BOHEMIA @HollywoodInsiders.net

Michael Wynn's Occult Reference Library

BOHEMIA

Return to Occult Library Index

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

rgotland 1, 17; tliorsborg in gothland, molbech tidskr. 4, 189. from norway, where this god was pre-eminently honoured, i have nevertheless heard of none. the peasant in vermland calls the south-west corner of the sky, whence the summer tempests mostly rise, thorshala(-hole, cave, geijer's svearikes hafder 1, 268. and the thunder-mountains of the slavs are not to be overlooked. near milleschau in bohemia stands a hromolan, from hrom, thunder, in other dialects grom. one of the steepest mountains in the styrian alps (see suppl) is grwiming, i.e, si. germnik, osl. gr"mnik, thunder-hill (sloven, gr'mi, it thunders, serv. gi'mi, ptuss. grom gremit, quasi ^pojxo ^pe/jiet; and not far from it is a rivulet named donnershach the slavs then have two different words to express the phenomenon and the

h a circumstance in morske eventyr pp. 199, 201. 18g thunar. formerly donerswe^ donnerswehe, donnerswede (kohli handb. von oldenb. 2, 55, which reminds us of osinsve, wodeneswege (p. 151, and leaves us equally in doubt whether to understand wih a temple, or weg a way. the norwegian folk-tale tells us of an actual thors vej (way, faye p. 5. a village donnersrcut is to be found in franconia towards bohemia, a donnersted in thedinghausen bailiwick, brunswick, a thunresfeld [tliurfield] in as. documents, kemble 2, 115. 195, 272 &c &c. many in scandinavia, e.g, in denmark, torslunde (thors lundr, grove, tosingo (thors engi, ing) f several in sweden, tors mase (gurges) in a boundary-deed of ostergotland, broocman 1, 15, tjiorshorg in gothland, gutalag p. 107. 260. thorsbiorg (mountain) and thors

eworren hat (has so entangled his lieart with worldly things, daz da nilit me in mag. and that notion of tangled thread and hair, which prevails abont bertha and holda, may after all be akin to this. on l. zurich she is called de chlungere, because she puts chlungel (knots, inmps) in the nnfinished yarn of slothful maidens, alb. schott, deutsche colonien in piedmont, p. 282. in bavaria and german bohemia, berhta is often represented by st. lucia, though her day comes on dec. 13. frau lufz cuts the belly open, schmeller 2, 532. jos. bank, bohmerwald, p. 137. conf. the lusse in sweden, wieselgren. 386-7. 1 made of flour and milk or water, and baked in a pan: fasting fare, evidently. perahta, bercnie. 275 spools to her, wliich she must have back, spun full, in an hour's time. the spinner took

ABRAMELIN1

hich i sought. as i have said in the preceding chapter, his science had no foundation such as that of the true divine wisdom. i remained with him for four years,10 miserably wasting all that time there, and persuading myself that i had learned all that i wished to know, and i was only thinking of returning to my paternal home, when i casually met a young man of our sect, named samuel, a native of bohemia, whose manners and mode of life showed me that he wished to live, walk, and die in the way of the lord and in his holy law; and i contracted so strong a bond of friendship with him that i showed him all my feelings and intentions. as he had resolved to make a journey to constantinople, in order to there join a brother of his father, and thence to pass into the holy land wherein our forefat

quainted with his design, i felt an extraordinary desire to accompany him in his journey, and i believe that almighty god wished by this means to awaken me, for i could take no rest until the moment that we mutually and reciprocally passed our word to each other and swore to make the voyage together. on the 13th day of february, in the year 1397, we commenced our journey, passing through germany, bohemia, austria, and thence by hungary, the sacred magic 6 and greece unto constantinople, where we remained two years, and i should never have quitted it, had not death taken samuel from me at length through a sudden illness. finding myself alone, a fresh desire for travel seized me, and so much was my heart given thereto, that i kept wandering from one place to another, until at length i arrive

wallachians and turks, but he was beaten, and later, notwithstanding the help of france and england, he lost the battle of nicopolis in 1396, he escaped on board a vessel in the black sea, and for eighteen months was a fugitive from his kingdom; and at the moment of his re-entering hungary he was made prisoner by the discontented nobles, and shut up in the citadel of ziklos. escaping thence into bohemia, he, however, reconquered his throne, and in 1410 was raised to the empire by one party among the electors, while josse, marquis of moravia, and wenceslaus were elected by other factions. a remarkable coincidence, seeing that at this moment when three emperors possessed the empire, the papacy had also three popes, viz: john xxiii (balthazar cossa, a neapolitan; gregory xii (ange conrario

tion against them, but was defeated by ziska in 1420, and a war of fifteen years' duration ensued. in 1431 whilst he was being crowned king of abramelin the mage 35 of italy at milan, his troops experienced such severe defeats that he was forced to concede advantageous terms to the rebels. but dissensions arose among them, and sigismond profited by this to completely crush them at length and make bohemia submit. he reigned twenty-seven years as emperor of germany, eighteen years as king of bohemia, and fifty-one years as king of hungary. his second wife, barbe, has been called by some, the messalina of germany. 34 frederick i, surnamed the quarreller, duke and elector of saxony, was born at altenburg in 1369, and died in 1428. he was son of the landgrave and margrave frederick the severe

