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e given a list of the hebrew alphabet with some of its correspondences to memorize in preparation for the higher grades, as well as a lesson teaching you to draw the hebrew alphabet."in the zohar there is a pretty legend, rather long-winded but eloquent, about each letter of the alphabet, and how beth, the second letter of the alphabet, came to be used as the first letter of the first word of the bible bereshith, meaning in the beginning. the zohar is a literature of the qabalah under the section known as the dogmatic qabalah. there are many interesting documents and manuscripts for the serious student in this field."when the divine being willed to create the world, all the letters appeared before his presence in their reverse order. the first ascended and said:'lord of the universe! let

t the first part of the l.b.r.p.,the qabalistic cross, are as follows: atah -thine malkuth -kingdom vih-g' boo-rah -power vih-g' doo-lah -glory lih-oh-lahm -forever amen -so be it. with all of these words put together it forms the prayer: for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. amen."does this sound familiar? it should, for it is derived from one of the oldest prayers in the bible. you will find this same phrase found at the end of the lord's prayer. the word amen in hebrew translates into "so be it."amen is a notarikon. a notarikon is made by taking the first letter of each word of a sentence and forming a new word. amen is taken from the phrase: el melech neheman, which means "god is our faithful king."this is the mystical meaning behind this word. 85 part two: the

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we infer from that of temples and sacrifices. a fact of some importance has been preserved by beda, hist. eccl. 2, 13: a heathen priest of the anglo- saxons was forbidden to carry arms or to ride a male horse: non enim licuerat, pontificem sacrorum vel arma ferre, vel praetcrquam in equa equitare. can this have any connexion with the regulation which, it is true, can be equally explained from the bible, that christian clergymen, when riding about the country, should be mounted on asses and colts, not horses (ka. 86-88? festus also remarks: uquo vehi flamini diali non licebat, ne, si longius digrederetur, sacra neglegerentur (see suppl. the transmission of such customs, which have impressed themselves on the habits of 1 libes might be leip, leb, o.n. leifr, goth. laibs? a var. lect. has ai/

he os. poet describes the ascension of christ: sohta imo thena helagon stol, sitit imo thar an thea suidron (right) half godes, endi thanan all gisihit (seeth) waldandeo crist, so huat so (whatso) thius werold behabet, hel. 176, 4 7, conf. ceedm. 265, 16. this idea of a seat in the sky, from which god looks on the earth, is not yet extinct among our people. the sitting on the right hand is in the bible, but not the looking down. the formulas 'qui haut siet et de loing mire, qui haut siet et loins voit (supra, p. 23) are not cases in point, for men everywhere have thought of the deity as throned on high and seeing far around. zeus also sits on ida, and looks on at mortal men; he rules from ida's top "isijdev fiesiav, even as helios, the eye of the sun, surveys and discerns all things, ii. 3

in this sense also hermes (mercury) was to the greeks preeminently sctitcop idcov, giver of good things, and i have ventured to guess that the name gihika, kijncjw originally signified the same to us. 235. ed. 1842, 4, 5, 39. h. sachs (1563) v. 381. according to greek and 0. norse notions, the gods have a throne or cliair: tha gengengo regin oil a rokstola ginheilog gos, s;eni. 1. compare in the bible: heaven is god's throne, the earth his footstool, matt. 5, 34-5; and hel. 45, 11. 12 (see suppl. 1 also ms. 2, 254: ze hus wirf ich den slegel dir. ms. 2, 6: niit einem sleijel er zuo dem kinde warf. this cuchjel-throicing resembles, what meant so much to our ancestors, the hammer's throw, and the ohg. slaga is malleus, sledge-hanimev (grail' 6, 773. the cudgel thrown from heaven can hardly

s learnt them by watching the flight of cranes. in tbe as. dialogue between saturn and solomon, we read (thorpe's anal, p. 100 'saga me, hwa aerost bocstafas sette 'ic the secge, mercurius se gyqcmd. another dialogue, entitled adrian and epictus (ms. brit. mus. arund. no. 351. fol. 39) asks 'quis primus fecit literas' and answers' seitli" which is either a corruption of theuth, or the scth of the bible. just so the eddie palnatals]?attr seems to ascribe the first teaching of runes to osinn, if we may so 150 wodan. interpret the words: nam ec uj'ip rixnar, ssem. 28^ jjser ofres, jjfer ofreist]?agr ofhiigsi hroptr, i.e, them osinn read out, cut out, thought out, srem. 195^ also snorri, yngl. cap. 7: allar j^essar idrottir kendi hann mes rlxnum ok lio&um. hincmar of eheims attributes to mercu

atnitsa, friday (kopitars rec. von strahls gel. eussland^ ra. 163-8. 470. women are c^alled in as. frisowebban, peace-weavers. holua, holle. 271 one might be tempted to derive dame holda from a character in the old testament. in 2 kings 22, u and 2 chron. 34, 22 we read of a prophetess rt^sn iluleddali, huldah, for which luther puts hulda; tlie septuagint has 'oxbd, the vulgate olda, but the lat. bible viteb. 1529 (and probably others since) hulda, following luther, who, with the german holda in his mind, thus domesticated the jewish prophetess among his countrymen. several times in liis writings he brings up the old heathen life; we had an instance a page or two ijack^ i do not know if any one before him had put the two names together; but certainly the whole conception of a dame holda wa

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

entire nervous system and so can be used to treat coughs, bladder and liver problems aggravated by stress, bowel disorders with an anxiety component, for example irritable bowel syndrome, and skin problems with an emotional cause. as a protective herb, hops will drive away dark thoughts, doubts and fears. ruled by the sun. hyssop derived from the hebrew esob, hyssop is mentioned many times in the bible for its ability to cleanse the body of illness. it relieves coughs, bronchitis, painful throats and viruses, tension and stressrelated conditions, burns, and ear pains and problems, especially in children. it is primarily a herb of purification and will help to banish sad thoughts, despair and doubts, and leave a positive approach. hyssop removes negativity from the home and from objects tha

a scale for weighing the souls of the dead. according to the koran, the cherubim were created from michael's tears. he offers power to overcome any obstacles and challenges, and brings wisdom and illumination as to the right path. michael stands in the south and his colour is gold. gabriel archangel of the moon, the messenger archangel and the heavenly awakener, gabriel appears many times in the bible. he visited the virgin mary and her cousin elizabeth, mother of john the baptist, to tell them that they were to bear sons who would lead mankind to salvation. it was gabriel who parted the waters of the red sea so that the hebrews could escape from the pharaoh's soldiers. gabriel is usually pictured holding a sceptre or lily. to the followers of islam, gabriel is the spirit of truth who dic

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ught not to want light for the space of a week "and the manner of fasting is this: to abstain from all things having a life of sense, and from those which do proceed from them, let him drink only pure running water; neither is there any food or wine to be taken till the going down of the sun. let the perfume and the holy anointing oil be made as is set forth in exodus, and other holy books of the bible. it is also to be observed, that as often as he enters the circle he has upon his forehead a golden lamen, upon which must be written the name tetragrammaton, in the manner we have before mentioned. in the key of solomon the king 10 (book ii. chapter xxi) will be found other directions for invoking spirits as follows: make a small book containing the prayers for all the operations, the names

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lve at times to live by themselves. this bath been the cause why so great a number of good and learned men have retired into desert places, so that being separated from their own relatives and from the world they might live tranquilly in prayer and orisons to render themselves more worthy to obtain through the grace of the lord a gift so great and so perfect. i further approve of thy possessing a bible in the vulgar language, and also the psalms of david, for thine own use. some person may here reply: i understand the latin, and i have no need of the common language. i answer him that when we pray we ought not in any way to embarrass the mind by having to interpret the psalms; for at such a moment we should be as much united as possible to god; and even the psalms being in the vulgar tongu

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riginally means 'father; so the original father, dead and made into a 'god' was called ad. this name came down unchanged to egypt, as you see in the book of the law. the word 'adhi' in sanskrit was usually translated 'lord' in the syrian form we get it duplicated hadad. you remember ben hadad, king of syria. the hebrew word for 'lord' is adon or adonai. adonai *my* lord, is constantly used in the bible to replace the name jehovah where that was too sacred to be mentioned, or for other reasons improper to write down. adonai has also come to mean, through the rosicrucian tradition, the holy guardian angel, and thus the object of worship or concentration. it is the same thing; worship is worth-ship, means worthiness; and anything but the chosen object is necessarily an unworthy object. 14. as

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lves around this matter. in particular all the osirian religions- the rites of the dying god- refer to this. the slaying of osiris and adonis; the mutilation of attis; the cults of mexico and peru; the story of hercules or melcarth; the legends of dionysus and of mithra, are all connected with this one idea. in the hebrew religion we find the same thing inculcated. the first ethical lesson in the bible is that the only sacrifice pleasing to the lord is the sacrifice of blood; abel, who made this, finding favour with the lord, while cain, who offered cabbages, was rather naturally considered a cheap sport. the idea recurs again and again. we have the sacrifice of the passover, following on the story of abraham's being commanded to sacrifice his firstborn son, with the idea of the substituti

fined as an object specially prepared for taking the stamp of one's creative will. this is an example of a very complicated magical operation, extending over centuries. but, theoretically, it is just an ordinary case of talismanic magick. it is for this reason that so much trouble has been taken to prevent a wife having contact with the profane; or, at least, to try to prevent her. readers of the bible will remember that absalom publicly adopted david's wives and concubines on the roof of the palace, in order to signify that he had succeeded in breaking his father's magical power. now, there are a great many talismans in this world which are being left lying about in a most reprehensibly careless manner. such are the objects of popular adoration, as ikons, and idols. but, it is actually tr

f the universe, so that each is absolute, and the whole insusceptible to increase or diminution. it is (in fact) technically a pantacle in the fullest sense of the word. let us consider some prominent examples of such system. we may observe that a common mode of divination is to inquire of books by placing the thumb at random within the leaves. the books of the sybil, the works of vergil, and the bible have been used very frequently for this purpose. for theoretical justification, one must assume that the book employed is a perfect representation of the universe. but even if this were the case, it is an inferior form of construction, because the only reasonable conception of the cosmos is mathematical and hieroglyphic rather than literary. in the case of a book, such as the book of the law

wilhelm meinhold. these two tales are highly informative. macbeth; midsummer night's dream; the tempest, by w. shakespeare. interesting for traditions treated. redgauntlet, by sir walter scott. also one or two other novels. interesting for traditions treated. rob roy, by james grant. interesting for traditions treated. the magician, by w. somerset maugham. an amusing hotchpot of stolen goods. the bible, by various authors unknown. the hebrew and greek originals are of qabalistic value. it contains also many magical apologues, and recounts many tales of folk-lore and magical rites. kim, by rudyard kipling. an admirable study of eastern thought and life. many other stories by this author are highly suggestive and informative. for mythology, as teaching correspondences: books of fairy tales g

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ched with proposals of this character. similar conditions, curiously enough, existed in france; the "fils papa" was usually a hopeless rotter, and his wife often resorted to a famous monastery on the riviera, where was an exceptionally holy image of the blessed virgin mary, prayers unto whom removed sterility. but when m. combes turned out the monks, the image somehow lost it virtue. now get your bible and turn up luke viii, 2! when the sal volatile has worked, turn to john xiii 2,3 and ask a scholar what any greek of the period would have understood by the technical expressions there unambiguously employed. 1^ weh note: this is a reference to the school of thought of rudolf steiner. by the time of this writing, steiner's students were being taught that crowley was a "bad man. tit for tat

ight. some cases will be so difficult that only a magister templi can judge them, and a magus carry them wisely into effect. fearsome responsibility, i should say, that of the masters who began the building-up of the new aeon by bringing about these wars! magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 240 (i do wish that we had the sense to take our ideas of peace conditions from the bible, as our rulers so loudly profess that they do. the enemy knows well enough that there is no other way to make a war pay) now then, i hope that we have succeeded in clarifying this exceptionally muddy marish water of morality from most of its alien and toxic dirt; too often the aspirant to the sacred wisdom finds no firm path under his feet; the bog of respectability mires him who sought the

sider my own assets, personal, social, educational, experiential and the rest: don't you see that all i had to do was to put out some brightlycoloured and mellifluous lie, and avoid treading on too many toes, to have had hundreds of thousands of idiots worshipping me? please get a konx om pax somehow, and read p. xii "it's only too easy to form a cult "to cry a crusade with 'deus vult "a pinch of bible, a gallon of gas "and i, or any otherguess ass "could bring to our mystical moonlight mass magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 244 6 "those empty-headed athenians" and so on. but i never forget that i am working on the 2,000 year basis; my work will stand when all the pompous platitudes and pleasant pieties have withered for the iridescent soft-soap bubbles that they

th a terrifying percentage of the people that come for "teaching" and "initiation" the moment they learn anything they didn't know before, off they fly in a temper! no sooner does it become apparent that the master is not a stupid middleclass prig and hypocrite- another edition of themselves, in short- they are frightened, they are horrified, they flee away on both their feet, like the man in the bible! i have seen people turn fishbelly pale in the face, and come near fainting outright, when it has dawned upon them suddenly that magick is a real thing! 21 magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 272 it's all beyond me! cups: we are much more definite again. the great test is so well known, and accounts have already been published, that it can be here plainly stated. earl

d rider in the erl-king, the chase goes ever wilder and wilder, until he plunges at the end into the bottomless bog of madness and destruction. i wonder how many lunatics there are in the "bughouse" today- in the times of"evangelical revival" the number was fantastic- who got there through fear that they had somehow committed the aforesaid "blasphemy against the holy ghost" the unknown again. the bible does not tell us that it is; only that it is unpardonable. nor grace, nor faith, magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 301 nor predestination avail in the least; for all you know, you may have committed it. reassurance is impossible; no ceinture de chastet avails to avert this danger. again with drugs, it is the unknown which is the horrific factor. most people get thei

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toothache? it is not possible to labour this point without tautology, for it is a very simple one; but it should be emphasised, for it is a very simple one. waugh! waugh! waugh! waugh! waugh! in the question of ethics it again becomes vital, for to many people it seems impossible to consider the merits of any act without dragging in a number of subjects which have no real connection with it. the bible has been mistranslated by perfectly competent scholars because they had to consider the current theology. the most glaring example is the "song of solomon" a typical piece of oriental eroticism. 96 but since to admit that it was this would never do for a canonical book, they had to pretend that it was symbolical. they tried to refine away the grossness of the expressions, but even their hard

ost glaring example is the "song of solomon" a typical piece of oriental eroticism. 96 but since to admit that it was this would never do for a canonical book, they had to pretend that it was symbolical. they tried to refine away the grossness of the expressions, but even their hardihood proved unequal to the task. this form of dishonesty reaches its climax in the expurgating of the classics "the bible is the word of god, written by holy men, as they were inspired by the holy ghost. but we will cut out those passages which we think unsuitable "shakespeare is our greatest poet- but, of course, he is very dreadful "no one can surpass the lyrics of shelley, but we must pretend that he was not an atheist" some translators could not bear that the heathen chinese should use the word shang ti, an

ofessor metchnikoff. but the worst of all phantasms are the moral ideas and the religious ideas. sanity consists in the faculty of adjusting ideas in proper proportion. any one who accepts a moral or religious truth without understanding it is only kept out of the asylum because he does not follow it out logically. if one really believed in christianity<bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad "crowley> if one really thought that the majority of mankind was doomed to eternal punishment, one would go raving about the world trying to "save" people. sleep would not be possible until the horror of the mind left the body exhausted. otherwise, one must be morally insane. which of us can sleep if one we love is in danger of mere

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h made manichaeanism necessary- despite the cloaks of the causists- and meant "that which leads one away from god" but each man, while postulating an absolute "god" defined him unconsciously in terms of a freudian phantasm created by his own wish-fulfilment machinery. thus "god" and "evil" were really expressions of personal prejudice. a man who "bowed humbly to the authority of" the pope, or the bible, or the sanhedrim, or the oracle of apollo, or the tribal medicine-man, none the less expressed truly his own wish to abdicate responsibility. in the light of this book, we know that the centre is everywhere, the circumference nowhere; that "every man and every woman is a star" a "khabs" the name of the house of hadit; that "the word of sin is restriction" to us, then "evil" is a relative te

ing, who know not hadit, are in the illusion of sorrow. not being hadit, they are shadows, puppets, and what happens to them does not matter. if you insist upon identifying yourself with hecuba, your tears are natural enough. there is no contradiction here, by the way, with verses 4 and 5. the words 'know me' are used loosely as is natural in a stanza; or, more likely, are used (as in the english bible) to suggest the root gn, identity in transcendental ecstasy. possibly 'not' and 'me' are once more intended to apply to nuit. with 'know' itself, they may be "nothing under its three forms" of negativity, action, and individuality. al ii,18 "these are dead, these fellows; they feel not. we are not for the poor and sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk" the new comment this idea is con

ttitude of the clean simple mind, free from all complications alien to love, assures it. just as a woman's body is deformed and diseased by the corset demanded by jaganath fashion, so is her soul by the compression of convention, which is a fashion as fitful, arbitrary, and senseless as that of the man-milliner, though they call him god, and his freakish fiat pass for everlasting law. the english bible sanctions the polygamy and concubinage of abraham, solomon and others, the incest of lot, the wholesale rape of captured virgins, as well as the promiscuity of the first christians, the prostitution of temple servants, men and women, the relations of johannes with his master, and the putting of wandering prophets to stud, as well as the celibacy of such people as paul. jehovah went so far as

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itial and medial m. the consequence of this is that the total numerical value of the word, insted of being 30+ 40+ 200+ 2+ 5= 277, is 30+ 600+ 200+ 2+ 5= 837 (by gematria) lz tt, tat zal, the profuse giver. thus, by writing the mem as a final instead of the ordinary character, the word is made to bear a different qabalistical meaning. it is to be further noted with regard to the first word in the bible, tycarb, berashith, that the first three letters, arb, are the initial letters of the names of the three persons of the trinity: b, ben, the son; jwr, ruach, the spirit; and ba, ab, the father. furthermore the first letter of the bible is b, which is the initial letter of hkrb, berakhah, blessing; and not a, which is that of rra, arar, cursing. again, the letters of berashith, taking their n

bstract forms of the numbers; in other words, by the twryps, sephiroth. it was from this ancient oriental theory that pythagoras derived his numerical symbolic ideas.12 among these sephiroth, jointly and severally, we find the development of the persons and attributes of god. of these some are male and some are female. now, for some reason or other best known to themselves, the translators of the bible have crowded out of existence and smothered up every reference to the fact that the deity is both masculine and feminine. they have translated a feminine plural by a masculine singular in the case of the word elohim. they have, however, left an inadvertent admission of their knowledge that it was plural in genesis i, 26: and the elohim said: let us make man. again (v. 27, how could adam be m

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trope, the morals of the crucified (both standpoints joined in one, i hope, 200 in metaphysic s stereoscope) but for the moment be denied a metaphysical inspection bring out the antiseptic soap! we ll judge the christ by simple section, 205 and strictly on the moral side. but first; i must insist on taking the ordinary substantial creed your clergy preach from desk and pulpit each sunday; all the bible, shaking 210 its boards with laughter as you read each sunday. ibsen43 to a full pit may play in the moon. if (lunars they) they thought themselves to be the play, it s little the applause he d get. 215 i met a christian clergyman, the nicest man i ever met. we argued of the cosmic plan. i was lord roberts, he de wet.44* scots legal term for defendant. a romany word for woman. the rev. j. bo

tself most readily to a man of the world, not to say a man of science, and adopted that of a second messiah! he took the utmost pains to conceal the birth of the child, treated everybody who came to the house as an emissary of herod, and finally made up his mind to flee into egypt! like most religious maniacs, he never had an idea of his own, but distorted the beautiful and edifying events of the bible into insane and ridiculous ones, which he proceeded to plagiarise. on the voyage out the virgin mother became enamoured, as was her wont, of the nearest male, in this case a fellow-traveller. he, being well able to support her in the luxury which she desired, easily persuaded her to leave the boat with him by stealth. a small sailing vessel conveyed them to malta, where they disappeared. the

ohar.76 splendour, the three central books of the dogmatic qabalah. 733. pigeon.77 says an old writer, whom i translate roughly: thou to thy lamb and dove devoutly bow, but leave me, prithee, yet my hawk and cow: and i approve thy greybeard dotard s smile, if thou wilt that of egypt s crocodile. 746. lost! lost! lost !78 see the lay of the last minstrel. 759. ain elohim.79 there is no god! so our bible. but this is really the most sublime affirmation of the qabalist. ain is god for the meaning of ain, and of this idea, see berashith, infra. the fool is he of the tarot, to whom the number 0 is attached, to make the meaning patent to a child. i insult your idol, quoth the good missionary; he is but of dead stone. he does not avenge himself. he does not punish me. i insult your god, replied t

witness the following masterly elucidation of its inner quintessence: the initiated interpretation of ceremonial magic* it is loftily amusing to the student of magical literature who is not quite a fool and rare is such a combination! to note the criticism directed by the philestine against the citadel of his science. truly, since our childhood has ingrained into us not only literal belief in the bible, but also substantial belief in alf laylah wa laylah, and only adolescence can cure us, we are only too liable, in the rush and energy of dawning manhood, to overturn roughly and rashly both these classics, to regard them both on the same level, as interesting documents from the standpoint of folk-lore and anthropology, and as nothing more. even when we learn that the bible, by a* this essay

u gods have to. it s the only way we can get any clear idea of who we really are. well, here was perdu r abu, after his latest fiasco, installed as a worthy, respectable, perfect, ancient and accepted, just, regular mahabrahma. his only business was to meditate, for as long as he did this, the worlds the whole system of 10,000 worlds would go on peaceably. nobody had better read the lesson of the bible the horrible results to mankind of ill-timed, though possibly well-intentioned, interference on the part of a deity. well, he curled himself up, which was rather clever for a formless abstraction, and began. there was a grave difficulty in his mind an obstacle right away from the word jump! of course there was really a good deal: he didn t know where the four elements ceased, for example:3 b

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orth in beer and bestial blasphemy. who would not rather be a st. besarion who spent forty days and nights in a thorn-bush, or a st. francis picking lice from his sheepskin and praising god for the honour and glory of wearing such celestial pearls in his habit, than become a smug, well-oiled evangelical christian genteel-man, walking to church to dear jesus on a sabbath morning, with prayer-book, bible, and umbrella, and a three- penny-bit in his glove? 173 the spendthrift "arcadia, night, a cloud, pan, and the moon" what words to conjure with, what five shouts to slay the five senses, and set a leaping flame of emerald and silver dancing about us as we yell them forth under the oaks and over the rocks and myrtle of the hill-side "bruised to the breast of pan- let us flee church, and chape

prophet unto mankind; 180 for he is as one drunken on the vastness of deity. better to have no opinion of god than such an opinion as is unworthy of him. better to be wrapped in the black robe of unbelief than to dance in the stinking rags of blasphemy. so they learnt to cry "for the children, belief and obedience; for us men, solitude- the monarchy of mind, the pandemoniacal majesty of matter "a bible on the centre-table in a cottage pauperises the monarchical imagination of man; but a naked woman weeping in the wilderness, or singing songs of frenzy unto istar in the night, from the ruined summit of nineveh, invoking the elemental powers of the abyss, and casting the dust of ages about her, and crying unto bel, and unto assur, and unto nisroch, and smiting flames from the sun-scorched bo

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ary initial and medial m. the consequence of this is that the total numerical value of the word, instead of being 30+ 40+ 200+ 2+ 5= 277, is 30+ 600+ 200+ 2+ 5= 837= by gematria thth zl, tet zal, the profuse giver. thus by writing the m final instead of the ordinary character, the word is made to bear a different qabalistical meaning. it is to be further noted with regard to the first word in the bible, brashith, that the first three letters, bra, are the initial letters of the names of the three persons of the trinity: bn, ben the son; rvch, ruach, the spirit; and ab, ab the father. furthermore the first letter of the bible is b, which is the initial letter of brkh, berakhah, blessing; and not a, which is that of arr, arar, cursing. again, the letters of berashith, taking their numerical

by the abstract forms of the numbers in other words, by the spirvth, sephiroth. it was from this ancient oriental theory that pythagoras derived his numerical symbolic ideas. among the sephiroth, jointly and severally, we find the development of the persons and attributes of god. of these some are male and some female. now, for some reason or other best known to themselves, the translators of the bible have carefully crowded out of existence and smothered up every reference to the fact that the deity is both masculine and feminine. they have translated a feminine plural by a masculine singular in the case of the word elohim. they have, however, left an inadvertent admission of their knowledge that it was plural in genesis iv, 26 "and elohim said: let us make man" again (v. 27, who could ad

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adful doom perhaps reserved to our race; of the very slight disturbance that might reduce to nothing all our proud civilisation, leaving only the puniest and less fitted amongst human beings? all to be begun anew! as perhaps it has begun again more than once in one or another planet- even in our own little one- along the past centuries. nothing, nothing will be left, perhaps; not a book, even the bible; not a statue, even "demeter" or "la v nus; not a piece of art of any kind, save, mayhap, the skull of a monkey floating upon a new and fathomless ocean. worse even- things may be preserved that would lead to serious blunders for our successors. think of their extremity if the students of our times should find as the only documents a complete edition of the works of miss corelli or some of t

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lution there be of these two problems, the vanity of life and the vanity of thought, it must be in the attainment of a consciousness which transcends both of 3 them. let us call this supernormal consciousness, or, for want of a better name "spiritual experience" 4. faith has been proposed as a remedy. but we perceive many incompatible forms of faith founded on authority- the vedas, the quran, the bible; buddha, christ, joseph smith. to choose between the we must resort to reason, already shown to be a fallacious guide. 5. there is only one rock which scepticism cannot shake; the rock of experience. 6. we have therefore endeavoured to eliminate from the conditions of acquiring spiritual experience its dogmatic, theological, accidental, climatic and other inessential elements. 7. we require

ally too the mystic is to be known by his atmosphere of power, cleanliness and light; by his self-control, his concentration of thought and action, his vigour, his patience. you will rarely find them at afternoon tea gossiping about clairvoyance, or even "playing adam" what? you don't know how to play "adam? and you call yourself a sage? tut! the game of "adam" is played as follows. take a key, a bible, an elastic band. 67 open the bible at random till you find a favourable text. there insert the key, leaving the barrel and ring outside. put the elastic band round the book, so as to fix the key firmly in it. balance the whole arrangement by putting your thumb and that of the assistant magus of art under the ring, thumb against thumb (an important but, as i hold, heterodox school of adepts

eaving the barrel and ring outside. put the elastic band round the book, so as to fix the key firmly in it. balance the whole arrangement by putting your thumb and that of the assistant magus of art under the ring, thumb against thumb (an important but, as i hold, heterodox school of adepts employ the forefinger) keep very still; and ask your question "adam, adam, tell me true! shall i &c. if the bible turns in a dextro-rotary manner the answer is "yes; if in the opposite direction "no" this sublime method of tearing out the heart of destiny is evidently derived from a slightly more elaborate one in the "key of solomon (book i, chap. ix) for detecting theft, which is done with a sieve, and which i supposed (until "adam" advised me to the contrary) to represent the lowest debauchery in whic

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ans. tea, tobacco, coffee, and beef-tea are frequently so misused, but we hear of no socio-political organisations for interfering with the liberty of individuals in regard to the use of these, or trespassing on the rights of traders and purveyors thereof" 315 "alcohol" dr. park declares "is a food" and not only a food, but an excellent one at that. put that in your pipes and smoke it, ye baptist bible-bangers_ but we forget, you do not smoke, in fact you do nothing which is pleasant; you spend your whole lives in looking for the devil in the most unlikely places, and declare that the only remedy against his craft and his cunning is total immersion in tonic-water and pine-apple syrup. f. an interpretation of genesis. by theodore powys. this is a most mystical interpretation of the most bea

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ntaining the following passage, which has been anonymously sent to this office, or for such information as may enable them to trace the perpetrators (torn edge) the circumstances_ cox, box, equinox, mcgregors are coming to town; some in rags, and some on jags, and the swami upside down_ cran, cran, mcgregor's man served a writ, and away he ran_ cadbury jones! stop your groans, and open the family bible, i fancy cocoa would tint your boko less than criminal libel_ what did waistcott wynn? anyway, he lost his shirt_ see-saw, bernard shaw sold his beef to live upon straw. wasn't he a thousand miles from sense when he went to eustace miles_ jagmatite said (torn edge) the back contains some account of a football match played on some saturday in january, apparently in lancashire. the envelope wa

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behind its unsworded cromwellian colossus,291 with all his rigid virtues, his stern reasoning, his uncharitableness, judicialism and impartiality, slunk a pack of pig-headed dolts, stubborn, asinine and mulish; slavish, menial and 192 gutless; puritanic, pharisaical and "suburban" as any seventeenth century presbyter, as biliously narrow-minded as any of the present day bethelites, baptists, and bible-beer brewers.292 290 the reason for this is very simple. take for example a glutton who lives for his palate and his stomach; he is always longing for tasty foods and spends his whole life seeking them. let us now substitute the symbol of the augoeides or atman for that of food and drink, let him every time he thinks of food and drink push the thought aside and in its place contemplate his h

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ne of the kabbalah, etc, etc. the kabbalah unveiled, containing the following books of the zohar (1) the book of concealed mystery (2) the greater holy assembly (3) the lesser holy assembly, translated into english from the latin version of knorr von rosenroth, and collated with the original chaldee and hebrew text, by s. l. macgregor mathers. new and cheaper edition. demy 8vo. 7"s" 6"d. net" the bible, which has been probably more misconstrued than any other book ever written, contains numberless obscure and mysterious passages which are utterly unintelligible without some key wherewith to unlock their meaning "that key is given in thekabbalah" lucifer: a theosophical magazine, intended to bring to light the hidden things of darkness. edited by h. p. blavatsky, mabel collins, and annie be

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e horse- whip, and the monkey. he is such a silly fellow, poor 'cheval hongre "ah, yes! the new nickname "don't you think that it fits him "oh, yes" the silent man of the party moved uneasily in his armchair. he was slow of cogitation "like the waistcoat of the late nessus fitted hercules, eh, what" he suggested "a fool "hercules "no, lionel. and, er. yes, hercules also. tabard reminds me of that bible chap "potiphar's joseph" the silent man exclaimed triumphantly "wrong again, bernard. i meant mary's joseph" the silent man threw his cigar over the fender. ii la papesse lionel tabard had been horse-whipped by a woman; he had received- to taken- no compensation. this i attribute to his mother. one reads many tales, the paper thereof being 28 damnably wasted; in most of these, mothers are al

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of this subject in its relation to masonry. the kabbalah unveiled, containing the following books of the zohar (1) the book of concealed mystery (2) the greater holy assembly (3) the lesser holy assembly; translated into english from the latin version of knorr von rosenroth, and collated with the original chaldee and hebrew text, by s. l. macgregor-mathers. new and cheaper edition, demy 8vo. the bible, which has been probably more misconstrued than any other book ever written, contains numberless obscure and mysterious passages which are utterly unintelligible without some key wherewith to unlock their meaning "that key is given in the kabbalah" isis unveiled: a master key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology. by h. p. blavatshy. in two volumes. vol. i. science, pp

mentaries- viii. some mysteries of nature- ix. cyclic phenomena- x. the inner and outer man- xi. psychological and physical marvels- xii. the "impassible chasm- xiii. realities and illusion- xiv. egyptian wisdom- xv. india the cradle of the race. vol. ii- i. the church; where is it- ii. christian crimes and heathen virtues- iii. divisions amongst the early christians- iv. oriental cosmogonies and bible-records- v. mysteries of the kabala- vi. esoteric doctrines of buddhism parodied in christianity- vii. early christian heresies and secret societies- viii. jesuitry and masonry- ix. the vedas an the bible- x. the devil myth- xi. comparative results of buddhism and christianity- xii. conclusions and illustrations. transcendental magic: its doctrine and ritual. by eliphas levi (a complete tran

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hists of the upper nile, but said that they were not equal to those of india. the british druids must have had a knowledge of the "serpent fire" in their secret instruction, or why exclaim "i am a serpent" the mythraic mysteries, and all the eranoi societies, were equally protected by the laws of solon seven centuries b.c, and mr pryse observes that only once does the word halleluiah occur in the bible, yet we know that it formed the close of a chant in the "rites of purification" in a call to the slain god for deliverance, in pre-christian centuries, and further there are mythraic traces in revelation. we also know from a large mass of inscriptions found in recent times, that the early christians made use of the very ancient societies, and by that course spread their doctrine. before the

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t, but of all forms that are constituted by their means, including the manifestation of a human being and of the deity of a solar system, that great life, that all-embracing, universal mind, that vibrant centre of energy, and that great enfolding consciousness whom we call god, or force, or the logos, the existence who is expressing himself through the medium of the solar system. in the christian bible the same thought is borne out by st. paul in a letter to the church at ephesus. in the second chapter of the epistle to the ephesians he says "we are his workmanship" literally, the correct translation from the greek is "we are his poem, or idea" and the thought in the mind of the apostle is that through the medium of every human life, or in the aggregate of lives which compose a solar syste

hat life or spirit, plus all that has been gained through the utilisation of form. by experimenting with matter, by dwelling within the form, by the energising of substance, by the going out of the garden of eden (the place where there is no scope for necessary development, and by the wandering of the prodigal son in the far country, you have the various stages which are pictured in the christian bible where man makes the discovery that he is not the form, but that he is the one who utilises it. he is intelligence, and therefore he is made in the image of the third person of the trinity; he is love, and through him the love aspect of the deity will some day perfectly manifest, and he will be able to say with his elder brother, the christ, in reply to the demand "lord, show us the father" t

that he is not just a universal atom, that he is not just part of a group, but that, after merging his identity with the group although never losing it the group itself has to be blended again with the consciousness of that great identity who is the synthesis of them all. thus he arrives at the final stage of intelligent appreciation of divine unity. this triple idea can be found summed up in the bible in a rather interesting phrase, where jehovah says to moses, the representative man "i am that i am" if you split this verse into its three parts you have what i have been seeking to bring out to-night: first, the atomic consciousness, i am; then the group, i am that; a consciousness that he is not just a separated individual, not only a self-centred unit, not only a self-conscious entity, b

s, and- 55- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust supposed by some to be the little lost pleiad. the eastern teachers say that in the mystery of electricity is hidden all knowledge, and that when we have fathomed that we shall know all there is to be known. what the relationship of the pleiades to our solar system may be, it is not possible for us to say, but even our christian bible recognises it, and job speaks of "the sweet influences of the pleiades" whilst some of the oriental scriptures affirm that the connection lies in sound or vibration. perhaps the pleiades are the source of the atomic life of our logos, the active intelligent aspect, that one which was first developed, and which we might call electrical matter. then there is the great bear. there is much that

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are specifically concerned with the evolution at the present time of the human kingdom. these four are connected with: 1. the distribution of karma, or human destiny, as it affects individuals, and through the individuals, the groups. 2. the care and tabulation of the akashic records. they are concerned with the halls of records, or with the "keeping of the book" as it is called in the christian bible; they are known in the christian world as the recording angels. 3. the participation in solar councils. they alone have the right during the world cycle to pass beyond the periphery of the planetary scheme, and participate in the councils of the solar logos. thus they are literally planetary mediators, representing our planetary logos and all that concerns him in the greater scheme of which

ess can evolve and gather experience, thus making existence in its deepest sense possible, so the world teacher directs that indwelling consciousness in its life or spirit aspect, seeking to energise it within the form so that, in due course of time, that form can be discarded and the liberated spirit return whence it came. ever since he left the earth, as related with approximate accuracy in the bible story (though with much error in detail) has he stayed with the- 27- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust sons of men; never has he really gone, but only in appearance, and in a physical body he can be found by those who know the way, dwelling in the himalayas, and working in close co-operation with his two great brothers, the manu and the mahachohan. daily he pours out his

er a long thin face, black hair, pale complexion and piercing blue eyes. his work at this time is exceedingly responsible, for to him is given the problem of steering the thought of the occident out of its present state of unrest into the peaceful waters of certitude and knowledge, and of preparing the way in europe and america for the eventual coming of the world teacher. he is well known in the bible history, coming before us first as joshua the son of nun, appearing again in the time of ezra as jeshua, taking the third initiation, as related in the book of zechariah, as joshua, and in the gospel story he is known for two great sacrifices, that in which he handed over his body for the use of the christ, and for the great renunciation which is the characteristic of the fourth initiation

transpires in one department is known in the others as the planetary logos is only concerned in the two final initiations, which are not compulsory as are the earlier five, it serves no purpose to enlarge upon his work. these initiations are taken upon the buddhic and atmic planes, whereas the first five are taken upon the mental. the lord of the world, the one initiator, he who is called in the bible "the ancient of days" and in the hindu scriptures the first kumara, he, sanat kumara it is, who from his throne at shamballa in the gobi desert, presides over the lodge of masters, and holds in his hands the reins of government in all the three departments. called in some scriptures "the great sacrifice" he has chosen to watch over the evolution of men and devas until all have been occultly

is divine ancestor, the "watcher" who, through long cycles of incarnation, has poured himself out in sacrifice in order that man might be. as a sphere of radiant fire, linked with the initiate standing before it by that magnetic thread of fire which passes through all his bodies and terminates within the centre of the physical brain. this "silver thread (as it is rather inaccurately called in the bible, where the description of its loosing of the physical body and subsequent withdrawal is found) emanates from the heart centre of the solar angel, linking thus heart and brain, that great duality manifesting in this solar system, love and intelligence. this fiery sphere is linked likewise with many others belonging to the same group and ray, and thus it is a literal fact in demonstration that

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plane of manifestation. let us trace the analogy a little more in detail, for in its just apprehension will be found much of illumination and much that will serve to elucidate problems both macrocosmic and microcosmic. we will begin with man and his etheric body. the etheric body has been described as a network, permeated with fire, or as a web, animated with golden light. it is spoken of in the bible as the "golden bowl" it is a composition of that matter of the physical plane which we call etheric, and its shape is brought about by the fine interlacing strands of this matter being built by the action of the lesser builders into the form or mould upon which later the dense physical body can be moulded. under the law of attraction, the denser matter of the physical plane is made to cohere

throughout the entire system. the etheric body is really a net-work of fine channels, which are the component parts of one interlacing fine cord, one portion of this cord being the magnetic link which unites the physical and the astral bodies and which is snapped or broken after the withdrawal of the etheric body from the dense physical body at the time of death. the silver cord is loosed, as the bible expresses it44(40) and this is the basis of the legend of the fateful sister who cuts the thread of life with the dreaded shears. the etheric web is composed of the intricate weaving of this vitalised cord, and apart from the seven centres within the web (which correspond to the sacred centres, and of which the spleen is frequently counted as one) it has the two above mentioned, which make w

re by friction, and the emanations of the son, in time and space, are dependent upon the adequacy of the matter, and of the form to the life within. the first logos is electric fire, the fire of pure spirit. yet in manifestation he is the son, for by union with matter (the mother) the son is produced by whom he is known "i and my father are one"69(60) is the most occult statement in the christian bible, for it not only refers to the union of a man with his source, the monad, via the ego, but to the union of all life with its source, the will aspect, the first logos. we will now endeavor to confine ourselves strictly to the subject of fire in matter, and its active effect upon the sheaths of which it is the animating factor, and upon the centers which come primarily under its control. as we

eives his rod of power the same rod as used since the foundation of our planetary hierarchy and holds it forth to the lord of the world, who touches it with his own mighty rod, causing a fresh re-charging of its electric capacity. this ceremony takes place at shamballa.89,(78)90 second. the rod of initiation known as the "flaming diamond" and used by sanat kumara, the one initiator, called in the bible, the ancient of days. this rod lies hidden "in the east" and holds the fire latent which irradiates the wisdom religion. this rod was brought by the lord of the world when he took form and came to our planet eighteen million years ago. once in every world period it is subjected to a similar process as that of the lesser rod, only this time it is recharged by the direct action of the logos hi

e of expression; it is the form which his life animates for the- 132- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust specific purpose of a. gaining experience. b. making contact. c. developing full self-knowledge. d. achieving full mastery or control. e. attaining "manhood" cosmically. the cosmic christ must measure up to the stature "of a full grown man" as it is expressed in the christian bible.93(82) f. expanding his consciousness. all these stages have to be achieved on cosmic levels, in exactly the same sense as the microcosm, on systemic levels, likewise strives for similar ideals. ii. what is evolution and how does it proceed? 1. life cycles. i do not propose to deal here with the evolutionary process in any other way than briefly to indicate that the whole method of evolution

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the atom of matter as well as the souls of men are a part of his infinite realisation. the soul of the human being is potentially the same, and as soon as the consciousness ceases to identify itself with its vehicles or organs, the germ of all knowledge begins to expand. in the disciple, the adept, master or mahatma, in the christ, the buddha, and in the lord of the world, who is mentioned in the bible as the ancient of days, this "germ of all knowledge" can be seen at differing stages of unfoldment. god consciousness is theirs, and they pass from one initiation to another. at each stage a man is a master but ever beyond the point attained another possible expansion becomes apparent and ever the process is the same. this process may be summed up in the following statements: 1. an urge, or

f the ego, solar angel, higher self or soul, as he sounds out the word from his own place, on the abstract levels of the mental plane. he directs that sound, via the sutratma and the vestures of consciousness to the physical brain of the man in incarnation, the shadow or reflection. this "sounding forth" has to be constantly repeated. the sutratma is that magnetic link, spoken of in the christian bible as the "silver cord" that thread of living light which connects the monad, the spirit in man, with the physical brain. secondly, there is the earnest reflection of the man in his physical brain upon that sound as he recognizes it. the two poles of being are hinted at here: the soul and the man in incarnation, and between these two is found the thread, along which the pranava (or word) vibrat

e are likewise five in number and are frequently called the "religious observances" because they relate to the interior life of the disciple and to that- 102- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust tie, the sutratma or link which relates him to god, or to his father in heaven. these two, the five commandments and the five rules are the hindu correspondence to the ten commandments of the bible and cover the daily life of the aspirant, as it affects those around him, and his own internal reactions. means iii. posture. asana. right poise. correct attitude. position. this third means concerns the physical attitude of the disciple when in meditation, his emotional attitude towards his environment or his group, and his mental attitude towards ideas, thought currents and abstract concep

which the yogi has to master is that of the second aspect. he must arrive at the sound or word which brought every form into manifestation, and which is the result of the breath, the essence or spirit "in the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word was god. all things were made by him (john i. 1:2- 149- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust here, in the christian bible, is the substance of the entire teaching, and in the significance of the three letters of the sacred word, aum, lies the clue to the entire cosmic process. the meditation process when duly and correctly carried out reveals therefore the second or soul aspect, and the sound, or word (the voice of the silence) can then be heard. once heard and the work carried steadily forward, the realm of co

wever, that these forms of one-pointed meditation are only permitted after the eight means of yoga (dealt with in book ii) have been followed. 25. perfectly concentrated meditation upon the awakened light will produce the consciousness of that which is subtle, hidden or remote. throughout all teachings of an occult or mystical nature reference is found frequently to what is called the "light" the bible has many such passages as have all the scriptures of the world. many terms are applied to this but space only permits us to consider those to be found in the various translations of the yoga sutras of patanjali. they might be enumerated as follows: a. the awakened inner light (johnston, b. the light in the head (johnston, c. the light of immediate cognition (intuitive knowledge (tatya, d. th

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nd a fiery determination which eventually does three things for the aspirant. it throws a fierce light upon his problems, and constitutes the purificatory furnace into which the lower self has to go in order that all dross may be burned out, and it also destroys all hindrances which might keep him back. this same idea of fire runs through all books on christian mysticism, and many passages in the bible of a similar nature will come readily to mind. willingness to "bear the cross" to "enter the fire" to "die daily (it matters not what the symbology employed may be, is the characteristic of the true aspirant, and, before we pass on to the way of meditation and place our footsteps in those of the myriads of sons of god who have preceded us, we must gauge the depth and the height and brace our

s me on to light. i weep for joy at what i hope to see when, scaled at length the arduous height, for every painful step i trod, i traverse worlds on worlds of light and pierce some deeper depth of god."2(56) we start with an emotional realization of our goal and from then pass on, through the fire of discipline, to the heights of intellectual certainty. this is beautifully pictured for us in the bible in the story of shadrach, meschach and abednego. we read that they were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace, yet the result of that apparent tragedy was the releasing in their midst of the form of a fourth identity, whose appearance was like unto that of the son of god. these three friends are symbols of the threefold lower man. the name meschach means "agile" a faculty of the d

y and facility of interplay we will consider next. the intuition begins to function; illumination is experienced, and the life of inspiration, with its many special characteristics must be studied, and this we will attempt in our next chapter. chapter seven intuition and illumination "and god said: let there be light! and there was light- 64- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust bible we have laid down the general premise that modern educational methods in the west have familiarized man with the idea that he possesses a mind; they have brought him to an appreciation of the intellect, so much so, that to many the achievement of intellectual ability is the consummation of the work of evolution. we have suggested further that when the eastern technique of meditation (with it

pects of the form nature) as being linked with a radiant body of light, or they- 99- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust visualize three centres of vibrating energy receiving stimulation from a higher and more powerful centre; others imagine the soul as a triangle of force to which is linked the triangle of the lower nature linked by the "silver cord" mentioned in the christian bible, the sutratma or thread soul of the eastern scriptures, the "life-line" of other schools of thought. still others prefer to preserve the thought of a unified personality, linked to and hiding within itself the indwelling divinity, christ in us, the hope of glory. it is relatively immaterial what imagery we choose, provided that we start with the basic idea of the self seeking to contact and

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life that can guide and motivate the machine is likewise present, and man now can intelligently use and control, not only the machine, but the active principle. the great symbol of the soul in man is his vital or etheric body and for the following reasons: 1. it is the physical correspondence to the inner light body we call the soul body, the spiritual body. it is called the "golden bowl" in the bible and is distinguished by: a. its light quality. b. its rate of vibration, which synchronises always with the development of the soul. c. its coherent force, linking and connecting every part of the body structure. 2. it is the microcosmic "web of life" for it underlies every part of the physical structure and has three purposes: a. to carry throughout the body the life principle, the energy w

to that (for us) ultimate formulation of truth which will suffice for the next age and carry man to a high pinnacle of the temple to the mount of initiation. these two lines are: 1. those who look back to the past, who hang on to the old ways, the ancient theologies, and the reactionary rejection methods of finding truth. these are the people who recognize authority, whether that of a prophet, a bible or a theology. these are those who prefer obedience to imposed authority to the self-imposed guidance of an enlightened soul. these are the followers of a church and a government, who are distinguished by a pure devotion and love, but refuse recognition to the divine intelligence with which they are gifted. their devotion, their love of god, their strict but misguided conscience, their intol

t back of his thought processes and form building propensities and discover the ideas which underlie the divine thought-form, the world process, and so learn to work in collaboration with the plan and subordinate his own thought-form building to these ideas. he has to learn to penetrate into the world of these divine ideas and to study the "pattern of things in the heavens" as it is called in the bible. he must begin to work with the blue prints upon which all that is, is modelled and moulded. he becomes then a student-symbolist, and from being an idolater he becomes a divine idealist. i use these words in their true sense and connotation. 3. from that developed idealism, he must progress even deeper still, until he enters the realm of- 211- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis t

nce; they believe it to mean an inclusive- 240- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust endeavour towards human betterment, uplift and understanding; they give it the connotation of tolerance, international synthetic communion, religious inclusiveness, and all trends of thought which concern the esoteric development of the human being. it is a group therefore without a terminology or bible of any kind; it has no creed nor any dogmatic formulations of truth. the motivating impulse of each and all is love of god as it works out in love for one's fellow man. they know the true meaning of brotherhood, without distinction of race. their lives are lives of willing service, rendered with utter selflessness and without any reservations. the personnel of the group is known only to the

dominate. the former influence is however weakening, and the aum is increasing in potency until it will be the dominating factor. to this latter sound, the word of the soul must eventually succeed, until aum in its turn is entirely superseded. the sound of many waters (which is the symbolic way of expressing the tau influence) will cease, and the time will come, as we are assured in the christian bible, when there "will be no more sea. then the sound of the aum which is symbolically spoken of as the "roaring" of a blazing fire, and which is the sound of the mental plane will take its place. the word of the soul cannot be given except in the secret place of initiation. it has its own peculiar vibration and note, but this cannot be conveyed until such time as the aum is used with correctness

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lanations, based often on personal prejudice and predilection. but seldom- 174- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust is a clear note sounded, and seldom is it possible to do more than enunciate the great mosaic law "thou shalt not" to the bulk of the young and seeking enquirers of the present generation the fact that god says thus and so, or the bible ordains this, that or the other, does not satisfy their longing to know the reason why. the hope of an ultimate heaven, where self-discipline, self-control and sexual abstinence will receive a just reward, seems too far away to offset the temptations of the outer environing world and the insistent urges arising within the man himself. that many do withstand the "temptations of the flesh" is

