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nd poverty; grace and indignity; fertility and solitude; power and servitude. these seven letters point out 7 localities: zenith, nadir, east, west, north, south, and the place of holiness in the midst sustaining all things. the archetypal creator designed, produced, combined and formed with them the planets of the universe, the days of the week, and in man, the gate of the soul. he has loved and blessed the number 7 more than all things under his throne, the powers of these 7 letters are also shown forth in the 7 palaces of assiah and the seven stars of that vision are the 7 archangels who rule them. hiereus: leads neophyte to w. of altar, and returns to his place, and is seated. hiero: moves to east of altar, takes censer from altar, and holding it with chain short, makes cross and three

fficer in charge. hiero: fraters and sorors, assist me to close this temple in the grade of zelator. all rise. hiero: frater kerux, see that the temple is properly guarded. kerux: on inner side of the door, knocks. sentinel (knocks) kerux: very honoured hierophant, the temple is properly guarded. hiero: let us adore the lord and king of earth. all face east. hiero: adonai ha-aretz, adonai melekh, blessed be thy name unto the countless ages. amen. all give sign and face east. hiero: leaves his throne and passes to the north, standing before the tablet of the north. hiereus: moves to right of hierophant. heg: moves to left of hierophant. kerux: moves behind hierophant. stol: falls in behind hiereus. dad: falls in behind hegemon. hiero: let us rehearse the prayer of the earth spirits. o invis

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

offered by the collective nation or community; fruit or flowers, milk or honey is what any household, or even an individual may give. these fruit-offerings are therefore more solitary and paltry; history scarcely mentions them, but they have lingered the longer and more steadfastly in popular customs (see suppl. when the husbandman cuts his corn, he leaves a clump of ears standing for the god who blessed the harvest, and he adorns it with^ yxo (t(ta koi koikla (tongue and entrail) lepetov sianettpayfifvov, phitarcli, phoc. 1. yxayacras rdfiveiv and ev irvpl /iiuxxeti, od. 3, 332. 341. conf. de linguae usu in sacriliciis, nitzsch ad horn. od. 1, 207. in the folk-tales, whoever has to kill a man or beast, is told to bring in proof the tongue or heart, apparently as being eminent portions- ai

with mercury (p. 121, correcting him thus: qui apud eos (alamannos) vuotant (part. pres. of wuotan) vocatur, latini autem martem ilium appellant. are adam's words also' sicut nostri martem sculpere solent' to be so taken that nostri 1 got waldes an der sige hiir! wh. 425, 24. sigehafte hende fiiege in got! dietr. 84. osinn, when he sejit the people forth to war, laid his hands on their heads and blessed, ace. to yngl. cap. 2, gaf j^eim bianac; ir. beannact, beannugad, beandacht, gael, beanuachd, wei. bianoch (villemarque, essai lix= benedictio, prob. all i'rom the lat. word? conf. fr. benir, ir. beannaigini. 134 wodan. should mean saxones? he, it is true, may have meant those acquainted with eoman mythology. especially does the remarkable legend preserved by paulus diaconus 1, 8 show that

vlyt geleit. haupts zeitschr. 3, 221. mid. dutch poems have no personification wensch; nor is there a wunsch in the nibelungen or gudrun; but in wolfdietrich 970: des w'lmsches ein amie! there must be many more instances; but the earliest one i know of is found in the entekrist from the 12th century (hoffm. fundgr. 2, 107: mit wunschis gewalte with wish's might segniti sie der alte. tlie old man blessed her. we see wish provided with hands, power, looks, diligence, art, blossom, fruit; he creates, shapes, produces master-pieces, thinks, bows, swears, curses, is glad and angry, adopts as child, handmaid, friend: all such pretty-well stock phrases would scarcely have sprung up and lived in a poetry, in a language, if they did not unconsciously relate to a higher being, of whom earlier times

nning dwarfs^ and in spite of that defect, it was their masterpiece. in saxo p. 163, thor is armed with a torrida chabjhs^ it is noticeable, how frauenlob ms. 2, 214^ expresses himself about god the father: der smit uz oberlande warf sinen hamer in mine schoz. the hammer, as a divine tool, was considered sacred, brides and the bodies of the dead were consecrated with it, ssem. 74^ sn. 49. 66; men blessed with the sign of the hammer^ as christians did with the sign of the cross, and a stroke of lightning was long regarded in the^ as zeus's lightning was by the curetes or cyclopes^ that in ancient statues of the thundergod the hammer had not been forgotten, seems to be proved by pretty late evidence, e.g. the statue of a dorper mentioned in connexion with the giants (ch. xviii, quotation fro

of heimdall, dreckr glaffr hinn go5a mios 41. and' in svdso gus' 33^ contains a similar notion. in this light the passages quoted (pp. 17-8) on the blithe and cheer/til god gather a new importance: it is the old heathen notion still lurking in poetry. when zeus in divine repose sits on olympus and looks down on men, he is moved to mirth (opucov cf)peva tep-yjro /u,al, ii. 20, 23, then laughs the blessed heart of him iyexaa-ae se 01<^l\ov rjtop, 21, 389; which is exactly the eddie' hlo honum hugr i briosti, hlo hlorriga liugr i briosti' laughed the mind in his breast: a fresh confirmation of the essential oneness of zeus and thorr. but it is also said of heroes' hlo]?a atla hugr i briosti' seem. 238' hlo];a, brynhildr af ollum hug' with all her heart 22 0^ os' hugi ward fromod' hel. 109, 7

of gods and men, we find they meet and touch at all points. as the created being is filled with a childlike sense of its dependence on the creator, and prayers and offerings implore his favour, so deity too delights in its creations, and takes in them a fatherly interest. man's longing goes forth towards heaven; the gods fix their gaze on the earth, to watch and direct the doings of mortals. the blessed gods do commune with each other in their heavenly abodes, where feasts and revels go on as in earthly fashion; but they are more drawn to men, whose destinies enlist their liveliest sympathy. it is not true, what mart. cap. says 2, 9: ipsi dicuntur dii, et caelites alias perhibentur. nee admodum eos mortalium curarum vota sollicitant, airaoehciwe perhibentur. not content with making their

4 7 INITIATION CEREMONY

th refer? hiereus: to the reflection of the sphere of pisces. hiero: honoured hegemon, to what does the 28th path allude? heg: to the reflection of the sphere of aquarius. hiero: honoured hiereus, to what does the 27th path allude? hiereus: to the reflection of the sphere of mars. hiero (knocks) all rise and face east. hiero: let us adore the lord and king of fire. hiero: tetragrammaton tzabaoth. blessed be thou, the leader of armies is thy name! amen. all salute. hiero: quits his throne and proceeds to south and knocks. all face south. hiero: stands before the tablet of fire. he makes with his scepter the invoking circle and pentagrams before it in the air. hiero: and elohim said, let us make adam in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion. in the name of elohim, mighty a

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

gods and goddesses the mechanics of witchcraft magick takes place at what ts eliot in the four quartets called the 'still point of the turning world, that moment of timelessness that enables thought to be turned into reality on the material plane. it operates on the principle as above, so below. this phrase comes from the beginning of the emerald tablet, attributed to hermes trismesgistos (thrice-blessed hermes, thought to be a powerful first-century egyptian sorcerer who became worshipped as a god after his death. this tablet is said to contain all magical knowledge as well as the principles of alchemy, and states that human action and events reflect what occurs in the heavens. and so by releasing magical intentions into the cosmos, as i said earlier, they will be reflected back as actual

life to the land. it is said that, like lugh, he embraced cailleach, the old hag of winter who was thus transformed in his arms into the maiden goddess. in medieval times, a girl representing brighid would be brought to the door of the main house or farmstead of a village with cows and a cauldron, symbols of plenty. her straw bridal bed would be created close to the fire, adorned with ribbons and blessed with honey. milk, the first available after the winter, was central to the festival as a symbol of renewed fertility. it was poured on the bed of straw. workers from the farms and villages would approach the bride bed, and in return for a coin, a posy of flowers or tiny gift would receive her kiss, bestowing blessing on their trade and homes. in churches, the candles that were to be used f

ewed fertility. it was poured on the bed of straw. workers from the farms and villages would approach the bride bed, and in return for a coin, a posy of flowers or tiny gift would receive her kiss, bestowing blessing on their trade and homes. in churches, the candles that were to be used for the coming year in ceremony were purified on the feast of candlemas on 1 february. each person was given a blessed candle that acted as protector of the home against storms, fire and flood and defended cattle and crops against evil. the energies of this seasonal festival are good for the regeneration of any areas devastated by neglect or pollution, for melting rigid attitudes that may have led to conflicts between counties or ethnic groups, and the isolation and alienation of disadvantaged groups throu

mother and an early forerunner of both robin hood and st george. the mother goddess in her maiden aspect mated with the ascended sun god or, in popular folk tradition the green man, so that the conceived infant would be reborn as the new sun at the next winter solstice, thus ensuring the wheel of the year continued to turn. in the christian church, 25 march is the feast of the annunciation of the blessed virgin mary when gabriel told her she was with child. the energies of this festival are good for cleansing the seas and air of pollution, for new peace-making initiatives of all kinds, for beginning reforestation and regeneration projects, the reclamation of wildlife habitats and work to restore the indigenous trees and wildlife to an area. they will also support major attitude changes tow

ABRAMELIN1

, enter the holy place, using the ceremonies before spoken of, first by sprinkling thyself, then, making. a perfume, you shall sign the cross with holy oil on the forehead, and anoint your eyes, using prayer in all these consecrations. then open the lamen and pray before the altar upon your knees; and then an invocation may be made as follows: an invocation of the good spirits. in the name of the blessed and holy trinity, i do desire ye, strong and mighty angels (here name the spirit or spirits you would have appear, that if it be the divine will of him who is called tetragrammaton, etc, the holy god, the father, that ye take upon ye some shape as best becometh your celestial nature, and appear to us visibly here in this place, and answer our demands, in as far as we shall not transgress t

glory and honour of his divine majesty who liveth and reigneth world without end. amen. lord, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven make clean our hearts within us, and take not thy holy spirit from us. o lord, by thy name we have called them, suffer them to administer unto us. introduction xxiii and that all things may work together for thy honour and glory, to whom with thee, the son and blessed spirit, be ascribed all might, majesty, and dominion, world without end. amen. the invocation being made, the good angels will appear unto you which you desire, which you shall entertain with a chaste communication, and licence them to depart. now the lamen which is used to invoke any good spirit must be made after the following manner: either in metal conformable or in new wax mixed with

ce, bless it, and make a circle therein with a consecrated coal; let there be written in the outer part of the circle the names of the angels; in the inner part thereof write the mighty names of god; and let be placed within the circle, at the four parts of the world,9 the vessels for the perfumes. then being washed and fasting, let him enter the place, and pray towards the east this whole psalm: blessed are the undefiled in the way, etc. psalm cix. 7 probably an error for hexagram or hexangle. 8 probably an error for pentagrams, or pentangles. 9 ie, the cardinal points, or quarters. introduction xxiv then make a fumigation, and deprecate the angels by the said divine names, that they will appear unto you, and reveal or discover that which you so earnestly desire; and do this continually f

the other hand, he must always be upon his guard, and abstain as from a mortal sin from flattering, obeying, regarding, or having respect to the demon, and to his viperine race; neither must he submit himself unto him in the slightest thing, for that would be his ruin and the fatal loss of his soul. as it happened unto all the seed descended from noah, lot, ishmael, and others who did possess the blessed land (before our forefathers) who inherited this wisdom from father to son, from family to family; but in the course of time having lent an ear unto the treacherous enemy, they let themselves be turned away from the veritable path, and did lose the true science which they had received from god by the means of their fathers, and gave themselves over unto superstitious sciences, and unto dia

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

eeing my qualifications, honor and fidelity; as also an attestation of my having passed the pentagonal examination. by virtue of these honors and dignities, i now come to demand my reception and acknowledgement as an adeptus minor of the 5=6 grade of the second order" second "o aspirant; it is written that he who exalteth himself shall be abased, but that he who humbleth himself shall be exalted. blessed be the poor in m for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. it is not by proclamation of honors and dignities, great though they may be, that thou canst gain admission to the tomb of the adepti of the rose of ruby and the cross of gold, but only by that humility and purity of m that befitteth the aspirant unto higher things. associate adeptus minor, bring unto me the recommendation and attestati

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

he lakes under the wind of spring and like the bubbling of a well and like the tinkling of a fountain through a bed of moss. also she had deep notes like the sea that booms upon a rocky shore. so long, long, long i slept. now when i awoke the nymph had gone; but i took form my bosom a little casket of certain sacred herbs; and casting a few grains into the pool, repaid her for her courtesy. and i blessed her in the name of our dead lady isis, and went on in the strength of that delicious meal for a great way. yet i page 23 gulf.txt wist not what to do; for i was as it were a dead man, although my age was barely two and twenty years. what indeed should befall me? yet i went on; and, climbing a ridge, beheld at last the broad nile, and a shining city that i knew not. there on the ridge i sto

of oxen and of geese, bread, and wine. and as she ate she spake with me; for she could see by her art that i was not a common serving-man. then i took out the consecrated wand of khem that i had from my father; and i placed it in her hand. at that she wondered, for that wand is the sign of a great and holy initiation: so rare that (as they say) no woman but one has ever attained unto it. then she blessed herself that she had been permitted to look upon it, and prayed me to keep silence for a little while, for she had somewhat in her mind to do. and i lifted up the wand upon her in the nine-and-forty-fold benediction, and she received illumination thereof, and rejoiced. then i fell at her feet- for she was the high priestess- and kissed them reverently, and withdrew. then three days afterwa

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

for the eventual publication of this tome with baited breath. and something on the stove. seventh, and perhaps most importantly, to herman slater of the magickal childe (nee warlock shop, whose constant encouragement and eternal kvetching was material to the completion of this work. and, finally, to the demon perdurabo, without whose help the presentation of this book would have been impossible. blessed be! table of contents introduction introductory essay prefatory notes chart of comparisons supplementary material to 777 notes on pronunciation the spells (translated) common sumerian words and phrases in english a word concerning the original manuscript banishings bibliography& suggested reading list the necronomicon the testimony of the mad arab of the zonei and their attributes the book

for the eventual publication of this tome with baited breath. and something on the stove. seventh, and perhaps most importantly, to herman slater of the magickal childe (nee warlock shop, whose constant encouragement and eternal kvetching was material to the completion of this work. and, finally, to the demon perdurabo, without whose help the presentation of this book would have been impossible. blessed be! table of contents introduction introductory essay prefatory notes chart of comparisons supplementary material to 777 notes on pronunciation the spells (translated) common sumerian words and phrases in english a word concerning the original manuscript banishings bibliography& suggested reading list the necronomicon the testimony of the mad arab of the zonei and their attributes the book

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

here is no predicate; nor is there the contradictory of either of these things. holy, holy, holy are these truths that i utter, knowing them to be but falsehoods, broken mirrors, troubled waters; hide me, o our lady, in thy womb! for i may not endure the rapture. in this utterance of falsehood upon falsehood, whose contradictories are also false, it seems as if that which i uttered not were true. blessed, unutterably blessed, is this last of the illusions; let me play the man, and thrust it from me! amen. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 31 [32] commentary( iota alpha "the glow-worm" may perhaps be translated as "a little light in the darkness, though there may be a subtle reference to the nature of that light. eleven is the great number of magick, and this chapter indi

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

at veil is black. it is the veil of the modest woman; it is the veil of sorrow& the pall of death: this is none of me. tear down that lying spectre of the centuries: veil not your vices in virtuous words: these vices are my service; ye do well& i will reward you here and hereafter. ii,53: fear not, o prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be sorry. thou art emphatically my chosen; and blessed are the eyes that thou shalt look upon with gladness. but i will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but i lift thee up. ii,54: nor shall they who cry aloud their folly that thou meanest nought avail; thou shall reveal it: thou availest: they are the slaves of because: they are not of me. the stops as thou wilt; the letters? change them not in styl

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

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

t us in peace and comfort: conclude us receivers of your mysteries: for why? our lord and master is the all-one [invokes: nanta; the whole tablet of earth. the angle of e of e. the princess of the echoing hills, the rose of the palace of earth] the opening of the temple in the grade of 4 =78 give the sign of thoum-aesh-neith [knock] let us adore the lord and king of fire! tetragrammaton tzabaoth! blessed be thou! the leader of armies is thy name! amen [make the invoking pentagram of spirit acitve and pronounce these names: hyha. alga. bitom [make the invoking pentagram of fire, and pronouce \yhla. twabx hwhy [make the sign of leo with censer (or other suitable weapon] in the name of lakim, archangel of fire, spirits of fire, adore your creator [make the cross] in the names and letters of t

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

eory of 94 the ancient magicians, that any living being is a storehouse of energy varying in quantity according to the size and health of the animal, and in quality according to its mental and moral character. at the death of the animal this energy is liberated suddenly. the animal should therefore be killed<blessed and merciful of all deaths, for the elemental spirit is directly built up into godhead- the exact goal of its efforts through countless incarnations. on the other hand, the practice of torturing animals to death in order to obtain the elemental as a slave is indefensible, utterly black magic of the very worst kind, involving as it does a metaphysical basis of dualism. there is, however, no

hout kumbhakham, and meditating on harpocrates, the silent and virginal god. 11. then at last, being well-fitted in body and mind, fixed in peace, beneath a favourable heaven of stars, at night, in calm and warm weather, mayst thou quicken the movement of the light until it be taken up by the brain and the spine, independently of thy will. 12. if in this hour thou shouldst die, is it not written "blessed are the dead that die in the lord? yea, blessed are the dead that die in the lord! 367 liber e vel exercitiorum sub figura ix<equinox i, 1. most of these appear to be typo's or to be minor changes, especially to modernize punctuation or usage> i. 1. it is absolutely necessary that all experiment

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

ach to sanctuaries which of necessity are closely guarded, but merely to the recognition of a new-comer to that part of the world in general. of course all these miracles are very naughty of you; they mean that your magical power has sprung a few small leaks; at least, the water is oozing between some planks not sealed as hermetically as they should be. but oh and this is naughtier still- it is a blessed, blessed comfort that they happen, that chance, coincidence and all the rest will simply not explain it all away, that your new vision of life is not a dream, but part and parcel of experience for evermore, a real as any other manifestation of reality through sense such as is common to all men. and this brings us- it has been a long way round- from the suggestion of magic without tears get

n arabian night's tale of antiquity; it is the same today: there are very few englishmen who have spent any time in india who have not been approached 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 th

do you know they are "invisible" i foresee that sooner or later you will be asking for more information about them, so i am planning a separate letter to supply this (see letters ix, l and lxxvii) 7 as an artist you are a consecrated virgin priestess, the oracle of the magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 246 most high. none has the right to approach you save with the most blessed awe, with arms outstretched as to invoke your benediction. by "spiritually" you mean no more than "according to the lower and middle-middle-class morality of the anglo-saxon of the period when longfellow and tennyson were supposed to be poets, and royal academicians painters" there is a highly popular school of "occultists" which is 99% an escape-mechanism. the fear of death is one of the

bottle, bring about the needlessness of counting, but also one acquires the power to command! magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 270 20 a century ago, very nearly, there lived in bristol and "open brother" names muller, who was a wizard at this; grace before breakfast, the usual palaver about the lord and his blessings and his bounty et cetera, da capo; to conclude "and, blessed lord, we would humbly venture to remind thee that this morning thou art oe3 4s. 6 1/2d. short in the accounts; trusting that thou wilt give this small matter thine immediate attention, for jesus' christ's sake, amen" sure enough, when he came to open his post, there would be just enough, sometimes exactly enough, to cover that amount. this story was told me by an enemy, who thought quite s

secret of the elixir of life, and could carry on in the same body indefinitely; yet at least some masters prefer to reincarnate in the regular way, only taking care to waste no time in amennti, but to get back to the old bench and pick up the new tools with the minimum of delay. by having attained the freedom of "elysian, windless, fortunate abodes beyond heaven's constellated wilderness "we are blessed; and bless" by refusing to linger therein, but shouldering once more "atlantean the load of the too vast orb of" the karma of mankind. this hypothesis does at least make intelligible their action in riding for a fall instead of preventing it. it may also be that they feel that human progress has reached its asymptote so far as the old formula can take it. in fact, unless we take some such

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

to their civil, moral, or religious obligations" so when any one wanted to break his vow he had no difficulty in discovering a very good reason for it. the vow lost all its force<crowley expressly cites this clause in the golden dawn initiations as the third defense for his publishing the golden dawn rituals. see equinox i, 4, page 5 "editorial> when buddha took his seat under the blessed bo-tree, he took an oath that none of the inhabitants of the 10,000 worlds should cause him to rise until he had attained; so that when even mara the great arch-devil, with his three daughters the arch-temptresses appeared, he remained still. now it is useless for the beginner to take so formidable a vow; he 77 has not yet attained the strength which can defy mara. let him estimate his str

would be cleared up by the fact that it is the thumb, which is attributed to the element of spirit, and not one of the four fingers of the four lesser elements, which he sticks into the pie of the new dispensation. he plucks forth one who is ripe, no doubt to send him forth as a teacher into the world, and rejoices that he is so well carrying out the will of the father. let us pass from this most blessed subject to yet another. tom, tom, the piper's son, stole a pig and away he run. the pig was eat, and tom was beat, and tom went roaring down the street. this is one of the more exoteric of these rimes. in fact, it is not much better than a sun-myth. tom is toum, the god of the sunset (called the son of apollo, the piper, the maker of music. the only difficulty in the poem concerns the pig;

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

census; appointed place; commandment dqpm the tarot (cf. 216, 280& 671 +wr+ 226 profound; hidden; the north nwpc eternal foundation of the world: a title of yesod mlw( dwsy 227 long, tall kwr) a piscine, pond; blessing (prov. 10:22) hkrb remember; male (sacred phallus. see s.d. cap. 2) rkz damages, injuries nyqyzn the hooks of the pillars (ex. 27:10, 11) mydwm(h ywwl 228 first-born (cf. 567) rwkb blessed! kwrb the tree of life (cf. 233) myyx c( 230 astonishment hrkh surrounding, encircling pyqm bands, stripes; bindings mydwq( to sparkle, gleam ccn 231 the number of gates of wisdom (the number of permutations of pairs of hebrew letters disregarding order; i.e. 1-21) prolonged; grew long kyr) male )rwkd 232 the sum of the four ways of spelling hwhy in the four worlds ryw) hy let there be lig

y blemish, spot, stain *mwm 647 lights twr)m great dragons myldgh mnynth standards, military ensigns *mylgd determined *mmz 648 to be hot *mmx 649 trance, deep sleep (cf. 244) hmdrt translation mwgrt 650 natron (prov. 25:20) rtn mem: water *mym very silent *mmwd 651 temurah: permutation hrwmt 653 haggler nrgt i am hwhy thy god *kyhl) hwhy ykn) 654 sunset #m#h )wb children *mydly 655 the holy one, blessed be he )wh kwrb #wdqh the palace of the body of heaven (referred to netzach) mym# mc( lkyh the sphere of mars *myd)m the waters *mymh 656 a lily; a rose (see 706, and cf. 661) n#w# delight, joy nw# a furnace rwnt by day *mmwy 658 a name of god *myhl )wh 660 flashings, scintillations tycycyn zones; members nyr#q a day; the seas; the times *mymy vases, vessels *mylk spice; drug; poison *ms 66

lt *mlw( 707 rim *ndb) strength; wealth; trouble, sorrow; heliopolis (cf. 51 *nw) species, kind *nz long, tall *kwr) 708 the angel of the covenant tyrbh k)lm perdition tx# an ear *nz) grace, love, kindness, charm (notariqon of chokmah nesethrah: the secret wisdom, 788 *nx libra: the scales *mynz)m beni elohim, sons of the gods: the angelic choir of hod *myhl) ynb a name of god *myhl) hwhy hy hyh) blessed *kwrb 709 the seven double letters t r p k d g b 710 a cave tr(m six (ch) ty# hidden, secret rtsn tried by fire; a watch-tower *nxb excellence, sublimity, glory, pride *nw)g to darken, dim *mm( 711 adon: master, lord *nwd) nothing; not *ny) the belly *n+b wealth *nwh hwhy of the gods is one hwhy *dx) hwhy myhl) hwhy prolonged; grew long *kyr) 712 between *nyb 713 the sphere of saturn y)tb#

id in the qabalah re: the sephiroth) lbqtmw lybqm confinement, detention trc( resemblance, likeness, image *nwymd at the end of the days; the right hand *nymy wings *mypnk bone; substance, essence; body *mc( divination; witchcraft *msq 761 ruin, destruction, sudden death *ns) 762 a structure; mode of building *nynb apertures *mybqn 764 gracious, obliging, indulgent *nwnx brains *nyxwm 765 and god blessed them myhl) mt) krbyw 766 they of the world *mlw( ymy 767 the elders (deut. 21:19 *mynqz demons; injurers *myqyzm 768 coppery, brassy yt#xn the high priest *lwdg nhk 770 going forth (said of the eyes of hwhy; lit. fem. gwanderers h) tw++w#m unfruitful, barren trq( strengthening *nykm a name of god *n( points, pricks, dots *mydwqn giants *mylpn thine enemy *kr( 771 the bearded countenance: a

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ligent. the new aeon will have a foundation of happy women: a woman under tabu is loathsome to life, detested by her fellows, and wretched in herself. the student should study in liber aleph and liber 418, the connection between 'modesty' and the attitude of the "black brothers. al ii,53 "fear not, o prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be sorry. thou art emphatically my chosen; and blessed are the eyes that thou shalt look upon with gladness. but i will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but i lift thee up" the old comment 53. but the prophet again disliked the writing. the god comforted him. also he prophesied of his immediate future, which was fulfiled, and is still being fulfilled at the time (an v. sun in 20 degrees cancer) of t

of expulsion from beastship by scarlet woman alostrael. and it is to be taken that 'the woman' is to take arms in his honour. this woman might be the scarlet woman, or perhaps woman generally. remember that in the scarlet woman 'is all power given; and i expect a new semiramis. al iii,12 "sacrifice cattle, little and big: after a child" al iii,13 "but not now" al iii,14 "ye shall see that hour, o blessed beast, and thou the scarlet concubine of his desire" al iii,15 "ye shall be sad thereof" the old comment 12-15. this, ill-understood at the time, is now too terribly clear. the 15th verse, apparently an impossible sequel, has justified itself. the new comment 12-15. this, read in connexion with verse 43, was then fulfilled may 1, 1906, o.s. the tragedy was also part of mine initiation, as

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e frater p. s accomplishments in the ancient sciences of the east, swiftly and securely as he had passed in a bare year the arduous road which so many fail to traverse in lifetime, satisfied as himself was in a sense with his own progress, it was not yet by these paths that he was destined to reach the sublime threshold of the mystic temple. for though it is written, to the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift, yet, were it otherwise, no mortal however persevering could attain the immortal shore. as it is written in the fifteenth chapter of st. luke s gospel, and when he was yet afar off, his father saw him and ran. had it not been so, the weary prodigal, exhausted by his early debauches (astral visions and magic) and his later mental toil (yoga) would never have had the stre

ah thaubodo: ye shall worship my first-born, my first, whose name is jesus. the fourth is wdwbut uwcy wmc rca br awbb, beboa rabban ashar shamo yeshuah thaubado: when the master is come whose name is jesus ye shall worship. the fifth is, hwrcat uwcy dltc rjba hywar hlwtb, betulah raviah abachar shethaled yeshuah thrashroah, i will choose a virgin worthy to bring forth jesus, and ye shall call her blessed. the sixth is, wlksy uwcy ypwgc rttsa \ypxr tgwub, beaugoth ratzephim assattar shegopi yeshuah thakelo, i will hide mayself in cake (baked with) coals, for ye shall eat jesus, my body. the qabalistical importance of these sentences as bearing upon the doctrines of christianity can hardly be overrated. the second form of notariqon is the exact reverse of the first. by this the initial or fi

r tud i read it d the door, u matter, t darkness, by various columns of 777 (to choose the column is a matter of spiritual intuition. solvitur ambulando. but here i am only dealing with the trying of the spirits, to know whether they be of god. suppose now that a vision purporting to rpceed from god is granted to me. the angel declares his name. i add it up. it comes to 65. an excellent number! a blessed angel! not necessarily. suppose he is of a mercurial appearance? 65 is a number of mars. then i conclude that, however beautiful and eloquent he may be, he is a false spirit. the devil does not understand the qabalah well enough to clothe his symbols in harmony. but suppose an angel, even lonely in aspect, not only knows the qabalah your own researches in the qabalah as well as you do, but

lso 418= way ta, the essence of iao, q.v. this short analysis might be indefinitely expanded; but always the symbol will remain the expression of the goal and the exposition of the path. 419. teth, the number of the laughing lion on whom babalon rideth. see liber 418. note 419+ 156= 575= 23 25, occultly signifying 24, which again signifies to them that understand the interplay of the 8 and the 3. blessed be his holy name, the interpreter of his own mystery! 434. daleth, the holy letter of the mother, in her glory as queen. she saves the 4 by the 7 (d= 4= venus= 7, thus connects with 28, mystic number of netzach (venus, victory. note the 3 sundering the two fours. this is the feminine victory; she is in one sense the delilah to the divine samson. hence we adore her from full hearts. it ough

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n will be made of the figs and the pigs. are dumb, the drum doth come and make as mute: the englishman, half huckster and half brute, raves through his silk hat of the absolute. 260 the british don, half pedant and half hermit, begins: the ding an sich* as germans term it we stop him short; he readjusts his glasses, turns to his folio twill eclipse all precedent, reveal god s nature, every dent a blessed dent! 265 the donkey: written by an ass, for asses. so, with permission, let us be orthodox to our finger-ends; what the bulk hold, high church or friends, or hard-shall baptists and we ll see. 270 i will not now invite attack by proving white a shade of black, or christ (as some47 have lately tried) an epileptic mania, citing some case, where a dose 275 of bromide duly given in time drags

r. in short, we all lie all the time; we are compelled to it by the nature of things themselves paradoxical as that seems and the buddha knew it! the fifth precept. at last we arrive at the end of our weary journey surely in this weather we may have a drink! east of suez, trombone-macaulay (as i may surely say, when browning writes banjo- byron) tells us, a man may raise a thirst. no, shrieks the blessed one, the perfected one, the enlightened one, do not drink! it is like the streets of paris when they were placarded with rival posters ne buvez pas de l alcool! l alcool est un poison! and buvez de l alcool! l alcool est un aliment! we know now that alcohol is a food up to a certain amount; the precept, good enough for a rough rule as it stands, will not bear close inspection. what buddha

a forest conservator. 2 the hindus see this as well as any one, and call atman sat-chit-ananda, these being above the pairs of opposites, rather on the hegelian lines of the reconciliation (rather than the identity) of opposites in a master-idea. we have dismissed infinity as the figment of a morbid mathematic: but in any case the same disproof applies to it as to god. a.c. 3 hail unto thee, the blessed one, the perfect one, the enlightened one! antitheses of noumenon and phenomenon, unity and multiplicity, and their kind, are all reconciled, and the only question that remains is that of finding the most satisfactory means of attaining nirvana extinction of all that exists, knows, or feels; extinction final and complete, utter and absolute extinction. for by these words only can we indica

him, in spite of all his cunning. there s some one working against us on the physical plane. we must transcend it. no sooner said than done: 1 o the jewel in the lotus! aum! the most famous of the buddhist formularies. 2 the burmese name for an elemental spirit. the three characteristics 105 a family of nats in a big tree at anuradhapura had a little stranger, very welcome to mamma and papa nat. blessed indeed was the family. fiveand- forty feet1 away stood a most ancient and holy dagoba: and the children of light would gather round it in the cool of the evening, or in the misty glamour of dawn, and turn forth in love and pity towards all mankind nay, to the smallest grain of dust tossed on the utmost storms of the sahara! blessed and more blessed! for one day came a holy bikkhu from the

rt the perdu r abu of my lengthy tale. the wicked jehjaour has got something lingering with boiling oil in it, while waiting for his clerical clothes: while, as for me, i myself was the bacillus in the forest of lanka: i was the old lady: i was (he shuddered) the british government: i was the mosquito that buzzed in the girl s flute: i was bhavani: i was huxlananda swami; and at the last, at this blessed hour, i am that i am. but, lord, said the five hundred thousand and one arahats in a breath, thou art then guilty of six violent deaths! nay, thou hast hounded one soul from death to death through all these incarnations! what of this first precept2 of yours? children, answered the glorious one, do not be so foolish as to think that death is necessarily an evil. i have not come to found a h

w2 of seven colours: our father fitted himself as an arrow to the string (and the string was waxed well, dipped in a leaden pot wherein boiled amber and wine) and shot through stormy heavens. and they that saw him saw a woman wondrous fair3 robed in flames of hair, moon-sandalled, sun-belted, with torch and vase of fire and water. and he trailed comet-clouds of glory upward. thus came our father (blessed be his name) to death,4 who stood, scythe in hand, opposed. and ever and anon he swept round, and men fell before him. look, said death, my sickle hath a cross-handle. see how they grow like flowers! give me salt! quoth our father. and with sulphur (that the goat had given him) and with salt did he bestrew the ground. i see we shall have ado together, says death. aye! and with that he lops

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eset with dangers and difficulties; hath it not ever been so with the sages and hierophants of the past? they have been persecuted and reviled, they have been tormented of men; yet through this also has their glory increased. 4. rejoice therefore, o initiate, for the greater thy trial 17 the greater thy triumph. when men shall revile thee, and speak against thee falsely, hath not the master said "blessed art thou? 5. yet, oh aspirant, let thy victories bring thee not vanity, for with increase of knowledge should come increase of wisdom. he who knoweth little, thinketh he knoweth much; but he who knoweth much hath learned his own ignorance. seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool, than of him. 6. be not hasty to condemn others; how knowest thou that in their p

er-snake. she hath naked breasts of amber jetting wine in her bed-chanber, whereof whoso stoops and drinks rees the riddle of the sphinx. she hath naked limbs of amber whereupon her children clamber. she hath five navels rosy-red from the five wounds of god that bled; each wound that mothered her still bleeding, and on that blood her babes are feeding. oh! like a rose-winged pelican she hath bred blessed babes to pan! oh! like a lion-hued nightingale she hath torn her breast on thorns to avail the barren rose-tree to renew her life with that disastrous dew, building the rose o' the world alight with music out of the pale moonlight! o she is like the river of blood that broke from the lips of the bastard god, when he saw the sacred mother smile on the ibis that flew up the foam of nile bear

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hout kumbhakham, and meditating on harpocrates, the silent and virginal god. 11. then at last, being well-fitted in body and mind, fixed in peace, beneath a favourable heaven of stars, at night, in calm and warm weather, mayst thou quicken the movement of the light until it be taken up by the brain and the spine, independently of thy will. 12. if in this hour thou shouldst die, is it not written "blessed are the dead that die in the lord? yea, blessed are the dead that die in the lord! 14 the blind prophet a ballet by aleister crowley the blind prophet a ballet "the scene is an ancient egyptian temple, supported by two mighty pillars. two "rows of marble seats form a semi-circle, cut by a gap covered by a veil "in the east. on the upper seats are the musicians, flutes and violins "on the l

ter p.'s accomplishments in the ancient sciences of the east, swiftly and securely as he had passed in a bare year the arduous road which so many fail to traverse in a lifetime, satisfied as himself was_ in a sense_ with his own progress, it was yet not by these paths that he was destined to reach the sublime threshold of the mystic temple. for thought it is written "to the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift" yet, were it otherwise, no mortal however persevering could attain the immortal shore. as it is written in the fifteenth chapter of st luke's gospel "and when he was yet afar off, his father saw him and ran" had it not been so, the weary prodigal, exhausted by his early debauches (astral visions and magic) and his later mental toil (yoga) would never have had the stren

read it daleth the door, o matter, th darkness, by various columns of 777 (to choose the column is a matter of spiritual intuition. solvitur ambulando. but here i am only dealing with the "trying of the spirits, to know whether they be of god" suppose now that a vision purporting to proceed from god is granted to me. the angel declares his name. i add it up. it comes to 65. an excellent number! a blessed angel! not necessarily. suppose he is of a mercurial appearance? 65 is a number of mars. then i conclude that, however beautiful and eloquent he may be, he is a false spirit. the devil does not understand the qabalah well enough to clothe his symbols in harmony. but suppose an angel, even lowly in aspect, not only knows the qabalah- your own researches in the qabalah- as well as you do, bu

lso 418= ath iav, the essence of iao, q.v. this short analysis might be indefinitely expanded; but always the symbol will remain the expression of the goal and the exposition of the path. 419. teth, the number of the "laughing lion" on whom babalon rideth. see liber 418. note 419+ 156= 23 x 25, occultly signifying 24, which again signifies to them that understand the interplay of the 8 and the 3. blessed be his holy name, the interpreter of his own mystery! 434. daleth, the holy letter of the mother, in glory as queen. she saves the 4 by the 7 (d= 4= venus= 7, thus connects with 28. mystic number of netzach (venus, victory. note the 3 sundering the two fours. this is the feminine victory; she is in one sense the delilah to the divine samson. hence we adore her from full hearts. it ought to

(though the arcana of nibbana ignore the very name of cana. he could not pass a heard of swine without a hint; in fact, in fine, he took his silence as a sign: this is an enemy of mine "konx om pax" 1907 "fifth house, and mostly dream at that (the fifth house is that of geburah, the house of magical power. ib "but after all these wonders "then subtly, easily, imperceptibly rank after rank of the blessed gliding, i passed away into nothing. angels, after all visions of the and i was wrapped in the black great white throne, it is as if a brilliance of my lord, that quiet centre opened unawares and interpenetrated me in every part, through an immeasurable silence fusing its light with my darkness, and drew down the soul- from one leaving there no darkness, but pure many splendours into the o

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empt the lord thy god" i see above the book a multitude of white-robed ones from whom droppeth a great rain of blood; but above them is a golden sun, having an eye, whence a great light. i turned me to the south: and read therein: seal up the book! speak not that which thou seest and 4 reveal it unto none: for the ear is not framed that shall hear it: nor the tongue that can speak it! o lord god, blessed, blessed, blessed be thou for ever! thy shadow is as great light. thy name is as the breath of love across all worlds. illustration on page 5 approximated (a vast svastika is shewn unto me behind the angel with the book) rend your garments, o ye clouds! uncover yourselves! for the love of my son! who are they that trouble thee? who are they that slew thee? o light! come thou, who art joine

, that once again i touch him whom i slew, that in my death i feel the radiance and the heat of the moving of thy robes! let us alone! what have we to do with thee, thou jesus of nazareth? go! go! if i keep silence- or if i speak each word is anguish without hope. and i heard the aethyr cry aloud "return! return! return! for the work is ended; and the book is shut; and let the glory be to god the blessed for ever in the aeons, amen" thus far is the voice of tex and no more. the cry of the twenty and ninth aire or aethyr, which is called rii the sky appears covered with stars of gold; the background is of green. but the impression is also of darkness. 6 an immense eagle-angel is before me. his wings seem to hide all the heaven. he cried aloud saying: the voice of the lord upon the waters: t

rade to another. i am being slowly pushed backwards down the avenue, out into the wind. and this time i am caught up by the wind and whirled away down it like a dead leaf. and a great angel sweeps through the wind, and catches hold of me, and bears me up against it; and he sets me down on the hither side of the wind, and he whispers in my ear: go thou forth into the world, o thrice and four times blessed who hast gazed upon the horror of the loneliness of the first. no man shall look upon his face and live. and thou hast seen his eyes, and understood his heart, for the voice of the ape is the pulse of his heart and the labouring of his breast. go, therefore, and rejoice, for thou art the prophet of the aeon arising, wherein he is not. give thou praise unto thy lady nuit, and unto her lord

cometh forth the angel of the aethyr, who is like the angel of the fourteenth key of rota, with beautiful blue wings, blue robes, the sun in her girdle like a brooch, and the two crescents of the moon shapen into sandals for her feet. her hair is of flowing gold, each sparkle as a star. in her hands are the torch of penelope and the cup of circe. 48 she comes and kisses me on the mouth, and says: blessed art thou who hast beheld sebek my lord in his glory. many are the champions of life, but all are unhorsed by the lance of death. many are the children of the light, but their eyes shall all be put out by the mother darkness. many are the servants of love, but love (that is not quenched by aught but love) shall be put out, as the child taketh the wick of a taper between his thumb and finger

woe unto me that am cast down from my place by the might of the new aeon. for the ten palaces are broken, and the ten kings are carried away into bondage, and they are set to fight as the gladiators in the circus of him that hath laid his hand upon eleven. for the ancient tower is shattered by the lord of the flame and the lightning. and they that walk upon their hands shall build the holy place. blessed are they who have turned the eye of hoor unto the zenith, for they shall be filled with the vigour of the goat. all that was ordered and stable is shaken. the aeon of 61 wonders is come. like locusts shall they gather themselves together, the servants of the star and of the snake, and they shall eat up everything that is upon the earth. for why? because the lord of righteousness delighteth

all my armies and my navies encompass it, and i will encamp round about it, and besiege it, and by the flame thereof shall i be utterly devoured. many lying spirits have i sent into the world that my aeon might be established, and they shall be all overthrown. great is the beast that cometh forth like a lion, the servant of the star and of the snake. he is the eternal one; he is the almighty one. blessed are they upon whom he shall look with favour, for nothing shall stand before his face. accursed are they upon whom he shall look with derision, for nothing shall stand before his face. and every mystery that hath not been revealed from the 62 foundation of the world he shall reveal unto his chosen. and they shall have power over every spirit of the ether; and of the earth and under the ear

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essed robed attended to toilet cut cross of blood once more to affirm mastery of body sat down at 11.49 and ended the day with 10 pranayamas, which caused me to perspire freely, but were not altogether easy or satisfactory. 16 "the second day" the stroke of twelve found me duly in my asana, practising pranayama. let me continue this work; for it is written that unto the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift what they should happen to a persevering immortal like myself? 12.7. trying meditation and mantra. 12.18. i find thoughts impossible to concentrate; and my asana, despite various cowardly attempts to "fudge" it, is frightfully painful. 12.20. in the hanged man posture, meditating and willing the presence of adonai by the ritual "thee i invoke, the bornless one" and men

oss flashing with lustre ineffable. and more, much more which ten scribes could hardly catalogue in a century. 109 the vision of the holy guardian angel itself; yet was he seen as from afar, not intimately. therefore is o. m. not content with all this wonder; but will now orderly close the temple, that at the beginning of the tenth day and ten are the holy sephiroth, the emanations of the crown; blessed be he! he may make new considerations of this operation whereby he may discover through what error he is thus betrayed again and again into failure. failure. failure. 11.49. the temple is closed. now the, o lord adonai! let the tenth day be favourable unto o. m. for in the struggle he is as nothing worth. nor valiant, nor fortunate, nor skilful except thou fight by his side, cover his bre

estify to his opinion that the excellence of miss nichols' work effected a saving on press corrections almost or quite equal to the cost of her work."the photographs in this number of""the equinox" are by the" dover street studios 38 dover street, mayfair. amphora "blue cloth, gold design, 80 pp. price "2s. 6d. published by burns oates, 28 orchard st. w. this wonderful collection of hymns to the blessed virgin mary is the work (so it is said) of a leading london actress. father kent writes in "the tablet""among the many books which benevolent publishers are preparing as appropriate christmas presents we notice many new editions of favourite poetic classics. but few, we fancy, can be more appropriate for the purpose than a little volume of original verses, entitled 'amphora, which messrs

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3= 8, he was sufficiently prepared for the further advancement to the grade of 4= 7. ritual of the 4= 7 grade of philosophus "the first part" this ritual is particularly attributed to the element of fire, and refers to the planet venus, and the twenty-ninth, twenty-eighth, and twenty-seventy paths of qoph, tzaddi and p. the adoration commences by the "hierophant" saying "tetragrammaton tzebaoth! blessed be thou! the lord of the armies is thy name" to this all answer "amen" the hierophant then orders all present to adore their creator in the name of elohim, mighty and ruling, in the name of tetragrammaton tzebaoth, and in the name of the spirits of fire. then in the name of tetragrammaton tzebaoth he declares the temple open. after the adoration has taken place, the advancement ritual of t

acing, to a place where angels greeted us. here we were told to go between the pillars into the temple; which we did, and saw in front of us an immense kneeling figure of some oriental deity. 315 "before us glared a human face above a human body with arms and feet; but behind it, it was as the body of a lion "sappho then gave me the 0= 0 sign, which i returned, whereupon the great figure rose and blessed us, and we embraced. then i knelt before sappho and said"'you have given me of your strength and brought me into this place of blessing; i will now give you of mine "for answer she held my hands in hers, and wonderful tinglings of glory and passion flowed into me like live fire. i raised my head to her bosom, and kissed her passionately, and then i notice that i too was a woman "an angel a

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the reader will be glad to mark the following part of the letter "i beg of you, sir" concludes the man-cover "not to send me any proofs before publication. it would be but an unnecessary trouble to you; to me such a mark of regard from an unknown benefactor would prove a burden and give occasion to my enemies for recrudescence of persecution. my mail is sure to be ransacked, if indeed i am to be blessed with any communication from the living. but when all the instalments are published and my name is flying from lip to lip, then, and then only, you, whoever your are, noble champion of the men-covers, please send me thirty-one copies to be given away "i claim no royalty- no money- no consideration! the creature who accumulates the most extremely interesting and highly noble characteristics

estify to his opinion that the excellence of miss nichols' work effected a saving on press corrections almost or quite equal to the cost of her work "the photographs in this number of "the equinox" are by the" dover street studios 38 dover street, mayfair. amphora "blue cloth, gold design, 80 pp. price "2s. 6d" published by burns& oates, 28 orchard st, w. this wonderful collection of hymns to the blessed virgin mary is the work (so it is said) of a leading london actress. father kent writes in "the tablet "among the many books which benevolent publishers are preparing as appropriate christmas presents we notice many new editions of favourite poetic classics. but few, we fancy, can be more appropriate for the purpose than a little volume of original verses, entitled 'amphora' which messrs

platitude, but these the sincerity of the writer and a certain mastery over poetic expression have enabled him- or her- to avoid. the writer of such verse as the following may be complimented on a very high standard of poetic expression "the shadows fall about the way; strange faces glimmer in the gloom; the soul clings feebly to the clay, for that, the void; for this, the tomb "but mary sheds a blessed light; her perfect face dispels the fears. she charms her melancholy knight up to the glad and gracious spheres "o mary, like a pure perfume do thou receive this failing breath, and with thy starry lamp illume the darkling corridors of death" the "catholic times" says "the 'amphora' is a collection of poems in honour of our blessed lady. they are arranged in four books, each of which conta

intense pre-raphaelite atmosphere, the same aesthetic revelling in catholic mysticism, the same rich imagery and gorgeous word- colouring that prevade the poetic works of that nineteenth-century artist. a valuable addition to the poetic literature on the mother of our lord" the "guardian" says "the devotional fervour of 'amphora' will make them acceptable to those who address their worship to the blessed mother of the christ. the meaning of the title of the book is not very obvious. it cannot surely have anything to do with the lines in horace 'amphora coepit &c "to be obtained of the" walter scott publishing co. ltd. paternoster row, e.c "and through all booksellers "crown 8vo, scarlet buckram, pp. 64" this edition strictly limited to 500 copies. price 10s a. a. publication in class b- bo

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taw= the first and last- alpha and omega- aleph and tau<<2 "i.e" the white skull "vide" idra zutra qadisha, cap. ii. distinguish from the skull of microprosophus> contained therein also are the divine, magical, and terrestrial formulae of the passage of the incomprehensible nothingness of the ain soph to the perfection of creation 167 expressed by the ten voices or emanations of god the vast one- blessed be he- even the holy sephiroth. and the method whereby i shall work shall be the one absolute and inerratic science: the science of number: which is that single mystery of the intellect of man whereby he becometh exalted unto the throne of inflexible and unerring godhead. as it is written "oh, how the world hath inflexible intellectual rulers (zoroaster. but before i may proceed unto the q

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mercury, taphthartharath, come thou forth quickly, i advise and command thee. come thou forth from thy abodes and retreats. come thou forth unto us, and appear before us in this magical triangle without this circle of art: in fair and human form, courteously answering in an audible voice all of our demands. as is written "kiss the son lest he be angry! if his anger be kindled, yea, but a little_ blessed are they that put their trust in him [the mighty magus of art lifts up the sigil towards heaven, tears off from it the black veil, and cries] creature of kokab, long hast thou dwelt in darkness! quit the night and seek the day [sigil is replaced to west of the triangle; magus holds the sword erect (point upwards) over its centre, and lays her left hand upon it, saying] 184 by all the names

orch-bearer saying] arise! shine! for thy light is come! 201 [pass round the temple to the south, face west and halt: formulate the ideal20 of divine mercy: and then that of divine justice: aspiring with all thy heart unto each, and say] come unto me! o lord of love and pity, come unto me, and let me live in thy love! let me be merciful even as my father in heaven is merciful, for thou hast said: blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. grant unto me that i may attain unto thy peace, wherein is life for evermore. come unto me, o lord of perfect justice! mighty is thine arm, strong is thy hand: justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne! strengthen thou, o lord of strength, my will and heart, that i may be able, with thine aid, to cast out and destroy the evil power

as it is written: the lightning lighteneth in the east and flameth even unto the west: even so shall be the coming of the son of man! 203 [and now shalt thou see a light slow formulating into the shape of a mighty angel, and thou shalt withdraw thyself from this sight and again say] i saw water coming from the left side of the temple: and all unto whom that water came were made whole, and cried: blessed is he that cometh in the name of the lord, allelulia! o lamb of god: who takest away the sins of the world! grant us thy peace! i am come forth from the gates of darkness: i have passed by the gate of amennti: and the gate of the taot! behold! i am come to the gate of the shining ones in heaven. i stand between the mighty pillars of that gate: at my right hand the pillar of fire, and at my

l: and to make eternal war against the forces of evil: until even they be redeemed unto the light (6) to harmonize my own spirit that so equilibrium may lead me to the east and that my human consciousness shall allow no usurpation of its rule by the automatic (7) to conquer the temptations (8) to banish the illusions (9) to put my whole trust in the only and omnipotent lord god: as it is written "blessed are they that put their trust in him (10) to uplift the cross of sacrifice and suffering: and to cause my light to shine before men that they may glorify my father which is in heaven.45 furthermore: i most solemnly promise and swear: to acquire this holy science in the manner prescribed in the book of abramelin, without omitting the least imaginable thing of their contents: not to gloss or

ng the accursed dyad, thereby enabling the abramelin demons to assume material form: one in his own shape, another in that of i.a. now, the demon that looked like i.a. had a revolver, and threatened to shoot him (d.d.c.f, while the demon that resembled himself was equally anxious to shoot i.a. fortunately, before the demons could fire, v.n.r. came into the room, thus formulating the symbol of the blessed trinity, of which her great purity of character would naturally fit her to be a prominent member. now, the only probability about this story, which d.d.c.f. related on his magical honour as a 7= 4, was that d.d.c.f. saw double. frater p, however, was not going to judge any isolated story by the general laws of probability, so, bowing gracefully, he rose and set out 267 to find frater i.a

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ing that the others existed. but "pocos palabras "sehr geehrter herr" nine times out of ten an innocent man does not know the strength of his own case, and he may, real "schafskopf" by mere asinism allow suspicious circumstances to pass unexplained which he could explain perfectly 292 well. how much more so, then, when the innocent is no more among the living_ or when, being alive, he stands in a blessed ignorance of the suspicions to which some unexplained circumstances have given birth "to the point, sir! one lives again in order to complete, or improve, an action which in a previous life has been left incomplete or inferior; and also to make a fresh attempt at mastering, in very similar circumstances, some powerful original tendency. it's fierce, but it's true. had you previously been a

n short, we all lie all the time; we are compelled to it by the nature of things themselves_ paradoxical as that seems_ and the buddha knew it! the fifth precept. at last we arrive at the end of our weary journey_ surely in this weather we may have a drink! east of suez,7 trombone-macaulay (as i may surely say, when browning writes banjo-byron8) tells us, a man may raise a thirst. no, shrieks the blessed one, the perfected one, the enlightened one, do not drink! it is like the streets of paris when they were placarded with rival posters: 308 ne buvez pas de l'alcool! l'alcool est un poison! and buvez de l'alcool! l'alcool est un aliment! we know now that alcohol is a food up to a certain amount; the precept, good enough for a rough rule as it stands, will not bear close inspection. what bu

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the treatise of bonus concerning the treasure of the philosopher's stone. translated from the latin. edited by a. e. waite. crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. net. one of the classics of alchemy, with a very curious account, accompanied by emblematical figures showing the generation and birth of metals, the death of those that are base and their resurrection in the prefect forms of gold and silver. a golden and blessed casket of nature's marvels. by benedictus figulus. with a life of the author. edited by a. e. waite. crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. net. a collection of short treatises by various authors belonging to the school of paracelsus, dealing with the mystery of the philosopher's stone, the revelation of hermes, the great work of the tincture, the glorious antidote of potable gold. benedictus figulus connects

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ink of us, monsieur delhomme. 224 delhomme. of you- of thee. how difficult is the english language to express subtle differences! you must have seen, miss ossory- euphemia["dully. i have seen nothing. delhomme. may i speak? euphemia. what is this? oh! delhomme. i need not tell you, i see. my unspoken sympathy and devotion- euphemia. spare me, i pray you. delhomme. i must speak. mademoiselle, i am blessed in loving you. i offer you the sympathy and devotion of a lifetime. euphemia. i beg you to spare me. it is impossible. delhomme. it is the truth- it is necessary- i should kill myself if you refused. euphemia. my father- delhomme. your respected father is my warmest advocate. euphemia. you distress me, sir. it is impossible. delhomme. ah, fairest of maidens, well i know your english coynes

. besides himself, there were three people in the room, two men and 284 a woman, and as i entered one of the men, an american, was saying "o mahatma! i haven't the faith, i can't get it" to which his holiness roared out "you sheep are. i no want sheep. tigers i make. tigers tear up sheep, go away. no good, get intellect. get english. no more" the three then departed, and i was left alone with the blessed one. neither of us spoke for about ten minutes, then at length, after a go or two at his snuff-box, he gave a loud grunt, to which i replied in a solemn voice "o mahatma, what is truth "no truth! all illusion" he answered "i am that master, you become my disciple; i show you all things; i lead you to the ultimate reality. the supreme stage of the highest. the infinite ultimatum. the unlimi

e let her eye fall upon him and wondered. presently he had done digging and set to cut her some flowers, looking at her all the while, already feeling strange and new sensations, sweating in an uncontrolled sukshma-pranayama. alack-a-day, fellows! that was a fine lady for a poor ignorant moujick to behold. she stood, to the end of his days, for a divine apparition. had he know of our lady hecate (blessed be he who murmurs her name with awe! may she gleefully look upon us) he would have considered his vision to be a visit of the great goddess (her name be rapidly uttered in the vault of our beloved brethren the ka d sh knights of water p.a..p.p. water. to cut our tale short, for the time is approaching for our libations, the peasant heard the voice of the lady. she thanked him, him, a poor

