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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

t('ej-iist. 7, 5) admonishes branichild to take precautions with her franks' ut de animalium cajntibus sacrilicia sacrilega non exhibeant" selon for selond, on. siclundr, afterwards sioland, seeland, t.e, zealand. lederun, the sax. dat. of ledera, on. hleisra, afterwards lethra, leire; conf. goth, hleijjra tahernacuhim. sacrifice. 49 at funerals^ witli what was done for expiation. it was only the bodies of nobles and rich men that were followed in death by bondsmen and by domestic and hunting animals, so that they might have their services in the other world. suppose 99 men, we will say prisoners of war, to have been sacrificed to the gods, the animals specified cannot have been intended to escort those enemies, nor yet for the use of the gods, to whom no one ever set apart and slaughtered

too short (at forskeptit var heldr skamt, sn. 131. it was forged by cunning 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

e mythus, and the egg-birth of the dioscuri can be best understood in this way (see suppl. in the asiatic legends, it seems to me, the manifestations of deity are conceived deeply and purely in comparison, and nowhere more profoundly than in those of india. the god comes down and abides in the flesh for a season, for the salvation of mankind. wherever the doctrine of metempsychosis prevailed, the bodies of animals even were eligible for the avatara; and of vishnu's ten successive incarnations, the earlier ones are animal, it was in the later ones that he truly' became man (see suppl. the greek and teutonic mythologies steer clear of all such notions; in both of them the story of the gods was too sensuously conceived to have invested their transformations with the seriousness and duration o

3 8 INITIATION CEREMONY

ual fire distributed unto other intellectuals. for the king of all previously placed before the polymorphous world, a type intellectual, incorruptible, the imprint of whose form is sent forth through the world, by which the universe shone forth decked with ideas all various of which the foundation is one, one and alone. from this the others rush forth distributed and separated through the various bodies of the universe, and are borne in swarms through its vast abysses, ever whirling forth in illimitable radiation. they are intellectual conceptions from the paternal fountain, partaking abundantly the brilliance of fire in the culmination of unresting time. but the primary self-perfect fountain of the father poured forth these primogenial ideas. these being many ascend flashingly into the sh

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

t the candles, sending the light to wherever your lover is. on the third day, leave the candles to burn down, allowing the wax from the two candles to merge* in the melded wax, cut the shape of a heart and on this scratch your entwined zodiacal glyphs. wrap the symbol in white silk and leave it on a window ledge from the waxing to the full moon. a candle ritual to heal the polluted seas and other bodies of water this is a ritual to be carried out after dusk. it also has the effect of clearing old hurts and regrets that can hold us back from experiencing joy. a wonderful selection of garden torches and candles are now available, that can be placed in the ground for working out of doors. as you are taking away pollution, work at the time of the waning moon. blue is the elemental colour of wa

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

n's manuscript, barnes' occult vision and aesthetic scruples, and wasserman's production experience and tireless labour, the abhorred necronomicon began to take shape and the first edition smote the stands on december 22, 1977- the ancient pagan feast of yule, the winter solstice. yet, not without a number of bizarre occurrences that more than once threatened the lives, the sanity, and the astral bodies of the three individuals most deeply involved. jim wasserman was subjected to what we may vaguely refer to as "poltergeist" activity during the time he worked on production and design aspects of the book. a room which, for certain loathsome purposes, was always kept locked was found one day to have been opened- from the inside. in the same building, just below his loft, the typesetters were

n's manuscript, barnes' occult vision and aesthetic scruples, and wasserman's production experience and tireless labour, the abhorred necronomicon began to take shape and the first edition smote the stands on december 22, 1977- the ancient pagan feast of yule, the winter solstice. yet, not without a number of bizarre occurrences that more than once threatened the lives, the sanity, and the astral bodies of the three individuals most deeply involved. jim wasserman was subjected to what we may vaguely refer to as "poltergeist" activity during the time he worked on production and design aspects of the book. a room which, for certain loathsome purposes, was always kept locked was found one day to have been opened- from the inside. in the same building, just below his loft, the typesetters were

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

aught. the same is exactly true of divination. the difference between the two sciences is not more than this: that, more minds having been at work on the former we have learnt to master its tricks with greater success than in the case of the latter- 176 chapter xix of dramatic rituals. the wheel turns to those effectual methods of invocation employed in the ancient mysteries and by certain secret bodies of initiates to-day. the object of them is almost invariably<universal. it would not be impracticable to adopt this method to such operations as talismanic magick. for example, one might consecrate and charge a pantacle by the communication by aiwaz to the scribe of the book of the law, the magician representing the angel, the pantacle being the book, and the pers

ause it is only "dirty money! with regard to pacts, they are rarely lawful. there should be no bargain struck. magick is not a trade, and no hucksters need apply. master everything, but give generously to your servants, once they have unconditionally submitted. there is also the questions of alliances with various powers. these again are hardly ever allowable<spiritual beings, in whose ranks are not only angelic forces, but elementals, and even daemons, who have attained to such right understanding of the universe that they have banded themselves together with the object of becoming microcosms, and realize that their best means to this end is devotion to the service of the true interests of mankind. societies of spiritual forces, organized on

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE BANNED LECTURE

it was much easier to suppress people and ideas than it is now, though even today we find priests at least in oxford who appear not to have heard of a certain recent invention by a notorious magician inspired by the devil the printing press. but they feared. so those who pursued knowledge were at the best under strong suspicion of heresy. i need not quote the obvious names. but there were certain bodies of people who did carry on the old knowledge, mostly by oral tradition, and who were perforce tolerated to a certain extent, because even the little knowledge that they did possess was so exceedingly useful. the best way to make armour, or to build cathedrals, or to heal sickness would enable the christian to get ahead of his friends. therefore, although conscience evidently demanded the ma

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

the magicians in their experiments, and the governor of all for his sustenance. none by the way is ever wasted. for example, a tunnel was drilled completely through the earth and filled with zro, and it is said that by this tunnel the atlanteans escaped. this working, whether with or for zro, requires two persons at least at any one time and place. great heat is generated in the working, and the bodies of the workers are therefore sprinkled heavily with the black phosphorus, which is incombustible. this black phosphorus, poisonous to the servile race, becomes innocuous to anyone who has been in any way impregnated with zro. this itself, in its first stage, is as dangerous as electricity of high voltage. the reverence attached to zro is unbounded. at one time it was hymned as the father of

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ure.1 quickly send, be brief in it, to the castle; for my writ is on the life lear and on cordelia. nay, send in time (ll. 245-249. and in that last supreme hour of agony he claims regan as his wife, as if by accident; it is not the passionate assertion of a thing doubtful, but the natural reference to a thing well known and indisputable. and in the moment of his despair; confronted with the dead bodies of the splendid sisters, the catafalque of all his hopes, he can exclaim in spiritual triumph over material disaster the victory of a true man s spirit over fate yet edmund was beloved. edgar is left alive with albany, alone of all that crew; and if remorse could touch their brutal and callous souls (for the degeneration of the weakling, well-meaning albany, is a minor tragedy, what hell co

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

was silent. he switched the light on, and she screamed again. there was a savage lust upon his face "this afternoon" he cried "you called me a dog. i looked like a dog and thought like a dog; and, by god! i am a dog. i'll act like a dog then" obedient to some strange instinct, she dived from the bed for the window. but he was on her; his teeth met in her throat. in the morning they found the dead bodies of both hound and fox- but how did that explain the wonderful elopement of lord eyre and miss fleming? for neither of them were ever seen again. i think margaret understands; in the convent which she rules to-day there hangs beside a blood-stained cutting-whip the silver model of a fox, with the inscription "patricia margaritae vulpis vulpem dedit" francis bendick. 129 the pilgrim at the da

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e is a crowned eagle, also like the assyrian eagles. and he cries: all my strength and stability are turned to the use of flight. for though my wings are of fine gold, yet my heart is the heart of a scorpion. glory unto thee, who being born in a stable didst make thee mirth of the filth thereof, who didst suck in iniquity from the breast of thy mother the harlot; who didst flood with iniquity the bodies of thy concubines. thou didst lie in the filth of the streets with the dogs; thou wast tumbled and shameless and wanton in a place where four roads meet. there wast thou defiled, and there wast thou slain, and there wast thou left to rot. the charred stake was thrust through thy bowels, and thy parts were cut off and thrust into thy mouth for derision. all my unity is dissolved; i live in t

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2

al fire distributed into other intellectuals. for the king of all previously placed before the polymorphous world a type, intellectual, incorruptible, the imprint of whose form is sent forth through the world, by which the universe shone forth decked with ideas all-various, of which the foundation is one, one and alone. from this the others rush forth distributed and separated through the various bodies of the universe, and are borne in swarms through its vast abysses, ever whirling forth in illimitable radiation "they are intellectual conceptions from the paternal fountain partaking abundantly of the brilliance of fire in the culmination of unresting time "but the primary self-perfect fountain of the father poured forth these primogenial ideas "the soul, being a brilliant fire, by the pow

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 2

he stopped playing; she bit her lips, and a drop of blood stood on them scarlet against their angry purple, like sunset and storm. she pressed them to the square, and a smear stained the white. she caught at her heart; for some strange pang tore it. up went her violin, and the bow crossed it. it might have been the swords of two skilled fencers, both blind with mortal hate. it might have been the bodies of two skilled lovers, blind with immortal love. she tore life and death asunder on her strings. up, up soared the phoenix of her song; step by step on music's golden scaling-ladder she stormed the citadel of her desire. the blood flushed and swelled her face beneath its sweat. her eyes were injected with blood. the song rose, culminated- overleapt the barriers, achieved its phrase. she sto

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4

stone, an animal from a plant, a man from an animal, a man from a man, and man from god, yet which ultimately is the underlying equilibrium of all things; for as the bhaga-vad-g ta says "equilibrium is called yoga" chemically the various groups in the organic and inorganic worlds are similar in structure and composition. one piece of limestone is very much like another, and so also are the actual bodies of any two man, but not so their minds. there-fore, should we wish to discover and understand that power which differentiates, and yet ultimately balances all appearances, which are derived by the apparently unconscious object and received by the apparently conscious subject, we must look for it in the workings of man's brain.5 48 this is but a theory, but a theory worth working upon until

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

ntellect. it is that about which we feel mental certitude, or that which we can ascertain by the use of experiment. it is the compendium of the arts and sciences. it concerns all that deals with the building and developing of the form side of things. therefore it concerns the material side of evolution, matter in the solar systems, in the planet, in the three worlds of human evolution, and in the bodies of men. wisdom is the product of the hall of wisdom. it has to do with the development of the life within the form, with the progress of the spirit through those ever-changing vehicles, and with the expansions of consciousness that succeed each other from life to life. it deals with the life side of evolution. since it deals with the essence of things and not with the things themselves, it

all cases it is preceded by a burning, through the medium of the inner fire, and by the destruction, through sacrifice, of all that separates. the approach to unity is through destruction of the lower, and of all that forms a barrier. take, in illustration, the web that separates the etheric body and the emotional. when that web has been burned away by the inner fire the communication between the bodies of the personality becomes continuous and complete, and the three lower vehicles function as one. you have a somewhat analogous situation on the higher levels, though the parallel cannot be pushed to detail. the intuition corresponds to the emotional, and the four higher levels of the mental plane to the etheric. in the destruction of the causal body at the time of the fourth initiation (ca

logous situation on the higher levels, though the parallel cannot be pushed to detail. the intuition corresponds to the emotional, and the four higher levels of the mental plane to the etheric. in the destruction of the causal body at the time of the fourth initiation (called symbolically "the crucifixion) you have a process analogous to the burning of the web that leads to the unification of the bodies of the personality. the disintegration that is a part of the arhat initiation leads to unity between the ego and the monad, expressing itself in the triad. it is the perfect at-one-ment. the whole process is therefore for the purpose of making man consciously one- 13- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust first: with himself, and those in incarnation with him. second: with

distress, discontent, and misuse. at this stage also the aspirant's life becomes an instrument of destruction in the occult sense of the term. wherever he goes the force which flows through him from the higher planes and his own inner god produces at times peculiar results upon his environment. it acts as a stimulator of both the good and the evil. the lunar pitris, or little lives which form the bodies of his brother and his own body, are likewise stimulated, their activity is increased and their power greatly aggravated. this fact is used by those who work on the inner side to bring about certain desired ends. this it is also which often causes the temporary downfall of advanced souls. they cannot stand the force pouring into them, or upon them, and through the temporary over-stimulation

nt for the initiate, and brings to him a realisation of the literal absolute truth of the phrase that "god is a consuming fire" he knows past all gainsaying that fiery energy and electric force constitute the sumtotal of all that is. he is literally bathed in the fires of purification; he sees fire on all sides, pouring out through the rod, circulating around the triangle, and passing through the bodies of the two sponsoring adepts. for a brief second, the entire lodge of masters and initiates, standing in their ceremonial places without the triangle, are hidden from view by a wall of pure fire. the initiate sees no one, save the hierophant, and is aware of nothing but a fiery blaze of pure, blue-white flame, which burns, but destroys not, which intensifies the activity of every atom in hi

nergy intensified, so that he can draw upon reserves of force in service hitherto unsuspected. he will find, also, that the response of the physical brain to the voice of the higher self, and its receptivity to the higher and subtler impressions, is greatly furthered. eventually, through the work accomplished, he will succeed in eliminating all matter of a subatomic character, and will then build bodies of substance of the highest subplane on each plane; he will become aware that all his energies can be consciously and constructively controlled, that he knows the real meaning of continuity of consciousness, and can function simultaneously on the three planes with full inner realisation. b. upon the causal or egoic body. it is only possible to touch very briefly upon the effect of the appli

y, and thus enable men to become fully self-conscious and self -reliant in the occult sense, and to become creators through perfected knowledge- 100- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust at the third initiation "the secret of fohat" is given to him, and then the mystery of the threefold body of the triple logos is his, and the why of the phenomena of the dense liquid and gaseous bodies of the supreme being is enfolded before his amazed vision. the two secrets previously imparted, and the knowledge which they gave having been utilised, the initiate is now in a position to profit by this greater revelation, and to understand somewhat the following facts: 1. the creative process of thought form building. 2. the transmission of energy from the ego to the physical body via the

rt upon the physical plane, through the medium of the three lower bodies, their innate divinity, and to demonstrate in ever increasing degree their essential value. secondly, to study the constitution of man, to understand the method of functioning in the lower nature, to realise the interdependence and interrelation of all living things, and thus bring the lesser lives, which compose those three bodies of manifestation, under control. thus the solar lord, the inner reality, the son of the father, and the thinker on his own plane becomes the intermediary between that which is of the earth, earthy, and that which finds its home with in the sun. two verses in the christian bible hide something of this idea within themselves, and students in the occident may find it helpful to meditate upon t

it refers to those adepts who have gone on and taken the sixth initiation. deva (or angel. a god. in sanskrit a resplendent deity. a deva is a celestial being, whether good, bad, or indifferent. devas are divided into many groups, and are called not only angels and archangels, but lesser and greater builders. egoic groups. on the third subplane of the fifth plane, the mental, are found the causal bodies of the individual men and women. these bodies, which are the expression of the ego, or of the individualised self-consciousness, are gathered together into groups according to the ray or quality of the particular ego involved. elementals. the spirits of the elements; the creatures involved in the four kingdoms, or elements, earth, air,fire, and water. except a few of the higher kinds and th

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two divine aspects through the influence of a third, and produces the manifestation which we call a form, starting it upon its evolutionary cycle in time and space. thus is form brought to the point where it is an adequate medium for the demonstration of the nature of that which we call god. fourthly, to give practical information anent those focal points of energy which are found in the etheric bodies of the solar logos, the macrocosm, and of man, the microcosm. as the etheric substratum which is the true substance underlying every tangible form is understood, certain great revolutions will be brought about in the domains of science, of medicine and of chemistry. the study of medicine, for instance, will eventually be taken up from a new angle, and its practice will be built upon a compr

, the solar system. all these bodies the body of a man, a planetary logos, and a solar logos are the product of desire originating on the planes of abstract mind, whether cosmic, systemic, or mind in the three worlds, whether cosmic desire-mind or human desire-mind, and all their bodies are "sons of necessity" as h. p. b. so aptly expressed it.35,(32)36 2. eight statements. it is with the etheric bodies of all we are dealing, and with their vivification by prana (whether- 45- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust cosmic, solar, planetary or human, with the organs of reception and with the basis of emanations. here, therefore, we can arrive at certain dicta anent the etheric body which for purposes of clarity might well be enumerated: first. the etheric body is the mould of t

illa or fifth stream of force in an atom becomes developed, and man can conceive of a fourth-dimensional rotary movement, the accuracy of this symbol will be recognised. it will then be seen that all sheaths in their progress from inertia to rhythm, via mobility, pass through all stages, whether they are logoic sheaths, the rays in which the heavenly men veil themselves, the planes which form the bodies of certain solar entities, the causal body (or the sheath of the ego on the mental plane, the human physical body in its etheric constitution, or a cell in that- 91- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust body etheric. all these material forms (existent in etheric matter which is the true matter of all forms) are primarily undifferentiated ovoids; they then become actively rot

plane of our solar system) finds its outlet in certain great centres. these centres are again reflected or reproduced in the three worlds of human endeavor. the heavenly men, therefore, have centres on three solar planes, a fact to be remembered. a. on the monadic plane, the plane of the seven rays. b. on the buddhic plane, where the masters and their disciples form the forty-nine centres in the bodies of the seven heavenly men. c. on the fourth etheric physical plane, where the sacred planets, the dense bodies in etheric matter of the heavenly men, are to be found. here again we can trace the microcosmic correspondence: in the human being the centres are found on the mental plane from which originates the impulse for physical plane existence, or the will to incarnate; from thence they ca

r system, that in which brahma was paramount, and in himself embodied objective existence. this he did in the same sense as that in which the second aspect (the vishnu or dragon of wisdom aspect) is the sumtotal of existence in this the second system. the cells in their bodies are made up of the units of the human and deva evolutions in the same manner (only on a higher turn of the spiral) as the bodies of human beings are made up of living organisms, the various animated cells, or the lesser lives. this is a basic fact in occultism, and the relationship between the cells in the human vehicles, and the cells in the bodies of a heavenly man, will be productive of illumination if carefully studied. just as a human being has an originating source, the monad, and a semi-permanent vehicle, the

. b. the period of a root-race. c. the period of a sub-race. d. the period of a branch race. in order to apprehend even cursorily the identity of manifestation of a planetary logos in a root-race, for instance, it must be remembered that the sumtotal of human and deva units upon a planet make the body vital of a planetary logos, whilst the sumtotal of lesser lives upon a planet (from the material bodies of men or devas down to the other kingdoms of nature) form his body corporeal, and are divisible into two types of such lives: a. those on the evolutionary arc, such as in the animal kingdom. b. those on the involutionary arc, such as the totality of all elemental material forms within his sphere of influence. all the involutionary lives, as earlier pointed out, form the vehicles for the sp

ction and is the source of all vital growth; at the achievement of the desired goal, at union, or at-one-ment, two things occur: first, the approximation of the two poles, or their blending, causes a blazing forth, or radiant light. second, obscuration, or the final disintegration of matter owing to intense heat. this can be seen in connection with man, a heavenly man and a solar logos, and their bodies of objectivity. in man this polarity is achieved, the three different types of electrical phenomena are demonstrated, and the light blazes forth, irradiating the causal body, and lighting up the entire sutratma, or thread (literally the path) which connects the causal vehicle with the physical brain. then disintegration or destruction ensues; the causal body vanishes in a blaze of electrica

, the buddhic plane, the plane of the christ principle, is gradually becoming known to those advanced beings who are individually able to cognise their place in the body of a logos of a planetary scheme. the influence of the buddhic plane, and the electrical force that is its peculiar characteristic, are beginning to be felt, and its energy is also beginning to have a definite effect on the egoic bodies of men; the fourth ether of the physical systemic plane is likewise assuming its rightful place in the minds of men, and the electrical force of that subplane is already being adapted and utilised by man in the assistance of the mechanical arts, for methods of transportation, for widespread illumination, and in healing. these four adaptations of electricity- 187- a treatise on cosmic fire c

which having absorbed the negative will- 188- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust demonstrate as electrical phenomena of a form inconceivable to man at his present stage of knowledge. these vortices will be distinguished by: 1. intense vibratory activity. 2. the predominance of one certain colour according to the quality of the etheric display, and its source. 3. repulsion to all bodies of similar vibratory rate and polarity. their attractive quality at the end of evolution will cease owing to the fact that naught remains to be attracted. the vortices in each planetary scheme will be, during evolution, seven. later, during the period of obscuration, three of the vortices will approximate their masculine pole and eventually but one will be left. in man a similar procedure c

pprehended facts which relate to the four solar physical ethers. for instance, the fourth ether (which is even now being what we might call "discovered, is at this stage characterised by certain things. i might enumerate a few of these facts with exceeding brevity, as follows: a. it is the ether which the violet ray uses as a medium. b. the fourth ether is that whereof the majority of the etheric bodies of men are made. c. the fourth ether is largely the principal sphere of influence of the "devas of the shadows" or those violet devas which are closely concerned with the physical evolution of man. d. it is the etheric sphere within which, at a little later date, the human and the deva evolutions will touch. e. from this fourth etheric sphere the dense physical bodies are created. f. it is

gic, who embodies the violet ray or hierarchy, has a special relationship to the buddhic plane. it must be borne in mind that each planetary logos works primarily on one of the seven planes; from this we can infer that his influence finds its line of least resistance on some one plane, even though it be exerted on all planes. again, extend the second statement anent the etheric composition of the bodies of men to those of the heavenly men, and it will be found that just as the majority of human etheric bodies are built of matter of the fourth ether, so it may also be said that four of the heavenly men have their etheric vehicles composed of this fourth cosmic ether (buddhic matter. further, the two great evolutions (human and deva) find their group unity on the buddhic plane, and portions

vidualised entity whose body contains our solar logos as well as certain other solar logoi; whose fire, heat and radiation embrace certain other solar systems and unify them with our own system so that one complete vital body forms the manifestation of this mighty cosmic being. vortices of force on the cosmic etheric plane form the etheric framework of seven solar systems in the same way that the bodies of the seven heavenly men are the etheric centres for a solar logos, and as the seven centres in man (existing in etheric matter, are the animating electrical impulse of his life. to express the origin of manas apart from manifestation through a congery of systems, a solar system, or a man is for us impossible. only as one grasps the fact that each planetary scheme, for instance, serves as

deal in time and space. the microcosm comes into incarnation through impulse based on intelligent purpose originating in his case on the mental plane the plane of the manasic principle. an interesting point might here be indicated. the fifth plane, the mental, may be considered on a large scale as holding, in the case of a heavenly man, a position symbolically analogous to that held by the causal bodies of the units on his ray. some causal bodies are on the third and some on the second subplanes, and the intricacy is excessive and various, producing geometrical forms allied somewhat to those portrayed upon the charts. all is ordered activity of the units (each pursuing his own self-centred purpose and following the inclination of the lower self, whose slogan is "i am. this will gradually g

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

stacle ix. failure to hold the meditative attitude. it will be apparent therefore that the first six obstacles deal with wrong conditions and the last three with the results of those conditions. they contain a hint as to the method whereby liberation from the wrong states of consciousness can be effected. the next sutra is most interesting as it deals with the effects produced in each of the four bodies of the lower nature, in the case of the man who has not overcome the obstacles. 31. pain, despair, misplaced bodily activity and wrong direction (or control) of the life currents are the results of the obstacles in the lower psychic nature. each of these four results expresses the condition of the lower man; they deal with the effects of wrong centralisation or identification- 44- the light

e. it is the main characteristic at this time of our mental aryan race and is the cause of the aggressive intensity of endeavour found in all walks of life. to this the educational processes (as they speed up the mental body) have been largely contributory factors. the great contribution of education (in schools, colleges, universities and other allied activities) has been to stimulate the mental bodies of men. it is all part of the great plan, working ever towards the one objective soul unfoldment. 4. wrong directions of the life currents. this is the effect produced in the etheric body by the inner turmoil. these life currents (for the student of occultism) are two in number: a. the life breath or prana, b. the life force or the fires of the body. it is the misuse of the life breath or w

n of god's will in the whole is truth revealed through the medium of matter. when the truth or basic principle is known spirit will then stand revealed. when the disciple realises what principle his various forms, sheaths, or bodies are intended to express, then he will know how to direct his will with exactitude so as to bring about the desired conditions. the sheaths and vehicles are simply his bodies of manifestation on the various planes of the system, and those sheaths must express the principle which is the characteristic or quality underlying each plane. for instance, the seven principles with which man is concerned are: 1. prana .v ital energy. etheric body .p hysical plane. 2. kama. desire, feeling. astral body. astral plane. 3. lower manas .c oncrete mind. mental body .m ental pl

erence to the rhythm of the forms in which the yogi is functioning, and only as they express the highest of the three gunas (or qualities of matter) is the highest or spiritual aspect known. only as rajas controls is the second aspect known; only as tamas holds sway is the lowest aspect known. there is an interesting analogy between the inertia (or tamas) aspect of matter and the condition of the bodies of the yogi when in the highest samadhi. then the sattvic or rhythmic motion is so complete that to the eye of the average man a condition of quiescence is achieved which is the sublimation of the tamasic or inert condition of the densest substance- 61- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust the following words from the commentary dealt with in woods' translation of the sutras wil

gician or occultist. they are dealt with in black magic, and consist of the brain, the lungs, the heart, the spleen and the generative organs. the black magician definitely utilizes these physical parts of the body to generate a type of force which is a mixture of etheric force and dense physical energy, to enable him to do certain forms of magical work and also to produce effects on the physical bodies of animals and men. it is the knowledge of this which is the basis of voodooism and of all those practices which cause the depletion and death of men and women who obstruct the path of the black magician or are regarded by him as enemies. with these the aspirant to the mysteries of the brotherhood of the great white lodge has nothing to do. he brings about the merging of the two parts of th

atomisation and other powers, therefore able to create their vehicles of manifestation, 3. living for a mundane period, therefore in incarnation during a world period, 4. goodly to behold, for the sons of god are luminous, radiant and full of beauty, 5. delighting in love, for love is the characteristic of the soul, and all sons of god, or sons of mind reveal the love of the father, 6. possessing bodies of their own "not caused by parents" that body "not made by hands, eternal in the heavens" mentioned by st. paul. in connection with the fourth world, vyasa notes that it is the world of mastery, therefore the home of the masters, and all liberated souls whose "food is contemplation" and whose lives are "for a thousand mundane periods" therefore who have immortality. then he describes the t

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ng and in it is epitomized the evolution of the race as well as the racial unit, man. head center. base of the spine heart center. solar plexus throat center. sacral center in the above lies a hint for the more advanced student (and he is the one who hesitates so to regard himself. it is also symbolized for us in the relation between the eastern and the western hemispheres and between those great bodies of truth which we call religion and science. the life of meditation proceeds and the rapport between the soul and its triple instrument becomes steadily closer, and the resulting vibration more powerful. how many lives this will take depends upon various factors, which are too numerous to be mentioned here but which the student will find it useful to consider. let him list the factors which

offer not that resistance which occidental bodies so oft afford. the environment has been long permeated with the strong vibrations of the great ones who reside within its borders and who, in their passage to and fro, and through their proximity, continuously magnetise the environing ether. this in itself affords another line of least resistance, for this etheric magnetisation affects the etheric bodies of the contacted population. these two facts, of time and of high vibration, result in that stability of rhythm which facilitates occult work, and offer a quiet field for mantric and ceremonial enterprise. these conditions are not to be found in the west, where constant change in every branch of life is found, where frequent rapid shifting of the scene of action causes wide areas of disturb

the matter aspect in man. the throat centre is swept into increasing creative activity as the personality vibrates to the soul. let us now consider the words at the end of the previous rule "the lower light is thrown upward and the greater light illuminates the three; the work of the four proceedeth" what of this lower light? the student should remember that for the present purposes he has three bodies of light to consider: there is the radiant body of the soul itself, found on its own plane, and called, frequently, the karana sarira or the causal body. there is the vital or etheric body, the vehicle of prana which is the body of golden light, or rather the flame coloured vehicle. there is the body of "dark light, which is the occult way of referring to the hidden light of the physical bo

pass all the contacts that do not emanate specifically from the tangible world. the dark light of the tiny atoms of which the physical vehicle is constructed is responsive to the stimulation passing down from the soul into its vehicle, and, when the man is under control of the soul, there eventuates the shining forth of the light throughout the body. this shows as the radiance emanating from the bodies of adepts and saints, giving the effect of bright and shining light. when the radiant light of the soul is blended with the magnetic light of the vital body, it stimulates the atoms of the physical body to such an extent that each atom becomes in turn a tiny radiant centre. this only becomes possible when the head, heart, the solar plexus and the centre at the base of the spine are connecte

een worlds without the balance that comes from self-acquired knowledge. the forces that have been set in motion by the thinkers the scientists of the world, the truly advanced religious men, the spiritualists, the christian scientists, the new thought workers, the theosophists and the modern philosophers and workers in other fields of human thought are gradually and steadily affecting the subtler bodies of humanity and are bringing them to a point where they are beginning to realize three things: a. the reality of the unseen worlds. b. the terrific power of thought. c. the need for scientific knowledge on these two matters. fifth: certain dangers which aspirants must watch as they seek to be of use should here be mentioned: they must guard against overemphasizing one aspect at the expense

t of the etheric body of the solar system, and is therefore the medium for the transmission of solar energies, of planetary forces, and of extra-solar or cosmic impulses, esoterically called 'breaths. these forces and energies of the cosmic rays are constantly circulating and following definite paths through the ether of space in all parts, and are therefore constantly passing through the etheric bodies of every exoteric form. this is a basic truth and must be carefully borne in mind, for its implications are many and varied; but all lead back to the idea of unity, and of the oneness of all manifestation, only to be known and realised on the subjective side. the second basic idea is that the response of the etheric vehicle of all forms and its capacity to- 166- a treatise on white magic co

ormation along these lines is not possible, but mention is made of it, as the energies coming from these two factors must be borne in mind. 3. astral energies emanating from the new sign of the zodiac into which we are now entering, the sign aquarius. this sign, that of the water-carrier, is a living sign and an emotional sign. it will (through the effect of its potent force) stimulate the astral bodies of men into a new coherency, into a brotherhood of humanity which will ignore all racial and national differences and will carry the life of men forward into synthesis and unity. this means a tide of unifying life of such power that one cannot now vision it, but which in a thousand years will have welded all mankind into a perfect brotherhood. its emotional effect will be to "purify" the as

s of men into a new coherency, into a brotherhood of humanity which will ignore all racial and national differences and will carry the life of men forward into synthesis and unity. this means a tide of unifying life of such power that one cannot now vision it, but which in a thousand years will have welded all mankind into a perfect brotherhood. its emotional effect will be to "purify" the astral bodies of men so that the material world ceases to hold such potent allure, and may in its later stages bring about a state of exaggeration as potent in the line of sentiency as that which we have undergone in the line of materiality! the final stages of all signs produce over-development of the factor on which they most potently work. at present the effect of this sign is constructive among the p

this, that and the other. they work with this type of sentient matter without the least understanding of the situation, and without any comprehension of the factors with which they are dealing; they work magnetically if on the second ray, and with the inspiring of fear through destruction if on the first ray. if on the third ray, they use the law of expediency. thus all three work with the astral bodies of men, and their capacity to succeed is dependent largely upon their own type of astral body, and its power to attract others who are sufficiently developed to respond with adequate sentiency and then to carry forward the good work. the man in the street is therefore the victim of the astral potency of those who drive him either for their own ends or for the good of his soul for it works i

noise and sound emanating from the planet at this time. the roar of machines, the rumble of the transportation mechanisms in all parts of the world trains, vessels and airplanes the focussing of the sounds of men in such congested areas as the great cities, and, at this time, the universal use of the radio bringing musical sounds into every home and into street life are producing effects upon the bodies of men and upon all forms of life everywhere which will become apparent only as time elapses. some forms of life in the animal kingdom, but primarily in the vegetable kingdom, will disappear and the response of the human mechanism to this world of sound, uproar and music in which it will increasingly find itself will be most interesting. these three developments will usher in the new age, w

etheric. there are many other reasons which will later be emphasized. in beginning to form your ideas on the subject, however, it is the part of wisdom to adhere to wide generalities until the whole matter has taken clear shape in your mind- 215- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust work on the etheric body, however, from the standpoint of the hierarchy is not confined only to the bodies of men. it is a planetary process. the etheric body of the earth itself is being subjected to a definite stimulation. the spirit of the earth, that mysterious entity not the planetary logos is being vivified in a new sense and in his vivification many interesting developments eventuate. in three ways this is being attempted: 1. by an increased rate of vibration of the etheric atoms, caused

lanets. b. the earth. c. the moon. only a few things can be noted about this section of energies and about the next, for this is a series of instructions for the aspirant and not a treatise on energy. solar energies: emanating from: a. the physical sun. b. cosmic sources. in all thoughts concerning these energies it should be remembered that they are passed to us through, or rather constitute the bodies of, certain lives whom we call the devas, in their greater and lesser groups, and that therefore we are all the time working in the bodies of lives and hence- 225- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust influencing them. some of you therefore who have made a study of a treatise on cosmic fire may find it of value to note the following items of information: 1. the lowest types

symbolic form, the symbol of reincarnation. it is desire for form which produces the use of form and causes cyclic and constant rebirth in form. it was the constant use of the tau likewise, which brought about the final overwhelming with water, which swept away the ancient atlantean civilisation; the few who used the aum in those days were not potent enough to offset the force of desire. the mind bodies of the race could not respond to that newer- 277- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust creative sound. humanity was still swept entirely by longing and desire to such an extent that the united desire for possessions and for the enjoyment of form drove men esoterically "into the waters. desire for form still forces upon humanity the constant process of rebirth until such time

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divine nature. a militant focussing upon the ideal, a one-pointed devotion to the intent of the life urge, and a divine sincerity are the qualities of this lord, and set their impress upon all that is found within his body of manifestation. advanced esotericists debate as to whether mars is, or is not, the planet through which he manifests. you must remember that only a few of the planets are the bodies of expression of the lords of the rays. there are ten "planets of expression (to use the term employed by the ancient rishis, and only seven ray lives are regarded as the builders of the system. the great mystery, which is finally revealed in the higher initiations, is the relation of a ray to a planet. therefore seek not full information at this time. the influence of this sixth lord is no

c psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the immaterial and the intangible, and which testify to an age-long belief in a soul and its immortality for which there is no true justification. at the same time we have demonstrated to us by science that all we can really know with certainty is the tangible world of phenomena, with its forms, its mechanisms, its test tubes and its laboratories, and the bodies of men "fearfully and wonderfully made" diverse and different. these in some mysterious way produce thoughts and dreams and imaginings, and which, in their turn, find expression in the formulated schemes of the past, the present and the future, or in the fields of literature, art and of science itself, or in the simple everyday life of the ordinary human being who lives and loves and works

orget not that the human evolution is but one of many, and that this is a period of crisis among the devas likewise. the call has gone forth for them to approach humanity, and with their heightened vibration and superior knowledge unite their forces with those of humanity, for the progression of the two evolutions. they have much to impart anent colour and sound, and their effect upon the etheric bodies of men and animals. when that which they have to give is apprehended by the race, physical ills will be nullified and attention will be centred upon the infirmities of the astral or emotional body. these violet devas of the four ethers form, as you may imagine, four great groups with seven subsidiary divisions. these four groups work with the four types of men now in incarnation, for it is

ucis trust externals and forms. these factors prevent that clear-seeing which leads to wise and cooperative action. if the mental equipment and the mental apprehension of truth can be increased, then it may be possible for real work to be done, and then the groups (that form the one group) can go forward into real usefulness. to this end it may be profitable to provide material whereby the mental bodies of the students can grow, and wherein they can find sustenance and the means to develop. few people can evolve from within themselves the thoughts and the ideas which should lead them on in the realisation of truth; and those of us therefore who are responsible for the teaching of the race must perforce provide that which is required. also, in so doing we work for the coming generation of e

hniques with which the guardians of the races and kingdoms work when seeking to bring about individualisation, but of what purpose would it be and what use would such information serve? each ray affects the units found upon it at such a crisis as individualisation in a manner differing from any other ray; each ray finds its point of prime contact through one or other of the centres in the etheric bodies of animals and men. it must be remembered in this connection that, in the animal, four centres are functioning, and three are present but latent in their effect and use. the process followed is that each ray works or pours its energy through one or other of the centres in the etheric body of that entity who informs an entire kingdom in nature, and then through that particular centre galvani

this problem of sex. the coming in of the aquarian age also stimulates in man a spirit of universality and a tendency towards fusion. this can be seen working out in the present trend towards synthesis in business, in religion and in politics. it produces an urge towards union, and among other unions, towards religious understanding and tolerance. but these influences, playing upon the sensitive bodies of the undeveloped and the over-psychic, lead to a morbid tendency towards unions, legitimate and illegitimate; they produce an extreme aptitude to sexual intercourse in many directions, and to relations and fusions which are not along the intended or the evolutionary line, and which outrage oft the very laws of nature itself. energy is an impersonal thing, and is dual in its effect, the ef

achievement. the framework of man, his body, and its internal systems (with their diverse rituals) are now understood as never before, and this has been the result of the incoming ray force with its power to apply knowledge to the magical work. when this knowledge is applied intensively to the animal world much new and interesting data will be discovered; when the differences between the physical bodies of the animals and those of humanity have been more closely investigated there will appear a new and very fruitful field of study. these differences are largely in the realm of the nervous systems; not enough attention has been paid for instance to the fact that the brain of the animal is really in the region of the solar plexus, whilst the human brain, the controlling agent, is in the head