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ancient mythologies, for man is an animal, plus a god, and therefore a human being. then he who shall come looms over them all, overshadowing them, pointing to the fulfilment which shall come through birth and human incarnation. truly the picture book of the heavens holds eternal truth for those who have eyes to see and the intuition developed rightly to interpret. prophecy is not confined to the bible but has ever been held before men's eyes in the vault of heaven. thus as "the heavens declare the glory of god, and the firmament sheweth his- 42- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust handiwork,"46 we have the prophecy of that world event which took place when christ was born in bethlehem, the "house of bread" and virgo rose above the horizon, whilst the star in the east shon

rn chinese sage, was away from home when her child was born. she stopped to rest under a tree, and there, like the virgin maya, gave birth to her son."49 we are told in the gospel story that the virgin mary, with her husband joseph and bearing within herself the christ child, went up from nazareth in galilee to bethlehem. sometimes, through a study of the significances of the names we meet in the bible and in tradition, we can throw much light on the episode itself and unveil some of its hidden meaning. in the study of the bible story, i have used only the bible itself and cruden's concordance. the interpretation of the names is taken from cruden's concordance. therein we find that "nazareth" means "that which is consecrated" or set apart "galilee" means the "turning of the wheel" that whe

processes of birth and childhood. christ came forth from nazareth, the place of consecration, and went up to bethlehem, the house of bread, where in a peculiar way he himself was to become the "bread of life"51 to a hungry world. he was set apart, or set himself apart (as do all awakened sons of god) for the work of redemption. he came to feed the hungry, and in this connection two verses in the bible convey light upon his- 43- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust task and its preparation. isaiah tells us that "bread corn is bruised,"52 and christ himself told us that "except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit."53 this was the destiny awaiting him when he came to the birth in bethlehem. then he entere

ethlehem idea, with bread. in this subtle implication there surely comes to us a guarantee that as he came before to the house of bread so will he again fulfil his word and fulfil himself and return. the cave, a place of darkness and of discomfort, was for mary the place of pain and weariness. this cave or stable story of the new testament is perhaps as full of symbolism as any to be found in the bible. the long and trying journey ended in a dark cave. the long and weary journey of humanity has brought us today to just such a hard and uninviting place. the life of the individual disciple, prior to taking initiation and passing through the experience of the new birth, is ever one of the utmost difficulty and hardness. but in the dark, and through difficulty, christ is to be found, the chris

reased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with god and man."64 frequently in the gospel story, we find the word "down" occurring. christ went with his mother "down into egypt; he went "down to nazareth; and again and again he comes down from the mountain-top or from the place of solitude to do his duty among men. after the hidden experience in egypt (for no account of this is given to us in the bible, and after the revelation in the temple and the acceptance of the task to be accomplished, christ returns to the place of duty. in this case, and after the birth initiation, for a period of thirty years, we are told, he functioned as a man in the daily life of the carpenter's shop and in the home with his parents. this home life constituted the test to which he was subjected, and its importa

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eal to the real. such is the great symbolic work of masonry. it is an elucidation of the way of relinquishment. 6. the path of outgoing in order to possess. 7. selfishness, the major characteristic of the self in relation to, and identified with, the not-self. 8. love of possession, the prostitution of spiritual love. 9. acquisitiveness, the illusion of material need. 10. the period called in the bible, that of "riotous living" on the part of the prodigal son. 11. the application and use of energy for personal, selfish intent. 12. personality life, with all that is therein implied, ambition, selfish purpose, etc- 48- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust 13. attachment to the seen, the known, and the familiar, external, objective forms

e on earth, until he had exhausted all his resources and there was naught left but the eventual sacrifice of what he held so dear, but had discovered to be so unsatisfying. for these things of lesser values, he had sacrificed the higher values, and had to return again whence he came. such is the life story of all the sons of god who came into incarnation, as given to us under the symbolism of the bible. but the theme in all the world bibles is the same. this urge to sacrifice, to relinquish this for that, to choose one way or line of conduct and thus sacrifice another way, to lose in order eventually to gain, such is the underlying story of evolution. this needs psychological understanding. it is a governing principle of life itself, and runs like a golden pattern of beauty through the dar

depth, no wide extension. he had but room to go one way. he went that way alone, or dragging those who asked the way of him. he saw a vision, shifting as he moved, and taking varying form; each vision was to him the symbol of his highest dreams, the height of his desire. he rushed along the tunnel, seeking that which lay ahead. he saw not much and only one thing at a time, a person or a truth, a bible or his picture of his god, an appetite, a dream, but only one! sometimes he gathered in his arms the vision that he saw, and found it naught. sometimes, he reached the person whom he loved and found, instead of visioned beauty, a person like himself. and thus he tried. he wearied of his search; he whipped himself to effort new. the opening dimmed its light. a shutter seemed to close. the vis

he difficulties and the possible barriers to success, the question will arise and rightly so: what makes it possible to establish this group inter-relation? what provides a common meeting ground? the answer to- 114- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust these questions is of paramount importance and necessitates a frank handling. we find in the bible the words "in him we live and move and have our being. this is the statement of a fundamental law in nature, and the enunciated basis of the relation which exists between the unit soul, functioning in a human body, and god. it determines also, in so far as it is realised, the relation between soul and soul. we live in an ocean of energies. we ourselves are congeries of energies, and all thes

differing words or expressions in the literature of the world, such as: a. the desire to manifest. b. the creative impulse. c. the evolutionary urge. d. the wish to incarnate. e. the attraction of the pairs of opposites. this is positive energy having an attractive effect upon negative energy. f. the outgoing tendency. g. the fall of man. h. the "sons of god came in unto the daughters of men (the bible) i. the "corn of wheat falling into the ground. many such expressions can be found, having in them symbolic quality and which are not to be interpreted literally, or with a physical connotation. each idea, however, involves a duality, and the concept that there is "that which is manifesting through the form of the manifest. this is "the soul and the form, and many other similar phrases are f

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on he finds himself. he, therefore, becomes aware of what constitutes his line of least resistance and where the major point of his life conflict is to be found. we are taught in the esoteric philosophy that seven great divine emanations, aeons or spirits (in whom we live and move and have our being) came forth from god at the time of the creation. the same teaching can also be traced in the holy bible. upon one or other of these seven rays, the souls of all forms of life are to be found as well as the forms themselves. these seven rays produce the seven major psychological types. these seven rays or emanations are: 1. the first ray of will or power. many great world rulers are found on this ray, such as julius caesar. 2. the second ray of love-wisdom. the christ and the buddha are to be f

persist. you stand before them bewildered, anxious to do the right thing, blinded by the power of your own creations which shine with their own light, and blinded also by the blaze of light emanating from your own soul and from the group soul. but blinded and, seemingly, helpless. no one can help you, my brother. you yourself must let all things go, and become "the little child" spoken of in the bible. it is not for me or any teacher to tell you what to do. for one thing, you would do it, and in doing it learn naught. from within yourself must come the incentive, and from yourself must emanate the clear wisdom, and the clean cut action which will eventually- 466- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust bring your release. what, therefore, can any of us do? gather

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

these ideals finally become the governing principles of the masses. this is the true sequence of the historical process. it might be of value to study briefly some of the psychological adjustments which the nations must make within their own borders, because reform begins at home. then let us look at the world picture and gain a new vision. there is a scientific basis for the old statement in the bible that "where there is no vision, the people perish. history indicates a long past of battle, of war, of changing frontiers, of the discovery and prompt annexation of new territory, involving the subjugation of the original inhabitants, sometimes greatly to their benefit but always inexcusable. the spirit of nationalism and its growth is the background of modern history as taught in our school

as of some human mind interpreted in terms of his period, tradition and background about what god said in some scripture which has been subjected during the centuries to the difficulties and the mistakes incident to constant translation a translation often based on oral teaching. the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of the scriptures of the world (deemed particularly applicable to the christian bible) is today completely exploded and with it the infallibility of interpretation; all the world scriptures are now seen to be based on poor translations and no part of them after thousands of years of translation is as it originally was, if it ever existed as an original manuscript and was not in reality some man's recollection of what was said. at the same time, it must be remembered that the

he spiritual life and that the will of god would be revealed. these are not the points about which the mass of commentators have written. they have discussed ad nauseam how far christ was divine and how far he was human, the nature of the virgin birth, the function of st. paul as a teacher of christian truth, the nature of hell, salvation through blood, and the authenticity and historicity of the bible. today men's minds are recognizing the dawn of freedom; they are realizing that every man should be free to worship god in his own way. this will not mean (in the coming new age) that every man will pick a theological school to which he will choose to adhere. his own god-illumined mind will search for truth and he will interpret it for himself. the day of theology- 74- problems of humanity c

y man, the guarantee of our eventual spiritual attainment; christ as the living example of that attainment, who has entered for us within the veil, leaving us an example that we should follow his steps; christ who ever lives and who has stayed with us for two thousand years, watching over his people, inspiring his working disciples, the masters of the wisdom, those "just men, made perfect (as the bible calls them; christ demonstrating for us the possibility of this unfolding, living, spiritual consciousness (which has been given the somewhat vague name of the "christ consciousness) bringing every man, eventually under the laws of rebirth and of cause and effect to an ultimate perfection; these are the truths which the church will eventually endorse, teach and express through the lives and

, humanity approaches closer to divinity, discovers a more brilliant light and arrives at- 89- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust a growing knowledge of god. god, in the person of christ and of his disciples, also draws nearer to men. what has been in the past shall indeed be in the future; revelation will succeed revelation until the great informing life of our planet (called in the bible the ancient of days) will stand finally revealed in all his glory; he will then himself approach his regenerated and purified people. another point which should be remembered is that in the new generation lies hope hope through repudiation of the ancient and undesirable, hope because of their ceaseless demand for spiritual light, hope because of the promptness with which they recognize truth

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n, from the purely human and immediate angle; they have little understanding of the problems, decisions and implications with which christ is today faced. in these, his pledged disciples share. their task is to develop "the mind that is in christ" and as they do so, they will help make clear the way for "the coming of his feet" as the- 35- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust bible puts it (heb. xii.13. seeing life and events in the light of the spiritual values, as he does, will facilitate the giving out of the new teaching and will provide the skeleton structure of the new world religion, thus giving us a fresh view of divine intention and a living insight into the minds of those who implement the divine will and are the engineers of humanity's future. let us, theref

he sun and the still greater circle of spiritual influences which contact our system as it pursues its orbit in the heavens (the twelve constellations of the zodiac. astronomical and astrological investigation has demonstrated this relationship and the influences exerted but there is still speculation and much foolish claiming and interpretation. yet the churches have ever recognized this and the bible has testified to it "the stars in their courses fought against sisera (judges v.20 "who can withstand the sweet influences of the pleiades (job xxxviii.31. many other passages bear out this contention of the knowers. many church festivals are fixed by reference to the moon or a zodiacal constellation. investigation will prove this to be the case and when the ritual of the new world religion

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

ring about the dissipation and the disappearance of that plane- 115- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. the technique of indifference renders ineffective or neutralises the hold of substance over the life or spirit, functioning in the three worlds, for soul is the evidence of life. in connection, therefore, with this second technique, i would like to take some words out of the bible, substituting the word "light" for the word "faith" i give you this definition: light is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. this is perhaps one of the most occult definitions of the light of the world that has yet been given and its true meaning is intended to be revealed in the next two generations. the word "faith" is a good instance of the method of render

elf and this is a steadily enriching symphony; as the centuries slip away, all these sounds slowly unite and are resolved into each other until some day the planetary symphony which sanat kumara is composing will be completed and our earth will then make a notable contribution to the great chords of the solar system and this is a part, intrinsic and real, of the music of the spheres. then, as the bible says, the sons of god, the planetary logoi, will sing together. this, my brother, will be the result of right breathing, of controlled and organised rhythm, of true pure thought and of the correct relation between all parts of the chorus. think out this theme as a meditation exercise and gain inspiration thereby. c. the technique of indifference i have, in my other books, given much informat

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

of life at this- 12- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust time and increases the mental problem of thousands. 3. telepathic work from heart to heart. this type of impression is the sublimation of the "feeling" response registered earlier upon the ladder of evolution in the solar plexus. it concerns only group impressions, and is the basis of the condition spoken of in the bible in connection with the greatest sensitive humanity has ever produced, the christ. there he is referred to as "a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief" but in this condition no personal sorrow or grief is involved. it is simply the consciousness of the sorrow of the world and the weight of grief under which humanity struggles "the fellowship of christ's suffering" is the reaction of the di

y regard what they find as unusual, beautiful and important, and then proceed to formulate it into messages, which they expect their friends and the general public to regard as spiritually based. these messages are normally innocuous, sometimes beautiful, because they are a mixture of what the recipients have read and gathered from the mystical writing or have heard from christian sources and the bible. it is really the content of their right thinking along spiritual lines and can do no one any harm, but is of no true importance whatsoever. it accounts, however, for eighty-five percent (85) of the so-called telepathic or inspired writings so prevalent at this time. 2. impressions from the soul, which are translated into concepts and written down by the personality; the recipient is deeply

he etheric energy, flowing through responsive centres and creating the endocrine glands as a consequence, gradually began to have a definite effect upon the blood stream; the energy worked through that medium solely for a very long time. this still remains true, for the life aspect of energy animates the blood, through the medium of the centres and their agents, the glands. hence the words in the bible that "the blood is the life" 2. as the race of men developed, and consciousness grew greater and certain great expansions took place, the centres began to extend their usefulness and to use the nadis, and thus to work upon and through the nervous system; this produced conscious and planned activity upon the physical plane, commensurate to the man's place in evolution. thus the incoming energ

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needed information and it will be made available when the right time comes. it is the knowledge of this inner information which constitutes the basis of the statements which i have made or will make which will seem revolutionary to the orthodox investigator. there has to be a constant rectification of the earlier conclusions of humanity and of this the outstanding instance is the statement in the bible that the prime date of creation is 4004 b.c. this is recognised as an error by modern science but is still believed by many. i earlier gave a hint upon which definite astrological computation could be based when i gave the time of the "great approach" of the hierarchy to our planetary manifestation when individualisation took place and the fourth kingdom in nature appeared. i placed that stu

he form is bound upon the "wheel of life as it turns from right to left (from aries to taurus via pisces. but the soul is bound to the wheel as it turns from left to right, going from aries to pisces, via taurus. it is this antagonistic movement of the wheel "turning upon itself (as it is- 63- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust expressed in the bible) which leads to the conflict carried on in the individual life, in the life of humanity and in the life of the planet. in the early stages of evolution and upon the mutable cross, the consciousness is entirely identified with life in form and with the life of self-consciousness, self-preservation and self-enrichment. then comes an interlude wherein the consciousness begins to shift into that

. it has been occultly said that a vision of these powers and their many weaving lines (seen as rivers and streams of light) is given to the initiate from the mountain top of capricorn, once that summit has been reached. it is at the transfiguration initiation that this vision appears before the eyes of the astounded disciple. the great experiences upon the various mountain tops as related in the bible have all to do with capricorn. moses, the lawgiver on mount sinai, is saturn in capricorn imposing the law of karma upon the people. a clue to the significance of the jewish people as a karmic clearing house can be found here. ponder on those words "a karmic clearing house" the mount of transfiguration in the new testament is venus in capricorn when love and mind and will meet in the person

n some of the ancient books "the sign of the fish with the head of the ram" we shall then have 1. aries-pisces 6. virgo-libra 2. taurus 7. scorpio 3. gemini 8. sagittarius 4. cancer 9. capricorn 5. leo 10. aquarius fire and water will then blend, veiling the past which has gone instead of the future as is now the case. earth and air will then fuse and in this way the old prophecy, repeated in the bible, that "there shall be no more sea" will be proved correct. air (heaven) will then have "come down to earth" and fusion will be established. in the cosmic sense then and not in the individual sense, the unfoldment of the cosmic christ will be manifested for which "the whole creation waits; thus will come the consummation of desire as a result of dedicated aspiration. then, and only then, will

om the mental angle in our aryan times. isis stands for this same expression down on to the emotional or astral plane. eve has no child in her arms; the germ of the christ life is as yet too small to make its presence felt; the involutionary process is yet too close; but in isis the midway point is reached; the quickening of that which is desired (the desire of all nations, as it is called in the bible) has taken place and isis consequently stands in the ancient zodiacs for fertility, for motherhood and as the guardian of the child. mary carries the process down to the plane or place of incarnation, the physical plane, and there gives birth to the christ child. in these three virgins and these three mothers of the christ, you have the history of the formation and the function of the three

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ion what finally decided me to write about my life was a letter i had in 1941 from a friend in scotland who said that he felt that i would really render a service if i could show people how i became what i am from what i was. it might be useful to know how a rabid, orthodox christian worker could become a well-known occult teacher. people might learn much by discovering how a theologically minded bible student could come to the firm conviction that the teachings of the east and of the west must be fused and blended before the true and universal religion for which the world waits could appear on earth. there is value in knowing that the love of god antedates christianity and recognises no boundaries. this was the first and most difficult lesson i had to learn and it took me a long time. it

apparently, no matter what the age or the circumstance! i used to own a very large miniature case in silver which my father was in the habit of carrying everywhere with him and in it was the only portrait i ever had of my mother. in 1928, after carting it all over the world with me, it was stolen one summer when i was away from our house at stamford, conn, where we then lived, and with it went my bible and a broken rocking-chair. it was the most curious choice of things to steal of which i have ever heard. the bible was the greatest personal loss. it was a unique bible and had been my cherished possession for twenty years. it had been given me by a close, girlhood friend, catherine rowan-hamilton, and was printed on thin writing paper with broad margins for notes. the margins were nearly t

er; practicing scales for an hour or preparing the day's lessons if it was my sister's turn for the piano; breakfast at 8 a.m. sharp, in the schoolroom, and then down to the dining room at 9 for family prayers. we had to start the day right with a recollection of god and, in spite of the austerity of the family faith, i think it is a good habit. there sat the head of the household with the family bible in front of him and the family and guests gathered around him; then the servants filed in according to their duties and rank the housekeeper, the cook, the ladies' maids, the head housemaid and the under housemaids, the kitchen maid, the scullery maid, the footmen, and the butler to close the door. there was real devotion there and much revolt, true aspiration and intense boredom, for such i

ough money to take care of myself most comfortably in those comfortable and relatively inexpensive days. i had a firm belief in christ, for was i not one of the elect; i believed in a heaven of happiness for those who thought as i did and a hell for those who did not, though i tried not to think too much about them after doing what i could to save their souls. i had a really deep knowledge of the bible, good taste in clothes, really good looks and a most profound and complete ignorance of the facts of life. i had been told absolutely nothing about living processes and this was the foundation of much disillusionment as life went on and at this time i seemed subject to a most curious "protection" in the peculiar and unusual work which i chose to do in my next life cycle, from twenty-one to t

dest prayer in the world. i had, in those days, to learn that "the love of god is broader than the measure of man's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind" but it was not a really kind god that i proclaimed. god was kind to me because he had opened my eyes and the eyes of those who thought as i did, but he was quite ready to send the rest of the unregenerate world to hell. the bible said so and the bible was always right. it could not possibly be wrong. i agreed at that time with the pronouncement of a famous bible institute in the united states that "they took their stand upon the original, autographed manuscripts of the bible" how i would today like to ask them where these autographed manuscripts are to be found. i believed in the verbal inspiration of the scriptures

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supreme importance in the well-being of the average human being of today. its purpose is to guard health, to balance the bodily equilibrium in certain important aspects of the physical nature, and it symbolises the third aspect of intelligence and of substance impregnated with mind. it is in reality connected with the holy ghost, or the third divine aspect in manifestation "overshadowing (as the bible expresses it, the mother, the virgin mary. the parathyroids are symbolic of mary and joseph and the relation they hold to the overshadowing holy ghost. it will eventually be determined that there is a close physiological relation existing between the thyroid gland and the pineal gland, and between the parathyroids and the two lobes of the pituitary body, thus bringing into one related system

he heart centre of all aspirants, disciples and initiates; in this way this energy is made available and brings about two results: 1. the regeneration of humanity through love. 2. the relationship, firmly established, between a rapidly developing humanity and the hierarchy. in this way two great planetary centres the hierarchy and humanity are brought into a close contact and relationship. as the bible says "the love of god is shed abroad" in the human heart, and its transforming, magnetic and radiatory power is essential for the reconstruction of the world and for the establishment of the new world order. upon the unfoldment of the heart centre, and on an intelligent relation of mankind to the hierarchy, with the consequent response of man to the energy of love, all disciples are asked at

eeply and be predominantly on etheric levels with all that is implied in such a situation. this, many sense subjectively and know; and great, therefore, is their opportunity and yours to constitute increasingly a channel for this force. remember that the work for which he comes and to which the attendant hierarchy is pledged is to help him in the "healing of the nations" as it is expressed in the bible. this is a true statement of an imminent fact. this healing will be brought about if men of goodwill everywhere measure up to their opportunity; if the work of the christ and of his helpers is brought more definitely to the attention of the general public, and if there is an inner relaxation in the world of men which will permit the devas to work. it is their readiness and their response to

ne. to turn now to another aspect of our theme. there are, speaking in the larger sense, three major death episodes. there is, first of all, the constant recurrence of the fact of physical death. this is familiar to all of us through its extreme frequency, could we but realise it. this recognition would rapidly eliminate the present fear of death. there is then the "second death" spoken of in the bible, which is in this present planetary cycle associated with the death of all astral control over the human being. in the larger sense, this second death is consummated at the fourth initiation, when even spiritual aspiration dies, being no more needed; the will of the initiate is now fixed and immovable, and astral sensitivity is no longer required. there is a curious counterpart to this exper

esting the "downward moving" tendency of desire which so greatly handicaps the incarnating soul. it can find no point of focus, because essentially fire repels the form-making aspect of desire and is a major expression of divinity with which the astral plane has no true relation, being created entirely by the human soul and not the divine soul "our god is a consuming fire" is the statement in the bible which refers to the first divine aspect, the aspect of the destroyer, releasing the life "god is love" connotes the second aspect and portrays god as incarnated existence "god is a jealous god" is an expression indicating god as form, circumscribed and limited, self-centered and not outgoing. the destroying sound; the attracting word; the individualised speech! at the time of death, speech f

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. the fundamental doctrines of the ageless wisdom, recognised all over the world and as expounded in my books, constitute the foundational teaching of the arcane school. this is so, not because they are my books but because they are part of the continuity of the ageless wisdom and constitute the latest emanation of the ageless wisdom issued by the hierarchy. they must not be permitted to become a bible of a sect, as has been the case with the secret doctrine and the theosophical society. this incidentally has been a profound disappointment to the hierarchy. a.a.b. must not be turned into an occult authority. those connected with the great white lodge favour no bibles or authorities only the freedom of the human soul. the teaching matters, not the source or the form. let me reiterate for th

ate a better and more peaceful world and to a worldwide expression of the will-to-good. as these qualities supersede the old and undesirable ones, the door where evil dwells will symbolically slowly close through the sheer weight of public opinion and through right human desire. nothing can possibly stop it. thus the original plan will be restored on earth; this is symbolically referred to in the bible as the garden of eden; the angel with the flaming sword will no longer guard the door of initiation into the kingdom of god, but will be transformed into the angel of the presence. simultaneously, the door into the world of spiritual reality will open before mankind, and the door where evil dwells will be closed. these few thoughts may serve to make this invocation live- 122- discipleship in

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

n the love force. again, that force which we regard as emanating from the strictly human centre, the third ray type of energy, is of the third or creative order; and in these three energies you have, in reality, the expression of the three major centres of the planetary logos. the first or will energy is, as you know, focussed in sanat kumara, the ancient of days (as he is called in the christian bible, the lord of shamballa, who is the embodiment of the personality of the planetary logos. the love force is focussed through the two great spiritual lords of the hierarchy, the buddha and the christ, who are both embodiments of the heart centre of the planetary logos, for the buddha represents the twelve-petalled lotus in the head, of which the christ represents the counterpart, the twelve-pe

anetary life, they brought the atlantean civilisation to an abrupt end after a long period of chaos and disaster. this took place through the medium of a culminating catastrophe which wiped hundreds of thousands of human beings off the face of the earth. this historical event has been preserved for us in the universal legend of the great flood. those who survived are symbolically spoken of in the bible as those who were saved in noah's ark, and in the ancient writings it is expressed in the following terms "like as a dragon snake uncoils slowly its body, so the sons of men, led on by the sons of wisdom, opened their folds and spreading out like a running stream of sweet waters. many of the faint- hearted among them perished on their way. but most were saved" a close study of the tale as gi

on now seems immediately possible. the first phase, let the forces of light bring illumination to mankind, definitely invokes potencies which are to be found upon monadic levels of consciousness and upon what is occultly called the second plane of divine manifestation. these forces include the lord of the world and the representatives of the seven sacred planets who are spoken of in the christian bible as the "seven spirits before the throne of god" they include also the three agents of the divine triplicity who are known, esoterically and in the east as the three kumaras, or the three buddhas of activity. what do these names and these great individualities mean to you and to average humanity? nothing at all and this is necessarily so. they remain but names and possible hypothetical expres

countries are rapidly repudiating orthodox theology, state ecclesiasticism and the control of the church. they are neither interested in man-made interpretations of truth nor in past quarrels between the major world religions. at the same time, they are profoundly interested in the spiritual values and are earnestly seeking verification of their deep-seated unvoiced recognitions. they look to no bible or system of so-called inspired spiritual knowledge and revelation, but their eyes are on the undefined larger wholes in which they seek to merge and lose themselves, such as the state, an ideology, or humanity itself. in this expression of the spirit of self-abnegation may be seen the appearance of the deepest truth of all religion and the justification of the christian message. christ, in

, and many disciples took their places in the ranks of the initiates. there was numerically a great influx of aspirants into the ranks of accepted disciples. i have considered some of these avatars in my earlier writings under different names and categories. i deal with them here simply in an effort to reach a wider public with the teaching on the doctrine of avatars or of divine appearances. the bible is full of such appearances, but little is really understood about them. the above are the more familiar groupings. in september 1940 i gave an interpretation of a new stanza of the great invocation, and in that communication i spoke of divine embodiments as the highest type of avatar for which humanity could look at this point in its evolution. i spoke of the activity of the hierarchy and o

ALICE A BAILEY24 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME V THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS

o has pledged himself to serve the world returns into that desert, bringing with him the seed and water for which the desert cries" the second demand is related to the earlier cry of the disciple, which was sounded forth "over the seas" it refers to the world of glamour in which humanity struggles, and to the emotional world in which mankind is sunk as if drowning in the ocean. we are told in the bible, and the thought is based on information to be found in the archives of the masters, that "there shall be no more sea; i told you that a time comes when the initiate knows that the astral plane no longer exists. for ever it has vanished and has gone. but when the initiate has freed himself from the realm of delusion, of fog, of mist and of glamour, and stands in the "clear cold light" of the

will reach the attentive hierarchy. the members of this group will, through the medium of the christ, pour- 61- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust light and healing energy upon the earth and peculiarly into the consciousness of men. i am not able to express the effect of the outpouring from shamballa in clearer terms. we are told in the bible that christ will come in the air, and that he will bring the "healing of the nations" in his wings. i would call your attention to this thought and to its appositeness to this day and generation. i make no prophetical predictions, i only indicate possibility. when the avatar has made his appearance, then will the "sons of men who are now the sons of god withdraw their faces from the shining

ccepted discipleship where rapid or slow in expression they are nevertheless automatic in- 65- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust action, sure and inevitable. the first sentence in this fourth rule refers to detachment the detachment of the soul from the body or the institution of those activities which bring about what is called in the bible "the second death" it is not detachment as the aspirant practices it. it is the scientific breaking of all links and the ending (through completed use) of all contacts which are now regarded as militating against liberation. it is in reality a scientific process of ending karma; it is individual and national karma which brings a man back into a physical vehicle and clothes him with the quali

the three great lords the christ, the manu and the mahachohan. through these three lords pours the energy which streams from shamballa, transmitting the purpose and motivating the plan of sanat kumara his life plan. what you call "the plan" is the response of the hierarchy to the inflaming purposeful will of the lord of the world. through sanat kumara, the ancient of days (as he is called in the bible, flows the unknown energy of which the three divine aspects are the expression. he is the custodian of the will of the great white lodge on sirius, and the burden of this "cosmic intention" is shared by the buddhas of activity and those members of the great council who are of so elevated a consciousness and vibration that only once a year (through their emissary, the buddha) is it safe for t

tutes an unparalleled condition and creates a unique concentration of the forces of good and the forces of evil upon the etheric plane. the task of all groups which are working under the masters of the wisdom is to let in the light, utilising those rents which already exist within the veils of maya. three major rents within these veils might here be noted. they are symbolically referred to in the bible, though their essential meaning has not been noted or comprehended. the first major rent was made by the establishment of the law of god, and this is portrayed for us symbolically in the old testament in the story of moses. he went up into the mount of god and there received the ten commandments. this is the expression of divine law as adapted for humanity and as needed in the projection of

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

story, brief, dramatic and encouraging. what of the sign in which it was undertaken? the sign the sign aries, which was the field of this first activity, is always spoken of as the first sign of the zodiac. at this sign the great wheel begins its cyclic turning. it is, therefore, the sign of commencement. cosmically speaking, it is the sign of creation, and this thought underlies the words in the bible "the lamb slain from the foundation of the world (rev. xiii, 8) for this sign is called the sign of the ram or of the lamb. in the life of the human being it marks the beginning of the first subjective, latent consciousness of existence, and the start of the human being upon the circle of experience. in the life of the aspirant to discipleship it connotes the period of reorientation and of a

the years; i fled him, down the labyrinthine ways of my own mind; and in the mist of tears i hid from him, and under running laughter. up vistaed hopes i sped; and shot, precipitated, adown titanic glooms of chasmed fears, from those strong feet that followed, followed after [69] in the zodiac of denderah, this star is called apes, the head. we are told (in the appendix, p. 1518, of the companion bible) that the brightest star in canis major is sirius, the prince, called in persian, the chieftain. there are three other stars in the same constellation: one is called "the announcer, another the "shining one" and the third "the glorious, all of them phrases emphasizing the magnificence of canis major and, esoterically, the wonder and the glory of the higher self. in canis minor, the "underdog

part of the body of the serpent, and both constellations claim them. it is the cup that every human being has to drink, full of that which he has distilled out of his experience in matter. it is the cup of obligation certain of the ancient masonic rituals, and symbolizes the drinking of that which we have ourselves brewed. in other words, the same truth can be expressed in the words of christian bible "as a man soweth, so shall he also reap [107] then we have, thirdly, corvus, the raven, that stands upon hydra, the serpent, and pecks at it. it has nine stars, again the number of initiation. the old testament started with a raven, the new testament starts with a dove. experience starts with the bird of matter and ends with the bird of spirit. it is interesting to note that in aquarius, the

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 of judah the root of david, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof" hercules, the aspirant, the soul, symbolized the l

nt should act [135] as a complementary influence. the libran instinctively understands this. he knows that masculine assertiveness must be modified by the subtler savor of feminine sweetness; that yielding water will outlast implacable stone and rigid steel. when the libran has assimilated the soft harmonies of venus, he begins to respond to another vibration, that of uranus. the statement in the bible which describes this impulse is expressed in the words "behold, i make all things new" the old forms are understood to be chains and shackles. they must be discarded. the broom of god must sweep away the debris of the ages in order that the high ideals of brotherhood and unity may be incorporated into the very structure of our institutions, that the lives men lead may reflect the divine imag

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

orporeal existence, are fundamental doctrines there fully illustrated; and these are the points of contact between the kabalah of the jew and the so-called esotericism of the teachings of buddha and of hinduism. it may be that the catholic church, from which the protestant church seceded, was from its origin in the possession of the hebrew rabbinic secret of the intentional exoteric nature of the bible, and of a priestly mode of understanding the esoteric kabalah, as a key to the true explanations of the jewish books, which being apparently histories are really largely allegorical. if this were granted, it would explain why the catholic church has for ages discouraged the laity from the study of the old testament books, and would lead us to think that protestantism made a mistake in combin

ility of old hebraic testament literal instructions, assertions and narratives. the old testament may indeed be, to some extent, the link which binds together thousands of christians, for jesus the christ founded his doctrine upon a jewish people, but the interminable list of christian sects of to-day have almost all taken their rise from the assertion of a right of personal interpretation of the bible, which might have remained debarred to the generality by the confession that the keys of interpretation were lost, or at least missing, and that without their assistance error of a vital character was inevitable. the vast accumulation of varying interpretations of the bible, although a folly, yet sinks into insignificance as an incident of importance, before the collateral truth that the fol

r was inevitable. the vast accumulation of varying interpretations of the bible, although a folly, yet sinks into insignificance as an incident of importance, before the collateral truth that the followers of each of the hundreds of sects have arrogated to themselves, not only the right of personal interpretation, but the duty of condemning all others--as if the infallibility they claimed for the bible could not fail to be reflected upon their personal propaganda, or the specialities of a chapel service. religious intolerance has cursed every village of the land, and hardly a single sect has originated which has not only claimed the right to differ from others, and to criticise, but also to persecute and assign to perdition all beyond its own narrow circle. the mystic, the occultist and th

ANTINOMIANISM

t which have been integrated into other lines of philosophical thought. as previously stated, the differentiation between the lhp and the rhp is one of intent. for instance, in the church of rome (catholic) ritual is utilized. all the elements- altar, bell, candles, incense etc, form the components of ritual. however, if you were to read howard stanton levee's (a.k.a. anton szandor lavey "satanic bible" ritual is also utilized using those same elements. the difference lies within the intention of the participants. therefore, the technology itself does not distinguish one methodology from the other, rather the perceptions and cognitive structures of how these technologies may be utilized are the essential determinants. whether a candle is white or black doesn't mean squat in and of itself

BELL CHRISTOPHER PAUL TSIU MARPO THE CAREER OF A TIBETAN PROTECTOR DEITY

nity. he states that violence is unavoidable but controllable; therefore, communities develop systems of sacrifice in which violence can be directed.101 in tibetan buddhism, violence is directed against human and supernatural enemies through ritual means in order to defend buddhism and its practitioners. though girard primarily focuses on texts within the western religious traditions, such as the bible and the greek story of oedipus, his arguments can be applied to asian contexts. this notion of redirecting violence can be observed in a number of tibetan rituals, including the texts to be discussed next chapter. for instance, the l (glud) ritual binds a demon within an object that is then removed from the site that the demon plagued and taken far away to be destroyed.102 in ritual dances(

BLACK SERPENT1

sed to the folks who run away screaming. but i have also made acquaintances in fundamentalist christian sects. this has been a bit harder, but some of my efforts have proven fruitful. in my conversations with these people, i spent a lot of time and energy explaining the various ins and outs of the contemporary satanic/demonic subculture to them, while citing various sources (e.g, lavey's _satanic bible, james lewis _satanism today, and gavin baddeley's _lucifer rising: sin, devil worship, and rock 'n roll. at all times i made sure to speak in a civil tone with them. even when some of them began to feel threatened by me and start saying all sorts of offensive things to me, i patiently refuted the various claims against devil worship they made, and i told them what devil worshipers like myse

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

is from liber hvhi, a ritual work which defines the deeper and darker practice of the left hand path in terms of witchcraft. 5 for the devil is called diabolus, that is, flowing downwards: that he which swelled with pride, determined to reign in high places, fell flowing downwards to the lowest parts, like the torrent of a violent stream. the fourth book of occult philosophy it is written in the bible that samael/satan fell from heaven as lightening, being a flash downwards, who before the fall, was a guarding seraph around the throne of god. after his fall he was a master of death, the very poison of god yet he was also a giver of life, being the father between fallen angel and woman. in later jewish writings, samael is associated with the name malkira, which morris jastrow jr. associate

being hell's dark mistress, heaven's queen. this is the dual nature of the devil and his bride, the adversary. that by both sabbat rites does the cup of heaven (aethyr, luciferian sabbat) and hell (infernal, chthonic sabbat) are filled. cain was the son born of by some accounts samael (the devil) and lilith (through eve, the first satanist and witch. it is said within the dark traditions that the bible is mistaken with regards to cain s true parentage. cain was in fact a half human, half demon bastard child of adam and lilith. it was for this reason that the lord would not accept his offerings and prayers, rather than any specific demands of animal sacrifice. the tale continues with cain being cursed to wander the earth as a vagabond, with the ground he tills never giving bounty. nathaniel

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

hael w. ford s grimoires may be found here: http//algol.chaosmagic.im[[vol. 2, page xv[[eh eme didache ouk estin eme, alla tou pemphantos me "my doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me- john vii. 16[[vol. 2, page xvi] modern science insists upon the doctrine of evolution; so do human reason and the "secret doctrine" and the idea is corroborated by the ancient legends and myths, and even by the bible itself when it is read between the lines. we see a flower slowly developing from a bud, and the bud from its seed. but whence the latter, with all its predetermined programme of physical transformation, and its invisible, therefore spiritual forces which gradually develop its form, colour, and odour? the word evolution speaks for itself. the germ of the present human race must have preexiste

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 likeness, nor is it so asserted in the bible. moreover, the second adam[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 2 the secret doctrine. the secret doctrine is not alone in speaking of primeval men born simultaneously on the seven divisions of our globe. in the divine "pymander" of hermes we find the same seven primeval men* evolving from nature and "heavenly man" in the collective sense of the word, namely, from the creative spi

y would be found to contain word for word the same account as given in the archaic records and in hermes, at least as regards the fundamental facts, if not as regards minute details; for hermes is a good deal disfigured by mistranslations. it is quite certain that the seeming supernaturalism of these teachings, although allegorical, is so diametrically opposed to the dead-letter statements of the bible* as well as to the latest hypotheses of science, that it will evoke passionate denial. the occultists, however, know that the traditions of esoteric philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty. besides, we have the egyptian "books of thoth" and "book of the dead" and the hindu puranas with the seven manus, as well as the chaldeo

lso the creation of seven adams or roots of men, born of mother earth, physically, and of the divine fire of the progenitors, spiritually or astrally. the assyriologists, ignorant of the esoteric teachings, could hardly be expected to pay any greater attention to the mysterious and ever-recurring number seven on the babylonian cylinders, than they paid to it on finding the same in genesis and the bible. yet the number of the ancestral spirits and their seven groups of human progeny are there, notwithstanding the dilapidated condition of the fragments, as plainly as they are to be found in "pymander" and in the "book of the concealed mystery" of the kabala. in the latter adam kadmon is the sephirothal tree, as also the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" and that "tree" says verse 32 "

spectively to the formation of the primordial seven men by the progenitors (the pitris, or elohim: and to that of the human groups after the fall[[footnote(s* see pliny, 4, c. 12; strabo, 10; herodotus, 7, c. 108; pausanias, 7, c. 4, etc[[vol. 2, page] 6 the secret doctrine. all this will be examined in the light of science and comparisons drawn from the scriptures of all the ancient nations, the bible included, as we proceed. meanwhile, before we turn to the anthropogenesis of the prehistoric races, it may be useful to agree upon the names to be given to the continents on which the four great races, which preceded our adamic race, were born, lived, and died. their archaic and esoteric names were many, and varied with the language of the nationality which mentioned them in its annals and s

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

es on the "science of religion" p. 185. max muller) but they have not fathomed it- and this is the complaint of the confucianists, as a very learned member of that body, in paris, complained in 1881[[vol. 1, page] xxvi introductory. if one turns to the ancient literature of the semitic religions, to the chaldean scriptures, the elder sister and instructress, if not the fountain-head of the mosaic bible, the basis and starting-point of christianity, what do the scholars find? to perpetuate the memory of the ancient religions of babylon; to record the vast cycle of astronomical observations of the chaldean magi; to justify the tradition of their splendid and eminently occult literature, what now remains- only a few fragments, said to be by berosus. these, however, are almost valueless, even

withstanding the 325 volumes of the kanjur and the tanjur of the northern buddhists, each volume we are told "weighing from four to five pounds" nothing, in truth, is known of lamaism. yet, the sacred canon of the southern church is said to contain 29,368,000 letters in the saddharma alankara* or, exclusive of treatises and commentaries "five or six times the amount of the matter contained in the bible" the latter, in the words of professor max muller, rejoicing only in 3,567,180 letters. notwithstanding, then, these "325 volumes (in reality there are 333, kanjur comprising 108, and tanjur 225 volumes "the translators, instead of supplying us with correct versions, have interwoven them with their own commentaries, for the purpose of justifying the dogmas of their several schools* moreover

ident necessity and desire in the orientalists to declare nearly every archaic sanskrit manuscript so modern as to give to the missionaries full justification for availing themselves of the opportunity. that they do so and to the full extent of their mental powers, is shown by the absurd attempts of late to prove that the whole puranic story about chrishna was plagiarized by the brahmins from the bible! but the facts cited by the oxford professor in his lectures on the "science of religion" concerning the now famous interpolations, for the benefit, and later on to the sorrow, of col. wilford, do not at all interfere with the conclusions to which one who studies the secret doctrine must unavoidably come. for, if the results show that neither the new nor even the old testament borrowed anyth

ck as night[[footnote(s* the name is used in the sense of the greek word[[anthropos[[vol. 1, page] xliii introductory. the "very old book" is the original work from which the many volumes of kiu-ti were compiled. not only this latter and the siphrah dzeniouta but even the sepher jezirah* the work attributed by the hebrew kabalists to their patriarch abraham, the book of shuking, china's primitive bible, the sacred volumes of the egyptian thoth-hermes, the puranas in india, and the chaldean book of numbers and the pentateuch itself, are all derived from that one small parent volume. tradition says, that it was taken down in senzar, the secret sacerdotal tongue, from the words of the divine beings, who dictated it to the sons of light, in central asia, at the very beginning of the 5th (our)

hat earth forms one, to the solar universe to which that chain belongs, and so on, in an ascending scale, till the mind reels and is exhausted in the effort. the seven stanzas given in this volume represent the seven terms of this abstract formula. they refer to, and describe the seven great stages of the evolutionary process, which are spoken of in the puranas as the "seven creations" and in the bible as the "days" of creation- the first stanza describes the state of the one all during pralaya, before the first flutter of re-awakening manifestation. a moment's thought shows that such a state can only be symbolised; to describe it is impossible. nor can it be symbolised except in negatives; for, since it is the state of absoluteness per se, it can possess none of those specific attributes

BLUE EQUINOX

these two tales are highly informative. macbeth; midsummer night.s dream; the tempest, by w. shakespeare. interesting for traditions treated. redgauntlet, by sir walter scott. also one or two other novels. interesting for traditions treated. rob roy, by james grant. interesting for traditions treated. the magician, by w. somerset maugham. an amusing hotch-potch of stolen goods. the equinox 26 the bible, by various authors unknown. the hebrew and greek originals are of qabalistic value. it contains also many magical apologues, and recounts many tales of folk-lore and magical rites. kim, by rudyard kipling. an admirable study of eastern thought and life. many other stories by this writer are highly suggestive and informative. for mythology, as teaching correspondences: books of fairy tales g

are a little crude, like his ideas of writing a book. this is not really a book at all. it.s mere scissors and paste. its main argument is that as two men of science have differed on some minute detail of theory, there is no value in science. he does not in the least understand the subject on which he is writing. he does not understand the canon of reason. he has only one idea, which is, that the bible (authorized translation) is literally true in every detail. his great explanation of everything that seems a little peculiar is that it is the result of sin. he claims, however, that sin was caused by the devil, who was created by god, and that god foreknew and permitted all this, in order to inflict torture upon nearly everybody except mr. bishop. he would however deny furiously that the go

BOOK OF ENOCH

wrote (see section 10 at 107.3, and of course in his own section (section 11, the book of noah. so, there may still have been 40- 80 years left before the flood, at the time when enoch wrote his book. there is a long gap between the time of the flood and the time when moses gave praise to enoch in genesis. genesis dates from around 1400 bc, and forms part of the torah (the first five books of the bible. in genesis, there is enoch's family; as named by him in this book, and a quick recap of some of enoch's story. it seems likely therefore, that copies of the book of enoch survived into egyptian times, 3500 bc, and was known to moses around 2,000 years later. moses presumably took a copy of the book with him when they all left egypt, and he was no doubt pleased to see enoch's prophecy fulfil

probably existed mainly in hebrew during the thousand years after the exodus. no hebrew copies exist today, however, although there are some hebrew passages quoted in some of the aramaic fragments that survive from a few centuries bc. the appearance of the book in ethiopia, is probably due to events in jerusalem during the reign of king manasseh of judah (695- 642 bc, which are documented in the bible (2chronicles 33:1- 20, and at 2kings 21:1- 18. king manasseh was not of the jewish faith, he erected alters to baal and asherah in solomon's temple. in kings at 21:16, it says that so much innocent blood was shed that it filled jerusalem from end to end. at this time, the religious establishment left the country, taking the ark of the covenant and all the important religious texts with them

ness (47.4, that is reached, may refer to the twelve times twelve thousand predicted to survive in the biblical book of revelations. sheol is mentioned at 51.1, it is the name for hell used in early times and it is also mentioned in the book of genesis and book of job, it means the grave- but more than just a hole in the ground. the mountains leap like rams at 51.4, this phrase also occurs in the bible (psalms 114.4& 6. there is a rare mentioning of place names at 56.5- parthia and medes- these were ancient kingdoms in the iran\iraq area. this is the area where enoch probably lived but it is difficult to know whether he originally used these names in his book, or whether later translators substituted in their own names for the areas that they thought were being referred to. the second para

BOOK OF JASHAR

n the day of trouble, calamity will be heaped up over the sinners, but the righteous will conquer in the name of the lord of spirits and he will show this to others so that they might repent and abandon the works of their hanbewelcome to the first* web site that offers a full english version of the jashar apocryphon. from the ancient tradition of retelling the creation stories which appear in the bible, this short idiosyncratic document may still be worthy of some interest today. a longer commentary and a shorter apology are also included here *the internet now includes other sites on this rich literary tradition [1 [2, and readers who seek the best current scholarship are urged to consult them (the version here is based on early texts found on 5.25" floppy disks, written in wordperfect 4

o this day he has been called ibrahim, the father of many nations. commentary on the jashar apocryphon at the dedication of the first temple, a supreme watershed moment in the history of the jewish religion, king solomon is said to have justified the proceedings by a scriptural quote from the "book of jashar (1 kings 8.13, from the greek septuagint sources. other citations of jashar in the hebrew bible include joshua 10.13, where joshua stops the moon and the sun, and 2 samuel 1.18, where david mourns jonathan and saul. we cannot help wondering what could have been in this "straight book (in hebrew, jashar means straight) which the bible itself cites for authority. the jashar apocryphon is obviously a pseudepigraphic forgery of a much later date. the cultural roots of the text are eclectic

are obvious islamic influences (jinn, ibrahim, but the sexual imagery used to describe human (adam) and eve echoes the battle cry of the english peasant's rebellion of 1381("when adam delved and eve span, where then was the gentleman) with this quotation, if the document can be attributed to a jew of spain, then it could have been written any time between 1381 and 1492. the passages cited by the bible appear only muted and transformed in this text. one might try to interpret solomon's speech as a reference to nimrod's justification for his tower. only a few elements of david's lamentation appear in nimrod's epitaph. it is hard to fit joshua's quote with this text, except as a hyperbole derived from the story of sarah stopping the sacrifice at the new moon. the best that can be said for a

ssential. and yet noah's gender tends to capture readers' attention more than any other aspect of the story (indeed, we could readily imagine that a reader might more easily accept goliath being transformed into a short philistine general, assassinated by david) thus, our reaction to noah's womanhood in this story may show something fundamental about our own attitudes towards sexual identity. the bible tells us that noah was the first farmer to plant a vineyard. in the jashar version, this development-of-agriculture theme becomes the central focus of the story. the story of noah becomes a myth about the beginnings of the agricultural revolution in the anatolian highlands, and about the origins of the three great linguistic groups (semitic, indo-european, and dravidian) that came out of thi

to plant a vineyard. in the jashar version, this development-of-agriculture theme becomes the central focus of the story. the story of noah becomes a myth about the beginnings of the agricultural revolution in the anatolian highlands, and about the origins of the three great linguistic groups (semitic, indo-european, and dravidian) that came out of this period. the hamites (whose identity in the bible seems somewhat ill-defined) are here clearly identified with the dravidians, by the name of ham's wife. similarly, juropa's name clearly links the jafetites with the indo-europeans (the manuscript apparently uses the letter j in names to denote the hebrew letter yod, so "juropa" could be "yuropa" or "europa) the ecological significance of the agricultural revolution has been described alread

BOOK OF DOOM

alismans. it is necessary to construct talismans for the object of each of your experiments, one for each of the purposes. the nature of the talismans and their manner of consecration will be given to you by god's angels at the altar in temple. these talismans cannot become useful until they have become consecrated and dedicated to their purpose, as it is said. finh the book of doom or the unholy bible of doom which is the nastiest grimoire the world has ever seen book i the first book of lucifer translated by: frater algolis, o.a.i. published by: ordo algolis interstellaris copyright by frater algolis, pontifex maximus ordinis caputis medusae. all rights reserved. no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without prior permission in writing by the author or publisher. published b

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

odic force. in christian art, from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, it was often depicted around the heads of people believed to possess great spiritual power. there it was referred to as a halo or gloria. it also appeared as a ring of flames around the heads of moslem prophets. the headdresses of priests, kings and queens symbolize the aura. there are references to the aura in the christian bible. in sculpture, there is an excellent example in that of michaelangelo's figure of moses, which shows him with horns. this has mystified many. the reason for the horns is that in translation the word for "horns" was confused with the very similar word for "rays, so in fact moses was thought of as "having rays coming from his head. the aura. auric healing in auric healing, you set out to chang

tion may be obtained from goddess rising, 2441 cordova street, oakland, ca 94602 frosts'wicca this is one of the many welsh-based traditions. it was originally founded by gavin and yvonne frost in the early 1970s. as "the church and school of wicca" the material is presented to students by correspondence, though the course is virtually the same as the material presented in their book the witches' bible. originally (in the book) there was no mention of the goddess at all and there were various sexual aspects which dismayed many who were otherwise drawn to the tradition. the latter situation has recently been modified and there is now mention of the goddess. it is a widely spread tradition, found throughout this country and abroad. for further information contact the school of wicca, p.o. bo

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th my word, and ruleth as lord in the sign of the twins [78] comment on zain* y z a i n, pronounced zahyin. transcribed as" z. the number 7. meaning: sword. the disposing intelligence. 1 "the sword which is understanding. the letter-name, zain, means "sword. the numeral value of z i n is 67, the same as that of b i n h, binah, understanding. 2 "the beginning of all things is division. the english bible says" in the beginning god created, but a literal rendering of the verb baraw, b r a, is "to cut out, to separate, to select. 3 the mother is aima or binah. to this sephirah the qabalah assigns the divine name elohim, a l h i m, and it is said also to be the seat of those cosmic powers named aralim, a r a l i m "thrones. qabalistically, the thrones are twelve because a r a l i m adds up to 2