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doctrine, hotototon spells the holy word otototon" the poor sir palamedes quells his rising spleen; he doubts his ears "how may i catch the beast" he yells. the smiling sage rebukes his fears"'tis easier than all, sir knight! by simple faith the beast appears. 46 by simple faith, not heathen might, catch him, and thus achieve the quest" then quoth that melancholy wight "i will believe" the hermit blessed his convert: on the horizon appears the beast "to thee the rest" he cries, to urge the good knight on. but no! sir palamedes grips the hermit by the woebegone bear of him; then away he rips, wood as a maniac, to the west, where down the sun in splendour slips, and where the quarry of the quest canters. they run like hippogriffs! like men pursued, or swine possessed, over the dizzy cretan c

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e have seen he could not prop up a fictitious beginning by the supposition of the former, and he dared not use nibb na as such, though in truth the beginning is just as incomprehensible with out without an atman. but, in spite of his having denied the latter, he had to account for causality and the transmission of his good and evil (karma) by some means or another. now, according to n gasena, the blessed one refused to answer any such questions as "is the universe everlasting "is it not everlasting "has it an end "has it not an end "is it both ending and unending "is it neither the one nor the other" and further all such questions as "are the soul and the body the same thing "is the soul distinct from the body "does a tath gata exist after death "does he not exist after death "does 132 he

ing "has it an end "has it not an end "is it both ending and unending "is it neither the one nor the other" and further all such questions as "are the soul and the body the same thing "is the soul distinct from the body "does a tath gata exist after death "does he not exist after death "does 132 he both exist and not exist after death "does he neither exist nor not exist after death. because "the blessed buddhas lift not up their voice without a reason and without an object."212 but in spite of their being 210 twenty-three centuries later kant falling over this crux postulated his "twelve categories" or shall we say "emanations" and thereby started revolving once again the sephirothic wheel of fortune. 211 in spite of the fact that buddhism urges that "the whole world is under the law of c

"right meditation, or the right state of a peaceful mind" the glass vanishes and with it the reflection, the illusion of mara or of m y. he is reality! he is truth! he is atman! he is god. then reality vanishes. truth vanishes. atman vanishes. god vanishes. he himself vanishes. he is past; he is present; he is future. he is here, he is there. he is everything. he is nowhere. he is nothing. he is blessed, he has attained to the great deliverance. he is; he is not. he is one with nibb na.233 148-149 232 "ibid, p. 216. 233 another and perhaps a more comprehensive way of attributing the noble eightfold path to the tree of life is as follows: the first and second steps- right comprehension and right resolution, may from their purging nature fitly be compared to yama and niyama and also to the

. six minutes. 263 when gods are near, or kundalini arises thither, the petals bend down and out: thus is the winged-globe of egypt formed. these petals are the same as the horn of pan which open out as the god descends (p. was called away for a few days on business (or in disgust) to colombo) on the 20th of september p. returned from colombo and then he made the following entry in his diary "the blessed abhav nanda said 'thus have i heard. one day in thy courts is better than a thousand; let me recommence pr n y ma" thus he thought, and said. further he said "let me abandon these follies of poesy and vamacharya("debauchery "i.e" normal life) and health and vain things and let me put in some work" 22nd. began suddhi and "namo shivaya namaha aum" 10.15-11.15 a'sana. pr n y ma. nine minutes

nda's guidance (absolutely no mental result, and hardly any physical result. i must be most resistant to this drug, which i had never previously taken. 30th recovering from the laudanum. 10.5 a.m. pr n y ma and dh ran hopeless.265 october. another month of this great work commences, and though the toil has not been wasted the reward indeed seems still far off. on the first of the month p. writes "blessed be thou, o bh n ni, o isis my sister, my bride, my mother! blessed be thou, o shiva, o amoun, concealed of the concealed. by thy most secret and holy name of apophis be thou blessed, lucifer, star of the dawn, satan- jeheshua, light of the world! blessed by thou, buddha, osiris, by whatever name i call thee thou art nameless to eternity. blessed be thou, o day, that thou hast risen in the

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capricornus. mother of heaven, we beseech thee to awaken the master. mater coeli. what is the hour? capricornus. mother of heaven, it lacks a quarter of midnight. mater coeli. be it unto your desire["she plays< as she ends she kneels: the veil slowly parts, and" magister templi "is seen standing in shrine. he slowly enters temple" mater coeli "returns to throne, having been blessed and raised by him] magister templi. mother of heaven, beloved of the stars, wherefore hast thou awakened the poison of eld, the dweller in eternity? mater coeli. shabbathai [magister templi "comes down to hell-broth and recites "the eyes of pharaoh] dead pharaoh's eyes from out the tomb burned like twin planets ruby-red. enswathed, enthroned, the halls of gloom echo the agony of the dead

pirit's shadow-veil, till the knowledge-lotus flowering hides the world beneath its stem; neither i, nor god life-showering, find a counterpart in them as a spirit in a vision shows a countenance of fear, laughs the looker to derision, only comes to disappear, gods and mortals, mind and matter, in the glowing bud dissever: vein from vein they rend and shatter, and are nothingness for ever. in the blessed, the enlightened, perfect eyes these visions pass, pass and cease, poor shadows frightened, leave no stain upon the glass. one last stroke, o heart-free master, one last certain calm of will, and the maker of disaster shall be stricken and grow still. burn thou to the core of matter, to the spirit's utmost flame, consciousness and sense to shatter, ruin sight and form and name! shatter, la

rocul este viri["all male probationers retire to back of stage" typhon. sisters, let us invoke the father to manifest in the son. sphinx. per spiritum sanctum, amen["she also retires to her place on wheel" maenads. evoe! evoe ho! iacche! iacche! typhon. hail, o dionysus! hail! winged son of semele! hail, o hail! the stars are pale; hidden the moonlight in the vale; hidden the sunlight in the sea. blessed is her happy lot who beholdeth god; who moves mighty-souled without a spot, mingling in the godly rout of the many mystic loves. holy maidens, duly weave dances for the mighty mother bacchanal to bacchus cleave! wave his narthex wand, and leave earthly joys to earth to smother! io! evoe! sisters, mingle in the choir, the dance, the revel! he divine, the spirit single, he in every vein shal

hover above us, within us! daintily shod, daintily robed, his witcheries spin us a web of desire. subtle as fire he cometh among us. the whole sky globed is on fire with delight, delight that hath stung us, the passion of night. night be our mistress! that tress and this tress 40 weave with thy wind into curls deep-vined! passionate bliss! rapture on rapture! our hymns recapture the bromian kiss. blessed our souls! blessed this even! we reach to the goals of the starriest heaven. daphnis, and atthis, and chrysis, and chloe, mingle, o maidens! evoe! evoe [c.i.c.t "rises upon the altar; he wears a white and gold robe and the panther skin, and a white and gold nemmes. throwing off his veil and raising his hands in blessing, he recites] c.i.c.t. i bring ye wine from above, from the vats of the

peace, salutation. 86 a devouring fire is thy soul, and the corpses of the dead are enkindled at thy breath. salutation to hathor, the child of isis and of nephthys! salutation to hathor, the bride of apis, of apis that hath the beetle upon his tongue! a devouring fire is thy soul, and the corpses of the dead are enkindled at thy breath. salutation to hathor, whose necklace is of the souls of the blessed ones of amennti. salutation to hathor, whose girdle is of the souls of the blessed ones of seb! salutation to hathor, whose sandals are of the souls of the blessed ones of nu! a devouring fire is thy soul, and the corpses of the dead are enkindled at thy breath["returns to his throne" venus. brother libra, art thou silent["a pause" brother libra, where art thou? libra "still hidden, recite

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ground is uneven. in the background other palms, among which are several military charges, held by esquires. around the well are knights templars, armed, reposing. also" jocelyn "a troubadour" jocelyn["sings to his harp: noon slumbers softly in the palms; the desert breezes whisper psalms; and we who rest must rise and ride beneath the banner cruciform that braves the saracen and the storm, this blessed christmastide. for we are hardy, and worn with blows and battles, and languish for our mother snows. what is the gladness of the well to us who pine for citadel, and joyous burg, and christian feast? but we are vowed to christ to fight for god, our honour, and our right against the recreant east. 70 we have left our ladies, you and i, my brothers! to keep our castles, and to sigh! oh! coul

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ls by heart. alex had no hesitation in putting him through the first grade. also in the coven was victoria, a quiet girl of nineteen. she was engaged to a man in edinburgh who was. unaware of her religion. she asked alex if he would consecrate her engagement ring to ensure that she would have a happy marriage, and he had obliged. while the coven prayed, he had held the ring over the altar and had blessed it witch-wise. in between the regular weekly esbats, the witches were encouraged to hold their own informal meetings to discuss witchcraft and ways of working it. alex. knew that ben, who had come to live in the house in clanricarde gardens, was holding meetings almost every night in his room, and. he was pleased at such diligence and enthusiasm. he began to have second thoughts, however

thes on. remember, too, that we work hard in the circ1eand after three or four hours we are often extremely tired. q: how many requests for help are dealt with .at each coven meeting? a: anything up to twenty. q: is there any way that non-witches can identify witches? a: witches often wear large silver rings engraved with mystic symbols, and they always take leave of other witches with the words 'blessed be. q: is a witch precluded from joining other societies? a: certainly not. i am a grand prior of the order of the romaic crescent, a chevalier ofthe military order ofthe knights of the temple ofjerusalem and a knight of the. imperial constantinian order of stgeorge, all .of which are christian orders. q: to whom can would-be witches apply for membership? a: to the witch centre when it is

hirl round chanting 'bko, eko azarak' to raise the cone of power. when. the others sit down, the initiate, still blindfolded, is led to stand with his back to the altar while the high priestess says 'in other religions, the postulate kneels while the priest towers above him, but in the magical art we are taught to be humble and so we kneel to welcome. them' kneeling, she kisses his feet and says 'blessed be thy feet that have brought thee in these ways' she then kisses him just above his knees and says 'blessed be thy knees that shall kneel at the sacred altar' she kisses himjust above his pubic hair and says 'blessed be thy phallus without which we would not be: while she kisses his breast she says,'blessedbethybreast formedin>bea,uty and in strength' she then presses the full length of h

she then kisses him just above his knees and says 'blessed be thy knees that shall kneel at the sacred altar' she kisses himjust above his pubic hair and says 'blessed be thy phallus without which we would not be: while she kisses his breast she says,'blessedbethybreast formedin>bea,uty and in strength' she then presses the full length of her body against him'and kisses him on.the lhouth, saying 'blessed be thy lips that shall utter the sacred names: standing hack a pace,.she asks.him 'before thouart .sworn, art thou willing to pass the ordeal andbepurilled' when he affirms that he is, she takes the cord which is tied to. his left ankle and uses it to bind both his feet together loosely, signi. fying the freedom of a recruit to leave and shake offhis bonds if he wishes to. when he keeps st

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west, departed souls have no rest; when the wind blows from the east, expect the new and set the feast. nine woods in the cauldron go, burn them quick, burn them slow; elder be the lady's tree, burn it not or curs'd ye'll be; when the wind begins to turn, soon beltane fires will burn; when the wheel has turned to yule, light the log, the horned one rules. heed the flower, bush or tree by the lady blessed be' when the rippling waters flow cast a stone- the truth you'll know; when ye have& hold a need, hearken not to others' greed; with a fool no seasons spend, or be counted as his friend. merry meet and merry part bright the cheeks, warm the heart; mind the threefold law ye should, three times bad and three times good; whene'er misfortune is enow, wear the star upon your brow; true in troth

h calls a halt. partner then rings bell three times as h turns c to stand before the altar, with c's back to the altar (i.e. facing south if altar is in north. h stands in centre of circle, facing c (and altar. h says: h: in other religions, the postulant kneels, while the priest towers above. but in the art magical we are taught to be humble, and we kneel to welcome her[/him] and we say [kneels] blessed be thy feet, which have brought thee in these ways;[kiss r. foot, then l. foot] blessed be thy knees, that shall kneel at the sacred altar;[kiss r. knee, then l. knee] blessed be thy womb[/phallus, without which we would not be;[kiss above pubes] blessed be thy breasts[/breast, erected in beauty[/formed in strength;[kiss r. breast, then l. breast] blessed be thy lips, that shall utter the

ystery of death; and so she journeyed to the underworld. the guardians of the portal challenged her: strip off thy garments, lay aside thy jewels; for naught mayest thou bring with thee into this our land. so she laid down her garments and her jewels, and was bound, as are all who enter the realms of death, the mighty one. such was her beauty, that death himself knelt and kissed her feet, saying: blessed be thy feet, that have brought thee in these ways. abide with me; but let me place my cold hand on thy heart. she replied: i love thee not. why dost thou cause all things that i love and take delight in to fade and die? death replied 'lady 'tis age and fate, against which i am helpless. age causes all things to wither; but when men die at the end of time, i give them rest and peace, and st

hem rest and peace, and strength so that they may return. but thou! thou art lovely. return not; abide with me! but she answered: i love thee not! then said death: an thou receivest not my hand upon thy heart, thou must kneel to death's scourge. it is fate- better so, she said. and she knelt, and death scourged her tenderly. and she cried: i feel the pangs of love. and death raised her, and said: blessed be! and he gave her the fivefold kiss, saying: thus only mayest thou attain to joy and knowledge. and he taught her all his mysteries, and they loved and were one. and she taught him her mystery of the sacred cup which is the cauldron of rebirth. and he gave her the necklace which is the circle of rebirth, and taught her all the magics. for there are three great events in the life of man:

, queen of the stars, queen of the waters, queen of the earth, bring to us the child of promise! it is the great mother who gives birth to him; it is the lord of life who is born again. darkness and tears are set aside when the sun shall come up early. golden sun of hill and mountain, illumine the land, illumine the world, illumine the seas, illumine the rivers, sorrows be laid, joy to the world! blessed be the great goddess, without beginning, without ending, everlasting to eternity. io evoe! heh! blessed be! all raise their tapers high and repeat twice the last line. hps joins the dance, leading it with a quieter rhythm. the burning cauldron is pushed into the centre and the dancers jump over it in man and woman couples. the last couple over the fire should be well purified, three times

ng north american garneroids. l candlemas the hps, carrying the wand, leads the coveners with a dance step to the chosen site. the volta dance follows: in other words, lively dancing in couples. hps casts the circle in the usual way. hp then enters the circle, with a sword in his right hand and a wand in his left. he lays these on the altar. hp now salutes the hps with the fivefold kiss. she says blessed be and gives him the fivefold kiss in return. hp assumes the god position before the altar as the hps invokes: hps: dread lord of death and resurrection, of life, and the giver of life; lord within ourselves, whose name is mystery of mysteries; encourage our hearts, let the light crystallize itself in our blood, fulfilling us of resurrection; for there is no part of us that is not of the g

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itude. the whole is one, yet on the lower spheres only the forms appear. they seem in their divisions more than can be grasped or met. the many circulate. the forms are built, become too firm, are broken by the life, and circulate again. the few revolve, holding the many in the heat of motion. the one embraces all, and carries all from great activity into the heart of cosmic peace. stanza xii the blessed ones hide their threefold nature but reveal their triple essence by means of the three great groups of atoms. three are the atoms and threefold the radiation. the inner core of fire hides itself and is known only through radiation and that which radiates. only after the blaze dies out and the heat is no longer felt can the fire be known- 22- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis t

of the three aspects of spirit is only becoming apparent to the initiate of high degree, and cannot be expressed in words, nor comprehended by man before he has passed out of the human kingdom into the spiritual. therefore, it is needless for us to pause here to consider it at greater length. we might sum up the matter in terms of the old commentary from which source h. p. b. quoted so often "the blessed ones hide their threefold nature, but reveal their triple essence by means of the three great groups of atoms. three are the atoms, and threefold the radiation. the inner core of- 311- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust fire hides itself and is known only through radiation and that which radiates. only after the blaze dies out and the heat is no longer felt can the fire b

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ex, the consideration of a brother's enterprise and a consequent jealous tendency, or upon a placid complacency which negates activity. as a general rule for the average aspirant to discipleship, it may be safely assumed that the past has seen much application of the heart way, and that in this incarnation the mental unfoldment is of prime importance. an ancient scripture says "seek not, oh twice-blessed one, to attain the spiritual essence before the mind absorbs. not thus is wisdom sought. only he who hath the mind in leash, and seeth the world as in a mirror can be safely trusted with the inner senses. only he who knoweth the five senses to be illusion, and that naught remaineth save the two ahead, can be admitted into the secret of the cruciform transposed "the path that is trodden by

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e time of the medieval mystics. it is eckhart who says `the father speaks the word into the soul, and when the son is born, every soul becomes mary'"67 we are summoned to the new birth. our personalities are now alive with potentiality. the hour is upon us- 54- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust the human soul must hear the challenge of the christ soul, and realise that "mary is blessed, not because she bore christ bodily, but because she bore him spiritually, and in this everyone can become like her (eckhart) chapter three the second initiation. the baptism in jordan key thought "it is a propitious moment to put the christian life into serious practice. at a time of catastrophe, a process of ascetic purification takes place, in the absence of which there can be no spirit

."8 in these simple words we are told the story of this initiation. the keynote is purification, and it closed a period of preparation, of quiet service and inaugurated a cycle of strenuous activity. the purification of the lower nature is a requirement which the christian church has ever emphasised as has also the hindu faith. christ held this ideal before his disciples and all men when he said "blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see god."9 in an ancient treatise upon meditation, the yoga sutras of patanjali, we find the teacher proclaiming "through purification comes also a quiet spirit. and ability to see the self."10 purification is of many kinds and degrees. there is physical purity and moral purity, and there is also that magnetic purity which makes a man a channel for spi

ecause christ entered thus into the place of outer darkness, and felt entirely deserted of all that had hitherto meant so much to him, both humanly and from the angle of divinity, he has enabled us to gauge the value of the experience, and has shown us that only through this place of outer darkness, which the mystics have justifiably called "the dark night of the soul" can we truly enter into the blessed companionship of the kingdom. many books have been written about this experience, but it is rare far rarer than the literature of the mystics would have us believe. it will become more frequent, as more and more men pass through the gates of suffering and of death into the kingdom. christ hung pendent between heaven and earth, and although he was surrounded by crowds, and although at his f

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

omplete freedom from all vibratory impressions which it is the nature of pure being (divorced from phenomenal existence) to demonstrate. but at the same time, nothing is lost of capacity, or quality or of sentient awareness. this is beautifully expressed for us in the words of the old commentary, found in the archives of the masters "the quality of life fades out. it flickers and is gone. yet the blessed ones reveal at will that quality. the colour pure remains. the nature of life in form fails to appear. it flashes forth a little while, then disappears. the blessed ones, at will, can take a form, yet are not then the form. the seven great rays sweep into manifested life. they are, and then are not. all is and all is not. but the blessed ones at any time can sweep forth into manifested lig

spirit to meet the need expressed. light holds them not; their purpose is not imprisoned; their will is not subdued. they appear and disappear at will (an expression of the truth of this can be seen demonstrating in the world each full moon of may, when the buddha flashes forth into manifestation, for the fulfillment of the plan and at the urgent behest of his own spiritual will "naught holds the blessed ones. neither the deities nor form; neither desire nor mind; nor any quality of life. pure life they are; pure being and pure will; pure love and pure intent; this is all that unenlightened man can grasp, and only that in part. the blessed ones are not, and yet they are. the blessed ones know naught, and yet know all. the blessed ones love not, yet offer love divine. the blessed ones remem

form; neither desire nor mind; nor any quality of life. pure life they are; pure being and pure will; pure love and pure intent; this is all that unenlightened man can grasp, and only that in part. the blessed ones are not, and yet they are. the blessed ones know naught, and yet know all. the blessed ones love not, yet offer love divine. the blessed ones remember not, yet all is recollection. the blessed ones remain in isolation pure; and yet at will can take a form. the blessed ones dwell ever in the high and lofty place, yet oft can walk on earth in light phenomenal. the blessed ones manifest not through form; yet are all forms and all intents" then the old commentary runs through what would constitute many pages of writing, shewing- 19- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric

will can take a form. the blessed ones dwell ever in the high and lofty place, yet oft can walk on earth in light phenomenal. the blessed ones manifest not through form; yet are all forms and all intents" then the old commentary runs through what would constitute many pages of writing, shewing- 19- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust that the blessed ones are naught and yet are all there is; that they possess nothing and yet are in themselves the expression of all reality; that they dwell nowhere and yet are found everywhere; that they have faded out and yet are shining in full radiance and can be seen. negation after negation is piled up, only promptly to be contradicted in an effort to shew how divorced from, and yet inclusive of, fo

t and yet are all there is; that they possess nothing and yet are in themselves the expression of all reality; that they dwell nowhere and yet are found everywhere; that they have faded out and yet are shining in full radiance and can be seen. negation after negation is piled up, only promptly to be contradicted in an effort to shew how divorced from, and yet inclusive of, form is the life of the blessed ones. it ends with the wonderful injunction "therefore be full of joy, o pilgrim on the way towards enlightened being, for gain and loss are one; darkness and light eternally reveal the true; love and desire eternally invoke the life. naught disappears but pain. nothing remains but bliss, the bliss of knowledge true, of contact real, of light divine, the way to god" such is the true goal

ear and we stand purified and empty. the distress of emptiness is the immediate result; it grips us and we feel that the price of holiness is too high. but, standing on the way, suddenly the whole being is flooded with light and love, and the emptiness is seen as constituting that through which light and love may flow to a needy world. the purified one can dwell then in that place where dwell the blessed lords, and from that place go forth to "illumine the world of men and of the deities. there are four ways which stretch before the disciples of the lord of the world. they must all be trodden before the inner being is released, and the liberated son of god can enter, at will, what are symbolically called "the four gates into the city of shamballa, that city of the most high god, which is e

ALICE A BAILEY18 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME III ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

e, the lord of karma, has his power lessened in this sign. it is for this reason that sepharial is incorrect when he gives saturn as the ruler of the first decanate. the three decanates are given by him as being ruled by saturn, jupiter and mars. alan leo is, however, nearer the truth when he gives us the sun, jupiter and mars. self-rule through initial conflict, carried to a successful issue and blessed by the beneficence of- 184- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust jupiter, is the true history of the advanced leo aspirant, and this thought and the objective result of this realisation is summed up for us in the two word mottoes of this sign: 1. and the word said: let other forms exist. i rule because i am. 2. i am that and that am i. i a

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

y planned intention and the organiser, with foster bailey, of an international goodwill movement (not a peace movement) which proved so successful that we had centres in nineteen countries when the war broke out in 1939. i have not, therefore, been useless where world service is concerned but i do not, and cannot, claim that my success has been due to my personal efforts alone. i have always been blessed with marvellous friends and helpers who down the years have remained my friends, no matter what i did to them. i have had many such friends and a few a very surprisingly few enemies- 4- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust these latter have done me no real harm, perhaps because i could never dislike them and could always understand why they disliked me. my husband, foste

ALICE A BAILEY20 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME IV ESOTERIC HEALING

n life, and by arriving at the stage of conscious discipleship. at that particular stage when a man is definitely linked with a master and his group, he is then, automatically and as an individual, linked with the master of all masters. he can then, via his own soul and the soul of his particular group, draw on the force of maitreya buddha. why, think you, is there no good and true picture of the blessed one, there are only a few speculations by the devotees of the early church and none by those who knew him. the reason is a definite one. there is no true image of him because it must be upon our hearts and not upon our canvases. we arrive at knowledge of him because he is ours, as we are his. do you understand that whereof i speak? he is the world healer and saviour. he works because he is

oups, and thereby greatly intensifies his efforts. he can and will work through all groups just in so far as they fit themselves for planned service, for the distribution of love, and come into conscious alignment with the greater potency of the inner groups. you will find (fairly soon perhaps) that healing groups will employ mantrams of a definite kind, and that in those mantrams the name of the blessed one will appear. but the mantram for his coming age is not yet for use. the world is not yet ready for the potency which it would release. today, is there a more potent mantram than the oft spoken word "for christ's sake and for the glory of his name? but these works must be spoken with love and will behind them or else they are but an empty symbol and a sounding cymbal. forget this not. o

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

s in the forefront of the battle have to carry on their work in the midst of chaos, turmoil, questioning, pain, and distress. they cannot, therefore, see the picture whole. a few of the more advanced who can "live on the heights and in the valley and the depths" simultaneously can see truly, but their numbers are not large, and the christ spoke a true word to his bewildered disciple when he said "blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed" the following of the meditation, adherence to the instructions given, persistence in the face of difficulty, and a staunch belief in the beauty of the human spirit, in the love of god, in the victory of the forces of light and in the approach of the coming one these are the attitudes which we, the workers on the inner side, ask of those we

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

y it be said of you that you knew the spiritual facts and were a dynamic part of these spiritual events; may it not be said of you that you knew these things and did nothing about them and failed to exert yourself. let not time slip- 497- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust by as you work. stanzas for disciples the path seek not, o twice-blessed one, to attain the spiritual essence before the mind absorbs. not thus is wisdom sought. only he who has the mind in leash, and sees the world as in a mirror can be safely trusted with the inner sense. only he who knows the five senses to be but illusion, and that naught remains save the two ahead, can be admitted into the secret of the cruciform transposed. the path that is trodden by the

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

en a treasury called gup, guph, and all the souls which were created in the beginning, and hereafter to come into this world, the holy one placed therein: out of this treasury the holy one furnishes children in the womb with souls" a further commentary in symbolic language narrates how the holy one perceiving a child's body to be in formation, sends for a suitable ego to inhabit it "the holy one, blessed be he, beckons to an angel who is set over the disembodied souls, and says to him 'bring me such a soul: and this is being always done since the world began; the soul appears before the holy one and worships in his presence, to whom the eternal one says 'betake thyself to this form' instantly the soul excuses himself, saying 'oh governor of the world, i am satisfied with the world in which

: and this is being always done since the world began; the soul appears before the holy one and worships in his presence, to whom the eternal one says 'betake thyself to this form' instantly the soul excuses himself, saying 'oh governor of the world, i am satisfied with the world in which i have been so long: if it please thee, do not force me into this foul body, for i am a spirit' the holy one, blessed be he, answers 'the world i am about to send thee into is needed for thee, it is to pass down through it that i formed thee from myself' and so the soul is forced to incarnate and sink into the world where matter will imprison him, where he must suffer, but where he may overcome and from whence he must rise again. the zohar adds the statement "and whatever the man learns and displays on ea

ence of the divine one, comes near him, with three angels, of whom the chief is dumah, the angel of silence: if the soul is condemned, dumah takes it to gai-hinnom, or hell, for a period of punishment before the next incarnation; if approved, the soul passes to an oidin or heaven. in the end of the present manifestation of the universe, all souls will have become perfected by suffering, have been blessed in paradise, and will be in reunion with the god from whom they came forth. the kabalistic theory of man's constitution, origin and destiny is very different from the modern christian view, but differs from the indian schemes more in manner of presentation than in principle, and these two may be fitly studied side by side and each will illuminate the other. there is, indeed, no sharp line

APOCALYPSE MOSES

th answereth her 'the light hath not left them, but they cannot shine before the light of the universe, the father of light; and on this account their light hath been hidden from them. chapter 37. 1 now while seth was saying this to his mother, lo, an angel blew the trumpet, and there stood up all the angels (and they were) lying on their faces, and they cried aloud in an awful voice and said: 2 'blessed (be) the glory of the lord from the works of his making, for he hath pitied adam the creature of his hands' 3 but when the angels had said these words, lo, there came one of the seraphim with six wings and snatched up adam and carried him off to the acherusian lake, and washed him thrice, in the presence of god. 4 and he stayed there three hours, lying down, and thereafter the father of al

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

e was not apportioned to him, since he does not receive anything from another, for it would be received on loan. for he who precedes someone does not lack, that he may receive from him. for rather, it is the latter that looks expectantly at him in his light "for the perfection is majestic. he is pure, immeasurable mind. he is an aeon-giving aeon. he is life-giving life. he is a blessedness-giving blessed one. he is knowledge-giving knowledge. he is goodness-giving goodness. he is mercy and redemption-giving mercy. he is grace-giving grace, not because he possesses it, but because he gives the immeasurable, incomprehensible light "how am i to speak with you about him? his aeon is indestructible, at rest and existing in silence, reposing (and) being prior to everything. for he is the head of

he had come into being through all of them and they had given their power to the man, and his intelligence was greater than that of those who had made him, and greater than that of the chief archon. and when they recognized that he was luminous, and that he could think better than they, and that he was free from wickedness, they took him and threw him into the lowest region of all matter "but the blessed one, the mother-father, the beneficent and merciful one, had mercy on the power of the mother which had been brought forth out of the chief archon, for they (the archons) might gain power over the natural and perceptible body. and he sent, through his beneficent spirit and his great mercy, a helper to adam, luminous epinoia which comes out of him, who is called life. and she assists the wh

me into being through the archon, and they bind it with chains and cast it into prison, and consort with it until it is liberated from the forgetfulness and acquires knowledge. and if thus it becomes perfect, it is saved" and i said "lord, how can the soul become smaller and return into the nature of its mother or into man" then he rejoiced when i asked him this, and he said to me "truly, you are blessed, for you have understood! that soul is made to follow another one (fem, since the spirit of life is in it. it is saved through him. it is not again cast into another flesh" and i said "lord, these also who did not know, but have turned away, where will their souls go" then he the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apocjn.html 11 of 12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm said to me

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

e, far in the holy east, there are such wells awaiting our own exploration, to the extent that we can enter into the life behind doctrine, and this is the life which is in christ. finally the modern chivalry is of masons as well as templars, because in both orders there is a quest to follow and attain. but this quest is one, a quest for the word, which is christ, and a quest for the abodes of the blessed, where the word and the soul are one. scanned from the periodical "the occult review, volume xlv, nos. 1 and 4, january and april, 19. aos artist, occultist, sensualist an essay by j. balance (taken from the exhibition catalogue) i saw my first original austin osman spare painting hanging above the seething bookshelves of atlantis, the occult bookshop that i spent my late teens lurking ins

BANISHING THE SLAVE GODS

ercourse. the active partner fucker will associate with the tower. the passive partner fuckee associates with the devil. the procedure will be done as suggested above, but the passive partner will serve as the active focuser and projector in the rite. as to the intent of this rite/practice/magical procedure- the purpose is to create a psychic link between your self and the one who is being cursed/blessed. the objective is to activate their "third eye chakra" thereby raising their energy and attention to a higher vibration, in essence. initiating them toward illumination. this is one of the secrets of initiating via shaktipat quickening of the energies now, for those of you who may have anticipated that this rite of attack/curse/blessing was going to be one of destruction. i offer no seeapo

BAPHOMANTIS LUCIFERIAN SATANIC MASS

gn and the pleasures that are to come. veni, omnipotens aeternae diabolus (mistress of temple kisses the temple keeper on the lips and says "may satan be with you (priest) then say: bringer of enlightenment, i greet you who cause us to seek the forbidden knowledge and find true light in darkness" then dip your finger in the wine in the chalice, construct in the air an inverted pentagram then say, blessed are the strong for they shall inherit the earth! blessed are the proud for they shall breed gods! let the humble and meek die in there misery! hail our father and lord of the earth! pick up the paten with host on it, hold it in front of you. and say: sancttissimi corporsis satanas, recieve this host lord lucifer which i, thy worthy servant offer to thee. may i gain strength through you and

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

welve keys of basil valentine 20 of 95 to him in silence, since he was sent from above to explain to them the significance of what they had seen. when perfect silence prevailed, he delivered himself as follows: awake, o man, and behold the light, lest the darkness deceive thee! the gods revealed to me this matter in a profound sleep. happy is the man who knows the great works of the divine power. blessed is he whose eyes are opened to behold light where before they saw darkness. two stars are given by the gods to man to lead him to great wisdom. gaze steadily upon them, follow their lights, and you will find in them the secret of knowledge. the bird phoenix, from the south, plucks out the heart of the mighty beast from the east. give the animal from the east wings, that it may be on an equ

with fire and air till the earth reappears, and you will have all vin vall. if you cannot find it in this way, look around upon the things that are in the world. then you will find the all vin vall, which is the attracting force of all metals and minerals derived from salt and sulphur, and twice born of mercury. more i may not say about all vin v all, since all is comprehended in all. my friends, blessed are ye if, by listening to the words of the wise, ye can find this great stone, which has power to cure leprous and imperfect metallic bodies and to regenerate them; to preserve men in health, and procure for them a long life v v as it has hitherto kept the vital fire burning within me so long that i am weary of life, and yearn to die. for his wisdom and mercy, and for the gracious gift wh

spirit be restored to the body v v the spirit which is supported by heavenly nutriment, and derived from heavenly, elementary, and earthly substances, which are also called formless matter. moreover, as iron has its magnet which draws it with the invisible bonds of love, so our gold has its magnet, viz, the first matter of the great stone. if you understand these my words, you are richer and more blessed than the whole world. let me conclude this chapter with one more remark. when a man looks into a mirror, he sees therein reflected an image of himself. if, however, he try to touch it, he will find that it is not palpable, and that he has laid his hand upon the mirror only. in the same way, the spirit which must be evolved from this matter is visible, but not palpable. this spirit is the r

from one, and is one matter. bind together the fixed and the volatile; they are two, and three, and yet one only. if you do not understand you will attain nothing. adam was in a bath v v wherein venus found her like, which bath the aged dragon had prepared when his strength was deserting him. there is nothing, says the philosopher, save a double mercury; i say that no other matter has been named; blessed is he who understands it. seek therein, and be not weary; the result justifies the labour. a short appendix and clear resumption of the foregoing tract concerning the great stone of the ancient sages i, basil valentine, brother of the benedictine order, do testify that i have written this little book, wherein, after the manner of the ancients, i have philosophically indicated how this most

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

wing the ma..ala of tamdrin. the first chapter of the warlord s tantra sets the scene by visually situating the reader within tamdrin s ma..ala "in the pure realm of the unsurpassed that reveals magical emanations; in an expanse of a blazing flame heap that represents malicious anger, amid an expanse of turbulent waves that represent lust; within a ma..ala that is a blazing dark-red triangle, the blessed one, glorious king tamdrin himself [recites] the mantra to cultivate meditative stabilization, which subjugates the three realms."117 as discussed in the introduction, tamdrin is a wrathful manifestation of the bodhisattva avalokite.vara; as such, he is one of the highest of buddhist deities. tamdrin also has the ambiguous position of being closely related to the worldly protector deities

rt tantra of the red-razored one, king of the violence demons" homage to the king of glorious power!272 thus have i heard:273 at one time in the pure realm of the unsurpassed that reveals magical emanations;274 in an expanse of a blazing flame heap that represents malicious anger, amid an expanse of turbulent waves that represent lust; within a ma..ala which is a blazing275 dark-red triangle, the blessed one,276 glorious king tamdrin himself [recites] his mantra in order to cultivate meditative stabilization,277 which subjugates the three realms.278 then, at that time, he resided, surrounded by the retinue that emanates in the state of the innate nature of the afflictive emotions and five poisons,279 the assembly of haughty ones the obstacle demons,280 the savage demons,281 the might demon

b. dod chags; skt. r.ga, anger (tib. zhe sdang; skt. dve.a, jealousy (tib. phrag dog; skt .r.y, and ignorance (tib. gti mug; skt. moha. 280 h. nu bag shu. unknown. 281 legs pa. 282 the seven rider retinue. 283 like a heap of sesame seeds. 284 by means of arrows and weapons. 154 worldly realms [301] then from among the retinue, the..kin. named dorj dej ma285 rose from her seat and said this to the blessed one "emaho!286 blessed one, powerful king, if the magical emanations of the vicious-minded haughty ones also bring about the destruction of the three existences, command [them, lord of compassion!"287 thus she exhorted. the blessed one spoke "gods and flesh-eating demons which are the worldly haughty ones are propelled by ignorance, which is self-cognizant wisdom288 not arising. this ignor

ance is the cause of erroneous afflictive emotions289 [and] is the condition of the rough seed.290 i subjugate the mantra of the worldly haughty ones. hr. padmacandhamah.krotahayaghr.va hulu hulu h. pha. 291 by this, the haughty ones292 were wildly frightened; they [the haughty ones, malicious beings,293] each gave the essence of their life-forces and pledged to be guardians of the teachings. the blessed one blesses the life-force essence the malicious, poisonous razored-one as the glory of the slash.294 this is the first chapter, which is the introduction295 from the heart tantra of the king of the violence demons, the red-razored one.296 chapter 2: lineage (301.6-305.4) after that, the..kin. dorj dej ma exhorted the blessed one with this question [302 "alas!297 great glorious one [tamdri

ti;351 so it is said. this is the second chapter, which reveals the birth lineage from the heart tantra of the red violence demon. chapter 3: ritual materials and preparation (305.4-307.1) following that, the..kin. invoked with these words "alas! great glorious one, body of power, what is the process of accomplishing352 the seven attendant riders who are malicious, these war gods of all yoga" the blessed one replied "regarding the s.dhana of the malicious violence demons, the mantra practitioner endowed with the view and conduct should perform the propitiation of powerful tamdrin. at a place suitable for the malevolent might demons353 of the red rock354 to abide, at the end of the fierce planet355 and star, make the ma..ala at the place of the might demon abode [306] smear the ledge of a p

in the morning and evening. 380 unknown. possibly sanskrit for "vagina" or "fortune" 381 because this occurs, the essence is cut by the razor. 382 of water. 383 of fire. 384 of wind. 160 therefore, offer this as the basis of the effigy.385 this is the fourth chapter, which is the mantra from the tantra of the great king of the violence demons, the red-razored one. chapter 5 (308.2-309.4) then the blessed one taught the stages of the approach386 and accomplishment and the stages of the signs "a vow-endowed yogic practitioner, having first obtained the divine warmth, for twenty-one days [or] three weeks decisively performs the following. first, during the times of approach; during the day approach the god of great power,387 during the night invoke the life-force of the might demons. periodic

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

degrees) developed an abundance of trees, such as the yew, the redwood, the sequoia, allied to the californian species, beeches, planes, willows, oaks, poplars and walnuts, as well as a magnolia and a zamia" says science; in short greenland had southern plants unknown to northern regions. and now this natural question rises. if the greeks knew, in the days of homer, of a hyperborean land, i.e, a blessed land beyond the reach of boreas, the god of winter and of the hurricane, an ideal region which the later greeks and their classics have vainly tried to locate by searching for it beyond scythia, a country where nights were short and days long, and beyond that land a country where the sun never set and the palm grew freely- if they knew of all this, who then told them of it? in[[vol. 2, pag

set and the palm grew freely- if they knew of all this, who then told them of it? in[[vol. 2, page] 12 the secret doctrine. their day, and for ages previously, greenland must certainly have been already covered with perpetual snows, with neverthawing ice, just as it is now. everything tends to show that the land of the short nights and the long days was norway or scandinavia, beyond which was the blessed land of eternal light and summer; and to know of this, their tradition must have descended to the greeks from some people more ancient than themselves, who were acquainted with those climatic details of which the greeks themselves could know nothing. even in our day, science suspects beyond the polar seas, at the very circle of the arctic pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes an

ce it is formed of a quaternary, that is wisdom and intellect, and of a trinity or action and matter. the emperor julian 'in matrem, etc' expresses himself thus 'were i to touch upon the initiation into our sacred mysteries, which the chaldees bacchized, respecting the seven-rayed god, lighting up the soul through him, i should say things unknown to the rabble, very unknown, but well known to the blessed theurgists (p. 141. and who, acquainted with the puranas, the book of the dead, the zendavesta, the assyrian tiles, and finally the bible, and who has observed the constant occurrence of the number seven, in these records of people living from the remotest times unconnected and so far apart, can regard as a coincidence the following fact, given by the same explorer of ancient mysteries? sp

n general, in its allness and general fulness, but the light of jehovah is that pertaining to the chiefest production, man, whom this light penetrated and made" the author of the "source of measures" pertinently refers the reader to inman's "ancient faiths embodied in ancient names" vol. ii, p. 648. there, an engraving of "the vesica piscis, mary and the female emblem, copied from a rosary of the blessed virgin. printed at venice, 1542" and therefore, as inman remarks "with a license from the inquisition, consequently orthodox" will show the reader what the latin church understood by this "penetrating power of light and its effects" how sadly disfigured- applied as they were to the grossest anthropomorphic conceptions- have become, under christian interpretation, the noblest and grandest

he compasseth with bonds and limits all things" 42, 43, 44 "twain are the armies of god: in heaven the hosts of michael; in the abyss (the manifested world) the legions of satan. these are the unmanifest and the manifest; the free and the bound (in matter: the virginal and the fallen. and both are the ministers of the father, fulfilling the word divine" therefore- 55 "holy is the sabbath of god: blessed and sanctified is the name of the angel of havas- satan. for "the glory of satan is the shadow of the lord: god in the manifested world "the throne of satan is the footstool of adonai- that footstool being the whole kosmos (vide part ii "is pleroma satan's lair) when the church, therefore, curses satan, it curses the cosmic reflection of god; it anathematizes god made manifest in matter or

aped her favours by mere privilege of birth, and their nearest neighbour, with all his intellect and noble virtues--far more deserving in every way--perishing of want and for lack of sympathy; when one sees all this and has to turn away, helpless to relieve the undeserved suffering, one's ears ringing and heart aching with the cries of[[vol. 2, page] 304 the secret doctrine. pain around him- that blessed knowledge of karma alone prevents him from cursing life and men, as well as their supposed creator* of all the terrible blasphemies and accusations virtually thrown on their god by the monotheists, none is greater or more unpardonable than that (almost always) false humility which makes the presumably "pious" christian assert, in connection with every evil and undeserved blow, that "such i

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the physical sciences? ment; as, at any rate, their initiated philosophers can hardly come under such an imputation, since it is they who have invented allegories and religious myths from the beginning. had they been ignorant of the heterogeneity of their elements they would have had no personifications of fire, air, water, earth, and aether; their cosmic gods and goddesses would never have been blessed with such posterity, with so many sons and daughters, elements born from and within each respective element. alchemy and occult phenomena would have been a delusion and a snare, even in theory, had the ancients been ignorant of the potentialities and correlative functions and attributes of every element that enters into the composition of air, water, earth, and even fire- the latter a terr

no higher than an animal; namely, a congenital idiot. thus in man alone the jiva is complete. as to his seventh principle, it is but one of the beams of the universal sun. each rational creature receives only the temporary loan of that which has to return to its source; while his physical body is shaped by the lowest terrestrial lives, through physical, chemical, and physiological evolution "the blessed ones have nought to do with the purgations of matter (kabala, chaldean book of numbers. it comes to this: mankind in its first prototypal, shadowy form, is the offspring of the elohim of life (or pitris; in its qualitative and physical aspect it is the direct progeny of the "ancestors" the lowest dhyanis, or spirits of the earth; for its moral, psychic, and spiritual nature, it is indebted

awake anew the brahmas and buddhas- the co-eternal forces- and a new universe springs into being. in the sepher jezireh, the kabalistic book of creation, the author has evidently repeated the words of manu. in it, the divine substance is represented as having alone existed from the eternity, boundless and absolute; and as having emitted from itself the spirit "one is the spirit of the living god, blessed be its name, which liveth for ever! voice, spirit, and word, this is the holy spirit* and this is the kabalistic abstract trinity, so unceremoniously anthropomorphised by the christian fathers. from this triple one emanated the whole kosmos. first from one emanated number two, or air (the father, the creative element; and then number three, water (the mother, proceeded from the air; ether

nges, manu, etc, etc. shall this be called a coincidence? a strange one it is then, indeed, when we find even moses- found in the water of the nile- having the symbolical consonant in his name. and pharaoh's daughter "called his name moses. because" she said "i drew him out of water (exod. ii, 10* besides which the hebrew sacred name of god applied to this letter m is meborach, the "holy" or the "blessed" and the name for the water of the flood is m'bul. a reminder of the "three maries" at the crucifixion and their connection with mar, the sea, or water, may close this example. this is why in judaism and christianity the messiah is always connected with water, baptism, the fishes (the sign of the zodiac called meenam in sanskrit, and even with the matsya (fish) avatar, and the lotus- the s

ctory, or improbable (see vishnu purana, trans. by wilson, edit. by fitzedward hall, vol. v, appendix* this statement belongs to the third war, since the terrestrial continents, seas and rivers are mentioned in connection with it[[vol. 1, page] 420 the secret doctrine. of beings, the divine vishnu" and among others this one "glory to thee, who art one with the saints, whose perfect nature is ever blessed. glory to thee, who art one with the serpent-race, double-tongued, impetuous, cruel, insatiate of enjoyment and abounding with wealth. glory to thee. o lord, who hast neither colour nor extension, nor size (ghana, nor any predicable qualities, and whose essence (rupa, purest of the pure is appreciable only by holy paramarshi (greatest of sages or rishis. we bow to thee, in the nature of br

of the motion, causes to emanate from itself the spirit, which in its essence is, and yet is not" in the sepher jezirah, the kabalistic book of creation, the author has evidently repeated the words of manu. in it the divine substance is represented as having alone existed from the eternity, boundless and absolute; and as having emitted from itself the spirit "one is the spirit of the living god, blessed be his name, who liveth for ever! voice, spirit, and word, this is the holy spirit (sepher jezireh, chap. 1, mishna ix) and this is the kabalistic abstract trinity, so unceremoniously anthropomorphized by the fathers. from this triple one emanated the whole kosmos. first from one emanated number two, or air, the creative element; and then number three, water, proceeded from the air; ether

BLUE EQUINOX

er of all things. 49. yea, also verily thou art the cool still water of the wizard fount. i have bathed in thee, and lost me in thy stillness. 50. that which went in as a brave boy of beautiful limbs cometh forth as a maiden, as a little child for perfection. 51. o thou light and delight, ravish me away into the milky ocean of the stars! liber lxv 81 52. o thou son of a light-transcending mother, blessed be thy name, and the name of thy name, throughout the ages! 53. behold! i am a butterfly at the source of creation; let me die before the hour, falling dead into thine infinite stream! 54. also the stream of the stars floweth ever majestical unto the abode; bear me away upon the bosom of nuit! 55. this is the world of the waters of maim; this is the bitter water that becometh sweet. thou a

flower upon our island; we shall eat of their fruit, and be glad. 51. but for me the lustral water, the great ablution, the dissolving of the soul in that resounding abyss. the equinox 88 52. i have a little son like a wanton goat; my daughter is like an unfledged eaglet; they shall get them fins, that they may swim. 53. that they may swim, o my beloved, swim far in the warm honey of thy being, o blessed one, o boy of beatitude! 54. this heart of mine is girt about with the serpent that devoureth his own coils. 55. when shall there be an end, o my darling, o when shall the universe and the lord thereof be utterly swallowed up? 56. nay! who shall devour the infinite? who shall undo the wrong of the beginning? 57. thou criest like a white cat upon the roof of the universe; there is none to a

holiness. 35. they beheld not god; they beheld not the image of god; therefore were they arisen to the palace of the splendour ineffable. a sharp sword smote out before them, and the worm hope writhed in its death-agony under their feet. 36. even as their rapture shore asunder the visible hope, so also the fear invisible fled away and was no more. 37. o ye that are beyond aormuzdi and ahrimanes! blessed are ye unto the ages. 38. they shaped doubt as a sickle, and reaped the flowers of faith for their garlands. 39. they shaped ecstasy as a spear, and pierced the ancient dragon that sat upon the stagnant water. 40. then the fresh springs were unloosed, that the folk athirst might be at ease. 41. and again i was caught up into the presence of my lord adonai, and the knowledge and conversatio

the doer and the witness, the radiator and the radiation, light in the sound, and the sound in the light. important, as indicating the attainment of a mystical state, in which you are not only involved in an action, but apart from it. there is a higher state described in the bhagavad gita .i who am all, and made it all, abide its separate lord. 83. thou art acquainted with the five impediments, o blessed one. thou art their conqueror, the master of the sixth, deliverer of the four modes of truth. the light that falls upon them shines from thyself, o thou who wast disciple but art teacher now. the five impediments are usually taken to be the five senses. in this case the term .master of the sixth. becomes of profound significance. the .sixth sense. is the raceinstinct, whose common manifest

ucing himself to the condition of a vegetable he is advanced upon the path of evolution. it is not so. minerals have no inherent power of motion save intramolecularly. plants grow and move, though but little. animals are free to move o every direction, and space itself is no hindrance to the higher principles of man. advance is in the direction of more continuous and more untiring energy. 31. the blessed ones have scorned to do so. the lion of the law, the lord of mercy, perceiving the true cause of human woe, immediately forsook the sweet but selfish rest of quiet wilds. from aranyani he became the teacher of mankind. after julai had entered the nirvana, he preached the equinox 46 on mount and plain, and held discourses in the cities, to devas, men and gods. reference is here made to the

he writer is still harping on the same old two paths. it appears that .fourfold dhyana. is a mere extension of the word samtan. there are, however, eight, not four, four of these being called low and four high. they are defined in rhys-davids. buddhism, p. 174-6. the buddha just before his death went through all these stages of meditation which are described in the paragraph here quoted: then the blessed one addressed the brethren, and said .behold now, brethren, i exhort you, saying .decay is inherent in all component things! work out your saivation with diligence! this was the last word of the tathagata! then the blessed one entered into the first stage of deep meditation. and rising out of the first stage he passed into the second. and rising out of the second he passed into the third

BOOK OF ENOCH

he blessing of enoch book from the ashes of angelsthe main theme is that of destruction; god is going to clear away the sinners, so that good people can have peace. this is the flood of noah which was still some way off when enoch wrote the book, although there are details of a second end later in the book (see the 10 weeks. 1.1] these are the words of the blessing of enoch; according to which he blessed the chosen and righteous who must be present on the day of distress, which is appointed, for the removal of all the wicked and impious. 1.2] and enoch began his story and said- there was a righteous man whose eyes were opened by the lord, and he saw a holy vision in the heavens, which the angels showed to me. and i heard everything from them, and i understood what i saw: but not for this g

ill be shaken; and the high hills will be laid low and will melt like wax in a flame. 1.7] and the earth will sink, and everything that is on the earth will be destroyed, and there will be judgment upon all, and upon all the righteous. 1.8] but for the righteous: he will make peace, and he will keep safe the chosen, and mercy will be upon them. they will all belong to god, and will prosper and be blessed, and the light of god will shine on them. 1.9] and behold! he comes with ten thousand holy ones; to execute judgment upon them and to destroy the impious, and to contend with all flesh concerning everything that the sinners and the impious have done and wrought against him. 2) god's laws 2.1] contemplate all the events in the sky; how the lights in the sky do not change their courses, how

and they said to one another "let the devastated earth cry out with the sound of their cries, up to the gate of heaven. 9.3] and now to you, oh holy ones of heaven, the souls of men complain, saying "bring our complaint before the most high" 9.4] and they said to their lord, the king "lord of lords, god of gods, king of kings! your glorious throne endures for all the generations of the world, and blessed and praised! 9.5] you have made everything, and power over everything is yours. and everything is uncovered, and open, in front of you, and you see everything, and there is nothing that can be hidden from you. 9.6] see then what azazel has done; how he has taught all iniquity on the earth and revealed the eternal secrets that are made in heaven. 9.7] and semyaza has made known spells, he t

ouls of those who complain, and give information about their destruction, about when they were killed, in the days of the sinners. 22.13] thus a place has been created, for the souls of men who are not righteous, but sinners, accomplished in wrongdoing, and with the wrongdoers will be their lot. but their souls will not be killed on the day of judgment, nor will they rise from here" 22.14] then i blessed the lord of glory, and said "blessed be my lord, the lord of glory and righteousness, who rules everything forever" 23.1] and from there i went to another place, towards the west, to the ends of the earth. 23.2] and i saw a fire that burnt and ran, without resting or ceasing from running, by day or by night, but continued in exactly the same way. 23.3] and i asked saying "what is this whic

to the chosen; towards the north it will be planted, in a holy place, by the house of the lord, the eternal king. 25.6] then they will rejoice with joy and be glad in the holy place. they will each draw the fragrance of it into their bones, and they will live a long life on earth, as your fathers lived. and in their days sorrow and pain, and toil and punishment, will not touch them. 25.7] then i blessed the lord of glory, the eternal king, because he has prepared such things for righteous men, and has created such things, and said that they are to be given to them. 26.1] and from there, i went to the middle of the earth, and saw a blessed, well watered place, which had branches which remained alive, and sprouted from a tree which had been cut down. 26.2] and there i saw a holy mountain, a

which was lower than it was and not high; and under it, there was a valley between them. and there were other deep and dry valleys at the end of the three mountains. 26.5] and all the valleys were deep and narrow, of hard rock, and trees were planted on them. 26.6] and i was amazed at the rock, and i was amazed at the valley; i was very much amazed. 27.1] then i said "what is the purpose of this blessed land, which is completely full of trees, and of this accursed valley in the middle of them" 27.2] then raphael, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered me, and said to me "this accursed valley, is for those who are cursed for ever. here will be gathered together all who speak with their mouths against the lord- words that are not fitting, and say hard things about his glory. here

BOOK OF JASHAR

r world, rather than just to individual human beings (each of whom must die and give his or her place. abram questions how a nation can be meaningfully defined and distinguished from other nations, given that sexual reproduction will allow our genetic lines to entwine across any social boundary that we can imagine. for this perception of the common heritage and posterity of all humanity, abram is blessed with a new name, but it is a name that implicitly reaffirms the existence of divisions between nations. the unspoken answer to abram's question is evidently that national identities are cultural, not genetic, and so the patriarchs are the founding fathers of separate cultural traditions. each national or religious group can retain a distinct cultural tradition, even though its individual m

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

bed in many other books on the royal art of magick, some falsely so and others truely. here follows a list of the incenses and perfumes which may be used and their practical associations in this work: the incenses: myrrh saturnus saffron jupiter sulfur mars olibanum sol benzion venus storax mercurius jasmine luna dittany of crete terra the aspersion bowl: this is to be filled with clear water and blessed and is to be used in the consecration of the temple,weapons and tools of this work. it should never have been used for eating or any other purpose. as the operator of the aspersion exalts the water in prayers and blessings and then brings it low in aspersion, so does our creator sanctify and bless the rain which begins by the sun's days over the seas. so let it be that the aspersion brings