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chosen already has the needed quality (note this difference) and nothing whatever is imposed. it will be apparent, therefore, that substance itself exists in three- 51- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust major categories, and that these three categories are the correspondences in substance to the three persons of the trinity or to the three bodies of incarnated man. they are also the analogy in the third aspect of divinity (the life of the third person of the trinity) to the quality of the three periodical vehicles through which manifestation takes place. one division or type of this substance is dynamically electrified and from this all first ray egos choose the material needed in the three worlds. another type of substance is magne

espondence in the soul body to the mother aspect, as it broods over, guards and eventually brings to the birth the christ aspect. lives are changed primarily by reflection; qualities are developed by directed conscious thought; characteristics are unfolded by brooding consideration. to all this i call your attention. i diverged briefly for a moment and took up the subject of the rays of the three bodies of the personality before completing the detail of the outline previously given on the ray of personality. this i did with deliberation, as i was anxious to have clearly established the difference which will be found existing between the rays governing the elementals of the three lower bodies and that of the personality. the life of these three elementals is founded primarily in the three l

pleship and the powers of initiation before they have even become integrated persons. this has led to disaster, and the falling into disrepute of the whole problem of discipleship and initiation. it is difficult to make easily comprehensible the nature and purpose of these techniques. all that it is possible to do is to indicate the seven ray techniques as they are applied to the rapidly aligning bodies of the lower man. we will divide our theme, for the sake of clarity and for an understanding of the significance, into two parts. the first one is that in which the first ray aspect of the technique is applied to the form nature, producing destruction through- 211- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust crystallisation. this brings about t

in group formation or individually, to succumb in some form to glamour, then they will endeavour to utilise group glamour to negative their efforts and force those with whom the disciples work to believe evil, to impugn motives, and to produce such a convincing story that the struggling disciple will be left to fight almost single-handed. if this cannot be done, they may then attack the physical bodies of the workers and agents for the hierarchy, and seek, through the distress of the physical body, to control the disciple's output. this does not always prove successful, as the master can, and often does, protect his disciple. the dark forces work also through the intensification or stimulation of the psychic mechanism, so that the lower psychic powers become abnormally developed and prema

ty is not theirs; they know not the problems as they truly exist and criticism is, therefore, easy. it should here be remembered that criticism is a virulent poison. it damages in every case eventually the one who criticises owing to the fact of voiced direction it hurts still more the one who is criticised. where there is purity of motive, true love and a large measure of detachment, the subtler bodies of the one who is under attack may remain immune but the physical effects will be definite and where there is any physical weakness or limitation there will be found the localisation of the projected poison. unvoiced criticism is very dangerous for it is powerfully focussed and strongly, though not individually directed; it issues continuously and as a steady stream, sent forth on the wings

destructive kind, the imputation of motives, the unspoken jealousies and hates, the frustrated ambitions of group members, their resentments and their unsatisfied desires for prominence or for recognition by the leader or leaders, their desires to see the leader superseded by themselves or by someone else and many other forms of selfishness and mental pride. these produce results in the physical bodies of the leader or leaders and often in the emotional bodies. the responsibility of the group member is, therefore, great and it is one which they seldom recognise or shoulder. it is hard for them to appreciate the dire effects when one person is the target for group criticism and when the directed thought of a number of persons is focussed on one or two individuals. the more highly evolved t

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routine. this has for years been your problem. yet this scant twenty minutes, taken each morning with regularity at the hour of 8 a.m. would give you not only the joy you need in your strenuous service, the power and insight you require to stabilise your work, but also a larger measure of physical strength. your body nature is so constituted that it responds to spiritual healing more than do the bodies of the majority. july 1935 i have but little to say to you, my brother, as last year i wrote to you in detail and outlined to you the work of the coming years. i change not that work or my suggestions, for if i did so there would be no true synthesis in the output of this group. i am working on a prearranged plan of my own which was the result of several years' close observation of the memb

ill heal with potency those emotional ills which are deep-seated in the astral body; this latent and unrealised power of yours must be developed and brought to usefulness. some people heal those afflicted with physical ills. some work in the field of psychology and deal with those troubles which have a more mental basis. others (and you amongst them) can aid in stabilising the emotional or astral bodies of those distraught. this i can teach you to do. but first of all, we must get you into a better organised condition so that you can present to your soul an aligned and clear channel through which spiritual force may flow. for a while the focus of your attention must be upon the heart centre. to this end, a meditation which you will find in this instruction will be of service to you if you

have some definite magnetic power. this you know. but through which centre will it flow, and via which body? i give you here a thought and i indicate to you a field of awareness, concerning yourself, that you should learn to master. some day you will be forced to face the issue and decide from what plane and through which body you will work. will you be mentally magnetic, and stimulate the mental bodies of those you serve, or will your magnetism be astral and feed the emotional nature of those you contact? animal magnetism is not what interests you, but that which you have can be consecrated, through reticence and control, to service. egoic or soul magnetism should be your goal, and from that point of soul influence you can some day work. but as the soul makes magnetic all three bodies, yo

cteristic and result of fourth ray activity. it expresses itself in fullness on the fourth plane where the major duality of the spiritual triad and the threefold personality meet, blend and resolve into a unity. i would commend this thought to you for pondering and reflection; it has a definite bearing upon group activity in connection with group dispelling of world glamour. the fourth ray mental bodies of the members will facilitate this task. you, having rays one, four and five active in your equipment, can see where your work dovetails into the picture. i have not much in the way of personal instruction to give you at this time. the production of a creative adjustment of the imminent changes in your life and the establishing of yourself as a renewed centre of force in whatever environme

er nature. it is needless for me to remind you that your soul ray is the second and your personality ray is the sixth. your mental body is on the first ray, and i think if you will study this with care, much of your present problem will become clear to you. your astral body is also governed by the first ray. this is an exception to the general rule that the second and sixth rays govern the astral bodies of all humanity. this rule varies occasionally in the case of disciples. this combination of a first ray mental body and a first ray astral body is interesting and provides you with a definitely difficult problem, for the necessity to balance and to achieve equilibrium, is enhanced in your case. however, it also makes possible an easier control of the astral body by the mind, if you so choo

at which i have written upon the seven rays and accept this teaching as a proven hypothesis; be not deterred from this acceptance by any academic word-phrasing. you belong to the new school which is entrusted with the task of producing the new, esoteric psychology, based upon the five rays which are manifesting through every human being the soul ray, the personality ray, and the rays of the three bodies of the personality. it is all energy and force and this the modern psychologist does not remember. if you accept and determine this occult hypothesis as your basic premise and apply all you may learn to the touchstone of the occult and spiritual teaching, you may achieve much. but, my brother, let two things take first place: the study of the rays and, secondly, their application to human l

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t proved useful because it has been soporific in its effect, and a detriment to progress. the eastern student regards it as giving him plenty of time; this has negated the driving effort to achieve a goal. the average christian confuses the law of rebirth with what he calls "the transmigration of souls" and frequently believes that the law of rebirth signifies the passing of human beings into the bodies of animals or of lower forms of life. such is by no means the case. as the life of god progresses onwards through form after form, that life in the subhuman kingdoms of nature proceeds progressively from mineral forms into vegetable forms, and from these vegetable forms into animal forms; from the animal form stage, the life of god passes into the human kingdom, and becomes subject to the l

spiritual realities, of theone humanity and the one world, and had their objective been the stimulation of right human relations, the mass of men everywhere would be responding to a future possibility very different from the present one; we would not be faced as we are today with the expenditures running into countless billions necessitated by the need to restore physically, not only the physical bodies of countless millions of men, but entire cities, transportation systems and centres responsible for the reorganisation of human living. equally, it can be said that if the spiritual values and the spiritual responsibilities attached to money (in large quantities or in small) had been properly appreciated and taught in homes and schools, we would not have had the appalling statistics of the

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to sentiment or to the affectional reaction but is, predominantly, in the nature of an identification with all beings. then is true compassion known; then does criticism become impossible; then, only, is the divine germ seen as latent in all forms- 3- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust intuition is light itself, and when it is functioning, the world is seen as light and the light bodies of all forms become gradually apparent. this brings with it the ability to contact the light centre in all forms, and thus again an essential relationship is established and the sense of superiority and separateness recedes into the background. intuition, therefore, brings with its appearance three qualities: illumination. by illumination i do not mean the light in the head. that is inciden

and still holds, the sons of men in thrall. i ask, therefore, for your service along these lines, and i request also that you give increased attention at the time of your full moon contact with myself. this group should have a special aptitude for work along the line of dispelling glamour at the period of the full moon. contact is made on the different planes according to the focus of the subtle bodies of the personnel of the group, and this group makes its contact with me on the higher levels of the astral plane. hence the clarity of their reactions and the wealth of their detailed records. also, herein will lie eventually their service, for they can later (but not for some long time yet) utilise the days of contact and the "moment of entrance (as it is sometimes called) for definite wor

s of men. their forms have been brought into activity by the steadily growing creative power of mankind, and have been subordinated to the wishes of men, through the use of language with its power to limit and distort. the illusion is also precipitated more potently than would otherwise be the case by the effort of many devoted idealistic men to impose these distorted thoughtforms upon the mental bodies of the masses. this constitutes one of the major problems with which the hierarchy today has to concern itself; it is also one of the first factors which a master has to consider in connection with any aspirant and disciple. glamour, as we have seen, is of more ancient standing and of earlier emergence than is illusion. it has little in it of the mental quality and is the major factor contr

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hold the clue to ultimate world salvation. the thought-directing energy has for its source a thinker who can enter into the divine mind, owing to his having transcended human limitation; the thought-directed receiver is the man, in exoteric expression, who has aligned his brain, his mind, and his soul. it is a fact that omnipresence, which is a law in nature and based on the fact that the etheric bodies of all forms constitute the world etheric body, makes omniscience possible. the etheric body of the planetary logos is swept into activity by his directed will; energy is the result of his thoughtform playing in and through his energy body. this thoughtform embodies and expresses his world purpose. all the subhuman forms of life and the human forms up to the stage of advanced man are govern

rating force. 2. the force of mind. this is the illuminating energy which "lights the way" of an idea or form to be transmitted and received. forget not that light is subtle substance. upon a beam of light can the energy of the mind materialise. this is one of the most important statements made in connection with the science of telepathy. the success of this is dependent upon the alignment of the bodies of the transmitter and the recipient. the double line of contact must be that of mental energy and brain electrical energy. the magnetic power of love to attract attention, to produce alignment, and to call forth rapport and understanding is not all that is necessary in the new telepathy which will distinguish the new age. there must also be mental development and mental control. this form

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er points should here be added. first: the individual etheric body is not an isolated and separated human vehicle but is, in a peculiar sense, an integral part of the etheric body of that entity which we have called the human family; this kingdom in nature, through its etheric body, is an integral part of the planetary etheric body; the planetary etheric body is not separated off from the etheric bodies of other planets but all of them in their totality, along with the etheric body of the sun constitute the etheric body of the solar system. this is related to the etheric bodies of the six solar systems which, with ours, form a cosmic unity and into these pour energies and forces from certain great constellations. the field of space is etheric in nature and its vital body is composed of the

ts but all of them in their totality, along with the etheric body of the sun constitute the etheric body of the solar system. this is related to the etheric bodies of the six solar systems which, with ours, form a cosmic unity and into these pour energies and forces from certain great constellations. the field of space is etheric in nature and its vital body is composed of the totality of etheric bodies of all constellations, solar systems and planets which are found therein. throughout this cosmic golden web there is a constant circulation of energies and forces and this constitutes the scientific basis of the astrological theories. just as the forces of the planet and of the inner spiritual man (to mention only one factor among many) pour through the etheric body of the individual man up

atter (liquid, gaseous and dense) which the vibration of the logoic permanent atom (on the plane adi) attracts to itself in the building of the divine form. for purposes of clarification and of generalisation, it might be noted that the seventh hierarchy is the life or energy found at the heart of every atom, its positive aspect, and the sixth hierarchy is the life of the forms of all the etheric bodies of every tangible object. the function of this hierarchy is well described in the words of the old commentary "the devas hear the word go forth. they sacrifice themselves and out of their own substance they build the form desired. they draw life and the material from themselves, and yield themselves to the divine impulse" a treatise on cosmic fire, pages 1196-1207 tabulation iii i. dynamic

is of such a controlling nature in this sign and such a subtle potency in the leo type. it is this will-to-rule which leads a person born in this sign eventually to achieve self-mastery and the control of the personality (for either a good motive or a selfish one, and it is also the same tendency which leads him finally to the control by the personality, ruled by leo, of groups and large or small bodies of people. this at an advanced stage is an expression of the fusion of leo energy and aquarian potency. it is inevitable in the long run for men and races; for this all experience in leo is preparatory. the will-to-illumine is that which drives all leo people on to experiment and so to gain knowledge; it is this which links them with taurus, which "carries the fair jewel which gives light u

an beings and especially upon the person born in this sign or who has this sign rising, as well as its influences upon the planet. throughout the universe, it is the soul which is the conscious, sensitive theme of the divine plan the soul as the anima mundi, or the soul of the world, animating all forms of life below the animal kingdom; the soul as the animal soul and the extension of this to the bodies of all animals, including the human physical body; the soul as the human soul, which is a still further expansion of the same sensitive factor but augmented or stimulated by the principle of self-awareness or of focussed personal sensitivity to all sub-human soul expression, plus awareness (conscious or unconscious) of the immortal or divine soul; the soul as the ego or spiritual soul on it

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em. it is a web of energy streams, of lines of force and of light. it constitutes part of the vast network of energies which underlies all forms whether great or small (microcosmic or macrocosmic. along these lines of energy the cosmic forces flow, as the blood flows through the veins and arteries. this constant, individual human, planetary and solar circulation of life-forces through the etheric bodies of all forms is the basis of all manifested life, and the expression of the essential non-separateness of all life. 3. the astral or desire body (sometimes called the emotional body) is the effect of the interplay of desire and of sentient response upon the self at the centre, and the resultant effect in that body is experienced as emotion and as pain and pleasure and the other pairs of opp

mperfect gods" given the initial premise that deity itself is working towards a perfection past our comprehension, it may be inferred that there may exist for the gods themselves and for god (as the life of the solar system, certain limitations and certain areas or states of consciousness which still await mastering. these limitations and relative imperfections may cause definite effects in their bodies of manifestation the various planets as expressions of lives, and the solar system as the expression of a life. given also the hypothesis that these outer bodies of divinity, the planets, are the forms through which certain deities express themselves, it may be a true and logical deduction that all lives and forms within those bodies may be necessarily subject also to these limitations, and

are based on wrong thought. 4. the peculiar complaints and psychological troubles of disciples. it may have interested you to see that i place the ills of the etheric body in the second place and not the first. the reason for this is that the group ills and diseases which have fastened upon the race, work primarily through the etheric body and find their way out into manifestation via the etheric bodies of all forms. but i have placed them second, even though they are in the last analysis the most numerous, owing to the fact that humanity cannot as yet deal with these en masse. the approach has to be through individuals, and men must clear their astral or emotional bodies of those conditions which pre-dispose them to disease, as individuals. at present, the race is astrally polarised. the

sult of inner subtle forces, but are the pouring upwards, into the etheric body, of energies from the physical plane itself and from the outer world of forces. little attention has been paid by occult teachers to these forces which come from without, which originate upon the physical plane, and which affect the inner bodies. there are physical energy and streams of force entering into the etheric bodies of all forms, just as the world illusion and the miasmas of the astral plane oft have their causes in physical plane conditions. the energies entering into the centres of man from the subtler levels have oft been considered in occult books, but the forces which find their way into the centres from the world of physical plane life are seldom realised or discussed. this is a somewhat new thou

ays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust stimulated also and increased, instead of dissipated or healed. a. uncontrolled and ill-regulated emotion. given these basic facts, it can be seen how wrong emotional attitudes and a general unhealthy condition of the astral body must be potent factors in producing discomfort and disease. this is due to the fact that the vital or etheric bodies of the masses of humanity are governed primarily and swept into activity through the action of the astral body. agitation in that body, any violent activity under stress of temper, intense worry or prolonged irritation will pour a stream of astral energy into and through the solar plexus centre, and will galvanise that centre into a condition of intense disturbance. this next affects the st

f the principles and their correspondences, as given by h.p.b. in the third volume of the secret doctrine, its interpretation will be dependent upon the point of view of the student. we shall employ it later and add further columns to it and further correspondences. in all our considerations, what we have to say will have the following synthesis of structure behind it: 1. the soul. 2. the subtler bodies of the mind and the emotions, which are simply qualified energy centres. 3. the vital body with its seven major centres of force. 4. the endocrine system, which is an effect of the seven centres, and the determining controlling factor in the physical body of man. 5. the nervous system in its three divisions. 6. the blood stream. all the subsidiary organs of man are effects; they are not pre

andular correspondences in the physical body, and therefore as to the diseases and the ills, inhibitions, and difficulties to which his flesh will fall heir. it is in this connection that it becomes obvious that the work of the physician and of the psychologist must eventually go hand in hand. the three most important aspects of all diagnoses are: 1. the psychological, or the gauging of the inner bodies of man from the angle of their development, their integration and the total coordination of the personality, as these subtler aspects of the human being express themselves in consciousness. 2. the work of the endocrinologist, as he deals with the endocrine glands, viewing them as power stations through which energy dynamic and illuminating can pour through from the centres. 3. the physician

f great importance. the concentrated will of any individual and the directed will of a united group should never be employed. the free will of the individual must never be subjected to the impact of a powerfully focussed group or individual; it is far too dangerous a procedure to be permitted. will energy (particularly that of a number of people simultaneously playing upon the subtle and physical bodies of the one to be healed) can greatly increase the trouble instead of curing it. it can stimulate the disease itself to dangerous proportions and disrupt instead of cooperating with nature's healing forces, and can even eventually kill the person concerned by so increasing the disease that the patient's normal resistance can prove futile. i would ask you, therefore, in any group work of heal

and by the magnificent work of scientific and academic medicine, plus a truer comprehension of right living conditions. i prefer rather to give still wider generalisations which will indicate causes and will not emphasise the consequences of these causes. i seek, therefore, to point out that: 1. the soil of the planet itself is a major cause of disease and of contamination. for untold aeons, the bodies of men and of animals have been laid away in the ground; that soil is consequently impregnated with the germs and the results of disease and this in a far subtler form than is surmised. the germs of ancient known and unknown diseases are to be found in the layers of the soil and the subsoil; these can still produce virulent trouble if presented with proper conditions. let me state that natu

though much nearer solar divinity than the most advanced human being is near to planetary divinity. they are the "imperfect gods" spoken of in the secret doctrine and are the planetary logoi of the sacred and non-sacred planets. if the great informing lives of the planets within our solar system are imperfect, the effect of this imperfection must inevitably affect their planetary creations, their bodies of manifestation, and thus introduce a karmic condition over which the individual human being has absolutely no control, but within which he moves and which he shares. it is obviously impossible for me to elucidate this theme. all i can do or am permitted to do is to give you seven stanzas from one of the most ancient volumes in the world; it deals with the seven ray causes of imperfections

ing forms, in all the kingdoms in nature. these three families or groups of diseases are: 1. the great cancer group of diseases. 2. the syphilitic group. 3. tuberculosis. most of the objections made by doctors with occult tendencies are based unconsciously on a feeling that there should be higher methods of controlling diseases in man than by injecting into the human body substance taken from the bodies of animals. that is most surely and definitely- 191- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust correct, and some day it will be demonstrated. another reaction on their part is one of sensitive disgust, again largely unrecognised. a more vital objection should be based on the suffering entailed on the animals providing the vaccine and other substanc

impulses, but has no initiatory life of its own. it is composed of units of energy, as is all else in nature, and has its own individual life; its focus for the distribution of energy for this life is the spleen. in the spleen, the negative life of matter and the living energy of the positive etheric body, are brought together, and then a "spark" as it is called, is made between the inner living bodies of man (through the medium of the etheric body) and the physical plane. it is a reflection on the lowest rung of the evolutionary ladder, as far as man is concerned, and corresponds to the relation of soul and body or on a higher turn of the spiral of spirit and matter. on the vagus nerve. there are two powerful centres connected with the vagus nerve: the heart centre and the centre at the

to attain realisation with greater ease. they definitely share in the achievement of the lord of shamballa. the moon, as you know, is a shell, an ancient form through which the planetary logos at one time sought expression. it is slowly disintegrating physically but not astrally as yet, and is therefore still closely linked with the astral body of the planetary logos and therefore with the astral bodies of all people. its influence is consequently more potent at the time of the full moon- 202- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust upon all who are unbalanced. this lack of equilibrium, which it really is, will eventually be found to exist between the astral body, the etheric body and the physical mechanism. people who are definitely aspirants a

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

the interrelationships between various subject matter disciplines already available in the offerings of the university. the main objective is to cultivate the habit of reflective synthesis and find or create a body of wisdom for human evolution and personal self-development "since unified interpretation and understanding is not a science in its own right but a synoptic comprehension of antecedent bodies of concepts and principles, this department shall not offer degrees in its own area or 'field' the department of unified studies is primarily a service department to the students and faculty members carrying on their primary (but not more important) activities in the more specialized areas of study- 5- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust "until contemporary times, there has

d studies is primarily a service department to the students and faculty members carrying on their primary (but not more important) activities in the more specialized areas of study- 5- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust "until contemporary times, there has been little need for such an adjunct to our institutions of higher learning. but with the increase in size of our specialized bodies of knowledge to the point where we are burying ourselves under the mountains of information and data the time has come to take seriously the problem of finding out what all this knowledge means. if the university cannot synthesize the overall implications of modern learning it will abdicate its historic role of providing universal principles for enlightened individuals seeking the benefits

e wrong, the desirable from the undesirable, and the essential from the nonessential. this can be taught him through the medium of history and the intellectual training which the cycle of his life makes compulsory under the laws of the country in which he lives. a sense of values and of right standards is thus established. he is taught the distinction between memory training and thinking; between bodies of facts, ascertained by thinkers and tabulated in books, and their application to the events of objective existence, plus (and here lies a thought of real importance) their subjective cause and their relation to the world of reality of which the phenomenal world is but the symbol. at the age of seventeen the study of psychology will be added to the rest of the curriculum and the nature of

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any particular cycle. 2. this unanimity of purpose produces a very close subjective relationship, and each member of the ashram is occupied with making his fullest possible contribution to the task in hand. personalities do not enter in. you will remember how some years ago i told you that the personality vehicles are ever left outside the ashram speaking symbolically. this means that the subtler bodies of the personality have perforce to follow the same rules as the physical body they are left outside. remember also that the ashrams exist upon the plane of buddhi or of the intuition. the joint undertaking and the united adhering to the desired and arranged cyclic technique binds all members of the ashram into one synthetic whole; there is therefore no possible controversy or any emphasis

ation and the goal of its great enlightenment. it is, as you rightly point out when viewing the subject from the angle of mother-matter, the assumption of the virgin into heaven, there to be glorified. much of the mystery connected with "the three vestures of the buddha" is related to this glorification of the three bodies. much can be learnt by a careful study of the connection between the three bodies of a human being and the vestures or vehicles of the lord buddha. the whole story of sublimation, of purification, and of transfiguration is hidden in this relationship. the correspondences remain, however, to be pointed out. it is a task that has not yet been done. let me now return to your own specific instructions. i am going to give you no set meditation form to follow. i am however goi

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

in individuals and in nations, and this science will later be recognised. it is by means of this science that the hierarchy can form its larger plans and know in what manner individual nations will react to stimulation and to progress of the desired kind. this is the modern form of the ancient atlantean laya-yoga, or the yoga of the centres. according, therefore, to the condition of the sensitive bodies of the planet, of nations and of individuals, so will be their reaction to the five kinds of inflowing forces. the shamballa force, for instance, in making its impact upon first ray types, and upon the other ray types on that line of major energy the third, fifth and seventh ray types evokes widely differing results than when it makes an impact upon the second ray line of energy; the result

of the need, of the purpose of the dual tension, and desirous of bringing this tension to such a "crisis of precipitation" that the fusion of the two groups will be inevitable, whilst the other group, humanity, unaware generally of the implications of the situation, is suffering, bewildered and full of fear. between these two groups stands the new group of world servers, constituted today of two bodies of people: 1. those who are aware of the plan, are subject to and sensitive to hierarchical impression and dedicated to the task of bringing about the desired fusion or group at-one-ment. these are the consecrated servers of the world who are free from all taint of separativeness, full of love to all men and eager for the spread of understanding goodwill. they correspond to the "consecrated

are bending every effort to end the spirit of aggression and to rid the world of the focal points for material influence and power, must yet carry forward the task of binding men and women of every nation together in a spirit of loving understanding; they must interpret nation to nation in terms of brotherhood and of the new order. this is no easy thing to do at this time. the astral or emotional bodies of human beings (which constitute the astral body of humanity as a whole) are today in a state of chaos, and are swept by ancient desires, ancient and deep-seated selfish attitudes and by ancient hatreds. the task is also complicated by the activity of the mental processes of man which is characterised by pronounced and developed illusions, by separative attitudes and by specious arguments

rk of the future, each day to use the very brief meditation which i outline below. it is dynamic- 205- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust affirmative and if rightly used should link head and heart, leading thus to intelligent loving service, and it should also serve to bind you all together in the closest spiritual unity. this will aid in the vitalising of the etheric bodies of all workers, and therefore in a group vitality which will be irresistible. suggested meditation each morning, prior to starting the day's activities, achieve an inner quiet, see the self as the soul, place your self at the disposition of the soul, of humanity and of your group. 1. then say silently and with full dynamic intent: at the centre of all love i stand; from that centre, i the s

a sorrowing world the vision of the great helper, the christ. he works with the rose devas and with the blue devas on astral levels, with the wise help of the great guardian angel of that plane, called (in hindu terminology) the lord varuna. the activity of the astral plane is being much intensified and the angels of devotion, in whom the aspect of divine love is pre-eminent, work with the astral bodies of all those who are ready to strengthen and redirect their spiritual aspiration and desire. they are the angels who guard the sanctuaries of all the churches, cathedrals, temples and mosques of the world. they are now increasing the momentum of their vibration for the raising of the consciousness of the attendant congregations. the master k.h. works also with the prelates of the great cath

he lives of human beings with more power than has lately been the case. the call has gone out for them again to approach humanity, and with their heightened vibration and superior knowledge unite their forces with those of the christ and his disciples for the helping of the race. they have, for instance, much to communicate anent colour and sound, and the effect of these two forces on the etheric bodies of men and animals and flowers. when what they have to impart is apprehended by the race, physical ills and sickness will be offset. the group of violet angels or devas who work on the four etheric levels will be especially active and they will work in the four main groups of men who are in incarnation at any given time. four rays dominate at any period, with one of the four more potent tha

s now reached a point where many souls are on the probationary path and need but the heightening of their vibration (made possible by his presence) to reach the portal of the path itself. and now what is it that you all can do? what is the condition surrounding the aspirants of the world today? we have a world full of unrest, a world full of pain, sorrow and strife, a world in which the emotional bodies of humanity are in a condition of tremendous disturbance, a world in which animals, men, women and children suffer, agonise and die; a world in which hunger, sin, sickness, famine, rapine, and murder stalk unarrested; a world in which the forms of religion exist but the life has gone, in which science is prostituted to the ends of money and hate, and in which the produce of the earth is not

ion of the spiritual realities, of the one humanity and the one world, and had their objective been the stimulation of right human relations, the mass of men everywhere would be responding to a vision very different from the present one; we would not be faced as we are today with the expenditures running into countless billions necessitated by the need to restore physically, not only the physical bodies of countless millions of men, but entire cities, transportation systems and centres responsible for the reorganisation of human living. equally, it can be said that if the spiritual values and the spiritual responsibilities attached to money (in large quantities or in small) had been properly appreciated and taught in homes and schools, we would not have had the appalling statistics of the

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r which constitute the personality. they are: seven physical states of matter, seven emotional states, enabling the astral body to function on the seven subplanes of the astral plane, and four states of matter for each of the four conditions of the concrete mind (7, 7, 4= 18. these are eighteen grades of substance, eighteen vibratory groups of atoms, and eighteen aggregates of life which form the bodies of the lunar lords (as the secret doctrine calls them) which in their totality, form the body of the lunar lord, the personality. the above is the very a b c of occultism and a familiar truth to all of you. what is referred to here has, however, no reference to processes of purification, of control or of discipline. these have been much earlier considered and are regarded as the necessary p

the "blow of release" and as the signal for that which is better, new and more suitable for the evolving spirit, to make its appearance. great and penetrating energies and their evoked forces have met in a conflict which has, figuratively speaking, elevated the mineral kingdom into the skies and which has brought down fire from heaven. i am talking to you factually and not just symbolically. the bodies of men, women and children, as well as of animals, have been destroyed; the forms of the vegetable kingdom and the potencies of the mineral kingdom have been disintegrated, distributed and devastated. the coherent life of all the planetary forms has been temporarily rendered incoherent. as an ancient prophecy has put it "no true united sound goes out from form to form, from life to life. on

are not, consequently, regarded as embodying principles. h.p.b. says, in connection with our physical plane (the lowest subplane of the cosmic physical plane, that it is not a principle, and this holds good also for the greater whole. the dense physical plane is matter conditioned by a previous solar system, and is almost automatic in its response to etheric energies; these constitute the etheric bodies of all forms created out of this "unprincipled substance" as it is occultly called. the three lower planes of our seven planes are, from the angle of the esotericist, the equally unprincipled dense cosmic substance; the mark or indication of the true initiate is the transfer of his life and his point of identification from unprincipled substance and substantial forms to "principled" substan

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

ce. aspirants need to remember that they become masters only by mastering, and that we are taught to be masters and are brought to the position of membership in the band of world servers through the efforts of our own soul. that soul is a divine son of god, omniscient and omnipotent. as the immortal twin increases in power and brilliance, that of the mortal brother decreases. second, the physical bodies of the aspirants are in no condition to stand the greatly heightened vibration of one who has achieved. the body would be shattered and the brain overstrained if one of the masters made constant contact with a disciple before he had even learned to know nereus as the symbol of his own higher self. when by our own efforts we are beginning to live as souls, and when by our own self-initiated

breathing fire and flame from all three heads at once, the monster came upon him. geryon hurled a spear at hercules that almost hit its mark. stepping agilely aside, hercules evaded the deadly shaft. stretching taut his bow, hercules let fly an arrow that seemed to burn the air as he released it, and struck the monster squarely in the side. with such great impetus had it been shot that all three bodies of fierce geryon were pierced. with a shrill, despairing groan, the monster swayed, then fell, nevermore to rise. toward the sacred city, then, hercules drove the sleek, red cattle. difficult was the task. again and yet again some cattle strayed, and hercules would leave the herd in search of errant wanderers. across the alps he drove his cattle, and into italy. wherever wrong had triumphed

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continuous changes of force and form. they did what they knew would imperil their purely psychic existence, they sank fully into material forms, they took on the grossness of malkuth, and so were separated from the sephirotic tree, from the higher potencies, which have no taint of matter. all matter is ever changing its form, and so their bodies must be changed; their bodies died, and so must the bodies of all incarnated egos; at death the personality passes away to a rest, and then to a further experience of life, or to a sphere of punishment, or to a realm of bliss. in their earthly forms they brought forth bodies like their own, and god sent down other souls to dwell in them, to experience earth life, its sins and sufferings; and to pass a probation by which they also might fall, but ye

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s. you must, therefore, strongly fortify it with three impassable and well vguarded walls, and let the one entrance be well protected. then light the lamp of wisdom and seek with it the gross thing that was lost, shewing only such light as is needed. for you must know that the worms and reptiles dwell in the cold and humid earth, while man has his proper habitation upon the face of the earth; the bodies of angels, on the other hand, not being alloyed with sin or impurity, are injured by no extreme either of heat or cold. when man shall have been glorified, his body will become like the angelic body in this respect. if we carefully cultivate the life of our souls, we shall be sons and heirs of god, and shall be able to do that which now seems impossible. but this can be effected only by the

. the process of augmentation and quickening is mostly performed in [the] earth, while it is caused by spiritual seed through the other elements. twelve keys of basil valentine 52 of 95 the farmer s wife knows that she cannot hope to obtain chickens except through the decomposition of the egg. if bread is placed in honeys and suffered to decay, ants are generated; worms are bred in the putrefying bodies of men, horses, and other animals; maggots are also developed by the decay of nuts, apples, and pears. the same thing may be observed in regard to vegetable life. nettles and other weeds spring up where no such seed has ever been sown. this occurs only by putrefaction. the reason is that the soil in such places is so disposed, and, as it were, impregnated, that it produces these fruits, whi

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

vivid translation of tsiu marpo being requested to attack these enemies will suffice as an illustration: you, the yak.a, king of the btsan, residing in the middle of blazing chain-lightnings, who open wide your horrifying mouth and stare with red eyes together with your hordes, come surging forward, soar quickly atop of the enemies, send the painful illness of the btsan into the upper part of the bodies of your foes, and cast colic into the lower part of their bodies. having gathered big black clouds on the sky, cast thunder, lightning, thunderbolts, and great pieces of hail, order the the u rang demons to cause fits of madness, and command the ma mo [demonesses] to cause fits of fainting to your foes. bind tightly your enemies by means of your red snare, strike them hard with the great st

, lightning, thunderbolts, and great pieces of hail, order the the u rang demons to cause fits of madness, and command the ma mo [demonesses] to cause fits of fainting to your foes. bind tightly your enemies by means of your red snare, strike them hard with the great stick. with the flaming sword, cut them into huge pieces. with the flaming iron hook, tear out their heart-veins; having chewed the bodies of the foes with your flaming teeth, swallow them down into your stomach which is like a r.k.asa-hole. send various kinds of illusions to deceive your enemies. send suddenly the illnesses called gag nad95 and gzer nad.96 destroy seven generations of the multitude of obstacle-creating demons and enemies.97 this task reiterates the descriptions of tsiu marpo s actions described above as well

tibetan rituals. these observations include specifically a tsok (tshogs) or "feast" ritual performed at sera (se ra) monastery, lhasa133 (figure 28) and a ma..ala offering ceremony performed in tallahassee, florida (figure 29).134 the tsok ritual is commonly found within larger ritual programs and consists of multiple torma offerings. these tormas are painted with colored butter and represent the bodies of defeated demons, which are offered to the gods; here the tormas are acting as a collective effigy (figure 30).135 the ma..ala offering is a longer ceremony wherein a ma..ala is constructed with colored sand over a period of several days. during this construction, mantras are recited and other minor offerings are made. the ultimate goal of this ma..ala is to be offered up to a deity for p

his, offer the stream of blood"[while] the trembling and steam of a brand new goat s heart has not faded, i offer the food of this raw meat to you. in order to liberate the enemies and hindering demons [act] without mistake (4b) saying this, offer the raw meat "the stream of nectar falls from the circle of one s mantra at the heart which illuminates one s tutelary deity. because of this, fill the bodies of the violence demons with their retinue. aspire to purify all the corruption of the vow" recite the hundred syllable mantra. having done this, one should confess [faults] accordingly "fierce king tsi mar together with his retinue reflect in this way in the region of the mind which listens to melodious [sounds. because of the truth of the pure sphere of phenomena which is unchangeable, do