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entire nervous system and so can be used to treat coughs, bladder and liver problems aggravated by stress, bowel disorders with an anxiety component, for example irritable bowel syndrome, and skin problems with an emotional cause. as a protective herb, hops will drive away dark thoughts, doubts and fears. ruled by the sun. hyssop derived from the hebrew esob, hyssop is mentioned many times in the bible for its ability to cleanse the body of illness. it relieves coughs, bronchitis, painful throats and viruses, tension and stress-related conditions, burns, and ear pains and problems, especially in children. it is primarily a herb of purification and will help to banish sad thoughts, despair and doubts, and leave a positive approach. hyssop removes negativity from the home and from objects th

a scale for weighing the souls of the dead. according to the koran, the cherubim were created from michael's tears. he offers power to overcome any obstacles and challenges, and brings wisdom and illumination as to the right path. michael stands in the south and his colour is gold. gabriel archangel of the moon, the messenger archangel and the heavenly awakener, gabriel appears many times in the bible. he visited the virgin mary and her cousin elizabeth, mother of john the baptist, to tell them that they were to bear sons who would lead mankind to salvation. it was gabriel who parted the waters of the red sea so that the hebrews could escape from the pharaoh's soldiers. gabriel is usually pictured holding a sceptre or lily. to the followers of islam, gabriel is the spirit of truth who dic

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eysgreater opportunities. those who depart will leave behind a community they have been a part of for generations. they will also leave behind the elderly matriarch of their clan, nana peazant. nana beckons her children to join in a communion ceremony, for she wants to give them "a part of herself" to take with them. she clutches a leather pouch that is tightly wound with string and attached to a bible. it contains personal keepsakes, such as a twist of her mother's hair and her own, some dried flowers, and various roots and herbs. nana calls it a hand. like herself, it embodies the spirits of the "old souls" those enslaved africans who touched down more than a century earlier on the backwater jetty known as ibo landing. offering the hand to her kin, nana calls them to pay homage before em

g of religion and magic in one powerful object. as an enduring reminder of the world to which she and her people belong, nana peazant has created this charm for her family's protection, even as some of the most destructive forces that they face have emerged from their own conflicts. in its composition, the charm consolidates some of the most significant icons of african american spirituality: the bible, a token of christian redemption; a root, a supernatural emblem and touchstone to an ancient heritage; and the most precious relic that nana owns, the bequest of a slave parent to a child.a twisted cord of her own mother's hair. bound together and made inseparable with twine, each element of the hand illustrates the charm's singularity of spirit. although the scene occurs in a motion picture

slave, self-proclaimed preacher, and healer in a 1930s texas community by the name of william adams. adams, as did others in his day, found in the christian scriptures a timeless collection of potent spells, charms, curses, and esoteric lore "there am lots of folks, and educated ones too, that says we-uns don't understand" he claimed" emember the lord, in some of his ways, can be mysterious. the bible says so" spiritual powers and supernatural abilities, he argued, were available to those who were divinely gifted or specially inspired by god.[8] this book considers other cases as well, such as that of bishop charles harrison mason, the founder of what would become the largest african american pentecostal denomination, the church of god in christ. mason possessed an uncommon fascination wi

ally for them, that those possessing it and exhibiting it in their dwellings will enjoy certain great protection and blessings enumerated in the letter" the letter, which guaranteed protection of its owners from natural disasters and theft and ensured safe childbirth deliveries for women, was apparently derived from the stock of roman catholic merchandisers.[27] lore and images from the christian bible also provided fertile territory from which african american specialists could acquire conjuring materials. charms containing inscriptions of the black magic page 18 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 psalms provided wearers with luck and prosperity. according to hurston, the bible, with its miraculous formulae and magical legends, was

rker, was "honored as the greatest conjurer" other literaryminded conjure practitioners swore by the knowledge they attained from popular euro-american nineteenth-century magical manuals such as the albertus magnus, john hohman's "pow-wows" or the sixth and seventh\ 26\ books of moses, the last one an esoteric treatise of occult science and philosophy that was considered by some to be the "hoodoo bible"[28] the medicinal items that african american supernatural practitioners employed for treating their patients were often given religious names and identifications. herbs identified as angel's root, devil's shoestring, bowels-of-christ, and blood-of-jesus leaves were utilized to heal and give the carrier control and protection "jew david" was a plant that was especially prized among slaves f

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shed the kingdom of mitanni on the nw frontier of the kassite kingdom (james:1963..aryan migration into anatolia around 2000 bc.(lincoln: 1981..pg 181) harran founded as a merchant outpost of ur, situated on the major trade route across northern mesopotamia. the name comes from the sumerian and akkadian "harran-u, meaning "journey "caravan, or "crossroad. 2000-1900 abraham, b. in ur, according to bible lived to age of 175. 1857 bc birth of shenrab in the 1st wood male mouse year, the son of king gyal tokar and queen zanga ringum (wangyal: 1993..pg 30) 1800 enuma elish, bablyonian creation myth. 1700 bc 17th and 15th centuries bc..asherah was their mother goddess. the consort of jehovah 'she who treads on the sea-(petty: 1990) 1760 gilgamesh epic. 1600 orig. egyptian book of the dead (book

of milan makes christianity a legal religion throughout the empire. a few years later, constantine begins building a new imperial capital on the bosphorus, which he modestly names constantinople. c.318 pachomius left his hermitage at an old serapis temple and founded the first known cenobitical or "communal type" monastery at tabennis near denderah, egypt. 325 council of nicea, can. of christian bible (to 13th cent) puranas. iamblichus: on nicomachus's introduction to arithmetic- first mention of casting out nines. ca.340-420 jerome studied hebrew with jewish instructors in bethlehem. 346 st. pachomius dies. 350-407 john chrysostom 350? abbaye jewish babylonian teacher expounds on the decans. 363 last pagan emperor julian stopped at harran at the beginning of his persian campaign. he cons

a jewish mystical and magical grimoire from egypt. related to the sepher raziel. 385 d. st. gregory of nyssa 386: augustine (354-430, a rhetorician of north african descent currently working in milan, accepts baptism into catholic christianity from bishop ambrose of milan. 391 second burning of library at alexandria (by christians. 401 confessions of st. augustine. 404 cod. of the vulgate (latin bible. jerome (345-420) produces a new translation (from both greek and hebrew) of most of the christian scriptures into latin. 410-485 proclus: epistles on alchemy. commentary on euclid's elements. 411: rome is sacked by alaric the the visigoth. 5th century latin text, liber hermetis, translated from the greek, gives special attention to the decans "man is called by the informed, a world, since h

at vezelay the 1st house of his order. 1217 1270 abd al-haqq ibn sab'in influential sufi in the hermetic tradition. 1219-1295 roger bacon. thought to have composed a basic hebrew grammar. among bacon's disciples, the franciscans william de la mara, gerard of huy, and henry of cossey also demonstrated a good command of the hebrew language and a familiarity with various rabbinic commentaries on the bible -jeremy cohen "the friars and the jews",1982. 1220 prose edda. 1221 d. najm ad-din al-kubra. sufi who formalized initiatory stages in the world of imaginal('alam al-mithal. 1221-74 bonaventure mininster general of the franciscan order from 1257 "salvation only comes through wisdom "the soul has to be reordered according to a process of hierarchization that restructures the soul according to

w it, and within itself""just as human nature is not responsible for its own creation, once fallen it cannot repair the damage incurred by its own fault without going through a veritale 're-creation' which is properly the work of infused grace" 1222-1290 salimbene de adam. franciscan joachite 1223-1273 thomas aquinas dominican turned to maimonides for novel approaches to the interpretation of the bible. 1225-1295 shem tob ben yosef falaquerra of tudela sefer ha-mebaqqesh( the book of the seeker) expositions taken from the arab encyclopaedia of the brethren of purity. 1225 michael scot liber introductorius, liber particularis 1225-1295 shem tob ben yosef falaquerra. sefer ha-mebaqqesh( the book of the seeker )borrows extensively from the encyclopaedia of the brotherhood of purity. 1228 guil

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s, with the introduction of buddhist and taoist pantheons that most primary gods and goddesses are totally human in appearance.3 professor anne birrell of the university of cambridge finds similarities in the creation of people in other cultures: most etiological [origin] myths of the creation of humankind narrate that the substance from which humans were made was dust, as in genesis [part of the bible, or else earth, or dirt or clay. in this myth of n kua [nuwa, humans are made from the materials of yellow earth and mud.4 professor birrell adds: a second worldwide motif is that of social stratification. in the n kua [nuwa] myth humans are polarized into rich aristocrats made from yellow earth and poor commoners made from mud.5 30 3 fushi teaches the people introduction the earliest myths

ssell kirkland, associate professor at the university of georgia, writes: it [the tao te ching] is known throughout the world, for it has been translated into every major language on earth, and into many minor ones. there are over a hundred versions in english alone. in fact, the daode jing [tao te ching] has been translated more often into more languages than any other work in history except the bible.3 little is known about lao-tzu except that he is credited with the authorship of the tao te ching. in contrast, laotzu s mythological beginnings are widely celebrated. poet and translator witter bynner describes lao-tzu: immaculately conceived to a shooting-star, carried in his mother s womb for sixty-two years and born, it is said, white-haired, in 604 b.c, he became in due time keeper of

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ying in my backyard with the kids on the block and tying up the babysitter. i got into psychic stuff sort of by accident. i was raised by good, materialist parents who had little use for anything they could not party with. they really enjoyed life and when i was in college i would come home from a date at three in the morning and they would not get back until two hours later. and, in spite of the bible boom of the 1950's, they did not take religion very seriously. we were united church of christ, with a short interlude among the liberal methodists and when a local television station decided to run the classic flash gordon serials on sunday mornings, dad was all to happy to give up church-going so i could watch my favorite show and he could get some sleep. there were no opportunities to see

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stone gods- originated: negative extraterrestrials. the 'fear of god' was born, and this fear and resistance to change (disobeying the gods) is still in the collective psyche. over time, as described at length in the robots' rebellion, these various god myths became fused together to form 'composite gods, based on themes from many of the earlier civilisations. so it is with judaism, the christian bible, islam, and most of the others. their version of; god relates to the type of extraterrestrials from which their religion originated or the way many different extraterrestrial stories have become fused into a composite god over the centuries. dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to worship a composite god made up of extraterrestrials. amen. if you look at the origins of the major religi

ll then be able to know, remember, and do, will beggar belief from today's perspective. it is possible that these genetic events are described symbolically in the tale of adam and eve and the term 'the fall of man. you can also find many references in the ancient texts and legends to 'gods' coming from the skies to control humanity 12..and the truth shall set you free and impregnate women. in the bible, genesis 6:4 says that "the sons of god came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. the term 'sons of god (which is common to almost all ancient religions) referred, i am sure, to the extraterrestrials. we hear of how god or the gods created humanity 'in their own image. i outline a number of these ancient themes in the robots' rebellion. the offspring of these extraterr

term 'sons of god (which is common to almost all ancient religions) referred, i am sure, to the extraterrestrials. we hear of how god or the gods created humanity 'in their own image. i outline a number of these ancient themes in the robots' rebellion. the offspring of these extraterrestrial/human liaisons looked very different from the rest of the people. as genesis 6:4 puts it in the good news bible "in those days, and even later, there were giants on the earth who were descendants of human women and the heavenly beings. they were the great heroes and famous men of long ago. the reason this-world-is-all-there-is science has been unable to find the missing links in human genetic evolution is because there aren't any. the sudden changes in the human form were due to extraterrestrial inter

of the people involved. while i was writing this book, i saw a picture in a newspaper of an orthodox jew today, still waving a chicken around the head of a young girl, in the belief that the chicken would absorb her 'sins. virgin mothers of 'saviour' figures abound throughout the ancient world and, indeed, can be found in the beliefs of the native peoples of north, south, and central america. the bible story of the garden of eden is mirrored in the much earlier sumerian story of the garden of edinnu, and even the idea of the sabbath can be found in the sumerian day of rest, the sabattu. the jewish peoples were held in captivity in babylon and, when they were freed by the persians, they took many of the babylonian stories and beliefs back to palestine. these found their way into the old tes

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

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raised to a great height. according to ancient accounts, supported by much other evidence, when the earth had settled down after the cataclysm, or cataclysms, the survivors began to return from the high mountains north of sumer in turkey and iran into the plains of mesopotamia. it was in the turkish mountains, on mount ararat, that the symbolic noah's ark came to rest when the waters receded, the bible claims.62 the sumerian tablets also relate how the anunnaki "gods" returned to rebuild and restore their devastated heartlands, and the civilisation that emerged from this is known to history as sumer. i think, however, that many parts of the sumerian tablets are actually referring to events on lemuria and atlantis. some researchers suggest that remains of the anunnaki's preflood cities can

on the peloponnese in greece and settled in arcadia, according to ancient greek records. arcadia has always been a sacred place to the illuminati bloodlines and was apparently a name for atlantis. the danaans left atlantis to settle in asia minor (now turkey, greece, and the islands of the aegean. they are claimed by some authors to descend from the old testament tribe of dan, but so much in the bible is symbolic rather than literal or downright untrue. the name danaans derived from their serpent moon goddess, dana or diana. the danaans made the headquarters of their serpent-worshipping culture on the island of rhodes, a name that originates from a syrian word for serpent.51 rhodes was the home of the danaan brotherhood of initiates and magicians known as the telchines.52 the greek histor

ish the official version of events, once again the same old story goes on being told to children and students by official academia. you do not have to delve into the translations for long to see that much of the biblical old testament is simply an edited rewrite of these sumerian stories. the tablets talk of how king sargon was floated on a river in a basket of rushes, as i mentioned earlier. the bible tells this same story of "moses. the tablets describe a place called e.din("the abode of the righteous ones. the bible speaks of eden the garden of "god. the story of genesis is a summary of the same basic story that is told in the sumerian tablets in far more detail. interestingly, many of the terms translated into the english version of the old testament as "god" come from words that actua

ent to the daughters of men and had children by them. they were the heroes of old, the men of renown."4 the term nefilim can be translated as "those who descended" or "those who fell from the heavens. the american researcher, david sielaff, emphasises that the nefilim or nephilim are not the sons of the gods (beni ha-elohim, but the offspring of the interbreeding between the extraterrestrials the bible calls the elohim and the daughters of men. the llluminati bloodlines that rule the world today, therefore, are the nefilim, the extraterrestrial-human hybrids. they were also known in ancient times as the rephaim, emim, zazummim, and anakim, all very tall or "giant" people in those days.5 the biblical goliath was a rephaim, and giant in hebrew is repha.6 this theme of giants is a constant on

lu.lu("one who has been mixed- which appears to be the biblical "adam. this was the splicing together of the dna of the reptilian anunnaki with that of the human form known as homo erectus. also there was the interbreeding with the nordics to create the aryan reptilian-nordic "master race, which was designed to rule as the "middle men" or "demi-gods" between the anunnaki and the people. what the bible calls "adam, the "first man, is likely to be symbolic of "the adam, a genetic stream not an individual. the biblical "eve" was supposed to have been created from a rib of adam, according to genesis, but the word from which "rib" derived was the sumerian, ti, which means both rib and life.2" to be created from the "life" or life essence of the adamic race makes rather more sense than a rib. i

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air! the knowledgewhich allowed wonders like nazca, baalbek, the great pyramid at giza and otheramazing creations to be built with such precision and scale, came from an advancedrace who, in ancient times, lived among a far more primitive general population. thisrace is described as the gods in the old testament texts and other works and in oraltraditions of antiquity. i can hear followers of the bible denying that their book speaksof the gods. but it does. when the word god is used in the old testament it is oftentranslated from a word that means gods, plural- elohim and adonai are two examples.you can easily understand that a race performing technological feats of such magnitudeshould be seen as gods by a people unable to comprehend such abilities. in the 1930s,american and australian se

lying craft more advanced than anything flown (atleast officially) by todays military. an influx of knowledge from outside this planet oranother source would explain so many of the mysteries that official history greets with4a deafening silence. the incredible feats of building also become explainable and sodoes the mystery of why early civilisations like egypt and sumer (the land of shinar inthe bible) began at the peak of their development and then fell into decay, when thenormal course of evolution is to start at a lower level and slowly advance throughlearning and experience. there was clearly an infusion of highly advanced knowledgethat was later lost to most people. in every culture throughout the world are ancientstories and texts which describe the gods who brought this advanced kn

create a slave, a human worker bee, some200,000-300,000 years ago. a female version was also created. the sumerian name forhuman was lu, the root meaning of which is worker or servant, and it was also used toimply domesticated animals. this is what the human race has been ever since. theanunnaki have been overtly and now covertly ruling the planet for thousands of years.the mistranslation of the bible and symbolic language taken literally has devastated theoriginal meaning and given us a fantasy story. genesis and exodus were written by thehebrew priestly class, the levites, after they were taken to babylon from around 586bc. babylon was in the former lands of sumer and so the babylonians, and thereforethe levites, knew the sumerian stories and accounts. it was from these recordsoverwhelm

ki and enlil, the half-brothers who became fierce rivals, andtheir sons played out that battle in a high-tech conflict, the tablets say. one battle theyappeared to have been involved in was the biblical destruction of sodom andgomorrah. these cities were probably located at the southern end of the dead seawhere, today, radiation readings are much higher than normal. this was when,according to the bible, lots wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt. afterreferring to the original sumerian, zecharia sitchin says that the true translation of thatpassage should read that lots wife was turned into a pillar of vapour which, onbalance, is rather more likely!all over the world in every native culture you will find stories of a great flood and thesumerian tablets are no different. sit

have beennearest to the magnetic poles because they would have had the most powerfulattraction. again, that is the case. the ice mass in the polar regions is greater at thepoles than at the periphery and yet there is less snow and rain at the poles to create sucha build up.21 the venus scenario explains this. in the book of job, which is believed tobe an arab work much older than the rest of the bible, the question is asked: whencecometh the ice? i would say we could have the answer. this further explains how theancients could have had maps of what the north and south poles looked like before theice was there. the poles were ice-free until about 7,000 years ago. there was no ice ageas officially suggested. its another illusion. when you look at the evidence thatofficial science presents t

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dogma, p. 393] now, you know why you see so many obelisks atop the graves of freemasons, for it is "an emblem of the resurrection of buried deity; the invisible mason believes he is becoming a god throughout his life, so the obelisk at his grave is simply the visible manifestation of that belief. the obelisk was originally created by the egyptian mysteries of the pharaohs, and is spoken of in the bible. listen" king jehu said to the guards and to the officers 'go in and slay them; let none escape. and they smote them with the sword; and the guards before the king threw their bodies out, and went into the inner dwelling of the house of baal. they brought out the obelisks of the house of baal and burned them [2 kings 10:26, amplified bible] god almighty ordered the satanic obelisks burned, b

tist, because it is an obelisk set inside a circle. what, you are probably saying, is an obelisk? an obelisk is a tall, four-sided stone pillar tapering toward a pyramidal top. the obelisk is critically important to the occultist because they believe that the spirit of the ancient egyptian sun god, ra, resided in the obelisk. thus, the obelisk represents the very presence of the sun god, whom the bible calls satan! there are only three major obelisks in the world today, and two of them are in the united states. according to epperson in his book "the new world order, the first major obelisk was constructed in st. peter's square in rome, and is so placed that every pope who addresses any crowd in the square, must face the obelisk. a new age author, peter tomkins, reports the same facts in hi

onic/satanic symbols on this web site, all of which originate from this secret society called "the brotherhood of the serpent/snake" many call it "big brother" without even realizing its extraterrestrial origins. it was also known in ancient egypt as "the mystery schools" freemasonry is the secret organization famous for its use of christianity as a tool for control. the king james version of the bible, edited by sir francis bacon (a 33rd degree freemason, is used to create order in society through the implementation of a belief system geared towards their fascist ideologies. the chaos is carefully orchestrated to insure the passing of more and more laws that will (eventually) completely destroy freedom. this is why there is more and more morality being preached by the politicians. this (a

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however, it is quite acceptable to be a blessing to the location, unobserved, wherever we aththelema, xeper, deitus by magus tsirk susej the purpose of this thesis is to elucidate upon the meaning and significance of the word of the aeon of lucifer, deitus, and the law of the aeon of lucifer, thelema, xeper, deitus or will to come into being as a god. in so doing, i will also discuss the demonic bible, the system of magic revealed to me by my unholy guardian demon, the spirit azael, and the embassy of lucifer, the vehicle for the advancement of deitus as the word of the aeon of lucifer. this thesis may, therefore, serve as a commentary on the demonic bible as well as an exposition on deitic philosophy and magic. as stated in the preface to the 2nd edition, the demonic bible is not a work

tic magic lie in thelemic (as practiced by the o.t.o./a.a) and setian magic (from the church of satan/temple of set tradition, but is also heavily influenced by the septenary system of the o.n.a. it is only by thelema and xeper that one can attain deitus. an understanding of thelemic and setian philosophy is therefore necessary for an understanding of many of the concepts presented in the demonic bible. this thesis will address thelemic and setian philosophy as it relates to an understanding of deitus. let us begin, then, by considering the basic precepts of satanic belief. the start of satanic enlightenment is the realization that all gods are created by man, all religions are established by man, all holy books are written by man, and all temples are built by man. there is nothing spiritu

hite witches and base eighty percent of their philosophy on the guild-ridden doctrines of christianity. the satanist looks with contempt upon these hypocrites who denounce satan with one breath while attempting to practice the very art which historically has been attributed to the dark lord. the satanist recognizes that magic is magic, be it used to help or to hinder. the last page of the demonic bible is a diagram entitled the map of the spheres. the spheres illustrated are essentially archetypal. they have been described countless times in grimoires and magical treatises. in the physical world there are four elemental spheres: earth, air, fire, and water. there are also the four great watchtowers: north, east, south, and west. above the earth are the seven planetary spheres: the moon, me

isfy the first demand of the operator, and it is unlikely anything the operator asks of the spirit will come to pass. as i have said, the success of magic depends upon will, desire, and faith. every time a spirits fails to appear (as the operator has not yet become delusional) it will chip away a little at his strength of will and faith in his ability thus acting against the magician. the demonic bible provides invocations for many demons. these spirits are treated, however, as archetypal forms and no attempt is made to force the spirit to appear visibly or to speak with the operator. neither is any demand made of the spirit. if you lust after a certain woman and call upon a particular demon to bring her to you, you may very well enjoy that which you have asked of the spirit at least for a

truction or a ritual of compassion. a ritual may be performed to enhance the operation of lesser magic but must never be used in place of lesser magic. if the magician performs a ritual to obtain his desire and then does nothing himself to make his wish a reality, expecting the demon to bring it about independent of his own actions, he will surely fail in his endeavor. near the end of the demonic bible is an invocation entitled the general invocation for calling any of the spirits and a listing of the archetypal devils, demons, and dark gods i have invoked using this formula. the wording of the invocation is not important and sigils, or seals, for the spirits are not necessary. a name when written is a word composed of letters each signifying a sound. the syllables (and sounds) which make

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wn values and move in their own spheres. i have said that man has already become a god, but this knowledge is not yet fully realized and will not be fully realized until the end of the aeon. the law of the aeon of lucifer is will to come into being as a god. once we have fully accepted the reality that we are god and assumed our place as gods upon the earth then we will say xem, deit sthe demonic bible by magus tsirk susej, antichrist servant& disciple of the dark lord as revealed to him by his unholy guardian demon the spirit azael 1999, 2004, the embassy of lucifer a new and numinous art the reality of the present is that personal feelings, based on relationships, and the personal struggles and/or sufferings of individuals, have all been described by artistic means in the past two millen

selves in, to explore and discover, and to use to create an entire new species of higher beings who are fulfilling the promise of existence latent within them. in essence, we need to capture and express the numinous itself and mould that numinous through a unique work or works of art. anything less than this is unworthy of us. preface to the second edition it has been four years since the demonic bible was first released on the internet. since then, it has influenced the lives of many individuals. those who have experimented with the rituals have, undoubtedly, experienced the apparent subjective reality implied by the author of the text. since the books appearance on the embassy of lucifer website (may, 2001, it has been reproduced several times on other satanism websites. as is often the

erimented with the rituals have, undoubtedly, experienced the apparent subjective reality implied by the author of the text. since the books appearance on the embassy of lucifer website (may, 2001, it has been reproduced several times on other satanism websites. as is often the case on the internet, few of these sites have given credit to the author of the work. some have claimed that the demonic bible is a work of fiction. as anyone who has experiment with the rituals can attest to, however, this work of fiction has a profound psychological impact upon the practitioner. the reader ignores at his own peril the author s warnings that improper use of the rituals can lead to a psychological breakdown with reality. this is not a work of fiction but rather the foundation of what is now known as

rom the church of satan/temple of set tradition, but it is also heavily influenced by the septenary system of the o.n.a. magus tsirk susej says plainly that it is only by thelema and xeper that one can attain deitus. an understanding of thelemic and setian philosophy will certainly aid in understanding some of the concepts presented in this book. since the system of magic presented in the demonic bible is a dynamically evolving one (with its own xeper, it is only fitting that we present an updated version of this text. here then, once again, is the demonic bible. preface to the first edition if power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, then the omnipotent creator of heaven and earth must be the most evil son-of-a-bitch who ever lived. non-christians, we are told, are damned to

r. in the "tolerant" social climate of today, the christian still condemns the jew; the jew still condemns the muslim, and the muslim still condemns the christian. each is willing to kill and commit heinous crimes in the name of his "god. would it not be more honest for man to admit that he is a worshipper of devils and a believer in fairy tales? it is with these thoughts in mind that the demonic bible is written. stop now at the horror of these words and cower in fear for your immortal soul, or read on and discover true and undefiled wisdom. for enlightenment speaks to the brave. introduction to the 2nd edition lucifer, the light-bearer the name lucifer comes from the latin words lux (light) and fer (to bear. lucifer means, literally, light-bearer and was the name given by the romans to t

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ated by god good in their nature but they by themselves have made themselves evil- fourth lateran council, from the catholic encyclopedia. here we see that azazel and other angels possessed an original independence of being, that is they recognized that they could have the faculties of a higher state of being, they perceived themselves as separate from their original maker or source of being. the bible further describes satan as how he had fallen, which presents a connection of the vajra rune which anton szandor lavey made a part of his personal sigil within an inverted pentagram. the vajra rune is almost an s type shape, falling downwards. it represents health, vitality and strength. 22 i saw satan like lightning falling from heaven luke 10:18 the dragon itself is a symbol of the collecti

: the greatest act of bravery in the world. the book of pleasure, austin osman spare the society of the horseman s word in scotland in the 1800 s viewed cain as an archetype of malefic and diabolic power, and is presented in initiation ceremonies where the participant met a horned devil covered in animal skins and masked, many were taught to summon the devil by the means of certain phrases of the bible recited backwards35. in the toad rite36, ahriman is a primal or infernal spirit mask of cain, thus through the flesh of cain does the devil first manifest and later initiate. in east anglian hereditary witchcraft, it is suggested that when cain went to nod he was greeted by the devil who made him the first witch. even with older areas of historical and hereditary craft cain as the manifestat

versary. in darkness did he discover his light; the world he sought to create. humanity was given this fire by samael, who came unto the earth initiated the spark of the flame of selfknowledge. the devil as he is called later, mingled with both darkness and light; held within a light brighter than any mere angel, yet devoured those before him who were lost in self righteousness. as written in the bible, supposed words of jesus- ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. when he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it- gospel of john that the children of humanity are indeed the seed of samael and lilith, the devil are those

it is not a representation of that type of mental and spiritual energy, rather a coiling source which not only strengthens those traits you develop and overcome, but also inspires terror and the mirror which reflects the inner fire of the beast and angel within. leviathan, the great dragon from the watery abyss, roars fourth as the surging sea, and these invocations are his tribunals. the satanic bible, anton szandor lavey leviathan also represents the passions which arise within us while belial may be the manifestation or flesh made of those passions, satan the will behind it and lucifer the imagination to accomplish it, leviathan is that beast from the ocean of the subconscious itself. the mysteries of leviathan have for long challenged magicians, christians and occult scholars alike. le

d crimson robes flowing, rides upon leviathan, who is pictured as a great dragon-beast with four legs, talon like teeth with blackened eyes. the face of this beast is the model for which has been invoked during the coven maleficia40 rites involving the ascension of power. 40 the coven which founded the order of phosphorus, renamed maleficia after the day of cain for the group, august 22nd. 37 the bible makes further reference to leviathan in job- may those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to rouse leviathan. may its morning stars become dark; may it wait for daylight in vain and not see the first days of the dawn. leviathan is considered to being connected with azhdeha, the dragon, the very home of tiamat and some suggesting also set (who is known in lore to take the form

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the writer, at least on that point; and then we wonder that there should be misunderstandings" hence the importance of the present work. if we are to avoid misunderstandings in our teachings, we must define our basic terminology, especially for those students who are just beginning their studies. language is not stagnant. one only has to look at the writing style of the king james version of the bible or the writings of william shakespeare to notice that language does indeed change over time. words that had a particular meaning in english five hundred years ago may mean something totally different in our own era, if the word is used at all. in the modern age of advancing technology new words are being coined all of the time. the executive council of our own order has determined that if we

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sitions upon the tree, granted that the symbols are given in their correct order in the tables. in certain modern books which rank mystical qabala page 20 as authorities upon the subject the correct order is not given, the writers apparently holding that this should not be revealed to the uninitiated. but as this order is given correctly in certain older books, and, for the matter of that, in the bible itself and the qabalistic literature, there seems to me no point in deliberately misleading students with spurious information. to refuse to divulge anything may be justifiable, but how is it possible to justify the handing on of misleading statements? no one is going to be persecuted nowadays for their studies in unorthodox sciences, so there can be but one purpose in withholding teaching t

ete knowledge of the origin of all things, but it enables the mind to make a start; and unless we can make a start we have no hope of a finish. 5. the qabalist, then, starts where he can-at the first point that is within the reach of finite consciousness. kether is equated with the most transcendent form of god that we can conceive, whose name is ehieh, translated in the authorised version of the bible as "i am" or, more explicitly, the self-existing one, pure being. 6. but these words are words and nothing more unless they convey an impression to the mind, and in themselves they cannot do that. they must be related to other ideas before they have any significance. we only begin to understand kether when we study chokmah, the second sephirah, its emanation; it is only when we see the full

odest woman or harlot) are the evil or averse sephiroth, each an emanation of unbalanced force from its corresponding sphere upon the holy tree; these emanations took place during the critical periods of evolution when the sephiroth were not in equilibrium. for this reason they are referred to as the kings of unbalanced force, the kings of edom "who ruled before there was a king in israel" as the bible puts it; and in the words of the siphrah denioutha, the book of concaled mystery (mathers' translation "for before there was equilibrium, countenance beheld not countenance. and the kings of ancient time were dead, and their crowns were found no more; and the earth was desolate" 34. we have now completed our preliminary survey of the tree of life, and the arrangement of the ten holy sephirot

he correct hebrew spelling of the names of power is known, for these names were formulated in accordance with the principles of gematria, and therefore gematria supplies the key to them. but this aspect of our subject, fascinating as it is, we cannot enter upon now. 5. in the archetypal world of atziluth there are assigned to the ten sephiroth ten forms of the divine name. anyone who has read the bible cannot fail to have observed that god is referred to under divers titles, as the lord, as the lord god, as the father, and by several other appellations. now these are not literary devices to avoid needless repetition, but are exact metaphysical terms, and according to the name used we know the aspect of divine force in question and the plane on which it is functioning. 6. in the world of br

of information are frazer's golden bough; the works of wallis budge; the writings of drs jung and freud; the translations of dr jowett from the greek; the sacred books of the east series, the loeb classical library; the translation of plotinus by stephen mackenna; the translation of tbe zohar issued by the soncino press; and last, but by no means the least valuable source of information, the holy bible. so much for occult secrecy! 5. it will be seen that the symbols assigned to each sephirah are classified in regular order under certain headings. to understand the significance attached to these different sections by the occultist and the use he makes of them it is necessary to explain the method of classification in detail. 6. section 1. the title assigned to the sephirah- its name is give

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h the general public, men in public positions cannot afford to have their names associated with it; their interest is therefore carefully concealed, and they only speak of it to those upon whose sympathy and discretion they can count. those who know what to look for, however, can pick them out readily. anyone who is accustomed to the analysis of literary style can detect the regular reader of the bible. anyone who knows the occult rituals will detect their flavour in the literary or oratorical style of a man who is habituated to their use. perhaps at this length of time i may be forgiven if i break the oath of the mysteries that binds to secrecy concerning the names of initiates and suggest that the key to the bacon-shakespeare controversy may lie in the fact that bacon and shakespeare wer

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ultimately result in the ascent of humanity to the status of gods (the elohim, a status that the jealous god of the old testament concealed from mankind at our time of origin. once we understand that the enochian angels viewed coronzon as equivalent to lucifer or satan, we can learn something about the nature of coronzon by studying the references to the devil or the old serpent that occur in the bible. a very interesting reference is found in the book of revelation "and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the ea

agons and serpents were often confused together- a great snake such as a python was called a dragon by the romans, for example. dragons were sometimes called "worms" in ancient anglo-saxon literature. another important point to gather from the quote above is that the old serpent is identified with the leader of the angelic rebellion, lucifer, the light-bearer, second only to god in his glory. the bible has little to report about the fall of the angels. fortunately, the matter is treated in detail in the apocryphal book of enoch. in this work the leader of the rebellious angels is named semjaza, or elsewhere, azazel. the second name is more usually accepted as the leader of the rebellious watchers, but the first may be older. the number of rebellious angels is given as 200, but the list of

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ing is protected by god for so long as he or she remains obedient. when a person defies the will and commandments of god, then he or she becomes prey for lucifer. under ordinary circumstances lucifer cannot directly hurt persons under god's protection, which is why he needed a special dispensation from god to injure job's property and family. however, we are able to gather from other hints in the bible and in christian and jewish folklore that lucifer is free to suggest to human beings that they voluntarily defy god. once a person does so, he or she forfeits the protection of god. then lucifer is permitted to commit injuries upon the person. what is true of lucifer himself applies to his agents, the demons. in a nutshell, this is the christian demon myth. demons are tempters of men because

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iracles. these are no different in kind from miracles deliberately sought through prayer or ritual actions, it is only that their acts of induction are not perceived. the source of miracles is the ultimate source that lies beyond being, either of substance or of form. it is purposeless, knowing neither good nor evil, and for this reason may be used for either good or evil purposes. the god of the bible is not this ultimate source. this much is obvious, since this god has both form and purpose, and manifests to human beings in various ways. however, the god of the old testament was able to channel this primal source of divine energy for his own intentions, and was able to facilitate the use of this divine energy by his worshippers. skilled magicians can bypass the gods, the angels and the s

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l at some time have become a totally different person. good spirits of a higher order also possess humans. this occurs most frequently when the spirit wishes to communicate with humanity, and possesses an individual to use the voice of that person as its instrument of communication. trance mediums and channelers have their personalities displaced by spirits on a regular basis. the prophets of the bible were possessed by the spirit (actually, the spirits) of god so that they could deliver their prophetic utterances. possession is not in itself harmful. it is not even unusual. it is only destructive when done by a destructive being for hurtful purposes. good spirits or angels occasionally possess a person permanently when the consciousness of that person fails, or that person loses all will

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mundane purposes such as causing injury to others or finding treasure, are more rebellious and require instruments of control and punishment. by inflicting injury upon the demon's inscribed sigil, the magician was able to cause discomfort or pain to the spirit it represented. this was done in such ways as piercing the sigil with a knife or pin, compressing it beneath a weight, placing it inside a bible, standing upon it, burying it, hanging it over rising incense smoke, binding it with cord, striking it with the flat of a sword blade, or subjecting it to the heat from open flame. often the mere threat to destroy the sigil caused the demon to comply. at the top of this page is the seal of the demon astaroth, as drawn by s. l. macgregor mathers for his manuscript copy of the goetia. mathers'

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

us next introduction. the versions of the book of the dead. the four great versions of the book of the dead. the history of the great body of religious compositions which form the book of dead of the ancient egyptians may conveniently be divided into four[1] of the periods, which are represented by four versions- 1. the version which was edited by the priests of the college of annu (the on of the bible, and the heliopolis of the greeks, and which was based upon a series of texts now lost, but which there is evidence to prove had passed through a series of revisions or editions as early as the period of the vth dynasty. this version was, so far as we know, always written in hieroglyphics, and may be called the heliopolitan version. it is known from five copies which are inscribed upon the w

" and by three arabic words which mean "divine "sacred or set apart" and "holy" respectively. by a quotation from the stele of canopus he shows that in ptolemaic times it meant "holy" or "sacred" when applied to the animals of the gods. mr. renouf[4] says that "the notion expressed by nutar as a noun, and nutra as an adjective or verb, must be sought in the coptic, which in the translation of the bible corresponds to the greek words greek du'namis, i?sxu's, i?sxuro's, i?sxupo'w 'power 'force 'strong 'fortify 'protect"[5] and he goes on to show that the word neter means "strong" or "mighty" m. maspero, however, thinks that the coptic nomti has nothing in common with meter, the egyptian word for god, and that the passages quoted by mr. renouf in support of his theory can be otherwise explain

re (in m langes d'arch ologie, t. ii, paris, 1873, p. 140. 2. pierret, essai sur la mythologie gyptienne, paris, 1879, p. 8. 3. w rterbuch, p. 825. 4. hibbert lectures, p. 95. 5. a number of examples are given in tatham, lexicon, oxford, 1835, pp. 310 806. 6 la mythologie gyptienne, t. ii, p. 215] p. lxxxiii so old that its first sense is unknown to us. the fact that the coptic translators of the bible used the word nouti to express the name of the supreme being shows that no other word conveyed to their minds their conception of him, and supports m. maspero's views on this point. another definition of the word given by brugsch makes it to mean "the active power which produces and creates things in regular recurrence; which bestows new life upon them, and gives back to them their youthful

ich the arabs have rendered by akhm m. aqert, a common name for the abode of the dead. bast, more fully pa-bast or per-bast, the bubastis of the greek writers (herodotus, ii, 59, 137, 156, 166; strabo, xvii, 1, 27, the metropolis of the eighteenth nome of lower egypt, and the seat of the worship of bast, a goddess who was identified with the soul of isis, ba en auset. the city is mentioned in the bible under the form (ezekiel xxx, 17, pi-beseth [1. see am lineau, op. cit, p. 287] p. cxxxv which the copts have preserved in their name for the city; the arabs call the place tell basta. het-benbent, the name given to many sun-shrines in egypt, and also to one of the places in the other world where the deceased dwelt. het-ptah-ka, the sacred name of the city of memphis, the metropolis of the fi

EMPERORS NEW RELIGION CHURCH OF SATAN

f its literature the church of satan references christianity in its departure from the creeds usually associated with common christian ideology, in that sense at least it qualifies as an anti- christian organization and hence by christian definition, satanic. in particular, the first section (most of which was adapted with few modifications from ragnar redbeard s might is right [5) of the satanic bible [6] by anton lavey has strong anti-christian proclamations. anton lavey has later explained that this section was intended as an eye-opener [5, p. 5. 1.1 satanic ideology anton lavey has claimed inspiration from, and ideological parallels with, several sources with leanings toward atheistic or non-christian morality, including mark twain, jack london, p. t. barnum, friedrich nietzsche, ragna

s, tricks and novelties [7, p. xii] that is, although neither thought alone was novel, no one before anton lavey had connected the dots to synthesize a new religion based on the thoughts combined. the church of satan s ideology states that man alone is responsible for his own success, and that there is no reward in heaven or punishment in hell for man s intents and doings on earth. as the satanic bible states: 1. life is the great indulgence death, the great abstinence. therefore, make the most of life here and now. 2. there is no heaven of glory bright, and no hell where sinners roast. here and now is our day of torment! here and now is our day of joy! here and now is our opportunity [6, p. 33] man is thus given with the chance to live in indulgence only while alive, and had better make f

e most of life here and now. 2. there is no heaven of glory bright, and no hell where sinners roast. here and now is our day of torment! here and now is our day of joy! here and now is our opportunity [6, p. 33] man is thus given with the chance to live in indulgence only while alive, and had better make full use of it while it lasts. this is a recurring theme in the second section of the satanic bible. followers of the church of satan are encouraged to make that of satanism which suits each individual follower s best needs: as far as satanists are concerned, taking the way things are and taking what suits you best and dwelling on it that s what it is all about [10, p. 234] the church of satan generally uses satan as a symbol of man s nature as that of any other animal, and rejects the bel

nt to many individuals to ritualistically conceptualize a well-wrought picture of their mentor or tutelary divinity [2, p. 740] he ventured on to explain that: in answer to those who would label us devil worshippers or satan worshippers, i must say that satan demands study, not worship [2, p. 740] note that anton lavey did not reject the belief in satan, only the worship of the deity. the satanic bible defines satan somewhat ambiguously as a unified god (that is, not a god among others) which: is seen as the balancing factor in nature, and not being concerned with suffering [6, p. 40] in contrast to popular opinion among church of satan followers there is no implication that there is no life after death; the text only states that once one is dead, one will be unable to indulge in one s des

ion to the atheistic persuasion also presented in the book. the church of satan s grotto master application requires prospective grotto masters, who are individuals that lead a local chapter of church of satan followers, to perform a self-initiation ritual: 15. before you complete this application when you sense the time is right perform a ritual (using the basic elements described in the satanic bible) to petition satan and the dark legions to accept you as a grotto master. write down the ritual you performed and the results, if any [13] again, this ritual, requesting an infernal mandate, has theistic overtones. part of the church of satan s ideology specifically appeals to people that feel a need to bolster their egos, feeling that they are more important than their social recognition re

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. the word derives from latin and simply means to shut off from view or exposure. however, it eventually came to refer to realities specifically hidden from common sight; the occult realm is invisible to the physical eye but can be seen by an inner spiritual vision and/or grasped by psychic intuition. the occult is the opposite of apocalypse, which means to uncover. the last book of the christian bible is alternatively called the apocalypse or the revelation. to many religious people, the term occult denotes that which is opposite of what god has revealed; hence, the realm of satan and his legions of demons. some substance for this observation has been provided by religious leaders who combine an exploration of the occult with open opposition to the more traditional religions and religious

re of the universe is known as esotericism. this structure is enlivened by the cosmic energy or power that energizes the world at a more abstract level than the various forms of energy defined in classical physics. the esotericist characterizes the reality beyond that depicted by physicists in their observations of the world; these descriptions are termed meta-physics. esotericism, in contrast to bible-based religions and philosophies, is considered a third force in western thought. the esotericists approach to life is generated from human experience, in which, people spontaneously encounter psychic and mystic moments, seek magical means of forecasting the future, and act upon intuitive insights that seem to defy rational thought. beginning with the rise of christianity in the west, esoter

s only 25 years old when he was placed in charge of north church, boston, the largest congregation in the colony. during the early years of his pastorate, he followed his father s interests and collected accounts of some unusual negative experiences of his parishioners which he viewed as the actions of supernatural forces among the people. he argued for the reality of witchcraft, both because the bible declared it a reality and because he saw instances of it in the deranged behavior of boston citizens. his conclusions were published in a widely read book published in 1689, memorable provinces relating to witchcraft and possessions. the strong belief in the power and presence of negative magic in salem village, supported by the writings of the mathers, emerged in the context of a deep commu

e, he declares that twelve legions of them were ready upon his demand. in the revelation of st. john, a vast idea of their overwhelming number is indicated. their song of praise is described as the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings. the angels form the armies of heaven, and military terms are commonly quoted. it is mentioned in the bible that the angel host or army will fight god s cosmic battle. for example, an angel destroyed sennacherib s army encamped around jerusalem. they appeared to the shepards to announce the birth of jesus, and jesus will lead the armies of god in the final conflict at the end of time (revelation 19:14. the idea of angelic armies would come to the forefront during world war i in the myth of the ang

an. these ideas were common to the whole eastern world, and were probably derived by the jewish people from the assyrians. the pharisees charged jesus with casting out devils by beelzebub the prince of the devils. the idea that evil spirits acted in multitudes under one person appears in mark 5:9, where, when he is asked his name, the evil spirit answers: my name is legion for we are many. in the bible two orders are mentioned in scripture, angels and archangels; but the latter only occurs twice, namely, in jude, where michael is called an archangel, and in i thessalonians 4:16, where it is written: the lord shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of god. gabriel and michael are the only angels mentioned by name. the archangel michael app

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d; one 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 seaso

t there be light (gen. 1:3) and in the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god (john 1:1. the use of mantras can also be found in buddhist tantrism, known as vairayana. the verses of the hindu sacred scriptures, the vedas (veda means knowledge, are regarded as mantras, because they have been transmitted from a divine source, rather like the christian concept of the bible as having power as the word of god. hindus, however, also believe that words and phrases have special powers as expressions of the hidden forces of nature. the vibrations of molecules which create the particular sounds of the mantras are thought to resonate with shabda or vach (primal essence of creation) divine creation becomes manifest in form throughout nature, and the latent reality behi

ican american community in the united states. spiritualism moved into the black community in strength early in the twentieth century, but black people were not welcomed in many spiritualist congregations. as independent movements began to form around talented individual mediums, they tended to adopt the forms dominant in the pentecostal and holiness churches and retain a central emphasis upon the bible. they also took the name spiritual, a reference to the teachings concerning spiritual gifts mentioned in several places in the epistles of st. paul. the metropolitan spiritual churches of christ were founded in kansas city in 1925 by bishop william frank taylor (formerly a minister in the christian methodist episcopal church) and elder leviticus boswell (of the church of god in christ. it gr

rit communication or human survival. of course, a small but vocal group deny the existence of all paranormal or supernatural events. the problem of the distinction between religious and secular miracles remains a matter of polemics between conservative christians and other religionists. parapsychologists, spiritualists and liberal christians may point to the many reported miraculous events in the bible as descriptions of paranormal events that also occur in modern times. conservative believers accept as miraculous only those events with a clearly established religious purpose and reject all other claimed paranormal happenings. some conservative christians claim that all psychic phenomena are mere simulacrum of the miraculous.the work of devils or deceptive spirits counterfeiting real mirac

ing of the nepotism grotto and now serves as the grotto master. mourning star is designed as the expression of a maturing satanic philosophy in the tradition of anton sandor lavey, the founder of the church of satan. each issue contains articles, poems, reviews, and additional varied material. all articles must at the least show the author s familiarity with the principles and idea of the satanic bible, the basic text of the church of satan. while representative of opinions within the church of satan, mourning star is not an official church publication. it is issued irregularly and while each issue is numbered, it is undated. mourning star is published at pandora s box, 321 se port saint lucie blvd, port saint lucie, fl 34984. sources: mourning star. port lucie, fla, n.d. movement (paranor

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

y entities or unearthly realms. some channelers believe that through their consciousness alone, they can travel through the universe and into other dimensions. in ancient times oracles and priests communicated with the gods. the resulting divine messages formed the basis of religious and mystical faiths. such communications often involved prophecies as well. in the judeo- christian tradition, the bible documents visions and messages recognizably related to the channeling 59 phenomenon of channeling. channeling seems ubiquitous in human experience. historically prominent practitioners include nostradamus, emanuel swedenborg, helena petrovna blavatsky (founder of the theosophical movement, and anna lee (founder of the quaker sect known as the shakers. in the latter half of the nineteenth cen

label. the name numbers for jesus and elvis both equal nine, she says. in fact, their namenumbers match exactly, letter for letter and number for number: jesus= 15363, elvis= 53613. their followers worshipped and a d o red them. both could heal and re a d minds, and both had powe rful enemies who sought to stop them. go d f rey claims that like jesus, elvis was jew i s h. she also notes that the bible frequently refers to the voice of god on many occasions. is there any voice more spectacular than elvis presley s? she asks. the psalms even predict that presley one day would disappear: i am shut up and i cannot come forth (psalms 88:8) and how long, lord? wilt thou hide thyself forever (psalms 89:46. isaiah 4:2 states that when the messiah comes, in that day shall the branch [messiah] of t

ep spiritual transformation. geller would claim that presley later wondered if maybe he was indeed christ. godfrey contends that elvis aron presley s own name proves his godhood. el means god, vis from power thus god power. presley derives from priestly. she goes on, in fact, all three of elvis major residences contain the prophetic el: graceland, tupelo and bel air. furthermore, according to the bible, since jesus crucifixion, we are living in the dispensation of grace that 2,000 year period of time when sins are pardoned by the sacrificial death of christ. the name of elvis presley s mansion: grace-land! and, she adds, did not jesus say, i am alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending, just as elvis said, i am and i was? godfrey goes outside scripture to delve into esoteric literature

ve l o p e d p s ychic abilities that would come and go errati c a l l y. they so disrupted his life that his wife, fearing he had lost his sanity, left him. he und e rwent out-of-body episodes and found himself doing automatic writing at a furious pace. these writings cove red many subjects, fro m e a rt h s ancient history to future geological cataclysms. much of the material had to do with the bible. the writing claimed that the te n commandments we re a kind of universal code that must be deciphered, then obeye d. one night in 1993, preston awoke and spotted a beam of light going through his chest. he felt intense pain, then had the sensation that he was being pulled out of his body. two shadowy beings, reeking of evil and menace, had him by the arms and were forcing him to a black aby

acial feat u res, but it was able to communicate ment a l l y. it stressed the importance of ma t t h ew 24 in the new testament, the chapter in which jesus discusses the events that will take place just prior to the second coming. preston noticed that mr. brown robe, gray face, and the others never used the word go d but did talk of a u n i versal intelligence. still, he linked his visitors with bible fig u res. he bel i e ved brown robe, for example, to be a kind of angel, gray face a wa t c h e r from the ol d te s t a m e n t s daniel 4. preston s last abduction occurred one night in 1995 when a group of gray-skinned, largeeyed humanoids the classic grays of abduction lore took him into a ufo, where he was subjected to an apparent medical examination. on his return at 2:50 a.m, he hear