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

on with the welsh must be one of the mysteries! figure 2.1 goddess: arada/arawhon 16/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft garments, lay aside thy jewels; for naught may ye bring with ye into this our land' so she laid down her garments and her jewels and was bound, as are all who enter the realms of death the mighty one. such was her beauty that death himself knelt and kissed her feet, saying "blessed be thy feet that have brought thee in these ways. abide with me, let me place my cold hand on thy heart' she replied 'i love thee not. why dost thou cause all things that i love and take delight in to fade and die 'lady/ replied death 'it is age and fate, against which i am helpless. age causes all things to wither; but when men die at the end of time i give them rest and peace, and streng

die at the end of time i give them rest and peace, and strength so that they may return. but thou, thou art lovely. return not; abide with me' but she answered, 1 love thee not. then said death 'an' thou receive not my hand on thy heart, thou must receive death's scourge. it is fate; better so, she said and she knelt; and death scourged her and she cried 'i feel the pangs of love. and death said 'blessed be' and gave her the fivefold kiss, saying 'thus only may ye attain to joy and knowledge. and he taught her all the mysteries. and they loved and were one, and he taught her all the magicks. for there are three great events in the life of man: love, death and resurrection in a new body; and magick controls them all. for to fulfill love you must return again at the same time and place as th

ung seven times. covener "in the midst of our lady's rule do we remember her brother/lover/husband. great is his power through his union with the goddess. and through his death and rebirth, as the younger son, is the harvest assured and the power passed on, to grow and spread wide to all he loves. remember the lord, yet in him ever see the lady. praise the lady and, through her, the lord" priest "blessed be the lady of the circle" all "and blessed be her lord" priestess "may the surplus be drawn from the land" all "that the body may be filled with strength" priest "power to the lord" all "and power to the lady" priestess "let the old wane" all "that the young may wax anew" priest "ever turns the wheel" all "ever onward" priest and priestess lead the coven in a dance about the circle. this

the altar. the coveners may wear flowers in their hair if they wish. on the altar lies the priapic wand, a wooden or earthenware bowl filled with soil and a large seed of some kind. also on, or under, the altar is a sheet of parchment, or paper, and a writing instrument. the altar cloth and candles should be light green. the erecting the temple is performed. the bell is rung three times. priest "blessed be all within this circle" priestess "merry meet we at this springtime rite" all "merry meet" priest "brothers and sisters, hear my words. awake and greet the spring. lord! lady! hear us, for we are here. we are here to celebrate with you and for you" priestess "welcome, welcome beauteous spring! welcome the time for birth. welcome the time for planting seeds" coveners, with priest and pri

des with a feast. winter solstice sabbat the altar cloth and the candles should be purple. the circle may be decorated with holly, mistletoe, ivy, etc. there is a cauldron in the south, filled with kindling. the priest's horned helmet is beside the altar. short tapers (one for each covener) lie on the altar. the bell is rung three times. priest sits or kneels in the center of the circle. covener "blessed are the gods who turn the mighty wheel" covener "welcome, thrice welcome, to yule; the turning point of winter is upon us" covener "here is an end to the solar year" lesson seven: meditation, dreams and the minor sabbats 193 covener "but here, too, is a new beginning" priestess "brothers, sisters, friends. let us show our love by sending forth our power and our strength to he who is the su

value to the beginner. all herbs mentioned here are perfectly safe at all times, and are not poisonous. herb agrimony (agrimonia eupatoria) all heal (stachys sylvatica) angelica (angelica atropurpurea) dead nettle (lamium album) ash tree leaves (fraxinus excelsior) avens (geum urbanum) balm (melissa officinalis) balmony (chelone glabra) barberry (berberis vulgaris) bayberry bark (myrica cerifera) blessed thistle (carduus benedictus) bogbean (menyanthes trifoliata) boneset (eupatorium perfoliatum) broom (spartium scoparius) burdock (arctium lappa) action alterative, tonic, diuretic antispasmodic, hepatic, nervine aromatic, tonic, stimulant antiseptic, astringent, tonic antifat, diuretic, stringent astringent, tonic, stomachic antispasmodic, nervine, diuretic laxative, tonic, vermifuge remov

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

e many. therefore is the fish a sign of the secret wisdom, for that wisdom is naught but the discovery of the one. 4 to thee, o israel, is the opening and the shutting of the gates. to thee, after many questionings of "what" and "which" shall appear as in a flash of lightning the unfolding of the secret. that dazzling whiteness, too brilliant to be borne by mortal eyes. lighteth the path of every blessed one who attaineth to immortality [130] n u n yea, immortality is known to the wise who understand the secret of my perpetual being the secret, whereof the fish concealeth and revealeth the mystery. for the fish is the perpetual one, the father of salvation. therefore is it written "joshua was the son of nun" what, then, is this that contihueth without ceasing? verily, it is i, myself, and

be made manifest the plenitude of my great name in the abode of wisdom. for when thou hast been tried as by fire. the gold of thy beauty shall be purged of all dross, and the glory of the heavenly son shall all men behold. 5 then shall the vision of thy lord be granted unto thee, and seeing him shalt thou behold the shining one who is thine own true self [140] s a m e k h in the fullness of that blessed vision shalt thou be restored, and as a young lion trampleth upon his prey, so shalt thou conquer all the phantoms of delusion. 6 lo in that day shall the light that is bind fast every hideous shape of darkness, and all thy habitations shall be blest by the white brilliance which descendeth from the crown [114] comment on samekh* s a m e k h, pronounced saumek. transcribed as" s. the numbe

ame sephirah is the heavenly son, ben, b n. the hebrew for "sublimity" or "glory" is gawawn, g a v n, which adds up to 60, the value of the letter samekh. the same number is represented by the emphatic hinnay, h n h" behold" vision" is makhazeh, m ch z h, which adds up to 60, the number of the letter samekh. this paragraph also contains another typical qabalism in the phrase" the fullness of that blessed vision. since the letter samkeh and makhazeh are identical in numeration, the" fullness of vision" may be said to refer to the letter-name samekh written in its plenitude, thus: s m k m i m k p. so written, the values of the letters add to 310, which is the number of kephir, k p i r" a young lion, and of dush, d v sh" to trample on [143] t h e bo o k of t o k e n s from the same spelling o

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

te 30 wicca01.txt- the mechanics of witchcraft magick takes place at what ts eliot in the four quartets called the 'still point of the turning world, that moment of timelessness that enables thought to be turned into reality on the material plane. it operates on the principle as above, so below. this phrase comes from the beginning of the emerald tablet, attributed to hermes trismesgistos (thrice-blessed hermes, thought to be a powerful first-century egyptian sorcerer who became worshipped as a god after his death. this tablet is said to contain all magical knowledge as well as the principles of alchemy, and states that human action and events reflect what occurs in the heavens. and so by releasing magical intentions into the cosmos, as i said earlier, they will be reflected back as actual

life to the land. it is said that, like lugh, he embraced cailleach, the old hag of winter who was thus transformed in his arms into the maiden goddess. in medieval times, a girl representing brighid would be brought to the door of the main house or farmstead of a village with cows and a cauldron, symbols of plenty. her straw bridal bed would be created close to the fire, adorned with ribbons and blessed with honey. milk, the first available after the winter, was central to the festival as a symbol of renewed fertility. it was poured on the bed of straw. workers from the farms and villages would approach the bride bed, and in return for a coin, a posy of flowers or tiny gift would receive her kiss, bestowing blessing on their trade and homes. in churches, the candles that were to be used f

ewed fertility. it was poured on the bed of straw. workers from the farms and villages would approach the bride bed, and in return for a coin, a posy of flowers or tiny gift would receive her kiss, bestowing blessing on their trade and homes. in churches, the candles that were to be used for the coming year in ceremony were purified on the feast of candlemas on 1 february. each person was given a blessed candle that acted as protector of the home against storms, fire and flood and defended cattle and crops against evil. the energies of this seasonal festival are good for the regeneration of any areas devastated by neglect or pollution, for melting rigid attitudes that may have led to conflicts between counties or ethnic groups, and the isolation and alienation of disadvantaged groups throu

mother and an early forerunner of both robin hood and st george. the mother goddess in her maiden aspect mated with the ascended sun god or, in popular folk tradition the green man, so that the conceived infant would be reborn as the new sun at the next winter solstice, thus ensuring the wheel of the year continued to turn. in the christian church, 25 march is the feast of the annunciation of the blessed virgin mary when gabriel told her she was with child. the energies of this festival are good for cleansing the seas and air of pollution, for new peace-making initiatives of all kinds, for beginning reforestation and regeneration projects, the reclamation of wildlife habitats and work to restore the indigenous trees and wildlife to an area. they will also support major attitude changes tow

CASTING THE CIRCLE

rrent unto our selves, so that we shall emerge in the dark light of saturn! by the power of the serpent, sacred of asmodeus and lilith, bringers of the craft of olde, that we shall emerge in the waking dawn of phosphorus! by the power of the goat, oz as known to the secret. bring us union and that opposites are joined, that we shall emerge knowing both good and evil! this circle is hereby sacred, blessed by the light of shaitan the double headed one! perform the witches rune "bagabi lacha bachabe lamac cahi achababe to that which is, unto that which was. a burning cycle is upon us, fear shan t ascend in its ugliness, failure is null, nothing is true. cast my earth and rise unto the shadow shining moon and velvet night i raise the witches' blade and give thee life come unto us this dark nig

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

ssess supernatural insight and knowledge "they say root-doctors have power over spirits, who will tell them who does the conjuring" declared braziel robinson, a slave in nineteenth-century columbia county, georgia "they ginerally uses yerbs gathered on the changes of the moon, and must be got at night" healers such as aunt darkas, a blind root worker in mcdonough, georgia, maintained that she was blessed by god with healing knowledge "she always said the lord told her what root to get" explained one of her patients "old aunt darkas said the lord gave her power and wisdom, and she used to fast for a week at a time"[15] some african americans acknowledged the supernatural sources that enabled them to perform healing works. mrs. emma dupree of fountain, north carolina, had been known since in

unts resonate with the african american conjuring narratives of supernatural healing by slaves and ex-slaves.[40] pentecostals employed techniques such as prayer, the "laying on" of hands, and anointing with oil, as prescribed in the bible, for healing. these practices may have revalidated older african american beliefs in the efficacy of special material objects as sources of supernatural power. blessed cloths and handkerchiefs, for example, popular with both black and white evangelists in the early twentieth century, were standard accoutrements in african american pentecostal healing services. a notice in the whole truth magazine, the newspaper of the church of god in christ, illustrates the currency of these traditions among black american pentecostals in the early twentieth century "si

openly acknowledged. the churches drew from a variety of cultural and religious sources, including roman catholicism, caribbean vodou, italian american folk tradition, and african american conjure and hoodoo. regarding the new orleans churches, hurston wrote in 1932 that "in addition to herbs, reptiles, and insects [they] make\ 115\ use of the altar, the candles, the incense, the holy water, and blessed water of the catholic church.that being the dominant religion of the city and state" another reporter observed of these churches that while they publicly disavowed conjure and hoodoo, most of the spiritual ministers in new orleans maintained practices that were virtually identical to those traditions "all present day mothers [spiritual church leaders] deny they practice voodoo, and many of

atures of catholicism that appear in the black spiritual tradition contribute to the movement's sense of itself as a faith with an archaic institutional heritage, and, according to hans baer, they provide an atmosphere of respectability for members of the movement who seek religious symbols of social status. other spiritual practices derived from popular catholic traditions include prayers to the blessed mother and the trinity, the use of holy oil, and the celebration of saints' feast days, especially the feast of saint joseph, a holiday that remains popular in new orleans among black spiritualists and italian american women today. nevertheless, although some black spiritualists refer to themselves as "sanctified catholics" the religious content and significance of their traditions hold di

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

yed from teacher to disciple and the their principle unifying form was the distinction of receiving "the initiation" which gave them the right to be known as "unknown superiors" or "superieurs inconnus" or s.i. as it is written"-mark stavish. there were printed editions of them in french, german and latin. james bonaventure hepburn published at rome his virga aurea "the heavenly golden rod of the blessed virgin mary in seventy-two praises" consists of a list of seventy two alphabets (actually seventy, plus latin and hebrew which are the two languages of the text of the plate. cabala, speculum artis et naturae, in alchymia- stephan michelspacher. 1617 first volume of fludd's utriusque cosmi historia 1618 theophilus schweighardt speculum sophicum rhodo-stauroticum. the 'mirror of wisdom' mai

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

d with sores and calluses. his skin was blackened and blistered from the sun. one leg shriveled and twisted as yu limped around the rough terrain. wherever he traveled, farmers hailed him as the great yu. their widespread affection caused the ruling emperor to choose yu as the next emperor. it was thus that yu became the founder and ruler of the xia [she ah] dynasty. soon plentiful grain harvests blessed the land. the rivers ran peacefully to the sea and did not overflow. the people lived happily in their villages and blessed the name of yu in their joy and contentment. chinese mythology 58 questions and answers q: how did yu the great come into being? a: zurong the fire god was sent by the yellow emperor to check on his grandson kun s body, which lay frozen in the ice. when zurong hacked

COSIMANO CHARLES ELEMENTARY PSIONICS

you have not come across this stuff before and use it to get you started because in its humble way the pendulum is an essential part of psionics, even though it has no funny dials or moving parts, except for itself, that is. the pendulum is a very easy thing to make. you do not need to find the right variety of crystal on a new moon, buy it without haggling and then drill a hole in it with a bit blessed by the same rabbi who cuts off foreskins. all you need is a weight, any weight will do, and a convenient length of string. for my personal taste, i like pendulums that end in a point. that way i know what they are pointing at when they are used with a chart like the ones later in this chapter. totally round pendulums tend to be rather confusing in such uses. other than that, you can use an

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

beautiful than the entire world. it was the abode of the first men before an evil spirit in the form of a serpent tempted them to take the fruit of a forbidden tree. there is also the banyan tree under which 116 children of the matrix the hindu "jesus, known as krishna, sat upon a coiled serpent and bestowed spiritual knowledge on humanity. the ancient greeks had a tradition of the islands of the blessed and the garden of the hesperides in which grew the golden apples of immortality. the garden was defended by a dragon. in chinese sacred books there is a garden that contained trees bearing the fruit of immortality. it, too, was guarded by a winged serpent called a dragon. the ancient people of mexico had their version of the eve story that involves a great male serpent, and a hindu legend

ere a "sect, not a "people. the scandinavian legend says that balder had a spear of mistletoe thrust into him by hod, a blind god. the christians say jesus had a spear thrust into him by the blind centurion, longinus. the ides of march, or march 15th, was the day devoted to hod by the ancients and this is the same day the serpent cult leaders of the christian church chose as the feast day of the "blessed longinus"!6 the obsession that hitler and the nazis had with possessing the "spear of destiny" relates to its association with their god, balder or baldur. hitler thought that the true spear was the one owned by the shape-shifting habsburg family in austria, which had formerly been in the possession of charlemagne of the reptilian bloodline. he believed that anyone who possessed it would b

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l the rest of the world. it was the originalabode of the first men, they said, before they were tempted by the evil spirit, in the formof a serpent, to partake of the fruit of the forbidden tree. there is also the banyon treeunder which the hindu jesus, known as khrishna, sat upon a coiled serpent andbestowed spiritual knowledge on humanity. the ancient greeks had a tradition of theislands of the blessed and the garden of the hesperides in which grew a tree bearingthe golden apples of immortality. this garden was protected by a dragon.4 in thechinese sacred books there is a garden in which grew trees bearing the fruit ofimmortality and it, too, was guarded by a winged serpent called a dragon. in ancientmexican accounts, their version of the eve story involves a great male serpent.5another

f the dragon. theanointing at the coronation is supposed to elevate the monarch to the rank of highpriest, in this case, appropriately, high priestess of the church of england as well ashead of state. while this was happening, the archbishop of canterbury said:as kings, priests, and prophets were anointed: and as solomon was anointed by zadokthe priest and nathan the prophet, so be thou anointed, blessed and consecrated queenover the peoples, whom the lord thy god hath given thee to rule andgovern..this is pure brotherhood symbolism. the lord thy god means the gods of theancient world, the reptilian gods. the crown used in the ceremony goes back to thetime of edward the confessor. he was the king of england who built the originalwestminster abbey in 1065 and later the present one was begun

he wearer against death by assassination and ambush and protectedwomen in childbirth. on dianas lead coffin during the funeral were lilies, the flower oflilith, another version of hecate and a symbol of the bloodline. the lilies were chosen byearl spencer, dianas brother. the lily was also sacred to astarte, another diana deity,and it was used to symbolise the impregnation of the virgin mary. the blessed virginjuno, ruler of august, was said to have conceived her saviour-son, mars, on a magic lily.the lily is symbolic of the reptilian bloodlines. in the year 656, the 10th council oftoledo officially made the day of junos legendary conception of mars into the450christian festival of the mother of god, or lady day, insisting that it commemoratedmarys miraculous conception of jesus with the a

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gies of the past, and the moralities of the societies of the past, all of which have hindered us from assuming our rightful place as heirs of creation. we must then assume the responsibilities which come with recognition of being gods and begin to act in a manner that reflects the wisdom, enlightenment, beauty, power, and majesty which is within us. it is not required of us that we become pure or blessed, or that we become all-loving and charitable. these concepts are christian corruptions. we must become, like the gods of the ancient world, unique, powerful, and glorious beings an apollo, an artemis, a zeus, or an aphrodite. i say that such beings as these cannot be judged for they are governed each by their own laws alone. they set their own values and move in their own spheres. i have s

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order. by this separation and initial recognition of difference can then man and woman seek to become something better, this is the very essence of magick energy in motion, change and ascension. samael was the greatest prince in heaven. the celestial animals and the seraphim had six wings each, but samael had twelve. he took his cohorts and went down, and saw all the creatures whom the holy one, blessed be he, had created, and found among them none as astute and malicious as the serpent. and the serpent's appearance was like that of a camel. and samael mounted him and rode him. and the tora cried and shrieked and 28 noon is considered in the middle east to be the time of satan. 26 said "samael, the world has just been created, is this the time to rebel against god" the serpent went and sa

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ne alphabets are called by slightly different names due to variations in the pronunciation of the letters. the english rune alphabet is known as the futhorc- g- gabriel: pronounced "gahb-ray-ehl" the archangel (q.v) and cosmic guardian of the west and of elemental water. in the tradition of christian mysticism, gabriel is the "heavenly herald. the archangel of the annunciation, he who didst bring blessed tidings to our blessed lady, mary, the mother of christ" gardnarian (wicca: modern witches (q.v) who follow the teachings of and use the book of shadows composed by gerald b gardner (q.v. the first major tradition of modern wicca (q.v) a combination of neo-paganism and high ceremonial magick, much of which was "shortened" and incorrectly abbreviated from the perspective of modern magicians

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thing to equal the geburah-influence for debunking" both persons and viewpoints. 27. geburah and gedulah must work together; never the one without the other. we must adore the god of battles as well as the god of love in order that the combative element in the universe may not break from its allegiance to the one god, i am that i am. the sword must not be cursed as an instrument of the devil, but blessed and dedicated in mystical qabala page 124 order that it may never be unsheathed in an unrighteous cause. it must not be cast aside in an impracticable pacifism, but placed at god's service; so that when the command goes forth that the evil thing shall not be suffered any longer, the mighty khamael, archangel of geburah, may lead the seraphim into battle, not in destructive rage, but temper

way from mystical qabala page 180 earthly things when the driftin smoke of incense comes to us from the high altar; how quickly do they return to them again when we get a whiff of patchouli from the next pew! 33. and in the four tarot cards assigned to this sephirab how clearly do we see the workings of the etberic magnetism appearing. there is great strength when we are on the earth-contacts and blessed of pan; there is also material happiness; in fact, without the blessing of pan there can be no material happiness because there is no peace of the nerves. on its negative side, however, are to be found the depths of despair and cruelty; but with the earth-contacts firm under our feet there comes material gain because we are adequate to deal with the material plane. chapter xxv malkuth titl

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room for that purpose, but there was a psychic barrier across the threshold that prevented her entering. she also asked me, on several occasions, to put inside my frock out of sight a little silver cross that i habitually wore, as she said she could not bear the sight of it. this cross i had purchased just before coming to this occult college, and had taken it to a priest of my acquaintance to be blessed, for i had not been altogether easy in my mind concerning the nature of the group i was joining, and during the early days of my association with it was poised on tiptoe, as it were, ready for instant flight. naturally i had kept my own council concerning the psychic precautions i had taken against my new friends, and no one was aware that the cross had been specially magnetised against ps

at my first communion" replied my friend" and it was originally a bishop's pectoral cross" her sister was greatly interested, and immediately brought her own jewel-case to me and asked me if i could pick out her first communion cross also, for, like her sister, she was a roman catholic, and these crosses that were given them as presents on the occasion of their first communion had been specially blessed by the priest. i was greatly interested to observe that from three or four ornamental crosses i was able to pick one which felt warm and living and electric to the hand, and pass it across to her, saying "this is your communion cross" and it was. i remember once, as a small child, picking up a dying rook; the creature lay motionless on my knee for a few minutes, and then gave a flutter and

feel that we cannot be accused of gross superstition if we give the old folk-tradition a trial and note the results. water, again, is the vehicle of purification. it is used in the rite of baptism by the church and in the preparation of the place by the occultist about to perform a ceremony. strictly speaking, there should be a trace of salt in the water thus employed, and both salt and water are blessed with powerful invocations when the priest is preparing holy water, whether for a baptism, or for placing in the holy water stoup for the use of the congregation. as far as the occultist is concerned, salt to him is the emblem of the element of earth. it is also a crystalline substance, and crystalline substances, in their different forms, receive and hold etheric magnetism better than anyt

ng pages any person of normal courage and mentality, provided he avoids drugs, alcohol and long periods without food, can, if he does not lose his nerve, wear down any ordinary psychic attack; or in the case of attacks of abnormal potency, can at least ensure himself time to make good his escape and seek help. the sacraments are also a most potent source of spiritual power, and a church where the blessed sacrament is reserved, or which is sufficiently old to have been consecrated before the reformation, is 88 of 103 an effectual sanctuary. chapter xix methods of defence iii psychic trouble not infrequently arises owing to the formation of an undesirable rapport. in order to understand the nature of this problem we must consider the whole subject of rapport. we have already considered in so

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

en executed by mr. f. c. price. e. a. wallis budge. british museum. january 25, 1895. next: contents preface http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod01.htm [8/10/2001 11:22:25 am] sacred texts egypt index previous next contents. preface v. introduction- the versions of the book of the dead ix the legend of osiris xlviii the doctrine of eternal life lv egyptian ideas of god lxxxii the abode of the blessed ci the gods of the book of the dead cvii geographical and mythological places cxxxiii funeral ceremonies cxxxviii the papyrus of ani cxlii table of chapters cliii the hieroglyphic text of the papyrus of ani, with interlinear transliteration and word for word translation 1-242 translation 245-369 bibliography 371-377 next: the versions of the book of the dead. contents http//www.sacred-text

s annu; unas himself is annu, and was born in annu"[2] elsewhere we are told that unas "cometh to the great bull which cometh forth from annu,[3] and that he uttereth words of magical import in annu"[4] in annu the god tmu produced the gods shu and tefnut,[5] and in annu dwelt the great and oldest company of the gods, tmu, shu, tefnut, seb, nut, osiris, isis, set and nephthys.[6] the abode of the blessed in heaven was called[7] annu, and it was asserted that the souls of [1 annu, the metropolis of the thirteenth nome of lower egypt; see brugsch, dict. g og, p. 41; de roug, g ographie ancienne de la basse- gypte, p. 81; and am lineau, la g ographie de gypte a l' poque copte, p. 287. annu is, genesis xli, 45, genesis xli, 50# ezekiel xxx, 17; and beth shemesh# 4:11 jeremiah xliii, 13; and th

dead disappeared, until finally, in the theban version, the only chapters of this class which remain are the xxiind, xxiiird, cvth, and clist.[1] every chapter and prayer of this version was to be said in the next world, where the words, properly uttered, enabled the deceased to overcome every foe and to attain to the life of the perfected soul which dwelt in a spiritual body in the abode of the blessed. theban title of the book of the dead. the versions of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (17 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:55 am] the common name for the book of the dead in the theban period, and probably also before this date, is per em hru, which words have been variously translated manifested in the light "coming forth from the day" coming forth by day "la m

rish.[4] he is firmly stablished in heaven, and he taketh his pure seat in the bows of the bark of ra. those who row ra up into the heavens row him also, and those who row ra beneath the horizon row him also"[5] the life which the deceased leads is said to be generally that of him "who entereth into the west of the sky, and who cometh forth from the east thereof"[6] in brief, the condition of the blessed is summed up in the following extract from the pyramid of pepi i "hail, pepi, thou hast come, thou art glorious, and thou hast gotten might like the god who is seated upon his throne, that is osiris. thy soul is with thee in thy body, thy form of strength is behind thee, thy crown is upon thy head, thy head-dress is upon thy shoulders, thy face is before thee, and those who sing songs of j

as "i brought into my own mouth my name as a word of power, and i straightway came into being" 2 the papyrus from which these extracts are taken is in the british museum, no. 10188. a hieroglyphic transcript and translation will be found in arch ologia, vol. lii, pp. 440-443. for the passages quoted see col. 26, l. 22; col. 27, l. 5; and col. 28, l. 20; col. 29, l. 6] p. ci next: the abode of the blessed. the legend of ra and isis. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod07.htm (10 of 10 [8/10/2001 11:23:38 am] sacred texts egypt index previous next the abode of the blessed. the egyptian heaven. the gods of the egyptians dwelt in a heaven with their ka's, and khu's, and shadows, and there they received the blessed dead to dwell with them. this heaven was situated in the sky, which the egyp

y two females who have on their heads "east" and "west" respectively.[2] the child of the union of seb and nut was the sun, who was born in the east in the morning, and who made [1. dizionario di mitologia egizia, tavv. i 150 ff. 2. ibid, tav. 158] p. ciii the egyptian heaven. his course along his mother's body, until he set in the west in the evening. the moon followed the sun's the abode of the blessed. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod08.htm (1 of 4 [8/10/2001 11:23:43 am] course along his mother's body, but sometimes a second female is represented bowed beneath nut [1 (fig. 2, and this is believed to signify the night sky across which the moon travels. in an interesting picture which m. j quier has published[2] the goddess is depicted lying flat with her arms stretched out at fu

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rit. that infinite spirit nourishes all things, and renders this inexhaustible treasure of substance always ready for the generation which fashions it and which receives in itself the forms with which thou hast impregnated it from the beginning. from this spirit those most holy kings who surround thy throne, and who compose thy court, derive their origin. o father universal! only one! o father of blessed mortals and immortals! thou hast specially created powers who are marvelously like thine eternal thought and adorable essence. thou hast established them superior to the angels who announce to the world thy wishes. finally thou hast created us in the third rank in our elementary empire. there our continual employment is to praise thee and adore thy wishes. there we incessantly burn with th

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e for the christmas holidays. he embarked from liverpool for new 'fork, and almost immediately experienced an improvement in health and strength. when within a day's sail of land a dense fog settled over the vessel. a furious easterly gale set in. the captain lost his bearings, and hardly had the lead been cast when the ship was dashed upon the outer bar. this was before the establishment of that blessed institution of life saving along our ocean and lake coasts. the vessel was rapidly pounded to pieces. nearly all were washed from the wreck and drowned. when all hope was lost, the father lashed his child to a plank. he had no thought that either would be saved, but he uttered a prayer that the body of his child might be found by some fisherman and given christian burial. he pinned a littl

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e dominican order in 1223, taught in paris and cologne, and became the teacher of thomas aquinas. the term magnus, which is usually applied to him, is not the result of his reputation but is the latin equivalent of his family name, de groot. as with many other men destined to become famous, he was distinctly stupid as a boy, but from the outset he showed a predilection for religion. one night the blessed virgin appeared to him, which caused his intellect to metamorphose, acquiring extraordinary vitality. albertus therefore decided that he must show his gratitude to the madonna by entering the priesthood, and eventually he won eminence in the clerical profession. in 1260 he became bishop of ratisbon. his books include summa de creaturis and summa theologiae. albertus was repeatedly charged

istory that includes the former cultures of venus, mars, and maldek (the destruction of which created the present asteroid belt. the purpose of the pleiadian manifestation at present is the release of the patterns of restriction that are carryovers from these earlier connections. they hope to bring about the second coming of christ en masse, a time when many earthlings become actualized christed (blessed or anointed) beings. one instrument for that is the pleiadian lightwork described at great length in amorah quan yin s the pleiadian workbook. the lightwork opens up the body s ka channels, invisible channels of light energy similar to the meridians described in chinese medicine. sources: amorah quan yin. pleiadian perspectives on the human evolution. santa fe, n. mex: bear& co, 1996. the

angelic hierarchies answering to the ten divine names: 1. jehovah, attributed to god the father, being the pure and simple essence of the divinity, flowing through hajoth hakados to the angel metratton and to the ministering spirit, reschith hajalalim, who guides the primum mobile, and bestows the gift of being on all. these names are to be understood as pure essences, or as spheres of angels and blessed spirits, by whose agency the divine providence extends. 2. jah, attributed to the person of the messiah or logos, whose power and influence descends through the angel masleh into the sphere of the zodiac. this is the spirit or word that actuated the chaos and ultimately produced the four elements and all creatures, by the agency of a spirit named raziel, who was the ruler of adam. 3. ehjeh

ty lines at a time without premeditation and even against my will. parts of the jewish bible (the christian old testament) were received through automatic writing, for example 2 chronicles 21:12 says, and there came a writing to him from elijah the prophet saying. in 1833, the book of the german augustinian nun catherine emmerich, the lowly life and bitter passion of our lord jesus christ and his blessed mother, was accepted by catholics as divinely inspired. the remarkable contents of the book came to her in visions and were noted and edited by the poet clement brentano. in america one of the earliest automatically written books was rev. c. hammond s the pilgrimage of thomas payne and others to the seventh circle (new york, 1852. the book contained 250 octavo pages. it was begun at the en

ion. among the many thousands of visitors to the shrine were journalists, camera operators, priests, nuns, doctors, lawyers, engineers, housewives, and ordinary people from all walks of life. surprisingly, even hardened skeptics reported seeing movement. on one occasion a gang of hell s angels motorcyclists stood quietly at the shrine, and although they did not believe that the statue moved, they blessed themselves before putting back their crash helmets and driving off. naturally enough the church hierarchy became somewhat concerned. while appreciating the devout atmosphere created by many pilgrims at an open-air shrine, ecclesiastics believed that regular church attendance would be a more practical demonstration of faith. the bishop of killala stated, we don t mind people gathering toget

ard this idol as their saviour. deodatus jaffet, a knight from the south of france, who had been received at pedenat, deposed that the person who in his case performed the ceremonies of reception, showed him a head or idol, which appeared to have three faces, and said, you must adore this as your saviour, and the saviour of the order of the temple and that he was made to worship the idol, saying, blessed be he who shall save my soul. cettus ragonis, a knight received at rome in a chamber of the palace of the lateran, gave a somewhat similar account. many other witnesses spoke of having seen these heads, which, however, were, perhaps, not shown to everybody, for the greatest number of those who spoke on this subject, said that they had heard speak of the head, but that they had never seen i

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ments. air, water, earth, or fire. macroprosopus means creator of the great world. macumba african-derived brazilian religions that have spirit possession as a central feature. madonna ministry the madonna ministry is a new thought metaphysical ministry founded by bishop arnold michael, formerly a minister with the united church of religious science. as a young man, in 1947 he had written a book, blessed among women, on the life of the virgin mary published in 1948. the writing of the book became a life-altering event and michael left his job managing a restaurant and studied for the religious science ministry. he served religious science churches for the next 35 years. in 1980, he returned to his consideration of the virgin mary and began writing a series of newsletters under the title ma

ed cures that followed his touching people who were terminally ill. in 1984 father maguire visited ireland, where he had an enthusiastic reception. more than 2,500 people crowded into the church of our lady queen of peace in merrion road, dublin (built to accommodate 1,800 persons. parents held out babies for father maguire to touch. after celebrating mass with eight concelebrants, father maguire blessed the congregation magnetic phenomena encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 966 and went to pray with the sick. subsequently a 46-year-old mother, paralyzed for several months with a cancerous tumor, claimed that she regained the use of her left arm and was able to walk again after being virtually immobile (see also healing by touch) magus a master magician or adept. the magi, o

pparition was a beautiful smiling mother with child, wearing a starry crown and floating above the ground. the following day, four of the teenagers returned to the same place, followed by friends, and this time, jakov colo and marija pavlovic saw the apparition. similar encounters took place on succeeding days, when the virgin spoke to the children in excellent croatian. she said that she was the blessed virgin mary, sent from god with a gospel message. asked why the message should come through such ordinary children, she replied that it was precisely because they were ordinary and average, neither the best nor worst, that they had been chosen. thereafter, the children assembled on the hill each day to witness the apparition. when news of the apparition reached the church, the parish pries

espondent to the first, the center of which is where the master and associate are to be placed. according to one authority: the vacancies formed by the various lines and angles of the figure are filled up with the holy names of god, having crosses and triangles described between them. the reason assigned by magicians and others for the institution and use of circles, is, that so much ground being blessed and consecrated by such holy words and ceremonies as they make use of in forming it, hath a secret force to expel all evil spirits from the bounds thereof, and, being sprinkled with pure sanctified water, the ground is purified from all uncleanness; besides, the holy names of god being written over every part of it, its force becomes so powerful that no evil spirit hath ability to break th

we must also prepare an apartment in which the person lived, or otherwise one of a similar kind, and place his portrait veiled in white therein, surrounded with his favourite flowers, which must be renewed daily. a fixed date must then be chosen, being that of the person s birth or one was that especially fortunate for his and our own affection, one of which we may believe that his soul, however blessed elsewhere, cannot lose the remembrance. this must be the day of the evocation, and we must prepare for it during the space of two weeks. throughout the period we must refrain from extending to anyone the same proofs of affection which we have the right to expect from the dead; we must observe strict chastity, live in retreat, and take only one modest and light collation daily. every evenin

awe of that demon, public ridicule, which intimidates so many of our brethren. several of allan kardec s works have been translated into swedish, among which i may mention his evangile selon le spiritisme as particularly well-rendered in swedish by walter jochnick. a spiritual library was opened in stockholm on the 1st of april last, which will no doubt greatly contribute to the spreading of the blessed doctrine. the visit of mr. eglinton to stockholm was of the greatest benefit to the cause. let us hope that the stay of mrs. esperance in the south of sweden may have an equally beneficial effect. notwithstanding all this progress of the cause in the neighbouring country, spiritualism is looked upon here as something akin to madness, but even here there are thin, very thin rays, and very w

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ds were supposed to have supplanted in the imaginations of the superstitious and impressionable, according to any number of skeptical commentators were noted on occasion. at least one recent book from a reputable publisher janet bord s fairies: real encounters with little people (1997) argued that such things are a genuine aspect of a universe so complex that we cannot begin to understand it. the blessed virgin mary appeared, as usual, all over the world, as did other sorts of divine entities. the world, of course, goes on with its business as if none of this were true, taking serious (as opposed to tabloid) note only when belief in otherworldly beings goes horrendously wrong and thirty-nine cult members commit suicide while awaiting the arrival of a spaceship following a comet. the march

local lamas to come to the temple. one of the horsemen sat on the throne, at which point all present fell to their knees as they recognized the man who agharti 13 had been long ago described in the sacred bulls of the dalai lama, tashi lama, and bodgo khan. he was the man to whom the whole world belongs and who has penetrated into all the mysteries of nature. he pronounced a short tibetan prayer, blessed all his hearers and afterwards made predictions for the coming half century. this was thirty years ago and in the interim all his prophecies are being fulfilled (ossendowski, 1922. the king of the world lived in an underground realm called agharti. whether this king of the world, or even the author s supposed informant, ever existed, he and his kingdom soon entered occult lore. in darkness

ncountered further reading brodu, jean-louis, 1995. magonia: a re-evaluation. in steve moore, ed. fortean studies: volume 2, 198 215. london: john brown publishing. drake, w. r, 1964. spacemen in the middle ages. flying saucer review10, 3 (may/june: 11 13. vallee, jacques, 1969. passport to magonia: from folklore to flying saucers. chicago: henry regnery company. marian apparitions visions of the blessed virgin mary (bvm) have been reported since at least the third century of the christian era. the first for which there is anything approximating detailed knowledge dates back to 1061 when the bvm provided a vision of christ s residence in nazareth and directed the witness, the lady of the manor in walsingham, norfolk, to see that a precise copy was constructed on the spot. a few visions are

for half an h o u r. when she and her friend ma ry mcloughlin we re on their way back to the p r i e s t s house, her friend re m a rked on the figu res. she ran off to notify re l a t i ves. me a nwhile, beirne watched the scene care f u l l y, later p roviding this description to inve s t i g a t o r s: i beheld. not only the three figures, but an altar further on the left of the figure of the blessed virgin mary, and to the left of the bishop and above the altar a lamb about the size of that which is five weeks old. behind the lamb appeared the cross; it was a bit away from the lamb, while the latter stood in front from it, and not resting on the wood of the cross. around the lamb a number of gold-like stars appeared in the form of a halo. this altar was placed right under the window o

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emn hour? ye choirs, do ye the hymn of consolation sing, which angels sang around the grave s dark night, to bring assurance of new covenant and dower? chorus of women. rare spices we carried and laid on his breast; we tenderly buried him whom we loved best; cloths and bands round him, spotless we wound him o er; ah! and we ve found him, christ, here no more. chorus of angels. christ is ascended! blessed the loving one who endured, moving one, trials improving one, till they were ended! faust ye heavenly tones, so powerful and mild, why seek ye me, me cleaving to the dust? ring roundabout where tender-hearted men will hear! i hear the message well but lack faith s constant trust; the miracle is faith s most cherished child. i do not dare to strive toward yonder sphere from whence the lovel

other pass. thereon appeared, with motley colours pied, the youthful queen within the glass. here was the medicine; the patients died, and no one questioned: who got well? thus we with hellish nostrums, here within these mountains, in this dell, raged far more fiercely than the pest. i gave the poison unto thousands, ere they pined away; and i must live to hear the shameless murderers praised and blessed. wagner how can you give yourself to such lament? does not a good man do his part in practising transmitted art exactly and with good intent? if you revere your father as a youth, gladly from him you will receive; if as a man you further knowledge and the truth, then can your son a higher goal achieve. faust oh, happy he who still hopes that he can emerge from error s boundless sea! what m

ring roam, and over lakes and over marshes the crane strives onward toward his home. wagner i ve often had capricious, odd hours of my own, yet such an impulse i have never known. one s sated soon if on the woods and fields he look; i ll never envy any bird his wing. how differently the joys of spirit bring us on from page to page, from book to book! then winter nights become so sweet and fair, a blessed life warms up our every limb; and ah! if one unrolls a parchment really rare, the whole of heaven descends on him. faust by one impulse alone are you impressed. oh, never learn to know the other! two souls alas! are dwelling in my breast; and each is fain to leave its brother. the one, fast clinging, to the world adheres with clutching organs, in love s sturdy lust; the other strongly lift

as it really is i see. statutes and laws that we inherit like an eternal malady go trailing on from race to race and furtive shift from place to place. to nonsense reason turns, and benefit to worry. woe unto you that you re a grandchild, woe! for of the law that was born with us, no! of that, alas! there never is a query. student you have increased my own disgust. the youth whom you instruct is blessed in sooth! i m now almost inclined to try theology. mephistopheles i would not wish to lead you so astray. in what this science teaches, it would be so hard to shun the false, misleading way; so much of hidden poison lies therein, you scarce can tell it from its medicine. tis best here too that only one be heard and that you swear then by the master s word. upon the whole- to words stick fa

hat recumbent body there behold of all the heavens the epitome? can one so fair be found on earth? mephistopheles well, if a god for six whole days, my friend, toils hard and says ah, bravo! at the end, then something rather neat must come to birth. for this time gaze till you are satiate. i know how i can find you such a treasure and he who as a bridegroom has the happy fate to lead her home, is blessed beyond all measure! faust continues to look in the mirror. mephistopheles, stretching himself on the settle and playing with the brush, continues to speak. i sit here like a king upon his throne; i hold the sceptre here, i lack the crown alone. the beasts [who meanwhile have been playing all sorts of odd confused antics, bring a crown to mephistopheles with a loud outcry. oh, please be so

! don t despair, dame martha dear! mephistopheles prepare the mournful tale to hear! margaret that s why i would not love while i draw breath; such loss as this would make me grieve to death. mephistopheles joy must sorrow, sorrow joy must know. martha relate the ending of his life to me! mephistopheles in padua he s buried, midst a row of graves close to st. anthony, in holy ground that was well blessed, forever cool his bed of rest. martha did you bring nothing else beside? mephistopheles oh yes, a weighty, great petition: three hundred masses are you to provide! my pockets? they have naught. thus endeth my commission! martha what? not a medal? not a trinket? such as every journeyman deep in his pouch doth hide, as a remembrance puts aside, and rather hungers, rather begs, than touch? me

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

nomadic tribes as the children of abraham? like many young jews in the late 1960 s, i began to voraciously read everything i could find on mystical and occult subjects. i went to see any teacher from any mystical tradition who brought their show to town xand in the late 1960 s and the 70 s there were a lot of shows! i learned and experimented with a wide spectrum of meditation practices, and was blessed with some breakthrough experiences that further fueled my spiritual thirst. at that ripe moment, i found an english translation of the sefer yetzirah (book of formation) published by the work of the chariot trust. the wct edition contained the entire text in the so-called ezra hebrew alphabet, as well as, in a more ancient hebrew alphabet xthe sinatic or gezer hebrew. as soon as i saw the

small face. for instance, in the light surah, allusions are given for the tree of life, for small face as light upon light, and for vast face as darkness upon thick darkness. 26 allah is the light of the heavens and the earth. the similitude of his light is that of a niche,27 within which is a lamp.28 the lamp is within a glass orb.29 the glass, as it were, a shining star,30 lit with the oil of a blessed olive tree, not of the east, not of the west. its light luminous even though fire touches it not, light upon light. 31 and, later in the surah, or like darkness upon a vast ocean,32 covered with waves upon waves, over them clouds, darkness upon thick darkness.33 and whoever allah gives not- light, has not- light in all. in islam, judaism and christianity are regarded as revealed religions

t of, so to speak, your beloved small face chosen ideal. for a mystical qabalist, this would be the lord hvhy. this experience is accompanied by great waves of bliss that can get quite intense (and potentially addictive. for one reason or another, you may find yourself unable or unwilling to become active in your geviyah. most people will sporadically become conscious in their dream state, and be blessed with more or less occasional ecstatic visions originating from the dream state. the frequency of such experiences is not a testimony to one s spiritual advancement. some people have one profound experience that changes and effects them for their entire life. others have numerous experiences, but still seem to regress to baser ego states and cling to a long shopping list of desires. your sp

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

or higher demons, statues from herbs, trees, stones, aromatics having within them a natural divine power (as he says) there were skilful egyptian priests who, when they could not persuade men by reason that there are gods, that is some spirit above men, invented that illicit magic which by enticing demons into statues made these appear to be gods. i at first thought, following the opinion of the blessed thomas aquinas, that if they made statues which could speak, this could not have been only through stellar influence but through demons. but now let us return to mercurius and to plotinus. mercurius says that the priests drew suitable virtues from the nature of the world and mixed these together. plotinus follows him, and thinks that all can be easily conciliated in the soul of the world f

icino's tortuous attempts to draw in thomas aquinas in his defence of his talismans. the de vita coelitus comparanda was published in the same year as garcia's book. in connection with his condemnation of astrological images, garcia has also to deal with those who have been saying that astrological magic can be as free from demonic influences as "ecclesiastical magic, such as the use of wax lambs blessed by the pope, or the blessing of bells. garcia denies this, strongly affirming that christian observances are not efficacious by virtue of the stars, but solely through the omnipotent power of the creator. finally, garcia denies the antiquity of cabala. garcia's work is thus not only a condemnation of magic in itself but a refutation of the suggestion that "ecclesiastical magic" could have

esoterismo, ed. e. castelli, padua, i960, p. 107. aquinas' source for varying activities of the hierarchies was gregory, homil. 34 in evang (migne, patr. hat, 76, cols. 1250-1) which ficino might also have been using. 3 dante, convivio, lib. ii, cap. 6. 4 dante is not mentioned by name, but the last words of the chapter on the grades of punishments of the wicked contrasted with the orders of the blessed in heaven refers to the inferno and paradiso. the opening of the chapter on souls returning to their star recalls paradiso, iv, 49-54- 119 pseudo-dionysius and theology of a christian magus light, in ficino's exposition may possibly be due to the influence of dante. the notion that the supernal light is reflected down the angelic hierarchies, flashing as in mirrors from one to another, is

nd the crown of poland, as he testified at the beginning of his reign, when he ordained his celebrated device, the body of which consists of two lower crowns surmounted by another more eminent and more beautiful, and to it is added as a soul the motto: tenia coelo manet. this most christian king, holy, religious, and pure, may securely say: tenia coelo manet, for he well knows that it is written: blessed are the peacemakers, blessed are the pure in heart, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. he loves peace, he preserves his contented people as much as possible in tranquillity and devotion; he is not pleased with the noisy uproar of martial instruments which administer to the blind acquisition of the unstable tyrannies and principalities of the earth; but with all manner of justice and sanc

r tenia coelo manet. in vain shall the rebel french forces against his will disturb the boundaries and coasts of others; for by no proposal of unstable counsels, by no hope of changeable fortune, by no occasion of external administrations or suffrages will he be induced, on a pretence of investing him with mantles and adorning him with crowns, to give up (otherwise than by force of necessity) the blessed care of tran- 1 ibid, dial. 3 (dial, ital, p. 825. cf. also what is said under the constellation centaur (ibid, pp. 823 ff. the centaur is christ, understood as a hermetic christ, or a benevolent magus. 228 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform quillity of spirit, for he is more liberal of his own goods than greedy for those of others. let others, therefore, make attempts on the v

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

ed. and definitely not in the demonic bindings phase. why is this the case? it seems that the pathways extending through non-existence, also called the tunnels of set are filled with all manner of energies that can drive an organism completely insane at best. thee angel acts as a buffer zone for these experiences&/or guides the magus in explorations. to those who find our lady s order in scarlet; blessed are thou among chaotes. 2 the formulation of the r.o.g. the magician is the ultimate charlatan. for in his games, he fools the very universe- frater halucifuge 99 let me start with how this all came about it was some time ago that i was involved in a relationship. i will not bother you with the details but it is necessary to explain that i had a great deal of emotional attachment. anyway

t let this seem so daunting, it s not! for along the way, it moves to action. the ineffable nothing starts to glow with a holy light. the shell notices and continues it s efforts. it holds to belief; the light dims. it reaches out with renewed vigor. belief is nullified. the light is silent. now what has happened here is creation anew, the light must first be quenched unto the waters. then in the blessed blackest of black, does a miracle occur. a moment of utter& complete joy, for the darkness is split asunder and epiphany! it is! this is absolute chaos, for the light explodes out unto consciousness and the shell glows from within. it now continues in it s light of emptiness and ceases to be dictated by standard confines. of course dissonance still occurs, for the shell cannot be cast off

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

to guide and protect these brethren here assembled, and fulfill at this time that divine promise thou wert pleased to make to those who should be gathered together in thy name. teach us to know and serve thee aright bless us and prosper us in all our laudable undertakings, and grant that our conduct may tend to thy glory, to the advancement of freemasonry, and finally to our own salvation in that blessed kingdom where thy children shall find rest. amen response.so mote it be. another o lord, our heavenly father, the high and mighty ruler of the universe, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth, direct us, we beseech thee, in all our doings, with thy most gracious favor, and further us with thy continual help, that in all our works begun, continued and ended in thee, we

he cry of the afflicted. let us pray. maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (67 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:56 am] chaplin: eternal and everlasting god, we look to thee in faith and confidence, knowing that thy love has power to bring comfort and consolation, even in this time of bereavement, to those near and dear to our brother. fill their hearts more and more with the blessed assurance of immortality and of thine abiding love. bless them and keep them, 0 lord. make thy face to shine upon them and begracious unto them. lift up thy countenance upon them and give them thy peace. amen (the master concluding his statement explaining the apron, holding it by the two upper comers with the flap toward himself, will place the apron over the edge of the casket, allowing

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

ugh he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things he suffered; and being made perfect, he became author of eternal salvation unto all that obey him; called of god a high priest after the order of melchisedec, of whom we have many things to say and hard to be uttered* for this melchisedec, king of salem, priest of the most high god, who met abraham returning from the slaughter of kings and blessed him; to whom also abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being by interpretation king of righteousness and after that also king of salem, which is king of peace; without father, without mother, without ancestors, having neither beginning of days nor end of life but made like unto the son of god, abideth a priest continually* and here men that die (the levites) receive tithes, but there he

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

ng is from jesus christ himself, so you must take it very seriously, if you value your eternal soul. freemasonry proven to worship satan, its symbols venerate the sex act- study of symbols part 5 of 5 the book of romans gives us a perfect definition of the word "pagan" a pagan is someone "who changed the truth of god into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the creator, who is blessed for ever. amen [romans 1:25] pagans have worshipped animals, insects, birds, rivers, forests, trees, and many other things, but they all have one type of worship in common: they worship the sex act between man and woman. the worship both the man's penis and the woman's vulva. in reading their explanations for these symbols, you should be amazed at the creativity they demonstrate in assigni

FULL MOON RITUALS

is work will not remain without the blessing of his uncle. and waiting, deer finds time to dwell upon plans for tonight's moon. lost in mental preparations, he is startled by the clatter of hoof upon stone and looks up just in time to see a great stag- rack held high in the starlit sky- bounding from stone to stone, turning about the outward spiral of this place before disappearing into the wood "blessed be, uncle, and a thousand thank you's" deer calls out cheerfully as he inwardly kicks himself for having been so inattentive to the comings and goings about him. however, had the uncle desired interaction, he would have initiated it. and deer was overjoyed with the seeming air of permanence and age which now seemed to emanate from the stones about him. taking his leave of the standing ston

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

d eye and pure spirit. god to this third eye is not nothing, he is all things; for when this eye is open he can be seen everywhere. the idea ex nihilo nihil fil17 (from nothing nothing is made) is abhorrent to the qabalah. not any thing [says the zohar] is lost in the universe, not even the vapour which goes out of our mouths; as all things, it has its place and its destination, and the holy one, blessed be it, makes it concur to its works; not anything falls into the void, not even the words and the voice of man, but all has its place and its destination. 18 the qabalist abram ben dior writes: then they [the qabalists] affirm, that all things have been drawn from no-thing [not nothing, they do not wish to speak of nothing properly to say, for never can being come from non-being, but they

this fundamental law of equilibrium was first grasped, and it sinks back long before qabalistic days, nothing has been added to the essential knowledge of man; and the philosophy of the classical age, the magic of the medieval, and the science of the modern ages are founded upon it and have, in attempting to explain it, merely replaced one set of symbols by another. the zohar says: the holy one, blessed be he, found it necessary to create all these things in the world to ensure its permanence, so that there should be, as it were, a brain with many membranes encircling it. the whole world is constructed on this principle, upper and lower, from the first mystic point up to the furthest removed of all the stages. they are all coverings one to another, brain within brain and spirit within spi

rment and under his command come the myriads of the angelic hosts of the next world. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 33 plate 5: the zodiacal secret wisdom of the qabalah page 34 (3) yetzirah or the yetziratic world, the world of formation- the ten sephiroth of which represent the angels or intelligences of the stars and planets. the zohar says: for the servants [sephiroth] that serve the holy, blessed be he! it made the throne [the briatic world, and four supports [pillar of mildness] and six steps [pillars of mercy and justice] to the throne, together ten. the whole is like a cup of blessing (see diagram 2) diagram 2: the qabalistic chalice secret wisdom of the qabalah page 35 that which is in the ten words, like the thorah which is given in ten words; and as the universe, which is the

ts [pillar of mildness] and six steps [pillars of mercy and justice] to the throne, together ten. the whole is like a cup of blessing (see diagram 2) diagram 2: the qabalistic chalice secret wisdom of the qabalah page 35 that which is in the ten words, like the thorah which is given in ten words; and as the universe, which is the maaseh beraishith, which has been created by ten sayings. the holy, blessed be he! affixed to the throne legions to serve it [the ten angelic hosts of this world. and for the service of these, the holy, blessed be he! made sammael and his legions, who are as it were the clouds to be used to come down upon the earth. and they are the horses: and above the cloud is the merkabah, the chariot throne, therefore it is said [isaiah xix, i: gbehold yhvh rideth upon a swif

n angelic hosts of this world. and for the service of these, the holy, blessed be he! made sammael and his legions, who are as it were the clouds to be used to come down upon the earth. and they are the horses: and above the cloud is the merkabah, the chariot throne, therefore it is said [isaiah xix, i: gbehold yhvh rideth upon a swift cloud and shall come into mitsraim [egypt. h and so the holy, blessed be he! rules mitsraim. 23 this world is seemingly the abode of tetragrammaton (4) assiah or the assiatic world, the world of action, also called the world of qliphoth, that is the world of shells or demons. in its ten sephiroth lives the actual material substance of the universe. it is the abode of sammael, the prince of darkness. it is subject to change, birth, death, corruption and re-bi

atom. it is the abode of the evil spirit and his demonical forces. 24 such are the four worlds. in the simple sephirotic scheme the first is referred to kether 'hokmah, and binah; the second to 'hesed, pahad, and tiphereth; the third to netzah, hod, and yesod; and the fourth to affixed to the throne legions to serve it [the ten angelic hosts of this world. and for the service of these, the holy, blessed be he! made sammael and his legions, who are as it were the clouds to be used to come down upon the earth. and they are the horses: and above the cloud is the merkabah, the chariot throne, therefore it is said [isaiah xix, i: gbehold yhvh rideth upon a swift cloud and shall come into mitsraim [egypt. h and so the holy, blessed be he! rules mitsraim. 25 this world is seemingly the abode of

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

tive force in nature. as the sun was the source whence proceeded all light and life as well as reproductive or generative power, it had become the object of adoration, and as the emblem of the deity, it was worshipped by all the nations of the earth in its three capacities as creator, preserver, and destroyer or regenerator each female and male. melchizedek, who was a priest of the most high god, blessed abraham, who was a worshipper of the same deity. on this subject dr. shuckford says "it is evident that abraham and his descendants worshipped not only the true and living god, but they invoked him in the name of the lord, and they worshipped the lord whose name they invoked, so that two persons were the object of their worship, god and this lord: and the scriptures have distinguished thes

deity of our race, and surrounded with all the pomp of war; whilst at intervals, peals of christian bells and the booming of near and distant guns added to the solemnity of this water pageant. after the filling of the golden cup, which, of course, represents the earth and its fulness, and, at this season, the now expected increase, the high priest placed a golden crucifix on the virgin water and blessed its return from wintry death, invoking the precious fluid to vernal life and productiveness, when lo! a holy child suddenly appears upon the scene, reminding us that this is everywhere the outcome of the 'wafers of life' in all animal as well as vegetable production. boodha in the garden of loobim through which flowed a holy stream, and christ by the brook at bethlehem, nay, the first pair

