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of days, they simply count like the greeks^ not because they were converted later, but because they became acquainted with latin culture later. the finns and lapps 1 conf. pet. er. miiller om saxo, p. 79- the indian nations also name their days of the week after planets; and it seems worth remarking here, that wednesday is in sanskrit budhuvaras, tamil budhunld/ramei, because some have identified buddha with woden. in reality budhas, the ruler of mercury and son of the moon, is quite distinct from the prophet buddhas (schlegel's ind. bibl. 2. 177. 9 130 gods. do not count, while the esthonians again mostly do (see suppl. even the christianizing influence of byzantium decided nothing on this point; byzantium had no influence over lithuanians and finns, and had it over a part only of the sla

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e of their life, i simply smile and nod. when daemons walk among us, they choose the time and the place, unlike younger souls, but there are no virgin births or "immaculate conceptions" it must be stressed that, as a race, the ancient ones come infrequently and they are not fighting a turf war in heaven as our primitive mythologies suggest. joan of arc was an incarnated daemon, as were christ and buddha, but then, so was charles manson. a juvenile nursery rhyme goes "there was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead (third eye. and when she was good, she was very, very good, but when she was bad, she was horrid" passions are magnified in those who are more awakened spiritually. it must be stressed that the very essence of any form must be imperfect, be it

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

study, and why should we study it (13) the answer is very simple. all this yoga that we know and practice, this yoga that produced these ecstatic results that we call phenomena, includes among its spiritual emanations a good deal of unpleasantness. the more we study this universe produced by our yoga, the more we collect and synthesize our experience, the nearer we get to a perception of what the buddha declared to be characteristic of all component things: sorrow, change, and absence of any permanent principle. we constantly approach his enunciation of the first two 'noble truths' as he called them 'everything is sorrow; and 'the cause of sorrow is desire' by the word 'desire' he meant exactly what is meant by 'love' in 'the book of the law' which i quoted a few moments ago 'desire' is th

the precepts usually enumerated under the heading yama. the rest are for the most part based on local and climatic conditions, and they may or may not be applicable to your own case. and, on the other hand, there are all sorts of good rules which have never occurred to a teacher of yoga; because those teachers never conceived the condition in which many people live today. it never occurred to the buddha or patanjali or mansur el-hallaj to advise his pupils not to practise in a flat with a wireless set next door. the result of all this is that all of you who are worth your salt will be absolutely delighted when i tell you to scrap all the rules and discover your own. sir richard burton said 'he noblest lives and noblest dies, who makes and keeps his self-made laws' 10. this is, of course, w

e gross pleasures of the senses are absolutely worthless. this practice, so far as it is useful to all, should be regarded as the first step towards emancipation from the thrall of the bodily desires, of the sensations self-destructive, of the thirst for pleasure. 18. i think this is a good opportunity to make a little digression in favour of mahasatipatthana. this practice was recommended by the buddha in very special terms, and it is the only one of which he speaks so highly. he told his disciples that if they only stuck to it, sooner or later they would reach full attainment. the practice consists of an analysis of the universe in terms of consciousness. you begin by taking some very simple and regular bodily exercise, such as the movement of the body in walking, or the movements of the

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 164 [167] 79 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta omicron-theta the bal bullier some men look into their minds into their memories, and find naught but pain and shame. these then proclaim "the good law" unto mankind. these preach renunciation "virtue, cowardice in every form. these whine eternally. smug, toothless, hairless coote, debauch-emasculated buddha, come ye to me? i have a trick to make you silent, o ye foamers-at-the mouth! nature is wasteful; but how well she can afford it! nature is false; but i'm a bit of a liar myself. nature is useless; but then how beautiful she is! nature is cruel; but i too am a sadist. the game goes on; it y have been too rough for buddha, but it's (if anything) too dull for me. viens, beau negre! donne-moi

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

minary fashion during the preparation of the weapons and furniture of the temple. to consider in a more particular manner this question of the nature of ritual, we may suppose that he finds himself lacking in that perception of the value of life and death, alike of individuals and of races, which is characteristic of nature. he has perhaps a tendency to perceive the "first noble truth" uttered by buddha, that everything is sorrow. nature, it seems, is a tragedy. he has perhaps even experienced the great trance called sorrow. he should then consider whether there is not some deity who expresses this cycle, and yet whose nature is joy. he will find what he requires in dionysus. there are three main methods of invoking any deity. the "first method" consists of devotion to that deity, and, bei

aphysical speculation. he who became the master therion was once confronted by this very difficulty. being determined to instruct mankind, he sought a simple statement of his object. his will was sufficiently informed by common sense to decide him to teach man "the next step, the thing which was immediately above him. he might have called this "god, or "the higher self, or "the augoeides, or "adi-buddha, or 61 other things- but he had discovered that these were all one, yet that each one represented some theory of the universe which would ultimately be shattered by criticism- for he had already passed through the realm of reason, and knew that every statement contained an absurdity. he therefore said "let me declare this work under this title 'the obtaining of the knowledge and conversatio

law is this writing. to this lamen the master therion gave life by devoting his own life thereto. we may then regard this talisman, the law, as the most powerful that has been made in the world's history, for previous talismans of the same type have been limited in their scope by conditions of race and country. mohammed's talisman, allah, was good only from persia to the pillars of hercules. the buddha's, anatta, operated only in the south and east of asia. the new talisman, thelema, is master of the planet. but now observe how the question of the magical link arises! no matter how mighty the truth of thelema, it cannot prevail unless it is applied to any by mankind. as long as the book of the law was in manuscript, it could only affect the small group amongst whom it was circulated. it h

rehouse of oriental magick-lore. morte d'arthur, by sir thomas mallory. valuable as a storehouse of occidental magick-lore. the works of francois rabelais. invaluable for wisdom. the kasidah, by sir richard burton. valuable as a summary of philosophy. the song celestial, by sir edwin arnold "the bagavad-gita" in verse. the light of asia, by sir edwin arnold. an account of the attainment of gotama buddha. the rosicrucians, by hargrave jennings. valuable to those who can read between the lines. the real history of the rosicrucians, by a. e. waite. a good vulgar piece of journalism on the subject. the works of arthur machen. most of these stories are of great magical interest. the writings of william o'neill (blake. invaluable to all students. the shaving of shagpat, by george meredith. an ex

known to the ancient egyptians, during that: equinox of the gods over which isis presided (i.e. the pagan era) was: taken as green: 309 table i: xix: xxii :key scale: selection of egyptian gods: small selection of: hindu deities: 0 :harpocrates, amoun, nuith :aum: 1 :ptah, asar un nefer, hadith :parabrahm (or any other whom: one wishes to please: 2 :amoun, thoth, nuith (zodiac.:shiva, vishnu (as buddha ava: tara).akasa(as matter).lingam: 3 :maut, isis, nephthys :bhavani (all forms of sakti: prana (as force, yoni: 4 :amoun, isis :indra, brahma: 5 :horus, nephthys :vishnu, varruna-avatar: 6 :asar, ra :vishnu-hari-krishna-rama: 7 :hathoor :bhavani (all forms of sakti: prana (as force, yoni: 8 :anubis :hanuman: 9 :shu :ganesha vishnu (kurm avatar: 10 :seb. lower (i.e. unwedded :lakshmi, etc (

eucharist of the five elements and let him proclaim light in extension; yea, let him proclaim light in extension. 363 ii aaa "these loosen the swathings of the corpse; these unbind the feet of osiris, so that the flaming god may rage through the firmament with his fantastic spear" liber lapidis lazuli. vii. 3. 0. be seated in thine asana, or recumbent in shavasana, or in the position of the dying buddha. 1. think of thy death; imagine the various diseases that may attack thee, or accidents overtake thee. picture the process of death, applying always to thyself (a useful preliminary practice is to read textbooks of pathology, and to visit museums and dissecting-rooms) 2. continue this practice until death is complete; follow the corpse through the stages of embalming, wrapping and burial. 3

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

k school of magick, which must by no means be confused with the school of black magick or sorcery, which latter is a perversion of the white tradition, is distinguished fundamentally from the yellow school in that it considers the universe not as neutral, but as definitely a magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 88 curse. its primary theorem is the "first noble truth" of the buddha "everything is sorrow" in the primitive classics of this school the idea of sorrow is confused with that of sin (this idea of universal lamentation is presumably responsible for the choice of black as its symbolic colour. and yet? is not white the chinese hue of mourning) the analysis of the philosophers of this school refers every phenomenon to the category of sorrow. it is quite useless t

e is exempt from sorrow. 50 huxley says, in his evolution and ethics "suffering is the badge of all the tribe of sentient things" magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 89 the philosophers of this school, seeking, naturally enough, to amend the evil at the root, inquire into the cause of this existence which is sorrow, and arrive immediately at the 'second noble truth' of the buddha "the cause of sorrow is desire. they follow up with the endless concatenation of causes, of which the final root is ignorance (i am not concerned to defend the logic of this school: i merely state their doctrine) the practical issue of all this is that every kind of action is both unavoidable and a crime. i must digress to explain that the confusion of thought in this doctrine is constantly

estruction of the illusion of evil as the reuniting of the consciousness with parabrahm. the unfortunate part of this scheme of things is that on seeking to define parabrahm for the purpose of returning to its purity, it is discovered sooner or later, that it possesses no qualities at all! in other words, as the farmer said, on being shown the elephant: there ain't no sich animile. it was gautama buddha who perceived the inutility of dragging in this imaginary pachyderm. since our parabrahm, he said to the hindu philosophers, is actually nothing, why not stick to or original perception that everything is sorrow, and admit that the only way to escape from sorrow is to arrive at nothingness? we may complete the whole tradition of the indian peninsula very simply. to the vedas, the upanishads

mbraced me. altogether i melted in her beauty and was glad. 15. the river also became the river of amrit, and the little boat was the chariot of the flesh, and the sails thereof the blood of the heart that beareth me, that beareth me. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 96 liber lxv, cap. ii. we find even in profane literature this doctrine of the white school of magick- o buddha! couldst thou nowhere rest a pivot for the universe? must all things be alike confessed mere changes rung upon a curse? i swear by all the bliss of blue my phryne with her powder on is just as false- and just as true- as your disgusting skeleton. each to his taste: if you prefer this loathly brooding on decay; i call it growth, and lovelier than all the glamours of the day. you would not da

l give you wheat, not tares; it seems terrifyingly easy for sound instruction to degenerate in to a "pi-jaw" here goes "to don nirmanakaya's humble robe is to forego eternal bliss for self, to help on man's salvation. to reach nirvana's bliss but to renounce it, is the supreme, the final step- the highest on renunciation's path" follows a common-sense comment by frater o.m "all this about gautama buddha having renounced nirvana is apparently all a pure invention of mme. blavatsky, and has no authority in the buddhist canon. the buddha is referred to, again and again, as having 'passed away by that kind of passing away which leaves nothing what- 40^ weh note: if homer can nod, so can crowley. the mineral called fool's gold is actually iron pyrites, not copper. it has a brassy look, and that

es nothing what- 40^ weh note: if homer can nod, so can crowley. the mineral called fool's gold is actually iron pyrites, not copper. it has a brassy look, and that might account for this error. 65 ever behind' the account of his doing this is given in the mahaparinibbana sutta; and it was the contention of the toshophists that this 'great, sublime nibbana story' was something peculiar to gautama buddha. they began to talk about parinibbana, super-nibbana, as if there were some way of subtracting one from one which would leave a higher, superior kind of a nothing, or as if there were some way of blowing out a candle which would leave moses in a much more egyptian darkness than we ever supposed when we were children "this is not science. this is not business. this is american sunmagic witho

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ind? is not this a miracle? there is, however, one form of miracle which certainly happens, the influence of the genius. there is no known analogy in nature. one cannot even think of a "super-dog" transforming the 7 world of dogs, whereas in the history of mankind this happens with regularity and frequency. now here are three "super-men" all at loggerheads. what is there in common between christ, buddha, and mohammed? is there any one point upon which all three are in accord? no point of doctrine, no point of ethics, no theory of a "hereafter" do they share, and yet in the history of their lives we find one identity amid many diversities. buddha was born a prince, and died a beggar. mohammed was born a beggar, and died a prince. christ remained obscure until many years after his death. ela

nd one identity amid many diversities. buddha was born a prince, and died a beggar. mohammed was born a beggar, and died a prince. christ remained obscure until many years after his death. elaborate lives of each have been written by devotees, and there is one thing common to all three- an omission. we hear nothing of christ between the ages of twelve and thirty. mohammed disappeared into a cave. buddha left his palace, and went for a long while into the desert. each of them, perfectly silent up to the time of the disappearance, came back and immediately began to preach a new law. this is so curious that it leaves us to inquire whether the histories of other great teachers contradict or confirm. moses led a quiet life until his slaying of the egyptian. he then flees into the land of midian

ambition. st. paul had much original talent; but he is the least of the five. nor do they seem to have possessed any of the usual materials of power, such as rank, fortune, or influence. moses was rather a big man in egypt when he left; he came back as a mere stranger. 8 christ had not been to china and married the emperor's daughter. mohammed had not been acquiring wealth and drilling soldiers. buddha had not been consolidating any religious organizations. st. paul had not been intriguing with an ambitious general. each came back poor; each came back alone. what was the nature of their power? what happened to them in their absence? history will not help us to solve the problem, for history is silent. we have only the accounts given by the men themselves. it would be very remarkable shoul

me back alone. what was the nature of their power? what happened to them in their absence? history will not help us to solve the problem, for history is silent. we have only the accounts given by the men themselves. it would be very remarkable should we find that these accounts agree. of the great teachers we have mentioned christ is silent; the other four tell us something; some more, some less. buddha goes into details too elaborate to enter upon in this place; but the gist of it is that in one way or another he got hold of the secret force of the world and mastered it. of st. paul's experiences, we have nothing but a casual illusion to his having been "caught up into heaven, and seen and heard things of which it was not lawful to speak" mohammed speaks crudely of his having been "visite

t our opponents are "insane" and (in a puritan country) to attack their "morals" we should then avoid all rhetoric, and try to investigate with perfect freedom from bias the phenomena which occurred to these great leaders of mankind. there is no difficulty in our assuming that these men themselves did not understand clearly what happened to them. the only one who explains his system thoroughly is buddha, and buddha is the only one that is not dogmatic. we may also suppose that the others thought it inadvisable to explain too clearly to their followers; st. paul evidently took this line. our best document will therefore be the system of buddha<hinduism, and of two chinese systems. but hinduism has no single founder. lao tze is one of our best examples of

ps only an unbalanced mind would wish to alter anything or believe in the possibility of altering anything; but there are those who think existence even in heaven intolerable so long as there is one single being who does not share that joy. there are some who may wish to travel back from the very threshold of the bridal chamber to assist belated guests. such at least was the attitude which gotama buddha adopted. nor shall he be alone. again it may be pointed out that the contemplative life is generally opposed to the active life, and it must require an extremely careful balance to prevent the one absorbing the other. as it will be seen later, the "vision of god" or "union with god" or "samadhi" or whatever we may agree to call it, has many kinds and many degrees, although there is an impas

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ty of the occurrence. it was then a virgin high priestess who achieved so notable a renown; whether or not this is a mere poetic parable of the abiogenesis--if it is indeed fair so to describe it--of the eleventh stage of zro is another and an open question. in any case, such is the tradition, and numerous parodies of it are still extant in the stories of the births of romulus and remus, bacchus, buddha and many other legendary heroes of modern times; we even catch an echo in the myths of such barbarian lands as syria. so much and no more concerning the underground gardens of atlas, and of their commerce with the inhabitants of venus. vii. of marriage and other curious customs of the atlanteans: and of sacrifices to the gods. i have already adverted to that most singular conception of the

3. or zra'd. the zr is drawled slowly; then the lips are suddenly curled back in a sneering snarl, and the vowel sharply and forcibly uttered. it is disputed whether this word is connected with the sanscrit sri, holy. p4. the same danger to society in our own time has been forseen, and an identical remedy discovered and applied in compulsory education and cheap newspapers. chapter ii: p6. gautama buddha was the reincarnation or legend of a previous buddha who was a missionary from atlas, hence the account of his immovable neck, the ears that he could fold over his face, and other monstrous details. p6. there was a governor of these, of whose name, nature and function i am not permitted to speak. p7. one of the most brilliant children committed suicide on learning that he could not move his

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

g the table where they had piled countless papyri writ with woes of kings and sages woman-wrecked, and many a map of towns and temples torn and trampled beneath the feet of love, their ashes smouldering still, and smoky with song to witness how astarte's breath had kindled and consumed them. extinguished empires owned that their doom was the device of venus, her vengeance on virility. by paul sat buddha smiling, ananda's arm about his neck, while mohammed paced the floor impatiently between two warrior comrades, his belt bearing an iron key, a whip and a sword, wherewith to limit women's liberty, their love their life, lest to his loss they lure him. the beast is there also, aloof, attentive. he will not weigh the evidence in the balances of any particular kind of advantage. he will not ad

aining the right relation with it, which is, not to allow it to interfere with one's will to live (and almost everything that is true of cholera is true of christians) al ii,60 "therefore strike hard& low, and to hell with them, master" the old comment 60. hit out indiscriminately therefore. the fittest will survive. this doctrine is therefore contrary to that of galileo sic ?galilean, or that of buddha. the new comment the christians to the lions! an xvii sol in libra, i am reminded of samuel butler's observation that the apotheosis of love is to devour the beloved. indeed, one cannot say that one has perfectly attained to love or hate until the object of that passion is assimilated. the word "hell" is significant in this connection. one must never be so careless as to let oneself think t

etter (how much less a phrase) in this book is casual. the expression "to hell with them" is not merely an outburst of colloquial enthusiasm. the word "hell, that and no other, serves the purpose of the speaker. this would naturally be suggested to us, in any case, by the reflection that our law does not indulge in the frothings of impotent fury, like the priestly frauds of moses, the rishis, and buddha, in the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth of the galilean fishwife. our law knows nothing of punishment beyond that imposed by ignorance and awkwardness on their possessor. the word 'hell' must therefore be explained in terms neither of virile vulgarity, or theological blackmail. i quote liber aleph, p.24, p.129, p.130, from which the peculiar applicability of the expression to the

whispers hideous lies to daunt me, that urges these plausible arguments to accuse me. it may be that my present extremity is the very condition required for the fulfilment of my work. who shall say what is power, what impotence? who shall be bold to measure the morrow, or declare what causes conjoin to bring forth an effect that no man knoweth? was not lao-tze thrust forth from his city? did not buddha go begging in rags? did not mohammed flee for his life into exile? was not bacchus the scandal and the scorn of men? than joseph smith had any man less learning? yet each of these attained to do his will; each cried his word, that all the earth yet echoes it! and each was able to accomplish this by virtue of that very circumstance which seems so cruel. shall i, who am armed with all their w

er king shall reign; and blessing no longer be poured to the hawk-headed mystical lord" the old comment 34. this prophecy, relating to centuries to come, does not concern the present writer at the moment. yet he must expound it. the hierarchy of the egyptians gives us this genealogy: isis, osiris, horus. now the 'pagan' period is that of isis; a pastoral, natural period of simple magic. next with buddha, christ, and others there came in the equinox of osiris; when sorrow and death ware the principal objects of man's thought, and his magical formula is that of sacrifice. now, with mohammed perhaps as its forerunner, comes in the equinox of horus, the young child who rises strong and conquering (with his twin harpocrates) to avenge osiris, and bring on the age of strength and splendour. his

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

ication. the most unsophisticated can draw pity and amusement from mr mathers jew, converted by the notariqons of berashith. true, f.i.a.t. is flatus, ignis, aqua, terra; showing the creator as tetragrammaton, the synthesis of the four elements; showing the eternal fiat as the equilibrated powers of nature. but what forbits fecit ignavus animam terrae,35 or any other convenient blasphemy, such as buddha would applaud? why not take our converted jew and restore him to the ghetto with ben, ruach, ab, sheol! ihvh, thora?36 why not take the sacred 'icquj of the christian who thought it meant ihsouj cristoj qeou 'uioj swthr37 and make him a pagan with 'isidoj xarij qhsauroj 'uiwn sofiaj ?38 why not argue that christ in cursing the fig, f.i.g, wished to attack kant s dogmas of freewill, immortal

on therefore ihsous the redeemer, connecting with 6 because of its 6 letters. this links greek and hebrew symbolism; but remember that the mystic iesous and yeheshua have no more to do with the legendary jesus of the synoptics and methodists than the mystic ihvh has to do with the false god who commanded the murder of innocent children. the 13 of the sun and the zodiac was perhaps responsible for buddha and his 12 disciples, christ and his 12 disciples, charlemagne and his 12 peers &c &c, but to disbelieve in christ or charlemagne is not to alter the number of signs in the zodiac. veneration for 666 does not commit me to admiration for napoleon and gladstone. i may close this paper by expressing a hope that i may have the indulgence of students. the subject is incomparably difficult; it is

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

tself and falls on the other;27 you ll tell me why at least, mayhap, our christianity excites especially such petty spites as these you strew throughout your verse. 90 the chance of birth! i choose to curse (writing in english28) just the yoke of faith that tortures english folk. i cannot write29 a poem yet to please the people in tibet; 95 but when i can, christ shall not lack peace, while their buddha i attack.30 yet by-and-by i hope to weave a song of anti-christmas eve and first- and second- beast-er day. 100 there s one*31 who loves me dearly (vrai) who yet believes me sprung from tophet, either the beast or the false prophet; and by all sorts of monkey tricks adds up my name to six six six. 105 retire, good gallup !32 in such strife her superior skill makes you a cipher* crowley s mo

d- beast-er day. 100 there s one*31 who loves me dearly (vrai) who yet believes me sprung from tophet, either the beast or the false prophet; and by all sorts of monkey tricks adds up my name to six six six. 105 retire, good gallup !32 in such strife her superior skill makes you a cipher* crowley s mother. the sword of song 8 necessity of poem. mysticism v. literal interpretation. former excused. buddha rebukes poet. detailed scheme of modified poem. ho! i adopt the number. look at the quaint wrapper of this book* i will deserve it if i can: 110 it is the number of a man.33 so since in england christ still stands with iron nails in bloody hands not pierced, but grasping! to hoist high children on cross of agony, 115 i find him real for english lives. up with my pretty pair of fives !34 i f

lsewhere)35 to hold, to hymn supreme in your own soul? perhaps you know how mystic doctrines melt the snow of any faith: redeem it to 125 a fountain of reviving dew. so i with christ: but few receive the qabalistic balm,36 believe nothing and choose to know instead. but, to that terror vague and dread, 130 external worship; all my life war to the knife! war to the knife! no! on the other hand the buddha says: i m surprised at you! how could a person accept my law and still 135 use hatred, the sole means of ill, in truth s defence? in praise of light? well! well! i guess brer buddha s right! i am no brutal cain37 to smash an abel: i hear that blasphemy s unfashionable: 140 so in the quietest way we ll chat about it; no need to show teeth, claws of cat about it! with gentle words fiat exordi

ff the grass! from alice through the looking-glass. hence i account no promise worse, fail to conceive a fiercer curse 470 than john s third chapter (sixteenth verse. but now (you say) broad-minded folk think that those words the master spoke should save all men at last. but mind! the text says nothing of the kind! 475 read the next verses! then one third of all humanity are steady in a belief in buddha s word, possess eternal life already, 480 and shun delights, laborious days of labour living (milton s phrase) in strenuous purpose to? to cease! a fig for god s eternal peace! true peace is to annihilate 485 the chain of causes men call fate, so that no sattva66 may renew once death has run life s shuttle through (their dages put it somewhat thus) what s fun to them is death to us! 490 tha

ysic sings (i wish they did indeed: i find their prose the hardest of hard reading) 510 but if, you cry, the world s designed as a mere mirage in the mind, up jumps free will. but all i m pleading is against pain and hell. freewill then can damn man? no fearful mill, 515 grinding catastrophe, is speeding outside some whence, some whither? and67 i think we easier understand where schelling (to the buddha leading) calls real not-self. in any case 520 there is not, there can never be a soul, or sword or armour needing, incapable in time or space or to inflict or suffer. we i think are gradually weeding 525 the soil of dualism. pheugh! drop to the common christian s view! this is my point; the world lies bleeding (result of sin) i do not care; i will admit you anywhere! 530 i take your premise

pounds ever fluctuate with time or space or various state (ask chemists else) so i must claim spirit and matter are the same37 or else the prey of putrefaction. 240 this matters to the present action little or nothing. here s your theories! think if you like: i find it wearies! it matters little whether we with fichte and the brahmins preach 245 that ego-atman sole must be; with schelling and the buddha own no-ego-skandhas are alone; with hegel and the christian? teach that which compels, includes, absorbs 250 both mighty unrevolving orbs in one informing masterless master-idea of consciousness all differences as these indeed are chess play, conjuring. proceed! 255 nay! i ll go back. the exposition above, has points. but simple fission has reproduced a different bliss, at last a heterogene

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cepticism has not only knocked 120 to pieces our tower of thought, but rooted up the foundation-stone and ground it into finer and more poisonous powder than that into which moses ground the calf. these golden elohim! our calf-heads that brought us not out of egypt, but into a darkness deeper and more tangible than any darkness of the double empire of asar. hume put his little? to berkeley's god; buddha his? to the vedic atman- and neither hume nor buddha was baulked of his reward. ourselves may put? to our own? since we have found no! to put it to; and wouldn't it be jolly if our own second? suddenly straightened its back and threw its chest out and marched off as? suppose then we accept our scepticism as having destroyed our knowledge root and branch- is there no limit to its action? doe

eth, that too crumbles; but kether frowns above us. attack kether, and it falls; but the yetziratic malkuth is 127 still there. until we reach kether of atziluth and the infinite light, and space, and nothing. so then we retire up the path, fighting rear-guard actions; at every moment a soldier is slain by a hunchback; but as we retire there is always a soldier just by us. until the end. the end? buddha thought the supply of hunchbacks infinite; but why should not the soldiers themselves be infinite in number? however that may be, here is the point; it takes a moment for a hunchback to kill his man, and the farther we get from our base the longer it takes. you may crumble to ashes the dream-world of a boy, as it were, between your fingers; but before you can bring the physical universe tum

m by biological methods that he has no soul; and with a sunny smile each passes on his way. 128 but mccabbage is wasted on the philosopher whose belief in a soul rests on introspection; we must have heavier metal; hume will serve our turn, may be. but hume in his turn becomes perfectly futile, pitted against the hindu mystic, who is in constant intense enjoyment of his new-found atman. it takes a buddha-gun to knock "his" castle down. now the ideas of mccabbage are banal and dull; those of hume are live and virile; there is a joy in them greater than the joy of the man in the street. so too the buddha-thought, anatta, is a more splendid conception than the philosopher's dutch-doll-like ego, or the rational artillery of hume. this weapon, too, that has destroyed our lesser, our illusionary

we inquire whether after all the soldier is not going to develop spinal curvature. let us take the first step; let us sing "i do not ask to see the distant path; one step's enough for me" but (you will doubtless say) i pith your? itself with another: why question life at all? why not remain "a clean-living irish gentleman" content with his handicap, and contemptuous of card and pencil? is not the buddha's goad "everything is sorrow" little better than a currish whine? what do i care for old age, disease, and death? i'm a man, and a celt at that. i spit on your snivelling hindu prince, emasculate with debauchery in the first place, and asceticism in the second. a weak, dirty, paltry cur, sir, your gautama! yes, i think i have no answer to that. the sudden apprehension of some vital catastro

ify the metaphysical man "3. because a child can understand it. 9 from a letter of fra p "theosophists call him the higher self, silent watcher, or great master "the golden dawn calls him the genius "gnostics say the logos "zoroaster talks about uniting all these symbols into the form of a lion- see chaldean oracles.10 "anna kingsford calls him adonai (clothed with the sun. buddhists call him adi-buddha (says h. p. b "the bhagavad-gita calls him vishnu (chapter xi "the yi "k"ing calls him "the great person "the qabalah calls him jechidah.11 "we also get metaphysical analysis of his nature, deeper and deeper according to the subtlety of the writer; for this 159 vision- it is all one same phenomenon, variously coloured by our varying ruachs12- is, i believe, the first and the last of all spi

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eucharist of the five elements and let him proclaim light in extension; yea, let him proclaim light in extension. ii a a a "these loosen the swathings of the corpse; these unbind the feet of osiris, so that the flaming god may rage through the firmament with his fantastic spear- liber lapidis lazuli. vii. iii. 0. be seated in thine asana, or recumbent in shavasana, or in the position of the dying buddha. 1. think of thy death; imagine the various diseases that may attack thee, or accidents overtake thee. picture the process of death, applying always to thyself (a useful preliminary practice is to read textbooks of pathology, and to visit museums and dissecting-rooms) 2. continue this practice until death is complete; follow the corpse through the stages of embalming, wrapping and burial. 3

ved, up to the fullest extent of our powers. this fact of the essentially practical nature of our religion is again and again insisted upon in the holy books. though one man should know by heart a thousand stanzas of the law, and not practise it, he has not understood the dhamma. that man who knows and "practises" one stanza of the law, he has understood the dhamma, he is the true follower of the buddha. it is the practice of the dhamma that constitutes the true buddhist, not the mere knowledge of its tenets; it is the carrying out of the five precepts, and not their repetition in the pali tongue; ti is the bringing home into our daily lives of the great laws of love and righteousness that marks a man as "samma-ditthi" and not the mere appreciation of the truth of that dhamma as a beautifu

ion of the truth of that dhamma as a beautiful and poetic statement of laws which are too hard to follow. this dhamma has to be lived, to be 28 acted up to, to be felt as the supreme idol in our hearts, as the supreme motive of our lives; and he who does this to the best of his ability is the right follower of the master- not he who calls himself "buddhist" but whose life is empty of the love the buddha taught. and because our lives are very painful, because to follow the good law in all our ways is very difficult, therefore we should not despair of ever being able to walk in the way we have learned, and resign ourselves to living a life full only of worldly desires and ways. for has not the master said "let no man think lightly of good, saying 'it will not come nigh me- for even by the fa

; but who can estimate the power of one human mind, whether for good or for evil? one such mind, the mind of a man like jesus christ, may bring about the tortured death of many million men, may wreck states and religions and dynasties, and cause untold misery and suffering; another mind, employing the same manner of energy, but rightly using that energy for the 33 benefit of others, may, like the buddha, bring hope into the hopeless lives of crores upon crores of human beings, may increase by a thousandfold the pity and love of a third of humanity, may aid innumerable lakhs of beings to come to that peace for which we all crave- that peace the way to which is so difficult to find. but the energy which these two minds employed is one and the same. that energy lies hidden in every human brai

and the sole mover in the world of men. there is no idea or thought, there is no deed, whether good or gad, accomplished in this world, but that supreme energy, that steam- power of our mental mechanism, is the mover and the cause. it is by use of this energy that the child learns how to speak; it is by its power that christ could bring sorrow into thousands of lives; it is by this power that the buddha conquered the hearts of one-third of men; it is by that force that so many have followed him on the way which he declared- the nirv na marga, the way to the unutterable peace. the name of that power is mental concentration, and there is nothing in this world, whether for good or for evil, but is wrought by its application. it weaves upon the loom of time the fabric of men's characters and d

end to overcome our particular failings. by mental concentration is meant an intentness of the thoughts, the thinking for a definite time of only one thought at a time. this will be found at first to be very difficult. you sit down to meditate on love, for instance; and in half a minute or so you find you are thinking about what someone said the day before yesterday. so it always is at first. the buddha likened the mind of the man who was beginning this practice of samadhi to a calf which had been used to running hither and thither in the fields, 39 without any let or hindrance, which has now been tied with a rope to a post. the rope is the practice of meditation; the post is the particular subject selected for meditation. at first the calf tries to break loose, he runs hither and thither

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maker of illusions, the great deceiver, the setter of snares; he who baffleth even them that have understanding. for i stand on every path, and turn them aside from the truth by my words, and by my magick arts. and this is the horror that was shown by the lake that was 125 nigh unto the city of the seven hills, and this is the mystery of the great prophets that have come unto mankind. moses, and buddha, and lao tan, and krishna, and jesus, and osiris, and mohammed; for all these attained unto the grade of magus, and therefore were they bound with the curse of thoth. but, being guardians of the truth, they have taught nothing but falsehood, except unto such as understood; for the truth may not pass the gate of the abyss. but the reflection of the truth hath been shown in the lower sephirot

ents 70 by 4, that are the 4 eyes of the double-headed one; that are the 4 devils, satan, lucifer, leviathan, belial, that are the great princes of the evil of the world. 142 and satan is worshipped by men under the name of jesus; and lucifer is worshipped by men under the name of brahma; and leviathan is worshipped by men under the name of allah; and belial is worshipped by men under the name of buddha (this is the meaning of the passage in liber legis, chap. iii) moreover, there is mary, a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut herself up; and therefore is she the queen of all those wicked devils that walk upon the earth, those that thou sawest even as little black specks that stained the heaven of urania. and all these are the excrement of choronzon. and for this is babalon under

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mixing my drinks unduly? i think not; if one didn't change to another mystic process, one would have to read the newspaper. 11.20. this completes my half-hour of asana. legs very painful; yet again i find myself wishing for kandy (not sugar candy, but the place where i did my first hindu practices and got my first results) and a life devoted entirely to meditation. but not for me! i'm no pratyeka-buddha; a dhamma-buddha every inch of me![a pratyeka-buddha attains the supreme reward for himself alone; a dhamma-buddha renounces it and returns to hell (earth) to teach others the way. ed. i now take a few minutes "off" to make "considerations. i firmly believe that the minutest dose of the elixir would operate as a "detonator. i seem to be perfectly ready for illumination, if only because i am

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

o probationers theorems i. the world progresses by virtue of the appearance of christs (geniuses. ii. christs (geniuses) are men with super-consciousness of the highest order. iii. super-consciousnes of the highest order is obtainable by known methods. therefore, by employing the quintessence of known methods we cause the world to progress. essentials of method i. theology is immaterial; for both buddha and st. ignatius were christs. ii. morality is immaterial; for both socrates and mohammed were christs. iii. super-consciousness is a natural phenomenon; its conditions are therefore to be sought rather in the acts than the words of those who attain it. the essential acts are retirement and concentration- as taught by yoga and ceremonial magic. 196 mistakes of mystics i. since truth is supr