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ame men with bones in the third- v. 18. the first were the sons of yoga. their sons the children of the yellow father and the white mother. 19. the second race was the product by budding and[[vol. 2, page] 18 the secret doctrine. expansion, the a-sexual from the sexless- thus was, o lanoo, the second race produced. 20. their fathers were the self-born. the self-born, the chhaya from the brilliant bodies of the lords, the fathers, the sons of twilight. 21. when the race became old, the old waters mixed with the fresher waters. when its drops became turbid, they vanished and disappeared in the new stream, in the hot stream of life. the outer of the first became the inner of the second. the old wing became the new shadow, and the shadow of the wing- vi. 22. then the second evolved the egg-bor

he egg-born, the third. the sweat grew, its drops grew, and the drops became hard and round. the sun warmed it; the moon cooled and shaped it; the wind fed it until its ripeness. the white swan from the starry vault overshadowed the big drop. the egg of the future race, the man-swan of the later third. first male-female, then man and woman. 23. the self-born were the chhayas: the shadows from the bodies of the sons of twilight- vii. 24. the sons of wisdom, the sons of night, ready for rebirth, came down, they saw the vile forms of the first third "we can choose" said the lords "we have wisdom" some entered the chhaya. some projected the spark. some deferred till the fourth. from their own rupa they filled the kama. those who entered became arhats. those who received but a spark, remained d

when the sweat-born produced the egg-born, the twofold and the mighty, the powerful with bones, the lords of wisdom said "now shall we create" 27. the third race became the vahan of the lords of wisdom. it created "sons of will and yoga" by kriyasakti it created them, the holy fathers, ancestors of the arhats- viii. 28. from the drops of sweat; from the residue of the substance; matter from dead bodies of men and animals of the wheel before; and from cast-off dust, the first animals were produced. 29. animals with bones, dragons of the deep, and flying sarpas were added to the creeping things. they that creep on the ground got wings. they of the long necks in the water became the progenitors of the fowls of the air. 30. during the third race the boneless animals grew and changed: they bec

ence the identity of the ideas? the chinese have the same traditions. according to the commentator kwoh p'oh, in the work called shan-hai-king "wonders by sea and land" a work which was written by the historiographer chung ku from engravings on nine urns made by the emperor yu (b.c. 2255, an interview is mentioned with men having two distinct faces on their heads, before and behind, monsters with bodies of goats and human faces, etc. gould, in his "mythical monsters" p. 27, giving the names of some authors on natural history, mentions shan-hai-king. according to kwoh p'oh (a.d. 276-324) this work was compiled three thousand years before his time, or at seven dynasties distance. yang sun of the ming dynasty (commencing a.d. 1368) states that it was compiled by kung chia and chung ku (as sta

ations given in our stanzas are far more clear than that which the legend of creation from the cutha tablet would give, even were it complete. what is preserved on it, however, corroborates them. for, in the tablet "the lord of angels" destroys the men in the abyss, when "there were not left the carcases and waste" after they were slaughtered. after which they, the great gods, create men with the bodies of birds of the desert, human beings "seven kings, brothers of the same family" etc, which is a reference to the locomotive qualities of the primary ethereal bodies of men, which could fly as well as they could walk* but who "were destroyed" because they were not "perfect" i.e, they "were sexless, like the kings of edom" weeded of metaphors and allegories, what will science say to this idea

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

ion- creation of divine beings in the exoteric accounts. in the vishnu purana- which is certainly the earliest of all the scriptures of that name- we find, as in all the others, brahma assuming as the male god, for purposes of creation "four bodies invested by three qualities* it is said "in this manner, maitreya, jyotsna (dawn, ratri (night, ahan (day, and sandhya (evening twilight) are the four bodies of brahma (p. 81, vol. i, wilson's translation. as parasara explains it, when brahma wants to create the world anew and construct progeny through his will, in the fourfold condition (or the four orders of beings) termed gods (dhyan chohans, demons (i.e, more material devas, progenitors (pitris) and men "he collects yoga-like (yuyuje) his mind" strange to say, he begins by creating demons, w

s to a great number of inferior- i.e, more material- spirits, or minor gods, who are so termed because they "war" with the higher ones; but they are no devils* the same order of principles in man- atma (spirit, buddhi (soul, its vehicle, as matter is the vahan of spirit, and manas (mind, the third, or the fifth microcosmically. on the plane of personality, manas is the first[[vol. 2, page] 59 the bodies of brahma. teaches- is at the root of self-consciousness, will understand the reason why. the so-called "demons- who are (esoterically) the self-asserting and (intellectually) active principle- are the positive poles of creation, so to say; hence, the first produced. this is in brief the process as narrated allegorically in the puranas "having concentrated his mind into itself and the quali

le* he is collectively the prajapatis, the lords of being; and the four bodies typify the four classes of creative powers or dhyan chohans, described in the commentary directly following stanza vii. in book i. the whole philosophy of the so-called "creation" of the good and evil in this world and of the whole cycle of manvantaric results therefrom, hangs on the correct comprehension of these four bodies of brahma. the reader will now be prepared to understand the real, the esoteric significance of what follows. moreover there is an important point to be cleared up. christian theology having arbitrarily settled and agreed that satan with his fallen angels belonged to the earliest creation, satan being the first-created, the wisest and most beautiful of god's archangels, the word was given

manvantara he belongs to, and erroneous where eternity is concerned. for it is said in the sacred slokas "the thread of radiance which is imperishable and dissolves only in nirvana, re-emerges from it in its integrity on the day when the great law calls all things back into action" hence, as the higher "pitris or dhyanis" had no hand in his physical creation, we find primeval man, issued from the bodies of his spiritually fireless progenitors, described as aeriform, devoid of compactness, and mindless. he had no middle principle to serve him as a medium between the highest and the lowest, the spiritual man and the physical brain, for he lacked manas. the monads which incarnated in those empty shells, remained as unconscious as when separated from their previous incomplete forms and vehicle

s. the zohar, for instance, says that every type in the visible has its prototype in the invisible universe "all that which is in the lower (our) world is found in the upper. the lower and the upper act and react upon each other (zohar, fol. 186) vide infra, part ii "esoteric tenets corroborated in every scripture- 20. their fathers were the self-born. the self-born, the chhaya from the brilliant bodies of the lords, the fathers, the sons of twilight (a (a) the "shadows" or chhayas, are called the sons of the "self-born" as the latter name is applied to all the gods and beings born through the will, whether of deity or adept. the homunculi of paracelsus would, perhaps, be also given this name, though the latter process is on a far more material plane. the name "sons of twilight" shows that

mysterious process of transformation and evolution of mankind. the material of the first forms- shadowy, ethereal, and negative- was drawn or absorbed into, and thus became the complement of the forms of the second race. the commentary explains this by saying that, as the first race was simply composed of the astral shadows of the creative progenitors, having of course neither astral nor physical bodies of their own- this race never died. its "men" melted gradually away, becoming absorbed in the bodies of their own "sweat-born" progeny, more solid than their own. the old form vanished and was absorbed by, disappeared in, the new form, more human and physical. there was no death in those days of a period more blissful than the golden age; but the first, or parent material was used for the f

bsorbed in the bodies of their own "sweat-born" progeny, more solid than their own. the old form vanished and was absorbed by, disappeared in, the new form, more human and physical. there was no death in those days of a period more blissful than the golden age; but the first, or parent material was used for the formation of the new being, to form the body and even the inner or lower principles or bodies of the progeny (c) when the shadow retires, i.e. when the astral body becomes covered with more solid flesh, man develops a physical body. the "wing" or the ethereal form that produced its shadow and image, became the shadow of the astral body and its own progeny. the expression is queer but original. as there may be no occasion to refer to this mystery later, it is as well to point out at

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

scriptures. in the rig veda, aditi "the boundless" or infinite space, translated by mr. max muller "the visible infinite, visible by the naked eye; the endless expanse beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky" is the equivalent of "mother-space" coeval with "darkness" she is very properly called "the mother of the gods" deva-matri, as it is from her cosmic matrix that all the heavenly bodies of our system were born- sun and planets. thus she is described, allegorically, in this wise "eight sons were born from the body of aditi; she approached the gods with seven, but cast away the eighth, martanda" our sun. the seven sons called the aditya are, cosmically or astronomically, the seven planets; and the sun being excluded from their number shows plainly that the hindus may have kn

east as regards the nature of the entity incarnating[[footnote(s* creation is an incorrect word to use, as no religion, not even the sect of the visishta adwaitees in india- one which anthropomorphises even parabrahmam- believes in creation out of nihil as christians and jews do, but in evolution out of preexisting materials* the so-called "spirits" that may occasionally possess themselves of the bodies of mediums are not the monads or higher principles of disembodied personalities. such a "spirit" can only be either an elementary, or- a nirmanakaya[[vol. 1, page] 234 the secret doctrine. or taking temporary possession of a medium. just as certain persons- men and women, reverting to parallel cases among living persons- whether by virtue of a peculiar organization, or through the power of

simple essence became now in our round the fire we know throughout the system. the earth was in her first rupa, the essence of which is the akasic principle named "that which is now known as, and very erroneously termed, astral light, which eliphas levi calls "the imagination of nature* probably to avoid giving it its correct name, as others do "it is through and from the radiations of the seven bodies of the seven orders of dhyanis, that the seven discrete quantities (elements, whose motion and harmonious union produce the manifested universe of matter, are born (commentary[[footnote(s* speaking of it in his preface to the "history of magic" eliphas levi says "it is through this force that all the nervous centres secretly communicate with each other; from it- that sympathy and antipathy

s more and more clearly shown. the physical and chemical constituents of all being found to be identical, chemical science may well say that there is no difference between the matter which composes the ox and that which forms man. but the occult doctrine is far more explicit. it says- not only the chemical compounds are the same, but the same infinitesimal invisible lives compose the atoms of the bodies of the mountain and the daisy, of man and the ant, of the elephant, and of the tree which shelters him from the sun. each particle- whether you call it organic or inorganic- is a life. every atom and molecule in the universe is both life-giving and death-giving to that form, inasmuch as it builds by aggregation universes and the ephemeral vehicles ready to receive the transmigrating soul, a

gravitation, for instance- would be regarded as an ignorant fool for it; yet we are told by the just cited author a queer legend from the scientific annals "the comet of 1811 had a tail 120 millions of miles in length and 25 millions of miles in diameter at the widest part, while the diameter of the nucleus was about 127,000 miles, more than ten times that of the earth" he tells us "in order that bodies of this magnitude, passing near the earth, should not affect its motion or change the length of the year by even a single second, their actual substance must be inconceivably rare" it must be so indeed, yet. the extreme tenuity of a comet's mass is also proved by the phenomenon of the tail, which, as the comet approaches the sun, is thrown out sometimes to a length of 90 millions of miles i

efore evolution began, prakriti (nature) was in a condition of laya or absolute homogeneity, as "matter exists in two conditions, the sukshma, or latent and undifferentiated, and the sthula or differentiated condition" then it became anu, atomic. it teaches of sudda-satwa "a substance not subject to the qualities of matter, from which it is quite different" and adds that out of that substance the bodies of the inhabitants of vaikuntaloka (the heaven of vishnu, the gods, are formed. that every particle or atom of prakriti contains jiva (divine life, and is the sarira (body) of that jiva which it contains, while every jiva is in its turn the sarira of the supreme spirit, as "parabrahm pervades every jiva, as well as every particle of matter" dualistic and anthropomorphic as may be the philos

ve into ether (see isis unveiled, vol. i, p. 297) even epicurus, the model atheist and materialist, knew and believed so much in the ancient wisdom, that he taught that the[[footnote(s* plato uses the words "secretions" of turbulent elements (timaeus* valentinus' esoteric treatise on the doctrine of gilgul* surely no educated jew ever believed the literal sense of this allegory- namely, that "the bodies of jews deposited in foreign lands contain within them a principle of soul which cannot rest, until by a process called the "whirling of the soul" the immortal particle reaches once more the sacred soil of the "promised land" the meaning is evident to an occultist. the process was supposed to be accomplished by a kind of metempsychosis, the psychic spark being conveyed through bird, beast

tems elaborated by kant and laplace. the idea of both was that, at the origin of things, all that matter which now enters into the composition of the planetary bodies was spread over all the space comprised in the solar system- and even beyond. it was a nebula of extremely small density, whose condensation gradually gave birth, by a mechanism that has hitherto never been explained, to the various bodies of our systems. this is the original nebular theory, an incomplete yet faithful repetition- a short chapter out of the large volume of universal esoteric cosmogony- of the teachings in the secret doctrine. and both systems, kant's and laplace's, differ greatly from the modern theory, redundant with conflicting sub-theories and fanciful hypotheses "the essence of cometary matter and of that

BLUE EQUINOX

e and most holy king; he may be a member of any grade whatever; but he must, on accepting office, take the vow of poverty. his authority is absolute in all financial matters; but he is responsible to, and may be removed at will by, the supreme and most holy king. he will appoint a committee to assist hium and advise him in his work; and he will usually select one person from each of the governing bodies of the order. such is a brief outline of the government of the o.t.o. it combines monarchy with democracy: it includes aristocracy, and conceals even the seeds of revolution, by which alone progress can be effected. thus we balance the triads, uniting the three in one; thus we gather up all the threads of human passion and interest, and weave them into an harmonious tapestry, subtly and dil

BOOK OF ENOCH

in those days, the temperature of those springs of water will change, and when the angels come up, that water of the springs will change, and become cold. 67.12] and i heard the holy michael answering and saying "this judgment, with which the angels are judged, is a testimony for the kings and the mighty who possess the dry ground. 67.13] for these waters of judgment serve for the healing of the bodies of the kings, and for the lust of their bodies; but they do not see, and do not believe, that these waters will change, and will become a fire which burns forever" 68.1] and after this, my great-grandfather enoch gave me the explanation of all the secrets, in a book, and the parables that had been given to him; and he put them together for me, in the words of the book of parables. 12) the b

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

emoth, and their colors are black and brown, and their forms those of awful beasts like a hippopotamus, and an elephant, but crushed flat, or as if their skin was spread out flat over the body of a gigantic beetle or cockroach, crawling yet having vast strength. 12. neshimiron- whose colors are of a stagnant gleaming, watery hue, and their forms like hideous women, almost skeletons, united to the bodies of serpents and fishes. in the midst of the circle are placed samael and asmodai. the symbolic form of the former is somewhat like that of the devil of the tarot, but colossal and attenuated; that of asmodai is as a bloated, bestial man, but in a crouching position. at the south-east angle are placed the evil adam, a goat-headed skeleton-like giant; and a thousand- headed hydra serpent; eve

er is attributed kerethial, which meaneth cut off from god (psalm xxxvii, v.34; when the wicked are cut off (from god) and the symbolic form is that of black, evil giants. also to kether belong the thaumiel or thamiel, the bicephalous ones; and their forms are those of dual, giant heads, with bat-like wings; they have not bodies for they are those who seek continually to unite themselves unto the bodies of other beings and forces. unto chokmah are referred the dukes of esau and the ghogiel (from og, king of bashan, or, as it is sometimes written, oghiel, and they attach themselves unto living and material appearances, and their form is like that of the black, evil giants with loathsome serpents twined around them. unto binah are referred the satariel or harasiel, the concealers and destroy

BUDGE E

nd of earth, and forms, as it were, an oval island in the river of the tuat; its shape is, as m. maspero has said, an elongated ellipse, and it is formed wholly of sand. the "land of sekri" is described in the legend which is written at each end of the oval as "the horizon) of the hidden country of sekri, which guardeth the hidden body (or, flesh" this mysterious oval is supposed to rest upon the bodies of two man-headed lion sphinxes set tail to tail; of these, however, only the heads and fore quarters p. 94 appear, one at each end of the oval. each sphinx is called af, and he is said "to have his existence from the voice of the great god" and "his work is to keep ward over his image" within the oval already described is stretched out at almost full length on the ground a monster serpent

e p. 111. 13. the god abui, with his head turned behind him; he is provided with a shade (see p. 111. 14. the god amu, bull-headed (see p. 107. 15. the god set, bull-headed (see p. 107. 16. the god sent-nef-amentiu (see p. 107. 17. the god hetep-neteru (see p. 107. of these eight gods it is said "they stand by at the annihilation of the dead in the tuat, and their work is to burn up with fire the bodies of the dead by the flames from their mouths in the course of every day" 18. a goddess, standing upright, with her hands stretched out to the top of the head of a man who is kneeling before her, and is cutting open his head with a hatchet; the goddess is called and lives upon the blood of the dead, and upon that which the gods give (see p. 113. p. 110 the text of the speech which the god mak

at" 14. the god kai. p. 136 15. the god meni. 16. the god ann-ret. 17. the god urt. each of these four gods is click to view urt. ann-ret. meni. kai. in a sitting position, but has no throne whereon to sit. 18. a company of nine serpents, each of which belches fire from its mouth and is armed with a huge click to view the serpents of a company of gods. knife; only the heads and upper parts of the bodies of these serpents are visible. their names are ta-thenen, tem, khepera, shu, seb, p. 137 [paragraph continues] asar, heru, apu, and hetepiu. the text which refers to the four gods and the nine serpents reads "saith the majesty of this great god to these gods--o ye who make yourselves to be standing up although p. 138 ye are seated, ye who are in motion although ye are at rest, ye whose soul

is each day; and the work which they do in the tuat is to overthrow the enemies of osiris" 2. twelve goddesses, whose names are- 1. perit. 2. shemat-khu. 3. nebt-shat. 4. nebt-shefsheft. 5. aat-aatet. 6. nebt-setau. 7. hent-nut-s. 8. nebt-mat. 9. tesert-ant. p. 198 10. aat-khu 11. sekhet-metu. 12. netert-en-khentet-ra. the text which refers to these reads "those who are in this picture with their bodies of the tuat are they who are in the forms which horus made. this great god crieth out to them after he hath arrived at the place where they are, and they come to life and they hear [his] voice. their work in the tuat is to raise the praises of osiris, and to embrace the hidden soul by means of their words and to bring life and strength to the risings of the god of the tuat [in whatsoever re

p-shet. ankhet. shen-ten-amm. click to view. aat-aru. nebt-uauau. nebt-rekeh. p. 202 [paragraph continues "the names of the uraei who kindle fires for the god who is the governor of the tuat by means of the fire which is in their mouths. they swallow their flames after this god hath passed by them" the text which refers to them reads "those who are in this picture [are] in the tuat [and they have bodies of fire, and it is they who lighten the, darkness in the tuat for [osiris. by means of the flames of fire which come forth from their mouths [and it is they who bring about the destruction p. 203 of] those who are overthrown in the tuat. it is they who drive back the serpents of every kind which are on the ground, and which are unknown in their forms to the god of the tuat. they make themse

h horus made-when this great god crieth out to them p. 223 click to view (left) amen-khu (center) her-sheta-taui (right) sem-heru. click to view (left) amen heru (center) khent-ast-f (right) khent-ment-f. p. 224 by their names, they unite themselves and come into life in the shades which are in the mouth of the great god, and their souls journey onwards in his train to the horizon. they strip the bodies of the dead of their swathings and break in pieces the bodies of the enemies [of ra, and they give the order for their destruction in the tuat" in the lower register are- 1. the god horus, hawk-headed and wearing a disk, leaning on a staff. click to view horus. 2. five 1 lakes of water, in each of which is submerged a male form; these figures are called the "submerged" 3. three 2 lakes of w

the god her-utu-f, holding a sceptre in his left hand, and the sign of "life" an ankh, in his right. the text reads: p. 253 click to view the pit of fire, ant-sekhetu. click to view (left) her-shau-s (center) rekhit (right) pesi. click to view (left) the god her-utu-f (right) sait. p. 254 [paragraph continues "the majesty of this god uttereth the decree [saying-'hack in pieces and cut asunder the bodies of the enemies and the members of the dead who have been turned upside down, o my father osiris. and let me come forth from it. my p. 255 father having [once] been helpless hath smitten you, he hath cut up your bodies, he hath hacked in pieces your spirits and your souls, and hath scattered in pieces your shadows, and hath cut in pieces your heads; ye shall never more exist, ye shall be ove

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

but after a different manner" in kether i am the one, the indivisible, but in malkuth that same one, which i am, appeareth as four and cometh into manifestation as the ten which returneth unto the one. but to enter the kingdom there must always be two, for the wheel turneth not but by the alternation of opposite forces. yet my kingdom of adonal is not the kingdom of this world's illusion; and the bodies of the servants of adonal must be freed from that illusion ere they may serve as transparent channels for the light which descendeth from above. the law of adonal is other than the laws of men; for in the laws of men hath entered confusion. this must needs be, since mankind still remaineth a work unfinished. yet be on guard, ye who seek to be numbered amongst the sons and daughters of the t

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

t the candles, sending the light to wherever your lover is. on the third day, leave the candles to burn down, allowing the wax from the two candles to merge* in the melded wax, cut the shape of a heart and on this scratch your entwined zodiacal glyphs. wrap the symbol in white silk and leave it on a window ledge from the waxing to the full moon. a candle ritual to heal the polluted seas and other bodies of water this is a ritual to be carried out after dusk. it also has the effect of clearing old hurts and regrets that can hold us back from experiencing joy. a wonderful selection of garden torches and candles are now available, that can be placed in the ground for working out of doors. as you are taking away pollution, work at the time of the waning moon. blue is the elemental colour of wa

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

igenous african religions, mbiti's remarks apply to older african understandings of the supernatural or nonmaterial world. the concept of force vitale, an omnipresent energy, has been articulated in diverse ways in traditional african cultures.as ashe, nommo, chi, and da. the power of this life force was believed to dwell within organic and inorganic objects, in the elements of nature, and in the bodies of all animate beings. through ritual, it was thought that human beings would be able to tap supernatural power for manifold purposes.[4] what came to be seen as "magic" for the africans who lived in\ 39\ america appears to have actually been a fusion of ideas that derived, in part, from older indigenous african religious concepts and the new world perspectives to which they were linked. th

professionals acquired methods that suggest affinities between african and european styles. one specialist called long hercules was said to have performed miracles for citizens in eighteenthcentury savannah, georgia. hercules, who was known locally as "doctor hercules" was renowned for his "remarkable conjurations" of "pigs feet" and "rattlesnakes teeth" that he was said to have removed from the bodies of "several sick people" a contemporary of long hercules was negro sampson, a practitioner in south carolina who frequently went about with "rattlesnakes in calabashes" which he would handle freely, putting them "into his pockets or bosom, and sometimes their heads into his mouth, without being bitten" beliefs surrounding snakes and rattlesnake fascination also had powerful occult overtones

ticles of spiritual potency, cloths and handkerchiefs embodied divine grace "my heart rejoiced and the power of god came upon me as i applied the cloth to my breast" read one account "i could feel the affected part being drawn, and when i applied the second cloth it completely left. i have not felt the hurting any more. i thank the lord for being healed"[41 "casting out" various ailments from the bodies of the sick was another practice that was widely utilized in the ministries of pentecostal faith healers. elder lucy smith, a preacher in depression-era chicago\ 111\ told how she once rebuked the "death demon" of a woman who was "past talking or seeing" the performance of this "work of deliverance" as such spiritual traditions came to be known, strongly resembled the ritual gestures of con

a woman who was "past talking or seeing" the performance of this "work of deliverance" as such spiritual traditions came to be known, strongly resembled the ritual gestures of conjurers, who made a common practice of extracting afflictions in the form of small animals or objects from their patients. similarly, pentecostal healers claimed power over diseases that they literally delivered from the bodies of the sick, which were sometimes manifested in visible malevolent tumors or growths.[42] some pentecostal healers personified the anomalous traits of supernatural practitioners. bishop mason, for example, was said to have been endowed with visions and remarkable gifts at an early age. during his ministry he had demonstrated such talents as "spiritual" writing and singing, and had once levi

elation, spiritualist practitioners addressed clients f concerns. some spiritualists embellished older conjuring techniques by utilizing the dramatic visual impact of miraculous healings. for instance, according to witnesses, mother catherine seals, a legendary spiritual leader in the early twentieth century, removed a black cat, a wasp's nest, and an assortment of other rustic creatures from the bodies of afflicted patients at her church in new orleans.[52] african american spiritualists also stimulated the advent of an active public economy of store-bought supernatural merchandise. spiritualists and their clients traded and sold amulets, accumulated charms, and created talismans in order to fend off evil forces and ensure the presence of positive spiritual forces. the most popular items

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

rdened into creamy, translucent jade in colors of lavender, green, and white. his blood trickled over the land to create large pools and swift rivers. his voice, even in its weakness, produced rolling thunder and crackling lightning. his dying breath formed blowing winds and puffy clouds. finally, released from his suffering, panku sobbed tears of gratitude which fell and created glittering, vast bodies of water that became the oceans. finally his work was over, and panku, the creator, was dead. in his place, he left a world that sparkled and twinkled with splashes of bright blues, vibrant greens, dusky browns, and clear, cold rushing waters. chinese mythology 20 questions and answers q: why was an egg a good symbol for the beginning of the world? a: many creatures are born from eggs, a sy

COSIMANO CHARLES ELEMENTARY PSIONICS

n forcing its driver to walk. just because the car isn't working doesn't mean the driver isn't. now it may very well be the case that over certain periods of time various transformations of the energy body may take place. in fact it is probably wisest to expect just that, for energy can be transformed, but we are not here concerned with that. what we are concerned with is the fact that the energy bodies of those who have gone on before still exist out there somewhere and that means the minds of those individuals continue to function. this should lead you to the obvious conclusion that if the etheric body of an individual can be used to impart some information to a rock or a hunk of metal or even a piece of paper (it used to be called writing, then it can be used to contact the dead. and in

ve finished the preliminary stuff, we can get down to the real fun, the part you all are curious about, radionics. of all the methods and techniques involved in psychic development, none has ever been more controversial. to those who use it, it is a fantastic tool. to those who hear about it with no experience, it sounds like utter nonsense. the idea that it is possible to influence the minds and bodies of other people by turning dials on a box, or even a modified radio, with in many cases, most in fact, no power other than the mind of the operator is hardly the stuff of rational discussion and most people on both sides get pretty irrational about the whole thing. if you don't believe me, just ask the family doctor and see how fast you can run! so, if you find the material that is going to

COVENANT OF SAMYAZA

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

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

t the alleged founders of the semitic race, shemjaza and yahweh, were among the extraterrestrial 'watchers' and 'shining ones'.12 an israeli scholar, zecharia sitchin, used the ancient sumerian and babylonian writings to support his belief that modern humans were created by ets called the nefilim.13 ufo abductees today have also spoken of communications with ets who described how they created the bodies of the present human race and manipulated our dna; there are many references by abductees to having sex with extraterrestrials while on a spacecraft. not all of these stories will be true, nor all the theories and details, but if you take note of the common themes, a picture starts to form. i believe that different extraterrestrial civilisations seeded the different races on earth and perha

rmation about that period to be made public without vilification or condemnation. as professor yehuda bauer, the chairman of the vidal sassoon centre for the study of anti-semitism, said "someone is misusing people's fears and obsessions and presenting things we know today did not happen".1 he was reacting to stories about 'human soap' which holocaust 'experts' have said the nazis made out of the bodies of jewish victims in the concentration camps. this has become an accepted 'fact, but professor bauer said there was no documentary evidence that any such thing took place. in the researching of this book, for the first time in my life i 118 t master races 119 stumbled across information which questions the official holocaust line. i was shocked, to be honest. i looked at it and i wrote it d

on, at the offices of the british eugenics society. you can see that while the names change and the rhetoric may be couched in terms deemed acceptable to public opinion at the time, we are looking at the same unwavering agenda, weaving its way through the decades and the generations. nazi germany was but its most famous example. global centralisation of power, fundamental control of the minds and bodies of the mass population, and the creation of a master race. these are the themes that span the centuries and they still dominate the secret agenda today, which is manipulating our lives. but how many people in this world believe they are racially superior to the rest? the number is so vast it doesn't bear thinking about. ironically, many of those who have suffered from the master race mental

the early 1960s and affected the thinking of many people, but it was as nothing compared with what will happen over the next 35 years. while it takes 2,000 years to pass fully through the belt, the biggest impact is when we first enter, and the vibrations and molecular structure of everything has to cope with dramatically changing conditions. this will affect the thinking, behaviour, and physical bodies of all lifeforms. we are now beginning to see the mainstream scientific community confirming phenomena long predicted by psychics and felt instinctively by sensitive people. cosmic rays of (in modern times) unprecedented power are being detected. normally the rays are measured in millions of electron volts, but scientists at the dugway proving grounds in utah, have measured cosmic rays with

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re they fought with local tribespeople in north america. their men were killed and the women went on to breed with the victors to form the bloodlines that became the mescalero apaches. hansen identified significant connections between the apaches and the peoples of north africa who also claimed descent from atlantis. the mescalero apache crown dance is performed with serpents painted all over the bodies of the participants. the chief wears a 13- pointed crown of the atlantean fire god, votan, and other key performers wear the trident headdress. the trident is the symbol of atlantis and lemuria. hansen established that the tuareg people in north africa, who claim to originate in atlantis, perform an identical dance. she also saw an ancient egyptian artefact that appeared to depict the very

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later inthe book.at the end of that 15 days of meeting person after person telling me the same story ofseeing humans become reptiles, i was sitting in the speakers room at a whole life expoevent in minneapolis where i was appearing and was chatting about these experienceswhen a gifted psychic lady said that she knew what i was talking about, because she couldsee the reptiles inside and around the bodies of leading world politicians, and thebusiness, banking and military elite. this was possible because, as someone who hadaccessed her psychic sight, she could see beyond the physical and into the lower fourthdimension where these reptilians reside. what did miguel de la madrid say to cathyobrien? the reptile-human bloodlines could fluctuate between a human and iguanaappearance through chamel

ries of history. people ask methe understandable question of why anyone would want to dedicate their lives to takingover a planet when they knew they were going to die long before it was achieved.answer: the consciousness controlling that body is only using it as an overcoat, aspace suit, until it wears out. when that happens, it possesses another one. these samereptilians have been occupying the bodies of all the main players in the conspiracy260going back to ancient times. theobsession with interbreedingwithin the brotherhoodbloodstreams comes from theneed to hold the reptilian geneticinheritance and thereforemaintain the vibrationalconnection between the humanbody on the third dimension andits controlling force on the lowerfourth. it was to hide this truththat they arranged for thedestr

ope, did the same. evidence of human sacrifice,especially children, can be found among all the main locations and peoples who arementioned in this book, including the palace of knossos on crete.4 the cult of the skullas a focus of ritual has recurred again and again in this story with the templars, therennes-le-chateau mystery, and the skull and bones society in the united states. byexamining the bodies of peking man, dating from perhaps a million years ago, andneanderthal man, dating from about 200,000 years ago, evidence of such rituals can befound even at these early times. the cult of the head, which included eating the brain ofthe victim, became more elaborate in jericho some eight thousand years ago andevidence of the same rituals have been found in the shinto religion in japan and i

issionedhuman sacrifice in a black mass in the 16th century. a young boy was sacrificed andthe blood used in a communion designed to save her dying son, philip.22 medici worearound her neck a talisman with the name of the satanic demon, asmodei.23 benjaminfranklin, a so-called pillar of the christian church and founding father of the unitedstates, was a member of the satanic hellfire club and the bodies of six children andfour adults have been found under his former home in london dated to the time helived there. adolf hitler and the nazis were satanists and so were their opponents likewinston churchill and franklin delano roosevelt. the rothschilds, formerly theinfamous german occult family, the bauers, apparently use the canaanite satanicrituals24 while some of the bloodline families wit

right, a movement which meansyoure dead. the blood from the victims is collected and mixed with arsenic, whichappears to be a necessary element for those of the human-reptilian bloodlines. this ispoured into goblets and consumed by the satanists, together with the liver and eyes.this is supposed to provide strength and greater psychic vision. fat is scraped from theintestines and smeared over the bodies of the participants- like the fat of the messehin ancient egypt. the corpse is then suspended from a tree and the satanists standnaked to allow the dripping blood to fall on them. the mother goddess says that by this304time the participants are in such a high state of excitement that they often shape-shiftinto reptilians and mostly manifest, she says, in a sort of off-white colour. they are

ine hill on her first official visit to europe after her appointment. capitol hill isnot a political building, it is a temple to the satanic brotherhood and underneath its stpauls dome is a crypt room. beneath the floor of the crypt, marked by a pentagramstar, is a vacant tomb. they say this was meant for george washington, who decided tobe buried elsewhere, but there is more to it than that. the bodies of kennedy, lincoln,mckinley, garfield, harding, taft, hoover, wilson, stevens, dewey, pershing,macarthur, uenfant and two unknown soldiers have all been placed on the catafalquefound in the tomb.7 a catafalque for those, like me, who had never heard the word, isthe structure on which the body is carried during a funeral procession or placed on forlying in state. the same format of a tomb u

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e entities need only be made, however, in the symbolic marriage to the "forces of darkness" and the male practitioner should not fear calling both male and female beings into his body. as a spiritual being, the sorcerer is neither male nor female. only in the form which his physical body has taken is sex a consideration. through transmigration of the spirit, the sorcerer may choose incarnation in bodies of various races and sex. many spirits and demons also choose to take male and female forms. for example, astaroth (a male demon) is also ishtar (a female demoness, originally the goddess of babylon. the devil has been personified in art and in literature as an androgenous being, with both the breasts of a woman and the erect penis of a man. to attain union with the "forces of darkness, the

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generally of primitive cultures around the world. key features include animism, possession, soul travel, oracular revelations, and shape changing or shape shifting (q.v. shape shifting: the magickal ability to assume the forms of beasts or other human beings with the soul while it is astrally projected from the body. occasionally these altered shapes are seen by other people, who mistake them for bodies of flesh. shechinah: pronounced "sheh-kehn-ah" it is the hebrew for the personification of the energy known as ruach eloheem (q.v. it is seen as feminine in nature. similar to the tantrik notion of shakti (q.v. sheeol: pronounced "shee-ool" it is the hebrew for "place of the earth" a word from the old testament meaning ground or earth. in some instances it was translated as "hell" probably

eelings, it's thoughts, impulses, memories, and sense of self, i.e. awareness. the astral star teaches that we do not have things called souls, but rather, we are souls. spirit: 1) the highest level of the psyche (q.v. 2) the fifth magickal element (q.v) or other being which is disembodied by nature. 3) self aware beings that lack a living, material body. some spirits have the power to borrow the bodies of mortal men and women, and use them as their own. 4) in spiritualism/ spiritism (q.v, a disembodied human soul. spirit, human: the vitalizing energy that burns within each individual and is one with the divine radiance. spiritism: french equivalent to the spiritualism of england and america. thanks to the writings of the french occultist, allan kardec (1804-1869, it had an immense influen

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modern philosophy, but we are forced to admit that the causative force behind manifestation is more akin in its nature to mind than to matter. to go a step further and personify the different types of force is a legitimate analogy, provided we realise that the entity which is the soul of the force may differ as much in kind and degree from our minds as our bodies differ in type and scale from the bodies of the planets. we shall be nearer an understanding of nature if we look for mind in the background than if we refuse to admit that the visible universe has an invisible framework. the ether of the physicists is closer akin to mind than to matter; time and space, as understood by the modern philosopher, are more like modes of consciousness than linear measures. 19. the initiates of the anci

sciously aware of this to a greater degree than they will admit; it is not for nothing that a ship is "she" and that we speak of "father thames" a savage, then, feeling this life behind phenomena, tries to get into touch with it in order that he may come to terms with it. as he obviously cannot hope to conquer it, he must make terms with it, just as he would with other alien lives ensouled in the bodies of another tribe. in order to come to terms there must be a parley. one cannot make terms with persons who will not parley. the savage thinks, reasoning by his own primitive method of analogy, that the beings behind the phenomena dwell in a kingdom similar to that in which his own dream-life goes on; as daydreams are close akin to the dreams of sleep, and have the advantage of being inducib

o monastic orders and undertake parish, and especially home mission, work as part of their service. these monks frequently bring to the working of the mass a very high degree of magical power, as any psychic can testify. it is the ensouling of an astral form with spiritual force which is the real act of transub tantiation. it is in the knowledge of these things, and in the possession of organised bodies of men and women trained in their use in the encloistered orders, that the strength of the one catholic and apostolic church lies; it is the lack of any such inner knowledge which is the weakness of the schismatic communions, a lack that makes the anglican rituals, even when worked with full ceremonial, as water unto wine when compared with the roman rituals; for the men who work them have