. she represents universal female nature. the thesmophorian rites, which are believed by most writers to have been introduced into greece directly from thrace, were performed by "virgins distinguished for probity in life, who carried about in procession sacred books upon their heads" inman, in his ancient faiths, quotes an oracle of apollo, from spencer, to the effect that "rhea the mother of the blessed, and the queen of the gods, loved assemblages of women" as this festival is in honor of female nature, the various female attributes are adored as deities, demeter being the first named by the worshippers. after a long season of fasting, and "after solemn reflection on the mysteries of life, women splendidly attired in white garments assemble and scatter flowers in honor of the great mothe

ns" with which the devotees of the new) faith must not become defiled. the people who executed these imperishable designs, and who have left in the british isles innumerable evidences of their religious beliefs, are supposed by some writers to belong to a colony which, having been expelled from persia on account of their peculiar religious beliefs, settled in the "white island" the "island of the blessed" this subject will, however, be referred to later in this work. when we closely examine the facts connected with the evolution of religion, there can be little doubt that the persians laid the foundation for that great moral and intellectual awakening which a century or two later is represented by confucious, gotama buddha, and pythagoras. from the persians, doubtless jew and gentile alike

o have been the wild revels of st. john's day"[138 [138] pop. science, vol. xxxv, p. 3. upon this subject toland observes that he has seen the people of ireland running and leaping through the st. john's fire proud of passing through it unsinged. although ignorant of the origin of this ceremony, they nevertheless regarded it as some kind of a lustration by means of which they were to be specially blessed. to every domestic hearth was carried the seed of bealtine, or st. john's fire, which during the year was not permitted to go out.[139 [139] although the preservation of holy fire upon every hearth was clearly a religious observance, still, as in those days there were no matches, the material benefit to be derived from this precaution doubtless had a significance apart from that connected

t the means of subsistence within the small boundary of judea was inadequate to supply the demands of the swarming masses of "god's children--children which had been created for his honor and glory. surely some plan must be devised whereby these difficulties might be adjusted, and that, too, to use a modern expression, without flying in the face of providence. as the lord had been honored and man blessed in the mere bringing forth of offspring, what better scheme, so soon as such blessings became too numerous, than to return a certain number of them to the giver, the god of moloch? it is true that by this process children were born only to be delivered over to the ravages of the fire- god, but by it, was not their deity both served and appeased at the same time that population was kept wit

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

. fraterquisitit veniat progressed rapidlythroughthe lower grades, and on 26 august2672671919 he was 'raiseduponthe crossoftiphereth .and enteredthegradeofadeptusminor.beyond this he moved more slowly, attaining thegradeof7=4adeptus exemptus on 10 july. 1924 and reaching theportalofthefourthorderon 27 july of the following year,whenhe was 'integrated by dispensation onthepartofthe headshipintothe blessed company. his final advancement, on 29june1927, was to be a participant in'theceremonyofconsecration on the thresholdofsacred mystery',whichwas the first ritualofwaite's more exalted order,thehiddenlifeofthe rosy cross. it was also william's last ceremony; after taking part in this rarefied ceremony he ceased to attend any of the rituals, although he remained an inactive memberofthe order

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

ns at length his views of creation and of the realms of nature and man as described in the mosaic works and in the bible generally, and again recounts the doctrine of the cabala as illustrating and completing the doctrine of moses, and he concludes the work with the words 'worldlings still persecute and crucify daily the spiritual christ who is the only true wisdom and corner-stone, whose name be blessed for ever. i will sing the truth under the shadow of thy wings. 0 lord in thee do i put my trust, keep and preserve me from my enemies, for thy mercy's sake. amen' time will not permit metosay anything of our author's controversies, nor of his anatomical and medical works; theyin memory of robertfludd53are now only of antiquarian interest. he died at coleman street, worn out by mental labou

e in actsxvi,16: a damsel has powers of divination, she brought her masters much money; paul cast out the spirit, and she lost her powers. in the bible there are many references to the stars, planets and zodiac. mazzaroth is a word found in job xxxviii. 32, and is now believed to refer to the signs of the zodiac. genesis i. 14:'letthe lights of the firmament..be for signs' deuteronomy xxxiii. 14 'blessed be the lord for the precious things put forth by the moon.'thepleiades, called kimah, and the constel255 lation orion, as kesib, are found mentioned in jobix.9. orion appears to have been also a name applied to nimrod the mighty hunter ruler. amos v. 8 speaks of the seven stars, and orion.thename arcturus, called ash and aish, is believed by some to be stars of ursa major, and not the star

sun.2. the 2ndgradeofgryphiushas been called the man of the secret or the occult man.3. in the 3rd grade of milesor soldier we know from tertullian that a crown was offeredtothe aspirant, who refused it saying,'no,mithras is my crown, and he never after could wear a garland on the head.4. in the 4thgradeofthe lionwe read that the aspirant's hands and lips were anointed with honey, the food of the blessed in heaven; this association of the lion with the bee and honey reminds us of the riddle of sampson; see judges xiv.5.the 5thgradeofperses,conferred the special cap of the persian mithra, now called the phrygian cap of liberty.6. the 6thgradeofheliodromusonce more marked theresemblances of freemasonry to mithra 255identity of mithras with helios, sol, the sun in the heavens; type of heat, l

against the hour of death, and as well, afforded guidance through all the trials of life, teaching the control of the passions, and the necessity for truth and virtue. strabo,a.d.20, wrote:'thesecret celebration of the mysteries preserves the sanctity of the divinity, and at the same time imitates its powers, which are hidden from our senses in our common lives' sophocles, 400b.c.,wrote'ohthrice blessed are the mortals who contemplating the mysteries have descended into hades, for such will therebea future happy existence; other men will find death only suffering' pindar, 450b.c.,wrote 'happy is he who has seen these things in the mysteries before leaving this world, for he realises the end and the beginning oflife, as they are ordained by zeus' according to plato, aboutb.c.350, the sacre

ant born (creationism; that this soul is incarnated for the purpose of trial and retribution, and is to be rewarded after death by dwelling in a heaven of bliss, or to be punished in a hell of torment, and the christian church has said to all eternity. but there are several modern variations of this doctrine; for some divines assert, while others express a pious hope, that all men will be finally blessed, while others again declare that the wicked will not suffer eternally, but will be blotted out of existence.thegnostics or some sects of these mystics taught that the soul of the infant came from the souls of the parents, as the body from the mother's body.300themagical masonorigen believed in the pre-existence of souls, which were born again and again into this world; this notion was cond

ve view as seems possible to me at the present time. i have no wish to insist my own views of man and his constitution. i am content that i have been able to lay before you this briefresumeof some of the philosophic concepts which are open for acceptance or denial. it may be reasonably inferred from our knowledge of life that, without any deep study of the origin or destiny of man, there is yet a blessed future for such as learn their duty to god and man, and do it in this earthly pilgrimage, and we may hope that this reward of joy and peace may cometothose who do well whatever maybetheir religion, though the christian heaven may be well thought of as specially reserved for the christian believer who keeps the faith andactsin accordance therewith.ifthe christian of modern orthodox views is

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

theirbrethrenin their inheritance. moreover 1 have givenuntothee.oneportionabovethybrethren'(thatis, hymakinghimtheancestor oftwotribes instead of one .letusnownotice the blessings of jacobandmoses, and comparethemwiththe signsofthe zodiacattributedto eachtribe.we will takethemin the zodiacal order.ofgad('y )jacobsays,'gad,a troop shall overcomehim,huthe shall overcome at thelast.'225 moses says 'blessed be. hethatenlargeth gad: he dwelleth as a lion,andteareth thearmwiththecrown ofthehead,and he provideththefirstpartfor.himself because there, in aportionofthelaw-giver, was he sealed; and he camewiththe headsofthepeople,he executedthejustice ofthelord,andhis judgements with israel.'thearmorial bearingsofgad are, white, atroopof cavalry. all this coincides wellwiththemartialanddominantnatur

, and by the almighty who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessingsofthedeep thatiiethunder, blessings of the breasts and of the womb: the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of joseph, and on the crown of the head ofhimwho was separate from his brethren' moses says 'blessed of the lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, and for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and fortheprecious thingsputforth by the moon, and for the chief thingsof[the ancient mountains, and for the precious thingsof"t]the lasting hills. and for the precious things of the earth, and the fullness thereof, and for t

the vine of manasseh (ii).of naphtali=(tlj!)jacob says 'naphtali is a hind let loose, he giveth goodly words' moses says,'0naphtali satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of thelord,possess thou the west and the south' the armorial bearings of naphtaliare-blue, a hind. of asher )jacob says 'out of asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties' moses says 'let asher be blessed with children, lethim beacceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. thy shoes shall be iron and brass, and as thy days, so shall thy strength be' the armorial bearings of asher are purple, a cup. allthiscoincides with the nature of venus and libra, while the feet refer to the sign pisces, which rule the feet, and in which(c?)is exalted. iron and brass are the metals of the

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oking such forces, the triangle itself served to unite the demonic (chthonic/atavistic) with the angelic (celestial/empyrean. the triangle contains in the center a circle, this is the summoning point of which solomon was said to bind such spirits. the inside of the triangle contains the name azazel, being a significant change from the traditional michael. the purpose of this is to have the circle blessed with the deific power of azazel, who is also more commonly recognized as lucifer. as the sorcerer of the left hand path seeks communion and a form of antinomianian self-deification, an association of self with azazel is thus made, a formal confirmation of the dedication of the path. it is by this self-deification that the daimon is controlled within the circle by the focused will of the ma

he knife and place it in the water 24 by the blood i give i empower this blade, the very knife of my divine will by the moon waxing and waning i do receive the fallen stars fiery and ancient blade of steel do i summon thee, with the fires of azazel called shaitan do i consecrate thee, by the flames of hecate do i empower thee! the circle is cast in the sabbat journey of the celestial and infernal blessed is this sacred blade so mote it be! the black hilted knife (evocation dagger) the black hilted knife is the blade of barbarous evocation, the knife dedicated to shaitan of midnight and banal, the daemonic adversarial blade of lucifer, the sacred weapon of banishing and commanding the fulgaris lightning bolt of the fallen djinn. the black hilted knife is used for making the circle and comma

he water, recite- by the mysteries of the depths, the coiling dragon of old beheld to the gates of leviathan by hecate and the skull wreathed in roses, which is silence and beauty i summon thee blade of steel, envenomed in the darkness of the earth do become knife of the devil s claw, my sacred tool of summoning water-daemon of the blade be born by banal and those of the shadowed realms- blade be blessed! so mote it be! the wand the wand is the fiery essence of the magician, the will of the work itself. create or decorate your own wand which shall reflect your sacred symbols and desire of your becoming. austin spare called these sacred letters as the alphabet of desire, a sigillized form of the subconscious and symbols which represent the higher articulation of the self. the luciferian wil

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF AIR

ving things; thou, before whom the life of beings is but a shadow which changeth, and a vapor which passeth; thou, who mountest upon the clouds, and who walketh upon the wings of the wind. thou who breathest forth thy breath, and endless space is peopled; thou, who drawest in thy breath and all that cometh from thee, returneth unto thee! ceaseless movement, in eternal stability, be thou eternally blessed! we praise thee and we bless thee in the changless empire of created light, of shades, of reflections, and of images- and we aspire without cessation unto thy immutable and imperishable brilliance. let the ray of thine intelligence and the warmth of thy love penetrate even unto us! then that which is volatile shall be fixed, the shadow shall be a body, the spirit of air shall be a soul, th

GOLDEN DAWN LESSER BANISHING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM LBRP

as to whether we are succeeding in obtaining the required effect. there should be a clear sense, unmistakable in its manifestation, as of cleanliness, even of holiness and sanctity, as though the whole being were gently but thoroughly purged, and that every impure and unclean element had been dispersed and annihilated. just as a plunge into a cool running stream on a hot midsummer day leaves one blessed with the sense of refreshment and purification, so also should be this ritual. the rationale of its action depends on the purification of the constituents of the nature of the magician. every molecule, every cell astral, mental and physical is concerned, inasmuch as the basis of each principle is grounded in centers of energy and spiritual force. these microscopic points or monads, are the

GOLDEN DAWN PRAYERS OF THE ELEMENTALS

rm of all things: thou before whom the life of beings is but a shadow which changeth, and a vapour which passeth; thou who mountest upon the clouds, and who walkest upon the wings of the wind. thou who breathest forth thy breath, and endless space is peopled; thou who drawest in thy breath, and all that cometh from thee returneth unto thee! ceaseless motion in eternal stability, be thou eternally blessed! we praise thee and we bless thee in the changelss empire of created light, of shades, of reflections, and of images, and we aspire without cessation unto thy immutable and imperishable brilliance. let the ray of thy intelligence and the warmth of thy love penetrate even unto us! then that which is volatile shall be fixed; the shadow shall be a body; the spirit of air shall be a soul; the

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS E

e name or motto of the adeptus minor. this alludes to becoming "more than human" this is an impossible task without the aid of the divine will and assistance from rtk. this now explains why on the face of the cross, the portion above twklm is white. it is a reminder that the must be rescued from the material. in the center on the back side, written in latin, and between the alchemical symbols is "blessed be the lord our god who hath given us the symbol signum" both the words "symbol" and "signum" consist of six letters which relate to trapt, where the rose cross hangs on the body, and to the six creative periods in the universe. also, if we add the six letters of each word together, we end up with twelve, 1+2=3, the supernals from which the light shineth. the lamen may be made of heavy car

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS U7

om which all things are formed, and its archangels are three: wrffm, the prince of countenance reflected from rtk, and wpldns, the prince of prayer (feminine, and nephesch ha messiah, the soul of the reconciler for earth. and the order of angels is \ca or flames of fire, as it is written, gwho maketh his angels, spirits and his ministers as a flaming fire, h and these are also called the order of blessed souls, or of the souls of the just made perfect. 7 notes by g.h. frater n.o.e.l: although the following is not classically part of the hodos document, its relevance to the document is apparent. addendum 1 reveals to the z.a.m. the five elements in the four scales of the king, queen, prince, and princess. this document also provides an appropriate symbol as it relates to the court cards in

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS VENUSZAM16

er, for their blood is spilt. broken is the strength of hell. fallen are its walls of adamant; heaped in ruins are its walls of deception. i came and the lord smote the warriors of ignorance. i came and the thrones of ghogiel were empty. i came, and around me hovered the auphanim, with ratziel at their head, the lord of knowledge. o my father, there are the wheels 11 of thy chariot. yhvh tzboath, blessed be thy name. broken is thy strength o concealer, and fallen are the powers wherein ye have trusted. shaken are your fenced cities to their unseen foundations. he shall hide me under the shadow of his wings. his truth shall be forever more in the name of this creature of talismans because i have called upon the most high. i shall tread upon the lion and adder. the young lion and dragon shal

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM11

t i was not. then i saw the light that shineth in the night standing upon a lonely hill, the light of the red rose upon the golden cross. oh thou beautiful one, thou red rose of life and light, teach me of death, teach me of life, teach me of self sacrifice, so that i may not shrink in my hour of trial, but that my name may be written upon high and my genius stand in the presence of the holy one, blessed be he" step 5 standing in the east facing west, expand your aura and create an animated shell of yourself from your own nephesch through your ruach. vibrate your power name (motto) into the creation of this form. step out of it and then go to the altar in the west facing east and look at yourself. 4 invocation of hru "i invoke thee by the divine name of iao, thou great angel hru, who art s

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM12

ithout me the universe is naught" chief adept (passes from the altar to the east. assumes osiris god form. all assume sign of osiris slain. says the following while moving toward the altar "i come in the power of light! i come in the wisdom of light! i come in the mercy of light! the light hath healing in its wings (all assume sign of osiris risen) chief adept (goes to the east and forms a cross "blessed be thou lord of the universe, for thy glory flows out to the ends of the universe rejoicing (drops arms to the side then extends the arms forward as in a greeting with palm upwards "we invite you all, you glorious beings of the great eastern quadrangle, ye mighty archangels, angels, kings, rulers, and elementals. come now, assemble in this temple to partake with us of this holy eucharist "

e invite you all, you glorious beings of the great eastern quadrangle, ye mighty archangels, angels, kings, rulers, and elementals. come now, assemble in this temple to partake with us of this holy eucharist "all make the theoricus grade sign (chief adept moves back behind the cubicle altar) first adept (circumambulates to the fire tablet, holds arms in the form of a cross in front of the tablet "blessed be thou lord of the universe, for thy glory flows out to the ends of the universe, rejoicing (drops arms to the side then extends arms forward as in a greeting with palm upwards "we invite you all, you glorious beings of the great southern quadrangle, ye mighty archangels, angels, kings, rulers and elementals. come now and assemble in this temple to partake with us of this holy eucharist "

upwards "we invite you all, you glorious beings of the great southern quadrangle, ye mighty archangels, angels, kings, rulers and elementals. come now and assemble in this temple to partake with us of this holy eucharist "all make the philosophus grade sign (first adept circumambulates back to his place) 4 second adept (circumambulates to the water tablet and extends arms in the form of a cross "blessed be thou lord of the universe, for thy glory flows out to the ends of the universe, rejoicing (drops arms to the side, then extends arms forward as in a greeting with palm upwards "we invite you all, you glorious beings of the great western quadrangle. ye mighty archangels, angels, kings, rulers and elementals. come now, assemble in this temple and partake with us of this holy eucharist "al

palm upwards "we invite you all, you glorious beings of the great western quadrangle. ye mighty archangels, angels, kings, rulers and elementals. come now, assemble in this temple and partake with us of this holy eucharist "all make the practicus grade sign (second adept circumambulates back to his position) third adept (circumambulates to the earth tablet and extends arms in the form of a cross "blessed be thou lord of the universe, for thy glory flows out to the ends of the universe, rejoicing (drops arms to the side, then extends arms forward as in a greeting with palm upwards "i invite you all, you glorious beings of the great northern quadrangle, ye mighty archangels, angels, kings, rulers, and elementals. come now, assemble in this temple to partake with us of this holy eucharist" al

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bring the brilliance of the eternal splendor to one who has now entered the invisible. lift me, i beseech thee, lift me up so that i may be made a divine messenger bearing the peace and harmony of higher spheres to_(his/her name_ whose death to this earthly plane we do now commemorate. wherever_(his/her name_ may now be, and on whatever 3 plane he/she may now pursue his/her ideal, let him/her be blessed with a more divine rest and an utter cessation from strife" step 7 trace l hexagram with the sigil in center. step 8 "term of all that liveth, whose name is death and inscrutable, be thou favorable unto us in thine hour. and unto him/her, from whose mortal eyes the veil of physical life hath fallen, grant that there may be the accomplishment of his/her true will. should_(his/her name_ will

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM16

, my father, for their blood is spilt. broken is the strength of hell. fallen are its walls of adamant; heaped in ruins are its walls of deception. i came and the lord smote the warriors of ignorance. i came and the thrones of ghogiel were empty. i came, and around me hovered the auphanim, with ratziel at their head, the lord of knowledge. o my father, there are the wheels of thy chariot. la, ab, blessed be thy name. broken is thy strength o concealer, and fallen are the powers wherein ye have trusted. shaken are your fenced cities to their unseen foundations. he shall hide me under the shadow of his wings. his truth shall be forever more in the name of this creature of talismans because i have called upon the most high, even amoun have i called my habitation. i shall tread upon the lion a

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not have i done what is abominable to god. not have i caused harm to be done to the servant by his chief. not have i caused pain. not have i made to weep. not have i killed. not have i made the order for killing for me. not have i done harm to mankind. not have i taken aught of the 6 oblations in the temples. not have a purloined the cakes of the gods. not have i carried off the offerings of the blessed dead. not have i fornicated. not have defiled myself. not have i added to, not have i diminished the offerings. not have i stolen from the orchard. not have i trampled down the fields. i have not added to the weight of the balance. not have i diminished from the weight of the balance. not have i carried off the milk from the mouth of a babe. not have i driven away the cattle which were upo

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rable 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 gift of

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ial, but that my name may be written on high, and my genius stand in the presence of the holy one in that hour when the son of man is invoked before the lord of spirits and his name before the ancient of days. amen. invocation of o step 1 formulate pillars standing in the east (or stand between the temple pillars) make the sign of philosophus. say: let us adore the lord and king of o! twabx hwhy, blessed be thou, leader of armies is thy holy name. step 2 4 go to the south, and draw the invoking active spirit pentagram. vibrate hyha, bitom, in a circle, draw the invoking fire pentagram and vibrate twabx hwhy. say: and the \yhla said, let us make adam in our own image, after our own likeness and let him have dominion. in the name of \yhla, mighty and ruling, and in the name of twabx hwhy, sp

tter. say: grant unto me thou great and beautiful king of trapt the presence and power of thy holy archangel lapr that he may aid me with his power and might! step 4 using the lotus wand held by the band of e, let the adept draw before him the invoking hexagram of a and within it the sigil of lapr. vibrate the name strongly as many times as there are letters. say: o ye messengers of the holy one, blessed be he, thou \yklm, i conjure ye by the mighty name of tudw hwla hwhy strong and mighty, and by the name of lapr, thou potent and powerful archangel of trapt. o ye \yklm, come now unto 6 me. manifest yourself through me and fill my sphere with your magical power of trapt to accomplish this work of art. step 5 draw the sigil of \yklm before you within the hexagram. vibrate the name the numbe

his a talisman, and that i assert that with divine aid, i shall invoke the intelligence, laykn, and under the mastery of laykn, the spirit of the sun, trws, from their abode in cmc that life, power and spirit may be imparted to this talisman to the end that i may be able to perform the great work and that i may be better enabled to aid my fellow human beings. may the powers of a and the holy one, blessed be he, witness my pledge. step 9 place the talisman on the white triangle upon the altar. stand west of the altar and face east. say: o ye powers of trapt which i have now invoked within this temple, know that all is now in readiness to duly and completely consecrate this talisman of a. i call upon ye now, ye powers of trapt, to aid me with your might and power that i may cause the great a

name of tudw hwla hwhy, and in the name of hwchy the power and help of thy great and powerful archangel lapr who is the briatic righteousness of thy realm. lapr, command, i beseech thee, to my assistance thy messengers of light, the \yklm, that they may bind into this talisman the beauty, vitality, harmony and magnificence of cmc and all the powers of trapt \yklm, o ye messengers of the holy one, blessed be he, assist and aid me in my invocation of lakym the great solar angel of cmc. thou great angel of cmc, ruling therein by the virtue of god the vast one, in the name of tudw hwla hwhy whose name thou must obey, and in the name of lapr, thine most potent archangel, i command and compel you to send forth thine intelligence, laykn, that he may concentrate and bind into this talisman his lif

ce it within the white triangle. leave the cord bound, but remove the black cover. move to the east, place left hand on the talisman with right hand holding sword. retrace all sigils (point upward, pommel downward. say: thou intelligence, laykn, i invoke thee in the divine names tudw hwla hwhy, in the letters i.n.r.i, in the grand word hwchy, and the concealed word lvx. thou who art the holy one, blessed be he, the reflected light of rtk, the beauty of the divine, the heart of etzchayim, lift me up, i beseech thee, and manifest through me thy power, grace and generosity of spirit. grant unto me the mighty power and hope of the mighty archangel lapr, who rules over the divine realm of trapt, that he may command to my assistance those divine messengers, the \yklm, that they may consecrate th

ine, the heart of etzchayim, lift me up, i beseech thee, and manifest through me thy power, grace and generosity of spirit. grant unto me the mighty power and hope of the mighty archangel lapr, who rules over the divine realm of trapt, that he may command to my assistance those divine messengers, the \yklm, that they may consecrate this talisman that lieth before thee. o ye \yklm of the holy one, blessed be he, and of cmc, command unto me the angel of cmc, lakym, that he may cause laykn, his intelligence, to come unto me. laykn, thou great angel of cmc, thou great intelligence of cmc, i invoke thee by the knowledge of thy name and by the power of god the vast one. i do conjure and potently invoke trws, the power and spirit of the sun, and i bind thee in the name of laykn to perform thy wor

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fic corpus of knowledge is divinely sanctioned. whilst any man or woman may claim to have received a 'vision, the motives of such claims are made apparent by certain external signs; as the gospel teaches 'one must test all things and hold fast to that which is good. if your path leads you to meet with a true beholder of the mysteries, an initiate without mortal intercessor, then consider yourself blessed indeed. to learn from such a person could reveal more of the craft than any store of knowledge accumulated through the passage of years. from experience i would counsel caution and prudence, but if truth be found then i believe we should respect those who have gained the favour of the divine. to speak boldly, i consider that the lineage of unique transmission, as incepted by the self-recog

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

rom the north with five disciples. a white man of august presence, blue-eyed, and bearded, he was sober, puritanical and preached against drunkenness, polygamy and war.1 after travelling great distances through the andes, where he created a peaceful kingdom and taught men all the arts of civilization,2 thunupa was struck down and grievously wounded by a group of jealous conspirators: they put his blessed body in a boat of totora rush and set it adrift on lake titicaca. there. he sailed away with such speed that those who had tried so cruelly to kill him were left behind in terror and astonishment for this lake has no current. the boat came to the shore at cochamarca, where today is the river desguardero. indian tradition asserts that the boat struck the land with such force it created the

cations, 1990, p. 11. 5 the encyclopaedia of ancient egypt, p. 110; traveller s key to ancient egypt, p. 66; graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 348 the sky had not been created, the earth had not been created, the children of the earth and the reptiles had not been fashioned in that place. i, atum, was one by myself. there existed no other who worked with me..6 conscious of being alone, this blessed and immortal being contrived to create two divine offspring, shu, god of the air and dryness, and tefnut the goddess of moisture: i thrust my phallus into my closed hand. i made my seed to enter my hand. i poured it into my own mouth. i evacuated under the form of shu, i passed water under the form of tefnut. 7 despite such apparently inauspicious beginnings, shu and tefnut (who were alway

most living things were destroyed, it is probable that the inhabitants of southern egypt survived rather than any others. or if, as some maintain, the destruction of living things was complete and the earth then brought forth again new forms of animals, nevertheless, even on such a supposition, the first genesis of living things fittingly attaches to this country..5 why should egypt have been so blessed? diodorus was told that it had something to do with its geographical situation, with the great exposure of its southern regions to the heat of the sun, and with the vastly increased rainfall which the myths said the world had experienced in the aftermath of the universal deluge: for when the moisture from the abundant rains which fell among other peoples was mingled with the intense heat w

nt egypt seas and oceans away farther even than the spice country of punt (which probably lay along east africa s somali coast).19 to confuse matters, however, punt was also spoken of sometimes as the divine land, or god s land, and was the source of the sweet-smelling frankincense and myrrh especially favoured by the gods.20 another mythical paradise was also linked to the neteru an abode of the blessed, where the best of humans were sometimes taken which was believed to be situated away beyond a large expanse of water. as wallis budge observed in his important study, osiris and the egyptian resurrection, the egyptians believed that this land could only be reached by means of a boat, or by the personal help of the gods who were thought to transport their favourites thither. 21 those lucky

. 287. punt is thought by many scholars to have been located on the somali coast of east africa where the trees that produce frankincense and myrrh( the food of the gods) are still grown today. 20 ibid. 21 osiris and the egyptian resurrection, volume i, p. 98; pyramid texts of pepi i, mer-en- rah and pepi ii, translated in ibid, volume ii, p. 316, where the maritime connections of the land of the blessed are made clear. 22 ibid, volume i, p. 97. 23 ibid, pp. 97-8. 24 ibid, volume ii, p. 307. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 422 time? and was it from a land such as this, accessible only by boat, that ibis-masked thoth had also made his way, crossing seas and oceans to deliver the priceless gifts of astronomy and earth-measurement to the primitive inhabitants of the prehistoric nile v

yths about gods in human form. but a civilization advanced enough to build like that rich enough, sufficiently well organized and mature to have explored and mapped the world from pole to pole, a civilization smart enough to have calculated the dimensions of the earth simply could not have evolved on an insignificant landmass. its homeland, as my researcher had rightly pointed out, must have been blessed with major mountain ranges, huge river systems and a congenial climate, and with 1 galanopoulos and bacon, lost atlantis, p. 75. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 444 many other obvious environmental prerequisites for the development of an advanced and prosperous economy: good agricultural lands, mineral resources, forests, and so on. so where could such a landmass have been located

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

not be concentrated in any specific area. the orgasmic bliss resulting from this meditation is exactly the same bliss that you will encounter in zip and is but a foretaste of what awaits you in arn. it is the amrita of the tantras and the ananda of hinduism and buddhism. it is caused by the so-called body of bliss, the spirit body that is behind/above the causal body. 162 a jnanamudra meditation blessed art thou, who hast seen, and yet hast not believed. for therefore is it given unto thee to taste, and smell, and feel, and hear, and know by the inner sense, and by the inmost sense, so that sevenfold is thy rapture. aleister crowley, the vision and the voice, the 9th aethyr it is recommended that you swear a magical oath to practice the following meditation (or one of your own like it) da

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

es grind heaps of gold for him (p. 531. 871, and had bracelets deposited on the public highway without any one laying hands on them. the poets call gold' miol fro'sa' fruoto^s meal (sn. 146, to explain which phrase the poem grottasaungr is inserted in the edda; and in sasm. 151* occurs' sleit frosa frrs fianda a milli^ rymbegla says, in his time the fields bore crops without being sown (it is the blessed sampo-period of the finns, and metal was found everywhere in the ground; nature joined in extolling the prince, as she does in lamenting his death (p. 591. when helgi was born, eagles uttered a cry, and holy waters streamed down from the hills of heaven (saam. 149; in the year of hakon's election the birds, we are told, bred twice, and twice the trees bore, about which the hak. hakonarsaga

germany. probably other localities have the same name, which makes one think of the equally well chosen ubelloch (malpertuis) in our' reinhart' whether they were so named in allusion to the devil, or, as i rather think, to their bleak northerly aspect, is a point to be determined; in the latter case the name is fitly transferred to the devil's dwellingplace, which is directly opposed to heaven's blessed and bhssful hall of joy (p. 820. again, they say in l. saxony' na hekelvelde varen' fare to h, sam. meiger ccciii; in denmark' gaa du dig til udhenfeldt' lyngbye's fiir. qv. p. 549. thiele 3, 71 spells it' til eehkenfjalds; what if the allusion be to hakelberg, hakelbernd (p. 923? veld is not our feld, but the on. fiall (fell, mens, as the dan. form fjiild shews; and hakelberg may 1002 dev

lves and dwarfs practise magic; only their skill seems more innate, stationary, not an acquired art. man can heal or poison, by directing natural forces to good or to evil; sometimes he even shares the gift of miracle, but when he pushes the beneficent exercise of his powers to the supernatural point, he learns to conjure. miracle is wrought by honest means, magic by unlawful; the one is geheuer (blessed, wholesome, p. 914, the other ungeheuer. at the same time the origin of all conjuring must be traced directly to the most sacred callings, which contained in themselves all the wisdom of heathendom, viz. religious worship and the art of song. sacrificing and singing came to mean conjuring; the priest and the poet, confidants of the gods and participants of divine inspiration, stand next-do

only be delivered by being beaten with a key till he bleeds. the common belief among us is, that the transformation is effected by tying a strap round the body; this girth is only three fingers broad, and is cut out of human skin. such a iverwolf is to be distinguished from natural wolves by his truncated tail. from the witch-records of lorrain we learn, that when stalks of grass were pulled up, blessed and thrown against a tree, wolves sprang forth, and immediately fell upon the flock; remigius pp. 152. 162 leaves it doubtful whether the men that threw the grass themselves turned into wolves, but from p. 261 we can think no otherwise. bodin's deemonomanie (fischart's transl. p. 120 seq) has several werewolf stories. rhenish and westphalian superstition makes men alone become wolves; maid

e cod. vindob. th. 428 no. 94 i find the phrase' eine suht ligen, zwo suht ligen/ to lie one sickness, two s* sich in die suht legen/ lay oneself (lie down) into, eeinh. 302. 320. this daemonic nature of diseases makes people call them by friendly jiattering names to keep them away, just as they do to horrible uncanny beasts, and avoid uttering their right name; they call a disease tlie good, the blessed, schm. 2, 87. 3, 212. 222, and the pestilence is addressed as gossip. there will be more examples to quote in speaking of particular diseases (see suppl. fever, ohg. fiehar, as.fpfnr; goth, heito. mat. 8, 15 and hr'inno, mk 1, 31. lu. 4, 38, both for -trupero, and both fem. ohg. has no corresp. hiza, prinua. the swiss have hitz and hrcmd (tobler 74, and the as. ddl, beow. 34g9. 3692 seems

alt (might) gottes, die hand gottes, ettn. unw. doct. 224 'traf mich gottes gevmlt= 1 had a stroke, brunsw. auz. 1745. p. 2022 (from life of mat. schwarz, an. 1547; couf. supra p. 19n. yet the 'stroke of god^ expresses also the quickness and ease of this mode of death (mors lenis repentina, compared with those that chain us long to a bed o pain: hence another name for apoplexy was' das selig' the blessed. we may compare the dwarf-stroke, dverg-slagr, palsy, p. 461. the bohemians distinguish bozj moc (god^'s might) epilepsy, from bozj rujca (god's hand) apoplexy (see suppl. the term falling sickness for epilepsy occurs as early as diut, 2, 193' vajjandia suht (caducum moi-bum 'daz fallende ilbel' fundgr. 325' fallender siechtag' hutten 5, 171. otherwise: the sorrow, the miser, the sore trou

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nis baptistae in conventu populi maximo (pertz 2, 386; this was in 860. in 801 charles the great kept this festival at eporedia, now ivrea (pertz 1, 190. 223; and lewis the pious held assemblies of the empire on the same day in 824 and 831. descriptions of midsummer fires agree with those of easter fires, with of course some divergences. at gernsheim in the mentz country, the fire when lighted is blessed by the priest, and there is singing and prayer so long as it burns; when the flame goes out, the children jump over the glimmering coals; formerly grown-up people did the same. in superst. i, 1 judic. inquiry resp. the easter fire burned, contr. to prohib, on the kogelnberg near volkmarsen, apr. 9, 1833, see niederhess. wochenbl. 1834, p. 2229a. the older prohibitions allege the unchristia

(conf. the riddle, p. 737) exalted into a person, except in adjurations, spells and i for amnus, says bopp s gloss. skr. 16; benfey 1, 310 explains evtaurus by skr. amavat? being ama, new-moon. 756 summeb and winter. curses: sam mir daz heilec jar i so (help) me holy year, ls. 1, 287. haupt s zeitschr. 7, 104. the two following refer to the year s commencement only: ein scelec jar gang dich an! a blessed year betide thee, ls. 3, 111; and( daz dich ein veiges jar miiez ane komen! a doomed (fey) year be thy dole, ls. 1, 317. in as. oft]?ast ofter com gear in geardas* beow. 2260 (see snppl. but even in the earliest times the year had fallen into halves, to which as. and on. give the curious name of missere, misseri, and the as. poems seem to reckon chiefly by these. we find 1 missera worn/ st

d for skialfandi, 148. 4 schlegel s ind. bibl. no. 2. eaethquakes. walahalla. 817 tahitians: god shakes the earth; 1 the lettons: drebkuls beats the earth, and makes her tremble/ just as the greeks call their poseidon (neptune) ewoaiyaios, evvocrisas (see suppl. our forefathers thought of the sky not only as a roof to the earth (p. 698, but as a heavenly kingdom, the dwelling-place of gods and of blessed men whom they had taken up. the bridge of the heavenly bow leads into it (p. 732, so does the milky way (p. 356. we must first suppose all that to have happened which was told in chap. xix about the creation of the world according to on. views. after the gods had set in order heaven and earth, created ask and embla, and appointed mrsgars to be the habitation of man, they fitted up for them

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et super nivem dealbabor. hail o mighty god, for in thy power alone abideth the key to all exorcising of principalities, powers, thrones, angels and spirits. amen. then bless your girdle, saying: o god who by the breath of thy nostrils framed heaven and earth and wonderfully disposed all things therein in six days, grant that this now brought to perfection by thine unworthy servant may be by thee blessed and receive divine virtue, power and jnfluence from thee that every thing therein contained may fully operate according to the hope and confidence of me thine tmworthy servant through jesus christ our lord and saviour. amen. the blessing of the light i bless thee in the name of the father. o holy, holy lord, god, heaven and earth are fuil of thy glory before whose face there is a bright sh

ord: o great god who art the god of strength and fortitude and greatly to be feared, bless o lord, this instrument that it may be a terror unto the enemy, and therewith i may fight with and overcome all phantasms and oppositions of the enemy, through the influence and help of thy most holy mighty name, on, st. the secret grimoire agla, and in the cross of jesus christ our only lord. amen. be thou blessed and consecrated in the name of the father, son, and holy ghost. asperges me, etc. benediction of the lamens (symbois. circles: o god thou god of my salvation i call upon thee by the mysteries of thy most holy name, on, st. agla, i worship and beseech thee by thy names el, elohim, elohe, zebaoth, and by thy mighty name tetragrammaton, saday, that thou wilt be seen in the power and force of

d of me thine unworthy servant that being filled with divine virtue and influence by thy commands, o most holy god, they may shew forth their virtue and power to thy praise and glory through jesus christ our lord. amen. i bless and consecrate you in the name of the father, the son, and the holy ghost, the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob. asperges me, etc. amen. benediction of the garment o holy, blessed and eternal lord god who art the god of purity and delightest that our souls should appear before thee in clean and pure and undefiled vestments being cleansed, blessed, and consecrated by thee, i may put them on, being therewith clothed i may be whiter than snow both in soul and body in thy presence this day, in and through the ment, death, and passion of our onty lord and saviour jesus c

name and thy power which secret was revealed to moses, through the holy names written in this book, depart far from me all ye workers of iniquity. bless, o lord, i beseech thee, this place and drive away all evil and wickedness far from it. sanctify and make it become meet and convenient for thy servant to finish and bring to pass therein his desires, through jesus christ our lord, amen. be thou blessed and purified in the name of the father, son, ami holy ghost. amen. benediction of the perfumes: the god of abraham, the god of isaac, the god of jacob, bless here the creatures of these kinds that they may give forth the power of their odours so that neither the enemy nor any false imaginaions may be able to enter into them, through our lord jesus christ, to whom be honour and glory now, h

t prayers, consecrations, and conjurations may be ha!!owed. in the name of the most merciful god of heaven and of earth, of the seas and of the infernais, by thine omnipotent help may i perform this work. helie, helion, esseju, deus eternis, eloy, clemens deus, sanctus sabaoth, deus exercillum, adonay, deus mirabilis, jao, verax, ampheneton, saday, dominator, on, fortissimus deus, invest with thy blessed help this work begun of thee, that it may be consummated by thy mighty power. amen. amoruli, tametia, latisten, rabur, tanetia, latisten, escha, aloelin, alpha et omega, leytse, oraston, adonay. amen. names and offices of the spirits. messengers. and intelligences of the seven planets spirits of the sun. gabriel. vianathraba. corat. messengers of the sun. burchat. suceratos. capabile. inte

hy firmament at this time, most faithfully, willingly to show unto me those things which i shall demand or require of him, and truly execute my desires. nevertheless, o most holy god, thy will and not mine be done, through jesus christ our lord. amen. the secret grimoire invocation :i i call upon thee, sachiel, castiel, and asasie, in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost, blessed trinity, inseparable unity, i invoke and entreat thee, sachiel, castiel, and asasiel, in this hour to attend to the words and conjurations which i shall use by the holy names of god, el, elohim, elohe, eeoba, sabaoth, elion, eschiros, adonay, jay, tetragrammaton, saday; i conjure and excite you by the holy names of god, hagios, otheos, ischyros, athanatos, paracletos, agla, on, alpha and o

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

he felt inclined to abandon his object, but the thought of man's salvation and theexcerptsfromthecrystalmssi173. i believe a man is rewarded or punished according to his merits or demerits on earth.thatno punishment however great while it lasts is everlasting, but punishment for all sins is shortened and finally ended through the mediation of jesus christ, and for the roman catholics through the blessed virgin. christ's death upon the cross and his death only is the means by which mankind isfinallysaved from destruc255 tion. 4. i believe that it is wrong totryto reveal those secrets of futurity which are purposely hidden from man's know255ledge-allvisible spiritual communications areungodly255and that evil spirits only use the means to deceive man.thatspiritual knowledge which inducesmant

reveals [blank] opinions which coincide with those given in the word of god is right and the true way of divining. 5. and finallyto state my opinion that the millennium is near at hand, that after that jesus christ will appear to those upon earth and the day of judgement is at hand.theblessing of one religion will then reign in theworld-allwill be unity, peace and concord and ready to receive the blessed saviour. his coming will truly as said in isaiah 'shake the nations of the earth. now instead of the belief used by the church of england i would substitute this one forit.there is one god the embodiment of all goodness, all charity, all love, the creator of the humanrace-emanatingfrom him are the divinequalities-hisinfluence, his holy spirit and his son. god has angels in his presence per

nseerthine to manifest unto me so much glory in this crystal stone (or glass receptacle) thus consecrated and charged that i, thy unworthy servant, may thereby be allowed free access to see initall those things of whichiam desirous of having a perfect and previous knowledge.omost strong and mighty god without beginning or end, bythyclemency and knowledge in all things,ihumbly desiretheeto allow a blessed ministering spirit to make manifest unto me in this crystal (or glass) all the desires of my heart so thatimay be answered to my satisfaction clearly and fully throughthyworthiness good lord, who livest and reignest, ever one god, world without end.0,holy, patient, merciful and great god and to be worshipped, the lord of all wisdom, clear and just,imost humbly and heartily desirethyholines

his crystal (or glass) all the desires of my heart so thatimay be answered to my satisfaction clearly and fully throughthyworthiness good lord, who livest and reignest, ever one god, world without end.0,holy, patient, merciful and great god and to be worshipped, the lord of all wisdom, clear and just,imost humbly and heartily desirethyholiness and clemency to be extended unto me inthypermitting a blessed spirit ever beforethythrone, to show me all thatirequire to see in this crystal (or glass) whichihold in my hand, thatimay, by looking into it, be able to ascertain the answers to my questions.ido now therefore, at this time, most humbly request that (here state the wish).tothese most humble petitions and enquiries thus made known unto thee bythyunworthy servant do thee,0lord, permit them

thee bythyunworthy servant do thee,0lord, permit them to be answered and to my comprehension.ihumbly implore of thee, that by thy aidimay be enabled to bring this work to perfection. amen. amen. amen. having satisfied yourself in these matters with the crystal or glass for that time you are to discontinue looking in it, and then repeat the following dischargeoalmighty and everlasting god who art blessed for ever more;i,thyunworthy servant, in being satisfied in what thou has condescended to manifest to me at this time, do give thee humble and hearty thanks and implore thee to open my understanding more and more in these divine things, the mystery of revelations, wheniask them of thee in future, thatimayglorifythymost holy name. amen. amen. amen.[having called down the protection and assis

awer properly fastened, to be kept free from dust, and not to be exposed to, or handled by,anyone,butthe invocant.consecration of the groundbless 0lordi beseechtheethis ground and place and drive away all evil and wickedness from this circle. sanctify and make it become meet and convenient for thy servant to finish and bring to pass therein all my desires throughourlord and saviour, amen. be thou blessed, purified, and consecrated in the nameofthe father, andofthe son, andofthe holy ghost.blessing of the lightsi bless thee in the nameofthe father, andofthe son, andofthe holy ghost.oholy, holy, holylordgod. heaven and earth are full ofthyglory, before whose face there is a bright shining light forever. bless now 0lordthese creaturesoflight which thou hast given for the kindly useofman, that

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il. in a good year, the egyptians could grow more grain than they needed to feed the population. in bad years, the flood might not be high enough to reach all the fields, or it might be too high and sweep away villages and towns and drown thousands of people. the whole welfare of the country depended on this one phenomenon, and because of this the ancient egyptians seem to have felt both uniquely blessed and uniquely vulnerable. aspects of the inundation were personified as deities (see hapy in deities, themes, and concepts, but there was no god or goddess of the nile. introduction 3 figure 1. the nile valley (black land) seen from the desert hills (red land (courtesy of geraldine pinch) the annual rising of the nile was thought of as part of the divine order of things decreed by a creator

his boat. the deceased could also be shown sailing their own boats with the help of the goddess of the sweet north wind. other funerary spells were intended to assist the dead to join the crew of the solar barque. this was the boat in which the sun god traveled across the sky and through the underworld. the solar barque was called the boat of millions because all the gods and all the souls of the blessed dead might be needed in its crew. the crew is sometimes referred to as rowing the solar barque, but this is never shown. instead, a number of deities, often in the form of jackals or cobras, can be depicted towing the boat along (see figure 43. in some underworld books there are two solar barques, the day boat (mandjet) and the night boat (mesektet. it is possible that the two huge cedar-w

228 handbook of egyptian mythology epagomenal days five extra days after the end of the last month of the egyptian year. eschatology descriptions of how the world will end. etiological myths myths that explain the cause or origins of something. fecundity figures personifications of the good things brought by the inundation. also called nile gods. field of reeds a place in the afterlife where the blessed dead lived and worked. flail (flagellum) a ceremonial whip carried by egyptian kings. gnosticism a religious movement based on a form of self-knowledge supposed to lead to the liberation of the soul. heb sed the festival (heb) of the jackal god sed. this festival was traditionally celebrated to renew a king s powers after he had reigned for thirty years. henotheism the choice of one god or

HEAVEN HELL

p. vi preface the present work is the outcome of two lectures on the books of the tuat, i.e, the egyptian underworld, or "other world" which i had the honour to deliver at the royal institution in the spring of 1904, and it has been prepared at the suggestion of many who wished to continue their inquiries into the beliefs of the egyptians concerning the abode of the departed, and the state of the blessed and the damned. the object of all the books of the other world was to provide the dead with a "guide" or "handbook" which contained a description of the regions through which their souls would have to pass on their way to the kingdom of osiris, or to that portion of the sky where the sun rose, and which would supply them with the words of power and magical names necessary for making an uni

of the other world was to provide the dead with a "guide" or "handbook" which contained a description of the regions through which their souls would have to pass on their way to the kingdom of osiris, or to that portion of the sky where the sun rose, and which would supply them with the words of power and magical names necessary for making an unimpeded journey from this world to the abode of the blessed. for a period of two thousand years in the history of egypt, the books of the other world consisted of texts only, but about b.c. 2500 p. viii funeral artists began to represent pictorially the chief features of the "field of peace" or "islands of the blessed" and before the close of the xixth dynasty, about 1300 years later, all the principal books relating to the tuat were profusely illu

ections given in the pyramids of unas, teta, and other kings, but side by side with these are copies of chapters belonging to books of the dead, which seem to have been originally composed at some anterior period, and which were intended to reflect the more popular and more materialistic religious views and beliefs. among such books must be mentioned the "book of two ways" or the "two ways of the blessed dead" of which a version inscribed on a coffin in the berlin museum has been recently published. 1 the rubrical directions of this work show that it was compiled when implicit belief existed in the minds of the egyptians as to the efficacy of p. 13 certain "words of power (hekau) and of pictures of the gods, and it is clear that many portions of it are purely magical, and were intended to

e osiris every day" and would have "air in his nostrils, and death would never draw nigh unto him" 2 the illustrations which accompany the texts on the coffins from al-barsha make it evident that under the xith dynasty the egyptian theologian had not only divided the under-world in his mind into sections, with doors &c, but that he was prepared to describe that portion of it which belonged to the blessed dead, and to supply a plan of it! besides the sections from the "pyramid texts" to which reference has already been made, and the "book of the two ways" the coffins of al-barsha p. 14 contain a number of texts of various lengths, many of which have titles, and resemble in form the chapters of the great theban recension of the book of the dead. examples of these have been published in prof

em-aha-s-ursh-shemmet-nebt-useru-anu-en-tehuti-tchesef. xx. gate. amt-khen-tepeh-neb-s-hebs-ren-s-ament-qemamu-s-thetet-hati-en-am-s. xxi. gate. tem-sia-er-metuu-ari-hemen-hai-nebau-s. from the above lists, and from copies of them which are found in the papyrus of ani, and other p. 37 finely illustrated books of the dead, it is quite clear that, according to one view, sekhet-aaru, the land of the blessed, was divided into seven sections, each of which was entered through a gate having three attendants, and that, according to other traditions, it had sections varying in number from ten to twenty-one, for each of the gates mentioned above must have been intended to protect a division. it will be noted that the names of the ten gates are in reality long sentences, which make sense and can be

was no great need to understand. in other words, it was not any goodness or virtue of his own which would enable him to pass through the gates of sekhet-aaru, and disarm the opposition of their warders, but the knowledge of certain formul, or words of power, and magical names. we are thus taken back to a very remote period by these ideas, and to a time when the conceptions as to the abode of the blessed were of a purely magical character; the addition of pictures to the formulae, or names, belongs to a later period, when it was thought right to strengthen them by illustrations. the deceased, who not only possessed the secret name of a god or demon, but also a picture of him whereby he could easily recognize him when he met him, was doubly armed against danger. p. 38 in addition to the sev

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

rless to awaken in hisaching heart the haughty recognition of any valorous deed of chivalry. visions of another kind now haunt hisweary days and long sleepless nights. what he now sees is a throng of bayonets clashing against each other in a mist of smoke and blood;thousands of mangled corpses covering the ground, torn and cut to shreds by the murderous weapons devisedby science and civilization, blessed to success by the servants of his god. what he now dreams of arebleeding, wounded and dying men, with missing limbs and matted locks, wet and soaked through with gore. viiia hideous dream detaches itself from a group of passing visions, and alights heavily on his aching chest. thenightmare shows him men expiring on the battlefield with a curse on those who led them to their destruction.eve

ich dwell in the west* it is for the conversion of these races that the lotus bleu has been established. if any of our readers should allow themselves to doubt the historical truth of this adventure of our ancestor;rohita, and of the transformation of the white lotus into the blue lotus, they are invited to make a journey toajmeer. once there, they need only to go to the shores of the lake thrice blessed, named pushkara, where everypilgrim who bathes during the full moon time of the month of krhktika (october-november) attains to thehighest sanctity, without other effort. there the sceptics would see with their own eyes the site where wasbuilt the pyre of rohita, and also the waters visited by lakshmi in days of yore. they might even have seen the blue lotuses, if most of these had not sin

ritual plane; that which the buddhists call tushita devaloka (paradise. man can create such ablissful existence for himself between two births, by the gradual transference on to that plane of all thefaculties which during his sojourn on earth manifest through his organic body and, as you call it, animalbrain "how absurd! and how can man do this "contemplation and a strong desire to assimilate the blessed gods, will enable him to do so "and if man refuses this intellectual occupation, by which you mean, i suppose, the fixing of the eyes on thetip of his nose, what becomes of him after the death of his body" was my mocking question "he will be dealt with according to the prevailing state of his consciousness, of which there are many grades.at best- immediate rebirth; at worst- the state of a

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ion spoken of in all this. a. a soul which pleads to be allowed to remain where she is, must be preexistent, and not have been created for the occasion. in the zohar, however, there is a still better proof. speaking of the reincarnating egos (the rational souls, those whose last personality has to fade out entirely, it is said: all souls which have alienated themselves in heaven from the holy one-blessed be his name-have thrown themselves into an abyss at their very existence, and have anticipated the time when they are to descend once more on earth "the holy one" means here, esoterically, the atma, or atma-buddhi. q. moreover, it is very strange to find nirvana spoken of as something synonymous with the kingdom of heaven, or the paradise, since according to every orientalist of note nirva

sband also. we say that her "spirit" or ego-that individuality which is now all impregnated, for the entire devachanic period, with the noblest feelings held by its late personality, i.e, love for her children, pity for those who suffer, and so on-we say that it is now entirely separated from the page 69 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt "vale of tears" that its future bliss consists in that blessed ignorance of all the woes it left behind. spiritualists say, on the contrary, that it is as vividly aware of them, and more so than before, for "spirits see more than mortals in the flesh do" we say that the bliss of the devachanee consists in its complete conviction that it has never left the earth, and that there is no such thing as death at all; that the postmortem spiritual consciousne

only-begotten. noah also plants a vineyard-the allegorical hotbed of future humanity. as a consequence of the adoption of the same allegory, we find it reproduced in the nazarene codex. seven vines are procreated-which seven vines are our seven races with their seven saviors or buddhas-which spring from iukabar zivo, and ferho (or parcha) raba waters them.[codex nazareus, iii, pp. 60,61] when the blessed will ascend among the creatures of light, they shall see iavar-xivo, lord of life, and the first vine.[cod. naz, ii, p.281] these cabalistic metaphors are thus naturally repeated in the gospel according to st. john. let us not forget that in the human system-even according to those philosophies which ignore our septenary division-the ego or thinking man is called the logos, or the son of s

to fools and wastrels, on whom fortune has heaped her favors by mere privilege of birth, and their nearest neighbor, with all his intellect and noble virtues-far more deserving in every way-perishing for want and for lack of sympathy-when one sees all this and has to turn away, helpless to relieve the undeserved suffering, one's ears ringing and heart aching with the cries of pain around him-that blessed knowledge of karma alone prevents him from cursing life and men as well as their supposed creator this law, whether conscious or unconscious, predestines nothing and no one. it exists from and in eternity truly, for it is eternity itself; and as such, since no act can be coequal with eternity, it cannot be said to act, for it is action itself. it is not the wave which drowns the man, but t

or the murder, he would not have been prayed with, redeemed, pardoned. clearly this man did well to murder, for thus he gained eternal happiness! and how about the victim, and his, or her family, relatives, dependents, social relations; has justice no recompense for them? must they suffer in this world and the next, while he who wronged them sits beside the "holy thief" of calvary, and is forever blessed? on this question the clergy keep a prudent silence (isis unveiled) and now you know why theosophists-whose fundamental belief and hope is justice for all, in heaven as on earth, and in karma-reject this dogma. q. the ultimate destiny of man, then, is not a heaven presided over by god, but the gradual transformation of matter into its primordial element, spirit? a. it is to that final goal

HEPTAMERON

re which is to be used for suffumigations, is to be in a new vessel of earth or iron; and let it be exorcised after this manner. i exorcise thee, o thou creature of fire, by him by whom all things are made, that forthwith thou cast away every phantasme from thee, that it shall not be able to do any hurt in any thing. then say, bless, o lord, this creature of fire, and sanctifie it, that it may be blessed to set forth the praise of thy holy name, that no hurt may come to the exorcisers or spectators: through our lord jesus christ &c. the sun. the moon. abragini. matasignais. the sun. the moon. commutaff. affaterim. heptameron 5 of the garment and pentacle. let it be a priests garment, if it can be had, let it be of linen, and clean. then take this pentacle made in the day and hour of mercur

