procreating and their species overrunning the world. in contrast, when faced with the same problem regarding the primordial beast, the behemoth, he castrated the male but only made the female frigid. the reason why he had to kill the female leviathan and not simply make it frigid, the talmud states, is because fish mate even when they are cool. 4 2:103a 5 hosea 14:9. 6 1 samuel 1:19. 7 genesis 24:16. 8 psalms 81:10; zohar 2:243a. 9 bava batra 74b; zohar 2:273. the arizal on parashat metzora 475 in any case, it follows

ashat matot in the portion of the torah read this week, g-d tells the jewish people to battle the midianites in vengeance for their assault chronicled at the end of parashat balak. the jews slew all the males in battle, and moses instructed them further to slay all the male children and the females who had reached sexual maturity. g-d then told moses: g ccount the booty that was captured, man and beast, and divide the booty equally between those who took the war upon them and went out to do battle and the rest of the community. you shall then take a levy for g-d: from the half-share of the soldiers who engaged in the campaign you shall take one item in five hundred.of persons, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.and give them to eleazar the priest as a contribution to g-d [in addition] from the halfs

. abba and ima cursed be he who moves his neighbor fs landmark [a form of stealing. keter of z feir anpin cursed be he who misdirects a blind person on his way. chochmah of z feir anpin cursed be he who perverts the judgement of a stranger, orphan, or widow. binah of z feir anpin cursed be he who has relations with his father fs wife. chesed of z feir anpin cursed be he who has relations with any beast. gevurah of z feir anpin cursed be he who has relations with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother. tiferet of z feir anpin cursed be he who has relations with his mother-in-law. netzach of z feir anpin cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret. hod of z feir anpin cursed be he who accepts a bride in the case of the murder of an innocent person. yesod of z fei

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

, and lofty significance "and tetragrammaton 30 the golden dawn placed kerubim at the east of the garden of eden and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the path of the tree of life, for he has created nature that man being cast out of eden may not fall into the void. he has bound man with the stars as with a chain. he allures him with scattered fragments of the divine body in bird and beast and flower. and he laments over him in the wind and in the sea and'in the birds. and when the times are ended, he will call the kerubim from the east of the garden, and all shall be consumed and become infinite and holy" it would be a happy task, were it advisable, to devote several pages of this introduction to praising the excellence of what are called the four elemental prayers. each one

who again prometheanlike, are bound by the unconscious to the caucasus" for the adept to be cut off from his roots, from contact with the vitalising and necessary basis of his unconsciousness, will never do. he must unite and integrate the various levels of his entire tree. his task must be to train and develop the titanic forces of his own underworld, so that they become as a powerful but docile beast whereon he may ride. introduction the adeptus minor grade continues the theme of these two diagrams. escorted into the vault, the asvirant is shown the lid of the tomb of osiris, the pastos, wherein is buried our father, ehristian rosenkreutz, and on that lid is a whkh brings fulfillment as it were to the narrative of the preceding diagrams. it is divided into two sections. the lower half of

ned by the stellar system without the sephiroth. they are therefore ruled by the paths, rather than by the sephiroth, and are consequently classed each under an element or a planet, and a sign. thus each followeth a formula which may be translated into letters, and these again form a vibratory name. as it is written "and adam gave names unto all the cattle and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field (gen. 11, v. 20) yet they are ruled by the name yhvh, though classed rather by one or more of its letters: thus, fish, etc, are under the influence of water birds are under the influence of air quadrupeds are under the influence of fire creeping things and insects are under the influence of earth there are some which partake of two elements, but in them one element is usually ch

e forms. 110 the golden dawn: volume i book one thus the macrocosmic universe is one vast infinite sphere containing so many and diverse infinite microcosmic forms, of which the perfect knowledge is only known unto the advanced adept. also it shall here suffice to say that thou shalt make a distinction between the four-handed race (the quadrumana, apes and monkeys) which be midway between man and beast and other animals. for they be <224> neither the oneor the other, but are the fallen and debased result of a most ancient magical effect to formulate a material and immediate link between the human and animal microcosms. this is elsewhere treated of, and it shall here be sufficient to say that they are not an ascent, from the beast unto the man, but a mistaken magical fall from a man unto a

tual responsibility of the man. their nature is not evil, but, following a natural law--seeing that man is head of the assiatic creation--so the animal is higher than the vegetables or mineral. also bear thou well in mind that the race of the transformers are given unto cruelty. such are above all the race of creeping things. as man hath his ruach which is upright in the tree of life, so hath the beast his ruach which is horizontal; as it is said "the ruach of a man which goeth upwards (i.e. directeth itself upwards, and the ruach of the beast which goeth downwards (or crosswise) in the earth" the neschamah in the beast is not. the beast consisteth of a ruach and a nephesch with a rudimentary daath or spiritual consciousness. this daath ever seeketh that which is beyond it and thence are b

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

torment like that of mezentius? these are dead people whom we mistake for living beings; these are vampires whom we regard as friends! 69 xiv i o transmutations sphera lunae sempiternum auxilium st. augustine questioned seriously whether apuleius could have been changed into an ass by a thessalian sorceress, and theologians have long debated about the transformation of nebuchadnezzar into a wild beast, which things merely prove that the eloquent doctor of hippo was unacquainted with magical secrets and that the theologians in question were not advanced far in exegesis. we are concerned in this chapter with different and more incredible marvels, which are at the same time incontestable. i refer to lycanthropy, or the nocturnal transformation of men into wolves, long celebrated in country t

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at of the first murderer. all those errors, all those shadows, all those monstrous idols of anarchy which india opposes in its symbols to the magical trimurti, have found priests and worshippers in christianity. the demon is mentioned nowhere in genesis; an allegorical serpent deceives our first parents. here is the common translation of the sacred text: gnow, the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the lord god had made. h but this is what moses says: this signifies, according to the version of fabre d'olivet: gnow, original attraction (cupidity) was the entraining passion of all elementary life (the interior activity of nature, the work of jhoah, the being of beings. h but herein fabre d'olivet is beside the true interpretation, because he was unacquainted with the

that of the letters of the word, combines the unity of the initiate with the denary of pythagoras, and the number 66, the added total of all the letters, form kabalistically the number 12, which is the square of the triad and consequently the mystic quadrature of the circle. we may remark, in passing, that the author of the apocalypse, that key of the christian kabalah, composed the number of the beast, that is to say, of idolatry, by adding a 6 to the double senary of abracadabra, which gives 18 kabalistically, the number attributed in the tarot to the hieroglyphic sign of night and of the profane. the moon, together with the towers, dog, wolf and crab. a mysterious and obscure number, the kabalistic key of which is 9, the the triangle of pantacles 25 number of initiation. on this subject

in the tarot to the hieroglyphic sign of night and of the profane. the moon, together with the towers, dog, wolf and crab. a mysterious and obscure number, the kabalistic key of which is 9, the the triangle of pantacles 25 number of initiation. on this subject the sacred kabalist says expressly: ghe that hath understanding h that is, the key of kabalistic numbers. glet him count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred three score and six. h it is, in fact, the decade of pythagoras multiplied by itself and added to the sum of the triangular pantacle of abracadabra: it is thus the sum of all magic in the ancient world, the entire programme of human genius, which the divine genius of the gospel sought to absorb or transplant. these hieroglyphical

etzirah, or initiatory ordeals; his solar head, crowned with the radiant septenary, is the world of atziluth, or perfect revelation; 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 struggl

to the force of his habits. a man of intelligent and passive mildness assumes the inert physiognomy and ways of a sheep, but in somnambulism it is a sheep that is seen, and not a man with a sheepish countenance, as the ecstatic and learned swedenborg experienced a thousand times. in the kabalistic book of daniel the seer, this mystery is represented by the legend of nebuchadnezzar changed into a beast, which, after the common fate of magical allegories, has been mistaken for an actual history. in this way, we can really transform men into animals and animals into men; we can metamorphose plants and alter their virtue; we can endow minerals with ideal properties: it is all a question of willing. we can equally render ourselves visible or invisible at will, and this enables us to explain th

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

nts of that same isle, and the men [invading] had their backs towards the isle when they were plying the[ir] oars [to row] towards it. thus this old scout and delphian oracle was at last deceived and did deceive [her fellow islanders unwittingly. being asked who gave her such sights and warnings she said that as soon as she set three crosses [made] of straw upon the palm of her hand, a great ugly beast sprang out of the earth near her; and flew into the air. if what she inquired had http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_30.htm (5 of 8 [10/9/2001 12:34:46 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 30-39) success according to her wish, the beast would descend calmly and lick up the crosses; if it would not succeed, the beast would furiously thrust her and the crosses over the ground, and so

itulus triumphalis, defenda nos ab omnibus malis, sancte deus, sancte fortis, sancte et immortalis, miserere nobis+ heloj+ heloj atha+ messias+ sother immanuel+ pathone+ sabaoth+ tetragammaton+ on+ eon+ a thonay+ alma+ avala+ throne+ emmanuel. 3. the spell to expel the unbeast. the order of st bennet at the appointment of inachus, to be set about the neck of the infirm, against the sharp-piercing beast, the unbeast, the white fistula, the brown cancer, the flesh cancer, the bone cancer, come out, thou piercing worm as my king appointed; either die or hit thy lodging as jesus christ commanded, god and the king omnipotent, either chase you out alive, or slay you within. these words the charmer speaks, holding his two thumbs to his mouth, still spitting on them, and then with both thumbs stro

d a different kind of tale altogether from anything that kirk has mentioned previously, and quite out of keeping with his general and specific thesis. indeed, the woman from colonsay seems to be more of a witch than a seeress, and though the two were, and are, frequently confused, kirk himself suffered from no such confusion. as soon as she set three crosses of straw upon [her] palm. a great ugly beast sprang out of the earth near her, and flew into the air. she divined the answers to her requests from the beast's limited range of behavior, either a positive or a negative reaction. this entity sounds more like the elemental or familiar spirit well known in witchcraft and magical arts, and not a fairy entity. the ritual of the straw commentary 106 crosses is found in many forms worldwide wh

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ral. impressed by mathematics and geometry, hobbes postulated human behavior as similarly structured. he thus sought to understand the "mechanics" or "laws" of human political behavior. hobbes departed from aristotle and the medieval tradition by denying that man is a social animal, i.e. that he seeks companionship, society, and political interaction as an end in itself. man is indeed a "solitary beast" there is no "supreme good; there is only self-interest and gratification "in the first place, i put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death" the "supreme evil" is death, and it is fear of death that prompts human cooperation. society is thus negatively motivated. in contrast to the "natural inequality" espous

o say that he merely attempted to "scale down" this form or that form to a problem solving level, in order to compete with the sophists. a form is not that sort of "thing" it is not an axiom which can be applied to various problems. rather it is a sort of sum-total of identifying characteristics in various phenomena which relate them, as sphinxes and chimaeras are variations of the form "mythical beast" the sphinx: speak for yourself. but we have now reached a point where we can explore the development of forms-theory prior to plato's time. excuse me, plato's point of focus in the continuum. because the forms. and especially the ones that were applicable to statesmanship. weren't all that nebulous. in fact they were the guiding principles of the most ancient civilization in the mediterrane

ton p. gillis iii date: december 14, xxi1 revision: march 24, xxii html revision: dec 15, 1997 ce subject: satanism reading list: 6 as heraclitus (the "riddler" or "dark philosopher) observed, the many are incapable of understanding religious symbolism on a non-literal level, and thus worship statues. i would also apply the term "satanism" to the thelemic 8 philosophy of the self-proclaimed great beast 666, aleister crowley. thus, satanic are those magical philosophies which exalt the individual will, rather than seeking its dissolution through reunion with god, the rationale being that if one's individual essence is dispersed into that of god, the former ceases to exist as a separate entity.9 by satanism i do not refer to the nefarious activities of juvenile delinquents and psychopaths, a

books, 1969 c.e. lavey, the satanic rituals. new york: avon books, 1972 c.e. lavey, the compleat witch. new york: dodd, mead and company, 1970 c.e. lubicz, isha schwaller de, her-bak: egyptian initiate. new york: inner traditions, 1967 c.e [ronald fraser, translator. milton, john, paradise lost. spinoza, benedict de, works of spinoza, volume ii. new york: dover, 1955 c.e. symonds, john, the great beast. london: macdonald, 1971 c.e. wilson, robert anton, prometheus rising. phoenix: falcon press 1983 c.e. footnotes 1. this paper was originally read before a philosophy of religion class at brock university in st. catharines, ontario, in december of xxi a.s. it has undergone some degree of revision for publication in the ruby tablet. 2. the ancient greek concept of logos (word, or fundamental

had to assign four cherubim to do the work that lucifer had previously done. the first is described as lion-like, the second is calf-like, the third is as a man, and the fourth is eagle-like. revelation 4:6-8 and before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto chrystal; and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. and the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face of a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. and the four beasts each had six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within; and they rest not day and night, saying, holy, holy, holy, lord jehovah almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. isaiah 14:12-14 how you have fallen from heaven, o mor

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t alternatives, and i'm just some idiot actor having a bhaenchud nightmare, what the fuck do i know, yaar, what to tell you, help. help. o o o to reach mount cone from jahilia one must walk into dark ravines where the sand is not white, not the pure sand filtered long ago through the bodies of sea-cucumbers, but black and dour, sucking light from the sun. coney crouches over you like an imaginary beast. you ascend along its spine. leaving behind the last trees, white--flowered with thick, milky leaves, you climb among the boulders, which get larger as you get higher, until they resemble huge walls and start blotting out the sun. the lizards arc blue as shadows. then you are on the peak, jahilia behind you, the featureless desert ahead. you descend on the desert side, and about five hundred

of the unbelievers, there take place certain murders for which the first lady of jahilia will wait years to take her terrible revenge. the prophet's uncle hamza has been walking home alone, his head bowed and grey in the twilight of that melancholy victory, when he hears a roar and looks up, to see a gigantic scarlet lion poised to leap at him from the high battlements of the city. he knows this beast, this fable _the iridescence of its scarlet hide blends into the shimmering brightness of the desert sands. through its nostrils it exhales the horror of the lonely places of the earth. it spits out pestilence, and when armies venture into the desert, it consumes them utterly. through the blue last light of evening he shouts at the beast, preparing, unarmed as he is, to meet his death "jump

e" on the night she learned of her husband's death in the _bostan_ explosion, so that the sound of his old college friend saladin's voice speaking from beyond the grave in the middle of the night, uttering the five gnomic words _sorry, excuse please, wrong number- speaking, moreover, less than two hours after jumpy and pamela had made, with the assistance of two bottles of whisky, the two- backed beast- put him in a tight spot "who was _that" pamela, still mostly asleep, with a blackout mask over her eyes, rolled over to inquire, and he decided to reply "just a breather, don't worry about it" which was all very well, except then he had to do the worrying all by himself, sitting up in bed, naked, and sucking, for comfort, as he had all his life, the thumb on his right hand. he was a small p

tations "give over. point is, how'd he turn into such a, such a- admiringly "freak" upon which, the devil himself, looking up from chicken soup, cried out "no, i'm not. i'm not a freak, o no, certainly i am not" his voice, seeming to rise from an unfathomable abyss of grief, touched and alarmed the younger girl, who rushed over to where he sat, and, impetuously caressing a shoulder of the unhappy beast, said, in an attempt to make amends "of course you aren't, i'm sorry, of course i don't think you're a freak; it's just that you look like one" saladin chamcha burst into tears. mrs. sufyan, meanwhile, had been horrified by the sight of her younger daughter actually laying hands on the creature, and turning to the gallery of nightgowned residents she waved a soup-ladle at them and pleaded fo

d his overcoat over his left arm. even after that he came back: and she opened the door and went straight upstairs as though nothing had happened. pamela's taboos: jokes about her background, mentions of whisky-bottle "dead soldiers, and any suggestion that her late husband, the actor saladin chamcha, was still alive, living across town in a bed and breakfast joint, in the shape of a supernatural beast. these days, jumpy- who had, at first, badgered her incessantly about saladin, telling her she should go ahead and divorce him, but this pretence of widowhood was intolerable: what about the man's assets, his rights to a share of the property, and so forth? surely she would not leave him destitute- no longer protested about her unreasonable behaviour "i've got a confirmed report of his death

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gician allan bennet, upon meeting the student aleister crowley for the first time, greeted him with the words little brother, you have been meddling with the goetia. crowley, who later went on to publish his own version of this text, denied the charge. bennet s reply was to state simply, then, little brother, the goetia has been meddling with you! note that crowley later identified himself as the beast 666. although he may have insisted that his transcendental philosophy was essential white magick, his holy guardian angel nevertheless turned out to be the devil himself. others who have been known to practice this goetic witchcraft have included w.b. yeats and macgregor mathers, cecil williams, charles pace. the influence of the classical grimoire may even be seen in the ritual tools and ci

he shekinah back to god and unite her with him. micha-el originally a chaldean deity, the name micha-el translates as who is as god. along with gabriel he is one of the only two angels actually named in the old testament. it was he who vanquished satan from heaven in single combat. it is also he who will descend from heaven with the key to the abyss and a great chain in his hand and will bind the beast for 1000 years (revelations: 20:1. according to jewish lore it is micha-el who appeared to moses in the midst of the burning bush. he appears again in the burial scene where he disputes with satan the possession of the old patriarch s corpse. in one account micha-el is said to have single handedly annihilated a hundred and eighty-five thousand men from the army of sennercherib, the assyrian

knows past and future, reconciles friends and those in power. barbelo (gnostic. according to the gnostic sect called the sethians, the daughter of pistis-sophia. was so great in her glory that it is said that she outshone god. bathin (goetia, 18th spirit. duke commanding 30 legions. appears as a strong man with a serpent tail, riding a pale horse. knows herb-lore, precious stones, teleportation. beast 666 (hebrew. scarlet hued monster with ten horns and seven heads, the body of a leopard, the feet of a bear, the jaws of a lion, who rises from the sea ridden by the whore of babylon to herals the coming of the apocalypse. it will have power over earth for fourty-two months, during which time all will marvel because it was and is not and is to come (revelations 17:8. the beast shall lay wast

rals the coming of the apocalypse. it will have power over earth for fourty-two months, during which time all will marvel because it was and is not and is to come (revelations 17:8. the beast shall lay waste with plague and destruction, defeating the power of the saints. the antichrist tricks mortals into believing it is the messiah, commanding them to worship its brazen image. at armageddon, the beast 666 and his legions battle against the true christ. beelzebub (rabbinical, from baal-zebub, lord of the opening. chief of all devils (mathew 12:24-27. tutelary god of the philistines (ii kings 1:2. lucifer s closest companion in heaven, now his second in command. tempts men into envy and pride. patron devil of heresy. originally a canaanite deity, whose name may also mean lord of the house

that of psychopomp to the dead souls. no less than three of the apostles identify him as incarnate evil and lord of chaos. johann weyer in pseudographica demonica makes him supreme overlord of the underworld and founder of the great order of the fly. the grand grimoire and grimorium verum have him as the prince of hell. corresponds to chokmah. behemoth (hebrew behema, meaning animal. apocalyptic beast of jewish eschatology. identified in the middle ages with satan. a designation of the hippopotamus (job 40. may also appear as an elephant, crocodile or whale, and was created with leviathan on the fifth day. the devil s cup bearer, patron devil of gluttony and despair, who presides over the feasts of hell, entertaining its denizens with songs and plays. creates chaos and discord amongst mor

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two thousand years man has done penance for something he never should have had to feel guilty about in the first place. we are tired of denying ourselves the pleasures of life which we deserve. today, as always, man needs to enjoy himself here and now, instead of waiting for his rewards in heaven. so, why not have a religion based on indulgence? certainly, it is consistent with the nature of the beast. we are no longer supplicating weaklings trembling before an unmerciful "god" who cares not whether we live or die. we are self-respecting, prideful people- we are satanists! hell, the devil, and how to sell your soul satan has certainly been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years. the false doctrine of hell and the devil has allowed the protes

ogists to this day! as far as satanism is concerned, the closest outward signs of this were the neo-pagan rites conducted by macgregor mathers' hermetic order of the golden dawn, and aleister crowley's later order of the silver star (a. a- argentinum astrum) and order of oriental templars (o.t.o, which paranoiacally denied any association with satanism, despite crowley's self-imposed image of the beast of revelation. aside from some rather charming poetry and a smattering of magical bric-a-brac, when not climbing mountains crowley spent most of his time as a poseur par excellence and worked overtime to be wicked. like his contemporary, rev) mantague summers, crowley obviously spent a large part of his life with his tongue jammed firmly into his cheek, but his followers, today, are somehow

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ment of our desires and the destruction of our enemies. in concert this night we ask thy unfailing assistance in this particular need (here is mentioned the special purpose for which the mass is offered. in the unity of unholy fellowship we praise and honor first thee, lucifer, morning star, and beelzebub, lord of regeneration; then belial, prince of the earth and angel of destruction; leviathan, beast of revelation; abaddon, angel of the bottomless pit; and asmodeus, demon of lust. we call upon the mighty names of astaroth, nergal and behemoth, of belphegor, adramelech, and baalberith, and of all the nameless and formless ones, the mighty and innumerable hosts of hell, by whose assistance may we be strengthened in mind, body and will [the celebrant then extends his hands, palms downward

n powers, and behave no differently than humans in the long run; and of course george orwell's animal farm and aldous huxley's ape and essence. it is likely that aelister crowley was familiar with the ceremony, as his book of the lav bears a subtle hint in its tide to the credo of the tierdrama, the litany of the law. the message of nietzsche's zarathustra, that advises an identification with the beast as a prerequisite to the role of god-man, is eloquently ritualized in the tierdrama's law of the jungle. it is a lesson too often neglected by "civilized" man. requirements for performance participants consist of a priest who opens the ceremony, three assistants, an altar, an invocator, and participants. the priest acts as master of the ceremony and presides over the entire rite. his assista

orm against the wall, her legs folded crosswise under her. the invocator and the participants wear black robes with open hoods revealing masks in the likenesses of various animals. entire animal heads made of papier-mache or other material can heighten the effectiveness. masks should be as representational as possible, the only exception the invocator, who appears as a lycanthropic half-man, half-beast he carries a heavy staff which he pounds on the ground when emphasizing portions of the litany. robes are mandatory: they represent a formal transition between beast and man. the ceremony is performed in a chamber with an open area large enough for all of the participants to gather in a semicircle. the priest and his assistants stand to either side of the altar during the litany. this rite c

he clearing and the invocator enters. after gazing around the clearing, he stands in the centre and motions to the illuminator, who steps forward with his light he is about to summon the beasts. they will enter single file if the rite is performed within a chamber, or if outdoors, through openings in the foliage around the clearing. the gait of each participant should suggest the movements of the beast he represents. the invocator begins the litany and the gong is heard softly, as if calling with the invocator. as he chants, the beasts appear, gradually gathering round him] invocator: ich bin der sprecher des gesetzes. hier sind alle, die neu sind um das gesetz zu lernen. ich stehe im dunkeln und spreche das gesetz. kein entkommen! grausam ist die strafe f r solche, the das gesetz brechcn

ist das gesetz. sind wir nicht menschen? not to claw bark or trees: that is the law. are we not men? beasts: nicht die rinde oder b ume zu zerkratzen: das ist das gesetz. sind wir nicht menschen? not to claw bark or trees: that is the law. are we not men? invocator: nicht zu murren und zu br llen: das ist das gesetz. sind wir nicht menschen? not to snarl or roar: that is the law. are we not men? beast: nicht zu murren und zu br llen: das ist das gesetz. sind wir nicht menschen? not to snarl or roar: that is the law. are we not men? invocator: nicht unsere fangz hne im zorn zu zeigen: das ist das gesetz. sind wir nicht menschen? not to show our fangs in anger: that is the law. are we not men? beasts: nicht unsere fangz hne im zorn zu zeigen: das ist das gesetz. sind wir nicht menschen? not

SATANICON

nation of absolute deceit must be exposed. his true nature must be revealed for all to see. upon his appearance, this revealing must be swift and thorough, thus serving to shatter his mythical divinity. our world will finally be free from the greatest social pestilence ever to plague mankind xianity! to my few fellow antichrists who will understand; for only you can now understand that most noble beast whose number is 666 that invisible (and perhaps indiscernible) number spoken of in revelation this requires wisdom. for those who have perception the ascension of satan in the third year of the age of evil as a religious philosopher of evil, i don t fell the need to stay within a strict set of traditional rules (isn t that an affliction of xianity) regarding our satan/reality-based mythology

questioners and doubters abandon your church s doctrines and learn how to live! remember to doubt is to leave space for one s own thoughts. evil is the natural state of man: the indulgence of the self; the senses of life. goodness is a learned state; ideally, requiring abstinence from the worldly pleasures and a neurotic adherence to altruism. civilization is the very essence of the taming of the beast. xianity is the very essence of civilization. the xian church and its pulpit-pounders have always made their living off the fears of the people: the fear of retribution if one does not submit to their doctrines and eternal punishment if one does not submit to their god. to be a false christ is to allow the worthless to perish while allowing the worthy to flourish. the second coming not of je

lane during ritual. moving towards the right lies the physical plane, which, if properly affected parallels the previous etherical event -14- when the black magician exercises his dark will, he enters into the governing etherical plane where everything lawful is subject to his desires. hence, this is the nature of the parallelogram, which is the foundation of cause and effect. devaxcus librt, the beast of revelation, was sired by satan and brought forth from the womb of lilith adam s first wife. the beast represents emotion and man s inherent animal nature that spiritual man has opposed; has fought to unlawfully repress since the very beginnings of civilization. prior to, and including the time of jesus the nazarene, devaxcus librt and his doctrine flourished. however, a time went on, the

and man s inherent animal nature that spiritual man has opposed; has fought to unlawfully repress since the very beginnings of civilization. prior to, and including the time of jesus the nazarene, devaxcus librt and his doctrine flourished. however, a time went on, the nazarene legacy spread and the old doctrine began to arouse fear and suspicion. there was a plot to tear it down and imprison the beast. finally, after several unsuccessful attempts, the perpetrators secured devaxcus librt. eventually, at the end of time, devaxcus librt will break the chains which bind him (the widespread re-embrace of evil) and then proceed to wage a furious war (armageddon) against his spiritual adversaries. archetypal lycanthropy is a return to the noble and fierce attributes of devaxcus librt, which when

l unsuccessful attempts, the perpetrators secured devaxcus librt. eventually, at the end of time, devaxcus librt will break the chains which bind him (the widespread re-embrace of evil) and then proceed to wage a furious war (armageddon) against his spiritual adversaries. archetypal lycanthropy is a return to the noble and fierce attributes of devaxcus librt, which when experienced, unleashes the beast again upon the earth -15- creative darkness creative darkness is the term which describes this order of black magick which consists of two (2) essential elements: inner magical art: ima describes the celebrant s regression to an emotionally base state. his imagination is operating at peak efficiency and the elements of time and space are in a state of disorder. the imagery is intense and abu

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

ou are the guardian of the great divine powers. like a dragon you have deposited venom on the foreign lands. when like ickur [god of storms] you roar at the earth, no vegetation can stand up to you. as a flood descending upon) those foreign lands, powerful one of heaven and earth, you are their inana. raining blazing fire down upon the land, endowed with divine powers by an, lady who rides upon a beast, whose words are spoken at the holy command of an! the great rites are yours: who can fathom them? destroyer of foreign lands, you confer strength on the storm. beloved of enlil, you have made awesome terror weight upon the land. you stand at the service of an s commands. the exaltation of inana (inana b: translation. in black, j. a, cunningham, g, fluckiger-hawker, e, robson, e, and zo lyom

aters swarmed, after its kind, and every winged fowl after its kind; and g-d saw that it was good. 22 and g-d blessed them, saying: be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 and there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. 24 and g-d said: let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind. and it was so. 25 and g-d made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the ground after its kind; and g-d saw that it was good. fowl: birds, especially game birds. 8 world religions: primary sources tanakh (hebrew bible) 26 and g-d said: let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let th

is the fruit of a tree yielding seed to you it shall be for food; in the creation story of the tanakh, god rested on the seventh day. jews rest on this day, called shabbat, to follow god s model and devote their time to him. david h. wells/corbis. replenish: to fill up or to restore a supply. subdue: to bring under control. world religions: primary sources 9 tanakh (hebrew bible) 30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is a living soul, i have given every green herb for food. and it was so. 31 and g-d saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. and there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. genesis: chapter 2 1 and the heaven and the earth were finished, and all the h

eople find the god within and of serving others. hinduism in the early twenty-first century is the third largest religion in the world. people in the west, the nations of the americas and catholicity: universality, the quality of including everyone. grovelling, or groveling: crawling or lying on the ground as a mark of meekness or obedience. savage: an uncivilized person. brute: a lower animal, a beast. polity: society, institution. 118 world religions: primary sources paper on hinduism europe, became interested in hinduism after swami vivekananda s presentation. more than 900,000 people in the united states are hindu. there are more than 400,000 hindus in the united kingdom. the largest concentration of hindu followers remains in south asia. the world parliament of religions changed its n

SEVEN SCROLLS CHILDREN OF THE BLACK ROSE

lping the other. this is how we open the closed doors to our spiritual self or higher nature, the one that can exist in the presence of the force and the whisperings of those who have gone on before. in the beginning, should you have trouble stilling your mind enough so that you can readily evaluate your innermost and private thoughts, remember this bit of wisdom: a song will soothe even a savage beast. music can be a wonderful tool to help you change your thoughts from troubles, woes, and cares, to those of a happier, calmer nature. try to play light, happy music to raise your vibrations to a higher level. try to pay attention to the type of music you select to alter your mental state or mood. to relax and calm the mind, select smooth, flowing music. flute music is fine. somehow, the mind

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

have been a witness to your opinions on the infirmity of gratitude" said zanoni. nicot suppressed an exclamation, and, after gloomily surveying zanoni with an eye villanous and sinister, but full of hate impotent and unutterable, said "i know you not, what would you of me "your absence. leave us" nicot sprang forward a step, with hands clenched, and showing his teeth from ear to ear, like a wild beast incensed. zanoni stood motionless, and smiled at him in scorn. nicot halted abruptly, as if fixed and fascinated by the look, shivered from head to foot, and sullenly, and with a visible effort, as if impelled by a power not his own, turned away. glyndon's eyes followed him in surprise "and what know you of this man" said zanoni "i know him as one like myself, a follower of art "of art! do n

greeks of the christian world. but this interests you not, and you are wise in your indifference. not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man "and what books contain that science; from what laboratory is it wrought "nature supplies the materials; they are around you in your daily walks. in the herbs that the beast devours and the chemist disdains to cull; in the elements from which matter in its meanest and its mightiest shapes is deduced; in the wide bosom of the air; in the black abysses of the earth; everywhere are given to mortals the resources and libraries of immortal lore. but as the simplest problems in the simplest of all studies are obscure to one who braces not his mind to their comprehensi

endour, thou, save by the sympathies of knowledge, canst conjecture not what i, the offspring of mortals, feel debarred yet from the objects of the tremendous and sublime ambition that first winged my desires above the clay when i see myself compelled to stand in this low world alone. i have sought amongst my tribe for comrades, and in vain. at last i have found a mate. the wild bird and the wild beast have theirs; and my mastery over the malignant tribes of terror can banish their larvae from the path that shall lead her upward, till the air of eternity fits the frame for the elixir that baffles death "and thou hast begun the initiation, and thou art foiled! i know it. thou hast conjured to her sleep the fairest visions; thou hast invoked the loveliest children of the air to murmur their

vigour for to-morrow, go home and sleep soundly "yes, i forgive thee, dumas, i forgive thee. i am not vindictive, i! but still, if a man threatens me; if a man insults me" and, with the quick changes of intoxication, again his eyes gleamed fire through their foul tears. with some difficulty fouquier succeeded at last in soothing the brute, and leading him from the chamber. but still, as some wild beast disappointed of a prey, he growled and snarled as his heavy tread descended the stairs. a tall trooper, mounted, was leading henriot's horse to and fro the streets; and as the general waited at the porch till his attendant turned, a stranger stationed by the wall accosted him "general henriot, i have desired to speak with thee. next to robespierre, thou art, or shouldst be, the most powerful

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

ial, he and aaron possessed a wonderful rod 3 by means of which they worked their wonders. at the word of moses aaron lifted up his rod and smote the waters and they became blood; he stretched it out p. 6 over the waters, and frogs innumerable appeared; when the dust was smitten by the rod it became lice; and so on. moses sprinkled ashes "toward heaven" and it became boils and blains upon man and beast; he stretched out his rod, and there was "hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous" and the "flax and the barley was smitten" he stretched out his rod and the locusts came, and after them the darkness. now moses did all these things, and brought about the death of the firstborn among the egyptians by the command of his god, and by means of the words which he told him to speak. but

to the chapter proves that special importance was attached to it. nefer-uben-f, a priest, guarding his heart against the destroyer of hearts (from naville, todtenbuch, vol. i. plate 39) but although a heart might be given to a man by means of the above chapter, it was necessary for the deceased to take the greatest care that it was not carried off from him by a monster, who was part man and part beast, and who went about seeking for hearts to carry away. to prevent such a calamity no less than seven chapters of the book of the dead (nos. xxvii, xxviii, xxix, xxixa, xxx, xxxa, p. 32 and xxxb) were written. the xxviith chapter was connected with a heart amulet made of a white, semi-transparent stone, and reads "hail, ye who carry away hearts! hail, ye who steal hearts, and who make the hear

surrounded by seven or twelve rays. over the seven rays, one on the point of each, are the seven vowels of the greek alphabet, which some suppose to p. 180 refer to the seven heavens; and on the back of the amulet, on which the figure of khnoumis occurs, is usually found the sign of the triple s and bar. khnoumis is, of course, a form of the ancient egyptian god khnemu, or "fashioner" of man and beast, the god to whom many of the attributes of the creator of the universe were ascribed. khnemu is, however, often depicted with the head of a ram, and in the later times, as the "beautiful ram of ra" he has four heads; in the egyptian monuments he has at times the head of a hawk, but never that of a lion. the god abrasax is represented in a form which has a human body, the bead of a hawk or co

n the mastery over millions of years" the bennu bird, it will be remembered, was said to be the "soul of ra" and by assuming this form the deceased identified himself with khepera, the great god of creation, and thus acquired the attributes of the soul of the sungod. in the elysian fields he was able to assume any form and to swim and fly to any distance in any direction. it is noteworthy that no beast of the field or wild animal is mentioned as a type of his possible transformations into animals. p. 232 now the egyptians believed that as the souls of the departed could assume the form of any living thing or plant, so the "gods" who in many respects closely resembled them, could and did take upon themselves the forms of birds and beasts; this was the fundamental idea of the so-called "egyp

SOLOMON

dom vouchsafed in thee, and that thou art a man merciful from the lord. and understanding hath been granted thee over all the spirits of the air, and on earth, and under the earth. now, forasmuch as there is present in the land of arabia a spirit of the following kind: at early dawn there begins to blow a certain wind until the third hour. and its blast is harsh and terrible, and it slays man and beast. and no spirit can live upon earth against this demon. i pray thee then, forasmuch as the spirit is a wind, contrive something according to the wisdom given in thee by the lord thy god, and deign to send a man able to capture it. and behold, king solomon, i and my people and all my land will serve thee unto death. and all arabia shall be at peace with thee, if thou wilt perform this act of r

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

lor. the spiral figure intertwined with the mural-length diagonal line symbolizes the caduceus of hermes (mercury, which mythologically is represented as two serpents twined around the winged wand of mercury. nine arcs are formed by the intersections of the spiral line with the diagonal; the ninth hebrew letter, teth, with the value of nine, has the signification of "serpent."22 the number of the beast of revelation is 666, which cabalis- tically is nine, the number of generation.23 the twin serpents of the caduceus are negative and positive (representing polarity) and twine around the spinal column. they are the kundalini or sex force. in the encircled serpent (howey, op. cit, the chapter on the caduceus contains references (page 72) to the ancient use of the symbol without wings, as seen

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

g from the senses and from the thinking based upon them no longer apply. the phaedrus is devoted to the theme of the eternal in the soul, and the soul is described as a chariot with two horses, each many-winged, and a charioteer. one of the horses is docile and intelligent, the other headstrong and wild. when myth and mysteriosophy 69 the chariot meets with an obstacle on its path, the headstrong beast seizes the chance of impeding the reliable one and defying the charioteer. and when the chariot reaches the point of ascending in the wake of the gods up the celestial steep, the intractable horse throws it into confusion. whether the chariot can surmount these difficulties and attain to the realm of the supersensible depends on their relative strengths and so whether the good horse can gain

with corpses. but those who overcome their lower nature and awaken the crucified christ to new life hear the proclamation of the angel with the seventh trumpet: the kingdoms of the world have become those of the lord and of his anointed, who will reign from eternity to eternity. 147 upon which, the temple of god in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant became visible there. 148 666: the beast and the abyss the initiate s experience brings back in a new form the primaeval struggle between the higher and lower natures. the apocalypse of john 137 on the christian path, everything that the initiates in the older mysteries had to undergo must be recapitulated. as osiris was threatened by the evil typhon, so now there is the great dragon, the ancient snake to be defeated. from far back

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

for life. 17 jan 2006 by greg szymanski part ii she looked into the eyes of the "french father" while a man looking like a priest in scarlet robes put a golden knife into the heart of sandy-haired little boy about three or four years old. the boy, drugged and glassy-eyed, had been placed like a sacrificial lamb on a large black table in the center of the room located deep within the belly of the beast- the vatican. and the room, dark and foreboding with the scent of evil dripping from the walls, was only accessible through a hidden passageway camouflaged by a large painting. once inside the secret chamber, 13 distinct passageways were visible, each leading to a separate catacomb with every one of the 13 doorways blocked by the horrific site of a mummified body "after the boy was sacrifice

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

e, 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, architectural patterns, lines, and circles. their signs and symbols both live and possess creative power. they are archetypes and thoughtforms. in sum, they are real things that perform. one is reminded, therefore, of the "image of the beast" which, in the last days, is prophesied to both move about and to speak (revelation 13. pity the poor, hoodwinked mason it's bad enough that the elite hide their dirty little (and big) secrets behind such smoke screens as secret hand signs, codes, etc. but what is remarkably obscene is that they hoodwink their own people. the highest levels of the freemasons, for example, have a special word

s terrorist acts and institute financial crises and cultural upheavals to force the hegelian dialectical process along its desired path toward a new age new world order. deaths are "acceptable losses" the illuminati reason, and pain and suffering are necessary for requisite changes to occur in society. in any event, since those outside the order are relegated to the lowly categories of "slave and beast" why wring one's hands or otherwise unduly concern oneself with whether such miscreants as you and me live or die? the malthus principle suggests to the illuminati that periodically thinning the global population is a good thing. evolution, they believe, calls for the survival of the fittest, and they view themselves as superior and most fit to rule. elitism is certainly a disease, a mental

not only that lucifer is divine. he is integrated into and is one with the mind of the men who make up the illuminati elite. lucifer and these men are of one mind. this brings to pass the prophecies of revelation 17 where we are told that the conspiracy of the elite in the endtime shall be composed of world leaders who will be of "one mind for they will give all of their power and strength to the beast" unlike eliphas levi, most illuminists are hesitant to identify satan as their lord. 40 codex magica instead, they point to the grand architect of the universe as their deity, or to a hazy and nebulous, unnamed "god" we have discovered that most of the illuminati elite make the ridiculous claim that they neither worship nor even believe in a being, or entity, named satan. many laugh at least

parsons, american rocket scientist, founder of california's jet propulsion laboratory, and a priest of the o.t.o, was, like mormon joseph smith, a premier servant of satan and a rebel against god. he even fancied himself to be the prophesied antichrist. parsons wrote this chilling paragraph in his diary: and thus was i antichrist loosed in the world; and to this am i pledged, that the work of the beast shall be fulfilled, and the way for the coming of babalon be made open and i shall not cease or rest until these things are accomplished. 24 a few years after writing this, jack parsons was killed in an explosion in a laboratory at his home, which also served as a meeting place for other members of his satanic order. he evidently was not to become the prophesied antichrist, a fact parsons no

he he goat of prophecy significant, indeed, is the biblical passage in daniel 8:8-22, which symbolically pictures a great world leader in the last days as a "he goat" this he goat, say the scriptures, becomes very strong and his power is symbolized by a horn that arises from his forehead. this strange and evil creature makes war on the host of god and stamps upon them. is this not an image of the beast, baphomet, worshipped in secret by the llluminati? baphles me! 101 the baptism of a satanic witch in the ceremonies of pagan religions, baptisms counterfeits of the christian sacrament were conducted as rites of initiation. below is the modern-day account of one such dark baptism, exactly as it is recorded in the book, the satanic witch, by anton lavey, head of the church of satan. lavey has

THAGIRION

united. this is also explaining the meaning of dispute in the name thagirion. thagirion is the central qlipha on ilan hizon-the outer tree, or the tree of knowledge. this qlipha is the shadow side of tiphereth on the tree of life. both are spheres of the child or the offspring and tiphereth is associated with christ and messiah characters while thagirion is associated with the anti-christ and the beast 666. the first mentioned characters are preaching salvation through them( jesus proclaims in the bible that he is the only way to salvation, something that is questioned by the other characters who are pointing out the possibility for each man to save himself. both spheres are associated with human characters who are thought to manifest this level on a collective human level. bodhisattvas, s

a tiphereth character (of course ordinary muslims are not using this terminology, while he for the christians often have been seen as an anti-christ character and then placed in thagirion. hitler was in the beginning of his career looked upon as something of a messiah that would save germany and was here taking on the role as a tiphereth character. later he turned into a character similar to the beast and is one of the most popular candidates for the anti-christ title. nero, djingis khan, bill clinton and others have been called antichrists and have been the shadow person for people. nietzsche, crowley and gurdjieff have more been more accurate thagirion characters, since they preached the possibility for man to save himself together with thagirion related symbol language. a person can ch

hole that absorbs all normal light.this black sun can be connected with the highest qliphotic principal thaumiel, rather than with thagirion. the black sun is generating the power called vril, od or the world kundalini or the dragon power. it can be described as the principal that is manifestating the powers of chaos. in the bible and in other mythological descriptions this principal acts as the beast. in old norse mythology it is the fenriz wolf, in the goetic qabalah it is the phallic belfegor. in the book of revelation 13:2 is is written: the dragon gave the beast its throne and authority. we can later read that the number of the beast is a human number. this can be understood as the dragon (chaos) is manifested through thagirion by a man, or by mankind. the fact that the number of the

east. in old norse mythology it is the fenriz wolf, in the goetic qabalah it is the phallic belfegor. in the book of revelation 13:2 is is written: the dragon gave the beast its throne and authority. we can later read that the number of the beast is a human number. this can be understood as the dragon (chaos) is manifested through thagirion by a man, or by mankind. the fact that the number of the beast is a human number shows our relation to the wild animals that civilization and religion have tried to repress. on a more esoteric plane it means that man is not just an animal but also a god since 666 is the number of the sun and therefore the number that makes man divine. dragon rouge www.dragonrouge.agthe black lodge lesson 1 in the name of the initiator augmn do what thou wilt shall be th

THE BLACK LODGE

es as a whole irregardless of their physical sex, is not what the profane generally consider as such. the tree of life is "man, considered as a spiritual entity. yhshvh, the adept, the son of man, is tiphereth. and the solar man, the son of the sun, is the solar intelligence manifesting below the abyss; unity- 111- multiplied by 6 (tiphereth) equals 666, the son of the sun, the great seven headed beast (cf liber cccxxxiii ch 49) or the seven sephiroth below the abyss. this seven headed beast who has ten horns (the manifestation of the "masculine" aspect of the creative power in the ten spheres of the tree of life) is a subject for the dominus liminis of the a .a. and for the inner sphere of our own order and it cannot be more openly discussed in this place. as to the demoniac entities, the

subjected to agitation of all their faculties, will experience impulses of vanity, envy, resentment and other perturbing emotions as long as they don t learn to separate the planes, at the same time keeping them coordinated through those harmonic structural links which are the basis of the system of correspondences of the qabalah. as it is written in an old initiatic document of our order, by the beast himself "the purpose of the discipline is to obtain the mastery over his own lower self, and for ths reason he must not submit himself to the will of his lower nature, but following the will of that higher nature, which he does not yet know, but which he desires to find. in obeying the will of the master, instead of following the one which he believes to be his own, but which is in reality o

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

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a who instructed pythagoras. the hermetic text decrees against transmigration, the belief that the souls of humans may enter into animals: divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. m delving deeper gordon, stuart. the encyclopedia of myths and legends. london: headline house, 1993. orphic mysteries orpheus may have been an actual historic figure, a man capable of charming both man and beast with his music, but god or human, he modified the dionysian rites by removing their orgiastic elements. dionysus zagreus, the horned son of zeus (king of the gods) and persephone (daughter of zeus and demeter, was the great god of the orphic mysteries, who was devoured by the evil titans while zeus was otherwise distracted. athena managed to save dionysus zagreus s heart while the enraged ze

satan who will attack the people of god in a final great battle of good versus evil. in jewish eschatology, writings about the end of days state that the armies of gog and magog will eventually be defeated and the world will finally be at peace. throughout the bible the antichrist bears many titles: son of perdition, man of sin, man of lawlessness, the prince of destruction/ abomination, and the beast. the prophet daniel describes the man in great detail: he shall be an evil king who will exalt himself and magnify himself above every god and shall speak outrageous things against the god of gods, and shall prosper until the indignation is accomplished: for that which has been determined shall come to pass. neither shall he regard the god of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard

cal influence, surely none that would place them in world-threatening positions. 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 religious phenomena 181 aleister crowley (1875 1947) of the order of the golden dawn (corbis corporation) there have been such men as aleister crowley (1875 1947, who actually appeared to seek the position by calling himself the beast and 666. the numerical value of franklin delano roosevelt s (1882 1945) name reportedly added up to 666, and since he held the office of president of the united states for 12 years and during the great depression and world war ii many of his conservative christian critics began thinking of him as the antichrist. and even the former president ronald wilson reagan (1911, had certain dissenters

ident ronald wilson reagan (1911, had certain dissenters calling attention to the fact that he had six letters in each of his three names 6-6-6. in recent decades, the term of antichrist has been applied to so many individuals in popular culture that it has lost much of its meaning and its sense of menace. during the gulf war in 1992, saddam hussein (1937) received many votes for the title of the beast, especially when he announced plans to begin to restore the ruins of babylon to a splendor that would approximate the wicked city s former glory. before hussein, there were many nominations for the ayatollah khomeini (1900 1989) to don the mantle. but later when certain extremists named president reagan, former u.s. secretary of state henry kissinger (1923, and even the children s television

television icon barney the dinosaur as the antichrist, the word began losing its threat for the general population. however, those christians who believe strongly in the coming time of tribulation, the apocalypse, the rapture, and the great final battle of good versus evil at armageddon, firmly believe that the title of antichrist maintains its fear factor and that those signs and warnings of the beast as prophesied in the book of revelation should be seriously heeded. m delving deeper crim, keith, gen. ed. the perennial dictionary of world religions. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1989. lindsey, hal, with c. c. carlson. the late great planet earth. new york: bantam books, 1978. mcginn, bernard. antichrist: two thousand years of the human fascination with evil. san francisco: harpersan