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count, but for the victim of an occult attack to go into the depths of the country may not be the wisest thing, because elemental forces are much more potent away from towns, and if he is threatened by an uprush of atavistic forces, he had better cling to the haunts of men. the sea, too, is an elemental force that is best avoided, for water is an element intimately associated with psychism. large bodies of water and high mountains should be avoided in choosing a health resort for a person suffering from psychic trouble. the best place is an inland spa. games, physical training, massage, anything that improves the bodily condition, are invaluable, but long solitary walks should be avoided because there is often a risk of suicide. the person who is the victim of an occult attack should at al

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or any length of time, more especially if their look denotes anger" pliny recorded several details concerning this type of person. he wrote that the pupils of their eyes are double. the same was reported about a certain tribe in scythia known as the bythiae, and a tribe in pontus called the thibii. sometimes the pupils in the eyes of the thibii resembled the shape of a horse. it was said that the bodies of members of this tribe possessing the evil eye would not sink in water, not even when they were weighed down by the sodden mass of their clothing. it was common to refer to those accused of having the evil eye as witches. one of the trials used to test a witch during the middle ages and renaissance was to throw her into water and watch to see whether or not the accused witch sank. if the

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- miracles are more often associated with saints than sinners, even when no prayer or action has been taken to induce them. indeed, holy men are to miracles what adolescent children are to poltergeist activity. they seem to act as facilitators of the wondrous events without conscious intention. this is most obvious in the case of stigmata, the spontaneous appearance of the wounds of christ on the bodies of devout religious believers. levitation and the appearance of glories or halos around the head or upper body are also common. the chronicle of christian miracles is overwhelming in it number and variety. only a few brief examples may be cited here. those interested in the subject should consult the 19th century text a dictionary of miracles by the reverend e. cobham brewer, an excellent c

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ve special access to occult knowledge, and sometimes they were called back from beyond the grave to teach the necromancer techniques of magic not available by any other means, techniques acquired in the afterlife. it was believed that the shades of the dead were attracted to freshly-spilled blood, because blood was one of the primary repositories of vital energy in the body. since the dead lacked bodies of flesh, the thinking went, they must lack vitality and therefore be weak. hence their pale appearance when they were seen as ghosts. if fresh blood was spilled while still warm on the ground, or better still into a pit, or even better still into the opening of the grave, its energy would attract shades, who would then seek to nourish themselves upon on. the reason it was better to spill b

often in the near vicinity of graveyards, where they procured the materials for plying their trade. they were only sought out by those who desperately needed information that could not be obtained in normal ways, and were handsomely paid for their services. not only graveyards, but gibbets and battlefields were popular haunts for necromancers. a gibbet is a structure like a gallows from which the bodies of executed criminals were hung until they rotted, were pulled apart by crows and ravens, and fell to the ground. beneath a gibbet, which was usually on a road removed at some distance from the town since rotting corpses stink, the necromancer might expect to harvest many useful bones. if he or she was more bold, parts of the corpse such as the hands would be cut off with flesh, fat and ski

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g, especially things that seem bizarre or destructive or just plain disgusting, we are probably being possessed by some low spirit that is amusing itself at our expense. this possession is made much easier when we are under the influence of alcohol or drugs, which tend to weaken our will. almost all the horrible, shocking and pointless crime in the world is committed by low spirits possessing the bodies of human beings. remember back to the last time you did something during sex for which you will be ashamed for the rest of your life- you were almost certainly possessed at the time. during this type of possession, our consciousness is made passive in exactly the same way it is subdued during hypnosis. however, it is the lower spirit who gives us suggestions rather than a hypnotist. there i

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he xxvith dynasty, the chapters were arranged in a definite order. it is commonly written in hieroglyphics and in hieratic, and it was much used from the xxvith dynasty to the end of the ptolemaic period. early forms of the book of the dead. the book of the dead. the earliest inscribed monuments and human remains found in egypt prove that the ancient egyptians took the utmost care to preserve the bodies of their p. xi dead by various processes of embalming. the deposit of the body in the tomb was accompanied by ceremonies of a symbolic nature, in the course of which certain compositions comprising prayers, short litanies, etc, having reference to the future life, were recited or chanted by priests and relatives on behalf of the dead. the greatest importance was attached to such composition

being painted red as is usual in older papyri. in the gr co-roman period both texts and vignettes are very carelessly executed, and it is evident that they were written and drawn by ignorant workmen in the quickest and most careless way possible. in this period also certain passages of the text were copied in hieratic and demotic upon small pieces of papyri which were buried with portions of the bodies of the dead, and upon narrow bandages of coarse linen in which they were swathed. p. xlviii next: the legend of osiris. the versions of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (36 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:57 am] sacred texts egypt index previous next the legend of osiris. the main features of the egyptian religion constant. the chief features of the egyptian relig

iith dynasty from a moral as well as from a physical point of view.[6] apep, the emblem of evil, was here punished and overcome, and here dwelt the souls of the wicked and the righteous, who received their punishments or rewards, meted out to them by the decree of ra and his company of gods. the chief instruments of punishment employed by the gods were fire and beasts which devoured the souls and bodies of the enemies [1. see below, p. 258. 2. naville, todtenbuch, bd. i, bl. 49. 3. lepsius, todtenbuch, bl. 17. 4. naville, todtenbuch, bd. i, bl. 184. 5. see maspero, les hypog es royaux de th bes, p. 76. 6. see lef bure, book of hades (records of the past, vol. x, p. 84] p. cxxxi traditions about hell preserved in coptic times. of ra; and we may see from the literature of the copts, or egypt

ntaires au livre des morts, p. 182 ff; and by birch, proc. soc. bibl. arch, 1885, p. plates v. and vi. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod17.htm (10 of 12 [8/10/2001 11:26:43 am] 84 f [chapter ib" homage to thee,[1] o thou who livest in set-sert of amenta. osiris the scribe nekht-amen, triumphant, knoweth thy name. deliver thou him from the worms which are in re-stau, and which feed upon the bodies of men and drink their blood. osiris, the favoured one of his divine city, the royal scribe nekht-amen, triumphant, is known unto you [ye worms] and he knoweth your names. this is the first bidding of osiris, the lord of all, who hath completed all his hidden works 'give thou breath [unto them] who fear those who are in the bight of the stream of amenta' he hath ordered the plans of. his th

rd of the great house, prince, life, strength and health of all the gods, deliver thou [me] from the god whose face is like unto that of a dog, whose brows are as those of a man, and who feedeth upon the dead, who watcheth [1. many papyri read "nefer-tmu, son of bast, and the tchatcha" 2. or instruments of death. 3. i.e, the "oppressor] p. 289 at the bight of the fiery lake, and who devoureth the bodies of the dead and swalloweth hearts, and who shooteth forth filth, but he himself remaineth unseen" who then is this "devourer for millions of years" is his name, and he dwelleth in the lake of unt.[1] as concerning the fiery lake, it is that which is in anrutf, hard by the shenit chamber. the unclean man who would walk thereover doth fall down among the knives; or (as others say, his name is

iny, who cometh forth by night, and doth fetter the fiend in his lair; may her hands be given to the still-heart in his hour, and may she make him to advance and come forth unto her. she judgeth the feeble swathed one" the sixteenth pylon. saith osiris, when he cometh unto this pylon "lo, the terrible one, the lady of the rain storm, who planteth ruin in the souls of men, the devourer of the dead bodies of mankind, the orderer and creator of slaughters, who cometh forth. she judgeth the feeble swathed one" the seventeenth pylon "lo, the hewer-in-pieces in blood. the lady of flame. she judgeth the feeble swathed one" the eighteenth pylon "lo, the lover of fire, the purifier of sinners, the lover of slaughter, the chief of those who adore, the lady of the temple, the slaughterer of the fiend

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rgans, also raise questions of the purpose of the body probing. what is to be gained? also, the stories, while supported by their consistency, are quite free of independent supporting evidence. in many cases, related to accounts of incidents far in the past, evidence may have been lost. but over all, there has been little collaboration. some hoped for supporting evidence in items implanted in the bodies of contactees, but such foreign items discovered in abductees bodies have proved to be purely mundane in nature. the lack of supporting evidence for the tales again emphasized the similarity of abduction and satanic abuse stories. others, both supportive and critical of the abductees, have adopted alternate interpretations. some ufo debunkers, led by tradition critic philip klass, have dism

hey place on the record that god has par- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. angels 53 doned him. the siamese, besides holding the difference of sex, imagine angels have offspring; but their beliefs concerning the government of the world and the guardianship of the human race are similar to those of other nations. the christian fathers, for the most part, believed angels possessed bodies of heavenly substance (tertullian calls it angelified flesh, and, if not, they could assume a corporeal presence at their pleasure. in fact, all the actions recorded of angels in scripture imply human bodies and attributes. some theosophists regard angels as related to fairy life, part of the devic kingdom (from the sanskrit term deva, or divine being. reports of encounters with visitors fr

land. the same story is found in the origines of isodore. must we seek, says pierre lebrun, author of critical history of superstitious practices (1702, the source of this calumny of irish earth? no; for it is sufficient to say that it is a fable, and that many bees are to be found in ireland. there are many ancient superstitions about bees. in biblical times they were thought to originate in the bodies of dead cattle, hence the riddle by samson in judges 14:8, out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. in fact, the skeletonized rib cage skeleton of dead cattle provided a natural beehive. in egyptian mythology, bees arose from the tears of the sun god ra, while a breton superstition said they came from the tears of christ on the cross. in hindu mythology

london into the early years of the twentieth century. beyond reality (magazine) american newsstand magazine published six times per year during the 1970s and 1980s. it carried articles covering the range of psychic and occult topics as well as such diverse subjects as atlantis, time travel, and ufos. bezoar a red precious stone that was supposed to possess magical properties and was found in the bodies of certain animals. at one time these stones fetched ten times their weight in gold as a remedy against poison and contagion; and for this purpose they were taken both internally and worn round the neck. there were said to be nine varieties of bezoar that differed greatly in composition but were generally divided into those composed mainly from minerals and those composed of organic matter

, fungi, and fruits, such as the fatal manchineel, pulverized flint, impure ashes, and human blood. amulets and talismans were made of the skins of criminals wrought from the skulls of hanged men, ornaments rifled from corpses and thus of special virtue, or the pared nails of an executed thief. to make themselves invisible, it is said that sorcerers used an unguent compounded from the incinerated bodies of newborn infants mixed with the blood of nightbirds. for personal preparation, the sorceror fasted for 15 days, then got drunk every five days, after sundown, on wine in which poppies and hemp had been steeped. for the actual rites the light came from candles made from the fat of corpses and fashioned in the form of a cross; the bowls were made from skulls, those of parricides being of gr

and actions of such beings could have an important bearing on various theological conclusions concerning the nature of the afterlife. calmet thought it necessary to establish the veracity of such reports and to understand the phenomena in light of the church s world view. calmet finished his work a short time after the sorbonne roundly condemned the reports and, especially, the desecration of the bodies of people believed to be vampires. calmet defined a vampire as a person who had been dead and buried and then returned from the grave to disturb the living by sucking their blood and even causing death. the only remedy for vampirism was to dig up the body of the vampire and either sever its head and drive a stake through the chest or burn the body. using that definition, calmet collected as

. nevins observes, volumes might be written upon the gods, genii and familiar spirits supposed to be continually in communication with this people. the chinese have a large number of books upon this subject, among the most noted of which is the liau-chaichei, a large work of sixteen volumes. tu sein signifies a spirit in the body, and there are a class of familiar spirits supposed to dwell in the bodies of certain chinese who became the mediums of communication with the unseen world. individuals said to be possessed by these spirits are visited by multitudes, particularly those who have lost recently relatives by death, and wish to converse with them. remarkable disclosures and revelations are believed to be made by the involuntary move- children of the night encyclopedia of occultism& par

principal deities. the bird appeared to the american primitive as a spirit, in all probability under the spell of some potent enchanter. a spell that might be broken only by some great sorcerer or medicine man. as among the ancient romans, the birds of america were divided into those of good and evil omen, and certain brazilian tribes apparently thought the souls of dead indians entered into the bodies of birds. the shamans of certain tribes of paraguay acted as go-betweens for the members of their tribes and such birds as they imagined enshrined the souls of their departed relatives. this usage would appear to combine the acts of divination and necromancy. the priesthood of peru practiced oracular methods by making idols speak, and this they probably accomplished through ventriloquial ar

ght: all living beings have in their nervous systems cells with retractile branching processes which correspond to the movable condensers in wireless sets and, in addition, the cells of the body are capable of self-induction (on the same principle as wireless) through coiled structures in the nucleus. it is through encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. divining rod 431 these that the bodies of men and animals are capable of tuning into the various wavelengths emitted by other people, by other living things, and even by water, minerals and oil. the muscles are supplied by two sets of nerves, viz (1) from the cerebro spinal system which controls the voluntary movement of the muscles (2) the sympathetic nervous system which controls tension of the muscles both voluntary and invol

leave the garments lying about the floor. these not long after disappeared. nichols s descriptions of eglinton s open-air materializations in his garden, related in the appendix to epes sargent s the scientific basis of spiritualism (1881, are among the most extraordinary accounts in the history of spiritualism. in one he relates that, mr. eglinton lay on a garden bench in plain sight. we saw the bodies of four visitors form themselves from a cloud of white vapour and then walk about, robed all in purest white, upon the lawn where no deception was possible. one of them walked quite around us, as we sat in our chairs on the grass, talking as familiarly as any friend [and] took my hat from my head, put it on his own, and walked off with it where the medium was lying; then he came and put it

orcism and necromantic practice. the priestly caste who compiled those necromantic works was known as kerheb, or scribes of the divine writings even the sons of pharaohs did not disdain to enter their ranks. the ritual of egyptian magic the ritual of egyptian magic possessed many strong similarities to the ceremonial practices of other systems and countries. wax figures were used to represent the bodies of persons to be bewitched or harmed. models of all kinds indicated the belief that the physical force directed against them might injure the person or animal they represented. but the principal rite in which ceremonial magic was employed was the very elaborate one of mummification. as each bandage was laid in its exact position, certain words of power were uttered that were supposed to hel

according to late accounts, his functions were comparatively simple, for the human body had been divided into thirty-six parts, each presided over by a certain demon, and it sufficed to invoke the demon of the part affected in order to bring about its cure.a view of matters fundamentally egyptian. in the book of the dead we find that different divinities were responsible for the well-being of the bodies of the blessed; thus nu had charge of the hair, ra of the face, hathor of the eyes, apuat of the ears, anubis of the lips, while thoth was guardian of all parts of the body together. this doctrine was subsequently applied to the living body, with the difference that for the great gods named in the book of the dead there were substituted as gods of healing the presiding deities of the thirty

would be only one kingdom in existence at a time. also, in each kingdom the souls of the bodies that inhabit it differ from those of the other kingdoms. in the seventh kingdom, that of man, each individual has a soul. in the animal kingdom, on the contrary, one soul is distributed among different bodies, the number of which varies with the state of evolution. to one soul may be allotted countless bodies of a low type of development, but as the development increases the soul comes to have fewer bodies allotted to it until in the kingdom of man there is only one. sources: clodd, clara m. the ageless wisdom of life. adyar, india: theosophical publishing house, 1956. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. evolution of life 527 introductory study course in theosophy. wheaton, ill: t

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house. the spirits of those who died a violent death haunted the scene of their fatality. like the ancient mexicans (see ciupipiltin, the burmese had a great dread of the ghosts of women who died in childbirth. the kachins believed such women to turn into vampires (swawmx) who were accompanied by their children when these died with them. the spirits of children were often supposed to inhabit the bodies of cats and dogs. the burmans were extremely circumspect as to how they spoke and acted towards the inhabitants of the spirit world, as they believed that disrespect or mockery would at once bring down upon them misfortune or disease. an infinite number of guardian spirits were included in the burmese demonological system, and these were chiefly supposed to be brahmanic importations. these

n beings in the form of certain national spiritualist association of churches encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1092 faculties, while those in the astral world are engaged in the creation of form out of the matter that the outpouring of the logos has quickened, hence they form minerals, flowers, and other aspects of nature. these nature spirits of the astral worlds of course have bodies of astral matter, and they frequently form mischievous or other impulses and change the appearance of these bodies. they are just beyond the limits of normal human vision, but many sensitives of more acute vision can see them, while the action of drugs is also believed to make them visible (see also elementary spirits; fairies) nayler, james (ca. 1617.1660) an english religious leader of th

y as soon as born but even when conceived, and so it happens that, through the ministrations of these demons, sorcerers have been seen with two pupils in each eye, while others had the picture of a horse in one eye and two pupils in the other, and such serve as marks and badges of contracts made with them, for these demons can engrave and render in effigy such or similar lines and features on the bodies of the very young embryo. jacques fontaine writes, these marks are not engraved on the bodies of sorcerers by the demons for recognition purposes only, as the captains of companies of light-horse know those of their number by the colour of their coats, but to imitate the creator of all things, to show his power and the authority he has gained over those miserable beings who have allowed the

nformation network in rome, ohio. the paigoels according to nathaniel e. kindersley, these were devils of hindustan mythology. some of the hindus believed that the paigoels were originally created devils; other believed they were individuals put out of heaven because of their great sin. some of these devils had individual names and were the tempters of men to special sins; others entered into the bodies of men and took possession of them. it was also believed that the souls of wicked men joined the paigoels. sources: kindersley, nathaniel e. specimens of hindoo literature. n.p, 1794. palingenesy a term employed by the philosophers of the seventeenth century to denote the resurrection of plants, and the method of achieving their astral appearance after destruction. the roman poet/philosophe

bate. eventually kardec s journal was sufficiently successful to overwhelm la revue spiritualiste, which was discontinued during the 1860s. it was revived in 1870 under the title concile de la libre pensee, but in 1873 it was suppressed under pressure generated by clerical authorities. among the ideas pierart advocated was a form of psychic vampirism. he though vampires were the ghostly or astral bodies of deceased persons which vampirized the living to keep their physical bodies (still in graves) vitalized. his idea would explain why some bodies that were later dug up showed signs of life. sources: rogo, scott. in-depth analysis of the vampire legend. fate 21, no. 9 (september 1968: 77. pierrakos, eva (1915.1979) eva pierrakos, a psychic channel who developed a system of spiritual develop

d dwarfs. one group of natives in fact declared to a missionary that they had caught a mermaid, who had married a certain native, and that the pair had several children. but unfortunately, stated the storyteller, i could never get to see them. another tradition connected to the polynesian belief in magic, noted by the europeans, was the practice of tattooing. the practice is represented widely in bodies of mythology, as being connected to the people s process of migration. like many other races, the polynesians used to work themselves into a great state of terror whenever an eclipse took place, and during the phenomenon they beat drums, shouted, and invoked their gods. in samoa, magic was not practiced to such an extent as in other melanesian groups, the magician being much more sophistica

at the force be termed psychic force; the persons to whom it is manifested in extraordinary power psychics; and the science relating to it psychism as being a branch of psychology. later he added: the theory of psychic force is in itself merely the recognition of the fact that under certain conditions, as yet but imperfectly ascertained, and within limited, but as yet undefined, distance from the bodies of certain persons having a special nerve organisation, a force operates by which, without muscular contact or connection, action at a distance is caused, and visible motions and audible sounds are produced in solid substances. the speculation of the existence of a nervous atmosphere to which cox alluded was expounded by dr. benjamin w. richardson in the medical times, on may 6, 1871. as it

r s. she releases it at the end of the seance by similar movements, but in a reverse direction. on the basis of his observations in the goligher circle, w. j. crawford elaborated a more precise theory of psychic force: operators are acting on the brains of the sitters and thence on their nervous systems. small particles, it may even be molecules, are driven off the nervous system, out through the bodies of the sitters at wrists, hands, fingers, or elsewhere. these small particles, now free, have a considerable amount of latent energy inherent in them, an energy which can react on any human nervous system with which they come into contact. this stream of energized particles flows round the circle, probably partly on the periphery of their bodies. the stream, by gradual augmentation from the

a generator [that can] transmit information regardless of distance. last known address: house 1, block b, apt. 60, pl. poebody, 12193 moscow, russia, commonwealth of independent states. psylli a class of persons in ancient italy who had the power of charming serpents. this name was also given by various writers to the snake charmers of africa, and it is claimed that the serpents twisted round the bodies of these psylli without doing them any injury, although the reptiles did not have their fangs extracted or broken. in kahira, when a viper entered a house, the charmer was sent for, and he enticed it out by the use of certain words. at other times, music was used, and it is believed that the serpents understood what was said to them by the snake charmers, and they acted with complete obedie

had been with them and had carried them away, they were again carried by force, either to blockula or the crossway, and there beaten, insomuch that some of them died of it, and this some of the witches confessed, and added, that now they were exceedingly troubled and tortured in their minds for it. one thing was lacking to confirm these confessions: the marks of the whip could not be found on the bodies of the victims, except on one boy, who had some wounds and holes in his back that were given him with thorns; but the witches said they would quickly vanish. as described in the court records, the mysterious blockula was situated in a large meadow, like a plain sea, wherein you can see no end. the house they met at had a great gate painted with many different colors. through this gate they

: a history of the neihardt psychokinesis experiments, 1961.1981. metuchen, n.j: scarecrow press, 1982. richmond, kenneth. evidence of identity. london: g. bell, 1939. stemman, roy. spirits and spirit worlds. london: aldus books, 1975. reprint, garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1976. sea phantoms and superstitions sailors in general are often superstitious, as are fishermen and others who live by deep bodies of water. the old songs of the outer hebrides off the coast of scotland are full of wizardry, with figures in some of the old sea shanties as well. the novelist captain frederick marryat (1792.1848, who understood sailors as few others have, testified repeatedly to their firm belief in the supernatural. he is the not only author who has dealt with this subject: coleridge also touched on the

gs, an individual was described as a triune being: body, soul, and spirit. according to this concept, the soul is just as much an envelope, animated by the spirit, as the physical body is an envelope for the soul. at death the soul withdraws and continues to function in the spiritual world. astral body and soul are almost equivalent terms. some occult and eastern teachings, however, speak of five bodies of differing degrees of refinement that will be cast away in time just as the physical body is left behind. in his book man and the universe (1908, sir oliver lodge defined the soul and ego as. that controlling and guiding principle which is responsible for our personal expression and for the construction of the body, under the restrictions of physical condition and ancestry. in its higher

als of scourging, wounds on the shoulder and side, the bruising of the wrists (where christ was bound with cords, and marks on the mouth (paralleling the effect of the sponge soaked in vinegar. the most dangerous stigma is the ferita or heart wound, which under normal circumstances can cause death. there have been hundreds of cases of stigmata over the last two thousand years, many of them on the bodies of women. in spite of some actual or suspected frauds, most of these cases seem genuine, and some individuals bearing stigmata have been canonized or beatified by the roman catholic church. in those cases, the stigmata was one of many criteria used to determine canonization and church authorities have never used belief in stigmatization as a mark of holiness. some people believe the apostle

EVIL AND UNCLEAN SPIRITS

whose colors are black and brown. its form is like an awful beast, similar to a hippopotamus or elephant but crushed flat as though their skin were spread out flat over the body of a gigantic beetle or cockroach; yet it has vast strength, for k. wrymycn (nashimiron: whose colors are of a stagnant, gleaming, watery line whose forms are like hideous women, almost similar to skeletons united to the bodies of serpents and fishes, for l. in the midst of the circle are placed lams and admca. the symbolic form of the former is somewhat like that of the devil of the tarot, but colossal and attenuated; the form is of a bloated bestial man, in a crouching position. at the southwest corner are placed the evil adam, a goat-headed skeleton-like giant, and the thousand-headed 7 hydra serpent, and the e

mkj and hnyb. unto rtk is attributed laytrk (kerthiel, which meaneth "cut off from god (see ps. xxxvii.34" and the symbolic form is that of black, evil giants. also to rtk belong the laymwat or laymwt the thamiel or twin-headed ones, and their forms are as dual giant heads with bat-like wings attached thereto. they have no bodies, for they are those who seek continually to unite themselves to the bodies of other beings and forms. unto hmkj are referred the dukes of esau and the laygwu (also with laybkuk kokbiel and layku) and these attach themselves unto lying and material appearances, and their form is like that of the black evil giants with loathsome serpents twined about them. unto hnyb are referred the laysarh, horasael, or layrts, satariel, the concealers and the destroyers, whose for

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

(bettmann/corbis) have arrived over land and to safety. because they were over the bahamas, however, flying northward only put them over the ocean. with weather conditions deteriorating rapidly, their radio contact with land, already sporadic, grew ever more difficult. meanwhile, amid growing alarm about the planes situation, a dumbo flying boat a large rescue aircraft built for flight over large bodies of water was dispatched from a seaplane base in miami and sent on a blind search. soon other planes joined it and flew through the ever more turbulent weather. one of them, a martin mariner, also disappeared. none of the missing craft were ever found. the navy s investigation determined that taylor s confusion about his location, coupled with dangerous air and sea conditions, caused the pla

ts title, donald e. keyhoe s paperback the flying saucers are real, saw print, the occupants of the vehicles keyhoe believed them to be peaceable extraterrestrials who deliberately refrained from contact could only be speculated about. another book published that same year, frank scully s behind the flying saucers, asserted that the u.s. government had recovered crashed spacecraft, containing the bodies of little men dressed in the style of the 1890s and believed to be from venus (subsequent investigations determined that two veteran confidence artists had concocted these tales in order to peddle bogus oil-detection devices tied to advanced extraterrestrial technology) scully s notorious book had the effect of leading some early ufologists as opposed to the saucerians who embraced the cont

lucid dreams than they did via channeling. see also: abductions by ufos; channeling; contactees; keel, john alva; sprinkle, ronald leo further reading clark, jerome, 1986. waiting for the space brothers. fate pt. i. 39, 3 (march: 47 54; pt. ii. 39, 4 (april: 81 87; pt. iii. 39, 5 (may: 68 76. owen, ron, 2000. private communication to jerome clark (january 6. dead extraterrestrials claims that the bodies of extraterrestrials have been found in the wreckage of spacecraft are older than the post world war ii ufo age. as long ago as 1864, a french newspaper (la pays, june 17) reported the discovery, by two american geologists, of a hollow, egg-shaped rock. inside it were various odd artifacts. they also found the mummified remains of a tiny humanoid about three feet tall with a bald head and a

in dayton, ohio, he had spoken with an old friend, an air force man. the friend, in coral lorenzen s words, showed him space suits ranging from three to about five and a half feet in height and diagrams of a circular ship that bore a strong resemblance to a flying saucer. he said that people who laughed about flying saucers were going to get a big jolt some day these suits had been taken off the bodies of men who had apparently perished in the crash of their saucer-shaped ships (lorenzen, 1962. 82 dead extraterrestrials on may 7, 1955, a caracas, venezuela, newspaper, el universal, carried a sensational story of an incident supposed to have taken place almost exactly five years earlier. a man claimed that while driving down a rural highway in argentina, he spotted a flying saucer that had

y 7, 1955, a caracas, venezuela, newspaper, el universal, carried a sensational story of an incident supposed to have taken place almost exactly five years earlier. a man claimed that while driving down a rural highway in argentina, he spotted a flying saucer that had landed on the side of the road. curious, he stopped his car, approached the craft, and eventually boarded it. inside, he found the bodies of three little men lying near an instrument panel. after touching one, he panicked and fled, to return the next day to see ufos hovering over the site. where the original craft had been there was only a pile of warm, gray ashes. years later, a retrospective investigation by argentine ufologists determined that the witness had made up the story. more intriguing was an account given in confi

ize r charles berlitz, would be only the first of many books to address the subject. as inve stigators spoke with a growing number of informants, military and civilian, they established that a cove r- u p, maintained in part by the threatening of witnesses, had been put into place and that the official story was not the real story. some witnesses even assert e d that the military had re c ove red bodies of little men at either the original crash site or a n o t h e r, related one some miles away. in time, the ro s well incident, as eve ryo n e called it, was no longer an arcane fascination of ufologists but a much-discussed item of pop culture, influencing any number of television shows, documentaries, movies, jokes, and more. after years of denying that the air force had covered up the ro

humans for the great geophysical and spiritual changes that will be coming soon. dual reference also is somewhat comparable to the notion of walk-ins, popularized by occult writer ruth montgomery, except that walk-ins are not always (though they are sometimes) extraterrestrials. moreover, they are so intellectually and spiritually advanced that they only take up oc- 88 divine fire cupancy of the bodies of grown adults, so as not to waste valuable time. nyman writes, we strongly suspect that the feeling of dual reference. is unconsciously present in all [abduction] experiencers (nyman, 1989. most investigators of the abduction phenomenon disagree, and indeed when nyman presented his ideas at a 1992 conference held at the massachusetts institute of technology, some questioners accused him o

ar further reading bryant, alice, and linda seebach, 1991. healing shattered reality: understanding contactee trauma. tigard, or: wildflower press. extraterrestrial biological entities according to a body of modern folklore, the united states government has established secret contact with space people, whom it calls extraterrestrial biological entities, or ebes (ee-buhs. it also has retrieved the bodies of dead ebes from crashed ufos such as the one that came down near roswell, new mexico, in early july 1947. such rumors have been in circulation since the earliest days of the ufo controversy, which began with a sighting by private pilot kenneth arnold of nine flying saucers over mount rainier, washington, on june 24, 1947. one of the first rumors alleged that a giant spacecraft landed not

r speculation tied to possible visitors fro m other planets, the houston po s t published a letter from john leander of el campo, te x a s. leander related the story of a local man, i d e n t i fied only as mr. oleson, an elderly, ret i red sailor who once served on danish ve ssels. ac c o rding to leander, in se p t e m b e r 1862 oleson had witnessed the crash of a mysterious craft and seen the bodies of the giant beings who had flown it. at the time the incident took place, oleson was serving as mate on the brig christine on the indian ocean. a furious storm erupted and raged for hours until, finally, a wave washed over the ship, and oleson and five companions were swept onto a small, rocky island. all were injured, and one soon died. the island was devoid of life, and the men resigned

duced had been the size of a battleship, lay in a shapeless mass, revealing little except that the craft had had four large wings. there were things that looked like tools and furniture, evidently from the ship s interior, and the men opened boxes covered with unusual characters. inside the boxes, they uncovered nourishing food. but their horror was intensified, leander wrote, when they found the bodies of more than a dozen men dressed in garments of strange fashion and texture. the bodies were a dark bronze color, but the strangest feature of all was the immense size of the men. they had no means of measuring their bodies, but estimated them to be more than twelve feet high. their hair and beards were also long and as 194 oleson s giants soft and silky as the hair of an infant (bullard, 1

h called itself spectra and, sometimes, hoova. it gave geller his reported paranormal talents. in the opinion of geller s hypnotist and then-collaborator, physician/ parapsychologist andrija puharich, geller may have been a prophet specifically created to serve as an intermediary between a divine intelligence and man (puharich, 1974. spectra claimed it was a supercomputer into which the minds and bodies of a wide variety of intelligent beings had been transferred. these beings communicated with geller through automatic writing, states of altered consciousness, and voices on blank tapes. spectra s first appearance on earth was twenty thousand years ago, when its spaceship landed in the present nation of israel. since then spectra has seen the jews 234 source as its special people and has tr

en s gate, moved to san diego and set up a successful computer business with its own web site. in october 1996, it purchased a mansion in san diego s exclusive rancho santa fe. it was there that the mass suicide occurred, apparently on the night of march 25 26, 1997. alerted by an anonymous phone call (the caller was later identified as richard ford, one of the group s followers, police found the bodies of thirty-nine identically dressed men and women of androgynous appearance. some of them, it was learned, had been surgically castrated. all had died of poison and suffocation. one of them was applewhite. according to a videotaped statement, the deaths occurred so that members could leave their vehicles (bodies) and join a giant spaceship that they believed was following the hale- bopp come

are only three or four fingers on each hand, and i think they re webbed. the hands look clawlike, because he s got these long, pointed nails on each fin g e r. see also: king leo; reptoid child; reptoids further reading turner, karla, 1994. masquerade of angels. roland, ar: kelt works. volmo 259 walk-ins ruth montgomery popularized the notion of the walk-in, highly evolved souls who take over the bodies of human beings who are willing to relinquish them. these beings are believed to be so advanced that it is not practical, or sometimes even possible, for them to go through the normal process of reincarnation, starting out as a baby. in any event, they have no time to waste and a serious mission to fulfill. in montgomery s words: t h e re are walk-ins on this planet. tens of thousands of th

FOCUS OF LIFE

desire but all desire? but men get married and nothing is sufficiently arbitrary. i am the origin of all creation, certain it is that i want not salvation [observing all the miserably diseased mob "o, grant that i may add to the world a far greater suffering" god is a precocious creation of the apes, something that must be suppressed: man must regain his sexuality. what is man-this feeder on dead bodies of self. a mole, a carnivorous plant, a disease of himself, a conglomeration of-"it was" and a cause, effecting the miscarriage of his desires-ever creating his future necessities: what man knoweth the perturbations of his own fear? verily, suffering is its own reward. he who willed, knoweth not his own offspring. man projects a vague 'self' and calls it truth and many other qualified names

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

ecial power. thus both ficino's magia and pico's practical cabala would be rejected; pope alexander vi's views were not endorsed by the counter reformation. as to agrippa, del rio regards him as an absolutely black magician, the worst of his kind. the catholic writer defends catholic practices from the charge of magic, as garcia had done long ago when attacking pico. there were thus always strong bodies of theological opinion, both catholic and protestant, against the renaissance magic throughout the period in which it flourished (2) the humanist tradition i must first of all define what i mean by "the humanist tradition. i mean the recovery of the latin texts, of the literature of roman civilisation in the renaissance, and the attitude to life and letters which arose out of that recovery

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

ent monitors have followed the precedent of webb: mackey, however, follows dalcho, and assigns places to "members of the higher degrees" the better practice is to follow dermott's, and dalcho's original rule, except in cases in which a mason of a different grade has been invited, in his distinctive or official character, by the body or officer having charge, to participate in lile ceremonies. but bodies of other grades, recognized as masonic, may properly be assigned positions in masonic processions. knights templar, and similar organizations, appearing as a body, should always act as escort: other bodies are placed immediately in front of the officiating lodge, and the grand lodge, if that is in attendance. at the funeral of past grand master robert p. dunlap, his commandery acted as esco

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL 2

leaf of the plant, or the shape of the animal. their powerful imagination pictures in the archetypal region of the earth that which they desire to create, and their concentrated will moulds the coarser matter into this matrix until it assumes a definite physical form as desired. man, the spirit, has a like creative power, and has through the ages, under the guidance of the gods, learned to build bodies of increasing value as instruments for his expression. but his pilgrimage through matter was undertaken for the purpose of making him an independent creative intelligence, and to attain that end it was necessary that he should at the proper time, be emancipated from the guardianship of the gods, so that he might learn to create, not only for himself, but also to aid and to teach others in t

exoteric masonry, which is only the husks of the mystic order formed by the sons of cain, has in modern times attracted the masculine element with its positively polarized physical vehicles, and educated them in industry and statecraft, thus controlling the material development of the world. the sons of seth, constituting themselves the priestcraft, have worked their spell over the positive vital bodies of the feminine element of dominate spiritual development. and whereas, the sons of cain working through freemasonry and kindred movements, have openly fought for the temporal power, the priestcraft has fought as strenuously and perhaps more effectively by stealth to retain their hold upon the spiritual development of the feminine element. to the casual onlooker it would seem as if there we