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sor pettisate (also of the university of rome) concluded that the language was old canaanite, even though written in sumerian cuneiform. he found the language to be closer in vocabulary and grammar to biblical hebrew than any other canaanite dialect, including ugaritic. ebla was destroyed by the akkadians circa 1600bce. the reader is referred to david rohl s controversial book a test of time: the bible from myth to history, century, london, 1995. more recently, archeologists uncovered the ancient city of nabada along the same trade route as ebla in nothwest syria. clay cuneiform tablets were also found there, and like those found at ebla, the language bears great resemblance to biblical hebrew. e "h 5 3 the oldest and fullest surviving manuscript is the codex petropolitanus dating to 916 c

brew. e "h 5 3 the oldest and fullest surviving manuscript is the codex petropolitanus dating to 916 ce. 4 the septuagint is so-named because it was said to have been the result of identical translations into greek by seventy-two different translators working apart in alexandria, where there resided the largest colony of jews outside of palestine. 5 minkoff, harvey. searching for the better text, bible review, volume xv, number 4, august, 1999. 6 the sefer bahir is an important secondary text of the mystical qabalah, first published in 1651 in amsterdam by an anonymous christian scholar. the most recent edition was edited by reuven margaliot and published in jerusalem in 1951. 7 all hebrew letters also have a numerical value e.g. beyt b (2, yod y (10, and resh r (200. hence, every hebrew w

letters yhv that follows the gimel g is the specific permutation of the name vhy that the sefer yetzirah ascribes as the seal of the direction north, which corresponds to the zoharic sefirah understanding, the supernal root of yetzirah. 27 the pronunciation of the name hvhy as jehovah first appeared in the middle ages in jerome s vulgate latin translation of the tanakh, which became the official bible of the roman catholic church. jerome changed the y to j and used the vowels of the name adonai. 28 sifra detzniyutha 2. 29 sifra detzniyutha 3. 30 bhagavad gita 4:7-8. 31 torah b reshith 18:1. 32 torah b reshith 18:14. 33 torah b reshith 18: 33. 34 it has been traditionally believed that the freed jews numbered in the hundreds of thousands. however, an inscription on a stele dating from the

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g to it and concentrates almost entirely on the greek influences in the hermetica. a cautious summary by bloomfield (op. cit, p. 46) is as follows "these writings are chiefly the product of egyptian neoplatonists who were greatiy influenced by stoicism, judaism, persian theology and possibly by native egyptian beliefs, as well as, of course, by plato, especially the timaeus. they were perhaps the bible of an egyptian mystery religion, which possibly in kernel went back to the second century b.c" the mystery cult theory is opposed by festugiere, i, pp. 81 ff. 3 hermes trismegistus was highly organised and at peace. the pax romano, was at the height of its efficiency and the mixed populations of the empire were governed by an efficient bureaucracy. communications along the great roman roads

ed to be a system of rationally 1 needless to say, the works of reitzenstein, particularly his poimandres (leipzig, 1904) are still fundamental for this subject. w. scott's prefaces and critical apparatus in his edition of the hermetica have been consulted as well as the prefaces and notes in the nock-festugiere edition. other useful works are a. d. nock, conversion, oxford, 1933; c. h. dodd, the bible and the greeks, london, 1935; r. mc. l. wilson, the gnostic problem, london, 1958. 2 there is general agreement that the first treatise of the corpus hermeticum, the pimander, contains some jewish elements but opinions differ as to the amount of the writers' indebtedness to hellenised judaism. 3 most scholars are of the opinion that there is very little, if any, christian influence in the he

ample of how the will to operate, stimulated by renaissance magic, could pass into, and stimulate, the will to operate in genuine applied science. or of how operating with number in the higher sphere of religious magic could belong with, and stimulate, operating with number in the lower sphere of "real artificial magic. the hermetic science par excellence is alchemy; the famous emerald table, the bible of the alchemists, is attributed to hermes trismegistus and gives in a mysteriously compact form the philosophy of the all and the one.2 in the renaissance, a new style "alchymia" becomes associated with the new magia and cabala. dee is an example of this, alchemy being one of his main interests. but the chief exponent of the new alchemy is paracelsus. the researches of w. pagel have shown t

the church, so also he would retain in it something of cabala, of the inferior jewish revelation and magic. 257 giordano bruno and the cabala it is probable that bruno knew very little hebrew.1 he knew the alphabet which he uses on some of his diagrams. but when he speaks of the structure of cabalism, of the names, sephiroth, orders of angels, and so on, he is getting his material direct from his bible, that is to say from the occult philosophy of cornelius agrippa. he also knew trithemius's steganographia, and possibly reuchlin's de arte cabalistica, and he may have known something of the zohar.2 he knew the works of pico della mirandola, no doubt, but the librarian of st. victor confided to his valuable diary that bruno (who must have held forth a good deal to that man) had said that he

on of treatises on a highly miscellaneous variety of subjects. lenoble has, however, well seen what may be the principle of unity in the work. he regards it as mainly directed against all magical and divinatory arts, against cabalists and occultists of all kinds, against naturalist and animistic philosophers whom mersenne suspects in general of being either atheists or deists. in other words, the bible text is being used as a canvas for mersenne's summa against renaissance magic, its whole way of thinking, and all its off-shoots in the vast contemporary dissemination of magical practices. it is also, suggests lenoble, a summa of mersenne's own scientific interests, his studies in music, mathematics, physics, astronomy and the like.2 thus, within the framework of the mosaic account of creat

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. the sigil of set as isolate intoxication is in liber chrnzn (h1188 (e336 (se278) teknoz- god of techno music, a gateway to babalon. the sigil of teknoz is the music of the same name, which can be triggered as a gateway. the number of teknoz is (156h (e87 (se91) tiyet- goddess of dreams and silence. the sigil of tiyet is in liber chrnzn (h28 (e111 (se62) there is something more viii bibliography bible- king james version. zondervan publishing house. book 4- aleister crowley. samuel weiser, inc. 1980. condensed chaos- phil hine. new falcon publications, inc. 1995. cults of shadows- kenneth grant. skoob publishing, 1975, 1994. demonology of elijah (aka the rite of suffering, 1999. echoes from the void- nevill drury. prism press, 1994. grendel- john gardner. vintage books, 1989. hecate s fou

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ry, is thereby continually reminded of that purity of life and conduct which is essentially necessary to his gaining admission into the celestial lodge above, where the supreme architect of the universe presides. maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (8 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:54 am] third section. a lodge is a certain number of masons duly assembled, having the holy bible, square and compasses, with a charter or warrant empowering them to work. the form of a lodge* the supports of a lodge. our institution is said to be supported by three great pillars, called wisdom, strength and beauty. it is necessary there should be wisdom to contrive, strength to support, and beauty to adorn all great and important undertakings. covering of a lodge. it is no less than the

y the aid of that theological ladder which jacob in his vision saw ascending from earth to heaven called jacob's ladder, the three principal rounds of which are called faith, hope and charity. the greatest of these is charity, because our faith may be lost in sight, hope ends in fruition, but charity extends beyond the grave through the boundless realms of eternity. furniture of a lodge. the holy bible, the square and the compasses. the holy bible we dedicate to god, the square to the master and the compasses to the craft. the bible we dedicate to god because it is the inestimable gift of god to man* the square to the master, because it is the proper masonic emblem of his office; and the compasses to the craft, because by its use, we are taught to circumscribe our desires, and keep our pas

you, as master of this lodge, are admonished, by the symbolic meaning of the square upon your breast, to preserve that moral deportment, among the members of your lodge, which should ever characterize good masons; and to exert your authority to prevent illfeeling or angry discussion arising to impair the harmony of their meetings. i also present to you the three great lights in masonry: the holy bible square and compasses. the bible, the great light in masonry will guide you to all truthwill direct your paths to the temple of happiness, and point out to you the whole duty of man. the square teaches us to harmonize our conduct by the principles of morality and virtue. the compasses teach us to limit our desires in every station, that, rising to eminence by merit, we may live respected and

lodges are present, it is better to have the visitors march with them. when the grand master, or the deputy grand master acting as grand master, is present, the book of constitutionsshouldbe borne before him by the masterofthe oldest lodge (or the senior past master, and it must never be borne in procession except before the grand master or deputy acting as such. on entering public buildings, the bible, square and compasses and the book of constitutions should be placed in front of the grand master. when the grand master, or the deputy, joins a lodge procession, he should be placed immediately in front of the master and wardens, and two deacons and a sword bearer should be appointed to attend him: a grand warden should be assigned the sarne position and be attended by two deacons: but if s

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t between the pituitary body and the pineal gland in the brain, gives to man a third eye as it were wherewith to see in the spiritual worlds. when this serpentine spirit fire has been sufficiently evolved, he may read by its light the wisdom of the ages. therefore christ exhorted his disciples to be wise as serpents. the egyptian word naja, which means serpent, is used at least once in the hebrew bible in the 58th psalm. in ancient egypt the pharaohs were kings and priests, holding a double office, and they therefore wore a double crown with a uraeus or serpent head so placed that when wearing this crown the uraeus seemed to protrude from the emperor's forehead between the eyebrows. the serpentine uraeus was therefore an apt symbol of the wisdom of the wearer. it will be remembered that ac

th psalm. in ancient egypt the pharaohs were kings and priests, holding a double office, and they therefore wore a double crown with a uraeus or serpent head so placed that when wearing this crown the uraeus seemed to protrude from the emperor's forehead between the eyebrows. the serpentine uraeus was therefore an apt symbol of the wisdom of the wearer. it will be remembered that according to the bible story the lucifer spirit appeared to eve as a serpent, a son of wisdom. cain according to the masonic legend, was born from this union with eve. it is also stated that the lucifer spirit then left eve, who thus became a widow, and cain was thus the son of the lucifer spirit, the serpent of wisdom, and eve, the widow. every initiate to this day has the serpent symbol on his brow and is known

n interest is particularly valuable according to law, we call special attention to the following points gained from the catholic latin testament: in 1st samuel 19, king james version, naioth is spoken of as a place where a school of prophets and seers dwelt, samuel among others. naioth is the feminine plural of naja, a serpent, which we have already mentioned as being an egyptian word used in the bible. in the latin version the same place is spoken of as naim, and eusebius says it was located near endor, famous as the abode of the witch, through whose instrumentality saul spoke with samuel after the latter had passed on. but it is not to be supposed that naioth and naim are places, or that they were used interchangeably. they describe two widely different classes of spiritually gifted peop

e sons of cain and the sons of seth will eventually be united. part ix armageddon, the great war, and the coming age the chart printed in part v shows that there was an age when humanity lived in peace and happiness under the guardianship of a ruler who held the double office of king and priest, being both temporal and spiritual head of the double sexed human race. he is called melchisedec in the bible terminology, and it is said that he was king of salem, salem meaning peace. since then humanity has been divided into two sexes, male and female, and placed under the dual rulership of a king having dominion over their temporal affairs and aiming to advance them by industry and statecraft, and a priest, head of the priestcraft, exercising a spiritual authority, in such a manner as they consi

is to the rainbow age of aryana. and the transformation of an earth worm to a butterfly soaring the skies is an apt illustration of the coming change from our present state and condition to those of the new galilee where the kingdom of christ will be established; and what the change in the human constitution and environment is to be, may be seen by examining the past conditions as outlined in the bible, which agrees with the occult traditions in the main points. this new heaven and new earth is now in the making. when the heavenly time marker, the sun, came into aries by precession, a new cycle commenced and the glad tidings were preached by christ. he said by implication that the new heaven and earth were not ready then, when he told his disciples "whither i go, you cannot now follow, but

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self in speech. the intimate connection between the organs, brain, larynx and genitals is evident to anyone upon the slightest examination of facts. the boy's voice changing at puberty, the mental deficiency resulting from over-indulgence of the passional nature, and the inarticulate speech of the mentally defective with many other facts which might be added prove this assertion. according to the bible, our earliest parents were forbidden to eat of the tree of knowledge, but eve, seduced by the serpent, did eat and later induced the man to follow her example. who the serpents are and what the tree of knowledge is may also be determined from certain passages in the bible. we are told, for instance, that christ exhorted his disciples to be "wise as serpents and harmless as doves" the so-call

re and what the tree of knowledge is may also be determined from certain passages in the bible. we are told, for instance, that christ exhorted his disciples to be "wise as serpents and harmless as doves" the so-called curse pronounced upon eve after her confession declares that she must bear her children in sorrow and pain and that the race will die. it has always been a great stumbling block to bible commentators as to what connection there could be between the eating of an apple, death, and painful parturition; but when we are acquainted with the chaste expressions of the bible, which designates the creative act by such passages as "adam knew eve and she bore abel "how can i bear a child seeing i know not a man" et cetera, it is very evident that the tree of knowledge is a symbolical ex

ped of all embellishments the story relates the salient facts of man's descent from heaven, his principal metamorphoses, his transgression of the laws of the god jehovah would wish to guide him in the future till he reaches the kingdom of heaven -the land of peace--and again docilely follows the lead of the divine ruler. the masonic legend has points of variance from as well as agreement with the bible story. it states that jehovah created eve, that the lucifer spirit samael united with her but that he was ousted by jehovah and forced to leave her before the birth of her son cain, who was thus the son of a widow. then jehovah created adam, to be the husband of eve, and from their union abel was born. thus from the beginning there have been two kinds of people in the world. one begotten by

ioned in our last chapter, and which culminated in his murder, commenced with the arrival of the queen of sheba who had been attracted to the court of solomon by tales of his wonderful wisdom and of the splendor of the temple he was engaged in building. she is said to have come laden with gorgeous gifts and it is stated that at first she was much impressed with the wisdom of solomon. but even the bible, which is written from the standpoint of the jehovistic hierarchies, hints that she saw at the court of solomon one that was fairer than he, and there the bible narrative leaves her. her marriage with solomon was never consummated or the name of mason would have faded from memory long ere the present day and humanity at large would now be docile children of the dominant church, without free

fied in commensurate ratio; therefore he was consumed by an overpowering urge to add something to the temple that would eclipse the rest of the structure in beauty and importance. out of the travail of his spirit was born the conception of the molten sea, and this great ideal he proceeded to carry into execution, though heaven and earth held their breath in awe at the audacity of his purpose. the bible gives very little information about the molten sea. in second chronicles, the fourth chapter, we learn that hiram made such a vessel, that it was of considerable size, that it stood upon 12 oxen arranged so that their heads were at the periphery of this circular basin and their hind parts were towards its center. it was intended solely for use by the priests. much is said of a nature to bewi

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ca 92049-0713, usa (760) 757- 6600 (760) 721- 3806 (fax) e-mail: rosfshp@rosicrucianfellowship.e freemasonry the worship of lucifer, satan part 1 of 5 a majority of this page on freemasonry was taken from masonic books that were published by masonic publishing companies. most of these writings were kept secret. biblical admonition has been taken carefully, comparing masonic teachings to the holy bible. in i john 4:1, we read "beloved, believe not every spirit, but try (test) the spirits whether they are of god: because many false prophets are gone out into the world" we see that any religious teaching that does not conform to scripture is from a "false prophet" many people still do not understand the importance of studying this subject to its logical conclusion. their spiritual freedom is

masonry, p. 321, 19th degree of grand pontiff; red emphasis added] masons from the first initiation which is the first degree are urged to mightily "seek the light" the average mason is continually saying that he is "seeking the light" and will spend his entire life "moving toward the light" people who haven't studied this subject would assume that this "light" is the revelation of the god of the bible. this statement is continuously held up to try to convince us that masonry is christian. in the above quote, albert pike is saying that lucifer is the one who bears the light of freemasonry. the sentence immediately preceding confirms not only that lucifer is the light-bearer, but that masons of previous degrees have been led to believe that the opposite was true. the wording of this sentenc

ies of lucifer in his hands, and then tells him to follow in the footsteps of the "christian devil" to whom "human sacrifices" are offered. the infernal names there may be some people who have read up to this point and still might be skeptical. masonry cleverly masks its references to satan. there are 77 names which pagans have used to refer to satan over the centuries and they are in the satanic bible. we'll review some of these "infernal names" of satanism found within masonry [satanic bible, anton lavey, p. 144-46] we shall list the freemason teaching on each of these names, and then the explanation. baphomet "the gnostics held that it [universal agent] composed the igneous [pertaining to fire] body of the holy spirit, and it was adored in the secret rites of the sabbat or the temple un

thoth together nicely. hermes, the god of wisdom, called also thoth, tat, set, and sat-an; and that he was, furthermore, when viewed under his bad aspect, typhon, the egyptian satan, who was also set [helena petrovna blavatsky, isis unveiled, vol. i: science, new york, trow's printing and bookbinding company, 1877, p. 554, xxxiii. colored emphasis added] blavatsky like anton lavey in the satanic bible, had no trouble tying the infernal name, thoth, with satan, and especially the egyptian satan. this subject does go back a long way. remember pike's words, quoted in the very beginning, that "masonry is identical to the ancient mysteries" what this statement means is that freemasons believe the same as all the ancient mysteries and worship the same god, satan, and they worship satan under di

rrounded by the magic circle is lucifer- the good god- with the one point upward and two down; the right-hand pentagram, again surrounded by the magic circle, is satan- the evil god- with the two points up and the one down. these symbols depict exactly what albert pike is talking about in the paragraph above. he says that the evil god, whom he calls seth or typhon [typhon is listed in the satanic bible as infernal names for satan] is the adversary of the good god, osiris; therefore, pike is saying osiris is lucifer, a finding consistent with the rest of the occult realm [above symbols taken from: arthur edward waite, the mysteries of ma, gic: a digest of the writings of eliphas levi, chicagodelaurence, scott, and company, inc, 1966 edition, 1909, p. 223- note: waite is a freemason author;

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concealed the high meaning of his teaching, and no one finally has so surely and easily directed men on to the path of freedom, as our great master jesus of nazareth. this secret meaning and natural consequence of his teaching he hid completely, for jesus had a secret doctrine, as we see in more than one place of the scriptures.9 whether this is so or not, there can be no doubt whatever that the bible is a mystical work containing a secret doctrine which is only known to those who have been initiated into it. what part of this doctrine is will be discovered later on in this book. from this brief excursion into the past it will be seen that secrecy has played an important part in human history. the idea that all knowledge should be divulged and broadcast among the masses is something quite

tion or sepher yetzirah, knut stenring, 1923. the zohar in moslem and christian spain, ariel bension, 1932. a garden of pomegranates, israel regardie, 1932. q.b.l. or the bride's reception, frater achad, 1922. the anatomy of the body of god, frater achad, 1925. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 11 chapter i the wisdom of the qabalah the qabalah the qabalah is not a holy book as are the vedas, the bible, and the koran. it is not a book at all: instead it is a secret traditional knowledge, the hidden thought of israel, which, like gold embedded in rock, is to be found only after much labour in many hebrew works, such as the torah, the talmud, the mishna, midrashim, zohar, and scores of other books, the bewildering nature of which may be recognized in a few minutes by glancing through a talmu

page 16 found in dependence upon it. when the inferior part is influenced, and that which is set over it in the superior world is equally [influenced, all are perfectly united together. 26 again and again is this idea repeated in different words, and from it is derived the talmudic maxim, gif thou wilt know the invisible, have an open eye for the visible h, which means that this world is the true bible which can lead us back to god or reality; gfor all which is contained in the lower world is also found in the upper [in prototype. the lower and upper reciprocally act upon each other. h 27 or as is written in the sepher shephathal: all that which is on the earth is also found above [in perfect prototype, and there is not anything so insignificant in the world that does not depend upon anoth

the 22 letters) or words- hlet there be light h. the graspable beginning is light; all before it or, so to say, behind or beyond it, is impenetrable mystery- an absolute darkness to the mind. from the ain soph aur emanates ehyeh (hyha, the hi h or gi am h- abstract thought; then yhvh (hvhy, git who was, and is, and will be h- thought in time; and lastly elohim (myhla),god in nature and god in the bible, in which yhvh (jehovah or yahweh) is translated as glord h, the equivalent of secret wisdom of the qabalah page 23 the hebrew adonai, for the true name of tetragrammaton (yhvh) may not be pronounced. thus, as the ayin, ain soph, and ain sopb aur form a group of three unthinkable principles, so do ehyeh, yhvh, and elohim form a group of three intelligent principles- abstract thoughts, though

rnal sephiroth is inhabited by a host of demons, of which the first two orders are without form, the third is of darkness, and the remaining seven represent all human vices (activities. these seven infernal halls [or hells] are sub-divided into endless compartments, so as to afford a separate chamber of torture for every species of sin. the prince of this region of darkness is called satan in the bible. he is the same evil spirit, satan, the serpent, who seduced eve. 13 we are also told that: the ten sephiroth of atziluth have scintillated and brought forth the ten sephiroth of briah, and from the energy of these ten of briah sparkled forth the scintillations of the world yetzirah, and through these the ten sephiroth of the world assiah were sealed. 14 secret wisdom of the qabalah page 40

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

er the flood, and especially by inserting the second account of the creation, ii, 4-25" colenso observes that verse four of chapter second belongs to the elohist, and that it was removed from its original position at the beginning of gen. i, in order to form the commencement of the jehovistic account of the creation.[95 [95] lectures on the pentateuch, p. 32. quoting from bishop browne in the new bible commentary, the same writer remarks that in the elohistic account of the creation "we have that which was probably the ancient primeval record of the formation of the world"[96 [96] ibid. p. 16. the oldest or elohistic portion of genesis is, at the present time, seen to conceal great wisdom and a knowledge of nature far surpassing that of later times. according to higgins, the first verse of

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ntin andrea, the german theologian and mystic, has left us in his works, published in and after the year1614,an account of100thegoldendawnthe doctrines and exoteric management of the r.c. society. but even the revival of mysticism was but a new development of the vastly older wisdom of the kabbalistic rabbis and of.the most ancient of all secret knowledge, the magic of the egyptians, in which the bible itself tells us that moses the founder of the jewish system was 'learned, that is, in which he had been in255 itiated. through the hebrew kabbalah we have indeed become pos255 sessed of more of the ancient wisdom than from any other source, for it must be borne in mind that the hebrews were taught at one time by the egyptians, and at a later date by the chaldean sages of babylon.itis a very

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ients 54 6. man, miracle, magic, from the ancient rosicrucian dogmata 66 7. courage versus obsession 71 8. chess shatranji and chaturanga 75 part two: kabalistic 9. the kabalah 3110.a further glance at the kabalah 95 11. the ten sephiroth 110 12. the religion of freemasonry illuminated by the kabbalah 114 13. angels: jewish, christian and pagan 124 14. the devil, and evil spirits according to the bible and ancient hebrew rabbis 131 15. some anomalies in the biblical views of the constitution of man 139 16. the vestiges of tetragrammaton 154 17. the number four in relation with the world and man 1576themagicalmasonpartthree:divination18.thehistory of astrology169 19.dreams18120.divination and its history19221.the star lore of the bible216partfour: masonic22.freemasonry and its relation to t

y the arts and sciences of the egypt they had overrun and subdued; for they seem to have had a wholesome fear of the magical arts, which, as tradition had informed them, flourished in the nile valley; which same tradition is also familiar to english people through our acquaintance with the book of genesis, whose reputed author was taught in egypt all the science and arts he possessed, even as the bible itself tells us, although the orthodox are apt to slur over this assertion of the old testament narrative.ourpresent world has taken almost no notice of the rosicrucian philosophy, nor until the last twenty years of any mysticism, and when it does condescend to stoop from its utilitarian and money-makingoccupations,itis only to condemn all such studies, root and branch, as waste of time and

so, seeing that for 1500 years in europe the nations had reposed in a state of apathy without culture, had made almost no progress, and had been hide-bound by the fetters of a religious establishment which boasted itself upon its exclusiveness, its control of all that god gave or man could receive, and formulated and practisedchristian rosenkreuz15the dogma that there was no revelationbutane- the bible- and that the bible was unsuitable to the people, whose soleduty was to support a priesthood, from whose personal attention and propitiation alone was any good to be obtained. so long as vast nations were taught that neither mind, nor intellect, nor man's spiritual soul required any further culture, nor any further enlightenment than could be obtained from listening to the reading of the onl

umhere in our book. now as yet we had not seen the dead body of our careful and wise father; we therefore removed the altar aside, therechristianrosenkreuz19 we lifted up a strong plate of brass, and found a fair and worthy body; whole and unconsumed, as the same is herelivelycounter255 feited with all the ornaments and attires; in his hand he held a parchment book, calledt,the which, nextuntothe bible, isourgreatest treasure, which ought to be deliveredtothe censure of the world. at the end of this book standeth this elogium, which then follows in latin -itmaybeshortly translated thus 'a seed sown in the breast of ihesus 'christian rose cross, sprung from a noble and famous german family.theman of his age for the most subtle imaginations and divine revelations, and one of unwearied labour

s like herself and especially accorded by with jesusinomniparteand all members. and as he is the true image of the father, so is she his image.itshall not be said that this is true only of philosophy, but true according to theology. and wherein plato, aristotle, pythag255 oras and others did hit the mark, and wherein moses, enochandsolomon did excel, but especially in what that wonderful book the bible agreeth. all that same concurreth and makes a sphere or globe whose total parts are equidistant from the centre.there follows theconfessio fraternitatis,written to the learned in europe, and which is said to contain thirty-seven reasons of the purpose and intention of the society. curiously enough, that tract does not contain any series of thirty-seven reasons, or thirty-seven paragraphs, bu

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, however, in other aspects than as simply preparersof the ordeal of the candidate; and, firstly, what does the, name 'ancient' mean, and why isitapplied to these officers. in the hebrew kabalah, the terms 'ancient 'ancient of the ancient.ones 'ancient of days, etc.,aretitles applied to god in his innermost and most concealed forms; and the term 'ancient ofdays' is used in several passages in the bible. this term 'ancieiit of days' is said, kabalistically, to refer to godbeforethe creation, anditsmeaning is 'ancientbefore(or anterior to) the days of creation; which daysofcreation, mentioned in225.genesis. areofcourse not the. simple day and nightorthis insignificant little solar systemofours, whichisbut a mere spot intheshore1essocean of the universe. the term,-elders (or ancient ones) is

held in the direction of the lines andnotes on the first knowledge lecture 117to press heavily on the horizontal, lightly on the vertical. also copy every letter as though it were a mechanical drawing. in the examinations that follow each knowledge lecture much credit is given for good hebrew writing. when the alphabet has been learned, i advise the student to take a text at random from a hebrew bible and name aloud each letter, disregarding the dots, marks, accidents, etc. noticing only the letters. he should not be satisfied till he can do so easily and without hesitation. when he is perfectly familiar with the forms of the letters, he may read with advantage my paper on the 'symbology of the hebrew letters in the first pentad. there will be much in this that he will not yet understand

veloped and unknown; therefore the intellectual abstraction which the buddhist calls his higher self istheonly thing which he can recognise above himself. buddhi, the christ soul, is undeveloped. now the hermetist, the western, on the other hand, has developed that principle, and by means of the vehicle he can comprehend.'iam the way, the path, and the light' thisidearuns through the whole of the bible, and referstothechristsoul,there, in a nut-shell, is the difference between the two. it is only a difference of one step, and the buddhist does not require tobedeprived of one single iota of his faith, so far as it is pure that is to say; but, on the same lines, he can be led on by the hermetic philosophy to take another step. and seeing that the buddhist is more highly developed in both the

scrit dictionary, and according to the theosophic glossary, standsforthepersonal god, also the breath or the word; and you will see there the absolute coincidenceofthe qabbalistic and jewish, the christian and the buddhistic cosmogonies.'thewordwhich wasinthe beginning'-thereforeit existed before the. beginning 'by whom all things were made. and. this is made still clearer if you study the hebrew bible inthelightofmost modern philology; putting aside the vowel pointing, which has rather blurred. and obscured the sense, and also.the pronunciation of a great part of the old hebrew text, and fixing your attention entirely upon the code as it was written on.the old scrolls of the law, written inhebrew, and making thebestyou can with the light of comparative philology and of the derivations of

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ract a number of philosophers. so, in the fifteenth century, a current of humanism began that left an indelible mark on the european world of ideas. this connection between humanism and the kabbalah has been emphasized in several sources. one of these sources is the book of the famous author malachi martin entitled the keys of this blood. martin is professor of history at the vatican's pontifical bible institute. he says that the influence of the kabbalah can be clearly observed among the humanists: in this unaccustomed climate of uncertainty and challenge that came to mark early-renaissance italy, there arose a network of humanist associations with aspirations to escape the overall control of that established order. given aspirations like that, these associations had to exist in the prote

k of humanist associations with aspirations to escape the overall control of that established order. given aspirations like that, these associations had to exist in the protection of secrecy, at least at their beginnings. but aside from secrecy, these humanist groups were marked by two other main characteristics. the first was that they were in revolt against the traditional interpretation of the bible as maintained by the ecclesiastical and civil authorities, and against global freemasonry ie the philosophical and theological underpinnings provided by the church for civil and political life not surprisingly given such an animus, these associations had their own conception of the original message of the bible and of god's revelation. they latched onto what they considered to be an ultrasec

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cism. 5 the gnostic concept of time the gnostic concept of time (yugas, historical models of cyclic time, rene guenon and julius evola and evola and "the revolt against the modern world. 6 the gnostic view of time ii the great year, egyptian star gnosis and heraldic cycles. 7 the continuum of the gnosis the gnostic identity message, origins, the israel connection, el, yahweh and reconsidering the bible, the sacred serpent, israel on the world stage, the druid connection, the essene link, the essenes, jesus and the foundations of gnosticism, table of contents the gnostic handbook hyperlinked index just click the gnostic handbook page 3 8 conditional immortality and reincarnation the aim of life, the bible and reincarnation, the mechanism of reincarnation, heaven and hell, hell on earth and

, first steps:detachment and controlled awareness, first steps:study, conviction and emotion, faith and education, baptism, initiation, the anointing and living the life of a gnostic:overcoming the dialectic system and life on the path 11 the secret way celestial transfiguration, going beyond the law, the parfait, wisdom from india, the secret of the qadesh and the bridal chamber 12 restoring the bible restoring the bible, what about the old testament? bible narratives, multiple levels of truth and continuing revelation, 13 the gnostic apostolic church churches and temples, the use of ritualism, the monastic life, the gnostic tradition: a brief history of the church, the role and purpose of the gnostic apostolic church, membership and priesthood, sacraments of the church and conclusion. ta

t remain available forever. as society changed and a new regime came to power the teachings of jesus were suppressed and replaced with the political faith of emperor constantine, and accordingly the gnosis went underground to ensure its survival. what we have in today's religious movements are not the original forms of judaism and christianity, but apostate faiths masquerading in their place. the bible itself has been tampered with to the gnostic handbook page 8 such an extent that only through much critical study can we restore just some of its inner meaning. the institute upholds the original inner teachings of jesus as part of a continuum of wisdom which spans from pagan to so-called christian sources. but it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings here, however

and before creation and in creation .in the world, sophia is actualised- as the earth's eros for heaven, all creation longing for liberation from the bondage of corruption for the radiance of sophianic light, for beauty and transfiguration. sophia- the wisdom of god. sergei bulgakov, lindisfarne press, 1993. the concept of sophia is alien to many western gnostics and yet when we clearly study the bible in the light of the gnosis, we find she is an integral part of divinity. when we consider how often the concept of sophia is linked to the concept of wisdom, we can achieve a deeper understanding of the power and beauty of the pleroma. the polarity of the god and the goddess while the three principles (sometimes called the triangle or triune principle (singular) work in unison, in many tradi

rature. for example, the demiurge. the demiurge as saturn is not evil but only the harsh school teacher, yet within the watchers the demiurge is desire (pride, uncontrolled lust etc. all fallen spirits are demiurges, all have desire to leave their station and enter earth. while the demiurge in man is the ego. these three different motifs explain the strange amalgam of tales we have throughout the bible about evil which range from the fall of lucifer (light bearer (the watchers, jesus calling peter satan (ethical dualism) and the book of job image of satan as tester. chapter four: the secret of saturn the gnostic handbook page 42 the secret of saturn the darkest aspect of the gnostic tradition is that of dualism. so many people who read about the gnosis accept at face value that the demiurg

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n some sense is the individual nature of the cosmic battle. the task for the gnostic in the kali yuga is to extract the light from the energies received and to sustain the purity of the human matrix, this is no easy task. when we begin to discuss the bodies or dimensions of man it becomes imperative that we really understand what man really is. in the early hebrew esoteric traditions on which the bible is based, man is a complex being. he is composed of multiple bodies or levels, each of which represent a specific strata of activity within his nature and each of which has a differing origin and goal. the structure of man is basically fourfold, as is the custom with the hebrew system, and is related to the four worlds and the four letters of the tetragrammaron or secret formula of god (yhvh

time than others. no, reincarnation is a process of opportunities, opportunities that if missed, have dire consequences. reincarnation does not go on forever, in the vedic tradition there are certainly days and nights of brahma- cycles of creation and cessation. if you do not make it in the creative cycle you will not survive the cessation. in the biblical tradition it is much the same. when the bible talks of the period from creation to the end of the world, it is clearly limiting man s opportunities to be redeemed. man s opportunity for transfiguration is limited, he does not have an eternity to make up his mind. again and again we find that reincarnation is for a certain time span only and ends with either ascension or annihilation. there is no room for universal reconciliation in the

hristian traditions. the problem is that most "christians" have no knowledge of what the word really means! there is this concept that repentance simply means saying sorry, in keeping with the traditions of most of western christianity, you can do whatever you want, as long as you say sorry to god and receive his forgiveness. however, this is not what the gnostic tradition (or for that matter the bible) really says. yes, there is forgiveness but grace works in conjunction with works. salvation is a process through which the treasury of light works in conjunction with you! it is not a one way street! the actual term repentance means to turn about, to reverse, to change. it represent the stage at which an individual decides his life is going in the wrong direction and turns it gnostic theurg

situations attachment will be the answer, in others detachment, the key is awareness, and the focus is on controlled decision making. full detachment and full attachment are opposites and hence lead further into the dialectic rather than away from it, total awareness is the answer. study, conviction and emotion the structure of the psyche must also be taken into consideration. when we read in the bible and gnostic texts that we must have no other elohim (gods) but the i am, this has important psychological ramifications. how many of us focus on careers, money, music, fame or a hundred and one diversions, rather than on our spiritual goal? the true gnostic must be focused on the spiritual path and nothing else. in the gospels the allegory of giving up everything is used, obviously you are n

ave fallen off the spiritual path. remember, the world is a trap, a dialectic prison, and accordingly, indulgence(+1) or asceticism and mortification(-1, are both actions and reactions and accordingly are aspects of the prison we are caught in. faith and education one of the most important steps on the path is that of education or more correctly, re-education. when the gnostic begins to study the bible with the keys of the mysteries, a whole new understanding will arise and will change the way he looks at the world forever. study is one of the major facets of the path of transfiguration, and it leads to a radically different way of examining the world. this viewpoint is sometimes called faith, but is better described as conviction. it is a worldview that grows out of the experience of the

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y might by this only vault be restored again. now, as yet we had not seen the dead body of our careful and wise father, we therefore removed the altar aside; then we lifted up a strong plate of brass, and found a fair and worthy body, whole and unconsumed, as the same is herelively counterfeited, with all the ornaments and attires. in his hand he held a parchment called t, the which next unto the bible is our greatest treasure, which ought not to be delivered to the censure of the world. at the end of this book standeth this following elogium: granum pectori jesu insitum. c.r.c. ex nobili atque splendida germaniae r.c. familia oriundus, vir sui seculi divinis revelationibus, subtilissimis imaginationibus, indefessis laboribus ad coelestia atque humana mysteria; arcanave admissus postquam s

especially accorded with by jesus in omnia parte and all members, and as he is the true image of the father, so is she his image, so it shall not be said, this is true according to philosophy, but true according to theology; and wherein plato, aristotle, pythagoras, and others did hit the mark, and wherein enoch, abraham, moses, solomon, did excel, but especially wherewith that wonderful book the bible agreeth. all that same concurreth together, and maketh a sphere or globe whose total parts are equisdistant from the center, as hereof more at large and more pain shall be spoken in christianly conference. but now concerning, and chiefly in this our age, the ungodly and accursed goldmaking, which hath gotten so much the upper hand, whereby under colour of it, many runogates and roguish peopl

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e, only, assiduous, and continual study of the sacred scriptures, for he that taketh all his pleasure therein shall know that he hath prepared for himself an excellent way to come into our fraternity, for this is the whole sum of our laws, that as there is not a character in that great miracle of the world which has not a claim on the memory, so those are nearest and likes unto us who do make the bible the rule of their life, the end of all their studies, and the compendium of the universal world, from whom we require not that it should be continually in their mouth, but that they should appropriately apply its true interpretation to all ages of the world, for it is not our custom so to debase the divine oracle, that while there are innumerable expounders of the same, some adhere to the op

innumerable expounders of the same, some adhere to the opinions of their party, some make sport of scripture as if it were a tablet of wax to be indifferently made use of by theologians, philosophers, doctors, and mathematicians. 7 be it ours rather to bear witness, that from the beginning of the world there hath not been given to man a more excellent, admirable, and wholesome book than the holy bible; blessed is he who possesseth it, more blessed is he who reads it, most blessed of all is he who truly understandeth it, while he is most like to god who both understands and obeys it. chapter xi now, whatsoever hath been said in the fama, through hatred of impostors, against the transmutation of metals and the supreme medicine of the world, we desire to be so understood, that this so great

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00 feet long and 300 feet wide. were the linemakers map-makers too? and why were they called the viracochas? graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 50 chapter 5 the inca trail to the past no artefacts or monuments, no cities or temples, have endured in recognizable form for longer than the most resilient religious traditions. whether expressed in the pyramid texts of ancient egypt, or the hebrew bible, or the vedas, such traditions are among the most imperishable of all human creations: they are vehicles of knowledge voyaging through time. the last custodians of the ancient religious heritage of peru were the incas, whose beliefs and idolatry were extirpated and whose treasures were ransacked during the thirty terrible years that followed the spanish conquest in ad 1532.1 providentially

lity to see far. thereafter their eyes were covered and they could only see what was close. both the popol vuh and genesis therefore tell the story of mankind s fall from grace. in both cases, this state of grace was closely associated with knowledge, and the reader is left in no doubt that the knowledge in question was so remarkable that it conferred godlike powers on those who possessed it. the bible, adopting a dark and muttering tone of voice, calls it the knowledge of good and evil and has nothing further to add. the popol vuh is much more informative. it tells us that the knowledge of the first men consisted of the ability to see things hidden in the distance, that they were astronomers who examined the four corners, the four points of the arch of the sky, and that they were geograph

t, pp. 111-12. 22 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 431. 23 ibid, pp. 428-9; folklore in the old testament, p. 115. in this version the character of michabo is called messou. 24 from lynd s history of the dakotas, cited in atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 117. 25 frederick a. filby, the flood reconsidered: a review of the evidences of geology, archaeology, ancient literature and the bible, pickering and inglis ltd, london, 1970, p. 58. andree was an eminent german geographer and anthropologist. his monograph on diluvial traditions is described by j. g. frazer (in folklore in the old testament, pp. 46-7) as a model of sound learning and good sense set forth with the utmost clearness and conciseness. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 191 for example, early jesuit scholars

l apart, and the earth 42 encyclopaedia britannica, 1991, 7:798. the rig veda, penguin classics, london, 1981, pp. 100-1. 43 the encyclopaedia of ancient egypt, p. 48. 44 from the theban recension of the egyptian book of the dead, quoted in from fetish to god in ancient egypt, p. 198. 45 genesis, 6:11-13. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 195 and all that it contains will be burnt up.46 the bible, therefore, envisages two ages of the world, our own being the second and last. elsewhere, in other cultures, different numbers of creations and destructions are recorded. in china, for instance, the perished ages are called kis, ten of which are said to have elapsed from the beginning of time until confucius. at the end of each kis, in a general convulsion of nature, the sea is carried out

1500 years after khufu s reign, and was therefore to be regarded as a work of historical fiction.28 thus, citing orthographic evidence, an entire academic discipline found reason to ignore the boat-rocking implications of the inventory stela and at no time gave proper consideration to the possibility that it could have been based upon a genuine fourth dynasty inscription (just as the new english bible, for example, is based on a much older original. exactly the same scholars, however, had accepted the authenticity of a set of dubious quarry marks without demur, turning a blind eye to their orthographic and other peculiarities. why the double standard? could it have been because the information contained in the quarry marks conformed strictly to orthodox opinion that the great pyramid had

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and a life of their own. as with the theosophical masters and the secret chiefs of magick, there is a political as well as spiritual undertone in contactee lore. of particular note is the work of george hunt ric williamson (a/k/a brother philip, d. january 1986, head of the brotherhood of the seven rays with an abbey near lake titicaca in south america. williamson was a serious student of the new bible oahspe, and, perhaps, from india to the planet mars (which influenced occultism in that period. williamson acted as a bridge from 19th century occult mediumship to modern trance channeling. veteran ufologist james w. moseley tells us that williamson would go into mediumlike trances and receive space messages, which he would repeat to his listeners in a voice different from his own. the myste

of the secret chiefs (identical with that of the ufonauts) have begun to restore the political component to historical understandings of the magical revival of the late 19th century. for westerners, especially in america, the separation of church and state has been sufficient to make it difficult even to think in terms of spirituality and political philosophy as a continuous sphere. even hardcore bible-belters are unable to truly imagine an established religion in the european sense, let alone in the asiatic. i believe most of us have virtually no idea of what makes islamic republicanism tick, and we stand appalled not only at the atrocities of islamic government, but at its sheer zeal. the idea of pat robertson driving a truck filled with explosives into an enemy military compound shoutin

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o face in the outside world. that was also why this design became known as the tree of life, because having fallen by the tree of knowledge, man would have to rise (or evolve) by the family tree of life connecting us with god by a series of step-by-step efforts until we had enough knowledge to bridge the abyss between us and that god (which represented ignorance) and so become in the words of the bible: like unto the gods, immortal. the tree of course is just the bare bones or abc of the kabbalistic system. the separate blocks as it were, by combinations of which all the rest of an enormous edifice can be built up out of consciousness alone. that is how cosmos was constructed by the thoughts of god. divinity combined one piece of consciousness with another in mathematical order and precisi

her-self. it is thought of as being gauzy or sufficiently translucent to give hints of something behind it. it represents the limits of clear perception which we have to impose between ourselves and more advanced consciousness. parochet is a useful background for spiritual studies. most mythologies are full of warnings about mortals who dared to gaze on gods and were destroyed in consequence. the bible says: no man has seen the face of god and lived. the normal human mind can only stretch so far before breaking, and it needs protection against an ideology it may seek on one level and yet cannot cope with until developed on others. so the parochet idea is both a warning and a protective hint to over-eager students of kabbalah. keep in immediate view only as much as can be dealt with comfort

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othed in christian forms. in some customs there was little to change: the heathen practice of sprinkling a newborn babe with water (vatni ansa p. 592, dicare p. 108, line 5) closely resembled christian baptism, the sign of the hammer that of the cross, and the ei-ection of tree-crosses the irmensuls and world-trees of paganism. still more significant must appear that passage where voluspa and the bible coincide (p. 811; in the far later solar-lio-s traces of christian teaching are discernible. in a conflux of so many elements it could not but happen, even where the mental conceptions and views of a simple populace unable to do without myths had felt the full force of the revolution, that in its turn the old, not wholly extinct, should half unconsciously get interwoven with the irrepressibl

fling smell of the grave pervades the medieval churches and chapels from an adoring of dead bones, whose genuineness and miraculous power seem rarely well attested, and sometimes quite impossible. the weightiest affairs of life, oathtakings, illnesses, required a touching of these sanctities, and all historical documents bear witness to their widely extended use, a use justified by nothing in the bible, and alien to primitive christianity (conf. p. 1179. but in idololatria and saint-worship the dominion of the priesthood found its main stay. of dualism proper i have acquitted our heathenism (pp. 895-6. 984. unlike polytheism, it seems to me to take its rise, not in gradual corruption, but in conscious, perhaps moral, reflexion, and at a later time. polytheism is tolerant and friendly; he t

we have more to say in the sequel. when stagheetles and dungbeetles are taken as devils, it gives assurance of a heathen point of view (see suppl. but also, and that from early times, the devil has been likened to two implements, the hammer and the holt, in which i have pointed out (pp. 180. 243) the reference to heathen gods. we have still to consider here what countenance they receive from the bible or the church. malleus is reckoned among names of the devil already in jerome's epistle to pope damasus (366 384, where he expounds the parable of the prodigal son j jerome may have picked up the expression from heathens in dalmatia, italy or gaul; and he had been on the rhine. greg. m (d. 603) opp. 1, 1125' in scriptura sacra mallei nomine aliquaudo diabolus designatur, per quem delinquenti

ks, theocritus 3, 31 mentions a k0(jkiv6^avtllucian (alex. 7) speaks of koakivcp fj,avtevea6ac among the paphlagonians; potter 1, 766 thus desci-ibes the process of koa- kcvofxavreia: they held up the sieve by a string, prayed to the gods, then ran over the names of the suspects; at that of the doer the sieve set ojfsjnnning (see suppl. in the same way people stuck a hereditary key in the bible (at the first chap, of john^ or a cleaver in a wooden ball, which began to move when they came to the right name. sup. i, 932. i surmise that the revolution of the latter-wood worn by spruchsprecher (lotter-buben, frei-harte, h. sachs iv. 3, 58) was also for divining purposes; in the early fragm. ib^ we find: houf umbe lotterholz, louf umbe gedrate' on this i shall be more explicit in anothe

gundy' tonai le taimi' noels borg. p. 37-1; taimi is the fr. tamis, nethl. teems, in teutonista tetiipse, but in diut. 2, 209 tempf. if graff has not misread this, we might make of tamj'ana (pp. 80. 257. 278) a goddess named after the sieve she held in her hand; that would look heathenish. h. stahl's westfal. sagen, elberf. 1831. p. 127 gives a fuher account: the hered. key is put inside a hered. bible, so that the ward part of the key lies on the words' in the beginning was the word' and the ring stands out of the book. they tie it up tight with string, and hang it up by the end of the string to the ceiling. then two people hold their fingers under the ring, touching it gently, and the injured party asks' has there been a witch at my cow' the other must say no, and the complainant answer

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d to the hair of sif or ceres. it is at once felt to be more artificial for sun and mountain and tree to be put into requisition to produce the human eye and bones and hair. yet we do speak of eyes being sunny, and of our flesh as akin to dust, and why may not even the heathens have felt prompted to turn that cosruogonic view upside down? still more would this commend itself to christians, as the bible expressly states that man was made of earth or loam,1 without enlarging on the formation of the several constituent parts of the body. none of the fathers seem to be acquainted with the theory of the eight constituents of the first man; i will not venture to decide whether it was already familiar to heathen times, and maintained itself by the side of the eddie doctrine, or first arose out of

way. god then called the children to him, and divided all the goods and honours of the earth among them. those that were hidden got none, and from them are descended beggars and fakirs the tfitt y t n aut* nty*^b* the agreement with the german drama of thhee 1f6itt h centt, is undeni w e erman rama o he 16th cent, undeniably and makes me doubt the supposed connexion of the concealed creation. 575 bible makes two separate actions, adam/s creation coming first, and eve s being performed afterwards and in a different manner.1 so, by hesiod s account, there already existed men descended from the gods themselves, when the first woman pandora, the allgifted, fair and false, was formed out of earth and flood (p. 571. it is difficult to arrive at the exact point of view in the hesiodic poems. in t

hich also plato passes over, discussing only daemons, heroes and men: will the diminutive stature of these shorter-lived genii warrant a comparison with the wights and elves of our own mythology? in the third race giants seem to be portrayed, or fighters of the giant sort, confronting as they do the rightful 1 the rabbinic myth supposes a first woman, lilith, made out of the ground like adam [the bible, we know, has two different accounts of man s creation: the first (elohistic) in gen. 1, 27, male and female created he them; the second (jehovistic) in gen. 2, 7, formed man of the dust, and in vv. 21. 22, took one of his ribs. and the rib. made he a woman. the first account seems to imply simultaneous creations. tkans] 576 ceeation. heroes of the fourth. the latter we might in mosaic langu

em the lithuanians are descended. but they were now old, and they grieved, whereupon god sent them for a comforter (linxmine) the rainbow, who counselled them to leap over the earth s bones: nine times they leapt, and nine couples sprang up, founders of the nine tribes of lithuania. this incident reminds us of the origin of men from the stones cast by deucalion and pyrrha; and the rainbow, of the bible account, except that here it is intro duced as a person, instructing the couple what to do, as hermes (the divine messenger) did deucalion. it were overbold perhaps to connect the nutshell with that nut-tree (p. 572-3, by which one vaguely expresses an unknown extraction. not all, even of the stories quoted, describe a universal deluge desolating the whole earth: that in which deucalion was

64. afterwards all creatures weep the dead baldr, men, animals, plants and stones, sn. 68. the os. poet of the heliand calls dumb nature the unquethandi, and says 168, 32: that thar waldandes dod (the lord s death) unquethandes so filo antkennian scolda, that is endagon ertha bivoda, hrisidun thia hohun bcrgos, harda stenos clubun, felisos after them felde. it is true these phenomena are from the bible (matth. 27, 51-2, yet possibly a heathen picture hovered in the author s mind (as we saw on pp. 148. 307, in this case the mourning for baldr, so like that for the saviour. herbort makes all things bewail hector: if (says he, 68a) stones, metals, chalk and sand had wit and sense, they would have sorrowed too. as deeply rooted in man s nature is the impulse, when unfortunate, to bewail his wo