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each method, used rightly and carried to its ultimation, leads to the same heaven; each method used wrongly, or mistaken for the end, side-tracks the adept into some limbo or plunges him into some hell. to all such as are of a devout disposition prayer offers an excellent means of concentration towards this end_ identification with adonai. and it matters no whit to what we pray, whether it be to buddha or to christ, or the top-hat and gin-bottle of a west african ju-ju, so long as we pray with our whole heart; and eventually, as the vision informs, belief, faith, prayer, worship and supplication vanish, the 246 burning- glass of our will has set on fire the white sheet of paper that had been our ideal; it crumples, turns brown, blackens, and bursts into flame. the gates of the mind swing

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t convinced intellectually and philosophically of the truth of the teaching of gotama; a man to whom buddhism is the equivalent of scientific methods of thought; an expert in dialectic, whose logical faculty is bewildered, whose critical admiration is extorted by the subtle vigour of buddhist reasoning; i am yet forced to admit that, this being so, the five precepts3 are mere nonsense. if the 304 buddha spoke scientifically, not popularly, not rhetorically, then his precepts are not his. we must reject them or we must interpret them. we must inquire: are they meant to be obeyed? or_ and this is my theory_ are they sarcastic and biting criticisms on existence, illustrations of the first noble truth "reasons" as it were, for the apotheosis of annihilation? i shall show that this is so. the f

he cancer of existence. indeed, i support the etymology as against the futile bigotry of certain senile buddhists of to-day. and, since it is the current interpretation of buddhistic thought that i attack, i but show myself the better buddhist in the act. this forbids the taking of life in any form.4 what we have to note is the impossibility of performing this; if we can prove it to be so, either buddha was a fool, or his command was rhetorical, like those of yahweh to job, or of tannh user to himself "go! seek the stars and count them and explore! go! sift the sands beyond a starless sea" let us consider what the words can mean. the "taking of life" can only mean the reduction of living protoplasm to dead matter: or, in a truer and more psychological sense, the destruction of personality

orical, like those of yahweh to job, or of tannh user to himself "go! seek the stars and count them and explore! go! sift the sands beyond a starless sea" let us consider what the words can mean. the "taking of life" can only mean the reduction of living protoplasm to dead matter: or, in a truer and more psychological sense, the destruction of personality. now, in the chemical changes involved in buddha's speaking this command, living protoplasm was changed into dead matter. or, on the other horn, the fact (insisted upon most strongly by the buddha himself, the central and cardinal point of his doctrine, the shrine of that metaphysic which isolates it absolutely from all other religious metaphysic, which allies it with agnostic metaphysic) that the buddha who had spoken this command was no

this command, living protoplasm was changed into dead matter. or, on the other horn, the fact (insisted upon most strongly by the buddha himself, the central and cardinal point of his doctrine, the shrine of that metaphysic which isolates it absolutely from all other religious metaphysic, which allies it with agnostic metaphysic) that the buddha who had spoken this command was not the same as the buddha before he had spoken it, lies the proof that the buddha, by speaking this command, violated it. more, not only did he slay himself; he breathed in millions of living organisms and slew them. he could nor eat nor drink nor breathe without murder implicit in each act. huxley cites the "pitiless microscopist" who showed a drop of water to the brahmin who boasted himself "ahimsa_ harmless. so a

o achieve the impossible, the already violated in the act of commanding, but a bitter commentary on the foul evil of this aimless, hopeless universe, this compact of misery, meanness, and cruelty. let us pass on. the second precept. the second precept is directed against theft. theft is the appropriation to one's own use of that to which another has a right. let us see therefore whether or no the buddha was a thief. the answer of course is in the affirmative. for to issue a command is to attempt to deprive another of his most precious possession_ the right to do as he will; that is, unless, with the predestinarians, we hold that action is determined absolutely, in which case, of course, to command is as absurd as it is unavoidable. excluding this folly, therefore, we may conclude that if t

ourse is in the affirmative. for to issue a command is to attempt to deprive another of his most precious possession_ the right to do as he will; that is, unless, with the predestinarians, we hold that action is determined absolutely, in which case, of course, to command is as absurd as it is unavoidable. excluding this folly, therefore, we may conclude that if the command be obeyed_ and those of buddha have gained a far larger share of obedience than those of any other teacher_ the enlightened one was not only a potential but an actual thief. further, all voluntary action limits in some degree, however minute, the volition of others. if i 4 fielding hall, in "the soul of a people" has reluctantly to confess that he can find no trace of this idea in buddha's own work, and calls the superst

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harmonic of good; 20 m. 10 breaks is a good per- formance] apas-ak sa [very difficult: slightest noise is utterly disturbing] 10.55 a.m. 11.1 a.m. red cross 6 m. 7 breaks [but it is to be observed that a break may be of varying length. i doubt if this was as good as white triangle "supra] 11.44 a.m. 11.56 a.m. white tri- 12 m. 10 breaks. angle raising of the right foot" being the final form. the buddha himself said that if a man practises mahasatipatthana honestly and intelligently a result is certain [above observation perhaps unimportant, as limit of variability is more or less constant (presumably) between 1901 and now. it will be useless to attempt to devise any means of measuring the length of a break. the only possible suggestion is to count the links in thought back to to object. b

ethical pigs and prigs alike "do what you like; but in the name of your own higher self wilfully "do no injury to your own body or mind" by over indulgence or under indulgence. discover your normal appetite; satisfy it. do not become a glutton, and do not become a nut-cracking skindlewig. soon after his arrival in ceylon, and at the time that he was working with frater i. a. the greatness of the buddha, as we have already see, attracted him, and he turned his attention to the dogmatic literature of buddhism only to find that behind its unsworded cromwellian colossus,291 with all his rigid virtues, his stern reasoning, his uncharitableness, judicialism and impartiality, slunk a pack of pig-headed dolts, stubborn, asinine and mulish; slavish, menial and 192 gutless; puritanic, pharisaical a

t use to impress upon a clean-minded individual the necessity of living a chaste life. it is like tapping samson on the shoulder, just after he has carried the pates of gaza on to the top of the hill before hebron, and saying "my good boy, if you ever intend becoming strong, the first thing you must do is to buy a pair of my four pound dumb- bells and my sixpenny book on physical culture" 291 the buddha (it is true) did not encourage bloodshed, in spite of his having died from an overfeed of pork, but as mr. a. crowley has said, many of his present-day followers are quite capable of killing their own brothers for five rupees. the western theory that buddhists are lambs and models of virtue is due to the fact that certain western vices are not so congenial to the asiatic as they are to the

ive rupees. the western theory that buddhists are lambs and models of virtue is due to the fact that certain western vices are not so congenial to the asiatic as they are to the european; and not because buddhists are incapable of enjoying themselves. 292 buddhism as a schism from the brahminical religion may in many respects be compared with lutheranism as a schism from the catholic church. both buddha and luther set aside the authority of miracles, and appealed to the reason of the middle classes of their day. the vedas were the outcome of aristocratic thought; and so in truth was the christianity of constantine and the popes, that full-blooded christianity which so soon swallowed the mystical christ and the anaemic communism of the "canaille" which followed him. conventional buddhism is

buddhism appalled him. the five precepts, which are the yama and niyama of buddhism, he at once saw, in spite of nagasena and prig milinda, must be broken by every arahat each time he inhaled a breath of air. they were as absurd as they were valueless. but behind all this tantalizing "frou-frou" this "lingerie de cocotte" beautifully designed to cover the narded limbs of foolish virgins, sits the buddha in silent meditation; so that p. soon discovered that by stripping his body of all these tawdry trappings, this feminine under-wear, and by utterly discarding the copy-book precepts of baptistical buddhists, the four noble truths were none other than the complete yoga, and that in the three characteristics293 the summit of philosophy (the ruach) had been reached. the terrific strain of asan

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votion. the guru being treated as the god himself with which the chela wishes to unite. eventually "he alone sees no distinctions! the mighty ocean of love has entered unto him, and he sees not men, animals and plants or the sun, moon and the stars, but beholds his beloved everywhere and in everything. vivek nanda "bhakti yoga" udbodham edition, p. 111. the sufis were bhakti yogis, so was christ. buddha was a gnani yogi. 49 a guru is as necessary in yoga as a music master is in music. 50 "shiva sanhita" chap. iii. the place where yoga is performed should be a beautiful and pleasant place, according to the shiva sanhita.51 in the 74 kshurik upanishad, 2. 21, it states that "a noiseless place" should be chosen; and in s'vet s'vatara, 2. 10: let the place be pure, and free also from boulders

a living creature, and have done with it. after this mastership over the senses has been attained to, the next practice namely that of dh ran must be begun. dharana dh ran consists in concentrating he will on one definite object or point. sometimes it is practised by concentrating on external objects such as a rose, cross, triangle, winged-globe, etc. sometimes on a deity, shiva, isis, christ or buddha; but usually in india by forcing the mind to feel certain parts of the body to the exclusion of others, such as a point in the centre of the heart, or a lotus of light in the brain "when the chitta, or mind stuff, is confined and limited to a certain place, this is called dh ran "the steadiness of the mind arising from the recognition of brahma, wherever it travels or goes, is the real and

lden dawn ms. entitled "the concourse of the forces" thus the t of nanta represents earth of earth- the empress of pantacles in the taro, and that letter is used as an initial for names of angels drawn from the earthy corner of the earth tablet. for further see the equinox, vol. i, no. 5. which i took to materialize myself. at the time i was very tired and really not fit to travel. june 15th. the buddha appeared to me in the northern heaven and said "fear not for money.190 go and work, as thou hast intended "i go" july 14th. triangle of fire. 10 m. middling to bad. winged-globe. 6 m. not good. r.r. et a.c? fairly good [somewhere on this journey (yokohama to hong-kong became the great peace. 15th. r.r. et a.c. 16 m. an improvement. 16th. svastika. 6 m. very poor. r.r. et a.c. 4 m. very bad

an improvement. 16th. svastika. 6 m. very poor. r.r. et a.c. 4 m. very bad. h.p.k.191 10 m. better. pentagram. 16 m. not at all bad. 18th. calvary cross. 15 m. bad, but i was very sleepy. h.p.k. on lotus. 16 m. ten breaks; very strictly counted. r.r. et a.c. 8 m. one break. got very sleepy; but this seems surprisingly good. scarlet sphere 10 m. good. one or two breaks only. operation (tiphereth. buddha position. 5 m. hopeless; i was nearly asleep. 19th. winged-globe. 9 m. five breaks. h.p.k. on lotus. 9 m. five breaks. the god was not very clear. r.r. et a.c. 8 m. bad. position 1. 13 m. middling. thoth? hopelessly sleepy. attempted meditation on solar spectrum as a band. by working 120 at each colour separately, or lighting each one by one, it is not bad; but taken altogether is no good

tled till after 8 breaks. 29th. rising on planes. malkuth to kether; this took thirty-six minutes. the result was not very good. calvary cross. 11 m. five breaks, but had headache. 121 one hundred indrawn breaths in reclining position with belt on. 7 minutes 50 seconds (4-7 secs. per breath) ten indrawn breaths as slow as possible 7 m. 26 sec (44.6 secs. per breath) july 31st. went to sleep doing buddha. buddha. 32 m. it seemed much more. pendulum 1,000 23 1/2 m. the pendulum kept in its plane,195 at end of 940 strokes pendulum wanted to swing right over several times. calvary cross. too tired to settle at all. august 1st. position 1. 10 m. not bad. 2nd. buddha. 8 m. it seems very difficult nowadays to settle down. red cross. 22 m. ten breaks. nirvana.196 13 m. not bad. i tried to put (ast

nvoked angel of nirvana as h.p.k. on lotus. note p.'s complete ignorance of buddhism, at this date. after this meditation i arrived at the following decision: i must not cling to the peace.197 it certainly has become real to me, but if 122 i make a god of it it will become but an illusion. i am ready to receive the magical power as i should not abuse it. i must needs accomplish the finished work. buddha. 33 m. the best meditation i have so far done. i regard this as a "real" meditation; for 13 minutes quite forgot time. rose on planes of t'y's't'g'k198 from malkuth to kether. august 5th. meditated on thoth concerning frater i.a. 6th. arrived at colombo. we now arrive at another turning-point in the progress of p. up to the first of this year 1901 he had studied western methods of magic alo

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ted by their successors, and again and again the veil has fallen upon the holy of holies. 19. to you who yet wander in the court of the profane we cannot yet reveal all; but you will easily understand that the religions of the world are but symbols and veils of the absolute truth. so also are the philosophies. to the adept, seeing all these things from above, there seems nothing to choose between buddha and mohammed, between atheism and theism. 20. the many change and pass; the one remains. even as wood and coal and iron burn up together in one great flame, if only that furnace be of transcendent heat; so in the alembic of this spiritual alchemy, if only the zelator blow sufficiently upon his furnace all the systems of earth are consumed in the one knowledge. 21. nevertheless, as a fire ca

s a bigoted opponent of evolution. roosevelt, in calling thomas paine a dirty little atheist, when he was demonstrably a clean tall deist, established only the record for falsehood. mr 160 (or mrs or miss) evelyn underhill does the same thing when he abuses the magi by attributing to them the doctrines and practices of sorcerers. and we think that his sense of awe misleads him in one respect. the buddha, the christ, and he whom some of us know as frater perdurabo, were all men before they became lost in the infinity of what some call the one, others the all, others the naught; and their documents are accessible. these documents are of immeasurably greater value than the lesser writings of the mediaeval saints. in fact, this word mediaeval is of use to us in describing evelyn underhill's st

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lities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of god- 57- the consciousness of the aarcopyright 1998 lucis trust initiation, human and solar by alice a. bailey copyright 1951 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1979 by lucis trust dedicated with reverence and gratitude to the master k. h. the lord buddha has said that we must not believe in a thing said merely because it is said; nor traditions because they have been handed down from antiquity; nor rumors, as such; nor writings by sages, because sages wrote them: nor fancies that we may suspect to have been inspired in us by a deva (that is, in presumed spiritual inspiration; nor from inferences drawn from some haphazard assumption we may h

christ; he is known also in the orient as the bodhisattva, and as the lord maitreya, and is the one looked for by the devout mohammedan, under the name of the iman madhi. he it is who has presided over the destinies of life since about 600 b.c. and he it is who has come out among men before, and who is again looked for. he is the great lord of love and of compassion, just as his predecessor, the buddha, was the lord of wisdom. through him flows the energy of the second aspect, reaching him direct from the heart centre of the planetary logos via the heart of sanat kumara. he works by means of a meditation centred within the heart. he is the world teacher, the master of the masters, and the instructor of the angels, and to him is committed the guidance of the spiritual destinies of men, and

be far ahead. by the study of the process and the purpose he may become aware of the great fundamental fact that the method of initiation is the method of: a. force realisation. b. force application. c. force utilisation. the initiate of every degree, from the humble initiate of the first degree, making for the first time his contact with a certain type of specialised force, up to the emancipated buddha of the seventh degree, is dealing with energy of some kind or other. the stages of development of the aspirant might be expressed as follows: 1. he has to become aware, through discrimination, of the energy or force of his own lower self. 2. he has to impose upon that energetic rhythm one that is higher, until that lower rhythm is superseded by the higher, and the old method of expressing e

o the personal god of the christian. he works through his representative on the physical plane, sanat kumara, who is the focal point for his life and energy. he holds the world within his aura. this great existence is only contacted directly by the adept who has taken the fifth initiation, and is proceeding to take the other two, the sixth and seventh. once a year, at the wesak festival, the lord buddha, sanctioned by the lord of the world, carries to the assembled humanity a dual stream of force, that emanating from the silent watcher, supplemented by the more focalised energy of the lord of the world. this dual energy he pours out in blessing over the people gathered at the ceremony in the himalayas, and from them in turn it flows out to all peoples and tongues and races. it may not perh

al energy he pours out in blessing over the people gathered at the ceremony in the himalayas, and from them in turn it flows out to all peoples and tongues and races. it may not perhaps be generally known that at a certain crisis during the great war[ww i, the hierarchy of our planet deemed it well nigh necessary to invoke the aid of the silent watcher, and employing the great mantram whereby the buddha can be reached called the attention of the latter, and sought his agency with the planetary logos. in consultation between the planetary logos, the lord of the world, one of the buddhas of activity, the buddha, the mahachohan, and the manu (these names are given in order of their relative evolutionary stage) it was decided to watch proceedings a little longer before interfering with the tre

t times of great crises, when some individual is given the opportunity to bring peace out of strife, and to kindle a blaze whereby rapidly crystallising forms are destroyed and the imprisoned life consequently set free. at stated periods in the year the lodge meets, and at the wesak festival gathers under his jurisdiction for three purposes: 1. to contact planetary force through the medium of the buddha. 2. to hold the principal of the quarterly conferences. 3. to admit to the ceremony of initiation those who are ready in all grades. three other initiation ceremonies take place during the year: 1. for the minor initiations administered by the bodhisattva, all of which are in the department of the mahachohan, and on one or other of the four lesser rays, the rays of attribute- 62- initiation

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disappear and die, and most rightly so. all that is asked from the student of this treatise is a sympathetic approach, a willingness to consider the views put forth and that honesty and sincerity of thought which will tend to the development of the intuition, of spiritual diagnosis, and a discrimination which will lead to a rejection of the false and an appreciation of the true. the words of the buddha most appropriately have their place here, and make a fitting conclusion to these preliminary remarks: the lord buddha has said that we must not believe in a thing said merely because it is said; nor traditions because they have been handed down from antiquity; nor rumours, as such; nor writings by sages, because sages wrote them; nor fancies that we may suspect to have been inspired in us b

ed triangle. it has been stated that one hundred and four kumaras came from venus to the earth; literally the figure is one hundred and five, when the synthesising unit, the lord of the world himself, is counted as one. there remain still with him the three buddhas of activity. i would call- 227- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust attention to the dual significance of that name "buddha of activity" bearing out, as it does, the reality of the fact that entities at their stage of evolution are active love-wisdom and embody in themselves the two aspects. the three buddhas of activity have a correspondence to the three persons of the trinity. these entities are divided into three groups of thirty-five each, and in themselves embody the three major centres of the planetary log

"space of time" when the sons of god were seeking form. it has to do with a special condition in the astral body of our planetary logos, and with his history as it lies hidden in the astral light. it concerns that which he has to surmount and many of the problems which face the occultist, including the "sin of the mindless" the failure in atlantean days, and even that mysterious "failure" of the buddha (which has a planetary significance only hinted at in the secret doctrine)18(190) can be traced back to the condition of the deva substance of which the astral body of our planet, and the astral bodies of all forms are formed. our planetary logos is one of the lords spoken of as being a lesser lord, and more "full of passion" than the higher three. not even yet is his work completed, and de

come fully conscious, and acquire (by means of sentient existence, added faculty and power. h. p. b. has said that rebirths may be divided into three classes:49(218) a. those of avatars. b. those of adepts. c. those of jivas seeking development. to those who are endeavouring to grasp somewhat the mystery of rebirth and its laws and purpose, and who are confused when considering the mystery of the buddha, and the secret purpose of that mysterious entity, the silent watcher; to those who find the problem of understanding the position of the kumaras and their relation to the planetary logos almost an insuperable one, it might be wise to say: study and meditate upon the difference existing between the lower principles and the higher three; study and meditate upon the place and position of thes

her the astral plane may not be the field of his activity. if the student ponders upon the consequences entailed in the appropriation of this vesture, much light upon probable happenings will be thrown. the vestures act in a dual capacity: a. they are very highly magnetised, and therefore have a profound and far-reaching effect when utilised. b. they act as a focal point for the force of the lord buddha and link up the coming lord with him, enabling him to increase his own stupendous resources by drawing upon still higher force centres, via the lord buddha. this force will find its expression upon the astral plane, producing vast results of a quieting nature and bringing, by reflex action, peace on earth. the transmutation of desire into aspiration, and the transformation of low desire int

n every department of life economic, religious, social and scientific- 446- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust these groups will achieve results now impossible, owing to the retention of buddhic force, but later this force will be set loose on earth via the medium of the great lord, operating as an aspect of the logos, and as a focal point for the consciousness and energy of the buddha. it is this impending probability which is held in mind during the century at the annual recurrence of the wesak festival. students would do well to further the ends of the occult hierarchy by a similar concentration at the time of the festival, thus setting up currents of thought which will have a great appeal in the occult sense of that term. indication of the nearing of this event will b

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reserved rules for us since time immemorial. here and there orientals (with a few western adepts) have availed themselves of those rules and have submitted to the discipline of this exacting science. thus has been preserved for the race the continuity of the secret doctrine, of the ageless wisdom, and thus has been gathered together the personnel of the hierarchy of our planet. in the time of the buddha and through the stimulation he produced there was a great gathering in of arhats. these were men who had achieved liberation through self-initiated effort. this period, in our aryan race, marked a climax for the east. since then the tide of spiritual life has steadily flowed westward, and we may now look for a corresponding climax in the west, which will reach its zenith between the years 1

our aryan race, marked a climax for the east. since then the tide of spiritual life has steadily flowed westward, and we may now look for a corresponding climax in the west, which will reach its zenith between the years 1965 and 2025. towards this end the adepts of the east and of the west are unitedly working, for they follow always the law. this coming impulse is (as was that in the time of the buddha) a second ray impulse, and has no relation to any first ray impulse, such as that which brought forth h. p. blavatsky. first ray impulses rise in the first quarter of each century and reach their climax on the physical plane during the last quarter. the interest now shown in raja yoga and the study of this science and the rules it provides for man's unfoldment, is indicative of the general

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

nse nature. this results in a corresponding mental stability and in an ability to concentrate, for the mind stuff is no longer subject to the modifications produced by sense reactions of any kind, either those we call good or those we call bad. this has been strongly advocated in many of the systems and one of the methods suggested is constant meditation upon such great identities as krishna, the buddha and the christ, who have freed themselves from all sense reactions. this thought is brought out in some of the translations, but though indicated from one point of view, does not seem to be the main idea intended. freedom from attachment is brought about as the fires of desire are overcome, and though the sacral centre is depicted as having specific relation to the sex nature, yet that sex

feminine aspect, or the matter (mother) aspect. the basis of black magic. true maha-yoga has to do with the form (2nd aspect) and its adaptation to spirit and its needs. 3. guhya vidya. the science of mantrams. the secret knowledge of mystic mantrams. the occult potency of sound, of the word. 4. atman vidya. true spiritual wisdom. the four noble truths have been stated for us in the words of the buddha in the following terms "now the exalted one thus addressed the brethren 'through not understanding, through not penetrating the four aryan truths, brethren, we have run on and wandered round this long, long journey (or rebirth, both you and i. what are those- 80- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust four? the aryan truth of ill: the aryan truth of the arising of ill: the aryan t

asing downpour of fiery energy increases steadily the "light in the head" or the effulgence found in the brain in the neighborhood of the pineal gland. this is to the little system of the threefold man in physical manifestation what the physical sun is to the solar system. this light becomes eventually a blaze of glory and the man becomes a "son of light" or a "sun of righteousness" such were the buddha, the christ, and all the great ones who have attained. 29. the eight means of yoga are: the commandments or yama, the rules or nijama, posture or asana, right control of life-force or pranayama, abstraction or pratyahara, attention or dharana, meditation or dhyana, and contemplation or samadhi. it will be noted that these means or practices are apparently simple, but it must be carefully re

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of thinkers will decide. but out of the welter of opinion emerges the basic fact of the wide range of the human states of- 15- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust awareness, and the wonder of the realization that humanity has produced such marvels of comprehensive understanding, of purity of expression and of perfected world-wide influence as we see evidenced by the christ, the buddha, plato and many others, whose thoughts and words have set their mark upon the minds of men for thousands of years. what has made them what they are? are they miracles, emerging from the heart of the infinite, and, hence, can never find their equal? are they products of the evolutionary process, and so have become potent through vast experience and unfoldment? or are they the flower of the h

cultured. the result of this intensive and individual training has been spectacular in the extreme. the eastern method is the only one which has produced the founders of all the world religions, for all are asiatic in origin. it is responsible for the appearance of those inspired scriptures of the world which have moulded the thoughts of men, and for the coming forth of all the world saviours the buddha, zoroaster, shri krishna, the christ, and others. thus the east has manifested forth, as the result of its particular technique, all the great individuals, who have sounded the note for their particular age, given the needed teaching for the unfoldment in the minds of men of the god-idea, and so led humanity forward along the path of spiritual perception. the exoteric result of their lives

in and brain in the ordinary intercourse of daily life, with which we are all familiar. i refer to the interplay that can be set up between souls, divinely attuned, and which has resulted in the past in the transmission of the inspired utterances of the world, in the world scriptures, and in those divine pronouncements which have emanated from certain great sons of god, such as the christ and the buddha. intuition and telepathy in its purest form are, therefore, two results of- 70- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust illumination upon the mind. on the emotional nature, or, in the language of the esotericist, in the desire or feeling body, we have the registering of joy, of happiness, and the experience of ecstasy. there is a sense of completion, of satisfaction and a joy

arrived at an understanding of the laws which govern the natural world, and some of those which govern the psychical. the laws of the spiritual realm, so-called, remain to be scientifically discovered and utilized. a few have known them and spoken to humanity about them, but they are only utilized by the pioneering spirits of our race. among these few who stand out as the eminent knowers, are the buddha, the christ, plato, aristotle, pythagoras, meister eckhart, jacob boehme, spinoza the list is long. we are now beginning to ask the pertinent question: is it not possible that many hundreds now are at the point where they can co-ordinate the brain, the mind and the soul, and so pass through the portal of mental awareness into the realm of light, of intuitive perception, and the world of cau

gress. in the first, the devotee is subject to injunctions and prohibitions..i.e 'bound by the ordinances. in the second, he adheres to traditional ways..wherein the ordinary restrictions are to a certain extent relaxed, although the devotee is not yet altogether free. in the third, the adi-yoga, when through yoga practices the light is seen, there are no longer any restrictions; for the state of buddha..has been attained. these three stages correspond, roughly speaking, with what the tantras mean by the..state of the animal-man..state of the hero, and state of the divine or enlightened."5(117) the method in tibetan buddhism in studying the life of milarepa, the holy one of tibet, who lived in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a.d, we find it claimed for him that he attained union throug

n and practice, and, ultimately, illumination. we read as follows "he was one, who, having mastered the mystic and occult sciences, had communicated to him..continuously the four blissful states of ecstatic communion "he was one, who having attained to omniscience, all-pervading goodwill, and glowing love, together with the acquisition of transcendental powers and virtues, became a self-developed buddha who towered above all conflicting opinions and arguments of the various sects and creeds "he was a being most diligent and persevering in meditation upon the rare path..having acquired full power over the mental states and faculties within, he overcame all dangers from the elements without "he was a being perfect in the practice of the four stages of meditation (analysis, reflection, fondne

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th, he subordinates his personality and exercises the magic of the white brotherhood, working always in the light of the soul with the soul in all forms, and laying no emphasis upon the ambitions of the personal self. clear discrimination of these two paths reveals what is called in some occult books that "narrow razor-edged path" which lies between the two. this is the "noble middle path" of the buddha and marks the fine line of demarcation between the pairs of opposites, and between the two streams which he has learnt to recognize one going up unto the gates of heaven, and the other passing down into the nethermost hell. by the exercise of the two main weapons of the aspirant, discrimination and dispassion, he gains that quality which is called in this rule "the vital power. just as the

be said, not because of secrecy or mystery, but because all formulation of ideas about his life and purpose are impossible until one has completed the term of evolution in our solar system. note, i say, our solar system, not just our planetary existence. speculation about the existence who, through his life, informs seven solar systems is wasted energy. on our planet, only such great lives as the buddha, the kumaras and the planetary logos, are beginning to sense the- 157- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust dynamic impulse of the greater whole, and even they are only sensitive to it but are, as yet, utterly unable to conceive of its trend, for it lies beyond mind and love and will. it brings into play factors for which we have no terms and tendencies which are as yet not

f his desire life, but being at the same time capable of tremendous expansion, development, adjustment and control under the impulse of the mental body and of the soul. it is subject also to vibratory activity as the result of the interplay between it and the physical plane life experience, and thus the great wheel of experience is set in motion and will persist until the four noble truths of the buddha are understood and realised. this astral body has in it the counterparts of the etheric or laya centres, and through them stream the forces and energies, earlier dealt with, into the etheric body. these centres carry energies from the seven planets and from the sun to every part of the astral organism, thus putting man en rapport with all parts of the solar system. this results in the fixat

and controlled mind, that cause and effect will be seen as one, and right steps can be taken to handle situations correctly and to the best advantage. prevision seldom takes the form of forecasting happiness, and the reason is not far to seek. the race is at a point where the prodigal son is conscious of the husks and of the futility of earthly life. he is ready for a careful consideration of the buddha's message, and he is ready because he has been devoured for centuries by war and famine, by desire and by the economic struggle. the vista he sees before him appears black and forbidding and full of cataclysmic disaster. yet if men carried the concept of brotherhood with all its implications into the life and work of every day, into all intercourse whether between the capitalist and the lab

and therefore the karma of the results, and the ultimate work of destroying that which he has built must be his. this is true of every embodied idea, the good as well as the bad. the creator of all of them is responsible for the work of his creation. the master jesus, for instance, has still to deal with the thought-forms which we call the christian church, and has much to do. the christ and the buddha have still some consummating work to carry through, though not so much with the forms which embody their enunciated principles, as with the souls who have evolved through the application of those principles. with the aspirant, however, who is still learning to think, the problem is different. he is still prone to use thought matter to embody his mistaken apprehension of the real ideas; he i

re breaking through their limitations into the world of souls. in the retrospect of history, the picture of the emerging prisoner, man, can be seen in clear delineation. little by little he has mastered the planetary boundaries; little by little, he has grown from the stage of cave man to that of a shakespeare, a newton, a leonardo da vinci, an einstein, a st. francis of assisi, to a christ and a buddha. the capacity of man to achieve in any field of human expression seems practically unlimited, and if the past few thousand years have seen such a stupendous growth, what shall we see in the next five thousand years! if prehistoric man, little more than an animal, has grown into the genius, what unfoldment is not possible as more and more of innate divinity makes its presence felt? the super

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which is ever the truly occult method. however, all that i am positing about a ray life may be equally well posited anent a human life, but it should be borne in mind that the pure ray type does not as yet exist, for there is not to be found that perfect form, mechanism or expression of the ray quality, nor that absolutely purified appearance in the human family, except in such rare cases as the buddha, or christ, and (in another field of expression) an alexander or julius caesar. leonardo da vinci was an analogous expression. the rays concern energy and consciousness, and determine expression, but where the matter utilised and the vehicle informed is as yet imperfectly evolved, there is then limitation and the "tuning out" automatically of much of the energy. the effect of ray force, wor

e septenary grouping of the solar lives on the mental levels whereon they appear, he brought into functioning activity seven corresponding reflections of the seven centres of deity, as far as our planet is concerned, a thing which none of his six brother rays have done. this statement means little to you, but the tremendous sacrifice and effort thus involved are paralleled only by the life of the buddha, and this is one of the reasons why, in this fifth race, love and mind must eventually and mutually reveal each other. some of the names given to the lord of this ray are as follows: the revealer of truth the great connector the divine intermediary the crystallizer of forms the three-fold thinker the cloud upon the mountain-top the precipitator of the cross the dividing sword the winnower o

is this information to you or to any student? practically none, beyond indicating the vastness of the plan and the amazing scope of the human consciousness. what that contact with the highest type of synthetic force may mean, i cannot tell you. the planetary logoi themselves walk in the light of that sublime consciousness, and towards that privilege the christ himself, and his great brother, the buddha, with the three buddhas of activity, are at this time aspiring. more than that i know not, nor may i further enlarge upon the matter. but the wonder and the immensity of the drama unfolding in the universe is a proof of its reality, and the grasp of man, small though it may appear to be, is a guarantee of his divinity. stage by stage we slowly make our approach to the goal of conscious and

urth initiation. the correspondences of fire, heat and pressure in the evolution of the human being are self-evident, and their work can be seen paralleling that in the mineral kingdom. the mineral kingdom is governed astrologically by taurus, and there is a symbolic relation between the "eye" in the head of the bull, the third eye, the light in the head, and the diamond. the consciousness of the buddha has been called the "diamond-eye" we have been technical, and much has been given which seems to have no bearing upon the psychological development of man. but to understand the rays and their bearing on life as a whole, it is necessary that man should grasp the fact that he is only a small fraction of that whole. man has his roots in all the three kingdoms; all have contributed to his equi

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who take their stand upon their essential divinity. both the hindu teaching and the buddhist faith have emphasised them as evolutionary crises which we may not ultimately escape; and a right- 9- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust understanding of the interrelation of these great world religions may eventually bring about a truer understanding of all of them. the religion of the buddha, though preceding that of the christ, expresses the same basic truths, but phrases them in a different manner, which can help us nevertheless to a larger interpretation of christianity "buddhism and christianity find their origins respectively in two inspired moments of history: the life of the buddha, and the life of christ. the buddha gave his doctrine to enlighten the world: christ gave

ch can help us nevertheless to a larger interpretation of christianity "buddhism and christianity find their origins respectively in two inspired moments of history: the life of the buddha, and the life of christ. the buddha gave his doctrine to enlighten the world: christ gave his life. it is for christians to discern the doctrine. perhaps in the end the most valuable part of the doctrine of the buddha is its interpretation of his life."8 the teaching of lao-tzu can also serve the same purpose. religion must eventually be composite, gathered from many sources and composed of many truths. yet it is legitimate to feel that if one had to choose, at this time, one faith, one might choose christianity, and for this specific reason: the central problem of life is to lay hold upon our divinity a

ry detail in the lives of earlier messengers from god. these proved facts should surely evoke from us the recognition that though there are many messengers there is only one message; but this recognition in no way detracts from the unique task of the christ and the unique function which he came forth to fulfil. it is interesting also to bear in mind that these two outstanding individualities, the buddha and the christ, have set their seal upon both hemispheres the buddha being the teacher for the- 10- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust orient, and christ the saviour of the occident. whatever may be our personal conclusions as to their relations to the father in heaven or to each other, the fact stands out past all controversy that they gave the revelation of divinity to t

d christ the saviour of the occident. whatever may be our personal conclusions as to their relations to the father in heaven or to each other, the fact stands out past all controversy that they gave the revelation of divinity to their particular civilisations, and that in a most significant manner they worked together for the eventual benefit of the race. their two systems are interdependent, and buddha prepared the world for the message and the mission of christ. both embodied in themselves certain cosmic principles, and by their work and sacrifice certain divine potencies poured through and upon mankind. the work done by the buddha, and the message which he sounded, stimulated intelligence into wisdom. wisdom is a cosmic principle, and a divine potency. this the buddha embodied. but love

nce into wisdom. wisdom is a cosmic principle, and a divine potency. this the buddha embodied. but love came to the world through christ, and he, through his work, transmuted emotion into love. as "god is love" the comprehension that christ revealed the love of god makes clear the magnitude of the task he undertook a task far beyond the powers of any teacher or messenger who had preceded him. the buddha, when he achieved illumination "let in" a flood of light upon life and upon our world problems, and this intelligent understanding of the causes of world distress he endeavoured to formulate into the four noble truths. these are, as most of us well know: 1. that existence in the phenomenal universe is inseparable from suffering and from sorrow. 2. that the cause of suffering is desire for e

e which has enabled many thousands, down the centuries, to see the light. today christ and his disciples are occupied (as they have been for two thousand years) with the same task of bringing enlightenment and salvation to men; blows are being struck at the world illusion, and the minds of humanity are arriving, en masse, at an increasing clarity of thought. through the message, therefore, of the buddha, man can, for the first time, grasp the cause of his eternal discontent, of his constant distaste and dissatisfaction, and of his endless nostalgia. from the buddha he can learn that the way of release is to be found in detachment, dispassion and discrimination. these are the first steps on the road to christ. through the message of christ three general concepts emerged into the racial cons