HINE P OVEN READY CHAOS

s to mischevious occurences, creative flashes of inspiration, and wild parties. she does get a little bitchy at times, but who doesn t? 26 phil hine discordian opening ritual by prince prance 1. clap x5 2. the erisian cross: light in my head fire in my genitals strength at my right side laughter at my left side love in my heart. 3. trace spiral pentagrams* at the 4 quarters& zenith. 4. face east: blessed apostle hung mung1, great sage of cathay, balance the hodge and podge and grant us equilibrium. 5. face south: blessed apostle van van mojo2, doctor of hoodoo and vexes, give us the voodoo power and confuse our enemies. 6. face west: blessed apostle sri syadasti3, patron of psychedelia, teach us the relative truth and blow our minds. 27 oven-ready chaos 7. face north: blessed apostle zarat

. 5. face south: blessed apostle van van mojo2, doctor of hoodoo and vexes, give us the voodoo power and confuse our enemies. 6. face west: blessed apostle sri syadasti3, patron of psychedelia, teach us the relative truth and blow our minds. 27 oven-ready chaos 7. face north: blessed apostle zarathud4, hard-nosed hermit, grant us the erisian doubt, and the constancy of chaos. 8. look up (or down: blessed apostle malaclypse5, elder saint of discordia, grant us illumination and protect us from stupidity. 9. look all over the place: great goddess discordia, holy mother eris, joy of the universe, laughter of space, grant us life, light, love and liberty and make the bloody magick work! 10. hail eris! all hail discordia! notes* for more on the spiral pentagrams, see the next section. 1.hung mun

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

power-house records, but blake's diary gives no indication of the time. the entry is merely "lights out- god help me" on federal hill there were watchers as anxious as he, and rain-soaked knots of men paraded the square and alleys around the evil church with umbrella-shaded candles, electric flashlights, oil lanterns, crucifixes, and obscure charms of the many sorts common to southern italy. they blessed each flash of lightning, and made cryptical signs of fear with their right hands when a turn in the storm caused the flashes to lessen and finally to cease altogether. a rising wind blew out most of the candles, so that the scene grew threatening dark. someone roused father merluzzo of spirito santo church, and he hastened to the dismal square to pronounce whatever helpful syllables he cou

ts bizarre contents, and saw that the kylix on the floor, in which the ominous efflorescent powder had lain, was giving forth a cloud of thick, greenish-black vapour of surprising volume and opacity. that powder- great god! it had come from the shelf of "materia- what was it doing now, and what had started it? the formula he had been chanting- the first of the pair- dragon's head, ascending node- blessed saviour, could it be. the doctor reeled, and through his head raced wildly disjointed scraps from all he had seen, heard, and read of the frightful case of joseph curwen and charles dexter ward "i say to you againe, doe not call up any that you can not put downe. have ye wordes for laying at all times readie, and stopp not to be sure when there is any doubte of whom you have. 3 talkes with

HP LOVECRAFT POETRY AND THE GODS

andals, caduceus-bearing, and of a beauty like to nothing on earth. before the face of the sleeper he thrice waved the rod which apollo had given him in trade for the nine-corded shell of melody, and upon her brow he placed a wreath of myrtle and roses. then, adoring, hermes spoke "0 nymph more fair than the golden-haired sisters of cyene or the sky-inhabiting atlantides, beloved of aphrodite and blessed of pallas, thou hast indeed discovered the secret of the gods, which lieth in beauty and song. 0 prophetess more lovely than the sybil of cumae when apollo first knew her, thou has truly spoken of the new age, for even now on maenalus, pan sighs and stretches in his sleep, wishful to wake and behold about him the little rose-crowned fauns and the antique satyrs. in thy yearning hast thou d

HP LOVECRAFT THE BEAST IN THE CAVE

rrible conclusion which had been gradually obtruding itself upon my confused and reluctant mind was now an awful certainty. i was lost, completely, hopelessly lost in the vast and labyrinthine recess of the mammoth cave. turn as i might, in no direction could my straining vision seize on any object capable of serving as a guidepost to set me on the outward path. that nevermore should i behold the blessed light of day, or scan the pleasant bills and dales of the beautiful world outside, my reason could no longer entertain the slightest unbelief. hope had departed. yet, indoctrinated as i was by a life of philosophical study, i derived no small measure of satisfaction from my unimpassioned demeanour; for although i had frequently read of the wild frenzies into which were thrown the victims o

HP LOVECRAFT THE QUEST OF IRANON

rnath once stood. i have been to thraa, ilarnek, and kadatheron on the winding river ai, and have dwelt long in olathoe in the land of lomar. but though i have had listeners sometimes, they have ever been few. and i know that welcome shall wait me only in aira, the city of marble and beryl where my father once ruled as king. so for aira shall we seek, though it were well to visit distant and lute-blessed oonai across the karthianhills, which may indeed be aira, though i think not. aira's beauty is past imagining, and none can tell of it without rapture, whilist of oonai the camel-drivers whisper leeringly" at the sunset iranon and small romnod went forth from teloth, and for long wandered amidst the green hills and cool forests. the way was rough and obscure, and never did they seem nearer

HP LOVECRAFT THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER

ut to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to cyclopean and many-columned y'ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the deep ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for evnothe statement of randolph carter by h.p. lovecraft 1919 again i say, i do not know what has become of harley warren, though i think--almost hope--that he is in peaceful oblivion, if there be anywhere so blessed a thing. it is true that i have for five years been his closest friend, and a partial sharer of his terrible researches into the unknown. i will not deny, though my memory is uncertain and indistinct, that this witness of yours may have seen us together as he says, on the gainsville pike, walking toward big cypress swamp, at half past 11 on that awful night. that we bore electric lanterns

HP LOVECRAFT THE STREET

am johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:45m the street by h.p. lovecraft written 1920? published december 1920 in the wolverine, no. 8, p. 2-12. there be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; i dare not say, myself, but i will tell of the street. men of strength and honour fashioned that street: good valiant men of our blood who had come from the blessed isles across the sea. at first it was but a path trodden by bearers of water from the woodland spring to the cluster of houses by the beach. then, as more men came to the growing cluster of houses and looked about for places to dwell, they built cabins along the north side, cabins of stout oaken logs with masonry on the side toward the forest, for many indians lurked there with fire-arrows

HP LOVECRAFT THE WHITE SHIP

ery meadows and leafy woods brought a scent at which i trembled. the wind grew stronger, and the air was filled with the lethal, charnel odor of plague-stricken towns and uncovered cemeteries. and as we sailed madly away from that damnable coast the bearded man spoke at last, saying "this is xura, the land of pleasures unattained. so once more the white ship followed the bird of heaven, over warm blessed seas fanned by caressing, aromatic breezes. day after day and night after night did we sail, and when the moon was full we would listen to soft songs of the oarsmen, sweet as on that distant night when we sailed away from my far native land. and it was by moonlight that we anchored at last in the harbor of sona-nyl, which is guarded by twin headlands of crystal that rise from the sea and m

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

e live, ironclad beetle and wrap it into a small square of red silk. place this small packet inside a tiny wooden box that has been painted bright red. now cover the packet with one half cup of dried rosebuds. close the lid and seal the box with wax. place the box and its contents in the northeast corner of your home and light a tapered purple candle. chant "coleopterous magnificent, coleopterous blessed, coleopterous beloved, coleopterous eternal" it is not considered important if the beetle dies. the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, the saying goes, but mix in a little witchcraft just to be sure. witches know that if you add melissa officionalis (lemon balm) to your fellow's bath, his straying will stop; he'll stay where he oughter; and a bit of anise added to the cake makes

hursday after jupiter, we stick to thor. thor and jupiter were the same gods in different parts of the world. friday comes from venus but we use the german "freitag" the equivalent goddess. saturday is saturn's day. it is not only witches who set aside special days. there are certain traditional days to do certain things; all sorts of tricky things that most women know about. a sunday marriage is blessed and, of course, this may be why so many more people get married on sunday than on any other day (sunday marriages are customary in the united states) monday marriages are likely to face great ups and downs and changes because of the connection with the phases of the moon. tuesday weddings mean arguments and a bit of inconstant behaviour (it's mars' day, which means a lot of strife and trou

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

the same as in the previous three methods. 2. magical animation of pictures the magical animation of pictures also belongs to the four methods concerning the creation of elementaries. in cults, the pictures, images of saints, statues and the like are very often told to emanate an exceedingly strong magic power producing miraculous effects on the bodies, spirits and souls of their worshippers. the blessed silence, calmness and the religious ambiance that meets visitors in churches and places of pilgrimage certainly is known to everybody, and there is no need to go into detail about it. all the healings in places of pilgrimage, that have even been substantiated in part scientifically but have not been completely explained, can be imputed to the animation of pictures and statues. the strange

expansive hot electric energy in the whole hand, but mostly in the fingertips. provided that there is no personal use for both powers, one dissolves them, letting them fly free from the hands into the universe. by managing these exercises perfectly, one has become master of the electromagnetic fluid, viz, master of two universal powers with the help of which one can achieve practically anything. blessed will be the magician s electric and magnetic hands, which will be of potential value and may become a real blessing for mankind! magic physical training (viii) provide the magician be perfect in all the stages of the magic training of the body, he will not require any special education in this line. i will therefore limit myself to giving some instructions and hints that may become useful

INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW CHUMBLEY

ever, whilst one could explain the presence of cain and lilith with recourse to such sources, contesting some kind of dependence of sabbatic lore upon christian, jewish et al demonologies, this fails to appreciate the unique and self- sustaining complex of the craft mythos in itself. the teachings of traditional craft utilise a cipher of luciferian antinomianism which renders cain and lilith, our blessed primogenitors, as the bearers of light from the ancient serpent. the overcoming of adam by lilith and the murder of abel by cain signify the transformation of the uninitiated condition or clay into the fire of magical knowledge. this is however the merest inkling of the breadth and depth of these matters. as a parting tale, it is worth speaking about another fascinating path of influence i

INVOCATION OF OUR LORD OF MIDNIGHT MAHAZHAEL DEVAL

ding churches and holy sites. it is thus our custom to call many souls to walk in the procession of the hidden faith. what follows below is a call, adapted from the dragon-book of essex, for evoking the sovereign witch-father mahazhael. it is intended for the use of a covine or working lodge of arte. the lord mahazhael is revered as the guardian of the northern station and is considered to be the blessed consort of our lady liliya. his time is that of the midwinter sun, the season of misrule and rebirth. his moment is the interstitial cusp of darness and light. in syncretic terms, mahazhael might be indentified with christ on the eve of his nativity, as the soul of the crucified king of light at the moment prior to his dawn on earth. the lord mahazhael may be evoked to preside over festivi

ng in splendour on the burial mound! hail to thee as the corpse-king, pround as any man in the bed of marriage! in they four hands, seen and unseen, are the weapons of thy dominion- the signs of the power that thou dost wield in gestures of shadow and light. thou bearest a flute that the wind doth play, carved of a holy man s femur. thou bearest the book of judgement, fill d with the names of all blessed and wise; above whose pages a quill doth move- untouched by hand or soul. thou bearest a cursing-stave of blackthorn, a sword of unmelting ice, and endless rosary of mourners tears and an hourglass of ashen remains. all seasons begin and end with thy dance, for thy hand doth command the millstones of time. thous dost reveal the mystery of faith, for thou bearest the image of both truth and

t clan of azha-qayin! hail to the dragon-masked lord of albion s field! hail to jabal, jubal and tubal-cain, by the horns of the bull, the harp of the minstrel, and the hammer-knell s hymn to fire. hail to the king held high on the elder tree, to the lords and ladies of the meadow, to the good folk of the blood-acre. hail to the thrice-great wanderer, whose faith doth lie beneath his heel. thrice blessed, thrice cursed, thrice cunning be! in the name of our lady. so mote it be! aotinvocation of the adversary by akhtya seker arimanius (michael ford) october 2002 the following is a ritual which may be conducted when the sun is at its full light, or when the moon is full or dark, as the essence of iblis be finally revealed. the purpose of the ritual is invoking the spirit of the adversary, kn

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

y. the place became ipso facto subject to an interdict; the bishop desired the sacrament, and it was brought to him in solemn procession by the dean and chapter. all the clergy, both secular and religious, flocked from every side to the prison to offer their consolation to the captive, and their feelings were roused to the highest pitch by the preaching of a dominican, p. 32 who took as his text, blessed are they which are persecuted &c. seeing this, william outlawe nervously informed sir arnold of it, who thereupon decided to keep the bishop in closer restraint, but subsequently changed his mind, and allowed him to have companions with him day and night, and also granted free admission to all his friends and servants. after de ledrede had been detained in prison for seventeen days, and si

who was backed by the chancellor and treasurer, but the bishop finally succeeded in beating him, and compelled him to submit on his bended knees. by way of penance he was ordered to hear at least three masses every day for the space of a year, to feed a certain number of poor people, and to cover with lead the chancel of s. canice's cathedral from the belfry eastward, as well as the chapel of the blessed virgin. he thankfully agreed to do this, but subsequently refused to fulfil his obligations, and was thereupon cast into prison. p. 38 what was the fate of dame alice's accomplices, whose names we have given above, is not specifically recorded, except in one particular instance. one of them, petronilla of meath, was made the scapegoat for her mistress. the bishop had her flogged six times

of the anonymous narrator, that it has reference rather to the following up of the dame's associates, a process that must have involved a good deal of time and trouble, and in which no doubt many unhappy creatures were implicated. again, in 1353, two men were tried at bunratty in co. clare by roger cradok, bishop of p. 50 waterford, for holding heretical opinions (or for offering contumely to the blessed virgin, and were sentenced to be burnt. 1 the above are almost the only (if not the only) instances known of the punishment of death by fire being inflicted in ireland for heresy. from a consideration of the facts here enumerated it would seem as if a considerable portion of ireland had been invaded by a wave of heresy in the first half of the fourteenth century, and that this manifested i

out him, and asked him what ailed him? but for a time he could speak none. at last his p. 90 shaking ceased, and he began to speak, telling me, that for a long time the devil had appeared to him; first at glasgow he bought a horse from him, receiving a sixpence in earnest, and that in the end he offered to him a great purse full of sylver to be his, making no mention of the horse; he said that he blessed himself, and so the buyer with the sylver and gold that was poured out upon the table vanished. but some days thereafter he appeared to him at his own house, naming him by his name, and said to him, ye are mine, for i arled you with a sixpence, which yet ye have. then said he, i asked his name, and he answered, they call me nickel downus (i suppose that he repeated evil, that he should hav

in the cow's tail, and vervain glean'd about the ditches; these freets and charms did not prevail, they could not banish the auld witches. the neighbour wives a' gathered in in number near about a dozen; elspie dough, and mary linn, an' kate m'cart, the tailor's cousin. p. 229 aye they churn'd and aye they swat, their aprons loos'd, and coost their mutches but yet nae butter they could get, they blessed the cow but curst the witches. had sawney summoned all his wits and sent awa for huie mertin, he could have gall'd the witches' guts, an' cur't the kye to nannie barton. 1 but he may shew the farmer's wab, an' lang wade through carnmoney gutters; alas! it was a sore mis-jab when he employ'd auld mary butters. the sorcerest open'd the scene with magic words of her invention, to make the foo

s. even as late as the summer of 1911 the word "witch" was heard in an irish law- court, when an unhappy poor woman was tried for killing another, an old-age pensioner, in a fit of insanity. 1 one of the witnesses deposed that he met the accused on the road on the morning of the murder. she had a statue in her hand, and repeated three times "i have the old witch killed i got power from p. 238 the blessed virgin to kill her. she came to me at 3 o'clock yesterday, and told me to kill her, or i would be plagued with rats and mice" she made much the same statement to another witness, and added "we will be all happy now. i have the devils hunted away. they went across the hill at 3 o'clock yesterday" the evidence having concluded, the accused made a statement which was reduced to writing "on th

ISIS UNVEILED

ketches in 1761. in the amsterdam library there is a copy of the report of his famous trial, reprinted from the lisbon re- port. he was accused of sorcery and illicit intercourse with the devil, who had "disclosed to him /ufur) the prophecy imparted by the? arch-enemy to the poor visionary jesuit is reported in the following terms "the culprit hath confessed that the demon, imder the form of the blessed virgin, having commanded him to write the life of anti- christ, told him that he, alalagrida, was a second john, but more clear than john the evangelist; that there were to be three antichrists, and that the last should be bom at milan, of a monk and a nun, in the year 1920; that he would marry proserpine, one of the infernal furies" etc. the prophecy is to be verified forty-three years he

he reader to note well the underlined sent^ice, as we mean to test its truth impartially. we are prepared to adduce pioofs, undeniable and undenied even by the popish church forced, as she was, into the confession proofs of hundreds of cases in relation to the most solemn of her dogmas, wherein the 'spirits' lied from beginning to end. how about certain holy relics authenticated by visions of the blessed virgin, and a host of saints? we have at hand a treatise by a pious catholic. guibert de nogent, on the relics of saints. with honest despair he acknowledges the "great number of false relics, aa well as false legends" and severely censures the inventors of these lying mira- cles" it was on the occasion of one of our samor'i teelh" writes the tmxhoi ta demonologia "that de nogent took up h

iahop ot genoa id 1290. 1. lltirteeotb coitury. digitizecoy google dohinics dialog with the devils 75 virtue of the dominican rosary; and for this unparalleled blasphemy was punished on the spot by having 15,000 devils take possession of him. seeing the great suffering of thie tortured demoniac, st. dominic forgot the insult and called the devils to account* following is the couoqtiy between the 'blessed exorcist' and the demons: qmofkin how did you uke potaanaa of thii man, and how manj' arc you? anttcer of ike dniu we came into him for having qiokeii disrespectfully of the rtmary. we aie 15.000. qtiettioii why did so many m 15,000 enter him? atuker becsiue then an fifteen decades in tlie rosary which he derided, etc. domime ii not all true i have said of the virtues of the rosary? dtwiir

il the unwarranted assertions and support the interests of the church. the narrative is suggestive. the legend graphically describes the battle of the exorcist with the legion from the bottomless pit. the sulphurous flames which burst forth from the nose, mouth, eyes, and ears, of the demoniac; the sudden appearance of over a hun- dred angeb, clad in golden armor; and, finally, the descent of the blessed virgin herself, in person, bearing a golden rod, with which she adminis- 140. cf. jean martia: a ugtnd* ife w. dtmmaque: vuru. 1510. digitizecoy google 70 tsis onteilsd ten a sound thrashing to the demoniac to force the devils to confess that of hersdf which we scarcely need repeat, l^e wbtde catalog of theo- logical truths uttered by dominic's devils was embodied in so many articles of fa

miracles related in the guden legend, he might cure a dragon of a aore eye "near simon's pillar was the dwelling of a dragon, so very venom- ous that the stench was spread feu* miles round his cave" this reptile- hermit met with an accident; he got a thorn in his eye, and, becoming bhnd, crept to the saint's pillar, and pressed his eye against it for three days, without touching any one. then the blessed saint, from his aerial seat "three feet in diamder" ordered earth and water to be placed on the dragon's eye, out of which suddenly emerged a thorn (or stake, a cubit in length; when the people saw the 'miracle' they glorified the creator, as to the grateful dragon, he arose and "having adored god for two hours, returned to his cave* a half-converted saurian, we must suppose. and what are

t. francis preached a sermon in the wilderness, the birds assembled from the four cardinal points of the worid. they warbled and applauded eveiy sentence; they sang a holy mass in chorus; finally tbey dispersed to carry the glad tidings all over the universe. a grasshopper, profiting by the absence of the holy virgin, who generally kept company with the saint, remained perched on the head of the "blessed one" for a whole week. attacked by a ferocious wolf, the saint, who hod no other weapon but the sign of the cross which he made upon himself, instead of running away from his rabid assailant, b^pn arguing with the beast. having imparted to him the benefit to be derived from the holy religion, st. francis never ceased talking until the wolf became as meek as a iamb, and even shed tears of r

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

r what truly feeds us, and what drains us, and makes us emotionally cold and also old. there are so many conflicting signals in the world and so the first real food comes from discernment and listening to that inner i know. when we listen we are fed, when we ignore it we starve and for most of us who are born in this beta world, we begin to die the moment we are born. still, there is something so blessed about witnessing the process of a new life coming into the world, and more than one mother has found herself staring in awe and wonderment at her new born child, as the feeling of such love fills her heart and her soul, feeding that need to breed that mother nature gifted. there s also something so blessed about watching the process of death. completions and endings make way for new beginn

tate in a unique and profound manner. over the last 30 years of my meditations surfing in the theta. delta zones, i have had numerous experiences of being filled with the light and love and joy and ecstasy of these realms. sometimes i have retained full awareness and sometimes i have gone beyond my mental awareness zone. each time is different yet each time is so nourishing that all i can feel is blessed. due to our basic telepathic and empathetic natures, which are strengthened by such experiences, long term or proficient meditators can have an amazing range of experiences in these zones. here the meeting of beings of great light is common as we learn how to match and hold frequency fields with those on the buddhic wave, or the christ wave, or the madonna frequency. all is possible in the

f the bio-shield devices which we discuss in chapter 11. c) i also feel it is helpful to understand how to influence an existing field and how to weave a new field to support us in a more nurturing manner and will devote more time to this discussion later. it is also beneficial to understand that accessing the channel of divine nutrition is not something that happens just to the lucky ones or the blessed or the holy ones. any one can access the madonna frequency field and its divine love, divine wisdom channel and hence tap into pranic nourishment. however it is still a daily challenge to be able to exist in a predominantly beta. alpha field and still get enough nourishment from the theta field to maintain health. this is why our energetic hook-ins and bio-shield devices are so helpful as

ly guided to encourage pleasures that promote and sustain physical, emotional, mental and spiritual fitness in all. question 13: as a leading proponent in the world for the divine nutrition paradigm, and as someone who has had to deal with all the natural skepticism regarding the pranic nourishment reality, what do you see as the future of this? answer q13: like many yogis and shaman, i have been blessed with the ability to glimpse. from time to time. into our future and i have witnessed that due to its personal and global benefits, the prana as nourishment, level 3 reality is being divinely supported and will not go away. i have seen a world where the slaughter of any life. human or animal. is no longer part of our reality and is seen as something belonging to our more barbaric, unenlight

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ne-wheel (or rose) window. the twelve pillars, or radii, are the signs of the zodiac, and are issuant out of the glorified centre, or opening rose, the sun or beginning of all things. king arthur s round table displays the crucified rose in its centre. in the tables* alternating with tying-knots, of the order of the garter, which most noble order was originally dedicated, be it remembered, to the blessed lady, or to the virgin mary, the microcosmical, miniture king arthur s round table becomes the individual female discus, or organ, waxing and waning, negative or in flower, positive or natural, alternately red and white, as in the rose of the world: rosamond, rosa mundi. and where we will adduce, as our justification for this new reading of the origin of the order of the garter, the very m

bourbons. it also supplies the field, or ground-colour, to the emblazonment of the order of the saint-esprit, or of the h.g. it also refers mystically to revelation, and tosaint john. white 3. it stands for the great deep, or for matter in the abstract. it is represented heraldically by horizontal lines,which stand for fluid-levels,whether of the sea or of the air. this colour is assigned to the blessed lady, or notre dame de paris. in heathen representations of theruling feminine principle, it stands for the virgin of thesea. blue also, in regard to the heraldicmetals, sol is the sun, the procreative or producing power (gold; and luna, the moon, astarte( receptive, or female power, is the metal argent (or silver* the colour azure, or blue,mystically signifies the deep, or the world usurp

. their traces discoverable in the orders of knighthood. he collar of esses is supposed always to be a part of the order of the garder. the coupled s.s. means the sanctus spiritus, or holy spirit, or the third person. the fleurs-de- lis, or lisses, or the lilies of the field, invariably appear in close connection with st. john, or the sanctus fig. 168. collar of esses. spiritus, and also with the blessed virgin mary, in all christian symbola or insignia. the prince of wales triple plume appears to have the same mythic egyptian and babylonian origin, and to be substantially the same symbol as the fleur-de-lis. when arranged in threes, the fleurs-de- lis represent the triple powers of nature, the producer, the means of production, and that produced. the fleur-de-lis is presented in a deep di

onic. these names derive from the mystic mercurius trismegistus, thrice-master, thrice-mistress, for this personage is double-sexed: phoebe above, diana on earth, hecate below. fig. 177, ante (from the arches of the temple church, fig. 184. temple of apollinopolis magna, in upper egypt. fig. 185. norman capital, door-shaft: honeysuckle-and-lotus ornament, early example. london, is a symbol of the blessed virgin; it is also the delphic e, or seleucidan anchor. fig. 186. ur on. fig. 187. winged disc. the horns of the talmud account for the mythological minotaur, the bucentaur, pan and priapus, the fig. 183. egyptian torus, lotus enrichment, and various lunar symbols. ionic, corinthian, and gothic volves. 251 sagittary or centaur, the sign" sagittarius, and perhaps all bicorporate human and a

orned skull, apparently, of some purposely trodden creature. the head at the top is shown in the honour-point of the cover of the tomb. there is an amount of unsuspected meaning in every curve of these templar tombs; but it would at present too much occupy us to more fully explain. the crook part of a bishop s staff shows the undulating curve of the s.s. issuing out of the foliations: meaning the blessed virgin mary. this is particularly observable in the statue of william of wykeham, the founder, at st. mary s college, winchester; who, holding the spiritual crook in the left hand, gives the usual benediction of the two extended fingers with his right. the crook is the shepherd crook of the second person, and of the holy spirit. we now give a series of gnostic talismans, from originals. th

their perpetual virgin-youth, unspoiled heavenly beauty, and immortal star-born vigour. hair being an abhorred, tentacled, reaching-out or brutelike animal superflux the stigma or disgrace of the glorious spark of light or nearly suffocated human entity, condemned to its earth-birthed investiture or body it can have nothing about the parts of the deified idea of man or the various classes of the blessed angels. the contrary of all this is to be assumed of the evil genii or the recusant genii (luciferent and yet lucifugent, except in regard to their power or knowledge. for the soul of the world and matter, and to an important onehalf, the means of the world are feminine. for night (which is the other side of the curtain of day) is feminine. thus boehmen and plato; as representing all the c

KETAB E SIYAH

blind without them. black despair grasped with chill fingers our souls, seizing to himself our strength and leaving the shedim, noble disciples of satan, bereft, hopeless, and in grief we retired to chadel's high walls, abandoning in the darkness what light we had. yet one alone of the shedim was strong in defeat, seeking when all others were blind, striving yet when we were made weak. aset, most blessed, most noble, sought in darkness that thought lost and found the one we sought, unfinding. now, let heaven quail with fear where once the slavish elohim nurtured hope, now shattered into ten thousand fragments and victory to them eclipsed by a brighter light, satanael once more walks amongst us. like the light of the dawning sun, like the rain upon the desert, his sage guidance now nourishe

despised him once for the authority that he held over me i despise him twice over now for what i won from him, an inheritance of woe and unsleeping guard. most accursed is satanael who has so contaminated what i won. well he knew its properties that he made no defence but with a willing smile handed to me what was his, a terrible destruction that falls upon me. and how i once thought myself most blessed. now i descry in every shadow the knife's reflected light and in every cup the fatal potion of the assassin's vial. i am more like a prisoner than a king, thus do i reap the wages of my treachery, lured by satan's guile to this false prize and doomed kingdom; that doom that lies also upon my shoulders. o impotent elohim, you are destroyed by your own greed. overthrow me if you will it but

yet it was that the shadowed foe was himself caught up most abstruse motion and struck down by a hidden hand. amongst the daughters of isaac was one woman of great beauty and it was that the elohim eyes of dark gabriel beheld her and were taken not from her but held by sorcery more potent than gabriel had power to overcome. can it be that those that have love betrayed and defied all bonds of that blessed spell might know the vengeance of outraged amour and submit to its potent poison that burns in the veins like flame and ignites the very soul with heat? a venom sweeter than nectar, a pain more delighting than joy seized upon the soul of gabriel who had forsaken love but learned 324 that the same bond forsook not him. love, power greater than all more holy and more abominable than the myst

s at the altar to ashmedai, the thrice greatest, and to aset, the bright goddess. even as the soldiers of the king burst inwards with naked swords to claim the child gabriel spoke these words with a desperate tongue to that daughter of the nephilim that he had loved and of whose womb jesu, son of gabriel, was born, addressing her with those words with which he had first approached her "mary, most blessed of the women of the earth, mother to that prince most blessed that is the very son of heaven. swiftly must you fly hence for it is that herod, king of israel, grows jealous of the blessing of your son and perceives in that boy that which would eclipse his kingdom. thus, in his fear and hatred, has he sent forth soldiers against us that the child shall be destroyed. this must not be. take h

g turned from me. for some long moments were we caught in the other's ensnaring glance. what was between those eyes; love, sorrow, regret and pain. for those last moments were we reconciled and never was there such joy in weeping. too short now do those moments seem as jesu blew out his last breath in these words to me "father, into your hands do i commend my soul" and gladly did i take it to me. blessed is he that sleeps within the earth that he is reborn through me and lives eternal by his nobility. yet not all found peace upon that day and one voice cried out in wrath to see him that was his son suffer so upon the cross. thus stood gabriel at golgotha, unseen, even as was taken down the body of his one son amongst my multitudes, and this curse did he roar that it resounded betwixt earth

ll renounce that hubris. you shall curse abraham for isaac's birth. even the condemned shall be less wretched. these walls of shalem shall i tear down and crush to dust your temple. you shall be scattered across the earth and you shall be as leaves upon the wind. nowhere will you find a refuge from my wrath. the days that fathers abided in egypt and were made slaves to the pharaoh shall seem most blessed to you. never shall there be peace for you and your enemies shall be on every side. when your innocent children are slain then shall you know my grief. be most afeared, judaea, for these days are coming soon" now did grow black the sky, stained with the angel's wrath, and in the temple of the jews the veil that hid the inmost sanctum was rent in two by an unseen hand. the very earth shook

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e will no longer be fear lest he might not stand firm and trade the wisdom in the market, for there is no one in the mob who will wish to buy it, and the wisdom will be loathsome in their eyes, so that no glory or desire can be bought in return for it. hence, he who wishes to enter may come and enter. and many will roam and the knowledge will increase among the worthy. and by that we will soon be blessed with the coming of the messiah and the redemption of our souls soon in our days, amen. w h at i s t h e s e n s at i o n o f t i m e? q: the end of the world did not come in the year 2000, and you deny any reference to human time. what, then, is the sensation of time and where does it come from? a: there is a spiritual time, which is a sequence of situations (you can read about it in the f

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n genesis: now the lord said unto abram 'get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that i will show thee. and i will make of thee a great nation, and i will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing. and i will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will i curse; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed' so abram went, as the lord had spoken unto him; and lot went with him; and abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of haran. and abram took sarai his wife, and lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in haran; and they went forth to go into the land of canaan; and into the land of canaan (genesis 12:1-5. a

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of the divine love, and bounded his actions by duty and destiny, he could not err. 115. the same device also signifies the first manifest-ation of the deity. it was held by the egyptians there were three successive manifestations; the first aspect far above our reach, the second and third successively lower, and their conception of these three was very similar to that of the three persons of the blessed trinity in christianity and the trimurti among the hindus; in fact, practically all philosophical religions have recognized the triple manifestation of the deity. in the book of dzyan the same emblem, but without the two lines, was used to denote the same reality, the first logos or word; while in christian mysticism it signifies the christ within the bosom of the father. it was also consi

ar of roses is also useful, and adds greatly to the effect produced. 330. if the incense is intelligently magnetized its strength is increased enormously; for example, by putting into olibanum the definite force of the will in the direction of calmness and devotion, its influence may be increased by perhaps a hundredfold. that is why the incense in church is always taken up to the celebrant to be blessed, and why in the lodge it is brought to the r.w.m. in order that he may magnetize it with whatever special quality he thinks will be helpful for the work of the day. the sprinkling of holy water in a church is another way of producing a similar effect, but incense has the advantage that it rises into the air, and wherever a single particle goes the purification and blessing is borne with it

.w.m. now creates, receives, and constitutes the candidate an e.a.f, with k c s with the g c upon the f c s c placed upon his s c s and h c in turn. though the r.w.m. confers the degree, he is of course acting on behalf of the h.o.a.t.f, and is a channel for his power. obviously also the three touches of the f c s c convey different aspects of that power, corresponding to the three aspects of the blessed trinity, the first conveying strength to the brain, the second love to the heart, and the third executive ability to the right arm. the general effect of this downpouring of force is to widen somewhat the channel of communication between the ego and the personality of the candidate- another example of the curious correspondence between the admission to this degree and the ordination of the

name he is called, throughout the world(*op. cit, p. 31) 630. he goes on to explain that it is found in this association in egypt, in india and in mexico, and that it was so used by the roman collegia and the comacini. he also draws attention to the fact that the distinguishing badge of this degree has on it two blue rosettes, symbolizing the rose. blue was the colour of isis, and is that of the blessed virgin mary, whose emblem is the rose. the triangular flap, which in the first degree was worn with the point upward, to indicate that the spiritual had not yet entered into control of the material, is now turned down to show that the higher is supposed definitely to be taking charge of the lower. we shall see this same symbolism carried further still when we consider the sublime degree of

should be of interest to masons. the navel, heart and throat centres in the human body are mentioned as the places of fire, the sun and the moon respectively, and it is said that he who meditates in those centres will find there the devis saraswati, lakshmi and parvati or girija, in that order. those devis are outward-turned powers or shaktis of brahma, vishnu and shiva, the three persons of the blessed trinity, and have respectively the qualities of giving knowledge, prosperity and self-control- in other words, of helping the man to reach his highest mental, astral and physical aims; for the physical, astral and mental principles are a reflection (inverted, like that of a mountain in water) of the three principles of the higher triad. 720. saraswati is the patroness of learning and pract

earnest thought of devotion! the holy presence is never absent, but it certainly exhibits itself in greater activity in answer to an appeal. is the angel fs force-centre something like a faint reflection of that? 825. perhaps another analogy may be found in the twelve stars which, following the beautiful description in the apocalypse, are so often shown in medieval paintings round the head of the blessed virgin mary. all these represent powers; perhaps they correspond in some way to the points of light which the angels leave in our aura. the star always floating over the head of an initiate betokens the power of the king, upon which he can draw at any moment, while the star upon his forehead is the symbol of his own acquired power. 826. chapter x 827. two wonderful rituals 828. the working

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, resembling rather the presiding angels of the various countries than the rulers of the nine orders of the angelic hosts. 328. pallas athene, the grey-eyed goddess of wisdom, was a magnificent and splendid being, who practically governed athens in the old days through her devotees. her influence was enormously stimulating, but she was not so much an embodiment of compassion or of love, as is the blessed virgin mary, but rather of efficiency and of that perfect accuracy of form that is the essence of all true art. much of the wonderful art of greece was inspired directly by her; and to satisfy her it had to be the very highest and truest and most accurate. she could not tolerate a single line misplaced, even in the smallest thing. there was something of polished steel about athene; she was

ies, and thus was thoroughly versed in all the hidden knowledge of the ancient world. in addition to his travels round the shores of the mediterranean, pythagoras journeyed to india, where he met the lord buddha and became one of his disciples. he spent some years in india, and it is reported that he had the high honour of an interview with the next world teacher, the holy child shri krishna, who blessed him and sent him back to europe to found his system of philosophy and of esoteric instruction. thus in the pythagorean school many lines of tradition met together, and were blended into a comprehensive teaching upon the hidden side of life. 390. there is a curious old writing called the leyland-locke ms, which was at one time in the bodleian library, but recent investigators have been unab

ociety afterwards known throughout germany as the steinmetzen(*concise history of freemasonry, r. f. gould, p. 17) 532. we know from the torgau ordinances of 1462 that the stonemasons venerated the four crowned martyrs as their patron saints, and the strasburg constitutions of 1459 contain a devout invocation of the names of the father, son, and holy ghost; of our gracious mother mary; and of her blessed servants, the holy four crowned martyrs of everlasting memory(*gould, concise history, p. 19) from the brother-book of 1563 we learn that they had a greeting and a grip which might not be described in writing(*gould, hist. of freem, vol. i, p. 128) and a curious piece of testimony came to light at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when a certain architect, who had joined a survival

gnostic sects, and thence do we derive the intermingling of the two richest streams of oriental wisdom: the one, directly through persia from india; the other, traversing that marvellous egyptian period, enriched by the wisdom of the great hermetic teachers, flowed into syria and arabia, and thence with added force- garnered from the new divine powers made manifest in the profound mystery of the blessed jesus- into europe, through northern africa, finding a home in spain, where it took deep root. from this stock sprang into full flower that richness of speech and song for which the troubadours will live for ever, manichaeans who sang and chanted the esoteric wisdom they dared not speak. 668. next we see them dispersed in sects, taking local names- separated in name only, but using the sam

f sacrifice; but it was not originally intended to be an appendage to christianity, as it has now become in england, but rather an independent sacramental channel through which the lord of love may pour down his blessing upon initiates of every faith, for it was founded thousands of years before the birth of the disciple jesus in palestine. thus although it is the christ, the second person of the blessed trinity, who is adored in the rose-croix, the christ whose love is outpoured in the sovereign chapters of heredom, in our co-masonic ritual we speak of him only as the lord of love, and do not bind our brn. especially to the doctrines of the last great faith which he founded in person on earth; for he is the lord of all religions alike, and the rose-croix is no less his than the glorious s

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he influences of ill luck that would otherwise have fallen upon the household. early christians continued to use many of the amulets of the ancients. the medieval catholic church promoted the use of numerous holy charms including rosaries and holy relics. the most common charm was the agnus dei, a small cake of wax originally made out of passover candles, bearing images of the lamb and flag. when blessed by the pope, the agnus dei protected the wearer against attacks by the devil, thunder, lightning, fire, drowning, death in childbirth, and other dangers. in the seventeenth century, rosaries were blessed as amulets against fire, tempest, fever, and evil spirits. the idea that a charm needed to be consecrated in order to be effective is behind the belief that a lucky charm that someone give

tten down in the eighth century. the dying are warned that they will encounter fearsome demons after death 22 bardo th dol (the tibetan book of the dead) though they are also counseled that these demons are insubstantial projections of the mind: o son of noble family, listen very carefully. when the twelfth day comes, the blooddrinking emanation of the karma family, who is called karma-heruka the blessed, will rise out of the northern quadrant of your brain and appear before you clearly, united with his spouse; his body dark green, with three heads, six arms, and four legs spread apart; the right face is white, the left is read, and the middle a majestic deep green; his six hands are holding, the first to the right a sword, that in the middle-right a trident impaled with three human heads

tands before an altar consisting of a nude woman, her legs spreadeagled and vagina thrust open, each of her outstretched fists grasping a black candle made from the fat of unbaptized babies, and a chalice containing the urine of a prostitute (or blood) reposing on her belly. an inverted cross hangs above the altar, and triangular hosts of ergot-laden bread or black-stained turnip are methodically blessed as the priest dutifully slips them in and out of the altarlady s labia. then, we are told, an invocation to satan and various demons is followed by an array of prayers and psalms chanted backwards or interspersed with obscenities. all performed within the confines of a protective pentagram drawn on the floor. if the devil appears he is invariably in the form of a rather eager man wearing t

l and the person, now with a new body called the sahu, was free to enter the happy world of the sekhet aaru (field of rushes. the hardest part was over, but there were still some dangers or trials to face, as the sahu was not invulnerable. the book of the dead was still useful for spells to protect one from crocodiles, suffocation, and any number of other problems. the location of the land of the blessed is unclear, but it may have been conceived as up in the sky somewhere. in any case, finally arriving at the land of the blessed, the deceased would be able to make use of all the items left for their use in the crypt, such as food, beds, chairs, utensils, etc. one could also use magical spells to turn models of servants, or shabti, that were left in the tomb, into living servants, and spen

ol before he would transport the soul to the other side, and the ancient greeks accordingly buried their dead with an obol coin in their mouths so that they would be able to pay charon s fare. the iliad offers the belief that the gods did not punish or reward souls at death, but the mythology is not consistent about this, because mention is occasionally made of the elysian fields, or isles of the blessed, a wonderful, pleasurable place where certain special people get to go. some of the shades particularly suffered in hades, not so much because of a judgment on their life, but because they were not properly buried or nourished by sacrificial food offerings. in the story of tantalos in the odyssey, every time he reached for fruit, ravenously hungry, the wind would blow the fruit away. every

. the myth in the gorgias describes the judgment of a soul after death. the soul has been freed from the an 18th century print of charon receiving a dead soul into his boat taking the oblos (coin (fortean picture library) halloween 103 body, which is considered a form of prison. now in its naked reality, the soul is judged in a meadow at the intersection of two roads one leads to the isles of the blessed and the other leads to tartarus. the three judges are: rhadamanthys for souls from asia, aeacus for souls from europe, and minos for any cases about which there is indecision. the examination seems to be more medical than conversational. the soul is presented as marked by the actions of life, particularly in the sense of being malformed or wounded by authoring unjust actions. the judges ha

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constantly the persons in that image by the holy qabalah and by the true signs of brotherhood. for each person herein shall be a part of thyself, made individual and perfect, able to instruct thee in thy path. yet often there shall be others, that are to aid thee in thy working, or to oppose it. and in this matter thou shalt read especially the record of thy father his workings with soror ahita (blessed be her name unto the ages) and certain others to boot. n the book of wisdom or folly 85 gz de missa spiritus sancti (of the mass of the holy ghost) ow at last, o my son, may i being thee to understand the truth of this formula that is hidden in the mass of the holy ghost. for horus that is lord of the on is the child crowned and conquering. the formula of osiris was, as thou knowest, a wor

n darkness, and by putrefaction came to resurrection. but we take living things, and pour in life and nature of our own will, so that instantly and without corruption the child (as it were the word of that will) is generated; and again immediately taketh up his habitation among us to manifest in force and fire. this mass of the holy ghost is then the true formula of the magick of the on of horus, blessed by he in his name ra- hoor-khuit! and thou shalt bless also the name of our father merlin, frater superior of the o.t.o, for that by seven years of apprenticeship in his school did i discover his most excellent way of magick. be thou diligent, o my son, for in this wondrous art is no more toil, sorrow, and disappointment, as it was in the dead aeon of the slain gods. n liber aleph vel cxi

n i bid thee use all filial diligence, and attend to this same word in the mouth of thine earliest ancestor (except we adventure to invoke the name fu-hsi) in our known genealogy, the most holy, the true man, lao-tze, that gave his light unto the kingdom of flowers. for being questioned concerning the abode of the tao, he gave answer that it was in the dung. again, the tathagata, the buddha, most blessed, most perfect and most enlightened, added his voice, that there is no grain of dust which shall not attain to the arhan. keep therefore in just balance the relation of illusion to illusion in that aspect of illusion, neither confusing the planes, nor confounding the stars, nor denying the laws of their reaction, yet with eagle.s vision beholding the one sun of the true nature of the whole

hy, this is a contemplation of the cosmos, causal and dynamic, and that of its effect in static presentation. now this rapture of art is a virtue or triumph of love in his most universal comprehension, but the ecstasy of science is a continual orgasm of light; that is, of the mind. thou sayest, o my father, how may i attain to this fulness and perfection? art thou there, o my son? it is well, and blessed be the bed wherein thou was begotten, and the womb of thy sweet mother hilarion, my concubine, holy and adulterous, the scarlet woman! amen! l liber aleph vel cxi 136 e# de ecstasia samadhi, quo modo ab illis differt (of the ecstasy of samadhi, how it differs from these) onfuse thou not this beatific vision with the trances called samadhi; yet is samadhi the pylon of the temple hereof. for

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

h her scourge upon me, to mega qhrion, to compel me to creation and to destruction, which are one, in birth and in death, being love! blessed be she, uniting the egg with the serpent, and restoring man unto his mother, the earth! blessed be she, that offereth beauty and ecstasy in the orgasm of every change, and that exciteth thy wonder and thy worship by the contemplation of her mind many-wiled! blessed be she, that hath filled her cup with every drop of my blood, so that my life is lost wholly in the wine of her rapture! behold, how she is drunken thereon, and staggereth about the heavens, wallowing in joy, crying aloud the song of uttermost love! is not she thy true mother among the stars, o my son, and hast thou not embraced her in the madness of incest and adultery? yea, blessed be sh

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us in peace and comfort: conclude us receivers of your mysteries: for why? our lord and master is the all- one [invokes: nanta; the whole tablet of earth. the angle of e of e. the princess of the echoing hills, the rose of the palace of earth] the opening of the temple in the grade of 4 =78 give the sign of thoum-aesh-neith [knock] let us adore the lord and king of fire! tetragrammaton tzabaoth! blessed be thou! the leader of armies is thy name! amen [make the invoking pentagram of spirit acitve and pronounce these names: hyha alga bitom [make the invoking pentagram of fire, and pronouce \yhla twabx hwhy] the forty-eight keys or calls 28 [make the sign of leo with censer (or other suitable weapon] in the name of lakim, archangel of fire, spirits of fire, adore your creator [make the cross

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rending asunder of all things. 49. yea, also verily thou art the cool still water of the wizard fount. i have bathed in thee, and lost me in thy stillness. 50. that which went in as a brave boy of beautiful limbs cometh forth as a maiden, as a little child for perfection. 51. o thou light and delight, ravish me away into the milky ocean of the stars! 52. o thou son of a light-transcending mother, blessed be thy name, and the name of thy name, throughout the ages! 53. behold! i am a butterfly at the source of creation; let me die before the hour, falling dead into thine infinite stream! 54. also the stream of the stars floweth ever majestical unto the abode; bear me away upon the bosom of nuit! 55. this is the world of the waters of maim; this is the bitter water that becometh sweet. thou a

of brilliance flower upon our island; we shall eat of their fruit, and be glad. 51. but for me the lustral water, the great ablution, the dissolving of the soul in that resounding abyss. 52. i have a little son like a wanton goat; my daughter is like an unfledged eaglet; they shall get them fins, that they may swim. 53. that they may swim, o my beloved, swim far in the warm honey of thy being, o blessed one, o boy of beatitude! 54. this heart of mine is girt about with the serpent that devoureth his own coils. 55. when shall there be an end, o my darling, o when shall the universe and the lord thereof be utterly swallowed up? 56. nay! who shall devour the infinite? who shall undo the wrong of the beginning? 57. thou criest like a white cat upon the roof of the universe; there is none to a

holiness. 35. they beheld not god; they beheld not the image of god; therefore were they arisen to the palace of the splendour ineffable. a sharp sword smote out before them, and the worm hope writhed in its death-agony under their feet. 36. even as their rapture shore asunder the visible hope, so also the fear invisible fled away and was no more. 37. o ye that are beyond aormuzdi and ahrimanes! blessed are ye unto the ages. 38. they shaped doubt as a sickle, and reaped the flowers of faith for their garlands. 39. they shaped ecstasy as a spear, and pierced the ancient dragon that sat upon the stagnant water. 40. then the fresh springs were unloosed, that the folk athirst might be at ease. 41. and again i was caught up into the presence of my lord adonai, and the knowledge and conversatio

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is doctrine, hotototon spells the holy word otototon. the poor sir palamedes quells his rising spleen; he doubts his ears .how may i catch the beast. he yells. the smiling sage rebukes his fears .tis easier than all, sir knight! by simple faith the beast appears. by simple faith, not heathen might, catch him, and thus achieve the quest. then quoth that melancholy wight .i will believe. the hermit blessed his convert: on the horizon appears the beast .to thee the rest. he cries, to urge the good knight on. but no! sir palamedes grips the hermit by the woebegone liber cxcvii 40 beard of him; then away he rips, wood as a maniac, to the west, where down the sun in splendour slips, and where the quarry of the quest canters. they run like hippogriffs! like men pursued, or swine possessed, over t

n fs singing stone so fierce a questing barked and brayed, it turned his laughter to a groan. liber cxcvii 68 his vow forgot, his task undone, his soul whipped in god.s bitter school (he moaned a mighty malison) the perfect knight? the perfect fool .now, by god.s wounds. quoth he .my strength is burnt out to a pest of pains. let me fling off my curse at length in old chaldea.s starry plains! thou blessed jesus, foully nailed unto the cruel calvary tree, look on my soul fs poor fort assailed by all the hosts of devilry! is there no medicine but death that shall avail me in my place, that i may know the beauteous breath and taste the goodly gift of grace? keep thou yet firm this trembling leaf my soul, dear god who died for men; yea! for that sinner-soul the chief, sir palamede the saracen

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home.undressed.robed.attended to toilet.cut cross of blood once more to affirm mastery of body.sat down at 11.49 and ended the day with 10 pr.n.y.mas, which caused me to perspire freely, but were not altogether easy or satisfactory. the second day the stroke of twelve found me duly in my .sana, practising pr.n.y.ma. let me continue this work; for it is written that unto the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift. what then should happen to a persevering immortal like myself? 1 [in ms. notes to a copy of equinox i (1 (transcribed by yorke, a.c. adds to this entry .i also did a more holy practice as if to graft a tree (vide frazer, the magic art &c, ii, 100) and describes maryt as .a polish jewess, a student. the poem .was printed in the winged beetle& called .the two secrets] jo

g with lustre ineffable. and more, much more liber dccclx 92 which ten scribes could hardly catalogue in a century. the vision of the holy guardian angel itself; yet was he seen as from afar, not intimately. therefore is o. m. not content with all this wonder; but will now orderly close the temple, that at the beginning of the tenth day.and ten are the holy sephiroth, the emanations of the crown; blessed be he. he may make new considerations of this operation whereby he may discover through what error he is thus betrayed again and again into failure. failure. failure. 11.49. the temple is closed. now then, o lord adonai! let the tenth day be favourable unto o. m. for in the struggle he is as nothing worth. nor valiant, nor fortunate, nor skilful.except thou fight by his side, cover his bre

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umbhakha, and meditating on harpocrates, the silent and virginal god. 11. then at last being well-fitted in body and mind, fixed in peace, beneath a favourable heaven of stars, at night, in calm and warm weather, mayst thou quicken the movement of the light until it be taken up by the brain and the spine, independently of thy will. liber hhh 8 if in this hour thou shouldst die, is it not written .blessed are the dead that die in the lord.13? yea, blessed are the dead that die in the lord!14 (c) ordo templi orientis. this e-text last revised 21.07.2004. key entry, formatting, and endnotes by frater t.s. for celephais press/ nu isis working group. 1 this is not quite a literal translation of the latin but gives the gist of it well enough. in contrast to the .waters of contemplation. the .fla

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dy that is hidden behind the ovals of thine eyes. 6. deeper, ever deeper. i fall, even as the whole universe falls down the abyss of years. 7. for eternity calls; the overworld calls; the world of the word is awaiting us. 8. be done with speech, o god! fasten the fangs of the hound eternity in this my throat! 9. i am like a wounded bird flapping in circles. 10. who knows where i shall fall? 11. o blessed one! o god! o my devourer! 12. let me fall, fall down, fall way, afar, alone! 13. let me fall! svb figvra vii 15 14. nor is their any rest, sweet heart, save in the cradle of royal bacchus, the thigh of the most holy one. 15. there rest, under the canopy of night. 16. uranus chid eros; marsyas chid olympas; i chid my beautiful lover with his sunray mane; shall i not sing? 17. shall not min

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e frater p..s accomplishments in the ancient sciences of the east, swiftly and securely as he had passed in a bare year the arduous road which so many fail to traverse in lifetime, satisfied as himself was.in a sense.with his own progress, it was not yet by these paths that he was destined to reach the sublime threshold of the mystic temple. for though it is written .to the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift. yet, were it otherwise, no mortal however persevering could attain the immortal shore. as it is written in the fifteenth chapter of st. luke.s gospel .and when he was yet afar off, his father saw him and ran. had it not been so, the weary prodigal, exhausted by his early debauches (astral visions and magic) and his later mental toil (yoga) would never have had the stre

ah thaubodo .ye shall worship my first-born, my first, whose name is jesus. the fourth is wdwbot owcy wmc rca br awbb, beboa rabban ashar shamo yeshuah thaubado .when the master is come whose name is jesus ye shall worship. the fifth is, hwrcat owcy dltc rjba hywar hlwtb, betulah raviah abachar shethaled yeshuah thrashroah .i will choose a virgin worthy to bring forth jesus, and ye shall call her blessed. the sixth is, wlksy owcy ypwgc rttsa \ypxr tgwob, beaugoth ratzephim assattar shegopi yeshuah thakelo .i will hide mayself in cake (baked with) coals, for ye shall eat jesus, my body. 4 [the quote from genesis, in jacob.s blessing to judah, is generally taken as the earliest reference to the messiah. other meanings of 358 are discussed later in this article. t.s] on the qabalah 7 the qaba

d. i read it d the door, o matter, t darkness, by various columns of 777 (to choose the column is a matter of spiritual intuition. solvitur ambulando67. but here i am only dealing with the .trying of the spirits, to know whether they be of god. suppose now that a vision purporting to proeed from god is granted to me. the angel declares his name. i add it up. it comes to 65. an excellent number! a blessed angel! not necessarily. suppose he is of a mercurial appearance? 65 is a number of mars. then i conclude that, however beautiful and eloquent he may be, he is a false spirit. the devil does not understand the qabalah well enough to clothe his symbols in harmony. but suppose an angel, even lonely in aspect, not only knows the qabalah. your own researches in the qabalah.as well as you do, bu

o 418= way ta, the essence of iao, q.v. this short analysis might be indefinitely expanded; but always the symbol will remain the expression of the goal and the exposition of the path. 419. teth, the number of the .laughing lion. on whom babalon rideth. see liber 418. note 419+ 156= 575= 23 25, occultly signifying 24, which again signifies to them that understand the interplay of the 8 and the 3. blessed be his holy name, the interpreter of his own mystery! 434. daleth, the holy letter of the mother, in her glory as queen. she saves the 4 by the 7 (d= 4= venus= 7, thus connects with 28, mystic number of netzach (venus, victory. note the 3 sundering the two fours. this is the feminine victory; she is in one sense the delilah to the divine samson. hence we adore her from full hearts. it ough