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 2

bucephalus this hydrocephalic hydropath? even as god gilbert begat the devil-brood musical comedy, so hast thou begotten the tedious stage-sermons to which our priest-loving, sin-conscious slaves now flock. refinement of cruelty! thou hast replaced the trappist cell by the court theatre! for this, i, who prefer the study to the theatre, forgive thee; for i love not the badger-reek of suburbia and bohemia in my nostrils. but for this also i praise thee, that lion-like thou turnest at last upon the jackal-crowd at thy heels. that ungainly dragon, the chesterbelloc, hast thou ridden against, 349 good st. george bernard shaw! with a spear thou hast pierced its side, and there floweth forth beer and water. turn also, gramercy, upon the others, even unto the lowest. as ibsen hawked at carrion bi

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

yezidi cult by sufi sheik adi in iraq. abode of learning active in cairo. spread of cathari manicheism throughout europe. leif ericson explores north america. 1004-1007) al-majriti, author of picatrix, dies 1010 earliest european mention of chess: count of urgel(spain)leaves his rock crystal chess set to a convent. by 1200, the game has spread over most of europe, reaching iceland, the baltic and bohemia. 1012: ben gabirol brings the works of plato to spain. 1013 1103 jacob ha-kohen's book of illumination aleph and angelic symbolism overlayed on the menorah 1016-1100 naropa 1018-c. 1079 michael psellus: on the hieratic art(alchemy theologised. 1020 d. meshullam ben kalonymos corresponded with the jews of babylon. rhineland mysticism. 1034 d. abu'l-hasan kharraqani. iranian sufi of the uway

domains of the count of toulouse into their kingdom. c.1210- 1272 jehan brete. trouv re member of the confr rie des jongleurs d'arras. c.1210 azriel of gerona(student of isaac the blind) commentary on the sefer yezirah promoted neoplatonic elements in kabbalah; aquainted with the ideas of john scotus erigena and ibn gabirol. 1210-1281 guglielma, princess blazena vilemina, daughter of the king of bohemia. guglielmites believed that guglielma of milan was the incarnation of the holy spirit and wished to establish a church with a female pope and female cardinals. 1214 franciscan friar roger bacon, born in somerset 1215 b. yehuda ha-cohen ibn matqha, astrologer in the entourage of frederick ii. translated his encyclopaedia: midras ha-hokhmah( the search for knowledge, from hebrew into arabic

e. arnald of villanova writes a number of important treatises on alchemy quaestiones tam esseentiales quam accidentales, epistola supe alchemia ad regem neapolitanum, de secretis naturae, exempla de arte philosophorum; key of solomon. d.1300 'aziz al-din nasafi. kitab al-insan al-kamil. 1300 sister manfreda, a member of the visconti family and follower of a religious sect, founded by guglielma of bohemia and inspired by the profecies of a 13th century italian monk, gioacchino da fiore had been elected "pope" by her sect was sentenced and burned. 1300-1325 w.v. white book of rhydderch (mabinogion. ma'arekhet ha-elohut expounds doctrines of kabbalah; popular in italy. 1304 bernard delicieux, provencal spiritual preaches to carcassone on the sibyls and the prophecies. 1305-6 arnald of villano

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

denmark were the same ethnicgroup and this is supported by archaeological evidence which indicates that this peoplearrived in that region about 300 to 250 bc. another group of cimmerians travelled upthe river danube through hungary and austria into southern germany and france. theromans called them gauls and the greeks knew them as the keltoi or celts. groups ofthese celtic tribes also settled in bohemia and bavaria and others invaded northernitaly. sallust, the roman historian, records how romans were defeated a number of figure 8: the aryans and the reptile-aryans expanded by sea and land into europe under many names, andespecially thanks to the british empire, they would eventually take over the wodd. 61times by the cimbri, who he says were gauls. other roman historians say the cimbriwe

called enochian script or cipher from communications with the angels -reptilians. dee signed his reports 007- the same, of course, as james bond, the storieswritten by a 20th century agent of this same british intelligence, ian fleming, a friendof the black magician, aleister crowley. dee travelled throughout europe manipulating,gathering information and oiling the networks. one of his haunts was bohemia and he wasclosely associated with emperor rudolf ii of the reptilian habsburg dynasty, anotheroccultist.12 dee was among the influential voices who were orchestrating a policy ofbritish expansionism which became the british empire. while in prague, dee gaveemperor rudolph an illustrated manuscript written in code and claimed to be the work ofroger bacon (roger, not francis, the 13th centur

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

unexpected and unaccountable corpse is only exceeded by the unpleasantness of becoming the corpse oneself, either of which eventualities may happen when people begin to experiment with the drugs that "unloose the girders of the mind" the morals of mankind in general leave much to be desired from the point of view of the purist, and the occult organisations, occupying as they do, the sea-coast of bohemia, leave more than usual. a few of the best, maintaining that occultism is essentially a religion, uphold a high standard; the remainder are blest with a kaleidoscopic collection of soul-mates. this need not concern us here. if people choose to kick over mrs. grundy's apron-strings, that is their affair. nor need we at the moment consider the occult abuses of sex-force, which will require de