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space are controlling factors, and imprison the soul within their types of consciousness. this connotes identification with form life. the other connotes identification with all that lies outside of form expression and is released from it. what that may be lies beyond the grasp of our present advanced humanity, and is only known in its true significance by such great existences as the christ, the buddha and those of analogous rank in the hierarchy of lives. the qualities generated and developed through the first of these identifications persist and colour the conscious realisation, and it must be remembered that the final identification is the result of the experience gained through the medium of the first. these qualities will vary according to the dominance of- 17- a treatise on the seve

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

reat sons of god who down the ages, have arrived at an understanding of the significance of the divine purpose of god, of the word incarnated through a planet, of those solar angels who are themselves, the word incarnate through a human form. whether they enact this drama, as did the christ, so as to present to man the symbolism of death and sacrifice, or whether they enact this drama, as did the buddha, so as to demonstrate to man the sacrifice and death of personal desire (to mention only two of the manifested sons of god, the christ and the buddha, the theme remains the same, the death of that which is lower in order to release that which is higher, or on a larger scale the death of that which is higher in the order and scale of being, in order to release that which is lower. but the le

ontact and are "in touch" with the world of spiritual realities. just as the individual disciple stabilises this contact and learns to make a rapid alignment and then, and only then, can come into touch with the master of his group and intelligently respond to the plan, so does this group of aligned souls come into contact with certain greater lives and forces of light, such as the christ and the buddha. the aggregated aspiration, consecration and intelligent devotion of the group carries the individuals of which it is composed to greater heights than would be possible alone. the group stimulation and the united effort sweep the entire group to an intensity of realisation that would otherwise be impossible. just as the law of attraction, working on the physical plane, brought them together

ison with each other and the hierarchy, and thus keeping the channel open through which the needed wisdom, strength and love can flow. there are, therefore, to be found in this great task the following relations and groupings. these must be considered, and are as follows: 1. the forces of light and the spirit of peace, embodied lives of tremendous group potency. 2. the planetary hierarchy. 3. the buddha. 4. the christ. 5. the new group of world servers. 6. humanity. you will note that the buddha focusses in himself the downpouring forces, whilst the christ focusses in himself the outgoing demand and the spiritual aspirations of the entire planet. this makes a planetary alignment of great potency. should the needed work be accomplished, the needed adjustments in the world can be made. the s

. all this is desire in some form or another, and by these urges humanity is governed and controlled; i would say most definitely controlled, for this is only a simple statement of the case- 95- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust it is this realisation of man's fundamental bias or controlling factor that lies behind the teaching given by the buddha, and which is embodied in the four noble truths of the buddhist philosophy, which can be summarised as follows: the four noble truths a. existence in the phenomenal universe is inseparable from suffering and sorrow. b. the cause of suffering is desire for existence in the phenomenal universe. c. the cessation of suffering is attained by eradicating desire for phenomenal existence. d. the pa

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raced in the holy bible. upon one or other of these seven rays, the souls of all forms of life are to be found as well as the forms themselves. these seven rays produce the seven major psychological types. these seven rays or emanations are: 1. the first ray of will or power. many great world rulers are found on this ray, such as julius caesar. 2. the second ray of love-wisdom. the christ and the buddha are to be found on this ray. it is the great teaching ray. 3. the third ray of active intelligence. the mass of intelligent humanity are found on this ray. 4. the fourth ray of harmony through conflict. aspirants. struggling, well-meaning people. workers for unity emerge along this line. 5. the fifth ray of concrete knowledge or science. scientists and people who are purely mental and gover

d will be identified with certain group expansions of consciousness. it will also be because they have arrived at love of their fellowmen, just as they have loved themselves in the past. think on this with clarity, my brothers, and grasp, if you can, the full significance of this last sentence. their work will largely be to summarise and make effective the work of those two great sons of god, the buddha and the christ. as you know, one of them brought illumination to the world and embodied the principle of wisdom, and the other brought love to the world and embodied in himself a great cosmic principle the principle of love. how can the effectiveness of their work- 7- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust be brought about? the process will follow three lines: 1. i

r brought love to the world and embodied in himself a great cosmic principle the principle of love. how can the effectiveness of their work- 7- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust be brought about? the process will follow three lines: 1. individual effort, made by the individual disciple, using the technique of detachment, of dispassion and of discrimination which the buddha taught. 2. group initiation, made possible by the self-initiated effort of individual disciples, following out the injunctions of the christ and leading to a complete subordination of the personality and of the unit to group interest and group good. 3. group endeavour, carried forward as a group, to love all beings and to apprehend and understand the true significance of the aquarian techni

lowing out the injunctions of the christ and leading to a complete subordination of the personality and of the unit to group interest and group good. 3. group endeavour, carried forward as a group, to love all beings and to apprehend and understand the true significance of the aquarian technique of group love and work. i have felt that a linking up of your minds in connection with the work of the buddha and of the christ might serve a useful purpose and give you all a glimpse and an indication of their two systems of unfoldment one preparatory to accepted discipleship and the other to initiation which would be sequential and inter-related. the synthesis of their work is easily seen by us who work with a fuller vision and a less impeded outlook than is as yet possible to you. i am, therefor

the way of our present day aspirants. the reason for this is that the polarisation of the race is shifting ever more steadily on to the mental plane. some of the individuals on this way of the mind were sankaracharya, the apostle paul, and meister eckhart. today, many are coming out along this way under the name of science. there were also those outstanding individuals, such as the christ and the buddha, who combined both ways in their perfection and who towered above their fellowmen from the- 36- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust heights of their achievement. they swayed hemispheres and centuries, whereas the lesser sons of god swayed countries, specific types of mind and lesser periods of time. 2. the second method employed for raising the consciousness of

your case, is love-wisdom, and bring it in such power that the combination of wisdom and of skill in action (in order to manifest harmony) will produce the emergence of the inner pattern into the outer theme of your daily living. i would point out to you that you are more strongly on the wisdom line than on the love line, and, under our plan of individual analysis, you would be listed as on the "buddha way" more than upon the "christ way" to work this out effectively, you should concentrate your attention upon this theme of wise and skilful living, as it expresses itself in your environment. this will tend to extrovert you very considerably, to focus you on physical plane living, and to bring your brain consciousness (and consequently your outer activities) into line with soul wisdom and

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

positive guilt. war is the dire penalty which mankind has had to pay for this great sin of separateness. impressions from the hierarchy have been received, distorted, misapplied and misinterpreted and the task of the new group of world servers is to offset this evil. humanity has never really lived up to the teaching given it. spiritual impression, whether conveyed by the christ, by krishna or by buddha (and passed on to the masses by their disciples) has not yet been expressed as it was hoped. men do not live up to what they already know; they fail to make practical their information; they short circuit the light; they do not discipline themselves; greedy desire and unlawful ambition control and not the inner knowledge. to put it scientifically and from the esoteric angle: spiritual impre

world education has been progressively along three main lines, starting in the east and culminating today in the west. in asia we have had the intensive training, down the centuries, of certain carefully chosen individuals and a complete neglect of the masses. asia and asia alone has produced those outstanding figures who are, even today, the object of universal veneration lao tze, confucius, the buddha, shri krishna and the christ. they have set their mark upon millions and still do. then in europe, we have had educational attention concentrated upon a few privileged groups, giving them a carefully planned cultural training but teaching only the necessary rudiments of learning to the masses. this produced periodically such important epochs of cultural expression as the elizabethan period

not be exploited, however, by groups working for their own ends, no matter how honestly, correctly or sincerely. it would, if that was done, be diverted into a partisan effort. the men of goodwill stand midway between opposing groups where such exist, in order to create a condition in which discussion and compromise can become happily possible. they tread constantly the "noble middle path" of the buddha which runs between the pairs of opposites, straight to the very heart of god; they tread the "narrow way" of love of which christ spoke, and they indicate they are treading it by an expression of the only aspect of love which humanity can at present understand: goodwill. when goodwill is expressed and organized, recognized and used, world problems, no matter what they may be, will in due ti

birth and the picture of an angry deity only appeased by death are the unhappy results of man's own thinking, of his own lower nature, of his sectarian isolationism (fostered by the jewish old testament, but not generally found in the oriental faiths) and of his sense of fear, inherited from the animal side of his nature all these are fostered and inculcated by theology but not by christ, or the buddha or shri krishna. the little minds of men at their past and present stages of evolution cannot today and never have comprehended the mind and the purposes of the one in whom we live and move and have our being; they have interpreted god in terms of themselves; therefore when men unthinkingly accept a dogma, they are only accepting the point of view of some other fallible human being, and are

n soul to express or manifest two aspects of divinity: intelligence and love. intelligence today is flowering through knowledge and science; it has, however, not yet unfolded on any large scale its latent beauty of wisdom; love today is only just beginning to engross human attention; its lowest aspect, goodwill, is only now being recognized as a divine energy and is still a theory and a hope. the buddha came embodying in himself the divine quality of wisdom; he was the manifestation of light, and the teacher of the way of enlightenment. he demonstrated in himself the processes of illumination and became "the illumined one. light, wisdom, reason, as divine yet human attributes, were focussed in the buddha. he challenged the people to tread the path of illumination of which wisdom, mental pe

dom, reason, as divine yet human attributes, were focussed in the buddha. he challenged the people to tread the path of illumination of which wisdom, mental perception and the intuition are aspects. then came the next great teacher, the christ. he embodied in himself a still greater divine principle greater than the mind, that of love; yet at the same time, he embraced within himself all that the buddha had of light. christ was the expression of both light and love. christ also brought to human attention three deeply necessary concepts- 87- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. the extreme value of the individual son of god and the necessity for intense spiritual effort. 2. the opportunity, presented to humanity, to take a great step forward and undergo the new birth. 3. the m

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

is the recognition of these facts which also prompts the order which has gone forth from "the centre where the will of god is known" that the avatar should come again; it is the knowledge of both these demands which has led the christ to let his disciples in every land know that he will reappear when they have done the needed preparatory work. the avatars most easily known and recognised are the buddha in the east and the christ in the west. their messages are familiar to all, and the fruits of their lives and words have conditioned the thinking and civilisations of both hemispheres. because they are human-divine avatars- 4- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust they represent what humanity can easily understand; because they are of like nature to us "flesh of our fles

e as the avatar of love. the christ, that great human-divine messenger, because of his stupendous achievement along the line of understanding transmitted to humanity an aspect and a potency of the nature of god himself, the love principle of deity. light, aspiration, and the recognition of god transcendent had been the flickering expression of the human attitude to god, prior to the advent of the buddha, the avatar of illumination. then the buddha came and demonstrated in his own life the fact of god immanent as well as god transcendent, of god in the universe and of god within humanity. the selfhood of deity and the self in the heart of individual man became a factor in human consciousness. it was a relatively new truth to man. however, until christ came and lived a life of love and servi

s. the forces of regeneration, of reconstruction, of restoration and of resurrection are making their presence felt in all the many groups which are seeking to aid and lift humanity, to rebuild the world, to restore stability and the sense of security and thus (consciously or unconsciously) prepare the way for the coming of the christ. there is also a unique revival of the ancient teaching of the buddha and it is penetrating into the western countries and finding devoted adherents in every land. the buddha is the symbol of enlightenment and there is everywhere today a unique emphasis upon light. countless millions down the ages have recognised the buddha as the light bearer from on high. his four noble truths exposed the causes of human trouble and pointed to the cure. he taught: cease to

ndly, he gave to the world (for the use of the "man in the street) one of the oldest prayers ever known, but one which hitherto had not been permitted to be used except by the most exalted, spiritual beings. he used it himself for the first time, we are told, at the time of the full moon of june, 1945, which is recognised as the full moon of the christ, just as the full moon of may is that of the buddha. it was not easy to translate these ancient phrases (so ancient that they are without date or background of any kind) into modern words, but it has been done, and the great invocation, which may eventually become the world prayer, was pronounced by him and taken down by his disciples. it has been translated as follows: from the point of light within the mind of god let light stream forth in

ose who have lived on earth, accepted the fact of god transcendent, discovered the reality of god immanent, portrayed in their own lives the divine characteristics of the christ life and (because they lived on earth as he did and does) have "entered for us within the veil, leaving us an example that we too should follow his steps" and theirs. we too belong eventually in that great succession. the buddha himself is standing behind the christ in humble recognition of the divine task which he is on the verge of consummating, and because of the imminence of that spiritual accomplishment. not only are all those who are functioning consciously in the kingdom of god aware of his plans, but those great spiritual beings who live and dwell in the "father's house" in the "centre where the will of god

h the spiritual succession of the sons of god, there is naught to be seen and felt but expectancy and preparation "the hierarchy waits" it has done all that is possible from the angle of the present opportunity. the christ stands in patient silence, attentive to the effort that will make his work materialise on earth and enable him to consummate the effort he made 2000 years ago in palestine. the buddha hovers over the planet, ready to play his part if the opportunity is offered to him by mankind. everything now depends upon the right action of the men of goodwill. from the father's house (the "centre where the will of god is known" or shamballa of the esotericist) the fiat has gone forth: the hour has come. from the kingdom of god where reigns the christ, the answer has been flung back "f

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

the divine ideal for the race, as a whole, was presented for the first time. other and earlier sons of god presented diverse divine qualities and attributes, but in three of them a certain perfection of presentation was achieved which (as far as this present world period is concerned) can never be surpassed. these three are: hercules, the perfect disciple but not yet the perfected son of god; the buddha- 20- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust the perfect initiate, having reached illumination but not yet having developed to perfection all the attributes of divinity; the christ, the absolutely perfect expression of divinity for this cycle and, therefore, the teacher alike of angels and of men. that ahead of the race may lie a still higher perfection than that attained by a

ll expression. in them, idealism, love-wisdom and indomitable will stood forth in all their divine power. it might be of interest to you to know just what rays controlled these sons of god: hercules, the sun-god, had a first ray soul, a second ray personality and a sixth ray astral body. these potencies and energies sufficed to carry him through all the trials and the labours of the disciple. the buddha had a second ray soul, a first ray personality and a sixth ray mind a very rare phenomenon. the christ had a second ray soul, a sixth ray personality (which accounted for his close relationship with the master jesus, plus a first ray mind. these three all embodied the essences of the spiritual life and all of them were enabled to set their seal upon history and upon the hearts of men, large

on. all of them embodied also the new spiritual impulse which their day and age required and all of them for centuries by the strength of their living love and power brought the vision and the aspiration of humanity back to those spiritual essentials whereby men must live. all of them were part of the directing group of lives who are working out the plans of god, founded upon the love of god. the buddha and the christ are still closely connected with, and working in cooperation with, the hierarchy. hercules has gone over into the shamballa centre, but still works in a basic association with the buddha who is one of the forces linking shamballa and the hierarchy. pure religion, undefiled and spiritually focussed, is the higher expression of the sixth ray (working as is ever the case under t

the second, which is ever basically in manifestation. 4. the second ray centre the heart centre. 5. the second race (the atlantean) as it climaxes in the fourth, the next race. 6. the second plane the astral plane. this is the reflection of the second highest plane. 7. the second periodical vehicle the soul. 8. the second divine aspect love-wisdom. 9. the second type or grade of messenger christ. buddha. 10. the sustaining life, the second or subjective sun heart of sun. to all these is related the sixth ray as allied to or subsidiary to the second. in this world cycle it might be said that the emphasis of all spiritual power is placed in the hierarchy which is, at present, the divine intermediary, interpreting the will of god, which is the purpose of shamballa. it transmits or steps down

n takes its place. it is interesting also to note that venus now comes into control in the third decanate of the aquarian age. venus is esoterically recognised as that mysterious force which is a blend of love and knowledge, of intelligence and synthesis, and of understanding and brotherhood. within the hierarchy itself, the two great messengers who have embodied the dual venusian energy were the buddha and the christ. the messenger who will later come and express the shamballa urge to synthesis, the hierarchial aspiration towards love and the desire of humanity for intelligent activity with combined power will gather all into himself. all these qualities will focus in him, plus another quality or divine principle of which the race of men as yet knows nothing and for which there is, as yet

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

o strike a deadly blow on the planetary dweller on the threshold. the reaction at this time, through the stress of circumstances, is bringing about a more spiritual understanding and a reorganisation of human values, and this is part of the process whereby a vital part of the world glamour may be dissipated if only all men of goodwill within the world aura adhere to their appointed task. when the buddha was on earth and achieved illumination, he "let in" a flood of light upon the world problem through his enunciation of the four noble truths. his body of disciples and his nine hundred arhats formulated those four great truths into a structure of dogma and doctrine that by the power of collective thought has greatly helped in the attack upon the world illusion. today the christ is carrying

3. illusion arose among advanced human beings in later atlantean days and will be a controlling factor in our aryan race. 4. the dweller on the threshold arrives at full potency at the end of this race, the aryan, and in the lives of all initiates prior to taking the third initiation. 5. the subhuman kingdoms in nature are free from glamour and illusion, but are immersed in the world maya. 6. the buddha and his 900 arhats struck the first blow at the world glamour when he promulgated his four noble truths. the christ struck the second blow with his teaching of the nature of individual responsibility and of brotherhood. the next blow will be struck by the new group of world servers, acting under the direction of christ and his disciples, symbolically described as "christ and his 9000 initia

d illusion, brought about by wrong perception. the cause is an untrained, unillumined mind- 36- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust the cure is training in the technique of raja yoga. this results in the ability to hold the mind steady in the light, to perceive correctly, to achieve a right outlook, and to attain a right mental attitude. it was these right attitudes with which the buddha was dealing when he outlined the noble eightfold path. it involves the reaching of a right mental altitude. yes, i said altitude, my brothers, and not attitude. 2. through wrong interpretation. the idea, a vital entity or a germ of living potency, is seen through the medium of a partial view, distorted through the inadequacy of the mental equipment, and frequently stepped down into futility

ings to restore world order and to lay those foundations which will guarantee a better and more spiritual way of life. these constructive attitudes and undertakings must be assumed individually by every person, and by nations as collective wholes. the first is being undertaken at this time. the second remains as yet to be done. 5. bringing home to the nations of the world the truths taught by the buddha, the lord of light, and the christ, the lord of love. in this connection it might be pointed out that basically: a. the axis nations need to grasp the teaching of the buddha as he enunciated it in the four noble truths; they need to realise that the cause of all sorrow and woe is desire desire for that which is material. b. the united nations need to learn to apply the law of love as enunci

oint of crisis are symbolised by the ancient symbol of a point within the circle, the focus of power within a sphere of influence or aura. so it is today with the entire problem of ending the world glamour and illusion which fundamentally lie behind the present acute situation and world catastrophe. the possibility of such a dispelling and dissipation is definitely centred in the two avatars, the buddha and the christ. within the world of glamour the world of the astral plane and of the emotions appeared a point of light. the lord of light, the buddha, undertook to focus in himself the illumination which would eventually make possible the dissipation of glamour. within the world of illusion the world of the mental plane appeared the christ, the lord of love himself, who embodied in himself

d of divine ideas will stand revealed. the result will be the disappearing of illusion. the combined work of these two great sons of god, concentrated through the world disciples and through their initiates must and will inevitably shatter illusion and dispel glamour the one by the intuitive recognition of reality by minds attuned to it, and the other by the pouring in of the light of reason. the buddha made the first planetary effort to dissipate world glamour; the christ made the first planetary effort towards the dispelling of illusion. their work must now be intelligently carried forward by a humanity wise enough to recognise its dharma. men are being rapidly disillusioned and will consequently see more clearly. the world glamour is being steadily removed from the ways of men. these tw

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

"a sharpened impression" and to register it accurately because the emanating impression has passed through an area within the divine mind where it is enhanced by the trained perception and the determined receptivity of this group. they are called, in the east, the divine nirmanakayas. i only mention their occult name so that you may learn to recognise them when you meet reference to them. d. the buddha at the time when the wesak festival is celebrated. he then acts as a focal point or as the "distributor of the impression; he then has behind him (little as you may realise it) the entire impressing force of the buddhas of activity who are to shamballa what the nirmanakayas are to the hierarchy- 26- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust let me here interpolate a remar

representatives as the central points in both the hierarchy and in humanity. for this relatively distant event the doctrine or the theory of avatars, of mediators or of inter-mediaries is preparing the way, thus enabling men to think in these representative and inclusive terms. not even in the hierarchy is the time yet ripe for the "residence in state of the divine representative" each year, the buddha comes and carries the force of sanat kumara to the hierarchy but he cannot stay. the "units of energy" the members of the hierarchy, cannot bear for long the strong quality of the incoming vibration, except after due preparation and in group form, and then only for a few scant minutes; nevertheless the "period of dynamic potency" is being prolonged during this century from one day to five;

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

which is the spirit aspect, the father, the unknown. hierarchy v. the fifth creative hierarchy is, as we know from study of the secret doctrine, a most mysterious one. this mystery is incident upon the relation of the fifth hierarchy to the five liberated groups. this relation, in connection with our particular planet, which is not a sacred planet, can be somewhat understood if the history of the buddha, and his work is contemplated. this is hinted at in the third volume of the secret doctrine. the relation of the fifth hierarchy to a certain constellation has also a bearing upon this mystery. this is hidden in the karma of the solar logos, and concerns his relationship to another solar logos, and the interplay of force between them in a great mahakalpa. this is the true "secret of- 27- a

est as it progresses onward and, in one moment of time, this it does" this is a symbolic way of expressing the united activity of all the states of consciousness, achieved upon the first two wheels, and which life experience, in many rounds of the zodiac, has brought to the initiate; it means likewise that type of awareness which transcends even that of the christ himself and for which he and the buddha are undergoing preparation. the experience of the cardinal cross (concerning as it does cosmic unfoldment) transcends all possible awareness, gained upon the other two crosses and for which they have prepared the initiate. it might be stated that 1. the mutable cross, in due time and when its lessons are assimilated, brings about planetary awareness. 2. the fixed cross brings about systemic

life, quality and appearance. thus the three great tests in scorpio are in reality nine tests and hence the nine-headed hydra or serpent which is ever associated with scorpio and hence also the nature of the stupendous victory achieved by hercules, the sun-god, in this sign. it is interesting to note that each of the great sons of god whose names are pre-eminent in the minds of men hercules, the buddha and the christ are associated in the archives of the great white lodge with three special signs of the zodiac (which in a peculiar manner constitute the "zodiacal decanate) in each of which they passed from test to victory. in scorpio hercules became the triumphant disciple. in taurus the buddha achieved victory over desire and arrived at illumination. in pisces the christ overcame death an

on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust libra upon the cardinal cross rules man's subjective and spiritual life. the other signs in their consummation carry man beyond the stage of ordinary humanity and produce the following states of consciousness: 1. aries and virgo. the cosmic christ. universal and individual. 2. taurus and pisces. the world saviours; i.e, buddha and christ. 3. leo and aquarius. the world servers; i.e, hercules. 4. sagittarius and capricorn. the world initiates; i.e, masters. 5. cancer and scorpio. the triumphant disciples. the emphasis, however, on gemini and libra as far as humanity is concerned is on human attainment and achieving the point of balance before the other attainments become possible. it is also peculiarly instructive

inks the light within the centre of all the manifested crosses; he was allowed to know the meaning of life as it expressed itself in the cosmic crucifixion, which is an episode of cosmic life and not of death, as is generally supposed. hercules comprehended the true meaning of the mutable cross and, with full knowledge, mounted the fixed cross, with all its attendant difficulties and labours. the buddha comprehended, through complete illumination, the meaning of both the mutable and the fixed crosses, for the secret of revelation in taurus was his, just as the secret of directed energy in scorpio was the source of the strength of hercules. but the christ, knowing both the above secrets, also understood with a living comprehension, the mystery of the cardinal cross, because the light of the

will-to-be or the will-to-live. the great triplicity of desire aspiration direction (will) are only three words which endeavour to describe the progress and bias of man the personality, man the soul, and man the channel for spirit or life. all three point inadequately to the cause of the threefold expression which underlies all events, all progress and all happenings in time and space. it was the buddha who clarified for man the nature of desire and its results, with the unhappy effects which desire produces when persistent and unenlightened. it was the christ who taught the transmutation of desire into aspiration which, from the expression given to it in the new testament, was the effort of the human will (hitherto animated by, or expressed through, desire) to conform itself to the will o

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

nths of the year (when i was not in scotland and under the influence of my aunt) to the other. i was torn between the beauties of ritual and the narrowness of dogma. missionary work was dinned into my consciousness by both groups. the world was divided into those who were christians and worked hard to save souls and those who were heathen and bowed down to images of stone and worshipped them. the buddha was a stone image; and it never dawned on me then that the images of the buddha were on a par with the statues and images of the christ in the christian churches with which i was so familiar on the continent of europe. i was in a complete fog. and then at the height of my unhappiness and in the very middle of my dilemma and questioning one of the masters of the wisdom came to me. at the tim

. it was almost like a solemn, rhythmic dance, very slow and dignified but quite soundless. suddenly, the three figures before the rock stretched out their arms towards the heavens. the crowd froze into immobility. at the far end of the bottle-neck a figure was seen in the sky, hovering over the passage and slowly approaching the rock. i knew in some subjective and certain fashion that it was the buddha. i had a sense of recognition. i knew at the same time that in no way was our christ belittled. i got a glimpse of the unity and of the plan to which the christ, the buddha and all the masters are eternally dedicated. i realised for the first time, though in a dim and uncertain manner, the unity of all manifestation and that all existence the material world, the spiritual realm, the aspirin

, though in a dim and uncertain manner, the unity of all manifestation and that all existence the material world, the spiritual realm, the aspiring disciple, the evolving animal and the beauty of the vegetable and mineral kingdoms constituted one divine and living whole which was moving on to the demonstration of the glory of the lord. i grasped faintly that human beings needed the christ and the buddha and all the members of the planetary hierarchy, and that there were happenings and events of far greater moment to the progress of the race than those recorded in history. i was left bewildered, because to me (at that time) the heathen were still heathen and i was a christian. deep and fundamental doubts were left in my mind. my life was henceforth coloured (and is today) by the knowledge t

bethlehem to calvary in order to trace the significance of the five major episodes in the life of the christ the birth, baptism, transfiguration, crucifixion and resurrection and their relationship to the five initiations as outlined for the eastern disciple. both these books have a definite bearing upon the new world religion. the time must come when the work of the great master in the east, the buddha, who came to earth and achieved illumination and became the guide and teacher of millions of orientals, and the work of the christ, who came as the teacher and saviour recognised first by the occident, must achieve fusion. there is no divergence or conflict in their teaching. there is no competition between them. they stand forth as the two greatest world teachers and saviours. one has guid

irst by the occident, must achieve fusion. there is no divergence or conflict in their teaching. there is no competition between them. they stand forth as the two greatest world teachers and saviours. one has guided the orient and the other has guided the occident nearer to god. it is this theme that the tibetan elaborates in his pamphlet, the new world religion. he indicates that the work of the buddha prepared people for the path of discipleship, whilst the work of the christ prepared people for initiation. he indicated a ritual in this pamphlet in which the great day of the buddha, the wesak festival (the vaisakha festival at the may full moon- 135- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust and easter sunday, fixed by the april full moon, stood for the illuminated buddha a

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

fold egoic lotus and of the triple personality, thus again making the nine of initiation. the energies thus synchronised and focussed in, around and above the head are of great beauty and extensive radiation, plus dynamic effectiveness. they serve to relate the initiate to all parts of the planetary life, to the great council at shamballa, and to the lord of the world, the final initiator via the buddha and one of the three buddhas of activity. the buddha, in a most peculiar sense, relates the initiate to the second aspect of divinity that of love and therefore to the hierarchy; the buddhas of activity relate him to the third aspect of divinity, that of active intelligence. thus the energy of will, of consciousness and of creativity meet in him, providing the synthesis of the divine aspect

y my presentation) is to lay down certain broad and general assumptions which will govern the medical men of the future. but in the interim period between the old and the new eras, men will wander in a fog of speculation; a great conflict will be engineered between the fundamentalist schools and the speculators and the investigators of the new ideas, and temporarily the "noble middle path" of the buddha will be forgotten. there is present today, in the science of medicine, a situation paralleling that to be found in the realm of religion. the old approach suffices for the masses and is frequently successful both in its ameliorative and preventive aspects, and in its process of diagnosis. this is all that is possible at this time. in the same manner, the old religious presentation suffices

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

oned. millions still hold this belief, but it is not so strongly held as it was one hundred years ago. 3. the theory of reincarnation, so familiar to all my readers, is becoming increasingly popular in the occident; it has always been accepted (though with many foolish additions and interpretations) in the orient. this teaching has been as much distorted as have the teachings of the christ or the buddha or shri krishna by their narrow-minded and mentally limited theologians. the basic facts of a spiritual origin, of a descent into matter, of an ascent through the medium of constant incarnations in form until those forms are perfect expressions of the indwelling spiritual consciousness, and of a series of initiations at the close of the cycle of incarnation, are being more readily accepted

ons. he is abstracted from our planetary life altogether. only one factor could prevent this, and that might be his pledge to serve temporarily within the planetary ring-pass-not. such members of the hierarchy who pledge themselves to this work are stated to have buddhic consciousness, and the line of their descent (occultly understood) is from the eternal pilgrim, the lord of the world, then the buddha, and then the christ. they remain identified through free choice with the "quality seen within the light" and, for the term of their freely rendered service, work with the consciousness aspect in order to lay the emphasis later upon the life aspect. a treatise on the seven rays, vol. v. the eighteen fires must die down; the lesser lives (embodying the principle of form, of desire and of tho

re in- 364- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust connection with the new world religion*(9) it has been taught also in the esoteric presentation (and this is closely allied with the christian doctrines) that the soul is the intermediary between the monad and the personality; the same idea is also found in many other religious presentations, i.e, the buddha is shown as the intermediary between shamballa and the hierarchy, acting in this capacity once a year; the hierarchy itself is the intermediary between shamballa and humanity; the etheric plane (and by this i mean the cosmic, planetary and individual etheric vehicles) is the intermediary between the higher planes and the dense physical body. the whole system of occult or esoteric revelation

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

t" the entire trend of the present urge forward, which can be noted so distinctly in the race, is to enable the race to acquire knowledge, to transmute it into wisdom by the aid of the understanding, and thus to become "fully enlightened" enlightenment is the major goal of education. it is precisely in this region of thought and of recognition that the distinction is found between the work of the buddha and the work of the christ. the buddha achieved "enlightenment" and was the first of our humanity to do so. lesser grades of enlightenment have been frequently achieved by many previously incarnating sons of god. christ, because of the attainment of the buddha and because of his own point in evolution, was enabled to inaugurate a new era and institute a new goal, wherein another divine prin

y incarnating sons of god. christ, because of the attainment of the buddha and because of his own point in evolution, was enabled to inaugurate a new era and institute a new goal, wherein another divine principle was enabled to come into manifestation and to achieve general recognition. he inaugurated the "age of love" and gave to the people an expression of a new divine aspect, that of love. the buddha culminated the "age of knowledge- 39- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust the christ began the "age of love" both ages embody and express two major divine principles. thus the new education has been made possible by the work of the buddha. this will indicate to you how slowly evolution moves. the new religion has been made possible by the work and the life of the christ. spe

s trust the christ began the "age of love" both ages embody and express two major divine principles. thus the new education has been made possible by the work of the buddha. this will indicate to you how slowly evolution moves. the new religion has been made possible by the work and the life of the christ. speaking esoterically, the knowledge petals of the human egoic lotus have unfolded, and the buddha accelerated the rapid action of this happening. now the love petals of the egoic lotus of the human family are also unfolding the rapidity of this occurrence being the result of christ's action. can you understand the significance of what i am attempting to tell you, and can you grasp the meaning of what i am going to say? the points that i am seeking to make are as follows: because the thr

st and culminating today in the west. naturally, i am speaking only in terms of the last two or three thousand years. in asia, we have had the intensive training, down the centuries, of certain carefully chosen individuals and a complete neglect of the masses. asia and asia alone has produced those outstanding figures who are, even today, the object of universal veneration lao tze, confucius, the buddha, shri krishna and the christ. they have set their mark upon millions and still do. then in europe, we have had educational attention concentrated upon a few privileged groups, giving them a carefully planned cultural training but teaching only the necessary rudiments of learning to the masses. this produced periodically such important epochs of cultural expression as the elizabethan period