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eeted by a long, drawn-out cry and what sounded like a stampede of hoofed creatures running from the first floor passage. there came a noise similar to that of heavy boxes being moved, and the door to maurice s room began to shake as if something demanded entrance. the rites of exorcism reached their climax at 11:15 on the night of january 29. from the stairway came a piercing cry, like that of a beast that had been dealt its deathblow. a flurry of rappings began to rain on the door of the green room. at 12:55, the startled inhabitants of calvados castle heard the voice of a man in the first-floor passage. m. de x. recorded in his journal that it seemed to cry ha! ha, and immediately there were 10 resounding blows, shaking everything all around. a final blow struck the door of the green ro

ons, told of three such demons, giant people of the forest and mountains, who were stoned to death after being displayed in chains for several days. in his chronicles, abbot ralph of coggeshall abbey, essex, england, wrote of a strange monster whose charred body had been found after a lightning storm on the night of st. john the baptist in june 1205. he stated that a terrible stench came from the beast with monstrous limbs. villagers of the caucasus mountains have legends of an apelike wildman going back for centuries. the same may be said of the tibetans living on the slopes of mt. everest and the native american tribes inhabiting the northwestern united states. the gilyaks, a remote tribe of siberian native people, claim that there are animals inhabiting the frozen forests of siberia tha

york: dell books, 2000. sanderson, ivan t. abominable snowmen: legend come to life. philadelphia: chilton, 1961. bigfoot reports of a large apelike creature in the united states and the canadian provinces are to be found in the oral traditions of native tribes, the journals of early settlers, and accounts in regional frontier newspapers, but wide public attention was not called to the mysterious beast until the late 1950s when roadbuilding crews in the unmapped wilderness of the bluff creek area north of eurka, california, began to report a large number of sightings of north america s own abominable snowman. once stories of giant humanlike monsters tossing around construction crews small machinery and oil drums began hitting the wire services, hunters, hikers, and campers came forward wit

and legends of the native people. perhaps the most remarkable and most thoroughly documented account of a sasquatch from those early days in canada occurred in 1884 and was recorded in the daily british colonist, july 4, 1884. in the immediate vicinity of number 4 tunnel, 20 miles from yale, british columbia, a group of railroad men captured a creature that could truly be called half-man and half-beast. the men called him jacko and described him as looking much like a gorilla, standing about four feet, seven inches and weighing 127 pounds. the only sound that issued from him was a kind of half-bark and half-growl. jacko was described as having long, black, strong hair and resembling a human being with the exception that his entire body, except his hands and feet, were covered with glossy h

growl. jacko was described as having long, black, strong hair and resembling a human being with the exception that his entire body, except his hands and feet, were covered with glossy hair about one inch long. his forearm was much longer than a man s forearm, and he possessed extraordinary strength. the man who became jacko s keeper, george telbury of yale, announced his intention to take the man-beast to london, england, to exhibit him. all traces of jacko vanished after the rash of news stories recounting the details of his capture. on october 20, 1967, near bluff creek, north of eureka, california, bigfoot hunters roger patterson and bob gimlin managed to shoot several feet of movie film of what appears to be a female bigfoot. with its glossy black hair shining in the bright sun, the bi

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ew its impetus from the release of psychic energy through sexual activity, including homosexuality and other practices that earned for crowley the distinction of being named one of the most sinister figures of modern times. in his day, and for some time afterward, the name of aleister crowley was almost synonymous with evil. crowley fs own mother, a fundamentalist christian, dubbed him gthe great beast 666, h a diabolical image drawn from the book of revelation. in cairo, egypt, in 1904 a being that called itself gaiwass h suddenly took possession of crowley fs wife after she had uttered something to the effect that gthey h wished to communicate with him. at the time, they were standing before the stele of revealing in the cairo museum. there followed three days of dictation by aiwass to c

to an old graeco-egyptian text and performed the rite of liber samekh, celebrating sexual release and the passage of the spirit from a lower level of consciousness to a higher one. crowley added his own contributions to the original gnostic text, some of which were ghigh supernatural black magic h and gintercourse with the demon. h according to crowley the ritual was the one to be employed by the beast 666 for the attainment of knowledge and conversation with his holy guardian angel. in the black arts (1968) richard cavendish comments on the liber samekh: gto know the angel and have intercourse with the demon. means to summon up and liberate the forces of the magician fs unconscious. the performance of the ritual is accompanied by cthe mounting frenzy with which the barbarous names of powe

hemy. the deaths of several persons as the results of mysterious explosions were connected with this practice; but if a crowley cult ever existed, it had all but vanished within a few years after his death. m delving deeper aleister crowley foundation [online] http//www. thelemicgoldendawn.org/acf/acfl.htm. cavendish, richard. the black arts. new york: capricorn books, 1968. mannix, daniel p. the beast. new york: ballantine books, 1959. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d magic and sorcery 63 aleister crowley in 1934 (ap/wide world photos) aleister crowley was dubbed gthe great beast 666. h rhodes, h. t. f. the satanic mass. london: arrow books, 1965. john dee (1527.1608) although dr. john dee fs reputation as a black magician may be un

spear of destiny stands again in the hapsburg treasure house museum in vienna. m delving deeper anderson, ken. hitler and the occult. amherst, n.y: prometheus books, 1995. angebert, jean-michel. the occult and the third reich. new york: macmillan publishing, 1974. ravenscroft, trevor. spear of destiny. new york: red wheel/weiser, 1987. ravenscroft, trevor, and tim wallace-murphy. the mark of the beast: the continuing story of the spear of destiny. new york: red wheel/weiser, 1997. sklar, dusty. the nazis and the occult. new york: dorset press, 1989. swastikas the swastika has an evil association in the twentieth century, but it has a long, rich positive history, for the meaning of the word svastika in sanskrit means ggood fortune h or gwellbeing. h swastikas were the symbol of the supreme

oads were built to criss-cross the entire empire, running through valleys and along the sides of mountains. the incas never developed the wheel, but the roads provided the means to move large amounts of stone and goods used to build and sustain great cities. trained runners were used to communicate messages throughout the empire. the inca cultivated maize and potatoes, domesticated the llama as a beast of burden, crafted boats of balsa wood to travel on rivers and streams, and built suspension bridges of rope, among their many accomplishments. the empire was primarily expanded by three emperors, pachacuti inca yupanqui and his descendants topa inca yapanqui (ruled 1438.1471) and huayna capac (ruled 1493.1525. the latter fs sudden death in 1525 came before he named a successor, and the nati

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11own and the christian priest, who also wore special vestments when performing religious ceremonies. thisalteration of costume is specially noted by de lancre,[24 "it is always observable that at any time when he isabout to receive anyone to make a pact with him, he presents himself always as a man, in order not to scare orterrify them; for to make a compact openly with a goat smacks more of the beast than of a reasonablecreature. but the compact being made, when he receives anyone for adoration he usually represents himselfas a goat".the evidence that the devil appeared as a man to a possible convert is found continually, and it is veryobvious that he was actually a human being. thus in 1678[25] the devil appeared as a man to mr.williamson, a school-master at coupar; he gave mr. williams

s are made of flint and are found on open heaths and downs where the fairypeople dwelt. they are now known to be of the bronze-age. they are so small and slight that they couldhave been used only with a small and light bow, such as that carried by the masked dancer of the palaeolithictimes (plate ii. a little light weapon of this kind could have been of little value against a human enemy or awild beast, the arrow could inflict hardly more than a flesh wound. the recorded method of using thearrow-heads, and one quite as ineffective as the little bow, was to spang them with the thumb as boys shoot amarble. yet to be shot with an elfbolt meant death or at least severe illness, usually paralysis. the only theorywhich explains the terror in which this puny weapon was held is that it was poisone

counts for the numerous cases of men and women of goodand kindly lives, whose so-called witchcraft was practised for the benefit of others, yet they wereremorselessly hunted down and put to death. joan of arc at one end of the series and the salem witches at theother died for their faith, not for their acts. bodin[4] goes so far as to say "even if the witch has never killedor done evil to man, or beast, or fruits, and even if he has always cured bewitched people, or driven awaytempests, it is because he has renounced god and treated with satan that he deserves to be burned alive. andhe goes on,[5 "even if there is no more than the obligation to the devil, having denied god, this deserves themost cruel death that can be imagined".the number in a coven never varied, there were always thirtee

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o absorb and to radiate turn by turn. our heart loves contrasts, and there are few women who have loved two men of genius in succession. one finds peace through the protection which one's own weariness of admiration gives; it is the law of equilibrium; but sometimes even sublime natures are surprised in caprices of vulgarity. man, said the abbe gerbert, is the shadow of 246 a god in the body of a beast; there are in him the friends of the angel and the flatterers of the animal. the angel attracts us; but if we are not on our guard, it is the beast that carries us away: it will even drag us fatally with it when it is a question of beastliness; that is to say, of the satisfactions of that life the nourisher of death, which, in the language of beasts is called "real life" in religion, the gos

hose alleged to have been in the keeping of cagliostro. in short, we are going to speak the last word of magic. chapter i of transformation- the wand of circe- the bath of medea- magic overcome by its own weapons- the great arcanum of the jesuits and the secret of their power. the bible tells us that king nebuchadnezzar, at the highest point of his power and his pride, was suddenly changed into a beast. he fled into savage places, began to eat grass, let his beard and hair grow, as well as his nails, and remained in this state for seven years. in our "dogme et rituel de la haute magie" we have said what we think of the mysteries of lycanthropy, or the metamorphosis of men into werewolves. everyone knows the fable of circe and understands its allegory. 270 the fatal ascendant of one person

because his son has returned. what can he do? tears and embarrassment, no doubt! but above all joy! there is only one sad thing in the world, and that is sin and folly. since we are delivered, let us laugh and shout for joy, for we are saved, and all those who loved us in their lives rejoice in heaven! we all bear within ourselves a principle of death and a principle of immortality. death is the beast, and the beast produces always bestial stupidity. god does not love fools, for his divine spirit is called the spirit of intelligence. stupidity expiates itself by suffering and slavery. the stick is made for beasts. suffering is always a warning. so much the worse for him who does not understand it! when nature tightens the rein, it is that we are swerving; when she plies the whip, it is th

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

energies is indeed a powerful tool aimed at those working in the initiatory aspect of self-deification, yet it is as equally as dangerous. this grimoire is a personal record of its author, akhyta seker arimanius, and a manual of how one may in a balanced manner, work with the shades of the dead. featured in nox umbra is the cultus of akhtya, the persian path of sorcery in relation to ahriman, the beast dragon of darkness. this entails vampyric dream shape-shifting, vampyric self-transformation (without the use of blood or predatory workings, servitor creation and egyptian god forms. explored equally is the goddess archetype in relation to vampyrism, including the methods and process of evoking and summoning forth lilith, the lilitu (succubi) for dreaming congress. nox umbra brings to light

ssibilities of being. the sorcerer thus begins to adopt the god form of shaitan to master the spirits and djinn of the self all of those elements which command mastery of the self. night is the in-between point which later unveils the light, therefore being a barrier and initiation aspect of the self and such conceptual matter. the numerical 666, described by aleister crowley is the number of the beast3, which is inherent in the sun in the zodiac. the sun is also associated with the adversarial triad, being shaitan (set) typhon, apophras (apep) and besz, a god of transformation. the devil as an initiatory force is considered masculine, thus is represented by the phallus or source of creative life. in the tarot, the devil is attributed to capricornus, and the hebrew letter ayin, being an ey

o ahriman, who created azi-dahaka, called zohak the king made daemon! who by dreams shall guide me into the dire mansion of shades and thorn covered thrones! ohrmazd sought to free all limitations, yet space could not recount ahriman. it was shadow and darkness, nourished in the abyss, with the violet light of the black sun, called al ghul, the point of all hunger known as az, the crowning of the beast. this night, as candle burns and my vessel of darkness is prepared, shall i go forth to the gathering of our spirits thou yatus and wondering demon kin of mine. druj, descend, i shall become as dragon of flesh and seed, fire, smoke and soul. come forth now! so it is done further reading- yatuk dinoih (second edition) the book of cain the toad rite nox umbra azothoz 22 coven maleficia this wo

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rgy. obviously, these aspects are counterbalanced by those of chesed "loving kindness" or "mercy, on the opposite side of the tree, across the path marked by the "strength" card of the tarot. indeed, that card can be taken to depict the harmonised relationship between geburah, symbolised by the red lion, and chesed, symbolised by the peaceful lady, whose own demeanour in sufficient to placate the beast. it should be noted that geburah is passive to chesed, and that as dion fortune states, many of the social and psychological problems we face can be modelled by our constant functioning, inappropriately, with an active geburah. that is to say, we shoot first and ask questions later, or allow our fear to drive us rather than our urges to creativity. obviously, if chesed were not constrained b

isted in crowley's "777, were created to equal numbers which are produced by simply adding cumulatively, i.e. 1, 1+2=3, 1+2+3=6, 1+2+3+4=10 and so forth; kether 1 value of aleph chockmah 3 ab (father, source) binah 6 gg (covering of altar; ha (existence, airhole) chesed 10 bdd (to be secluded; dah (to fly, soar) geburah 15 gzh (shearing, fleece) tiphareth 21 vdai (certainty) netzach 28 hchih (the beast) hod 36 ichidh (oneness) yesod 45 lvt (covering, veil) malkuth 55 klh (bride, dvmh (stillness, realm of death) chapter sixteen; the twenty-two paths dion fortune states that "it is the sephiroth alone that represent natural forces; the paths are states of consciousness. the sephiroth are objective and the paths are subjective" kabbalah does differentiate between the essential nature of the s

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f aleister crowley read the front page of the sunday express. it concerned testimony by one of the notorious magician's former followers (or, actually, the wife of one of his followers) that crowley had been responsible for the death of her husband, at the abbey of thelema, in cefalu, sicily. the bad press, plus the imagined threat of secret societies, finally forced mussolini to deport the great beast from italy. tales of horrors filled the pages of the newspapers in england for weeks and months to come: satanic rituals, black masses, animal sacrifice, and even human sacrifice, were reported- or blatantly lied about. for although many of the stories were simply not true or fanciful exaggeration, one thing was certain: aleister crowley was a magician, and one of the first order. born on oc

aleister crowley was a magician, and one of the first order. born on october 12, 1875, in england- in the same country as shakespeare- edward alexander crowley grew up in a strict fundamentalist religious family, members of a sect called the "plymouth brethren. the first person to call him by that name and number by which he would become famous (after the reference in the book of revelation "the beast 666, was his mother, and he eventually took this appellation to heart. he changed his name to aleister crowley while still at cambridge, and by that name, plus "666, he would never be long out of print, or out of newspapers. for he believed himself to be the incarnation of a god, an ancient one, the vehicle of a new age of man's history, the aeon of horus, displacing the old age of osiris. i

s life was spent trying to understand it fully, and to make its message known to the world. it, too, contains the formulae necessary to summon the invisible into visibility, and the secrets of transformations are hidden within its pages, but this is crowley's own necronomicon, received in the middle east in the shadow of the great pyramid of gizeh, and therein is writ not only the beauty, but the beast that yet awaits mankind. it would be vain to attempt to deliver a synopsis of crowley's philosophy, save that its 'leitmotif' is the rabelaisian do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. the actual meaning of this phrase has taken volumes to explain, but roughly it concerns the uniting of the conscious self, a process of individuation which culminates in a rite called "knowledge and c

ctory can be declared. demons, vampires, psychic leeches, ghastly forms accost the aspiring magician from every angle, from every quarter around the circumference of the magick circle, and they must be destroyed lest they devour the magician himself. when crowley professed to have passed the obstacles, and crossed the abyss of knowledge, and found his true self, he found it was identical with the beast of the book of revelation, 666, whom christianity considers to represent the devil. indeed, crowley had nothing but admiration for the shaitan (satan) of the so-called "devil-worshipping" cult of the yezidis of mesopotamia, knowledge of which led him to declare the lines that open this introduction. for he saw that the yezidis possess a great secret and a great tradition that extends far bac

brought up under similar circumstances- although ver far removed in time from the days of the church's immense temporal power. coming from a fanatically religious christian family, and suddenly freed upon the neighbourhood of cambridge, crowley did, in a sense, turn satanist. he identified strongly with the underdog, politically as well as spiritually, and came eventually to take the name of the beast as his own, and expound a philosophy that he hoped would rip apart the worn tapestry of the established moral christian atmosphere of victorian england, and expose it for what it really was, a carpet made of many ingenious threads and not god- or eternal happiness- at all; only nap. therefore, it seemed almost logical that he should seek in the defeated, old religions of the world for the ba

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in wanting to resemble him and attain his degree. the will to receive is essentially the desire of the creature to enjoy, corresponding to the abundance and pleasure that come from the creator. we feel that will to receive and the creator wants us to enjoy it. if we feel an abstract will to receive, it is not a creature, it is nature, god. if it works according to nature s guidance, it is like a beast that hasn t even a spark of a godly soul. only if we have an aim clothing our will to receive that tells us how to use it correctly, can we regard ourselves as creatures, created intentionally by the creator, and not just another rock, an animal or a bird. but that depends on us. our desires to drink, eat, sleep, marry and have children, all those are natural and come from the creator. we ca

of man, in order to help him acquire equivalence of form with the creator, which he lacks by nature of creation. in the beginning, successive worlds and degrees went through a progressive process of restrictions and developments, up until our own material world, in order come to a body of this world, which is a desire only to receive and not to bestow. on this degree a man is like an animal or a beast, which is the complete desire to receive, denied of any bestowal. in such a state man is the complete opposite to the creator, of which there is no greater separation. if a person studies kabbalah, he invokes the surrounding light to illuminate upon him from afar. this light is found outside of the vessel (the person's will) and waits until man fixes his vessel and shapes it into a form of b

the conditions to correct the body-desire. in the end, that will result in the beginning of the process of correction, which will end in attaining the level of the soul-light, when there will not be a difference between the body and the soul, or between man s desire and the creator s. the end of this process is when the body-desire declines even lower, until finally it declines to the level of a beast (animate degree. this is all preordained in the breaking of the vessels in the world of nekudim, but since the corrected state is also preordained even before the breaking of the vessels, every desire will be reconstructed to resemble the light, and the more identical it is to the light, the more light will enter it. during the six thousand years, meaning before the souls complete their corr

change at the end of correction; it will be the same universe, with the same stars, the same birds and the same trees. but our consciousness will change! our perception of the surrounding reality will change because we will be different inside. nothing else needs to change, only continue naturally, guided by the creator. the only difference will be that man will become a real man, instead of the beast he is today. that can be attained by studying in a special group, with the right books and guided by a rabbi, meaning a real spiritual guide. it is written that the better the students understand what it is he is required to do, the closer he bring himself and the group to perfection. that is what baal hasulam writes about; he describes before us how we should be in our corrected state. firs

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creatures which dwell upon it. araqiel communicates the wisdom of a balanced mind to work according to his or her own design. by dream and by waking do we hear the voice of araqiel. sariel knows the motions and phases of the moon, and by seeking him one may know the path of the goddess in her beautiful and horrifying aspects. always know, we are both demon and angel in the skull of man, we are of beast and of higher spirit. it is our duty to balance and seek a perfection of both according to the path of lucifer, who holds the mask of the devil. know all forms and choices accordingly. kokabel knows too the stars and the great seven heads of the dragon. by your initiation seek him in that which is brought by trance and dreaming dominion. seek azazel at times within the dragon by chant and de

in all quarters. let my awakening invoke cain! by the waters of the abyss shall i sink deep and drink of the passions of the subconscious. by the south west emerging from the waters of the abyss does akibeel empower you to emerge from the oceans with the knowledge granted to you. listen to the waters in both storm and silence, there is much to hear in their waves .come forth from the oceans as a beast and ignite again your soul in the life giving flame of azazel! hold thy blade towards the sun and transform again! become in this light! o spirit of angelick watchers, my wards and guardians of the circle of being do hear my call .as i stand in the leviathanic circle does my flesh become reborn in the linage of witchblood, of cain and naamah, of samael and lilith! open now the secret ways of

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emble; in my veins there swims a torrid ecstasy of madness. ah! ah, god! i kiss you, kiss you! o you faint! sweetheart, my passion overwhelms your soul! your virginal sweet spirit cannot reach my fury c *the mother fs tragedy, vol. i, p. 159. thus in the intoxication of his desire he raves, in her silence he sees her affection, and in the terror of her eyes her love. cora is horror-stricken: gyou beast! h gyou fool! h gi am defiled. h he stands dazed and wondering. then in the following pages she tells him: gi am the mother of thy bastard birth h; he prays, he threatens, and shrieking hurls insult on insult at her: me, the sole pledge of your debaucheries, you keep. your love, the mere maternity you share with swine and cattle! c. i love you still with carnal love and spiritual love! and i

nce. true mutilators of corpses. ulric in gthe mother fs tragedy, h tells cora that gexcess is danger, equally in prayer c as in debauchery. h*1. and this the howling mob of religionists can never grasp. we know of the spots in the agapae, and we know to what they referred: out! out! the ghastly torches of the feast! let darkness hide us and the night discover the shameless mysteries of god grown beast, the nameless blasphemy, the slimed east. sin incarnated with a leprous lover!*2 *1. the mother fs tragedy, vol. i, p. 163 *2. the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 168. whilst these are seeking the hmonstrous desires of secret things, h*1. others are ranting about athiest death-bed scenes. for these crowley also has a word: goh, very well! h i think you say, gwait only till your dying da

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

much continues in this latent form beyond this time. austin spare's work with atavistic resurgence has proved well linked with the zos kia cultus. atavisms are a resurgence of characteristics which have elapsed many generations. it is also possible to connect with pre-human embodiments through such elementals. atavisms exist in the deepest recesses of the mind and often are characterized as half beast, half man. such creatures do not emerge spontaneously; however can be invoked through several methods of automatic "shamanism" and focus pathworkings. an article by kenneth grant published in cavendish's "man, myth and magic" further delves into examples of aos and his magickial abilities "spare's 'formula of atavistic resurgence' was based on the use of symbolic pictures, which gave a visib

turned to nectar. do not restrain in your rites, release your desire as in flesh! the vampires are coming perhaps the most famous aos art piece. this work has played a strong part of inspiration in the formulation of the luciferian gnosis, not only with the vision of toph but the botd as well. the face is the independent genius, the spirit which rises from flesh, the angelick daemon which is both beast and spirit, the independent consciousness which goes forth to the luciferian/celestial sabbat. the sleeping offer their veins to the mouths of the black adept, who then drinks in turn from the wound of lilith az, the fountain of trshna, or thirst, the very graal of the devil. the ophidian oracle the black (lilith az) and the red (samael) snake are the dual knowledge of kundalini, both repres

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

ometh the eating of meats and drinks; and by it strength is produced, for in food is the foundation of strength. the seventh is the power of procreation and sexual intercourse, with which through love of pleasure sins enter in. wherefore it is the last in order of creation, and the first in that of youth, because it is filled with ignorance, and leadeth the youth as a blind man to a pit, and as a beast to a precipice -the testaments of the twelve patriarchs the septuagint follows a specific hebraic consideration that belial, being beli ol is the one who has thrown off the yoke of heaven and is thus without a master. the luciferian finds connections in the path of history and mythology and seeks to make them work for he or she in the modern world. the spirit of belial is of the mastery of t

f the adversary and luciferian practice, something which requires more discipline to work with in terms of initiation as it requires balance and the application of reason to achieve magical results. one may consider the demon of the void mentioned in john dee s diaries who is called coronzom, known by modern enochian and thelemic students as choronzon. this demon is considered a madness inspiring beast, causing fragmentation of the mind and the loss of mental vitality. choronzon in the black temple rites of the characith lunar lodge, from which the author was personally involved in the late 1990 s draw on the energies of choronzon as a vampire spirit, being something which may be encircled and used as a means of draining the energy or chi of another through ritual sorcery. some dogmatic ma

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

ok 6: wisdom of the sages offered online by joseph peterson@ www. avesta. org the history of zoroastrianism by m.n. dhalla further reading: luciferian witchcraft by michael w. ford isbn 1411626389 the home publisher of luciferian witchcraft is here: http//www.lulu.com/content/112297 "this is the revealed grimoire of the left-hand path. there is power for those willing to drink from the cup of the beast and his bride, the devil's harlot. herein is the path as walked by one who seeks to reveal the true path of ahriman and lilith-az, to manifest in flesh the spirit of azi dahaka and cain. herein is magick from the foundation to higher pathworkings of sorcery and black magick. here the works which burn away the modern white-washing of so-called magick and or witchcraft. herein are the rituals

THE BINDING OF SHADOWS

of ngangas involves the use of human and animal bones-called a fetish spirit- your blood, sigil, grave soil and snake skin. this nganga will contain active fetish spirits related to the dead. you will use items of the dead which may bring shades or manes of the dead which will allow you to form from your own desire demon servitors of protection. one may fuse animal remains with human to form half beast elementals, or shades that prove useful in defense. do not allow conversation of any kind with such created servitors, for that is the road of insanity. command and will and allow no argument or discussion with such spirits. facing the nganga on the altar, take gravesoil and toss a small amount in the nganga. take then the vial of blood (of your own blood, nothing else) and pour a small amou

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

copyrights to the o.t.o. germer did not have grosche s movement in mind. in an action held in the german courts some years ago grosche failed to establish his claim to be the chief of a section of the authentic o.t.o. eugen grosche was on friendly terms with kenneth grant whose claim to be outer head of the order has been made on the dustjackets of crowley s confessions, the magical record of the beast 666, and kenneth grant s own, the magical revival. nevertheless germer expelled kenneth grant from the o.t.o. on july 20, 1955. an account of this expulsion is given in rites of modern occult magic by francis king and i can confirm that this account is correct. i have in my possession a signed copy of one of the duplicate copies of the notice of expulsion sent out by germer. it is clear then

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

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

l) g.c (within triangle. anoints crown of c. s head) file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c8.html (5 of 13 [12/28/2001 2:05:02 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. in the name of nuit and of babalon and of isis (anoints centre of forehead) in the name of hadit and of chaos and of apophis (anoints ball of thumb) in the name of ra-hoor-khuit and of the beast and of on and by the authority of the g(rand) m(aster) b(aphomet) and by virtue of the powers vested in my person, i create thee, now and for ever, a knight templar of the order of kadosch and a companion of the holy grail. iao sabao (gives the accolade on b- c- a-s saltire) all: iao sabao! g.c: you will now retire without the portal of the temple, there to be invested with the insignia of y

the path of the serpent (knight leads deosil. at each outward curve, new knight and all sweep down and out with thumb. they go round 7 times) g.c: unveil the graal (all sheathe swords. c.b. takes cup, drinks and offers to g.c. each, as he drinks says: 1. to the glory of nuit who is babalon who is isis. 2. to the glory of hadit who is chaos who is apophis. 3. to the glory of hoor khuit who is the beast who is on. 4. to the glory of our first master three in one sol-om-on! file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c8.html (9 of 13 [12/28/2001 2:05:02 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. 5. to the glory of our master jacobus burgundus molensis. 6. to the glory of the o.h.o. 7. to the glory of the grand master baphomet. the 7 libations being accomplis

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

bundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and god saw that [it was] good. 1:22 and god blessed them, saying, be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 1:23 and the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 1:24 and god said, let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 1:25 and god made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and god saw that [it was] good. 1:26 and god said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle

, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 1:29 and god said, behold, i have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 1:30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein [there is] life [i have given] every green herb for meat: and it was so. 1:31 and god saw every thing that he had made, and, behold [it was] very good. and the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 2:1 thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2:2 and on th

e lord god commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. 2:18 and the lord god said [it is] not good that the man should be alone; i will make him an help meet for him. 2:19 and out of the ground the lord god formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever adam called every living creature, that [was] genesis page 2 the name thereof. 2:20 and adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for adam there was not found an help meet for him. 2:21 and the lord god caused a deep sleep

ught her unto the man. 2:23 and adam said, this [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. 2:24 therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 2:25 and they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. 3:1 now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the lord god had made. and he said unto the woman, yea, hath god said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 3:2 and the woman said unto the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3:3 but of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, god hath said, ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 3:4 and the se

t thou shouldest not eat? 3:12 and the man said, the woman whom thou gavest [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and i did eat. 3:13 and the lord god said unto the woman, what [is] this [that] thou hast done? and the woman said, the serpent beguiled me, and i did eat. 3:14 and the lord god said unto the serpent, because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 3:15 and i will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. 3:16 unto the woman he said, i will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire [shall be]

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

religious system, it is not that of medieval witchcraft, but the twentieth century madness or sanity or both of the infamous magus aleister crowley and the thelemic/gnostic creed of the book of the law. as i sat there i read aloud familiar quotations or paraphrases from published material in the crowley-thelemic canon. this is not the "ancient religion of the wise" but the modern sayings of" the beast 666" as crowley was wont to style himself. but, does any of this invalidate wicca as an expression of human spirituality? it depends on where one is coming from. certainly, the foundations of feminist wicca and the modern cult of the goddess are challenged with the fact that the goddess in question may be nuit, her manifestation the sworn whore, our lady babalon, the scarlet woman. transform

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

ntioned before,1 or because they were fond of figs. most of these latin synonyms are given in the anglo-saxon vocabulary of alfric, and are interpreted as meaning evil men, spirits of the woods, evil beings. 2 one of the old commentators on the scriptures describes these spirits of the woods as monsters in the semblance of men, whose form begins with the human shape and ends in the extremity of a beast. 3 they were, in fact, half man, half goat, and were identical with a class of hobgoblins, who at a rather later period were well known in england by the popular name of robin goodfellows, whose priapic character is sufficiently proved by the pictures of them attached to some of our early printed ballads, of which we give facsimiles. the first4 is a figure of robin goodfellow, which forms th

and the she-devil for their mother. this witness described the making and sale of poisons. she said that she had seen at the sabbath a notary, whose name she gave, whose business it was to denounce those who failed in attendance. when on their way to the sabbath, however hard it might rain, they were never wet, provided they uttered the words, haut la coude, quillet, because then the tail of the beast on which they were mounted covered them so well that they were sheltered from the rain. when they had to make a long journey they said these words: pic suber hoeilhe, en ta la lane de bouc bien m arrecoueille. a man seventy-three years of age, named petri daguerre, was brought before de lancre and his fellow commissioners at ustarits; two witnesses asserted that he held the office of master

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

texts of magic, which are called grimoires (a french word meaning "grammarsv-in other words, the copy books of occult students, were penned by medieval europeans. it is necessary to understand their ignorance of physical facts now taken for granted. vast stretches of ocean were then uncharted. the very shape of the world was in doubt. when sailors came back with wild tales of a great armor-plated beast with a single horn on its nose or of a race of black men with their faces located in their stomachs, the listener had no way of knowing that one tale was true and the other false. the notion of gnomes would not have seemed improbable to the writers of the grimoires. they had no reason to dispute the many reports of their sightings by miners all over europe. the idea that the mountains were o

e thought to have separated at the time of the cre- ation of the universe from the four dimensions we know as the space-time contin- uum, and to have shrunk down into a tiny ball centimeters in size (if the mathematical point can ever be said to have a measurable size, this may be it. thus, the letters of ihvh correspond to the number of dimensions in time-space table of decagram c 8 color symbol beast i sephiroth names of cod archangels order of angels heaven clear point phoenix kether eheieh metatraon chaioth haqadesh north star zodiac 0 chokrnah daath binah yah ratziel auphanirn tint line dragon yellow swastika gryphon shade triangle mare ihvh("elohim) el elohim gibor ihvh("adonai) ihvh tzabaoth("adonai tzabaoth) elohim tzabaoth shaddai (or el chai) adonai malekh (or adonai ha-aretz) tz

sts of the zodiac did not arise from contemplation of the night sky, but were projected onto the star patterns by ancient chaldean philosophers who discerned in humanity and in table of dodecagram sign aries taurus gemini cancer leo virgo libra scorpio sagittarius capricorn aquarius pisces element and motion form wild tame artist land-water wild priest lawyer land warrior tame laborer water level beast beast man creature beast man man creature man beast man creature color key i red red-purple purple blue-purple blue blue-green green yellow-green yellow yellow-orange orange red-orange being having thinking feeling commanding considering 1 weighing desiring perceiving using knowing serving nature the qualities represented by the zodiac. these twelve signs originally repre- sented various god

narrow way. vi. the lovers tempt by night and day. vii. the chariot conquers with iron mind. viii. the balance weighs and pays in kind. ix. the hermit lights the right-hand path. x. the wheel turns, the gods laugh. xi. the strength of faith shuts savage jaws. xii. the martyr bows to heaven's laws. xiii. the reaper frees the souls from earth. xiv. the alchemist blends and finds true worth. xv. the beast tests with earthly blow. xvi. the tower falls if built for show. xvii. the star gives hope of things to be. xviii. the moon warns of the dangerous sea. xix. the sun warms the world with joy. xx. the trumpet wakes the sleeping boy. xxi. the world combines the all in one. the fool's road ends where it's begun. the numbering of the cards presented in the above rhyme is that of the mar- seilles

f warding off evil. it is formed of a clockwise whirling cross that is usu- ally pictured as about six feet in diameter, but its size can be increased or decreased at will; and the shield can be sent forward to any distance to form a psychic barrier between the magus and his or her foe. no evil intention can break the plane of the shield. when powerfully projected, the shield will stop a charging beast in its tracks. like the sword it must be consciously extended, but can be formed or retracted at a moment's notice. its color is yellow, its element air, and its motion vibratory. the armor is formed around the entire body out of the limit, or edge, of the per- ceived self, which is usually called the aura. the mystical aura is an imaginary egg that extends around the body at approximately a

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

flight 5 knob. circling her waist she wore a girdle of touch-wood, and attached to it a great skin pouch, in which she kept the charms which she used when she was practicing her sorcery. she wore upon her feet shaggy calfskin shoes, with long, tough latchets, upon the ends of which there were large brass buttons. she had catskin gloves upon her hands, which were white inside and lined with fur.2 beast and spirit relations in :soul flight, the shaman is able to assume at will the shape of a beast such as a wolf, a bea.r, or an eagle, in order to more swiftly progress to his destination. the animal forms selected are those of beasts who have a magical relationship with the shaman or his tribe, and are believed by the shaman to be linked to him by ties of blood; a shaman might take on the fo

they entered and sat down at one of seven tables next to the devil, who was referred to as "grandfather" by siri's grandmother. this child's accusation of witchcraft came to nothing, and it was dismissed by the bishop who reviewed it. it contains a number of interesting details. the flying ointment was kept in a horn, which because of its crescent shape is symbolic of the moon. the sow is a lunar beast. it was the sow that was smeared with the ointment, but the girl and her grandmother straddled it, bringing their sexual parts into contact with the ointment. the mention of a pigsty recalls an incident related by bartholomaeus de spina, who in his tractatus de strigibus sive malijicis told of a notary from lugano who missed his wife w.hen he arose one morning and went searching for her arou

lf. when a human being of a particularly brutal and cruel nature, who has some knowledge of the occult, manages to project his astral body, it may be seized upon by "other astral entities" 99. blavatsky, secret doctrine, vol. 2, p. 636. 100. leadbeater, astral plane, 59. 86 soul flight the nature of which leadbeater does not describe. these transform the astral body of the traveler into that of a beast such as a wolf, and materialize it to such a degree that it is able to roam the countryside, hunting and killing livestock and human beings for the purpose of satisfying not only its own craving for fresh blood, but also the craving of the entities that materialized it. a wound inflicted upon the materialized astral body in animal form will be reflected on to the living physical body of the

use a ritual structure as a support for their soul flights. as we have seen, for the shamans of siberia it often involved ascending the trunk of the world tree that is the living axis of the universe in a series of levels, represented physically by notches cut into the trunk of whatever tree or pole was used to embody the world tree. a shaman may also mimic the movements and sounds of the totemic beast that carries his astral body away from his physical body, as a way of becoming one with the beast. in these and other ways, he pantomimes the initialization of soul flight, but the actual journey is done while he lies in a state of trance, motionless and insensible. drumming, chanting, dancing, and the piping of flutes or whistling sounds made with the lips may also be a part of the separati

ng the motion of the moon, having in it the figure of the moon which daily increaseth, or decreaseth as doth the moon. also pearls, which are generated in shells of fishes from the droppings of water, also the agrippa included among lunar plants hyssop, rosemary, the palm tree, and the olive tree. among animals he mentioned the dog, chameleon, pig, deer, goat, panther, otter, baboon, cat, and any beast with horns that curve inward, such as the cow. water fowl are also lunar in nature, as are mice, flies, beetles, and any creature that breeds in the mud. sea animals particularly lunar in nature are the tortoise, crab, oyster, clam, and frog. he particularly 185. agrippa, 80. chapter eleven: astral doorways 183 singled out menstrual blood as the most lunar of substances. he mentioned a numbe

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

his popular books on magic wrestling with the meaning of tetragrammaton. the speculations of these and many other occult writers have been collected together for the first time in appendix b. it is fascinating to compare the words of levi with those of papus; of s.l. macgregor mathers, the leader of the golden dawn, with those of aleister crowley, his former student and the self-proclaimed great beast of the apocalypse; of helena p. blavatsky, the leader of the theosophists, with paul foster case, the founder of builders of the adytum; of p.d. ouspensky, the disillusioned former pupil of the mystic gurdjieff, with frater achad, a rebellious student of crowley. even in modern times, tetragrammaton continues to exert a powerful fascination over magicians working in the western tradition of

which was received psychically from spirits by the elizabethan philosopher john dee and his seer, the alchemist edward kelley, is almost unpronounceable unless it is voiced letter by letter. when enochian was adopted into the golden dawn as a magical alphabet and language suitable for vibrating words of power, this letter by letter method of speaking it was adopted and was carried on by the great beast, aleister crowley, in his own system of magic. the golden dawn also vibrated tetragrammaton letter by letter. the technique of golden dawn vibration of words and names is one of the most useful magical legacies of that victorian occult order. it is set forth briefly, but quite clearly, in israel regardie's golden dawn (llewellyn, 1989, p. 487. for those who do not own this book i will descri

hey had on their heads crowns of gold. and out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thundering a nd voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of god. and before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto a crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts, full of eyes before and behind. and the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. and the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, holy, holy, holy, lord god almighty, which was, and is, and is to come (rev. 4:2-8) in this text, the manifest and occult

s seated about the throne of christ, but also as the twenty-four wings of the four beasts. the elders are the actual banners of the name. they must be seated in pairs, because every banner has two forms that appear the same but are distinguished by the placement of the first h and second h. these two sets of banners correspond to the twelve hours of the day and the twelve hours of the night. each beast has three pairs of wings. each pair represents the two angels associated with a particular banner, an angel of mercy on the right who protects and rewards and an angel of severity on the left who administers judgments. since the four beasts stand for the elements fire, air, water, and earth, it is clear that six angels of tetragrammaton administer to each element, three the hieroglyphic mona

lay bound in vast iron chains that were fastened to the roots of the abyss. solomon would put his seal ring into the mouth of the eagle and hide under its left wing, and the power of the name upon the ring would force the dark angels to tell him all the secrets of supernal wisdom. in alchemy, a common image is the swallowing or devouring of the king (dominant conscious mind) by a dragon or other beast, representing the prima materia (unconscious mind. this brings about a state of nigredo (darkness) that eventually leads to the renewal and rebirth of the king (see carl jung, psychology and alchemy [princeton, 19801, p. 417. a distinction should probably be made between swallowing the ring and placing the ring in the mouth. in the first case, the occult virtues of the ring are taken hostage

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ PERFORM A RITUAL TOASTING

but we are the keepers of mystery and the administrators of the dark estate. uncle setnakt hopes you have a pleasant dcluncle setnakt sez- perform a ritual toasting don webb the spring is upon us. uncle setnakt's yard is yellow with daffodils and fragrant with hyacinths. uncles setnakt is in a generous mood and has decided to give you a seven-step ritual (in honor of the seven heads of the first beast, which must be performed exactly at midnight on the wednesday /thursday cusp or- of course anytime you feel like it. i'll round out my column with a couple of remarks about the rite (in honour of the two eyebrows- ahem horns of the second beast. this rite may be done alone or by a group. if by a group, each participant must take part in each round of toasts- no passing! 1. prepare your chamb

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

above consider that darkness also resides in the other human beings around you. if you can transmit some of that excitement and potential for awareness into others not only will you have made the world a more darkly resplendent place to live, but you will have opened up the world around you for more exciting potentials for your own growth. uncle setnakt hopes you have a pleasant d hunleashing the beast aleister crowley, tantra and sex magic in late victorian england hugh urban ohio state university if this secret [of sexual magic, which is a scientific secret, were perfectly understood, as it is not by me after more than twelve years' almost constant study and experiment, there would be nothing which the human imagination can conceive that could not be realized in practice- aleister crowle

while exploiting it as the secret- michel foucaultii aleister crowley stands out as one of those remarkably enigmatic characters who has had a tremendous impact on contemporary new religious movements, esotericism and occultism, even as he has been almost entirely ignored by academic scholarship. known in the popular press of as "the wickedest man in the world" and proclaiming himself the "great beast 666" crowley was the object of intense media scandal, moral outrage and titillating allure throughout his life. in the years since his death, he has become perhaps even more well-known as one of the most important influences on the modern revival of paganism, magic and witchcraft. yet despite his importance, crowley has been largely ignored by historians of religions. in most cases he has be

dawn.[t]he detestable mysteries of sex were transformed into joy and beauty. the obsession of sin fell from my shoulders into the sea of oblivion- the confessions of aleister crowleyxii the point about crowley is that he seems to contain all these sorts of ideas and identities indeed most of the vices of the twentieth century and he was dead at the end of 1947- snoo wilson, author of the play the beast xiii born in 1875, the son of a member of the highly puritanical plymouth brethren sect, edward alexander (aleister) crowley embodied some of the deepest tensions in late victorian society as a whole. a child raised in a strict christian home, he would later turn to the occult arts and extremes of sexual excess. a prolific poet as well as an accomplished mountain-climber, crowley would also

lped to tear down the false, hypocritical, self-righteous attitudes of the time. what is peculiar in crowley s case it not that he chose evil but that in his revolt against his parents and god he set himself up in god s place.xxvi and perhaps nowhere was crowley's simultaneous reflection of and revolt against the world in which he lived more apparent than in his volatile sexual life -144- ii. the beast with two backs: crowley in the context of late and post-victorian england it is sex. how wonderful sex can be, when men keep it powerful and sacred, and it fills the world! like sunshine through and through one- d.h. lawrence, the plumed serpentxxvii the society that emerged in the nineteenth century- the bourgeois capitalist or industrial society- did not confront sex with a fundamental ref

ly difficult for us now to realise."xlii increasingly, as the character kate remarked in d.h. lawrence plumed serpent, quoted above, sex was believed to harbor some deep, mysterious secret, the liberation of which was of tremendous, even sacred, power. it was precisely this awesome power that crowley would seek to tap into through his magical practices. it is in this sense that crowley "the great beast" might be said to have had two backs, as it were, turned both backward and forward. for he was, on the one hand, deeply rooted in the late victorian christian world, reflecting the obsessive concern with sexuality and sexual deviance in the late nineteenth century. yet like others of the post-victorian era, he would struggle heroically to break free of that world, setting out deliberately to

VOX SABBATUM

efore your actions. it is essential that the practitioner of the left hand path is able to master the path of inner black magick or what can be called high sorcery or magick before one undertakes lower forms. the true self must be sought, the desire and will within the self the imagination in controlled study and introspection. the congressus cum daemone will reveal your true nature, both often a beast and an angel. some view this as an exterior spirit, but rather more correctly it is an interior force; one which appears so strange at first to your level of consciousness you will find it easier to label it an exterior force. the definition of angel is a higher facility of man, it is intelligence and matured control, the very careful planning and stillness of being which is both energetic a

an exterior force. the definition of angel is a higher facility of man, it is intelligence and matured control, the very careful planning and stillness of being which is both energetic and vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 4 solar, strong and the very fountainhead of self-development and progressive being. it is the seat of the psyche, the demon genius of man and woman. the definition of daemon or beast is the shadowed and animalistic instinctual, impulsive side. it is the djinn (spirit daemon) of pleasure, desire, lust and sexual passion. it is the animalistic and passionate essence which resides in the skull of man. it is the continual goal and point of the left hand path to develop both aspects and unite them as a developed luciferian perspective to be independent but not allowing nature

in the permission to attend the sabbat. anoint yourself in abramelin oil and have similar incense burning. the celestial summoning of yaltabaoth vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 25 this rite is the invocation of the luciferian and adversarial fire-djinn, yaltabaoth who was the wisest among the angels. as called also azal ucel, sigillized as azothoz, yaltabaoth is the deific force with a mask of a beast and an angel. let this invocation be most holy and the solar logos shall manifest through the baphometic wisdom of darkness. this calling should be conducted in the high rite of the celestial or luciferian sabbat, called often empyrean or of the highest aethyr or heavens. this is the self-focused rite of the magician becoming as the adversary, the dragon-angel awakening of the isolate intell

t rites of theurgy and magick. invoke with your entire essence, with every fiber of your being. the chthonic conjuration that which raises the self towards the aethyric realms as i rise above the earth, i conjure the circle of ageless being, leviathan to be as my chariot. encircle my spirit o crooked dragon, bring forth my bride within me, whom i call onorthochrasaei, named lilith az, to ride the beast of my self! i summon phloxopha, dev of heat and the scorching desert, from the south! i summon erimacho, the dev of dryness from the east! i summon oroorrothos, dev of the cold north of arezura vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 26 i summon athuro, dev of water and the coiling waters of leviathan and tiamat! who stands in the center within me is az lilith, my bride! i call now my druj and dev o

jinn of light i am upon earth known as ahriman, arimanius, the dragon of darkness my religion is sorcery, that which is created from the self thus of self-love vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 27 my forms are many, human or a beautiful angel, crowned and winged in emerald, luminous as the peacock, as wise as the serpent. i may take the form of the serpent with a lions head, for i am the dragon and beast, who creates and destroys. on my left hand is belias, my shadow form over hades, on my right hand is cain, called elohim, my flesh born son of earth behind me is az lilith, my bride and druj spawning goddess, my inspiration of art! in front of me is aeshema, called the dev of the wounding spear, known as asmodeus, my will made flesh around me is the coiling and crooked dragon called leviatha

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

s unto thy forms. and all the gods likewise shall invoke thee, and in truth thy name shall be invoked this day. i am horus [of] shet[enu "o thou who art in the cavern,[fn#227] o thou who art in the cavern. o thou who art at the mouth of the cavern. o thou who art on the way, o thou who art on the way. o thou who art at the mouth of the way. he is urmer (mnevis) who approacheth every man and every beast. he is like the god sep who is in anu (heliopolis. he is the scorpion-[god] who is in the great house (het-ur. bite him not, for he is ra. sting him not, for he is thoth. shoot ye not your poison over him, for he is nefer-tem. o every male serpent, o every female serpent, o every antesh (scorpion) which bite with your mouths, and sting with your tails, bite ye him not with your mouths, and s

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

the second traitor is the demon of the mind; that traitor lives within the mental body. the third traitor is the demon of evil will; that traitor lives within the body of willpower (causal body. the bible cites these three traitors in the apocalypse of saint john [in revelations: 16: 13-14: and i saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet; for they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of god almighty. arcano vi bienamados hermanos de mi alma: hoy vamos a estudiar el arcano seis del tarot. amad simos: recordad el sello de salom n; sus dos tri ngulos entrelazados qu

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

hikam: your god 666: asthhr, isthar, the goddess ishtar (aramaic) 666: ihi marth, yehi meoroth: let there be luminaries 666: svrth, sorath: spirit of the sun 666: shm ihshvh: the name of jesus 666: shmsh ihvh, shemash tetragrammaton: sun of jehovah 666: ho seraphas: greek for serapis, egyptian god 666: euporia: greek for material wealth, gold 666: the heart or soul in greek 666: the number of the beast in rev. 13: 18 (a certain wisdom is needed here; with a little ingenuity anyone can calculate the number of the beast) 666: thsrv: you shall turn aside (g. g. locks) the kamea of netzach/venus chapter 9 the mystical numbers of the venus kamea are seven, forty-nine, 175, 1225. we have examined the star of venus in chapter four. the vault of brother c. r, the legendary founder of the rosicruci