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cations. the various lines formed in making this sign contain many ancient symbols and signs. it is used by masters, officers, and members, when taking or indicating a solemn obligation to the order or its members. it should never be supplanted by any form of pledge. even in courts of law, and elsewhere, when one is called upon to pledge to an oath or statement, by placing the hands upon the holy bible, or by raising the hand, the sign of the cross may be used in preference. in many instances, when taking an oath, one is privileged to use whatever form is the most sacred to the maker of the oath; this permits the rosicrucians to vow their allegiance to an obligation or swear to any [40] statement, in court or out of it, by making the sign of the cross in preference to any other form. howev

his symbolic meaning is philosophic and mystical. a ritual drama is an allegory based on ritual or initiatic rites and may constitute in itself a ritual or initiation. amen.a hebrew word introduced into the egyptian mystic rites at an early date as a term used to express the hidden and invisible god, or a truly inspired representative of god. in this latter sense the term is used in the christian bible just once; in rev. iii: 14, jesus is called "the amen. but at a much earlier date the same word, with the same mystic vowel sounds, was used to designate the name of the god of thebes, and the term amen-ra came to express the name and hierarchy of a powerful god among the egyptians. amenhotep iv changed his name to akhnaton because of the significance of the term amen. as used in modern reli

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se all recollectionofthe other spheres, and they are in the divine presence.20.-lsit sinful to use'thegiftofdiscerning spirits (cor. 12, v. 10) as practised in cabalism and crystal working?c.a.-itis wrong to use means for developing any mysterious powers that are forbidden by the lawsofgod;butthere are meansofforetelling things and knowing things belonging to other worlds consistent with the holy bible.thereis no evil in developing these to the extentofall power on earth.174therosicrucianseeri nextasked:-i.-maynoticor. ch.14,v.22-'whereforetongues are for a sign, not to them that believe,butto them that believe not; but prophecying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe'-apply also to spirit rapping, seeing that many have come thereby to a belief in the spirit wo

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

omplained that a liberalism of interpretation, amounting at times to a chaotic indifference to consistency and meaning, is characteristic of egyptian thought. 8 much of this confusion can be resolved if the myths are examined in the contexts in which they occur, rather than in isolation. history and the sources of egyptian myth ancient egyptian religion had no official holy book equivalent to the bible or the koran (quran. the relationships between deities did not become fixed at one 4 handbook of egyptian mythology moment in time but went on changing and developing for thousands of years. egyptian mythology was never gathered by priests into one authorized version or harmonized in any long literary work comparable to hesiod s theogony, an important source for the study of greek mythology

a version of the litany of ra was appended to the mortuary texts known as the book of the dead. the book of the dead the egyptian book of the dead is a term coined in the nineteenth century ce for a body of texts known to the ancient egyptians as the spells for going forth by day. after the book of the dead was first translated by egyptologists, it gained a place in the popular imagination as the bible of the ancient egyptians. the comparison is very inappropriate. the book of the dead was not the central holy book of egyptian religion. it was just one of a series of manuals composed to assist the spirits of the elite dead to achieve and maintain a full afterlife. the collection was used for over a thousand years and eventually consisted of more than 190 spells or formulas. individual copi

bian nights entertainment, a vast collection of stories compiled in medieval egypt. egypt s greatest medieval leader was saladin (1169 1193 ce, who defended egypt and palestine against the christian crusaders. arabic literature flourished in egypt, and one of its themes was the lost treasures and secrets of the ancient pagan sites.110 medieval christian pilgrims who visited egypt because it was a bible land brought back descriptions of the pyramids, which they generally identified with the granaries of joseph. a crucial part of the renaissance, which began in fourteenth- century ce italy, was the rediscovery of classical texts. during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ce, hermetica from egypt were wrongly thought to be the world s most ancient religious documents. this aroused great in

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

he cause of the transformation of the white lotus into the blue lotus, be calledharischandra or ambarisha? names have nothing to do with the naive poetry of the legend, nor with itsmoral- for there is a moral to be found if looked for well. we shall soon see that the chief episode in thestory is curiously reminiscent of another legend- that of the story of abraham and the sacrifice of isaac inthe bible. is not this one more proof that the secret doctrine of the east may have good reason to maintainthat the name of the patriarch was neither a chaldean or a hebrew name, but rather an epithet and a sanskritsurname, signifying abram, i.e, one is non-brahman* a debrahmanised brahman, one who is degraded orwho has lost his caste? after this how can we avoid suspecting that we may find, among the

ho is degraded orwho has lost his caste? after this how can we avoid suspecting that we may find, among the modern jews,the chaldeans of the time of the rishi agastya- these makers of bricks whose persecution began from eighthundred to a thousand years ago, but who emigrated to chaldea four thousand years before the christian era- when so many of the popular legends of southern india resemble the bible stories. louis jacolliot speaksin several of his twenty-one volumes on brahmanical india of this matter, and for once he is right* the particle a in the sanskrit word shews this clearly. placed before a substantive thisparticle always means the negation or the opposite of the meaning of the expression thatfollows. thus sura (god) written a -sura, becomes non-god, or the devil, vidya isknowle

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

he same writer: he had but to propound his instructions according to the ancient pillars of hermes, which plato and pythagoras knew before, and from them constituted their philosophy. finding the same in the prologue of the gospel according to st. john, he very properly supposed that the purpose of jesus was to restore the great doctrine of wisdom in its primitive integrity. the narratives of the bible and the stories of the gods he considered to be allegories illustrative of the truth, or else fables to be rejected. as says the edinburgh encyclopedia: moreover, he acknowledged that jesus christ was an excellent man and the "friend of god" but alleged that it was not his design entirely to abolish the worship of demons (gods, and that his only intention was to purify the page 7 the key to

s? a. first and foremost, the natural selfishness of human nature. this selfishness, instead of being eradicated, is daily strengthened and stimulated into a ferocious and irresistible feeling by the present religious education, which tends not only to encourage, but positively to justify it. people's ideas about right and wrong have been entirely perverted by the literal acceptance of the jewish bible. all the unselfishness of the altruistic teachings of jesus has become merely a theoretical subject for pulpit oratory; while the precepts of practical selfishness taught in the mosaic bible, against which christ so vainly preached, have become ingrained into the innermost life of the western nations "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" has come to be the first maxim of your law. now

rmies to murder each other. both indulge before action in a bit of such sorcery, by offering respectively prayers to the same god of hosts, each entreating his help to cut its enemies' throats. q. david prayed to the lord of hosts to help him smite the philistines and slay the syrians and the moabites, and "the lord preserved david whithersoever he went" in that we only follow what we find in the bible. a. of course you do. but since you delight in calling yourselves christians, not israelites or jews, as far as we know, why do you not rather follow that which christ says? and he distinctly commands you not to follow "them of old times" or the mosaic law, but bids you do as he tells you, and warns those who would kill by the sword, that they, too, will perish by the sword. christ has given

n consciousness; and the personal consciousness can hardly last longer than the personality itself, can it? and such consciousness, as i already told you, survives only throughout devachan, after which it is reabsorbed, first, in the individual, and then in the universal consciousness. better enquire of your theologians how it is that they have so sorely jumbled up the jewish scriptures. read the bible, if you would 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 ma

d impartiality; and a god who would create every soul for the space of one brief span of life, regardless of the fact whether it has to animate the body of a wealthy, happy man, or that of a poor suffering wretch, hapless from birth to death though he has done nothing to deserve his cruel fate-would be rather a senseless fiend than a god. why, even the jewish philosophers, believers in the mosaic bible (esoterically, of course, have never entertained such an idea; and, moreover, they believed in reincarnation, as we do. q. can you give me some instances as a proof of this? a. most decidedly i can. philo judaeus says: the air is full of them (of souls; those which are nearest the earth, descending to be tied to mortal bodies, palindromousi authis, return to other bodies, being desirous to l

HP LOVECRAFT THE PICTURE IN THE HOUSE

at plate xii, which represented in gruesome detail a butcher's shop of the cannibal anziques. i experienced some shame at my susceptibility to so slight a thing, but the drawing nevertheless disturbed me, especially in connection with some adjacent passages descriptive of anzique gastronomy. i had turned to a neighboring shelf and was examining its meagre literary contents- an eighteenth century bible, a "pilgrim's progress" of like period, illustrated with grotesque woodcuts and printed by the almanack-maker isaiah thomas, the rotting bulk of cotton mather's "magnalia christi americana" and a few other books of evidently equal age- when my attention was aroused by the unmistakable sound of walking in the room overhead. at first astonished and startled, considering the lack of response to

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ecorations of the elevated, and dietetic inspiration; they have been expected to honour you, dry you out, fatten you up, make you strong, protect from harm, bring him back, break the tide, cure the plague, bring in money and inhibit infidelity. ancient greece bought courage with thyme, romans cured drunkenness with parsley, and charlemagne grew rosemary because it was known to fortify memory. the bible says that dinner with herbs may be better where love is, but all witches know that love is frequently better when herbs are in the dinner. 3. blood charm in sicily certain modern segments of the youthful in-love society cling to a primitive belief that a few drops of blood from the lady's finger mixed with the gentleman's hot cafe royale will bind them to eternity. so potent is the supposed

r. too often people deliberately fail. they tend to do all they can to break their spirit, subdue their energy. it's this same energy you want and need to get you things. you've got to generate energy in order to get things going. you can take vitamins for the rest of your life, but unless your mental attitude is energetic, you're not going to get what you want. you've got to turn on. there is no bible of witchcraft, and although there are many books on the market about the history of witchcraft and a few mysterious little things to do, the books are not truly dealing with witchcraft unless it is made clear that mental attitude is the driving force. anything else is fake, and it's absolutely not witchcraft. so don't waste your time kissing frogs: they won't turn into prince charming. the r

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

the oriental scriptures, the first element born from akasa is believed to be tejas, the principle of fire. this element as well as all the others manifest their influence not only in our roughly material plane but also in everything created. the basic qualities of the fiery principle are heat and expansion. in the beginning of all things created therefore must have been fire and light, and in the bible we read: fiat lux there shall be light. the origin of the light, of course, is to be sought in the fire. each element and therefore that of fire, too, has two polarities, i.e, the active and the passive one, which means positive) and negative. plus will always signify the constructive, the creative, the productive sources whereas minus stands for all that is destructive or dissecting. there

inhalation the patient accepts your own radiation of vital power, conveys it to the blood, and will bring about a complete recovery. here also you will have to concentrate on the wish that the force inhaled by the patient should keep on working positively in him. this has been an example of vital force transference from the magician s to another s body by breathing. we can rely on the word of the bible, when our lord jesus christ was touched by a sick woman in the hope of recovery. our lord felt the diminution of his vital power and he remarked to his disciples, i have been touched! working with vital power and magnetism, one has to consider time and space. with a view to this fact, i have quoted several examples concerning the treatment of diseases, and i could still mention quite a numbe

concerning the desired strength, faculty and cause. the magician has to consider these rules of analogy when he is producing and loading such a pentacle, which he will always prefer to the talisman, especially if he wants to communicate with beings of other higher worlds, no matter whether good or evil entities are concerned, genii or demons. an amulet again is a divine, or a holy verse from the bible, a mantram, which is a sentence expressing the worship of a deity, written on parchment or paper. carrying around various magic herbs such as mandrake and the like which are believed to possess a kind of protective power belongs to this category of amulets too. furthermore, this category includes fluid condensers in solid or liquid form or blotting papers moistened with them, loadstones and

the magician regard himself as sovereign of all the elements. there is one conviction that the magician will win while visiting all the element organism, namely that however great the intelligence and knowledge of these sprites may be, they are still composed of one single element, whereas man represents all four elements plus the fifth, akasa, the principle of god. now he will understand why the bible says that man is the most perfect of all beings, created by god in his own image. this is the reason for the discontent of all the elemental organisms at the sight of man s immortality, toward which all of them feel envy. it is understandable that each elemental being seeks to obtain immortality, and that the magician is in a position to bestow such an opportunity on them. unfortunately it i

nd the greatest cold if he accumulates this element in himself. the lamas in tiber can produce an enormous heat in their bodies with the help of the accumulated fire element, so that they can quickly dry wet sheets wrapped on their bodies in the middle of winter. this experiment is known as tumo in tibet. any kind of combustible material can be ignited with the outward-projected fire element. the bible describes similar occurrences where stakes soaked with water were set on fire by means of the fire element. there is no doubt that a plant, for example a tree, can be made to die through the projection of the fire element. did not our lord jesus christ make the leaves of a fig tree dry up to demonstrate his power? he considered the same law, performing the projection with the help of a magic

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

e principal means of preventing the growth and spread of witchcraft in celtic ireland. another point arises in connection with the advance of the reformation in ireland. unfortunately the persecution of witches did not cease in the countries where that movement made headway--far from it; on p. 9 the contrary it was kept up with unabated vigour. infallibility was transferred from the church to the bible; the roman catholic persecuted the witch because supreme pontiffs had stigmatised her as a heretic and an associate of satan, while the protestant acted similarly because holy writ contained the grim command "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" thus persecution flourished equally in protestant and roman catholic kingdoms. but in ireland the conditions were different. we find there a roman

k art! mr. law also gives the modus operandi at full length. a p. 81 servant-girl in the employment of major-general montgomerie at irvine in scotland was accused of having stolen some silver-work "the lass being innocent takes it ill, and tells them, if she should raise the devil she should know who took these things" thereupon, in order to summon that personage she went into a cellar "takes the bible with her, and draws a circle about her, and turns a riddle on end from south to north, or from the right to the left hand [i.e. contrary to the path of the sun in the heavens, having in her right hand nine feathers which she pulled out of the tail of a black cock, and having read the 51st [psalm] forwards, she reads backwards chapter ix, verse 19, of the book of revelation" upon this the dev

considerable amount of gold lay at the doctor's disposal, which he prudently used to advance his worldly welfare. so far, so good. but there are two sides to every question. years rolled by, bringing ever nearer and nearer the time at which the account had to be settled, and at length the fatal day dawned. the devil arrived p. 84 to claim his victim, and found him sitting in his house reading his bible by the light of a candle, whereupon he directed him to come along with him. the doctor begged that he might not be taken away until the candle, by which he was reading, was burned out. to this the devil assented, whereupon dr. colville promptly extinguished the candle, and putting it between the leaves of the bible locked it up in the chest where he kept his gold. the candle was thus deposit

prophecies and predictions of the holy, learned, and excellent james usher &c. written by the person who heard it from this excellent person's own mouth" and apparently published in 1656. according to it, be foretold the rebellion of 1641 in a sermon on ezekiel iv. 6, preached in dublin in p. 103 1601 "and of this sermon the bishop reserved the notes, and put a note thereof in the margent of his bible, and for twenty years before he still lived in the expectation of the fulfilling thereof, and the nearer the time was the more confident he was that it was nearer accomplishment, though there was no visible appearance of any such thing" he also foretold the death of charles i, and his own coming poverty and loss of property, which last he actually experienced for many years before his death

e prayer, and only failed her for that, she said she knew not, neither could she help it "john pyne being likewise sworn and examined, saith, that about january last [1661] the said mary longdon, being his servant, was much troubled with small stones that were thrown at her[&c, as in the deponent's statement, other items of which he also corroborated. that sometimes the maid would be reading in a bible, and on a sudden he hath seen the bible struck out of her hand into the middle of the room, and she immediately cast into a violent fit. that in the fits he hath seen two bibles laid on her breast, and in the twinkling of an eye they would be cast betwixt the two beds the maid lay upon, sometimes thrown into the middle of the room, and that nicholas pyne held the bible in the maid's hand so

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b denved right 13 a generic name, islhagorean teacbin^ of jenu. ine apocalyps e apocalypse kabalistk. jesui coniidcied an adept by some pagan philoiopbaa and early chrituani 150 doctiiae of permatation 152 the meaning irf god-incarnate 153 dogmas ol tbe gnostics 155 idraa of marcion, the 'bereaiardi' 159 precepts of mann 163 jebovab, identical with baccbos 165 chafteb jv oriental cosmogonies and bible bbcords discrepancies in the pentateoch 167 indian, chaldaean and ophite systems conqwred 170 who were the firat christians? j78 christos and sc^rfiia-acbamoth 183 secret doctrine uuriit by jesus 191 jesut never daimed to be god 193 new tcatament narrative* and hmdal^aads 199 antiquity irf the 'logos' and 'christ' 205 comparative vi^n-wocship 209 chapter v mysteries of the kabala ain-soph an

i chapter viii jesuitry and masonry the zoaar and rabbi shimon the order of jesuita and iti r^tioo to aome of the muonic ordera, crimes permitted to its memben principles of jesuitry compared with tboae of pagan morallits. trinity erf man in egyptian soak rf iht dtad penecution of templan by the cburch 381 secfet maaonic dpben 3s5 jehovah not the "ineffable nanw' 398 chapter ix -the vedas and the bible ne*rly evwy myth baaed on some gnat truth 405 whence the christian sabbath 406 antiquity of the ved s 410 ^rthasoran doctrine of the potentialities of number* 417 'd*ys of (bnetu and 'days' of brahmi 422 fall ot man and the deluge in the hiadh books 425 antiquity of the mancient egyptians of the aryan race? 434 skmnel. david, and solomon mythicsl powmages 439 ^mbcjiam

f en^nd, who is one. and yet, in comparison with the millions who have been accounted christians, such have always formed a small minority. they are to be found at this day, in pul- pit and pew, in palace and cottage; but the increasing materialism, worldliness and hypocrisy are fast diminishing their proportionate num- ber. hieir charity and simple, child-like faith in the infallibility of their bible, their dogmas, and their clergy, bring into full activity all the virtues that are implanted in our common nature. we have personally known such god-fearing priests and clergymen, and we have always avoided debate with them, lest we mi^t be guilty of the cruelty of hurt- ing their feelings; nor would we rob a sin^ layman of his blind con- fidence, if it alone made possible for him holy livin

science on trial, and that she is handcuffed, she would be ready at a moment's notice to repeat in the nineteenth century the revolting scenes of former days. as to the protestant clergy, so furious is their common hatred toward spiritualism, that as a secular paper veiy truly remarks'"riey seem willing to undermine the public faith in all the spiritual pheno- mena of the past as recorded in the bible, if they can only see the pes- tilent modem heresy stabbed to the heart* summoning back the long-forgotten memories of the mosuc laws, the romish church claims the monopoly of miracles and of the right to sit in judgment over them, as being the sole heir thereto by direct inheritance. the old tegtament, exiled by colenso, his predecessors and contemporaries, is recalled from its banishment

but an ordinary metaphor. whence then came the dreary dogma of hell, that archimedean lever of christian theology, with whidi they have succeeded in holding in subjection the numberless millions of christians for nineteen centuries? assuredly not from the jewish scriptures, and we appeal for corroboration to any well-informed hebrew scholar. he only suggestion of something approaching hell in the bible is gehenna or hinnom, a valley near jerusalem, where was situated tophet, a place where a fire was perpetually kept for sanitary purposes. the prophet jeremiah informs us that the israehtes used to sacrifice their children to moloch-hercules on that spot; and later we find christians quietly replacing this divinity by their god of mercy whose wrath will not be appeased, unless the church sac

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

attracts events filled with symbolism and deep, meaningful possibilities for it is a field of infinitely creative potential, a field of grace, true nourishment and love. this is the field through which all holiness and true messengers come. this is the zone from which all the holy books were born. and the delta fields bring it all, for from its field springs paradise and the garden of eden of the bible s god. the delta zone is also the home of the elohim and the archangels and pure lore. the opening of the inner doors and the heart and crown chakra plug in meditations, allows for our inner fields to be tuned constantly to the delta and theta fields on an energetic level, thus providing a very strong foundation for the elements to gather around us and respond (these meditations are provided

ritual consciousness. this point is often used as point of concentration in meditation, because it is one of the places in the body where it is most easy to hold a steady focus, as well as it activates psychic energy. concentration on this point will sooner or later give strong impressions of inner light, and is a method to get in contact with the energy dimension beyond the physical body. in the bible there is a saying that refers to the third eye: let thine eye be single. that thy whole body shall be full of light (mark 6:22 and luke 11:34. this is from the king james version of the bible which was written in the time of shakespeare. later editions have other translations which often loses this interesting point) the tantric yogi, swami satyananda gives this description of the third eye:

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

et, appears from aristotle (met, vii. 7. some philosophers hold, he says, that ideas and numbers are of the same nature, and amount to ten in all. see the gnostics and their remains, p. 229. but to return to the arms of france, which are the fleurs-de-lis, and to the small representative creature (sublime enough, as the farthest-off symbol which they are imagined in their greatness to indicate. a bible presented to charles the second, a.d. 869, has a miniature of this monarch and his court. his throne is terminated with three flowers of the form of fleurs-de-lis sans pied. on his head is a crown ferm e fleurons d or, relevez et recourbez d une maniere singuli re. another miniature in the book of prayers shows him on a throne surmounted by a sort of fleurs-de-lis sans pied. his crown is of

cond light, and to the mysterious identity of both (the third power, three in one, but only in the necessity of being, all dark-being constituting all bright-being in the spirit, and both, and their identity, being one, that these monumental columns are raised being really the mark and the signal (warning on, in time) of supernatural, or magic, knowledge. stones were set up by the patriarchs: the bible records them. in india, the first objects of worship were monoliths. in the two peninsulas of india, in ceylon, in persia, in the holy land, in phoenicia, in sarmathia, in scythia, everywhere where worship was attempted (and in what place where man exists is it not, everywhere where worship was 88 the rosicrucians. practised (and where, out of fears, did not, first, come the gods, and then t

most beautiful, to the glowing nemesis, in that keenest, strangest, yet divinest, fire-appetite; the offered plunder, the surrendered lives, of the predatory races? what signifies the sacrifice of iphigenia, the burning of living people among the gauls, the indian fiery immolations? what is intended even by the patriarchal sacrifices? what is the meaning of the burnt offerings, so frequent in the bible? in short, what read we, and what seem we conclusively to gather, we repeat, in this mystic thing, and hitherto almost meaningless, if not contradictory and silencing, institution of sacrifice by fire? what gather we, otherwise than in the explanation of the thing signified by it? we speak of sacrifice as practised in all ages, enjoined in all holy books, elevated into veneration, as a neces

y of the stars were at the outset noted, and handed as from the earliest expositors of the secrets of the heavens. this procession of twelve 298 the rosicrucians (in the origin it was the procession of ten, under the name of the zodiac, tells, in its signs the history of the making of the world, according to the chald ans and egyptians, and also, in the hidden way, according to the account in the bible. as the little and the large have sometimes a closer connection than is ordinarily supposed, we will pass on now to some more familiar and commonplace examples. it may be worth while to dwell with greater minuteness on the little-understood origin of those light auxiliary troops, as they were organised originally, the modern hussars. this irregular, lightly-equipped european cavalry plays an

secret, or at all events evading, where the knowledge is not wholly suppressed. as an instance of the impossibility of accepting flood s 312 the rosicrucians. ideas, if these were such, gassendus charges him with a stupendous puzzle* that of passing the entire interpretation of scripture over, not to the mystics only, but to alchemy. gassendus asserts, as the opinion of flood, that the key of the bible mysteries is really to be found in the processes of alchemy and of the hermetic science; that the mystical sense of scripture is not otherwise explainable than by the philosopher's stone; and that the attainment of the great art or of the secrets which lie locked, is heaven, in the rosicrucian profundities. old and new testament, and their historical accounts, are alike hermetic in this resp

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imagination who are able to see relationships which escape the casual observer. it remains for the men of intuition to seek answers while others avoid even the question. mr. jessup's analyses are based on phenomena which were of scientific record many years before the present controversial era, and are therefore objective; thus, the overall picture which we have here will, and should, become the bible for the ufo. whereas, i may not necessarily agree with mr. jessup in each of his startling deductions, certainly there is every reason to believe that his is the correct approach: indeed, many of his conclusions will be difficult, if not altogether impossible to refute! having brought to the case for the ufo his ability to reason clearly, to research assiduously and to write lucidly and effe

rlier. tipton, whose uncle owns the ranch, said that the ice did not look like the truck-delivered variety, but did have something of the appearance of hail, except for the dimensions. all three declared that the pieces were not dry ice, and both drs. tipton and treadwell agreed that there had been no airplanes heard overhead, before or after the ice fell. after hearing this story, i turned to my bible, revelations 16:21 "and there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent" according to a dictionary definition, a talent is fifty-eight pounds. can you explain this mystery? lewis w. mathews, fort worth, texas now how do we interpret these strange falls of ice? what, after careful consideration, do they mean to us? 52 we have already enough data to ind

n (red is a and b) read "your sins& mine" for clues "ethereal types" don't change shape, only change instensity or amount of protective force-shield to ward off extra fast tiny meteors or to change course. also wards-off cosmic ray particles as to what is to come if l-m's get disgusted with mans misanthropic, non-philosophism& materialism. man has many books on "truethought" yet they ignore them, bible, koran, etc. angers l-m's feircely (sic) ethereal types similair to results of navy expieriments, in force-field invisibility, 1943 solids go throo them, no harm to occupants at all. the following notes appear at the beginning of part three. a force able to propel every molecule of itself, plus its passengers, at 7500 mph if used as a force shield to withstand the impact of meteoric rock gro

reached aboard the vessel and swallowed the crew. friends nodded agreement, for there were reports by reputable seamen of the sightings of strange denizens of the seas, bigger than whales. food-ships or home ships a thorough investigation by a board of inquiry failed to shed new light on the mystery. they reported their findings to the captain's wife, a woman of few words. she glanced up from the bible she as reading, and with a look of resignation, said"'tis the will of the lord" the vessel's holds were unloaded. tropical hardwoods, pitchpine, sacks of coffee and some dyewoods were transported to her designated port of call. then an attempt was made to refloat the ship but the seabird dug deeper into the sand. she was pushed in deeper (italic by mr. a) soon after, a night gale blew itself

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nal' occult philosophy here, and certainly an important part of the tradition is the idea (and terms) microcosm and macrocosm. the greater universe, known as the *macrocosm, includes everything that exists. it corresponds with the *microcosm, or tiny universe, ie. man- who is thought of as a miniature replica of the macrocosm (whole universe. this basic magical relationship is demonstrated in the bible (genesis 1.27, where god is the macrocosm; and in the writing of trismegistus("as above so below. since man is in the image of god (universe) it follows that god is in the image of man (in other words, man and the god/universe match each other. the magician, as a microcosm is thus connected with the macrocosm. there is an intimate relationship of energies between you and everything else. the

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ature which plagues many of the versions discussed hereafter. a translation of sy was published in 1883 (2nd edition, 1886) in alfred edersheim s ambitious life and times of jesus the messiah (london and bombay: longmans/green and company, 2 volumes; reprinted in recent years as a single volume by several publishers: wm. b. eerdmans publishing co, 1943 through 1981; macdonald publishing and world bible publishing company in 1994; hendrickson publishers in 1993 and 1997. the translation appears in appendix v, 4. after a perfunctory description of kabbalah, which concludes, the book yetsirah is the oldest kabbalistic document, the text of sy is summarized* the short version, thought by some to be more representative of the original text, begins (chapter 1, paragraph 1) thirty-two mysterious

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s. budapest/new york: central european university press, 2005: chapter 2, 3, gthe pillar in the book bahir h. krzok, paul. ga look at the bahir, h in the hermetic journal, number 22, edited by adam mclean (edinburgh: winter 1983. neubauer, a. gthe bahir and the zohar, h in jewish quarterly review, original series, vol. 4 (1892. schafer, peter. mirror of his beauty: feminine images of god from the bible to the early kabbalah. princeton and oxford: princeton university press, 2002. scholem, gershom. kabbalah [articles from encyclopedia judaica. jerusalem- new york: keter publishing house/times books, 1974; rpt. new york: dorset press, 1987 (article) gsefer ha-bahir. h. on the kabbalah and its symbolism. new york: schocken books, 1965: chapter 3. gkabbalah and myth, h ii. wolfson, elliot r. g

harwood academic publishers, 1998. gthe contribution of abraham abulafia fs kabbalah to the understanding of jewish mysticism, h in gershom scholem fs major trends in jewish mysticism 50 years after (1993. language, torah, and hermeneutics in abraham abulafia. albany: state university of new york press, 1989. ghitbodedut as concentration in ecstatic kabbalah, h in jewish spirituality i: from the bible through the middle ages, edited by arthur green (new york: crossroad publishing company, 1985. messianic mystics. new haven: yale university press, 1998: chapter two: gabraham abulafia: ecstatic kabbalah and spiritual messianisms h and appendix one: gego, ergo sum messiah: on abulafia fs sefer ha-yashar. h. the mystical experience in abraham abulafia. albany: state university of new york pre

ish mysticism in medieval europe, edited by joseph dan (jerusalem: the hebrew university, 1987. laenen, j. h. jewish mysticism: an introduction, translated by david e. orton [original dutch: joodse mystiek. een inleiding. louisville: westminster john knox press, 2001; iii.2. ghistorical overview of the movements. h. matt, daniel c. gthe mystic and the mitzwot, h in jewish spirituality i: from the bible through the middle ages, edited by arthur green (new york: crossroads publishing company, 1985. mopsik, charles. ggenesis 1:26-27: the image of god, man and wife, and the status of women in the writings of the early kabbalists h and ggenesis 2:24: ethey become one flesh f: several interpretations by medieval jewish mystics, h in idem, sex of the soul: the vicissitudes of sexual difference in

ekhalot (200 ce onward) 3. sefer yezirah (between 200 and 900 ce) 4. transition a. geonic period (600-1000) b. early commentaries on sefer yezirah c. religious philosophers i. solomon ibn gebirol (1020-1070) ii. judah halevi (1075-1141) iii. abraham ibn ezra (1089-1164) 5. hasidei ashkenaz (german hasidism: ca 1170-1240) 1. early beginnings since jewish mysticism is ultimately based on the hebrew bible, the beginning, really, is the tanakh, parts of which are more gmystical h than others. more important to our line of inquiry is that certain themes were developed more than others for a variety of mystical purposes. by talmudic times, two branches of the mysteries were well known and defined: the work of creation, i.e. developments of the first chapters of genesis, and the work of the chari

y is that certain themes were developed more than others for a variety of mystical purposes. by talmudic times, two branches of the mysteries were well known and defined: the work of creation, i.e. developments of the first chapters of genesis, and the work of the chariot, developments of ezekiel and, to a lesser extent, isaiah. a. apocalyptic, wisdom literature, pseudepigrapha radicalizations of bible themes appeared in the intertestamental apocalypses, which, when grouped together with a somewhat irregular splay of wisdom literature, psalms, testaments, prayers, and other material, are referred to as the pseudepigrapha. two fine introductions to apocalyptic are 1. russell, d. s. the method and message of jewish apocalyptic. philadelphia: westminster press, 1964. 2. collins, john j. the a

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rongly written; but they come to know me, a peacock of bronze and of gold, wings spread over kaaba and temple and church, not to be overshadowed. and in the secret cave of my wisdom it is known that there is no god but myself, archangel over all the host, melek ta'us. knowing this, who dares deny? 406 knowing this, who dares fail to worship? knowing this, who dares worship false gods of koran and bible? knowing this, who shall make that? know that who knows me will i cast into paradisical gardens of my pleasure! but the yezid who knows me not will i cast into affliction. say then, i am the only and exalted archangel; and i make prosperous whom i will, and i enliven whom i will. say then, i alone am to be praised from the towers of lalish, and from the mountain of ararat to the western sea

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s a guide from the past to the future, revealing situations that all students of kabbalah will experience at some point on their journeys. for those who cherish every moment in life, the author offers unparalleled insights into the timeless wisdom of kabbalah. 108 the path of kabbalah: thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness (exodus 20:3. this prohibition from the bible is also the basis of the wisdom of kabbalah. kabbalists state that there is no reality at all, but something called his essence, the upper force. as uncanny as it sounds, this notion hides in its wings the very prospect of freedom, for every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. the structure and the perception of reality are the surface of this book. but the story of humanity

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is a guide from the past to the future, revealing situations that all students of kabbalah will experience at some point along their journeys. for those who cherish every moment in life, the author offers unparalleled insights into the timeless wisdom of kabbalah. the path of kabbalah: thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness (exodus 20:3. this prohibition from the bible is also the 204 from chaos to harmony basis of the wisdom of kabbalah. kabbalists state that there is no reality at all, but something called his essence, the upper force. as uncanny as it sounds, this notion hides in its wings the very prospect of freedom, for every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. the structure and the perception of reality are the surface of this book

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as home. hatred replaced love, and people grew apart and became detached from one another. in consequence, the single nation of the ancient world was divided. it first split into two groups that drifted to the east and to the west. the two groups continued to divide and splinter, eventually forming the multitude of nations we have today. one of the most obvious symptoms of the division, which the bible describes as the fall of the tower of babel, was the creation of different languages. these different languages disconnected people from each other and created confusion and malfunction. the hebrew word for confusion is bilbul, and to mark the confusion, the capitol of mesopotamia received the name, babel (babylon. 28 kabbalah revealed ever since that split xwhen our desires grew from level

plete as nature. in that state, even when our 36 kabbalah revealed bodies die, we will feel that we continue to exist in the eternal nature. physical life and death will no longer affect us because our previous self-centered perception will have been replaced with a whole, altruistic perception. our own lives will have become the life of the whole of nature. the time is now the book of zohar, the bible of kabbalah, was written approximately 2,000 years ago. it states that toward the end of the 20th century, humankind s egoism will soar to unprecedented intensity. as we have seen before, the more we want, the emptier we feel. therefore, since the end of the 20th century, humanity has been experiencing its worst emptiness ever. the book of zohar also writes that when this emptiness is felt

is a guide from the past to the future, revealing situations that all students of kabbalah will experience at some point along their journeys. for those who cherish every moment in life, the author offers unparalleled insights into the timeless wisdom of kabbalah. the path of kabbalah: thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness (exodus 20:3. this prohibition from the bible is also the basis of the wisdom of kabbalah. kabbalists state that there is no reality at all, but something called his essence, the upper force. as uncanny as it sounds, this notion hides in its wings the very prospect of freedom, for every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. the structure and the perception of reality are the surface of this book. but the story of humanity

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r attributes place us opposite the creator and make it impossible for us to feel him. as soon as we acquire attributes similar to those of the creator, we will begin to feel him proportionately. therefore, when hardships befall us, we need to ask ourselves "why is this happening to me" and "why is the creator doing this to me" punishments, as such, do not exist, although many are mentioned in the bible (which includes the five books of moses, the writings and the prophets- 88- attaining the worlds beyond there are only "incentives" that force us to progress towards our selfish desires. our awareness of things is only an ancillary mechanism that helps us properly understand what we feel. whenever we picture our lives, we should think of a gigantic classroom with the omniscient creator actin

efore, there is no particular, individual growth, but only general growth in accordance with the general providence from above. for this reason, the masses always perceive themselves to be right and perfect. being spiritually organic (tzomeach) means that individuals possess a unique degree of inner movement and development. at this point, a person becomes known as man, or adam, as written in the bible "adam a tree in a field" since spiritual growth requires moving forward, and movement can only be caused when one senses a shortage of something, man is constantly aware of those shortcomings that compel him to seek ways of growing. if man stops at any level of spiritual development, then he is pushed down in his perceptions. this is intended to urge him to move, rather than to stand still

ht direction. this process of correcting the direction of one s thought occurs while one constantly studies kabbalah, since every human being s task is to steer thoughts and deeds in the right direction. by doing so, they will commune uniquely with the goal of creation. this is especially important while studying kabbalah, since there is no stronger means of coming closer to the spiritual. in the bible, egypt symbolizes the supremacy of our egoism (it is thus known as mitzraim, from the words mitz-ra, the concentration of evil. amalek represents the tribe that waged war against yisrael (derived from yisra, straight, and el-creator, that is, those who want to steer themselves directly to the creator. amalek personifies our egoism, which under no circumstances wants to permit a person to bec

us on realizing the importance of perceiving the creator as a means to our improvement for his sake. revelation and concealment- 169- the ability to perform acts of goodness (altruistic acts) is not a means, but a reward for a person who wishes to resemble the creator. the sequential order of the process by which a person shifts away from egoism and towards the spiritual world can be found in the bible as the exodus from egypt. the appearance of vessels of bestowal in a person is called "the exodus from egypt" however, altruistic desires (vessels of bestowal) mean that a person would rather follow the path of faith than the path of knowledge. to exit from egoism is only possible when we feel spirituality, perceive the creator; and the light of wisdom splits the yam suf (red sea)in the midd

the heart, which is called klipat yishmael. the work in the left line is countered by an evil force against the work of the intellect, called the klipat eisav. however, when we progress further in our work, we see that in order to enter into the spiritual realm we must rid ourselves of both klipot, because they do not want to receive the laws of the spiritual realm just as it is mentioned in the bible that the creator offered the torah, the laws of the spiritual realm, to eisav and yishmael before he gave it to- 188- israel, but they did not want to receive it. only after we see that we are not able to receive the altruistic-spiritual laws with either the right or left force, do we carefully progress to the middle line, which is called "we will do, and then we will hear" which is called "

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successful books that were translated into nine languages and sold hundreds of thousands of copies. his most famous book, the quantum brain, set new standards in popular science writing and was celebrated by critics. this book touches upon several themes: mathematics, science, computers, quantum physics, and artificial intelligence. two other books of satinover s became bestsellers: cracking the bible code, and homosexuality and the politics of truth. m i c h a e l l a i t m a n, p h d rav michael laitman has a phd in philosophy from the russian academy of science and an msc in bio-cybernetics from the polytechnic institute of st. petersburg. he was the disciple and personal assistant to rabbi baruch ashlag (1907-1991) for twelve years. during those years, rav laitman acquired the sulam m

the spiritual world are described using names of branches taken from our world. kabbalists use four different languages to explain how we can reach the degree of the creator and how we can draw to ourselves the correcting force that will invert our nature from egopa r t i i: t h e e s s e n c e o f t h e w i s d o m o f k a b b a l a h 100 ism to altruism. these languages are the language of the bible, the language of laws, the language of legends, and the language of kabbalah. in his essay, the wisdom of kabbalah and its essence, baal hasulam wrote that there are four languages in the wisdom of truth, and the essence of the wisdom of kabbalah is no different than the essence of the bible. however, the laws, the legends, and the language of kabbalah are the most convenient and appropriate

balistica giovanni pico della mirandola (1463-1494) an italian scholar and platonist philosopher whose de hominis dignitate oratio (oration on the dignity of man, composed in 1486, was a characteristic renaissance work. it reflected his syncretistic method of taking the best elements from other philosophies and combining them in his own work. additionally, della mirandola researched kabbalah, the bible, and the koran after reading them in their original languages. this true interpretation of the law (vera illius legis interpretatio, which was revealed to moses in godly tradition, is called p r o m i n e n t s c h o l a r s w r i t e a b o u t k a b b a l a h 211 kabbalah (dicta cabala est, which to hebrews is the same as for us receiving (receptio. in whole[ there are] two sciences- also w

novelist, and dramatist, but also from his often significant contributions as a scientist (geologist, botanist, anatomist, physicist, historian of science) and as a critic and theorist of literature and art. for the last thirty years of his life he was germany's greatest cultural icon, serving as an object of pilgrimage from all over europe and the united states. the kabbalistic treatment of the bible is a hermeneutics, which lives up in a convincing way to the independence, the marvelous originality, the versatility, the totality, i would even say immeasurability of its contents--goethe materialien zur geschichte der farbenlehre 216 f u r t h e r r e a d i n g basic concepts in kabbalah: by reading in this book, one develops internal observations and approaches that did not previously ex

ce is a guide from the past to the future, revealing situations that all students of kabbalah will experience at some point on their journeys. for those who cherish every moment in life, the author offers unparalleled insights into the timeless wisdom of kabbalah. the path of kabbalah: thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness (exodus 20:3. this prohibition from the bible is also the basis of the wisdom of kabbalah. kabbalists state that there is no reality at all, but something called his essence, the upper force. as uncanny as it sounds, this notion hides in its wings the very prospect of freedom, for every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. the structure and the perception of reality are the surface of this book. but the story of humanity

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part of the torah? a: the whole of the torah relates only to the spiritual world. it explains it in the language of pictures, but not a single word of it speaks of our world. it does, however, make use of words to explain the structure of the spiritual world and how it dominates us. because the spiritual world is the world of emotions and has no words, we use languages such as the language of the bible (pentateuch, the language of legends (agada, the language of the talmud (jewish religious laws, and the language of the kabbalah (sefirot, which is the most precise of all, in order to explain and describe that world. for that reason, most kabbalists use the language of the kabbalah. within the kabbalah are several sub-languages as well: the language of the lights, the language of the vessel

there were kabbalistic books before him, he was the first to compose a book of torah (instructions) about man s path from down to up, from our world to the spiritual world. he described the way in general terms, and for the first time in history, the system of the worlds was described in a literary tongue. kabbalists use four languages to describe the upper world to humanity: the language of the bible (history, the language of the halacha (jewish law, the language of agada (legends and tales, and the language of kabbalah. without exception, they all speak about the upper world. for example, when you open the zohar, you find an explanation of the text of the torah, but in a different language--that of the kabbalah. the zohar is the interpretation of that torah (writing the same thing under

te method to investigate and define man s position in the universe. the wisdom of kabbalah tells us why man exists, why he is born, why he lives, what the purpose of his life is, where he comes from, and where he is going after he completes his life in this world. the path of kabbalah: thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness (exodus 20:3. this commandment from the bible is the basis of the kabbalistic wisdom, for kabbalists know that the only true reality is that of his essence, the upper force. when we accept this concept, we can become truly open to the prospect of freedom for every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. while the structure of reality and how we perceive it are at the surface of this book, it is the underlying story of the hu

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attributes that were given to us from above. we attain in our innermost feeling, in our malchut. however, we do it with the attributes we receive from above. c h a p t e r 3. 2 4 q u e s t i o n s& a n s w e r s w h at i s k a b b a l a h? q: what is kabbalah? a: kabbalah is an ancient teaching that covers a number of languages and many forms of expression. there is the language of tales that the bible uses and the language of rules that the talmud uses. there is also the language of kabbalah itself, which uses drawings, formulas, and matrices. kabbalah utilizes pure mathematical rules in order to express spiritual phenomena. there are many ways to depict our sensations and feelings, but the language of kabbalah is the most accurate and scientific of all. it is also possible to convey spir

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e forms. from hence the grateful incense of brotherly love, relief and truth, is ever rising to the great i am; while on it the unruly passions and the worldly appetites of the brethren are laid as a fitting sacrifice to the genius of our order. the proper form of a masonic altar is that of a cube, about three feet high, with four horns, one at each corner, and having spread open upon it the holy bible, square, and compasses, while around it are placed in a triangular form and proper position the three lesser lights. 111. fig. 2 is taken from the same source. the stars represent the three lighted candles and the black dot the vacancy in the north, where there is no light. in our co-masonic lodges we follow the english custom of having the three candles beside the seats of the three princip

t to take the trouble to make a clairvoyant investigation, the result of which is given in plates vi and vii. the first of these is what is called a scale-drawing, showing the proportions of the pillar exactly as it was, but as it never could have been seen by any human being, because of its size. the second is an enlarged drawing, of the same character, of the capital (or, as it is called in the bible, the chapiter) to show the detail of its somewhat complicated workmanship. there is also a small ground-plan (fig. 7) of the temple, to show the position of the 161. figure 7 162. 163. pillars in relation to the porch. it will be seen that they were not within the porch, but just outside it. this ground-plan has been drawn to scale according to the biblical measurements, but it should be not

within the porch, but just outside it. this ground-plan has been drawn to scale according to the biblical measurements, but it should be noted that in it no account is taken of any other doors than that of the porchway, or of the curious little side-chapels which king solomon added; nor is any attempt made to indicate the courts which surrounded the temple. 164. these pillars are described in the bible as of brass, but their appearance is much more that of what we today call bronze. the height of the pillar itself is given in all the accounts but one as eighteen cubits, and the chapiter which swells out above it is said to have been five cubits in height, but as it overlapped the top to the extent of half a cubit the total height was 22 1/2 cubits. as the cubit is usually calculated to hav

produce them they are crowned with these two globes. in the originals, however, there were no such globes, as the rounded chapiters sufficiently represented them. 168. it will be seen from the illustration that the surface of the chapiter below the disc is covered with a network, and that the lower ends of the network coalesce into a kind of fringe, from which depend a number of little balls. the bible account tells us quite accurately that these balls were intended to represent pomegranates, and that there were two hundred of these pomegranates upon each pillar. superimposed upon the network is a rather curious decoration of chains, hanging in festoons, and there are seven rows of these festoons one below the other. each loop of chain consists of seven links, and in each case the central

the lodge is described as just, perfect and regular: it is just because the v. s. l. is open in it; it is perfect because it contains seven m.m.s or more; it is regular because it holds a warrant or charter from a supreme council, grand lodge, or other supreme body having an unbroken line of masonic authority. it is to be understood, of course, that the volumes of the sacred lore are not only the bible of the christians, but the sacred books of other religions as well, for the members of a lodge may and often do belong to various religions. in a lodge meeting on one occasion in bombay there were among the brn. present christians, hindus, buddhists, parsis, jews, sikhs, muhammadans, and jains. it is the custom there to place on the altar the sacred books of all who are likely to attend that

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exalted level directly, but he became aware of it in his ecstasy as though looking up to it from below. 273. the builders of k. s. t. 274. something both of the inner powers and of the egyptian rituals had been faithfully handed down from generation to generation from the days of moses until king solomon came to the throne of his father david. there is some truth in the tradition preserved in the bible, although there are exaggerations and mistakes in the accounts which have come down to us, and much of the inner meaning of the symbols had been forgotten. king solomon seems to have been a man of considerable force of character and some occult knowledge, and the great ambition of his life was to weld his people into a strong and respected kingdom, able to take an influential place among the

egyptians of the period seem to have regarded their jewish brethren with something of the same feeling that the grand lodge of england might have towards the grand orient of hayti if it should propose alterations in the ritual, and their interest in the new venture was decidedly cold. we find no confirmation of the story of the marriage of king solomon to pharaoh s daughter, as is related in the bible; indeed, this union is now generally rejected by the critics as impossible, for according to the tell el-amarna tablets, an egyptian princess might not marry a foreigner(*peake s commentary on the bible, p. 296) 280. the mingling of traditions 281. on the return of their embassy from egypt king solomon and king hiram called together the council at jerusalem, and it was decided that they shou

addicted to the worship of that deity. in fact, among the jews themselves we find the prophets blaming the hebrew ladies for taking part in the ritual mourning for him(*ezekiel, viii, 14) 283. solomon himself was by no means definitely monotheistic, and his people betrayed a distinct tendency to run after strange gods. there seems much evidence to prove that the love-song attributed to him in the bible is really a ritual hymn to astarte, for whom he built a temple quite near to that of jehovah. there is considerable uncertainty as to whether balkis, queen of sheba, was a real person, or only a personification of astarte. bro. ward explains that the festivals of the two patron saints of freemasonry, s. john the baptist in summer and s. john the evangelist in winter, are only a perpetuation

erwards built churches in europe. bro. ward writes of them: 406. they appear to have reached asia minor from the south-east, and, according to strabo, could be traced through syria and phoenicia, via persia and india. apparently they reached phoenicia about fifty years before the building of k.s. s temple, and it is their presence which alone explains how that temple came to be built. indeed, the bible itself makes it abundantly clear that the temple was not built by jews, who at that time were an agricultural race, quite incapable of undertaking the task of building such an elaborate edifice. 407. from the same source we learn that the chief architects and men came from phoenicia, and phoenician letters have been found on what are believed to be the foundations of the first temple from ph

lling journeymen had the right to lodging and assistance in finding work in the houses belonging to their fraternity. 525. the three sections of the compagnonnage preserved legends concerning king solomon and his temple. little is known of the form of the legend current among the sons of solomon, but there are curious indications that the story of the death of hiram (which is not contained in the bible) was known to them. perdiguier tells us little, but he gives certain hints: 526. an ancient fable has obtained currency amongst them (the sons of solomon) relating, according to some, to hiram, according to others, to adonhiram; wherein are represented crimes and punishments. again he tells us that the joiners of maitre jacques wear white gloves, because, as they say, they did not steep thei

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

ys, 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 s traditional aversion to sexuality, the diabolical has come to be associated with sex and sensuality. satan has also been portrayed as a proud, clever, creative nonconformist willing to question the status q

judge from some of the material one finds on the internet, his memory and his organization are often attacked by other satanists. in the course of my research, i found myself unwittingly stepping into this arena of contention. perhaps as a consequence of this conflict, some of my contacts xiv introduction voiced objections to the central role i assigned lavey and his best-known work, the satanic bible, in the formation of modern satanist religion. i was, furthermore, encouraged to shift my emphasis to the work of earlier literary figures ultimately responsible for fashioning the positive image of the devil that lavey later adopted for his church of satan. after reflecting on these objections, however, i concluded that despite his heavy dependence on prior thinkers lavey was directly respo

g the positive image of the devil that lavey later adopted for his church of satan. after reflecting on these objections, however, i concluded that despite his heavy dependence on prior thinkers lavey was directly responsible for the genesis of modern satanism as a serious religious (as opposed to a purely literary) movement. furthermore, however one might criticize and depreciate it, the satanic bible is still the single most influential document shaping the contemporary satanist movement. whether lavey was a religious virtuoso or a misanthropic huckster, and whether the satanic bible was an inspired document or a poorly edited plagiarism, their influence was and is pervasive. much of the current attention directed to satanism has originated in the conservative christian subculture, and a

ttributes of god, such as the compassionate and the forgiver. a popular amulet of islamic peoples beginning in the sixth century was the hand of fatima. the hand of fatima is frequently made of silver and jeweled with semiprecious stones. it is named after the daughter of the prophet muhammad.hands were also used as amulets on gates of islamic buildings. holy books of every culture (koran, torah, bible) are considered to have protective powers. pieces of parchment with scripture quotes, carried in boxes or pouches, are amulets in various religions. amulets with inscriptions are sometimes called charms, a term that also applies to spoken incantations. yhwh, the hebrew name for god, appeared on many amulets and talismans in different spellings to help magicians conjure demons and protect the

s derivation and meaning. however, there is no clear evidence that the symbol that has come to be referred to as baphomet is similarly derived. the first artwork for an image of a goat face in a pentagram appeared in a 1931 book on freemasonry by oswald wirth (1931, 60. this was, however, only a pentagram containing a goat s face. it was not the full sigil of baphomet as delineated in the satanic bible. the concept is the same, but the actual art is not. the first version of the goat-faced pentagram surrounded by two circles with leviathan written between them appeared in and on the cover of maurice bessy s a pictorial history of magic and the supernatural (1964. nowhere in this book, however, is this graphic referred to as the sigil of baphomet.during his years of research into the black