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

the path (first published anonymously in 1885) is a classic work in the theosophical movement, collins has received only scant biographical notice. a daughter of mortimer collins, she became a prolific author of novels and other works, including: princess clarice: a story of 1871 (2 vols, 1872, blacksmith and scholar (3 vols, 1875, an innocent sinner (3 vols, 1877, in the world (2 vols, 1878, our bohemia (3 vols, 1879, too red a dawn (3 vols, 1881, cobwebs (3 vols, 1882, the story of helen modjeska (1883, in the flower of her youth (3 vols, 1883, violet fanshawe (2 vols, 1884, the prettiest woman in warsaw (3 vols, 1885, and lord vanecourt s daughter (3 vols, 1885. her later books, the idyll of the white lotus (1885, through the gates of gold (1887, and the blossom and the fruit: the true

nes and casting nativities. after a while, they found a new patron in stephen, king of poland, to whom kelley s spirits predicted that emperor rudolph would soon be assassinated and that the germans would elect him to the imperial throne. but stephen, like laski, grew weary of the ceaseless demands for pecuniary support. then came a new disciple, count rosenberg, a wealthy nobleman of trebona, in bohemia. at his castle they remained for nearly two years, eagerly pursuing their alchemical studies but never coming any closer to the desired result. dee s enthusiasm and credulity had made him utterly dependent on kelley, but the trickster was nevertheless jealous of the superior respect that dee enjoyed as a man of remarkable scholarship and considerable ability. frequent quarrels broke out be

esia. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. de lancre, pierre (1553.1631) french judge at witchcraft trials who claimed to have discovered that virtually the entire population (30,000) of a basque area, including priests, was affected by witchcraft. born in bordeaux, de lancre studied law at turin and bohemia and became a lawyer at the parlement of bordeaux in 1588. in 1608 he was commissioned by henry iv to investigate witchcraft in the basque territories. he actually boasted that as a trial judge he had sentenced 600 to be burned. his writings include tableau de l inconstance des mauvaisanges (1612, l incredulite et mescreance dusortile (1622, and du sortilege (1627. he died at loubeur-sur-ga

he gave 19 seances in stockholm, which were attended by many scientific and literary men. professors tornebom and edland, both of them skeptical previously, published a favorable report on his mediumship in the aftonblad of october 30, 1879. he also gave sittings at upsala university and then left for den- eglinton, william encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 478 mark, germany, and bohemia. in munich he was the guest of gabriel max, the eminent painter, and furnished the inspiration for his impressive painting geistesgruss. after his return he gave striking seances at cambridge university under the auspices of the psychological society, during which he was handcuffed to one person and held by another. it was in this month that florence cook was exposed by sir george sitwell

of peasants. during the thirty years war (1618.1648, many preachers, seers, and fanatics appeared, exhorting and prophesying. it is believed the condition of the country contributed towards producing the hallucination and hysteria. reportedly there are accounts of ecstatics absorbed in supernatural visions, such as anna fleischer of freiburg, and christiana poniatowitzsch, who traveled throughout bohemia and germany relating her visions and prophesing. at the end of the seventeenth century the old tenets of magic were undergoing a gradual change, except alchemy. the gnostic magical beliefs found new expression in secret societies, many of which were founded on those of the middle ages. freemasonry.whose beginnings are attributed by some to a certain guild of masons banded together for the

states in 1895. settling in los angeles in 1903, he joined the theosophical society and became vice president of the los angeles lodge in 1904. through theosophy he learned of astrology, a continuing interest throughout the rest of his life. while visiting europe in 1907, heindel claimed that he encountered a mysterious rosicrucian who took him to a rose cross temple on the border of germany and bohemia. there he was initiated into the order. he soon publicized the secret wisdom in his book the rosicrucian cosmo-conception (1909. however, his basic concepts were drawn from theosophy in general and from rudolf steiner in particular. steiner might have been his real rosicrucian mentor. after publication of his book, heindel founded various centers and created a headquarters and temple of wh

mended him, that he may whisper the lord s prayer in his right ear. it was said by con sullivan, a famous irish horse-whisperer of the eighteenth century, that practitioners of the art could not explain their power. this was affirmed by those who practiced it in south america, where a couple of men could tame half a dozen wild horses in three days. the same art was widely practiced in hungary and bohemia, and it was from a bohemian gypsy that a family in the county of cork claimed to hold a secret by which the wildest or most vicious horse could be tamed. for generations this secret was regularly transmitted as a parting legacy at the time of death from the father to the eldest son. throughout the north of scotland there are members of a secret society for breaking in difficult horses, whi

d magistrates. born at schlettstadt, in lower alsace, near strasbourg, kramer entered the dominican order, where he progressed so rapidly that he was appointed prior to the dominican house in schlettstadt while still a young man. he became preachergeneral and master of sacred theology (two dominican order distinctions) and around 1474 was appointed inquisitor for the districts of tyrol, salzburg, bohemia, and moravia. he received praise from rome and from the archbishop of salzburg, becoming spiritual director of the dominican church in salzburg. in 1484 pope innocent viii was responsible for the famous bull summis desiderantes affectibus of december 9, which deplored the power of the witch organization and redefined witchcraft in such a way as to bring it into the scope of the inquisition

heinrich 875 quisitors, judges, and magistrates in the great witchcraft persecutions and went into many editions in french, italian, and english, as well as in german. kramer resided for a period at the priory of santi giovanni e paolo (x. zanipolo, returning to germany in 1497, where he lived at the convent of rohr, near regensburg. on january 31, 1500, he was appointed nuncio and inquisitor of bohemia and moravia by alexander vi and empowered to proceed against the waldenses and picards as well as witches. he died in bohemia in 1505. sources: robbins, rossell hope. the encyclopedia of witchcraft and demonology. new york: crown publishers, 1959. krapf, phillip h (1935) phillip h. krapf, a writer and former copyeditor for the los angeles times, emerged in 1998 as a ufo contactee/abductee