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

nds of the reptilian-humanoid cavern dwelling "nagas] who stated that most reptiles with well developed limbs live underground. who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (2 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:57] let us just for a moment take the edenic drama at face value: the leaders of the three sentient creations. angelic [lucifer, human [adam/eve, and beast [the serpent, which was described as the most subtil or cunning by far of all of the "beasts of the field, all taking part in a conspiracy centered around the "big lie" that they could exist independently from their creator- the source of the very spiritual essence of life! ironically, this drama unfolded at a "tree [the tree of "knowledge" or literally in the original hebrew language the tr

h he had assimilated went to work in the realm of eden to search for yet another "host" that the luciferian hive could, parasite-like, attach itself to. the "serpent" was the ideal candidate. the serpent was, according to the book of genesis, originally an upright-standing being with a semblance of free agency and sentience. if this were not the case then the creator would not have "judged" this "beast, much less cursed it to go about upon it's belly. this curse has been suffered by many of the reptilian sub-species, however there are apparently some of the more "alien" branches which have escaped this particular judgment "for a time. but this does not discredit god since there are many "delayed prophecies" in the scriptures. including the prophecy of the lion and the lamb making peace wit

t-planet void of life-giving waters. the renewed spirit of humankind would take dominion over the material forces of chaos within themselves and in turn without, or they would allow the forces of death, darkness, and destruction to continue as they had done since edenic times. however, back to eden, once the evil-one was in residence within the mind and body of the "serpent, the weak will of this beast was quickly overcome. the serpent had offered itself and also its "seed" to the luciferians, and they were intent on taking full advantage of this and in not giving up any ground. it is not too hard to imagine that the serpent may have acquired supernatural powers over humanity and nature, yet at the horrible price of losing all semblance of individuality and free will and identity over to t

ore humanoid amphibeo-reptiloids who walked upright might have survived underground or in the sea. as with the possible existence of the loch ness plesiosaur for example? who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (5 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:57] interestingly enough, the british satanist aliester crowley claimed to be in psychic contact with the "beast" of loch ness, which he believed to be a "channel" for demonic energies which literally used the mind of "the beast" to communicate their will to this dark sorcerer whose mansion, the "boleskin house, sat upon the shores of the loch overlooking its murky depths. others have also spoken of the bizarre paranormal and ufo type activity which surrounds this mysterious scottish lake. so let us su

anoid, seen late in march 1959 by michael lane, wayne armstrong, and dennis patterson, came out of the lake and left behind 'tracks that resembled the footgear worn by skin divers' the thing was seen again in 1963 and described as 'luminous and green-eyed' i examined the site of these encounters and can testify to the charles mill lake's swampy affinities--certainly a good home for a black lagoon beast. who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (12 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:58 "in 1973, during the summer, residents of new jersey's newton-lafayette area described a giant, man-like alligator they had seen locally. newspaper reporters wrote about an old indian tale from the region that told of a giant, man-sized fish that could never be caugh

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

ome of them thought more of the future life and the promise 'if steadfast you go to the pyre, drugs will reach you, you will feel naught, you will but go to death and what lies beyond, the ecstasy of the goddess' the faith of the cult is summed up in a witch's book i possess which states that they believed in gods who were not all-powerful. they wished men well, they desired fertility for man and beast and crops, but to attain this end they needed man's help. dances and other rites gave this help. these rites were based on sympathetic magic, the idea that like attracts like, and also that 'what gave pleasure to man, gave pleasure to the gods. possibly they thought that the gods could feel man's pleasure. there was also the idea that the gods loved man and were pleased when he was happy, as

must not ask him directly for what you want, but pray to some saint, who is a dead man, as we understand it, though one whom we would call the mighty dead, and you must give money before you can hope to receive favour. but why should an allpowerful god, or your mighty ones, be eternally in need of money? our gods are not all-powerful, they need our aid. they desire good to us, fertility for man, beast and crops, but they need our help to bring it about; and by our dances and other means they get that help 'when we die we go to the gods' domain, where having rested a while in their lovely country we are prepared to be born again on this earth; and if we perform the rites correctly, by the grace of the great mother we will be reborn among those we loved, and will remember, know and love the

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

waters stood above the mountains. at thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. they go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou has founded for them. thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth. he sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. they give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst. by them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches. he watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works. he causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth: and wine that maketh glad the hear

d which strengtheneth man s heart. the trees of the lord are full of sap; the cedars of lebanon, which he hath planted; where the birds make their nests: as for the stork the fir-trees are her house. the high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies. he appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down. thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beast of the forest do creep forth. the young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from god. the sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens. man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening. o lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. so is this great and wide sea, wherein ar

of wind over high white wall; common, a quiet beauty. mountain snow, stag on sea-strand; an old man knows his youth lost; a foul face keeps a man down. mountain snow, stag in grove; raven dark-black, roebuck swift; one free and well, strange he should groan. mountain snow, stag in rushes; marshes freezing, mead in cask; common for the crippled to groan. mountain snow, tower s breast studded; the beast searches for shelter; pity her who has a bad man. mountain snow, crag s breast studded; reeds withered, herd shunning water; pity him who has a bad wife. mountain snow, stag in gully; bees are sleeping well-sheltered; a long night suits a robber. mountain snow liverwort in river; wed unwilling to trouble, the sluggard seeks no swift revenge. mountain snow, fish in lake; falcon proud, prince

en a coracle on the sea, i have been a drop in a shower, a sword in a hand, a shield in battle, a string in a harp. nine years in enchantment, in water, in foam, i have absorbed fire, i have been a trout in a covert, there is nothing of which i have not been part. i fought, though small, at the battle of goddeu brig. with prydain s ruler, with his rich-laden fleet. unwise bards pretend a terrible beast with a hundred heads the battle was contested at the root of its tongue, at the back of its skull. the hundred-clawed black toad, the crested, speckled snake are the soul s punishment, a torment to the flesh. i was at caer nefenhir, where grass and trees came swiftly wayfarers perceived them, warriors stood astonished, at the might of the britons, shown forth by gwydion. men called upon the

ody of white clay. manannan the descendent of lir will be a vigorous bed-fellow to caintigern: he shall be called to his son in the beautiful world, fiachna will acknowledge him as his son. he will delight the company of every fairy-mound, he will be the darling of every goodly land, he will make known secrete-a course of wisdom in the world, without being feared. he will be in the shape of every beast, both on the azure sea and on land, he will be a dragon before hosts at the onset, he will be a wolf in every great forest. he will be a stag with horns of silver in the land where chariots are driven, he will be a speckled salmon in a full pool, he will be a seal, he win be a fair-white swan. he will be throughout long ages a hundred years in fair kingship, he will cut down battalion, a las

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

chaldeans associated mystic numbers with their deities. thus to anu, pluto, 60. bel, jupiter, 50. hoa, neptune, 40. sin, the moon, 30. shamash, the numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott sun, 20. nergal (mars, 12. and beltis or mylittal, 15 and nin is saturn, 10. 31. it will be noticed that the great number of sol is 666, called sorath, surt, the number of the beast, about, which so much folly has been written. one famous square of five times five divisions, amounting in most directions to 666, is formed of the mystic words sator, arepo, tenet, opera, rotas. of these the first, third and last number 666, but opera and its reverse number only 356. the number 608 is notable, being in coptic, phre, the sun 500, 100, 8. and in greek we find vhs, 400, 8, 200

ave 8 strings. erachin, 13. 2. as seven was the number of the original creation, so 8, says w. f. shaw, may be considered as the day of regeneration. eight souls were saved in the ark of noah, and noah was the 8th in descent, his name was nvch=8 times 8=64. 888 is the special number of jesus christ as he who is that resurrection and the life. he is the great opponent of the 666, the number of the beast, the number of man. the ancient chinese writings refer to 8 musical sounds, the pah-yin (g. schlegel# 88. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott chapter thirteen the ennead, nine, 9. he ennead is the first square of an odd number, it was said to be like the ocean flowing around the other numbers within the decad. no further elementary number is possible; h

frey higgins to noah, menes, and bacchus. noah, in hebrew is nvch or 64. 651. 651, teletai, the greek ancient mysteries and episteme- science. 666. 666 is the pet number of godfrey higgins, as referred to rasit (rsvt, 200+60+6+400(=666, which he insists means wisdom or as most believe--beginning or principle. the first words of genesis are be-rasit, in the beginning--666 is also the number of the beast, the number of man, has been associated with satan, mahomet, the pope and a hundred others. it is numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott also the number of svrt, the hebrew word for the sun. it occurs in revelations xiii. 18. 121. 666. in addition, 666 is also the diameter of a circle whose circumference is 2093, which is the diagonal of a square whose sid

w. wyn n wes tcott 813. 813 is the numeration of ararita, a very important kabalistic word, its letters being collected from the initials of the sentence, one principle of his unity, one beginning of his individuality, his vicissitude is one, or so it is rendered by s. l. mathers 831. puramis, a pyramid and phallos. 888. the number of iesous, jesus, the great contrast with 666, the number of the beast. 891. uranus--ovpavos--heaven. 903. the talmud in berachoth, 8. i says that there are 903 kinds of death, for by gematria of the word tutzaut, which means outlets see psalm isviii. 20; this number is obtained, thus t, 400. v, 6, tz, 90, a, 1, v, 6, t, 400=903. death by the divine kiss is the euthanasia; death from quinsy is said to be the worst form, a sort of suffocation long drawn out. 950

es by w. wyn n wes tcott every 2160 years, the sign is changed. precedent to aries, the sun at the vernal equinox# 125. 126. chapter twenty the apocalyptic numbers 1st resurrection, revelation xx. 5. 2nd death, xx. 14. 2 witnesses, xi. 3. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 2 olive trees and 2 candlesticks (before throne of god of the earth, xi. 4. 2-horned beast who spoke like a dragon, xiii. ii; his number is 666. 3 woes, ix. 12. 1/ 3 part of vegetation killed, viii. 7 do. of sea became blood and do. of fish died, viii. 8 do. of waters became bitter, viii. 11-do. of sun, moon, stars, viii. 12. 3 days, bodies lay unburied, xxi. 9. 4 quarters of the earth, xx. 8. 4 beasts, full of eyes and have 6 wings, iv. 6-9( beasts should be living beings. w. 4 h

WORKBOOK FOR GRADE 0 VOID AND THE ABYSS

e as azal'ucel, the fiery djinn of change and rebellion! cain, bringer of the cauldron of change and self transformation do protect my very being of self, that i may grow and ascend in our family born of witch blood pure. i seek the coils of leviathan, the darkend grave earth of ahriman and the dream plane of lucifer. allow the gates to open before me" i encircle myself in the dragon's coils, the beast of my father arises within! i hold the skull of abel, being the vessel of my famulus! i hold the hammer of the forge, which i spark the cunning fire of becoming! my eyes hold the desert tales of ages forgotten, while my flesh fades my spirit is immortal! i wear the crimson caul of my mother, lilith, who speaks with me through dreams! i carry the serpent's skin of azal'ucel, my holy spirit! i

he symbol of set the adversary shall take the earthen form of the devil, the solar creative (and destructive) force of change and self-deification. there are two primary faces of the adversary. the celebrant may construct as mask of two sides, which shall be placed upon the center of the altar. a phallic symbol or stone god may be near the mask as well, symbolizing the solar creative force of the beast 666- 9 one- the fallen seraph lucifer, the angelick essence of the black flame, the very source of our wisdom, being and becoming. two the seraph of flame, the djinn iblis of fire, daemon of the blackened flame, serpent beast dragon wolf goat. satanas is the devil-cloaked initiator of the path of the wise, those who laugh at the warnings of a cringing society. robe thyself in crimson, the co

drew the symbol, titling it the sigil of baphomet. the sigil of infernal union, as we choose to call it, uses the original names, which surround the goat head. they are, samael and lilith. many have pondered over the 22 reasoning for the hebraic sea dragon and fallen angel, leviathan, which surrounds the pentagram. this shall be addressed in full now. samael is in thelemic or luciferian terms the beast 666, the solar force of creation and life. the beast 666 is considered evil in christian definitions as it inherently is without a master, has no use for, nor desire for the laws of restriction and subservient behavior developed from a brainwashed system of inner guilt and repression. the beast 666 is the solar phallic symbol, pan, satan, the devil of the tarot, the source of manifestation a

red evil in christian definitions as it inherently is without a master, has no use for, nor desire for the laws of restriction and subservient behavior developed from a brainwashed system of inner guilt and repression. the beast 666 is the solar phallic symbol, pan, satan, the devil of the tarot, the source of manifestation and inner drive. samael, being also known as ashmodai or asmodeus, is the beast which brings us the inner drive to become, to advance and manifest our path or will. remember, cain is the off spring or child of asmodeus (samael) and eve, thus the father of witchcraft! what should be considered is not that samael (or ashmodai) are considered evil in any moralistic way, however that samael is the solar and aggressive force of becoming. when one invokes samael, they become

is within the subconscious of man and woman. the symbol of entering and becoming is thus summarized in the following way: leviathan (the gateway -timelessness, subconscious power, immortal aspects of the essential self samael (the sun known as asmodeus -force, sorcery, fire. samael is the one of darkness (knowledge hidden) whom rode eve and injected filth into her. samael is the root force of the beast 666, the solar creative force and the devil of the tarot. lilith (the moon queen of the witches and lilitu/succubi -witchcraft, sorcery, lunar dream magicks. lilith is the mother of harlots whom appears in the form of a beautiful woman with the lower half animal like, hairy and feet of a large bird. lilith is the gateway to the sabbat and to the arts of lesser and greater black magick. lilit

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 1

e card `the devil. i will therefore obtain a vision of this card, and paint it upon a panel of mahogany wood, with the proper colou rs and forms. now on the day of the sun, in this the sixteenth year of the aeon, when he st ood in the 6th degree of the sign sagittarius, whose letter hath the value of 6 0, the moon being in the 16th degree of the sign cancer whose letter hath the v alue 8, did the beast 666 to mega therion a magus of a. a. baphomet 729 t he supreme holy king of ireland, iona and all the britains that are in the sanc tuary of the gnosis xth degree o.t.o, avatar of bacchus diphues in the place o f the xith degree o.t.o, logos of the aeon of ra hoor khuit, grand master of t he knights of the holy ghost, grand master of the knights of the temple, eidolo n of the rosy cross, ala

adventure upon mountains beyond any man of hi s fellows, whose body and blood bear witness of the wounds of astarte, and the shames of priapus, even i in the abbey of thelema at cephaloedium that am hidde n, did convene therein to counsel alostrael, 31-666-31, the scarlet woman lea m y concubine, in whom is all power given, sworn unto aiwaz, prostituted in every part of her body to pan and to the beast, mother of bastards, aborter, whore t o herself, to man, woman, child and brute, partaker of the eucharist of the exc rements in the mass of the devil, sorceress of the rite of esau and jacob, and also genesthai, 143, weh note: c.f.russell a neophyte of a'.a, a master ma gician of o.t.o. and a passed postulant to the secret chamber of the knights of the temple, high priest unto the beast bef

.f.russell a neophyte of a'.a, a master ma gician of o.t.o. and a passed postulant to the secret chamber of the knights of the temple, high priest unto the beast before the altar of purple and gold. first then this brother genesthai made of invocation of tahuti lord of wisdom in the great magical circle of the abbey, that he might come upon us in power. thus was tahuti manifest in the mind of the beast, like light therein, clear, icy, wit without heart. and i beheld the working afar off, full utterly of des ire towards it; and i was aware of certain things concerning it; as here now to be writ down. firstly: the working shall establish the aeon of ra hoor khuit by obeying th e instructions given in "the book of the law. secondly: it is a working of mercury and sol, combined even as they ar

e light therein, clear, icy, wit without heart. and i beheld the working afar off, full utterly of des ire towards it; and i was aware of certain things concerning it; as here now to be writ down. firstly: the working shall establish the aeon of ra hoor khuit by obeying th e instructions given in "the book of the law. secondly: it is a working of mercury and sol, combined even as they are in t he beast; so that the word of the working is aleph-lamed-dalet-yod weh note: s ic, probably should be aleph-lamed-hay, 36, the square of 6 and the sum of the first eight numbers, etc, etc. now aleph is the letter of hadith as hay of nu ith, and lamed is their balanced union. thirdly: alostrael resumeth nuit and the beast hadith; their copulation is t herefore by this word 36 well signified. fourthly:

ph is the letter of hadith as hay of nu ith, and lamed is their balanced union. thirdly: alostrael resumeth nuit and the beast hadith; their copulation is t herefore by this word 36 well signified. fourthly: it is written `liber lapidis lazuli, cap. iii, vv. 16-18 that al l is vain unless there be``a man's life spilt for thy love upon mine altars' thus then let his high priest do sacrifice to the beast, thereby to consecrate him to the rite. fifthly: that `the paris working, the first model for our present orgia, is not to be followed pedantically. sixthly and lastly: that special names are to be used by us; for the beast o phion 700, for genesthai 143 iacchaion, and for alostrael a new name not yet gi ven. also that the vapour of the oxide of ethyl may be used in the workings. after this

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 2

h the card `the devil. i will therefore obtain a vision of this card, and paint it upon a panel of mahogany wood, with the proper colours and forms. now on the day of the sun, in this the sixteenth year of the aeon, when he stood in the 6th degree of the sign sagittarius, whose letter hath the value of 60, the moon being in the 16th degree of the sign cancer whose letter hath the value 8, did the beast 666 to mega therion a magus of a. a. baphomet 729 the supreme holy king of ireland, iona and all the britains that are in the sanctuary of the gnosis xth degree o.t.o, avatar of bacchus diphues in the place of the xith degree o.t.o, logos of the aeon of ra hoor khuit, grand master of the knights of the holy ghost, grand master of the knights of the temple, eidolon of the rosy cross, alastor

en adventure upon mountains beyond any man of his fellows, whose body and blood bear witness of the wounds of astarte, and the shames of priapus, even i in the abbey of thelema at cephaloedium that am hidden, did convene therein to counsel alostrael, 31-666-31, the scarlet woman lea my concubine, in whom is all power given, sworn unto aiwaz, prostituted in every part of her body to pan and to the beast, mother of bastards, aborter, whore to herself, to man, woman, child and brute, partaker of the eucharist of the excrements in the mass of the devil, sorceress of the rite of esau and jacob, and also genesthai, 143, weh note: c.f.russell a neophyte of a'.a, a master magician of o.t.o. and a passed postulant to the secret chamber of the knights of the temple, high priest unto the beast before

c.f.russell a neophyte of a'.a, a master magician of o.t.o. and a passed postulant to the secret chamber of the knights of the temple, high priest unto the beast before the altar of purple and gold. first then this brother genesthai made of invocation of tahuti lord of wisdom in the great magical circle of the abbey, that he might come upon us in power. thus was tahuti manifest in the mind of the beast, like light therein, clear, icy, wit without heart. and i beheld the working afar off, full utterly of desire towards it; and i was aware of certain things concerning it; as here now to be writ down. firstly: the working shall establish the aeon of ra hoor khuit by obeying the instructions given in "the book of the law. secondly: it is a working of mercury and sol, combined even as they are

like light therein, clear, icy, wit without heart. and i beheld the working afar off, full utterly of desire towards it; and i was aware of certain things concerning it; as here now to be writ down. firstly: the working shall establish the aeon of ra hoor khuit by obeying the instructions given in "the book of the law. secondly: it is a working of mercury and sol, combined even as they are in the beast; so that the word of the working is aleph-lamed-dalet-yod weh note: sic, probably should be aleph-lamed-hay, 36, the square of 6 and the sum of the first eight numbers, etc, etc. now aleph is the letter of hadith as hay of nuith, and lamed is their balanced union. thirdly: alostrael resumeth nuit and the beast hadith; their copulation is therefore by this word 36 well signified. fourthly: it

aleph is the letter of hadith as hay of nuith, and lamed is their balanced union. thirdly: alostrael resumeth nuit and the beast hadith; their copulation is therefore by this word 36 well signified. fourthly: it is written `liber lapidis lazuli, cap. iii, vv. 16-18 that all is vain unless there be``a man's life spilt for thy love upon mine altars' thus then let his high priest do sacrifice to the beast, thereby to consecrate him to the rite. fifthly: that `the paris working, the first model for our present orgia, is not to be followed pedantically. sixthly and lastly: that special names are to be used by us; for the beast ophion 700, for genesthai 143 iacchaion, and for alostrael a new name not yet given. also that the vapour of the oxide of ethyl may be used in the workings. after this th

BOOK OF BARUCH

f thou hadst walked in the way of god, thou shouldest have dwelled in peace for ever. 14 learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that thou mayest know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace. 15 who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her treasures? 16 where are the princes of the heathen become, and such as ruled the beasts upon the earth; 17 they that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their getting? 18 for they that wrought in silver, and were so careful, and whose works are unsearchable, 19 they are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their steads. 20 young men have seen light, and dwelt upon

wn foolishness. 29 who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds? 30 who hath gone over the sea, and found her, and will bring her for pure gold? 31 no man knoweth her way, nor thinketh of her path. 32 but he that knoweth all things knoweth her, and hath found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore hath filled it with fourfooted beasts: 33 he that sendeth forth light, and it goeth, calleth it again, and it obeyeth him with fear. 34 the stars shined in their watches, and rejoiced: when he calleth them, they say, here we be; and so with cheerfulness they shewed light unto him that made them. 35 this is our god, and there shall none other be accounted of in comparison of him 36 he hath found out all the way of knowledge, and

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

s and rich men that were followed in death by bondsmen and by domestic and hunting animals, so that they might have their services in the other world. suppose 99 men, we will say prisoners of war, to have been sacrificed to the gods, the animals specified cannot have been intended to escort those enemies, nor yet for the use of the gods, to whom no one ever set apart and slaughtered horses or any beasts of the chase with a view to their making use of them. so whether the ambiguous eisdem refers to homines or diis (as eosdem just after stands for the latter, either way there is something inadmissible asserted. at the new year's festival i believe that of all the victims named the horses alone were sacrificed; men, hounds and cocks the legend has added on^ how dietmar's story looks by the si

d hagek's bohm. chrou. p. 62 gives an instance among the slavs. that, i suppose, is why the silesians are called ass-eaters (zeitvertreiber 1668, p. 153; and if the gottingors receive the same nickname, these popular jokes must be very old in germany itself (see suppl. 4 50 worship. the hack ox and hlack cow, which are not to be killed for the household (superst. 887, were they sacred sacrificial beasts? val. suplit, a free peasant on the samland coast (samogitia or semigalia, sacrificed a hack hull with strange ceremonies^ i will add a few examples from the norse. during a famine in sweden under king domaldi]?a eflso (instituted) sviar blot stor at uppsolum, it fyrsta haust (autumn) blotusu j^eir yxmim; and the oxen proving insufficient, they gradually went up to higher and higher kinds;

ngr mikill ok gamall, var];at kallat hlotnaut]?at skyldi sa hoggva er sigr hefsi (then was led forth a bull mickle and old, it was called blot-neat, that should he hew who victory had, egilss. p. 506. conf, kormakssaga p. 214-8. sacrifice of cotvs, sa^m. 141. fornm. sog. 2, 138. the greek ckarofji^r (as the name shows, 100 oxen) consisted at first of a large number of neat, but very soon of other beasts also. the indians too had sacrifices of a hundred; holzmann 3, 193^ boars, pigs (see suppl. in the salic law, tit. 2, a higher composition is set on the nmjcdis sacrivus or votivus than on any other. this seems a relic of the ancient sacrifices of the heathen franks; else why the term sacrivus? true, there is no vast difference between 700 and 600 den (17 and 15 sol; but of animals so set a

ice, goth. sauss, seems to have given rise to the ojst. name for the animal itself, sau&r=^qi\\qv. this species of sacrifice was therefore not rare, though it is seldom expressly mentioned, probably as being of small value. only the saga hakonar goga cap. 16 informs us];ar var oc drepinn (killed) allskonar small, ok sva hross. small firj\a) denotes principally sheep, also more generally the small beasts of the flock as opposed to oxen and horses, and as' alls. konar (omnis generis' is here added, it seems to include goats. the sacrifice of he-goats (hircos) is spoken of in the above-quoted epist. bonif. 82. in the swedish superstition, the water-sprite, before it wiu teach any one to play the harp, requires the sacrifice of a llach lamb; svenska folkv. 2, 128. gregory the great speaks once

e people bowed before it. the halloiclng of a he-goat among the ancient prussians is well known (luc. david 1, 87, 98. the slavonian god triglav is represented with three goats' heads (hanka's zbjrka 23. if that langobardic' carmen nefandum' had been preserved, we could judge more exactly of the rite than from the report of the holy father, who viewed it with hostile eyes. about other sacrificial beasts we cannot be certain, for of dietmar's dogs and hawks and cocks, hardly any but the last are to be depended on (see sup^^l. but even then, what of domestic poultry, fowls, geese, pigeons? the dove was a jewish and christian this also a reference to heathen sacrifices; an as. name for xov. is expressly twtmones. the common man at his yearly slaughtering gets up a feast, and sends meat and sa

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

but you can create your own through a god meditation by visualising a god form that seems relevant to you. again i have used celtic god forms: these are the words of the father, who is son and consort of the great mother, born in the beginning of she who created the universe from her own body, from her smiles and tears and ever-fertile womb 'i am he, the wild untamed power of the hunt, the horned beasts and the woodland, that offers food, shelter and protection to people of all races, clans and creeds. i am cernunnos, horned lord of winter; as master of the animals and lord of the corn, i offer willing sacrifice for the land and people; as king of the dark places beneath the soil, in the nurturing womb of the mother, like all creatures who have entered the gentle earth, i grow strong again

ABRAMELIN1

him, may the lord god of his mercy preserve us from such a misfortune. this should serve us as a mirror of warning to keep far from us all evil undertakings and pernicious curiosity. in austria i found an infinitude, but all were either ignorant, or like unto the bohemians, the sacred magic 12 in the kingdom of hungary i found but persons knowing neither god nor devil, and who were worse than the beasts. in greece i found many wise and prudent men, but, however, all of them were infidels, among whom there were three who principally dwelt in desert places, who showed unto me great things, such as how to raise tempests in a moment, how to make the sun appear in the night, how to stop the course of rivers, and how to make night appear at mid-day, the whole by the power of their enchantments

ABRAMELIN2

supernatural things, that is not, neither can ever be. but it will instead be found that by the permission of the great god it is the spirits who govern the firmament. what foolishness then would it be to implore the favour of the sun, of the moon, and of the stars, when the object would be to have converse with angels and with spirits. would it not be an extravagant idea to demand from the wild beasts the permission to go hunting? but what else is it, when they23 have elected a certain day, when they have divided it up into many false divisions such as hours, minutes, etc. here, they say, we have the planetary hours, and the planet appropriate to each hour. o what planets! o what fine order! tell me, i pray you, what advantage you get by this division. you will reply: a very great one, b

ABRAMELIN3

young. no. e consists of b a squares from a square of c f squares. ionek means thy dove. no. f consists of b g squares from a square of c f. bacur= firstborn. of abramelin the mage 184 the twenty-second chapter. his chapter is only for evil, for with the symbols herein we can cast spells, and work every kind of evil; we should not avail ourselves hereof( b) to cast spells upon men( c) to bewitch beasts( d) to cast a spell upon the liver( e) this symbol should never be made use of( f) to cast a spell upon the heart( g) upon the head and other parts of the body (1) q e l a a d i m e l a d i m q q (2) b e h e m o t e h e m o t q q o e n (3) m e b a s i m e b a s i m q q q q (4) c a s e d a z o t e b o r o s e t o s a d e b a c the sacred magick 185 notes to chapter xxii (a) the symbols of th

aham warns strongly against use being made of this operation. the symbols should be either buried or concealed in places where the persons we wish to harm are likely to pass by; or, if possible, we can touch them with the symbol (e) no. b consists of b h from a square of e j squares. qeladim means those who creep in insidiously. no. c consists of b j squares from a square of e j squares. behemot= beasts. no. d consists of b i squares from a square of e j. mebasim= those that stamp down violently. no. e is a square of c f squares. cased, hebrew (if used in a bad sense) overflowing of unrestrained lust. azote, hebrew enduring. boros= greek devouring, gluttonous. etosa= greek idle, useless. debac= hebrew= to overtake and stick close. no. f consists of b e squares from a square of d g. lebhah

ares. no. c g is a gnomon of j squares from a square of c f squares. para h= a heifer, but also fruit, produce. no. c h consists of b f squares from a square of e j. no. c i consists of b a squares from a square of c f. fanin is probably from bn, and meaning towns and villages, whence this should probably be numbered c b. no. c j consists of i squares from a square of b g. reem unicorns, and also beasts of the beeve kind, buffaloes, etc. perhaps this square answers for b f as well. no. d a consists of a gnomon of b d squares from a square of c f squares. aiiah= rapacious birds. no. d b consists of b a squares from a square of c f. suhal means a blackish lion, whence this square should be numbered c e probably. no. d c consists of b i squares from a square of e j. giripes may mean small bea

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

an, and led her in triumph through the city, veiled and crowned as is befitting. now after some days he that guarded the sacred goat of khem died, and they appointed her in his place. and she was the first woman that was thus honoured since the days of the evil queen in the eighteenth dynasty, of her that wearied of men at an age when other women have not known them, that gave herself to gods and beasts. but now they took me to the pool of liquid silver- or so they called it; i suppose it was quicksilver; for i remember that it was very difficult to immerse me- which is beneath the feet of the veiled one. for this is the page 9 gulf.txt secret of the oracle. standing afar off the priest beholds the reflection of her in the mirror, seeing her lips that move under the veil; and this he inter

is" then took he a strong corrosive acid and blistered his throat therewith, saying "from this throat didst thou blaspheme the holy one, the bride of osiris" then he took a rod of steel, white-hot, and burnt away his secret parts, saying "be thou put to shame, who hast blasphemed the holy one, the bride of osiris" after that, he took a young jackal and gave it to eat at his liver, saying "let the beasts that devour carrion devour the liver that lifted itself up toe blaspheme the holy one, the bride of osiris" with that the wretch died,and they exposed his body in the ditch of the city, and the dogs devoured it. now all this while had my lady dallied amorously with me, making such sweet moan of love as never was, yet her face fixed upon his eyes who loved her, and there glared in hell s tor

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

re, and that is the arrangement of the cross-quarter days, which make up half of the craft's official pagan holidays. these occur on the eves of february 2nd, may 1st, august 1st, and november 1st, and are called candlemas, beltane, lammas and samhain (or hallows, respectively. the name lammas has a curious origin in the dunes at sumer. it is not less than the name of one of the four mythological beasts of the astrological fixed signs, lamas being the name of the half-lion, half-man guardian of leo (the sign governing most of august, when the feast of lammas takes place, and ustur being that of aquarius (february, sed that of taurus (may) and nattig that of scorpio (november. i do not believe that this is a fantastic assumption, the sumerian origin of the feast of lammas. indeed, it seems

ammas takes place, and ustur being that of aquarius (february, sed that of taurus (may) and nattig that of scorpio (november. i do not believe that this is a fantastic assumption, the sumerian origin of the feast of lammas. indeed, it seems just as valid as the ideas of idries shah concerning craft etymology as presented in his book, the sufis. it is also not far-fetched to assume that these four beasts were known to the entire region of the middle east, as they appear on the sphinx in egypt, and have become the symbols of the four evangelists of the christian new testament- an ironic and splendid result of the ignorance of the greek religious historians concerning the ancient mysteries! probable the most inconsistent concept the sumerians possesses with reference to the craft is the namin

ears, and my own copy will go with me to the place where i will go when my spirit is torn from the body. but heed these words well, and remember! for remembering is the most important and most potent magick, being the rememberance of things past and the rememberance of things to come, which is the same memory. and do not show this text to the uninitiated, for it hath caused madness, in men and in beasts. the text: i the magan text hearken, and remember! in the name of anu, remember! in the name of enlil, remember! in the name of enki, remember! when on high the heavens had not been named, the earth had not been named, and naught existed but the seas of absu, the ancient one, and mummu tiamat, the ancient one who bore them all, their waters as one water. at this time, before the elder gods

this fashion? and the sign of xastur rises up behind me, and of that i know the meaning, but may not write, for i received the message elsewhere. i can hardly speak to recognise my own voice. the abyss yawns wide before me! a gate has been broken! know that the seven spheres must be entered in their times and in their seasons, one at a time, and never the one before the other. know that the four beasts of the spaces claim the blood of the initiate, each in their own time and season. know that tiamat seeks ever to rise to the stars, and when the upper is united to the lower, then a new age will come of earth, and the serpent shall be made whole, and the waters will be as one, when on high the heavens had not been named. remember to protect the livestock of the village and thy family. the e

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

agraph 1 explains that frater p. sees no use in the employment of such feeble implements as bombs. nor does he agree even with the aim of the anarchists, since, although anarchists themselves need no restraint, not daring to drink cocoa, lest their animal passions should be aroused (as olivia haddon assures my favourite chela, yet policemen, unless most severely repressed, would be dangerous wild beasts. the last bitter sentence is terribly true; the personal liberty of the russian is immensely greater than that of the englishman. the latest radical devices for securing freedom have turned nine out of ten englishmen into slaves, obliged to report their movements to the government like so many ticket-of-leave men. the only solution of the social problem is the creation of a class with the t

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

t self. the exposure of innocence is a lie. be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any god shall deny thee for this. ii,23: i am alone: there is no god where i am. ii,24: behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. beware lest any force another, king against king! love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of y

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

let there be no creature upon or within her the same. all her members, let them differ in their qualities, and let there be no one creature equal with another. the reasonable creatures of the earth, and men, let them vex and weed out one another; and their dwelling-places, let them forget their names. the work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced. his buildings, let them become caves for the beasts of the field! confound her understanding with darkness! for why? it repenteth me that i have made man. one while let her be known, and another while a stranger: because she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling-place of him that is fallen. o ye heavens, arise! the lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you! govern those that govern! cast down such as fall. bring forth with those that

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

hrough the galling fetter, all-devourer, all-begetter; give me the sign of the open eye, and the token erect of thorny thigh, and the word of madness and mystery, o pan! io pan! io pan! io pan pan! pan pan! pan, i am a man: do as thou wilt, as a great god can, o pan! io pan! io pan! io pan pan! i am awake in the grip of the snake. the eagle slashes with beak and claw; the gods withdraw: the great beasts come, io pan! i am borne to death on the horn of the unicorn. i am pan! io pan! io pan pan! pan! vi i am thy mate, i am thy man, goat of thy flock, i am gold, i am god, flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod. with hoofs of steel i race on the rocks through solstice stubborn to equinox. and i rave; and i rape and i rip and i rend everlasting, world without end, mannikin, maiden, maenad, man, i

ly after attaining to the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel, must evoke the four great princes of the evil of the world "obedience and faith to him that liveth and triumpheth, that reigneth above you in your palaces as the balance of righteousness and truth" is your duty to your holy guardian angel, and the duty of the demon world to you. these powers of "evil" nature are wild beasts; they must be tamed, trained to the saddle and the bridle; they will bear you well. there is nothing useless in the universe: do not wrap up your talent in a napkin, because it is only "dirty money! with regard to pacts, they are rarely lawful. there should be no bargain struck. magick is not a trade, and no hucksters need apply. master everything, but give generously to your servants, once

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

true. our prayer is the expression of the lower aspiring to the higher; it is without the clear vision of the higher, it does not understand what the higher wants. and, however sweet may be its smell, it is always cloudy. 117 in this smoke illusions arise. we sought the light, and behold the temple is darkened! in the darkness this smoke seems to take strange shapes, and we may hear the crying of beasts. the thicker the smoke, the darker grows the universe. we gasp and tremble, beholding what foul and unsubstantial things we have evoked! yet we cannot do without the incense! unless our aspiration took form it could not influence form. this also is the mystery of incarnation. this incense is based upon gum olibanum, the sacrifice of the human will of the heart. this olibanum has been mixed

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

nt abode h)n hryd the river of justice nyd r)y? scripture (perh. lit. gscratched h) w+rs evil h(r 276 a cithara rwnk the moon (cf. 218 )rhys 277 to sow, propagate; seed, semen (rz favour, benevolence )w(r 278 the world of mevetbau: the natural world (referred to netzach- hod-yesod (b+wmh mlw( kerubim: the angelic choir of yesod (the four creatures; gthe wings of the wind h) mybwrk four h(br) wild beasts bwr( passing over rbw( 279 leprosy wrygs 280 7 40: the squares of the walls of the vault (see 5= 6 ritual. the letters of judgment: the 5 letters with a final form (s. d. 5:28) c p n m k taro (cf. 216, 224& 671 (r+ a record (ch) nwrkd archangel of malkuth nwpldns citizenship ry( bull; victim; offering rp terror pr 281 a crown; ashes rp) attire; adorned r)p 282 aralim, mighty ones: the angel

0 7 40: the squares of the walls of the vault (see 5= 6 ritual. the letters of judgment: the 5 letters with a final form (s. d. 5:28) c p n m k taro (cf. 216, 224& 671 (r+ a record (ch) nwrkd archangel of malkuth nwpldns citizenship ry( bull; victim; offering rp terror pr 281 a crown; ashes rp) attire; adorned r)p 282 aralim, mighty ones: the angelic choir of binah myl)r) spirit of lives myyx xwr beasts, cattle ry(b hebrew (the people, not the language; see 682) yrb( 283 pure gold (lit. genclosed gold h; cf. 87) rwgs bhz of a memorial (see 964) nwrkz that goes on foot mylgr 284 crown, diadem: a title of malkuth hr( the small area of an enclosed garden hgwr( 286 high, lofty mwrm 287 a piece of the host (unleavened bread) nmwqyp) little ry(z 288 vindication rw(yb breeding, bearing; offspring

will) without end lwbg ny)b nwcr dwelling in eternity d( nkw# craftiness, cunning myl# the dragon; jackal nt witchcrafts, sorceries myp#k 451 the essence of man md)h t) death )tym the deep, the abyss (gn. 49:25) mwht 452 ardent desire, longing, wish tdmx the crop; the maw nbqrq 453 the animal soul in its fulness (i.e. including the creative entity or ego, chiah; living creature hyx #pn behemoth; beasts twmhb 454 a seal mtwx the gholy ones h (consecrated catamites kept by the priesthood) my#dq continually dymt zaharariel: a title of tiphareth l)yr)rhz 456 the greatest fear (cf. hmy, 56) htmy) the mountain of myrrh (ct. 4:6; see 573) rwmh rh a wall ltwk legs, shanks myqw# the fig-tree and fruit hn)t you (fem. pl) hnt) face, person pwcrp 457 olives mytz furnace nwt) 458 a covenant; an engage

tnmw) 498 the house of god (cf. 443) myhl) tyb palace of merit (referred to geburah) twkz lkyh 499 a loving hind (prov. 5:19) mybh) tly) busy, arduous; an army; ghosts h tw)bc 500 the humerus ptk treasured gold, cimelia (perh. inf. from mtk, ggold h and arabic kthm, gto cover, conceal h) mtkm master, prince, head, chief; navel r# to give ntn be fruitful and multiply wbrw wrp dragon; jackals, wild beasts (pl. of 450) mynt showeth knowledge (ps. 19:2) t(d hwhy 501 blessedness; that, which; whose; wherein r) strong, hardy mynt) the head#)r shekinah superior h)ly( hnyk# likeness, similitude hnwmt but, howbeit; certainly *k) 502 to tell glad tidings; flesh, body r#b to cut qtb 503 g r# the cup of the stolistes expelled, cast forth #rg to rage #gr 504 sought for #rd half, middle; midnight (m.h)

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

magick power; it need not be explained diversely as in the text) 3. thus we observe its effect in every case, as to the person, the family, the district, the state, and the kingdom. 4. how do i know that this is thus universal under heaven? by experience. 60 chapter lv the spell of the mystery. 1. he that hath the magick powers((teh) of the tao is like a young child. insects will not sting him or beasts or birds of prey attack him. 2. the young child's bones are tender and its sinews are elastic, but its grasp is firm((a baby can hang from a bough for quite an indefinitely long period. this is because of monkey-atavism; in other words, it is the subconscious of the child that is at work. this subconsciousness is of its true nature, therefore, in accord with the tao) it knoweth nothing of t

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

tars, his 'friends' or sympathetic ideas grouped about him, who are 'hermits' individualities eternally isolated in reality though they may appear to be lost in their relations with external things. al ii,24 "behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. beware lest any force another, king against king! love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of y

light. thou hast given me of thy flesh to eat and of thy blood for an offering of intoxication. thou hast fastened the fangs of eternity in my soul, and the poison of the infinite hath consumed me utterly. i am become like a luscious devil of italy; a fair strong woman with worn cheeks, eaten out with hunger for kisses. she hath played the harlot in diverse palaces; she hath given her body to the beasts. she hath slain her kinsfolk with strong venom of toads; she hath been scourged with many rods. she hath been broken in pieces upon the wheel; the hands of the hangman have bound her unto it. the fountains of water have been loosed upon her; she hath struggled with exceeding torment. the hath burst in sunder with the weights of the waters; she hath sunk into the awful sea. so am i, o adonai

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e in which to win him back to your worship. the cunning sorcerer did not mention that within that time also must his own ruin be accomplished. what do you advise? asked the irritated and powerful, but unintelligent deity. time is our friend, said the enchanter. let your influence be used in the halls of birth that each birth may be as long as possible. now the elephant is the longest lived of all beasts done with you! said ganesha in great glee, for the idea struck him as ingenious. and he lumbered off to clinch the affair at once. and perdu r abu died. 1 the archdevil of the buddhists. appendix i 104 v. now the great elephant strode with lordly footsteps in the forest, and jehjaour shut himself up with his caldrons and things and felt quite happy, for he knew his danger was not near till

es, and to some degree understands, a pack of the cards. the occult views of the nature of these symbols are in some cases crowley s own. ambrosii magi hortus rosarum 111 intellectus. deus. h. et s. v. a. luna. quid umbratur in mari. deo duce comite ferro. vestigia nulla retrorsum. pearls, big and round like the breasts of a sea-nymph; and they gleamed round like moons. she held in leash the four beasts, but he strode boldly to her, and kissed her full on the lips. wherefore she signed and fell back a space, and he pressed on. now at the end of the darkness a fire glowed: she would have hindered him: clung she to his neck and wept. but the fire grew and the light dazzled her; so that with a shriek she fell. but the beasts flung themselves against the burning gateway of iron, and it gave wa

is wise: she had three arrows, yet but two flanks, and the wise men said that who knew two was three,1 should know three was eight,2 if the circle were but squared; and this also one day shall ye know, my brethren! and she gave him the great and perfect gift of magic, so that he fared forth right comely and well-provided. now at that great wedding was a suggler,3 a riddler: for he said, thou hast beasts: i will give thee weapons one for one. for the lion did our father win a little fiery wand like a flame, and for his eagle a cup of ever flowing water: for his man the suggler gave him a golden-hilted dagger (yet this was the worst of all his bargains, for it could not strike other, but him-self only, while for a curious coin he bartered his good bull. alas for our father! now the suggler m

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and a god! spell by spell and pace by pace! mystic flashes swing and trace velvet soft the sigils stepped by the silver-starred adept. back and front, and to and fro, soul and body sway and flow in vertiginous caresses to imponderable recesses, 40 till at last the spell is woven, and the faery veil is cloven that was sequence, space, and stress of the soul-sick consciousness "give thy body to the beasts! give thy spirit to the priests! break in twain the hazel rod on the virgin lips of god! tear the rosy cross asunder! shatter the black bolt of thunder! such the swart ensanguine kiss of the resolute abyss" wonder-weft the wizard heard this intolerable word. smote the blasting hazel rod on the scarlet lips of god; trampled cross and rosy core; brake the thunder-tool of thor; meek and holy a

virgin lips of god! tear the rosy cross asunder! shatter the black bolt of thunder! such the swart ensanguine kiss of the resolute abyss" wonder-weft the wizard heard this intolerable word. smote the blasting hazel rod on the scarlet lips of god; trampled cross and rosy core; brake the thunder-tool of thor; meek and holy acolyte of the priestly hells of spite, sleek and shameless catamite of the beasts that prowl by night! like a star that streams from heaven through the virgin airs light-riven, from the lift there shot and fell an admirable miracle. 41 carved minute and clean, a key of purest lapis-lazuli more blue than the blind sky that aches (wreathed with the stars, her torturing snakes, for the dead god's kiss that never wakes; shot with golden specks of fire like a virgin with desi

now they mingle and melt together as snow-flakes before the sun, and are gone; yea! the stars have fled the skies, and i am alone. how cold has grown the night, how still! o where art thou! come, return unto me, that i stray not in vain; call unto me that i lose not my way! lighten me with the brightness of thine eyes, so that i wander not far from the path and become a prey to the hunger of wild beasts! i am lost; i know not where i am; the mossy mountains have become as hills of wind, and have been blown far from their appointed places; and the waving fields of the valleys have become silent as the land of the dead, so that i hear then not, and know not whither to walk. the reeds whisper not along the margin of the lake; all is still; heaven has closed her mouth and there is no breath in

light must pass this way and sojourn a while amongst these animals, who are so filled with swinish itchings and unbridled fornications that they perceive not that their manger and their dunghill lie side by side as twins in one bed. for a space he must listen to the hiccuping of those who are loaded with wine, and the snorting of those who are stuffed with food, and must 219 watch these lecherous beasts who insult the name of man rolling in their offal, gambolling, and itching with a filthy prurience after the mischievous delights of lewdness, drunkenly groping amongst the herds of long-haired boys and short-skirted girls, from whom they suck away their beauty, as milk from the udders of a goat. he must dwell for a time with these she-apes, smeared with white paint, mangled, daubed, and pl

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sword and a pair of balances. that is only vague. all has gone into stone-gray, blank. there is nothing. ain el hajel "november" 25, 1909. 8.40-9.40 p.m. 24 (there were two voices in all this cry, one behind the other- or, one was the speech, and the other the meaning. and the voice that was the speech was simply a roaring, one tremendous noise, like a mixture of thunder and water-falls and wild beasts and bands and artillery. and yet it was articulate, though i cannot tell you what a single word was. but the meaning of the voice- the second voice- was quite silent, and put the ideas directly into the brain of the seer, as if by touch. it is not certain whether the millstones and the sword-strokes that rained upon him were not these very sounds and ideas) the cry of the 24th aethyr, which

not certain whether the millstones and the sword-strokes that rained upon him were not these very sounds and ideas) the cry of the 24th aethyr, which is called nia an angel comes forward into the stone like a warrior clad in chain-armour. upon his head are plumes of gray, spread out like the fan of a peacock. about his feet a great army of scorpions and dogs, lions, elephants, and many other wild beasts. he stretches forth his arms to heaven and cries; in the crackling of the lightning, in the rolling of the thunder, in the clashing of the swords and the hurling of the arrows: be thy name exalted! streams of fire come out of the heavens, a pale brilliant blue, like plumes. and they gather themselves and settle upon his lips. his lips are redder than roses, and the blue plumes gather themse

h seven tiers, each tier divided into seven partitions. and they that sit in the amphitheatre are the seven grades of the order of the rosy cross. this amphitheatre is built of rose-coloured marble, and of its size i can say only that the sun might be used as a ball to be thrown by the players in the arena. but in the arena there is a little altar of emerald, and its top has the heads of the four beasts, in turquoise and rock-crystal. and the floor of the arena is ridged like a grating of lapis lazuli. and it is full of pure quicksilver. above the altar is a veiled figure, whose name is pan. those in the outer tier adore him as a man; and in the next tier they adore him as a goat; and in the next tier they adore him as a ram; and in the next tier they adore him as a crab; 66 and in the nex

cannot hear it. but the answer is: not otherwise could he pluck the rose. and still i go on, struggling with the blackness. now there is an earthquake. the veil is torn into thousands of pieces that go flying away in a whirling wind. and there is an all-glorious angel before me, standing in the sign of apophis and typhon. on his forehead is a star, but all about him is darkness, and the crying of beasts. and there are lamps moving in the darkness. and the angel says: depart! for thou must invoke me only in the darkness. therein will i appear, and reveal unto thee the mystery of uti. for the mystery thereof is great and terrible. and it shall not be spoken in sight of the sun. therefore i withdraw myself (thus far the vision upon da'leh addin, a mountain in the desert near bou-s ada) decemb

n upon themselves, the liquor of whose bodies is dried up, so that nothing remains but a little pyramid of dust. and that bright light of comfort, and that piercing sword 75 of truth, and all that power and beauty that they have made of themselves, is cast from them, as it is written "i saw satan like lightning fall from heaven" and as a flaming sword is it dropt through the abyss, where the four beasts keep watch and ward. and it appeareth in the heaven of jupiter as a morning star, or as an evening star. and the light thereof shineth even unto the earth, and bringeth hope and help to them that dwell in the darkness of thought, and drink of the poison of life. fifty are the gates of understanding, and one hundred and six are the seasons thereof. and the name of every season is death. duri