LIBER LVII

itial and medial m. the consequence of this is that the total numerical value of the word, insted of being 30+ 40+ 200+ 2+ 5= 277, is 30+ 600+ 200+ 2+ 5= 837 (by gematria) lz tt, tat zal, the profuse giver. thus, by writing the mem as a final instead of the ordinary character, the word is made to bear a different qabalistical meaning. it is to be further noted with regard to the first word in the bible, tycarb, berashith, that the first three letters, arb, are the initial letters of the names of the three persons of the trinity: b, ben, the son; jwr, ruach, the spirit; and ba, ab, the father. furthermore the first letter of the bible is b, which is the initial letter of hkrb, berakhah, blessing; and not a, which is that of rra, arar, cursing. again, the letters of berashith, taking their n

bstract forms of the numbers; in other words, by the twryps, sephiroth. it was from this ancient oriental theory that pythagoras derived his numerical symbolic ideas.12 among these sephiroth, jointly and severally, we find the development of the persons and attributes of god. of these some are male and some are female. now, for some reason or other best known to themselves, the translators of the bible have crowded out of existence and smothered up every 11 [in passages mercifully omitted by crowley from the present article. t.s] 12 [yeah, right. pythagoras: fl. 6th century b.c.e. estimated date of earliest known qabalistic texts (ignoring mythology: 4th or 5th century c.e. who derived from whom, mr. mathers. t.s] on the qabalah 11 reference to the fact that the deity is both masculine and

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

h heliotrope, the morals of the crucified (both standpoints joined in one, i hope, in metaphysic.s stereoscope) but for the moment be denied a metaphysical inspection. bring out the antiseptic soap. we.ll judge the christ by simple section, and strictly on the moral side. but first; i must insist on taking the ordinary substantial creed your clergy preach from desk and pulpit each sunday; all the bible, shaking its boards with laughter as you read each sunday. ibsen43 to a full pit may play in the moon. if (lunars they) they thought themselves to be the play, it.s little the applause he.d get. i met a christian clergyman. the nicest man i ever met. we argued of the cosmic plan. i was lord roberts, he de wet.44* scots legal term for defendant. a romany word for woman. the rev. j. bowley. th

tself most readily to a man of the world, not to say a man of science, and adopted that of a second messiah! he took the utmost pains to conceal the birth of the child, treated everybody who came to the house as an emissary of herod, and finally made up his mind to flee into egypt! like most religious maniacs, he never had an idea of his own, but distorted the beautiful and edifying events of the bible into insane and ridiculous ones, which he proceeded to plagiarise. on the voyage out the virgin mother became enamoured, as was her wont, of the nearest male, in this case a fellow-traveller. he, being well able to support her in the luxury which she desired, easily persuaded her to leave the boat with him by stealth. a small sailing vessel conveyed them to malta, where they disappeared. the

ar.76..splendour. the three central books of the dogmatic qabalah. 733. pigeon.77.says an old writer, whom i translate roughly .thou to thy lamb and dove devoutly bow, but leave me, prithee, yet my hawk and cow: and i approve thy greybeard dotard.s smile, if thou wilt that of egypt.s crocodile. 746. lost! lost! lost !78.see the lay of the last minstrel. 759. ain elohim.79..there is no god. so our bible. but this is really the most sublime affirmation of the qabalist .ain is god. for the meaning of ain, and of this idea, see .berashith. infra. the .fool. is he of the tarot, to whom the number 0 is attached, to make the meaning patent to a child .i insult your idol. quoth the good missionary. he is but of dead stone. he does not avenge himself. he does not punish me .i insult your god. repli

itness the following mas-terly elucidation of its inner quintessence. the initiated interpretation of ceremonial magic* it is loftily amusing to the student of magical literature who is not quite a fool.and rare is such a combination!.to note the criticism directed by the philestine against the citadel of his science. truly, since our childhood has ingrained into us not only literal belief in the bible, but also substantial belief in alf laylah wa laylah. and only adolescence can cure us, we are only too liable, in the rush and energy of dawning manhood, to overturn roughly and rashly both these classics, to regard them both on the same level, as interesting documents from the standpoint of folk-lore and anthropology, and as nothing more. even when we learn that the bible, by a* this essay

gods have to. it.s the only way we can get any clear idea of who we really are .well, here was perdu. r abu, after his latest fiasco, installed as a worthy, respectable, perfect, ancient and accepted, just, regular mahabrahma. his only business was to meditate, for as long as he did this, the worlds.the whole system of 10,000 worlds.would go on peaceably. nobody had better read the lesson of the bible. the horrible results to mankind of ill-timed, though possibly well-intentioned, interference on the part of a deity .well, he curled himself up, which was rather clever for a formless abstraction, and began. there was a grave difficulty in his mind.an obstacle right away from the word .jump. of course there was really a good deal: he didn.t know where the four elements ceased, for example:3

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

rulers. in other words, it is possible that the continued transmission of poetry about early kings and battles as historical sources required a continuing knowledge of heroic legend and of myth, not as the object of belief or as something associated with cult but simply as stories that people interested in the history of their own culture had to know. in the same way, students today may study the bible to be able to understand allusions in older literature. it is even possible to imagine that eddic poems continued to be recited for their narrative value in support of the kenning system, although once belief in the older gods had ended, they could also be recited purely by and for those who enjoyed a good story. introduction 17 certainly such a motivation associates the earliest recording o

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

scopes who had been recruited by the american civil liberties union had evidently violated. later, another court overturned the verdict. regardless of this outcome, it is disturbing that a state had at that time taken the ill-inspired initiative to enact legislation regarding the teaching of science, particularly in an area perceived as questioning the validity of a literal interpretation of the bible. the consequences of this legislation and the trial were that, for a time, america was seen as a scientifically backward country, particularly in europe. there, the issue of science potentially clashing with certain religious beliefs had been settled earlier (although not quite completely) and was certainly not expected to be legislated upon. in essence, science and faith had arrived at a st

ow claim that evolutionary thinking is critically flawed rather than being simply a-religious (or, perhaps as they see it, antireligious, as in the past. as we describe in this book, nothing can be farther fromthe truth: evolution rests on solid scientific bases and is in conflict not with religion as a whole, but with only a very narrow interpretation of a very small part of one sacred book, the bible. this is where america runs the risk of becoming isolated from the rest of the world, and not just politically. worldwide, an enormous majority of believers in the bible no longer interpret the hebrew story of creation literally only christian fundamentalists do so. this is their right, of course. on the other hand, it is not their right to try to impose their religious views on others, espe

r right, of course. on the other hand, it is not their right to try to impose their religious views on others, especially where science is concerned. in doing so, these people, if successful, will clutter the science curriculum with misleading, unscientific issues, something our country does not need. neocreationists and proponents of intelligent design usually prefer not to make reference to the bible. but in the final analysis, their goal is the same: they want to put an end to the teaching of what they call materialistic science and replace it with something more in agreement with their particular christian convictions. this strategy was discussed in the excellent book creationism s trojan horse: the wedge of intelligent design, by barbara forrest and paul r. gross (oxford university pr

eb site postulates that the creator, the designer, is in fact a giant flying spaghetti monster. in the view of id supporters, god created all life-forms pretty much as they exist today, and these life-forms did not evolve did not change over time in any appreciable way because they are irreducibly complex. the fixed nature of living species is already claimed and inferred in the first book of the bible, genesis. the principle of the unchanging nature of living species (they are called kinds in the bible) created by god as in genesis is called creationism. thus, id recognizes limited hereditary variation within a kind, as allowed by genesis, but rejects the idea that species can evolve into other species because this concept violates the biblical precept that kinds were fixed by god once an

acts. further, one can say that, in science, progress can be achieved only through the interplay of experimentation or observation (discovery of new facts) with theory (making sense of the new facts. we will show that id cannot be a scientific theory because it provides no framework to analyze and predict anything in the natural world. in that sense, id (as well as a literal interpretation of the bible) can be seen, at best, 8 evolution and religious creation myths as a hypothesis (shall we say just a hypothesis, that is, a conjecture that must be subjected to verification. as we describe in this book, such verification is lacking in the case of creationist and neocreationist worldviews. another misuse of words admittedly, the term hypothesis is somewhat of a tongue twister, and for this r

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

here is a lot more to it than that. back in 1961, when i first started interior work, i studied with a man, also a brother mason, named joel s. goldsmith. his students used to join him for lunch on sunday; and one day after the meal he held his empty water glass up in front of him and said "secrecy is the vessel within which you contain your spiritual experience" it is an age old teaching; in the bible it is put as "cast not your pearls before swine" until one has spent a great deal of time in the interior work, one's interior experience is very delicate. if you share your experience with skeptics and people who do not, or cannot, understand it, they will convince you that you are mistaken; and you will lose the benefit of your interior work. here is the purpose of masonic secrecy: the rea

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

sun entered the sign of scorpio marked the beginning of the rulership of typhon. when the twelve signs of the zodiac were used to represent the twelve apostles (although the reverse is true, the scorpion was assigned to judas iscariot--the betrayer. the scorpion stings with its tail, and for this reason it has been called a backbiter, a false and deceitful thing. calmet, in his dictionary of the bible, declares the scorpion to be a fit emblem of the wicked and the symbol of persecution. the dry winds of egypt are said to be produced by typhon, who imparts to the sand the blistering heat of the infernal world and the sting of the scorpion. this insect was also the symbol of the spinal fire which, according to the egyptian mysteries, destroyed man when it was permitted to gather at the base

tual understanding according to the secret science of the mysteries is found in the story of aaron's rod that budded, and also in wagner's great opera, tannh user, where the budding staff of the pope signifies the unfolding blossoms upon the sacred rod of the mysteries--the spinal column. the rosicrucians used a garland of roses to signify the same spiritual vortices, which are referred to in the bible as the seven lamps of the candlestick and the seven churches of asia. in the 1642 edition of sir francis bacon's history of henry the seventh is a frontispiece showing lord bacon with rosicrucian roses for shoe buckles. in the hindu system of philosophy, each petal of the lotus bears a certain symbol which gives an added clue to the meaning of the flower. the orientals also used the lotus pl

nd its products are factors in its symbolism. its worship was, to a certain degree, based upon its usefulness. of this j. p. lundy writes "trees occupy such an important place in the economy of nature by way of attracting and retaining moisture, and shading the water-sources and the soil so as to prevent barrenness and desolation; the, are so click to enlarge the tree of noah. from the "breeches" bible of 1599. most bibles published during the middle ages contain a section devoted to genealogical tables showing the descent of humanity from father adam to the advent of jesus christ. the tree growing from the roof of the ark represents the body of noah and its three branches, his sons--shem, ham, and japheth. the nations by the descendents of noah's three sons are appropriately shown in the

ohns" in the mysterious sephirothic tree of the jews, these two pillars symbolize mercy and severity. standing before the gate of king solomon's temple, these columns had the same symbolic import as the obelisks before the sanctuaries of egypt. when interpreted qabbalistically, the names of the two pillars mean "in strength shall click to enlarge moses receiving the tables of the law. from an old bible. moses maimonides, the great jewish philosopher of the twelfth century, in describing the tables of the law written by the finger of god, divides all productions into two general orders: products of nature and products of art. god works through nature and man through art, he asserts in his guide for the perplexed. thus the word of the lord is the hand, or active principle, by which the will

h the secret teachings of all the schools of philosophy, but the method by which its secrets are revealed to the wise and concealed from the ignorant is most unusual. as the religious world interprets its scriptures with twentieth-century educational facilities, it becomes ever more apparent that the sacred books were not historical documents, but that the kings, sages, prophets, and saviors whom bible students ham revered for ages as once-existing personalities are in reality only personified attributes of man himself. p. 114 known, the sepher ha zohar has never been completely translated into english, but it can be obtained in french (s. l. macgregor-mathers translated three books of the zohar into english) the zohar contains a vast number of philosophical tenets, and a paraphrase of its

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

chalice 4. thurible these are your basic working tools, however: l the witches' knife- also known as an athame or bolline. l the witches' cord- already mentioned, known variously as a girdle cord, or cingulum. l the witches' censer- the incense burner or chafing dish, also known as the thurible. l the witches' cup- also known as the chalice. l the witches' spellbook- known variously as a witches' bible, workbook, liber spirituum, or book of shadows. with these simple though basic tools you will be able to manufacture all the other magical artifacts that are mentioned in the following pages; the wand, the speculum, the candlesticks, the pentacle, the mandragore, and the alraun, and all the talismans, philters, incenses, images, and amulets that will be your general stock in trade. the ways

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

! iao: sabao: such are the words* r h w l d 7kh /hvvhu .h\ 2i 6rorprq the initiated interpretation of ceremonial magic. it is loftily amusing to the student of magical literature who is not quite a fool and rare is such a combination! to note the criticism directed by the philistine against the citadel of his science. truly, since our childhood has ingrained into us not only literal belief in the bible, but also substantial belief in alf laylah wa laylah, and only adolescence can cure us, we are only too liable, in the rush and energy of dawning manhood, to overturn roughly and rashly both these classics, to regard them both on the same level, as interesting documents from the standpoint of folk-lore and anthropology, and as nothing more. even when we learn that the bible, by a profound an

MEANING OF MASONRY

by large companies of craftsmen and labourers. but in the course of the work an evil conspiracy arose, resulting in the destruction of the chief artificer and preventing the completion of the building, which remains unfinished, therefore, to this day. now i will ask you to observe that this legend cannot refer to any historical building built in the old metropolis of palestine. if we refer to the bible as an authority you will find that temple was completed; it was afterwards destroyed, rebuilt and destroyed again on more than one occasion. moreover, the biblical accounts make no reference whatever to the conspiracy, or to the death of hiram. on the other hand they state expressly that hiram" made an end of building" the temple; that it was finished and completed in every particular. it is

herefore, enter these temples, as we do, between the pillars in the west; they look through them along the straight path that leads to the high altar, just as the mason's symbolic passage is also from the west to the throne in the east. that path is, as it were, the straight path of life, beginning in this outer world and terminating at the throne, or altar, in the east. many centuries before our bible was written or the temple of solomon described in the books of kings and chronicles was thought of, the two pillars were used in the great temples of the mysteries in egypt, and one of the great annual public festivals was that of the setting up of the pillars. what, then, did they signify? i can deal with the subject but very superficially here. in one of their aspects they stand for what i

the candidate in the first degree is, therefore, indicative of an important crisis. it symbolizes the first enlargement of perception that, thanks to his own earnest aspirations and the good offices of the guides and instructors to whom he has yielded himself, initiation brings him. it reveals to him a threefold symbol, referred to as the three great though emblematic lights in masonry--the holy bible, square and compasses in a state of conjunction, the two latter resting on the first-named as their ground or base. as this triple symbol is the first object his outward eye gazes upon after enlightenment, so in correspondence what they emblematize is the first truth his inward eye is meant to recognize and contemplate upon. he is also made aware of three emblematic lesser lights, described

imparting of the divine science in chaldea, persia, greece and asia minor" out of egypt have i called my son" is, in one of its many senses, a biblical allusion to this passing on of the catholic m ysteries from egypt to new and virgin regions, for their enlightenment. of these various translations those that concern us chiefly are two; the one to greece, the other to palestine. we know from the bible that moses was an initiate of the egyptian mysteries and became learned in all its wisdom, while philo tells us that moses there became" skilled in music, geometry, arithmetic, hieroglyphics and the whole circle of arts and sciences" in other words he became in a real sense a master mason and, as such, qualified himself for his subsequent great task of leadership of the hebrew people and the

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

reated destruction cycle. the circle should be drawn and the proper invocations performed, intent should be pure and of great strength in each individual performing. the morning star is being invoked for the sense of luciferian light and beauty, to dispel that which is of ill intent. to understand the essence of the morning star, one must break down the perverse myth created by the writers of the bible for its devil created of such a light symbol. 80 80 "to the east, o morning star of wisdom and light! unto lilith of night black, i invoke the power of shadow and light of which all that passes from each fountain shall know the balance of life, come forth, the wheel spins and many are born, death is null and life is ecstasy. let thy star guide us in passion and focus, let that which should h

ll rites undertaken in venus are of light, therefore of lucifer. 10. the art of rosaleen norton published by wally glover in 1982 and pan s daughter by nevill drury- mandrake of oxford 1993. 146 146 11. 777 by aleister crowley. 12. black eagle, an indian spirit which presented itself to first yelg paterson and later to austin osman spare. 13. see mithras by d.jason cooper.(weiser) 14. the witches bible compleat by stewart and janet farrar, magickal childe publishing. 15. an excellent image of lilith is featured in the art of rosaleen norton. 16. images and oracles of austin osman spare 17. a ceremonial rite which proclaims and affirms the will on a conscious level. 18. see images and oracles of austin osman spare chapter four 1. the goetia of solomon the king, edited by aleister crowley. 2

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ch 2002)prefaceviiiatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation atlantis, alien visit .319 also by michael tsarion. 429atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation1 chapter 1from the end of heaventhere are more things in heaven and earth, horatio, than are dreamed of in thy philosophy (william shakespeare, hamlet)atlantis and strange god-men are mentioned in scriptures such as the bible, thebook of enoch, the ramayana, the mahabharata, the v edas, the shastras, the norseedda, the zend avesta (persian, the codex chimalpopoca (toltec, the popul vuh(mayan, the welsh triads, the visuddhi magga (buddhist, the annals of the fourmasters (irish, the ipuwer and ermitage papyri (egyptian, the annals of cuauhtitlan(mayan, and others. atlantis was not a center ofadvanced human civiliza

. indeed, ancient records also confirmthat visitations were a relatively common occurrence. generally, the visitors respectedearth's sovereignty and have conducted their researches without attracting attention orattempting to interfere with earths indigenous tribes. those who have the secrets ofand who indulge in space travel maintain non-intervention as an inviolate edict. on the other hand, the bible and the book of enoch, in particular, relate that earth'ssovereignty was violated by one contingent of ancient visitors. these beings werenamed the nephilim (those who were cast down. there are many names that havecome down to us that were used to describe the visitors. some of these are: anakim,rephaim, djinn, giants, titans, fallen angels, the watchers, the els, the ari, elders,atlantis, a

nd genetic manipulation3 from the end of heaven sons of zadok, sons of seth, the uranids, cyclopeans, promethians, olympians, theelect, asuras, the illies, fomorians, the necromancers, rayless ones, bent ones, thedogons, dagons, the ana, amaraka, nagas, the rakshasas, dragon kings, naddred,the brotherhood of the snake, and the serpent people. they were also referred to asthe djedhi (see jedi. the bible takes the position that the nephilim were a malign presence and insists thattheir leaders committed a great sin by interfering with the evolution of humankind: and the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the devil and satan,the deceiver of the whole world, he was cast down to earth and his angels were cast downwith him (revelation) and it came to pass, when men beg

pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughterswere born unto them, that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair; andthey took them wives of all that they chose (genesis, chapter 6-8) there are several key hypotheses and theories that seek to account for the presence ofthese beings. let us explore a few of the most provocative yet cogent ones. in the bible and other scriptures, we readabout these fallen angels and theirsojourn on earth; for in ancient days, theirarrival and activities were not concealed asthey are now. there were giants in the earth in those days;and also after that, when the sons of godcame in unto the daughters of men, and theybear children to themthe mighty men whichwere of old, men of renown (genesis, chap-ter 6-8) they co

upon the living creatures, i saw four wings upon the ground, one by each ofthe living creatures, with their four faces. the appearance of the wheels and their composi-tion was like the color of shiny amber: and all four wings had one likeness: and their compo-sition was like a wheel in the middle of a wheel (book of ezekiel)lets consider just a few of the strange references from the pages of the bible testa-ments, and think to ourselves whether there is some other tale going on other than thatwhich has been expounded from the pulpit.then eve looked up to heaven and saw a shining chariot come drawn by four gleamingangels whose glory no one born of woman could express nor look on their face and angelswent before the chariot (book of ezekiel)and it came to pass that when the sun went down an

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

other reason than to explain the similarities away. since the internal conflict in the hearts and minds of man can be symbolized by any implements, and since each mythology is retold in a way peculiar to that civilization, it s curious that ancient man would still tell a collective story regarding creation and history. the most well-known and prototypical of these creation stories comes from the bible. in the first book of the bible, god creates the universe, earth, animals, and humanity in 6 days, resting on the seventh day. the first 2 humans, named adam and eve, were given a paradisiacal land called the garden of eden. it is at this point a character called the serpent, who is unambiguously described as the enemy of god, tricks eve into eating the fruit from a tree that the most high g

matters into his own hands by confusing the languages of nimrod s workforce. the babylonian kingdom is instantly cast into disorder as its inhabitants no longer spoke a single language. this act of confusing the languages accomplished god s original intent for humanity, because it caused humanity to finally split up and occupy the whole earth and, most importantly, not reach heaven. although the bible stories are the most well-known, especially in the west, they are not the first and they are not unique. story of the serpent [1.2] humanity s relationship with the serpent is indeed a strange one. the nature of the reptile is alien to our own, so humans have a natural aversion to reptiles. humans are characterized by both the cold blooded way of the reptile, and compassionate sympathies tha

most probably consign that serpent to death rather than the likes of a bunny rabbit. so it s quite curious that humans have, for so many thousands of years, revered the serpent and frequently associated it with the gods. there s hardly a single point on the globe, or in history, whose local population did not associate the gods with serpents and dragons (or the wisdom brought by the gods. in the bible, the serpent is often spoke of as an enemy of god, and in one case the bible refers to satan as that old serpent. even though the whole of the bible identifies the serpent with evil, even jesus was heard saying be as harmless as doves, and as wise as serpents. the--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 5 problem with this statement taken literally is that reptiles aren t exactly the geniuses o

e trunk as a vessel. in the sumerian/babylonian accounts (2500bc, allegedly, a man named utnapishtim is warned by the god ea that another god enlil intends to flood the earth. utnapishtim then built a massive boat, and loaded his wife and 2 of every creature aboard. as the flood began to subside, utnapishtim released a dove, as noah did, to see if there was dry land nearby. and like noah from the bible, the boat finally rested on a mountain. in chinese mythology, gong the serpent-looking water god, wanted to expand his sphere of influence and so contrived to flood the world. gong nearly succeeded but was stopped by the righteous god zurong. in greek mythology, zeus is enraged by the evil mankind was partaking in and so therefore plotted to destroy everything on earth in a great flood. but

he inuit people of alaska (eskimo, and the luiseno tribe of southern california tell tales of a small remnant of humanity surviving a great flood by taking refuge on mountaintops. the chickasaw people of america s dakota region say that a great flood destroyed all of humanity, with the exception of a small family and 2 of every creature. and as for the jews and muslim s, they pretty much echo the bible s version of events. and of coarse you have the aforementioned noah, whose family survived a massive flood in a boat with 2 of every animal, released birds to indicate the presence of dry land, and landed on a mountain. did humanity have a collective bad dream? did a deluge of biblical proportions (forgive me) leave an imprint so deep that none were left unscaved? how did the traditions of s

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

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

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

. well, that's the closest thing to it that i can think of. a man who came very near death drew a somewhat different parallel, one from his religious background. he says, suddenly, i was in a very dark, very deep valley. it was as though there was a pathway, almost a road, through the valley, and i was going down the path. later, after i was well, the thought came to me "well, now i know what the bible means by `the valley of the shadow of death' because i've been there- out of the body it is a truism that most of us, most of the time, identify ourselves with our physical bodies. we grant, of course, that we have "minds" too. but to most people our "minds" seem much more ephemeral than our bodies. the "mind" after all, might be no more than the effect of the electrical and chemical activit

life after death= 3- parallels the events of the various stages of the experience of dying are, to say the very least, unusual. 1 fence, my surprise has been compounded as over the years i have come across quite a number of striking parallels to them. these parallels occur in ancient and/or highly esoteric writings from the literature of several very diverse civilizations, cultures, and eras- the bible in our society the bible is the most widely read and discussed book dealing with matters relating to the nature of the spiritual aspect of man and to life after death. on the whole, however, the bible has relatively little to say about the events that transpire upon death, or about the precise nature of the after-death world this is especially -rue of the old testament. according to some bib

there is nothing so concealed in the world that it is not manifested after death. as if seen in effigy, when the spirit is viewed in the light of heaven. swedenborg describes too the "light of the lord" which permeates the hereafter, a light of ineffable brightness which he has glimpsed himself. it is a light of truth and of understanding. so again in the writings of swedenborg, as before in the bible, the works of plato, and the tibetan book o f the dead, we find striking parallels to the events of contemporary near-death experiences. the question naturally arises, though, as to whether this parallelism is really all that surprising. some might suggest, for instance, that the authors of these various works could have influenced one another. such an assertion could be supported in some ca

new testament writers, and so it could be argued that paul's discussion of the spiritual body has some of its roots in plato. on the other hand, in most cases it is not easy to establish that such influence could have taken place. each writer seems to bring up a few interesting details which also recur in my interviews, yet which he could not have gotten from earlier authors. swedenborg read the bible and was familiar with plato. however, he several times alludes to the fact that someone who has just died may not realize that he is dead for some time. this fact, which comes out again and again in the narratives of those who have come very close to death, is apparently not mentioned either in the bible or by plato. yet, it is emphasized in the tibetan book o f the dead, a work which sweden

the bible or by plato. yet, it is emphasized in the tibetan book o f the dead, a work which swedenborg could not possibly have read indeed, it was not even translated until 1927. is it possible that the near-death experiences i have collected were influenced by works of the kind which i have discussed? all of the persons with whom i have talked had some exposure prior to their experiences to the bible, and two or three knew something about the ideas of plato. on the other hand, none were aware of the existence of such esoterica as the works of swedenborg or the tibetan book o f the dead. yet, many details which do not appear in the bible, or even in plato, constantly crop up in the accounts which i have gathered, and these correspond exactly with phenomena and events mentioned in the more

MORALS AND DOGMA

haft six feet ten inches. the capitals were enriched by pomegranates of bronze, covered by bronze net-work, and ornamented with wreaths of bronze; and appear to have imitated the shape of the seed-vessel of the lotus or egyptian lily, a sacred symbol to the hindus and egyptians. the pillar or column on the right, or in the south, was named, as the hebrew word is rendered in our translation of the bible, jachin: and that on the left boaz. our translators say that the first word means"_he shall establish" and the second"_in it is strength" these columns were imitations, by khurum, the tyrian artist, of the great columns consecrated to the winds and fire, at the entrance to the famous temple of malkarth, in the city of tyre. it is customary, in lodges of the york rite, to see a celestial glob

he mithraic ceremonies, the candidate went through seven stages of initiation, passing through many fearful trials and of these the high ladder with seven rounds or steps was the symbol. you see the lodge, its details and ornaments, by its lights. you have already heard what these lights, the greater and lesser, are said to be, and how they are spoken of by our brethren of the york rite. the holy bible, square, and compasses, are not only styled the great lights in masonry, but they are also technically called the furniture of the lodge; and, as you have seen, it is held that there is no lodge without them. this has sometimes been made a pretext for excluding jews from our lodges, because they cannot regard the new testament as a holy book. the bible is an indispensable part of the furnitu

an informs us that this soul has said to his, would weigh little against the former. the first scriptures for the human race were written by god on the earth and heavens. the reading of these scriptures is science. familiarity with the grass and trees, the insects and the infusoria, teaches us deeper lessons of love and faith than we can glean from the writings of f n lon and augustine. the great bible of god is ever open before mankind. knowledge is convertible into power, and axioms into rules of utility and duty. but knowledge itself is not power. wisdom is power; and her prime minister is justice, which is the perfected law of truth. the purpose, therefore, of education and science is to make a man wise. if knowledge does not make him so, it is wasted, like water poured on the sands. t

us, with and past the horizon into immensity, and its apex infinitely distant above us; to which corresponds a similar infinite triangle belo _what is above equalling what is below, immensity equalling immensity--yet the science of numbers, to which pythagoras attached so much importance, and whose mysteries are found everywhere in the ancient religions, and most of all in the kabalah and in the bible, is not sufficiently expressed by either the word"_geometry" or the word"_trigonometry" for that science includes these, with arithmetic, and also with algebra, logarithms, the integral and differential calculus; and by means of it are worked out the great problems of astronomy or the laws of the stars* virtue is but heroic bravery to _do_ the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemie

ever falling, rising, running, and falling again. the lust for wealth and the abject dread of poverty delve the furrows on many a noble brow. the gambler grows old as he watches the chances. lawful hazard drives youth away before its time; and this youth draws heavy bills of exchange on age. men live, like the engines, at high pressure, a hundred years in a hundred months; the ledger becomes the bible, and the day-book the book of the morning prayer. hence flow overreachings and sharp practice, heartless traffic in which the capitalist buys profit with the lives of the laborers, speculations that coin a nation's agonies into wealth, and all the other devilish enginery of mammon. this, and greed for office, are the two columns at the entrance to the temple of moloch. it is doubtful whether

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

groups on the surface of the planet. if the nazis had been half as intelligent, they would have married jewish women and sterilized only the men. germany might have won the war, then. but the nazis were stupid. they were as stupid as old testament jews. when a book is the only book that by chance is preserved and by design transmitted throughout fifteen centuries, it may well become the book. the bible is one of the most brutish, most cruel, most fanatic cultural records extant. its religious fables are either naive or fatuous. it has neither the loftiness of the pyramid texts nor the human compassion of the sumerian. ft has neither the subtlety of the chinese classics nor the psychological depth of the hindu. but it was the only book the west knew for centuries and look at the record of t

with him or her in the next incarnation, thus providing continuity of consciousness through the lives. but this was a gross artifice, not to be compared with our way, for which see liber aleph, chapters 192-193. the book was put in the tomb or sarcophagus because supposedly the owner had used it constantly, which provided a further link. but in practice, just as few people studied it as study the bible today, although you find the damn silly thing all over the place "single robe: an aura clean and whole, without any leak of force anywhere "rich headdress: the sahashara activated "put on the wings: awaken the ajna, which when active has two petals, or wings "coiled splendour: kundalini, of course. the above interpretations are on just one plane. several other details have better remain unco

which made manichaeism necessary despite the cloaks of the casuists and meant 'that which leads one away from god. but each man, while postulating an absolute 'god, defined him unconsciously in terms of freudian phantasm created by his own wish-fulfilment machinery. thus 'good' and 'evil' were really expressions of personal prejudice. a man who 'bowed humbly to the authority of' the pope, or the bible, or the sanhedrim, or the oracle of apollo, or the tribal medicine- man, none the less expressed truly his own wish to abdicate responsibility. in the light of this book, we now know that the centre is everywhere, the circumference nowhere; that "every man and every woman is a star, a 'khabs' the name of the house of hadit; that "the word of sin is restriction. to us, then 'evil' is a relati

, who know not hadit, are under the illusion of sorrow. not being hadit, they are shadows, puppets, and what happens to them does not matter. if you insist upon identifying yourself with hecuba, your tears are natural enough. there is no contradiction here, by the way, with verses 4 and 5. the words "know me" are used loosely as is natural in a stanza; or, more likely, are used (as in the english bible) to suggest the root gn, identity in transcendental ecstasy. possibly "not" and "me" are once more intended to apply to nuit. with "know" itself, they may be 'nothing under its three forms' or negativity, action, and individuality. 18. these are dead, these fellows; they feel not. we are not for the poor and sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk. this idea is confirmed. those who sorr

ome unto me 'is a foolish word; for it is i that go? reader, the choice is yours; the kings of the earth shall be kings for ever; the slaves shall serve. there is no law beyond do what thou wilt. while we are on the subject of kings, we must touch upon that lie "that thou must die" verse 49 of chapter one should be consulted in connection with this; also the golden bough, the new testament of the bible, and the mystery of osiris in any good textbook of egyptology. for ten thousand years tribes all over the world sacrificed their kings. compassion being the vice of kings, the kings were, quite often, willing to be sacrificed. this was a magickal operation to buy energy for the people, but it was based on a wrong interpretation of the bloody sacrifice, for which see book four, part three. th

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

locks in a knot, whilst her attendant nymphs envelop her in a gauzy veil. the animals sacred to her were the dove, swan, swallow, and sparrow. her favourite plants were the myrtle, apple-tree, rose, and poppy. the worship of aphrodite is supposed to have been introduced into greece from central asia. there is no doubt that she was originally identical with the famous astarte, the ashtoreth of the bible, against whose idolatrous worship and infamous rites the prophets of old hurled forth their sublime and powerful anathemas. venus. the venus of the romans was identified with the aphrodite of the greeks. the worship of this divinity was only established in rome in comparatively later times. annual festivals, called veneralia, were held in her honour, and the month of april, when flowers and

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

tool was widespread and far-reaching. the ancient egyptians, romans, greeks and arabs have all, at one time or another employed dice of various shapes, markings and materials for divination. the earliest known examples were made from astragali small, uneven, four-sided bones found within the joints of hoofed animals such as sheep and goats. dice are perhaps the only method of divination that the bible does not frown upon, and are referred to by their other name of lots. in the words of st thomas, if there is need, it is lawful with all due reverence to seek judgement of god by lots. dice have remained unchanged over the centuries since the arrangement of the dots we still use today was developed around 1,400 bc. and it is the secret arrangement of the dots upon the dice that allows you to

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

hose individuals who sought refuge in their domains from any legal proceedings against them. one of the oldest legal documents that offers evidence of this is a papal bull from innocent iii dating from 1200 and stating that those who used violence against the colleagues and liegemen of the temple who had entered into an area under god's truce as preached by the church would be excommunicated "the bible of the lord of berze" a poem composed during the early years of the thirteenth century, expresses it as follows: dare not strike one of its knights its sargents nor its squires threaten not to slay them or to the hospital he shall flee or to the temple, if he can manage to do so. the right of franchise was much more exceptional than the right of asylum. it is certain that the benedictines, c

of building to the art of thinking the contract was concluded orally, but before this the valet swore on the saints that he would perform the trade "faithfully and well" depending on the profession, this swearing might involve the relics or images of the patron saints of the trade or the holy gospels.6 a. lantoine is therefore mistaken when he claims that the oath could not have been made on the bible in the lodges of operative catholic masons. we find this oath on the bible in corporative english masonry, which was also catholic. the "bible upon the altar" is therefore not an example of "huguenot contraband" smuggled to freemasonry.7 to obtain the grade of master it was first necessary that an apprentice show proof that he had fulfilled his apprenticeship. the idea of the masterwork did

ext written in old english) and in 1409 (in latin).5 they concern the construction of the cathedral of saint paul, regulating work (referring to an inspector of the work) and insisting on respect for customs. they also mention as a meeting place the logium fabricoe (craftsmen's lodge) and insist on the need for an oath of loyalty and reliability. the rule in fact mandated a mason "to swear on the bible that he would sincerely and the corporative masonry of great britain 189 actively work to the best of his ability, without any deceit or secrecy whatsoever, and that he would hold and observe all points of the law thus laid down" unless this reference was inserted into the text at a later date, it leads to the conclusion that, just like those who followed the livre des metiers in paris, the

onry of great britain 189 actively work to the best of his ability, without any deceit or secrecy whatsoever, and that he would hold and observe all points of the law thus laid down" unless this reference was inserted into the text at a later date, it leads to the conclusion that, just like those who followed the livre des metiers in paris, the then-catholic english masons required an oath on the bible, a point we shall revisit. another document, dated february 2, 1356 and known as the articles of london, is a complete, professional, masonic instructional composed in french. the eight rules it lists stipulate that the duration of the apprenticeship period is seven years and that it is the master's responsibility to see that apprentices are justly paid. it also states that infractions are l

secrets, priviledges, or counsells, of the fraternity or fellowship of free masons (559) which at this time, 196 from the art of building to the art of thinking or at any time hereafter, shall be made knowne unto mee. so helpe mee god, and the holy contents of this booke [emphasis mine].13 this oath is also significant. the last phrase, which i emphasized, indicates that the oath was made on the bible, most likely on the gospels. we have observed this earlier in france, in etienne boileau's le livre des metiers, and in england in the 1352 regulation of the york masons. closer to the present, this instruction can be found in the 1683 statutes of the york lodge cited earlier. this statute specifies that "one of the elders takes the book; he or she who would be made a mason places his or her

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

w world order. the reason for this, is the new age belief in many saviors and enlightened teachers, masters and gurus its all good and fine when the goal is the false teaching of man s divinity. the new agers see many ways to salvation; christians proclaim that there is only one way- jesus christ. for the gate is small, and narrow that leads to life, and few are those who find it (matt. 7:14) the bible states that this is in reality the broad way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter it (matt. 7:13) therefore, the only religion not compatible with the new age, and hence the coming new world order, is the belief and strict adherence in the word god with traditional christianity being looked upon as particularly pernicious. in dark secrets of the new age, texe marrs wrote:

ONYX TABLET OF SET

a? do you think that you can recognize a psychic vampire when you see one? what do you think the attitude of such creatures will be towards a member of the priesthood? do you think that they will be able to perceive you as such? what exactly is "evil? how would you respond if asked such a question over the media or during a lecture? of all the books that you have ever read- apart from the satanic bible, satanic rituals, and compleat witch, which do you consider to be the most valuable to a satanic magician? to a novice? what is lycanthropy? why is it important? how can you make use of it? what is the significance of the enochian keys? what is "magic? why is the satanist concerned with it? how does it tie in with what you would define as the "material" goals of the church of satan? as a pri

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

ihuacan (just north of modern mexico city, which was also the birthplace of the gods themselves. the stone is not a fully-functioning calendar; the complex aztec calendar was based on a 52-year cycle known as the calendar round, which reconciled the concurrent 260-day and 365-day years. noah and the flood noah s ark rides the flood after the biblical deluge, in a wood-engraving from the nuremberg bible of 1483. god decided to destroy humanity because of its wickedness, but warned the pious noah of the coming flood, and told him to build the ark and take on board two of every living creature. after the ark had grounded on mount ararat, god sent the rainbow as a symbol of his covenant never again to destroy the creatures he had made. noah lived to be 950 years old. introduction 8 nana-buluku

adonis death and resurrection reflects aspects of the near-eastern god tammuz (see p. 19. tammuz was the spouse of the goddess ishtar, who descended to the underworld to rescue him from death. he is essentially a fertility god, associated with the miracle of the harvest. his death and rebirth were celebrated each spring and autumn and the spectacle of women weeping for tammuz is mentioned in the bible (ezekiel 8:14. like adonis, he was killed by a boar and while he is in the underworld all vegetation withers. the sumerian innanna s journey to hell is an early version of ishtar and tammuz, under the names innanna and dumuzi, and records an early song for the lost god: who is your sister? i am she. who is your mother? i am she. day dawns the same for you and me. this is the same day we shal

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

fer is the uprising of what blatavatsky termed "phosphorus, the cosmic force of illumination and light. lucifer is the force of air, while satan the dual and corrupted form of the light bringer is of active fire. this duality is the changeable essence of progression and evolution. lucifer emerges by name as the roman "bringer of light, lucem fero..the carrier of the torch. a gnostic god, the holy bible mentions little of him besides the basis of origin "you were the anointed cherub who covers; i established you; you were on the holy mountain of god; you walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. you were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, til iniquity was found in you -holy bible, ezekiel. later on the morning star as is called became the dragon and the devil. sha

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

that each sideburn contains three names kel, i.e [the manifestation of this attribute in] the three [lower] worlds, that issue from this rectification [of the beard, as we have explained in [our commentary on] the idra.9 these are: kel shakai, in the world of beirah; kel havayah, in the world of yetzirah; and kel adni, in the world of asiyah. two of these names are found combined this way in the bible. kel shakai is found six times; an example of kel havayah is in psalms 118:26; kel adni does not appear in the bible but is construed based on the other two. there are thus six such names kel in the two sideburns. there are two more names kel in the seventh rectification, which is the [lack of hair on the] two cheeks, known as gthe two holy faces, h as we have explained elsewhere. these are

hich it is a fallen, corrupt version. in aramaic, lot means gcursed, h referring to this manifestation of evil. aramaic, being closely related to hebrew, is an intermediary between the holy language and the other languages of the world. it thus sometimes expresses a fallen version of the allied word in hebrew, or is seen to greveal h (aramaic is used for the sages f vernacular translations of the bible) the meaning of the hebrew. here, it seems to be understood in both senses. lot was therefore abraham fs close relative, earning his livelihood from him, always traveling with him, as it is written, gand lot went with him. h6 this was when g-d told abraham to leave haran and travel to the land of israel. as is explained in the zohar,7 lot signifies the evil and the evil inclination within pe

that each sideburn contains three names kel, i.e [the manifestation of this attribute in] the three [lower] worlds, that issue from this rectification [of the beard, as we have explained in [our commentary on] the idra.6 these are: kel shakai, in the world of beirah; kel havayah, in the world of yetzirah; and kel adni, in the world of asiyah. two of these names are found combined this way in the bible. kel shakai is found six times; an example of kel havayah is in psalms 118:26; kel adni does not appear in the bible but is construed based on the other two. there are thus six such names kel in the two sideburns. there are two more names kel in the seventh rectification, which is the [lack of hair on the] two cheeks, known as gthe two holy faces, h as we have explained elsewhere. these are

of mythology [london: dorling kindersley, 1998, pp. 31, 35. the arizal on parashat beshalach (2) 11 rather [g-d] acted with mercy at the sea, and judged [the jews] only according to their deeds at that time. thus, the word for gwill be silent h is written without [an expected] yud, so that it may be read, gthe ox descended, h i.e, in order to assist in their salvation. in fact, in our text of the bible, the word for gwill be silent h (tacharishun) is written with a yud. ignoring the yud, however, the word can be seen as a permutation of the two words for gox h (shor) and gdescended h (nachat: tacharishun: tav-chet-reish-(yud)-shin-vav-nun. shor: shin-vav-reish. nachat: nun-chet-tav .translated from sha far hapesukim, likutei torah, and sefer halikutim parashat beshalach [third installment]

t cinnamon.half of which is 250 weights. h only 250 weights of cassia were used, however. the reason for this is: all these spices are manifestations of the divine name elokim, and as you know, there are three [usages of] elokim: sometimes it signifies the sefirah of binah, other times the sefirah of gevurah, and other times the sefirah of malchut. there are many names used for g-d throughout the bible. this is because each name refers to g-d as he manifests himself through a specific attribute. these attributes are called sefirot in kabbalah; every sefirah is associated with a specific name of g-d. that said, we see from this passage that there is some fluidity in this, and in different circumstances the same name can refer to different attributes or sefirot. in general, the name elokim i

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

his grade of philosophus, the power of fire is shown to have called forth catastrophe. formerly coiled beneath the tree, the hydra-headed dragon in this diagram has usurped its proper place. its several homed heads wind their way up into the very structure of the tree of life, even unto daath at the foot of the supernals. lured downwards by the tree of knowledge- and remembering in what sense the bible speaks of the verb "to know" we gather that the root of the trouble was an imperfect apprehension of creative power- towards the "darkly splendid world wherein continually lieth a faithless depth" eve, the lower self, ceases to give support to adam. she has yielded to the awful fascination of the awakening psyche. far easier is it to fall than to climb to the distant heights. yet only from o

y 4th point represents their restriction, and therefore it is not altogether to be classed with those that represent their operations in nature. the endekangle naturally represents the evil and imperfect nature of the endekad, and the endekagon (figure n) represents the dispersal of the eleven curses of mount ebal through the universe (deut. xxvii (though they are paraphrased as 12 in the english bible, in the hebrew version they are paragraphed as eleven, two being classed together) the dodekangle as a general rule is referred to the zodiac, and naturally represents the power of the dodekad. the dodekagon shows the dispersal of the influence of the zodiac through nature, the dodekagram its concentration. the number of degrees of a great circle cut off between its angles is 30, forming the

REGARDIE TALISMANS

tion to deal adequately with this project, i might construct a solar talisman. since the structure would provide light, the talismanic ruler could well be the source of light and life to the earch, the sun. an appropriate biblical verse for inscription around the outer margin of one side of the talisman could be: and god said, let there be light. and there was light! the literary recording in the bible of this prehistoric event provides justification and hope that an event modeled on the pattern of this earlier one may well be repeated, on request, as it were. an infinite variety of changes may be rung on this simple theme. but this provides the basic idea involved. of course one has to be familiar with the books of the bible to know where to look for the right phrase. traditionally also

e distant past. chapter four talismans of the five elements in this manual i would like to adapt these classical or ancient principles to a somewhat simpler and perhaps more modern style. the fundamental rules are still traditional and classical of course, but the method of application may be found more direct, and less arduous and obscure. for example, i suggest that the selected verses from the bible may be copied on to the talisman in english, without recourse to hebrew or latin or greek if the reader is unfamiliar with these tongues. the only requirement is that he copy artistically. that is to say, the english lettering should be clear, as beautiful as he can possibly make it, and relevant to the subject held in mind. futhermore, i see no reason why the student should be confined to t

le may be copied on to the talisman in english, without recourse to hebrew or latin or greek if the reader is unfamiliar with these tongues. the only requirement is that he copy artistically. that is to say, the english lettering should be clear, as beautiful as he can possibly make it, and relevant to the subject held in mind. futhermore, i see no reason why the student should be confined to the bible or any other single book for his authority in the projects involved. the day has long since passed when the average intelligent person knew no other sacred scriptures than those of his own family, country and religion. if he knows the koran, the bhagavad gita, the book of mormon, or even kahlil gibran s exquisite masterpiece the prophet, or keenly appreciates some lines from shakespeare, dan

calm water below, in which grow lotus and water lilies. the great letter heh of the supernal mother is traced in the spray of the fountain, symbolizing fertility, productiveness, beauty, pleasure, happiness, etc. the next step is to assemble the divine names pertaining to this element, and a sentence or so which will express and formalize my basic intention. instead of selecting a verse from the bible as previously might have been the case, i am reminded of two separate verses which would be considered appropriate. the first one is adapted from one of the golden dawn rituals reading: blessed be thou, father, of the undying, for thy glory flows out rejoicing, even to the ends of the earth! the second is from crowley s book of the law: but ecstasy be thine and joy of earth. both verses are

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

world.proceed to the east. the password of this northern gate is 'terrigena (of the earth).by the initials of your four passwords, you form the word f. i .a. t.the zelator is conducted to the east in front of the celebrant, and has completed a square with fourcardinal points by his journey. the veil is removed. the zelator is now west of the altar, thecelebrant on the east. zelator places crux on bible, and stands with his arms in form of a. cross.celebrant:place now the crux you hold upon the holy volume and imitate again its form, for this is the'f.i.a.t' of the almighty, that if you do not strive to live in purity and be not redeemed, god222 sgrace in the final day will be withdrawn from you. you have passed the four pillars of wisdom,where the light of knowledge hath been partially rev

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ness, but all signifying one of the phases of the great magical secret, as we shall show later on. this absence of epics continues till our romance of the rose; but the rose-symbol, which expresses also the mysterious and magical sense of dante's poem, is borrowed from the transcendent kabalah, and it is time that we should have recourse to this vast and hidden source of universal philosophy. the bible, with all its allegories, gives expression to the religious knowledge of the hebrews only in an incomplete and veiled manner. the book which we have mentioned, the hieratic characters of which we shall explain subsequently, that book which william postel names the genesis of enoch, existed certainly before moses and the prophets, whose doctrine, fundamentally identical with that of the ancie

ltaire. the books were written only as memorials of tradition and in symbols that were unintelligible to the profane. the pentateuch and the poems of the prophets were, moreover, elementary works, alike in doctrine, ethics and liturgy; the true secret and traditional philosophy was not committed to writing until a later period and under veils even less transparent. thus arose a second and unknown bible, or rather one which was not comprehended by christians, a storehouse, so they say, of monstrous absurdities for in this case believers, involved by the same ignorance, speak the language of sceptics but a monument, as we affirm, which comprises all that philosophical and religious genius has ever accomplished or imagined in the sublime order, a treasure encompassed by thorns, a diamond conc

. 99 xxi e x divination dentes furca amens the author of this book has dared many things in his life, and never has fear retained his thought a prisoner. it is not at the same time without legitimate dread that he approaches the end of the magical doctrine. it is a question now of revealing, or rather reveiling, the great secret, the terrible secret, the secret of life and death, expressed in the bible by those formidable and symbolical words of the serpent, who was himself symbolical: i. nequaquam moriemini; ii. sed eritis; iii. sicut dii; iv. scientes bonum et malum. one of the privileges which belong to the initiate of the great arcanum, and that which sums them all, is divination. according to the vulgar comprehension of the term, to divine signifies to conjecture what is unknown, but