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

dependently of the male principle, bring forth a child, the fulfilment of which prophecy would vindicate the ancient faith and forever settle the dispute relative to the superiority of the female in the office of reproduction. thus would the woman "bruise the serpent's head" in process of time not only yonigas, but lingajas as well, came to accept the doctrine of the incarnation of the sun in the bodies of earthly virgins. by lingaites, however, it was the seed of the woman and not the woman herself who was to conquer evil. finally, with the increasing importance of the male in human society, it is observed that a reconciliation has been effected between the female worshippers and those of the male. athene herself has acquiesced in the doctrine of male superiority. thalat, the great chalde

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

t known that the blood was more than a red liquid which clotted after its escape from the body, yet early physicians had noticed varieties of the blood-clot and were aware that a buff-coloured surface occurred with the blood of persons suffering from inflammation.withthe perfected microscope a new world became revealed to the student, and the blood was found to contain innumerable floating minute bodies of two notable sorts; the one round and disc-like, which tended to run into rolls like coins, and were of red tint, the other sort white and more globular, and much less numerous; the red cells or blood corpuscles are about oneman's blood and generation 3133200th of an inch in diameter; the white, now called leucocytes are larger, about one-2500th of an inch. in health there is about one wh

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

, and their colours are black and brown, and their forms those of awful beasts like a, hippopota255 mus, and an elephant,butcrushed flat, or as if their skin was spread out flat over the body of a gigantic beetle or cockroach, crawling yet having vast strength (12 'neshimiron- whose colours are of a stagnant gleaming, watery hue, and their forms like hideous women, almost skeletons, united to the bodies of serpents and fishes.the qllphqth of theqabalah27in the midst of the circle are placed samael and asmodai. the symbolic form of the former is somewhat like that of the devil of the tarot,butcolossal and attenuated;thatof asmodaias 225 bloated, bestial man, but in a crouching position. atthesouth-east angle are placedtheevil adam, a goat-headed skeleton-like giant; and a' thousand-headedhy

is attributed kerethial, which meaneth 'cut off from god (psalm xxxvii, v.34 'when the wicked are cut off (from god' and the symbolic form is that of black, evil giants. also to kether belong the thaumiel or thamiel, the bicephalous ones; and their forms are those of dual, giant heads, with bat-like wings; they have not bodies for they are those that seek continually to unite themselves unto the bodies of other beings and forces. unto chokmah are referred the dukes of esau and the ghogiel (from og, king of bashan, or, as it is sometimes written, oghiel, and they attach themselves unto living and material appearances, and their form is like that of the black, evil giants with loathsome serpents twined around them. unto binah are referred the satariel or harasiel, the conceal255 ers and des

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

ymond of aguiles, boasted of this violence: wonderful sights were to be seen. some of our men (and this was more merciful) cut off the heads of their enemies; others shot them with arrows, so that they fell from the towers; others tortured them longer by casting them into flames. piles of heads, hands and feet were to be seen in the streets of the city. it was necessary to pick one's way over the bodies of men and horses. but these were small matters compared to what happened at the temple of solomon, a global freemasonry de place where religious services are normally chanted. in the temple and the porch of solomon, men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins.3 in two days, the crusader army killed some 40,000 muslims in the most barbaric manner.4 the crusaders then made jerusalem

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

lane. the seven planes according to the rosicrucian cosmo-conception (heindel) divine plane. plane of virgin spirits. plane of divine spirit. plane of life spirit. plane of thought. desire plane. physical world. the gnostic handbook page 20 while this model may be useful, especially in the creation of resonances or correspondences between phenomena (for example, relating seven planes to the seven bodies of man, seven colours and rays etc. it can also be counter traditional and reductionist. the tendency is to use the seven planes in a standard "scientific" chart and ignore the more organic view that was held of the planes in early theosophy. in the next chapter we will examine this in more detail and consider it in terms of the gnostic tradition. the kabbalistic tree of life the kabbalah i

very specific meaning and symbolism. it literally refers to the valley of hinnom and hence can only be understood in the context of what this valley represented. the valley of hinnom was located outside the walls of jerusalem and was a large rubbish dump. fires were triggered by the adding of sulphur so that the rubbish could be burnt up. it became the common lay stall of the city, where the dead bodies of criminals and the carcasses of animals and every other kind of filth was cast. smith's bible dictionary. it is such an apt description of the how we experience the darker aspects of our world, into which we are forced to reincarnate- criminals, carcasses of animals and every kind of filth. when we die, the body is eaten by animals or burnt by sulphur, or in more modern terms, cremated or

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

e study further you will find that a more comprehensive and descriptive understanding is required. just like we offered you the kabbalistic structure of the four worlds and these were expanded into seven planes, so too the four bodies can be expanded into seven. these can be easily correlated to the traditional four bodies, but give offer more detail (see fig 12) gnostic theurgy page 47 the seven bodies of man the self the self only exists only in potential, it remains embryonic until awakened by transfigurative processes. it is the pneumatic light spark that is caught in matter. the theosophical and rosicruican structure of man four bodies. seven bodies seven bodies (theosophy (rosicrucian. yechidah. supreme self. higher forms of being. yechidah. mediator self. higher forms of being. ruac

certainly central to forms of gnostic psychology (psychogenesis) at the same time it has its limits. for example, if the timeline only exists as a time line then events that occurred before the advent of time, space and matter cannot be found on it. accordingly, even if we use the most developed past life retrieval techniques there is a limit beyond which the mind cannot go. in terms of the seven bodies of man there are two memory systems, the unconscious (at the astral level) and the mediator self. this means that while certain problems can be resolved at the psychological level (the unconscious, some cannot. according the gnostic must always be aware of the limits of the mind. a good way to conceptualise these limits is in what is known as the three a s. the three a s the three a s are a

GOLDEN CHAIN AND THE LONELY ROAD

ft observance operate concurrently, sometimes crossing, sometimes remaining categorically distinct. what is it that distinguishes one lineage from another? it is primarily the particular knowledge and characteristic customs of a particular master-pupil chain of transmission which marks one from another. because of this, a single practitioner may study under different teachers to receive different bodies of knowledge and to receive to 'power' of distinct lineal paths of the sabbatic gnosis. so long as each lineage is appreciated for its own autonomous integrity, an individual can possess authority in a number of different streams without compromise. a broad experiential basis is commendable, but it is the unique transmission (see below) which validates the path of such a wayfaring journeyma

path for its adherent. one is dependent upon divine favour and openness of heart to maintain the continuity of inspiration, and yet its blessings far outweigh its bane. for there is a solitude in this path 'a marriage that divorceth all other, in which perfect all-oneliness may be realised. within the ambit of 'unique transmission' one may consider that an appointed individual may receive entire bodies of lore, whole rites and mysteries. in such instances, the ritual authority to teach others and to incept a lineage for a specific 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

thoughts which re-cognise the state that is ours in eternity, the thoughts which flash forth in sudden ardour and goad a man to heights of inspiration; these and an infinity of others are the gateways of liliya's wisdom. ii. the lineal transmission of word- the breath which carries the password in the formal rite of induction is literally considered to be the same breath carried down through the bodies of each successive master or mistress; it is the 'pneuma, the vital air of illuminative life; it is the 'one breath, the hyperborean insufflation from cain to his kin. in attenuation, this mystery is conveyed through every word- every act of speech, whether in waking, vision, imagination or dreaming- which conveys the gnosis of the arte magical to the individual aspirant. iii. the lineal tr

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

nald w. patten, the biblical flood and the ice epoch: a study in scientific history, pacific meridian publishing co, seattle, 1966, p. 194. 9 the path of the pole, p. 258. 10 david m. hopkins et al, the palaeoecology of beringia, academic press, new york, 1982, p. 309. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 209 animals were apparently killed together, overcome by some common power. such piles of bodies of animals or men simply do not occur by any ordinary natural means. 11 at various levels stone artefacts have been found frozen in situ at great depths, and in association with ice age fauna, which confirms that men were contemporary with extinct animals in alaska .12 throughout the alaskan mucks, also there is: evidence of atmospheric disturbances of unparalleled violence. mammoth and bis

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

words of the magick square of olap, visualize a vortex of power over the patient. this vortex of power must extend from beyond the abyss downward through the aethyrs into the patient. it consists of a funnel-like swirling force of healing and cleansing energy. the patient must be clearly seen as becoming healthy and whole as a result of this vortex of power. let the vortex mingle with the subtle bodies of the pat ient and harmonize their elements. know that you control this vortex of power through your magical will. step 4. continue repeating step 3 until the patient is dearly seen to be healed. step 5. return to your physical body. banish the vortex of power and know your patient to be healed. an advanced healing ritual. step i. the consecration. consecrate a circle. hold your talisman o

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

bevue de paris, tome 41, pp. 47-58. villemar adds, that children throw pins into the fountain, while they call out: ris done, fontaine de berendon, et je te donnerai une epingle! and the fay of the fountain is supposed to be made friendly by the gift. conf. libamina lacui exhibere, p. 596. 3 don quixote 1, 52 (ideler 2, 435. and in other places it was the custom in* time of drought, to carry the bodies of saints about, flodoard. rem. 4, 41. 4 as the girl who oversleeps herself on easter morning is ducked (p. 590. 596 elements. imbrem has dropt out altogether, and been replaced by a mere whitsun drollery at the cost of the laziest man; 1 but i have little doubt that the same purpose lies at the bottom of the custom (see suppl. of goddesses, no doubt the bath-loving nerthus and holda are th

rtality was admitted in this sense, that the soul still existed, but had to put up with a new body. its passing into a flower i can only infer. a child carries home a bud, which the angel had given him in the wood; when the rose blooms, the child is dead (kinder-leg, no. 3. in rhesas dainos p. 307, a rosebud is the soul of the dead youth. the lay of kunzifal makes a blackthorn shoot up out of the bodies of slain heathens, a white flower by the heads of fallen christians, karl] where soul stands for life, vitality, a neuter word is used, ohg. ferah, mhg. verch, as. feorh, on. jior; but we saw (p. 793, how from vita and plos there arose the sum total of all that lives, the world, goth, fairhvus. the soul a flower. 827 118b. when the innocent are pat to death, white lilies grow out of their g

new growth as out of a seed, conf. chap. xxxvii. but originally there might lie at the bottom of this the idea of an immediate instantaneous passage of the soul into the shape of a flower, for out of mere drops of blood, containing but a small part of the life, a flower is made to spring: the soul has her seat in the blood, and as that ebbs away, she escapes with it. greek fables tell us how the bodies of the persecuted and slain, espe cially women, assumed forthwith the figure of a flower, a bush, a tree (p. 653, without leaving any matter behind to decay or be burnt; nay, life and even speech may last while the transforma tion is taking place. thus daphne and syrinx, when they cannot elude the pursuit of apollo or pan, change themselves into a laurel and a reed; the nymph undergoing tra

j^eirra lifti hofso fallit, let bera par at iortf oc griot. hakon konungr let oc fleiri skip uppsetja, oc bera a valinn, saga h. goffa, cap. 27. unnr var logff? skip i haugmum, laxd. p. 16. asmundr var neygdr on i l&gt;kip lagffr\&gt;rsel\ hans lag sr i annan stafn s kipsins,^islend.^sog. 1, 66. geirmundr heygffr ok lagffr i skip &gt;ar uti skoginn fra garsi, ibid. 1, 07. probably the bodies of the great were first laid in a coffin, and this put in the boat, which was then buried iiftn^etiill: chidrun says: kntir mun ek kaupa ok kisto steinisa, sffimt^^l11!^o"l)6ats have been found, that i know of, in ancient barrows of continental germany: ceossing the water. 831 a passage; sigmundr lays the dead in the boat, which has then its fulljfreight, thetunknown ppshes off and sai

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

tion of the newly formed body as an independent jurisdiction, providing the territory or land in which it is located is not within the jurisdiction of another superior body. article v..section 10 the judicial powers of the supreme grand lodge and its board of directors as affecting this grand lodge are as follows: those which include the decision of all controversies between any of the affiliated bodies of the grand lodge or between affiliated bodies and the grand lodge, or between a member of amorc and the grand lodge, or one or more of the affiliated bodies and a member or members of another body; or between one or more affiliated bodies and one or more members at large; or between members of the same or two or more affiliated bodies; and between the general members affiliated with the g

e of an appellate nature embracing the revision of all matters and controversies, or of discipline and the investigation of all such matters along with the exercise of such disciplinary authority and the direction of the procedure of all trials and hearings in regard to charges brought against any member or any affiliated body under this grand lodge, or similar matters. all members and affiliated bodies of this grand lodge shall use every means within the order for the adjustment of any controversies or preplexities. the members of this order or any of the affiliated bodies thereof shall not seek redress in the courts for any complaints or grievances until such member or such affiliated has exhausted its rights in the tribunals of the order. the seeking of redress in the courts, with first

ted exclusively in and reserved to the board of directors of the supreme grand lodge, incorporated, in accordance with the ancient landmarks, principles, and customs of the order which provide that the supreme hierarchy of the order in each jurisdiction shall have this exclusive control and direction of the material and spiritual activities of the order. statutes of the grand lodge and affiliated bodies of a.m.o.r.c. of the worldwide jurisdiction chapter vii publicity and publications section 131 the general propaganda work of the order shall be officially conducted by the supreme grand lodge exclusively, assisted by such other affiliated bodies or committees as the supreme grand lodge may indicate from time to time. section 132 the local propaganda work may be conducted by an affiliated l

that in any such arrangement of atoms there will be a great amount of space between the atoms, and this space is occupied by what we shall simply call "air. now if we take these nine atoms and arrange them as shown in figure d, we change the square to a rhomboidal form. by arranging the atoms in this wise we do several things of considerable importance. dr. dalton, in his papers to the scientific bodies of his day, spoke only of one or two results attained by this arrangement of the atoms, but i will speak of another result which he knew well but did not fully illustrate. first of all it will be seen, as dr. dalton pointed out, that this arrangement of the atoms causes atom no. 5 to contact six other atoms instead of only four as shown in figure a. thus, atom no. 5 is in contact with atoms

smic forces and intelligences outside the individual organic being, or from a realization of the cosmic consciousness. to realize a psychic experience, the phenomenon has to be translated into terms of our sense faculties and associated ideas. psychic plane.that plane or condition in the divine economy which has been provided by divine mind as the meeting place and field of action for the psychic bodies of the dwellers of the cosmic (where dwell only those freed from functioning in physical bodies) and earth planes, wherein they may meet to their mutual benefit. it is here that our loved ones, who have cast off their earthly bodies, may be contacted. it is here that our thoughts, hopes, plans, and requests are projected along with our personalities. it is here that in response we receive t

principles which they are attempting to demonstrate, and often bring serious situations and sorrows into the lives of those who are being guided by them. furthermore, rosicrucians know that departed "souls" do not return to earth in a material form, that departed "spirits" do not make materialized demonstrations as entities, and that communications received from the cosmic, or through the psychic bodies of living persons, are not always what they seem to be to the spiritualists. subconscious.the entire stream of consciousness with its various levels which are subliminal, that is, which he behind our realizations of self and of the external world. the objective and subjective consciousness are but two of the levels of the stream of consciousness. the subconscious is directly related to the

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

ibutions but only the following three have been traced.]ontheancientmagiccrystal,anditsconnexionwithmesmerism.bymrhockley.'my brethren, there are men who, whether designedly or not, are in league with the fallen spirits-wizardi' andnecromancers,usingenchant255mentanddivination,and producing divers effects beyond the power ofman-realand natural effects, by thehelpofthedevil,upon both the minds and bodies of their fellow-creatures.ishall endeavour this evening, by god's help, to follow that branchofthe subject, and to shew you whaticonceive to be the connexion between the agency of those fallen spirits and thelyingwondersperformed in these later times, amongst which i have no hesitation in reckoning thismesmerism,which is now performing its realeffects-real,supernatural, butdiabolical.,255re

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

ld royal statues gave new structures an instant past and invoked the protective presence of the royal ancestors. in spite of this tendency to look back on past glories, innovations did appear among small objects. a wide range of amulets in the form of deities was introduced during the third intermediate period. these were probably used to protect the health and safety of the living as well as the bodies of the dead. some of the amulets depict mythological episodes such as those in which horus harpoons seth or isis nurses the baby horus in the marshes.69 the choice of such amulets suggests a widespread knowledge of the stories behind these images. until the third intermediate period, scenes of nursing goddesses had always shown a king playing the role of horus. as horus the child ceased to

nds. they are images of him, come forth from his flesh. for their sakes he rises in heaven. for them he made plants and flocks. 17 new kingdom hymns to the creator god amun also refer to god making people in his own image but are vague about how this was done. in a hymn to ptah mythical time lines 67 this god is said to have crafted people as well as fashioning the physical forms of the gods. the bodies of deities were usually said to be made of precious metals and stones, but those of people were made from mud or clay. these were the materials used by the creator god khnum, who formed all on his potter s wheel. khnum did not perform this task just once during the first time. his wheel was said to turn every day. he appears to be a god of continuous creation, working to make the bodies of

to journey between the realms of the living and the dead. the image of the god was dragged through the necropolis in his henu barque, a special boat decorated with images of fish and antelopes. sokar was accompanied by five daughters of ra in the forms of geese. statuettes of ptah-sokar-osiris placed in tombs sometimes contain copies of the book of the dead. others conceal corn mummies, symbolic bodies of sokar-osiris, to help the tomb owner attain resurrection. figures of sokar were prepared as part of the month-long khoiak festival, the annual reenactment of the mysteries of osiris. the instructions for making these figures were said to be based on a divine prototype. the goddess shentayet of busiris made a new body for sokar out of clay, dates, sweet-smelling spices, and precious stone

HEAVEN HELL

a danger to the god, and destroyed in consequence. on the left of afu-ra stands a row of deities (vol. i. p. 50 ff, some wholly in animal forms, who appear to have taken part in the burial ceremonies which were performed for osiris; the exact functions of many of them are unknown, and the names of certain of them are not found elsewhere. according to the text these gods are clothed with their own bodies of flesh, and their souls speak from them, and their shadows are joined to them. having been addressed by p. 124 they sing praises to the god, and when he has passed from their division they, as well as the gods on the right of the boat, lift up their voices and weep. in return for the lands which were given them by osiris, in the possession of which they were confirmed by afu-ra, these god

s of osiris, believed, as did all the primitive egyptians, that the tuat was a place of darkness, hunger, thirst, and misery, and finally of annihilation. they had no belief either in purgatory or in everlasting punishment; the beings in the tuat lived just so long as their friends and relatives on earth made the prescribed funeral offerings on their behalf, and no longer. the shadows, souls, and bodies of those who were without food in the tuat were, together with the fiends and monsters which opposed the progress of the sun-god, destroyed by fire each day, utterly and finally; but each day brought its own supply of the enemies of ra, and of the dead, and the beings which were consumed in the pits of fire one day were not the same, though they belonged to the same classes, as those which

HEKAS

cultus sabbati from sources, which are defined as belonging to traditional witchcraft, is herein- given the present context- the moot point of interest, it is also pertinent for the reader to bear in mind that our lineal descent by other roots has affiliations with a catena of high magicians dating back many centuries, namely the o.t.o, and has established links upon the inner with various other bodies of transmission and thus the contexts in which the nature and functions of the cultus sabbati may be interpreted are many and diverse. beyond what i have stated here regarding myself and the sabbatic cult, some readers may already be familiar with my work through the book which i had published in 1992, namely the azoetia: a grimoire of the sabbatic craft- a work wherein i sought to define t

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

o create" as hinduism says of the kumaras and christian legend of the archangel michael, i.e, having failed to incarnate in due time, the bodies predestined for them got defiled, hence the original sin of the senseless forms and the punishment of the egos. that which is meant by the rebellious angels being hurled down into hell is simply explained by these pure spirits or egos being imprisoned in bodies of unclean matter, flesh. life is at best a heartless play, a stormy sea to cross, and a heavy burden often too difficult to bear. the greatest philosophers have tried in vain to fathom and find out its raison d' tre, and have all failed except those who had the key to it, namely, the eastern sages. life is, as shakespeare describes it: but a walking shadow-a poor player, that struts and fr

much practical use in helping mankind. this is not practical charity. a. we think otherwise. we hold that a good book which gives people food for thought, which strengthens and clears their minds, and enables them to grasp truths which they have dimly felt but could not formulate-we hold that such a book does a real, substantial good. as to what you call practical deeds of charity, to benefit the bodies of our fellowmen, we do what little we can; but, as i have already told you, most of us are poor, whilst the society page 115 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt itself has not even the money to pay a staff of workers. all of us who toil for it, give our labor gratis, and in most cases money as well. the few who have the means of doing what are usually called charitable actions, follow t

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

monstrous ring-shaped bonfire; in the centre of which, revealed by occasional rifts in the curtain of flame, stood a great granite monolith some eight feet in height; on top of which, incongruous in its diminutiveness, rested the noxious carven statuette. from a wide circle of ten scaffolds set up at regular intervals with the flame-girt monolith as a centre hung, head downward, the oddly marred bodies of the helpless squatters who had disappeared. it was inside this circle that the ring of worshippers jumped and roared, the general direction of the mass motion being from left to right in endless bacchanal between the ring of bodies and the ring of fire. it may have been only imagination and it may have been only echoes which induced one of the men, an excitable spaniard, to fancy he hear

h swept down from the hill to all the countryside. trees, grass, and under-brush were whipped into a fury; and the frightened crowd at the mountain's base, weakened by the lethal foetor that seemed about to asphyxiate them, were almost hurled off their feet. dogs howled from the distance, green grass and foliage wilted to a curious, sickly yellow-grey, and over field and forest were scattered the bodies of dead whippoorwills. the stench left quickly, but the vegetation never came right again. to this day there is something queer and unholy about the growths on and around that fearsome hill curtis whateley was only just regaining consciousness when the arkham men came slowly down the mountain in the beams of a sunlight once more brilliant and untainted. they were grave and quiet, and seemed

ave long life; and had sent their minds en masse into that future race best adapted to house them- the cone-shaped beings that peopled our earth a billion years ago. thus the great race came to be, while the myriad minds sent backward were left to die in the horror of strange shapes. later the race would again face death, yet would live through another forward migration of its best minds into the bodies of others who had a longer physical span ahead of them. such was the background of intertwined legend and hallucination. when, around 1920, i had my researches in coherent shape, i felt a slight lessening of the tension which their earlier stages had increased. after all, and in spite of the fancies prompted by blind emotions, were not most of my phenomena readily explainable? any chance mi

velled at the dream-fancy which could invent such surprising addenda to history and science. i shivered at the mysteries the past may conceal, and trembled at the menaces the future may bring forth. what was hinted in the speech of post-human entities of the fate of mankind produced such an effect on me that i will not set it down here. after man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the great race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space- to another stopping-place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of mercury. but there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its

s from different sources tended to coincide; though the wonder was lessened by the fact that the old legends, shared at one time throughout the hill country, furnished a morbidly vivid picture which might well have coloured the imaginations of all the witnesses concerned. it was my conclusion that such witnesses- in every case naive and simple backwoods folk- had glimpsed the battered and bloated bodies of human beings or farm animals in the whirling currents; and had allowed the half-remembered folklore to invest these pitiful objects with fantastic attributes. the ancient folklore, while cloudy, evasive, and largely forgotten by the present generation, was of a highly singular character, and obviously reflected the influence of still earlier indian tales. i knew it well, though i had nev

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

shock came when we stepped over and undid one tarpaulin whose outlines had peculiarly disquieted us. it seems that others as well as lake had been interested in collecting typical specimens; for there were two here, both stiffly frozen, perfectly preserved, patched with adhesive plaster where some wounds around the neck had occurred, and wrapped with care to prevent further damage. they were the bodies of young gedney and the missing dog. x many people will probably judge us callous as well as mad for thinking about the northward tunnel and the abyss so soon after our somber discovery, and i am not prepared to say that we would have immediately revived such thoughts but for a specific circumstance which broke in upon us and set up a whole new train of speculations. we had replaced the tar

again, and was driving ahead with increased speed; whilst the straying penguins in our rear were squawking and screaming and displaying signs of a panic really surprising in view of their relatively minor confusion when we had passed them. once more came that sinister, wide-ranged piping "tekeli-li! tekeli-li" we had been wrong. the thing was not wounded, but had merely paused on encountering the bodies of its fallen kindred and the hellish slime inscription above them. we could never know what that demon message was- but those burials at lake s camp had shown how much importance the beings attached to their dead. our recklessly used torch now revealed ahead of us the large open cavern where various ways converged, and we were glad to be leaving those morbid palimpsest sculptures- almost f

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in the effulgent valleys. it is not permitted me to tell your waking earth-self of your real self, but we are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages. next year i may be dwelling in the egypt which you call ancient, or in the cruel empire of tsan chan which is to come three thousand years hence. you and i have drifted to the worlds that reel about the red arcturus, and dwelt in the bodies of the insect-philosophers that crawl proudly over the fourth moon of jupiter. how little does the earth self know life and its extent! how little, indeed, ought it to know for its own tranquility "of the oppressor i cannot speak. you on earth have unwittingly felt its distant presence- you who without knowing idly gave the blinking beacon the name of algol, the demon-star it is to meet and

HP LOVECRAFT FROM BEYOND

he vindictive and homicidal madman. i wish i could believe that doctor. it would help my shaky nerves if i could dismiss what i now have to think of the air and the sky about and above me. i never feel alone or comfortable, and a hideous sense of pursuit sometimes comes chillingly on me when i am weary. what prevents me from never' g the doctor is this simple fact- that the police never found the bodies of those servants whom they say crawford tillinghast murderr herbert west: reanimator by h.p. lovecraft written sep 1921-mid 1922 published in five parts, february-july 1922 in home brew, vol. 1, nos. 1-6. i. from the dark published februrary 1922 in home brew vol. 1, no. 1, p. 19-25. of herbert west, who was my friend in college and in after life, i can speak only with extreme terror. this

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

a monstrous ringshaped bonfire; in the centre of which, revealed by occasional rifts in the curtain of flame, stood a great granite monolith some eight feet in height; on top of which, incongruous in its diminutiveness, rested the noxious carven statuette. from a wide circle of ten scaffolds set up at regular intervals with the flame-girt monolith as a centre hung, head downward, the oddly marred bodies of the helpless squatters who had disappeared. it was inside this circle that the ring of worshippers jumped and roared, the general direction of the mass motion being from left to right in endless bacchanale between the ring of bodies and the ring of fire. it may have been only imagination and it may have been only echoes which induced one of the men, an excitable spaniard, to fancy he hea

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rom the title guardian, you have also given yourself the title of receiver- this means that you are in a two-way contract- as you give your effort, these animals will also give to you, and you will receive. what you receive covers everything, from their flesh as food when you need it, all the way to their enjoyment, guidance, and company. this is a two-way contract. you will receive the flesh and bodies of plants and animals to sustain you; spirits will guide and protect you; it is a full contract. with your blood and words, you are binding yourself by oath and pact, blood and fate, to the land and to all beings within it, or on it. this is important, for this is the way of power- living creatures and plants mediate power to us everyday, and with deeper awareness, they will open up to you

INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW CHUMBLEY

one to meet death before dying and thus bestows an eternally living wisdom. the light magia reveals sophia most fair neath the mask of thanatos most foul. rf: define crooked path sorcery. where did this term come from? ac: the term crooked path sorcery refers to a specific corpus of teachings and rituals transmitted from within an inner circle of the cultus sabbati. it is distinguished from other bodies of sabbatic lore by its specialised mode of ritual praxis, its distinctly ophidian cosmogony and manifold pantheon, as well as by its particular ethos of sorcerous mentality. the major body of crooked path teachings is contained in the draconian grimoire and in this form will be published in due course of time. in a general sense, crooked path or via tortuosa implies the deviating continuum

to hierarchy and power, is a complex issue. one must be aware that responsibility, propriety, and service increase with one s role and sense of authority. to my mind, the true magister (or magistra) should hold fast to all that was taught unto him by his own initiators, be fully able to refine and develop the ways of the past according to his own vision, be able to speak clearly about the diverse bodies of lore within the tradition, and be skillful to discern, teach, and assist fellow brethren. whilst every initiate focuses upon the unique ingression of the current into their own personal praxis, the task of the magister is to perceive the design of the current as it ingresses into the tradition as a whole. accordingly he directs covine praxis and seeks to cohere the work of all as one. th

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

phemously imitated the power of the church by fulminating sentence of excommunication, with lighted candles, even against their own husbands, from the sole of their foot to the crown of their head, naming each part expressly, and then concluded by extinguishing p. 28 the candles and by crying fi! fi! fi! amen. 5. in order to arouse feelings of love or hatred, or to inflict death or disease on the bodies of the faithful, they made use of powders, unguents, ointments, and candles of fat, which were compounded as follows. they took the entrails of cocks sacrificed to demons, certain horrible worms, various unspecified herbs, dead men's nails, the hair, brains, and shreds of the cerements of boys who were buried unbaptized, with other abominations, all of which they cooked, with various incant

above. they all immediately confessed to the charges laid against them, and even went to the length of admitting other crimes of which no mention had been made; but, according to them, dame alice was the mother and mistress of them all. upon this the bishop wrote letters on the 6th of june to the chancellor, and to the treasurer, walter de islep, requesting them to order the sheriff to attach the bodies of these people and put p. 36 them in safe keeping. but a warrant was refused, owing to the fact that william outlawe was a relation of the one and a close friend of the other; so at length the bishop obtained it through the justiciary, who also consented to deal with the case when he came to kilkenny. before his arrival the bishop summoned william outlawe to answer in s. mary's church. the

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this is history. bayle^ shows that when the roman church is no longer able to deny that there have been false rehcs, she resorts to sophist- ry, and replies that if false relics have wrought miracles it is" because of the good intentions of the believers, who thus obtained from god a reward of their good faith" the same bayle shows, by numerous instances, that whenever it was proved that several bodies of the same sunt, os three heads of him, or three arms (as in the case of augustine) were said to exist in different places, and that they could not well be ou authentic, the cool and invariable answer of the church was that they were all genuine; for "god had multiplied and miraculously reproduced th^n for the greater glory of his holy church 1" in other words they would have the faithful

ouls are subject to transmigration, and men do not know the ways of the holy one, blessed be he; they do not know that they are biou^t before tiie tribunal, both before they enter this world and afto' they quit it* and the pharisees also held this doctrine, as josephus shows antiqmim; xvui, i, 3. ah the doctrine of gilgul held the strange theory of the 'whirling of the soul' which taught that the bodies of jews buried far away from the holy land, still preserve a par- ticle of soul which can neither rest nor quit them imtil it reaches the soil of the 'promised land' and this 'whirling' process was thought to be accomplished by the soul being conveyed back through an actual evolution of species; transmigrating from the minutest insect up to the largest animal. but this was an exoteric doctr

surprised at any iconographic extravagance in the representation of the christian christ, the apostles, and the putative saints ^th the catholics st. peter becomes quite naturally the janitor of heaven, and sits at the door of the celestial kingdom a ticket-taker to the trinity! in a retigious disturbance which recently occurred in one of the spanish-american provinces, there were found upon the bodies of some of the killed passports signed by the bishop of the diocese end ad- dressed to st. peter, bidding hun "admit the bearer at a true son of the church" it was subsequently ascertained that these unique docu- ments were issued by the catholic prelate just before his deluded parishioners went into the fight at the instigation of their priests. in their inmioderate desire to find evidence

r, and itself moulding and forming the body by embracing it on every side, receives from it an impression and form; so that although it be separated both from the understanding and the body, it nevertheless so retains still its figure and resemblance for a long time, that it may with good right be called its image "and of these souls the moon is the element, because souls resolve into her, as the bodies of the deceased do into earth. those, indeed, who have been virtuous and honest, living a quiet and philosophical life, with- out embroiling themselves in troublesome affairs, are quickly resolved; because being left by the ntnu, understanding, and no longer using the cotporeal passions, they incontinently vanish away' we find even ireoaeus, that untiring and mortal enemy of every grecian a

ing, at this very moment, omniscience and the magical poaer; a flagrant coniradiction, about tokick the buddhists no more disturb themselves than about so many others* and why should they, when these contradictions are, in fact, no con- tradictions at all? it iu behooves us to speak of contradictions in other peoples' religions, when those of our own have bred, besides the three great conflicting bodies of romanism, protestantism, and the eastern church, a thousand and one most curious smaller sects. however it may be, we have here a term applied to one and the same thing by the buddhist holy' mendicants' and by paul the apostle. when the latter says "if so be that i might attain the resurrectum from among the dead [the nirvanaj, not a^ though i had already attained, or were already perfec

n the heavenly intelligence [spirit) and the soul, which he tempts incessantly" heir ideas on transmigration are i^thagorean and kabalistic 'die spirit, or temeami (the divine soul, was in elijah and john the baptist; and the soul of jesus was that of "hamza; that is to say. of the same de- gree of purity and sanctity. untu their resurrection, by whit^ they un- derstand the day when the spiritual bodies of men will be absorbed into god's own essence and being (the nirvana of the hindfla, the soub of men will keep their astral forms, except the few chosen ones who from the moment of their separation from their bodies begin to exist as pure spirits. the life of man they divide into soul. body, and intelli- gence, or mind. it is the latter which imparts and communicates to the soul the divine

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

ne now that the light beam radiating from your heart is changing color to become the violet light. imagine pure violet light firstly filling your whole body as it pours in through your crown chakra and radiates through your chakra column into your organs and cells filling all your cells with this pure energy of nourishing violet. imagine it now radiating from your heart into the hearts and energy bodies of all these beings around you on the inner plane until they too are all completely filled with the power of this transmuting violet light. as this beam radiates from you, you say with all sincerity. with this violet light i forgive, i am forgiven! with this violet light i forgive, i am forgiven! with this violet light i forgive, i am forgiven! with this violet light i am free, you are free

and feelings of harmony and inner peace are becoming a constant experience for those tuned to the theta field. some past examples of theta. delta field connections are: divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 166 1. the buddhist rainbow bodies, where lamas dematerialize and shrink their bodies after death causing it to entirely disappear. 2. the incorruptible. the bodies of the saints that maintain themselves for hundreds of years after the spirit has departed and the physical bio-system has been declared literally dead. 3. the yogis who allow themselves to be buried, from 3 weeks to 40 years, without food or water, or even oxygen or sleep. and they achieve this by moving their conscious awareness to rest deep within the theta and delta fields. there are yo

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

hoe, so universally employed as a defensive charm, and used as a sign to warn-off and to consecrate, when as it so frequently is-displayed at the entrance of stables, outhouses, and farm-buildings in country places, speaks the acknowledgment of the devil, or sinister principle. the rearing aloft, and throwing out, as it were, of protesting, and in a certain fashion badge-like, magic signs, in the bodies of bats, and wild nocturnal creatures, fixed upon barn doors, we hold to be the perpetuation of the old heathen sacrifice to the harmful gods, or a sort of devilpropitiation. again, in this horse-shoe we meet the horse, as indicative of, and connected with, spirit-power: of which strange association we shall by and by have more to say. the horse-shoe is the mystic symbol of the wizard s foo