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ight which i had not taken. good! 12.13. pranayama [10 seconds to breath in, 20 seconds to 12.24. breathe out, 30 seconds to hold in the breath. fairly good; made me sweat again thoroughly. stopped not from fatigue but from lunch.[odd memoranda during lunch. insist on pupils writing down their whole day; the play as well as the work."by this means they will become ashamed, and prate no longer of 'beasts. i am now well away on the ascetic current, devising all sorts of privations and thoroughly enjoying the idea. 12.55. having finished a most enjoyable lunch, will drink coffee and smoke, and try and get a little sleep. thus to break up sleep into two shifts. 2.18. a nice sleep. woke refreshed. 3.15. am arrived home, having performed a little business and driven back. will sit down and do as

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the byways have obscured the main road. valuable though; very very valuable. in the morning success. bed! 12.30. yells and struggles again when i went in to say good-night. as i had carefully paralysed "all" sensory avenues (to ensure perfect rest, how was he aware of my presence? the memory of the scented handkerchief, too, very strong; talked a lot of his wife, thinking here with him. pah! what beasts some men must be! disgusting fellow! i'm no prude either! if ever i do a woman i'll stop the filth-gutter "ce serait "trop" 127 12.40 maybe he did "not" know of my presence; merely remembered me. he has cause. how much there is in one's mind of the merely personal idea of scoring off the bowlers. and every man is a batsman in a world of bowlers. like that leg-cricket game, what did we call

to the earth, even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken by a mighty wind. what are suns, and moons, and stars, but the ideas of dreaming children cradled in the abyss of a drowsy understanding? to the blind worm, the sun is as the fluttering of warm wings in the outer 137 darkness, and the stars are not; to the savage, as welcome ball of fire, and the glittering eyes of the beasts of night: to us, as spheres of earth's familiar elements and many hundred million miles away. and to the man of ten thousand years hence_ who knows! and to him a hundred million years after that_ who cares! senses may come and go, and the five may become ten, and the ten twenty, so that the beings of that last far-off twilight may differ from us, as we differ from the earthworm, and the wee

ther leading to the left. to the right the goal is all things, to the left the goal is nothing. yet the paths are not two paths, but one path; and the goals are not two goals, but one goal. the aspirant upon entering the circle must travel by the one or the other, and must not look back; lest he be turned into a pillar of salt, and become the habitation of the spirits of earth "for thy vessel the beasts of the earth shall inhabit" as sayeth zoroaster. the magus travels by both simultaneously, if he travels at all; for he has learnt what is meant by the mystery "a straight line is the circumference of a circle whose radius in infinity; a line of infinite length in the mind of the neophyte, but which in truth is also a line of infinite shortness in that of the magus, if finite or infinite at

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you were forced despite yourself to drop a hint that might warn me to rejoin my knights. laylah. no! rinaldo. yes. by that i knew that you loved me. laylah. and by this("she strikes him) know that i hate you. rinaldo. you are too young. i have seen lions. laylah. you are a savage. rinaldo. nature is savage. passion is savage. the god alike of jews and moslems delights in death. or why are men and beasts slain in his honour? brutal force is at the heart of things. man is dragged crying from his mother's womb in dire agony; man fights his surroundings- the nearer they are the more bitterly must he fight them 78- and at last he is hurled fighting into the hungry mouth of death. laylah. the cloud grows. rinaldo. indeed you love me, if you bid me waste no time. laylah. oh no. i must respect you

serpent to twine about my heart "ah! could i crush it" he closed the door. like a priest celebrating his first high mass he led her through paris. neither spoke. only as they mounted the steps of the cafe he took her arm and said, sharply and sternly "attention! from this moment i am edgar rolles, and you are ida pendragon. no more: not a thought of our real relation. man and woman, if you will; beasts in the jungle, if you will; flowers by the wayside, if you will; but nothing more. else you will not only fail in the ordeal, but you will be swept aside out of the path. you were in greater danger than you knew this afternoon; you will yet pay the price "i understand" she said "you devil! i love you "and i love every inch of your white body" they ran laughing arm in arm through the swing d

to god. i was a nonconformist preacher once: i had secret sins. they were mine! mine! how proud i was of them! every sunday i used to preach against the sin that i had done most in the week. there are many butterflies in the desert; 132 ever so many more than one would think. this proves that god is good. and then, you see, there are beetles. beetles and beetles. and scorpions. dear little amber beasts. there! one has stung me. it is the sacrament of hate. i will sleep in a bed of scorpions and rose-leaves. scorpions are better than thorns. why do i wander about naked? and why do i thirst? and this torment of cold? it ought to be hot in the desert. and it isn't. now that proves- oh yes, my cat! you shall have milk. i will strike a rock for you. milk and honey" she started up suddenly, and

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

s still heathen six hundred years after the birth of christ, and although augustine managed to convert the king of kent to christianity, the rest of the country preferred pagan rites of witchcraft. but as the 'establishment' became christian, the old religion fell into disrepute,and in a.d. 668 the archbishopofcanterbury ruled that people who ate and drank in heathen temples, or wore the heads of beasts, should do three years' penance. the witches continued to use the stag's horns, however. their only concession was to meet secretly, on moors or in lonely forests. these meetings were known as 'sabbats* after homage had been paid to the devil, usually present in the guise of a black goat, or his deputy, the witches held a banquet. this was followed by the main feature of the sabbat, the dan

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

arkest spawn of hell. they darkened all the space* from the coming of the heaven-sent one peace passed upon the earth. the planet staggered and belched forth fire. part rose. part fell. the form was changed. millions took other forms or ascended to the appointed place of waiting. they tarried till the hour of progress should again sound forth for them* the early third produced the monsters, great beasts and evil forms. they prowled upon the surface of the sphere. the watery fourth produced within the watery sphere, reptiles and spawn of evil fame, the product of their karma. the waters came and swept away the progenitors of the fluidic spawn. the separating fifth built in the rupa sphere the concrete forms of thought. they cast them forth. they peopled the lower four, and like a black and

lf one of the great builders, and a creator within the planetary scheme. men should remember that through the power of their thoughts and their spoken words they definitely produce effects upon other human beings functioning on the three planes of human evolution and upon the entire animal kingdom. the separative and maleficent thoughts of man are largely responsible for the savage nature of wild beasts, and the destructive quality of some of nature's processes, including certain phenomena, such as plague and famine. it is of no value to man to know the names of some of the "army of the voice" unless he comprehends his relationship to that army, unless he apprehends the responsibility which is his to be a beneficent creator, working under the law of love, and not impelled to the creative a

of the mineral kingdom and the human. these points are only for reference to our own planetary scheme. the lord of the moon chain and the lord of our present animal kingdom are "blood brothers" and in their relationship and the esoteric interference of the "man of men (the human family personified) is hidden the mystery of present animal karma and the slaughter of animal forms, the terror of wild beasts and the work of vivisectionists. under this law, too, is found "the path" upon which men lift themselves out of the human state of consciousness into the divine, but on this there is no need to enlarge. 2. form building. the second effect is form building. upon this we will not enlarge at any length, as all that it is at present possible to impart anent this subject has already been given i

; and (2) would have done the same for his class of "men" since there are shells and "mara-rupas" i.e. bodies doomed to annihilation. all these are (1 "rupa-devas" dhyan chohans, having forms. e x-men (2 "arupa-devas" dhyan chohans, having no forms. ex-men (3 "pisachas (two-principled) ghosts (4 "mara-rupa" doomed to death (three principled (5) asuras elementals having human form. f uture men (6) beasts elementals second class animal elementals. future men (7) rakshasas (demons) souls or astral forms of sorcerers; men who have reached the apex of knowledge in the forbidden art. dead or alive they have, so to say, cheated nature; but it is only temporary until our planet goes into obscuration, after which they have nolens volens to be annihilated. it is these seven groups that form the prin

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on the part of the- 109- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust aspirant to be at one with all beings. he begins with himself and sees to it that the seeds of harmfulness in his own nature are eradicated. he deals, therefore, with the cause which produces enmity towards him and others. the natural result is that he is at peace and others are at peace with him. in his presence even wild beasts are rendered impotent and this by the condition of the mind-state of the aspirant or yogin. 36. when truth to all beings is perfected, the effectiveness of his words and acts is immediately to be seen. this question of truth is one of the great problems which the aspirant has to solve, and he who attempts to speak only that which is entirely accurate will find himself confronted by very def

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the left. the first dim indication of this tendency towards lucidity is seen in the faculty of the plant to turn towards the sun. it is practically non-existent in the mineral kingdom. divisions. first, the higher animals and the domestic animals, such as the dog, the horse and the elephant. secondly, the so-called wild animals, such as the lion, the tiger and other carnivorous and dangerous wild beasts- 272- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust thirdly, the mass of lesser animals that seem to meet no particular need nor to fill any special purpose, such as the harmless yet multitudinous lives found in our forests, our jungles and the fields of our planet. instances of these in the west are the rabbits and other rodents. this is a wide an

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e ancient nursery rhyme about the "lion and the unicorn going up to town" and contains in a peculiar way the secret of initiation and the "going up" of the human being to the portal of admittance into the hierarchy as well as the "mystic raising" of which masonry holds the key. this deals with the emergence of the consciousness of the initiate (white and one-pointed) and the defeat of the king of beasts (the personality) leading to the triumph of group and world consciousness, of selflessness and illumination over self-consciousness and selfishness. in the true rendition of this ancient myth the king of beasts is blinded and killed by the piercing of his eye and heart by the long horn of the unicorn- 93- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trus

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

aquila, the eagle. which rises at the same time with scorpio; they are closely linked in symbolism. scorpio is 'the monster of darkness, who stings to death, and yet preserves and reproduces, symbolizing not only generation but regeneration. as the latter it is aquila, the eagle, the bird of the sun which has conquered the dark side of scorpio (that adversary that can drag man down lower than the beasts, but when transmuted is the eagle of light, which can exalt above the gods" the celestial ship of the north. vol. i (e. v. straiton. the "eye of the bull" in taurus, the magnificent fixed star, aldebaran, is one of the reasons why this constellation is regarded as conferring illumination. in ancient days it was called the leading star of the heavens, and taurus has always been connected wit

b the mountain in capricorn he must slay the hydra, and knows that he must no longer be the raven, but must manifest as aquila, the eagle of scorpio, and as cygnus, the swan, in aquarius. this he must begin to do in leo, by demonstrating the power to dare, by facing the terrific struggle that lies ahead of him in the next three signs and by the slaying of the lion of [108] his own nature (king of beasts) alone and unaided, and so earn. the power to overcome the hydra, in scorpio. the lesson of the labor two thoughts, taken out of the christian bible, summarize the lesson of this labor. in st. peter's epistle we find these words "your adversary, the devil, like a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour" and in revelations v, 5, we find the words "behold, the lion of the tribe

t work [137] turning to aries, we find that the keynote is "adaptability, which indicates a method by which the "ease" of libra may be obtained. we all know of men and women, in history and about us now, who move with poise and power amidst tragic happenings. and what an awesome, inspiring sight it is. we find adaptability also in the camouflage of the animal kingdom, in the coloring of birds and beasts which helps to protect their lives. man in dangerous circumstances has an equal need for camouflage, in his case, for increased adaptability. this immediately raises a query as to the dangers of compromise, the deserting of principle for safety. but just as the tibetan has told us that "spiritual compromise" may be a recognition of time and evolution, not involving any treachery to the goal

garded in our christian belief as the sacred four and we find them presented to us in the four living creatures of the prophet ezekiel. these four had the face of a man, aquarius; the face of a lion, leo; the face of an ox, taurus; and the face of an eagle, scorpio. aquila, the eagle is astrologically interchangeable with scorpio. they are symbolized again in the four evangelists, and in the four beasts of revelations. this cross is the cross of all world saviors, and the cardinal cross is that of deity, crucified in the water of space. 3. the mutable or common cross, consisting of the four constellations [223] a. gemini the interplay between higher and lower. b. virgo the form which nurtures the christ child. c. sagittarius the aspirant, speeding towards the goal. d. pisces death. consumm

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, i scoff at your puerile dignitaries' absurd moral clothes and ovine faith in a fortuitous and gluttonous future! dogs, devouring your own vomit! cursed are ye all! throwbacks, adulterers, sycophants, corpse devourers, pilferers and medicine swallowers! think ye heaven is an infirmary? ye know not pleasure. in your sleep lusts, feeble violence and sickly morale, ye are more contemptible than the beasts ye feed for food. i detest your mammon. disease partakes of your wealth. having acquired, ye know not how to spend. ye are good murderers only. empty of cosmos are they who hunger after righteousness. already are the merciful spent. extinct are the pure in heart. governed are the meek and of heaven earn similar disgust. your society is a veneered barbarity. ye are precocious primitives. whe

phenomena. without hypocrisy or fear ye could do as ye wish. whosoever, therefore, shall break the precept or live its transgression shall have relativity of heaven. for unless your righteousness exist not, ye shall not pleasure freely and creatively. in so much as ye sin against doctrine, so shall your imagination be required in becoming. it has been said without wit "thou shalt not kill" among beasts man lives supremely-on his own kind. teeth and claws are no longer sufficient accessory to appetite. is this world's worst reality more vicious than human behavior? i suggest to your inbred love of moral gesture to unravel the actual from the dream. rejoice ye! the law-makers shall have the ugly destiny of becoming subject. whatsoever is ordained is superseded-to make equilibrium of this co

are insufficient to live alone, not yet mature enough to sin against the law and still desire women. other than damnation i know no magic to satisfy your wishes; for ye believe one thing, desire another, speak unlike, act differently and obtain the living value. assuredly inclination towards new faculties springs from this bastardy! social only to the truths convenient to your courage, yet again beasts shall be planted. shall i speak of that unique intensity without form? know ye the ecstasy within? the pleasure between ego and self? at that time of ecstasy there is no thought of others; there is no thought. thither i go and none may lead. sans women-your love is anathema! for me, there is no way but my way. therefore, go ye your way-none shall lead ye to walk towards yourselves. let your

APOCALYPSE MOSES

he devil went to adam's lot, where the male creatures were (for god divided the creatures; all the males he gave to your father and all the females he gave to me) chapter 16. 1 and the devil spake to the serpent saying, rise up, come to me and i will tell thee a word whereby thou mayst have profit" 2 and he arose and came to him. and the devil saith to him "i hear that thou art wiser than all the beasts, and i have come to counsel thee. 3 why dost thou eat of adam's tares and not of paradise? rise up and we will cause him to be cast out of paradise, even as we were cast out through him" 4 the serpent saith to him "i fear lest the lord be wroth with me" 5 the devil saith to him "fear not, only be my vessel and i will speak through thy mouth words to deceive him" chapter 17. 1 and instantly

ng up for thee, and in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread (thou shalt be in manifold toils; thou shalt be crushed by bitterness, but of sweetness shalt thou not taste) 3 weary shalt thou be and shalt not rest; by heat shalt thou be tired, by cold shalt thou be straitened: abundantly shalt thou busy thyself, but thou shalt not be rich; and thou shalt grow fat, but come to no end. 4 the beasts, over whom thou didst rule, shall rise up in rebellion against thee, for thou hast not kept my commandment" chapter 25. 1 and the lord turned to me and said "since thou hast hearkened to the serpent, and turned a deaf ear to my commandment, thou shalt be in throes of travail and intolerable agonies; 2 thou shalt bear children in much trembling and in one hour thou shalt come to the birth, a

say 'lord, lord, save me, and i will turn no more to the sin of the flesh' 4 and on this account, from thine own words i will judge thee, by reason of the enmity which the enemy has planted in thee" chapter 26. 1 but he turned to the serpent (in great wrath) and said "since thou hast done this, and become a thankless vessel until thou hast deceived the innocent hearts, accursed art thou among all beasts. 2 thou shalt be deprived of the victual of which thou didst eat and shalt feed on dust all the days of thy life: on thy breast and thy belly shalt thou walk and be robbed of hands and feet. 3 there shall not be left thee ear nor wing, nor one limb of all that with which thou didst ensnare them in thy malice and causedst them to be cast out of paradise; 4 and i will put enmity between thee

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

o bless or curse with power friends or enemies [to do good or evil].t o converse with spirits.t o find hidden treasures in ancient ruins.t o conjure the spirits of priests who died leaving treasures.t o understand the voice of the wind.t o change water into wine.t o divine with cards.t o know the secrets of the hand (palmistry).t o cure diseases.t o make those who are ugly beautiful.t o tame wild beasts.whatever thing should be asked from the spirit of aradia, that should be granted unto those whomerited her favour.and thus must they invoke her:thus do i seek aradia! aradia! aradia! 8 at midnight, at midnight i go into a field, and with me i bearwater, wine, and salt, i bear water, wine, and salt, and my talisman my talisman, my talisman,and a red small bag which i ever hold in my hand con

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eir welfare was low in most people s agenda, and he kept an open house for cats in the various places he lived. in some earlier pictures it seems as if more than half the image is made up of scales and feathers of the winged and crawling creatures that intertwine with captured humanity. their constant companionship accompanies spare s twilight journeys through the spirit worlds. equality with the beasts seems paramount to his vision. spare s obsession with the hybrid and grotesque in nature and supernature, something which takes in the full spectrum of ovidian metamorphoses, suggests in the artist s mind a vision of the active trafficking of creatures between one world and the other. all of the janus-headed, multi-faced, theriomorphic swarms which proliferate in spare s paintings threaten

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more in eternal glory, never to be separated again throughout all eternity. hence the rational soul of man makes him an abiding creature, and, though his body may seem to die, yet we know that he will live for ever. for to him death is only a process of purification, by means of which he is freed from his sins, and translated to another and better place. but there is no resurrection for the brute beasts, because they have no rational soul, for which alone our lord and saviour shed his blood. for though a body may be vitalized by a spirit, yet it need not, therefore, be fixed, unless, indeed, it possess a rational soul, that strong bond between body and spirit, which represents their union, and resists all efforts to separate them. where there is no soul, there is no hope of redemption. not

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executioner of all beings. i will come to destroy the king and his ministers together with his retinue" after saying this, he died. he was immediately reborn in the west, in the red fields of a might demon land called chongri zangtso( chong ri zangs mtsho. on the copper peaks of this land, a hundred might demons race alongside soaring dark vultures. along the middle of the mountains, carnivorous beasts roam about grassy fields of copper. along the surrounding copper hills, there are terrifying storms of copper. within the red copper mountain there is a boiling lake of blood. at the center of the blood lake, there is a dark leather castle endowed with a golden dome, gates of conch shell, copper locks, and stairs of lapis lazuli. here, due to his maliciousness and arrogance, chorwa was rebo

less, it is possible to envision almost any instance of violence as one of defense. in the buddhist milieu of sri lanka, violence is perpetrated in reaction to what buddhist practitioners feel is an encroachment on their religion. thus, actions must be taken to remove forcefully any impediments to the solidarity of buddhism. indeed, unbelievers and "men of evil life" are considered no better than beasts and thus not worthy of inclusion in lists of war casualties.94 in tibet, forceful attacks on enemies of buddhism have been mythologically represented by the 90 recall the conflation between the dmu tribe and demon type discussed in the introduction. see haarh 1969 for more on the history of the yarlung dynasty. 91 see beckwith 1987, particularly pp. 11-54, for a quintessential study of tibe

those, throw the charmed substances, blood, and magic weapons; carry the effigy of the might demon form to the three highest.391 then, as for the stages of the signs; a guardian king and a horseman [endowed with] pierced leather and clanging symbols arrive at the top of a red rock as the sun392 and moon393 rise [309] blue wolves wander; these should be known as the signs394 of gods and men. wild beasts that are led into battle roam the distant mountains. they destroy395 the castles of the enemy, seize prisoners, steal clothes and ornaments, and kill animals. these should be known as the signs of the enemy. light and396 sound and shaking, and beating the door and burning the house, and shake the effigy and [fall as] 385 having been instructed from the two propitiations. 386 in this context

n of rain clouds of unbearable radiant color, a series of hail which destroys the crops of the enemies and hindering demons, an assembly of dragons that call out roars which destroy the sky and the earth, and a great ocean on the ground. i offer the good pathways of the exceedingly good green meadows, the fountains with the eight [auspicious signs] on top, and the thick forests filled with savage beasts together with the deer that roam carefree. i collect the ocean of tormas which bless the nectar and the ocean of the drinks of immortality nectar. i pile up the food and drink of flesh, blood, and bone like a mountain. i offer all the piles of jewels (6a) i will offer the hundred thousand various [items] of the assembly of red horses, yaks of the might demons, sheep, birds, red dogs, hawks

and i will become the executioner of the life-energy of all beings; i will come to destroy the king and his ministers together with his retinue" then he died. immediately, in the renowned red fields, the might demon land of chongri zangtso in the west, he hastened upward to the copper cliffs. on the peaks, a hundred might demons race alongside soaring dark vultures. along the middle, carnivorous beasts roam about grassy fields of copper grass. along the copper hills in the surrounding area, there are overpowering, 212 terrifying storms of copper, and within the frightening red copper boulders there are boiling lakes full of blood. at the center of the blood lake of the complete design of a charnel ground, there is a dark, brass castle endowed with a golden dome, gates of conch shell, copp

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cusations that the married mother of two was a lesbian promoting homosexuality; the plot of faust, where the title character sells his soul to the devil to recapture his youth, led to her being labeled a devil worshipper. four members of a so-called satanic sect are starting long prison sentences in italy for their part in three brutal, ritual murders. nicola sapone, 27, one of the leaders of the beasts of satan rock group and one of the suspected masterminds of the killings, was given a life sentence. the three others were jailed for between 24 and 26 years. 23 per contra music& movie reviews by desang& aramon a review of dimmu borgir s stormblast (2005) desang says the re-release of their third album, stormblast, which is by black metal standards, a masterpiece, coming to nearly ten year

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ve and continue on spiritually to this present time. lilith, being the bride of the devil, is one part of the adversary as being the dark instinctual side of man and woman, feminine, yet horrific and loving all within the same breath. lilith is known by the semitic layil which a word is meaning night, but also the name of the demon of the storm. lilith is associated with the screech owl and other beasts of the wild, as it is where she went after she left heaven to wander the earth. she is considered one of the three assyrian demons being ardat lilit, lilit and lilu, but rather these may be just variations of her name. it is suggested by some hebrew scholars that lilith was worshipped by exiled jews from babylon as a goddess of the wilderness. 6 lilith as described in post-biblical literatu

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. in the seven caves* from which the ancestors of the nahuatl are reported to have emerged. in the seven cities of cibola, described by coronado and niza. in the seven antilles; in the seven heroes who, we are told, escaped the deluge "heroes" moreover, whose number is found the same in every "deluge" story- from the seven rishis who were saved with vaivasvata manu, down to noah's ark, into which beasts, fowls, and living creatures were taken by "sevens" thus we see the figures 1, 3, 5, 7, as perfect, because thoroughly mystic, numbers playing a prominent part in every cosmogony and evolution of living beings. in china, 1, 3, 5, 7, are called "celestial numbers" in the canonical "book of changes (yi king, or transformation, as in "evolution. the explanation of it becomes evident when one e

which numbers of monstrous beings were generated? is it the "human beings" and animals with human heads and double faces, which are a point of the objection? but if man is only a higher animal and has evolved from the brute species by an infinite series of transformations, why could not the "missing links" have had human heads attached to the bodies of animals, or, being two-headed, have heads of beasts and vice versa, in nature's early efforts? are we not shown during the geological periods, in the ages of the reptiles and the mammalia, lizards with birds' wings, and serpents' heads on animal bodies* and, arguing from the standpoint of science, does not even our modern human race occasionally furnish us with monster-specimens: two-headed children, animal bodies with human heads, dog-heade

venly man" but by "man" the divine monad is meant, and not the thinking entity, much less his physical body. while rejecting the immortal soul, the men of science now try to trace the latter through a series of animal forms from the lowest to the highest; whereas, in truth, all the present fauna are the descendants of those primordial monsters of which the stanzas speak. the animals- the creeping beasts and those in the waters that preceded man in this fourth round, as well as those contemporary with the third race, and again the mammalia that are posterior to the third and fourth races- all are either directly or indirectly the mutual and correlative product (physically) of man. it is correct to say that the man of this manvantara, i.e, during the three preceding rounds, has passed throug

or nature. it is just what saturn did. he loved mankind and placed to rule over it no mortal king or prince but "spirits and genii[[daimones] of a divine nature more excellent than that of man" it was god, the logos (the synthesis of the host) who thus presiding over the genii, became the first shepherd and leader of men* when the world had ceased to be so governed and the gods retired "ferocious beasts devoured a portion of mankind "left to their own resources and industry, inventors then appeared among them successively and discovered fire, wheat, wine; and public gratitude deified them("de legibus" 1, iv; in crit. and in politic. and mankind was right, as fire by friction was the first mystery of nature, the first and chief property of matter that was revealed to man "fruits and grain

pon his dazzling face and wept "when the kings assembled the waters had already moved"(but) the nations had now crossed the dry lands. they were beyond the water mark. their kings reached them in their viwans, and led them on to the lands of fire and metal (east and north. still, in another passage, it is said. stars (meteors) showered on the lands of the black faces; but they slept "the speaking beasts (the magic watchers) kept quiet "the nether lords waited for orders, but they came not, for their masters slept "the waters arose, and covered the valleys from one end of the earth to the other. high lands remained, the bottom of the earth (the lands of the antipodes) remained dry. there dwelt those who escaped; the men of the yellow-faces and of the straight eye (the frank and sincere peop

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ling fetter, all-devourer, all-begetter; give me the sign of the open eye, and the token erect of thorny thigh, and the word of madness and mystery, o pan! io pan! io pan! io pan pan! pan pan! pan, i am a man: do as thou wilt, as a great god can, o pan! io pan! io pan! io pan pan! i am awake in the grip of the snake. the eagle slashes with beak and claw; hymn to pan 7 the gods withdraw: the great beasts come, io pan! i am borne to death on the horn of the unicorn. i am pan! io pan! io pan pan! pan! i am thy mate, i am thy man, goat of thy flock, i am gold, i am god, flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod. with hoofs of steel i race on the rocks through solstice stubborn to equinox. and i rave; and i rape and i rip and i rend everlasting, world without end, mannikin, maiden, maenad, man, in t

n me of thy flesh to eat and of thy blood for an offering of intoxication. the equinox 80 39. thou hast fastened the fangs of eternity in my soul, and the poison of the infinite hath consumed me utterly. 40. i am become like a luscious devil of italy; a fair strong woman with worn cheeks, eaten out with hunger for kisses. she hath played the harlot in divers places; she hath given her body to the beasts. 41. she hath slain her kinsfolk with strong venom of toads; she hath been scourged with many rods. 42. she hath been broken in pieces upon the wheel; the hands of the hangman have bound her unto it. 43. the fountains of water have been loosed upon her; she hath struggled with exceeding torment. 44. she hath burst in sunder with the weight of the waters; she hath sunk into the awful sea. 45

at guardeth me. 42. o holy exalted one, o self beyond self, o self- luminous image of the unimaginable naught, o my darling, my beautiful, come thou forth and follow me. 43. adonai, divine adonai, let adonai initiate refulgent dalliance! thus i concealed the name of her name that inspireth my rapture, the scent of whose body bewildereth the soul, the light of whose soul abaseth this body unto the beasts. liber lxv 95 44. i have sucked out the blood with my lips; i have drained her beauty of its sustenance; i have abased her before me, i have mastered her, i have possessed her, and her life is within me. in her blood i inscribe the secret riddles of the sphinx of the gods, that none shall understand,.save only the pure and voluptuous, the chaste and obscene, the androgyne and gynander that

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anches of my family are rejoined" then they feasted late into the night, while human foretold joys and sorrows, and cain described his visions. everything that human said was true, but cain spoke only of the world of the children of abel. so human was the first true prophet, and cain the first false prophet, but they dwelt together as kinsmen for all the rest of their days. 3. at that time, giant beasts lived in every part of the world, and they consumed trees and made a devastation throughout the wilderness. but seth taught his sons to hunt as he had learned from abel, because god told them that children must learn from their elders' wisdom. then the daughters of cain married the sons of seth and, after the death of eve, they scattered to find the lands that cain had seen. so the human ch

rt of the world, and they consumed trees and made a devastation throughout the wilderness. but seth taught his sons to hunt as he had learned from abel, because god told them that children must learn from their elders' wisdom. then the daughters of cain married the sons of seth and, after the death of eve, they scattered to find the lands that cain had seen. so the human children killed the giant beasts, and the trees spread over all the lands, until a squirrel could run from sea to sea without touching the ground. then the whole world was like a garden in the sight of god. the cold years came, and ice flowed over the north. god watched as the great glaciers slowly melted back, and then looked again for the humanites under the trees. and god was angered, for they were still hunting and gat

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nd their form is like that of a most devilish and almost human-headed insect. 9. nachashiron- whose colors are like serpents, and their form like dog-headed serpents. 10. dagdagiron- whose colors are reddish and gleaming, and their form like vast and devouring flat-headed fishes. 11. behemiron- whose name is derived of behemoth, and their colors are black and brown, and their forms those of awful beasts like a hippopotamus, and an elephant, but crushed flat, or as if their skin was spread out flat over the body of a gigantic beetle or cockroach, crawling yet having vast strength. 12. neshimiron- whose colors are of a stagnant gleaming, watery hue, and their forms like hideous women, almost skeletons, united to the bodies of serpents and fishes. in the midst of the circle are placed samael

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

ath with the cry "destroy them all. the lord will know his own" in 1586 the archbishop of treves decided that the local witches had caused the recent severe winter. by dint of frequent torture a "confession" was obtained and one hundred twenty men and women were burned to death on his charge that they had interfered with the elements. since fertility was of great importance fertility of crops and beasts there were certain sexual rites enacted by the wicca, as followers of the nature religion. these sexual rites seem to have been given unnecessary prominence by the christian judges, who seemed to delight in prying into the most minute of details concerning them. the rites of the craft were joyous in essence. it was an extremely happy religion and so was, in many ways, totally incomprehensib

with evil is made; how they transport from place to place; how witches impede and prevent the power of procreation; hoiv as it were they deprive man of his virile member; how witch midwives commit horrid crimes when they either kill children or offer them to devils in most accursed wise; how witches injure cattle, raise and stir up hailstorms and tempests and cause lightning to blast both men and beasts. then follow remedies for the above. the third part of the book 'relating to the judicial proceedings in both the ecclesiastical and civil courts against witches and indeed all heretics, is perhaps the most important. it is here that the order of the trial is dealt with 'who are the fit and proper judges for the trial of witches?'is the first question. it goes on to the method of initiating

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forever between height and depth in perfect balance. consider me under the aspect of aleph; there shalt thou find both height and depth and the path also which joineth them for descent and return. 11 aleph in truth am i, the ox of solar fire whose radiance lighteth all the world, whose life-breath ebbeth and floweth in creatures great and small, whose power taketh form in all the acts of men, of beasts, of plants, yea, and of things which seem inanimate, as well. aleph am i, the patient burden-bearer, strong to carry the heavy load of the manifest. aleph am i, the eternal worker, by whose might all fields are tilled, and from whose life all seeds derive their growth and increase. aleph am i, the first and the root. from mine unfathomable will the universe hath its beginning. in my boundle

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

but you can create your own through a god meditation by visualising a god form that seems relevant to you. again i have used celtic god forms: these are the words of the father, who is son and consort of the great mother, born in the beginning of she who created the universe from her own body, from her smiles and tears and ever-fertile womb 'i am he, the wild untamed power of the hunt, the horned beasts and the woodland, that offers food, shelter and protection to people of all races, clans and creeds. i am cernunnos, horned lord of winter; as master of the animals and lord of the corn, i offer willing sacrifice for the land and people; as king of the dark places beneath the soil, in the nurturing womb of the mother, like all creatures who have entered the gentle earth, i grow strong again

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

lorious conditions to be read, which if it were not too long, would be well worthy of being recounted here. in brief, the young lady took an oath inviolably to observe the same, returning thanks too in a most seemly way for such a high grace. whereupon they began to sing to the praise of god, of the king, and the young lady, and so for the time being departed. for sport, in the meantime, the four beasts of daniel, as he saw them in the vision and as he described them at length, were brought in, all of which had its certain signification. in the fourth act the young lady was again restored to her lost kingdom, and crowned, and for a while, in this array, conducted about the place with extraordinary joy. after this many and various ambassadors presented themselves, not only to wish her prosp

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earth. 24 the world was indeed a sparkling jewel. sturdy pine trees dotted the mountains, and weeping willows lined the streams. apple, quince, and plum blossoms burst into bloom and later yielded ripe, heavy fruit. birds flitted about in the azure sky, leaving their black, crimson, and iridescent green feathers drifting in the wind. silverfish and carp splashed gleefully in the waterways. fierce beasts like tigers and gentle creatures like deer roamed with equal abandon across the rocky hills. nuwa, a goddess, stumbled accidentally upon this vibrant world during her travels. the earth was humming and teeming with life. she marveled at its many wondrous creatures. everywhere she looked, she found a creature more marvelous than the one before. she saw every type of fur and fin, feather and

led. in order to keep their bodies in perfect condition, every three thousand years, gods must eat the peach of long life and drink the elixir of immortality from the garden of the western paradise. this garden is tended by the queen mother hsi wang mu [she wong muh, an old woman who has the fangs of a tiger and the tail of a panther. she lives alone and is protected by birds of prey and fearsome beasts. she also controls plagues and evil spirits. however frightful her appearance and her powers, hsi wang mu is a motherly figure to all the gods in heaven. in her enchanted garden grow the coveted peaches which she plucks and serves at a sumptuous banquet for the gods. she is an alchemist, or a person who practices the art of combining substances that will transform. hsi wang mu can mix many

in danger, you pray to her for deliverance. she is all pervasive, all loving, the very embodiment of beauty and grace. it is hardly surprising that she is so popular.4 although journey to the west is the story of the introduction of buddhism to china, it is also a reminder of the power of taoism and confucianism. in palmer and xiaomin s version, monkey says: now [that] we have defeated these evil beasts you must see there is a way in the buddhist teachings also. from now 118 on do not take one religion only, but honor both the buddhist clergy and the taoist way, as well as educating intelligent men following the confucian fashion. this will make the kingdom secure from evil forever.5 journey to the west is an excellent example of how chinese mythology evolves from many different sources. p

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d man as his playthings to do with as it pleaseth him, that he may in his vanity be glorified, and receive everlasting tribute and adulation from man, as he receiveth from his angels. for it is demiurge who create man in ignorance and fear that man should forever be servile before him. it is written that demiurge created man in childlike innocence, unconscious and devoid of intelligence, like the beasts of the field levithmong, save that a 'spirit' was breathed into him so that he may know and fear and worship demiurge, and pay tribute unto him, and worship him unto eternity. and so he commanded adam and eve that they may not partake of the fruit of the tree of knowledge lest their eyes be opened and they become godlike, and thereby become free of his tyranny- ii- but there was an angel wh

ge she shall not die, but shall have her eyes opened, to be as god. and she ate, and offered the fruit to adam, her husband, and their minds were illuminated and they became self-realized, even as satanael himself. this was the gift of satanael unto man, that he should possess intelligence, and the desire to know, and self-consciousness, that he no longer be servile unto demiurge, nor live as the beasts of the field. a cry of fear and wrath rose up from demiurge, that man has become as god. he drove adam and eve from eden, and guarded the tree of life lest man also gain immortality. but the spark of illumination had been kindled within man and shall not be extinguished, and demiurge shall not be able tosmother the light of satanael, who is truly called lucifer, light- bringer- iv- i, samya

he days of adam and eve for the acceptance of satanael's gift, so now did the tyrant again curse man, and watchers also, for the gifts of satanael and samyaza had joined to exalt man that man may live in splendour, and rejoice in his own being, apart from demiurge. a commandment went forth from demiurge against all who dealt upon earth, against nephilim, gibborim, watchers, and man, even unto the beasts of the field, all save the servile noah and his family. said demiurge "the earth shall be engulfed by water, for man doth know every secret of the angels, every secret power of nephilim and watchers, and every power of sorcery "they know how silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how on the earth the metallic drop exists, the secret of metallurgy, for the angel which i stationed

of satanael abideth with man since the days of adam, unto eternity. no matter how many times you purge earth, the spark of intelligence and selfhood shall again become manifest. even your final judgement after this deluge is witness to your inability to keep quenched the spark within man, and the spirits of nephilim and gibborim and watchers shall return to inspire man lest he again become as the beasts of the field "our sons gibborim shall incarnate in the bodies of man, of those who are mighty and wise, to inspire and counsel them. they shall come to be called 'evil spirits' and 'demons' by the ignorant and fearful, but the wise they shall be known as 'daimons, for these shall be the guardian geniuses of the great of earth, who shall inspire the best among man to great heights, to beauti

m'shiha died a humiliating death, spurned by his own people- viii- whenever man seeks light and calls upon samyaza, and upon satanael himself, there shall we send the gibborim and nephilim for these are what the graikoi truly called 'daimons, the guardian geniuses and inspiration of culture, which the graikoi new will, that man should not return to the divine sterility of eden, or became again as beasts of the field. the light of satanael shall endure, even though it be but a tiny spark within a few at those times of ignorance and fear when man in weakness turns to demiurge and his m'shiha and other slave creeds. and that spark shall return as a blazing flas.a spell for crossing the desert by setnakt the divine formula of xepera xeper xeperu, whose physical form had entered the consciousne

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th a noose around their neck and a dagger held 184 .and the truth shall set you free to their heart. they had to swear to serve the order and keep its secrets, on pain of a grotesque ritual death. the penalty for divulging the secrets of the second degree (the fellow craft mason) is "having my left breast laid open, my heart torn therefrom, and given to the ravenous birds of the air, or devouring beasts of the field as a prey. in the third degree (master mason) it is "being severed in two, my bowels burnt to ashes, and those ashes scattered over the face of the earth and wafted by the four winds of heaven, that no trace of remembrance of so vile a wretch may longer be found among men, particularly master masons".4 charming. these are the sorts of ceremonies that conjure up the malevolent e

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n and the thunderbird clans. the thunderbird is a version of the chinese rain dragon. many of their leading initiates were believed to be snakes in human form, which, symbolically, is what the key bloodlines are. author mark amaru pinkham writes of these clans "they were reputed to wield the lethal power of a live snake and display both the intimidating temperament and appearance of the unsavoury beasts. as a sign of their viperous power, snake initiates would often adorn their body with snakeskins or snake tattoos and hang snake fangs from around their necks. they also conveyed poisonous snake venom within the medicine bag and/or armed themselves with a serpent-embellished rattle, which would hiss eerily like a coiled snake when shaken. the tendency of such snake initiates was to be secre

iated with human sacrifice and blood drinking- just like the illuminati today. the book of enoch describes the behaviour of the nefilim offspring produced with human women "and they became pregnant, and bore great giants..who consumed all the acquisitions of men. and when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. and they began to sin against birds and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh and drink blood. the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones" as then, so now. the blood drinkers "only through blood could they form being, only through man could they live in the world" insiders have told me that the reptilians need to drink human (mammalian) blood to maintain human form and stop their reptilian dna codes f

f the mormons. here is just one example: in the mormon ceremony it says "we and each of us do covenant and promise that we will not reveal the secrets of this, the second token of the aaronic priesthood, with its accompanying name, sign, grip, or penalty. should we do so, we agree to have our breasts cut open and our hearts and vitals torn from our bodies and given to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field" the masonic ritual says "i..most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear..that i will not give the degree of a fellow craft mason to anyone of an inferior degree, nor to any other being in the known world..binding myself under no less penalty than to have my left breast torn open and my heart and vitals taken from thence..to become a prey to the wild beasts of the field, and

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amedeities, right to the present day. another passage in the book of enoch tells of thewatchers breeding with human women and the behaviour of the offspring theyproduced:and they became pregnant, and they bore great giants. 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

uch trouble and the mental power of people is returning. this istheir most frightening time, but this is not going to kill them. there are long centuriesbefore its over yet. the difference this time is that itll be more difficult for them and theyare going to have to settle for less and the earth people are going to get more. but eventhough these reptilian ones are fuckers, they are sad, pathetic beasts really, whilehumanity is galloping towards light. theyre just pathetic lumps of nastiness who arentgoing to win. i cant talk about this everywhere because they would just go christine, get awhite coat, put it on backwards, get out. but i want an end to the bullshit.i was astonished to hear someone else talking about these subjects, which i knewfrom my own research to be true. she was not aw

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nother, and let there be no creature upon or within her the same. all her members let them differ in their qualities, and let there be no one creature equal with another. the reasonable creatures of earth or men let them vex and weed out one another, and the dwelling places, let them forget their names. the work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced. his buildings let them become caves for the beasts of the field. confound her understanding with darkness. for why? it repenteth me i made man. one while let her be known, and another while a stranger. because she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling place of him that is fallen. o you heavens, arise, the lower heavens underneath you, let them serve you. govern those that govern. cast down, cast down such as fall. bring forth with those

and let there be no creature upon or within her the same. all her numbers, let them differ in their qualities; and let there be no creature equal with another. the reasonable creatures of the earth, and men, let them vex and weed out one another; and their dwelling places, let them forget their names. the work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced. his buildings, let them become caves for the beasts of the field! confound her understanding with darkness! for why? it repenteth me that i have made man. one while let her be known, and another while a stranger; because she is in the bed of a harlot, and the dwelling place of lucifer the king. open wide the gates of hell! the lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you! govern those who govern! cast down such as fall. bring forth those th

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t as well. set was also friendly to the shades of the dead as well, set was said to purify and horus strengthen. the backbone of the dead was considered the backbone of set. another title of set is smai, the egyptian name associated with set as the archfiend and devil. it was as the adversary becoming the mastering force over apep, thus slowly apep became a form of set and vise versa. the demonic beasts, serpents and such located and dwelling deep in the waters were considered of set and therefore part of his essence. similarly anything with red was often considered to be of set, as red was the color commonly associated with fire and aggression. apep and his/its brood have been referred to as children of rebellion 2 and were opponents to the sun god. while set has been considered for being

t and fire. 27 called hell by some. 25 i guide without a scripture; i point the way by unseen means unto my friends and such as observe the precepts of my teaching, which is not grievous, and is adapted to the time and conditions. i punish such as contravene my laws in other worlds. the children of this adam know not those things which are determined, wherefore they oft-times fall into error. the beasts of the field, and of heaven, and the fish of the sea,all of them are in my hand and under my control. the treasures and hoards buried in the heart of the earth are known to me, and i cause one after another to inherit them. i make manifest my signs and wonders to such as will receive them and seek them from me in their due season. kitab el-jelwa here one may consider the point of guiding wi

and i cause one after another to inherit them. i make manifest my signs and wonders to such as will receive them and seek them from me in their due season. kitab el-jelwa here one may consider the point of guiding without scripture, that shaitan as the imagination and holy guardian angel or true will, brings knowledge without words but rather what aleister crowley called energized enthusiasm. the beasts of the field and the fish of the sea are all manifestations and connected with shaitan. this is the inner relation to shaitan as the black man of the sabbat, the very ritual of magick fire which either as the light of the luciferian conclave or holy rites of noon28 to announce self discovery and to seek transformation into a satan-like individual. it is the black snake, a symbol of the yezi

ilith were made up of displays a very interesting connection. here we see that lilith actually has different forms, but all are connected to the ancient mother lilith, who is also az in earlier folklore. lilith is able to change her form and manipulate her essence, she grows strong from the draconian essence within man and woman, their lusts, hungers and desires empower her. her essence is of the beasts of the wild, as a restless spirit, she drew close with the wild beasts of the deserts and forests, that which is far away from humanity. one specific description of her composition of fire, the same as her mate samael, is read in the following- they found it stated in those chapters that samael, the great prince of them all, grew exceedingly jealous of asmodeus the king of the demons becaus

al spirit. leviathan in this instance is the guardian of the abyss and timeless in essence. isaiah 27:1 calls leviathan that crooked serpent. 39 from the legends of the jews, ginzberg. 36 the fallen angel rahab itself means violence and refers to his name or title as sar shel yam, in hebrew prince of the primordial sea. the source of the twin fallen angels leviathan and behemoth, presents both as beasts and dragons which hold much power when they fell. and that day will two monsters be parted, one monster, a female named leviathan in order to dwell in the abyss of the ocean over the fountains of water, and a male called behemoth which holds his chest in an invisible desert whose name is dendayen, east of the garden of eden. enoch 60: 7-8 these twin dragons in the beginning were said to be

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the noble class, and wore white robes, trimmed in purple. there is an old legend that states that several druids of gaul and britain were converted to a roman religion, and were made augurs for their territories after rome had conquered them. aura: an emanation of energy, or "halo" of colored light given out by, and forming a force-field surrounding all physical objects, including the human body, beasts, plants, and rocks, which people with psychic vision can see or other sensitives can sense. the observed colors of the aura are said to indicate definite emotional states and/or physical and/or mental conditions. don tyson states that because they are not seen with the physical eyes, they cannot be recorded by machines. this is not necessarily the case, as x-rays are not seen by the physica

sciousness (q.v. esbat: a lesser gathering of witches for the purposes of celebration and works of magick. an esbat usually occurs on the nights of the full or new moon. esoteric: greek for "secret" a term used to imply a type of knowledge or wisdom that is reserved only for the few. e.s.p: see extra sensory perception. evil eye: the projection of malefic occult force through the glance. persons, beasts, and growing things "overlooked" by the evil eye are believed to wither and die. a form of intentional psychic attack (q.v. evocation: 1) to evoke (q.v. 2) the calling forth of spirits into tactile and sometimes visible appearance or presence. usually spirits are evoked inside an equilateral triangle of the art (q.v) beyond the limit of the protective magick circle that surrounds the magici

oddess who gives birth to all existing things, both material and immaterial (astral. shamanism: the religions of the primitive peoples of north europe and asia, and more generally of primitive cultures around the world. key features include animism, possession, soul travel, oracular revelations, and shape changing or shape shifting (q.v. shape shifting: the magickal ability to assume the forms of beasts or other human beings with the soul while it is astrally projected from the body. occasionally these altered shapes are seen by other people, who mistake them for bodies of flesh. shechinah: pronounced "sheh-kehn-ah" it is the hebrew for the personification of the energy known as ruach eloheem (q.v. it is seen as feminine in nature. similar to the tantrik notion of shakti (q.v. sheeol: pron

v) having the qualities of mutable (q.v) and earth (q.v) and is ruled by the planet mercury (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color yellow-green. keywords include: picky, overly critical, practicality, with detail, industriously, modestly, analytically, discriminatingly, critically. virtues, occult: the magickal potency of efficacy of herbs, stones, beasts, and other things impressed upon them through the stars at the time of their creation by the heavenly intelligences (q.v. visualize: the process of forming a visualization (q.v. to form a mental image. the important factor for success in this is the knowledge that the image is to be mental, not an optical illusion. it can however seem to be optically visible. visualization: 1) seeing an ima