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

at disciples in all ashrams consider these days what humanity's problems are, what they mean and what their solution entails; they must know what the masters of the wisdom want done and then they must talk and write, act and live so that others too may understand. humanity has never really lived up to the teaching given to it. spiritual impression, whether conveyed by the christ, by krishna or by buddha (and passed on to the masses by their disciples) has not yet been expressed as it was hoped. men do not live up to what they already know; they fail to make practical their information; they short-circuit the light; they do not discipline themselves; greedy desire and unlawful ambition control and not the inner knowledge. to put it scientifically and from the esoteric angle: spiritual impre

the fourth initiation the energies will be centralised in the head centre. this will lead to a happening of such esoteric significance that i cannot express even its dimmest- 322- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust meaning to you because i myself do not know. it lies too far ahead, even for all who are the masters of the wisdom at this time. only the christ and the buddha begin dimly to sense its meaning. therefore i cannot answer your question because until the head centre is somewhat more awakened my explanation would be meaningless. all i dare say is that by the use of creative imagination, by a constant application to the way of the head, and constant group activity, with an increasing capacity to be detached, and therefore not so potently identified wit

in that earlier writing that the simplicity of the soul opens the way into shamballa. that was and is an essential key statement for you. those upon the second ray fall (as you know) into two groups, generally speaking; there are, naturally, numerous exceptions. souls on the wisdom aspect of the second ray go to shamballa and join the great council in some capacity or another. such a one was the buddha. those on the love aspect of the second ray tread one or other of the various paths, primarily that of the world saviours; they become the divine psychologists and world teachers. the christ combined in himself all these three great traits. those in this second group of souls upon the second ray likewise fall into two groups: they follow the way of specialised detail and of a comprehensive

many sparks of differing brightness within that flame. such is the glory of the great eternal one. this realisation is the soul's aspiration 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 b

e your life expression, and that i know is what you yourself desire. 1. relation to the inner ashram. 2. the friendship of the christ. 3. the way of the intuition. 4. the source of your life expression. 5. wisdom, blended with love. 6. reaction to the consciousness of the hierarchy. 7. the "ashram of loving intent" 8. an out-going consciousness, esoterically understood. 9. the "lighted way of the buddha and the christ" 10. the pinnacle whereon the thorny crown is won. 11. the moment of perceptive understanding. 12. the quality of the perceptive race of men (this refers to the future race) these phrases have a significance which is not immediately apparent; they are what i might be permitted to call "sparking" concepts, and they can be revolutionary in their effect, if you reflect upon them

he one initiator, for all effects emanate from some ascertainable cause. so should it be on all levels of advancement, even such a relatively unimportant effort (from the point of view of hierarchical work) as your attempt to gain the right of entry into my ashram or what is called "ashramic penetration" and then on and up through many graded failures, until you meet the well-known failure of the buddha to attain his goal. i have therefore for you a message based on the words of the initiate, paul "forgetting the things which are behind, press forward" dwell no longer on the past but make the relatively few years which are left you of this life, years of usefulness and of purpose in my work. this will require the acquisition and the recognition of a spirit which is unembarrassed by ambitio

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

the christ. it will be built around the periods of the full moon, wherein certain great approaches will be made to the world of reality, also around two periods of massed approaches to be made at the time of the major eclipse of the moon and of the sun during the year. the two major full moon approaches will be those of the wesak full moon and the full moon of june one hitherto consecrated to the buddha who embodied the wisdom of god, and the other to the bodhisattva (known to christians as the christ) who embodied the love of god. the platform of the new world religion will have in it three major presentations of truth, or three major doctrines, if such an undesirable word can be permitted. it is with the elaboration of these three points of view, or evocations of truth, that the work of

of which i would like to remind you is that the hierarchy stands. behind all that is going on today, the same group of spiritual forces and the same elder brothers and masters are to be found as heretofore, guiding humanity along the path of life and bringing- 52- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust us safely and satisfactorily to our present point of development. the buddha, whose festival we are celebrating, and the christ, who expresses to us the unchanging love of god, are still with us, and the hierarchy stands as a bulwark of strength between us and possible disaster; this centre of spiritual life is "like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. the second thing i would have you all remember is that mankind has marched steadily forward from a state of

nergies you have, in reality, the expression of the three major centres of the planetary logos. the first or will energy is, as you know, focussed in sanat kumara, the ancient of days (as he is called in the christian bible, the lord of shamballa, who is the embodiment of the personality of the planetary logos. the love force is focussed through the two great spiritual lords of the hierarchy, the buddha and the christ, who are both embodiments of the heart centre of the planetary logos, for the buddha represents the twelve-petalled lotus in the head, of which the christ represents the counterpart, the twelve-petalled lotus of the heart centre. this is a fact seldom grasped or even mentioned. the petals of the throat centre are represented at this time by certain of the leading world rulers

rgy..p.lanetary head centre..first ray..will the divine purpose. c onditioning the life of nations. d etermining. the plan. expression: sanat kumara. p olitics. esotericism. n ew. destroys- 58- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust ii. hierarchical energy..planetary heart centre..second ray..love-wisdom divine love-wisdom. c onditioning the soul. i nspiring. expressions: buddha and christ. religious. spiritual. permanent. builds. iii. humanity's energy..planetary throat centre..third ray..intellect divine intelligence. conditioning the mind. creative. expression: many people today. e ducational. iv. the jewish force..planetary solar plexus..seventh ray aspect..magic temporary c onditioning world emotion o f third ray. m oney producing separation. sensitivity. v. t

e hierarchy of light as well as being reinforced by the forces of light then the spirit of peace can be invoked. on a lower turn of the spiral, you will note that the wesak festival enacts a similar invocation and process. it is a re-enacting and training process. there and at that time, the three representatives of shamballa within the hierarchy the manu, the christ and the mahachohan invoke the buddha, who in his turn is the transmitter of still higher forces. he is invoked by a special mantram and transmits the appeal to the one whose agent he is. if this great invocation which we are studying can be rightly said, the three great planetary centres can be related in a similar manner. the lord of civilisation, the master r, representing humanity, the christ representing the hierarchy and

ct certain solar agencies which had never before been contacted by man. this achievement enabled him to put humanity in touch with the spirit of peace. he thus himself became the light of the world and the prince of peace. in this manner, shamballa and the hierarchy were brought into a close relationship and two great streams of force were blended and a definite interplay set up between them. the buddha, through his achievement of illumination, established the first major link with the forces of light. the christ, through his ability to express the will of god in love and as world salvage, established the first major link with the spirit of peace. if you will study the above information with care, you will find that the importance of the wesak festival at the time of the full moon of may w

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

originating happenings which involve the following groups: 1. the emanating avatar and his relationship to the lord of the world, our planetary logos. 2. the lords of liberation, focussed in their high place, as they become conscious of the invocation of humanity and become more closely related to the three buddhas of activity. 3. the great council at shamballa and the planetary hierarchy. 4. the buddha and his arhats as they unitedly cooperate with the christ and his disciples, the masters of the wisdom. 5. the hierarchy, the embodiment of the fifth kingdom in nature, and its magnetic attractive rapport with the human kingdom, the fourth. 6. the effect of all these great groups of lives upon humanity, and the inherent consequences as they work out in the subhuman kingdoms. a study of the

g, but which is related to thought power and to thoughtform building. only initiates of the highest degree such as the three great lords have the right to invoke alone and unaccompanied by any protective agency, such as a group, and the reason for that is that they themselves are members of the council at shamballa and are individually registrants of the purpose. the annual appearance of the lord buddha is the outer demonstration or symbol of the emergence of this science of invocation and evocation in the waking consciousness of humanity. prayer is the dim, faint and inadequate expression of this; affirmation of divinity in order to gain material well-being is a distortion of this truth. this needs to be remembered. the true significance of this emerging science is that, in the early or f

nsion we are not told of the hearing of the affirmative sound. that will be heard when- 54- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust the christ completes his work at the time of the second coming. then the great seventh initiation, which is a dual one (love-wisdom in full manifestation motivated by power and will, will be consummated, and the buddha and the christ will together pass before the lord of the world, together see the glory of the lord, and together pass to higher service of a nature and calibre unknown to us. in this connection it is wise to remember that three great energies are focussed in shamballa, the seat of fire: 1. the energy of purification: this is the power, innate in the manifested universe, which gradually and

only when humanity and the hierarchy are working together in a practical synthesis, can the shamballa energy be permitted complete inflow through the medium of the two other centres- 58- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust to aid in this process of gradual perfecting and an eventual bringing about of a complete alignment, the help of the buddha must be invoked and accepted. the work of the christ as god-saviour can be carried forward by him alone and unaided. the work of the christ as god the preserver needs the united work, as yet, of the two highest representatives of the second divine aspect when present together upon the earth, as is the case today of both the buddha and the christ. this is the first cycle in the history of hu

en present together upon the earth, as is the case today of both the buddha and the christ. this is the first cycle in the history of humanity when this has been the case. one or the other has been present down the ages, but not the two simultaneously. the reason for this is that the time has now been reached when shamballa can be contacted and its energy evoked. hence we have the activity of the buddha at the may full moon and that of the christ at the following june full moon. their united activity serves to bring about a much closer approach between the lord of the world and the hierarchy, via his four representatives: the buddha, the christ, the manu, and the mahachohan the five points of energy which are creating the five-pointed star of humanity at this time. an ancient rule rule iv

ers nine years, from the full moon of june, 1936, to the full moon of june, 1945. this period, in reality, constitutes one event to him who lives now free in his own world and free from the limitations of time and space. having related humanity to the hierarchy (which in the case of individual man means relating the personality to the soul, he now seeks to relate more closely, with the aid of the buddha, the hierarchy to shamballa, love to will, electric fire to solar fire. 2. he "nourishes the lesser lives" this refers to the task of the christ which proceeds day by day, in his capacity of god the preserver. he "tends the little ones" the work here referred to concerns his activity as initiator and his responsibility as head of the hierarchy. the nourishing of the little lives refers prim

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

, and this i refuse to recognize. there is no department of life, no field of expression, no meeting of obligation, no use of the physical apparatus, in which the soul cannot fulfil the part of the dominating factor and all things be done truly to the glory of god. but the soul must control, and not the lower nature. people forget that some of the greatest of the world initiates married; that the buddha married and had a son, and must have been an initiate of high degree when he entered into the married state [50] they forget that moses, david the psalmist, and many of the outstanding figures in the world of mysticism in both hemispheres, were married and raised families. disciples belong to all races, both in the occident and in the orient, and the attitude of different races towards sex

ross cancer is one of the arms of the cardinal cross. one arm is aries, the sign of beginning, of commencement, of subjective life, of the prenatal stage, or involution, and of the first step, either towards form-taking, or towards spiritual liberation. a third arm of the cross is libra, the balance, the choosing between, the beginning of the treading of the "narrow razor-edged path, to which the buddha so frequently refers. capricorn, the fourth arm, again is birth, the birth of the world savior, birth into the spiritual kingdom, birth out of the world of matter into the world of being. involution, incarnation, expression, inspiration, are the four words that express the story of the cardinal cross in the heavens (the cross of the initiate) the stars there are no bright stars at all in ca

on of something he has to do. he sees humanity owned by a monster, a three-bodied man, the symbol of a human being with mental, emotional and physical bodies united. i think that this labor has not yet been completed; this accomplishment lies ahead. there have been other sons of men gathered out of the human family from time to time, one here one there, a group here and another there, as when the buddha was on earth and it is said that he saved nine hundred. now humanity, the human monster, is ready for salvation and the real work of the world savior can begin as a whole with the group concept underlying the work rather than individual soul saving. the symbolism of the red cattle is plainly that of the lower desires, desire being ever an outstanding characteristic of humanity. they are gua

elf to the discipline which will eventually bring about the emergence of his innate divinity. out of an erring but sincerely earnest human being, intelligently aware of the work to be done, a world savior is created, and we see in the last two labors how that work of saving was carried out. three great and dramatic stories have been told constantly to mankind down the ages: those of hercules, the buddha and the christ, each of them portraying one of the stages upon the path of divinity. in the story of hercules, we have portrayed for us the experiences of the path of discipleship and the early [209] stages of the path of initiation. in the case of the buddha, the story starts later than that of hercules and we see the buddha achieve final illumination, passing through initiations of which

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

agery; but the keynotes of a great spiritual divine concealed power, of its emanations in manifestation, of its energising of human life, of the prolonged existence of human souls, and of the temporary state of corporeal existence, are fundamental doctrines there fully illustrated; and these are the points of contact between the kabalah of the jew and the so-called esotericism of the teachings of buddha and of hinduism. it may be that the catholic church, from which the protestant church seceded, was from its origin in the possession of the hebrew rabbinic secret of the intentional exoteric nature of the bible, and of a priestly mode of understanding the esoteric kabalah, as a key to the true explanations of the jewish books, which being apparently histories are really largely allegorical

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

melodies wereanciently composed.the strange and mystical chapter how diana made the stars and the rain is the same given inmy legends of florence, vol. ii. p. 229, but much enlarged, or developed to a cosmogonic-mytholog-ic sketch. and here a reflection occurs which is perhaps the most remarkable which all this witchevangel suggests. in all other scriptures of all races, it is the male, jehovah, buddha, or brahma,who creates the universe; in witch sorcery it is the female who is the primitive principle. wheneverin history there is a period of radical intellectual rebellion against long-established conservatism,hierarchy, and the like, there is always an effort to regard woman as the fully equal, which meansthe superior sex. thus in the extraordinary war of conflicting elements, strange sc

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

mpletion of rituals or to prevent success on the path to enlightenment. they were opposed to the buddhist teachings in their past lives, are said to be black in color, and eat human flesh. the sanskrit word associated with them refers to the kind of behavior exhibited by the god m.ra, the personification of sa.s.ra, who attempted and ultimately failed to hinder the enlightenment of the historical buddha..kyamuni. 3. flesh-eating demons (tib. srin po; skt. r.k.asa: as with the obstacle demons, the most common attribute of flesh-eating demons is implied by their name. they are associated with the indian demons called r.k.asa, the most popular demons encountered in indian epics and lore. 4. serpent demons (tib. klu; skt. n.ga: these entities are serpentine deities who generally abide in lakes

india. they are considered to be composed or inspired by great bodhisattvas and in some instance..kin.s. richard payne notes that, despite the bibliographic origin of the word, tantra has become an abstract label synonymous with vajray.na buddhism overall, and thus we have the more familiar tantric buddhism.29 also, tantras are commonly contrasted with s.tras (mdo, the teachings of the historical buddha. s.tras are utilized in some lineages of tibetan buddhism as part of a combined approach to doctrinal studies. as both text classes refer to central buddhist teachings, payne likens s.tras to the warp (lengthwise thread) of a loom, with tantras being the woof (crosswise thread, and thus they string the central teachings of the s.tras together.30 since both words etymologically mean "thread"

nificant variations within the story. the chapter will conclude with a brief look at tsiu marpo s origins within textual history. where he began what follows is a short narrative account of tsiu marpo s beginnings. this summary is based on the translations provided in the appendices, but i have allowed for a degree of paraphrasing in order to enhance flow and continuity. a long time ago, when the buddha ka.yapa s teachings were in decline, sangwa (gsang ba, king of khotan, and his queen utpelgyen (utpal rgyan) had a son named chorwa( phyor ba. when he reached adulthood, chorwa became extremely religious and joined a monastery. his monastic name was candrabhadra. he later went to dwell within a forest in the kingdom of king dharma.r. one day, as chorwa was in the forest, the daughter of the

e ber, who was also a prince of khotan in a previous life. see the conclusion for a further analysis of this deity. 67 tibetans have a penchant for instilling the surrounding geography with multiple layers of sacrality. also, it is widely believed among tibetans that there are hidden lands within the tibetan geography accessible only to spiritually adept practitioners. these secret holy lands are buddha fields manifested on earth to advance the enlightenment of individuals. see dowman 1988; gyatso 1987; and huber 1999, pp. 39-57 for more on tibetan 36 tsiu marpo tells padmasambhava that his abode is a charnel ground in india as well as a specific cavern in tsang. indeed, though tsiu marpo first meets padmasambhava in india, he and his horsemen later welcome the spiritual master on his entr

try into tibet. this is significant for two reasons. first, it implies that tsiu marpo and his team are accessible everywhere, a notion that establishes the mythological foundation for ritual propitiation. second, tsiu marpo s dwelling in india ties him to the land highly revered in major tibetan histories and tantras; the supremacy of india is permanently glorified as the originating land of the buddha. although tsiu marpo is an indigenous tibetan deity with no known texts that tie him to india, this creative connection further authenticates him as a buddhist protector despite his low stature as a worldly deity. this is also evident in tsiu marpo s root tantra, which begins with the title in tibetan-transliterated sanskrit.68 a word should be said on the altering perceptions regarding ind

oot tantra, which begins with the title in tibetan-transliterated sanskrit.68 a word should be said on the altering perceptions regarding india and tibet. there is a consistent reverence for india within tibet; even so, a spiritual evolution has taken place in tibetan historiography. beginning from the period of the later transmission (eleventh century) onward, the land of tibet is perceived as a buddha land manifested out of the compassion of the bodhisattva avalokite.vara. matthew kapstein argues convincingly that this change was due to a dual process of buddhist conversion. during the height of imperial expansion in the yarlung dynasty, buddhism was incorporated for a number of political reasons to validate the empire as a center of the buddha s knowledge and power. after the dynasty fe

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

hast forbidden thy servants, the small rings, to catch thy light and heat, thy great bounty to intercept on its passage (b. send now to thy servant the same (c (a) the "lord of wisdom" is mercury, or budha (b) the modern commentary explains the words as a reference to a well-known astronomical fact "that mercury receives seven times more[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] law of buddha" as schlagintweit believes, but real living men, some superior to men by virtue of their occult knowledge, and the protectors of buddha's law, inasmuch as they interpret his metaphysical tenets correctly, others inferior morally as being black magicians. therefore it is truly declared that gautama buddha "is said to have taught them a more philosophical religious system than to men, who wer

ir comprehension, but it is not so used in the original stanzas, where they have distinct appellations of their own, besides being called "fathers" and "progenitors* it is erroneous to take literally the worship of the human bodhisattvas, or manjusri. it is true that, exoterically, the mahayana school teaches adoration of these without distinction, and that huien-tsang speaks of some disciples of buddha as being worshipped. but esoterically it is not the disciple or the learned manjusri personally that received honours, but the divine bodhisattvas and dhyani buddhas that animated (amilakha, as the mongolians say) the human forms* the author of this work is augustus le plongeon. he and his wife are well known in the united states for their untiring labours in central america. it is they who

. they fought the goat-men, and the dog-headed men, and the men with fishes' bodies (a) the "flames" are a hierarchy of spirits parallel to, if not identical with, the "burning" fiery saraph (seraphim) mentioned by isaiah (vi. 2-6, those who attend, according to hebrew theogony "the throne of the almighty" melha is the lord of the "flames" when he appears on earth, he assumes the personality of a buddha, says a popular legend. he is one of the most ancient and revered lhas, a buddhist st. michael (b) the word "below" must not be taken to mean infernal regions, but simply a spiritual, or rather ethereal, being of a lower grade, because nearer to the earth, or one step higher than our terrestrial sphere; while the lhas are spirits of the highest spheres- whence the name of the capital of tib

ansfer it to a piece of soil where the sunbeam cannot reach it, and the latter will not follow it. so with the atman: unless the higher self or ego gravitates towards its sun the monad- the lower ego, or personal self, will have the upper hand in every case. for it is this ego, with its fierce selfishness and animal desire to live a senseless life (tanha, which is "the maker of the tabernacle" as buddha calls it in dhammapada (153 and 154. hence the expression "the spirits of the earth clothed the shadows and expanded them" to these "spirits" belong temporarily the human astral selves; and it is they who give, or build, the physical tabernacle of man, for the monad and its conscious principle, manas, to dwell in. but the "solar" lhas, spirits, warm them, the shadows. this is physically and

rld, this heavenly being is credited with manifesting himself from age to age in human form. a popular legend has it that whenever faith begins to die out in the world, padmapani chenresi, the "lotus-bearer" emits a brilliant ray of light, and forthwith incarnates himself in one of the two great lamas- the dalai and teschu lamas; finally, it is believed that he will incarnate as "the most perfect buddha" in tibet, instead of in india, where his predecessors, the great rishis and manus had appeared in the beginning of our race, but now appear no longer. even the exoteric appearance of dhyani chenresi is suggestive of the esoteric teaching. he is evidently, like daksha, the synthesis of all the preceding races and the progenitor of all the human races after the third, the first complete one

purana" ix, xx, 31, as explained by sridhera, the commentator, makes ulupi the daughter of the king of manipura; but the late pundit dayanand saraswati, certainly the greatest sanskrit and puranic authority in india on such questions, personally corroborated that ulupi was daughter of the king of the nagas at patala, or america, 5000 years ago, and that the nagas were initiates[[vol. 2, page] 215 buddha's great mountain. of knowledge of good and evil. therefore, we find ophis urging the first human couple- the material production of ilda- baoth, but which owed its spiritual principle to sophia-achamoth- to eat of the forbidden fruit, although ophis represents divine wisdom. the serpent, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life, are all symbols transplanted from the soil

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l" old truisms are often the wisest. the human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all its aspects has been made. this is said with reference to the prevailing double mistake (a) of limiting theosophy to buddhism: and (b) of confounding the tenets of the religious philosophy preached by gautama, the buddha, with the doctrines broadly outlined in "esoteric buddhism" any thing more erroneous than this could be hardly imagined. it has enabled our enemies to find an effective weapon against theosophy; because, as an eminent pali scholar very pointedly expressed it, there was in the volume named "neither esotericism nor buddhism" the esoteric truths, presented in mr. sinnett's work, had ceased to

neous than this could be hardly imagined. it has enabled our enemies to find an effective weapon against theosophy; because, as an eminent pali scholar very pointedly expressed it, there was in the volume named "neither esotericism nor buddhism" the esoteric truths, presented in mr. sinnett's work, had ceased to be esoteric from the moment they were made public; nor did it contain the religion of buddha, but simply a few tenets from a hitherto hidden teaching which are now supplemented by many more, enlarged and explained in the present volumes. but even the latter, though giving out many fundamental tenets from the secret doctrine of the east, raise but a small corner of the dark veil. for no one, not even the greatest living adept, would be permitted to, or could- even if he would- give

to me as a completed volume, and that i was entirely unaware of the manner in which the author intended to spell the word "budh-ism" this has to be laid directly at the door of those who, having been the first to bring the subject under public notice, neglected to point out the difference between "buddhism- the religious system of ethics preached by the lord gautama, and named after his title of buddha "the enlightened- and budha "wisdom" or knowledge (vidya, the faculty of cognizing, from the sanskrit root "budh" to know. we theosophists of india are ourselves the real culprits, although, at the time, we did our best to correct the mistake (see theosophist, june, 1883) to avoid this deplorable misnomer was easy; the spelling of the word had only to be altered, and by common consent both

eatises, and now by all the mystic northern buddhists. it is a sanskrit term, and an appellation given by the earliest aryans to the unknown deity; the word "brahma" not being found in the vedas and the early works. it means the absolute wisdom, and "adi-bhuta" is translated "the primeval uncreated cause of all" by fitzedward hall. aeons of untold duration must have elapsed, before the epithet of buddha was so humanized, so to speak, as to allow of the term being applied to mortals and finally appropriated to one whose unparalleled virtues and knowledge caused him to receive the title of the "buddha of wisdom unmoved" bodha means the innate possession of divine intellect or "understanding "buddha" the acquirement of it by personal efforts and merit; while buddhi is the faculty of cognizing

in studying some of the socalled "esoteric" buddhist schools of antiquity in their modern garb, not only in china and other buddhist countries in general, but even in not a few schools in thibet, left to the care of uninitiated lamas and mongolian innovators. thus the reader is asked to bear in mind the very important difference between orthodox buddhism- i.e, the public teachings of gautama the buddha, and his esoteric budhism. his secret doctrine, however, differed in no wise from that of the initiated brahmins of his day. the buddha was a child of the aryan soil; a born hindu, a kshatrya and a disciple of the "twice born (the initiated brahmins) or dwijas. his teachings, therefore, could not be different from their doctrines, for the whole buddhist reform merely consisted in giving out

ould not be different from their doctrines, for the whole buddhist reform merely consisted in giving out a portion of that which had been kept secret from every man outside of the "enchanted" circle of temple- initiates and ascetics. unable to teach all that had been imparted to him- owing to his pledges- though he taught a philosophy built upon the ground-work of the true esoteric knowledge, the buddha gave to the world only its outward material body and kept its soul for his elect (see also volume ii) many chinese scholars among orientalists have heard of the "soul doctrine" none seem to have understood its real meaning and importance. that doctrine was preserved secretly- too secretly, perhaps- within the sanctuary. the mystery that shrouded its chief dogma and aspirations- nirvana- has

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-lore. morte d.arthur, by sir thomas malory. valuable as a storehouse of occidental magick-lore. the works of fran ois rabelais. invaluable for wisdom. the kasidah, by sir richard burton. valuable as a storehouse of philosophy. curriculum of a.a. 25 the song celestial, by sir edwin arnold. the bhagavad- gita in verse. the light of asia, by sir edwin arnold. an account of the attainment of gautama buddha. the rosicrucians, by hargrave jennings. valuable to those who can read between the lines. the real history of the rosicrucians, by arthur edward waite. a good piece of vulgar journalism on the subject. the works of arthur machen. most of these stories are of great magical interest. the writings of william o.neill (blake. invaluable to all students. the shaving of shagpat, by george meredit

tal love as a sacrament symbolical of that great death: as it is written .kill thyself: and again .die daily. and the second of these lesser modes is the practice of the mental apprehension and analysis of ideas, mainly as i have already taught you, but with especial empahsis in choice of the equinox 118 things naturally repulsive, in particular death itself, and its phenomena ancillary. thus the buddha bade his disciples to meditate upon ten impurities, that is, upon ten cases of death or decomposition, so that the aspirant, identifying himself with his own corpse in all these imagined forms, might lose the natural horror, loathing, fear or disgust which he might have had for them. know this, that every idea of every sort becomes unreal, phantastic, and most manifest illusion, if it be su

as parts of oneself, since one is equally willing to allow any other body to consider you as a part of their imagination only? it would seem that one tiny part.self.has been fondly cherished, while in reality that tiny part is but a reflex of the whole which is really you, but even this state must in the end give way before the power of nothing. april 16th, 8:30 a.m. finished reading the life of buddha, and then, lying down, composed myself for meditation. breathed regularly and deeply for a time, afterwards stopping all entries two or three times (shanmukhi mudra) presently i passed into a state which was practically desireless. i could feel the goal, but the wish to help others made it impossible to become the state i contemplated. after this, i was surprised, on letting all breath out

n which gives them enormous breasts, wasp waists, and atrophied legs, and places them in attitudes suggestive of a violent dislocation of the hipjoint. whether such figures were actually cultivated at the period, i do not know; but even if this could be proved, the sculptures could only be regarded as conventional exaggerations of an unhealthy fashion. reviews 299 .finally, and coming back to the buddha-figures in particular, what are we to say of the marvellous spirituality of expression often attributed to them? it is to me, i own, far from apparent. the drooped eyelids, and the immobile pose do, indeed, express the idea of contemplation; but i am at a loss to find anything spiritual in the smooth, insipid faces. pig-mindedness can hardly go further. and yet .in the indian epics, the poe

original stimulus which has driven you to the path, the .first noble truth. everything is now .good. this is why verse 53 says that these tears are the streams that irrigate the fields of charity immortal (tears, by the way. think) 53. these tears, o thou of heart most merciful, these are the streams that irrigate the fields of charity immortal .tis on such soil that grows the midnight blossom of buddha, more difficult to find, more rare to view than is the flowers of the vogay tree. it is the seed of freedom from rebirth. it isolates the arhat both from strife and lust, it leads him through the fields of being unto the peace and bliss known only in the land of silence and non-being. the .midnight blossom. is a phrase connected with the doctrine of the night of pan, familiar to masters of

be unified. and if the summit of its pyramid be the soul, the injunction in this verse 12 to the beginner will be properly observed. 13. shun ignorance, and likewise shun illusion. avert thy face from world deceptions; mistrust thy senses, they are false. but within thy body.the shrine of thy sensations. seek in the impersonal for the .eternal man; and having sought him out, look inward: thou art buddha .shun ignorance: keep on acquiring facts .shun illusion: refer every fact to the ultimate reality .interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of god with your soul. the equinox 40 .mistrust thy senses: avoid superficial judgment of the facts which they present to you. the last paragraph gives too succinct a statement of the facts. the attainment of the knowledge of the holy guardian

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00 bc (james: 1963..pg 77) 800- the iliad and the odyssey were recited by a blind poet named homer; hesiod: works and days, theogony; upanishads 751 rome was founded 740 o.t. book of isaiah. 628-551 zarathustra/zoroaster 600- taoism (or daoism) is established in china as a religion by the legendary lao-tzu 580- 530 pythagoras was initiated into the egyptian mysteries (disciple of anaximander) 560 buddha was born c. 550? bon was introduced to tibet when there occurred a mass migration of iranians from sogdhiana in north-east iran to the northern parts of tibet. they brought with them an ancient form of polytheistic mithraism and the araimic alphabet. 550- the celts invade the island of britain. 535 bc pythagoras sets up esoteric colony near crotona in southern italy where scholars learn abo

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ism emerged. at first, it was a philosophy that encouraged people to seek harmony with the tao, or the way, a nature force. later, it evolved into a religious system involving many gods, goddesses, spirits, ghosts, demons, magical powers, and the quest for immortality. 7 preface in a.d. 67 buddhism was introduced to china from india. it contributed two powerful religious and mythical figures: the buddha, a real, historical person who later became a divinity, and kuan yin, the goddess of mercy. it also introduced the concept of reincarnation, the idea that a person may be reborn into another life. myths might contain elements and characters from all of these sources, and for this book we have chosen stories that reflect their influences. many of the ancient myths are from the fabled era of

y through life. such a way of life is called wuwei, usually translated as non-action [o]ne should follow one s natural course and allow all other things to do likewise, lest our willful interference disrupt things proper flow.5 monkey 107 10 the pilgrimage introduction the buddhist religion was first introduced to china from india in a.d. 67. its founder was siddhartha gautama, later known as the buddha. he taught that suffering was caused by greed, which can be overcome by thinking quietly (meditating. when a person dies, he or she will be reborn into another life (reincarnation. this cycle of rebirth can only be broken when a person has lived an exceptionally good life and has given up the natural human bonds and attachments to material existence. the novel journey to the west was based

ers. in this chapter, monkey converts to buddhism, but he continues to use the knowledge gained from his taoist training to combat evil. 109 after monkey outlasted the axes, sticks, swords, and lances of the gods, he boldly announced his plan to depose the jade emperor, the ruler of heaven. the gods and goddesses gasped at his audacity and whispered among themselves in shocked tones. finally, the buddha stepped in. all the gods in heaven listened respectfully as he commanded the deities to stop fighting with monkey. then the buddha asked monkey why he wanted to replace the jade emperor. monkey replied that his own clever magic spells and fighting ability made him superior to anyone in heaven, including the jade emperor. monkey bragged about how he could transform himself into seventy-two t

d to replace the jade emperor. monkey replied that his own clever magic spells and fighting ability made him superior to anyone in heaven, including the jade emperor. monkey bragged about how he could transform himself into seventy-two types of animals, plants, and rocks. he boasted that his somersaults could take him through the clouds a hundred and eight thousand li to the end of the world. the buddha issued monkey a simple challenge. jump across my palm and heaven is yours, the buddha said. monkey smiled when he saw that the buddha s hand was no more than eight inches across from fingertip to wrist. then monkey took in a mighty breath and hurled himself through the air. when he landed, he saw nothing but five pillars holding up the world. certain that he had 110 the pilgrimage somersaul

yours, the buddha said. monkey smiled when he saw that the buddha s hand was no more than eight inches across from fingertip to wrist. then monkey took in a mighty breath and hurled himself through the air. when he landed, he saw nothing but five pillars holding up the world. certain that he had 110 the pilgrimage somersaulted to the ends of the earth, monkey laughed at how easily he had met the buddha s challenge. just to mark his spot, he took out a hair from his head and transformed it into a brush. with his finest calligraphy, he wrote monkey, the great sage, reached this place. then he somersaulted with great joy back to the palace, eager to claim the throne. the buddha smiled and showed monkey the palm of his hand. there next to the middle finger were the miniature words monkey, the

, he wrote monkey, the great sage, reached this place. then he somersaulted with great joy back to the palace, eager to claim the throne. the buddha smiled and showed monkey the palm of his hand. there next to the middle finger were the miniature words monkey, the great sage, reached this place. monkey realized that he had not reached the end of the world, but had merely jumped halfway across the buddha s hand. the buddha grabbed monkey and sealed him inside a stone box high on a mountaintop. he left monkey there, inside his stone box, for five hundred years. kuan yin s task meanwhile, china was full of greedy, mean, and quarrelsome people. only a few had adopted the buddha's teachings. the buddha thought these teachings would encourage the people to behave more compassionately. however, h

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r the laws of numerology and the vibrations they represent, and for other historical reasons, too. it means transformation, new birth, a new order. hence you find jesus and twelve disciples and the grand master himmler and twelve other 'knights' in the grand council of the ss. it is the same knowledge, used with different intent. osiris, the god of egypt, had twelve followers according to legend, buddha had twelve disciples, as did the aztec god, quetzalcoatl. there are the twelve knights of king arthur's round table, twelve sons of jacob, twelve princes of ishmael, twelve tribes of israel, twelve signs of the zodiac. the bilderberg group steering committee has 39 members (13+ 13+ 13) and it chooses its locations on esoteric principles.15 it is the same with the global institutions. geneva

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n, as i pointed out in my book, i am me, i am free, they are opposames. the vision of reality and possibility within the pen is so limited that it contains no opposites. so the elite have to create the perception of them to manufacture the divisions that allow them to divide and rule. i mean, what is the difference between a christian bishop, jewish rabbi, muslim or hindu priest, or a follower of buddha, imposing their beliefs on their children and others? there is none because while the belief they seek to indoctrinate may be slightly different, often very slightly, the overall theme is exactly the same- the imposition of one person's belief on another. look at the opposames in politics. the far left, as symbolised by josef stalin in russia, introduced centralised control, military dictat

ant serpent.11 thus we have pharaohs of the serpent line called djer, djoser, and djederfra. in india, the buddhist text, the mahauyutpatti, lists 80 kings who descended from the nagas or "serpent kings. hindu legend says that the nagas could take a human or reptilian form at will. this is what is called "shape-shifting. across india the rulers claimed power because they descended from the nagas. buddha is claimed to have been of the royal line of the nagas, but then anyone said to be of a royal line in india would have to be so. it was the nagas who established what is now kashmir and again the ruling bloodlines descended from them. the chinese emperors were the same. they were known as lung or dragons and many of the earliest emperors were depicted with reptilian features, very much like

d the same story in the indian vedas attributed to indra, their name for thor-indara, who was said to have battled with budhnya or "the bottom. budhnya was known as "the great serpent of the bottom or deep."29 this was the puthon or python of the greeks, says waddell. budhnya and wodan are the same character. in india, wednesday or "wodens-day" is known as budh!30 interesting how close that is to buddha, and, according to waddell, buddha is a derivative of woden and buddha claimed to have had several "former births" as a serpent. the indian brahmans adopted the moon and serpent cult. so too, according to waddell, did the "semitic priests of the nile valley".31 he says that they replaced the original sun worship of asar or osiris and deliberately introduced the serpent and sacrificial cult

f th matrix showing that the christian religion is but a modification of oriental sun worship, attributed to zoroaster. the christians read the same letters 'ihs' in the greek text as 'jes' and the roman christian priesthood added the terminus 'us" here are some of the other pre-christian deities of whom the "jesus" story was told: apollo, hercules, and zeus of greece; adad and marduk of assyria; buddha sakia and indra of india and tibet; salivahana of southern india and bermuda; osiris and horus of egypt; odin, balder, and frey of scandinavia; crite of chaldea; zoroaster of persia; baal (bel) and taut of phoenicia; bali of afghanistan; jao of nepal; wittoba of bilingonese; xamolxis of thrace; zoar of the bonzes; chu chulainn of ireland; deva tat, codom, and sammonocadam of siam; alcides o

uts off the head of aquarius!"28 the reference to the "man carrying the water pitcher" in luke's gospel is more aquarius symbolism. john the baptist was an almost exact copy of bala-rama, the forerunner of krishna, the hindu son of god. 212 children of the matrix jesus and the 12 disciples is there a universal law that all deities must have 12 disciples or followers? jesus had them, so did horus, buddha, king arthur, mithra, dionysus, and so many other symbols of the sun. we also have the 12 sons of jacob, 12 tribes of israel, the 12 gods of the greeks, egyptians, and persians. this fixation with 12 derives once again from sun symbolism with their disciples and followers representing the months of the year and the signs of the zodiac. the romans openly symbolised the sun as a living man an

bewildered by the fact that the religion was "christian" in virtually every aspect except one: they did not worship jesus and had never heard of him. the "thomas" they were worshipping was tammuz, the hero of the "jesus" story for thousands of years before christianity. signs of tammuz/thomas worship have been found in india where, acharya tells us, he was apparently considered a reincarnation of buddha! the villain of the jesus story is judas, who represents scorpio, the "backbiter, the time of year when the sun is weakening and appears to be dying. he was portrayed with red hair- the colour of sunset- and so was the egyptian figure, set, who sought to kill horus. judas is supposed to have betrayed jesus for 30 pieces of silver. this represents the 30 days of the moon cycle and it was the