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

pinion that if the suspected person were really the source of these noises, disturbances, and acts of cruelty, the law would justify the burning of the body, as is practiced in the case of other specters that come again and molest the living. he related several stories of apparitions of this sort and the mischief done by them. one was of a herdsman of the village of blow near the town of kadam in bohemia, who appeared for a considerable time and called upon several persons, who all died within eight days. the inhabitants of blow dug up the herdsman s body and fixed it in the ground with a stake driven through it. the man, even in this condition, laughed at the people that were employed about him, and told them they were very obliging to furnish him with a stick to defend himself from the d

s of strange countries. now it happened that the lord of corasse, as on other nights, was lying in his bed in his chamber by the side of his wife, who had become accustomed to listen to orton without any alarm. orton came, and drew away the lord s pillow, for he was fast asleep, and his lord awoke, and cried, who is this? he answered, it is i, orton. and whence comest thou? i come from prague, in bohemia. and how far from hence is this prague, in bohemia? why, said he, about sixty days journey. and thou hast come so quickly? faith, i go as quickly as the wind, or even swifter. and thou hast wings? faith, none. how then canst thou fly so quickly? orton replied. it does not concern thee to know. nay, said he, i shall be very glad to know what fashion and form thou art of, orton answered, it

n fellowship an occult organization founded in 1907 by carl louis van grashoff who used the pseudonym max heindel. born in germany in 1865, he came to america in 1895 and in 1904 was vice president of a theosophical society lodge in los angeles. he claimed that during a visit to europe in 1907 he met a mysterious occult rosicrucian who took him to a rose cross temple on the borders of germany and bohemia, where he was initiated. heindel expounded his version of rosicrucian teachings, with obvious roots in theosophy, in his book the rosicrucian cosmo-conception (1909) and established various fellowship centers. he also founded the fellowship s magazine rays from the rose cross. in 1911, the fellowship was established at mt. ecclesia, a plot of land in oceanside, california, to disseminate r

ogy embedded in a polytheistic religious system. it included reference to spirits of nature. according to folklorist f. s. krauss: in the vile, also known as samovile, samodivi, and vilivrjaci, we have near relations to the forest and field spirits or the wood and moss-folk of middle germany, france and bavaria, the wild people of hesse, eifel, salzburg and the tyrol, the woodwomen and woodmen of bohemia, the tyrolese fanggen, fanken, norkel and happy ladies, the roumanish orken, euguane, and dialen, the danish ellekoner, the swedish skogsnufvaz, and the russian ljesje, while in certain respects they have affinity with the teutonic valkyries. the vila were, however, more like divine beings, constantly watching over and controlling the destiny of mortals. they were prayed to or exorcised on

ucated at an elementary school, then had four years at lower realschule, gospic, lika, which was followed by three years at the higher realschule, carlstadt, croatia. he graduated in 1873. tesla was a student for four years at the polytechnic school, gratz, austria, studying mathematics, physics, and mechanics. afterward he enrolled in philosophy studies for two years at the university of prague, bohemia (now the capital of the czech republic. he commenced his career as an inventor in budapest, hungary, in 1881. there he constructed a telephone repeater and engaged in various branches of engineering and manufacture. in 1884 he immigrated to the united states, later becoming a naturalized citizen. for nearly a year he worked for inventor thomas a. edison, who was impressed by his skill and

animated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, causing their death. the belief in vampires is an ancient one. it was found in ancient india, babylonia, greece, and for a time accepted by early christians. the conception of the vampire was common among slavonic peoples, especially in the balkan countries and in hungary, bohemia, moravia, and silesia. in these territories from 1730 to 1735, there was a claimed epidemic of vampirism, but it was by no means confined there. in russia and the ukraine it was believed that vampires were generally wizards or sorcerers, but in bulgaria and serbia it was thought that any corpse over which a cat or a dog jumped or over which a bird flew was liable to become a vampire. in gr

tion, to be in a fluid condition as in life, and the limbs are pliant and have none of the rigidity of death. examples of vampirism many tales of vampirism have been recorded. charles ferdinand de schertz, in his work magia posthuma, printed at olmutz in 1706, related several stories of apparitions of this sort. one, among others, was of a herdsman of the village of blow near the town of kadam in bohemia, who visited several persons who all died within eight days. at last, the inhabitants of blow dug up the herdsman s body and fixed it in the ground with a stake driven through it. the man, even in this condition, laughed at the action of the people about him and told them they were very obliging to furnish him with a stick with which to defend himself. the same night, he extricated himself

research 16 (january 1922. psychometric experiments with maria reyes de z. proceedings of the american society for psychical research 15 (1921. tyrell, g. n. m. the personality of man: new facts and their significance. u.k: penguin books, 1947. ziito (fl. fourteenth century) one of the most remarkable magicians that history has left record of. he was a sorcerer at the court of king wenceslaus of bohemia (afterward emperor of germany) toward the end of the fourteenth century. among his more famous exploits was one chronicled by janus dubravius, bishop of olmutz, in his historiae regni boiemiae (history of bohemia, 1552. on the occasion of the marriage of wenceslaus with sophia, daughter of the elector palatine of bavaria, the elector, knowing his son-inlaw s liking for juggling and magical