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

tudies of the movements of space-navigable ufo's might furnish vital clues to such problems. it would only tell all, what this one has guessed. let us go back for a moment to the matter of masslessness of some of the ufo's. their ability to achieve enormous acceleration has been one of the greatest puzzles to scientists. time after time we are told that the ufo's could not possibly contain living bodies of flesh and bone- that such bodies could not withstand the stresses imposed by the observed accelerations. yet such argument can well be based on entirely erroneous ideas as to the nature of the propulsive forces used by the ufo's. acceleration is damaging only because the forces necessary to produce it are applied externally to the living body, or to the structural members of any flying m

ohio and four neighboring states, there began a series of great thunderstorms in australia; a "rain blizzard" in new south wales, in queensland all transportation was tied up. according to the wellington evening post, of new zealand, march 31, there was "the greatest disaster in the history of the colony; where there had been listless rivers there were unruly torrents embellished with the woolly bodies of sheep and the accouterments of farming. the roar of rivers was the cry of drowning and cattle. store windows were smashed; dead bodies were wrapped in silk curtains from the red-light district. may, 1889: there was a spectacular "afterglow" in france although no volcanic eruptions had occurred to fill the air with dust and storms everywhere had supposedly cleared the murky air. there was

ess. they found her only fifty miles from the position given. boats were put over the sides to investigate "medan" was moved. radio directionalfinders are too accurate& ships too slow to move that far in so little time (italic emphasis by a) when boarding parties reached the ourang medan they found an eerie sight. there wasn't a living creature on the ship. the captain lay dead on the bridge. the bodies of the other officers sprawled in the wheelhouse, chartroom and wardroom. the faithful "sparks" was slumped in a chair in the radio shack, his hand still on the sending key. the bodies of the hapless crew lay everywhere: in their rooms, in the passageways, on the decks. and on all the dead face was a look of convulsive horror. as a report of the proceedings of the merchant marine council pu

verwhelming mass of evidence is too great to brush aside, and proves that astronomy has been sighting ufo's in space. so has? but they deny it will always so, they too (unreadable) during the eclipse of september 7, 1820, crowds in the streets of ebrun saw great numbers of objects in the sky, moving in straight lines, countermarching and turning, all separated by uniform spaces. five unidentified bodies of appreciable size were seen by astronomer gruithuisen. two unknown dark home-ships, scout ships& life-boast. bodies were seen by pastorff on october 23, 1822. webb saw an unknown thing near venus, march 22, 1823. many more unknowns were reported in 1823, and this may have been another peak period if these phenomena are really periodic in their appearances. sporer saw one crossing the sun

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

lutely unique f case of occidentalism, h in kabbalah: journal for the study of jewish mystical texts 2 (los angeles: cherub press, 1997. in several of schafer fs discussions (gershom scholem reconsidered for one) and in david halperin fs the faces of the chariot (tuebingen: j. c. b. mohr [paul siebeck] 1988, questions are raised about the titles and contents of hekhalot texts. the notion of fixed bodies of content forming a canon of gbooks h representing a coherent school of hekhalot mysticism appears unsupportable. a similar problem exists with the very term kabbalah (see note 7. a partial solution is suggested in such subheadings as the early kabbalah of the provence and gerona circles, the fiyyun school, prophetic kabbalah (of abraham abulafia, or lurianic kabbalah. however, should the

KETAB E SIYAH

must there be conflict amongst us? why must you judge your sisters and your brothers by such surface things as these? surely we must judge another by what is in their hearts. you are much in error to pursue this path" 203 these noble words averted averted not the discord that the cunning gabriel brought to my children and with swords or bronze they set upon each other like jackals contesting the bodies of the dead and brother was made to kill brother and sister was made to kill sister. thus did the nephilim first know war. thus were they divided into many nations and scattered across the world where once they had been one. this is the history of the first men. this is the telling of their origins and how was won the means to judge all things. this is how mankind knew peace first and then

s all our sons lie dead upon the field. never in human remembrance was there such a war as this war and there must not be such a war again. the great war must not be again" as the battle's din was stilled and the weapons of man roared not, poppies grew upon the fields of flanders, ploughed up by the throes of war. indeed all things of man were scarred by man the very earth on which he walked, the bodies of men and minds. would gabriel not seize upon this chance, a weakness by which to restore that which was lost to him. 370 he knew well to grasp the moment. one last prophet was there to gabriel that he had nurtured in the war and guarded from much harm. many times should he have died but yet he lived at gabriel's intervention. the war's ending pleased him not for this was a bitter man, bro

LAITMAN M BASIC CONCEPTS IN KABBALAH

s parts in it. the human souls in each world are its center and receive their sustenance from the other levels. those studying the zohar should constantly bear in mind that all objects are viewed only with regard to their interaction in a given world. all research boils down to the study of the human soul and what comes into contact with it. since the zohar studies only souls that are clothed in bodies of this world, ein sof is also studied only in that respect. in other words, the book researches the influence, program, and desire of ein sof with regard to us, but not with regard to any other objects in other worlds. the entire program of creation from beginning to end is included in ein sof, and the worlds beria, yetzira, assiya, as well as our world, constitute the actual implementatio

LAITMAN M FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

thus began to compete for nature s resources, such as food and territories. consequently, a new entity a bacterial colony was formed, which was better suited to the environmental conditions. a bacteria is actually a community of bacteria that functions as a single organism. by these very rules, unicellular creatures began to evolve and became multicellular creatures, ultimately comprising complex bodies of plants, animals, and people. 60 from chaos to harmony each distinct element has a personal, egoistic interest. however, the essence of evolution is that elements with personal interest unite into a single body and work for the collective interest of that body. sahtouris regards the process that humanity is presently undergoing as a necessary step to forming a single human family a commun

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

: do evil leaders and dictators in our world have no spiritual souls, since they were destined to punish mankind? a: all souls are a part of the soul of the first man. the soul is a part of the creator from above because it is filled with the light of the creator, depending on the extent of its correction. we cannot see what actually happens to the souls, and certainly not to the souls dressed in bodies of leaders of this world. all of these people, good or bad, are simply robots in the hands of the creator to serve his purpose in this world. it is said about them that their hearts destiny is fully in the hands of the creator( the hearts of ministers and kings are in the hands of god. therefore, everything that happens should be ascribed solely to the creator. q: what connections have they

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

rthest possible one from the creator. in order for a person who obtains a certain part of that collective soul to start the process of correction, the creator did the following: 1. he gave the soul an absolute will to receive, called pride. as a result, man stopped feeling the creator. t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 68 2. he divided the creature into many little particles and placed them in the bodies of our world. q: why are we to be corrected if, in the end, we return to the creator, the same point from which we began? a: the world that we perceive around us tells us more about purposelessness. in the end, the cause of every negative attribute in us and (as we think) in him, is the creator. but in order to understand at least something of the nature around and inside us, we must explai

e reality we live in. it is a science that studies nature s only law. today, we are capable of perceiving only a negligible part of the collective law of reality in the degree of our world. we call that negligible part, this world. c h a p t e r 5. 2 k a b b a l a h i n o u r l i v e s during the 6,000 years of their existence, souls descend to our world in a certain order and clothe the physical bodies of our world, which is the lowest degree of creation in the universe. there is a clear and accurate order of the descent of the souls, from the finest with the least amount of egoism, to the coarsest, most egoistic souls. the first souls to descend are those with the least amount of egoism, whose mere existence in this world is enough to correct them, and they do not need any external influ

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

and more clearly shown. the physical and chemical constituents of all being found to be identical, chemical 212. science may well say that there is no difference between the matter which composes the ox, and that which forms man. but the occult doctrine is far more explicit. it says: not only the chemical compounds are the same, but the same infinitesimal invisible lives compose the atoms of the bodies of the mountain and the daisy, of man and the ant, of the elephant and of the tree which shelters it from the sun. each particle-whether you call it organic or inorganic- is a life(*the secret doctrine, i, 281) 213. in looking, then, at our chequered pavement, those of us who understand the full significance of it are constantly reminded of the omnipresence of life. 214. in ancient egypt th

s were used as symbols thousands of years before christ incarnated in palestine. the first outpouring, typified by the greek cross, prepares the world for the reception of life; it brings into being the material elements, but not bodies formed by their combination. we might have oxygen and hydrogen produced by this outpouring, but not their combination, water; for combination of the elements into bodies of ever-increasing complexity of organized structure and function is the work of the second outpouring of the divine life or power. 288. the second outpouring is indicated by the anchor, for that was originally in egypt a little pendulum swinging over a scale, curved to coincide with the arc of its motion. it is not difficult to see how that might be changed into an anchor, especially among

required. for example, when the j.d. is mentioned a thrill shoots out through the astral levels, and when he is asked what is his situation in the lodge, a deva, having for his lowest vehicle a body of astral matter (what is called in buddhism a kamadeva, at once steps forward and takes up his position above the head of the j.d. at the same time the attention of a number of nature-spirits wearing bodies of astral matter is aroused, and also a great mass of the elemental essence belonging to the third of the great elemental kingdoms is awakened into activity. then when the question as to the duties is asked, the deva captain draws round him those astral myrmidons, and arranges them as he needs them, and at the same time seizes upon the floating mass of elemental essence and welds it into th

e mark degree and the holy royal arch as nominally extensions of the second and third degrees respectively, and they have also a ceremony of installation for the master of a lodge which is practically an additional degree though it is never called so. 733. among the masculine masons only those who belong to the ancient and accepted scottish rite work the higher degrees, though various other small bodies of masons use some of them. the rites of memphis and mizraim used to have a list of 97 degrees, but have now reduced them to 33. nevertheless though many masons do not admit them, these higher degrees are definitely part of the great scheme of freemasonry, standing out as landmarks upon the upward path which leads to conscious union with god, enshrining in their ritual and symbolism a serie

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

the sweet sounds of forest life, that seemed not to break the stillness. 323. he taught by song, by music, music of voice and instrument, carrying a five-stringed musical instrument, probably the origin of apollo s lyre, and he used a pentatonic scale. to this he sang, and wondrous was his music, the angels drawing nigh to listen to the subtle tones; by sound he worked upon the astral and mental bodies of his disciples, purifying and expanding them; by sound he drew the subtle bodies away from the physical, and set them free in the higher worlds. his music was quite different from the sequences, repeated over and over again, by which the same result was brought about in the rootstock of the race, which it carried with it into india. here he worked by melody, not by repetition of similar s

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

mythology, religion and the unknown. 1983. reprint, new york: marshall cavendish, 1995. encyclopedia ofworld art. london:mcgraw-hill, 1960. linfert, carl, hieronymus bosch. new york: harry n. abrams, 1989. the brotherhood of satan a diabolical coven takes over a small town in this 1971 film. the elderly satan worshipers plan to conduct a ritual for the purpose of transferring themselves into the bodies of kidnapped children and continuing their infernal lifestyle into a new generation. brotherhood of the ram the brotherhood of the ram, founded by don blythe in the 1960s, was a satanist organization that operated in southern california from the early 1960s into the 1970s. the name brotherhood of the ram appears to have been taken from a fictional satanist group in dennis wheatley s novel

at she doesn t fit in anywhere in the cliquish st. benedict s academy. she then finds friends in three other outcast girls. together they create their own coven and stumble onto real supernatural power. the craze jack palance plays the owner of a london antique store in this 1973 film. in his spare time, he leads a satanic cult that ritually sacrifices beautiful women. the police keep finding the bodies of the group s victims scattered around the countryside. crime satanic crime, more frequently referred to as occult crime, became a topic of popular interest among law enforcement officials during the heyday of the satanic ritual abuse (sra) scare of the 1980s and 1990s. the category of occult crime was the successor to earlier concerns about ritual murder by magical cults, such as secretiv

der may recall from her or his early education the notion that humanity made the transition from tribal lifestyles to the more complex forms of social organization we call civilization along four great river basins in china, india, egypt, and what is today iraq. a civilization that thousands of years ago existed along the indus river in western india left ruins of sophisticated cities. one of the bodies of ruins was uncovered near harappa; hence this civilization is sometimes referred to as the harappan civilization. 116 hinduism because their written records were apparently composed on perishable materials, we know very little about them or about their religious beliefs. scholars have, however, surmised that some of the basic beliefs of classical hinduism, such as the doctrines of reincar

maleficarum (the witch hammer, 1486) were seemingly obsessed with explaining this process, and devote several sections to explaining its mechanism; for example, devils do indeed collect human semen, by means of which they are able to produce bodily effects; but his cannot be done without some local movement, therefore demons can transfer the semen which they have collected and inject it into the bodies of others (kramer and sprenger [1486] 1970, 28) some demons can collect the semen from living men by assuming the form of succubi, transform themselves into incubi, and then inject semen into women. in other cases, semen is transferred from succubi to incubi. hienrich kramer and james sprenger, the authors of the malleus maleficarum, speculate that this division of labor may arise from the

, edward. buddhist thought in india. 1962. reprint ann arbor: university of michigan press, 1967. stutley,margaret, and james stutley. harper s dictionary of hinduism: its mythology, folklore, philosophy, literature, and history. new york: harper& row, 1977. mark of the devil the devil s mark (latin sigillum diaboli, meaning devil s seal) or witch s mark was a mark supposedly made by satan on the bodies of his new initiates. according to different accounts, this mark was inscribed on the devil s followers by the prince of darkness scratching them with his claw, branding them with an infernal hot iron, or licking them. these marks, which were not ordinary scars, could be red or blue, and were almost always found in hidden places, such as under the arms, under the eyelids, or in bodily orifi

was inscribed on the devil s followers by the prince of darkness scratching them with his claw, branding them with an infernal hot iron, or licking them. these marks, which were not ordinary scars, could be red or blue, and were almost always found in hidden places, such as under the arms, under the eyelids, or in bodily orifices. although belief in the possession of infernal inscriptions on the bodies of witches was universally accepted in the medieval period, descriptions of devil s marks were actually not precise enough to distinguish them from birthmarks and blemishes. there was also the problem of what to do with individuals accused of being in league with satan who did not possess any markings. this problem was solved by postulating that the devil could make his mark invisibly. an a

r mansemat) is the father of all evil, yet subservient to god. this is per the book of jubilees, wherein mastema is described as the angel of adversity. elsewhere,mastema is referred to as the accusing angel, and in hebrew mastema means animosity. mastema works for god to tempt mankind and as an executioner. a large number of demons are under his charge. these evil spirits were born from the dead bodies of giants killed by god that were the offspring of fallen angels and mortal earth women. one legend tells how after the flood god intended to comply with a request of noah s to lock away all of the evil spirits underground. but mastema was able to convince god that it would be wise to allow some of the demons to continue their work, as sinful mortals still needed to be kept in line and have

red in matamatamoros murders 165 moros, mexico, just across the border from brownsville, texas. although many of the murders were directly related to the day-to-day violence of the drug-running business, some of the victims were killed in the belief that sacrificing them would provide the gang with magical protection. after the mutilated body of university of texas student mark kilroy, along with bodies of members of rival gangs, were found buried on the grounds of a mexican ranch, the news media immediately proceeded to sensationalize the story by describing the drug ring as a satanic cult. a number of associated press wires, for instance, bore such titles as satanic cult people questioned and satanic ring member arrested. a story in time magazine referred to the group as a voodoo-practic

buting such dream images to evil spirits who seduced them in their sleep, they could absolve themselves of responsibility for such dreams. to once again cite from pererius: if dreams that are obscene, repulsive and full of cruelty and impiety come so very often to sober, upright and religious men, it is not unjustly held that these dreams proceed from the devil. for the devil tries to pollute the bodies of sleeping men with impure dreams and defile them so that he may make their minds, when they awaken, somehow partners in his foulness (ibid. see also aquinas, thomas; demons; incubi and succubi for further reading: baskin,wade. dictionary of satanism. new york: philosophical library, 1962. eliade,mircea, ed. encyclopedia of religion. new york:macmillan, 1987. guiley, rosemary ellen. the en

es. santerians have, however, rightly pointed out that animal sacrifices are both ancient and ubiquitous in world culture. among those who sacrificed human beings were the celts and druids, who drank the blood of their victims; the aztecs, who often ate the dismembered body of the victims as an act of ritual cannibalism; and the khonds of southern india, who fertilized the soil with pieces of the bodies of the victims. the sacrifice of firstborn children was common in several cultures, such as among the nobility of carthage during the punic wars. the sacrifice of unbaptized children to the devil was part of the negative stereotype of witches during the witch-hunts of the renaissance and reformation.witches were also charged with the cannibalism of infants and children. one of the reasons t

irons, without a formal trial, until may 1692, when the new royal governor sir an afflicted girl demonstrates in court how she had been bewitched (17th century woodcut (library of congress) salvation 237 william phips established a court of oyer and terminer to try the witches. during the course of the trials, 141 people were arrested as suspects, 19 were hanged, and one was pressed to death. the bodies of the sentenced witches were casually placed in shallow graves on salem s gallows hills because, it was believed, witches did not deserve christian burial. according to the legend, the ghosts of the victims still haunt the area. soon neighboring communities such as the town of andover requested that the girls find the witches responsible for a number of problems, including illness, poor cr

s, although some are said to do other kinds of work. they need minimal nourishment. it is said, however, that they cannot be fed salt, which activates their speaking ability as well as an instinct that takes them back to their tombs. it should finally be mentioned that vodoun/voodoo indirectly received some negative media attention in the wake of the matamoros murders in the late 1980s, after the bodies of a university of texas student and the rivals of a drug-running gang were found buried on a mexican ranch. news media analysis of the incident ran the full gamut of speculative pseudoexplanations, referring to the matamoros cult members as satanists, or as practitioners of everything from santeria to vodoun. one sensationalist potboiler on the incident bore the subtitle, the nightmare tal

ampirism; some is possible and probable (child pornography, clever manipulation of victims; and some is corroborated (medical evidence of vaginal or anal trauma, offender confessions. the most significant crimes being alleged that do not seem to be true are the human sacrifice and cannibalism by organized satanic cults. in none of the multidimensional child sex ring cases of which i am aware have bodies of the murder victims been found in spite of major excavations where the abuse victims claim the bodies were located. the alleged explanations for this include: the offenders moved the bodies after the children left, the bodies were burned in portable high-temperature ovens, the bodies were put in double-decker graves under legitimately buried bodies, a mortician member of the cult disposed

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ure.1 quickly send, be brief in it, to the castle; for my writ is on the life lear and on cordelia. nay, send in time (ll. 245-249. and in that last supreme hour of agony he claims regan as his wife, as if by accident; it is not the passionate assertion of a thing doubtful, but the natural reference to a thing well known and indisputable. and in the moment of his despair; confronted with the dead bodies of the splendid sisters, the catafalque of all his hopes, he can exclaim in spiritual triumph over material disaster.the victory of a true man.s spirit over fate .yet edmund was beloved. edgar is left alive with albany, alone of all that crew; and if remorse could touch their brutal and callous souls (for the degeneration of the weakling, well-meaning albany, is a minor tragedy, what hell c

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

as 9 and 10 describe valholl, with its spear shafts, shields, and byrnies within and a wolf and eagle outside. eleven residences are described, but in place of a twelfth, stanza 17 says that vidar fs land grows with brush and high grass. stanzas 18.26 tell about life in valholl, including the food of the einherjar, the many doors, and heidrun and eikthyrnir. stanzas 27.30 catalog rivers and other bodies of water, and 31.35 describe yggdrasil. stanza 36 lists valkyries. stanzas 37.39 are about the heavenly bodies. stanzas 40.41 tell of the creation of the cosmos from the body of ymir. stanza 42 calls down the protection of ull and may therefore be related to the frame. stanzas 43.44 list the best of things. in stanza 45 grimnir says, in galdralag, that he has revealed his face to asir and e

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

accepted by the former and woven into the fabric of patristic philosophy. briefly described, neo-platonism is a philosophic code which conceives every physical or concrete body of doctrine to be merely the shell of a spiritual verity which may be discovered through meditation and certain exercises of a mystic nature. in comparison to the esoteric spiritual truths which they contain, the corporeal bodies of religion and philosophy were considered relatively of little value. likewise, no emphasis was placed upon the material sciences. the term patristic is employed to designate the philosophy of the fathers of the early christian church. patristic philosophy is divided into two general epochs: ante-nicene and post-nicene. the ante-nicene period in the main was devoted to attacks upon paganis

n rome" while apollo most generally represents the sun, bacchus is also a form of solar energy, for his resurrection was accomplished with the assistance of apollo. the resurrection of bacchus signifies merely the extraction or disentanglement of the various parts of the bacchic constitution from the titanic constitution of the world. this is symbolized by the smoke or soot rising from the burned bodies of the titans. the soul is symbolized by smoke because it is extracted by the fire of the mysteries. smoke signifies the ascension of the soul, far evolution is the process of the soul rising, like smoke, from the divinely consumed material mass. at me time the bacchic rites were of a high order, but later they became much degraded. the bacchanalia, or orgies of bacchus, are famous in liter

re holy and good, pure and merciful, and that live piously and religiously, and my presence is an inspiration and a help to them, for when i come they immediately know all things and adore the universal father. before such wise and philosophic ones die, they learn to renounce their senses, knowing that these are the enemies of their immortal souls "i will not permit the evil senses to control the bodies of those who love me, nor will i allow evil emotions and evil thoughts to enter them. i become as a porter or doorkeeper, and shut out evil, protecting the wise from their own lower nature. but to the wicked, the envious and the covetous, i come not, for such cannot understand the mysteries of mind; therefore, i am unwelcome. i leave them to the avenging demon that they are making in their

bear. it is doubtful, however, whether this idea was ever generally accepted. among the egyptians, isis is often represented with a headdress consisting of the empty throne chair of her murdered husband, and this peculiar structure was accepted during certain dynasties as her hieroglyphic. the headdresses of the egyptians have great symbolic and emblematic importance, for they represent the auric bodies of the superhuman intelligences, and are used in the same way that the nimbus, halo, and aureole are used in christian religious art. frank c. higgins, a well-known masonic symbolist, has astutely noted that the ornate headgears of certain gods and pharaohs are inclined backward at the same angle as the earth's axis. the robes, insignia, jewels, and ornamentations of the ancient hierophants

r drinking things which it is unlawful to cat or drink, i have not erred through myself, but through these (pointing to the chest which contained the viscera. the removal of the organs identified as the seat of the appetites was considered equivalent to the purification of the body from their evil influences. so literally did the early christians interpret their scriptures that they preserved the bodies of their dead by pickling them in salt water, so that on the day of resurrection the spirit of the dead might reenter a complete and perfectly preserved body. believing that the incisions necessary to the embalming process and the removal of the internal organs would prevent the return of the spirit to its body, the christians buried their dead without resorting to the more elaborate mummif

ence, the spiritual world is the sphere of causation; the material world is the sphere of effects; while the intellectual--or soul--world is the sphere of mediation. thus christ, the personified higher intellect and soul nature, is called "the mediator" who, by virtue of his position and power, says "no man cometh to the father, but by me" what the sun is to the solar system, the spirit is to the bodies of man; for his natures, organs, and functions are as planets surrounding the central life (or sun) and living upon its emanations. the solar power in man is divided into three parts, which are termed the threefold human spirit of man. all three of these spiritual natures are said to be radiant and transcendent; united, they form the divinity in man. man's threefold lower nature--consisting

nimals are gross and earthy in both appearance and temperament. since the world began, living things have feared the darkness; those few creatures who use it as a shield for their maneuvers were usually connected with the spirit of evil. consequently cats, bats, toads, and owls are associated with witchcraft. in certain parts of europe it is still believed that at night black magicians assume the bodies of wolves and roam around destroying. from this notion originated the stories of the werewolves. serpents, because they lived in the earth, were associated with the spirit of darkness. as the battle between good and evil centers around the use of the generative forces of nature, winged serpents represent the regeneration of the animal nature of man or those great ones in whom this regenerat

ing passed through the divine natures of its twelve eternal hierarchies. the table as a whole is susceptible of many interpretations. if the border of the table with its hieroglyphic figures be accepted as the spiritual source, then the throne in the center represents the physical body within which human nature is enthroned. from this point of view the entire table becomes emblematic of the auric bodies of man, with the border as the outer extremity or shell of the auric egg. if the throne be accepted as the symbol of the spiritual sphere, the border typifies the elements, and the various panels surrounding the central one become emblematic of the worlds or planes emanating from the one divine source. if the table be considered from a purely physical basis, the throne becomes symbolic of t

ose duty it was to interpret and apply them. the communications were then delivered to the poets, who immediately translated them into odes and lyrics, setting forth in exquisite form the statements supposedly made by apollo and making them available for the populace. serpents were much in evidence at the oracle of delphi. the base of the tripod upon which the pythia sat was formed of the twisted bodies of three gigantic snakes. according to some authorities, one of the processes used to produce the prophetic ecstasy was to force the young priestess to gaze into the eyes of a serpent. fascinated and hypnotized, she then spoke with the voice of the god. although the early pythian priestesses were always maidens--some still in their teens--a law was later enacted that only women past fifty y

aid to live above the clouds; the flapping of its wings causes the rumbling which accompanies storms, while the flashes from its eyes are the lightning. birds were used to signify the vital breath; and among the egyptians, mysterious hawklike birds with human heads, and carrying in their claws the symbols of immortality, are often shown hovering as emblems of the liberated soul over the mummified bodies of the dead. in egypt the hawk was the sacred symbol of the sun; and ra, osiris, and horns are often depicted with the heads of hawks. the cock, or rooster, was a symbol of cashmala (cadmillus) in the samothracian mysteries, and is also a phallic symbol sacred to the sun. it was accepted by the greeks as the emblem of ares (mars) and typified watchfulness and defense. when placed in the cen

which drowns the material life. this was indicative of the washing away of the material nature by the baptismal waters of divine light and truth. the drowning of the apis is the symbol of death; the resurrection of osiris in the new bull is the symbol of eternal renovation. the white bull was also symbolically sacred as the appointed emblem of the initiates, signifying the spiritualized material bodies of both man and nature. when the vernal equinox no longer occurred in the sign of taurus, the sun god incarnated in the constellation of aries and the ram then became the vehicle of the solar power. thus the sun rising in the sign of the celestial lamb triumphs over the symbolic serpent of darkness. the lamb is a familiar emblem of purity because of its gentleness and the whiteness of its w

ggle, by the secret doctrine--the greek army under the command of agamemnon. click to enlarge neas and the harpies. from virgil's neid (dryden's translation) among the mythological creatures of the mysteries were the harpies--projections into material substance of beings existing in the invisible world of nature. they were described the greeks as being composite, with the heads of maidens and the bodies of birds. the wings of the harpies were composed of metal and their flight was, accompanied by a terrible clanging noise. during his wanderings, neas, the trojan hero, landed on the island of the harpies, where he and his followers vainly battled with these monsters. one of the harpies perched upon a cliff and there prophesied to neid that his attack upon them would bring dire calamity to t

spreading protection of toadstools. fairies are the delight of childhood, and most children give them up with reluctance. not so very long ago the greatest minds of the world believed in the existence of fairies, and it is still an open question as to whether plato, socrates, and iamblichus were wrong when they avowed their reality. paracelsus, when describing the substances which constitute the bodies of the elementals, divided flesh into two kinds, the first being that which we have all inherited through adam. this is the visible, corporeal flesh. the second was that flesh which had not descended from adam and, being more attenuated, was not subject to the limitations of the former. the bodies of the elementals were composed of this transubstantial flesh. paracelsus stated that there is

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

tablished systems of irrational thought as organized religion, be it christianity, judaism, or buddhism. organized religion, let me emphasize. of course, there are many other ironclad systems of thought without occult bases which have been imposed upon the public mind from time to time, such as communism, fascism, or capitalism, but these at least function under the pretence of ministering to the bodies of mankind rather than to the good of the soul, whatever that might be. the domain of witchcraft is the realm of the unseen and the point at which it impinges upon man's psyche, and as it is in this very same area that the various churches have sought to dabble their fingers, it is with these institutions that we witches take issue in principle. ironically, you will find that all the innova

MEANING OF MASONRY

y laid and implanted within himself; and he is charged to develop it; to create a superstructure upon it. two paths are open to him at this stage, a path of light and a path of darkness; a path of good and a path of evil. the n.e. corner is the symbolical dividing place between the two. in symbolical language, the n. always signifies the place of imperfection and undevelopment; in olden times the bodies of suicides, reprobates and unbaptized children were always buried in the north or sunless side of a churchyard. the seat of the junior members of the craft is allotted to the north, for, symbolically, it represents the condition of the spiritually unenlightened man; the novice in whom the spiritual light latent within him has not yet risen above the horizon of consciousness and dispers ed

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

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

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

rushed, or as if their skin was spread out flat over the body of a gigantic cockroach. they are spirits of the air and relate to begetting the new behemoth is the point of mastery of the earth from the spirit by continual force. neshimiron pisces (feb 18 march 19th -mutable water they neshimiron appear as stagnant watery blue, their forms are as hideous hag- women, almost skeletons, united to the bodies of serpents and fishes. the fish swim out of their sexual organs as well. the vampyre magickian may drain and utilize them to drain others from the dream. their instincts and emotions are powerful persuasion tools against another. they make excellent servitors as well. they demand a 60 sexual (masturbation or copulation) sacrifice upon their talisman. luciferian witch kings and queens in th

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

ord genie. unlike many religions (christianity to name one, muslims have been given more detailed information regarding the beings in the spirit world, and since much of these details are echoed by those in the occult, the muslim perspective regarding the spirit world is worth reviewing here. muslims believe that the jinn were created before mankind and are beings are free-will (to an extent. the bodies of the jinn are said to be made of smokeless flame, while humans are said to be made of clay, and angels of light. the jinn may come in many forms, but the most common forms are those of spirits, of man, and snakes; there are many reports throughout the scriptures of islam of jinn in human form. jinn are said to cause strife and illness among humans and, although not all jinn are evil, deli

tells eve that the forbidden fruit will remake her as the gods. that s quite a claim! christians have long interpreted the fruit of eden as fruit of the more literal variety (which is just laughable. and, as stated in chapter 1, the pyramid is also a symbol of humanity s ascension into godhood. the powers of the vampire involve the conscious manipulation and liberty of the astral body. the astral bodies of humans is usually tightly bound to the material body, only in the deepest of dreams, in astral travel, and in death itself will the human experience liberation of the 2 bodies. vampires can fly the night sky while their material bodies remain lying in the bed. vampires may also reach out with their senses and steal lifeforce and even whisper into the minds of others. in popular culture t

bite of the vampire is also symbolic for the rite of transformation. vampires feed in the manner that all vampiric spirits feed, by coming into close proximity to a human, reaching out, and drawing life-energy out of their target s aura. the vampire extends from himself what are often described as thin, silvery threads which act as tubes or channels in which to siphon life-force from the etheric bodies of humans. so even though physical blood does indeed contain the lifeforce, vampires usually feed on humans that have gathered in large groups. in the midst of a human crowd, the vampire can siphon life-force from people as they walk by; this is a common method of feeding among vampires. the astral body of a vampire feeding from a sleeping human is another common method for feeding. places

replenish themselves; many vampires could survive taking only trace amounts of life-force from those around them. but to all vampires, the act of feeding is too pleasurable, regardless of its lack of need. some vampires are made sick by food, especially when they re low on life-force. vampires can live relatively normal day-lives, it s their night-life that s different. when sleeping, the astral bodies of the vampires detaches from their physical completely, which allows them to soar into the sky and travel the dreaming world. vampires often use this time to feed life-force from sleeping humans, and to come into astral congregation with each other. i m sure vampire nation doesn t like me calling them out like this. and i have received many veiled death threats in the past, so if something

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

it faces a "judgment" in which a divine being displays before the soul all the things-=both good and bad-which it has done in its life and makes the soul face them. in book x of the republic perhaps the most striking similarity of all occurs. there plato recounts the myth of er, a greek soldier. er went away to a battle in which many greeks were killed, and when his countrymen went to collect the bodies of their war dead his body was among them. it was lain, along with all the others, upon a funeral pyre to be burned. after some time his body revived, and er described what he had seen in his journey to the realms beyond. first of all, er said, his soul went out of his body, he joined with a group of other spirits, and they went to a place where there were "openings" or "passage: ways" appa

ement of enlightenment and to the discovery of other realms of existence. the experience of dying could, then, be another such pathway, and all this would help to account for the resemblance of drug-induced experiences like the one given above to near-death experiences. 2. physiological explanations physiology is that branch of biology which deals with the functions of the cells, organs and whole bodies of living beings, and with the interrelationships among these functions. a physiological explanation of near-death phenomena which i have often heard proposed is that, since the oxygen supply to the brain is cut off during clinical death and some other kinds of severe bodily stress, the phenomena perceived must represent some sort of last compensatory gasp of the dying brain. the main thing

MORALS AND DOGMA

ble to hear how the patients mockingly reproached each other with their disorders and infirmities: how one, who was wasted by consumption, jeered at another who was bloated by dropsy: how one laughed at another's cancer of the face; and this one again at his neighbor's lock-jaw or squint; until at last the delirious fever-patient sprang out of his bed, and tore away the coverings from the wounded bodies of his companions, and nothing was to be seen but hideous misery and mutilation. such is the revolting work in which journalism and political partisanship, and half the world outside of masonry, are engaged. very generally, the censure bestowed upon men's acts, by those who have appointed and commissioned themselves keepers of the public morals, is undeserved. often it is not only undeserve

s and sobriety, a certain moderation and restraint, a certain pressure of circumstances, are good for man. his body was not made for luxuries. it sickens, sinks, and dies under them. his mind was not made for indulgence. it grows weak, effeminate, and dwarfish, under that condition. and he who pampers his body with luxuries and his mind with indulgence, bequeaths the consequences to the minds and bodies of his descendants, without the wealth which was their cause. for wealth, without a law of entail to help it, has always lacked the energy even to _keep_ its own treasures. they drop from its imbecile hand. the third generation almost inevitably goes down the rolling wheel of fortune, and there learns the energy necessary to rise again, if it rises at all; heir, as it is, to the bodily dise

latter times, did, perhaps many initiates read rightly the allegory. the triple-walled prison, which the condemned soul first met, round which swelled and surged the fiery waves of phlegethon, wherein rolled roaring, huge, blazing rocks; the great gate with columns of adamant, which none save the gods could crush; tisiphone, their warder, with her bloody robes; the lash resounding on the mangled bodies of the miserable unfortunates, their plaintive groans, mingled in horrid harmony with the clashings of their chains; the furies, lashing the guilty with their snakes; the awful abyss where hydra howls with its hundred heads, greedy to devour; tityus, prostrate, and his entrails fed upon by the cruel vulture: sisyphus, ever rolling his rock; ixion on his wheel; tantalus tortured by eternal t

hing that the gods were but mortal men, who for their great virtues and signal services had deserved that their souls should, after death, be raised to that lofty rank. it being taught in the mysteries, either by way of allegory, the meaning of which was not made known except to a select few, or, perhaps only at a later day, as an actual reality, that the souls of the vicious dead passed into the bodies of those animals to whose nature their vices had most affinity, it was also taught that the soul could avoid these transmigrations, often successive and numerous, by the practice of virtue, which would acquit it of them, free it from the circle of successive generations, and restore it at once to its source. hence nothing was so ardently prayed for by the initiates, says proclus, as this ha

its former condition, with its essential immortality? in truth, we for the most part dread and shrink from any attempt at explanation of it to ourselves. dragged down by the heaviness produced by this inebriating draught, the soul falls along the zodiac and the milky way to the lower spheres, and in its descent not only takes, in each sphere, a new envelope of the material composing the luminous bodies of the planets, but receives there the different faculties which it is to exercise while it inhabits the body. in saturn, it acquires the power of reasoning and intelligence, or what is termed the logical and contemplative faculty. from jupiter it receives the power of action. mars gives it valor, enterprise, and impetuosity. from the sun it receives the senses and imagination, which produc

otherhood; and teaching us these great lessons: that as matter changes ever, but no single atom is annihilated, it is not rational to suppose that the far nobler soul does not continue to exist beyond the grave: that many thousands who have died before us might claim to be joint owners with ourselves of the particles that compose our mortal bodies; for matter ever forms, new combinations; and the bodies of the ancient dead, the patriarchs before and since the flood, the kings and common people of all ages, resolved into their constituent elements, are carried upon the wind over all continents, and continually enter into and form part of the habitations of new souls, creating new bonds of sympathy and brotherhood between each man that lives and all his race. and thus, in the bread we eat, a

ions of new souls, creating new bonds of sympathy and brotherhood between each man that lives and all his race. and thus, in the bread we eat, and in the wine we drink to-night _may_ enter into and form part of us the identical particles of matter that once formed parts of the material bodies called moses, confucius, plato, socrates, or jesus of nazareth. in the truest sense, we eat and drink the bodies of the dead; and cannot say that there is a single atom of our blood or body, the ownership of which some other soul might not dispute with us. it teaches us also the infinite beneficence of god who sends us seed-time and harvest, each in its season, and makes his showers to fall and his sun to shine alike upon the evil and the good: bestowing upon us unsolicited his innumerable blessings

aside or disfigured the pure belief in the eternal uncreated spirit. the great powers and elements of nature, and the vital principle of production and procreation through all generations; then the celestial spirits or heavenly host, the luminous armies of the stars, and the great sun, and mysterious, ever-changing moon (all of which the whole ancient world regarded not as mere globes of light or bodies of fire, but as animated living substances, potent over man's fate and destinies; next the genii and tutelar spirits, and even the souls of the dead, received divine worship. the animals, representing the starry constellations, first reverenced as symbols merely, came to be worshipped as gods; the heavens, earth, and the operations of nature were personified; and fictitious personages inven

tion of his own being, desired to manifest his perfections outwardly of himself; and created the matter of the world. the four elements being thus produced, but still mingled in confusion, he breathed upon the waters, which swelled up into an immense ball in the shape of an egg, and, developing themselves, became the vault and orb of heaven which encircles the earth. having made the earth and the bodies of animal beings, this god, the essence of movement, gave to them, to animate them, a portion of his own being. thus, the soul of everything that breathes being a fraction of the universal soul, none perishes; but each soul merely changes its mould and form, by passing successively into different bodies. of all forms, that which most pleases the divine being is man, as nearest approaching h