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cealed, and the inscrutable height, hinting that there is not a great deal that the human mind can hope to know about kether. 11. it is worthy of note that exoteric judaism, to whose liabilities christianity is the not altogether fortunate heir, does not contain any concept of the emanations, or overflowing of the sephiroth one from another. it declares that god made the sea and the hills and the beasts of the field, and we visualise this process, if we visualise it at all, as the work of a celestial craftsman fashioning each new phase of manifestation and putting the finished product in its place in the world. this concept kept science back for hundreds of years in western europe, and in the end men of science had to break with religion and endure mystical qabala page 28 persecution as he

the creative use of the imagination, penetrated far more deeply into their secret causes and springs of being than has the scientist; it is not for nothing that the racial imagination, working thus, has come to associate certain animals with certain gods; a brief examination of the examples cited serves to show the basis of the association. the doves of venus show her gentler aspect, and the cat-beasts her sinister beauty. 27. the association of plants with the different paths rests upon a twofold basis. firstly, there are plants traditionally associated with the legends of the gods, as is corn with ceres and the vine with dionysos; these we find associated with the sephiroth, with which the functions of these gods are correlated orn with malkuth and the vine with tiphareth, the mystical

mages and ideas that are lit up and made visible when illuminations take place. 25. this child aspect of tiphareth is also a very important one to us in such practical work of the mysteries as is concerned with illumination. for we must accept the fact that the child-christ does not spring like minerva, full-armed from the head of god the father, but starts as a small thing, humbly laid among the beasts and not even housed in the? i1?n with the humans. the first glimpses of mystical experience must perforce be very limited because we have not had time to build up through experience a body of images and ideas that shall serve to represent them. these can only be got together with mystical qabala page 133 time, each transcendental experience adding its quota and subsequent rational meditatio

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ibed by gabriel, man is driven into the "earth which was covered with brambles" part of the curse of this expulsion, not explicitly mentioned in the corresponding section of the book of genesis, is the loss of the holy language of the angels. the revelation of gabriel that man spoke this angelic language in the garden explains how, as described in genesis, adam was able to accurately name all the beasts and birds, and through the magic power of their true names, to command them. perhaps the greatest consequence of the deceit of coronzon that resulted in man's expulsion was the loss of the angelic language. man was rendered "as dumb, and not able to speak" and of necessity began to learn a new less perfect language in order to express his thoughts and needs. this new language was not hebrew

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an beings to the necromancer, and these spirits may indeed possess valuable occult knowledge, or know of things that are hidden. there are two necessary aspects to necromancy. the calling of the shade, and the compelling of the shade. in ancient times these were combined. for example, odysseus, the hero of homer's odyssey, called back shades from the underworld by spilling the blood of sacrificed beasts into a trench in the ground, then compelled the shades to speak by preventing them with his drawn sword from drinking the vital essence of the blood. spirits are vulnerable to cold steel. you may say that the odyssey is only a fable. true, but in the age of homer there were many necromancers in greece. homer was an intelligent and well-informed man. his description of necromancy is very pro

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idual shamans have an affinity to one or another beast, which is the totemic animal of their family or clan. one shaman may be linked to the raven, another to the fox. this link is not exclusive, but merely stronger than the links that exist between the shaman and other species of animal. are there real werewolves? of course there are. where else would all these tales of werewolves and other were-beasts around the world have originated? one genuine form of werewolf is produced by a mental illness known as lycanthropy. this causes the person suffering from the disorder to believe that he or she is a wolf. victims of lycanthropy growl, bark, crawl on all fours, refuse to wear clothing, eat raw meat, and urinate on the floor. if left unsupervised, as was the case in medieval europe, they soon

ved by science that lycanthropy has a physiological basis, and is not merely a psychological condition. perhaps a more or less respectable form of lycanthropy is the berserker of the vikings and the ancient germans. this was a man who believed that he could transform himself into a bear when the need arose. they dressed in bear skins, and wore bear claws. in battle, berserkers became like enraged beasts. they threw down their swords and bit their enemies with their teeth. they were insensible to pain and knew no fear. apparently the berserker rage was under control, most of the time, but ordinary people lived in terror of such savage warriors since they never knew what small incident might trigger the fury. the rage of the berserker was passed down in an hereditary line from father to son

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arische inschriften, p. 235] footnote page liii seb hath seen thy glorious power, and hath commanded thee to direct the (11) universe for ever and ever by thy hand "thou hast made this earth by thy hand, and the waters thereof, and the wind thereof, the herb thereof, all the cattle thereof, all the winged fowl thereof, all the fish thereof, all the creeping things thereof, and all the four-footed beasts thereof (12) o thou son of nut, the whole world is gratified when thou ascendest thy father's throne like ra. thou shinest the legend of osiris. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod04.htm (4 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:23:04 am] in the horizon, thou sendest forth thy light into the darkness, thou makest the darkness light with thy double plume, and thou floodest the world with light like the (13

d poison; for the name of the great god hath been taken away from him. may ra live! and may the poison die, may the poison die, and may ra live" these are the words of isis, the great goddess, the queen of the gods, who knew ra by his own name.[1] thus we see that even to the great god ra were attributed all the weakness and frailty of mortal man; and that "gods" and "goddesses" were classed with beasts and reptiles, which could die and perish. as a result, it seems that the word "god" should be reserved to express the name of the creator of the universe, and that neteru, usually rendered "gods" should be translated by some other word, but what that word should be it is almost impossible to say.[2] the belief in one god. from the attributes of god set forth in egyptian texts of all periods

, but beyond egypt to the north, from which it was separated by the mountain range which, as the egyptians thought, supported the sky.[6] the region of the tuat was a long, mountainous, narrow valley with a river running along it; starting from the east it made its way to the north, and then taking a circular direction it came back to the east. in the tuat lived all manner of fearful monsters and beasts, and here was the country through which the sun passed during the twelve hours of the night; according to one view he traversed this region in splendour, and according to another he died and became subject to osiris the king, god and judge of the kingdom of the departed. the fields of aaru and hetep. the abode of the blessed. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod08.htm (2 of 4 [8/10/2001

he south, thou lord of those who dwell in the west, thou governor of punt, thou king of heaven and sovereign of the earth, thou lord of things that exist, thou stablisher of creation, thou supporter of the universe. thou art one in thine attributes among the gods, thou beautiful bull of the company of the gods, thou chief of all the gods, lord of maat, father of the gods, creator of men, maker of beasts and cattle, lord of all that existeth, maker of the staff of life, creator of the herbs which give life to beasts and cattle. thou art the creator of things celestial and terrestrial, thou illuminest the universe. the gods cast themselves at thy feet when they perceive thee. hymns of praise to thee, o father of the gods, who hast spread out the heavens and laid down the earth. thou master o

flicted, and thou art gracious unto him that crieth unto thee; thou deliverest the feeble one from the oppressor, and thou judgest between the strong and the weak. the nile riseth at thy will. thou only form, the maker of all that is, one only, the creator of all that shall be. mankind hath come forth from thine eyes, the gods have come into being at thy word, thou makest the herbs for the use of beasts and cattle, and the staff of life for the need of man. thou givest life to the fish of the stream and to the fowl of the air, and breath unto the germ in the egg; thou givest life unto the grasshopper, and thou makest to live the wild fowl and things that creep and things that fly and everything that belongeth thereunto. thou providest food for the rats in the holes and for the birds that s

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his or her relatives and livestock. sometimes a whole kraal was exterminated in this way, so reminiscent of european witch-hunts. barker also described a sorceress named nozilwane, whose wistful glance, she noticed, had in it something uncanny and uncomfortable. she was dressed beautifully in lynx skins folded over and over from waist to knee, the upper part of her body covered by strings of wild beasts teeth and fangs, beads, skeins of gaily colored yarn, strips of snakeskin, and fringes of angora goat fleece. lynx tails hung like lappets on each side of her face, which was overshadowed and almost hidden by a profusion of sakabula feathers. this bird, barker commented, has a very beautiful plumage, and is sufficiently rare for the natives to attach a peculiar value and charm to the tail-f

kingdom of agharti, presided over by the king of the world. millions of people are said to live in these underground realms in cities without crime and using a highly developed science. the king of the world understands the people on earth and influences them secretly. he is to appear before the people of earth in a final cosmic struggle of good against evil. this legend was recounted in the book beasts, men, and gods by ferdinand ossendowski. ossendowski (1876.1945) was a polish writer who traveled extensively through central asia in the 1920s (see also shaver mystery; subterranean cities) sources: dickhoff, robert ernest. agharta. mokelumne hill, calif: health research, 1964. ossendowski, ferdinand. beasts, men, and gods. new york: e. p. dutton, 1922. agla a word from the kabala formerly

urentius valla, they carefully preserve among themselves books which treat of this science, where they find rules of all sorts of prognostications and predictions. the soothsayers are divided into two classes, one, the masters or principals, the other the disciples and aspirants. another kind of knowledge is also attributed to them, that of being able to indicate the way taken by horses and other beasts of burden which are lost, and the road followed by one or more persons. they can specify the kind and shape of the ground, whether the earth is hard or soft, covered with sand or grass, whether it is a broad road, paved or sanded, or narrow, twisting paths, and tell also how many passengers are on the road. they can follow the track of anyone and cause thieves to be apprehended. those write

founded in january 1955 in railway quarters no. 339, jamalpur, india, by probhat ranjam sarkar (b. 1921, a former railway accounts clerk and journalist known by his religious name, shrii shrii anandamurti. above and beyond his yoga teachings, sarkar also taught a political philosophy known as prout (progressive utilization theory, claiming that capitalism makes men slaves and communism makes them beasts; prout offered a middle way of socialist autocracy. the meditation and yoga materials are generally released under sarkar s religious name, and his political writings under his birth name, phabhat rainjan sarkar. the two movements are officially independent of each other, though informally they are closely associated. initiates to ananda marga are instructed in the path of bliss by a teache

chical phenomena. he was educated at corpus christi college, cambridge. he published a large series of animal photographs that he took while traveling in europe, america, canada, the hawaiian islands, japan, china, java, the malay peninsula, burma, india, and south africa. he accompanied the duke of newcastle on his world tour 1893.94. bolton died july 29, 1929. sources: bolton, gambier a book of beasts and birds. london: g. newnes, ltd, 1903. ghosts in solid form. london: w. rider and son, ltd, 1919. bon, henri (1885) french physician and parapsychologist. born august 1, 1885, at dijon, france, he studied at the university of lyons medical school (m.d, 1912. in 1919 he was founder of the clinique medicale of arguel (doubs) and served as its director for more than 30 years (1919.52. he is

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, fire, water, and winds, said herodotus, meaning no doubt that they adored the heavenly bodies and the elements. this was probably before the time of zoroaster, when the religion of persia seems to have resembled that of ancient india. their hymns in praise of the most high exceeded (according to dio chrysostom) the sublimity of anything in homer or hesiod. they exposed their dead bodies to wild beasts. schlegel maintained that it was an open question whether the old persian doctrine and wisdom or tradition of light did not undergo material alterations in the hand of its median restorer, zoroaster, or whether this doctrine was preserved in all its purity by the order of the magi. he then remarked that on them devolved the important trust of the monarch s education, which must necessarily

with the usual ceremonies in the churchyard. about four days after her death and for several months, the inhabitants of the village were frightened by unusual noises and many saw a specter, sometimes shaped like a dog and sometimes like a man, who tried to choke or suffocate them. several were bruised all over and utterly weak, pale, lean, and disfigured. the specter took his fury out even on the beasts: cows were frequently found beaten to the earth, half dead, at other times with their tails tied to one another, lowing hideously. horses were found foaming with sweat and out of breath, as if they had been running a long and tiresome race. schertz examined the subject in the capacity of a lawyer and was clearly of the opinion that if the suspected person were really the source of these noi

supreme intelligence in the intellectual world, man; in the sidereal world, one sun; one potent instrument and agency in the elementary world, the philosophers stone; one chief member in the human world, the heart; and one sovereign prince in the nether world, lucifer. two was the number of marriage, charity, and social communion. it was also regarded sometimes as an unclean number; in the bible, beasts of the field went into noah s ark by twos. three had a mysterious value as shown in time s trinity. past, present and future; in that of space.length, breadth, and thickness; in the three heavenly virtues.faith, hope, and charity; in the three worlds of man.brain (the intellectual, heart (the celestial, and body (elemental. four signifies solidity and foundation. there are four seasons, fou

celestial, and body (elemental. four signifies solidity and foundation. there are four seasons, four elements, four cardinal points, four evangelists. five, as it divides ten, the sum of all numbers, is also the number of justice. there are five senses; the stigmata, the wounds of christ, were five; the name of the deity, the pentagram, is composed of five letters; it also is a protection against beasts of prey. six is the sign of creation, because the world was completed in six days. it is the perfect number, because it alone by addition of its half, its third and its sixth reforms itself. it also represents servitude by reason of the divine injunction, six days shalt thou labour. seven is a miraculous number, consisting of one, unity, and six, the sign of perfection. it represents life b

gy. 5th ed. maginot, adele 965 cations from the living, combined with traveling clairvoyance. a. m. lucas came to inquire after his brother-in-law, who had disappeared after a quarrel 12 years before. maginot, in trance, found the man and said that he was alive in a foreign country, busy gathering seeds from small shrubs about three feet high. she asked to be awakened since she was afraid of wild beasts. a. m. lucas returned a few days afterward with the mother of the vanished man. maginot correctly described the man s appearance and the history of his disappearance. she was asked to speak to the man, and a conversation ensued. get him to tell you the name of the country where you see him, says the record. he will not answer. tell him that his good mother, for whom he had a great affection

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her evildoers mostly, however, the former. the legend of agharti seems loosely based on the buddhist realm of shambhala, a city of adepts and mystics said to be located in a hidden valley (called shangri-la in james hilton s popular novel lost horizon [1933] and in the movie of the same name. shambhala first appeared in a 1922 polish book, soon afterward translated into english as the best-seller beasts, men and gods. the author, ferdinand ossendowski (1876 1945, fled russia in the wake of the bolshevik revolution. an anti-communist, ossendowski participated in the white russian government, that nation s short-lived experiment in democracy between the overthrow of the tsar and the triumph of the communists. he wandered through mongolia, itself torn by political unrest and bloody conflict

ler would find a beautiful land and lovely but ultimately tre a c h e rous supernatural beings. see also: reptoids further reading dickhoff, robert ernst, 1965. agharta. new york: fieldcrest. kafton-minkel, walter, 1989. subterranean worlds: 100,000 years of dragons, dwarfs, the dead, lost races and ufos from inside the earth. port townsend, wa: loompanics unlimited. ossendowski, ferdinand, 1922. beasts, men and gods. new york: dutton. ahab on a camping trip through eastern oregon in the summer of 1975, a young married couple identified as darryl and toni m. stopped along the banks of the owyhee river to cool their truck. they spotted an odd object parked on a nearby hillside. the next thing they knew, it was two hours later, and their truck started as if it had long since cooled off. late

a rural road in var one dark, rainy night in november 1962. as he rounded a curve, he saw, some fifty to sixty feet ahead of him, a group of figures standing close to one another in the middle of the highway. he slowed down, and as he did so, the group jerkily broke into two parts. my window was down, he related, and i leaned my head out slightly to see what was the matter; it was then that i saw beasts, some kind of bizarre animals, with the heads of birds, and covered in some sort of plumage, which were hurling themselves from two sides toward my car. shocked and frightened, he quickly rolled up the window and accelerated. after moving a few hundred feet to what he thought was a safe distance, he looked back to see these nightmarish beings flapping what looked to be wings and heading tow

1994. http//www. lemuria.net/article-et-civilizations.html goblin universe goblin universe is a kind of catchall phrase some people use to characterize the realm of fantastic but, according to some, real entities and creatures that seem out of place in our ordinary understanding of reality. the goblin universe is said to house everything from demons and fairies to ghosts, humanoids, and monstrous beasts. it is an explicitly paranormal or occult concept, rejected by some anomalists who insist that the objects of their investigations whether ufos or unknown animals such as sasquatch or the loch ness monster are simply so far undocumented aspects of this universe or planet. to its proponents, however, the goblin universe is a deeply mysterious, elusive place. the late f. w. holiday called it

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k and with quick, courageous trust; then holding fast you will not let it further fly and you will labour on because you must. upon our german stage, you are aware, each tries out what he wishes to display, so in your work for me today scenes, mechanism you are not to spare. use both the lights of heaven, great and small; the stars above are yours to squander; nor water, fire, nor rocky wall, nor beasts nor birds are lacking yonder. thus in our narrow house of boards preside and on through all creation s circle stride; and wander on, with speed considered well, from heaven, through the world, to hell! prologue in heaven the lord. the heavenly hosts. afterwards mephistopheles. the three archangels come forward. raphael the sun intones, in ancient tourney with brother-spheres, a rival song

ound me crammed, and instruments in cases hurled, ancestral stuff around me jammedthat is your world! that s called a world! and still you question why your heart is cramped and anxious in your breast? why each impulse to live has been repressed in you by some vague, unexplained smart? instead of nature s living sphere in which god made mankind, you have alone, in smoke and mould around you here, beasts skeletons and dead men s bone. up! flee! out into broad and open land! and this book full of mystery, from nostradamus very hand, is it not ample company? the stars course then you ll understand and nature, teaching, will expand the power of your soul, as when one spirit to another speaks. tis vain to think that arid brooding will explain the sacred symbols to your ken. ye spirits, ye are h

e annihilation and now a retail business you ve begun. mephistopheles and truly there by nothing much is done. what stands out as the opposite of naught- this something, this your clumsy world- for aught i have already undertaken, it have i done no harm nor shaken with waves and storms, with earthquakes, fiery brand. calm, after all, remain both sea and land. and that accursed trash, the brood of beasts and men, a way to get at them i ve never found. how many now i ve buried in the ground! yet fresh, new blood forever circulates again. thus on and on- one could go mad in sheer despair! from earth, from water, and from air a thousand germs evolving start, in dryness, moisture, warmth, and cold! weren t it for fire which i withhold, i d have as mine not one thing set apart. faust so to that

at were a lovely pastime on my part! meanwhile a thousand bridges i could rear. we can t depend alone on science or on art, the work demands a deal of patience too. a quiet spirit s busy many a year, for time alone produces potent brew. and all that is a part of it is wondrous as one must admit! it s true, the devil taught her how to do it, and yet the devil can not brew it. catching sight of the beasts. how delicate the breed! just see! that is the maid! the man is he! to the beasts. it seems the dame is not at home with you. the beasts to a rollicking crew out she flew by the chimney-flue! mephistopheles how long is it her wont to roam from here? the beasts as long as it takes to warm a paw. mephistopheles [to faust. how do you think the dainty beasts appear? faust absurd as anyone i eve

he dame is not at home with you. the beasts to a rollicking crew out she flew by the chimney-flue! mephistopheles how long is it her wont to roam from here? the beasts as long as it takes to warm a paw. mephistopheles [to faust. how do you think the dainty beasts appear? faust absurd as anyone i ever saw. mephistopheles i say, this kind of conversation i carry on with greatest delectation. to the beasts. accursed puppets! come and tell, what are you querling in that stuff? the beasts a beggars soup that s watered well. mephistopheles then you ve a public large enough. the male ape [sidles up to mephistopheles and fawns on him. oh, do throw the dice, make me rich in a trice, and do let it win me! it all is so bad, if money i had, good sense would be in me. mephistopheles how fortunate the a

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armina.1 here are the altar and the fumigations, as in the ficinian solar rite, but the incantations, instead of being orphic hymns to the sun, are "barbara& arcana carmina. there is some kind of moral reform implied in circe's magic. she asks where is astraea, the justice of the golden age,2 threatens evil-doers, calls on the gods to restore virtue.3 as a result of her magic, men are turned into beasts,4 and this (quite contrary to the usual interpretation of the circe story) is a good thing because wicked men are less harmful in their true animal forms.5 there are, however, beautiful and virtuous animals and birds which fly from the night of evil. the cock is a most beautiful, tuneful, noble, generous, magnanimous, solar, imperial, almost divine creature, and when it has vanquished evil

abstruse aspects of the courtly cult of queen elizabeth i. he might have arrived in paris in 1581 in time to see that great court festival, the ballet comique de la reine, or at least to hear about it, and the text of the ballet was printed in 1582, the same year as his cantus circaeus. in the ballet, circe represents the evil enchantment of the french wars of religion which are turning men into beasts. she is vanquished by the good magic of the performance, and, at the end, the victory is typified by her being led in triumph to king henri iii, to whom her magic wand is presented, thus transforming bad circe magic into good french monarchy magic. it is thus possible that bruno might have picked up the idea of a magical solar reform connected with the french monarchy from notions circulati

st deplorable, is that i see some senseless and foolish idolaters, who no more imitate the excellence of the cult of egypt than the shadow approximates to the nobility of the body; and who seek the divinity, of which they know nothing, in the excrements of dead and inanimate things; and who not only mock at those divine and deepseeing worshippers, but also at us, reckoning us to be no better than beasts. and what is worse, they triumph at seeing their foolish rites in such repute whilst those of others are vanished and annulled. let not this trouble you, momus, said isis, since fate has ordained a vicissitude of darkness and light. but the worst of it is, said momus, that they hold it for certain that they arc in the light. and isis replied that darkness would not be darkness to them, if t

according to the proper reasons of each, contemplated the divinity; and knew how through the species which are in the womb of nature, to receive those benefits which they desired from her. for, as she gives fish to the sea and rivers, deserts to wild animals, metals to the mines, fruits to the trees, so they give certain lots, virtues, fortunes and impressions to certain parts of certain animals, beasts, and plants. hence the divinity in the sea was called neptune, in the sun, apollo, in the earth ceres, in the deserts, diana, and diversely in all other species which, like diverse ideas, were diverse divinities in nature, all of 213 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform which referred to one deity of deities and fountain of the ideas above nature.1 what is giordano bruno doing her

rd it as a kind of magical and allusive picture, as bruno himself suggests in the dedication to the french ambassador. the mysteries of the cena de le ceneri, whatever they may be, were to be associated with the king of france, described in the dedication to the ambassador as a beneficent solar lion "who when he roars with anger, like a hon in his den, strikes mortal fear into the other predatory beasts of the jungle; and when he is calm and in repose he sends forth such a flame of liberal and courteous love that it warms the tropics, heats the frozen bear, and dissolves 1 ibid, p. 44. 2 "the religious policy of giordano bruno, j.w.c.i, iii (1939-40, p. 189. 3 it should be remembered in this connection that in elizabethan england it was only at the foreign embassies that the mass could be

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ed while our fellowcreatures around us are in want, especially when it is in our power to relieve them without inconvenience to ourselves. when we take a survey of nature, we view man in his infancy, more helpless and indigent than the brute creation; he lies languishing for days, months, and years, totally incapable of providing sustenance for himself, of guarding against the attacks of the wild beasts of the field, or sheltering himself from the inclemencies of the weather. it might have pleased the great creator of heaven and earth to have made man independent; but, as dependence is one of the strongest bonds of society, mankind were made dependent on each other for protection and security, as they thereby enjoy better opportunities of fulfilling the duties of reciprocal love and friend

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

butt its head against the cosmic forces typified by the first of the fiery signs, aries, the ram, which is a symbol of the brute strength brought to bear upon the problems of life by the most primitive races; or it may adopt the more modern method of cunning, as a means of attaining mastery over others, which characteristic is indicated in the second of the fiery signs, leo, the lion, the king of beasts; or perchance it may rise above the animal nature, and aim at the stars with the bow of spiritual aspiration, typified by the last of the fiery signs, sagittarius, the centaur. the centaur is just ahead of the watery sign scorpio, a warning that one who tries to reach that prerogative as "phree messen" a son of fire and light, will surely feel the sting of the scorpion in his heel, which wi

it is exalted in power. it fills the universe with a creative fire which is immediately seized upon by the innumerable billions of nature spirits who therewith build the temple of the coming year in forest and fen. the forces of fecundation applied to the countless seeds slumbering in the ground causes them to germinate and fill the earth with luxuriant vegetation while the group spirit mate the beasts and birds in their charge so that they may bring forth and increase sufficiently to keep the fauna of our planet at normal. according to the masonic legend, hiram abiff, the grand master, used a hammer to call his workmen, and it is significant that the symbol of the sign aries, where this wonderful creative activity commences, is shaped like a double ram's horn, which also resembles a hamm

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. 16 kether is also called the white head, the long face, macroprosopos, and adam qadmon or adam illaah- the supernal or primordial or heavenly adam. the remaining sephiroth are the short face. in the angelic order, kether is represented by the beasts of ezekiel, the holy living creatures of the chariot-throne, namely the four kerubim- the eagle, man, lion, and bull- which represent the four elements air (smell, water (taste, fire (sight, and earth (touch. also it includes in its mysterious nature the four letters of tetragrammaton as follows: y (lion, h (man, v (eagle, and h (bull. but as in itself kether is also the shekinah (the glory

the twelve months of the year, etc, and consequently the entire creative cycle symbolized by two interlaced six-pointed stars or seals of solomon; the one being the great work below and the other the great work above. there are four manifestations- the no-thing, the intellectual world, the sensuous world, and the physical world; also the four elements air, fire, water, and earth, the four living beasts of the chariot throne, and the four letters in the name of tetragrammaton. in the zohar we read: the firmament is imprinted, at the four corners of a square, with four figures, of a lion, an eagle, an ox, and a man; and the face of a man is traced in all of them, so that the face of lion is of man, the face of eagle is of man, and the face of ox is of man, all being comprehended in him. 22

statue which perhaps for thousands of years will proclaim his genius to those who look upon it. with the entire world, the entire universe, it is the same, but with this difference: it expresses the totality of the thoughts of the divine thinker. thought, we have seen, gave it form; therefore the universe is god in form and in activity. gall that has been created, h says the zohar, gfrom the holy beasts [the kerubim] in the highest firmament, down to the tiniest worm that crawls upon the earth, lives in elohim and through elohim. h 1 that is to say, everything which is, has been, or will be is formed by the divine thought; therefore the universe is the symbol of the divine thinker. what is it formed of? what is the material? the void and the formless, the negative and the positive of vhb

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

us, 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. 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 univer

perstition have been in the ascendancy over reason and judgment, we may truly say "the fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth have been set on edge" chapter xii. an attempt to purify the sensualized faiths. it has been said of the persians that in their zeal to purify the sensualized faiths which everywhere prevailed they manifested a decided "repugnance to the worship of images, beasts, or symbols, while they sought to establish the worship of the only true creative force, or god--holy fire" from the facts to be gleaned concerning this people during the seventh and eighth centuries b.c, it is quite probable that they still had a faint knowledge of a former age of intellectual and moral greatness, and that it was their object, at that time, to return to the purer principle

in the possession of the english who made a profit of l15,000 a year from the temple. on the brechin tower in ireland are two arches one within the other in relief. at the top of the arch is a crucifix, and about midway from top to bottom on either side are two figures which, according to romanist christians, represent the virgin mary and st. john. at the bottom of the outer arch are two couchant beasts, the one an elephant and the other a bull. the figure on the cross has a parthian coronet. the appearance of a crucifix on the towers of britain and ireland has in the past led many writers to ascribe to these singular structures a christian origin. to the critical observer, however, the first question which presents itself is whence comes the elephant--an animal not found within these coun

e other a bull. the figure on the cross has a parthian coronet. the appearance of a crucifix on the towers of britain and ireland has in the past led many writers to ascribe to these singular structures a christian origin. to the critical observer, however, the first question which presents itself is whence comes the elephant--an animal not found within these countries--and again why should these beasts have been placed here as christian emblems? the facts in the case as revealed by unprejudiced investigators are, that the towers in ireland are not christian monuments, and that the crucifix found on them is not that of christ but of ballaji, or of some one of the avatars of crishna. the fact that the figure of crishna as a crucified god was found in the ruins of a temple at thebes in egypt

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h a maid. 4 things the world cannot bear; the slave in power, the fool when content, an odious wife, and a bond-woman giving an heir to her mistress. 4 things little but exceeding wise; the ants, the rabbit, the locust, and the lizard you can seize with your hands. 4 things go stately along; a lion, a war-horse, a he-goat, and a king with his army. in the book of revelation we find mentioned four beasts (living beings, lion, calf, man and eagle) full of eyes, iv, 6-9: four horses, white, red, black and the pale horse called death, vi, 2-8: four hornsofthegolden altar before the eyes of god, ix, 13, and four angels who were bound in the river euphrates, ix, 14.theancient egyptians in their burials of notable men preserved the internal organs in four canopic jars, dedicated tothenumber four1

ee genesis xv. 1, where the wordvisionis used in the english version.ofjacob,in genesis xxxi. 10, 11, concerning the breedingofcattle.ofjoseph, in genesis xxxvii. 5-11 symbolical dreams of his rule over his brethren.ofsolomon,i.kings iii. 5. in a dream god asks solomon what gift he should prefer,andsolomon asked for an under255 standing heart.ofdaniel, vii. 1, who has a vision of four winds, four beasts, etc, and of joseph, the husband of mary, inthenew testament, matthew i. 20, where he was told of the coming son;andii.13, where he was warned to flee from bethlehem; and again inv,19 he was told toreturnto israel; and thatofthe wise men in matthew ii. 12, when they were warned to return to their own country by another way.from that by which they had come to seek for the babe jesus, and to

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eth -thepit of destruction (5) tzelmoth- the shadow of death (6) shaari moth- the gates of death (7) gehinnom- hellthe qliphoth of theqabalah25theevil and averse powers beneath thefeetof thefourcherubim[these,and all followingpropernames,are given inhebrewwith englishtransliterationsandtranslationswhereappropriate.thehebrewishereomitted.rg]lilith machaloth samael rahab the asstheoxserpentsstrange beasts splendour on every side fire enfolding whirlwind babel ionia media edomthemercavah in the mercavah vision of ezekiel it is written 'and i looked and behold a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire enfolding itself and a splendour on every side, and hashmal the brilliance of the innermost flame in the midst of fire' these are from cherubic expressions of force and the evi

and their form like that' of a most devilish and almost human-headed insect.(9)nachashironwhose colours are/ like serpents" and their form like dog-headed serpents (10) dagdagiron whose colours are reddish and gleaming, and their form like vast and devouring flat-headed fishes.(11)behemiron- whose name is derived from behemoth, and their colours are black and brown, and their forms those of awful beasts like a, hippopota255 mus, and an elephant,butcrushed flat, or as if their skin was spread out flat over the body of a gigantic beetle or cockroach, crawling yet having vast strength (12 'neshimiron- whose colours are of a stagnant gleaming, watery hue, and their forms like hideous women, almost skeletons, united to the bodies of serpents and fishes.the qllphqth of theqabalah27in the midst o

winds and the waves makes wild music, that through the uproar they can hear the old rowing song "there is snow on the mountains of jura" 255 and they know that angus the seal is still mourning for his little love.'thatfisher lad was full of strange stories. he was more communicative than most of the islanders, and to him thefairy folk and the sea-people were as real and familiar as the birds and beasts, and so he told me stories of their nature, as simply and naively as he told of the habits of the gulls or the fish, and it was strange how the stories seemed to be illustrations of the learned treatises of para eelsus on the nature of the elementals 'they are human' he said,'butthey don't come from adam, as we do. they never fell. but they are like us, whether they live in the land or in t

properties of numbers, whichmrwaite apparently disregards. this divinatory meaning is broadly borne out by the old symbolic designs.thetheory, therefore, is that the tarot was in its origin a symbolic book, whose meaning can now only be remotely guessed at; that the original designers worked upon thethetarot cards127fourfold division of all created things, whereof well-known examples are the four beasts of ezekiel's vision, and of the apocalypse, the four cherubim, the four archangels, the four letters of tetragrammaton, and many others; to which they added the mystic virtues of numbers, and upon each page of the book they palced a symbolic design still further to elucidate it. each page on this theory would in fact form a chapter in the book, describing the good and evil influences operat

detail of which may be paralleled from the witchcraft trials. it must be recited over the name of apophi, written in green ink on new papyrus, and over a wax figure of apophi inscribed with his name in green ink. this green ink was for some time a puzzle to me, for the black magic rituals mostly prescribe the writing of namesinblood, usually the blood of a crow, but occasionallyof other birds or beasts. but an old minister from the western islands, a great gaelic scholar, knowing that i was curious in such matters, showed me an ancient gaelic ms of fairy lore, wherein it was said that one may perhaps be afflicted by ill-disposed fairies, and for remedy thereof a certain fairy name should be written in green, the same being the fairy colour, andifthis were buried by the doorstep of the aff

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e they are incarnated in human bodies they were not of this cycle, they are the true firstfruits from beyond earth. throughout history they have reincarnated as teachers, leaders, warriors and priests, they were the builders of the great pyramid in egypt under enoch and will lead the lost tribes of israel in the end times. and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, the gnostic handbook page 94 and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. these are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. these are they which follow the lamb whithersoever he goeth. these were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto god and to the lamb. revelation 13:3

ven by nietszche when he discusses the process of "overcoming man" and becoming the overman and compares the gap between man and the overman in the following terms. i teach you the overman. man is something that shall be overcome. what have you done to overcome him? all beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flow and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? what is the ape to man? a laughing stock or painful embarrassment. and man shall be just that for the overman; a laughing stock or a painful embarrassment. you have made your way from worm to man; and much in you is still worm. once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape. whoever is the wisest among you is also a mere conflict and cross betw

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ad body disintegrates into the soil, as nutrients return to the earth, not as a discrete and aware being. in thus spake zarathustra fredrich nietzsche discuses the struggle to go beyond using evolution as a symbol of this battle. in one memorable passage he states. all beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? humanity is a species in transition created by the individualisation of the mould or psychic memory. the only hope for humanity exists within the individual overcoming the wave of eternal re-occurrence, and forging a higher will- a will to power. here we are not talking of a petty will, a brutal desire to violence or warfare, we are talking gnostic theurgy page 58

he sense that while they are incarnated in human bodies they are not of this cycle, they are the true firstfruits. throughout history they have reincarnated as teachers, leaders, warriors and priests, they were the builders of the great pyramid in egypt under enoch, and will lead the lost tribes of israel in the end times. and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. these are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. these are they which follow the lamb whithersoever he goeth. these were gnostic theurgy page 132 redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto god and to the lamb. revelation 13:3-4 th

vercoming man" and becoming the overman, comparing the gap between man (dialectic man) and the overman (static man) in the following terms. gnostic theurgy page 145 i teach you the overman. man is something that shall be overcome. what have you done to overcome him? all beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flow and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? what is the ape to man? a laughing stock or painful embarrassment. and man shall be just that for the overman; a laughing stock or a painful embarrassment. you have made your way from worm to man; and much in you is still worm. once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape. x gnostic theurgy page 146 the mind must be totally transformed, it is

ht. the equinox of the gods is a final call to mankind, it is the last opportunity before the age ends and the judgement of maat begins. x gnostic theurgy page 221 i teach you the overman. man is something that shall be overcome. what have you done to overcome him? all beings so far have created something beyond themselves, and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? what is ape to man? a laughing-stock or painful embarrassment. and man shall be just that for the overman, a laughing-stock or painful embarrassment. you have made your way from worm to man and much in you is still worm. once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape. whoever is wisest among you is a mere conflict and a cross between plant and

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

u feel close to this being. the body is blackened shadow with talons holding a forked stave, which is the same as the luciferic angel you embraced previously. another head arises from the shadow, which is the animal shaped face of set, which has a horn arising from the head of blackened and violet flame; its eyes are the same as the others. the body is of great blackness, from which a plethora of beasts and demonic shapes circle the daimon in a counter-clockwise manner. from the left eye of this bestial lord 16 of darkness, a great lightning flash shoots into your eyes, this throws you into a state of ecstasy. a single question is asked, which you know the answer to by instinct. you will never be able to turn back from the path, as the lonely path of godhood shall be marked upon your brow

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ordziz no one creature equal with another. the reasonable creatures of dodpal od fifalz l smnad od the earth, or man, let them vex and weed out one another: and fargt bams omaoas conisbra their dwelling places let them forget their names. the work of man od avavox tonug orsca tbl noasmi and his pomp let them be defaced. his buildings, let them become tabges levithmong unchi omp tibl caves for the beasts of the field! confound her understanding with ors bagle moooah ol cordziz. darkness. for why? it repenteth me that i have made man. l capimao ixomaxip od cacocasb gosaa baglen one while let her be known, and another while a stranger. because pii tianta a babalond, od faorgt teloc vo-vim. she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling place of him that is fallen. madriiax torzu! oadriax oroch

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ordziz no one creature equal with another. the reasonable creatures of dodpal od fifalz l smnad od the earth, or man, let them vex and weed out one another: and fargt bams omaoas conisbra their dwelling places let them forget their names. the work of man od avavox tonug orsca tbl noasmi and his pomp let them be defaced. his buildings, let them become tabges levithmong unchi omp tibl caves for the beasts of the field! confound her understanding with ors bagle moooah ol cordziz. darkness. for why? it repenteth me that i have made man. l capimao ixomaxip od cacocasb gosaa baglen one while let her be known, and another while a stranger. because pii tianta a babalond, od faorgt teloc vo-vim. she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling place of him that is fallen. madriiax torzu! oadriax oroch

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ons. he therefore conferred with the learned in spain, shewing unto them the errors of our arts, and how they might be corrected and from whence they should gather the true inditia of the times to come, and wherein they ought to agree with those things that are past; also how the faults of the church and the whole philosophia moralis were to be amended. he shewed them new growths, new fruits, and beasts, which did concord with old philosophy, and prescribed them new axiomata, whereby all things might be fully restored. but it was to them a laughing matter, and being a new thing unto them, they feared that their great name would be lessened if they should now again begin to learn, and acknowledge their many years' errors, to which they were accustomed, and 4 wherewith they had gained them e

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ide anything, nor those which live in peru might be able to keep secret their counsels from thee? so to reading one only book as to discern, understand, and remember whatsoever in all other books (which heretofore have been, are now, and hereafter shall come out) hath been, is, and shall be learned out of them? so to sing and play that instead of stony rocks you could draw pearls, instead of wild beasts, spirits, and instead of pluto you could soften the mighty princes of the world? o mortals, diverse is the counsel of god and your convenience, who hath decreed at this time to increase and enlarge the number of our fraternity, the which we with such joy have undertaken, as we have heretofore obtained this great treasure without our merits, yea, without any hope or expectation; the same we

tion of her poisoned and stupefying chalice, and with an open heart, bare head, and naked feet shall merrily and joyfully go forth to meet the sun rising in the morning. chapter ix these characters and letters, as god hath here and there incorporated them in the sacred scriptures, so hath he imprinted them most manifestly on the wonderful work of creation, on the heavens, on the earth, and on all beasts, so that as the mathematician predicts eclipses, so we prognosticate the obscurations of the church, and how long they shall last. from these letters we have borrowed our magic writing, and thence made for ourselves a new language, in which the nature of things is expressed, so that it is no wonder that we are not so eloquent in other tongues, least of all in this latin, which we know to be

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mb of thutmosis iii, an eighteenth dynasty pharaoh.16 is it a coincidence that the passengers in the barque of the dead pharaoh, and in the canoe in which double comb makes his final journey, include (in both cases) a dog or dogheaded deity, a bird or bird-headed deity, and an ape or ape-headed deity?17 the seventh stratum of the ancient mexican underworld was called teocoyolcualloya: place where beasts devour hearts .18 is it a coincidence that one of the stages of the ancient egyptian underworld, the hall of judgement, involved an almost identical series of symbols? at this crucial juncture the deceased s heart was weighed against a feather. if the heart was heavy with sin it would tip the balance. the god thoth would note the judgement on his palette and the heart would immediately be d

d save your soul. tear down your house, i say, and build a boat with her dimensions in proportion her width and length in harmony. put aboard the seed of all living things, into the boat.3 in the nick of time utnapishtim built the boat as ordered. i loaded into her all that i had, he said, loaded her with the seed of all living things: i put on board all my kith and kin, put on board cattle, wild beasts from open country, all kinds of craftsmen. the time was fulfilled. when the first light of dawn appeared a black cloud came up from the base of the sky; it thundered within where adad, lord of the storm was riding. a stupor of despair went up to heaven when the god of the storm turned daylight to darkness, when he smashed the land like a cup. on the first day the tempest blew swiftly and br

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

ialism, was discovered and destroyed in accordance with the insipid marxism which guided the chinese people s liberation army into tibet in the late 1950s. among various tantric buddhist and bon religious institutions, the p.l.a. liquidated the cavern retreats of schamballah and agarthi, the former being possibly the oldest surviving branch of the black lodge on the planet (see ossendovski s men, beasts and gods, circa 1925, for an account of schamballah and agarthi) as survivors of the marxist massacre from the tibetan great white brotherhood are known to have come to the west in subsequent years, it may be assumed that survivors of the black lodge have set up operations in our own society as well. we can see the marks of their presence in so-called right-handed eastern circles that have

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documents, did not legend spread her light over them; even the myths of the sin-flood and xvi preface. the world's destruction she has not lost sight of to this day. but what is most fondly cherished in her, and woven into the gayest tissues, is the delightful narratives of giants, dwarfs, elves, little wights, nixies, night-hags and home-sprites, these last being related to the rest as the tame beasts of the fable are to the wild and unsubjugated: in poetry the wild is always superior to the tamed. the legend of the sun-blind dwarfs (pp. 466n, 1247) and that of the blood-vat (pp. 468 n, 902) remind us of the edda. in the fairy-tale also, dwarfs and giants play their part: swan-witchen (swan-white) and dorn-roschen (thorn-rose= sleeping beauty, pp. 425, 1204 are a swan-wife and a valkyr;

eek literature left an infinitely deeper dint on the roman, than latin literature was ever able to produce on our antiquity. if in ch. xxxv and xxxvii many things are quoted which appear to spring out of roman superstition, it is fully justified by the poverty of native information compelling me to seek a support for it from abroad: preface. xxix i do not suppose that the old german fancies about beasts crossing one's path, or about the virtues of herbs, were in themselves any poorer than the roman. what i claim for teutonic nations as compared with the greeks and romans, must also hold good of them as regards the celts, slavs, lithuanians and finns, whose paganism was similar to ours or not so similar. here however the quantity of coincidences is still more damaging to the theory of plagi

red beast, and as soon as he is slain, solemn hymns are struck up as by way of atonement. kunes 28 and 29 in kalewala describe such a hunt with all its ceremonial. ostiaks in taking an oath kneel on a bearskin, in heathen sacrifices they covered the victim with a bearskin (p. 1010, and long afterwards they hung bearskins about them in the service of the devil (p. 1018. as the bear was king of all beasts, the terms applied to him of' old one' and' grandfather' suggest those of the thunder-god. the constellation of the great bear (p. 725) would of itself seem an evident trace of his worship even among the greeks. coming down from northern asia to the tribes of the caucasus, we again meet with the most remarkable coincidences. the tcherkesses (circassians) keep up a worship of the boar (p. 21

ented as travelling and associating with men, as would be natural for all mothers of gods; aesop in fab. 54 makes demeter travel with a swallow and an eel, but when they came to a river the bird flew up, the fish slipt into the water, and what did demeter do? with the indians it is principally brahma and vishnu that visit the earth. in a lithuanian legend perkunos walks the earth at the time when beasts yet spoke; he first met the horse, and asked his way' i have no time to shew thee the way, i have to eat' hard by was an ox grazing who had heard the traveller's request' come, stranger' he cried' i will shew thee the way to the river' then said the god to the horse' as thou couldst not for eating find time to do me a turn of kindness, thou shalt for a punishment be never satisfied' then to

ade into a shepherd's whistle, and every time it is blown, it publishes the crime; and a swiss legend tells the same of a flute (haupt's zeitschr. 3, 36. the power of music and song was explained by giving the instruments a supernatural origin, and doubtless a remoter antiquity did not leave gods out of the reckoning. when waiuamoinen touches his harp, the whole of nature listens, the four-footed beasts of the wood run up to him, the birds come flying, the fish in the waters swim toward him; tears of bhss burst from the god's eyes, and fall on his breast, from his breast to his knees, from his knees to his feet, wetting five mantles and eight coats, kalew. rune 22-9. such tears are shed by freyja (gratfogr, p. 325, her that well liked song, and was wedded to osr; in fairytales lucky maiden

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

hen and christian heroes are at one. in our heroic legend sigenot, ecke, fasolt succumb to dietrich s human strength, yet other giants are companions of dietrich, notably wittich and heime, as asperian was rother s. the kings niblunc and schilbunc had twelve strong giants for friends (nib. 95, i.e. for vassals, as the norse kings often had twelve berserks. but, like the primal woods and monstrous beasts of the olden time, the giants do get gradually extirpated off the face of the earth, and with all heroes giant-fighting alternates with dragon-fighting. 3 king frofti had two captive giant-maidens fenja and menja as mill-maids; the grist they had to grind him out of the quern grotti was gold and peace, and he allowed them no longer time for sleep or rest than while the gowk (cuckoo) held hi

s unw. doct. 585. min gof 1st au niid abbem nossbom aba choh, and my dad didn t come off the nut-tree, tobler 337b, who wrongly refers it to the christmas-tree. 1 homer s phrase is: chat from oak or rock, as youth and maiden do. trans " as deucalion and pyrrha create the race of men, so (ace. to a myth in the eeinhartssage, whose source i never could discover) do adam and eve create that of beasts by smiting the sea with rods. only, adam makes the good beasts, eve the bad; so in parsee legend ormuzd and ahriman hold a creating match. 574 ceeation. men and dwarfs are created, appears in surprising harmony with a theological opinion largely adopted throughout the mid. ages, according to which, though the 0. t. begins with the work of the six days, yet the existence and consequently the

patriarch, there for a giant, who after it continues his race by the side of men. a narrative preserved in the appendix to our heldenbuch offers some fragments of cosmogony: three creations follow one another, that of dwarfs leading the way, after whom come giants, and lastly men; god has called into being the skilful dwarfs to cultivate waste lands and mountain regions, the giants to fight wild beasts, and the heroes to assist the dwarfs against disloyal giants; this connexion and mutual dependence of the races is worthy of note, though on the manner of creating there is not a word. lastly, the threefold arrangement of classes instituted by heimdallr 3 may, i think, be regarded as a later act in the drama of creation, of which perhaps a trace is yet to be seen even in modern traditions (

ho had mingled with the children of men; and noah s box(/a/rtaro) is like bergelmi s luftr. but the epic touches, such as the landing on the mountain, the outflying dove, the sacrifice and rainbow, would surely not have been left out, had there been any borrowing here. in the assyrian tradition, 1 kronos warns sisuthros of the coming downpour, who thereupon builds a ship, and embarks with men and beasts. three days after the rain has ceased, birds are sent out, twice they come flying back, the second time with slime on their feet, and the third time they staid away. sisuthros got out first with his wife and daughter and pilot, they prayed, sacrificed, and suddenly disappeared. when the rest came to land, a voice sounded in the air, saying the devout sisuthros had been taken up to the gods;

er and wind) upon the sinful earth, who laid all things waste for twenty nights and days. looking down once 1 conf. the capture of the soothsaying marmennil, p. 434. 2 dzieje starozytne narodu litewskiego, przez th. narbutta. wilno 1835. 1, 2. 580 ceeation. more, when he happened to be eating celestial nuts, pramzirnas dropt a nutshell, and it lighted on the top of the highest moun tain, to which beasts and several human pairs had fled for refuge. they all climbed into the shell, and it drifted on the flood which now covered all things. but god bent his countenance yet a third time upon the earth, and he laid the storm, and made the waters to abate. the men that were saved dispersed themselves, only one pair remained in that country, and from them the lithuanians are descended. but they we

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

he preached to the people of athens and other states the purest and noblest ethics, and the phenomena he produced were as wonderful as they were numerous, and well authenticated "how is it" inquires justin martyr, in dismay, how is it that the talismans (telesmata) of apollonius have power, for they prevent, as we see, the fury of the waves, and the violence of the winds, and the attacks of wild beasts; and whilst our lord's miracles are preserved by tradition alone, those of apollonius are most numerous, and actually manifested in present facts? but an answer is easily found to this, in the fact that, after crossing the hindu koosh, apollonius had been directed by a king to the abode of the sages, whose abode it may be to this day, and who taught him their unsurpassed knowledge. his dial