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

"atheists, magicians, deists and such people",2 but his chief attacks on bruno are in l'impiete des deistes where he describes him as "un des plus medians hommes que la terre porta 1 kepler, harmonice mundi, appendix, werke, ed. cit, vi, p. 375. 2 giulio cesare vanini (1585-1619) was, with bruno, one of the chief objects of mersenne's detestation. vanini, a carmelite friar, travelled in germany, bohemia, holland, switzerland. he tried to establish himself 444 hermes trismegistus and the fludd controversies jamais" and accuses him of "n'avoir invente une nouvelle facon de philosopher qu'afin de combattre sourdement la religion chretdenne. 1 mersenne had been reading the "contractions" and was appalled.2 though the whole foundation of bruno's philosophy was utterly bad, yet mersenne sometim

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

n of the kabbalah was made into a book. the peasants revolt in england, in 1381, was, according to some historians, fanned to flame by a secret organization. those experts who study the history of masonry agree that this secret organization was the templars. it was more than a mere civil uprising, it was a planned assault on the catholic church. 31 half a century after this revolt, a clergyman in bohemia by the name of john huss started an uprising in opposition to the catholic church. behind the scenes of this uprising were again the templars. moreover, huss was very interested in the kabbalah. avigdor b en isaac kara was one of the most important names that he was influenced by in the development of his doctrines. kara was a rabbi of the jewish community in prague and a kabbalist. 32 exa

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

scandinavia. the phenomenon of howling wind is referred to osin's waggon, as that of thunder is to thor's. on hearing a noise at night, as of horses and carts, they say in sweden* oden far fvrhi^ in schonen an uproar produced perhaps by seafowl on november and december evenings is called odens jagt^ in bavaria they say nacht-gejaid or nachtgelait (processio nocturna, schm. 2, 264. 514; in german bohemia nncht-goid= spectre, rank's bohmerwald pp. 46. 78. 83. 91. in thuringia, hesse, franconia, swabia, the traditional term is' das wiltende heer' and it must be one of long standing: the 12th cent, poet of the urstende (halm 105, 35) uses' daz wuetiinde her' of the jews who fell upon the saviour; in rol. 204, 16 pharaoh's army whelmed by the sea is* sin wstigez her/ in strieker 73 'daz wiietu

gi jiibcnt. digitorum resegmina unguium ad cavernas formicarum abjici jubent, camque quae prima coeperit trabere, correptam subuecti collo' tbis signiticance of nail-parings is worth dwelling on, as our heathenism attributes to them even a greater, making the world's end depend upon them (p. 814, naglfar* see passages in a homily of the 8th cent, on this superst, pertz's ai-chiv 6, 500-1. 2 so in bohemia and moravia. lowe's denkw. u. reiseu 72. vol iii. r 1140 superstition. climxlies built; the rise of new establishments and kingdoms is liallowed by beasts, whicb, alien to all human ends^ reveal the higher counsels of the gods. greek and roman story teems with examples. a i^aven leads battus and his emigrants to cyrene (kopa^ rjyyjaaro, callim. hymn to apollo 6q. the irpini are so called f

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

onymus, but how to ex plain the swiss schmutzli (staid. 2, 337) i do not rightly know, perhaps simply from his smutty sooty aspect? instead of grampus there is also in styria a bdrthel (pointing to berhta, or bartho lomew) schmutzbartel 3 and klaubauf, who rattles, rackets, and 1 heinrich and ruprecht were once common names for serving-men, as hans and glaus are now. 2 zember about eger in german bohemia (popowitsch 523; at the same time the lausitz idol sompar (supra, p. 71 note) is worth considering. 3 the phrase he knows where barthel gets his must, notwithstanding other explanations, may refer to a home-sprite well-known in the cellar. 516 wights and elves. throws nuts (denis, lesefr. 1, 131; see suppl. further, on this point i attach weight to the swedish jullekar, dan. juleleger, yul

(dew-mane, sn. 11. the on. meldropi, as. rneledeaw, ohg. militou (gl. jun. 224, mhg. miltou (ms. 2, 124a, all take us back to mel (lupatum equi; conf. note on elene p. 164, where mel is derived from midl, mittul, and supra p. 421. antiquity referred all the phenomena of nature to higher powers. the people in bavaria call a dark rain-cloud anel mit der laugen/ granny with her ley (schm. 1, 63; in bohemia light clouds are balky, grannies. when moun tain mist is rising, the esthonians say the old one is putting his fire out; our people ascribe it to animals at least: the hare is boiling [his supper, the fox is bathing, brewing/ keinh. ccxcvi. when shapes keep rising in the mists on the seashore, the italians call it fata morgana, p. 412 (see suppl. the scythians explained drifting snow as fl