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

e uncles of meleager, however, forcibly took the hide from the maiden, claiming their right to the spoil as next of kin, if meleager resigned it. artemis, whose anger was still unappeased, caused a violent quarrel to arise between uncles and nephew, and, page 99 in the struggle which ensued, meleager killed his mother's brothers, and then restored the hide to atalanta. when althea beheld the dead bodies of the slain heroes, her grief and anger knew no bounds. she swore to revenge the death of her brothers on her own son, and unfortunately for him, the instrument of vengeance lay ready to her hand. at the birth of meleager, the moirae, or fates, entered the house of oeneus, and pointing to a piece of wood then burning on the hearth, declared that as soon as it was consumed the babe would su

dings that his wife eurydice, on hearing of the death of hamon, had put an end to her existence, and thus the king found himself in his old age both widowed and childless. nor did he succeed in the execution of his vindictive designs; for adrastus, who, after his flight from thebes, had taken refuge at athens, induced theseus to lead an army against the thebans, to compel them to restore the dead bodies of the argive warriors to page 309 their friends, in order that they might perform due funereal rites in honour of the slain. this undertaking was successfully accomplished, and the remains of the fallen heroes were interred with due honours. the epigoni. ten years after these events the sons of the slain heroes, who were called epigoni, or descendants, resolved to avenge the death of their

ONYX TABLET OF SET

to each individual psyche and to any subsequent process developed. anne rice in her third book of the vampyre chronicles, queen of the damned, offers a model for the origins of the vampyre which would be worthy of comparison to the prince of darkness [this theme continues in her witching hour series] amel, a spirit force which could draw the blood of corporal humans, entered the mortally-wounded bodies of akasha and enkil. this transformed them beyond the normal realms of the flesh. in rice's fictional account there is no further mention of amel. it was as though the nature of "his" existence was transformed through the flesh of humans. akasha and enkil retained their individuality and human souls, and began an entirely different experience of existence. we could apply this metaphorically

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

border with the country of the pitjatjantjara people. the part of the story that involves what happened during the time that the fire drove the jangala brothers across this border belongs to the pitjatjantjara. death site this is ngarra, a salt lake, where the two jangala stopped, too exhausted to go any further. it is a sacred site, where only men may go. the two vertical lines below it are the bodies of the two dead sons. tracks of the old man the hunting tracks of the old man lead to ngama, the snake cave. it is from the rainbow snake (see p. 105) that the old man derived his magical powers. power over fire is an attribute of aboriginal shamans, or men of high degree. among the kattang-speaking people who occupied the northern shore of port stephens, the initiation ceremony involved a

gether his special sticks and saying, it s good, all of it! he came to one place where people had set up camp and he could hear them cutting down trees. seeing their fires burning and their food prepared, he ran toward it and declared the meal sacred. he ate all the big pieces of food and left only the scraps for the people of the camp. this happened many times until, finally, he began to eat the bodies of dead children. this was the final insult and the arnhem land people took their spears, sticks, and spear-throwers and put him and his wives to death. sacred designs lumaluma s body is covered with designs that he cut into his skin before his death to demonstrate the mareiin ceremony. these crisscross ocher designs tell sacred stories of each man s ancestral country. other elements of lum

e chief vedic (early indian) gods, his role gradually diminished, as many of his attributes were taken over by either shiva or skanda (with whom agni was briefly and agonizingly pregnant during skanda s highly complicated conception and gestation. while shiva s fire will devour the world at doomsday, agni s both consumes and purifies the dirt and sin of this world; for this reason hindus burn the bodies of their dead. the purifying power of agni s fire was granted him by the sage bhrigu. bhrigu abducted another man s wife, and the injured husband asked agni, who knew all homes, where she was to be found. agni told him, and bhrigu was so angry that he cursed fire god to eat everything in his path, whether pure or impure. agni argued that as a god he had to tell the truth, so bhrigu granted

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

s. perception is existent through the use of all senses available. experience and knowledge is the faustian key to the next step of evolutie the spurious rites of memphis and misraim albert pike, d d x& william l. cummings, d d x whatever the merits of the egyptian rite, or rite of memphis may be, it is quite sure that it is not generally recognized as a legitimate rite of free- masonry; that the bodies of it in the united states of america are entitled to and receive no consideration, it having been constantly used here for purposes of private profit; and that elsewhere in the world it has only here and there two or three isolated supreme powers which cannot be recognized by nor have relations of correspondence and amity with, those of the ancient and accepted scottish rite. xalbert pike

a lodge under the obedience of the grand orient of france. this being the case, are we to inquire whence they come, and to what obedience they have belonged? no.all we require to know is, if they are masons, and if their brethren know them as such. well! their character of masons is incontestable. the masons of the rite of mizraim, like those of the scottish rite. are admitted as visitors in the bodies of the grand orient; and when one of them seeks affiliation with one of our lodges, it is granted as if he had been initiated in a lodge of the french rite. french rite, scottish rite, rite of memphis, rite of mizraim, what do these words signify? in the dogmatic point of view, in the scientific point of view, nothing, absolutely nothing.they represent differences altogether insignificant

degrees, was afterwards expanded to thirty-three degrees and now constitutes the well-known and entirely legitimate ancient and accepted scottish rite of freemasonry. this rite is controlled by regularly organized supreme councils, the oldest of which is that for the southern jurisdiction of the united states of america, organized at charleston, south carolina, in b i a b, to which all legitimate bodies of this rite can mediately or immediately trace their origin. while in english-speaking countries, with one or two minor exceptions, the first three degrees of this rite are never practiced, the remaining degrees being conferred only upon those who have received the symbolic degrees in bodies regularly chartered by grand lodges, in some countries, notably the latin- american ones, it is alm

e adoption of such a reduction will be attended with bad results k. resolved that we will not acknowledge or subscribe any such reduction of degrees. k21 a new governing body of the rite of memphis was accordingly established with calvin c.burt as grand master.meetings were held in b i g i, b i h b, b i h e, and b i h i in various western cities, the records of these meetings showing that several bodies of the rite had been established and had a considerable membership.22 burt, too, had a rather hectic masonic career.he was expelled by the grand lodge of new jersey in b i g g, charges having been preferred in b i g e, but in b i g i the action of the grand lodge was rescinded on a purely technical point,namely that sufficient time had not elapsed between service of notice on burt and the t

commander of the so-called cerneau supreme council.2. guild was also identified with this illegal scottish rite organization.many other instances might be cited, but those already given will suffice. grand lodges frown upon spurious rites and degrees while the various state grand lodges admit that chapters of royal arch masons,councils of royal& select masters,commanderies of knights templar, and bodies of the ancient accepted scottish rite, working under the authority of regular grand bodies, are a part of legitimate masonry, they have quite generally taken the stand that such organizations as the rites ofmisraim and memphis have no legal status, and a number of them, by constitutional amendment or edict of the grand master, have forbidden members of their lodges in their jurisdiction to

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

old them to do whatever joseph had commanded. as we have explained elsewhere:16 the 130 years that the israelites were in egypt prior to the birth of moses were spent in gathering in the sparks of holy souls which adam had discharged by wasting his seed in the 130 years prior to the birth of his son seth, who was the very same aspect as moses.17 initially, these souls had been incarnated into the bodies of the people who lived during the time of the flood. however, they wantonly spilled their seed upon the earth, following their roots and the place from whence they were drawn. they were then reincarnated in the generation of the tower of babel [but again they did not rectify the sin of adam and the following generations. now, once again, they had been reincarnated as egyptians. joseph had

17:8. 9 similar (although not identical) passages to this occur in eichah rabbah 1; midrash tehilim 119:32. 10 leviticus 17:13. after any animal is slaughtered in the ritual manner, its blood must be covered with dirt. the arizal on parashat shoftim 747 [o g-d, nations have come into your inheritance, they have defiled your holy temple, they have laid jerusalem in heaps. they have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food to the birds of the sky, the flesh of your pious ones to the beasts of the earth] they have shed their blood like water around jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.11 for the blood she shed is still in her; she set it upon a bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with earth.12 you wrote in your torah: you shall not slaughter [any ani

rces of evil, for it is beautiful.a princess gas beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun h11 that was sullied by the impurity of the sickness of the house of sin [g-d says] gi command you to desire her! h this is why it is written, g cand you will desire her, h as if it were a commandment. g cand you take her as a wife, h meaning that she should not be cut off [from you, reincarnated amongst the bodies of the wicked, or as a dog or some other impure being. rather, she should be your wife, and no one else fs. if the person does not repent and reclaim his soul, it will have to be purified by other means, among which is reincarnation. 8 sanhedrin 64a. 9 psalms 50:16. 10 job 20:15. 11 song of songs 6:10. the arizal on parashat ki teitzei (2) 786 g cand you shall take her into your house, h me

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

o alternating life through varying vehicles. but as they were divided asunder, being by intellectual fire distributed into other intellectuals. for the king of all previously placed before the polymorphous world, by which the universe shines forth decked with ideas all various, of which the foundation is one and alone. from this: the others rush forth distributed and separated through the various bodies of the universe and are borne in swarms through its vast abysses, ever whirling forth in illimitable radiation. they are intellectual conceptions from the paternal fountain, partaking abundantly of the brilliance of fire in the culmination of unresting time. but the primary, self-perfect fountain of the father pours forth these primogenial ideas. these being many, ascend flashingly into the

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

. such drudges go under the name of brounies [brownies. when we have plenty, they have scarcity at their homes; and on the contrary, for they are not empowered to catch as much prey as they please everywhere. their robberies not withstanding, oftentimes [they] occasion great ricks of corn not to bleed so well, as they call it, or to prove so copious by very far as was expected by the owner. their bodies of congealed air are sometimes carried aloft, while others grovel in different shapes, and enter into any cranny or cleft of the earth where air enters [as if] to their ordinary dwellings. the earth being full of cavities and cells, and there being no place or creature but is supposed to have other animals, greater or lesser, living in, or upon it, as inhabitants; and [there is] no such thi

ing the souls of their predecessors to dwell therein. and to that end, they say, a mote or mount was dedicated beside every church-yard, to receive the souls http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_30.htm (1 of 8 [10/9/2001 12:34:46 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 30-39) until their adjacent bodies arise, and so [the church's artificial mound] becomes as a fairyhill [meanwhile] they use bodies of air when called [to travel] abroad [that is, about. they [the seers] also affirm [that] those creatures that move invisibly in a house, and cast huge great stones, but do not much hurt because counter-wrought by some more courteous and charitable spirits that are everywhere ready to defend men (as in daniel 10:13) to be souls that have not attained their rest [such souls are active] thro

courteous endeavours of our fellow creatures in the invisible world to convince us, in opposition to sadducees, socinians, and atheists, of a deity [and] of spirits [and] of a possible and harmless method of correspondence betwixt men and them, even in this life [and to convince us] of their operations for our caution and warning [and] of the orders and degrees of angels, whereof one order, with bodies of air condensed and curiously shaped, may be next to man [that is, humankind, superior to him in understanding, yet unconfirmed; and of their region [of] habitation and influences on man, greater than that of the stars upon inanimate bodies. a knowledge reserved for these last atheistic ages, wherein the profanity of men's lives has debauched and blinded their understandings as to moses, j

airy entities and helpers, of which he gives further examples in more exalted circumstances. a parallel is found in the simple household gods of pagan cultures: small shrines and offerings were kept in roman households, for example, to very basic deities. these were at the 'lower' end of the scale of divinities, just as the brownies are at the lower end of the scale of fairy beings. page 22 their bodies of congealed air are sometimes carried aloft, while [at] others [they] grovel in different shapes, and enter into any cranny or cleft of the earth where air enters [as if] to their ordinary dwellings. the earth being full of cavities and cells, and http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_72.htm (5 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:35:48 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 72-81) there being no plac

may be discovered at home by wounds appearing on the body, often of a quite respectable and hitherto unsuspected person, resulting from wounds inflicted elsewhere upon their astral double or animal shape. the fairies have only one body, that of lightened, refined, less gross substance, which when assaulted or divided by a blow reunites itself. kirk again makes the distinction between these subtle bodies of air, by which he means metaphysical air rather than gaseous air, and the usual astral double or assumed form that may be taken by humans. commentary 93 http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_92.htm (1 of 9 [10/9/2001 12:36:14 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 92-101) page 28 some men say their continual sadness is because of their. unchangeable condition. but other men of the se

n when abroad, but may in time, as kirk suggests, come to some acquaintance with the spirits of the lands in which he or she find themselves. now follows a series of biblical citations concerning the subtle or aery body. the concept of elemental air should not be confused with gaseous air, but is used repeatedly by kirk to define the lightest and most mobile of materialized energies. thus air and bodies of air are really the highest octave of matter, so light, subtle and changeable that it may not be seen without special visual faculties. following the biblical citations, we find the classical sources of authority for kirk's thesis: pythagoras, socrates, plato, dionysus areopagita, and the poets. and if we doubt kirk's learning at all after this array of evidence, he cites dr. moore, and c

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gic. sadly, it is symptomatic of a global death-march in the physical sense as well. masses of humans are entrenched in a few groups of masses of humans. these masses plot against other masses for political, religious, or societal classification. in the psychological and personal senses, a very few as yet have hopes for a hari seldon-type of escape. the present foundation exists in the biological bodies of a handful of individuals. not enough to make much difference, but enough to forward for themselves that same, personalized effort of times gone by. to perfect the state of life, to enhance the quality of the present, and to escape the fate of the near-future. barbarism 6 early christian 8 early medieval 9-11 age of chivalry 12-13 renaissance 14 1700-1900 15 1900-1960 16 "soaring sixties"

the sun, they make a circle; the moon a crescent. tropically they do properly traduce, and transfer, and express by exchanging some things, and variously transfiguring others. thus when they deliver the praises of kings, in theological fables, they write by anaglyphicks. of the third kind, by aenigms, let this be an example: all other stars, by reason of their oblique course, they likened to the bodies of serpents. but the sun to that of a beetle, because having formed a ball of cow-dung, and lying upon its back, it rolls it about (from claw to claw. the sphinx: once again there is more here than meets the eye. it is possible that iamblicus or one of the other sources could have made up the other details of a trip by pythagoras to egypt, but here we seem to have conclusive proof. both of

ctivities do not merely stem from the fear of social reproach, but rather have their roots in the very core principles of these philosophies. as anton lavey points out in the section of the satanic bible satirically entitled on the choice of a human sacrifice: there are sound and logical reasons why the satanist could not perform such sacrifices. the purest form of carnal existence reposes in the bodies of animals and children who have not grown old enough to deny themselves their natural desires. they can perceive things that the average adult human can never hope to. therefore, the satanist holds these beings in a sacred regard, knowing he can learn much from these natural magicians of the world.10 michael aquino also goes to great pains to demonstrate why human and animal sacrifices are

ampirism; some is possible and probable (child pornography, clever manipulation of victims; and some is corroborated (medical evidence of vaginal or anal trauma, offender confessions. the most significant crimes being alleged that do not seem to be true are the human sacrifice and cannibalism by organized satanic cults. in none of the multidimensional child sex ring cases of which i am aware have bodies of the murder victims been found- in spite of major excavations where the abuse victims claim the bodies were located. the alleged explanations for this include: the offenders moved the bodies after the children left, the bodies were burned in portable high-temperature ovens, the bodies were put in double-decker graves under legitimately buried bodies, a mortician member of the cult dispose

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

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

at my enemies have a point. damn sight better to kill the bastards, i've always thought. neatest bloody solution" the sword has remained sheathed in its leather scabbard since the day of his conversion by his nephew, but tonight, he confides to the valet "the lion is loose. peace will have to wait" it is the last night of the festival of ibrahim. jahilia is masquerade and madness. the oiled fatty bodies of the wrestlers have completed their writhings and the seven poems have been nailed to the walls of the house of the black stone. now singing whores replace the poets, and dancing whores, also with oiled bodies, are at work as well; night-wrestling replaces the daytime variety. the courtesans dance and sing in golden, bird-beaked masks, and the gold is reflected in their clients' shining e

gan of the new, manyheaded being. seventy abreast, the people walk gravely towards the empress's gates. in front of which her household guards are waiting in three ranks, lying, kneeling and standing, with machine-guns at the ready. the people are walking up the slope towards the guns; seventy at a time, they come into range; the guns babble, and they die, and then the next seventy climb over the bodies of the dead, the guns giggle once again, and the hill of the dead grows higher. those behind it commence, in their turn, to climb. in the dark doorways of the city there are mothers with covered heads, pushing their beloved sons into the parade _go, be a martyr, do the needful, die "you see how they love me" says the disembodied voice "no tyranny on earth can withstand the power of this slo

SATANGEL

e who drifted further out fell into the lower dimensions. those who fell further still took on human form, whilst those who drifted the furthest became demonic. he further speculates that men can thus become as angels or devils through their own doing, as angels may become human or demonic and visa versa; when intended for the more imperfect spirits, it becomes solidified, thickens, and forms the bodies of this visible world. if it is serving higher intelligences, it shines with the brightness of the celestial bodies, and serves as a garb for the angels of god. the concept of the evil one is essential in any religion that preaches redemption, for there must be something to be overcome. it is an old truth that the devil is the church s greatest ally, keeping it in business. during the next

a and the storms. he commands you, accursed devil, who ordered that you be cast from the heights of heaven to the depths of the earth. nor should you be unaware, satan and beelzebuch, that pains and torments will come upon you in the day of judgement and in that eternal day when god will come like a fiery furnace to judge the living 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 proph

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, taking into consideration the biased sources of the stories. on the contrary, as with all "holy" lies which are accepted without reservation, this assumed modus operandi of the satanists persists to this day! there are sound and logical reasons why the satanists could not perform such sacrifices. man, the animal, is the godhead to the satanist. the purest form of carnal existence reposes in the bodies of animals and human children who have not grown old enough to deny themselves their natural desires. they can perceive things that the average adult human can never hope to. therefore, the satanist holds these beings in a sacred regard, knowing he can learn much from these natural magicians of the world. the satanist is aware of the universal custom of the treader of the path of agarthi; t

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

loser to their dead relatives and loved ones. visits to important temples, such as those at luxor and karnak, were also important pilgrimages. abydos is an ancient holy place in egypt. it was believed that the god osiris s head was sent to abydos after he was assassinated and dismembered by his brother set. pilgrims began to preserving the dead the process called mummification helped preserve the bodies of ancient egyptians, making them suitable for the afterlife. moisture is needed for the decay of a human or animal body. in ancient egypt, a very arid or dry land, the mummification process was accomplished by making the dead body very dry. the first mummies found date from about 2900 bce, and the process improved slowly over time. the basic technique of mummification involves taking all t

marduk. sin: the moon god. he is also known as nanna. he is lord of the calendar and oversees the seasons. sin wears a beard of the blue stone lapis lazuli and rides a winged bull. gods of the egyptian pantheon amen: called the king of gods. amen, also spelled amon or amun, was often combined with ra, or re. amen-ra was an even more powerful god. anubis: the god of embalming, or of preserving the bodies of the dead. anubis is depicted as a jackal or as a man with the head of a jackal. horus: the god of the sky. horus is the child of osiris and isis. after set killed osiris, horus fought set for the rule of egypt. he is represented by the image of a hawk or as a man with a hawk s head. the pharaoh was considered to be the living horus. isis: a protective goddess. isis was important to egypt

ll showiness is to be avoided. death is regarded as the will of allah, and so it is something to be met with dignity and courage. after a person dies, mourners recite passages of the qur an, and the body is washed and wrapped. it is generally taken to a mosque, where prayers are recited. the mourners then form a procession, and the body is carried to a cemetery as the mourners recite prayers. the bodies of muslims are buried on their right sides, with the deceased facing mecca. islam s influences islam s influence on the world has been enormous. in historical terms, from about the year 500 to 1000, islamic scholars were responsible for keeping alive much of the knowledge of ancient greece and rome. this period in european history is sometimes known as the dark ages because of the lack of c

ef not founded on reality, often a belief in the magical power of objects or the magical effects of certain actions. bigotry: prejudice, narrowmindedness. brethren: members of the same community or family. constitution: makeup, combined parts. mosque: place of worship in the religion of islam. idol: a physical object that is worshipped as if it were a god. assent: voicing of agreement. doctrines: bodies of ideas taught as truths in religion. fetishism: worship of an object thought to have magical powers. absolutism: belief in a being who is without limits and beyond human control. compulsory: required. 116 world religions: primary sources paper on hinduism of the material man, and the same god is the inspirer of all of them. why, then, are there so many contradictions? they are only appare

. thus i say. there are beings living in water, many lives; of a truth, to the monks water has been declared to be living matter. see! considering the injuries (done to water-bodies, those acts (which are injuries, but must be done before the use of water, e.g. straining) have been distinctly declared. moreover he (who uses water which is not strained) takes away what has not been given (i.e. the bodies of water-lives (a bauddha will object: we have permission, we have permission to drink it, or (to take it) for toilet purposes. thus they destroy by various injuries (the water-bodies. but in this their doctrine is of no authority. he who injures these (water-bodies) does not comprehend and renounce the sinful acts; he who does not injure these, comprehends and renounces the sinful acts. kn

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

tage, men wiped their eyes, and women sobbed aloud "by heavens" said a neapolitan of great rank "she has fired me beyond endurance. to-night this very night she shall be mine! you have arranged all, mascari "all, signor. and the young englishman "the presuming barbarian! as i before told thee, let him bleed for his folly. i will have no rival "but an englishman! there is always a search after the bodies of the english "fool! is not the sea deep enough, or the earth secret enough, to hide one dead man? our ruffians are silent as the grave itself; and i! who would dare to suspect, to arraign the prince di? see to it, this night. i trust him to you. robbers murder him, you understand, the country swarms with them; plunder and strip him, the better to favour such report. take three men; the re

eir leaders. but when the venetian proveditore, or authority, of the island, came to examine into the matter, the most unaccountable mystery was the manner in which these ruffians had met their fate. zanoni had not stirred from the apartment in which he ordinarily pursued his chemical studies. none of the servants had even been disturbed from their slumbers. no marks of human violence were on the bodies of the dead. they died, and made no sign. from that moment zanoni's house nay, the whole vicinity was sacred. the neighbouring villages, rejoiced to be delivered from a scourge, regarded the stranger as one whom the pagiana (or virgin) held under her especial protection. in truth, the lively greeks around, facile to all external impressions, and struck with the singular and majestic beauty

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

museum (no. 29,224; it was found at kurna near thebes and belongs to the period of the xith dynasty, about b.c. 2600. the name of the man for whom it was made (he appears to have been an official of the temple of amen) was traced on it in light coloured paint which was afterwards varnished; there are no "words of power" on this interesting object. when once the custom of burying scarabs with the bodies of the dead became recognized, the habit of wearing them as ornaments by the living came into fashion, and as a result scarabs of almost every sort and kind may be found by the thousand in many collections, and it is probable that the number of varieties of them was only limited by the ability of those who manufactured them in ancient days to invent new sorts. the use of the scarab amulet p

hat the artist had not the remotest idea of the meaning of the things which he was writing. it is possible that they were employed largely by the poor, among whom they seem to have served the purpose of the costly tomb. returning once more to the subject of wax figures, it may be wondered why such a very large proportion of the figures of the gods which were worn by the living and attached to the bodies of the dead as amulets are made of almost every kind of substance except wax. but the reason of this is not far to seek: wax is a substance which readily changes its form under heat and pressure, and it is also possible that the fact of its having been employed from time immemorial for making figures which were intended to work harm and not good to man, induced those who made amulets in the

SIX ANGLED RITE OF THE ROYAL SUN OF THE GOAT LORD

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 stream: heavenly steel, earthly steel, the mark of cain is red lifted above, a touch to the forehead above bodies of men struck dead sigil 6: the sign of the spring equinox invocatory name: bhouck (boo k) poetic stream: spring, the year's faithful king fire in every leaf and furrow life from below, risen above to return on water down below once you have placed the last implement on it's sigil, bow your head again to the east and return to the center. here, you will go down to one knee, bow your head, a

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

even communities. 128 hence we must understand them as seven different ways to the divine, each in itself more or less imperfect. but the son of man also had in his right hand seven stars, 129 and the seven stars are the angels of the seven communities. 130 the guiding spirits or daimons of mysteriosophy have here become the guiding angels of the seven communities, which are thus presented as the bodies of spiritual entities of which the angels are the soul, on the analogy of the human soul as the guiding power over the body. each community represents a way to the divine from a certain limited point of 128 christianity as mystical fact view, and the guides along these ways are the angels. they must therefore come to accept as their own leader the being who in his right hand holds the seven

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

s. zeus gave the heart of his beloved son to the earth goddess semele who dissolved it in a potion, drank thereof, and gave birth to dionysus, the god of vegetation, whose cycle of birth, death, and rebirth reflects the cycle of growth, decay, and rebirth seen in nature. orpheus preached that humankind was created from the ashes of the titans who devoured dionysus zagreus; therefore, the physical bodies of humans are formed from the evil of the titans, but they also contain within them a tiny particle of the divine essence. within this duality a constant 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 34 afterlife mysteries war rages, so it is the duty of each human to repress the titanic element and allow the dionysian an opportunity to assert its

nd knowledge and explained the sinfulness of all men and women by the doctrine of the preexistence of all souls. in contra celsum he asked, is it not rational that souls should be introduced into bodies in accordance with their merits and previous deeds, and that those who have used their bodies in doing the utmost possible good should have a right to bodies endowed with qualities superior to the bodies of others? in response to the query, origen continues: the soul, which is immaterial and invisible in its nature, exists in no material place without having a body suited to the nature of that place; accordingly, it at one time puts off one body, which is necessary before, but which is no longer adequate in its changed state, and it exchanges it for a second. in the des principiis, origen s

istory demonstrating the benefits of past-life regression, she often makes reference to the case of darrell, whose story was featured on the television programs sightings and 20/20. a native of toronto who has lived in southern california for many years, darrell came to bettye binder with a terror of drowning in the middle of the ocean. he was not frightened of seashores, swimming pools, or other bodies of water, but he would not venture far into the ocean because of a morbid fear of drowning there. in three separate regressions with binder, darrell discovered that he drowned in the middle of the ocean in three previous lifetimes. in one, he was a black slave in the south, about 1840, who tried to escape in a small boat that sank due to an explosion on board. in 1940, before the united sta

al medium s childhood: she was ill a great deal, suffered many family tragedies at a young age, and began to experience visions and to see people who weren t there. little eileen had imaginary playmates, saw various forms of light and energy around people and animals, and became aware at an early age that life did not end with physical death when she saw a kind of grayish smoke rising up from the bodies of pets after they died. garrett was plagued by tuberculosis and other respiratory illnesses throughout her childhood, and when she was 15 she left ireland for the milder climate of england. she lived there with relatives for only a short time when an older gentleman named clive began to call on her. after a courtship of a few months, she married him, and during the course of their brief ma

mirabelli produced lengthy and erudite written dissertations in 28 languages. linguists were said to be amazed at the masterful control that the medium exercised over each of the languages employed in these treatises. such accomplishments are made the more impressive by noting that mirabelli s formal education ended with primary school. as a physical medium, mirabelli once materialized the spirit bodies of a marshal and a bishop, both long deceased, and both of whom were instantly recognizable to many who had assembled for the seance. levitation seemed almost to be a specialty of the medium, and witnesses once observed him levitate an automobile to a height of six feet, where it was suspended for a period of three minutes. once when mirabelli visited a pharmacy, a skull rose from the back

illiam crookes, sir oliver lodge (1851 1940, dr. gardner murphy (1895 1979, hereward carrington (1880 1958. j. b. rhine (1895 1980, g. n. m. tyrell (1879 1973, dr. karlis osis (1917 1997, dr. stanley krippner (1932, and dr. harold puthoff (1930, psychical researchers are still regarded by a large section of the scientific community as being spook chasers and as outright rebels and heretics to the bodies of established knowledge. the basic 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 156 mediums and mystics the aspr based in new york, new york, the american society for psychical research, inc (aspr, the oldest psychical research organization in the united states, seeks to advance the understanding of psychic phenomena, with emphasis on scientific

mal in a scientific manner. scheduled conferences and lectures are offered on the website in addition to paranormal review, journals, books, and research initiatives. sources: society for psychical research. http//www.spr.ac.uk. 15 october 2001. psychical researchers are still regarded by a large section of the scientific community as being spook chasers and as outright rebels and heretics to the bodies of established knowledge. it falls upon the psychical researchers to exercise the greatest caution and the strictest controls when conducting tests with those who claim to be able to contact the dead. in his psychic science and survival (1947) hereward carrington, who devoted a lifetime to psychical research, listed the following requirements of an ideal researcher: 1. a thorough knowledge

d, without identifying the liquid, sent the specimen to a police laboratory for analysis. the next morning the irritated director of the lab berated him for wasting his time analyzing such substances as human tears. hardly any time passed before the crippled, the lame, and the ill from all over italy were soon gathering before the weeping madonna. the tears were caught on a cloth and wiped on the bodies of the afflicted. a middle-aged man recovered the use of a crippled arm. a three-year-old girl stricken with polio was able to discard the stainless steel braces that had encased her twisted legs. an 18-year-old girl who had been struck dumb 11 years before began to speak. hundreds of others claimed to have received a healing blessing from the tears of the little madonna. the madonna s tear

s. zeus gave the heart of his beloved son to the earth goddess semele who dissolved it in a potion, drank thereof, and gave birth to dionysus, the god of vegetation, whose cycle of birth, death, and rebirth reflects the cycle of growth, decay, and rebirth seen in nature. orpheus preached that humankind was created from the ashes of the titans who devoured dionysus zagreus; therefore, the physical bodies of humans are formed from the evil of the titans, but they also contain within them a tiny particle of the divine essence. within this duality a constant war rages, so it is the duty of each human to repress the titanic element and allow the dionysian an opportunity to assert itself. the final release of the divine essence within, the redemption of the soul, is the utmost goal of the orphic

brary) it would appear that the greatest heresy to the christian church lay in the cathars denial that christ ever lived as a man, but was a being of spirit, much like an angel. they also believed that it was satan who created the material world after his expulsion from heaven when god the father, taking pity on his once bright star lucifer, allowed him seven days to see what he might create. the bodies of adam and eve were animated by fallen angels and directed by satan to beget children who would follow the ways of the serpent. to counter the lust of the flesh inspired by the devil, the cathars preached abstinence before marriage, chastity, vegetarianism, and nonviolence. they believed in a progressive doctrine of reincarnation with the spirits of animals evolving into humans. in their v

ons and cults king, george, and richard lawrence. contacts with the gods from space: pathway to the new millennium. hollywood, calif: aetherius society, 1996. steiger, brad. the fellowship: spiritual contact between humans and outer space beings. new york: doubleday, 1988. story, ron, ed. the encyclopedia of extraterrestrial encounters. new york: new american library, 2001. heaven s gate when the bodies of the 39 men and women were found in rooms throughout the spacious rancho santa fe mansion outside of san diego, california, on march 26, 1997, their deaths by suicide enabled the media to transform them from members in a ufo cult previously known as human individual metamorphosis to the heaven s gate suicide cult. according to what could be learned about the deceased in letters and videot

command to sell their property and belongings and give all proceeds to the cult, wanted their money back. on march 15, 2000, the cult held a great party in the town of kanungu, roasting three bulls and providing 70 crates of soft drinks for their members. although facts remain unclear, apparently more than 1,000 were poisoned or otherwise murdered, doused with sulphuric acid, and set on fire. the bodies of credonia mwerinde and joseph kibwetere were not found among the charred remains of their faithful members. a witness in kanungu told police that he had caught sight of the two leaving the festivities with suitcases in hand and wondered at the time why they would leave before their party had ended. sources: fisher, ian. exploring the deadly mystique surrounding a uganda cult. new york tim

or their transition to another world. those who remained faithful to the teachings also began their own transitions. when authorities from chiery, switzerland, investigated a fire in a farmhouse on october 4, 1994, they discovered a secret room containing 22 corpses, many of them wearing ceremonial capes. on october 5, three adjacent houses burning in the village of granges-sur-salvan yielded the bodies of 25 more members of the order. six charred bodies found in morin heights, quebec, a day earlier, were also members. in december 1995, 16 more members were found dead in france, and in march 1997, five killed themselves in quebec. joseph di mambro and luc jouret had convinced at least 74 of their followers to join them in mass suicide. 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

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ather up their dead for burial in special caves. dr. jeanne-marie-therese koffman agreed that the creatures might bury their dead in secret places. it may be, she theorized, that they may throw the corpses of the deceased into the rushing waters of mountain rivers or into the abysses of rocky caverns. others remind the skeptical that it is not unusual for certain of the higher animals to hide the bodies of their dead. accounts of the legendary elephants graveyard are well-known; and in ceylon, the phrase to find a dead monkey is used to indicate an impossible task. proving the existence of such creatures may seem to many scientists to be an impossible task, but persistent searchers for undeniable evidence of the apelike beings feel that proof is right around the next corner in some darkene

mpbell, president of the official loch ness monster fan club, declared white s photos of nessie to be among the best that he had ever seen. the fact that scientists using computer enhancement techniques had been unable to assess exactly what the pictures showed, campbell said, only added to the mystery of loch ness. although nessie is far and away the most famous of all monsters inhabiting inland bodies of water, there are reports of equally large, equally strange aquatic creatures in lakes all over the world. m delving deeper bord, janet, and colin bord. alien animals. harrisburg, penn: stackpole books, 1981. coleman, loren. mysterious america. new york: paraview, 2002. dey, iain. monster-hunters set to trap nessie with the net. the scotsman, october 30, 2001 [online] http//www.thescotsma

ite rose 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 208 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends flowers have been the quintessential gift between lovers in many cultures. was an emblem of joy among the greeks. the aboriginal inhabitants of patagonia in southern argentina painted their bodies white on every joyous occasion. the whole bodies of the bride and groom were covered with white paint on the eve of their wedding ceremony. some social historians believe that the tradition of the bridal veil originated in the covering of the bride in ancient times to show her submission. others believe that the veil originated in sexual shyness in women and the attempt to hide from view. among some early peoples, the bride was draped com

vation went on uninterruptedly, year by year, until death ended the king s reign and simultaneously the work on his tomb which also became a kind of an index revealing the length of his reign. these tombs, cut from the rock in the mountains in upper egypt, are still to be seen. the assyrians (c. 750 612 b.c.e) dug huge excavations that sometimes reached a depth of 60 feet into which they cast the bodies of their dead, one upon the other. even when they began to place their dead in coffins, the assyrians continued to pile one above the other in great excavations. the iberians, the original people who inhabited the peninsula where modern-day portugal and spain exist, buried their leaders with great pomp and ceremony in chambers made of huge stones, covered over with earth. the bodies were pl

y with their immediate family. today, black is considered the universal color of mourning, because of the age-old traditions of somberness associated with it. however, in japan and in china, pure white is worn when mourning. in some sections of africa, red is the color of mourning, with red paint applied to the naked body. among various tribes of equatorial africa, tattooing and mutilating of the bodies of family members are practiced for purposes of indicating that one of their loved ones has been taken by death. the people of the andaman islands, in the eastern part of the bay of bengal, disinter the body after it has been buried long enough to decompose, then wear the bones of the dead to indicate mourning. while they wear these bones, it is considered taboo to approach them and to inte

wright-patterson air force base, which was said to hold the remains of the crashed roswell flying saucer and the refrigerated corpses of the alien bodies that had been found alongside the spaceship. as ufo research enters the twenty-first century, controversy still rages over the truth of whether or not major jesse marcel and his men collected pieces of debris from a flying saucer along with the bodies of two to five extraterrestrial crew members. many accounts from both civilians and military personnel who claim to have been eyewitnesses to the events at roswell speak of five alien bodies found at the impact site north of roswell and state that four corpses were transported to hangar 18 at wright field, with the fifth going to the usaf mortuary service at lowry field. two years before hi

erved some of these recovery missions and thought that they had witnessed military personnel picking up alien bodies. ufo researchers scorned such an explanation of the alleged crash debris having been a balloon and the true nature of the alien corpses having been parachute dummies. and then there was the question of how those witnesses who claimed to have seen wreckage of a flying saucer and the bodies of its extraterrestrial crew in 1947 could have confused the event with the discovery of dummies dropped over the desert near roswell in 1953. colonel haynes explained the six-year discrepancy between the events as a manifestation of the mental phenomenon of time compression on the part of the witnesses. time compression, he stated, occurs when one s memory melds events separated by many ye

isenhower (1890 1969; president 1953 61, which had been prepared by a group of 12 prestigious and top-secret investigators who worked under the code name of operation majestic-12 (mj-12. the document, which appeared to be authentic, described details of the recovery, analysis, and official cover-up of the 1947 ufo crash outside of roswell, new mexico. the report also described the recovery of the bodies of four humanlike beings that had been found near the wreckage of the downed extraterrestrial spacecraft. according to these documents, all four of the entities were dead, and their corpses had been mutilated by desert scavengers and were badly decomposed due to exposure to the elements. although the creatures were humanlike in appearance, the secret report stated that the biological and ev