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

known and untraversed by white men. there were legends of a hidden lake unglimpsed by mortal sight, in which dwelt a huge, formless white polypous thing with luminous eyes; and squatters whispered that bat-winged devils flew up out of caverns in inner earth to worship it at midnight. they said it had been there before d'iberville, before la salle, before the indians, and before even the wholesome beasts and birds of the woods. it was nightmare itself, and to see it was to die. but it made men dream, and so they knew enough to keep away. the present voodoo orgy was, indeed, on the merest fringe of this abhorred area, but that location was bad enough; hence perhaps the very place of the worship had terrified the squatters more than the shocking sounds and incidents. only poetry or madness co

d area, but that location was bad enough; hence perhaps the very place of the worship had terrified the squatters more than the shocking sounds and incidents. only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises heard by legrasse's men as they ploughed on through the black morass toward the red glare and muffled tom-toms. there are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield the other. animal fury and orgiastic license here whipped themselves to daemoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstacies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell. now and then the less organized ululation would cease, and from what seemed a well-drilled chorus o

a dominant stock after the great race had sent its foremost minds into the future to escape the creeping horror. flatness and exuberant green life were always the keynote of the scene. hills were low and sparse, and usually displayed signs of volcanic forces. of the animals i saw, i could write volumes. all were wild; for the great race's mechanised culture had long since done away with domestic beasts, while food was wholly vegetable or synthetic. clumsy reptiles of great bulk floundered in steaming morasses, fluttered in the heavy air, or spouted in the seas and lakes; and among these i fancied i could vaguely recognise lesser, archaic prototypes of many forms- dinosaurs, pterodactyls, ichthyosaurs, labyrinthodonts, plesiosaurs, and the like-made familiar through palaeontology. of birds

to bother- that is, any as didn't be, sarten signs sech as was used onct by the lost old ones, whoever they was. but not wantin' to bother, they'd lay low shun anybody visited the island "when it come to matin' with them toad-lookin' fishes, the kanakys kind o' balked, but finally they larnt something as put a new face on the matter. seems that human folks has got a kind a' relation to sech water-beasts- that everything alive come aout o' the water onct an' only needs a little change to go back agin. them things told the kanakys that ef they mixed bloods there'd be children as ud look human at fust, but later turn more'n more like the things, till finally they'd take to the water an' jine the main lot o' things daown har. an' this is the important part, young feller- them as turned into fi

oofry as still comes in from somewhars an' ain't quite all melted up- but nothin' never gits def'nite. nobody'll believe nothin. they call them gold-like things pirate loot, an' allaow the innsmouth folks hez furren blood or is dis-tempered or somethin. beside, them that lives here shoo off as many strangers as they kin, an' encourage the rest not to git very cur'ous, specially raound night time. beasts balk at the critters- hosses wuss'n mules- but when they got autos that was all right "in forty-six cap'n obed took a second wife that nobody in thee taown never see- some says he didn't want to, but was made to by them as he'd called in- had three children by her- two as disappeared young, but one gal as looked like anybody else an' was eddicated in europe. obed finally got her married off

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

ed so many doubtful comparisons; and some fossil bones, among which were the most typical of the curiously injured specimens. none of the dogs survived, their hurriedly built snow inclosure near the camp being almost wholly destroyed. the wind may have done that, though the greater breakage on the side next the camp, which was not the windward one, suggests an outward leap or break of the frantic beasts themselves. all three sledges were gone, and we have tried to explain that the wind may have blown them off into the unknown. the drill and ice-melting machinery at the boring were too badly damaged to warrant salvage, so we used them to choke up that subtly disturbing gateway to the past which lake had blasted. we likewise left at the camp the two most shaken up of the planes; since our su

ing and a limited amount of manufacturing were also practiced. travel was very frequent, but permanent migration seemed relatively rare except for the vast colonizing movements by which the race expanded. for personal locomotion no external aid was used, since in land, air, and water movement alike the old ones seemed to possess excessively vast capacities for speed. loads, however, were drawn by beasts of burden- shoggoths under the sea, and a curious variety of primitive vertebrates in the later years of land existence. these vertebrates, as well as an infinity of other life forms- animal and vegetable, marine, terrestrial, and aerial- were the products of unguided evolution acting on life cells made by the old ones, but escaping beyond their radius of attention. they had been suffered t

cavern sea. the old ones had gone about it scientifically- quarrying insoluble rocks from the heart of the honeycombed mountains, and employing expert workers from the nearest submarine city to perform the construction according to the best methods. these workers brought with them all that was necessary to establish the new venture- shoggoth tissue from which to breed stone lifters and subsequent beasts of burden for the cavern city, and other protoplasmic matter to mold into phosphorescent organisms for lighting purposes. at last a mighty metropolis rose on the bottom of that stygian sea, its architecture much like that of the city above, and its workmanship displaying relatively little decadence because of the precise mathematical element inherent in building operations. the newly bred s

or our lives after that; since our conclusions were now- notwithstanding their wildness- completely fixed, and of a nature i need not even mention to those who have read my account as far as this. perhaps we were mad- for have i not said those horrible peaks were mountains of madness? but i think i can detect something of the same spirit- albeit in a less extreme form- in the men who stalk deadly beasts through african jungles to photograph them or study their habits. half paralyzed with terror though we were, there was nevertheless fanned within us a blazing flame of awe and curiosity which triumphed in the end. of course we did not mean to face that- or those- which we knew had been there, but we felt that they must be gone by now. they would by this time have found the other neighboring

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

nknown and untraversed by white men. there were legends of a hidden lake unglimpsed by mortal sight, in which dwelt a huge, formless white polypus thing with luminous eyes; and squatters whispered that bat-winged devils flew up out of caverns in inner earth to worship it at midnight. they said it had been there before d'lberville, before la salle, before the indians, and before even the wholesome beasts and birds of the woods. it was nightmare itself, and to see it was to die. but it made men dream, and so they knew enough to keep away. the present voodoo orgy was, indeed, on the merest fringe of this abhorred area, but that location was bad enough; hence perhaps the very place of the worship had terrified the squatters more than the shocking sounds and incidents. only poetry or madness co

ea, but that location was bad enough; hence perhaps the very place of the worship had terrified the squatters more than the shocking sounds and incidents. only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises heard by legrasse's men as they ploughed on through the black morass towards the red glare and the muffled tomtoms. there are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield the other. animal fury and orgiastic licence here whipped themselves to demoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstasies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell. now and then the less organized ululations would cease, and from what seemed a well-drilled chorus o

HP LOVECRAFT THE CATS OF ULTHAR

ersons to suspect; for their hatred of cats was notorious and increasingly bold. still, no one durst complain to the sinister couple; even when little atal, the innkeeper s son, vowed that he had at twilight seen all the cats of ulthar in that accursed yard under the trees, pacing very slowly and solemnly in a circle around the cottage, two abreast, as if in performance of some unheard-of rite of beasts. the villagers did not know how much to believe from so small a boy; and though they feared that the evil pair had charmed the cats to their death, they preferred not to chide the old cotter till they met him outside his dark and repellent yard. so ulthar went to sleep in vain anger; and when the people awakened at dawn behold! every cat was back at his accustomed hearth! large and small, b

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

to bother- that is, any as didn't be, sarten signs sech as was used onct by the lost old ones, whoever they was. but not wantin' to bother, they'd lay low shun anybody visited the island "when it come to matin' with them toad-lookin' fishes, the kanakys kind o' balked, but finally they larnt something as put a new face on the matter. seems that human folks has got a kind a' relation to sech water-beasts- that everything alive come aout o' the water onct an' only needs a little change to go back agin. them things told the kanakys that ef they mixed bloods there'd be children as ud look human at fust, but later turn more'n more like the things, till finally they'd take to the water an' jine the main lot o' things daown har. an' this is the important part, young feller- them as turned into fi

oofry as still comes in from somewhars an' ain't quite all melted up- but nothin' never gits def'nite. nobody'll believe nothin. they call them gold-like things pirate loot, an' allaow the innsmouth folks hez furren blood or is dis-tempered or somethin. beside, them that lives here shoo off as many strangers as they kin, an' encourage the rest not to git very cur'ous, specially raound night time. beasts balk at the critters- hosses wuss'n mules- but when they got autos that was all right "in forty-six cap'n obed took a second wife that nobody in thee taown never see- some says he didn't want to, but was made to by them as he'd called in- had three children by her- two as disappeared young, but one gal as looked like anybody else an' was eddicated in europe. obed finally got her married off

HP LOVECRAFT THE STREET

and virtues that our fathers had exalted, to stamp out the soul of the old america the soul that was bequeathed through a thousand and a half years of anglo-saxon freedom, justice, and moderation. it was said that the swart men who dwelt in the street and congregated in its rotting edifices were the brains of a hideous revolution, that at their word of command many millions of brainless, besotted beasts would stretch forth their noisome talons from the slums of a thousand cities, burning, slaying, and destroying till the land of our fathers should be no more. all this was said and repeated, and many looked forward in dread to the fourth day of july, about which the strange writings hinted much; yet could nothing be found to place the guilt. none could tell just whose arrest might cut off t

INDUCTION CHARM AND THE INITIATION

eam i) copyright 2005 by robin artisson from the witching way of the hollow hill this initiation is the key to gaining the bond between the powers and the witch who wishes to access the workings described in this book on a deeper level. this is the pact you must take with the old powers, from the master-spirits, all the way to the powers of the land, and even the spiritual guardians of plants and beasts. it is not hard to perform, but it is lasting and binding, and if any hint of insincerity is in your heart when you perform this rite, it will not work. there is no getting out of this oath and pact, and it should never be taken lightly. you should do it around one of the old holy or hidden festival days of the old waysespecially around hallows eve or the twelve nights of yule. but the tide

that you have worn often, which you will never wear again- they must be burned later. after you have changed, you pierce one of the fingers of your left hand, letting several drops of blood fall onto the bare earth. this is very important. then you say: old one, veiled queen, i shed my blood for you. an oath on the land, an oath to life and to spirit- masters of the world, of fire and weaving of beasts and forests, fens, sky, human desires and destinies, powers inside the land, hear an oath, sealed by blood and by blood carried into the land: in the name of the pale woman below the hill, youthfully dead and ever-living, i am bound to your wisdom and power. great oak, birch, elder, thorn, holly, ash, growing creatures of green coat and root, spirits who guard you and carry forth your lives

nd ever-living, i am bound to your wisdom and power. great oak, birch, elder, thorn, holly, ash, growing creatures of green coat and root, spirits who guard you and carry forth your lives, by pact and oath i am sealed to you as friend, brother (or sister) and pupil, guardian and receiver. owl, hound, wolf and fox, badger and toad and bull, goose and raven, serpent and hare, horse, swine and stag, beasts of the land and air, and unseen places, by pact and oath i am sealed to you as friend, brother (or sister) and pupil, guardian and receiver. i shed my blood for you; from my left hand i shed it, i bind myself to the land and your spirit. support me, protect me, shelter me on the witching way the hidden road to wisdom let your power answer to my will, in the holy meadow, the ring of art, in

the land, to where you physically merge with these powers, and the essence of your oath goes with it. you now share blood with these powers, not just spiritual oneness. you become a blood member of their otherworldly house. this is why this oath is so serious and unbreakable. in the name of old fate, the pale woman under the hill, you then call upon all of the powers of green growing things, and beasts- and to both, you say this: by pact and oath i am sealed to you as friend, brother (or sister) and pupil, guardian and receiver. this is a strong contract, for you are telling the spiritual powers of all trees and plants, and all animals, that you will be their friend, their brother or sister, their pupil (willing to learn from them) but most importantly, their guardian and receiver. to be

om any sacred place, you will take only tiny amounts and leave behind something of yourselfblood, hair, nails, offerings of ale or beer, or something valuable to you. you will not wantonly destroy natural areas, in form or function, nor encourage others to do the same, for any reason beyond saving a life. remember these things, like you remember your oath to the powers of green growing things and beasts- because to break them may spell the end of whatever power you have received back in your contract. continuing on, you address the powers you are making this oath to- animal spirits and plants, but chiefly to the great queen and the old one or the white king, you say support me, protect me, shelter me on the witching way the hidden road to wisdom let your power answer to my will, in the hol

ISIS UNVEILED

pn^mwitioiu 587 setndiip of the soul and of the spirit 590 the phawmenon of the so-called ipiritjiand gb4 difference between mediums and adepts 59s inttrriew of an elnglisfa ambassador with a teineaniated buddha 598 fli^t of a lama's aitnj body related by abb^ hue 6m schools of magic in buddhist lamaberiea 609 lie unknown race of hindfl todas 613- will-power at takiw and yogts 617 tanud^ of wild beasts b^ faldn 622 evocatiod of a living spirit by a shaman, witiiesaed by the writer 020 sorcery 1^ the breath of a jemiit father 633 why the study of magic is almost impracticable in eun^ 635- index i genenl index ii digitizecoy google author's preface to volume u tttere it possible, we would keep this work out of the hands of* many christians whom its perusal would not benefit, and for whom it

through all the towns in which he preached, and became half a chris- tian* wonders of zoology! a horse turned sorcerer, a wolf and a dragon turned christians! these two anecdotes, chosen at random from among hundreds, if rivaled are not surpassed by the wildest romances of the pagan thau- maturgists, magicians, and spiritualists! and yet, when pythagoras is said to have subdued animals, even wild beasts, merely throu^ a power- ful mesmeric influence, he is pronounced by one-half of the catholics a 152 see the lumtite selected from the 'golded legend' by alb&n butw; ftbo j. bolluidus, s. j: ada tanetomm, jajnaarii, torn. i, p. 271: paris. 153. see tlu golden legend; lafe of st. francu; rsautier: aious beati ftoncirci et toe ^ut, xri, giiii: pans, 1902; annaiet minonim, ii, year 1221, j 34

led apollonius of tyana; and the scandal created among the apostles by the miracle-doing simon magus is too notorious to be re- peated here "how is it" asks justin martyr, in evident dismay "how is it that the talismans of apollonius the (tcxat^to] have power in certain members of creation, for tiiey prevent, at we see, tie fury of the waves, and the violence of the winds, and the attacks of wild beasts; and whilst our lord's miracles are preserved by tradition alone, those of apollonius are mott numerous, and actually manifested in present facts, so as to lead astray all beholders' this perplexed martyr solves the problem by attributing very correctly the efficacy and potency of the charms used by apollonius to his profound knowledge of the sympathies and antipathies (or repugnances) of n

ry soud grounds that peter could not have been in rome a. o, 64, for he was then in babylon, where he wrote his first epistle, the date of which is fixed by dr. lardner and other critics at precisely this year. but we believe that his best argument is in proving that it was not in the character of the cowardly peter to risk him- self in such close neighborhood with nero, who "was feeding the wild beasts of the amphitheater with the flesh uid bones of christians* at that time. perhaps the church of rome was quite connstent in choosing as her titular founder the apostle who thrice denied his master at the moment of danger; and the only one moreover, except judas, who provolnd christ in such a way as to be addressed as the 'enemy" get thee behind me, satan" exclaims jesus, rebuking the tempti

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

th of the sun. the sign of this fig. 228. hindoo pagoda at tanjore. ring is serpentine, and is s; each man being considered as far as his head is concerned as magnetic. the positive pole of the magnet is the os frontis, sinciput, os sublime. the negative pole is the occiput. tonsure of the head is considered as a sacred observance. hair (in se) is barbarous, and is the mark and investiture of the beasts. the cabalists abstained from wine and marriage. tonsure means the sun's disc in the east les arabes, dit h rodote, lib. iii, se rasent la tete en rond et autour des tempes, ainsi que se rasait, disent-ils, bacchus (volney, ruines, p. 265. la touffe qui conservent les musulmans est encore prise du soleil, qui, chez les egyptiens, tait peint, au solstice d hiver, n ayant plus qu un cheveu su

ause lucifer, or the lost one unchastened presumption had passed his lightning-like availing spear of apotheosising enchanted tempting death through the transmuted human female body; advanced and addressed in its snaring graces to hell s perfectness. the arts subserving mythology. 325 was one. beards have nought of beauty, apart from strength. beards are barbarous hence their name. hair is of the beasts, excrementa; tentacula. the greek artists exercised their talents in the production of a kind of beauty mixed of that of the two sexes, merging and blending the softness and enchanting shapeliness of the one with the aggressive picturesque roundness and boldness of the other. each (separate) was the acm of picturelike propriety and grace. but the third thing was a new thing otherwise a mira

proofs of the indignation (intelligent) exterior to man; to some violent invasion and inversion to some inappeasable outrage of god s law. flesh and blood has become an accursed a super-accursed weed from the devils having gained access to it. man s unholy passions have hurried him into an abyss of physical perdition, wherein he has obliterated his image and gifts, and done things (worse than the beasts) beyond the laws of his impress; wide already as the area of the exercise of those laws was, even for evil. the penalty has pursued the original guilt through the generations, and still survives; because man has dared to intrude into the disorders of darkness, and brought back out of orcus and made physical guilt and horror which were the property of the devils and within the compass of the

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

nslated similarly to the previous one, but it means jupiter, venus, or the not too conspicious star oph in the constellation of ophiuchus (gossmann 1950: 18, 183. eplanet f can be met in three forms: dudu.idim, muludu.idim or mulbi-ib-bu. udu.idim, akkadian bibbu in itself means ewild sheep f; while fixed stars are a peacefully pasturing flock, planets as gtraveling h stars are wild sheep or even beasts lurking for sheep (hommel 1909: 217. however, it seems we might have to abandon the classical widespread concept of ewild sheep f. while the cuneiform sign was earlier read as lu.bat or lu.bad, and later, for most of the 20th century, udu.idim, recent studies have suggested the best pronounciation to be udu.bad (reiner 1995: 7, but bad is not such a gwild h word as idim (e.g. while edog f i

to classify the names of jupiter by its place on the firmament. it may appear that mulsag.me.gar means ejupiter in culmination f while mulud.al.tar means ejupiter in the west f. d.ulpae refers to the god .ulpae (also .ulpa fe) ebrilliant youth f (black& green 1998: 173) or elord of the shining dawn f. in the sumerian period he belonged among smaller underworld gods (dealing also with war and wild beasts, changing later into a vizier of marduk (the title sukkal has been also translated as eherald f or elieutenant f. in any case, connection with jupiter seems to originate from earlier times (brown 2000: 65. figure 8. the most popular ways of writing ejupiter f in cuneiform: mul2.babbar, mulsag.me.gar, mulud.al.tar, d.ul.pa.e3. 22 the best illustration about how a planet fs names can depend o

KETAB E SIYAH

an the sultan's or babylon's. they were most populous with cedar and ebon and boats made as swans plied the waters 5 of rivers filled with fish of silver scales that darted forth and back, faster than arrows. it was my custom to hunt there, upon a stallion of marble-white, so proud that i alone could ride the intemperate steed, seeking with lance and bow, camelopards, monoceri and other wonderful beasts that as the sun, of purest white, declined and blushed in the western sky i should feast on many wonderful meats, and drink wine, as sweet as nectar, pressed from my fecund vineyards' grapes. my temple-palace was less than none but the platinum throne of god himself. three nights riding, upon the fastest steed, would barely encircle its outmost wall. its highest spire looked down upon mount

reator's crown making himself king of all. we cannot allow this august kingdom and its king, benign and right, to suffer such shame as this. this is why i have gathered you to me that we might oppose this unchaste plan 9 before it bears its bastard fruit full term and gives it ruinous and pernicious birth as in the time of our kingdom's founding when magog bore gog his base issue who, like savage beasts, made war upon us, making us slaves and sport until our brother, now turned against us, cast down, from the sky, a mount that broke the earth below in dire cataclysm and thus destroyed the hateful giants. this is why you are thus gathered" lo! they acclaimed michael's false counsel for their own malice ruled their ears and governed the intent of their hearts. from the throng, crying out for

than the sultan's or babylon's. they were most populous with cedar and ebon and boats made as swans plied the waters of rivers filled with fish of silver scales that darted forth and back, faster than arrows. it was my custom to hunt there, upon a stallion of marble-white, so proud that i alone could ride the intemperate steed, seeking with lance and bow, camelopards, monoceri and other wonderful beasts that as the sun, of purest white, declined and blushed in the western sky i should feast on many wonderful meats, and drink wine, as sweet as nectar, pressed from my fecund vineyards' grapes. my temple-palace was less than none but the platinum throne of god himself. three nights riding, upon the fastest steed, would barely encircle its outmost wall. its highest spire looked down upon mount

creator's crown making himself king of all. we cannot allow this august kingdom and its king, benign and right, to suffer such shame as this. this is why i have gathered you to me that we might oppose this unchaste plan before it bears its bastard fruit full term and gives it ruinous and pernicious birth as in the time of our kingdom's founding when magog bore gog his base issue who, like savage beasts, made war upon us, making us slaves and sport until our brother, now turned against us, cast down, from the sky, a mount that broke the earth below in dire cataclysm and thus destroyed the hateful giants. this is why you are thus gathered" lo! they acclaimed michael's false counsel for their own malice ruled their ears and governed the intent of their hearts. from the throng, crying out for

each singing shedim tongue resounded the interrogation, calling for the narration of my hermitage 134 and an explaining of the knowledge i had sought and won in my wanderings beyond the walls of noble chadel, unfailing, unfading. now, from the spire of opal and ruby, i addressed my worthy disciples, resounding, the story of my wanderings in the arcane wilderness of caverns, bored out by primeval beasts, winding like serpents through the earth's foundations, telling again the deeds and thoughts of mine and of the new path, the new victory "my shedim, noble race, bright ones, builders of the hidden spires of deep chadel, who have stamped down upon the walls of heaven and nourished the dream of tomorrow with blood shed in battle and libations spilt from the sword-blade of your false brothers

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

we cannot go against- 15- them. if we are at the mercy of nature, then there is no predicting where this wild, unreasonable nature can lead us. our natures are responsible for constantly causing conflicts between individuals and entire nations, who, like wild animals, are engaged in a vicious struggle of the instincts. yet, subconsciously, we cannot accept a comparison of ourselves with primitive beasts. if, however, the divine force that created us does exist, then why do we not perceive it, why does it conceal itself from us? for if we knew what it required of us, we would not commit those mistakes in our lives for which we are punished by suffering! how much easier would life be if the creator were not concealed from human beings, but were clearly perceived and seen by each and every on

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

ifestations of the one eternal god. this interplay or apparent duality in the universe is also symbolized by the cross, which thus becomes the emblem of the fourfold name of god. amongst the medieval rosicrucians the four arms of this cross were taken to symbolize the four elements, water, fire, air and earth, called in hebrew iammim, nour, ruach and iabescheh, corresponding yet again to the four beasts about the throne of god, symbolized for us by the four great banners of the order. 773. since thus we learn that all life is the divine life, it follows also that the brotherhood of that life is in truth universal, and is by no means confined to the human species. not only is every man our brother, of whatsoever race, colour or creed he may be, but the animals and the trees around us- yea

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

habit, whereof i am not forbidden to speak, considering that many persons saw me at that time. there i was commanded to stand upon a pulpit of wood which stood in the middle of the temple, before the figure and remembrance of the goddess; my vestment was of fine linen, covered and embroidered with flowers; i had a precious cope upon my shoulders, hanging down behind me to the ground, whereon were beasts wrought of divers colours, as indian dragons, and hyperborean griffins, whom in form of birds the other part of the world doth engender: the priests commonly call such a habit an olympian stole. in my right hand i carried a lighted torch, and a garland of flowers was upon my head, with white palm-leaves sprouting out on every side like rays; thus i was adorned like unto the sun, and made in

chain of masonic descent. their central legend deals with the slaying of dionysus by the titans and his subsequent resurrection. 405. the mysteries commenced with the consecration of an egg, symbolizing the mundane egg from which all things came. the candidate was crowned with myrtle, clothed in the sacred robes, exhorted to have courage, and then led through dark caverns amid the howling of wild beasts and other fearful noises, while flashes of lightning revealed monstrous apparitions to his sight. after three days and nights of this kind of experience, he was laid on a couch in a solitary cell; there was a sudden crash of waters, typifying the deluge, and the murder of dionysus was enacted, his limbs being scattered on the waters. then, amid lamentations, commenced the search of rhea for

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

e satanic bible. it opens with the following words: in the name of satan, the ruler of the earth, the king of the world, i command the forces of darkness to bestow their infernal power upon me! open wide the gate of hell and come forth from the abyss to greet me as your brother (sister) and friend! grant me the indulgences of which i speak! i have taken thy name as a part of myself! i live as the beasts of the field, rejoicing in the fleshly life! i favor the just and curse the rotten! by all the gods of the pit, i command that these things of which i speak shall come to pass! come forth and answer to your names by manifesting my desires! the invocation then continues with a long list of names that have been applied to the prince of darkness. the core of the ceremony which in the laveyan s

adise. this realm was said to be free of sorrow, and the souls there enjoyed a luxurious tropical garden. although there was apparently no notion of an afterlife retribution, the northern land of the dead and ultimate destiny of the majority of people, mictlan, was distinctly unpleasant. the deceased took four years to traverse nine intervening, subterranean realms containing mountains, ferocious beasts, and chilling winds. the dead were buried with amulets and cremated dogs to help them during their journey. milton, john 175 for further reading: edmonson,munro s. the mayan faith. in gary h. gossen, ed. south and meso-american native spirituality. new york: crossroad, 1993, 65 85. eliade,mircea, ed. encyclopedia of religion. new york:macmillan, 1987. hultkrantz, ake. the religions of the a

LIBER 777

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

eals] 11 eagle, man (cherub of d[[ox] aspen 12 swallow, ibis, ape[[twin serpents, fish, hybrids] vervain, herb mercury, major-lane, palm[[lime or linden] 13 dog[[stork, camel] almond, mugwort, hazel (as, moonwort, ranunculus[[alder, pomegranate] 14 sparrow, dove[[swan, sow, birds generally] myrtle, rose, clover[[fig, peach, apple] 15 ram, owl tiger lily, geranium[[olive] 16 bull (cherub of e[[all beasts of burden] mallow[[all giant trees] 17 magpie, hybrids[[parrot, zebra, penguin] hybrids, orchids 18 crab, turtle, sphinx[[whale, all beasts of transport] lotus 19 lion (cherub of b[[cat, tiger, serpent, woman] sunflower 20 virgin, anchorite, any solitary person or animal[[rhinoceros] snowdrop, lily, narcissus[[mistletoe] 21 eagle[[praying mantis] hyssop, oak, poplar, fig[[arnica, cedar] 22

gel or of adonai. khan 11 divination sun 12 miracles of healing, gift of tongues, knowledge of sciences sun 13 the white tincture, clairvoyance, divination by dreams kan and khwan 14 love-philtres tui 15 power of consecrating things. 16 the secret of physical strength. 17 power of being in two or more places at one time, and of prophecy. 18 power of casting enchantments. 19 power of training wild beasts. 20 invisibility, parthenogenesis, initiation. 21 power of acquiring political and other ascendency. li 22 works of justice and equilibrium. 23 the great work, talismans, crystal-gazing& c. tui 24 necromancy. 25 transmutations[[vision of universal peacock. 26 the witches sabbath so-called, the evil eye. 27 works of wrath and vengeance kbn 28 astrology. 29 bewitchments, casting illusions. 30

LIBER ALEPH

e phallus, pure image of our father the sun, the unity creative. the signification of this mystery is hat the adept must be whole, himself, containing all things in true proportion, before he maketh himself bride of the one universal transcendental, in its most secret virtue. and now herefore, o my son, comprehending this mystery by thine intelligence, i will write further unto thee of these your beasts of power. f the book of wisdom or folly 153 ef de tauro (of the bull) oncerning the bull, this is thy will, constant and unwearied, whose letter is vau, which is six, the number of he sun. he is therefore the force and the substance of thy being; but besides this, he is the hierophant in the taro, as if this were said .that thy will leadeth thee unto the shrine of light. and in the rites of

ions from equilibrium; there is a certain objection, o my son, to our thesis concerning will that it should flow freely in its way: namely hat for such as i am it is well, because i am endowed by nature with a lust insatiable in any kind, so that the universe itself seemeth incapable to appease it. for i have poured myself out unceasingly, in bodily passion, and in battles with men, and with wild beasts, and with mountains and deserts, and in poetry and other writings of the musick of mine imagination, and in books of our own mysteries, and in works magical, and so forth, so that in mine age i am become verily a slave to mine own genius and my law is that unless i sleep or create, my soul is sick, and fain to claim the reward and the recreation of my death. but (i hear thee say it) this is

LIBER CHANOKH

let there be no creature upon or within her the same. all her members, let them differ in their qualities, and let there be no one creature equal with another. the reasonable creatures of the earth, and men, let them vex and weed out one another; and their dwelling-places, let them forget their names. the work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced. his buildings, let them become caves for the beasts of the field! confound her understanding with darkness! for why? it repenteth me that i have made man. one while let her be known, and another while a stranger: because she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling-place of him that is fallen. o ye heavens, arise! the lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you! govern those that govern! cast down such as fall. bring forth with those that

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE

thou hast given me of thy flesh to eat and of thy blood for an offering of intoxication. 39. thou hast fastened the fangs of eternity in my soul, and the poison of the infinite hath consumed me utterly. 40. i am become like a luscious devil of italy; a fair strong woman with worn cheeks, eaten out with hunger for kisses. she hath played the harlot in divers places; she hath given her body to the beasts. 41. she hath slain her kinsfolk with strong venom of toads; she hath been scourged with many rods. 42. she hath been broken in pieces upon the wheel; the hands of the hangman have bound her unto it. 14 liber lxv 43. the fountains of water have been loosed upon her; she hath struggled with exceeding torment. 44. she hath burst in sunder with the weight of the waters; she hath sunk into the

me. 26 liber lxv 42. o holy exalted one, o self beyond self, o self-luminous image of the unimaginable naught, o my darling, my beautiful, come thou forth and follow me. 43. adonai, divine adonai, let adonai initiate refulgent dalliance! thus i concealed the name of her name that inspireth my rapture, the scent of whose body bewildereth the soul, the light of whose soul abaseth this body unto the beasts. 44. i have sucked out the blood with my lips; i have drained her beauty of its sustenance; i have abased her before me, i have mastered her, i have possessed her, and her life is within me. in her blood i inscribe the secret riddles of the sphinx of the gods, that none shall understand,.save only the pure and voluptuous, the chaste and obscene, the androgyne and gynander that have passed b

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

ways known how to secure efficiency. needless also to insist on a similar quality in the assistants; the sexual excitement must be suppressed and transformed into its religious equivalent. vii with these preliminaries settled in order to guard against foreseen criticisms of those protestants who, god having made them a little lower than the angels, have made themselves a great deal lower than the beasts by their consistently bestial interpretation of all things human and divine, we may consider first the triune nature of these ancient methods of energizing enthusiasm. music has two parts; tone or pitch, and rhythm. the latter quality associates it with the dance, and that part of dancing which is not rhythm is sex. now that part of sex which is not a form of the dance, animal movement, is

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

14. there are deep secrets in these songs. it is not enough to hear the bird; to enjoy song he must be the bird. 24 liber liberi vel lapidis lazuli 15. i am the bird, and thou art my song, o my glorious galloping god! 16. thou reinest in the stars; thou drivest the constellations seven abreast through the circus of nothingness. 17. thou gladiator god! 18. i play upon mine harp; thou fightest the beasts and the flames. 19. thou takest thy joy in the music, and i in the fighting. 20. thou and i are beloved of the emperor. 21. see! he has summoned us to the imperial dais. the night falls; it is a great orgy of worship and bliss. 22. the night falls like a spangled cloak from the shoulders of a prince upon a slave. 23. he rises a free man! 24. cast thou, o prophet, the cloak upon these slaves

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

e in which to win him back to your worship. the cunning sorcerer did not mention that within that time also must his own ruin be accomplished .what do you advise. asked the irritated and powerful, but unintelligent deity .time is our friend. said the enchanter .let your influence be used in the halls of birth that each birth may be as long as possible. now the elephant is the longest lived of all beasts .done with you. said ganesha in great glee, for the idea struck him as ingenious. and he lumbered off to clinch the affair at once .and perdu. r abu died. 1 the archdevil of the buddhists. 72 appendix i v .now the great elephant strode with lordly footsteps in the forest, and jehjaour shut himself up with his caldrons and things and felt quite happy, for he knew his danger was not near till

can be traced by any one who possesses, and to some degree understands, a pack of the cards. the occult views of the nature of these symbols are in some cases crowley.s own. opus prima materia. a. o. custodes.4 sapiens dominatibur astris. s. s. d. d. ambrosii magi hortis rosarum 79 pearls, big and round like the breasts of a sea-nymph; and they gleamed round like moons. she held in leash the four beasts, but he strode boldly to her, and kissed her full on the lips. wherefore she signed and fell back a space, and he pressed on. now at the end of the darkness a fire glowed: she would have hindered him: clung she to his neck and wept. but the fire grew and the light dazzled her; so that with a shriek she fell. but the beasts flung themselves against the burning gateway of iron, and it gave wa

is wise: she had three arrows, yet but two flanks, and the wise men said that who knew two was three,1 should know three was eight,2 if the circle were but squared; and this also one day shall ye know, my brethren! and she gave him the great and perfect gift of magic, so that he fared forth right comely and well-provided. now at that great wedding was a suggler,3 a riddler: for he said .thou hast beasts: i will give thee weapons one for one. for the lion did our father win a little fiery wand like a flame, and for his eagle a cup of ever flowing water: for his man the suggler gave him a golden-hilted dagger (yet this was the worst of all his bargains, for it could not strike other, but himself only, while for a curious coin he bartered his good bull. alas for our father! now the suggler mo

LINDOW JOHN NORSE MYTHOLOGY A GUIDE TO THE GODS HEROES RITUALS AND BELIEFS

is principle of household membership that people could switch from one household to another only at certain specified times of the year, the gmoving days. h farming consisted primarily of raising cattle and the hay that would be needed to support the cattle. 6 norse mythology some english jet was exported from yorkshire to norway during the viking age. this carving of a pair of bear-like gripping beasts brings to mind related examples in amber (historisk museum, bergen universitetet) the viking age is by definition a period when scandinavians and europeans interacted, and without that interaction and the written documents it gave rise to in europe, archaeologists might have called the period from 800 to circa 1000 the gscandinavian iron age. h the beginning of the period, as we have seen

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

mud and green of the earth and meditate. the green man and goddess themselves shall make their awakening to the witch, with whom has communed with nature. by being robed in the sky of the goddess, nuit, shall great beauty be revealed. it is by this simple yet important act which will lead one to the initiation of belial, or mastery of the earth. belial is itself, the fallen angel who masters the beasts of the world, the mountains and the forests along with azazel. it is though this exercise of invoking the green man or green woman, that one may proceed later to darker areas of bestial exploration, such as lycanthropy and spiritual transformations of mind above flesh. the union of both brings the announcement of our becoming in the world of manes and shades of the dead. the daemonic aspect

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

lects a view of humans in relation to nature, one quite different from that of the abenaki. here humans are apart from and dominant over nature. god said of humans, let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth (genesis 1:26, king james version. fish, plants, and beasts were given by god to humans for food. beyond accounting for the origin of the world and life, myths can also provide explanations of why life is as it is or how many things came to be as they are. for example, the nuer people of east africa provide a mythological account of why some people have white skin and others have black skin. here, a high god, kwoth (spirit of the sky, gave europeans

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

to speculate. the artist has given us a detailed picture in figure 20 which is a beautiful representation of the chapter of the royal figure 19. tracing board of the royal arch degree, john harris, c. 1820. figure 20. a representation of a chapter of the royal arch, john harris, c. 1820. arch. there are many openly kabbalistic symbols here. in the east there are banners depicting the four sacred beasts, the ox, the lion, the eagle, and the man: the archetypes of the inhabitants of the four worlds taken from the vision of ezekiel. arranged down the sides of the picture are banners with the devices of the twelve tribes of israel, they are analogous to the twelve signs of the zodiac, and they represent the twelve archetypal human groups. the central feature of this space is the pedestal surr

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ably he was taught that the golden crown represented his own spiritual nature, which must be objectified and unfolded before he could truly glorify mithras; for mithras was his own soul, standing as mediator between ormuzd, his spirit, and ahriman, his animal nature. in the second degree he was given the armor of intelligence and purity and sent into the darkness of subterranean pits to fight the beasts of lust, passion, and degeneracy. in the third degree he was given a cape, upon which were drawn or woven the signs of the zodiac and other astronomical symbols. after his initiations were over, he was hailed as one who had risen from the dead, was instructed in the secret teachings of the persian mystics, and became a full-fledged member of the order. candidates who successfully passed the

acles for many years. the lyre, after being stolen from its shrine and working the destruction of the thief, was picked up by the gods and fashioned into a constellation. orpheus has long been sung as the patron of music. on his seven-stringed lyre he played such perfect harmonies that the gods themselves were moved to acclaim his power. when he touched the strings of his instrument the birds and beasts gathered about him, and as he wandered through the forests his enchanting melodies caused even the ancient trees with mighty effort to draw their gnarled roots from out the earth and follow him. orpheus is one of the many immortals who have sacrificed themselves that mankind might have the wisdom of the gods. by the symbolism of his music he communicated the divine secrets to humanity, and

o the pillars and floor. the temple contained a colossal statue of poseidon standing in a chariot drawn by six winged horses, about him a hundred nereids riding on dolphins. arranged outside the building were golden statues of the first ten kings and their wives. in the groves and gardens were hot and cold springs. there were numerous temples to various deities, places of exercise for men and for beasts, public baths, and a great race course for horses. at various vantage points on the zones were fortifications, and to the great harbor came vessels from every maritime nation. the zones were so thickly populated that the sound of human voices was ever in the air. that part of atlantis facing the sea was described as lofty and precipitous, but about the central city was a plain sheltered by

hall continue from an infinite beginning to an infinite end, for the beginning and the ending are in the same place and state "then the downward-turned and unreasoning elements brought forth creatures without reason. substance could not bestow reason, for reason had ascended out of it. the air produced flying things and the waters such as swim. the earth conceived strange four-footed and creeping beasts, dragons, composite demons, and grotesque monsters. then the father--the supreme mind--being light and life, fashioned a glorious universal man in its own image, not an earthy man but a heavenly man dwelling in the light of god. the supreme mind loved the man it had fashioned and delivered to him the control of the creations and workmanships "the man, desiring to labor, took up his abode in

res (16) constituting the base is 28, the sacred number of the lower world. if this be added to the three septenaries composing the sun (21, it equals 49, the square of 7 and the number of the universe. the twelve signs of the zodiac, like the governors' of the lower worlds, are symbolized by the twelve lines of the four triangles--the faces of the pyramid. in the midst of each face is one of the beasts of ezekiel, and the structure as a whole becomes the cherubim. the three main chambers of the pyramid are related to the heart, the brain, and the generative system--the spiritual centers of the human constitution. the triangular form of the pyramid also is similar to the posture assumed by the body during the ancient meditative exercises. the mysteries taught that the divine energies from

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

f these nephelim, as the descendants of the house of azael were known, were, like nimrod, men of renown and great in wisdom. others, however, turned in the opposite direction and increasingly devoted themselves to the pursuit of hideous delights and necromantic pastimes besides which gilles de rais' antics are said to pall into insignificance. and they [the giants] began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones] book of enoch, ibid- legend has it that the watchers, in despair at the evil that had been unleashed upon the world by their hand, took counsel among themselves and wielded their power to cast down the lands wherein the nephelim dwelt, overwhelming the en

's flowers, however, upon which old horny tramples joyously, you should surround your altar triangle with pinecones, evergreens, and the horns, teeth or hooves of animals which are all especially held sacred to the god. we are not dealing with the gentle mystery and twilit glamour of habondia's womanly enchantments, but rather the darkness of the wildwood, the trampling and snorting of the god of beasts, and those rude and basic facts of life, the rearing phallus and the hungry vulva. to begin this section on lust, here is a small traditional spell, more suitable for performance by the male warlock, to stir up the baser passions in a lady. it is not much in use nowadays for obvious reasons, but it is quaintly illustrative of the use of the principle of direct transmission. though there is

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

e was found worthy to hear him speak from the burning bush; and by the name ain soph, which aaron heard, and was at once made eloquent, wise, and learned; and by the name tzabaoth, which moses named and invoked, and all the ponds and rivers were covered with blood throughout the land of egypt; and by the name iod, which moses named and invoked, and striking upon the dust of the earth both men and beasts were struck with disease; and by the name, and in the name primeumaton, which moses named and invoked, and there fell a great and severe hail throughout all the land of egypt, destroying the vines, the trees, and the woods which were in that country; and by the name iaphar, which moses heard and invoked, and immediately a great pestilence began to appear through all the land of egypt, strik

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

do i adjure and constrain thee. and by these names, and by all the other names of the living and true god, the lord almighty, i do exorcise and command thee, o spirit n, even by him who spake the word and it was done, and to whom all creatures are obedient; and by the dreadful judgments of god; and by the uncertain sea of glass, which is before the divine majesty, mighty and powerful; by the four beasts before the throne, having eyes before and behind; by the fire round about the throne; by the holy angels of heaven; and by the mighty wisdom of god; i do potently exorcise thee, that thou appearest here before this circle, to fulfil my will in all things which shall seem good unto me; by the seal of basdathea balda-chia; and by this name primeumaton, which moses named, and the earth opened

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

lf chant7 from which the sorcerer sheds the human form for that of a wolf. such a chant may be used in dreaming chants before sleep if the witch so desires lending to the dreaming flesh gathered by shadows. in the ancient lore of persian sorcery, with specifics to zoroastrianism, wolves were hated creatures which were said to be created by ahriman. the term khrafstra is a general word for noxious beasts, attributed to the druj or demons of the dragon ahriman. such imagery is used in the work of the black order of the dragon, a secret guild of witches and sorcerers who develop a left hand path initiatory guild based on (among others) persian sorcery and so-called black magick centered around the dragons ahriman and tiamat, who is of sumerian origin. the botd which is headed by a triad of wi

MICHAEL FORD BOOK OF CAIN

in white and flowed within a strange and familiar light was challenging me, a very point of discovering my very inner essence, which i could sense. i said unto him- angel, who would you be to tell me of thorns and roads less traveled? i have passed through the blood and bones of my brother, to walk within a shadow of which i am the only god that is dreams feed my desires and i go forth among the beasts of the fields, take yourself away from me as i shall not resign my path, for i seek mine own mother who would either cut me to shreds or raise me up as god. the angel transformed into a very familiar dreaming body which taught me the ways of nature, yet he was a blackened shadow which held a spirit possessed knife very good cain, my son of flesh, go forth unto your deep desire and seek her

emerald. o cain, spirit born of fire and darkness, shadowed initiator! o cain, who wanders the earth from deserts to forests brought forth from the womb, flesh-born son of the dragon and the harlot goddess, mother of witch blood. spirit and lord of the blackened fires of the forge, who tasted the blood mark as an x upon the brow. o cain, who was awakened by the skull bearing omen of abel lord of beasts and initiator of sorcerous fire, werewolf shapeshifter! let me see within and beyond the caul of lilith s veil! father and brother of the caves wherein are ancient shades, who hold the book of dreaming which is the primal word of the serpent- cain, lord of beasts and transformation, i summon thee, invocate thee within shall your lightening strike upon the forge and illuminate my spirit! my

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exist to dance with you, to guide towards a glimpse of the night of pan, to gather on the astral plane at the witches' sabbath. come close, if your will is against it much is deadly, however with pleasure and the glowing lamp of strength all is possible. come within the night side, where varcolaci await. vampirism, lycanthropy and european folklore for thousands of years there have been tales of beasts haunting the countryside by night, demons which stalk the roads and pathways of the forests. corpses who enter the chambers of the sleeping for sexual congress. the wild hunt which rides the northern skies in the autumn, searching for souls to join their ghastly celebrations. the undead in european folklore are immensely strong and colorful in their legend. walking corpses known as draugr

lp is a vampire like spirit associated with the incubus/succubus who would torment the dreams of men, women and children alike. the alp is considered often to be that of a recently deceased person, or often a demon of the tomb- that which is bred from the darkest aspects of magick and the astral plane. the alp can take the form of a cat, pig, dog and other creatures such as a werewolf and demonic beasts which resemble rabid, black dogs. this spirit is also known to wear a hat and use its powers to fly the night sky. its methods of feeding include entering the mouth of the victim through a long serpent like tongue and changing to smoke, wherein it absorbs the life force of the individual. the alp is also said to drain blood from the breast of women, and of men and children through their nip

udoo traditions, being the lord of the crossroads and the mysteries of death) as well as the sender of nocturnal visions (dreaming visitation. hecate is depicted as a woman or hag with three heads, each facing a different direction. it is said that hecate is seen in all three phases of the moon. mythology has painted a vision of the witch mother with two or sometimes all three heads being that of beasts. each animal represents an atavistic desire which manifests in her current of lunar energy. this power would propel her towards the goddess incarnation of the witch cult and many lines of sorcery. the moon is represented as a significant feminine force, based and connected with the element water. hecate is rumored to be of thracian origin although her base was within the roman and greek pan

phomet "o fire of the black one, illuminate by thy dark presence, let my strength come forth. i am stripped and defaced, to reveal the true self, and its ever changing essence which truth may not be rendered without falsehood. from sabbath flame to witching mire, as we fly through the night let baphomet be my guide, with thy torch of dark illumination. bearer of black wisdom of the spirit, god of beasts and god of flight cast unto me this night an ember from the fire of thy wisdom. to believe! to will! to obtain! io baphomet! i am the god who over the astral sabbath presides: baphomet, illuminated god of flesh and spirit. i am the god of creative and inspiring tides. i am the god of worthlessness and merit! as lightning flashes, so life streaks from my eyes. the goat, the snake and human

of power unto which the wind carries our will! asmodeus, behold an ascending light burning gold transcending all points of time, we are becoming as the one called morning star of the east, blinding light of birth! io horned god of wisdom" spring equinox march 21st the spring equinox is the dawning of light and birth, of renewal and energy. spring is the time of pan and of the morning star (9. all beasts and men/women walk the earth in awakened senses, especially those of a magickal path. this is a rite of exploring the parallel path ways, similar to the spheres of shadow conscious or the tunnels of night. balance is defined in this season and both light and shadow, black and white. all of which becomes itself in reverse. the sorcerer should approach this rite as a dawning of their senses