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sakka retreated south into india through the mountain passes from afghanistan, andcoins dating from about 100 bc confirm that a sakka kingdom was created in the upperindus valleys between kashmir and afghanistan. again it is not a coincidence that thereligion of buddhism emerged from lands occupied by the sakka (aryan scythians. atleast by 500 bc a tribe called the sakyas lived in the area where buddha is supposed to62have been born around 63 years earlier. guatma (lord buddha) was called sakyashina,sakamuni, the sakya sage, sakya the teacher and the lion of the tribe of sakya. all thiswill become highly significant when we look at the single origin of all the major, andmost minor, religions and their heroes. the scythian/sakka and the cimmerians/cimbri were in fact all the same people an

ork written in accordance with aryan sun myths. also, these phoenicians and aryansworshipped the serpent and the shape-shifting reptilians called the nagas were the serpentgods of the hindus. the v edas, inspired by the aryans, tell how the serpent-humans, thenagas, could cause fantastic damage and instant death. the nagas were also said to haveappeared at the birth of the man who became known as buddha and the serpent plays a partin the legend of khrishna. the roman name for barati was fortune after her legend as thegoddess of fortune. they depicted fortune in the same way as the phoenicians symbolisedfigure 12: the phoenician depiction of barati (right) and the britishsymbol of britannia. they are the same deity and alternative namesfor queen semiramis in babylon and isis in egypt. 69bar

y. the number 12 is a code, among other things, for the 12 months of the year and thehouses of the zodiac through which symbolically travels the sun, the god, symbolised as13. this is the sacred 12 and one as some people describe it and it is one major reason whythe numbers 12 and 13 keep recurring. thus you have the 12 tribes of israel, 12 princes of83ishmael, 12 disciples or followers of jesus, buddha, osiris and quetzalcoatl. there isalso king arthur and his 12 knights of the round table (the zodiac circle, himmlerand his 12 knights in the nazi ss, and the woman (isis, semiramis) with a crown of 12stars in the book of revelation. in scandinavia and that whole northern region you findthe odin mysteries, again inspired by the same aryan race from the near east. in thistradition, you find

forgiven, take your pick from the ancientworld because there are a stream of them, all originating with the aryan and reptile-aryanrace that came out of the near east and the caucasus mountains. here are just some of theson of god heroes who play the lead role in stories which mirror those attributed to jesusand almost all were worshipped long before jesus was even heard of:khrishna of hindostan; buddha sakia of india; salivahana of bermuda; osiris and horusof egypt; odin of scandinavia; crite of chaldea; zoroaster of persia; baal and taut ofphoenicia; indra of tibet; bali of afghanistan; jao of nepal; wittoba of bilingonese;tammuz of syria and babylon; attis of phrygia; xamolxis of thrace; zoar of thebonzes; adad of assyria; deva tat and sammonocadam of siam; alcides of thebes;mikado of t

emple. horuswas the child teacher in the temple. jesus had 12 disciples. horus had 12 followers.jesus was the morning star. horus was the morning star. jesus was the christ. horuswas the krst. jesus was tempted on a mountain by satan. horus was tempted on amountain by set.23jesus is said to be the judge of the dead. he has some competition there. this wasalso said of the earlier nimrod, khrishna, buddha, ormuzd, osiris, aeacus and others.jesus is the alpha and omega, the first and the last. so was khrishna, buddha, lao-kiun, bacchus, zeus and others. jesus is claimed to have performed miracles such ashealing the sick and raising people from the dead. so did khrishna, buddha, zoroaster,bochia, horus, osiris, serapis, marduk, bacchus, hermes and others. jesus was bornof royal blood. so was b

a, buddha, lao-kiun, bacchus, zeus and others. jesus is claimed to have performed miracles such ashealing the sick and raising people from the dead. so did khrishna, buddha, zoroaster,bochia, horus, osiris, serapis, marduk, bacchus, hermes and others. jesus was bornof royal blood. so was buddha, rama, fo-hi, horus, hercules, bacchus, perseus andothers. jesus was born to a virgin. so was khrishna, buddha, lao-kiun or tsze,confusius, horus, ra, zoroaster, prometheus, perseus, apollo, mercury, baldur,quetzalcoatl and far too many others to mention. jesus will, we are told, be bornagain. the sky is going to be rather crowded because khrishna, vishnu, buddha,quetzalcoatl and others, will also be there. the star at the birth ofjesus is another multideity story and goes back at least to thebabylo

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e same goals and results. b'riah: pronounced "b'ree-yah, it is the second of the four kabalistic worlds in descending order. it means world of creation. brujeria: although based on voodoo (q.v, brujeria has a distinctly hispanic-american flavor, being the spiritual/magickal system of the barrio. buddhism: a religion and philosophy of life based on the teachings and example gautama siddhartha, the buddha. siddhartha was an indian prince who followed the teachings of hinduism, and lived during the sixth (6th) century before christ or before the common era. buddha is a title of accomplishment and of respect, and means "enlightened one" buddhism teaches freedom from attachment to worldly things by getting rid of suffering caused by one's desires- c- calls (keys, enochian: invocations (q.v) to

) energy. tantra of the "left hand" advocates sexual practices that have been traditionally condemned by ascetic christian and buddhist priests, yet their ultimate goal is an exalted one- no less than the union of shiva and shakti vessels of human flesh for the purpose of transcendent enlightenment. taoism: tao means "way" the teachings of the chinese philosopher and mystic lao-tse, who, like the buddha, lived in the 6th century b.c. the tao cannot be defined. it may be inadequately described as the undivided, unknowable spiritual source that generated and continues to vitalize all manifest things. in occultism, it may be likened to mana (q.v. tarot: a mystical set of cards having an uncertain origin. although these cards, covered with images, are most commonly used for divination, they ha

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as being born of the sea-foam, and the virgin mary is called by catholics stella mans, star of the sea. the word marab, which is the root of mary, also means bitter, and the spiritual experience attributed to binah is the vision of sorrow. a vision which calls to ruind the picture of the virgin weeping at the foot of the cross, her heart pierced by seven swords. we also recall the teaching of the buddha that life is sorrow. the idea of subjection to sorrow and death is implicit in the idea of the descent of life to the planes of form. 44. the yetziratic text of malkuth, already referred to, speaks of the throne of binab. one of the titles given to the third sephirab is khorsia, the throne; and the angels assigned to this sephirah are called the aralim, which also means thrones. now a thron

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men" says the old arab proverb. we should have enough sympathy with the struggles of another soul towards the light not to desecrate the things that are sanctified by his hopes and endeavours, even if by nothing else. the father of us all may understand their significance better than we do, and by his acceptance consecrate them for ever. there are many europeans who have a great affection for the buddha, and have his statue in their rooms (though sometimes they confuse it with chenresi, the stout and beaming god of good-luck. that the influence of that great 34 of 103 being, the light of asia, is noble and benignant, i would be the last to deny; but the statues of the buddha are a different matter, and need to be approached with caution if genuine. some of the worst black magic in the worl

to be approached with caution if genuine. some of the worst black magic in the world is a debased form of buddhism. to say this is not to insult that venerable faith, for it is only lack of opportunity that prevents the black mass from occupying that dubious eminence. in the thibetan monasteries of the dugpa sect there are temples each one of which contained literally thousands of statues of the buddha. on various occasions one or another of these monasteries has been raided, either by rival religionists or chinese troops, and its curios scattered. to be the possessor of one of these buddhas, magnetised by dugpa rites, is not a very pleasant thing. i had a curious experience with a buddha upon one occasion. it was an archaic soap-stone statuette, some nine inches high, and its owner had d

rious experience with a buddha upon one occasion. it was an archaic soap-stone statuette, some nine inches high, and its owner had dug it up herself on the site of a burmese city that had fallen in ruin and been swallowed by the jungle. it was placed on the floor in an angle of the stairs, and served as a doorstop upon occasion. i had a flat on the top floor, and had to pass the melancholy little buddha each time i came in or went out, and to me it seemed a desecration to see the sacred symbol of another faith treated thus. i tried to point this out to her, and asked her how she would feel if she saw a crucifix thus utilised, but without result. meanwhile the little buddha sat there patiently, getting the carpet-sweeper pushed in his face and receiving libations of slops. one day, passing

eper pushed in his face and receiving libations of slops. one day, passing upstairs bearing a bunch of flowers, i was prompted to throw before him one of the traditional marigolds of indian devotion. immediately i was conscious that a link had been formed between myself and the little statue, and that it was sinister. a night or two afterwards i was returning home rather late, and as i passed the buddha i had a feeling that there was something behind me, and looking over my shoulder, saw a ball of pale golden light about the size of a football separate itself from the buddha and come rolling up the stairs after me. thoroughly alarmed, and disliking this manifestation very much indeed, i immediately made a banishing gesture and the ball of light returned down the stairs and was reabsorbed i

had a feeling that there was something behind me, and looking over my shoulder, saw a ball of pale golden light about the size of a football separate itself from the buddha and come rolling up the stairs after me. thoroughly alarmed, and disliking this manifestation very much indeed, i immediately made a banishing gesture and the ball of light returned down the stairs and was reabsorbed into the buddha, who, needless to say, got no more marigolds from me, and received a very wide berth until i left the flat shortly after. the experience was a singularly unpleasant one, and was a sharp lesson to me not to meddle with the sacred objects of another system unless i knew exactly what i was about. i learnt subsequently that some of these statues are consecrated with the blood of a human sacrifi

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errestrials. spaceships position themselves above the earth at special times of the year, considered the best moments for transmitting the energies from outer space. king authored a series of books spelling out the theology and practices of what emerged as a new occult religion. king claimed that he received a mystical consecration on july 23, 1958, from the master jesus for his mission; the lord buddha added his consecration on december 5, 1978. the society continues and has headquarters in both london and california, where it owns a complex of buildings. it may be contacted at 757 fulham road, london, sw6 5uu, england and 6202 afton place, los angeles, ca 90028. website: http/ www.aetherius.org. advanced spiritual church healing center encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1

, he suffered much ill-health as a child. his father died when he was 14, and he had to earn his living and help support his mother. he worked hard at various jobs and studied poetry, drama, philosophy, and religion in his spare time. at the age of 24, he experienced what he described as the cosmic vision after reading sir edwin arnold s light of asia (1879, a famous poem based on the teaching of buddha. this transient illumination returned in a more permanent form ten years later and led to the writing of his first book, from poverty to power (1901, which went into seven editions. after the success of this book, allen found it possible to live by his writings. with his wife, lily, he moved to ilfracombe, devon. allen was not ambitious, avoided publicity, and lived simply on a modest incom

the closing of the woodhull center and the creation of two new centers: the zen center of washington (1977, which primarily serves koreans living in the washington, d.c. area, and the seneca lake zen center (1978) at 16815 germantown rd, route 18, germantown, maryland 20767. the name american zen college was adopted as an inclusive designation in the early 1980s. the college publishes the journal buddha world. sources: shin, gosung. zen teachings of emptiness. washington, d.c: american zen college press, 1982. amethyst gemstone believed to have occult properties, described by sixteenth-century writer camillus leonardus as reckoned among the purple and transparent stones, mixed with a violet colour, emitting rosy sparkles. the indian variety is the most precious. when made into drinking cup

rs of the school gather on the evening of the full moon to meditate and transmit energy. on three full moon dates the great festivals easter, wesak, and goodwill take place. the festival of easter does not follow either of the christian calendars, but is celebrated on the full moon in april as the time of the most active forces for the restoration of the christ. in may, wesak is the time when the buddha s forces are available. in june, at the full moon, the forces of reconstruction are active. foster succeeded his wife as head of the school following her death in 1949. their daughter mary bailey succeeded to the leadership after foster s death in 1977. the school publishes several periodicals, including the beacon and the world goodwill newsletter. international headquarters are located cl

, who recovered areas of the universe from demons (6) parasu-rama (rama with the axe, who delivered brahmins from dominion by the warrior caste during the second age of the world (7) rama, hero of the religious epic ramayana, who opposed the demon ravana (8) krishna popular incarnation chronicled in the religious epic mahabharata (especially in the bhagavad-gita section) and srimad bhagavatam (9) buddha, the great religious teacher; and (10) kalki, an incarnation yet to come, who is prophesied to appear on a white horse with a sword blazing like a comet, to destroy the wicked, stabilize creation and restore purity to the world. in other religious works, as many as 22 incarnations are listed, including various great saints and sages. according to hindu belief, a perfected human soul has no

. boston: shambhala, 1985. dayal, har. the bodhisattva doctrine in buddhist sanskrit literature. delhi, india: motilal banarsidass, 1970. bodhi tree book review the bodhi tree book review is a publication of the bodhi tree, possibly the most well-known bookstore in the united states specializing in new age and alternative spirituality literature. the bodhi tree, named for the tree under which the buddha found enlightenment, opened in 1970 in los angeles, california. through the 1980s it became known for its extensive inventory as the place to locate obscure publications, especially those from small publishing houses and the many spiritual and new age organizations. at the beginning of the 1990s, the store launched its book review magazine as a service to its patrons to assist them in locat

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s a hysteric reaction to a very mundane occurrence. many government officials saw it as a move by political conservatives to spread hindu nationalism. an archive of e-mail messages and wire service reports has been preserved by the australian government s distributed services technology centre in bribane on an internet file, genesha is drinking milk! at http//archive.dstc.edu.au/ tu/staff/timbomb/buddha/ganesha.html. sources: genesha is drinking milk. http//archive.dstc.edu.au/tu/ staff/timbomb/buddha/ganesha.html. march 4, 2000. miller, charles victor (d. 1943) materialization medium of san francisco, born in nancy, france. by profession he was a dealer in old pictures and japanese art. author willie reichel claimed to have witnessed many of miller s performances. for example, miller did

iosyncratic teacher-healer-philosopher, originator of a very individual system of yoga. oki was born in korea in 1921, and brought up in a strictly religious environment. his early education familiarized him with martial arts and zen. he was influenced by the politician ottama daisojo, who played an important part in the history of burma (now myanmar. oki asked him about such great individuals as buddha, christ, and muhammed, and their spiritual eminence. daisojo explained that all three practiced something called yoga, which he would understand through later experience. at the time oki was only eight years old. as a young man, he studied at a military academy and also took a brief course in medicine before becoming a soldier. he became a spy for the korean government in 1939, after japan

mmit of the mountain is said to be the workmanship of adam. it has the appearance of having been placed there at a very distant period, but who really placed it there, or for what purpose, it is impossible to discover. however, long before percival travelled to sri lanka, this apparently oversize footprint had been venerated equally by buddhists and hindus, who ascribe it respectively to gautama, buddha, or the god siva. some believed eden represented the whole earth, which was of surprising beauty and fertility before the fall. a curious notion prevailed to a great extent among the various nations that the old world was under a curse and the earth became very barren. this view is reflected in the apostle paul s letter to the romans (8:22) where he refers to the whole of creation groaning

periments may be exhausting and affect mental process in an unstable individual, they can throw light on personality disorders and apparent paranormal experiences. an apparatus called the witches cradle, devised by robert e. l. masters and jean houston of the foundation for mind research, has been developed to study heightened sensory deprivation. sources: hooper, judith, and dick teresi. would a buddha wear a walkman? new york: simon& schuster, 1990. solomon, p, and others eds. sensory deprivation. cambridge, mass: harvard university, 1961. sensitive encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1386 zubeck, john p, ed. sensory deprivation: fifteen years of research. appleton-century-crofts, 1969. sepharial pseudonym of british astrologer and occult author walter gorn old (1864.1929

oscopes. he flashed lights at mental patients and saw some immediate breakthroughs in their health. the strobes work by a process called entrainment, in which the brain tends to align itself with the frequency of the flashing light. a beam flashed at the right frequency can induce a more relaxed state and cause the brain to change its frequency. sources: hooper, judith, and dick teresi. would the buddha wear a walkman? new york: simon and schuster, 1990. stroking stones and images cotton mather (1662.1728) wrote that an irish american witch produced pain and disease in others by merely wetting her finger with saliva and stroking small images, or sometimes a long, slender stone. stromberg, gustaf (benjamin (1882.1962) astronomer, lecturer, and author of books on parapsychological subjects

t, most details of his life are legendary. some sources claim lao tzu was said born of poor parents in tau (honan) under the emperor ting of the kau dynasty (ca. 605 b.c.e. others believe he was a philosopher who became disgusted with the world and became a pessimist, later resigning his position in the record department and retiring to a monastery. he also allegedly met and was taught by gautama buddha, and held discussions with confucius. the name, lao tzu (meaning old master, may not be an actual persons name but a pseudonym for the philosophers and teachers who developed taoism as it is known today. lao tzu s book tao-te-ching was regarded as a sacred work in north and central china, but was burned with other writings in 220 b.c.e. it reappeared under the han dynasty and was reinforced

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awareness communications, which had the strongest links to the earliest group, emerged the strongest. based in olympia, washington, it survives today and maintains a sometimes controversial presence on the new age scene. its head, paul shockley, continues to channel teachings from awareness. his organization characterizes awareness as the force that expressed itself through jesus of nazareth, the buddha, krishna, mohammed and other great avatars who served as channels for what is commonly known as god, and which expresses itself once again as the world begins to enter the new age of spiritual consciousness and awareness( cosmic awareness communications, 1994. awareness teaches that the united states of america came into being through intervention with the founding fathers. the motive was t

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

(sixteenth century ce, ramakrishna (1836- 1886, shirdi sai baba (d.1918) and satya sai baba (1925- present. they assign such status as well as to incarnations of the divine mother i.e. the goddess, such as saradamani devi (1853- 1920, anandamayi ma (1896-1982, amritanandamayi ma (1953-present, known widely as ammachi, and others. buddhism provides detailed descriptions of the incarnations of the buddha, and of the one to come called maitreya. the sage lao tze, to whom is ascribed the tao-te ching, was the revered divine incarnation who sired the development of taoism. and zoroaster' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% was the messianic wellspring who transmitted the zend avesta and originated the tradition passed down through the farsis. in studying the lives of these many diverse messiahs, one notices the

usness of vast face as shiva, and the energy of that consciousness as% e2 2 e" 2' 8: h f e 2 his consort the goddess kali. the vedantic philosophy of advaita (non-duality) regards all name and form as illusory, and that brahman (i.e. the ayn) alone exists. theravada, hinayana, tendai, shingon, tibetan, ch an, and zen buddhists perform variations of vast face meditation practices taught by gautama buddha (regarded as the eighth incarnation of vishnu by hindus) and other bodhisattvas (souls who reach enlightenment but remain incarnate to teach and help others awaken. the buddha practiced jnana yoga (lit. union through direct perception of the ayn) and taught ashtanga yoga (lit. eight-limbed yoga of concentration and discrimination. he sat under the bodhi tree, renouncing all experiences on a

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e in the material world and the branches of which reach up to asgard, the happy dwelling of the gods. again, amongst the akkadians, chaldeans, and babylonians we find the world tree, or tree of life, which gstood mid-way between the deep and zikum h- the primordial heaven above. in hindu mythology there is also a world tree- the lingam-and in buddhist the bodhi tree, or tree of wisdom under which buddha sat in meditation. finally, that masterpiece of gothic architecture the cathedral probably finds its origin in the tree-trunks and overhanging branches of the forest glade. the four worlds thus far the sephirotic scheme may be considered as simple, but in its extended form it grows complex; for not only is the tree of life divided into three planes which become four in malkuth, but it is pr

eless there is yet another mood, for from time to time in the world's history something happens: a man appears, be he prince or pauper, who throws the masses into such a state of religious fervour that all reason and with it all doubt is obliterated and a spiritual condition is produced which closely resembles physical drunkenness. such men were orpheus, oedipus, osiris, zoroaster, krishna, odin, buddha, christ, mahomet, and a host of lesser names, mythological and historical, many of which have passed into oblivion. for a time these men have lifted the multitudes out of nature, endowing them with a spiritual instinct, a ketheric nephesh, more powerful than all their natural instincts combined. self-preservation, self-sacrifice, self-assertion, pugnacity, love, hate, fear, greed, and all t

n anarchy. not one of the great historical religious masters was a true messiah; because no man, however sublime may be his nature, can redeem mankind. there is no short cut to heaven, for mankind will find deliverance only when it creates the power which can deliver it; and when it does so, then spontaneously will the messianic age be born. of all these masters, probably the sublimest was gotama buddha, because he refused to discuss the soul, the nature of god, and the joys of heaven. he said: think rightly, act rightly, live rightly, and deliverance will be revealed to you. he did not say: accept my thoughts, my words, my life, and salvation is yours. he spoke in parables and locked up the mysteries in his heart; for he understood the sublimity of the true logos-the unspoken word. secret

osophy, etc. we must jettison the symbolic language of the masters, and, having swept clean our minds of the dogmas, rituals, and canons of the churches, we must diligently search for that secret process whereby a helot can be transformed into a hierophant, not magically but spiritually. this indeed is the one and hidden problem of divine alchemy. we will first examine three masters known to all- buddha, christ, and mahomet. what is there common in their lives? the first was born a prince; the second was the son of a carpenter- or the son of god if the orthodox object to so humble a parentage; the third was a camel-driver. as different as their origins and worldly occupations were their intellects and characters, and again as different were the religions which they founded. yet we find one

racters, and again as different were the religions which they founded. yet we find one thing in common in the lives of these three men, a blank, a state which we will call gthe great omission h. there is a period in the lives of each of these masters concerning which nothing is known; for a time each one of them vanished from the world, from public life, and fructified his soul. for several years buddha sat under the bodhi tree, the tree of wisdom, meditating on the sorrows of mankind, and there he was transfused with so stupendous a magnetic power that even today his followers number one hundred and fifty millions. christ, brought up in poverty, from the age of twelve to thirty disappeared from the world, and during this long period no single mention is made of him. then through baptism a

all the same. 19 on the tablet of cebes may be read these words: there is only one real road to be desired, and this is wisdom; there is but one evil to fear, and it is madness. in these few words are summed up the rewards and the penalties of the mystic way. to attain to the light, the ineffable lvx, is the act of a magus; to expend this power is the act of a magician. if held erect, as held by buddha, so that the uninitiated can see only its reflection, then magic is white. to hold it downwards so that the light burns among them, then magic is black. the first attitude is symbolized by the trident of neptune, the ruler of the unstable waters; the second by the threepronged fork of the medieval devil, by which souls are cast into hell. the united trident and fork are symbolized in the do

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holy shrines, is regarded as a peculiarly sacred object. when entwining the palm, which is male, it is always female; from their embrace kalpia, or passion, is developed. this union causes the continuation of existence and the "revolutions of time" the whole constitutes the tree of life. in ceylon, there stands at the present time a tree which we are told is still worshipped by every follower of buddha. it is a sacred bo, or ficus religiosa, which stands adjacent to an ancient holy shrine known as the brazen monastery, now in ruins. of this tree forlong remarks "though now amidst ruins and wild forests, and although having stood thus in solitary desolation for some 1500 years, yet there it still grows, and is worshipped and deeply revered by more millions of our race than any other god, p

or idol, which the world has ever seen"[7 [7] rivers of life, vol. i, p. 35. this tree is sacred to sakyu mooni, is 2200 years old, and is said to be a slip from a tree planted by bood gaya, one of the three former buddhas who, like sakyu mooni, visited ceylon. under the parent of this tree the great prophet reposed after he had attained perfect rest, or after he had overcome the flesh and become buddha. it was under a bo tree that mai, queen of heaven, brought him forth, and, in fact, very many of the most important incidents of his life are closely connected with this sacred emblem. in an allusion to the bo tree of ceylon, a slip of which is said to have been carried from india to that island by a certain priestess in the year 307 b.c, forlong observes "this wonderful idol has furnished

of the sphere while she represented nature was also the constellation which appeared above the horizon at the winter solstice, or at the time when the sun had reached its lowest point and had begun to return. at this time, the 25th of december, and just as the days began to lengthen, this virgin gave birth to the sun-god. it is said that he issued forth from her side, hence the legend that gotama buddha was produced from the side of maya, and also the story believed by the gnostics and other christian sects that jesus was taken from the side of mary.[31 [31] the fact will doubtless be remembered that a similar belief was entertained concerning the birth of julius caesar. within the churches and in the streets of many cities of germany are to be observed figures of this traditional virgin

church dedicated to a black goddess. the virgin of the sphere who treads on the head of the serpent represents universal womanhood. she is the virgin of the first book of genesis and mother of all the earth. she represents not only creative power but perceptive wisdom. although this goddess is usually seen with the lotus in her hand, she sometimes carries ripe corn or wheat. the mother of gotama buddha was called mai or maya, after the month in which the earth is arrayed in her most beautiful attire. maya is the parent of universal nature. according to davis, the mother of mercury "is the universal genius of nature which discriminated all things according to their various kinds of species" the same as was muth of egypt. mai is said to mean "one who begins to illuminate" she was in fact th

ogeny of time, the most exalted of the deities, the first of the heavenly gods and goddesses, whose single deity the whole world venerates in many forms, with various rites and various names. the egyptians worship me with proper ceremonies and call me by my true name, queen isis" isis, we are told, is called myrionymus, or goddess with 10,000 names. she is the persian mithra, which is the same as buddha, minerva, venus, and all the rest. faber admits that the female principle was formerly regarded as the soul of the world. he says "isis was the same as neith or minerva; hence the inscription at sais was likewise applied to that goddess. athenagoras informs us that neith or the athene of the greeks was supposed to be wisdom passing and diffusing itself through all things. hence it is manife

h his three sons at the end of each cycle, or six hundred years, to renovate the world. in the six hundred and first year of noah's life, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. the drying of the waters, and the beginning anew just at the close of the six hundred years, are thought to refer to the end of the cycle of the neros. a year of menu or buddha had expired and a new dynasty or mamwantara was to begin. regarding this trinity, faber remarks "brahm then at the head of the indian triad is menu at the head of his three sons. but that by the first menu we are to understand adam, is evident, both from the remarkable circumstance of himself and his consort bearing the titles of adima and iva, and from the no less remarkable tradition that

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ne ofusbecoming equally potent. we live in times which render proficiency in such powers more difficult, we are in ourselves more removed from the typically natural man; our rational development of the intellect has been at the expense of our spiritual being, if not also of our rational strength. we ourselves have for generations been less pure in animal life than the predecessors of a jesus or a buddha whose lives were spent in a more barbaric and less enervating village or nomad existence. yet there are modern rosicrucians who can do things which, if flaunted in the face of the world of society would cause them to be abused as cheats, charlatans, and knaves. for the dominant party of wealth and power will never grant that anyone can know or do what it is nottheirprivilege to permit to th

gery; but the key-notes of a great spiritual divine concealed power, of its emanations in manifestation, of its energizing of human life, of the prolonged existence of human souls, and of the temporary state of corporeal existence, are fundamental doctrines there fully illustrated; and these are the points of contact between the kabalah of the jew and the so-called esotericism of the teachings of buddha and of hinduism. it might be well argued that the catholic church, from which the protestant church was derived, was from its origin in the possession of the hebrew secret of the intentional exotericism of the bible, and of a priestly mode of understanding it, the esotericism of the kabalah, as a key to the true explanations of the jewish books, which being apparently histories are really l

magnetism and the discovery of the supra-normal process of the human mind and personality shown in hypnotism, telepathy and similar modern developments. on the other hand, the deeply mystical and learned specula255 tions of the ancients upon the creative power above us and the relations between god and man as developed in the old and new testaments, in the kabalah of the hebrews, in the wisdom of buddha, in the bhagavat gita of the hindoos, in the revelations of st john the divine, and in the pauline epistles and the many doctrines of the later greek gnostics, although of theinterest, have partly lapsed into oblivion; at any158themagical masonrate they have now much less effect upon modern life and conduct than in early times, and receive but comparatively infrequent attention in the liter

sm degenerated into a faith which recognised devas and spirits of every type or debasement, seems alwaysto have produced a stream of learned rishis- men who handed down to their posterity some fragments of the primeval learning concerning the origin, structure and destiny of the world and of its inhabitants. india, too, had a second period of enlightenment by the life and doctrines of gautama the buddha. from the pundits of india our nineteenth century in europe received important teach255 ings which have come down from primeval times. brahmins came over to england in the last century, and called the attention of literati to the vendanta and indian philosophic systems, then recently produced in english translations by members of the asiatic society and by professors wilson,290themagical ma

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emeof the tat\vasas we have haditfor the las! few lectures, and keeping the name, shape, colours, and symbolsclearlyinyour minds,weshall try whether we can .trace this fut'theryet.now,acc,>rdingtothe philosophy oftheupanishads..are. four planes.thehighest, the spiritual plane, is ananda. you will remember, those of you who arefamiliar with the vedas,theananda was the favourite. discipleofgautama. buddha. he. occupied the position with regardtohimthatst john didtoehrist.a. large school of orientalists. have..concluded thatwhenbuddha communed withanandahewasinfact communingwithhis own higher self.thenextplaneis viinflna,that is what we call the psychic.thenextis manas()rmens,whichisthefor whatwecall the mental; and.the lowest is prana,whic;his physical life.nowwhatwe have .beenconsidering hi

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lly accepted that aquarius will dawn around 2024 with some margin of error (astrologers fluctuate the dating of the age of aquarius from between the year 2000 to around 2100. at the change of each sign there is much transformation, for example, the change from aries to pisces at approximately 6 bce triggered a wide range of spiritual manifestations. it would be possible to link zoroaster, gautama buddha and jesus/james all into the nexus of the movement from aries to pisces. indeed the imagery of pisces as the fish has much in common with jesus and early christianity. in egyptian mythology horus is also sometimes seen as the fisherman. there are many ways to image the astrological ages, in one egypt tradition isis is related to taurus, osiris to aries, horus to pisces and maat to aquarius

guration is to turn away, to repent, to give-up the path of the world (the dialectic field) and begin the trek to redemption. this change of direction starts with the simple acknowledgment of the covenant and by a conscious effort to start living the life of a true gnostic. chapter ten: the seven stages of salvation the gnostic handbook page 96 first steps:detachment and controlled awareness when buddha said all life was suffering he wasn't joking! the perceptiveness of gautama buddha's understanding of how the dialectic system is perpetuated cannot be underestimated. as buddha expressed in his four noble truthes, all life is suffering because we become attached to what happens to us and attachment leads to reaction and reaction to attachment. buddha's solution is interpreted by modern sch

em. if we understand that the dialectic system is sustained by action and reaction then total detachment and total attachment both will have ramifications and by logic, reactions. if we see 0 or no linkage to the dialectic system as the goal then detachment would be negative(-1) and attachment would be positive(+1. both involve actions and reactions. many gnostic schools apply western versions of buddha's logic the problem however is that when we attempt to totally detach from the world, the reaction is normally so strong, we end up in total attachment! one of the first steps in the path is that of "controlled awareness. controlled awareness is becoming totally aware of what is happening within us and around us. it involves realising that the process of rebirth involves the "death" of the

la's excellent text the yoga of power for details of the different traditions within the buddhist tantra's. there is a significant difference between the two tantric paths, that of the right hand and that of the left hand. in the former the adept always experiences someone above him even at the highest level of realisation. in the latter he becomes the ultimate sovereign. in the buddhist tantras, buddha paradoxically upholds the relativity of every moral precept, the uselessness of worship, the insignificance of the five precepts of early buddhism, and even of the triple homage of the buddhist tradition in terms so blunt that at monastic gatherings the bodhisattvas who are on their way toward enlightenment faint (the terrestrial path) while the tathagatas (celestial path) the enlightened o

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s malevolent goals and its antipathy to spirit. the nature of nature the only reliable thing about nature is its cycle of suffering, decay and death. now i know that it is said that while nature is cyclic, one thing dies and another is reborn, but that is the point. one thing dies, another is reborn. there is no individual or discrete permanence, all is transition. this is the great truth gautama buddha pronounced 2,500 years ago and it stands the test of time. human life as a whole is sometimes considered negative entropy, but even this is only real, if you consider physical matter as your point of reference. if you take into account violence, standards of living, conditions of the earth and so forth mankind s effect has certainly been one of destruction, not evolution. genes and memes ca

sfiguration can liberation be achieved. the first step on the path (transfiguration) is to turn away, to repent, to give-up the ways of the world (the dialectic field) and begin the journey to redemption. this change of direction starts with the simple acknowledgement of transfiguration, and by a conscious effort to start living the life of a true gnostic. detachment and controlled awareness when buddha said all life is suffering he wasn't joking! the perceptiveness of gautama buddha's understanding of how the dialectic system is perpetuated cannot be underestimated. as buddha expressed in his four noble truthes, all life is suffering because we become attached to what happens to us, and attachment leads to reaction, and reaction to attachment. buddha's solution is interpreted by modern sc

and that the dialectic system is sustained by action and reaction, then total detachment and total attachment will both have ramifications and by logical deduction- reactions. if we see zero, or no linkage to the dialectic system as the goal, then detachment would be negative(-1) and attachment would be positive(+1, both entail actions and reactions. many gnostic schools apply western versions of buddha's logic (especially those with a moralist orientation, the problem, however, is that when we attempt to totally detach from the world, the reaction is normally so strong, we end up in total attachment! one of the early stages on the path is that of "controlled awareness. controlled awareness is becoming totally aware of what is happening within us and around us. it involves realising that t