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various fires burn in the temple of god, and do all give him glory: ye are the light of golden candelabra; i am the flame of sacrifice. let us each fulfil our destinies. h having uttered these words, the comet tosses back her burning hair, uplifts her fiery shield and plunges into infinite space, seeming to be lost for ever. thus satan appeared and disappeared in the allegorical narratives of the bible. gnow there was a day, h says the book of job, gwhen the sons of god came to present them selves before the lord, and satan came also among them. and the lord said unto satan: ewhence comest thou? f then satan answered the lord, and said: efrom going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. f h a gnostic gospel, discovered in the east by a learned traveller of our acquain

us now examine the question of pantacles, for all magical virtue is there, since the secret of force is in the intelligence which directs. we have given the symbol and interpretation of the pantacles of pythagoras and ezekiel, so that we have no need to recur to these; we shall prove in a later chapter that all the instruments of hebrew worship were pantacles, and the first and final word of the bible was graven by moses in gold and in brass on the tabernacle and on all its accessories. but each magus can and should have his individual pantacle, for, understood accurately, a pantacle is the perfect summary of a mind. hence we find in the magical calendars of tycho brahe and duchentau, the pantacles of adam, job, jeremiah, isaiah, and of all the other great prophets who have been, each in

t for the efficient projection of will. nigro-mancers and goetic magicians traced their infernal pantacles on the skin of the victims they immolated. the sacrificial ceremonies, the manner of skinning the kid, then of salting, drying and bleaching the skin, are given in a number of clavicles and grimoires. some hebrew kabalists fell into similar follies, forgetting the anathemas pronounced in the bible against those who sacrifice on high places or in the caverns of the earth. all spilling of blood operated ceremonially is abominable and impious, and since the death of adonhiram the society of true adepts has a horror of blood. ecclesia abhorret a sanguine. the initiatory symbolism of pantacles adopted throughout the east is the key of all ancient and modern mythologies. apart from knowledg

d ceremonially is abominable and impious, and since the death of adonhiram the society of true adepts has a horror of blood. ecclesia abhorret a sanguine. the initiatory symbolism of pantacles adopted throughout the east is the key of all ancient and modern mythologies. apart from knowledge of the hieroglyphic alphabet, one would be lost among the obscurities of the vedas, the zend-avesta and the bible. the tree which brings forth good and evil, the source of the four rivers, one of which waters the land of gold. that is, of light. and another flows through ethiopia, or the kingdom of darkness; the magnetic serpent who seduces the woman, and the woman who seduces the man, thus making known the law of attraction; subsequently the cherub or sphinx placed at the gate of the edenic sanctuary

trifling purposes is to jest like children: the lots become oracles only when they are magnetized by intelligence and directed by faith. of all oracles, the tarot is the most astounding in its answers, because all possible combinations of this universal key of the kabalah give oracles of science and of truth as their solutions. the tarot was the sole book of the ancient magi; it is the primitive bible, as we shall prove in the following chapter, and the ancients consulted it as the first christians at a later date consulted the sacred lots, that is, bible verses selected by chance and determined by thinking of a number. mlle. lenormand, the most celebrated of our modern fortune-tellers, was unacquainted with the science of the tarot, or knew it only by derivation from etteilla, whose expl

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m/kirk_wbw/pg_vi.htm (3 of 6 [10/9/2001 12:32:27 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages vi-xiv) jennifer westwood london, 1990 preface xi robert kirk robert kirk was a seventeenth-century scottish clergyman. his major literary work, now virtually forgotten, though of revolutionary importance in his own day, consisted of translating psalms into gaelic, and supervising a gaelic edition of the bible. but he also collected the beliefs of his gaelic-speaking parishioners, and argued that such beliefs were not idle superstition but were compatible with the basics of christianity. his secret commonwealth has long been one of the major sources for fairy lore and the second sight though kirk wrote this short book not as a 'folklore' collection but as a general survey of the relationship betwe

s after kirk's death) to samuel pepys, the subject is mentioned. lord reay had a copy of the http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_1.htm (2 of 8 [10/9/2001 12:33:52 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 1-9) secret commonwealth, one of a small number of handwritten copies which had been circulated in london, initially to people whom kirk had met during one of his visits as translator of the bible into gaelic. in 1684 pepys, a member of the royal society which investigated and promoted scientific advances, of which boyle was also a member, had traveled to spain. among other activities, he made a thorough investigation of the saludadors of seville. these were seers who had a widespread reputation of being able to prophecy, perform cures, and see at a distance. he also investigated the

both their natural and acquired sights in the twinkling of an eye [for] both those sights, where once they [are] come, are in the same organ and inseparable. or they [may] strike them dumb. the secret commonwealth 26 http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_21.htm (4 of 8 [10/9/2001 12:34:36 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 21-29) the tramontaines( highlanders) to this day put bread, the bible, or a piece of iron, in women's bed[s] when travailing [that is, in labour] to save them from being thus stolen. and they commonly report that all uncouth unknown wights are terrified by nothing earthly so much as by cold iron. they deliver [that is, explain] the reasons to be that hell, lying between the chill tempests and fire brands of scalding metal, and the iron of the north, hence the

ent and sullen. they are said to have many pleasant toyish books. but the operation of these pieces [of literature] only appears in some paroxysms of antic corybantic jollity- as if ravished and prompted by a new spirit entering into them at that instant, lighter and merrier than their own. other books they have of involved abstruse sense, much like the rosicrucian style. they have nothing of the bible, only collected parcels of charms and counter-charms; not to defend themselves withal but to operate on other animals' for they are a people invulnerable by [that is, to] our weapons. and albeit were-wolves and witches true bodies are, by the union of the spirit of nature that runs through all, echoing and doubling the blow towards another, wounded at home when the[ir] astral assumed bodies

n i now have time for, i leave to the judgement and credit of everyone else's enquiry and experience. a short treatise on the scottish-irish charms and spells it is not well known when and by whom this art of charming among the scottish- irish was first invented and broached: but surely most of the spells relate to something in the christian religion; some of them have words taken out of the holy bible as [from] palms 50:18 [or] john 1:1, etcetera. 1. those that defend the lawfulness of charms call them a continued miracle, which by heaven's compassion towards mankind's infirmities, convey virtue from all the hands [that] they pass through [this virtue is] by reason of the sanctity of the first deviser, and [they continue] to work in their own kind, as a once-dedicated telesm [does] in its

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for an eye, semi-private administration of justice, inequality before the law (higher classes were more protected, but when found guilty were subject to more severe punishments, and the drawing of little distinction between deliberate and accidental crime. sumerian science was comparable to egyptian, but significantly inferior in medicine, geometry, and architecture. in the "old testament" of the bible a distinction between religion and politics is drawn, with the former assuming the right to criticize the latter. the hebraic kingship is notable as being primarily secular in responsibility; interaction with and representation of yahweh was the responsibility of a separate priesthood. ancient hebrew religion progressed through four stages (1) pre-mosaic animism and magic (2) national monola

eputation came about simply because he pricked the balloons of so many phony and pretentious people. machiavelli's philosophy, which was essentially political, may be summed up thus: any means, however lawless or unscrupulous, may be justifiably employed by a ruler in order to establish and maintain a strong central government. machiavelli pro forma accepted christian cosmology as revealed in the bible. since this source claims to be divinely revealed, he went on to say, it is beyond or above reason. hence unaided human reason cannot discern a difference between political authority based on divine revelation and that which is not based on divine revelation (such as pre-christian pagan rulers. thus machiavelli follows the lead of william of occam [of "occam's razor" fame, who stressed belie

n or modification of much of roman catholic doctrine, and establishment of the protestant churches. the reformation's key proponents were martin luther (1483-1546) in germany and john calvin (1509-1564) in switzerland. while there were a number of sub-movements throughout europe, they generally agreed upon fundamental christianity as characterized by (1) the finality and ultimate authority of the bible (2) denial of the authority of the church bureaucracy to interpret the bible (3) repudiation of reason and affirmation of faith instead (4) condemnation of the use of force for religious conversion, and (5 "the two realms [spiritual grace and political power] concept, which licenses unchristian acts if commanded by secular authority. to these essentially lutheran points calvin adds a strong

them all" it may be remarked that the name pistis-sophia is itself a "barbarous" formation, not properly paralleled in greek. there is some evidence that the gnostic "sophia (philosophy) was also named by other gnostics "pistis (faith: it is only in coptic that we find the names run together. similarly we have "zorokothora-meljisedek" run together; melchisedec whose genealogy is not given in the bible, is identified, not with shem as the jews sometimes do, but with the heathen zoroaster, and the names are fantastically coupled. we may add that the functions assigned to zorokothora-meljisedek have nothing to so with those of the biblical melchisedec or the persian zoroaster! only the mere names were borrowed by the gnostic. 2. the mystery of the first mystery "but he who shall have receive

n tiede (psychology, the science of reason and emotion. f. alberoni& s. veca: hyva ja paha (good and evil) footnotes 1. winkler, franz, in dr. michael aquino's black magic in the crystal tablet of set 2. according to desmond morris. 3. a.j. wihuri's summary of ken wilber's book no boundary: eastern and western approaches to personal growth 4. aquino, op. cit. 5. ibid. 6. lavey, anton, the satanic bible of the handedness metaphor as a student of the black arts, i knew of the terms "left hand path" and "right hand path" long before encountering the temple of set. these terms provoked my curiosity. after looking into them as they are used by traditional occultists, i turned to psychology for deeper understanding. the use of handedness terminology to designate entire segments of political and

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nce, to banish those satanico-biblical doubts of his- those concerning god's unwillingness to permit dissent among his lieutenants- for as iblis/shaitan was no angel, so there had been no angelic dissidents for the divinity to repress- and those concerning forbidden fruit, and god's supposed denial of moral choice to his creations- for nowhere in the entire recitation was that tree called (as the bible had it) the root of the knowledge of good and evil _it was simply a different tree_ shaitan, tempting the edenic couple, called it only "the tree of immortality- and as he was a liar, so the truth (discovered by inversion) was that the banned fruit (apples were not specified) hung upon the death-tree, no less, the slayer of men's souls- what remained now of that moralityfearing god? where wa

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rated and embued with a spiritual power in their own right. their mere presence in a place could thus bring good or bad luck. in the circle it is just as much an integral part of the summonings and dominations that follow as are any other ingredient listed within their pages. its place is on the altar itself, like that most profound and famous yet much bastardised of all grimoire in the west, the bible. like the wand or sword, the powers of the grimoire were applied with conviction. consider that in the above confession of jubertus of bavaria, three devils appeared..when he who spoke opened this book. it is not merely the formulae, names, signs and prayers, or the astrological charts and recipes for spells and potions that provide the value of such a work. in the rites of black magick, the

nd the making of talisman. the general attitude of the work is one of piety, and the secrets it contains are far more sacred than diabolist. much of its information, however, later becomes reproduced in those works that might more properly be described as works of necromancy. it had considerable influence upon the traditions of witchcraft and magick transmitted through the classical grimoire. the bible although some readers may be a little surprised and possibly even upset to see the good book included in a list of grimoire, its use as a source of witchcraft has a long tradition. in particular the psalms, hand copied, torn out, or recited aloud, have been used in many spells throughout the ages. various other passages are also considered to possess their own power. in those traditions wher

f the three marys, the song of solomon has particular importance. whilst modern witches are lucky enough to have all the theological history books at their disposal, and may thus consider themselves to have rediscovered their pagan heritage, the witches of the middle ages had only those few snippets that were preserved in their lineage. much of their theology was thus christian and drawn from the bible, even if interpreted in ways that the church would strongly have disapproved of. many modern practitioners have not even read this work, whilst in the past we were all made to listen to vast passages of it recited by their priests, once a week and by law. various spells actually use the bible as a ritual object in its own right. bibliomancy is a form of divination through which a pin is stuc

ays that the church would strongly have disapproved of. many modern practitioners have not even read this work, whilst in the past we were all made to listen to vast passages of it recited by their priests, once a week and by law. various spells actually use the bible as a ritual object in its own right. bibliomancy is a form of divination through which a pin is stuck at random into a page of the bible, and the result interpreted as the answer to whatever question is being asked. an alternative is to tie the bible up in a garter, which is held at the top by the ring. this is then used like a pendulum, with answers being interpreted from the direction that the bible begins to turn. the book of enoch the greatest single source of angelology as recognised in orthodox christianity and the trad

fillipo lippi. although the power of the church extended its control of the arts, as the governments do with the media in modern times, painters such as leornado da vinci explored philosophies of heresy and mysticism, sciences liberal and otherwise. to keen and unconditioned eyes there are numerous signs of profound magical humour in their works, hidden in plain view. the archangels named in the bible (gabriel, michael, raphael) were mentioned in the seventh century onwards in the litany of the saints, although it was only as late as the last century that benedict xv made the feast of the last two obligatory. the names of the other angels were deemed apocryphal. the book of enoch adds uriel, raguel, saraqael and haniel to the list of archangels. in the mid-eighth century a frankish priest

SATANIC APHORISMS

cacrg 1the stars be numbered. 1aoiveae cormpt. 1arise! move! 2and appear before 3the covenant of his mouth 1torzu zacar 2od zamran aspt 3sibsi butmona 1which he hath sworn 2unto us in his justice. 3open the mysteries of 1ds surzas 2tia baltan. 3odo cicle 1your creation 2and make us partakers of 3the undefiled knowledge. 1qaa 2od ozozma plapli 3iadnamhethe nine satanic statements from the satanic bible, 1969 by anton szandor lavey 1. satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence! 2. satan represents vital existence instead of spiritual pipe dreams! 3. satan represents undefiled wisdom instead of hypocritical self-deceit! 4. satan represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates! 5. satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek! 6. satan rep

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nly the freak show kind of article. finally, it was a so-called "girlie" or "man's" magazine, knight of september 1968, that published the first definitive article on lavey, the church of satan, and lavey's synthesis of the old devil legends and black magic lore into the modern philosophy and practice of satanism that all followers and imitators now use as their model, their guide, and even their bible. my magazine article was the beginning, not the end (as it has been with my other writing subjects, of a long and intimate association. out of it came my biography of lavey, the devil's avenger, published by pryamid in 1974. after the book was published, i became a card-carrying member and, subsequently, a priest of the church of satan, a title i now proudly share with many celebrated person

as leader in marches and maneuvers in mock military orders. in 1942, when lavey was twelve, his fascination with toy soldiers led to concern over world war ii. he delved into military manuals and discovered arsenals for the equipment of armies and navies could be bought like groceries in a supermarket and used to conquer nations. the idea took shape in his head that contrary to what the christian bible said, the earth would not be inhereted by the meek, but by the mighty. in high school lavey became something of an offbeat child prodigy. reserving his most serious studies for outside the school, he delved into music, metaphysics, and secrets of the occult. at fifteen, he became second oboist in the san fransisco ballet symphony orchestra. bored with high school classes, lavey dropped out i

nding much of her time lecturing on satanism at universities in many parts of the country; and finally zeena, remembered by people who saw the famous photo of the satanic church baptism as a tiny tot, but now a gorgeously developed teenager attracting a growing pack of wolves, human male variety. out of lavey's relatively quiescent period came his widely read, pioneering books: first, the satanic bible, which at this writing is in its twelfth edition (and this is my second, revised introduction, after having written the original introduction to the first edition. second, the satanic rituals, which covers more of the somber, complex material lavey unearthed from his increasing sources. and third, the compleat witch, a bestseller in italy, but, sadly, allowed by its american publisher to go

ler in italy, but, sadly, allowed by its american publisher to go out of print with its potential unfulfilled. lavey's spreading out from organized church activities to writing books for worldwide distribution has, of course, greatly expanded church of satan membership. satanism's growing popularity has naturally been accompanied by scare stories from religious groups complaining that the satanic bible now outsells the christian bible on college campuses and is a leading causative factor in youngsters' turning away from god. and certainly one suspects that pope paul had lavey in mind when he issued his worldwide proclamation two years ago that the devil is "alive" and "a person, a living, fire-breathing character spreading evil over the earth. lavey, maintaining that "evil" is "live" spell

ve helped business, lifted up the economy, and some of the millions of dollars we have generated have in turn flowed into the christian church. we have proved many times over the ninth satanic statement that says the church- and countless individuals- cannot exist without the devil" for that the christian church must pay a price. the events that lavey predicted in the first edition of the satanic bible have come to pass. repressed people have burst their bonds. sex has exploded, the collective libido has been released, in movies and literature, on the streets, and in the home. people are dancing topless and bottomless. nuns have throwm off their traditional habits, exposed their legs, and danced the "missa solemnis rock" that lavey thought he was conjuring up as a prank. there is a ceasele

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, he must consciously strive for some degree of self-awareness. inasmuch as ritual magic is dependent upon emotional intensity for success, all manner of emotion producing devices must be employed in its practice. the basic ingredients in the casting of a spell can be categorized as desire, timing, imagery, direction, and balance. each of these is explained in the author's prior work, the satanic bible. the material contained in this volume represents the type of satanic rite which has been employed in the past for specialized productive or destructive ends. it will be observed that a pervasive element of paradox tuns throughout the rituals contained herein. up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity, etc. in keeping with the very semantic and et

s everyday magic, a finely attuned sense of discrimination is essential for all accomplishment. in addition, one of the most important "commandments" of satanism is: satanism demands study-not worship! this book was, for the most part, written because the author believes that ritual magic should be removed from the sealed vacuum in which it has been held by occultists. scant yean ago, the satanic bible first publicly advanced magical techniques and working procedures utilizing sexual energy and other emotional responses. since then many volumes have appeared that give identical principles, in both technical and esoteric jargon. it is expected that the precedent established by the present work will likewise "free" others to reveal "hidden mysteries" why, it will be asked, is it deemed feasi

over quality in the selection of dramatis personae. where group solidarity and singleness of purpose exists, ceremonies such as das tierdrama, homage to tchort and the call to cthulhu, can be celebrated effectively by a larger number of participants. for the most part, the rites should be begun and ended with the procedures standard to satanic liturgy. these are presented in detail in the satanic bible, and are indicated wherever the term standard sequence, or customary manner (or die equivalent, appears in the present text. accouterments necessary to all rites, as well as the enochian calls, are likewise given in the bible. as to the pronunciation of the names involved (despite some occultists who insist "you can't expect help from the forces you call upon if you can't pronounce their nam

a magician's destructive wish toward another may be justified by all laws of natural ethic and fair play, but the force that he summons may be wielded by a mean, worthless person-one whom the magician himself would despise-in order to complete the working. oddly enough, this manner of operations can be employed for benevolent or amorous-rather than destructive-ends with equal success. the satanic bible states that the magician should treat the entities he calls upon as friends and companions, for even an "impersonal" device will respond better to a conscientious and respectful user. this principle is accurate for operating automobiles and power tools, as well as demons and elementals. it will be apparent to some readers that satanic rites of the type contained in this book can act as catal

ed from diverse minds and places, yet all operate on much the same "frequency" many people who never conceptualized their personal philosophies discover that the principles of satanism are an unequalled vehicle for their thoughts; hence the title of "satanist" is now being claimed by its rightful owners. those who disagree with the non-christian definition of satanist, as set forth in the satanic bible, should examine the basis of that disagreement. it surely stems from one of two sources "common knowledge" or scripturally founded propaganda "satan has been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years"-the ninth satanic statement-is not limited just to the religious organization referred to as "the church" how convenient an enemy the devil has been

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biblical context, is certainly superior to satan in his nature and power, and it is even written that satan exists only because god allows him to exist. a satanic believer of this doctrine may prefer to think that somehow satan is, or will, become strong enough to overcome and defeat god whenever that battle is to be waged, but it s written in the pages if the revealed word of god (the believer s bible) that this will not happen and that satan and all his followers will suffer horrors and a second death by being hurled into the lake of fire. again, another supposition of truth as it apparently comes from satan s superior, god. given this hopeless situation, it would be foolhardy to side with the devil (the xian bible also states satan is an adversary to man) if he actually exists because

to embrace falsehoods which promise the world, and beyond, but never delivers as they are devoid of substance; they have no basis-in-fact. such people exist under a false belief of coming paradise and ever-lasting life after death as a reward for being a slave to a belief. these aforementioned, unperverted characteristics of satan which are collectively considered sin by the word of god (the xian bible) aren t sins at all in this context; nor are they sins against god because there s no actual god (outside of man) to sin against! if anything, they re sins (offenses) against our fellows via the law of the survival of the fittest: those who become the victims, or prey, to the predators who are more cunning and stronger. there is no such thing as equality in our world, nor should there be. pr

e reality, strife and perils of the real world; the so-called xianly imperfect plane upon which all of us live everyday. it s stated within their scriptures that there s a better existence beyond the one experienced by them during their fleshly life. consequently, the xian considers his existing real world as basically negative, fraught with temptation, sin, etc, which has been presented by their bible as a necessary test of great difficulty, and even adversity intended to ultimately determine how blatant would a xian s sins against his god have to be to nullify acceptance especially where the deliberate worship of idols has pre-empted even replaced his god? certainly, the most outrageous and extensive example of this situation of contradictory idolatry and utopian creationism vs. establis

dowed with the spirit of antichrist rests in the center of the altar, directly beneath the sigil. ignited charcoal in a large brazier represents hell s flaming pit from which the grand conjuration and subsequent release of the devils of evilution symbolize the forces of the developing religious war between xians and us. the brazier is placed at the left side of the altar. the function of the xian bible in this ritual is two-fold: first, it is employed as a sacrifice; the celebrant tears seven leaves from its binding and casts them into the pit to suffer destruction and damnation. the second part involves the recital of its antichrist disclosure: revelation 13. the bible is placed in front of the brazier. conjuration saltes are more commonly known as flash powder. they are employed to empha

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d the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit'(15) according to andrew collins, writing in the black alchemist (abc books. 1988, the friends of hekate and associated individuals have used this form of symbolism in their magical activities where they have utilised the apocryphal imagery of the christian bible in an attempt to construct a magical satanism- an examination of satanic black magic side 7 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 a collection of sacred-magick.com< the esoteric library version of the antichrist. a second interpretation of the abyss comes from the order of nine angles who suggest the abyss to be located where the wor

ft for the prince- a guide to human sacrifice' in hostia volume i (thormynd press: shrewsbury, 1992. 30. order of nine angles 'the sinister calling' in hostia volume ii (thormynd press: shrewsbury, 1992. 31. ibid. 32. order of nine angles 'a gift for the prince- a guide to human sacrifice' in hostia volume i (thormynd press: shrewsbury, 1992. 33. la vey, anton 'the book of lucifer' in the satanic bible (avon books: new york, 1969, p. 88. bibliography barton, blanche. the church of satan hell's kitchen productions, inc: new york, 1990. baskin, wade. satanism citadel press: secaucus, 1972. beest, christos. the black book of satan iii rigel press: shrewsbury, year of fire 103. satanism- an examination of satanic black magic side 14 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\v

alchemist. abc books: leigh-on-sea, 1988. collins, andrew. the second coming. century: london, 1993. dark lily. the voice of the left hand path. no's 1- 15. dark lily: london, 1987- 1993. fenrir. volume iv. nos 1& 2 order of nine angles. rigel press: york, 1996. gettings, fred. dictionary of demons. rider: london, 1988. grant, kenneth. nightside of eden. skoob books publishing: london, 1994. holy bible, the. oxford university press: london, 1937. lavey, anton szandor. the satanic bible avon books: new york, 1969. lavey, anton szandor. the satanic rituals avon books: new york, 1972. lurker, manfred. dictionary of gods and goddesses, devils and demons routledge: london, 1988. man, myth& magic. 12 volumes. bpc publishing ltd: london. 1971. newton, toyne, the demonic connection blandford press

gh "devil" on the same principle put us in the past tense) but its shock value and therefore usefulness has long since receded. it is now counter-productive if being evil is regarded as a necessary qualification to be a follower of the left hand path. so let us relegate that myth to the junk-heap, along with the other nonsense about satanism being an offshoot of christianity (even the christians' bible testifies against that. satanism is no longer a hook upon which the unenlightened can hang their guilt complexes. two thousand years of being the "scapegoat" has inevitably left us on the defensive. in any statements for public consumption, we have expanded too much time and energy in explaining what we are not, and this preponderance of the negative has created a void rather than a valid ex

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tural basis for many people. the second chapter, characteristics of the divine, explores the aspects and personalities of god or the gods as revealed through religious documents such as the epic of gilgamesh and swami vivekananda s paper on hinduism. the final chapter examines how religion provides guidelines that people can use in their everyday lives. these include selections from the christian bible; the avesta, the sacred scripture of zoroastrianism; and emma goldman s essay the philosophy of atheism. acknowledgments u x l would like to thank several individuals for their assistance with world religions: almanac. at schlager group, jayne weisblatt and neil schlager oversaw the writing and editing, while michael j. o neal and j. sydney jones wrote the text. thanks also to ken shepherd

tterns of the universe. de: political power that is the result of a ruler s virtue and honesty. deity: a god or goddess. dharma: righteousness in one s religious and personal life. diaspora: the scattering of the jews throughout the world. digambara: literally sky-clad; one of the two major sects of jainism. disciple: a person who accepts and assists in spreading the teachings of a leader. in the bible, a follower of jesus. doctrine: a set of ideas held by a religious group. druidism: a neo-pagan religion based in the celtic region of the british isles. dynasty: a sequence of rulers from the same family. xviii world religions: almanac words to know eightfold path: the path of the buddha s teachings that can lead to the end of suffering. ek onkar: the true god of sikhism. emanation: that wh

of day and night are equal. the spring, or vernal, equinox occurs generally on march 21 and the autumn equinox occurs on or about september 23. esbat: wiccan celebration of the full moon. ethics: the study of moral values and rules or a guide to such values and rules. etiquette: proper behavior; good manners. evangelical: describing a protestant group that emphasizes the absolute authority of the bible and forgiveness of sin through belief in jesus. excommunicate: to exclude or officially ban a person from a church or other religious community. faith: belief and trust in god, accompanied by a sense of loyalty to the traditional doctrines, or principles, of religion. faravahar: a figure of a bird with its wings spread that is a chief symbol of zoroastrianism. filial piety: the respect and d

o being, and the nature of space, time, god, and the afterlife. world religions: almanac xxiii words to know metempsychosis: transmigration of souls, or the migration of the soul into a different form, animal, or object after death. mezuzah: a small case containing torah passages that observant jews attach to the doorposts of their houses. midrashim: stories that expand on incidents in the hebrew bible. mishnah: the written text of the talmud. mitzvoth: the laws of judaism contained in the torah. moksha: salvation; liberation from rebirth. monastery: a place where religious people such as monks live, away from the world and following strict religious guidelines. monotheism: belief in one supreme being. morality: following the rules of right behavior and conduct. moshiach: the expected mess

sm. swastika: a pictorial character that symbolizes the eternal nature of brahma because it points in all directions; also used as the official emblem of the nazi party during world war ii (1939 45. takhts: seats of spiritual authority in sikhism. the five takhts are gurdwaras located in india. talmud: traditions that explain and interpret the torah. tanakh: the chief jewish scripture; the hebrew bible. tawba: repentance. theism: belief in the existence of gods or god. theocracy: a form of government in which god or some supreme deity is the ruler. god s laws are then interpreted by a divine king or by a priest class. theology: the study of god and of religions truths. world religions: almanac xxix words to know three jewels: the jain code of ethical conduct, consisting of right faith, rig

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translated serpent, and in numbers xxi. 6, as "fiery serpents: also in verse 8 as "fiery serpent" when jehovah said "make thee a fiery serpent and set it upon a pole" kerubim. the hebrew words arc chivth h qdsh, holy animals: i have ventured to put kerubim, as the title of the other biblical form of holy mysterious animal, as given in 1 kings vi. 23 and exodus xxv. 18, and indeed genesis iii. 24. bible dictionaries generally give the word as cherubim, but in hebrew the initial letter is always k and not ch. 26. three. in the first edition i overlooked this word three; and putting and for as, made four classes of serving beings. 27. this is verse 4 of psalm civ. 28. here follow the permutations of the name ihv, which is the tetragrammaton--jehovah, without the second or final heh: ihv is a

6. heavens. the hebrew word heshamaim hshmim, has in it the element of aesh, fire, and mim, water; and also shem, name; the name is ihvh, attributed to the elements. shma is in chaldee a name for the trinity (parkhurst. shmsh is the sun, and light, and a type of christ, the sun of righteousness. malachi iv. 2. 37. were produced. the hebrew word bra, is the root. three hebrew words are used in the bible to represent the idea of making, producing or creating. briah, briah, giving shape, genesis i. 1. oshih, ashiah, completing, genesis i. 31. itzirh, yetzirah, forming, genesis ii. 7. to these the kabalists add the word atzlh, with the meaning of "producing something manifest from the unmanifested" emanation shin aleph mem macrocosm primal fire spirit primal water universe heavens atmosphere t

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et enough yourself. if you do not know yourself and are not truly conscious of yourself, then hardly will you be able to apprehend someone who is defined as the origin of that which is still undeveloped in you (consciousness. it might prove a bit difficult to emphathize with a neter of non- nature in case your consciousness is most of the time in the grip of mechanical/natural phenomena. even the bible is plain about this "he that is of god heareth god's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of god (john 8: 47) to fulfil the promise of the bible, take steps to develop the non-natural presence of self in you, and to establish its independence of and control over the mechanical objective universe, and you will certainly also increase your chances of apprehending set, the bein

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hatever purpose you will" in the above we notice at once the use of the seven vowels which form "a name wherein be contained all names, p. 178 and all lights, and all powers" 1 the seven vowels have, of course, reference to the three vowels "iao" 2 which were intended to represent one of the hebrew names for almighty god "jah" the names "adonai, eloai" are also derived through the hebrew from the bible, and sabaoth is another well-known hebrew word meaning "hosts; some of the remaining names could be explained, if space permitted, by hebrew and syriac words. on papyri and amulets the vowels are written in magical combinations in such a manner as to form triangles and other shapes; with them are often found the names of the seven archangels of god; the following are examples- 3 4 5 in combi

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er. here, you will go down to one knee, bow your head, and complete the summoning of the puck lord with the traditional practise of saying the lord's prayer backwards. the reversal of the lord's prayer hearkens back to the dhulkarnen cultus, who reversed muslim prayers to bring forth the two-horned one, and even the horsemen's word were reported to summon forth old hornie with certain prayers and bible passages said backwards. the northumberland witches likewise used the reversed lord's prayer to summon the old one. the logic is simple; the reversing the prayer means "reversing the flow" and returning to the source of the prayer- that is, the mystery of holiness, called by some "god, from which all things flow. the witch knows that reversing the prayers takes them back to the true source o

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their tasks. it is also looking at a task and dividing it into sections so that it's do-able. it is action-oriented consciousness. the work of the order of horus is found within this word. this is the solar aspect of the work of the magus anton la vey, and at the simplest approach may be seen as "looking out for number 1" learning good scientific management techniques, the lessons of the satanic bible, or the lateral thinking techniques of edward de bono are good exercises for iri. sight (other-centric. the verb "to see" maa connected with the left eye, the moon, and luck, also means "to see the future" this practice is a two-fold practice. it requires watching what is really going on the world, to spot trends- rather than what we wish was going on the world. it secondly requires a beauti

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e great seal of the united states, with its phrase e pluribus unum and its conception of unity out of diversity; even more in the reverse of the seal. the incomplete pyramid, with its thirteen levels of stone and the apex suspended above in the form of an all-seeing eye, surrounded by the inscription annuit coeptis [and] novus ordo seclorum. those who are devout believers in the prophecies of the bible. might well wonder whether the reverse of the great seal did not prefigure the second coming of the messiah. though he remained noncommittal about the extent of his own belief, wallace did induce the secretary of the treasury to put the great pyramid on the new dollar bill in 1935. he sold this to secretary morgenthau on the prosaic ground that novus ordo was latin for new deal, and for year

es that "land near the great falls of the potomac. is now being given by a generous donor. here the building will be surrounded by an extensive park" miss margaret johnson is the donor. but why should this woman be allowed to donate this land for such a purpose? the house and senate committees on the district of columbia headed by representative john l. mcmillan of south carolina and senator alan bible of nevada have the power to deny the temple's officers the right to erect such a pagan temple in the nation's capitol. legislation can be originated to forbid such an enterprise. hearings can be held which would allow the citizenry to be heard concerning this mailer. the time to stop thia project is now. before the temple of understanding becomes a reality. a national campaign to finance the

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e world. his view accords with the mysteryattitude toward the familiar myths. the mystai looked for the deeper reality behind the myths, and what they did in the case of the pagan mythology, philo does with the tale of origins contained in the books attributed to moses. the old testament narratives he treats as images of internal, psychic processes. take the creation of the world recounted in the bible. to read it as expressing things that happened in an external way is to grasp only one half of its meaning. it does indeed say: 156 christianity as mystical fact in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth. now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of god was hovering over the waters.174 but the inner truth that lies behind suc

as the archetypal essence, sending forth myriads of rays, none of them visible to sense, but all grasped by the mind. 175 that is how philo describes god. and something almost identical can be recognized in plato s timaeus: when the father who had begotten it perceived that the universe was alive and in motion, a shrine for the eternal gods [that is, the stars, he was well pleased.176 compare the bible s and god saw everything, that it was good. in this platonizing way, philo assimilates the meaning of the bible to the experiences of the mysteries, making the knowledge of the divine arise from the creation- process, which takes place in one s own soul as the working-out of its destiny. the story of creation and that of the soul s divinization are one and the same. philo acts on the assumpt

the mysteries, making the knowledge of the divine arise from the creation- process, which takes place in one s own soul as the working-out of its destiny. the story of creation and that of the soul s divinization are one and the same. philo acts on the assumption that the narratives in the mosaic primordial history can be used to tell the story of the soul in its search for god. everything in the bible thus becomes profoundly symbolic, and philo is the interpreter of its symbolism, reading the bible as the story of the soul. it may rightly be said that philo s method of exegesis christian and pagan wisdom 157 corresponds to contemporary techniques pioneered by mysteriosophy. he himself draws attention to the same approach to the ancient scriptures among the therapeutae: they have also writ

t would be easy to assume that he gave a spiritual-scientific commentary on various aspects of traditional teachings, and supplemented what was already known from christian tradition with profound insights for even deeper knowledge. rudolf steiner has been misunderstood again and again in this regard, as, for example, when his lecture cycles are seen simply as anthroposophical commentaries on the bible. this is precisely what he never intended. in mysticism at the dawn of the modern age, which appeared one year earlier in 1901, he discussed among other things the figure of nicholas cusanus, who was a 190 christianity as mystical fact modern, scientific man.1 as such cusanus could have followed his own path of knowledge, unrestrained, developing the deepest, purely-human forces. he then wou

siac membership tokens with the formula life-death- life again confirm the mystery background; kirk, raven and schofield, the presocratic philosophers, pp. 208, 210. 27. fragments 110-111. 28. fragment 61. 29. fragment 51. 30. fragment 62. 31. fragment 52. 32. philo of alexandria, living around the beginning of the christian era, still thinks in the same way. considering the legal sections of the bible he writes: there are those who take a purely symbolic view of the written law. they inquire diligently after its spiritual meaning, but scorn the actual laws. but i can only blame such people, for they ought to observe both the hidden meaning and the obvious one (r.st) see philo, on the migration of abraham, 89. 33. daimon is used here in its greek sense of spiritual being (r.st. heraclitus

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tian priesthoods of egypt whose ideas have been integrated into other lines of philosophical thought. as previously stated, the differentiation between the lhp and the rhp is one of intent. for instance, in the church of rome (catholic) ritual is utilized. all the elements- altar, bell, candles, incense etc, form the components of ritual. however, if you were to read anton szandor lavey s satanic bible, ritual is also utilized using those very same elements. the difference lies within the intention of the participants. therefore, the technology itself does not distinguish one methodology from the other, rather the perceptions and cognitive structures of how these technologies may be utilized become the essential determining factors. whether a candle is white or black doesn't mean squat in

located within the midbrain. what is important here for our purpose of creating ritual proxemics is that we have a element- the angles- that we know are processed by that portion of the brain responsible for the higher functions of conscious man. the angles stimulate activity within the cerebral cortex, but what are the contents of this stimulation? anton szandor lavey, the author of the satanic bible summarized the stimulus effects of angular mechanisms through another lhp law called the law of the trapezoid. it states: all obtuse angles are magically harmful to those unaware of this property. the same angles are beneficial, stimulating, and energizing to those who are magically sensitive to them. in general, we can observe from the law of the trapezoid that angles create polarities with

of transformative possibilities due to its unique physical properties. but, before discussing the particulars of sr, a brief history. the first use of sr i have found was included in a ritual secretly called the rite of what is to be. allegedly resulting from the magical workings of turn of the century german sorcerors, a copy of this ritual was included in anton szandor lavey s book the satanic bible where it was called the die elektrischen vorspiele roughly translated as: the electrical, or electrocution preludes. this rite called for a series of very detailed audio and electrical field stimulus as components of the actual ritual itself. among the elements included was the distribution of white noise through out the ritual chamber. the definition of audio white noise is: random noise wh

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lice state. dr. cathy burns, author of the excellent masonic and occult symbols illustrated, as well as the hidden secrets of the eastern star. dean grace, author of a little guide to the all-seeing eye symbol on our dollar bill. ralph epperson, author of masonry: conspiracy against christianity, the unseen hand, and other fine books. dr. gail riplinger, author of the bestselling classic, new age bible versions. david meyer, occult researcher and publisher of last trumpet newsletter. michael hoffman, ii, author of the groundbreaking book, secret societies and psychological warfare. fritz springmeier, author of bloodlines of the illuminati and other revealing works. robert gaylon ross, author of who's who of the elite and the elite don't dare let us tell the people. i also wish to acknowled

t is the greatest of secrets that the illuminati must shield from view. the illuminated (so-called "enlightened) man who knows this darkest of secrets is taught by his superiors and comes to believe that all who are in on the secret are somehow more sophisticated, urbane, intelligent, and spiritually astute, than the uncouth, vulgar, and coarse people who stupidly follow after the god of the holy bible. stupid people deserve to be deceived, say the masons and illuminists. thus, as emile grillot degivry comments, the elite "conceal in order to baffle the vulgar."9 marie roberts and hugh ormsby-lennon, in secret texts: the literature of secret societies, note that the rituals, rites, symbols, emblems, and other tools of the secret societies are "mysteries that must not be revealed to the pro

cret societies consider you, me, and everyone outside their own special preserve, as "profane, lewd, and unworthy" symbols as secrets to maintain their rotten and corrupt body of secrets, the illuminati leaders and groups employ symbols. the rites, ceremonies, hand signs, and grips of the illuminists are based on the science and art of symbolism. it is said that symbolism began as recorded in the bible's book of genesis when god put a "mark" or sign on cain who had slain his brother, abel. throughout human history, marks, signs, pictures, and hieroglyphs came to be used to convey words, ideas, concepts, and secrets "by symbols" wrote thomas carlyle in sartor resartus "is man guided and commanded, made happy made wretched. he everywhere finds himself surrounded with symbols, recognized as s

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

nt mystery religions of babylon, sumeria, greece, rome, china, etc. i have spent many nights reading old textbooks and treatises on medieval and occult subjects; conducted intensive investigation of the rituals and symbols of scores of secret societies and orders; and spent years examining the true teachings and practices of new ageism, witchcraft and satanism. moreover, without study of the holy bible and constant referral back to it, much of the knowledge i have acquired could not be properly understood. masonic expert lynn f. perkins alludes to the gigantic amount of extracurricular research and work needed to uncover the greatest secrets of the masonic fraternity. he writes: the true wisdom is concealed and hidden, not only from those who do not join the masonic order but also from tho

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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, secret masters or prophets. since this is the central level some characters are thought to be able to me

seeing and for us it looks like empty darkness. this sun is also a black 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 th

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ago. still others have searched for mysterious relics filled with supernatural attributes that were credited with accomplishing miracles in the past. no physical evidence is available to determine that such an object as the ark of the covenant ever existed, but its present location continues to be sought. the holy grail, the cup from which jesus drank at the last supper, is never mentioned in the bible, but by medieval times it had been popularized as the holiest relic in christendom. in addition to bestowing mystery and power upon certain objects, humans have always found or created places that are sacred to them sites where they might gather to participate in religious rituals or where they might retreat for solitude and reflection. in such places, many people claim to experience a sense

son, andrew, ed. world scripture: a comparative anthology of sacred texts. new york: paragon house, 1995. zaehner, r. c, ed. encyclopedia of the world s religions. new york: barnes& noble, 1997. islam in regard to the concept of a soul, islam envisions a human as a being of spirit and body. the creation of adam as described in the qur an (or koran) is reminiscent of genesis in the judeo-christian bible as the lord announces to the angels that he is going to create a human of clay and that he will breathe his spirit into him after he has given him form. and he originated the creation of man out of clay, then he fashioned his progeny of an extraction of mean water, then he shaped him, and breathed his spirit in him (qur an 32:8 9) 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

re house of souls in paradise available for their respective incarnations on earth. 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 afterlife mysteries 13 muslims pray in the direction of mecca during an islamic holiday at coney island, new york (ap/wide world photos) the islamic paradise is in many ways an extension of the legendary garden of eden in the bible. it is a beautiful place filled with trees, flowers, and fruits, but it really cannot be expressed in human terms. it is far more wonderful than any person could ever imagine. all who obey god and the apostle are in the company of those on whom is the grace of god of the prophets who teach, the sincere lovers of truth, the witnesses [martyrs] who testify, and the righteous who do good: ah! w

eaching 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 44 afterlife mysteries six-year-old gyaltsen norbu is installed as the eleventh panchen lama in bejing, china (ap/wide world photos) 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 afterlife mysteries 45 in england, until the fourteenth century, the christian bible was considered the preserve of the priestly classes. the vulgate was a latin translation by saint jerome, read and interpreted only by the clergy, as the church deliberately discouraged common people from reading vernacular bibles. they believed those outside the church would misinterpret the text in the bible, which would then lead to heresy. in fact, it was a crime to possess a vernacular

clergy, as the church deliberately discouraged common people from reading vernacular bibles. they believed those outside the church would misinterpret the text in the bible, which would then lead to heresy. in fact, it was a crime to possess a vernacular bible. in the centuries that followed, however, the efforts of men who challenged the church, and the invention of the printing press, made the bible available in plain english, to ordinary men and women. in his new york times article where is it written? right here, simon winchester discusses the men who sought to put the bible in commoners hands. among them is william tyndale, who was strangled and burned at the stake for such a heretical presumption. winchester also comments on two interesting books, which go into detail about how the

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ago. still others have searched for mysterious relics filled with supernatural attributes that were credited with accomplishing miracles in the past. no physical evidence is available to determine that such an object as the ark of the covenant ever existed, but its present location continues to be sought. the holy grail, the cup from which jesus drank at the last supper, is never mentioned in the bible, but by medieval times it had been popularized as the holiest relic in christendom. in addition to bestowing mystery and power upon certain objects, humans have always found or created places that are sacred to them sites where they might gather to participate in religious rituals or where they might retreat for solitude and reflection. in such places, many people claim to experience a sense

ed continued to skirt very carefully around the rug where rex had always sat waiting for his master to sit down to write. 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 6 ghosts and phantoms native american dressed like an animal spirit (corbis corporation) tulsa, oklahoma, attorney m. jean holmes is not an animal activist, but her extensive study of the bible for her book do dogs go to heaven (1999) convinced her that the distinction between humans and animals alleged to be found in scripture is the result of an old translator s philosophical construction. in her opinion, an examination of the original hebrew texts for such concepts as soul and spirit clearly tells that the authors of the various books of the bible believed that animals have soul

oved pets did not have souls. today, however, she states that she has a firm conviction that there will be animals in heaven. once i had this inner conviction from the holy spirit that animals and all god s creatures do inhabit heaven with us, then i could never believe otherwise, she writes. it was irrevocable! no matter what anyone else may argue, i cannot be shaken on this. as a student of the bible, kolb states that god created humans out of the ground, and he created animals out of the ground. the new american catholic bible uses for man clay of the ground (genesis 2:7) and the living bible says dust of the ground. in regard to the animals, the new american catholic bible states that they were formed out of the ground and the living bible states formed from the soil. kolb argues that

, and he created animals out of the ground. the new american catholic bible uses for man clay of the ground (genesis 2:7) and the living bible says dust of the ground. in regard to the animals, the new american catholic bible states that they were formed out of the ground and the living bible states formed from the soil. kolb argues that since humans and animals came from the same substance, many bible scholars, including herself, believe that animals must therefore have a soul. the holy breath that god breathed into man was the same breath that he breathed into the animals, birds, and other creatures. it is kolb s further contention that god s act of blessing the animals is further proof that all creatures have a soul. blessed, she points out, means to make holy, sanctify, to invoke divin

ng some error. his father s black overcoat had been passed on to john chaffin, so james traveled to yadkin county to examine the pocket to which the spirit had made reference. the two brothers found that the lining of the inside pocket had been sewn together, and when they cut the stitches, they found a roll of paper that bore the message: read the 27th chapter of genesis in my daddie s [sic] old bible. james p. chaffin was then convinced that the specter had spoken truthfully, and he brought witnesses with him to the home of his mother where, after some search, they located the dilapidated old bible in the top drawer of a dresser in an upstairs room. one of the witnesses found the will in a pocket that had been formed by folding two of the bible s pages together. t h e g a l e e n c y c l

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ago. still others have searched for mysterious relics filled with supernatural attributes that were credited with accomplishing miracles in the past. no physical evidence is available to determine that such an object as the ark of the covenant ever existed, but its present location continues to be sought. the holy grail, the cup from which jesus drank at the last supper, is never mentioned in the bible, but by medieval times it had been popularized as the holiest relic in christendom. in addition to bestowing mystery and power upon certain objects, humans have always found or created places that are sacred to them.sites where they might gather to participate in religious rituals or where they might retreat for solitude and reflection. in such places, many people claim to experience a sense

eat temple of king solomon (tenth century b.c.e) and solomon fs securing the services of the most accomplished architect in the world, hiram abiff, who was said to have designed the magnificent temple according to the precepts of the great architect of the universe. although hiram is mentioned in biblical accounts as a master of the arts of construction, the rites of freemasonry extend beyond the bible and fashion a parallel myth, portraying hiram as a primary figure in the creation of the temple. according to masonic tradition, the ancient builders of solomon fs temple created the rites still practiced in modern lodges, with the various degrees of initiation and their secret symbols and handshakes. while the free and accepted order of freemasons is the oldest fraternity in the world, it d

con conceded, for humans did have free will as a divine gift, but the celestial movements did most certainly dispose one toward one fs fate. therefore, he concluded, astrology should be utilized as a powerful tool in medicine, alchemy, and predicting the future of individuals and nations. friar bacon was well aware that the church did not share his enthusiasm for astrology, but he argued that the bible itself is the basic source of astrological knowledge and that a careful study of astrology would ultimately prove the claims of theology. fellow clerics who opposed such a study, bacon said, were merely ignorant. in spite of such statements that seemed tinged with heresy, bacon fs religious views 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 44 mag

demons and personified as vices who could be ordered to do the bidding of the black magicians of the middle ages: moloch, who devours children; belial, who forments rebellion; astarte and astaroth, who seduce men and women into debauchery; baphomet, who plots murders, and so on. m delving deeper cavendish, richard. the black arts. new york: capricorn books, 1968. lavey, anton szandor. the satanic bible. new york: avon books, 1969. rhodes, h. t. f. the satanic mass. london: arrow books, 1965. seligmann, kurt. the history of magic. new york: meridian books, 1960. enochian magick the apocryphal book of enoch told of the order of angels called gwatchers, h or gthe sleepless ones. h the leader of the watchers was called semjaza (in other places, azazel, the name of one of the hebrews f principa

mer position of power failed, the group was disbanded. a humanist and feminist ahead of his time, agrippa exalted the position of women far above the prevailing sentiment of the early sixteenth century. in 1509, he composed the nobility of the female sex and the superiority of women while lecturing at the university at dole. agrippa annoyed a number of clerics when he presented teachings from the bible, the church fathers, and various works of philosophy to argue his praise of women. the paean to the fair sex was dedicated to margaret of austria, maximilian fs daughter, who was mistress of dole and burgundy, in the hope that he might obtain her patronage. unfortunately for his cause, a franciscan friar in margaret fs cabinet warned her that agrippa was a heretic who taught the kabbalah of

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ish has hardly a word to express the mental condition of such unfortunates "dummheit" in its strongest german sense, is about the nearest thing to it. it is as if a geographer should criticize "gulliver's travels" from his own particular standpoint. when levi says that all that he asserts as an initiate is subordinate to his humble submissiveness as a christian, and then not only remarks that the bible and the qur'an are different translations of the same book, but treats the incarnation as an allegory, it is evident that a good deal of submission will be required. when he agrees with st. augustine that a thing is not just because god wills it, but god wills it because it is just, he sees perfectly well that he is reducing god to a poetic image reflected from his own moral vii ideal of jus

mention the castle at shusah, cited in the versicle to the right. possibly the whole thing is a continuation of a paraphrase of daniel 8, 2, with the text unclear because of letter shapes poorly written. lastly, to the left outside of the upper serpent circle "sens; and to the right inside the same "rason- both oriented to be read from the center. 13 we shall now sketch out an explanation of the bible by the aid of numbers, for the bible is the book of the images of god. we shall ask numbers to give us the reason of the dogmas of eternal religion; numbers will always reply by reuniting themselves in the synthesis of unity. the following pages are simply outlines of qabalistic hypotheses; they stand apart from faith, and we indicate them only as curiosities of research. it is no part of ou

authorities condemn thee, thy disciples deny thee, the people curses thee, and demands thy murder; only thy mother weeps for thee, even god abandons thee "eli! eli! lama sabachthani" vii the septenary the septenary is the great biblical number. it is the key of the creation in the books of moses and the symbol of all religion. moses left five books, and the law is complete in two testaments. the bible is not a history, it is a collection of poems, a book of allegories and images. adam and eve are only the primitive types of humanity; the tempter serpent is time which tests; the tree of knowledge is 'right; the expiation by toil is duty. cain and abel represent the flesh and the spirit, force and intelligence, violence and harmony. the giants are those who usurped the earth in ancient time

ms of men- a dream whose fulfilment was sought successively by the assyrians, the medes, the persians, alexander, rome, napoleon, the successors of peter the great, and always unfinished because of the dispersion of interests, symbolized by the confusion of tongues. the universal empire could not realize itself by force, but by intelligence and love. thus, to nimrod, the man of savage 'right' the bible opposed abraham, the man of duty, who goes voluntarily into exile in order to seek liberty and strife in a strange country, which he seizes by virtue of his "idea" he has a sterile wife, his thought, and a fertile slave, his force; but when force has produced its fruit, thought becomes fertile; and the son of intelligence drives into exile the child of force. the man of intelligence is submi

o cares not for his own. crush him beneath your greatness: pardon him "but is it forbidden to kill the tiger which threatens us "if it is a tiger with a human face, it is finer to let him devour us- yet, for all that, morality has here nothing to say "but if the tiger threatens my children "let nature herself reply to you" harmodius and aristogiton had festivals and statues in ancient greece. the bible has consecrated the names of judith and ehud, and one of the most sublime figures of the holy book is that of samson, blind and chained, pulling down the columns of the temple, as he cried "let me die with the philistines" and yet, do you think that, if jesus, before dying, had gone to rome to plunge his dagger in the heart of tiberius, he would have saved the world, as he did, in forgiving