her horns meet, i.e, when she completes her circle. keisersperg s postille 138b: ietz so ist er niiw, ietz fol, ietz alt, ietz die erst qvart, ietz die ander qvart, ietz ist es wedel; here full-moon and wedel are not so clearly defined as in another passage of keisersperg (oberlin 1957) on march: wan es ist sein wedel, sein volmon. in dasy podius: plenilunium, der volmon, wadel.3? the germans in bohemia commonly use wadel for full-moon, and schm. 4, 22 produces other notable authorities. but the word is known in lower germany too; bohmer s kantzow p. 266 spells it wadel^ 1 modern icel. names are: uany (black new, interlunium; prim (nova luna, also nyqveikt tungl; hdlfvaxid tungl (first quarter; fullt tungl (plenilunium "halfjyrotid tungl (last quarter. here too the old names have gon

n that deter mined the longer duration or speedier extinction of the custom. it is rather striking that it should be rifest just in middle germany, and lean on slav countries behind, which likewise do it homage; but that is no reason for concluding that it is of slav origin, or that slavs could have imported it up to and beyond the rhine. we must first consider more closely these slav customs. in bohemia, children march, with a straw man representing death, to the end of the village, and there burn him while they sing: giz nesem smrt ze wsy, now bear we i, from the village, nowe leto do wsy; new summer to the village; witey leto libezne, welcome summer sweet, obiljcko zelene! little grain so green. 1 c. h. schmid has indeed drawn up (journ. v. u. f. d. 1790, 314-5) a list of the lands and

not have been done by the christians in mere contempt, it may have formed a part of the pagan rite itself; for an antithesis between summer and winter, and an exalting of the former, necessarily implied a lowering of the latter.3 the day for carrying death out was the quarta dominica quadragesimae, i.e. laetare sunday or midlent, on which very day it also falls in poland (w nieziele srodopostna, bohemia, silesia and lausitz. the bohemians call it smrtedlna, samrtna nedele, the sorbs smerdnitsa, death sunday; coming three weeks before easter, it will almost always occur in march. some have it a week earlier, on oculi sunday, others (espec. in bohemia) a week later, on judica sunday; one boh. song even brings in mag nowy/ new may. but in the khine and main country, as 1 hist. polon. lib. 2

as performed on the rhine or neckar, it is also difficult to conceive how a native slav custom should have pushed itself all the way to the odenwald and the palatinate beyond rhine, accountable as it might be on the upper main, in the fulda country, meissen or thuringia. what is still more decisive, we observe that the custom is known, not to all the slavs, but just to those in silesia, lausitz, bohemia and, with a marked difference, in poland; not to the south slavs at all, nor apparently to those settled in pomerania, mecklenburg and liineburg. like our bavarians and tyrolese, the carniolans, styrians and slovaks have it not; neither have the pomeranians and low saxons.1 only a central belt of territory has preserved it, alike among slavs and germans, and doubtless from a like cause. i

cid 1627. reception of summer. 779 summer, that we have learnt to know. in sweden and gothland a battle of winter and summer, a triumphal entry of the latter. in schonen, denmark, l. saxony and england simply mayliding, or fetching of the may- waggon. on the rhine merely a battle of winter and summer, without immersion, 1 without the pomp of an entry. in franconia, thuringia, meissen, silesia and bohemia only the carrying-out of wintry death; no battle, no formal introduction of summer.2 of these festivals the first and second fall in may, the third and fourth in march. in the first two, the whole population takes part with unabated enthusiasm; in the last two, only the lower poorer class. it is however the first and third modes that have retained the full idea of the performance, the stru

1 it was a different thing therefore when in olden times the frankfort boys and girls, every year at candlemas (febr. 2, threw a stuffed garment into the main, and sang: reuker uder schlug sein mutter, schlug ihr arm und bein entzwoi, dass sie mordio schrei, lersner s chron. p. 492. i leave the song unexplained. 2 yet summer as a contrast does occasionally come out plainly in songs or customs of bohemia and lausitz. 3 finn magnusen, always prone to see some natural phenomenon underlying a myth, finds the contrast of summer and winter lurking in more than one place in the edda: in fiollsvinnsmal and harbardsliod (th. 2, 135. 3, 44 of his edda, in saxo s oiler and othin saga (th. 1, 196. lex. 765, in that of thiassi (lex. 887, because osinn sets the eye of the slain giant in the sky (p, and

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

es s feathers we believe to be, and to mean, the same thing as this sublime fleur-de-lis. it resembles the object closely, with certain effectual, ingenious disguises. the origin of the prince of wales s plume. 141 prince of wales's plume is supposed to be the adoption of the king's crest (by edward the black prince, at the battle of cressy, on the discovery of the slain body of the blind king of bohemia. bohemia again! the land of the fireworshipping kings, whose palace, the radschin, still exists on the heights near prague. we believe the crest and the motto of the prince of wales to have been in use, for our princes of wales, at a much earlier period, and that history, in this respect, is perpetuating an error perhaps an originally intended mistake. we think the following, which appears