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

hese pr terhuman intelligences would consistently arrive on the scene. one of them, calling itself lam, was sketched by crowley and is the prototype of the current alien types seen in present-day abduction cases. in the cipher of liber al, which crowley himself did not know, lam is the equivalent of god. crowley only associated the word with the tibetan lama, the living, consciously reincarnating buddha. the peculiarity of lam being the prototype of the current abduction type has been noted by ufologists, but without the key they can only remark of the coincidence. does this mean that orthon is jesus, or lam is god? hardly. the cipher, as becomes apparent to the diligent researcher, only uses the name or key-word for those in the know to examine and find a curious correspondence, pointing

ave gained control over whole civilizations. aliens controlled babylon for a time. they exercised, through the black order, considerable control over nazi germany. they made war, at various levels and dimensions, on the adepts of ancient india and the high lamas of tibet, with fire and blood, seduction and dark magick. they did not lose, but they did not win. they made spiritual war on gotama the buddha, and some of them were converted. then they knew the terror of the ubermensch -the super man human- ity is even now evolving into. they were afraid of us, as well as of our allies. though they had conquered planets, planes and whole orders of reality, the gods of outer space for whom men were but pawns on the spiral arm of a minor galaxy were no match for the new man. i have seen him, their

human- ity is even now evolving into. they were afraid of us, as well as of our allies. though they had conquered planets, planes and whole orders of reality, the gods of outer space for whom men were but pawns on the spiral arm of a minor galaxy were no match for the new man. i have seen him, their pawn of pawns hider once said, he was intrepid and cruel. i was afraid of him. unable to control a buddha or a christ with their powers, the aliens resorted to poisons and executions. the buddha laughed at them as he lay dying, the christ would not stay dead at all. you are so far outstripped in terms of physical weaponry that you must find a source of strength that transcends the physical, khyla of procyon tells us, such as techniques of centering conscious- ness on powerfully motivating energ

py of monuments of egypt the plates from the french description de l gypte series commissioned by napoleon. here we have a picture of the inside of a tomb. two of the explorers are in there or are they locals? one is smoking (dope, probably, while the other stands in contemplation. we placed hathor s head above the entry to the alcove. inside the alcove we placed father_acme conceived as a seated buddha image, a halo of light surrounds his head. is this not a secret ritual of the illuminati? search and see! jonathan sellers twin cedars lodge fall equinox 2005, c.e. 93 about the author allen h. greenfield, d.d, is in a unique position to interpret the lore of ufology for occultists, and to explain the elusive mythos of occultism to ufologists. a thirty-five year veteran of ufo investigative

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

y. the story lasts in india to this day, that brahma was slain by the other gods, and the sky made out of his skull: there is some analogy to this in the greek notion of atlas supporting on his head the vault of heaven. according to one of the orphic poets, the body of zeus is understood to be the earth, his bones the mountains, and his eyes the sun and moon.2 cochin- chinese traditions tell, how buddha made the world out of the giant banio s body, of his skull the sky, of his eyes the sun and moon, of his flesh the earth, of his bones rocks and hills, and of his hair trees and plants. similar macrocosms are met with in japan and ceylon; kalmuk poems describe how the earth arose from the metamorphosis of a mountain-giantess, the sea from her blood (finn magn. lex, 877-8, and suppl. but ind

spots or shady depressions on tlie full-moon s disc have given rise to grotesque but similar myths in several nations. to the common people in india they look like a hare, i.e. chandras the god of the moon carries a hare (sasa, hence the moon is called sasin or sasanka, hare mark or spot. 1 the mongolian doctrine also sees in these shadows the figure of a liares bogdo jagjamuni or shigemuni [the buddha sakya-muni, supreme ruler of the sky, once changed himself into a hare, simply to serve as food to a starving traveller; in honour of which meri torious deed khormusta, whom the mongols revere as chief of the tenggri [genii, placed the figure of a hare in the moon. the people of ceylon relate as follows: while buddha the great god sojourned upon earth as a hermit, he one day lost his way in

orious deed khormusta, whom the mongols revere as chief of the tenggri [genii, placed the figure of a hare in the moon. the people of ceylon relate as follows: while buddha the great god sojourned upon earth as a hermit, he one day lost his way in a wood. he had wandered long, when a hare accosted him: cannot i help thee? strike into the path on thy right, i will guide thee out of the wilderness/ buddha replied: thank thee, but i am poor and hungry, and unable to repay thy kind ness/ if thou art hungry/ said the hare, f light a fire, and kill, roast and eat me/ buddha made a fire, and the hare immediately jumped in. then did buddha manifest his divine power, he snatched the beast out of the flames, and set him in the moon, where he may be seen to this day. 3 to the greenlander s fancy thes

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

f milk- symbol of space and of the milky way- by the gods assembled together, that lakshmi,goddess of beauty and mother of love (kama) formed of the froth of the foaming waves, appeared beforethe astonished gods, borne on a lotus, and holding another lotus in her hand. thus have arisen the two chief titles of lakshmi; padma the lotus, and kshirabdi-tanaya daughter of theocean of milk. gautama the buddha has never been degraded to the level of a god, notwithstanding the factthat he was the first mortal within historical times fearless enough to interrogate that dumb sphinx, which wecall the universe, and to wrest completely therefrom the secrets of life and death. though he has never beendeified, we repeat, yet he has nevertheless been recognised by generations in asia as lord of the univer

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

lent man and the "friend of god" but alleged that it was not his design entirely to abolish the worship of demons (gods, and that his only intention was to purify the page 7 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt ancient religion -ooo- the wisdom-religion, esoteric in all ages q. since ammonius never committed anything to writing, how can one feel sure that such were his teachings? a. neither did buddha, pythagoras, confucius, orpheus, socrates, or even jesus, leave behind them any writings. yet most of these are historical personages, and their teachings have all survived. the disciples of ammonius (among whom origen and herennius) wrote treatises and explained his ethics. certainly the latter are as historical, if not more so, than the apostolic writings. moreover, his pupils-origen, plo

nowledge from desecration. it is the latter that led to the perversion of the most sublime truths and symbols, and to the gradual transformation of things spiritual into anthropomorphic, concrete, and gross imagery-in other words, to the dwarfing of the god-idea and to idolatry -ooo- theosophy is not buddhism q. you are often spoken of as "esoteric buddhists" are you then all followers of gautama buddha? a. no more than musicians are all followers of wagner. some of us are buddhists by religion; yet there are far more hindus and brahmins than buddhists among us, and more christian-born europeans and americans than converted buddhists. the mistake has arisen from a misunderstanding of the real meaning of the title of mr. sinnett's excellent work, esoteric buddhism, which last word ought to

hy- hp blavatsky.txt q. what is the difference between buddhism, the religion founded by the prince of kapilavastu, and budhism, the "wisdomism" which you say is synonymous with theosophy? a. just the same difference as there is between the secret teachings of christ, which are called "the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven" and the later ritualism and dogmatic theology of the churches and sects. buddha means the "enlightened" by bodha, or understanding, wisdom. this has passed root and branch into the esoteric teachings that gautama imparted to his chosen arhats only. q. but some orientalists deny that buddha ever taught any esoteric doctrine at all? a. they may as well deny that nature has any hidden secrets for the men of science. further on i will prove it by buddha's conversation with

teachings of the mahayana school of northern buddhism. those who deny it are simply ignorant pretenders to orientalism. i advise you to read the rev. mr. edkin's chinese buddhism-especially the chapters on the exoteric and esoteric schools and teachings-and then compare the testimony of the whole ancient world upon the subject. q. but are not the ethics of theosophy identical with those taught by buddha? a. certainly, because these ethics are the soul of the wisdom-religion, and were once the common property of the initiates of all nations. but buddha was the first to embody these lofty ethics in his public teachings, and to make them the foundation and the very essence of his public system. it is herein that lies the immense difference between exoteric buddhism and every other religion. f

c system. it is herein that lies the immense difference between exoteric buddhism and every other religion. for while in other religions ritualism and dogma hold the first and most important place, in buddhism it is the ethics which have always been the most insisted upon. this accounts for the resemblance, amounting almost to identity, between the ethics of theosophy and those of the religion of buddha. q. are there any great points of difference? a. one great distinction between theosophy and exoteric buddhism is that the latter, represented by the southern church, entirely denies (a) the existence of any deity, and (b) any conscious postmortem life, or even any self-conscious surviving individuality in man. such at least is the teaching of the siamese sect, now considered as the purest

reat distinction between theosophy and exoteric buddhism is that the latter, represented by the southern church, entirely denies (a) the existence of any deity, and (b) any conscious postmortem life, or even any self-conscious surviving individuality in man. such at least is the teaching of the siamese sect, now considered as the purest form of exoteric buddhism. and it is so, if we refer only to buddha's public teachings; the reason for such reticence on his part i will give further on. but the schools of the northern buddhist church, established in those countries to which his initiated arhats retired after the master's death, teach all that is now called theosophical doctrines, because they form part of the knowledge of the initiates-thus proving how the truth has been sacrificed to the

HINE P OVEN READY CHAOS

m, new age celtic revivals and marxism. 3. meditations in menzies. read specialist magazines that you have no interest in, especially those written by enthusiastic amateurs. also read publications with oppposing views in quick succession, such as playboy and spare rib, or andrea 42 phil hine dworkin and the marquis de sade. 4. do not put live toads in your mouth. 5.everyone else in the world is a buddha except you! and they are all waiting for you to get your act together, so get out of bed and get going (buddhahood is especially manifest in all the people you carefully avoid on the street. 6.try being consistently wrong- make wild statements and then, when someone pokes a hole in your argument, admit your mistake, profusely, if necessary. you can be wrong about the time, the day of the we

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

attention is paid to it. it is impossible to point out the details, for this would overstep the frame of this book. sticking to a carefully planned, step-by-step development, there will be neither a mishap nor a failure nor bad consequences, for the simple reason that ripening takes place slowly but surely. it is quite an individual matter whether the adept will choose as his idea of god, christ, buddha, brahma, allah, or someone else. all depends on the idea, in the initiation. the pure mystic wishes to approach his god only in the all-embracing love. the yogi, too, walks toward one single aspect of god. the bhakti-yogi keeps to the road of love and devotion, the raja and hatha yogi choose the path of self-control or volition, the jnana yogi will follow that of wisdom and cognition. now l

his god-principle on these four fundaments with their basic qualities corresponding to the elements, and these four fundamental aspects of his deity will represent his highest concept of god. the concept of his god does not have to be linked to any person alive or past; it also can be expressed in a symbolic way. fundamentally it is absolutely the same thing whether the magician thinks of christ, buddha, a devi, a sun, a light or a flame as a symbol of his supreme godhead. it is not the imagination that matters here, but the quality that he imputes to this imagination. in any case, no matter what the religious faith or ideology, the imagination of god has to be the highest, the dearest, the most precious and the most venerable of all things above which there cannot be any kind of super-god

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f man uught by paul 281 sooatea and i^to on soul and spirit 283 ?ftue buddhism, what it is 288 digitizecoy google contents chapter vn early cheistian heresies and secret sooeties naiareani, otohitea, and modem druiei (or 'hunxa-ita] 201 etymology of lao 298 'hennelic brotben egypt 307 ivue meaning ol nirvlna 319 ite jaina aect 321 christuuuandchnbtibiii 323 itie gnoatka and their detracts* 325 buddha, jeaiu, and aptdloniua of tr>iui 341 section ii chapter viii jesuitry and masonry the zoaar and rabbi shimon the order of jesuita and iti r^tioo to aome of the muonic ordera, crimes permitted to its memben principles of jesuitry compared with tboae of pagan morallits. trinity erf man in egyptian soak rf iht dtad penecution of templan by the cburch 381 secfet maaonic dpben 3s5 jehovah not th

latiini to mn>ent-wotship 489 the book of j^ and the book of the dead w3 the hindu devu a met*phystaj abstraction 501 satan ukd tbe prince of hell in the goipel la ntcodemus 519 digitizecoy google chapter xi- the age of philoaophy moducol no sitbeibts llie legends of tbra skvion christutu doctrine of tb atodement iuogksl caiue of the failure of minioiuria to convert buddluit and brthmkou. neither buddha nco' jeaua left written racordl the gmideat mysteries td tdjgion in the bhaoobod'&ti. hm meaning of regesoation eiidained in the salapalka-bt the ncrifice erf mood interpreted 566 danindia by christian misnouaries 573 the kble less autbenticated tb n way other sacted book 577 koowledge of chemiatiy and phyuci displayed by indian jug^en 583 chapteh xii conclusions and

he kble less autbenticated tb n way other sacted book 577 koowledge of chemiatiy and phyuci displayed by indian jug^en 583 chapteh xii conclusions and illusthations recaihtuiation of (nndamental pn^mwitioiu 587 setndiip of the soul and of the spirit 590 the phawmenon of the so-called ipiritjiand gb4 difference between mediums and adepts 59s inttrriew of an elnglisfa ambassador with a teineaniated buddha 598 fli^t of a lama's aitnj body related by abb^ hue 6m schools of magic in buddhist lamaberiea 609 lie unknown race of hindfl todas 613- will-power at takiw and yogts 617 tanud^ of wild beasts b^ faldn 622 evocatiod of a living spirit by a shaman, witiiesaed by the writer 020 sorcery 1^ the breath of a jemiit father 633 why the study of magic is almost impracticable in eun^ 635- index i ge

t here deacribed has been beautifully exem- plified at barcelona, spain, where the bufaop fvay joachim invited the local ipiritua- mta to witness a formal bumins of ?piritualiitic books. we bud the account in a dkpet called tht retdation, published at alicante, which senubly adds that the pw- icrmance was "a caricature of the memorablb epoch of the inquiiition" digitizecoy google 80 isis unveiled buddha* au come from the same root. jesus says "upon uus pelra i will build my church, and the gates [or rulers] of hades shall not prevail against it; meaning by petra the rock-temple, and metaphorically, the christian mysteries; the adversaries to which were the old myatery-goda of the underworld, who were worshiped in the rites of lus, adonis, atys, sabazius, dionysus, and the eleusinia. no apo

he sacred ganges, which all asia considers as the paradisaical river. there, also, is the biblical gihon, which \i none else but the indus. the arabs call it so unto this day, and the names of the countries watered by it are yet existing among the hindfls* jacouiot claims to have translated every ancient palm-leaf manuscript which he had the fortune 44. e. pococke ipvei the v&riatioiu cl the duiw buddha m: bnd'ha, buddha. boiiddb% boatta. pout. pote. pfji^ pte. phthe. hitha, phut etc, etc see indm ta ormk appoidiz, p. 397. 45. hie tiais of the pope ii aiao a perfect copy of that of the dalai-lama of totet 46. see hu ituia ntr qtttkidiu dtr maumuit. bk. x, eh. ot in autnouuu werht, p. 828: 1844. digitizecoy google origin of the papal tuba and ke^ 31 of being allowed by the brthmanaa of the

apostasized for the mere pleasure of exchanging one set of idols for another. there may be for him some novelty in his embracing protestantism; for in that he gains the advantage, at least, of umiting his religious views to their simplest expression. but when a buddhist has been enticed into exchanging his shoe dagooq for the slipper of the vatican, or the eight hairs from the head c^ gautama and buddha's tooth, which work miracles, for the locks^ a christian saint, and a tooth of jesus, which work far less clever miracles, he has no cause to boast of his choice. in his address to the uteraty society of java, sir t. s. raffles is said to have narrated the fol- lowing characteristic anecdote "on visiting the great temple on the hills of nagasaki, the english commissioner was received with m

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

real food? as she nestles into my hand i cup her back gently in both hands so that my fingers can stroke her on her brow and i am reminded of how precious it all is. this bonding between animal and man. its gift is the sheer joy of connection and getting to play in the field of another intelligent life, for rats are incredibly intelligent. the rat was the first creature to answer the call of the buddha. adopting a rat as a friend is a very wise idea for anyone interested in the interplay with another intelligent species, or for someone who wishes to experience a little more of the unconditional love food of life. for a start they are great examples of work and play, and seeking and finding, and responding, and having fun, for they are always ready for a game. mondi loves it when i hold he

is. mistress of animals and all wild untamed things, symbolizes female independence, healing goddess, values solitude. demeter. ancient greek mother goddess of persephone. giver of fruitfulness and abundance. blesses us with coming joy, abundant life and hope. other goddesses who have made an impact through time are. kwan yin. chinese goddess of infinite mercy and compassion. said t0 be born from buddha s tears for the suffering of the world. protects women and children and works with the healers of the world. mother mary. the creator goddess known as stella maris and associated with heaven and sea. mary reminds us to be gentle and compassionate to our selves and to all others. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 81. pachamama. earth goddess of peru kno

gulating effect in sleep function. melatonin has in fact also psychedelic effects, and can release special ecstatic and transcendental experiences, among meditators and mystics. the mystical third eye: according to several occult traditions, the pineal gland is connected to the third eye, which is situated in the middle of the forehead, on a straight line from the pineal gland. with shiva and the buddha, the third eye is found described as a shining spot and a flaming pearl, symbolizing unity, transcendental wisdom and spiritual consciousness. this point is often used as point of concentration in meditation, because it is one of the places in the body where it is most easy to hold a steady focus, as well as it activates psychic energy. concentration on this point will sooner or later give

hen our signals can be too easily absorbed by the hunger of the greater field. hence to have any sustainable long term influence and be effective, we need to be as pure and powerful as we can be and even then, our field of influence, although sustainable, is restricted in its range. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 183 even a being such as the christ or the buddha, if in the flesh today, would find their field of influence restricted by the 6 billion plus predominantly beta. alpha beings in this world. however, when working with theta. delta frequencies, one plus one equals so much more than just two, so the more who choose to tune to the theta. delta field and radiate the violet light spectrum, the sooner the beta. alpha field of mass consciousness

uency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 187 yet the experience of ascension is not the greatest gift of being fed by the light of the food of the gods, for ascension is a never ending experience, it is a journey not a destination for our experiences within the ascended delta field are only limited by our capacity to receive and handle the frequencies of our own dow s radiation. even the christ and buddha and mohammed continue to become more illumined as they journey through the fields, loving and being fed in turn by the love we give in gratitude to their presence. other gifts of being fed by the food of the gods are the revelations and insights that we gain from the theta. delta field of consciousness where many have received explicit information on how to bring our planet back into a more

ng a lasting peace. i think the world has stated clearly that we are ready for a different beat, for war and violence have fed our desire for change. many ask now: what does it take to tune a field to lasting harmony and peace? what does it take to entice a human heart back to the fields of kindness and compassion? what are we really hungry for and where does true food come from? the teachings of buddha and mohammed and the christ and all the holy beings are all woven together with common threads of truth for we are in fact all one. the more refined we become the easier it is to understand the essence of them all yet we too are equipped to be masters and the choice to demonstrate this is ours. so much of what the holy ones have shared with our world has great appeal to my inner being. is i

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

as designed for the guide of all that proceeds from god. sophia-achamoth is the guide, according to the gnostics, for all proceeding out of matter. st. irenseus, whose period is the end of the second century, draws all these startling inferences from the book of enoch, and names sophia as signifying the divine wisdom. the ophite scheme seems evidently the bhuddistic bythos, answering to the first buddha. sige, sophia, christos, achamoth, ildabaoth, answer to the successive five others (gnostics, p. 27; bellermann s drei programmer ber die abraxas-gemmen, berlin, 1820; basilides; tertullian, de prescript: serpentem magnificant in tantum, ut ilium etiam christo pr ferant. see tertullian, epiphanius, and theodoret: st. john iii. 14, also. we now refer the reader to some significant figures to

e further authorities from the temple of solomon at jerusalem. figure 39, no. 1, is an evidently corinthian foliation. it is from a pillar in the vaults of the temple of solomon at jerusalem (probably a lotus-acanthus) no. 2 is evidently the crux-ansata, combining the indications of lotus and lily. here is a union of the classic, the judaic, and gothic forms, all presenting the same idea at once. buddha was the sun in taurus; cristna (crishna, krishna) was the sun in aries. in regard to the origin of speech, of writing, and of letters, it may be remarked that the egyptians referred the employment of a written symbol (to record and communicate the spoken word) to a thoth; the jews, to seth or his children (josephus, ant. i, 2, 3; the greeks, to hermes. but thout in coptic (pezron, lexicon l

rd means, and the entire object bearing this name means, the original ten measures or parts of the fiery ecliptic or solar wheel, or the ten original signs of the zodiac. therefore the pyramids are commemorative altars raised to the divinity fire. the ophites are said to have maintained that the serpent of genesis was the logoj, and the saviour. the logos was divine wisdom, and was the bhudda, or buddha, of india. the brazen serpent was called logoj, or the word, by the chaldee paraphrast (basnage, lib. iv. ch. xxv) it is very certain that, in ancient times, the serpent was an object of adoration in almost all nations. the serpentworshippers seem to have placed at the head, or nearly at the head, of all things (maia, and most intimately connected with the serpent, a. certain principle whic

ps, by hook or crook, meaning by fair means or foul, is a proverbial expression continually heard. fig. 156. fig. 155. there are two works which will assist in throwing light upon that mystic system of the ancients, probably originating in the dreaming east, that refers the production of music to architectural forms or geometric diagrams; 157 158 fig. 157. hindoo monograms of planets (1) mercury, buddha (boodh (2) venus j (3) mars (4) jupiter (5) saturn (6) moon (7) sun. fig. 158. astrological symbols of planets (1) sol (2) luna (3) mercury (4) venus (5) mars (6) jupiter (7) saturn. as columns and entablatures, or upright lines and crosslines, and mathematical arcs and diagonals, in their modifications and properties, of course are. these books, which will help to explain the passages of m

of tartar origin. it is probable that st. john s college at cambridge is the domus templi of the round church of the templars there. the present st. john s is only of modern foundation. there is annexed to, or connected with, this church an almshouse called bede s house, the name of which has puzzled all the antiquaries. there is little doubt that this was the original domus templi, the house of buddha, corrupted into bede, and meaning wisdom. a discourse concerning the tartars, proving (in all probability) that they are the israelites, or ten tribes; which, being taken captive by salmaneser, were transplanted into media. by giles fletcher, doctor of both laws, and sometime ambassador from elizabeth, queen of england, to the emperor of russia. this was found in sir francis nethersole s st

was the sun whom we have seen so often crucified being changed into a red rose by venus (see drummond s origines, vol. iii, p. 121. rus (which is ras in chaldee) in irish signifies tree, knowledge, science, magic, power. this is the hebrew r as. hence the persian rustan (val. col. hib. vol. iv. pt. i. p. 84. the ancient sardica, in lat. 40 50, is now called sophia; the ancient aquineum, buda, or buddha. these were, i believe, old names restored (vide d anville's atlas. the society bearing the name of the rossicrucians (or rosicruxians) is closely allied with the templars. their emblem is a monogram or jewel; or, as malicious and bigoted adversaries would say, their object of adoration is a red rose on a cross. thus: fig. 226. when it can be done, it is surrounded with a glory, and placed

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

tems, such as buddhism, yoga, and sophism that speak of various means of enlightenment to develop cosmic awareness and states of nirvana, or samadhi. i ve read many of your books, and i think most of the eastern teachings speak about the same thing, only in a different language, which stems from the differences in culture and psychological differences. but many sages from india and china, such as buddha, osho and others climbed very high in their spiritual development. how do you relate to those facts? can you analyze in depth the common elements between the teaching of the east and kabbalah and the differences between them? a: i don t know any teachings but those of the kabbalah. the difference between all the teachings and the kabbalah, as i understand it from the perspective of the kabb

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

s, from his own virtues, if they be unbalanced. the s c d at his b c typified the first of these; later on he will find the s c of his own lower nature in place of it, and later still the c c s that typify the triangle of his higher self, whose very virtues may be exaggerated to become his undoing unless he is ever watchful to keep poise and calmness, and to walk on that middle way which the lord buddha has described as the path of safety. 515. in course of time the candidate, through the practice of these three qualifications, will be able to range the entire plane at will. for this activity discrimination will give him the mental power, desirelessness the emotional power, and good conduct the will-power; and in the highest part of the region no ceremony will ever be needed in order that

d in the third the lower mind gradually gains ground, and leads on to the stage when man becomes the true thinker. there is then a long period of middle life- the real human career. that is followed in turn by the epoch of old age, which ought to bring wisdom; this is as yet often imperfect in most people, being but an adumbration of the superhuman heights of future attainment. 618. when the lord buddha walked the earth he was once asked by a disciple to sum up the whole of his teaching in one verse. after a moment fs thought he replied: 619. cease to do evil; 620. learn to do well; 621. cleanse your own heart; 622. this is the religion of the buddhas. 623. we may surely trace here some correspondence to the teaching of the three degrees in masonry. the teaching of the first degree is that

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

hrough many of the countries of the mediterranean basin, studying for some years in egypt, where he was initiated at sais. he was also initiated into the eleusinian, kabeiric and chaldaean mysteries, and thus was thoroughly versed in all the hidden knowledge of the ancient world. in addition to his travels round the shores of the mediterranean, pythagoras journeyed to india, where he met the lord buddha and became one of his disciples. he spent some years in india, and it is reported that he had the high honour of an interview with the next world teacher, the holy child shri krishna, who blessed him and sent him back to europe to found his system of philosophy and of esoteric instruction. thus in the pythagorean school many lines of tradition met together, and were blended into a comprehen

revival or an inauguration of the mysteries. thoth in egypt, zoroaster in persia, orpheus in greece- each of these mighty messengers of the white lodge, who were yet one messenger appearing under different names and in different forms, left behind him a glorious rite of initiation to lead men to his feet after he had gone. that great teacher of mankind passed from human sight as gautama the lord buddha; but the sceptre of the lord of love was placed by the spiritual king in the hands of his successor, whom to-day we revere as the lord christ, whose coming we await with hearts filled with longing love. 793. he, too, will surely take the sacred vessels of the mysteries and fill them anew with his own wonderful life; he, too, will mould them according to the needs of his people and the age i

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emons in western religions. specifically, they were often sent to earth to seduce ascetics who seemed to be on the verge of break12 aquinas, thomas ing through into a divine state, and thus posing a threat to the status of the gods. in buddhism, the best-known story involving mara, the buddhist satan, portrays the apsaras as being mara s minions. this story, the tale of his attempt to prevent the buddha from achieving enlightenment, is structurally parallel to classical hindu myths about the gods sending apsaras to tempt ascetics. the story goes that as siddhartha gautama, the buddha, was on the brink of nirvana, mara sent beautiful, tempting heavenly women (buddhist apsaras) to distract his attention. unmoved by passion, mara changed tack and tried frightening gautama with ferocious demon

urally parallel to classical hindu myths about the gods sending apsaras to tempt ascetics. the story goes that as siddhartha gautama, the buddha, was on the brink of nirvana, mara sent beautiful, tempting heavenly women (buddhist apsaras) to distract his attention. unmoved by passion, mara changed tack and tried frightening gautama with ferocious demons. still undisturbed, mara finally challenged buddha s right to liberation. in response, gautama is said to have called the earth as his witness, whose response was so powerful that it frightened away mara and his hordes. that very night, the buddha achieved enlightenment. see also demons; hinduism for further reading: conze, edward. buddhist thought in india. 1962. reprint, ann arbor: university of michigan press, 1967. garg, ganga ram, ed

f. evelyn oliver buddhism buddhism is a major world religion that was founded by siddhartha gautama in the indian subcontinent around 600 b.c.e. buddhism is clearly in the same religious family as buddhism s parent religious tradition, hinduism. however, to be considered within the hindu fold, one must nominally acknowledge the authority of the four vedas, hinduism s most ancient religious texts. buddha rejected the authority of the vedas, and hence, despite its close relationship with hinduism, buddhism is technically non-hindu. unlike almost all other religions, buddhism is not focused on deities. gods and goddesses are 34 buddhism acknowledged to exist, but they are not worshiped. the ultimate aim of buddhism is, rather, nirvana, meaning release from the ongoing cycle of death and rebir

divinities are unable to be of aid. similarly, while buddhism contains an elaborate mythology about hells and demons, there is no figure with the stature of satan. the closest being in buddhism corresponding with the western devil is mara. mara s job in the cosmic scheme is to prevent individuals from achieving nirvana. the best-known story involving mara is the tale of his attempt to prevent the buddha from achieving enlightenment. the story goes that, as gautama was on the brink of nirvana, mara became dismayed: at this point the god mara, exclaiming, prince siddhartha [the future buddha] is desirous of passing beyond my control, but i will never allow it! went and announced the news to his army, and sounding the mara war-cry drew out for battle. failing to distract him with force or to

buddha] is desirous of passing beyond my control, but i will never allow it! went and announced the news to his army, and sounding the mara war-cry drew out for battle. failing to distract him with force or to frighten him with ferocious demons, mara sent beautiful, tempting heavenly women (buddhist nature spirits, or apsaras) to distract his attention. still undisturbed, mara finally challenged buddha s right to liberation. in response, gautama is said to have called the earth as his witness, whose response was so powerful that it frightened away mara and his hordes. that very night, the buddha achieved nirvana. what keeps individuals trapped in the samsaric cycle is the law of karma. karma operates impersonally like a natural law, ensuring that every good or bad deed eventually returns

y person in her or his next incarnation.moksha is the traditional hindu term for release or liberation from the endless chain of deaths and rebirths. according to the upanishadic view, what happens at the point of moksha is that the individual atman merges into the cosmic brahman, much like a drop of water,which, when dropped into the ocean, loses its individuality and becomes one with the ocean. buddha accepted the basic hindu doctrines of reincarnation and karma, as well as the notion, common to most south asian religions, that the ultimate goal of the religious life was to escape the cycle of death and rebirth (samsara. buddha asserted that what kept us bound to the death/rebirth process was desire, desire in the generic sense of wanting or craving anything in the world of samsara.hence

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6. 32 sebek, mako see note* apu-t the right ear 32 bis satem, ahapshi, nephthys, ameshet \yyj \yla the bones. as 16 31 bis asar. table of correspondences 8 xxii. small selection of hindu deities. xxiii* the forty buddhist meditations. 0 aum nothing and neither p nor p' f space f consciousness f 1 parabrahm (or any other whom one wishes to please[[shiva, brahma] indifference s 2 shiva, vishnu (as buddha avatars, akasa (as matter, lingam joy s 3 bhavani (all forms of sakti, prana (as force, yoni compassion s 4 indra, brahma friendliness s 5 vishnu, varruna-avatar death r 6 vishu-hari-krishna-rama buddha r 7[[bhavani, etc] the gods r 8 hanuman analysis into 4 elements a 9 ganesha, vishnu (kurm avatar) dhamma r 1010 lakshmi &c [kundalini] sangha r the body r 11 the maruts [vayu] wind k 12 han

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being itself a way or going, that is, a kinetic and not a static conception. also he taught this way of harmony in will, which i myself have thought to show thee in this little book. so then this tao is truth, and the way of truth, and therefore was he logos of his on, and his true name or word was tao. i liber aleph vel cxi 70 b% de gautama (of gautama) hom men call gotama, or siddartha, or the buddha, was a magus of our holy order. and his word was anatta; for the root of his whole doctrine was that there is no atman, or soul, as men ill translate it, meaning a substance incapable of change. thus, he, like lao-tze, based all upon a movement, instead of a fixed point. and his way of truth was analysis, made possible by great intention of the mind toward itself, and that well fortified by

t nature, that is, their unity with their true selves, or, as they then phrased it, with god. and he discovered unto them the way of this attainment, and its relation with the formula of inri. also by his mystery of number he made plain the path for his successor to declare the nature of the whole universe in its form and in its structure, as it were an analysis thereof, doing for matter what the buddha was decreed to do for mind. t the book of wisdom or folly 73 bt de quodam mago gyptiorum, quem appelunt iudaei mosheh (of a certain magus of the egyptians, whom the jews call moses) he follower of tahuti was an egyptian whose name is lost; but the jews called him mosheh, or moses, and their fabulists made him the leader of their legendary exodus. yet they preserved his word, and it is ihvh

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

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66, 90, 156, 231, 370 and 400, as well as a facsimile of the ms of liber al. t.s] svb figvra clxxv 7 cornelia and caius gracchus, and the love of bacchus and ariadne, and the love of cupid and psyche, and the love of endymion and artemis, and the love of demeter and persephone, and the love of venus and adonis, and the love of lakshmi and vishnu, and the love of siva and bhavani, and the love of buddha and ananda, and the love of jesus and john, and many more. also there is the love of many saints for their particular deity, as of st francis of assisi for christ, of sri sabhapaty swami for maheswara, of abdullah haji shirazi1 for allah, of st ignatius loyola for mary, and many more. now do thou take one such story every night, and enact it in thy mind, grasping each identity with infinte

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as parts of oneself, since one is equally willing to allow any other body to consider you as a part of their imagination only? it would seem that one tiny part self has been fondly cherished, while in reality that tiny part is but a reflex of the whole which is really you, but even this state must in the end give way before the power of nothing. april 16th, 8:30 a.m. finished reading the life of buddha, and then, lying down, composed myself for meditation. breathed regularly and deeply for a time, afterwards stopping all entries two or three times (shanmukhi mudra) presently i passed into a state which was practically desireless. i could feel the goal, but the wish to help others made it impossible to become the state i contemplated. after this, i was surprised, on letting all breath out