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

e. how the creatures talk. ascension day 9 are dumb, the drum doth come and make us mute: the englishman, half huckster and half brute, raves through his silk hat of the absolute. the british don, half pedant and half hermit, begins .the ding an sich*.as germans term it. we stop him short; he readjusts his glasses, turns to his folio..twill eclipse all precedent, reveal god.s nature, every dent a blessed dent! the donkey: written by an ass, for asses. so, with permission, let us be orthodox to our finger-ends; what the bulk hold, high church or friends, or hard-shall baptists.and we.ll see. i will not now invite attack by proving white a shade of black, or christ (as some47 have lately tried) an epileptic mania, citing some case .where a dose of bromide duly given in time drags a distemper

er. in short, we all lie all the time; we are compelled to it by the nature of things themselves.paradoxical as that seems.and the buddha knew it! the fifth precept. at last we arrive at the end of our weary journey.surely in this weather we may have a drink! east of suez. trombone-macaulay (as i may surely say, when browning writes banjo-byron) tells us, a man may raise a thirst. no, shrieks the blessed one, the perfected one, the enlightened one, do not drink! it is like the streets of paris when they were placarded with rival posters. ne buvez pas de l.alcool! l.alcool est un poison! and buvez de l.alcool! l.alcool est un aliment! we know now that alcohol is a food up to a certain amount; the precept, good enough for a rough rule as it stands, will not bear close inspection. what buddha

him, in spite of all his cunning .there.s some one working against us on the physical plane. we must transcend it. no sooner said than done: 1 .o the jewel in the lotus! aum. the most famous of the buddhist formularies. 2 the burmese name for an elemental spirit. the three characteristics 73 a family of nats in a big tree at anuradhapura had a little stranger, very welcome to mamma and papa nat .blessed indeed was the family. fiveand- forty feet1 away stood a most ancient and holy dagoba: and the children of light would gather round it in the cool of the evening, or in the misty glamour of dawn, and turn forth in love and pity towards all mankind.nay, to the smallest grain of dust tossed on the utmost storms of the sahara .blessed and more blessed! for one day came a holy bikkhu from the

t the perdu. r abu of my lengthy tale. the wicked jehjaour has got something lingering with boiling oil in it, while waiting for his clerical clothes: while, as for me, i myself was the bacillus in the forest of lanka: i was the old lady: i was (he shuddered) the british government: i was the mosquito that buzzed in the girl.s flute: i was bhavani: i was huxlananda swami; and at the last, at this blessed hour, i am. that i am .but, lord. said the five hundred thousand and one arahats in a breath .thou art then guilty of six violent deaths! nay, thou hast hounded one soul from death to death through all these incarnations! what of this first precept2 of yours .children. answered the glorious one .do not be so foolish as to think that death is necessarily an evil. i have not come to found a

w2 of seven colours: our father fitted himself as an arrow to the string (and the string was waxed well, dipped in a leaden pot wherein boiled amber and wine) and shot through stormy heavens. and they that saw him saw a woman wondrous fair3 robed in flames of hair, moon-sandalled, sun-belted, with torch and vase of fire and water. and he trailed comet-clouds of glory upward. thus came our father (blessed be his name) to death,4 who stood, scythe in hand, opposed. and ever and anon he swept round, and men fell before him .look. said death .my sickle hath a cross-handle. see how they grow like flowers .give me salt. quoth our father. and with sulphur (that the goat had given him) and with salt did he bestrew the ground .i see we shall have ado together. says death .aye. and with that he lops

father, and for seven nights he slept in seven starry palaces, and a sword to guard him. note well also that these children, and those others, are two, being four. and on the sixth day (for the seven days were past) he rose and came into his ancient temple, a temple of our holy order, o my brethren, wherein sat that hierophant who had initiated him of old. now read he well the riddle of the goat (blessed be his name among us for ever! nay, not for ever, and therewith the teacher made him a master of sixfold chamber, and an ardent sufferer toward the blazing star. for the sword, said the teacher, is but the star unfurled.2 and our father being cunning to place aleph over tau read this reverse, and so beheld eden, even now and in the flesh. whence he sojourned far, and came to a great empero

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

ens, and the essence, of the earth. in the beginning in wisdom in the head* created god the elohim the holy gods the essence. of the heavens and the essence of the earth contained therein also are the divine, magical and terrestrial formula of the passage of the incomprehensible nothingness of the ain soph to the perfection of creation expressed by the ten voices or emanations of god the vast one.blessed be he. even the holy sephiroth. and the method whereby i shall work shall be the one absolute and inerratic science: the science of number: which is that single mystery of the intellect of man whereby he becometh exalted unto the throne of inflexible and unerring godhead* i.e, the white skull. vide idra zuta qadisha, cap. ii. distinguish from the skull of microprosopus. ta= the first and l

11 .the characters of heaven with thy finger &c. is from an english translation of the .rosicrucian prayer. which appeared in the second part of geheime figuren der rosenkreuzer (an eighteenth century german alchemical- rosicrucian work, as used in the adeptus minor ritual of the r.r. et. a.c. the latin motto on the final emblem translates as .may the lord our god, who gave unto us the signs, be blessed. it is a slight adaptation of a latin motto which appeared on the figure of the .golden and rosy cross. in geheime figuren (which design was in turn borrowed by mathers for the reverse of the .complete symbol of the rose cross. in the r.r. et a.c. ta.liber mmm the studentship syllabus of the 4 iot liber mmm this course is an exercise in the disciplines of magical trance, a form of mind con

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of march, amidst the acclamation of his priests and followers "he is risen" adonis was born out of a myrrh tree. myrrh, the symbol of death because of its connection with the process of embalming, was one of the gifts brought by the three magi to the manger of jesus. in the mysteries of adonis the neophyte passed through the symbolic death of the god and "raised" by the priests, entered into the blessed state of redemption made possible by the sufferings of adonis. nearly all authors believe adonis to have been originally a vegetation god directly connected with the growth and maturing of flowers click to enlarge the great god pan. from kircher's oedipus gyptiacus. the great pan was celebrated as the author and director of the sacred dances which he is supposed to have instituted to symbo

o are saved by the light of the mystery which i have revealed unto you, o hermes, and which i now bid you to establish among men, shall return again to the father who dwelleth in the white light, and shall deliver themselves up to the light and shall be absorbed into the light, and in the light they shall become powers in god. this is the way of good and is revealed only to them that have wisdom "blessed art thou, o son of light, to whom of all men, i, poimandres, the light of the world, have revealed myself. i order you to go forth, to become as a guide to those who wander in darkness, that all men within whom dwells the spirit of my mind (the universal mind) may be saved by my mind in you, which shall call forth my mind in them. establish my mysteries and they shall not fail from the ear

ind) may be saved by my mind in you, which shall call forth my mind in them. establish my mysteries and they shall not fail from the earth, for i am the mind of the mysteries and until mind fails (which is never) my mysteries cannot fail" with these parting words, poimandres, radiant with celestial light, vanished, mingling with the powers of the heavens. raising his eyes unto the heavens, hermes blessed the father of all things and consecrated his life to the service of the great light. thus preached hermes "o people of the earth, men born and made of the elements, but with the spirit of the divine man within you, rise from your sleep of ignorance! be sober and thoughtful. realize that your home is not in the earth but in the light. why have you delivered yourselves over unto death, havin

om a pure soul and a heart stretched out unto thee "o thou unspeakable, unutterable, to be praised with silence "i beseech thee to look mercifully upon me, that i may not err from the knowledge of thee and that i may enlighten those that are in ignorance, my brothers and thy sons "therefore i believe thee and bear witness unto thee, and depart in peace and in trustfulness into thy light and life "blessed art thou, o father! the man thou hast fashioned would be sanctified with thee as thou hast given him power to sanctify others with thy word and thy truth" the vision of hermes, like nearly all of the hermetic writings, is an allegorical exposition of great philosophic and mystic truths, and its hidden meaning may be comprehended only by those who have been "raised" into the presence of the

being back to back, yet a pretty way between. at or neer the apparent time of the full moon, they vanished, leaving abundance of terror and amazement in those that saw them (see william lilly) p. 51 was formerly called the feast of the passage of the virgin (beausobre, tome i. p. 350; and in the library of the fathers (bibl. part. vol. ii. part ii. p. 212) we have an account of the passage of the blessed virgin. the ancient greeks and romans fix the assumption of astraea, who is also this same virgin, on that day" this virgin mother, giving birth to the sun god which christianity has so faithfully preserved, is a reminder of the inscription concerning her egyptian prototype, isis, which appeared on the temple of sais "the fruit which i have brought forth is the sun" while the virgin was as

his place where the divine goodness has assembled us; be attentive to our orders and known to our just demands; believe not that your resistance will cause us to abandon our operations. nothing can dispense with your obeying us. we command you by the mysterious names elohe agla elohim adonay gibort. amen "i call upon thee, zadkiel, in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost, blessed trinity, unspeakable unity "i invoke and intreat thee, zadkiel, in this hour to attend to the words and conjurations which i shall use this day by the holy names of god elohe el elohim elion zebaoth escerehie iah adonay tetragrammaton "i conjure thee, i exorcise thee, thou spirit zadkiel, by these holy names hagios o theos iscyros athanatos paracletus agla on alpha et omega ioth aglanbroth

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the first three nights to mark your initial step on the path. anyway, the feeling of release that should accompany this little rite is a sure indication that the way is open for the powers to begin flowing within you. it is as simple as that. no risky copulation with fellow initiates on top of damp tombstones. no messy crucifixion of toads. just a simple loosening of the mundane knot a process of blessed unbinding. as we witches say, i say to you "blessed be" now you can begin developing your powers, the intitial step of commitment having been taken. this is done basically in two ways: first, by making use of the four great rules of magic which form the sides of the witches' pyramid; and second, by the observance of natural power tides within the framework of the universe, which constantly

or enmity. hear my will! attend to me! as my word, so mote it be! having done this, paint the following runes around the cup with a new brush and paint. black or white enamel or stove-black is best for this. for this ritual you may also mix into it a pinch of your powdered herbs, vervain, et al. as you paint each rune, chant these words, visualizing the signs glowing with magical light as you do "blessed be thou cup of water" having done this, paint the runes that spell your witch name around the base of the cup, pronouncing each letter out loud as you do so. when you finish, chant the words "so mote it be" and put your completed cup safely away for future use. the thurible again, a simple process. buy a new metal chafing dish or incense burner, preferably with small legs or a stand to rai

rcoal. now, again when the moon is waxing (this will always be the case, unless otherwise stated, exorcise the thurible with charged fire and water in the same way that you did your cup. then paint the proper symbols around it, chanting the following words with each symbol and again charging them with light. you may mix a little dragon's blood resin with your paint if you like, for added potency "blessed be thou creature of fire" paint your witch name around the base, repeating the letters and charging them as you do so, and again terminate the spell with the words "so mote it be" this is your complete thurible. with it and your cup you will henceforth perform all your water and fire exorcisms. now that we are equipped with our main tools of consecration, we shall deal with one of the most

s up for a good five minutes, always stroking in the same direction, chanting these words at each stroke: blade of steel, i conjure thee attract all things as named by me! as my word, so mote it be! finally, paint the proper runes upon the handle in white paint with which you may again mix any of the powdered herbs you used in your previous infusion. chant the following words to charge each rune "blessed be thou knife of art" then paint your witch name on the reverse side of the handle, again spelling the letters out loud to charge them, finishing with the usual words "so mote it be" finally, you must bury the athame for three days and three nights in the earth, point down. your backyard will amply suffice. at the end of this time, you may dig up your athame, and, wrapping it in an exorcis

or gather your own river rushes. never mind, though; do as most urban witches do and buy a ball of red ribbon. from this you should measure off three six-foot lengths. when the moon is waxing, exorcise these with water and fire, and knotting the three ends together, start braiding them, chanting the following jingle, binding in the magical light with each twist: made to measure, wrought to bind, blessed be thou cord entwined. when you finish, make a large firm knot with the free ribbon ends to prevent them from unravelling, and repeat your sealing words "so mote it be" finally, tie another large knot three feet six inches from the first knot, a further one at four feet, another at four feet six inches, another at five feet, and yet another at five feet six inches. these will be the measur

. the choice of colour ranges from black or white to red and green, even an occasional silver or gold! you should then exorcise the book with water and fir then, with a pen and ink specially bought for this purpose, draw in this pentacle and its runes on the front side of the first page and the reverse of the last. as you draw in each rune, chant the following words: book of words, book of deeds, blessed be thou book of art! the "art" referred to is magical art, needless to say. finally, write your own witch name in the centre of the pentacles, charging each letter as you do so in the usual way, and sealing again with the words "so mote it be" this book, along with your athame, will be your most treasured magical possession and should only be shown other witches and coven members. how to m

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charity, and of an eternal salutation. let all the demons fly from this place, especially those who are opposed unto this work, and let the angels of peace assist and protect this circle, from which let discord and strife fly and depart. magnify and extend upon us, o lord, thy most holy name, and bless our conversation and our assembly. sanctify, o lord our god, our humble entry herein, thou the blessed and holy one of the eternal ages! amen. after this, let the master say upon his knees, as follows: book one page 19 prayer. o lord god, all powerful and all merciful, thou who desirest not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live; give and grant unto us thy grace, by blessing and consecrating this earth and this circle, which is here marked out with t

ls by which solomon has linked and bound ye; and by the sacred bonds by which anael hath environed and hath conquered the spirit: and by the name of the angel who ruleth potently over the rest, and by the praise of all creatures who cry incessantly unto god, who spake, and immediately all things, even the ages, were made and formed; and by the name ha-qadosch berakha, which signifies the holy and blessed one; and by the ten choirs of the holy angels chaioth ha-qadesh, auphanim, aralim, chashmalim, seraphim, malachim, elohim, beni elohim, kerubim, and ishim; and by, and in the sacred name of twelve letters of which each letter is the name of an angel, and the letters of the name are aleph, beth, beth, nun, vau, resh, vau, cheth, he, qoph, daleth, shin. by these names therefore, and by all t

xxvii, xxix, xxxii, li, lxxii, cxxxiv. after this thou shalt repeat the following oration: the oration. o adonai most powerful, el most strong, agla most holy, on most righteous, the aleph and the tau, the beginning and the end; thou who hast established all things in thy wisdom; thou who has chosen abraham thy faithful servant, and hast promised that in his seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed, which seed thou hast multiplied as the stars of heaven; thou who hast appeared unto thy servant moses in flame in the midst of the burning bush, and hast made him walk with dry feet through the red sea; thou who gavest the law to him upon mount sinai; thou who hast granted unto solomon thy servant these pentacles by thy great mercy, for the preservation of soul and of body; we most humbly

them up thus, and turning anew towards the east thou shalt say with great veneration the following prayer: prayer. agla, agla, agla, agla; o god almighty who art the life of the universe and who rulest over the four divisions of its vast form by the strength and virtue of the four letters of thy holy name tetragrammaton, yod, he, vau, he, bless in thy name this covering which i hold as thou hast blessed the mantle of elijah in the hands of elisha, so that being covered by thy wings, nothing may be able to injure me, even as it is said: he shall hide thee under his wings and beneath his feathers shall thou trust, his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. after this thou shalt fold it up, saying these words following: recabustira, cabustira, bustira, tira ra, a; and shall keep it carefully

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rom his wickedness and live, o god have mercy upon me and pardon all my sins; for i unworthy entreat thee, o father of all creatures, thou who art full of mercy and of compassion, by thy great goodness, that thou deign to grant unto me power to see and know these spirits which i desire to behold and to make to appear before me and to accomplish my will. through thee who art conqueror, and who art blessed unto the ages of the ages. amen. o lord god the father eternal, who art seated upon the kerubim and the seraphim, who lookest upon earth and upon sea; unto thee do i raise my hands and implore thine aid alone, thou who alone art the accomplishment of good works, thou who givest rest unto those who labour, who humblest the proud, who art the author of life and the destroyer of death; thou a

he incense burner: the exorcism of the fire. i exorcise thee, o creature of fire, by him through whom all things have been made, so that every kind of phantasm may retire from thee, and be unable to harm or deceive in any way, through the invocation of the most high creator of all. amen. the key of solomon page 106 bless, o lord all-powerful, and all-merciful, this creature of fire, so that being blessed by thee, it may be for the honour and glory of thy most holy name, so that it may work no hindrance or evil unto those who use it. through thee, o eternal and almighty lord, and through thy most holy name. amen. this being done, thou shalt put the spices upon the fire, and make what perfumes and suffumigations thou requirest. over fumigations of evil odour thou shalt say: adonai, lazai, da

put the spices upon the fire, and make what perfumes and suffumigations thou requirest. over fumigations of evil odour thou shalt say: adonai, lazai, dalmai, aima, elohi, o holy father, grant unto us succour, favour, and grace, by the invocation of thy holy name, so that these things may serve us for aid in all that we wish to perform therewith, that all deceit may quit them, and that they may be blessed and sanctified through thy name. amen. book two page 107 chapter xi. of the water, and of the hyssop. if it be necessary to sprinkle with water anything required in the art it should be done with a sprinkler. prepare a censer in the day and hour of mercury, with the odoriferous spices of the art. after this thou shalt take a vessel of brass, of lead varnished within and without, or of eart

ye in my work, so that through you it may find virtue and accomplishment. amen. after this repeat psalms cxxxi; xv; cii; viii; lxxxiv; lxviii; lxxii; cxxxiii; cxiii; cxxvi; xlvi; xlvii; xxii; li; cxxx; cxxxix; xlix; cx; liii; and say: i exorcise thee, o creature of wax (or of earth, that through the holy name of god and his holy angels thou receive blessing, so that thou mayest be sanctified and blessed, and obtain the virtue which we desire, through the most holy name of adonai. amen. sprinkle the wax and put it aside for use; but take note that the earth which should be dug up with thy hands should be prepared every time thou hast need thereof. book two page 117 chapter xix. concerning the needle and other iron instruments. there are several steel instruments necessary in various operat

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON PENTACLES

ng as death" figure 41. the third pentacle of venus. this, if it be only shown unto any person, serveth to attract love. its angel monachiel should be invoked in the day and hour of venus, at one o clock or at eight. editor s note. the following names are written within the figure: ihvh, adonai, ruach, achides, aegalmiel, monachiel, and degaliel. the versicle is from genesis i. 28 "and the elohim blessed them, and the elohim said unto them, be ye fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it" figure 42. the fourth pentacle of venus. it is of great power, since it compels the spirits of venus to obey, and to force on the instant any person thou wishest to come unto thee. editor s note. at the four angles of the figure are the four letters of the name ihvh. the other letters

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 3

agios aglaon tetragrammaton& by& in the name primeumaton which commandeth the whole host of heaven, whose power& virtue is most effectual for the calling you forth& command you to transmit your rays perfectly to lemegeton: clavicula salomonis 14 my sight& voice to my ears, in& through this celestial stone, that i may plainly see you& perfectly hear you speak unto me, therefore move o thou mighty& blessed angel samael& by his present name of the great god jehovah& by the imperial dignity thereof, descend& show your self visibly& perfectly in a pleasant& comely form before me in this crystal stone to the sight of mine eyes, speaking with a voice intelligible to apprehension, declaring& accomplishing all my desires that i shall ask or require of you, both herein& whatsoever truth or thing als

all that is obscure& dark in thy memory& make you knowing in all sciences sacred& divine in an instant [below is] a form of prayer which ought to be said upon that coast or quarter where the genijs is several times, it being an exorcism to call the genij into the crystal stone. note this prayer may be altered to the mind of the worker, for it is here sett for an example. the prayer o thou great& blessed n my angel guardian, vouchsafe to descend from thy holy mansion which is celestial with thy holy influence& presence into this crystal stone, that i may behold thy glory& enjoy thy society, aid& assistance both now& forever hereafter, o thou that art higher than the 4th. heaven& knowest the secrets of elanel, thou that ridest upon the wings of the wind& art mighty& potent in thy celestial&

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at divided the hard rock& rivers of water issued out of the sand of the wilderness, and by that great power that led the children of israel into the land of canaan& by that great power that destroyed sonachoribs great host& by that great& almighty power of him that walked on the sea as on dry land& by that almighty power that raised the dead lazarus out of his grave& by that almighty power of the blessed& holy& glorious trinity that did cast the devil& all disobedient angels out of heaven into hell that thou thief return immediately& restore the goods again which thou hast stolen away, therefore in& by the names of the almighty god before rehearsed i charge thee, thou thief to restore the goods again immediately or else the wrath of god may fall upon thee& force thee to come immediately. a

MEANING OF MASONRY

of fellowship" with the material world, but indicating also by the triangular portion above, in conjunction with the quadrangular portion below, that man's nature is a combination of soul and body; the three-sided emblem at the top added to the four-sided emblem beneath making seven, the perfect number; for, as it is written in an ancient hebrew doctrine with which masonry is closely allied" god blessed and loved the number seven more than all things under his throne" by which is mea nt that man, the seven-fold being, is of the most cherished of all the creator's works. and hence also it is that the lodge has seven principal officers, and that a lodge, to be perfect, requires the presence of seven brethren; though the deeper meaning of this phrase is that the individual man, in virtue of

they may both learn something of the original design of the order and educate their imagination in the principles of that science. and to such, in conclusion, may be commended that temple-hymn of the hebrew initiates, which of all the psalms of david refers with most pointed reference to the subject-matter of the supreme order of the holy royal arch of jerusalem and the personal attainment of the blessed and perfected condition which that title implies" i was glad when they said unto me, let us go up into the house of the lord; our feet shall stand within thy gates, o jerusalem. jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together; thither the tribes go up, the tribes of the lord. for there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of david. pray for the peace of jerusalem!

and faculty of that old nature, or as it were each of the zodiacal divisions of his own microcosm, has contributed its purified essence to form a new organism" a new heaven and a new earth; and how these essences, like twelve diversified tribes, have assembled convergently and finally coalesced and become fused into a unity or new whole" a city that is compact together" and it is this" city" this blessed condition, which mystically is called "jerusalem" within whose walls is the peace which passeth understanding and whose palaces reveal to the enfranchised soul the unfailing plenteousness and fecundity of the indissoluble trinity of wisdom and love and power from which man and the universe have issued and into which they are destined to return. the antithesis of this" heavenly city" is the

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the psyche or self into the mask of the god form in question, going forth to the sabbat masked in the cloak of the god form you are assuming. this is a development from older golden dawn practices and enables the mind to grow strong through understanding and experiencing on dreaming levels other significant god forms, demons and angelick spirits. 23 the egyptian book of the dead, the abode of the blessed, edited by e.a. wallis budge. 24 tubal-cain or cain, the son of samael and lilith, was the master of the forge i.e. initiation. 12 when one approaches the ancient masks of set, seker or the persian druj of the yatuk-dinoih understand that by diving in the black sun, becoming as a god in the darkness is but the first part of crossing the abyss. the rite of adversarial shadow -the ensorcelme

MICHAEL FORD BOOK OF CAIN

y son of sons, you will find your mother and sister tomorrow, then you shall walk the path of night. by the noon tide sun you have walked, and with the scorpions and serpents of the desert sands have you come forth as god. your sign which is my sign on earth is the pitch fork within the fiery sun, that is our aged mark of being and becoming. cain, my son, our kin is ever deep and eternal. you are blessed in the fire of sathan, the adversary. much will be taught to you when the moment is right. i thanked my father and fell to sleep. my dreams were pleasant and filled with sorcerous images which i understood came from the gates i opened forth. i woke in the feeling of sweat and filth from the previous day, i was refreshed yet unclean. i killed a small animal with ease and ate in the morning

made strong by the arts of ahriman, who was as darkness. the beast became human flesh, and i was able to become both. i was brought in union and great ecstasy the harmony of the celestial heights of my father s realm, being the air and fire. i was also shown and taught the arts of the lower realm, called a secret place known as arezura, that shadow and flame was the mastery over the earth. i was blessed again with the mark of cain which is the distinct mark of our lord the devil, which is the self in perpetual opposition which breeds strength and development. the mark of the devil was the initiation mark of azazel and lilith, which may come as caul or birth mark, this may be passed through the circle from my being touching the initiate, or lilith who is strong in both shadow and flame. i

and flame. i then took forth to the great deserts, with the blessing of lilith and the dragon itself. i was the lord of the forge, the blacksmith of infernal and celestial fire, the rider of the dragon and bringer of sorcerous knowledge. i, cain, who learned the wisdom of the devouring goddess, the harlot made virgin and the virgin made goddess, and have faced the hungering shades of ahriman, who blessed me in the dreams and nightmares of the wise. i, cain, who sipped of the emerald grail and the skull cup of the dragon-goddess, did i taste the pleasures of the harlot, walk the earth forever. i am the wandered, and many forms i will take. that even that i have left flesh shall my spirit dwell on, that i who have embraced the black flame just as set-an of egypt, that i shall dwell in the pl

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

i am cain, loner and witch soul of the immortal fire! so it is dodothe book of the witch moon by michael w. ford 2 2 the book of the witch moon is dedicated to hecate, the inspiration behind this grimoire, the goddess of the triple moon, of youth, of wisdom and of darkness..she who resides in the north, whose masks are many, lilith, diana, az, those daughters who shall meet thee in the crossroads blessed is her terrible name, she who blesses and curses with a glance o mother of the bleeding moon, o bride of chaos and darkness born may the pages of this book reveal thy lunar splendor, when shadows envelop and open your eyes through her caul hekas, hekas, hecate! 3 3 the book of the witch moon a grimoire of luciferian witchcraft, vampyrism and chaos sorcery by michael w. ford 1999- 2003 edit

action and experience! osculum infame, the diving of the great dark pit! so it is done! banish and close circle. do not destroy the oath of initiation; this will be placed in a special box with most of your first-born workings. bless the box under various goetic spirits and keep hidden and safe. mark of the devil (sigilium diaboli) chant "ascend now in the northern tower- horned lord of the earth blessed is the stave of the devil itself, from which we mark ourselves in rebirth i come now to behold the fires from between the horns of the goat and stand in the brilliance of lucifer reborn that we shall rectify the primal dream of all desire let this mark be again in the light of the sabbat moon" the prayer of the infernal sabbat the devil s mark part two- by the promethean torch, known illum

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

ate, by three and turn of the dark moon, widdershins about the sacred circle by owl and bat great shadows of darkness in light, to go in the company of the shades of the dead. i encircle myself in my great familiars to dance by the elphame fire of succubi and daemon flesh i mask myself in the birthing blanket of cain and lilith from which i am immolated serpent skin do i cloak myself in, hail and blessed be those of the devil s flame and hekate s shroud lord of the sabbat baphomet known also as nylarlathotep, the black man of the sabbat, is the center of which chaos is formed by will into order. the 8 pointed luciferian or sabbat star known also as the chaos sphere (algol, the portal to baphomet. the god of dual ecstasies, octinimos/baphomet is the result of the self-alchemical union of th

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ils the subject of etymology to show that the gods were actuallyflesh and blood and that they were also the bringers of all manner of control and evil to this planet.)their gods are the gods of the hills (i kings 20:23)while saturn reigned, those then his subjects were,who lived the life of gods without all care.whom sorrow, labor, nor old age oppressed,but soundness, both in hands and feet, them blessed (hesiod)that there was in progress a great colonizing movement by the gods is evidenced by the names of thecountries of europe. each european country has an el derivative name (p. 27)belgium, engeland, gaels, caledonia, palestine, and hellenesfor some unknown reason, there exists within the midst of our languages a very significant word, themeaning of which has been lost for many generatio

other realms are peaceful and wrathful, and the rituals used are extremely varied, in type as well as intradition.generally, in either case, a ritual based on sutra called tashi sojong is performed, to bring good luckand please the dwellers. if performing tantric rituals, the lama will offer tormas to the sa-dag or nagasabiding on the land. tormas are conical-shaped offering cakes which have been blessed in three ways bya highly realized being by mantras, where they are purified from any defilements of ordinariness, bymeditational stabilization, by which they are made infinite and by gestures, or mudras, which ensurethat the recipient is satisfied. the idea of this ritual is to offer gifts to the sa-dag and nagas in exchangefor use of their land. it is a deal, a give and take situation lik

as a regular preventive measure to bring about positive conditions. non-human creatureswere known for their liking of fragrant smells, and the tradition of sang-so, which was originally prac-tised by the bon to appease and please local deities, was later practised by buddhists for the same pur-pose. in the case of vase-offering rituals, vases were filled with different precious metals and cereals,blessed by mantras, meditative stabilization and gestures and placed in lakes or other places throughoutthe country where nagas were known to dwell, as a boon to them. these gifts could be likened to pre-sents offered by the king of one country to that of another, aimed at pleasing the recipients who recipro-cated with timely rain, pure water and a disease free environment. they had ways of showin

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

to tartarus. it is important to bare in mind that there were 2 wars, or en-masse desertions, in heaven. the first between the angels--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 77 and the spawn of tiamat, and the second heavenly conflict was between satan s angels and jehovah s angels. the only trace of this event in the genesis account is subtle, and easily over-looked. in genesis 1:28 we read: and god blessed them, and god said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. replenish the earth is certainly interesting wording for a universe that was supposedly only a week old! i m inclined to believe that these 7 days of creation were i

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

, umpeshu "from the grave i return, midnight and midday, from the black earth i grow stronger. as the wings of the bat do i fly in spirit through the twilight dreams of others, with the eyes of the owl do i see, with the limbs of the wolf do i run. i summon forth the dead from their gray tombs and shadows, hekas, hekas, hekas hecate "encircle me in your shadows ashen, and those within this circle blessed under the cloak of azrael "i ensorcell the spirits of the ancestral dead, those who hasten to the circle chant of the sabbat, come forth, mighty dead arise. we of vampyric birth do acknowledge thee! the veil is thin, enter this plane of waking and dreaming "i, akhtya seker arimanius- call forth from the grave that which walks the dream lands haunting and draining those sleeping and unawake

known in this circle as lilitu, ghost and phantom keeper, who shall gather the manes from the grave, fly now unto this circle "by the vulture, who shall feast upon the corpse of those aspects i care not to remain as myself, i shall become like to understand the feast of the dumb supper. in dreaming we shall commune "i seek the grave and my mortal death, with the shroud i wrap my body in shall be blessed with the kiss of the serpent queen, the black eyed goddess who wakes me from this sleep- cain-baphomet, horned black one of the infernal sabbat, unveil the cloak of shades to seek the knowledge of your consort, hecate-luith, whom holds the skull cup of blood, that of her children given unto the offering of death in life. i drink now the elixir ofundeath "o vampyric king and queen of the ci

MORALS AND DOGMA

nation passed; to the long oppression of the feudal ages, of the selfish bourbon kings; to those times when the peasants were robbed and slaughtered by their own lords and princes, like sheep; when the lord claimed the first-fruits of the peasant's marriage-bed; when the captured city was given up to merciless rape and massacre; when the state-prisons groaned with innocent victims, and the church blessed the banners of pitiless murderers, and sang te deums for the crowning mercy of the eve of st. bartholomew. we might turn over the pages, to a later chapter--that of the reign of the fifteenth louis, when young girls, hardly more than children, were kidnapped to serve his lusts; when _lettres de cachet_ filled the bastile with persons accused of no crime, with husbands who were in the way o

e, do not forget the words of the apostle james "for if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass, for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was; but whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his work. if any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being an abstraction. a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. the devils believe--and tremble. as the body without the heart is dead, so is faith without works* in political science, also, free gover

ese mighty benefits has vanished, that in neglecting these, which it thought inferior considerations, it has only been precipitating its own ruin and despair. unfortunately, every age presents its own special problem, most difficult and often impossible to solve; and that which this age offers, and forces upon the consideration of all thinking men, is this--how, in a populous and wealthy country, blessed with free institutions and a constitutional government, are the great masses of the manual-labor class to be enabled to have steady work at fair wages, to be kept from starvation, and their children from vice and debauchery, and to be furnished with that degree, not of mere reading and writing, but of _knowledge, that shall fit them intelligently to do the duties and exercise the privilege

, or accursed and hated earth; surrounded by darkness, struggling with obstacles, toiling for barren results and empty purposes, distracted with doubts, and misled by false gleams of light; wanderers with no way, no prospect, no home; doomed and deserted mariners on a dark and stormy sea, without compass or course, to whom no stars appear; tossing helmless upon the weltering, angry waves, with no blessed haven in the distance whose guiding-star invites us to its welcome rest. the religious faith thus taught by masonry is indispensable to the attainment of the great ends of life; and must therefore have been designed to be a part of it. we are made for this faith; and there must be something, somewhere, for us to believe in. we cannot grow healthfully, nor live happily, without it. it is th

en the people; nor is their number limited to five. but their duties still remain substantially the same, and their insignia and symbols retain their old significance. justice and equity are still their characteristics. to reconcile disputes and heal dissensions, to restore amity and peace, to soothe dislikes and soften prejudices, are their peculiar duties; and they know that the peacemakers are blessed. their emblems have been already explained. they are part of the language of masonry; the same now as it was when moses learned it from the egyptian hierophants. still we observe the spirit of the divine law, as thus enunciated to our ancient brethren, when the temple was rebuilt, and the book of the law again opened "execute true judgment; and show mercy and compassion every man to his br

sations of god, and to demand an immortality of life in a new universe, as compensation for their pains and sufferings and untimely death in this world. this is not a picture painted by the imagination. many a thoughtful mind has so doubted and despaired. how many of us can say that our own faith is so well grounded and complete that we never hear those painful whisperings within the soul? thrice blessed are they who never doubt, who ruminate in patient contenment like the kine, or doze under the opiate of a blind faith; on whose souls never rests that awful shadow which is the absence of the divine light. to explain to themselves the existence of evil and suffering, the ancient persians imagined that there were two principles or deities in the universe, the one of good and the other of ev

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

luntary abstention is understandable. but the laying down of rules of sexual behavior, or abstention of a healthy attraction due to prejudices of race, caste, or religion, are an abomination against beauty and love, babalon and therion, woman and man. love is the law, love under will. 53. fear not, o prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be sorry. thou art emphatically my chosen; and blessed are the eyes that thou shalt look upon with gladness. but i will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but i lift thee up. yes! i was frightened when the god of things as they ought to be told me that they were to be. i was born under a german queen, and i did not believe in the revolution that i willed. and lo! it is upon us, ere the fifteenth year

so bitter that i care not to write of it. he refers to the death of two children: one by rose, the first scarlet woman; the other by leah, the second. the children simply wasted away and he could do nothing for them. crowley was extremely fond of children, his or anybody else's. he was deeply upset when people accused him of preaching child sacrifice. 13. but not now. 14.ye shall see that hour, o blessed beast, and thou the scarlet concubine of his desire! 15. ye shall be sad thereof. 16. deem not too eagerly to catch the promises; fear not to undergo the curses. ye, even ye, know not this meaning all. the god wisely refrains from clear expression, so that the event, as it occurs, may justify his word. this progressive illumination of that word has served to keep it alive as no single reve

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

us and his followers, aided by theseus, who rendered most valuable assistance, attacked the centaurs, and after a violent hand-to-hand struggle in which many perished, forced them to relinquish their prey. after the death of hippolyte theseus sought the hand of phadra, the sister of his former bride ariadne, to whom he became united. for some years they lived happily together, and their union was blessed by the birth of two sons. during this time hippolytus, the son of the amazonian queen, had been absent from home, having been placed under the care of the king's uncles in order to be educated. when, having grown to manhood, he now returned to his father's palace, his young stepmother, phadra, fell violently in love with him; but hippolytus failed to return her affection, and treated her w

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

tzen bruderschaft) dating from 1459 were not, apparently, the first; there is a good possibility that yet older ones exist. as we have seen, they were revised several times and endorsed by the emperors. those published in 1563 were the final ones. the rules began thus:14 "in the name of the father, the son, and the holy ghost, and the glorious mother mary, and also the four crowned martyrs, their blessed servants remembered eternally" findel writes that before 1440, the members of the original strasbourg laborers society bore the name of the brothers of saint john. he adds that saint john the precursor, along with the four crowned martyrs, had always been the special patron saint and protector of the association. overall, the statutes of the german stonecutters provide a gripping descripti

. 1 it was a time when christians could be seen "leaving their native land to devote themselves wholeheartedly to the construction of a cathedral rising on the banks of a foreign river. and then, after twenty or thirty years of laboring in complete obscurity, the cross would shine from atop the sanctuary built by their hands, and they moved on, without leaving their names, to die in peace, in the blessed thought that they had made something for god" 2 this enthusiastic faith continued to animate the craft communities as they began forming. over the centuries, religion permeated the lives of men and their work itself could not be separated from its sacred nature. it was the ascetic path of the christian life that led to god. craft associations could not be solely professional in nature, for

e its king, the best and most slandered of soverthe grand lodges and modern freemasonry 257 eigns. i die with feelings of gratitude, respect, and love for the king of france, louis the beloved, a glorious name. i commend my family over to his most christian majesty. i repent from the bottom of my heart for all my sins and i hold firm hope of being forgiven by all powerful god, by the grace of his blessed son jesus christ, our lord, to whom i commend my soul. this declaration of faith provides an eloquent illustration of the state of mind of the catholic scots and stuarts who had introduced freemasonry into france from their land. this scottish freemasonry has certainly undergone a political divergence, but still remained true to its traditional principles of catholicism and independent lod

comparable history of freemasonry touches the absolute that is to say, the truth it is reasonable to think that the freemasons will figure out a way to rediscover it beneath the antiquated veil now covering it and will discover a way to restore it with enthusiastic force and vigor. those who have faith in god don't see him with the eyes of children, enthroned on top of a mountain of sugar between blessed rivers of honey. we refrain from talking of him too much and seeking to define him. it is preferable to envision the itinerary that allows us to approach him and to think that god constructed himself in such a way that man's gravitation to the spirit is, by virtue of reason, the best proof of god's existence. those of increasing number who do not believe in god or who turn him into an abst

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

america s great seal may be seen as a blueprint for the elevation of consciousness. it says, in part, that we must transform ourselves before we can change the world, and that it is during the process of self-transformation that we can catch a glimpse of what part we are to play in national and global transformation. the mandala of the new world order and illuminati control. annuit coeptis he has blessed our beginning, novus ordo seclorum new order of the ages. the all-seeing eye of horus, the resurrected egyptian sun god, biblically refered to as lucifer, the angel of light. in occult doctrine it is thought that from the union of spirit and matter (the pyramid is made of stone, rock, and earth and represents the unconscious. the capstone is made of an immaterial substance light or spirit

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

ces say that zeus was his father. he was married to aphrodite. pan the goat-god pan (see pp. 42 43, the son of hermes, was the god of pastures and wild places. he was very lustful and is typically shown, as here, carrying off a nymph. four winds the winds, zephyrus (see pp. 35 5, eurus, notus, and boreas (see p. 43) and the stars were the children of the titan astraeus, and eos, the dawn. hear us blessed goddess, beloved wife sister of zeus, goddess of the moon and stars, shine joy and peace upon us orphic hymn to hera the creation t he greeks had several creation myths. in one, euronyme, the goddess of all things, divided the sea from the sky, and then gave birth to a world egg, from which hatched the planets, earth, and all creatures. in another, eros was born from the cosmic egg and, as

y by his son cronos (saturn see p. 23. the drops of blood that fell became the furies, giants, and the ash-tree nymphs called the meliae. aphrodite came to shore at paphos in cyprus. as she stepped onto land, grass grew under her feet. also called anadyomene she who emerges she was accompanied by eros (desire) from the beginning. aphrodite and ares 27 goddess of sensual pleasure while hera (juno) blessed the marriage bed, aphrodite, her daughter by zeus, was the goddess of love and passion. she offered aid to human lovers, but cruel and vengeful punishment to those who scorned her. barking dog the dog tries to alert hephaestus to the presence of ares under the bed but he remains oblivious. ares and aphrodite, although they were caught on this occasion, managed to have several children toge

x where they paid charon, the ferryman, to row them across. cerberus the three-headed watchdog prevented escape. hades had several entrances to the upper world and could also be reached by sea, as odysseus did (see pp. 64 -65. the majority of ghosts conceived of literally as shadows of their former selves stayed on the featureless plain of asphodel. a lucky few went to elysium, the islands of the blessed. an unlucky few were condemned to everlasting torment in tartarus among these were the titans (see p. 23; king tantalus, who killed his son, abused the gods friendship and was condemned to stand chin-deep in water that he could never drink (thus forever tantalized; and sisyphus, deceitful and disobedient, who was forced to roll a heavy rock uphill for eternity every time it neared the top

ed that the boy might become as good a knight as his father, sir lancelot. angels when the knights approached the grail chapel, they saw visions of angels, a sign that they were about to be granted an otherworldly experience. sir galahad has cast aside his helmet and weapons to worship the grail. in one version of the grail legend, the fisher king is named as bron. this connects him with bran the blessed, legendary king of england in the welsh mabinogion. bran possessed both a horn of plenty and cauldron of rebirth. after he was wounded with a spear, his head was cut off and buried beneath the tower of london, to protect the land; but king arthur dug it up to show that britain needed no other protection other than him. fruitful earth when the quest for the grail came to an end, the land be

c stories of a horn of plenty. a platter that provided whatever food one wished was one of the welsh thirteen treasures of britain, and the grail also provided king arthur s knights with whatever food and drink that they desired. grail chapel the grail chapel is in the castle of corbenik belonging to the fisher king, who is often called king pelles. corbenik can be translated as the castle of the blessed horn or the castle of the sacred host. galahad, perceval, and bors are fed from the grail by christ himself. this 15th-century illumination shows the vision of the grail appearing to arthur and his knights the day that sir galahad arrives in camelot and sits in the siege perilous. the atta inme nt designed by sir edward burne-jones (1833 98) based on the legend as told by thomas malory in

a kagura, music of the gods. cockerel the first plan to arouse amaterasu s curiosity was to simulate a false dawn by provoking cockerels longcrying birds to crow. without the lifegiving warmth of amaterasu, the sun, the world fell into chaos; nothing grew, and evil spirits ran riot. amaterasu s reappearance ensured the future of the earth and thereafter, she only disappeared at night. as you have blessed the ruler s reign, making it long and enduring, so i bow my neck as a cormorant in search of fish to worship you and give you praise. harvest prayer to amaterasu at ise amaterasu hides away 123 sun goddess chief goddess of the japanese shinto religion, amaterasu is considered to be the ancestor of the japanese imperial family. she has been worshiped at ise since early times. although susan

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

n the point that the individual must grow with his or her studies, to become the topic therein. the self which is also known as "kia (austin spare's "the book of pleasure) should be explored on every possible level, understanding the foundation for the conscious make up known as "i. lucifer exists in the core of every individual; it is "it's" gift to us. those who awaken this individual light are blessed unto ourselves. self-godhood is the step towards spiritual immortality. those who seek the platform of adept in the magickial quest will inadvertently perceive the basis of the balance of light and darkness. the angelic and the demonic shall be united, chaos will follow form and such is the genetic and psychic make up of the adept. the face of lucifer has changed and formed into a plethora

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

other and could not relate to each other. when two people are back to back, they could, literally, be standing an inch away from each other, and nonetheless be completely unaware of each other. this is so, even if they are literally one being, but back to back. likewise, before the separation of malchut into a full stature, zeir anpin (the giver) who is also called kudsha brich hoo (the holy one, blessed be he, was "unaware (so to speak) of the jewish people, who represent malchut (the recipient. in this state, the jewish people too, were unaware of "the giver of all things, kudsha brich hoo (the holy one, blessed be he, and there was no relationship between them. achor b panim back to face& panim b achor face to back there also is a stage called panim b achor (face to back. in this stage

nonetheless, the miracles which had taken place during the time of the first temple did not occur. this is the meaning of the verse "they will call me, but i will not hear them" panim b panim face to face the final stage is called panim b panim (face to face. this is when both zeir anpin and malchut have a full awareness and knowledge of each other. in other words, kudsha brich hoo (the holy one, blessed be he) and the jewish people are completely aware of and "know" each other intimately. furthermore, the relationship is reciprocal from both sides. this will occur in the time of the final redemption, may it happen speedily, in our days. amen we now may continue to explain the process of the "building up" of nukvah (the female. a point under yesod at first, the stature of malchut is like a

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

noahide commandments to him. included in this is the prohibition of tearing the flesh off a living animal, which generalizes to causing unnecessary pain to animals. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 44 regarding killing animals, it is mentioned in the zohar9 that no creature was created purposelessly. it is [therefore] forbidden to kill it purposelessly. as the sages state: gall that the holy one, blessed be he, created, he created only for his honor, as it is written, eall that is called in my name and for my honor, i created it, i formed it, i even made it. f h10 we will see now how the arizal took this statement to extreme conclusions, conducting himself with extreme piety in this matter. my teacher [the arizal] was very careful not to kill any bug, even the smallest and lowliest, such a

ay his excess, dross, and evil is excreted [since they perform a positive function, we should not despise them. 9 2:68b. 10 avot 6:11; isaiah 43:7. 11 proverbs 16:7. 12 y. terumah 8:3. 13 2:68b. 14 ecclesiastes 10:11. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 45* after the flood, noah became drunk and was castrated by his third son, ham. his first two sons, shem and japheth, covered him. when he awoke, he blessed shem and japheth and cursed ham together with ham fs son, canaan. ghe said, ecursed be canaan, he will be a servant of servants to his brothers. f and he said, eblessed be g-d, the g-d of shem, and let canaan be his servant. let g-d grant beauty to japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of shem, and let canaan be his servant. f h15 let us understand why [noah] used the name havayah in ble

has been restored. when we consider the 18 letters [which compose the 6 permutations of yudhei- vav] together with the three root-letters [yud-hei-vav, we have 21 letters. this number added to 207 yields the numerical value of the word for gblessing h [berachah, 227, plus the kolel. 18+ 3= 21; 21+ 207= 228. berachah: beit-reish-kaf-hei= 2+ 200+ 20+ 5= 227. thus, the union of yesod and malchut is blessed, and can occur. we will now see where these permutations are alluded to in the story of noah. the 18 letters of the six permutations allude to the gseven by seven h ritually pure animals, i.e, 14, and the gtwo by two h ritually impure animals, i.e, 4. the idiom for gseven by seven h is simply gseven seven, h implying 7+ 7, or 14. the same is true for gtwo by two, h or gtwo two, h or 4. 14+

torah fs insights, the way things are supposed to work spiritually) when abraham was born, there started to be above an arousal toward the supernal coupling [of z feir anpin and nukva. this is why he was named abram, for this name alludes to the coupling of yesod of z feir anpin, known as the glimb h [eiver] with the yesod of its nukva, known as the final mem. as the midrash relates, abraham was blessed from a very young age with the ability to see through the sham of idolatry that was prevalent in his time, and with a concomitant urge to seek the truth about the world and its relationship with g-d. inasmuch as our actions in this world can and do influence the dynamics of the upper worlds, this gconsciousness-raising h prepared the way for reunion of g-d and his creation, respectively pe

d allowed terah fs soul to be set straight. the result of this union was job. job [thus lived] in the generation of isaac. he was not comforted by the words of any of his [three] friend who came to console him. he was only comforted when he met isaac [who is called in the book of job] elihu ben berachel the buzite.7 isaac was called elihu ben berachel [literally, gelihu the son of he whom g-d has blessed h, for g-d blessed him [elihu ben berachel] was gfrom the family of ram, h meaning abraham. job, like isaac, was a grandson of terah. he lived in gthe land of utz, h and utz was the son of nahor, abraham fs brother. after g-d inflicted suffering upon job, his three friends came to console him. but job was not consoled by their words, since they each tried to convince him that he had done s

iritual world. the latter must therefore be functioning properly in order for the channels of divine blessing to flow properly. in this context, the divine blessings are the goffspring h of the union of the spiritual male and female antecedents of our own souls. thus rabbi shimon bar yochai interpreted the verse, gyour father and mother will rejoice h2 to mean that gyour father h is the holy one, blessed be he and gyour mother h is the community of israel.3 these are appellations of z feir anpin and nukva, respectively. nonetheless, we are also required to rectify, together with them, the coupling of abba and ima, so that intellect descend [from them] to [z feir anpin and nukva] that will enable the latter to couple. then [as we said] divine beneficence, food, and children and all other ne

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fe is beset with dangers and difficulties; hath it not been ever thus with the sages and hierophants of the past? they have been persecuted and reviled, the have been tormented of men, yet through this has their glory increased. f;ejoice, therefore, 0 initiate, for the greater thy trial, the brighter thy triumph. when men shall revile thee and speak against thee falsely, hath not the master said "blessed art thou" yet, 0 practicus, let thy victories brinb thee not vanity, for with increase of knowl- edge should come increase o wisdom. he who knows little, thinketh he knows much; but he who knoweth much hath learned his own ignorance. seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. be not hasty to condemn other's sin. how knowest thou that in <147> their

a t things are formed, and its archangels are three:-mefatron, the prince of countenance reflected from kether, and sandal hon, the prince of prayer (feminine, and nephesch ha messiah, the soul of tie reconciler for earth. and the order of angels is ashim or flames of fire, as it is written 'who maketh his angels spirits and his ministers as a flarnin fire,'and these are also called the order of blessed souls, or of the souls o f the just made perfect (note the three archan els attributed to malkuth with reference to regar% to our father, our lady, and our lord) consists of a classification of the scales of colour in the numbers 1-10 refer to the sephiroth, and those from 11-32 inclusive to the paths. fifth knowledge lecture 99 <199-200-201-202> the four colour scales yod-fire hm-water va

ndignity; fertility and solitude; power and servitude <63> these seven letters point out 7 localities; zenith, nadir, east, west, north, south, and the place of holiness in the midst sustaining all things. the archetypal creator designed, produced, combined and zelator ritual 151 formed with them the planets of the universe, the days of the week, and in man, the gate of the soul. he has loved and blessed the number 7 more than all things under his throne. the powers of these 7 letters are also shown forth in the 7 palaces of assiah, and the seven stars of that vision are the 7 archangels who file them. he leads neophyte to w -of altar, and returns to his place, and is seated. hierophant comes to e. ofaltar, takes censer from altar, and holding it with chain short, makes cross and three for

well informed on these, no* the officer in charge. closing fratres and sorores, assist me to close this temple in the= grade of zelator. all rise. frater kerux, see that the temple is properly guarded (on inner side of the door, knocks. sentinel knocks) very honoured hierophant, the temple is properly guarded. let us adore the lord and king of earth. all face east. adonai ha-aretz, adonai melekh, blessed be thy name unto the countless ages. amen. gives sign. all give sign and face as usual. hiero. leaves his throne and passes to the north, standing before the tablet of the north, hiereus stands on right of hiero; hegemon left; kerux behind hiero; stolistes behind hiereus, dadouchos behind hegemon. let us rehearse the prayer of the earth spirits. 0 invisible king, who, taking the earth for

be supplied to you, closing (knocks) assist me to close the temple in the grade of theoricus. all rise. frater kerux, see that the temple is properly guarded (done) kerux (knocks) very honoured hierophant, the temple is properly guarded (knocks) let us adore the lord and king of air. all face east. new theoricus is directed to stand facing east. adoration shaddai el chai, almighty and everliving, blessed be thy name unto the countless ages. amen. a11 salute. officers fom in the east as in opening. members stand facing east. hiereus remains standing just behind new theoricus (knocks) let us rehearse the prayer of the sylphs or air spirits. spirit of life! spirit of wisdom! whose breath giveth forth and withdraweth the form of all things: theoricus ritual 165 thou, before whom the life of be

s ritual 165 thou, before whom the life of beings is but a shadow which changeth, and a vapour which passeth: thou, who mountest upon the clouds, and who walkest upon the wings of the wind. thou, who breathest forth thy breath, and endless space is peopled: thou, who drawest in thy breath, and all that cometh from thee, retumeth unto thee! ceaseless motion, in eternal stability, be thou eternally blessed <90> we praise thee and we bless thee in the changeless empire of created light, of shades, of reflections, and of images- and we aspire without cessation unto thy immutable and imperishable brilliance. let the ray of thy intelligence and the warmth of thy love penetrate even unto us! then that which is volatile shall be fixed; the shadow shall be a body; the spirit of air shall be a soul;

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sure, 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 excellent. after due reflection, however, i decide in favour of that from the book of the law, as being more apt to my purpose. so then, with great and loving care, using a fine brush or a spe

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hers, they leave a lamp burning nightly in some adjacent niche or cave, in token of their adoration. on this account bathing is looked upon by them more in the light of a sacred duty than as an ordinary purification; and their objection to frequent the mohammedan baths of the country has, i have no doubt, some connexion with this superstition. for the same reason they consider fish moob rak, i.e. blessed, the term which they apply to every thing sacred, and which reminds one of the aghiasmata of the greeks. i have been informed that only a few of the lowest classes among them ever eat any produce of the waters. the above rites and ceremonies form the sum of the religious worship offered up by the yezeedees to the good deity. they have no forms of prayer, and it is shocking to any christian

pt yourselves and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure the likeness of any fowl that flieth in the air" p. 128 i am of opinion, however, that the modern yezeedees have borrowed little from christianity beyond what was incorporated into their system by their more learned and zealous forefathers, when the gospel was first proclaimed in these parts. their professed reverence for our blessed lord seems to arise more from the difficulty of withholding from him the honour which is universally ascribed to his character and dignity, than from any knowledge which they possess of his person or mission. in this respect, indeed, they are profoundly ignorant, and their confession of isa, the son of mary, is much more undefined and imperfect than that of the mohammedans. it is true that

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g matter. yet the effect of this light is apparent to all according to the absence or presenceof the holy lux. all things in the world must flourish or wither, there can be no mediate state. fromexperience we know that within us there is a continual yearning of the soul, end by laying our handsupon our breasts we can feel our hearts, while they are fed from an internal fire or light, which isthat blessed and impregnated light from above. seek to obtain that divine lux which should warmour souls with love for god, for without this you cannot obtain the rich treasure of a truerosicrucian. we abstain from speaking further at present, but proceed in your continued search.conductor of n.:venerable 2nd ancient, will you give to us the password of this cardinal point?2nd ancient:let him that bath

the wondrous secret know,ye blest on high, and man below,the "elixir of life" aboveis the "divine creator222s love."then why this struggle here on earth,when soon we222ll hail a second birth,when life eternal will be mine,the elixir, the "love divine"?hosannas now to heaven we sing,our praises to the almighty ring,the "elixir of life" shall be,the love that god hath granted me.oh holy, righteous, blessed lord.by every living thing adored,grant us the elixir ye crave,for "love divine" alone can save.immediately upon the pronouncement of the latin aphorism by gualdi, the 4 ancients letter the wordi.n.r.i, and the chief adept makes the proclamation of closing, as set forth in the closingceremonyrituals of the societas rosicrucian teliphas levi dogma et rituel de la haute magie translated by a