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

n of the obviously mechanical nature of the distribution of the marks, be they cups in stone or depressions in snow. it is the establishment of the mechanical nature of these manifestations and their consequent subordination to intelligent control, which is our first concern. the whys and wherefores must be secondary issues. have you heard of the vitrified forts of scotland, ireland, brittany and bohemia? there are a number of very ancient forts, many on hilltops, which are scattered through those areas. they are from the below he may have surmised that there were two types of people, at war with one another. can't say for sure. unique, because a part of the stone work is vitrified. it isn't clear as to just what enemies caused the building of the forts whether they were built by invaders

may have surmised that there were two types of people, at war with one another. can't say for sure. unique, because a part of the stone work is vitrified. it isn't clear as to just what enemies caused the building of the forts whether they were built by invaders or defenders, or already in place prior to an invasion. these forts seem almost to surround england, and since some are in brittany and bohemia, one wonders if england at that time was connected with the mainland of europe. true. archaeologists postulate that these incredibly ancient people built vast fires to vitrify the stone forts and cement them together by melting them externally. even where there was not a good supply of wood to burn; but then, that was a long time ago and there might, then, have been wood, coal, oil, or som

otherwise cooked by so-called natural means. 115 force cutter, full blast. but the singular fact of these vitrified forts is that the stones are vitrified in streaks, as if special blasts had struck or played upon them bdra! he's hit it, on the nose! lightning? at any rate, once (or more) upon a time something melted, in streaks, the stones of forts on the hills of scotland, ireland, brittany and bohemia. whoever, or whatever did it, they, or it, had some handy way of getting around. lightning has a way of hitting things prominently displayed on hilltops. but some of the vitrified forts are inconspicuously located and yet didn't escape; their walls, too, are vitrified in streaks. but, on hills and mountains all over the rest of the world are remains of forts which have not been vitrified

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

which are over the moon, which is the highest part of magia naturalis. the hebrews also call both of them cabala--pico della mirandola, conclusions paulus ricius( 1470-1541) ricius, a physician and a professor of philosophy at pavia university, austria, served as personal physician and consultant to maximilian i, archduke of austria, german king and holy roman emperor, and to ferdinand i king of bohemia and hungary. the ability to interpret the divine and human secrets by a type of the mosaic law with allegorical sense is called kabbalah. a literal meaning (of a scripture) submits to the conditions of time and space. allegorical and kabbalistic- remains for centuries, unbounded by time and space--paulus ricius, introductoria theoramata cabalae philippus aureolus paracelsus (1493-1541) a g

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

er study of alchemy. dr. franz hartmann has collected reliable evidence concerning four different: alchemists who transmuted base metals into gold not once but many times. one of these accounts concerns a monk of the order of st. augustine named wenzel seiler, who discovered a small amount of mysterious red powder in his convent. in the presence of emperor leopold i, king of germany, hungary, and bohemia, he transmuted quantities of tin into gold. among other things which he dipped into his mysterious essence was a large silver medal. that part of the medal which came in contact with the gold-producing substance was transmuted into the purest quality of the more precious metal. the rest remained silver. with regard to this medal, dr. hartmann writes "the most indisputable proof (if appeara

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ylene glycol. kills people. 1937 japanese production of mustard gas reaches 2 tons per day. 1937 japanese build biological warfare facility called pingfan in manchuria. it is complete by 1939.destroyed in 1945 as russians approach. the japanese wage biological war against china until 1945. 1937 william donovan renews his association with the rothschilds, who ask him to salvage their inter-ests in bohemia (czechoslovakia) left over from the nazi occupation. he is defeated by hitlers view ofthe rothschilds. donovans law firm successfully defends 18 oil firms against anti-trust charges. dono-van meets kim philby in spain and begins to build the oss around the hard core of the communist lin-coln brigade. 1937 italy signs anti-communist pact with japan and germany. 1937 american professor earne

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

chanically to constitute everything into what they took of the dee system. this is valid and powerful! h.s. 626 the golden dawn: volume zv book nine some of the order clairvoyants have claimed that dee and kelly in some way obtained access to the construction of the enochian system whilst they were in central europe. it is claimed that numerous rosicrucian centres existed in germany, austria, and bohemia, and both dee and kelly were received therein. whilst this may be a plausible theory, there is not the least vestige of objective evidence for this assumption. still others have believed that it represents a revival of certain species of atlantean magic, though those <263> who press this theory do not explain the dee diaries, not his account of the method he and edward kelly employed to ac

RUBY TABLET OF SET

slaught of modern capitalist/labor/socialist developments, began in england at the start of the 19th century. the move towards industrialization spread to belgium as a consequence of english investments in that country, and france and germany experienced their major industrial booms between 1830 and 1870. sweden, denmark, and the low countries followed during the period 1871-1914, as did austria, bohemia, and russia. by the period just prior to world war i, the principal countries which were still essentially preindustrial were hungary, italy, and spain. during the 1870s a gradual transition could be seen from individual entrepre- neurship to various forms of industrial combination and conglomeration. government aid to such industrial enterprises was also a new development, consisting of a