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ur scepticism has not only knocked to pieces our tower of thought, but rooted up the foundation-stone and ground it into finer and more poisonous powder than that into which moses ground the calf. these golden elohim! our calfheads that brought us not out of egypt, but into a darkness deeper and more tangible than any darkness of the double empire of asar. hume put his little? to berkeley fs god; buddha his? to the vedic atman!.and neither hume nor buddha was baulked of his reward. ourselves may put? to our own? since we have found no! to put it to; and wouldn ft it be jolly if our own second? suddenly straightened its back and threw its chest out and marched off as? suppose then we accept our scepticism as having destroyed our knowledge root and branch.is there no limit to its action? doe

ether frowns above us. attack kether, and it falls: but the yetziratic malkuth is still there. until we reach kether of atziluth and the infinite light, and space, and nothing. so then we retire up the path, fighting rear-guard actions; at every moment a soldier is slain by a hunchback; but as we retire there is always a soldier just by us. the soldier and the hunchback 13 until the end. the end? buddha thought the supply of hunchbacks infinite; but why should not the soldiers themselves be infinite in number? however that may be, here is the point; it takes a moment for a hunchback to kill his man, and the further we get from our base the longer it takes. you may crumble to ashes the dream-world of a boy, as it were, between your fingers; but before you can bring the physical universe tum

roving to him by biological methods that he has no soul; and with a sunny smile each passes on his way. but mccabbage is wasted on the philosopher whose belief in a soul rests on introspection; we must have heavier metal; hume will serve our turn, may be. but hume in his turn becomes perfectly futile, pitted against the hindu mystic, who is in constant enjoyment of his new-found atman. it takes a buddha-gun to knock his castle down. now the ideas of mccabbage are banal and dull; those of hume are live and virile; there is a joy in them greater than the joy of the man in the street. so too the buddha-thought, anatta, 1 [joseph mccabe, a grationalist h/ atheist writer of the period. t.s] 14 liber cxlviii is a more splendid conception than the philosopher fs dutch-dolllike ego, or the rationa

quire whether after all the soldier is not going to develop spinal curvature. let us take the first step; let us sing: gi do not ask to see the distant path; one step fs enough for me. h but (you will doubtless say) i pith your? itself with another: why question life at all? why not remain ga clean-living irish gentleman h content with his handicap, and contemptuous of card and pencil? is not the buddha fs goad geverything is sorrow h little better than a currish whine? what do i care for old age, disease, and death? i fm a man, and a celt at that. i spit on your snivelling hindu prince, emasculate with debauchery in the first place, and asceticism in the second. a weak, dirty, paltry cur, sir, your gautama! yes, i think i have no answer to that. the sudden apprehension of some vital catas

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xing my drinks unduly? i think not; if one didn ft change to another mystic process, one would have to read the newspaper. 11.20. this completes my half-hour of .sana. legs very painful; yet again i find myself wishing for kandy (not sugar candy, but the place where i did my first hindu practices and got my first results) and a life devoted entirely to meditation. but not for me! i.m no pratyeka- buddha; a dhamma-buddha every inch of me [a pratyeka-buddha attains the supreme reward for himself alone; a dhamma-buddha renounces it and returns to hell (earth) to teach others the way..ed] i now take a few minutes .off. to make .considerations. i firmly believe that the minutest dose of the elixir would operate as a .detonator. i seem to be perfectly ready for illumination, if only because i am

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e love of god, which is the only true love, diminishes not with age; it grows deeper and intenser with every satisfaction. it seems as if in the noblest en this secretion constantly increases.which certainly suggests an external reservoir.so that age loses all its bitter-ness. we find gbrother lawrence, h nicholas herman of lorraine, at the age of eighty in continuous enjoyment of union with god. buddha at an equal age would run up and down the eight high trances like an acrobat on a ladder; stories not too dissimilar are told of bishop berkeley. many persons have not attained union at all until middle age, and then have rarely lost it. it is true that genius in the ordinary sense of the word has nearly always showed itself in the young. perhaps we should regard such cases as nicholas herm

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lf to the great work on the ground of physical infirmity* all material by aleister crowley (c) ordo templi orientis jaf box 7666 new york ny 11016 u.s.a. no copyright is claimed on key entry, formatting, or editorial notes. typed and edited by frater t.s. for celephais press, somewhere beyond the tanarian hills. last revised 09.06.2004 e.v. liber e. supplementary instruction in asana 1. the dying buddha. 2. the hanged man. 3. the corpse. these three recumbant positions are more suitable for repose after meditations than for meditation itself. liber e vel exercitiorvm 12 4. the arrowhead. 5. the bear. 6. the ivy. 7. the parallelogram. these positions with bowed head are suitable for asana and for meditation, but not for pranayaleliber xiii vel gradvvm montis abiegni a syllabus of the steps

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five elements and let him proclaim light in extension; yea, let him proclaim light in extension.7 liber hhh 4 ii a a a .these loosen the swathings of the corpse; these unbind the feet of osiris, so that the flaming god may rage through the firmament with his fantastic spear..liber lapidis lazuli. vii. 15, 16. 0. be seated in thine .sana, or recumbent in .av.sana,8 or in the position of the dying buddha. 1. think of thy death; imagine the various the various diseases that may attack thee, or accidents overtake thee. picture the process of death, applying always to thyself (a useful preliminary practice is to read text-books of pathology, and to visit museums and dissecting-rooms) 2. continue this practice until death is complete; follow the corpse through the stages of embalming, wrapping

on practice corresponding to ritual dclxxi. mentioned in liber xiii. the versified solo version of liber 671 which has been published is adequate for the purposes of exploring the parallels, although one suspects the meditation-practice will be more effective for one who has gone through the ritual ceremonially and imprinted the revelant symbols. 8 approx .corpse-position. the .corpse. and .dying buddha .sanas (along with the .hanged man. posture mentioned in cap. i v. 10) were depicted in a supplement to .liber e. which was printed at the start of equinox i (7, and also in the 1994 and 1997 weiser .blue brick. edition of magick. 9 this possibly refers to something communicated in the zelator initiation (see note below. 10 iaida or .the highest. is a name or title of god appearing in the a

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ation. the most unsophisticated can draw pity and amusement from mr mathers. jew, converted by the notariqons of .berashith. true, f.i.a.t. is flatus, ignis, aqua, terra; showing the creator as tetragrammaton, the synthesis of the four elements; showing the eternal fiat as the equilibrated powers of nature. but what forbits fecit ignavus animam terrae,36 or any other convenient blasphemy, such as buddha would applaud? why not take our converted jew and restore him to the ghetto with ben, ruach, ab, sheol!.ihvh, thora?37 why not take the sacred 'icquj of the christian who thought it meant 'ihsouj cristoj qeou 'uioj swthr38 and make him a pagan with 'isidoj carij qhsauroj 'uiwn sofiaj.?39 why not argue that christ in cursing the fig, f.i.g, wished to attack kant.s dogmas of freewill, immorta

k obligingly .corrected. the time of birth to make leo the ascendent again. rupert gleadow (an astrologer friend of symonds to whom ac had claimed there was .less than one per cent truth in astrology) prepared a hostile horoscope which was printed in the great beast in posthumous revenge. t.s] 82 because cheth, 8, spelt .in full= tyj, 418. t.s. on the qabalah 53 zodiac was perhaps responsible for buddha and his 12 disciples, christ and his 12 disciples, charlemagne and his 12 peers &c &c, but to disbelieve in christ or charlemagne is not to alter the number of signs in the zodiac. veneration for 666 does not commit me to admiration for napoleon and gladstone. i may close this paper by expressing a hope that i may have the indulgence of students. the subject is incomparably difficult; it is

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eaps itself and falls on the other;27 you.ll tell me why at least, mayhap, our christianity excites especially such petty spites as these you strew throughout your verse. the chance of birth! i choose to curse (writing in english28) just the yoke of faith that tortures english folk. i cannot write29 a poem yet to please the people in tibet; but when i can, christ shall not lack peace, while their buddha i attack.30 yet by-and-by i hope to weave a song of anti-christmas eve and first- and second- beast-er day. there.s one*31 who loves me dearly (vrai) who yet believes me sprung from tophet, either the beast or the false prophet; and by all sorts of monkey tricks adds up my name to six six six. retire, good gallup !32 in such strife her superior skill makes you a cipher! 1 crowley.s mother

seem (elsewhere)35 to hold, to hymn supreme in your own soul. perhaps you know how mystic doctrines melt the snow of any faith: redeem it to a fountain of reviving dew. so i with christ: but few receive the qabalistic balm,36 believe nothing.and choose to know instead. but, to that terror vague and dread, external worship; all my life. war to the knife! war to the knife! no! on the other hand the buddha says .i.m surprised at you! how could a person accept my law and still use hatred, the sole means of ill, in truth.s defence? in praise of light. well! well! i guess brer buddha.s right! i am no brutal cain37 to smash an abel: i hear that blasphemy.s unfashionable: so in the quietest way we.ll chat about it; no need to show teeth, claws of cat about it! with gentle words.fiat exordium; exea

blasphemy.s unfashionable: so in the quietest way we.ll chat about it; no need to show teeth, claws of cat about it! with gentle words.fiat exordium; exeat dolor, intret gaudium! 1 it had a design of 666 and crowley.s name in hebrew (which, like most names, adds up to that figure) on the reverse. 110 115 120 125 130 135 140 necessity of poem. mysticism v. literal interpre tation. former excused. buddha rebukes poet. detailed scheme of modified poem. 6 the sword of song we.ll have the ham to logic.s sandwich of indignation: last bread bland, which after our scorn of god.s lust, terror, hate, prometheus-fired, we.ll butter, perorate with oiled indifference, laughter.s silver .omne hoc verbum valet nil, vir! let me help babu chander grish up! as by a posset of hunyadi38 clear mind! was souda

.keep off the grass. from .alice through the looking-glass. hence i account no promise worse, fail to conceive a fiercer curse than john.s third chapter (sixteenth verse. but now (you say) broad-minded folk think that those words the master spoke should save all men at last. but mind! the text says nothing of the kind! read the next verses. then.one third of all humanity are steady in a belief in buddha.s word, possess eternal life already, and shun delights, laborious days of labour living (milton.s phrase) in strenuous purpose to? to cease .a fig for god.s eternal peace! true peace is to annihilate the chain of causes men call fate, so that no sattva66 may renew once death has run life.s shuttle through (their dages put it somewhat thus) what.s fun to them is death to us! that.s clear at

a metaphysic sings (i wish they did indeed: i find their prose the hardest of hard reading .but if. you cry .the world.s designed as a mere mirage in the mind, up jumps free will. but all i.m pleading is against pain and hell. freewill then can damn man? no fearful mill, grinding catastrophe, is speeding outside.some whence, some whither? and67 i think we easier understand where schelling (to the buddha leading) calls real not-self. in any case there is not, there can never be a soul, or sword or armour needing, incapable in time or space or to inflict or suffer. we i think are gradually weeding the soil of dualism. pheugh! drop to the common christian.s view! this is my point; the world lies bleeding (result of sin).i do not care; i will admit you anywhere! i take your premises themselves

but compounds ever fluctuate with time or space or various state (ask chemists else) so i must claim spirit and matter are the same37 or else the prey of putrefaction. this matters to the present action little or nothing. here.s your theories! think if you like: i find it wearies! it matters little whether we with fichte and the brahmins preach that ego-atman sole must be; with schelling and the buddha own no-ego-skandhas are alone; with hegel and the.christian? teach that which compels, includes, absorbs both mighty unrevolving orbs in one informing masterless master-idea of consciousness. all differences as these indeed are chess play, conjuring .proceed. nay! i.ll go back. the exposition above, has points. but simple fission has reproduced a different bliss, at last a heterogenesis! th

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their successors, and again and again the veil has fallen upon the holy of holies. 19. to you who yet wander in the court of the profane we cannot reveal all; but you will easily understand that the religions of the world are but symbols and veils of the sub figura i 3 absolute truth. so also are the philosophies. to the adepts, seeing all things from above, there seems nothing to choose between buddha and mohammed, between atheism and theism. 20. the many change and pass; the one remains. even as wood and coal and iron burn up together in one great flame, if only that furnace be of transcendent heat; so in the alembic of this spiritual alchemy, if only the zelator blow sufficiently upon his furnace all the systems of earth are consumd in the one knowledge. 21. nevertheless, as a fire can

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reason (the tao) h1 10. the result of the second method is to show the adept to what end his powers are destined. when he has passed the abyss and become nemo, the return of the current causes him gto appear in the heaven of jupiter as a morning star or as an evening star. h2 3 in other words, he should discover what may be the nature of his work. thus mohammed was a brother reflected in netzach, buddha a brother reflected into hod, or, as some say, daath. the present manifestation of frater p. to the outer is in tiphareth, to the inner in the path of leo. 11. first method. let the exempt adept first train himself to think backwards by external means, as set forth here following (a) let him learn to write backwards, with either hand (b) let him learn to walk backwards (c) let him constantl

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versa. in addition, the hindu idea of reincarnation includes humans 26 evolution and religious creation myths reincarnating into animals and animals reincarnating as humans in endless cycles. buddhism buddhism is an offshoot of vedism (the precursor of hinduism) that appeared between 600 and 500 b.c.e. it is traditionally associated with nepalese prince sakyamuni gautama siddharta, the historical buddha, who was himself preceded by many other buddhas, at least in the major mahayana (the greater vehicle) religious tradition. like hindus, buddhists believe in the concepts of samsara (cyclical rebirth, reincarnation, moksha (spiritual release or salvation, karma (the accumulated effect on the soul of morally important deeds, and the one. however, they reject the hindu pantheon, and buddhism i

ct a religion without a defined deity or deities. as with hinduism, change and transformation of the universe are familiar concepts in buddhism. buddhism is probably best known in the west for advocating an end to human suffering through several cycles of reincarnation and ultimate enlightenment. the teachings of buddhism are collectively known as dharma, which includes the four noble truths that buddha realized upon his own enlightenment (1) life is full of suffering. everyone experiences or witnesses pain, sickness, loss of loved ones, old age, and death. moments of pleasure or happiness are always impermanent, fleeting (2) the cause of suffering is desire. desire is egoistic attachment. people are focused on their selves and their cravings (3) life s suffering can be stopped by stopping

e revealed religions. possibly, then, a powerful single creator god with a strong message about the origin of life sets a frame for some within these faiths to see evolution as a threat to religious conviction. by contrast, neither hinduism nor buddhism is monotheistic or revealed, and neither sees evolution as a threat. no supernatural force within polytheistic hinduism reveals one divine truth. buddha s teachings are not revelations of a higher supernatural power; they are the result of buddha s own enlightenment, and they do not address the origin of earth, life, or humans. in addition, hinduism and buddhism contain strong ideas of change, transformation (for example, reincarnation, and impermanence that make evolution less of a new and unfamiliar view of life. in the united states, bot

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l things that are, for he who has recognized himself enters into the state of good' click to enlarge a greek form of hermes. from bryant's mythology. the name hermes is derived from "herm" a form of chiram, the personified universal life principle, generally represented by fire. the scandinavians worshiped hermes under the name of odin; the teutons as wotan, and certain of the oriental peoples as buddha, or fo. there are two theories concerning his demise. the first declares that hermes was translated like enoch and carried without death into the presence of god, the second states that he was buried in the valley of ebron and a great treasure placed in his tomb--not a treasure of gold but of books and sacred learning. the egyptians likened humanity to a flock of sheep. the supreme and inco

are personifications of the spirit fire in the human spinal cord. the astronomical aspect of the hiramic legend must not be overlooked. the tragedy of chiram is enacted annually by the sun during its passage through the signs of the zodiac "from the journey of the sun through the twelve signs" writes albert pike "come the legend of the twelve labors of hercules, and the incarnations of vishnu and buddha. hence came the legend of the murder of khurum, representative of the sun, by the three fellow-crafts, symbols of the winter signs, capricornus, aquarius, and pisces, who assailed him at the three gates of heaven and slew him at the winter solstice. hence the search for him by the nine fellow-crafts, the other nine signs, his finding, burial, and resurrection (see morals and dogma) other au

wers of the prophet mohammed. the word nun means both fish and growth, and as inman says "the jews were led to victory by the son of the fish whose other names were joshua and jesus (the savior. nun is still the name of a female devotee" of the christian faith. among early christians three fishes were used to symbolize the trinity, and the fish is also one of the eight sacred symbols of the great buddha. it is also significant that the dolphin should be sacred to both apollo (the solar savior) and neptune. it was believed that this fish carried shipwrecked sailors to heaven on its back. the dolphin was accepted by the early christians as an emblem of christ, because the pagans had viewed this beautiful creature as a friend and benefactor of man. the heir to the throne of france, the dauphi

e sake of the astral fire which emanated from their bodies. the cat was also a symbol of eternity, for when it sleeps it curls up into a ball with its head and tail touching. among the greeks and latins the cat was sacred to the goddess diana. the buddhists of india invested the cat with special significance, but for a different reason. the cat was the only animal absent at the death of the great buddha, because it had stopped on the way to chase a mouse. that the symbol of the lower astral forces should not be present at the liberation of the buddha is significant. regarding the cat, herodotus says "whenever a fire breaks out, cats are agitated with a kind of divine motion, which they that keep them observe, neglecting the fire: the cats, however, in spite of their care, break from them

nesis, the burning bush in which the angel appeared to moses, the famous vine and fig tree of the new testament, the grove of olives in the garden of gethsemane where jesus went to pray, and the miraculous tree of revelation, which bore twelve manners of fruit and whose leaves were for the healing of the nations, all bear witness to the esteem in which trees were held by the scribes of holy writ. buddha received his illumination while under the bodhi tree, near madras in india, and several of the eastern gods are pictured sitting in meditation beneath the spreading branches of mighty trees. many of the great sages and saviors carried wands, rods, or staves cut from the wood of sacred trees, as the rods of moses and aaron; gungnir--the spear of odin--cut from the tree of life; and the conse

the priests, who believed that he had returned from the land of the dead. this concept was, in substance, the teaching of the mysteries. the crucified saviors the list of the deathless mortals who suffered for man that he might receive the boon of eternal life is an imposing one. among those connected historically or allegorically with a crucifixion are prometheus, adonis, apollo, arys, bacchus, buddha, christna, horus, indra, ixion, mithras, osiris, pythagoras, quetzalcoatl, semiramis, and jupiter. according to the fragmentary accounts extant, all these heroes gave their lives to the service of humanity and, with one or two exceptions, died as martyrs for the cause of human progress. in many mysterious ways the manner of their death has been designedly concealed, but it is possible that

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rection.the shrineover a hundred feet from the entrance is the cross-hall, several hundred feet long in which is found theidol, or image, of the people's god, sitting cross-legged, with lotus flower or lily in each hand. the castof the face is oriental, the carving shows a skillful hand, and the entire object is remarkably well pre-served, as is everything in this cavern.the idol almost resembles buddha, though the scientists are not certain as to what religious worship itrepresents. taking into consideration everything found thus far, it is possible that this worship mostresembles the ancient people of tibet.surrounding this idol are smaller images, some very beautiful in form; others crooked-necked and dis-torted shapes, symbolical probably, of good and evil. there are two large cactus w

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led himself the _good shepherd [hebrew _khur, means an aperture of a window, a cave, or the eye. also it means white. in syriac [symbols [hebrew] also means an opening, and noble, free-born, high-born [hebrew, khurm means consecrated, devoted; in thiopic [symbols] it is the name of a city[_josh. xix. 38; and of a man[_ezr. ii. 32, x. 31 _neh. iii. 11 [hebrew _khirah, means nobility, a noble race. buddha is declared to comprehend in his own person the essence of the hindu trimurti; and hence the tri-literal monosyllable _om_ or _aum_ is applied to him as being essentially the same as brahma-vishnu-siva. he is the same as hermes, thoth, taut, and teutates. one of his names is heri-maya or her-maya, which are evidently the same name as hermes and khirm or khurm. heri, in sanscrit, means _lord

the male children to be slain. he performed miracles, say his legends, even raising the dead. he washed the feet of the brahmins, and was meek and lowly of spirit. he was born of a virgin; descended to hell, rose again, ascended to heaven, charged his disciples to teach his doctrines, and gave them the gift of miracles. the first masonic legislator whose memory is preserved to us by history, was buddha, who, about a thousand years before the christian era, reformed the religion of manous. he called to the priesthood all men, without distinction of caste, who felt themselves inspired by god to instruct men. those who so associated themselves formed a society of prophets under the name of samaneans. they recognized the existence of a single uncreated god, in whose bosom everything grows, is

felt themselves inspired by god to instruct men. those who so associated themselves formed a society of prophets under the name of samaneans. they recognized the existence of a single uncreated god, in whose bosom everything grows, is developed and transformed. the worship of this god reposed upon the obedience of all the beings he created. his feasts were those of the solstices. the doctrines of buddha pervaded india, china, and japan. the priests of brahma, professing a dark and bloody creed, brutalized by superstition, united together against buddhism, and with the aid of despotism, exterminated its followers. but their blood fertilized the new doctrine, which produced a new society under the name of gymnosophists; and a large number, fleeing to ireland, planted their doctrines there, a

them with the explanation and commentary superadded. listen, my brother, to _our_ explanation of the symbols of the degree, and then give them such further interpretation as you think fit. the _cross_ has been a sacred symbol from the earliest antiquity. it is found upon all the enduring monuments of the world, in egypt, in assyria, in hindostan, in persia, and on the buddhist towers of ireland. buddha was said to have died upon it. the druids cut an oak into its shape and held it sacred, and built their temples in that form. pointing to the four quarters of the world, it was the symbol of universal nature. it was on a cruciform tree, that chrishna was said to have expired, pierced with arrows. it was revered in mexico. but its peculiar meaning in this degree, is that given to it by the a

ies were carried northward from the east, by odin; who, being a great warrior, modelled and varied them to suit his purposes and the genius of his people. he placed over their celebration twelve hierophants, who were alike priests, counsellors of state, and judges from whose decision there was no appeal. he held the numbers three and nine in peculiar veneration and was probably himself the indian buddha. every thrice-three months, thrice-three victims were sacrificed to the tri-une god. the goths had three great festivals; the most magnificent of which commenced at the winter solstice, and was celebrated in honor of thor, the prince of the power of the air. that being the longest night in the year, and the one after which the sun comes northward, it was commemorative of the creation; and t

could only be atoned for by repentance, reformation, and voluntary penance; and not by mere ceremonies and sacrifices. the mysteries among the chinese and japanese came from india, and were founded on the same principles and with similar rites. the word given to the new initiate was o-mi-to fo, in which we recognize the original name a.u.m, coupled at a much later time with that of fo, the indian buddha, to show that he was the great deity himself. the equilateral triangle was one of their symbols; and so was the mystical y; both alluding to the triune god, and the latter being the ineffable name of the deity. a ring supported by two serpents was emblematical of the world, protected by the power and wisdom of the creator; and that is the origin of the two parallel lines (into which time ha

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g the table where they had piled countless papyri writ with woes of kings and sages woman-wrecked, and many a map of towns and temples torn and trampled beneath the feet of love, their ashes smouldering still, and smoky with song to witness how astarte's breath had kindled and consumed them. extinguished empires owned that their doom was the device of venus, her vengeance on virility. by paul sat buddha smiling, ananda's arm about his neck, while mohammed paced the floor impatiently between two warrior comrades, his belt bearing an iron key, a whip, and a sword, wherewith to limit women's liberty, their love, their life, lest to his loss they lure him. the beast is there also, aloof, attentive. he will not weigh the evidence in the balances of any particular kind of advantage. he will not

etter (how much less a phrase) in this book is casual. the expression "to hell with them" is not merely an outburst of colloquial enthusiasm. the word "hell, that and no other, serves the purpose of the speaker. this would naturally be suggested to us, in any case, by the reflection that our law does not indulge in the frothings of impotent fury, like the priestly frauds of moses, the rishis, and buddha, in the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth of the galilean fishwife. our law knows nothing of punishment beyond that imposed by ignorance and awkwardness on their possessor. the word "hell" must therefore be explained in terms neither of virile vulgarity, or theological blackmail. see liber aleph, 124, 129, 130. 61. there is a light before thine eyes, o prophet, a light undesired, mo

nts to accuse me. it may be that my present extremity is the very condition required for the fulfilment of my work [inserted footnote* an xxi. it is now evident that this was the case] who shall say what is power, what impotence? who shall be bold to measure the morrow, or declare what causes conjoin to bring forth an effect that no man knoweth? was not lao-tze thrust forth from his city? did not buddha go begging in rags? did not mohammed flee for his life into exile? was not bacchus the scandal and the scorn of men? than joseph smith had any man less learning? yet each of these attained to do his will; each cried his word, that all the earth yet echoes it! and each was able to accomplish this by virtue of that very circumstance which seems so cruel. shall i, who am armed with all their w

meanings of the book of the law, its psychological depth, the almost unbelievable wealth of its insight, would be sufficient evidence of the exceptional quality of the mind who wrote it. were we to believe that it was the "scribe and prophet" himself the author, this would just be added justification for obeying him. for surely this would have been a man much more worthy of obedience than jesus, buddha, or karl marx. and yet, what is the injunction given by this man to each who would obey him "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" why shall that stele be called "the abomination of desolation? this is an extremely important point, the basis of all the revolutions in theology that have been occurring since 1904. 20. why? because of the fall of because, that he is not there again

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h avatar, vishnu was born to slay the demon ravana. king dasharatha prayed for a son, and vishnu gave him a bowl of divine nectar to share between his three wives. as a result, four sons were born: rama, who received half the divine essence, bharata, who received a quarter, and lakshmana and satrughna, who received an eighth each. therefore, all four brothers shared in vishnu s divine nature. the buddha the buddha, the ninth avatar shown here with the attributes of vishnu, was a historical figure. he taught humankind how to free itself of desire, and the illusion of this world, and its endless reincarnations. the buddha s previous incarnations are recounted in the jataka tales. kalkin, the white horse at the end of this era of the world, when humankind has become totally degenerate, vishnu

anch of the sacred sakaki tree in one hand, and a magical jewel in the other. the sakaki tree (cleyera japonica) is one of the wonderful objects used to lure the sun goddess amaterasu out of her cave (see pp. 122 23. jewel sengen-sama holds a magical jewel in her right hand. mount fuji and her neighbor, the male mount haku, once argued over which of them was the highest. to settle the matter, the buddha of infinite light ran a pipe from the top of mount haku to the top of mount fuji. when the water spilled over fuji s peak, the goddess was so cross that she beat haku over the head and cracked his skull in eight places (now the eight peaks of mount haku. as a result, mount fuji is now taller. myths of the ainu in the beginning, the earth was a lifeless swamp, with six heavens above and six

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

buddhist scheme, where the first noble truth is sorrow, so not until we have been brought by experience to understand life as sorrow, can we hope for the cessation of its dread ravage. only then does the prospect open of breaking the unconscious projection, the ending of which discloses the world and the whole of life in a totally different light "one thing only, brother, do i proclaim" said the buddha "now as before. suffering and deliverance from suffering" these restricting circumstances and bonds are only the gates of the wilderness. the use of the word "gate"imp1ies a means both of egress and ingress. by these gates we have entered, and by them also may we go out if so we choose, to enter the brilliance of the dawning sun, and perchance greet the rising of the spiritual splendour. fo

ate to the light divine, that the magical system of the golden dawn, or of any other legitimate initiating system, owes its existence. the function of every phase of its work, the avowed intention of its principal rituals, and the explicit statement of its teaching, is to assist the candidate by his own aspirations to find that unity of being which is the inner self, the pure essence of mind, the buddha-nahue. not only does the system imply this by its ritualistic movements and axiomata, but there are klear and unmistakable passages where these ideas are given unequivocal expression. thus, we find it written that the entire object of initiation and mystical teaching is "by the intervention of the symbol, ceremonial and sacrament, so to lead the soul that it may be withdrawn from the attrac

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

n all mankind by faith. this religion has existed always in the world, and under many names has been ever the one and ruling religion. it has now among the nations of the earth three apparently hostile forms, which are destined, however, to unite before long for the constitution of a universal church. i refer to the greek orthodoxy, roman catholicism and a final transfiguration of the religion of buddha. hereunto therefore we have made it plain, as we believe, that our magic is opposed to the goetic and necromantic kinds. it is at once an absolute science and religion, which should not indeed destroy and absorb all opinions and all forms of worship, but should regenerate and direct them by reconstituting the circle of initiates, and thus providing the blind masses with wise and clear-seein

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paid little attention to. it is impossible to point out details, for this would overstep the frame of this thesis. sticking to a carefully planned, step-by-step development, there will be neither a mishap nor a failure or bad consequences, for the simple reason that ripening takes place slowly, but surely. it is quite an individual matter, whether the adept will choose as his idea of god christ, buddha, brahma, allah, or someone else. all depends on the idea, in the initiation. the pure mystic wishes to approach his god only in the all-em-bracing love. the yogi, too, walks towards one single aspect of god. the bhakti yogi keeps to the road of love and devotion; the raja and hatha yogi choose the path of self-control or volition; the jnana yogi will follow that of wisdom and cognition. let

chael a. aquino: he was born in 1946, precisely nine months after a working by crowley's california disciples to create a homunculus per a secret instruction of crowley's to the ix of his ordo templi orientis. he was also born dead, raising the question of the nature of the force inhabiting his subsequently revived body. on his chest he bears the same whorled swastika appearing on crowley and the buddha, and from infancy his eyebrows have always curled upward into the horns described in the biblical book of revelation #13:11. he was ordained to the satanic priesthood by anton lavey on the night of the north solstice v, and recognized by set as a magus on the night of the north solstice x. he has taken the name of the prince of darkness as a part of himself: ra-en-set "he who speaks as set"

manuscript. the word of the aeon of set is xeper. become each magical aon is characterized by a philosophy, which may be summarized by a formula, which may in turn be summarized by a word. the magus of an aon "utters its word, i.e: he formulates and explains the new philosophy. although crowley speaks of only three historic aons (isis, osiris, and horus, he identifies eight magi: lao-tzu, gotama buddha, krishna, tehuti (thoth, moses, dionysus (christ, mohammed, and himself. anton szandor lavey is the ninth, his number is nine, and his word is indulgence. the formula of the age of satan was an expansion of this word: indulgence instead of abstinence.64 i am therefore the tenth, appearing in the year x, and it has been my task and curse65 to utter the word xeper. this is the egyptian hierog

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w better. he knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run clear out of his skin and into the arms of his wife, to whom he had proved, once and for all, the superiority of his love. some migrants are happy to depart. babasaheb mhatre sat in a blue office behind a green door above a labyrinthine bazaar, an awesome figure, buddha-fat, one of the great moving forces of the metropolis, possessing the occult gift of remaining absolutely still, never shifting from his room, and yet being everywhere important and meeting everyone who mattered in bombay. the day after young ismail's father ran across the border to see naima, the babasaheb summoned the young man into his presence "so? upset or what" the reply, with downcas

his dhotis? god knows what got into you, daughter, but i don't want these dolls" on the wall behind his desk hung a framed certificate which read, in elaborately cur- licued print _this is to certify that mr sri s. srinivas is an expert on the geological history of the planet earth, having flown through grand canyon with scenic airlines. srinivas closed his eyes and folded his arms, an unlaughing buddha with the indisputable authority of one who had flown "that boy is a devil" he said with finality, and ayesha folded the dolls into her piece of sackcloth and turned to leave, without arguing. srinivas's eyes flew open "damn you" he shouted "aren't you going to give me a hard time? you think i don't know you need the money? why you did such a damn stupid thing? what are you going to do now?

st the will to lead his life according to his own standards of morality. at the sports centre where he taught martial arts techniques to ever- greater numbers of students, emphasizing the spiritual aspects of the disciplines, much to their amusement("ah so, grasshopper" his star pupil mishal sufyan would tease him "when honolable fascist swine jump at you flom dark alleyway, offer him teaching of buddha before you kick him in honolable balls- he began to display such _passionate intensity_ that his pupils, realizing that some inner anguish was being expressed, grew alarmed. when mishal asked him about it at the end of a session that had left them both bruised and panting for breath, in which the two of them, teacher and star, had hurled themselves at one another like the hungriest of lover

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

umes) presents the biographies of fifty men and women who have played a critical role in the world s religions throughout history. among those profiled are abraham, whose influence is seen in three of the modern world s most influential religions: judaism, christianity, and islam; muhammad, considered the final and most important prophet by muslims; and siddhartha gautama, who became known as the buddha. modern figures include the hindu teacher swami vivekananda and baha u lla h, the founder of the baha faith. women who made significant impacts on religion are also featured, including mother maria skobtsova, an orthodox christian nun who worked to save many during the holocaust. world religions: primary sources (one volume) offers eighteen excerpted writings, speeches, and sacred texts fro

new england educational media association. fatima al-hayani, professor of religious studies, university of toledo, toledo, ohio. madan kaura, bharatyia temple, ford interfaith network, dearborn, michigan. ann marie laprise, huron school district, monroe, michigan. ann w. moore, librarian, schenectady county public library, schenectady, new york. chuen pangcham, midwest buddhist meditation center (buddha vihara temple, warren, michigan. gene schramm, retired professor of semitic languages and near eastern studies, university of michigan, ann arbor, michigan. cheryl youse, media specialist, hatherly elementary school, plymouth, michigan. comments and suggestions we welcome your comments on world religions: almanac and suggestions for other topics in history to consider. please write to edito

ple of solomon is constructed in jerusalem. seventh century bce beginning of the milesian school of philosophy in ancient greece. 600 bce official formalization of the rig veda, one of hinduism s most sacred texts. 586 bce the babylonian king nebuchadnezzar destroys the jewish temple in jerusalem and drives the jews into exile (the babylonian exile. 563 bce siddhartha gautama, who will become the buddha, is born in present-day nepal. c. 551 479 bce life span of the scholar kongzi, who is known in the west by his latinized name, confucius. xi c. 540 c. 470 bce life span of mahavira, considered the main founder of jainism. 539 bce mesopotamian religion ends when babylonia accepts cyrus of persia as king. 515 bce the second jewish temple is built in jerusalem. 483 bce death of the buddha. c

the bharata dynasty; examines the nature of god and how mortals can know him. bhakti: devotion. blasphemy: disrespectful comments or actions concerning a religion or its god. bodhisattva: a person who has attained enlightenment but, rather than entering a state of nirvana, chooses to stay behind to help others reach enlightenment. bon: an indigenous religion of tibet. brahma: the creator-god. the buddha: the title of siddhartha gautama after he attained enlightenment. caliph: one of muhammad s successors as leader of the faith. candomble: a south american religion with many similarities to santer a, often used synonymously with santer a. canon: the official, sacred texts of a religion. caste: social classes in hinduism, the dominant religion in india. celtic: a term referring to an ethnic

or sects of jainism. disciple: a person who accepts and assists in spreading the teachings of a leader. in the bible, a follower of jesus. doctrine: a set of ideas held by a religious group. druidism: a neo-pagan religion based in the celtic region of the british isles. dynasty: a sequence of rulers from the same family. xviii world religions: almanac words to know eightfold path: the path of the buddha s teachings that can lead to the end of suffering. ek onkar: the true god of sikhism. emanation: that which inevitably flows outward from the transcendental (spiritual, beyond human experience) central principle of reality, the one, in the neoplatonic philosophy of plotinus. empiricism: belief that knowledge comes through the senses. enlightenment: the state of realization and understanding

and worship of the kami. four books: the most prominent of confucian sacred texts, established by zhu xi: the analects, the mencius, da xue (great learning, and zhongyong (doctrine of the mean. four noble truths: the foundations of the buddhist religion: that all life is suffering, that desire causes suffering, that suffering can end, and that ending suffering happens by following the path of the buddha s teachings. gahambars: seasonal festivals. gathas: a portion of the zend-avesta that contains holy songs; believed to be the words of zarathushtra himself. god: the supreme or ultimate being or reality; creator of the universe. goddess worship: term that refers generally to any neo-pagan practice that elevates the status of goddesses over that of gods. golden temple: the chief sikh temple