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y the form of all things; thou before whom the life of every being is; a shadow which transforms and a vapour which passes away; thou who ascendest upon the clouds and dost fly upon the wings of the wind; thou who breathest forth and the limitless immensities are peopled; thou who drawest in and all which came forth from thee unto thee returneth; endless movement in the eternal stability, be thou blessed for ever! we praise thee, we bless thee in the fleeting empire of created light, of shadows, reflections and images; and we aspire without ceasing towards thine immutable and imperishable splendour. may the ray of thine intelligence and the warmth of thy love descend on us: that which is volatile shall be fixed, the shadow shall become body, the spirit of the air shall receive a soul, and

of thine infinite spirit, which itself doth nourish all things, and forms that inexhaustible treasure of substance ever ready for the generation which adapts it and appropriates the forms thou hast impressed on it from the beginning! from this spirit the three most holy kings, who surround thy throne and constitute thy court, derive also their origin, o universal father! o sole and only father of blessed mortals and immortals! in particular thou hast created powers which are marvellously like unto thine eternal thought and thine adorable essence; thou hast established them higher than the angels, who proclaim thy will to the world; finally, thou hast created us third in rank within our elementary empire. there our unceasing exercise is to praise thee and adore thy good pleasure; there we b

re accompanied by the utterance of names attributed to the five genii, who are gabriel, raphael, anael, samael and oriphiel. afterwards the pentacle is placed successively at the north, south, east, west and centre of the astronomical cross, pronouncing at the same time, one after another, the consonants of the sacred 36 the ritual of transcendental magic tetragram, and then, in an undertone, the blessed letters aleph and the mysterious tau, united in the kabalistic name of azoth. the pentagram should be placed upon the altar of perfumes and under the tripod of evocations. the operator should wear the sign also as well as that of the macrocosm, which is composed of two crossed and superposed triangles. when a spirit of light is evoked, the head of the star. that is, one of its points. shou

was right therefore in adopting the pentagram as his sign, because it is the symbol of human sovereignty acquired by intelligent initiative. the mighty soldier of the revolution knew little, but he divined almost everything; so was he the greatest instinctive and practical magician of modern times; the world is still full of his miracles, and the country people will never believe that he is dead. blessed and indulgenced objects, touched by holy images or venerable persons; chaplets from palestine; the agnus dei, composed of the wax of the paschal candle and the annual remnants of holy chrism; scapulas and medals, are all true talismans. one such medal has become popular in our own day, and even those who are devoid of religion suspend it from the necks of their children. moreover, its figu

e must also prepare an apartment in in which the person lived, or otherwise one of similar kind, and place his portrait veiled in white therein, surrounded with his favourite flowers, which must be renewed daily. a fixed date must then be chosen, being that of the person's birth, or one that was especially fortunate for his and our own affection, one of which we may believe that his soul, however blessed elsewhere, cannot lose the remembrance. this must be the day of evocation, and we must prepare for it during the space of two weeks. throughout the period we must refrain from extending to anyone the same proofs of affection which we have the right to expect from the dead; we must observe strict chastity, live in retreat and take only one modest and light collation daily. every evening at

oceed from the north. the assyrians or chaldeans, incited by nebuchadnezzar or salmanasor, gave fullest evidence of this truth by the destruction of the most splendid and most holy temple and city in the universe, and by the complete overthrow of a people whom god himself had taken under his special protection and of whom he termed himself father especially. so also that other jerusalem, rome the blessed, has it not too experienced frequently the violence of this evil northern race, when it beheld its altars demolished and the towers of its proud edifices brought level with the foundations, through the cruelty of alaric, genseric, attila and other princes of the goths, huns, vandals and alani. very properly therefore in the secrets of this celestial writing, do we read calamities and misfo

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ns. as it is another [tenet] that every body in the creation moves, which [movement] is a sort of life, and that nothing moves but what has another animal moving on it, and the secret commonwealth 27 so on, to the utmost minute corpuscle that is capable to be a receptacle of life. 7. they are said to have aristocratic rulers and laws, but no discernible religion, love, or devotion towards god and blessed maker of all. they disappear whenever they hear his name invoked, or the name of jesus, at which all do bow willingly or by constraint that dwell above or beneath [or] within the earth (philip 2: 10) nor can they enact anything at that time, after hearing of that sacred name. the tabhaisder or seer that corresponds with this kind of familiar, can bring them with a spell to appear to himsel

emnity's sake, and to strike a greater reverence in the receivers of benefit by them, to exchange the names of ordinary things with those of creatures that had some like-operation to that which they designed to bestow. thus [they were] naming a sacred peculiar style of their own, which did not alter the nature of anything they spoke of to any that could discern and distinguish [any] more than the blessed jesus, calling bread his body, changed the true nature of either, as some might [give as] instance now for their purpose [of maintaining the contrary. then these words so consecrated were thought operative to all that gave credit to them and were their partisans, being once made partakers of their influence. even the platonists in their rites of lustrations and purifying gave benefits, mys

nal magical visions, the way to the underworld or to the grail castle is often marked by a small oaken door with a symbol carved above it. in some versions of the vision, the orchard of paradise, or the apple tree upon the hill, is surrounded by a ring of oaks. those who meet the male guardian may encounter him at an oak tree (see the trump of the guardian in the merlin tarot, while those who are blessed like thomas of ercledoune, are guided by the queen of elfland direct to the fruit. ash, traditionally used for thrones, spears and sea-going vessels, may be equated with the third underworld tree, that of mediation. the entire subject of detailed tree symbolism represents a very wide and complex held, which is not directly relevant to the present study, but the serious student or inquirer

merlin tradition as reported by geoffrey of monmouth and other medieval chroniclers. in glamorganshire there is a village known as angel town, and pembroke is angle or nangle: adamnan, in his life of columba, records that the saint opened his books and 'read them on the hill of the angels, where once on a time the citizens of the heavenly country were seen to descend to hold conversation with the blessed man. upon this his editor comments 'this is the knoll called "great fairies hill. not far away is the "little fairies hill. the fairies hills of pagan mythology became angels hills in the minds of the early christian saints' one may be permitted to question whether this metamorphosis really occurred, and whether the idea of angels or angles is not actually older than even the onslows or an

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y what he knows, and no more. theaetetus: that is certainly the best and wisest state of mind. stranger: for all these reasons, theaetetus, we must admit that refutation is the greatest and chiefest of purifications, and he who has not been refuted, though he be the great king himself, is in an awful state of impurity; he is uninstructed and deformed in those things in which he who would be truly blessed ought to be fairest and purest. theaetetus: very true. stranger: well, what name shall we give to the practitioners of this art? for my part i shrink from calling them sophists. theaetetus: why so? stranger: for fear of ascribing to them too high a function. theaetetus: and yet your description has some resemblance to that type (the sophist. stranger: so has the dog to the wolf. the fierce

ion. surely the philosophers and gnostics could be kept busy. the pantheon of deities would not be complete without the legendary saints. these were not supposed to be worshipped, as they were not divine. it was claimed that they had all lived exemplary lives, and were worthy of veneration. there was a saint for every day of the year, and for almost any function you could think of except sex. the blessed virgin mary was not supposed to be divine either, but some of her feasts are holy days of "obligation" wherein the catholic was supposed to attend mass. if one didn't attend this mass without good cause it was a mortal sin, and one would go to hell if one died on the spot. that kind of requirement is known as mandatory worship, and in any other religion is reserved for divinity. further, m

o be divine either, but some of her feasts are holy days of "obligation" wherein the catholic was supposed to attend mass. if one didn't attend this mass without good cause it was a mortal sin, and one would go to hell if one died on the spot. that kind of requirement is known as mandatory worship, and in any other religion is reserved for divinity. further, much of the reasoning for mary's being blessed and virgin is due to divine intervention, and is therefore a matter of faith, meaning that a catholic can be excommunicated for heresy if he is not willing to accept these dogmas. commonly used to "honor" mary, the hail mary's are nothing but invocations to a mother goddess. mary has been an extremely touchy subject for catholicism. technically she is a saint, but just try calling her that

at in a conversation with devout catholics. some of the other female saints who are highly "venerated" do not come out so well either under scrutiny, especially when cults have been established around them. st. therese of the child jesus, a carmelite nun also known as the little flower, is a well know example, a saint who still continues to "perform miracles" and whose story is spread through the blessed rose petals her followers pass out to souls in need. she is very popular in wisconsin. the word "cult" is not used lightly either, as the behavior of these devout folks does meet the description of cultist behavior. so far the trinity of god is still the basic dogma. the established goal of christianity is even more insistent than previous religions on the fact that the soul is to achieve

hereafter. the "lying spectre of the centuries" is osiris, the death-oriented god of the aeon preceding that of horus. the "vices" of emotional excess are characteristic of emotional use of the intellect. an attribute of harwer's distinction from the dispassionate objective universe. 53. fear not, o prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be sorry. thou art emphatically my chosen; and blessed are the eyes that thou shalt look upon with gladness. but i will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but i lift thee up. a restatement of crowley's role as set forth in #i-15. the curse of a magus is that, because he utters a new word amidst the values and norms of the expiring aeon, or as an unfamiliar complement to the present aeon, few if any wi

of a spiritual nature are directed. crowley evidently thought better of burglarizing the boulak museum to steal the stele. he settled for having a replica prepared for him [the antiquities of the boulak museum have since been transferred to the cairo museum] cairo (al-kahira [the city of] victory. 12. sacrifice cattle, little and big: after a child. 13. but not now. 14. ye shall see that hour, o blessed beast, and thou the scarlet concubine of his desire! 15. ye shall be sad thereof. crowley later identified these verses as a reference to the death of his firstborn daughter in 1906. 16. deem not too eagerly to catch the promises; fear not to undergo the curses. ye, even ye, know not this meaning all. 17. fear not at all; fear neither men nor fates, nor gods, nor anything. money fear not

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h and tau. symbolized by the planet jupiter and the tarot of fortune inte racting with the tau, the cross of the universe connecting saturn with the earth. in this we find wisdom and understanding brought circle round and ended up back to the witch who has restored him-or her on the throne of cain, carrying the cross of the world and has towered by all temptations. through the ordeals jupiter has blessed the witch with the fortune of gnosis. worship not the stone but what it conceals is one of the statements in this cell, and through this it refers to the dawning of the famulus in a physical object and the dawning of the adepts occult aspiration of the crooked path. the spiritservitour arises as the most important aspect of the mage. without his famulus and totemic spirits the mage is noth

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r a year of silence, saladin received a further communication, a letter of forgiveness that was in all particulars harder to take than the earlier, excommunicatory thunderbolt "when you become a father, o my son" changez chamchawala confided "then shall you know those moments- ah! too sweet- when, for love, one dandies the bonny babe upon one's knee; whereupon, without warning or provocation, the blessed creature- may i be frank- it _wets_ one. perhaps for a moment one feels the gorge rising, a tide of anger swells within the blood- but then it dies away, as quickly as it came. for do we not, as adults, understand that the little one is not to blame? he knows not what he does" deeply offended at being compared to a urinating baby, saladin maintained what he hoped was a dignified silence. b

usage sandwiches, smiling sweetly all the while _you won't mind if i fust water my lawn. o, she was a one, known in the village, they couldn't lock her away in any old folks' home, sent her whole family packing when they dared to suggest it, never darken her doorstep, she told them, cut the whole lot off without a penny or a by your leave. all on her own now, she was, never a visitor from week to blessed week, not even dora shufflebotham who went in and did for her all those years, dora passed over september last, may she rest, still it's a wonder at her age how the old trout manages, all those stairs, she may be a bit of a bee but give the devil her due, there's many"s'd go barmy being that alone. for gibreel there was neither a hosepipe nor the _sharp end_ of her tongue. rosa uttered tok

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imoire were often considered to be teachers; spirits capable of creating change or imparting knowledge like any of the devils described in the binding rituals they contain, or any mentor a student might otherwise learn from. if a grimoire let a sorcerer down, they would not simply blame the author or otherwise assume inauthenticity of the text itself. instead, they would take it to a priest to be blessed (indeed, there are many grimoire existent that have actually been copied and composed by the hands of clergymen, or written with the assumption that the diabolist has been ordained. these grimoire were as essential to the passing on of the black art as any initiatory lineage, and were not easy to come by. the quest to obtain such would often involve long journeys to foreign lands, the exch

ng to the word of the divine promise, the atoning genius of expiation (seventeenth-century mss. bibliotheque nationale, paris) the rite of summoning when the night of action has arrived, the warlock shall gather up his rod, goatskin, the stone called ematille, and shall further provide himself with two vervain crowns, two candlesticks, and two candles of virgin wax, made by a virgin girl and duly blessed. let him take also a new steel and two new flints, with sufficient tinder to kindle a fire, likewise half a bottle of brandy, some blessed incense and camphor, and four nails from the coffin of a dead child. all these must be carried to the place chosen for the great work, where everything hereinafter laid down must be described in an accurate manner. you must begin by forming a circle wit

and the dead k (the conjuration of malign spirits dealing in the bodies of people, as it is done by saint peter, fifteenth century. exorcism ii in the name of the father, and the son, and the holy spirits, amen. i conjure you, elves and all kinds of demons, of the night and of the day, by the father, and the son, and the holy spirit, and the undivided trinity, and by the intercession of the most blessed and glorious ever virgin mary, by the prayers of the prophets, by the merits of the patriarchs, by the intercession of the angels and archangels, by the intervention of the apostles, by the passion of the martyrs, by the faith of the confessors, by the chastity of the virgins, and by the intercession of all the saints, and by the seven sleepers, whose names are malchus, maximian, dionysius

of the patriarchs, by the intercession of the angels and archangels, by the intervention of the apostles, by the passion of the martyrs, by the faith of the confessors, by the chastity of the virgins, and by the intercession of all the saints, and by the seven sleepers, whose names are malchus, maximian, dionysius, john, constantine, serapion, and mortian, and by the name of the lord god which is blessed forever a g l a, that you should cause or inflict no harm or any evil on this servant of god,[n, whether in sleep or while awake. christ has conquered nchrist reigns nchrist rules nmay christ bless us nand defend us from every evil namen. in the name of the father, and the son, and of the holy spirit, amen. nin my name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues, they will

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way of them that would persecute you. let those who devise thine undoing be hurled back to confusion and infamy. let them be as chaff before the cyclone and after they have fallen rejoice in thine own salvation. 5. then all thy bones shall say pridefully "who is like unto me? have i not been too strong for mine adversaries? have i not delivered myself by mine own brain and the book of satan v 1. blessed are the strong, for they shall possess the earth- cursed are the weak, for they shall inherit the yoke! 2. blessed are the powerful, for they shall be reverenced among men- cursed are the feeble, for they shall be blotted out! 3. blessed are the bold, for they shall be masters of the world- cursed are the righteously humble, for they shall be trodden under cloven hoofs! 4. blessed are the

2. blessed are the powerful, for they shall be reverenced among men- cursed are the feeble, for they shall be blotted out! 3. blessed are the bold, for they shall be masters of the world- cursed are the righteously humble, for they shall be trodden under cloven hoofs! 4. blessed are the victorious, for victory is the basis of right- cursed are the vanquished, for they shall be vassals forever! 5. blessed are the iron-handed, for the unfit shall flee before them- cursed are the poor in spirit, for they shall be spat upon! 6. blessed are the death-defiant, for their days shall be long in the land- cursed are the gazers toward a richer life beyond the grave, for they shall perish amidst plenty! 7. blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true messiahs- cursed are the god-ado

it shall flee before them- cursed are the poor in spirit, for they shall be spat upon! 6. blessed are the death-defiant, for their days shall be long in the land- cursed are the gazers toward a richer life beyond the grave, for they shall perish amidst plenty! 7. blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true messiahs- cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep! 8. blessed are the valiant, for they shall obtain great treasure- cursed are the believers in good and evil, for they are frightened by shadows! 9. blessed are those that believe in what is best for them, for never shall their minds be terrorized- cursed are the "lambs of god, for they shall be bled whiter than snow! 10. blessed is the man who has a sprinkling of enemies, for they shall make him a he

, for they are frightened by shadows! 9. blessed are those that believe in what is best for them, for never shall their minds be terrorized- cursed are the "lambs of god, for they shall be bled whiter than snow! 10. blessed is the man who has a sprinkling of enemies, for they shall make him a hero- cursed is he who doeth good unto others who sneer upon him in return, for he shall be despised! 11. blessed are the mighty-minded, for they shall ride the whirlwinds- cursed are they who teach lies for truth and truth for lies, for they are an abomination! 12. thrice cursed are the weak whose insecurity makes them vile, for they shall serve and suffer! 13. the angel of self-deceit is camped in the souls of the "righteous- the eternal flame of power through joy dwelleth within the flesh of the sa

ands before an altar consisting of a nude woman, her legs spread-eagled and vagina thrust open, each of her outstretched fists grasping a black candle made from the fat of unbaptized babies, and a chalice containing the urine of a prostitute (or blood) reposing on her belly. an inverted cross hangs above the altar, and triangular hosts of ergot-laden bread or black-stained turnip are methodically blessed as the priest dutifully slips them in and out of the altar-lady's labia. then, we are told, an invocation to satan and various demons is followed by an array of prayers and psalms chanted backwards or interspersed with obscenities. all performed within the confines of a "protective" pentagram drawn on the floow. if the devil appears he is invariably in the form of a rather eager man wearin

and fitted with dispensaries, cells, laboratories, and. a chapel. soon it became de rigueur for royalty and lesser dillettantes to attend and participate in the very type of service mentioned earlier in this chapter. the organized fraud perpetrated in these ceremonies has become indelibly marked in history as the "true black mass. when lavoisin was arrested on march 13, 1679 (in the church of our blessed lady of good tidings, incidentally, the die had already been cast. the degraded activities of lavoisin had stifled the majesty of satanism for many years to come. the satanism-for-fun-and-games fad next appeared in england in the middle 18th century in the form of sir francis dashwood's order of the medmanham fanciscans, popularly called the hell-fire club. while eliminating the blood, gor

SCHEM HA MEPHORESH

mber thy tender mercies, 0 tetragrammaton, and thy mercies, for from of old they were. 10th angel name: eldiah sign: virgo planet: venus degree: 15 20 meaning: profitable psalm 33:22: there shall be thy mercy, 0 tetragrammaton, upon us, as we have hoped in thee. 11th angel 8 name: leviah sign: virgo planet: mercury degree: 20 25 meaning: meet to be exalted. psalm 18:47: liveth tetragrammaton, and blessed by my rock, and there shall arise the god of my salvation. 12th angel name: hihaiah sign: virgo planet: mercury degree: 25 30 meaning: refuge psalm 10:1: why 0 tetragrammaton, wilt thou stand afar, why wilt thou hide thyself at times of trouble. 13th angel name: lezalel sign: libra planet: moon degree: 0 5 meaning: rejoicing over all things. psalm 98:4 shout ye to tetragrammaton, all the e

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

n upside down teardrop shape at its top. in the ancient egyptian written language of hieroglyphs, the ankh represents life. it is often present in tomb carvings and other artwork. it is associated with magical protection, or sa. even those ancient egyptians who could not read hierogylphs knew the ankh symbol. the ankh may represent the sunrise or rebirth. many ancient gods carried ankhs and often blessed pharaohs with an ankh, symbolizing the act of giving them the breath of life. among the gods often seen with ankhs are osiris, isis, ra, hathor, and anubis. as a result the ankh not only represented worldly life but the afterlife. in fact, the ancient egyptian term for sarcophagus or coffin was neb-ankh, meaning possessor of life. the ankh s popularity has reached beyond egypt s borders an

yana buddhism, a branch of buddhism popular in nepal, vietnam, korea, china, japan, tibet, and mongolia. dean conger/ corbis. world religions: almanac 111 buddhism living being of life. by this truth may there be well-being for you, wellbeing for the unborn child! after the birth of a child in theravada countries, the parents take the child to the local temple to be given a name. then the baby is blessed by monks and sprinkled with water. this is followed by a final ceremony with a candle. the lit candle is tilted so that drops of wax fall into a bowl of water and become solid again. this symbolizes the blending of four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. rites at marriage marriage is considered a secular, or nonreligious, contract for buddhists. but in addition to a civil ceremony, a b

ecite various sutras and chants as a blessing. the mangala sutra is a typical text for this occasion. 112 world religions: almanac buddhism it states, in part, not to associate with fools, to associate with the wise, and pay honor to those who are worthy of honor, that is the highest blessing. the vandana is another pali chant used in some ceremonies: homage to the triple gems, homage to him, the blessed one, the exalted one, the fully enlightened one. a wedding feast follows the ceremony. rites at death there are a number of buddhist ceremonies connected with death and funerals. even at the time of dying, buddhists believe there is possibility for enlightenment. some buddhists wish to go to a monastery to die, while others bring monks and nuns to the home or hospital to pray and chant. in

ism and the lord s supper, also known as holy communion or the eucharist. the lord s supper is a reenactment of the last supper, when jesus and his disciples shared bread and wine on the night before his crucifixion. at one time this lord s supper was a community dinner after which the faithful received symbolic bread and wine. now, it is a more symbolic gesture of drinking holy wine and eating a blessed bread wafer, representing the body and blood of jesus. modern forms of worship largely follow this basic format. services are held in churches and cathedrals, buildings that often double as community centers. sunday school classes are often held for children to teach them church doctrine. no special clothing needs to be worn for services, though the faithful usually dress formally. members

gnify the coming of light to the world. such rituals may last for as long as three days, accompanied by fireworks, chanting, and music. priests may also perform occasional rituals of exorcism, driving out evil spirits. such exorcisms can be done in homes or even outdoor spaces where it is thought evil spirits dwell. priests use a variety of religious tools, including flags printed with scripture, blessed water, incense, swords, and even whips made of peach wood with which to fight the demons. ritual words are chanted as the procession of priests passes through the home or outside area. home shrines less elaborate rituals are also held throughout the year. daoists are encouraged to worship on their own as well. most daoist families have a family shrine with a family tree of their ancestors

lso celebrate certain holidays that sunnis do not, particularly those remembering and honoring the life of ali. the major source of division, however, concerns the leadership of islam. while sunnis believe that any qualified adult male can serve as a successor to muhammad, shiites believe that only a blood descendant of muhammad can do so. shiites believe that ali and his descendants were and are blessed with secret wisdom by virtue of their descent from muhammad. shiites use the term imam as a title to refer to these people, who are believed to have a special relationship with god. in contrast, sunni muslims use the title imam as one of respect, with no religious significance. throughout islam s history the sunnis and the shiites have struggled for power and leadership. in islam s early h

SEPHER HA BAHIR

is god's blessing" this means that wherever we find the letter bet it indicates a blessing. it is thus written (genesis 1:1 "in the beginning (bereshit [god created the heaven and the earth" bereshit is bet reshit] the word "beginning (reshit) is nothing other than wisdom. it is thus written (psalm 111:10 "the beginning is wisdom, the fear of god" wisdom is a blessing. it is thus written "and god blessed solomon" it is furthermore written (i kings 5:26 "and god gave wisdom to solomon" this resembles a king who marries his daughter to his son. he gives her to him at the wedding and says to him "do with her as you desire" 4. how do we know that the word berachah [usually translated as blessing] comes from the word baruch [meaning blessed? perhaps it comes from the word berech [meaning knee

st they ask "where is the king's house" only then can they ask "where is the king" the bahir 4 it is thus written "for to me shall every knee bend- even the highest "every tongue shall swear" 5. rabbi rahumai sat and expounded: what is the meaning of the verse (deuteronomy 33:23 "the filling is god's blessing, possessing the sea and the south? this means that wherever we find the letter bet it is blessed. this is the filling referred to in the verse "the filling is god's blessing" from there it nourishes those who need it. it was from this filling that god sought advice. what example does this resemble? a king wanted to build his palace among great cliffs. he mined into the bedrock and uncovered a great spring of living water. the king then said "since i have flowing water, i will plant a

to the bedrock and uncovered a great spring of living water. the king then said "since i have flowing water, i will plant a garden. then i will delight in it, and so will all the world" it is therefore written (proverbs 8:30 "i was with him as a craftsman, i was his delight for a day, a day, frolicking before him at every time" the torah is saying "for two thousand years i was in the bosom of the blessed holy one as his delight" the verse therefore says "a day, a day" each day of the blessed holy one is a thousand years, as it is written (psalm 90:4 "a thousand years in your eyes is as but yesterday when it is passed" from then on, it is at times, as the verse states"[frolicking before him] at every time" the rest is for the world. it is thus written (isaiah 48:9 "i will [breathe out] my p

tzadik) is the foundation of the world. 62. they asked him: what is the meaning of the verse [with regard to balak and balaam (numbers 23:14, and he took him to the field of the seers? what is the field of the seers? as it is written (song of songs 7:12, come my beloved, let us go out to the field. do not read sadeh (the field, but sidah (carriage. what is this carriage? he said, the heart of the blessed holy one. his heart said to the blesssed holy one, come my beloved, let us go out to the carriage to stroll. it will not constantly sit in one place. 63. what is his heart? he said: if so, ben zoma is out side, and you are with him. the heart (lev [in numerical value] is thirty-two. these are concealed, and with them the world was created. what these 32? he said: these are the 32 paths. th

l the letters to endure. the aleph looks like the brain. when you mention the aleph you open your mouth. the same is true of thought, when you extend your thoughts to the infinite and boundless. from aleph emanate all letters. do we not see that it is first? it is thus written (micah 2:13, god (yhvh) is at their head. we have a rule that every name that is written yod he vav he is specific to the blessed holy one and is sanctified with holiness. what is the meaning of with holiness? this is the holy palace. where is the holy palace? we would say that it is in thought and in the aleph. this is the meaning of the verse, i heard a report of you and i feared. 71. habakkuk therefore said: i know that my prayer is accepted with delight. i also delighted when i cam to that place where i understoo

hich is the divine presence of israel. he recalled his son whom he inherited, and whom you gave to him. it is thus written (i kings 5:26, and god gave wisdom to solomon. and you should remember their father abraham, as it is written (isaiah 41:8, the seed of abraham my friend in the midst of years make it known. 78. where do we see that abraham had a daughter? it is written (genesis 24:1, and god blessed abraham with all (bakol. it is also written (isaiah 43:7, all that is called by my name, for my glory i created it, i formed it, also i made it. was this blessing his daughter, or was it not? yes, it was his daughter. what is this like? a king had a slave who was complete and perfect before him. the king tested the slave in many ways, but the slave withstood all temptation. the king said

SEPHER YETZIRAH WESTCOTT

f macroprosopus and microprosopus, and the doctrine of re-incarnation. the "sepher yetzirah" on the other hand, is mainly concerned with our universe and with the microcosm. the opinions of hebrew kabalistic rabbis and of modern mystics may be fitly introduced here. the following interesting quotation is from rabbi moses botarel, who wrote his famous commentary in 1409-"it was abraham our father--blessed be he--who wrote this book to condemn the doctrine of the sages of his time, who were incredulous of the supreme dogma of the unity. at least, this was the opinion of rabbi saadiah--blessed be he--as written in the first chapter of his book the philosopher's stone. these are his words: the sages of babylon attacked abraham on account of his faith; for they were all against him although the

the ineffable sephiroth; seal up thy lips lest thou speak of them, and guard thy heart as thou considerest them; and if thy mind escape from thee bring it back to thy control; even as it was said "running and returning (the living creatures ran and returned (19) and hence was the covenant made. 9. the ineffable sephiroth give forth the ten numbers. first; the spirit of the god of the living (20) blessed and more than blessed be the living god (21) of ages. the voice, the spirit, and the word (22) these are the holy spirit. 10. second; from the spirit he produced air, and formed in it twenty-two sounds--the letters; three are mothers, seven are double, and twelve are simple; but the spirit is first and above these. third; from the air he formed the waters, and from the formless and void (2

outh, and the palace of holiness in the midst of them sustaining all things. 3. these seven double letters he designed, produced, and combined, and formed with them the planets of this world, the days of the week, and the gates of the soul (the orifices of perception) in man. from these seven he bath produced the seven heavens, the seven earths, the seven sabbaths: for this cause he has loved and blessed the number seven more than all things under heaven (his throne. 4. two letters produce two houses; three form six; four form twenty-four; five form one hundred and twenty; six form seven hundred and twenty (39) seven form five thousand and forty; and beyond this their numbers increase so that the mouth can hardly utter them, nor the ear hear the number of them. so now, behold the stars of

SEVEN SHADES OF SOLITUDE

ion if he is truly to comprehend the orientations and dispositions of his own nature. by abiding long hours in the companie of this solitude one may find the wellspring of the magical power within oneself. by actively sojourning there, in the very ebb and flow of the current within, the voice of oracles may be heard from the depths, the visions of the night shall arise in clarity, and to the most blessed the faithful gods shall come forth, unmasked and in patronage to the will. iv) the fourth solitude is the hermitage of the magister. this is the solitude of one who realises self-vision as its own autonomy, who has attained to the knowledge of the path according to both tradition and revelation, who may participate in ritual praxes with or without others, without compromise or deficiency t

SIFRA DETZNIYUTHA

the dwelling of the evil spirits, storms and demons, and blows to qain within hy. he formed in that adam(,da, by twos, by the general principle and the particular, which are contained in the particular and the general, legs and arms, right and left. it divides at its sides. male and female were established- vhy. yod y male, heh h female. vav v as it is written male and female created he them, and blessed them, 104 and called their name adam. the form and person of adam was seated upon the throne,105 as it is written: 12 and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of adam upon it from above.106 13 chapter four the ancient one107 is hidden and concealed. the small face is manifested and not manifested, the manifested is written in the letters. the not on its level

will offering from above downwards. afterwards he needs to bind a knot in all, the bond of the intention of the faith, and all his requests shall come about- whether they are communal requests or individual requests. the prayer that man should request of his master is arranged in nine ways: 1) there is according to the alphabet; and 2) there is by way of mentioning the attributes of the holy one, blessed be he e.g. compassionate, gracious, etc. 3) there is according to the precious names of the holy one, blessed be he, like: ehyeh (i will be, hy, vhy, hvhy, el, elohim, tzuhva oth (host, shadhai (almighty, adonai (my master. 4) there is according to the ten sefiroth, like: malkuth, yesod, hod, netzach, tifareth, gevurah, gedulah, binah, hochmah, keter. 5) there is by mentioning the righteou

on. for without that, about such there is a verse, as it is written: and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.184 21 and in the intention of amen (is) that it compounds two names: hvhy and ynda. the one conceals its goodness and its blessing in a treasure that is called hall. this is indicated in the verse: and the lord hvhy is in his holy hall, keep silence before him.185 our sages, of blessed memory, alluded to this (when stating that: all the good of a man is in his house. as it is said: in all my house he is faithful.186 and it is translated: in all that is with me.187 and when (man) has intention in every one of the nine ways as behooves, he is the human being that honors the master, the holy name. and of him it is written: for they that honor me i will honor, and they that

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

c was a part of the man, and this gentle creature seemed a part of the music; it was, in fact, when she sat beside him that whatever was tender or fairy-like in his motley fantasia crept into the harmony as by stealth. doubtless her presence acted on the music, and shaped and softened it; but, he, who never examined how or what his inspiration, knew it not. all that he knew was, that he loved and blessed her. he fancied he told her so twenty times a day; but he never did, for he was not of many words, even to his wife. his language was his music, as hers, her cares! he was more communicative to his barbiton, as the learned mersennus teaches us to call all the varieties of the great viol family. certainly barbiton sounds better than fiddle; and barbiton let it be. he would talk to that by t

to blame if alcibiades was an adulterer and a traitor "you hear him, you hear him! but socrates had also a plato; henceforth you shall be a plato to me. you hear him" exclaimed the old man, turning to the stranger. but the latter was at the threshold. who shall argue with the most stubborn of all bigotries, the fanaticism of unbelief "are you going" exclaimed dumas "and before i have thanked you, blessed you, for the life of this dear and venerable man? oh, if ever i can repay you, if ever you want the heart's blood of rene dumas" thus volubly delivering himself, he followed the stranger to the threshold of the second chamber, and there, gently detaining him, and after looking over his shoulder, to be sure that he was not heard by the owner, he whispered "i ought to return to nancy. one wo

he house, from the danger of infection. as he glided in, wan, emaciated, with an uneasy, anxious, searching look in his haggard eyes, the old woman shrieked aloud, and fell at his feet. he bent over her, passed his thin hands along her averted face, shook his head, and said in a hollow voice "i cannot find them; where are they "who, dear master? oh, have compassion on yourself; they are not here. blessed saints! this is terrible; he has touched me; i am dead "dead! who is dead? is any one dead "ah! don't talk so; you must know it well: my poor mistress, she caught the fever from you; it is infectious enough to kill a whole city. san gennaro protect me! my poor mistress, she is dead, buried, too; and i, your faithful gionetta, woe is me! go, go to to bed again, dearest master, go" the poor

ay, when you obey the impulse, when you fly from the walls, when in the strange place in which you seek your refuge nothing speaks to you of the lost, have ye not felt again a yearning for that very food to memory which was just before but bitterness and gall? is it not almost impious and profane to abandon that dear hearth to strangers? and the desertion of the home where your parents dwelt, and blessed you, upbraids your conscience as if you had sold their tombs. beautiful was the etruscan superstition that the ancestors become the household gods. deaf is the heart to which the lares call from the desolate floors in vain. at first viola had, in her intolerable anguish, gratefully welcomed the refuge which the house and family of a kindly neighbour, much attached to her father, and who wa

i; and since they cannot (the poor heretics) turn grapes into wine, for they have no grapes, they turn gold into physic, and take a glass or two of pistoles whenever they are troubled with the colic. but you don't hear me, little pupil of my eyes, you don't hear me "and these things are whispered of zanoni" said viola, half to herself, and unheeding gionetta's eulogies on glyndon and the english "blessed maria! do not talk of this terrible zanoni. you may be sure that his beautiful face, like his yet more beautiful pistoles, is only witchcraft. i look at the money he gave me the other night, every quarter of an hour, to see whether it has not turned into pebbles "do you then really believe" said viola, with timid earnestness "that sorcery still exists "believe! do i believe in the blessed

hinks, ere thou comest to me that i hear them herald thy approach. methinks i hear them wail and moan, when i sink back into myself on seeing thee depart. thou art of that music, its spirit, its genius. my father must have guessed at thee and thy native regions, when the winds hushed to listen to his tones, and the world deemed him mad! i hear where i sit, the far murmur of the sea. murmur on, ye blessed waters! the waves are the pulses of the shore. they beat with the gladness of the morning wind, so beats my heart in the freshness and light that make up the thoughts of thee "often in my childhood i have mused and asked for what i was born; and my soul answered my heart and said 'thou wert born to worship' yes; i know why the real world has ever seemed to me so false and cold. i know why

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

e corridors and chambers of the pyramids of unas, teta, pepi, and other early kings, it is clear that the primitive egyptians believed that the floor of heaven, which also formed the sky of this world, was made of an immense plate of iron, rectangular in shape, the four corners of which rested upon four pillars which served to mark the cardinal points. on this plate of iron lived the gods and the blessed dead, and it was the aim of every good egyptian to go there after death. at certain sacred spots the edge of p. 52 the plate was so near the tops of the mountains that the deceased might easily clamber on to it and so obtain admission into heaven, but at others the distance between it and the earth was so great that he needed help to reach it. there existed a belief that osiris himself exp

deeds both good and evil; it remains to consider these magical ceremonies in which the skill of the magician-priest was exerted to its fullest extent, and with the highest objects, that is to say, to preserve the human body in a mummified condition, and to perform the symbolic acts which would restore its natural functions. when we think of the sublime character of the life which the souls of the blessed dead were believed to lead in heaven with the gods, it is hard to understand why the egyptians took such pains to preserve the physical body from decay. no egyptian who believed his scriptures ever expected that his corruptible body would ascend into heaven and live with the gods, for they declare in no uncertain manner that it remains upon the earth whilst the soul dwells in heaven. but t

SIX ANGLED RITE OF THE ROYAL SUN OF THE GOAT LORD

on the man and woman, shapely formed that they would unite heaven and earth sigil 2: the sign of the fire invocatory name: azael (oz ah el) poetic stream: even the fire has horns red tines with burning life the smith hammers the heated iron love in the earth, on the anvil, strife. sigil 3: the sign of the autumn equinox invocatory name: wandil (wahn dill) poetic stream: autumn, the doorway of the blessed water in the pale bloom unseen life comes to sleep, risen above to sink below the fading green sigil 4: the sign of the devil's trident invocatory name: routa (roo tah) poetic stream: the old puck-angel raises a fork a threefold sharpened wand one tine for heaven, earth and hell three for the king of the hidden land sigil 5: the sign of mars invocatory name: samael (sam eye el) poetic stre

SOLOMON

. conybeare pdf formatted by p. yardley 1. testament of solomon, son of david, who was king in jerusalem, and mastered and controlled all spirits of the air, on the earth, and under the earth. by means of them also he wrought all the transcendent works of the temple. telling also of the authorities they wield against men, and by what angels these demons are brought to naught. of the sage solomon. blessed art thou, o lord god, who didst give solomon such authority. glory to thee and might unto the ages. amen. 2. and behold, when the temple of the city of jerusalem was being builded, and the artificers were working thereat, ornias the demon came among them toward sunset; and he took away half of the pay of the chief-deviser's) little boy, as well as half his food. he also continued to suck t

me, who is this solomon of whom thou speakest to me" then ornias threw the ring at the chest of beelzeboul, saying "solomon the king calls thee" but beelzeboul cried aloud with a mighty voice, and shot out a great burning flame of fire; and he arose, and followed ornias, and came to solomon. 14. and when i saw the prince of demons, i glorified the lord god, maker of heaven and earth, and i said "blessed art thou, lord god almighty, who hast given to solomon thy servant wisdom, the assessor of the wise, and hast subjected unto me all the power of the devil" 15. and i questioned him, and said "who art thou" the demon replied "i am beelzebub, the exarch of the demons. and all the demons have their chief seats close to me. and i it is who make manifest the apparition of each demon" and he pro

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

ation and obedience to government; and entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow citizens of the united states at large. and finally that thou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy and to demean ourselves with that charity -30- humility and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the divine author of our blessed religion, and without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation. grant our supplication, we beseech thee, through jesus christ our lord. amen [emphasis supplied] washington's prayer was adapted from his circular letter to the governors; its use of the phrase "our blessed religion" reflected in unmistakable terms washington's conviction that

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

f precisely nothing. rather it is the eternal itself that the mystai seek to possess; they have first to awaken the eternal to existence within them, and then they can speak of it. plato s hard saying is absolutely true for them, that the uninitiated sink into the mire, and only those who have passed through the mysteries enter into eternity.8 that is the meaning too of sophocles fragment: thrice blessed when they come to the realm of shades who have seen these rites! they alone have life, for the rest there is only pain and toil.9 that is why to speak of the mysteries is at the same time to tell of dangers. for is not to lead someone to the door of the underworld to rob that person of happiness, of the very meaning of life? a terrible responsibility is incurred by such an act. and yet the

one s act of cognition, the god would lie fallow and have to await another deliverer. hence human personality has a living meaning not just for itself and in itself, but for the world. from the mystery point of view, life far transcends the limits of individual existence, making intelligible that glimpse of the eternal conveyed by the verses of pindar: the mysteries and pre-socratic philosophy 35 blessed is he who has seen these things, and then is laid in the hollow earth. he knows life s end; he knows the beginning ordained by zeus.39 we understand too those characteristic proud gestures of the philosophers such as heraclitus, who could justly say that much had been revealed to them, since they attributed their knowledge not to the transitory self but to the immortal daimon within them

g their relatives and friends. when they did not find him, they went back to jerusalem to look for him. after three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. the buddha withdrew into solitude, and when he returned a virgin greeted him with words of benediction: blessed are the mother, the father, and the wife to whom you belong. but he answered: only those are blessed who have reached nirvana. the reference is to those who have entered the world of the eternal order of things. compare in the gospel of luke: as jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out: blessed is the mother who gave you birth and the breasts that fed you! he replied

lessed are the mother, the father, and the wife to whom you belong. but he answered: only those are blessed who have reached nirvana. the reference is to those who have entered the world of the eternal order of things. compare in the gospel of luke: as jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out: blessed is the mother who gave you birth and the breasts that fed you! he replied, blessed rather are those who hear the word of god and obey it. at one point in his life, the tempter (mara) comes to the buddha and promises him all the kingdoms of the earth. the buddha rejects it all with the words: i know well that i am destined to have a kingdom, but i do not desire an earthly one; i will achieve enlightenment and make all the world rejoice. mara has to admit, my the egyptian

munity was not able to enter into the actual experiences of the mysteries without more ado; nor could that be his intention. but he did wish to impart the conviction of the truth contained in the visions of the mysteries. by a further step forward in the spiritual development of humanity, the life of the mysteries would flow out into the world. he would bring people to a higher existential plane: blessed are those who believe, and have not seen. 106 the conviction that there is a divine reality would be rooted in human hearts in the form of faith. one who stands outside, yet has this faith, will certainly go further than one who does not have it. the thought that many were standing outside, uncertain of the way, must have weighed upon the mind of jesus with nightmare heaviness. he had to c

now with more, now with less clarity and strength. and it will be left to the daimon, the angel in a person s own breast, to decide how far one s initiation can proceed. the mystery-temple is the entire world. no longer is blessedness reserved for those who have witnessed within the confines of the mystery-temples those awe-inspiring enactments that are the types and symbols of eternity. for now, blessed are those who have not seen, but who have believed. 150 even if at first they wander in darkness, the light may yet reach them. there is no secrecy; the way opens out for all. there is much more in the apocalypse concerning the threat to christianity from anti-christian powers and the eventual triumph of christianity. all other gods are taken up into the higher unity of the christian divin

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he great white brotherhood received by sir david cherubim copyright (c) 1989 e.v. 0. there is silence. and now the elder kings make speech: 1. we come in the name of the most beloved one, the most mysterious one, whom is the grand lord of the aeon, and whose holy spirit is the life and light of the whole universe. we come as sacred nourishment, as delicious ambrosia and sweet nectar. we come as a blessed sacrament of wisdom and joy unto all. know thou this holy truth! 2. we are the ageless brethren of l.v.x, whose voice is our holy habitation. we are the secret masters of the formless fire who conduct the world's initiation. and know thou that we are the invisible illuminati of the world, whose golden age of illumination is come. 3. thus we say unto thee, fasten thy soul unto our voice of

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r teens or pre-teens, you should learn the art of magick, and know that it is the path you wish to follow, before you go joining a group where dancing nude is a requirement. true magick is about free will! you should always have the freedom to find the door when events begin to take control of your body, away from you! grimoire of eclectic magick tools and your altar continued) the art of magick( blessed be& welcome to the heart of the craft grimoire of eclectic magick. within this section, you will be exposed to both the theory and the practice of magick. basic exercises, ritual outlines, a table of correspondences, and a few simple spells are included to get you started. this information is not intended to replace formal training, or is it designed to be the last word on the subject. if

ost often is done by taking a ritual bath, donning your robe, or ritual clothing, and spending some quiet time in meditation. this will allow you to be calm, and centered before the ritual begins. cense the area with incense. many people use sage. sage should not be used if anyone who will be at the ritual is pregnant. frankincense, can also be used, or you can sprinkle the area with a mixture of blessed salt-water. casting the circle, is done by tracing a circle in the air, above the ground with the athame (or wand, while walking deosil (clockwise) around the area. as you do, say, i conjure thee, o-circle of power, become a boundary between the world, and the sacred space within (in an outdoor circle, some might even use a sword to cut an actual circle into the ground) one of the problems

at this time that you would celibate the season with ritual drama. this is also the place where you would do healing magick, charge new tools, and the like. charging the wand this was inspired by the vigil of the wand, as found in the portal book by ian corrigan. pass the wand first through incense, then through salt, and then through water. then say: creature of wood, be welcome at my altar. be blessed& free from all storms, both in the mortal& the magical realms. become one with me, and work my will in the worlds of land, sea& sky. pass the wand through the spirit flame. then say: by the power of this holy fire, be blessed with wisdom, love& joy. become one with me and work my will in truth and power. hold the wand upright between your palms, and over your heart. feel the power flow out

worlds of land, sea& sky. pass the wand through the spirit flame. then say: by the power of this holy fire, be blessed with wisdom, love& joy. become one with me and work my will in truth and power. hold the wand upright between your palms, and over your heart. feel the power flow out as you breath life into the wand. then say: in the names of dana& curnonnus, and by my own spirit, be you thrice blessed. become one with me and work my will. so mote it be! grounding the energy. this can be done with refreshments such as juice& cupcakes (or if you are of age and inclined, cakes& wine, or ale. another method of grounding, is the infamous hugging of a tree. the purpose here is to relax, and let the energy raised in ritual dissipate. dismissing the quarters, and thanking the lord& lady when al

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beloved osiris would condemn them the deceased was permitted to proceed to the fields of aalu, the world, where the gods lived. because humans were the offspring of the gods, the fields of aalu offered an eternal association and loving companionship with the deities. this, the ancient egyptians believed, was the natural order of things. they had no doubts about immortality. in their cosmology, a blessed afterlife was a certainty. m delving deeper ferm, vergilious, ed. ancient religions. new york: the philosophical library, 1950. gaster, theodor h, ed. the new golden bough. new york: criterion books, 1959. larousse dictionary of beliefs and religions. new york: larousse, 1994. 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 19 o

assing through the circle of necessity, can fully explain the age-old problems of good and evil and the apparent injustices of life, blavatsky argues. only a system wherein one is rewarded or punished for the deeds or crimes committed in a former life can explain the inequalities of birth and fortune, of intellect and capacities. when a person s life is beset by injustice and misfortune, only the blessed knowledge of karma can prevent one from cursing life and men, as well as their supposed creator. those individuals who believe in karma have to believe in destiny, which, blavatsky states in the secret doctrine, from birth to death, every man is weaving, thread by thread, around himself, as a spider does his cobweb. karma creates nothing, nor does it design. it is man who plants and create

t appeared to be a nun dressed in white standing on top of the large dome at the center of the roof. fearful that something might happen to the sister, one of the men ran into the church to get a priest, the other telephoned for a police emergency squad. when the priest ran from the church to look up at the dome, he was the first to recognize it as a manifestation of mother mary. the image of the blessed mother remained in full view of the priest, the two mechanics, and a growing crowd of excited witnesses for several minutes, then disappeared. the news of the holy mother s visitation spread rapidly from zeitoun, a suburb of cairo, to the greater metropolitan population of over six million. while the religious makeup of cairo is largely muslim, there is a fairly large coptic catholic minor

sion of preventing satan (gabriel byrne) from fathering the antichrist in end of days (2000. in stigmata (2000, byrne switches sides and plays a priest who fights to thwart satanic interference toward a young stigmatist, a woman who bears the bleeding wounds of christ s crucifixion. bless the child (2000) portrays a desperate mother (kim basinger) who must somehow prevent her specially gifted and blessed child from becoming the human sacrifice that would grant the antichrist his full-powered entry into the world. christians who believe completely that the end times drama will play out according to certain scriptural references maintain a wary eye for signs of the antichrist and the onset of the apocalypse, but not all christians accept the warnings of the advent of the beast with his tellt

, participation in his sufferings, sorrows, and for the same end the expiation of the sins unceasingly committed in the world. if the stigmatics did not suffer, the wounds would be but an empty symbol, theatrical representation, conducing to pride. and if the stigmata truly issue from god, it would be unworthy of his wisdom to participate in such futility, and to do so by a miracle. while not yet blessed with sainthood, padre pio (1887 1968, one of the most wellknown stigmatics of the twentieth century, saw a vision of a mysterious person whose hands, feet, and side were dripping blood on august 20, 1918. after padre pio was delivered from such a terrifying sight, the priest suffered the first of the stigmata which would cause his wounds to bleed daily for 50 years. therese neumann (1898 1

stigmata in his side, hands, and feet while serving a parish in antigua, west indies. reverend gerard critch was flown to new york to be treated by medical specialists. dr. joseph john was quoted as saying that no treatment he had given critch had worked or been effective. according to critch s parishioners, they were thrown to the floor by an invisible force or felt their injuries healed when he blessed them. r. allen stanford, a banker from the united states who flew critch to new york city on his private jet, said that oil was oozing from the marks on the priest s feet, as it did from jesus. the wounds were real, stanford said (evening telegram, april 11, 1998. the roman catholic church does not see the onset of stigmata as bringing with it any increase of holiness, so its clergy recogn

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gues 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 divine favor upon, to honor as holy. god blessed his creation of man and woman, and thereby granted them a soul. why else would god have blessed the animals if it were not to bestow a soul upon them? in july 2001, abc news and beliefnet released the result of their poll of americans regarding the question of whether pets would one da

ck. in christian europe in the middle ages, individuals who inadvertently walked under a ladder would cross their fingers on both hands, calling upon the sign of the cross to protect them from any evil entities lurking in the shadows existing between wall and ladder. others would employ the always-reliable method of spitting to banish the negative beings, for best results, three times one for the blessed virgin, one for the son, and one for the holy ghost. more optimistic folks altered the superstition to state that if a person was, through unusual circumstances, forced to walk under a ladder against his or her will, he or she might receive anything wished for. this is much preferable to the superstition that to tread under a ladder is to foreshadow one s being hanged. on the symbolical le

read from the torah. as in other traditions, the bride is attired in a white gown, symbolizing purity and joy, and the groom stands beside her wearing a dark suit. the wedding couple is attended by their parents, and the group stands before the rabbi under a canopy known as a chuppah, which represents the future home of the bride and groom. the rabbi hands the couple a glass of wine that has been blessed. after the bride and groom share the wine, the rabbi and the groom read the marriage contract. when the reading is completed, the groom places a plain gold ring on the first finger of his bride s left hand and announces to all assembled in the synagogue that she is his wife. after making such a declaration, he moves the wedding ring to the third finger. a second glass of wine is offered to

forever to share everything between them. they promise to love and respect one another, to be frugal with their incomes, and to welcome their friends and family to their home. there may be a brief reading from buddhist scriptures and a period of meditation, followed by a few words from the officiating priest. after the ceremony is concluded, most buddhist couples visit the nearest monastery to be blessed by the monks and to pay respect to buddha. traditional hindus continue the ancient practice of arranged marriage and infant betrothals. the primary concern of hindu parents is that their child marry within his or her caste or social structure. for even less traditional hindus, the kind of dating and courtship practices that exist among americans and europeans are discouraged. when families

he exchange or the process of negotiating certain goods or services for other goods or services. bedouin a nomadic arabic person from the desert areas of north africa and arabia. via old french beduin, ultimately from arabic badw, or desert, nomadic desert people. betrothal the act of becoming or being engaged to marry another person. bhagavad gita from sanskrit bhagavadgi ta, meaning song of the blessed one. a hindu religious text, consisting of 700 verses, in which the hindu god, krishna, teaches the importance of unattachment from personal aims to the fulfillment of religious duties and devotion to god. bipedal any animal that has two legs or feet. from the latin stem biped, meaning twofooted. birthstone each month of the year has a particular precious gemstone or a semiprecious stone a

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p l a i n e d 12 secret societies by1897, the masons had about 750,000 members. who defended northern spain from the invading moors in the eleventh century, and the secret society continues to this day in a criminal organization akin to the mafia. according to tradition, around 710 a holy man named apollinario, who lived a hermitlike existence in the hills above cordova, had a vision in which the blessed virgin mary appointed him to be the savior of spain and drive the moors out of the land. at first the holy man was staggered by the very suggestion, regardless of the source from whence it had come. what remained of gothic spain had fallen into decay, deteriorating into a patchwork of petty princedoms, woefully ineffectual against the powerful moors who had conquered most of the land and e

mary presented him with a button that she said had been taken from the robe of christ, apollinario knew that he had been given the power to raise a band of holy warriors. he followed her orders to gather an army from the simple countryfolk of spain, even from the bandits who lived in the mountains, and to avoid the corrupt nobles and landed aristocracy. the hermit from the hills above cordova was blessed with a charisma that caused the common people to flock to his leadership. he told them that those who followed him in the garduna, his sacred army, would be licensed by god and the holy virgin to destroy the invading heathens by any means. there would be open warfare, of course, but they would also be free to plot murders and practice any kind of secret treachery. those who joined the gard

among them: 1. the end of the world was near, but those who had become enlightened by the new reformation would be initiated into a higher consciousness. 2. new stars had appeared in the constellations of cygnus and serpentarius that predicted the destruction of the roman catholic church. 3. the illumined father divined the secret code that god placed in the universe in the beginning of time and blessed those who possess such magic. 4. the transmutation of base metals into gold and precious gems is a natural miracle that has been revealed to such magi as christian rosencreutz. forget about the efforts of the pseudo-chemists. 5. the rosicrucian fellowship has wealth to distribute, but it does not wish a single coin from anyone. the manifestos created great excitement in early seventeenth-c

not awarded to him as a result of his many accomplishments, but is simply the latin equivalent of his family name, de groot. born at larvingen on the danube in circa 1193, albertus was thought as a child to be quite stupid, capable, it seemed, of understanding only basic religious ideals, rather than any kind of complex study. then one night the boy claimed to have received a visitation from the blessed virgin, and his intelligence quotient soared thereafter. feeling obliged to devote his life to the clergy when he completed his studies, albertus did so well in the clerical profession that he was made bishop of ratisbon. he held the position only a brief time before he resigned and announced that he would devote his intellect and his energy to science. albertus fs scientific discoveries a

s diana, aradia, or demeter, has always been the benefactress of the outcast, the lonely, the people of the night. when the new religion of christianity achieved dominance in italy, the strege revered mother mary as an expression of the goddess diana. throughout italy, sicily, and malta, there are many strege passing as devout church members, including a few roman catholic priests, who accept the blessed virgin mary because they know she is just another incarnation of the goddess diana. one day, the strege believe religious tolerance will progress to the stage where they will once again have a public temple to the goddess. more than one scholar of the mass conversions of the pagan populace of europe during the middle ages has commented on the fact that the common folk simply went undergrou

ut the dangers of seeking occult knowledge, the girls of salem ignored such warnings in favor of having a thrilling pastime that could help them through a long, cold winter. then came the fateful afternoon when ann putnam, a fragile, highly strung 12-yearold, joined the circle in the company of the putnams f maid, 19-year-old mercy lewis. ann was much more widely read than the other girls and was blessed with a quick wit, a high 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 104 magic and sorcery salem village witchcraft trials in the 1690s (the library of congress) intelligence, and a lively imagination. she soon became tituba fs most avid and apt pupil. together with her literate mother, ann had read far more than the other girls in the circle