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

hopelessly in love with her. also, she bought property "neurotic behaviour" she would confess unashamedly "excessive need for rooting owing to upheavals of armenian--jewish history. some desperation owing to advancing years and small polyps detected in the throat. property is so soothing, i do recommend it" she owned a norfolk vicarage, a farmhouse in normandy, a tuscan belltower, a sea--coast in bohemia "all haunted" she explained "clanks, howls, blood on the rugs, women in nighties, the works. nobody gives up land without a fight" nobody except me, chamcha thought, a melancholy clutching at him as he lay beside zeenat vakil. maybe i'm a ghost already. but at least a ghost with an airline ticket, success, money, wife. a shade, but living in the tangible, material world. with _assets. yes

ece of hit-parade bubblegum music, the bright elusive butterfly, which shared _l"amour_ with the _oiseau rebelle. love, a zone in which nobody desirous of compiling a human (as opposed to robotic, skinnerian-android) body of experience could afford to shut down operations, did you down, no question about it, and very probably did you in as well. it even warned you in advance "love is an infant of bohemia" sings carmen, herself the very idea of the beloved, its perfect pattern, eternal and divine "and if you love me, look out for you" you couldn't ask for fairer. for his own part, saladin in his time had loved widely, and was now (he had come to believe) suffering love's revenges upon the foolish lover. of the things of the mind, he had most loved the protean, inexhaustible culture of the e

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

eligions. http//www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/religions/ gurus/vivek.html (accessed on june 2, 2006. vivekananda, swami. complete works of swami vivekananda. sri ramakrishna and swami vivekananda. http//www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/ volume_1/vol_1_frame.htm (accessed on may 26, 2006. swami vivekananda 390 world religions: biographies isaac mayer wise born: march 29, 1819 steingrub, bohemia died: march 26, 1900 cincinnati, ohio, united states rabbi; editor; writer had the hebrews not been disbursed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization. isaac mayer wise was one of the most well-known jews in the united states during the nineteenth century. he was a rabbi, a person trained in jewish law and tradition who

believes that the torah, the jewish holy book, was written by several authors, rather than just one. its followers do not adhere to many of the commandments, or laws, laid out in the torah, unlike some other branches of judaism. isaac wise. bettmann/corbis. 391 birth and early life isaac mayer weiss was born to leo weiss, a schoolteacher, and regina weiss on march 29, 1819, in steigrub, a town in bohemia. bohemia was at the time part of the austro-hungarian empire but later became a part of the czech republic. as a youngster weiss was a gifted student who showed interest in a range of subjects. his father tutored him in jewish scripture, collectively known as the tanakh, or hebrew bible, and the talmud. the talmud consists of traditions that explain and interpret the first five books of th

wn of jekinau. weiss next attended the university of prague for two years and the university of vienna in austria for one year. in 1842, at age twenty-three, he was ordained, or officially made, a rabbi. he married therese bloch two years later, and the couple eventually had ten children. a later marriage produced four more children. a controversial rabbi weiss first served as a rabbi in radnitz, bohemia, but he found the environment there unpleasant because of the discrimination against jews in the region. discrimination is unfair treatment against a person or group because of differences such as religion and other characteristics. during this period european jews were the victims of widespread religious intolerance and prejudice, or mistreatment. they were typically regarded as outsiders

nfair treatment against a person or group because of differences such as religion and other characteristics. during this period european jews were the victims of widespread religious intolerance and prejudice, or mistreatment. they were typically regarded as outsiders in the largely christian communities. weiss believed that the united states held the promise of more religious freedom, so he left bohemia for and arrived in new york city on july 23, 1846. at this point he changed the spelling of his name from weiss to wise. he accepted a job as rabbi at an orthodox temple in albany, new york, where he remained for four years. orthodox judaism is a traditional form of the religion, based on a strict interpretation of the torah. wise quickly became known as a highly controversial figure withi

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

serpent encircling the whole world. the oroboros, the serpent coiled up in a circle biting its own tail (also uroboros, is pictured as a gnostic rooster combination creature in this illustration from horapollo's selecta hieroglyphica, 1597. the sun and moon symbolize the conjunction of opposites, which is the alchemical doctrine of illuminism. 282 codex magica these two ancient celtic coins from bohemia (second and first centuries b.c) bear the marks of the dragon, or serpent. the first coin has the image of an oroboros serpent/dragon torqued and prepared to bite its own tail. the second coin bears the image of a coiled, horned serpent with ears. the coins signify the adoration and homage paid the serpent as a religious icon of worship-status by the mystery religions. the revival today of

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

s which he considered as illustrating the secret history of the order of the templars, from which we learn that there was in his time a series of most extraordinary obscene sculptures in the church of schoengraber in austria, of which he intended to give engravings, but the drawings had not arrived in time for his book;1 but he has engraved the capital of a column in the church of egra, a town of bohemia, of which we give a copy,2 in which the two sexes are displaying to view the members, which were believed to be so efficatious against the power of fascination. the figure of the female organ, as well as the male, appears to have been employed during the middle ages of western europe far more generally than we might suppose, placed upon buildings as a talisman against evil influences, and

f the secret worship of the templars, appear to us to be much less satisfactorily explained. these are sculptures on old churches, and coins or medals. such sculptures are found, according to von hammer, on the churches of sch ngraber, waltendorf, and bercktoldorf, in austria; in that of deutschaltenburg, and in the ruins of that of posty n, in hungary; and in those of murau, prague, and egra, in bohemia. to these examples we are to add the sculptures of the church of montmorillon, in poitou, some of which have been engraved by montfaucon,3 and those of the church of ste. croix, in bordeaux. we have already4 remarked the rather frequent prevalence of subjects more or less obscene in the sculptures which ornament early churches, and suggested that they may be explained in some degree by the

Return to Occult Library Index

http://www.hollywoodinsiders.net
MWLibCreator Ver.2 By:Michael Wynn