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ord (ezekiel 6:13-14) wherefore, as i live, saith the lord god; surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary withall thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will i also diminish thee;neither shall mine eye spare, neither will i have any pity (ezekiel 5:11)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation37 the world falls dead so will i send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee: and pestilenceand blood shall pass through thee; and i will bring the sword upon thee. i the lord have spo-ken it (ezekiel 5:17) it appears, after all, that the words of madame helena blavatsky, who spent her liferesearching the actual origins of mankind, are more than appropriate: the appellation satan, in hebrew, and adversarybelongs by right to the first and

hnologyallows. they are tired of this planet and are exhausting all the natural resources. andatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation105 from the sword to the syringe again, we were warned of what was to come by those on the front lines in bygonedays: and when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devouredmankind. and they began to sin against birds and beasts and reptiles and fish and to devourone another s flesh. then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones(book ofenoch) they have polluted the oceans and the atmosphere, reduced the oxygen and the elec-tron count, burned holes in the ozone, devastated the forests, relentlessly annihilatedthe flora and fauna, caused havoc within the food chain, demineralized human food,poisoned the lak

magnificent seven, and terminator ii).this is the..start the fuse tector outcome.3the fourth outcome is that mankind finally discovers the correct means to the end and vanquishes itsenemy, with no excessive loss of life or home-world. mankind will prove itself its own defender andredeemer. we will eradicate the enemy externally and finally resolve the question of evil on themicrocosmic level. the beasts will be slain, the maidens rescued, the planet saved, and the endinghappy.this is the true empire strikes back outcome.4y ou may notice something is missing from these scenarios. there is no mention ofanyone or anything else coming to our rescue. there is no mention of the conventionalavengers and redeemers: gods, greys, christs, angels, or pleiadeans. there is noflash gordon on his way.we

creator and the maker did not hear this with pleasure: it is not well that our creatures, ourworks say; they know all, the large and the small. the serpent kingsthe sumerians state that the first human kings on earth were the offspring of custodial rulers whomated with the human women. those matings entitled the half-human offspring to become the earlymonarchs on earth (p. 211)brutal treatmentsas beasts of burden, humans were brutally treated by their extraterrestrial masters. the clay tablets tellof vast and catastrophic cruelty perpetuated by the custodians against their human servants. cold-blooded population control measures were carried out frequently (p. 43)neanderthal disappearanceit may be conjectured that neanderthal man was either exterminated or hauled off the earth to makeroom

and stones. they were/are saidto inhabit the new england region of northern new south wales where fresh campsites could be found.brewarrinai know of stories even from europeans, telling of giant-sized stone and wooden tools and weaponsfound in north-western and northern new south wales today-such as one freshly abandoned campsitefound by a prospector near brewarrina in 1973. tweed valleygiant man-beasts with large wooden clubs have been claimed seen in the tweed v alley on the queen-sland side of the nsw-queensland border even in the 70s.giant aboriginal people: and then there are the traditions of a form of giant aboriginal people, claimedby their smaller, modern counterparts to have survived in remote regions. if such astraloid giantsexisted, they were, like their monster hominid neighbo

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

g ravens. their form is that of the hideous demon-headed ravens rising from a volcano, also called getzphiel. shapeshifting into black ravens, the flight of the bird in the night, the element of fire and air with regards to initiation. mercury hod adramalech samael (smal: sheoliel+ molebriel+ afluxriel+ libridiel deceivers [jugglers of skulls, whose forms are that of a dull demon-headed, dog-like beasts. the moon yesod lilith gamaliel (gmlial: gedebriel+ materiel+ lapreziel+ idexriel+ alephriel+ labraeziel gamaliel, or the obscene ones, whose form are those of corrupting, loathsome bull-men, joined together. these demons are also called nachashiel, evil serpents, and obriel. the spirits of this sphere are of the blind dragon-force called leviathan or 56 ourabourus. in qlippothic workings

agiron capricorn (december 22nd jan 19th -active earth their colors are reddish and bright, they appear as devouring flat-shaped fish like piranhas who seek to devour. use them to guard your body when projecting astrally. behemiron aquarius (jan 20 feb 17 -fixed air these demons have limbs whose arms are derived from behemoth, and the color of their forms are black and brown, they appear as awful beasts, like hippopotamus and an elephant, but crushed, or as if their skin was spread out flat over the body of a gigantic cockroach. they are spirits of the air and relate to begetting the new behemoth is the point of mastery of the earth from the spirit by continual force. neshimiron pisces (feb 18 march 19th -mutable water they neshimiron appear as stagnant watery blue, their forms are as hide

at which eventually devours all things. az is also related to menstruation (the kiss of ahriman causes menstruation in women) and is a destroyer through chaos. az was connected with sexual hunger but also religious doubt, which relates her to a luciferian spirit who broke the chains of dogma by the black light, the torch of self-perception of being. az also represents lilith as the goddess of the beasts of the earth, the very mother of demons and sorcerous beings. az was said to be created in the zurvan myth as a black substance like coal, which would devour all creation, manifesting her as a vampyric being. azazel [hebrew] the first angel who brought the black flame of being to humanity. azazel was the lord of djinn and was said to be made of fire in islamic lore. azazel refused to bow be

ower from this averse way, thus expand power accordingly. lilith [hebrew] the goddess of witchcraft, magick and sorcery. lilith was the first wife of adam who refused to be submission and joined with the shadows and demonic spirits in the deserts. lilith was also said to be the spiritual mother of cain by her mate, samael (shaitan) the dragon. lilith appeared in sumerian times as a goddess of the beasts of the wild, as well as sorcery and night-fornication. lilith was said to have many forms, from beautiful women to half human and the bottom half animal, to half woman and half flame. lilith is also the mother of demons and a vampyric spirit which is a primal manifestation of the zoroastrian and manichaean az and jeh. lilith may also be related to the indian kali, whose name is one of her 1

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

r. the spirit must be given some kind of substance like steam or smoke to take physical appearance, otherwise the mirror must be used. once present, the spirit should be commanded to reveal itself in a manner that is not hideous, and to speak in a soothing voice using your native tongue; the spirit should also be commanded to control its odor. it is the nature of some spirits to arrive as hideous beasts, with a foul odor, and an unsoothing voice. signs of a successful evocation are: sudden wind, noises, voices, and odors in the ritual chamber. an object baring that spirit s sigil is placed in the triangle, and this object is subjected to injury when the magician wishes to force the obedience of that spirit. the brand new you [3.7] aside from thaumaturgic magic, or low magic, which uses mag

corrupting and spoiling the planet. this race even attempted to make slaves and sport out of the angelic race, but jehovah and satan cast down the titans. it is also worth mentioning that prometheus sided with zeus (the olympians) in the war of the titans. although the greek mythology does not mention it, eventually a flaming rock was hurled to the earth from space, killing this race of terrible beasts, and casting their souls to tartarus. it is important to bare in mind that there were 2 wars, or en-masse desertions, in heaven. the first between the angels--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 77 and the spawn of tiamat, and the second heavenly conflict was between satan s angels and jehovah s angels. the only trace of this event in the genesis account is subtle, and easily over-looked. i

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of our many forms we shall taste the blood of the night "o' blood drinking whore, whom by the essence from the crossroads, who has survived beyond the grave, take now your throne upon the great dragon arimanius, offer unto me the chalice of life, that which shall sustain our flesh and spirit-az, i summon thee "o' night haunting consort of the serpents of the abyss, whom takes theform of owls and beasts, lilitu, witch queen of the caul, the mark ofcain- lilitu- bless this grave shroud- walk with me in dreams "i seek now to enter black eden, as the form of belial, wolf- cloaked and bat- winged, in the phantom dream shall i arise from the blackened earth of the tomb, by the in-between of life and death, i have come into being "zrazza usha umpestu zrazza "i pledge myself to the vampyric path

om was said in some hebrew legends to be two aspects of the same goddess. the son of lilith and ashmodai was called sariel, the sword of ashmodai. his face flames with fire. sariel had kept a sealed book of secrets, a grimoire with words of power. the zohar itself explains that lilith is nourished by the water (ocean) and the south wind spreads her influence, from which places her as the queen of beasts. they (the beasts) are found chanting to her in the dark of night. lilith went forth to the desert to become the queen of zemargad (the desert domain, she then joined with samael and gave birth to thousands of liliam, lilitu, the demon succubi who copulate with the shadow of man and woman. it was when lilith entered the desert and began creating demons in the caves by the red sea that her b

MORALS AND DOGMA

ple were ground between the upper and the nether millstone of taxes, customs, and excises; and when the pope's nuncio and the cardinal de la roche-ayman, devoutly kneeling, one on each side of madame du barry, the king's abandoned prostitute, put the slippers on her naked feet, as she rose from the adulterous bed. then, indeed, suffering and toil were the two forms of man, and the people were but beasts of burden. the true mason is he who labors strenuously to help his order effect its great purposes. not that the order can effect them by itself; but that it, too, can help. it also is one of god's instruments. it is a force and a power; and shame upon it, if it did not exert itself, and, if need be, sacrifice its children in the cause of humanity, as abraham was ready to offer up isaac on

pilgrimage for the nation; for its waters should burst out freely from the whole soil. the free popular power is one that is only known in its strength in the hour of adversity: for all its trials, sacrifices and expectations are its own. it is trained to think for itself, and also to act for itself. when the enslaved people prostrate themselves in the dust before the hurricane, like the alarmed beasts of the field, the free people stand erect before it, in all the strength of unity, in self-reliance, in mutual reliance, with effrontery against all but the visible hand of god. it is neither cast down by calamity nor elated by success. this vast power of endurance, of forbearance, of patience, and of performance, is only acquired by continual exercise of all the functions, like the healthf

e second _black; in the third _white; and in the fourth _grizzled "and these were the four winds of the heavens, that go forth from standing before the lord of all the earth" ezekiel saw the _four_ living creatures, each with _four_ faces and _four_ wings, the faces of a _man_ and a _lion, an _ox_ and an _eagle; and the _four_ wheels going upon their _four_ sides; and saint john beheld the _four_ beasts, full of eyes before and behind, the lion, the young ox, the man, and the flying eagle _four_ was the signature of the earth. therefore, in the 148th psalm, of those who must praise the lord on the land, there are _four_ times _four, and _four_ in particular of living creatures. visible nature is described as the _four_ quarters of the world, and the _four_ corners of the earth "there are

must praise the lord on the land, there are _four_ times _four, and _four_ in particular of living creatures. visible nature is described as the _four_ quarters of the world, and the _four_ corners of the earth "there are _four" says the old jewish saying "which take the first place in this world _man, among the creatures; the _eagle_ among birds; the _ox_ among cattle; and the _lion_ among wild beasts" daniel saw _four_ great beasts come up from the sea. five is the duad added to the triad. it is expressed by the five-pointed or blazing star, the mysterious pentalpha of pythagoras. it is indissolubly connected with the number _seven. christ fed his disciples and the multitude with _five_ loaves and _two_ fishes, and of the fragments there remained _twelve, that is _five_ and _seven, bask

en_ by _three_ and _four; and the _seven_ epistles are also so divided. in the seals, trumpets, and vials, also, of this symbolic vision, the _seven_ are divided by _four_ and _three. he who sends his message to ephesus "holds the _seven_ stars in his right hand, and walks amid the _seven_ golden lamps" in _six_ days, or periods, god created the universe, and paused on the _seventh_ day. of clean beasts, noah was directed to take by _sevens_ into the ark; and of fowls by _sevens; because in _seven_ days the rain was to commence. on the _seven_teenth day of the month, the rain began; on the _seven_teenth day of the _seventh_ month, that ark rested on ararat. when the dove returned, noah waited _seven_ days before he sent her forth again; and again _seven, after she returned with the olive-l

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to look up to god, and so not to be god. the curse of duality. we refer the reader to the following verses in chapter one, and the commentaries thereon: 11, 21, 31, 45, 48. also, to chapter three, verse 19. 24. behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my mends who be hermits. now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. beware lest any force another, king against king! love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of y

y static condition only by being pitted against increased opposition. you must exercise your faculties, and you will be wise to find ever tougher problems to solve. thus, in this aeon, the path of the hermit goes into the world, and not out of it. readers must not confuse hermits with monks, by the way. monasteries, like nunneries, are social communities. hermits go solitary; monks hunt in packs "beasts of women: this curious expression must not be interpreted as derogatory to womanhood. every woman is a star "beasts of women" does not mean "bestial women" see verse 70. there is a technical meaning, and it must be left to the "right ingenium" of the advanced philosophus "beware lest any force another" beware of interfering with each other's true will "the day of your wrath: see liber vii

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pollo, so renowned for his extraordinary musical powers, had existed at the present day. we should no doubt have ranked him among the greatest of our musicians, and honoured him as such; but the greeks, with their vivid imagination and poetic license, page 9 exaggerated his remarkable gifts, and attributed to his music supernatural influence over animate and inanimate nature. thus we hear of wild beasts tamed, of mighty rivers arrested in their course, and of mountains being moved by the sweet tones of his voice. the theory here advanced may possibly prove useful in the future, in suggesting to the reader the probable basis of many of the extraordinary accounts we meet with in the study of classical mythology. and now a few words will be necessary concerning the religious beliefs of the ro

ine hill, in which were deposited the public treasury and the laws of the state. rhea (ops. rhea, the wife of cronus, and mother of zeus and the other great gods of olympus, personified the earth, and was regarded as the great mother and unceasing producer of all plant-life. she was also believed to exercise unbounded sway over the animal creation, more especially over the lion, the noble king of beasts. rhea is generally represented wearing a crown of turrets or towers and page 19 seated on a throne, with lions crouching at her feet. she is sometimes depicted sitting in a chariot, drawn by lions. the principal seat of her worship, which was always of a very riotous character, was at crete. at her festivals, which took place at night, the wildest music of flutes, cymbals, and drums resound

at man had sprung from the earth. they saw the tender plants and flowers force their way through the ground in the early spring of the year after the frost of winter had disappeared, and so they naturally concluded that man must also have issued from the earth in a similar manner. like the wild plants and flowers, he was supposed to have had no cultivation, and resembled in his habits the untamed beasts of the field, having no habitation except that which nature had provided in the holes of the rocks, and in the dense forests whose overarching boughs protected him from the inclemency of the weather. in the course of time these primitive human beings became tamed and civilized by the gods and heroes, who taught them to work in metals, to build houses, and other useful arts of civilization

, and, as might be expected with parents so highly gifted, was endowed with most distinguished intellectual qualifications. he was a poet, a teacher of the religious doctrines known as the orphic mysteries, and a great musician, having inherited from his father an extraordinary genius for music [81]when he sang to the sweet tones of his lyre, he charmed all nature, and summoned round him the wild beasts of the forests, who, under the influence of his music, became tame and gentle as lambs. the madly rushing torrents stopped their rapid course, and the very mountains and trees moved from their places at the sound of his entrancing melodies. orpheus became united to a lovely nymph named eurydice, the daughter of the sea-god nereus, whom he fondly loved. she was no less attached to him, and t

his return from this encounter he found, to his great grief, that the mares had torn his friend in pieces and devoured him. after celebrating due funereal rites to the unfortunate abderus, heracles built a city in his honour, which he named after him. he then returned to tiryns, where he delivered up the mares to eurystheus, who set them loose on mount olympus, where they became the prey of wild beasts. it was after the performance of this task that heracles joined the argonauts in their expedition to gain possession of the golden fleece, and was left behind at chios, as already narrated. during his wanderings he undertook his ninth labour, which was to bring to eurystheus the girdle of hippolyte, queen of the amazons. 9. the girdle of hippolyte..the amazons, who dwelt on the shores of th

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reat keys to the shining trapezoid that is the gate to the abyss, saying "herein lies the geometric inspiration for the existence of set, whose names shall be many in the aeons and ages to come. observe that it doth shape and define that which is the pentagram of set, which is itself our seal and the key to all beauty of proportion "even as the triangle and trihedron shall be as drugs to lure men-beasts to blind labor towards the worship of an apex of self-extinction, so we of the pentagram and the trapezoid author ever-unfolding memorials to the creative genius of man. think not that because the first sights before your opened eyes are these sacred keys, that they shall be reverenced. indeed with the passage of time they shall be changed and effaced by those who have forgotten their power

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ed her into a myrrh tree. the tree subsequently split in two and the beautiful infant adonis tumbled out. aphrodite placed the baby in a chest and gave him to persephone for safekeeping. persephone was immediately infatuated. warnings of a goddess aphrodite clings to adonis, trying to persuade him not to go hunting. she constantly warned him against exposing himself to the dangers of hunting wild beasts fearing especially the wild boars that could so easily take his life. the struggle between aphrodite and persephone for adonis led zeus to ask the muse calliope (see p. 30) to make a decision about the situation. she decided that adonis should spend a third of his time with aphrodite in the upper world, a third with persephone in the underworld, and the rest he could do with as he pleased

used of complicity in deceiving him, dana s handmaiden was put to death when acrisius discovered the birth of his grandson perseus. the rape of europa by valentin alexandrowitsch serow (1865 1911) i shall sing of zeus, the best and greatest of the gods, farseeing, mighty, the fulfiller of designs. homeric hymn to zeus griffin the griffin part-eagle, part-lion is one of many fantastic monsters and beasts in greek mythology. the griffin on dana s bed represents the strong guard under which her father had placed her; outside the doors was a pack of savage dogs. dana, princess of argos dana was the daughter of acrisius of argos by eurydice, the daughter of lacedemon (not to be confused with eurydice, wife of orpheus. acrisius twin brother proetus, king of tyryns, had quarreled with his brother

m half of the eggs became the earth, and the upper half became the heavens the yolk was the sun, the white the moon, and the mottled shell became the stars and the clouds. still ilmatar did not give birth, so she began to shape the world, dividing land and sea. her son, v in m inen, the first man, was born 30 years later. he floated in the sea, reaching dry land eight years later. the lord of the beasts the early celtic god cernunnos was the lord of the beasts, and is shown as such in various reliefs, most notably on the gundestrup cauldron (see below. he was worshiped most strongly in central france, and is often accompanied by ram-headed serpents. he wears a chieftain s torc around his neck and is sometimes shown with purses filled with coins. his name means the horned one, and he is evi

how a near-eastern origin, or may simply reflect the habitual sitting posture of the celts who, according to classical authors, sat on the ground. his position here is strikingly similar to that of a horned indian deity shown on a seal from mohenjo daro in pakistan, who also sits cross-legged surrounded by animals; it is suggested that this indian deity represents shiva in his role as lord of the beasts (see pp. 112 13. bull horned bulls are often shown in association with cernunnos, as for instance on a stone relief from rheims, france, in which cernunnos holds a sack from which coins flow down to a bull and a stag. many irish myths center around the attempted thefts of supernatural bulls, most notably the t in b cuailnge, whose hero is cuchulain, son of the sun god lugh. the two bulls wh

e showing a horned deity with wild animals is a panel from the gundestrup cauldron, which was found in denmark, one of the celtic territories, in 1891. it is made of silver-gilt embossed plates welded together and dates from the first or second century bce. stag horns dolphin the significance of the dolphin and its rider in this scene is not clear, but may suggest that cernunnos had sway over the beasts of the sea. a dolphin also appears on the scepter found in willingham fen, england, which shows an unidentified sky god. the lord of the beasts 79 after february 6th many people both saw and heard a whole pack of huntsmen in full cry. they straddled black horses and black bucks while their hounds were pitch black with staring hideous eyes. this was seen in the very deer park of peterborough

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

n reverse order, as one might expect. there are two reasons for this (1) in tiferet, chesed dominates over gevurah, and (2) as the ideal blend of chesed and gevurah, tiferet is a direct revelation of g-d fs goodness and glory rather than an indirect one.18 the name we are concerned with is the second of the 72. it presumably is associated with gevurah since it is the second. the four faces of the beasts that carried the divine throne in ezekiels vision were that of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle. the lion-face signified chesed, the ox-face gevurah, the eagle-face tiferet (and the midot below it, and the man-face malchut. thus, this name (yud-lamed-yud) and the ox-face are related by virtue of their mutual association with gevurah. the difference is that in [the initials from] this vers

anation h) articulate (man) chayah the confession hei binah ima( gmother h) beriah( gcreation h) animal neshamah the animal vav chesed, gevurah, tiferet, netzach, hod, yesod z feir anpin( gthe small face h) yetzirah( gformation h) vegetable ruach the oil and wine hei malchut nukva( gthe female h) of z feir anpin asiyah( gaction h) inarticulate (mineral) nefesh the salt know, that all the animals, beasts, and fowl have a soul [nefesh, which [originates in] descends from, and is influenced by the holy beasts. if the creature is ritually pure [tahor [it descends, etc] from the holy chariot, and if it is ritually impure [tamei] it derives from the impure chariot. the gdivine chariot, h a vision of a person riding a chariot, is described most vividly in the first chapter of the book of ezekiel

pter of the book of ezekiel, but appears elsewhere in the bible as well. it is generally understood to be a depiction of the hierarchy of divine powers through which g-d channels his life force into the world. each detail of the vision embodies a different aspect of this organization of life powers, and all the details eventually find their way into various manifestations in this world. the gholy beasts h here are the four celestial creatures that bear the divine chariot. gthis was their appearance: they were human figures, but each one had four faces, and each one had four wings c. their faces and their wings were alike on the four of them c. as for the likeness of their faces: each one had a human face [in the the arizal on parashat vayikra (2) 416 front; each of the four had a lion fs f

from the face of the eagle of the chariot. the permitted (kosher) domesticated animals of this world are derived from the face of the ox in the chariot; the permitted wild animals are derived from the face of the lion (even though lions themselves are not kosher; the permitted birds are derived from the face of the eagle. forbidden animals and fowl are derived from the corresponding faces of the beasts of the unholy chariot. the animal soul of man descends from the human face of the chariot, whether the holy or the impure one, as detailed at length in the zohar.2 when a person sins, the zohar explains, ghe draws down upon himself a spirit from the side of impurity, which then has complete sway over him. but if he makes an effort to purify himself, he is assisted [from on high] to do so. w

h g-d fs help, from any negative side effects of ecstatic meditation and prayer .translated and adapted from sha far hamitzvot and sha far ruach hakodesh 439 parashat shemini the latter half of this week fs torah portion contains the basic laws of kashrut, detailing which animals may and may not be eaten. kosher animals include domesticated animals (cattle, sheep, and goats, seven species of wild beasts, four types of locusts, plus various species of fowl and fish. man derives in general from z feir anpin, while the beasts and cattle derive from nukva [of z feir anpin] and fish, locusts, and fowl derive from yesod of z feir anpin. for this reason, the numerical value of the word for gfish h [dag] is 7, for yesod is the seventh sefirah. furthermore, yesod ggives to the poor h [gomel dalim

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east unto the man, but a mistaken magical fall from a man unto a beast. anciently they were a terrible power upon this planet, as then having more of the man than of the animal, whereas now they have more of the animal than of man. the ancient traditions of their primal conditions are preserved unto this day in the legends of ogres and, in certain records, cannibalism and its rites. regarding the beasts, they are, for the most part, easily obsessed, and they have not the spiritual responsibility of the man. their nature is not evil, but, following a natural law--seeing that man is head of the assiatic creation--so the animal is higher than the vegetables or mineral. also bear thou well in mind that the race of the transformers are given unto cruelty. such are above all the race of creeping

reature equal with another. 2the reasonable creatures of 'ag l toltom parach asymp tordziz 'the earth, or man, zlet them vex and weed out one another: 3and 2dodpal od fifalz l smnad wd 'their dwelling places 2let them forget their names. the work of man 'fargt zbams omaoas 3conisbra 'and his pomp zlet them be defaced. wis buildings, let them become 'od avwox gnug 30rsca tbl noasmi 'caves 2for the beasts of the field! yonfound her understanding with 'ta bges zlevithmong wnchi omp tibl 'darkness. tor why? 31t repenteth me that i have made man 'ors 2bagle 3moooah 01 cordziz 'one while let her be known, 2and another while a stranger. 3because 'l capimao lwmaxip yld cacocasb gosaa aaglen <345 'she is the bed of an harlot, 2and the dwelling place of wim that is 'pii tianta a babalond, wd faorgt

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d it in my mercy, and in my might i called it the white [fountain] and i am he to whom the lord of heaven said: thou art the ruler and governor of the universe. and i am he who manifested some of my wonders, and some of my virtues are seen in the things that exist. and i am he to whom the flinty mountains bow, they are under me, and ask to do my pleasure. and i am he before whose majesty the wild beasts wept; they came and worshipped and kissed my feet. i am adi of the mark, fr. 2 a wanderer, the all-merciful has distinguished me with names. and my seat and throne are the wide-spread earth. in the depth of my knowledge there is no god but me. these things are subservient to my power. how, then, can ye deny me, o mine enemies? do not deny me, o men, but yield, that in the day of the resurre

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

nature has entered upon its travail; the waves have become confined, the mountainsstand forth, the hidden treasures in. their seed are implanted in the bowels of the earth, secretly laidup, the metals, the mineries, the material of quarries which shall yield their riches in due time.millions of wonders doth the very face of the earth offer up, herbs, flowers, trees with leaves, seeds,and fruits; beasts and worms; birds and insects, and the angelic stars in the firmament. how can weutter sufficient praise to the maker of all, whose wonderful wisdom is displayed in all these works;the infinite, the eternal. for god created the heavens and the earth, the sun, the moon and. thestars.all nature smiles; my sign is that of aries, the ram, the opening of spring, nature222s childhood, thevernal eq

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

gross and material level of unintelligent jacobinism, realized by a steel triangle: this obtains both for heaven and earth. the initiated divulgers to whom the illuminated cazotte predicted a violent death have, in our own days, exceeded the sin of adam; having rashly gathered the fruits of the tree of knowledge, which they did not know how to use for their nourishment, they have cast them to the beasts and reptiles of the earth. so is the reign of superstition inaugurated, and it must persist until the period when true religion shall be constituted again on the eternal foundations of the hierarchy of three degrees and of the triple power which that hierarchy exercises blindly or providentially in the three worlds. 28 chapter iv the conjuration of the four the four elementary forms separat

maladroit special pleadings of its illustrious advocates. to will well, to will long, to will always, but never to lust after anything, such is the secret of power, and this is the magical arcanum which tasso brings forward in the persons of the two knights who come to deliver rinaldo and to destroy the enchantments of armida. they withstand equally the most alluring nymphs and most terrible wild beasts. they remain without desires and without fear, and hence they attain their end. does it follow from this that a true magician inspires more fear than love? i do not deny it, and while recognizing abundantly how sweet are the attractions of life, while doing full justice to the gracious genius of anacreon and to all the youthful efflorescence of the poetry of love, i invite the estimable vot

of a reversed triangle surmounted by a cross, an alchemical symbol known to all adepts and representing the accomplishment of the great work. the twenty-second key, which bears the number twenty-one because the fool which precedes it carries no numeral, the great work 67 represents a youthful female divinity, veiled slightly and running in a flowering circle, supported at four corners by the four beasts of the kabalah. in the italian tarot this divinity has a rod in either hand; in the besancon tarot, the two wands are in one hand while the other is placed upon her thigh, both equally remarkable symbols of magnetic action, either alternate in its polarization or simultaneous by opposition and transmission. the great work of hermes is therefore an essentially magical operation and the highe

ns of angels or stars sparkled round him. the tribunal was held, the allegorical books were opened. the new christ came with the clouds of heaven and stood before the ancient of days; there were given him power, honour and a kingdom over all peoples, tribes and tongues. then daniel came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. and it was answered him that the four beasts were four powers which should reign successively over the earth. h 144 the ritual of transcendental magic m. chaho proceeds to explain a variety of images, strikingly analogous, which are found in almost all sacred books. his observations at this point are worthy of remark. gin every primitive logos, the parallel between physical correspondences and moral relations is established on the sam

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ns are mostly solid earthy bodies, nothing of iron, but much of a stone similar to yellow soft flint [and] shaped like a barbed arrow head, but flung as a dart with great force. these arms, cut by art and tools it seems beyond human [skill, have somewhat of the nature of a thunder-bolt, subtly and mortally wounding the vital parts without breaking the skin. some of these wounds i have observed in beasts, and felt them with my [own] hands. they [that is, fairies] are not as infallible [as] benjamites, hitting at [that is, to within] a hair's breath; nor are they wholly unvanquishable, at least in appearance. the men of that second sight do not [simply] discover strange things when asked, but at [that is, in] fits and raptures, as if inspired with some genius at that instant, which before di

the] prolonging of life, leaving the terrestrial [parts] behind; such [that is, just] as aquae-vita [distilled spirits or whiskey] moderately taken, is [the purest] among liquors. the cure of such hurt is simply for a man to find out the hole [of the elf-shot] with his finger, as if the spirits flowing from the man's warm hand were antidote sufficiently against the poisoned darts. 9. as birds and beasts whose bodies are much used to the change of the free and open air [thus] foresee storms, so those invisible people are more sagacious to understand by [using]the book of nature, things [yet] to come, than we [are, who are pestered with the grosser dregs of elementary mixtures, and have our purer spirits choked by them. the deer scents out a man, and [gun] powder though a late invention, at

themselves [on, because it is as unknown to mankind as mankind's is to them. much more that the son of the highest spirit should assume a body like ours, convinces all the world that no other thing that is possible need be much wondered at. 9,2: the manucodiata or bird of paradise, living in the highest region of the air; common birds in the second region; flies and insects in the lowest; men and beasts on earth's surface; worms, otters, badgers, and fishes under the earth and waters. likewise hell is inhabited at the centre [of the earth] and heaven in the circumference; can we then think the middle cavities of the earth to be empty? i have seen in wemyss, a place in the county of fife in scotland, divers caves cut out, as [if they are] vast temples under ground; the like is [also found]

0/9/2001 12:35:20 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 60-69) but in the more usual charms of curing, besides a general prayer, called the seachd phaidir or seventh and perfect prayer [which is] set out below [and is] composed of some incoherent tautologies, used before and after [the main charming, there are words instituted for transferring of the soul or sickness on [to] other persons, beasts, trees, waters, hills or stones, accordingly as the charmer is pleased to name. the effect [of this] follows wonderfully, which scares many sober persons among the tramontaines [highlanders] from going in to see a sick person until they put a dog in before them or [some] one that lives in the house. for where charmers are cherished, they transfer the sickness [by their charms] on to the fir

age 34, but this refined concept of multiple life forms within and upon one another has only been developed scientifically in more recent centuries with technological advances. it does, however, have a number of possible correspondences in classical philosophy. the interrelationship between life forms is found in early celtic legends involving the season of the year, orders or long lists of totem beasts, and the interaction of the four elements. these interactive tales or cycles are found in irish sagas, in the welsh mabinogion and in the vita merlini. we may see them also in the myths of orpheus http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_82.htm (6 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:36:03 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 82-91 (similar in many ways to that of the youthful or mad merlin or to the se

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of force "the foundations of all states, whether new, old, or mixed, are good laws and good arms. and as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms, and where there are good arms there must be good laws, i will not discuss the laws but will speak of the arms" no distinction is drawn between just and unjust laws. fighting by laws is "proper to man" and fighting by force is "proper to beasts; since the former is often inadequate to deal with the beastly impulses and compulsions of mankind, the successful ruler must be skilled at the latter. while men are naturally acquisitive, they do not naturally seek justice. they must be forced to be good by the rulers. the end justifies the means: in order to secure the common good, the ruler must occasionally "fight fire with fire" and me

songs to the light; and so on through many pairs of opposites, ending with death and life. but the recital of the greatness of the supreme gnosis is not yet ended, for the master continues "hearken, therefore, now further, o my disciples, while i tell you the whole gnosis of the mystery of the ineffable" it is the gnosis of pitilessness and compassion; of destruction and everlasting increase; of beasts and creeping things, and metals, seas, and earth, clouds and rain, and so on working downwards from man into nature and upwards through all the supernatural realms. 4. the degrees of the mysteries the saviour answers that every one who receives a mystery of light, any one of them, shall after death find rest in the light-world appropriate so his mystery, but no one who has not become a chri

forms of religion that have anything to say of human conduct at all. it is well-known that. religious people do tend to be, on the one hand severe, restrained, disciplined, sometimes even to the point of self-cruelty, or, on the other, notably gentle, easygoing, broadminded. all religious recognize that the flesh, whatever good may or may be said of it, can be a snare. gluttony and lust can make beasts of men and women. even the least religiously-minded person can sometimes reproach himself with the reflection "i did make a pig of myself at that buffet dinner" gnosticism appeals to the desire to belong to an elite. to be elect is to be elitist willy-nilly. to be saved is to be in one way or another singled out. even those religious that claim to be thoroughly internationalist have elitist

st what were perceived to be unreasonably restrictive moralisms. it was also a movement aimed at dealienating man's carnal aspect. moreover, it questioned the widespread belief in the nobility and altruism of humanity as a whole, viewing this belief as naive and not born out by the realities of actual human existence and maintaining that man- or at least the common man- is the most vicious of all beasts.12 conventional religious worship was seen as self delusion, as it was thought that the "force which permeates and balances the universe is far too impersonal to care about the happiness or misery of flesh and blood creatures."13 thus the christian concept of a personal god was rejected, as was moral absolutism and the belief that god was the well-spring of morality. in the beginning, satan

ing separate from the physical universe and, further, as the very source of man's being and his capacity for non-natural action.15 hence, there existed quite a dichotomy between these two approaches, the first endorsing a sort of naturalism and concerning itself exclusively with the physical/material universe, the second exalting the alien, non-natural aspect of man as what set him apart from the beasts, and embodying a form of dualism in its postulation of something beyond the purely physical. this second view was ultimately to be transformed into the more expansive setian philosophy. it is my contention that, while the satanic philosophy of indulgence is intensely liberating and an integral element of the setian philosophy, it, in itself, lacks direction and can ultimately become nihilis

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answer me this: what am i to tell my friends" and beneath a signature, the pathetic, petulant postscript "now that you have your own bad djinni, do not think you will inherit the magic lamp" o o o after that, changez chamchawala wrote to his son at irregular intervals, and in every letter he returned to the theme of demons and possession "a man untrue to himself becomes a two-legged lie, and such beasts are shaitan's best work" he wrote, and also, in more sentimental vein "i have your soul kept safe, my son, here in this walnut-tree. the devil has only your body. when you are free of him, return and claim your immortal spirit. it flourishes in the garden" the handwriting in these letters altered over the years, changing from the florid confidence that had made it instantly identifiable and

d up in a far corner of the joint and argued back. assam had to be understood politically, he cried, there were economic reasons, and yet another fellow came to his feet to reply, cash matters do not explain why a grown man clubs a little girl to death, and then another fellow said, if you think that, you have never been hungry, salah, how bloody romantic to suppose economics cannot make men into beasts. chamcha clutched at his glass as the noise level rose, and the air seemed to thicken, gold teeth flashed in his face, shoulders rubbed against his, elbows nudged, the air was turning into soup, and in his chest the irregular palpitations had begun. george grabbed him by the wrist and dragged him out into the street "you okay, man? you were turning green" saladin nodded his thanks, gasped i

t in a series of rough circles, its houses spreading outwards from the house of the black stone, approximately in order of wealth and rank. abu simbel's palace is in the first circle, the innermost ring; he makes his way down one of the rambling, windy radial roads, past the city's many seers who, in return for pilgrim money, are chirping, cooing, hissing, possessed variously by djinnis of birds, beasts, snakes. a sorceress, failing for a moment to look up, squats in his path "want to capture a girlic's heart, my dear? want an enemy under your thumb? try me out; try my little knots" and raises, dangles a knotty rope, ensnarer of human lives- but, seeing now to whom she speaks, lets fall her disappointed arm and slinks away, mumbling, into sand. everywhere, noise and elbows. poets stand on

ded) on the backs of all the adults, in rotation. the villagers had pooled all their resources, and heaps of potatoes, lentils, rice, bitter gourds, chillies, aubergines and other vegetables were piling up next to the panchayat bough. the weight of the provisions was to be evenly divided between the walkers. cooking utensils, too, were being gathered together, and whatever bedding could be found. beasts of burden were to be taken, and a couple of carts carrying live chickens and such, but in general the pilgrims were under the sarpanch's instructions to keep personal belongings to a minimum. preparations had been under way since before dawn, so that by the time an incensed mirza saeed strode into the village, things were well advanced. for forty-five minutes the zamindar slowed things up b

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nces who rule over them. they are; metatron or satan, kemu-el, nathana-el, and gabri-el. 2nd choir: cherubim the hebrew kerub is commonly translated as knowledge, or one who intercedes. they are the first angels mentioned in the bible, stationed by god east of eden the cherubim and the ever turning sword to guard the way to the tree of life. they are described by theodorus, bishop of heraclea, as beasts which might terrify adam from the entrance of paradise. in the hebrew tradition they are described as having four faces and four wings, or alternatively by john of patmos in revelations as having six wings and six eyes. they are considered the bearers of god s throne and his charioteers. see psalm 18. they also appear as golden sculptures covering the ark of the covenant. the origins of the

rom heaven saw the daughters of cain perambulating and displaying their private parts, their eyes painted with antimony in the manner of harlots, and, being seduced, took wives from amongst them. the watchers and their brood devolved through their carnal obsessions and became tainted by the powers they sought to master. as it says in the book of enoch..and they began to sin against the birds, the beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another s flesh. it seems they were unable to divest themselves of their mortal forms and instead descended further and further into carnality. naturally, god stepped in to try and sort out the mess. the watchers and their foul offspring were either thrown into the abyss, or were destroyed in the great flood. however, there are many black magicians

equal with another. 2the reasonable creatures of 1ag l toltorn parach asymp 2cordziz 1the earth, or man, 2let them vex and weed out one another: 3and 2dodpal od fifalz l smnad 3od 1their dwelling places 2let them forget their names. 3the work of man 1fargt 2bams omaoas 3conisbra 1and his pomp 2let them be defaced. 3his buildings, let them become 1od avavox 2tonug 3orsca tbl noasmi 1caves 2for the beasts of the field! 3confound her understanding with 1tabges 2levithmong 3unchi omp tibl 1darkness. 2for why? 3it repenteth me that i have made man. 1ors 2bagle 3moooah ol cordziz. 1one while let her be known, 2and another while a stranger. 3because 1l capimao ixomaxip 2od cacocasb gosaa 3baglen 1she is the bed of an harlot, 2and the dwelling place of 3him that is 1pii tianta a babalond, 2od faor

SATANIC BIBLE

sses, lavey dropped out in his junior year, left home, and joined the clyde beatty circus as a cage boy, watering and feeding the lions and tigers. animal trainer beatty noticed that lavey was comfortable working with the big cats and made him an assistant trainer. possessed since childhood by a passion for the arts, for culture, lavey was not content merely with the excitement of training jungle beasts and working with them in the ring as a fill-in for beatty. by age ten he had taught himself to play the piano by ear. this came in handy when the circus calliope player became drunk before a performance and was unable to go on; lavey volunteered to replace him, confident he could handle the unfamiliar organ keyboard well enough to provide the necessary background music. it turned out he kne

tan in nomine dei nostri satanas luciferi excelsi! in the name of satan, the ruler of the earth, the king of the world, i command the forces of darkness to bestow their infernal power upon me! open wide the gates of hell and come forth from the abyss to greet me as your brother (sister) and friend! grant me the indulgences of which i speak! i have taken thy name as a part of myself! i live as the beasts of the field, rejoicing in the fleshly life! i favor the just and curse the rotten! by all the gods of the pit, i command that these things of which i speak shall come to pass! come forth and answer to your names by manifesting my desires! oh hear the names: the infernal names the infernal names are listed here in alphabetical order purely to simplify referral to them. when calling the name

and let there be no creature upon or within her the same. all her numbers, let them differ in their qualities; and let there be no creature equal with another. the reasonable creatures of the earth, and men, let them vex and weed out one another; and their dwelling places, let them forget their names. the work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced. his buildings, let them become caves for the beasts of the field! confound her understanding with darkness! for why? it repenteth me that i have made man. one while let her be known, and another while a stranger; because she is in the bed of a harlot, and the dwelling place of lucifer the king. open wide the gates of hell! the lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you! govern those who govern! cast down such as fall. bring forth those th

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some go scratching at the graves of the dead; some go fighting with foreheads or feet or daws; some bite suddenly without giving warning. punishment is sharp and sure, therefore learn the law. say the words! learn the law. say the words! say the words! invocator: nicht auf allen vieren zu gehen: das ist das gesetz. sind wir nicht menschen? not to go on all fours: that is the law. are we not men? beasts: nicht auf allen vieren zu gehen: das ist das gesetz. sind wir nicht menschen? not to go on all fours: that is the law. are we not men? invocator: nicht die rinde oder b ume zu zerkratzen: das ist das gesetz. sind wir nicht menschen? not to claw bark or trees: that is the law. are we not men? beasts: nicht die rinde oder b ume zu zerkratzen: das ist das gesetz. sind wir nicht menschen? not

z. sind wir nicht menschen? not to destroy our belongings: that is the law. art we not men? beasts: nicht unsere zugeh rigkeit zu zerstoren: das ist das gesetz. sind wir nicht menschen? not to destroy our belongings: that is the law. are we not men? invocator: nicht zu t ten ohne zu denken: das ist das gesetz. sind wir nicht menschen? not to kill without thinking: that is the law. are we not men? beasts: nicht zu t ten ohne zu denken: das ist das gesetz. sind wir nicht menschen? not to kill without thinking: that is the law. are we not men? invocator: der mensch ist gott. man is god. beasts: der mensch ist gott. man is god. invocator: wir sind menschen. we are men. beasts: wir sind menschen. we are men. invocator: wir sind g tter. we are gods. beasts: wir sind g tter. we are gods. invocato

n: das ist das gesetz. sind wir nicht menschen? not to kill without thinking: that is the law. are we not men? invocator: der mensch ist gott. man is god. beasts: der mensch ist gott. man is god. invocator: wir sind menschen. we are men. beasts: wir sind menschen. we are men. invocator: wir sind g tter. we are gods. beasts: wir sind g tter. we are gods. invocator: gott ist der mensch. god is man. beasts: gott ist der mensch. god is man. invocator: sein ist das haus des schmerzes. his is the house of pain. beasts: sein ist das haus des schmerzes. his is the house of pain. invocator: sein ist die hand die schafft his is the hand that makes. beasts: sein ist die hand die schafft. his is the hand that makes. invocator: sein ist die hand die verletzt his is the hand that wounds. beasts: sein is

n ist das haus des schmerzes. his is the house of pain. invocator: sein ist die hand die schafft his is the hand that makes. beasts: sein ist die hand die schafft. his is the hand that makes. invocator: sein ist die hand die verletzt his is the hand that wounds. beasts: sein ist die hand die verletzt. his is the hand that wounds. invocator: sein ist die hand die heilt. his is the hand that heals. beasts: sein ist die hand die heilt. his is the hand that heals. invocator: sein ist der leuchtende blitz. his is the lightning flash. beasts: sein ist der leuchtende blitz. his is the lightning flash. invocator: sein ist die tiefe see. his is the deep salt sea. beasts: sein ist die tiefe see. his is the deep salt sea. invocator: sein sind die sterne und der himmel his are the stars in the sky. be

st der leuchtende blitz. his is the lightning flash. invocator: sein ist die tiefe see. his is the deep salt sea. beasts: sein ist die tiefe see. his is the deep salt sea. invocator: sein sind die sterne und der himmel his are the stars in the sky. beasts: sein sind die sterne und der himmel his are the stars in the sky. invocator: sein sind die gesetze des landes. his are the rulers of the land. beasts: sein sind die gesetze des lande. his are the rulers of the land. invocator: sein ist der oft genannt himmel his is the place called heaven. beasts: sein ist der ort gennant himmel. his is the place called heaven. invocator: sein ist der ort genannt h lle. his is the place called hell! beasts: sein ist der ort genannt h lle. his is the place called hell! invocator: sein ist was ist unseres

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s relationship with him. as quoted on kamat s potpourri web site, he is said to have stated, there is one god, the embodiment of positive divinity. he is narayana. he is also ishwara brahma, vishnu, and has many other names. you can address him by any name. he also stated the entire nature extols god. his existence is evident in the sounds of the sea, in the wind, in singing of birds and howls of beasts. these all pay homage to god. his existence should be recognized, which is possible after self-training. for more information books potter, karl. madhva. in encyclopedia of religion. vol. 8. 2nd ed. edited by lindsay jones. detroit, mi: macmillan reference usa, 2005, 5550 1. sarma, deepak. an introduction to madhva vedanta. aldershot, uk: ashgate publishing, 2003. web sites kamat, jyotsna

d to the oiling. the boat was finished by sunset. the launching was very difficult. they had to keep carrying a runway of poles front to back, until two-thirds of it had gone into the water. whatever i had i loaded on it: whatever silver i had i loaded on it, whatever gold i had i loaded on it. all the living beings that i had i loaded on it, i had all my kith and kin go up into the boat, all the beasts and animals of the field and the craftsmen i had go up. shamash had set a stated time: in the morning i will let loaves of bread shower down, and in the evening a rain of wheat! go inside the boat, seal the entry! that stated time had arrived. in the morning he let loaves of bread shower down, and in the evening a rain of wheat. i watched the appearance of the weather the weather was fright

ndless cycle which governs our lives. without the sun we could not exist; therefore it has been revered as the source of all life, the warmth that bursts the dormant seeds into life and hastens the greening of the earth after the cold snows of winter. the god is also tender of the wild animals. as the horned god he is sometimes seen wearing horns on his head, symbolizing his connection with these beasts. in earlier times, hunting was one of the activities thought to be ruled by the god, while the domestication of animals was seen to be goddess-oriented. the god s domains include forests untouched by human hands, burning deserts and towering mountains. the stars, since they are but distant suns, are sometimes thought to be under his domain. the yearly cycle of greening, maturation and harve

SEPHER HA BAHIR

nt words: formed (yatzar, made (asah, and created (bara. when the soul was made, the word made is used [the word created is then used] male and female he created them. the word formed was used when the soul was combined with the body and the spirit was brought together. how do we know that forming means bringing together? for it is written (genesis 2:19, and the lord god formed (gathered) all the beasts of the field and all the flying things of the heaven, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call each thing. this explains the verse (genesis 5:2, male and female he created them. it is also written (genesis 1:28, and god blessed them. 199. the soul of the female comes from the female, and the soul of the male comes from the male. this is the reason why the serpent followed ev

s it not enough that you sinned? but you also caused adam to sin. she replied to him, master of all worlds: the serpent enticed me to sin before you [god] took the three of them, and decreed upon them a sentence of nine curses and death. he then cast the wicked samael and his group from their holy place in heaven. he cut of the feet of the serpent and cursed it more than all the other animals and beasts of the field. he also decreed that it must shed its skin every seven years. samael was punished and made the guardian angel over the wicked esau. in the future, when god uproots the kingdom of edom, he will lower him first. it is thus written (isaiah 24:21, god will punish the host of heights of high. this statement, death and punishment all came because she added to the commandment of the

SET IN EGYPTIAN THEOLOGY

ers, and others say they were an indigenous minority that seized control of the nation. this tribe ruled egypt for a time and happened to favor the set cult, seeing a resemblence to a storm-god of their own pantheon. the set cult never recovered from this identification with the hyskos. mages of set were destroyed or defaced. by the time greek historians visited egypt, wild asses, pigs, and other beasts identified with the set cult were driven off cliffs, hacked into pieces or otherwise slaughtered at annual celebrations in a spirit akin to the driving out of the biblical scapegoat. the report of these historians is often thought to be a valid account of a a timeless and immutable theocracy, but just looking at the frequency with which the ruling capital moved to different cities (each bei

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

felt not one amidst those stormy millions, worlds of excitement labouring through every hour. only when glyndon, haggard, wan, and spectre-like, glided in, day after day, to visit her, did the fair daughter of the careless south know how heavy and universal was the death-air that girt her round. sublime in her passive unconsciousness, her mechanic life, she sat, and feared not, in the den of the beasts of prey. the door of the room opened abruptly, and glyndon entered. his manner was more agitated than usual "is it you, clarence" she said in her soft, languid tones "you are before the hour i expected you "who can count on his hours at paris" returned glyndon, with a frightful smile "is it not enough that i am here! your apathy in the midst of these sorrows appalls me. you say calmly 'fare