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n the contemplative's thoughts reach this "high place, a place without measure or boundary, where the mind does not have the power to grasp. the relationship between chockmah and geburah demonstrates the kabbalistic concept that the sephiroth form "arcs" to each other, so that aspects of chockmah can be seen in geburah and hod and aspects of binah seen through chesed and netzach. as stated in the bible "he says to man, behold the fear of god is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding" which indicates, in terms of the ascent of the tree, that binah (understanding) is above the abyss, wherein one departs from the "evil" of the seperative worlds, and that chockmah (wisdom) is the last step to kether (god. in hebrew, chockmah "wisdom, is spelt cheth-kaph-mem-heh, transliterated as chk

or three lines for each number. then, using the values given in table one(b, calculate out the total value of words relating to the tree of life. table one of chapter two gives some basic calculations for the titles of the sephiroth and so forth, and these can be noted in your own "sepher sephiroth, or 'book of numbers. purchase or loan from a library a hebrew-english dictionary and even better a bible in hebrew and english. select words of interest and add them to their appropriate values in your folder. note if certain numbers have themes of words. add to this dictionary as you advance your studies, and perhaps you will find numbers being presented to you in dreams, or sets of letters which then turn out to have significance in your own personal dictionary. chapter nineteen; the rituals

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entagrams. for the invocation of the archangels and the final qabalistic cross, the magician can again move to the center of the room. if the temple space is very small, the magician can simply stand in the center of the room throughout the entire ritual and turn toward the quarters to trace the pentagrams. 3. michael, gabriel, and raphael are the three archangels that are most often cited in the bible. the bahir, an important qabalistic text, lists the three major angels as michael, gabriel, and uriel (see the bahir translated by aryeh kaplan, page 41. uriel also figures prominently in non-canonical lore, but in some texts, uriel is confused or replaced with phanuel. one of the most important magical texts used by magicians, agrippa's three books of occult philosophy, published in 1531, l

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ast ten years and developed elaborate philosophical hypotheses about the intrusion and effect of alien beings on mankind since the beginning. their concepts are wider in scope and significance, and far better documented than von daniken' simplistic efforts. that unidentified flying objects have been present since the dawn of man is an undeniable fact. they are not only described repeatedly in the bible, but were also the subject of cave paintings made thousands of years before the bible was written. and a strange procession of weird entities and frightening creatures have been with us just as long. when you review the ancient references you are obliged to conclude that the presence of these objects and beings is a normal condition for this planet. these things, these other intelligences or

of taped conversations also happened on my phone. the object of such gimmicks is clearly to incite paranoia. since many of the ufo enthusiasts are very unstable to begin with, the device has been very effective. i was now receiving many messages phrased in biblical terms. some came from unknown elderly ladies who phoned me late at night claiming to be from western union. then they would read long bible quotations that were supposedly telegrams. but western union disavowed any knowledge of these messages. i had hooked up a tape recorder to my own phone so i could keep track of all these things "if it is the days of darkness" said a message received on july 23 "behold there will be voices, thunder and earthquakes and disturbances upon the earth. and at their cry all nations shall fight one a

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he creator, with attributes that were given to him from above. we attain in our innermost feeling, in our malchut. however, we do it with the attributes we receive from above. 178 of 273 chapter 3.24 questions and answers what is kabbalah? q: what is kabbalah? a: kabbalah is an ancient teaching that covers a number of languages and many forms of expression. there is the language of tales that the bible uses and the language of rules that the talmud uses. there is also the language of kabbalah itself, which uses drawings, formulas and matrix. kabbalah utilizes pure mathematical rules in order to express spiritual phenomena. there are many ways to depict our sensations and feelings, but the language of kabbalah is the most accurate of all, the most scientific. it is also possible to convey s

THE ROSICRUCIAN MANIFESTOS

ht by this onely vault be restored again. now as yet we had not seen the dead body of our careful and wise father, we therfore removed the altar aside, there we lifted up a strong plate of brass, and found a fair and worthy body, whole and unconsumed, as the same is here lively counterfeited, with all the ornaments and attires; in his hand he held a parchment book, called i. the which next to the bible, is 12 our greatest treasure, which ought to be delivered to the censure of the world. at the end of this book standeth this following elogium. granum pectori jesu insitum. c. ros. c. ex nobili atque splendida germaniae r.c. familia oriundus, vir sui seculi divinis revelationibus subtilissimis imaginationibus, indefessis laboribus ad coelestia, atque humana mysteria; arcanave admissus postqu

and especially accorded by with jesus in omni parte and all members. and as he is the true image of the father, so is she his image; it shall not be said, this is true according to philosophy, but true according to theologie; and wherein plato, aristotle, pythagoras and others did hit the mark, and wherein enoch, abraham, moses, solomon did excel; but especially wherewith that wonderful book the bible agreeth. all that same concurreth together, and make a sphere or globe, whose total parts are equidistant from the center, as hereof more at large and more plain shal be spoken of in christianly conference. but now concerning (and chiefly in this our age) the ungodly and accursed gold-making, which hath gotten so much the upper hand, whereby under colour of it, many runagates and roguish peo

n to the tongue, and by the same; what before 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 ourselve

so eloquent in other languages, the which we know that they are altogether disagreeing to the language of our forefathers, adam and enoch, and were through the babylonical confusion wholly hidden. but we must also let you understand that there are yet some eagles feathers in our way, the which do hinder our purpose. wherefore we do admonish everyone for to read diligently and continually the holy bible, 25 for he that taketh all his pleasures therein, he shall know that he prepared for himself an excellent way to come to our fraternity. for as this is the whole sum and content of our rule, that every letter or character which is in the world ought to be learned and regarded well; so those are like unto us, and are very near allied unto us, who do make the holy bible a rule of their life, a

it to serve for their opinion, some to scandal it, and most wickedly do like it to a nose of wax, which alike should serve the divines, philosophers, physicians, and mathematicians, against all the which we do openly witness and acknowledge, that from the beginning of the world there hath not been given unto men a more worthy, a more excellent, and more admirable and wholesome book than the holy bible. blessed is he that hath the same, yet more blessed is he who reads it diligently, but most blessed of all is he that truly understandeth the same, for he is most like to god, and doth truly understandeth the same, for his most like to god, and doth come most near to him. but whatsoever hath been said in the fama concerning the deceivers against the transmutation of metals, and the highest m

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sfied with mere men, but must strain to their breasts legless monsters; whilst a hero will listen to his loved one snorting in the arms of some lusty p.th.n. such literature is revolting, not in its mere descriptions, for these are nothing to the student, being generally but poorly described realities, but they are horrible when strewn broadcast among the children of the nation. we still have our bible and need no more erotica. filth has been defined as matter out of place, and so is this pathic literature, relegated to the realms of sexual psychology in the works of an ellis or an ebing is one thing, yet the government of this nation cannot stomach them thus, and seizes, expels, and burns; but if these horrid sores of the human soul are cut out and plastered on the pages of the fickle fic

? h listen. have any of crowley fs works been printed pueris virginibusque? are they intended for the gaping public? are they devoured by mental babes and sucklings, or worse, forcibly crammed down their throats in simple or other forms? i think not. to some it may seem curious that these poems are published by a society called gthe society for the propagation of religious truth. h by whom is the bible published? is it not also a religious society, and is the bible immaculate? was it not sir richard burton, the greatest of orientalists, who resolved in case the rabid pornophobic suggestions of certain ornaments of the home press were acted upon, to appear in court with the bible and shakespeare under one arm, and petronius arbiter and rabelais under the other? and i remember a certain sent

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rituals of the o.t.o. stalls for other princes. banners. the banner of the rite above m.w.s. the banner of love above the most reverend and perfect prelate. personal banners of the other princes above their stalls. floor-cloth. ladder. brass letters for same. the brand. the hangings should be rosy red. black room tau. crucifix. pillars. three, surmounted by lamps with 11 holes and letters t.s.l. bible. bones, skulls, skeletons, hell-broth for 2nd point. the hangings should be black. anteroom v.s.l. and writing materials* the opening of a sovereign chapter of rose croix file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c7.html (2 of 14 [12/28/2001 2:04:51 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. m.w.s: v very excellent and perfect princes, be pleased to assist

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tent set of rites and myths, and even a secret holy book of considerable antiquity (the book of shadows. more recent writers, as we have noted, have hedged a good deal on these claims, particularly the latter. thus we find stewart farrar in 1971 musing on the purported ancient text thusly "whether, therefore, the whole of the book of shadows is post- 1897 is anyone's guess. mine is that, like the bible, it is a patchwork of periods and sources, and that since it is copied and re-copied by hand, it includes amendments, additions, and stylistic alterations according to the taste of a succession of copiers..parts of it i sense to be genuinely old; other parts suggest modern interpolation (farrar, what witches do, pp 34-35) as we shall discover presently, there appear to be no genuinely old co

thinking people, and he freely said so. the most popular form of "counterchristianity" to emerge in modern times, though, was anton szandor lavey's san franciscobased church of satan, founded april 30, 1966. lavey's church enjoyed an initial burst of press interest, grew to a substantial size, and appeared to maintain itself during the cultural drought of the 1970s. but lavey's books, the satanic bible and the satanic rituals, have remained in print for many years, and his ideas seem to be enjoying a renewal of interest, especially among younger people, punks and heavy metal fans with a death-wish mostly, beginning in the middle years of the 1980s. by that time the church of satan had been largely succeeded by the temple of set. this is pure theatre; more in the nature of psychotherapy tha

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el in military affairs, and happily to achieve to great things, and to be an head of the head of kings and princes. 4. to be a good house-keeper both in the country and city. 5. the fifth is, to be an industrious and fortunate merchant. 6. to be a philosopher, mathematician, and physician, according to aristotle, plato, ptolomy, euclides, hippocrates, and galen. 7. to be a divine according to the bible and schooles, which all writers of divinity both old and new have taught. aphorism 25. we have already declared what a secret is, the kindes and species thereof: it remaineth now to shew how we may attain to know those things which we desire. the true and onely way to all secrets, is to have recourse unto god the author of all good; and as christ teacheth, in the first place seek ye the king

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that can be said to anyone who does not like the alterations made here is, feel free to ignore them. they are not dogma but are suggestive insights into a difficult and often self- contradictory subject. m agic has always been a disreputable business. until a few years ago, it could result in fines, imprisonment, torture, or execution, depending on how the lawmakers felt at a given period. in the bible, christians are cautioned not to suffer a witch to live "witch" was the english translation for any- one who practiced magic, male or female, as well as those who sold poison, pro- cured abortions, and committed other crimes. the magician was classed with the dregs of humanity alongside the prostitute and the cutpurse. occasionally voices were raised in defense of magic. the rosicrucian mich

poorly suited for the modern westerner, who is highly depen- dent on the rational faculties and more reverent of them than the easterner. reason cannot be suppressed or circumvented; it must be accommodated. centuries ago it was possible to accept traditional magic literally. it is no longer possible, any more than it is possible to believe that the world was created in six terrestrial days. the bible is in much the same position as the ancient magical texts. faced with obvious incongruities, the intelligent reader must either deny them or interpret them in a new way. xxxii new millennium magic the most common response is an attempt to alter the terms of magic to suit the modern zeitgeist. increasingly, magical texts are written with buzz words derived from science. a buzz word is a word

t egg floating in the endless womb of god. around the egg of creation is a shell that can- not be breached from either side without destroying the respective universe that is violated. thus mankind cannot know god without destroying god (which is impos- sible, and god cannot enter the created universe that is made of its own outpour- ings without destroying creation. this is why it is said in the bible that a man cannot look upon the face of god: to do so would bring about his instant annihilation. the creation of the universe did not destroy, change or diminish the unman- ifest. the unmanifest and the manifest can never overlap, but every created thing is composed of both aspects of the all. since the unmanifest is without dimension, it has truly been observed that god dwells within all h

ks. in ancient egypt they were of black stone in the shapes of a cube or a truncated cone (magically, a form of the truncated pyramid. the builders of stonehenge traveled many miles to harvest the blue stones, presumably because of their enhanced power to retain spiritual energy, and these stones were cut into roughly oblong shapes away from the site of the circle. this is significant because the bible explicitly states that the stones of solomon's temple were cut some distance from the site of the temple. naturally square stones were considered of greater power than stones squared by human hands, and the builders of these holy places did not wish their gods to witness the shaping of the stones. when the parallel sides of the cube are united, the three reciprocating rays that define the po

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ns, encyclopedia of witchcraft, 180. 20 soul flight the dead, and the sale of charms for various purposes such as compelling love or finding treasure. they used a mixture of folk magic and folk medicine. whether such a person was known locally as a wise woman or a witch probably depended on how highly they were regarded in the community. until recent times, witch was a wholly pejorative term. the bible mandated a sentence of death for witches (exodus 22:18, so to accuse someone of being a witch was to condemn them to execution, particularly toward the close of the renaissance when the furor against witchcraft reached an hysterical frenzy. witch's familiar the witch's familiar was held by the demonologists who wrote against them during the witch craze to be either an animal possessed by an

ve her burned as a witch by the inquisition. centuries later, she was elevated to sainthood. the voices in joan's head that helped the dauphin charles finally be anointed as king of france at reims were naturally viewed as holy by charles vii and his followers, since they worked to the advantage of charles, but the english and french opponents of charles took the opposite view. soul flight in the bible there are many examples of soul flight in the bible, but they are always presented as divine miracles that fulfill the purposes of god. the experience of the prophets is the same as that of shamans and witches, with the difference that the soul flights of prophets were usually spontaneous, whereas those of shamans and witches were often induced. an exception is the ascent of moses to the top

n addition they had four faces: that of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle. again, we can be certain it was a soul flight because god gave the prophet a book in the form of a written scroll and told him to eat it. ezekiel wrote "so i opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll (ezekiel 3:2. the prophet elijah is significant for another reason. he is one of only a handful of men said in the bible to have ascended into heaven while still inhabiting his body of flesh. out walking with his son, elisha, who was also a prophet, beside the river jordan, he saw 52 soul flight a chariot of fire drawn by fiery horses descend from the sky, and was lifted up into the heavens by a whirlwind (second kings 2: 11. this physical ascent may be compared with the disappearance of men, women, and childr

stench. hell was divided into three levels, the highest being the least unpleasant and the lowest the most horrifying. the lowest level was filled with damned souls of the worst kind who suffered intricate and imaginative forms of torture. usurers were stretched over tables of red-hot brass while demons poured molten metal down their throats. blasphemers had their tongues 60. barnstone, the other bible, 377. 61. charles, apocrypha and pseudepigraphia, vol. 11, p. 200. 62, brewer, dictionary of miracles, 412. 54 soul flight stretched out of their mouths on hooks. apostates were sawn in half. murders wandered forever from a bath of boiling blood to a bath of thick-ribbed ice, and back again. traitors had their hearts torn out of their chests and then replaced, only to be torn out again over

is not really outside the physical body any more than it was ever inside the body-both astral body and physical body are part of the mind, and always remain part of the mind. it is the conscious awareness that shifts from one mental state to another, from physical to astral. muldoon and carrington were obsessed by the silver cord. they believed it was the same as the silver cord described in the bible. muldoon probably derived the expression, and perhaps the concept, from the biblical verse "or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern (ecclesiastes 12:6. carrington wrote: the astral and the physical bodies are invariably connected by means of a sort of cord, or cable, along which vital curren

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bly it was to avoid profanation of the name by heathen lips, or to prevent its abuse in vulgar magic. i tend to believe it was connected with a growing social gulf between the priest class and the people. the priests reserved the name exclusively as the supreme emblem of their authority, in very much the same way that the catholic church of the middle ages bitterly resisted the translation of the bible into the common tongues of europe. knowledge is power. several generations before the fall of jerusalem to the romans in a.d. 70, the priests had ceased to speak the name openly even within the confines of the temple. under the veil of holiness, they adopted the duplicitous device of whispering it in so low a voice that it was drowned out amid the chants and other sounds of ritual. with the

of the severe angel. whether a sigil invokes or banishes depends upon whether it is used first or second. either sigil invokes when used firstbut they invoke different spirits, and opposite forces. it would be useful in practical magic if we could find names for these twenty-four spirits under the banners of tetragrammaton. there is a kabbalistic rule for determining the names of angels from the bible, which is given by cornelius agrippa: the general rule of these is, that wheresoever anything of divine essence is expressed in the scripture, from that place the name of god may rightly be gathered; but in what place soever in the 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

wings, chant night and day without repose 'holy, holy, holy is the lord god omnipotent, who was, is and is to come (hieroglyphic monad, p. 53. 62 tetragrammaton the actual office of these wings, or angels, is given in the chant they proclaim before the throne of christ, which dee took the trouble to write out. it is from this that their names may be kabbalistically extracted. e refer to a hebrew bible, we find that this chant consists of exact1& thirty-si letters. following established methods of the kabbalah, we can write these hebrew letters out in three rows of twelve, the first row from right to left, the second row from left to right beneath the first row, and the third row from right to left beneath the second row. these three rows of twelve letters naturally divide themselves into

more than the works of a human, but when he or she takes on the identity of a god, the magician is rendered able to perform the works of a god. the winds are usually considered to be four in number, blowing from the four corners of the earth, and for this reason have a close association with the four elements. in fact, the wings of the winds are a legitimate class of angels-the term occurs in the bible in connection with descriptions of god's wrathful descent from heaven to the earth to punish the wicked in response to prayers "and he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind (ps. 18:lo "who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the wings of the wind (ps. 104:3. we have been following a single g

stones of mount gerizim bless the people who come over the jordan and uphold the covenant, and the six stones of mount ebal curse those that pass the river and break the covenant. they are the carrot and the stick offered to the israelites as they enter through the gate to the land of milk and honey, designed to keep them obedient to the laws of moses. although it is not explicitly stated in the bible, it would be reasonable to assume that the twelve representatives who carried these stones on their backs across the jordan were sacrificed to insure a safe entry into the new land for the rest of the tribes. they may have been slain with the very stones they carried. their blood would form the offering to god that would attract him across the river. as a part of this sacrificial ritual, the

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ndividual has a life given right to do their will as long as it does not adjure or step over another s. christians ignore and put themselves above the right of to each his own or do what thou wilt, instead propagating bigotry through dirt covered mirrors of a shriveled savior no longer reflective of the bigger picture of the world today. 8 a good starting point for antinomian thought, the satanic bible by anton lavey. vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 5 with the most dangerous type of self-deification becoming and developing the self. the rite tests and proclaims change, when ecstasy is reached by invocation over and over, or mantric repetitions of certain self-stimulating phrases, the gates of hell9 are opened. the witches sabbat is a system or model of left hand path self-deification; it i

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say, is the reason why drinking its juice in great quantities makes men mad and beside themselves, filling them, as it were, with the blood of their own ancestors. these things are thus related by eudoxus in the second book of his travels, as he had them from the priests themselves [fn#271] called anu in the egyptian texts; it was the centre of the great solar cult of egypt. it is the "on" of the bible [fn#272] the sun-god was called ra. vii. as to sea-fish, the egyptians in general do not abstain from all kinds of them, but some from one sort and some from another. thus, for example, the inhabitants of oxyrhynchus[fn#273] will not touch any that have been taken with an angle; for as they pay especial reverence to the oxyrhynchus fish,[fn#274] from whence they derive their name, they are a

treme necessity. in short, they consider the sea to have been forced out of the earth by the power of fire, and therefore to lie out of nature's confines; and they regard it not as a part of the world, or one of the elements, but as a preternatural and corrupt and morbid excrement [fn#273] the per-matchet [fn#274] probably the pike, or "fighting fish [fn#275] in egyptian, sunu, the seweneh of the bible, and the modern aswan [fn#276] a kind of bream, the an of the egyptian texts [fn#277] compare chap. cxxxviia of the book of the dead "and behold, these things shall be performed by a man who is clean, and is ceremonially pure, one who hath eaten neither meat nor fish, and who hath not had intercourse with women (ll. 52, 53. viii. this much may be depended upon: the, religious rites and cerem

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uman being. the lower triangle represents the three traitors of hiram abiff; those three traitors are inside of us. the first traitor is the demon of desire; that traitor lives within the astral body. 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

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ed. god was thought of as number one.the prime mover.much like the modern qabalistic concept, where numbers are assigned to attributes of the god-energy on the tree of life. very early in the old testament writings the ancient-hebrews displayed a special fascination with certain numbers, and both gnosticism and medieval qabalism developed the themes of this mystical relationship with numbers. the bible is riddled with numerological meaning and augustine himself studied biblical numerology for much of his life. the pythagoreans imbued certain numbers with mystical properties and had special reverence for numbers such as six, which is the sum of its divisors (6=1+2+3; and the sum of the first four whole numbers, number ten, they called the divine tetraktys. the pythagoreans also discovered a

rpio, which rules the area of the body connected to the reproductive organs, often referred to as the seat of the serpent energy. the number eight has many biblical references, but we will only touch on a few. the old testament mentions that eight persons were saved in the ark, to people the world anew. in christian hermeticism, this is taken as an allegory foreshadowing the resurrection, and the bible records eight other resurrections besides that of jesus. the references are: 1 kings 17: 22, 2 kings 4: 32, 2 kings 13: 2, luke 7: 14; mark 5: 35, john 11, acts 9: 40 and acts 20. figure 10-h figure 10-1 figure 10-j the greek word for resurrection adds up to 971, which reduces to eight. in the spirit of this renewal, it is perhaps no coincidence that the fama says that the rosicrucian order

goal or completion of the great work in qabalah is really the manifestation of the divine name (ihvh, which is the complete expression and representation of all that the word signifies "i am what was, what is, and what will be" therefore the perfection of the creative process initiated in binah is the manifestation of god's idea to god herself. the "everlasting kingdom" spoken of so often in the bible implies the attainment of an objective which has been in the universal mind from the beginning or foundation of the world. another numerical example of this relationship is demonstrated in the equation 9x9=81. by gematria, this points to the fullness of this process at the level of individuation, because eighty-one is the numeration of the word anoki, which means 7. it is only after the sepa

echnique of translating the letters to their archetypal meaning, to tarot keys, or even to affirmations is a simple one and can be utilized by anyone with just the information in figure 12-a. the value for daath is 474, which is also the numeration for the phrase "you shall know" which refers to knowledge itself, but it is used by the jewish kabbalist gutman locks in his excellent gematria of the bible (1985) to refer to the phrase in genesis 15: 13 "and you shall know for certain that your descendants shall be aliens in a land not their own" this refers to the time that the israelites would be in egypt, but in an esoteric sense, it can be taken for the mysterious alien territory of daath, about which we can only make strange guesses as to its real nature. it is interesting to note that ga

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tions; but i am told that in time you may become one of the mighty ones, who are also called the mighty dead. i can learn nothing about them, but they seem to be like demigods- or one might call them saints. at a later time there were, perhaps, other reasons why women may have been dominant in the cult practice, though, as i point out later, there are quite as many men among witches as women. the bible tells us of the poor persecuted witch of endor, working in secret when all other witches had been driven out of the land. it also tells us of huldah the sorceress, living in state in jerusalem, consulted by the king on high points of religion when the high priest himself could not answer. the unfortunate consequence of the low position of woman in the middle ages, when it was against the gen

feasting, dancing in the gods' honour and rejoicing generally, with the exception of the later jews and possibly of the egyptians: many of the egyptian festivals were happy but some were not, because they had many and diverse gods. it is highly probable that the early jewish rites were festive also, though reformers constantly strove to abolish all mention of this, and there is no doubt that the bible has been tampered with to this end. 8- out of the land of egypt in mr. pennethorne hughes's book we have the following interesting passage on page 23 'studies of the magic and ritual of africa have in the last few years established with some certainty that all the systems for the disturbance of consciousness practised by the african negro are derived from ancient egypt. thousands of africans

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

is buddha nature yueh holds it pai-yuns black and white the dry creek yueh-shan s lake living alone nan ch uan s rejection thoughts from confucius tao of pooh the stone cutter the cork te of piglet making the best of it sherlock on religion emperor s horses incognito three treasures fantasies live, but live well illusions samurai s late supper the gospel according to zen jesus said. gasan and the bible stringless harp eat when hungry sporting fish empty boats three in the morning zen archery meshing nets the butterflies of chuang tzu the dream what is acceptable? the argument happy fish seven openings look under your feet the sacred tortoise the frog in the well the caged sea-bird swimming boatmen old man fall into water christian selections is god a taoist? christian thoughts john shea an

of the world s great religions, in the hope that this taste will stimulate a wider search for knowledge and wisdom in the quest for religious truth. as arch-druid, you are charged with preparing meditations which will prove meaningful to the congregation. in order to do this, you must choose selections from the buddhists, the hindus, the taoists, the muslims, and many others, as well as from the bible. you must provide a wide variety in order to give truth a chance. the best method is to study widely yourself. but this can be too time-consuming. i therefore strongly urge you to purchase, for your own edification, an excellent and useful collection: viking portable #5, henry ballou s world bible. it is available in paper for less than $2.00, or in hardcover for slightly more. the selection

. those amid whom goes varuna, the sovereign, he who discriminates men s truth and falsehood distilling meath, the bright, the purifying, here let those waters, goddesses, protect me. they from who varuna the king, and soma, and all the deities drink strength and vigour, they into whom the universal agni entered, here let those waters, goddesses, protect me. selections from: robert o. ballou. the bible of the world. new york, the viking press, 1939 (the atharva-veda: to heaven and earth) all hail to heaven! all hail to earth! all hail to air! all hail to air! all hail to heaven! all hail to earth! mine eye is sun and my breath is wind, air is my soul and earth my body. i verily who never have been conquered five up my life to heaven and earth for keeping. exalt my life, my strength, my dee

eath is wind, air is my soul and earth my body. i verily who never have been conquered five up my life to heaven and earth for keeping. exalt my life, my strength, my deed and action; increase my understanding and my vigour. be ye my powerful keepers, watch and guard me, ye mistresses of life and life s creators! dwell ye within me, and forbear to harm me. selections from: robert o. ballou. world bible. new york, the viking press, 1944. p. 37. 230 sayings of the hindus (from the upanishads) once when yagnavalkya came to the court of king janaka, the king welcomed him with a question. yagnavalkya, what serves as the light for man? the light of the sun, your majesty; for by the light of the sun man sits, goes out, does his work, and returns home. true indeed, yagnavalkya. but when the sun ha

ows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence comes this creation? the gods are later than this world s production. who knows then whence it first came into being? he, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it, whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows not. selections from: robert o. ballou. world bible. new york, the viking press, 1944. p. 32. 231 the sayings of the hindus (from the bhagavad-gita) sri krishna: you have the right to work, but for the work s sake only. you have no right to the fruits of work. desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working. never give way to laziness either. perform every action with your heart fixed on the supreme lord. renounce attachmen

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superficies and solid. a similar form is given by hebrew kabalists to form 72, the deity number, by placing in a triangle four yods, three hehs, two vavs and one heh final, being the letters ihvh of the tetragrammaton; or they may be put conversely. note that ten is used as a sign of fellowship, love, peace and union, in the masonic third token, the union of two five points of fellowship. in the bible, we notice 10 commandments, 10 instruments to which jewish psalms were sung, 10 strings in the psaltery, and that the holy ghost descended ten days after the ascension. tucer, rabanus and raymond lully associate the numbers 8 to air, 5 to fire, 6 to earth and 12 to water. apuleius states that among the egyptians it was customary to fast 10 days before sacrificing and budge says that they use

4. there are 10 hebrew words to designate idols and 10 for joy. sodom was to be spared for 10 righteous men; gideon took 10 servants to destroy the altar of baal; boaz chose 10 witnesses for his marriage with ruth; joab s armor was borne by 10 young men. jesus speaks of 10 talents, 10 cities, 10 pieces of silver and gave a parable of 10 virgins. the tabernacle has many 10 dimensions. there are 10 bible names of god, 10 canticles, and 10 necessaries for man s life. ecclus. 39. 26. there were 10 pythagorean virtues of initiation and the buddhists teach 10 paramitas of perfection. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott in the alchymico-kabalistic tract called aesch metzareph referred to by eliphas levi and collected from the zohar of knorr von rosenroth and

ered name of god, taught by the kabalists. there were 42 judges in the judgment hall of osiris. see bettany, the world s religions, pg. 166, on the events of the 42nd day after death. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the talmud of babylon in kiddushin 71, mentions the 42-lettered name, and it is given by ignatz stern as composed of the divine names of the bible; thus eheyeh asher eheyeh, al, jah, jehovah, elohim, jehovah sabaoth, el chai and adonai. ahih ashr ahih; ih; ihvih; al; alhim; ihvh tzbavt; al chi; adni, or 4, 3, 4, 2, 5, 2, 5, 4, 5, 2, 2, 4=42. it is very curious that the ten sephiroth which denote the attributes of god will show, when these letters are added together, and a v added for and before the last one, this same number 42; if che

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he lord as logos or preexistent christ in the christian tradition, 55, 95 96, 204, 238; deutsch, gnostic imagination, pp. 99 111; idem, guardians, pp. 43, 152 157; vanderkam, angel, pp. 378 393; and see references to some of my own work cited in n. 245, this chapter. wirth in schelling, ages, p. 142 n. 62, suggests that schelling s term der engel des angesichts is from luther s translation of the bible and refers to the messengers that bring one to a mediating face to face [angesicht zu angesicht] with the all-consuming fire of the godhead. this explanation does not exclude the etymology i have suggested. 243. see the instructive comments of corbin, paradoxe, p. 154. notably, a similar interpretation of the angelic epiphany is offered by swedenborg, arcana coelestia, 9:108, no. 6831. swede

nz. philosophical investigations on space, time, and the continuum. translated by barry smith. london: croom helm, 1988. psychology from an empirical standpoint, edited by oskar kraus. english edi- bibliography 271 tion edited by linda l. mcalister, translated by antos c. rancruello, d. b. terrell, and linda l. mcalister. new york: humanities press, 1973. brin, gershon. the concept of time in the bible and the dead sea scrolls. leiden: e. j. brill, 2001. brockelman, paul. time and self: phenomenological explorations. new york: crossroad publishing, 1985. brody, seth l. human hands dwell in heavenly heights: contemplative ascent and theurgic power in thirteenth-century kabbalah. in mystics of the book: topics, themes, and typologies, edited with an introduction by robert a. herrera, 123 158

n the moment: time and rupture in modern thought, edited by heidrun friese, 33 51. liverpool: liverpool university press, 2001. finegan, jack. the archaeology of the new testament: the life of jesus and the beginning of the early church. princeton: princeton university press, 1978. handbook of biblical chronology: principles of time reckoning in the ancient world and problems of chronology in the bible. rev. ed. peabody: henrickson publishers, 1998. fishbane, eitan. mystical contemplation and the limits of the mind: the case of sheqel ha-qodesh. jewish quarterly review 93 (2002: 1 27. fishbane, michael. biblical myth and rabbinic mythmaking. oxford: oxford university press, 2003. the kiss of god: spiritual and mystical death in judaism. seattle: university of washington, 1994. fizer, john

from the eranos yearbooks, edited by joseph campbell, 108 114. princeton: princeton university press, 1957. matt, daniel c. ayin: the concept of nothingness in jewish mysticism. in the problem of pure consciousness: mysticism and philosophy, edited by robert k. c. forman, 121 159. new york: oxford university press, 1990. bibliography 289. the mystic and the mizwot. in jewish spirituality from the bible through the middle ages, edited by arthur green, 367 404. new york: crossroad, 1986. may, todd. reconsidering difference: nancy, derrida, levinas, and deleuze. university park: pennsylvania state university press, 1997. mayhew, robert. the female in aristotle s biology: reason or rationalization. chicago: university of chicago press, 2004. mcalister, linda l. brentano s epistemology. in the

n: northwestern university, 1968. minkowski, eug ne. lived time: phenomenological and psychological studies. translated with an introduction by nancy metzel. evanston: northwestern university press, 1970. mohanty, jitendranath n. phenomenology: between essentialism and transcendental philosophy. evanston: northwestern university press, 1997. mopsik, charles. the body of engenderment in the hebrew bible, the rabbinic tradition and the kabbalah. in fragments for a history of the human body, 49 73. edited by michel feher with ramona naddaff and nadia tazi. new york: zone books, 1989. 290 bibliography. les grands textes de la cabale: les rites qui font dieu. paris: ditions verdier, 1993. morewedge, parviz. the metaphysica of avicenna (ibn sina: a critical translation-commentary and analysis of

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irecting throughout the labyrinth of fire. recall the concluding exhortation of the magus: the injunction to remember and bear in mind, and recall also, the password of the grade "achad" which is "unity; and realize, not only the unity of god, but also the unity of man. preparation for 70=40 (the preparation extends over a four week period) 1. burn incense daily. 2. eat beans, peas("pulse" of the bible, purple grapes, honey, milk, white bread. 3. learn thoroughly and repeat daily the following: earthborn and bound, our bodies close us in. clogged with red day and shuttered by sin: we must arise flowers bind us round and grasses catch our feet birdsongs allure and blossom scent is sweet: we must arise. mountains may beckon and the seas recall enthrall cloud forms delude and rushing streams:

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

s rich storehouse of magick lore. little bo peep she lost her sheep, and couldn't tell where to find them. leave them alone! and they'll come home, dragging their tails behind them "bo" is the root meaning light, from which spring such words as bo-tree, bodhisattva, and buddha. and "peep" is apep, the serpent apophis. this poem therefore contains the same symbol as that in the egyptian and hebrew bibles. the snake is the serpent of initiation, as the lamb is the saviour. this ancient one, the wisdom of eternity, sits in its old anguish awaiting the redeemer. and this holy verse triumphantly assures us that there is no need for anxiety. the saviours will come one after the other, at their own good pleasure, and as they may be needed, and drag their tails, that is to say those who follow out

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 2

s, one to left and one to right; two rings left. 9. hb:dalet hb:vau hb:samekh hb:yod; horizontal elongate rectangle with crosshatching; the network or grille. 10. hb:taw hb:vau hb:koph hb:lamed hb:mem; horizontal elongate rectangle; the foundation. the lower part of the illustration is a typical 19th century artist's conception of the biblical altar of incense, such as may be found in illustrated bibles of the time. it shows the altar resting on a pediment with a rectangular base and sloping side to left, six steps reaching up from the base (which forms a seventh step on this side only) to the middle of the altar at right. the altar is rectangular, height half length, with a horizontal carrying bar passing through two rings and extending on either side. the horns of the altar are represent

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duced what we call civilization, with its wealth of books, and its- 19- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust many sciences. it has produced the scientific investigation of man, and (on the crest of the wave of human evolution) the great groups in contradistinction to the great individuals. the contrasts might be crudely summed up as follows: west east groups .i ndividuals books. bibles knowledge. wisdom objective civilization. subjective culture mechanical development. mystical development standardization. uniqueness mass education .s pecialized training science. religion memory training. meditation investigation. reflection yet the cause is basically one a method of education. both are also fundamentally right, yet both are needed to supplement and complement each other

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

nother. they are gathered out of every nation, race and people; they are of every color and school of thought, yet they speak the same language, learn by the same symbols, tread the same path, have rejected the same non-essentials, and have isolated the same body of essential beliefs. they recognize each other; they accord equal devotion to the spiritual leaders of all races, and use each other's bibles with equal freedom. they form the subjective background of the new world; they constitute the spiritual nucleus of the coming world religion; they are the unifying principle which will eventually save the world. in the past we have had world saviours sons of god who have enunciated a world message and brought an increase of light to the peoples. now, in the fullness of time, and through the

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

gh riotous living. this was followed by consequent satiety and loss of contentment, and then by a period of intense suffering, which broke his will to wander or to desire. a study of this story will be found revealing. in no scripture is the sequence of events (as they deal with the pilgrim's existence and life in a far country and his return) so concisely or so beautifully treated. seek out your bibles, and study this tale, and read for yourselves the pilgrim's way- 102- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust the effect of this law of repulse, as it works out in the world of discipleship and destroys that which hinders, sends the pilgrim hurrying back consciously along one of the seven rays that lead to the centre. this cannot be handled

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

re demanding light. who is to give it to them? there are two major factors which are responsible for the failure of the churches: 1. narrow theological interpretations of the scriptures. 2. material and political ambitions. in every land down the ages men have sought to foist their personal, religious interpretations of truth, of the scriptures and of god upon the mass of men. they have taken the bibles of the world and have attempted to explain them, passing the ideas they find through the filter of their own minds and brains and in the process inevitably stepping down the meaning. not content with this, their followers have forced these man-evolved interpretations upon the unthinking and the ignorant. every religion buddhism, hinduism in its many aspects, mohammedanism and christianity h

time one took place, it meant a clearer understanding of divine purpose, a new and fresh revelation of divine quality, the institution of some aspect of a new world faith and the sounding of a note which produced a new civilization and culture or a fresh recognition of relationship between god and man or man and his brother. back in the dim past of history (hinted at through symbolism and in the bibles of the world) there was a first major approach when god took notice of man and something happened under the action and will of god the creator, god transcendent which affected primeval man, and he "became a living soul. as the yearning urge towards an undefined and unrealized good made itself felt in the inchoate longings of unthinking man (literally unthinking at that stage, it evoked a re

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

it around the fire and read the current papers, play chess and checkers and be talked to by us if they were feeling lonely, fed-up and homesick. there were usually two ladies in each home and we had our own quarters there. there was frequently a large dormitory where soldiers and sailors could stop for the night if out on pass, and also a gospel-meeting room, equipped with a harmonium, hymnbooks, bibles and chairs and someone who could expound the scriptures and plead with the men for their souls' salvation. i had to learn all aspects of the work and hard work it was, though i found i loved every bit of it. the first months were the hardest. it is no easy thing for a shy girl (and i was abnormally shy) to walk into a room with perhaps three hundred men in it and, probably, not another woma

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tion; then again, a kind of parthenogenesis "virginal reproduction" when the egg-cells are formed within the body, issuing from it in atomic emanations and becoming matured outside of it; until, finally, after a definite separation into sexes, the human beings begin procreating through sexual connection? of these two, the former "theory- rather, a "revealed fact- is enunciated by all the exoteric bibles (except the puranas, preeminently by the jewish cosmogony. the last one, is that which is taught by the occult philosophy, as explained all along. an answer is found to our question in a volume just published by mr. s. laing- the best lay exponent of modern science* in chapter viii. of his latest work "a modern zoroastrian" the author begins by twitting "all ancient religions and philosophi

ies" let us, however, leave these profitless and empty speculations, which, though they seem to fill our hearts with a glow of enthusiasm and to enlarge our mental and spiritual grasp, do but in reality cause a factitious stimulation, and blind us more and more to our ignorance not only of the world we inhabit, but even of the infinitude contained within ourselves. when, therefore, we find in the bibles of humanity "other worlds" spoken of, we may safely conclude that they not only refer to other states of our planetary chain and earth, but also to other inhabited globes- stars and planets; withal, that the latter were never speculated upon. the whole of antiquity believed in the universality of life. but no really initiated seer of any civilized nation has ever taught that life on other s

BLUE EQUINOX

a russian something-european. there is nothing genuinely russian in art or literature, because the russian is in the ape stage of evolution. no matter how great his genius may be, it has to be cast in the mould of that which has been already shaped. have you not seen those dalmatics covered with pearls.which no one has had the taste to match.sewn by princesses? have you not seen those gargantuan bibles, their covers thick with precious the equinox 280 stones, where was no art to cut or polish, so that they look like bits of glass or half-sucked sweetmeats? the art of russia has always been either without art, or with art derived. napoleon was probably in an extremely bad temper when he spoke of saint basil.s as .that mosque. but it is a mosque. it is probably the greatest building in the

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

marry whom he would. farmers were the witches most reliable clients, and it is a noteworthy fact that they generally contrived to visit the wise woman when they were away from home, at market. farmers used to go to exeter from many miles around to consult a witch whenever they had misfortune, and it was commonly reported that they could get the same sort of advice in the city. at many farmhouses, bibles were kept in the dairies to prevent witches from retarding the butter-making operations. i m witched or i must have been witched, were expressions often heard in devon. generally speaking, it was animals that were supposed to sustain the most harm from being overlooked. cattle deaths were attributed to the power of evil spirits; and according to many superstitious people, witches had a pecu

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

ing letter in the new haven journal describes the early activity: while the house of dr. phelps was undergoing a rigid examination from cellar to attic, one of the chambers were mysteriously fitted up with eleven figures of angelic beauty, gracefully and imposingly arranged, so as to have the appearance of life. they were all female figures but one, and most of them in attitudes of devotion, with bibles before them, and pointing to different passages with the apparent design of making the scriptures sanction and confirm the strange things that were going on. some of the figures were kneeling beside the beds, and some bending their faces to the floor in attitudes of deep humility. in the center of the group was a dwarf, most grotesquely arrayed; and above was a figure so suspended as to see

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

and varies with the eyesight of the observer, some; persons can count fourteen "theoriginal hebrew word in the three verses mentioned is::kimah,and the general meaning of that word was that of aheapj1or acluster,\quite as noticable as the pleiades is the v -shaped group of; stars called hyades, also called seven in number.theword] occurs in the vulgate, jobix,9,kimah,butis not used inoursenglish bibles; it has become replaced by pleiades 'inthe authorised version in isaiah lxv,11,we read,'ye:are theythatforsake the lord, that forget my holy mountain] that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnishthedrink" offering unto thatnumber.'in the revised version the wordstroopandnumberbecomefortuneanddestiny.thehebrew words are godgd,and menimni;these are believed to be names for stars or p

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

ertrude s bird (p. 673. there may be a few more stars for which popular names still exist. 2 in lith. the kids are artojis su jdiiczeis plougher with oxen, and capella neszeja walgio food-bearer (f. hanka s 0. boh. gl. 58b gives hrusa for aldebaran, przyczek for arcturus. we might also expect to find names for the hyades and cas- 1 don quixote 2, 41 (idel. 4, 83; conf. g, 242. 2 cymric and gaelic bibles (job 9, 9, retain the latin names from the vulgate; from which it does not follow that these languages lack native names for stars. armstrong cites gael, crannarain, baker s peel, for the pleiades, and dragblod, firetail, for the lesser bear. 730 sky and stabs. siopeia. but many stars are habitually confounded, as the pleiades with the hyades or orion, and even with the wain and arcturus; l

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ut away their shams, and go to work for themselves-nay, there is one little word too much or too many, for he who works for himself had better not work at all; rather let him work himself for others, for all. for every flower of love and charity he plants in his neighbor's garden, a loathsome weed will disappear from his own, and so this garden of the gods-humanity-shall blossom as a rose. in all bibles, all religions, this is plainly set forth-but designing men have at first misinterpreted and finally emasculated, materialized, besotted them. it does not require a new revelation. let every man be a revelation unto himself. let once man's immortal spirit take possession of the temple of his body, drive out the money-changers and every unclean thing, and his own divine humanity will redeem

RUBY TABLET OF SET

between the setian and set himself. but, were it to happen, set would be transformed into energy and/or matter. he would be with us in the first four dimensions. this has been tried in the past with satan, and is known as "conjuring the devil" if it doesn't work, it is usually either because the evolution of the magician was too low, or because he used "protective devices" such as magic circles, bibles, and other distractions that built a wall between the sender and receiver of the message. another mistake has been the commanding of beings such as satan to appear in the name of god (a conceptual inconsistency. proper communication with set necessitates seeing him as a friend rather than as a servant or power with which to compete. if the setian can recognize set as a part of himself, then

SATANIC BIBLE

uous poundings of a thousand lucifers. how understandable that holy scripture should refer to the infernal monarch as the "father of lies- a magnificent example of character inversion. if one is to believe this theological accusation that the devil represents falsehood, then it surely must be concurred that it was he, not god, that established all spiritual religions and who wrote all of the holy bibles! when one doubt is followed by another, the bubble, grown large from long accumulated fallacies, threatens to burst. for those who already doubt supposed truths, this book is revelation. then lucifer will have risen. now is the time for doubt! the bubble of falsehood is bursting and its sound is the roar of the world- w a n t e d- god dead or alive it is a popular misconception that the sat

d, they are unctuously consoled by their clergyman who says "it was god's will, my dear; or "he is in god's hands now, my son" such phrases have been a convenient way for religionists to condone or excuse the mercilessness of god. but if god is in complete control and as benign as he is supposed to be, why does he allow these things to happen? too long have religionists been falling back on their bibles and rulebooks to prove or disprove, justify, condemn, or interpret. the satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares. no longer will we sit back and accept "fate" without doing anything about it, just because it says so in chapter such and such, psalm so and so- and that's

SEPHER YETZIRAH WESTCOTT

e--stage, power, form, effect; and later, a doctrinal formula, in kabalistic writings. 2. jah. this divine name is found in psalm lxviii. 4; it is translated into greek as kurios, and into latin as dominus, and commonly into the english word, lord: it is really the first half of the word ihvh or jehovah, or the yahveh of modern scholars. 3. jehovah tzabaoth. this divine name is printed in english bibles as jehovah sabaoth, or as "lord of hosts" as in psalm xxiv. 10. tzba is an army. 4. god of israel. here the word god is alhi, which in unpointed hebrew might be god, or gods, or my god. 5. the elohim of the living. the words are alhim chiim. alhim, often written in english letters as elohim, or by godftey higgins as aleim, seems to be a masculine plural of the feminine form eloah, alh, of t

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

women masculine. marriage is to be perverted. no longer between man and woman, it shall be used also to join men with men and women to women. abortion the reckless slaughter of innocents is to be applauded. sex is to become rife with perversion. children are given over to the terrible passions of lustful pedophiles. spiritual values are converted to material desires. false gods are exalted. false bibles are invented. murder and assassination become religious goals. the christian seeks as his life goal to become more and more like jesus. but man and the world are progressively becoming more like satan and his dark angels more corrupt and evil every day, in every way. evolution, oddly, becomes fact, except that man isn't evolving from apes, he is becoming an ape. he is transferred into base

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

ry on lanulos. when the transmission was completed, cold urged woody to brace himself because withdrawal would be painful. woody felt a sharp pain in his temple and nearly passed out. two weeks later, though woody wasn't aware of it at the time, two salesmen visited mineral wells and went from house to house with their wares. they weren't very interested in making sales. at one house they offered bibles. at another, hardware. at a third they were "mormon missionaries from salem oregon (a ufo wave was taking place in salem at that time. one man was tall, blond, and looked like a scandinavian. his partner was short and slight, with pointed features and a dark olive complexion. they asked questions about woody and were particularly interested in opinions on the validity of his alleged contact

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

ers, called fws, has the name of a different tree or shrub. it is likely tree ogham would never have gained the popularity it now enjoys in celtic magic were it not for the classical scholar and novelist robert graves, who speculated extensively about the occult significance of the tree ogham in his highly influential work the white goddess. this book, first written in 1948, has become one of the bibles of goddess-worshippers, neopagans, druids, and witches. most of what is generally available on tree ogham comes directly from graves. the ogham characters take their occult meanings from the mythic associa- tions of the trees with which they are linked. for example, the first few, beth, is named after the birch, and therefore carries all the mystical and magical associa- tions of the birch

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

nection between iao and the truncated name ihv used in sepher yetzirah to seal the six directions of space-see scholem, kabbalah, p. 27. so are wilder claims that the name can be traced back to ancient china, egypt, or babylonia. all these propositions have been put forth at different times, but there is little hard evidence to support them. the pronunciation jehovah, which occurs in many english bibles, including the king james, is the result of an error that arose due to a lack of familiarity with hebrew scribal practices on the part of european scholars of the fourteenth century. in hebrew, all the letters are consonants, and the vowels sounded with them are indicated by putting small marks or 4 tetragrammaton "points" near the letters. the consonants ihvh were pointed with the vowels f

e king james, is the result of an error that arose due to a lack of familiarity with hebrew scribal practices on the part of european scholars of the fourteenth century. in hebrew, all the letters are consonants, and the vowels sounded with them are indicated by putting small marks or 4 tetragrammaton "points" near the letters. the consonants ihvh were pointed with the vowels for adonai in hebrew bibles to indicate that when ihvh was encountered it should be read as adonai. ordinarily, when such a substitution is made, the consonants of the substituted word are written in the margin to avoid confusion, but since the use of adonai for ihvh was so well known to jewish readers, this was deemed unnecessary. european scholars, unaware of this practice, read the consonants ihvh and the vowel sou

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