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f paris, the grand inquisitor, king philip demanded that the pope conduct an investigation into such charges against the knights templar. whether or not clement believed such stories, he gave his approval that a judicial inquiry be instituted, and the knights were charged with heresy and immorality. on the night of october 13, 1307, all of the templars f castles in france were surrounded by large bodies of men that were led by small parties of priests and noblemen. when the unsuspecting knights were ordered to open their gates in the name of the king, they immediately complied. taken completely by surprise, about 900 knights were arrested, and all their property and holdings in france were seized. when word of the arrests reached other countries, other nobles and priests quickly followed s

s put in prison to await trial, and wilson set out on a determined mission to put an end to the leopard men fs reign of terror. but the local inhabitants were too terrified of the leopard cult to come forward. there were several more murders during the weeks that followed, including the wife and daughter of nagogo, the imprisoned chieftain. a desperate wilson hoped that the sight of the mutilated bodies of his family would anger nagogo into betraying the cult members who had so obviously turned on him, but the shock proved too much for the chief. when he saw the bloodied corpses of his wife and daughter and realized how viciously his fellow leopard men had betrayed him, he collapsed and died of heart failure. although wilson received 200 additional police officers as reinforcements, the le

derly farmer was found dead in november; in january 1953, two men who worked a farm as partners were discovered murdered by the mau- mau. a vicious attack on january 24, 1953, claimed the rucks, a family of english heritage, who had always been regarded as dealing with their black employees in a fair-minded and charitable manner, even to the extent of supporting a clinic at their own expense. the bodies of the husband, wife, and their six-yearold son were found so hacked and ripped as to be nearly unrecognizable as human beings. later it was learned that native men and women who had been in the rucks f employ for many years had been foremost in the 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 28 secret societies mau-mau being rounded up (corbis

ime in the sixteenth century, they were not uncovered by british authorities until about 1812. great britain was beginning to expand its territories in india, and the british administrators were becoming increasingly alarmed by reports of bands of stranglers that were roving the countryside murdering travelers. at first there appeared to be no connection between the bizarre killings, but then the bodies of 50 victims were found hidden in a series of wells in the ganges area. such large-scale mass murder could not have been kept secret for so long unless special pains had been taken to dispose of the victims f corpses. examination of the bodies revealed that the murderers had broken all joints of their victims f limbs to speed up the process of decomposition and to prevent the swelling of t

e creative, intuitive process in the right brain hemisphere. once this has occurred, the supposed vortex of energy in the crystal begins interacting with the individual fs electromagnetic field and will start to increase the field energy around him or her. when the energy field has been activated, the individual is to begin to breathe into the crystal the intention to be able to heal the physical bodies of those who request a healing. the individual healer must remember always that the crystal will magnify his or her intention and thereby serve as a powerful healing instrument. in addition to its use in healing, crystals have always been popular as devices utilized in t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d objects of mystery and power 175

ers could be mobilized, housed, and fed. other mysteries surrounding the pyramids are the contentions that the structures are situated at cardinal points on the compass, and their numerous astronomical uses show knowledge of mathematics in advance of other civilizations. in addition, the body of the pharaoh khufu (cheops) for whom the tomb was built, and precious objects that usually surround the bodies of royalty in egyptian tombs, have never been found. in fact, all three of the pyramids at giza were allegedly erected as tombs, yet not a single body has been found in any of them. other places have become mysterious sites because things have happened there that are impossible to document fully, yet physical evidence remains that promotes further speculation. the claimed miraculous healing

equired for such an undertaking be mobilized, housed, and fed? other mysteries abound: the pyramids are situated at cardinal points on the compass, and numerous astronomical uses show knowledge of mathematics in advance of other civilizations. in addition, the body of the pharaoh khufu (cheops (twenty-sixth century b.c.e) for whom the tomb was built, and precious objects that usually surround the bodies of royalty in egyptian tombs, have never been found. in fact, all three of the pyramids at giza were erected as tombs, yet not a single body has been found in any of them. a baffling series of chambers, tunnels, and shafts, blocked passageways, corridors leading to empty spaces, and false leads confront pyramid explorers. the bodies of the pharaohs and their queens might still be buried som

led to another complex where a seal on a wall is believed to represent the pharaoh khafre (2558.2532 b.c.e. lehner believes an entire additional complex might be unearthed, which will provide more answers, and probably more questions, about the pyramids of giza. in july of 2000, two mini-replicas of the pyramids were unearthed at giza in a spot between the sphinx and the pyramids. they contained bodies of supervisors and laborers. gordinary people were also allowed to use the pyramid design to construct their own tombs, h concluded hawass, director of the giza plateau. inscriptions in the mini-pyramids identified one corpse as a building inspector. the upper level of the tombs were reserved for technicians and craftsmen, and the lower tombs housed bodies of workmen. some of the bodies of

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ce of the craft. she is the true queen of life and of the land. and she is secret, for many men and women have forgotten her, because her name was veiled in shadow and infamy by dark forces many years ago. but the world remembers her in the deepest places. she still holds court and greets those who have the desire and the cunning to seek her. in her role as earth mother, or source of the physical bodies of life and of generation, and the deep awareness of the earth and waters, she can be seen as a rhea/demeter-like figure. but beyond that earth is the darkness of her ultimate nature, old fate. this ultimate nature of hers has a mysterious relationship to the ultimate natures that are reflected into her children, whether they be the gods, spirits, plants, animals, or human beings. it is a p

persons, or at their monument, or some place appropriate, if they have no grave. as the offerings are placed for them, the rite leader should say: behold, i make all things new. and a bell is rung, at the area of the sacred flame, to conclude the rite. if this housle was not for the deceased, then the offerings are left, in reverence and silence, at an appropriate place, on the ground, in natural bodies of water, at the roots of trees, etc. as they are being left, the leader says: as some is taken, so is this given, by the sons and daughters of dame wisdom: for what is taken is truly given and what is given is truly taken the first and last are wed as the serpent s tail and head. renewal is always. here is shown a mystery. a bell is rung as above to conclude the rit 2-1 the holy rosary of

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racters, and the allegories of which he makes use in his work: the human soul is material; the divine "mens" is offered to it to immortalize it and to make it live spiritually and individually, but its natural substance is fluidic and collective. there are, then, in man, two lives: the individual or reasonable life, and the common or instinctive life. it is by this latter that one can live in the bodies of others, since the universal soul, of which each nervous organism has a separate consciousness, is the same for all. we live in a common and universal life in the embryonic state, in ecstasy, and in sleep. in sleep, in fact, reason does not act, and logic, when it mingles in our dreams, only does so by chance, in accordance with the accidents of purely physical reminiscences. in dreams, w

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or this to take place, however, it is essential that the modern reader, who seeks renewed meaning in the purpose of life in addition to an understanding of his or her own inner workings, uniqueness, and place in the greater divine scheme of the universe, have the ability to bridge the ever-shrinking chasm that has divided psychology and magic. both systems should be examined, and their respective bodies of knowledge culled for the gems of wisdom to be found in each. ths process of reconnection between the modern science and the ancient art will be an act of healing, on both a personal and a collective level, which recognizes that all of reality is united under the integrating principle of spirit. no one should be led to believe that the process of self-realization, whether achieved through

f healing, like other forms of theurgy, involve a type of auto-hypnosis, wherein the magician is totally focused on the goal of the operation. it also employs the manipulation and movement of energies. usually, the healer extends energy to the recipient, where it works to remove psychic blockages, energy imbalances, or physical injuries/ illnesses. the healer must be able to manipulate the subtle bodies of two people-his or her own and that of the recipient. therefore it is crucial that the practitioner be psychically sound and balanced. if not, there is a danger that 1) the healer will absorb the psychic "ailment" of the recipient, or 2) the healer's own imbalanced energies will be absorbed by the recipient, making matters worse. in the golden dawn, magicians were warned: it is better at

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g the dictates of the sinister leaders of some other planet. idiocy was piled upon idiocy over the past twenty-eight years. the paranoia once isolated to the very small lunatic fringe grew until it swallowed up a large part of the world's population. i was concerned not with the sincere but falsified memories of the contactees, but with a more worrisome question. what, i wondered, happened to the bodies of these people while their minds were taking trips? trips that often lasted for hours, even for days. a young college professor in new york state was haunted by the same question in 1967. after investigating a ufo-related poltergeist case he suffered possession and was led to believe that he had committed a daring jewel robbery while he was in a trance or possessed state. he abandoned ufol

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to its final state, which is the farthest possible from the creator. in order for a person who obtains a certain part of that collective soul to start the process of his correction, the creator did the following: 1. he gave the soul an absolute will to receive, called pride. as a result, man stopped feeling the creator. 2. he divided the creature into many little particles and placed them in the bodies of our world. q: what is the correction for, if in the end the creature returns to the creator, the same point it came from to begin with? a: the world that we perceive around us, tells us more about the purposelessness. in the end, the cause of every negative attribute in us and (as we think) in him, is the creator. but in order to understand at least something of the nature around and ins

of reality we live in. it is a science that studies nature s only law. today, we are capable of perceiving only a negligible part of the collective law of reality in the degree of our world. we call that negligible part this world. 226 of 273 chapter 5.2 kabbalah in our lives during the six thousand years of its existence, the souls descend to our world by a certain order, and clothe the physical bodies of our world, which is the lowest degree of creation in the universe. there is a clear and accurate order of the descent of the souls, from the finest, with the least amount of egoism, to the coarsest most egoistic souls. the first souls to descend are the ones with the least amount of egoism, whose mere existence in this world is enough to correct them, and they do not need any external in

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ed serpent guardian. 6 by this shall you dance the movement against the sun, by dreaming shall you embrace my bride and by waking adore the morning star who summons forth the sun. so it is done the widdershins dance of the circle -of the watchers and their times- let the initiate seek in the circle of azazel the angelick watchers, those who shower witch blood in the eyes of the brave and faithful bodies of man and woman. by noon when the sun is in its height does one seek shaitan called iblis in the south with the blade of cain do summon with thy heart the adversary who shall be met in the mirrored adobe of hades, of darkness and shadow gleam by midnight let the sun envenom your spirit, naked in spirit you are left to cloth yourself in serpent skin, to see as the eye of the adversary befor

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aning abode in the soul. from a left hand path perspective, this act is of initiation and should not be avoided. the denkard describes a secret of the luciferian power in this world: ahriman should be thus cast out from the world; everyone for the sake of self shall extract (him) from the body, since ahriman has his abode in human bodies in this world. consequently, when he has no lodgment in the bodies of men, he will be exterminated from the whole world; since so long as in the body of any one whatever in this world a dwelling is made by a (druj, ahriman (will be) in the world. the denkard, book 6: wisdom of the sages thus it may be seen that ahriman is manifest through the sorcerers and initiates of the path. this is the center of the conceptual foundation of the work of luciferian witc

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d of the philistines round about, to publish [it in] the house of their idols, and among the people. 31:10 and they put his armour in the house of ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of beth-shan. 31:11 and when the inhabitants of jabesh-gilead heard of that which the philistines had done to saul; 31:12 all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of bethshan, and came to jabesh, and burnt them there. 31:13 and they took their bones, and buried [them] under a tree at jabesh, and fasted seven days. page 179 2 samuel the second book of samuel otherwise called the second book of the kings 1:1 now it came to pass after the death of saul, when david was returned from the slaughter of the amalekites, and david had

his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people. 10:10 and they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of dagon. 10:11 and when all jabesh-gilead heard all that the philistines had done to saul, 10:12 they arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in jabesh, and fasted seven days. 10:13 so saul died for his transgression which he committed against the lord [even] against the word of the lord, which he kept not, and also for asking [counsel] of [one that had] a familiar spirit, to enquire [of it] 10:14 and enquired not of the lord: therefore he slew him, and

r god? and talk deceitfully for him? 13:8 will ye accept his person? will ye contend for god? 13:9 is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him? 13:10 he will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. 13:11 shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? 13:12 your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. 13:13 hold your peace, let me alone, that i may speak, and let come on me what [will] 13:14 wherefore do i take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? 13:15 though he slay me, yet will i trust in him: but i will maintain mine own ways before him. 13:16 he also [shall be] my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come page 299 job before him. 13:17 hear diligently my spe

lds: 78:71 from following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed jacob his people, and israel his inheritance. 78:72 so he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. psalm 79 a psalm of asaph. 79:1 o god, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid jerusalem on heaps. 79:2 the dead bodies of thy servants have they given [to be] meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 79:3 their blood have they shed like water round about jerusalem; and [there was] none to bury [them] 79:4 we are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. 79:5 how long, lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy

the lord [is] his name; 33:3 call unto me, and i will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. 33:4 for thus saith the lord, the god of israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword; 33:5 they come to fight with the chaldeans, but [it is] fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom i have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness i have hid my face from this city. 33:6 behold, i will bring it health and cure, and i will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. 33:7 and i will cause the captivity of judah and the captivity of israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. 33:8 and i will cleanse

, that ishmael the son of nethaniah slew them [and cast them] into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that [were] with him. 41:8 but ten men were found among them that said unto ishmael, slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. so he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren. 41:9 now the pit wherein ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of gedaliah [was] it which asa the king had made for fear of baasha king of israel [and] ishmael the son of nethaniah filled it with [them that were] slain. 41:10 then ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that [were] in mizpah [even] the king s daughters, and all the people that remained in mizpah, whom nebuzaradan the captain of t

ed [it] with vinegar, and put [it] on a reed, and gave him to drink. 27:49 the rest said, let be, let us see whether elias will come to save him. 27:50 jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 27:51 and, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 27:52 and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 27:53 and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. 27:54 now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, truly this was the son of god. 27:55 and many women were there beholding afar off, which foll

end of [their] conversation. 13:8 jesus christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. 13:9 be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. for [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. 13:10 we have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. 13:11 for the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. 13:12 wherefore jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. 13:13 let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. 13:14 for here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. 13:15 by him theref

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t which evidently represents flames; the indians, as well as the greeks, looking upon fire as the essence of all active power; whence perpetual lamps are kept burning in the holy of holies of all the great pagodas in india, as they were anciently in the temple of jupiter ammon, and many others both greek and barbarian;3 and the incarnate god in the bagvat geeta says, i am the fire residing in the bodies of all things which have life.4 upon the forehead of the gonnis is a 1 see plate xiii, fig. 11, from a medla of seleucus i. beloning to me. 2 page 26. 3 see plut. de orac. defect. 4 page 113. of priapus 59 crescent representing the moon, whose power over the waters of the ocean caused her to be regarded as the sovereign of the great nutritive element, and whose mild rays, being accompanied

practised, though the meaning of it has been long forgotten. this emancipation of the soul was supposed to be finally performed by fire; which, being the visible image and active essence of both the creative and destructive powers, was very naturally thought to be the medium through which men passed from the present to a future life. the greeks, and all the celtic nations, accordingly, burned the bodies of the dead, as the gentoos do at this day; while the egyptians, among whom fuel was extremely scarce, 1 bronzi dell hercol. tom. vi. plate xcviii. 2 exod. ch. xxviii. 3 bronzi dell hercol. tom. vi. plate xcviii. maimonides in patrick s commentary on exodus, ch. xxviii. 4 ovid. fast. lib. v, ver. 441. schol. in theocrit. idyll. ii, ver. 36. 5 schol. in theocrit. idyll. ii. ver. 36. 98 on th

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batomic particle has no specific state until this condition is defined by observa- tion-it subsists in all potential states at the same instant. electrons can tunnel through normal time and space so that they appear to jump magically from one place to another without ever traveling between the two locations. einstein's theory of relativity predicted that time and space are distorted by very large bodies of mass, such as stars. time effectively appears to cease at the event horizon of a black hole, where space is folded in upon itself by intense grav- ity. physicists have seriously speculated that by passing through a black hole it may be possible to travel through time. indeed, radical physicists have actually designed time machines that are workable in theory, but cannot be built because

s driven into the earth and a sash from a robe is fixed to it, then the circle is inscribed at the extremity of the sash. this is large enough to accommodate the thirteen of the coven. it need hardly be said that if the ritual involves five hundred, the circle must be large enough to hold them. in rituals involving large numbers of people, it is often convenient to form the circle from the living bodies of the participants, who link hands and make a ring. since the participants are part of the circle itself, they can never be outside it and are in no danger from destructive energies unless they break the ring. their bodies and their personal identities merge into a social unit that shields the leader of the ritual from hostile outer forces. once the inherent nature of a circle is understoo

for the warmth and activity of the rational pow- ers, which are volatile by nature. the crescent symbolizes the excretion of wastes, mainly a liquid process, and also the sensual and unthinking passions. the cross makes up the trunk of the figure, where reason and lust are joined. the vertical arm is the lightning stroke; the horizontal arm is the surface of the sea. the remaining five wandering bodies of the heavens visible to the ancients are uniformly dimensionless points of light and so form a distinct group. they are defined by combinations of two or all of the three primary symbols. all meanings later assigned to them derive from this base. this is a vital insight into the nature of astrology, but incredibly, most modern astrologers fail to grasp it. they remain under the mistaken i

wer can extend to other human beings. evoked spirits can be watched. this is the reason evil spirits are always evoked. good spirits may sometimes be evoked when the magus has need to send them over a distance to perform tasks. spirits with questionable motives should be evoked ini- tially, as a precaution. it can then be determined if it is safe to invoke them. spirits have no shapes or physical bodies of their own. however, they have natures that harmonize or clash with aspects of the natural world that are trans- mitted to them through the mind of the magus. that is why angels often carry with them pleasant odors. the spiritual reaction of the magus to the scent of flow- ers is in accord with the quality of angelic being. the resonance created in the mind of the magus by rose incense, f

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other than drugs. i will go still further and assert that outside of a rigorously controlled traditional ritual context, it is almost impossible to use drugs in a useful spiritual way, such as for the exaltation of consciousness and the separation of the astral body. even within such a context, the use of drugs to force the astral shell from the body can have dire consequences. both the minds and bodies of traditional shamans have been severely degraded by the habitual use of powerful drugs, and even by the use of milder drugs in massive quantities. for example, tobacco was not only smoked and chewed, but ingested by shamans in the form of concentrated juice from the leaves. even today the shamans of the campa people of the eastern peruvian rain forest drink large amounts of tobacco syrup

n the ointment was applied for the purpose of shape-shifting. as mentioned, shape-shifting is an astral event, but those who believed themselves transformed into wolves, bears, stags, or other beasts, and intoxicated by the effects of the ointment, may have run through the fields and villages in their physical bodies beneath the light of the moon, under the delusion that they had changed into the bodies of beasts. in the tale related by bartholomaeus de spina concerning the wife of the notary from lugano, who found his wife unconscious in the pigsty, it may be significant that the wife is described as dirty. the dirt could have come from the sty, or perhaps if she used a flying ointment, it was from soot in the ointment. the method of applying the ointment, according to lucius apuleius, wa

by the irish in fear of the curse, leaving it as the habitation of the fairies. fairies were closely linked by the celts to the souls of the dead, so both virgil's sunny meadow of elysium where the dead sing and sport, and the large and splendid caverns in which they reside in other myths, can be applied to the fairies. many of the recognized fairy knolls or hills are barrow mounds where lie the bodies of dead heroes, although many others are natural hills. in ancient times, it was not unheard of for whole celtic clains to live in large caves and even to keep their cattle in the caverns with them, so it would have seemed natural to place the race of fairies in caverns, as a way of explaining how fairies could appear and disappear in moments as though from the thin air. the sides of fairy

e of old; of intelligent fluidious spirits, and light changable bodies (lyke those called astral) somewhat of the nature of a condensed cloud, and best seen in twilight. thes bodies be so plyable thorough the subtilty of the spirits that agitate them, that they can make them appear or disappear att plea ure. kirk, who was the minister of the scottish parish of aberfoyle, rightly observed that the bodies of fairies are astral, not material, in nature. he came to know only too well the dangerous nature of fairies on a firsthand basis. kirk was a seventh son, and possessed the second sight that allows perception of fairies and fairyland. the year after writing his important work on fairies, he was found lying dead on the slope of the local fairy hill (dun-ski) in aberfoyle, called the fairy k

he material body for man.lo5 theosophy understands the astral body to be the template upon which the physical body is formed. it exists before the existence of the physical body, and when the physical body dies, it continues to survive for some time on the astral planes. the etheric body remains closely linked to the corpse, and is said to be responsible for ghosts seen in graveyards and near the bodies of the dead. it decays more quickly than the astral body. surrounding the human body is the aura, which theosophy divides into seven layers that distinguish themselves by different colors and varying densities. those projecting on the astral planes carry their aura with them. it is said to be plainly visible to spirits and to those possessed with psychic ability. the state of health, and al

shook his nerves to such a degree that doyle decided not to become a member.125 two members of the golden dawn later visited doyle in an attempt to change his mind. they told him of an astral journey they had made together to central africa. doyle wrote "from what i learnt i should judge that the powers of this society included that of loosening their own etheric bodies, in summoning the etheric bodies of others (mine, for example) and in making thought images."126 this might be dismissed as merely an odd fixation in the mind of doyle, who was a confirmed believer in spiritualism, were it not that others reported the same sort of astral experience. ithell colquhoun (1906-1988, who attempted many years later to gain initiation into both a descendant offshoot of the golden dawn and dion for

lieve the evidence of their senses, even though their senses are lying to them. it is even possible that repercussion may occur in some cases, causing those who have alien abduction trauma to suffer some corresponding physical injury. the connection between mind and body is still a mysterious zone largely unexplored by science. stigmata, the wounds of christ, sometimes spontaneously appear on the bodies of christians. if the mind can cause this degree of injury to the body, it is not difficult to accept that it can also open a lesion in the neck where an individual who suffers an abduction event believes an alien device was inserted. 184. swedenborg, 625-6. 182 soul flight soul flight and the moon it is important to understand that scrying is not a psychic activity separate from astral pro

cloud of chapter twelve: the tarot 209 glory. when not portraying this pantomime of the marriage rite, they come and go beneath the trees of the orchard that lies off the edges of the card. the angel is not always present. the field behind them is unfenced and uncultivated, and shows only a low green ground cover. the earth has yet to be plowed; the seed has yet to be sowed in it. notice that the bodies of the couple are hairless apart from their heads, indicating immaturity. in the background is a conical mountain toward the peak of which the woman seems to gesture with her left hand. it may be the source of the clouds from which the angel has appeared. the ruling intelligence of this trump is the oracle on the peak of the mountain, who when approached will speak from a shining cloud on q

eard from the ground. the sods above the graves split apart as the rotting coffins push their way to the surface and burst open, releasing naked men, women, and children whose bodies are miraculously restored and show no signs of decay. the risen take little notice of your presence, but begin to sing joyously and lift their arms to the heavens. some fall to their knees in prayer. between the gray bodies of the risen walks a figure in white, his face radiant. as he touches each person in passing, they rise upward into the sky and vanish amid the clouds. bear in mind that this is not the actual judgment you are witnessing, but a kind of dramatic enactment of it. the ruling intelligence of the trump is the archangel gabriel, who will sound his horn on judgment day, causing the dead to rise fr

ption, false appearance, heartlessness, halt in progress, an enchantress the land of isa is a frozen lake in the midst of which is a small island covered with willows that stand leafless and naked in the winter sunlight. there is a house built upon the island. as it is approached across the surface of the lake, the traveler may gaze downward and see, through the depths of the transparent ice, the bodies of men, their sightless eyes staring upward and their hands frozen as they reach for aid that never comes. smoke rises from the chimney of the house on the island, which is a large structure of two levels built from timbers, with a stone foundation. those who knock upon the door are greeted by a manservant, who bows low and escorts them into the great hall, where a fire blazes in the firepl

a battlefield cloaked beneath a heavy mist, so that nothing can be seen that is more than a few steps away. all around is the sound of the clash of steel on steel, the tortured cries of horses, and the shouts and curses of men. sometimes a pair of combatants come into view, but fail to notice the presence of the traveler in their fierce confrontation. on the trampled brown grass lie the bloodied bodies of the dying, their faces and hair whitened by the settling mist. the god is a silent warrior in a long scarlet cloak who carries a drawn sword. his face is covered by a mask of beaten silver that has the shape of a bearded man. around it, his golden hair streams free to his shoulders. he moves across the field, selecting who is to be slain, and those he gestures at with his sword die. 18

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mber. as your astral form reduces in size, the circle of fire shrinks in proportion to remain at the level of your heart. 138 moving exercises hold the awareness of the four angels of the quarters towering above you with the tips of their expanded wings touching. they gaze down on you with serious, intense awareness. feel their strength both shielding you and protecting your circle. visualize the bodies of the angels become paler and brighter. as you watch them with your inner awareness, they lengthen and narrow into four identical pillars of white light. these pillars come together high above your head to focus upon the distant white star. mentally release the angels and watch astrally as their pillars are drawn upward into the star. turn your attention inward and contemplate the warm lig

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

zodiac. mem stands for water, but also for the fixed quality. aleph stands for air, but also for the mutable quality. the mutable lies between the cardinal and fixed (as is shown in the illustration on page 21. aleph is said to be like the tongue of the balance. the ba'alai shem meditated seven days because seven is a potent number in magic, the sum of three and four, the number of the wandering bodies of the heavens. for this same reason, they each circumambulated the clay figure seven times, moving sunwise to generate a creative vortex, as opposed to a counterclockwise, destructive vortex. they met at the riverbank at "four after midnight (probably four hours after midnight) because four is the number of physical realization. the "combinations of letters" each disciple was given by rabb

ton; and the third period, of grace and redemption, in which god revealed himself to the apostles through the name of five letters, yeheshuah. reuchlin held that with the birth of jesus, the name of four letters had been rendered powerless, its ability to cause miracles having passed into the name of jesus. this is why in the gospels the name of jesus has such force in casting out demons from the bodies of the possessed and in healing the sick. by using the holy tongue, hebrew, and the numerical methods of the kabbalah, reuchlin maintained that the truths of christian doctrine could be proved and, more than this, that all occult secrets could be laid bare. the importance of pentagrammaton was further enhanced by the venetian francesco giorgi (1456-1540, who, in his book de harmonia mundi (

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erpetrated in exchanging women, by the order of the presiding devil, by passing on a women to the other women and a man to other men, an abuse against the nature of women by both parties and similarly against the nature of men, or by a woman with a man outside the regular orifice and in another orifice in the compendium maleficarum, guazzo suggested the following theory- for devils can assume the bodies of dead men, or recreate for themselves out of air or other elements a palpable body like that of flesh, and to these they can impart motion and heat at their will. they can therefore create the appearance of sex which they do not naturally have, and abuse men in a feminine form and women in a masculine form, and lie on top of women or lie under men; and they can also produce semen which th

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found necessary to summon the aid of isis to keep away the fiends, and it was only by her words of power that the fiend ba was kept out of the sanctuary. as a reward for what he had already done, thoth decreed that horus should be called the "master-fighter" passing over the derivations of placenames which occur here in the text, we find that horus and his blacksmiths were again obliged to fight bodies of the enemy who had managed to escape, and that on one occasion they killed one hundred and six foes. in every fight the blacksmiths performed mighty deeds of valour, and in reward for their services a special district was allotted to them to dwell in. the last great fight in the north took place at tanis, in the eastern part of the delta. when the position of the enemy had been located, h

ght back one hundred and forty-two [of the enemy, and be rent them in pieces with his claws. he tore out their tongues, and their blood flowed on the ridges of the land in this place; and he made them the property of those who were in his following [whilst] he was upon the mountains [fn#106] in the sculpture (naville, mythe, pl. 18, we see a representation of this lion, which is standing over the bodies of slain enemies upon a rectangular pedestal, or block. and ra said unto thoth "behold, heru-behutet is like unto a lion in his lair [when] he is on the back of the enemy who have given unto him their tongues" and thoth said "this domain shall be called 'khent-abt' and it shall [also] be called 'tchalt (or, tchart) from this day onwards. and the bringing of the tongues from the remote place

fore that time they drank no wine at all. if they used it at any time in pouring out libations to the gods, it was not because they looked upon it as being acceptable to them for its own sake, but they poured it out over their altars as the blood of their enemies who had in times past fought against them. for they believe the vine to have first sprung out of the earth after it was fattened by the bodies of those who fell in the wars against the gods. and this, they say, is the reason why drinking its juice in great quantities makes men mad and beside themselves, filling them, as it were, with the blood of their own ancestors. these things are thus related by eudoxus in the second book of his travels, as he had them from the priests themselves [fn#271] called anu in the egyptian texts; it w

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ry. then he would teach them the grandiose mysteries of life and death. the volcanic emanations of the earth produced that apparent state of death. some disciples fall in that apparent state of death within the gnostic lumisials. the ceremony of carrying the cross (as was practiced in the gnostic lumisials, serves in order to humbly confirm some internal esoteric initiation. each one of the seven bodies of the human being must be crucified and stigmatized. all students of kabbalah must be familiar with all of the elementals of fire, air, water and earth. the present human being is still not a king or queen of nature, but all are called to be kings or queens and priests and priestesses according to the order of melchizedeck. it is necessary for the student to become familiar with all the el

ond, chokmah, the region of wisdom third, binah, intelligence fourth, chesed, the world of the intimus fifth, geburah, the world of soulconsciousness, the region of rigor and justice sixth, tiphereth, the causal world, the region of willpower, equilibrium and beauty seventh, netzach, the region of victory, the world of the mental man (anyone who achieves the liberation of themselves from the four bodies of sin, is a buddha. eighth, hod, the splendor, the region of the astral world ninth, yesod, the foundation, sex, the etheric world tenth, malkuth, the kingdom in general, the physical world; malkuth is a supreme filter; from this region we depart to the ain soph or to the abyss, such is the law. the sephiroth are atomic; these ten sephiroth can be reduced to three tables: first: the quantu

rged from the chaos, which in alchemy is the ens seminis, the lapis philosophorum or the philosophical stone. the entire misterium magnum is found enclosed within this suma matter. the alchemist must extract the potable gold from within this universal menstrum in order to achieve the blending of the cross with the triangle. before achieving this blending, we do not have a real existence. the four bodies of sin (physical, vital, astral and mental) are controlled by the ego. the ego, the i, is not the divine being of the human being. indeed, the i is the total sum of successive i's, for instance: john the drunkard, john the lover [don juan, john the intellectual, religious john, john the merchant, young john, mature john, john the elder, etc all are a succession of i's, a succession of phant

desire with the willpower. we need to generate the christ-will. the laboratorium oratorium the adept and his/her spouse must work together in the laboratorium oratorium. in the nuptial chamber, the king and the queen perform their alchemical combinations. out of the royal chamber, the ravens of putrefaction devour the sun and the moon (the blackening and putrefying of the internal chrysalides or bodies of sin. the tomb of glass is the alchemist s cup. the souls shuttle to fly (symbol of the butterfly that comes out from within the chrysalis, a symbol of the christified vehicles that come out from within their chrysalides. astral cristo quien engendra el astral cristo se puede inmortalizar en ese cuerpo. el astral cristo s lo nace con la magia sexual. aquellas personas que en pasadas reenc

of the adorable savior of the world comes from archaic epochs. the great lord of atlantis also practiced this ceremony, as the christ jesus did. this is a blood ceremony, a pact of blood. each one of the apostles brought their blood in a cup and then they mixed their blood with the royal blood of the adorable one within the chalice of the last supper (the holy grail. thus, this is how the astral bodies of the apostles joined the astral body of the christ, by means of this pact of blood. the apostles drank the blood contained within the chalice and jesus likewise drank from it. the holy gnostic unction is united with the last supper through this pact of blood. when these christic atoms (solar astral atoms) descend into the bread and the wine, they are in fact converted into the flesh and b

with his head downwards and his legs and arms outstretched represent the inverted pentagram. many are the initiates that allow themselves to fall; many are the fulminated towers. any initiate that spills the cup of hermes inevitably falls. the legend of the fallen angels has been repeated and will be repeated eternally. presently many fallen gods live in the world. they are now costumed with the bodies of human beings. the human specter present humans are soulless creatures. when death arrives [for them, only the human specters continue! from this specter escapes the embryo of the soul. the post mortem states mentioned by occultists correspond to the embryo of the soul. this embryo returns to its true being that normally lives in the causal world. an in depth analysis takes us to the conc

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been abducting humans for many centuries- these entities view earth as a big farm, and have been essentially raising and harvesting humans and apparently abduct humans to take them back to their home planet to raise there in a kind of human husbandry [or livestock] scenario. there are indications that the ritual of the eucharist is a reflection of earlier rituals where aliens were eating off the bodies of humans or feeding off their energies. the phrase "food of the gods" takes on new meaning when these factors are understood. the true "nectar of the gods" which the aliens involved seem to prize most is a substance that is taken from freshly killed humans. this substance is generated at the moment of death by the strong surge of adrenaline. this surge of adrenaline through the body accumu

a movement which means "you're dead. the blood from the victims is collected and mixed with arsenic, which appears to be a necessary element for those of the human-reptilian bloodlines. this is poured into goblets and consumed by the satanists, together with the liver and eyes. this is supposed to provide strength and greater psychic vision. fat is scraped from the intestines and smeared over the bodies of the participants- like the fat of the 'messeh' in ancient egypt the corpse is then suspended from a tree and the satanists stand naked to allow the dripping blood to fall on them. the mother goddess says that by this time the participants are in such a high state of excitement that they often shape-shift into reptilians and mostly manifest, she says, in a sort of off-white colour. they a

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trading up the nile, across and down to the congo. i had always thought of the africans going in for human sacrifices and orgies of rum, methods i believe entirely alien to the egyptian spirit i was told in new orleans that it was not only negroes who attended the voodoo festivals but that many whites went as well. it was well known there that voodoo festivals were often held by the lakeside and bodies of police were regularly sent out to prevent them. but the police, who were mainly irish, would search regularly several places where the festivals were not and then report back that they could find nothing. they would then go to the meeting, strip off their uniforms and join in the revelries. this indeed is a common joke in new orleans. i noticed several resemblances between witchcraft and

nd, will, imagination, belief evidently play big parts. as textbooks say, you need enthusiasm and optimism; if you think it is all rot, or only a child's game, you will at best get childish results. we all know that wireless works, and this seems a sort of natural wireless. this power has been in use for many years for testing eggs. i believe that dowsers are often used by the police to trace the bodies of missing people. i simply think that this is the force that witches use when they speak of raising power or magic. and the great art of using this power would seem to be to believe firmly that you can do it and to have the fierce determination to make it work. now the witch rites and ceremonial are of a nature to fix your mind on the object of the work. personally, i also believe that the

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