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

al column. they are the kundalini or sex force. in the encircled serpent (howey, op. cit, the chapter on the caduceus contains references (page 72) to the ancient use of the symbol without wings, as seen in the mural. the caduceus is also the symbol of peace, the propaganda term associated with the u.n. the serpents are male and female; the sun-god and the moon-god; and are symbols of generation. buddha was symbolized by the serpent and in mythology is identical with mercury. the center sphere and the outer circles around it form the all-seeing eye. this bisected sphere overlays an isoceles triangle bounded on one side by the diagonal line. according to manly palmer hall, in his occult treatise -18- on the secret destiny of america,24 the all-seeing eye is that of the great architect of th

ult-evoking simulacra of deity. st. paul said (acts 17, verse 29 "if therefore we are the offspring of god, we ought not to imagine that the divinity is like to gold or silver or stone, to an image graven by human art and thought" but hammarskjold likened the light over the altar to the sun's illumination and the altar to "the god whom man worships under many names and in many forms" beelzebub or buddha, confucius or christ. they are all one in the meditation room, a nameless god. appendix: mural a gift of marshall field family early accounts of the gift of the mural (its cost in terms of labor, etc) stated that an "anonymous donor" had supplied it to the room. however, the leaflet handed to visitors of the room states that "the fresco is a gift of the marshall field family, in his memory"

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comprehend nothing of what actually took place in the soul of the neophyte. they would take the latter s death, burial, and resurrection as a physical occurrence, and the spiritual realities of a higher existential plane would take on the appearance of an event contradicting the whole natural order of things: a miracle. and in that sense, a miracle is what initiation was. the life of an initiate: buddha and christ those who wished to comprehend what initiation meant had to awaken in themselves the powers enabling them to adopt a higher stance, on a new existential plane. it required a premeditated course of life, leading to such a higher experience. and though in each individual case these experiences might come about in various ways, it always happens that we can point to specific, typica

hat we can point to specific, typical forms. the life of an initiate has a typical character, which can be described without reference to the particular personality concerned. to put it another way: an individual could be described as treading the path to divinization only after having undergone the particular typical experiences of an initiate. 92 christianity as mystical fact one example is the buddha as seen by his disciples, and as such a one did jesus first appear in his own society. we know today of the parallelism between the biographies of the buddha and jesus. one has only to observe the detailed correspondences between them to realize that any attempt at denial would be vain.91 there is an annunciation of buddha s birth to queen maya by a white elephant, which overshadows her and

to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named joseph, a descendant of david. the virgin s name was mary. the angel went to her and said, greetings, you who are highly favored. you will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name jesus. he will be great and will be called the son of the most high. the brahmans (indian priests) understand the meaning of the birth of a buddha. they interpret maya s dream according to a totally schematic concept of what a buddha is: the individual s life must correspond to this concept exactly. similarly we find in the gospel of matthew that herod: called together all the people s chief priests and teachers of the law, and asked them where the christ was to be born. the egyptian and other eastern mysteries 93 one of the brahmans

et maya s dream according to a totally schematic concept of what a buddha is: the individual s life must correspond to this concept exactly. similarly we find in the gospel of matthew that herod: called together all the people s chief priests and teachers of the law, and asked them where the christ was to be born. the egyptian and other eastern mysteries 93 one of the brahmans, asita, says of the buddha: this child is the one who will become a buddha, the savior, the leader to immortality, freedom, and the light. compare with this what happens in the gospel of luke: now there was a man in jerusalem called simeon, who was righteous and devout. he was waiting for the consolation of israel, and the holy spirit was upon him. when the parents brought in the child jesus to do for him what the cu

he parents brought in the child jesus to do for him what the custom of the law required, simeon took him in his arms and praised god, saying: lord, as you have promised you now dismiss your servant in peace. for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all people, a light for revelation to the gentiles, and for glory to your people israel. tradition reports of the buddha that when he was a child of twelve he went missing, and was found again under a tree, surrounded by the poets and sages of the time. correspondingly we find in the gospel of luke: every year his parents went up to jerusalem for the feast of the passover. when he was twelve years old, they went up to the feast, according to the custom. after the feast was over, while his parents were returni

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

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

tory of winning many disputed seats in that country's knesset (parliament (photo: the jerusalem post newspaper, may 28, 1999, p. 8) beatle paul mccartney, left, gives the llluminati's "divine king" sign while fellow beatle john lennon lets us know he's a luciferian. ok-sign of the divine king 513 in london's daily mail newspaper (july 6, 2000, p. 9) was this report of a giant s00 foot high bronze buddha statue, called the buddha maitreya, in the indian holy city of bodh gaya. the statue will be over three times higher than the u.s.a.'s statue of liberty. it is being built by british engineers. observe the buddha statues mudra, or left hand sign. also, the "horns" on the head. 514 codex magica the caption reads "kay wescott, a lawyer and cpa who works for the justice department, attends med

the yogic positions of hands and body represent hindu pagan religious symbols and doctrines. in this instance, ms. wescott sits in the upright position, legs crossed lotus-style, her hands in the mudra "ok" or circle. ok-sign of the divine king 515 a hindu swami and worshipper of the god shiva at the san marga sanctuary in hawaii. he is accompanied by a strange paper idol and a brazen cobra idol. buddha displaying the left-hand "ok" mudra. this drawing is from the herder dictionary of symbols (chiron publications, wilmette, illinois, 1986. that reference source explains it as "an eye in the hand of god signified god's creative wisdom" of course, this is not referring to the christian god, but to the ineffable, unknown god called ain soph in the cabala and as the evil, satanic "god of force

THE BLACK LODGE

. let us examine another way in which the black lodge goes about its work. the black lodge creates false initiatic movements or they stimulate faith in false masters. at the present time, all organized religions of the old aeon fall into the category of demonic influence. as it is written, liber 418, 6th aethyr..and this is the mystery of the great prophets that have come unto mankind, moses, and buddha, and lao tan, and krishna, and jesus, and osiris, and mohammed; for all these attain unto the grade of magus, and therefore were they bound with the curse of thoth. but, being guardians of the truth, they have taught nothing but falsehood, except unto such as understood (that is, except unto such as had the potential of becoming masters of the temple; for the truth may not pass the gate of

notice that manifested existence would be impossible without this; that are the 4 devils, satan, lucifer, leviathan, belial, that are the great princes of the evil of the world "and satan is worshiped by men under the name of jesus; and lucifer is worshiped by men under the name of brahma; and leviathan is worshiped by men under the name of allah; and belial is worshiped by men under the name of buddha (see al iii 48-56 "moreover, there is mary (the reflex, in the qliphoth of malkuth, of our lady babalon, the guardian of the abyss. she is the scarlet woman who rides the beast, and her cup of abominations is the holy grail. but again, this is an arcane of the grade of practicus of the a .a. and if we tried to explain it here we would only cause confusion, a blasphemy against babalon, for s

THE CRAFT GRIMOIRE OF ECLECTIC VERSION 2

tter what is in the heart of the user. now for a little fresh information: most pagan belief systems are environmentally friendly, with the underlaying theme of living in harmony with others. if you are seeking power and the ability to control others by fear, you re in the wrong place! page 12 conscious sub-conscious super-conscious ba id nirvana ka super ego nama body/mind ego rupa egypt: freud: buddha: this page was assembled, in part based upon the fundamental teachings of thomas d. willhite the art of magick theory overview continued grimoire of eclectic magick super-consciousness sub-consciousness consciousnes programs memory emotion creativity the conscious mind preforms two basic functions (1) it directs your attention, and (2) it gives instructions to the other levels of your being

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experiences can be explained in terms of neural transmitters, neural networks, and brain chemistry. perhaps the feeling of transcendence that mystics describe could be the result of decreased activity in the brain s parietal lobe, which helps regulate the sense of self and physical orientation. perhaps the human brain is wired for mystical experiences and the flash of wisdom that illuminated the buddha, the voices that mohammed and moses heard in the wilderness, and the dialogues that jesus had with the father were the result of brain chemistry and may someday be completely explained in scientific terms. perhaps the origin of these beliefs is to be found in psychology? humankind s fascination with the unknown quite likely began with the most basic of human emotions fear. early humans face

c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d afterlife mysteries 5 earliest members of the homo sapiens species (c. 30,000 b.c.e) conducted burial rituals of a quality that would qualify them as religious. impossible to suggest that an individual could retain the same soul-self for eternity. rather than atman, buddhist doctrine teaches anatman/ or, no-self. although the buddha (c. 567 487 b.c.e) denied the hindu concept of an immortal self that passes through a series of incarnations, he did accept the doctrines of karma( actions, the cause-and-effect laws of material existence) and samsara (rebirth. if the buddha recognized rebirth into another lifetime but did not believe in an essential self or soul, then what would be reborn? the buddhist answer is difficult

n once again into the unceasing cycle of karma and samsara. however, dharma, the physical and moral laws that govern the universe, flow through everything and everyone, thereby continually changing and rearranging every aspect of the human. although driven by karma, the dharma rearranges the process of rebirth to form a new individual. in his first sermon, the noble truth of suffering (dukha, the buddha presented his views on the aggregates that constitute the human condition: the noble truth of suffering is this: birth is suffering; aging is suffering; sickness is suffering; death is suffering; sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief, and despair are suffering; association with the unpleasant is suffering; dissociation with the pleasant is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering in

oble truth of suffering is this: birth is suffering; aging is suffering; sickness is suffering; death is suffering; sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief, and despair are suffering; association with the unpleasant is suffering; dissociation with the pleasant is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering in brief, the five aggregates of attachment are suffering. in the dhammapada (147:51) the buddha speaks further of the destiny of all human flesh in quite graphic terms: behold this beautiful body, a mass of sores, a heaped up lump, diseased, much thought of, in which nothing lasts, nothing persists. thoroughly worn out is this body, a nest of diseases, perishable. truly, life ends in death. of bones is this house made, plastered with flesh and blood. herein are stored decay, death, co

g lasts, nothing persists. thoroughly worn out is this body, a nest of diseases, perishable. truly, life ends in death. of bones is this house made, plastered with flesh and blood. herein are stored decay, death, conceit, and hypocrisy. even ornamented royal chariots wear out. so too the body reaches old age. but the dhamma of the good grows not old. thus do the good reveal it among the good. the buddha s advice to all those who wish to rise above the karmic laws of death and rebirth is to live a contemplative, religious life: men who have not led a religious life and have not laid up treasure in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without fish. men who have not led a religious life and have not laid up treasure in their youth lie like wornout bows, sighing after the past (dhamma

wish to rise above the karmic laws of death and rebirth is to live a contemplative, religious life: men who have not led a religious life and have not laid up treasure in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without fish. men who have not led a religious life and have not laid up treasure in their youth lie like wornout bows, sighing after the past (dhammapada 155:56) the counsel of the buddha is quite similar to the words of jesus in matthew 6:19 21 when he admonished those who would follow him not to expend their energies accumulating treasures on earth where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourself treasure in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. for where your treasure is, there wi

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experiences can be explained in terms of neural transmitters, neural networks, and brain chemistry. perhaps the feeling of transcendence that mystics describe could be the result of decreased activity in the brain s parietal lobe, which helps regulate the sense of self and physical orientation. perhaps the human brain is wired for mystical experiences and the flash of wisdom that illuminated the buddha, the voices that mohammed and moses heard in the wilderness, and the dialogues that jesus had with the father were the result of brain chemistry and may someday be completely explained in scientific terms. perhaps the origin of these beliefs is to be found in psychology? humankind s fascination with the unknown quite likely began with the most basic of human emotions fear. early humans face

only consist of meditation but of three ways believed to work together. those ways are: 1. sila or purification 2. samadhi or concentration 3. punna or insight sila, or purification, is simply cleansing the body, mind, spirit. samadhi, or concentration, involves fixing one s mind or attention on a single object that can be any object such as a colored wheel, a candle, reflections on attributes of buddha or the elements of nature, etc. 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 mysteries of the mind 149 meditation (field mark publications) thetwo main categories of meditation are mystical and secular. punna, or insight, doesn t come until the student masters mindfulness of the body, feelings, mind, and mind objects, and even then it is said tha

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

system is taken to the funeral hall in a brightly decorated carriage. the coffin is carried three times around the buddhist temple or funeral hall and then brought in where it is set down in the midst of the flowers and gifts that friends and family of the deceased have placed around it. a buddhist monk leads the people in a prayer known as the three jewels that helps the soul find refuge in the buddha, the dharma (the true way of life that a devout buddhist seeks to lead, and the sangha (the unified faith of the buddhist monks. together with the people in the funeral hall, the monk recites the five precepts, the rules by which buddhists strive to live. throughout the ceremony, food is served and music is played. there are few tears of mourning, for the family and friends are reminded by

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experiences can be explained in terms of neural transmitters, neural networks, and brain chemistry. perhaps the feeling of transcendence that mystics describe could be the result of decreased activity in the brain fs parietal lobe, which helps regulate the sense of self and physical orientation. perhaps the human brain is wired for mystical experiences and the flash of wisdom that illuminated the buddha, the voices that mohammed and moses heard in the wilderness, and the dialogues that jesus had with the father were the result of brain chemistry and may someday be completely explained in scientific terms. perhaps the origin of these beliefs is to be found in psychology? humankind fs fascination with the unknown quite likely began with the most basic of human emotions.fear. early humans fac

s a european with revulsion, the chinese zodiac sees the rodent as hard-working and industrious. in addition, there are five elements. wood, fire, earth, metal, and water.rather than the four of western astrology.earth, air, fire, and water. the animals of the chinese zodiac are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog, and boar. according to tradition, when the buddha (c. 563.c. 483 b.c.e) lay dying, he called upon the animals to come to bid him farewell. the first 12 to arrive were the ones who are immortalized in the chinese zodiac. astrology has been an integral aspect of daily life in china for centuries and remains so today. although communist doctrine and its rationalistic leaders have attempted to stamp out the influence of astrology and to depict

gh literature since the twelfth century. 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 207 the use of the prayer wheel as a mystical practice dates back to at least 400 c.e. in china. the idea itself of the prayer wheel might have originated as a play on words of gturn the wheel of the daharma h.a classical metaphor used for buddha fs teaching activity. there are many types and sizes of prayer wheels. the most common one is a simple hand-held metal or wooden object, from four to six inches long, with a cylindrical body and a metal or wooden axle that serves as a handle at one end, while the other end is wrapped with a roll of paper on which a mantra or prayer is written. the prayer or mantras are repeated in a row, wi

989. swastikas the swastika has an evil association in the twentieth century, but it has a long, rich positive history, for the meaning of the word svastika in sanskrit means ggood fortune h or gwellbeing. h swastikas were the symbol of the supreme god in ancient, southeast asia and were used by native americans as a sign for good luck. swastikas appear among artifacts of ancient rome and greece. buddha fs (c. 563.c. 483 b.c.e) footprints were said to leave impressions in the shape of swastikas. to central americans long before contact with europeans, the swastika represented good luck, long life, and prosperity. the symbol appears on navajo blankets and on ancient chinese coins. helene petrovna blavatsky, founder of the theosophical society, included the swastika in the seal of the societ

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

s. bendit and co-authored some of his books. 12. see part two, chapter six for more on wilhelm the wisdom of enlightenment is inherent in every one of us. it is because of the delusion under which our mind works that we fail to realize it ourselves, and that we have to seek the advice and guidance of the highly enlightened one before we can know our essence of mind. you should know that so far as buddha-nature is concerned, there is no diflerence between an enlightened man and an ignorant one. what makes the diflerence is that one realizes it, while the other is kept in ignorance of it. foreword t his book was completed in february 1936, anterior to the writing of the art of true healing, whilst i was still resident in london. my point of view since that time has undergone considerable rev

mmend the results of analysis, but it proceeds still further. if analysis aims at the acceptance of the unconscious, and the validity of its co-existence with consciousness, then magic may be said to be a technique for realizing the deeper levels of the unconscious. these are levels of power and realization whose value we can but dimly grasp through contemplation of religious figures of the past. buddha, jesus, krishna, st. francis, and a host of others are instances of such illuminated men--of individuals who have striven, all in different ways, to know themselves and attain to a realization of their true divine nature. if so we wish, the techruques they employed we may call devotion, meditation, and contemplation. fundamentally however, they are identical in spirit with what we now propo

rtain schools of magic, where the rites of by adepts who at one time thoroughly they employed, initiation ceremonies depicted higher self and its rebirth by means of a techrucal and meditation. therein, the higher self was always some sacred figure of the major religions-a man always shown as the son of cod. the essence of these systems was to develop the son w be born in you "look with; thou are buddha" these images could possibly have reference to any we know of. but rather i surmise these refer into conscious operation of a spiritual point equilibrated attitude towards life, an attitude not to any extreme. recognizing the polarity of life, sought to steer a middle way between the tortuous activity of nature. it is the way of the reconciler, path between the two pillars, that balanced an

, but it has evolved a profound technique whereby such potencies may be brought into manifest operation. the magical correspondence of the psychological id, or es as dr. georg groddeck called it, is the yechidah-a word meaning the monad, the self, the paternal ens4 of light. it is the "essence of mind which is intrinsically pure" to adopt a definition of an eastern religious text.5 it is also the buddha-nature, the realization of which is that alone which differentiates the enlightened man, the sage, from him who is ignorant and unenlightened. just as in physics, where the electron may be considered either as an electrical particle or as a system of radiations or waves, so this yechidah may be considered from two quite distinct points of view. it is the innermost kernel of the self, the de

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

ic opposition, verging ever towards the extreme circumference of utility, has given and is giving birth to numerous world-wide systems and philosophies. the taboos of the south seas, the restrictions laid on widow-remarriage in india, the purdah of the mussulman, the veil of the vestal, the numerous accounts of virgin-mothers, all find their origin in this idea. the laws of the vedas, of manu, of buddha, the codes of confucius and lao-tze, the talmudic books of the jews, and the koran of the mohamedans, all maintain its direct influence and restrictions; and in the west in the old mythologies of teuton and celt, in the old norse sagas, more so in the roman and grecian law, and still more so on the christian edicts of constantine, theodoric, athalaric, and justinian, and the innumerable cod

is there a life eternal? the grim horror of such a possibility grips us by the throat. is there an eternal death? ah! saviour, deliver us from the misery of our lot; lead us to the realms of eternal rest, where rich and poor, good and bad, are made one, lost in the depths of the lethean sea. and what can all this lead us to, this progress through misery? to the great archetype the arahat-ship of buddha. it was by gazing on the sunken eyes of a corpse, so the legend runs, that gautama forsook pleasure for a life of pity. life is feodal to death, and our ultimate sleep is greater than our first awakening. the womb was dark; from out it sprang the thoughtless; the tomb is darker still; into it creeps the thoughtful. the dead are our gods, soon we shall strike our tent for the last time and j

iversal harmony; then, as that terrific night engulfs all and envelops us, o children of the day! let us rise up with the whole dawn of our understanding, encircle and annihilate this dismal unity, and conglobe all into a perfect nothingness, an ineffable bliss. attainment is ours. it matters little whether we with fichte and the brahmins preach that ego-atman sole must be; with schelling and the buddha own non-ego-skandhas are alone; with hegel and. the christian? teach that which completes, includes, absorbs both mighty unrevolving orbs in one informing masterless master-idea of consciousness. all differences as these indeed are chess play, conjuring. gproceed! h nay! i fll go back. the exposition above, has points. but simple fission has reproduced a different bliss, at last a heterogen

n (inertia= 0; and in the end there is again (inertia) the ledger closed= 0. this idealism, if i may so call it, is very similar to the conditioned and unconditioned of hegel, to the metaphysical unity underlying the athanasian creed, and also to the hindu philosophy which crowley so thoroughly grasped, when seeing the slough into which spencerian agnosticism was bound to lead, he broke away from buddha and the buddhistic doctrines of scientific doubt: so lifts the agony of the world from this mine head, that bowed awhile before the terror suddenly shown. the nameless fear for self, far hurled by death to dissolution vile, fades as the royal truth is known: though change and sorrow range and roll, there is no self. there is no soul *gargoyles, vol. iii, p. 85. time and space one question s

ome one with the whirling gems of eternity. this religion of scientific-buddhism, either through the narrow circumference of its founder fs opinions, or through that of his followers, becoming rational, became absurd, when drawn out to its logical conclusions, as crowley himself shows in gpansil g*1. and gthe three characteristics. h*2. in the former he bares the fact that in the gfirst precept h buddha himself, by speaking this commandment, violated it, and in a note very truly says: gthe argument that the eanimals are our brothers f is merely intended to mislead one who has never been in a buddhist country. the average buddhist would, of course, kill his brother for five rupees, or less. h*3. the mere fact of breathing breaks the second precept. buddha, being an habitual adulterer,*4. co

ar point of vantage attack it as being pure autohypnosis and nothing else. but curious to say. if such be the case why is it that the greatest sages of all times have been able to attract within their focus so many hundreds of millions of rational beings? they themselves being only irrational and pathological mystagogues. if such men as krishna, mahomet, st. augustine, moses, orpheus, pythagoras, buddha, plato, jesus, and a host of equal and lesser names, owed their power to self-hypnosis, then indeed self-hypnosis is the key which in this world will unlock the fast closed corridor of its mysteries. crowley strongly attacks this kitchen-knavery: you weary me with proof enough that all this meditation stuff is self-hypnosis. be it so! do you suppose i did not know? still, to be accurate, i

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

and allows belief to fully overtake and thus command. the chanting within the circle of art is merely the self awakening into gnosis and directly ensorcelling the self in belief of the act from which magick occurs. the druj came rushing along, the demon buiti, who is deceiving, unseen death avesta venidad buiti is a daeva which is the manifestation of idolatry and selfdeification, associated with buddha in ancient times. as liber hvhi presents the path of meditation, self-mastery through ahrimanic yoga, buiti is the herald of that path of magick. if one wishes to master elements of such antinomian magick, it is suggested to study the techniques of yoga while concealing the intention of becoming a yatus or a practitioner of the left hand path. while the buddhist seeks to kill consciousness

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

arriage. consider of this. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c2.html (4 of 12 [12/28/2001 2:05:25 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. vi of classical fables the ancients of every nation report their heroes to have been born of the marriage of gods with mortals. as, romulus and remus begotten of the god mars upon a vestal virgin, hercules of jove, buddha of vishnu in the form of a white elephant with six tusks, jesus of jehovah upon a virgin, and many another. even true gods were born of mortal mothers, as dionysius of semele. also they recount many loves of heaven for earth, diana for endymion, zeus for leda, danae, europa, and the rest; even hades issued from his gloomy kingdom to ravish the maid persephone. there are also loves of gods f

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

religion" j. gordon melton institute for the study of american religion, green egg, 1975 "curse them! curse them! curse them! with my hawk's head i peck at the eyes of jesus as he hangs upon the cross i flap my wings in the face of mohammed& blind him with my claws i tear out the flesh of the indian and the buddhist, mongol and din" liber al vel legis 3:50- 53 "if you are on the path, and see the buddha walking towards you, kill him" zen saying, paraphrased slightly "previously i never thought of doubting that there were many witches in the world; now, however, when i examine the public record, i find myself believing that there are hardly any" father friedrich von spee, s.j, cautio criminalis, 1631 having spent the day musing over the origins of the modern witchcraft, i had a vivid dream

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duces an objective change in the world as an example of your own divinity, it will begin to illustrate the power of the word to open new potentials of power within you. this practice is highly recommended for someone who wishes to use words to explore himself/herself through such means as the enochian aethyrs. be sure you have results here first. 7. mythologize your birth in the manner of christ, buddha, zoroaster etc. learn to see your physical birth as the manifestation of the divine. you may wish to use a number of different masks in this. see yourself as a tribal hero returned, a god incarnated, or a visitor from another world. play with these mythologies- remembering to discard them once they've awakened in you the true knowledge that you are beyond the circumstances of flesh and hist

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

poor bereaved humanity, into another wedge of the guardian wall raised with the blood of the martyrs. samyak sambuddho, master of perfection renounced nirvana because of his love for humanity. the perfect buddhas dress with the glory of dharmasaya, they are not able to help man nor humankind anymore, because nirvana is to forget the world and men forever. the bodhisattvas: kuan-shiyin, tashisni, buddha, and the christ irradiate their light over the bereaved humanity. samael aun weor arcano xix (19) la luz resplandeciente. d cima hora de apolonio "las puertas del cielo se abren y el hombre sale de su letargo. este es el n mero diez de la segunda gran iniciaci n de misterios mayores que le permite al iniciado viajar en cuerpo et rico. esta es la sabidur a de juan bautista. arcano xx (20 "el

humanidad doliente, en una cu a m s de la muralla guardiana levantada con la sangre de los m rtires. samyak sambuddho, maestro de perfecci n renunci al nirvana por amor a la humanidad. los buddhas perfectos vestidos de la gloria de dharmasaya, ya no pueden ayudar al hombre ni a la humanidad, porque el nirvana es olvido del mundo y de hombres para siempre. los bodhisattvas: kuan shiyin, tashisni, buddha, y cristo irradian su luz sobre la humanidad doliente. samael aun weor 9 adorable and immortal being: salutations and adorations to you beloved disciples now we start this course of secret kabbalah. we will study the 22 major arcana of the tarot. this course, therefore, will have 22 lectures. we hope that you will have the patience and the tenacity to study and practice and you will attain

inth sphere (sex. there, mars descends in order to retemper his flaming sword and conquer the heart of venus (the venusian initiation. hercules descends in order to clean the stables of augias (our lower animal depths. perseus descends in order to cut off the head of medusa (the psychological "i" or the terrestrial adam) with his flaming sword. all of the great masters of humanity such as hermes, buddha, jesus, dante, zoroaster, etc, had to pass through this utmost test. the following phrase is written upon the frightful threshold of the ninth sphere (which does not grant access to profaners "lasciate ogni speranza voi ch entrate [abandon hope, all ye who enter here. la novena esfera una sentencia oculta afirma que "nada puede salir sino por la misma puerta por donde ha entrado. nosotros s

enness of the matter and deliver it to the son of man, meaning to transplant the totality of the sexual energies to adam christ; this is how he becomes absolutely strong. the path is named transmutation and sexual sublimation. whosoever reaches these heights becomes a master of samadhi. the same energy that produces sexual sensations (when it is transmuted) then produces mystical ecstasy. christ, buddha, hermes, quetzalcoatl and many other avatars were suprasexual [the forge of] vulcan sexual energy is divided into three distinct types. first: the energy having to do with the reproduction of the species. second: the energy having to do with the spheres of thought, feeling and will. third: the energy that is found related with the world of pure spirit. la esfera de la suprasexualidad, es la

gion 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 quantum table of the radia

n de la sabidur a. tercero binah, la inteligencia. cuarto chesed, el mundo del intimo. quinto geburah, el mundo del alma-conciencia, la regi n del rigor y de la justicia. sexto tiphereth, el mundo causal, la regi n de la voluntad, el equilibrio y la belleza. s ptimo netzah, la regi n de la victoria, el mundo del hombre mental (todo aquel que logra libertarse de los cuatro cuerpos de pecado es un buddha. octavo hod, el esplendor, la regi n del mundo astral. noveno jesod, el fundamento, el sexo, el mundo et rico. d cimo malchuth; el reino en general, el mundo f sico. malchuth es un filtro supremo, de esta regi n salimos para el ain soph o para el abismo, esa es la ley. los sephirotes son at micos, los diez sephirotes pueden reducirse a tres tablas. primera: tabla del quanta, de la energ a r

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traced to prehistoric dravidian times before the aryan invasion of the subcontinent in almost 1600 b.c. the naga's power to inflict disproportionate physical damage or almost instantaneous death is explained in the hindu vedas as paralleling the energy of creation or fire" the book goes on to state that: a) the naga's are said to have appeared at the birth of guatama siddharta, who later became "buddha. b) the ancient "well" of sheshna in benares, india, is traditionally where the yoga aphorisms of patanjali, a classical guide to students of yoga, was written" this "well" is said to be an entrance to one of the naga's underworld lairs. sherman minton also states that "sheshna's well, an alleged opening into the underground reptilian underworld of "patalas [consisting of seven worlds or ca

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

m of the hindus and greeks frogs desiring a king the bat, the birds and the beasts the dog and the wolf the fox and the grapes the lion and the statue the man and his wives the two crabs hercules and the waggoner the man and the wooden god the miser the bundle of sticks the buffoon and the countryman the serpent and the file green book volume three oriental and monotheist wisdom zen koans see his buddha nature yueh holds it pai-yuns black and white the dry creek yueh-shan s lake living alone nan ch uan s rejection thoughts from confucius tao of pooh the stone cutter the cork te of piglet making the best of it sherlock on religion emperor s horses incognito three treasures fantasies live, but live well illusions samurai s late supper the gospel according to zen jesus said. gasan and the bib

a remainder of craving, the abandonment, forsaking, release, non-attachment. now this, monks, is the noble truth of the way that leads to the cessation of pain: this is the noble eightfold way; namely, right views, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. selections from edwin a. burtt. the teachings of the compassionate buddha. new york, mentor (mp380, 1955. p. 29. 233 sayings from the buddhist sutras (questions not tending to edification) thus have i heard: the venerable malunkyaputta arose at eventide from his seclusion, and drew near to where the blessed one was; and having drawn near and greeted the blessed one, he sat down respectfully at one side. and seated respectfully at one side, the venerable malunkyap

ater according to their growth and faculty, and grow lustily. the great plants whose trunk, stalk, bark, twigs, pith, and leaves are moistened by the water from the cloud develop their blossoms and fruits. they yield their products, each according to its own faculty, reach, and their particular nature of the germ; still the water emitted (from the cloud) is of but one essence. in the same way the buddha comes into the world like a raincloud, and, once born, he, the world s lord, speaks and shows the real course of life. and the great seer, honoured in the world, including the gods, speaks thus: i am the tathagata, the highest of men, the gina; i have appeared in this world like a cloud. i shall refresh all being whose bodies are withered, who are clogged to the triple world. i shall bring

for the service others, and whatsoever thou seest in thy body s work that is good for thy fellows, perform it so that it may be conveyed to them. be thou jealous of thine own self when thou seest that it is at ease and thy fellow in distress, that it is in high estate and he is brought low, that it is at rest and he is at labour. selections from: edwin a. burtt. the teachings of the compassionate buddha. new york, mentor (mp380, 1955. p.140. from the old testament (ecclesiastes 1) the words of the preacher, the son of david, king in jerusalem. vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity. what profit hath a man of all his labour wherein he laboureth under the sun? one generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever. the sun also

me in jerusalem; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. and i applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: i perceived that this also was a striving after wind. for in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. selections from: the american standard version of the holy bible. 235 sayings of the zen masters (two mice) buddha told this parable: a traveler, fleeing a tiger who was chasing him, ran till he came to the edge of a cliff. there he caught hold of a thick vine, and swung himself over the edge. above him the tiger snarled. below him he heard another snarl, and behold, there was another tiger, peering up at him. the vine suspended him midway between the two tigers. two mice, a white mouse and a black mous

ne to take his place. go and request the dialogue in silence, he cautioned. so the young monk and the stranger went to the shrine and sat down. shortly afterwards the traveler rose and went in to the elder brother and said: your young brother is a wonderful fellow. he defeated me. relate the dialogue to me, said the elder one. well, explained the traveler, first i held up one finger, representing buddha, the enlightened one. so he held up two fingers, signifying buddha and his teaching. i held up three fingers, representing buddha, his teaching, and his followers, living the harmonious life. then he shook his clenched fist in my face, indicating that all three come from one realization. thus he won and so i have no right to remain here. with this, the traveler left. where is that fellow? a

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

aid to have been adam s first wife; she is the night specter, and has also power over newly-born infants who are not protected by an amulet. rabbi nathan exhorted- repent one day before thy death; a wise maxim inculcating the duty of being ever prepared; every day some advance in knowledge and goodness should be attained. ever work and ever pray, for the road winds upward all the way, as the lord buddha taught in ancient india# 36. chapter five the dyad. two, 2. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott s was the case with the monad, so the dyad also was said to represent a large number of different objects and ideas; things indeed so dissimilar that it is difficult to understand how such multiplicity of opinion arose. and first it is the general opposite t

3, the herbal, culpepper, 1814. there is also another scheme in which the planets are related to a six-hour period by ragon and blavatsky. 47. among the brahmins there were three great vedas; three margas or ways of salvation; three gunas, the sattva, quiescence; rajas, desire; and tamas, decay. three lokas, swarga, bhumi and patala; heaven, earth and hell. three jewels of wisdom, the tri-ratnas; buddha, dharma and sanga. the three fires being the three aspects of the human soul, atma, buddhi and manas. there were three prongs of the trident, and three eyes in the forehead of siva. note also the 3-syllabled holy word aum. at the oblation of the elements in the celtic church, 3 drops of wine and 3 drops of water were poured into the chalice. in the present christian church, we notice 3 cros

estament; they are there related to the sephirah geburah. the hindu puranas tell us of the 10 avatars of the god vishnu, the preserver of the brahmanic religion; they are periodical incarnations of the god and are as follows. 1. first as the fish, matsya; 2. kurma, the tortoise. 3. varaha, the boar. 4. narasingha, the man-lion. 5. vamana, the dwarf. 6. parasu-rama. 7. rama chandra. 8. krishna. 9. buddha. 10. kalki, the horse, is yet to come. these avatars are susceptible of a mystical explanation on the plane of cosmogony. it has been given in the garuda temple of the oriental order of light by frater numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott t. h. pattinson of bradford, a very notable mystic and occult student. 99. in the yoga vasishtha maha ramayana of va

WOLFSON ELLIOT ALEF MEM TAU KABBALISTIC MUSINGS ON TIME TRUTH AND DEATH

o past and present. therefore, it is that which is. 101. kim, reason of words and letters, p. 65. 102. for fuller discussions of the rich insights into the nature of time and being in dogen, and particularly the comparison of his thought with heidegger s conception of ecstatic temporality, see heine, existential and ontological dimensions; kim, dogen kigen, pp. 137 157; stambaugh, impermanence is buddha-nature; abe, study of dogen, pp. 77 144. for an alternative perspective on heidegger s conception of time and a buddhist perspective, see loy, what s wrong with being and time, pp. 239 255. i am grateful to the author for sending me a copy of his study. the contrast between the attempt to overthrow the privilege granted to the present in heidegger and derrida and the critique of nagarjuna s

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