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

cked by the kings of syria and the west; in this difficulty they elected a woman called dalukah as their queen, because she was wise and prudent and skilled in magic. dalukah's first act was to surround all egypt with a wall, which she guarded by men who were stationed along it at short intervals, her object being as much to protect her son, who was addicted to the chase, from the attacks of wild beasts as egypt from invasion by nomad tribes; besides this she placed round the enclosure figures of crocodiles and other formidable animals. during the course of her reign of thirty years she filled egypt with her temples and with figures of animals; she also made figures of men in the form of the dwellers in the countries round about egypt, and in syria, and in the west, and of the beasts which

dged that the new god was greater than all their gods together, and they were quite prepared to set up a statue of him because they believed that in so doing they would compel at least a portion of the spirit of the "secret and hidden god" to come and dwell in it. in the following pages we shall endeavour to describe the principal uses which the egyptians made of the figures of gods, and men, and beasts, to which magical powers had been imparted by means of the performance of certain symbolic ceremonies and the recital of certain words of power; and how they could be employed to do both good and evil. p. 67 one of the earliest instances of the use of a magical figure is related in the westcar papyrus, 1 where we read that prince khaf-ra told khufu (cheops) a story of an event which had hap

he did this is told in a hieratic papyrus preserved at turin, 1 from which the following rendering has been made; the merit of first discovering the correct meaning of the text belongs to m. lefebure. p. 137 the legend of ra and isis "the chapter of the divine god, the self-created being) who made the heavens and the earth, and the winds [which give] life, and the fire, and the gods, and men, and beasts, and cattle, and reptiles, and the fowl of the air and the fish of the sea; he is the king of men and of gods, he hath one period of life) and with him periods of one hundred and twenty years each are but as years; his names are manifold and unknown, the gods even know them not "now isis was a woman who possessed words of power; her heart was wearied with the millions of men, therefore she

o sink, being guided to the place which alexander wished it to reach by means of cords which were worked from the ships. when the box touched the bottom of the sea, thanks to the clearness of the glass sides and the water of the sea, alexander and his two companions were able to watch the various marine monsters which passed by, and he saw that although they had human bodies they had the heads of beasts; some had axes, some had saws, and some had hammers, and they all closely resembled workmen. as they passed in front of the box alexander and his two draughtsmen copied their forms upon paper with great exactness, and depicted their hideous countenances, and stature, and shape; this done, a signal was made, and the box was drawn up to the surface. as soon as alexander reached the land he or

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

sume therefore that the views of xenophanes are equally those of the mystai: 18 christianity as mystical fact but men believe that the gods must be born, and in shape must be human, wearing their clothes and their shape, like them in mind and in voice.16 but if the oxen and lions had hands and themselves were like mankind able to fashion a work of their hands, and a representation to show how the beasts would conceive of the gods they believe in and worship, then would the horses make gods assuming the visage of horses, the oxen would fashion an ox, and each separate species would give them the form and the shape that each derived from himself.17 such insights might lead to total skepticism in face of the divine. the epic accounts of the gods would then be rejected. a person might acknowle

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

e occult script-a colossal and monstrous conspiracy 9 1 caution! you are now entering the forbidden zone 1 5 2 the megalomania of the psychopaths why the llluminati do what they do 25 3 concealed messages the importance of hand signs to the llluminati 45 4 hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 53 5 for he's a jolly good fellow sign of the devil's claw 81 by the men of the craft 6 baphles me! horned beasts, leaping goats, satanic beards, 97 and other messages of evil 7 "el diablo" shows his horns-the devil rides out! 119 8 secret handshakes of the llluminati 145 9 a show of hands llluminists employ the grand hailing sign and the sign 177 of admiration and astonishment 10 "i gruesomely swear that i'm on the square" more revealing signs 189 of llluminati cultists 11 "cross my heart and hope to

o be the slave of jews because jews are the elite of the human race. because of this they deserve to have slaves, and these slaves must be non-jews.10 this outrageous and imperious attitude does not take those of us by surprise who have studied the jewish 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 t

ice, ca: feral house, 1998) for he's a jolly good fellow 95 a stage/production of the classic "caesar" demonstrates the similarity of the roman emperor's arm and hand position to that of the masons' sign. labor leader eugene v. debs ran for president five times on the socialist party ticket. his best showing was in 1920 when he received almost six percent of the votes cast. six baphles me! horned beasts, leaping goats, satanic beards, and other messages of evil i possess more exalted titles than i have ever been able to count. i am supposed to know more secret signs, tokens, passwords, grandwords, grips, and so on, than i could actually learn in a dozen lives. an elephant would break down under the insignia i am entitled to wear. aleister crowley, british satanist confessions of a heretic

THE CRAFT GRIMOIRE OF ECLECTIC VERSION 2

male, our lord& lady. in its manifest form it is the spirit flame. below the spirit flame, are the three sacred elements of the sky, the land, and the sea. the sky, is the realm of the sun, moon and stars. the home of the great ones that we call gods and goddesses. it is the unwritten future, and the realm of dreams. the land, is the realm of man. here we dwell in the present, with the birds, and beasts of this world. this is also the home of the sidhe (the noble ones. this is the realm of reality, and life. the sea, is the realm of mother chaos. the darkness of our spirit, the land of the dead. it is our past, and all things forgotten or left behind. around the sky, land& sea, are the elements of the four corners of the world. these being known as earth, air, water and fire. page 9 grimoi

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omen face out. in certain cases, upright poles may be placed on the perimeter of the dance circle so that the dancers might weave their way through the staves. as the witches become more accomplished, the dance patterns may become more sophisticated, but most authorities feel that nearly all of the dances may be traced from ancient designs, such as the swastika, which represents the horns of four beasts turning a mill or a wheel. perhaps the climax of the traditional witches round came with the priestess becoming the living altar and lying there, naked, to receive the material offerings of the group. token gifts of wheat, fruit, and in some cases, small animals, may have been offered on the human altar. this part of the sabbat seems to have been a most important facet of the fertility rite

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preyed upon isolated farmers and small villages, historical records are replete with illustrations of ancient warriors who went into battle wearing the skins of wild animals, hoping that the ferocity and 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 84 mysterious creatures a werewolf from the 1980 film the howling (the kobal collection) strength of the beasts would magically rub off on them. most often, in the northern european tribes, the fierce animal of choice was the wolf or the bear. in ancient scandinavia, the norse words ulfhedhnar( wolf-clothed) and berwerker refer to the wolf or bear skins worn by the fierce viking warriors when they went berserk, war-mad, and fought with the fury of vicious animals against opponents. in the slavonic la

atures/topcz2001. html. heuvelmans, bernard. on the track of unknown animals. new york: hill and wang, 1958. mackal, roy p. a living dinosaur? in search of mokele- mbembe. new york: e. j. brill, 1987. searching for hidden animals: an inquiry into zoological mysteries. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1980. dragons one of the most universal monster myths is that of the dragon. the awesome, reptilelike beasts appear in the folklore of nearly every country. and the fact that the creature was truly regarded as an actual monster rather than a myth can be demonstrated in several 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 mysterious creatures 87 writings of the day. edward topsell, writing in his historie of serpents (1608, commented that among all the k

ghting their traditional enemies, the mestchegamies, at the upper end of the lower canyon near the cave of the piasa. as the fighting was reaching its climax, the war whoops apparently disturbed the piasa, and two fierce, winged creatures emerged from their caves, uttering bellowings and shrieks, while the flapping of their wings upon the air roared out like so many thunderclaps. the awful winged beasts swooped low over the heads of the combatants, and each snatched a miami chieftain in its massive talons. the miamis became instantly demoralized, believing that the great spirit had sent the piasa to aid and assist their enemies. the miamis were so crippled as a nation that the survivors fled toward the wabash river and did not feel safe until they had crossed its waters. here they remained

this mon- 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 98 mysterious creatures ster have been found [c. 1887, and it is sometimes called the pterosaur or flying lizard, he writes. but the most singular monster of the age yet discovered [and its shape and component parts analyzed] is the ramphorhyneus, which seems to be a connective link between birds, beasts, and reptiles. its body and neck resemble that of the piasa, while its tail is identical with it, except it is pictured as dragging behind instead of being carried around the body or over its back and head. the shape of the head is drawn to resemble that of a duck, with the long bill of a snipe or bittern, but it is full of sharp, round teeth, like those of the crocodile. it had four legs

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rom those who have allegedly discovered friends or relatives, supposedly long-dead, laboring in the field of some native sorcerer. upon investigation, such zombi usually turn out to be mentally defective individuals who bear a strong resemblance to the deceased. unfortunately, some unscrupulous hungan have been known to take advantage of mentally handicapped individuals and turn them into virtual beasts of burden. then, too, it is quite likely that certain hungan have discovered the secret and utilization of many powerful jungle drugs. modern science owes a heavy debt to native sorcery for some of its most effective painkillers and tranquilizers. it seems possible that a hungan who follows the left-hand path, seeking his own vengeance or that of another, could mix a powerful drug into the

a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 104 magic and sorcery salem village witchcraft trials in the 1690s (the library of congress) intelligence, and a lively imagination. she soon became tituba fs most avid and apt pupil. together with her literate mother, ann had read far more than the other girls in the circle, and she was quite familiar with the imagery in the book of revelation with its dragons, horned beasts, devils, and damnation. it seems that while part of ann fs psyche was thrilled with the forbidden knowledge tituba shared with them, another aspect was conflicted with guilt that they were flirting with devilish enchantment. undoubtedly most of the other girls were also conflicted with conscience and the fear of discovery. as the days passed, little betty seemed distracted from her chores

r cayce delphic oracles jeane dixon irene hughes olof jonsson nostradamus mother shipton scrying/crystal gazing/crystalomancy tea leaf reading (tasseography) introduction the desire to foresee the future quite likely began when early humans began to perceive that they were a part of nature, subject to its limitations and laws, and that they were seemingly powerless to alter those laws. unlike the beasts around them, however, humans lived most of their lives in the knowledge that one day they would die, and that accidents and awful circumstances could snuff them out at any time. in addition, under certain circumstances, an unforeseen financial loss could be nearly as dreadful as a mortal wound. it was humanity fs attempts to alleviate these fundamental anxieties regarding a fearful future t

be flustered, and they like to take their time over important decisions. cancer people usually strive to be cheerful and avoid depressions. because of their natural affinity for water, whenever possible they make their homes on the coast or close to a lake or a large body of water. leo, the lion, july 23 to august 23, is a fire sign. leo, the fifth sign of the zodiac, represents the lion, king of beasts, and according to roman astrologers, the savage lion of nemea, slain by hercules. the typical leo is a rather impressive person who dearly loves 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 prophecy and divination 121 thefour kinds of temperament are sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, and melancholic. be in the limelight. leo people generally hav

: clarke, 1929. hollow earth edmund halley (1656.1742) is best known for having calculated the orbit of a comet that passes by earth every 76 years. the comet known as halley fs made its first appearance under that name in 1682. during the next decade, halley turned his attention away from the celestial in favor of the subterranean. he claimed that the earth was hollow and populated by humans and beasts. halley fs hollow earth idea was developed further during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and sometimes backed by sound scientific reasoning. none of the claims of hollow earth proponents have been substantiated, however. those still holding to the belief in the twenty-first century are part of a long 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

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

bury from 668 to 690, and ruled the church in england with theassistance of hadrian the negro. this was a time when2424if we are to believe the ecclesiasticalchroniclers2424england was practically christianised, yet theodore fulminates against anyone who "goesabout as a stag or a bull; that is, making himself into a wild animal and dressing in the skin of a herd animal,and putting on the heads of beasts; those who in such wise transform themselves into the appearance of a wildanimal, penance for three years because this is devilish. three centuries later king edgar[5] found that theold religion was more common than the official faith, and he urges that "every christian should zealouslyaccustom his children to christianity" the god of the witcheschapter i. the horned god9the great influx of

is left is not bitten down to the roots. by the arrangement of their teeth sheepare able to nibble the grass almost to the roots; thus, sheep can graze after cattle but not cattle after sheep.sheep can also find a living on ground which will not support cattle. as the fairies were cattle keepers theadvent of the sheep must have driven them out of their old haunts, there would be no feed for their beasts asin the old days. to paraphrase sir thomas more "the sheep ate up the fairies. more's remark was written in1515; by the time shakespeare began to write two generations at least had passed; the fairies were no morethan a memory, believed in partly as human beings, partly as little people on whom were fathered all the folktales2424horrible, pretty or comic2424which were current. from this me

t references to the ritual riding of witches is in the decree attributed to the council ofancyra in the ninth century.[67] the decree does not mention that the witches flew through the air, but itstates definitely that they rode on animals "certain wicked women, reverting to satan, and seduced by theillusion and phantoms of demons, believe and profess that they ride at night with diana on certain beasts,with an innumerable multitude of women, passing over immense distances, obeying her commands as theirmistress, and evoked by her on certain nights. that such a decree should have been made is proof that ritualriding was well known and considered a heathenish practice.the first witch recorded to have been tried by the church for her faith was dame alice kyteler, in 1324.[68]the lady owned a

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

new form, and yet, still a different being; the old paradox. the horned god, this most ancient of all conceptions of divinity, was the fertilizing force of the ground, the mother, and the sky. the light between his horns showed his power as source of fire and light. he was always venerated in pagan faiths, for these sourcefunctions, and for his countless other gifts and powers. he was the lord of beasts, the fertilizing force. most importantly for our discussion, he was the lord of life and death- a being who represented, mediated, and controlled the forces of sexuality; he was eros or love s channel into biology, which led to involvement in life s many changes, and death, and what lay beyond death- in his brighter forms, he was the puck of the forest green, ravishing and rutting; the shee

ngs new, to which the person responds, from earth, come fire, and then takes a sip. the rite leader drinks last, saying: from earth, come fire before he or she does. the cup is then placed down, and the rite leader holds his or her hands over the bread, and says: hail unto thee, earth, mother of gods and men! be fruitful in the embrace of the all father, and be filled with nourishment for men and beasts. beautiful one, darkly tressed, draped in your green gown, the winds and waters impart your blessed words, throughout the ages- says the mother: i give fullness and increase always, though my truth is change. the rite leader offers a small portion of bread to each member of the gathering, with the words my truth is change, to which the person responds, fire, come to earth, and then eats. th

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

hange and creation. and the subject of the magician's work is the selj the magician is the focus of his or her own alchemical processes. by adapting one's personal vision to reflect the macrocosm, we can change ourselves to better reflect those divine ideas. we may alter our body, appearance, the chemical composition of our blood, and the configuration of our nervous system. we may tame the feral beasts that dwell within our organic structure. by changing ourselves to resonate with the divine, we may transmute every portion of ourselves and become as purified vessels for the eternal spirit. rites such as the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram represent this spiritual goal. the lbrp explains this goal in mathematical and qabalistic terms. it sets a pattern for self-growth whch has a p

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

peared to be propelled by the wings alone and rose and fell as the wings flapped like a gigantic bird" the brawley, california, news reported, august 4, 1905. others in the area reported seeing the same thing. winged beings are an essential part of the folklore of every culture. from the times of babylonia and the pharaohs, sculptors were preoccupied with putting wings on lions and unidentifiable beasts. although the angels of biblical times were never described as being winged, painters and sculptors have always persisted in giving them feathered appendages (actually, the old-time angels appeared like ordinary human beings. they even had supper with lot) when demons overran the planet during the dark ages they were also recorded as monstrous entities with bats' wings. remote areas of the

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re, and that is the arrangement of the cross-quarter days, which make up half of the craft's official pagan holidays. these occur on the eves of february 2nd, may 1st, august 1st, and november 1st, and are called candlemas, beltane, lammas and samhain (or hallows, respectively. the name lammas has a curious origin in the dunes at sumer. it is not less than the name of one of the four mythological beasts of the astrological fixed signs, lamas being the name of the half-lion, half-man guardian of leo (the sign governing most of august, when the feast of lammas takes place, and ustur being that of aquarius (february, sed that of taurus (may) and nattig that of scorpio (november. i do not believe that this is a fantastic assumption, the sumerian origin of the feast of lammas. indeed, it seems

ammas takes place, and ustur being that of aquarius (february, sed that of taurus (may) and nattig that of scorpio (november. i do not believe that this is a fantastic assumption, the sumerian origin of the feast of lammas. indeed, it seems just as valid as the ideas of idries shah concerning craft etymology as presented in his book, the sufis. it is also not far-fetched to assume that these four beasts were known to the entire region of the middle east, as they appear on the sphinx in egypt, and have become the symbols of the four evangelists of the christian new testament- an ironic and splendid result of the ignorance of the greek religious historians concerning the ancient mysteries! probable the most inconsistent concept the sumerians possesses with reference to the craft is the namin

ears, and my own copy will go with me to the place where i will go when my spirit is torn from the body. but heed these words well, and remember! for remembering is the most important and most potent magick, being the rememberance of things past and the rememberance of things to come, which is the same memory. and do not show this text to the uninitiated, for it hath caused madness, in men and in beasts. the text: i the magan text hearken, and remember! in the name of anu, remember! in the name of enlil, remember! in the name of enki, remember! when on high the heavens had not been named, the earth had not been named, and naught existed but the seas of absu, the ancient one, and mummu tiamat, the ancient one who bore them all, their waters as one water. at this time, before the elder gods

this fashion? and the sign of xastur rises up behind me, and of that i know the meaning, but may not write, for i received the message elsewhere. i can hardly speak to recognise my own voice. the abyss yawns wide before me! a gate has been broken! know that the seven spheres must be entered in their times and in their seasons, one at a time, and never the one before the other. know that the four beasts of the spaces claim the blood of the initiate, each in their own time and season. know that tiamat seeks ever to rise to the stars, and when the upper is united to the lower, then a new age will come of earth, and the serpent shall be made whole, and the waters will be as one, when on high the heavens had not been named. remember to protect the livestock of the village and thy family. the e

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

egoist. after labor, there is a little creature, made of sheer egoism, lying in bed and screaming. at this stage it is no different to any young animal. one develops using his five senses. he lives, attains things in this world, perhaps he is a scientist, he is happy and needs nothing more than that. he lives his life just like any animal. there are, however, a few differences between humans and beasts: man wants to become rich, gain power and control, honor and knowledge. one doesn t need the creator to attain these things, but if he is permeated with a little root of the future spiritual vessel from above, then he begins to seek what he can fill this vessel with. the creator seemingly implants into his mind a little source of light, or a little need for light, which is in fact the same

THE ROSICRUCIAN MANIFESTOS

f, that he upon earnest prayer and desire did get and obtain such wisdom of god, that thereby he knew how the world was created, thereby he understood the nature of the elements, also the time, beginning, middle and end, the increase and decrease, the change of times through the whole year, the revolution of the year, and ordinance of the stars; he understood also the properties of tame and wilde beasts, the cause of the raigning of the winds, and minds and intents of men, all sorts and natures of plants, vertues of roots, and others, was not unknown to him. now i do not think that there can be found any one who would not wish and desire with all his heart to be a partaker of this noble treasure; but seeing the same felicity can happen to none, except god himself give wisdom, and send his

ions. he therefore conferred with the learned in spain, shewing unto them the errors of our arts, and how they might be corrected, and from whence they should gather the true inditia of the times to come, and wherein they ought to agree with those things that are past; also how the faults of the church and the whole philosopia moralis was to be amended: he shewed them new growths, new fruits, and beasts, which did concord with old philosophy, and prescribed them new axiomata, whereby all things might fully be restored: but it was to them a laughing matter; and being a new thing unto them, they feared that their great name should be lessened, if they should now again begin to learn and acknowledg their many years errors, to which they were accustomed, and wherewith they had gained them enou

us thing, that you could so read in one only book, and withal by reading understand and remember, all that which in all other books (which heretofore have been, and are now, and hereafter shall come out) hath been, is, and shall be learned and found out of them? how pleasant were it, that you could so sing, that instead of stony rocks you could draw the pearls and precious stones, instead of wild beasts, spirits, and instead of hellish pluto, move the might princes of the world. o ye people, god s counsel is far otherwise, who hath concluded now to increase and enlarge the number of our fraternity, the which we with such joy have undertaken, as we have heretofore obtained this great treasure without our merits, yea without our hopes, and thoughts, and purpose with the like fidelity to put

efore times hath been seen, heard, and smelt, now finally shall be spoken and uttered forth, when the world shall awake out of her heavy and drowsy sleep, and with an open heart, barehead, and bare-foot, shall merrily and joyfully meet the new arising sun. these characters and letters, as god hath here and there incorporated them in the holy scriptures, the bible, so hath he imprinted them in all beasts. so that like as the mathematician and astronomer can long before see and know the eclipses which are to come, so we may verily foreknow and foresee the darkness of obscurations of the church, and how long they shall last. from the which characters or letters we have borrowed our magic writing, and have found out, and made, a new language for ourselves, in the which withal is expressed and

THE SHADOWED ONES

those whom they met. these lesser beings were only made such as the first angel born of flame was the child of chaos, a distant and wished forgotten offspring of barbelo. azazel understood the depths of what humanity called sorrow, and shining optimism through that storm. by shadow way and kindled fire of the blackened eye opened, azazel called shemyaza gathered the dreaming paths of serpents and beasts. he so understood the conflict in all living things, to conquer or be conquered, to thirst for life and continued existence. in the fall of the one later called lucifer he knew consciousness, and soon with that pain, a torment which seemed to run razor wire against his naked body, and cast down in a pit of filth. only when those nightmares were banished by the will of this daemon, does the

conceived by other powers, azazel and his brethren took wives and soon many were giving birth to daemons the sons of fallen angels and the beauty of woman. these giants of the earth were intelligent, bold and strong among mankind. soon hungering for continued existence they taught them and the family of their wives the crafts which we were cultivating instinctually. no longer did many look at the beasts of nature as plagues and terrors, but they listened to their heartbeat and knew their feelings by the mirror of the eyes. 2 ii in transformation from those experienced -by dream and waking spirit-paths- in dreams tribes knew of my eye and the essence of light. the tribes who would not be embraced by us soon found that which we knew from the moment we awoke fear and hate. they sought to dest

imitations of the physical body, which flies forth from the skull temple of man can then we understand that all of us are within the possibility of power. my gift is to bring you to a life not comprehended previously, one which demands the attention and challenge of self-excellence. the children of this adam know not those things which are determined, wherefore they oft-times fall into error. the beasts of the field, and of heaven, and the fish of the sea, all of them are in my hand and under my control kitab el-jelwa i am the dragon clothed in the feathers of the peacock, that which is sacred unto me. i formed this bird to represent the beauty of the hidden soul, what may become from the balance of the mind. by becoming like me you shall to gain control in your world, thus the balance of

ucel the bringer of light. by the blood baptized vessels of the skull and athame of cain does the prayers awaken a new calling .a new voice shall be heard in the distance and light invoked winds of the waking dream. the north east does lilith come forth, the bride of lucifer who is of both darkness and the bringing and going of the sun. she walks in the darkness of two worlds, of lilim and those beasts and succubi who drink the blood of life, of gray shades which answer her call, of the blood of the moon which hearkens to the waters of which she has slept. the dragon of fire and darkness in separation and opposition become whole through her bleeding temple. she who beget cain and gave humanity the gift of the watchers in flesh hearken unto the very circle of being. by the north does ahrim

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

the analysis of its rays. there shall we perchance discover the blending of all opposites in one harmonious light; thence shall we travel to the holy and humble house of the heart, wherein our god is born, whose name is ineffable, a crown of glory, exalted forever above the balance of righteousness and truth. t.a.r.o. as author of the following essay to you my readers, i can but say with the four beasts of the apocalypse: gcome and see. h gbehold the lion c hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof. h for until now gno man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. h yet through the astrolabe of his mind and in the alembic of his heart aleister crowley has opened the book, breaking not only the first six

ng at her prie-dieu and addressing to her lord the same sweet words she had formerly murmured to her lover in the effusions of adultery. so it often happens that the most spiritual are at heart the most passionate. passion and religion are the divine dioscuri, children of nemesis. man, when god became too intangible, too magnificent to approach, conceived a mediator. jahveh, surrounded by howling beasts and moulting angels, fenced in by thunder and lightning, was quite cut off from the simple minds of the suburra, so christ in those purlieus was manufactured; but he in his turn grew exaltedly dim, magnified as the mist of ages crept around him, and when romantic love was born, man being no longer able to worship man, enthroned the spotless virgin in his stead; for in his heart still linger

lly doing nothing. anyone familiar with a native city in india is aware of the vast hordes of indolent fakirs who practically do nothing except stand still and gaze vacantly into the clouds uttering, grama, h ghanuman, h and before they drop their eyes their bowls are full of atta and dhal. hence priests and kings, those truly greedy anthropophagi: the vale is black with priests. they fight, wild beasts, for food, the orphan fs gold, the widow fs right, the virgin fs snood, all in their maws are crammed within the night that hides their chosen wood, where through the blackness sounds the sickening noise of cannibals that gloat on monstrous joys *mysteries: lyrical and dramatic, vol. i, p. 126. feeding perhaps first on man fs body, the priest soon found, after investing his victim with an i

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

n, a rabid dog, and a scorpion-man,aggressive umu-demons, a fish-man, and a bull-man bearing merciless weapons, fearless in battle -enuma elish the dragon of the primal oceans of the abyss opened her veins and filled her children with venom as blood, with a spell cracking the sky with the blackened flame of her will. to raise them as gods which shall master all forms of wolves, serpents and those beasts which prey upon others is the desire of tiamat. what she gave to humanity was never cleansed from the ancient darkness in the subconscious, there is still a coiling serpent within. the ancient dragon which personified the primal sea was tiamat, according to george barton the name tiamat was equivalent to the same stem which meant tamtu, being the primal waters of the abyss. tiamat is the ad

he two-fold principle of darkness, known as the adversary, call it samael and lilith or the older ahriman and jeh, the very isolate god of darkness. tiamat is the very first manifestation of this force, from a time when darkness held in its arms hideous monsters, the very demonic shapes which still seek our thoughts in the darkest hours of our mind. in times of stress and turmoil, these atavistic beasts seek to escape from the barbed wire, cruel talons in the mind. the mighty mummu tiamat was called the bringer forth of them all, yet was equally horrifying to her enemies, gods she created tiamat in ancient assyria embodied all of that which was horrifying and violent to mankind, from the blackened oceans of the abyss did she first rise up, a great sea dragon who had partial elements of oth

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

instruction of the ninth degree* de homunculo epistola baphomet x o.t.o. rex summus sanctissimus to all his holy and royal brethren of the x upon earth, and to his viceroys in all the britains, greeting and peace. under the seal of the obligation of the ix capitulum primum 1. the homunculus is a living being in form resembling man, and possessing those qualities of man which distinguish him from beasts, namely intellect and power of speech, but neither begotten and born after the manner of human generation, nor inhabited by a human soul. 2. thus, supposing that the re-incarnating ego enters the foetus at the third month of gestation, it would not serve to remove such foetus from the mother, and cause it to live; for it is already human. but a foetus of two months might become homunculus

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

d forty nights; and every living substance that i have made will i destroy from off the face of the earth. 7:5 and noah did according unto all that the lord commanded him. 7:6 and noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7:7 and noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 7:8 of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 7:9 there went in two and two unto noah into the ark, the male and the female, as god had commanded noah. 7:10 and it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 7:11 in the six hundredth year of noah s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the

f zibeon the hivite; 36:3 and bashemath ishmael s daughter, sister of nebajoth. 36:4 and adah bare to esau eliphaz; and bashemath bare reuel; 36:5 and aholibamah bare jeush, and jaalam, and korah: these [are] the sons of esau, which were born unto him in the land of canaan. 36:6 and esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother jacob. 36:7 for their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle. 36:8 thus dwelt esau in mount seir: esau [is] edom. 36:9 and these [are] the generations of esau the father of t

is brother benjamin s neck, and wept; and benjamin wept upon his neck. 45:15 moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him. 45:16 and the fame thereof was heard in pharaoh s house, saying, joseph s brethren are come: and it pleased pharaoh well, and his servants. 45:17 and pharaoh said unto joseph, say unto thy brethren, this do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of canaan; 45:18 and take your father and your households, and come unto me: and i will give you the good of the land of egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. 45:19 now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 45:20 also regard not your stuff; for

y people. 22:29 thou shalt not delay [to offer] the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou exodus page 44 give unto me. 22:30 likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen [and] with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. 22:31 and ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat [any] flesh [that is] torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs. 23:1 thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 23:2 thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment] 23:3 neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. 23:4 if thou meet thine enemy s ox or his ass goin

deth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. 23:9 also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of egypt. 23:10 and six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: 23:11 but the seventh [year] thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. in like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard [and] with thy oliveyard. 23:12 six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. 23:13 and in all [things] that i have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other god

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

f a mother goddess image from ancient times" wiccan apologists frequently refer to the (apparently isolated) tenth century church document which states that "some wicked women, perverted by the devil, seduced by the illusions and phantasms of demons, believe and profess themselves in the a true history of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 5 hours of the night to ride upon certain beasts with diana, the goddess of pagans, or with herodias, and an innumerable multitude of women, and in the silence of the dead of night to traverse great spaces of earth, and to obey her commands as of their mistress, and to be summoned to her service on certain nights (quoted in valiente, witchcraft for tomorrow, hale, 1978, p 32) i do not doubt that bits of pagan folklore survived on the cont

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

t very little, as are the little bells and melodious instruments of all sorts, which only tickle the ear and do not touch the heart at all, consisting more in noise which amazes and stuns than in harmony which pleases and rejoices, the others displeasing, full of deformity and horror, tending only to desolation, privation, ruin, and destruction, where the persons become brutish and transformed to beasts, losing their speech while they are in this condition, and the beasts, on the contrary, talk, 1 sur qouy elle adjouste une chose notable, que bien souvent il luy faisoit baiser son visage, puis le nombril, puis le membre viril, puis son derri re. de lancre, de l inconstance, p. 72. 2 le sabbat est comme une foire de marchands meslez, furieux et transportez, qui arrivent de toutes partes, un

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

, the finer elements of divine conception join, and the personal human essence comes into being. at death the human identity, or soul, disperses and the physical body returns to the earth, but the divine essence that was the foundation of the life escapes across the veil back into the bosom of the unmanifest. this passage across the veil is true of all created things, not only human beings-poems, beasts, rocks, even a summer sunrise. each comes into discrete being out of the unmanifest, and to the unmanifest each ultimately returns. the divine act of creation did not happen once at the beginning of the universe, nor does it occur only once at the beginning of a life. it is happening constantly everywhere. in a single second every human being is recreated an infinite number of times. this i

ze this broader significance when they make the fourth emanation of god, called chesed, the seat of formation where all things exist in the bud, not yet unfolded. even something as insubstantial as an idea has its coming into being, where it passes from possibility to reality. the square is associated with the four winds, the four corners of the earth, the four elements, the four rivers, the four beasts, the four archangels, the four evan- gelists, the four seasons, the four magical instruments, and the four letters of the tetragrammaton-the unspeakable name of god. in the triangle each point has direct communication with the other two. the triangle is a perfect unity. however, in the square each point touches only two other points through reciprocating rays, and is isolated from the third

ts the transition from triangle to square. adam's sin was to draw a circle around himself and make a separate personal universe apart from the living universe that was god. the clothing he put on was a suit of flesh and ego. in the garden, adam and eve had no circles around them, but were aspects of the unity of the all. table of square elements names of cod letters of ihvh archangels evangelists beasts quarters seasons motions worlds elementals winds rivers growth colors instruments fire ihvh tzabaoth yod michael mark lion south summer linear atziluth salamanders notus pison stalk red rod water elohim el chai he gabriel matthew eagle west fall rotary briah undines zephyrus gihon fruit blue cup air shaddai ha-aretz va u raphael john angel north winter vibratory yetzirah sylphs boreas hiddi

the purposes of the art can be achieved through the four elements. symbols and forms of magic lose their effectiveness as they grow complex and stray farther from the roots of the art. the elements are dependable. their natures are relatively easy to grasp and they convey the same meaning to all peoples in all ages. in ancient times the elemental principles were represented by the emblems of four beasts whose natures embody the underlying essences of the elemental forces: 1) lion (fire; 2) eagle (water; 3) angel (air; 4) bull (earth. it would be difficult to trace the origin of these kerubic figures; they go back to ancient babylon, in whose ruins archaeologists have found their effigies, and doubtless their genesis is even earlier. they may have arisen not long after the human race began

mpulse begun with fire, and angels are beings of the higher intellect. even with these considerations many occultists still maintain that at some time in the distant past a mistake was made and the eagle and angel were inverted from their rightful places in the zodiac. there is no way to prove or disprove this claim, so it seems best to use the traditional interpretations. in the heavens the four beasts are placed at the corners of the zodiac, each rep- resenting one of the elemental triads: lion-leo, eagle-scorpio, angel-aquarius, and bull-taurus. this assignment has been changeless for thousands of years. the beasts are also placed at the corners of the earth, and here some difficulty arises. there is considerable argument about the proper placement of the elements and their related symb

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

discovered fire that shamans have not practiced their arts somlewhere on this planet. each developing culture has had its own form of shamanism, unique in its details, but certain practices are common to all shamans around the world. among these is the power to control spirits, to communicate with the dead, to heal the sick, to foresee the future, and 4 soul flight to communicate with and control beasts. most important of these shared practices is soul flight, the ability to leave the physical body during ecstatic trance and travel to the realms of spiritual beings for the purpose of acquiring wisdom or occult essences. feathers frequently form an important part of the shaman's costume because the feather is the universal symbol for flight. it has been asserted by anthropologists that soul

tional european witchcraft descends from shamanism, which is evident when we compare the abilities attributed to witches during the medieval witch trials with the powers of shamans. witches healed the sick. they performed divination and augury. they conversed with spirits and kept familiar spirits as their servants, usually in the forjms of small animals such as cats. witches were able to bewitch beasts, cause storms, ancl affect the growth of crops. spirits instructed them in the technical details of their profession. most significantly, it was believed that they had the power of flight. all these abilities are shamanic. sixteenth-century english author reginald scot gave an extended catalog of the supposed powers of witches in his discoverie of witchcrafi, including the following talents

, as referred to in the much older ninth-century decree of the council of ancyra, recorded in the canon episcopi, which mentions that "certeine wicked women following sathans provocations, being seduced by the illusion of divels, beleeve and professe that in the night times they ride abroad with diana, the goddesse of the pagans, or else with herodias, with an innumerable multitude, upon certeine beasts, and passe over manie countries and nations, in the silence of the night, and doo whatsoever those fairies or ladies command."16 herodias is the daughter of diana, the moon, by her brother lucifer, the sun, according to the italian witches' gospel published in 1897 under the title aradia by the folklorist charles g. leland. herodias is the ruling tutelary spirit of all witches, who is comma

d the ire of the clergy and of the swedish monarch charles xi in the year 1669. the accused witches called the place the blocula, according to their inquisitors, who described it as "a delicate large meadow, whereof you can see no end. the place or house they met at had before it a gate painted with divers colors; through this gate they went into a little meadow distinct from the other, where the beasts went that they used to ride on."22 a schoolteacher who claimed that the devil had carried him there described it as an island. in 1730, long after the accused witches of mora had been executed, a thirteen-yearold norwegian girl named siri j rgensdattecrl aimed that when she was seven, her grandmother had taken her to visit the blocula "siri told them that when she was seven years old, her g

e malijicis told of a notary from lugano who missed his wife w.hen he arose one morning and went searching for her around his estate. he located her naked and dirty, lying unconscious in the pigsty. when he interrogated her, she tearfully admitted that during the night she had gone "on a journey."24 the blocula, insofar as it can be said to have had any existence, is clearly an astral pl.ace. the beasts supposed to have carried the witches there were astral beasts, carrying their astral forms. it is doubtful, however, that swedish witches ever traveled to the blocula, either physically or astrally, to attend large sabbat gatherings. the whole concept of the great witch sabbat was an invention of the inquisitors of the church. rossell hope robbins wrote "the conception of the sabbat seems t

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

e trumps creates a powerful symbolic machine that aids in evocation. in this present exercise trumps are placed according to golden dawn occult associations. the twelve trumps linked to the signs of the zodiac in the golden dawn system constitute the circle. trumps of the evoking into the triangle 305 fixed zodiac signs are placed in the four directions, because these are the signs of the kerubic beasts and the archangels of the elements, and each direction has its own element. in each quarter, the trump corresponding to the cardinal sign of that quarter's element is put on the left of the trump for the fixed sign, and the trump for the mutable sign on the right of the trump for the fixed sign, from the perspective of the center of the circle. the remaining ten trumps on the triangle are a

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

e scripture the name of god is found expressed, there mark what office lies under that name. wheresoever therefore the scripture speaks of the office or work of any spirit, good, or bad, from thence the name of that spirit, whether good, or bad, may be gathered (three books of occult philosophy 3.25) if we examine the fourth chapter of revelation referred to by dee, we find the office of the four beasts with the twenty-four wings, representing the angels of the banners, stated in the eighth verse "and they rest not day and night, saying, holy, holy, holy, lord god almighty, which was, and is, and is to come" notice the reference to day and night, which comprehends both the manifest and occult sets of the banners. it is interesting that this is in the eighth verse, since dee refers to the "

velation 4:s and isaiah 6:3. in both places the word "holy (qdvsh) is repeated three times in succession. this repetition was regarded by kabbalists as of supreme significance. they called the verse in which it appears in isaiah the "kedushah" the sixth chapter of isaiah begins with a description of the heavenly throne of god, just like the fourth chapter of revelation. in isaiah, instead of four beasts with six wings each, the two seraphim, each with six wings, are described. it is the seraphim who cry "holy, holy, holy" here rather than the hieroglyphic monad 63 the beasts. however, there can be little doubt that the author of revelation drew upon the imagery of this chapter of isaiah. in the bahir, the kedushah is discussed at length (see bahir, secs. 126-31. it is said that in the myst

hihv capricorn (earth-cardinal) 19. angel of mercy: shbv+ al (shabuell-hihv 20. angel of severity: vbsh+ ih (vabashiah)-hihv hivh: virgo (earth-mutable) 21. angel of mercy: shhv+ al (shahave1)-hivh 22. angel of severity: vhsh+ ih (vaheshiah)-hivh hhvi: taurus (earth-fixed) 23. angel of mercy: shia+ al (shiae1)-hhvi 24. angel of severity: aish+ ih (aishiah)-hhvi these twenty-four wings of the four beasts, who are the angels of the elements, would seem to be the same as the 'wings of the winds" an order of angels that is mentioned in the second of a series of forty-eight invocations called the enochian keys, or calls, received by john dee through the mediumship of edward kelley in the form of complex ciphers. the second key was translated by dee into english in his personal record of his com

ot, but in the mind of the all-powerful. arise, saith the first! move, therefore, unto his servants! show yourselves in power, and make me a strong see-thing; for i am of him that liveth forever. the 'wings of the winds" signify the angels of the four elements of the world. the "second of the first" may mean christ as the articulated word of god. there are four elemental associations for the four beasts. the "burning flames" an order of angels about which more will be said in appendix a, signify elemental fire. the "cups for a wedding" stand for water. the "flowers" are a common magical symbol for air. the "barren stone (which perhaps should be "stones) is evocative of the element earth. the "manifold winds" are all the twenty-four angels considered together. it is stated that the "voices

e later altars, which have a square top and which approach a cubic shape "so the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns. and the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof (ezek. 43: 15-6. a square is presumably also the shape of the great white throne of god, which seems to be supported upon, or composed of, the four beasts (rev. 4:6. around the heavenly throne are the twenty-four lesser thrones of the elders, who represent karma, or cause and effect in time, at the most fundamental level. these seats are probably arranged in opposite crescents of six, one circle of twelve above a second circle of twelve, with the upper and lower elders forming pairs that represent the hours of the day and the equivalent hours

VOX SABBATUM

a christian due as he views his body crumbling and his fears grow close he is not sure of himself or what he has done with his life. the will grows broken through years of having the safety net of jesus. the left hand path however in modern times questions and tests, it offers a treasure upon treasure of knowledge and wisdom through experience, it builds and summons forth hidden gods and sleeping beasts, it challenges and destroys those who flinch in the face of the adversary in short it is dangerous. the left hand path is indeed dangerous because it can destroy the perceptions of the condition of human belief structures it can free the psyche but the shock of this liberation is sometimes too much to bear. sorcery can destroy as it is rather simple to abuse, and invoke the demons of your e

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

y in connection with the production of abundant crops and successful harvests. according to the legend, men and women sprang not from the earth, but directly from the body of the god khepera, or neb-er-tcher, who placed his members together and then wept tears upon them, and men and women, came into being from the tears which had fallen from his eyes. no special mention is made of the creation of beasts in the legend, but the god says that he created creeping things of all kinds, and among these are probably included the larger quadrupeds. the men and women, and all the other living creatures which were made at that time, reproduced their species, each in his own way, and so the earth became filled with their descendants which we see at the present time. such is the legend of creation as i

er keb, and the sovereignty of heaven from his mother nut. in his person he united endless time in the past and endless time in the future. like ra he had fought seba, or set, the monster of evil, and had defeated him, and his victory assured to him lasting authority over the gods and the dead. he exercised his creative power in making land and water, trees and herbs, cattle and other four-footed beasts, birds of all kinds, and fish and creeping things; even the waste spaces of the desert owed allegiance to him as the creator. and he rolled out the sky, and set the light above the darkness. the last paragraph of the text contains an allusion to isis, the sister and wife of osiris, and mentions the legend of the birth of horus, which even under the xviiith dynasty was very ancient, isis, we

peh-nef-n-aa-em-ta-uat-apu" and "rekh-kua-[tut]-en-neterpui. en en-hra-f-her-shefu" i am he who hath strengthened the boat with the company of the gods, and his shenit, and his gods, by means of words of power. the legend of ra and isis. the chapter of the divine (or, mighty) god, who created himself, who made the heavens and the earth, and the breath of life, and fire, and the gods, and men, and beasts, and cattle, and reptiles, and the fowl of the air, and the fish, who is the king of men and gods [who existeth] in one form [to whom] periods of one hundred and twenty years axe as single years, whose names by reason of their multitude are unknowable, for [even] the gods know them not. behold, the goddess isis lived in the form, of a woman, who had the knowledge of words [of power. her hea

th seen thy splendid qualities, and hath commanded thee to guide the lands (i.e, the world) by thy hand so long as times [and seasons] endure. thou hast made this earth with thy hand, the waters thereof, the winds thereof, the trees and herbs thereof, the cattle thereof of every kind, the birds thereof of every kind, the fish thereof of every kind, the creeping things thereof, and the four-footed beasts thereof. the land of the desert[fn#142] belongeth by right to the son of nut, and the two lands have contentment in making him to rise[fn#143] upon the throne of his father like ra [fn#142] this may also represent the mountainous districts of egypt, or even foreign countries in general [fn#143] to make him rise like the sun, or to enthrone him. thou rollest up into the horizon, thou settest

oreover, he dwelleth there in the form of the god shu,[fn#182] as one who is lord over his own territory, and his homestead, the name of which is 'aa (i.e, the 'island. there he keepeth an account of the products of the land of the south and of the land of the north "in order to give unto every god his proper share, and he leadeth to each [the metals, and the [precious stones, and the four-footed beasts, and the feathered fowl, and the fish, and every thing whereon they live. and the cord [for the measuring of the land] and the tablet whereon the register is kept are there [fn#182] the god who separated the sky-goddess nut from the embrace of her husband, the earth-god keb, and who holds her above him each day "and there is an edifice of wood there, with the portals thereof formed of reeds

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

t indians and buffalo' he said (note: was the promise of 'eternal wisdom' the bait used to entrap them into the reptilian agenda? we realize this sounds rather simplistic but traditions do say that this exact same strategy was used by the original 'serpent' to destroy man's connection with the almighty and, subsequently, his divinely-given authority over creation, including his dominion over the 'beasts- who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (17 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:58] branton "the voice over the loudspeaker would call them by name and could at times sound sarcastic (as a manipulator might sound- branton. on one occasion, his friends shot at the booth with rifles and threw beer cans at it "when he was at mahoney lake in 1987, fos

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

es the white man s dreams the vigil wisdom of the africans proverbs on wisdom proverbs on truth and falsehood proverbs on human conduct proverbs on virtue proverbs on cooperation and contentment proverbs on opportunity proverbs on human beings proverbs on nature proverbs on leadership more wisdom of the african world wisdom of the hindus and greeks frogs desiring a king the bat, the birds and the beasts the dog and the wolf the fox and the grapes the lion and the statue the man and his wives the two crabs hercules and the waggoner the man and the wooden god the miser the bundle of sticks the buffoon and the countryman the serpent and the file green book volume three oriental and monotheist wisdom zen koans see his buddha nature yueh holds it pai-yuns black and white the dry creek yueh-shan

roar after their prey, and seek their meat from god. the sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens. man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening. o lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. so is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. there go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein. these wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season. that thou givest them, they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good. thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. thou sendest forth thy spirit, they

ens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? for thou has made him a little lower than the angels, and has crowned him with glory and honour. thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the fields; the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. o lord our lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! selections from: the authorized version (king james) of the holy bible. from the new testament (from the sermon on the mount) and seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disc

tements were all right, but if he really understood them, he would know better than to ask hsueh-feng about his buddha-nature. hsueh-feng tried to bring the monk back from dreamland with his blows, but the monk took his dream to yen-t ou, where he received similar treatment. i can imagine his stupid, sleepy face! 10 yueh-shan holds it the governor of a state asked yueh-shan, i understand that all beasts possess sila (precepts, dhjana (meditation) and prajna (wisdom) do you keep the precepts? do you practice meditation? have you attained wisdom? this poor monk has no such junk around here, yueh-shan replied. you must have a very profound teaching the governor said but i do not understand it. if you want to hold it, yueh-shan continued, you must climb the biggest mountain and sit on the summ

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

wer an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott as to the sacredness of the number 7, note among the hebrews, oaths were confirmed by seven witnesses; or by seven victims offered in sacrifice; as see the covenant between abraham and abimelech with seven lambs, genesis, chapter xxi. vv. 28, 21-28. the hebrew word seven, also sh b o h, is derived from, or is similar to sh b, o, to swear. 75. clean beasts were admitted into the ark by sevens, whilst the unclean only in pairs. the goths had 7 deities from whom come our names of weekdays; sun, moon, tuisco, wotan, thor, friga, seatur, corresponding, of course, to the seven planets. apollo, the sun god, had a greek title ebdomaios, sevenfold. the persian mithras, a sun god, had the number 7 sacred to him. note the mysterious kadosh ladder of 7

WILLIAM WESCOTT THE CHALDEAN ORACLES OF ZOROASTER TRANSLATION

ical life thus integrates three special modes of activity, which upon the dissolution of the body are respectively involved in the web of fate consequent upon incarnate energies in three different destinies. the oracles urge men to devote themselves to things divine, and not to give way to the promptings of the irrational soul, for, to such as fail herein, it is significantly said "thy vessel the beasts of the earth shall inhabit" the chald ans assigned the place of the image, the vehicle of the irrational soul, to the lunar sphere; it is probable that by the lunar sphere was meant something more than the orb of the moon, the whole sublunary region, of which the terrestrial earth is, as it were, the centre. at death, the rational soul rose above the lunar influence, provided always the pas

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

et there be no creature upon or within her one and the same. all her members let them differ in their qualities, and let there be no one creature equal with another "the reasonable creatures of earth, or man, let them vex and weed out one another; and their dwelling places, let them forget their names "the work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced. his buildings, let them become caves for the beasts of the field! confound her understanding with darkness "for why? it repenteth me that i have made man "one while let her be known, and another while a stranger. because she is the bed of a harlot, and the dwelling place of him that is fallen "0 ye heavens, arise! the lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you! govern those that govern. cast down such ag fall. bring forth with those that

ee: yet thy power is nothing, in respect of his power, which hath sent thee. thou beginnest new worlds. new people, new kings and new knowledge of a new government. and hast said to me: thou shall work marvellous, marvellously by my workmanship in the highest" special power of the prince "who art life and breath in living creatures. all things live by thee: the image of one excepted. all kinds of beasts of the earth dolt thou endure with thy life. thy seal is their glory. 0 god, thou 120 ginning of all beasts, thou knowest and by sufferance thou disposeth them until thy time be run" genesis vs. 20-25 "and god said 'let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky. so god created the great creatures of the sea and every living and mov

3 "then god said 'let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground "then god said, give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. they will be yours for food. and to all the beasts of the earth and all birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground everything that has life in it i give green plant for food' and it was so "god saw what he had made, and it was very good. and there was evening, and there was morning the sixth day" 124 saturday president: beigia vice president: hagonel the seal of hagonel is shown in figure 86. king: bnapsen prince: brorge

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