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

sant treatise of witches, whose violent hatredtowards those unhappy beings is only equalled in bitterness by that of the inquisitors, states in 1673 that atthe sabbath "they make their accustomed homage, adoring and proclaiming him their lord. in the sameyear at newcastle-on-tyne[17] ann armstrong testified that she had heard ann baites "calling himsometimes her protector, and other sometimes her blessed saviour; and that "he was their protector, whichthey called their god. the salem witch, mary osgood, in 1692, said[18] that "the devil told her he was hergod, and that she should serve and worship him".such a mass of evidence shows that till the end of the seventeenth century the old religion still counted largenumbers of members. the issue has been confused, perhaps purposely, by the use

vert were more dramatic than those for a boy or girl alreadybelonging to the religion. the accounts are fuller as the records were made when the cult of the horned godwas already waning and had to keep up its numbers by proselytising. as in all admissions to a new religionthe convert had to renounce his old faith, and this renunciation was made as explicit as possible "i renounceand deny god, the blessed virgin, the saints, baptism, father, mother, relations, heaven, earth, and all that isin the world,[19] was one of several formulae; which always had to be "an express renunciation of jesuschrist and of the faith. then came the baptism, the profession of faith and the vow of fidelity,[20 "i placemyself at every point in thy power and in thy hands, recognising no other god, for thou art my

f wooden goblets, but in alsace[92] the wealthy ladies broughtwith them their own silver cups, out of which everybody drank. in england and scotland beer or aqua vitaewere the usual drinks.the combination of religion and feasting and general jollity so characteristic of the great sabbaths iscuriously reminiscent of the modern method of keeping christmas.chapter v. religious and magical ceremonies"blessed be the christians and all their ways and works, cursed be the infidels, hereticks, and turks."kipling (slightly altered).it has so far been impossible for anyone to devise a theory which will decide where magic ends and religionbegins. the best explanation is that magic acts as a natural means, that the mere pronouncing of a spell or theperformance of certain movements will produce the des

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consciously access them every time you perfo rm the housle. if you wish to utilize these understandings, you will add a level of power to your work. most housle participants are eating the bread and drinking the drink to consciously, outwardly re-awaken, show, or forge a connection between themselves and otherworldly spirits or powers, making the two worlds into one through the absorption of the blessed food and drink. regardless of the housle s deeper meanings, the before mentioned reality is still the case with the housle, still one of its primary realities, if not the primary reality. no matter what power is called and merged with by the housle, as we shall see, the theme of regeneration and renewal is the central theme of the housle, on the deepest levels. and renewal can happen on ma

darker brother of her father (who can esoterically be seen as the darker face of her father, the king of the underworld and death) where she passes through the various terrors of the underworld (and her own fear of being taken from the world above) before she bears a divine child, who is later responsible for lifting her (and through her, all of the souls of the underworld and this world) to the blessed, realized state. such is the pattern that we observe in the greek myths of demeter, kore, hades, and brimos or dionysos-iakkos, the glorious child that kore bore to hades, and who was part of the revelations of the mysteries of eleusis. this pattern is deep and important- it can be stated in more succinct terms: the soul or being is born of the great mother and father, and due to the attra

e succinct terms: the soul or being is born of the great mother and father, and due to the attracting and fated power of love and desire, falls into the great entrapment of life and death- and has to go into the underworld of mortal existence, fear, cyclic change, and limitation, until the penultimate result of that marriage, the marriage of the soul to the cycles of life and death, is shown- the blessed child. the blessed child is then taken by the forces of death and chaos, before arising again, and being sheltered to where he can grow up, and then, returning triumphantly to his source, he brings about the regeneration of all. this mystery pattern is very deep and important- no matter how tragic life can seem, no matter how immense loss can seem, or death, there is a final and ultimate r

re with hallowing peace. a bell is then rung to announce the official beginning of the housle. the rite leader can either use an arthame to consecrate the wine and bread (by dipping its tip in the wine, and laying its blade on the bread) or, alternatively, he or she may simply lift the cup and plate above his or her head while saying the invocations of blessing on the bread and drink. the wine is blessed first, followed by the bread. the blessing of the wine: dame wisdom redeemer of man, preserver of the heart, clothed in fate s night-woven raiment, rise, descend, and appear, and be pleased to bless this wine- for no glory stands without wisdom; the exalted one must seek the source: for power is only perfected when returned to earth, resolved to the true and lasting well-spring from which

er. lord of the true light, hear the housle prayer that we may stand with you. though the seas break their boundaries, and the stars fall into water, by awareness of the mystery we may yet stand in our own light. after each blessing, the arms should be crossed on the chest, and the housle should be bowed to; put down the arthame (if you are using one) before you do this. then, standing before the blessed bread and drink, pick up both of the containers holding them, and hold them above the head, declaring: i am the alpha and the omega i am the first and the last i am fate and love i am the true life that comes of them all. at this point, a horn can be blown, or a bell rung again, or, in silence, the participants can meditate on the image of a blinding light coming from the east, and shining

which is the resolving seat of all mysteries and the heart of true life. after these moments of silence have passed, following the horn or the bell, or the meditation, the rite leader holds his or her hands over the cup, and says: i saw the master come forth in a great light from the east, and he was the light. i saw time, sorrow, and death pass away. only truth remained. gathered around him were blessed souls of the realized ones, they of the hidden company, the holy grand array. from the master s radiant tongue came words, and he became the words, as they were spoken. he said: behold, i make all things new. the rite leader offers a sip of the wine to each member of the gathering, with the words behold: i make all things new, to which the person responds, from earth, come fire, and then t

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sed libera nos a malo. amen. the lord s prayer our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. thy kingdom come. thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. give us this day, our daily bread. and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. the hail mary 10 hail mary full of grace, the lord is with thee. blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, jesus. holy mary, mother of god, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. amen. the ave maria ave maria, gratia plena; dominus tecum: benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui yeheshua. sancta maria, mater dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. amen. the qabalistic cross i

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ffirm without folly that god is or that he is not, one must begin with a reasonable or unreasonable definition of god. now, this definition, in order to be reasonable, must be hypothetical, analogical, and the negation of the known finite. it is possible to deny a particular god, but the absolute god can no more be denied than he can be proved; he is a reasonable supposition in whom one believes "blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see god" said the master; to see with the heart is to believe; and if this faith is attached to the true good, it can never be deceived, provided that it does not seek to define too much in accordance with the dangerous inductions which spring from personal ignorance. our judgments in questions of faith apply to 16 ourselves; it will be done to us as w

f catholicity, such as it is constituted in the roman church, that one must say what voltaire so boldly said of god "if it did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it" but if a man had been capable of inventing the spirit of charity, he also would have invented god. charity does not invent itself, it reveals itself by its works, and it is then that one can cry with the saviour of the world "blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see god" to understand the spirit of charity is to understand all mysteries. 81 article iv solution of the fourth problem religion proved by the objections which people oppose to it. the objections which one may make against religion may be made either in the name of science, or in the name of reason, or in the name of faith. science cannot deny the fa

you are carried away by a passion which your state of life- but pardon, reverend sir, i fear that i am over-stepping the boundaries of discretion "say everything, sir; i am willing to hear all, i wish to now everything "oh, well! if, as i do not doubt to be the case, you turn to the profit of charity all the restless activities with which the passions of your heart furnish you, you must often be blessed for your good works" the abbe once more smiled that dubious and fatal smile which gave so singular an expression to his pallid countenance. he rose and took his leave without having given his name, and without any one having thought to ask him for it. eliphas and desbarrolles reconducted him as far as the staircase, in token of respect for his dignity as a priest. near the staircase he tur

and holding a taper, which the devil tries to extinguish, but which is protected from the breath of the unclean spirit by a miraculous little tabernacle. after the lady devotees came the clergy; then finally appeared the venerable archbishop of paris, mitred with a white mitre, wearing a cope which was supported on each side by his two vicars; the prelate, leaning on his cross, walked slowly, and blessed to right and left the crowd which knelt about his path. eliphas saw the archbishop for the first time, and noticed the features of his countenance. they expressed kindliness and gentleness; but one might observe the expression of a great fatigue, and even of a nervous suffering painfully dissimulated. the procession descended to the foot of the church, traversing the nave, went up again by

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the psyche or self into the mask of the god form in question, going forth to the sabbat masked in the cloak of the god form you are assuming. this is a development from older golden dawn practices and enables the mind to grow strong through understanding and experiencing on dreaming levels other significant god forms, demons and angelick spirits. 15 the egyptian book of the dead, the abode of the blessed, edited by e.a. wallis budge. 16 tubal-cain or cain, the son of samael and lilith, was the master of the forge i.e. initiation. 19 when one approaches the ancient masks of set, seker or the persian druj of the yatuk-dinoih understand that by diving in the black sun, becoming as a god in the darkness is but the first part of crossing the abyss. the rite of adversarial shadow -the ensorcelme

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

uarter- kalli, lilith other forms of the feminine associated with binah range from the shekinah, the "indwelling presence of god (also associated with malkuth as the unwedded soul, to babalon, the great whore or scarlet woman, deified by crowley in his elaborate symbology as the lady babalon, nursing the babe of the abyss in the city of pyramids under the night of pan. the catholic "litany of the blessed virgin" lists titles which could be transposed onto the tree of life with appropriate relevance, such as: mary i.e, exalted, also "bitterness of the sea "myrrh of the sea, or "lady/mistress of the sea" mother of christ binah connecting to tiphareth mother of divine grace binah connecting to chesed mother inviolate etc binah above the abyss of manifestation mirror of justice binah connectin

plane, acts as the bearer of the "word" or creative spark of chockmah, the father, into binah, the mother. thus yesod and binah are linked by the attribution of gabriel "ruler of the waters, the waters being creation (binah) and the unconscious (yesod, their interface being the archetypes. an example of the kabbalistic interpretation of the glorious mysteries is that of the assumption, where the blessed mother is united with her divine son in heaven, which can be taken as the mystics raising of his awareness (tiphareth, vau, the son) to transcendent universal understanding (binah. indeed, the five glorious mysteries can be taken as a symbolic representation of the mystical ascent from tiphareth (the first mystery of resurrection) through the upper sephiroth to kether (the fifth mystery of

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

prayer, and may my cry ascend to thee. peace be with thee, and with thy spirit. alb and cordelier, sacred vestments which i ordain for the cult of my celestial reconciliation, i exorcise you in the name of him who commissioned you for the protection of man in the presence of the evil spirits and for his purification in the presence of the celestial powers. become thus henceforward, immaculate and blessed vestments, pure) and radiant, protected from any power and any prestige of the demoniacal spirit and his ministers, become protected from any attempts of theirs and any malefice of theirs whatever they may be. do not retain in yourselves any diabolic force but become pure) holy) blessed) and sanctified) vestments. deign thus, 0 lord, eternal god, almighty sanctifier, to purify, to bless) a

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

cking beneath our feet, i derive great pleasure from writing an introduction to a new edition of the middle pillar. it is that pillar which stands dependable and relatively changeless as the sphinx, between the extremes of mercy and severity, the two outer pillars of the qabalah's tree of life.6 equally important, it also provides basic principles of magic whch can speed the student on his way to blessed release from the necessity of the accursed wheel. once he has gained this new understanding, the student, it is to be hoped, will gradually but steadily progress until he has completed the great work. in so doing, not only will he help himself by stepping up his own evolutionary processes, but to that degree will he have raised the frequencies of h s fellow man and even the planet itself

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

airplane. we couldn't figure out what it was" mrs. bennett said. she and the wamsleys were probably the only people in the crowd who were not looking for the red-eyed creature. they were on their way to visit the ralph thomases who lived in a neat bungalow back among the igloos. mr. thomas was the superintendent of the trojan-u.s. operations there. his wife, virginia, was a slender, gentle woman blessed or cursed with second sight. she had accurately predicted numerous accidents and local events over the years. she was careful not to seek attention and only her friends knew of her remarkable abilities. deeply religious, she went to church almost every evening and on this night both she and her husband were out. the wamsleys and mrs. bennett found only three of the thomas children, rickie

THE PAGAN BOOK OF WORDS PRAYERS CHANTS AND RHYMES

ivinity of three, so mote it be! eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com land prayer grain goddess, upon your body i live. you give to us the gift of life and the gift of nourishment. to you, i offer my love, my courage and my strength. so mote it be. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com hail mother! hail mother, full of grace, your people live upon you. blessed are all men and women and blessed is your womb from which all life springs. hail mother! goddess of all, cradle us within your loving arms from birth to death and to rebirth. faeries of the earthen mounds. guardians of secrets dear. by your love commit me here. to teach the knowledge of the ancient ones. be ever at my side to light my way. to guide and teach me both night and day. eliza fe

pumpkin orange with grizzly face protect tonight my homely place hazel nut charm the hazel nut is said to contain all the wisdom of the worlds. they were carried around as charms to protect health and to help gain knowledge and bring about good fortune. hazel nut, nut, nut. bring me luck, luck, luck. heal my mind, mind, mind. may wisdom find, find, find it s way to me, me, me and may i be, be, be blessed by three, three, three. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com ball of protection ball of protection, round and smooth, i need your help to make my move. let s get the ball rolling. the future s ahead. heal me with blue and make my energy red. i take my first step now. i am freed from the past. keep the ball rolling. i am myself at last! to bring about quiet, say: hush like a whisper the

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

adio talks now the lord said unto abram 'get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that i will show thee. and i will make of thee a great nation, and i will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing. and i will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will i curse; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed' so abram went, as the lord had spoken unto him; and lot went with him; and abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of haran. and abram took sarai his wife, and lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in haran; and they went forth to go into the land of canaan; and into the land of canaan (genesis 12, 1-5

THE ROSICRUCIAN MANIFESTOS

ld be a true jesuit, that is, to walk, live, be, and remain in jesus: he was but ill rewarded of the jesuits, because in his answer written upon the famam, he did name those of the fraternity of the rosie cross, the highly illuminated men, and undeceiving jesuits; for they not able to brook this, layd hands on him, and put him into the galleis, for which they likewise have to expect their reward. blessed aurora will now henceforth begin to appear, who (after the passing away of the dark night of saturn) with her brightness altogether extinguisheth the shining of the moon, or the small sparks of heavenly wisdom, which yet remaineth with men, and is a forerunner of pleasant phebus, who with his clear and fiery glistering beams brings forth that blessed day, long wished for, of many true-hear

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 medicine

THE SHADOWED ONES

ahriman hear thy calls, who is your shadow possibility and strength bearing passion of the earth. let the ahriman dragon whose color is black stir your eyes from the sun to the moon and the darkness of night. it is the cold winds which open the path of arezura and hades, when wolves and serpents gather unto you. let the ahrimanic dragon coil as the serpents of shaitan, just as zohak shall you be blessed by the kiss of the devil-prince who is your initiator of dreams and death. by the north west point of the circle can you call now forth azrael who is a gatherer of ghosts and shades of the dead. listen to the twilight call of the boneways of the gateway. in your skull temple of cain and lilith does witchblood flow and gather what you may become. let jasmine bloom now under the light of the

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

it their selfishness, the middle orders trot their daughters round the london ballrooms just as strumpets fall in to the cry of descendez, mesdemoiselles! women marry for title, clothing, shelter, and food; men because they think it is cheaper to keep a cow, and once and for all have done with it, than to be constantly running round the corner for a penny-worth of milk; and the lower stratum. the blessed poor. spend most of their lives in the act of engendering the elite of heaven and the scum of this earth, gmere shells, husks of the golden wheat that might grow even here, h*2. if it were not for our prudery, our religion, and our laws *1. why jesus wept, vol. iii, p. 42 *2. the poem, vol, i, p. 57. percy. the percy of gthe poem, h and not of gwhy jesus wept, h is optimistic enough concer

nkerous divider and obstreperous upstart: give me omnipotence. to call me god. i would exert that power to heal creation fs hurt; not to divide my devotees from those who scorned me to the close: a worm, a fire, a thirst for these; a harp-resounding heaven for those *the sword of song, ascension day, vol. ii, p. 158. concerning the mother of the eternal god, crowley has little to tell us, and the blessed virgin fs affaire du coeur with the amiable gabriel is but touched on for a moment: gfear nothing, mary! all is well! i am the angel gabriel. h she bared her right breast (query why *the sword of song, pentecost, p. 60; vol. ii, p. 182. according to al beidawi, gabriel blew into the bosom of mary fs shift, which he opened with his fingers, and his breath reaching her womb, caused the conce

ime and beyond space. he stands on the virgin rock of pyrrhonic- zoroastrianism, which unlike the hindu world-conception, stands on neither elephant nor tortoise, but on the absolute zero of the metaphysical qabalists *vide haeckel, glast words on evolution, h p. 120. the question now is, what is crowleyanity or pyrrhonic-zoroastrianism? and the answer is as follows: ghosanna to the son of david! blessed is he that cometh in the name of the lord. hosanna in the highest! h for this day*1. there has been born in albion a greater than david hume, and a more illustrious than david home,*2. even had he been genuine *1. 12th october, 1875 *2. d.d. home, the medium. and he shall be called gimmanuel, h that is ggod with us, h or being interpreted aleister crowley, the spiritual son of immanuel who

il fit, i.e, efrom nothing, nothing is made, f that is, nothing can come from nothing, but it does not believe in the absolute annihilation of anything which has ever existed. ethere is not anything new under the sun. f*1. enot any thing, f says the zohar, eis lost in the universe, not even the vapour which goes out of our mouths, as all things, it has its place and destination, and the holy one, blessed be it! makes it concur to its works; not anything falls into the void, not even the words and the voice of man, but all has its place and its destination. h*2 *1. but crowleyanity may be new, for it is not under the sun *2. qabbalah. isaac meyer, p. 124. gall things of which this world is composed, spirit as well as body, will again enter into the principle, and into the root from which th

THE BOOK OF GATES

god who bears a sta.ff p. 90 "this great god journeyeth along the roads of the p. 91 [paragraph continues] tuat. this god is drawn by the gods of the tuat (in order to make divisions (or, distinctions) in the earth, and to work out [his] designs therein, to weigh words and deeds in ament, to magnify the great god above the little god among the gods. who are in the tuat, to place the khu (i.e, the blessed dead) upon, their thrones, and the damned [in the place] to which they have been condemned in the judgment, and to destroy their bodies by an evil death. ra saith-'o grant ye to me that i may restore the tiara, and that i may have possession of [my] shrine which is in the earth. let sa and heka unite themselves to me for the working out of plans for you, and for making to come into being t

to be maat the word of your little one, may thoth weigh the words, may he make to eat his father" immediately over the boat is the short inscription which goodwin renders by"[when] this god entereth, he (i.e, the ape) riseth and putteth under restraint am-a (i.e, the eater of the arm" 1 p. 164 behind the pair of scales is the legend 1 which mr. goodwin renders "the balance-bearer does homage; the blessed spirits in amenti follow after him; the morning, star disperses the thick darkness; there is good will above, justice below. the god reposes himself, he gives bread to the blessed, who throng, towards him" the translation by m. lef bure reads "the bearer of the hatchet and the bearer of the scales protect the inhabitant of amenti [who] takes his repose in hades, and traverses the darkness

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

l.h.47 in allusion to the weariness of heart and file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c5.html (17 of 22 [12/28/2001 2:03:44 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. brain which must suffer in our search for the word. fifth is the fiducial sign, given by &c, and sweeping the hand down and back, as if tearing down a veil (done) behold in silence and adore! blessed are the eyes that have beheld the ineffable (z. h. p. communicate the word as in opening) listen in silence and adore! blessed are the ears that have heard the invisible! you will now retire by seven steps, halting and bowing at the 3rd, 5th and 7th, after which you will take your seat in this l. of p. and attend to the lecture. the lecture closing iv (lodge of perfection) the mystical lec

his is the true sacrament by which ye are partakers of the very body and blood of our lord jesus christ, not in his death, but in his resurrection. by this are ye made children of light, fellows of the holy ghost, perfect pure, companions of the sangreal, illustrious knights of the sacrosanct order of kadosch. by this have ye the gnosis; by this are ye counted among the dwellers of the sanctuary. blessed are they that do this commandment, that they may have sight of the tree of life, and may enter file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c3.html (3 of 18 [12/28/2001 2:05:41 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. it through the gate into the city. for without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers and idolators and whosoever loveth and

rethren the alchemists, and of the adepts of the rosy cross. the first answer: it is nothing but the lion with his coagulated blood, and the gluten of the white eagle; it is the ocean wherein both sun and moon have bathed. the others: it is the dew upon the rose that hath concealed the cross. ask of the ancients: they reply that the oldest of the gods is saturn. beware lest thou also be deceived! blessed be he that hath discovered unto us the arcanum arcanorum! this is the dissolved stone; this is the elixir of life, this is the universal medicine, this is the tincture, this is the potable gold. take an athanor and cucurbite, and prepare a flask for this wine of the holy ghost. thou needest also a flame for the distillation. in the athanor is thy lion, in the cucurbite thine eagle. use fir

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

the fourth day. 1:20 and god said, let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 1:21 and god created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and god saw that [it was] good. 1:22 and god blessed them, saying, be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 1:23 and the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 1:24 and god said, let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 1:25 and god made the beast of the earth after his kind, and c

t [it was] good. 1:26 and god said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 1:27 so god created man in his [own] image, in the image of god created he him; male and female created he them. 1:28 and god blessed them, and god said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 1:29 and god said, behold, i have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree

en] every green herb for meat: and it was so. 1:31 and god saw every thing that he had made, and, behold [it was] very good. and the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 2:1 thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2:2 and on the seventh day god ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 2:3 and god blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which god created and made. 2:4 these [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the lord god made the earth and the heavens, 2:5 and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the lord god had no

nd called his name seth: for god [said she] hath appointed me another seed instead of abel, whom cain slew. 4:26 and to seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name enos: then began men to call upon the name of the lord. 5:1 this [is] the book of the generations of adam. in the day that god created man, in the likeness of god made he him; 5:2 male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name adam, in the day when they were created. 5:3 and adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name seth: 5:4 and the days of adam after he had begotten seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: 5:5 and all the days that adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he di

the lord smelled a sweet savour; and the lord said in his heart, i will not again curse the ground any more for man s sake; for the imagination of man s heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will i again smite any more every thing living, as i have done. 8:22 while the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. 9:1 and god blessed noah and his sons, and said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 9:2 and the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth [upon] the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. 9:3 every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the gree

and japheth took a garment, and laid [it] upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces [were] backward, and they saw not their father s nakedness. 9:24 and noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. 9:25 and he said, cursed [be] canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 9:26 and he said, blessed [be] the lord god of shem; and canaan shall be his servant. 9:27 god shall enlarge japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of shem; and canaan shall be his servant. 9:28 and noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. 9:29 and all the days of noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. 10:1 now these [are] the generations of the sons of noah, shem, ham, and japheth:

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

s what is profitable, and what not; what we are to avoid, and what we are to embrace: then he allureth us to obedience with great promises of corporal and eternal benefits, and deterreth us (with threatning of punishments) from those things which are not profitable for us. turn over therefore with thy hand, both night and day, those holy writings, that thou mayest be happie in things present, and blessed in all eternity. do this, and thou shalt live, which the holy books have taught thee. aphorism 11. a number of four is pythagorical, and the first quadrate; therefore here let us place the foundation of all wisdom, after the wisdom of god revealed in the holy scriptures, and to the considerations proposed in nature. appoint therefore to him who solely dependeth upon god, the wisdom of ever

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

male parts of generation. the person who was at this fete in the year 1780, and who gave me this account (the authenticity of every article of which has since sir william hamilton 7 been fully confirmed to me by the governor of isernia, told me also, that he heard a woman say, at the time she presented a vow, like that which is presented in plate i, fig. i, santo cosimo benedetto, cosi lo voglio: blessed st. cosmo, let it be like this; another, st. cosimo, a te mi raccommendo: st. cosmo, i recommend myself to you; and a third, st. cosimo, ti ringrazio: st. cosmo, i thank you. the vow is never presented without being accompanied by a piece of money, and is always kissed by the devotee at the moment of presentation. at the great altar in the church, another of its canons attends to give the

eason why these rites were always performed by night was the peculiar sanctity attributed to it by the ancients, because dreams were then supposed to descend from heaven to instruct and 1 strab. lib. viii. 2 sat. ix, ver. 24. 4 see plate ix, fig. 8, from one belonging to me. 5 philodemi epigri. brunk. analect. vol. ii, p. 85. 106 on the worship forewarn men. the nights, says hesiod, belong to the blessed gods;1 and the orphic poet calls night the source of all things (pantwn genesij) to denote that productive power, which, as i have been told, it really possesses; it being observed that plants and animals grow more by night than by day. the ancients extended this power much further, and supposed that not only the productions of the earth, but the luminaries of heaven, were nourished and su

adoring it himself, but he did it not in his heart. 2 according to one witness, deodatus jaffet, a knight from the south of france who had been received at pedenat, the receptor showed him a head, or idol, which appeared to have three faces, and said to him, you must adore this as your saviour, and the saviour of the order of the temple, and he added that he was made to worship the idol, saying, blessed be he who shall save my soul! another deponent gave a very similar account. another knight of the order, hugo de paraudo, said that, in a chapter at montpellier, he had both seen, held, and felt, the idol or head, and that he and the other brothers adored it but he, like the others, pleaded that he did not adore it in his heart. he described it as supported on four feet, two before and two

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

s christ is the third element in the divine trinity and reconciles the other two, so the juncture of the cross is the balance point between the powers represent- ed by the arms. this point is outside time and space. raised up on the cross, jesus became immortal, no longer subject to change and decay. the cross is symbolically separate from the constantly shifting forms of being. thus, the host is blessed with the cross to lock in its purity-in a sense it is set outside the world of forms. when a person is born he or she perceives the world as a sphere, which is sym- bolized in nature by the perfect circle of the sky. the first conscious act is to send out a ray of awareness, creating polarity and dividing that perfection into two. sim- ilarly, the limitless horizon is divided by the arc of

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

the holy communion and then be carried back to her bed. when the nuns came back to s. clare, after the office in s. darnian's was over, they said to her "0 our mother, sister clare, what sweet consolation have we had on this holy feast of the nativity! oh, would that it had pleased god that you had been with us there" and s. clare replied "praise and glory do i give unto our lord jesu christ, the blessed one, my sisters and daughters most dear; for that with much consolation to my soul i have had part in all the solemn rites of this most holy night, and even more than ye: sith through the loving care of my father s. francis, and the grace of our lord jesu christ, i have been present in the church of my venerable father, s. francis, and with the ears of my body and my mind have heard all th

those close to the person projecting the astral body, such as friends or family members, observe the astral form and mistake it for the physical form of the person engaged in the projection. there have even been cases when individuals have carried on entire conversations with astral projections, never realizing until being informed later that the other was not physically present. as a young girl, blessed columba of rieti (1467-1501) was in the habit of scourging herself three times every night: the first time for her own transgressions, the second for the conversion of sinners, and the third time to help souls in purgatory. when not whipping her own body, she passed the entire night in fervent prayer. not surprisingly, she was subject to astral visions. once, she traveled on the astral lev

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

thereby confirming their obedience. during this ritual, the israelites were probably required by joshua to stand in the ford of the jordan river, half the tribes on one side of the ark and the other half on the opposite side. those who remain obedient are promised six blessings from the stones on gerizim, washed with the blood of the tribes of simeon, levi, judah, issachar, joseph, and benjamin: blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out (deut. 28:3-6) those who lapse into diso

am to my howse, and he being willing and desirous to see or shew some thing in spiritual1 practise, wold have had me to have done some thing therein. and i truely excused my self therein, as not in that, vulgarly accounted magick, neyther studied, or exercised. but confessed my self long tyme to have byn desyrous to have help in my philosophical1 studies through the company and information of the blessed angels of god (british library, sloane ms. 3188, fol. 9) dee was being modest about his abilities. at that time he was engaged in a series of magic experiments to establish communications with angels so 164 tetragrammaton that he could gain knowledge of secret matters, particularly political secrets that would be of use to his sovereign, queen elizabeth i. he also sought magical secrets th

ith ornaments of brightness such as work wonders on all creatures" the virgins have become courtesans who allure and bewitch with their adornments. also, they are individualized by names, which define them. however, the primary biblical reference here seems to be with the 144,000 of the chosen who have the name of the father written on their foreheads (rev. 7:3-4. twelve thousand of those who are blessed are chosen from each of the twelve tribes. therefore, it is evident that they are sealed with the twelve banners of tetragrammaton, one banner for each of the tribes. as these chosen ones stand before the throne, divine harpers begin to sing and play: 204 tetragrammaton and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn

olphins do not stand upon the ground. those that sit in counsel call not in the harvest people, nor account not their works. he that standeth above the moon, seeth greater things then the earth: is it not said, the lord will provide? i stand above the moon, for that i dispose his life from above the disposition of the moon. to ask what jacob his servants did, was a folly; because their master was blessed: a greater question to ask how blessed he was, then to ask how many sheep he had. a [dee. i am desirous to know what you meant by saying, that my words made you a childe. mad [madimi. because you ask me childish questions (a due& faithful relation, p. 29) it is doubtful if dee, despite his great wisdom, ever really understood the transcendent purpose for the keys. he sought the magic of th

e material world, and from the inert earth he brought forth everything that hath life. he hewed, as it were, vast columns out of the intangible air, and by the power of his name made every creature and everything that is (ibid, pp. 18-9) sepher ha-bahir it is thus written (micah 2:13 "god (yhvh) is at their head" we have a rule that every name that is written yud, heh, vav, heh is specific to the blessed holy one and is sanctified with holiness (the bahir [twelfth century, aryeh kaplan translation [york beach, maine: weiser, 19891, p. 25) appendix b: commentaries on tetragrammaton moses maimonides it is well known that all the names of god occurring in scripture are derived from his actions, except one, namely, the tetragrammaton, which consists of the letters yod, he, vau and he. this nam

ciation of 717' the third comma ldmenwt as made, and an israelite always uses '178 a do na y (adonai) lord, in place of it, hence the rendering "lord" in the english version, whilst the lowest designation, or the deity in nature, the more general term elohim, is translated, god. in the qabbalah the name 717' yhvh, expresses a he and a she, two persons in one deity, i.e, the unity of the holy one, blessed be hq, i.e, he, and his she'keen-ah. see also the jewish liturgy, for pentecost, also the daily "in the name of unity, of the holy and blessed ha and his she'keen-ah, the hidden and concealed he, blessed be yhvh forever" hii is said to be masculine and yah feminine, together they make the 7nh 717, i.e, one yhvh. one but of a male-female nature. the she'keen-ah is always considered in the q

VOX SABBATUM

ersed to insight an inspired rebellion from the sickening light of selflessness, to fall into darkness and rise again as the sun of ones black flame of consciousness: the affirmations of the devil live to witch a suffer shalt thou, those who restrain us time observe, enchantment use ye shall them after whoring, go to wizards and familiar spirits have as such a wizard who hath a familiar spirit is blessed with the mark of cain, that he or she is wise among his people. vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 19 life is an abomination to god, and our life is sacred unto our lord the devil, satanadar, antecessor! to the abominations come life and joy, that a necromancer, a wizard, a witch, a charmer and observer of times is blessed by the adversary opposer, that the son or daughter is blessed to pass

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ssed this sa could transfer it to his friend by embracing him and then "making passes" with his hands along his back. the sa could be received by a man from a god and then transmitted by him to a statue by taking it in his arms, and this ceremony was actually performed by the king in the ritual of the divine cult.[fn#43] the primary source of this sa was ra, who bestowed it without measure on the blessed dead,[fn#44] and caused them to live for ever thereby. these, facts make it tolerably certain that the magical power of khensu nefer-hetep was transferred to khensu pa-ari-sekher in one of two ways: either the statue of the latter was brought near to that of the former and it received the sa by contact, or the high priest first received the sa from the greater god and then transmitted it t

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nd the ejaculation of the ens seminis, then the igneous serpent of our magical powers awakens. if you want to return to the father who dwells in secret, you must first return to the bosom of your divine mother kundalini. you need to raise the serpent of life through your medullar channel. this is alchemy. alchemy: you have forgotten your divine mother kundalini. you need to worship the divine and blessed mother goddess of the world. you have been ungrateful to your cosmic mother; she is the virgin of all religious cults; she is isis, mary, cibeles, adonia, insoberta, etc. the stone of grace is surrounded by nine delectable mountains. that stone is sex. if you all want to return to the bosom of your divine mother, you need to work with the philosophical stone sex. the mayans stated that in

a su madre, y al disc pulo a quien l amaba, que estaba presente, dijo a su madre: mujer, he ah tu hijo. despu s dijo al disc pulo: he ah tu madre. y desde aquella hora el disc pulo la recibi en su casa. juan 19:26-27 25 the word john can be rearranged as follows: i.e.o.u.a.n, the verb (the dragon of wisdom. indeed, the woman is the mother of the verb and the woman officiates upon the altar of the blessed goddess mother of the world. now brethren, know that the venerable priestess of your divine mother kundalini is your spouse. brothers and sisters, pray and meditate a great deal to your divine mother kundalini as follows: invocation oh isis! mother of the cosmos, root of love, trunk, bud, leaf, flower and seed of all that exists; we conjure thee, naturalizing force. we call upon the queen

saturno. las siete notas de la lira de orfeo corresponden a los siete planetas. a cada color de prisma solar, le corresponde una nota planetaria. la alkimia se halla ntimamente relacionada con la m sica. 51 atalanta is the voice that flees; hippomenes is the voice that pursues and the apple is the voice that delays. i.a.o. is the supreme mantram of sexual magic. i.a.o. is the name of the serpent. blessed be the i.a.o. i.a.o. must be chanted during the practices of the laboratory (sexual alchemy; thus, this is how the serpent moves about and is joyful. chant i.a.o. seven times while in the laboratorium oratorium. the mantra i.n.r.i. has an absolute power over the fire; chant this mantram also in the laboratorium oratorium in order to carry the fire to each one of your seven chakras. chant i

ire, the great swindler. within yourself is an embryo of soul, it is able to love. indeed, its love is embryonary because it is an embryo; yet if you annihilate desire you will feel that spark of love. when you learn how to feel that spark, then that spark will become a flame and you will experience that which is called love. therefore, strengthen your soul's embryo [your embryo of soul] with the blessed flame of love, and then you will achieve the miracle of your incarnation. it is necessary for you to be integral and that is only possible by loving. in the nineteenth arcanum, a great alliance is established between two souls. the man and the woman must kill desire in order to achieve the great alliance. if you want to incarnate your soul, you must then celebrate the great alliance of the

o] after your death. you escape from the graveyard or cemetery dreaming miserable specter! wretched soulless creature! reflect and meditate. you must celebrate the great alliance of the nineteenth arcanum so that you can incarnate your soul and truly achive to be. you, wretched creature, are not a being yet. you are in dreams. you die without knowing how and are born without knowing how. only the blessed flame of love can make you exist because you do not have a truly real existence yet. only with the arcanum a.z.f. you can engender your christic vehicles. your inner buddha will be dressed with those vehicles first, then later your inner christ. this is how you will become integral; you need to become integral. remember good disciple that now you are nothing but a sleeping specter and that

ta estrella interior. 142 the number 22 is kabbalistically added as follows: 2+ 2= 4 the holy three emanates from the inner star, thus, the holy trinity plus its inner star is the holy four, the mysterious tetragrammaton, which is iod-he-vav-he. now we comprehend why the twenty-second arcanum is the crown of life. be thou faithful unto death, and i will give thee a crown of life -revelation 2: 10 blessed by the one who incarnates the spirit of wisdom (chokmah; those buddhas who do not renounce nirvana can never incarnate the cosmic christ, who is beyond the inner buddha. our inner buddha has to seek the cosmic christ within its own unknowable profundities. the cosmic christ is the glorian, the incessant eternal breath profoundly unknowable to itself, the ray that joins us to the abstract a

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worlds it is for practical cabalism to discover (1971, p. 242 .23. the celestial intelligences are, in practical qabalistic magic, thought to be emanations of the deity, and correspond to principles in the human microcosm. this is really an early and exceedingly perceptive psychology. agrippa explains that: the more i dwell upon their qualities, the more i long for the divine, the more shall i be blessed by the reception of their rays. the more intensely i yearn heavenward, the more shall i bring down heaven to dwell in my soul (1971, p. 222. part of the process of tapping into the numinosity of these intelligences is to become empowered by their attributes. working with magical correspondences in this way is one means of purifying our vessels. as regardie said in his tree of life, one's f

ection 260: vrdim, veradim: roses 260: krm, kerem: vineyard 260: tzmtzm, tzimtsen: to contract or draw together 260: h-mrh, the moriah: i. e. jerusalem (g. g. locks. the land of moriah was said to be the site of the sacrifice of isaac, upon which the temple of solomon was later built (2 chron. 3: 1) 260: monnim, monnim: soothsayers 260: rkil, rekil: talebearer *260: benedictus dominus noster: our blessed lord 2080: theosophic extension of the planetary line 2080: thpthrthrth, taphthartharath, spirit of mercury 2080: artificer's fire (greek (john michell) 2080: light and fire in greek (michell) 2080: first-born in greek (rev. 1: 5) chapter 11 the kamea of yesod/moon the magical numbers of the moon are nine, eighty-one, 369, and 3321. the moon is the ship and guide of the heavens, the numino

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ct of redemption 2000 years ago, is forced into a linear view of time, where 'seeing the future' is an illogical proposition. in fact, from the christian perspective, any attempt to do so is seen as inherently evil. this did not keep the medieval church from co-opting samhain's other motif, commemoration of the dead. to the church, however, it could never be a feast for all the dead, but only the blessed dead, all those hallowed (made holy) by obedience to god- thus, all hallow's, or hallowmas, later all saints and all souls. there are so many types of divination that are traditional to hallowstide, it is possible to mention only a few. girls were told to place hazel nuts along the front of the firegrate, each one to symbolize one of her suitors. she could then divine her future husband by

e fire of poetic inspiration. bonfires were lighted on the beacon tors, and chandlers celebrated their special holiday. the roman church was quick to confiscate this symbolism as well, using 'candlemas' as the day to bless all the church candles that would be used for the coming liturgical year (catholics will be reminded that the following day, st. blaise's day, is remembered for using the newly-blessed candles to bless the throats of parishioners, keeping them from colds, flu, sore throats, etc) the catholic church, never one to refrain from piling holiday upon holiday, also called it the feast of the purification of the blessed virgin mary (it is surprising how many of the old pagan holidays were converted to maryan feasts) the symbol of the purification may seem a little obscure to mod

s the first day of the first sign of the zodiac, aries. however you look at it, it is certainly a time of new beginnings, as a simple glance at nature will prove. in the roman catholic church, there are two holidays which get mixed up with the vernal equinox. the first, occurring on the fixed calendar day of march 25th in the old liturgical calendar, is called the feast of the annunciation of the blessed virgin mary (or b.v.m, as she was typically abbreviated in catholic missals 'annunciation' means an announcement. this is the day that the angel gabriel announced to mary that she was 'in the family way. naturally, this had to be announced since mary, being still a virgin, would have no other means of knowing it (quit scoffing, o ye of little faith) why did the church pick the vernal equin

o our modern-day renaissance festivals, such as the one celebrated in near-by bonner springs, kansas, each fall. a ceremonial highlight of such festivals was the 'catherine wheel. although the roman church moved st. catherine's feast day all around the calender with bewildering frequency, it's most popular date was lammas (they also kept trying to expel this much-loved saint from the ranks of the blessed because she was mythical rather than historical, and because her worship gave rise to the heretical sect known as the cathari) at any rate, a large wagon wheel was taken to the top of a near-by hill, covered with tar, set aflame, and ceremoniously rolled down the hill. some mythologists see in this ritual the remnants of a pagan rite symbolizing the end of summer, the flaming disk represen

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uced definite results simply to parody those of an alien faith. i have attended many of these cult rites, and i declare that most of what he says is simply not true. there may be a fertility dance, but the other rites are simple, and with a purpose, and in no way resemble those of the roman catholic or any other church that i know. true, sometimes there is a short ceremony when cakes and wine are blessed and eaten (they tell me that in the old days mead or ale was often used) this may be in imitation of the early christian agape, the love feast, but there is no suggestion that the cakes turn into flesh and blood. the ceremony is simply intended as a short repast, though it is definitely religious. the priestess usually presides. candles are used, one to read the book by and others set roun

e waters, queen of the earth bring to us the child of promise (1 [1] the sun, thought of as being reborn- it is the great mother who giveth birth to him, it is the lord of life who is born again. darkness and tears are set aside when the sun shall come up early. golden sun of the mountains, illumine the land, light up the world, illumine the seas and the rivers, sorrows be laid, joy to the world. blessed be the great goddess, without beginning, without end, everlasting to eternity. i.o.evo.he blessed be' they dance round furiously, crying 'i.o.evo.he blessed be lo. evo.he blessed be' sometimes couples join hands and jump over the blazing cauldron, as i have seen for myself. when the fire had burnt itself out the priestess led the usual dances. this was followed by a feast. is there anythin

e mystery of death, and so she journeyed to the nether lands. the guardians of the portals challenged her 'strip off thy garments, lay aside thy jewels, for nought may ye bring with you into this our land' so she laid down her garments and her jewels and was bound as are all who enter the realms of death, the mighty one (1) such was her beauty that death himself knelt and kissed her feet, saying 'blessed be thy feet that have brought thee in these ways. abide with me, but let me place my cold hand on thy heart' and she replied 'i love thee not. why doest thou cause all things that i love and take delight in to fade and die 'lady' replied death 'tis age and fate, against which i am helpless. age causes all things to wither; but when men die at the end of time, i give them rest and peace and

en men die at the end of time, i give them rest and peace and strength so that they may return. but you, you are lovely. return not; abide with me' but she answered 'i love thee not' then said death 'as you receive not my hand on your heart, you must receive death's scourge 'it is fate, better so' she said, and she knelt. death scourged her and she cried 'i know the pangs of love' and death said 'blessed be' and gave her the fivefold kiss, saying 'thus only may you attain to joy and knowledge [1] see note 2 (page 188- and he taught her all the mysteries, and they loved and were one; and he taught her all the magic's. for there are three great events in the life of man- love, death and resurrection in the new body- and magic controls them all. to fulfil love you must return again at the sam

ngs. it became his protecting genius, and he defeated all his enemies and gained great wealth. later it became the property of the order. and through it the order gained its great wealth and power. writers say that this would seem to be a garbled account of a ceremony of death and resurrection, perhaps seen by some outsider. there are many ancient legends of such heads or skulls: that of bran the blessed in the mabinogion, the bleeding head in the story of peredur, and others, all bringers of victory and prosperity, reminiscent of the old legends of adonis and astarte, and of horus who was begotten by the dead osiris. the templars may have attempted practices which, while sheer heresy to a witch, were founded on her methods. witches teach that to work magic you must start with a couple, a

ry and power and everlasting joy to the destroyer of the fear of death? that is, to the givers of regeneration, death and what lies beyond. jaffet, a knight from the south of france, deposed that at his reception he was shown a head or idol and told 'you must adore this as your saviour and the saviour of the order of the temple' and he was made to worship this head by kissing its feet and saying 'blessed be he who shall save my soul' cettus, a knight received at rome, gave a very similar account. a templar of florence said he was told 'adore this head; this head is your god and your mahomet' and said that he worshipped it by kissing its feet. there seems to have been no questions asked as to how you can kiss a skull's feet. can it perhaps be explained by some rite resembling the following

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ight speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. selections from edwin a. burtt. the teachings of the compassionate buddha. new york, mentor (mp380, 1955. p. 29. 233 sayings from the buddhist sutras (questions not tending to edification) thus have i heard: the venerable malunkyaputta arose at eventide from his seclusion, and drew near to where the blessed one was; and having drawn near and greeted the blessed one, he sat down respectfully at one side. and seated respectfully at one side, the venerable malunkyaputta spoke to the blessed one as follows: revered sir, it happened to me, as i was just now in seclusion and plunged in meditation, that a consideration presented itself to my mind, as follows: these theories which the blessed one has

ideration presented itself to my mind, as follows: these theories which the blessed one has left unelucidated, has set aside and rejected that the world is finite, that the world is infinite, that the saint exists after death, that the saint does not exist after death, that the saint both exists and does not exist after death, that the saint neither exists nor does not exist after death these the blessed one does not elucidate to me. and the fact that the blessed one does not elucidate them to me does not please me nor suit me. i will draw near to the blessed one and inquire of him concerning this matter. if the blessed one will elucidate (them) to me, in that case will i lead the religious life under the blessed one. if the blessed one will not elucidate (them) to me, in that case will i

not elucidate them to me does not please me nor suit me. i will draw near to the blessed one and inquire of him concerning this matter. if the blessed one will elucidate (them) to me, in that case will i lead the religious life under the blessed one. if the blessed one will not elucidate (them) to me, in that case will i abandon religious training and return to the lower life of a layman. if the blessed one knows that the world is eternal, let the blessed one elucidate to me that the world is not eternal; if the blessed one knows that the world is not eternal, let the blessed one elucidate to me that the world is not eternal. if the blessed one does not know either that the world is eternal or that the world is not eternal, the only upright thing for one who does not know, or who has not

e to me that the world is not eternal; if the blessed one knows that the world is not eternal, let the blessed one elucidate to me that the world is not eternal. if the blessed one does not know either that the world is eternal or that the world is not eternal, the only upright thing for one who does not know, or who has not that insight, is to say, i do not know; i have not that insight (and the blessed one replied) malunkyaputta, anyone who should say, i will not lead the religious life under the blessed one until the blessed one shall elucidate (these things) to me that person would die, malunkyaputta, before the tathagata had ever explained this to him. it is as if a man had been wounded by an arrow thickly smeared with poison, and his friends and companions were to cure for him a phys

d whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. o lord our lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! selections from: the authorized version (king james) of the holy bible. from the new testament (from the sermon on the mount) and seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying, blessed are the poor in spirit: for their is the kingdom of heaven. blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see god. blessed are the peace

ingdom of heaven. blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see god. blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the sons of god. blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you. ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt

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storation; noah of the whole world, daniel of the jewish world jerusalem, and job of his personal world. note the hindu trinity of brahma, who consists of brahma, vishnu, and siva; creator, preserver, and changer. in india, each has still a special sect of worshippers, who mark themselves with particular emblems; the vaishnavas are much the most numerous. the living were of old called the 3 times blessed (the dead 4 times blessed. there were three cities of refuge on the east side of the jordan. bezer, ramoth gilead and gozan; and three on the west. hebron, shechem and kedesh naphtali. three fates. clotho, lachesis, atropos. three furies: tisiphone, alecto, megaera. three graces: euphrosyne, aglaia, thalia, says hesiod. three judges: of hades: minos, aeacus, rhadamanthus. three horae: hesi

teness of senses, health, strength and beauty. 52. the objects of desire are 4, viz, prosperity, renown, power and friendship. the celebrated 4 causes of aristotle may be mentioned here: divinity as the cause by which; matter--from which; form--through which; effect with reference to which; numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the dead also are called 4 times blessed and the living but thrice blessed. the number 4 being the completion of the quaternary group of point, superficies and body, has also this character that its elements 1, 2, 3 and 4 when summed up are equal to 10, which is so perfect that we can go no further, but to increase we must return to the monad. it was also called kosmos, the world, because it formed the number 36, when its digits

nce of libanus, the noachites, and the royal ark mariners, which is a subsidiary order to the mark master masons. macrobius says the ogdoad was the type of justice, because it consists of even numbers and on account of its equal divisions. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott john heydon tells us that 8 events befall the damned, and there are 8 rewards of the blessed. the number 8 was sacred to dionysos, who was born at the 8th month; the isle of naxos was dedicated to him and it was granted to the women of naxos, that their children born in the 8th month should live, whereas it is usual for such to die, although those born either the 7th or the 9th month are usually reared. the jews were accustomed to practice circumcision on male infants upon the 8th

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erein "the more true sun" has place: theosophists will appreciate the significance of "the more true sun" for according to the secret doctrine the sun we see is but the physical vehicle of a more transcendent splendour. some strong souls were able to reach up to the light by their own power "the mortal who approaches the fire shall have light from the divinity, and unto the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift" but what of those of a lesser stature? were they, by inability, precluded from such illumination "others" we read "even when asleep, he makes fruitful from his own strength" that is to say, some men acquire divine knowledge through communion with divinity in sleep. this idea has given rise to some of the most magnificent contributions to later literature; it has since

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or intelligible order (seder hamuskkal) 73 by means of which the world was created, and thus it belongs to the intelligible matters [ha-inyanim ha-sikhliyyim] whose actions are not in time since 66 chapter two they do not fall under time and they do not act by means of the movement from which there is time, and according to the gradation of their importance they act without time. the act of god, blessed be he, is completely without time. 74 prima facie, the position maharal articulates seems to be at odds with what is implied in the rabbinic dicta and reiterated in rashi s paraphrase. however, if one examines the works of maharal more assiduously, a case can be made that his view, though largely garbed in medieval philosophical language, is a rea rmation of the stance proffered by the rab

resonates with the maimonidean perspective and would seem therefore to validate scholem s claim: the sefirot preceded the creation of heaven and earth and they do not fall under time [einam noflim tahat ha-zeman; on the contrary, they are the root of time [hem shoresh el ha-zeman, for the six sefirot are the root of the six days, and the seventh the day of sabbath. and concerning them the [sages, blessed be their memory, said,111 this teaches that there was a prior order of time [seder zemannim. 112 cordovero adopts the philosophical approach even more stringently when delineating the difference between ein sof and the sefirot: the emanated beings fall under time but he does not fall under time. i do not wish to speak of time as it seems from the straightforward meaning of our words, but r

r the intent is that there was a time when they had not yet emanated as in prior to the emanation, and this is one of the things that cannot be in ein sof since he is not an existence that does not exist, but he is the necessary of existence, and he brought about the existence of time and he is not a temporal being. and this is illustrative of the power of the magnitude of ein sof, king of kings, blessed be he, for it instructs about his being, which does not fall under time, but, on the contrary, he brings about the existence of time, and the being of his privation cannot be imagined in any manner in the world. this is one of his many advantages over his emanations for all of them fall under the existence in which there was already a time in which ein sof existed apart from them as in pri

rnal being and his everlasting existence [hawwayato ha-nishit we-qiyyumo la ad, he was, he is, and he will be [hayah howeh we-yihyeh, prior to the creation, during the time of the subsistence of creation, and after it reverts to what it was. and had the worlds and all that is in them not have been created, it would not have been possible to see the truth of the manifestation of his eternal being, blessed be he, in the past, present, and future, and he would not have been called by the name yhwh at all.119 it seems to me plausible to apply to ein sof the description of durga-kali, the mother goddess in sakta hinduism, as the ultimate trans-theistic symbol of timelessness the not-time, on account of which she merits the name adyakala.120 leaving aside the important divergence between the jew

cessity entails the corollary that the effect is inseparable from the cause,131 and taking both together, it follows that the agency of divine causality cannot be understood in ordinary temporal terms. ergas articulates this in yehodaya s response to shealtiel s question concerning why the world was created at the moment it was and not before: know that prior to the creation of anything when god, blessed be he, was alone, there was then no reality of time at all [lo hayah az mesi ut zeman kelal, for time itself has no reality, as it is an accident that is conjoined to and is consequent to the motion of something that has been generated and continues to exist, for it falls under time and three aspects of time are distinguished with respect to it, namely, past, present, and future. he exists

as it says let us make man in our image and in our likeness. and god created man in his image etc. in the image of god he created him (gen 1:26 27).149 therefore our essence is to become like the supernal emanations. and the torah reveals to us the variations of the emanations [shinnuyei ha-sefirot] and the division of their providential aspects [hilluqei behinatam lehanhagatam, and the holy one, blessed be he, made physical vessels like their matter so that through them we could know the supernal providence [ha-hanhagah ha-elyonah. and this is what it says they shall serve as signs for set times the days and the years (ibid. 14. he set the seasons of the years [tequfot ha-shanah] and the motions of the stars [mehalkhei ha-kokhavim] so that [we may] know from their signs the supernal provi

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s and four names can be drawn from it to control the power of the elemental tablets. the only recorded use by dee and kelley of this seal was to place a crystal upon it for the purposes of scrying. the archangel uriel gave the following instructions on its use "you must use a four square table, two cubits square, whereon must be set the sigillum dei, which is already perfected in a book of thine: blessed be god in all his mysteries *this paper was issued to the zelator adeptus minor grades of the thoth hermes temple, new zealand, in 1985. 2 and holy in all his work. this seal must not be looked uponwithout great reverence and devotion. this seal is to be made of perfect wax: i mean wax that is purified; we have no respect of colors. this seal must be nine inches in diameter, the roundness

he three holy names of each tablet as shown in the diagram of the shewbread (figure 17. the angelic names are kings who rule the 30 aethyrs and the 12 tribes. ethese kings are not to be confused with the kings of the watchtower squares eds. holy name aozpi tribe gad sign aries angelic name olpaged "of gad, jacob says 'gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last' moses says 'blessed be he that enlargeth gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head. and he provideth the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the lord, and his judgements with israel' the armorial bearings of gad are white, a troop of calvary. all this coincides

the almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head ofjoseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren' moses says 'blessed of the lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, and for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, and for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills. and for the precious things of the earth, and fullness thereof, and for t

e, he giveth goodly words' moses says '0 naphtali, satisfied with favor, and full with the blessing of the lord, possess thou the west and the south' the armorial bearings of naphtali are blue, a hind" holy name pdoce tribe assur or assher sign libra angelic name alpudus "of asshur (libra, jacob says 'out of asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties' moses says 'let asher be blessed with children, let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. the shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be' the armorial bearings of asher are purple, a cup. all this coincides with the nature of venus and libra, while the feet refer to the sign pisces, which rules the feet, and in which venus is exalted. iron and brass are the metal

nce thou disposeth them until thy time be run" genesis vs. 20-25 "and god said 'let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky. so god created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. and god saw that it was good. god blessed them and said 'be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the sea, and let the birds increase on earth' and. there was evening, and there was morning the fifth day" 121 friday president: i vice president: el the seal of el is shown in figure 84. king: baligon prince: bagenol the seal of bagenol is shown in figure 85. governors: bnagole over the hour of the sun bermale over th

, being the prince, chief minister and governor under right noble king bnapsen didst (to my seer) appear in the most terrible manner with fiery flaming streams and saidst 'i know the door of death' and the glory of god has shaken the walls of the ungodly" genesis: 2, vs. 2-3 "by the seventh day god had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. and god blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating he had done" see figure 88 for the diagram of the seven days of creation applied to the 7-branch candlestick. 126 127 invocation to the planetary kings of the bonorum "0 puissant and right noble king (name) and by what name else so ever thou art called, or mayest truly and duly be called: to whose pecul

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still cometh death, the render of the veil" 6 "if thou hadst known how to suffer, thou wouldst have had the power not to suffer" 7 "the place of rest, the home of peace, is in truth the very cross itself, the firm foundation on which the whole creation rests" 8 "i have torn myself asunder, i have brought unto them the mysteries of light to purify them, for they are the purgation of all matter" 9 "blessed is the man who crucifieth malkuth and doth not allow malkuth to crucify him" 10 "blessed is the man who knoweth the word, for he hath brought down the heaven and bound the earth and raised it heavenwards; and he becometh the midst" 11 "watchman, what of the night" 12 "the morning cometh and also the night; if ye will enquire, enquire ye" 13 "i sleep, but my heart waketh" 14 "the heart slee

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